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Tour de Nerdfighting

tour · in 52 videos (2008–2026)

The Tour de Nerdfighting is the brothers' road tour with Katherine to meet Nerdfighters, first in November 2008, with Hank selling CDs and John Paper Towns. They toured again in January 2012 for the release of The Fault in Our Stars, from Boston to Vancouver, and still recall both tours years later.

Includes: nerdfighters.com

Videos by year: 2008: 24 · 2009: 5 · 2011: 4 · 2012: 15 · 2017: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2026: 1

Also known as: Hank and John Green Great American Tour de Nerdfighting

Threads

Also named in the threads: Song Wednesday: Hank performs a song on Wednesdays (2007) · John asks Nerdfighters to help fund Shawn Ahmed's work in Bangladesh (2008) · Nerdfighter donations to the Uncultured Project for rural Bangladesh (2008) · T-shirt design contest for the 2008 Tour de Nerdfighting (2008) · Hank's album So Jokes: release (2008) · Hank asks Nerdfighters for ideas of what to do with his Hank sock puppet (2009) · Hank's talking Hank Sock ventriloquist act (2009) · Tour de Hank: Hank's tour of shows and Nerdfighter gatherings (2009) · The brothers' Houston hotel mix-up and luxury room with a Picasso print on the tour (2012)

Often together

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

Katherine Green (11) · The Fault in Our Stars (8) · Paper Towns (6) · nerdfighters.com (2) · United States presidential election (3) · The New York Times (3) · Willy (3) · made of awesome (2) · Peeps (2) · Tumblr (3)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

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
  • 2008-09-04 · 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
  • 2008-09-25 (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) — 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
  • 2008-10-08 (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
  • 2008-10-28 (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
  • 2008-11-03 · 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 · 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
  • 2008-11-04 · 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
  • 2008-11-07 · 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
  • …and 50 statements more in 2008 — all statements of 2008

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

  • 2011-06-10 · Then I Took Off My Bra — announcement: John says he and Hank will go on tour in the United States when his new, as-yet-untitled but soon-to-be-titled book comes out. — 00:02:15
    • Saying the brothers are not that creative, John asks Nerdfighteria what they would like to see happen and do on the tour (where to go is a separate conversation). — 00:02:39
  • 2011-12-09 · Puppies and The Tour de Nerdfighting 2012 — announcement: John announces that three and a half years later he, Hank and Katherine are going back on tour to celebrate the release of The Fault in Our Stars, in a slightly larger vehicle. — 00:00:00
    • In one take John lists the stops: Boston, New York, Washington DC, Raleigh, Atlanta, Birmingham, New Orleans, Houston, Austin, Albuquerque, Tempe, Santa Monica, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and Vancouver. — 00:00:00
    • John says the tour gatherings will feature music, readings, decreasing worldsuck, punishments and hilarity. — video description
    • John says the tour mostly sticks to the coast, not for lack of love for the Midwest, but because it snows there in January and they travel by car; he apologises to the Midwest. — 00:00:45
    • The tour starts January 10th, the day the book comes out, and ends January 31st. — 00:01:15
    • In most cases admission is the price of a copy of The Fault in Our Stars bought from the host bookstore, which gets you a signed, Hanklerfished book, a poster and the show. — 00:01:15
    • The show will feature John reading from The Fault in Our Stars, Hank playing songs, discussion (and jokingly electrocution and puppetry); John will sign books and Hank CDs. — 00:01:49
    • Tickets are going fast and New York is almost sold out; they are trying to add a second New York event; ticket details are in the doobly-doo. (hedged) — 00:02:19
  • 2011-12-19 · Sharpie Face and Little Hank: The Project for Awesome's Aftermath — announcement: John: Tour de Nerdfighting updates are in the doobly-doo: shows in Vancouver, Boston, New York, Portland and Raleigh are sold out, but tickets remain in many cities. — 00:01:56
  • 2011-12-28 · Goats Mating — announcement: John: There are some new tickets to the Boston Tour de Nerdfighting event, and its venue has changed. — video description
  • …and 5 statements more in 2011 — all statements of 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
    • 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
    • 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: 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
  • 2012-01-27 · 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
  • 2012-01-31 · 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
    • 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
    • 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 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
  • 2012-02-17 · 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
  • 2012-07-20 · 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
  • …and 24 statements more in 2012 — all statements of 2012

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