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Lists, 2023

76 lists in 47 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

2023-01-17 · John Green Answers the Most Searched Hank Green Questions

2023-01-24 · Behind the Scenes of my TUMBLR MEME LORD ERA

  • John, 2 named — John says the Awesome Coffee Club supplies coffee, now including decaf, to over 10,000 subscribers in the US and Canada and donates 100% of its profits to charity. (00:02:32)
    1 United States “the US” · 2 Canada (00:03:14)

2023-01-27 · An Announcement 3 Years in the Making

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says the result is Study Hall, with four main parts, including Fast Guides on college majors, How to College on how college works, and College Foundations on foundational courses. (00:02:25)
    1 Fast Guides · 2 Crash Course How to College (00:02:32) · 3 College Foundations (00:02:35)

2023-01-31 · I'm Going Back to College?

  • John, 5 named — John says that in 2022 more people died of tuberculosis than of homicide, war, malaria, typhoid and cholera combined. (00:00:58)
    1 homicide · 2 war (00:01:20) · 3 malaria (00:01:25) · 4 typhoid fever · 5 cholera

2023-02-03 · My Mid-Afternoon Existential Crisis

  • Hank, 2 named — The first half of the P4A raises money for Save the Children and Partners In Health; the second half for organisations the community votes for after watching viewers' videos. (00:01:54)
    1 Save the Children · 2 Partners In Health

2023-02-07 · Mid-Morning Existential Crisis: The Format Returns

2023-02-10 · If it ain't broke don't fix it.

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says he doesn't give pets human names: his dog was Lemon, and his cats have been Cameo and Gummy Bear. (00:02:50)
    1 Lemon · 2 Cameo (00:02:51) · 3 Gummy Bear

2023-02-17 · COUNTDOWN TO THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank says Butfartman, Beanie Sanfurbs, Crank Green, Dave the Fish and Glenn and Dale are mascots of former Projects for Awesome; no one knows this year's (2023) mascot until it starts. (00:00:00)
    1 Butfartman “Buttfartman” (00:00:18) · 2 Beanie Sanfurbs · 3 Crank Green · 4 Dave the Fish (00:00:26)

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank says both organizations help people with the least by building strong foundations for communities, and that evidence and experience show people given resources and a foundation will build. (00:02:39)
    1 Partners In Health · 2 Save the Children (00:02:41)

2023-03-10 · Is it Good or Bad that we Haven't Met Aliens?

  • Hank, 5 named (hypothetical) — Hank says the great filter could be AI, global warming, nuclear weapons or social media, maybe TikTok; we don't know. (00:00:04)
    1 artificial intelligence “AI” · 2 climate change “global warming” (00:02:11) · 3 nuclear weapon (00:02:13) · 4 social media · 5 TikTok (00:02:15)

2023-03-24 · The Two Reasons Why Humans Have Such Bad Backs

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans, our three closest relatives, don't get herniated discs, which raises the question of why. (00:01:34)
    1 chimpanzee · 2 gorilla · 3 orangutan (00:01:36)

2023-05-16 · Did TB Cause World War I?

  • John, 3 named — John asks whether tuberculosis, which gave us the stethoscope, the Adirondack chair and New Mexico, also partly gave us World War I; his answer is 'kinda'. (00:00:01)
    1 stethoscope · 2 Adirondack chair (00:00:04) · 3 New Mexico

2023-05-19 · So, I've got cancer

  • video description, 3 named — In a comment John asks for no-bummer recommendations and offers his own: all nine Fast and Furious movies in order, Harvey and Happy Gilmore.
    1 Fast & Furious · 2 Harvey (film) · 3 Happy Gilmore

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank explains that for solid tumors such as lung or prostate cancer, living elsewhere in the body means the cells have evolved new survival strategies, which is why metastasis is a big deal. (00:03:02)
    1 Lung cancer · 2 prostate cancer

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank has several lymphoma risk factors (medications, an autoimmune disease, mono as a kid), so he had been watching for it and is glad it was taken seriously. (00:03:56)
    1 autoimmune disease · 2 infectious mononucleosis (00:03:59)

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank says depression and anxiety are a big part of cancer treatment; though he has not struggled much with them, he has now seen how intricately linked they are. (00:05:31)
    1 depression · 2 anxiety disorder

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank does not know whether he will make Vlogbrothers videos, Dear Hank and John, SciShow or Tangents during treatment; he is playing it by ear. (00:06:26)
    1 Vlogbrothers · 2 Dear Hank and John (00:06:29) · 3 SciShow · 4 SciShow Tangents (00:06:32)

2023-05-23 · Rough Week

  • John, 2 named — John says the world still needs Crash Course, SciShow and everything else Complexly makes. (00:03:19)
    1 Crash Course · 2 SciShow

  • John, 2 named — Colleagues from Missoula to Sierra Leone count on the brothers to continue the Awesome Coffee and Socks clubs and everything else DFTBA makes. (00:03:24)
    1 Missoula, Montana · 2 Sierra Leone

  • John, 2 named — Colleagues from Missoula to Sierra Leone count on the brothers to continue the Awesome Coffee and Socks clubs and everything else DFTBA makes. (00:03:28)
    1 Awesome Coffee Club · 2 Awesome Socks Club

2023-05-30 · How Does He Do It?

2023-06-13 · touched by a king

  • video description, 2 named — John's comment says the Awesome Socks Club has reopened and urges viewers to get Awesome Coffee Club coffee, whose profits all fight maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone.
    1 maternal death · 2 child mortality

  • video description, 4 named — Answering a viewer in the comments, John says TB kills more people every year than malaria, typhoid, homicide and war combined.
    1 malaria · 2 typhoid fever · 3 homicide · 4 war

2023-06-16 · So, About This HAIR…

  • Hank, 4 named — In high school Hank thought of himself as a bit of a punk, listened to the Dead Milkmen, Rancid, Operation Ivy and The Clash, and did not want a normal life as a businessman or lawyer. (00:02:06)
    1 The Dead Milkmen · 2 Rancid · 3 Operation Ivy · 4 The Clash (00:02:08)

2023-06-20 · Reflections from a Terrible CEO

  • John, 4 named — John loves the people they work with and what they make (Eons, Journey to the Microcosmos, Crash Course, SciShow), which he watches daily and now understands a little. (00:00:39)
    1 Eons (00:02:39) · 2 Journey to the Microcosmos (00:02:40) · 3 Crash Course · 4 SciShow (00:00:39)

  • John, 4 named — John praises DFTBA merch: Nathan Zed's Good Enough Hoodies, Ariel Bissett's I'm Thinking About Books shirt, Tyler Thrasher's Cicada Plushie and Kurzgesagt's Timeline of Complex Life. (00:02:29)
    1 Nathan Zed (00:02:53) · 2 Ariel Bissett (00:02:29) · 3 Tyler Thrasher (00:02:57) · 4 Kurzgesagt

  • John, 4 named — John praises DFTBA merch: Nathan Zed's Good Enough Hoodies, Ariel Bissett's I'm Thinking About Books shirt, Tyler Thrasher's Cicada Plushie and Kurzgesagt's Timeline of Complex Life. (00:02:53)
    1 Good Enough Hoodie · 2 I'm Thinking About Books shirt · 3 Cicada Plushie (00:02:57) · 4 Timeline of Complex Life

2023-07-11 · Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Johnson & Johnson

  • John, 3 named — John asks viewers to tell friends, family and the internet, since executives think nobody is watching in the places where they sell most products, like Band-Aids, Tylenol and Listerine. (00:05:21)
    1 Band-Aid · 2 Tylenol (00:05:48) · 3 Listerine

2023-07-14 · The Good News Video

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says that after John's video Nerdfighters went nuts on Reddit, Twitter and other social media, with letters and phone calls; he hopes everyone was polite. (00:01:11)
    1 Reddit · 2 Twitter · 3 social media (00:01:14)

2023-07-18 · Tuberculosis Fighters Have a Posse

  • John, 2 named — John says new HIV treatments still did not reach impoverished communities until activists in the US, Europe and the Global South worked together to build that constituency. (00:01:51)
    1 United States · 2 Europe (00:02:11)

2023-07-21 · The Biggest Weirdest Telescope We've Ever Built

  • Hank, 5 named — Hank says the different kinds of electromagnetic radiation (infrared, ultraviolet, X-rays, gamma rays, microwaves) each give different clues about how the universe works. (00:01:27)
    1 Infrared (00:01:28) · 2 ultraviolet (00:01:29) · 3 X-ray (00:01:27) · 4 gamma ray (00:01:29) · 5 microwave

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank says events in the universe emit photons and also massive particles such as electrons, protons and nuclei, but those are absorbed by galactic gas and dust, so they are not very useful. (00:03:25)
    1 electron · 2 proton (00:03:28)

2023-07-28 · Let's Try Radiation Therapy!

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank lists side effects of treatment that can kill: heart failure needing a transplant, secondary cancers more dangerous than his current one, pulmonary embolism and stroke. (00:03:54)
    1 Heart failure · 2 Pulmonary embolism (00:04:03) · 3 Stroke

2023-08-01 · Three Mornings

  • video description, 2 named — The description thanks Abi Rein and Jessica Rollins for traveling to Colombia, the DFTBA staff who packed the coffee orders, Rosianna Halse Rojas for translation and captions, Sucafina and roaster First Crack.
    1 Abi Rein · 2 Jessica Rollins

2023-08-04 · The Biggest Science Story of the Week

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says we must do three things at once: stop emitting new carbon dioxide, start removing old CO2, and deal with the unavoidable impacts of current warming. (00:04:40)
    1 energy transition “stop putting new carbon dioxide in the atmosphere” · 2 Carbon dioxide removal “taking old CO2 out of the atmosphere” (00:05:05) · 3 Climate change adaptation “deal with the impacts of the current warming” (00:05:08)

2023-08-15 · Henry

  • John, 2 named — Saying that in TB you have to keep trying, Dr. Tefera asked Partners In Health and the Sierra Leonean Ministry of Health to bring needed drugs from Liberia and Lesotho to save Henry. (00:03:07)
    1 Liberia · 2 Lesotho

2023-08-22 · The Panera Phenomenon

  • John, 2 named — John notes Yung Gravy did not need Panera for the rhyme and could have named Fazoli's or O'Charley's, but chose Panera. (00:01:56)
    1 Fazoli's · 2 O'Charley's “O'Charlie's”

  • John, 3 named — John says many rappers mention Panera, among them Lil Uzi Vert, Rick Ross and Lil Yachty, and the list goes on. (00:02:36)
    1 Lil Uzi Vert · 2 Rick Ross · 3 Lil Yachty

2023-08-29 · Breaking News: CEO Demoted

  • John, 2 named — John describes DFTBA.com as an e-commerce company connecting fans to creators like the McElroy Brothers or Kurzgesagt, which also makes the Awesome Socks and Coffee Clubs and Sun Basin Soap. (00:00:22)
    1 McElroy brothers · 2 Kurzgesagt

2023-09-08 · Giraffes are Way More Complicated Than We Thought

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says post-reproductive females are rare: humans, killer whales, some other whales (pilot whales, he thinks), arguably elephants, and now giraffes. (00:03:21)
    1 killer whale · 2 pilot whale (00:03:24) · 3 elephant

2023-09-12 · Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Danaher and Cepheid

  • John, 2 named — John says 1.6 million people will die of tuberculosis this year (2023), more than malaria and HIV combined, which infuriates him because TB is curable. (00:00:02)
    1 malaria · 2 HIV/AIDS

  • John, 4 named — John says Danaher is on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Threads, and he and Hank will be in all those places amplifying viewers' messages. (00:06:48)
    1 Twitter · 2 Facebook · 3 Instagram (00:06:49) · 4 Threads

2023-09-15 · The Worst Disease in Human History

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank says a couple of years ago he would probably have guessed malaria, then AIDS, as the deadliest infectious disease, and needed a hint to reach tuberculosis. (00:00:04)
    1 malaria · 2 HIV/AIDS (00:00:09)

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says tuberculosis has been the deadliest infectious disease for like 99% of the last 10,000 years, overtaken only every once in a while by the Spanish flu, the Black Death or, very briefly, COVID. (00:00:21)
    1 Spanish flu · 2 Black Death · 3 COVID-19 pandemic (00:00:26)

2023-09-19 · So, um.... GOOD NEWS?!?!?!

  • John, 3 named — John credits partners, many in this fight for years: Doctors Without Borders, the Treatment Action Group and Partners In Health, among others. (00:01:16)
    1 Médecins Sans Frontières “Doctors Without Borders” · 2 Treatment Action Group (00:01:19) · 3 Partners In Health

2023-09-22 · A Feeling I've Never Felt Before

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank asks everyone to get the Pizzamas app on Apple and Android and turn on push notifications. (00:04:23)
    1 Apple · 2 Android

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank reminds viewers that all Pizzamas profit goes to decreasing maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone. (00:04:56)
    1 maternal death · 2 child mortality

2023-09-30 · An Incredible Update

  • John, 2 named — John recalls that after days of pressure J&J and the Global Fund announced generic competition only in some countries, leaving out Ukraine, South Africa and many others: a compromise win. (00:00:58)
    1 Ukraine · 2 South Africa

  • John, 3 named — John says J&J has essentially agreed to everything Doctors Without Borders, Partners In Health, Treatment Action Group and many others asked for. (00:01:56)
    1 Médecins Sans Frontières “Doctors Without Borders” · 2 Partners In Health · 3 Treatment Action Group

2023-10-04 · A Messy and Unhinged Introduction to Geoengineering

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank lists techniques of rising impact: high-albedo crops, ocean mirrors, marine cloud brightening, thinning heat-trapping cirrus clouds, and stratospheric sulfur dioxide injection. (00:03:18)
    1 Marine cloud brightening · 2 Stratospheric aerosol injection (00:03:31)

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank says the cost of solar, wind and batteries has fallen about a thousand times since he graduated college, and they are already better than fossil fuel infrastructure in most ways. (00:05:50)
    1 solar power · 2 wind power

2023-10-05 · America's Second Favorite Fourth Tier English Soccer Team

  • John, 2 named — John says Wimbledon currently sit narrowly ahead of Wrexham, owned by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, and several spots above the Milton Keynes club. (00:02:05)
    1 Ryan Reynolds · 2 Rob McElhenney

  • John, 3 named — AFC Wimbledon backstory, sponsorship, surprising season and star players, Joe Lewis's shorts (00:02:26)
    1 Ali Al-Hamadi (00:02:28) · 2 James Tilley (00:02:26) · 3 Aaron Sasu

  • John, 2 named — John says great players are emerging from Wimbledon's academy, including fullbacks Jack Currie, his personal hero, at the club since 10, and Isaac Ovandera, who joined at 14. (00:02:58)
    1 Jack Currie · 2 Isaac Ovandera (00:03:01)

  • John, 2 named — John hails central defenders 'Greatbeard' Ryan Johnson and Joe Lewis, whose aggressively rolled-up shorts hide the DFTBA logo, which John is fine with. (00:03:15)
    1 Ryan Johnson · 2 Joe Lewis (00:03:16)

2023-10-06 · I Quit

  • Hank, 6 named — Hank names past grant recipients: Alexis Nikole, Answer in Progress, The Financial Diet, Wendover Productions, Real Engineering, and Kurzgesagt in the first year. (00:07:53)
    1 Alexis Nikole · 2 Answer in Progress (00:07:55) · 3 The Financial Diet · 4 Wendover Productions (00:07:57) · 5 Real Engineering · 6 Kurzgesagt (00:08:00)

2023-10-24 · A Tale of Two Cancers

  • John, 3 named — John says there was no imaging capacity (no MRI machines, no CT scanners, in 2015 not even x-ray machines), so Mondeh could not get a diagnosis and the lump kept growing. (00:01:43)
    1 magnetic resonance imaging “MRI machines” · 2 CT scan · 3 X-ray (00:01:49)

2023-10-27 · I Keep Thinking About Taylor Swift

2023-11-03 · We Need to talk about Sarapocial Relationships

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank says such relationships go far back: people can have them with fictional characters, and people had them with Zeus and Artemis. (00:00:16)
    1 Zeus · 2 Artemis

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says some shared things can be controlled: the average nerdfighter knows much more about tuberculosis, pelicans and AFC Wimbledon than the average human. (00:03:27)
    1 tuberculosis · 2 pelican · 3 AFC Wimbledon

  • Hank, 4 named — By capable Hank means the community can act for itself and the world, from TB access to Crash Course, SciShow and the clubs funding maternal health in Sierra Leone; membership should feel valuable. (00:04:25)
    1 Crash Course · 2 SciShow · 3 Awesome Socks Club · 4 Awesome Coffee Club

2023-11-24 · It Wasn't Supposed to be Thanksgiving Yesterday

2023-11-28 · John's (Mostly Book) Holiday Gift Recommendations

2023-12-01 · It's OK if you think less of me after this!

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank says DFTBA mostly helps creators sell products to their audiences, working with the McElroy brothers, Kurzgesagt and a company called Item Label, and doing the logistics behind Dropout TV. (00:01:38)
    1 McElroy brothers · 2 Kurzgesagt · 3 Dropout · 4 Item Label

2023-12-05 · MASSIVE Tuberculosis News

  • John, 1 named — John thinks the study matters not only for TB treatment but for how to speed up innovation in treating other diseases, from malaria to cancer. (00:00:11)
    1 malaria

  • John, 3 named — John says Partners In Health, Doctors Without Borders, Unitaid and others ran a randomized controlled trial over several years testing whether shorter regimens of existing drugs can cure MDR-TB. (00:01:45)
    1 Partners In Health · 2 Médecins Sans Frontières “Doctors Without Borders” · 3 Unitaid

2023-12-08 · Did Natural Cancer Treatments Save My Life?

  • Hank, 3 named — Three of his four chemo drugs come from nature (periwinkle, soil microbes) and were tested exhaustively (00:00:29)
    1 vinblastine (00:00:42) · 2 doxorubicin (00:00:29) · 3 bleomycin (00:01:01)

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank took fish oil, vitamin D and magnesium; he thinks the magnesium especially helped, as his muscle cramps cleared up. (00:04:01)
    1 fish oil · 2 vitamin D · 3 magnesium

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says those people don't die for lack of coffee enemas, cannabis oil or apricot pits, but for lack of chemotherapy, radiation, surgery and screening. (00:04:59)
    1 coffee enema · 2 cannabis (00:05:02) · 3 apricot kernel

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank says those people don't die for lack of coffee enemas, cannabis oil or apricot pits, but for lack of chemotherapy, radiation, surgery and screening. (00:05:04)
    1 chemotherapy · 2 Radiation therapy (00:05:07) · 3 surgery · 4 preventive healthcare “screening”

2023-12-15 · Cat...I Farted.

  • Hank, 2 named — ChatGPT's examples (Chevrolet Nova, Pepsi in China) and Hank's own check (00:02:30)
    1 Chevrolet Nova · 2 Pepsi (00:02:48)

  • Hank, 7 named — Brand names that had to change because they are vulgar in other languages (00:03:04)
    1 Kavli · 2 Mazda Laputa (00:03:12) · 3 Gerber Products Company · 4 IKEA (00:03:20) · 5 Vicks (00:03:27) · 6 Sega (00:03:31) · 7 Wii (00:03:37)

2023-12-19 · End of a Rough Year

  • John, 3 named (1 unnamed item) — John says he finds hope in community and collaboration, in making meaning together by making change together: in the 'we's of his life, TB fighters, Nerdfighteria, his family and Indianapolis. (00:02:03)
    1 TBFighters · 2 Nerdfighteria (00:02:07) · … · 4 Indianapolis (00:02:11)

2023-12-24 · John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated