Lists, 2019

51 lists in 41 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

2019-01-01 · How to Make Goals, Not Resolutions

John, 4 named — As discussed in a previous video, John aims to post zero times to Twitter, Reddit, Instagram and Facebook; easy in principle, but he is worried he can't do it. (00:01:56)
1 Twitter · 2 Reddit · 3 Instagram · 4 Facebook

John, 4 named — 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. (00:00:00)
1 Reddit · 2 Instagram · 3 Facebook · 4 Twitter

2019-01-22 · Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle's Let It Snow

John, 6 named — John reports that Netflix has cast a starry ensemble for its Let It Snow adaptation: Kiernan Shipka, Shameik Moore, Mitchell Hope, Odeya Rush, Anna Akana and Joan Cusack. (00:00:00)
1 Kiernan Shipka · 2 Shameik Moore · 3 Mitchell Hope · 4 Odeya Rush · 5 Anna Akana · 6 Joan Cusack

2019-02-12 · Are Textbooks Obsolete?

John, 3 named — John says Americans spent over ten billion dollars last year (2018) on textbooks, significantly more than on all fiction, every Harry Potter, Gatsby and Goodnight Moon included. (00:00:00)
1 Harry Potter (book series) · 2 The Great Gatsby · 3 Goodnight Moon
John, 3 named — Textbook prices and spending; textbooks less important now; free tools: Mathigon, 3Blue1Brown, Khan Academy (00:00:29)
1 Mathigon “Mathagon” · 2 3Blue1Brown · 3 Khan Academy (00:00:58)

2019-02-22 · I Don't Want The Same Things Anymore

Hank, 4 named — Hank says this is DFTBA's own business money, whether it comes from Kurzgesagt, Lindsay Ellis, the McElroy Brothers or Life's Library. (00:02:56)
1 Kurzgesagt · 2 Lindsay Ellis · 3 McElroy brothers · 4 Life's Library

2019-03-01 · I Get a Robocall While Making a Video About Robocalls

Hank, 3 named (2 unnamed items) — Hank lists scams his mother-in-law has heard: the IRS will arrest you, a grandson arrested in Africa needs bail, free CDs from a radio station, an inheritance, and a $50 software package supposedly needed because Microsoft is updating Windows. (00:00:58)
1 Internal Revenue Service “IRS” · 2 Africa · … · 5 Microsoft + Microsoft Windows

2019-03-05 · Way, Way Down the Rabbit Hole

John, 1 named (2 unnamed items) — From a German-language newspaper site John learned the boys in the photo were not in fact farmers; he went on to genealogy sites, military records, Google Maps and obituaries. (00:00:29)
… · 3 Google Maps

2019-03-15 · Why We Stopped Making Explainers: EXPLAINED

Hank, 8 named — Hank lists explainer topics: Brazil, Israel and Palestine, Syria (twice), and US subjects: mass incarceration, net neutrality, Benghazi and tax plans. (00:00:00)
1 Brazil · 2 Israel · 3 Palestine · 4 Syria · 5 mass incarceration · 6 Net neutrality · 7 2012 Benghazi attack · 8 tax (00:00:29)

2019-03-29 · The Largest Theft of All Time

Hank, 3 named — Hank says the largest bank robbery was in 2015: hackers in China, Russia and Europe took $300-900 million from many banks with common malware; no one was caught and nothing was recovered. (00:00:50)
1 China · 2 Russia · 3 Europe

2019-05-07 · How I Read and Why

John, 2 named — 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. (00:00:20)
1 young adult literature · 2 conjoined twins (00:00:24)
John, 3 named — John has also reviewed great books for the New York Times Book Review, including Eleanor & Park, The Book Thief and The Hunger Games. (00:00:29)
1 Eleanor & Park · 2 The Book Thief (00:00:36) · 3 The Hunger Games (book series)

2019-05-14 · An Open Letter to Professional YouTubers

John, 4 named — Though aggressively bad at math, John recommends learning personal finance from Gaby Dunn's book Bad with Money, the Planet Money podcast, and the YouTube shows Two Cents and The Financial Diet. (00:00:58)
1 Gaby Dunn + Bad with Money · 2 Planet Money · 3 Two Cents · 4 The Financial Diet

2019-05-24 · The Monterey Bay Aquarium Has a Secret

Hank, 4 named — Last week (week of 13 May 2019) Hank went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which he calls one of the best places on earth, and delighted in mudskippers, otters, mola mola and cuttlefish. (00:00:00)
1 mudskipper · 2 otter · 3 ocean sunfish “mulla mulla” · 4 cuttlefish

2019-05-31 · Uncomfortable Nuance: Natural Gas Edition

Hank, 2 named — Hank says renewables like wind and solar are also part of coal's decline, but natural gas is a really important part. (00:00:40)
1 wind power · 2 solar power

2019-06-11 · Why I Haven't Written a New Book

John, 2 named — John is grateful that Turtles All the Way Down was generously received by critics and readers, with reviews in places like The New York Times and The Guardian. (00:00:56)
1 The New York Times · 2 The Guardian

2019-06-14 · What /Actually/ Happened at Chernobyl

Hank, 3 named — Hank says reactor heat comes mostly from fission and secondarily from the decay of unstable fission products, which keeps producing heat after the reaction stops. (00:01:32)
1 radioactive decay · 2 nuclear fusion (00:01:40) · 3 nuclear fission (00:01:43)

2019-06-25 · Seemed Like a Good Idea: Eugene Schieffelin and the European Starlings

John, 3 named — Schieffelin, in his own word, 'liberated' many other European birds into New York, including bullfinches, skylarks and nightingales, all of which died. (00:00:29)
1 Eurasian bullfinch “bullfinches” · 2 Eurasian skylark “skylarks” · 3 Common nightingale “nightingales”
John, 2 named — Without the movement of plants and animals between the Americas and Afro-Eurasia after the Columbian Exchange, there would be no cows or horses in the Americas and no pizza (tomatoes from the Americas, wheat from Afro-Eurasia). (00:02:55)
1 tomato · 2 Wheat

2019-07-02 · On Sunlight

John, 3 named — John notes Wikipedia's long list of solar deities: Egypt's Ra, Greece's Helios and the Aztec Nanahuatzin, who leapt into a bonfire to become the sun. (00:00:29)
1 Ra · 2 Helios (00:01:27) · 3 Nanahuatzin

2019-07-16 · star struck

John, 3 named — 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. (00:00:00)
1 Dan Howell · 2 Zadie Smith · 3 Rebecca Lowe

2019-07-23 · What to Love and How

video description, 4 named —
1 Divock Origi · 2 Trent Alexander-Arnold · 3 Virgil van Dijk · 4 Andrew Robertson
John, 4 named — Liverpool fans sing the same songs and share a history; John has met them from Indianapolis to Sierra Leone, Hollywood to Stockholm, and they always remember together. (00:00:57)
1 Indianapolis · 2 Sierra Leone · 3 Hollywood · 4 Stockholm

2019-07-30 · The Mexican Repatriation

John, 2 named — In the mid-19th century the US took land from Mexico, including all of California and Arizona, through the Mexican-American War and the Gadsden Purchase; its Mexican citizens became US citizens. (00:00:29)
1 California · 2 Arizona
John, 2 named — In the mid-19th century the US took land from Mexico, including all of California and Arizona, through the Mexican-American War and the Gadsden Purchase; its Mexican citizens became US citizens. (00:00:29)
1 Mexican-American War · 2 Gadsden Purchase

2019-08-02 · The Cutest Octopus

Hank, 2 named — Octopuses form two suborders, Cirrina and Incirrina. (00:00:29)
1 Cirrina “cirrida” · 2 Incirrina “incirrida”

2019-08-13 · How I (barely) Passed 11th Grade English

John, 2 named — John notes the brothers will be on tour this weekend in Madison, Wisconsin and Minneapolis, Minnesota, with ticket links in the description. (00:00:00)
1 Madison · 2 Minneapolis
John, 2 named — 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. (00:01:27)
1 Twelfth Night · 2 The Bluest Eye

2019-08-20 · Hank and John's Smooth Airport Reunion

John, 3 named — Couple portmanteaus are for people in love and dating, like Bennifer, or William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman, together about 30 years. (00:02:34)
1 Bennifer · 2 William H. Macy · 3 Felicity Huffman

2019-08-23 · The Amazon isn't "Burning" - It's Being Burned

Hank, 3 named — Hank says nationalism is an inherently exclusionary ideology, which is why fascism, nationalism and racism so often walk together. (00:04:39)
1 fascism · 2 nationalism · 3 racism

2019-09-27 · Crisis

Hank, 4 named (playful) — Hank lists the crises on offer: constitutional crises a couple of times a week, housing, existential always, and climate, where scientists would like people to panic. (00:00:00)
1 constitutional crisis · 2 housing crisis · 3 existential crisis · 4 climate change

2019-10-01 · Why Are Poor Countries Poor?

John, 3 named — Most Sierra Leoneans descend from long-time West Africans, but many former slaves in the British Empire were resettled there, so some trace descent to Canada, England or Nigeria. (00:00:29)
1 Canada · 2 England · 3 Nigeria

2019-10-08 · Looking for Alaska (...with Alaska)

John, 6 named — The series also comes out on BBC3 in the UK and in Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and many other places; more info in the doobly-doo. (00:00:29)
1 BBC Three “BBC3” · 2 United Kingdom “UK” · 3 Canada · 4 Europe · 5 Australia · 6 New Zealand

2019-10-15 · I'm Having a Lot of Feelings

John, 2 named — John has just seen Netflix's adaptation of Let It Snow, the book he wrote with Lauren Myracle and Maureen Johnson about 11 years ago, and finds it sweet, heartwarming and lovely. (00:00:58)
1 Lauren Myracle · 2 Maureen Johnson

2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000

video description, 3 named — In a comment John recommends three books to start on global health: An Introduction to Global Health Delivery, Mountains Beyond Mountains and Paul Farmer's The Uses of Haiti.
1 An Introduction to Global Health Delivery · 2 Mountains Beyond Mountains · 3 The Uses of Haiti
John, 2 named — John says that, working with PIH over the last 10 years, the community has seen its success helping build health care systems in impoverished communities from Haiti to Rwanda. (00:03:24)
1 Haiti · 2 Rwanda

2019-10-25 · Unscripted and Unhinged

Hank, 3 named — Fundraising tours and the map, Complexly's pilot season (History Pop, Stories Retold, Hashed Out) (00:02:40)
1 History Pop · 2 Stories Retold (00:03:04) · 3 Hashed Out

2019-10-30 · this is a video about pineapples.

John, 3 named — John says Louis XV of France and Catherine the Great of Russia loved pineapples. (00:01:56)
1 Louis XV · 2 Catherine the Great · 3 Ferdinand II of Aragon

2019-11-04 · This Cat Makes No Sense

Hank, 6 named — Hank says Pallas's cats range across Tibet, China, Pakistan, India, Mongolia and Iran, living solitarily on small rodents and birds, with the longest hair of any cat, stealth hunting and fertility windows as short as one day a year. (00:00:00)
1 Tibet · 2 China · 3 Pakistan · 4 India · 5 Mongolia · 6 Iran

2019-11-05 · Letting It Snow with Kiernan Shipka, Shameik Moore, Anna Akana, and Blogbrother John Green

video description, 5 named — The description says John poses real nerdfighters' questions to Isabela Merced, Kiernan Shipka, Shameik Moore, Odeya Rush, Jacob Batalon and the rest of the Let It Snow cast.
1 Isabela Merced · 2 Kiernan Shipka · 3 Shameik Moore · 4 Odeya Rush · 5 Jacob Batalon

John, 4 named — 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. (00:00:00)
1 Twitter · 2 Reddit · 3 Instagram · 4 Facebook

2019-11-08 · Trolling Through John's YouTube History...GUESS WHAT I FOUND!?

Hank, 2 named — Hank says everyone is sometimes confused by the YouTube algorithm; with a shared account he can't tell when YouTube is being weird versus when his brother is, as with sudden vending machine business recommendations. (00:00:29)
1 Tom Scott · 2 Eons

2019-11-12 · still learning

John, 2 named — John says the lyrics were grafted onto a different Scottish folk melody, became a popular New Year's song in Scotland, and spread with Scottish emigrants to become "the world's New Year's song". (00:00:29)
1 Ireland · 2 Americas
John, 2 named — John says their biggest disagreements were political: Dunlop was so angry at Burns's celebration of the American and French revolutions that she didn't write to him for two years. (00:01:27)
1 American Revolutionary War · 2 French Revolution

2019-11-26 · old fashioned parts video

John, 2 named — John says the first half of the P4A raises money for pre-selected Save the Children and Partners In Health, which the community has worked with for over a decade and which reach the most vulnerable. (00:01:50)
1 Save the Children · 2 Partners In Health

2019-12-03 · We Are Cats Now, I Guess?

video description, 3 named — John says the brothers are going on tour in January, also for charity, with tickets linked; the description names St. Petersburg, Raleigh and Atlanta.
1 St. Petersburg, Florida · 2 Raleigh, North Carolina · 3 Atlanta

2019-12-17 · The Best Days of My Decade

John, 5 named — That Evening of Awesome included the Mountain Goats, Kimya Dawson, Neil Gaiman and many friends, with Sarah, Katherine and the brothers' parents all there. (00:00:28)
1 The Mountain Goats · 2 Kimya Dawson (00:00:30) · 3 Neil Gaiman · 4 Sarah Urist Green (00:00:33) · 5 Katherine Green
John, 7 named — 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. (00:03:18)
1 Joan Mitchell (00:03:24) · 2 VidCon (00:03:26) · 3 Raymond Pettibon (00:03:35) · 4 Sydney Green “my mom” (00:03:39) · 5 La-Z-Boy · 6 Crash Course (00:03:44) · 7 Stan Muller (00:03:18)

2019-12-20 · Reading the First Chapter of A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

Hank, 3 named — Hank invites viewers to see live Dear Hank and John, live Anthropocene Reviewed and other weirdnesses with John in St. Petersburg, Raleigh and Atlanta in early January; tickets are in the description. (00:03:47)
1 St. Petersburg, Florida · 2 Raleigh, North Carolina (00:03:51) · 3 Atlanta

2019-12-27 · Why I'm Worried about 2020

Hank, 3 named — Last video of the 2010s: no look back at the decade, because Hank is worried about the future; worry gets a bad rap (00:00:03)
1 Fidget spinner · 2 The dress · 3 Planking
Hank, 3 named — Hank invites viewers in St. Petersburg, Atlanta or Raleigh to come to the brothers' little tour; more information is in the description. (00:03:47)
1 St. Petersburg, Florida · 2 Atlanta · 3 Raleigh, North Carolina