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Lists, 2013

107 lists in 65 videos, by upload date. Each list: who says it, how many named members, what it is about (the statement or segment it belongs to) and its start; then the members in the order said, each linked to its entity page where there is one. A skipped number (…) is an item that names no entity; “quoted” words are how a member was actually said when that differs from its name. All years

2013-01-01 · Why Does Congress Suck?

  • John, 5 named — 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. (00:02:47)
    1 The Lizzie Bennet Diaries · 2 SciShow · 3 Crash Course · 4 VidCon (00:02:50) · 5 The Fault in Our Stars (00:02:52)

2013-01-08 · Addicted to the Internet

  • John, 2 named (playful) — Resetting the brain; worry about internet addiction; Brotherhood 2.0 was supposed to replace internet time; loving the internet (whale sharks on Wikipedia); a week of reading without checking email (00:01:02)
    1 Twitter · 2 Tumblr

2013-01-11 · On the Ownership of Ideas

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says Disney likewise made existing stories (Alice in Wonderland, The Little Mermaid, Cinderella) into movies, but is now the primary force behind extending copyright length 'forever'. (00:01:57)
    1 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · 2 The Little Mermaid · 3 Cinderella (00:01:59)

2013-01-15 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall

  • John, 2 named — Ashley Clements and Daniel Gordh read the Anne Frank House chapter of The Fault in Our Stars, ending with Hazel and Augustus's kiss, the applause and the walk back to the hotel. (00:39:10)
    1 Ashley Clements · 2 Daniel Gordh

  • John, 2 named (playful) — 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. (00:48:02)
    1 Hogwarts · 2 Jedi

  • John, 3 named — 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. (00:52:46)
    1 Looking for Alaska (novel) · 2 An Abundance of Katherines · 3 Paper Towns (00:53:07)

  • John, 5 named (2 unnamed items) — John says books seem one person's work, but TFIOS was partly written by Esther, his wife, Julie Strauss-Gabel, Jodi Reamer, John Darnielle, Hank and T. S. Eliot. (00:59:48)
    … · 2 Sarah Urist Green “my wife” · 3 Julie Strauss-Gabel · 4 Jodi Reamer · 5 John Darnielle · … · 7 T. S. Eliot (01:00:11)

  • John, 3 named (1 unnamed item) — John introduces Hank as co-founder of VidCon, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries and DFTBA Records and founding editor of EcoGeek.org. (01:01:29)
    1 VidCon · … · 3 DFTBA Records · 4 EcoGeek

  • Hank, 8 named (playful) — Hank loves that so many kinds of music come from the same progression, 'the infinite nature of creation', and sings examples from Earth Angel and Duke of Earl to Baby and Friday. (02:07:52)
    1 Earth Angel · 2 Duke of Earl (02:08:34) · 3 Octopus's Garden (02:08:55) · 4 Every Breath You Take · 5 Slipknot (02:10:06) · 6 Green Day · 7 Baby (02:10:41) · 8 Friday (02:11:24)

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank says everything we know about is made of leptons, bosons and quarks, and sings his quark song. (02:11:54)
    1 lepton · 2 boson

  • John, 3 named (1 unnamed item) — John introduces a Paper Towns reader's theater, a book about imagining other people and our myths complexly: John as Q, Hannah Hart as Angela, Grace Helbig as Ben, Neil Gaiman as Radar. (02:30:51)
    1 Quentin Jacobsen · … · 3 Ben Starling · 4 Radar (02:31:32)

  • John, 8 named (1 unnamed item) — For the finale John brings out the performers, his parents, Julie Strauss-Gabel, Jodi Reamer, Elyse Marshall who made the evening possible, Sean Titone, Katherine, Sarah (whom he first forgot) and Valerie2776. (02:50:08)
    1 Mike Green “my mom and dad” · 2 Sydney Green “my mom and dad” · 3 Julie Strauss-Gabel · 4 Jodi Reamer · 5 Elyse Marshall · 6 Sean Titone (02:50:37) · 7 Katherine Green “Hank's wife, Catherine” (02:51:02) · … · 9 Valerie2776

2013-01-18 · Thoughts from Carnegie Hall

  • Hank, 13 named — Hank thanks Neil Gaiman, Kimya Dawson, The Mountain Goats, Ashley and Daniel, Hannah and Grace, Elyse, their parents, their wives and all of Nerdfighteria for making the show possible. (00:01:44)
    1 Neil Gaiman · 2 Kimya Dawson “Kim Yudas” · 3 The Mountain Goats · 4 Ashley Clements · 5 Daniel Gordh · 6 Hannah Hart · 7 Grace Helbig · 8 Elyse Marshall “Elise” · 9 Mike Green “our parents” · 10 Sydney Green “our parents” · 11 Sarah Urist Green “our wives” · 12 Katherine Green “our wives” · 13 Nerdfighteria
  • John, 3 named — John sums up: his book written in the US inspired a painting by a reader in the Philippines, which inspired a poster by a reader in Norway, and international copyright law isn't ready for that. (00:02:18)
    1 United States · 2 Philippines · 3 Norway

2013-02-15 · Baby, Harlem, Obama, Dance Crazes, Big Week

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank admits he is late to the Harlem Shake dance craze, calling himself an internet dance craze hipster who wants people not to forget Geddan and Numa Numa. (00:00:53)
    1 Geddan “Gadan” · 2 Numa Numa (00:00:56)

  • Hank, 5 named — More news: The Brain Scoop on NPR, Wheezy Waiter and Shay Carl with Matt Damon, two Streamys for The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Crash Course Chemistry launched, Hank back from the UK (00:02:19)
    1 The Brain Scoop · 2 Craig Benzine “Wheezy Waiter” (00:02:22) · 3 Shay Carl · 4 The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (00:02:26) · 5 Crash Course (00:02:31)

2013-02-19 · Doing Things, On the Importance of

  • John, 3 named — DFTBA Records has taken over an abandoned nursery school in Missoula and is bigger than ever; it aims to sell cool stuff that supports people you like, from CGP Grey and Wheezy Waiter merch to a poster partly designed by a 16-year-old Norwegian girl. (00:01:53)
    1 CGP Grey · 2 Craig Benzine “Wheezy Waiter” · 3 Ashild “Asil” (00:01:56)

2013-03-01 · Top 25 Life Hacks of Reddit

  • Hank, 4 named — Computer tips include the Alien Blue app for Reddit, VLC for nearly any video format and its audio mixer, adding /zip to an Imgur album, and Ctrl+Shift+V to paste without formatting. (00:00:52)
    1 Alien Blue · 2 VLC media player (00:01:50) · 3 Imgur (00:02:03) · 4 Google (00:02:55)

2013-03-08 · ONE MILLION NERDFIGHTERS!

  • Hank, 9 named — Hank lists his day: Twitter, filming SciShow, readying P4A perks, a Hank's channel video, folding mug boxes with Katherine at the warehouse, a DFTBA Records video, editing Hank Games Live, Tumblr, a Kiva loan. (00:00:00)
    1 Twitter · 2 SciShow · 3 Project for Awesome “P4A perks” · 4 Tumblr “tumbled” · 5 hankschannel · 6 Katherine Green · 7 DFTBA Records · 8 HankGames · 9 Kiva

  • Hank, 10 named — The P4A money goes to the Office of Letters and Light, Not Forgotten, the Wildlife Waystation, the Alzheimer's Society, the Harry Potter Alliance, Save the Children, BGSU Dance Marathon, Uncultured Project, a charity heard as 'Taycho', and Love146 Dayton Task Force. (00:01:27)
    1 Office of Letters and Light · 2 Not Forgotten · 3 Wildlife Waystation · 4 Alzheimer's Society · 5 The Harry Potter Alliance · 6 Save the Children · 7 BGSU Dance Marathon · 8 Uncultured Project · 9 P4A 2012 recipient charity (heard as 'Taycho') · 10 Love146 Dayton Task Force

2013-03-12 · Understand the Sequester (Spoiler: It's Bananas.)

  • John, 2 named (1 unnamed item) — John says discretionary spending covers things from veterans' affairs, highways and NASA to science research and meat inspectors, but more than half of it goes to defense. (00:01:26)
    1 United States Department of Veterans Affairs · … · 3 NASA (00:01:27)

2013-03-20 · Ads Work...but for Whom?

  • John, 2 named — John says advertisers care who the viewer is (age, income) but not whether you watch a kitten riding a Roomba or MinutePhysics; they want you leaning back and enjoying yourself when their ad plays. (00:00:39)
    1 Roomba · 2 Henry Reich “MinutePhysics”

  • John, 3 named — John wants a way to thank creators such as Ze Frank, Wheezy Waiter and Hannah Hart for making him "lean forward", and does not think advertising alone can do that. (00:03:38)
    1 Ze Frank · 2 Craig Benzine “Wheezy Waiter” · 3 Hannah Hart

2013-03-29 · Caviar Brownies - The Second Annual Hungry Games

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says this year (2013) they use brownies instead of cookies and three contestants instead of two: himself, Michael Aranda and Emily Graslie. (00:00:29)
    1 Hank Green “Myself” · 2 Michael Aranda · 3 Emily Graslie

2013-04-02 · TFiOS Movie Casting, New Books, and Groundhog Wars: An Old School Vlogbrothers Video

  • John, 2 named — John says guest Johns will fill in during his absence, including Hannah Hart, Grace Helbig and a Nerdfighter now watching. (00:02:26)
    1 Hannah Hart · 2 Grace Helbig

2013-04-05 · North Korea: Explained

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says North Korea's missiles can't reach him, but could reach South Korea, Japan or even Guam. (00:00:28)
    1 South Korea · 2 Japan · 3 Guam (00:00:32)

2013-04-09 · Inside North Korea

  • John, 2 named (1 unnamed item) — John says Shin is a hero because he developed an ethical center after escaping, in China, South Korea and the US: in Shin's words, evolving into a human being. (00:02:45)
    … · 2 South Korea · 3 United States

2013-04-12 · Felicia Day, Hannah Hart, and The Fine Brothers

  • Hank, 2 named — Smart people in the business; dinner with the Fine Brothers and YouTubers React; brother-team rankings; back in the Chrysler (00:02:04)
    1 Benny Fine · 2 Rafi Fine

2013-04-23 · DOCTOR GREEN

  • John, 3 named (playful) — John says he has long been the least educated in the family: Hank and Katherine have masters of science, Sarah a master of arts, John only a bachelor of arts. (00:00:20)
    1 Hank Green “You” · 2 Katherine Green · 3 Sarah Urist Green “the Yeti”

2013-04-26 · Cat GIF Critique

  • Hank, 4 named (parody) — In mock-critic voice Hank praises Laser Wiggle Cat LOL's frame rate and tail, and calls Big Butt Cat Stuck in Box a crude setup by the cat's owner. (00:00:00)
    1 Laser Wiggle Cat LOL · 2 Big Butt Cat Stuck in Box · 3 Breadface Cat (00:00:29) · 4 Fwoomp That's a Beanbag

2013-04-30 · Animals Interrupt Sporting Events: A Critical Analysis

  • John, 3 named (playful) — John says most sports stories (Rudy, The Blind Side, Teen Wolf) lack a complex moral narrative, while great animal-interruption GIFs refuse that moral simplicity. (00:02:26)
    1 Rudy · 2 The Blind Side · 3 Teen Wolf

2013-05-07 · The Clif Bars Go in the Jar Because Mice: An Office Tour

  • John, 2 named — Take Your Brother to Work Day: the office entryway, Danica, the printer room, Meredith (00:00:25)
    1 Wil Wheaton · 2 Felicia Day

2013-05-10 · Some Mind-Bending Earth GIFs

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank says much of the Amazon rainforest has been cut down, and only watching it happen across Brazil and Bolivia shows the depth and scale. (00:01:23)
    1 Brazil · 2 Bolivia

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says the time-lapses tell a story of water: Las Vegas and Dubai spreading across deserts, Saudi irrigation making deserts bloom, inland seas drying up from drought or irrigation. (00:01:38)
    1 Las Vegas · 2 Dubai · 3 Saudi Arabia

2013-05-14 · Puppies, Pegasi, and TFiOS Casting: It's Question Tuesday

  • John, 2 named — Asked for one book to recommend, John says it changes weekly; for now he recommends The End Games by T. Michael Martin (zombie) and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (non-zombie). (00:02:11)
    1 The End Games · 2 How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (00:02:17)

2013-05-17 · GIFs, JIFs, Whip Pans, Trivia, and BATMAN!

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank's research: counting regular watchers Nerdfighteria is bigger than 61 countries (incl. Barbados); counting subscribers, 85 countries (incl. Djibouti, Africa's least populous). (00:00:51)
    1 Barbados · 2 Djibouti (00:00:58)

  • Hank, 2 named — Batman as superhero; Man-Bat trivia; the Dougie; Henry Reich on light and black holes; Marvel or DC; Stan Lee; the extra Hanks (00:02:41)
    1 Marvel Entertainment · 2 DC Comics

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank thanks Henry from MinutePhysics, Stefan, Emily and Michael, who were in the room helping with the whip pans. (00:03:43)
    1 Henry Reich · 2 Stefan Chin · 3 Emily Graslie · 4 Michael Aranda

2013-05-21 · Poetry Makes Nothing Happen: Thoughts on Ai Weiwei from the Indianapolis Museum of Art

  • John, 2 named — John says Ai's sculptures of over 2,000 pounds of pressed tea each recall Judd and Andre's minimalism but use Chinese material long imported by the West, asking what is appropriated, by whom. (00:01:35)
    1 Donald Judd · 2 Carl Andre

2013-05-24 · What's Up with Start Ups

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank finds big tech's bidding war for his time weird and worrying, not because people shouldn't spend time online, but because savvy companies see value in being 'the lens' on his world. (00:01:03)
    1 Google · 2 Microsoft · 3 Yahoo! · 4 Apple

  • Hank, 5 named — Hank says he and John know their only asset is the viewers; without them there would be no Sanditon, DFTBA Records, Crash Course, SciShow or even 2D Glasses. (00:02:31)
    1 Welcome to Sanditon · 2 DFTBA Records · 3 Crash Course · 4 SciShow · 5 2D Glasses

2013-05-28 · NERD FACTOR! (...And Why I Fear for Tumblr)

  • John, 3 named — John wants a broader internet and worries that Tumblr, Facebook and even YouTube can support that breadth only as long as they are willing to lose money. (00:00:59)
    1 Tumblr · 2 Facebook (00:01:05) · 3 YouTube

2013-06-04 · A New Nerdfighter Baby

  • John, 3 named — During the leave there will be a Crash Course US History video every Thursday, a mental floss video every Wednesday, and Swindon Town Swoodilypoopers FIFA games every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. (00:00:55)
    1 Crash Course · 2 Mental Floss (00:00:58) · 3 Swindon Town Swoodilypoopers (00:01:00)

  • John, 4 named — John says this is possible because everyone in the office worked hard to get far ahead, and thanks Stan, Mark, Danica and Meredith. (00:01:12)
    1 Stan Muller · 2 Mark · 3 Danica · 4 Meredith

  • John, 5 named — Every Tuesday there will still be a 'John video' on vlogbrothers, with John played by others: Hannah Hart, Grace Helbig, Craig (WheezyWaiter), Maureen Johnson and two Nerd Factor winners. (00:01:30)
    1 Hannah Hart · 2 Grace Helbig · 3 Craig Benzine · 4 Maureen Johnson (00:01:37) · 5 Nerd Factor (00:01:39)

2013-06-07 · How To Be a Baby Properly

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank: if all goes well, in Alice's lifetime humans will walk on Mars, computers become intelligent, the paralyzed walk again, absolute poverty all but end, and she may live past 100; or technological society may implode. It could go either way. (00:00:12)
    1 Mars · 2 artificial intelligence “computers will become intelligent” · 3 extreme poverty (00:00:16)

2013-06-11 · How To Be John Green

  • Craig Benzine, 3 named (parody) — Craig parodies more things John does: Question Tuesday with fake questions, a 'Who the eff is Hank?' answer, Sharpie face (a cracker smashed on his forehead), a Thoughts from Places about his office, an Oscar Wilde reading, and a 'not-airport'. (00:02:11)
    1 Question Tuesday · 2 Sharpie Face (00:02:47) · 3 Thoughts from Places (00:03:03)

2013-06-14 · What is the Strongest Force on Earth?

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank: physicists say there are only four forces in the universe: gravity (the weakest), electromagnetism, the weak nuclear force and the strong nuclear force. (00:00:32)
    1 Gravity (concept) · 2 Electromagnetism (00:00:43) · 3 Weak interaction (00:00:45) · 4 Strong interaction (00:00:46)

2013-06-18 · 50 Ways to Pretend to Be Smarter

  • Grace Helbig, 18 named (satire) — Grace's media markers: NPR as a car preset, a specific favorite Simpsons episode, finding the new Arrested Development season more nostalgic than groundbreaking, reblogging the New Yorker, Wes Anderson, Ira Glass, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ken Jennings on Twitter, Alanis Morissette's misuse of 'ironic'. (00:01:19)
    1 Basquiat · 2 On the Road · 3 Bill Maher (00:01:48) · 4 Moleskine “moleskin journal” · 5 Whole Foods Market (00:02:35) · 6 NPR · 7 The Simpsons (00:03:15) · 8 Arrested Development · 9 The New Yorker (00:03:45) · 10 Wes Anderson · 11 Ira Glass · 12 Neil deGrasse Tyson · 13 Food Network · 14 Rosetta Stone (software) · 15 Toyota Prius (00:04:19) · 16 Alanis Morissette · 17 Ironic · 18 Ken Jennings

2013-06-25 · Thoughts from Places: Dog Days of Summer

  • Hannah Hart, 4 named — A day at home: cafe, writing thoughts from places, a stranger's dog, dishes, post-tour laundry, therapist (00:01:09)
    1 TARDIS · 2 San Francisco · 3 Canada · 4 Washington, DC (00:01:34)

2013-07-02 · The Perks of Being John's Assistant

  • Rosianna Halse Rojas, 3 named (playful) — She says a large part of her role is scheduling, which she is awesome at, using Craigslist, shared Gmail calendars and Skype credit. (00:00:45)
    1 Craigslist · 2 Gmail · 3 Skype (00:00:47)

  • Rosianna Halse Rojas, 2 named (joke) — Her joke spare-time projects: a library for Henry and Alice from The Jolly Postman to The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and a Globe Theatre replica in John's garden. (00:02:36)
    1 The Jolly Postman · 2 The Unbearable Lightness of Being (00:02:38)

  • Rosianna Halse Rojas, 3 named (joke) — Spare-time projects: Henry and Alice's library, a Globe Theatre replica, John's Lauren Conrad collection (00:02:52)
    1 Lauren Conrad · 2 Benedict Cumberbatch (00:02:55) · 3 Teen Wolf (2011 TV series)

2013-07-05 · Egypt....Explained!

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank says four main groups hold power in Egypt: the old regime, the Muslim Brotherhood, the military, and young, disenfranchised, largely unemployed activists wanting a liberal Egypt. (00:00:15)
    1 Egypt's old regime (Nasser to Mubarak) · 2 Muslim Brotherhood (00:00:21) · 3 Egyptian Army (00:00:33) · 4 Young Egyptian revolutionary activists (2011-2013) (00:00:36)

2013-07-12 · Oh, JK Rowling - A Harry Potter Song

  • Hank, 3 named (playful) — Hank offers her absolute creative freedom - a screenplay, a Broadway prequel musical, a comic with Joss Whedon, a BBC mini-series - but asks her to avoid cartoons, Fox and MMORPGs. (00:01:41)
    1 Broadway theatre · 2 Joss Whedon · 3 BBC (00:01:48)

2013-07-26 · Introducing Subbable

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank credits developer Peter Jaros, designer Andrew Willis and the support of Nerdfighteria for making Subbable possible. (00:02:38)
    1 Peter Jaros · 2 Andrew Willis (00:02:41)

2013-07-30 · Paternity Leave Ends! And I Find Myself…

  • video description, 6 named — The description thanks the guest hosts by name: Hannah Hart, Grace Helbig, WheezyWaiter, Rosianna, MagicTurtle643 and NerdyAndQuirky.
    1 Hannah Hart · 2 Grace Helbig · 3 Craig Benzine “WheezyWaiter” · 4 Rosianna Halse Rojas · 5 MagicTurtle643 · 6 Sabrina Cruz “NerdyAndQuirky”

2013-08-02 · 17 Air Travel Tips

  • Hank, 2 named — If you miss a connection, search Kayak or Hipmunk or call customer support while queuing for rebooking: wait in two lines at once. (00:03:26)
    1 Kayak · 2 Hipmunk (00:03:30)

2013-08-06 · Million Dollar Ideas

  • John, 2 named — John says VidCon was so fun he mostly forgot to film anything, showing only a few clips, including 'creepy' distant footage of Jack and Finn. (00:00:00)
    1 Jack Harries · 2 Finn Harries

  • John, 3 named — John: some of Hank's ideas were excellent (Project for Awesome, VidCon, DFTBA Records), some seemed terrible but turned out great (2D glasses), and most are actually terrible ('Hank Games times two'). (00:01:02)
    1 Project for Awesome · 2 VidCon · 3 DFTBA Records

  • John, 2 named (joke) — John concedes the idea is bad; the 2D glasses investment he refused; gratitude to Hank and for VidCon (00:02:30)
    1 iPhone · 2 Android

2013-08-09 · What I Learned at VidCon

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank says Michael Buckley knows when you need a hug, and Jack and Finn are as intelligent, personable, fun and kind as you would expect. (00:00:55)
    1 Jack Harries · 2 Finn Harries

  • Hank, 3 named — Other legacy media have not learned this; lessons from Josh Sundquist, Ze Frank and Freddie Wong; being active not reactive (00:01:38)
    1 Josh Sundquist · 2 Ze Frank · 3 Freddie Wong

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank thanks his wife, his parents and the VidCon team for supporting him, though he often doesn't know what he's doing. (00:03:06)
    1 Katherine Green “my wife” · 2 Mike Green “my parents” · 3 Sydney Green “my parents”

2013-08-16 · Harry Potter vs. Science!

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank considers and crosses off the London Tube, Brighton Beach and Hampstead Heath as topics. (00:00:00)
    1 London Underground · 2 Brighton · 3 Hampstead Heath

  • Hank, 3 named — Most inspirational: the detail of the Harry Potter universe inspires Hank, but less than Darwin's pigeons, Wallace's collections and Linnaeus's pressings, which connect him to the history of life. (00:01:27)
    1 Charles Darwin · 2 Alfred Russel Wallace · 3 Carl Linnaeus

  • Hank, 2 named (3 unnamed items) — Hank says Harry Potter is also collaborative, through screenwriters, actors and its fan community, including unintended collaborators like himself and Harry and the Potters; more so than most art, so a tie. (00:02:26)
    … · 2 Harry and the Potters · … · 5 StarKid Productions (00:02:45)

2013-08-20 · Why Are American Health Care Costs So High?

  • John, 4 named — John says that, although free health care elsewhere is said to be paid for by higher taxes, the US spends more tax money per capita on health care than Germany, Australia, the UK or Canada. (00:00:00)
    1 Germany · 2 Australia · 3 United Kingdom (00:00:29) · 4 Canada

  • John, 3 named — John compares prices: a hip replacement costs $13,000 in Belgium but often over $100,000 in the US; a colonoscopy over $1,100 in the US vs $655 in Switzerland; a month of Lipitor $124 in the US vs $7 in New Zealand. (00:00:58)
    1 Belgium · 2 Switzerland · 3 New Zealand

  • John, 4 named (playful) — Why: no centralized price negotiation (NHS hips, Medicare), inelastic demand; costs will keep rising (00:05:42)
    1 England · 2 Scotland · 3 Wales · 4 Northern Ireland

  • John, 2 named (playful) — Why: no centralized price negotiation (NHS hips, Medicare), inelastic demand; costs will keep rising (00:06:11)
    1 MacBook Air · 2 Sherlock

2013-08-23 · Thoughts from Bath: The Legacy of Wealth

  • Hank, 2 named (joke) — Hank says Bath is a city of 80,000 people declared in its entirety a UNESCO World Heritage Site (so, he jokes, it has a World Heritage Build-A-Bear and Pizza Hut). (00:00:00)
    1 Build-A-Bear Workshop · 2 Pizza Hut

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank says most of what we see of cultural history is an artifact of concentrated wealth, and our age's greatest objects - the Burj Khalifa, iPhone, Harry Potter films, Hubble - likely will be too, much of that wealth American. (00:02:29)
    1 Burj Khalifa · 2 iPhone · 3 Harry Potter (film series) · 4 Hubble Space Telescope

2013-08-27 · On the TFIOS Movie Set

  • John, 2 named (joke) — Hanging out with Shailene and Ansel (Ansel paints miniatures), Hazel's movie parents, the location gag, the screenwriters, the Lizzie Bennet Diaries Emmy (00:01:09)
    1 Indiana · 2 Alaska

2013-08-30 · Raw Onion, Twerking, and Speech Jam

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says Nerdfighteria is his biggest inspiration: when he lacks a video idea he asks on Twitter, Tumblr and Instagram, and this video is made from their suggestions. (00:00:15)
    1 Twitter · 2 Tumblr · 3 Instagram

2013-09-03 · Bigger Pizzas: A Capitalist Case for Health Care Reform

2013-09-13 · Syria in Five Minutes

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank says Western powers, introducing nation-states to the world, drew Syria's borders around peoples with varying historical and social ties: Christians, Druze, Sunni Muslims and Alawites. (00:00:29)
    1 Christianity “Christians” · 2 Druze · 3 Sunni Islam · 4 Alawites

  • Hank, 5 named (playful) — Hank says this isn't Star Wars: there is no rebel alliance, it is messy and muddy - and in Star Wars terms Assad has already killed Luke, Han and Leia and blown up Alderaan. (00:02:31)
    1 Luke Skywalker · 2 Han Solo · 3 Princess Leia · 4 Alderaan (00:02:38) · 5 Admiral Ackbar

2013-09-20 · 42 Amazing Maps

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank shows a map splitting the world into seven regions of about one billion people each, with North America, South America and Australia together making up one. (00:01:04)
    1 North America · 2 South America · 3 Australia

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says such maps show the US lagging behind on the metric system, maternity leave and executing juveniles, which he calls a little embarrassing. (00:01:54)
    1 metric system · 2 parental leave (00:01:57) · 3 capital punishment “executing juveniles”

  • Hank, 8 named — Hank says Africa is very big: bigger than the United States, France, Germany, Spain, the UK, all of Eastern Europe, China and India. (00:02:52)
    1 United States · 2 France · 3 Germany · 4 Spain · 5 United Kingdom “the UK” · 6 Eastern Europe · 7 China · 8 India

2013-09-24 · Started from the Bottom: Benjamin Franklin and Drake Compared

  • John, 2 named — John, rereading Franklin's autobiography, says Franklin was a founding father who invented the lightning rod and bifocals and started universities, fire departments and libraries. (00:00:29)
    1 lightning rod · 2 bifocals

2013-10-01 · The Lowdown on the Shutdown

  • Hank, 2 named (2 unnamed items) — Hank says museums, national parks, the EPA and NASA basically close, while defense, transportation security, border patrol, food inspectors and emergency readiness staff are exempted and keep working. (00:02:29)
    … · 3 United States Environmental Protection Agency “the EPA” · 4 NASA (00:02:35)

  • Hank, 1 named (1 unnamed item) — Hank says museums, national parks, the EPA and NASA basically close, while defense, transportation security, border patrol, food inspectors and emergency readiness staff are exempted and keep working. (00:02:35)
    … · 2 Transportation Security Administration

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says the self-funded Postal Service is fine, and Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are separate and keep operating. (00:02:44)
    1 Social Security · 2 Medicare · 3 Medicaid

2013-10-11 · TFiOS Movie, Emma Approved, Subbable Update, etc

  • Hank, 6 named — Hank says Subbable is doing amazingly, with Wheezy Waiter, Mystery Guitar Man, CGP Grey, MinutePhysics, Beer & Board Games and Woodworking for Mere Mortals now on it. (00:00:21)
    1 Craig Benzine “Wheezy Waiter” · 2 Joe Penna “Mystery Guitar Man” · 3 CGP Grey (00:00:23) · 4 Henry Reich “Minute Physics” · 5 Beer & Board Games · 6 Woodworking for Mere Mortals (00:00:25)

2013-10-15 · Thoughts for Nerdfighteria

  • John, 3 named — John says Crash Course, SciShow and Mental Floss all have large and growing audiences. (00:01:20)
    1 Crash Course · 2 SciShow · 3 Mental Floss

  • John, 3 named — John thinks they should keep making videos explaining health care costs, sovereign debt and the war in Syria, and videos about things they care about, like the TFiOS movie. (00:02:24)
    1 health care prices in the United States · 2 government debt · 3 Syrian civil war (00:02:28)

2013-10-18 · Curiosity is the Greatest Human Quality

  • Hank, 5 named — Touring it with Vi Hart, Derek of Veritasium, Destin of Smarter Every Day, CGP Grey and Henry of MinutePhysics, Hank saw that these brilliant adults are as curious as the most curious second grader. (00:00:55)
    1 Vi Hart · 2 Derek Muller · 3 Destin Sandlin · 4 CGP Grey (00:01:02) · 5 Henry Reich

2013-10-25 · When Was it a Million Seconds Ago?

  • Hank, 3 named — A billion seconds ago was 1982 — the time of Michael Jackson's Thriller, E.T. and the Falklands War. (00:01:13)
    1 Thriller · 2 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial · 3 Falklands War

  • Hank, 2 named — For a book, Hank recommends Neil Gaiman's quick, beautiful The Ocean at the End of the Lane and John Barnes's Losers in Space, an excellent introduction to hard science fiction. (00:03:30)
    1 The Ocean at the End of the Lane · 2 Losers in Space (00:03:34)

2013-11-01 · Scarier than Gravity: Real Life Close Calls in Space

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank, who dislikes scary things, recently saw the film Gravity with Henry of MinutePhysics and Derek of Veritasium and found it terrifying. (00:00:00)
    1 Henry Reich · 2 Derek Muller

  • Hank, 8 named — Neil Armstrong's spinning Gemini 8 (1966); Alexei Leonov's swollen spacesuit and wolf-surrounded landing (1965) (00:00:29)
    1 Gemini 8 · 2 Alexei Leonov · 3 Boris Volynov (00:01:27) · 4 Soyuz 18a (00:01:56) · 5 Soyuz 23 (00:02:26) · 6 Apollo 13 (00:02:55) · 7 Apollo 12 · 8 Luca Parmitano

2013-11-08 · VidCon, Punishments, Comments, and Pumpkins

  • Hank, 3 named — VidCon now has a Tumblr, vidconblr.tumblr.com, and is on Twitter and Facebook to answer questions. (00:01:22)
    1 Tumblr · 2 Twitter · 3 Facebook

2013-11-15 · I Have a Band?

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank is making the album with some of his favorite musicians: Nick Jenkins (who films, edits and directs Crash Course Chemistry), Rob Scallon, Joe DeGeorge of Harry and the Potters, and Andrew Huang of Songs To Wear Pants To. (00:00:28)
    1 Nick Jenkins · 2 Rob Scallon (00:00:35) · 3 Joe DeGeorge (00:00:42) · 4 Andrew Huang (00:00:48)

2013-11-26 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria

  • John, 2 named — Currently Germany is fifth and the Netherlands seventh in donations, so if they meet the brothers back Germany; Switzerland is last. (00:01:11)
    1 Germany · 2 Netherlands

  • John, 2 named — With 'movie magic' John flies to see his mom and dad and films in the same room where he filmed his first Brotherhood 2.0 episode on January 2, 2007. (00:02:15)
    1 Sydney Green “mom” · 2 Mike Green “dad”

  • John, 3 named — Recent Nerdfighter loans include college tuition for a student in Bolivia, a restaurant in Samoa and a furniture business in Uganda, among tens of thousands of others. (00:02:39)
    1 Bolivia · 2 Samoa (00:02:44) · 3 Uganda

2013-11-29 · REUNION! Arm Wrestling, Drawing, and Questions with Hank and John!

2013-12-03 · Who Owns DFTBA? An Introduction to Trademarks

  • John, 6 named — John lists other companies using DFTBA: a Kate Spade wallet, a Hobby Lobby poster, a dELiAs T-shirt, an Aeropostale ad, items from Pier One and Ron Jon Surf Shop. (00:00:20)
    1 Kate Spade New York · 2 Hobby Lobby (00:00:24) · 3 Delia's · 4 Aéropostale “Aeropostale” · 5 Pier 1 Imports (00:00:29) · 6* Ron Jon Surf Shop

  • John, 2 named — John says the same happened to escalator and thermos, and nearly to Nintendo, which marketed the phrase 'game console', and Google, which carefully says 'searching' rather than 'googling'. (00:03:05)
    1 Escalator · 2 Thermos

  • John, 2 named — John says the same happened to escalator and thermos, and nearly to Nintendo, which marketed the phrase 'game console', and Google, which carefully says 'searching' rather than 'googling'. (00:03:09)
    1 Nintendo · 2 Google (00:03:15)

2013-12-16 · Project for Awesome Time!! What does it Mean?!

  • Hank, 3 named (1 unnamed item) — Hank says the Indiegogo campaign raises the actual money, with perks including a Men of YouTube and a Women of YouTube charity calendar, Nerdfighter-made art, and a George Watsky haiku with his signed CD. (00:00:29)
    1 Men of YouTube calendar · 2 Women of YouTube calendar · … · 4 George Watsky (00:01:12)

2013-12-17 · THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2013 IS UPON US!

  • John, 3 named — John points viewers to the P4A fundraising page, whose perks include the Men of YouTube and Women of YouTube calendars and a 20-page snippet of the story he has been working on for months. (00:00:16)
    1 Men of YouTube calendar · 2 Women of YouTube calendar · 3 John's work in progress (December 2013) “the story I've been working on for the past few months” (00:00:20)

2013-12-20 · Best Moments of the Project for Awesome

  • Hank, 4 named (3 unnamed items) — Hank says the P4A Indiegogo page stays open about 36 more hours, with perks: his Christmas album, a sneak peek of John's new writing, shirts, posters, coins, the YouTube charity calendars and headshots. (00:03:02)
    1 Hank's P4A Christmas album (2013) · 2 John's work in progress (December 2013) · … · 6 Men of YouTube calendar + Women of YouTube calendar (00:03:05) · 7 Michael Aranda (00:03:09)

2013-12-31 · GOOD NEWS: 14 Reasons 2014 May Be the Best Year Ever

  • John, 3 named — John says the share of people living on under $1.25 a day, adjusted for inflation, fell from 43% in 1990 to 20% today, mostly through gains in China, India and Brazil. (00:01:27)
    1 China · 2 India · 3 Brazil

  • John, 2 named — John says US internet speeds rose 27% in 2013 over 2012, and rose worldwide, from 75% in Guatemala to 32% in Thailand, making it easier to stay in touch and collaborate. (00:01:56)
    1 Guatemala · 2 Thailand