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Lists, 2024

60 lists in 40 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

2024-01-05 · I'm Scared of 2024...So Here's 3 Optimistic Thoughts

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank blames the culture-war talk and nationalism on the disintegration of the media landscape, caused by platforms like TikTok, Facebook and YouTube maximizing time on platform, where moral outrage sticks best. (00:01:36)
    1 TikTok · 2 Facebook · 3 YouTube

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank announces he will be in Southern California in a couple of weeks performing his one-man stand-up comedy show about cancer in Oxnard, Brea, San Diego and downtown Los Angeles. (00:07:06)
    1 Oxnard · 2 Brea · 3 San Diego · 4 Los Angeles

2024-01-16 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria

  • John, 3 named — Not all of those savings are due to Nerdfighteria: Partners In Health, Doctors Without Borders, the Treatment Action Group and many TB survivors have worked for these changes for years. (00:00:25)
    1 Partners In Health · 2 Médecins Sans Frontières “Doctors Without Borders” (00:04:35) · 3 Treatment Action Group

2024-01-23 · Breaking News: Complexly Signs Major Tetris Athlete

2024-01-30 · How Vlogbrothers Will End

  • John, 3 named — John says even very successful shows often don't last long: Friends ran 10 seasons, The Office 9, The West Wing 8. (00:00:39)
    1 Friends · 2 The Office (American TV series) · 3 The West Wing (00:00:43)

2024-02-06 · The Truth of How Books Become Movies

  • John, 2 named — John says most optioned books never become movies: An Abundance of Katherines was optioned and never made, and Paper Towns was optioned three times first. (00:00:29)
    1 An Abundance of Katherines · 2 Paper Towns (00:00:32)

  • John, 3 named — John calls the Turtles movie truly brilliant: about class, friendship, free will and mental illness, raw and honest without feeling sensationalized. (00:03:00)
    1 social class · 2 free will (00:03:04) · 3 mental disorder

2024-02-09 · My Favorite Climate Graph

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says around $100 per ton solar, wind and EVs level off, and weirder options such as zero-carbon synthetic fuels and hydrogen start to make sense. (00:02:02)
    1 solar power · 2 wind power · 3 Electric car “EVs”

2024-02-16 · How Much Does it Cost to be a Nerdfighter

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank says the goal of raising $25 million for the Maternal Center of Excellence caused many of their ideas, like the Awesome Socks Club and the Awesome Coffee Club, and many asks of individuals and the community. (00:01:06)
    1 Awesome Socks Club · 2 Awesome Coffee Club (00:01:08)

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says Save the Children focuses where children need most support, now Gaza, where it delivers aid, and also works in war- and disaster-hit places like Yemen, Syria and Ukraine. (00:05:02)
    1 Yemen · 2 Syria · 3 Ukraine

2024-03-05 · THE BEST DAY

  • John, 3 named — For John that thing is football; for others it could be crochet, Jane Austen or distance running. (00:04:08)
    1 crochet · 2 Jane Austen · 3 Running

2024-03-22 · The Internet Needs to Change

2024-03-26 · I Own Danaher

  • John, 4 named — John notes negative publicity for Danaher in the Washington Post and on Threads, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, including a lower-your-test-prices Flappy Bird he finds utterly addictive. (00:04:15)
    1 Threads · 2 Instagram · 3 Facebook · 4 Twitter

2024-04-23 · Full Hank

  • John, 4 named — A sample of the podcast previews its topics: the Big Bang, cosmic noon, the fundamental forces, the large-scale structure of the universe, black holes and dark matter. (00:02:58)
    1 Big Bang · 2 Fundamental interaction (00:03:02) · 3 black hole (00:03:05) · 4 dark matter (00:03:08)

2024-04-26 · One Year Out.

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says rereading his tweets from this time last year (2023) helps: some hinted at illness, but he also tweeted about hockey, Pluto and rereading the Mars trilogy, his first loved novel; he was still himself. (00:02:18)
    1 ice hockey · 2 Mars trilogy · 3 Pluto (00:02:27)

  • Hank, 3 named (playful) — The sock says it is taking over Instagram, TikTok and YouTube Shorts for five days, at Hank's insistence, on the Good Store accounts linked in the description. (00:04:03)
    1 Instagram · 2 TikTok (00:04:05) · 3 YouTube Shorts

2024-05-03 · Everything Wrong with Turtles All the Way Down

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says the film is on Max; in the US Max can be had through the Play Store, the App Store, Amazon Prime or Max.com. (00:02:58)
    1 Google Play · 2 App Store (00:03:00) · 3 Amazon Prime

  • Hank, 12 named — Hank tells viewers to finish the film, then use the Max subscription to watch a long list of other shows, from The Sopranos to Deadwood. (00:03:04)
    1 The Sopranos · 2 A Song of Ice and Fire “Game of Thrones” · 3 Friends (00:03:07) · 4 Barbie (film) · 5 Conan O'Brien Must Go · 6 Rick and Morty (00:03:09) · 7 The Boondocks · 8 NBA playoffs · 9 Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (00:03:12) · 10 Euphoria · 11 Property Brothers · 12 Deadwood

2024-05-09 · We’re Here Because... Something Broke

  • John, 2 named — Katie says the discovery that the different elements are arrangements of the same fundamental particles was mind-blowing: hydrogen and carbon are just different numbers of protons, neutrons and electrons. (00:00:50)
    1 hydrogen · 2 carbon

  • John, 3 named — Katie says the discovery that the different elements are arrangements of the same fundamental particles was mind-blowing: hydrogen and carbon are just different numbers of protons, neutrons and electrons. (00:00:52)
    1 proton · 2 neutron · 3 electron

  • John, 3 named — Katie says there are good theories unifying the strong, weak and electromagnetic forces of particle physics, but physicists have not yet managed it with gravity. (00:01:50)
    1 Strong interaction · 2 Weak interaction · 3 Electromagnetism “electromagnetic”

2024-05-23 · The Weird Timescales of the Universe

  • John, 2 named — Katie says the era is called the Dark Ages because the primordial plasma has cooled but there are no stars yet; the universe is mostly hydrogen gas with a little helium. (00:00:27)
    1 hydrogen · 2 helium

  • John, 2 named — When John suggests that a perfectly uniform observable universe would never have had stars and galaxies, Katie says random particle motion would still give fluctuations, so something would eventually happen, but differently and much later. (00:02:23)
    1 star · 2 galaxy “galaxies”

2024-05-28 · A Midlife Crisis

  • John, 3 named — John calls Nerdfighteria the most important part of his professional life; it has grown around hubs on YouTube, Discord, Reddit, Twitter and elsewhere. (00:01:57)
    1 Discord · 2 Reddit (00:02:01) · 3 Twitter

2024-06-04 · how it all ends

  • John, 2 named — John says we know very little about the distant past: not when people started having names or what they were, when language developed, or what our relationship with Neanderthals and Denisovans was like. (00:00:26)
    1 Neanderthal · 2 Denisovan

  • John, 2 named — John says the Sun will later become a red giant so bright and large that it consumes Mercury and Venus and probably, though not definitely, Earth. (00:02:18)
    1 Mercury · 2 Venus

2024-06-11 · BEEF DAYS

  • John, 2 named — John says Americans still eat about twice as much beef as people in Germany or the United Kingdom. (00:00:34)
    1 Germany · 2 United Kingdom

  • John, 2 named — John says climate talk tends to focus on technologies like electric cars, solar panels and batteries, which matter, but we don't talk enough about social norms. (00:01:23)
    1 Electric car · 2 solar power (00:01:26)

  • John, 3 named — John says it is almost impossible to explain to young people today how cool smoking was in the 20th century: everybody cool smoked, like Billie Holiday, Albert Einstein and Dick Trickle. (00:02:39)
    1 Billie Holiday · 2 Albert Einstein · 3 Dick Trickle (00:02:45)

  • John, 3 named — John says feast days occur throughout the world and history, from Mesoamerica to the Islamic world to Europe: on agreed holidays communities feast, maybe on foods forbidden other days. (00:03:36)
    1 Mesoamerica · 2 Islam · 3 Europe (00:03:39)

2024-06-14 · Some Reasons why People Suck

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank says progress in environmental technologies has been remarkable: the graphs of the falling cost of solar panels, wind turbines and batteries are mind-blowing. (00:00:00)
    1 solar power · 2 wind power

  • Hank, 6 named — Hank says social technologies hold society together: church, marriage, fashion, Christmas, soccer, the idea of a border and the word vegan are human-created things that change behavior. (00:01:38)
    1 religion “church” · 2 Marriage · 3 Christmas (00:02:18) · 4 association football “Soccer” · 5 border · 6 Veganism

2024-06-21 · I Was So Sad that I Did Comedy

  • Hank, 5 named — Hank recommends other Dropout shows: Game Changer's last two seasons, Very Important People's first, Dimension 20, Mintopolis (which he is in) and Breaking News. (00:07:13)
    1 Game Changer · 2 Very Important People (00:07:16) · 3 Dimension 20 (00:07:18) · 4 Mintopolis · 5 Breaking News (Dropout) (00:07:31)

2024-07-19 · The Assassination Attempt and the Comfort of Certainty

  • Hank, 5 named — Hank says Crooks googled where Joe Biden and Donald Trump would be, and also Merrick Garland, Christopher Wray and an unnamed member of the British royal family. (00:00:12)
    1 Joe Biden (00:05:55) · 2 Donald Trump (00:00:12) · 3 Merrick Garland (00:05:59) · 4 Christopher Wray · 5 British royal family (00:06:03)

2024-07-26 · Hank Green's Top 7 Best Coconut Tree Facts!!

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank says it is not certain where coconuts evolved, but before people moved them (for fresh water on voyages, and taste) they were probably confined to Southeast Asia and Indonesia, maybe Australia and southern India. (00:02:35)
    1 Southeast Asia · 2 Indonesia (00:02:38) · 3 Australia · 4 India

2024-08-02 · My Letter to the Future

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank predicts Americans in 100 years will not know what Twitter was and barely know Facebook or TikTok, but will still carry phones and watch YouTube videos. (00:03:20)
    1 Twitter · 2 Facebook · 3 TikTok

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank announces that Complexly, maker of SciShow, Crash Course and Eons, has launched its own store, with products up to 50% off to kick it off; purchases help Complexly keep existing. (00:03:49)
    1 SciShow · 2 Crash Course · 3 Eons

2024-08-07 · Dear Hank and John Livestream!

  • John, 3 named — John agrees YouTube is probably the only social platform with that solidity; he feels Facebook, Twitter and especially TikTok crumbling, Instagram maybe more solid. (00:15:05)
    1 Facebook · 2 Twitter · 3 TikTok (00:15:33)

2024-08-20 · Thoughts from Places: BROMLEY!

  • John, 3 named — John says Bromley was once home to David Bowie, Charles Darwin and H. G. Wells. (00:00:42)
    1 David Bowie · 2 Charles Darwin · 3 H. G. Wells

2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos?

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank reports that a Proof News investigation found transcripts of 173,536 YouTube videos were provided to Apple, Salesforce, Nvidia and Anthropic to train their models. (00:00:29)
    1 Apple · 2 Salesforce · 3 Nvidia · 4 Anthropic

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank says his company has more videos in the dataset than almost anyone: Marques Brownlee 9, MrBeast 19, Mark Rober 24, MinutePhysics 85, against Vlogbrothers 188, SciShow over 300, Crash Course 982. (00:02:26)
    1 Marques Brownlee · 2 MrBeast · 3 Mark Rober · 4 Henry Reich “MinutePhysics”

2024-08-27 · How The Internet Is Rigged

  • John, 2 named — John disputes that investors took risks creators didn't: early adopters risk time, talent and treasure on new platforms, and when platforms like Dailymotion or DailyBooth fail, creators get nothing. (00:02:26)
    1 Dailymotion · 2 DailyBooth (00:02:55)

  • John, 3 named — Agreeing with Hank's Friday video, John says YouTube differs from TikTok, Reddit, Facebook and Instagram, which take content, monetize it and give users only an audience and karma. (00:04:11)
    1 Reddit · 2 Facebook · 3 Instagram

2024-09-03 · Which is Correct? — or – ?

  • John, 3 named — John loves dashes (hyphens, en dashes and em dashes), though not as much as Emily Dickinson loved them. (00:00:07)
    1 hyphen · 2 en dash (00:00:11) · 3 em dash

2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours

  • Hank, 4 named — Busse says women fear for privacy, abortion and health care: Montana is surrounded by four states that have drastically curtailed abortion rights. (00:02:43)
    1 Idaho · 2 Wyoming · 3 North Dakota “both the Dakotas” · 4 South Dakota “both the Dakotas”

2024-09-24 · The Forgotten Viral Video that Could Never be Made Today

  • Hank, 14 named — The now almost forgotten video featured 90s celebrities: George Clooney, Erik Estrada, Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie O'Donnell, Alex Trebek, Pamela Anderson, Kevin Nealon, David Spade, Jerry Springer, Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden, Jerry O'Connell, Garry Shandling, Charles Nelson Reilly and Calista Flockhart. (00:00:38)
    1 George Clooney · 2 Erik Estrada · 3 Whoopi Goldberg · 4 Rosie O'Donnell (00:00:44) · 5 Alex Trebek · 6 Pamela Anderson · 7 Kevin Nealon · 8 David Spade · 9 Jerry Springer · 10 Brad Pitt (00:00:49) · 11 Jerry O'Connell (00:00:54) · 12 Garry Shandling · 13 Charles Nelson Reilly · 14 Calista Flockhart

2024-09-25 · You have no chance to survive make your time.

  • John, 4 named — John loved Hank's video about the only time Sarah Michelle Gellar, Alex Trebek, George Clooney and Brad Pitt appeared together; it reminded him of the first YouTube video he saw. (00:00:03)
    1 Sarah Michelle Gellar · 2 Alex Trebek · 3 George Clooney (00:00:09) · 4 Brad Pitt

2024-10-03 · Broadly in Favor of Humans

  • John, 6 named — John lists what humans did in the last eight hours of the human year: flew to the Moon, raised greenhouse gases, deforested most of North America, cut child death 95%, eliminated smallpox, grew food supply, drove large mammals toward extinction. (00:02:00)
    1 Moon · 2 greenhouse gas (00:02:07) · 3 deforestation “deforested” (00:02:10) · 4 child mortality · 5 smallpox (00:02:15) · 6 Megafauna “large mammals”

  • John, 3 named — John still thinks humanity will get through the polycrisis of climate change, growing violence and massive inequity, and survive our moment. (00:04:25)
    1 climate change · 2 violence (00:04:30) · 3 economic inequality “massive inequity”

2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis

  • John, 2 named — John says the book is not a young adult novel like The Fault in Our Stars or Turtles All the Way Down; it is not the opposite of his previous work, but it is different. (00:00:10)
    1 The Fault in Our Stars · 2 Turtles All the Way Down (00:00:14)

  • John, 2 named — John says TB shaped our geography, giving us towns like Colorado Springs and Asheville, North Carolina, and profoundly shaped our history. (00:02:05)
    1 Colorado Springs, Colorado · 2 Asheville, North Carolina (00:02:10)

2024-11-01 · Working Through a Crisis with My Brother

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank says he mostly imagines himself through how he imagines others (people he knows, employees, people on Twitter and TikTok) see him. (00:05:57)
    1 Twitter · 2 TikTok (00:06:01)

2024-11-22 · Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment

  • Hank, 9 named (7 unnamed items) — Hank lists institutions suddenly almost equally under reputational attack, from the CDC, FDA, EPA, schools and the press to Ukraine, NATO, voting machines, chemotherapy and fluoridation. (00:01:54)
    1 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “The CDC” (00:26:23) · 2 Food and Drug Administration “FDA” (00:17:27) · 3 United States Environmental Protection Agency “the EPA” (00:26:23) · … · 9 Ukraine · 10 Europe (00:01:54) · 11 NATO (00:26:23) · 12 United Nations “the UN” · … · 15 chemotherapy · 16 water fluoridation

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank contrasts a reporter's six months and a bureaucrat's four years with RFK Jr., who would attack the FDA across platforms and podcasts within a day, prioritizing views. (00:17:27)
    1 YouTube · 2 Instagram · 3 Facebook · 4 TikTok

2024-11-26 · Good News

  • John, 4 named — The week before, John attended the Partners In Health board meeting with global health leaders from Mexico, Rwanda, Peru, New Jersey and elsewhere, and met Vicky Reed, head of Partners In Health Sierra Leone. (00:01:15)
    1 Mexico · 2 Rwanda · 3 Peru · 4 New Jersey (00:01:19)

2024-11-29 · I am Grateful for My Worry

2024-12-02 · John, You're Doing Great

  • Hank, 3 named — No vlogs tomorrow; Hank's playlist of recent good YouTube videos (00:00:51)
    1 Nathan Zed · 2 Camille (00:01:21) · 3 Technology Connections (00:01:26)

2024-12-06 · One of the Most Important Images On Earth

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank says Homo sapiens once shared the planet with three other species of people (Neanderthals, Denisovans, Floresiensis), maybe more, since Floresiensis was found only about 20 years ago. (00:01:49)
    1 Denisovan · 2 Homo floresiensis (00:01:52)

2024-12-10 · On Writing

  • John, 3 named — Rereading, John sees the book continues 20 years of his work, extending his fascination with illness: cancer in The Fault in Our Stars, OCD in Turtles All the Way Down, plagues in The Anthropocene Reviewed. (00:00:38)
    1 The Fault in Our Stars · 2 Turtles All the Way Down (00:02:53) · 3 The Anthropocene Reviewed (book) (00:02:56)

  • John, 3 named — Rereading, John sees the book continues 20 years of his work, extending his fascination with illness: cancer in The Fault in Our Stars, OCD in Turtles All the Way Down, plagues in The Anthropocene Reviewed. (00:02:49)
    1 cancer · 2 obsessive-compulsive disorder “OCD” (00:02:53) · 3 infectious disease