All statements about Florida
75 statements about Florida in 51 videos, by upload date.
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2007
- 2007-01-04 · Brotherhood 2.0: Eating Toilet Paper — John says he did not vote in 2000 even though he could have voted in Florida, and comically blames himself for George Bush. (playful) — 00:00:40
- 2007-02-12 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 12th — Hank says he is back in Montana, then admits he made the video early in Florida, kayaking with Katherine, on the most beautiful day he expects to see for a long time. (playful) — 00:00:00
- 2007-02-12 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 12th — Hank, 'a little bit of an amateur naturalist' and a big fan of photographing birds, shows birds he photographed on his Florida trip: osprey, several herons and egrets, cormorants, anhingas, ibis, Muscovy ducks. — 00:00:43
- 2007-02-12 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 12th — Hank says the limpkin, which danced around him for photos, is one of the rarest bird species in Florida and almost went extinct in the early 1900s. — 00:01:34
- 2007-02-12 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 12th — Hank says alcohol cannot be sold on Sundays in Florida, so he has to buy the wine right away, before the cutoff. (doubtful: you can't sell alcohol on Sundays) — 00:02:14
- 2007-05-16 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 16: Beating the EBO into the ground — John recalls the family living in Michigan, then moving to Birmingham, where Hank was born, then to Florida. — 00:02:08
- 2007-11-20 · November 20th: A White Thanksgiving — Hank says he has a bizarre fondness for cold weather, surprising since he and John grew up in Florida. — 00:02:31
- 2007-11-20 · November 20th: A White Thanksgiving — Hank: In Florida the family bundled up at 60 degrees; when it hit 30 degrees once, Dad got the brothers up around 6 a.m. to see frost on the roof. (playful) — 00:02:31
Also named in: Week 1 Condensed!
2008
- 2008-08-05 · Everyone's Your Friend… — ask: Hank tells Nerdfighters anywhere on the East Coast they have to come, excusing only those as far away as Florida, then softens it to 'if you can, do it'. (playful) — 00:00:46
- 2008-10-24 · Talking to Myself — Hank: John told Hank the Florida nerdfighter event had a fantastic atmosphere; Hank's best friend from high school and John's elementary-school best friends were there. — 00:02:27
2009
- 2009-02-10 · Paper Towns Tastic Question Tuesday — John says Paper Towns is about Margo Roth Spiegelman, her next-door neighbour Q, the state of Florida and Walt Whitman. — 00:00:00
- 2009-03-03 · Eating Man Meat — Hank, wearing short sleeves because he is in Florida, says the tiny chickens have nearly left his system and remain only in his larynx; otherwise he feels well. (playful) — 00:00:00
- 2009-03-08 · PEEPS for Bangladesh — John notes Bozeman is 202 miles from Hank's house in Missoula, Hank was in Florida, and the explosion happened at 8:19 in the morning. — 00:00:00
- 2009-04-14 · The World's Largest Balls — John: The world's largest rubber band ball, made by Joel Waul (as heard) in Florida, has more than 700,000 rubber bands weighing over 8,000 pounds and is named Megaton. — 00:01:10
- 2009-06-05 · JOHN'S PUNISHMENT! Eating Carl's Jr John's Way — Hank says he didn't know Carl's Jr.; in Florida, where the brothers grew up, it was called Hardee's, though he has never been to one. — 00:00:00
- 2009-12-16 · Project for Awesome: The Nature Conservancy — Hank says the brothers' dad worked for the Nature Conservancy when they were growing up, as its Florida State Director. — 00:00:33
Also named in: LOSERS!!!!
2010
- 2010-07-26 (said on 2010-07-24, implied) · Hank's Life in a Day — Hank: At Splash Montana, quaint and tiny by the standards of Hank's Florida childhood, they mostly lounged, Katherine ate a taco-topped bag of Doritos, and they rode slides. — 00:02:21
- 2010-08-06 (said on 2010-08-04, implied) · Looking for Alaska at My High School — John says Looking for Alaska is about a Florida boy obsessed with famous last words who leaves for an Alabama boarding school, and that he himself was once that boy. — 00:00:20
- 2010-10-11 · Like a Snake Swallowing an Egg: Thoughts from Florida — Hank wakes at nine, goes for a run, looks at some fish and, because it is so hot and humid, jumps into a pool; he is in Florida. — 00:00:00
- 2010-10-11 · Like a Snake Swallowing an Egg: Thoughts from Florida — Hank says it is very hot everywhere the air isn't conditioned, so no one is outside and everyone, himself included, is stuck in huge SUVs. (playful) — 00:00:12
- 2010-10-11 · Like a Snake Swallowing an Egg: Thoughts from Florida — Hank lived in Florida most of his life and, after moving away, saw much wrong with it; now he realizes his memory of it was selectively negative. (hedged) — 00:00:40
- 2010-10-11 · Like a Snake Swallowing an Egg: Thoughts from Florida — Hank lists Florida's downsides: unnecessarily hot, a ridiculously bright sun, big cars needed everywhere, styrofoam cups, and fire ants, which stung him, deservedly. (playful) — 00:00:50
- 2010-10-11 · Like a Snake Swallowing an Egg: Thoughts from Florida — Hank says there are also things he loves: sweet tea, Waffle House, and a sun that breeds a variety of life Montana can't compare with. — 00:01:06
- 2010-10-11 · Like a Snake Swallowing an Egg: Thoughts from Florida — Hank realizes he misses not Florida but the reason he is there: a friend's wedding, with old college friends he hasn't seen in almost 10 years. — 00:01:29
- 2010-10-11 · Like a Snake Swallowing an Egg: Thoughts from Florida — Hank says most of the best reasons to love a place are people: he loves Florida for the people he loved there and will keep loving forever. — 00:01:51
2011
- 2011-05-30 · Horatio, the Newest Member of our Family — Hank is in Florida visiting his in-laws. — 00:00:01
- 2011-06-24 · On Religion (Redux) — John: In college John visited a Pentecostal church in rural Florida where a woman asked the pastor to pray for her sister, lost because she attended the Pentecostal church across the street. — 00:01:06
2012
- 2012-05-08 · Tiny Chickens Invade, But Still I Vote — John doesn't want to vote while sick, but after failing to vote in Florida in the 2000 presidential election he promised himself and his country he would always vote. — 00:01:10
- 2012-05-29 · Nerds at the Beach: A REUNION VIDEO! — both: The brothers open with their reunion-video gag (each 'here in beautiful Florida', John: 'What? It's a reunion video!'); John says it never gets old, though viewers may disagree. (playful) — 00:00:00
- 2012-05-29 · Nerds at the Beach: A REUNION VIDEO! — John says he and Hank are at a family reunion in Seaside, Florida, which he calls the world capital of teenagers who don't know who they are. — 00:00:18
- 2012-06-01 · Adorable Squirrel and Table Topics — Hank says he has very much enjoyed the family vacation in sunny, steamy Florida (the people, the scenery, an adorable squirrel), especially hanging out with John. — 00:00:00
- 2012-11-09 · The Stadium of Representatives: The End of B20 Week :-( — Hank: Since the 435 can't grow, seats would be taken from other states; citing an online report, Hank says Florida, Washington, Texas, California and Minnesota would each lose one. — 00:02:55
2014
- 2014-01-24 · The Naughty Professor: Hank and John at the Beach - REUNION! — Hank thanks John for taking him to Florida, where he says he probably got a sunburn in the last twenty minutes; John wore sunscreen. (playful, hedged) — 00:03:14
- 2014-01-28 · Question Tuesday! TFIOS Movie Trailer, Penguin Knees, and Backflips — John thanks Hank for giving him his cold while they were together in Florida, then turns the thanks into 'shanks for the cold'. (playful) — 00:00:01
- 2014-08-12 · EBOLA! (...meningitis) — John: It turns out John almost certainly caught meningitis not in Ethiopia but in Florida, in Orlando, the city of his youth. (hedged) — 00:03:31
2015
- 2015-01-20 · REUNION MINIGOLF — both: John opens Question Tuesday from a minigolf course, pretending Hank is too busy with the President; Hank is there with him in Florida. (playful) — 00:00:00
- 2015-01-23 · Interviewing the President — Hank: Back in Florida after the interview, Hank says Dad and Katherine have just picked him up at the airport. — 00:03:24
- 2015-10-09 · The Surprising Truth About FLORIDA MAN! — Hank says John and he are both at least partly Floridians, and Florida has a lot going for it: key lime pie, Cuban sandwiches, manatees, Cape Canaveral, Disney World, thunderstorms. — 00:00:01
- 2015-10-09 · The Surprising Truth About FLORIDA MAN! — Hank says Florida is the third largest US state by population, with great cultural, wildlife and habitat diversity. — 00:00:18
- 2015-10-09 · The Surprising Truth About FLORIDA MAN! — Hank says Florida is also, weirdly, kind of the laughing stock of the nation. — 00:00:29
- 2015-10-09 · The Surprising Truth About FLORIDA MAN! — Hank says Fark.com, where he spent time as a teenager, sorts outrageous headlines into categories like scary, fail and facepalm, and one category is simply Florida. — 00:00:36
- 2015-10-09 · The Surprising Truth About FLORIDA MAN! — Hank says it is objectively true that far more weird news stories come out of Florida than any other state. — 00:00:52
- 2015-10-09 · The Surprising Truth About FLORIDA MAN! — Hank: After reading three Florida Man headlines, Hank says the Florida Man headline has become a cliche, with a Twitter account devoted to Florida Man's adventures. — 00:01:15
- 2015-10-09 · The Surprising Truth About FLORIDA MAN! — Hank lists theories he has read for Florida's oddness (Miami party culture, the income gap, a mix of cultures where no one is really from Florida) and says all are wrong. — 00:01:27
- 2015-10-09 · The Surprising Truth About FLORIDA MAN! — Hank says the simple, uninteresting reason Florida Man exists is a law he calls the Government in the Sunshine Act, part of Florida's almost unparalleled history of open government. — 00:01:45
- 2015-10-09 · The Surprising Truth About FLORIDA MAN! — Hank says Florida government emails are public record, the public must be notified when two members of government meet, and all police paperwork is available to journalists on request. — 00:01:59
- 2015-10-09 · The Surprising Truth About FLORIDA MAN! — Hank says the law, plus Florida being the third most populous state and journalism being in an economically difficult place, yields many sensationalist Florida Man headlines. — 00:02:31
- 2015-10-09 · The Surprising Truth About FLORIDA MAN! — Hank's pet theory: lacking a stereotype for Florida like those for Californians, New Yorkers and Texans, pattern-recognizing brains seized on its weird headlines: 'weird news capital'. (hedged) — 00:03:12
2016
- 2016-02-09 · Water in My Cereal: Taste Testing Various Liquid Accompaniments to Raisin Bran — John: With Florida orange juice the two great ingredients turn out horribly: one raisin out of five, and even that is generous. (playful) — 00:01:13
- 2016-03-22 · Understanding the Primaries: Delegates, Democracy, and America's Nonstop Political Party — John says that after the 2010 census a smaller share of Americans lived in Missouri, so it lost a congressional district while fast-growing Arizona and Florida gained districts. — 00:02:57
- 2016-08-09 · Why I Didn't Vote (And Six Reasons You Might Not) — John: In August 2000 John had just moved to Chicago, slept in a walk-in closet of an apartment not in his name, had a Florida license, didn't know how to register, and missed the deadline. — 00:02:41
2017
- 2017-03-21 · My Information Diet — John wonders whether his social media malaise is just a phase, like the time in ninth grade when he wore a trench coat for six months even though he lived in Florida and it was hot all the time. (playful) — video description
- 2017-05-16 · The Introducer, My Childhood Dream Job — John says their dad is a documentary filmmaker who, while they grew up, made films on everything from water in Florida to education in Alaska. — 00:00:02
- 2017-08-04 · Why Bullets are Good for the Environment — Hank says their dad was the Florida state director of the Nature Conservancy, which is how he knows about an obscure law. — 00:00:36
- 2017-10-17 · Look at Tiny Baby Hank — John spent his one day off this month (October 2017) at Legoland in muggy Florida: great, but not exactly relaxing. (playful) — 00:00:01
2018
- 2018-02-09 · This is Going to Seem Dumb, but Stick with Me — Hank says Florida sidewalks where they grew up were boring, consistent and laid all at once, while Missoula's range from a hundred years old to new, a weird patchwork, many falling apart. — 00:00:43
- 2018-05-18 · Laurel or Yanny and Baby Dance Moves - It's Question Friday — Hank says he is in Florida, where it is raining, and loves the wetness because Montana is so dry his skin breaks out and his nose gets crackly. (playful) — 00:00:00
- 2018-05-18 · Laurel or Yanny and Baby Dance Moves - It's Question Friday — The description's pro tip: rain in Florida is fun until bolts of electricity start flying, so don't vlog in a thunderstorm. (playful) — video description
- 2018-05-18 · Laurel or Yanny and Baby Dance Moves - It's Question Friday — Hank is in Florida for his in-laws' 50th wedding anniversary and tweeted that he needed to make a fun, quick, not stressful video so he could get back to celebrating. — 00:00:40
- 2018-10-26 · The Rigged Election — Hank: In 2000 Hank lived in Florida and voted in his very first presidential election. — 00:00:00
- 2018-10-26 · The Rigged Election — Hank: The 2000 contest between George W. Bush and Al Gore was decided by 537 votes in Florida. — 00:00:09
2019
- 2019-01-25 · A Floridian's Guide to Living Someplace Very Very Cold — Hank recalls spending his first 22 years in Florida, where winter is the best season because you can move around without sweating. — 00:00:00
- 2019-03-01 · I Get a Robocall While Making a Video About Robocalls — Hank is visiting his in-laws in Florida, has had five slices of key lime pie in five days, and finds their landline both inefficient and kind of adorable. (playful) — 00:00:00
- 2019-03-12 · Going Home with Alaska and Miles — John: Looking for Alaska was different: like Miles, John was a Florida kid at an Alabama boarding school; the story is fictional, but he began it at 23 and saw himself in Miles and others. — 00:00:58
2020
- 2020-03-06 · I Did Not Get Leprosy! — Hank: After college Hank worked alone in a fungicide quality-control lab: running the whole lab was exciting, but it was awful, as he saw no living thing all day but mold. — 00:00:00
- 2020-09-18 · They Say it Gets Colder — Hank says higher up it gets cold enough for steam to condense into water droplets: 40 to 60 kilometres above Venus's surface, temperatures and pressures are like Florida. (playful) — 00:00:58
- 2020-11-06 (said on 2020-11-05, implied) · Just Some Election Thoughts… — Hank: On the evening of November 3, 2020, as Florida turned red, it made sense to Hank for the first time that Trump is president; for four years it had seemed surreal to him. — 00:01:27
2023
- 2023-03-07 · What's the Deal with Paperback Publishing? — announcement: John announces the paperback of The Anthropocene Reviewed is about to come out and he will launch it in person in Miami, Florida, on March 23; tickets in the description. — 00:00:29
- 2023-04-18 · goodbye to my friend — John retells that in late 2001 a mental health crisis and depression got so bad that, with his parents, he decided to quit his job and move home to Florida for full-time care. — 00:00:21
- 2023-12-24 · John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated — John and Hank are at a family reunion in Seaside, Florida, which John calls the world capital of teenagers who don't know who they are. — 01:51:34
2024
- 2024-08-07 · Dear Hank and John Livestream! — Hank: Their dad chose where to move from Florida with a spreadsheet scoring places, including Obama vote share; he picked Asheville, North Carolina, but now lives in Indianapolis. — 00:33:12
- 2024-10-18 · My Ballot Made Me Angry — Hank: Replying to a viewer who looked back at the party order on their own mail-in ballot, Hank calls it extremely unfair and says it probably cost Democratic candidates for governor the race in Florida several times. (hedged) — creator comment
2025
- 2025-06-27 · You’re Not Addicted to Content, You’re Starving for Information — Hank recalls a TV ad in Florida from his childhood: businessmen around a dying man lament losing their most loyal customer, then the camera pans to a young person in the hallway. — 00:11:21
- 2025-12-09 · Hank Green, from A to Z — John recalls ihatei4.com, one of Hank's first viral sensations, which brought local news to their house; on it Hank railed against car culture in Central Florida, where I-4 is notoriously terrible. — 00:01:56
2026
- 2026-10-13 · My Lungs Are on the Outside of the Body — John: Having been from Maine to Florida to Idaho to Southern California in the last month, John says the best city in North America by a country mile is Indianapolis, where all his people are. (playful) — 00:04:07