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227 statements about Indianapolis in 149 videos, by upload date.

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2007

Also named in: June 21: Gotta Get Outside!, August 6th: JK Rowling and I Will ... Be Punished, August 31: Copyright and Airports, Dec. 10: MY BOOK IS GONNA BE A MOVIE!!! (someday)

2008

  • 2008-05-19 · Three Things — John says he smells like horse manure because he went to a place in Indianapolis that gives away free horse manure. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2008-05-19 · Three Things — John recalls that on moving to Indianapolis last year (2007) he and the Yeti found their gigantic front lawn a waste of space, energy and water and wanted native plants and vegetables instead. — 00:00:36
  • 2008-06-27 · Marion the Nerdfightarion — Hank shows John a video by a young nerdfighter in Indianapolis who went to get the book John signed and recorded her excitement. — 00:00:11
  • 2008-09-04 · Paper Towns Tour Dates! — announcement: John announces the Paper Towns tour stops from October 17 to 30: Boston, Indianapolis, Columbus, Atlanta, Miami, Orlando, Chicago suburbs and city, Phoenix, Seattle, San Francisco, and a Nerdfighter Halloween party in Los Angeles. — 00:01:43
  • 2008-10-08 · J Scribble Goes to Borders — John: At the Borders in Indianapolis where he will sign in ten days, John plants the cards in his books while filming, joking he fears being arrested. (playful) — 00:01:47
  • 2008-10-28 (said on 2008-10-27, implied) · Early Voting with Hank — Hank says he could not have voted on November 4th anyway because he will be in Indianapolis. — 00:02:49
  • 2008-11-04 · Election Night In Indianapolis! — John, in Indianapolis after a Nerdfighter event, watches election returns and says it is too early to say anything. — 00:00:00

Also named in: Paper Towns and Touring Question Tuesday

2009

  • 2009-02-21 (said on 2009-02-14, implied) · Paper Towns and PUPPY — announcement: John: On Friday, March 13th, John will do a reading in Indianapolis as part of a fundraiser for the organization Second Story; details in the sidebar. — 00:00:30
  • 2009-03-10 · How to Get Girls to Like You — announcement: John reminds viewers he is doing a fundraiser this Friday (13 March 2009) for The Second Story, a charity in Indianapolis: $5 for students, $8 otherwise. — 00:00:32
  • 2009-09-22 · Paper Towns in Paperback: A How-to Guide — John goes to a children's bookstore in Indianapolis to buy a copy of the paperback, signing the one he buys. — 00:02:24
  • 2009-10-06 · Victoria Beckham In Your Pants — ask: John invites people over 21 in or near Indianapolis to hang out with him at a fundraiser on Saturday night. — 00:01:36
  • 2009-10-06 · Victoria Beckham In Your Pants — announcement: John hopes to see many Nerdfighters in Chicago and Indianapolis, promising presents and lots of hilarity. (hedged) — 00:02:29

Also named in: Giraffe Love and Other Questions ANSWERED

2010

Also named in: Top 10 Animal POWER MOVES, Positive Pranking: The TP Edition

2011

  • 2011-02-25 · Gussie Manlove UNCOVERED! — Hank: In 1927 Gussie married James Earl Brown, becoming Audrey G Brown; they bought a house in a nice Indianapolis neighborhood and lived there the rest of their lives. — 00:02:02
  • 2011-02-25 · Gussie Manlove UNCOVERED! — recommendation: Hank: Their house is now for sale; Hank says viewers can look at the very strange interior photos online, or buy it and become part of the story. (playful) — 00:02:22
  • 2011-06-06 · Men Running on Tanks and the Truth about Book Editors — John was in Venice because the Indianapolis Museum of Art, where the Yeti is a curator, commissioned the 2011 American Pavilion of the Venice Biennale. — 00:00:06
  • 2011-06-06 · Men Running on Tanks and the Truth about Book Editors — John calls Allora & Calzadilla's pavilion (overturned tanks, Olympic athletes, an ATM that is also a pipe organ) a total success and is proud of everyone at the IMA. — 00:00:31
  • 2011-07-22 · Your Yard Is EVIL — John recalls wanting a huge yard and a riding mower when they moved to Indianapolis despite Sarah's warning; now, with a 114-degree heat index, he has to mow. (playful) — 00:03:16
  • 2011-10-24 · Signing Psychosis Takes Over — ask: John: At Holiday Park in Indianapolis, John asks Nerdfighters to explain the park's weird fake ruins, hoping their combined research powers can figure them out. — 00:02:07
  • 2011-10-24 · Signing Psychosis Takes Over — John says the ruins in the Indianapolis park were built as fake ruins but have kind of become real ruins through decades of neglect. (hedged) — 00:02:16
  • 2011-10-24 · Signing Psychosis Takes Over — announcement: John will read from The Fault in Our Stars in Indianapolis on November 1 (description: 7:30 PM, Clowes Memorial Hall, Butler University, free and open to the public). — 00:02:49
  • 2011-11-07 · IS THIS HEAVEN? — announcement: John says the studio he is in is where the Indianapolis episodes of the brothers' new channel, Crash Course, will be filmed. — 00:00:34

2012

Also named in: Can I be Space President?, The Dangling Rope of Terror: It's Question Tuesday

2013

Also named in: Cooking with a 3-Year-Old: The Mac & Cheese and Communist Celery Edition, The Clif Bars Go in the Jar Because Mice: An Office Tour

2014

  • 2014-01-07 · Warm Things for Cold Times — John says it is currently colder in Indianapolis than on most of Mars. (playful) — 00:00:01
  • 2014-01-21 · Are Poor Countries Doomed? — John says once-'incurably poor' Brazil now has, by some measures, a healthier book publishing landscape than many European countries, benefiting YA novelists in Indianapolis too. (hedged) — 00:03:27
  • 2014-02-25 (said on 2014-02-22, implied) · John and Chris Meet in the Middle — John marvels that he is right in the middle of Indianapolis, a city of one million people, and yet it is just forest. (doubtful: one million) — 00:01:33
  • 2014-07-29 · Listen: Thoughts from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — John says the smallest hospital in his hometown of Indianapolis has eight neonatologists, while Ethiopia, a nation of ninety million, has seven. — 00:00:24
  • 2014-11-17 · Combines and Movie Magic: Pizzamas Day 6 — John spent the weekend home in Indianapolis, rode a combine with his son and learned about contemporary American farming practices from a farmer. — 00:00:01

Also named in: Global Health and Human Hair: What the Vlogbrothers are Thankful For

2015

  • 2015-03-10 · Travel Tips (and Paper Towns Movie Updates) — John says almost every airport in the United States has a gate that is empty all the time; in Indianapolis he makes vlogs at that empty gate. — 00:00:32
  • 2015-06-02 · Let's Go Outside — John says politicians sited Indianapolis in the geographic middle of Indiana on the White River, but the river is in many places about six inches deep, making it the largest American city not on a navigable waterway. — 00:00:39
  • 2015-06-30 · Some News — announcement: John: The tour stops are Indianapolis on July 14th, Columbus, Ohio on July 15th and Dallas, Texas on July 16th; all events are free. — 00:01:06
  • 2015-07-14 · On Exhaustion — announcement: John will be in Indianapolis the next day for the start of the Paper Towns tour with Nat, Cara, Akilah Hughes and Nerdfighters, then Columbus and Dallas; events are free, details in the doobly-doo. — 00:00:45
  • 2015-07-28 · Paper Towns, Agloe, and Touring: Thoughts from (Many) Places — John: In Indianapolis John slept in his own bed, did many interviews with Halston Sage and Nat, signed books and did a show at the Murat Theatre. — 00:01:10
  • 2015-07-28 · Paper Towns, Agloe, and Touring: Thoughts from (Many) Places — John: On stage with host Akilah Hughes, John felt a wave of energy; the mayor of Indianapolis declared July 14, 2015 John Green Day, which John found very weird. — 00:01:50
  • 2015-07-28 · Paper Towns, Agloe, and Touring: Thoughts from (Many) Places — John met Anthony and Jack from the Indianapolis Colts, then flew to Columbus and had a drink with Akilah. — 00:01:59

2016

  • 2016-01-26 · Billionaires and Radical Hope: Thoughts from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland — John: When John said he lived in Indianapolis, people almost always asked why; he resisted answering that it was partly because of people like them. (playful) — 00:01:24
  • 2016-03-29 · My New Book, Marriage Advice, and Hamilton: 50 Snapchat Questions Answered! — John: Answering how he would get away with murder, John says 40% of murders in Indianapolis go unsolved, so apparently it is not that difficult. (playful) — 00:01:28
  • 2016-05-31 (said on 2016-05-29, implied) · The Most Amazing Day — John: On Sunday at 7 a.m. John bikes down to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for race day. — 00:00:00
  • 2016-05-31 (said on 2016-05-29, implied) · The Most Amazing Day — John says Speedway, Indiana is like the Vatican: surrounded by Indianapolis but not Indianapolis. (playful) — 00:00:30
  • 2016-05-31 (said on 2016-05-29, implied) · The Most Amazing Day — John says 350,000 people are all in the same place for the Indy 500. — 00:00:55
  • 2016-05-31 (said on 2016-05-29, implied) · The Most Amazing Day — John: Leaving the Indy 500 after 160 laps, John goes to the airport and flies via New York City to London, sleeping well on the plane. — 00:01:07
  • 2016-06-07 · Zaatari: Thoughts from a Refugee Camp — John jokes that the camp's delivered pizza is phenomenally good, better than any delivered pizza in Indianapolis. (playful) — 00:01:55
  • 2016-07-05 · The Horizon Line — John: Their dad grew up in Indianapolis when it was nicknamed Naptown because nothing happened there, a place for people wanting quiet lives in America's flat, unbeautiful middle. — 00:01:09
  • 2016-07-05 · The Horizon Line — John: Their dad worked hard to get out of Indianapolis; he and Mom left for good a few weeks after John was born and never looked back. — 00:01:27
  • 2016-07-05 · The Horizon Line — John: In 2007, living in New York, John called Dad to say Sarah had a job in Indianapolis; Dad said, 'You can't be serious.' — 00:01:33
  • 2016-07-05 · The Horizon Line — John sailed from a birthplace he never knew to Orlando, Birmingham, Chicago and New York, and ended up back where he started. — 00:01:45
  • 2016-11-08 · A PIZZAMAS MIRACLE — announcement: John shows the Pizza John pajamas being made in Indianapolis at Krazy Klothes: the fabric is imprinted with his face by machine, and every pair is cut and sewn by hand. — 00:01:29
  • 2016-12-27 · The Best of My 2016 — John's first memory: attending the 100th running of the Indy 500 with his mom and dad and many friends. — 00:00:29
  • 2016-12-27 · The Best of My 2016 — John notes the Indy 500 is technically just 800 left turns, half of them out of sight because the track is so huge. (playful) — 00:00:34
  • 2016-12-27 · The Best of My 2016 — John says the Indy 500 is the largest non-religious gathering of human beings on Earth. — 00:00:40
  • 2016-12-27 · The Best of My 2016 — John: From the Indy 500 John flew to London to see Nerdfighteria-sponsored AFC Wimbledon win at Wembley for a third-tier spot, then partied at their home stadium with his dad and players. — 00:00:50
  • 2016-12-27 · The Best of My 2016 — John: Noting his memories so far all involve leaving Indianapolis, John says he dearly loves its airport, named best airport in America four years running. — 00:02:28

2017

2018

  • 2018-02-20 · When Your Friend Runs for Governor — John says they stayed close through big changes: John met Sarah, moved to New York then Indianapolis and became a dad; Daniel married a historian, moved to the Chicago suburbs and had two kids. — 00:00:48
  • 2018-04-17 · John Green Answers Your John Green Questions — John lives in Indianapolis, where TFIOS and Turtles All the Way Down are set; earlier he lived in Chicago (part of An Abundance of Katherines), Birmingham, Alabama (Looking for Alaska) and Orlando, Florida (Paper Towns). — 00:00:35
  • 2018-05-22 · The Liger Delusion — John: In the dream John reasoned it out: his yard often has wildlife, the ligers were probably siblings escaped from captivity, and his wooded yard offers food, mostly four million chipmunks. (playful) — 00:00:10
  • 2018-05-29 · How to Cook Eight Peas — John: It hasn't been good pea weather in Indianapolis, because it went from cold to hot almost immediately. — 00:00:49
  • 2018-07-24 · Other John Greens — announcement: John says he will join Hank on tour in New York, Boston, North Canton (Ohio), Kansas City, Chicago and Indianapolis, and is excited for it. — 00:03:22
  • 2018-08-07 · How I Made Friends — John says he and Sarah moved to Indianapolis in 2007 for Sarah's job, making him a 'trailing spouse'; he knew almost no one and, working alone in his basement, struggled to make friends at work. — 00:01:09
  • 2018-08-07 · How I Made Friends — John says he volunteered, attended events and accepted every invitation, as the internet advised, but none of it worked; drained and discouraged, he felt Indianapolis wasn't the place for him. — 00:01:25
  • 2018-08-07 · How I Made Friends — John: A few months after moving, at the street's annual neighborhood get-together John didn't want to attend, Chris introduced himself; with Chris's fiancée Marina they talked, and John asked for Chris's number. — 00:01:46
  • 2018-08-07 · How I Made Friends — John says the friendship didn't happen all at once, it wasn't love at first sight, but as they spent more time with Chris and Marina he began to hate Indianapolis less. — 00:02:47
  • 2018-08-07 · How I Made Friends — John: Knowing John was lonely, Chris invited him into his IndyCar fantasy league and over to watch TV, and through Chris John made more friends. — 00:03:13
  • 2018-08-07 · How I Made Friends — John says he eventually wanted to stay in Indianapolis for good, because towns are made out of people in the end, and he has come to love many people there. — 00:03:23
  • 2018-09-14 · Our Rivalry — announcement: Hank: The book tour starts September 25th in New York, then Boston, Canton, Chicago, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Denver, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Cruz and Bellingham. — 00:03:34

2019

  • 2019-01-01 · How to Make Goals, Not Resolutions — announcement: John: That will be hard because the Looking for Alaska Hulu series will probably film this year (2019), as will a movie of Let It Snow, which John wrote with Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle. (hedged) — 00:02:37
  • 2019-01-15 · On Burning Resentment — ask: John and Rosianna are hiring someone in Indianapolis to help make their things; uncommonly organized people good at calling strangers should check the link. — 00:02:55
  • 2019-01-29 · Do You Believe in Miracles? — John: Watching in a basement in Indianapolis, John found himself in tears, grateful to the club that had again shown him the meaning of life. — 00:02:54
  • 2019-04-16 · Doing Somethings — John: Driving home, John finally felt spring in Indianapolis and kept thinking of E.E. Cummings's poem 'Spring is like a perhaps hand'. — 00:00:00
  • 2019-05-28 · 3 Minutes and 58 Seconds of Darkness — John has been thinking about what cameras see and don't: to his eyes last night's sky over Indianapolis looked bright, but the camera can't see the clouds' crisp edges or Venus. — 00:00:00
  • 2019-07-16 · star struck — John: Being recognized is inherently weird: the fan saw John Green, but John was experiencing himself as a middle-aged Indianapolis dad seeking the least sugary cereal his kids would eat. — 00:01:27
  • 2019-07-23 · What to Love and How — John: Liverpool fans sing the same songs and share a history; John has met them from Indianapolis to Sierra Leone, Hollywood to Stockholm, and they always remember together. — 00:00:57
  • 2019-10-30 · this is a video about pineapples. — John is personally delivering Pizzamas merch to buyers who live in Indianapolis, for efficiency's sake. — 00:00:00
  • 2019-10-30 · this is a video about pineapples. — John says shipping a T-shirt within Indianapolis costs about $4.50, but shipping one from Indianapolis to Singapore costs about $5.50. — 00:00:00

Also named in: On Looking Up to Your Little Brother

2020

  • 2020-01-21 · Gifts That Changed My Life — John says the stranger in Pennsylvania somehow knew exactly what his family needed to get through the frigid, gray Indianapolis winter. — 00:02:42
  • 2020-02-18 · wintry mix — John quotes a Kaveh Akbar poem, 'It's been January for months in both directions', says it really has been, and jokes that in Indianapolis the only answer to why the sky is blue has been that it isn't. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-02-18 · wintry mix — John: Wintry mix is one of the ways John knows he is home: he loves Indianapolis precisely because it isn't easy to love, and you have to stay a while to know its beauty and read the clouds as more than threatening. — 00:02:41
  • 2020-02-18 · wintry mix — John: Driving through Indianapolis with Sarah last week (week of 10 February 2020) to a poetry reading, John found the weather adventurous, even hopeful; on another night it would have felt threatening. — 00:02:54
  • 2020-02-25 · A weird YouTube thing? — ask: John says he and Hank are coming on tour to Indianapolis, Columbus and Ann Arbor, hopes to see viewers there, and points to ticket links in the doobly-doo. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-03-03 · Consciously Experiencing Human Dignity — ask: John: In a pinned comment John says he and Hank will be on tour next week (week of 9 March 2020) in Columbus, Indianapolis and Ann Arbor and hopes to see viewers there. — creator comment
  • 2020-03-06 · I Did Not Get Leprosy! — ask: In a comment John invites viewers to come see him and Hank on tour next week (week of 9 March 2020) in Indianapolis, Columbus or Ann Arbor. — creator comment
  • 2020-03-10 · A Strong but Fleeting Flavor: A Reunion Video — announcement: John says he and Hank are going to their show in Columbus, Ohio, tomorrow will be in Indianapolis and then Ann Arbor, Michigan. — 00:03:43
  • 2020-06-16 (said on 2020-06-07, implied) · a cool place — John: From the White River in Indianapolis, John kayaks to a cool place almost nobody knows about, to show it to Hank. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-06-23 · You'll Never Shine if You Don't Glow — John: There are dozens of firefly species in Indianapolis. — 00:00:29
  • 2020-06-30 · i like it — John often imagined winning the Premier League: at the Indianapolis pub where he watches with other Liverpool fans, or maybe live at Anfield. — 00:02:49
  • 2020-10-13 (said on 2020-10-05, implied) · Me from the Past: A Pizzamas Miracle — John: Using modeling and data, John predicts that on upload day it is unseasonably warm in Indianapolis. — 00:00:58
  • 2020-10-14 · John Predicts the Future! — Hank says Indianapolis was not really unseasonably warm, only about three degrees warmer than usual, so he calls John's prediction a miss. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-12-15 · America's Capital of Dead Vice Presidents — In a channel comment John says former vice president Dan Quayle, who lives in Arizona but has deep roots in Indianapolis, could end up buried at Crown Hill. (speculative) — creator comment
  • 2020-12-15 · America's Capital of Dead Vice Presidents — John says Crown Hill in Indianapolis, the state's largest cemetery, is the final resting place of more US vice presidents than any other location on Earth. — 00:00:29
  • 2020-12-15 · America's Capital of Dead Vice Presidents — John: At Crown Hill John thinks less of the vice presidents than of all the people for whom Indianapolis was home, their loves, losses and ambitions, who together both made history and were subjected to it. — 00:01:56
  • 2020-12-15 · America's Capital of Dead Vice Presidents — John says those people built the place where he lives, and he and his neighbors are now making Indianapolis what it will be for future residents, when he himself lies at Crown Hill. — 00:02:26
  • 2020-12-15 · America's Capital of Dead Vice Presidents — John says that though almost no one knew Seaton, hundreds and hundreds came to help her family mourn, and people still regularly stop at her grave. — 00:03:14
  • 2020-12-15 · America's Capital of Dead Vice Presidents — John says strangers turning out to mourn Seaton is, to him, the best of Indianapolis. — 00:03:14
  • 2020-12-31 · Auld Lang Syne: The Anthropocene Reviewed — John: The video shows the White River, whose water reaches the Mississippi, where it meets water from the Chicago River near Amy's neighborhood; John thinks of this when he feels very lonely. — video description

Also named in: The Rax Guy

2021

  • 2021-01-26 · The Sycamore Tree: The Anthropocene Reviewed — In a comment John says his line that nothing done in Milwaukee matters is equally true, if not more so, of Indianapolis. (playful) — creator comment
  • 2021-03-09 · Hank Rebranded Without Any of Us Noticing — John: 2007 John wasn't the author of The Fault in Our Stars, a resident of Indianapolis, an AFC Wimbledon supporter, Crash Course's co-founder, best friends with Chris and Marina, or a jogger. — 00:01:56
  • 2021-05-25 · The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated — John: After a month touring for Turtles All the Way Down, published October 2017, John came home to Indianapolis and blazed a trail from his children's treehouse to the office, or shed, where he and his wife work. — 00:00:00
  • 2021-05-25 · The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated — John left Booklist and Chicago in 2005 when Sarah got into graduate school in New York; afterwards they moved to Indianapolis, where Sarah was contemporary art curator at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. — 00:07:31
  • 2021-10-06 · Searching for Betsy in Brazil — John: Brazil, Indiana is just over an hour from John's home in Indianapolis; the buyer lives 15 minutes outside town, down a dirt road through corn, and he doubts Google Maps. (playful) — 00:00:29
  • 2021-12-03 · John and Hank at the Cemetery — Hank says John has long talked to him about Crown Hill Cemetery, the highest point in Indianapolis. — 00:00:00
  • 2021-12-21 · NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… — John's 20- or 30-year-old self would be shocked that he enjoys science reading, has arguably written a science book, loves Indianapolis, lost his stage fright and loves third-tier English soccer. — 00:00:58

2022

  • 2022-02-15 · My Most Valuable Books — John: The book is close to John's heart because he ended up living and working in Vonnegut's hometown, in his long shadow, and because reading it in 11th-grade English brought him to life as a reader. — 00:00:29
  • 2022-05-10 · An Attempt at Exhausting an Artwork in Cincinnati — John: First question: Cincinnati is a lovely town John loves being in, but does wanderlust evoke Cincinnati? He lives in Indianapolis, famous for lacking wanderlustiness. (playful) — 00:00:58
  • 2022-08-09 · How to Cook Beans and Resist Dread — John: On a very humid day in Indianapolis, John harvests his beans, first moving bricks set up to foil his nemesis, the groundhog. — 00:00:00
  • 2022-08-30 · How to Buy Good Art for Less Than $100,000,000 — recommendation: John recommends Butter, this weekend's annual Indianapolis art fair featuring Black artists from the city and the world, with DJs and workshops: the coolest thing that happens in Indianapolis. — 00:02:26
  • 2022-10-04 · Hank and John Reunited at Last — The description says that by a Pizzamas miracle Hank and John are reunited in Indianapolis and play a game called 'Got it!'. — video description
  • 2022-10-18 · Terraverse Over Everything: Thoughts from London — John: The show seemed to tell John to touch grass, so they went outside into an autumnal London, much like Indianapolis this time of year. (playful) — 00:02:19
  • 2022-11-22 · John's 2022 Gift Guide — recommendation: John suggests a walking tour, like those Indianapolis public historian Sampson Levingston gives of neighborhoods, especially historically Black ones; John loves learning from him. — 00:01:56

2023

  • 2023-06-13 · touched by a king — recommendation: John says anyone in Indianapolis has to visit the Indiana Medical History Museum: it is just awesome. — 00:02:19
  • 2023-10-03 · Nourished by Leaving — In a channel comment John says much White River pollution comes from far upriver; Indianapolis is working to end sewage dumps, but the river will stay polluted for the foreseeable future. — creator comment
  • 2023-10-03 · Nourished by Leaving — John says the leaves start to fall in Indianapolis in October, and someone who had never been to Earth would find the idea phenomenally beautiful. — 00:02:36
  • 2023-12-19 · End of a Rough Year — John says he finds hope in community and collaboration, in making meaning together by making change together: in the 'we's of his life, TB fighters, Nerdfighteria, his family and Indianapolis. — 00:01:56

2024

  • 2024-04-12 · Feeling Like a Failure (During an Eclipse) — Hank, back from Indianapolis where he saw John, their family and John's dog, got to see the total eclipse after weeks of obsessively checking cloud forecasts, and felt totally overwhelmed. — 00:00:00
  • 2024-04-12 · Feeling Like a Failure (During an Eclipse) — Hank's point: eclipses seem impossible but are inevitable, while many things in our lives, like the plane that flew him from Indianapolis or this community's creations, seem inevitable but are nearly impossible. — 00:04:42
  • 2024-04-30 · Not Doing That Great — John will be home in Indianapolis in 72 hours, back to being a middle-aged dad and nerdfighter; for now he does the press because he wants people beyond nerdfighters to see the movie. — 00:02:26
  • 2024-05-03 · Everything Wrong with Turtles All the Way Down — Hank says the film's city is not Indianapolis: Google Lens identifies a building as Queen City Square in Cincinnati, and he asks why they did not just film in Indianapolis. (playful) — 00:01:42
  • 2024-05-07 · A Secret about Art — John assembles a cheap step-and-repeat ordered for the film's Indianapolis premiere that didn't arrive in time, and feels like a reporter at the jankiest premiere ever. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2024-05-17 · John and Hank FIGHT FOR DOMINANCE!!! — announcement: Hank explains that he and John recorded a New York Times Connections games race in Indianapolis; the edit was too much for him, so his friend Milo, who edits Hank's Channel videos, made the video. — 00:00:00
  • 2024-08-07 · Dear Hank and John Livestream! — John stayed in Indianapolis for the people, affordability and its being a regular place with regular jobs; friends outside his profession help him. — 00:31:17
  • 2024-08-07 · Dear Hank and John Livestream! — John loves his friends, the White River and writing about Indianapolis, where he and Sarah can contribute to the culture as they never could in New York. — 00:32:44
  • 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
  • 2024-08-13 · The Time a Spy Visited Me Because of P*tin. — John: A few months later a friend told John that his diplomat buddy was coming to Indianapolis for the Indy 500 and wanted to meet him. — 00:00:15
  • 2024-08-13 · The Time a Spy Visited Me Because of P*tin. — John: The man, supposedly in town for the Indy 500, told John he would not be able to stay for the race. (playful) — 00:01:35
  • 2024-08-13 · The Time a Spy Visited Me Because of P*tin. — Mike Green (quoted): John's dad concluded that they had decided John was neither an asset nor a threat, just a dad from Indianapolis. (hedged) — 00:04:01
  • 2024-10-30 · Sipping the Tea with Hank — John: One brother, apparently John, says he stood in line 90 minutes to vote early in Indianapolis and wanted a sticker; Indiana doesn't make early voting easy. — 00:00:00

2025

  • 2025-01-07 · The Format but it hurts to stand up — John imagines telling grandkids that as a child he had no pocket-sized magic wands, or that it snowed regularly in Indianapolis. (playful, speculative) — 00:00:50
  • 2025-03-04 · The ANXIETY IS PALPABLE — John says he likes that the sentence "I am anxious" captures how anxiety displaces his other identities (John, husband, father, resident of Indy), becoming an overwhelming, constant sensation. — 00:02:38
  • 2025-05-20 · The Double — John says that in 1994 John Andretti drove the Indianapolis 500, then flew by helicopter to North Carolina to race the Coca-Cola 600 that evening. — 00:00:29
  • 2025-05-20 · The Double — John says the Indianapolis 500 is one of the most cherished days on his calendar; he goes every year and loves it. — 00:00:58
  • 2025-05-20 · The Double — John says the Indy 500 is the largest non-religious gathering of human beings on Earth, held in his hometown. — 00:00:58
  • 2025-05-20 · The Double — John says he barely kept himself from mentioning the Indy 500 in Everything Is Tuberculosis, since it, like everything, connects to tuberculosis. (playful) — 00:00:58
  • 2025-05-20 · The Double — John says the 1931 Indy 500 winner, Louis Schneider, survived his dangerous racing career only to die of tuberculosis at 40. — 00:01:27
  • 2025-05-20 · The Double — John loves fan-owned fourth-tier AFC Wimbledon even more than the Indy 500; the club wears DFTBA on the back of its shorts, between left thigh and buttock. (playful) — 00:01:27
  • 2025-05-20 · The Double — announcement: John notes the Indy 500 is this Sunday (25 May 2025) and Wimbledon's play-off final at Wembley the very next day, so it is time for the double. — 00:01:56
  • 2025-05-20 · The Double — John lays out the plan: he and Stuart wake around 5 a.m., bike to the Indy 500, bike to the airport, fly to London and take the train to Wembley for the final. — 00:02:26
  • 2025-11-25 · Poverty Is Expensive — John argues that hearing from Isatu would have mattered much more than hearing from him, since we learn more about surviving TB from survivors and their supporters than from a middle-aged dad from Indianapolis. — 00:02:55
  • 2025-12-16 · John Green's Brother — John's message for his longest year, borrowed from Indianapolis's Kurt Vonnegut: we must find ways together to fight the terrible diseases of loneliness and isolation; he thanks Hank for helping. — 00:04:47

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2026

  • 2026-01-13 · why we make art — John says he only appears to be in Indianapolis: he is in Cheyenne, Wyoming, where he has been for most of the last few weeks. — 00:00:00
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — Hank says people who find housing too expensive should give middle America a try, such as Indianapolis or Ohio, which are also shark proof. (playful) — 05:45:20
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says the land he lives on in Indianapolis, like his local McDonald's, Walmart and Starbucks, was owned by Kurt Vonnegut's grandfather Albert Lieber. — 07:09:46
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says he has been obsessed with Kurt Vonnegut, his literary hero, since high school, and now lives in Indianapolis, where Vonnegut grew up. — 07:10:10
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — Hank: If not Montana, Hank would live in Indianapolis, because John is there: it's all about the people. — 05:35:34
  • 2026-06-09 · Your 1-Sentence Guide to EVERY TEAM in the 2026 World Cup — John: Curaçao is the smallest nation ever to qualify for the World Cup, with a population about a tenth the size of Indianapolis. — 00:00:00
  • 2026-07-14 · On the Road Again — announcement: John: Next stops: Portland, Maine; Pittsburgh, where much of Hollywood, Ending is set; Gainesville; Nashville; Madison; and a hometown show in Indianapolis on October 2. — 00:02:38
  • 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
  • 2026-10-13 · My Lungs Are on the Outside of the Body — John: When his kids ask why he is raising them in Indianapolis, John tells them it is important to want to be launched from the nest and go somewhere else. — 00:06:20
  • 2026-10-13 · My Lungs Are on the Outside of the Body — John asks Alice whether she wants to go to college in Indianapolis; she says no, and doesn't know where: Paris, Des Moines, London. (playful) — 00:06:56
  • 2026-10-27 · Should I Salinger… — John: If he ever Salingers, John tells Hank he is okay: he would probably be tending the forest near his house, working with other forest nerds to keep invasive ground cover out of its understory. (hypothetical, hedged) — 00:03:14
  • 2026-10-27 · Should I Salinger… — John says the forest near his house has been a forest for 12,000 years, since the last glacier receded from what is now Indianapolis. — 00:03:20