Skip to content

Lists, 2022

45 lists in 37 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

2022-01-04 · After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING

  • John, 2 named — With PIH's own fundraising and support from Life's Library and the Awesome Socks Club, ground has broken on the Maternal Center of Excellence. (00:01:20)
    1 Life's Library · 2 Awesome Socks Club

  • John, 3 named — John thanks PIH Sierra Leone's executive director Dr. Bailor Barrie, maternal care lead Isata Dumbuya, and everyone at DFTBA.com. (00:08:30)
    1 Bailor Barrie · 2 Isata Dumbuya · 3 DFTBA Records (00:08:35)

2022-01-07 · For Our 2000th Video: Just a Normal Snowy Day

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank calls it an amazing, weird, fun run that would not have been possible without the community and the people at Complexly, VidCon and DFTBA. (00:03:20)
    1 Complexly · 2 VidCon · 3 DFTBA Records

2022-01-21 · How to Be Hopeful About Doomsday

  • Hank, 2 named — Reflecting three years of piling-up bad (pandemics, climate change, isolationism, fascism), the clock has stood at 100 seconds to midnight for three years, the closest in its 75 years. (00:00:00)
    1 climate change (00:00:11) · 2 fascism

  • Hank, 5 named — Instead of getting mad, get curious: start with someone who deeply discusses a big problem, like the Prison Policy Initiative on incarceration, David Roberts' Volts on climate, or Fair Fight and Stacey Abrams on voting rights. (00:02:53)
    1 Prison Policy Initiative (00:03:04) · 2 David Roberts (00:03:07) · 3 Volts · 4 Fair Fight Action (00:03:10) · 5 Stacey Abrams (00:02:53)

2022-02-01 · This Video Is Actually Three Videos

  • John, 2 named — John says the most important issues, from monetary policy to expanding healthcare access, cannot be boiled down to a lot of benefit at no cost; pennies are ridiculous but easy, important things are neither. (00:02:12)
    1 Monetary policy · 2 universal health care “expanding healthcare access” (00:02:15)

2022-02-08 · How Much Money Vlogbrothers Makes from YouTube (...and where it goes)

  • video description, 5 named — The description lists the educational grant recipients funded by the ad revenue: MattieWex, Tom Lum, Sofishtication, Alexis Nikole, Entomology Abby, Astrokirsten, The Garbage Queen and Flipping Physics.
    1 MattieWex · 2 Sofishtication · 3 Entomology Abby · 4 Astrokirsten · 5 The Garbage Queen

  • John, 3 named — John says this year's (2022) grants went to educational creators such as Tom Lum, Alexis Nikole and Flipping Physics, all great, with links in the doobly-doo. (00:01:20)
    1 Tom Lum · 2 Alexis Nikole (00:01:22) · 3 Flipping Physics

2022-02-24 · How to Make Potatoes While Dread Presses In from Every Direction

  • John, 2 named — Since there is not enough joy in the world, John urges feeling kinship with potatoes recently grown in the soil of Nebraska, Idaho or somewhere you've only driven through. (00:01:27)
    1 Nebraska · 2 Idaho

2022-02-25 · When You Can't Fix Everything…

2022-04-01 · I Don't Have a Good Title for This Video.

2022-04-05 · Celebrities I've Met and Whether I'd Vote for Them???

2022-04-08 · Hank and John Discover Chippy Butties

  • Hank, 4 named — Asked for a podcast to learn from, John names 99% Invisible, Radiolab, Invisibilia and Throughline, after Hank jokingly suggests The Anthropocene Reviewed. (00:02:16)
    1 99% Invisible · 2 Radiolab (00:02:19) · 3 Invisibilia · 4 Throughline (00:02:23)

2022-04-12 · Utter Chippy Butty Chaos

  • John, 2 named — Formula One, Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen and Dr. House the anesthesiologist (00:01:47)
    1 Lewis Hamilton · 2 Max Verstappen (00:02:02)

2022-04-19 · How do you cross the Sad Gap?

  • John, 3 named — John says their philanthropy then was about their own helplessness, not grounded in listening to those affected, so their attention moved with the world's: Japan's tsunami, Syrian refugees, Ebola. (00:01:43)
    1 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami · 2 Syrian refugee crisis · 3 Western African Ebola virus epidemic (00:01:49)

2022-04-22 · My Life is on My Walls

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank shows art from Vi Hart, Star Trek: The Next Generation and They Might Be Giants items, and a Ze Frank ducky, among bobbleheads that keep losing their heads. (00:01:24)
    1 Vi Hart (00:01:33) · 2 Star Trek: The Next Generation (00:01:37) · 3 They Might Be Giants · 4 Ze Frank (00:01:24)

2022-04-29 · 5 Ways to Actually Understand Very Large Numbers

2022-05-03 · My Religion and My Banned Books

  • John, 2 named — 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. (00:00:00)
    1 Looking for Alaska (novel) · 2 Turtles All the Way Down (00:00:03)

  • John, 4 named — John says he kind of understands book banning: books threaten power structures that want marginalized people, by race, sexuality, gender identity or mental illness, seen as less than fully human. (00:02:39)
    1 racism “race” · 2 human sexuality · 3 gender identity · 4 mental disorder

2022-05-06 · Why I Didn't Quit YouTube (yet)

2022-05-20 · It's My Fault Too

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank describes Tangents as a comedy game show science podcast with Ceri and Sam Schultz, and says that as of this week (week of 16 May 2022) they are starting to upload it to YouTube. (00:02:53)
    1 Ceri (00:03:12) · 2 Sam Schultz (00:02:53)

2022-05-24 · Hello! Meet Daisy!

2022-06-17 · Are You Eating a Credit Card Every Week?

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank was lucky to first see the claim in the New York Post, which he distrusts; seen first at USA Today, ABC News or Nautilus by someone primed to expect the worst, he understands not doubting it. (00:03:12)
    1 USA Today · 2 ABC News · 3 Nautilus (science magazine)

2022-06-21 · On Disease

  • John, 3 named — John lists the itises he has or has had: orbital cellulitis, eosinophilic esophagitis and viral meningitis, besides ordinary ones like sinusitis and gastritis. (00:00:29)
    1 orbital cellulitis · 2 eosinophilic esophagitis · 3 meningitis (00:00:33)

2022-07-01 · 7 Movie Reviews in Four Minutes

  • Hank, 6 named — Hank thinks he has seen six movies in the five and a half years since Orin was born (Parasite, Knives Out, Little Women, Coco, Encanto, Into the Spider-Verse) and decided to double that in days. (00:00:29)
    1 Parasite (00:00:41) · 2 Knives Out · 3 Little Women · 4 Coco · 5 Encanto · 6 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (00:00:29)

  • Hank, 7 named — Six movies in five and a half years, then seven quick movie reviews with cry counts (00:00:52)
    1 Dune · 2 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (00:01:16) · 3 In & Of Itself (00:01:27) · 4 Everything Everywhere All at Once (00:01:59) · 5 The Lighthouse (00:02:30) · 6 Pokémon Detective Pikachu (00:02:51) · 7 Palm Springs (00:03:11)

2022-07-15 · Thoughts From the Universe - Woah

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank says life on Earth, everything from brachiosaurus to BTS, has existed for 27% of the lifetime of the universe. (00:02:19)
    1 Brachiosaurus · 2 BTS

2022-08-12 · The Biggest Climate Bill of Your Life - But What does it DO!?

  • Hank, 3 named — Jenkins says supportive policies in the US, China, Germany, Japan and elsewhere turned expensive alternatives into cheap, trillion-dollar mainstream technologies scaling rapidly. (00:03:08)
    1 China · 2 Germany · 3 Japan

  • Hank, 2 named — Earlier EV credits covered only each maker's first 200,000 vehicles, used up by GM and Tesla; the bill extends them for 10 years if manufacturing requirements are met. (00:10:24)
    1 General Motors “GM” · 2 Tesla, Inc.

2022-08-23 · Flin Flon: One Book's Unlikely Survival

  • John, 2 named — Tracy from the Turtles shoot, Flin Flon's name, John's rule on strange out-of-print books, and the book's arrival as COVID hits (00:00:10)
    1 I, Robot (film) · 2 Hot Tub Time Machine

  • John, 2 named — John has never heard of A. S. M. Hutchinson or Gertrude Atherton, though they wrote the best-selling American novels of 1922 and 1923. (00:00:58)
    1 A. S. M. Hutchinson · 2 Gertrude Atherton (00:01:22)

2022-10-04 · Hank and John Reunited at Last

  • John, 3 named — Rounds of 'Got It': ocean picnic, universal healthcare, cheating scandals, chemistry, lightning party, putt-putt (00:02:25)
    1 William Shakespeare · 2 Jane Austen · 3 Toni Morrison

2022-10-07 · Planets Don't Exist

  • John, 2 named — John says making our own light, as fireflies and anglerfish do, is one of the coolest things because the idea is so beautiful. (00:08:14)
    1 firefly (concept) “fireflies” (00:08:30) · 2 anglerfish (00:08:14)

2022-10-11 · Most People Have Never Been 20

  • John, 2 named — John says most people ever born lived and died before Nero or Mansa Musa, before minutes and seconds, guns, global Christianity and Islam, and potatoes or pineapples in Afro-Eurasia. (00:01:11)
    1 Nero · 2 Mansa Musa

  • John, 4 named — John says most people ever born lived and died before Nero or Mansa Musa, before minutes and seconds, guns, global Christianity and Islam, and potatoes or pineapples in Afro-Eurasia. (00:01:19)
    1 Christianity · 2 Islam · 3 potato (concept) “potatoes” (00:01:23) · 4 pineapple

2022-10-14 · The Surprise Revelation of NerdfArters

2022-10-18 · Terraverse Over Everything: Thoughts from London

  • John, 5 named — John was drawn to landscapes: Lucas Arruda's paintings, Byron Kim's abstracted landscape, Didier William's underseascape, Yoan Capote's plaster-and-metal landscape and Sam Moyer's stones-and-canvas painting. (00:02:00)
    1 Lucas Arruda · 2 Byron Kim (00:02:05) · 3 Didier William (00:02:11) · 4 Yoan Capote (00:02:15) · 5 Sam Moyer (00:02:19)

2022-11-04 · My Secret Obsession

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank says the Awesome Socks Club sends a pair by a different independent artist each month, ships free, cancels anytime, and gives all profit to cutting maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone. (00:02:30)
    1 maternal death · 2 child mortality

2022-11-18 · How Much Does Humanity Weigh?

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says the extinction is much debated, but humans definitely contributed: it coincided closely with humans' arrival in North and South America and, separately, Australia. (00:02:11)
    1 North America · 2 South America (00:02:13) · 3 Australia

2022-11-22 · John's 2022 Gift Guide

  • John, 6 named — Books as gifts: nonfiction, a novel, a romance, YA and essay collections (00:00:49)
    1 The Song of the Cell · 2 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (00:01:03) · 3 Corinne (00:01:16) · 4 All My Rage (00:01:22) · 5 The Source of Self-Regard (00:01:37) · 6 Mantel Pieces (00:01:27)

2022-12-02 · I Know How to Fix YouTube Rewind

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank's recap would count comments, likes, Super Thanks and Super Chats, ideally let viewers message a favorite creator, and the next day give creators their own Rewind with stats and messages. (00:03:09)
    1 Super Thanks · 2 Super Chat

2022-12-09 · Things are Changing Very Fast

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank says he wrote two books about how, when new things arrive (a pandemic, social change, a powerful technology, an alien), people retreat to the camps where they feel safest, the more so the more confused they are. (00:00:11)
    1 An Absolutely Remarkable Thing “a couple of books” · 2 A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor “a couple of books”

2022-12-16 · What I Would Have Tweeted

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank explains you can't always tell where you got food poisoning, since pathogens with the same symptoms have very different onset times: E. coli and Campylobacter two to five days, staph maybe 15 minutes. (00:00:00)
    1 Escherichia coli (00:00:22) · 2 Campylobacter · 3 Staphylococcus aureus · 4 Salmonella (00:00:28)

2022-12-20 · The Best Books Get Better

  • John, 2 named — John describes Parable of the Sower: a young black woman narrates a future America of collapsing systems, a demagogue president, climate havoc and a substance abuse epidemic, things that feel just a little contemporary. (00:01:50)
    1 climate change · 2 substance abuse

2022-12-23 · You Cannot Trust Yourself (Hank's End of the Year Worries)

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says he is very good at becoming whatever a platform wants him to be: he got good at YouTube, Twitter and TikTok, and just had the top toot of the day on Mastodon. (00:00:00)
    1 YouTube (00:01:38) · 2 Twitter · 3 TikTok