Florida

us state · in 53 videos (2007–2026)

US state where John and Hank grew up; Hank spent his first 22 years there, and their dad was the Florida state director of the Nature Conservancy. It is in Paper Towns and is home to Miles of Looking for Alaska, and John moved home to Florida in late 2001 during a mental health crisis.

Videos by year: 2007: 5 · 2008: 2 · 2009: 7 · 2010: 3 · 2011: 2 · 2012: 4 · 2014: 3 · 2015: 3 · 2016: 3 · 2017: 4 · 2018: 3 · 2019: 3 · 2020: 3 · 2023: 3 · 2024: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2026: 1

Threads

• John misses the voter registration deadline after moving to Chicago (2000) — story, told 3×, 2007–2016
• The brothers' 'movie magic': footage shot on another day presented as today's (2007) — running joke (last seen 2014), 2007–2014
• Hank returns to Florida for a friend's wedding and a college-friends reunion (2010) — story, told 1×, 2010
• Hank's trip to Florida to visit his in-laws and his high-school friends in Orlando (2011) — story, followed over 3 videos (2011), 2011
• John: always vote, a promise made after he failed to vote in Florida in the 2000 US presidential election — promise, standing commitment (last affirmed 2012), 2012
• The Green family reunion in Seaside, Florida (2012) — story, told 3×, last update 2023, 2012–2023
• Hank and John's Florida beach trip together (January 2014) — story, followed over 2 videos (2014), 2014
• John's viral meningitis and hospitalisation (2014) — story, told 12×, 2014–2025
• Hank and John's family trip to Florida (January 2015) — story, followed over 2 videos (2015), 2015

Also named in the threads: Hank: list with John the ways the brothers differ (2007) · Hank's 'tiny chickens' illness bit (2007) · Hank and Katherine's yearly trip through the southeastern United States (2007) · John and Hank's dad grows up in Indianapolis and leaves it for good weeks after John's birth · Question Tuesday: weekly Tuesday question days for nerdfighters (2007) · Hank and Maureen Johnson's unsanctioned Nerdfighter gathering at Barnes & Noble, Union Square, New York (2008) · Paper Towns Tour (2008) · John's depression at 24 in Chicago: leave from Booklist, home to Orlando, and watching Harvey · Hank's lonely first science job in a lab after graduating (told 2017) · The Anthropocene Reviewed book: announcement and publication (2020)

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

Montana (8) · United States presidential election (6) · Missoula, Montana (7) · Mike Green (6) · Republican Party (3) · Katherine Green (6) · Looking for Alaska (novel) (4) · Indianapolis (4) · Happy dance (practice) (2) · New York City (3)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
• 2009-04-14 · 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
• 2009-12-16 · 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
• …and 3 statements more in 2009 — all statements of 2009

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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 Florida is the third largest US state by population, with great cultural, wildlife and habitat diversity. — 00:00:18
  • Hank says Florida is also, weirdly, kind of the laughing stock of the nation. — 00:00:29
  • 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
  • Hank says it is objectively true that far more weird news stories come out of Florida than any other state. — 00:00:52
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
• …and 1 statement more in 2015 — all statements of 2015

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

• 2017-05-16 · 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
• …and 2 statements more in 2017 — all statements of 2017

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
  • 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
  • The 2000 contest between George W. Bush and Al Gore was decided by 537 votes in Florida. — 00:00:09
• …and 1 statement more in 2018 — all statements of 2018

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