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Lists: Everyday life

51 lists in parts of videos about everyday life (a written list: in videos about it), oldest first. All topics · Overview

2007

  • 2007-03-13 · Brotherhood 2.0: March 13, 2007: Denver · John, 3 named (playful) — He checks off mall fixtures as unchanged: faux marble, Sunglass Hut, Panda Express, Subway, overpriced low-quality goods, unappealing card stores, cheesy glass etchings. (00:01:31)
    1 Sunglass Hut · 2 Panda Express · 3 Subway

  • 2007-06-22 · Brotherhood 2.0: June 22: The Senator · John, 2 named — John got his haircut at Louie's in D.C., whose barber had cut the hair of Bill Clinton and Willie Nelson, figures John admires but whose hairstyles he doesn't want. (00:01:13)
    1 Bill Clinton · 2 Willie Nelson

2009

  • 2009-02-04 · 51 Jokes (in Four Minutes) · Hank, 2 named (joke) — 51 jokes submitted by Nerdfighters, told in rapid succession (00:01:17)
    1 Bulbasaur · 2 Charizard

  • 2009-02-24 · How to Make Guys Like You · John, 2 named (joke) — John says there are about six ways to get 15-year-old boys to like you: become a giraffe, become World of Warcraft, be 'hot', be yourself, act like an idiot, consider different boys. (00:00:56)
    1 giraffe · 2 World of Warcraft

  • 2009-03-24 · Peeps! Prom! Puppy! · John, 3 named — Prom: a viewer asks for help asking a boy to prom; John phones him (00:01:23)
    1 Looking for Alaska (novel) · 2 An Abundance of Katherines · 3 Paper Towns

  • 2009-07-23 · 50 MORE JOKES in FOUR MINUTES · Hank, 4 named (joke) — Fifty rapid-fire jokes: termites, celebrity deaths, elephants and Mini Coopers, ether bunnies, light bulbs (00:01:19)
    1 Ed McMahon · 2 Farrah Fawcett · 3 Michael Jackson · 4 Billy Mays

  • 2009-11-24 · 50 THINGS!! That I'm Thankful For · Hank, 14 named — List of 50 things Hank is thankful for (open source, YouTube, science, giraffes, his shirts, Mashable Award voters, his cat, Nerdfighters) (00:00:58)
    1 open-source software · 2 YouTube · 3 Wolverine · 4 young adult literature · 5 Moore's law · 6 Carl Sagan · 7 xkcd · 8 This Machine Pwns n00bs (album) · 9 evolution · 10 Charles Darwin · 11 Mashable Open Web Awards · 12 Cameo “My cat” · 13 Nerdfighteria “Nerdfighters” · 14 Ze Frank

2010

  • 2010-09-22 · Non-VIrgin...a Lexical Gap? · Hank, 3 named — Hank says there are many routes to choosing what and how to think (critical reading for John; statistics, population dynamics and evolutionary theory for him); what matters for a good life is getting there. (00:03:07)
    1 statistics · 2 population dynamics · 3 evolution

2011

  • 2011-03-02 · How to Name Your Baby Properly · Hank, 2 named — Responding to John's video on Ima Hogg, Harry Baals and Chris P Bacon, Hank says a parent's job is to help a child avoid unnecessary anguish, and a bad name can cause significant anguish. (00:00:03)
    1 Ima Hogg · 2 Harry Baals

  • 2011-03-02 · How to Name Your Baby Properly · Hank, 2 named — Hank's actual final rule: there are no rules; Harry Baals and Ima Hogg prove you are not your name and it doesn't really matter. (00:03:06)
    1 Harry Baals · 2 Ima Hogg

  • 2011-08-31 · How to Become An Adult · video description, 2 named —
    1 Lucy on the Loose · 2 The Golden Rule

  • 2011-08-31 · How to Become An Adult · John, 2 named — John says Ilene is the only reason Looking for Alaska exists, he has a job writing books, and there is Brotherhood 2.0 or Nerdfighteria. (00:02:26)
    1 Brotherhood 2.0 · 2 Nerdfighteria

  • 2011-09-02 · Tattoo Typos, Senses, Posters and Bad Movies · Hank, 3 named — Answering discussion of his last video's claim that most sensing organs are on our heads, Hank grants he left out many senses: hunger, equilibrium, knowing where body parts are. (00:01:22)
    1 hunger (physiology) · 2 equilibrioception “the sense of equilibrium” · 3 proprioception “the sense of knowing where your body parts are”

2012

  • 2012-03-24 · Disgusting Cookies - The 2012 Hungry Games · Hank, 6 named (playful, 2 unnamed items) — The three hunger parts: no food since morning, Hungry Hungry Hippos, and weird cookies; the good pile and the bad pile (00:00:49)
    1 Gushers · … · 3 Twix · 4 York Peppermint Pattie · … · 6 Oreo · 7 Reese's Peanut Butter Cups · 8 Peeps “John's favorite, a Peep”

  • 2012-03-24 · Disgusting Cookies - The 2012 Hungry Games · Hank, 2 named (playful, 7 unnamed items) — The cookies eaten in the game include good ones (Twix; a chocolate chip and Gushers cookie rated 'A plus') and bad ones (mustard, Pringles, Easy Cheese, pickle, beef jerky, tuna, potted meat, egg, barbecued turkey). (00:01:04)
    … · 5 Easy Cheese · … · 9 Pringles

  • 2012-04-13 · This is How You Load a Dishwasher - A Song · Hank, 4 named (playful) — Song 'This Is How You Load a Dishwasher': cutlery up or down, dishwasher-safe items, scraping, heavy things at the bottom, full loads (00:00:19)
    1 General Electric · 2 Frigidaire · 3 Bosch · 4 Whirlpool Corporation

  • 2012-04-17 · Thoughts on Romance and Sex in an Airport · John, 2 named — John says that with gay marriage legal in some states but not others, it is ridiculous to claim gay people can have morally justifiable sex in Vermont but not Mississippi. (00:02:02)
    1 Vermont · 2 Mississippi

  • 2012-04-20 · Thoughts on Growing up · Hank, 2 named — Hank thanks John for his well-received video answering questions on sex and relationships; out of sibling rivalry he answers Facebook and Twitter questions on adulthood and growing up. (00:00:12)
    1 Facebook · 2 Twitter

  • 2012-08-07 · An Open Letter to Students Returning to School · John, 3 named — John says Germany had compulsory primary education from the late 18th century, that thanks to the Meiji reforms 90% of Japanese kids were in school by 1900, and England followed around 1880. (00:00:14)
    1 Germany · 2 Japan · 3 England

  • 2012-08-13 · John and Rainn Wilson Talk Romance · John, 2 named — John says that, like Ze Frank and Wheezy Waiter, he recently got to talk to Rainn Wilson, and he asked Twitter for romantic problems they could solve together. (00:00:00)
    1 Ze Frank · 2 Craig Benzine “Wheezy Waiter”

  • 2012-10-02 · What To Do With Your Life · John, 2 named — Each decision narrows options, but so does not deciding; you can do more than one thing: William Carlos Williams, Julia Child, John and Hank themselves (00:02:24)
    1 William Carlos Williams · 2 Julia Child

2013

  • 2013-03-01 · Top 25 Life Hacks of Reddit · Hank, 4 named — Computer tips include the Alien Blue app for Reddit, VLC for nearly any video format and its audio mixer, adding /zip to an Imgur album, and Ctrl+Shift+V to paste without formatting. (00:00:52)
    1 Alien Blue · 2 VLC media player · 3 Imgur · 4 Google

  • 2013-03-29 · Caviar Brownies - The Second Annual Hungry Games · Hank, 3 named — Hank says this year (2013) they use brownies instead of cookies and three contestants instead of two: himself, Michael Aranda and Emily Graslie. (00:00:29)
    1 Hank Green “Myself” · 2 Michael Aranda · 3 Emily Graslie

  • 2013-06-18 · 50 Ways to Pretend to Be Smarter · Grace Helbig, 18 named (satire) — Grace's media markers: NPR as a car preset, a specific favorite Simpsons episode, finding the new Arrested Development season more nostalgic than groundbreaking, reblogging the New Yorker, Wes Anderson, Ira Glass, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ken Jennings on Twitter, Alanis Morissette's misuse of 'ironic'. (00:01:19)
    1 Basquiat · 2 On the Road · 3 Bill Maher · 4 Moleskine “moleskin journal” · 5 Whole Foods Market · 6 NPR · 7 The Simpsons · 8 Arrested Development · 9 The New Yorker · 10 Wes Anderson · 11 Ira Glass · 12 Neil deGrasse Tyson · 13 Food Network · 14 Rosetta Stone (software) · 15 Toyota Prius · 16 Alanis Morissette · 17 Ironic · 18 Ken Jennings

  • 2013-06-25 · Thoughts from Places: Dog Days of Summer · Hannah Hart, 4 named — A day at home: cafe, writing thoughts from places, a stranger's dog, dishes, post-tour laundry, therapist (00:01:09)
    1 TARDIS · 2 San Francisco · 3 Canada · 4 Washington, DC

  • 2013-07-02 · The Perks of Being John's Assistant · Rosianna Halse Rojas, 3 named (playful) — She says a large part of her role is scheduling, which she is awesome at, using Craigslist, shared Gmail calendars and Skype credit. (00:00:45)
    1 Craigslist · 2 Gmail · 3 Skype

  • 2013-07-02 · The Perks of Being John's Assistant · Rosianna Halse Rojas, 2 named (joke) — Her joke spare-time projects: a library for Henry and Alice from The Jolly Postman to The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and a Globe Theatre replica in John's garden. (00:02:36)
    1 The Jolly Postman · 2 The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • 2013-07-02 · The Perks of Being John's Assistant · Rosianna Halse Rojas, 3 named (joke) — Spare-time projects: Henry and Alice's library, a Globe Theatre replica, John's Lauren Conrad collection (00:02:52)
    1 Lauren Conrad · 2 Benedict Cumberbatch · 3 Teen Wolf (2011 TV series)

  • 2013-08-02 · 17 Air Travel Tips · Hank, 2 named — If you miss a connection, search Kayak or Hipmunk or call customer support while queuing for rebooking: wait in two lines at once. (00:03:26)
    1 Kayak · 2 Hipmunk

2014

  • 2014-02-14 · Happy Third Chocolate Day! · Hank, 2 named — Hank says Valentine's Day ranks third for chocolate consumption in the United States, after Halloween and Easter. (00:00:09)
    1 Halloween (holiday) · 2 Easter

  • 2014-07-01 · Why I Love Makeup · video description, 3 named —
    1 Akilah Hughes · 2 Essie · 3 BeautyCrush

  • 2014-07-01 · Why I Love Makeup · video description, 4 named — Among his favourite makeup tutorials John also links SprinkleOfGlitter's everyday makeup routine, a tutorial from Tanya Burr, Patricia Bright's everyday makeup routine and Zoe's spring makeup tutorial.
    1 SprinkleOfGlitter · 2 Tanya Burr · 3 Patricia Bright · 4 Zoe

2015

  • 2015-02-20 · Why Are Fewer People Studying Science and Engineering? · Hank, 3 named — Hank says Emerson is worried because fewer people graduate with STEM degrees and more of them go to work for big new companies like Google, SpaceX and Tesla. (00:00:44)
    1 Google · 2 SpaceX · 3 Tesla, Inc.

  • 2015-03-10 · Travel Tips (and Paper Towns Movie Updates) · John, 4 named — John advises travelers to walk around and find the empty gate, for its plugs, chairs and freedom, though not in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago or Atlanta. (00:00:52)
    1 Los Angeles · 2 New York City · 3 Chicago (city) · 4 Atlanta

  • 2015-05-22 · 15 Rants in Four Minutes · Hank, 3 named — Hank says mocking slang like 'bae', 'boo' or 'slay' is wrong: language is fluid, subcultures define themselves by slang, and complaining just claims your subculture is better, which looks pretentious. (00:01:31)
    1 bae · 2 boo · 3 slay

  • 2015-12-25 · On Hating Christmas · Hank, 2 named — Hank suggests people can give charitable contributions instead of gifts, or focus on children's wonder, the solstice, Jesus or whatever tradition feels deepest and richest to them. (00:01:37)
    1 winter solstice · 2 Jesus

  • 2015-12-25 · On Hating Christmas · Hank, 2 named — For Hank this time of year means friends, video games, Christmas trees, Ella Fitzgerald, Buddy the Elf's enthusiasm and cats on Christmas trees. (00:01:54)
    1 Ella Fitzgerald · 2 Buddy the Elf

2016

  • 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 · 3 Netflix · 4 Traffic collision “cars are much less likely to kill people”

  • 2016-09-16 · Let's Talk about Failure · video description, 2 named —
    1 Patrick Rothfuss · 2 Mary Robinette Kowal

  • 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 · 3 Crazy Frog

2017

2018

2019

  • 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

  • 2019-02-12 · Are Textbooks Obsolete? · 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

2020

2021

  • 2021-11-19 · How do We Get Anything Done At All? · Hank, 3 named — Hank's point: some things definitely don't matter, and we know it, yet they jar us when others do them differently, like light-mode Twitter, noseless smileys or dubbed Cowboy Bebop. (00:00:52)
    1 Twitter · 2 emoticon “Smiley face without noses” · 3 Cowboy Bebop

2022

2023

  • 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 · 3 Gummy Bear

2026

  • 2026-10-09 · The Productivity Lie · Hank, 3 named — Hank's first chemistry tutoring went terribly; feeling obligated to Christina, Ethan and Connor, whose grades mattered more to him than his own, he learned chemistry like never before. (00:07:20)
    1 Christina · 2 Ethan · 3 Connor