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Lists, 2016

99 lists in 58 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

2016-01-12 · Zero Severed Hands: On Star Wars and Making Things

  • John, 4 named — John says Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has said all Phase Two Marvel films feature an arm amputation because of Star Wars: Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy, Iron Man 3 and, kind of, Ant-Man. (00:01:51)
    1 Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 2 Guardians of the Galaxy (00:01:53) · 3 Iron Man 3 (00:01:55) · 4 Ant-Man (00:01:57)

2016-01-19 · The Looking for Alaska Movie, Davos, and Hufflepuff Shade: It's Question Tuesday

  • John, 3 named (playful) — John jokes that his three favourite hobbies are eating pizza, sponsoring fourth-tier soccer teams and literary tourism. (00:00:22)
    1 pizza (00:00:26) · 2 AFC Wimbledon “4th tier soccer teams” · 3 literary tourism (00:00:22)

  • John, 3 named — John invites Hank and viewers to follow his Davos trip on his Twitter, Instagram or Snapchat, though he doesn't know how to log on to his Snapchat. (00:00:31)
    1 Twitter · 2 Instagram · 3 Snapchat

  • John, 5 named — John says this summer Crash Course will do another Crash Course Literature mini-series: Huckleberry Finn, Invisible Man, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Their Eyes Were Watching God and some Shakespearean sonnets. (00:02:46)
    1 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn · 2 Invisible Man · 3 One Hundred Years of Solitude · 4 Their Eyes Were Watching God · 5 Shakespeare's sonnets (00:02:50)

2016-01-22 · Why Are Vegetarians Annoying? (An Exploration of a Cultural Rift)

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank finds it a little immoral that he spends money on unnecessary things like Coca-Cola, flights to San Francisco and a fifth Force Awakens ticket rather than giving it to Save the Children, for the same reasons he eats meat. (00:02:04)
    1 Coca-Cola · 2 San Francisco · 3 Star Wars: The Force Awakens

2016-01-26 · Billionaires and Radical Hope: Thoughts from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland

  • John, 7 named — John describes the town as a fevered pitch for investment, growth and change, urging visitors to think India, Mexico, Kazakhstan, Salesforce, Microsoft, Accenture and Bank of America. (00:00:36)
    1 India · 2 Mexico · 3 Kazakhstan · 4 Salesforce (00:00:41) · 5 Microsoft · 6 Accenture · 7 Bank of America

  • John, 4 named — John says that in the coming weeks he will look at big problems he left Davos thinking about: income inequality, climate change, the refugee crisis, and how gender inequality affects poverty. (00:03:25)
    1 economic inequality · 2 climate change · 3 refugee · 4 gender inequality

2016-01-29 · Why the Word "Millennial" Makes me Cringe

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank believes previous generations worked hard to make life better for him than it was for them: gay people can marry, Buffy and all of Netflix cost $7.99 a month, and cars are much less likely to kill people. (00:03:04)
    1 same-sex marriage “gay people can get married” · 2 Buffy the Vampire Slayer (00:03:06) · 3 Netflix (00:03:09) · 4 Traffic collision “cars are much less likely to kill people” (00:03:12)

2016-02-02 · Is the Gender Pay Gap Real?

  • John, 2 named — John says there is a gender pay gap among full-time workers worldwide, varying by country: New Zealand women earn 90 cents per man's dollar, South Korean women 62 cents. (00:00:38)
    1 New Zealand · 2 South Korea (00:00:46)

2016-02-05 · Honest YouTube Talk Time

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank says he is now the CEO of a media company without quite knowing how: with VidCon, SciShow, Crash Course, DFTBA Records and other productions they have about 30 employees. (00:00:25)
    1 VidCon · 2 SciShow · 3 Crash Course · 4 DFTBA Records

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank says his team helps some creators get a leg up through shows like The Financial Diet, Healthcare Triage, Sexplanations and Animal Wonders. (00:01:34)
    1 The Financial Diet · 2 Healthcare Triage · 3 Sexplanations · 4 Animal Wonders (00:01:38)

  • Hank, 4 named — Through the Vlogbrothers ad revenue grants, this month (February 2016) the brothers sent money to Science With Tom, Eternally Curious, SimonOxfPhys and Unacademy, India's largest free education initiative. (00:01:39)
    1 Science With Tom · 2 Eternally Curious (00:01:42) · 3 SimonOxfPhys · 4 Unacademy

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank admits it is always easiest to turn attention and money to the brothers' own new things, like NerdCon, Dear Hank and John, SciShow and Crash Course. (00:01:48)
    1 NerdCon: Stories · 2 Dear Hank and John (00:01:53)

2016-02-12 · Doing the Hard(er) Thing (and some very bad news)

  • Hank, 5 named — Early-morning walks with Katherine; there is always a song in Hank's head (00:00:28)
    1 Pink · 2 The Rocky Horror Picture Show · 3 Lamb Chop · 4 Matchbox Twenty · 5 Bonnie Raitt (00:00:37)

2016-03-04 · Startling Facts About the Government that Made Me Feel Good

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says the federal budget is more than $3 trillion and 'we give it away': 64% of this year's (2016) spending went to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, poverty assistance and veterans' benefits. (00:02:37)
    1 Social Security · 2 Medicare · 3 Medicaid

2016-03-08 · Aida and Majeeda: Thoughts from the Azraq Refugee Camp

  • John, 4 named — John rejects 'lost': we know where they are (Azraq, the border, Germany, Sweden, Lebanon, Turkey and above all Syria), and we must help them get the nutrition, shelter and education to rebuild their country. (00:03:26)
    1 Germany · 2 Sweden · 3 Lebanon · 4 Turkey

2016-03-18 · Brazil's Government is Falling Apart...and it's Good News?

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says Brazil has 200 million people, as many as the UK, France and Germany combined, and could fit those countries inside it at least three times. (00:00:31)
    1 United Kingdom “UK” · 2 France · 3 Germany

2016-03-22 · Understanding the Primaries: Delegates, Democracy, and America's Nonstop Political Party

  • John, 4 named — John says that in Missouri's primaries last week (week of 14 March 2016) Trump beat Cruz statewide by about .19 percent and Clinton beat Sanders by a similar margin. (00:00:24)
    1 Donald Trump · 2 Ted Cruz · 3 Hillary Clinton (00:00:30) · 4 Bernie Sanders

  • John, 2 named — John says Clinton would have won more delegates even losing by 0.2 percent, because the Missouri Democratic Party's 13 superdelegates, free to back anyone, mostly endorsed her; they include Governor Jay Nixon and Senator Claire McCaskill. (00:01:22)
    1 Jay Nixon · 2 Claire McCaskill

  • John, 2 named — John says that after the 2010 census a smaller share of Americans lived in Missouri, so it lost a congressional district while fast-growing Arizona and Florida gained districts. (00:03:07)
    1 Arizona · 2 Florida

2016-03-25 · Snapchat Question Time!

  • video description, 5 named — The description says Hank Green and the Perfect Strangers, Driftless Pony Club and Harry and the Potters, featuring Rob Scallon and Andrew Huang, tour in May, starting May 16 in Lawrence, Kansas.
    1 Hank Green and the Perfect Strangers · 2 Driftless Pony Club · 3 Harry and the Potters · 4 Rob Scallon · 5 Andrew Huang

  • video description, 13 named — Hank lists the rest of the May tour: Austin (May 19) and El Paso (May 20), venues to be announced; the Rialto Theater in Tucson (May 21); Chain Reaction in Anaheim (May 22); two nights at Slim's in San Francisco (May 23 and 24); the Regent Theater in Los Angeles (May 25); the Irenic in San Diego (May 26); then, without Hank, Kilby Court in Salt Lake City (May 28), Denver (May 29) and Omaha (May 30), with May 27 still to be set.
    1 Lawrence, Kansas · 2 Dallas · 3 Houston, Texas · 4 Austin, Texas · 5 El Paso, Texas · 6 Tucson, Arizona · 7 Anaheim, California · 8 San Francisco · 9 Los Angeles · 10 San Diego · 11 Salt Lake City · 12 Denver · 13 Omaha

  • Hank, 2 named (playful) — Snapchat questions: favorite potato, Snapchat filters with kids in Jordan, a cat, Jackson vs Roosevelt, shampoo or conditioner (00:01:41)
    1 Andrew Jackson · 2 Theodore Roosevelt

2016-03-29 · My New Book, Marriage Advice, and Hamilton: 50 Snapchat Questions Answered!

  • John, 2 named — John recommends the films Dope and The End of the Tour, saying he really loves both. (00:00:17)
    1 Dope · 2 The End of the Tour

  • John, 2 named — John says his favorite furniture is his La-Z-Boy, where he wrote part of all his books, described by The New Yorker as grubby and oatmeal-colored and by The Wall Street Journal as tan. (00:01:38)
    1 The New Yorker · 2 The Wall Street Journal (00:01:42)

  • John, 2 named — Doctor Who spin-off by Patrick Ness, his high-school fuchsia-plum hair, a barfing sloth, Macbeth, tree and season puns, cooking channel, games, Willy (00:03:01)
    1 The Fault in Our Stars (film) · 2 Paper Towns (film)

2016-04-01 · Loving Loving Things in Los Angeles

  • Hank, 28 named — Diary montage of two weeks in LA with internet creators: collabs, dinners, parties, studio visits (00:00:15)
    1 Jon Cozart · 2 Not Too Deep with Grace Helbig (00:00:18) · 3 Grace Helbig · 4 Meghan Camarena · 5 Lee Newton · 6 Rhett and Link (00:00:26) · 7 Good Mythical Morning · 8 Dysh (00:00:29) · 9 SourceFed (00:00:36) · 10 John Green “you came to town” · 11 Just Between Us (00:00:41) · 12 Gaby Dunn · 13 Allison Raskin · 14 Derek Muller (00:00:46) · 15 Meghan Tonjes · 16 Tyler Oakley (00:00:50) · 17 They Might Be Giants (00:00:55) · 18 Steve Zaragoza · 19 Jake Roper (00:01:04) · 20 Michael Stevens · 21 BuzzFeed (00:01:08) · 22 Google (00:01:11) · 23 Mayim Bialik · 24 3BlackDot (00:01:15) · 25 MatPat (00:01:18) · 26 Markiplier (00:01:22) · 27 Hannah Hart · 28 Mitchell Davis

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank went to the launch party for Dysh, an app like Yelp but for individual restaurant dishes, which Ingrid, Grace, Mamrie and Hannah have been working on. (00:00:34)
    1 Ingrid Nilsen · 2 Grace Helbig · 3 Mamrie Hart · 4 Hannah Hart

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says he still has more to do: shooting YouTubers React and recording with the Gilmore Guys and Travis McElroy. (00:01:25)
    1 YouTubers React · 2 Gilmore Guys · 3 Travis McElroy

2016-04-08 · 47 YouTubers Laugh Without Smiling

  • video description, 3 named —
    1 Good Mythical Morning · 2 Just Between Us · 3 SourceFed

2016-04-12 · On the Banning of Looking for Alaska

  • John, 3 named — John says Looking for Alaska beat some of his favorite books on the list, like Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan and Fun Home by Alison Bechdel. (00:00:34)
    1 Two Boys Kissing · 2 Fun Home (00:00:39) · 3 Bible (00:00:41)

  • John, 2 named — John says teenagers are critically engaged, thoughtful readers: they don't read Looking for Alaska and decide to have oral sex, or The Outsiders and join a gang, or Divergent and jump onto trains. (00:01:53)
    1 The Outsiders · 2 Divergent (00:01:56)

2016-04-15 · T-Shirt and Jeans and TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT

  • video description, 12 named (1 unnamed item) —
    1 Lawrence, Kansas · 2 Dallas · 3 Houston, Texas · 4 Austin, Texas · … · 6 Tucson, Arizona · 7 Anaheim, California · 8 San Francisco · 9 Los Angeles · 10 San Diego · 11 Salt Lake City · 12 Denver · 13 Omaha

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank tells John they are going on a short, ten-day tour, starting in Kansas, through Texas, across Arizona and up California. (00:03:13)
    1 Kansas · 2 Texas · 3 Arizona (00:03:15) · 4 California

2016-04-19 · Literally Hitler

  • John, 4 named — John says Hitler and the Nazis are now compared to everyone: on social media Clinton, Trump, Cruz and Sanders are each likened to Hitler. (00:00:29)
    1 Hillary Clinton (00:00:38) · 2 Donald Trump (00:00:29) · 3 Ted Cruz (00:00:42) · 4 Bernie Sanders (00:00:43)

2016-04-22 · Clinton vs. Sanders: POLICY IS EXCITING!

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank says John will give his analysis of Ted Cruz's and Donald Trump's tax plans on Tuesday. (00:07:15)
    1 Ted Cruz · 2 Donald Trump

2016-04-29 · The Time a Taxi Driver Stole My Money

  • video description, 13 named — Hank lists the all-ages tour dates: Lawrence (May 16), Dallas, Houston, Austin, El Paso, Tucson, Anaheim, two nights in San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego (May 26), then Salt Lake City, Denver and Omaha (May 28-30) without Hank.
    1 Lawrence, Kansas · 2 Dallas · 3 Houston, Texas · 4 Austin, Texas · 5 El Paso, Texas · 6 Tucson, Arizona · 7 Anaheim, California · 8 San Francisco · 9 Los Angeles · 10 San Diego · 11 Salt Lake City · 12 Denver · 13 Omaha

2016-05-06 · I Hate Only Making One Video a Week

2016-05-13 · The Time I Fell Asleep with an M&M in My Mouth (and a song)

  • Hank, 7 named — Hank says the shows will include Deathly Hallows, Anglerfish and Strange Charm, and newer songs like I Love Science, Oh JK Rowling and We Are All Bat People. (00:00:21)
    1 Accio Deathly Hallows · 2 A Song About an Anglerfish · 3 Strange Charm · 4 I Love Science (00:00:25) · 5 Oh, JK Rowling · 6 We Are All Bat People · 7 We're All Gonna Die (00:00:29)

  • Hank, 5 named — Hank asks people in Austin, San Diego, Los Angeles, Anaheim or San Francisco who are considering coming to the show to consider it hard. (00:02:48)
    1 Austin, Texas (00:02:53) · 2 San Diego · 3 Los Angeles (00:02:48) · 4 Anaheim, California (00:02:53) · 5 San Francisco

2016-05-20 · I AM A GOLDEN GOD

  • video description, 5 named — The description calls the video a tour vlog from the first leg of Tour Because Awesome 2016 and lists upcoming shows in Tucson, LA, Anaheim, San Diego and San Francisco.
    1 Tucson, Arizona · 2 Los Angeles “LA” · 3 Anaheim, California · 4 San Diego · 5 San Francisco

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says that more than ever we are scored on our performance, through Instagram likes, Snapchat views and Pinterest pins. (00:02:35)
    1 Instagram · 2 Snapchat · 3 Pinterest “pintrest”

2016-06-03 · Redefining What it Means to Matter

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says Thomas Edison did not invent the light bulb, the Wright Brothers did not invent flight, and Elon Musk has never built an electric car; these are inspiring stories. (00:02:18)
    1 Thomas Edison · 2 Wright brothers · 3 Elon Musk (00:02:22)

2016-06-17 · Hey, Let's Change Some Things

2016-06-21 · Syrian Refugees in the United States: One Family's Story

  • John, 2 named — John notes that American soldiers in the Revolutionary War included Yusuf ben Ali and Bampett Muhammad. (00:02:22)
    1 Yusuf ben Ali · 2 Bampett Muhammad

  • John, 3 named — John says more than 3 million Americans today are Muslims, from Dave Chappelle to the owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars to his congressman André Carson. (00:02:28)
    1 Dave Chappelle · 2 Shahid Khan “the owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars” · 3 André Carson

2016-06-24 · Questions (and Announcements) from VidCon

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank thanks everyone who did his homework assignment: he got many letters on Snapchat, Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter. (00:00:41)
    1 Snapchat (00:03:30) · 2 Facebook · 3 Tumblr · 4 Twitter (00:00:41)

  • Hank, 3 named — Asked which fictional person he would have as a VidCon guest, Hank weighs Luna Lovegood, Galadriel and Huck Finn and says he'd have to write a fanfic. (00:01:46)
    1 Luna Lovegood · 2 Galadriel · 3 Huckleberry Finn

2016-06-28 · New Iceland

  • John, 2 named — John says there is no convenient midway point on the Atlantic between the Americas and Afro-Eurasia, unlike Hawaii or the Cook Islands in the Pacific. (00:01:34)
    1 Hawaii · 2 Cook Islands

  • John, 3 named — The coalition would create New Iceland: great weather, Björk, a soccer team apparently better than England's, and only a two-hour flight from New York, Madrid or Marrakesh. (00:02:24)
    1 New York City · 2 Madrid · 3 Marrakesh

2016-07-01 · So, I Ruptured Both my Eardrums! (Also, NerdCon: Nerdfighteria)

  • Hank, 8 named — Guests include Charlie McDonnell, Maureen Johnson, the Perfect Strangers, George Watsky, Meghan Tonjes, Emily Graslie, Lindsay Doe and four of the Five Awesome Girls. (00:02:26)
    1 Charlie McDonnell · 2 Maureen Johnson · 3 Hank Green and the Perfect Strangers · 4 George Watsky (00:03:00) · 5 Meghan Tonjes · 6 Emily Graslie · 7 Lindsey Doe · 8 Five Awesome Girls

2016-07-05 · The Horizon Line

  • John, 6 named — Hiroshi Sugimoto's Seascapes and the comfort of a water horizon (00:00:29)
    1 Tasman Sea (00:00:42) · 2 Caribbean (00:00:29) · 3 Sea of Japan (00:00:42) · 4 Baltic Sea · 5 Mediterranean Sea · 6 Lake Superior

  • John, 3 named — John sailed from a birthplace he never knew to Orlando, Birmingham, Chicago and New York, and ended up back where he started. (00:01:45)
    1 Orlando, Florida · 2 Birmingham, Alabama · 3 Chicago (city)

2016-07-15 · On Lives and Mattering

  • Hank, 6 named — Hank says 'Black Lives Matter' is not only about Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Michael Brown, Rekia Boyd, Sandra Bland and Tamir Rice but about a deep, destructive national belief that black lives matter less. (00:02:14)
    1 Alton Sterling · 2 Philando Castile · 3 Michael Brown · 4 Rekia Boyd · 5 Sandra Bland (00:02:20) · 6 Tamir Rice

2016-07-19 · Pretty Bad Ways to Start a Conversation

  • John, 4 named — John says nicknames from 'Canadian Cruz' and 'Crooked Hillary' to 'Lying Donald' and 'Barry Obama' undermine and demean people too vaguely to defend against. (00:01:14)
    1 Ted Cruz · 2 Hillary Clinton · 3 Donald Trump · 4 Barack Obama

2016-07-29 · Thoughts from Comic-Con (NO MORE CHEETO MEDIA!)

  • video description, 3 named — In the description Hank names Kim Stanley Robinson books, Star Trek and The Tick as what he loves, and says community built around loved things beats the content and its makers.
    1 Kim Stanley Robinson · 2 Star Trek (franchise) · 3 The Tick

  • Hank, 13 named — Hank says John will be at NerdCon: Stories, along with guests including John Scalzi, Mary Robinette Kowal, Dylan Marron, M. T. Anderson, John Darnielle, Maureen Johnson and Patrick Rothfuss. (00:03:23)
    1 John Scalzi · 2 Mary Robinette Kowal (00:03:27) · 3 Dylan Marron (00:03:28) · 4 Ben Acker · 5 Ben Blacker · 6 Cindy Pon · 7 M. T. Anderson · 8 John Darnielle · 9 Dessa (00:03:33) · 10 Maureen Johnson · 11 Nalo Hopkinson · 12 Patrick Rothfuss · 13 Paolo Bacigalupi

2016-08-09 · Why I Didn't Vote (And Six Reasons You Might Not)

  • John, 2 named — John says you're not just voting for president: down-ballot races for senators, congresspeople, state legislators and school boards are extremely important to your community. (00:00:44)
    1 United States Senate “senators” · 2 United States Congress “US congresspeople”

  • John, 2 named — To minority-party voters in one-party states, John says down-ballot votes might matter and the vote matters regardless: not voting makes politicians think the state is less politically diverse than it is. (00:01:22)
    1 Republican Party · 2 Democratic Party

2016-08-16 · Some Good News: 16 Ways 2016 Is Not a Total Dumpster Fire

  • John, 3 named — John says the Ebola outbreak that killed more than 11,000 people in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia has ended, though flare-ups remain possible. (00:00:35)
    1 Guinea · 2 Sierra Leone · 3 Liberia

  • John, 2 named — John says worldwide conflict deaths fell in 2015 from 2014 and are on pace to fall again in 2016, largely due to less violence in Afghanistan and from Boko Haram. (00:01:45)
    1 Afghanistan · 2 Boko Haram insurgency

  • John, 2 named — John says ISIS is losing, having lost Fallujah and Manbij; it remains a threat in Syria, Iraq and Libya, but per The Economist it is weakening fast. (00:02:05)
    1 Fallujah · 2 Manbij

  • John, 3 named — John says ISIS is losing, having lost Fallujah and Manbij; it remains a threat in Syria, Iraq and Libya, but per The Economist it is weakening fast. (00:02:05)
    1 Syria · 2 Iraq · 3 Libya

2016-08-19 · 16 Sports that Should Be in the Olympics

  • Hank, 16 named — The list: sepak takraw, tug of war, wushu, cricket, secret handshakes, robot combat, a cappella, kite fighting, ultrarunning, cheer, kabaddi, parkour, darts, headis, League of Legends, mounted archery (00:01:01)
    1 Sepak takraw · 2 Tug of war (00:01:20) · 3 Wushu (sport) (00:01:31) · 4 Cricket (00:01:43) · 5 Secret handshake (00:01:50) · 6 BattleBots (00:01:52) · 7 A cappella “Acapella singing” (00:02:05) · 8 Kite fighting (00:02:18) · 9 Ultramarathon “Ultrarunning” (00:02:31) · 10 Cheerleading (00:02:44) · 11 Kabaddi “Kabbadi” (00:02:53) · 12 Parkour (00:03:04) · 13 Darts (00:03:07) · 14 Headis (00:03:12) · 15 League of Legends (00:03:16) · 16 Mounted archery (00:03:22)

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank says the Olympics should let people post GIFs on Tumblr and Twitter. (00:03:47)
    1 Tumblr · 2 Twitter

2016-08-23 · The Ocho! Sports I Want on TV

  • John, 3 named — John says amazing sports such as headis, Muggle Quidditch, the Catan World Championships, human backflip racing and excavator-goalie demolition derby soccer go largely un-televised. (00:00:17)
    1 Headis · 2 Quadball “Muggle Quidditch” · 3 Catan

  • John, 2 named — John submits that the Ocho would be a wildly popular cable network or streaming service, home to niche sports from Olympic ones to competitive log rolling and foot billiards. (00:01:30)
    1 Logrolling (sport) · 2 foot billiards (00:01:34)

2016-08-30 · My Body Is a Broken Temple

2016-09-08 · Punk Friends

  • video description, 6 named — The description lists the other genre versions: normal by Landon Austin, ska by Rob Scallon, metal by Anthony Vincent, old school rap by Dan Bull, country by Taryn Southern, video game by Todd Bryanton.
    1 Landon Austin · 2 Rob Scallon · 3 Anthony Vincent · 4 Dan Bull · 5 Taryn Southern · 6 Todd Bryanton

2016-09-09 · Sleep Paralysis, Double-Pregnancy, and The 2016 Census

2016-09-13 · YouTube's New Thing (and a New Thing of Our Own)

  • John, 3 named — John says they have always had to build homes off YouTube for non-video community stuff: Art Assignment submissions go via other sites, Crash Course lacks worksheets, and P4A needs social media. (00:01:25)
    1 The Art Assignment · 2 Crash Course (00:01:30) · 3 Project for Awesome (00:01:33)

  • John, 3 named — John says they have always had to build homes off YouTube for non-video community stuff: Art Assignment submissions go via other sites, Crash Course lacks worksheets, and P4A needs social media. (00:01:25)
    1 Tumblr · 2 Twitter · 3 Facebook

2016-09-16 · Let's Talk about Failure

2016-09-20 · Failing to Follow Up The Fault in Our Stars

  • John, 2 named — 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. (00:02:19)
    1 Crash Course · 2 The Art Assignment

2016-10-04 · Drowzees and Masterpieces: Thoughts from London

  • John, 3 named — Gallery day: National Portrait Gallery, the clock game, Royal Academy, Somerset House masterpieces, Drowzees (00:00:34)
    1 Elizabeth I · 2 Thomas Wolsey · 3 Thomas Cranmer (00:00:38)

  • John, 9 named — Gallery day: National Portrait Gallery, the clock game, Royal Academy, Somerset House masterpieces, Drowzees (00:01:19)
    1 Georges Seurat · 2 Paul Cézanne (00:01:23) · 3 Pablo Picasso (00:01:27) · 4 Edgar Degas · 5 Pierre-Auguste Renoir (00:01:40) · 6 Camille Pissarro · 7 Vincent van Gogh · 8 Édouard Manet · 9 Francisco Goya (00:01:45)

2016-10-07 · Changing Our Business a Bit

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank says a video with someone he met at a tiny Missoula research museum led to The Brain Scoop, and their French Revolution and circulatory-system videos led to Crash Course. (00:00:47)
    1 French Revolution · 2 circulatory system

2016-10-11 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Tax Plans

  • video description, 4 named — John thanks Mark Olsen for graphics, Rosianna Halse Rojas for graphics and fact-checking, and Amanda McCloughlin and Adriene Hill for fact-checking, and says any errors are his own.
    1 Mark Olsen · 2 Rosianna Halse Rojas · 3 Amanda McCloughlin · 4 Adriene Hill

  • John, 2 named — John grants lower taxes can encourage investment and growth, but insists tax cuts do not pay for themselves: the Reagan and Bush tax cuts boosted growth yet lowered federal revenues. (00:07:24)
    1 Ronald Reagan · 2 Bush tax cuts

  • John, 2 named — John explains a debt spiral: nervous lenders raise rates, government raises taxes or cuts spending, growth and revenue fall, costlier borrowing follows, ending like Greece; it takes decades to unwind. (00:09:00)
    1 Social Security · 2 Unemployment benefits

2016-10-14 · Compassion, Weakness, and the 2016 Election

  • Hank, 1 named — Hank says the rhetoric inflames or manufactures fear and insecurity, which breed ruthlessness, disregard for morality, self-righteousness, and casting Syrians, protesters or opponents as evil or corrupt. (00:02:04)
    1 Syria

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says because America is strong its compassion has grown: marriage for all loving couples, open doors to immigrants and refugees, rethinking hurtful traditions, debate on mass incarceration and race, with far to go. (00:02:59)
    1 same-sex marriage · 2 refugee (00:03:02) · 3 mass incarceration (00:03:10)

2016-10-18 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Health Care Reform Proposals

  • John, 4 named — John says US health costs were so high that more tax dollars per capita went to health care than in Germany, Japan, the UK or Canada, all of which had universal publicly funded care. (00:01:08)
    1 Germany · 2 Japan · 3 United Kingdom · 4 Canada

2016-11-01 · BABY! BABY! BABY! (And the 10th Annual Project for Awesome)

  • John, 5 named — John says the community has seen the impact of its donations to the two charities from Bangladesh to Haiti, Ethiopia, the United States and refugee camps in Jordan. (00:02:42)
    1 Bangladesh · 2 Haiti · 3 Ethiopia · 4 United States (00:02:43) · 5 Jordan (00:02:42)

2016-11-09 · My Post-Election Thoughts

  • John, 3 named — Feeling lost; quotes from Saladin Ahmed, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Kamala Harris; a tough time ahead; the nation is bigger than its leaders; change happens beyond election night (00:01:46)
    1 Saladin Ahmed · 2 Lin-Manuel Miranda (00:01:53) · 3 Kamala Harris (00:01:57)

2016-11-10 · The Museum of Pizza Johns Past

  • Dave, 3 named — The staff tour Pizza John designs by year: the 2010 original; 2012 green, neon nineties, eyes, vampire and evil; a 2013 hoodie; 2014 Bowie, glowy, halftone, Obey; 2015 Warhol, rainbow, blue neon, Pisa, Misfits, faux-knitted and nebula. (00:01:34)
    1 David Bowie · 2 Andy Warhol (00:01:39) · 3 Pisa (00:01:43)

  • Dave, 6 named (1 unnamed item) — Rachel lists this year's (2016) designers: Judy Kaufmann, Sara Cervantes, Julia Pott, Rachel herself, TEKST (Big John Pizzeria), Ming Doyle (an indigo design) and the design duo Rude. (00:01:56)
    1 Judy Kaufmann · 2 Sara Cervantes (00:02:01) · 3 Julia Pott (00:02:03) · … · 5 TEKST (00:02:07) · 6 Ming Doyle (00:02:09) · 7 Rude (00:02:13)

2016-11-15 · Good News/Bad News: A Pizzamas Video in Nine Slices

  • video description, 4 named — John puts links to some of his favorite Leonard Cohen songs in the doobly-doo (the description lists Suzanne, Bird on a Wire, Tower of Song and The Future).
    1 Suzanne · 2 Bird on the Wire · 3 Tower of Song · 4 The Future

  • John, 2 named — At 15 John wrote a sincere, terrible English paper arguing there could never be another great work of fiction since Dostoevsky was dead; months later Song of Solomon and Angels in America made him retract it. (00:02:25)
    1 Song of Solomon · 2 Angels in America (00:02:28)

2016-11-17 · Decathlons, Pretension, and the Weirdest Animal I've Met: It's Question Thursday

  • John, 4 named — 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. (00:02:31)
    1 The Economist · 2 The New York Times · 3 The Wall Street Journal · 4 The Indianapolis Star

2016-11-25 · You're Not Good Enough

  • Nathan Zed, 3 named — Nathan says his problem is that if he is not amazing at something he asks what the point of doing it is, e.g. why sing when people can listen to Adele. (00:01:33)
    1 Adele · 2 Shawn Mendes (00:01:36) · 3 Crazy Frog (00:01:41)

2016-12-01 · See you in Amsterdam, Melbourne, or Anaheim!! (also Boston)

  • video description, 6 named — The description lists VidCon Europe guests including Hannah Hart, Rhett and Link, Nathan Zed, Mamrie Hart, Charlie McDonnell and Dodie Clark.
    1 Hannah Hart · 2 Rhett and Link · 3 Nathan Zed · 4 Mamrie Hart · 5 Charlie McDonnell · 6 Dodie Clark

  • video description, 4 named — Hank lists NerdCon: Nerdfighteria guests: Hank and John, Nathan Zed, Craig Benzine, George Watsky, Hannah Hart and Emily Graslie, with music by Hank Green and the Perfect Strangers.
    1 Hank Green · 2 Craig Benzine · 3 George Watsky · 4 Emily Graslie

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank announces in the promo that VidCon US returns to the Anaheim Convention Center on June 21-24, and that VidCon goes global: Europe in Amsterdam April 8-9, Australia in Melbourne September 9-10. (00:01:59)
    1 Australia · 2 Sydney · 3 Melbourne

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says he has never been to Amsterdam or the Southern Hemisphere and will be at all three VidCons: Anaheim, Amsterdam and Melbourne. (00:02:01)
    1 Anaheim, California · 2 Amsterdam · 3 Melbourne

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank says VidCon is digging into local creator communities while also bringing US and UK creators, and going international is a huge step toward representing a diversity of creators. (00:02:22)
    1 United States “the US” · 2 United Kingdom “the UK”

2016-12-06 · Exactly Like the Human Sternum

  • John, 12 named — Part three, the xiphoid process: John's holiday book roundup of twelve books (00:01:27)
    1 The Underground Railroad · 2 Moonglow (00:01:38) · 3 What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours (00:01:54) · 4 Stories of Your Life and Others (00:02:03) · 5 Binti (00:02:13) · 6 An Ember in the Ashes (00:02:27) · 7 The Raven Cycle (00:02:31) · 8 The Sun Is Also a Star (00:02:35) · 9 Buffering (00:02:42) · 10 I Contain Multitudes (00:02:50) · 11 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (00:03:02) · 12 Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal (00:03:24)

2016-12-30 · The Most Interesting Thing I've Ever Done

  • Hank, 8 named — Hank lists the dream-like things of his ten years: friends, touring in a rock band, Carnegie Hall, a first home, creating VidCon, SciShow and Crash Course, a bobblehead, 2D glasses, interviewing the president. (00:00:12)
    1 Hank Green and the Perfect Strangers “rock band” · 2 Carnegie Hall · 3 VidCon · 4 SciShow (00:00:19) · 5 Crash Course · 6 Hank Green bobblehead (00:00:24) · 7 2D Glasses · 8 Barack Obama “the President”

  • Hank, 6 named — Hank says people elsewhere have figured these things out too and also lead the community, from Mark Twain to Vi Hart, Michelle Obama to Ze Frank, Reinhold Niebuhr to Nathan Zed. (00:03:51)
    1 Mark Twain · 2 Vi Hart · 3 Michelle Obama · 4 Ze Frank · 5 Reinhold Niebuhr · 6 Nathan Zed