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Sarah Urist Green

spouse · in 422 videos (2007–2026)

John's wife, called "the Yeti" on air in 2007–2012; an art curator and host of The Art Assignment.

Married to: John Green · Children: Henry Green, Alice Green · Works: You Are an Artist, Sarah Urist Green's collage poems, Green Green Manifesto, Andy Warhol Enterprises, Sarah's line painting, The Case for Kanye West, The Case for Video Games, Thornton's Unscheduled Landing

Speaks in 12 videos; this page lists what is said about them.

Videos by year: 2007: 81 · 2008: 25 · 2009: 33 · 2010: 24 · 2011: 27 · 2012: 13 · 2013: 28 · 2014: 18 · 2015: 21 · 2016: 11 · 2017: 11 · 2018: 13 · 2019: 13 · 2020: 21 · 2021: 16 · 2022: 18 · 2023: 10 · 2024: 13 · 2025: 13 · 2026: 13

Also known as: Sarah, the Yeti, Sarah Urist

Threads

Project history (3)

Story (55)

Ask (5)

Promise (6)

Prediction (2)

Running joke (3)

Punishment (1)

Also named in the threads: The brothers known as each other's brother: 'John Green's brother' and 'Hank Green's brother' (2007) · Hank's 'tiny chickens' illness bit (2007) · 'In your pants' suffix game (2007) · John's orbital cellulitis and hospital stay (2007) · Daniel Biss runs for Illinois state representative (2007) · Katherine gets a job doing weed research (2007) · Hank: write a song every two weeks (2007 challenge from John) · John's 'the puff' stress habit (2007) · John asks Hank what to do about the grass at his new Indianapolis house (2007) · Hank asks Nerdfighters for punishment ideas after the brothers' instant-message slip (2007) · John: eat a blenderized Happy Meal, wax a leg and lick a cat, for a textual communication (2007) · Hank asks John what he meant by 'all of that stuff' about his ex-girlfriends (2007) · Brotherhood 2.0 scavenger hunt (2007) · Nerdfighter projects: complete a project to earn the right to punish the brothers (2008) · Tour de Nerdfighting 2008 edition · John asks Nerdfighters what he can do for them (2008) · John asks Nerdfighters to send Willy sounds (acting weird for Willy) for a compilation video (2008) · Peanut Butter Face: John discusses world news with peanut butter on his face (2008) · Paper Towns Tour (2008) · John: stand on a table for a $5,000 charity donation from Scott Westerfeld and Justine Larbalestier (2008) · John asks Nerdfighters to illustrate Gus Is a Bug (2009) · John: ride the Frog Hopper, punishment for Nerdfighters finding Gus Is a Bug (2009) · 'French the llama': John's misreading of FTL as an exclamation of amazement (2009) · John's spring 2010 tour for Will Grayson, Will Grayson · John's trip to Munich for the White Ravens Book Festival (2010) · HankGames: Hank's channel of commentated game-play videos (2010) · John: how Looking for Alaska was written, revised and won the Printz Award (2006) · Tour de Nerdfighting 2012 edition · John: sign every copy of The Fault in Our Stars (2011) · Hanklerfish: an anglerfish drawn by a Hank (2011)

Often together

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

The Art Assignment (30) · You Are an Artist (14) · Henry Green (40) · Indianapolis (40) · New York City (30) · Looking for Alaska (novel) (32) · Sarah Urist Green's collage poems (4) · Katherine Green (39) · Willy (18) · Sydney Green (20)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2007

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
    • 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 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
  • 2008-05-18 · 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
    • 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
  • 2008-05-20 · 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
  • 2008-06-26 · 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
  • 2008-08-06 · 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
  • 2008-09-04 · 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
    • 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
  • 2008-11-03 · 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
  • …and 26 statements more in 2008 — all statements of 2008

Also named in: Belated Book-tacular Questions

2009

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 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
  • 2010-01-20 · 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
  • 2010-01-25 · 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
  • 2010-02-15 · Hello Baby!! — John, back on the vlog, introduces his three-week-old son Henry on camera. — video description
  • 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
  • 2010-05-19 · 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
  • 2010-06-16 · 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
  • 2010-08-20 · 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
  • 2010-12-29 · 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
    • 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
  • …and 26 statements more in 2010 — all statements of 2010

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
  • 2011-01-21 · 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
  • 2011-04-11 · 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
  • 2011-04-15 · 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
  • 2011-05-05 · 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
  • 2011-06-06 · 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
  • 2011-07-27 · 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
  • 2011-09-16 · 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 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
  • 2011-11-02 · 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
  • …and 33 statements more in 2011 — all statements of 2011

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
    • 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 — 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
  • 2012-09-14 · 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
    • 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
  • 2012-11-08 · 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
  • 2012-11-13 · 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
    • 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
  • 2012-11-27 · 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
  • …and 16 statements more in 2012 — all statements of 2012

2013

Also named in: Million Dollar Ideas, Cooking with a 3-Year-Old: Slobber Carrots and Gross Barbecue

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
  • 2014-02-25 (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
  • 2014-03-28 · 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
  • 2014-05-27 · 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
  • 2014-07-18 · 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
    • 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
  • 2014-11-07 · 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
  • 2014-12-19 · 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
  • …and 15 statements more in 2014 — all statements of 2014

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
    • 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
  • 2015-01-06 (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
    • 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
    • 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
  • 2015-04-14 · 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
  • 2015-05-12 · 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
  • 2015-05-19 · 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
  • 2015-09-29 · 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
  • 2015-12-01 · 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
  • …and 32 statements more in 2015 — all statements of 2015

2016

  • 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
    • 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
  • 2016-11-17 · 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
    • 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
    • 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
  • …and 3 statements more in 2016 — all statements of 2016

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
  • 2017-05-23 (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
  • 2017-06-27 · 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
    • John will sign at least 200,000 copies of the book, hopefully slightly more. (hedged) — 00:01:08
  • 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
    • 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
    • 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
  • 2017-08-01 · 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: 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
  • …and 12 statements more in 2017 — all statements of 2017

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
    • 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
  • 2018-02-27 · 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
  • 2018-08-07 · 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
    • 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
    • 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
  • 2018-10-31 · 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 Sarah and Catherine are hosting a version of Dear Hank and John called Dear Sarah and Catherine. — 00:03:17
  • …and 8 statements more in 2018 — all statements of 2018

Also named in: PIZZAMAS IS HERE!

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
  • 2019-07-23 · 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
  • 2019-09-10 · 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • John says other people's creative work fuels yours and vice versa, something he learned from Sarah. — 00:01:56
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
  • 2019-12-17 · 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
    • 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
    • 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
  • …and 27 statements more in 2019 — all statements of 2019

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
  • 2020-01-28 · 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
  • 2020-03-03 · 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
    • 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
  • 2020-03-17 · 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
  • 2020-04-07 · 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
  • 2020-04-14 · 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
  • 2020-06-12 · 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
  • 2020-12-29 · 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
  • …and 34 statements more in 2020 — all statements of 2020

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
  • 2021-04-13 · My Truly Mortifying Self-Talk — John goes to 'manifest' his second vaccine shot; Sarah drives because he is too nervous. — 00:00:00
  • 2021-05-18 · 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: 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
    • 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
    • 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
  • 2021-08-03 · 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
  • 2021-10-14 · 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
  • 2021-12-01 · 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
    • 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
    • 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
  • …and 17 statements more in 2021 — all statements of 2021

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
  • 2022-02-15 · 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
    • 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
  • 2022-05-03 · 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: 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
  • 2022-07-26 · 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
  • 2022-08-02 · 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
  • 2022-08-03 · 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
  • 2022-11-01 · 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
    • 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
  • …and 14 statements more in 2022 — all statements of 2022

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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
    • 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
    • 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
  • 2023-10-24 · 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
  • 2023-12-24 · 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
  • …and 3 statements more in 2023 — all statements of 2023

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
  • 2024-05-21 · 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
  • 2024-08-06 · 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
    • 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
  • 2024-12-10 · 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
  • …and 5 statements more in 2024 — all statements of 2024

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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
  • 2025-03-18 · 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
    • 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
  • 2025-10-28 · 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
    • 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
  • 2025-11-25 · 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
  • …and 3 statements more in 2025 — all statements of 2025

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
  • 2026-02-13 · 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
    • 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 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 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
    • 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
  • 2026-02-15 · 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
  • 2026-03-31 · 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
  • 2026-05-29 · 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
  • 2026-08-03 · 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
  • 2026-08-18 · 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
  • …and 28 statements more in 2026 — all statements of 2026