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2008

  • 2008-07-30 · Audiobooks and 8 8 08 — announcement: John: Because the day coincides with the Harry Potter conference Terminus, John says special guests will come: Secret Brother Adam, Secret Sister Rosianna, some of the Five Awesome Girls and Guys, and a surprise guest. (playful) — 00:00:25

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2010

2011

2012

  • 2012-02-14 · Things I Can Do — recommendation: John: As an example of what Gumroad can do, John points to Nerdfighter Rosianna Halse's "Abstract and Brief Chronicles of the Time", beautiful meditations on grief and longing, for $3. — video description

2013

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2014

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2015

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2016

  • 2016-03-15 · The Extraordinary Story of Hussam: Teenager, Writer, and Syrian Refugee — John thanks Rosianna, his production partner and the cinematographer of this video. — video description
  • 2016-03-22 · Understanding the Primaries: Delegates, Democracy, and America's Nonstop Political Party — John thanks Rosianna for the illustrations and Stan Muller for the video's title and for helping him understand US political parties. — video description
  • 2016-05-24 · Easier Than IKEA: A Video in Two Parts — John thanks Mark Olsen for helping with the new camera and credits Rosianna with coming up with the IKEA joke. — video description
  • 2016-06-21 · Syrian Refugees in the United States: One Family's Story — John: Rosianna, who joined John on both trips, filmed much of the footage, and UNHCR introduced John to the family and provided translators. — video description
  • 2016-06-21 · Syrian Refugees in the United States: One Family's Story — John: A couple of weeks ago John and Rosianna visited the family in Rockford; they shared a big lunch, but the move had clearly been hard, with everything from language to appliances different. — 00:01:11
  • 2016-08-02 · Beckoning Lovely — John: That day John first met Rosianna, then a high school student and now his production partner in movie stuff. — 00:01:35
  • 2016-10-11 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Tax Plans — John thanks Mark Olsen for graphics, Rosianna Halse Rojas for graphics and fact-checking, and Amanda McCloughlin and Adriene Hill for fact-checking, and says any errors are his own. — video description
  • 2016-10-18 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Health Care Reform Proposals — announcement: John thanks Rosianna for the graphics and Aaron Carroll for fact-checking, adding that any errors are his own. — video description
  • 2016-11-09 · My Post-Election Thoughts — John thanks Rosianna Halse Rojas, Hank, Sarah Green, Ilene Cooper and his old friend Marie for thoughts that went into the video, and says any mistakes or errors in fact or judgment are his alone. — video description
  • 2016-11-15 · Good News/Bad News: A Pizzamas Video in Nine Slices — John: In the end screen, a Self Care Bunny from Rosianna reminds viewers to take care of themselves because there is only one of them and the world is lucky to have them. (playful) — 00:03:23
  • 2016-12-02 · Logging Off — announcement: The description says Rosianna fills in for Hank during his paternity leave to talk about logging off and the internet as a work in progress. — video description
  • 2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna introduces herself as John's producing partner, John and Hank's secret sister, a YouTuber and an avid user of the internet. — 00:00:02
  • 2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna says she recently hit her limit of the social internet: she scrambled her passwords, deleted apps and backed away, then read more books in a week than in the previous two months. — 00:00:11
  • 2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna says that offline she was less anxious and less angry and communicated far better with friends about how she was actually doing. — 00:00:19
  • 2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna says she is not claiming the internet is bad: she lives thousands of kilometres from most of her friends and loves seeing their updates. — 00:00:24
  • 2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna says the internet is not intrinsically anything: it is a tool and a system we use. (hedged) — 00:00:33
  • 2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna Halse Rojas: Summing up a piece in Offscreen Magazine, Rosianna says the internet is not inherently one way but constantly changed by us, so we can change it for the better instead of adapting ourselves to its toxic parts. — 00:00:41
  • 2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna says the internet seems made of code and clouds but is really made of people; like so much, it comes back to community. — 00:00:51
  • 2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna says she was reluctant to step back because she had defined herself through the internet and defended the joy of meeting strangers and making things with people you will never meet. — 00:00:58
  • 2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna relays a friend's suggestion that the internet's murkiness comes from it not being designed to hold so many people; in her early AOL days fewer were online and they built it together, rather than entering a ready-made internet like IKEA furniture. (hedged) — 00:01:13
  • 2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna says she struggles to believe that theory: we are still building the internet, there are voices we aren't hearing and still work to do. (hedged) — 00:01:39
  • 2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna recalls a West Wing scene in which Jeff has Josh look at the incomplete pyramid on a dollar bill: the seal is unfinished because the country is meant to be unfinished and keep doing better. — 00:01:46
  • 2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna says, idealistically but sincerely, that the internet is not a buried bunker but infrastructure: as humans learn what helps people, the internet will change and we will change it. — 00:01:57
  • 2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna says many people now claim to know the right answer about the internet, but breaking humanity down into bullet-point lists or alphas and betas contradicts everything humans have shown. (hedged) — 00:02:15
  • 2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna suggests we start by not knowing; what helped her was realizing how long it had been since she logged off, an intentional decision about her online behaviour rather than a passive one. (hedged) — 00:02:28
  • 2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna says that opening her computer she is often on automatic (Twitter feed, inbox, calendar), in a 'nothing state' where she is plasticine, and asks who she is handing it to. (hedged) — 00:02:42
  • 2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Zadie Smith (quoted): Rosianna quotes Zadie Smith in Lenny Letter: feelings need vertical depth, and many social platforms provoke feelings she doesn't enjoy, from being falsely puffed up to being hurt or infuriated. — 00:02:55
  • 2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna relays an Invisibilia episode, recommended by John: Rwanda passed legislation requiring equal representation in government, but it did not necessarily improve gender inequality across the country. — 00:03:12
  • 2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna wonders whether Twitter was a shortcut that didn't quite work, and whether we need more long hard work to get its benefits, like hearing more voices and community organizing, instead of seeing the pyramid as complete. (speculative) — 00:03:28
  • 2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna says the truth is she doesn't know, and she is curious to hear John's thoughts. (unsure) — 00:03:53
  • 2016-12-27 · The Best of My 2016 — John found it encouraging when Rosianna asked her viewers for their best of 2016, so he shares his four favourite memories of the year. — 00:00:17

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2017

2018

  • 2018-04-03 · On Punctuality — John likes it when others value punctuality: Rosianna once called it the most important commandment on the tablets, perhaps not kidding, and is always two minutes early. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:04
  • 2018-09-11 · Surprise . . . — John thanks everyone involved, especially Rosianna Halse Rojas, who made it all happen. — 00:03:24
  • 2018-10-16 · Life's Library — announcement: John announces Life's Library, developed with Rosianna Halse Rojas and DFTBA.com: every six weeks for a year a group reads a book at least a year old and discusses it on Discord. — 00:00:58
  • 2018-10-16 · Life's Library — announcement: John: Books are chosen alternately by Rosianna and John; the physical subscription mails the book with a letter from John, bookplates by artists, postcards and other surprises. — 00:01:17
  • 2018-10-16 · Life's Library — announcement: John: Subscribers also get digital extras: a podcast by Rosianna and John about each book, a discussion guide, and Q&As with the authors when available. — 00:01:32
  • 2018-10-16 · Life's Library — announcement: John: All profits from Life's Library go to Partners In Health, which they have worked with for over a decade and which provides health care to the poor. — 00:02:16
  • 2018-10-19 · This is the scariest graph I've ever seen — announcement: Hank congratulates John on launching Life's Library: it got its first thousand people and is now open for sign-ups; Hank has signed up himself. — 00:03:14
  • 2018-10-23 · Why Are Humans Suddenly Getting Better at Tetris? — announcement: John: That idea is one reason John and Rosianna started the Life's Library Book Club, which thanks to viewers' overwhelming response is now open for enrollment. — 00:03:01
  • 2018-10-29 · PIZZAMAS IS HERE! — announcement: John: This year (2018) all Pizzamas profits and royalties go to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck, to be used as matching funds during the Project for Awesome. — 00:00:31
  • 2018-11-08 · Let's Talk Money: The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Semi-Annual Report — announcement: John says more of the brothers' Nerdfighteria work is shifting to supporting charity: Pizzamas royalties go to the Foundation and proceeds of Life's Library, his book club with Rosianna, to Partners In Health. — 00:01:05
  • 2018-11-08 · Let's Talk Money: The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Semi-Annual Report — announcement: John says the Life's Library book club closes enrollment tomorrow (9 November 2018) because it is running out of spots. — 00:03:18

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2019

  • 2019-01-01 · How to Make Goals, Not Resolutions — announcement: John wants to read at least two books per month and be a productive member of the Life's Library Book Club community. — 00:02:58
  • 2019-01-01 · How to Make Goals, Not Resolutions — ask: John: Life's Library is going great; John invites those who are or want to be part of it to go to lifeslibrarybookclub.com. — 00:03:05
  • 2019-01-11 · What is Burnout? — recommendation: The description recommends further reading on burnout: the BuzzFeed News article on millennial burnout everyone is talking about, a Slate piece in response, and a video by Hank's friend Rosianna. — video description
  • 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
  • 2019-01-15 · On Burning Resentment — announcement: John: The Life's Library book club's Q&A with author Jacqueline Woodson will be January 31st at noon Eastern. — 00:03:24
  • 2019-02-05 · Deepfake: A Brief History of Unreliable Images — sponsor: The description credits the deepfake mustache content to Ryan Georgi, who wrote a post explaining the work, and thanks Rosianna. — video description
  • 2019-02-22 · I Don't Want The Same Things Anymore — announcement: The description says that, because of how their accounting works, DFTBA profit going to Partners In Health extends back through the entire last year (2018). — video description
  • 2019-02-22 · I Don't Want The Same Things Anymore — announcement: Hank explains that DFTBA profit not going to Partners In Health is either held as an operating reserve or distributed to small minority owners who invested when the company needed it. — video description
  • 2019-02-22 · I Don't Want The Same Things Anymore — announcement: Hank: With big goals for maternal health in Liberia with Partners In Health, Hank says DFTBA will give the vast majority of its after-tax profit to PIH for that project, with more information soon. — 00:02:56
  • 2019-03-05 · Way, Way Down the Rabbit Hole — John: At a dead end, John asked Tuataria, the sleuthing community born of his and Rosianna's scavenger hunt before Turtles All the Way Down, to verify his findings and find the pictures. — 00:01:56
  • 2019-03-05 · Way, Way Down the Rabbit Hole — ask: John: In a P.S. John says more slots are opening in the Life's Library Book Club, to read with him, Rosianna and a community that includes many from Tuataria; more at lifeslibrarybookclub.com. — 00:03:24
  • 2019-04-23 · untitled — John: Rosianna, who is great at titles, pointed John to the Julius Caesar line about the fault in our stars and came up with the title Life's Library for the book club. — 00:02:26
  • 2019-04-23 · untitled — ask: John: Life's Library has slots open for its new book, Isabel Allende's House of the Spirits; sign up at lifeslibrarybookclub.com, with all proceeds going to Partners In Health's work in Sierra Leone. — 00:02:26
  • 2019-05-07 · How I Read and Why — ask: The description invites viewers who want to discuss books further to the book club John runs with Rosianna at lifeslibrarybookclub.com. — video description
  • 2019-10-01 · Why Are Poor Countries Poor? — The description thanks Jon Lascher of PIH for pre-PIH photos of Koidu Government Hospital and checking the script, and Rosianna Halse Rojas for images and editing. — video description
  • 2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — John: In a P.S. John thanks Andrew, John, Ruth and Dr. Barrie at PIH, Niki Hua and Rosianna Halse Rojas, the Life's Library community and the matching donors. — 00:08:06
  • 2019-10-25 · Unscripted and Unhinged — announcement: Hank says, having not mentioned it on the channel, that DFTBA now gives all the profit distributions that would go to him and John to charity. — 00:00:29
  • 2019-11-07 · I took a year off social media. Here's what happened. — announcement: John: Year-two subscriptions for the Life's Library book club have just opened: in 2020 it will read nine more books, beginning with Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower. — 00:03:10
  • 2019-11-15 · Are audiobooks worse? — announcement: Hank pushed for the new year of Life's Library to have an audiobook option: subscribers choose audio with digital or physical perks and keep their audiobooks if they cancel. — 00:02:52
  • 2019-12-17 · The Best Days of My Decade — John: Everything was perfect: singing with fans in a pub, then Wembley with his dad, Rosianna, his friend Stuart and Wimbly Womblies co-founder Meredith. — 00:01:21
  • 2019-12-17 · The Best Days of My Decade — John: Many favorite moments were little: a Joan Mitchell show with Sarah, sprawling at VidCon with Rosianna, hamburgers with Hank, the Pettibon spiral, his mom's painting of his La-Z-Boy, laughing while filming Crash Course with Stan. — 00:03:18

2020

2021

  • 2021-01-26 · The Sycamore Tree: The Anthropocene Reviewed — announcement: The description credits Nadim Silverman for the art (all of TAR's art), Stan Muller for editing, Hannis Brown for music, Jenny Lawton and Rosianna Halse Rojas as producers, Joe Plourde as technical director; John wrote it. — video description
  • 2021-02-09 · Lesser Known YouTube Channels I Love — John's producing partner Rosianna Halse Rojas just marked 15 years on YouTube, more than half her life making videos. — 00:01:54
  • 2021-02-09 · Lesser Known YouTube Channels I Love — recommendation: John loves Rosianna's videos, especially her unhurried travel vlogs, such as bicycling across England. — 00:02:23
  • 2021-05-25 · The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated — John: The video continues a tradition from 2008, when John read Paper Towns' first chapter; the brothers have since read first chapters of seven books; for this one John and Rosianna asked Meitar Almog to make art. — video description
  • 2021-07-13 · The Vlogbrothers Videos I Didn't Make — John's long-time producing partner Rosianna Halse Rojas often reads his scripts and asks him not to make them, for undercooked hot takes, a great weakness of his, or for content that might divide or weaken the community. — 00:02:26
  • 2021-07-13 · The Vlogbrothers Videos I Didn't Make — John: Years ago John wrote a would-be funny video on the brothers' differences and how Nerdfighteria's factions might line up in a civil dispute; Rosianna said it would get many views but weaken the community. — 00:03:21
  • 2021-08-17 · Who Owns Nerdfighteria? — John says the brothers' share also seems high, because the money belongs to Nerdfighteria, not to them; that is why half goes to grants for educational creators and half to charity. — 00:02:26
  • 2021-08-17 · Who Owns Nerdfighteria? — John stresses the 'in part': the brothers can afford not to make money from Vlogbrothers and DFTBA only because they earn elsewhere, John from books and Hank from his many jobs. — 00:02:55
  • 2021-08-31 · The Woman Who Invented Stuffed Animals — John thanks his son Henry for suggesting the video idea and Rosianna for help with images. — video description
  • 2021-10-08 · On February 3rd, 2020, I Wrote a Video I Didn't Make. Here It Is. — In a comment John says the script was much longer, with much about the upcoming tour; Rosianna suggested just saying they would tour if safe, and he eventually agreed. — creator comment
  • 2021-10-15 · What is Pizzamas? ...and a New Friend — Hank says that may be part of why they started donating all Pizzamas profit: not making money helps it not feel like work. (hedged) — 00:01:56

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2022

2023

2024

  • 2024-04-30 · Not Doing That Great — John got home last night from the amazing LA premiere of the Turtles All the Way Down film, celebrated with its makers, Kirsten Dunst, YouTube friends, Rosianna and the cast; his kids saw one of his movies for the first time and loved it. — 00:00:00
  • 2024-08-20 · Thoughts from Places: BROMLEY! — John: After a 27-minute nap John met Rosianna, his producing partner and fellow Wimbledon fan, and they took a double-decker bus and a train to Bromley. — 00:00:00
  • 2024-08-20 · Thoughts from Places: BROMLEY! — John: Bromley scored in the first half; John and Rosianna stood to change their luck, but the home team added a second goal, Wimbledon's first defeat of the season. — 00:02:26
  • 2024-09-23 · IT'S HERE! — announcement: John says all the money made at pizzamas.com this Pizzamas goes to Partners In Health; keeping it would be morally repugnant. — 00:01:46
  • 2024-10-04 · Trees are Destroying the Earth (Again) — Hank thanks John for a wonderful Pizzamas and says, as always, 100% of Pizzamas profit is donated to help Partners In Health build health systems where most needed. — 00:05:05

2025

  • 2025-01-24 · Am I OK? — Hank says half the money from this channel supports up-and-coming online educators and the other half goes to Partners In Health. — 00:05:55
  • 2025-04-22 · The Unimportant Things — announcement: John announces that a documentary about AFC Wimbledon, made over the last couple of years by him and Rosianna with longtime nerdfighter Jonathan Vogler, who helped make The Last Dance, premiered on YouTube last week (April 2025). — 00:01:56
  • 2025-09-29 · PIZZAMAS IS UPON US! — John says they donate 100% of their Pizzamas proceeds to Partners In Health. — 00:04:31

2026