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2023

2024

  • 2024-01-16 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — announcement: John: Wearing a suit, John presents the Bank of Nerdfighteria's semi-annual report: the Bank has two arms, the Good Store/DFTBA.com arm and the Project for Awesome arm. — 00:00:02
  • 2024-01-16 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — John: Needing long-term ongoing funding for the Sierra Leone commitment, the brothers started the Awesome Socks Club, a sock subscription, and later launched Good Store with coffee and soap subscriptions too. — 00:00:40
  • 2024-01-16 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — John: Across all their merch projects the brothers donated about $268,000 in 2019 and $598,000 in 2020, then, after a huge jump, almost $3.5 million in 2023 alone. — 00:00:57
  • 2024-01-16 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — John says keeping up that growth in donations will be really challenging, mostly because the company and Nerdfighteria got a ton of media attention last year (2023) for something they do not want to repeat. — 00:01:16
  • 2024-01-16 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — John: The idea from the start was that by working with really talented people, starting businesses could raise more money than the brothers could ever donate on their own, and that has happened. — 00:01:55
  • 2024-01-16 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — John: Supposing Nerdfighteria's share of that change were 20%, John reckons advocacy created a bigger financial win for global health equity than Good Store and the Project for Awesome combined. (speculative) — 00:04:42
  • 2024-03-22 · The Internet Needs to Change — Hank loves the good parts of his work (Good Store, Project for Awesome, Crash Course, SciShow, Dear Hank and John) but also loves the slot machine. — 00:01:13
  • 2024-04-12 · Feeling Like a Failure (During an Eclipse) — ask: The description invites viewers to check out Good Store's new website, with 25% off a first order. — video description
  • 2024-04-12 · Feeling Like a Failure (During an Eclipse) — announcement: Hank says Good Store relaunched this week (week of 8 April 2024) with a new website design and a new logo he finds cute, including its little friend Dot. — 00:04:13
  • 2024-04-12 · Feeling Like a Failure (During an Eclipse) — Hank: Outsiders may think Good Store, Crash Course or the iPhone are inevitable, but from inside, with Nerdfighteria supporting them and people at DFTBA and Complexly working on them, they exist through sheer force of will. — 00:04:42
  • 2024-04-26 · One Year Out. — Hank says that today only the first pair of socks from the Awesome Socks Club costs $5 with free shipping, and that 100% of the profit from it and everything at good.store goes to decrease maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone. — 00:03:52
  • 2024-04-26 · One Year Out. — announcement: Hank: The sock says it is taking over Instagram, TikTok and YouTube Shorts for five days, at Hank's insistence, on the Good Store accounts linked in the description. (playful) — 00:04:03
  • 2024-05-28 · A Midlife Crisis — John says over 70 people work full-time for Complexly and over 50 for DFTBA.com or Good Store. — 00:01:27
  • 2024-05-28 · A Midlife Crisis — John says almost everything in those companies happens without him and Hank, but they still need them a lot. — 00:01:27
  • 2024-05-28 · A Midlife Crisis — John says Good Store has raised over $7.5 million to reduce maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone. — 00:01:27
  • 2024-06-18 · The Tea — announcement: John: Good Store's socks and soap stay oriented around maternal mortality, while coffee and now tea relaunch as a new brand, Keats & Co., to fight tuberculosis. — 00:03:53
  • 2024-07-05 · Should I Run for President?? — ask: Hank asks viewers taking their awesome socks on an adventure this weekend to photograph them and tag thegood.store on social media or DM it, using the hashtag #Rockyoursox. — 00:03:28
  • 2024-07-05 · Should I Run for President?? — announcement: Hank says he and Zoe will review viewers' sock photos next week (week of 8 July 2024). — 00:03:28
  • 2024-07-12 · My Identity Crisis — Hank thanks viewers who have shared their socks with the Rock Your Socks hashtag and shows their photos from around the world, one of them his own foot. — 00:03:14
  • 2024-08-09 · Why isn't This Illegal? — ask: The description invites viewers to subscribe to, or just buy, Katherine and Hank's new seasonal soap at Good.Store. — video description
  • 2024-08-09 · Why isn't This Illegal? — Hank says Good Store would never do that: subscribers log in, manage everything in one place, skip orders or cancel with a big button. — 00:04:18
  • 2024-08-09 · Why isn't This Illegal? — Hank says the subscription management service behind Good Store hid the cancel button in tiny print, and the Good Store team made them make it big. — 00:04:18
  • 2024-08-09 · Why isn't This Illegal? — Hank says Good Store makes it easy to do what customers want because its incentive is a good long-term relationship, not locking people in for one extra month. — 00:04:47
  • 2024-08-09 · Why isn't This Illegal? — announcement: Hank plugs a Garden Party and Dew Drop shampoo bar bundle, cheaper subscriptions, code WELCOME25 for 25% off a first subscription order, and free subscription shipping. — 00:05:46
  • 2024-10-30 · Sipping the Tea with Hank — announcement: Hank announces that Good Store now sells the brothers' new undies, soft and made of modal. — 00:00:50
  • 2024-10-30 · Sipping the Tea with Hank — Hank explains why Good Store sells loose-leaf tea: less waste, no tea-bag quality worries, more of the real leaf and higher quality, and it is cheaper, so they can charge less. — 00:01:44
  • 2024-10-30 · Sipping the Tea with Hank — John says all money Good Store makes goes either to stronger maternal and infant care in Sierra Leone or to better tuberculosis care in Lesotho. — 00:02:27
  • 2024-10-30 · Sipping the Tea with Hank — announcement: John says their friend Karen Kavett, a leading puzzle influencer and nerdfighter since 2008, helped Good Store launch puzzles. — 00:02:53
  • 2024-10-30 · Sipping the Tea with Hank — John says none of the money ends up with Hank and him; all of it serves the world's poorest people facing the biggest health-care challenges. — 00:03:33
  • 2024-10-30 · Sipping the Tea with Hank — John says Good Store sells better versions of things people already need, and the money goes to Sierra Leone instead of to some billionaire. — 00:05:13
  • 2024-10-30 · Sipping the Tea with Hank — announcement: Hank shows Good Store greeting cards, printed in Missoula down the street from his house. — 00:13:02
  • 2024-10-30 · Sipping the Tea with Hank — announcement: Hank says Good Store had an EU warehouse for a while but it was very expensive; they hope to return, and customers can now pay customs at checkout. — 00:35:18
  • 2024-10-30 · Sipping the Tea with Hank — John says Good Store has donated over $8 million to support stronger maternal health and tuberculosis care. — 00:36:58
  • 2024-10-30 · Sipping the Tea with Hank — John says Newman's Own, Good Store's 'rivals', has donated hundreds of millions of dollars, so Good Store has a ways to go. (playful, hedged) — 00:37:28
  • 2024-10-30 · Sipping the Tea with Hank — announcement: Hank says Good Store has too many socks, so a mystery 12-pack of high-quality American socks costs $5 a pair. — 00:46:07
  • 2024-10-30 · Sipping the Tea with Hank — announcement: Hank says Good Store's holiday soap bundles, like all its soap products, involve no plastic. — 00:54:41
  • 2024-11-01 · Working Through a Crisis with My Brother — Hank says understanding the landscape matters to helping run Complexly, growing Good Store and caring for Nerdfighteria, and he feels it falling through his fingers. — 00:03:20
  • 2024-11-03 · Hank's very messy post-cancer year of mistakes, meaning… — Hank sees Good Store as no different from Logan Paul's Prime except in values; he doesn't know what Prime is about beyond energy-drink vibes. — 00:08:25
  • 2024-11-03 · Hank's very messy post-cancer year of mistakes, meaning… — Hank: Rather than just a great product, Hank wants a different model: whether an e-commerce company can give all its profit away fascinates him, and he can't not do it. — 00:09:21
  • 2024-11-03 · Hank's very messy post-cancer year of mistakes, meaning… — Hank says Good Store is now a fairly big company doing well, donated millions of dollars to charity last year (2023) and will this year (2024), but its growth has slowed. — 00:09:21
  • 2024-11-03 · Hank's very messy post-cancer year of mistakes, meaning… — Hank asks how hard he can lean on his credibility and relationship with the audience to grow Good Store without it feeling bad to people who can't spend money. — 00:09:52
  • 2024-11-03 · Hank's very messy post-cancer year of mistakes, meaning… — Hank believes in all of it: Good Store would do tremendous good even at its current size, Complexly, Study Hall lowering barriers to education, and SciShow's science communication. — 00:10:57
  • 2024-11-03 · Hank's very messy post-cancer year of mistakes, meaning… — Hank: As Prime became a brand beyond Logan Paul and KSI, Hank wants the community to feel on a quest together, supportive of Good Store even when not buying. — 00:11:59
  • 2024-11-03 · Hank's very messy post-cancer year of mistakes, meaning… — Hank: Good Store's artisan coffee is more expensive, so not everybody should buy it; buy coffee that suits your finances, and nobody should feel excluded for not spending. — 00:12:26
  • 2024-11-03 · Hank's very messy post-cancer year of mistakes, meaning… — Hank: One stress is how much he can ask the audience to join building Good Store into a big charity giver without feeling forced, since it is built together. — 00:16:38
  • 2024-11-03 · Hank's very messy post-cancer year of mistakes, meaning… — Hank feels fine making money from his cancer book, which he made himself from his cancer and science communication experience, unlike shared projects like Good Store. — 00:16:38
  • 2024-11-05 · Why Do I Still Make YouTube Videos? — recommendation: John plugs Good Store for holiday gifts (soap, socks, undies, coffee, tea, gift bundles), noting 100% of profit goes to charity, and jokes he feels obligated to say so. — 00:03:53
  • 2024-11-05 · Why Do I Still Make YouTube Videos? — John feels obligated to the people who work at Complexly and Good Store and to the work in Sierra Leone and Lesotho, and thinks they feel obligated to him, which is good. — 00:04:23
  • 2024-11-05 · Why Do I Still Make YouTube Videos? — John says Crash Course has helped educate hundreds of millions of people and Good Store has donated over $8 million to support stronger healthcare systems. — 00:04:23
  • 2024-11-08 · These Maps are Lying (if you let them) — Hank says he often responds to situations like this with work, and this week (week of 4 November 2024) made a very dumb tea quiz to help people pick a Good Store tea. — 00:05:49
  • 2024-11-08 · These Maps are Lying (if you let them) — recommendation: Hank assures viewers the quiz is silly, their tea is magnificently good, and it makes a good present; Good Store also has a gift quiz he did not make. (playful) — 00:06:18
  • 2024-11-08 · These Maps are Lying (if you let them) — Hank says 100% of the profit goes to fight tuberculosis, a fight that looks like it will need all the help it can get, and praises John's work on it. — 00:06:27
  • 2024-11-12 · BELIEVE: The Jimmy Glass Story — ask: John: In a mid-roll Good Store did not pay for, John recommends Good Store, which gives all its profit to charity, for holiday gifts: boxes of tea, coffee, socks and soap. — 00:01:56
  • 2024-11-13 · Some New Things… — announcement: John says Good Store now sells stationery: note cards for thank-you cards and other notes. — 00:06:37
  • 2024-11-13 · Some New Things… — announcement: Hank says the free mini-puzzle gift is over; instead orders over $50 get 10% off and orders over $100 get 20% off. — 00:12:02
  • 2024-11-13 · Some New Things… — announcement: Hank says Good Store's tea and coffee only ship to the US, Canada and Europe; they might start shipping tea overseas, since tea keeps its quality far longer than coffee. (hedged) — 00:14:21
  • 2024-11-13 · Some New Things… — announcement: Hank says the undies are a soft launch, found only by searching good.store, offered first to Founders Club members; a smaller first order tests whether people like them. — 00:18:12
  • 2024-11-13 · Some New Things… — Hank says the Founders Club's feedback made Good Store's tea better than it would otherwise be. — 00:18:41
  • 2024-11-13 · Some New Things… — John says Good Store works with local Missoula-based companies for its soap and tea, and with Sucafina and directly with farmers in Colombia for its coffee. — 00:18:41
  • 2024-11-13 · Some New Things… — John says they work as hard on the supply chain as on anything, because Good Store gives all profit to charity and doesn't want to make the world worse through a bad supply chain. — 00:19:29
  • 2024-11-13 · Some New Things… — John says they started Good Store to raise money for charity, and so far in 2024 it has donated $1.25 million. — 00:24:40
  • 2024-11-13 · Some New Things… — John jokes that Good Store hopes to get as big as its 'frenemy' Newman's Own, the only other company giving all its money to charity. (playful) — 00:24:40
  • 2024-11-13 · Some New Things… — Hank says free shipping does not exist except as an idea: someone, here Good Store, pays for it, and Amazon makes it hard for everyone else. — 00:40:35
  • 2024-11-13 · Some New Things… — John offers Alice a sip of Golden Fire Ginger tea on the livestream; she likes it; he jokes she mostly eats chicken nuggets, black beans and buttery noodles. — 00:45:32
  • 2024-11-13 · Some New Things… — John stresses that 100% of good.store's profits go to charity and the brothers are not paid for the livestream. — 00:47:34
  • 2024-11-13 · Some New Things… — Hank says Good Store spreads its deals out before Black Friday because a small company can't ship as efficiently as Amazon, and a steady stream spares warehouse workers. — 00:52:33
  • 2024-11-19 · Let's Talk about Money — announcement: John says that income is what lets the brothers run Good Store and donate 100% of its profit to charity; he will report how much that profit is and whom it benefits. — 00:00:16
  • 2024-11-19 · Let's Talk about Money — John: Good Store's total donations for 2024 so far are just over $1.25 million. — 00:03:40
  • 2024-11-19 · Let's Talk about Money — announcement: John: With the year not over and now Good Store's biggest season for sales and new customers, John points out its holiday gift bundles: a gift that comes with a story. — 00:03:47
  • 2024-11-19 · Let's Talk about Money — John: Someone made an iRacing livery for Good Store, which John says shows that its marketing is mostly done by viewers; he appreciates that very much. — 00:04:04
  • 2024-11-19 · Let's Talk about Money — announcement: John: The brothers made a print-and-post Good Store flyer that viewers can share in their communities, linked in the description. — 00:04:22
  • 2024-11-19 · Let's Talk about Money — John tells Hank that Good Store might prove to be his best idea ever, which is really saying something. (hedged) — 00:04:30
  • 2024-11-19 · Let's Talk about Money — John: Since it started, Good Store has raised almost $9 million to support stronger health care systems in impoverished communities. — 00:04:34
  • 2024-11-19 · Let's Talk about Money — John: In a weird time when he feels he needs encouragement, the story of Good Store encourages John tremendously. — 00:04:48
  • 2024-11-19 · Let's Talk about Money — John thanks Hank for coming up with the weird idea of Good Store, Newman's Own for inspiring it, and everyone who has shopped there over the years. — 00:04:56
  • 2024-11-26 · Good News — ask: The description asks viewers to donate at pih.org/hankandjohn for better maternal care in Kono, or to shop at Good Store. — video description
  • 2024-11-26 · Good News — John thanks those who donated at pih.org/hankandjohn, bought from Good Store, or, just as vitally, gave their attention and interest over the last five years. — 00:04:14
  • 2024-11-29 · I am Grateful for My Worry — ask: The description gives the Good.Store coupon code Save25 for 25% off everything through the weekend, the biggest discount of the year. — video description
  • 2024-11-29 · I am Grateful for My Worry — Hank is grateful that many people want the brothers' weird ideas to succeed: free educational videos for anyone online, and socks, coffee, soap and tea with all profit to charity. — 00:00:41
  • 2024-11-29 · I am Grateful for My Worry — ask: Hank asks viewers to do the rest of their shopping at good.store, 25% off everything this weekend with free shipping over $59, the best deals of the year. — 00:01:11
  • 2024-11-29 · I am Grateful for My Worry — Hank worries about the community, his health, the DFTBA, Good Store and Complexly teams, meeting obligations to Partners In Health, and how all this relies on their reputations. — 00:02:09
  • 2024-12-02 · John, You're Doing Great — ask: The description asks viewers to buy Good Store gift cards at 25% off and give them away throughout the rest of the year. — video description
  • 2024-12-02 · John, You're Doing Great — ask: Hank says Monday is the last chance to use the SAVE25 code for 25% off everything at good.store. — 00:01:35
  • 2024-12-02 · John, You're Doing Great — announcement: Hank lists Good Store goods: the Dot's Day Out puzzle, plastic-free shampoo bars, good-smelling soaps, stationery printed in Missoula, Montana, and tea and coffee. — 00:01:35
  • 2024-12-02 · John, You're Doing Great — announcement: Hank says this is Good Store's biggest discount of the holiday season, and tomorrow is too late to use it. — 00:02:04
  • 2024-12-02 · John, You're Doing Great — announcement: Hank says, having just checked, that the 12-pack of mystery socks is still available for $45 after the discount. — 00:02:04
  • 2024-12-20 · Fine, I'll Talk About the Drones… — announcement: The description gives coupon code StrangeCloud at good.store for 10% off any gift card. — video description

Also named in: The world will change.

2025

2026

  • 2026-02-13 · Why Isn't Everybody a Nonprofit?! — Hank says Good Store donates all its profit to charity but sells socks, which is not an exempt purpose, so it must be a for-profit that pays tax and then donates; they would love it to be a nonprofit. — 00:07:47
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says his Uncle Mike, famous in the family for using no unnecessary words, once wrote to the brothers after reading about Good Store in the Financial Times that what they were doing was really good. — 07:33:05
  • 2026-02-20 · What We Actually Did. — Hank says they started the Awesome Socks Club and then Good Store, which gives all its profit to charity, much of it to the Maternal Center of Excellence. — 00:02:26
  • 2026-03-06 · How Do You Create When You Don't Feel Safe — Hank reminds viewers that the Maternal Center of Excellence has opened and was funded in part by Good.Store. — 00:06:18
  • 2026-04-14 · Babies. Babies. Babies. — John says the single biggest donor to the Maternal Center of Excellence has been Good Store. — 00:03:24
  • 2026-04-14 · Babies. Babies. Babies. — John says Good Store, Hank's idea for a store giving 100% of profit to charity, has donated over $11.5 million, supporting everything from ambulance services to the NICU. — 00:03:53
  • 2026-04-14 · Babies. Babies. Babies. — ask: John asks viewers to buy Good Store's new $50 Mother's Day gift box (tea, a tea strainer, soap, chocolates, lip balm) to raise the donations further. — 00:03:53
  • 2026-04-14 · Babies. Babies. Babies. — John says the box is for moms, but Mother's Day is also a complicated holiday, so you can get it for anybody. — 00:04:23
  • 2026-04-14 · Babies. Babies. Babies. — John says 100% of the box's profit goes to support moms and newborns in Kono District, Sierra Leone. — 00:04:23
  • 2026-04-14 · Babies. Babies. Babies. — John says that without Good Store the Maternal Center of Excellence might still be under construction and those 500 babies might have fared very differently. (hedged) — 00:04:52
  • 2026-04-14 · Babies. Babies. Babies. — John thanks Hank for his 'stupid idea' of a business that donates 100% of its profit to charity: a great stupid idea. (playful) — 00:04:52
  • 2026-04-17 · Something Awaits For Me in the Divine for Resisting — ask: Hank reminds viewers that the window to order a Mother's Day present online is getting short, with deals for any mom at Good Store. — 00:03:27
  • 2026-04-28 · What I Can't Show You — ask: The description asks viewers to support the project directly at pih.org/hankandjohn or through Good Store. — video description
  • 2026-05-01 · Despair is Not Wisdom — Hank says it is less true in one place because of the work of this community, the people at DFTBA.com and the Good Store partners. — 00:01:27
  • 2026-05-05 · Noted Brother Hank Green — ask: The description offers any bar of Sun Basin Soap for $5 at Good Store with the code thankshank. — video description
  • 2026-07-03 · Why I Didn't Buy TED — Hank says just understanding TED would have been a huge job on top of his others: Good Store, DFTBA, Complexly's giant transition to a nonprofit, videos, podcasts and family. — 00:04:22
  • 2026-09-01 · You Can't Go Home Again, but I Tried — John: Remembering he knows people who turn smells into language, John called LJ, CEO of Good Store, to connect him with the makers of their soap. — 00:02:20
  • 2026-09-01 · You Can't Go Home Again, but I Tried — John says he and Hank are unpaid interns for Good Store, a coffee, tea, socks, underwear, cleaning-supplies, soap and shampoo company. (playful) — 00:02:35
  • 2026-09-01 · You Can't Go Home Again, but I Tried — John says Good Store donates 100% of its profit to charity. — 00:03:10
  • 2026-09-01 · You Can't Go Home Again, but I Tried — ask: John urges viewers to get their soap, shampoo and now conditioner at Good Store. — 00:03:25
  • 2026-09-01 · You Can't Go Home Again, but I Tried — John says that if he lives another 30 years and Good Store still makes the soap the same way, he will be able to smell his present. (hedged) — 00:04:20
  • 2026-09-04 · This is a Terrible Idea… — sponsor: Hank announces a mid-roll in a Vlogbrothers video: it is brought to you by Good.Store, a store whose profit all goes to charity. — 00:02:26
  • 2026-10-27 · Should I Salinger… — John says Good Store, where holiday shopping sends all the profit to charity, needs him to promote it. — 00:02:52
  • 2026-10-30 · The Last Normal Year — ask: Hank asks viewers who want socks in the mail or as a gift to mark their calendars for the Awesome Socks Club window, which helps fund the Maternal Center of Excellence, since all Good Store profit goes to charity. — 00:08:55