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2008

  • 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) — John says they believe what happened in Grand Rapids can happen everywhere, and that they will hopefully go everywhere. (hedged) — 00:01:20
  • 2008-05-30 · The Dread Pirate Fireball Roberts! (And Housekeeping) — ask: John asks librarians interested in hosting or sponsoring a public event with the brothers to email him. — 00:01:20
  • 2008-05-30 · The Dread Pirate Fireball Roberts! (And Housekeeping) — announcement: John: Because of the tour, the brothers are holding a T-shirt design contest; designs go to John's email and winners get prizes, though delivery will be slow. — 00:01:49
  • 2008-07-01 · Live from LAX — announcement: John jokes that Hank missed ALA because he is training body and mind to meet 'tens of billions' of nerdfighters on the Great American Tour de Nerdfighting 2008. (playful) — 00:02:11
  • 2008-08-18 · This Video Comes in Threven Parts — announcement: Hank says they may print the top three or four shirts, and some will be available on the Great American Tour de Nerdfighting. (hedged) — 00:03:03
  • 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
  • 2008-09-04 · Paper Towns Tour Dates! — announcement: John: The November 4 stop is an Election Day Spectacular in Greenwood, Indiana. — 00:02:56
  • 2008-09-04 · Paper Towns Tour Dates! — ask: John asks Nerdfighters which tour stop or stops they are coming to. — 00:03:25
  • 2008-09-23 · Paper Towns and Touring Question Tuesday — announcement: John: Answering why the tour skips certain cities, John says that over the next five to six weeks he is going everywhere he possibly can. — 00:00:43
  • 2008-09-23 · Paper Towns and Touring Question Tuesday — ask: John asks Nerdfighters to meet the tour halfway: find the nearest tour stop, come to it, and bring friends. — 00:00:43
  • 2008-09-23 · Paper Towns and Touring Question Tuesday — announcement: John says several new tour events were added, details at nerdfighters.com, and lists the cities the tour is definitely going to. — 00:01:12
  • 2008-09-25 (said on 2008-09-24, implied) · Obama llama Duck — announcement: Hank says he and John have almost finished the Paper Towns tour dates; a tour list with RSVPs will soon be at sparksflyup.com (John's site) and nerdfighters.com. — 00:02:08
  • 2008-09-25 · SPOON FINGERS IN VIDEO RESPONSES — ask: John: From a hotel in Minneapolis, John urges anyone in or near Minneapolis to come to one or both of his events, tomorrow night and Saturday afternoon; info in the sidebar. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-10-06 · Berlin and Let it Snow (in Your Pants) — John: Before Berlin, John was in Minneapolis and met hundreds of Nerdfighters; he says the vlog will be unstuck in time like Billy Pilgrim. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-10-06 · Berlin and Let it Snow (in Your Pants) — announcement: John: With Hank's help, all Paper Towns and Nerdfighting Tour events are now on Facebook with up-to-date information; Eventful.com, now their 'mortal enemy', is dropped. — 00:02:20
  • 2008-10-06 · Berlin and Let it Snow (in Your Pants) — ask: John asks viewers to find the tour events listed on Nerdfighters.com, RSVP and invite their friends. — 00:02:20
  • 2008-10-08 (said on 2008-10-07, implied) · Hanks actual Vlog — announcement: Hank has coloured Karen's map and put it on PaperTowns.com: each city links to its Facebook event page, and the brothers' heads to their Facebook profiles. — 00:01:33
  • 2008-10-08 (said on 2008-10-07, implied) · Hanks actual Vlog — Hank is thinking of a text version of the map for Nerdfighters not on Facebook; he won't make anyone join, and though resistant at first, now finds Facebook compelling. (hedged) — 00:01:56
  • 2008-10-21 (said on 2008-10-20, implied) · Travel Tips, Delivered Hoarsely — announcement: John: Later this week (week of 20 October 2008) John will be in Atlanta, where the show starts at 6, not 6:30 (people should probably come early), then Miami, Orlando and Naperville. (hedged) — 00:01:02
  • 2008-10-21 (said on 2008-10-20, implied) · Travel Tips, Delivered Hoarsely — ask: John says everyone should come to the Naperville event, which will be big, fun and awesome. — 00:01:02
  • 2008-10-21 (said on 2008-10-20, implied) · Travel Tips, Delivered Hoarsely — announcement: John will also do a smaller Saturday 4 p.m. event at a bookstore in Lincoln Square, Chicago, giving tickets to the first 45 people who email. — 00:01:02
  • 2008-10-28 (said on 2008-10-27, implied) · Early Voting with Hank — announcement: Hank says he flies to Seattle tomorrow, where he will see John and many Nerdfighters, and urges people near Seattle to come. — 00:00:44
  • 2008-10-28 (said on 2008-10-27, implied) · Early Voting with Hank — announcement: Hank announces the Tour de Nerdfighting with John (and apparently Katherine) begins in Plano, Texas on November 2nd, and invites people to come party. — 00:01:31
  • 2008-10-28 · The Unzipped Zipper (Of Your Pants) — announcement: John says November is also 'national drive-around-America-with-your-brother month', which he is definitely going to do. (playful) — 00:01:03
  • 2008-10-31 (said on 2008-10-30, implied) · Show 'n Tell Thursday — announcement: John will see Hank in person on Saturday as they get ready for the Great American Tour de Nerdfighting 2008, which excites him. — 00:02:24
  • 2008-10-31 · SPWNING Halloween — Hank can't really take part in Halloween, no parties, only giving out candy, because he is packing to begin the Nerdfighter tour very soon. — 00:00:34
  • 2008-10-31 · SPWNING Halloween — announcement: Hank will see John the next day at the airport as the tour begins. — 00:02:58
  • 2008-11-03 · Hank and John from the Road — announcement: Hank: The Great American Tour de Nerdfighting 2008 begins, featuring Hank, John, Katherine and a minivan. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-11-03 · Hank and John from the Road — John, driving through Missouri, says the minivan is the same one Q's mom owns in Paper Towns, one reason they picked it for the tour. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-11-03 · Hank and John from the Road — John says they are driving to a Nerdfighter gathering in St. Louis; the day before (2 November 2008), gatherings in Plano, Texas and Oklahoma City were both awesome. — 00:00:42
  • 2008-11-03 · Hank and John from the Road — announcement: John: So Jokes is for sale only on the Tour de Nerdfighting: CDs cost $15 and credit cards are not accepted. — 00:01:11
  • 2008-11-03 · Hank and John from the Road — announcement: John says they will collect money for Save the Children Bangladesh throughout the entire tour. — 00:01:11
  • 2008-11-03 · Hank and John from the Road — John: In Oklahoma City a man showed John a copy of Looking for Alaska he said was half eaten by a Hawaiian mongoose; John says he believed him. (playful) — 00:01:48
  • 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
  • 2008-11-03 · Hank and John from the Road — announcement: John: After Greenwood the tour goes to Louisville, Kentucky, then Knoxville, Tennessee, then Gadsden, Alabama. — 00:02:18
  • 2008-11-03 · Hank and John from the Road — announcement: Hank says a Tour de Nerdfighting Twitter stream will constantly broadcast updates from the road, using a device that gets him online in the minivan. — 00:03:14
  • 2008-11-03 · Hank and John from the Road — announcement: Hank says he and John will broadcast all the Nerdfighter gatherings on BlogTV, with links in the sidebar for Twitter and BlogTV. — 00:03:41
  • 2008-11-03 · BlogTV in St Louis! — announcement: Hank says they are driving to the St. Louis event and will upload this so viewers know it is time to join the BlogTV stream and hang out with them. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-11-03 · BlogTV in St Louis! — announcement: Hank: On the stream viewers can watch John give his talk and Hank sing his songs, and John will read from Paper Towns. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-11-03 · BlogTV in St Louis! — announcement: Hank says they will do a Question Tuesday on Monday, which is what today is in St. Louis. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2008-11-04 · Election Night In Indianapolis! — John, in Indianapolis after a Nerdfighter event, watches election returns and says it is too early to say anything. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-11-04 · Election Night In Indianapolis! — Hank says the Tour de Nerdfighting has been fantastic but has not included much sleeping, so he is very tired. — 00:01:15
  • 2008-11-04 · Election Night In Indianapolis! — announcement: Hank corrects John's video of the day before: his CD is only currently available on the tour; afterwards they will sell and ship it online, hopefully in early December. (hedged) — 00:01:15
  • 2008-11-04 · Election Night In Indianapolis! — announcement: Hank says there may be a special update later with official news, and that Nerdfighters will see John on the road to Louisville, Kentucky tomorrow. (hedged) — 00:01:45
  • 2008-11-05 · On Loving One Another or Dying — John opens with 20 seconds of Hank singing in front of many Nerdfighters in Louisville, a song only available on the Paper Towns secret collaboration album. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-11-05 · On Loving One Another or Dying — John: Afterwards John read from the part of Paper Towns that inspired the song and ranted about the importance of imagining the other with more complexity. — 00:00:58
  • 2008-11-06 · Funny Noises from Tennessee — Hank says that on the road he has lost his camcorder and does not know where he left it. — 00:00:06
  • 2008-11-06 · Funny Noises from Tennessee — Hank offers a song on Thursday rather than Wednesday: a Nerdfighter chant he and John have done at Tour de Nerdfighting gatherings, which he wants everyone to know. — 00:00:29
  • 2008-11-06 · Funny Noises from Tennessee — Hank: On the way home from the Knoxville gathering, John told Hank not to worry about his late video, since all Nerdfighters want from him is funny noises. (playful) — 00:01:08
  • 2008-11-06 · Funny Noises from Tennessee — Hank says the gatherings keep going well and he messes up his songs less often, though he has not yet played one without a mistake. — 00:02:07
  • 2008-11-06 · Funny Noises from Tennessee — announcement: Hank: Tomorrow the tour will be in Gadsden, Alabama, followed by a day off before moving on. — 00:02:35
  • 2008-11-07 · Vlogging from Gadsden — Hank records live from the Gadsden Public Library in Gadsden, Alabama; they arrived early, so he made a little video. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-11-07 · Vlogging from Gadsden — Hank has found his camcorder, which he is filming with. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-11-07 · Vlogging from Gadsden — Hank has a big zit despite washing his face, and everything, religiously because he does not want to get sick on the tour. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-11-07 · Vlogging from Gadsden — announcement: Hank: They are live on BlogTV right now and will broadcast the entire Gadsden event there; the link is in the sidebar. — 00:01:20
  • 2008-11-17 · Life on Tour — John: With Hank in the next hotel room, John greets Nerdfighters and presents a day in their life on tour. — 00:00:14
  • 2008-11-17 · Life on Tour — John: They arrive in Pittsburgh, where John jokingly contemplates how he will 'pwn' Maureen Johnson. (playful) — 00:01:24
  • 2008-11-17 · Life on Tour — announcement: John looks forward to seeing Nerdfighters in Kansas City and St. Paul. — 00:02:51
  • 2008-11-24 · DFTBA Records — Hank says the Tour de Nerdfighting was fantastic and that, thanks to viewers, he lives in Nerdfighteria, the best place in the world. (playful) — 00:00:23
  • 2008-11-24 · DFTBA Records — announcement: Hank says people who could not buy So Jokes on the tour can now get it digitally, and a physical copy hopefully by mid-December. (hedged) — 00:03:03
  • 2008-11-27 · Thanksgiving in Asheville — John enjoyed three weeks with Hank and Katherine on the Tour de Nerdfighting: playing cows, meeting thousands of nerdfighters, watching Hank become a rock star. — 00:00:00

Also named in: Sharing Presents in Westport

2009

  • 2009-02-03 · Five Parts — ask: Hank shows a Hank sock made by a Nerdfighter and given to him on the Nerdfighter tour, and asks for ideas of what he and the sock could do besides embarrassing-moment sock puppet theater, which was already done. — 00:01:45
  • 2009-08-11 · The Island of Nerdfighteria? — announcement: John promises the brothers will do another Tour de Nerdfighting, though planning, logistics and money mean it may be a while. — 00:00:32
  • 2009-09-22 · Paper Towns in Paperback: A How-to Guide — John credits their commitment and organization with putting Paper Towns on the New York Times bestseller list, thanks them for gifts, and says the tour let him meet Nerdfighters. — 00:00:00
  • 2009-09-25 · Fake John Green : New Album : Shirts — announcement: Hank says there is a chance he will tour the western US with the new album, though it comes out soon and he is not guaranteeing anything; the Tour de Nerdfighting covered the east. (hedged) — 00:01:56
  • 2009-09-29 (said on 2009-09-30, implied) · DFTBA TAKEOVER!!! — announcement: Hank says that, planning a tour of the western United States, he doesn't know where Nerdfighters are, and will go where lots of people sign up, as with the Tour de Nerdfighting. — 00:02:40

2011

2012

  • 2012-01-10 (said on 2012-01-09, implied) · The Fault in Our Stars — John is a bit stressed: he has to leave his family for a month, which is a bummer, but he is excited to go on tour. — 00:00:12
  • 2012-01-10 (said on 2012-01-09, implied) · The Fault in Our Stars — announcement: John says Tour de Nerdfighting tickets remain only near New Orleans, Houston, Austin, Phoenix, Albuquerque, Seattle and San Francisco, with ticket info in the description. — 00:02:31
  • 2012-01-13 (said on 2012-01-10, implied) · TFiOS PARTY! — announcement: Hank says that during the tour the brothers do 'Nerdcash': leaving bags of buttons in places, which viewers can only find out about by following them on Twitter. — 00:01:07
  • 2012-01-13 (said on 2012-01-10, implied) · TFiOS PARTY! — Hank tells John it is an honour to be his brother and to be on this tour with him. — 00:01:32
  • 2012-01-17 · Thoughts from Places: The Tour — John: On tour John wakes every morning after a few hours of sleep with 'Five Hundred Miles' stuck in his head, packs up and drives 500 miles or so in the van to the next place. — 00:00:01
  • 2012-01-17 · Thoughts from Places: The Tour — John: They arrive in the early afternoon to lots of books needing signatures and Hanklerfishes, which takes a couple of hours. — 00:00:25
  • 2012-01-17 · Thoughts from Places: The Tour — John: Then many people arrive, wearing John's face or Doctor Who shirts, bringing book cakes, some with things he wrote tattooed on their bodies; John finds it amazing, beautiful and completely terrifying. — 00:00:43
  • 2012-01-17 · Thoughts from Places: The Tour — John: At the show John reads and talks about The Fault in Our Stars, Hank sings, John answers questions, Hank wears a tutu, and in joint questions whoever is talking when the timer goes off is shocked with Charlie McDonnell's 'patented shocker'. — 00:01:37
  • 2012-01-17 · Thoughts from Places: The Tour — John: After the show they sign for five hours, reach the hotel around 2 a.m., and John sleeps a few hours before it starts again. — 00:02:10
  • 2012-01-20 · Thoughts on SOPA From New Orleans — Hank: The brothers are in New Orleans and played a show last night (19 January 2012) in a synagogue, weird but awesome; John is at a conference while Hank walks the city with his wife, eating and watching street performers. — 00:00:00
  • 2012-01-24 · Nicest Hotel Room in the World — John: After the Houston stop of the Tour de Nerdfighting (23 January 2012), signing ended around midnight and the hotel told the brothers it had accidentally sold their rooms; John was cranky and wanted to sleep. — 00:00:01
  • 2012-01-27 · In 'N' Out-Erview — John: A traveller, apparently John (speaker inferred), says he had four hours of sleep and asks Hank for a very quiet video. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2012-01-27 · In 'N' Out-Erview — Hank narrates the drive from Arizona across the river into California, with back-and-forth over where the border is, and a stop at the Jesus Christ is Lord Travel Center. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2012-01-27 · In 'N' Out-Erview — both: The brothers banter about the tour shows: a show line 'my greatest accomplishment is being your brother' is called a favourite joke, and one brother gets shocked almost every night instead of the other (speakers unclear). (playful) — 00:01:27
  • 2012-01-27 · In 'N' Out-Erview — John: Asked what he does backstage before a show, John says he mostly watches Hank play the same Chameleon Circuit song over and over; the brothers then joke about nerves and practising the set songs. (playful) — 00:02:00
  • 2012-01-31 · How It Felt — John's description thanks everyone who came to the tour, the independent bookstores and theaters that hosted it, and the Nerdfighter who held the camera. — video description
  • 2012-01-31 · How It Felt — John says the Tour de Nerdfighting is coming to an end after three weeks; last night (30 January 2012) they were signing in Seattle. — 00:00:01
  • 2012-01-31 · How It Felt — John says the three weeks were like the internet became IRL: fun, clever, crowded, good to be a nerd, with talk of Sherlock and Doctor Who and singing of songs about particle physics. — 00:00:01
  • 2012-01-31 · How It Felt — John: Like the internet, the tour went by very fast, like pressing the down key on Tumblr; John says a problem with the internet is that things pass too fast to really experience them. — 00:00:30
  • 2012-01-31 · How It Felt — John, Hank and Katherine talked yesterday (30 January 2012) about how they hardly remember the 2008 Tour de Nerdfighting, what it was like or how it felt. — 00:00:30
  • 2012-01-31 · How It Felt — John tells Hank the video is for their future selves: this is what the tour was like and how it felt; a montage follows with a crowd singing 'Five Hundred Miles'. — 00:00:51
  • 2012-02-03 · An Awful Lot of Touring — Hank says someone on tour suggested he redo 'An Awful Lot of Running' as 'An Awful Lot of Driving', and he did; he sings the parody about tour life. — 00:00:00
  • 2012-02-03 · An Awful Lot of Touring — Hank: In the song Hank describes the tour bus, playing Xbox 360 and beating John, waiting stage left every night, and stopping at 17 places in 21 days on cookies and gas station food. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2012-02-03 · An Awful Lot of Touring — Hank tells John that he and Katherine kept saying 'we did it' after the last show, at the hotel, the airport, landing in Missoula and getting into their own bed. — 00:00:54
  • 2012-02-03 · An Awful Lot of Touring — Hank wants to look back on the three weeks but can't: asked for a fun tour story he can't think of one; the tour feels like it lasted forever and took no time at all. — 00:01:35
  • 2012-02-03 · An Awful Lot of Touring — Hank thanks the many people who made the tour possible, especially those who came out and were enthusiastic, and says he doesn't know how he got so lucky. — 00:03:18
  • 2012-02-07 · 10 Misconceptions Debunked! — John says that in the last week of the tour Hank became obsessed with the universe having no edge, kept saying 'Dude, no edge!' and accused John of not being fascinated enough. (playful) — 00:01:14
  • 2012-02-07 · 10 Misconceptions Debunked! — announcement: John links CGP Grey's original video and Michael Aranda's video of Hank saying 'no edge' over and over. — 00:03:03
  • 2012-02-10 · How Big is the Universe? — announcement: Hank offers the few leftover Tour de Nerdfighting CDs, which he had at the tour, because he doesn't want to throw the extras away. — 00:03:10
  • 2012-02-10 · How Big is the Universe? — Hank tells John that even though John doesn't seem to find the universe appropriately interesting, he still likes him a lot. (playful) — 00:03:10
  • 2012-02-17 · World's Smallest Animals — announcement: Hank says he made a No Edge shirt design, 'like my face', now available for pre-order at DFTBA.com. — 00:03:13
  • 2012-02-28 · On Cuties and Cooties — John asks why as a student he worked far too hard to be liked but not to read great novels or grasp the universe's edgelessness, and has no answer. (unsure) — 00:02:26
  • 2012-03-13 · Actually Free Money! (Really.) The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Quarterly Report — John says a Nerdfighter on tour gave him a homemade stuffed honey badger, and his son Henry has become obsessed with it, asking of everything what sound it makes and what it eats. — 00:02:52
  • 2012-03-13 · Actually Free Money! (Really.) The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Quarterly Report — John: Asked why the universe has no edge, Henry answers as John expected: Honey Badger ate the edge. (playful) — 00:03:21
  • 2012-07-06 (said on 2012-07-07, implied) · The Higgs Boson — Hank says the field makes everything we love possible, from fireworks to dolphins to the ocean to your boyfriend, across a universe with no edge. (playful) — 00:03:21
  • 2012-07-20 · The Universe is Weird: A Song — Hank sings that driving in a van he told John 'dude, no edge': the universe has no center and no edge and doesn't exist in any way we can conceive. (playful) — 00:01:19

2017

  • 2017-11-21 · Two Love Stories — John: On the January 2012 Fault in Our Stars tour, at a hotel ballroom outside Washington, DC, Nerdfighters Sara and Luis met before the show, hit it off and later began dating. — 00:00:11

2023

2024

  • 2024-11-13 · Some New Things… — John recalls the 2012 Fault in Our Stars tour: 32 consecutive nights at Holiday Inn Expresses, including a very nice one on a river outside Bend, Oregon; Hank doubts it was near Bend. — 00:53:22

2026

  • 2026-07-14 · On the Road Again — John recalls the 2008 Great American Tour de Nerdfighting: he, Hank and Katherine drove around the country for a month in a minivan, Hank selling CDs and John Paper Towns; exhausting but exhilarating. — 00:00:00