John's life as told

Everything John says on the channel about his own life and family, in the order he told it (2007–2026). These are the 2802 sincere life events of importance 2–3 (of 4503 life-event statements by John; jokes, playful asides and minor items are counted per year but not listed). Bold = importance 3. Where a statement belongs to a story told in several videos, the story is linked. Statements marked (both) are said by both brothers.

See also: Hank's life as told · retellings · backstory · overview.

Dates are upload dates, which set the order. Where the speaker gives a different recording date in the video, it is added as "said on YYYY-MM-DD, implied" (derived from the date said in the video).

year	listed	playful / joke	minor	stories started
2007	157	206	35	38
2008	61	81	11	12
2009	70	62	15	19
2010	105	89	26	24
2011	108	71	32	19
2012	88	67	17	22
2013	95	54	28	17
2014	113	56	14	17
2015	107	74	21	22
2016	134	38	22	27
2017	175	37	22	12
2018	120	53	13	12
2019	174	21	21	13
2020	175	29	39	8
2021	183	41	22	4
2022	134	44	16	1
2023	209	70	27	10
2024	178	33	26	3
2025	172	55	29	2
2026	244	47	37	3

2007

• 2007-01-04 · As an example, John says he did not recycle until he watched An Inconvenient Truth and is still somewhat iffy on it. (hedged) — Brotherhood 2.0: Eating Toilet Paper 00:00:00
• 2007-01-08 · 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. — Brotherhood 2.0: January 8, 2007 00:00:10
• 2007-01-10 · Inspired by Hank's video from the day before, John calculates his own carbon footprint on BP.com, speeding up the boring part. — Brotherhood 2.0: January 10, 2007 00:00:10
• 2007-01-10 · Saying he is not very good at math, John phones Daniel Biss for 16 times 6 and concludes that offsetting his carbon would cost $96 a year. — Brotherhood 2.0: January 10, 2007 00:01:51
• 2007-01-22 · 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. · story: John's An Abundance of Katherines receives a Printz Honor (2007) — Brotherhood 2.0, January 22, 2007 00:00:12
• 2007-01-22 · 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. · story: John's An Abundance of Katherines receives a Printz Honor (2007) — Brotherhood 2.0, January 22, 2007 00:01:33
• 2007-01-24 · Answering the survey, John says he has known Hank since Hank was born and Katherine since, he believes, 1999. (hedged) — Brotherhood 2.0: January 24, 2007 00:00:00
• 2007-01-24 · 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. — Brotherhood 2.0: January 24, 2007 00:00:38
• 2007-01-24 · John says the major next thing is finishing his new and as yet untitled third book. — Brotherhood 2.0: January 24, 2007 00:00:59
• 2007-01-26 · 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. — Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 00:00:42
• 2007-01-26 · John thinks his first concert was The Cure in ninth grade, with a friend; he liked The Cure a lot. (hedged) — Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 00:02:00
• 2007-01-26 · John gives Hank permission to put the survey on his webpage. — Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 00:02:29
• 2007-01-27 · John and Sarah are about to drive out of Asheville on their way to Birmingham, Alabama. — Week 2 Condensed Highlight Reel 00:00:00
• 2007-01-27 · Inspired by Hank's video, John calculates his carbon footprint on BP.com: 16 tons of carbon a year, 'still really bad'. — Week 2 Condensed Highlight Reel 00:02:24
• 2007-01-27 · After phoning Daniel for 16 times 6, John concludes offsetting his carbon would cost $96 a year. — Week 2 Condensed Highlight Reel 00:02:45
• 2007-02-01 · At the Savannah airport John must record in one take: he left his computer's power charger at home, has 23 minutes of power and may not get back to New York by midnight. (hedged) — Brotherhood 2.0, February 1, 2007 00:00:13
• 2007-02-01 · John arrived at the airport four hours early but cannot leave before his regular flight, as there are no earlier flights. — Brotherhood 2.0, February 1, 2007 00:00:13
• 2007-02-13 · John has spent 12 of the last 40 hours inside airports. — Brotherhood 2.0: February 13, 2007 00:01:03
• 2007-02-15 (said on 2007-02-16, implied) · After a long delay because of snow in Columbus, Ohio, John has finally reached Houston, Texas, where it is not snowing. — Brotherhood 2.0: February 17, 2007 00:00:14
• 2007-02-19 · John says the opening was Brotherhood 2.0's 'resident mathematician' Daniel Biss, who is there because his brother Jonathan is playing a concert at Carnegie Hall. — Brotherhood 2.0: February 19, 2007 00:00:00
• 2007-02-27 · John is tired because he stayed up way past his bedtime cataloguing his books on librarything.com. · story: John catalogues his home library (2007) — Brotherhood 2.0: February 27, 2007: Horseradish Challenge 00:00:35
• 2007-03-07 · John says the video is late because he feels a lot of anxiety after a busy day: three hours at the eye doctor, where his eyes were dilated. · story: John's March 2007 'eye doctor' visit, later told as a dentist visit (2007) — Brotherhood 2.0: March 7, 2007: Stress 00:00:36
• 2007-03-07 · 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. — Brotherhood 2.0: March 7, 2007: Stress 00:01:51
• 2007-03-09 · John compares results: he ate 12 1/2 Peeps in 3 minutes, Hank 12 1/2 in 6 minutes, and Kurt 12 in a minute and a half. — Brotherhood 2.0: March 9, 2007: Peeptastic! 00:02:11
• 2007-03-13 · The day before, John spoke in front of a large crowd of Borders managers, whom he thanks for participating. — Brotherhood 2.0: March 13, 2007: Denver 00:00:10
• 2007-03-15 · John has just reached his hotel room in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where Strawberry Hill, Peeps and Nerds were waiting; he thanks Kalamazoo. — Brotherhood 2.0: March 15: Decreasing Suck 00:00:00
• 2007-03-19 (said on 2007-03-17, implied) · Before he and John met at a book festival in Kalamazoo, Anderson spent a day looking at abandoned buildings in Detroit, where he randomly met the guide. · story: John and M. T. Anderson go urban exploring in Detroit's ruins (2007) — Brotherhood 2.0: March 19th: Urban Exploration 00:00:05
• 2007-03-19 (said on 2007-03-17, implied) · When their Friday flights east were cancelled, they called the guide, who offered them an urban exploring tour through the ruins of Detroit. · story: John and M. T. Anderson go urban exploring in Detroit's ruins (2007) — Brotherhood 2.0: March 19th: Urban Exploration 00:00:05
• 2007-03-19 (said on 2007-03-17, implied) · John felt a mix of anxiety and reverence he had not felt since working at the hospital, and kept calling the theatre 'the cathedral'. — Brotherhood 2.0: March 19th: Urban Exploration 00:02:24
• 2007-03-19 (said on 2007-03-17, implied) · Through a hole in the fence and the 'troll hole' they went from the theatre into an office building with safe deposit boxes; John shows what the theatre used to look like. · story: John and M. T. Anderson go urban exploring in Detroit's ruins (2007) — Brotherhood 2.0: March 19th: Urban Exploration 00:03:26
• 2007-03-21 · John shows photographs the guide shot inside the abandoned Detroit theatre, which he says show the inside better than his video did, and thanks the guide at snweb.org. · story: John and M. T. Anderson go urban exploring in Detroit's ruins (2007) — Brotherhood 2.0: March 21st: Put Stuff on Your Head 00:00:03
• 2007-03-27 · John reports from NYU Medical Center, where he will stay at least one more day; he shows his IV port and says he is doing okay. · story: John's orbital cellulitis and hospital stay (2007) — March 26th: Thanks 00:00:00
• 2007-03-27 · John says he has been doing a lot better since watching Hank's video, which made his week. — March 26th: Thanks 00:00:00
• 2007-03-27 · John says Sarah, 'the Yeti', spends 12 hours a day with him in the hospital. — March 26th: Thanks 00:00:42
• 2007-03-27 · John expects to get out of hospital fairly soon, either tomorrow or Thursday, if things keep progressing as they have. (hedged) · story: John's orbital cellulitis and hospital stay (2007) — March 26th: Thanks 00:01:18
• 2007-03-27 · John shows his eye up close, saying it is way better, with much more white showing. · story: John's orbital cellulitis and hospital stay (2007) — March 26th: Thanks 00:01:18
• 2007-03-29 · John says he is back home. · story: John's orbital cellulitis and hospital stay (2007) — Brotherhood 2.0: March 29th: JUDGMENT FOR HANK 00:00:00
• 2007-03-29 · John says his eye still looks jacked up and probably will for a week or two, and hopes the Nerdfighters will understand. (hedged) · story: John's orbital cellulitis and hospital stay (2007) — Brotherhood 2.0: March 29th: JUDGMENT FOR HANK 00:00:00
• 2007-03-29 · John says he still can't see very well out of that eye. · story: John's orbital cellulitis and hospital stay (2007) — Brotherhood 2.0: March 29th: JUDGMENT FOR HANK 00:01:08
• 2007-03-29 · John asks viewers to tell him honestly whether his eye looks better, because he really wants it to get better. · story: John's orbital cellulitis and hospital stay (2007) — Brotherhood 2.0: March 29th: JUDGMENT FOR HANK 00:01:31
• 2007-04-04 · Because a commenter asked several weeks ago to see what it is like when John is working, John shows Hank a day of writing in a hotel room. — Brotherhood 2.0: April 2: A Day in the Writer's Life 00:00:11
• 2007-04-04 · John says he writes a lot with his friends Maureen Johnson and Scott Westerfeld; today they were joined by Justine Larbalestier and Lauren McLaughlin. — Brotherhood 2.0: April 2: A Day in the Writer's Life 00:00:11
• 2007-04-16 · The sign was made on recycled paper, a page from John's book, which he is just beginning to seriously revise; it will take several months, so he expects to be moody until about September. — Brotherhood 2.0: April 16: Brotherhood of Traveling Shirts 00:03:14
• 2007-04-18 · John identifies the opening clip as Emily Gould, co-editor of 'the world-famous website Gawker.com'. — Brotherhood 2.0: April 18th: Prom and Consequences 00:00:11
• 2007-04-20 · John has donated the $2.75 to carbonfund.org, making Brotherhood 2.0 carbon neutral, at least through the month of April. — Brotherhood 2.0: Carbon Neutralizing Youtube 00:03:31
• 2007-04-24 · 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. · story: John and Sarah move to Indianapolis (2007) — Brotherhood 2.0: April 24: Moving 00:01:29
• 2007-04-26 · John reports from a Los Angeles beach, Pacific behind him, after a day of 'crazy Hollywood meetings'. — Brotherhood 2.0: April 26: Hollywood Meetings 00:00:15
• 2007-04-26 · John's most important meeting of the day is with people who might want to make An Abundance of Katherines into a movie. (hedged) — Brotherhood 2.0: April 26: Hollywood Meetings 00:00:59
• 2007-04-26 · Despite the prediction, John reports that the meeting went really well. — Brotherhood 2.0: April 26: Hollywood Meetings 00:02:38
• 2007-04-30 · John says many people wanted to say hi to Hank this weekend, so he let them: his editor and a number of authors greet Hank on camera. — Brotherhood 2.0: April 30: Hellos from Los Angeles 00:00:10
• 2007-04-30 · As a surprise, Francesca Lia Block greets Hank and a viewer; John calls her the author of Weetzie Bat, a book he and Hank both like. — Brotherhood 2.0: April 30: Hellos from Los Angeles 00:00:32
• 2007-04-30 · Presenter Jacqueline Woodson introduced the five young adult finalists: The Rules of Survival, Tyrell, Octavian Nothing, An Abundance of Katherines and Justin Case. · story: John attends the LA Times Book Prize ceremony (2007) — Brotherhood 2.0: April 30: Hellos from Los Angeles 00:01:02
• 2007-04-30 · John shares Coe Booth's hope and congratulates her on the award. · story: John attends the LA Times Book Prize ceremony (2007) — Brotherhood 2.0: April 30: Hellos from Los Angeles 00:01:40
• 2007-05-04 · John notes it is Friday, May 4; tomorrow, Saturday May 5, is Hank's 27th birthday, and he wishes him happy birthday. · story: Hank's 27th birthday (2007) — Brotherhood 2.0: May 4: The Top Secret Project 00:00:20
• 2007-05-08 · John is at the New York City airport on the way to house-hunt in Indianapolis, his first visit there as a resident. · story: John and Sarah move to Indianapolis (2007) — Brotherhood 2.0: May 8th: House Hunters 00:00:10
• 2007-05-08 · 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. · story: John and Sarah move to Indianapolis (2007) — Brotherhood 2.0: May 8th: House Hunters 00:01:41
• 2007-05-10 · On the third day of his house hunt John says he and Sarah ('the Yeti') have seen 26 houses in two days. · story: John and Sarah move to Indianapolis (2007) — Brotherhood 2.0: May 10: House Hunted? 00:00:03
• 2007-05-10 · 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. · story: John and Sarah move to Indianapolis (2007) — Brotherhood 2.0: May 10: House Hunted? 00:01:04
• 2007-05-10 · John shows Hank a quick tour of the house they may live in if the owners accept the offer, and asks whether he likes it. (hedged) — Brotherhood 2.0: May 10: House Hunted? 00:01:04
• 2007-05-10 · 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. · story: John and Sarah move to Indianapolis (2007) — Brotherhood 2.0: May 10: House Hunted? 00:02:31
• 2007-05-16 · After a long hot day in New York City, John has spent the day reading the screenplay of the Looking for Alaska movie. — Brotherhood 2.0: May 16: Beating the EBO into the ground 00:00:10
• 2007-05-16 · Correcting Hank's last video, John says he was born in Indianapolis but lived there only until he was three weeks old, not three years. · story: John and Hank's dad grows up in Indianapolis and leaves it for good weeks after John's birth — Brotherhood 2.0: May 16: Beating the EBO into the ground 00:02:08
• 2007-05-16 · John recalls the family living in Michigan, then moving to Birmingham, where Hank was born, then to Florida. · story: John and Hank's dad grows up in Indianapolis and leaves it for good weeks after John's birth — Brotherhood 2.0: May 16: Beating the EBO into the ground 00:02:08
• 2007-05-16 · In a P.S. John says the Yeti has just officially become 'a master' and shows photos he took from a distance. — Brotherhood 2.0: May 16: Beating the EBO into the ground 00:02:47
• 2007-05-18 · John says he and the Yeti leave today for the Netherlands to support his new novel. · story: John and Sarah's trip to the Netherlands for An Abundance of Katherines (2007) — Brotherhood 2.0: May 18: How to Write a Book Proposal 00:00:00
• 2007-05-18 · John says the trip was planned for March but he couldn't go because he got orbital cellulitis. · story: John and Sarah's trip to the Netherlands for An Abundance of Katherines (2007) — Brotherhood 2.0: May 18: How to Write a Book Proposal 00:00:00
• 2007-05-22 · 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. · story: John and Sarah's trip to the Netherlands for An Abundance of Katherines (2007) — May 22: Brotherhood 2.0 in Amsterdam 00:00:35
• 2007-05-29 · John says he and the Yeti have almost finished packing all their books, which he shows piled up. · story: John and Sarah move to Indianapolis (2007) — Brotherhood 2.0: May 29: The Goth Scene and Evil Ladies 00:00:37
• 2007-06-04 · John says it was his first time watching two Brotherhood 2.0 viewers marry, and calls it a magical thing. — Brotherhood 2.0: June 4th: The First Nerdfighter Wedding! 00:01:03
• 2007-06-06 · 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) · story: John and Sarah move to Indianapolis (2007) — June 6th: Lindsay Lohan's Bikini and My Pants 00:00:10
• 2007-06-08 · John is officially a homeowner, which he calls good and scary. · story: John and Sarah move to Indianapolis (2007) — Brotherhood 2.0: June 8: Studying the Clues 00:01:16
• 2007-06-08 · John thinks it's a great house and hopes Hank will visit; they have carved out a bedroom just for him. (hedged) · story: John and Sarah move to Indianapolis (2007) — Brotherhood 2.0: June 8: Studying the Clues 00:01:45
• 2007-06-18 · John says this Monday (25 June 2007) is the day of his last video from New York. · story: John and Sarah move to Indianapolis (2007) — June 18th: Leaving New York City 00:00:03
• 2007-06-20 · John congratulates Hank on the Weather Channel; he hasn't seen it yet, but their mom says it's awesome. · story: Hank is asked to be interviewed for a Weather Channel show on global warming (2007) — Brotherhood 2.0: June 20: Moving 00:00:52
• 2007-06-20 · The drive took about 18 hours, but they made it to Indianapolis and John is really happy to be there. · story: John and Sarah move to Indianapolis (2007) — Brotherhood 2.0: June 20: Moving 00:00:52
• 2007-06-20 · John says Brotherhood 2.0 was 'sort of halfway' featured on YouTube last week (week of 11 June 2007), and one video, he thinks the June 4th one, got many comments from YouTubers. (hedged) — Brotherhood 2.0: June 20: Moving 00:01:41
• 2007-06-22 · Two days after moving to Indianapolis, John is in an airport again, going to Washington, D.C. for five days. · story: John and Sarah move to Indianapolis (2007) — Brotherhood 2.0: June 22: The Senator 00:00:10
• 2007-06-27 (said on 2007-06-26, implied) · John reports many great things at the ALA conference that weekend, including time with Judy Blume and parties, but he accidentally taped over that footage. — June 26: The American Library Association Parties 00:00:40
• 2007-06-27 (said on 2007-06-26, implied) · John has footage of Nerdfighter Cynthia Lord winning the Newbery Honor for her book Rules, and of the Printz Award reception on Monday night. · story: John's An Abundance of Katherines receives a Printz Honor (2007) — June 26: The American Library Association Parties 00:01:10
• 2007-06-27 (said on 2007-06-26, implied) · 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) · story: John's An Abundance of Katherines receives a Printz Honor (2007) — June 26: The American Library Association Parties 00:02:33
• 2007-06-28 · John says the brothers' Dominican Republic resort was swank, but they took one day to visit 'the real Dominican Republic', where regular people live in poverty. · story: The brothers visit a village in the Dominican Republic, arranged by their dad (2007) — June 28: How to Be a Microfinancier 00:00:00
• 2007-06-28 · John recalls visiting a group of women graduating, in their own neighborhood, from five weeks of microfinance training in banking basics and business planning. · story: The brothers visit a village in the Dominican Republic, arranged by their dad (2007) — June 28: How to Be a Microfinancier 00:01:14
• 2007-06-28 · John says that driving back they saw a sprawling restaurant complex started by one woman with one $180 microfinance loan. — June 28: How to Be a Microfinancier 00:02:12
• 2007-07-05 · 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. — July 5th: The Regions Bank Freedom Blast 00:00:55
• 2007-07-09 · John says he was working on his new book and thinking about what its title should be. — July 9: The Punishment Fiasco 00:00:09
• 2007-07-11 · John has to make the video quickly because he is going out tonight and must get back to revising his new book. — Brotherhood 2.0: Harry and the Potters are Nerdfighters! 00:00:11
• 2007-07-11 · As bad news for his punishment, John says he seems to have thrown away all his academic decathlon medals. (hedged) — Brotherhood 2.0: Harry and the Potters are Nerdfighters! 00:00:49
• 2007-07-13 · John says that since moving to Indiana his distaste for outside is beginning to wane; he is starting to enjoy working outside, on a screened-in porch. (hedged) — Brotherhood 2.0: July 13: Outside 00:00:39
• 2007-07-17 · John announces that Tuesday, July 17 is the day of his punishment. — Brotherhood 2.0: July 17: Topless Dancer 00:00:10
• 2007-07-23 · John is lying in bed because he is a little feverish. · story: John gets sick after the Sandwich Antiques Fair (2007) — July 23rd: The Tickling of the Innards 00:00:09
• 2007-07-23 · 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. · story: John and Sarah move to Indianapolis (2007) — July 23rd: The Tickling of the Innards 00:00:33
• 2007-07-25 · John finds Hank's face on the YouTube front page: the brothers' video has been featured. — July 25: Brotherhood 2.0's Youtube Comments Are Answered! 00:00:10
• 2007-07-27 · John has finished cataloguing his home library with LibraryThing and a New York Public Library guide, a goal since leaving New York so he never loses a book again. · story: John catalogues his home library (2007) — July 27: How Nerdfighters Drop Insults 00:00:24
• 2007-07-31 · For a top-secret reason John must read the finished An Abundance of Katherines, breaking his vow never to read his books once published; he has read Looking for Alaska only in snippets at bookstores. — July 31: HP, Secret Siblings, and Books 00:01:52
• 2007-08-02 · John is in an airport on his way to Los Angeles for a conference of a society of writers; he likes conferences and writers, is iffy on societies, and wishes it were in Indianapolis. · story: John travels to a writers' society conference in Los Angeles (2007) — August 2nd: Airports and Box Fans 00:00:09
• 2007-08-06 · John tells Hank that their cousin and her husband, author Lisa Yee, and Arthur Levine, who edited the Harry Potter books, just said hello to Hank. — August 6th: JK Rowling and I Will ... Be Punished 00:00:00
• 2007-08-06 · John thanks everyone at the SCBWI for hosting 'this great conference' and for putting him on a gigantic video screen. · story: John travels to a writers' society conference in Los Angeles (2007) — August 6th: JK Rowling and I Will ... Be Punished 00:03:46
• 2007-08-10 · 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. — August 10th: Bears!!!! 00:00:00
• 2007-08-14 · John announces that Tuesday, August 14th, is the day of his punishment. — August 14th: The Blenderized Happy Meal (and Leg Waxing) 00:00:24
• 2007-08-14 · John feels like puking after one spoonful and retches, but eats the blended Happy Meal spoonful after spoonful until it is finished. — August 14th: The Blenderized Happy Meal (and Leg Waxing) 00:01:58
• 2007-08-14 · 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. — August 14th: The Blenderized Happy Meal (and Leg Waxing) 00:03:16
• 2007-08-16 · John hasn't had much time to think about the Evil Baby Orphanage in recent months because he has been doing nothing but working on Paper Towns. — August 16th: Finding — and Licking — a Cat 00:00:57
• 2007-08-28 · John is working like mad on Paper Towns and has only a couple of weeks left before he turns it in. — August 28th: Starring Mom 00:00:27
• 2007-09-04 · John thanks Hank and Katherine for visiting last week (week of 27 August 2007); he and the Yeti had a great time. · story: Hank's visit to John's house after John's birthday, with family (2007) — September 4th: Negative Suck Cubed Equals Awesome 00:02:46
• 2007-09-06 · John has just finished Deep Economy by Bill McKibben, the book Hank assigned him back around February, and really liked it. — September 6th: The Book Club Returns 00:01:01
• 2007-09-10 · John always spends the last week before a revision deadline somewhere quiet; this time Orlando, where the book is mainly set, checking Winter Park High School still looks the same. — September 10th: Airports and Whitman 00:00:49
• 2007-09-10 · Travelling light to Orlando, John brings only a change of clothes, a computer and 'my old friend Walt Whitman', and closes by reading lines of Whitman's poetry. — September 10th: Airports and Whitman 00:01:41
• 2007-09-18 · John says he has finished a revision of Paper Towns and is happy, relieved and excited enough to dance. — September 18: In Defense of Chris Crocker 00:00:10
• 2007-09-20 · John says he has no particular topic because he is still awash in the joy of having finished the revision of his book. — Sept. 20th: Wacky String 00:00:11
• 2007-09-20 · John congratulates Hank on his excellent song the day before and on his one-year anniversary with Katherine, marking it with leftover silly string. — Sept. 20th: Wacky String 00:00:11
• 2007-09-24 · 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. · story: John accidentally takes Sarah's car key on a trip (2007) — September 24: Airports and M. T. Anderson 00:00:43
• 2007-09-24 · Via Atlanta, John flew to Boston to hang out with M. T. Anderson and work with him on a small joint project; it made his day. · story: John visits M. T. Anderson in Boston to work on a joint project (2007) — September 24: Airports and M. T. Anderson 00:00:43
• 2007-09-24 · John's hotel on the MIT campus delights him after a long day: comforters with mathematical equations and chairs that seem made of atoms. — September 24: Airports and M. T. Anderson 00:01:55
• 2007-09-26 · John finds his Boston hotel at MIT even more nerdfighterly than he knew: circuit-board light fixtures and robots from MIT's artificial intelligence lab in the lobby. · story: John visits M. T. Anderson in Boston to work on a joint project (2007) — September 26th: Norbert Wiener 00:00:00
• 2007-09-26 · Leaving the hotel's reading room to meet M. T. Anderson, John sees it is named the Norbert Wiener Room. · story: John visits M. T. Anderson in Boston to work on a joint project (2007) — September 26th: Norbert Wiener 00:00:39
• 2007-09-26 · John first learned of Norbert Wiener while researching his second book, An Abundance of Katherines. — September 26th: Norbert Wiener 00:01:08
• 2007-09-28 · John was greeted by Nerdfighters in Richmond, Virginia, the night before (27 September 2007), and had a great time there. — September 28th: Nerdfighting!!! 00:00:00
• 2007-09-28 · In Richmond John talked a lot about Walt Whitman and met Nerdfighters doing cool, clever nerdfighting. — September 28th: Nerdfighting!!! 00:00:00
• 2007-09-28 · Scanning the Wall Street Journal at the Richmond airport, John finds Daniel Biss on it talking about money he raised online, with Brotherhood 2.0 mentioned for helping. · story: Daniel Biss runs for Illinois state representative (2007) — September 28th: Nerdfighting!!! 00:02:38
• 2007-10-12 · John recalls donating $2.75 to carbonfund.org back in April to neutralize the vlog's carbon output, which has since risen considerably. — October 12th: Carbon Re-Neutralizing Brotherhood 2.0 00:01:03
• 2007-10-16 · John tours his shelves: poetry (Cummings, Shakespeare, Dante, the Norton Anthology, Dorothy Parker), reference, religions, family, languages, social sciences, screenwriting and his author copies. · story: John catalogues his home library (2007) — October 16th: John's Library Pwns 00:00:42
• 2007-10-18 · John is in Dayton, Ohio, in a hotel, because he is at a library conference. — October 18: Live from Datyon: PARTY BLOWER SOLO 00:00:43
• 2007-10-18 · John is giving two presentations today and, between them, is doubly nervous: about the speech he just gave and the one to come. — October 18: Live from Datyon: PARTY BLOWER SOLO 00:00:43
• 2007-10-18 · John congratulates Hank on being published in The New York Times this Sunday (21 October 2007). · story: Hank reviews children's books on global warming for The New York Times Book Review (2007) — October 18: Live from Datyon: PARTY BLOWER SOLO 00:02:27
• 2007-10-22 · John's editor at Dutton, Julie Strauss-Gabel, has sent back her edits for Paper Towns, with colour-coded post-its throughout the manuscript. — October 22nd: The Anniversary of Young Earth Creationism 00:01:02
• 2007-10-30 · John says people sometimes accuse him of not being a 'real' nerd because he doesn't read much science fiction and likes sports a lot. — Oct. 30th: My Name Is John Green. And I'm a Nerd. 00:00:12
• 2007-11-05 · Paper Towns is back with John, so for the next week or so he will edit about 14 hours a day, which will be very stressful. — November 5th: John's Not Happy about Pakistan 00:01:01
• 2007-11-05 · John says lately he has poetry earworms as well as song ones (he sings a Harry Potter song lyric), such as Walt Whitman's lines on the luck of being born and dying. — November 5th: John's Not Happy about Pakistan 00:01:21
• 2007-11-15 · John won the first International Inky Award, the Silver Inky, an Australian young adult literature award, and thanks his Australian readers and the nerdfighters who voted for Looking for Alaska. — Nov 15: Jay-Z, the Inkys, Nerdfighteria, and Venn Diagrams! 00:00:39
• 2007-11-19 · John says that several years ago he and his writer friend David Levithan started writing a book together, and today he hopes to learn whether, by whom and for how much it will be published. (hedged) · story: Will Grayson, Will Grayson: John and David Levithan sell their co-written book (2007) — November 19th: HOORAY HOORAY HAPPY HOORAY! 00:00:03
• 2007-11-19 · The awaited call comes and John celebrates with co-author David Levithan; worrying about how the book will sell can wait, today he only needs champagne. · story: Will Grayson, Will Grayson: John and David Levithan sell their co-written book (2007) — November 19th: HOORAY HOORAY HAPPY HOORAY! 00:02:19
• 2007-11-21 · Following up Hank's hint, John says their family has a long tradition of saying what they're grateful for at the Thanksgiving table; this year (2007) they're apart, Hank in snowy Missoula, John in warm Indianapolis. — November 21st: What I'm Grateful For 00:01:11
• 2007-11-21 · John is thankful to Hank for the amazing year of getting to know each other as grown-up siblings, though they spent much of it putting stuff on their heads and singing about Harry Potter. — November 21st: What I'm Grateful For 00:01:11
• 2007-11-26 · John says his puff levels are high today; he must turn in the final revision of Paper Towns tomorrow evening and is a little stressed. — Nov. 26th: Writing Advice (And Notes on Surnameless Tiffany) 00:00:00
• 2007-11-26 · When Mom and Dad visited for Thanksgiving they brought three boxes of John's childhood stuff, including an Eagles Nest Camp T-shirt from 1987. — Nov. 26th: Writing Advice (And Notes on Surnameless Tiffany) 00:00:00
• 2007-11-26 · At Eagles Nest Camp in 1987, aged 10, John dated and was dumped by Tiffany, his first girlfriend who kissed him. · story: John's first kiss at summer camp sets his hair on fire — Nov. 26th: Writing Advice (And Notes on Surnameless Tiffany) 00:00:00
• 2007-11-26 · Tiffany is the only ex-girlfriend whose last name John doesn't know, so he can't look her up on Facebook; he would love to know it. — Nov. 26th: Writing Advice (And Notes on Surnameless Tiffany) 00:00:39
• 2007-11-28 · After several days of working about 16 hours a day in an 'ocean of paper' in the living room, John has moved his writing setup into his office. — November 28th: Amy Winehouse and Brain Liquefication 00:00:03
• 2007-11-30 · John says he is buying some gifts this year (2007), but only for children he does not know who need clothes. — Nov. 30th: A CHRISTMAS RANT 00:02:07
• 2007-12-04 · Asked why his website is called Sparks Fly Up, John says the name comes from a line in the Book of Job: man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. — December 4th: Question Tuesday!!!! 00:00:39
• 2007-12-06 · 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. · story: Sarah's Green Green Manifesto: John and Sarah's household green changes (2007) — Dec. 6th: Peer Pressure and the Green Green Manifesto 00:01:38
• 2007-12-06 · Following the manifesto, John and Sarah compost and for three months have bought only compact fluorescent ('Whirlygig') bulbs because they give more efficient light. · story: Sarah's Green Green Manifesto: John and Sarah's household green changes (2007) — Dec. 6th: Peer Pressure and the Green Green Manifesto 00:02:07
• 2007-12-06 · They now use cloth bags instead of plastic at the grocery store; John says cloth bags create less waste and carry groceries better. — Dec. 6th: Peer Pressure and the Green Green Manifesto 00:02:07
• 2007-12-06 · So they no longer drink soda, which is heavy and needs much packaging and shipping, and drink Crystal Light instead; John jokes local tap water tastes like poison. — Dec. 6th: Peer Pressure and the Green Green Manifesto 00:02:36
• 2007-12-06 · They have drastically reduced their use of paper towels by using cloth napkins and dish rags. — Dec. 6th: Peer Pressure and the Green Green Manifesto 00:02:36
• 2007-12-06 · By recycling many more kinds of things, they went from about four kitchen bags of garbage a week before the manifesto to less than one. — Dec. 6th: Peer Pressure and the Green Green Manifesto 00:03:05
• 2007-12-06 · Peer pressure be damned, they are letting large parts of their property become native Indiana grasses that need no watering. · story: Sarah's Green Green Manifesto: John and Sarah's household green changes (2007) — Dec. 6th: Peer Pressure and the Green Green Manifesto 00:03:34
• 2007-12-10 · John says his first novel, Looking for Alaska, has been in movie development for about a year and a half and is still in development. (hedged) — Dec. 10: MY BOOK IS GONNA BE A MOVIE!!! (someday) 00:01:12
• 2007-12-12 · John says today is one of the last days he can make meaningful revisions to Paper Towns. — Dec. 12th: w00t is the WORD OF THE YEAR?! 00:00:09
• 2007-12-14 · John is in New York meeting people about Paper Towns, including his editor Julie Strauss-Gabel, whose office has a view of the Statue of Liberty. — Dec. 14th: John and Maureen Johnson: LIVE FROM NEW YORK CITY 00:00:31
• 2007-12-14 · John says Julie Strauss-Gabel sent Hank a copy of Paper Towns. — Dec. 14th: John and Maureen Johnson: LIVE FROM NEW YORK CITY 00:01:00
• 2007-12-18 · Asked whether Looking for Alaska is based on real-life experience, John answers yes and no. — Dec 18th: The Project for Awesome and Question Tuesday!!! 00:02:07
• 2007-12-26 (said on 2007-12-25, implied) · Although John agreed with most people to swap only used books or give to charity instead of gifts, he received argyle socks. — Dec. 26th: Christmas, Manga, and Goat Poop 00:01:47
• 2007-12-26 (said on 2007-12-25, implied) · The brothers agreed to exchange only used books: Hank gave John used books including a history of Christmas, and John gave Hank manga. · story: John's Christmas presents for Hank and Katherine (2007) — Dec. 26th: Christmas, Manga, and Goat Poop 00:02:16
• 2007-12-26 (said on 2007-12-25, implied) · John says his favourite Christmas present is probably the book he got from Wynflete. (hedged) — Dec. 26th: Christmas, Manga, and Goat Poop 00:02:46
• 2007-12-28 · Searching the Brotherhood 2.0 archives, John finds the first viewer the brothers mentioned was on about January 4th, a viewer who had just had a baby, before Nerdfighters called themselves Nerdfighters. — Dec. 28th: John's Last Brotherhood 2.0 Video 00:02:03
• 2007-12-28 · John signs off to Nerdfighters 'in my pants', thanks Hank for all of this and says he'll see him on Monday. — Dec. 28th: John's Last Brotherhood 2.0 Video 00:03:30

2008

• 2008-01-30 · John learns his first novel, Looking for Alaska, published almost three years ago, is to be taught to 11th-grade English students at Depew High School near Buffalo. · story: Effort to ban Looking for Alaska in Depew, New York schools (2008) — I Am Not A Pornographer 00:00:14
• 2008-01-30 · John says the school wrote to parents with a permission slip: children of parents who agree read the book, others read a different book. · story: Effort to ban Looking for Alaska in Depew, New York schools (2008) — I Am Not A Pornographer 00:00:35
• 2008-01-30 · John reports that a few people without 11th-grade children call the book pornographic, say it will cause immoral thoughts and actions in children, and want no one to read it. · story: Effort to ban Looking for Alaska in Depew, New York schools (2008) — I Am Not A Pornographer 00:01:00
• 2008-01-30 · John says many Depew teachers, administrators and school board members are standing up for the book and for teachers' and parents' rights. · story: Effort to ban Looking for Alaska in Depew, New York schools (2008) — I Am Not A Pornographer 00:03:22
• 2008-02-08 · John reports many people attended Tuesday's (5 February 2008) Depew school board meeting on his book, which he appreciates, but procedure let none of them speak. · story: Effort to ban Looking for Alaska in Depew, New York schools (2008) — QUESTION TUESDAYS (On Friday) 00:00:00
• 2008-02-08 · John says the five people who did speak all opposed the book, and several of them had not read it. · story: Effort to ban Looking for Alaska in Depew, New York schools (2008) — QUESTION TUESDAYS (On Friday) 00:00:36
• 2008-02-14 · John says the only Valentine's Day he fully enjoyed was in third grade, when everyone had to make valentines for everyone and was nice to him. — The Puff Pwns Gravity 00:03:01
• 2008-03-15 (said on 2008-03-14, implied) · John is in Mobile because Sarah is curating an exhibition opening there, Among the Ruins, which he calls great. — Ruins, LOLBooks, and the Blurbing Book Club 00:00:31
• 2008-03-27 · John ate 12 Peeps in three minutes, four of each kind, half a Peep fewer than a year ago, and nearly threw up 30 seconds in. — PEEPS Eating Contest Is Peepstacular, Painful 00:03:57
• 2008-03-27 · John regrets it: he thought it would be funny but it just hurt, and he goes to lie down. — PEEPS Eating Contest Is Peepstacular, Painful 00:05:06
• 2008-04-28 · John says Hank had to go to the hospital and pay for it himself because, to save money, his doctor had given him a drug John calls known to be unsafe. · story: Hank's full-body allergic reaction to sulfasalazine (2008) — Ranting and Giving Stuff Away 00:02:45
• 2008-05-18 · John tells Hank and the Nerdfighters he hasn't made a video in almost a week and a half, and it isn't because of his hilariously bad haircut. — A CUTETACULAR INTRODUCTION! 00:00:11
• 2008-05-18 · The real reason for the absence: John and the Yeti have made an extraordinary, unbelievably time-consuming acquisition, a puppy. · story: John and the Yeti get a puppy, Willy (2008) — A CUTETACULAR INTRODUCTION! 00:00:46
• 2008-05-18 · 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. · story: John and the Yeti get a puppy, Willy (2008) — A CUTETACULAR INTRODUCTION! 00:01:14
• 2008-05-19 · 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. — Three Things 00:00:36
• 2008-05-20 · 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. — Guys Love Giraffe Love 00:02:13
• 2008-06-26 · Asked (thing eight) to be like Hank and give an Xbox's worth of money to a charity, John says he already did so before leaving, to Save the Children. — Don't Suck on That Bone 00:02:45
• 2008-07-01 · John is hoarse after five days of talking at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Anaheim, California. — Live from LAX 00:00:00
• 2008-07-01 · Otherwise, people at the conference mostly asked John where Hank was. — Live from LAX 00:01:42
• 2008-07-08 (said on 2008-07-07, implied) · Before becoming an author, John worked for most of his post-college life at Booklist magazine, and also as a children's hospital chaplain and on a Steak 'n Shake graveyard shift. · story: John's Steak 'n Shake graveyard shift versus his lower-paid Booklist job after college (2008) — Hank Tried to Kill Me With a Hammer 00:00:43
• 2008-07-08 (said on 2008-07-07, implied) · John says he is recognized fairly often in big public spaces and finds it nice to meet Nerdfighters; at Disneyland's Indiana Jones ride a fan's little brother asked if he was wearing a disguise. — Hank Tried to Kill Me With a Hammer 00:02:48
• 2008-07-13 · John tells Hank that Willy is four months old today and has learned down, stay and sit, though he only sort of retrieves. — Willy's Elusive Head Turn 00:00:06
• 2008-07-13 · John says the skill they most want Willy to master is turning his head to the side, which he does whenever he hears sounds he's never heard before. — Willy's Elusive Head Turn 00:00:44
• 2008-07-13 · John says that as far as they can tell the sound has to be a human voice making sounds Willy's never heard, and they are out of such sounds. (hedged) — Willy's Elusive Head Turn 00:02:13
• 2008-07-30 · John shows himself recording the dedication, author's note and acknowledgements of Paper Towns for the audiobook, including Hank's name and the word Nerdfighters. — Audiobooks and 8 8 08 00:01:17
• 2008-07-30 · John went to Grand Haven to see the Paper Towns audiobook recorded and toured the process: engineers at the dials, editing out breaths, and the plant making physical copies. — Audiobooks and 8 8 08 00:01:38
• 2008-07-30 · John says the best part of the trip was hearing his narrator, Dan John Miller, record the audiobook. — Audiobooks and 8 8 08 00:01:59
• 2008-08-06 · John says he attended Kenyon for college and Indian Springs School for high school. — Question Tuesday Returns (on a Wednesday) 00:01:10
• 2008-08-06 · 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?". · story: John proposes to Sarah with a book inscribed by Hendrik Hertzberg (2008) — Question Tuesday Returns (on a Wednesday) 00:02:09
• 2008-08-06 · Asked how soon after finishing one he starts the next, John says pretty much the next day, because he worries that if he waits longer he will just stop. — Question Tuesday Returns (on a Wednesday) 00:02:38
• 2008-09-10 · John plays Hank's song for Willy to see how he reacts. — Willy Listening to His Song 00:00:00
• 2008-09-10 · John narrates that Willy gets scared of the song and wants to run away, then relaxes and yawns. — Willy Listening to His Song 00:01:01
• 2008-09-11 · John recalls that at the end of the Chicago Nerdfighter night on 8/8/08 hundreds of Nerdfighters met Amy Krouse Rosenthal at the Bean without knowing her plan. — A Video about Videos 00:01:34
• 2008-10-06 · John has just got back from Berlin, Germany, where he met Nerdfighters, including Jenny, who got him a flag. — Berlin and Let it Snow (in Your Pants) 00:00:00
• 2008-10-06 · Before Berlin, John was in Minneapolis and met hundreds of Nerdfighters; he says the vlog will be unstuck in time like Billy Pilgrim. — Berlin and Let it Snow (in Your Pants) 00:00:00
• 2008-10-06 · Among the presents John received in Minneapolis was his first copy of the Spanish translation of Looking for Alaska. — Berlin and Let it Snow (in Your Pants) 00:00:00
• 2008-10-06 · Speaking to high school students in a room holding every children's book published in the GDR, John says the headmaster brought a CD reflecting the roots of Looking for Alaska. — Berlin and Let it Snow (in Your Pants) 00:01:21
• 2008-10-06 · Two hours later, in a tiny bar with tar-browned walls and antlered skulls, R.E.M.'s Everybody Hurts came on. — Berlin and Let it Snow (in Your Pants) 00:01:50
• 2008-10-06 · At German schools an actor read John's book, as John doesn't read or speak German; one of those actors is among the world's best chess boxers. — Berlin and Let it Snow (in Your Pants) 00:02:49
• 2008-10-17 · John reports from the Paper Towns release party with Liane from the Five Awesome Girls, his agent Jodi, Hank's wife Katherine, and Alex and Charlie from London. — Vital Status Report from NYC 00:00:00
• 2008-10-21 (said on 2008-10-20, implied) · John, on the Paper Towns tour, is in Columbus, Ohio, super tired after a long day of touring. — Travel Tips, Delivered Hoarsely 00:00:00
• 2008-10-21 (said on 2008-10-20, implied) · John left his camcorder in Boston, so he is recording on the iSight camera until he gets a new camcorder. · story: John loses his camcorder in Boston on the Paper Towns tour (2008) — Travel Tips, Delivered Hoarsely 00:00:00
• 2008-10-21 (said on 2008-10-20, implied) · The camcorder he has filmed every video with since January 2, 2007 did not really blow up; he left it at the event space while watching Julia Nunes play in Boston. · story: John loses his camcorder in Boston on the Paper Towns tour (2008) — Travel Tips, Delivered Hoarsely 00:00:33
• 2008-10-22 · Students at Vero Beach High School gave John a shirt with all the things he loves on it. — Punish Hank? Save Hank? YOU DECIDE. 00:00:00
• 2008-10-22 · Vero Beach High School nerdfighters gave John every item Lacey, Ben, Q and Radar pick up at their first BP stop in Paper Towns, including Nerds; he says it is no spoiler. — Punish Hank? Save Hank? YOU DECIDE. 00:01:24
• 2008-10-24 · John says hanging out with 200 Nerdfighters last night, with hundreds more watching on BlogTV, is the nicest gift he has ever been given. (hedged) — Paper Towns MOVIE1!!!11! 00:01:50
• 2008-11-03 · 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. — Hank and John from the Road 00:00:00
• 2008-11-03 · 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. — Hank and John from the Road 00:00:42
• 2008-11-04 · John, in Indianapolis after a Nerdfighter event, watches election returns and says it is too early to say anything. — Election Night In Indianapolis! 00:00:00
• 2008-11-05 · 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. — On Loving One Another or Dying 00:00:00
• 2008-11-05 · 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. — On Loving One Another or Dying 00:00:58
• 2008-11-17 · With Hank in the next hotel room, John greets Nerdfighters and presents a day in their life on tour. — Life on Tour 00:00:14
• 2008-11-17 · John live-broadcasts himself on BlogTV from inside the minivan thanks to Hank's contraption. — Life on Tour 00:01:04
• 2008-11-19 · John and Hank have just reached their hotel in Westport, Connecticut, and are unpacking the gifts nerdfighters have given them. — Sharing Presents in Westport 00:00:00
• 2008-11-19 · Gifts include a shirt for Culver Creek Preparatory School, the school in John's novel Looking for Alaska. — Sharing Presents in Westport 00:00:28
• 2008-11-19 · John misses his dog Willy while on the road; they received a Christmas ornament for Willy and a nerdfighting-puppy toy. — Sharing Presents in Westport 00:02:43
• 2008-11-27 · John spends Thanksgiving 2008 at his parents' house in Asheville, North Carolina, 'where it all started' for him. — Thanksgiving in Asheville 00:00:00
• 2008-11-27 · 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. — Thanksgiving in Asheville 00:00:00
• 2008-12-08 (said on 2008-12-07, implied) · John has his pulse taken to show he is legitimately afraid and says getting on the table will be easy but standing on it exceptionally hard. (hedged) — I Am Afraid of Heights 00:01:29
• 2008-12-08 (said on 2008-12-07, implied) · After hesitating and asking for another countdown, John stands on the table (Sunday, 7 December 2008) and celebrates the $5,000. — I Am Afraid of Heights 00:02:32
• 2008-12-15 · John congratulates Hank on having been featured on YouTube the day before. — Famous Last Words 00:00:00

2009

• 2009-01-13 · John says that while reorganizing his office he found a beanie and a notebook of journal entries from middle school, during the first Gulf War, that he does not remember writing. — Beanie John's Love Advice 00:00:00
• 2009-01-13 · John thinks the journal was an assignment for a composition class, so it is mostly song lyrics copied to fill space, such as Ice Ice Baby. (hedged) — Beanie John's Love Advice 00:00:29
• 2009-01-18 · John says he received an email claiming Obama would take the oath of office on the Quran. — PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA Inaugurated: Some Historical Background 00:00:00
• 2009-01-27 · John found a book he wrote as a child, 'The Best New Years Resolution Ever: Happy New Year Streamers', during his office reorganization and reads it. · story: John finds and reads a picture book he wrote as a child, 'Happy New Year Streamers' (2009) — Before Looking for Alaska… 00:00:13
• 2009-01-27 · John signs off saying he has to go back to writing the Paper Towns screenplay. · story: John writes the Paper Towns screenplay (2008) — Before Looking for Alaska… 00:02:56
• 2009-02-10 · John does not know whether Paper Towns will be a movie; he is writing the screenplay, so it is up to him whether it is good enough. (hedged) · story: John writes the Paper Towns screenplay (2008) — Paper Towns Tastic Question Tuesday 00:00:46
• 2009-02-21 (said on 2009-02-14, implied) · John says writing Paper Towns took about three years. — Paper Towns and PUPPY 00:01:00
• 2009-03-08 · John says a gas leak caused an explosion of three buildings in Bozeman, Montana, and his first thought was the hope that Hank and Katherine were okay. — PEEPS for Bangladesh 00:00:00
• 2009-03-10 · John says his first draft of the Paper Towns screenplay is due in three days, so he lacks time to break the Question Tuesday world record. · story: John writes the Paper Towns screenplay (2008) — How to Get Girls to Like You 00:00:00
• 2009-03-22 · John has just come home from a week touring Holland with two other American authors, Jordan Sonnenblick and Steve Kluger, and says it was fun. · story: John's week touring the Netherlands with Jordan Sonnenblick and Steve Kluger (2009) — John Loves Amsterdam 00:00:39
• 2009-03-22 · On Thursday night more than 100 Nerdfighters gathered in Amsterdam for an evening of fun, including John failing to read in Dutch. · story: John's week touring the Netherlands with Jordan Sonnenblick and Steve Kluger (2009) — John Loves Amsterdam 00:01:34
• 2009-03-22 · John tells Hank that people sang a song Hank wrote in a bar in Amsterdam. · story: John's week touring the Netherlands with Jordan Sonnenblick and Steve Kluger (2009) — John Loves Amsterdam 00:02:22
• 2009-03-22 · A Dutch journalist told John she had read Paper Towns in English and Dutch and found the Dutch version much better, because it was funnier. · story: John's week touring the Netherlands with Jordan Sonnenblick and Steve Kluger (2009) — John Loves Amsterdam 00:02:30
• 2009-03-24 · John says he was supposed to eat about 315 Peeps yesterday (23 March 2009) but ate none. — Peeps! Prom! Puppy! 00:00:00
• 2009-03-24 · John has a busy week turning around two revisions, one on a book he is writing and one on a movie, so eating 300+ Peeps in a day would hurt his productivity. · story: John writes the Paper Towns screenplay (2008) — Peeps! Prom! Puppy! 00:00:24
• 2009-03-29 · John says the doctor put him on an antibiotic and steroids, and warned that steroids raise his blood sugar. · story: John is ill and put on antibiotics and steroids (2009) — Tiny Chickens Cause Epic Fail 00:00:00
• 2009-04-14 · John says he is something of an expert on the world's largest balls because the first draft of Paper Towns was largely devoted to them; only a small vestige remains in the book. — The World's Largest Balls 00:00:00
• 2009-04-19 · John says he told Nerdfighters following him on Twitter, as a joke, that if they got Ashton Kutcher to follow him he would give $1,000 against malaria, thinking it a safe bet. — Weekend of Surreality 00:00:00
• 2009-04-19 · Ashton Kutcher is now following John on Twitter; John says he underestimated the power of Nerdfighteria and gave $1,000 to buy bed nets. — Weekend of Surreality 00:00:48
• 2009-04-19 · From the festival John drove to Atlantic City, New Jersey, where a friend of his really got married inside an elephant. — Weekend of Surreality 00:01:17
• 2009-04-21 · Paper Towns may become a movie: the people who made Juno optioned the rights with John writing the screenplay, which he is working on now. (hedged) · story: John writes the Paper Towns screenplay (2008) — Question Tuesday 00:02:04
• 2009-04-21 · John's 'superpower nerd glasses' broke in a long story that ended with him falling face-first into the Baltic Sea. — Question Tuesday 00:03:02
• 2009-04-25 · Asked whether Hank's book was any good, John says he still hasn't read it. · story: Hank writes a novel (2009) — Saturday Video?!?!?! 00:01:04
• 2009-05-04 (said on 2009-05-03, implied) · John's Paper Towns won an Edgar Award on Thursday night, given by the Mystery Writers of America to the year's best mystery novels, so he now owns a bust of Poe. · story: John's Paper Towns wins the Edgar Award (2009) — Oinkbarf Pandemic! An Intellectual Response to Swine Flu 00:00:27
• 2009-05-04 (said on 2009-05-03, implied) · John is somewhat terrified of new and strange diseases, he thinks because of an easy-seeming college science class, 'AIDS, Ebola, and Emerging Viruses', unsuitable for hypochondriacs. (hedged) — Oinkbarf Pandemic! An Intellectual Response to Swine Flu 00:00:58
• 2009-05-05 · John's present to Hank is a rare original-printing Rock-afire Explosion record with 'Happy Birthday Medley' on one side and 'Do You Love Me' on the other. — HANKO DE MAYO! Happy Birthday Hank! 00:00:51
• 2009-05-10 · John tells Hank that last week (30 April 2009) Paper Towns won an Edgar Award, given by the Mystery Writers of America to the year's best mystery novels, so he owns a bust of Poe. · story: John's Paper Towns wins the Edgar Award (2009) — What Could You Do with a Poe Bust?! 00:00:01
• 2009-05-19 · John says he must prepare for LeakyCon, then leave for Australia right after, and has a ton of work on edits of the book he is writing with David Levithan. · story: Will Grayson, Will Grayson: John and David Levithan sell their co-written book (2007) — Question Tuesday! 00:00:00
• 2009-05-24 · John says he and Hank just had two extraordinary days at LeakyCon, a Harry Potter conference. — WROCK! 00:00:00
• 2009-06-07 · John says that in Melbourne he attended the Reading Matters conference, where actors performed a series of scenes from Paper Towns. — I Will Call Him Louis: Australia Rocks! 00:00:00
• 2009-06-07 · 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. — I Will Call Him Louis: Australia Rocks! 00:00:42
• 2009-06-07 · John says he met hundreds of Nerdfighters, including Natalie (Community Channel), Frezned, and "our secret Australian family, the kiddos". — I Will Call Him Louis: Australia Rocks! 00:02:03
• 2009-06-07 · At the Melbourne Nerdfighter gatherings Debbie warmed up the crowd with the Happy Dance song, and Natalie and Calvin sang about puppy-sized elephants. — I Will Call Him Louis: Australia Rocks! 00:02:32
• 2009-06-30 · 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. · story: John proposes to Sarah with a book inscribed by Hendrik Hertzberg (2008) — Nerdfighter MARRIAGE PROPOSAL 00:00:39
• 2009-06-30 · John phones the requesting viewer's girlfriend, apologises for misspelling her name when he signed her book, then asks whether she will marry her boyfriend; she says yes. · story: The Nerdfighter couple John proposed for on air in 2009: marriage and first child (2009) — Nerdfighter MARRIAGE PROPOSAL 00:01:25
• 2009-08-10 (said on 2009-08-09, implied) · 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. — HipPOTATOmus 00:00:23
• 2009-08-10 (said on 2009-08-09, implied) · John shows what cooking school looked like: chopping, blending, separating eggs and churning ice cream. — HipPOTATOmus 00:00:53
• 2009-08-16 · John went to the Indiana State Fair the day before (15 August 2009) and saw the world's largest boar, named Walkin' Tall. — Health Care Overhaul Summarized Via MASSIVE PIG 00:00:01
• 2009-09-04 · John was at the Indiana State Fair the day before (15 August 2009) and saw the world's largest boar, named Walkin' Tall. — Health Care Reform Thought Bubble 00:00:04
• 2009-09-06 · John and the Yeti are beginning a big home renovation, part of which replaces the moldy basement walls. · story: John's house renovation and flooded basement (2009) — How To (Not) Demolish a Wall 00:00:01
• 2009-09-06 · The contractor recommended John tear down the wall himself, since it takes a professional to build a wall but anybody can demolish one. · story: John's house renovation and flooded basement (2009) — How To (Not) Demolish a Wall 00:00:09
• 2009-09-08 · John is working on a new book and says that while writing something new he can think of nothing else. — My Puppy's SECRET SHAME (and Paper Towns) 00:00:52
• 2009-09-08 · John says the Paper Towns movie rights were acquired by Mr. Mudd and Mandate (makers of Juno); he wrote the first screenplay draft and is starting the first big revision. · story: John writes the Paper Towns screenplay (2008) — My Puppy's SECRET SHAME (and Paper Towns) 00:02:08
• 2009-09-12 (said on 2009-09-11, implied) · John says the wall is still there, 'the Great Wall Fail of 2009', though he has made some progress. · story: John's house renovation and flooded basement (2009) — Special Friday Video! (On Saturday) 00:00:00
• 2009-09-12 (said on 2009-09-11, implied) · 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. — Special Friday Video! (On Saturday) 00:00:40
• 2009-09-20 (said on 2009-09-21, implied) · John says Hank is 29, a video blogger and musician, and runs the environmental technology website EcoGeek. — Health Care Reform: The Hank Factor 00:00:00
• 2009-09-20 (said on 2009-09-21, implied) · John says Hank started EcoGeek in graduate school and it has grown into a business. — Health Care Reform: The Hank Factor 00:00:00
• 2009-09-20 (said on 2009-09-21, implied) · John says that despite a successful business, Hank could not get health insurance for many years because insurers avoid covering ulcerative colitis, which is very expensive. · story: Hank: living with ulcerative colitis (2007) — Health Care Reform: The Hank Factor 00:01:06
• 2009-09-20 (said on 2009-09-21, implied) · John says Hank must take a medicine costing $20 a day and has a greater risk of colon cancer, an incredibly expensive disease. · story: Hank: living with ulcerative colitis (2007) — Health Care Reform: The Hank Factor 00:01:06
• 2009-09-20 (said on 2009-09-21, implied) · John says Hank now has insurance through that plan, though without drug coverage he still pays $20 a day; worrying less about cancer and bankruptcy, he invests more in EcoGeek, which employs more people. · story: Hank: living with ulcerative colitis (2007) — Health Care Reform: The Hank Factor 00:02:04
• 2009-09-22 · John says Paper Towns is coming out in many countries and won the Edgar Award, and that none of it would have happened without Nerdfighters. — Paper Towns in Paperback: A How-to Guide 00:00:47
• 2009-09-22 · John says he is writing a screenplay for the people who made Juno, and at the end leaves to work on the Paper Towns screenplay. · story: John writes the Paper Towns screenplay (2008) — Paper Towns in Paperback: A How-to Guide 00:00:47
• 2009-09-27 · John says Sarah is working with the artist Tea Mäkipää, who is Finnish, lives in Germany and has an exhibition in Indiana. — TV For Chickens 00:00:40
• 2009-09-28 · John says he is filming in his front yard because people inside are currently demolishing his house. — Paper Towns Winners and Ningmasters 00:00:06
• 2009-10-11 · John says his house is a construction zone during an expensive renovation, with most of the electricity off and no place to sleep. · story: John's house renovation and flooded basement (2009) — Puppy Elephant Defends Capitalism 00:00:00
• 2009-11-01 · John says that for all three of his novels he deleted more than 90% of the first draft, and everything people like in them emerged in later drafts. — NaNoWriMo!!! 00:01:29
• 2009-11-03 · John says he pre-ordered six copies of the album to give as Christmas presents. — This Machine Pwns n00bs! 00:02:56
• 2009-11-08 · John admits that, though he knows it is irrational, he felt a little nervous about getting the H1N1 vaccine. — H1N1 Vaccine Fears 00:00:00
• 2009-11-15 · John is flying home from his friends' wedding in New Orleans, after sleeping 86 minutes the night before. — Gus Is A Bug 00:00:00
• 2009-11-15 · John's favourite book as a little kid was Gus Is a Bug, about a caterpillar named Gus; in retrospect it was teaching that the letter U can sound 'uh'. — Gus Is A Bug 00:00:00
• 2009-11-15 · Despite extensive searching John cannot find a single copy; a teacher reprinted the text online, so he knows it but not the author or the pictures. — Gus Is A Bug 00:01:10
• 2009-11-17 · Asked whether Ben in Paper Towns is based on someone from his high school, John says the character is based on himself. — Question Tuesday: The Free Money Edition 00:00:00
• 2009-11-17 · John says he is growing his beard for Movember, in which people grow facial hair to raise money for prostate cancer research; someone offered a donation if he kept it all month. · story: John grows a Movember beard for prostate cancer research (2009) — Question Tuesday: The Free Money Edition 00:00:35
• 2009-12-01 · John says it is December 1st and no longer Movember, so he can finally shave, which he does over the course of the video. · story: John grows a Movember beard for prostate cancer research (2009) — Shaving for Pakistan 00:00:00
• 2009-12-13 · John says his camcorder doesn't work despite everything he tried, so he is filming on the iSight camera, which can't follow him when he moves. · story: John's camcorder stops working (2009) — Eyelash Malaria 00:00:01
• 2009-12-13 · John recalls that every Christmas he gives Hank a goat from Heifer.org that goes to someone in need; an ark is a whole set of animals for people who need them. — Eyelash Malaria 00:02:35
• 2009-12-15 · John opens by welcoming Hank to his new camcorder. · story: John's camcorder stops working (2009) — In Which A Secret Is Revealed 00:00:00
• 2009-12-20 · John says, not as a joke, that he commented so much during the 48 hours that he hurt his left shoulder. — Awesome Project Is Awesome 00:00:56
• 2009-12-23 · 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. · story: John and Sarah (the Yeti) are expecting a baby (2009) — Amazing Christmas Facts With John and Hank 00:00:34
• 2009-12-27 · Asked whether they have real jobs, John says Hank runs the environmental technology website EcoGeek. — How To Be a Nerdfighter: A Vlogbrothers FAQ 00:00:44

2010

• 2010-01-04 · John says he has a terrible toothache and is going to the dentist; he must have a root canal tomorrow, possibly two. (hedged) · story: John's toothache and root canals (2010) — It Hurts In My Toof: The 2010 Rules 00:00:00
• 2010-01-08 · John reveals he wanted the book to give to his baby, so by finding it Nerdfighters were unknowingly giving him a baby-warming present. · story: John and Sarah (the Yeti) are expecting a baby (2009) — GUS HAS NO FUZZ! 00:00:58
• 2010-01-13 · John is on his way to pick up his friend Chris to go to Xscape and get on the Frog Hopper. — Froghoppin' with Gatsby 00:00:00
• 2010-01-18 · John says it is Monday, January 18, which means the baby is due any day now, and fatherhood is all he is thinking about. · story: John and Sarah (the Yeti) are expecting a baby (2009) — Fatherhood 00:00:00
• 2010-01-28 · Having made the video, John says in the description that he immediately returns to paternity leave. — RIP JD Salinger 00:00:00
• 2010-02-15 · John, back on the vlog, introduces his three-week-old son Henry on camera. · story: John and Sarah (the Yeti) are expecting a baby (2009) — Hello Baby!! 00:00:03
• 2010-02-19 · At the doctor a month ago (January 2010) John found that his weight had a new first digit for the first time since he was about eight. · story: John's diet and weight loss after Henry's birth (2010) — Henry's Pee and My Gut 00:01:43
• 2010-02-19 · John says he has been on a cleanse for two weeks and has lost 12 pounds so far. · story: John's diet and weight loss after Henry's birth (2010) — Henry's Pee and My Gut 00:02:22
• 2010-02-24 · John says it has been a tough day and he is worried about a friend of his. — JOHN GREEN IS FAT. 00:00:00
• 2010-02-24 · John says he has lost almost 15 pounds since Henry was born, not through a crash diet: he eats a lot but no french fries, and has started running. · story: John's diet and weight loss after Henry's birth (2010) — JOHN GREEN IS FAT. 00:01:27
• 2010-03-05 · John is in Bellingham, Washington, at a literature conference. — Red Green, the Nintendo, and HANK 00:00:00
• 2010-03-10 · John says his diet is still going well. · story: John's diet and weight loss after Henry's birth (2010) — New Tour! New Book! (Remember Books?) Your Q's A'ed! 00:01:07
• 2010-03-10 · John says he is losing weight because of his son Henry: looking at him, he guesses the only real motivator is love; an aside adds wanting ex-girlfriends to regret dumping you. (hedged) · story: John's diet and weight loss after Henry's birth (2010) — New Tour! New Book! (Remember Books?) Your Q's A'ed! 00:01:36
• 2010-03-19 · Because breast cancer has affected several members of his family, John gives money to breast cancer research, and is statistically likelier to do so than to fight cholera. — Foreign John Green Books and the Ultimate Concern 00:01:35
• 2010-03-19 · 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. · story: John takes the line 'Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia' from Sarah on their first date for Looking for Alaska (told 2016) — Foreign John Green Books and the Ultimate Concern 00:02:04
• 2010-03-29 · Googling himself, John found that a line he wrote years ago in An Abundance of Katherines has gone viral on Twitter, tweeted more than 10,000 times. — Quotations (And Holden Hats) 00:01:03
• 2010-04-02 · John wrote the odd-numbered chapters and David the even ones; they have worked on the book for more than five years, since before Looking for Alaska was published. — Will Grayson, Will Grayson 00:00:44
• 2010-04-07 · John is in a schmancy Chicago hotel room with David Levithan, on tour for their book Will Grayson, Will Grayson. — Shmancy Hotel Room Is Shmancy 00:00:04
• 2010-04-07 · John says he sometimes does: although he loves books, he puts down even books he enjoys to look at the flashy lights of the internet. — Shmancy Hotel Room Is Shmancy 00:02:48
• 2010-04-12 · John is in New York City, still on tour for Will Grayson, Will Grayson, and thanks the Nerdfighters who came out and those who gave him t-shirts. — On the Separation of Conjoined Twins 00:00:00
• 2010-04-12 · John says becoming a parent made him obsessed with normal: he called the pediatrician because Henry seemed to be peeing a lot; with babies everything is either normal or scary. — On the Separation of Conjoined Twins 00:02:21
• 2010-04-16 · Though not Catholic himself, John says he is completely obsessed with Catholic patron saints. — The Patron Saint of Youtube 00:00:00
• 2010-04-26 · 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. — Nerdfighters, They Named a PLANE After Us 00:01:38
• 2010-05-10 · John says a version of his current book was about 62,000 words long and he ended up cutting 55,000 of them. — Advice on Dumb Boyfriends, Going to College, and More 00:01:03
• 2010-06-02 (said on 2010-06-01, implied) · John recalls that almost 20 years ago he went to bed without closing his Nintendo's game flap and woke to find the dog Red Green's poop inside it. · story: Red Green's poop in the brothers' childhood Nintendo — The Case of the Poopy Nintendo 00:00:00
• 2010-06-02 (said on 2010-06-01, implied) · John recalls that Hank denied putting poop in the Nintendo and blamed Red Green himself. · story: Red Green's poop in the brothers' childhood Nintendo — The Case of the Poopy Nintendo 00:00:00
• 2010-06-07 · Because of that licence, John says, there is no ad next to his head in this video. — Viacom PWNED on Piracy 00:00:55
• 2010-06-11 · John is in a Milwaukee hotel because the Yeti's cousin is becoming a Catholic priest, and he is there to witness it. — Mmmm....PARTS 00:00:00
• 2010-06-11 · John says that, as far as Viacom stealing his video goes, he still wants his money. · story: Viacom's Spike.com posts and monetizes John's 'Viacom PWNED on Piracy' video (2010) — Mmmm....PARTS 00:00:00
• 2010-06-11 · John reports the brothers have talked to some lawyers, who think Viacom probably made about $2 from stealing his video. (hedged) · story: Viacom's Spike.com posts and monetizes John's 'Viacom PWNED on Piracy' video (2010) — Mmmm....PARTS 00:00:00
• 2010-06-16 · John tells Hank his new book is about an island and he has been doing a lot of reading about islands. — In Defense of Contemporary Art 00:00:00
• 2010-06-21 · John recalls learning as a child at the Orlando Science Center planetarium that the Earth will end, his first grappling with the temporary habitability of the universe. — You're Gonna Die 00:00:24
• 2010-06-25 (said on 2010-06-26, implied) · John is in Washington, D.C. for the American Library Association's annual conference, which he calls the highlight of the young adult literature social calendar. — Book Nerd PARADISE 00:00:00
• 2010-06-25 (said on 2010-06-26, implied) · John gets to meet authors he likes: Nina LaCour, the authors of Beautiful Creatures, Lauren Oliver, Maryrose Wood and Diana Peterfreund. — Book Nerd PARADISE 00:00:00
• 2010-06-25 (said on 2010-06-26, implied) · John went to a panel he wasn't on, then sat on one with David Levithan about using the internet to attract readers. — Book Nerd PARADISE 00:00:00
• 2010-06-25 (said on 2010-06-26, implied) · John talks with his editor, Julie Strauss-Gabel, about his new book on camera. · story: John writes a novel about a desert island with a girl narrator (2010) — Book Nerd PARADISE 00:00:34
• 2010-06-25 (said on 2010-06-26, implied) · At the conference advance reader copies of hundreds of books are free to take; John grabs the new Cassandra Clare. — Book Nerd PARADISE 00:01:15
• 2010-06-30 · John has an extremely vivid flashbulb memory of discovering Red Green's poop in the Nintendo, but research suggests he was the only one who physically saw it. (hedged) · story: Red Green's poop in the brothers' childhood Nintendo — Poopy Nintendo Mystery SOLVED WITH SCIENCE 00:01:58
• 2010-07-05 · Esther has cancer, which John says sucks. — With Esther 00:00:14
• 2010-07-05 · This weekend a group of Esther's friends visited her in Boston, and John spent a day with them: 'an amazing day of amazing'. · story: John visits Esther Earl and her Nerdfighter friends in Boston (July 2010) — With Esther 00:00:14
• 2010-07-05 · John spent the night thinking how grateful he is to know Esther and how to give thanks for their weird, internet-based, cross-generational friendship. · story: John visits Esther Earl and her Nerdfighter friends in Boston (July 2010) — With Esther 00:01:34
• 2010-07-05 · John's first 'amazing night of amazing' with Esther was at LeakyCon, a Harry Potter conference. — With Esther 00:01:45
• 2010-07-14 · John says he is just back from VidCon and has compiled his top ten VidCon moments for Hank. — Top 10 VIDCON MOMENTS 00:00:07
• 2010-07-14 · John's number five is the mass hug at the Nerdfighter gathering, involving hundreds of Nerdfighters. — Top 10 VIDCON MOMENTS 00:01:29
• 2010-07-14 · John's number two is 'Double Rainbow': the Gregory Brothers of Auto-Tune the News singing a song they had written mere hours before. — Top 10 VIDCON MOMENTS 00:02:08
• 2010-07-14 · John's number one is seeing Hank sing about particle physics in front of a thousand people who loved every second of it. — Top 10 VIDCON MOMENTS 00:02:49
• 2010-07-20 (said on 2010-07-19, implied) · John records from an airport on Monday (19 July 2010) on his way to Munich, and arrives a day later without having slept on the plane. · story: John's trip to Munich for the White Ravens Book Festival (2010) — I Like Balls 00:00:00
• 2010-07-20 (said on 2010-07-19, implied) · John says his proudest day as a Nerdfighter came last week (week of 12 July 2010), not when the Vlogbrothers hit 300,000 subscribers, but when Nerdfighters came together with Esther and helped the Harry Potter Alliance win $250,000. — I Like Balls 00:01:43
• 2010-07-24 (said on 2010-07-23, implied) · After Hank's video on Wednesday about meeting Snooki, a reality TV star John only half knew, John checked her Twitter, and what he found troubled him. · story: Hank is recognised alongside Snooki at the airport after VidCon (2010) — Grammar School with Snooki 00:00:19
• 2010-07-28 · Following Hank's lead, John shows Hank his Saturday, the day YouTube asked everyone to share their life in a day. · story: John's trip to Munich for the White Ravens Book Festival (2010) — Umbrellas Amuse Me: Observations from One Day in Munich 00:00:00
• 2010-07-28 · 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. · story: John's trip to Munich for the White Ravens Book Festival (2010) — Umbrellas Amuse Me: Observations from One Day in Munich 00:00:00
• 2010-07-28 · In a Munich bookstore that stocked his books, John met a reader buying an English copy of Paper Towns; he had never been recognised while looking for his own books, and was embarrassed but delighted. · story: John's trip to Munich for the White Ravens Book Festival (2010) — Umbrellas Amuse Me: Observations from One Day in Munich 00:00:58
• 2010-07-28 · Church bells interrupted John's vlogging; he went into the church and lit a candle for a sick friend, but did not film it because it felt private. — Umbrellas Amuse Me: Observations from One Day in Munich 00:01:27
• 2010-07-28 · That night Michael Gerard Bauer gave a hilarious reading from his book about a boy called Ishmael, first in English, then a German actor read it in German. · story: John's trip to Munich for the White Ravens Book Festival (2010) — Umbrellas Amuse Me: Observations from One Day in Munich 00:01:56
• 2010-07-28 · After a TV interview, John walked to the White Ravens Book Festival, the reason he was in Munich. · story: John's trip to Munich for the White Ravens Book Festival (2010) — Umbrellas Amuse Me: Observations from One Day in Munich 00:01:56
• 2010-07-28 · At the end of the night a German band made up mostly of doctors performed the song lyrics from Bauer's book, and Bauer sang along, which John found amazing. · story: John's trip to Munich for the White Ravens Book Festival (2010) — Umbrellas Amuse Me: Observations from One Day in Munich 00:02:32
• 2010-08-02 · John tells Hank that he loves him. — I Love Hank: Esther Day 2010 00:02:55
• 2010-08-06 (said on 2010-08-04, implied) · Being up anyway, John drove to his high school alma mater, Indian Springs School. — Looking for Alaska at My High School 00:00:16
• 2010-08-06 (said on 2010-08-04, implied) · John points out real places from the book, from the interstate exit and local shops to the swan, the cafeteria and the swing where Alaska tells Miles Bolívar's last words. — Looking for Alaska at My High School 00:00:49
• 2010-08-06 (said on 2010-08-04, implied) · With no students in summer and 103-degree heat, the campus felt like a ghost town, until John realized he was the ghost. — Looking for Alaska at My High School 00:01:12
• 2010-08-06 (said on 2010-08-04, implied) · John visits the concrete outcropping under the bridge over Bishop's Creek, known as the Smoking Hole both in Looking for Alaska and in real life. — Looking for Alaska at My High School 00:01:35
• 2010-08-06 (said on 2010-08-04, implied) · Finding briars over the path and no cigarette butts after fifteen years, John worried the Smoking Hole had been forgotten, which made him feel old. — Looking for Alaska at My High School 00:01:42
• 2010-08-06 (said on 2010-08-04, implied) · In a field where a barn once stood, John first told a girl he loved her and pulled his first all-nighter studying world history while drinking bad wine. — Looking for Alaska at My High School 00:03:05
• 2010-08-16 · John visited Alex Day and Charlie McDonnell at their flat: Charlie made tea, Alex read a quiz from Pick Me Up magazine, to which he has a two-year subscription, and they watched YouTube. · story: John's UK trip for the Paper Towns UK release: London and Edinburgh (2010) — Lust and Folly in London and Edinburgh 00:00:02
• 2010-08-16 · At Piccadilly Circus John met Ningmaster Tom, Lidewij and Nerdfighter Tobias, to whom his half of Will Grayson, Will Grayson is dedicated; they went to Funland, mostly simulated murder. · story: John's UK trip for the Paper Towns UK release: London and Edinburgh (2010) — Lust and Folly in London and Edinburgh 00:00:42
• 2010-08-16 · John met many nerdfighters at a bookstore who said good morning to Hank; one had a ukulele version of Hank's guitar and many were in the PEN15 Club. · story: John's UK trip for the Paper Towns UK release: London and Edinburgh (2010) — Lust and Folly in London and Edinburgh 00:01:12
• 2010-08-16 · With his secret sister Rosianna, John went to an East End basement club to read while three musicians, including Tom Milsom and Alex Day, played. · story: John's UK trip for the Paper Towns UK release: London and Edinburgh (2010) — Lust and Folly in London and Edinburgh 00:01:12
• 2010-08-16 · John feared nobody would come to the club, which rarely hosts book signings, but too many came, so they held two shows, one in the club and one upstairs; a magical night for him. · story: John's UK trip for the Paper Towns UK release: London and Edinburgh (2010) — Lust and Folly in London and Edinburgh 00:01:12
• 2010-08-16 · After staying up almost all night, John took a train to Edinburgh, where nerdfighters on a beautiful hill said good morning to Hank and songsfrompaul sang. · story: John's UK trip for the Paper Towns UK release: London and Edinburgh (2010) — Lust and Folly in London and Edinburgh 00:02:00
• 2010-08-20 · The other day at Charlie McDonnell's house John saw the sign 'Zombies Are People Too' on Charlie's famous wall of stuff. — The Fox Hat IS REAL, but Are Zombies People? 00:00:00
• 2010-08-20 · 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. — The Fox Hat IS REAL, but Are Zombies People? 00:01:27
• 2010-08-20 · Downstairs shelves include author copies of his own books, desert island books, lexicography, child prodigies, Mark Twain, books about death, poetry, religion and conjoined twins. — The Fox Hat IS REAL, but Are Zombies People? 00:01:56
• 2010-08-27 · John reports that Esther Earl, the Nerdfighter who inspired many of Nerdfighteria's recent worldsuck-decreasing projects, died earlier this week (week of 23 August 2010), aged 16. · story: Death of Nerdfighter Esther Earl, John's friend (2010) — Rest In Awesome, Esther 00:00:01
• 2010-08-27 · John says it was because of Esther that on Esther Day he told Hank he loves him, which he does, though he doesn't want to talk about it. — Rest In Awesome, Esther 00:01:08
• 2010-08-27 · Before writing books John worked as a chaplain at a children's hospital, where his supervisor told him: don't just do something, stand there. — Rest In Awesome, Esther 00:01:24
• 2010-08-27 · John recounts that when he saw Esther in Boston a couple of months ago she said she believes the dead live on in the memory and lives of those they touched. — Rest In Awesome, Esther 00:01:52
• 2010-08-27 · John tells a story: answering questions written on a soccer ball, Esther was asked what she would tell her younger self, and her answer is a nice reminder to everyone. — Rest In Awesome, Esther 00:02:50
• 2010-09-11 (said on 2010-09-10, implied) · John says he and Hank are in Sonoma, California, for Dad's 60th birthday party. — Giant Baby Attack 00:00:49
• 2010-09-11 (said on 2010-09-10, implied) · Mom and Dad could not come because Mom broke her ankle, so the brothers celebrate Dad's 60th birthday without them and send them their love. — Giant Baby Attack 00:00:57
• 2010-09-15 · John typed a note (readable in the description), printed it and signed all 60 copies. — Positive Pranking: The TP Edition 00:00:58
• 2010-09-15 · John started by TPing neighbourhood mailboxes recently hit by negative pranks with baseball bats, then gave Tootsie Pops at Subway. — Positive Pranking: The TP Edition 00:00:58
• 2010-09-29 · 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. · story: John and Sarah move to Indianapolis (2007) — MY FRIEND CHESTER 00:00:43
• 2010-10-04 · John speaks at Waupaca High School and is given a cheesehead; after 10 hours alone talking to people felt weird, but a handmade DFTBA shirt always makes him happy. · story: John drives from Chicago to the Waupaca Book Festival, Wisconsin (2010) — The Terrible Burden of Destiny: Chicago and Waupaca 00:01:28
• 2010-10-04 · John signs books and visits the Waupaca public library's teen room (a poster of Hank, a gaming space, a chandelier playing Hank's music), where he and teens play a complicated game of 'bunny murdering'. — The Terrible Burden of Destiny: Chicago and Waupaca 00:01:40
• 2010-10-04 · At the party a 91-year-old woman got sick and was taken to hospital by ambulance; for maybe half an hour afterwards it was quiet. — The Terrible Burden of Destiny: Chicago and Waupaca 00:02:16
• 2010-10-13 · John interrupts his greeting as a Chilean miner comes to the surface safe; he has been crying all day, like everyone watching. — On Hope and Chile 00:00:03
• 2010-10-13 · John met many Nerdfighters, several of whom have permanent reminders not to forget to be awesome on their bodies. — On Hope and Chile 00:01:05
• 2010-10-13 · John reasoned relationships have few outcomes, so a formula predicting who ends one should be possible; he wrote a novel about someone who could, with the formula by Daniel Biss. — On Hope and Chile 00:01:12
• 2010-10-27 · John says a recent BlogTV show raised a lot of money for surgery for James at War's cat, plus an equal amount to fight malaria. — You Are Awesome 00:01:11
• 2010-11-19 · John recounts his departure: up around 5:30, Willy senses he is leaving, he is driven to the airport, and he flies to Atlanta. · story: John's week in Europe for events in Amsterdam and Vienna (November 2010) — I'm Not Going Down: Thoughts from Amsterdam 00:00:00
• 2010-11-19 · John's description says Paper Towns is a finalist for a literary prize in the Netherlands, where he travels from Indianapolis. · story: John's week in Europe for events in Amsterdam and Vienna (November 2010) — I'm Not Going Down: Thoughts from Amsterdam 00:00:00
• 2010-11-19 · On the nine-hour flight to Munich John took a sleeping pill that didn't work, never slept, and ended up delirious filming himself in the airplane bathroom. · story: John's week in Europe for events in Amsterdam and Vienna (November 2010) — I'm Not Going Down: Thoughts from Amsterdam 00:00:32
• 2010-11-19 · After landing in foggy Munich and eating a pretzel, John flies on to Amsterdam, which he calls the city he loves most in the world. · story: John's week in Europe for events in Amsterdam and Vienna (November 2010) — I'm Not Going Down: Thoughts from Amsterdam 00:00:32
• 2010-11-19 · Forgetting he had been awake for 30 hours, John kept walking, grateful to be 'a little boat full of water still floating'. · story: John's week in Europe for events in Amsterdam and Vienna (November 2010) — I'm Not Going Down: Thoughts from Amsterdam 00:01:46
• 2010-11-24 · John wakes jet-lagged in Munich around 8 a.m., takes the S-Bahn to the airport and flies to Vienna, which rivals Munich for the world's grayest sky. · story: John's week in Europe for events in Amsterdam and Vienna (November 2010) — Babies and Catacombs: VIENNA (Thoughts from Places) 00:00:00
• 2010-11-24 · At the Albertina, John's camcorder was confiscated by security when he tried to film the William Kentridge show for Hank; he got it back. · story: John's week in Europe for events in Amsterdam and Vienna (November 2010) — Babies and Catacombs: VIENNA (Thoughts from Places) 00:01:29
• 2010-12-03 · John is in a Miami hotel rather than at home, unable to enjoy the beaches or art fairs because, though it is December 3, he still hasn't finished a draft of his book. · story: John works in Miami to finish an overdue draft of his book (2010) — Giant Squids OF LOVE 00:00:03
• 2010-12-13 · John says a Nerdfighter approached him at LeakyCon years ago saying she had written a book due in 2010; when it arrived he couldn't stop reading. — 8 Things I Love 00:00:21
• 2010-12-17 · John recalls watching news just after the invasion of Iraq with his friend Hassan: the newsman read Arabic graffiti on a bombed house as anger, but Hassan laughed because it said 'happy birthday, sir, despite the circumstances'. — PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2010: Save the Children and Partners in Health 00:00:47
• 2010-12-22 · John says last week (the week of 13 December 2010) was one of the worst of his life: Henry was very sick and crying all night, so they were scared and up every night. — I Was on Jeopardy!!!! 00:00:01
• 2010-12-22 · John says things then changed, first and most importantly because Henry got better. — I Was on Jeopardy!!!! 00:00:26
• 2010-12-22 · John says a Nerdfighter librarian, Julia, on Jeopardy! yesterday, didn't know the Final Jeopardy answer and wrote 'Who is John Green?' as a shout-out, so Alex Trebek said his name. — I Was on Jeopardy!!!! 00:01:04
• 2010-12-29 · 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. — Baby on the Road: Thoughts from Places 00:00:00
• 2010-12-29 · Recalling his younger years, John lists past road trips to the Grand Canyon, Alaska, San Francisco, and Arthur, Nebraska, home of the world's smallest courthouse. — Baby on the Road: Thoughts from Places 00:00:33
• 2010-12-29 · 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. — Baby on the Road: Thoughts from Places 00:00:45

2011

• 2011-01-07 · Other than heights, John says he is afraid of geese, mice and oblivion. — CONCUSSED Question Friday 00:00:29
• 2011-01-07 · Would he date a girl more intelligent than himself? John says yes; in fact he married one. — CONCUSSED Question Friday 00:02:03
• 2011-01-21 · The most important moment of John's professional life came five years ago, almost to the day: the call saying Looking for Alaska, his first novel, had won the Printz Award. · story: John: how Looking for Alaska was written, revised and won the Printz Award (2006) — Looking for Alaska Five Years After the Printz Award 00:00:16
• 2011-01-21 · It meant more because John's first job after college was as a temp at Booklist, where on his first day he retyped the speeches from the first Printz Award reception. · story: John: how Looking for Alaska was written, revised and won the Printz Award (2006) — Looking for Alaska Five Years After the Printz Award 00:00:24
• 2011-01-21 · John wrote the book at night and on weekends for three years with constant help from his friend Ilene Cooper, one of his bosses at Booklist and an author, who read about a dozen drafts. · story: John: how Looking for Alaska was written, revised and won the Printz Award (2006) — Looking for Alaska Five Years After the Printz Award 00:01:07
• 2011-01-21 · Ilene and John sent the manuscript to Penguin, which agreed to publish it provided he revised extensively, more extensively than he imagined. · story: John: how Looking for Alaska was written, revised and won the Printz Award (2006) — Looking for Alaska Five Years After the Printz Award 00:01:22
• 2011-01-21 · When Penguin bought it, the book wasn't about a boy who memorizes famous last words; much of what readers like, from the Great Perhaps to the labyrinth, came out of the revisions. · story: John: how Looking for Alaska was written, revised and won the Printz Award (2006) — Looking for Alaska Five Years After the Printz Award 00:01:34
• 2011-01-21 · After the book came out and twelve people in a room chose it for the award, John was really happy, but part of him thought 'so what?'. · story: John: how Looking for Alaska was written, revised and won the Printz Award (2006) — Looking for Alaska Five Years After the Printz Award 00:02:24
• 2011-02-04 · In Will Grayson, Will Grayson John wrote uppercase Will, a.k.a. 'straight Will' or 'Schrödinger's Will'. — QUESTION FRIDAY: Spelling is Hard Edition 00:00:49
• 2011-02-18 · 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. — Thoughts from Places: Small Town America 00:00:00
• 2011-02-23 · A year ago today, John notes, their friend Ningmaster Tom almost died in a bicycle accident and was long in a coma, but survived and is here. · story: Ningmaster Tom's coma and recovery (2010) — WE ARE 812 YEARS OLD 00:00:10
• 2011-02-28 · John says Eileen (Ilene) Cooper is the reason he is an author; she is an author herself, of books like Sam I Am and The Golden Rule. — Harry Baals & Dick Trickle: The Funniest Names in History 00:00:03
• 2011-03-09 · John says the novel has no title yet: he changes it about every day and all the titles are bad. — DANDY LIONS! It's Question Day 00:01:09
• 2011-03-09 · John confirms his then phone number is in Looking for Alaska: he didn't think more than about nine people would read it; he apologizes to its current owner. — DANDY LIONS! It's Question Day 00:02:17
• 2011-03-14 · John woke in Los Angeles on Friday (11 March 2011); driving to his friend Ransom's, he heard on the radio about the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, got lost in the news and had to call Ransom for directions. — Thoughts from Places: Los Angeles after the Earthquake 00:00:01
• 2011-03-14 · John says Ransom collects thousands of found photographs taken of and by strangers and is obsessed with their stories, especially the notes on the back, such as one where Dorothy found a baby girl near the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on January 24, 1961. — Thoughts from Places: Los Angeles after the Earthquake 00:00:35
• 2011-03-14 · Driving back to the hotel as the radio news got worse, John then put on a suit for a wedding reception at a home in Beverly Hills. — Thoughts from Places: Los Angeles after the Earthquake 00:01:37
• 2011-03-23 · John says that a couple of years ago his doctor told him he had a parasite called campylobacter, which you get from eating feces; told most people get it from being licked by their dogs, he blames Willy. — Why Does My Dog Eat Poop? 00:01:01
• 2011-04-06 · John recalls being part of a Nerdfighter marriage proposal a couple of years ago, shown in a flashback in which the woman says yes. · story: The Nerdfighter couple John proposed for on air in 2009: marriage and first child (2009) — Tales of Nerd Love! 00:00:09
• 2011-04-11 · 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. · story: John's two-month move to the Netherlands (April 2011) — Is My Boyfriend Gay? Is He Cheating? 00:00:03
• 2011-04-15 · John tells Hank he has to go to Amsterdam. · story: John's two-month move to the Netherlands (April 2011) — Humpy Hank 00:02:03
• 2011-04-20 · 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. · story: John's two-month move to the Netherlands (April 2011) — Tulipomania 00:00:03
• 2011-04-20 · John says the Yeti needs to be in Europe because she is working on the U.S. pavilion for the Venice Biennale. — Tulipomania 00:00:07
• 2011-04-25 · A couple of years earlier, when Paper Towns came out, John was one of about eight authors, with Mortenson, at a Penguin dinner for some 200 young adult librarians at a library convention. — Meeting Greg Mortenson 00:00:24
• 2011-04-25 · In his two-minute talk John described his book as about Walt Whitman and imagining others complexly; Mortenson followed with a book about nearly dying and devoting his life to education in Afghanistan. — Meeting Greg Mortenson 00:00:50
• 2011-04-25 · Feeling his pee-joke book was outclassed, John remembered that Nerdfighters had helped rebuild a school in cyclone-ravaged Bangladesh and wanted to tell Mortenson. — Meeting Greg Mortenson 00:01:03
• 2011-04-25 · At the cocktail party John told the man he took for Mortenson about Nerdfighters' pond sand filters, Kiva loans and the school, talking for twelve minutes without letting him speak. — Meeting Greg Mortenson 00:01:33
• 2011-04-25 · The man answered that he was not Greg Mortenson: since nearly all the librarians were women, John had simply walked up to the white man, assuming he was Mortenson. — Meeting Greg Mortenson 00:02:00
• 2011-04-29 · John says the original titles of his books were always pretentious, such as 'More Light Than Heat' or 'An Imperial Affliction'. — Peanut Butter Face Question Tuesday 00:01:20
• 2011-04-29 · Willy is not in Amsterdam; he is staying with the Yeti's aunt and uncle, whom John says Willy likes far better than him. — Peanut Butter Face Question Tuesday 00:02:46
• 2011-04-29 · Asked whether he should be writing his new book right now, John says yes, he should. — Peanut Butter Face Question Tuesday 00:03:19
• 2011-05-05 · For Hank's birthday John has taught Henry Hank's name; Henry then says 'Hank!'. — IT'S HANKO DE MAYO!! 00:00:17
• 2011-05-09 · 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. — Trading Underwear for Rice Crispy Treats: Queens Day in Amsterdam (Thoughts from Places) 00:00:01
• 2011-05-09 · At the Museumplein, where John says a hundred thousand drunk people were listening to music, Tobias tried to teach him to say Koninginnedag and they were photobombed. — Trading Underwear for Rice Crispy Treats: Queens Day in Amsterdam (Thoughts from Places) 00:01:30
• 2011-05-13 · John woke early on Thursday (12 May 2011) with nothing to do but write, and took the slow train from Amsterdam Central Station to Antwerp for time away from the internet to write. — Winkels to the Left, Winkels to the Right: Thoughts from Places, Antwerp 00:00:01
• 2011-05-13 · John's train home was cancelled ('afgeschaft', abolished); another came an hour later and he wrote all the way home, his day without the internet. — Winkels to the Left, Winkels to the Right: Thoughts from Places, Antwerp 00:02:12
• 2011-05-18 · John says that in the last 24 hours he finished the big revision of his novel. — The Education Continuum WARNER CHILCOTTED 00:00:04
• 2011-05-18 · John says Hank's poetic commencement address made him think about education and why we're alive. — The Education Continuum WARNER CHILCOTTED 00:00:08
• 2011-05-23 · Over the last month of living in Amsterdam, John has repeatedly used Google Translate on Dutch documents; imperfect, but it gives the sense. — Eating the Unicorn 00:00:26
• 2011-05-23 · Two nights ago John dined with his Dutch translator and publishing people; the Google-translated document about the dinner ended by saying they did not know who would eat the unicorn. — Eating the Unicorn 00:00:39
• 2011-05-23 · After years as fans of the Eff Yeah Nerdfighters Tumblr, John and Hank both got Tumblrs earlier this month (May 2011), on the same day. — Eating the Unicorn 00:02:34
• 2011-06-06 · 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. · story: John in Venice for the Indianapolis Museum of Art's US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2011) — Men Running on Tanks and the Truth about Book Editors 00:00:06
• 2011-06-06 · The manuscript of John's new book arrived from New York with his editor and publisher Julie Strauss-Gabel's comments on the pages. — Men Running on Tanks and the Truth about Book Editors 00:01:09
• 2011-06-06 · After more than a year of revising the book together, John and Julie have reached the fun stage of notes on the manuscript, like how to spell 'stormtrooper'. — Men Running on Tanks and the Truth about Book Editors 00:01:18
• 2011-06-10 · 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. · story: John's two-month move to the Netherlands (April 2011) — Then I Took Off My Bra 00:00:00
• 2011-06-20 · A decade ago John worked as a chaplain at a children's hospital, and he was briefly enrolled in, though never attended, the University of Chicago's divinity school. · story: John's time as a student chaplain at a children's hospital (c. 2000) — On Religion 00:00:10
• 2011-06-24 · In college John visited a Pentecostal church in rural Florida where a woman asked the pastor to pray for her sister, lost because she attended the Pentecostal church across the street. — On Religion (Redux) 00:01:06
• 2011-07-04 · In high school John worked in a hot warehouse loading stereo equipment into semi trucks ('manual labor Tetris') for $7.50 an hour, not a living wage unless someone else pays your living costs. — How to Turn Your Dumb Summer Job Into $162,000 00:00:21
• 2011-07-13 · John reports he is at LeakyCon 2011, which he jokingly calls Hogwarts, with many nerdfighters downstairs. · story: John and Hank at LeakyCon 2011 — ELLEN HARDCASTLE IS HERE! A Reunion Video 00:00:00
• 2011-07-13 · John says he feels guilty that his social anxiety disorder makes it impossible for him to take pictures with nerdfighters or hug strangers. — ELLEN HARDCASTLE IS HERE! A Reunion Video 00:00:21
• 2011-07-22 · John admits he too tends his grass so his neighbors don't get mad at him. — Your Yard Is EVIL 00:01:20
• 2011-08-05 · John recalls standing on stage with Hank before the doors opened for VidCon 2011, unable to imagine the chairs full of people, and then they were. — Vidcon: Thoughts from Places 00:00:03
• 2011-08-05 · John says Meghan Tonjes performed on the VidCon main stage and he almost cried listening to her play on the couch. — Vidcon: Thoughts from Places 00:00:32
• 2011-08-05 · John says Driftless Pony Club, another band Hank and Alan signed to DFTBA Records, played; after ten years as a band, thousands sang their lyrics back to them for the first time. — Vidcon: Thoughts from Places 00:01:51
• 2011-08-05 · John says that at the end of one of his poems George Watsky dove headfirst into the VidCon crowd, which caught him. — Vidcon: Thoughts from Places 00:01:51
• 2011-08-15 · John says he owes a punishment but cannot do the sandwich punishment, because his gallbladder was recently removed; he declines to show the scars. · story: John's diseased gallbladder and its removal (2011) — HANKLERFISH! 00:01:35
• 2011-08-17 · Asked whether they rewatch old videos, John says he really enjoys watching the old videos, especially Hank's, but is pretty hard on himself when he watches his own. — Hank's Question Tuesday DEBUT! 00:02:19
• 2011-08-26 · Asked how the TFIOS signing goes, John says he is at about 35,000, is temporarily out of red Sharpies and has a long way to go. — Will He Kiss You? Am I a Muggle? It's Question Friday. 00:00:40
• 2011-08-26 · 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. · story: John takes the line 'Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia' from Sarah on their first date for Looking for Alaska (told 2016) — Will He Kiss You? Am I a Muggle? It's Question Friday. 00:03:05
• 2011-08-26 · John says Looking for Alaska had many working titles, including Misremembering Alaska, The Great Perhaps and, for a long time, Warm Malt Liquor: A Novel. — Will He Kiss You? Am I a Muggle? It's Question Friday. 00:03:18
• 2011-08-31 · John says his son puked on his face last night and he slept about two hours, yet he ranks the night above almost every night of his first two years after college. — How to Become An Adult 00:00:55
• 2011-08-31 · After college John worked a few months as a student chaplain at a children's hospital, then at Booklist, where 90% of his job was typing ten-digit codes; older coworkers helped him with grown-up things. · story: John: how Looking for Alaska was written, revised and won the Printz Award (2006) — How to Become An Adult 00:01:37
• 2011-08-31 · John says Booklist colleague Ilene Cooper, author of 20+ children's books, agreed over lunch at the Cheesecake Factory that his vague boarding-school novel idea sounded great. · story: John: how Looking for Alaska was written, revised and won the Printz Award (2006) — How to Become An Adult 00:02:03
• 2011-08-31 · In early 2002 John brought Ilene 40 single-spaced pages; over the next two years she worked with him to turn them into the novel that became Looking for Alaska. · story: John: how Looking for Alaska was written, revised and won the Printz Award (2006) — How to Become An Adult 00:02:32
• 2011-08-31 · John says he has signed 42,000 copies and will continue, but first must see a doctor because his hand isn't working right and he needs occupational therapy. · story: John's signing hand stops working right; doctor and occupational therapy (2011) — How to Become An Adult 00:03:20
• 2011-09-12 · 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. — Adorable Baby and Insufficient Cartography 00:00:03
• 2011-09-16 · John says he has spent a couple of days in New York meeting his publisher Julie Strauss-Gabel and agent Jodi Reamer about The Fault in Our Stars and wonderful things he can't tell about. — Narrowly Avoiding Arrest: Some Airport Insanity 00:00:22
• 2011-09-16 · John says when flights are delayed he signs The Fault in Our Stars; he brought 2,000 sheets to sign that day, and it is a green pen day, as it always is. — Narrowly Avoiding Arrest: Some Airport Insanity 00:00:31
• 2011-09-16 · John says he spends about six hours a day signing his name, which has made him think about his signature's many shortcomings: it is illegible and inconsistent. — Narrowly Avoiding Arrest: Some Airport Insanity 00:00:58
• 2011-09-16 · John says a police officer asked why he was filming an airport monument to a dead sheep; unsure if it was illegal, the officer said he probably shouldn't. — Narrowly Avoiding Arrest: Some Airport Insanity 00:02:10
• 2011-09-21 · John congratulates Hank on five years of marriage. — NERD FACTOR 00:00:00
• 2011-09-21 · To rest his voice, John says he is going back to signing The Fault in Our Stars. — NERD FACTOR 00:03:26
• 2011-09-26 · John has lent through Kiva since 2007 with a 100% payback rate, but found $913 he was not lending, says he had become the scared banker, and re-lent it to entrepreneurs. — Awesome Bankers? 00:02:26
• 2011-09-30 · John was a nerd, but for his last three years of high school at a really nerdy boarding school he was more of a troublemaker, a non-nerdy past he calls embarrassing. — YouTube Survey: Balls and First Kisses 00:01:56
• 2011-09-30 · 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. — YouTube Survey: Balls and First Kisses 00:02:13
• 2011-10-05 · John has signed over 80,000 copies of The Fault in Our Stars, but his publisher called to say he must reach 150,000 by November 3. — SIGNING MADNESS 00:00:00
• 2011-10-05 · That means signing 3,000 to 4,000 copies a day, 9 to 12 hours of work, so John apologises that his videos are going to suck for the next month. — SIGNING MADNESS 00:00:00
• 2011-10-05 · John has used about 300 Sharpies and is only just more than halfway done. — SIGNING MADNESS 00:01:24
• 2011-10-10 · John says today is the last day he can make meaningful changes to The Fault in Our Stars, so he'd rather spend it with the book(s) than with Hank. — Animal Mating and Librarian Talking 00:00:00
• 2011-10-10 · John goes to talk to the medical librarians of Indiana, filming only a few things, and afterwards says medical librarians are so nice. — Animal Mating and Librarian Talking 00:00:00
• 2011-10-14 · John has now signed his name over 100,000 times in his mission to sign every copy of the first printing of The Fault in Our Stars; to those who think he cheats or uses a stamp, he shows himself signing. — Defying Wadsworth! 00:00:47
• 2011-10-24 · John is under stress from signing The Fault in Our Stars: 25,000 copies remain and he has few non-travel days left, so he is freaking out. — Signing Psychosis Takes Over 00:00:41
• 2011-10-24 · John signed 5,300 books yesterday in about 14 hours and must keep that pace every non-travel day until November 3 to finish. — Signing Psychosis Takes Over 00:01:13
• 2011-10-24 · John hopes he finishes, because otherwise some viewers will get unsigned books and be mad at him, and he at himself. (hedged) — Signing Psychosis Takes Over 00:01:25
• 2011-10-24 · John says he knows many Nerdfighters, himself included, have struggled or are struggling with mental illness. — Signing Psychosis Takes Over 00:03:04
• 2011-10-28 · Showing the TFIOS-ometer, John says he is very nearly up to 135,000 signatures, with roughly 15,000 to 20,000 to go; he has not counted recently. (hedged) — Reading Chapter One of The Fault in Our Stars 00:27:42
• 2011-11-02 · John shows his signing progress meter: he is almost at 150,000 signed copies, but almost does not count. — LECTROJOG! 00:00:00
• 2011-11-02 · A Nerdfighter offered John the paper jogger at a signing; John says he has 5,000 books to sign in the next 24 hours. — LECTROJOG! 00:01:47
• 2011-11-07 · John celebrates having signed all the books after a happy dance through town. — IS THIS HEAVEN? 00:00:34
• 2011-11-11 · John lent money to Edith in El Salvador, whose bookstore also sells candy, to refurbish it and buy new stock, and she paid him back. — The Bank of Nerdfighteria 00:01:47
• 2011-11-11 · John was also repaid by Hayam, an accountant in Lebanon whose name he says he probably mispronounced; she renovated her office with his loan and reports her income has gone way up. — The Bank of Nerdfighteria 00:02:17
• 2011-11-11 · John has made more than 70 loans through Kiva.org and has always been paid back. — The Bank of Nerdfighteria 00:02:17
• 2011-11-16 · John's description apologises for uploading late: he is in Grand Haven, Michigan, recording an audio version of The Fault in Our Stars. — Top 5 Zombie Apocalypses OF ALL TIME 00:00:00
• 2011-11-21 · John is in Chicago at a very crowded English teachers' conference, enjoying talking about books with teachers and signing his name again. — Old Man Narrates Young Girl 00:00:05
• 2011-11-21 · Before Chicago, John was at Brilliance Audio, his audiobook publisher, narrating The Fault in Our Stars. — Old Man Narrates Young Girl 00:00:35
• 2011-11-21 · In 2004 Penguin's lawyers decided the character Alaska quoted too much of an Edna St. Vincent Millay poem; fair use allowed only two lines and John couldn't afford to pay the estate. — Old Man Narrates Young Girl 00:02:06
• 2011-12-05 · John shows the finished copy of The Fault in Our Stars that came in the mail, one of the few unsigned copies. — 5 Worst Typos of History 00:00:03
• 2011-12-05 · Gaiman's Law held again: John found what he thinks is the book's only typo, in the author's note, immediately. (hedged) — 5 Worst Typos of History 00:00:29
• 2011-12-14 · The description thanks viewers for their kind messages of sympathy on the loss of the brothers' grandfather. · story: The brothers' grandfather Papa dies; Hank heads to his funeral in Birmingham (December 2011) — Greek Phallic Disco Golf Balls: A Free Association Game 00:00:00
• 2011-12-14 · John says it is Wednesday and he is not really in the mood to make a proper video; their Uncle Mike brings the brothers flowers. — Greek Phallic Disco Golf Balls: A Free Association Game 00:00:01
• 2011-12-23 · On Wednesday morning John learned that a bookseller had prematurely shipped more than a thousand copies of The Fault in Our Stars to people who pre-ordered it. · story: A bookseller ships over a thousand copies of The Fault in Our Stars three weeks early (December 2011) — There Will Be NO SPOILERS!!! 00:00:00
• 2011-12-23 · Everyone who has read The Fault in Our Stars, John and Hank included, signed non-disclosure agreements; Penguin paid for an embargo and skipped the usual advance copies to critics, movie people and foreign publishers. · story: A bookseller ships over a thousand copies of The Fault in Our Stars three weeks early (December 2011) — There Will Be NO SPOILERS!!! 00:00:30
• 2011-12-23 · John called Hank, as he does when mad, and Hank reminded him that his readers care not just about his books but about each other. · story: A bookseller ships over a thousand copies of The Fault in Our Stars three weeks early (December 2011) — There Will Be NO SPOILERS!!! 00:01:52
• 2011-12-23 · John thanks Amazon and every independent bookstore for not shipping their pre-orders after the leak, which lets the January 10 publication date stand. · story: A bookseller ships over a thousand copies of The Fault in Our Stars three weeks early (December 2011) — There Will Be NO SPOILERS!!! 00:02:50
• 2011-12-28 · John woke at Mom and Dad's house, admired the view of Western North Carolina from the porch and went for a walk. · story: John's walk in the woods near his parents' North Carolina home: their goats mate and he gets lost (December 2011) — Goats Mating 00:00:00
• 2011-12-28 · The day before, John walked the creek with Henry and explained how fallen leaves become dirt that feeds the still-living trees. — Goats Mating 00:00:30
• 2011-12-28 · John watched a long courtship (beard-rubbing, tail-wagging), hid so as not to discourage the goats, and after misplaced humping saw them mate; he was glad Henry didn't see. · story: John's walk in the woods near his parents' North Carolina home: their goats mate and he gets lost (December 2011) — Goats Mating 00:01:27
• 2011-12-28 · Lost in thought, John got very lost in the woods; following water downhill, he found his trail by the skid marks from his fall, 'another life saved by dead leaves'. · story: John's walk in the woods near his parents' North Carolina home: their goats mate and he gets lost (December 2011) — Goats Mating 00:02:07

2012

• 2012-01-02 · John says the main reason is that he is still sick and his doctors want him to scale back on work, so he is going to try to honour their wishes. (hedged) · story: John's ongoing illness and his doctors' advice to scale back work (2011) — Changes to Vlogbrothers 00:01:08
• 2012-01-10 (said on 2012-01-09, implied) · 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. — The Fault in Our Stars 00:00:12
• 2012-01-10 (said on 2012-01-09, implied) · John says he got emotional quite a bit while writing the book, but he's a crier. — The Fault in Our Stars 00:01:47
• 2012-01-17 · 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. — Thoughts from Places: The Tour 00:00:01
• 2012-01-17 · They arrive in the early afternoon to lots of books needing signatures and Hanklerfishes, which takes a couple of hours. — Thoughts from Places: The Tour 00:00:25
• 2012-01-17 · 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. — Thoughts from Places: The Tour 00:00:43
• 2012-01-17 · 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'. — Thoughts from Places: The Tour 00:01:37
• 2012-01-17 · 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. — Thoughts from Places: The Tour 00:02:10
• 2012-01-24 · 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. · story: The brothers' Houston hotel mix-up and luxury room with a Picasso print on the tour (2012) — Nicest Hotel Room in the World 00:00:01
• 2012-01-24 · John points out the room has an actual Picasso print. · story: The brothers' Houston hotel mix-up and luxury room with a Picasso print on the tour (2012) — Nicest Hotel Room in the World 00:00:56
• 2012-01-31 · John says the Tour de Nerdfighting is coming to an end after three weeks; last night (30 January 2012) they were signing in Seattle. — How It Felt 00:00:01
• 2012-01-31 · 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. — How It Felt 00:00:30
• 2012-02-14 · John says he is trying to read 50 books in 2012 and has so far read two great ones. — Things I Can Do 00:00:29
• 2012-02-21 · John says he went to Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, an undistinguished student who surrounded himself with smart people like Bruce (later a disastrous summer together in Moose Pass, Alaska) and Mary Fran. · story: John's friendship with Ransom Riggs, from their Kenyon College Ulysses class to Miss Peregrine (told 2012) — Life is Weird. Also beautiful. 00:00:02
• 2012-02-21 · John says Mary Fran and Bruce asked him to join their independent study reading James Joyce's Ulysses, joined by sophomore Randy; a class on one book turned out to be very hard. · story: John's friendship with Ransom Riggs, from their Kenyon College Ulysses class to Miss Peregrine (told 2012) — Life is Weird. Also beautiful. 00:00:19
• 2012-02-21 · John says he spent more time on that final paper than anything else in college; he wrote on nationalism, Mary Fran on Molly Bloom, Bruce on the potato in Bloom's pocket, Randy on religious deconstructionism. — Life is Weird. Also beautiful. 00:00:39
• 2012-02-21 · John says the four became very close, and it was the first time he felt academically grown up, back when he thought adulthood would be interesting conversations about great books. — Life is Weird. Also beautiful. 00:00:56
• 2012-02-21 · John says he graduated thinking he would become an Episcopal minister, while Mary Fran went to law school, Randy to film school and Bruce to become a musician. — Life is Weird. Also beautiful. 00:01:11
• 2012-02-21 · After deciding against divinity school John took writing jobs including Mental Floss, where he hired Randy as a freelance writer because he explained things simply, though Randy still wanted to make movies. — Life is Weird. Also beautiful. 00:01:18
• 2012-02-21 · John says he left Mental Floss for young adult novels, Bruce now reports for the NPR show The World, and Mary Fran, after becoming a lawyer, heroically left the law for librarianship. — Life is Weird. Also beautiful. 00:01:30
• 2012-02-21 · John says he and Randy stayed friends, and Randy began uploading weird little documentaries to YouTube, which became extremely popular because they are amazing. · story: John's friendship with Ransom Riggs, from their Kenyon College Ulysses class to Miss Peregrine (told 2012) — Life is Weird. Also beautiful. 00:01:39
• 2012-02-21 · John says he kept lowering Ransom's expectations: of John's four novels a couple made the New York Times bestseller list, but two sold fewer than a hundred copies in their first weeks. — Life is Weird. Also beautiful. 00:02:04
• 2012-02-21 · John says Miss Peregrine was an instant bestseller; a few months later The Fault in Our Stars came out, and next week (week of 27 February 2012) their books will be #1 and #2 on the New York Times bestseller list. — Life is Weird. Also beautiful. 00:02:25
• 2012-02-21 · John says his friendship with Randy means road trips to the Grand Canyon with their friend Kathy, through Ohio snow and endless Texas, and, twelve years later, walking around Los Angeles together still taking pictures. · story: John's friendship with Ransom Riggs, from their Kenyon College Ulysses class to Miss Peregrine (told 2012) — Life is Weird. Also beautiful. 00:02:42
• 2012-02-28 · John says he is in New Orleans, three days into a vacation. — On Cuties and Cooties 00:00:00
• 2012-02-28 · John says that, like Ahab chasing the whale, he kept pursuing popularity through school even when it was clear it would destroy him. — On Cuties and Cooties 00:01:27
• 2012-02-28 · John says he is reading Moby-Dick and finds it hard (unknown words, tangents, confusing sentences, his slow reading): about a hundred pages in three days. — On Cuties and Cooties 00:01:56
• 2012-03-13 · 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. — Actually Free Money! (Really.) The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Quarterly Report 00:02:52
• 2012-03-20 · John says he is not working on a new book yet: he has to finish his 'stupid bad zombie story' first. — Sharpie Face Question Tuesday 00:02:11
• 2012-03-20 · John says he always wanted to be a teacher, and thanks to Crash Course he kind of can be: he is living his teacher dream. (hedged) — Sharpie Face Question Tuesday 00:03:08
• 2012-03-27 · John woke on Saturday in Amsterdam extravagantly jet-lagged, then walked with Henry's old babysitter to the apartment where he lived while finishing The Fault in Our Stars. — Wrong but Right: Thoughts from Places Amsterdam 00:00:00
• 2012-03-27 · John walks toward the Vondelpark to relive Gus and Hazel's wish, showing the novel's places: the Hotel de Filosoof, the tree Hazel looks at, Peter Van Houten's house, the Anne Frank House and the canal-side bench. — Wrong but Right: Thoughts from Places Amsterdam 00:00:43
• 2012-03-27 · John says the trip supported the publication of the Dutch edition of The Fault in Our Stars; he gave a series of interviews in the hotel library. — Wrong but Right: Thoughts from Places Amsterdam 00:01:13
• 2012-03-27 · On the trip John visited the Central Library of Amsterdam, where he wrote much of The Fault in Our Stars. · story: John's two-month move to the Netherlands (April 2011) — Wrong but Right: Thoughts from Places Amsterdam 00:01:13
• 2012-03-27 · At a theater John heard a presentation on the mathematics in The Fault in Our Stars, covering Venn diagrams and Hazel's incorrect assumption that there are more whole numbers between 0 and 2 than between 0 and 1. — Wrong but Right: Thoughts from Places Amsterdam 00:01:13
• 2012-03-27 · 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. · story: John's two-month move to the Netherlands (April 2011) — Wrong but Right: Thoughts from Places Amsterdam 00:02:01
• 2012-04-10 · John's son Henry watches little television but enjoys Uncle Hank's space videos; John watched 12 of the most popular toddler programs to understand what Henry might watch. — A Surreal Descent into Madness: Reviewing Children's TV 00:00:01
• 2012-04-17 · 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. — Thoughts on Romance and Sex in an Airport 00:01:38
• 2012-04-24 · John spent a morning in downtown LA with publicist Elyse Marshall and his old friend, best-selling author Ransom Riggs, who showed them the building where part of Blade Runner was filmed. — Beneath an Abandoned Hospital: Thoughts from Places 00:00:03
• 2012-04-24 · They then went to an extremely creepy, long-abandoned hospital, now sometimes used as a horror-movie setting; John says this is the kind of place Ransom takes his friends, unsurprising to readers of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. — Beneath an Abandoned Hospital: Thoughts from Places 00:00:12
• 2012-04-24 · John describes endless hospital rooms caked with mildew and bird dung, blown-out windows, traces of squatters and graffiti; what struck him most were the skeletal remains of dozens of hospital beds. — Beneath an Abandoned Hospital: Thoughts from Places 00:00:47
• 2012-04-24 · Skipping an unappealing sewer entrance, they explored a steam tunnel that grew colder and narrower and led to a flooded room, another tunnel and a huge empty room containing a bloody bathtub, which John hopes was a horror-movie leftover. (hedged) — Beneath an Abandoned Hospital: Thoughts from Places 00:01:57
• 2012-05-01 · John shows the La-Z-Boy chair his mom gave him for his 23rd birthday, in which he has written all of his novels. — Moon Farts: Being Charlie While Running Errands 00:00:24
• 2012-05-01 · John loves his old office, which has his chair and lets him play Swoodilypoopers videos, but it is small and he shares it with Stan and sometimes two other people. · story: John moves from his small shared office to a new office with a river view (2012) — Moon Farts: Being Charlie While Running Errands 00:00:24
• 2012-05-01 · John shows his new office and its view of the river, saying he loves rivers. · story: John moves from his small shared office to a new office with a river view (2012) — Moon Farts: Being Charlie While Running Errands 00:00:53
• 2012-05-01 · John says all the eating challenges were bad, but waxing his chin was his worst challenge. — Moon Farts: Being Charlie While Running Errands 00:01:23
• 2012-05-01 · John goes to get his movie deal notarized, calling it the day of the best errands ever; the description says it is the movie option for The Fault in Our Stars. — Moon Farts: Being Charlie While Running Errands 00:01:23
• 2012-05-05 · For Hank's birthday John wrote an email to his congressman, Andre Carson, asking him to make sure NASA gets the funding it needs. — It's HANKO DE MAYO!!!!! 00:01:13
• 2012-05-05 · John gives Hank a second present: part of Webb's primary mirror backbone support structure (PMBSS), a spare part Northrop Grumman sent for Hank. — It's HANKO DE MAYO!!!!! 00:01:43
• 2012-05-08 · John doesn't want to vote while sick, but after failing to vote in Florida in the 2000 presidential election he promised himself and his country he would always vote. · story: John misses the voter registration deadline after moving to Chicago (2000) — Tiny Chickens Invade, But Still I Vote 00:01:10
• 2012-05-29 · John says he and Hank are at a family reunion in Seaside, Florida, which he calls the world capital of teenagers who don't know who they are. · story: The Green family reunion in Seaside, Florida (2012) — Nerds at the Beach: A REUNION VIDEO! 00:00:18
• 2012-06-05 · John, in an airport, is going to BookExpo America (BEA), a big book conference, to give a bunch of speeches and is super nervous. · story: John at BookExpo America in New York City (2012) — The Dangling Rope of Terror: It's Question Tuesday 00:00:05
• 2012-06-12 · John spent last week (week of 4 June 2012) in New York City at BookExpo America, which he calls essentially the VidCon of book publishing, and found it a celebrity fest. · story: John at BookExpo America in New York City (2012) — Chris Colfer, John Green, Mob Wives, and Jeffrey Eugenides: Thoughts from Places Book Expo 00:00:00
• 2012-06-12 · John gave speeches, one alongside Lois Lowry, Kadir Nelson and Golden Globe winner Chris Colfer, whom he found extraordinarily nice, generous and quick-witted. — Chris Colfer, John Green, Mob Wives, and Jeffrey Eugenides: Thoughts from Places Book Expo 00:00:58
• 2012-06-12 · John met nerdfighters (one gave him a singamajig), spoke to an enormous room, and ate dinner with Shannon Hale and M. T. Anderson, with whom he once broke into abandoned buildings in Detroit. · story: John and M. T. Anderson go urban exploring in Detroit's ruins (2007) — Chris Colfer, John Green, Mob Wives, and Jeffrey Eugenides: Thoughts from Places Book Expo 00:01:27
• 2012-06-12 · After dinner John ended up at a skyscraper-top party with Chris Colfer, Tony Danza, John Hodgman, SNL cast members, reality-TV housewives, a mob wife, and writer Darin Strauss. — Chris Colfer, John Green, Mob Wives, and Jeffrey Eugenides: Thoughts from Places Book Expo 00:01:56
• 2012-06-26 · John is in a hotel in Canada at a conference about educational video featuring CGP Grey, Vsauce, MinutePhysics, Vi Hart and many other fascinating people. — Insufficient Funds: A Story of Canada 00:00:06
• 2012-06-26 · John says every time he flies into Canada he is sent to a special immigration office and asked whether he has ever been denied entry before. · story: John is denied entry to Canada for insufficient funds (1995) and has been flagged at every entry since 2001 — Insufficient Funds: A Story of Canada 00:00:24
• 2012-06-26 · John recounts that in 1995, as a college freshman, he and a friend drove to Windsor, Ontario with Mountain Dew, bread, peanut butter and $14 and were denied entry for insufficient funds. · story: John is denied entry to Canada for insufficient funds (1995) and has been flagged at every entry since 2001 — Insufficient Funds: A Story of Canada 00:00:41
• 2012-06-26 · John says Canadian officers searched their car for drugs and turned them around, then US officers searched it again for three hours though they never got into Canada. · story: John is denied entry to Canada for insufficient funds (1995) and has been flagged at every entry since 2001 — Insufficient Funds: A Story of Canada 00:01:12
• 2012-06-26 · John says he had no trouble entering Canada until 2001, when his name appeared on a list of undesirables; now he must explain the 1995 refusal each time and his bags are searched. · story: John is denied entry to Canada for insufficient funds (1995) and has been flagged at every entry since 2001 — Insufficient Funds: A Story of Canada 00:01:28
• 2012-07-03 · John recaps VidCon: Hank performed with Felicia Day and George Watsky before thousands, Meghan Tonjes sang about John's book, they met nerdfighters, discussed educational video, watched a Gregory Brother hula-hoop. — The Physics of Book Clubs and Vidcon 00:00:37
• 2012-07-03 · John's VidCon highlight was an hour away from the craziness discussing the Monty Hall problem with Vi Hart, Brady and Derek. — The Physics of Book Clubs and Vidcon 00:00:37
• 2012-07-03 · John says what blew his mind most was several thousand people joining Hank in singing a song about particle physics. — The Physics of Book Clubs and Vidcon 00:01:07
• 2012-07-17 · John says a producer from an unnamed cable channel loved Crash Course and suggested a TV show, but said television must cover things people enjoy, like Hitler and sex. — Hitler and Sex! 00:00:00
• 2012-07-24 · John is in his new office, walking on his new treadmill desk. · story: John gets a treadmill desk and writes while walking (2012) — The Treadmill Desk! Fitness for Nerds 00:00:00
• 2012-07-24 · John says Hank has quietly followed an exercise regimen for months and become kind of buff; several people commented on it on Hank's last video. · story: Hank's quiet exercise regimen makes him fit and 'kind of buff' (2012) — The Treadmill Desk! Fitness for Nerds 00:00:56
• 2012-08-13 · John recalls being dumped at about 22 and devastated; when he asked why it hurt so much, someone he cared about told him it hurts because it mattered. — John and Rainn Wilson Talk Romance 00:02:15
• 2012-08-14 · John shows gifts from Brazilian Nerdfighters at LeakyCon: a Brazilian soccer jersey signed by Pelé, who wrote DFTBA on it, and a book hundreds of them read and annotated. — To Be Anything At All: Thoughts from Places, Chicago and LeakyCon 2012 00:00:00
• 2012-08-14 · At LeakyCon 2012 John chatted with Lev Grossman in front of a crowd, then shattered his phone by dropping it from about eight inches. — To Be Anything At All: Thoughts from Places, Chicago and LeakyCon 2012 00:00:00
• 2012-08-14 · After time with author friends including Maureen Johnson, John read at the 'I Was a Teenage Author' panel a story about an injured firefly he wrote for his high-school literary journal. — To Be Anything At All: Thoughts from Places, Chicago and LeakyCon 2012 00:01:02
• 2012-08-14 · Embarrassed, overwhelmed by people and needing a new phone, John walked toward the Apple Store, first crossing to Grant Park, scene of his first wizard rock concert on 8/8/08. — To Be Anything At All: Thoughts from Places, Chicago and LeakyCon 2012 00:01:26
• 2012-08-14 · Just then a Dutch Nerdfighter and author, Buddy, visiting the Bean because part of Will Grayson, Will Grayson is set there, ran into its co-author; he gave John his book and they exchanged DFTBAs. — To Be Anything At All: Thoughts from Places, Chicago and LeakyCon 2012 00:02:54
• 2012-08-21 · Long ago John worked the graveyard shift at Steak 'n Shake for about $14 an hour on average, a great job with good benefits and a stock program; he still owns 15 shares. · story: John's Steak 'n Shake graveyard shift versus his lower-paid Booklist job after college (2008) — Is College Worth It? 00:02:14
• 2012-08-21 · After college John earned about $1 an hour less as an assistant at Booklist, but the job was better in every way: books, people who loved them, advancement, and in six years no vomit. · story: John's Steak 'n Shake graveyard shift versus his lower-paid Booklist job after college (2008) — Is College Worth It? 00:02:45
• 2012-08-21 · In college John feared adulthood would bring more existential dread than frat parties did; instead he now feels much less aimlessness and nihilism. — Is College Worth It? 00:03:09
• 2012-10-09 · John says a couple of weeks earlier he met 1,800 people on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and returned on Sunday for a quieter day. — Attacked by Squirrels and Neoclassicism: Thoughts from Places, Washington D.C. 00:00:04
• 2012-10-09 · 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. — Attacked by Squirrels and Neoclassicism: Thoughts from Places, Washington D.C. 00:00:12
• 2012-10-16 · John says he met a lot of Nerdfighters the previous night in Cincinnati. — Burning Peeps, My OTP, and Velociraptors: It's Question Tuesday 00:00:04
• 2012-11-06 · 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'. — Terrible at Frenching: My Spicy Summer Camp Story 00:01:18
• 2012-11-06 · On the last night of camp, aged about 14 or older, at a square dance, a friend asked if his kissing was a joke; his girlfriend of three days confirmed he was terrible and showed him how. (hedged) — Terrible at Frenching: My Spicy Summer Camp Story 00:02:33
• 2012-11-08 · 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. — VOLT! A Dream Comes True. 00:00:00
• 2012-11-13 · 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. — I Was a Child Poet. And a Bad One. 00:00:26
• 2012-11-27 · 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. — Nerdfighter Book Recommendations: A Gift Giving Guide for Nerdfightastic Readers 00:00:00
• 2012-11-27 · 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). · story: John and Sarah's two-person book club before they started dating — Nerdfighter Book Recommendations: A Gift Giving Guide for Nerdfightastic Readers 00:03:24
• 2012-12-04 · John says Time Magazine has just named The Fault in Our Stars first on its list of the top ten novels of 2012, ahead of Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith, Junot Diaz and J.K. Rowling, and he is overwhelmed. — Time for AWESOME 00:00:00
• 2012-12-04 · John says he visited his alma mater Kenyon College, where he became a writer and an adult, a couple of weeks ago and made a Thoughts from Places video for Kenyon's channel. — Time for AWESOME 00:00:29
• 2012-12-11 · John is up extremely early to go to the dentist to find out whether he needs a root canal, which he expects he probably does. (hedged) — Economics and Dentistry: YOUTUBE'S FAVORITE TOPICS 00:00:00

2013

• 2013-01-01 · John calls 2012 an amazing year for the brothers: Hank co-created The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, SciShow and Crash Course, VidCon doubled, and The Fault in Our Stars spent 51 consecutive weeks on the NYT list. — Why Does Congress Suck? 00:02:45
• 2013-01-08 (said on 2013-01-05, implied) · 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. — Addicted to the Internet 00:00:10
• 2013-01-08 (said on 2013-01-05, implied) · 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. — Addicted to the Internet 00:00:45
• 2013-01-08 (said on 2013-01-05, implied) · John says he and Henry spent 20 minutes on the Wikipedia whale shark article settling whether whale sharks bite humans; he was right, and learning it cost nothing. — Addicted to the Internet 00:01:20
• 2013-01-15 (said on 2013-01-14, implied) · John says Hank and Katherine's trip to New York was a nightmare of delays, missed connections and lost baggage, taking 23 hours from Missoula. — North Korean Chicken, Stagecoach Travel, and other Thoughts from before Carnegie Hall 00:00:00
• 2013-01-15 (said on 2013-01-14, implied) · John hopes Hank's guitar arrives before Hank has to play songs on it at Carnegie Hall. (hedged) — North Korean Chicken, Stagecoach Travel, and other Thoughts from before Carnegie Hall 00:00:00
• 2013-01-15 (said on 2013-01-14, implied) · John films backstage at Housing Works, where they are rehearsing for tomorrow's Carnegie Hall show; Kimya Dawson is there. — North Korean Chicken, Stagecoach Travel, and other Thoughts from before Carnegie Hall 00:01:01
• 2013-01-15 · John says he has always been obsessed with the meaning of his life: happy when he felt part of a plan (Hogwarts letter, Jedi), sad when not. — An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall 00:47:39
• 2013-01-15 · John says his faith in a purpose waxed and waned with his happiness; with high-school friend Sean Titone he asked deeper questions, and books were companions, not ladders out. — An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall 00:49:26
• 2013-01-15 · John says at 22, accepted to the University of Chicago divinity school, he first spent six months as a children's hospital chaplain, where many sick kids died. · story: John's time as a student chaplain at a children's hospital (c. 2000) — An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall 00:50:10
• 2013-01-15 · John says faced with children's needless suffering he felt only anger and hopelessness, so he was a bad chaplain except to kids with game consoles, whom he could play at Mario Kart. · story: John's time as a student chaplain at a children's hospital (c. 2000) — An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall 00:50:53
• 2013-01-15 · John says after years of bad stories about a chaplain like himself, he wrote Looking for Alaska, about grief, and An Abundance of Katherines, about not being special. — An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall 00:51:58
• 2013-01-15 · John says none of those books addressed what he saw at the hospital, which left him feeling only nihilism; then he became friends with Esther Earl and became a father. — An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall 00:53:28
• 2013-01-15 · John says he and Hank missed the easy collaborations of their teens, which is why they started Brotherhood 2.0 in 2007, wanting collaborators again; they never imagined this many. — An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall 00:56:49
• 2013-01-15 · John thanks the audience: this collaboration has been the great joy of his professional life and helped him, in Maurice Sendak's phrase, to fall in love with the world. — An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall 01:00:55
• 2013-01-15 · John says the first thing he and Hank liked together as kids was They Might Be Giants, and they sing TMBG's cover of a song about New York City. — An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall 02:43:06
• 2013-01-15 · 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. — An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall 02:50:08
• 2013-01-29 · Scrolling the TFIOS tag on Tumblr, John found a poster he wanted on his wall, reblogged it and asked the user to do it on DFTBA Records; she had not designed it. — Across Three Continents: A Tale of Tumblr, Copyright, and Excellent Posters 00:00:58
• 2013-01-29 · Asked on Tumblr who designed it, a 16-year-old Filipino Nerdfighter, Nika, said she made the painting, but someone else had turned it into the poster. — Across Three Continents: A Tale of Tumblr, Copyright, and Excellent Posters 00:01:27
• 2013-01-29 · After a couple of weeks of detective work, John and Nika found the poster's maker: another 16-year-old Nerdfighter, living in Norway, named Ashild. — Across Three Continents: A Tale of Tumblr, Copyright, and Excellent Posters 00:01:56
• 2013-01-29 · Neither Nika nor John gave Ashild permission to make the poster, but both love it; the three, on three continents, reached a royalty agreement and paid the font designer. — Across Three Continents: A Tale of Tumblr, Copyright, and Excellent Posters 00:02:18
• 2013-02-05 · John did a radio interview at the BBC, where they let him play Elton John's actual piano. — Headless Statues and Elton John's Piano: Seeing Sights in London (Thoughts from Places) 00:00:00
• 2013-02-05 · John visited the Penguin offices, which have a 'very schmancy' display for The Fault in Our Stars and a view Churchill once had in WWII, then the Guardian. — Headless Statues and Elton John's Piano: Seeing Sights in London (Thoughts from Places) 00:00:29
• 2013-02-05 · After studying an object for a long time, John read its label: the piece was on loan to the Royal Ontario Museum, so he had been looking at a well-made photograph of it. — Headless Statues and Elton John's Piano: Seeing Sights in London (Thoughts from Places) 00:01:27
• 2013-02-05 · John met up with Hank, Katherine and CGP Grey, who took them to a crypt that is also a cafe. · story: Hank and John's trip to the UK, starting in London (February 2013) — Headless Statues and Elton John's Piano: Seeing Sights in London (Thoughts from Places) 00:01:56
• 2013-02-05 · The group walked past the Tate Modern, the Globe and Winchester Palace to a pub, where Hank said that even after six years it is impossible to act natural on camera. — Headless Statues and Elton John's Piano: Seeing Sights in London (Thoughts from Places) 00:02:55
• 2013-02-05 · John found his book in a bookshop (which book is not said), and the walk ended at London City Hall and a view of Tower Bridge. — Headless Statues and Elton John's Piano: Seeing Sights in London (Thoughts from Places) 00:03:24
• 2013-02-12 · John says that on Thursday he will be in a Google+ Hangout with President Barack Obama, and will probably have a cold sore, which he has begun to develop. (hedged) · story: John's Google+ Hangout interview with President Obama (2013) — Talking to the President 00:00:37
• 2013-02-12 · Someone at Google called John a couple of days earlier asking whether he wanted to be in a Google Hangout with President Obama and ask him a few questions. · story: John's Google+ Hangout interview with President Obama (2013) — Talking to the President 00:01:04
• 2013-02-12 · On tour the brothers met more than 6,000 Nerdfighters in ten days; many were nervous and embarrassed though, John says with authority, none had any reason to be, and John felt embarrassed too. · story: Hank and John's trip to the UK, starting in London (February 2013) — Talking to the President 00:02:20
• 2013-02-19 · John's novel The Fault in Our Stars returned to number one on the New York Times bestseller list, 56 weeks after it came out. — Doing Things, On the Importance of 00:00:00
• 2013-02-19 · John and his wife are expecting their second child, whom the President told not to forget to be awesome. · story: Birth of John and Sarah's second child, Alice (2013) — Doing Things, On the Importance of 00:00:05
• 2013-02-19 · After incredible weeks John has always been overwhelmed with anxiety and wanted to crawl into bed for good; calling that a bad life strategy, he updates Hank on twelve things instead. — Doing Things, On the Importance of 00:00:24
• 2013-02-26 · Hannah Hart asked people who donated to her Kickstarter to show off their kitchens because she might come cook in them, so John and his son cook dinner to show theirs. (hedged) — Cooking with a 3-Year-Old: The Mac & Cheese and Communist Celery Edition 00:00:01
• 2013-02-26 · Dinner is macaroni and cheese with whatever is in the fridge: asparagus (which his son dislikes), mild cheddar, celery, blueberries, sweet potato fries and tortillas; kale leftovers are out. — Cooking with a 3-Year-Old: The Mac & Cheese and Communist Celery Edition 00:01:15
• 2013-03-05 · John says that since Brotherhood 2.0 started in 2007 he has flown more than 400,000 miles, which has earned him a lot of perks. — The Gray Speckled Walls Encroach: The Perks and Liabilities of Frequent Flying 00:00:23
• 2013-03-05 · John says he has spent more than 500 days in airports in the last six years. — The Gray Speckled Walls Encroach: The Perks and Liabilities of Frequent Flying 00:01:41
• 2013-03-20 · John says that yesterday he had a tooth forcefully removed and is in a lot of pain. · story: John has a tooth surgically removed (2013) — Ads Work...but for Whom? 00:00:00
• 2013-03-20 · John says he is on his way to Los Angeles "to do things". · story: John cuts back frequent flying to stay home with his family until VidCon (2013) — Ads Work...but for Whom? 00:00:26
• 2013-03-26 · 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.' · story: John and Sarah move to Indianapolis (2007) — A Poem for Spring 00:00:29
• 2013-04-02 · John says Esther Earl was a huge inspiration for The Fault in Our Stars and he could never have written it without knowing her. — TFiOS Movie Casting, New Books, and Groundhog Wars: An Old School Vlogbrothers Video 00:00:00
• 2013-04-02 · 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). · story: Birth of John and Sarah's second child, Alice (2013) — TFiOS Movie Casting, New Books, and Groundhog Wars: An Old School Vlogbrothers Video 00:02:26
• 2013-04-09 · John recalls being hospitalised in March 2007 with a not-dangerous infection behind his eye and thinking, at 2:30 one morning, that he was ready for death. · story: John's orbital cellulitis and hospital stay (2007) — Inside North Korea 00:02:10
• 2013-05-07 · John says he has written at least parts of every one of his books in his office Lazy Boy chair. — The Clif Bars Go in the Jar Because Mice: An Office Tour 00:00:44
• 2013-05-07 · John says Sarah (the Yeti) is due to have their baby on June 1, though it might come earlier. (hedged) · story: Birth of John and Sarah's second child, Alice (2013) — The Clif Bars Go in the Jar Because Mice: An Office Tour 00:03:04
• 2013-05-14 · John says he has a surprising amount of say in casting: he is not casting the movie, but the producers and director include him in everything. — Puppies, Pegasi, and TFiOS Casting: It's Question Tuesday 00:01:04
• 2013-05-21 · 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. — Poetry Makes Nothing Happen: Thoughts on Ai Weiwei from the Indianapolis Museum of Art 00:00:00
• 2013-05-21 · John says his wife is responsible for the show 'According to What?' having its only Midwest tour stop at the museum. — Poetry Makes Nothing Happen: Thoughts on Ai Weiwei from the Indianapolis Museum of Art 00:00:23
• 2013-06-04 · John says that when Henry was born he took only a couple of weeks off and made his first work trip when Henry was nine days old; this time he will take much more time away. · story: John's paternity leave from vlogbrothers, with guest hosts filling in (2013) — A New Nerdfighter Baby 00:00:33
• 2013-06-04 · In a short insert recorded after the birth, John reports that everything is good: baby and mother are healthy, and the parents are exhausted. · story: Birth of John and Sarah's second child, Alice (2013) — A New Nerdfighter Baby 00:01:45
• 2013-07-12 · 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. · story: Birth of John and Sarah's second child, Alice (2013) — Oh, JK Rowling - A Harry Potter Song 00:02:59
• 2013-07-19 · Asked if he's missing a tooth, John says yes: it caused terrible chronic pain since before Brotherhood 2.0, was removed in complicated, painful surgery, and no longer hurts. · story: John has a tooth surgically removed (2013) — TFiOS Movie, Bees, Babies, and More! 00:01:16
• 2013-07-19 · Asked whether Alice has done a Nerdfighter salute, John says she is one month old and has made no intentional gestures yet. · story: Birth of John and Sarah's second child, Alice (2013) — TFiOS Movie, Bees, Babies, and More! 00:01:24
• 2013-07-19 · 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. · story: Birth of John and Sarah's second child, Alice (2013) — TFiOS Movie, Bees, Babies, and More! 00:01:36
• 2013-07-30 · John announces he is back from paternity leave, says he missed viewers and had a wonderful time at home with his family. · story: John's paternity leave from vlogbrothers, with guest hosts filling in (2013) — Paternity Leave Ends! And I Find Myself… 00:00:00
• 2013-07-30 · John is in an airport on his way to VidCon. — Paternity Leave Ends! And I Find Myself… 00:00:12
• 2013-07-30 · Before this John spent the last month with his family on Lake Michigan, 'the United States' third coast': beautiful water, sunsets, and people who 'pretend to have a war' for Independence Day. · story: John's paternity leave from vlogbrothers, with guest hosts filling in (2013) — Paternity Leave Ends! And I Find Myself… 00:00:25
• 2013-07-30 · Digging holes on a Michigan beach, Henry, three and a half, asked John who likes digging holes and answered: Germans. — Paternity Leave Ends! And I Find Myself… 00:01:12
• 2013-07-30 · 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. — Paternity Leave Ends! And I Find Myself… 00:01:34
• 2013-08-03 · John and Hank tell each other 'I love you'. (both) — Esther Day 2013 00:00:18
• 2013-08-03 · John says Esther Earl was a Nerdfighter the brothers met at LeakyCon 2009 in Boston. — Esther Day 2013 00:00:43
• 2013-08-03 · John: Esther was a dear friend and a really important Nerdfighter; she died in 2010 at sixteen. · story: Death of Nerdfighter Esther Earl, John's friend (2010) — Esther Day 2013 00:00:59
• 2013-08-06 · John came home to one child with strep throat and an eight-week-old who is small, adorable and seemingly nocturnal, so he is very tired. — Million Dollar Ideas 00:00:33
• 2013-08-06 · Up with Henry at 2:30 a.m., John had his very first million dollar idea. — Million Dollar Ideas 00:00:33
• 2013-08-27 · John is on the set of The Fault in Our Stars movie, in a trailer with producer Isaac, filming at a deliberately weird angle so as not to give away locations, and cannot show the set (no spoilers). — On the TFIOS Movie Set 00:00:06
• 2013-08-27 · John says he has been laughing and crying and cannot keep his emotions in check; he thinks the crew think he is crazy. (hedged) — On the TFIOS Movie Set 00:00:21
• 2013-09-03 · John says Hank has ulcerative colitis, a chronic, very serious and extremely expensive illness, so no insurance company will ever choose to insure him. · story: Hank: living with ulcerative colitis (2007) — Bigger Pizzas: A Capitalist Case for Health Care Reform 00:02:26
• 2013-09-10 · John says that although the brothers agreed Hank wouldn't get him a birthday present (since John got Hank nothing), the original 'Nerd Fighters' arcade video game arrived at their office. · story: Hank gives John an original Aero Fighters ('Nerd Fighters') arcade game for his birthday (2013) — Secrets of the Movies: Thoughts from The Fault in Our Stars Set 00:00:00
• 2013-09-10 · John says he is back in Pittsburgh on the set of the TFIOS movie, hundreds of miles from the arcade game. — Secrets of the Movies: Thoughts from The Fault in Our Stars Set 00:00:33
• 2013-10-04 · John says he has been on the set of The Fault in Our Stars film for the last couple of weeks, where very little news gets in. — Q&A with Ansel Elgort and Mike Birbiglia from The Fault in Our Stars Movie Set 00:00:05
• 2013-10-04 · John sums up Birbiglia's real route to the film: he loved The Spectacular Now and befriended its screenwriters, who recommended The Fault in Our Stars; then they invent a funnier version. — Q&A with Ansel Elgort and Mike Birbiglia from The Fault in Our Stars Movie Set 00:02:34
• 2013-10-08 · Starting at 1:11 p.m. via Google, John's exchange sign-up repeatedly fails ('please wait', 'sign up unsuccessful', 'system is unavailable'); five minutes in he calls it a little underwhelming. · story: John applies for health insurance through the ACA exchange and a pre-ACA private insurer (2013) — Applying for Health Insurance: Then and Now 00:00:26
• 2013-10-08 · Once he has an account, John enters himself, his wife, his son Henry and his new baby, and finds the questions easy to answer. · story: John applies for health insurance through the ACA exchange and a pre-ACA private insurer (2013) — Applying for Health Insurance: Then and Now 00:01:35
• 2013-10-08 · At 2 p.m., 49 minutes into the ACA application, John has uploaded a photo of his driver's license to verify his identity before choosing a plan. · story: John applies for health insurance through the ACA exchange and a pre-ACA private insurer (2013) — Applying for Health Insurance: Then and Now 00:02:04
• 2013-10-08 · The pre-ACA private application warns that incorrect or incomplete information may void coverage or lead to claim denial, which John calls the really scary part. · story: John applies for health insurance through the ACA exchange and a pre-ACA private insurer (2013) — Applying for Health Insurance: Then and Now 00:02:34
• 2013-10-08 · John says the private application is fully 25 pages, its language makes his head hurt, and he must look up different doctors' phone numbers. · story: John applies for health insurance through the ACA exchange and a pre-ACA private insurer (2013) — Applying for Health Insurance: Then and Now 00:04:06
• 2013-10-08 · At 4:13 p.m. John considers his medical history finished after 2 hours 16 minutes, skipping the information-practices fine print he doesn't understand. · story: John applies for health insurance through the ACA exchange and a pre-ACA private insurer (2013) — Applying for Health Insurance: Then and Now 00:04:55
• 2013-10-22 · 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. — Question Tuesday: The Fault in Our Stars Movie Edition 00:02:26
• 2013-10-29 · At 24, John's longtime girlfriend had just broken up with him; he lived in Chicago in what had been their apartment with what had been their cat, and was pretty depressed. · story: John's depression at 24 in Chicago: leave from Booklist, home to Orlando, and watching Harvey — Perspective 00:00:28
• 2013-10-29 · He was trying to write a novel but had not written a sentence he liked in over a year; despite a great job at Booklist, colleagues, friends and family, he was 'really losing it'. · story: John's depression at 24 in Chicago: leave from Booklist, home to Orlando, and watching Harvey — Perspective 00:00:52
• 2013-10-29 · He called his parents, they agreed he should come home, and he tried to quit; Booklist publisher Bill Ott suggested a two-week leave of absence instead, one of the nicest things anyone did for him. · story: John's depression at 24 in Chicago: leave from Booklist, home to Orlando, and watching Harvey — Perspective 00:01:17
• 2013-10-29 · Ott left John a note he still has, hoping he would be back in two weeks with a longshoreman's appetite and urging 'Now more than ever, watch Harvey'; Ott had pushed the old film for three years. · story: John's depression at 24 in Chicago: leave from Booklist, home to Orlando, and watching Harvey — Perspective 00:01:34
• 2013-10-29 · John's dad drove up to Chicago and they drove back to Orlando; John got into daily therapy, started a much better medication for him, and watched Harvey. · story: John's depression at 24 in Chicago: leave from Booklist, home to Orlando, and watching Harvey — Perspective 00:01:51
• 2013-10-29 · Still, John woke the morning after watching Harvey feeling a little better, and has never since felt as hopeless as before. · story: John's depression at 24 in Chicago: leave from Booklist, home to Orlando, and watching Harvey — Perspective 00:02:08
• 2013-10-29 · Two weeks later John went back to Booklist, and within six months handed his mentor Ilene Cooper 40 single-spaced pages of what became Looking for Alaska. · story: John's depression at 24 in Chicago: leave from Booklist, home to Orlando, and watching Harvey — Perspective 00:02:38
• 2013-10-29 · It was not all rosy: John still missed his ex-girlfriend, was still really screwed up, and those 40 pages were pretty terrible. · story: John's depression at 24 in Chicago: leave from Booklist, home to Orlando, and watching Harvey — Perspective 00:02:47
• 2013-11-19 · John unexpectedly found himself alone on a train in New York, where Brotherhood 2.0 began for him and where they played a sold-out Carnegie Hall show earlier this year (2013). — On Middle School Misery 00:00:11
• 2013-11-19 · A student at the middle school John attended in seventh grade wrote on Tumblr that a teacher of his remembered him as quiet, unique and miserable, bullied because of his awesomeness. — On Middle School Misery 00:00:28
• 2013-11-19 · John says it didn't feel like awesomeness: he was just miserable, not a good student, and felt like a stupid nerd. — On Middle School Misery 00:00:48
• 2013-11-19 · John says he often fantasized about hurting his bullies or holding a gun to their heads to make them apologize and feel as scared and powerless as he did, but that is not the way forward. — On Middle School Misery 00:01:17
• 2013-11-19 · At the Carnegie Hall soundcheck John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats told his sixteen-year-old self over the mic that he had survived and was playing piano at Carnegie Hall. — On Middle School Misery 00:02:41
• 2013-11-26 · Hank appears beside John for a surprise reunion video; they point to the lending and donation links and look forward to a great P4A. (both) · story: John and Hank's visit to their parents' home, with a surprise reunion video (November 2013) — The Bank of Nerdfighteria 00:03:34
• 2013-11-29 · The description says the brothers are in North Carolina visiting their parents for Thanksgiving and are thankful for each other, their families and viewers. (both) · story: John and Hank's visit to their parents' home, with a surprise reunion video (November 2013) — REUNION! Arm Wrestling, Drawing, and Questions with Hank and John! 00:00:00
• 2013-11-29 · They have turkey, not pizza, for a normal Thanksgiving; both prefer pumpkin pie, and there is only one pumpkin pie this year (2013). (both) · story: John and Hank's visit to their parents' home, with a surprise reunion video (November 2013) — REUNION! Arm Wrestling, Drawing, and Questions with Hank and John! 00:01:28
• 2013-11-29 · Asked if they have always been close, John says no, but they have always liked each other. — REUNION! Arm Wrestling, Drawing, and Questions with Hank and John! 00:03:42

2014

• 2014-01-07 · John says Esther Earl was the brothers' friend and a Nerdfighter who died of cancer when she was sixteen. · story: Death of Nerdfighter Esther Earl, John's friend (2010) — Warm Things for Cold Times 00:00:40
• 2014-01-07 · John reads the first sentence of his introduction: his friendship with Esther began, as so many great love stories do, at a Harry Potter convention. — Warm Things for Cold Times 00:01:00
• 2014-01-14 · John went to Los Angeles a couple of days ago to watch a movie he doesn't think he is allowed to name; he hints that it comes out on June 6th. (hedged) — Giving Away Over $700,000 00:00:00
• 2014-01-21 · John says the Brazilian edition of The Fault in Our Stars, whose title he butchers in Portuguese, has sold hundreds of thousands of copies in Brazil, more than in Germany or the UK. — Are Poor Countries Doomed? 00:03:16
• 2014-02-11 · 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. — A Middle Aged Man 00:00:08
• 2014-02-11 · John says he doesn't think he has ever heard a Justin Bieber song, so he listens to Bieber's top five songs on camera. (hedged) — A Middle Aged Man 00:01:06
• 2014-02-11 · 'Baby' featuring Ludacris seems familiar, perhaps from a cover, so John concludes he has heard one Justin Bieber song, he thinks. (hedged) — A Middle Aged Man 00:01:45
• 2014-02-25 (said on 2014-02-22, implied) · Answering Chris, John says he hasn't felt that kind of sense of adventure since he was a kid, and that it's fun. — John and Chris Meet in the Middle 00:03:31
• 2014-03-18 · 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. — Is the American Dream Real? 00:00:01
• 2014-03-18 · 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'. — Is the American Dream Real? 00:00:30
• 2014-03-25 · As an experiment, John phones Hank and plays him a short Ian Shoales audio clip, hoping he will remember its three-word catchphrase. — I Gotta Go: Signing Off and Thinking about Inspiration 00:00:43
• 2014-03-25 · John says their parents owned Ian Shoales's tape 'I Gotta Go'; when John was about 14 and Hank 11 they listened to it constantly, hundreds of times. — I Gotta Go: Signing Off and Thinking about Inspiration 00:01:27
• 2014-04-01 · John tries an experiment: needing to make a video, he asks his young son what it should be about, and takes up the suggestion. — VELOCIRAPTORS 00:00:01
• 2014-04-15 · John met Rainbow Rowell, then went to USC for the LA Times book festival, where his editor Julie Strauss-Gabel talked with 15-year-old Maya Van Wagenen, author of the memoir Popular. — Walking the Red Carpet: Thoughts from Los Angeles 00:00:17
• 2014-04-15 · Before going on stage for book events, John reminds himself of his many readings attended by zero to three people and gives thanks for Brotherhood 2.0, Nerdfighteria and Hank. — Walking the Red Carpet: Thoughts from Los Angeles 00:00:38
• 2014-04-15 · John signed books for several hours, meeting fans with 'okay, okay' shirts, TFIOS phone cases and nails, a dog named Alaska, and a couple who met through Nerdfighteria and married. — Walking the Red Carpet: Thoughts from Los Angeles 00:00:56
• 2014-04-15 · John got up at 5:15 to watch Liverpool play Manchester City, which Liverpool won, celebrating from Los Angeles in his Liverpool jacket. — Walking the Red Carpet: Thoughts from Los Angeles 00:01:22
• 2014-04-15 · 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. — Walking the Red Carpet: Thoughts from Los Angeles 00:01:38
• 2014-04-15 · John says the red carpet, shared with Jonah Hill and Grumpy Cat, was overwhelming: the screaming and cameras left him and Nat unable to 'even'. — Walking the Red Carpet: Thoughts from Los Angeles 00:02:14
• 2014-04-29 · John says Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world, so he is going to New York for its party. · story: John is named to the Time 100 and goes to its party in New York (2014) — Influence, Airports, and the Nerdfighter Book Club 00:00:04
• 2014-05-06 · John says The Hollywood Reporter's article on the TFIOS film included a photo of him; a longtime nerdfighter posted herself 'johning', then Charlie McDonnell, Josh Sundquist, Hank and many others followed. — TFIOS Movie Madness, Incongruent, and Headless Hotel People 00:00:07
• 2014-05-06 · For Hank's birthday yesterday, John says that unlike last year (2013) he remembered a present, from himself and Nerdfighteria: the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game. · story: Hank gives John an original Aero Fighters ('Nerd Fighters') arcade game for his birthday (2013) — TFIOS Movie Madness, Incongruent, and Headless Hotel People 00:00:36
• 2014-05-06 · John also gave Hank a donation to Partners In Health for his birthday. — TFIOS Movie Madness, Incongruent, and Headless Hotel People 00:00:52
• 2014-05-06 · John says the TFIOS film is starting to happen: they just held the first screening for fans of the book, and the fans liked the movie. — TFIOS Movie Madness, Incongruent, and Headless Hotel People 00:01:58
• 2014-05-12 (said on 2014-05-13, implied) · John tells Hank he has just finished Fox's tour for the TFIOS film with Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort and Nat Wolff. — Perfect Puff and Endless Interviews: Touring and Hollywood Press Junkets 00:00:07
• 2014-05-12 (said on 2014-05-13, implied) · The tour began in Miami, where everyone dramatically underestimated the turnout, causing big A/V and crowd-control problems; John apologises. — Perfect Puff and Endless Interviews: Touring and Hollywood Press Junkets 00:00:13
• 2014-05-12 (said on 2014-05-13, implied) · After lessons learned, Cleveland was much better prepared, and several thousand people there wanted to say hello to Hank. — Perfect Puff and Endless Interviews: Touring and Hollywood Press Junkets 00:00:22
• 2014-05-12 (said on 2014-05-13, implied) · John was reunited with friends who played the support group in the film, all of whom have lived with cancer, and toured with YouTuber Evelina Barry as co-host. — Perfect Puff and Endless Interviews: Touring and Hollywood Press Junkets 00:00:29
• 2014-05-12 (said on 2014-05-13, implied) · In Nashville, at a red-carpet-like event, John signed for many people but large men kept pushing him along amid screaming, no more conducive to meaningful conversation than the junkets. — Perfect Puff and Endless Interviews: Touring and Hollywood Press Junkets 00:01:35
• 2014-05-12 (said on 2014-05-13, implied) · After more press, Dallas brought another red carpet, screaming, bodyguards and interviews, and many thousands of people who wanted to wish Hank a good morning. — Perfect Puff and Endless Interviews: Touring and Hollywood Press Junkets 00:02:13
• 2014-05-12 (said on 2014-05-13, implied) · During a Q&A a young woman told them The Fault in Our Stars has helped her as she lives with lymphoma; everyone was emotional, and thousands in the crowd began chanting her name. — Perfect Puff and Endless Interviews: Touring and Hollywood Press Junkets 00:02:47
• 2014-06-03 · On the 'TFIOS blue carpet' (instead of a red one), John signs posters for people who lined up and greets many more holding Okay cloud posters. — The Fault in Our Stars Movie Premiere 00:00:34
• 2014-06-03 · Nat Wolff joins John for a Today Show live chat, followed by a live chat with Shailene Woodley, whom John calls 'Hazel'. — The Fault in Our Stars Movie Premiere 00:01:32
• 2014-06-03 · John says meeting Spelling Bee co-champion Ansun Sujoe was unquestionably the highlight of his evening. — The Fault in Our Stars Movie Premiere 00:02:02
• 2014-06-03 · The day after, John says the premiere was amazing, laughing and crying with 1,200 people, and he was glad Hank sat two seats away. · story: Hank's trip to New York City for the TFiOS film premiere (2014) — The Fault in Our Stars Movie Premiere 00:02:15
• 2014-06-03 · John discloses he is not paid for the movie: he was paid for the rights long ago, gets no share of ticket sales, and would say so if he disliked it. — The Fault in Our Stars Movie Premiere 00:02:28
• 2014-06-03 · John says the cast and crew were together one last time the night before, sad but exciting because everyone will soon see the movie. — The Fault in Our Stars Movie Premiere 00:02:53
• 2014-06-17 · Celebrating a beautiful Wimbly Womblys goal, John shot his right arm in the air shouting 'AFC Wimbledon!' and seriously injured his shoulder. — Old. 00:01:12
• 2014-06-17 · John says how serious the shoulder injury is remains unclear while he waits for test results. — Old. 00:01:40
• 2014-06-17 · John says the injury made him realize he is old; he got a lot of new gray hair during two months of promoting the TFiOS film. — Old. 00:01:54
• 2014-06-24 · John finds what he judges the quietest place in Indianapolis International Airport, by gate A4, and shares a minute of silence with Hank. (hedged) — In Pursuit of Quiet 00:01:32
• 2014-06-24 · After the minute of silence, John can hear much more than when he sat down. — In Pursuit of Quiet 00:02:47
• 2014-07-01 · Before VidCon, John was on The Colbert Report, which meant having his makeup done. — Why I Love Makeup 00:00:06
• 2014-07-01 · John tells makeup artist Bridget he is super into getting his makeup done; he had it done throughout the movie tour, with touch-ups all day, and felt so good about himself. (hedged) — Why I Love Makeup 00:00:17
• 2014-07-01 · John probably won't wear makeup daily: partly laziness, partly being 'tragically un-immune to social conventions', partly being spoiled by professionals like Bridget. (hedged) — Why I Love Makeup 00:02:07
• 2014-07-08 · John recalls Hank buying Vi Hart equipment years ago so she could make better videos more often - the best $1,000 he ever spent, as she became a phenomenally successful educational creator. — The Future of Nerdfighteria 00:02:31
• 2014-07-15 · John says he hopes to learn a lot on the trip and make a bunch of videos. (hedged) · story: John's visit to rural health care in Ethiopia with the Gates Foundation (2014) — Exciting Announcements and Mosquito-Borne Illnesses 00:00:57
• 2014-07-22 · John says that as Hank watches, he is in East Africa learning about work people there are doing with the help of the Gates Foundation. · story: John's visit to rural health care in Ethiopia with the Gates Foundation (2014) — Ambiguous Victories and Real Progress: Behind the Beautiful Forevers 00:02:03
• 2014-07-22 · John hopes to learn and listen a lot on this week's (week of 21 July 2014) trip, and says if he comes home with straightforward answers and simple solutions he is probably doing it wrong. (hedged) · story: John's visit to rural health care in Ethiopia with the Gates Foundation (2014) — Ambiguous Victories and Real Progress: Behind the Beautiful Forevers 00:03:31
• 2014-07-29 · John landed in Addis Ababa after a thirty-hour journey, met a Gates Foundation staffer, had Ethiopian coffee, bought Henry an Ethiopia soccer jersey and went to Yekatit 12 Hospital. · story: John's visit to rural health care in Ethiopia with the Gates Foundation (2014) — Listen: Thoughts from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 00:00:01
• 2014-07-29 · John describes reaching the Yekatit 12 neonatal intensive care unit by walking on plywood over standing water that smells of sewage. — Listen: Thoughts from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 00:00:34
• 2014-07-29 · Dr. Gessesse told John of failed outreach: a dozen CPAPs arrived from a charity, all adult-sized and none of use to her. — Listen: Thoughts from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 00:02:12
• 2014-07-29 · John says he hung out with Bill Gates, whom he calls brilliant, overcame his fear of heights to fly in a helicopter with him, and will talk about it in the coming weeks. · story: John's helicopter trip with Bill Gates to World Food Programme maize farmers in Ethiopia (2014) — Listen: Thoughts from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 00:02:57
• 2014-08-12 · John apologises that the video may be disjointed: the linings of his brain and spinal cord are inflamed. · story: John's viral meningitis and hospitalisation (2014) — EBOLA! (...meningitis) 00:00:02
• 2014-08-12 · Last week (week of 4 August 2014) John messaged that he would miss his Vlogbrothers video because he was in hospital, then went back to being in the worst pain of his life. · story: John's viral meningitis and hospitalisation (2014) — EBOLA! (...meningitis) 00:00:06
• 2014-08-12 · Ten days before falling ill with what turned out to be viral meningitis, John was in Ethiopia, on the same continent as Guinea and Sierra Leone, where Ebola is spreading. · story: John's viral meningitis and hospitalisation (2014) — EBOLA! (...meningitis) 00:00:31
• 2014-08-12 · In hospital, doctors worried he might have meningitis, malaria, typhoid or dengue fever, all potentially fatal, but were not worried about Ebola. · story: John's viral meningitis and hospitalisation (2014) — EBOLA! (...meningitis) 00:01:04
• 2014-08-12 · It turns out John almost certainly caught meningitis not in Ethiopia but in Florida, in Orlando, the city of his youth. (hedged) · story: John's viral meningitis and hospitalisation (2014) — EBOLA! (...meningitis) 00:03:31
• 2014-08-19 · A few weeks ago John drove south from Addis Ababa, past slums and vistas on worsening roads, to a rural healthcare center in Ethiopia. · story: John's visit to rural health care in Ethiopia with the Gates Foundation (2014) — Baby Names: Thoughts from Rural Ethiopia 00:00:01
• 2014-08-19 · There John met Bill Gates and Gates Foundation CEO Sue Desmond-Hellmann; he assumed a photo op, but they asked detailed questions about diagnosis, vaccine stocks and staffing. · story: John's visit to rural health care in Ethiopia with the Gates Foundation (2014) — Baby Names: Thoughts from Rural Ethiopia 00:01:03
• 2014-08-19 · A health extension worker showed John her records, delivery room and vaccination charts; a boy tested positive for malaria with a pinprick test that has dramatically improved diagnosis and began treatment at once. · story: John's visit to rural health care in Ethiopia with the Gates Foundation (2014) — Baby Names: Thoughts from Rural Ethiopia 00:01:43
• 2014-08-26 · Having promised it for weeks, John reports his first helicopter ride, with Bill Gates: scary at first, then kind of awesome. — Food Is Weird: Understanding Agriculture in the Developing World 00:00:12
• 2014-08-26 · From the helicopter, on the way to visit farmers working with the World Food Program, John saw families tilling individual plots, a way into agricultural economics. · story: John's helicopter trip with Bill Gates to World Food Programme maize farmers in Ethiopia (2014) — Food Is Weird: Understanding Agriculture in the Developing World 00:00:26
• 2014-08-26 · John met a woman who went from receiving US food aid to producing it, but Gates and Desmond-Hellmann learned her land's income all goes to her husband; she is a founding member of a farmers' cooperative. · story: John's helicopter trip with Bill Gates to World Food Programme maize farmers in Ethiopia (2014) — Food Is Weird: Understanding Agriculture in the Developing World 00:04:53
• 2014-08-26 · Women sorting corn by hand to WFP purity standards told John, contrary to what he'd been told, that it was their primary, exhausting work but the money was pretty good; loaders made about five dollars a day. · story: John's helicopter trip with Bill Gates to World Food Programme maize farmers in Ethiopia (2014) — Food Is Weird: Understanding Agriculture in the Developing World 00:05:25
• 2014-09-05 · John's first car was a 1991 Volvo 240 named Arlo. — REUNION TUESDAY! FRIDAY! WHATEVER! 00:00:35
• 2014-09-09 · In Ethiopia John met a group of the university's students with Bill Gates, including Meheret, who started an anti-domestic-violence initiative. · story: John's visit to rural health care in Ethiopia with the Gates Foundation (2014) — Going to College (in Ethiopia) 00:00:48
• 2014-09-09 · John says two pre-med students talked a lot about the risks and opportunities of working abroad. — Going to College (in Ethiopia) 00:01:10
• 2014-09-09 · John says the university library has no running water: the toilet flushes by pouring in a bucket of water. — Going to College (in Ethiopia) 00:03:02
• 2014-09-16 · Asked whether he has new books coming, John says he is trying. — It's Question Tuesday! Cheesy Jokes, Paper Towns Movie, and Dinosaur Butt Brains 00:00:16
• 2014-09-16 · Asked how they chose baby names, John says they just stole their grandparents' names. — It's Question Tuesday! Cheesy Jokes, Paper Towns Movie, and Dinosaur Butt Brains 00:02:51
• 2014-09-23 · John says that in Ethiopia he talked with a girl clinging to her brother; her mother works in Kuwait, her father in the city, and her grandfather cares for them. · story: John keeps looking away while filming sick children and worried mothers in Ethiopia (2014) — Looking Away 00:00:00
• 2014-09-23 · John says the girl told him she missed her mom and worried her brother might have pneumonia; the way she held her brother shattered him, and eventually he looked away. · story: John keeps looking away while filming sick children and worried mothers in Ethiopia (2014) — Looking Away 00:00:10
• 2014-09-23 · John says much of his Ethiopia footage shows him looking away: from families at a hospital, preterm babies under inadequate heat lamps, and a very sick boy his son's age awaiting a malaria test. · story: John keeps looking away while filming sick children and worried mothers in Ethiopia (2014) — Looking Away 00:00:19
• 2014-09-30 · John recalls his amazing trip to Ethiopia in the last couple of months, for which he is grateful, and then getting meningitis. · story: John's visit to rural health care in Ethiopia with the Gates Foundation (2014) — Keeping it EVEN REALER 00:00:27
• 2014-09-30 · John says that at some point in the last six months he started to have a kind of existential crisis. (hedged) — Keeping it EVEN REALER 00:00:36
• 2014-09-30 · John says he is trying to write a new book. — Keeping it EVEN REALER 00:01:29
• 2014-09-30 · John admits he spends time ruminating about the terrible things people say about him and his work on the internet, though he probably shouldn't. — Keeping it EVEN REALER 00:01:31
• 2014-09-30 · John says, honestly, he is stressed out right now and doesn't know what to do. — Keeping it EVEN REALER 00:02:14
• 2014-10-07 · John says that yesterday (6 October 2014) he and friends went to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where he rode around the track with race car driver Sarah Fisher at 180 mph. — I Kind of Hate Batman 00:00:02
• 2014-10-14 · John says that ten years ago today he finished the last edits on Looking for Alaska, hoping only for a paperback; it never crossed his mind it would still be in print ten years on. — A Minor Crisis 00:02:51
• 2014-10-14 · John says he saw Hank on TV in an ad during The Walking Dead - the scariest and most exciting part of the hour - and congratulates him, but would rather see him on YouTube. · story: Hank in SciShow ads for YouTube's channel promotion (2014) — A Minor Crisis 00:03:38
• 2014-10-28 · John is in North Carolina for the Paper Towns movie; filming starts in a week, he slept in director Jake Schreier's apartment and had pizza with Cara Delevingne. — The Paper Towns Movie IS HERE! 00:00:01
• 2014-10-28 · John introduces Isaac Klausner, executive producer of Paper Towns and of The Fault in Our Stars, and director Jake Schreier. — The Paper Towns Movie IS HERE! 00:00:24
• 2014-10-28 · John introduces Halston Sage, who plays Lacey in the movie. — The Paper Towns Movie IS HERE! 00:01:16
• 2014-10-28 · John introduces Jaz Sinclair, who plays Angela: a fan of the book who was excited to audition and 'just killed it'. — The Paper Towns Movie IS HERE! 00:01:37
• 2014-10-28 · John introduces Justice Smith, who plays Radar in the movie. — The Paper Towns Movie IS HERE! 00:01:57
• 2014-10-28 · John heads to the read-through, where everyone will hear the cast read the script for the first time. — The Paper Towns Movie IS HERE! 00:02:53
• 2014-10-28 · The table read went great; John is exhausted but so excited about the Paper Towns movie and grateful to everyone coming together to make it. — The Paper Towns Movie IS HERE! 00:03:09
• 2014-10-28 · Long-time Nerdfighters know John's slightly tortured experiences with Paper Towns in Hollywood over the years; now everything is going well, and he thanks everyone who read and supported the book. — The Paper Towns Movie IS HERE! 00:03:17
• 2014-11-04 · At 5:48 a.m. John says the Paper Towns movie starts filming in about an hour and 12 minutes, and he is extremely excited and nervous. — Mustaches and Movies: Day One of Paper Towns 00:00:00
• 2014-11-04 · John introduces Nat Wolff, who plays Q in the movie they have just started filming. — Mustaches and Movies: Day One of Paper Towns 00:00:33
• 2014-11-04 · Filming outside in North Carolina without revealing the location, John says he was jumping up and down with Jaz Sinclair, who plays Angela, from excitement, and does his happy dance. — Mustaches and Movies: Day One of Paper Towns 00:00:42
• 2014-11-04 · Commenting on Hank's video, John says that as a young person he missed several elections important to American history, mostly because he was nervous and didn't know how to vote. — Mustaches and Movies: Day One of Paper Towns 00:01:38
• 2014-11-04 · John reports that day one of filming is finished and going well; producer Wyck Godfrey cheers. — Mustaches and Movies: Day One of Paper Towns 00:02:02
• 2014-11-04 · One scene shot that day was the first part of Paper Towns John ever wrote, about nine years ago: little Q and Margo biking up to a dead body; he found it weird and wonderful and cried a little. — Mustaches and Movies: Day One of Paper Towns 00:02:37
• 2014-11-17 · John spent the weekend home in Indianapolis, rode a combine with his son and learned about contemporary American farming practices from a farmer. — Combines and Movie Magic: Pizzamas Day 6 00:00:01
• 2014-11-17 · John is back on the Paper Towns film set, where they are shooting the abandoned mini-mall scenes, which look incredible. — Combines and Movie Magic: Pizzamas Day 6 00:00:18
• 2014-11-17 · John seeks advice on set: cinematographer David Lanzenberg teaches him a little about using the camera, such as framing from the bottom and adding depth. — Combines and Movie Magic: Pizzamas Day 6 00:02:01
• 2014-11-21 (said on 2014-11-20, implied) · Now in Los Angeles after some sleep on the flight, John spent the day with Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort and others from the TFIOS movie as an Amsterdam-style TFIOS bench was installed on the Fox lot. — The Sleepiest Sleepyhead in Sleeptown 00:02:33
• 2014-11-25 · John says some of his YouTube friends, including Tyler Oakley, are visiting the Paper Towns set today. — Tyler, Ingrid, Troye, Hannah, Mandy, Jenn, and Rosianna Visit Paper Towns 00:00:01
• 2014-11-28 · John has to go sign posters; he doesn't have the most normal brain, and nothing makes it calmer and happier than signing over and over. — Global Health and Human Hair: What the Vlogbrothers are Thankful For 00:03:05
• 2014-12-02 · John says that over the last roughly 100 hours he, Hank, Katherine and both of their parents had norovirus. — What You Eat Of Those You Love 00:00:01
• 2014-12-02 · John names his one-year-old daughter as the family's patient zero: five days before Thanksgiving she woke from a nap and vomited on him, though he did not get sick then. — What You Eat Of Those You Love 00:00:53
• 2014-12-08 · John says it feels good to be home for a couple of days, mostly with his family, but also with his 2011 FA Cup championship trophy and his fox hat. — I'm Home! Time to Get Ready for the 2014 Project for Awesome 00:00:02
• 2014-12-08 · John says everyone can give whichever way they prefer and that he will probably give both ways. (hedged) — I'm Home! Time to Get Ready for the 2014 Project for Awesome 00:02:25
• 2014-12-09 · John says he knew Cara would get the part from the moment he watched her audition. — Question Tuesday with Cara Delevingne of Paper Towns 00:02:16
• 2014-12-16 · John says being ill is miserable because only a few days remain in the Paper Towns shoot; he wants to be there but does not want to make the cast and crew sick before they finish. — Jelly Face, Sharpie Face, Peanut Butter Face, and Mummy Dancers: The 2014 Project for Awesome 00:00:23
• 2014-12-23 · John says the Paper Towns movie finished shooting a couple of days ago, so he is home, tired and a little sick, and grateful to everyone who worked on it. — Agloe, New York 00:00:02
• 2014-12-23 · John recalls telling a college professor that constructed things aren't really real; the professor replied that a chair is constructed but would hurt if he hit John with it. — Agloe, New York 00:01:30
• 2014-12-23 · John says that back in 2008 he published a story about how the merely imagined can become really real. (hedged) — Agloe, New York 00:01:59
• 2014-12-23 · John says six years later, largely thanks to readers still caring about Q, Margo and Agloe, Hollywood made a movie; he met the people he'd imagined and visited Agloe with them. — Agloe, New York 00:02:24
• 2014-12-23 · John says the journey from book to film has been the weirdest and most wonderful part of a very weird and wonderful year for him. — Agloe, New York 00:02:40

2015

• 2015-01-04 · John says Liverpool, the team he has supported his entire adult life, has helped him through some of the hardest times in his life. — The Best Worst Thing 00:01:43
• 2015-01-04 · 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. · story: John's trip to London for the AFC Wimbledon v Liverpool FA Cup tie (2015) — The Best Worst Thing 00:02:00
• 2015-01-06 (said on 2015-01-05, implied) · On Monday John has just arrived in London with the game a few hours away; he feels great and everyone is excited. · story: John's trip to London for the AFC Wimbledon v Liverpool FA Cup tie (2015) — AFC Wimbledon v. Liverpool: Thoughts from the Greatest Game on Earth 00:00:01
• 2015-01-06 (said on 2015-01-05, implied) · About 45 feet from Steven Gerrard, John reports Liverpool scored, then Wimbledon equalised for 1-1; he has never been this excited. · story: John's trip to London for the AFC Wimbledon v Liverpool FA Cup tie (2015) — AFC Wimbledon v. Liverpool: Thoughts from the Greatest Game on Earth 00:01:39
• 2015-01-06 (said on 2015-01-05, implied) · With about five minutes left Liverpool lead thanks to a Steven Gerrard free kick, which John finds hard to root against. — AFC Wimbledon v. Liverpool: Thoughts from the Greatest Game on Earth 00:02:02
• 2015-01-06 (said on 2015-01-05, implied) · John points out a Liverpool player taking a corner in front of the word Nerdfighter. — AFC Wimbledon v. Liverpool: Thoughts from the Greatest Game on Earth 00:02:17
• 2015-01-06 (said on 2015-01-05, implied) · 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. · story: John's trip to London for the AFC Wimbledon v Liverpool FA Cup tie (2015) — AFC Wimbledon v. Liverpool: Thoughts from the Greatest Game on Earth 00:02:28
• 2015-01-06 (said on 2015-01-05, implied) · 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. · story: John's trip to London for the AFC Wimbledon v Liverpool FA Cup tie (2015) — AFC Wimbledon v. Liverpool: Thoughts from the Greatest Game on Earth 00:02:42
• 2015-01-13 · John says he has written almost every day since returning from the Paper Towns set and, much as he enjoys figuring out executive producing, likes writing more. — On Writing, Looking for Alaska Turning 10, and Winning the Project for Awesome 00:00:03
• 2015-01-13 · John says it has been ten years since his first novel, Looking for Alaska, was published. — On Writing, Looking for Alaska Turning 10, and Winning the Project for Awesome 00:00:26
• 2015-01-13 · John recalls taking part in Temerity Jane's marriage proposal years ago and reports she and Nerdfighter Phil are now married with a child. · story: The Nerdfighter couple John proposed for on air in 2009: marriage and first child (2009) — On Writing, Looking for Alaska Turning 10, and Winning the Project for Awesome 00:00:46
• 2015-02-03 (said on 2015-01-30, implied) · John says he watched about ten minutes of the Paper Towns movie that Jake Schreier showed him in Los Angeles, and he is very excited. — Beards, Birds, and the Paper Towns Release Date: Question Tuesday! 00:00:49
• 2015-02-03 (said on 2015-01-30, implied) · Asked repeatedly whether he is writing a new book, John says he is trying to, and that the questioning is not helping. — Beards, Birds, and the Paper Towns Release Date: Question Tuesday! 00:01:29
• 2015-02-03 (said on 2015-01-30, implied) · John says Nat and Justice introduced him to rap artists on the Paper Towns set, including Earl Sweatshirt, whom he likes a lot; in turn he introduced them to the Mountain Goats. — Beards, Birds, and the Paper Towns Release Date: Question Tuesday! 00:01:50
• 2015-02-03 (said on 2015-01-30, implied) · John says a movie-theater concessions worker, excited and speechless, finally told him it was wild because she had a huge crush on his brother. — Beards, Birds, and the Paper Towns Release Date: Question Tuesday! 00:02:20
• 2015-02-17 · John says he doesn't remember writing the line, but then he doesn't remember writing a lot of Paper Towns, which came out seven years ago. — Places I've Never Been 00:00:41
• 2015-02-17 · John says he assumed the quote was in Paper Towns because people kept sourcing it there, admits he should have researched, and adds that most of us have failed to fact-check online. — Places I've Never Been 00:01:03
• 2015-02-17 · Last week (week of 9 February 2015) John found a copyright-subreddit post saying a friend's Tumblr line was attributed to him and sold as a poster; he illegally downloaded a pirated copy of his own novel, searched it, and the line was not there. — Places I've Never Been 00:01:20
• 2015-02-17 · John says Melody now gets lots of hateful asks in her Tumblr inbox from people accusing her of stealing John Green's quote. — Places I've Never Been 00:02:01
• 2015-02-24 · John found his 1994 junior-year report cards: C- in Latin, B- in French, B in American history, C- in pre-calc, C in chemistry and C- in English, with critical teacher comments. · story: John's poor grades and skipped classes in high school, from his 1994 report cards — Who I Was in High School 00:00:41
• 2015-02-24 · John says he was a terrible high-school student and is still embarrassed about it 20 years later; he missed classes that were early or clashed with smoking cigarettes in the woods. · story: John's poor grades and skipped classes in high school, from his 1994 report cards — Who I Was in High School 00:01:30
• 2015-02-24 · John says he underachieved, skipped classes, skipped homework and reading and was always behind and stressed, while Hank got great grades and a college scholarship. · story: John's poor grades and skipped classes in high school, from his 1994 report cards — Who I Was in High School 00:01:55
• 2015-03-03 · John says he recently discovered a box of childhood memorabilia, unexplored for at least 10 years, and will find out what's inside. — What's in the Box in the Box in the Box? 00:00:01
• 2015-03-03 · One box holds a rose from John's tenth-grade homecoming dance date, and a baby tooth, his or at any rate someone's. — What's in the Box in the Box in the Box? 00:01:06
• 2015-03-03 · At the bottom is his baby milestones book filled out by their parents, recording their first words about him: Mom wrote 'he's ugly!' and Dad 'he's so purple!'. — What's in the Box in the Box in the Box? 00:02:29
• 2015-03-10 · John says Looking for Alaska, his first book, came out 10 years ago and its movie rights have been owned by Paramount ever since. — Travel Tips (and Paper Towns Movie Updates) 00:00:58
• 2015-03-24 · John recalls that trying to sign up for exchange insurance in the early months was truly awful; now it is easy, and he is among those insured through the exchanges. · story: John applies for health insurance through the ACA exchange and a pre-ACA private insurer (2013) — Is Obamacare Working? The Affordable Care Act Five Years Later 00:03:53
• 2015-04-07 · John says he watches a lot of children's movies, the same ones over and over, and reviews a few from an adult's perspective. — John Reviews Kids Movies 00:00:00
• 2015-04-14 · 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. · story: John's long day at the 2015 MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles (April 2015) — A Long Good Day 00:00:01
• 2015-04-14 · John met up with Justice Smith, 'a.k.a. Radar', Alex Wolff and Nat Wolff at another hotel, and they drove to the awards. · story: John's long day at the 2015 MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles (April 2015) — A Long Good Day 00:01:02
• 2015-04-14 · After the carpet Cara Delevingne arrived; she, Nat and John introduced a clip from the Paper Towns film of Q and Margo Nair-ing off Chuck's eyebrow. — A Long Good Day 00:01:57
• 2015-04-14 · Shailene Woodley won best actress for her role in The Fault in Our Stars; her kindness about John in her speech made him cry, and Nat teased him for it. — A Long Good Day 00:02:23
• 2015-04-14 · The Fault in Our Stars won Best Movie, and John made the acceptance speech, as everyone had urged, so that he could thank Esther. · story: John's long day at the 2015 MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles (April 2015) — A Long Good Day 00:02:38
• 2015-04-14 · His friend and movie producer Isaac made John turn his camera off, which John calls the best part of a very good and very long day. — A Long Good Day 00:03:29
• 2015-04-21 · John recalls his first European Nerdfighter gathering (Amsterdam, 2008, 30-40 people), where a Dutch Nerdfighter from Best Wishes from the Netherlands asked him to introduce them to the Belgian boys. · story: John's week touring the Netherlands with Jordan Sonnenblick and Steve Kluger (2009) — A Stunning Turn of Events 00:02:04
• 2015-04-28 · As a kid John loved novelizations, especially The Goonies novelization, which felt fresh because he knew the movie so well, and he loved working out why the writer changed things to make the story work as text. — Is the Paper Towns Movie Like the Book? Thoughts on Adaptations 00:00:42
• 2015-05-05 · John greets Hank on Tuesday, May 5, 2015, his 35th birthday; they are together in a ridiculously beautiful place. — Reunions! Birthdays! Podcasts! Mountains! Happy 35th Birthday, Hank 00:00:00
• 2015-05-12 · John says he is much more self-conscious: being recognized makes him anxious, and though grateful, he finds people photographing him from a distance weirdest. — Becoming Someone Else 00:01:28
• 2015-05-12 · To become his 2008 self, John puts on a hat. — Becoming Someone Else 00:01:57
• 2015-05-12 · John says the hat makes him feel like someone else, someone he is more comfortable being in public: strangely effective. — Becoming Someone Else 00:02:55
• 2015-05-19 · John says he has just had a pretty invasive oral surgery. — Pain Destroys Language: John after the Dentist 00:00:06
• 2015-05-19 · John says he first referred to this still-continuing pain in his second vlogbrothers video, in 2007. · story: John's face is hit by a bike messenger in Chicago, starting years of chronic mouth pain (about 2003) — Pain Destroys Language: John after the Dentist 00:00:14
• 2015-05-19 · John says that after his gum was sewn back, his mouth tasted like cement, blood and burnt meat. — Pain Destroys Language: John after the Dentist 00:00:24
• 2015-05-19 · John says this was his fourth and most dramatic surgery. — Pain Destroys Language: John after the Dentist 00:00:30
• 2015-05-19 · John says he has great care, a great oral surgeon and dentist, and is confident it will finally work. — Pain Destroys Language: John after the Dentist 00:00:34
• 2015-05-19 · John says the surgery was needed because a metal rod had erupted from his gum and pressed against his lip, the best he can do to describe the pain. — Pain Destroys Language: John after the Dentist 00:01:01
• 2015-06-02 · John says while he looks for coyotes and herons, his son points out moss; his son and daughter remind him that with the right level of attentiveness, everything is amazing. — Let's Go Outside 00:01:55
• 2015-06-09 · John says that for the last three years he has been trying to write a novel about what it means to be human, how we define personhood and why it matters; he has also written a lot about tortoises. · story: John writes a novel about what it means to be human and how we define personhood (2015) — What Does It Mean to Be Human? 00:00:07
• 2015-06-16 (said on 2015-06-13, implied) · The description says the European leg of the Paper Towns press tour begins in Madrid, with John and Nat Wolff pushing through crushing jet lag. · story: John's European Paper Towns press trip with Nat Wolff, starting in Madrid (June 2015) — Paper Towns Madrid with Nat Wolff! THE TOUR BEGINS 00:00:00
• 2015-06-16 (said on 2015-06-13, implied) · John says it is actually Saturday and they are on their way to Europe, and asks Henry where they are going first; Henry answers North Carolina. — Paper Towns Madrid with Nat Wolff! THE TOUR BEGINS 00:00:01
• 2015-06-16 (said on 2015-06-13, implied) · In Asheville, John's parents, 'noted American heroes Mom and Dad', will look after John's kids for the week while he is in Europe. · story: John's European Paper Towns press trip with Nat Wolff, starting in Madrid (June 2015) — Paper Towns Madrid with Nat Wolff! THE TOUR BEGINS 00:00:16
• 2015-06-16 (said on 2015-06-13, implied) · Having dropped off the kids, John reaches New York just in time for the flight to Madrid, hoping to sleep the whole way, and finds Nat. (hedged) · story: John's European Paper Towns press trip with Nat Wolff, starting in Madrid (June 2015) — Paper Towns Madrid with Nat Wolff! THE TOUR BEGINS 00:00:44
• 2015-06-16 (said on 2015-06-13, implied) · At the Reina Sofia museum John and Nat see works by Carl Andre, an early Picasso, crowds at Guernica and a Warhol; John praises period films in every room as a fascinating curatorial choice. — Paper Towns Madrid with Nat Wolff! THE TOUR BEGINS 00:01:35
• 2015-06-23 · John records Question Tuesday in the back of a movie theater in Berlin with Nat Wolff, who plays Q, and Cara Delevingne, who plays Margo Roth Spiegelman in the Paper Towns film. · story: John's European Paper Towns press trip with Nat Wolff, starting in Madrid (June 2015) — Question Tuesday with Cara Delevingne and Nat Wolff 00:00:06
• 2015-06-30 · John is in an airport on his way to Brazil for the Paper Towns premiere there and will not be home for 28 days except for a brief stop. · story: John travels to Brazil for the Paper Towns premiere, away from home for 28 days (2015) — Some News 00:00:03
• 2015-06-30 · John's young daughter is a little sick and threw up this morning; he found it heartbreaking because small children cannot understand what is happening to them. — Some News 00:00:18
• 2015-06-30 · 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) · story: Sarah and John's friends see the Paper Towns film; nobody notices John's cameo (2015) — Some News 00:01:21
• 2015-06-30 · More than ten years ago John sold the film rights to his first novel, Looking for Alaska, and he has often tried to get them back since. · story: John sells the Looking for Alaska film rights for three times his salary, paying for his and Sarah's move to New York (2005) — Some News 00:02:24
• 2015-06-30 · 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. · story: John sells the Looking for Alaska film rights for three times his salary, paying for his and Sarah's move to New York (2005) — Some News 00:02:39
• 2015-07-07 · John is just back from a crazy, beautiful and exhausting trip to Brazil in support of Cidades de Papel and says he will talk more about it later. · story: John travels to Brazil for the Paper Towns premiere, away from home for 28 days (2015) — Understanding the Financial Crisis in Greece 00:00:01
• 2015-07-14 · In Birmingham for just over 12 hours, John met Looking for Alaska director Becca Thomas and took her to his old high school at night, to the place where he used to smoke. — On Exhaustion 00:00:20
• 2015-07-14 · John is exhausted and drained: he is not good at interviews and misses his family and home; the last month has been exhausting with two weeks still to go. · story: John's exhaustion during the Paper Towns film promotion (July 2015) — On Exhaustion 00:01:29
• 2015-07-14 · For a long time, when overwhelmed and exhausted, John would spiral into doing less and less until nothing, still overwhelmed, because he stopped doing everything, not only what drained him. — On Exhaustion 00:02:26
• 2015-07-21 · John says the past week was intense and overwhelming, with lots of interviews, which he is not good at, but he was usually with Nat Wolff, who makes everything better. · story: John's exhaustion during the Paper Towns film promotion (July 2015) — PAPER TOWNS IS HERE AND JOHN IS A BALL OF ANXIETY 00:00:04
• 2015-07-21 · John met many thousands of Nerdfighters around the country, and many wanted to say hello to Hank, as crowds then do. · story: John's Paper Towns film promotional tour: New York, Indianapolis, Columbus, Dallas (July 2015) — PAPER TOWNS IS HERE AND JOHN IS A BALL OF ANXIETY 00:00:16
• 2015-07-21 · John says he is wound up and copes with stress by reading reviews of Paper Towns, because he really wants people to see it. — PAPER TOWNS IS HERE AND JOHN IS A BALL OF ANXIETY 00:01:18
• 2015-07-21 · John has been obsessively reading reviews, including Brazilian ones via Google Translate since he speaks no Portuguese, and thinks they are very positive. (hedged) — PAPER TOWNS IS HERE AND JOHN IS A BALL OF ANXIETY 00:01:51
• 2015-07-21 · In a P.S., John is sorry about Hank's VidCon stress and offers comfort in images of Pluto, a cold, distant former planet humans came together to understand. — PAPER TOWNS IS HERE AND JOHN IS A BALL OF ANXIETY 00:03:27
• 2015-07-24 · John is incredibly anxious and feels maybe VidCon and the movie shouldn't have been scheduled on the same day. (hedged) — From the Main Stage of VidCon! 00:01:58
• 2015-07-28 · John left his vacation hammock and family, drove across Michigan to Lansing listening to The Mountain Goats, and flew to New York City. · story: John's Paper Towns film promotional tour: New York, Indianapolis, Columbus, Dallas (July 2015) — Paper Towns, Agloe, and Touring: Thoughts from (Many) Places 00:00:01
• 2015-07-28 · In New York John met his friend and publicist Elyse Marshall, met Nat at the YouTube Space, collaborated with The Gregory Brothers and was interviewed by The Young Turks. — Paper Towns, Agloe, and Touring: Thoughts from (Many) Places 00:00:16
• 2015-07-28 · John thought about this while seeing two-dimensional images of his friends, or possibly his characters, plastered all over New York City. — Paper Towns, Agloe, and Touring: Thoughts from (Many) Places 00:00:49
• 2015-07-28 · John got lunch with his publisher Julie Strauss-Gabel, who has on her wall the first map ever made containing Agloe, New York; they talked about how much she liked the movie. — Paper Towns, Agloe, and Touring: Thoughts from (Many) Places 00:00:55
• 2015-07-28 · In Indianapolis John slept in his own bed, did many interviews with Halston Sage and Nat, signed books and did a show at the Murat Theatre. — Paper Towns, Agloe, and Touring: Thoughts from (Many) Places 00:01:10
• 2015-07-28 · On stage with host Akilah Hughes, John felt a wave of energy; the mayor of Indianapolis declared July 14, 2015 John Green Day, which John found very weird. · story: John's Paper Towns film promotional tour: New York, Indianapolis, Columbus, Dallas (July 2015) — Paper Towns, Agloe, and Touring: Thoughts from (Many) Places 00:01:50
• 2015-07-28 · The Columbus crowd was amazing and asked great questions; John thought about how long ago his college days in Ohio felt. — Paper Towns, Agloe, and Touring: Thoughts from (Many) Places 00:02:42
• 2015-07-28 · In a very hot Dallas John met hosts Gabby and Allison from Just Between Us, heard Saint Motel and met an awesome crowd, then flew to LA. — Paper Towns, Agloe, and Touring: Thoughts from (Many) Places 00:03:00
• 2015-07-28 · John says the past two months were long and difficult; he missed his family and is glad to be home, but the tour week was an adventure that brought him closer to people he loves. · story: John's Paper Towns film promotional tour: New York, Indianapolis, Columbus, Dallas (July 2015) — Paper Towns, Agloe, and Touring: Thoughts from (Many) Places 00:03:37
• 2015-08-03 · John says that in hard times, from his brain's bad wiring or physical illness, pain, fear and obsessiveness consume him so that he struggles to empathize or listen. — I Love You, Hank. Esther Day 2015 00:00:42
• 2015-08-04 · John says his cameo in the Paper Towns movie is not something you see so much as someone you hear. · story: Sarah and John's friends see the Paper Towns film; nobody notices John's cameo (2015) — Question Tuesday: Wookiee Gunships, Sneezing Cessation, and Pizza 00:02:06
• 2015-09-15 · John chooses to have the tattoo say DFTBA on his upper arm. (hedged) — John Gets a Tattoo 00:00:34
• 2015-09-15 · 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) · story: John's tattoo (2015) — John Gets a Tattoo 00:01:17
• 2015-09-15 · Laura made John's DFTBA tattoo with water instead of ink, so it will go away in about a month. · story: John's tattoo (2015) — John Gets a Tattoo 00:01:26
• 2015-09-29 · John says he is on a social media hiatus, which he finds very difficult, in order to write a book. · story: John's social media hiatus to write a novel (2015) — Writing, Walling, Racing, and Wizard Schooling 00:00:02
• 2015-09-29 · John says he has been 'working' on a novel for four years and is trying to take the quotation marks out of that working; when into a story he can think of little else. · story: John's social media hiatus to write a novel (2015) — Writing, Walling, Racing, and Wizard Schooling 00:00:08
• 2015-09-29 · At Sarah's suggestion John takes off his shirt to show Hank how his tattoo is doing: it is 'still there a little bit'. · story: John's tattoo (2015) — Writing, Walling, Racing, and Wizard Schooling 00:01:23
• 2015-09-29 · Because many people complained about the blank blue wall behind him, John has finally put up his wall stuff; it is just a start but looks pretty good. · story: John decorates the blank blue wall behind him with objects from vlogbrothers history (2015) — Writing, Walling, Racing, and Wizard Schooling 00:01:33
• 2015-09-29 · 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. — Writing, Walling, Racing, and Wizard Schooling 00:02:53
• 2015-09-29 · John goes back to working on the story, hoping to report real progress on a real book soon. (hedged) · story: John's social media hiatus to write a novel (2015) — Writing, Walling, Racing, and Wizard Schooling 00:02:59
• 2015-10-06 · John says that for about eight years an online community has been generous and kind to him and his work, and criticism mostly thoughtful and respectful. · story: John's social media hiatus to write a novel (2015) — Question Tuesday: My Social Media Hiatus, My Excellent German, and Books! 00:01:00
• 2015-10-06 · But a small, persistent amount of vicious, hateful material directed at him has been tremendously hurtful and not good for his mental health. · story: John's social media hiatus to write a novel (2015) — Question Tuesday: My Social Media Hiatus, My Excellent German, and Books! 00:01:11
• 2015-10-13 · On Friday John and Rosianna left NerdCon: Stories for Princeton, Minnesota, where John raced cars on a dirt track against best-selling author Maggie Stiefvater. — John Green's Fiery Race Car Disaster 00:00:01
• 2015-10-13 · In the first of three races Maggie led; trying to race alongside her, on the fifth lap out of turn four John corrected the steering and his car caught fire; staff pulled him out, unhurt but terrified. — John Green's Fiery Race Car Disaster 00:01:36
• 2015-10-13 · In the third race Maggie dominated John so thoroughly that the speedway's regular pro drivers asked to take her on, and she beat them too; Maggie won the race. — John Green's Fiery Race Car Disaster 00:02:14
• 2015-10-13 · That night John kept replaying the race: doing exactly what he'd been told not to, the flames on his back, his panicked hands on the belts, the smoky relief of being pulled out. — John Green's Fiery Race Car Disaster 00:02:29
• 2015-10-20 · John says he and Daniel became friends in 2003, just after Daniel got his PhD from MIT. — Nerdfighteria's Resident Comptroller? 00:00:11
• 2015-10-20 · John says that when they met Daniel was a University of Chicago math professor who didn't have to teach or publish, only think about math. — Nerdfighteria's Resident Comptroller? 00:00:22
• 2015-10-20 · John was surprised when Daniel gave up his tenure-track professorship to seek a seat in the Illinois House of Representatives. · story: Daniel Biss runs for Illinois state representative (2007) — Nerdfighteria's Resident Comptroller? 00:00:33
• 2015-10-20 · John says Daniel believed government service was noble; in 2008 Nerdfighteria helped raise money for his campaign and he lost, but he won in 2010 and was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 2012. · story: Daniel Biss runs for Illinois state representative (2007) — Nerdfighteria's Resident Comptroller? 00:01:03
• 2015-11-10 · After John got meningitis last year (2014), Bill Gates sent him a get-well-soon orchid, a thoughtful gesture John really appreciated. — It's a Pizzamas Miracle! (Pizzamas Day 2) 00:01:26
• 2015-11-18 · John says the brothers have just come from the Save the Children gala. · story: The brothers' reunion in New York City during Pizzamas (November 2015) — SUIT UP! A Very Fancy Reunion Video (Pizzamas Day 8) 00:00:04
• 2015-11-18 · John says Rosianna took away his Tumblr password, so he no longer knows what is happening on Tumblr. · story: John's social media hiatus to write a novel (2015) — SUIT UP! A Very Fancy Reunion Video (Pizzamas Day 8) 00:01:43
• 2015-11-20 · Following Hank's personal video, John says he has obsessive-compulsive disorder, which is often associated with anxiety and depression. · story: John's weeks of severe illness while changing his medication regimen (2015) — On Mental Illness (and the end of Pizzamas) 00:00:57
• 2015-11-20 · John has been very sick for the last several weeks while trying to figure out a new medication regimen; after years of fairly good health he was reminded how painful and crushing it can be. · story: John's weeks of severe illness while changing his medication regimen (2015) — On Mental Illness (and the end of Pizzamas) 00:02:07
• 2015-11-24 · John was among those who felt crime was rising: he set out to make a video about why crime is going up, only to find it isn't. — Crime and Outrage 00:00:25
• 2015-12-22 · John has seen the new Star Wars film twice, really likes it, and wants to work out why. — The Myth Reawakens 00:00:26
• 2015-12-22 · John had worried he'd grown too old to properly love a movie, but finds he can still nerd out about one he loves. — The Myth Reawakens 00:03:42

2016

• 2016-01-12 · As an extreme example, John says he read The Great Gatsby in high school and thought it was crap, which wasn't the book's fault. — Zero Severed Hands: On Star Wars and Making Things 00:03:03
• 2016-01-19 · John is in an airport on his way to the World Economic Forum in Davos, a gathering of world leaders, CEOs and Leonardo DiCaprio, and already feels a little out of place. · story: John attends the World Economic Forum in Davos (January 2016) — The Looking for Alaska Movie, Davos, and Hufflepuff Shade: It's Question Tuesday 00:00:01
• 2016-01-19 · Asked how the writing is going, John says he thinks it is going well and apologizes that it is taking so long. (hedged) · story: John writes a novel about what it means to be human and how we define personhood (2015) — The Looking for Alaska Movie, Davos, and Hufflepuff Shade: It's Question Tuesday 00:00:45
• 2016-01-19 · John says he sold the Looking for Alaska movie rights more than ten years ago, has tried many times to buy them back, attempts to make the film keep falling apart, and he is no longer involved. — The Looking for Alaska Movie, Davos, and Hufflepuff Shade: It's Question Tuesday 00:02:02
• 2016-01-19 · A spray scent called 'Spring Rain' takes John back to high school, where he and his roommate used it to cover the smell of cigarette smoke; the horrific scent makes him happy. — The Looking for Alaska Movie, Davos, and Hufflepuff Shade: It's Question Tuesday 00:03:00
• 2016-01-26 · John spent last week (week of 18 January 2016) in Davos, Switzerland, which most of the time is a fairly standard alpine ski village with souvenir shops and babies in sleds. · story: John attends the World Economic Forum in Davos (January 2016) — Billionaires and Radical Hope: Thoughts from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland 00:00:01
• 2016-01-26 · John met representatives of Save the Children and the UN Refugee Agency to learn about improving health care and education for the world's most vulnerable people. — Billionaires and Radical Hope: Thoughts from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland 00:01:55
• 2016-02-02 · John recalls saying in an earlier video that US women make 77 cents per dollar men make, and many commenters pushed back that the wage gap is a debunked myth. — Is the Gender Pay Gap Real? 00:00:02
• 2016-02-09 · On the brothers' podcast Dear Hank and John, John recently confessed that he pours water rather than milk on his cereal. — Water in My Cereal: Taste Testing Various Liquid Accompaniments to Raisin Bran 00:00:05
• 2016-02-16 · In high school John felt he had to create ironic distance from the world to survive, dismissing bands and authors Hank liked. — Kindness 00:01:50
• 2016-02-16 · John tells Hank he is really sorry that Lemon is dying: just a dog, but a great dog. · story: Hank's greyhound Lemon is dying, then dies (2016) — Kindness 00:02:19
• 2016-02-16 · Lemon was a racing greyhound, often not the best dog life, but after retiring she came into Hank's life, and each made the other's life better. · story: Hank and Katherine foster a greyhound, then adopt retired racer Lemon (2010) — Kindness 00:02:31
• 2016-02-26 · John wanted to be a writer as a kid but never thought it was a realistic job, likening it to wanting to be an astronaut. — Things You Don't Know About Us (REUNION!) 00:00:56
• 2016-02-26 · Asked by a viewer, John says he does not cast movies. — Things You Don't Know About Us (REUNION!) 00:01:22
• 2016-02-26 · The book John has reread most is probably Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, counting his childhood. (hedged) — Things You Don't Know About Us (REUNION!) 00:03:04
• 2016-02-26 · John says his biggest professional accomplishment is vlogbrothers and his biggest personal one is behind the camera, where his son Henry is. — Things You Don't Know About Us (REUNION!) 00:03:24
• 2016-03-01 · Asked for a favourite One Direction song, Henry offers his favourite song, which John explains is the Swedish hip-hop song on The Fault in Our Stars soundtrack, in Henry's own name for it. — Question Tuesday: The Potato Edition 00:03:09
• 2016-03-08 · John is just back from a trip to northern Jordan with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. · story: John travels to Jordan and Tunisia to visit refugee camps (2016) — Aida and Majeeda: Thoughts from the Azraq Refugee Camp 00:00:01
• 2016-03-08 · For International Women's Day John focuses on sisters Majeeda (12) and Aida (10), who reached the Azraq camp the day before he met them after more than four months in limbo at the border. — Aida and Majeeda: Thoughts from the Azraq Refugee Camp 00:00:12
• 2016-03-08 · John relays that the girls' father, Abu Majed, described the border as 'cold, hunger and constant thirst', and that the family registered in the camp that morning, from iris scans to finding a shelter. — Aida and Majeeda: Thoughts from the Azraq Refugee Camp 00:00:28
• 2016-03-08 · The day before, in the Zaatari camp, John met the Tiger Group, where young women mentor girls; asked what they wanted most, Aryam and Farah immediately answered 'to learn'. · story: John visits the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan and meets refugee families (2016) — Aida and Majeeda: Thoughts from the Azraq Refugee Camp 00:00:52
• 2016-03-08 · Nahid, a mother of young children who volunteers as a teacher, told John she wants her children to have a good education. — Aida and Majeeda: Thoughts from the Azraq Refugee Camp 00:01:03
• 2016-03-08 · Aida, only five when the war began, has never been to school and Majeeda has been out of school for years; asked what she wanted now she was safe, Aida said not food or rest but 'We need to study.' — Aida and Majeeda: Thoughts from the Azraq Refugee Camp 00:01:14
• 2016-03-08 · For the past four months the children walked 10 km almost every day to find firewood at the border, and before that moved around Syria for years to stay safe. — Aida and Majeeda: Thoughts from the Azraq Refugee Camp 00:01:40
• 2016-03-08 · Through interpreter Nida, Aida's message to American children her age was that they just want to go to school and to have a life. — Aida and Majeeda: Thoughts from the Azraq Refugee Camp 00:02:25
• 2016-03-15 · John says that on the day he met Aida and Majeeda at the Azraq refugee camp in northern Jordan he also met 16-year-old Hussam. — The Extraordinary Story of Hussam: Teenager, Writer, and Syrian Refugee 00:00:01
• 2016-03-15 · John notes Hussam learned from YouTube and also works with a tutor who is himself a Syrian refugee. — The Extraordinary Story of Hussam: Teenager, Writer, and Syrian Refugee 00:00:32
• 2016-03-15 · John says Hussam had studied some English in Syria and was in English class when his school was bombed. — The Extraordinary Story of Hussam: Teenager, Writer, and Syrian Refugee 00:00:51
• 2016-03-15 · John says the refugees he met in Jordan almost never had printed photographs; their pictures were on phones, sometimes broken phones kept charged only to see the pictures. — The Extraordinary Story of Hussam: Teenager, Writer, and Syrian Refugee 00:01:28
• 2016-03-15 · John says Hussam showed him a photo of blood on his classroom floor and his only photo of his friend: the teen boy's corpse. — The Extraordinary Story of Hussam: Teenager, Writer, and Syrian Refugee 00:01:40
• 2016-03-15 · John explains: a brother on a university scholarship in Turkey, two married sisters in Syria, his engineer father and older brother crossed to Europe by boat over a year ago; the rest hope to reunite in Germany. — The Extraordinary Story of Hussam: Teenager, Writer, and Syrian Refugee 00:02:11
• 2016-03-15 · John says Hussam genuinely loves learning, is a very successful tenth grader at the camp high school and loves writing stories. (hedged) — The Extraordinary Story of Hussam: Teenager, Writer, and Syrian Refugee 00:02:25
• 2016-03-15 · John says Hussam has not seen his father, sisters or two brothers in over a year and knows they can only be reunited in a safe, peaceful Syria, hence his dream of rebuilding it. — The Extraordinary Story of Hussam: Teenager, Writer, and Syrian Refugee 00:03:06
• 2016-03-25 · John says he and Hank are together in Los Angeles for the DFTBA.com annual meeting; Hank adds they are talking to the people who help make the website work. — Snapchat Question Time! 00:00:08
• 2016-03-25 · Asked about Snapchat filters, John admits he barely knows Snapchat, but says in Jordan their interpreter used the filters with kids, who loved them, and he found them amazing. — Snapchat Question Time! 00:01:27
• 2016-03-25 · Asked how the book writing goes, John says he is writing; the last word he wrote is 'coffee', in a line about stirring milk into morning coffee that he gives 50-50 odds of surviving. — Snapchat Question Time! 00:02:58
• 2016-03-29 · Asked for hints about his new book, John says it concerns the White River. — My New Book, Marriage Advice, and Hamilton: 50 Snapchat Questions Answered! 00:00:51
• 2016-05-03 · John goes to vote on primary day, May 3, 2016, calling it a beautiful day for an election; the best part is the sticker. — No Fumar 00:00:01
• 2016-05-03 · John says today is also their dad's birthday. — No Fumar 00:00:40
• 2016-05-03 · John says few people know that their dad basically ran their company until a year ago, doing the payroll, budgeting and spreadsheets that made Crash Course and SciShow possible. (hedged) — No Fumar 00:00:44
• 2016-05-03 · John calls their dad a really great dad and person and wishes him a happy birthday with 'I love you'. — No Fumar 00:00:52
• 2016-05-03 · John, a big IndyCar fan, thought pace driving was ceremonial, but at practice found he must drive about 110 mph on the straightaways; he is very scared and asks TV viewers to remember he is doing his best. · story: John drives the pace car at the Indianapolis Grand Prix (May 2016) — No Fumar 00:01:06
• 2016-05-03 · John says AFC Wimbledon lost a game, letting him shave, and then another team failed to win, so Wimbledon made the playoffs anyway. — No Fumar 00:02:34
• 2016-05-10 · John says he has been to the dentist more than 150 times in the 13 years since (2003) a bike messenger's shoulder ran into his face as he stood on a Chicago curb reading a novel. · story: John's face is hit by a bike messenger in Chicago, starting years of chronic mouth pain (about 2003) — On Pain 00:00:11
• 2016-05-10 · John says the original fractures were misdiagnosed, leading to a long-term infection, many surgeries and ongoing pain. — On Pain 00:00:22
• 2016-05-10 · John reveals that the doctor's visit he complained about in March 2007 was actually a dentist visit, where his oral surgeon told him he probably had nothing to worry about; past John read that as meaning he definitely did, and was right. · story: John's March 2007 'eye doctor' visit, later told as a dentist visit (2007) — On Pain 00:00:48
• 2016-05-10 · John says that surgeon is no longer his; he now has some of the best dentists and oral surgeons and is very lucky, but it often still hurts a lot. — On Pain 00:01:07
• 2016-05-10 · John's six-year-old son, bitten by an ant, said it hurt like this and pinched him, trying to shrink the space between his pain and John's understanding. — On Pain 00:01:26
• 2016-05-10 · John finds this horror-movie terrifying and says that is how he feels when pain turns him inward in an ever-tightening spiral. — On Pain 00:02:35
• 2016-05-24 · 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. — Easier Than IKEA: A Video in Two Parts 00:00:07
• 2016-05-24 · John says he is leaving directly from the Indianapolis 500 to go to the game in London. — Easier Than IKEA: A Video in Two Parts 00:03:20
• 2016-05-31 (said on 2016-05-29, implied) · On Sunday at 7 a.m. John bikes down to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for race day. · story: John's 36 hours from the Indianapolis 500 to Wembley and AFC Wimbledon's promotion party (May 2016) — The Most Amazing Day 00:00:00
• 2016-05-31 (said on 2016-05-29, implied) · Leaving the Indy 500 after 160 laps, John goes to the airport and flies via New York City to London, sleeping well on the plane. · story: John's 36 hours from the Indianapolis 500 to Wembley and AFC Wimbledon's promotion party (May 2016) — The Most Amazing Day 00:01:07
• 2016-05-31 (said on 2016-05-29, implied) · In London John heads to Wembley, sees AFC Wimbledon's crest there and stops at an AFC Wimbledon bar, the Green Man; he says he can't remember when he was this excited. · story: John's 36 hours from the Indianapolis 500 to Wembley and AFC Wimbledon's promotion party (May 2016) — The Most Amazing Day 00:01:27
• 2016-05-31 (said on 2016-05-29, implied) · Having lost his camcorder and filming on his phone, John returns with a large group of AFC Wimbledon supporters to Kingsmeadow to celebrate the promotion. · story: John's 36 hours from the Indianapolis 500 to Wembley and AFC Wimbledon's promotion party (May 2016) — The Most Amazing Day 00:03:17
• 2016-06-07 · John says that while in Jordan he drove out from Amman to visit the Zaatari refugee camp just south of the Syrian border. · story: John visits the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan and meets refugee families (2016) — Zaatari: Thoughts from a Refugee Camp 00:00:00
• 2016-06-07 · John met three teenage boys in a photography class taught by refugee volunteers; 15-year-old Ubay had dropped out of school to work but joined because he missed learning. — Zaatari: Thoughts from a Refugee Camp 00:00:09
• 2016-06-07 · John says Zaatari also teems with life: its main marketplace sells TVs and solar phone chargers, rents wedding dresses, fixes bicycles and shoes, and has a delivery pizza restaurant. — Zaatari: Thoughts from a Refugee Camp 00:01:43
• 2016-06-07 · John visited Musa Mohammed's family, whose 18-year-old daughter was about to begin university; they had a two-storey house and a car in Syria and now have only hope in their children's education. — Zaatari: Thoughts from a Refugee Camp 00:02:15
• 2016-06-07 · John saw a flock of pigeons he took for an accident of natural beauty, then learned kids train the pigeons to fly in patterns: an expression of a kid's joy. — Zaatari: Thoughts from a Refugee Camp 00:02:40
• 2016-06-14 · John says growing up in Orlando always felt like everyone was just visiting for the theme parks, and he still says he is from Alabama though he moved there at 14. — Orlando 00:00:04
• 2016-06-14 · John was moved by the partner of victim Leroy Valentin Fernandez, who wrote 'You will always be my baby, and I will always love you.' — Orlando 00:01:00
• 2016-06-21 · Because yesterday was World Refugee Day, John shares the story of a family he met in Jordan: Mufak, Nada and their five kids. — Syrian Refugees in the United States: One Family's Story 00:00:00
• 2016-06-21 · Mufak, a trained butcher who became a successful entrepreneur in Syria, left everything behind in 2012 to escape the fighting; after four years in Jordan the family's savings were depleted. — Syrian Refugees in the United States: One Family's Story 00:00:08
• 2016-06-21 · When John met them in February, the family were excited because they were about to be resettled in Rockford, Illinois. — Syrian Refugees in the United States: One Family's Story 00:00:21
• 2016-06-21 · Mufak told John they had never been to the US and could not wait; Nada said she hoped Americans would welcome them and that they would not disappoint. — Syrian Refugees in the United States: One Family's Story 00:00:48
• 2016-06-21 · A couple of weeks ago John and Rosianna visited the family in Rockford; they shared a big lunch, but the move had clearly been hard, with everything from language to appliances different. — Syrian Refugees in the United States: One Family's Story 00:01:11
• 2016-06-21 · Nada told John that in Jordan they took public transport, but here they need a car or someone who has one; she cried, missing her family. — Syrian Refugees in the United States: One Family's Story 00:01:26
• 2016-06-21 · Everyone in the family takes English classes, Mufak will soon work as a butcher, and the kids are in summer school learning to read and write English. — Syrian Refugees in the United States: One Family's Story 00:01:45
• 2016-06-21 · Asked what he liked most about the US, Nada's nephew, there almost a year, said 'the law', which had not existed in Syria and had kept him from working in Jordan. — Syrian Refugees in the United States: One Family's Story 00:02:42
• 2016-06-28 · After Beer and Board Games John ran into Henry of MinutePhysics, Destin of Smarter Every Day and CGP Grey, and they got talking about Iceland. — New Iceland 00:00:26
• 2016-07-05 · On vacation in Michigan, John reads, writes, spends time with family and stares at a Great Lake that looks like an ocean stretching to the horizon. — The Horizon Line 00:00:01
• 2016-07-05 · Their dad grew up in Indianapolis when it was nicknamed Naptown because nothing happened there, a place for people wanting quiet lives in America's flat, unbeautiful middle. — The Horizon Line 00:01:09
• 2016-07-05 · Their dad worked hard to get out of Indianapolis; he and Mom left for good a few weeks after John was born and never looked back. · story: John and Hank's dad grows up in Indianapolis and leaves it for good weeks after John's birth — The Horizon Line 00:01:27
• 2016-07-05 · In 2007, living in New York, John called Dad to say Sarah had a job in Indianapolis; Dad said, 'You can't be serious.' · story: John and Sarah move to Indianapolis (2007) — The Horizon Line 00:01:33
• 2016-07-05 · John sailed from a birthplace he never knew to Orlando, Birmingham, Chicago and New York, and ended up back where he started. — The Horizon Line 00:01:45
• 2016-07-12 · John recalls a November woods walk when son Henry was about two: John held him up to admire the misty forest view, but Henry said 'leaf' and grabbed a single brown oak leaf. — Our Capacity for Wonder: A Review 00:01:53
• 2016-07-12 · John says he wanted to tell Henry that brown oak leaves are everywhere in the eastern US in November, but looking with him he saw red, orange and yellow veins too complex to take in. — Our Capacity for Wonder: A Review 00:02:26
• 2016-07-26 · A couple of weeks ago John's mother-in-law texted him to read the El Chapo story in the Washington Post. — El Chapo and Me 00:00:10
• 2016-08-02 · In 2002, while John worked at Booklist, Amy emailed him; they corresponded, she asked for a two-minute piece for WBEZ, and he wrote an essay that night and recorded it. · story: John's big break: Amy Krouse Rosenthal gets him recording essays for WBEZ (2002) — Beckoning Lovely 00:00:17
• 2016-08-02 · John recorded dozens of essays for WBEZ and a few for NPR's All Things Considered over the next years, which helped him get into publishing and sell Looking for Alaska. · story: John's big break: Amy Krouse Rosenthal gets him recording essays for WBEZ (2002) — Beckoning Lovely 00:00:40
• 2016-08-02 · John recalls August 8, 2008 as a big day: the brothers' first huge Nerdfighter gathering, helped by coinciding with a Harry Potter convention. — Beckoning Lovely 00:01:25
• 2016-08-02 · That day John first met Rosianna, then a high school student and now his production partner in movie stuff. — Beckoning Lovely 00:01:35
• 2016-08-02 · That evening Amy hosted The Beckoning of Lovely at the Bean in Millennium Park; what stuck with John most was singing an old soldiers' song to Auld Lang Syne with hundreds of people. · story: Amy Krouse Rosenthal turns 'We're here because we're here' into hope for a depressed John at her reading (2005) — Beckoning Lovely 00:01:40
• 2016-08-09 · After seeing it, John asked eligible American voters on Twitter who don't intend to vote for their reasons, and answers the six concerns he heard most. — Why I Didn't Vote (And Six Reasons You Might Not) 00:00:05
• 2016-08-09 · In August 2000 John had just moved to Chicago, slept in a walk-in closet of an apartment not in his name, had a Florida license, didn't know how to register, and missed the deadline. · story: John misses the voter registration deadline after moving to Chicago (2000) — Why I Didn't Vote (And Six Reasons You Might Not) 00:02:41
• 2016-08-23 · John says he played Ultimate Frisbee in high school to get out of his physical education requirement. — The Ocho! Sports I Want on TV 00:02:09
• 2016-08-30 · John says he broke his rib celebrating his 39th birthday last week (August 2016); sitting, standing, laughing and breathing are now painful. — My Body Is a Broken Temple 00:00:06
• 2016-08-30 · John says until recently he felt better than 10 or 20 years ago, largely because when younger he treated his body terribly, smoking and refusing to exercise. · story: John's teenage mistreatment of his body and later quitting smoking and running (c. 1993-2005) — My Body Is a Broken Temple 00:00:46
• 2016-08-30 · John says that after he began treating his body better, quitting smoking in 2002 and running a mile in 2005, he got better at reading and writing. — My Body Is a Broken Temple 00:01:44
• 2016-08-30 · John says in the almost five years since The Fault in Our Stars, Crash Course, The Art Assignment, Alice and some movies happened, but he has not published a new book. — My Body Is a Broken Temple 00:02:20
• 2016-09-20 · John says that meanwhile he was hard at work on a new book about teenage identity thieves, as he always wrote a new book after publishing one, but it wasn't working. · story: John fails to write a follow-up to The Fault in Our Stars: abandoned identity-thieves and con-artists novels (2012-2015) — Failing to Follow Up The Fault in Our Stars 00:00:37
• 2016-09-20 · John says he also began to feel intense pressure, as if people were watching over his shoulder while he wrote. — Failing to Follow Up The Fault in Our Stars 00:00:56
• 2016-09-20 · By April 2012 John reworked it as a story of two boys finding something terrible in their hometown's storm drains, writing about 100 pages, none very good. — Failing to Follow Up The Fault in Our Stars 00:01:01
• 2016-09-20 · John says The Fault in Our Stars kept selling, and in May 2012 he read an amazing screenplay adaptation and realized it might become a movie. — Failing to Follow Up The Fault in Our Stars 00:01:14
• 2016-09-20 · John recalls his best friend Chris saying it must be weird getting all this money for something he did at Starbucks a couple of years ago; it was weird. — Failing to Follow Up The Fault in Our Stars 00:01:31
• 2016-09-20 · John says he was elated and grateful that The Fault in Our Stars reached so many readers, but terrified that he could never follow it up. — Failing to Follow Up The Fault in Our Stars 00:01:37
• 2016-09-20 · By the time the movie started shooting in fall 2013, John was failing to write a book about teenage con artists; he spent almost a year on it before giving up. — Failing to Follow Up The Fault in Our Stars 00:01:46
• 2016-09-20 · John remembers sobbing in a hotel room right after the movie came out, looking at hundreds of pages he realized would never be a book. — Failing to Follow Up The Fault in Our Stars 00:01:55
• 2016-09-20 · John says writing had always been a safe, sane outlet for his obsessiveness and recursive thinking, but it stopped providing that release and he realized he could stop. — Failing to Follow Up The Fault in Our Stars 00:02:09
• 2016-09-20 · John says writing had become miserable, and as he gave more time to Crash Course and The Art Assignment he realized he has amazing work he is lucky to do. (hedged) — Failing to Follow Up The Fault in Our Stars 00:02:19
• 2016-09-20 · 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. · story: John writes a novel about what it means to be human and how we define personhood (2015) — Failing to Follow Up The Fault in Our Stars 00:02:27
• 2016-09-27 · John says that yesterday he and Sarah flew to New York City and met up with their best friends Chris and Marina. — Books, Movies, and Wonder: Thoughts from a Red Carpet 00:00:01
• 2016-09-27 · John was in New York for the premiere of the film Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. — Books, Movies, and Wonder: Thoughts from a Red Carpet 00:00:09
• 2016-09-27 · John has known Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's author, half his life: in college they road-tripped to the Grand Canyon, read James Joyce and wrote comedy sketches. · story: John's friendship with Ransom Riggs, from their Kenyon College Ulysses class to Miss Peregrine (told 2012) — Books, Movies, and Wonder: Thoughts from a Red Carpet 00:01:05
• 2016-09-27 · John's publisher Julie Strauss-Gabel dropped by before the screening, and Ransom and his wife, the novelist Tahereh Mafi, posed on the red carpet. — Books, Movies, and Wonder: Thoughts from a Red Carpet 00:01:57
• 2016-10-04 · John wakes up jet-lagged in London, walks through the sleepy East End past graffiti and takes the Tube to Trafalgar Square. — Drowzees and Masterpieces: Thoughts from London 00:00:01
• 2016-10-04 · John sees a brilliant but crowded abstract expressionist show at the Royal Academy and an astonishing number of masterpieces at Somerset House. — Drowzees and Masterpieces: Thoughts from London 00:01:03
• 2016-10-04 · After a while in the room John put down his camera and was just there. — Drowzees and Masterpieces: Thoughts from London 00:03:17
• 2016-10-18 · John says that before the ACA many people not working for big companies, including himself, literally could not buy health insurance at any price, because insurers could deny pre-existing conditions. — Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Health Care Reform Proposals 00:00:38
• 2016-11-01 · John announces Hank is a dad: Katherine had a baby boy, Orin, over the weekend (30 October 2016); he is adorable and John is very happy. · story: Hank and Katherine have a baby, Orin (2016) — BABY! BABY! BABY! (And the 10th Annual Project for Awesome) 00:00:00
• 2016-11-08 · John goes to his polling place, having texted himself his sample ballot, and votes. — A PIZZAMAS MIRACLE 00:02:43
• 2016-11-08 · On Election Day John admits he is nervous, first 'a little bit', then 'a lot bit'. — A PIZZAMAS MIRACLE 00:02:52
• 2016-11-09 · John says he spoke with hundreds of undecided voters before the election and was struck that, with shared concerns (environment, health care, taxes), they worked from completely different data sets. — My Post-Election Thoughts 00:01:03
• 2016-11-09 · John says he honestly feels lost and is looking to the community for guidance and clarity, as he has for almost a decade. — My Post-Election Thoughts 00:01:38
• 2016-11-09 · John says his nephew Orin was born ten days ago (30 October 2016); his parents bringing him into the world was an act of hope, which heartens John and was not misguided. · story: Hank and Katherine have a baby, Orin (2016) — My Post-Election Thoughts 00:02:42
• 2016-11-15 · John says Leonard Cohen gave him one of the central ideas in his book Paper Towns. — Good News/Bad News: A Pizzamas Video in Nine Slices 00:02:05
• 2016-11-17 · Asked how the new book is coming along, John says that in general the less he talks about it, the better it is going. — Decathlons, Pretension, and the Weirdest Animal I've Met: It's Question Thursday 00:00:08
• 2016-11-17 · 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. · story: John takes the line 'Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia' from Sarah on their first date for Looking for Alaska (told 2016) — Decathlons, Pretension, and the Weirdest Animal I've Met: It's Question Thursday 00:00:49
• 2016-11-17 · John says a few months ago he turned his phone into a dumb phone that only texts, calls and plays Pokémon Go; the change has been kind of wonderful, though he misses Snapchat a little. · story: John turns his phone into a 'dumb phone' and changes how he follows the news (2016) — Decathlons, Pretension, and the Weirdest Animal I've Met: It's Question Thursday 00:02:15
• 2016-11-17 · John says that about a year ago he began reading The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Indianapolis Star, and grew suspicious of his social media feed as the best way to stay informed. · story: John turns his phone into a 'dumb phone' and changes how he follows the news (2016) — Decathlons, Pretension, and the Weirdest Animal I've Met: It's Question Thursday 00:02:29
• 2016-11-22 · 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. — On Not Seeing Hamilton 00:00:05
• 2016-11-22 · 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. — On Not Seeing Hamilton 00:00:24
• 2016-11-22 · 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. — On Not Seeing Hamilton 00:00:42
• 2016-11-22 · A hospital worker, Carmen, wheeled John to endoscopy, asked about his wife, kids and job, and concluded "you've got the basics covered"; he woke thinking the same. — On Not Seeing Hamilton 00:01:44
• 2016-11-22 · Last Wednesday (16 November 2016) John woke at 5:10 a.m. for a spin class and found Carmen was the instructor; it was an excellent class. — On Not Seeing Hamilton 00:02:40
• 2016-11-29 · John says he doesn't know how a sequel to The Fault in Our Stars could have happened, but people in Hollywood did make suggestions. — Baby Poop Rookie: Vlogbrothers Reunited 00:00:39
• 2016-12-27 · John's first memory: attending the 100th running of the Indy 500 with his mom and dad and many friends. — The Best of My 2016 00:00:29
• 2016-12-27 · From the Indy 500 John flew to London to see Nerdfighteria-sponsored AFC Wimbledon win at Wembley for a third-tier spot, then partied at their home stadium with his dad and players. · story: John's 36 hours from the Indianapolis 500 to Wembley and AFC Wimbledon's promotion party (May 2016) — The Best of My 2016 00:00:50
• 2016-12-27 · 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. — The Best of My 2016 00:01:23
• 2016-12-27 · 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. — The Best of My 2016 00:01:27
• 2016-12-27 · John's third memory: meeting baby Orin in Montana; there is nothing like the pride and happiness of seeing his baby brother be such a committed, loving father. · story: Hank and Katherine have a baby, Orin (2016) — The Best of My 2016 00:02:01
• 2016-12-27 · John's favourite 2016 memory was being home: after more than a hundred days away in both 2014 and 2015, he was home nine nights out of ten, with more time for writing and family. (hedged) — The Best of My 2016 00:02:31
• 2016-12-27 · John says it was an awesome year to be a dad: Henry learned to ride a bike, Alice learned her ABCs, and both learned every word to Moana. — The Best of My 2016 00:02:49

2017

• 2017-01-03 · John recalls his first video began 'I'm not going to be good at this'; he wasn't, and in many ways still isn't, but feels lucky to be at it ten years later. — 10 Years on YouTube (...and MORE GREAT NEWS) 00:01:07
• 2017-01-03 · As an example, John says on January 3, 2007 Hank first mentioned that people said the brothers looked like the Proclaimers. — 10 Years on YouTube (...and MORE GREAT NEWS) 00:01:58
• 2017-01-03 · John tells Hank that making things with him and Nerdfighteria over ten years and three days has been the great professional privilege of his life. — 10 Years on YouTube (...and MORE GREAT NEWS) 00:03:18
• 2017-01-03 · When the project started the brothers weren't close: John left for boarding school when Hank was 11, and they talked by phone maybe once a year; now at least twice a week. (hedged) — 10 Years on YouTube (...and MORE GREAT NEWS) 00:03:25
• 2017-01-24 · John says that on 100 Days he is on a health and fitness journey with his best friend Chris, and jokes that he is becoming a self-help book. — On Motivation 00:00:02
• 2017-01-24 · John ran nine miles yesterday and around mile four caught himself thinking 'you don't have to get ready if you stay ready': he has become a fan of motivational quotes. — On Motivation 00:01:33
• 2017-01-24 · Living in New York in 2007, John railed against 'sheeple' buying houses in the Midwest; now he owns a home in Indianapolis and quite likes it. — On Motivation 00:01:50
• 2017-01-24 · John used to think bestselling books were by definition crap, then quickly backtracked when he unexpectedly wrote one. — On Motivation 00:01:59
• 2017-01-24 · John ridiculed parents for focusing on their own kids instead of the world's kids, until he became a parent and understood the impulse. — On Motivation 00:02:06
• 2017-01-24 · John says he has become a person who revels in clichéd, usually misattributed quotes to motivate himself toward physical fitness. — On Motivation 00:02:26
• 2017-01-24 · Instead of abandoning his real work for 100 days as he expected, John is enjoying writing more than in years, has more time for it, and writes pretty much every day. — On Motivation 00:02:50
• 2017-02-21 · John says he doesn't know everything about his new book because it is not finished yet. · story: John writes a novel about what it means to be human and how we define personhood (2015) — Does Human Life Have Real Meaning? 00:02:03
• 2017-02-21 · John says he doesn't know when his new book will come out. — Does Human Life Have Real Meaning? 00:03:20
• 2017-02-28 · NerdCon in Boston was so amazing that John barely filmed, so he talks over footage of Hank Green and the Perfect Strangers playing songs about science. — You Are Here 00:00:04
• 2017-02-28 · John wants to say now what he struggled to say at the NerdCon closing ceremonies: he thought about Esther a lot that weekend. — You Are Here 00:00:12
• 2017-02-28 · John recalls Esther Earl, a Nerdfighter who with her friends helped run the Project for Awesome behind the scenes and who died of cancer in 2010 at 16. · story: Death of Nerdfighter Esther Earl, John's friend (2010) — You Are Here 00:00:18
• 2017-02-28 · John and Esther met in Boston, where her Make-A-Wish brought him and some of her Nerdfighter friends; now they were there again, dancing and singing to songs Esther loved. · story: John visits Esther Earl and her Nerdfighter friends in Boston (July 2010) — You Are Here 00:00:25
• 2017-02-28 · On Saturday (25 February 2017) John visited Esther's grave with her parents and one of her sisters; many Nerdfighters have visited over the years, leaving artwork, keychains and This Star Won't Go Out bracelets. — You Are Here 00:00:34
• 2017-02-28 · John sometimes feels guilty for benefiting so disproportionately from something he only partly created; each Tuesday he tries to repay the debt, but it only seems to grow. — You Are Here 00:02:00
• 2017-02-28 · At Esther's grave John kept wondering how to thank and repay someone who is gone for the lasting gifts of their love and friendship. — You Are Here 00:02:13
• 2017-03-07 · John says Saw Kyar Aye was born in Burma and as a young man was taken from his community by the army and forced to work on road construction. — Hoping for an Airport Reunion: One Refugee Family's Story 00:00:15
• 2017-03-07 · John says Saw Kyar Aye escaped his forced labour crew in 2008, reached Malaysia and registered as a refugee with UNHCR, but could not legally work there nor risk returning home as a deserter. — Hoping for an Airport Reunion: One Refugee Family's Story 00:00:41
• 2017-03-07 · John says Saw Kyar Aye found unofficial work in a restaurant where he met Thet Thet, a fellow Burmese refugee and waitress; they married, but their refugee cases were processed separately. — Hoping for an Airport Reunion: One Refugee Family's Story 00:00:57
• 2017-03-07 · John says Saw Kyar Aye was approved in 2012 but Thet Thet was not; told spouses reunite easily, they decided he should go, and he left for Indianapolis in December 2012 with her eight months pregnant. — Hoping for an Airport Reunion: One Refugee Family's Story 00:01:28
• 2017-03-07 · John says Saw Kyar Aye found a church, friends and a job in a Clif bar factory, but first filed for family reunification. — Hoping for an Airport Reunion: One Refugee Family's Story 00:01:54
• 2017-03-07 · John says that in 2013 Thet Thet was in Malaysia caring for baby son Saw Kyar Min; in April 2014 the family was told they would come, but a clerical error cancelled the trip. — Hoping for an Airport Reunion: One Refugee Family's Story 00:02:25
• 2017-03-07 · John says the error was that a refugee database held two Saw Kyar Ayes and listed Thet Thet as married to the other one, so the process started again. — Hoping for an Airport Reunion: One Refugee Family's Story 00:02:42
• 2017-03-07 · John says Thet Thet and Saw Kyar Min were approved again in 2016, with visas issued and travel planned. — Hoping for an Airport Reunion: One Refugee Family's Story 00:02:52
• 2017-03-07 · John says Saw Kyar Aye began to wonder if he would ever see his son, whom he had prepared to start school in Indiana. — Hoping for an Airport Reunion: One Refugee Family's Story 00:03:06
• 2017-03-07 · John says he and Saw Kyar Aye have both worked with Exodus, a local resettlement organization, through which he was invited to the reunion, and he walked in nervous. — Hoping for an Airport Reunion: One Refugee Family's Story 00:03:32
• 2017-03-07 · John says he witnessed the best airport reunion ever: Saw Kyar Aye saw his wife for the first time in over four years and held his son for the first time. — Hoping for an Airport Reunion: One Refugee Family's Story 00:03:47
• 2017-03-14 · Neither brother knows which Pokémon looks most like Hank; John says he is excited to find out from his viewers. — Green Brothers Reunited! 00:03:27
• 2017-03-21 · John recalls that at VidCon, while he scrolled his Twitter feed checking everyone was having a good time, a friend said he seemed stressed and he answered 'Twitter'. — My Information Diet 00:00:00
• 2017-03-21 · On a friend's advice, a month later after an egregious bout of twittering, John made his phone a dumb phone: no Twitter, Facebook, email or Reddit, and he deleted Pokémon Go, breaking his son's heart. · story: John turns his phone into a 'dumb phone' and changes how he follows the news (2016) — My Information Diet 00:00:49
• 2017-03-21 · John says the dumb phone hasn't worked: in seven months his background stress has decreased somewhat, but mostly he just spends more time on his computer. (hedged) — My Information Diet 00:01:33
• 2017-03-21 · John says in the last couple of weeks he has scaled way back on the social internet for an information diet: an hour or two each morning reading mostly The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Indianapolis Star. · story: John turns his phone into a 'dumb phone' and changes how he follows the news (2016) — My Information Diet 00:02:28
• 2017-04-04 · John recalls Brotherhood 2.0's resident mathematician Daniel Biss, his friend, a successful University of Chicago math professor who left to run for office and became a successful state senator. · story: Daniel Biss runs for Illinois state representative (2007) — Why I Won't Run for Office 00:00:00
• 2017-04-11 · John thanks Hank and all the VidCon staff and volunteers for an amazing weekend (8-9 April 2017) in Amsterdam at VidCon Europe. — Making the World's Largest Ball of Paint 00:02:53
• 2017-04-18 · A YouTube friend who also has OCD asked John how he seems so put together, while John was thinking the same thing about them. — Framing 00:00:00
• 2017-04-18 · First true story: last week (April 2017) John went to VidCon Europe in Amsterdam, and it was awesome and amazing; he had a very good time. — Framing 00:01:17
• 2017-04-18 · Second true story: John was infuriated with himself that he could not do a signing at VidCon Europe because of the problems he has in his brain. — Framing 00:01:23
• 2017-04-25 · John's seven-year-old son wakes at five every Saturday and watches two hours of Pokémon before John can take the iPad away. — Pokemon, Reviewed by a Dad Who Knows Nothing about Pokemon 00:00:03
• 2017-05-02 · John is training for a half marathon and a couple of days ago ran 12 miles without stopping, which pleases him. · story: John trains for a half marathon (2017) — The Life Changing Magic of Thumbs Up 00:00:04
• 2017-05-02 · While running and not feeling awesome, John got a thumbs up from a runner passing him on the trail. — The Life Changing Magic of Thumbs Up 00:00:45
• 2017-05-16 · John says their dad is a documentary filmmaker who, while they grew up, made films on everything from water in Florida to education in Alaska. — The Introducer, My Childhood Dream Job 00:00:02
• 2017-05-16 · John says he inherited from their dad a really deep love for documentary films. — The Introducer, My Childhood Dream Job 00:00:34
• 2017-05-16 · John recalls cable channels like Turner Classic Movies where a host introduced each old film with context; as a kid his dream job was to be such an introducer, but of documentaries. — The Introducer, My Childhood Dream Job 00:01:00
• 2017-05-16 · As a kid John's favourite genre was the nature documentary: animals fighting to survive, a magical glimpse into a world without us, almost never with humans in frame. — The Introducer, My Childhood Dream Job 00:02:02
• 2017-05-23 (said on 2017-05-14, implied) · John says the video was filmed nine days earlier because he is taking a week or two away from the internet to work. · story: John takes a week or two away from the internet to focus on writing (2017) — Boxes, Butterflies, and Regular Aunts: Live from the Past, It's Question Tuesday 00:00:06
• 2017-05-23 (said on 2017-05-14, implied) · Asked about life after 100 Days, John says it is good: he finished his first half marathon in two hours and seven minutes. · story: John trains for a half marathon (2017) — Boxes, Butterflies, and Regular Aunts: Live from the Past, It's Question Tuesday 00:01:48
• 2017-05-23 (said on 2017-05-14, implied) · John says Willy is not doing great: he has a very slow-growing cancer, but he is much loved and has a relatively good prognosis, so they are hopeful. · story: John's dog Willy has a slow-growing cancer (2017) — Boxes, Butterflies, and Regular Aunts: Live from the Past, It's Question Tuesday 00:02:43
• 2017-05-30 · John has one photo of himself at 23, from his year in Chicago: an intense, loving but doomed relationship, starting and restarting the book that became Looking for Alaska, and the year when, in a borrowed Emily Dickinson line, a plank in Reason broke and he dropped down and down. · story: John's depression at 24 in Chicago: leave from Booklist, home to Orlando, and watching Harvey — What Should We Keep? 00:00:05
• 2017-05-30 · 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). — What Should We Keep? 00:00:34
• 2017-05-30 · John says there were once more photos of him at 23 on Friendster, a now-defunct social network, but they died with it. — What Should We Keep? 00:02:18
• 2017-06-13 · When they started Vlogbrothers in 2007 John spent several months in Cheyenne, always thinking about his next video, growing their audience, and how cool YouTube was. — Cheyenne, Wyoming 00:00:22
• 2017-06-13 · John says he mostly visits Cheyenne, Wyoming when he is writing. — Cheyenne, Wyoming 00:00:36
• 2017-06-13 · John says Cheyenne was long an escape: in years without many real friends, when he was intensely lonely, he could go where people liked him because he had made them up. (hedged) — Cheyenne, Wyoming 00:00:55
• 2017-06-13 · In Cheyenne John is not really here: he sometimes fails to answer his kids' questions at dinner, neglects daily responsibilities and forgets haircuts. — Cheyenne, Wyoming 00:01:06
• 2017-06-13 · John has been in Cheyenne for quite a while and expects to stay longer; it is frustrating because he likes his real life and his Tuesday videos, isn't all the way here, and worries he should be. · story: John takes a week or two away from the internet to focus on writing (2017) — Cheyenne, Wyoming 00:01:18
• 2017-06-13 · John spent about a year in Cheyenne finishing The Fault in Our Stars, but also several months a few years ago only to realize the book he'd worked hard on wasn't good and wouldn't be published. · story: John fails to write a follow-up to The Fault in Our Stars: abandoned identity-thieves and con-artists novels (2012-2015) — Cheyenne, Wyoming 00:01:36
• 2017-06-13 · John says this doesn't mean working all day: he wrote his first two books at night after work, quicker than any book since. — Cheyenne, Wyoming 00:02:20
• 2017-06-13 · John tells Hank he is sorry if he hasn't been around enough lately, that he will come home at some point, and that he misses him. — Cheyenne, Wyoming 00:02:50
• 2017-06-20 · John says the first book he fell in love with was Gus Is a Bug. — FIRST! Green Brothers Reunited Again 00:01:10
• 2017-06-20 · John insists Hank's first broken bone came when he fell out of a tree house and broke his arm; Hank denies it. — FIRST! Green Brothers Reunited Again 00:01:18
• 2017-06-20 · John realizes the tree-house memory he attributed to Hank is a memory of himself. — FIRST! Green Brothers Reunited Again 00:01:40
• 2017-06-20 · John remembers that concert: he was there and Hank was about 11. — FIRST! Green Brothers Reunited Again 00:01:51
• 2017-06-20 · John reveals Hank's first tweet, from June 2007 on his EcoGeek handle: writing up stories for EcoGeek and wondering when Google would buy Twitter. — FIRST! Green Brothers Reunited Again 00:03:06
• 2017-06-22 · John thanks his editor Julie Strauss-Gabel, who has edited every book he has written and worked with him on this story for years, everyone at Penguin Random House, and everyone who sent him encouraging notes or comments over the years. — My New Book 00:00:00
• 2017-06-22 · John says his previous book, The Fault in Our Stars, came out more than five and a half years ago, so this one has been a long and winding road. — My New Book 00:00:13
• 2017-06-22 · John says the story, though made up, is personal, because he has a mental illness that at times has taken over his life. — My New Book 00:00:29
• 2017-06-22 · John thanks people, especially his family, for their patience and kindness over five and a half years: he often worried he would never publish another book, and without their support wouldn't be. · story: John fails to write a follow-up to The Fault in Our Stars: abandoned identity-thieves and con-artists novels (2012-2015) — My New Book 00:00:48
• 2017-06-27 · John has been signing the sheets one at a time, off and on, for about six months, and it was hard to keep secret. — UNBOXING 00:00:17
• 2017-06-27 · 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. — UNBOXING 00:00:46
• 2017-06-27 · For many years a large part of John's job was typing ISBNs into a database, so he knows a lot about them. — UNBOXING 00:01:36
• 2017-06-27 · John's first thought on learning Dutton would publish Looking for Alaska was that he would be a '0-525'; he is proud still to be published by Dutton. — UNBOXING 00:01:56
• 2017-06-27 · 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) — UNBOXING 00:02:52
• 2017-06-27 · 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) — UNBOXING 00:03:08
• 2017-06-27 · John says he is so excited and also so relieved to have a new book coming out. — UNBOXING 00:03:24
• 2017-07-04 · Sunsets in Michigan are so ostentatiously beautiful that they are ordinary there, unlike back home in Indiana, where the light just gets grayer until dark. — Civil Twilight 00:00:31
• 2017-07-04 · The science still doesn't convey how it felt to see an ordinary but beautiful civil twilight; John tried to photograph it, but the camera, and his voiceover, could not capture it. — Civil Twilight 00:02:14
• 2017-07-04 · So John turned off his camera, and it was enough. — Civil Twilight 00:02:55
• 2017-07-11 · John thanks everyone who has pre-ordered the book, signed or unsigned, for their support, and calls the experience intimidating but very exciting. — Signing 200,000 Autographs 00:00:00
• 2017-07-11 · Still on vacation, John brought 35,000 sheets of paper and has signed very nearly 120,000 sheets. — Signing 200,000 Autographs 00:00:02
• 2017-07-11 · John has to finish signing by about August 17th. (hedged) — Signing 200,000 Autographs 00:00:27
• 2017-07-11 · A selfish reason: for 2,000 days or so of writing this book John rarely knew if his work would make it in or bring him closer; signing, he knows people will like it and each one gets him closer to done. (hedged) · story: John fails to write a follow-up to The Fault in Our Stars: abandoned identity-thieves and con-artists novels (2012-2015) — Signing 200,000 Autographs 00:01:14
• 2017-07-11 · His hand doesn't hurt: very effective physical therapy for his ulnar nerve entrapment during the Fault in Our Stars signing means he can now sign all day. · story: John's signing hand stops working right; doctor and occupational therapy (2011) — Signing 200,000 Autographs 00:01:40
• 2017-07-11 · Signing a thousand takes about two hours, so the whole project will take around 400 hours. (hedged) — Signing 200,000 Autographs 00:02:11
• 2017-07-11 · John honestly still thinks signing is fun. — Signing 200,000 Autographs 00:03:17
• 2017-07-18 · Signing update: John is just past 135,000 signatures. — Accio Decade Hallows 00:00:00
• 2017-07-18 · John says ten years ago today was one of the most important days of his life. — Accio Decade Hallows 00:00:05
• 2017-07-18 · 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) · story: Birth of John and Sarah's second child, Alice (2013) — Accio Decade Hallows 00:00:59
• 2017-07-18 · 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. — Accio Decade Hallows 00:01:13
• 2017-07-18 · 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. · story: John: how Looking for Alaska was written, revised and won the Printz Award (2006) — Accio Decade Hallows 00:01:24
• 2017-07-18 · 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. · story: John and Sarah move to Indianapolis (2007) — Accio Decade Hallows 00:01:54
• 2017-07-18 · In July 2007 John was doing Brotherhood 2.0, a year-long project of weekday videos with Hank, watched by a few hundred people a day. — Accio Decade Hallows 00:02:12
• 2017-07-18 · It had not occurred to John to keep going with the project after the end of 2007. — Accio Decade Hallows 00:02:26
• 2017-07-18 · Ten years ago today (18 July 2007) Hank uploaded Accio Deathly Hallows, a song about his excitement for the publication of the last Harry Potter book. — Accio Decade Hallows 00:02:31
• 2017-07-18 · The song was picked up on Harry Potter fan forums, so the project was discovered by passionate people who know how to build internet communities. — Accio Decade Hallows 00:03:05
• 2017-07-18 · Days later the song was featured on YouTube's front page and the channel went from about 200 subscribers to over 5,000; the year-long project began to feel like it could last. — Accio Decade Hallows 00:03:12
• 2017-07-18 · John thanks Hank for the song and for one of his favourite memories, and thanks everyone who watched then and watches now. — Accio Decade Hallows 00:03:46
• 2017-07-25 · John says he has obsessive-compulsive disorder. — What OCD Is Like (for Me) 00:00:37
• 2017-07-25 · John experiences obsessive thought spirals in which intrusive thoughts he does not want, which seem to come from outside him, hijack his consciousness. — What OCD Is Like (for Me) 00:00:56
• 2017-07-25 · For John the obsessive thought spirals happen all the time and can take over for days, weeks or months, for example a sudden worry that his food is contaminated or poisoned. — What OCD Is Like (for Me) 00:01:19
• 2017-07-25 · When it gets bad, John can lose all control over his thoughts for a long time, unable to follow a TV show or read a book. — What OCD Is Like (for Me) 00:01:35
• 2017-07-25 · John says his compulsions, such as repeatedly checking food for contamination or googling for hours what happens if he eats moldy bread, are ways to comfort and calm himself. — What OCD Is Like (for Me) 00:02:02
• 2017-07-25 · John says that when he began the book that became Turtles All the Way Down he wanted to give form and expression to the experience of living inside thought spirals. — What OCD Is Like (for Me) 00:02:55
• 2017-08-01 · Signing update: John has about 34,000 copies to go, about 68 hours of signing, which he thinks is doable. (hedged) — Death and How to Avoid It (...for a while) 00:03:22
• 2017-08-03 · John tells Hank he loves him and admires his hard work, his relentless pursuit of decreasing world suck, and his love, kindness and patience as son, father, husband and brother. — HAPPY ESTHER DAY!!! 00:00:41
• 2017-08-08 · 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. — What You Make of It: Thoughts from Venice, Italy 00:00:25
• 2017-08-08 · 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. — What You Make of It: Thoughts from Venice, Italy 00:01:13
• 2017-08-08 · After the Grand Canal view, they visit the Peggy Guggenheim Collection: works by Anish Kapoor, Modigliani, Warhol, Frank Stella, Picasso and Pollock, though John mostly saw the backs of heads. — What You Make of It: Thoughts from Venice, Italy 00:01:40
• 2017-08-08 · 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. · story: John in Venice for the Indianapolis Museum of Art's US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2011) — What You Make of It: Thoughts from Venice, Italy 00:02:01
• 2017-08-08 · John recalls cutting that visit short the next day to fly back to Amsterdam; his gallbladder turned out to need removing. · story: John's diseased gallbladder and its removal (2011) — What You Make of It: Thoughts from Venice, Italy 00:02:12
• 2017-08-08 · John says that besides the physical illness his mental health was near an all-time low; in 2011 he hated the Piazza San Marco, its smell, tourists, pigeons and flying lions, and was sick and scared. — What You Make of It: Thoughts from Venice, Italy 00:02:15
• 2017-08-08 · John says that yesterday he was happy in the Piazza San Marco, loving the families from all over the world and people taking selfies with history; he didn't even mind the pigeons. — What You Make of It: Thoughts from Venice, Italy 00:02:44
• 2017-08-15 · John is reading the final manuscript of Turtles All the Way Down today because it goes to the printer tomorrow. — Very Hard to Desclibe 00:00:33
• 2017-08-15 · John says this is probably his last full reading of the book: once something is published and he can't change it, he finds it unbearable to read. (hedged) — Very Hard to Desclibe 00:00:38
• 2017-08-15 · John says he just really hopes people like the book, but from tomorrow there's nothing he can do. — Very Hard to Desclibe 00:01:01
• 2017-08-15 · 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). — Very Hard to Desclibe 00:01:07
• 2017-08-15 · To put the signed sheets back with their boxes, John gets to use his LectroJogger, a magical piece of 20th-century technology that exists solely to line up sheets of paper. — Very Hard to Desclibe 00:01:24
• 2017-08-15 · John has been reading a lot of poetry lately; he doesn't know why, but guesses it's how his brain wants to process text at the moment. (hedged) — Very Hard to Desclibe 00:02:04
• 2017-08-29 · John says he just turned 40, which has led to some existential navel-gazing, but not with the conclusions one might expect. — 40 00:00:00
• 2017-09-05 · John thanks viewers for listening and admits he is very nervous. — John Reads the First Chapter of Turtles All the Way Down 00:10:21
• 2017-09-12 · John's best hot dog came from a stand in Reykjavik, Iceland, where hot dogs cost about a dollar: one of the two or three best meals he has ever eaten; he sometimes dreams of it. — How Will the World End? Why Even Get Out of Bed? It's Question Tuesday. 00:02:27
• 2017-09-12 · John feels that something he finished isn't good enough every Tuesday evening, and every three to six years when he publishes a book. — How Will the World End? Why Even Get Out of Bed? It's Question Tuesday. 00:02:57
• 2017-09-12 · John congratulates Hank on a great VidCon Australia. — How Will the World End? Why Even Get Out of Bed? It's Question Tuesday. 00:03:30
• 2017-10-03 · In full disclosure, John went to high school with Alarcón, who beat him for the Creative Writing Award three years in a row, with good reason. — Let's Talk about Books 00:01:06
• 2017-10-03 · John has read a lot of poetry this year (2017), not knowing why, and it has been a tremendous consolation to him. — Let's Talk about Books 00:01:36
• 2017-10-10 · John hopes readers like the book and thanks everyone who stuck with him over the six years he struggled to write it. — Turtles All the Way Down!!! A Reunion Video 00:00:00
• 2017-10-10 · About to go on stage for their rehearsal show, John is super stressed while Hank is just chilling. — Turtles All the Way Down!!! A Reunion Video 00:00:36
• 2017-10-10 · 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) — Turtles All the Way Down!!! A Reunion Video 00:00:51
• 2017-10-10 · Asked whether he listens to music while writing, John says, unsurprisingly, that he does: only the Mountain Goats. — Turtles All the Way Down!!! A Reunion Video 00:02:33
• 2017-10-17 · On I-4 in Orlando, John remembers that about 12 years ago Hank had a viral hit website, ihatei4.com, and it makes him smile. — Look at Tiny Baby Hank 00:00:10
• 2017-10-17 · At Hank's old high school John signs books and thanks the Winter Park High School students who made a paper town and got them t-shirts and green room chairs. · story: John and Hank return to Hank's old high school, Winter Park High School, on the Turtles tour (2017) — Look at Tiny Baby Hank 00:00:38
• 2017-10-17 · Reading people's thoughtful responses to the book has brought John to tears again and again this week (week of 16 October 2017). — Look at Tiny Baby Hank 00:01:34
• 2017-10-17 · John says it has also been a difficult week: his mental health is not where he would like it, partly because he is so far outside his routine; he loves touring but it is a bit overwhelming. — Look at Tiny Baby Hank 00:01:40
• 2017-10-17 · Watching Hank perform at his old high school, John thinks of Hank's kindness: a month away from family and jobs to tour with him, his Twitter profile turned into turtles, and constant support since high school; John is lucky and grateful. — Look at Tiny Baby Hank 00:01:56
• 2017-10-24 · John signed what he believes is every copy of Turtles All the Way Down for sale or borrowing in Sioux Falls, meeting librarians, booksellers and confused Target shoppers. (hedged) — Tour Bus Bus Tour 00:00:05
• 2017-10-24 · The rear 'rec room' with John's Nintendo Switch is louder and sways more; at the start of the tour everyone was nauseated there, but now they have their bus legs. — Tour Bus Bus Tour 00:02:20
• 2017-10-24 · The bus holds a bag of 850 plastic turtles, and turtles are everywhere: in the shoe closet, the Sharpie drawer, the microwave and the popcorn and applesauce drawer. — Tour Bus Bus Tour 00:02:38
• 2017-10-31 · The description says Hank and John sneaked around backstage in Bellingham, Washington, and found a theatre set for a Question Tuesday meant to be mostly pizza questions. (both) — Where are Whale Balls? Question Tuesday: Pizza Edition 00:00:00
• 2017-11-03 · John says their tour ended last night (2 November 2017) in Los Angeles; almost every night for the past month he watched Hank's set from the side of the stage. — Because We're Here 00:00:01
• 2017-11-03 · John recalls the first time he saw Hank play in front of a crowd: 45 people in Grand Rapids, Michigan, almost a decade ago (May 2008). — Because We're Here 00:00:13
• 2017-11-03 · John recalls other nights of Hank's music: Edinburgh, the first VidCon, and 8/8/08 in Chicago, when Harry Potter fans sang his songs louder than his voice. — Because We're Here 00:00:18
• 2017-11-03 · John recalls hanging out with Amy Krouse Rosenthal later that night in 2008, his friend who died earlier this year (2017). — Because We're Here 00:00:30
• 2017-11-03 · John tells an Amy story from his tour: in 2005 Amy, a children's book writer, memoirist and professional seeker of wonder, invited him to one of her readings. · story: Amy Krouse Rosenthal turns 'We're here because we're here' into hope for a depressed John at her reading (2005) — Because We're Here 00:00:38
• 2017-11-03 · John says he was then in a period of intense unwellness, losing himself to intrusive thought spirals, with a chest-crushing depression: nothing enjoyable, struggling to get out of bed. (hedged) — Because We're Here 00:00:47
• 2017-11-03 · John tells Hank 2017 has been a long year for him, good and bad, difficult, amazing, joyful and terrifying, but we're here. — Because We're Here 00:02:43
• 2017-11-09 · The months before Turtles All the Way Down came out were difficult for John: overwhelmed by worry about its reception, the tour and publicity, and how to talk about his own mental illness. — The New Zealand Five Cent Coin 00:00:04
• 2017-11-09 · One night, fighting dread with eBay shopping, John found he could buy New Zealand five-cent coins and bought 23 for 22 US dollars. — The New Zealand Five Cent Coin 00:01:02
• 2017-11-09 · John thought that with a couple hundred coins he could give one as a gift to everybody who left a gift for them on the tour. — The New Zealand Five Cent Coin 00:01:17
• 2017-11-09 · eBay lacked enough coins, so John reached out to Kiwi nerdfighters; the project was led by Megan, a librarian and teacher who wrote to her local newspaper asking for coins for an American author. — The New Zealand Five Cent Coin 00:01:24
• 2017-11-09 · The letter ran online and in the newspaper, and a lot of people responded; most who sent coins to Megan had no idea who John was. — The New Zealand Five Cent Coin 00:01:38
• 2017-11-09 · Coins came three or a hundred at a time, with letters about mothers' collections and coins going on an adventure, and letters in Maori on the importance of tuatara. — The New Zealand Five Cent Coin 00:01:49
• 2017-11-09 · Not knowing what John was going through, the senders couldn't know he would dissolve into tears of gratitude when thousands of tuatara coins arrived from Megan. — The New Zealand Five Cent Coin 00:02:19
• 2017-11-09 · They gave many coins out on tour; John will try to give the rest over his life to those who need a physical reminder of how kind people can be. (hedged) — The New Zealand Five Cent Coin 00:02:36
• 2017-11-21 · John has the flu, everything hurts and he is miserable, so he tries to cheer himself up by telling Hank two love stories. — Two Love Stories 00:00:00
• 2017-11-21 · The description's health update: after shooting the video, John was hit by vertigo that made him barf for days; it appears to be labyrinthitis and recovery is slow. · story: John is very sick and misses a vlogbrothers video for the first time in a long time (November 2017) — Two Love Stories 00:00:00
• 2017-11-21 · 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. — Two Love Stories 00:00:11
• 2017-11-21 · Sara and Luis fell in love, got a dog named Scout and a cat named Boo and decided to marry, while John was failing to write a new book. — Two Love Stories 00:00:33
• 2017-11-21 · The Turtles All the Way Down tour returned to Washington, DC two days before their wedding; they came, and the brothers gave them a KitchenAid mixer and champagne. — Two Love Stories 00:00:43
• 2017-11-21 · In October 2012, before John's Cincinnati library event, Kenny tweeted asking whether to skip business law class to come; John said no, school matters more, but he came anyway. — Two Love Stories 00:01:29
• 2017-11-21 · Kenny sat next to Amy; they talked, exchanged contact information, fell in love, got two dogs and three cats and bought a house. — Two Love Stories 00:01:44
• 2017-11-21 · Before the Turtles tour returned to Cincinnati, Kenny wrote John on Reddit that he met his girlfriend at John's signing five years ago and wanted advice on proposing. — Two Love Stories 00:01:53
• 2017-11-21 · John congratulates Kenny and Amy. — Two Love Stories 00:02:15
• 2017-12-05 · John says he almost didn't sell the film rights to The Fault in Our Stars, partly after bad experiences in Hollywood and partly because the book was very close to him. — On the Movies 00:01:05
• 2017-12-05 · John says The Fault in Our Stars held parts of him people knew about, like his friendship with Esther Earl, and parts of traumatic experiences he had never told anyone. — On the Movies 00:01:22
• 2017-12-05 · John says he sold the rights and got very lucky: Elizabeth and Erin at Fox 2000 were perfect stewards, with amazing producers, screenwriters and cast, and a movie he really loved. — On the Movies 00:01:54
• 2017-12-05 · John says they did it again with Paper Towns, and he then thought that had been a good run, since Paper Towns made less money. — On the Movies 00:02:09
• 2017-12-05 · Isaac, producer of The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns, pointed out that obsessive thoughts are also non-linguistic, which didn't stop John writing the book. — On the Movies 00:02:43
• 2017-12-19 · John is physically and metaphysically tired; his brain and voice are limping to the finish line of 2017. (hedged) — History Is Happening 00:00:08
• 2017-12-19 · John says too much work and travel and too little sleep and exercise are bad for his OCD. — History Is Happening 00:00:18
• 2017-12-19 · Lately John feels compelled to scroll through his social media feeds for hours, though it generally makes him feel worse. — History Is Happening 00:00:27
• 2017-12-26 · At the end of every year John writes two letters, to his past self who survived the year and his future self, reviewing the year and setting goals. — LEAVE IT IN 2017 00:00:00
• 2017-12-26 · The letters were his therapist's suggestion; John was suspicious at first, as of all therapy things, but found them incredibly helpful. — LEAVE IT IN 2017 00:00:15

2018

• 2018-01-16 · John's kids have discovered that their Uncle Hank is a musician on Spotify and won't stop listening to him. — My Hollywood Star, Brexit Pears, and Hank's Book: It's QUESTION TUESDAY 00:00:22
• 2018-01-16 · Asked how he deals with stress, John answers: poorly. — My Hollywood Star, Brexit Pears, and Hank's Book: It's QUESTION TUESDAY 00:02:12
• 2018-01-16 · Asked whether he is having a midlife crisis yet, John says maybe a little bit. (hedged) — My Hollywood Star, Brexit Pears, and Hank's Book: It's QUESTION TUESDAY 00:02:16
• 2018-01-16 · Asked whether he is upset 'about this' (referent unclear), John says no, he is just glad his books can be useful. — My Hollywood Star, Brexit Pears, and Hank's Book: It's QUESTION TUESDAY 00:02:42
• 2018-02-13 · John asked Bill Gates about this on a phone call a couple of weeks ago; Gates first pointed out that not every dollar spent has equal impact. — What Can't a Billion Dollars Buy? 00:01:54
• 2018-02-20 · John recalls meeting mathematician Daniel Biss through a mutual friend at a Chicago bar about 15 years ago (around 2003), and being surprised how much he enjoyed talking to him. — When Your Friend Runs for Governor 00:00:00
• 2018-02-20 · 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. — When Your Friend Runs for Governor 00:00:48
• 2018-02-20 · At Daniel's campaign announcement, John saw his eloquence and intelligence but thought, driving home, that Daniel might eventually return to abstract mathematics. (hedged) · story: Daniel Biss runs for Illinois state representative (2007) — When Your Friend Runs for Governor 00:01:23
• 2018-02-27 · John says their dog Willy is probably near the end of his life, and he wants to eulogize him before he dies. (hedged) · story: John's dog Willy has a slow-growing cancer (2017) — Ode to a Dog 00:00:01
• 2018-02-27 · 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'. · story: John and the Yeti get a puppy, Willy (2008) — Ode to a Dog 00:00:07
• 2018-02-27 · John expected a cuddly puppy, but Willy does not cuddle (or didn't until recent months): he is very strong-willed, wants no pity or baby talk, and wants food, especially bacon and peanut butter. — Ode to a Dog 00:00:20
• 2018-02-27 · Worried that Willy, not a 'sweet' dog, would resent new children, the family found him always extraordinarily gentle and patient with the kids, even as babies. — Ode to a Dog 00:00:59
• 2018-02-27 · 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. — Ode to a Dog 00:01:26
• 2018-02-27 · John talked about Willy a lot online at first, but as he came to value the privateness of his private life, Willy became less of a fixture of his online life. — Ode to a Dog 00:01:47
• 2018-02-27 · Willy has been a constant amid big family changes; though his barking has ruined many Vlogbrothers takes, his companionship has been a profound gift, especially in hard times. — Ode to a Dog 00:01:57
• 2018-02-27 · John says nobody can take seriously his fear that some terrible thing 'X' is about to happen, because they don't find his obsessive reasoning compelling though he does; he avoids even naming X for fear that talking about it will make it happen. — Ode to a Dog 00:02:31
• 2018-02-27 · Willy is harder to care for, with weeks of interrupted sleep; as the cancer advances he becomes the quiet, cuddly dog John once wanted, and John is grateful for the dog he is and was. · story: John's dog Willy has a slow-growing cancer (2017) — Ode to a Dog 00:03:21
• 2018-02-27 · John tells Willy he is a good dog and that he loves him. — Ode to a Dog 00:03:40
• 2018-03-13 · Project for Awesome donors joined John this weekend (10–11 March 2018) in England to watch AFC Wimbledon's 2-1 win over Oxford United, and greet Hank. — Who Should We Root For? 00:00:02
• 2018-03-13 · In 2014 John and some nerdfighters auctioned their World Cup love and raised over $10,000 for sarcoma research. — Who Should We Root For? 00:02:01
• 2018-04-03 · John usually uploads on time because he is a punctual person: he joins conference calls exactly one minute before they begin. — On Punctuality 00:00:15
• 2018-04-03 · John arrives at the doctor exactly 15 minutes early and must reach the airport at least 90 minutes before a flight, or there is a five-alarm fire in his brain. — On Punctuality 00:00:23
• 2018-04-03 · John has never missed a train or a flight, but until reading White it never occurred to him that an escaping train carries nothing vital to his health. — On Punctuality 00:02:42
• 2018-04-03 · John must pack for the family's spring break trip, flying out in the morning; he won't miss the flight but will try to be less early. (hedged) — On Punctuality 00:03:04
• 2018-04-17 · John lives in Indianapolis, where TFIOS and Turtles All the Way Down are set; earlier he lived in Chicago (part of An Abundance of Katherines), Birmingham, Alabama (Looking for Alaska) and Orlando, Florida (Paper Towns). — John Green Answers Your John Green Questions 00:00:35
• 2018-04-17 · Besides those books, John wrote half of Will Grayson, Will Grayson and one third of Let It Snow. — John Green Answers Your John Green Questions 00:00:56
• 2018-04-17 · John published his first book in 2005. — John Green Answers Your John Green Questions 00:01:02
• 2018-04-17 · John and Hank are brothers and there are no other siblings. — John Green Answers Your John Green Questions 00:01:09
• 2018-04-17 · John is a Hufflepuff, quite proudly. — John Green Answers Your John Green Questions 00:01:16
• 2018-04-17 · John is married and has two children. — John Green Answers Your John Green Questions 00:01:27
• 2018-04-17 · John is not banned from Canada, but gets extra screening on entry because he is on a list of potential undesirables after being denied entrance in 1995 for insufficient funds. · story: John is denied entry to Canada for insufficient funds (1995) and has been flagged at every entry since 2001 — John Green Answers Your John Green Questions 00:01:36
• 2018-04-17 · John likes soccer enough to sponsor a third-tier English team, which over the weekend might have avoided relegation by coming back from two-nil down at half-time to win 3-2 on the last kick. (hedged) — John Green Answers Your John Green Questions 00:02:38
• 2018-04-17 · John wept like a baby at the win; Henry asked why he was crying if it was happy, and John said it was. — John Green Answers Your John Green Questions 00:02:47
• 2018-04-17 · John technically co-founded VidCon, but only because he was on the phone with Hank when Hank came up with the idea; that is true of most things they made together. — John Green Answers Your John Green Questions 00:03:37
• 2018-05-08 · John says he may feel this more acutely than most because for 13 years he has made a living writing about how it feels to be young. (hedged) — Old Man Yells at Cloud 00:00:52
• 2018-05-08 · In ninth grade John played Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine loudly; his dad borrowed the CD despite the warning it was 'super alternative', found it compelling and bought his own copy. — Old Man Yells at Cloud 00:01:09
• 2018-05-08 · From age 14 until a few years ago the social internet gave John deep, meaningful relationships he struggled to find IRL; now it mostly makes him anxious and spirally without deepening connection. — Old Man Yells at Cloud 00:01:52
• 2018-05-08 · Like many people with OCD, John lives with a constant urge to check, dread when not checking, and the irrational certainty that this time checking will be important. — Old Man Yells at Cloud 00:02:50
• 2018-05-08 · If John is quiet on Twitter or elsewhere, viewers should know he is probably in his garden and quite content. (hedged) — Old Man Yells at Cloud 00:03:30
• 2018-05-22 · John dreamt that two ligers, the offspring of a male lion and a female tiger, were walking through his backyard. — The Liger Delusion 00:00:00
• 2018-05-29 · A deer ate a lot of John's food a couple of weeks ago, so his dad built a fence. — How to Cook Eight Peas 00:00:05
• 2018-05-29 · It hasn't been good pea weather in Indianapolis, because it went from cold to hot almost immediately. — How to Cook Eight Peas 00:00:49
• 2018-06-05 · John can't find his Norton Anthology of Poetry, more precisely his friend Chip's copy, which he borrowed in 11th grade and eventually stole. — WHERE IS MY NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY 00:00:01
• 2018-06-05 · John has looked for the book for an entire day and couldn't write a Vlogbrothers script, so the search became the topic of the video. — WHERE IS MY NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY 00:01:32
• 2018-06-05 · Wondering if it is at the office, John drives there and finds the anthology. — WHERE IS MY NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY 00:02:04
• 2018-06-05 · John reads aloud 'The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm' from the anthology. — WHERE IS MY NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY 00:02:24
• 2018-06-12 · Tunisia's kits look so good John bought one, though he fears their World Cup will be brief. — Your 4-Minute Guide to ALL 32 TEAMS at the 2018 World Cup 00:03:31
• 2018-06-19 · Hank sent John 2,000 of the signed sheets to add something to, the way Hank has added his signature move, the Hanklerfish, to many copies of John's books. — My Signature Move 00:01:02
• 2018-06-19 · On about half the sheets John draws spirals, as close as he can get to the Raymond Pettibon painting he wrote about in Turtles All the Way Down; spirals sort of are his signature move even if he doesn't want them to be. (hedged) — My Signature Move 00:02:18
• 2018-06-19 · On the other half John writes DFTBA in the infinite shadow created by the Carl, which strikes him as an extremely metaphorically resonant infinite shadow. — My Signature Move 00:02:35
• 2018-06-26 · John first heard the joke at 23, when he believed adulthood was a process through which one became the wise older fish. — How's the Water? 00:00:30
• 2018-06-26 · So John listened to people claiming to be the wise fish, religious or atheistic, conservative or liberal, whose shared certainty he found almost desperately attractive. — How's the Water? 00:00:38
• 2018-07-03 · John's Myspace is still there, a minor museum to his 2007 self, with a profile picture advertising the forthcoming Paper Towns. — How Does This End? 00:00:39
• 2018-07-10 · John became intensely interested in the most recent year global population declined; deep Googling and the library failed, Max Roser of Our World in Data didn't know, but his colleague Hannah Ritchie found an answer. — The General Crisis 00:00:01
• 2018-07-17 · John shows his garden: mostly dirt at the last visit, it now has zucchini, sunflowers, dragon tongue beans, eggplants, oregano and, above all, tomatoes. — How to Eat 213 Tomatoes 00:00:02
• 2018-07-17 · Picking the tomatoes took John 34 minutes and left him drenched in sweat. — How to Eat 213 Tomatoes 00:00:34
• 2018-07-17 · John thought he hated tomatoes until his late twenties, but he had just never had a good one. — How to Eat 213 Tomatoes 00:01:50
• 2018-07-17 · 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. — How to Eat 213 Tomatoes 00:02:33
• 2018-07-24 · After John implied in a Mental Floss article that Bigfoot didn't exist, the Bigfoot researcher wrote in to say he had besmirched the good name of John Greens everywhere. — Other John Greens 00:00:46
• 2018-07-31 · John says leaving his phone feels like getting out, not off; even as a kid on phone calls with friends he felt he was in a disembodied space with them. — On Prepositions 00:02:35
• 2018-08-07 · John says he likes to spend time by himself: most of his hobbies (reading, writing, gardening, listening to podcasts) are things generally done alone. — How I Made Friends 00:00:07
• 2018-08-07 · John says he gets anxious in situations with lots of new people, not primarily because of his mental illness but because many people find social engagements nervous-making, especially alone. (hedged) — How I Made Friends 00:00:18
• 2018-08-07 · 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. · story: John and Sarah move to Indianapolis (2007) — How I Made Friends 00:01:09
• 2018-08-07 · John says he volunteered, attended events and accepted every invitation, as the internet advised, but none of it worked; drained and discouraged, he felt Indianapolis wasn't the place for him. — How I Made Friends 00:01:25
• 2018-08-07 · 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. — How I Made Friends 00:01:46
• 2018-08-07 · Chris and Marina both worked from home then, and they often went to lunch together, so John astonishingly sort of had work friends. — How I Made Friends 00:02:56
• 2018-08-07 · Knowing John was lonely, Chris invited him into his IndyCar fantasy league and over to watch TV, and through Chris John made more friends. — How I Made Friends 00:03:13
• 2018-08-07 · 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. — How I Made Friends 00:03:43
• 2018-08-14 · The description says Hank is going on tour and John is joining him for the East Coast leg. — Question Tuesday: Secrets & Primes 00:00:00
• 2018-08-14 · John says books take him long to write so he entertains himself with inside jokes: having overused 'deadpan' in Looking for Alaska, he has used it exactly once in every book since. — Question Tuesday: Secrets & Primes 00:01:38
• 2018-08-14 · John is very excited to tour with Hank in September; not knowing when they will tour together again, he will try to relish it. — Question Tuesday: Secrets & Primes 00:02:36
• 2018-08-28 · Fans were very mad when Nat Wolff was cast as Isaac, who is blond in the book, and John was concerned too, but Wolff turned out to be the perfect Isaac. — The Book Was Better? 00:01:06
• 2018-08-28 · Authors are often asked to communicate such decisions to fans; John has messed this up a lot in the past, part of his nervousness. — The Book Was Better? 00:01:41
• 2018-09-04 · John is a little stressed at the moment and so has been thinking about the Eisenhower Matrix. — The Eisenhower Matrix 00:00:00
• 2018-09-04 · John's biggest important but not urgent task is writing a novel, his top sanity strategy and his job, yet he forsakes it for the urgent until it becomes late-night dread. — The Eisenhower Matrix 00:00:35
• 2018-09-04 · John wrote his first novel with self-set deadlines and scheduled nights and weekends, and will write his next that way, if there is a next one. (hedged) — The Eisenhower Matrix 00:03:08
• 2018-09-04 · John's parents introduced him to the strategy as a kid; he has found it very helpful though hard to implement minute by minute, and will keep trying. — The Eisenhower Matrix 00:03:18
• 2018-09-11 · John reminds Hank that in May he said Hank's birthday present would be a little late, and says it is here. — Surprise . . . 00:00:00
• 2018-09-11 · John learned of many worthy projects after his call for sponsorship and regrets having to select so few. — Surprise . . . 00:02:55
• 2018-09-18 · At seven, in 1984, John was the oldest player on his Little League t-ball team, where the ball is placed on a tee rather than pitched. · story: John's 1984 tee-ball 'all-star in our hearts' trophy (2007) — On the Participation Trophy 00:00:29
• 2018-09-18 · Though a terrible athlete, John loved sports, passionately and hopelessly. — On the Participation Trophy 00:00:29
• 2018-09-18 · After a good season, owed to being older than everyone, John got a participation award and was named an alternate for the t-ball all-star team. · story: John's 1984 tee-ball 'all-star in our hearts' trophy (2007) — On the Participation Trophy 00:01:27
• 2018-09-18 · John's parents' solution: the family still visited his grandparents and he missed the game, but they had a trophy made reading 'John Green 1984 All-Star In Our Hearts'. · story: John's 1984 tee-ball 'all-star in our hearts' trophy (2007) — On the Participation Trophy 00:01:56
• 2018-09-18 · John's parents always praised his effort more than his achievements; even now his mom says she knows he worked hard rather than congratulating him on an award. — On the Participation Trophy 00:02:26
• 2018-09-25 · John is so happy that last night he started crying for no reason except gratitude. — You Did It! 00:00:29
• 2018-09-25 · As a kid John often dreamt of the moment at the end of Back to the Future when George McFly opens a box of finished copies of his book. — You Did It! 00:02:26
• 2018-09-28 · John says hanging out with Hank is the best part of the tour for him too. — REUNION!!! Mountain Goats Aren't Goats 00:03:38
• 2018-10-02 · In a later coda, John says his part of the An Absolutely Remarkable Thing tour has ended. — How Much Do You Love Each Other? It's Question Tuesday 00:02:26
• 2018-10-09 · John says this matters to him personally: he couldn't function without his daily medication, which lets him live with his thoughts rather than be controlled by them. — How Big a Problem is Mental Illness? 00:02:55
• 2018-10-09 · John says that, like many people with chronic health problems, he has lost time to his illness but has a good and fulfilling life. — How Big a Problem is Mental Illness? 00:03:24
• 2018-10-29 · John is sick with a fever, out of bed for the first time in four days and not feeling great. — PIZZAMAS IS HERE! 00:00:16
• 2018-10-31 · John recalls that Looking for Alaska was published in March 2005, when he was 28 and living in Chicago. — The Looking for Alaska Thing 00:00:15
• 2018-10-31 · 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. · story: John sells the Looking for Alaska film rights for three times his salary, paying for his and Sarah's move to New York (2005) — The Looking for Alaska Thing 00:00:20
• 2018-10-31 · John says Hollywood suddenly took interest: in one day he was paid three times his annual salary for the movie rights, which let them move to New York and bought him time to write. · story: John sells the Looking for Alaska film rights for three times his salary, paying for his and Sarah's move to New York (2005) — The Looking for Alaska Thing 00:01:10
• 2018-10-31 · John says the deal had no reversion clause, so the studio would own the rights forever, and he understood what he was doing. — The Looking for Alaska Thing 00:01:26
• 2018-10-31 · John says Josh Schwartz, who makes TV with Stephanie Savage, was first attached to write the screenplay and wrote an excellent script, but the studio wanted changes, mostly to make it less like the book. — The Looking for Alaska Thing 00:01:38
• 2018-10-31 · John says no one would fund it, so the Alaska movie was dead until 2014, when The Fault in Our Stars became a very successful movie. — The Looking for Alaska Thing 00:02:05
• 2018-10-31 · John says everyone on The Fault in Our Stars movie, studio included, cared so much about the book that the process made him really want an Alaska movie. — The Looking for Alaska Thing 00:02:16
• 2018-10-31 · John says the studio hired great screenwriters and a director, then cancelled the movie at the last minute; heartbroken and angry, he told them he was out. — The Looking for Alaska Thing 00:02:26
• 2018-10-31 · John says a producer friend proposed that Josh and Stephanie, long the book's champions, make it with more time than a film, so it became an eight-episode Hulu limited series. — The Looking for Alaska Thing 00:02:49
• 2018-10-31 · John says the series is not his but belongs to Stephanie and Josh, as it should; they have welcomed him into every aspect, including sending him the audition tapes. — The Looking for Alaska Thing 00:03:20
• 2018-11-05 · Hank and John appear together in an unplanned Pizzamas reunion video: they are together because their cousin is getting married. (both) — Reading Mean Comments with John 00:00:00
• 2018-11-06 · John spends something like 20 hours a week on Facebook, Reddit, Instagram and Twitter, mostly scrolling and skimming, and his attention has become extremely fractured. (hedged) — Taking a Year Off 00:00:00
• 2018-11-06 · John says he started his podcast The Anthropocene Reviewed in an attempt to pay more sustained and careful attention. — Taking a Year Off 00:02:26
• 2018-11-06 · John posts much less than he used to but still spends huge swaths of time on those platforms; all his attempts at an information diet or dumbing down his phone have failed. · story: John turns his phone into a 'dumb phone' and changes how he follows the news (2016) — Taking a Year Off 00:02:26
• 2018-11-13 · The description says John feels really overwhelmed and a bit burnt out, but also tremendously supported, and knows he can take breaks when needed. — HAIRMERGENCY! 00:00:00
• 2018-11-13 · The description says John feels this way going into the Project for Awesome every year, so he should not be surprised, yet always is. — HAIRMERGENCY! 00:00:00
• 2018-11-13 · John writes that although he has anxiety problems, viewers needn't worry this is part of a larger thing: he is stressed because too much is happening, not falling into 'the tightening gyre' — he thinks. (hedged) — HAIRMERGENCY! 00:00:00
• 2018-11-13 · John knows he could prevent the cycle by saying yes when the receptionist offers to book his next appointment right after a haircut, but he always says no. — HAIRMERGENCY! 00:00:37
• 2018-11-13 · John says he can't see burnout coming; when it arrived recently he was gobsmacked by how much there was to do, though he had scheduled it that way. · story: John's burnout after taking on new projects (2018) — HAIRMERGENCY! 00:02:33
• 2018-11-20 · John names big causes for celebration, like his daughter going to kindergarten. — Cause for Celebration 00:00:58
• 2018-11-20 · 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. — Cause for Celebration 00:01:56
• 2018-11-20 · John has been doing this lately, and it has brought him so much joy. — Cause for Celebration 00:02:26
• 2018-12-11 · When the internet first came to John's house in the early 1990s, it seemed to live inside a box; once his dad got it working, it was green letters on a black screen. (hedged) — When the Internet Came Home 00:00:03
• 2018-12-11 · John's dad showed him what the internet could do, like the current weather in Beijing or downloading the Apology of Socrates for free. — When the Internet Came Home 00:00:13
• 2018-12-11 · His dad then showed him that on the internet you could talk to people, pointing him to a French forum so he could practice his French. — When the Internet Came Home 00:00:46
• 2018-12-11 · John found an English-language version of the service, which changed his life: he made friends, including many of the most important friendships of his childhood. — When the Internet Came Home 00:00:58
• 2018-12-11 · Online John met a girl he eventually fell in love with and dated for most of college; when they first met in person, neither had ever seen a picture of the other. — When the Internet Came Home 00:01:08
• 2018-12-11 · The internet then charged by the hour; John wanted many hours, and his parents, though supportive, needed to pay the mortgage and told him to cut back. — When the Internet Came Home 00:01:27
• 2018-12-18 · The description says John goes for a walk in the rain. — On Companionable Silence 00:00:00

2019

• 2019-01-01 · John would like to spend more time with his family this year (2019), but that means doing less of other things and disappointing people, so he must be ready to make a trade-off. — How to Make Goals, Not Resolutions 00:00:36
• 2019-01-01 · Instead of resolutions, John writes himself a yearly letter looking back and ahead, about the trade-offs and changes he would like to make. · story: John's yearly January letters to himself: a look back and goals for the new year — How to Make Goals, Not Resolutions 00:01:13
• 2019-01-01 · John met his 2018 goal of ten episodes of his new podcast The Anthropocene Reviewed, making eleven; it was more work than imagined but more fun. — How to Make Goals, Not Resolutions 00:01:40
• 2019-01-01 · John missed his goal of a Cooking History video series with Sarah because they didn't make time for it. — How to Make Goals, Not Resolutions 00:02:04
• 2019-01-08 · Tomorrow John will be one month into his year without social media; he left the platforms because he couldn't regulate his time or experience there and checked his phone hundreds of times a day. — I Quit Social Media. Here's How It's Going 00:00:03
• 2019-01-08 · On his computer John uses a Chrome extension called Stay Focused, whose "nuclear option" blocks certain websites completely. — I Quit Social Media. Here's How It's Going 00:00:20
• 2019-01-08 · On his phone John used Screen Time to disable Safari and the App Store and deleted all the attention-grabbing apps. · story: John turns his phone into a 'dumb phone' and changes how he follows the news (2016) — I Quit Social Media. Here's How It's Going 00:00:29
• 2019-01-08 · John learned that, without being aware of it, he typed Reddit, Twitter and Facebook into a web browser dozens of times a day. — I Quit Social Media. Here's How It's Going 00:00:58
• 2019-01-08 · He had not realised how fractured his attention had become, or how often he answered the first hint of boredom by going to Reddit. — I Quit Social Media. Here's How It's Going 00:01:10
• 2019-01-08 · A month in, John is happier, or at least less anxious. — I Quit Social Media. Here's How It's Going 00:01:20
• 2019-01-08 · John has more time: he wrote an Art Assignment video about Agnes Martin, and spends more time with his family. — I Quit Social Media. Here's How It's Going 00:01:33
• 2019-01-08 · Reading his hometown newspaper, John feels he understands his IRL community a little better. — I Quit Social Media. Here's How It's Going 00:01:50
• 2019-01-08 · Leaving the social internet hasn't been magical: John misses it more than expected, such as funny Reddit soccer threads and camaraderie on Twitter. — I Quit Social Media. Here's How It's Going 00:02:10
• 2019-01-15 · From just after his 24th birthday John spent most nights and weekends on the novel that became Looking for Alaska: Booklist by day, review reading after work, then writing until 11 or midnight. · story: John: how Looking for Alaska was written, revised and won the Printz Award (2006) — On Burning Resentment 00:00:00
• 2019-01-15 · Despite many privileges, John imagined himself a plucky underdog wronged by grave injustices: being dumped by a girl he loved, not being handsome enough, and no breaks in publishing. — On Burning Resentment 00:00:29
• 2019-01-15 · In fact John had many breaks: his Booklist editor Ilene Cooper mentored him through the writing, and Booklist paid him, modestly, to read and write about books. — On Burning Resentment 00:00:29
• 2019-01-15 · At 24 resentment let John work almost constantly and get a lot done, some of it good or at least impressive, which is what he wanted: to show how clever he could be. — On Burning Resentment 00:01:27
• 2019-01-22 · John says the headlines' 'John Green novel' is not a John Green novel: in 2007 and 2008 he, Lauren Myracle and Maureen Johnson wrote Let It Snow together. — Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle's Let It Snow 00:00:29
• 2019-01-22 · John explains that each author wrote one romance set at nearly the same time in the same North Carolina town during a blizzard, then they interconnected the stories so each is a window into the others. — Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle's Let It Snow 00:00:38
• 2019-01-22 · John says that while writing the book he secretly hoped it would become a movie, a hope so unrealistic he was embarrassed by it. — Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle's Let It Snow 00:01:02
• 2019-01-29 · On November 23, 1984, seven-year-old John watched Boston College play Miami, rooting for Boston College, and cried when Miami took a seemingly insurmountable late lead. — Do You Believe in Miracles? 00:00:00
• 2019-01-29 · Boston College's quarterback threw a 52-yard pass to his roommate and best friend Gerard Phelan to win in what became the Miami Miracle; John's dad threw him in the air. — Do You Believe in Miracles? 00:00:29
• 2019-01-29 · The urge to find and share hope is why John writes books, makes videos, gardens and sponsors AFC Wimbledon, the third-tier English team wearing DFTBA on their shorts. — Do You Believe in Miracles? 00:01:55
• 2019-01-29 · Watching in a basement in Indianapolis, John found himself in tears, grateful to the club that had again shown him the meaning of life. — Do You Believe in Miracles? 00:02:54
• 2019-02-05 · John explains the opening is a deepfake by Ryan, a University of Washington professor, whose model maps the brothers' faces to put a mustache John once had on both of them. — Deepfake: A Brief History of Unreliable Images 00:00:00
• 2019-02-12 · John says he got a C- in 10th grade geometry and was embarrassed about math; at 41 he worked through Mathigon's geometry courses with a real math teacher's help and finally understood tessellations. — Are Textbooks Obsolete? 00:03:24
• 2019-02-19 · Off social media, John says he treated Instagram and Twitter like first love, as if an experience's realness depended on its sharedness; he enjoys looking at things outside the frame of shareability. — Battling Apathy and Searching for Meaning on Question Tuesday 00:00:29
• 2019-02-19 · Asked for more frequent Anthropocene Reviewed episodes, John says it takes him an entire month to write one. — Battling Apathy and Searching for Meaning on Question Tuesday 00:01:27
• 2019-02-26 · Sitting at an airport gate waiting for his flight to Detroit, John couldn't stop thinking that everyone in the airport would be dead within a century or so. — The Necessity to Struggle / The Futility of Effort 00:00:00
• 2019-02-26 · Thinking further, John began to feel nihilistic, angry and disgusted by everything, from a man loudly discussing supply chains on his Bluetooth headset to how much stuff everyone has. — The Necessity to Struggle / The Futility of Effort 00:00:58
• 2019-03-05 · John has thought about the picture for over half his life: a favourite book of his is about it, he made a Vlogbrothers video about it, and he owns a recent print. — Way, Way Down the Rabbit Hole 00:00:00
• 2019-03-05 · John learned of two pictures apparently never publicly seen, one a Sander photo taken three years earlier of one of the boys, Otto Krieger, with his family. (hedged) — Way, Way Down the Rabbit Hole 00:00:58
• 2019-03-05 · At a dead end, John asked Tuataria, the sleuthing community born of his and Rosianna's scavenger hunt before Turtles All the Way Down, to verify his findings and find the pictures. — Way, Way Down the Rabbit Hole 00:01:56
• 2019-03-05 · Through correspondence with reporter Reinhard Pabst, John and Tuataria found both pictures and secured the rights to share them. — Way, Way Down the Rabbit Hole 00:02:26
• 2019-03-05 · John says the Life's Library news is something he would have tweeted, but he doesn't have Twitter. — Way, Way Down the Rabbit Hole 00:03:24
• 2019-03-12 · John spent the weekend (9–10 March 2019) with Charlie and Kristine, who play Miles and Alaska, and Sarah, their director, showing them around his old haunts. — Going Home with Alaska and Miles 00:00:00
• 2019-03-12 · The trip was meant to let the actors see the place John based Culver Creek on, but he realizes it was mostly for him. — Going Home with Alaska and Miles 00:00:00
• 2019-03-12 · They walked his old high school's campus, vastly changed but keeping its spirit, visited the gym with its academic decathlon banners and the art studios, and talked to students. — Going Home with Alaska and Miles 00:00:00
• 2019-03-12 · Looking for Alaska was different: like Miles, John was a Florida kid at an Alabama boarding school; the story is fictional, but he began it at 23 and saw himself in Miles and others. — Going Home with Alaska and Miles 00:00:58
• 2019-03-12 · John says Alaska's self-destructive impulses and the Colonel's fits of rage were his, and he has often worried he left too much exposed. — Going Home with Alaska and Miles 00:01:27
• 2019-03-12 · Having failed at letting go of the book, John has felt he carried Miles and Alaska with him for 15 years, at times lovely, at times very difficult. — Going Home with Alaska and Miles 00:02:28
• 2019-03-12 · Watching Kristine and Charlie walk off to explore the campus, John felt Miles and Alaska walking away too, and felt himself letting go at last. — Going Home with Alaska and Miles 00:02:28
• 2019-03-19 · John says he is often asked for marriage and writing advice but feels unqualified; he loved how Michelle Obama wrote about marriage and memoir in Becoming, so he asked her. — Writing and Marriage Advice from Michelle Obama 00:00:00
• 2019-03-19 · John tells Michelle Obama her writing on marriage resonated because his life changed very suddenly when The Fault in Our Stars was published, though not on a presidential level. — Writing and Marriage Advice from Michelle Obama 00:00:29
• 2019-03-19 · John says Mrs. Obama was lovely, generous with her time and good at making anxious people comfortable, which he appreciated because he was extremely anxious. — Writing and Marriage Advice from Michelle Obama 00:03:04
• 2019-03-26 · John says meeting all the actors and seeing all the sets for the Looking for Alaska show has been really amazing. — Optimism and Spider People: Question Tuesday from the Looking for Alaska Set 00:00:58
• 2019-03-26 · John says the best thing that happened to him this week (week of 25 March 2019) was planting peas in the garden with his kids. — Optimism and Spider People: Question Tuesday from the Looking for Alaska Set 00:00:58
• 2019-03-26 · Asked how he quit smoking, John says with nicotine gum; the hard part was quitting the gum. · story: John's teenage mistreatment of his body and later quitting smoking and running (c. 1993-2005) — Optimism and Spider People: Question Tuesday from the Looking for Alaska Set 00:01:27
• 2019-03-26 · John signs off to go back to watching things he imagined 15 years ago become visible. — Optimism and Spider People: Question Tuesday from the Looking for Alaska Set 00:02:26
• 2019-04-09 · 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. — The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone 00:00:00
• 2019-04-09 · John says the visit was personal: he has been, at one level or another, a psychiatric patient for most of his life. — The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone 00:00:16
• 2019-04-09 · Several patients talked with John; one long-term patient described how life at Kissy has changed in the past two years. — The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone 00:03:28
• 2019-04-16 · John attended a live recording of Harry Potter and the Sacred Text, one of his favorite podcasts, a lovely evening that left him feeling more hopeful about the human enterprise. — Doing Somethings 00:00:00
• 2019-04-16 · On his usual Monday nights of doing nothing, John scrolls Netflix for about 20 minutes after the kids sleep, then watches something or reads. — Doing Somethings 00:00:29
• 2019-04-16 · John takes medication for his mental illness every day; taking it feels like doing something, and not taking it feels like doing nothing. — Doing Somethings 00:00:58
• 2019-04-16 · John says a Birmingham, Alabama mayoral candidate's slogan, 'Larry Langford, let's do something', became a catchphrase in his family. — Doing Somethings 00:02:26
• 2019-04-23 · Hank is sorting through titles for the sequel to his number one New York Times best-selling An Absolutely Remarkable Thing; helping him, John re-realized he is terrible at titles. — untitled 00:00:00
• 2019-04-23 · John's friend Keir came up with the title Looking for Alaska because John's ideas, 'White Flowers and Warm Malt Liquor' and 'Famous Last Words', were so bad. · story: John: how Looking for Alaska was written, revised and won the Printz Award (2006) — untitled 00:00:29
• 2019-04-23 · Paper Towns got an okay title only after John tried 'The Life and Hard Times of Margo Roth Spiegelman', 'The Copyright Trap' and 'More Light Than Heat'. — untitled 00:00:58
• 2019-04-23 · The Fault in Our Stars was very nearly titled 'The Sequel' or 'The Sequels'; in April 2011 emails Julie told John, politely, that it was not a good title. — untitled 00:01:27
• 2019-04-23 · John was eventually convinced The Fault in Our Stars was better; as a play on a Shakespeare line it nearly quenched his thirst to call a book 'More Light Than Heat'. — untitled 00:01:56
• 2019-04-23 · Rosianna, who is great at titles, pointed John to the Julius Caesar line about the fault in our stars and came up with the title Life's Library for the book club. — untitled 00:02:26
• 2019-04-23 · Still off Twitter, John says he wanted it only a few times in the last month, mostly to fret over football and to share Kaveh Akbar's new poem. — untitled 00:03:21
• 2019-04-30 · When Wimbledon scored a last-second goal against league leaders Luton Town a couple of weeks ago, the players ran straight to, and some into, the stands. — The Thing with Feathers 00:02:25
• 2019-04-30 · It reminded John that in 2013 Jack Midson scored a penalty in the season's last game to keep Wimbledon in the fourth tier, and celebrated by borrowing a fan's hat. — The Thing with Feathers 00:02:25
• 2019-04-30 · Lately frustrated that so much effort is for nothing, John says that over the last few years he worked hard on stories he eventually had to abandon, which is painful. — The Thing with Feathers 00:02:54
• 2019-05-07 · John began his writing career as a book reviewer, reviewing hundreds of books for Booklist from 2000 to 2005, from YA novels and picture books to boxing, early Islamic history and conjoined twins. — How I Read and Why 00:00:13
• 2019-05-07 · John has also reviewed great books for the New York Times Book Review, including Eleanor & Park, The Book Thief and The Hunger Games. — How I Read and Why 00:00:33
• 2019-05-21 · John wanted fame when younger so people would like him, but when his work became known he felt people liked Mickey Mouse, not him. — Keanu Reeves: A Love Letter 00:02:55
• 2019-05-28 · Before the brothers started making YouTube videos in 2007, John had never owned a video camera and rarely took pictures; he has only about a dozen photos of himself from ages 18 to 27. — 3 Minutes and 58 Seconds of Darkness 00:00:22
• 2019-06-04 · John had a great weekend and is probably experiencing peak happiness; his voice is hoarse from four days of screaming. (hedged) — On Sharing the Walk 00:00:01
• 2019-06-04 · As a minor example, John's intuition tells him many times a day that he didn't lock the car door, though he always does. — On Sharing the Walk 00:00:22
• 2019-06-04 · On Saturday morning John's gut told him that for Liverpool to win the Champions League he had to give away a prized possession, a jersey signed by former captain Steven Gerrard. — On Sharing the Walk 00:00:30
• 2019-06-04 · In New York City for BookCon, John walked into a soccer bar, found a man alone in a Liverpool shirt, about a size L, told him of his premonition and gave him the jersey. — On Sharing the Walk 00:01:22
• 2019-06-04 · The man, who had a PhD in something science-y, didn't know who John was but was very excited; they chatted and took a picture, and John doesn't remember his name. — On Sharing the Walk 00:01:34
• 2019-06-04 · John was backstage at BookCon for the game's last minutes; Kristine Froseth, who plays Alaska in the Hulu Looking for Alaska show, filmed him nervous and excited. — On Sharing the Walk 00:01:59
• 2019-06-04 · After the game John and Akilah Hughes went to a Liverpool bar nearby and sang their hearts out while everyone hugged. — On Sharing the Walk 00:02:09
• 2019-06-04 · Hugging a stranger, unusual for him, John noticed the man was heaving sobs and didn't understand why until he found he was crying too, and then he knew. — On Sharing the Walk 00:02:15
• 2019-06-11 · John learned it has been 510 days since Turtles All the Way Down came out; a paragraph or two a day would have produced a draft of a sixth novel, but he hasn't written one. — Why I Haven't Written a New Book 00:00:00
• 2019-06-11 · John says he partly hasn't written a novel because of other work (Crash Course European History, the Partners In Health project, TV and movie adaptations), though he has had some kind of day job for most of his writing life. — Why I Haven't Written a New Book 00:00:29
• 2019-06-11 · John says publishing the book was very difficult for him, 'champagne problems' aside: he was overwhelmed with fear about whether people would like it and whether it was good, useful and the best it could be. — Why I Haven't Written a New Book 00:00:59
• 2019-06-11 · John says for about a decade writing has also meant touring, publicity and movie rights, which he is lucky to stress about but finds stressful. — Why I Haven't Written a New Book 00:02:08
• 2019-06-11 · John says that, for the moment, all this leaves him unable to write much fiction, but he hasn't stopped writing. — Why I Haven't Written a New Book 00:02:22
• 2019-06-11 · John started writing in a quieter, safer place: The Anthropocene Reviewed podcast, reviewing facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale, from scratch-and-sniff stickers to Taco Bell breakfast. — Why I Haven't Written a New Book 00:02:28
• 2019-07-12 · John says it would be very hard for him to stop making the videos; he thinks he would spiral. (hedged) — Why Are We Still Doing This? - Reunion Video! 00:02:33
• 2019-07-12 · John says having the anchor of a Tuesday video is really good for his mental health. — Why Are We Still Doing This? - Reunion Video! 00:02:33
• 2019-07-16 · At 41 John still gets starstruck: around people he admires he talks too much, feels nervous, and afterwards concludes he made a fool of himself. — star struck 00:00:00
• 2019-07-16 · John blabbered to Dan Howell at VidCon last weekend, couldn't form a sentence meeting Zadie Smith seven years ago, and wonders if Rebecca Lowe saw his hands shaking. — star struck 00:00:00
• 2019-07-16 · John says he is glad to have met them, hopes to meet those he hasn't and be able to say what he feels, and thanks them. — star struck 00:02:55
• 2019-07-23 · John drove to South Bend, Indiana to see reigning European champions Liverpool play a pre-season friendly at the University of Notre Dame. — What to Love and How 00:00:31
• 2019-07-23 · 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. — What to Love and How 00:00:57
• 2019-07-23 · 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. — What to Love and How 00:02:54
• 2019-07-23 · 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. — What to Love and How 00:02:54
• 2019-08-13 · John nearly failed 11th grade English: he and his teacher disagreed about class attendance, and he wasn't a great reader, struggling with critical and abstract thinking. · story: John's poor grades and skipped classes in high school, from his 1994 report cards — How I (barely) Passed 11th Grade English 00:00:00
• 2019-08-13 · High school John thought all that was BS and dissecting a novel torture; he missed a lot of class and never turned anything in on time, so his teacher wrote he could no longer mail it in. — How I (barely) Passed 11th Grade English 00:00:58
• 2019-08-13 · With an incomplete in 11th grade English, John had to read two books over the summer and write papers on them: Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye. — How I (barely) Passed 11th Grade English 00:01:27
• 2019-08-13 · The class had read Morrison's Song of Solomon that year; John liked the parts he read, so his teacher assigned him The Bluest Eye. — How I (barely) Passed 11th Grade English 00:01:27
• 2019-08-13 · Reading The Bluest Eye wrecked John: he cried finishing it, and while he had known the world was unjust, now he felt it. — How I (barely) Passed 11th Grade English 00:01:56
• 2019-08-13 · Later that summer John read Morrison's Beloved unassigned and reread all of Song of Solomon; he didn't understand all their nuances but loved them, and they made him an enthusiastic reader. — How I (barely) Passed 11th Grade English 00:02:26
• 2019-08-20 · John is again in an airport, unusual because it plays smooth jazz and contains Hank. — Hank and John's Smooth Airport Reunion 00:00:00
• 2019-08-20 · John's favorite college class was about the emergence of Islam in Central Asia, a bit niche but great. — Hank and John's Smooth Airport Reunion 00:00:33
• 2019-08-20 · John says touring with Hank and Katherine has been fun, and thanks everyone who came and the Madison airport for its smooth jazz. — Hank and John's Smooth Airport Reunion 00:03:31
• 2019-09-10 · 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. · story: John and Sarah's two-person book club before they started dating — Another Contender in the Room 00:00:00
• 2019-09-10 · 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. — Another Contender in the Room 00:00:29
• 2019-09-10 · 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. · story: John takes the line 'Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia' from Sarah on their first date for Looking for Alaska (told 2016) — Another Contender in the Room 00:00:29
• 2019-09-10 · 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. — Another Contender in the Room 00:00:58
• 2019-09-10 · 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. — Another Contender in the Room 00:00:58
• 2019-09-10 · John says a Raymond Pettibon painting, when he first saw it, ended up taking over his novel Turtles All the Way Down. — Another Contender in the Room 00:01:27
• 2019-09-10 · John says seeing some imagined maps inspired much of his novel Paper Towns. — Another Contender in the Room 00:01:56
• 2019-09-10 · 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. — Another Contender in the Room 00:01:56
• 2019-09-10 · 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. — Another Contender in the Room 00:03:24
• 2019-09-17 · John says it is easier for him to live openly with a mental illness because he doesn't have to apply for jobs where an employer might be concerned by it. — 'end the stigma' 00:00:58
• 2019-09-24 · In a comment John says his uncut vlogbrothers videos run 45-60 minutes and are boring and repetitive; without jump cuts he would have quit long ago. — I, Too, Dislike It 00:00:00
• 2019-09-24 · Poetry seemed dead to John because all the poets he could name were dead, so it had no present tense. — I, Too, Dislike It 00:00:13
• 2019-09-24 · John never felt smart enough for poetry: he thought reading well meant decoding symbols (the howling wolf as the poet's dead father), so he judged himself bad and mostly quit. — I, Too, Dislike It 00:00:22
• 2019-10-01 · In Sierra Leone earlier this year (2019) someone told John to look at the colonial railway map: the tracks linked mineral-rich areas to the coast, not cities to each other. — Why Are Poor Countries Poor? 00:00:29
• 2019-10-01 · Dr. Bailor Barrie, founder of the respected Wellbody Clinic, had to leave his studies to escape to a refugee camp; John heard similar stories from several health workers. — Why Are Poor Countries Poor? 00:02:26
• 2019-10-01 · John met an Ebola survivor, now working for Partners In Health, who shared a bed with his son at a treatment facility; both survived, but his wife died a few beds over. — Why Are Poor Countries Poor? 00:04:22
• 2019-10-08 · In the 14 years since the book came out, John has made many public announcements of a movie or TV show that then fell through, which is often the way of Hollywood. — Looking for Alaska (...with Alaska) 00:00:00
• 2019-10-08 · A guest didn't know John was that into J. Cole; John says he's obsessed, though they are not friends. — Looking for Alaska (...with Alaska) 00:01:56
• 2019-10-15 · At 5 a.m. in an airport, John is on his way to Los Angeles to promote the Looking for Alaska show and has a lot of feelings, neither good nor bad. — I'm Having a Lot of Feelings 00:00:00
• 2019-10-15 · John did not make the show, but remembers waiting for Turtles All the Way Down reviews two years ago with constant nausea, so he is happy and relieved for its makers. — I'm Having a Lot of Feelings 00:00:58
• 2019-10-15 · John says two years of working with Partners In Health on the Sierra Leone project have given his life purpose and direction, a wonderful gift. — I'm Having a Lot of Feelings 00:01:27
• 2019-10-15 · With the announcement near, John feels anxious; in fact everything makes him anxious at the moment. — I'm Having a Lot of Feelings 00:01:27
• 2019-10-15 · Ten years ago John mostly saw his anxiety as an embarrassing character weakness and talked about it only to mock it and himself. — I'm Having a Lot of Feelings 00:02:26
• 2019-10-22 · In Sierra Leone earlier this year (2019) John spent a day with Ruth, a PIH community health worker who makes house calls to people with serious illnesses like tuberculosis or HIV. — Why We're Donating $6,500,000 00:00:09
• 2019-10-22 · John says Ruth's education was interrupted by the civil war (1991-2002); she contracted HIV and nearly died before antiretroviral therapy let her recover and find a job with PIH. — Why We're Donating $6,500,000 00:00:43
• 2019-10-22 · 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. — Why We're Donating $6,500,000 00:01:05
• 2019-10-28 · John says he and Sarah have been making watercolor paintings together. — PIZZAMAS IS HERE!!!! 00:03:15
• 2019-10-30 · John is personally delivering Pizzamas merch to buyers who live in Indianapolis, for efficiency's sake. — this is a video about pineapples. 00:00:00
• 2019-11-01 · John says Hank's writing video took him back to his first book signing, on March 5, 2005 at Anderson's Bookshop in Naperville, Illinois, days after Looking for Alaska came out. — On Looking Up to Your Little Brother 00:00:00
• 2019-11-01 · 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. — On Looking Up to Your Little Brother 00:00:00
• 2019-11-01 · Three people came, one of them John's boss at Booklist, who generously pretended to be a stranger; the store had set up about 40 chairs and a podium. · story: John's first Looking for Alaska book signing, attended by two people (2005) — On Looking Up to Your Little Brother 00:00:29
• 2019-11-01 · Driving back to Chicago, Sarah told John honestly that the event was bad. — On Looking Up to Your Little Brother 00:00:58
• 2019-11-01 · For his first three years as a writer John's signings drew zero to five people, even after Looking for Alaska won the Printz Award; crowds reached double digits only in 2008. — On Looking Up to Your Little Brother 00:00:58
• 2019-11-01 · Watching it took John back to writing the first draft of Looking for Alaska alone in a small furnished Chicago apartment, recovering from what would now be called a mental health crisis. (hedged) · story: John's depression at 24 in Chicago: leave from Booklist, home to Orlando, and watching Harvey — On Looking Up to Your Little Brother 00:01:41
• 2019-11-01 · John says he wrote every night trying to work out how to live with guilt that can't be excused and how catastrophic it is to romanticize or essentialize people you claim to love. · story: John: how Looking for Alaska was written, revised and won the Printz Award (2006) — On Looking Up to Your Little Brother 00:02:10
• 2019-11-01 · John says Hank has just finished a sequel to his first novel, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. — On Looking Up to Your Little Brother 00:02:39
• 2019-11-07 · John says that about 11 months ago he decided to take a year away from Twitter, Reddit, Instagram and Facebook, and gives an update on how it has gone. — I took a year off social media. Here's what happened. 00:00:00
• 2019-11-07 · His relationship with some social platforms had become unhealthy: using them always left him a mix of scared, angry and outraged, which he calls 'scanged'. — I took a year off social media. Here's what happened. 00:00:13
• 2019-11-07 · The social internet took huge swaths of his attention, four or five hours a day on his phone plus hours on his computer, and he struggled to choose where his attention went. — I took a year off social media. Here's what happened. 00:00:29
• 2019-11-07 · What John misses most is promoting his work: the Partners In Health Sierra Leone fundraising is going amazingly, but he knows there would be more donors and Pizzamas shirt buyers if he posted. — I took a year off social media. Here's what happened. 00:00:40
• 2019-11-07 · John likes his life much more now: his average daily phone time has fallen by more than 80% and he is getting more work done. · story: John turns his phone into a 'dumb phone' and changes how he follows the news (2016) — I took a year off social media. Here's what happened. 00:01:27
• 2019-11-07 · This year (2019) he has written more words he is proud of than in any year since 2011, and hosted Crash Course series on European history and on navigating digital information. — I took a year off social media. Here's what happened. 00:01:33
• 2019-11-07 · He feels better informed than a year ago: he misses watching news unfold live online, but learns a lot from his local newspaper, podcasts and outlets like The Economist. · story: John turns his phone into a 'dumb phone' and changes how he follows the news (2016) — I took a year off social media. Here's what happened. 00:01:44
• 2019-11-07 · Most important, John is less socially isolated: he spends much more time with friends and family, hard and stressful at first but very fulfilling. — I took a year off social media. Here's what happened. 00:01:56
• 2019-11-07 · With no bright line between his life and his job, he had come to feel he was living his job and jobbing his life; he no longer feels that way. — I took a year off social media. Here's what happened. 00:02:05
• 2019-11-07 · He still spends much time online: too much email, dumb Google News stories, and some lurking on Twitter and Reddit, which he will probably keep doing. (hedged) — I took a year off social media. Here's what happened. 00:02:26
• 2019-11-07 · A year ago his attention was so fractured he could barely read a book for 10 or 15 minutes without reaching for a screen; only in recent months has his joy in long-form reading fully returned. — I took a year off social media. Here's what happened. 00:02:57
• 2019-11-12 · Reading the actual words Holden misinterprets gave John a new way into the book and into Holden's heartbreak: a boy trying to hold in, and hold off, so much. — still learning 00:02:55
• 2019-11-26 · John says he has been thinking about burnout lately; he is not really burnt out now, but is starting to think differently about the role work plays in his life. · story: John's burnout after taking on new projects (2018) — old fashioned parts video 00:00:15
• 2019-11-26 · John says that since he was about 22 he has worked many nights and most weekends; he doesn't recommend it and doesn't need to, but has kept doing it. — old fashioned parts video 00:00:24
• 2019-11-26 · John says his central goal for the next decade is to do fewer things the world constructs as work and more valuable things not imagined as work: family time, dishes, sleep, reading, volunteering. · story: John's goal for the 2020s: do fewer things the world calls work (2019) — old fashioned parts video 00:00:32
• 2019-12-03 · Earlier this year (2019) John and Hank had a photoshoot with longtime nerdfighter Ashe Walker, which John thought was meant to produce a semi-professional picture for media use. — We Are Cats Now, I Guess? 00:00:00
• 2019-12-10 · In his mid-20s John went through intense loneliness and isolation that was correlated with serious depression. · story: John's depression at 24 in Chicago: leave from Booklist, home to Orlando, and watching Harvey — On Loneliness 00:00:22
• 2019-12-10 · Though he heard neighbors through thin walls, saw caring people at work daily and could instant-message anyone, John lacked not connective opportunities but connection. — On Loneliness 00:00:28
• 2019-12-10 · Other cycles: isolation made him feel unworthy of love, dread of calling long-neglected people made him call less, and despair made him feel useless, deepening the despair. — On Loneliness 00:01:11
• 2019-12-10 · When really lonely, John feels his consciousness serves no shared or greater purpose, and his life seems to circle its own misery like a vulture over a carcass. — On Loneliness 00:01:43
• 2019-12-10 · That pain makes him want to withdraw further from the 'stupid world', which worsens the meaninglessness and furthers his isolation. — On Loneliness 00:01:58
• 2019-12-10 · Though he set the story 20 years ago, a similar isolation pulled John under much more recently: he felt separate from the world and adrift from friends and family who loved him. — On Loneliness 00:02:11
• 2019-12-10 · Both times the cycles were broken by treating his chronic health problem like a chronic health problem: for John, medication and regular therapy. — On Loneliness 00:02:31
• 2019-12-10 · John's communities include ones built around a shared enthusiasm such as Liverpool Football Club, around activism, and around his physical neighborhood. — On Loneliness 00:02:59
• 2019-12-17 · John says the two best days of his decade and his life were the days his kids were born. · story: Birth of John and Sarah's second child, Alice (2013) — The Best Days of My Decade 00:00:09
• 2019-12-17 · John's very favorite day of the decade was January 15, 2013, when he and Hank played a sold-out show at Carnegie Hall in rented tuxedos. — The Best Days of My Decade 00:00:19
• 2019-12-17 · That Evening of Awesome included the Mountain Goats, Kimya Dawson, Neil Gaiman and many friends, with Sarah, Katherine and the brothers' parents all there. — The Best Days of My Decade 00:00:28
• 2019-12-17 · At the end of the night John found out his best friend Chris had flown in to surprise him, and he cried with happiness. — The Best Days of My Decade 00:00:36
• 2019-12-17 · Next favorite day: May 30, 2016, when AFC Wimbledon, with DFTBA on their shorts, played a play-off final at Wembley for promotion to the third tier. — The Best Days of My Decade 00:01:07
• 2019-12-17 · Everything was perfect: singing with fans in a pub, then Wembley with his dad, Rosianna, his friend Stuart and Wimbly Womblies co-founder Meredith. — The Best Days of My Decade 00:01:21
• 2019-12-17 · Lyle Taylor scored to put AFC Wimbledon into the third tier, and John partied all night with fans, friends, players and his dad. · story: John's 36 hours from the Indianapolis 500 to Wembley and AFC Wimbledon's promotion party (May 2016) — The Best Days of My Decade 00:01:32
• 2019-12-17 · On December 29, 2016, unsure Turtles All the Way Down would ever be worthwhile, John was alone in a small Michigan cabin with bread, peanut butter and lots of Diet Dr Pepper. — The Best Days of My Decade 00:01:45
• 2019-12-17 · 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. — The Best Days of My Decade 00:02:02
• 2019-12-17 · Hank long supported John's writing: when Paper Towns came out in 2008, Hank and Katherine toured libraries and bookstores with him in a rented minivan, Hank singing and playing a turtle professor or sock puppet. — The Best Days of My Decade 00:02:27
• 2019-12-17 · On September 25, 2018, Hank's first novel An Absolutely Remarkable Thing was published, and John got to support him at the launch at Town Hall in New York City. — The Best Days of My Decade 00:02:53
• 2019-12-17 · 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. — The Best Days of My Decade 00:03:18

2020

• 2020-01-07 · Every January John writes himself two letters, one looking back at the year and one setting goals; over ten years they have become a big deal to him, helping him reflect and choose consciously. · story: John's yearly January letters to himself: a look back and goals for the new year — Endings · Beginnings 00:00:00
• 2020-01-07 · The last thing John wants to finish this year (2020) is writing a book, not necessarily a novel. — Endings · Beginnings 00:01:30
• 2020-01-07 · John wants to stop working at night and on weekends: to keep the goal specific, measurable and achievable, no more than one night a week and never weekends except work travel. · story: John's goal for the 2020s: do fewer things the world calls work (2019) — Endings · Beginnings 00:01:36
• 2020-01-07 · John wants to write one thank-you note every day this year (2020); doing it for a month in November made him more grateful and less pessimistic. — Endings · Beginnings 00:02:49
• 2020-01-07 · John got the idea from an 82-year-old woman who wrote him a thank-you note explaining her project; he lost her address, so he thanks her here in case she is watching. — Endings · Beginnings 00:02:56
• 2020-01-07 · John wants to continue exercising at least 150 minutes a week, making Dear Hank and John every Monday and a Vlogbrothers video every Tuesday. · story: John's regular exercise after 100 Days and its effects on his body and mind (2017) — Endings · Beginnings 00:03:09
• 2020-01-07 · John also wants to continue not losing large swaths of his life scrolling through Twitter as dread washes over him. — Endings · Beginnings 00:03:09
• 2020-01-14 · John's best advice from his kids: one of them once told him 'It's just YouTube.' — Foolish · Beautiful 00:02:09
• 2020-01-14 · Since the 2012 hotel room with the Picasso, the brothers have stayed nowhere close to as good; they almost always stay at a Courtyard by Marriott. · story: The brothers' Houston hotel mix-up and luxury room with a Picasso print on the tour (2012) — Foolish · Beautiful 00:02:56
• 2020-01-14 · John asks Hank whether he should go back to his sports Twitter account, @sportswithjohn, rather than regular Twitter. — Foolish · Beautiful 00:03:11
• 2020-01-21 · John says his wife Sarah has solved the problem: every Christmas she gets him a Liverpool jersey, exactly what he wants. — Gifts That Changed My Life 00:00:29
• 2020-01-21 · John tells Hank that the Aero Fighters video game machine Hank gave him meant much more to him than a check for its cost would have. · story: Hank gives John an original Aero Fighters ('Nerd Fighters') arcade game for his birthday (2013) — Gifts That Changed My Life 00:00:29
• 2020-01-21 · A few years ago Mike Rugnetta gave John Elaine Scarry's The Body in Pain, which he would never otherwise have read and which totally changed how he thinks about pain and language. — Gifts That Changed My Life 00:00:58
• 2020-01-21 · John says that without that gift he might not have written Turtles All the Way Down. (hedged) — Gifts That Changed My Life 00:00:58
• 2020-01-21 · John shows the world on a turtle that his parents gave him, which means a lot to him because of its symbolic resonances. — Gifts That Changed My Life 00:00:58
• 2020-01-21 · Every year John signs up for the Reddit Secret Santa exchange, which pairs you with two random people: one you give a gift to, one who gives to you. — Gifts That Changed My Life 00:01:43
• 2020-01-21 · This year (2020) John gave to a college student in Oregon and received from a nerdfighter in Pennsylvania a $100 donation to Partners In Health and a weighted blanket. — Gifts That Changed My Life 00:01:43
• 2020-01-21 · 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. — Gifts That Changed My Life 00:02:12
• 2020-01-28 · 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. — Looking Away (Again) 00:00:00
• 2020-01-28 · The description corrects the video: the Looking Away video was made five, not six, years ago. — Looking Away (Again) 00:00:00
• 2020-01-28 · At the hospital John saw a mother with a young child in the pediatric ward; he thinks the child was probably dying. (hedged) — Looking Away (Again) 00:01:27
• 2020-01-28 · 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. · story: John and Sarah's 2019 trip to Sierra Leone and its hospitals (2019) — Looking Away (Again) 00:01:51
• 2020-01-28 · John says he has worked in a children's hospital and held the hands of children as they died. · story: John's time as a student chaplain at a children's hospital (c. 2000) — Looking Away (Again) 00:01:51
• 2020-01-28 · John recalls making a video from Ethiopia six years ago called Looking Away, about listening to and supporting people living in absolute poverty. · story: John keeps looking away while filming sick children and worried mothers in Ethiopia (2014) — Looking Away (Again) 00:02:20
• 2020-01-28 · John says in those years he did some things and gave some money but made no serious commitment to listen better or to focus on the needs of the poor in an ongoing way. — Looking Away (Again) 00:02:20
• 2020-01-28 · John says he is talking to every rich person who will take his calls and doing whatever he can to drum up money. — Looking Away (Again) 00:05:16
• 2020-02-04 · John says it has been years since he turned on the camera without knowing what he was going to talk about, and maybe he'll talk about that. — practice 00:00:00
• 2020-02-04 · In a comment, John reports viewers' consensus that there were 171 to 173 words between his two 'Madame Pomfrey's, so his 175-word clock was pretty close. — practice 00:00:00
• 2020-02-04 · John began his writing career writing 175-word book reviews for Booklist, which made him read a lot and broadly: picture books, YA, romance, Islamic history, boxing, poetry and many books about conjoined twins. — practice 00:00:59
• 2020-02-04 · Practicing the 175-word form taught John to put nuance into plot summary and choose details or quotations, and gave him an internal clock for how 175 words feels. — practice 00:01:29
• 2020-02-04 · Early on, John often finished books with no idea what to say about them, and often hit vlogbrothers deadlines without ideas for videos. — practice 00:02:27
• 2020-02-04 · After over 13 years of making videos consistently, John's brain knows that from Saturday it must find an idea, works on it, and almost always has one by Monday (10 February 2020) night. — practice 00:02:56
• 2020-02-11 · Almost exactly three years ago (2017) John finished a 100-day fitness challenge with his best friend Chris, documented on YouTube; now he shares the good and bad of over 1,000 days of exercise. — 1,100 Days: A Mental and Physical Health Update 00:00:00
• 2020-02-11 · In 2017, after exercising five or six days a week for 100 days, John could run seven or eight miles, slept better, his mental illness had improved dramatically, and he wrote much of Turtles All the Way Down. — 1,100 Days: A Mental and Physical Health Update 00:00:00
• 2020-02-11 · Three years later John is mostly in better shape: he has cut 30 seconds off his mile pace, is stronger, and has good blood pressure. · story: John's regular exercise after 100 Days and its effects on his body and mind (2017) — 1,100 Days: A Mental and Physical Health Update 00:00:29
• 2020-02-11 · John still trains twice a week with Laura, their 100 Days trainer, and bikes or runs most weekends, almost always exceeding the 150 weekly minutes his doctor recommends. — 1,100 Days: A Mental and Physical Health Update 00:00:29
• 2020-02-11 · John's mental health is probably the best it's ever been: still mentally ill and on daily medication, but his rolling 90-day average is much better than 5, 10 or 15 years ago. (hedged) — 1,100 Days: A Mental and Physical Health Update 00:01:27
• 2020-02-11 · John describes a helpful shift in how he imagines himself: he never thought of himself as fit or healthy and defined himself against fitness, a nerd, not a jock; a mind person, not a body person. · story: John's teenage mistreatment of his body and later quitting smoking and running (c. 1993-2005) — 1,100 Days: A Mental and Physical Health Update 00:01:56
• 2020-02-11 · John's three years were not without challenge: bouts of vertigo, at times extremely destabilizing, make exercise hard, and he has had small injuries and aches, from age and from activity. — 1,100 Days: A Mental and Physical Health Update 00:02:55
• 2020-02-11 · John doesn't love exercise: even after 1,100 days he doesn't know what a runner's high is or eagerly anticipate training. — 1,100 Days: A Mental and Physical Health Update 00:02:55
• 2020-02-18 · For years John has wanted to review wintry mix for The Anthropocene Reviewed as a thoroughly Midwestern precipitation: practical, unlovely and unpretentious. — wintry mix 00:01:13
• 2020-02-18 · 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. — wintry mix 00:02:54
• 2020-02-25 · John recalls that before likes, when videos were rated on a five-star scale, the brothers often asked viewers to rate videos five stars because 'it makes new nerdfighters'. — A weird YouTube thing? 00:00:58
• 2020-02-25 · John says almost every video he has made for several years uses whatever thumbnail YouTube chose, not as the right way in general but as right for this channel and viewership. — A weird YouTube thing? 00:02:26
• 2020-03-03 · In a comment John says he reads about covid-19 far more than anyone should and is much less worried about it than many, but an irrational worry disorder needs no rational worries. — Consciously Experiencing Human Dignity 00:00:00
• 2020-03-03 · John watches videos of extremely high-level Tetris literally every day, seeking a strange mix of calm and wonder rather than human dignity. — Consciously Experiencing Human Dignity 00:00:58
• 2020-03-10 · On NPR's Ask Me Another the brothers were described as the modern-day Brontë sisters; John finds it extremely kind but way over the top. — A Strong but Fleeting Flavor: A Reunion Video 00:02:33
• 2020-03-17 · John's family is self-isolating, a phrase that, like social distancing, he did not know a month ago but is now everywhere. — together. 00:01:27
• 2020-03-17 · John's family holds virtual cocktail hours with friends every evening, plays virtual board games, and reaches out to people most affected or most alone. — together. 00:02:26
• 2020-03-24 · John says it has not been a great week: because of his anxiety problems and OCD, his brain is not well suited to pandemics and he is having a hard time. — Mental Health Tips from People Who've Been There 00:00:00
• 2020-03-24 · John has virtual therapy and medication, but found most helpful this week (week of 23 March 2020) mental health tips from Partners In Health, informed by people who lived and worked through big outbreaks. — Mental Health Tips from People Who've Been There 00:00:00
• 2020-03-24 · John says this is a struggle for him and his friends, some of whom love jobs they now lack or cannot do as they love. — Mental Health Tips from People Who've Been There 00:02:26
• 2020-03-31 · In early spring in Indiana, John says life feels vastly different than a few weeks ago and his omnidirectional anxiety is often overwhelming, so he suggests they take a walk together. — Let's take a walk. 00:00:00
• 2020-03-31 · John feels calmer than when he started, though not calm; he knows the feeling won't last, as nothing does, but is grateful for it anyway. — Let's take a walk. 00:02:56
• 2020-04-07 · 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. — I am an artist. 00:00:20
• 2020-04-07 · 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. · story: How John and Sarah met: high school, a boxing sparring partner who was John's ex-girlfriend, and a year of emails — I am an artist. 00:00:33
• 2020-04-07 · 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. · story: John: how Looking for Alaska was written, revised and won the Printz Award (2006) — I am an artist. 00:01:05
• 2020-04-21 · John says Hank's 40th birthday is coming and tells the story of the great white whale of a present he has maniacally chased for 14 months. — hey now 00:00:00
• 2020-04-21 · John says he had to find the toy for Hank's 40th, but few exist and their owners really don't want to part with them. — hey now 00:01:56
• 2020-04-21 · John says that, twice, he was ripped off by people who claimed to have the All Star sing-a-ma-jig but did not. — hey now 00:02:25
• 2020-04-21 · John says that earlier this year (2020) a collector showed him the toy over FaceTime and agreed a price after hearing the story, then decided at the last moment not to sell. — hey now 00:02:25
• 2020-04-21 · John apologises to Hank for failing to get him the sing-a-ma-jig and wishes him a happy birthday nonetheless. — hey now 00:02:54
• 2020-04-28 · John recaptures that not-knowing by watching old games: yesterday, while exercising, he watched the 2012 Italian Cup Final without knowing the winner, and it was thrilling. — get your game on 00:02:26
• 2020-05-05 · On Hank's 40th birthday John presents the All Star sing-a-ma-jig, his white whale for 15 months as he hunted it across the globe to unite his love of sing-a-ma-jigs and Hank's of All Star. — YOU'RE AN ALL STAR! 00:00:21
• 2020-05-05 · John says a nerdfighter in Tokyo named Rebecca, helped by her partner Ocean, found one, shipped it to him and brought his quest to an end. — YOU'RE AN ALL STAR! 00:00:50
• 2020-05-05 · John says each creator asked him to donate to charity instead of paying them, so the silliness raised money for refugees, food banks and other causes. — YOU'RE AN ALL STAR! 00:02:55
• 2020-05-05 · John wishes Hank a happy 40th birthday, despite the circumstances. — YOU'RE AN ALL STAR! 00:03:25
• 2020-05-12 · John and Alice spotted a great horned owl in the backyard, researched its yellow eyes and watched videos; he wrote gratitude for the owl-enthusiast internet, the owl and the backyard. — We Could All Use a Little Change 00:01:27
• 2020-05-12 · John says that, like many people, his brain problems have been dramatically amplified by the wider problems, making it hard at times to think straight. — We Could All Use a Little Change 00:01:56
• 2020-05-12 · John is grateful for owls, spring, safe food and water and his family's health, but mostly writes gratitude to other people for their generosity. — We Could All Use a Little Change 00:02:55
• 2020-05-12 · John is grateful to his kids' teachers for e-learning with almost no preparation and to his own teachers, many now gone, whose love still holds him together. — We Could All Use a Little Change 00:02:55
• 2020-05-12 · John is grateful to Hank for keeping things running with compassion and determination. — We Could All Use a Little Change 00:02:55
• 2020-05-12 · John is grateful to strangers whose work brings him joy and comfort, from Mohamed Salah to Mary Oliver. — We Could All Use a Little Change 00:03:24
• 2020-05-26 · 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. — you'll never know 00:01:27
• 2020-05-26 · John says the matrix he uses to make guesses about the future, from what to study to how to spend an afternoon, has recently been obliterated, which makes this historical moment dizzying. — you'll never know 00:01:27
• 2020-05-26 · John says uncontrolled mental illness feels like going through the day fearing the floor might collapse at every step, like the Emily Dickinson poem where a plank in reason broke. — you'll never know 00:01:56
• 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). — --- 00:00:00
• 2020-06-02 · The description says Hank has been fundraising for the National Police Accountability Project. — --- 00:00:00
• 2020-06-09 · As a college junior John took a semester off for mental health problems, so he graduated late and watched his classmates graduate, happy for them but hurt and feeling like a disappointment. — i could use a little fuel myself 00:00:29
• 2020-06-09 · When John graduated in December, Kenyon professor Donald Rogan, with other professors and friends, threw him an unofficial graduation at his home, with a brief commencement address and a fake diploma. — i could use a little fuel myself 00:00:58
• 2020-06-09 · John still has Professor Rogan's diploma and has no idea where his actual college diploma is. — i could use a little fuel myself 00:01:27
• 2020-06-16 (said on 2020-06-07, implied) · From the White River in Indianapolis, John kayaks to a cool place almost nobody knows about, to show it to Hank. — a cool place 00:00:00
• 2020-06-16 (said on 2020-06-07, implied) · In a comment John says the river is where he got some Turtles All the Way Down ideas: north of Wallet Island Aza and Daisy visit Davis Pickett's property, and their river island is one he calls Aza Island. — a cool place 00:00:00
• 2020-06-16 (said on 2020-06-07, implied) · In a comment John says his contamination anxieties are very specific and don't include river water; he follows experts' advice calmly, isn't afraid of flying thanks to exposure therapy, and calls pathological thinking definitionally irrational. — a cool place 00:00:00
• 2020-06-16 (said on 2020-06-07, implied) · John named it Wallet Island because he once found a wallet there; it is not its official name, and he doesn't know if it has one. · story: Wallet Island, John's name for a White River island, appears on Google Maps (2020) — a cool place 00:01:21
• 2020-06-16 (said on 2020-06-07, implied) · Each visit John feels he is discovering a new place; he can sit there for hours and write on his computer, but critically can't get online. · story: Wallet Island, John's name for a White River island, appears on Google Maps (2020) — a cool place 00:01:50
• 2020-06-23 · Once in high school a friend called the fireflies lovely; John replied that they were a little lame, and she asked what was wrong with him. — You'll Never Shine if You Don't Glow 00:01:27
• 2020-06-30 · John says he sometimes experiences the cognitive distortion of negative filtering, filtering out positive information and seeing only bad stuff. — i like it 00:00:09
• 2020-06-30 · At 12 John was on his middle school soccer team; he was terrible and rarely played. — i like it 00:01:59
• 2020-06-30 · James, a really good teammate from England, told them about English football, stadiums of singing fans, and that the best team was Liverpool; they believed him. — i like it 00:02:07
• 2020-06-30 · John only became a Liverpool fan later, when the Premier League came to American TV in the early 2000s. — i like it 00:02:38
• 2020-06-30 · John often imagined winning the Premier League: at the Indianapolis pub where he watches with other Liverpool fans, or maybe live at Anfield. — i like it 00:02:49
• 2020-06-30 · Instead Liverpool won the league after a three-month pandemic break, and John watched alone in his basement, the game played in an eerily empty stadium. — i like it 00:03:04
• 2020-06-30 · John thought about the long years since James's claim, the title slipping away in 2014 and coming up agonizingly short in 2009. — i like it 00:03:22
• 2020-06-30 · John thought of his friend who died a few months ago, who texted after every loss: thanks for making me a Liverpool fan, you monster. — i like it 00:03:35
• 2020-07-07 · For John despair is not just unpleasant but dangerous, and flimsy or simplistic hope does little to counteract it. — You're a Rock Star 00:00:29
• 2020-07-07 · Hank's first book, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, was the main reason John quit using the social internet in 2018. — You're a Rock Star 00:01:56
• 2020-07-07 · John congratulates Hank: he is so happy for him, in awe of him, and such a big fan. — You're a Rock Star 00:03:28
• 2020-07-14 · John knows he is incredibly fortunate to have a safe home, work he can do from home and a healthy family, but he is struggling. — The ice we skate is getting pretty thin. 00:00:00
• 2020-07-14 · John is burnt out, not just with work but, like many parents, with helping kids through immense uncertainty and constantly managing and analyzing exposure risk. — The ice we skate is getting pretty thin. 00:00:29
• 2020-07-14 · The mental health problems John brought into this weigh on him: OCD's endless thought loops and compulsions are monotonous, and thinking the same thoughts over and over is soul-destroying. — The ice we skate is getting pretty thin. 00:00:29
• 2020-07-14 · Last night, with Robbie Gonzalez's help and anxious insomnia, John finished a Rubik's Cube after 30 years of failure, producing some of his own joy. — The ice we skate is getting pretty thin. 00:02:26
• 2020-07-21 · The last time John hugged someone outside his immediate family was March 11th, and it was Hank. — Somebody Once Asked . . . 00:00:29
• 2020-08-03 · John's friend Ransom recently sent him pictures he took of John when they were in college together. — you're bundled up now? wait till you get older. 00:00:05
• 2020-08-03 · John says Esther died just a few weeks later at 16; she would be in her mid-20s now, and he thinks about her and misses her a lot. · story: Death of Nerdfighter Esther Earl, John's friend (2010) — you're bundled up now? wait till you get older. 00:00:41
• 2020-08-03 · About ten years before the first Esther Day, the picture was taken on a trip to the Grand Canyon, when they were young and full of hope and strong opinions. — you're bundled up now? wait till you get older. 00:01:41
• 2020-08-03 · John tells Hank he didn't know him well back then: he left for boarding school when Hank was 11 and didn't keep close to him. — you're bundled up now? wait till you get older. 00:02:20
• 2020-08-03 · John felt his big-brother job was to protect Hank and felt great guilt at failing; saying 'I love you' grew harder because he hadn't said it in so long and felt he wasn't a good brother. — you're bundled up now? wait till you get older. 00:02:31
• 2020-08-11 · John says he is not holding up okay: like many people he knows with chronic mental health problems, he is having a hard time. — never get bored 00:00:02
• 2020-08-11 · John is not a speedcuber but can now reliably solve a Rubik's Cube in under three minutes. — never get bored 00:01:01
• 2020-08-18 · After a stressful week, John says he has a long-term plan to draw 170,000 or so circles. · story: John draws 170,000 circles to grasp the US COVID-19 death toll (2020) — what's wrong with taking the back streets? 00:00:00
• 2020-08-18 · In comments John updates that he has reached 3,400 circles and may livestream his progress; he counts in groups of 100, switching pens and making a tally mark each time. · story: John draws 170,000 circles to grasp the US COVID-19 death toll (2020) — what's wrong with taking the back streets? 00:00:00
• 2020-08-18 · John finds repetitive actions offer relief if he chooses them and they aren't too taxing; it's easy to chalk that up to his obsessive-compulsive disorder. — what's wrong with taking the back streets? 00:00:58
• 2020-08-25 · In a comment John says he has drawn 12,000 circles so far, and it has been very moving to see so many viewers also take up drawing circles. · story: John draws 170,000 circles to grasp the US COVID-19 death toll (2020) — Somebody once told me… 00:00:00
• 2020-09-01 · John says the response to the podcast, especially the recent quite personal episode he was more worried about sharing than anything, has been overwhelming and generous; he thanks listeners. — get the show on 00:01:27
• 2020-09-01 · John shows his circles: 17,000 drawn so far in his attempt to understand the number 170,000, perhaps enough to freak out YouTube's compression, yet only 10% of the total. · story: John draws 170,000 circles to grasp the US COVID-19 death toll (2020) — get the show on 00:02:26
• 2020-09-01 · John says, as he discussed on the latest podcast episode, the three years since Turtles All the Way Down was published have been long and at times very challenging. — get the show on 00:03:24
• 2020-09-01 · John says writing these essays has been the most fun he has had writing since maybe ever, and he is going back to it. · story: John writes his first nonfiction book, The Anthropocene Reviewed (2020) — get the show on 00:03:24
• 2020-09-01 · John tells Hank he is a good brother and that he never would have done this without him, thanking him for the encouragement. — get the show on 00:03:24
• 2020-09-15 · John's example: when younger he thought being famous was the most glitteringly magnificent thing, but seeing it up close he found it more complicated. — All That Glitters Is Gold 00:00:29
• 2020-09-22 · John says he feels like a very small boat on high seas, tossed by forces so much larger than himself that he can't comprehend, let alone control, them. — the world is gonna roll me 00:00:00
• 2020-09-22 · When that feeling crashes over him, John finds it helpful to go outside; on this first day of autumn the air is already crisp and smells of fallen leaves. — the world is gonna roll me 00:00:00
• 2020-09-22 · John says autumn used to seem to arrive all at once, but now time is unfolding differently, and autumn has arrived slowly, with much more uncertainty and even menace. — the world is gonna roll me 00:00:29
• 2020-09-29 · John remembers a walk ten years ago (2010) with his friend Esther: for her Make-A-Wish she gathered Nerdfighter friends and invited him, and on the way to gelato they had to cross a bridge. · story: John visits Esther Earl and her Nerdfighter friends in Boston (July 2010) — How 'bout Yours? 00:00:29
• 2020-09-29 · The bridge had a see-through floor and John dislikes heights and bridges; Esther noticed, said they were almost across and offered him her wheelchair to push and hold on to. · story: John visits Esther Earl and her Nerdfighter friends in Boston (July 2010) — How 'bout Yours? 00:01:05
• 2020-09-29 · The walk also differs because John has changed: last week (week of 21 September 2020) he felt dread encroaching, winter not just a fact but a threat. — How 'bout Yours? 00:02:01
• 2020-09-29 · John is walking in exactly the same woods as last week (week of 21 September 2020), but it is a completely different walk: the leaves are falling and it is cold. — How 'bout Yours? 00:02:01
• 2020-09-29 · John says this week (week of 28 September 2020) the weather is worse and he is better, but he doesn't know why; these days he barely knows how he is, let alone why. — How 'bout Yours? 00:02:31
• 2020-09-29 · John says Esther has been gone over ten years, but her thoughtfulness and kindness still help him and hold him together. · story: Death of Nerdfighter Esther Earl, John's friend (2010) — How 'bout Yours? 00:03:04
• 2020-10-07 (said on 2020-10-06, implied) · John recalls that 13 and a half years ago (March 2007) he was hospitalized for about a week with orbital cellulitis, a staph infection behind his eye. · story: John's orbital cellulitis and hospital stay (2007) — The Golden Age of Vlogbrothers 00:00:00
• 2020-10-09 · John says Rax hosted a huge share of the brothers' childhood: he can still picture a Rax's exact layout, including the quasi-greenhouse room off its side. · story: Hank and John grow up going to Rax restaurants (childhood) — The Rax Guy 00:00:29
• 2020-10-09 · Growing up in 1980s Orlando, from their Rax's greenhouse the brothers could see the house of the 'Rax Guy', whose fence signs called the government tyranny and pushed conspiracy theories about lizard people. · story: Hank and John grow up going to Rax restaurants (childhood) — The Rax Guy 00:01:21
• 2020-10-09 · John interrupts the video to go vote and returns having voted, with a sticker. — The Rax Guy 00:01:50
• 2020-10-09 · Even though John knew lizard people didn't run the government, the Rax Guy's worldview still affected him. · story: Hank and John grow up going to Rax restaurants (childhood) — The Rax Guy 00:01:50
• 2020-10-09 · John's first remembered obsessive experience was the worry that no one else on Earth was a real person like him, but aliens in human costumes; it tortured him for years as a kid. · story: Hank and John grow up going to Rax restaurants (childhood) — The Rax Guy 00:02:20
• 2020-10-09 · The Rax Guy didn't cause John's OCD, which he would have had anyway, but he shaped the particular worry that took over John's life at seven and eight. · story: Hank and John grow up going to Rax restaurants (childhood) — The Rax Guy 00:02:49
• 2020-10-13 (said on 2020-10-05, implied) · The video was filmed in the past because John is scheduled to be away from his computer and all electronic devices for about 72 hours, his longest such break since around 2006. — Me from the Past: A Pizzamas Miracle 00:00:00
• 2020-10-13 (said on 2020-10-05, implied) · John is filming in the late morning of October 5, 2020, eight days before upload, to predict the viewers' present, and expects his predictions to be pretty terrible. — Me from the Past: A Pizzamas Miracle 00:00:29
• 2020-10-20 · John says signing takes a while: rushing, maybe 700 sheets an hour, but counting sorting, collecting paper and changing pens, about two hours per thousand, so 300 hours. — How to Sign Your Name 150,000 Times 00:00:00
• 2020-10-20 · John recalls that in 2011, signing the first printing of The Fault in Our Stars, he listened to Moby Dick. — How to Sign Your Name 150,000 Times 00:00:53
• 2020-10-20 · John recalls winning a writing contest at nine to attend the 1987 Florida Young Writers Conference, where a famous author he loved refused his worn paperbacks, signing only new hardcovers he couldn't afford; he felt horrible. · story: Hank shows Dad's home video of eight-year-old John at the Orange County Young Authors Award (2007) — How to Sign Your Name 150,000 Times 00:01:54
• 2020-10-27 · A while back John was asked to host a book event with Joe Biden. · story: John co-hosts a stop on Joe Biden's book tour and is struck by his listening — The time I met Joe Biden 00:00:00
• 2020-10-27 · The description corrects the video: on reflection the Biden event was not in St. Louis. · story: John co-hosts a stop on Joe Biden's book tour and is struck by his listening — The time I met Joe Biden 00:00:00
• 2020-10-27 · John says he had no particularly strong opinion about Joe Biden then; he just liked the book. · story: John co-hosts a stop on Joe Biden's book tour and is struck by his listening — The time I met Joe Biden 00:00:00
• 2020-10-27 · John flew to somewhere like St. Louis for the Q&A and was editing a Crash Course script backstage when someone asked if he'd like to meet Vice President Biden. (hedged) · story: John co-hosts a stop on Joe Biden's book tour and is struck by his listening — The time I met Joe Biden 00:00:29
• 2020-10-27 · Biden told John his family loved The Fault in Our Stars and it helped them process his son's cancer diagnosis; he asked about Esther, with tears in his eyes as John talked. · story: John co-hosts a stop on Joe Biden's book tour and is struck by his listening — The time I met Joe Biden 00:00:58
• 2020-10-27 · On the way to the stage a stagehand, Tim, asked Biden for an autograph and they fell into intense conversation; Biden asked Tim to wait and resumed talking with him after the hour-long Q&A. · story: John co-hosts a stop on Joe Biden's book tour and is struck by his listening — The time I met Joe Biden 00:01:27
• 2020-11-03 · After a March live show fundraiser, his last experience of the old normal, someone whose name John doesn't remember gave him Alaska for Looking: Looking for Alaska's whole text in alphabetical order. — Alaska for Looking 00:00:29
• 2020-11-03 · John last read Looking for Alaska in 2004, at 26; he doesn't enjoy rereading published work, since he can't change anything and there are other books to read. — Alaska for Looking 00:00:58
• 2020-11-03 · Writing Alaska, John was obsessed with symmetry: the first part of the book had to have exactly as many days as the second. · story: John: how Looking for Alaska was written, revised and won the Printz Award (2006) — Alaska for Looking 00:01:56
• 2020-12-01 · John says that when he visited Sun Tunnels, its framing of landscape and sunlight made him feel something of Rudolf Otto's mysterium tremendum: awe, fear and fascination before an overwhelming mystery. — The Utah Monolith, What It Means, Why It Matters, and Whether It's Aliens 00:01:40
• 2020-12-08 · John says starting a collaborative video blog back in 2006 was his idea. — A Love Letter to My Brother, Basically 00:00:00
• 2020-12-08 · John says a few years ago the brothers decided their portion of the profits from these businesses should go to charity. — A Love Letter to My Brother, Basically 00:01:27
• 2020-12-08 · John says Hank helped him and Rosianna start Life's Library, a book club whose members read together and raise money to fight maternal mortality. — A Love Letter to My Brother, Basically 00:01:56
• 2020-12-29 · John did finish Crash Course European History, though the last several episodes were filmed in his basement and directed by Stan over Zoom. — Looking Back at My 2020 Goals 00:00:29
• 2020-12-29 · The other creative projects John could not name in January meant The Anthropocene Reviewed, which he successfully put on hiatus, though he misses it. — Looking Back at My 2020 Goals 00:00:37
• 2020-12-29 · The book John wanted to finish in 2020 is The Anthropocene Reviewed; he has not exactly finished it but has made good progress. · story: John writes his first nonfiction book, The Anthropocene Reviewed (2020) — Looking Back at My 2020 Goals 00:00:58
• 2020-12-29 · John is still nervous about the book, his first nonfiction and largely about himself, but feels better about it than in January, unlike most things. — Looking Back at My 2020 Goals 00:01:08
• 2020-12-29 · 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. — Looking Back at My 2020 Goals 00:01:56
• 2020-12-29 · John cancelled over 40 flights in 2020 and has gone nine months and counting without visiting an airport, his longest such streak in over 29 years. — Looking Back at My 2020 Goals 00:02:02
• 2020-12-29 · John's small goals, exercising at least 150 minutes a week and making Dear Hank and John every Monday and a Vlogbrothers video every Tuesday, were not easy, but he did them. · story: John's regular exercise after 100 Days and its effects on his body and mind (2017) — Looking Back at My 2020 Goals 00:02:19
• 2020-12-31 · The video shows the White River, whose water reaches the Mississippi, where it meets water from the Chicago River near Amy's neighborhood; John thinks of this when he feels very lonely. — Auld Lang Syne: The Anthropocene Reviewed 00:00:00
• 2020-12-31 · In summer 2001 the writer Amy Krouse Rosenthal emailed Booklist about a review; John, then a publishing assistant doing data entry and low-priority emails, replied. — Auld Lang Syne: The Anthropocene Reviewed 00:01:18
• 2020-12-31 · John told Amy he had loved her zine-like column in Might magazine, especially a bit about feeling safe only as a descending plane nears the ground. — Auld Lang Syne: The Anthropocene Reviewed 00:01:46
• 2020-12-31 · Amy wrote back asking if John was a writer; he said he was trying to be, and she asked if he had anything two minutes long for the radio. — Auld Lang Syne: The Anthropocene Reviewed 00:02:09
• 2020-12-31 · John says up front that Amy is dead, so her death won't seem a narrative device: a rare present-tense sentence that, once true, stays true forever. — Auld Lang Syne: The Anthropocene Reviewed 00:04:30
• 2020-12-31 · John sent Amy three short essays; she liked one and had him record it for her show on Chicago public radio station WBEZ, his first time reaching such a large audience. · story: John's big break: Amy Krouse Rosenthal gets him recording essays for WBEZ (2002) — Auld Lang Syne: The Anthropocene Reviewed 00:04:57
• 2020-12-31 · Amy invited John on her show more often, and within a year he was recording frequent commentaries for WBEZ and then NPR's All Things Considered. — Auld Lang Syne: The Anthropocene Reviewed 00:05:22
• 2020-12-31 · John told Amy his mom had him carry $40 'mugging money' in his left pocket in Chicago; next time Amy gave him two money clips, engraved JMG and MM, Mugging Money. — Auld Lang Syne: The Anthropocene Reviewed 00:05:45
• 2020-12-31 · In April 2002 John read at Amy's Writer's Block Party at the Chopin Theater; a hired complimenter praised his new Adidas sneakers, so he has worn Adidas almost daily for 17 years. — Auld Lang Syne: The Anthropocene Reviewed 00:06:29
• 2020-12-31 · 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. — Auld Lang Syne: The Anthropocene Reviewed 00:12:20
• 2020-12-31 · John played a bit part in an experience Amy curated for hundreds of people on August 8, 2008, in Millennium Park, but it was never again like the early days. — Auld Lang Syne: The Anthropocene Reviewed 00:12:35
• 2020-12-31 · After finishing Textbook, Amy learned she had cancer and called John, who knew many gravely ill young people after The Fault in Our Stars, to ask how her kids and husband would cope. — Auld Lang Syne: The Anthropocene Reviewed 00:12:46
• 2020-12-31 · John should have said her family won't be okay but will go on, as will her love; instead, crying, he said 'How can this be happening? You do so much yoga.' — Auld Lang Syne: The Anthropocene Reviewed 00:13:45
• 2020-12-31 · In public appearances Amy would ask audiences to sing the soldiers' recursive lament with her, transforming it without changing the tune or words. · story: Amy Krouse Rosenthal turns 'We're here because we're here' into hope for a depressed John at her reading (2005) — Auld Lang Syne: The Anthropocene Reviewed 00:18:46

2021

• 2021-01-05 · John recalls that he and Hank often speculated over the years about what would happen if the gods of Mount Olympus, the creators of the simulation or superior fish beings suddenly announced themselves. — SUPERIOR FISH BEINGS 00:00:58
• 2021-01-12 · John wants to get the vaccine into his arm. — My 2021 Vision Board 00:00:29
• 2021-01-12 · This week's (week of 11 January 2021) board says to review lemmings, as John is a semi-professional reviewer of the Anthropocene interested in lemmings. — My 2021 Vision Board 00:01:17
• 2021-01-12 · To make sure every copy of the first US printing of The Anthropocene Reviewed book is signed, John must sign about 10,000 times a week; the stack he shows is about 600. — My 2021 Vision Board 00:02:16
• 2021-01-19 · The diagnosis: no arthritis, a sprained ligament, so John can power through. — let's go on a parts adventure 00:01:56
• 2021-01-26 · John's brain plays a similar game, What's Even the Point; a Millay poem he has quoted in two of his novels describes his depressive blizzards perfectly. — The Sycamore Tree: The Anthropocene Reviewed 00:01:08
• 2021-01-26 · Waiting in an airport to fly to Milwaukee, John feels the chill and sees the flight as apes herded into a tube spewing carbon dioxide between population centers. — The Sycamore Tree: The Anthropocene Reviewed 00:01:37
• 2021-01-26 · In the airport John is disgusted by his failures and attempts at meaning; his brain tells him consciousness is a burden, life a terror, and the universe doesn't care if he's here. — The Sycamore Tree: The Anthropocene Reviewed 00:03:59
• 2021-01-26 · During the game John struggles to do anything and often can't find a reason to get out of bed. — The Sycamore Tree: The Anthropocene Reviewed 00:05:42
• 2021-01-26 · One overcast day in a forested park, John's nine-year-old points out squirrels racing up an immense American sycamore with peeling white bark and huge leaves, and John finds it beautiful. — The Sycamore Tree: The Anthropocene Reviewed 00:08:02
• 2021-02-02 · John recalls predicting the pandemic: in mid-2019 on Dear Hank and John he said everyone must prepare for the coming global disease pandemic, and a year earlier he listed one among his chief fears. — I Predicted the Pandemic (over and over and over again) 00:00:00
• 2021-02-09 · John's producing partner Rosianna Halse Rojas just marked 15 years on YouTube, more than half her life making videos. — Lesser Known YouTube Channels I Love 00:01:54
• 2021-02-16 · John still has a mustache because of a Project for Awesome promise, and his voice is a little hoarse. — A Lovely Winter Walk 00:00:03
• 2021-02-23 · In a comment John says the challenge he set himself this week (week of 22 February 2021) was to make a video about the pandemic that is not about the pandemic. — A Little Joy and Color in an Otherwise Unbearably Bland Life 00:00:00
• 2021-02-23 · John has been signing with a purple Sharpie in his quest to sign all 250,000 copies of the first US printing of The Anthropocene Reviewed book, and it has brought him joy. — A Little Joy and Color in an Otherwise Unbearably Bland Life 00:00:29
• 2021-02-23 · The first hundred thousand or so signatures were easy, John says, because signing felt like a break from writing the book, which he found exhausting and emotionally draining at times. — A Little Joy and Color in an Otherwise Unbearably Bland Life 00:00:50
• 2021-02-23 · Despite its grandiose title, John says, The Anthropocene Reviewed is a very personal book, his first attempt to write about his actual self. · story: John writes his first nonfiction book, The Anthropocene Reviewed (2020) — A Little Joy and Color in an Otherwise Unbearably Bland Life 00:00:58
• 2021-02-23 · Because this book was about him, John felt his whole self was being poured into it, which was a little terrifying; signing was a break from that. — A Little Joy and Color in an Otherwise Unbearably Bland Life 00:01:18
• 2021-02-23 · John makes drawings obsessively, like his drawing of 17,000 circles, or rather 17,000 failed attempts at circles. · story: John draws 170,000 circles to grasp the US COVID-19 death toll (2020) — A Little Joy and Color in an Otherwise Unbearably Bland Life 00:01:56
• 2021-02-23 · Now signing has become harder: John still has 300 hours of signing left, his hand hurts a little, and this is where even a silly test of endurance actually becomes a test. — A Little Joy and Color in an Otherwise Unbearably Bland Life 00:02:40
• 2021-02-23 · John recalls signing 150,000 times for The Fault in Our Stars: at the end he signed 12 or 14 hours a day and doubted he could do it, until the purple Sharpie reminded him he had made this promise and would keep it. — A Little Joy and Color in an Otherwise Unbearably Bland Life 00:03:05
• 2021-02-23 · Echoing his 2021 vision board, John toasts perseverance, both the rover and the value, and thanks Hank for making him a Mars fan so he could openly weep when the rover landed. — A Little Joy and Color in an Otherwise Unbearably Bland Life 00:03:30
• 2021-03-02 · John says that, though viewers might not know it from his last couple of videos, the past two weeks were the most stressful he has had in a while. — What's Not in the Frame 00:00:00
• 2021-03-02 · A family member of John's recently had COVID, which was very scary, but he did not want to talk about it in his videos. — What's Not in the Frame 00:00:58
• 2021-03-02 · John's speech particularities mean a four-minute video takes about 45 minutes to record; he cuts the stumbles so he doesn't seem to stutter, but that is the frame, not what is real. — What's Not in the Frame 00:01:35
• 2021-03-02 · Now that everyone seems okay and the crisis has hopefully passed, it is easier for John to talk about. (hedged) — What's Not in the Frame 00:02:50
• 2021-03-02 · The last edits for The Anthropocene Reviewed book are due in three days, which is also a little stressful for John. · story: John writes his first nonfiction book, The Anthropocene Reviewed (2020) — What's Not in the Frame 00:03:35
• 2021-03-09 · John's daughter said she didn't like the cornmeal casing on her school-lunch corn dog, a conversation that could have happened at any time. — Hank Rebranded Without Any of Us Noticing 00:00:00
• 2021-03-09 · John told his daughter her Uncle Hank loves corn dogs; she asked 'does he?', and John realized how successfully Hank has rebranded himself. — Hank Rebranded Without Any of Us Noticing 00:00:58
• 2021-03-09 · The one essential thing John would say about himself is that he is a parent, which 2007 John wasn't. — Hank Rebranded Without Any of Us Noticing 00:01:56
• 2021-03-09 · 2007 John wasn't the author of The Fault in Our Stars, a resident of Indianapolis, an AFC Wimbledon supporter, Crash Course's co-founder, best friends with Chris and Marina, or a jogger. — Hank Rebranded Without Any of Us Noticing 00:01:56
• 2021-03-16 · The Anthropocene Reviewed is John's sixth book, but with reprints and foreign editions he has had over a hundred covers, some he disliked and some he adores. — How a Book Cover Gets Designed 00:00:00
• 2021-03-16 · The cover comes when John feels exceptionally exposed and nervous; the cover designer is often the first person he doesn't know to read the book. — How a Book Cover Gets Designed 00:00:29
• 2021-03-16 · John has always had a voice in his US covers thanks to Julie Strauss-Gabel, his editor since his first book was published 16 years ago. — How a Book Cover Gets Designed 00:00:29
• 2021-03-16 · The cover began with John and Julie talking about Hiroyuki Doi's artwork, John's circle drawings, road trips, microorganisms, the Bonneville Salt Flats, sunsets and their favorite book designers. — How a Book Cover Gets Designed 00:00:58
• 2021-03-16 · Julie asked Grace, who read the book and developed a few possible covers; John was immediately drawn to one showing interweaving bands of color. — How a Book Cover Gets Designed 00:01:27
• 2021-03-16 · When John saw this cover he immediately recognized it as the cover of the book, which then became real to him; he thanks Grace Han. — How a Book Cover Gets Designed 00:03:24
• 2021-03-30 · John announces he has done it: he has signed his name 250,000 times. — I did it! 00:00:00
• 2021-03-30 · On the 250,000th signature John wrote a review of signing your name 250,000 times. — I did it! 00:00:00
• 2021-03-30 · John has packed 78 boxes of signed sheets to be bound into copies of The Anthropocene Reviewed book at the printer in Virginia. — I did it! 00:00:00
• 2021-03-30 · 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) — I did it! 00:00:29
• 2021-03-30 · At times the signing hours passed in a flow-state contentment John needed; at others, with a cramping hand and looming deadlines, he felt frustrated and overwhelmed. — I did it! 00:00:58
• 2021-03-30 · John says he is absurdly lucky to sign 250,000 times but it was stressful, and he distracted himself by daydreaming about where each book might end up. — I did it! 00:00:58
• 2021-03-30 · John imagines a copy going to Ocala, Florida, where he saw Halley's Comet with his dad in 1986. — I did it! 00:00:58
• 2021-03-30 · John has had a very rough period finishing the book, mostly from things more important than books (family health, managing his brain disorder), but partly from the book. · story: John writes his first nonfiction book, The Anthropocene Reviewed (2020) — I did it! 00:02:25
• 2021-03-30 · John can't bear to reread his work after it comes out, so today he is reading the book for the last time. — I did it! 00:02:54
• 2021-04-06 · Living with severe anxiety most of his life, John has learned that shame isn't effective for him: being told to stop worrying or that he's an idiot doesn't help. — How Do You Do, Fellow Kids? 00:01:27
• 2021-04-13 · John goes to 'manifest' his second vaccine shot; Sarah drives because he is too nervous. — My Truly Mortifying Self-Talk 00:00:00
• 2021-04-13 · John's friend Craig, a teacher and big soccer fan, texts with him a lot about his team Watford and about AFC Wimbledon's perpetual proximity to relegation. — My Truly Mortifying Self-Talk 00:00:29
• 2021-04-13 · Pausing the story for the shot, John reports they are now double vaccinated. — My Truly Mortifying Self-Talk 00:00:29
• 2021-04-13 · John has been fortunate to have a lot of cognitive behavioral therapy for his mental illness; he uses its positive self-talk technique many times a day to reduce stress and break cycles of self-loathing and despair. — My Truly Mortifying Self-Talk 00:00:58
• 2021-04-13 · In self-talk John calls himself 'you' or 'we': after locking his keys in the car he tells himself to move to a solutions mindset; when afraid he says he can do this, he has done hard things before. — My Truly Mortifying Self-Talk 00:01:31
• 2021-04-13 · Last Tuesday (6 April 2021), behind on everything and short of time before picking up the kids, John calmed himself with positive self-talk and then shot his vlogbrothers video. — My Truly Mortifying Self-Talk 00:02:00
• 2021-04-13 · John has been struggling with fairly severe anxiety for the last eight to ten weeks. — My Truly Mortifying Self-Talk 00:02:00
• 2021-04-20 · John just finished recording The Anthropocene Reviewed audiobook, which was fun; he found only one typo. — Breaking Ground!!! 00:01:46
• 2021-04-27 · The Anthropocene Reviewed book has arrived; John finds it beautiful and is grateful to the people who made it. — What is my new book about? 00:00:00
• 2021-04-27 · The book's endpapers are based on John's circle drawings. · story: John draws 170,000 circles to grasp the US COVID-19 death toll (2020) — What is my new book about? 00:00:00
• 2021-04-27 · AFC Wimbledon, needing a draw to avoid relegation, scored on the last kick to tie Rochdale 3-3; John wept. — What is my new book about? 00:00:00
• 2021-05-14 · In a channel comment John says his strategy is very different: he writes 800-850-word scripts and cuts while filming and editing, yet they end up in exactly the same place. — This Vlogbrothers Stat Blew My Mind 00:00:00
• 2021-05-18 · John has to do a TV appearance that he is somewhat nervous about. — Saying What I've Needed to Say to Hank for a While 00:00:05
• 2021-05-18 · John shows a picture of Drew Barrymore hugging his book after she said she loved it. — Saying What I've Needed to Say to Hank for a While 00:01:43
• 2021-05-18 · After a long three years and a really long year and a half, John is so grateful the book is here. · story: John writes his first nonfiction book, The Anthropocene Reviewed (2020) — Saying What I've Needed to Say to Hank for a While 00:02:32
• 2021-05-18 · This book finally has a main character with a sibling: Hank is at its beginning, middle and end, telling John what he needs to hear with wit, empathy and love, as in real life. — Saying What I've Needed to Say to Hank for a While 00:03:28
• 2021-05-25 · After a month touring for Turtles All the Way Down, published October 2017, John came home to Indianapolis and blazed a trail from his children's treehouse to the office, or shed, where he and his wife work. — The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated 00:00:00
• 2021-05-25 · John cleared dozens of invasive honeysuckle trees, dug up English ivy and laid wood chips and bricks, working 10 or 12 hours a day for a month, to build a walk that takes 58 seconds. — The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated 00:00:22
• 2021-05-25 · A week later, his balance suddenly failed: the world spun, his eyes shivered, he vomited and was rushed to hospital; diagnosed with labyrinthitis, an inner-ear disease, it was an unambiguously one-star experience. · story: John's labyrinthitis after the Turtles All the Way Down tour (2017) — The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated 00:00:58
• 2021-05-25 · Recovery meant weeks in bed unable to read, watch TV or play with his kids, alone with thoughts that drifted or panicked him, his mind roaming through the past. — The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated 00:01:36
• 2021-05-25 · John recalls the novelist Allegra Goodman, asked who should write her life story, saying she was writing it herself, but in code; John felt some people thought they knew his code. — The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated 00:02:08
• 2021-05-25 · People assumed John shared his protagonists' worldviews or questioned him as if he were the protagonist; a famous interviewer asked whether he, like the narrator of Turtles All the Way Down, had panic attacks when kissing. — The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated 00:02:29
• 2021-05-25 · Having invited such questions with a public life as a mentally ill person, John told the interviewer he has no anxiety around kissing but does have intensely frightening panic attacks; talking about himself through fiction became exhausting and destabilizing, as if his self were for sale. — The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated 00:02:44
• 2021-05-25 · As he recovered from labyrinthitis, John realized he didn't want to write in code anymore. — The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated 00:03:21
• 2021-05-25 · In 2000 John worked for a few months as a student chaplain at a children's hospital while at divinity school planning to become an Episcopal minister; the devastation he saw ended those plans, and he still can't handle it. · story: John's time as a student chaplain at a children's hospital (c. 2000) — The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated 00:03:26
• 2021-05-25 · John moved to Chicago, typed for temp agencies, then did data entry at Booklist; an editor asked if he liked romance novels, he said he loved them, and got his first review: a novel set in 17th-century London. — The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated 00:03:49
• 2021-05-25 · Over five years John reviewed hundreds of books for Booklist, from picture books about the Buddha to poetry collections, and became fascinated by the format of the review. — The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated 00:04:14
• 2021-05-25 · The universe didn't give John labyrinthitis to teach him about balance; he was mostly better within six weeks but still has terrifying bouts of vertigo, and now viscerally knows consciousness is temporary and precarious. · story: John's labyrinthitis after the Turtles All the Way Down tour (2017) — The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated 00:06:35
• 2021-05-25 · Getting better, John returned to a weekly Tuesday video and a weekly podcast with Hank but did not write: that fall and winter was his longest stretch without writing for an audience since he was 14. — The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated 00:07:02
• 2021-05-25 · 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. · story: John and Sarah move to Indianapolis (2007) — The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated 00:07:31
• 2021-05-25 · On the fall 2017 book tour, Hank and John passed long drives trying to one-up each other with absurd Google user reviews, like a one-star review of Badlands National Park: not enough mountain. — The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated 00:08:55
• 2021-05-25 · Marveling at five-star reviews of everything, John told Hank he had once had an idea to review Canada geese; Hank said: The Anthropocene Reviewed. — The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated 00:10:02
• 2021-05-25 · 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. — The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated 00:10:17
• 2021-05-25 · 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. — The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated 00:10:40
• 2021-05-25 · Recovering, John reread his friend and mentor Amy Krouse Rosenthal, who had died months earlier, who wrote that anyone discerning what to do with their life should pay attention to what they pay attention to. — The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated 00:11:23
• 2021-05-25 · In early 2020, after two years of writing the podcast, a novel coronavirus appeared, and John began to write about the only thing he could write about. · story: John writes his first nonfiction book, The Anthropocene Reviewed (2020) — The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated 00:12:53
• 2021-05-25 · It has taken John all his life to fall in love with the world, but he has started to feel it in the last couple of years. — The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated 00:14:13
• 2021-06-01 · The moment John finished it he started rereading it; 43 and a lifelong reader, he doesn't think he has ever immediately reread a book before. — My Two Favorite Books of the Year 00:03:20
• 2021-06-08 · John thanks Ashley for being here and for being the first guest in their house in 15 months. — Feelings, Little Tunnels, and Oprah: It's Question Tuesday with Ashley C. Ford 00:03:48
• 2021-06-15 · The description says Hank and John are in the same place at the same time for the first time in a very, very long while. · story: John and Hank reunite in person for the first time in a long while and make collab videos together (2021) — VLOGBROTHERS REUNITED!!!! 00:00:00
• 2021-06-15 · Asked if they got emotional on seeing each other, John says yes: during the pandemic he has struggled to feel emotion in the moment and lets himself feel it later. · story: John and Hank reunite in person for the first time in a long while and make collab videos together (2021) — VLOGBROTHERS REUNITED!!!! 00:03:25
• 2021-06-22 · The description calls this Hank and John's final reunion video for now, in which they discuss the facts that blow their minds. · story: John and Hank reunite in person for the first time in a long while and make collab videos together (2021) — Mindblowers with Hank and John 00:00:00
• 2021-06-22 · In a comment John thanks viewers: The Anthropocene Reviewed just had its fourth week on the New York Times bestseller list. — Mindblowers with Hank and John 00:00:00
• 2021-06-29 · John says making the podcast is one of the highlights of his week because it's two uninterrupted hours with his brother. — Sneezing is not normal. 00:00:12
• 2021-06-29 · 46 days ago listener Sarah wrote that when she was diagnosed with asthma eight years earlier, her doctor said sneezing is not normal and that the doctor never sneezes. — Sneezing is not normal. 00:00:17
• 2021-06-29 · For eight years Sarah has thought of this doctor whenever she sneezes; now John does too, and since the episode aired hundreds of people have told him the same. — Sneezing is not normal. 00:00:43
• 2021-06-29 · Until recently John thought of the internet and IRL as fundamentally separate; when young, he liked the internet precisely because it was not IRL. — Sneezing is not normal. 00:03:31
• 2021-07-13 · In a comment, welcoming a suggested video on books he never wrote, John says he has over 40 abandoned first chapters. — The Vlogbrothers Videos I Didn't Make 00:00:00
• 2021-07-13 · John has made almost a thousand Vlogbrothers videos, but for each one at least one is abandoned as too personal, too self-indulgent, or never reaching its point. — The Vlogbrothers Videos I Didn't Make 00:00:03
• 2021-07-13 · Last week (week of 5 July 2021) John tried to make a video about nation-states and how international sporting competitions can both strengthen and challenge nationalist ideas. — The Vlogbrothers Videos I Didn't Make 00:00:21
• 2021-07-13 · A few years ago John wrote a video on how a symptom of both panic attacks and heart attacks is a 'sense of impending doom', and how hard it is to know how to respond to that feeling. — The Vlogbrothers Videos I Didn't Make 00:01:08
• 2021-07-13 · John says his sense of impending doom has at times been so powerful that it is difficult to sense anything else. — The Vlogbrothers Videos I Didn't Make 00:01:38
• 2021-07-13 · John's long-time producing partner Rosianna Halse Rojas often reads his scripts and asks him not to make them, for undercooked hot takes, a great weakness of his, or for content that might divide or weaken the community. — The Vlogbrothers Videos I Didn't Make 00:02:26
• 2021-07-13 · John says this reflects their real-life relationship: they almost never argue, and when they do it's over things like Batman. — The Vlogbrothers Videos I Didn't Make 00:03:15
• 2021-07-13 · Years ago John wrote a would-be funny video on the brothers' differences and how Nerdfighteria's factions might line up in a civil dispute; Rosianna said it would get many views but weaken the community. — The Vlogbrothers Videos I Didn't Make 00:03:21
• 2021-07-20 · John says The Anthropocene Reviewed, essays reviewing facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale, has been on the New York Times bestseller list for eight consecutive weeks. — Reviewing Reviews of My Reviews 00:00:00
• 2021-07-20 · Responding to Adele's review that the book reminds us what it means to be alive, John says he wrote it to remind himself what it means to be alive. — Reviewing Reviews of My Reviews 00:02:30
• 2021-07-20 · Melissa, a COVID nurse, wrote that the collection helped her find her white-knuckled way through the pandemic. — Reviewing Reviews of My Reviews 00:02:59
• 2021-07-27 · John watches the sun set on the western shores of Lake Michigan, which he says is known locally as America's third coast. — Savoring: The Sunset Series Returns 00:00:00
• 2021-07-27 · John has had years when many wonderful things happened that he could not enjoy or take in, lacking the time or psychological well-being to savor them. — Savoring: The Sunset Series Returns 00:00:29
• 2021-07-27 · Slow time is not YouTube's strength: for years John has edited nearly every breath out of his videos, since in a hyper-distracted landscape a half-second pause sends viewers to other tabs; here he leaves a breath. — Savoring: The Sunset Series Returns 00:01:27
• 2021-07-27 · John has spent much of his life thinking and writing about how we go on, especially with mental health challenges, and says how we go on is linked to why. — Savoring: The Sunset Series Returns 00:01:58
• 2021-07-27 · John is often obsessed with what's next and with feeling busy and engaged with the right now; Twitter's box asks 'what's happening?', and he has wanted to be part of it. — Savoring: The Sunset Series Returns 00:02:31
• 2021-08-03 · On Esther Day John tells Hank he loves him. — I L*** Hank 00:00:00
• 2021-08-03 · John tells Hank he loves him and thanks him for loving him, growing with him and everything they get to do together. — I L*** Hank 00:03:25
• 2021-08-10 · Three and a half years ago (November 2017) John was diagnosed with labyrinthitis, a viral inflammation of the inner ear: he went from a slight head cold to incapacitating vertigo, fell over, vomited and was rushed to hospital. · story: John's labyrinthitis after the Turtles All the Way Down tour (2017) — My Physicalmental Illness 00:00:00
• 2021-08-10 · After years of treatment for labyrinthitis, John has started to wonder whether the disease is mental or physical. — My Physicalmental Illness 00:00:00
• 2021-08-10 · In hospital his vertigo was first thought possibly psychosomatic, caused by his chronic anxiety; when an ostensibly physiological cause was found he was a little relieved, as everyone, himself included, began treating the illness as really real. — My Physicalmental Illness 00:00:29
• 2021-08-10 · Labyrinthitis is not a psychological illness, or so John is told; he went home from hospital with two medications, the central nervous depressant meclizine and the anti-anxiety drug diazepam, which also lessens vertigo. (hedged) — My Physicalmental Illness 00:01:47
• 2021-08-10 · With lasting vestibular problems after the virus was gone, John was sent to a balance institute to retrain his brain; when the therapist said they were rewiring his brain, he realized it was just like his other therapy. — My Physicalmental Illness 00:02:26
• 2021-08-24 · It is John's birthday, and as a present to himself he is making an old-fashioned parts video. — It's My Birthday. I Gave Myself This Video. 00:00:00
• 2021-08-24 · Three months after The Anthropocene Reviewed book came out, sharing something so personal has been strange, lovely and terrifying; unable to write about that directly, John wrote about space art. — It's My Birthday. I Gave Myself This Video. 00:00:29
• 2021-08-24 · Working on The Anthropocene Reviewed has been incredible, but John thinks he is ready to go back to writing fiction, maybe, after a long pause. (hedged) — It's My Birthday. I Gave Myself This Video. 00:00:58
• 2021-08-24 · As a kid John looked at his dad's shoes and marvelled that they were ten years old and still fit. — It's My Birthday. I Gave Myself This Video. 00:03:06
• 2021-08-24 · Personalities change too: at 30 John hated gardening, exercise and being outside and did not care about third-tier English football, and now he loves all of it. — It's My Birthday. I Gave Myself This Video. 00:03:35
• 2021-08-31 · John first learned about Steiff while researching the history of teddy bears for an Anthropocene Reviewed essay, which he links. — The Woman Who Invented Stuffed Animals 00:00:00
• 2021-09-14 · John has been making Vlogbrothers videos for almost 15 years: since the George W. Bush administration, before the iPhone, before his children, one now in sixth grade. — I do this every. single. tuesday. 00:00:00
• 2021-09-14 · If it is Tuesday John tries to make a video whatever happens: he made them when labyrinthitis kept his eyes from focusing, and one in a hotel room just after his grandfather's funeral. — I do this every. single. tuesday. 00:00:15
• 2021-09-14 · John's best professional day was January 10, 2013, when he, Hank, Kimya Dawson, the Mountain Goats, Neil Gaiman and others played Carnegie Hall; he uploaded a video that morning. — I do this every. single. tuesday. 00:00:29
• 2021-09-14 · Unlike novelists who write at the same desk and time daily, John has never been able to write every day; he squeezes writing between video shoots and meetings. — I do this every. single. tuesday. 00:00:58
• 2021-09-14 · John wrote parts of Looking for Alaska on lunch breaks, weekends and in book margins, writing six weeks every night and then not at all for two weeks to play FIFA 2002. · story: John: how Looking for Alaska was written, revised and won the Printz Award (2006) — I do this every. single. tuesday. 00:01:15
• 2021-09-14 · In late 2006, after An Abundance of Katherines came out, John quit his day job to write full time, found himself still inconsistent and the empty days terrifying, and three months later invented an unpaid job, this channel. — I do this every. single. tuesday. 00:01:34
• 2021-09-21 · Because he wants his hair to look less and people are counting on him at his meetings, John will get the haircut and attend them: that is his day, and so much of his life. — how we spend our days 00:01:27
• 2021-09-21 · Yesterday John's most economically productive work was making a much-listened podcast and writing a bit of a book, but his most productive hour was driving his kid home from school, running errands and talking. — how we spend our days 00:02:26
• 2021-10-06 · On the third day of Pizzamas, John drives to Brazil, Indiana, because someone there ordered Pizzamas items and he wants to partially fill the order himself. — Searching for Betsy in Brazil 00:00:00
• 2021-10-06 · The family at the house were lovely and keep ducks and guinea fowl, but the buyer was at work, so John goes to her workplace to meet her. — Searching for Betsy in Brazil 00:00:58
• 2021-10-06 · In high school John saw Kurt Vonnegut lecture; mostly he remembers Vonnegut smoking in the auditorium and, told he couldn't, replying in effect that he had already been paid. — Searching for Betsy in Brazil 00:01:34
• 2021-10-08 · In a comment John says the script was much longer, with much about the upcoming tour; Rosianna suggested just saying they would tour if safe, and he eventually agreed. — On February 3rd, 2020, I Wrote a Video I Didn't Make. Here It Is. 00:00:00
• 2021-10-08 · In early February 2020 John wrote a video script, 'A Feeling of Impending Doom', that was never made; he often writes unmade videos and is grateful this one wasn't made. — On February 3rd, 2020, I Wrote a Video I Didn't Make. Here It Is. 00:00:05
• 2021-10-08 · In the script John says that, with a serious mental health disorder, he often has a feeling of impending doom and cannot tell whether it is a heart attack, a panic attack or actual doom. — On February 3rd, 2020, I Wrote a Video I Didn't Make. Here It Is. 00:00:50
• 2021-10-12 · John's friend Craig, a high school teacher, ran a 100-mile trail race on the weekend of 9–10 October 2021 in just under 24 hours; John paced him for 17 miles, the longest run of John's life. · story: John paces his friend Craig for 17 miles of a 100-mile trail race (2021) — Fine, I'll take the bait. 00:02:26
• 2021-10-12 · 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. — Fine, I'll take the bait. 00:02:55
• 2021-10-14 · John's late-night YouTube is a lot of a guy sanding cow hooves; he isn't interested in the field but can't stop watching. — Pizza Sized Johns or John Sized Pizza? It's Question Thursday 00:00:58
• 2021-10-14 · The real answer is personal: looking at himself 12 years ago, John wonders at how he wanted to be popular; then he got enough popularity to want it less. — Pizza Sized Johns or John Sized Pizza? It's Question Thursday 00:01:57
• 2021-10-14 · John signed up for Hank's daily Pizzamas pizza-joke texts; yesterday's (13 October 2021) taught him that Pink worked at Pizza Hut, the only fact he remembers learning all week. — Pizza Sized Johns or John Sized Pizza? It's Question Thursday 00:01:57
• 2021-10-19 · John says Hank has just acquired possibly the cutest kitten John has ever seen, and what remains is the fraught work of naming it. · story: Hank's family gets a new kitten, Gummy Bear (2021) — Cat Names: The Authoritative Guide 00:00:00
• 2021-11-02 · For John it has always been about security: the feeling he constantly tries to avoid is precarity, being close to the edge with no say in whether he goes over it. — enough 00:00:56
• 2021-11-02 · When young, John thought he could solve death by writing books that would outlast him, but realized that is a fool's errand: books don't live forever either. — enough 00:01:30
• 2021-11-02 · John's next idea was a legacy through philanthropy: a huge charitable trust that, once big, would donate about 5% a year to great charities so his impact would stretch through the years. — enough 00:01:55
• 2021-11-02 · John says he insulates himself from precarity as much as possible: he quit smoking 20 years ago, has insurance, and has financial security that eases stress and allows professional risks and support for his kids. — enough 00:02:36
• 2021-11-09 · John says his first failure was in 2009: Hank pitched glasses that render 3D movies in 2D for people who get headaches, and John called it the worst idea he'd ever heard. — Hank Green's Million Dollar Ideas 00:00:58
• 2021-11-09 · John recalls Hank and people at DFTBA.com pitching a sock subscription a couple of years ago, with all profit to stronger health systems in poor communities; John said it was not a million-dollar idea. — Hank Green's Million Dollar Ideas 00:02:16
• 2021-11-16 · John will never see an orbital sunrise: an inner ear disorder has damaged his sense of balance, and he is not a pilot, an engineer or a billionaire. — Orbital Sunrise: The First Art Made in Space 00:07:01
• 2021-11-23 (said on 2021-10-28, implied) · Work, once the most important thing in John's life, his primary self-identifier and measure of his value, no longer is; he has worked hard over five years to get away from that thinking. — I have been playing a small trick on you. 00:00:00
• 2021-11-23 (said on 2021-10-28, implied) · John once made a Vlogbrothers video saying the most important time of his day was chatting with his kids after school pickup, yet that day he was too busy to pick them up: misaligned priorities. — I have been playing a small trick on you. 00:00:58
• 2021-11-23 (said on 2021-10-28, implied) · Second, John's boot situation requires a bit of rehab. · story: John wears a boot (2021) — I have been playing a small trick on you. 00:01:27
• 2021-11-23 (said on 2021-10-28, implied) · After years of mostly stable, good mental health, John's has lately been unstable, with worry invading from every direction like clouding vision before fainting; it has improved in the last couple of weeks. — I have been playing a small trick on you. 00:01:27
• 2021-11-23 (said on 2021-10-28, implied) · Fourth, John wants to see if time away gives him more time and inclination to write: publishing, his lifelong dream, was fun at first but became mostly stressful and scary. — I have been playing a small trick on you. 00:01:56
• 2021-11-23 (said on 2021-10-28, implied) · John could only think about the book being received terribly and readers feeling cheated of the $20 of faith they placed in him; publishing became something to get through. — I have been playing a small trick on you. 00:02:26
• 2021-11-23 (said on 2021-10-28, implied) · Writing and publishing The Anthropocene Reviewed book were both really fun and fulfilling, so John is not in a hurry to write or publish anything. · story: John writes his first nonfiction book, The Anthropocene Reviewed (2020) — I have been playing a small trick on you. 00:02:26
• 2021-11-23 (said on 2021-10-28, implied) · Though a book takes him years, John is looking forward to it, enjoying the fun and immersion of writing, and wants to focus on it. — I have been playing a small trick on you. 00:02:55
• 2021-11-23 (said on 2021-10-28, implied) · Lastly, John needs to finish his ridiculously time-consuming circle drawings. · story: John draws 170,000 circles to grasp the US COVID-19 death toll (2020) — I have been playing a small trick on you. 00:02:55
• 2021-11-30 · The description says John and Hank are absolutely delighted to find themselves in the same place at the same time. · story: John and Hank reunite in person in late 2021 and record several videos together (2021) — Vlogbrothers REUNITED AT LAST 00:00:00
• 2021-11-30 · John says he has long wondered what the inside of Hank's head is like, Hank being the person he has known longest, and finds it funny how different heads are. — Vlogbrothers REUNITED AT LAST 00:01:12
• 2021-11-30 · John recalls Hank recently tweeted that he doesn't feel guilty for his thoughts, then sent John a worried follow-up text explaining it. — Vlogbrothers REUNITED AT LAST 00:01:12
• 2021-11-30 · John says thoughts are an ocean, but he picks up one drop he finds dangerous and weird, keeps thinking about it, and the drops double to 2, 4, 16, 32. — Vlogbrothers REUNITED AT LAST 00:01:41
• 2021-11-30 · At a book sorting facility, John once watched a copy of Paper Towns get kicked onto the conveyor to be pulped in a machine like the Star Wars garbage compactor. — Vlogbrothers REUNITED AT LAST 00:02:26
• 2021-11-30 · John says he knows as little about how to write the book he is currently writing as he knew about writing Looking for Alaska, 18 years ago. — Vlogbrothers REUNITED AT LAST 00:03:24
• 2021-12-01 · Over the last year Sarah has been making collages, and John loves them. — Loving the Loves of Your Loves 00:00:00
• 2021-12-01 · 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. — Loving the Loves of Your Loves 00:00:29
• 2021-12-07 · In a comment John says popular fan-made covers left people feeling betrayed by the slick real TFIOS cover; it was a huge mess that cost him sleep, but the cover became popular and influential. — Reading Hank's Decade-Old Tweets 00:00:00
• 2021-12-07 · Hank's tweet about the TFIOS cover, with John's name as big as the title, dates from October 2011, just after he first saw it; the book came out in January 2012. — Reading Hank's Decade-Old Tweets 00:01:53
• 2021-12-07 · John recalls a lot of negative response to the TFIOS cover, which Hank tried to spin positively; it turned out to be a good cover. — Reading Hank's Decade-Old Tweets 00:01:53
• 2021-12-10 · John wanted to stop Brotherhood 2.0 around March, when it still felt long; imagining the future is always the hard, overwhelming part for him, while the present was always fun. — What Was Early YouTube Like? (with Hank and John) 00:01:25
• 2021-12-14 · John has written stories fairly consistently since about age eight, yet over the last six weeks he re-realized that he really enjoys writing. — MAKE. BELIEVE. 00:00:00
• 2021-12-14 · During his semi-secret sabbatical John got a fair amount of writing done and loved it in a way he had kind of forgotten. · story: John's secret November 2021 mini-sabbatical with pre-made Vlogbrothers videos (2021) — MAKE. BELIEVE. 00:00:00
• 2021-12-14 · 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. — MAKE. BELIEVE. 00:00:00
• 2021-12-14 · John deleted about 95% of the draft he wrote in 2003 on the way to writing Looking for Alaska. — MAKE. BELIEVE. 00:00:29
• 2021-12-14 · When his thoughts race at bedtime, John is less likely to get stuck on obsessive fears because he can think about what might happen in the story. — MAKE. BELIEVE. 00:01:56
• 2021-12-14 · Driving along, John doesn't need podcasts to distract him; he wants to be alone with his thoughts and let his mind drift. — MAKE. BELIEVE. 00:01:56
• 2021-12-14 · Over the six weeks John had a lot of family stuff and work, and rehabbed his foot, now in a normal shoe instead of a boot, though not totally recovered. · story: John wears a boot (2021) — MAKE. BELIEVE. 00:02:55
• 2021-12-21 · Years ago at a party a very famous person asked John whether he was the science one or the other one; he said the other one, since Hank was always the science one. — NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… 00:00:00
• 2021-12-21 · John says in the last few years he has read many science books and chosen to learn subjects he actively hated as a student. — NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… 00:00:29
• 2021-12-21 · John's 20- or 30-year-old self would be shocked that he enjoys science reading, has arguably written a science book, loves Indianapolis, lost his stage fright and loves third-tier English soccer. — NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… 00:00:58
• 2021-12-21 · A longtime nerdfighter commented that 13 years ago John said the reverse: he had a crazy idea every 45 minutes and counted on Hank to call it terrible. — NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… 00:01:27
• 2021-12-21 · John says Hank has so many ideas that a website tracks days since he started a thing, and in a recent video John said Hank has an idea every 20 minutes and John's job is to say when they are bad. — NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… 00:01:27

2022

• 2022-01-04 · 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. · story: John and Sarah's 2019 trip to Sierra Leone and its hospitals (2019) — After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING 00:04:35
• 2022-01-11 · John is emerging from a long bout of the flu, not COVID, an old-school virus that makes him feel like he is in the 1990s. (hedged) — The Fault in Our Stars - Ten Years Later 00:00:00
• 2022-01-11 · Left without a theme, John wrote about 60,000 words of two novels that never worked: not bad, but without a reason to be. — The Fault in Our Stars - Ten Years Later 00:01:27
• 2022-01-11 · Diseases are still often cast as divine retribution: John remembers people on TV, when he was a kid, saying HIV was sent by God to punish gay people. — The Fault in Our Stars - Ten Years Later 00:01:56
• 2022-01-11 · John's dad had cancer twice when John was a kid, so he saw people keep their distance though it wasn't contagious, and invent reasons for his dad's cancer to reassure themselves. — The Fault in Our Stars - Ten Years Later 00:02:26
• 2022-01-25 · In 2015 John, Nat Wolff and Cara Delevingne travelled to eight countries in two weeks to promote the Paper Towns movie. · story: John's European Paper Towns press trip with Nat Wolff, starting in Madrid (June 2015) — My Least Relatable Story: The Parisian Dentist 00:00:00
• 2022-01-25 · In a hot, crowded, windowless hotel room, with Nat reminding him to breathe and drink water, John's spiraling anxiety made him clench his jaw for hours until a tooth began to ache. — My Least Relatable Story: The Parisian Dentist 00:00:58
• 2022-01-25 · The dentist told John he had two pains, physical and psychological, reshaped the aching tooth with a drill and told him to stop clenching; John returned, breathed, drank water and felt better. — My Least Relatable Story: The Parisian Dentist 00:02:26
• 2022-01-25 · In retrospect, John says, the Parisian dentist was the first sign of a psychological storm that would eventually derail his life for a while; the fancy dentist did not save him from it. · story: John's weeks of severe illness while changing his medication regimen (2015) — My Least Relatable Story: The Parisian Dentist 00:02:55
• 2022-02-01 · John recalls a Kenneth Koch poem, introduced to him over 20 years ago by his late friend Amy Krouse Rosenthal, saying that of a social life, love and hard work you may have only two. — This Video Is Actually Three Videos 00:00:00
• 2022-02-01 · Several months ago John started a new medication for his OCD that has been very effective: he no longer loses hours to obsessive worry or compulsions or feels gripped by dread. — This Video Is Actually Three Videos 00:02:34
• 2022-02-01 · A downside: John, a lifelong crier for whom crying is part of who he is, has completely lost the ability to cry in recent months, which he dislikes because he values the full range of emotions. — This Video Is Actually Three Videos 00:03:09
• 2022-02-15 · 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) — My Most Valuable Books 00:00:29
• 2022-02-15 · The book is close to John's heart because he ended up living and working in Vonnegut's hometown, in his long shadow, and because reading it in 11th-grade English brought him to life as a reader. — My Most Valuable Books 00:00:29
• 2022-02-15 · John has a first edition of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, bought for $65 and now worth quite a bit more; he loves its cover design. — My Most Valuable Books 00:00:29
• 2022-02-15 · John thinks about his first edition of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek almost every day; its endpapers are beautiful, and its poor condition makes it cheap enough to be his reading copy. — My Most Valuable Books 00:00:58
• 2022-02-15 · Twain's late book Christian Science eviscerates religion and Mary Baker Eddy; John's complicated feelings led to his college thesis on it, and his parents gave him a first edition (worth about $60) at graduation. — My Most Valuable Books 00:01:27
• 2022-02-15 · 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. — My Most Valuable Books 00:01:56
• 2022-02-15 · John's copy of Toni Morrison's Sula is worth about $2, but he has read it since 2004 and it holds his marginalia, cringe-inducing and lovely on rereading. — My Most Valuable Books 00:01:56
• 2022-02-15 · Instead of Strunk and White or the AP guide, John's style guide is Instruction Booklet by his college professor Perry Lentz, covering em dashes to lie and lay; he has much of it memorized. — My Most Valuable Books 00:02:26
• 2022-02-15 · 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. · story: How John and Sarah met: high school, a boxing sparring partner who was John's ex-girlfriend, and a year of emails — My Most Valuable Books 00:02:55
• 2022-02-22 · Farmer devoted his life to health-care access for the poorest; a husband and father, he was a friend and mentor to many, John among them; John is devastated for his family. — On the Death of My Hero 00:00:00
• 2022-02-22 · When John last spoke to Paul he asked what keeps him going; Paul said something like: getting to do hard work with friends. (hedged) — On the Death of My Hero 00:03:24
• 2022-03-01 (said on 2022-02-27, implied) · The description says John could have taken this week (week of 28 February 2022) off but made a video because this year's (2022) P4A meant so much to him. — Hard Week 00:00:00
• 2022-03-01 (said on 2022-02-27, implied) · Eight days earlier John learned that one of his close friends from high school had died. — Hard Week 00:00:25
• 2022-03-01 (said on 2022-02-27, implied) · The next morning John learned Dr. Paul Farmer had died, and four days later the 15th annual Project for Awesome began. — Hard Week 00:00:25
• 2022-03-01 (said on 2022-02-27, implied) · This year's (2022) P4A happened amid a global crisis and, for John, personal ones; it has been a difficult week and he hopes not to have many like it. — Hard Week 00:00:25
• 2022-03-01 (said on 2022-02-27, implied) · John thanks everyone for an amazing Project for Awesome. — Hard Week 00:03:25
• 2022-03-22 · John says someone at AFC Wimbledon, the third-tier English club 'we sponsor', asked him for a video message to the struggling team; his pep talk did not magically turn things around. — Motivation in Hard Times 00:00:00
• 2022-03-22 · John's eight-year-old daughter recently said that in winter she feels it will never be warm again, and in summer that it will never be cold again. — Motivation in Hard Times 00:00:00
• 2022-03-22 · John says that early in his career he was motivated mainly by resentment, fear and some righteous indignation: he wanted to prove everyone wrong about him. — Motivation in Hard Times 00:00:58
• 2022-03-22 · John wanted to prove his ex-girlfriend wrong for dumping him and his college creative writing professor wrong for saying he wasn't good enough to take his class. — Motivation in Hard Times 00:00:58
• 2022-03-22 · John says that fuel worked: he wrote late at night after work and all weekend, and his book was published, won awards and sold its movie rights. — Motivation in Hard Times 00:00:58
• 2022-03-22 · John says it also didn't work: he stayed full of resentment, anger and fear, thinking he needed them to work, and success raised the pressure as readers and others' jobs depended on his next book. — Motivation in Hard Times 00:01:27
• 2022-03-22 · John says this fuel left a hole of insecurity and anger in him; when people said nasty things about him or his work online he often lashed out, hurting many people including himself. — Motivation in Hard Times 00:01:56
• 2022-03-22 · When John writes now he tries to think with hope about what the story might mean for others rather than for him, and then the pressure and fear melt away. — Motivation in Hard Times 00:02:55
• 2022-04-05 · Yesterday a 12-year-old family friend quizzed John on all the celebrities he has met and asked which would make the best president. — Celebrities I've Met and Whether I'd Vote for Them??? 00:00:29
• 2022-04-05 · John met Elon Musk at a fancy dinner, where Musk showed a shockingly exhaustive knowledge of vlogbrothers and related projects. — Celebrities I've Met and Whether I'd Vote for Them??? 00:00:58
• 2022-04-05 · John met Laura Dern through the Fault in Our Stars movie and they became friends; he calls her a great mom, person and actor. — Celebrities I've Met and Whether I'd Vote for Them??? 00:00:58
• 2022-04-05 · Several years ago Joe Biden asked John to co-host a stop on his book tour; Biden was so empathetic and careful a listener that John made a whole video about it. · story: John co-hosts a stop on Joe Biden's book tour and is struck by his listening — Celebrities I've Met and Whether I'd Vote for Them??? 00:01:27
• 2022-04-08 · The brothers say they are in the same place because it is their mother's birthday; Hank says they will make a video and play Spider-Man video games. (both) — Hank and John Discover Chippy Butties 00:00:00
• 2022-04-08 · Asked if he has read fan fiction of his books, John says yes: there is a lot of Isaac-related Fault in Our Stars fan fiction, and versions of the fan fiction Daisy writes in Turtles All the Way Down. — Hank and John Discover Chippy Butties 00:00:29
• 2022-04-12 · After Hank notes that the surgeon who operated on his hand tendon was named Dr. Hand, John recalls an anesthesiologist of his named Dr. House, like House MD. — Utter Chippy Butty Chaos 00:02:19
• 2022-04-19 · Answering Hank's question about how he overcomes despair and helplessness before big problems and comes to believe something can be done, John tells a story. — How do you cross the Sad Gap? 00:00:00
• 2022-04-19 · John says they started working with Partners In Health in 2010 in response to the Haiti earthquake, focused on it because everyone was; as a community they felt powerless. — How do you cross the Sad Gap? 00:00:00
• 2022-04-19 · John credits Partners In Health's long-term investment in Haiti's health system for the University Hospital in Mirebalais, stressing he wasn't responsible: he was all about short-term thinking. — How do you cross the Sad Gap? 00:00:58
• 2022-04-19 · Without a first priority, John felt there were always new crises and the old ones never got better, which left him perpetually in the sad gap. — How do you cross the Sad Gap? 00:01:27
• 2022-04-19 · John's life changed in 2014 when he asked PIH's chief medical officer, Dr. Joia Mukherjee, whether PIH would be part of the Project for Awesome's Ebola fundraising. — How do you cross the Sad Gap? 00:01:56
• 2022-04-19 · Dr. Mukherjee asked them to stay too, and John says that request changed his life. — How do you cross the Sad Gap? 00:02:26
• 2022-04-19 · John goes deep on maternal and child health in West Africa, Hank on climate change, and Rosianna Halse Rojas is getting a master's in refugee studies; all benefit from each other's priorities. — How do you cross the Sad Gap? 00:02:55
• 2022-04-26 · John reports that today is the first day of the Turtles All the Way Down movie shoot, in Cincinnati. — An Amazing Day 00:00:00
• 2022-04-26 · So many people on set are busy 12 hours a day; the only person who is not busy is John. — An Amazing Day 00:00:44
• 2022-04-26 · Part of the book is set at a Chuck E. Cheese; the filmmakers asked to film in one, and Chuck E. Cheese refused, unhappy with John's portrayal. — An Amazing Day 00:01:13
• 2022-04-26 · John can't say what they are filming today, only that it's not at a Chuck E. Cheese, and thinks what is happening instead might be better; it has been the most amazing day. — An Amazing Day 00:02:12
• 2022-04-26 · John says he is very glad he lived through some hard days so that he could have this one. — An Amazing Day 00:03:10
• 2022-05-03 · John says his books, especially Looking for Alaska and Turtles All the Way Down, have lately been removed from US libraries and schools for purported obscenity. · story: Looking for Alaska named the most challenged book in the US for 2015 (2016) — My Religion and My Banned Books 00:00:00
• 2022-05-03 · Half his life ago John worked as a student chaplain at a children's hospital and saw what he considers obscene: children dying, parents terrified for their kids and about paying medical bills. · story: John's time as a student chaplain at a children's hospital (c. 2000) — My Religion and My Banned Books 00:00:00
• 2022-05-03 · 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. — My Religion and My Banned Books 00:00:00
• 2022-05-10 · John is staying about half the time at an Airbnb in Cincinnati, Ohio, where the Turtles All the Way Down movie is filming, and brought art so the walls wouldn't feel lonely. — An Attempt at Exhausting an Artwork in Cincinnati 00:00:00
• 2022-05-17 · John retweeted the story; the reply Twitter showed most people asked how she became unexpectedly pregnant and whether she had sex without protection. — Reasons Not to Care 00:00:29
• 2022-05-31 · John says almost everyone who recognises him on errands knows him as the Crash Course Guy, his favourite nickname, even more than 19, because he is proud of the people who make Crash Course. — A Casting Announcement 00:02:38
• 2022-06-07 · John says watching that scene was painful: he wanted to stop it, turn on all the lights and make sure everyone was okay. — Hello! Meet Aza! 00:01:39
• 2022-06-14 · 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. — Should Hank and I ... box each other?? 00:01:27
• 2022-06-21 · John lists the itises he has or has had: orbital cellulitis, eosinophilic esophagitis and viral meningitis, besides ordinary ones like sinusitis and gastritis. · story: John's viral meningitis and hospitalisation (2014) — On Disease 00:00:29
• 2022-06-21 · John says he got orbital cellulitis because bacteria invaded the soft tissue between his eye and brain, but the name means his own white blood cells caused swelling behind his eye. · story: John's orbital cellulitis and hospital stay (2007) — On Disease 00:02:26
• 2022-07-01 · In a comment John says that when Hank tested positive but felt fine, John told him to retest because of false positives; Hank then texted that he now had double Covid. — 7 Movie Reviews in Four Minutes 00:00:00
• 2022-07-05 · John recalls that Hannah had made only one movie when she interviewed, and showed the producers and studio what a thought spiral would look and feel like, which was incredible. — Director Hannah Marks Is Nervous To Meet You 00:00:29
• 2022-07-12 · In a comment John says they spent a year and a half sourcing the coffee because it is really hard to do well, and certifications only tell you so much. — Nauseous Puddle Water 00:00:00
• 2022-07-12 · Since the spring soft launch the club has received many pictures, emails and tweets about the coffee; John says it really is the best beans, roasted perfectly. — Nauseous Puddle Water 00:02:44
• 2022-07-19 · John addresses the video to Hank's son, who recently asked why things exist, and calls it a really good and really big question. — Why Do Things Exist? 00:00:00
• 2022-08-09 · On a very humid day in Indianapolis, John harvests his beans, first moving bricks set up to foil his nemesis, the groundhog. — How to Cook Beans and Resist Dread 00:00:00
• 2022-08-09 · John has been feeling a little exhausted lately, so his garden is overgrown and wild. — How to Cook Beans and Resist Dread 00:00:00
• 2022-08-09 · John has felt a distance between his mind and body, like two drifted-apart friends; chatting while shelling beans with someone he loves puts his mind back in his body for a while. — How to Cook Beans and Resist Dread 00:01:27
• 2022-08-09 · John makes chili rather than a dish celebrating the beans: onions, garden peppers, garlic, plant-based fake hamburger, tomatoes, chili powder, oregano and two beers. — How to Cook Beans and Resist Dread 00:01:56
• 2022-08-09 · John eats the chili with his family, including cousins from out of town; it tastes good and the beans seem better than store-bought. — How to Cook Beans and Resist Dread 00:03:15
• 2022-08-16 · John reports that he has COVID, opening his video with greetings from it. · story: John gets COVID (2022) — cars vs. covid 00:00:00
• 2022-08-23 · During the Turtles All the Way Down movie shoot John befriended second assistant director Tracey, who grew up in the small town of Flin Flon, Manitoba. — Flin Flon: One Book's Unlikely Survival 00:00:00
• 2022-08-23 · John has a long-standing rule that if a friend gives him a strange out-of-print book, he reads it, in case it is long-lost literary treasure. — Flin Flon: One Book's Unlikely Survival 00:00:29
• 2022-08-23 · The Sunless City arrived in John's mailbox just as COVID was settling upon his house. · story: John gets COVID (2022) — Flin Flon: One Book's Unlikely Survival 00:00:29
• 2022-08-30 · John notes that Sarah is part of Butter's curatorial team. — How to Buy Good Art for Less Than $100,000,000 00:02:55
• 2022-08-30 · John's favorite artwork at home is his mom's painting of the La-Z-Boy where he wrote Looking for Alaska; it brings him joy and solace, and he hopes viewers find art that does the same. — How to Buy Good Art for Less Than $100,000,000 00:02:55
• 2022-09-06 · John says the only meaningful record of his great-grandfather's existence is a 17-page memoir he wrote in the 1930s, and he is extremely grateful for it. — Some Advice 00:01:27
• 2022-09-13 · John says Hank is sick with shingles, which is extremely painful and sucks, and he is sorry. · story: Hank gets shingles (2022) — A Million Things at Once 00:00:00
• 2022-09-13 · John started the channel as an experiment in building an organic audience for shorter videos; it failed: a video on tuberculosis and Toulouse-Lautrec got 17 views in two months. — A Million Things at Once 00:00:47
• 2022-09-13 · John appears in the next episode of Ryan Reynolds and his friend Rob's show about buying and running Wrexham AFC, teaching a crash course on the history of Wales. — A Million Things at Once 00:01:16
• 2022-09-13 · John is busy writing, which is really nice and fun; he had forgotten that writing can be enjoyable. — A Million Things at Once 00:02:04
• 2022-09-20 · John wrote The Anthropocene Reviewed to pay attention to where his attention was going: not focus, but consciousness itself, his soul stuff. · story: John writes his first nonfiction book, The Anthropocene Reviewed (2020) — Against Nihilism 00:00:29
• 2022-09-20 · In three and a half years writing the book John learned about Staphylococcus aureus and grocery stores, but the biggest, surprising lesson was that he is broadly in favor of humans. · story: John writes his first nonfiction book, The Anthropocene Reviewed (2020) — Against Nihilism 00:00:58
• 2022-09-28 · John's book The Anthropocene Reviewed came out last May in hardcover but not in paperback. — How My Book Became a Hit with Elderly People 00:00:00
• 2022-09-28 · With his novels, John makes about twice as much per hardcover sale as per paperback sale. — How My Book Became a Hit with Elderly People 00:00:27
• 2022-09-28 · Some Amazon buyers click 'paperback' and accidentally buy the large print edition of The Anthropocene Reviewed. — How My Book Became a Hit with Elderly People 00:01:25
• 2022-09-28 · As this is his first book for adults, John is lucky to have many older readers and others who benefit from large print. — How My Book Became a Hit with Elderly People 00:01:25
• 2022-09-28 · With only the large print edition in stock, Amazon's algorithm marketed it as the primary edition, and people bought more of it than they had of the hardcover. — How My Book Became a Hit with Elderly People 00:01:55
• 2022-09-28 · The biggest reason: the hardcover sold out at Amazon after many people ordered it at once for Sharon McMahon's book club, thousands in a single day. — How My Book Became a Hit with Elderly People 00:01:55
• 2022-09-28 · The algorithm concluded people prefer the large print edition and has shown it disproportionately for four months, making it a USA Today bestseller. — How My Book Became a Hit with Elderly People 00:02:24
• 2022-09-28 · Because the large print edition sells well, Amazon recommends the book to people who mostly buy large print editions, who tend to be elderly, producing more large print sales. — How My Book Became a Hit with Elderly People 00:02:53
• 2022-09-28 · John has seen a huge, lovely surge of fan mail from older people who have never heard of him through TikTok or The Fault in Our Stars but like the book. — How My Book Became a Hit with Elderly People 00:02:53
• 2022-09-30 · In college, at a diner in Mount Vernon, Ohio, a friend proposed seeing Graceland right now, and they paid and drove 11 hours straight there. — COMMIT TO THE BIT 00:01:35
• 2022-10-04 · John starts his Tuesday video and Hank surprises him on camera: it is a reunion spectacular. · story: John and Hank reunite in Indianapolis during Pizzamas (2022) — Hank and John Reunited at Last 00:00:00
• 2022-10-04 · The description says that by a Pizzamas miracle Hank and John are reunited in Indianapolis and play a game called 'Got it!'. — Hank and John Reunited at Last 00:00:00
• 2022-10-06 · Asked by Reagan which one shirt to buy, John says choosing is like choosing between his kids, but Alice chose the square Pizza John in a pizza box and Henry chose the "if it rides, I lives" design. — The Pizzamas Magic Is Almost Over… 00:01:21
• 2022-10-06 · John says he met the designer of the shirt he is wearing last night. — The Pizzamas Magic Is Almost Over… 00:01:50
• 2022-10-06 · John recalls Maureen writing Suite Scarlett across the table while he wrote Paper Towns, at a New York City cupcake restaurant where they paid $2 for coffee and stayed six hours. — The Pizzamas Magic Is Almost Over… 00:03:17
• 2022-10-07 · John says that earlier in the day he and Hank saw art at a gallery and a fashion show at the IMA, and now they are in a treehouse. · story: John and Hank reunite in Indianapolis during Pizzamas (2022) — Planets Don't Exist 00:01:00
• 2022-10-07 · John recalls a favourite memory: discussing ejected planets, Hank said there would be no light and so no life, then paused and added 'unless they made their own light'. — Planets Don't Exist 00:07:47
• 2022-10-18 · John's family saw Plough Lane for the first time: a stadium built by its fans for AFC Wimbledon, a club owned by its fans. — Terraverse Over Everything: Thoughts from London 00:00:00
• 2022-10-18 · In a comment John says ocular/vestibular physical therapy really helped him, though different people get different results from different treatments. — Terraverse Over Everything: Thoughts from London 00:00:00
• 2022-10-18 · John expected his daughter to call flying all that way to watch the Dons lose a fourth-tier game a bummer; instead she said it was amazing. — Terraverse Over Everything: Thoughts from London 00:00:39
• 2022-10-18 · Recovering from labyrinthitis, John was told by his physical therapist to go outside daily; relearning balance, his brain relied on visual cues and was easily overwhelmed. · story: John's labyrinthitis after the Turtles All the Way Down tour (2017) — Terraverse Over Everything: Thoughts from London 00:03:16
• 2022-10-18 · John still sometimes gets vertigo when the quantity of visual information gets too high. — Terraverse Over Everything: Thoughts from London 00:03:16
• 2022-10-25 · John's joke tweet about the former UK Prime Minister got 20,000 likes and generated over 100 new followers. — Instantly Debateable 00:00:58
• 2022-10-25 · John's tweet about Kissy's accreditation got about 5% as many likes as the Liz Truss one and zero new followers. — Instantly Debateable 00:00:58
• 2022-11-01 · 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. — Is This Painting Upside Down? 00:00:00
• 2022-11-01 · John framed and hung the painting and loved it: it recalled raindrops sliding down a window, with lines growing denser toward the middle and sometimes converging. — Is This Painting Upside Down? 00:00:58
• 2022-11-01 · A few months after he hung it, Sarah told John in the politest way possible that he had hung the painting upside down. — Is This Painting Upside Down? 00:01:27
• 2022-11-01 · Over the years they have hung the painting in several orientations; lately it hangs sideways in John's office, its lines like distant mountain ranges or rows of crops. — Is This Painting Upside Down? 00:01:27
• 2022-11-08 · After second-guessing himself, John correctly identifies Diet Dr Pepper and then Dr Pepper. — Dr Pepper Enthusiast John Green Taste Tests Dr Pepper and Its Misbegotten Pretenders 00:04:14
• 2022-11-08 · John correctly guesses that the worst sample, tasting almost like cough syrup, is the Whole Foods Dr Pepper. — Dr Pepper Enthusiast John Green Taste Tests Dr Pepper and Its Misbegotten Pretenders 00:04:36
• 2022-11-22 · Sarah made John a portrait of himself in the form of a color palette of his favorite things, which he loves. — John's 2022 Gift Guide 00:03:24
• 2022-12-06 · The description says AI wrote everything from 0:11 to 1:34, a text-generation AI promising John it won't replace him. — AI tells me if AI will write novels. 00:00:00
• 2022-12-06 · John reveals that the opening script, a vlogbrothers video in King James Bible style about whether AI can write novels, was written by ChatGPT. — AI tells me if AI will write novels. 00:01:27
• 2022-12-27 · In summer 2001 the writer Amy Krouse Rosenthal emailed Booklist about a review; John, a publishing assistant doing data entry and low-priority emails, replied. · story: John's big break: Amy Krouse Rosenthal gets him recording essays for WBEZ (2002) — We're here because were here. 00:00:51
• 2022-12-27 · John told Amy he had loved her zine-like column in Might magazine, especially a bit about feeling safe only as a descending plane nears the ground. — We're here because were here. 00:01:20
• 2022-12-27 · Amy wrote back asking if John was a writer; he said he was trying to be, and she asked for anything two minutes long for the radio. — We're here because were here. 00:02:04
• 2022-12-27 · John says up front that Amy is dead, so her death won't seem a narrative device: a rare present-tense sentence that, once true, stays true forever. — We're here because were here. 00:03:47
• 2022-12-27 · John sent Amy three short essays; she liked one and had him record it for her show on Chicago's public radio station WBEZ, his first time reaching such a large audience. · story: John's big break: Amy Krouse Rosenthal gets him recording essays for WBEZ (2002) — We're here because were here. 00:04:30
• 2022-12-27 · Amy invited John on her show more often, and within a year he was recording frequent commentaries for WBEZ and then NPR's All Things Considered. — We're here because were here. 00:04:55
• 2022-12-27 · John told Amy his mom had him carry $40 'mugging money' in his left pocket in Chicago; next time Amy gave him two money clips, engraved JMG and MM, Mugging Money. — We're here because were here. 00:05:37
• 2022-12-27 · In April 2002 John read at Amy's Writer's Block Party at the Chopin Theater; a complimenter she hired praised his brand-new Adidas sneakers. — We're here because were here. 00:06:03
• 2022-12-27 · 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. — We're here because were here. 00:11:53
• 2022-12-27 · John played a bit part in an experience Amy curated for hundreds of people on August 8, 2008, in Millennium Park, but it was never again like the early days. — We're here because were here. 00:11:53
• 2022-12-27 · After finishing Textbook, Amy learned she had cancer and called John, who knew many gravely ill young people after The Fault in Our Stars, to ask how her kids and husband would cope. — We're here because were here. 00:12:19
• 2022-12-27 · John should have said her family won't be okay but will go on, as will her love; instead, crying, he said 'How can this be happening? You do so much yoga.' — We're here because were here. 00:13:19
• 2022-12-27 · In public appearances Amy would ask audiences to sing the soldiers' recursive lament with her, transforming it without changing the tune or the words. · story: Amy Krouse Rosenthal turns 'We're here because we're here' into hope for a depressed John at her reading (2005) — We're here because were here. 00:18:19

2023

• 2023-01-03 · Every year John writes himself two letters, one looking back at the past year and one looking ahead, to understand his choices and be intentional, usually setting goals. · story: John's yearly January letters to himself: a look back and goals for the new year — TAKE IT DOWN A NOTCH 00:00:29
• 2023-01-03 · Last year (2022) John several times got into angry internet debates with strangers, such as whether access to life-saving medication is a human right, making him late to dinner without helping anyone. — TAKE IT DOWN A NOTCH 00:01:27
• 2023-01-03 · John recalls that many years ago he worked as a student chaplain at a children's hospital. · story: John's time as a student chaplain at a children's hospital (c. 2000) — TAKE IT DOWN A NOTCH 00:01:56
• 2023-01-03 · After the chaplaincy John took a temp job typing numbers into a database at Booklist, and though very anxious, he became known there for staying calm under pressure: it was just a magazine. — TAKE IT DOWN A NOTCH 00:01:56
• 2023-01-10 · John notes The Fault in Our Stars came out 11 years ago today (10 January 2012) and calls it a strange 11 years. — Introducing: The Format 00:00:00
• 2023-01-10 · John, a pottery beginner, has lately been making small wobbly hollow closed clay forms, shown drying and then glazed and fired. · story: John makes secret-keeper pottery (2023) — Introducing: The Format 00:02:37
• 2023-01-10 · John calls the forms secret keepers: you whisper difficult, worrisome or traumatic things into the holes so the worry lives in the form, not your head. · story: John makes secret-keeper pottery (2023) — Introducing: The Format 00:02:37
• 2023-01-10 · After whispering a secret into a finished secret keeper, John likes holding it and thinking that he survived it. · story: John makes secret-keeper pottery (2023) — Introducing: The Format 00:03:06
• 2023-01-17 · John says Hank is the author of two critically acclaimed, best-selling novels and is a musician. — John Green Answers the Most Searched Hank Green Questions 00:00:29
• 2023-01-17 · John adds that Hank is a podcaster and huge on TikTok. · story: Hank joins TikTok and posts several TikToks a day (2020) — John Green Answers the Most Searched Hank Green Questions 00:00:29
• 2023-01-17 · John says Hank won an Emmy for helping make The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. — John Green Answers the Most Searched Hank Green Questions 00:00:29
• 2023-01-17 · John recalls Hank calling to say Katherine gets headaches from 3D movies and that making glasses to turn them 2D should be fairly straightforward. — John Green Answers the Most Searched Hank Green Questions 00:00:58
• 2023-01-17 · John says Hank has ulcerative colitis, has lived with it most of his adult life, and it is really hard, but he is doing it. · story: Hank: living with ulcerative colitis (2007) — John Green Answers the Most Searched Hank Green Questions 00:01:27
• 2023-01-17 · John says neither he nor Hank was a particularly amazing student, but Hank got really passionate in college and especially grad school. — John Green Answers the Most Searched Hank Green Questions 00:01:27
• 2023-01-17 · In the lightning round John confirms that Hank is married. — John Green Answers the Most Searched Hank Green Questions 00:01:56
• 2023-01-17 · John says Hank is from Montana. — John Green Answers the Most Searched Hank Green Questions 00:02:26
• 2023-01-17 · John says Hank does not have a PhD but has a master's degree. — John Green Answers the Most Searched Hank Green Questions 00:02:26
• 2023-01-17 · John lists Hank's podcasts: Dear Hank and John, Delete This and SciShow Tangents. — John Green Answers the Most Searched Hank Green Questions 00:02:26
• 2023-01-17 · John says Hank has one child. — John Green Answers the Most Searched Hank Green Questions 00:02:26
• 2023-01-24 · John tells Hank he is back on Tumblr and offers a behind-the-scenes look at his new Tumblr, which is sort of his. — Behind the Scenes of my TUMBLR MEME LORD ERA 00:00:00
• 2023-01-24 · John felt very welcome on Tumblr when he joined in 2011, later felt less welcome and eventually left; neither he nor Tumblr expected a reunion. — Behind the Scenes of my TUMBLR MEME LORD ERA 00:00:00
• 2023-01-24 · A while back John decided he didn't need a Twitter and turned his Twitter account into the Awesome Coffee Club's. — Behind the Scenes of my TUMBLR MEME LORD ERA 00:00:29
• 2023-01-24 · John then missed the social internet: partly making low-quality memes, partly the adventure, the adrenaline and the dread. — Behind the Scenes of my TUMBLR MEME LORD ERA 00:00:58
• 2023-01-24 · Though several loved ones begged him not to, John rejoined Tumblr, but as a coffee company. — Behind the Scenes of my TUMBLR MEME LORD ERA 00:00:58
• 2023-01-31 · John says he was never a good student: school felt like the price of living life, which was about friendships, obsessive crushes and binge drinking. — I'm Going Back to College? 00:00:29
• 2023-01-31 · After school John fell in love with learning; over the last year he has read a ridiculous number of books about tuberculosis, though it is not his job. — I'm Going Back to College? 00:00:58
• 2023-01-31 · John explores these questions in his free time for fun, which would have been hard to explain to his 19-year-old self. · story: John reads widely about tuberculosis and 19th-century illness (2022) — I'm Going Back to College? 00:01:27
• 2023-01-31 · Overwhelmed by how awesome it is, John has signed up for two Study Hall classes starting in March, one in American history up to 1865. — I'm Going Back to College? 00:03:04
• 2023-01-31 · John's other class is math: he favours math and feels math lovers' wonder, but it is very hard for him; he barely passed high school math with Cs and Ds. — I'm Going Back to College? 00:03:28
• 2023-02-07 · John recently came across an 1833 book, The Infirmities of Genius, which says authors have a personality that makes them unusually susceptible to tuberculosis. · story: John reads widely about tuberculosis and 19th-century illness (2022) — Mid-Morning Existential Crisis: The Format Returns 00:00:00
• 2023-02-21 · After the weekend's excitement John makes pottery for some peace and quiet, not trying to be good at it but to distract himself. — Maybe Art Only Needs to Be 00:00:00
• 2023-02-21 · John makes closed clay forms he calls secret keepers: you whisper something difficult, painful or traumatic into their holes so the secret lives in the form, not your brain. · story: John makes secret-keeper pottery (2023) — Maybe Art Only Needs to Be 00:00:23
• 2023-02-21 · John says his favorite part of this year's (2023) P4A was the very end, when their families were on the stream, everyone was celebrating together, and the chat together typed the phrase we're here because we're here over and over, a kind of written global chorus. — Maybe Art Only Needs to Be 00:02:17
• 2023-02-28 · John says he has just read a bunch of 19th-century invalids' memoirs. · story: John reads widely about tuberculosis and 19th-century illness (2022) — Empathy and its Limits 00:02:47
• 2023-02-28 · John recalls that when he had meningitis he was rarely alone, except in his fear and pain, where he was always alone. · story: John's viral meningitis and hospitalisation (2014) — Empathy and its Limits 00:02:47
• 2023-03-07 · John's first novel, Looking for Alaska, was published in hardcover almost exactly 18 years ago. — What's the Deal with Paperback Publishing? 00:00:00
• 2023-03-07 · In 2005 John's whole goal for Looking for Alaska was to sell enough copies to reach paperback, which would keep it in print a couple more years. — What's the Deal with Paperback Publishing? 00:01:27
• 2023-03-07 · Looking for Alaska sold about 6,000 copies in its first year, made it to paperback, and 18 years later is still in print. · story: John: how Looking for Alaska was written, revised and won the Printz Award (2006) — What's the Deal with Paperback Publishing? 00:01:56
• 2023-03-14 · John says pain is insistent and won't shut up: his back hurts, so he tries standing, then hides behind a plant, which he finds hurts less than regular sitting. — The Seduction of Despair 00:00:00
• 2023-03-14 · Last week (week of 6 March 2023) John's friend Chris called because he knew John was in pain, said he was sorry, listened and believed him; it didn't help the pain, but it helped. — The Seduction of Despair 00:03:33
• 2023-03-28 · John says he has been reading a lot about tuberculosis lately: many journal articles and over 20 books. · story: John reads widely about tuberculosis and 19th-century illness (2022) — My Tuberculosis Reading List 00:00:00
• 2023-03-28 · John recently learned Shreya was a big fan of The Fault in Our Stars and reread it near the end of her life; he wishes he had met her and calls her one of his heroes. — My Tuberculosis Reading List 00:01:27
• 2023-04-04 · John says he is really doing okay, but he is exhausted, and not mainly physically. — The Search for Real Feeling 00:00:43
• 2023-04-04 · When John saw AFC Wimbledon promoted to the third tier at Wembley with his dad, friends and 60,000 others, he felt pure, simple joy without dread. · story: John's 36 hours from the Indianapolis 500 to Wembley and AFC Wimbledon's promotion party (May 2016) — The Search for Real Feeling 00:02:05
• 2023-04-04 · A couple of weeks ago John flew across an ocean with his kid to see AFC Wimbledon lose to the league's worst team without a single shot on target. — The Search for Real Feeling 00:02:41
• 2023-04-11 · John says he is friendly with Ryan Reynolds, a lovely guy who supports the Project for Awesome and the community, an actor who with his friend Rob owns Wrexham AFC in Wales. — Wrexham's Most Amazing Feeling 00:00:00
• 2023-04-11 · The description says John cannot be particularly excited about his own football club, so he decides to be excited about other people's joy. — Wrexham's Most Amazing Feeling 00:00:00
• 2023-04-11 · John recalls watching AFC Wimbledon, sponsored by them for over a decade with DFTBA on their shorts, win a play-off final against Plymouth Argyle; a crying Plymouth fan answered his condolences with 'Great day for you lot, though.' · story: John's 36 hours from the Indianapolis 500 to Wembley and AFC Wimbledon's promotion party (May 2016) — Wrexham's Most Amazing Feeling 00:01:05
• 2023-04-18 · In the description John writes that he loves Bill and wishes he had said it in life. — goodbye to my friend 00:00:00
• 2023-04-18 · John says his friend and mentor Bill Ott, publisher of Booklist for more than 30 years and John's first boss, died last week (week of 10 April 2023). — goodbye to my friend 00:00:03
• 2023-04-18 · John retells that in late 2001 a mental health crisis and depression got so bad that, with his parents, he decided to quit his job and move home to Florida for full-time care. · story: John's depression at 24 in Chicago: leave from Booklist, home to Orlando, and watching Harvey — goodbye to my friend 00:00:21
• 2023-04-18 · When John went to quit, Bill, his boss's boss's boss, did not just wish him well but said 'ah, kid' and, after a pause, told him to take time off and report back in a few weeks. · story: John's depression at 24 in Chicago: leave from Booklist, home to Orlando, and watching Harvey — goodbye to my friend 00:00:29
• 2023-04-18 · John says Bill had serious speech challenges as a kid and adapted by developing masterful pauses, so listeners leaned forward for his punchline or observation. — goodbye to my friend 00:00:55
• 2023-04-18 · Packing up to leave Booklist, John found a note Bill had left on his computer, which he still has, ending with an urging to watch Harvey, a movie Bill loved. · story: John's depression at 24 in Chicago: leave from Booklist, home to Orlando, and watching Harvey — goodbye to my friend 00:01:13
• 2023-04-18 · John got better, returned to work, reviewed hundreds more books, and wrote Looking for Alaska under the guidance of Bill's wife Ilene Cooper; it won the Printz Award. · story: John: how Looking for Alaska was written, revised and won the Printz Award (2006) — goodbye to my friend 00:01:36
• 2023-04-18 · Bill attended John's Printz acceptance speech and told him afterwards he liked it, except for the stuff about morality. — goodbye to my friend 00:01:57
• 2023-04-18 · John loved their big conversations because Bill, much older and wiser and seemingly having read everything, still took him seriously. — goodbye to my friend 00:02:21
• 2023-04-18 · Bill taught John to love mystery novels and old movies, and precision in writing: the second best word simply won't suffice. — goodbye to my friend 00:02:32
• 2023-04-18 · John is grateful for Bill's love, hopes Bill knew how much he admired him, and says he will desperately miss him. — goodbye to my friend 00:03:38
• 2023-05-02 · The description says John visits Sierra Leone's Kono District for the first time since Covid and is astonished by the progress, the hope, and how far is still to go. — GOOD NEWS 00:00:00
• 2023-05-02 · Greeting Hank from the Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone, John shows his crying, sweaty face as it sinks in how many lives the community is helping. — GOOD NEWS 00:00:00
• 2023-05-02 · Hawa sold corn on the street in Koidu before this job; she now reads blueprints expertly and trains new workers, and told John her life and self-image have changed profoundly. — GOOD NEWS 00:03:24
• 2023-05-02 · Marie has learned a highly skilled trade, and Success, who worked as a mason on the site and is now a steel binder, says so many women work there because they know they will one day give birth in this hospital and their children will come there. — GOOD NEWS 00:03:24
• 2023-05-02 · In the special care baby unit, PIH co-founder Ophelia Dahl asked whether a frail baby on CPAP would live; the nurse answered that all these babies will live: this is the good news room. — GOOD NEWS 00:06:49
• 2023-05-16 · John's son came home from school and told him tuberculosis partly caused World War I; John was proud, and the story turned out to be true. — Did TB Cause World War I? 00:00:00
• 2023-05-23 · After a rough week and couple of months, John tells Hank, who is starting chemo, that he loves him and that many people are in his corner. · story: Hank's Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis and chemotherapy (2023) — Rough Week 00:00:00
• 2023-05-23 · 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. — Rough Week 00:00:12
• 2023-05-23 · John has seen illness and humor coexist many times: as a chaplain, as a child, and during his own serious health problems. · story: John's time as a student chaplain at a children's hospital (c. 2000) — Rough Week 00:01:08
• 2023-05-23 · John says their dad had cancer twice when the brothers were little. — Rough Week 00:01:08
• 2023-05-23 · When John was hospitalized with meningitis, his best friend Chris greeted him by saying he thought John had already had all the itises; hilarious from Chris, less so from a doctor. · story: John's viral meningitis and hospitalisation (2014) — Rough Week 00:01:50
• 2023-05-30 · John has been helping out with some of Hank's jobs because of Hank's chemotherapy and can hardly believe Hank does all of it. · story: Hank's Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis and chemotherapy (2023) — How Does He Do It? 00:00:00
• 2023-05-30 · John says that, as reluctant and temporary CEO for about 18 days, he can say with authority this would not be possible without viewers' support, and thanks them. — How Does He Do It? 00:03:57
• 2023-06-20 · On a recent visit, the DFTBA team taught John how the warehouse works and how to pack Awesome Coffee for subscribers. — Reflections from a Terrible CEO 00:03:00
• 2023-06-20 · John says Hank pre-made a Vlogbrothers video because he knew he would be too sick to make one this week (week of 19 June 2023). · story: Hank's Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis and chemotherapy (2023) — Reflections from a Terrible CEO 00:04:45
• 2023-06-27 · After a day packing socks at the DFTBA warehouse and learning how the coffee and socks are shipped, John believes more than ever in the company and its people. — Alone on the Cancer Boat: A Vlogbrothers Reunion 00:00:00
• 2023-06-27 · Their dad is outside trying to save a tree that doesn't look well, but it is alive and worth his efforts. — Alone on the Cancer Boat: A Vlogbrothers Reunion 00:02:54
• 2023-06-30 · At In-N-Out a young man asked John if he was who he thought, said his family was praying for him and hoped he pulled through; John said thank you to honor the well wishes. — Bon Your Vivant 00:04:57
• 2023-07-11 · In a comment John says he wrote a Washington Post op-ed when he learned of the patent move, and made the video when it didn't get enough traction. — Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Johnson & Johnson 00:00:00
• 2023-07-11 · John recalls meeting two young women in Sierra Leone a couple of months ago who were dying of TB; after a bedaquiline cocktail they recovered and are now cured, home and in school. — Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Johnson & Johnson 00:02:55
• 2023-07-18 · John says five years ago, at 40, he thought himself fairly well informed but did not know tuberculosis was the world's deadliest infectious disease, which is part of why he is now obsessed with it. · story: John reads widely about tuberculosis and 19th-century illness (2022) — Tuberculosis Fighters Have a Posse 00:00:00
• 2023-07-18 · John recalls that as a teenager the 'Andre the Giant has a posse' stickers brought him joy: he loved the idea that Andre had people with him and would no longer be marginalized for his size. — Tuberculosis Fighters Have a Posse 00:04:52
• 2023-08-01 · 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. — Three Mornings 00:00:08
• 2023-08-03 · John confesses that after their occasional long phone calls in the college years he wanted to say 'I love you' to Hank but didn't, saying it only after hanging up. — I love you, Hank. Happy Esther Day. 00:00:29
• 2023-08-03 · John tells Hank he doesn't just love him but deeply admires him; few gifts in his life stack up with the one he received on May 5th, 1980. — I love you, Hank. Happy Esther Day. 00:01:59
• 2023-08-03 · John says their dad had cancer twice when they were little, which had a huge impact on his life and theirs. — I love you, Hank. Happy Esther Day. 00:01:59
• 2023-08-08 · John says they have both seen comments blaming Hank's cancer on a vaccination, on working too hard, or on his ulcerative colitis. · story: Hank: living with ulcerative colitis (2007) — TAKE IT UP A NOTCH 00:01:56
• 2023-08-08 · John stresses that such comments have been very rare for Hank and that almost everyone has been extraordinarily supportive. · story: Hank's Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis and chemotherapy (2023) — TAKE IT UP A NOTCH 00:02:26
• 2023-08-15 · 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. · story: John and Henry Reider, a Sierra Leonean teenager with multidrug-resistant TB he met at Lakka hospital (2019) — Henry 00:00:00
• 2023-08-15 · A doctor told John that Henry was a patient they were very concerned about: Henry was 16, not nine like John's son; tuberculosis had ravaged his body. — Henry 00:00:29
• 2023-08-15 · Before getting sick Henry was a great student who dreamt of university; his mother Isatu worked hard to pay his school fees with a small market business selling scented oils and perfumes. — Henry 00:00:29
• 2023-08-15 · When John met him, Henry was out of school and had been a full-time patient at Lakka for over two months, receiving injections for multidrug-resistant TB. — Henry 00:00:58
• 2023-08-15 · The injections were not working for Henry: he lost weight, TB-swollen lymph nodes became open wounds, and he bled so much he needed blood transfusions. — Henry 00:01:27
• 2023-08-15 · Henry's mother Isatu paid the equivalent of thousands of dollars for his treatment, finding blood and supplies, and lost her business and apartment in the process. — Henry 00:01:56
• 2023-08-15 · Dr. Tefera came to Sierra Leone from Ethiopia a few months after John met Henry, and he too first took Henry for staff, since Henry kept encouraging and helping other patients. — Henry 00:01:56
• 2023-08-15 · Henry's lab work showed the injectables had failed; Dr. Tefera later told John that, seeing no options, he thought they would lose the boy. — Henry 00:02:26
• 2023-08-15 · Henry knew how sick he was and what it meant: he had seen his best friend at Lakka die of multidrug-resistant TB after the injectables failed. — Henry 00:02:26
• 2023-08-15 · Saying that in TB you have to keep trying, Dr. Tefera asked Partners In Health and the Sierra Leonean Ministry of Health to bring needed drugs from Liberia and Lesotho to save Henry. — Henry 00:02:26
• 2023-08-15 · John came home from that trip obsessed with tuberculosis and spent the next few years learning about it, often thinking of and praying for Henry but never daring to ask what happened to him. · story: John reads widely about tuberculosis and 19th-century illness (2022) — Henry 00:03:14
• 2023-08-15 · 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. — Henry 00:03:43
• 2023-08-15 · John says Henry was the first in Sierra Leone to get the bedaquiline-based cocktail; he recovered 'like magic', walking and laughing within three weeks, was cured and went home after over two years at Lakka. — Henry 00:04:15
• 2023-08-15 · Henry returned to school and, with Partners In Health's support, studies human resources management at the University of Sierra Leone; he dreams of working in business and travelling. — Henry 00:04:42
• 2023-08-15 · As is common for TB survivors, Henry's life remains very hard: his family lost both their business and their home. — Henry 00:05:18
• 2023-08-15 · Isatu wants to restart her business selling food such as macaroni, sugar and cereal, which needs bulk purchases and costly market space. — Henry 00:05:18
• 2023-08-22 · The description says John made the video before the news was public that Hank is in remission; John is grateful and relieved and hopes Hank will talk about it on Friday. · story: Hank's Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis and chemotherapy (2023) — The Panera Phenomenon 00:00:00
• 2023-08-22 · John's current favorite tuberculosis fact comes from rereading the book Living in the Shadow of Death; he admits it can seem he only thinks about tuberculosis. · story: John reads widely about tuberculosis and 19th-century illness (2022) — The Panera Phenomenon 00:00:58
• 2023-08-22 · John shows peppers he grew from seeds in his bathtub, now proper plants (habaneros, cayennes, sweet peppers): over a hundred harvested and more than a thousand still growing. — The Panera Phenomenon 00:02:50
• 2023-08-22 · The peppers are for John and his mom's annual hot sauce: he is making experimental fermented sauces with the early peppers, and the traditional family sauce later in the year. · story: John and his mom's homemade hot sauce (2023) — The Panera Phenomenon 00:03:08
• 2023-08-22 · John says the family names its hot sauce every year; last year's (2022) was Societal Collapse Is in the Air, after something Timothée Chalamet said during a press junket. · story: John and his mom's homemade hot sauce (2023) — The Panera Phenomenon 00:03:20
• 2023-08-29 · John recalls that when Hank got cancer, he became the reluctant and temporary CEO of DFTBA.com. · story: John's stint as reluctant temporary CEO of DFTBA.com during Hank's cancer (2023) — Breaking News: CEO Demoted 00:00:00
• 2023-08-29 · The description says John is proud that DFTBA not only stayed afloat during his tenure but even grew its donations a little. · story: John's stint as reluctant temporary CEO of DFTBA.com during Hank's cancer (2023) — Breaking News: CEO Demoted 00:00:00
• 2023-09-05 · John discloses that he is currently not really here but in Cheyenne, Wyoming, deep in a writing project. — I Ain't Even Here, Sergeant. I'm in Cheyenne, Wyoming. 00:00:22
• 2023-09-05 · John says his Cheyenne, Wyoming has been figuring out how tuberculosis's change happened and how to tell its story. · story: John reads widely about tuberculosis and 19th-century illness (2022) — I Ain't Even Here, Sergeant. I'm in Cheyenne, Wyoming. 00:01:40
• 2023-09-05 · John praises Hank's new beard: Hank looks different because he is different, moving through a profound, difficult experience and looking good; he might go full Tom Selleck. · story: Hank's Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis and chemotherapy (2023) — I Ain't Even Here, Sergeant. I'm in Cheyenne, Wyoming. 00:03:38
• 2023-09-12 · John recalls a lab tech in Sierra Leone telling him the machine is amazing, if only they could afford the tests. — Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Danaher and Cepheid 00:02:05
• 2023-09-12 · John apologizes for sounding angry but says he is angry: he has known many people who went undiagnosed for months or years, and some died for lack of a timely accurate test. — Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Danaher and Cepheid 00:04:27
• 2023-09-14 · John says he read that Phumeza took between 20,000 and 30,000 pills during her treatment. — Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES 00:18:24
• 2023-09-14 · John recalls an infection behind his eye that needed a $12,000-a-pill antibiotic; his doctor said he was paying twice, since the public also funded its development, which John agrees with. · story: John's orbital cellulitis and hospital stay (2007) — Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES 00:41:20
• 2023-09-14 · John recalls a memoir by a woman who had TB as a child in mid-20th-century US sanatoriums until streptomycin saved her; going home, she had forgotten being touched with love. · story: John reads widely about tuberculosis and 19th-century illness (2022) — Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES 00:48:37
• 2023-09-19 · John tells how Phumeza Tisile's TB took over a month to diagnose; a chest X-ray missed her drug resistance, so she got the wrong regimen and spent over three and a half years in treatment, taking over 20,000 pills. — So, um.... GOOD NEWS?!?!?! 00:01:31
• 2023-09-19 · John says he has experienced such threats: they only make him feel resentment, fear and anger, which makes mutual understanding and compromise far harder. — So, um.... GOOD NEWS?!?!?! 00:03:55
• 2023-09-19 · John recalls that early in 2007, at the start of Brotherhood 2.0, he was hospitalized for an infection between his eye and his brain. · story: John's orbital cellulitis and hospital stay (2007) — So, um.... GOOD NEWS?!?!?! 00:04:54
• 2023-09-27 · 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. · story: John attends and speaks at the UN High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis (2023) — John Goes ... to the UNITED NATIONS? 00:00:00
• 2023-09-27 · John got to see several of his heroes: Dr. Lucica Ditiu, the writer and surgeon Dr. Atul Gawande, and Dr. Salmaan Keshavjee. — John Goes ... to the UNITED NATIONS? 00:00:00
• 2023-09-27 · On his 40-minute walk to the UN, John wondered whether he would get to speak and thought of the honor of representing Nerdfighteria, Partners In Health, TB survivors and those who died. · story: John attends and speaks at the UN High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis (2023) — John Goes ... to the UNITED NATIONS? 00:00:58
• 2023-09-27 · Thinking of Shreya, John was told by UN staff that he would get to speak if he kept it under two minutes. · story: John attends and speaks at the UN High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis (2023) — John Goes ... to the UNITED NATIONS? 00:02:34
• 2023-09-27 · John hopes he did okay and that Shreya somehow knows we are still fighting for her and will continue until the fight is finished. — John Goes ... to the UNITED NATIONS? 00:04:31
• 2023-09-29 · John recalls that five months ago the brothers discussed on the phone whether to cancel Pizzamas; some items were already ordered, so they could not. — Like Apocalyptic Horsemen 00:00:58
• 2023-09-29 · John says Pizzamas reminds him how distant he is from his 2007 self, who somehow made videos every other weekday for a year; his life was very different then. — Like Apocalyptic Horsemen 00:02:14
• 2023-09-29 · John says his 2007 self had no idea what it was like to have kids, to live in one town for 17 years, or to be part of an online community that convinced a multinational not to profit from TB tests in poor countries. — Like Apocalyptic Horsemen 00:03:33
• 2023-09-29 · John says his 2007 self also could not know the terrible and hard things ahead, such as Hank getting cancer. — Like Apocalyptic Horsemen 00:03:33
• 2023-10-03 · John admits he is anxious and goes outside, because touching grass and being among trees actually helps him. — Nourished by Leaving 00:00:19
• 2023-10-03 · John starts to breathe easier: he is part of a continuous process of life stretching a quarter of the way back to the beginning of time; it is a good place to be. — Nourished by Leaving 00:02:12
• 2023-10-17 · John has written several novels but has not published a new novel in six years and counting; he is still writing. — My Next Book 00:00:00
• 2023-10-17 · In November 2017, just after publishing Turtles All the Way Down and a grueling tour, John's balance failed at home; he was hospitalized and diagnosed with labyrinthitis. · story: John's labyrinthitis after the Turtles All the Way Down tour (2017) — My Next Book 00:00:00
• 2023-10-17 · John says that, technically, he has been retired since November 2017: lying ill in bed for weeks, unable to read or look at a screen, he decided to retire. — My Next Book 00:00:00
• 2023-10-17 · John says he had been absurdly fortunate, having sold over 30 million books with plenty of money and views, yet kept chasing more, like Smaug, 'demented with the mania of owning things' as Walt Whitman put it. — My Next Book 00:00:58
• 2023-10-17 · Retirement didn't stop John writing, only writing what people expect: he wrote the weird, personal nonfiction book The Anthropocene Reviewed, which found a broad audience, though not as broad as his novels. · story: John writes his first nonfiction book, The Anthropocene Reviewed (2020) — My Next Book 00:01:56
• 2023-10-17 · John is still writing fiction and sometimes reads stories he is working on in semi-secret livestreams. — My Next Book 00:02:47
• 2023-10-17 · Over the last couple of years John has mostly been writing, somewhat obsessively, about tuberculosis, which is exactly what he wants to write about. · story: John reads widely about tuberculosis and 19th-century illness (2022) — My Next Book 00:02:47
• 2023-10-17 · This takes John back to 2001 and 2002, when at 23 he wrote exactly what he wanted, which became Looking for Alaska. · story: John: how Looking for Alaska was written, revised and won the Printz Award (2006) — My Next Book 00:03:16
• 2023-10-24 · John recalls that for about a week they knew Hank had some cancer but not which one: another lymphoma, or a metastatic cancer spread to his lymph nodes. · story: Hank's Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis and chemotherapy (2023) — A Tale of Two Cancers 00:00:13
• 2023-10-24 · John says finally learning it was Hodgkin lymphoma was a tremendous encouragement, the best of the bad news they could have gotten. — A Tale of Two Cancers 00:00:24
• 2023-10-24 · John tells of Mondeh, a child in Sierra Leone's rural Kono district, whose parents noticed a lump on his neck at about six, when he also became much more lethargic. — A Tale of Two Cancers 00:01:05
• 2023-10-24 · John says Mondeh was at first misdiagnosed with tuberculosis, as often happens, because his clinics lacked the fast, accurate GeneXpert tests and diagnosed TB by symptoms; TB treatment did not work. — A Tale of Two Cancers 00:01:17
• 2023-10-24 · John says there was no imaging capacity (no MRI machines, no CT scanners, in 2015 not even x-ray machines), so Mondeh could not get a diagnosis and the lump kept growing. — A Tale of Two Cancers 00:01:35
• 2023-10-24 · John says the lump grew until Mondeh struggled to swallow and lost weight, over four years; at 10 he saw a Partners In Health doctor who suspected lymphoma, and a biopsy in the capital confirmed Hodgkin lymphoma. — A Tale of Two Cancers 00:01:58
• 2023-10-24 · John says pill-based chemotherapy in Freetown shrank Mondeh's tumor, but remission needed IV chemotherapy, which meant traveling thousands of miles to Rwanda's Butaro cancer hospital. — A Tale of Two Cancers 00:02:14
• 2023-10-24 · 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. · story: John and Sarah's 2019 trip to Sierra Leone and its hospitals (2019) — A Tale of Two Cancers 00:02:28
• 2023-10-24 · John says all of this would have been impossible for Mondeh's family to afford without support from Partners In Health. — A Tale of Two Cancers 00:03:15
• 2023-10-31 · John tells Hank he is a little overwhelmed with anxiety at the moment. — How to Make Hot Sauce for Just $65 per Bottle 00:00:00
• 2023-10-31 · In a channel comment John says he has a bit of dread pressing in from every direction, so this video is a kind of sequel to an earlier 'How to Cook' video a viewer named. — How to Make Hot Sauce for Just $65 per Bottle 00:00:00
• 2023-10-31 · John cannot sell the sauce, since it was not made in a commercial kitchen and would need about $80 a bottle to profit, so he gives it to family and friends for the holidays. · story: John and his mom's homemade hot sauce (2023) — How to Make Hot Sauce for Just $65 per Bottle 00:02:50
• 2023-11-07 · Three years later John has still not finished the tuberculosis writing. · story: John reads widely about tuberculosis and 19th-century illness (2022) — NaFaDoYBIMSCoM 00:00:58
• 2023-11-07 · A couple of years ago John wrote 2,000 words of a new story on November 1 and thought 30 straight days of that would give him a 60,000-word novel, but by the fifth day he saw many problems in what he had written on the first two days. — NaFaDoYBIMSCoM 00:00:58
• 2023-11-07 · John completed a draft of The Fault in Our Stars in mid-December 2010 after attempting NaFaDoYBIMSCoM. · story: John works in Miami to finish an overdue draft of his book (2010) — NaFaDoYBIMSCoM 00:02:14
• 2023-11-07 · John completed a draft of Paper Towns in November 2007 during his first NaFaDoYBIMSCoM. — NaFaDoYBIMSCoM 00:02:14
• 2023-11-07 · John used to be open about his writing process, but after The Fault in Our Stars he felt he couldn't be, even on Vlogbrothers: people pressured him and guessed release seasons, with implications for a publicly traded corporation. — NaFaDoYBIMSCoM 00:02:44
• 2023-11-07 · John says the writing is going terribly so far because he is a smidge depressed and anxious at the moment. — NaFaDoYBIMSCoM 00:03:13
• 2023-11-07 · John says he needs to convince himself that his revision is due at the end of November 2023. — NaFaDoYBIMSCoM 00:03:42
• 2023-11-21 · John says he has had a rough couple of months: his OCD and anxiety have been very high and he has had a lengthy bout of depression. — Minus Its Charms 00:00:05
• 2023-11-21 · John says the depression started about nine weeks ago amid that good news, yet when it came he felt nothing but dread, a terrible indescribable fear. — Minus Its Charms 00:00:28
• 2023-11-21 · John says in his 20s a naive part of him thought reaching middle age would put all this behind him, and that has not turned out to be the case. — Minus Its Charms 00:00:57
• 2023-11-21 · John thinks he may be starting to get better: the last week has been a little better, which is why he can make a video at all, though there have been many false dawns. (hedged) — Minus Its Charms 00:01:27
• 2023-11-21 · John says Casey McIntyre, a young woman he knew a little, has just died of cancer; she was married to his friend Andrew Rose Gregory and worked for years at John's publishing house. — Minus Its Charms 00:02:33
• 2023-11-21 · John says that instead of flowers at a memorial, Casey wanted to erase people's medical debts in a debt jubilee. — Minus Its Charms 00:02:46
• 2023-12-12 · John tells Hank his family has a puppy named Potato, five months old, whom he calls the greatest and a very good boy. · story: John's family gets a puppy, Potato (2023) — POTATO! 00:00:00
• 2023-12-12 · The name comes from the woman they got him from, not a native English speaker, who called the puppy 'just little potato'; the kids immediately took it up. — POTATO! 00:00:00
• 2023-12-12 · Because John's kids have serious lung and allergy issues, Potato was one of the only dogs that would work for the family. — POTATO! 00:01:05
• 2023-12-19 · John says this is his last normal video of 2023, a rough year he won't be sad to leave, and he has been thinking a lot about where to find hope. — End of a Rough Year 00:00:00
• 2023-12-19 · John says that because he hasn't been good at being hopeful lately, he hasn't spent enough time marveling at the multi-generational global collaboration behind this progress. — End of a Rough Year 00:01:27
• 2023-12-19 · John tells Hank this has surely been the hardest year of Hank's life, brutal, and one of the hardest of John's own. · story: Hank's Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis and chemotherapy (2023) — End of a Rough Year 00:04:25
• 2023-12-24 · John says he has read fanfiction of his books: much Isaac-related Fault in Our Stars fanfic, and versions of the fanfiction Daisy writes in Turtles All the Way Down. — John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated 00:08:31
• 2023-12-24 · John says he wanted to stop Brotherhood 2.0 around March, when it still felt long; imagining the future overwhelmed him, but the present was always fun. — John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated 00:13:14
• 2023-12-24 · At a book sorting facility, John watched a copy of Paper Towns get kicked onto the conveyor belt to be pulped. — John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated 00:26:08
• 2023-12-24 · John says that during the pandemic he has struggled to feel emotion in the moment and lets himself feel it later, as with seeing Hank in person. — John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated 00:34:22
• 2023-12-24 · John shows the final Turtles All the Way Down, whose secret design under the dust jacket was made by people in Nerdfighteria. — John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated 00:59:22
• 2023-12-24 · John says the only music he listens to while writing his books is the Mountain Goats. — John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated 01:00:05
• 2023-12-24 · John says he wanted to be a writer as a kid but never thought it a realistic job, like wanting to be an astronaut. — John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated 01:10:07
• 2023-12-24 · During Pizzamas, John says they have just come from the Save the Children gala, where he met Jennifer Garner and stood near Olivia Wilde. · story: The brothers' reunion in New York City during Pizzamas (November 2015) — John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated 01:12:43
• 2023-12-24 · John says (in November 2015) Rosianna took away his Tumblr password, so he no longer knows what is happening on Tumblr. · story: John's social media hiatus to write a novel (2015) — John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated 01:14:41
• 2023-12-24 · John says their mom pressures them every holiday to name something new they are thankful for, rejecting answers they gave in earlier years. — John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated 01:14:41
• 2023-12-24 · John says nothing makes his brain calmer and happier than signing over and over, and hopes to keep signing for the rest of his life. — John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated 01:26:25
• 2023-12-24 · John says his first car was a 1991 Volvo 240 named Arlo. — John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated 01:26:58
• 2023-12-24 · At the premiere John did a Today show live chat, met Ryan Hunter-Reay, took a selfie with Mike Birbiglia, and calls meeting spelling bee co-champion Ansun Sujoe the highlight. — John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated 01:32:19
• 2023-12-24 · John says he has read the finished hardcover of The Fault in Our Stars zero times, preferring books he doesn't remember. — John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated 01:37:57
• 2023-12-24 · John explains his missing tooth (in 2013): terrible chronic pain since before Brotherhood 2.0 ended in a complicated, painful surgery, and it no longer hurts. · story: John has a tooth surgically removed (2013) — John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated 01:44:55
• 2023-12-24 · John says his daughter Alice is one month old and makes no intentional gestures; Henry waits nose-down for her to bop him, as in a Berenstain Bears book. · story: Birth of John and Sarah's second child, Alice (2013) — John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated 01:44:55
• 2023-12-24 · John and Hank are at a family reunion in Seaside, Florida, which John calls the world capital of teenagers who don't know who they are. · story: The Green family reunion in Seaside, Florida (2012) — John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated 01:51:34
• 2023-12-24 · After a Houston hotel sold their rooms on tour, the brothers got another hotel's best room, bigger than John's house, with a Picasso print and certificate of authenticity. · story: The brothers' Houston hotel mix-up and luxury room with a Picasso print on the tour (2012) — John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated 01:56:36
• 2023-12-24 · After having his gallbladder removed, John says he can't do the sandwich punishment and asks viewers to suggest another for Hank to pick. · story: John's diseased gallbladder and its removal (2011) — John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated 02:08:36
• 2023-12-24 · At LeakyCon 2011, John says his crippling social anxiety disorder makes taking pictures with or hugging strangers impossible, and he feels guilty about it. · story: John and Hank at LeakyCon 2011 — John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated 02:10:46
• 2023-12-24 · Asked whether they have real jobs: Hank runs the environmental technology site EcoGeek; John is an award-winning author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines and Paper Towns. (both) — John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated 02:17:44
• 2023-12-24 · John says he usually hates Christmas but is into it this year (2023) because they are expecting their first kid and family is gathered. — John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated 02:21:33
• 2023-12-24 · John shows a day on the 2008 tour: early alarm, minivan drives, BlogTV broadcasts from the van, and arriving in Pittsburgh to face Maureen Johnson. — John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated 02:31:52
• 2023-12-24 · Driving through Missouri, John says the tour minivan is the same one Q's mom owns in Paper Towns, one reason they picked it. — John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated 02:35:17
• 2023-12-24 · John says they met Shawn Ahmed in Plano, who works with Save the Children in Bangladesh; they will collect money for Save the Children Bangladesh throughout the tour. — John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated 02:36:13
• 2023-12-30 · In summer 2001 the writer Amy Krouse Rosenthal emailed Booklist about a review; John, a publishing assistant doing data entry and low-priority emails, replied. — John's Review of Auld Lang Syne 00:01:18
• 2023-12-30 · John told Amy he had loved her zine-like column in Might magazine, especially a bit about feeling safe only as a descending plane nears the ground. — John's Review of Auld Lang Syne 00:01:46
• 2023-12-30 · Amy wrote back asking if John was a writer; he said he was trying to be, and she asked for anything two minutes long for the radio. — John's Review of Auld Lang Syne 00:02:09
• 2023-12-30 · John says up front that Amy is dead, so her death won't seem a narrative device: a rare present-tense sentence that, once true, stays true forever. — John's Review of Auld Lang Syne 00:04:13
• 2023-12-30 · John sent Amy three short essays; she liked one and had him record it for her show on Chicago's public radio station WBEZ, his first time reaching such a large audience. · story: John's big break: Amy Krouse Rosenthal gets him recording essays for WBEZ (2002) — John's Review of Auld Lang Syne 00:04:57
• 2023-12-30 · Amy invited John on her show more often, and within a year he was recording frequent commentaries for WBEZ and then NPR's All Things Considered. — John's Review of Auld Lang Syne 00:05:25
• 2023-12-30 · John told Amy his mom had him carry $40 'mugging money' in his left pocket in Chicago; next time Amy gave him two money clips, engraved JMG and MM, Mugging Money. — John's Review of Auld Lang Syne 00:06:04
• 2023-12-30 · In April 2002 John read at Amy's Writer's Block Party at the Chopin Theater; a complimenter she hired praised his brand-new Adidas sneakers. — John's Review of Auld Lang Syne 00:06:29
• 2023-12-30 · 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. — John's Review of Auld Lang Syne 00:12:20
• 2023-12-30 · John played a bit part in an experience Amy curated for hundreds of people on August 8, 2008, in Millennium Park, but it was never again like the early days. — John's Review of Auld Lang Syne 00:12:20
• 2023-12-30 · After finishing Textbook, Amy learned she had cancer and called John, who knew many gravely ill young people after The Fault in Our Stars, to ask how her kids and husband would cope. — John's Review of Auld Lang Syne 00:12:46
• 2023-12-30 · John should have said her family won't be okay but will go on, as will her love; instead, crying, he said 'How can this be happening? You do so much yoga.' — John's Review of Auld Lang Syne 00:13:45
• 2023-12-30 · In public appearances Amy would ask audiences to sing the soldiers' recursive lament with her, transforming it without changing the tune or the words. · story: Amy Krouse Rosenthal turns 'We're here because we're here' into hope for a depressed John at her reading (2005) — John's Review of Auld Lang Syne 00:18:46

2024

• 2024-01-02 · John notes that on January 2, 2024 it is 17 years since he uploaded his first Brotherhood 2.0 video, in 2007. — Being Old on YouTube 00:00:00
• 2024-01-02 · John never expected to be making YouTube videos at 46 and doesn't know whether he will be at 50 or 56. — Being Old on YouTube 00:02:12
• 2024-01-02 · John says that over 17 years there have been many weeks, maybe four or five a year, when he didn't want to make a video: sometimes mental health, quite present lately, or family or writing deadlines. (hedged) — Being Old on YouTube 00:02:37
• 2024-01-02 · John says he almost always made a video anyway, unless hospitalized or without internet, and was usually glad he did. — Being Old on YouTube 00:02:58
• 2024-01-09 · John spent the weekend hiking with friends in Red River Gorge, Kentucky, where the views are phenomenal; the trip is annual and one of the highlights of his year. — Views 00:00:03
• 2024-01-09 · In college John drove across the country with friends Ransom and Kathy to the Grand Canyon; watching the sunrise there, at 20 and after 1,800 miles, he was underwhelmed. — Views 00:01:37
• 2024-01-23 · John says he has played Tetris since it came out on the Nintendo Entertainment System 34 years ago, is pretty good, and starts at level 9 speed. — Breaking News: Complexly Signs Major Tetris Athlete 00:00:13
• 2024-01-23 · John says he can usually reach Tetris's highest end screen and has a couple of times scored over 300,000 points. — Breaking News: Complexly Signs Major Tetris Athlete 00:00:44
• 2024-01-23 · John recalls that Hank made a song many years ago, The Man Who Throws the Tetris Piece, about how you cannot beat the god behind Tetris. — Breaking News: Complexly Signs Major Tetris Athlete 00:01:35
• 2024-01-23 · Hank called John asking if he knew the kid who beat Tetris; John, a massive classic Tetris fan, had watched it live; Hank suggested Complexly sponsor him and John agreed. — Breaking News: Complexly Signs Major Tetris Athlete 00:03:03
• 2024-01-23 · John reached out to Willis's mother, a high school math teacher, who loved the idea, as did Willis, who watches some of the brothers' stuff. — Breaking News: Complexly Signs Major Tetris Athlete 00:03:23
• 2024-01-30 · John commented 'congrats, Tom' on Tom Scott's last video, and many people replied asking why he would congratulate him on stopping. — How Vlogbrothers Will End 00:01:38
• 2024-01-30 · John used to think completing the project meant finishing Brotherhood 2.0 on December 31, 2007, or finishing the Maternal Center of Excellence, but he didn't feel finished then and doesn't now. — How Vlogbrothers Will End 00:03:05
• 2024-01-30 · John worries about this and asked a friend, a recently retired professional athlete, how he knew it was time; the friend said the game tells you when you're done. — How Vlogbrothers Will End 00:03:23
• 2024-02-06 · John says that the day after Turtles All the Way Down came out, a movie studio offered to option it. — The Truth of How Books Become Movies 00:00:00
• 2024-02-06 · John says a movie executive once pulled a film twelve days before shooting because he felt a cast member looked unsettling, and literally told John so. — The Truth of How Books Become Movies 00:00:58
• 2024-02-06 · John says that had The Fault in Our Stars not become a movie he thinks he would have been paid $60,000: a lot of money, but not Hollywood fantasy money. (hedged) — The Truth of How Books Become Movies 00:01:27
• 2024-02-06 · John says The Fault in Our Stars movie sold a ton of books. — The Truth of How Books Become Movies 00:03:24
• 2024-02-27 · John was surprised by much of this; like Jessica he drinks too much coffee, but he differs from her in other ways. — I Was Wrong about the Average American 00:04:22
• 2024-03-05 · John does not care that the club is perpetually underfunded: he is in love, so he flew to England with his friend Stuart to cheer against the Milton Keynes franchise. · story: John watches AFC Wimbledon beat the Milton Keynes franchise with a last-minute goal at Plough Lane (2024) — THE BEST DAY 00:01:30
• 2024-03-05 · John shouted himself hoarse and was filled with dread: Wimbledon had never beaten Milton Keynes at home in front of their fans. · story: John watches AFC Wimbledon beat the Milton Keynes franchise with a last-minute goal at Plough Lane (2024) — THE BEST DAY 00:01:56
• 2024-03-05 · In the last minute, John's friend Lex was filming what seemed the end of the game, but it was not; John then plays the moment in commentator Mikey T's voice, calling a chance for Ronan Curtis and crying go, go Wimbledon. · story: John watches AFC Wimbledon beat the Milton Keynes franchise with a last-minute goal at Plough Lane (2024) — THE BEST DAY 00:02:22
• 2024-03-05 · John says he was out of his body, in a light-soaked plane where all hope is rewarded; the whole stadium was in ecstasy and breathless joy flooded him. · story: John watches AFC Wimbledon beat the Milton Keynes franchise with a last-minute goal at Plough Lane (2024) — THE BEST DAY 00:03:07
• 2024-03-05 · After the game John celebrated with the Nerdfighters of Plough Lane, met left-back Jack Currie, and Wimbledon's manager and coaches came to the pub to sing with fans. — THE BEST DAY 00:03:38
• 2024-03-12 · John says later this week (week of 11 March 2024) he will be on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. to discuss tuberculosis with members of Congress, senators and their aides. — How We End TB 00:00:00
• 2024-03-19 · John says last week (week of 11 March 2024) he was in Washington, D.C. to ask senators and congresspeople to prioritize tuberculosis, the world's deadliest infectious disease. — Our $80,000,000 Bet 00:00:00
• 2024-03-26 · John reveals that the only person who benefits from Danaher's price gouging is, for lack of a better term, him: Danaher is publicly traded and he is a shareholder. — I Own Danaher 00:02:08
• 2024-03-26 · John recently bought a tiny slice of Danaher, partly to thank it for lowering the standard TB cartridge price, mostly so he can attend certain meetings and talk with other shareholders about how they profit from price gouging the world's poorest. — I Own Danaher 00:02:37
• 2024-04-09 · John and Hank say they have just been to Rax together. — Hank and John Reunited WITH RAX 00:00:00
• 2024-04-09 · John says they got four sandwiches: his childhood Rax order, the Big Boy (a big roast beef), and three for Hank: a roast beef, a beef and cheddar, and a hoagie-like roast beef with lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise. · story: Hank and John grow up going to Rax restaurants (childhood) — Hank and John Reunited WITH RAX 00:02:16
• 2024-04-09 · Though they drove past about five fast-food restaurants, including an Arby's, to get there, the Rax was not not busy: people were going, with a line of cars at the drive-thru. (both) — Hank and John Reunited WITH RAX 00:02:53
• 2024-04-09 · Asked who picks the music, they say they play none, only singing Rax parodies, because they rarely get to hang out in person and are just chatting. (both) — Hank and John Reunited WITH RAX 00:03:22
• 2024-04-16 · John asks viewers to keep in mind in the coming weeks that he already got paid for the Turtles All the Way Down film, so financially he does not care whether they see it. — I Already Got Paid 00:00:00
• 2024-04-16 · John says an adaptation of his work was canceled just before filming because an executive told him an actor's eyes were too far apart. — I Already Got Paid 00:02:15
• 2024-04-16 · John wishes he could show the film to his younger self to tell him he is not alone in what he feels. — I Already Got Paid 00:02:45
• 2024-04-23 · John notes that Hank found out he had cancer almost exactly one year ago (April 2023). · story: Hank's Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis and chemotherapy (2023) — Full Hank 00:00:00
• 2024-04-23 · The description says John is a ball of stress and worry but very grateful to everyone who watched the movie with them in Los Angeles over the weekend. — Full Hank 00:00:00
• 2024-04-23 · When Hank was diagnosed, John took on a few of Hank's many jobs and enjoyed the work so much that he seems to have gone 'full Hank'. · story: Hank's Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis and chemotherapy (2023) — Full Hank 00:00:00
• 2024-04-23 · When John feels overwhelmed he wants to make more stuff, until he eventually hits a hard wall. — Full Hank 00:00:58
• 2024-04-23 · John watched the film with an audience of about 1,400 at the LA Times book festival: incredible, special to feel the room's energy and read the responses afterwards. — Full Hank 00:01:40
• 2024-04-23 · John has spent days in Los Angeles promoting the Turtles All the Way Down film: fun but overwhelming, lots of talking to strangers, but he loves the movie and wants to help it. — Full Hank 00:01:40
• 2024-04-23 · John loved astrophysicist Katie Mack's book The End of Everything and wrote to tell her; she replied, they became friends, and they have worked on the podcast with a team for a couple of years. — Full Hank 00:02:31
• 2024-04-30 · John got home last night from the amazing LA premiere of the Turtles All the Way Down film, celebrated with its makers, Kirsten Dunst, YouTube friends, Rosianna and the cast; his kids saw one of his movies for the first time and loved it. — Not Doing That Great 00:00:00
• 2024-04-30 · John says it is really hard for him to talk so much about his mental health and living with OCD and depression. — Not Doing That Great 00:00:58
• 2024-04-30 · John says he also feels quite exposed, as if all his nerve endings were on the outside of his body; he is extremely thin-skinned at the moment. — Not Doing That Great 00:01:27
• 2024-04-30 · John will be home in Indianapolis in 72 hours, back to being a middle-aged dad and nerdfighter; for now he does the press because he wants people beyond nerdfighters to see the movie. — Not Doing That Great 00:02:26
• 2024-04-30 · Talking to a reporter about living with intrusive thoughts while having to talk about them, John burst into tears when the reporter said it must be difficult and they were sorry. — Not Doing That Great 00:02:55
• 2024-04-30 · John says the last couple of months have been a weird mix of being overjoyed and not doing that great. — Not Doing That Great 00:03:53
• 2024-05-07 · On his first day on set, talking with the makeup department about Aza's callus, John realized they had read the book and considered how to show it without sensationalizing it. — A Secret about Art 00:01:38
• 2024-05-17 · After the Mini, the brothers note that each destroyed the other at one game; John has two points, so Spelling Bee can only produce a tie. — John and Hank FIGHT FOR DOMINANCE!!! 00:04:32
• 2024-05-21 · John says he cannot return to a world where his relationship with his OCD is private, having talked about it publicly so much in the context of Turtles All the Way Down. — Getting Personal about Getting Personal 00:01:05
• 2024-05-21 · 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. — Getting Personal about Getting Personal 00:01:20
• 2024-05-21 · 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. — Getting Personal about Getting Personal 00:01:27
• 2024-05-21 · 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. — Getting Personal about Getting Personal 00:01:40
• 2024-05-21 · John retells that before dating, he and Sarah had a two-person book club; reading Philip Roth's The Human Stain, they found they had both highlighted the same passage about having another contender in the room. · story: John and Sarah's two-person book club before they started dating — Getting Personal about Getting Personal 00:02:14
• 2024-05-28 · John says his little brother getting cancer made him consider his life and work in an appropriately finite context. · story: Hank's Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis and chemotherapy (2023) — A Midlife Crisis 00:00:29
• 2024-05-28 · John says his kids and his body are getting older and he has reached a strange inflection point in his life with big choices to make. — A Midlife Crisis 00:00:29
• 2024-05-28 · John says he is very engaged, publicly and privately, in lowering barriers to TB treatment and diagnostics and in increasing awareness of and investment in fighting tuberculosis. — A Midlife Crisis 00:02:26
• 2024-05-28 · John says he published three books between 2005 and 2008. — A Midlife Crisis 00:02:26
• 2024-05-28 · John says that since 2008 he has published only three more books, not for lack of ideas but for lack of time. — A Midlife Crisis 00:02:55
• 2024-06-11 · John says he used quite a lot of tobacco when he was younger, though he understood the serious health risks, because smoking was cool. · story: John's teenage mistreatment of his body and later quitting smoking and running (c. 1993-2005) — BEEF DAYS 00:01:56
• 2024-06-18 · John's family pledged $6.5 million, which eventually became $8 million, but they knew that was not nearly enough. — The Tea 00:00:00
• 2024-06-25 · John congratulates Hank on his comedy special: it is so good and John is so proud of him. · story: Pissing Out Cancer: Hank's stand-up comedy show about having cancer (2023) — taking a break 00:00:00
• 2024-06-25 · John says recent video titles such as How It All Ends, A Midlife Crisis and Not Doing That Great may indicate that he has not been doing that great. (hedged) — taking a break 00:00:00
• 2024-06-25 · John can't tell where circumstances end and depression begins: he is in an objectively hard time he won't make public, but has had harder times without this much despair. · story: John's 2024 depression and his month away from the internet (2024) — taking a break 00:00:29
• 2024-06-25 · Depressed for quite a while, John finds it hard to judge what is real: everything great feels illusory and everything terrible utterly true. — taking a break 00:00:58
• 2024-06-25 · John must finish his book so it can come out next year (2025), and that alone feels like too much work for his depressed brain. · story: John reads widely about tuberculosis and 19th-century illness (2022) — taking a break 00:00:58
• 2024-06-25 · For a little over nine months John has really struggled with making stuff. — taking a break 00:00:58
• 2024-06-25 · John recently spoke with Brotherhood 2.0's resident mathematician Daniel Biss, now mayor of Evanston, Illinois, who explained why he left Twitter. — taking a break 00:01:27
• 2024-06-25 · Overwhelmed, with his nerves seemingly outside his body, John can't do it right now and needs time away to get it sorted. — taking a break 00:02:26
• 2024-06-25 · John says he is currently a bit demented by despair, but knows he is not alone in that. — taking a break 00:02:26
• 2024-06-25 · Depression convinces John that he is worthless and his work worse than worthless; he speaks from the bottom of the well. — taking a break 00:03:05
• 2024-06-25 · John says he struggles to tell himself this, and in July he will work on telling himself what he has told viewers all along: that hope sings the tune without the words and never stops at all. — taking a break 00:03:05
• 2024-07-09 · John shows his suit lining, which depicts the moment Lyle Taylor scored at Wembley for AFC Wimbledon to send them back to League One, and reads 'JMFG'. — Is the Inside of Your Mouth a Soup? (a vidcon reunion video) 00:00:00
• 2024-07-09 · John says people, including many AFC Wimbledon fans, have been kind and generous since his video about having a hard time, reminding him he is part of many great communities. · story: John's 2024 depression and his month away from the internet (2024) — Is the Inside of Your Mouth a Soup? (a vidcon reunion video) 00:00:25
• 2024-08-03 · John returns to YouTube on Esther Day after his longest break in 11 years, says he is feeling much better and thanks viewers for their kind messages. · story: John's 2024 depression and his month away from the internet (2024) — I Love Hank. (Also I'm back.) 00:00:00
• 2024-08-03 · John tells Hank he loves him, noting they have traditionally said it only on Esther Day for fear of being too cloying or sentimental. — I Love Hank. (Also I'm back.) 00:00:45
• 2024-08-03 · John is extremely grateful to be Hank's brother: of his many jobs, which he likes, his best job is being Hank Green's brother. — I Love Hank. (Also I'm back.) 00:01:05
• 2024-08-03 · John thanks Hank for encouraging him to take time off, which was helpful and productive even though he wasn't mainly producing things for the public. — I Love Hank. (Also I'm back.) 00:01:13
• 2024-08-03 · John used the month to reflect on what he wants from life, why his actual living has been so misaligned with it, and what long-term changes he needs to be happy and functional. (hedged) — I Love Hank. (Also I'm back.) 00:01:27
• 2024-08-03 · John desperately wishes Esther were here; she would be 30 years old, a grown-up. · story: Death of Nerdfighter Esther Earl, John's friend (2010) — I Love Hank. (Also I'm back.) 00:02:03
• 2024-08-03 · John thanks Esther for that and for the day celebrating the kinds of love too often neglected by our social order, and tells her he loves her. — I Love Hank. (Also I'm back.) 00:03:24
• 2024-08-03 · John tells Hank he loves him too and says he will text and call many people today to say he loves them, grateful to be interwoven into humanity. — I Love Hank. (Also I'm back.) 00:03:35
• 2024-08-06 · John says he had a low-to-mid-level nervous breakdown and took a break from the internet; now back-ish and feeling better-ish, he describes what helped through this serious depression. · story: John's 2024 depression and his month away from the internet (2024) — What Helped Through Depression 00:00:00
• 2024-08-06 · For the first week or two John got a lot of counseling and sought a path forward, spending the rest of his days on something engrossing but undemanding: making pottery. — What Helped Through Depression 00:00:00
• 2024-08-06 · John promised the secret keepers as Project for Awesome perks about 18 months ago and never finished them; now he has, which is a relief. — What Helped Through Depression 00:00:29
• 2024-08-06 · Exercise and gardening also helped John. — What Helped Through Depression 00:00:29
• 2024-08-06 · Once John asked for help, his other communities supported him: real-life friends offered to take him on bike rides or kayaking. — What Helped Through Depression 00:00:58
• 2024-08-06 · A real-life friend offered to have John explain all his jobs to look at his work-life balance; it was not balanced. — What Helped Through Depression 00:00:58
• 2024-08-06 · An AFC Wimbledon co-founder, who needed something to look forward to when depressed, mailed John the club's new away kit, which will take time to arrive. — What Helped Through Depression 00:01:27
• 2024-08-06 · John donated to Henry's well project, promised to help share it, and links it in the doobly-doo. — What Helped Through Depression 00:01:56
• 2024-08-06 · John's work on TB has been a great source of solace and connection this past month. — What Helped Through Depression 00:01:56
• 2024-08-06 · What probably helped most was meeting his therapist and psychiatrist. (hedged) — What Helped Through Depression 00:02:26
• 2024-08-06 · John really did believe he was worthless, which he thinks he said in his last video. — What Helped Through Depression 00:03:14
• 2024-08-07 · John says he never stopped working full time during his mid-level nervous breakdown but worked less; this week (week of 5 August 2024) he feels fully back in the rhythm, a relief, though tiring. · story: John's 2024 depression and his month away from the internet (2024) — Dear Hank and John Livestream! 00:00:54
• 2024-08-07 · John says he is trying to work out how to make his work life and the rest of his life more sustainable, so he can keep his sanity. — Dear Hank and John Livestream! 00:01:24
• 2024-08-07 · John says although they don't run them, the two companies he and Hank own employ over 150 people, an intense stress for them. — Dear Hank and John Livestream! 00:21:49
• 2024-08-07 · Answering a patron, John says he still reads mostly about tuberculosis because he is in the last edit of his book. · story: John reads widely about tuberculosis and 19th-century illness (2022) — Dear Hank and John Livestream! 00:28:39
• 2024-08-07 · Asked how to decide where to live, John says he was the trailing spouse, moving where his wife got a job. — Dear Hank and John Livestream! 00:30:35
• 2024-08-07 · At the sign-off John learns the stream has been public the whole time; thinking it was a quiet conversation within Nerdfighteria, he says he went deep. — Dear Hank and John Livestream! 00:34:52
• 2024-08-13 · John recalls that several years ago he and Hank both got Gmail warnings that a foreign government had accessed their email, and they moved on. — The Time a Spy Visited Me Because of P*tin. 00:00:00
• 2024-08-13 · In a channel comment John adds that the visitor showed him ID. — The Time a Spy Visited Me Because of P*tin. 00:00:00
• 2024-08-13 · In a comment John says he waited eight years before telling the story. — The Time a Spy Visited Me Because of P*tin. 00:00:00
• 2024-08-13 · A few months later a friend told John that his diplomat buddy was coming to Indianapolis for the Indy 500 and wanted to meet him. — The Time a Spy Visited Me Because of P*tin. 00:00:15
• 2024-08-13 · The man's email signature gave his title as special regional assistant for trade; he came to John's office on a Wednesday in a suit with a very nice bottle of scotch. — The Time a Spy Visited Me Because of P*tin. 00:00:29
• 2024-08-13 · The man asked John many questions: his mortgage, whether his AFC Wimbledon sponsorship is expensive and why he spends money on a foreign football team, his family, job and work with Hank. — The Time a Spy Visited Me Because of P*tin. 00:01:50
• 2024-08-13 · The man asked why the Russian government would go out of its way to hack John's and Hank's email, perhaps for criticising it on Crash Course; John said he did not know either. — The Time a Spy Visited Me Because of P*tin. 00:02:15
• 2024-08-13 · After the man left warmly, John immediately called his father to say he thought he had just met a spy and told him the whole story. — The Time a Spy Visited Me Because of P*tin. 00:03:45
• 2024-08-20 · John woke up over the Irish Sea, started reading a great book about tuberculosis called Breathless, and landed in London, taking a cab when his train was cancelled. · story: John reads widely about tuberculosis and 19th-century illness (2022) — Thoughts from Places: BROMLEY! 00:00:00
• 2024-08-20 · Tired but eager, John came to watch AFC Wimbledon play an away game against Bromley. — Thoughts from Places: BROMLEY! 00:00:00
• 2024-08-20 · John started out negative on Bromley, but its miniature carnival, vegetable market, walking paths and horse farm charmed him, ending at the tiny Hayes Lane stadium. — Thoughts from Places: BROMLEY! 00:00:58
• 2024-08-20 · Bromley scored in the first half; John and Rosianna stood to change their luck, but the home team added a second goal, Wimbledon's first defeat of the season. — Thoughts from Places: BROMLEY! 00:02:26
• 2024-08-20 · Playing on 'enjoy', John says even when Wimbledon loses he is in joy, and it is a relief to be able to feel in joy again. · story: John's 2024 depression and his month away from the internet (2024) — Thoughts from Places: BROMLEY! 00:03:24
• 2024-08-27 · John has been on YouTube since January 2, 2007, long before videos could be meaningfully monetized. — How The Internet Is Rigged 00:00:58
• 2024-08-27 · Fearing being seen as a sellout, John kept his books out of the background of his videos; the feeling was that nobody should make money from something so weird and non-commercial. — How The Internet Is Rigged 00:01:27
• 2024-08-27 · Had he and Hank stopped making videos in December 2007 as planned, John says, they would have netted nothing from their YouTube project. — How The Internet Is Rigged 00:02:15
• 2024-08-27 · In 2011 John built a large audience on Tumblr, which, as Tumblr grew, sold many copies of The Fault in Our Stars. — How The Internet Is Rigged 00:03:06
• 2024-08-27 · John says Hank bet on TikTok in 2018 and benefited financially when it blew up. · story: Hank joins TikTok and posts several TikToks a day (2020) — How The Internet Is Rigged 00:03:14
• 2024-08-27 · In 2007 John wouldn't even hold up Looking for Alaska on camera; by 2012 he reblogged every piece of Fault in Our Stars fan art with a link to buy the book. — How The Internet Is Rigged 00:03:24
• 2024-09-03 · John has just completed what is hopefully the last big edit of his book about tuberculosis, which reminded him how much a dash contains. (hedged) — Which is Correct? — or – ? 00:00:00
• 2024-09-03 · John is highly inclined toward em dashes: by last count his most recent manuscript contained 313 of them. — Which is Correct? — or – ? 00:01:27
• 2024-09-17 · John says he has been emerging from a depression, partly by engaging less with algorithms. · story: John's 2024 depression and his month away from the internet (2024) — My Consciousness. Their Capital. 00:00:29
• 2024-09-17 · While recovering, John went fishing: largely a randomized reward of mostly sitting, until catching and releasing a fish into the White River made him want to cast again. — My Consciousness. Their Capital. 00:00:58
• 2024-09-17 · On a walk in the woods during his break, John felt sad but calm, having worked on spending time in nature, breathing outside air and noticing sensations. — My Consciousness. Their Capital. 00:01:27
• 2024-09-17 · On that walk a coyote came out of the woods and stood in John's path staring at him, and he felt a surge of panic. — My Consciousness. Their Capital. 00:01:56
• 2024-09-17 · When the coyote casually walked back into the woods, John felt a huge flood of relief. — My Consciousness. Their Capital. 00:03:12
• 2024-09-25 · John loved Hank's video about the only time Sarah Michelle Gellar, Alex Trebek, George Clooney and Brad Pitt appeared together; it reminded him of the first YouTube video he saw. — You have no chance to survive make your time. 00:00:00
• 2024-09-25 · John sets the scene: mid-2005 at the American Library Association in Chicago; Looking for Alaska had just been published and he was a production editor at Booklist. — You have no chance to survive make your time. 00:00:00
• 2024-09-25 · His friend Carlos came to his desk to show him YouTube, and John's first YouTube video was All Your Base Are Belong to Us, a collection of memes set to music. — You have no chance to survive make your time. 00:00:30
• 2024-10-01 · John's least favourite photo of himself is from the Paper Towns film premiere: on top of the world, rich and very famous, he was in the middle of a panic attack. — On Fame and Chappell Roan 00:00:12
• 2024-10-01 · In the photo John is drenched in sweat, terrified of the cameras, and feels wildly overexposed and extremely scared. — On Fame and Chappell Roan 00:00:29
• 2024-10-01 · On 'Fame Mountain', John hiked up hungry while writing his first novel in 2002; with some success he came to want the top more than happiness or fulfilment. — On Fame and Chappell Roan 00:00:43
• 2024-10-01 · John improbably reached the top: Saturday Night Live mocked his book in a sketch, Time named him one of the world's most influential people, and a studio executive said he was blowing up. · story: John is named to the Time 100 and goes to its party in New York (2014) — On Fame and Chappell Roan 00:00:58
• 2024-10-01 · John says many people disliked his work, and some defined themselves in part by disliking his work or even him. — On Fame and Chappell Roan 00:01:48
• 2024-10-01 · A stranger who saw John at dinner called him a very deliberate chewer; he is, because of his eosinophilic esophagitis, but doesn't want strangers noticing. — On Fame and Chappell Roan 00:02:47
• 2024-10-01 · John disliked feeling overwhelmed, overexposed and scared, nerve endings outside his body; he feels it less now after a lot of work and being past the summit. — On Fame and Chappell Roan 00:03:45
• 2024-10-01 · John says he can use fame to write a book about tuberculosis, though no Saturday Night Live sketch will result, because it can help people and his deepest self wants to. — On Fame and Chappell Roan 00:04:15
• 2024-10-08 · John says the brothers are together in San Diego. — Hank Steals John's Cells 00:00:00
• 2024-10-08 · John observes that Hank talks about his cancer sometimes in the present tense and sometimes in the past, often catching himself. — Hank Steals John's Cells 00:01:30
• 2024-10-08 · John admits he was not on the registry though he should have been; he had not taken the time to go to DKMS.org. — Hank Steals John's Cells 00:03:27
• 2024-10-08 · John says he has done the cheek swab and they will just send it off. — Hank Steals John's Cells 00:04:25
• 2024-10-11 · Recognizing 'The Unzipped Zipper', John retells giving a talk he thought he crushed; of some 300 raised hands, the first person asked whether his fly was down, and after zipping up no one had questions. · story: John gives a talk at a Seattle high school with his zipper unzipped (2008) — October 11, 2024 - Goofing off with John (a Vlogbrothers Video) 00:00:29
• 2024-10-11 · John says he does not remember doing a horseradish challenge. — October 11, 2024 - Goofing off with John (a Vlogbrothers Video) 00:02:47
• 2024-10-11 · John recalls Eyelash Malaria, about a malaria drug that also lengthens eyelashes, which he made on his computer because his camera was broken. (hedged) · story: John's camcorder stops working (2009) — October 11, 2024 - Goofing off with John (a Vlogbrothers Video) 00:03:14
• 2024-10-22 · John says five years ago he didn't know tuberculosis was still a thing; he thought of it as a disease of 19th-century Romantic poets, not a present-tense phenomenon. — My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis 00:00:22
• 2024-10-22 · 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. · story: John and Henry Reider, a Sierra Leonean teenager with multidrug-resistant TB he met at Lakka hospital (2019) — My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis 00:00:33
• 2024-10-22 · John says he began writing about TB because writing is how he thinks and he wanted to remember what survivors and experts taught him; eventually he set aside the novel he'd been working on. · story: John reads widely about tuberculosis and 19th-century illness (2022) — My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis 00:01:40
• 2024-10-22 · John says he never imagined himself a nonfiction writer, but this was one of the most joyful and heartbreaking writing experiences of his life because it is a true story. — My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis 00:03:59
• 2024-10-30 · One brother, apparently John, says he stood in line 90 minutes to vote early in Indianapolis and wanted a sticker; Indiana doesn't make early voting easy. — Sipping the Tea with Hank 00:00:00
• 2024-10-30 · John's family's dog Potato ate a pair of earrings; they searched his poop and found half of it, chewed up. · story: John's family gets a puppy, Potato (2023) — Sipping the Tea with Hank 00:23:42
• 2024-10-30 · John says Hank did the tea taste testing and he did the coffee, with company-wide coffee taste tests at Complexly and DFTBA. — Sipping the Tea with Hank 00:40:10
• 2024-10-30 · John says he saw the film Wolf on 13 consecutive Wednesdays at Birmingham's dollar movie theater in 1995 with his buddy Todd. — Sipping the Tea with Hank 00:47:05
• 2024-11-01 · John says tuberculosis has been the great gift of his life for the last four years, giving him something to think about at night instead of his worries and fears. — Working Through a Crisis with My Brother 00:07:18
• 2024-11-01 · Surrounded by signed sheets, John says about 19,000 are out there and 81,000 more remain; he is actually past 20,000. — Working Through a Crisis with My Brother 00:08:16
• 2024-11-05 · John isn't doing it for the money: he makes about $25,000 a year helping with Crash Course, which gets him health insurance, and otherwise hasn't been paid for YouTube in years. — Why Do I Still Make YouTube Videos? 00:00:29
• 2024-11-05 · John says attention and the pleasure of being liked by strangers was a huge motivator for him; he wants to be liked far more than he wants money. — Why Do I Still Make YouTube Videos? 00:00:58
• 2024-11-13 · John says Potato has giardia and has been sick for about a week, preferring to have his diarrhea inside. · story: John's family gets a puppy, Potato (2023) — Some New Things… 00:23:01
• 2024-11-13 · John contrasts Hank's broad scam, aimed at getting bitcoin for Facebook accounts, with when the Russian government came directly for them, got all their emails and chose not to release them. — Some New Things… 00:30:15
• 2024-11-13 · John says Henry is taking part in NaNoWriMo at his school. — Some New Things… 00:31:32
• 2024-11-13 · Asked for his signature count, John says he is at 31,400 of 100,000 signatures, which will take 200 hours. — Some New Things… 00:37:33
• 2024-11-13 · John offers Alice a sip of Golden Fire Ginger tea on the livestream; she likes it; he jokes she mostly eats chicken nuggets, black beans and buttery noodles. — Some New Things… 00:45:32
• 2024-11-13 · 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. — Some New Things… 00:53:22
• 2024-11-13 · John says North Carolina was hard hit by recent storms, and where their parents used to live was very hard hit, with all their neighbors struggling. — Some New Things… 00:54:40
• 2024-11-19 · John says the brothers earn their personal money almost entirely from book sales; they make enough, are doing fine, and viewers need not worry about them. — Let's Talk about Money 00:00:06
• 2024-11-26 · The week before, John attended the Partners In Health board meeting with global health leaders from Mexico, Rwanda, Peru, New Jersey and elsewhere, and met Vicky Reed, head of Partners In Health Sierra Leone. — Good News 00:01:12
• 2024-12-10 · John explains the publishing term first pass: the first time he sees his new book, Everything Is Tuberculosis, laid out as a book. — On Writing 00:00:00
• 2024-12-10 · John feels some grief because first pass is also last pass: he cannot change the book after it and must stop reading so others can start. — On Writing 00:00:09
• 2024-12-10 · John says he was very ambitious and thought one should write in pursuit of forever: he wanted his books to last a very long time and be read critically and in schools. — On Writing 00:01:00
• 2024-12-10 · John says that dream has largely come true: 20 years after first publication Looking for Alaska is still in print, and many of his books are read in schools. — On Writing 00:01:11
• 2024-12-10 · John says it is time to let the book go, saying for the seventh time in twenty years that this story is yours now, and hopes readers like it. — On Writing 00:04:06
• 2024-12-17 · John says he and his work have been accused of all kinds of horrible things, including grooming children, which is hard not to take personally. — About THAT Scene in Looking for Alaska 00:00:00
• 2024-12-17 · John says the radical hope at the center of the book is a Christian idea he wrote about because of his own Christian faith. — About THAT Scene in Looking for Alaska 00:04:52
• 2024-12-31 · John is signing 100,000 copies of Everything Is Tuberculosis: he signs tip-in sheets (about 45,000 are behind him) that a printer in Virginia binds into the books. — I Just Can't Do It Anymore 00:00:03
• 2024-12-31 · About 50,000 sheets into the signing, John developed pain in his wrist and especially his shoulder that kept getting worse. — I Just Can't Do It Anymore 00:00:38
• 2024-12-31 · After the pain worsened John saw a doctor and it got worse still; without giving medical details, he says he can no longer sign and is not allowed to. · story: John's signing hand stops working right; doctor and occupational therapy (2011) — I Just Can't Do It Anymore 00:01:12
• 2024-12-31 · John says signing has been a significant part of his life for 12 years, ever since he signed the first printing of The Fault in Our Stars. — I Just Can't Do It Anymore 00:01:30
• 2024-12-31 · John has signed 700,000 tip-in sheets over his career, is attached to the process and his Lectrojogger, and says it is a bummer that he will not be able to after this. — I Just Can't Do It Anymore 00:01:44
• 2024-12-31 · In the first three years of his writing career no more than six people came to John's events; at hour-long signings two or three came and he chatted with a bookseller losing money on him. — I Just Can't Do It Anymore 00:02:25

2025

• 2025-01-07 · John has signed 110,000 tip-in sheets for Everything Is Tuberculosis, jogged and boxed them, and sent them off to the printer in Virginia. — The Format but it hurts to stand up 00:00:01
• 2025-01-07 · Every new year John writes himself two letters: one looking back on the year, one looking ahead and stating intentions rather than goals. · story: John's yearly January letters to himself: a look back and goals for the new year — The Format but it hurts to stand up 00:02:36
• 2025-01-07 · John's first professional intention for the year is to support Everything Is Tuberculosis and his TB work without losing it; he has over 100 days of travel ahead. — The Format but it hurts to stand up 00:03:08
• 2025-01-07 · John's other professional goal is to finish a draft of a new novel, which he is scared even to say out loud. — The Format but it hurts to stand up 00:03:36
• 2025-01-14 · John met Marcus on Zoom the day before and told him the money from his AFC Wimbledon FIFA streams on YouTube had gone to his signing. — So I Bought My Team a Pro Football Player 00:02:26
• 2025-01-21 · John's voice is thin because he spent all of yesterday recording the Everything Is Tuberculosis audiobook, which he is excited to narrate. — Do Audiobooks Count As Reading? 00:00:00
• 2025-01-21 · John says his first book, Looking for Alaska, came out almost 20 years ago, when audiobooks were mostly called books on tape or CD and came in boxes. — Do Audiobooks Count As Reading? 00:00:12
• 2025-01-21 · John says The Anthropocene Reviewed audiobook has sold almost as well as the paperback. — Do Audiobooks Count As Reading? 00:03:56
• 2025-02-11 · John says friends ask him how to get their meds, and he doesn't know what to tell them because the supply chains are frozen. — What's at Stake 00:03:24
• 2025-02-11 · John says phoning his senators and congresspeople or their offices has made him feel quite empowered: someone has to make the case, and he is grateful we still have some say in our governance. — What's at Stake 00:04:22
• 2025-02-18 · John says that over the last month two vlogbrothers videos got over a million views, which was uncomfortable and a real challenge for their comment moderators. — Gastrointestinal Hypermotility in Tuatara 00:00:00
• 2025-02-18 · John says he has had a rough month professionally and personally and feels discouraged; the P4A came when he was tired and overwhelmed but needed a pick-me-up. — Gastrointestinal Hypermotility in Tuatara 00:00:58
• 2025-02-18 · John says he is never far from despair and lately has been consumed by fear, making it hard to get out of bed and promote his new book Everything Is Tuberculosis, out a month from today. — Gastrointestinal Hypermotility in Tuatara 00:01:57
• 2025-02-25 · John's great-uncle Stokes Goodrich was born in 1900 in rural Tennessee, raised in a house built by John's great-grandfather Charles, a country doctor in Franklin County. — EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS 00:01:57
• 2025-02-25 · Stokes was a sickly child; coffee and sweets from a family friend were blamed, after which he had the worst case of typhoid his great-grandfather saw recover. — EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS 00:01:57
• 2025-02-25 · At 18 in 1918 Stokes nearly died in the influenza pandemic while working at a munitions factory, then in 1920 became a lineman for Alabama Power and Light. — EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS 00:02:43
• 2025-02-25 · After coughing up blood, Stokes was X-rayed in Gadsden and found to have miliary TB; the technician said he had never seen such a case live over two months. Stokes entered an Asheville sanatorium. — EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS 00:03:13
• 2025-02-25 · Despite the best care, Stokes grew steadily worse and died on May 18, 1930, aged 29. · story: John's great-uncle Stokes Goodrich dies of tuberculosis (1930) — EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS 00:03:50
• 2025-02-25 · John says he started writing about TB to understand how an illness could quietly shape so much of human history. · story: John reads widely about tuberculosis and 19th-century illness (2022) — EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS 00:06:20
• 2025-02-25 · John admits he is pretty nervous about the book coming out in three weeks, but says early reviews have been really good. — EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS 00:09:27
• 2025-03-04 · John says he hears the sound of his anxiety a lot at the moment, partly because anxiety is his background emotion. — The ANXIETY IS PALPABLE 00:00:00
• 2025-03-04 · John says having a book come out is always stressful because it is the culmination of several years of his life and he wants people to like it and respond generously. — The ANXIETY IS PALPABLE 00:02:05
• 2025-03-11 · John says he loves an airport, which is good because he will be in 18 of them over the next 19 days. — Hank Green's Brother 00:03:43
• 2025-03-18 · John next goes on Morning Joe, a different television program, and gets to be anxious again. — ITS ALL HAPPENING 00:00:24
• 2025-03-18 · John says the book is close to his heart, he has worked hard on it for four years, and he is excited to share it with the world. — ITS ALL HAPPENING 00:01:23
• 2025-03-18 · 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) — ITS ALL HAPPENING 00:01:23
• 2025-03-18 · 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. · story: John and Henry Reider, a Sierra Leonean teenager with multidrug-resistant TB he met at Lakka hospital (2019) — ITS ALL HAPPENING 00:02:58
• 2025-03-25 · John says he has met many wonderful people on tour, from people who worked at USAID to people working on tuberculosis at the CDC. — Taylor, Dr Pepper, and My Anxiety Strats: It's Question Tuesday 00:01:56
• 2025-03-25 · John's favorite person on tour: Ken, a Philadelphia security guard born in a TB sanatorium in 1952, who survived TB as an infant because his mother crushed 90 pills a day into sugar water. — Taylor, Dr Pepper, and My Anxiety Strats: It's Question Tuesday 00:01:56
• 2025-03-25 · On his ambitious tour schedule, John says he is tired, a different city every day, exhausting and exhilarating, but less tired than expected because he is also extremely energized. — Taylor, Dr Pepper, and My Anxiety Strats: It's Question Tuesday 00:04:23
• 2025-03-25 · John thanks everyone who has read Everything Is Tuberculosis: the response has been overwhelming and he is grateful it has been received so generously. — Taylor, Dr Pepper, and My Anxiety Strats: It's Question Tuesday 00:04:52
• 2025-04-15 · John says that last week (week of 7 April 2025) he and many people from the community visited Washington, D.C., holding over 210 meetings with members of Congress and their offices to press for better TB funding. — Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? 00:00:00
• 2025-04-15 · John says tuberculosis is a big part of American history: his great-uncle died of TB. · story: John's great-uncle Stokes Goodrich dies of tuberculosis (1930) — Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? 00:13:38
• 2025-04-22 · John recalls that a few years ago (November 2017), with labyrinthitis, he was stuck in bed with his eyes closed for two weeks because opening them made him throw up. · story: John's labyrinthitis after the Turtles All the Way Down tour (2017) — The Unimportant Things 00:00:00
• 2025-04-22 · During that illness John followed a Spanish-language radio broadcast of the Peru v New Zealand World Cup playoff by intonation alone; Peru won, qualifying for the first time in decades, and he heard the commentator's tears. — The Unimportant Things 00:00:29
• 2025-04-22 · John says he has talked with over 15,000 people about the needless suffering caused by tuberculosis. — The Unimportant Things 00:00:58
• 2025-04-22 · John says he even visited Congress with nerdfighters from around the country to make the case for foreign aid funding. — The Unimportant Things 00:00:58
• 2025-04-22 · John says the month has also been exhausting, with two more exhausting months to come, and one pillar holding him up has been fourth-tier English football. — The Unimportant Things 00:00:58
• 2025-04-22 · John got to give the team a short talk, telling the players he was excited to see them play a massive game in person and very grateful to be with them. — The Unimportant Things 00:02:55
• 2025-04-22 · Though very tired, John says he is excited and motivated by his work and grateful to everyone who has read and shared Everything Is Tuberculosis. — The Unimportant Things 00:03:51
• 2025-05-06 · 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. — Health CARE: Thoughts from Lima 00:00:00
• 2025-05-06 · John met several TB survivors, including Gladys, whose extrapulmonary TB invaded her breast, an extremely painful and life-threatening condition. — Health CARE: Thoughts from Lima 00:01:56
• 2025-05-06 · After many months of treatment Gladys was cured; she now studies to become a nurse technician while caring for her kids and her dog. — Health CARE: Thoughts from Lima 00:02:26
• 2025-05-06 · At a Socios clinic John met Brenda, a trans woman in Lima; he says it can be really hard for impoverished trans people to access health care in Peru. — Health CARE: Thoughts from Lima 00:02:55
• 2025-05-06 · Brenda told them how much her life has changed since she could access gender-affirming care and treatment for other health concerns. — Health CARE: Thoughts from Lima 00:03:24
• 2025-05-06 · John saw a health worker standing with Brenda as she registered for a doctor's visit and patting her back softly, kindly, with care. — Health CARE: Thoughts from Lima 00:03:53
• 2025-05-20 · John tells Hank he has been in 43 airports in the last 60 days for his book Everything Is Tuberculosis. — The Double 00:00:00
• 2025-05-20 · John admits it is not really Tuesday: he is filming over the weekend because on Tuesday he will be in Geneva, Switzerland, talking about tuberculosis. — The Double 00:00:00
• 2025-05-20 · John says the Indianapolis 500 is one of the most cherished days on his calendar; he goes every year and loves it. — The Double 00:00:58
• 2025-05-20 · John lays out the plan: he and Stuart wake around 5 a.m., bike to the Indy 500, bike to the airport, fly to London and take the train to Wembley for the final. — The Double 00:02:26
• 2025-05-20 · John says the double will last nearly two straight days, especially if Wimbledon win, since the party will go on all night. (hedged) — The Double 00:02:26
• 2025-05-20 · John recalls that he and Stuart completed the double before, a day so magical he made a Vlogbrothers video about it and his suit lining depicts that day at Wembley. · story: John's 36 hours from the Indianapolis 500 to Wembley and AFC Wimbledon's promotion party (May 2016) — The Double 00:02:55
• 2025-05-27 (said on 2025-05-25, implied) · The description says John completes the Double. · story: John and Stuart attempt the double again: the Indianapolis 500, then AFC Wimbledon's play-off final at Wembley (May 2025) — The Longest (and best) Day 00:00:00
• 2025-05-27 (said on 2025-05-25, implied) · John says this is the biggest bike ride to the Indy 500 he has ever experienced, with hundreds and hundreds of people. — The Longest (and best) Day 00:00:00
• 2025-05-27 (said on 2025-05-25, implied) · John reports the day's first major hiccup: it is raining, and the dryers are out. — The Longest (and best) Day 00:00:29
• 2025-05-27 (said on 2025-05-25, implied) · John says they only made it to lap 165 before he and Stuart left, biking to the airport, which he calls bonkers. · story: John and Stuart attempt the double again: the Indianapolis 500, then AFC Wimbledon's play-off final at Wembley (May 2025) — The Longest (and best) Day 00:00:29
• 2025-05-27 (said on 2025-05-25, implied) · John wears the exact outfit he wore nine years ago when Wimbledon last made it to Wembley, taken from a mothballed closet, while insisting he is not superstitious. — The Longest (and best) Day 00:01:10
• 2025-05-27 (said on 2025-05-25, implied) · John greets the Nerdfighter Dons and heads to Wembley. — The Longest (and best) Day 00:01:39
• 2025-06-03 · John says that before The Fault in Our Stars he confidently said on the channel his next book would be about kids on a desert island; he wrote most of it, but it had no reason for being, so he wrote the book that became The Fault in Our Stars. · story: John writes a novel about a desert island with a girl narrator (2010) — My Lies 00:01:21
• 2025-06-03 · John says his two latest books, The Anthropocene Reviewed and Everything Is Tuberculosis, are nonfiction for adults and differ from his novels, not really being about romance, love or friendship. — My Lies 00:01:21
• 2025-06-03 · In his 20s and 30s John didn't see the point of nonfiction; when a friend left fiction for journalism, he thought it a waste of talent, believing text fiction the only way to transform readers. — My Lies 00:01:51
• 2025-06-03 · After he started writing nonfiction John announced he was done with fiction: as in The Anthropocene Reviewed, he no longer saw its point and felt his historical moment could only be met with truth. · story: John writes his first nonfiction book, The Anthropocene Reviewed (2020) — My Lies 00:02:20
• 2025-06-03 · John says he missed writing fiction, as he once put it, the way you miss someone you used to love. — My Lies 00:02:20
• 2025-06-03 · Since finishing Everything Is Tuberculosis John has been writing fiction; it may never come to anything and he will not promise it becomes a book, but the process has been thrilling. · story: John writes his first novel in almost ten years (2025) — My Lies 00:02:49
• 2025-06-10 · John says a Republican member of Congress told him in a recent meeting that he didn't disagree, but his constituents don't care about this. — 90,000,000 Lives for $20 00:02:55
• 2025-06-10 · 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? — 90,000,000 Lives for $20 00:05:50
• 2025-06-17 · John says he constantly misses the mark, hoarding wealth though he knows it is a sin and not treating neighbours as he would wish, so he constantly needs forgiveness. — My Religion 00:02:26
• 2025-06-17 · John calls himself a worshipful creature who will always worship, so he wants to be constructive about what and how he worships. — My Religion 00:06:19
• 2025-06-24 · John started smoking at 14 and smoked compulsively until his late 20s, 30 or 40 cigarettes a day, even waking at 3 a.m. to smoke to calm himself down. · story: John's teenage mistreatment of his body and later quitting smoking and running (c. 1993-2005) — Am I Cigarettes? 00:00:05
• 2025-06-24 · After quitting smoking John chewed Nicorette compulsively for about five years, 50 to 60 pieces a day, which his doctor said was about three packs' worth of nicotine daily. · story: John's teenage mistreatment of his body and later quitting smoking and running (c. 1993-2005) — Am I Cigarettes? 00:00:29
• 2025-06-24 · John quit chewing Nicorette around the time he got really into the internet, about 2005. — Am I Cigarettes? 00:00:58
• 2025-06-24 · John says cigarettes have directly caused much suffering and death, including the deaths of two of his grandparents. — Am I Cigarettes? 00:02:35
• 2025-06-24 · As a 14-year-old wearing a trench coat every day in Orlando, Florida, John needed the internet before it really existed; it gave him his life and livelihood. — Am I Cigarettes? 00:02:52
• 2025-06-24 · John did quit for a couple of years, a very productive time in some ways, but he missed the connection and the high. — Am I Cigarettes? 00:03:40
• 2025-06-24 · John chooses the unhealthy internet for hours every week, knowing it is bad for him and for the social order. — Am I Cigarettes? 00:04:26
• 2025-07-01 · John says Everything Is Tuberculosis has been on the New York Times bestseller list for 14 consecutive weeks, twice as long as The Anthropocene Reviewed, which astonishes him. — What #1 New York Times Bestseller Actually Means 00:00:00
• 2025-07-01 · In a comment John adds that Looking for Alaska did eventually make the list, in 2014, nine years after it was first published. — What #1 New York Times Bestseller Actually Means 00:00:00
• 2025-07-01 · In a comment John clarifies that the roughly $105,000 from Paper Towns was his personal take, after production costs and publisher and bookstore cuts. — What #1 New York Times Bestseller Actually Means 00:00:00
• 2025-07-01 · In a comment John says library copies don't count for the lists, but when his first novel sold under 5,000 copies, about 2,500 went to libraries; he urges support for libraries. — What #1 New York Times Bestseller Actually Means 00:00:00
• 2025-07-01 · John says Everything Is Tuberculosis is a #1 bestseller because for its first couple of weeks it was the best-selling nonfiction book in the US by the Times' count. — What #1 New York Times Bestseller Actually Means 00:00:29
• 2025-07-01 · John says his book was almost guaranteed a #1 because he signed over 100,000 copies of the first printing and about 50,000 people pre-ordered it. — What #1 New York Times Bestseller Actually Means 00:00:29
• 2025-07-01 · John says his widely reviewed, award-winning first novel Looking for Alaska never came close to the list until the success of The Fault in Our Stars years later. — What #1 New York Times Bestseller Actually Means 00:01:56
• 2025-07-01 · John first reached the list with his third novel, Paper Towns, which spent three weeks on the young adult hardcover list, selling about 20,000 copies in that time. — What #1 New York Times Bestseller Actually Means 00:02:26
• 2025-07-01 · John says the Paper Towns hardcover made around $105,000 in total, but the book took three years to write: about $35,000 a year, a modest living from writing. — What #1 New York Times Bestseller Actually Means 00:02:26
• 2025-07-01 · John says Everything Is Tuberculosis is number two on the Independent Booksellers bestseller list, and thanks independent bookstores. — What #1 New York Times Bestseller Actually Means 00:03:53
• 2025-07-01 · John found Paul Beatty's Tuff and Maureen Johnson's early books not as bestsellers but through recommendations from librarians and booksellers. — What #1 New York Times Bestseller Actually Means 00:04:22
• 2025-07-22 · John says his dad was the state director of the Nature Conservancy when they were kids, and critics derided him as a tree hugger, as if he thought trees mattered more than people. — At Least There Are Trees 00:00:28
• 2025-07-22 · John says he has become a tree nerd in middle age: apps identify trees for him, and he notes in his gratitude journal seeing a northern red oak or a sugar maple. — At Least There Are Trees 00:01:39
• 2025-07-29 · John plays Dress to Impress with his daughter Alice, her favorite video game. — Dad and Daughter Play Dress to Impress 00:00:00
• 2025-07-29 · The description says Alice asked John if they could make a YouTube video and he of course said yes. — Dad and Daughter Play Dress to Impress 00:00:00
• 2025-07-29 · John and Alice place second in the 'possessed' round, and John thanks Alice for teaching him the game. — Dad and Daughter Play Dress to Impress 00:15:16
• 2025-08-05 · John says he has aphantasia and cannot see anything in his mind; though Hank has lived there a long time, John could never find Hank's house even given 10 million years. — ONE TAKE JOHNNY 00:03:42
• 2025-08-12 · John recalls that on a Monday afternoon in 2017, while rummaging through a drawer, his sense of balance suddenly failed; he fell to the floor and started vomiting. · story: John's labyrinthitis after the Turtles All the Way Down tour (2017) — On Balance 00:00:00
• 2025-08-12 · For John the defining experience of vertigo was not the dizziness but not knowing how long it would last, or whether his balance would ever be restored. — On Balance 00:00:58
• 2025-08-12 · John says he is making this video because his vertigo returned a couple of weeks ago (late July 2025). · story: John's labyrinthitis after the Turtles All the Way Down tour (2017) — On Balance 00:01:10
• 2025-08-12 · John recalls that with vertigo in 2017 he was in bed for two weeks unable to open his eyes; his other senses did not matter and the imbalance was all-consuming. · story: John's labyrinthitis after the Turtles All the Way Down tour (2017) — On Balance 00:01:30
• 2025-08-12 · 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. · story: John's labyrinthitis after the Turtles All the Way Down tour (2017) — On Balance 00:01:40
• 2025-08-12 · Since vertigo can have scary causes, the hospital gave John a CT scan of his head; his brain was, in his doctor's word, unremarkable. · story: John's labyrinthitis after the Turtles All the Way Down tour (2017) — On Balance 00:01:56
• 2025-08-12 · John was eventually diagnosed with labyrinthitis, when a virus or something attacks the inner ear; in some cases, including his, balance is never fully restored. · story: John's labyrinthitis after the Turtles All the Way Down tour (2017) — On Balance 00:02:10
• 2025-08-12 · John says his balance now relies much more on visual cues: in the dark he can stumble and start to get vertigo, and a cold or unknown causes can also set it off. — On Balance 00:02:26
• 2025-08-12 · John says he cannot remember what having meningitis felt like, not in the acute way he remembers scents or sights. · story: John's viral meningitis and hospitalisation (2014) — On Balance 00:03:53
• 2025-08-19 · John has used Focus Friend for weeks; writing a lot since getting home from tour, he says it has helped him tremendously to focus on writing instead of his phone. — The Problem with My Brother's Hit New App 00:00:43
• 2025-08-19 · John recalls Hank calling to say he had made the app with a developer named Bria; John thought the pitch brilliant and loved the idea of buyable beans like a Hank Bean. — The Problem with My Brother's Hit New App 00:02:11
• 2025-08-26 · John got birthday texts with personal reflections and good wishes from comedian Mike Birbiglia, who was in The Fault in Our Stars, and from YouTuber CGP Grey. — Not to Criticize Hank… 00:01:27
• 2025-09-09 · John says he barely consumed caffeine until his 30s, when he began taking Remeron for his OCD; it makes thoughts more manageable but makes him very sleepy in the morning. — Sorry, Hank, but Coffee Is Just Better 00:00:00
• 2025-09-09 · John says he has drunk his coffee black for about the last 10 years but is starting on decaf, enjoying the occasional cup of Paradoxica, their decaf. — Sorry, Hank, but Coffee Is Just Better 00:03:24
• 2025-09-09 · John says he no longer takes Remeron but different medications for his mental health, so it is a fine time to switch to decaf. — Sorry, Hank, but Coffee Is Just Better 00:03:24
• 2025-09-16 · After almost 19 years John still checks every video's view count, though he has tried to focus on meaningful metrics such as lives changed or TB test prices. — After seven long years… 00:00:29
• 2025-09-16 · John says that since 2017 he has published three books, more than in the first ten years of Vlogbrothers. — After seven long years… 00:01:56
• 2025-09-16 · John says Hank has since published two best-selling novels of his own, and both started podcasts and raised children. — After seven long years… 00:01:56
• 2025-09-16 · John wonders what the next seven years hold, hopes they are less dramatic, and wonders whether he will still be on YouTube at 55. — After seven long years… 00:03:24
• 2025-09-19 · Midway, the score stands at four and a half to three and a half, counting push-ups already won. (both) — Let's Just Be Stupid For a Moment 00:02:49
• 2025-09-19 · John announces the 2025 Quadragocon ends in a tie, the third consecutive Quadragocon tie, and says they do not set it up that way. — Let's Just Be Stupid For a Moment 00:08:17
• 2025-09-23 · John says he is supposed to take three pills a day, one for cholesterol and two for OCD and depression; they are good pills, yet many days taking them feels like climbing a mountain. — Why Can't I Take My Meds? 00:00:00
• 2025-09-23 · John says he has at various times stopped taking these pills entirely, though he understands they are literally life-saving for him. — Why Can't I Take My Meds? 00:00:29
• 2025-09-23 · John says the same happens with his statin: he feels fine and struggles to take it, though he can easily afford it and its side effects are basically non-existent. — Why Can't I Take My Meds? 00:02:55
• 2025-09-23 · John says he has wrestled for years with needing psychiatric meds to be himself, when being himself supposedly means his natural, unmedicated state. — Why Can't I Take My Meds? 00:03:24
• 2025-09-23 · John says he sometimes judges himself for struggling, since he has fewer risk factors than almost anyone: he trusts his healthcare system and has good insurance. — Why Can't I Take My Meds? 00:05:50
• 2025-10-03 · John has a couple of professional-athlete friends and recently officiated the wedding of his friend Kylen Granson, currently a Philadelphia Eagle. — Is It Time to Retire? 00:00:00
• 2025-10-03 · John talked about this with MatPat and Steph when they retired from YouTube not long ago; they told him he would know when he was done. — Is It Time to Retire? 00:00:58
• 2025-10-03 · At 48, John never imagined in their 20s that they would still make videos in their late 40s, since social media platforms, let alone careers on them, didn't last that long. — Is It Time to Retire? 00:01:53
• 2025-10-07 · Over the weekend someone told John he is one of the 10 best-selling writers of the 21st century, which surprised him, not least as he is wearing two shirts featuring his own face. — Luck vs. Work vs. Skill vs. Privilege 00:00:00
• 2025-10-07 · In middle school John was passionate about soccer and practiced all the time but was not good, lacking the physical coordination. — Luck vs. Work vs. Skill vs. Privilege 00:01:27
• 2025-10-07 · John loves reading science fiction and fantasy but cannot write it; it does not play to his skill set. — Luck vs. Work vs. Skill vs. Privilege 00:01:27
• 2025-10-07 · John says nobody knows about his failures: two novels he has written and discarded in the eight years since he last published a novel, and his rejections. — Luck vs. Work vs. Skill vs. Privilege 00:01:56
• 2025-10-07 · John was lucky to start writing YA novels when there was lots of support for new authors and paths forged by independent booksellers, librarians and other authors. — Luck vs. Work vs. Skill vs. Privilege 00:02:26
• 2025-10-07 · John was lucky to get a job at Booklist magazine, where he met his mentor Ilene Cooper. — Luck vs. Work vs. Skill vs. Privilege 00:02:26
• 2025-10-07 · John's first two books won prizes but were not particularly successful, each selling fewer than 10,000 copies in its first year. — Luck vs. Work vs. Skill vs. Privilege 00:02:26
• 2025-10-07 · John was especially lucky with The Fault in Our Stars: Nerdfighteria and his publisher backed it, adults were reading YA, Time called it the best book of the year, and the movie did well. — Luck vs. Work vs. Skill vs. Privilege 00:03:16
• 2025-10-07 · John did work hard: he spent most nights and weekends in his 20s reading and writing, trying to get better at what he loved. — Luck vs. Work vs. Skill vs. Privilege 00:03:45
• 2025-10-09 · John says he used to be a confirmed inside cat, but that has changed over the last 20 years: these days he likes getting outside and feeling the air on his skin. — I Like Being Alive 00:00:00
• 2025-10-09 · John films in his kids' treehouse, which he and his friend Alex built together; the kids never really used it because by then they were too old. — I Like Being Alive 00:00:29
• 2025-10-09 · John says alleviating suffering, being with the kids and writing make him like being alive, but he doesn't do much of what he knows does, like walking in the woods. — I Like Being Alive 00:01:59
• 2025-10-09 · John says he likes being alive, at least today, and is grateful to all the past versions of himself who fought and scraped so that today he could. — I Like Being Alive 00:03:36
• 2025-10-21 · John says that while reading he often feels the siren call of his phone: he wonders if there's a Wikipedia page about something, and then he's off. — Is Book Publishing Dying? An Author's Perspective 00:02:53
• 2025-10-21 · John recalls making a Vlogbrothers video around 2007 or 2008 arguing a movie costs $10 for two hours of entertainment while a book costs $10 for 14 hours. (hedged) — Is Book Publishing Dying? An Author's Perspective 00:03:23
• 2025-10-28 · John flew into Manila, slept two hours, flew to Iloilo, met TB workers and took a ferry to Guimaras. — Elon Cancelled This...Let's Do it Anyway 00:00:00
• 2025-10-28 · John met many health care workers who read his books and did a small signing for some TB champions, regretting he had no time for a proper signing. — Elon Cancelled This...Let's Do it Anyway 00:01:56
• 2025-10-28 · John had lunch with the governor, Dr. Nava, who is also an infectious disease doctor. — Elon Cancelled This...Let's Do it Anyway 00:02:26
• 2025-10-28 · John says he is grateful he fell in hate with TB, which has let him know hundreds of people working hard on a complicated problem. — Elon Cancelled This...Let's Do it Anyway 00:03:24
• 2025-11-04 · John says at meetings he attended last week (week of 27 October 2025) in the Philippines he heard a lot about funding gaps, a polite phrase for not devoting nearly enough money to ending TB. — The Real Question 00:01:27
• 2025-11-04 · John says at the meetings he heard about exciting new tests, a potential vaccine and shorter, easier-to-tolerate treatment regimens, which encouraged him. — The Real Question 00:01:56
• 2025-11-04 · John says traveling with Doctors Without Borders to Tondo, a deeply impoverished community in Manila, reminded him that nothing about ending the TB crisis is easy. — The Real Question 00:02:26
• 2025-11-04 · In Tondo John met a 20-year-old man just diagnosed with TB, terrified for himself and for the six people he shares a room with. — The Real Question 00:02:26
• 2025-11-04 · John says he does not want to live benefiting from that scale of injustice, and it keeps him up at night. — The Real Question 00:04:23
• 2025-11-11 · John says he has been battling some ill health alongside the feeling he gets every November: if he is not sad, it is only because he is so anxious. — John's Annual Psychophysical Decline 00:00:00
• 2025-11-11 · John says his travel has been non-stop; he feels fortunate to preach that the world's deadliest infectious disease is curable and preventable, but he is tired. — John's Annual Psychophysical Decline 00:00:00
• 2025-11-11 · John says he started the video sad and frustrated and still is, but feels a hint of something else because talking to Hank cheered him up; he calls it a win before getting back in bed. — John's Annual Psychophysical Decline 00:04:32
• 2025-11-13 · John recently met someone whose child got TB and who had to crush the pills, divide them into thirds and give them in sugar water daily for months; this is starting to change. — Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders 00:00:47
• 2025-11-13 · In the Philippines John saw Doctors Without Borders work in an impoverished Manila community and met a young man diagnosed with TB hours earlier. — Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders 00:15:14
• 2025-11-13 · 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. · story: John and Henry Reider, a Sierra Leonean teenager with multidrug-resistant TB he met at Lakka hospital (2019) — Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders 00:47:09
• 2025-11-24 · 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. · story: John and Henry Reider, a Sierra Leonean teenager with multidrug-resistant TB he met at Lakka hospital (2019) — Good Store Holiday Gift Guide LIVE with Hank and John 00:00:00
• 2025-11-24 · Asked about new books, John says a new book is coming but not this year (2025) and probably not next; that morning he emailed Julie asking what publication target a second draft by January 1 would allow. (hedged) — Good Store Holiday Gift Guide LIVE with Hank and John 00:07:43
• 2025-11-24 · John says Alice, at three, was very upset by the woolly mammoth in the Indiana State Museum; now when he reminds her she tells him to shut up. — Good Store Holiday Gift Guide LIVE with Hank and John 00:33:33
• 2025-11-24 · John says Henry just had his wisdom teeth out, got dry socket and was in terrible pain, and John felt terrible for him. — Good Store Holiday Gift Guide LIVE with Hank and John 00:44:47
• 2025-11-25 · 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. · story: John and Henry Reider, a Sierra Leonean teenager with multidrug-resistant TB he met at Lakka hospital (2019) — Poverty Is Expensive 00:00:00
• 2025-11-25 · John says Henry, having survived drug-resistant TB, is a successful college student one semester from graduating and an advocate for people living with the disease. — Poverty Is Expensive 00:00:00
• 2025-11-25 · John says Henry often visits Lakka, Sierra Leone's only tuberculosis hospital, to remind patients that the disease is curable and they can live long, healthy lives. — Poverty Is Expensive 00:00:00
• 2025-11-25 · John says Henry and his mother Isatu were invited this year (2025) to the big annual Union tuberculosis conference in Copenhagen, which John was also invited to attend. — Poverty Is Expensive 00:00:29
• 2025-11-25 · John says he hadn't seen Henry since 2023 and wanted to thank Isatu for saving Henry's life by bringing him extra food and staying by him through three years in hospital. — Poverty Is Expensive 00:00:58
• 2025-11-25 · John says Henry and Isatu stayed in Ghana rather than pay about $2,000 to fly home and back, and waited around 25 days instead of the expected 15 for a decision. — Poverty Is Expensive 00:01:56
• 2025-11-25 · John says that at the last moment Isatu was denied a visa to Denmark, with no clear reason given, and had to fly back to Sierra Leone. — Poverty Is Expensive 00:01:56
• 2025-11-25 · John says Henry's visa was approved, and he spoke to thousands of TB researchers and doctors about his experience, celebrating his mother and doctors and standing in for those with TB. — Poverty Is Expensive 00:03:24
• 2025-12-02 · John says that idea is very real to his own experience of depression. — The Meaning of Life with Hank and John 00:05:27
• 2025-12-09 · Trying to recall the name of Hank's 1990s Mars website, John scrolled past a completely wrong Google AI response and learned from Wikipedia it was Hank Green's Mars Exploration Page. — Hank Green, from A to Z 00:00:00
• 2025-12-09 · John recalls ihatei4.com, one of Hank's first viral sensations, which brought local news to their house; on it Hank railed against car culture in Central Florida, where I-4 is notoriously terrible. — Hank Green, from A to Z 00:01:56
• 2025-12-09 · John calls Pissing Out Cancer Hank's hit stand-up comedy special, which debuted on Dropout.TV. · story: Pissing Out Cancer: Hank's stand-up comedy show about having cancer (2023) — Hank Green, from A to Z 00:02:55
• 2025-12-09 · John says QI is Hank's favorite TV show, which he recently found a way to be a guest on. · story: Hank's appearance on the British panel show QI (2025) — Hank Green, from A to Z 00:03:24
• 2025-12-09 · John says Titansgrave was a wildly popular RPG show hosted by Wil Wheaton and co-starring Hank. · story: Hank plays Wil Wheaton's Titansgrave tabletop RPG show for Geek & Sundry (2015) — Hank Green, from A to Z 00:03:53
• 2025-12-09 · John says Hank even has numbers covered with 2D Glasses, which render 3D movies in two dimensions and which he invented fifteen years ago. — Hank Green, from A to Z 00:05:21
• 2025-12-16 · John says he travelled over 130 days this year (2025) spreading the message that the world's deadliest infectious disease is curable and preventable: thrilling, terrifying and exhausting. — John Green's Brother 00:03:53
• 2025-12-16 · John says it has also been a long, hard year personally for him and many people close to him, dealing with unexpected loss and existential weariness. — John Green's Brother 00:03:53

2026

• 2026-01-06 · John says his marriage is older than Vlogbrothers, predating their videos by about seven months. — Hope Is Not a Feeling 00:00:00
• 2026-01-06 · 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. — Hope Is Not a Feeling 00:00:00
• 2026-01-06 · 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. — Hope Is Not a Feeling 00:00:29
• 2026-01-06 · 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. — Hope Is Not a Feeling 00:00:58
• 2026-01-13 · John says he only appears to be in Indianapolis: he is in Cheyenne, Wyoming, where he has been for most of the last few weeks. — why we make art 00:00:00
• 2026-01-13 · John hopes people eventually see the novel he is working on, but even if they don't, he has gotten a lot out of it. — why we make art 00:02:26
• 2026-01-13 · John thinks he has made three videos about Cheyenne, Wyoming in the last ten years, about how often he has been able to get there; it took a few years to get back. (hedged) — why we make art 00:03:53
• 2026-01-20 · Searching his tag on Tumblr, John came across a quote attributed to him that he had no memory of writing; unlike usual misquotes, it carried an attribution. — Am I ... Good? 00:00:00
• 2026-01-20 · The quote came from Zombicorns, a novella John wrote in 2010 for the Project for Awesome about a zombie apocalypse caused by corn monoculture. — Am I ... Good? 00:00:00
• 2026-01-20 · John had almost entirely forgotten Zombicorns, but that night, perhaps because of a couple glasses of whiskey, he decided to reread it. (hedged) — Am I ... Good? 00:00:00
• 2026-01-20 · John has not reread his first novel, Looking for Alaska, in about 22 years; asked about it, he says he doesn't know, it was half his life ago. — Am I ... Good? 00:00:29
• 2026-01-20 · John says this is partly how his mind works and partly the result of things that happened around 2014, which he and Hank discuss in this week's (week of 19 January 2026) Dear Hank and John. — Am I ... Good? 00:00:58
• 2026-01-20 · John reads a passage from Zombicorns' first chapter, in which the narrator 'completes' a zombified kid who attacked his puppy. — Am I ... Good? 00:01:27
• 2026-01-20 · John is writing fiction again, his first novel in almost ten years, and wonders whether anything he has to say will resonate with or be useful to anyone. · story: John writes his first novel in almost ten years (2025) — Am I ... Good? 00:03:09
• 2026-01-20 · Though aware he is a rare success (35 million books sold, many languages), John has always been dismissive of his qualities as a writer, to pre-empt criticism. — Am I ... Good? 00:04:08
• 2026-02-03 · John says he can't even convince his own MAGA family members that people who were murdered were in fact murdered. — Does the truth still matter? 00:00:58
• 2026-02-10 · John says Daniel always looked cool to him and was one of their high school's best soccer players on a state-finalist team in Alabama, while John didn't make the team. — I Was a Teenage Dirtbag 00:01:00
• 2026-02-10 · John recalls reading the Peru-born Daniel's stories set in Peru when Daniel was 15 or 16 and thinking they belonged in The New Yorker, where they now appear. — I Was a Teenage Dirtbag 00:01:27
• 2026-02-10 · John says Daniel became a very successful writer: he wrote Lost City Radio, one of John's favourite novels, co-founded the Spanish-language podcast Radio Ambulante and won a MacArthur Genius Grant. — I Was a Teenage Dirtbag 00:01:38
• 2026-02-10 · John says his friend Sean, a groomsman at his wedding and his friend since John was 14, is now a successful podcast producer with the best taste in music of anyone he knows. — I Was a Teenage Dirtbag 00:01:56
• 2026-02-10 · John says he and Sean have laughed incredibly hard together and had some of the most important deep conversations of his life. — I Was a Teenage Dirtbag 00:02:14
• 2026-02-10 · John says a friend from high school died last year (2025), and since then he has been thinking about how lucky he was to go to that school with those people, and how difficult that time was. — I Was a Teenage Dirtbag 00:02:22
• 2026-02-10 · John tells Hank the channel, the Project for Awesome and everything grown from them exist because he wanted to get closer to Hank through a shared project, which has worked for almost 20 years. — I Was a Teenage Dirtbag 00:03:47
• 2026-02-10 · John says he started The Away End with Daniel and Sean because he misses them and sharing stories with them; it also gives him a professional reason to watch soccer. — I Was a Teenage Dirtbag 00:04:02
• 2026-02-10 · John tells Hank they have been friends, or at least siblings, for over 40 years, which is probably why Hank is his favourite person to root for. (hedged) — I Was a Teenage Dirtbag 00:04:36
• 2026-02-13 · John grew a thick mustache for the Project for Awesome, planning it for about 16 weeks while Sarah asked why he didn't shave. — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 00:20:40
• 2026-02-13 · John shows he has been signing his name on a few thousand sheets of paper again, despite having said never again, but insists he is announcing nothing. — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 00:36:04
• 2026-02-13 · John tells Hank of a dream in which, whale watching from a Zodiac with Hank and his mother-in-law Cece, a whale landed by the boat and an orca ate Cece. — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 00:48:42
• 2026-02-13 · John offers 20 prints of the Good News Bridge, which his mother painted after learning Hank's cancer was treatable rather than the worst case; John and his parents were on a walk there when they heard. · story: Hank's Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis and chemotherapy (2023) — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 01:00:55
• 2026-02-13 · John says he found early 2026 very stressful and difficult; he needs the Project for Awesome every year, but especially this year (2026). — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 01:10:53
• 2026-02-13 · John recalls first trying a swear word, the one starting with S, when a kite fell during a beach outing; his parents were unperturbed, which defanged swearing for him. — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 01:12:13
• 2026-02-13 · John says his work in progress is taking a long time to write: in early 2020 he read it aloud in semi-secret livestreams, when he was sad, depressed and alone like everyone else. · story: John writes his first novel in almost ten years (2025) — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 01:15:37
• 2026-02-13 · 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. — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 01:22:24
• 2026-02-13 · 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. — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 02:00:39
• 2026-02-13 · John misses holding babies; Sarah forbids him to ask strangers, and his own children are now his size, Alice taller than Sarah. — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 02:07:39
• 2026-02-13 · After the P4A passes $1 million, John takes the live camera to his home gym, where his son Henry punches him in the stomach. — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 02:09:17
• 2026-02-13 · John is on the fence about going to the 2026 World Cup: it is extremely expensive and his kids don't love soccer. — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 02:26:44
• 2026-02-13 · John believes he released Zombicorns under a Creative Commons license, so it belongs to the public, but having it emailed is possible only during a P4A. (hedged) — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 02:36:09
• 2026-02-13 · John says he wrote in his will that he was kidding about wanting to be buried on the hill at Crown Hill, and wants the normal, cheap part of the cemetery. — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 02:41:04
• 2026-02-13 · John says a Crown Hill mausoleum of a family named Bane has a stained-glass leprechaun doing the Lucky Charms leprechaun's dance, which made him laugh hard. — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 02:43:11
• 2026-02-13 · John says hosting the Project for Awesome is always exhausting, thrilling, nerve-wracking and wonderful; every year it goes astonishingly well thanks to the people who work on it in the background and all year. — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 02:46:46
• 2026-02-13 · John says the novel he has not finished is about Hollywood, about two kids who are in a movie; he is trying to finish it and would like it published someday, though that is never certain. (hedged) · story: John writes his first novel in almost ten years (2025) — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 02:57:23
• 2026-02-13 · John says he wrote a whole book called The Trauma Plot (as heard) and then kind of abandoned it; he is always working on something, and not everything works out for a writer with as much self-doubt as he has. — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 02:58:39
• 2026-02-13 · John tells Henry that he and Hank don't fight anymore, and that Henry and Alice get along really well, which makes him proud. — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 02:59:31
• 2026-02-13 · Asked about a second 100 Days, John says he doesn't know: at 48 he can't move as he did at 39, when he made 100 Days, but he could maybe do it with Henry. — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 03:05:49
• 2026-02-13 · 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. — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 03:07:36
• 2026-02-13 · John shows the background behind his desk, filled with things Nerdfighters have given him over the years. — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 03:08:43
• 2026-02-13 · Among the things in his background, John shows a sign of the positive self-talk he once accidentally texted to his friend Craig. — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 03:09:41
• 2026-02-13 · John's background includes a baseball signed by Harry Caray that he got for his 16th birthday, a Swindon Town 2011 FA Cup champions plate given to him, and his MTV Movie Award for The Fault in Our Stars. — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 03:10:35
• 2026-02-13 · John shows a poster for Harvey, a very important movie in his life, given to him by his mentor Bill Ott, who died a couple of years ago. — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 03:13:17
• 2026-02-13 · 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. · story: John writes his first novel in almost ten years (2025) — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 06:51:04
• 2026-02-13 · John says January was one of the most intense work months of his life, his 'Cheyenne, Wyoming' of creative productivity, although he did not actually have to finish in January. — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 06:51:50
• 2026-02-13 · John says the Project for Awesome began as a lark, an attempt to hack the YouTube algorithm for good: they were not thinking of raising money and had never made a dollar from YouTube. — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 06:55:13
• 2026-02-13 · John recalls that Sarah found out on a livestream that he had sponsored a stand at Kingsmeadow, AFC Wimbledon's old stadium. — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 07:01:28
• 2026-02-13 · John recalls seeing Kurt Vonnegut speak in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, as a kid: told by security he could not smoke in the room, Vonnegut said, 'I can smoke or I can leave.' — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 07:11:23
• 2026-02-13 · John loves the Winter Olympics: he wakes every morning at 5:30, walks the dog and watches them all morning. — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 07:23:35
• 2026-02-13 · After the P4A passes $1.5 million, John shaves off his mustache on camera and feels profound relief, saying he looks 27. — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 07:26:06
• 2026-02-13 · John says his Uncle Mike, famous in the family for using no unnecessary words, once wrote to the brothers after reading about Good Store in the Financial Times that what they were doing was really good. — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 07:33:05
• 2026-02-13 · John says his father ran the brothers' company for many years when they were wildly incompetent, teaching them how to do payroll. — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 07:34:05
• 2026-02-13 · John says his father, who worked in nonprofits for most of his career, including the Nature Conservancy, offered to help with donor development and the matching fund, which now brings in about $1.5 million a year. — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 07:34:32
• 2026-02-13 · John says that when he told his father he wanted to be a writer, his father asked his English teacher whether he was any good, then went all in, becoming a bigger fan of the idea than John himself. — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 07:35:22
• 2026-02-13 · John says that at Booklist he reviewed Islamic history, much YA fiction and all the boxing books, and one of his subcategories was 19th- and early-20th-century freak shows and circuses. — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 07:48:28
• 2026-02-13 · John says he has not published a novel in nine years, though he has published other books, and would like to publish one at some point. (hedged) · story: John writes his first novel in almost ten years (2025) — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 07:49:56
• 2026-02-14 · In 2019 Partners In Health told John that $25 million was needed even to break ground on the maternal hospital in Sierra Leone, and he almost had a panic attack. — Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! 00:03:54
• 2026-02-14 · John recalls that when he was ill in March 2007, about 270 viewers sent pictures with stuff on their heads to cheer him up, the first moment he and Hank thought of doing more with the community. · story: John's orbital cellulitis and hospital stay (2007) — Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! 00:08:24
• 2026-02-14 · John dedicated The Fault in Our Stars to Esther Earl, a Nerdfighter who lived with cancer and in whose memory This Star Won't Go Out was founded; she and her family were and are good friends. — Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! 00:38:42
• 2026-02-14 · When John got the message from Peyton (as heard) that the first baby had been delivered by emergency C-section, with the mother safe and the baby in the NICU, he burst into tears. — Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! 00:58:53
• 2026-02-14 · John recalls looking at his newborn son and thinking he was zero days old; now a brand-new baby in Kono is getting the care it deserves. — Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! 01:01:22
• 2026-02-14 · John says that maybe once in every thousand or two thousand signatures he looks down and finds he has not written his name but some other mark. (hedged) — Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! 01:08:27
• 2026-02-14 · John says his dog Potato is very afraid of Stan Muller, out of fear rather than malice: he doesn't like men, and the taller they are the less he likes them. · story: John's family gets a puppy, Potato (2023) — Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! 01:11:54
• 2026-02-14 · John says his friend Greg Silver, father-in-law of his friend Craig, died a couple of days ago; a poet, he sent John his poems and talked with him about the news. — Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! 01:12:51
• 2026-02-14 · 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. — Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! 01:13:32
• 2026-02-14 · John says Sarah's love language is acts of service and his is words of affirmation; they have been together for 22 years. — Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! 01:13:57
• 2026-02-14 · John leaves the livestream to wash the Sharpie off his face so he looks normal in the morning, when he has to go to a funeral. — Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! 01:54:31
• 2026-02-14 · John says that when he was a chaplain he was consumed by superstition, which was ironic because his Christianity was supposed to be against superstition. · story: John's time as a student chaplain at a children's hospital (c. 2000) — Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! 01:56:59
• 2026-02-14 · John had not read Zombicorns for years until it showed up in his Tumblr feed, and discovered, to his huge surprise, that he likes his work. — Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! 02:03:49
• 2026-02-15 · Alice is almost 13, and John asks what she will do differently; she will get a phone, mainly to text her friends. — Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! 02:22:47
• 2026-02-15 · When John was 13 he got a key to the house as his present, so he could come home and let himself in as a latchkey child. — Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! 02:24:20
• 2026-02-15 · John recently reread Zombicorns, the zombie apocalypse novella he wrote about 15 years ago for the Project for Awesome, the first time he had ever reread his own work, and found he liked it and was proud of himself. — Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! 02:36:45
• 2026-02-15 · John says he has spent the last few months in "Cheyenne, Wyoming", his metaphor for working very hard on writing, and it has been incredibly fulfilling, whatever comes of it. · story: John writes his first novel in almost ten years (2025) — Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! 02:36:45
• 2026-02-15 · John's day after the P4A is a recovery day with no meetings, so he can watch the Olympics, which he loves; he cries a little every time anyone wins a gold medal. — Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! 02:42:24
• 2026-02-15 · 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. · story: John and the Yeti get a puppy, Willy (2008) — Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! 02:43:13
• 2026-02-15 · John's first technical job was working for Congresswoman Corrine Brown, later ousted for corruption; his first real job was the 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. graveyard shift at Steak 'n Shake, and his second was at Outtakes, a 50s Hollywood-themed restaurant in Alabama. · story: John's Steak 'n Shake graveyard shift versus his lower-paid Booklist job after college (2008) — Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! 02:50:53
• 2026-02-15 · In the congresswoman's office John answered constituent calls and emails, writing down what people needed; sometimes they just needed to yell at someone, and at about 17 he was that someone, which still beat Steak 'n Shake. (hedged) — Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! 02:53:19
• 2026-02-15 · John was 29 when they started and is now 48; he does not know if he will still make videos every Tuesday when it is half his life, but suspects he will still be doing the Project for Awesome. (hedged) — Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! 02:56:32
• 2026-02-15 · John says getting his signed books to international readers is hard because of the machinations of international publishing; he has tried since 2011, for 15 years, and it has not gotten easier. — Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! 03:11:22
• 2026-02-15 · John does not need a yacht: he dislikes boats because a vestibular disorder from his labyrinthitis in 2017 makes him sick; he is glad they are hiring community health workers in Lesotho. · story: John's labyrinthitis after the Turtles All the Way Down tour (2017) — Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! 03:12:33
• 2026-02-15 · 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. — Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! 03:16:45
• 2026-02-15 · John gets the Nerdfighter art perk every year because it connects him with a random Nerdfighter who made something just for him; of 1,475, only 246 remain. — Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! 03:50:36
• 2026-02-15 · The cage behind John is Potato's night crate; John has never seen a dog love a crate so much, and Potato would happily sleep 22 hours a day. · story: John's family gets a puppy, Potato (2023) — Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! 03:54:34
• 2026-02-15 · John's neighborhood had an HOA, and when it was due for renewal around 2014 the neighbors collectively decided to let it expire. — Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! 04:00:49
• 2026-02-15 · Chat's "we're here because we're here because we're here" always makes John emotional, as it makes him think of his great friend Amy Krouse Rosenthal. · story: Amy Krouse Rosenthal turns 'We're here because we're here' into hope for a depressed John at her reading (2005) — Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! 04:27:41
• 2026-02-15 · John says he still has Instagram on his phone though he does not want to; he knows it is bad for him, like cigarettes, which he smoked for a long time and took a long time to quit. · story: John's teenage mistreatment of his body and later quitting smoking and running (c. 1993-2005) — Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! 04:34:38
• 2026-02-24 · John says the brothers could start YouTube videos in 2007, an expensive hobby with no prospect of paying off, because they had professional flexibility. — Risk Is a Privilege 00:00:29
• 2026-02-24 · John says in his early 20s he wrote a novel at night and on weekends that was eventually published and won awards. — Risk Is a Privilege 00:00:58
• 2026-02-24 · John says that flexibility came from earlier risks: in his early 20s Hank started the blog EcoGeek, which became profitable. — Risk Is a Privilege 00:00:58
• 2026-02-24 · On luck, John says a different Printz committee in 2005 might have chosen another book over Looking for Alaska, and his career would look very different. (hedged) · story: John: how Looking for Alaska was written, revised and won the Printz Award (2006) — Risk Is a Privilege 00:01:27
• 2026-02-24 · John says if YouTube had not featured a song Hank wrote in 2007, the channel might not have survived to 2008. (hedged) — Risk Is a Privilege 00:01:27
• 2026-02-24 · John says he could only take risks because he had a safety net, which became more secure as he got older. — Risk Is a Privilege 00:01:56
• 2026-02-24 · John says success is not just hard work: he worked exactly as hard on unread novels in metaphorical drawers as on ones that sold millions. — Risk Is a Privilege 00:01:56
• 2026-02-24 · John says his safety net lets him risk writing a novel that might not work out; since The Fault in Our Stars he can do pretty much whatever he wants with his time. — Risk Is a Privilege 00:02:26
• 2026-02-24 · John recalls an unfathomably rich person emailing him to decline investing in the project because it had an unfavorable risk profile. — Risk Is a Privilege 00:03:24
• 2026-03-03 · John filmed this video in advance because next week (week of 9 March 2026) he will be in Washington, D.C., lobbying on Capitol Hill for global health and tuberculosis funding with hundreds of TB fighters. · story: John and hundreds of TB fighters lobby over 250 congressional offices on Capitol Hill (2026) — The Best Fan Mail I Ever Received 00:00:00
• 2026-03-03 · John's favorite fan mail: a high school freshman wrote that Looking for Alaska left them unsettled, with a feeling they had never felt before. — The Best Fan Mail I Ever Received 00:00:33
• 2026-03-03 · In 2007 YouTube told the brothers it would share ad revenue with creators; John wrote down the math on an envelope as they explained it. · story: YouTube makes the Vlogbrothers YouTube partners (2007) — The Best Fan Mail I Ever Received 00:01:34
• 2026-03-03 · John reads his 11th-grade report cards (a tailspin, underachievement, eight absences in a no-absence trimester); his junior year was not great, and he later wrote a book about it. · story: John's poor grades and skipped classes in high school, from his 1994 report cards — The Best Fan Mail I Ever Received 00:02:03
• 2026-03-03 · John's college story Things Remembered, Things Forgotten, about his grandmother growing up in eastern Tennessee, aimed for Vonnegut's style; his professor found the title so bad he proposed banning John's titles. — The Best Fan Mail I Ever Received 00:02:49
• 2026-03-03 · John shows the physical tapes on which early Vlogbrothers videos were recorded: all of 2007 and 2008, plus material he deleted, before transfer to a computer. — The Best Fan Mail I Ever Received 00:04:38
• 2026-03-03 · In third grade John wrote a story about death, It Just Isn't Fair, and won the Audubon Park Young Author Award for 1986. · story: Hank shows Dad's home video of eight-year-old John at the Orange County Young Authors Award (2007) — The Best Fan Mail I Ever Received 00:05:03
• 2026-03-03 · John has every email he wrote in college, mostly to his parents but also to his college girlfriend after their breakup, desperate to reunite; he was clingier then than now. — The Best Fan Mail I Ever Received 00:05:33
• 2026-03-10 · Last week (early March 2026) John was on Capitol Hill with hundreds of TB fighters from the community, meeting over 250 Senate and congressional offices about global health and tuberculosis funding and research. · story: John and hundreds of TB fighters lobby over 250 congressional offices on Capitol Hill (2026) — Is Hank Green Running for Congress? 00:00:00
• 2026-03-10 · John's congressman signed on to the dear colleague letters after John reached out. — Is Hank Green Running for Congress? 00:06:01
• 2026-03-17 · John says the reason Hank is in so much pain turns out to be that he has shingles again. · story: Hank gets shingles (2022) — Tuberculosis and Hank's Shingles 00:00:58
• 2026-03-24 · John says The Fault in Our Stars is tuberculosis: he knew little about TB's contemporary problem when writing it, but was very interested in how 19th-century TB relates to cancer today. — How Panda Express Is Tuberculosis 00:00:00
• 2026-03-24 · John thanks viewers for giving Everything Is Tuberculosis an incredible first year and is grateful for how the book has been received. — How Panda Express Is Tuberculosis 00:05:02
• 2026-03-31 · It is John's first novel in nine years: almost nine years have passed since Turtles All the Way Down came out. — I've Been Keeping a Secret… 00:00:00
• 2026-03-31 · John last published books in consecutive years in 2005 and 2006; now, 20 years later, Everything Is Tuberculosis came out last year (2025) and Hollywood, Ending comes out this year (2026). — I've Been Keeping a Secret… 00:00:29
• 2026-03-31 · John did not write it mainly in the last year: he has been working on Hollywood, Ending (with a comma in the title) since finishing Turtles All the Way Down. — I've Been Keeping a Secret… 00:00:29
• 2026-03-31 · When the pandemic first emerged John read a story on a series of semi-secret livestreams; that story became this novel. — I've Been Keeping a Secret… 00:00:29
• 2026-03-31 · Many times over the years John thought he could never publish the book, partly for personal reasons; now it is ready and he is very excited to share it. — I've Been Keeping a Secret… 00:00:58
• 2026-03-31 · John finds it hard not to take personally: one of the people behind the ban recently told him he is a bad person, and he is pretty sure he is not. · story: Looking for Alaska named the most challenged book in the US for 2015 (2016) — I've Been Keeping a Secret… 00:02:26
• 2026-03-31 · For a long time John thought he would never publish another novel: he didn't know what his fiction was for or what he wanted it to do. · story: John writes his first novel in almost ten years (2025) — I've Been Keeping a Secret… 00:02:55
• 2026-03-31 · John has been trying to write this novel since 2017, with significant progress at points, but only in the last couple of years saw the path forward clearly. · story: John writes his first novel in almost ten years (2025) — I've Been Keeping a Secret… 00:02:55
• 2026-03-31 · John admits he said he would never do this signing again because he has arthritis, and his shoulder, and so on. — I've Been Keeping a Secret… 00:03:24
• 2026-03-31 · After finishing these signatures John will be at 782,000, most of the way to a million. — I've Been Keeping a Secret… 00:03:53
• 2026-04-07 · Months ago John saw Dr. Trisha Pasricha give a talk; she offered her book, and though he meant to read five pages, he read it all and then again. — I've Been Pooping All Wrong 00:00:29
• 2026-04-07 · John now gets more fiber, which has dramatically improved his pooping. — I've Been Pooping All Wrong 00:00:58
• 2026-04-07 · John says the book's third gift is destigmatizing pooping, which for him has always been a deep well of shame. — I've Been Pooping All Wrong 00:01:56
• 2026-04-07 · After reading the book, John asked Dr. Pasricha onto his YouTube channel to talk about poop, and she agreed. — I've Been Pooping All Wrong 00:02:26
• 2026-04-14 · John tells of Sia Jamisa, 33, a pregnant mother of three two hours from Koidu, who went to her local clinic to give birth but developed complications needing an emergency C-section. — Babies. Babies. Babies. 00:00:58
• 2026-04-14 · John reveals a recent family emergency at home involved an ambulance ride; it was terrifying, and he is grateful to the EMS professionals for their calm and skill. — Babies. Babies. Babies. 00:01:56
• 2026-04-14 · Scared and anxious, Sia was taken by ambulance to an available operating room and delivered a healthy baby boy by emergency C-section; mother and baby are doing great. — Babies. Babies. Babies. 00:02:55
• 2026-04-28 · John says he can show almost nothing of Koidu Government Hospital: its wards and clinics are packed with patients, and he can't film people in care without informed consent. — What I Can't Show You 00:00:00
• 2026-04-28 · The description says John visits Koidu Government Hospital and sees the Maternal Center of Excellence for the first time, thanks everyone who made it possible, and calls it the proudest day of his 19 years as a vlogbrother. · story: John's 2026 visit to Koidu Government Hospital and the Maternal Center of Excellence (2026) — What I Can't Show You 00:00:00
• 2026-04-28 · 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. · story: John and Sarah's 2019 trip to Sierra Leone and its hospitals (2019) — What I Can't Show You 00:00:29
• 2026-04-28 · John confesses that visiting the MCOE he wept with gratitude and astonishment. — What I Can't Show You 00:02:55
• 2026-04-28 · In the NICU John saw babies who months ago would have had a very low chance of survival and will now lead long, productive lives. — What I Can't Show You 00:02:55
• 2026-04-28 · In the C-section recovery wards John met women whose lives would have been in grave danger from giving birth, now getting the care everyone deserves. — What I Can't Show You 00:03:24
• 2026-04-28 · In the MCOE's prenatal ward John met Rebecca, who, asked how many children she had, said four children, one living. — What I Can't Show You 00:04:14
• 2026-04-28 · Now cared for in a dignified space by well-trained staff who found her pregnancy extremely high risk, Rebecca was staying in the antenatal ward before a C-section later that week. — What I Can't Show You 00:04:40
• 2026-04-28 · Rebecca told John she was scared of being cut open, of another stillbirth, and of not being able to hold a living child. — What I Can't Show You 00:04:40
• 2026-04-28 · Rebecca's nurse told her not to worry: that day the doctors had performed nine C-sections with no complications, nine healthy mothers and nine healthy babies. — What I Can't Show You 00:05:09
• 2026-04-28 · John says he has never been so proud; this is only the beginning, but what a beginning. — What I Can't Show You 00:06:05
• 2026-05-05 · John marks Hank's 46th birthday: he was born 46 years ago today and survived childhood scarlet fever and other illnesses that a century earlier might have killed him. · story: Hank's childhood scarlet fever — Noted Brother Hank Green 00:00:03
• 2026-05-05 · John left for boarding school when Hank was 11 and they have never lived in the same city since; he knew Hank as a little brother tagging along, not as a person. — Noted Brother Hank Green 00:01:03
• 2026-05-05 · Last week (week of 27 April 2026) John met two 20-year-old best friends who live together; one is being treated for tuberculosis alongside her one-year-old child. · story: John's 2026 visit to Koidu Government Hospital and the Maternal Center of Excellence (2026) — Noted Brother Hank Green 00:02:44
• 2026-05-05 · Asked what he wanted for his birthday, Hank told John he wanted a video raising money for the Maternal Center of Excellence. — Noted Brother Hank Green 00:03:53
• 2026-05-05 · A young nerdfighter who recognized John said that, friendless after moving to the big city, she listened to Dear Hank and John and felt they were friends; one of the kindest things anyone has told him. — Noted Brother Hank Green 00:04:22
• 2026-05-12 · John says he graduated from Kenyon College in 1999 and for over 20 years has told people his commencement speaker was former baseball commissioner Bart Giamatti. — Lies, Damn Lies, and Bart Giamatti 00:00:00
• 2026-05-12 · Talking on the livestream about giving Rice University's commencement address, John named Giamatti as his speaker; someone marvelled that Paul Giamatti's dad spoke, so John checked Wikipedia. — Lies, Damn Lies, and Bart Giamatti 00:00:20
• 2026-05-12 · John says he remembers a fair amount of the address, such as the speaker opening with a joke that there are only two kinds of commencement speeches, short and bad. — Lies, Damn Lies, and Bart Giamatti 00:00:45
• 2026-05-12 · John later worked out that his actual commencement speaker was Fay Vincent, the eighth commissioner of Major League Baseball, who made the short-and-bad joke. — Lies, Damn Lies, and Bart Giamatti 00:01:47
• 2026-05-12 · John says the Giamatti episode made him a little less nervous giving the commencement address at Rice University this weekend. — Lies, Damn Lies, and Bart Giamatti 00:02:44
• 2026-05-26 · In a channel comment John says he makes over 99% of his money from book sales. — Hank Green Is a Fool 00:00:00
• 2026-05-26 · John's comment says Hank's money comes from books plus Hank's channel, Focus Friend, VidCon, 2-D glasses (which made money) and endless Hank projects. — Hank Green Is a Fool 00:00:00
• 2026-05-26 · John's comment says they made money from vlogbrothers until about 2012 and never took money out of Complexly, but got a small salary and health insurance through it. (hedged) — Hank Green Is a Fool 00:00:00
• 2026-05-26 · John says that in 2011 he and Hank founded Complexly, which has made lots of educational content, from Bizarre Beasts to The Art Assignment to SciShow to Crash Course. — Hank Green Is a Fool 00:00:58
• 2026-05-26 · John says that, having other jobs, he and Hank never took profit distributions from Complexly; its money, never much, was reinvested into more educational video. — Hank Green Is a Fool 00:01:08
• 2026-05-26 · John says that over the last five years they had many conversations with companies about the future of Complexly and Crash Course, to find the right future for it. — Hank Green Is a Fool 00:01:34
• 2026-05-26 · John says Hank realized that not owning Complexly didn't require profiting from it, and proposed giving it away as a non-profit; suddenly everything made sense. — Hank Green Is a Fool 00:03:05
• 2026-05-26 · John's reasons: running such a big thing is stressful, and Complexly is healthy with an amazing team that doesn't need him, so he can focus on his fulfilling writing. — Hank Green Is a Fool 00:05:05
• 2026-06-09 · John will be on vacation in Norway during part of the tournament. — Your 1-Sentence Guide to EVERY TEAM in the 2026 World Cup 00:05:21
• 2026-06-09 · John is very excited for the World Cup, the once-every-four-years jolt of joy he needs right now. — Your 1-Sentence Guide to EVERY TEAM in the 2026 World Cup 00:08:16
• 2026-06-16 · John spent the last eight years, off and on, finding his way through the novel; he finally has and is very excited. — My First Novel in Nine Years Has a Cover 00:00:58
• 2026-06-16 · Writing Hollywood, Ending taught John about acting, Warhol, how to love and why, and reminded him what happens when children's trust and love are misused by their caretakers. — My First Novel in Nine Years Has a Cover 00:00:58
• 2026-06-16 · John's This American Life debut at 48 feels great: at 25, recording WBEZ commentaries, he watched the show's staff walk by and wished he were them; now he's cool too. — My First Novel in Nine Years Has a Cover 00:03:50
• 2026-06-23 · John and Hank, greeting from a French barge, are on vacation for their parents' 50th wedding anniversary. · story: The brothers' trip to France to celebrate their parents' 50th anniversary (2026) — A Very French Reunion 00:00:00
• 2026-06-23 · World Cup games air at 3 a.m. in France, so John is staying up late and getting up early. — A Very French Reunion 00:00:00
• 2026-06-23 · At the US game in Seattle John heard the first really good USA chant he has ever heard, sung to the tune of Achy Breaky Heart. — A Very French Reunion 00:00:51
• 2026-06-23 · John says he is completely engaged in their parents' 50th anniversary, just short on sleep and not making a big deal of it. · story: The brothers' trip to France to celebrate their parents' 50th anniversary (2026) — A Very French Reunion 00:03:32
• 2026-06-23 · Their dad took John, then 16, to the 1994 World Cup, which turned him into a soccer fan; Hank, not interested, didn't go. — A Very French Reunion 00:06:05
• 2026-06-23 · John got to take his son Henry, 16, to a US men's national team game in 2026, which was very special to him. — A Very French Reunion 00:06:34
• 2026-07-07 · John says one reason he hasn't written a novel in nine years is that he became very uncomfortable with the non-fictional author's presence in a fictional story. — On the Death of the Author 00:00:00
• 2026-07-07 · John recalls writing in the preface of The Fault in Our Stars that neither novels nor readers benefit from divining whether facts hide in a story; readers kept divining, mostly his own fault. — On the Death of the Author 00:00:00
• 2026-07-07 · In 1992, after a hard high-school year, a friend recommended The Mysteries of Pittsburgh to John; it lit him up, his first book with a queer character, its people glimpses of his deepest self. — On the Death of the Author 00:00:29
• 2026-07-07 · John began making YouTube videos only after becoming an author, partly to demystify authors as regular people rather than writers in ivory towers. — On the Death of the Author 00:01:27
• 2026-07-07 · John says The Death of the Author was probably the most important essay he read in college. (hedged) — On the Death of the Author 00:03:26
• 2026-07-07 · In The Fault in Our Stars John invented Peter Van Houten, an author who meets a dying young reader, knowing readers knew the book was partly inspired by his meeting Esther Earl. — On the Death of the Author 00:04:25
• 2026-07-07 · In Turtles All the Way Down John tried to accept the problem and talked about his own OCD alongside the character's, which made him feel squeamish. — On the Death of the Author 00:04:25
• 2026-07-07 · John then tried writing nonfiction as himself, but missed writing fiction; he remains extremely flummoxed by the author problem. — On the Death of the Author 00:04:52
• 2026-07-07 · While writing Hollywood, Ending, John thought a lot about art, why we make it and what it means to commodify it. — On the Death of the Author 00:06:20
• 2026-07-14 · 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. — On the Road Again 00:00:00
• 2026-07-14 · John says that although he had been an author for a while, before 2008 he had never had more than five or six people at any of his signings. — On the Road Again 00:00:00
• 2026-07-14 · John hasn't visited Canada in almost 15 years, at least professionally, and is very excited to. — On the Road Again 00:02:09
• 2026-07-14 · John is taking October 3 off the tour because it is Sarah's birthday. — On the Road Again 00:02:38
• 2026-07-14 · Hank can no longer spend a month in a minivan with John, a real bummer, but he is a parent now with a lot going on. — On the Road Again 00:03:07
• 2026-07-14 · John has to get back to signing 85,000 copies of Hollywood, Ending. — On the Road Again 00:04:06
• 2026-07-21 · John has been signing his name 85,000 times over the past couple of months, with his arthritic shoulder, for his new book Hollywood, Ending. — One Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy 00:01:27
• 2026-07-21 · John says he has given so much of his life to loudness, sensation and extremity that he forgets to feed the part of him that needs quiet routine and finds something like happiness there. — One Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy 00:02:26
• 2026-07-21 · John says the signing will take about 160 hours, so there is no need to rush or think about finishing; there is only the work before him. — One Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy 00:02:55
• 2026-07-28 · In a movie theater a young person told John they didn't know whether to say hi; John makes the video about whether you should. — 'Are You John Green?' 00:00:00
• 2026-07-28 · The first time John was recognized for his work came before YouTube: a young woman on a New York City train asked if he was John Green, said she'd read Looking for Alaska, and got his autograph. — 'Are You John Green?' 00:01:27
• 2026-07-28 · John spent the whole day after that encounter buzzing, and is sure it meant more to him than to the woman who recognized him. — 'Are You John Green?' 00:01:59
• 2026-08-03 · John finds this year (2026) especially strange: Esther has been gone almost 16 years, as long as she lived, and much of his life has passed without her. · story: Death of Nerdfighter Esther Earl, John's friend (2010) — Esther Day 2026: Some Thoughts on Loss 00:00:00
• 2026-08-03 · At his wedding, at his kids' births, or watching a sunset, John has thought how unfair it is that a friend who died in high school never gets such days. — Esther Day 2026: Some Thoughts on Loss 00:00:29
• 2026-08-03 · John calls Amy Krouse Rosenthal another friend who died too soon; he misses her and finds it unjust that she can no longer see her kids or the sunset. — Esther Day 2026: Some Thoughts on Loss 00:00:58
• 2026-08-03 · John cannot reconcile himself to his friend Henry having almost died of TB and living with its scars. · story: John and Henry Reider, a Sierra Leonean teenager with multidrug-resistant TB he met at Lakka hospital (2019) — Esther Day 2026: Some Thoughts on Loss 00:02:13
• 2026-08-03 · Nor can John reconcile himself to the deaths of Esther, Amy, or the kids he met in the hospital over half his life ago. · story: John's time as a student chaplain at a children's hospital (c. 2000) — Esther Day 2026: Some Thoughts on Loss 00:02:13
• 2026-08-18 · John is very anxious because no one has read the book yet and he does not know whether it is good or will be well received; the endless worries keep him up at night. — My Nemeses 00:00:00
• 2026-08-18 · Instead of denying his anxiety, John manages it with the tools he has, medicine being one: he has been trying hard to take it every day. — My Nemeses 00:00:58
• 2026-08-18 · John's favorite tool from therapy is to give anxiety a set time: he lights a candle, sets a 15-minute timer, checks things like pre-sales, then blows out the candle and moves on; it does not always work but helps. — My Nemeses 00:01:27
• 2026-08-18 · Last week (week of 10 August 2026) John made an Instagram video praising the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles that also criticized Indiana's lieutenant governor. — My Nemeses 00:02:28
• 2026-08-18 · John's hometown paper, the Indy Star, ran an article framed as John Green criticizing his nemesis, the lieutenant governor. — My Nemeses 00:02:57
• 2026-08-25 · John is part of the first generation of Americans who never had to fear measles or polio, thanks to vaccines, or death from TB or scarlet fever, thanks to antibiotics. — The Great Thing about Infectious Disease 00:00:58
• 2026-08-25 · John's mother's life was different: she was two when the first polio vaccine came, eight when TB became curable with combined antibiotics, eleven at the first measles vaccine. — The Great Thing about Infectious Disease 00:00:58
• 2026-08-25 · John would not exist: he had childhood staph infections that would have killed him without antibiotics. — The Great Thing about Infectious Disease 00:02:26
• 2026-08-25 · Hank probably would not exist either: he had scarlet fever as a kid, easily cured, but a common cause of childhood death in the 19th century. (hedged) · story: Hank's childhood scarlet fever — The Great Thing about Infectious Disease 00:02:26
• 2026-08-25 · Researching Everything Is Tuberculosis, John read Gail Perkins's memoir The Baby's Cross: infected by raw milk at three, she spent over 13 years in a sanatorium and came home unaccustomed to touch. · story: John reads widely about tuberculosis and 19th-century illness (2022) — The Great Thing about Infectious Disease 00:03:24
• 2026-09-01 · About a year ago, walking through a department store, John caught a whiff that for a moment transported him back to his boarding-school dorm room, on the couch with his roommate. — You Can't Go Home Again, but I Tried 00:00:00
• 2026-09-01 · John tried to return to the smell by walking through the same part of the department store again and again, but it did not work. — You Can't Go Home Again, but I Tried 00:00:29
• 2026-09-01 · Falling down a rabbit hole, John bought air fresheners to find one embodying the smell, and tried to describe it perfectly in writing, but he is not Rachel Syme. — You Can't Go Home Again, but I Tried 00:01:55
• 2026-09-01 · Remembering he knows people who turn smells into language, John called LJ, CEO of Good Store, to connect him with the makers of their soap. — You Can't Go Home Again, but I Tried 00:02:20
• 2026-09-01 · John asked the soap makers to come close to his dorm smell; after he described it they sent several soaps, and one, Memory, smelled very nearly right. — You Can't Go Home Again, but I Tried 00:03:41
• 2026-09-01 · John has not been in that dorm room for 30 years and never will be again, because it was torn down long ago. — You Can't Go Home Again, but I Tried 00:04:15
• 2026-09-15 · John says the book's reviews so far have been exceptionally generous, which has slightly dulled his constant gnawing anxiety. — YouTube Says This Video Has 683,183 Views, It Actually Has 312,584 00:00:00
• 2026-09-15 · John says that over the last eight years he really tried to bring his deepest self to Hollywood, Ending, and is grateful to readers about to do the same. — YouTube Says This Video Has 683,183 Views, It Actually Has 312,584 00:04:52
• 2026-09-22 · Yesterday John did a long press junket with his friend and publicist Elyse Marshall Pfeiffer, to whom the book is dedicated; now he is in a New York City hotel room. — I Want You to Know Nothing About This 00:00:03
• 2026-09-22 · Before writing novels John reviewed hundreds of books over six years at the American Library Association, trying to introduce and recommend them without spoiling the reading. — I Want You to Know Nothing About This 00:01:02
• 2026-09-22 · John recalls that when The Fault in Our Stars came out 14 years ago, a few hundred people got it a month early, and he was devastated, expecting the plot to leak online. · story: A bookseller ships over a thousand copies of The Fault in Our Stars three weeks early (December 2011) — I Want You to Know Nothing About This 00:03:14
• 2026-09-22 · John thanks everyone who will read the book and who pre-ordered it, Toronto for its generous welcome, and everyone who will see him on tour over the next month. — I Want You to Know Nothing About This 00:04:12
• 2026-09-22 · John thanks Hank for reading the book with kindness and generosity and for input that transformed it. — I Want You to Know Nothing About This 00:04:12
• 2026-09-28 · John says that while filming he did not realize this year’s (2026) Pizza John is Western-themed because he has been playing Red Dead Redemption 2 on John’s Channel, though of course it is. — Death. Taxes. Pizzamas. 00:01:04
• 2026-09-28 · John says he must pack for 13 days in a carry-on bag but might bring the denim jacket on the road. (hedged) — Death. Taxes. Pizzamas. 00:03:20
• 2026-09-28 · John says this Pizzamas feels especially magic; doing it through 25 airports in the next 23 days will be exhausting but worth it. — Death. Taxes. Pizzamas. 00:03:48
• 2026-09-30 · John is staying in a Pittsburgh hotel that is the very hotel he imagined for the first page of Hollywood, Ending, where Juniper says Matthew Malone found Pittsburgh's good hotel. — The Point of Life 00:00:00
• 2026-09-30 · A joy of John's tour was sharing a New York stage with his lifelong friend Daniel Alarcón, with whom he has talked about books since he was 14, 35 years on. — The Point of Life 00:01:05
• 2026-09-30 · The further John has fallen down the tuberculosis rabbit hole over seven years, the more fulfilling it is: TB fighting gives him meaning and connections to TB fighters worldwide, a sense of community. — The Point of Life 00:01:40
• 2026-10-06 · John says his friend Michael Taliadoros, almost universally known as Mikey T, died yesterday, and calls him a truly extraordinary individual. — Make Your Art. 00:00:00
• 2026-10-06 · John says Mikey T had an encyclopedic memory for his special interests: say a date like October 6th and he would recall a 1990 Wimbledon win over Sheffield United and its scorer. — Make Your Art. 00:00:00
• 2026-10-06 · John and Mikey T supported the same third-tier English team, AFC Wimbledon, and came to know each other a little by loving it together. — Make Your Art. 00:00:29
• 2026-10-06 · John says Mikey T was the club's radio and TV commentator, an astonishingly good one, with catchphrases his listeners loved. — Make Your Art. 00:00:58
• 2026-10-06 · John says Mikey T and his partner Rob Cornell made gripping radio, and plays Mikey's call of Ronan Curtis's last-second goal against the Milton Keynes franchise. · story: John watches AFC Wimbledon beat the Milton Keynes franchise with a last-minute goal at Plough Lane (2024) — Make Your Art. 00:01:27
• 2026-10-06 · John says he will miss Mikey T's voice and his brilliant and beautiful memory. — Make Your Art. 00:03:12
• 2026-10-06 · John says Mikey T saw Wimbledon play Manchester United in the Premier League and also play in the ninth tier while sitting on hay bales. — Make Your Art. 00:03:41
• 2026-10-06 · John's regret: a few weeks ago, on the field, he sang 'there's only one Mikey T' up to the commentary booth but did not walk up to talk to and thank him. — Make Your Art. 00:04:10
• 2026-10-08 · John loves travel and calls it a privilege, but he is tired of airports and limping to the finish of the Hollywood, Ending tour, missing his family, his bed and his wardrobe. — The Test of a First Rate Intelligence 00:00:29
• 2026-10-08 · John calls time with readers among the most magical experiences of his life: on this incredible tour he has seen over 20,000 people, about 17,000 nerdfighters and 3,000 other readers. — The Test of a First Rate Intelligence 00:02:27
• 2026-10-13 · In the description John calls his Hollywood, Ending tour a pure joy and the gift of a lifetime, saying he didn't get tired until about the 19th day. — My Lungs Are on the Outside of the Body 00:00:00
• 2026-10-13 · John says his Hollywood, Ending tour is the longest tour he has ever done: 20 cities and 20 hotel rooms in 21 days. — My Lungs Are on the Outside of the Body 00:00:00
• 2026-10-13 · John says he met 30,000 people on his Hollywood, Ending tour and enjoyed it so much; too tired to take it in yet, he will spend much of his life buoyed by the last month. — My Lungs Are on the Outside of the Body 00:02:51
• 2026-10-13 · John's publicist Elyse Marshall Pfeiffer, to whom Hollywood, Ending is dedicated, loves Uncrustables, so every tour stop has them; John eats the leftovers, even five, right before bed. — My Lungs Are on the Outside of the Body 00:04:07
• 2026-10-13 · John says that by the time the video comes out he will be sitting in a chair staring into the middle distance until his body comes back into his body. — My Lungs Are on the Outside of the Body 00:06:56
• 2026-10-20 · Earlier this year (2026) in the Philippines John met a teenager just diagnosed with TB who was told no treatment was available because of drug stockouts; every drug in his proposed regimen is over 60 years old. — Correcting a Mistake in Everything Is Tuberculosis · 50 x 50 Science 00:07:18
• 2026-10-27 · John and his mom grow pepper plants to make their family hot sauce; tending them is another thing he might be doing if he ever Salingered. · story: John and his mom's homemade hot sauce (2023) — Should I Salinger… 00:03:32