All statements about Sarah Urist Green

763 statements about Sarah Urist Green in 402 videos, by upload date.

2007

2007-01-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 2nd — John says his wife Sarah does not wish to take part; like the Yeti she will feature in many stories but will rarely be seen. (playful) — 00:00:37
2007-01-08 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 8, 2007 — John says he and Sarah are about to drive out of Asheville to Birmingham, Alabama, down the dirt road from their parents' house, and that Hank is going to be 'here' soon. — 00:00:10
2007-01-08 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 8, 2007 — John breaks off with 'That was the Yeti!' and then asks whether he is funny or trying too hard; per the description he is talking to the Yeti (Sarah) and edited out her answers. (playful) — 00:00:58
2007-01-19 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 19th — Hank says that every year around this time he sends a survey to all his friends and family, who answer it, and he then puts the answers online. — 00:00:34
2007-01-19 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 19th — Hank: Since the survey is text-based he can't send it to John, but refusing to break the tradition, Hank gives it in video form, skipping questions 1 to 6, which are unchanged and whose answers he already knows. — 00:00:34
2007-01-19 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 19th — ask: Hank's questions for John include how long he has known Hank and Katherine, what he wants from them, what he is doing, why, and for how long, what he wants to be doing, what's next, and the best book he read this year (2007). — 00:01:03
2007-01-19 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 19th — ask: Hank: Later questions turn whimsical: how humans will go extinct, feelings about kids these days, what Ambrozzo tastes like, which cliché he would be, invisibility or time travel, what's wrong with the world; the last asks to post the survey online. (playful) — 00:02:05
2007-01-22 · Brotherhood 2.0, January 22, 2007 — announcement: John says he planned to start the survey today but it will have to wait until Wednesday (24 January 2007). — 00:00:12
2007-01-22 · Brotherhood 2.0, January 22, 2007 — John says the Printz Committee called him the previous night (21 January 2007) to say An Abundance of Katherines had been awarded a 2007 Printz Honor, which was nice and really unexpected. — 00:00:12
2007-01-22 · Brotherhood 2.0, January 22, 2007 — John shows footage Sarah started filming shortly after the call, promising the voice of 'the yeti'; it records exclamations of disbelief and thanks. (playful) — 00:00:52
2007-01-22 · Brotherhood 2.0, January 22, 2007 — John: On the phone John shares the news: the book is one of the runners-up for the Printz Award, a silver medal; the committee called but wouldn't tell him who won. — 00:01:33
2007-01-23 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 23rd — Hank congratulates John on his Printz nomination and toasts the award, An Abundance of Katherines, and Katherine herself, sitting nearby and waving, then 'silver medals', teasing that it falls short of last time. (playful) — 00:00:03
2007-01-23 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 23rd — Hank says the bookstore owner might be John's biggest fan, with several (small) sections devoted to him, and had heard he won the Printz. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:57
2007-01-24 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 24, 2007 — John: Answering the survey, John says he has known Hank since Hank was born and Katherine since, he believes, 1999. (hedged) — 00:00:00
2007-01-24 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 24, 2007 — John: Asked what he wants from them, John calls it a 'question wrongly phrased': the question is what his brother wants from him, a Nintendo Wii, which John also wants from Hank. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:00
2007-01-24 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 24, 2007 — John says he is writing books for teenagers and doing 'this weird video project' with his brother; his answer to why he writes is cut off mid-sentence. — 00:00:38
2007-01-24 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 24, 2007 — John says the major next thing is finishing his new and as yet untitled third book. — 00:00:59
2007-01-24 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 24, 2007 — recommendation: John: Asked for the best book he's read this year (2007), John names the best he read last year (2006): probably The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. (hedged) — 00:00:59
2007-01-25 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 25th — Hank tells John he enjoyed his survey answers and hopes to see more of them tomorrow. (hedged) — 00:03:30
2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John's perfect day: wake up, write 4,000 words, Sarah comes home from school, a sushi dinner together, then reading until bed. — 00:00:03
2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John: He adds that on the perfect day The Office is on and Pam and Jim hook up. (playful) — 00:00:42
2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John: Asked how humans will go extinct, John sides with T.S. Eliot: not with a bang but with a whimper. — 00:00:42
2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John: Asked how he feels about 'kids these days', John says he really wants a baby, a lot, but asks Hank where one would fit in their apartment. — 00:00:42
2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John: Setting his own question, pirates or ninjas, John picks ninjas for how fast they strike. (playful) — 00:01:16
2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John: Ambrosia, John says, tastes like everything you can't eat on Weight Watchers: cheeseburgers, sugar cookies, real ice cream. (playful) — 00:01:16
2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — recommendation: John: On science fiction, John says he really likes Kurt Vonnegut and is a big fan of Margo Lanagan's short stories. — 00:01:16
2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John: Asked cheese or chocolate, John protests that both are things he can't eat anymore. (playful) — 00:01:16
2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John thinks his first concert was The Cure in ninth grade, with a friend; he liked The Cure a lot. (hedged) — 00:02:00
2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John: If he could live anywhere, John would live in North Carolina. — 00:02:00
2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John: Invisibility or time travel: claiming he already wears an invisibility cloak, John chooses time travel. (playful, hedged) — 00:02:00
2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John: For an instantly successful business John suggests a malaria-curing business or a store selling only novels by John Green. (playful) — 00:02:00
2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John: Asked what's wrong with the world, John says the big problem is people ('we're the worst'); puppets are a small problem. (playful, hedged) — 00:02:29
2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John gives Hank permission to put the survey on his webpage. — 00:02:29
2007-01-29 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 29th — Hank says John will get to see his wife Katherine, who, unlike John's wife the Yeti, occasionally comes out in public. (playful) — 00:00:50
2007-01-30 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 30, 2007 — John hopes that, with luck, the Yeti will do some drawings for the picture book. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:22
2007-02-01 · Brotherhood 2.0, February 1, 2007 — John: At the Savannah River, John says a year ago he was in this park with the Yeti; now he is alone, misses her and is sad. (playful) — 00:00:13
2007-02-01 · Brotherhood 2.0, February 1, 2007 — John wonders whether divorce would be like being in Savannah, Georgia for the rest of his life with no Yeti. (joke, speculative) — 00:00:13
2007-02-21 · February 21st, 2007: The Wikipedia in Your Mind — John: His example: looking up Sarah ('the Yeti'), whom he loves and is married to, his brain-Wikipedia should show her picture and an entry on all the ways she's awesome. (hypothetical) — 00:01:13
2007-02-21 · February 21st, 2007: The Wikipedia in Your Mind — John: If his fourth-grade girlfriend, still holding a candle for him, edited the entry to make the Yeti a horrible hairy Himalayan monster, he would stop loving Sarah — not by choice but because of the edit. (hypothetical) — 00:01:45
2007-02-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: Earwax — Hank feels the procedure was almost a challenge John should have given him, so he gives John one. (playful) — 00:03:15
2007-02-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: Earwax — ask: Hank challenges John to find a hat like Miss Susie's and, wearing it, eat a teaspoon of horseradish and sing the last two lines of the Blossom theme song. (playful) — 00:03:42
2007-02-27 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 27, 2007: Horseradish Challenge — John says he will not wear a hat for Hank's challenge because Sarah owns no hats except baseball caps. (playful) — 00:00:35
2007-02-27 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 27, 2007: Horseradish Challenge — John: As 'a special treat' John sings lines of the Blossom theme song, then questions the lyric's 'opinionation' that the sun will surely shine. (playful) — 00:01:04
2007-02-27 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 27, 2007: Horseradish Challenge — John, who has never eaten horseradish, eats a teaspoon of it in little bites, finds it horrible and his stomach hurts, but finishes it. (playful) — 00:01:34
2007-03-07 · Brotherhood 2.0: March 7, 2007: Stress — John says the big worry in his life is not even his: the Yeti is working on an extremely hard, stressful master's thesis, and he has never seen anyone work so hard. — 00:01:51
2007-03-07 · Brotherhood 2.0: March 7, 2007: Stress — John reads Sarah's post-it to-do list: see a picture of Dorian Gray at Butler Library, pay bills, call into question the ideology of class. (playful) — 00:01:51
2007-03-07 · Brotherhood 2.0: March 7, 2007: Stress — John contrasts Sarah's work with his own stress, which comes from having to do laundry and the chance of eyeball cancer. (playful) — 00:02:20
2007-03-13 · Brotherhood 2.0: March 13, 2007: Denver — John: Seeing a glass etching that is cheesy but sometimes conveys true sentiments, John says he misses the Yeti. — 00:01:53
2007-03-27 · March 26th: Thanks — John says Sarah told him to make sure viewers know he is sick. (playful) — 00:00:00
2007-03-27 · March 26th: Thanks — John says Sarah, 'the Yeti', spends 12 hours a day with him in the hospital. — 00:00:42
2007-04-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 2nd: Punishments in the Ramble — John says he and the Yeti came across porn in the Ramble; he shoots it at a wide angle so as not to offend younger viewers. (playful) — 00:00:10
2007-04-23 · April 23rd: Celebrity — Hank tells the Yeti and Katherine, whom he knows are watching, that he and John don't have free pass lists, except maybe Helen Hunt. (playful, hedged) — 00:03:04
2007-04-24 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 24: Moving — John is moving to Indianapolis: Sarah got a job at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which he calls one of the most exciting contemporary art spaces in America; they're really psyched. — 00:01:29
2007-04-24 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 24: Moving — John is a little worried: he has no friends in Indianapolis and thinks he will miss New York. (hedged) — 00:01:29
2007-04-25 · Helen Hunt — Hank says Helen Hunt is the only person on his 'guilt-free three'; Katherine has long known and doesn't like it, but you can't help who is on it. (playful) — 00:00:04
2007-04-25 · Helen Hunt — Hank: Saying Helen Hunt deserves to be on 'guilt-free threes' all over the nation, Hank performs a love song he wrote for her. (playful) — 00:00:38
2007-04-25 · Helen Hunt — Hank says 'take that' to people who see no reason to love Helen Hunt, repeats that she made him never want to do PCP, and tells Helen he is not that scary. (playful) — 00:03:05
2007-04-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 26: Hollywood Meetings — John opens with a standing ovation for Hank's Helen Hunt song. (playful) — 00:00:15
2007-04-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 26: Hollywood Meetings — John asks 'Madam Seymour' whether it will ever happen between Hank and Helen Hunt (crystal ball: highly doubtful) and whether he'd do a good job on the An Abundance of Katherines screenplay (no). (playful) — 00:02:38
2007-04-27 · April 27th: Bad Day,,, — Hank heard the Yeti got a job; so did Katherine, who doesn't have to move to Indianapolis to get it; she will be doing weed research. — 00:01:49
2007-04-30 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 30: Hellos from Los Angeles — John and the Yeti have sung the Helen Hunt song almost nonstop for five days and can't get it out of their heads, though they can't sing it in key. (playful) — 00:01:40
2007-05-01 · May 1st: Neil Gaiman in Helena — Hank doubts his song is as catchy as the Helen Hunt song but hopes it bumps that song out of some viewers' heads. (playful, hedged) — 00:02:58
2007-05-03 · May 3rd: Yetis, TMBG, Weeds and MoJo — Hank thinks John's book-banning video has drawn more comments than any other Brotherhood 2.0 video; people care more about book banning than his Helen Hunt obsession, which he calls a good thing. (hedged) — 00:01:53
2007-05-08 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 8th: House Hunters — John is at the New York City airport on the way to house-hunt in Indianapolis, his first visit there as a resident. — 00:00:10
2007-05-08 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 8th: House Hunters — John: By 11 p.m. in Indianapolis John had seen about 12 houses, all nice but needing work, and had about 30 minutes to edit and upload; he is very stressed. — 00:01:41
2007-05-08 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 8th: House Hunters — John says shopping for houses is fun, exciting and interesting, but also scary. — 00:02:10
2007-05-09 · My 9th: Singing and Randy — Hank: The song says that at 26 Hank watched many friends marry, including John and Sarah. (playful) — 00:01:51
2007-05-10 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 10: House Hunted? — John: On the third day of his house hunt John says he and Sarah ('the Yeti') have seen 26 houses in two days. — 00:00:03
2007-05-10 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 10: House Hunted? — John: In a skit John confirms they saw a house with a tree house and a downstairs bar with two beers on tap, but Sarah insisted they need bedrooms. (playful) — 00:00:03
2007-05-10 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 10: House Hunted? — John says he will film the rest of the video at the Indianapolis airport because they still have more house hunts to do. — 00:01:04
2007-05-10 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 10: House Hunted? — John and Sarah saw a house they really liked and put an offer on it; they are waiting, very nervous, for the current owners' answer. — 00:01:04
2007-05-10 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 10: House Hunted? — John calls it a great house in a great neighborhood and tells Hank it has a guest room just for him, so he will have to visit a lot. — 00:02:31
2007-05-15 · May 15th: A Bit More EBO and Wikipedia — Hank congratulates John on buying a house: not final yet, but the owners accepted his offer, and the 'horrible process' of buying remains. — 00:00:27
2007-05-16 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 16: Beating the EBO into the ground — John says his Wikipedia page will eventually cover his early years, and teases Hank's pronunciation of Wikipedia, urging him to say it John's way. (playful) — 00:02:47
2007-05-16 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 16: Beating the EBO into the ground — John: In a P.S. John says the Yeti has just officially become 'a master' and shows photos he took from a distance. — 00:02:47
2007-05-17 · May 17th: Wikeeeeeepedia...and Happy Birthday Katherine — Hank says 'wiki' is a word for a collaborative website with its own pronunciation, and Wikipedia blends 'wiki' and 'encyclopedia', joined after 'wiki'. — 00:01:32
2007-05-17 · May 17th: Wikeeeeeepedia...and Happy Birthday Katherine — Hank says Wikipedia's own article on Wikipedia lists two pronunciations, and its audio button pronounces it his way. — 00:02:02
2007-05-18 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 18: How to Write a Book Proposal — John says he and the Yeti leave today for the Netherlands to support his new novel. — 00:00:00
2007-05-18 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 18: How to Write a Book Proposal — John says the trip was planned for March but he couldn't go because he got orbital cellulitis. — 00:00:00
2007-05-18 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 18: How to Write a Book Proposal — John grants that Hank has fact-based evidence on how to pronounce Wikipedia but says he still thinks he is right, calling that 'the American way'. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:43
2007-05-18 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 18: How to Write a Book Proposal — John dismisses Hank's evidence as Wikipedia, 'a known fraudulent source', plus a girl robot voice, and has Sarah say Wikipedia his way in a robot voice. (playful) — 00:00:43
2007-05-22 · May 22: Brotherhood 2.0 in Amsterdam — John is in Amsterdam having a good time; he likes it so much he does his happy dance, and the locals laugh. (playful) — 00:00:09
2007-05-22 · May 22: Brotherhood 2.0 in Amsterdam — John: One of the most fun things they did was a contemporary art museum, where a video shows a spaceman and the Buddha looking at each other. — 00:00:35
2007-05-22 · May 22: Brotherhood 2.0 in Amsterdam — John expected Amsterdam to be a drug-addled den of iniquity, 'Las Vegas, but with legal weed', but finds it one of the cleanest, most beautiful cities he has visited. — 00:01:11
2007-05-22 · May 22: Brotherhood 2.0 in Amsterdam — John says he and the Yeti keep talking about moving to Amsterdam, though he insists Indianapolis is the Amsterdam of central Indiana. (playful) — 00:01:49
2007-05-23 · May 23rd: Miniature Soccer Team — Hank dedicates his song to the Yeti: a year ago today John married Sarah. — 00:00:11
2007-05-23 · May 23rd: Miniature Soccer Team — Hank: In song, Hank teases that John's one dream is two entire miniature soccer teams of children with Sarah, and warns her she doesn't know what she swore to. (playful) — 00:00:11
2007-05-23 · May 23rd: Miniature Soccer Team — Hank hopes John and Sarah are having a marvelous time in the Netherlands. (hedged) — 00:02:45
2007-05-24 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 24: How to Happy Dance — John says the kids shown were quite attentive, and some of them seemed to speak English better than he does. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:03
2007-05-24 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 24: How to Happy Dance — John: At a café John eats a bitterbal with mustard, which amuses everyone there; he finds it delicious. (playful) — 00:01:20
2007-05-24 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 24: How to Happy Dance — John says his happy dance is huge in the Netherlands: people from his Dutch publisher in Rotterdam asked him to do it outside the restaurant where they took him to dinner. (playful) — 00:01:47
2007-05-24 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 24: How to Happy Dance — announcement: John says the Yeti's response to Hank's song will have to wait until Monday (28 May 2007). — 00:02:22
2007-05-29 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 29: The Goth Scene and Evil Ladies — John is back on the odd days, in New York City scouring the streets for free moving boxes because Hank has turned them into conservationists. (playful) — 00:00:03
2007-05-29 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 29: The Goth Scene and Evil Ladies — John says he and the Yeti have almost finished packing all their books, which he shows piled up. — 00:00:37
2007-05-29 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 29: The Goth Scene and Evil Ladies — John: Interrupted at sign-off, John receives a note 'from the desk of the Yeti' and reads it: Sarah's rhymed reply to Hank, recalling that she and John married a year ago last week (week of 21 May 2007). (playful) — 00:02:44
2007-05-29 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 29: The Goth Scene and Evil Ladies — Sarah Urist Green (quoted): Sarah's poem thanks Hank for his warning but says one Yeti's womb can manage only two children, and that John must stop to stay married. (playful) — 00:02:44
2007-05-29 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 29: The Goth Scene and Evil Ladies — Sarah Urist Green (quoted): The poem says their kids needn't play soccer: the only team they will make is a two-man luge, and Sarah may someday be a 'luge team making machine'. (playful) — 00:03:11
2007-05-30 · May 30th: Ranavalona and Clean Coal — Hank: Referring to John's last video, Hank calls the Yeti amazing and says he is undone. (playful) — 00:02:38
2007-05-31 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 31: Yogurt eating — John is very late updating because the Yeti is out of town: a reading turned into dinner, then drinks, and suddenly it was 10 o'clock. (playful) — 00:00:00
2007-05-31 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 31: Yogurt eating — John and the Yeti agreed to eat everything in the fridge before leaving New York, so his after-dinner meal was frozen chicken vindaloo, carrots, ketchup and Italian dressing. (playful) — 00:00:00
2007-06-01 · June 1: Barack Saabama — Hank: In return Hank jokingly challenges John to move to Indianapolis, since John has nothing else on his plate right now. (joke) — 00:03:42
2007-06-06 · June 6th: Lindsay Lohan's Bikini and My Pants — John records from a La Quinta Inn bathroom in Indianapolis, very early, so as not to wake the Yeti; he guesses they stayed there to save money. (playful) — 00:00:10
2007-06-06 · June 6th: Lindsay Lohan's Bikini and My Pants — John and Sarah are hopefully closing on their house today, which will make them official homeowners; the purchase will take all day and night. (hedged) — 00:00:10
2007-06-06 · June 6th: Lindsay Lohan's Bikini and My Pants — John is going to the bank to put the money he has earned into the house; he says he's not worried, then admits he's scared. (playful) — 00:02:04
2007-06-08 · Brotherhood 2.0: June 8: Studying the Clues — John, fuzzy on the last 24 hours, 'goes to the tape' and pieces together that he was out with friends at their going-away party from New York. (playful) — 00:00:03
2007-06-08 · Brotherhood 2.0: June 8: Studying the Clues — John is officially a homeowner, which he calls good and scary. — 00:01:16
2007-06-08 · Brotherhood 2.0: June 8: Studying the Clues — John shows pictures of the house: the kitchen, a loft he is fond of with a secret room behind it like Webster's house, a finished basement and the master bedroom. (playful) — 00:01:16
2007-06-08 · Brotherhood 2.0: June 8: Studying the Clues — John thinks it's a great house and hopes Hank will visit; they have carved out a bedroom just for him. (hedged) — 00:01:45
2007-06-11 · June 11: SURPRISE — Hank notes that John, unlike him, has his 'Yeti' (Sarah) with him at the reunion. (playful) — 00:01:41
2007-06-18 · June 18th: Leaving New York City — John says this Monday (25 June 2007) is the day of his last video from New York. — 00:00:03
2007-06-18 · June 18th: Leaving New York City — John lists what he will miss about New York: its nannies, rich kids, funny dogs and cats, public transport, low crime rate, 'everything-now-ness', hustle, his friends and this walk. (playful) — 00:00:03
2007-06-19 · June 19: GOOD LUCK JOHN — Hank does not envy John having to move out of his house and leave his little studio, and wonders what will be in the background of John's new videos. — 00:00:39
2007-06-19 · June 19: GOOD LUCK JOHN — Hank talked to the Yeti; she and John were in a moving truck trying to get out of New York on the way to Indianapolis. — 00:02:56
2007-06-19 · June 19: GOOD LUCK JOHN — Hank wishes John luck moving into his new house and making tomorrow's video, thanks him for his video, and says it always sucks leaving a good place. — 00:03:11
2007-06-20 · Brotherhood 2.0: June 20: Moving — John drives a 24-foot moving truck halfway across the country to Indianapolis; he sarcastically calls it fun, especially in the rain, like steering a runaway train on skis. (playful) — 00:00:03
2007-06-20 · Brotherhood 2.0: June 20: Moving — John: The drive took about 18 hours, but they made it to Indianapolis and John is really happy to be there. — 00:00:52
2007-06-22 · Brotherhood 2.0: June 22: The Senator — John: Two days after moving to Indianapolis, John is in an airport again, going to Washington, D.C. for five days. — 00:00:10
2007-06-22 · Brotherhood 2.0: June 22: The Senator — announcement: John: At the conference John will accept the Printz Honor for An Abundance of Katherines and speak on a panel with Judy Blume. — 00:00:31
2007-06-22 · Brotherhood 2.0: June 22: The Senator — John is happy with the result, a good haircut for a liberal young guy but not a 'real liberal young guy', and thanks Hank for his good wishes during the week's cross-country travel. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:57
2007-06-27 (said on 2007-06-26, implied) · June 26: The American Library Association Parties — John has footage of Nerdfighter Cynthia Lord winning the Newbery Honor for her book Rules, and of the Printz Award reception on Monday night. — 00:01:10
2007-06-27 (said on 2007-06-26, implied) · June 26: The American Library Association Parties — a guest: At the Printz reception a speaker recalls checking the Brotherhood 2.0 website for John's video of the phone call and his happy dance, and Hank's toast the next day. — 00:01:19
2007-06-27 (said on 2007-06-26, implied) · June 26: The American Library Association Parties — John: Unsure how his own speech went, John plays its funniest snippet: against the shy-librarian stereotype, a story of a drunk librarian at a New Orleans casino holding a galley. (hedged) — 00:02:33
2007-07-05 · July 5th: The Regions Bank Freedom Blast — John admits fireworks made him feel patriotic when he was younger but now just scare him; he shows the scared posture he says he kept all evening. — 00:00:55
2007-07-05 · July 5th: The Regions Bank Freedom Blast — John says bombs went off all around them, set off by drunk people, and he had some anxiety. (playful) — 00:01:24
2007-07-05 · July 5th: The Regions Bank Freedom Blast — John says the person he and Sarah were with knew about the soundtrack, so they listened to it. — 00:01:53
2007-07-09 · July 9: The Punishment Fiasco — John says nerdfighters sometimes suggest maniacal punishments (a public happy dance 200 times, then sawing off a leg); his own objection shouldn't count, but the Yeti's is a deal-breaker. (playful) — 00:02:47
2007-07-10 · July 10: Embarassing Photographs — Hank liked the idea of himself getting a mohawk and John an inverse mohawk, but accepts 'for now' that the Yeti doesn't want it, warning it might still happen. (playful) — 00:00:34
2007-07-23 · July 23rd: The Tickling of the Innards — John: Over the weekend John and Sarah went to the Sandwich Antiques Fair in Sandwich, Illinois, and got things for the new house, including a dining room table and a 1960s TV that looks a bit like a diver's helmet. — 00:00:33
2007-08-02 · August 2nd: Airports and Box Fans — John says he looks forward to everyone's punishment suggestions and reminds Hank that if the Yeti vetoes one, he doesn't have to do it. (playful) — 00:02:19
2007-08-06 · August 6th: JK Rowling and I Will ... Be Punished — announcement: John reports the Yeti has vetoed the ex-girlfriend punishment, feeling he has tortured his exes enough with radio pieces 'and all of that stuff'. — 00:00:43
2007-08-08 · August 8th: The Lawn and the Fury — John: Looking back, John no longer sees it as him good and them bad; it seems more like 'thank God I ended up with the Yeti', and maybe they've been through enough. (hedged) — 00:01:47
2007-08-08 · August 8th: The Lawn and the Fury — John says one could argue he wasn't a great boyfriend until he met the Yeti, and isn't a great husband now, though he did just mow the lawn. (playful, hedged) — 00:02:17
2007-08-10 · August 10th: Bears!!!! — John and the Yeti are at her family reunion in western North Carolina, walking through the woods; the brothers' parents are there too, but Hank is not. — 00:00:00
2007-08-10 · August 10th: Bears!!!! — John pretends to be on the trail of the Yeti, showing a 'Yeti footprint' and glimpsing her as she escapes. (joke) — 00:00:00
2007-08-14 · August 14th: The Blenderized Happy Meal (and Leg Waxing) — Sarah Urist Green: Sarah predicts the punishment will go better than the chin wax and rates the coming pain a five on John's one-to-ten scale. (hedged) — 00:00:41
2007-08-14 · August 14th: The Blenderized Happy Meal (and Leg Waxing) — John: Before waxing a leg strip by strip, John tells himself it can't be as bad as the Happy Meal; the first strip hurts far more than Sarah's predicted five. — 00:03:16
2007-08-27 · August 27th: Thanks Yous and Cameos — Hank reveals he has been with John since Sunday and kept it from Nerdfighters by not saying when he would see John next. (playful) — 00:00:41
2007-08-27 · August 27th: Thanks Yous and Cameos — Hank loves John's house and half-jokes he may not leave; Sarah and Katherine are there, and their parents have just arrived. (playful) — 00:02:05
2007-08-27 · August 27th: Thanks Yous and Cameos — announcement: Hank announces there will be more 'Brotherhood Togetherness specials' and says he looks forward to hanging out with John all week. — 00:02:57
2007-08-28 · August 28th: Starring Mom — John: With Hank visiting, John wakes him and says good morning in person at 11:40 on Tuesday morning. (playful) — 00:00:03
2007-08-29 · August 29th: Goodbye 29 Year Old John — Hank: The song lists John's year: his eye got infected, he found a yard to mow, got a house and 'a wee' (unclear, possibly a Wii), and had a first anniversary with the Yeti. (playful) — 00:01:17
2007-08-30 · August 30th: A Secret Project for Nerdfighters — both: The brothers say the surprise is that they are making a video together, so it is less 'good morning, Hank/John' than 'good morning, Nerdfighters'. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:10
2007-08-30 · August 30th: A Secret Project for Nerdfighters — both: Asked which brother is which and why Sarah is called the Yeti, they introduce themselves and joke that she is so hairy. (joke) — 00:00:45
2007-08-31 · August 31: Copyright and Airports — Hank says the buzzing in the background is John mowing the lawn. — 00:00:10
2007-08-31 · August 31: Copyright and Airports — Hank and Katherine are about to go back to Montana, which is sad but also very happy. — 00:00:10
2007-09-04 · September 4th: Negative Suck Cubed Equals Awesome — John thanks Hank and Katherine for visiting last week (week of 27 August 2007); he and the Yeti had a great time. — 00:02:46
2007-09-24 · September 24: Airports and M. T. Anderson — John accidentally pocketed Sarah's car key while packing at 4 a.m., leaving her in Indianapolis without a car, which he calls a terrible thing to do to someone you love. — 00:00:43
2007-09-28 · September 28th: Nerdfighting!!! — John: In Richmond John saw a finger-puppet theatre rendition of his telling the Yeti about the Boston car key fiasco; he says the real talk happened at 5:15 a.m. (playful) — 00:00:41
2007-09-28 · September 28th: Nerdfighting!!! — John says he knew he wanted to marry Sarah when she told him about a plane-crash book she wrote as a child, 'Thornton's Unscheduled Landing'. (playful) — 00:01:40
2007-10-03 · Oct 3rd: Baby I Sold Your Dog On EBay — Hank introduces his song, dedicated to the Yeti on her birthday, as a song about a woman scorned. (playful) — 00:00:42
2007-11-01 · November 1st: When Nerdfighters Fall in Nerdfighter-Like — John shows a semi-abstract pumpkin painting of Hank that he and Sarah made, almost entirely Sarah. (playful) — 00:02:53
2007-11-12 · November 12th: Brotherhood Clue Point Oh! — Hank: A comment on that video from NeverFTBA led to a video of the Yeti describing where the next clue was: on a soda machine on a hotel's ninth floor, where someone found it. — 00:00:54
2007-11-21 · November 21st: What I'm Grateful For — John also lists snow in Missoula, two functioning eyes, three Nerdfighter T-shirts, 'one beautiful yeti' (his wife) and Hank's songwriting. (playful) — 00:01:40
2007-12-06 · Dec. 6th: Peer Pressure and the Green Green Manifesto — John says his usual response to a social order he dislikes is to complain, while the Yeti's response has always been to try to do something. — 00:01:08
2007-12-06 · Dec. 6th: Peer Pressure and the Green Green Manifesto — John: About three months ago (September 2007) the Yeti called John on the road to say she was writing a manifesto: they were not living in line with their values in Indianapolis, with bullet points for living better. — 00:01:38
2007-12-06 · Dec. 6th: Peer Pressure and the Green Green Manifesto — John: Following the manifesto, John and Sarah compost and for three months have bought only compact fluorescent ('Whirlygig') bulbs because they give more efficient light. — 00:02:07
2007-12-06 · Dec. 6th: Peer Pressure and the Green Green Manifesto — John: Peer pressure be damned, they are letting large parts of their property become native Indiana grasses that need no watering. — 00:03:34
2007-12-10 · Dec. 10: MY BOOK IS GONNA BE A MOVIE!!! (someday) — John says Sarah mocks his high-pitched voice when he is excited; he tries to sound excited again and concludes his genuine excited voice is that of a fangirl. (playful) — 00:00:10
2007-12-12 · Dec. 12th: w00t is the WORD OF THE YEAR?! — ask: John asks whether he and Sarah should get a puppy and, if so, what to call it; Sarah vetoed his suggestion, 'Bubbles the Nerdfighting Puppy'. — 00:02:32
2007-12-13 · December 13: Mailing Shopping Thanking. It Must Be Christmas — Hank: Apologizing that Katherine does all the work because he has to film videos, Hank says the brothers' wives also get a reprieve on January 1st (he stumbles: 'Jafanuary'). (playful) — 00:02:07
2007-12-14 · Dec. 14th: John and Maureen Johnson: LIVE FROM NEW YORK CITY — John thanks Nerdfighters for names for his hypothetical puppy, lists favorites (Rana Valona, Chomsky the Nerdfighting Puppy, Wootponer, Optimus Prime, Johnny Funtimes) and picks Norbert Wiener the Puppy as winner. (playful) — 00:01:52

Also named in: Brotherhood 2.0: February 6th, Brotherhood 2.0: March 5, 2007: Hank's Punishment, June 13: Dominican Debacles, July 25: Brotherhood 2.0's Youtube Comments Are Answered!, Sept. 20th: Wacky String, Oct. 2nd: Brotherhood 2.0 on the Road (Literally), December 4th: Question Tuesday!!!!

2008

2008-01-21 · A Short History of the PUPPY SIZED ELEPHANT — announcement: John: Because nerdfighters miss punishing the brothers, John announces projects: when viewers complete one, they earn the right to punish or challenge the brothers, with the wives keeping veto power. — 00:02:29
2008-01-21 · A Short History of the PUPPY SIZED ELEPHANT — ask: John: First project: make sure Helen Hunt has seen Hank's months-old song about her and provide proof; if nerdfighters succeed, they can punish both brothers. — 00:03:14
2008-02-14 · The Puff Pwns Gravity — John bets the Yeti will stop him before he reaches the puff record. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:45
2008-02-14 · The Puff Pwns Gravity — John says he and Hank are proof that nerds can meet and fall in nerd love, but romance doesn't always come easily to nerdfighters. — 00:03:01
2008-02-21 · People Who Love Giraffes Who Love Giraffes — John says the puff keeps growing and thanks the Yeti for supporting his hair, but thinks he is losing the will and the puff will be gone next time. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:13
2008-02-21 · People Who Love Giraffes Who Love Giraffes — John says the Yeti is 28, and that seeing her would take money for a long expedition to Nepal. (playful) — 00:02:58
2008-03-04 · SETTING THE QUESTION TUESDAY WORLD RECORD — John: The Yeti isn't seen on camera because, John says, her cute would break the camera. (playful) — 00:02:22
2008-03-15 (said on 2008-03-14, implied) · Ruins, LOLBooks, and the Blurbing Book Club — John is in Mobile because Sarah is curating an exhibition opening there, Among the Ruins, which he calls great. — 00:00:31
2008-03-15 (said on 2008-03-14, implied) · Ruins, LOLBooks, and the Blurbing Book Club — recommendation: John suggests that Nerdfighters living in Mobile might see the show, since Hank probably can't; a link is in the sidebar. (hedged) — 00:01:00
2008-04-14 · PAPER TOWNS-TACULAR — John reports that the Yeti is sick and, whispering, takes Hank on a mock safari to see her asleep. (playful) — 00:02:10
2008-04-28 · Ranting and Giving Stuff Away — John: The Yeti told John she doesn't get some of the brothers' jokes; John welcomes new Nerdfighters and says it will all make sense later. — 00:01:17
2008-05-18 · A CUTETACULAR INTRODUCTION! — John: The real reason for the absence: John and the Yeti have made an extraordinary, unbelievably time-consuming acquisition, a puppy. — 00:00:46
2008-05-18 · A CUTETACULAR INTRODUCTION! — John wanted to name the puppy 'Bubbles the Nerdfighting Puppy', but the Yeti said a boy named Bubbles would be weird to explain; John adds people would ask if Nerdfighters are for or against nerds. (playful) — 00:00:54
2008-05-18 · A CUTETACULAR INTRODUCTION! — John: They call him Willy; his full name, Fireball Wilson Roberts, refers to the first sentence of James Crumley's novel The Last Good Kiss, which John reads aloud. — 00:01:14
2008-05-18 · A CUTETACULAR INTRODUCTION! — John: Willy makes a many-noted noise when ignored and fakes needing to pee; John gets frustrated but forgives him when he tilts his head; a bundle of joy and of work. (playful) — 00:01:58
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
2008-05-19 · Three Things — John and the Yeti are instead slowly ripping out the lawn (he jokes he fears neighbours thinking him a crazy liberal more than an uninhabitable planet); he shows a new vegetable bed. (playful) — 00:00:36
2008-05-20 · Guys Love Giraffe Love — John says his last words would probably tell the Yeti he loves her; they have been married two years today, and he thanks Hank and Katherine for sustainably farmed flowers. — 00:02:13
2008-05-30 · The Dread Pirate Fireball Roberts! (And Housekeeping) — announcement: John announces the 2008 Tour de Nerdfighting across America and hopefully a few places in Canada, telling Nerdfighters to mark their calendars for November. (hedged) — 00:00:48
2008-05-30 · The Dread Pirate Fireball Roberts! (And Housekeeping) — announcement: John restates the standing challenge: proof that Helen Hunt has seen or heard Hank's Helen Hunt song lets Nerdfighters challenge the brothers, subject to their wives' veto. — 00:02:47
2008-06-26 · Don't Suck on That Bone — Sarah Urist Green: Sarah says she is pretty excited, calling it a really big day for Willy. (playful) — 00:00:00
2008-06-26 · Don't Suck on That Bone — John frames the video as doing ten things the Nerdfighters asked of him; the first two were to see more of Willy and more of the Yeti (Sarah). — 00:00:00
2008-07-13 · Willy's Elusive Head Turn — John and the Yeti try on camera to get Willy to do the head turn with new noises, without quite succeeding. (playful) — 00:01:13
2008-08-06 · Question Tuesday Returns (on a Wednesday) — John says he proposed to the Yeti by having Hendrik Hertzberg, a writer she likes whom he met at a conference, sign a book to Sarah asking "Will you marry John Green?". — 00:02:09
2008-08-06 · Question Tuesday Returns (on a Wednesday) — announcement: John says he has just posted the Green Green Manifesto on the Ning. — 00:02:38
2008-09-04 · Paper Towns Tour Dates! — John welcomes the nearly 2,000 subscribers who joined since the Sarah Palin video. — 00:00:00
2008-09-04 · Paper Towns Tour Dates! — announcement: John announces an October 16 New York launch party for Paper Towns' release with Hank, their parents, the Yeti, Maureen Johnson and other authors; Julia Nunes is floated as a 'rumor'. — 00:01:12
2008-09-04 · Paper Towns Tour Dates! — announcement: John: After a few days off, Hank, Katherine, sometimes the Yeti and John start the Great American Tour de Nerdfighting 2008, from Plano, Texas, on November 2 to Ames, Iowa, on November 16. — 00:02:56
2008-09-10 · Willy Listening to His Song — John thanks Hank, saying the song made Willy, John and the Yeti so happy. — 00:02:37
2008-09-23 · Paper Towns and Touring Question Tuesday — John says the Yeti will be at many of the events, unless he has been making her up all along. (playful) — 00:03:09
2008-10-06 · Berlin and Let it Snow (in Your Pants) — John: From their Berlin hotel room John admired the view but only saw what was odd about the church when Sarah noticed most of its steeple was gone. (playful) — 00:00:41
2008-10-06 · Berlin and Let it Snow (in Your Pants) — John: The bar had a dog that used to drink there, reminding John of Fireball Roberts, the alcoholic bulldog in James Crumley's The Last Good Kiss. — 00:01:50
2008-10-11 (said on 2008-10-10, implied) · Question Friday — John says Joe Biden anagrams to 'I Need Job' and Sarah Palin to 'Las Pirana'. (playful) — 00:01:43
2008-10-14 · Paper Towns Reading — John tells a Margo figure a romance between them would not work, citing the yeti, the age difference and that she is his fictional creation. (joke) — 00:00:00
2008-10-24 · Paper Towns MOVIE1!!!11! — John recalls that on the day An Abundance of Katherines came out, he and the Yeti found no copies at a bookstore, then went home, had soup and watched CSI. (playful) — 00:01:50
2008-11-03 · Hank and John from the Road — announcement: John: They miss the Yeti but are coming home to her the next day for the Election Day Spectacular in Greenwood, Indiana. — 00:02:18
2008-11-27 · Thanksgiving in Asheville — John jokes that he hopes it may one day be normal to call your wife a Yeti. (joke) — 00:01:13
2008-12-08 (said on 2008-12-07, implied) · I Am Afraid of Heights — Sarah Urist Green: Sarah, filming, tells John to get on the table after he says he doesn't think he can do it. — 00:02:02

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2009

2009-04-19 · Weekend of Surreality — John recalls that at his wedding to the Yeti, he and she nearly got dehydrated because people kept stopping to congratulate them while they tried to get water. (playful) — 00:01:47
2009-05-13 · My Birthday Rocks — Hank: Among birthday-mail superlatives Hank shows the largest birthday card he has ever received, a card with Katherine, John and the Yeti, and one saying he could have gone to Hogwarts had it not been stuck in time. (playful) — 00:02:06
2009-06-07 · I Will Call Him Louis: Australia Rocks! — John says that in Melbourne he attended the Reading Matters conference, where actors performed a series of scenes from Paper Towns. — 00:00:00
2009-06-07 · I Will Call Him Louis: Australia Rocks! — John and Sarah visit Sydney; he shows a warship called HMAS Vampire at the National Maritime Museum and an aquarium with platypuses and a dugong. — 00:00:42
2009-06-07 · I Will Call Him Louis: Australia Rocks! — John says he met hundreds of Nerdfighters, including Natalie (Community Channel), Frezned, and "our secret Australian family, the kiddos". — 00:02:03
2009-06-10 · Eating a FAT SANDWICH — Sarah Urist Green: Sarah predicts it will be better than the blenderized Happy Meal, consistency-wise, because the bun is a familiar element. (hedged) — 00:01:24
2009-06-14 · Iran Election Fraud: 5 Reasons to Doubt the Results — ask: John asks Nerdfighters to vote in comments on whether he should keep or shave his beard; unlike Iran, he says, he will adhere to the results. (playful) — 00:00:05
2009-06-17 (said on 2009-06-16, implied) · Half a Beard — John reports almost 5,000 people voted on his beard, preliminarily to keep it - but says the Yeti always has 10,000 votes, and asks Sarah to decide. (playful) — 00:00:00
2009-06-17 (said on 2009-06-16, implied) · Half a Beard — John: An off-camera compromise to keep half the beard follows (who proposes it is unclear); John shaves off half, which took like 45 minutes, cutting himself six times. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:26
2009-06-17 (said on 2009-06-16, implied) · Half a Beard — John says he is about 20% bigger than he used to be; the Wii Fit he and Sarah got calculated his BMI and made his Mii portly. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:05
2009-06-17 (said on 2009-06-16, implied) · Half a Beard — John: In a P.S. John says he abandoned the half-shaved look and shares Nerdfighters' pro- and anti-beard chants from 'the great beard debate of 2009', finding the anti-beard one most convincing. (playful) — 00:02:35
2009-06-20 · Neck Beards and Fitness Challenges — Hank thanks the Yeti for vetoing at least half of John's beard and says Green men were not meant to wear beards. (playful) — 00:00:00
2009-06-30 · Nerdfighter MARRIAGE PROPOSAL — John recalls that he did not ask the Yeti to marry him himself: he had Hendrik Hertzberg do it when signing John's copy of his book Politics. — 00:00:39
2009-07-19 · Harry Potter Nerds Win at Life — John says he saw the Harry Potter movie last night with the Yeti rather than at midnight on opening day as Hank did. — 00:00:38
2009-07-28 · Love and Romance Questions ANSWERED — Sarah Urist Green: Sarah says asking someone out with a check-yes-or-no note has never been cool and is the wimp's way; she recommends asking them. — 00:02:34
2009-08-10 (said on 2009-08-09, implied) · HipPOTATOmus — John spent the weekend (8–9 August 2009) at the Philo Apple Farm cooking school with the Yeti and her family, a woman and her son, and a woman who knows all about organic, sustainable food. — 00:00:23
2009-08-10 (said on 2009-08-09, implied) · HipPOTATOmus — John calls cooking school amazing, delicious and sort of life-changing. (hedged) — 00:00:23
2009-08-10 (said on 2009-08-09, implied) · HipPOTATOmus — John can show little footage because the Yeti is in all of it, and showing her would make Nerdfighteria collapse. (playful) — 00:00:23
2009-08-10 (said on 2009-08-09, implied) · HipPOTATOmus — John shows what cooking school looked like: chopping, blending, separating eggs and churning ice cream. — 00:00:53
2009-08-11 · The Island of Nerdfighteria? — John: Asked again to show the Yeti after three years, John says he cannot, because her cuteness would break viewers' computers. (playful) — 00:01:39
2009-08-18 (said on 2009-08-19, implied) · So Jokes: Video EP — Hank: In the song 'Helen Hunt', Hank comically declares a crush on Helen Hunt dating from puberty, punning on her film and TV titles and on sharing the name Hank with her husband. (joke) — 00:03:19
2009-09-06 · How To (Not) Demolish a Wall — John and the Yeti are beginning a big home renovation, part of which replaces the moldy basement walls. — 00:00:01
2009-09-06 · How To (Not) Demolish a Wall — John: The contractor recommended John tear down the wall himself, since it takes a professional to build a wall but anybody can demolish one. — 00:00:09
2009-09-06 · How To (Not) Demolish a Wall — John: A week later, John says with mock pride he can do what no one can: fail at demolishing a wall, and will teach how in six steps. (playful) — 00:00:20
2009-09-06 · How To (Not) Demolish a Wall — John: Step three: Dad said John needed a crowbar; John, likening crowbars to handguns, resisted but was eventually convinced to buy one. (playful) — 00:01:35
2009-09-06 · How To (Not) Demolish a Wall — John tried the crowbar for about an hour and a half, then got angry and hit the wall, making the holes seen in it, then took a nap. (playful) — 00:02:00
2009-09-06 · How To (Not) Demolish a Wall — John: Finally John checked for live electrical wiring where he had been swinging his steel crowbar, and found there is some. (playful) — 00:02:33
2009-09-08 · My Puppy's SECRET SHAME (and Paper Towns) — John says he still has not gotten the wall down. — 00:00:00
2009-09-12 (said on 2009-09-11, implied) · Special Friday Video! (On Saturday) — John says the wall is still there, 'the Great Wall Fail of 2009', though he has made some progress. — 00:00:00
2009-09-12 (said on 2009-09-11, implied) · Special Friday Video! (On Saturday) — John and the Yeti, who rarely watch TV, like to follow an episode of CSI with The First 48, A&E's show about real detectives and real crimes. — 00:00:40
2009-09-13 · Sex, Sports, and Caster Semenya — John jokingly opens Newsday with the news that there is 'no more wall', then says that is not the real news. (playful) — 00:00:00
2009-09-27 · TV For Chickens — John says that when he and Sarah (the Yeti) started dating he had to attend contemporary art shows he knew nothing about, secretly wishing for regular dates. (playful) — 00:00:00
2009-09-27 · TV For Chickens — John says Sarah is working with the artist Tea Mäkipää, who is Finnish, lives in Germany and has an exhibition in Indiana. — 00:00:40
2009-10-11 · Puppy Elephant Defends Capitalism — John says his house is a construction zone during an expensive renovation, with most of the electricity off and no place to sleep. — 00:00:00
2009-10-11 · Puppy Elephant Defends Capitalism — John says his basement flooded on Friday (9 October 2009), so he must take out all the carpet; fixing it will cost a fortune ('a billion dollars') and he is cranky. (playful) — 00:00:10
2009-10-11 · Puppy Elephant Defends Capitalism — John says the free market lets him get competing bids from multiple contractors, making his basement repair as cheap and efficient as possible. (playful) — 00:01:27
2009-10-13 · Nine Die in Georgia Floods - Kanye is a Jackass — Hank, in Georgia, says that just as John's basement flooded (as in John's last video), the whole state of Georgia has flooded too. (playful) — 00:00:00
2009-10-18 · The Balloon Boy Hoax — John films from a room that will hopefully someday be his bathroom but is still another uninhabitable room in his house. (hedged) — 00:00:00
2009-10-18 · The Balloon Boy Hoax — John says the Yeti came home to find him crying with relief that the Colorado boy was not in the balloon but safe in his attic. (playful) — 00:00:00
2009-10-25 · Fame: The Road Trip — John and the Yeti drove two and a half hours to the Container Store in Cincinnati for their new bedroom closets; John says this is why he's old. (playful) — 00:00:01
2009-11-01 · NaNoWriMo!!! — John says his puff has grown so big that, as Sarah pointed out, it is now three puffs: baby puff, baby puff, mommy puff. (playful) — 00:00:00
2009-11-29 · John Reviews Twilight and New Moon — Sarah Urist Green: Asked by John whether she needs a man who can bench press her body weight to feel whole, Sarah (the Yeti) answers "Obviously not." (playful) — 00:01:38
2009-12-15 · In Which A Secret Is Revealed — John 'discovers' a crib in his new filming spot and reveals that the Yeti, his wife, is going to have a baby. (playful) — 00:03:36
2009-12-16 · Project for Awesome: The Nature Conservancy — Hank excitedly announces that he is going to be an uncle. — 00:00:00
2009-12-16 · Project for Awesome: The Nature Conservancy — Hank says it is Song Wednesday, but he expected John's announcement tomorrow rather than yesterday, so he has no song about John's baby, only a line: 'John Green loves John Green's baby.' (playful) — 00:00:00
2009-12-17 · THE 2009 PROJECT FOR AWESOME!!! — John says he and his wife are about to have their first baby (joking that she will have it and he will stand there and faint). (playful) — 00:00:48
2009-12-17 · THE 2009 PROJECT FOR AWESOME!!! — John jokes that at an ultrasound the technician let them hear the unborn baby say it hates malaria but can do nothing about it from inside the amniotic sac. (joke) — 00:01:17
2009-12-20 · Awesome Project Is Awesome — John says he is scheduled to have a baby in exactly one month, correcting as last time that Sarah will have it while he annoys her. (playful) — 00:00:00
2009-12-23 · Amazing Christmas Facts With John and Hank — John says he usually hates Christmas but is into it this year (2009): he and his wife expect their first kid, and Hank, Katherine, Mom and Dad are all there. — 00:00:34
2009-12-27 · How To Be a Nerdfighter: A Vlogbrothers FAQ — both: The brothers explain that 'the Yeti' is John's wife and 'the Katherine' is Hank's wife. (playful) — 00:02:55

Also named in: Sell Outs!, HAPPY JOHN DAY!!!, 100 QUESTIONS ANSWERED!!!!!!!

2010

2010-01-04 · It Hurts In My Toof: The 2010 Rules — announcement: John says his paternity leave will begin whenever the baby is born, which should be quite soon, and will last about three weeks. (hedged) — 00:02:09
2010-01-08 · GUS HAS NO FUZZ! — John thanks the Yeti for not going into labour during the game, and half hopes she will before next Wednesday (13 January 2010), so his Frog Hopper ride waits until after his paternity leave. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:00
2010-01-08 · GUS HAS NO FUZZ! — John reveals he wanted the book to give to his baby, so by finding it Nerdfighters were unknowingly giving him a baby-warming present. — 00:00:58
2010-01-18 · Fatherhood — John says it is Monday, January 18, which means the baby is due any day now, and fatherhood is all he is thinking about. — 00:00:00
2010-01-18 · Fatherhood — John is comforted that even with a 'doofus' for a father, the baby will have an awesome mom and an awesome Uncle Hank and Aunt Katherine. — 00:02:28
2010-01-20 · OMG MY BROTHER HAD A BABY — announcement: Hank announces that January 20 is the birthday of John and Sarah's son: early that morning their 'two became three' when the baby was born. — 00:00:00
2010-01-20 · OMG MY BROTHER HAD A BABY — Hank: In Hank's telling, John was a senior in high school in 1995 and took little notice of freshman Sarah, who remembers the 'charmingly nerdy upperclassman'; they had few interactions. (playful) — 00:00:12
2010-01-20 · OMG MY BROTHER HAD A BABY — Hank: Ten years later Sarah's sparring partner at a Chicago boxing club turned out to be John's ex-girlfriend, also from Alabama, which reconnected John and Sarah. (playful) — 00:00:41
2010-01-20 · OMG MY BROTHER HAD A BABY — Hank: John and Sarah then exchanged emails for over a year, roughly 'the length of a short Russian novel', which led to a string of dates in 2004. (playful) — 00:01:09
2010-01-20 · OMG MY BROTHER HAD A BABY — Hank: In 2005 Sarah came home to a red rose on every step up to her fourth-floor apartment and John at the top with more roses and a ring; they married in a large Alabama church. — 00:01:34
2010-01-20 · OMG MY BROTHER HAD A BABY — John Green (quoted): Hank relays John's words: the birth was 'freaking weird', Sarah 'worked so hard', fatherhood is 'actually, like, really great', and he has been awake 46 of the last 48 hours. — 00:02:36
2010-01-25 · Name My Dog! — Hank reports he just talked to John, who is doing very well: John was changing a diaper when Hank called, Henry has the hiccups, and John and Sarah are both very tired. — 00:00:29
2010-01-27 · Boobs and the iPad — Maureen Johnson: Maureen says 80% of the comments noticed that 'John Green' had boobs, an interest she says YouTube shares with baby Henry; 'the man just had a baby'. (playful) — 00:00:54
2010-02-15 · Hello Baby!! — John, back on the vlog, introduces his three-week-old son Henry on camera. — video description
2010-02-19 · Henry's Pee and My Gut — John: Changing Henry's diaper, John's gut told him to catch a fountain of pee in his cupped hands; it dribbled onto his feet and Sarah told him to drop it. (playful) — 00:00:28
2010-03-15 · Cute OVERLOAD: The Ultimate Concern Edition — John has now spent seven weeks with newborn Henry and jokes that this makes him something of an expert on babies. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:32
2010-03-19 · Foreign John Green Books and the Ultimate Concern — John: The Looking for Alaska line on the Italian edition's back, 'imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia', was said to John by Sarah on their first date. — 00:02:04
2010-04-26 · Nerdfighters, They Named a PLANE After Us — John misses Sarah and Henry, is tired and misses having time to write, but in a couple of hours meets hundreds of readers of the book he wrote with David, which makes him feel like the luckiest guy in the world. — 00:01:38
2010-04-28 · Who's in Your Hug Bucket? — Hank lists people he loves but has never met and wants to hug because he is impressed with their work, from They Might Be Giants and Wil Wheaton to Ursula Le Guin, plus many YouTubers. — 00:01:38
2010-05-19 · Adorable Baby Is Adorable — John says he and Sarah know the tunes of many lullabies but not the words, so they have made up their own lyrics. (playful) — 00:00:00
2010-05-24 · How To Make a Baby — John: Step four: a pregnant woman gives up sushi, caffeine, alcohol and go-karts and vomits all the time; John jokes the person he loves most was less cranky when she drank coffee. (playful) — 00:01:12
2010-06-11 · Mmmm....PARTS — John is in a Milwaukee hotel because the Yeti's cousin is becoming a Catholic priest, and he is there to witness it. — 00:00:00
2010-06-16 · In Defense of Contemporary Art — announcement: John and the Yeti are at 100 Acres, the art and nature park the Indianapolis Museum of Art opens this weekend, the culmination of years of work by many people including the Yeti. — 00:00:00
2010-06-16 · In Defense of Contemporary Art — Sarah Urist Green: Sarah says a green, TARDIS-like structure is a temporary intervention into the landscape, there for only a few days, meant to remind us of our humanity. — 00:01:10
2010-06-16 · In Defense of Contemporary Art — Sarah Urist Green: A project by the artist collective Type A has two rings that cast a single shadow exactly one day a year, at the summer solstice. — 00:01:10
2010-06-16 · In Defense of Contemporary Art — John tells Sarah the park is really good; his only complaint, he jokes, is that she didn't dome it in for climate control, and it's hot. (playful) — 00:01:59
2010-07-28 · Umbrellas Amuse Me: Observations from One Day in Munich — John: With no readings or school visits that day, John took the train into Munich's centre to buy a watch for Sarah, which she liked, and a present for Henry. — 00:00:00
2010-08-06 (said on 2010-08-04, implied) · Looking for Alaska at My High School — John: At the peak of his sentimentality John was stung by a bee on his left butt cheek, and he called Sarah to complain. (playful) — 00:02:23
2010-08-20 · The Fox Hat IS REAL, but Are Zombies People? — John's home library has been recatalogued: upstairs is much the same, the downstairs is brand new; the Yeti did almost all of it, knowing that was all he wanted for his birthday. — 00:01:27
2010-08-20 · The Fox Hat IS REAL, but Are Zombies People? — John: In 'important developments in the field of your pants', John announces that a UK Nerdfighter has found a children's book called The Sweaty Yeti. (playful) — 00:03:18
2010-09-29 · MY FRIEND CHESTER — John says that three years ago he and Sarah (the Yeti) moved from New York City to Indianapolis, where more space meant buying a lot of furniture. — 00:00:43
2010-09-29 · MY FRIEND CHESTER — John: In a furniture store John kept asking Sarah whether they needed a 'chest or drawers' until she answered that they might need a 'chest of drawers'. (playful) — 00:00:58
2010-10-08 · GEEKING OUT Over Dying Declarations — John stayed up until 3 a.m. reading the book, which he jokes gripped him more than the Hunger Games trilogy, while Sarah kept asking him to turn off the light. (playful) — 00:01:54
2010-11-29 (said on 2010-11-28, implied) · John and Hank: The Out-Takes — John recounts that the night before, Katherine wanted to thank the fish, and his wife answered 'I see you, fish', which he calls the best joke ever. (playful) — 00:03:05
2010-12-29 · Baby on the Road: Thoughts from Places — John woke in the Yeti's childhood bedroom, found Henry removing trash from a trash can, and the family had to drive from Birmingham back to Indianapolis. — 00:00:00
2010-12-29 · Baby on the Road: Thoughts from Places — John says he used to get distracted by roadside attractions, but this trip was all about speed: leftover barbecue for breakfast and no stop until lunch. — 00:00:45
2010-12-29 · Baby on the Road: Thoughts from Places — John: While Willy slept, John read Sarah an excerpt from a German review of one of his books as translated by Google. (playful) — 00:01:06
2010-12-29 · Baby on the Road: Thoughts from Places — John: Driving north with the whole family, John says the road delivered them to the one place his youthful trips west never could: home. — 00:02:36

Also named in: FRENCH THE LLAMA! John is 33!

2011

2011-01-07 · CONCUSSED Question Friday — John: Will viewers ever see the Yeti? After consulting 'Yeti Researcher' magazine, John says he doesn't think they ever will. (playful) — 00:01:48
2011-01-07 · CONCUSSED Question Friday — John: Would he date a girl more intelligent than himself? John says yes; in fact he married one. — 00:02:03
2011-01-21 · Looking for Alaska Five Years After the Printz Award — John: About four years in, John had a finished manuscript, but it would be wrong to say he wrote the book: Ilene, his editor Julie Strauss-Gabel, his wife and others all wrote parts of it. — 00:01:52
2011-01-21 · Looking for Alaska Five Years After the Printz Award — John: Taking part in big, interesting conversations with Hank and the Nerdfighters through his books is the most fulfilling thing in his life, John says, then jokes that it is really Henry and Sarah, with Nerdfighters close behind. — 00:02:55
2011-01-21 · Looking for Alaska Five Years After the Printz Award — John's joke top five: Sarah and Henry, pizza, the rest of his family, Nerdfighteria, the Mountain Goats. (playful) — 00:03:11
2011-02-14 · CHUBBY BUNNY...blergh! — John: Realising mid-game that it is Valentine's Day, John goes to the mall for a gift and buys his wife shampoo instead of a necklace. (playful) — 00:00:42
2011-02-14 · CHUBBY BUNNY...blergh! — John: Being empathetic, John concludes the Yeti wants the video finished and uploaded by the time she gets home more than hastily bought toiletries. (playful) — 00:01:58
2011-02-18 · Thoughts from Places: Small Town America — John and the Yeti drove east past endless cornfields to Knightstown, Indiana, to help two Swedish architects buy a tree: the life of the museum curator's husband. — 00:00:00
2011-04-11 · Is My Boyfriend Gay? Is He Cheating? — John says that on Friday (15 April 2011) he is moving to the Netherlands for two months, which he kept meaning to mention to Hank amid everything going on. — 00:00:03
2011-04-11 · Is My Boyfriend Gay? Is He Cheating? — John signs off saying he has to go upstairs and pack. — 00:02:47
2011-04-15 · Humpy Hank — John tells Hank he has to go to Amsterdam. — 00:02:03
2011-04-20 · Tulipomania — John says he is really in Amsterdam, not before a green screen, for two months finishing his new book; the reason for Amsterdam will become obvious when you read it. — 00:00:03
2011-04-20 · Tulipomania — John says the Yeti needs to be in Europe because she is working on the U.S. pavilion for the Venice Biennale. — 00:00:07
2011-04-25 · Meeting Greg Mortenson — announcement: The description announces a few public events with John in the Netherlands and Belgium over the next couple of months, listed by his Dutch publisher Lemniscaat, with probably one more in Amsterdam to come. — video description
2011-04-29 · Peanut Butter Face Question Tuesday — John cannot speak Dutch: when he tries to get through a whole interaction only in Dutch, the person says they don't understand and asks if he wants a beer. (playful) — 00:00:23
2011-04-29 · Peanut Butter Face Question Tuesday — John and the Yeti agreed in advance that a boy would be named Henry and a girl 'Bubbles the Nerdfighting Lady Baby'. (playful) — 00:01:47
2011-04-29 · Peanut Butter Face Question Tuesday — John: Amsterdam is great, John says, and the peanut butter is delicious. (playful) — 00:01:58
2011-04-29 · Peanut Butter Face Question Tuesday — John: Helen Hunt has not yet heard Hank's Helen Hunt song, John says, pointing out that Helen Hunt has a Twitter. — 00:02:01
2011-04-29 · Peanut Butter Face Question Tuesday — John: Willy is not in Amsterdam; he is staying with the Yeti's aunt and uncle, whom John says Willy likes far better than him. — 00:02:46
2011-04-29 · Peanut Butter Face Question Tuesday — John gives Willy's full name as, technically, Wilson Bubbles the Nerdfighting Puppy Roberts. (playful) — 00:03:00
2011-05-05 · IT'S HANKO DE MAYO!! — John: Borrowing a line he took from his wife for his first novel, that imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia, John says he can't wait to see what Hank does with 31. — 00:02:27
2011-05-09 · Trading Underwear for Rice Crispy Treats: Queens Day in Amsterdam (Thoughts from Places) — John, Sarah and Henry spent Queen's Day (30 April 2011) in Amsterdam; Henry woke them at 5:42 a.m. and they took him to the Vondelpark in a Dirk Kuyt jersey. — 00:00:01
2011-05-09 · Trading Underwear for Rice Crispy Treats: Queens Day in Amsterdam (Thoughts from Places) — John met Nerdfighter Tobias, the only person in Amsterdam not wearing orange, and says the orange-clad crowds make him anxious. (playful) — 00:01:01
2011-05-23 · Eating the Unicorn — John recalls that when the Yeti was pregnant with Henry, Nerdfighteria illustrated his favourite out-of-print picture book, Gus Is a Bug, so he could read it to Henry. — 00:01:23
2011-06-06 · Men Running on Tanks and the Truth about Book Editors — ask: John calls Gloria an amazing show and urges anyone in Venice to go and see it. — video description
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 went to a party with R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe, writer of 'Stand', to which John and Hank choreographed a dance in 1989 that their dad videotaped and lost. (playful) — 00:00:19
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
2011-06-10 · Then I Took Off My Bra — John says his time in the Netherlands is almost over; he will miss Amsterdam's elm trees, public transport, canal view, cafés, bicycles and his apartment older than his country. — 00:00:00
2011-06-15 (said on 2011-06-14, implied) · Question Tuesday! Paula Deen Riding Me (and critical reading) — John: Recording on Tuesday, John will upload tomorrow after spending all day flying across the world with a baby. — 00:00:17
2011-06-15 (said on 2011-06-14, implied) · Question Tuesday! Paula Deen Riding Me (and critical reading) — John: The Yeti wears DFTBA shirts but refuses the Pizza John shirt because she finds it creepy. (playful) — 00:02:12
2011-06-20 · On Religion — John is on a lawn kick because his next-door neighbour is unhappy that John left the country for two months during lawn-growing season; the lawn is full of dandelions. (playful) — 00:02:46
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
2011-07-27 · 150,000 Autographs — announcement: John notes he has agreed to autograph every copy of the first printing of The Fault in Our Stars; the Yeti made him a thermometer to chart his progress to 150,000 books. — 00:00:48
2011-08-26 · Will He Kiss You? Am I a Muggle? It's Question Friday. — John says Sarah has contributed tons to his writing: the line 'imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia' in Looking for Alaska, the pranks in Paper Towns, and hugely to The Fault in Our Stars. — 00:03:05
2011-09-12 · Adorable Baby and Insufficient Cartography — John says that yesterday (11 September 2011) he walked in the woods with Henry and the Yeti, down to the White River, where Henry watched the water for a long time, then to a playground. — 00:00:03
2011-09-16 · Narrowly Avoiding Arrest: Some Airport Insanity — John says Sarah thinks he is crazy for seeing tragic flaws in some signatures, but after 57,000 iterations he notices details like the J scribble. (playful) — 00:01:17
2011-09-16 · Narrowly Avoiding Arrest: Some Airport Insanity — announcement: John says that, in older-brother tradition, he has 'stolen' Hank's channel HankGames for a series playing FIFA while telling life stories, such as how he met and courted the Yeti. — 00:02:54
2011-09-30 · YouTube Survey: Balls and First Kisses — John's most expensive casual clothing is the suit he bought so as not to look bad next to his wife at the Venice Biennale, or, if a suit isn't casual, his Team 6 for life t-shirt. (playful) — 00:01:29
2011-09-30 · YouTube Survey: Balls and First Kisses — John wanted to name his son Henry 'Gatsby', but Sarah refused because Gatsby is a tragic character; John countered with the novel's line about what preyed on Gatsby and wanted that quote over the crib. — 00:02:13
2011-10-05 · SIGNING MADNESS — John: The Yeti (Sarah) sits with John watching TV at night while he signs and, when bored, draws Yetis on some of the signed sheets. (playful) — 00:01:24
2011-10-19 · Question Wed — THE COVER OF THE FAULT IN OUR STARS! — John: There will be exactly one Hanklerfished and Yetified copy of The Fault in Our Stars. (playful) — 00:02:30
2011-10-21 · Signing Psychosis, BlizzCon, TFiOS, Awesome Adventures, and URLatron — recommendation: Hank recommends two blog posts on the cover: one by Karen Kavett, Nerdfighteria's unofficial chief creative officer for years, and one by the Yeti, John's wife and a modern-art museum curator. — 00:01:56
2011-11-02 · LECTROJOG! — John shows the painting behind him: he rides a smoking French llama in a Swoodilypoopers jersey, with Henry and a Yeti, labelled the adventures of John Green. — 00:02:15
2011-12-09 · Puppies and The Tour de Nerdfighting 2012 — announcement: John: Summing up, Hank, Katherine, John and occasionally the Yeti will be on tour in January 2012. — 00:02:19

2012

2012-03-27 · Wrong but Right: Thoughts from Places Amsterdam — John: On the trip John visited the Central Library of Amsterdam, where he wrote much of The Fault in Our Stars. — 00:01:13
2012-03-27 · Wrong but Right: Thoughts from Places Amsterdam — John: Recalling the months he lived in Amsterdam, much of the time sick and crippled with anxiety, John now thinks only of how much one can love and miss made-up people. — 00:02:01
2012-04-17 · Thoughts on Romance and Sex in an Airport — John says that when he first saw the Yeti she was in eighth grade, and he did not think he was going to marry her. — 00:01:38
2012-05-08 · Tiny Chickens Invade, But Still I Vote — The description says John voted in the Indiana primaries and will now go back to bed. — video description
2012-05-08 · Tiny Chickens Invade, But Still I Vote — John is sick with 'tiny chicken disease', which the Yeti caught over the weekend; he spent the night swallowing snot and didn't sleep. (playful) — 00:00:21
2012-05-08 · Tiny Chickens Invade, But Still I Vote — Sarah Urist Green: Sarah phones John to remind him to vote. — 00:00:52
2012-05-08 · Tiny Chickens Invade, But Still I Vote — John goes to the wrong polling place and has to try again; on the upside he meets two nerdfighting poll workers. (playful) — 00:01:38
2012-06-05 · The Dangling Rope of Terror: It's Question Tuesday — John confirms that the Yeti (his wife Sarah) is a nerdfighter. (playful) — 00:01:56
2012-06-29 (said on 2012-06-30, implied) · Online Video about Online Video — recommendation: Hank calls 'John and Sarah play Wii Tennis' the most important launch at VidCon and tells viewers to watch it on HankGames. (playful) — 00:03:46
2012-07-03 · The Physics of Book Clubs and Vidcon — John is on vacation at the beach with the Yeti's (Sarah's) family. — 00:01:36
2012-09-14 · 1000 VIDEOS!!! — Hank lists his songs about quarks, ponies, Harry Potter and Helen Hunt, notes Helen Hunt tweeted him about hers, and recalls inventing 2D glasses and turning Pride and Prejudice into a video blog. (playful) — 00:01:36
2012-10-09 · Attacked by Squirrels and Neoclassicism: Thoughts from Places, Washington D.C. — John says Sarah is organizing a stop on the tour of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's show 'According to What?', and they came to its American opening. — 00:00:12
2012-10-09 · Attacked by Squirrels and Neoclassicism: Thoughts from Places, Washington D.C. — John says a squirrel 'inadequately afraid of humans' approached him on a park bench while Sarah fed him popcorn, and that they briefly went back to the hotel so he could recover. (playful) — 00:00:37
2012-10-09 · Attacked by Squirrels and Neoclassicism: Thoughts from Places, Washington D.C. — Sarah Urist Green: Asked before and after the museum, Sarah says her feelings about American history and the United States are mixed. — 00:02:43
2012-10-09 · Attacked by Squirrels and Neoclassicism: Thoughts from Places, Washington D.C. — John says he shares Sarah's mixed feelings about US history but feels it is too soon to say: for better or worse, the United States is just getting started. (hedged) — 00:03:27
2012-11-06 · Terrible at Frenching: My Spicy Summer Camp Story — John goes to his polling station with notes to help him remember his choices, accompanied by the Yeti (not pictured), and votes: 'I vote, I count'. — 00:01:18
2012-11-06 · Terrible at Frenching: My Spicy Summer Camp Story — John: At the polls John teases the Yeti that ladies couldn't vote until quite recently because 'we didn't trust you with it'. (joke) — 00:01:25
2012-11-06 · Terrible at Frenching: My Spicy Summer Camp Story — Sarah Urist Green: The Yeti says that is why she has never wanted to live at any time but now. (playful) — 00:01:29
2012-11-08 · VOLT! A Dream Comes True. — John: Living in New York, John and the Yeti had no car; after moving to Indianapolis in 2007 he inherited his parents' old car, whose windows don't roll down. — 00:00:00
2012-11-08 · VOLT! A Dream Comes True. — John teases that Hank is jealous but too cheap to buy it, never having bought a vehicle over $500; he admires that and offers Hank a back-seat ride in Indianapolis. (playful) — 00:02:12
2012-11-13 · I Was a Child Poet. And a Bad One. — announcement: John explains that the donation means interested researchers can visit the de Grummond Collection to look through dozens of drafts of each of his novels and read his editorial correspondence with Julie; he calls the collection an amazing resource and feels very lucky to be part of it. — video description
2012-11-13 · I Was a Child Poet. And a Bad One. — John: Over the last few days John and the Yeti have been on an organizational binge, turning up things he hadn't seen in years, like a Venn diagram from Brotherhood 2.0. — 00:00:26
2012-11-13 · I Was a Child Poet. And a Bad One. — announcement: John is donating all the drafts of his books, with his correspondence with editor Julie Strauss-Gabel, to the de Grummond children's library at the University of Southern Mississippi, to be archived forever. — 00:03:06
2012-11-13 · I Was a Child Poet. And a Bad One. — John is greatly honored and psyched to share a room with manuscripts like A Wrinkle in Time and Peter Rabbit. — 00:03:15
2012-11-27 · Nerdfighter Book Recommendations: A Gift Giving Guide for Nerdfightastic Readers — John says he and the Yeti keep several thousand books in their house and even two-year-old Henry has a sizeable collection, so he feels qualified to recommend books. — 00:00:00
2012-11-27 · Nerdfighter Book Recommendations: A Gift Giving Guide for Nerdfightastic Readers — recommendation: John: For couples reading together, John names the two books he and the Yeti read together this year (2012) and liked most: Michael Chabon's Telegraph Avenue and Tina Fey's Bossypants (he is unsure how to pronounce both surnames). — 00:01:27
2012-11-27 · Nerdfighter Book Recommendations: A Gift Giving Guide for Nerdfightastic Readers — John says no gift has lasted as long as books, showing Ship Breaker from Hank, The Human Stain from Sarah early in their dating, Microserfs from Dad (Christmas 1997) and Where the Red Fern Grows from Mom (age 10). — 00:03:24
2012-12-04 · Time for AWESOME — John signs off saying he has to call the Yeti to tell her the good news. — 00:03:24

2013

2013-01-08 (said on 2013-01-05, implied) · Addicted to the Internet — John says 'Good morning Hank, it's Tuesday' are probably the two sentences he has said most often in his life, alongside 'I love you, let's get some pizza'. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:00
2013-01-08 (said on 2013-01-05, implied) · Addicted to the Internet — John says it is really Saturday: later that morning he, Sarah and Henry leave on vacation, and on Tuesday he will be without a computer for the first time since he got it. — 00:00:10
2013-01-08 (said on 2013-01-05, implied) · Addicted to the Internet — John recalls that in late 2006, while planning Brotherhood 2.0, Sarah doubted he could do it given his internet time, and he insisted making videos would replace it. — 00:00:45
2013-01-08 (said on 2013-01-05, implied) · Addicted to the Internet — John says he will venture into the germy world of face-to-face contact because he thinks it is good for his mental health, especially before Carnegie Hall. (hedged) — 00:01:43
2013-01-15 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — John says books seem one person's work, but TFIOS was partly written by Esther, his wife, Julie Strauss-Gabel, Jodi Reamer, John Darnielle, Hank and T. S. Eliot. — 00:59:48
2013-01-15 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — Hank opens with 'Helen Hunt', the first song he ever put on YouTube, a song about a girl who isn't his wife. — 01:02:32
2013-01-15 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — John: For the finale John brings out the performers, his parents, Julie Strauss-Gabel, Jodi Reamer, Elyse Marshall who made the evening possible, Sean Titone, Katherine, Sarah (whom he first forgot) and Valerie2776. — 02:50:08
2013-01-18 · Thoughts from Carnegie Hall — Hank thanks Neil Gaiman, Kimya Dawson, The Mountain Goats, Ashley and Daniel, Hannah and Grace, Elyse, their parents, their wives and all of Nerdfighteria for making the show possible. — 00:01:44
2013-01-22 · How to Be More Than Friends: Question Tuesday — John says he and the Yeti are 'more than friends' mainly because they share responsibility for important things - a car, a mortgage and a human child - not because of face-licking. — 00:01:14
2013-01-25 · How to Make Friends — Hank tells John they are both very lucky to be married to their best friends. — 00:03:24
2013-02-12 · Talking to the President — John: Sarah realized in eighth grade that everyone else thinks about themselves as much as she does about herself, so no one has time to think about her; it helped make her a well-adjusted teen, and John is still trying to internalize it. — 00:03:11
2013-02-15 · Baby, Harlem, Obama, Dance Crazes, Big Week — Hank says John announced Sarah's pregnancy on the live stream with President Obama, which he calls the coolest way any baby has ever been announced; he is excited, proud and speechless. — video description
2013-02-15 · Baby, Harlem, Obama, Dance Crazes, Big Week — Hank reports that, in the interview, the President refused to name John's unborn child. — 00:02:37
2013-02-15 · Baby, Harlem, Obama, Dance Crazes, Big Week — Barack Obama (quoted): Obama explains he won't state a name preference: if the parents chose otherwise, the child would forever say the President doesn't like its name. — 00:02:42
2013-02-19 · Doing Things, On the Importance of — John and his wife are expecting their second child, whom the President told not to forget to be awesome. — 00:00:05
2013-02-26 · Cooking with a 3-Year-Old: The Mac & Cheese and Communist Celery Edition — John: Sarah is out of town, so John and his three-year-old son make dinner: mac and cheese, boiled asparagus, celery, blueberries and sweet potato fries. — video description
2013-03-26 · A Poem for Spring — John recalls that when he and the Yeti moved to Indianapolis, the U-Haul man, a 30-year resident, asked what he thought of the city, said: 'You gotta live somewhere.' — 00:00:29
2013-03-26 · A Poem for Spring — John closes that you have to live somewhere, but you also get to live somewhere, and tells viewers spring is coming. — 00:01:46
2013-04-02 · TFiOS Movie Casting, New Books, and Groundhog Wars: An Old School Vlogbrothers Video — John says he is about to have a child, due around May or June (Sarah points out he will not be the one having it, but he will be its father). — 00:02:26
2013-04-23 · DOCTOR GREEN — John says he has long been the least educated in the family: Hank and Katherine have masters of science, Sarah a master of arts, John only a bachelor of arts. (playful) — 00:00:17
2013-05-07 · The Clif Bars Go in the Jar Because Mice: An Office Tour — John says he bought a painting from Sarah before they dated, framed it, and when she first visited his apartment while they were dating she told him it was upside down. (playful) — 00:01:01
2013-05-07 · The Clif Bars Go in the Jar Because Mice: An Office Tour — John says Sarah (the Yeti) is due to have their baby on June 1, though it might come earlier. (hedged) — 00:03:04
2013-05-21 · Poetry Makes Nothing Happen: Thoughts on Ai Weiwei from the Indianapolis Museum of Art — John says he finished filming Crash Course US History early yesterday, so he drove to the Indianapolis Museum of Art, where Sarah is a curator. — 00:00:00
2013-05-21 · Poetry Makes Nothing Happen: Thoughts on Ai Weiwei from the Indianapolis Museum of Art — John: In the lobby, Spencer Finch's installation 'Following Nature', curated by Sarah, abstractly recreates Monet's garden at Giverny. — 00:00:09
2013-05-21 · Poetry Makes Nothing Happen: Thoughts on Ai Weiwei from the Indianapolis Museum of Art — John says his wife is responsible for the show 'According to What?' having its only Midwest tour stop at the museum. — 00:00:23
2013-06-04 · A New Nerdfighter Baby — John announces in a pre-recorded video that his baby has been born; he jokes about his 'epic loins' before conceding Sarah did the birthing and he only reinforced the doctor's 'push'. (playful) — 00:00:01
2013-06-04 · A New Nerdfighter Baby — John says Sarah actually had the baby, but he will help with diaper changes and many other tasks. — 00:00:28
2013-06-04 · A New Nerdfighter Baby — John: In a short insert recorded after the birth, John reports that everything is good: baby and mother are healthy, and the parents are exhausted. — 00:01:45
2013-06-07 · How To Be a Baby Properly — Hank welcomes Alice to Earth, 'a wonderful, terrible place', and says she is being born into what may be the most interesting time in human history. (hedged) — 00:00:00
2013-06-07 · How To Be a Baby Properly — Hank's description says he has talked to John a lot since the birth: John is excited, exhausted, enjoying time with his family, and far less freaked out than when Henry was born. — video description
2013-06-11 · How To Be John Green — Craig Benzine: Craig explains he is there because John had a baby - Sarah had the baby, John helped - and they brought Alice Green into the world. (playful) — 00:00:48
2013-06-18 · 50 Ways to Pretend to Be Smarter — Grace Helbig (DailyGrace, daily videos five days a week) fills in for John Green while he is away with his new baby. (playful) — 00:00:36
2013-07-12 · Oh, JK Rowling - A Harry Potter Song — John: Asked about Alice, John says she is great and beautiful and they love her; he thanks Nerdfighteria for its good wishes and says they enjoy being a family of four. — 00:02:59
2013-07-19 · TFiOS Movie, Bees, Babies, and More! — John says Sarah is a huge fan of Hot Nuts and comes home from Mexico trips with huge amounts, telling customs she doesn't think of them as food. (playful) — 00:00:15
2013-07-19 · TFiOS Movie, Bees, Babies, and More! — John: Asked whether Alice has done a Nerdfighter salute, John says she is one month old and has made no intentional gestures yet. — 00:01:24
2013-07-19 · TFiOS Movie, Bees, Babies, and More! — John says Henry read in a Berenstain Bears book that baby sisters bop you on the nose, so he waits by Alice's arm and cheers when she moves involuntarily. — 00:01:36
2013-07-30 · Paternity Leave Ends! And I Find Myself… — John: Digging holes on a Michigan beach, Henry, three and a half, asked John who likes digging holes and answered: Germans. — 00:01:12
2013-07-30 · Paternity Leave Ends! And I Find Myself… — John: When Henry was one the family lived in the Netherlands while John researched The Fault in Our Stars; Dutch people said they thought little of Germans not because of the war but because Germans dig holes in their beaches. — 00:01:34
2013-07-30 · Paternity Leave Ends! And I Find Myself… — John: This happened about six times and John and Sarah remarked on it, apparently in front of Henry; on a Dutch beach they then saw German speakers digging huge holes with full-size shovels. (playful) — 00:01:53
2013-07-30 · Paternity Leave Ends! And I Find Myself… — John: That Henry remembered this from age one worries John about what else he remembers, such as John swearing during Liverpool games. (playful) — 00:02:08
2013-07-30 · Paternity Leave Ends! And I Find Myself… — John: At three and a half Henry already has his first cultural stereotype, hole-digging Germans, which John thinks says a lot about humans. (hedged) — 00:02:28
2013-09-03 · Bigger Pizzas: A Capitalist Case for Health Care Reform — John says his family gets its health insurance through his wife's job. — 00:00:58
2013-09-24 · Started from the Bottom: Benjamin Franklin and Drake Compared — announcement: In the description John says he and his wife Sarah are working together on a new show called The Art Assignment. — video description
2013-09-24 · Started from the Bottom: Benjamin Franklin and Drake Compared — announcement: John says The Art Assignment, his new show with his wife Sarah, is produced and distributed by PBS Digital, and asks viewers to subscribe. — video description
2013-10-04 · Q&A with Ansel Elgort and Mike Birbiglia from The Fault in Our Stars Movie Set — John says his wife, who is on set, told him that on Twitter he acts like he has a crush on Ansel. (playful) — 00:00:53
2013-10-08 · Applying for Health Insurance: Then and Now — John: Once he has an account, John enters himself, his wife, his son Henry and his new baby, and finds the questions easy to answer. — 00:01:35
2013-10-08 · Applying for Health Insurance: Then and Now — John: Listing hospital stays and surgery, John names his orbital cellulitis, his wife's hospital stays for the births, and his gallbladder removal. — 00:04:06
2013-10-22 · Question Tuesday: The Fault in Our Stars Movie Edition — John: Indianapolis landmarks were recreated in Pittsburgh by set designers; Funky Bones was rebuilt with help from the artist and Sarah, who flew out to check it, and up close John could not tell it from the real one. — 00:02:26
2013-10-22 · Question Tuesday: The Fault in Our Stars Movie Edition — announcement: John: Sarah is leaving her job at the Indianapolis Museum of Art to curate and host The Art Assignment, a show with PBS Digital; John jokes he should have said so weeks ago. — 00:02:26

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2014

2014-01-24 · The Naughty Professor: Hank and John at the Beach - REUNION! — announcement: John says the first episode of The Art Assignment comes out in late February and asks viewers to subscribe via the doobly-doo link. — 00:00:48
2014-02-11 · A Middle Aged Man — John: Dressing for a cocktail party, John told Sarah he looked like a middle-aged man; her quarter-second pause before reassuring him made him realise he is one. — 00:00:08
2014-02-21 · Ranting about Books — announcement: Hank announces the first episode of The Art Assignment is online now and asks viewers to go to youtube.com/theartassignment and watch it. — 00:03:45
2014-02-21 · Ranting about Books — Hank notes that 'the Yeti' (Sarah) has a YouTube channel: who would have guessed? (playful) — 00:03:52
2014-02-25 (said on 2014-02-22, implied) · John and Chris Meet in the Middle — announcement: John announces that Sarah's new PBS show, The Art Assignment, has just premiered: she visits working artists around the country, gives art-historical context, and they set an art assignment. — 00:00:36
2014-03-18 · Is the American Dream Real? — John recalls that when he and Sarah moved to New York in 2005, a Craigslist mover told him that in New York anyone who can work, can work. — 00:00:01
2014-03-18 · Is the American Dream Real? — John: About a year later, at a publishing conference, the same man, now in international sales at a huge publishing company, greeted John as 'Looking for Alaska'. — 00:00:30
2014-03-25 · I Gotta Go: Signing Off and Thinking about Inspiration — recommendation: John points viewers to The Art Assignment video in which he and Sarah talk about the definition of art. — video description
2014-03-25 · I Gotta Go: Signing Off and Thinking about Inspiration — John recalls that on a recent Art Assignment episode a viewer asked Sarah to define art; she was comfortable without a definition while he blathered. — 00:02:26
2014-03-28 · New Album, New Channels, New Fabric, New Internet Thing! — announcement: Hank presents The Art Assignment, a project with PBS and Sarah Green that brings culture to YouTube, launched before How to Adult. — 00:01:29
2014-04-15 · Walking the Red Carpet: Thoughts from Los Angeles — John saw T Cooper, author of Changers, met Ansel Elgort and Sarah at a hotel, then went to the MTV Movie Awards with Nat Wolff and walked the red carpet. — 00:01:38
2014-05-27 · ALL THE SHIRTS (and some paths to community) — announcement: John: Sarah's new show The Art Assignment is going great, with a new assignment from artist Kate Gilmore and a thriving community making everything from gifs to sculptures. — 00:02:11
2014-05-27 · ALL THE SHIRTS (and some paths to community) — John: Even within tiny Nerdfighteria there are many ways to connect: gatherings, The Art Assignment, the Wimbly Womblys. — 00:03:07
2014-06-03 · The Fault in Our Stars Movie Premiere — John meets Indy 500 winner Ryan Hunter-Reay, takes a selfie with Mike Birbiglia, and stands with his wife near Shailene Woodley and Laura Dern. — 00:01:41
2014-06-24 · In Pursuit of Quiet — John describes The Art Assignment as a cool PBS show about contemporary art starring his wife and, to a much lesser extent, himself. — 00:00:15
2014-07-18 · EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! — Hank: In 2011 the standing deal to punish Hank if Helen Hunt saw his 'Helen Hunt' video came true: she tweeted him, and he had to hump his entire town. — 00:02:33
2014-09-02 · MORTIFICATION — John says he was truly mortified last week (26 August 2014) to have said 'hectacre' (he jokes 'like 135 times') in his video about agriculture in Ethiopia. (playful) — 00:00:07
2014-09-02 · MORTIFICATION — John: Sarah reassured John that nerdfighters are forgiving and few outside Nerdfighteria would see an agriculture video; within a day Bill Gates, the WFP head and Ethiopia's foreign minister had seen it. (playful) — 00:01:49
2014-09-05 · REUNION TUESDAY! FRIDAY! WHATEVER! — John: Building Legos, Henry called a figure the bad guy; John suggested villains are complicated and should be imagined complexly; Henry insisted he was really bad. (playful) — 00:02:22
2014-09-05 · REUNION TUESDAY! FRIDAY! WHATEVER! — John: Henry told Sarah a good kind of learning is learning how to turn on the TV. (playful) — 00:02:50
2014-09-05 · REUNION TUESDAY! FRIDAY! WHATEVER! — John: Asked how Henry feels about Hank, John says Henry's last words before he left were a message for Uncle Hank and Auntie Katherine, in gibberish. (playful) — 00:03:01
2014-11-07 · New Crash Course and Pizzamas! — announcement: Hank announces a significantly larger relationship with PBS Digital Studios that will basically double Crash Course content; PBS is likewise viewer-funded and partnered with them on Frankenstein MD and The Art Assignment. — 00:02:18
2014-11-18 · How to Never Feel Embarrassed Again — Hank: In the comments of his Friday video Hank owned up to 'dipthong', likening it to John's recent 'hectacre', and asked people for their own 'hectacre moments'. — 00:02:40
2014-12-16 · Jelly Face, Sharpie Face, Peanut Butter Face, and Mummy Dancers: The 2014 Project for Awesome — John thanks his family for their patience and participation in P4A, especially Sarah, who let herself be covered in jelly. (playful) — 00:01:13
2014-12-16 · Jelly Face, Sharpie Face, Peanut Butter Face, and Mummy Dancers: The 2014 Project for Awesome — John: In the livestream highlights John does peanut butter face with banana eyes and Sarah does jelly face; John recalls when #bananaeyes trended on Twitter: 'Happier days'. (playful) — 00:01:49
2014-12-19 · BUTFARTMAN Is Coming To Town! — ask: John: In a clip John pledges that if viewers donate $10,000 in the next hour, he and Sarah will cover their faces in peanut butter. (playful) — 00:00:33
2014-12-19 · BUTFARTMAN Is Coming To Town! — John tells Hank the livestream is $160 away from a million; at a million Grace will dress as a Christmas tree and Sarah will do his makeup. — 00:01:42

2015

2015-01-04 · The Best Worst Thing — John: Nervous while watching the draw on the Paper Towns set, John shouted and ruined a take of the movie when AFC Wimbledon drew Liverpool. (playful) — 00:01:25
2015-01-04 · The Best Worst Thing — John: Torn between his favourite club and the club with DFTBA on its shorts, John is flying with the Yeti to London for the game, leaving in about two hours. — 00:02:00
2015-01-04 · The Best Worst Thing — John has to get on an airplane so he can spend 14 hours in England. (playful) — 00:03:21
2015-01-06 (said on 2015-01-05, implied) · AFC Wimbledon v. Liverpool: Thoughts from the Greatest Game on Earth — John: On Monday John has just arrived in London with the game a few hours away; he feels great and everyone is excited. — 00:00:01
2015-01-06 (said on 2015-01-05, implied) · AFC Wimbledon v. Liverpool: Thoughts from the Greatest Game on Earth — John: About 45 feet from Steven Gerrard, John reports Liverpool scored, then Wimbledon equalised for 1-1; he has never been this excited. — 00:01:39
2015-01-06 (said on 2015-01-05, implied) · AFC Wimbledon v. Liverpool: Thoughts from the Greatest Game on Earth — John: After an entertaining game in which he had to root against a Steven Gerrard goal, John says AFC Wimbledon did themselves proud and technically lost. — 00:02:28
2015-01-06 (said on 2015-01-05, implied) · AFC Wimbledon v. Liverpool: Thoughts from the Greatest Game on Earth — John: The next morning John says it was strange to see his favourite player Steven Gerrard score two goals to beat Wimbledon, but it was the absolute time of his life. — 00:02:42
2015-02-03 (said on 2015-01-30, implied) · Beards, Birds, and the Paper Towns Release Date: Question Tuesday! — John says he is kind of growing a beard, because Sarah wants him to. (hedged) — 00:00:13
2015-02-03 (said on 2015-01-30, implied) · Beards, Birds, and the Paper Towns Release Date: Question Tuesday! — recommendation: John's favorite Art Assignment video is Christoph Niemann's Emotional Furniture; he also enjoyed the Highlights video in which he made prints with Sarah. — 00:01:16
2015-03-24 · Is Obamacare Working? The Affordable Care Act Five Years Later — John says the ACA does not seem to hurt the job market and has brought labor-market freedom: Sarah Green could leave her insurance-providing museum job to start an art show with PBS Digital. (hedged) — 00:04:22
2015-04-07 · John Reviews Kids Movies — John says his son loved Despicable Me 2 and afterwards said he wanted to marry Mommy, which John told him was illegal. (playful) — 00:02:04
2015-04-14 · A Long Good Day — John woke at 4:10 a.m. on Sunday and drove with Sarah to the Indianapolis airport, then flew five hours to Los Angeles for the MTV Movie Awards. — 00:00:01
2015-04-14 · A Long Good Day — John met up with Justice Smith, 'a.k.a. Radar', Alex Wolff and Nat Wolff at another hotel, and they drove to the awards. — 00:01:02
2015-04-14 · A Long Good Day — John: The Fault in Our Stars won Best Movie, and John made the acceptance speech, as everyone had urged, so that he could thank Esther. — 00:02:38
2015-04-21 · A Stunning Turn of Events — John recalls that when Hank released his love song for Helen Hunt in 2007 he didn't know Hank could play guitar; his main feeling was 'when did Hank get a guitar?' (playful) — 00:00:24
2015-04-21 · A Stunning Turn of Events — John: Shown the two competing Batman shirt designs, Sarah laughed for minutes and asked why anyone would buy the 'Batman's just a rich guy' shirt; John fears for his chances in the contest. (playful) — 00:00:45
2015-04-21 · A Stunning Turn of Events — John and Sarah are flying to a gala celebrating the Time 100, Time magazine's list of the most important people; he jokes that 'gala' has two accepted pronunciations. (playful) — 00:01:09
2015-05-12 · Becoming Someone Else — John explains that he and Sarah make The Art Assignment with PBS Digital: they visit contemporary artists around the country who give viewers art assignments. — 00:00:17
2015-05-12 · Becoming Someone Else — ask: John thanks Tameka Norris and asks viewers to check out The Art Assignment's many assignments and videos about contemporary art. — 00:03:22
2015-05-19 · Pain Destroys Language: John after the Dentist — announcement: John pledges to match all Nerdfighters' donations up to $20,000, not because he is high: Sarah agreed. — 00:02:04
2015-05-26 · Sixteen Parts — John reports the one-week fundraiser for Save the Children's work with Syrian refugees raised over $15,000, $30,000 with matching, which eases his feelings about the world and his post-operative mouth pain; he thanks donors. — 00:00:07
2015-06-08 · Monday Bonus Video! — announcement: John: Next week (week of 15 June 2015) John tours Europe with his wife and friends: a sold-out Berlin event on Tuesday June 16, meeting people outside a Paris bookstore Wednesday, London on Thursday (place and time to be determined). — 00:00:06
2015-06-30 · Some News — John: Last night Sarah and a group of John's friends saw the Paper Towns film for the first time and, he thinks, really liked it. (hedged) — 00:01:21
2015-06-30 · Some News — John has a cameo in the Paper Towns film, but none of the friends noticed it; Sarah asked afterwards where he was. (playful) — 00:01:30
2015-06-30 · Some News — John: The money from selling the rights let John and Sarah move to New York so Sarah could go to graduate school toward becoming a curator, so John cannot really regret the sale. — 00:02:39
2015-08-04 · Question Tuesday: Wookiee Gunships, Sneezing Cessation, and Pizza — John says his cameo in the Paper Towns movie is not something you see so much as someone you hear. — 00:02:06
2015-09-01 · The Road Less Traveled By — John: Humans constantly make big decisions with very limited information; John had no idea on his wedding day he was also agreeing to be co-CEO of 'a company that raises children and mows lawns'. (playful) — 00:02:26
2015-09-15 · John Gets a Tattoo — John: Anxious and scared at first, John finds the inkless tattooing doesn't hurt at all and thinks he might sort of like getting tattoos. (hedged) — 00:01:17
2015-09-15 · John Gets a Tattoo — John: Laura made John's DFTBA tattoo with water instead of ink, so it will go away in about a month. — 00:01:26
2015-09-15 · John Gets a Tattoo — John says he really loves the tattoo, especially in all its impermanence; DFTBA are the five most important letters in his life, then jokingly corrects himself: his children's names also have five letters. — 00:01:38
2015-09-15 · John Gets a Tattoo — John: Laura made the whole process relaxing, fun and pretty painless; they chatted and suddenly it was over. — 00:01:52
2015-09-15 · John Gets a Tattoo — John: Now John wants a real tattoo, but has to talk to his wife first. — 00:02:03
2015-09-15 · John Gets a Tattoo — John says it was fast, easy and relatively fun, adding that he is not saying 'get a tattoo'. (playful) — 00:02:08
2015-09-29 · Writing, Walling, Racing, and Wizard Schooling — John: At Sarah's suggestion John takes off his shirt to show Hank how his tattoo is doing: it is 'still there a little bit'. — 00:01:23
2015-09-29 · Writing, Walling, Racing, and Wizard Schooling — John says he is excited, was one of the first ten backers, and that he and the Yeti are huge nerds for tabletop card games. — 00:02:53
2015-11-10 · It's a Pizzamas Miracle! (Pizzamas Day 2) — John: After John got meningitis last year (2014), Bill Gates sent him a get-well-soon orchid, a thoughtful gesture John really appreciated. — 00:01:26
2015-11-10 · It's a Pizzamas Miracle! (Pizzamas Day 2) — John: At a recent dinner party John name-dropped the Bill Gates orchid; Sarah told him Bill Gates's orchid had died and this one came from Trader Joe's. (playful) — 00:01:35
2015-11-10 · It's a Pizzamas Miracle! (Pizzamas Day 2) — John: A couple of weeks later a friend and his wife gave John a little plaque for the orchid reminding him it is not Bill Gates's orchid; John says he has great friends. (playful) — 00:02:07
2015-11-12 · Cheez Doodles Guy, Ringo Silver, and Dad Jokes (Pizzamas Day 4) — John says dad jokes are not something you know but something you are: he always says 'Tupperware, Tupper-here' at the drawer, to Sarah's disgust. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:15
2015-11-12 · Cheez Doodles Guy, Ringo Silver, and Dad Jokes (Pizzamas Day 4) — John says his tattoo is not fake, just made with water instead of ink, so not visible but real; he would consider more invisible tattoos. (playful, hedged) — 00:02:04
2015-11-17 · The Things that People Do (Thoughts from New York City) (Pizzamas Day 7) — Hank met up with John for a reunion, and Sarah took them around a number of art galleries in Chelsea. — 00:00:13
2015-11-17 · The Things that People Do (Thoughts from New York City) (Pizzamas Day 7) — Hank, who doesn't think much about art, still appreciates it, but finds it hard to find good art or to feel he belongs in galleries with giant white walls and terrifying price lists. — 00:00:25
2015-11-18 · SUIT UP! A Very Fancy Reunion Video (Pizzamas Day 8) — John says the brothers have just come from the Save the Children gala. — 00:00:04
2015-12-01 · John's Book Giving Guide for the Holidays! — recommendation: John: On art and being an artist, John and Sarah both love Rachel Kushner's The Flamethrowers and Patti Smith's Just Kids. — 00:02:09

2016

2016-02-09 · Water in My Cereal: Taste Testing Various Liquid Accompaniments to Raisin Bran — John: Sarah built a Louvre out of Legos, which John and Henry then attacked with a clone army. (playful) — 00:02:11
2016-05-24 · Easier Than IKEA: A Video in Two Parts — John says that over the weekend (21–22 May 2016) he and Sarah drove to Gambier, Ohio, where he delivered the commencement address at his alma mater, Kenyon College. — 00:00:07
2016-06-28 · New Iceland — John: On John and Sarah's August 2008 Iceland bus tour, the guide claimed the weather was mild year-round; outside it was barely above freezing, with wind-driven rain over brown lava. (playful) — 00:00:50
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
2016-07-19 · Pretty Bad Ways to Start a Conversation — recommendation: John calls Sarah's Art Assignment video The Case for Kanye West brilliant; since watching it he has listened more carefully to Kanye's music. — 00:00:02
2016-09-20 · Failing to Follow Up The Fault in Our Stars — John missed writing like someone you used to love; about a year ago (2015) he went back, writing just for fun and because he thought Sarah would like it, which are good reasons to write. — 00:02:27
2016-09-27 · Books, Movies, and Wonder: Thoughts from a Red Carpet — John says that yesterday he and Sarah flew to New York City and met up with their best friends Chris and Marina. — 00:00:01
2016-09-27 · Books, Movies, and Wonder: Thoughts from a Red Carpet — John says the really wonderful part was not the stars or red carpet but seeing a great movie with his wife and dear friends, one who has known him since the Grand Canyon. — 00:02:51
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
2016-11-17 · Decathlons, Pretension, and the Weirdest Animal I've Met: It's Question Thursday — John says the Looking for Alaska line "Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia" is not his: Sarah said it on their first date; he wrote it on a napkin and used it, with her permission. — 00:00:49
2016-11-22 · On Not Seeing Hamilton — John says Sarah got him tickets to see Hamilton in New York City; both are huge fans who have played the cast recording hundreds of times, and they planned galleries and old haunts. — 00:00:05
2016-11-22 · On Not Seeing Hamilton — John: At an Indianapolis airport bar, as they debated messaging Lin-Manuel Miranda, John took a bite of a sandwich and knew they would not see Hamilton. — 00:00:24
2016-11-22 · On Not Seeing Hamilton — John says he has eosinophilic esophagitis: mild-ish inflammation that occasionally lets food stick in his esophagus, so he vomits every two or three minutes for hours until a doctor clears it. — 00:00:42
2016-12-27 · The Best of My 2016 — John's second memory: Sarah's cousin's wedding in Portland, Oregon; he'd known the groom since high school, laughed and cried, watched his kids watch, then saw a Portland Timbers game. — 00:01:23
2016-12-27 · The Best of My 2016 — John: In their twenties John and Sarah went to seven or eight weddings a year and he came to dread them; now that weddings are rare he has come around to them. — 00:01:27

2017

2017-02-21 · Does Human Life Have Real Meaning? — John recalls inviting to his and Sarah's wedding a somewhat famous person who had helped bring them together; the invitee's email reply began 'Of course I cannot come', but he bought them wine glasses off their registry. (playful) — 00:01:16
2017-02-21 · Does Human Life Have Real Meaning? — John: Answering a viewer's wedding invitation, John jokes that of course they cannot come, then says if it's in Indianapolis with an open bar, they'll be there. (playful) — 00:01:43
2017-05-23 (said on 2017-05-14, implied) · Boxes, Butterflies, and Regular Aunts: Live from the Past, It's Question Tuesday — recommendation: John: For marriage advice, Sarah reminded John of a Philip Larkin poem ending 'we should be careful of each other, we should be kind while there is still time'; John wishes the same for him and Hank. — 00:03:23
2017-05-30 · What Should We Keep? — John says his life is now much better photographed: hundreds of pictures of himself at 39, and over a thousand of the kids taken by him and Sarah this year (2017). — 00:00:34
2017-06-27 · UNBOXING — John: Signing all pre-orders means signing the whole first printing; for The Fault in Our Stars that was 150,000, charted on a 2011 poster Sarah made, and John signed almost all its pre-orders. — 00:00:46
2017-06-27 · UNBOXING — announcement: John will sign at least 200,000 copies of the book, hopefully slightly more. (hedged) — 00:01:08
2017-06-27 · UNBOXING — John: Sarah turned the 2011 chart into a 2017 thermometer resting on stacked turtles; since January John has signed 80,000 and has about two months to reach his goal. (hedged) — 00:02:52
2017-06-27 · UNBOXING — John: Most sheets are just signed, but about 3% carry a DFTBA, some have yetis drawn by Sarah, a few were circled in hot pink by Alice and several hundred bear Henry's Pokéballs: a family affair. (hedged) — 00:03:08
2017-07-11 · Signing 200,000 Autographs — John: Still on vacation, John brought 35,000 sheets of paper and has signed very nearly 120,000 sheets. — 00:00:02
2017-07-11 · Signing 200,000 Autographs — John: Why 200,000? At the time it seemed like enough, but not too much. — 00:00:57
2017-07-11 · Signing 200,000 Autographs — John thinks his signature varies wildly; Sarah thinks he spends far too much time looking at it. (hedged) — 00:02:01
2017-07-18 · Accio Decade Hallows — John: Signing update: John is just past 135,000 signatures. — 00:00:00
2017-07-18 · Accio Decade Hallows — John: Of John's five memories of shocked joy, the first two are his children's births: expected, yet both times the feeling, an overwhelmedness of joy and awe, was a complete surprise. (hedged) — 00:00:59
2017-07-18 · Accio Decade Hallows — John: Third: in 2003, after a couple of years as friends, Sarah mentioned at her apartment that she and her boyfriend had broken up months earlier. — 00:01:13
2017-07-18 · Accio Decade Hallows — John: Fourth: in January 2006, engaged and walking in New York with his parents to register for wedding presents, John got a call that Looking for Alaska had won the Printz Award; his dad photographed the moment. — 00:01:24
2017-07-18 · Accio Decade Hallows — John: Fifth: in July 2007 John and Sarah had just moved from New York to Indianapolis for her job and bought a first house, exciting but scary, and John had no friends there. — 00:01:54
2017-08-01 · Death and How to Avoid It (...for a while) — John: Signing update: John has about 34,000 copies to go, about 68 hours of signing, which he thinks is doable. (hedged) — 00:03:22
2017-08-08 · What You Make of It: Thoughts from Venice, Italy — John asks Sarah whether she will be annoyed if he adds a vowel to the end of every noun all trip; she says it will offend her, and he says he'll 'bear that in mind-o'. (joke) — 00:00:13
2017-08-08 · What You Make of It: Thoughts from Venice, Italy — John says they are in Venice to film the Venice Biennale, a huge art show, for The Art Assignment, Sarah's PBS show; filming starts tomorrow. — 00:00:25
2017-08-08 · What You Make of It: Thoughts from Venice, Italy — John and Sarah walk past the Fenice Theater to the Libreria Acqua Alta, a sprawling canal-side bookstore with towers of books on all sides. — 00:01:13
2017-08-08 · What You Make of It: Thoughts from Venice, Italy — John: Watching gondolas from a bridge, John recalls his last visit to Venice just over six years ago (June 2011): his video began 'I'm in Venice and I'm really sick', and he was very sick. — 00:02:01
2017-08-15 · Very Hard to Desclibe — John has signed 184,000 sheets and is on the first of the two turtles; eight boxes (16,000 sheets, about 32 hours) remain, and he must finish by Monday (21 August 2017). — 00:01:07
2017-08-29 · 40 — announcement: John announces he has finished signing all 200,000 copies of Turtles All the Way Down; the boxes are gone. — 00:02:30
2017-10-10 · Turtles All the Way Down!!! A Reunion Video — John signed over 200,000 copies of the US edition, so autographed copies should be easy to find, except outside the US and Canada, for which he apologises. (hedged) — 00:00:51

2018

2018-01-02 · BRING IT IN 2018 — announcement: John wants to collaborate with his wife Sarah in 2018 on at least four episodes of a new YouTube series, Cooking History, uploaded at least initially on the Vlogbrothers channel. — 00:00:18
2018-01-02 · BRING IT IN 2018 — recommendation: John praises Art Cooking, a series on Sarah's PBS Digital channel The Art Assignment (e.g. Salvador Dali's crawfish tower), for teaching food and cooking together with art. — 00:00:27
2018-02-06 · Sawdust Bread — announcement: John has been reading about this partly for the Cooking History videos he and Sarah will make later in the year. — 00:01:03
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
2018-02-20 · When Your Friend Runs for Governor — John: At Daniel's campaign announcement, John saw his eloquence and intelligence but thought, driving home, that Daniel might eventually return to abstract mathematics. (hedged) — 00:01:23
2018-02-27 · Ode to a Dog — John: Fireball Wilson Roberts Green came home in 2008, named for the alcoholic bulldog in James Crumley's novel The Last Good Kiss; they call him Willy because, as the vet put it, he's 'Willy Willy cute'. — 00:00:07
2018-02-27 · Ode to a Dog — John: The children are fiercely loyal to Willy: when Sarah or John say they are a family of four, the kids shout back that it is five, counting Willy. — 00:01:26
2018-04-10 · Who Do Tax Breaks Benefit? — John says Sarah made a brilliant Art Assignment video last week (week of 2 April 2018) on how extremely wealthy people sometimes use art collecting to avoid taxation, which prompted this video. — 00:00:00
2018-04-10 · Who Do Tax Breaks Benefit? — recommendation: John highly recommends Sarah's Art Assignment video on the shocking truth about art and taxes. — 00:03:37
2018-07-17 · How to Eat 213 Tomatoes — John ate around 100 tomatoes at lunch and split the rest with Sarah at dinner: three great meals, and his skin did not turn orange. — 00:02:33
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: 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: This week (week of 6 August 2018) Chris, Marina, Sarah and John celebrate 11 years of friendship; now they are the old people with kids at the neighborhood party, and John couldn't be more grateful. — 00:03:43
2018-10-02 · How Much Do You Love Each Other? It's Question Tuesday — Hank's favorite quote from a John Green book is 'imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia', which he calls really good. — 00:01:00
2018-10-02 · How Much Do You Love Each Other? It's Question Tuesday — John says he stole that line from his wife. — 00:01:00
2018-10-16 · Life's Library — John: When John and Sarah first met they started a two-person book club and kept it up for about three months before they started dating, failing to notice they were in love. (playful) — 00:00:27
2018-10-31 · The Looking for Alaska Thing — John says he and Sarah, dating almost a year, got engaged that summer on the day she learned she would attend graduate school in New York City; he had thanked 'the lovely Sarah Urist' in the book. — 00:00:20
2018-11-20 · Cause for Celebration — John: When Turtles All the Way Down hit 52 consecutive weeks on the NYT bestseller list, John felt happy briefly, then anxious again; weeks later a quiet champagne toast with Sarah brought overwhelming joy and gratitude. — 00:01:56
2018-12-07 · BABIES! The 2018 Project for Awesome is here… — announcement: John says he and Sarah are making a P4A-only podcast called The Statue Got Me High. — 00:03:12
2018-12-07 · BABIES! The 2018 Project for Awesome is here… — announcement: John says Sarah and Catherine are hosting a version of Dear Hank and John called Dear Sarah and Catherine. — 00:03:17

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2019

2019-01-01 · How to Make Goals, Not Resolutions — John missed his goal of a Cooking History video series with Sarah because they didn't make time for it. — 00:02:04
2019-03-05 · Way, Way Down the Rabbit Hole — announcement: John: Sarah asked John to make an Art Assignment video about the picture, Three Young Farmers on Their Way to a Dance, taken by German photographer August Sander in 1914; he agreed and began researching. — 00:00:00
2019-04-09 · The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone — John and Sarah spent last week (week of 1 April 2019) in Sierra Leone learning about its health care system and visited Kissy Psychiatric Hospital. — 00:00:00
2019-05-28 · 3 Minutes and 58 Seconds of Darkness — John recalls photographing himself and Sarah in the 'vast and empty' Utah salt flats, angling the camera to leave out the many other people photographing themselves there. (playful) — 00:01:04
2019-07-09 · Life Hacks My Wife Taught Me — John says the internet is bursting with life hacks that either do not work or do not improve your life, but he will share seven he learned from his wife, all of which work and dramatically improved his life. — 00:00:00
2019-07-09 · Life Hacks My Wife Taught Me — recommendation: John and Sarah now mostly clean with rags and throw sponges away when they start to stink, as researchers recommend. — 00:01:27
2019-07-09 · Life Hacks My Wife Taught Me — recommendation: John: Until he met Sarah, John thought wooden cutting boards just fell apart naturally; they only fall apart when put in the dishwasher. — 00:01:56
2019-07-09 · Life Hacks My Wife Taught Me — John: On their Caribbean honeymoon John brought beers to the beach but forgot a bottle opener, so Sarah opened them with her two-day-old wedding ring. (playful) — 00:02:55
2019-07-23 · What to Love and How — John drove to South Bend, Indiana to see reigning European champions Liverpool play a pre-season friendly at the University of Notre Dame. — 00:00:31
2019-07-23 · What to Love and How — John: When Steven Gerrard lifted Liverpool's fifth European Cup in 2005, John was in Alabama celebrating his engagement to Sarah; his first novel was six weeks old and he was 27. — 00:00:57
2019-07-23 · What to Love and How — John: At halftime John, Sarah and Alice met Liverpool legends Patrik Berger and Ian Rush, who generously brought out the European Cup for them; John wept. — 00:02:54
2019-07-23 · What to Love and How — John thought of the 14 years between trophies: years with Sarah, two kids, books, YouTube channels, hard times and good ones, with Liverpool there the whole time. — 00:02:54
2019-09-10 · Another Contender in the Room — John tells how, before they dated, he and Sarah had a two-person book club; discussing Philip Roth's The Human Stain at her Chicago apartment, they found they'd highlighted the same passage. — 00:00:00
2019-09-10 · Another Contender in the Room — John says he always knew Sarah was smarter than him but has aimed to be a contender in the room with her; for 16 years they have read each other's writing and challenged each other's ideas. — 00:00:29
2019-09-10 · Another Contender in the Room — John says Sarah's thinking about art, love and how to make things has shaped his whole professional life so deeply that their work is impossible to disentangle. — 00:00:29
2019-09-10 · Another Contender in the Room — John recalls that on their first date Sarah said 'imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia', which he promptly put into Looking for Alaska and still thinks is the book's best line. — 00:00:29
2019-09-10 · Another Contender in the Room — John says he has read and helped edit Sarah's writing, including the wall labels she wrote as a museum curator and the Art Assignment videos she now writes for her PBS Digital series. — 00:00:58
2019-09-10 · Another Contender in the Room — John says he didn't like art when he met Sarah, or didn't yet know he did; she is very good at helping people see what is useful, interesting and transformative about making and looking at art. — 00:00:58
2019-09-10 · Another Contender in the Room — John says art is not only old masters' portraits or the billionaires who collect them as tax shelters: it is people throughout history trying to express what it felt like to be alive, what they valued, or how to shift values. — 00:01:27
2019-09-10 · Another Contender in the Room — John says Sarah has helped him find art not just interesting but essential, because every once in a while art just cracks him open. — 00:01:27
2019-09-10 · Another Contender in the Room — John says other people's creative work fuels yours and vice versa, something he learned from Sarah. — 00:01:56
2019-09-10 · Another Contender in the Room — announcement: John announces that Sarah is publishing a book called You Are an Artist, so many more people are about to learn from her. — 00:01:56
2019-09-10 · Another Contender in the Room — John notes it isn't Sarah's first book: as a museum curator she co-wrote Andy Warhol Enterprises and edited a book about graphite; this one is for a much broader audience. — 00:01:56
2019-09-10 · Another Contender in the Room — announcement: John says the book gathers assignments Sarah commissioned from artists for The Art Assignment plus many new assignments and essays on how contemporary artists work. — 00:02:26
2019-09-10 · Another Contender in the Room — recommendation: John, calling himself the carnival barker Sarah married, says You Are an Artist will help you see the world in new ways and maybe change your life, with a phenomenal cover and colour illustrations. — 00:02:55
2019-09-10 · Another Contender in the Room — announcement: John says You Are an Artist is available for pre-order now wherever you get books and comes out on April 14th. — 00:02:55
2019-09-10 · Another Contender in the Room — John thanks Sarah for being a contender in the room with him, congratulates her on the book and says she still astonishes him, maybe especially after all these years. — 00:03:24
2019-10-15 · I'm Having a Lot of Feelings — In a channel comment John says he changed the video's title because Sarah suggested a better one, and thanks her. — creator comment
2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — announcement: The description says the $6.5 million donation is made by John, Katherine, Sarah and Hank, and that donations are now matched by a Nerdfighteria matching fund. — video description
2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — John says Ruth earns a living wage by local standards but is far from well off, yet he saw her slip the equivalent of $2 to a patient, a mother struggling to feed her kids. — 00:01:05
2019-10-28 · PIZZAMAS IS HERE!!!! — John says he and Sarah have been making watercolor paintings together. — 00:03:15
2019-10-28 · PIZZAMAS IS HERE!!!! — announcement: John says a few pizza-slice-shaped watercolors, called Mystic Pizza by John and Sarah, are also available. — 00:03:15
2019-11-01 · On Looking Up to Your Little Brother — John promoted the signing by emailing his few mailing-list subscribers and telling everyone he knew; on the drive he and Sarah agreed 12 people would make it a success. — 00:00:00
2019-11-01 · On Looking Up to Your Little Brother — John: Driving back to Chicago, Sarah told John honestly that the event was bad. — 00:00:58
2019-12-03 · We Are Cats Now, I Guess? — recommendation: John's favorite perk is his and Hank's spouses' spinoff podcast, Dear Katherine and Sarah. — 00:01:17
2019-12-17 · The Best Days of My Decade — John says the two best days of his decade and his life were the days his kids were born. — 00:00:09
2019-12-17 · The Best Days of My Decade — John: That Evening of Awesome included the Mountain Goats, Kimya Dawson, Neil Gaiman and many friends, with Sarah, Katherine and the brothers' parents all there. — 00:00:28
2019-12-17 · The Best Days of My Decade — John: Stuck on the ending after a sleepless night, John called Sarah in tears; she suggested a time jump, and he wrote the last 15 pages in one go, joyfully, for Aza and himself. — 00:02:02
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

2020-01-07 · Endings · Beginnings — announcement: John says Sarah's book You Are an Artist, a collection of art assignments and creativity prompts with lots of art history, comes out in April; the galleys are here and it is available for pre-order. — 00:02:16
2020-01-07 · Endings · Beginnings — announcement: John will tour with both Hank and Sarah, hoping to help their books have good beginnings. — 00:02:35
2020-01-21 · Gifts That Changed My Life — John says his wife Sarah has solved the problem: every Christmas she gets him a Liverpool jersey, exactly what he wants. — 00:00:29
2020-01-21 · Gifts That Changed My Life — John: The roughly 25-pound blanket was amazing while John watched soccer; then Sarah and the kids wanted one too, and the family ended up with four weighted blankets. — 00:02:12
2020-01-28 · Looking Away (Again) — John says that when he and Sarah went to Sierra Leone they visited Koidu Government Hospital, the only hospital in Kono District, which has come a very long way. — 00:00:00
2020-01-28 · Looking Away (Again) — John says he looked away: he didn't want to gawk, didn't know how to help in that moment, and it was awful to see a mother in such pain and a child suffering. — 00:01:51
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
2020-03-03 · Consciously Experiencing Human Dignity — recommendation: John says Sarah and Complexly producer Brandon Brungard made a brilliant Art Assignment video last week (week of 24 February 2020), The Case for Video Games, and viewers should watch it. — 00:00:00
2020-03-03 · Consciously Experiencing Human Dignity — John loves Art Assignment videos for finding ways to do that, from artists who get little critical attention to art forms like video games often treated as not proper art. — 00:01:56
2020-03-03 · Consciously Experiencing Human Dignity — John says that over six years Sarah has shown millions what is important about the art world, and shown the art world what is important about the rest of the world. — 00:01:56
2020-03-03 · Consciously Experiencing Human Dignity — John thanks 33Ranjit for showing him this, and Sarah for always seeking wonder, dignity and meaning wherever she can. — 00:03:24
2020-03-03 · Consciously Experiencing Human Dignity — announcement: John: In a P.S., John says Sarah's book You Are an Artist comes out in April, is wonderful, and is available for pre-order now. — 00:03:24
2020-03-03 · Consciously Experiencing Human Dignity — ask: John tells viewers they should get Sarah's book. — 00:03:24
2020-03-03 · Consciously Experiencing Human Dignity — announcement: John says he and Sarah will tour together in support of the book, with dates announced March 9th on her Instagram. — 00:03:24
2020-03-10 · A Strong but Fleeting Flavor: A Reunion Video — announcement: John says they are going on tour for Hank's book in July, maybe. (hedged) — 00:02:30
2020-03-10 · A Strong but Fleeting Flavor: A Reunion Video — John: Asked about TikToks about them, John has seen only one, which Sarah sent him today; he jokes he gets his TikTok news from The New York Times. (playful) — 00:03:18
2020-03-17 · together. — announcement: John says that starting tomorrow he and Sarah will host regular livestreams on Vlogbrothers and The Art Assignment channel, drinking a little wine and making a little art. — 00:02:55
2020-03-31 · Let's take a walk. — recommendation: In a comment John recommends Sarah's book You Are An Artist, out April 14th, for anyone seeking more ways to be calm and engaged with the world. — creator comment
2020-04-07 · I am an artist. — announcement: John films in front of a new temporary background: the new temporary headquarters of The Art Assignment, Sarah's YouTube channel with PBS Digital Studios. — 00:00:00
2020-04-07 · I am an artist. — ask: The description asks viewers to order You Are an Artist by Sarah Urist Green. — video description
2020-04-07 · I am an artist. — announcement: The description invites viewers to join Sarah, John and special guests on the book's virtual tour. — video description
2020-04-07 · I am an artist. — announcement: John says Sarah's book You Are an Artist comes out a week from today; the finished copies just arrived and it is a beautiful book. — 00:00:13
2020-04-07 · I am an artist. — John, more sentimental than his 'wondrously unsentimental' wife, recalls that when he met Sarah 17 years ago she worked at a gallery and already wrote with rare accessible rigor. — 00:00:20
2020-04-07 · I am an artist. — John: For a year before they dated, John and Sarah wrote hundreds of pages of emails about art, books, movies and their days; the book Sarah made of those emails is the most important in their library. — 00:00:33
2020-04-07 · I am an artist. — John: While revising the novel that became Looking for Alaska, John told Sarah he was trying to be a writer; she replied that he was writing, so he was a writer. — 00:01:05
2020-04-07 · I am an artist. — John: Quoting the title of Sarah's book, John says you are an artist if you make any kind of art at any time. — 00:01:41
2020-04-07 · I am an artist. — recommendation: John says viewers can still do the Art Assignment free on YouTube, where many of the book's assignments began, and links a playlist. — 00:03:05
2020-04-07 · I am an artist. — announcement: John: Sarah's virtual book tour starts next week (week of 13 April 2020); not the tour she long imagined, but still wonderful, fitting a book about working with what you have and building meaning together. — 00:03:24
2020-04-14 · books that help — announcement: John celebrates with champagne that Sarah's book You Are an Artist comes out today, wondering if he can drink champagne on YouTube without being demonetized. (playful) — 00:00:00
2020-04-14 · books that help — announcement: The description says Sarah's virtual book tour features John and others. — video description
2020-04-14 · books that help — John: Doing the book's assignment from artist Nina Katchadourian, John sorts book spines into portraits: one of Sarah, and a self-portrait about the current historical moment. (playful) — 00:00:13
2020-04-14 · books that help — recommendation: John says Sarah's book gets readers collaborating with friends across time and space and generally engaging with the world in thoughtful and artistic ways, and says he is so glad it is here at last. — 00:00:49
2020-04-14 · books that help — announcement: John says Sarah's virtual book tour begins tonight, with more information in the description. — 00:00:57
2020-05-19 · Didn't Make Sense Not to Live for Fun — announcement: In a comment John says he will do a livestream about PIH's work in Sierra Leone later in the week, plus an evening livestream. — creator comment
2020-05-26 · you'll never know — John says when he and Sarah decided to marry they couldn't know what decades together, raising children or facing loss would be like; they made their best guess and got very lucky, or at least he did. — 00:01:27
2020-06-02 · --- — The description says John and Sarah focus on supporting underfunded public libraries serving large African American communities and on criminal justice reform, including bail misuse (The Bail Project). — video description
2020-06-12 · Fed to the Rules — announcement: Hank and John will hold a launch event on July 7 at 7 p.m. Eastern, here, open to everyone. — 00:02:59
2020-06-30 · i like it — announcement: John: Hank is doing a virtual live tour and John is joining him for much of it; more at hankgreen.com. — 00:01:41
2020-07-03 · My World's on Fire — announcement: Hank: Tickets bought for the July 6th event Hank and John are doing together may have been refunded and need buying again; Hank is sorry. — 00:02:38
2020-07-07 · You're a Rock Star — announcement: John: Hank's second novel comes out today, and Hank and John will be live at 7 p.m. Eastern on the Vlogbrothers channel to celebrate. — 00:00:00
2020-08-11 · never get bored — John says he made a chili from Sarah's grandmother's recipe and has found warm food really comforting. — creator comment
2020-08-11 · never get bored — recommendation: John: In hard times John returns to books he loved; he reread The Bell Jar in Sarah's high-school copy and loved seeing her underlinings and margin notes. — 00:02:00
2020-09-08 · That's the way. — John: Asked what he would do if AFC Wimbledon faced Liverpool, John says in a comment that they have, and it was strange and difficult. — creator comment
2020-12-29 · Looking Back at My 2020 Goals — recommendation: The description recommends Sarah Urist Green's book of art assignments You Are an Artist and Hank's A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor, both wonderful. — video description
2020-12-29 · Looking Back at My 2020 Goals — John: Sarah's book You Are an Artist and Hank's A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor both came out, but the touring John planned for them did not happen. — 00:01:56
2020-12-31 · Auld Lang Syne: The Anthropocene Reviewed — John: Amy's book came out months before Looking for Alaska; then Sarah got into graduate school at Columbia and they moved to New York, and John and Amy kept in touch. — 00:12:20

2021

2021-01-19 · let's go on a parts adventure — announcement: John: There will be many perks for donors, such as collages Sarah has been making from old magazines. — 00:02:55
2021-03-30 · I did it! — John signed every night for some 40 or 50 nights; each time Sarah asked whether this was the last time, and he said yes. (hedged) — 00:00:29
2021-04-02 · John's World Record — Hank: John went from 150,000 signatures for The Fault in Our Stars to 200,000 for Turtles All the Way Down and now 250,000 for The Anthropocene Reviewed, flooding the market. — 00:01:27
2021-04-13 · My Truly Mortifying Self-Talk — John goes to 'manifest' his second vaccine shot; Sarah drives because he is too nervous. — 00:00:00
2021-04-13 · My Truly Mortifying Self-Talk — Sarah Urist Green: Asked how she feels about getting vaccinated, Sarah says fantastic: very excited, though the excited parts of her brain are, figuratively at least, very close to the nervous parts. (playful) — 00:00:00
2021-04-27 · What is my new book about? — John: Much of the book was inspired by Sarah telling John that in the Anthropocene there are no disinterested observers, only participants. — creator comment
2021-05-18 · Saying What I've Needed to Say to Hank for a While — announcement: John: The tour continues tonight with Radiolab co-host Latif Nasser and Sarah Urist Green, Wednesday with Hank and Sarah, Saturday with Ashley C. Ford and Sarah; tickets in the description. — 00:02:20
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
2021-05-25 · The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated — John had written a few such reviews in 2014, of Canada geese and Diet Dr Pepper, and in early 2018 sent them to Sarah for her thoughts. — 00:10:17
2021-05-25 · The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated — John: Sarah told John, who wrote reviews as a detached observer, that in the Anthropocene there are no disinterested observers, only participants, and that reviews are really a kind of memoir; his 1,500 words on Diet Dr Pepper never mentioned his love for it. — 00:10:40
2021-05-25 · The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated — John's attention had become fractured and his world loud, but putting himself into the reviews, as Sarah suggested, he was for the first time in years trying to pay attention to what he pays attention to. — 00:11:45
2021-05-25 · The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated — John: Writing in April 2021, still amid the crisis, John finds much to fear and lament but sees humans sharing what they learn and caring for the sick and vulnerable: even separated, we are bound up in each other. — 00:13:16
2021-06-15 · VLOGBROTHERS REUNITED!!!! — John: Answering a question about favorite TikTok sounds, John says Sarah dreamed the brothers were making a TikTok to the 'wow, you can really dance' sound while being urged to leave for family stuff. — 00:00:00
2021-08-03 · I L*** Hank — announcement: John: Tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern, This Star Won't Go Out's annual gala is virtual and free, with special guests including Sarah Urist Green and chances to donate. — 00:01:27
2021-10-04 · PIZZAMAS IS HERE! — In a channel comment John credits Sarah with the idea and the costume design for his Ted Lasso look. — creator comment
2021-10-06 · Searching for Betsy in Brazil — John says his wife told him Betsy's workplace makes the best bread in Indiana, so he has to buy some. — 00:02:58
2021-10-12 · Fine, I'll take the bait. — John: Running through forest without reception, John could not text Sarah or check GPS, and realized this was the human story until just fifteen years ago. — 00:02:55
2021-10-12 · Fine, I'll take the bait. — John: When he fell in love with Sarah, John had no cell phone, thinking phones a fad like beepers; he jokes he has always been a genius at predicting the future. (playful) — 00:02:55
2021-10-14 · Pizza Sized Johns or John Sized Pizza? It's Question Thursday — recommendation: John uses many assignments from Sarah's book, most often Never Seen, Never Will: articulating something you know exists but will never see, his way into realizing he doesn't know almost everything. — 00:02:29
2021-11-16 · Orbital Sunrise: The First Art Made in Space — John: Recalling a passage from You Are an Artist, John says Dürer's 1515 rhinoceros etching shows plates of armor with rivets; Dürer had never seen a rhinoceros, only a description and a small sketch. — 00:00:00
2021-11-16 · Orbital Sunrise: The First Art Made in Space — announcement: In a comment John says the video was inspired by an assignment in Sarah Urist Green's book You Are an Artist. — creator comment
2021-12-01 · Loving the Loves of Your Loves — John: Over the last year Sarah has been making collages, and John loves them. — 00:00:00
2021-12-01 · Loving the Loves of Your Loves — John: Sarah combs through old magazines, many marketed to women in the 1960s and 1970s, and takes images and words from them to form collage poems. — 00:00:29
2021-12-01 · Loving the Loves of Your Loves — John says the more you look at Sarah's collage poems, the more interesting they get, which is his favorite experience with art. — 00:01:27
2021-12-01 · Loving the Loves of Your Loves — recommendation: John notes Sarah made a fascinating Art Assignment video about that painting and why it is art-historically significant. — 00:01:27
2021-12-01 · Loving the Loves of Your Loves — John: Sarah's collages remind John of Sister Corita Kent's Alphabet series of collages around each letter, such as E, which quotes Camus on loving one's country and justice. — 00:01:56
2021-12-01 · Loving the Loves of Your Loves — John: Like Kent's work, John finds Sarah's collages beautiful, ethically challenging and interesting to ponder, as where the natural meets the artificial and the unbuyable meets the buyable. — 00:02:26
2021-12-01 · Loving the Loves of Your Loves — announcement: John: Many collages were made as Project for Awesome perks; Sarah has now released some as DFTBA note cards, all proceeds to charity, John's favorite thank-you cards. — 00:02:55
2021-12-14 · MAKE. BELIEVE. — John: In 2003, while working on the story that became Looking for Alaska and first becoming friends with Sarah, John learned from her the old line that all writing is rewriting. — 00:00:00

2022

2022-01-04 · After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING — John: On their 2019 visit to Kono, John and Sarah saw a primary health care center in Kombayendeh that was not functioning: no running water, electricity or paid staff; the only care that day was a vaccination. — 00:04:35
2022-01-25 · My Least Relatable Story: The Parisian Dentist — John: In Paris for only about 18 hours, John saw little beyond a ridiculous Eiffel Tower photo shoot, whose picture Sarah insisted on framing. (playful) — 00:00:29
2022-02-15 · My Most Valuable Books — John says he and Sarah have about 3,000 books, all valued; he shares the most valuable, defining value as monetary value times the tears he would cry losing the book. (playful) — 00:00:00
2022-02-15 · My Most Valuable Books — John's most financially valuable book is probably a first edition of Slaughterhouse-Five, a gift from Sarah years ago, now worth about $2,000 and stressful to touch. (hedged) — 00:00:29
2022-02-15 · My Most Valuable Books — John loves Sarah's book You Are an Artist and uses it to think creatively; this copy is valuable because Sarah signed it with a lovely inscription. — 00:01:56
2022-02-15 · My Most Valuable Books — John's most valuable book (retail about $7) is The Spring and the Fall, co-written with Sarah: given to him at their engagement, it holds every email from the year and a half before they dated. — 00:02:55
2022-02-15 · My Most Valuable Books — John: One of last year's (2021) Project for Awesome perks was Like Letters, a podcast in which Sarah and John analysed some of these emails. — 00:02:55
2022-02-15 · My Most Valuable Books — John loves having a document charting how he and Sarah fell in like and then in love; don't print your emails, except occasionally do. (playful) — 00:03:24
2022-04-05 · Celebrities I've Met and Whether I'd Vote for Them??? — John: Dwayne Johnson handed John an MTV Movie Award in about 2015; John doesn't remember their backstage chat, so distracted was he by The Rock's biceps. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:56
2022-05-03 · My Religion and My Banned Books — In a channel comment John says he and Sarah have for many years supported access to all forms of reproductive care, including abortion care, and will continue to. — creator comment
2022-05-06 · Why I Didn't Quit YouTube (yet) — Hank: After 15 years, thanks to viewers, parents, friends, Katherine and Sarah, and colleagues at Complexly and DFTBA, the brothers keep creating together, with the weight mostly healthy and the support strong. — 00:03:03
2022-05-10 · An Attempt at Exhausting an Artwork in Cincinnati — John brought a print he likes, a Candide poster and a painting Sarah made in college, which he really loves. — 00:00:00
2022-05-10 · An Attempt at Exhausting an Artwork in Cincinnati — recommendation: In a comment John says your own art is the best to put up; his family's walls hold paintings by Sarah, his mom and their kids. — creator comment
2022-05-10 · An Attempt at Exhausting an Artwork in Cincinnati — John: Sarah's painting reminds John of a Watership Down rabbit's dislike of straight lines, and that the human hand can't make a straight line without a ruler: our bodies are wondrously imprecise. — 00:00:29
2022-06-14 · Should Hank and I ... box each other?? — John says his wife Sarah was a very competitive boxer when they met and could train him, but she called the plan the worst idea she had ever heard and refused to help. — 00:01:27
2022-07-26 · Has this artist ever seen a baby? — John: At the Louvre, with the help of his spouse, John sets out to determine which artists have seen a baby. (playful) — 00:00:00
2022-07-26 · Has this artist ever seen a baby? — The description says John and Sarah spent five hours at the Louvre in Paris asking whether the artists had ever seen a human baby. — video description
2022-08-02 · Liberty Leading the People: How Revolutions Turn — ask: The description says tomorrow is Esther Day and asks viewers to register for the Esther Day livestream (8 PM Eastern) featuring Sarah and John. — video description
2022-08-02 · Liberty Leading the People: How Revolutions Turn — recommendation: In a comment, John recommends Sarah's Art Assignment discussion of the painting's symbolic imagery and the political courage required to paint it. — creator comment
2022-08-03 · Why is it So Hard to Say 'I Love You'? — ask: The description asks viewers to register for the Esther Day livestream (8 PM Eastern) featuring Sarah and John. — video description
2022-08-03 · Why is it So Hard to Say 'I Love You'? — announcement: Hank announces an Esther Day livestream tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern with people from This Star Won't Go Out, Esther's family, John and Sarah, and the Animal Wonders folks. — 00:02:40
2022-08-30 · How to Buy Good Art for Less Than $100,000,000 — John notes that Sarah is part of Butter's curatorial team. — 00:02:55
2022-11-01 · Is This Painting Upside Down? — John: Before they dated, in about 2003, Sarah showed John her recent paintings, mostly of lines; he asked to buy one, and she gave it to him for the friends-and-family price of $50. — 00:00:00
2022-11-01 · Is This Painting Upside Down? — John: A few months after he hung it, Sarah told John in the politest way possible that he had hung the painting upside down. — 00:01:27
2022-11-22 · John's 2022 Gift Guide — recommendation: John suggests online courses, like Sarah's new Bright Trip course on art appreciation, which he enjoyed so much he bought other Bright Trips. — 00:01:56
2022-11-22 · John's 2022 Gift Guide — John: Sarah made John a portrait of himself in the form of a color palette of his favorite things, which he loves. — 00:03:24

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2023

2023-02-14 · Worst Reunion Video Ever ... or Best? — Hank says he just really likes John and Sarah, and so does Katherine; it has been a good hang. — 00:01:30
2023-02-14 · Worst Reunion Video Ever ... or Best? — both: The brothers say John offered Sarah a million-dollar bet that their outdoor couch swung like an outdoor swing; she declined because he seemed so confident, and it turned out to be a stationary outdoor bed. (playful) — 00:02:10
2023-05-23 · Rough Week — John: The brothers laughed so much on the phone that Sarah asked what was so funny; Hank's lymphoma is not hilarious, but it has funny aspects. — 00:00:12
2023-08-01 · Three Mornings — John says he makes his morning coffee with Sarah's help; he once treated coffee as medicine against drowsiness from his OCD meds, but now luxuriates in it knowing the care behind it. — 00:00:08
2023-08-15 · Henry — John: In 2019 John visited the Lakka TB hospital in Sierra Leone and met Henry, who shares his son's name and seemed his son's age; Henry showed him around, and John assumed he was a nurse's child. — 00:00:00
2023-08-15 · Henry — John: When John and Sarah returned to Lakka in 2023, John asked a nurse about Henry; she said he was there that day, wanting to see John, and they reunited. — 00:03:43
2023-09-27 · John Goes ... to the UNITED NATIONS? — John and Sarah visited a picnic for TB survivors and activists and attended pre-meeting meetings, which he loved because he loves hating tuberculosis so much. — 00:00:00
2023-09-30 · An Incredible Update — John: With Sarah out of town, John says he will drink champagne by himself to celebrate. (playful) — 00:03:30
2023-10-24 · A Tale of Two Cancers — John says Mondeh, like Hank, is now in remission and is a great young artist; visiting him in 2019, John saw his sketch of Mohamed Salah, John's favorite football player. — 00:02:28
2023-11-03 · We Need to talk about Sarapocial Relationships — Hank says that in high school he was obsessed with Gordon Gano and Helen Hunt. — 00:00:00
2023-11-28 · John's (Mostly Book) Holiday Gift Recommendations — John: While reading Makkai's novel, John several times turned to Sarah and asked why he can't write like this, which he rarely does with fiction. — 00:00:29
2023-12-24 · John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated — announcement: John says the first episode of The Art Assignment comes out in late February (2014). — 01:34:23

2024

2024-02-16 · How Much Does it Cost to be a Nerdfighter — announcement: Hank: Perks not yet online include Hank's Hanklerfish and quote posters by artist Kenton Hoppas; Katherine's art and Sarah's collage art are always added during the P4A. — 00:06:33
2024-04-16 · I Already Got Paid — John says Sarah described his part as the worst performance in the film, but only because the others are so good. (playful) — 00:03:43
2024-04-30 · Not Doing That Great — John dislikes magazines writing about the secret of his and Sarah's 18-year marriage; the secret, he says, is mutual respect. (playful) — 00:01:56
2024-05-21 · Getting Personal about Getting Personal — John says one rule of his marriage to Sarah is that they do not talk about their marriage much in public, lest it cease to be theirs. — 00:01:20
2024-05-21 · Getting Personal about Getting Personal — John and Sarah attended the Turtles All the Way Down premiere together; there he met a People reporter who was great, super respectful and incredibly well prepared. — 00:01:27
2024-05-21 · Getting Personal about Getting Personal — John: Asked the secret of his 18-year marriage, John said, as the article correctly quotes, that they just care about each other a lot: a deliberately innocuous, anti-juicy answer. — 00:01:40
2024-05-21 · Getting Personal about Getting Personal — John says Sarah has always been another contender in the room with him; the rule is to take each other seriously, respect each other and acknowledge one another's complexity. — 00:02:38
2024-05-21 · Getting Personal about Getting Personal — John: Though nobody got hurt, John says he gave a tiny bit of himself, and of himself and Sarah together, away in exchange for good press. — 00:03:30
2024-07-09 · Is the Inside of Your Mouth a Soup? (a vidcon reunion video) — John: Asked his favorite video to make, John recalls that the first time he made a 'format video' he spent all day telling Sarah how much fun he was having. — 00:01:38
2024-08-06 · What Helped Through Depression — John's friend in Sierra Leone, Henry Reider, is trying to build a well in Freetown to address the water crisis there. — 00:01:56
2024-08-07 · Dear Hank and John Livestream! — John: Asked how to decide where to live, John says he was the trailing spouse, moving where his wife got a job. — 00:30:35
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
2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — John says in 2019 he visited a tuberculosis hospital in Sierra Leone, met a boy who shared his son's name, and came home obsessed with tuberculosis. — 00:00:33
2024-10-29 · If Hank and John Were God for 15 Minutes — both: Hank says killing someone would not kill you but would just hurt really badly; John adds that it would last forever, like chronic pain, and that ordering someone else to hurt a person brings at least as much pain. (hypothetical) — 00:02:36
2024-10-30 · Sipping the Tea with Hank — John shows a mug Sarah made with ginkgo leaves, because she knows he loves ginkgo trees. — 00:18:26
2024-11-13 · Some New Things… — John: It is noted, apparently by Sarah off-camera, that Paul Newman also went to Kenyon, John's college. (playful) — 00:25:09
2024-12-10 · On Writing — John: Like most of his books, John says, it stars a smart teenager who loves poetry: Henry Reider, a young man who lived with tuberculosis for most of his childhood. (playful) — 00:03:23

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2025

2025-01-10 · SECRET PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT! — Hank: Kirkus, read by Hank, says that after John met a sick boy, Henry, in Sierra Leone in 2019, he set out to learn everything about TB and concluded it persists through racism, greed and public-health economics. — 00:03:58
2025-01-14 · So I Bought My Team a Pro Football Player — announcement: John announces that the stream money, which at first seemed ludicrous for a whole player, plus matching funds from Sarah and him, has paid for an entire AFC Wimbledon player for the rest of the season. — 00:01:56
2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John says his wife Sarah jokes that in his mind everything is about tuberculosis and tuberculosis is about everything, and she is right. (playful) — 00:09:05
2025-03-18 · ITS ALL HAPPENING — John recalls that nothing happened when Looking for Alaska came out: no TV, he went to work, came home and had a glass of wine with Sarah. (hedged) — 00:01:23
2025-03-18 · ITS ALL HAPPENING — John says Henry told him yesterday (17 March 2025) that his dream is 100,000 subscribers and the silver plaque, and asks viewers to help make it come true. — 00:02:58
2025-05-06 · Health CARE: Thoughts from Lima — John says that last week (week of 28 April 2025) he and Sarah were in Lima, Peru, with Partners In Health, known in Peru as Socios En Salud, to learn about tuberculosis screening and care. — 00:00:00
2025-06-10 · 90,000,000 Lives for $20 — John says a friend in Sierra Leone with HIV had his medication rationed by funding cuts; John promised he and Sarah would cover private medication, and the friend asked: what about everyone else? — 00:05:50
2025-08-05 · ONE TAKE JOHNNY — John says he doesn't believe people who can picture things: his wife says you just close your eyes and picture anything, like a movie in your mind. (playful) — 00:07:37
2025-08-12 · On Balance — John: Sarah took John to the hospital, where they first tried the Epley maneuver, moving his head and body to rearrange the crystals in his inner ear; it failed and made him vomit more. — 00:01:40
2025-10-28 · Elon Cancelled This...Let's Do it Anyway — John says the Guimaras TB elimination project is funded mostly by the Philippine government and partly by Sarah and John, with support from Partners In Health. — 00:00:58
2025-10-28 · Elon Cancelled This...Let's Do it Anyway — announcement: John says USAID abandoned its commitment to fund part of the project, but PIH, Sarah and John stayed committed because the Philippine government did. — 00:01:27
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — John says his friend Henry, an MDR-TB survivor in Sierra Leone, credits Dr. Girum Tefera and also his mother, who brought him extra food when many are abandoned by families. — 00:47:09
2025-11-24 · Good Store Holiday Gift Guide LIVE with Hank and John — John tells Hank he has been traveling to Denmark and England; in Denmark he attended the Union Conference on Lung Health with Henry Reider, whom viewers know from Everything Is Tuberculosis. — 00:00:00
2025-11-25 · Poverty Is Expensive — John recalls that Henry Reider inspired his interest in TB and that Henry's effort to survive multidrug-resistant tuberculosis is a through line in Everything Is Tuberculosis. — 00:00:00
2025-12-16 · John Green's Brother — John says in real life he is Hank Green's brother: at an art show last week (week of 8 December 2025) someone recognised Sarah from The Art Assignment and asked if she was married to the brother. (playful) — 00:00:29

2026

2026-01-06 · Hope Is Not a Feeling — John recently got an email about hope from a friend going through absolute hell, which took him back to when he and Sarah were engaged. — 00:00:00
2026-01-06 · Hope Is Not a Feeling — John: Because Sarah's parents wanted a Catholic church wedding, John and Sarah went to a Catholic Engaged Encounter, held at a nunnery in rural Alabama. — 00:00:29
2026-01-06 · Hope Is Not a Feeling — John: After months of dread, John found most of the encounter super helpful, and decades later he and Sarah still use much of what they learned that weekend. — 00:00:58
2026-02-10 · I Was a Teenage Dirtbag — John's wife Sarah, who went to the same high school, says he was surrounded by the smell of stale cigarette smoke then; the photo convinces him. (playful) — 00:00:44
2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John grew a thick mustache for the Project for Awesome, planning it for about 16 weeks while Sarah asked why he didn't shave. — 00:20:40
2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says someone posted an embarrassing 2003 video of him to Reddit; he can't believe that was him, or that his wife fell in love with that person. — 01:22:24
2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says P4A donations support structural change and individual lives like his friend Henry Reider, in the chat, whom he wrote Everything Is Tuberculosis about and who would not be alive without Partners In Health. — 01:42:50
2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John says the P4A digital download bundle includes a Delete This episode and Like Letters, the podcast he and Sarah make every year. — 02:00:14
2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says Sarah printed a book of the emails they wrote each other in the two years they were close friends before dating; they had known each other since high school. — 02:00:39
2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John misses holding babies; Sarah forbids him to ask strangers, and his own children are now his size, Alice taller than Sarah. — 02:07:39
2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John recalls The Shaws, a mystery he worked on with Sarah: it was super fun, but it got very convoluted and nothing ever came of it. — 03:07:36
2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — recommendation: John: Describing Like Letters, in which he and Sarah read the emails they wrote before dating, John recommends that people in love archive their emails and print them into a book. — 06:45:42
2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says that when Sarah reads something he has written he feels intensely vulnerable, even terrified, while she does not seem to feel that way sharing her art. — 06:50:30
2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says the story of his that Sarah has been reading is the one he read aloud in semi-secret livestreams in the earliest days of COVID. — 06:51:04
2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John recalls that Sarah found out on a livestream that he had sponsored a stand at Kingsmeadow, AFC Wimbledon's old stadium. — 07:01:28
2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John offers Sarah and Alice's Natural Intelligence portraits, strange collage portraits of human beings, as P4A perks, along with the right to name one for $100. — 07:07:23
2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — recommendation: John recommends Sabrina Strings' Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia, which Sarah gave him: it was fascinating and taught him much he had no idea about. — 07:47:19
2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 2! — John says Sarah is watching Heated Rivalry, and once you get into it, it is hard to pull yourself out. — 00:10:06
2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 2! — Hank: Asked to play his song 'Helen Hunt', Hank declines: it is too embarrassing and too weird to do to Helen Hunt, who is now a real person to him. — 05:17:34
2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — announcement: John plugs Like Letters, the podcast he makes every year with Sarah, reading the letters they wrote each other before they started dating. — 02:04:12
2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — John recalls that in 2019 he and Sarah went to Sierra Leone, where at the time one in 17 women were dying in pregnancy and childbirth. — 00:03:06
2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — John says a $100 donation to the 2026 Project for Awesome buys the right to name one of the collage faces made by Alice and Sarah. — 00:10:33
2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — John lets Alice write on his face with a Sharpie the initials of donors giving over $100 in the last 14 minutes of the hour; Alice and Sarah cover his face with names. — 00:37:56
2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — John: For Valentine's Day 2026 Sarah wrote John a love letter, which he calls the nicest thing anyone can do for him, and he got her a phone. — 01:13:32
2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — John says Sarah's love language is acts of service and his is words of affirmation; they have been together for 22 years. — 01:13:57
2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John's first dog, Willy, Fireball Wilson Roberts Green, came from Kokomo: a couple in the armed forces who were both deployed needed a good home for him; John misses him, though Willy was not actually a great dog. — 02:43:13
2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — announcement: John's digital perks include Like Letters, the podcast where he and Sarah read the letters they wrote before they started dating, and a new Anthropocene Reviewed episode on the Galápagos Islands and Kurt Vonnegut's novel Galápagos. — 02:47:51
2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John: Having green as a last name is a blessing and a curse; someone in Sarah's family asked if she really would take a name that is a colour, and John could not name a child Forest. (playful) — 03:07:42
2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John says this is his 19th P4A and he has never missed one; he has a cold, likely brought home by a sixth grader, and slept badly because he kept his phone by the bed despite Sarah's objection. — 03:16:45
2026-03-31 · I've Been Keeping a Secret… — John loves to sign books and no one can stop him, including his doctor, who is a little disapproving, and his spouse, who is a bit dubious. (playful) — 00:03:53
2026-03-31 · I've Been Keeping a Secret… — announcement: John has limited himself to 82,000 signatures this time out of respect for his doctor and his spouse. — 00:04:22
2026-04-28 · What I Can't Show You — John recalls that on his first visit in 2019 KGH, already improved with PIH support, had running water and 24-hour electricity but no ultrasound or diabetes treatment, and far fewer patients. — 00:00:29
2026-05-29 · Chemo Cow Body Odor YouTube Helen Hunt Commute — Hank calls it the story of how his high-school crush, Helen Hunt, with an IMDb credit in nearly every one of the last 45 years, destroyed him at 46. (playful) — 00:04:21
2026-07-14 · On the Road Again — John is taking October 3 off the tour because it is Sarah's birthday. — 00:02:38
2026-07-14 · On the Road Again — John: Sarah, in Tulsa for work a couple of weeks ago, told John he has to visit. — 00:02:38
2026-08-03 · Esther Day 2026: Some Thoughts on Loss — announcement: The description says that at tonight's free Esther Day Virtual Party, celebrating love, friendship and community, John joins Sarah Urist Green for a special Esther Day Dear Hank & John. — video description
2026-08-03 · Esther Day 2026: Some Thoughts on Loss — John cannot reconcile himself to his friend Henry having almost died of TB and living with its scars. — 00:02:13
2026-08-03 · Esther Day 2026: Some Thoughts on Loss — ask: John hopes viewers will join him, Sarah and lots of others today for an Esther Day party hosted by Esther's family, with more info in the description. — 00:04:08
2026-08-18 · My Nemeses — In a channel comment John notes that Sarah's tour stop is in the town where they met. — creator comment
2026-08-18 · My Nemeses — announcement: John announces special guests on the Hollywood, Ending tour: Lily King in Portland, Maine, Sarah Urist Green in Birmingham, Clint Smith in DC, Suleika Jaouad in New York, Hank in San Diego, Sharon McMahon and Brandon Sanderson. — 00:01:56