Described, not named

1148 references to 803 things from outside the channel made by description instead of by name ("the President", "his most recent embargoed book", "Melville's preacher"), grouped by kind (works, characters and people first; news events, places and policies last) and by what they refer to, most-referred first. Each line: the words used, the sentence around them, who said it, the video and timestamp. The brothers' own family, projects and community ("mom", "this channel") and paraphrased ideas are left out; so is any description that contains the thing's name.

Kinds: Works (209) · Characters (22) · People (113) · Memes (4) · Myths & religious figures (6) · Groups (12) · Animals (3) · Products (30) · Organisations (81) · Projects (2) · Places (71) · Laws, cases & policies (49) · Events (191) · Measures (10)

Works

• The Fault in Our Stars (film) — 12 references
  • “my movie deal” — “Okay, now I have to go get my movie deal notarized.” — John, Moon Farts: Being Charlie While Running Errands (00:01:23)
  • “filming a movie in Amsterdam” — “And John I'm sorry that you couldn't be there, but I guess that filming a movie in Amsterdam is a *pretty* good excuse.” — Hank, Curiosity is the Greatest Human Quality (00:02:35)
  • “the movie adaptation” — “The Fault in Our Stars before the movie adaptation comes out on June 6th.” — John, Giving Away Over $700,000 (00:00:21)
  • “ten second teaser” — “To hold you over, here is the world premiere of a ten second teaser.” — John, Question Tuesday! TFIOS Movie Trailer, Penguin Knees, and Backflips (00:00:37)
  • “the movie version of my book” — “I mean the movie version of my book is coming out in ten days, and I spend most of my free” — John, ALL THE SHIRTS (and some paths to community) (00:01:47)
  • “your movie premiere” — “Good morning, John, this is what I'm planning on wearing to your movie premiere.” — Hank, Nerdfighteria Census 2014 Results! (00:00:00)
  • “the movie that they are making out of my brother's book” — “advertisement for the movie that they are making out of my brother's book.” — Hank, Thoughts from the TFiOS Premiere! (00:00:54)
  • “the movie” — “It's an exact replica of the one that Shailene Woodley reads in the movie.” — Hank, NONSENSE: P4A 2014 - Partners in Health (00:02:19)
  • “screenplay adaptation of the book” — “… in Our Stars continued to sell and in May of that year I read an amazing screenplay adaptation of the book, at which point I realized it might actually become a movie!” — John, Failing to Follow Up The Fault in Our Stars (00:01:14)
  • “the movie” — “which is how they did it in the movie.” — Hank, ★★★★ Review: The TFiOS Bench - Amsterdam (00:02:04)
  • “a movie I really loved” — “or an amazing cast and end up with a movie I really loved.” — John, On the Movies (00:02:06)
  • “the film adaptation of my book” — “I am such a bad actor that my cameo in the film adaptation of my book was cut from the movie,” — John, We Are Cats Now, I Guess? (00:00:27)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — 8 references in 7 videos
  • “the book, which I think comes out in 12 days” — “I'm having a hard time holding in my excitement for the book, which I think comes out in 12 days?” — Hank, July 12: Pizza, Punishments and Potter (00:01:36)
  • “the book was going to come in the mail” — “I didn't know when the book was going to come in the mail.” — Hank, July 24: More Harry Potter?! (00:00:11)
  • “I know we've read the book” — “I know we've read the book, but not everybody has.” — Hank, Re: July 18: Accio Deathly Hallows (00:00:56)
  • “The epilogue” — “Rowling to say that The epilogue was crap, cause we all know it was crap” — Hank, So Jokes: Video EP (00:00:31)
  • “Now give me my book or go to hell” — “Now give me my book or go to hell Cause I need Harry Potter” — Hank, So Jokes: Video EP (00:05:25)
  • “the last Harry Potter book” — “We got the last Harry Potter book, we got a new president,” — Hank, 1000 VIDEOS!!! (00:00:18)
  • “the last Harry Potter book” — “So the last Harry Potter book was coming out, and I was like, I was like, I'm excited about this.” — Hank, An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall (01:05:48)
  • “the last Harry Potter book” — “… ago today, Hank, you upload a song about how excited you are for the publication of the last Harry Potter book.” — John, Accio Decade Hallows (00:02:31)
• Looking for Alaska (miniseries) — 4 references
  • “eight-episode miniseries on Hulu” — “is being turned into an eight-episode miniseries on Hulu.” — Hank, Looking for Alaska Movie (BUT BETTER) and YouTuber Things (00:00:23)
  • “limited series on Hulu” — “into a limited series on Hulu.” — John, Question Tuesday: Secrets & Primes (00:00:32)
  • “The eight episode Hulu adaptation” — “The eight episode Hulu adaptation of my first novel, Looking for Alaska, is supposed to begin shooting soon, and I wanted …” — John, Going Home with Alaska and Miles (00:00:00)
  • “the Looking for Alaska Hulu show” — “and Kristine Froseth who plays Alaska in the Looking for Alaska Hulu show got this video” — John, On Sharing the Walk (00:02:02)
• This Star Won't Go Out (book) — 4 references
  • “this book” — “Esther was a brilliant writer and this book, cover not final, comes out in January 2014.” — John, TFiOS Movie Casting, New Books, and Groundhog Wars: An Old School Vlogbrothers Video (00:00:29)
  • “her actual story” — “This is her actual story.” — John, Warm Things for Cold Times (00:00:47)
  • “Esther's book” — “How excited are you about Esther's book coming out today?” — John, Question Tuesday! TFIOS Movie Trailer, Penguin Knees, and Backflips (00:01:15)
  • “her book” — “If you don't know about Esther, check out her book, you can also go to dftba.” — John, I Love You, Hank. Esther Day 2015 (00:01:19)
• Alexei Leonov's spacewalk drawing — 3 references
  • “this drawing” — “It is about this drawing which” — John, It's My Birthday. I Gave Myself This Video. (00:00:20)
  • “The sketch” — “The sketch is simple--it was made quickly in a weightless environment” — John, Orbital Sunrise: The First Art Made in Space (00:06:24)
  • “the first piece of art ever made in space” — “… but during Dear Hank and John, we had this thing occur where we were looking at the first piece of art ever made in space, which unfortunately I did not actually put in my little presentation here, but it's by.” — Hank, Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! (06:43:48)
• Doctor Who — 3 references
  • “Time Lord” — “And it's also being bundled with Chameleon Circuit's first album, Chameleon Circuit being the Time Lord rock band with Charlie Is So Cool Like and Naramon in it.” — Hank, Ulcerative Colitis: A Song (00:02:50)
  • “Whovians” — John, Nerdfighter Book Recommendations: A Gift Giving Guide for Nerdfightastic Readers (00:02:26)
  • “new Doctor” — “Star Trek movies, and new Avengers movies, we had a new X-Men movie, new Doctor, new” — Hank, The Best and Worst of 2014 (00:01:11)
• Paper Towns (film) — 3 references
  • “the movie” — “John: What's your favorite scene in the movie or the book?” — John, Lacey and Angela Question Tuesday: Pizzamas Day 2 (00:00:26)
  • “the movie” — “John: You play Margo in the movie and I'm gonna ask you real questions by real nerdfighters.” — John, Question Tuesday with Cara Delevingne of Paper Towns (00:00:06)
  • “do it again with Paper Towns” — “And then we got to do it again with Paper Towns.” — John, On the Movies (00:02:09)
• planned Paper Towns film (2008 Mandate Pictures option) — 3 references
  • “movie rights to Paper Towns” — “Hank, I can now officially tell you and everyone that the movie rights to Paper Towns have been optioned by Mandate and Mr.” — John, Paper Towns MOVIE1!!!11! (00:01:21)
  • “a movie of Paper Towns” — “''Make sure when they make a movie of Paper Towns they don't ruin it!” — John, The Unzipped Zipper (Of Your Pants) (00:01:18)
  • “the screenplay” — “So John may be writing the screenplay for those very people who did Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist, which was a really great …” — Hank, Hank is Late (dr horrible) (00:01:52)
• The Show with Ze Frank — 3 references
  • “a hilarious video every weekday” — “Ze Frank has made a hilarious video every weekday for the past year.” — Hank, March 16th: Mom, ZeFrank, and Stock Options (00:00:03)
  • “Ze Frank's brain crack video” — “There is a link in the scissor bar to Ze Frank's brain crack video in which you can discover how much better he always was than we are.” — Hank, Dr. Manhattan's Dangle and Brain Crack (00:00:00)
  • “he is bringing his show back” — video description, On Cuties and Cooties (00:00:00)
• The Star-Spangled Banner — 3 references
  • “our national anthem” — “I just don't like our national anthem.” — Hank, 50 THINGS!! That I'm Thankful For (00:00:00)
  • “the national anthem” — “… annoyed by people who leave YouTube comments telling me that I have an unsupportable position on the national anthem.” — Hank, Things I'm Not Thankful For (00:00:29)
  • “the U.S. National Anthem” — “I mean, there's a 4th of July sing-a-ma-jig that plays the U.S. National Anthem.” — John, hey now (00:00:26)
• Turtles All the Way Down (film) — 3 references
  • “going to be a movie” — “By the way, Hank, have I told you that Turtles All the Way Down is actually going to be a movie?” — Hank, Hank and John Discover Chippy Butties (00:00:29)
  • “the movie” — “in the movie, I don't know--” — John, Hello! Meet Daisy! (00:01:10)
  • “movie adaptation” — “Aza in the movie adaptation of the movie adaptation of my” — John, A Casting Announcement (00:00:09)
• "Hope" is the thing with feathers — 2 references
  • “hope is truly the thing with feathers” — “But every once in again, we are reminded that hope is truly the thing with feathers.” — John, THE BEST DAY (00:04:29)
  • “hope sings the tune without the words” — “which is that hope sings the tune without the words and never stops” — John, taking a break (00:03:46)
• AFC Wimbledon scarf — 2 references
  • “AFC Wimbledon scarves” — “even these awesome AFC Wimbledon scarves that have DFTBA on them -- by the way, these are” — John, The Best Worst Thing (00:00:45)
  • “Nerdfighteria Wimbledon scarfs” — “We also have some of these awesome Nerdfighteria Wimbledon scarfs still available at dftba.” — John, Sixteen Parts (00:01:41)
• David After Dentist — 2 references
  • “David after his visit to the dentist” — “Allow me to quote David after his visit to the dentist.” — John, John Loves Amsterdam (00:02:26)
  • “we take a seven-year-old kid to the dentist” — “Or we take a seven-year-old kid to the dentist, we get him all hopped up” — John, The World Sucks: Help it Suck Less (00:01:02)
• Deep Economy — 2 references
  • “that book I told you to read” — “Step It Up is a campaign started by Bill McKibben, the guy who wrote that book I told you to read.” — Hank, Friday the 13th: Step It Up! (00:00:58)
  • “the book” — “John, I'm really glad that you liked the book.” — Hank, September 7th: Fatalities, Dances and Thanks (00:02:11)
• Dürer's Rhinoceros — 2 references
  • “etching of a rhinoceros” — “this 1515 etching of a rhinoceros by the artist Albrecht Durer in which” — John, Orbital Sunrise: The First Art Made in Space (00:00:09)
  • “this picture of a rhinoceros” — “I mean in 1515 Albrechter made this picture of a rhinoceros without ever seeing” — John, Has this artist ever seen a baby? (00:02:24)
• Evil Baby Orphanage card game — 2 references
  • “a real live card game” — “Our idea for an Evil Baby Orphanage is a real live card game with, like, a whole two decks of cards.” — Hank, Happy Birthday John Green! (00:00:58)
  • “a professionally produced card game” — “… idea of the evil baby orphanage has inspired fan fiction and web comics and now like a professionally produced card game.” — John, An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall (00:57:51)
• Focus Friend — 2 references
  • “focus timer app that blocks social media” — “focus timer app that blocks social media that was the most popular app in America.” — Hank, Maybe This is My Problem (00:03:58)
  • “apps that help me focus” — “You're too busy making Hank's channel videos about weird fish and co-creating apps that help me focus and so on.” — John, Is Hank Green Running for Congress? (00:03:34)
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire — 2 references
  • “Four comma eight” — John, It's Question Tuesday! Cheesy Jokes, Paper Towns Movie, and Dinosaur Butt Brains (00:03:38)
  • “book four” — “We only have one copy of each book, except for book four, which we have two copies of.” — John, Decathlons, Pretension, and the Weirdest Animal I've Met: It's Question Thursday (00:01:05)
• I felt a Funeral, in my Brain — 2 references
  • “a plank in Reason broke and I dropped down and down” — “"A Plank in Reason, broke, And I dropped down, and down -"” — John, What Should We Keep? (00:00:18)
  • “that Emily Dickinson poem” — “… I cannot trust the floor and that if I fall through it, it will be like that Emily Dickinson poem, and then a plank in reason broke and I dropped down and down and hit …” — John, you'll never know (00:01:56)
• Korobeiniki — 2 references
  • “the Tetris song, which thankfully is a folk melody” — “And also the Tetris song, which thankfully is a folk melody, and thus not protected under U.” — Hank, Tetris Day! (00:03:13)
  • “the Tetris song, which thankfully is a folk melody” — “… Bill for making the excellent song, and thank you to Russia for making Tetris, and also the Tetris song, which thankfully is a folk melody, and thus not protected under U.” — Hank, Tetris Day! (00:02:57)
• Low — 2 references
  • “Shorty had them apple bottom jeans and boots with the fur” — Hank, Best Moments of the Project for Awesome (00:02:30)
  • “apple-bottom jeans and the furry boots” — “back when shawty was pulling on her apple-bottom jeans and the furry boots for the first time.” — Hank, Looking for Alaska Movie (BUT BETTER) and YouTuber Things (00:01:23)
• Picasso print 'Seated Woman' in the Houston hotel room — 2 references
  • “actual Picasso print” — “We just noticed this is an actual Picasso print.” — John, Nicest Hotel Room in the World (00:00:56)
  • “that Picasso” — “[J:] Have you stayed in any hotel rooms as good as the one that had that Picasso since 2012?” — John, Foolish · Beautiful (00:02:56)
• Round Ireland with a Fridge — 2 references
  • “the book that resulted” — “and the book that resulted is as amazing as you would hope.” — John, Foolish · Beautiful (00:01:01)
  • “the book that resulted” — “And the book that resulted is as amazing as you would hope.” — John, John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated (00:35:50)
• Song of Myself — 2 references
  • “we contain multitudes” — “As Walt Whitman noted in the thick of industrialization, we contain multitudes.” — John, Broadly in Favor of Humans (00:03:25)
  • “I celebrate myself and I sing myself” — “Maybe I'm just in my I celebrate myself and I sing myself era, but like, Zombicorns is not nearly as bad as I remember it being.” — John, Am I ... Good? (00:01:27)
• Spring is like a perhaps hand — 2 references
  • “that poem about Spring being like a "perhaps hand which comes carefully out of Nowhere"” — “*except* when it's March and I want quote that poem about Spring being like a "perhaps hand which comes carefully out of Nowhere" etc.” — John, WHERE IS MY NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY (00:00:48)
  • “spring comes carefully out of nowhere” — “E Cummings wrote that spring comes carefully out of nowhere.” — John, A Lovely Winter Walk (00:02:34)
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens — 2 references
  • “Star Wars teaser trailer” — “sees the Star Wars teaser trailer and the part that he plays in it:” — Hank, Watch This If You Want To Smile (Pizzamas Day 3) (00:02:32)
  • “the new Star Wars movie” — “Hank: You know Lin Manuel Miranda wrote a song for the new Star Wars movie?” — Hank, Baby Poop Rookie: Vlogbrothers Reunited (00:00:57)
• The Balloon-Hoax — 2 references
  • “flown over the Atlantic Ocean in a balloon in three days” — “He convinced a newspaper reporter that there was a guy who had flown over the Atlantic Ocean in a balloon in three days.” — Hank, The Top 10 Greatest Hoaxes of All Time (00:00:58)
  • “convince the world that some guy had flown in a gas-filled balloon over the Atlantic Ocean” — “Edgar Allan Poe didn't just convince the world that some guy had flown in a gas-filled balloon over the Atlantic Ocean when no such thing had happened.” — Hank, Truth or Fail: HOAXES! (00:00:37)
• The Mower — 2 references
  • “this Philip Larkin poem” — “As to your question, I posted to Sara and she reminded me of this Philip Larkin poem that ends,” — John, Boxes, Butterflies, and Regular Aunts: Live from the Past, It's Question Tuesday (00:03:23)
  • “that old Philip Larkin poem” — “to that old Philip Larkin poem.” — John, The Seduction of Despair (00:03:51)
• The Treachery of Images — 2 references
  • “Ceci n'est pas une pipe” — “Her wardrobe is as expected; Chuck Taylors; purple bra; Ceci n'est pas une pipe shirt.” — Hank, In Depth Viewing of the TFiOS Trailer (00:02:56)
  • “This is not a pipe” — “This is not a pipe, and this is my life.” — John, Framing (00:02:14)
• We're Here Because We're Here — 2 references
  • “that recursive lament of British soldiers” — “In her public appearances, Amy would sometimes use that recursive lament of British soldiers and transform it without ever changing the tune or the words.” — John, We're here because were here. (00:18:19)
  • “that recursive lament of British soldiers” — “In her public appearances, Amy would sometimes use that recursive lament of British soldiers and transform it without ever changing” — John, John's Review of Auld Lang Syne (00:18:46)
• Webb's First Deep Field — 2 references
  • “a deep field image” — “Or a deep field image s that you cannot put your pinky finger on without” — Hank, Thoughts From the Universe - Woah (00:00:24)
  • “this photograph taken by the JWST” — “This year’s engraving was inspired by this photograph taken by the JWST.” — John, How Does He Do It? (00:02:17)
• Wii Sports — 2 references
  • “Wii Tennis” — “Wii Tennis, 2,399 skill level for the win.” — John, December 4th: Question Tuesday!!!! (00:01:38)
  • “Wii Tennis” — “What's your Wii Tennis score?” — John, Saturday Video?!?!?! (00:01:34)
• O sweet spontaneous earth — 2 references in 1 videos
  • “my favorite poem about spring” — “… believe that magical thinking works or anything, but I thought for today's video I would share my favorite poem about spring in the hopes that” — John, A Poem for Spring (00:00:29)
  • “thou answerest them only with spring” — “death thy rhythmic lover, thou answerest them only with spring.” — John, A Poem for Spring (00:01:46)
• 10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman — 1 reference
  • “that video that got like 30 million views of this woman just walking around New York being harassed” — “at the United Nations, and that video that got like 30 million views of this woman just walking around New York being harassed.” — Hank, The Best and Worst of 2014 (00:02:20)
• 13 Little Blue Envelopes — 1 reference
  • “13 Little Balloon Envelopes 2” — “… really quickly, like, there were suitcases behind me, and I got a book due, I'm finishing 13 Little Balloon Envelopes 2, and I got Scarlet Fever coming out on Monday, and there's, like, craziness going on, …” — Maureen Johnson, Boobs and the iPad (00:02:51)
• 2004 University of Chicago resume study — 1 reference
  • “a large 2004 University of Chicago study” — “But -- OK, so a large 2004 University of Chicago study submitted thousands of resumes to a” — John, Racism in the United States: By the Numbers (00:01:42)
• 2019 PNAS study of dog and wolf facial muscles — 1 reference
  • “a paper in PNAS” — “In 2019, some researchers published a paper in PNAS.” — Hank, The Weirdest Thing About Dogs (and Cats (and Horses)) (00:00:30)
• A Bar at the Folies-Bergère — 1 reference
  • “the bar made in a famous Mene painting” — “… this one where an old Nikon camera lens contains within it an even older image of the bar made in a famous Mene painting Sarah made a fascinating art assignment video about this painting and what makes it so art …” — John, Loving the Loves of Your Loves (00:01:27)
• A Christmas Story — 1 reference
  • “the Christmas story” — “Like the kid from the Christmas story, you'll shoot your eye out.” — Hank, The Cutest Thing My Son Has Done and More (With Katherine) (00:01:38)
• A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness — 1 reference
  • “her Oscar nominated documentary about honor killing in Pakistan” — “I watched her Oscar nominated documentary about honor killing in Pakistan and it is one of the most” — John, Billionaires and Radical Hope: Thoughts from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland (00:02:17)
• Aero Fighters — 1 reference
  • “Nerdfighters” — John, 100 QUESTIONS ANSWERED!!!!!!! (00:01:58)
• Afghan Girl — 1 reference
  • “this famous image from the 1980s National Geographic cover” — “this famous image from the 1980s National Geographic cover, but it has been trained on that image, and so it is plagiarizing it.” — Hank, Things are Changing Very Fast (00:01:27)
• Akira — 1 reference
  • “I just took a copyrighted work” — Hank, Top 5 Reasons ████ ██ ██████ (00:00:29)
• Alex Day's DFTBA album (untitled here) — 1 reference
  • “Alex's album” — “Alex's album isn't just good, it's the kind of music that I like to listen to, and it's …” — Hank, DFTBA TAKEOVER!!! (00:00:29)
• Alien autopsy — 1 reference
  • “an actual image of an actual alien getting actually cut open” — “In 1995, a couple of hoodwinkers showed a bunch of media folks an actual image of an actual alien getting actually cut open by actual doctors.” — Hank, The Top 10 Greatest Hoaxes of All Time (00:00:58)
• All Star — 1 reference
  • “a not very good 19-year-old pop song” — “of videos with lyrics from a not very good 19-year old pop song.” — John, The Golden Age of Vlogbrothers (00:00:57)
• An Abundance of Katherines (film) — 1 reference
  • “Catherine's is going to be a movie” — “… and now it's done, and I can tell you about it, and I'm very excited that Catherine's is going to be a movie!” — John, Dec. 10: MY BOOK IS GONNA BE A MOVIE!!! (someday) (00:01:12)
• As Long as We Got Each Other — 1 reference
  • “the Growing Pains theme” — “It's been every bit as fun as the Growing Pains theme promised it would be.” — John, Brotherhood 2.0: June 14: Good News/Bad News (00:01:48)
• Associated Press Stylebook — 1 reference
  • “the AP style guide” — “White’s Style Guide or the AP Style Guide or whatever;” — John, My Most Valuable Books (00:02:20)
• Auld Lang Syne — 1 reference
  • “Should auld acquaintance be forgot” — “Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind?” — Hank, Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 (00:00:00)
• AVbyte's Instagram musical — 1 reference
  • “their Instagram Musical” — “Somebody linked me to their Instagram Musical” — Hank, Tumblr: The Musical (00:02:29)
• Bath curse tablets — 1 reference
  • “curses on pieces of pewter” — “People would inscribe curses on pieces of pewter and then throw them into the baths with notes like, I think Jeff stole my gloves.” — Hank, Thoughts from Bath: The Legacy of Wealth (00:01:30)
• Batman & Robin — 1 reference
  • “the George Clooney Batman movie” — “in a cancelled follow-up to the George Clooney Batman movie.” — Hank, GIFs, JIFs, Whip Pans, Trivia, and BATMAN! (00:02:06)
• Beer & Board Games — 1 reference
  • “a YouTube channel where they play board games while being drunk” — “Some friends of mine, they have a YouTube channel where they play board games while being drunk.” — Hank, This Video Makes No Sense (00:00:32)
• Bill Cosby: Himself — 1 reference
  • “Bill Cosby: Brain Damage” — video description, Demon Four Year Old (00:00:00)
• Birds of North America — 1 reference
  • “his show” — “You should check out his show, I just love it.” — Hank, Could I Spare some Change for Gas? (00:01:50)
• Bomfalleralla — 1 reference
  • “the Swedish hip-hop song on the Fault in Our Stars soundtrack” — “Henry's favorite song is Far Alla Boom, which is what he calls Boom Far Alla, the Swedish hip-hop song on the Fault in Our Stars soundtrack.” — John, Question Tuesday: The Potato Edition (00:02:52)
• Bonker Doesn't Die — 1 reference
  • “a short story about April, May going to VidCon” — “I've got a short story about April, May going to VidCon.” — Hank, Doing Better (00:03:07)
• Campbell's Soup Cans — 1 reference
  • “soup cans” — “soup cans and flattened them, for instance.” — John, The Instagramification of Human Experience (00:00:29)
• Can't Help Falling in Love — 1 reference
  • “sing a song” — “Football fans often sing a song that goes wise men say only fools rush in” — John, Thoughts from Places: BROMLEY! (00:01:43)
• Charlie Bit My Finger — 1 reference
  • “a baby named Charlie bites your finger” — “… Hank, but is there any way we can get you to talk about this stuff while a baby named Charlie bites your finger?” — John, The World Sucks: Help it Suck Less (00:01:02)
• Chicago (poem) — 1 reference
  • “terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young man laughs” — John, The Terrible Burden of Destiny: Chicago and Waupaca (00:00:26)
• Code of Hammurabi — 1 reference
  • “a legal code” — “the Babylonian king, Hammurabi, developed a legal code,” — John, Zero Severed Hands: On Star Wars and Making Things (00:00:52)
• comic by Yaho seen on Tumblr — 1 reference
  • “this comic” — “About a week ago I saw this comic” — Hank, Redefining What it Means to Matter (00:00:00)
• Constitution of Oregon — 1 reference
  • “Oregon's first state constitution” — “Quick side note: Oregon's first state constitution contained some of the most shameful language in American history.” — John, Who Owns Oregon? Some Historical Context on the so-called Militia Occupation of Public Lands (00:01:44)
• Constitution of the United States — 1 reference
  • “the founding document of the nation” — “… that you believed in the founding document of the—no, I do think that you believe in the founding document of the nation.” — Hank, We Will Eradicate Measles (00:07:27)
• Cottingley Fairies — 1 reference
  • “pictures of themselves with cutouts of fairies” — “… existence of photography around 1917, some girls stole their dad's camera and took a bunch of pictures of themselves with cutouts of fairies from a popular fairy book.” — Hank, The Top 10 Greatest Hoaxes of All Time (00:00:29)
• Courage the Cowardly Dog — 1 reference
  • “the cowardly dog” — “Uh, the cowardly dog, the cowardly human.” — Nathan Zed, You're Not Good Enough (00:03:44)
• Dear Mr. Potter — 1 reference
  • “this book” — “The second awesome thing I wanna talk about is this book,” — Hank, Harry Freaking Potter (00:03:24)
• Desperate Lives — 1 reference
  • “after school special” — “… beautiful girl shunned by society It wasn't your fault, you just smoked one laced doobie That after school special made me wanna never do PCP Alan Hunt, Alan Hunt, you make my heart do acrobatic …” — Hank, Helen Hunt (00:00:38)
• documentary (Thought Bubble Kickstarter) — 1 reference
  • “an awesome documentary” — “They are kickstarting an awesome documentary they want to make, and if enough Nerdfighters help fund it, then we, Nerdfighteria, will be …” — John, Things I Can Do (00:02:55)
• Double Rainbow Song — 1 reference
  • “the work of the Gregory brothers” — “of the internet and the work of the Gregory brothers, legendary.” — Hank, Watch This If You Want To Smile (Pizzamas Day 3) (00:02:52)
• Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn — 1 reference
  • “Ai dropped a Han Dynasty urn” — “In this famous triptych, Ai dropped a Han Dynasty urn” — John, Attacked by Squirrels and Neoclassicism: Thoughts from Places, Washington D.C. (00:00:23)
• Dumpster fire shirt — 1 reference
  • “a shirt at DFTBA that was like a dumpster on fire with 2016 written on it” — “And I remember we had a shirt at DFTBA that was like a dumpster on fire with 2016 written on it because 2016 was the dumpster fire year.” — Hank, The Last Normal Year (00:01:30)
• Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves — 1 reference
  • “Dungeons & Dragons movie” — “I go watch the Dungeons & Dragons movie, because I think that's gonna be a fun time.” — Hank, So, I've got cancer (00:12:32)
• Emily Nussbaum's essay on what advertising has done to television — 1 reference
  • “Emily Nussbaum's brilliant recent essay on what advertising has done to television” — “To quote Emily Nussbaum's brilliant recent essay on what advertising has done to television,” — John, Understanding YouTube Red: Paid Subscriptions and the Future of Online Video (00:00:52)
• Escape (The Piña Colada Song) — 1 reference
  • “do you like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain” — “Kevin, do you like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain?” — Hank, The Cutest Thing My Son Has Done and More (With Katherine) (00:02:36)
• Ezra Klein's essay on Trump's first weeks back in office — 1 reference
  • “Ezra Klein's recent essay on Trump's first few weeks back in office” — “about a line from Ezra Klein's recent essay on Trump's first few weeks back in office,” — Hank, What Trump's Doing (00:02:27)
• famous Van Gogh self-portrait seen in London — 1 reference
  • “this famous Van Gogh self-portrait” — “Like to use a tangential example, it’s hard for me to know if I love this famous Van Gogh self-portrait or if I just feel excited seeing it in so-called “real life” after having” — John, Drowzees and Masterpieces: Thoughts from London (00:02:50)
• Faulkner's Nobel Prize acceptance speech — 1 reference
  • “he declined to accept the end of man” — “I find myself thinking that Faulkner was right when he declined to accept the end of man, saying, ".” — John, November 21st: What I'm Grateful For (00:02:09)
• First of May — 1 reference
  • “Jonathan Coulton's song” — “first of May, and true to Jonathan Coulton's song, it was a gorgeous day outside, though” — Hank, Osama Bin Laden is Dead (00:00:06)
• Fortnite — 1 reference
  • “fortnighter” — “It's nice to hear that you're a literal god or the best fortnighter or vlogger or whatever noun is currently being personalized, but there will also be people who …” — John, An Open Letter to Professional YouTubers (00:02:26)
• Gates Foundation annual letter — 1 reference
  • “this fascinating letter” — “And Bill and Melinda just released this fascinating letter highlighting three myths about development--and” — John, Are Poor Countries Doomed? (00:00:40)
• GBD Compare — 1 reference
  • “this visualization” — “if you change this visualization to” — John, Crime and Outrage (00:00:44)
• George Washington Inaugural Bible — 1 reference
  • “the first inaugural Bible” — “Hank, the story of the first inaugural Bible is just one of many examples from early American history where it becomes clear that the …” — John, PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA Inaugurated: Some Historical Background (00:01:23)
• global ecosystem services valuation (1997) — 1 reference
  • “a group of scientists and economists got together” — “… 1997, oddly enough the same year that both that Kennedy and Sonny Bono died while skiing, a group of scientists and economists got together and they decided to figure out the ecosystem” — Hank, Ecosystem Services 101 with Hank (00:02:18)
• Gloria — 1 reference
  • “the pavilion” — “The artist the IMA commissioned is called Allora & Calzadilla, and the pavilion is a” — John, Men Running on Tanks and the Truth about Book Editors (00:00:31)
• God Help the Child — 1 reference
  • “Toni Morrison's new novel” — “Also, I just read Toni Morrison's new novel, and I know it's not her best book or anything, but I still thought it …” — John, Question Tuesday: My Social Media Hiatus, My Excellent German, and Books! (00:00:33)
• Goodbye, Farewell and Amen — 1 reference
  • “the series finale of MASH” — “That distinction goes to the series finale of MASH, retaining more than 60% of American households.” — Hank, Football For Nerds (00:02:27)
• Gunfight — 1 reference
  • “my memoir” — “I wrote a book about my life, my memoir, and I attack irresponsible actions that the industry and some individuals in and around the …” — Hank, My Governor is Weirder than Yours (00:21:05)
• Hamilton (musical) — 1 reference
  • “write musicals about treasury secretaries” — “And write musicals about treasury secretaries.” — John, On the Banning of Looking for Alaska (00:02:40)
• Hamlet (play) — 1 reference
  • “if it's better to be or not to be” — “I genuinely don't know if it's better to be or not to be.” — John, My Two Favorite Jokes (00:00:29)
• Hamster on a Piano — 1 reference
  • “get a hamster, you need to put it on a piano, and you need to feed it some popcorn” — “Hank, you need to get a hamster, you need to put it on a piano, and you need to feed it some popcorn.” — John, The World Sucks: Help it Suck Less (00:00:03)
• hand-dryer study (2008) — 1 reference
  • “a 2008 study about hand dryers” — “However, Hank, having watched you do this, I feel compelled to point you to a 2008 study about hand dryers.” — John, GUS HAS NO FUZZ! (00:00:29)
• Hank (TV series) — 1 reference
  • “a whole show named Hank” — “of Californication, there's a whole show named Hank, and there's this guy named Hank who's apparently a concierge doctor for rich people.” — Hank, Things I'm Not Thankful For (00:01:44)
• Hank's MIT commencement address — 1 reference
  • “the commencement at MIT” — “What was it like to give the commencement at MIT knowing that you never could have gotten into MIT?” — John, ONE TAKE JOHNNY (00:09:39)
• Happy Birthday to You — 1 reference
  • “the happy birthday song” — “Or to take another example, the happy birthday song.” — Hank, 50 THINGS!! That I'm Thankful For (00:00:00)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 — 1 reference
  • “The first part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” — “The first part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is coming out tomorrow night, and I'm very excited.” — Hank, HARRY POTTER SONG! (00:00:00)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 — 1 reference
  • “Four comma eight” — John, It's Question Tuesday! Cheesy Jokes, Paper Towns Movie, and Dinosaur Butt Brains (00:03:38)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film) — 1 reference
  • “the Harry Potter movie” — “Hank, I didn't see the Harry Potter movie on midnight of opening day like you did, but I went to see it last night …” — John, Harry Potter Nerds Win at Life (00:00:38)
• How to get more likes on Facebook — 1 reference
  • “a comic about how to get likes on Facebook” — “Earlier this week, Matthew Inman, The Oatmeal, posted a comic about how to get likes on Facebook.” — Hank, This is How You Load a Dishwasher - A Song (00:00:00)
• Humans Need Not Apply — 1 reference
  • “CGP Grey talking about why maybe in the future, jobs won't exist” — “YouTube videos of 2014, including Emma Watson and Malala's speeches, and CGP Grey talking about why maybe in the future, jobs won't exist.” — Hank, The Best and Worst of 2014 (00:02:54)
• I Go Down to the Shore — 1 reference
  • “a Mary Oliver poem” — “of a Mary Oliver poem.” — John, the world is gonna roll me (00:01:05)
• I'll Be There for You — 1 reference
  • “the theme song from the show Friends” — “This video contains a lot of flashy lights and the theme song from the show Friends.” — Hank, Punk Friends (00:00:00)
• ICG Creator Chat — 1 reference
  • “the podcast I host” — video description, The Adpocalypse: What it Means (00:00:00)
• In Memory of W. B. Yeats — 1 reference
  • “a different poem written around the same time” — “In a different poem written around the same time, Auden writes about all the dogs of Europe barking and each nation being sequestered in …” — John, Uncertain and Afraid (00:00:00)
• Innocence of Muslims — 1 reference
  • “an anti-Islam film” — “that were happening because of an anti-Islam film, when in fact it was definitely a planned” — Hank, Benghazi: Explained (00:03:53)
• Invincible Microbe — 1 reference
  • “this book about tuberculosis” — “or this book about tuberculosis.” — John, John's (Mostly Book) Holiday Gift Recommendations (00:02:20)
• Ironic — 1 reference
  • “rain on your wedding day or 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife” — “That, Alanis Morissette, more than rain on your wedding day or 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife.” — John, Gatsby's American Dream: Reading The Great Gatsby Critically, Chapter 1 (00:02:55)
• Ishmael and the Return of the Dugongs — 1 reference
  • “this book by a guy named Michael Gerard Bauer about a kid called Ishmael” — “That night there was a hilarious reading from this book by a guy named Michael Gerard Bauer about a kid called Ishmael.” — John, Umbrellas Amuse Me: Observations from One Day in Munich (00:01:56)
• Jurassic Park (film) — 1 reference
  • “Steven Spielberg movie” — “In that book, and the subsequent Steven Spielberg movie, a velociraptor skeleton is excavated” — John, VELOCIRAPTORS (00:00:17)
• Katherine's grandmother's recipe book — 1 reference
  • “a recipe book” — “After she had kids, though, she turned it into a recipe book,” — Hank, Eating Weird Food from the 50s (with Katherine) (00:00:06)
• Kelly Kend's documentary on consent and sexual assault — 1 reference
  • “a documentary about consent and sexual” — “And the other is Kelly Kend, who's working on a documentary about consent and sexual” — Hank, The Oculus Rift is Freakin Me Out (00:03:34)
• Killing in the Name — 1 reference
  • “a profanity-laden song from 1992” — “and get a profanity-laden song from 1992 to the top of the UK charts.” — Hank, Hypocrisy: All They Want is Money (00:00:25)
• La Marseillaise — 1 reference
  • “the French National Anthem” — “… making this offer, by the way, Bouillé would later be likened to a blood-thirsty despot in the French National Anthem.” — John, Headless Monarchy: The French Revolution, Part II (00:01:05)
• Lauren McLaughlin's blog post on Caster Semenya — 1 reference
  • “a really interesting blog post” — “Hank, my friend Lauren McLaughlin wrote about all of this in a really interesting blog post, link in the sidebar.” — John, Sex, Sports, and Caster Semenya (00:01:10)
• Leave Britney Alone — 1 reference
  • “made a YouTube video recently” — “Hank, in other news, I've been thinking a lot lately about Chris Crocker, who made a YouTube video recently in which big and apparently real tears are cried in defense of Britney Spears.” — John, September 18: In Defense of Chris Crocker (00:00:35)
• Lemmings — 1 reference
  • “They were turned into a series of fantastic computer games.” — “They were turned into a series of fantastic computer games. Lemmings are tiny little rodents that live in the.” — John, Consider the Lemming (00:00:29)
• Leslie F*cking Jones — 1 reference
  • “Leslie Jones wrote this” — John, John's (Mostly Book) Holiday Gift Recommendations (00:01:45)
• Library of Ivan the Terrible — 1 reference
  • “your incredibly fancy library” — “telling anyone where your incredibly fancy library is!” — John, TERRIBLE (00:02:28)
• Limitless — 1 reference
  • “a new movie coming out” — “For example, there's a new movie coming out in which an out of work writer takes this” — Hank, Superhero Creation Myths (00:03:14)
• Lincoln Bible — 1 reference
  • “the exact same Bible that Abraham Lincoln used” — “In fact, he's using the exact same Bible that Abraham Lincoln used.” — John, PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA Inaugurated: Some Historical Background (00:00:54)
• lonelygirl15 — 1 reference
  • “a frank and lonely girl” — “Well, you started out obsessed with a frank and lonely girl.” — Hank, August 29th: Goodbye 29 Year Old John (00:00:29)
• Looking for Alaska (film) — 1 reference
  • “has been in movie development” — “Like, for instance, my first novel, Looking for Alaska, has been in movie development for like a year and a half now, and is still in development.” — John, Dec. 10: MY BOOK IS GONNA BE A MOVIE!!! (someday) (00:01:12)
• Mark Rober's glitter bait package video — 1 reference
  • “Mark Rober's amazing new video” — “So I assume that you, like everyone else on the internet, has seen Mark Rober's amazing new video in which he builds a bait package that explodes glitter on people when they steal it.” — Hank, The Psychology of Package Thieves (00:00:00)
• Measles: A Dangerous Illness — 1 reference
  • “Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles” — “Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old.” — Hank, We Will Eradicate Measles (00:03:09)
• Mike Rugnetta's video on 'Content' — 1 reference
  • “a video nine years ago” — “Mike Rugnetta made a video nine years ago that I have been thinking about ever since about the word content and the related phrase …” — Hank, Are We Still YouTubers? (00:00:00)
• Moana — 1 reference
  • “the new one that Lin Manuel Miranda wrote the songs for” — “I liked the new one that Lin Manuel Miranda wrote the songs for.” — John, Baby Poop Rookie: Vlogbrothers Reunited (00:00:51)
• Mob Wives — 1 reference
  • “a mob wife” — “… John Hodgman, some SNL cast members, two real housewives of New York and or New Jersey, a mob wife, and the great writer Darren Strauss, who wrote Chang and Ang, the book that introduced …” — John, Chris Colfer, John Green, Mob Wives, and Jeffrey Eugenides: Thoughts from Places Book Expo (00:01:56)
• Monopoly mobile app reviewed by John — 1 reference
  • “the mobile version of the famous board game Monopoly” — “Today I'll be reviewing the mobile version of the famous board game Monopoly.” — John, What's Wrong with Monopoly? (00:00:00)
• My Hope — 1 reference
  • “this great Molly Lewis song” — “Like there's this great Molly Lewis song from maybe ten years ago in which the chorus goes:” — John, How Does This End? (00:00:19)
• Neisser and Harsch's Challenger flashbulb memory study — 1 reference
  • “the famous classic 1989 Challenger flashbulb memory study” — “… those people who aren't specialists in the fields of memory science, let me tell you about the famous classic 1989 Challenger flashbulb memory study.” — John, Poopy Nintendo Mystery SOLVED WITH SCIENCE (00:00:30)
• Nerdfighter backpack — 1 reference
  • “backpacks” — “We sold out of backpacks!” — Hank, What Everyone Gets Wrong About Global Warming (00:03:32)
• New Super Mario Bros. U — 1 reference
  • “the new Super Mario Brothers” — “you can see us playing the new Super Mario Brothers there soon.” — Hank, Black Friday: An Accident of History (00:02:38)
• New York Times article about a 14-year-old boy in solitary confinement — 1 reference
  • “another article in The New York Times about a fourteen year old boy locked in solitary confinement” — “And third, another article in The New York Times about a fourteen year old boy locked in solitary confinement which I found chilling and deeply upsetting.” — John, The Cold War of Nerdfighteria (00:00:26)
• On Photography — 1 reference
  • “Back in 1977, Susan Sontag wrote” — “Back in 1977, Susan Sontag wrote,” — John, Deepfake: A Brief History of Unreliable Images (00:02:55)
• Parisian Love — 1 reference
  • “the Super Bowl ad” — “As soon as I saw the Super Bowl ad, I was like, there's got to be a Harry Potter version of one of these.” — Hank, Google Search Stories: Harry Potter (00:01:46)
• People article on John Green and Sarah's 18-year marriage — 1 reference
  • “this article from People Magazine” — “this article from People Magazine online edition, both the rule for” — John, Getting Personal about Getting Personal (00:00:06)
• Peter Hollens and Hank Green collab video of Hobbit drinking songs — 1 reference
  • “a collab video that I did with him singing Hobbit drinking songs” — “because Peter Hollens just released a collab video that I did with him singing Hobbit drinking songs;” — Hank, 16 Sports that Should Be in the Olympics (00:02:09)
• Phosphine gas in the cloud decks of Venus — 1 reference
  • “the authors of this paper” — “somewhere else in the solar system, we need the big proof which the authors of this paper confirm would need to be an actual visit to the upper atmosphere of venus.” — Hank, They Say it Gets Colder (00:02:54)
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek — 1 reference
  • “I am sitting under a sycamore by Tinker Creek” — John, Let's take a walk. (00:00:48)
• Playlist of videos by Black creators — 1 reference
  • “a playlist of videos focused on Black creators” — “Instead, with input from friends and colleagues, I've made a playlist of videos focused on Black creators and the long history of African American experience in the hopes of amplifying those voices and …” — John, --- (00:01:57)
• poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay quoted in Looking for Alaska — 1 reference
  • “an Edna St Vincent Millay poem” — “and the nice lawyers at penguin decided the character Alaska quotes too much of an Edna St Vincent Millay poem” — John, Old Man Narrates Young Girl (00:02:10)
• Poetry (poem by Marianne Moore) — 1 reference
  • “that Marianne Moore poem” — “Anyway, reading this book, I was reminded of that Marianne Moore poem where she writes that great poetry involves the creation of imaginary gardens with real toads in …” — John, Who Owns Nerdfighteria? (00:00:29)
• Prada Marfa — 1 reference
  • “fake Prada store” — “there’s the fake Prada store that has become a” — John, The Utah Monolith, What It Means, Why It Matters, and Whether It's Aliens (00:01:27)
• Raymond Pettibon's spiral painting — 1 reference
  • “Raymond Pettibon spiral painting” — “Like that Raymond Pettibon spiral painting” — John, A Secret about Art (00:02:30)
• Regarding the Pain of Others — 1 reference
  • “would reply decades later” — “To which Susan Sontag would reply decades later, the truth is, photographs are not simply anything.” — John, Deepfake: A Brief History of Unreliable Images (00:00:58)
• Scarlett Fever — 1 reference
  • “the sequel to Sweet Scarlet” — “The first piece of exciting news is that the sequel to Sweet Scarlet is out, which I would have for you.” — Hank, Win The Awesomest Prizes EVAR! (00:00:00)
• Seagulls! (Stop It Now) — 1 reference
  • “the weird seagulls Yoda song” — “Doesn't seem possible that like not only me singing that song but also the lyrics to the weird seagulls Yoda song and all the way to Emily Dickinson and William Shakespeare all that stuff was just the …” — Hank, Intentionally Ignorant: Does Free Will Exist? (00:00:27)
• Seikilos epitaph — 1 reference
  • “the oldest song that we have in its entirety” — “However, the oldest song that we have in its entirety is a brief composition.” — Hank, What is The Oldest Song? (00:01:21)
• Shakespeare's sonnets — 1 reference
  • “Shakespearean sonnets” — “and some Shakespearean sonnets.” — John, The Looking for Alaska Movie, Davos, and Hufflepuff Shade: It's Question Tuesday (00:02:50)
• Sherlock — 1 reference
  • “the Cumberbatch one” — “[John]: The Cumberbatch one: 2 thumbs up.” — John, Hank's Question Tuesday DEBUT! (00:01:52)
• Sherlock Holmes (2009) — 1 reference
  • “the Downey Jr. one” — “[John]: The Downey Jr. one: one thumb.” — John, Hank's Question Tuesday DEBUT! (00:01:57)
• silver-thread installation by Lygia Pape — 1 reference
  • “this work” — “Later that afternoon, we took the subway to a gallery featuring this work form the Brazilian” — John, Drowzees and Masterpieces: Thoughts from London (00:01:56)
• since feeling is first — 1 reference
  • “this famous poem by e.e. cummings” — “There's this famous poem by e.e. cummings” — John, How to Make Guys Like You (00:01:53)
• SodaStream Super Bowl commercial — 1 reference
  • “Super Bowl commercial” — “SodaStream had a Super Bowl commercial, and it's one of my top, like, five SodaStream commercials.” — Hank, GET BUSY WITH THE FIZZY (00:00:00)
• Spring Song — 1 reference
  • “this Lucille Clifton poem” — “For some reason, I think about this Lucille Clifton poem that ends, The future is possible.” — John, Let's take a walk. (00:02:53)
• Star Wars — 1 reference
  • “episodes 1 through 3” — “I mean, Game Boys are inanimate, Teletubbies are imaginary, and everybody knows that episodes 1 through 3 were written and directed by the robot who killed George Lucas and invaded his body.” — John, The Return of Question Tuesdays (00:01:35)
• Star Wars (film) — 1 reference
  • “the original Star Wars movie” — “Lots of people have complained that the Force Awakens is just a re-hash of the original Star Wars movie, right?” — John, Zero Severed Hands: On Star Wars and Making Things (00:00:13)
• Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace — 1 reference
  • “the prequels” — “And then the prequels came out, and they did not have the same mythic resonance.” — John, The Myth Reawakens (00:02:38)
• Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones — 1 reference
  • “the prequels” — “And then the prequels came out, and they did not have the same mythic resonance.” — John, The Myth Reawakens (00:02:38)
• Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith — 1 reference
  • “the prequels” — “And then the prequels came out, and they did not have the same mythic resonance.” — John, The Myth Reawakens (00:02:38)
• Straight — 1 reference
  • “38 tons of steel rebar, arranged in undulating waves” — John, Poetry Makes Nothing Happen: Thoughts on Ai Weiwei from the Indianapolis Museum of Art (00:02:10)
• Strong Bad Email — 1 reference
  • “types out responses to e-mails every week” — “hands, types out responses to e-mails every week.” — Hank, Pre-History of Online Video (00:01:44)
• Study of Perspective — 1 reference
  • “flicking off important buildings” — “Ai is primarily famous on Tumblr for flicking off important buildings.” — John, Poetry Makes Nothing Happen: Thoughts on Ai Weiwei from the Indianapolis Museum of Art (00:01:21)
• Stuff on My Cat — 1 reference
  • “stuff on cat calendar” — “Obviously, I have stuff on cat calendar here.” — Hank, October 1st: Stuff on Heads...dot com??? (00:00:46)
• Sunrise on the Reaping — 1 reference
  • “the new Hunger Games book” — “But I wasn't up against The Hunger Games, even though the new Hunger Games book came out the same day as mine, because that book is fiction for kids, whereas my …” — John, What #1 New York Times Bestseller Actually Means (00:00:58)
• Take Me Home, Country Roads — 1 reference
  • “Country roads, take me home” — “(singing) Country roads, take me home” — Hank, The Great Goose Migration (00:00:09)
• Taking Leave — 1 reference
  • “This is a CD that would not exist without YouTube” — “This is a CD that would not exist without YouTube in like 17 different ways.” — Hank, Selling Out, Chewbacca and Taking Leave (00:02:11)
• Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles — 1 reference
  • “the new Terminator show” — “Like, if River Tam from Firefly teamed up with the new Terminator from the new Terminator show, and their entire campaign platform was just kick Hank Green's ass, that would not scare …” — Hank, Obama Says Subscribe (00:01:06)
• The Boss Baby — 1 reference
  • “the book that movie is adapted from” — “Slightly off-topic, but the book that movie is adapted from is excellent.” — John, The Russian Reversal (00:02:11)
• the climate-opinion graph — 1 reference
  • “a graph that changed my life forever” — “And around five years ago, I saw a graph that changed my life forever.” — Hank, This Graph Changed My Life (00:02:27)
• The Cost Conundrum — 1 reference
  • “an article from the New Yorker” — “But there's a link in the sidebar to an article from the New Yorker that goes pretty deep into why Americans' healthcare budget is so massive.” — Hank, The Political Situation at the County Fair (00:03:30)
• The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger — 1 reference
  • “Randall's famous and crazy-ass narration” — “But Hank, Randall's famous and crazy-ass narration” — John, Honey Badgers: The Crazy Truth (00:00:13)
• The Crowd at the Ball Game — 1 reference
  • “William Carlos Williams poem about a baseball game” — “Like, there's this great William Carlos Williams poem about a baseball game that begins, The crowd at the ball game is moved uniformly by a spirit of uselessness …” — John, get your game on (00:00:00)
• The Elements of Style — 1 reference
  • “Strunk and White's style guide” — “So you know how most writers use like Strunk and White’s Style Guide or the AP Style Guide or whatever;” — John, My Most Valuable Books (00:02:18)
• The Great Gatsby — 1 reference
  • “bears us back ceaselessly into the past” — “… boats i'll just tell you can i tell you mine yeah it's the one that uh bears us back ceaselessly into the past even though we're rowing mine is from scuppers the sailor dog which is kind of bearing …” — John, My Lungs Are on the Outside of the Body (00:05:48)
• The Hunger Games (book series) — 1 reference
  • “based on a great book” — video description, Disgusting Cookies - The 2012 Hungry Games (00:00:00)
• The Oregon Trail — 1 reference
  • “a video game” — “This 2200 mile long wagon route, that today is primarily famous as a video game,” — John, Who Owns Oregon? Some Historical Context on the so-called Militia Occupation of Public Lands (00:01:13)
• The Portable Dorothy Parker — 1 reference
  • “a portable Dorothy Parker” — “Places where people literally cannot imagine what a pleasure it would be to have a portable Dorothy Parker in your pants.” — John, Volunteering (In Your Pants) (00:01:26)
• The Raven — 1 reference
  • “that Edgar Allen Poe poem” — “What does the raven symbolize in that Edgar Allen Poe poem?” — John, Burning Peeps, My OTP, and Velociraptors: It's Question Tuesday (00:00:49)
• The Real Housewives — 1 reference
  • “real housewives of New York and or New Jersey” — “… contain not only Chris Colfer, but also Tony Danza, John Hodgman, some SNL cast members, two real housewives of New York and or New Jersey, a mob wife, and the great writer Darren Strauss, who wrote Chang and Ang, the …” — John, Chris Colfer, John Green, Mob Wives, and Jeffrey Eugenides: Thoughts from Places Book Expo (00:01:56)
• The Sneezing Baby Panda — 1 reference
  • “a sneezy panda” — “Number one, you can turn into a sneezy panda.” — John, How To Do Everything (00:02:26)
• The Third Thing — 1 reference
  • “Donald Hall essay” — “There's this great Donald Hall essay where he writes about third things in marriages, how when you're in a marriage, you're not …” — John, The Unimportant Things (00:01:27)
• The Twelve Days of Christmas — 1 reference
  • “What happened on the 11th day of Christmas?” — “What happened on the 11th day of Christmas? Uh, drummers drumming, I think?” — Hank, December 13: Mailing Shopping Thanking. It Must Be Christmas (00:00:52)
• The Virgin Suicides (film) — 1 reference
  • “made The Virgin Suicides into a movie” — “is cousins with Sofia Coppola, who by the way made The Virgin Suicides into a movie,” — John, Many Truths, 1 Lie! (00:00:50)
• The Walking Dead (TV series) — 1 reference
  • “the TV show” — “I don't want to sound like an originalist, but it's much better than the TV show.” — John, Top 5 Zombie Apocalypses OF ALL TIME (00:00:55)
• The Women's Petition Against Coffee — 1 reference
  • “anonymously written petition against coffee” — “which included this anonymously written petition against coffee which reads in part” — John, Nauseous Puddle Water (00:00:22)
• This Is Just to Say — 1 reference
  • “one particular William Carlos Williams poem” — “This is exclusively for people who have read one particular William Carlos Williams poem.” — John, Ruins, LOLBooks, and the Blurbing Book Club (00:03:03)
• This Is Water — 1 reference
  • “a commencement address” — “Here's a joke that David Foster Wallace made famous in a commencement address.” — John, How's the Water? (00:00:01)
• Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance — 1 reference
  • “One of my favorite books is about it” — “One of my favorite books is about it, I made a Vlogbrothers video about it, I even own a recent print of it.” — John, Way, Way Down the Rabbit Hole (00:00:00)
• Three Guineas — 1 reference
  • “a famous 1938 essay” — “In a famous 1938 essay” — John, Deepfake: A Brief History of Unreliable Images (00:00:29)
• Time 100 — 1 reference
  • “named me one of the world's most influential people” — “TIME Magazine named me one of the world's most influential people.” — John, On Fame and Chappell Roan (00:01:10)
• Toussaint L'Ouverture: The Fight for Haiti's Freedom — 1 reference
  • “Walter Dean Myers' book about the Haitian Revolution” — “Like, Walter Dean Myers' book about the Haitian Revolution, or this book about tuberculosis.” — John, John's (Mostly Book) Holiday Gift Recommendations (00:01:57)
• Tumblr text post fearing an ordinary life — 1 reference
  • “here's one that I came across quite a while ago” — “And here's one that I came across quite a while ago that kinda stuck with me, “What” — Hank, You Will Be Forgotten ...And That's OK (00:00:36)
• Valerie's draw-a-horse zine — 1 reference
  • “draw a horse scene” — “This is my friend Valerie's draw a horse scene.” — Hank, TOO MANY MILKS (00:01:57)
• viral TikTok about time traveler Noah — 1 reference
  • “viral TikTok about a time traveler named Noah” — “this viral tiktok about a time traveler named Noah who is visiting us from 2030.” — John, Somebody once told me… (00:00:30)
• wanderlust canvas — 1 reference
  • “a canvas printed with the word wanderlust and its definition” — “But then Hank, then, when you go to the bathroom, behind the toilet, you will find a canvas printed with the word wanderlust and its definition.” — John, An Attempt at Exhausting an Artwork in Cincinnati (00:01:03)
• Wanted — 1 reference
  • “What a terrible movie!” — Hank, Can You Really Light a Fart? (00:01:38)
• Warhol's Jackie Kennedy series — 1 reference
  • “Warhol's series depicting Jackie Kennedy” — “Like, consider Warhol's series depicting Jackie Kennedy just before and just after the assassination of her husband, President John F.” — John, The Instagramification of Human Experience (00:01:27)
• We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families — 1 reference
  • “the first Brotherhood 2.0 book club book” — “After all, that's what the first Brotherhood 2.0 book club book was about.” — John, Brotherhood 2.0: March 15: Decreasing Suck (00:02:15)
• Welcome to Night Vale (novel) — 1 reference
  • “The book” — “The book just came out, debuted number four on the New York Times best-seller list, number” — Hank, Feeling Thankful in Portland (00:00:38)
• who are you,little i — 1 reference
  • “famous sunset poem” — “Cummings famous sunset poem which goes: who are you little” — John, Civil Twilight (00:00:51)
• Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing you've never noticed — 1 reference
  • “his TED talk” — “But Roman Mars and his TED talk focuses on the flag of the city of Milwaukee, which is bad.” — Hank, In Defense of Bad Flags (00:00:58)
• Womanizer — 1 reference
  • “a parody of another song” — “… kind of a complicated song to do, largely because I couldn't sing it myself, because it's a parody of another song, and that song is pretty far outside of my range.” — Hank, Stock Adviser (Via Britney) (00:00:00)
• You Are an Artist — 1 reference
  • “Sarah's book” — John, Pizza Sized Johns or John Sized Pizza? It's Question Thursday (00:02:44)
• You'll Never Walk Alone — 1 reference
  • “a song that ends” — “At the end of every game Liverpool fans sing a song that ends” — John, On Sharing the Walk (00:02:54)
• Yours, Isaac Asimov — 1 reference
  • “the collected letters of Isaac Asimov” — “… I have the, I'd go get it if it wasn't a one-take video, but I have the collected letters of Isaac Asimov.” — John, ONE TAKE JOHNNY (00:13:36)

Characters

• Wampa — 2 references
  • “the giant snow beast” — “the giant snow beast who captured Luke Skywalker, hung him upside-down in the cave,” — Hank, 13 SEVERED HANDS! (1) (00:02:40)
  • “the giant snow beast” — “But we can't talk about that until we recognize the giant snow beast who captured Luke Skywalker, hung him upside down in the cave, and then got his arm …” — Hank, 13 SEVERED HANDS! (2) (00:02:26)
• April May — 1 reference
  • “my main characters” — “… boob in a door thought you should know ultimately I will go to my grave defending my main characters ability to close her boob in the door I don't know how it's possible But I …” — Hank, I Closed My Boob in a Door (00:03:01)
• Batman — 1 reference
  • “The Caped Crusader” — “Universe who first appeared in 1939. Hank is also known as "The Caped Crusader " and” — John, QUESTION FRIDAY: Spelling is Hard Edition (00:01:02)
• Catwoman — 1 reference
  • “cat person” — “Stupid people who follow the evil but charismatic cat person /joker/penguin.” — John, I Kind of Hate Batman (00:01:41)
• Cho Chang — 1 reference
  • “she's a dead boy's girlfriend” — “… aglow And she looks so pretty in her schoolgirl robes And her skin like porcelain But she's a dead boy's girlfriend Oh, she's a dead boy's girlfriend” — Hank, Dead Boy's Girlfriend (00:00:25)
• Daisy Ramirez — 1 reference
  • “the fanfiction that Daisy writes” — “There's even some people who wrote versions of the fanfiction that Daisy writes in Turtles All the Way Down.” — Hank, Hank and John Discover Chippy Butties (00:00:29)
• Data (character, “Star Trek: The Next Generation”) — 1 reference
  • “a sentient android from the Star Trek: The Next Generation universe” — “Hank is a sentient android from the Star Trek: The Next Generation universe, who, as any” — John, Question Tuesday! Paula Deen Riding Me (and critical reading) (00:00:02)
• Data (character, “The Goonies”) — 1 reference
  • “Nerdy Asian kid who's inventing stuff all the time” — Hank, October 5th: Feuding, Goonies and Politics (00:01:41)
• Death — 1 reference
  • “the wolf” — “simply the wolf.” — Hank, It's About a YouTuber with Cancer (00:00:59)
• Edward Cullen — 1 reference
  • “the Arizona blood-drinking silver-haired virgins” — “And my final recommendation, number four, is the Arizona blood-drinking silver-haired virgins.” — John, Super Bowl Analysis from an Idiot (00:02:08)
• Father Mapple — 1 reference
  • “Melville's preacher” — “As Melville's preacher puts it in Moby Dick, woe to him whose good name is more to him than …” — John, On Cuties and Cooties (00:01:27)
• Harry Potter (character, “Harry Potter”) — 1 reference
  • “cedric and i we finished that maze” — “night cedric and i we finished that maze at the very same time we grab the cup together to share the I thought maybe …” — Hank, Dead Boy's Girlfriend (00:01:55)
• Horcrux — 1 reference
  • “Voldemort’s soul because it comes to you in eight parts” — “Today’s video is actually like Voldemort’s soul because it comes to you in eight parts.” — John, Many Truths, 1 Lie! (00:00:00)
• Liane Cartman — 1 reference
  • “Cartman's mom” — “This is definitely Cartman's mom.” — Hank, This one's for your mom (00:37:18)
• Mario — 1 reference
  • “a little guy” — “So, this is a song about a little guy who one day he wakes up and there's some people come to notify him that something …” — John Darnielle, An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall (01:22:26)
• Mechanical Hound — 1 reference
  • “a mechanised dog” — “he hangs out with other firemen and a mechanised dog who is both alive and dead.” — John, Feeling More Alive: Fahrenheit 451's The Hearth and the Salamander (00:00:20)
• Mickey Mouse — 1 reference
  • “Mice who lord over theme parks.” — John, Puppies, Pegasi, and TFiOS Casting: It's Question Tuesday (00:00:05)
• Mr. Peanut — 1 reference
  • “animated spokesnut” — “funeral for your animated spokesnut, and then rebrand with a hip baby spokesnut.” — John, Hank Rebranded Without Any of Us Noticing (00:01:29)
• Pavel Chekov — 1 reference
  • “the little Russian child prodigy” — “as McCoy, the little Russian child prodigy was hilarious, or who got to graduate from being a glorified secretary to being a.” — Hank, Star Trek: The Movie, Review (00:02:03)
• Quasimodo — 1 reference
  • “Hunchback of Notre Dame” — “the fictional Hunchback of Notre Dame had that disease.” — John, How Panda Express Is Tuberculosis (00:01:27)
• Sea Captain — 1 reference
  • “the sailor from The Simpsons” — “the internet but I'm hoping that he looks like the sailor from The Simpsons.” — John, Sarah Palin: An Introduction (00:01:13)
• T. J. Eckleburg — 1 reference
  • “the disembodied, bespectacled eyes depicted on that billboard” — “The metaphor for God is the disembodied, bespectacled eyes depicted on that billboard.” — John, Froghoppin' with Gatsby (00:01:01)

People

• Donald Trump — 13 references
  • “one of the major party Presidential candidates” — “What's different now is that one of the major party Presidential candidates is loudly and” — John, Will the U.S. Presidential Election Be Rigged? (00:06:03)
  • “our new president” — video description, Behind the Scenes of My Life (00:00:00)
  • “a reality TV star president” — “personally ill informed, to electing a reality TV star president,” — Hank, Can You Trust Mainstream Media? (00:03:04)
  • “the President” — “of Congress and the president do not” — Hank, The Paris Accord: What is it? And What Does it All Mean? (00:04:52)
  • “the President of the United States” — “… feeds and they contain everything from pictures of your cousin's baby to the unfiltered thoughts of the President of the United States.” — Hank, Who is in Control? (00:00:28)
  • “the President of the United States” — “… not see because you are not on Twitter, and thus you probably don't even know that the President of the United States invited a football team to the White House to eat McDonald's.” — Hank, Should You Burn Dirty Fuel? (00:00:00)
  • “our president” — “And, also, we just impeached our president about the fact that” — Hank, Why I'm Worried about 2020 (00:01:14)
  • “the president” — “of TikTok because otherwise the president might ban it.” — Hank, Break the Mold (00:01:18)
  • “the President of the United States” — “the main news was that the president of the United States has been hospitalized for COVID” — John, Me from the Past: A Pizzamas Miracle (00:02:02)
  • “A mean, petulant, victimhood-based presidency” — “A mean, petulant victimhood based presidency was being quickly,” — Hank, How Much Hope is OK? (00:00:12)
  • “a president whose favorite pastime was fanning the flames of anger and frustration with each other” — “exiting four years of having a president whose favorite pastime was fanning the flames of anger and frustration with each other.” — Hank, Why I'm Worried about 2021 (00:03:07)
  • “a president who has been openly unfaithful to every wife he's ever had” — video description, Morality (00:00:00)
  • “how in the hell did that guy ever become president” — “We're going to ask ourselves, how in the hell did that guy ever become president of the United States?” — Adam Schiff, Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? (00:10:21)
• Barack Obama — 11 references
  • “the president” — “taxes and raise spending, which is precisely what the economic stimulus bill the president will sign tomorrow is designed to do.” — John, Stimulus Plan Explained (00:02:52)
  • “we already have a suitable president” — “… main arguments against Chewbacca becoming president of the United States in 2012. Argument one is that we already have a suitable president, which, you know, fair enough, but he's not a wookie.” — John, Chewbacca for President! Let the Wookie Win! (00:00:00)
  • “the president” — “kind of treatment that like Conan O'Brien and the president get where they're doing” — Hank, p4a, Space Pasta, and Giant Squids of Anger (00:00:57)
  • “the first second term for a black president” — Hank, The 51st State (00:00:08)
  • “the President” — “You, my brother, John got to interview the President a bit.” — Hank, Baby, Harlem, Obama, Dance Crazes, Big Week (00:01:47)
  • “the President of the United States” — “whom the President of the United States told not to forget to be awesome,” — John, Doing Things, On the Importance of (00:00:08)
  • “the president” — “because the president used "gif" [GU-if] in one of his speeches.” — Hank, GIFs, JIFs, Whip Pans, Trivia, and BATMAN! (00:00:33)
  • “President” — “were here but you're busy, like, interviewing the President or whatever.” — John, REUNION MINIGOLF (00:00:03)
  • “the President” — “if you heard about this, but recently I interviewed the President.” — Hank, You Will Be Forgotten ...And That's OK (00:01:27)
  • “the President” — “I became a bobble head, invented 2D glasses, and I interviewed the President.” — Hank, The Most Interesting Thing I've Ever Done (00:00:24)
  • “first black president” — “1999, not an election year, first black president.” — Hank, In 1990 I Made a Bunch of Predictions About 2020...Here they Are (00:01:51)
• Richard Heene — 4 references
  • “the dad of this family” — “Seriously, Hank, the dad of this family thinks that Hillary Clinton is something called a reptilian, which is where you have, like, a …” — John, The Balloon Boy Hoax (00:01:34)
  • “Dad” — “I told him, Dad, you know I'm proud of you.” — Hank, Balloon Boy: A Short Song (00:00:00)
  • “that dad” — “The balloon boy thing was when that dad pretended that his son was in the balloon thing when really his son was in the …” — Hank, Truth or Fail: HOAXES! (00:00:00)
  • “the father of balloon boy” — “sportscaster, has many followers, including the father of balloon boy Falcon Heene, who” — Hank, Top 5 Ridiculous Conspiracy Theories (00:02:49)
• the guide (Detroit urban explorer) — 3 references
  • “the guide” — “This is the guide.” — John, Brotherhood 2.0: March 19th: Urban Exploration (00:00:05)
  • “your guide” — “But those people must never have met your guide.” — Hank, March 20th: Dancing and the Idiocy of Age (00:00:58)
  • “the guide” — “First, we're going to look at these beautiful pictures that the guide shot inside the abandoned cathedral, I mean theater, in Detroit.” — John, Brotherhood 2.0: March 21st: Put Stuff on Your Head (00:00:03)
• Asif Ali Zardari — 2 references
  • “the widower of Benazir Bhutto” — “The president of Pakistan is the widower of Benazir Bhutto,” — John, Shaving for Pakistan (00:02:04)
  • “president of Pakistan” — “he called the president of Pakistan.” — Hank, Osama Bin Laden is Dead (00:02:35)
• Dipendra of Nepal — 2 references
  • “the crown prince wants to marry a girl” — “and the crown prince wants to marry a girl.” — John, OCT. 26: DISCUSSING NEPAL WHILE EATING TOILET PAPER (00:00:37)
  • “the prince of Nepal became a serial killer” — “most interesting moment in world history except for when the prince of Nepal became a serial killer.” — Hank, The Surprising Origin of Crash Course (00:00:37)
• Dmitri Mendeleev — 2 references
  • “The guy who created the periodic table” — “- The guy who created the periodic table also created vodka?” — Hank, Pizza Cocktails with John and Hank! (00:02:38)
  • “The guy who created the periodic table” — “… down to our last drink of the 2017. I feel like I'm flying like a G6. The guy who created the periodic table also created vodka?” — John, John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated (00:53:13)
• Elizabeth II — 2 references
  • “Queen of England” — “And Charlie came here instead of meeting the Queen of England, no joke.” — John, Vital Status Report from NYC (00:00:00)
  • “the Queen” — “happens, when the Queen dissolved parliament.” — John, 454 Days: Understanding America's Ridiculous Political Campaigns (00:00:43)
• Hank Azaria — 2 references
  • “Your husband's name was Hank” — “Your husband's name was Hank, right?” — Hank, Helen Hunt (00:01:21)
  • “Your husband's name was Hank” — “And for that, I really want to thank you Your husband's name was Hank, right?” — Hank, So Jokes: Video EP (00:04:08)
• John Flansburgh — 2 references
  • “the John and the John” — “While many have witnessed this charming interaction between the John and the John, few, if any, have seen what you are about to witness.” — Hank, September 25th: TMBG and NYT (00:00:46)
  • “John and John of They Might Be Giants” — “Like, for example, for me, we got John and John of They Might Be Giants,” — Hank, Who's in Your Hug Bucket? (00:01:38)
• Michael H. Weber — 2 references
  • “the guys who wrote TFiOS” — “The screenplay by the guys who wrote TFiOS is amazing, my friend Nat Wolff is going to” — John, It's Question Tuesday! Cheesy Jokes, Paper Towns Movie, and Dinosaur Butt Brains (00:01:02)
  • “You guys” — “John: You guys did a good job with the script.” — Michael H. Weber, The Paper Towns Movie IS HERE! (00:03:04)
• Park Geun-hye — 2 references
  • “South Korea just got a new president” — “2: South Korea just got a new president, and every time South Korea gets a new” — Hank, North Korea: Explained (00:00:56)
  • “South Korea's ousted president” — “don't know much about South Korea's ousted President or the ongoing” — John, My Information Diet (00:01:57)
• Paul Vasquez — 2 references
  • “the actual Yosemite Bear” — “… rest on VidCon beanbags, to watching Charlie of So Cool Like play rock band, from meeting the actual Yosemite Bear, to watching Philip DeFranco play Ninja Nerds with me, Tony V, it was just awesome.” — John, Vidcon: Thoughts from Places (00:00:03)
  • “the double rainbow guy” — “Gangnam style, Justin Bieber, the double rainbow guy, and of course, the ice bucket challenge” — Hank, From the Main Stage of VidCon! (00:01:03)
• Scott Neustadter — 2 references
  • “the guys who wrote TFiOS” — “The screenplay by the guys who wrote TFiOS is amazing, my friend Nat Wolff is going to” — John, It's Question Tuesday! Cheesy Jokes, Paper Towns Movie, and Dinosaur Butt Brains (00:01:02)
  • “You guys” — “John: You guys did a good job with the script.” — Scott Neustadter, The Paper Towns Movie IS HERE! (00:03:04)
• Ted Williams — 2 references
  • “silky voiced homeless man” — “But another great thing about that silky voiced homeless man is that the video went viral” — Hank, Homeless Man with a Golden Voice Gets a Job (00:01:19)
  • “a homeless man with a golden voice” — “Like, we want there to be a homeless man with a golden voice that was never recognized for his talent until the internet found him, when” — Hank, YOU ARE WRONG! (00:01:46)
• 13-year-old Syrian refugee (clip) — 1 reference
  • “a 13-year-old Syrian refugee” — “The ultimate solution, the only ultimate solution, was outlined clearly for us by a 13-year-old Syrian refugee.” — John, Understanding the Refugee Crisis in Europe, Syria, and around the World (00:08:16)
• Abdel Fattah el-Sisi — 1 reference
  • “The head of Egypt's military” — “The head of Egypt's military does not install himself because as we said previously, he's already got a lot of power.” — Hank, Egypt....Explained! (00:06:45)
• Abraham Maslow — 1 reference
  • “this guy” — “And also, according to this guy, people who don't have personal safety don't need love or friendship or family.” — Hank, Barack John Obama Green (00:02:56)
• Adly Mansour — 1 reference
  • “the head of the constitutional court” — “Instead, he installs the head of the constitutional court as the interim president.” — Hank, Egypt....Explained! (00:06:52)
• Ahmed Shafik — 1 reference
  • “a candidate who basically represents the original regime of Mubarak” — “that being the Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi and a candidate who basically represents the original regime of Mubarak that we just overthrew!” — Hank, Egypt....Explained! (00:04:37)
• Alan Lastufka — 1 reference
  • “My friend Alan” — video description, So Jokes: Video EP (00:00:00)
• Alejandro García Padilla — 1 reference
  • “a governor” — “… is that this remains an extremely decisive issue inside of Puerto Rico when they just elected a governor,” — Hank, The 51st State (00:02:46)
• Ali Khamenei — 1 reference
  • “the same Grand Ayatollah will still be the supreme leader” — “… know it doesn't matter who the president of Iran is, because no matter who is president, the same Grand Ayatollah will still be the supreme leader?” — John, On Iran, Islam, and Amazingly Stupid Comments (00:01:27)
• Alice Roosevelt Longworth — 1 reference
  • “his daughter Alice” — “Fictionalized account of the relationship between Teddy Roosevelt and his daughter Alice, huh.” — Hank, Reviewing Musicals from their Wikipedia Pages (00:03:21)
• Archbishop of Canterbury (1630s, unnamed) — 1 reference
  • “The Archbishop of Canterbury” — “The Archbishop of Canterbury said, I knew the time when great care was had about printing, Bibles especially.” — John, 5 Worst Typos of History (00:02:40)
• Ashley Olsen — 1 reference
  • “Olsen twin” — “than your average Olsen twin.” — John, What Could You Do with a Poe Bust?! (00:00:48)
• Ayn Rand — 1 reference
  • “Randian” — “about a heroic individual succeeding by the sweat of his Randian brow and almost always” — John, On Immunity, Inoculation, and Individuals (00:02:52)
• Bethany Mota — 1 reference
  • “Bethany” — “Bethany: What're you talking about?” — Bethany Mota, Interviewing the President (00:00:53)
• Bill Lear — 1 reference
  • “the guy who founded the Learjet corporation” — “Number three: Shanda Lear, the daughter of the guy who founded the Learjet corporation.” — John, Harry Baals & Dick Trickle: The Funniest Names in History (00:02:02)
• Bill Lee — 1 reference
  • “the governor of Tennessee” — “Which brings me to the subject of this video, because the governor of Tennessee did that, because they appear to be unable to” — Hank, Why Are We So Bad at Executing People? (00:00:29)
• Bruce Rauner — 1 reference
  • “the Republican governor” — “Neither the Republican governor nor the Democratic leaders of the state legislature are at all” — John, Nerdfighteria's Resident Comptroller? (00:02:24)
• Burton Earny — 1 reference
  • “the guy who wrote the original llama song” — “I actually found the guy who wrote the original llama song.” — Hank, Obama llama Duck (00:00:45)
• Charles III — 1 reference
  • “an elderly man” — “Like, over the weekend I saw an elderly man received a hat” — John, on hope (00:01:38)
• Chris Kennedy — 1 reference
  • “a literal Kennedy” — “a billionaire who has spent tens of millions of dollars on advertising and a literal Kennedy” — John, When Your Friend Runs for Governor (00:02:15)
• Dan Brown (novelist) — 1 reference
  • “the guy that wrote the Da Vinci Code” — “He is not the guy that wrote the Da Vinci Code.” — Hank, The Marvelous Mystery of The Dan (00:01:30)
• David Duchovny — 1 reference
  • “the actor who plays Fox Mulder” — “all about how the singer is in love with the actor who plays Fox Mulder on The X-Files.” — Hank, The Forgotten Viral Video that Could Never be Made Today (00:02:56)
• Destin Sandlin — 1 reference
  • “his channel” — “… on that memory spring thing, and I'm looking forward to it, so you should subscribe to his channel and also to Vihart and Vsauce and Veritasia.” — Hank, Revolutionizing Education...With Weirdos (00:02:41)
• Dominique Gisin — 1 reference
  • “that Swisswoman” — “And then, that Swisswoman who had that terrible crash and had to have nine surgeries on her” — Hank, Happy Third Chocolate Day! (00:01:55)
• Doubleagent — 1 reference
  • “a panda person” — “Hank, yesterday you sent me an article about a panda person who has spent thousands of hours picking flowers in world-” — John, Let Us Now Praise the Panda Person (00:02:26)
• E. Lockhart — 1 reference
  • “one of John's friends, one of his friends in his writing group” — “This book is by one of John's friends, one of his friends in his writing group.” — Hank, Five Parts (00:01:20)
• Elizabeth Berger — 1 reference
  • “the lovely people who wrote Love, Simon” — “the script, which was written by the lovely people who wrote Love, Simon.” — John, The Truth of How Books Become Movies (00:02:40)
• Elizabeth Kucinich — 1 reference
  • “Denis Kucinich's wife” — “Plus, Denis Kucinich's wife is.” — Hank, Brotherhood 2.0: March 2nd: Politics and Butt Explosions (00:01:04)
• Emily Dickinson — 1 reference
  • “the great American poet of the human heart” — “As the great American poet of the human heart wrote, “Hope is the thing with feathers” — John, My Post-Election Thoughts (00:03:25)
• Emily Graslie — 1 reference
  • “a person I met” — “I made a video with a person I met at a weird, tiny research museum in Missoula, which led” — Hank, Changing Our Business a Bit (00:00:42)
• famous author at the 1987 Florida Young Writers Conference — 1 reference
  • “a very famous author whose books you loved” — “the Florida Young Writers Conference of 1987. And you will remember that a very famous author whose books you loved was the special guest at the conference and that you stood in line with” — John, How to Sign Your Name 150,000 Times (00:02:04)
• Ferdinand II of Aragon — 1 reference
  • “King Ferdinand of Spain” — “Louis XV of France loved pineapples, as did Catherine the Great of Russia, and King Ferdinand of Spain was purportedly the first person to take” — John, this is a video about pineapples. (00:01:56)
• Gamal Mubarak — 1 reference
  • “his son, educated in Europe” — “Meanwhile, his son, educated in Europe, comes back,” — Hank, Egypt....Explained! (00:02:33)
• George R. R. Martin — 1 reference
  • “its creator” — “… is like A Song of Ice and Fire; it comes to you in three parts, unless its creator decides midway through to expand it dramatically.” — John, A Minor Crisis (00:00:01)
• Greg Ballard — 1 reference
  • “the mayor of Indianapolis” — “of energy and then the mayor of Indianapolis came out and declared July 14th, 2015 to be” — John, Paper Towns, Agloe, and Touring: Thoughts from (Many) Places (00:01:54)
• Gunnarolla — 1 reference
  • “the creator of the epic comic sans song” — video description, REUNION! Arm Wrestling, Drawing, and Questions with Hank and John! (00:00:00)
• Gustave Eiffel — 1 reference
  • “the guy whose company designed and financed most of the tower” — “… tower, and remarkably, there has been a toilet at the very top since the beginning, when the guy whose company designed and financed most of the tower secured himself an apartment at the top, where he pooped.” — Hank, You Have to Poop in the Eiffel Tower (00:00:00)
• Gyanendra of Nepal — 1 reference
  • “one of his uncles who didn't get shot somehow became king” — “And then, like, one of his uncles who didn't get shot somehow became king.” — John, OCT. 26: DISCUSSING NEPAL WHILE EATING TOILET PAPER (00:01:33)
• Hafez al-Assad — 1 reference
  • “The father of the current Assad” — Hank, Syria in Five Minutes (00:01:02)
• Hank's wolf-biologist friend — 1 reference
  • “a friend of mine who is a wolf biologist” — “… just happened to me, though, is I'm jumping right over here from having a conversation with a friend of mine who is a wolf biologist, studies wolf genomics, who was like my close friend in college, dated my roommate.” — Hank, This one's for your mom (00:01:35)
• Henry Reider — 1 reference
  • “a boy who shared the same name as my son” — “where I met a boy who shared the same name as my son.” — John, My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis (00:00:38)
• Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry — 1 reference
  • “the leader of the Supreme Court” — “So in early 2007, the Supreme Court made Musharraf mad, and he asked the leader of the Supreme Court to resign, and the leader of the Supreme Court said, no thank you.” — John, November 7: Discussing the Political Situation in Pakistan (00:02:25)
• Ingrid Newkirk — 1 reference
  • “the president of PETA” — “But that's not what I want to talk about today, because apparently the president of PETA recently rewrote her will.” — Hank, Eating Man Meat (00:00:00)
• Isaac Aptaker — 1 reference
  • “the lovely people who wrote Love, Simon” — “the script, which was written by the lovely people who wrote Love, Simon.” — John, The Truth of How Books Become Movies (00:02:40)
• J. B. Pritzker — 1 reference
  • “a billionaire who has spent tens of millions of dollars on advertising” — “a billionaire who has spent tens of millions of dollars on advertising and a literal Kennedy” — John, When Your Friend Runs for Governor (00:02:15)
• Jane Pierce — 1 reference
  • “his wife” — “his wife was sick with tuberculosis, his secretary of state” — John, The Panera Phenomenon (00:01:12)
• Jennifer Pinches — 1 reference
  • “the Olympic gymnast/nerdfighter” — “Like the part where the Olympic gymnast/nerdfighter signed to millions of people,” — Hank, I Don't Understand My Life (00:00:13)
• Joe DeGeorge — 1 reference
  • “the DeGeorges” — “I really like high-concept podcasts like Night Vale, or the DeGeorges have that podcast that's” — John, Reunions! Birthdays! Podcasts! Mountains! Happy 35th Birthday, Hank (00:01:02)
• John Engen — 1 reference
  • “the mayor of Missoula” — “Number One: I loved your interview with the mayor of Missoula; I wish that he could be” — John, WE ARE 812 YEARS OLD (00:00:04)
• John Linnell — 1 reference
  • “John and John of They Might Be Giants” — “Like, for example, for me, we got John and John of They Might Be Giants,” — Hank, Who's in Your Hug Bucket? (00:01:38)
• John's 11th grade English teacher — 1 reference
  • “my teacher” — “For starters, my teacher and I had fundamentally different belief systems about class attendance, his being that students should attend …” — John, How I (barely) Passed 11th Grade English (00:00:00)
• John's Dutch translator — 1 reference
  • “my Dutch translator” — “So two nights ago I had dinner with my Dutch translator Eli and some publishing people,” — John, Eating the Unicorn (00:00:39)
• Jonathan Antoine — 1 reference
  • “Nerdfighter John from Britain's Got Talent” — “So lots of awesome people are always making awesome stuff in Nerdfighteria, like Nerdfighter John from Britain's Got Talent just released his first album.” — John, Do Businesses Need to Suck? (00:00:29)
• Joseph Kony — 1 reference
  • “a Ugandan warlord” — “could put an end to a Ugandan warlord, or maybe even create a future” — Hank, The Kony 2012 of Roads - Solar Freakin' Roadways (00:02:47)
• Juliana of the Netherlands — 1 reference
  • “Queen Beatrix's mother” — “Queen's Day is a celebration of Queen Beatrix's mother's birthday, and it involves this strange” — John, Trading Underwear for Rice Crispy Treats: Queens Day in Amsterdam (Thoughts from Places) (00:00:40)
• Julie Strauss-Gabel — 1 reference
  • “my editor” — “Now that my editor and a bunch of other authors have said hello to you, I have a surprise.” — John, Brotherhood 2.0: April 30: Hellos from Los Angeles (00:00:32)
• Kathryn Bigelow — 1 reference
  • “James Cameron's ex-wife” — “Definitely the most enjoyable part of the evening, even more enjoyable than watching James Cameron's ex-wife kick his ass all over those Academy Awards.” — Hank, GIGANTIC CHICKEN EGG!! (00:03:10)
• Kevin McCarthy — 1 reference
  • “one of the staunchest proponents for Benghazi investigations” — “But then, somewhat disturbingly, one of the staunchest proponents for Benghazi investigations” — Hank, Benghazi: Explained (00:05:00)
• Leopold Mozart — 1 reference
  • “Mozart's father” — “It's worth remembering that Mozart's father was not just a world-class musician, but a world-class music teacher who basically retired to spend …” — Hank, Not (Just) Dunking on Jeff Bezos (00:02:25)
• Lieutenant governor of Indiana (unnamed) — 1 reference
  • “our lieutenant governor” — “But in that video, I also criticized our lieutenant governor because he recently came out as pro-hate.” — John, My Nemeses (00:02:28)
• M. T. Anderson — 1 reference
  • “John's asked me to say something” — “Hank, John's asked me to say something.” — M. T. Anderson, September 24: Airports and M. T. Anderson (00:01:29)
• Marcus Mumford — 1 reference
  • “the dude from Mumford and Sons” — “and the dude from Mumford and Sons.” — Hank, 7 Weirdest Marriages (or Lack Thereof) From an Airport (00:03:12)
• Marie Antoinette — 1 reference
  • “his wife” — “and his wife who never actually said “Let them eat cake,” were removed from power” — John, Liberty Leading the People: How Revolutions Turn (00:00:23)
• Mark Fowler — 1 reference
  • “a doctor who was assisting in the execution of Krista Pike” — “Now, there was a doctor who was assisting in the execution of Krista Pike, but he was not an anesthesiologist.” — Hank, Why Are We So Bad at Executing People? (00:04:49)
• Mary Toft — 1 reference
  • “a woman who convinced the entire medical establishment of Britain” — “There was once a woman who convinced the entire medical establishment of Britain that she was giving birth to rabbits.” — Hank, How to Lie While Telling the Truth (00:00:00)
• Mary-Kate Olsen — 1 reference
  • “Olsen twin” — “than your average Olsen twin.” — John, What Could You Do with a Poe Bust?! (00:00:48)
• Matt Chapman — 1 reference
  • “his brother Matt” — “Hank: Over the next few years, Mike and his brother Matt began working in graphic design,” — Hank, A Brief History of Homestar Runner (00:00:31)
• Maureen Johnson — 1 reference
  • “second prettiest green brother” — “and you may also know me by my most common title which is second prettiest green brother but really what I am is the Conan to John's Leno because he's just giving me …” — Maureen Johnson, ThisIsNotJohn (00:00:20)
• Maureen Johnson's agent — 1 reference
  • “my agent” — “I just wrote to my agent and asked her, how hard is it to get an agent?” — Maureen Johnson, HOW TO GET AN AGENT (00:01:32)
• Mazie Hirono — 1 reference
  • “the first female Asian American Senator” — “the first female Asian American Senator,” — Hank, The 51st State (00:00:04)
• Michael Oher — 1 reference
  • “that guy from the Baltimore Ravens” — “You want that guy from the blind side to become that guy from the Baltimore Ravens because he had a hard life and Sandra Bullock loves him.” — John, Animals Interrupt Sporting Events: A Critical Analysis (00:02:26)
• Mikey T — 1 reference
  • “your friend” — “I was so sorry to hear about your friend.” — Hank, The 5 Meanest Things We've Named a Species (00:00:00)
• Mustafa Suleyman — 1 reference
  • “the CEO of Microsoft AI” — “Here is the CEO of Microsoft AI talking about what is acceptable to use as training data.” — Hank, Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? (00:13:26)
• Nawaz Sharif — 1 reference
  • “the prime minister of Pakistan” — “For me, this is actually typified by Sharmeen's movie, which inspired the prime minister of Pakistan” — John, Billionaires and Radical Hope: Thoughts from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland (00:03:11)
• Nicola — 1 reference
  • “This mudlark” — “This mudlark has a YouTube channel, link in the description, and I watch that channel, and I love …” — Hank, The Muck of Millennia (00:01:03)
• Nigerian writer quoted by John — 1 reference
  • “great Nigerian writer” — “Hank, there's this great Nigerian writer who once said, you can make your children safe in the world, or you can try …” — John, Foreign John Green Books and the Ultimate Concern (00:02:56)
• Paul DeGeorge — 1 reference
  • “the DeGeorges” — “I really like high-concept podcasts like Night Vale, or the DeGeorges have that podcast that's” — John, Reunions! Birthdays! Podcasts! Mountains! Happy 35th Birthday, Hank (00:01:02)
• Pervez Musharraf — 1 reference
  • “who this bad guy is” — “… you could give me a little bit more information about what's going on in Pakistan and who this bad guy is and why he's so bad, I think that both I and the Nerdfighters would appreciate that.” — Hank, Nov (00:00:40)
• Peter Yarrow — 1 reference
  • “Peter of Peter, Paul, and Mary” — “First I did an event where Peter of Peter, Paul, and Mary opened for me.” — John, Weekend of Surreality (00:00:00)
• Philip Markoff — 1 reference
  • “the Craigslist killer” — “and then I've got the Craigslist killer,” — John, Peanut Butter Face Discusses Sri Lanka (00:00:17)
• Pope Francis — 1 reference
  • “the Pope” — “that just looks like the pope in a custom puffy coat.” — Hank, How to Detect AI Images (and why it doesn't matter) (00:03:15)
• Prescott Bush — 1 reference
  • “George W. Bush's grandfather” — “a group of wealthy American capitalists, including George W. Bush's grandfather tried to overthrow” — Hank, Top 5 Actual Conspiracies (00:02:20)
• Reid Hoffman — 1 reference
  • “one of the co-founders of LinkedIn” — “It'll be paid for by one of the co-founders of LinkedIn, but it will be free to you!” — John, Actually Free Money! (Really.) The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Quarterly Report (00:02:52)
• Rwandan survivor Hank spoke with — 1 reference
  • “a woman who's from Rwanda” — “Two days ago, I was on the phone with a woman who's from Rwanda and whose entire family died during those 100 days.” — Hank, Lighting Candles for Rwanda (00:00:00)
• Sebastián Piñera — 1 reference
  • “the president of Chile is good” — “Hank, I don't know if the president of Chile is good at being the president of Chile.” — John, On Hope and Chile (00:00:38)
• Shahid Khan — 1 reference
  • “the owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars” — “and the fact that today more than 3 million Americans are Muslims from Dave Chappelle to the owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars to my U.” — John, Syrian Refugees in the United States: One Family's Story (00:02:28)
• Stokes Goodrich — 1 reference
  • “My great uncle” — “My great uncle died of TB.” — John, Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? (00:13:38)
• Tammy Baldwin — 1 reference
  • “the first openly gay Senator” — Hank, The 51st State (00:00:06)
• Tammy Duckworth — 1 reference
  • “The first female amputee in Congress” — “The first female amputee in Congress,” — Hank, The 51st State (00:00:02)
• the intelligence officer who visited John — 1 reference
  • “my buddy who's a diplomat” — “And he was like, “Hey, my buddy, who's a diplomat, is coming to” — John, The Time a Spy Visited Me Because of P*tin. (00:00:20)
• Todd Palin — 1 reference
  • “Sarah Palin's husband” — “now, Hank, I wasn't able to find any pictures of Sarah Palin's husband on” — John, Sarah Palin: An Introduction (00:01:10)
• train enthusiast in a viral clip — 1 reference
  • “this guy loves trains” — “Now let's look at the video we started this video with, this guy loves trains:” — Hank, Watch This If You Want To Smile (Pizzamas Day 3) (00:01:01)
• Tré Cool — 1 reference
  • “the drummer from Green Day” — “Lance Armstrong, Hermann Göring and the drummer from Green Day.” — John, Hitler and Sex! (00:01:54)
• Viktor Orbán — 1 reference
  • “Hungary's Prime Minister” — “Like, when Hungary's Prime Minister says that they must keep Muslims out of Europe to "keep” — John, Understanding the Refugee Crisis in Europe, Syria, and around the World (00:06:33)
• Virgil — 1 reference
  • “the poet” — “as the poet wrote over 2000 years ago, "Love conquers all, and so we shall yield to it.” — John, Two Love Stories (00:02:53)
• Vladimir Putin — 1 reference
  • “a dictator with a bunch of nukes” — “… the pandemic part, and yet we are transitioning somehow into the tremendous geopolitical instability caused by a dictator with a bunch of nukes invading a neighboring country and starting a horrific and unnecessary-” — Hank, Is it All Hopeless? (00:01:19)
• Volodymyr Zelenskyy — 1 reference
  • “a democratically elected Jewish president” — “It is not about the denazification of Ukraine, a nation with a democratically elected Jewish president.” — John, Ukraine and Russia: What Caused the War? (00:06:35)
• William Lyon Mackenzie King — 1 reference
  • “the Canadian Prime Minister” — “In 1939 the Canadian Prime Minister had poor” — John, Deepfake: A Brief History of Unreliable Images (00:01:57)
• William R. King — 1 reference
  • “his vice president” — “and his Vice President was in Cuba trying to cure his tuberculosis.” — John, The Panera Phenomenon (00:01:19)

Memes

• GIF pronunciation — 6 references
  • “it's pronounced like jif” — “You know that it's pronounced like jif.” — Hank, Tumblr: The Musical (00:01:07)
  • “GIFs (jifs)... or GIFs (gifs), whichever you prefer” — “and Tumblogs full of GIFs (jifs)... or GIFs (gifs), whichever you prefer.” — Hank, 1000 VIDEOS!!! (00:01:17)
  • “jif or gif” — “Stop correcting people for saying jif or gif wrong.” — Hank, 17 Rants in 4 Minutes (00:02:03)
  • “Because we say "gifs" [jifs].” — “Because we say "gifs" [jifs]. Not that either of those are incorrect.” — Hank, GIFs, JIFs, Whip Pans, Trivia, and BATMAN! (00:00:28)
  • “standardized pronunciation of the word gif” — “And also apparently standardized pronunciation of the word gif.” — Hank, We Have Destroyed Copyright Law (00:11:26)
  • “whether to say gif or gif” — “This happened recently when I saw a TikTok arguing whether to say gif or gif, and I am at least five years into having heard everything you can say about …” — Hank, How do We Get Anything Done At All? (00:00:00)
• 15 minutes of fame — 1 reference
  • “everyone would be world famous for 15 minutes” — “He said that in the future, everyone would be world famous for 15 minutes.” — John, The Instagramification of Human Experience (00:00:58)
• 420 (cannabis culture) — 1 reference
  • “dude, maybe take a bong rip and chill” — “It would throw error 420, too many requests, which was kind of a way of saying, dude, maybe take a bong rip and chill.” — Hank, OK, but What Are The Other 403 Errors? (00:03:48)
• Everything is a conspiracy theory if you don't know how anything works — 1 reference
  • “everything is a conspiracy theory if you don't know anything” — “you've probably seen it, too–that “everything is a conspiracy theory if you don't know anything ”.” — Hank, My Ballot Made Me Angry (00:03:56)

Myths & religious figures

• Hartlepool monkey — 1 reference
  • “a monkey who was hanged for treason” — “So today I want to tell you an amazing story about a monkey who was hanged for treason” — John, Monkey Hangers (00:00:01)
• Isaac (biblical patriarch) — 1 reference
  • “the guy in the Hebrew Bible who also went blind” — “I named Isaac after the guy in the Hebrew Bible who also went blind.” — John, It's Question Tuesday! Cheesy Jokes, Paper Towns Movie, and Dinosaur Butt Brains (00:00:25)
• Jesus — 1 reference
  • “a God who chose to be born human to poor parents in a foreign land” — “I believe in a God who chose to be born human to poor parents in a foreign land.” — John, Does the truth still matter? (00:01:56)
• Trojan Horse — 1 reference
  • “this beautiful horse” — “They have all left, and behind, all that there is is this beautiful horse” — Hank, TOP 7 FAILS OF HISTORY (00:01:14)
• Twelve Olympians — 1 reference
  • “gods of Mount Olympus” — “if the Gods of Mount Olympus or creators of the simulation or Superior Fish Beings” — John, SUPERIOR FISH BEINGS (00:01:18)
• Yeti — 1 reference
  • “horrible monster who lives in the Himalayas” — “… the Wikipedia in my brain, and then when I go look up the Yeti, it says, horrible monster who lives in the Himalayas, huge, hairy, terrifying.” — John, February 21st, 2007: The Wikipedia in Your Mind (00:01:45)

Groups

• Beat Generation — 1 reference
  • “beat poets” — “mainstream from some kind of subculture out of rock and roll or punk or beat poets, but most commonly they come out of marginalized cultures.” — Hank, Is This Video Cool? (00:02:26)
• Gone Fishin' — 1 reference
  • “A German band made up mostly of doctors” — “A German band made up mostly of doctors got together and made the songs from Michael's book real.” — John, Umbrellas Amuse Me: Observations from One Day in Munich (00:02:32)
• Les Horribles Cernettes — 1 reference
  • “an all-female comedy group based at the CERN Laboratory” — “was of an all-female comedy group based at the CERN Laboratory in Switzerland?” — Hank, GIFs, JIFs, Whip Pans, Trivia, and BATMAN! (00:01:38)
• McElroy brothers — 1 reference
  • “McElroy” — “Matt asks, are there any McElroy references in the book?” — Hank, Book News! (00:01:48)
• Militia occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge — 1 reference
  • “a militia” — “when it became the de facto headquarters of a militia claiming that the US government has no right to” — John, Who Owns Oregon? Some Historical Context on the so-called Militia Occupation of Public Lands (00:03:30)
• Missoula breakdance crew — 1 reference
  • “Missoula's one and only breakdance crew” — “And of course, amazing, huge, fantastic thank you to Missoula's one and only breakdance crew.” — Hank, Breakdancing in Missoula Montana (00:00:29)
• Native Americans in the United States — 1 reference
  • “Native American” — “Second, the Choctaw word "okeh", which maybe was also somewhat similar and other Native American languages,” — Hank, The Most Popular Word in the World (00:02:01)
• Smash Mouth — 1 reference
  • “Creator of the work that you are sort of memeing on top of” — “Creator of the work that you are sort of memeing on top of will do something dumb But also because like YouTube titles matter ask any YouTube creator they …” — Hank, I ain't she was with well and I so and it's and but so and I'll and (00:01:01)
• Spice Girls — 1 reference
  • “that girl group” — “She was in that girl group and they were about to tell us what they really, really wanted.” — John, Victoria Beckham In Your Pants (00:00:32)
• The Beatles — 1 reference
  • “Favorite Beatle” — “Since Christmas Day 1984. Favorite Beatle?” — John, December 4th: Question Tuesday!!!! (00:02:07)
• Village People — 1 reference
  • “the police officer guy” — “H: Let's go with the police officer guy.” — Hank, REUNION MINIGOLF (00:01:58)
• Young Egyptian revolutionary activists (2011-2013) — 1 reference
  • “Young, disenfranchised, largely unemployed activist people” — “FOURTH: Young, disenfranchised, largely unemployed activist people who want a revolutionary, liberal Egypt.” — Hank, Egypt....Explained! (00:00:36)

Animals

• Hank's kitten — 2 references
  • “my cat” — “to my cat, its name has not been decided yet, it turns out it’s difficult to” — Hank, What is Pizzamas? ...and a New Friend (00:03:08)
  • “the cutest kitten” — “the cutest kitten I have ever seen in my life and now all that” — John, Cat Names: The Authoritative Guide (00:00:02)
• cancer-sniffing black Labrador in Japan — 1 reference
  • “black labrador” — “There is a black labrador, a dog, in Japan that can smell colon cancer on your breath.” — Hank, Cancer Sniffing Dog (00:02:25)
• Goose (Indianapolis office) — 1 reference
  • “one particularly aggressive Canadian goose” — “Anyway, they have returned, and there is one particularly aggressive Canadian goose with whom YouTube is locked in a battle for supremacy.” — John, TFiOS Movie Casting, New Books, and Groundhog Wars: An Old School Vlogbrothers Video (00:00:58)

Products

• Google Autocomplete — 5 references
  • “auto-correct” — “So Hank, in today's video I though I would answer some of Google's auto-correct's common” — John, Is bronchitis contagious? Is black a color? (00:00:06)
  • “autocompleting” — “see if Google is autocompleting "is hank green" to "is hank green.” — Hank, Homeless Man with a Golden Voice Gets a Job (00:02:43)
  • “type i s space h” — “com type i s space h.” — Hank, Is Hank Green Batman? (00:00:41)
  • “the top most searched-for question” — “and I'm going to answer the top most searched-for question” — Hank, Why are Barns Red and Kardashians Famous (00:00:31)
  • “one of the first autocompletes” — “… primary celebrity concern is their net worth, when you type in the name of a cancer, one of the first autocompletes is going to be survival rate.” — Hank, Understanding Cancer Survival Rates (00:00:00)
• Carl's Jr. portobello mushroom burger — 3 references
  • “portobello mushroom black Angus $6 plus tax sandwich thingamaboober” — “half pound all beef portobello mushroom black Angus $6 plus tax sandwich thingamaboober?” — Hank, JOHN'S PUNISHMENT! Eating Carl's Jr John's Way (00:00:29)
  • “some Carl's Jr. specialty burger” — “Today we're going to eat the nutritional equivalent of some Carl's Jr. specialty burger,” — John, Eating a FAT SANDWICH (00:00:16)
  • “Portabubby mushroom whatever the thingy” — “6-pound Portabubby mushroom whatever the thingy because John eats his hamburgers his way and that is the way in which you actually …” — Hank, WIDE ANGLE LENS! And Not Eating Fat Sandwiches (00:00:29)
• Google donation card — 2 references
  • “fancy new card” — “on this fancy new card that Google has made.” — John, The Refugee Crises: Project for Awesome 2015 (00:03:58)
  • “donation card” — “Right there, there is a donation card that you can click on and you can donate through that card” — Hank, P4A 2015 - Condensed Soup (00:03:26)
• Shuffle's Hank and John AI chatbot — 2 references
  • “an AI chat bot that is a mashup of the two of us” — “words that you and I have said, John, and they have created an AI chat bot that is a mashup of the two of us, which is something else because sometimes you can tell when it's you and when it's …” — Hank, Question Tuesday Except I'm an AI (00:00:29)
  • “an AI based on us” — “Hank, in your last video you had an AI based on us answer questions from our viewers and that was” — John, It's My Birthday. I Gave Myself This Video. (00:01:12)
• YouTube Creator Awards — 2 references
  • “play button” — “Did you art all over your play button?” — Hank, The Weirdest Thing I Did in LA (00:00:00)
  • “that silver plaque” — “He told me yesterday that his dream is to get 100,000 subscribers and that silver plaque, so help make his dream come true.” — John, ITS ALL HAPPENING (00:02:58)
• YouTube Partner Program — 2 references
  • “YouTube partnership” — “John and I had the phone call with the YouTube partnership people yesterday, and if you're wondering about the contents of that strictly confidential phone call, I …” — Hank, August 31: Copyright and Airports (00:01:20)
  • “partners” — “Now, only partners” — Hank, Project for Awesome and Thoughts from DC (00:00:35)
• Adobe Photoshop — 1 reference
  • “photoshopped” — “And then someone photoshopped” — Hank, How to Detect AI Images (and why it doesn't matter) (00:02:06)
• Chevrolet Equinox Fuel Cell — 1 reference
  • “a fuel cell in a Chevy Equinox body” — “Nothing more than a fuel cell in a Chevy Equinox body.” — Hank, November 16th: Green Cars at the LA Auto Show (00:01:37)
• Content ID — 1 reference
  • “algorithms identify it as a One Direction song” — “YouTube's algorithms identify it as a One Direction song,” — Hank, On the Ownership of Ideas (00:02:46)
• Daraprim — 1 reference
  • “a drug that treats people with toxoplasmosis” — “acquired the rights to a drug that treats people with toxoplasmosis and” — John, Crime and Outrage (00:01:50)
• GeneXpert — 1 reference
  • “this machine” — “and that allows us, with this machine, to run a sample through a little cartridge” — Hank, The Worst Disease in Human History (00:04:03)
• Hummer — 1 reference
  • “H2” — “Yeah, I'm gonna kill you with a car bomb and your H2 I don't think it'd be too much to ask for you to be a bit less …” — Hank, So Jokes: Video EP (00:14:07)
• IEEE 1394 — 1 reference
  • “silver magic cord” — “Thanks to about 35,000 residents of the Dominican Republic, we managed to get our silver magic cord that takes the ideas from inside the camera and puts them inside the computer from.” — John, Brotherhood 2.0: June 14: Good News/Bad News (00:00:03)
• iPad — 1 reference
  • “the Apple tablet” — “… to embrace it because if all the rumors are true then today Apple will be announcing the Apple tablet and not since the time of Moses has humanity been this excited about the appearance of …” — Maureen Johnson, Boobs and the iPad (00:01:53)
• iPhone 5S — 1 reference
  • “the 5S” — “[A:] Is this the 5S?” — Ansel Elgort, Q&A with Ansel Elgort and Mike Birbiglia from The Fault in Our Stars Movie Set (00:00:30)
• James Webb Space Telescope — 1 reference
  • “a worthy successor to the Hubble Space Telescope” — “Besides creating a worthy successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, allowing astronomers” — Hank, NASA: Increasing Awesome (00:02:16)
• Kraft Singles — 1 reference
  • “American cheese” — “Calling it American cheese” — Hank, 17 Rants in 4 Minutes (00:00:30)
• Merriam-Webster Open Dictionary — 1 reference
  • “our open dictionary” — “poll is closed, but we do hope that you'll include Nerdfighter and Nerdfighting in our open dictionary.” — Hank, December 13: Mailing Shopping Thanking. It Must Be Christmas (00:03:04)
• MESSENGER — 1 reference
  • “the first artificial satellite around Mercury” — “Besides placing the first artificial satellite around Mercury.” — Hank, NASA: Increasing Awesome (00:02:39)
• Orion (spacecraft) — 1 reference
  • “new multipurpose crew vehicle” — “new multipurpose crew vehicle, capable of visiting not just the orbit of the Earth,” — Hank, NASA: Increasing Awesome (00:03:09)
• Phoenix (spacecraft) — 1 reference
  • “the lander” — “The news is that the lander landed on ice.” — Hank, Questions Answered! (00:00:34)
• RC Allen 805 — 1 reference
  • “this machine” — “There are a number of amazing things going on all at once inside of this machine.” — Hank, In Which Hank is the Nerdiest Nerd (00:00:34)
• Space Launch System — 1 reference
  • “two giant metal tubes” — “ammonium perchlorate that is then stuffed into two giant metal tubes and then lit on fire so that a third metal tube full of hydrogen and oxygen …” — Hank, I Had a Hallucination This Week (00:00:50)
• Space Shuttle — 1 reference
  • “a spacecraft with wings that would go off right like a rocket and fly like an airplane” — “… war problem and we wanted to save costs plus there was a brand new idea for a spacecraft with wings that would go off right like a rocket and fly like an airplane the spatial ultimately stopped okay so this is the stage that took us to the moon …” — Hank, Why Don't Rockets Melt Themselves (00:03:44)
• Vitaminwater — 1 reference
  • “this sugar water bottle that has the name vitamin in it” — “What about this sugar water bottle that has the name vitamin in it so that I think that it's healthy or something?” — Hank, The Worst Product Ever (00:00:58)
• Walkman (product) — 1 reference
  • “a portable tape player” — “happened when we were kids, that is a portable tape player.” — Hank, How John and I Talk About Ideas (00:01:30)
• YouTube comments — 1 reference
  • “YouTube made comments progressively less important to discovery” — “But then, YouTube made comments progressively less important to discovery.” — John, The Future of the Project for Awesome: Pizzamas Day 8 (00:02:06)
• YouTube Community tab — 1 reference
  • “community posts” — “at the top, and now that some YouTubers, including us, have the ability to post community posts” — Hank, Here are Some YouTube Tricks I Use (00:01:47)
• YouTube Insight — 1 reference
  • “this really interesting feature that allows you to see the demographics of your channel” — “YouTube just released this really interesting feature that allows you to see the demographics of your channel, and one of the things that we learned when we looked at the demographics is …” — John, Guys Love Giraffe Love (00:01:10)
• YouTube rentals program — 1 reference
  • “a rentals program” — “Speaking of new and exciting ways to experience media, YouTube just launched a rentals program.” — Hank, The iPad and Dolphin Murder (00:01:16)

Organisations

• Maternal Center of Excellence — 8 references
  • “Child Care Center” — “world-class maternal and child care center at Koidu Government” — John, On the Death of My Hero (00:02:54)
  • “building a maternal hospital in Sierra Leone” — “And I don’t just mean in big projects like building a maternal hospital in Sierra Leone, or working to expand voting rights in the US.” — John, The Seduction of Despair (00:03:22)
  • “a maternal and infant care center” — “Since then, a maternal and infant care center has nearly been” — John, The Bank of Nerdfighteria (00:00:32)
  • “maternal and infant care center” — “a world class maternal and infant care center at Koidu Government Hospital.” — John, The Tea (00:00:32)
  • “maternal and infant care center” — “$25 million to help build a maternal and infant care center in the Kono district” — John, Let's Talk about Money (00:00:30)
  • “a freaking hospital” — “Our little community is building a freaking hospital, for God's sakes.” — John, Am I Cigarettes? (00:02:52)
  • “a hospital in Sierra Leone” — “And if we thought it was, there's a hospital in Sierra Leone that would not exist.” — Hank, Despair is Not Wisdom (00:05:11)
  • “hospitals in Sierra Leone” — “… difference between Hank and John to people who make Hollywood ending cakes and pizza misfonts and hospitals in Sierra Leone.” — Hank, Are We Still YouTubers? (00:06:57)
• EFL League One — 7 references
  • “the third tier of English football” — “an astonishingly successful first season in the third tier of English football.” — John, Good News/Bad News: A Pizzamas Video in Nine Slices (00:01:20)
  • “English football's third tier” — “Okay, so at the end of each season, the four worst teams in English football's third tier are demoted to the fourth tier.” — John, The Thing with Feathers (00:00:00)
  • “the third tier of English football” — “vaccine into my arm, and I do intend to keep AFC Wimbledon in the third tier of English football by sheer force of will, and I do want to spend less” — John, My 2021 Vision Board (00:00:32)
  • “third-tier English football” — “And I didn’t care one whit about third tier English football and” — John, It's My Birthday. I Gave Myself This Video. (00:03:43)
  • “third-tier English soccer” — “… that I stopped having stage fright a few years ago, or that I started to love third-tier English soccer.” — John, NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… (00:01:27)
  • “third-tier English soccer team” — “… in a playoff position near the end of the season with the potential of becoming a third-tier English soccer team.” — John, The Unimportant Things (00:01:56)
  • “third-tier English football” — “A single game to decide whether AFC Wimbledon might ascend to the dizzying heights of third-tier English football.” — John, The Double (00:01:56)
• Milton Keynes Dons F.C. — 7 references
  • “the ACTUAL Milton Keynes” — “And then last week, the ACTUAL AFC Wimbeldon played the ACTUAL Milton Keynes AND THE BALL” — John, A Minor Crisis (00:02:26)
  • “the franchise currently playing in Milton Keynes” — “the franchise currently playing in Milton Keynes is in the relegation zone.” — John, Good News/Bad News: A Pizzamas Video in Nine Slices (00:01:28)
  • “the team playing in Milton Keynes” — “And the team playing in Milton Keynes actually got relegated out of the third tier (if you can believe that)” — John, How to Cook Eight Peas (00:01:37)
  • “that franchise over in Milton Keynes” — “as that franchise over in Milton Keynes.” — John, That's the way. (00:02:55)
  • “the franchise currently plying its trade in Milton Keynes” — John, America's Second Favorite Fourth Tier English Soccer Team (00:02:10)
  • “the franchise currently plying its trade in Milton Keynes” — “cheer on the boys against the franchise currently plying its trade in Milton Keynes.” — John, THE BEST DAY (00:01:44)
  • “the franchise currently plying its trade in Milton Keynes” — “… is his call of the goal that Ronan Curtis scored in the last second to beat the franchise currently plying its trade in Milton Keynes.” — John, Make Your Art. (00:01:27)
• United States Congress — 7 references
  • “congresspeople” — video description, Thoughts on SOPA From New Orleans (00:00:00)
  • “congress people” — “and you can call your congress people.” — Hank, Hank vs. Hank: The Net Neutrality Debate in 3 Minutes (00:03:32)
  • “US congresspeople” — “It's not just your senators and US congresspeople” — John, Why I Didn't Vote (And Six Reasons You Might Not) (00:00:44)
  • “the legislative branch” — “and then there's the legislative branch,” — John, How We're Spending Your Money: The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Quarterly Report (00:00:17)
  • “congressional representatives” — “Bullock: So, I pick it up, and she called our congressional representatives,” — Hank, Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! (00:01:56)
  • “congressional hearing” — “And actually, I was a little bit impressed by the congressional hearing, the testimony that Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower, gave.” — Hank, We're Thinking About Facebook Wrong (00:05:47)
  • “congresspeople” — “my senators and congresspeople, or their offices, on the phone.” — John, What's at Stake (00:04:27)
• AFC Wimbledon — 6 references
  • “the ACTUAL team that exists in the REAL” — “while simultaneously raising actual money for the ACTUAL team that exists in the REAL” — Hank, The Oculus Rift is Freakin Me Out (00:00:20)
  • “a real soccer team” — “that helps fund a real soccer team.” — Hank, Gettin' Real with Hank (00:00:23)
  • “4th tier soccer teams” — “My favorite hobbies, of course, being: eating pizza, sponsoring 4th tier soccer teams and literary tourism.” — John, The Looking for Alaska Movie, Davos, and Hufflepuff Shade: It's Question Tuesday (00:00:26)
  • “a third-tier English soccer team” — “Yes, enough to sponsor a third-tier English soccer team, which by the way over the weekend might have avoided relegation” — John, John Green Answers Your John Green Questions (00:02:41)
  • “a third-tier English soccer team” — “Like besides sponsoring a third tier English soccer team, nothing.” — Hank, How Do Adults Make Friends? (00:00:34)
  • “a third-tier English soccer team” — “And then also, like, a third-tier English soccer team, an active-” — Hank, WHO ARE WE AND WHAT ARE WE DOING (00:03:24)
• United States Senate — 5 references
  • “senators” — “If Puerto Rico became a state, it would automatically get two senators, so there would be 102 senators,” — Hank, The 51st State (00:02:07)
  • “my senators” — “I actually wrote three letters: one to each of my senators and one to my representative,” — Hank, Hey, Let's Change Some Things (00:02:15)
  • “senators” — “It's not just your senators and US congresspeople” — John, Why I Didn't Vote (And Six Reasons You Might Not) (00:00:44)
  • “50 senators” — “so that 50 senators will feel comfortable voting for it.” — Hank, Should I Run for President?? (00:02:46)
  • “my senators” — “my senators and congresspeople, or their offices, on the phone.” — John, What's at Stake (00:04:27)
• Catholic Church — 4 references
  • “he's a super religious Catholic” — “He could help turn Virginia blue in 08, plus he's a super religious Catholic and Obama has had trouble attracting Catholics, so that could work out nicely.” — John, VEEPSTAKES! (00:02:13)
  • “not Catholic” — “… about me, but one thing you may not know is that even though I am myself not Catholic, I am completely obsessed with Catholic patron saints.” — John, The Patron Saint of Youtube (00:00:00)
  • “Catholic” — John, 454 Days: Understanding America's Ridiculous Political Campaigns (00:02:00)
  • “Italian Catholics” — “Italian Catholics, with their loyalty to the Pope, could never be 'real' Americans participating in a democracy.” — John, Syrian Refugees in the United States: One Family's Story (00:03:41)
• Indian Springs School — 4 references
  • “a really nerdy boarding school” — “I was a nerd, but for my last three years of high school, I went to a really nerdy boarding school” — John, YouTube Survey: Balls and First Kisses (00:01:56)
  • “my old high school” — “I met Looking For Alaska director, Becca Thomas, and took her to my old high school.” — John, On Exhaustion (00:00:22)
  • “my old high school” — “We walked around the campus of my old high school, which looks vastly different” — John, Going Home with Alaska and Miles (00:00:00)
  • “my boarding school” — “And for a moment, probably less than a second, I was completely transported back to my boarding school, sitting on the couch with my roommate in my dorm room.” — John, You Can't Go Home Again, but I Tried (00:00:00)
• Democratic Party — 3 references
  • “the Democratic side” — “… just can't support someone who is not only a supporter, but, like, the congressional champion on the Democratic side.” — Hank, June 1: Barack Saabama (00:01:23)
  • “Democratic candidates” — “During this project, John and I will be raising money for Democratic candidates, and if we reach certain goals, we will do painful slash embarrassing things to ourselves …” — Hank, Maine Inspires Deep Thoughts (00:00:00)
  • “the Democratic leadership” — “If America did everything the Democratic leadership is proposing in the way of raising taxes, we would still have a huge budget deficit.” — John, Hey! You! Fix the Budget! (00:00:59)
• Illinois House of Representatives — 3 references
  • “running for state representative” — “Our resident mathematician Daniel Biss is running for state representative in the state of Illinois!” — John, Brotherhood 2.0: April 16: Brotherhood of Traveling Shirts (00:02:27)
  • “the next state representative in Illinois” — “Now the key to Daniel's grassroots campaign to become the next state representative in Illinois is not the size of donations.” — John, August 6th: JK Rowling and I Will ... Be Punished (00:01:34)
  • “the state representative in his district in Illinois” — “… most reasonable way I think it might change is if people elected Daniel Biss to be the state representative in his district in Illinois.” — John, August 8th: The Lawn and the Fury (00:02:55)
• Transportation Security Administration — 3 references
  • “a tip jar for transportation security people” — “I think there should be a tip jar for transportation security people.” — Hank, Adorable Puppy Injury!!!! (00:02:56)
  • “security people” — “Which leads me to: Don't be mean to security people, even though it's fun to joke about” — Hank, 17 Air Travel Tips (00:01:30)
  • “transportation security” — “But things like defense, transportation security, border patrol, food inspectors,” — Hank, The Lowdown on the Shutdown (00:02:35)
• Twitter — 3 references
  • “I see your tweet” — John, Question Tuesday: The Goat Edition (00:01:25)
  • “tweeted me” — “And a couple days before the event, a guy named Kenny tweeted me to ask if he should skip his business law class to” — John, Two Love Stories (00:01:34)
  • “tweeted” — “Then I tweeted, "” — Hank, Laurel or Yanny and Baby Dance Moves - It's Question Friday (00:00:43)
• YouTube — 3 references
  • “the website that hosts our videos” — “The company that owns the website that hosts our videos?” — John, Free Will Fetish (00:02:12)
  • “the world's biggest video site” — “The most popular people on the world's biggest video site.” — Hank, Most Subscribed: A Song (00:00:00)
  • “this video sharing site” — “Okay, I mean I'm not gonna say anything bad about Google, because they run this video sharing site here that I, sorta love.” — Hank, Homeless Man with a Golden Voice Gets a Job (00:02:38)
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — 2 references
  • “a foundation” — “So figuring out how a foundation can come in with pretty modest amounts of money and” — Bill Gates, Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Agriculture (00:00:19)
  • “the donors, like ourselves” — “is well-designed; you know, the donors, like ourselves, are here and trying to think, okay,” — Bill Gates, Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Progress (00:02:48)
• Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) — 2 references
  • “Maoist rebels who are trying to take over the country” — “… lot of political crises, the biggest one of which is that there are all of these Maoist rebels who are trying to take over the country.” — John, OCT. 26: DISCUSSING NEPAL WHILE EATING TOILET PAPER (00:00:05)
  • “a plurality of Maoists” — “… a long time, Nepal had a free and fair election, even though they chose to elect a plurality of Maoists who aren't known for continuing the tradition of free and fair elections.” — John, Ranting and Giving Stuff Away (00:01:17)
• EFL League Two — 2 references
  • “the fourth tier of English football” — “from the fourth tier of English football - HUZZAH!” — John, ALL THE SHIRTS (and some paths to community) (00:01:26)
  • “fourth-tier English football team” — “… sporting endeavor that I love even more than the Indy 500, and that is the fan-owned fourth-tier English football team AFC Wimbledon, who wear DFTBA on the back of their shorts in that liminal space between …” — John, The Double (00:01:27)
• Federal government of the United States — 2 references
  • “3 million federal employees” — “The president of the US manages nearly 3 million federal employees.” — Hank, Should I Run for President?? (00:01:31)
  • “the new administration in the United States” — “completely frozen by the new administration in the United States.” — John, This Is Not Normal (00:03:49)
• Illinois Senate — 2 references
  • “state senator” — “… to leave that job and run for political office whereupon he eventually became a very successful state senator.” — John, Why I Won't Run for Office (00:00:07)
  • “state senator” — “And then in 2012 he became a state senator.” — John, When Your Friend Runs for Governor (00:01:48)
• microfinance organization visited in the Dominican Republic — 2 references
  • “this microfinance organization we met with” — “Here's the remarkable thing about this microfinance organization we met with.” — John, June 28: How to Be a Microfinancier (00:01:43)
  • “a microfinance organization” — “… is our first year, we were in the Dominican Republic public and we went to see a microfinance organization like operating on the” — Hank, An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall (01:55:30)
• Nobel Prize in Literature — 2 references
  • “his Nobel Prize” — “German novelist Gunther Grass pooped in my pants while wearing his Nobel Prize.” — John, Brotherhood 2.0: February 7, 2007 (00:01:12)
  • “his Nobel Prize” — “German novelist Günther Grass pooped in my pants while wearing his Nobel Prize.” — John Green (quoted), Brotherhood 2.0: Everyone Poops in my Pants, a Picture Book (00:01:17)
• Republican Party — 2 references
  • “Republican nerdfighters” — “And I am 100% in favor of there being Republican nerdfighters,” — Hank, Maine Inspires Deep Thoughts (00:00:40)
  • “the Republican leadership” — “And if we did everything the Republican leadership is proposing in terms of spending cuts, we would still have a huge deficit.” — John, Hey! You! Fix the Budget! (00:00:59)
• Soviet space program — 2 references
  • “The Russian space program” — “The Russian space program, man, wow.” — Hank, Scarier than Gravity: Real Life Close Calls in Space (00:01:56)
  • “some Russian scientists” — “Number 5: In the 1950s, some Russian scientists went out onto the streets of Moscow” — Hank, Top 10 Best Dogs Ever (00:01:40)
• United States House of Representatives — 2 references
  • “congressperson” — “Each of these districts elects a congressperson” — John, Understanding the Primaries: Delegates, Democracy, and America's Nonstop Political Party (00:02:46)
  • “my representative” — “I actually wrote three letters: one to each of my senators and one to my representative,” — Hank, Hey, Let's Change Some Things (00:02:15)
• 20Q — 1 reference
  • “this website” — “So Hank, there's this website that a lot of nerdfighters have been talking about the last few days.” — John, Harry Potter Nerds Win at Life (00:01:39)
• 3D-glasses manufacturer that made 2D Glasses — 1 reference
  • “a company that manufactures 3D glasses” — “So later that week, I called a company that manufactures 3D glasses.” — Hank, 2D Glasses! Take the Headache out of 3D (00:01:08)
• academic library (unnamed, archiving Nerdfighteria) — 1 reference
  • “An academic library” — “An academic library recently got in touch with us” — John, What Should We Keep? (00:01:30)
• Addis Ababa University — 1 reference
  • “the main university in Addis Ababa” — “More and more kids go to primary school, and the main university in Addis Ababa which in” — John, Going to College (in Ethiopia) (00:00:39)
• Antwerp Zoo — 1 reference
  • “the zoo” — “to find more tourists to stalk whereupon I noticed, "Holy crap there's the zoo.” — John, Winkels to the Left, Winkels to the Right: Thoughts from Places, Antwerp (00:01:07)
• Apprentice A Productions — 1 reference
  • “Apprentice A team” — “Corey Vidal and Alex Carpenter and the Apprentice A team are in town to film their vlogging documentary, I'm Vloggin' Here, which I'm very excited about, …” — Hank, Cat GIF Critique (00:01:23)
• bookseller that shipped The Fault in Our Stars early — 1 reference
  • “a bookseller” — “… thousand copies of my new book, The Fault in Our Stars, had been prematurely shipped by a bookseller to people who pre-ordered it.” — John, There Will Be NO SPOILERS!!! (00:00:00)
• Bundestag — 1 reference
  • “a German federal parliament” — “But I don't really ascribe to 'winner take all' philosophy, so I'm gonna do it like a German federal parliament,” — John, 150,000 Autographs (00:03:10)
• Butaro Cancer Center — 1 reference
  • “the very hospital in Rwanda that Mondai was treated at” — “Part of the money will be going to the very hospital in Rwanda that Mondai was treated at.” — Hank, My Final Chemo Secret (00:03:00)
• Central Asia Institute — 1 reference
  • “his charity” — “There are accusations that he fabricated part of his memoir and that his charity doesn't” — John, Meeting Greg Mortenson (00:00:10)
• Chick-fil-A — 1 reference
  • “this chicken sandwich” — “There's this chicken sandwich that if you eat it, it means you hate gay people.” — Hank, Can You Be a Good Person in 2019? (00:01:35)
• club in Chicago (heard as 'Reggie's Room') — 1 reference
  • “a club called Reggie's Room” — “… be part of a Wizard Rock show at around 10pm the night of August 8th at a club called Reggie's Room and you can get tickets for that in the sidebar too.” — Hank, Breakdancing in Missoula Montana (00:02:36)
• Communist Party USA — 1 reference
  • “the American Communist Party” — “… re-election because of this forged photo, which purported to show Tidings talking to the leader of the American Communist Party.” — John, Deepfake: A Brief History of Unreliable Images (00:02:26)
• contemporary art museum in Amsterdam — 1 reference
  • “the Contemporary Art Museum” — “One of the most fun things we did was go to the Contemporary Art Museum.” — John, May 22: Brotherhood 2.0 in Amsterdam (00:00:35)
• Danaher Corporation — 1 reference
  • “a multinational, multibillion-dollar corporation” — “that convinced a multinational, multibillion dollar corporation” — John, Like Apocalyptic Horsemen (00:03:49)
• Egypt's old regime (Nasser to Mubarak) — 1 reference
  • “The old regime” — “FIRST: The old regime, which began when Gamel Abdel Nasser overthrew King Farouk who was sort of a puppet …” — Hank, Egypt....Explained! (00:00:15)
• Egyptian Army — 1 reference
  • “sent the army” — “He sent the army out onto the streets of Cairo,” — John, Revolution in Egypt: A 4-Minute Introduction (00:02:33)
• Election Committee — 1 reference
  • “weird electoral college” — “The Chief Executive is elected by a kind of, like, weird electoral college composed mostly” — Hank, Hong Kong Protests Explained (00:03:57)
• English Football League — 1 reference
  • “England's professional football league” — “This is Bromley's first season in England's professional football league, and it's a proper old-school football experience, from the narrow turnstiles to the away fans …” — John, Thoughts from Places: BROMLEY! (00:00:58)
• Epic Games — 1 reference
  • “the Epic Game Company” — “because I refuse to let the Epic Game Company turn me into a violent monster” — John, Question Tuesday: Secrets & Primes (00:03:09)
• Federal Government of Nigeria — 1 reference
  • “the Nigerian government” — “because the Nigerian government and the world community haven't done a good enough job of” — John, Understanding Boko Haram (00:05:46)
• Federal Helium Reserve — 1 reference
  • “a gigantic strategic reserve of helium” — “for a very weird reason which is that the US has a gigantic strategic reserve of helium that eventually it was like, “we don’t need this.” — Hank, Everything a Normal Person Needs to Know About Helium (00:02:14)
• French Directory — 1 reference
  • “a group of directors” — “and for the next four years, from 1795 to 1799, France was run by a group of directors,” — John, REIGN OF TERROR: The French Revolution, Part III (00:03:00)
• Frietmuseum — 1 reference
  • “french fry museum” — “I found a lot of places that didn't sell toothbrushes like the french fry museum and a fancy shoe” — John, Older Than Gravity In Bruges: Thoughts from Places (00:00:52)
• Glendive Dinosaur and Fossil Museum — 1 reference
  • “a creationist museum in eastern Montana” — “… this is a reference to the fact that Governor Greg Gianforte gave $300,000 to help start a creationist museum in eastern Montana.” — Hank, My Governor is Weirder than Yours (00:10:12)
• Global Polio Eradication Initiative — 1 reference
  • “the aid-funded polio eradication initiative” — “Today, thanks to the aid-funded polio eradication initiative, there are fewer than 400.” — John, Are Poor Countries Doomed? (00:02:05)
• Government of India — 1 reference
  • “her own government in India” — “Shreya was a teenager who sued her own government in India to secure access to the life-saving medication bedaquiline for herself and others, and she was also …” — John, John Goes ... to the UNITED NATIONS? (00:02:05)
• Hong Kong Stock Exchange — 1 reference
  • “the third largest stock exchange in the world” — “Hong Kong houses the third largest stock exchange in the world; the Hong Kong dollar is the” — Hank, Hong Kong Protests Explained (00:01:54)
• Iceland national football team — 1 reference
  • “an improbably excellent football team” — “It just contains so many things I love: hot baths, an improbably excellent football team, Björk, etc.” — John, New Iceland (00:00:38)
• International Youth Library — 1 reference
  • “the largest international children's literature library in the world” — “… festival is at this outrageously nice castle first built in the 15th century which is now the largest international children's literature library in the world.” — John, Umbrellas Amuse Me: Observations from One Day in Munich (00:01:56)
• John's parents' hometown library — 1 reference
  • “my parents' hometown library” — “for my parents' hometown library.” — John, Adorable Baby and Insufficient Cartography (00:02:33)
• Just Born — 1 reference
  • “Peeps Corporation” — “It's a great puzzle, but if I might suggest one potential improvement to the Peeps Corporation, how about instead of making the pieces out of cardboard, you make them out of …” — John, PEEPS Eating Contest Is Peepstacular, Painful (00:00:00)
• Koidu Government Hospital — 1 reference
  • “the hospital in Kono” — “I mean five years ago the hospital in Kono had no electricity and very few supplies and as a result almost” — John, Why Are Poor Countries Poor? (00:06:25)
• Lakka TB Hospital — 1 reference
  • “a tuberculosis hospital in Sierra Leone” — “But then in 2019, I visited a tuberculosis hospital in Sierra Leone,” — John, My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis (00:00:32)
• Mandate Pictures — 1 reference
  • “the same production company” — “… is that Catherine and I watched Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist, which is being produced by the same production company that auctioned, that optioned, auctioned, optioned Paper Towns.” — Hank, Hank is Late (dr horrible) (00:01:52)
• Michigan Wolverines football — 1 reference
  • “the University of Michigan's football team” — “is Beatosu, Ohio, which is a town created by mapmakers who were fans of the University of Michigan's football team and wanted them to "beat OSU.” — John, What Are Paper Towns? (00:01:20)
• Ministry of Interior (Iran) — 1 reference
  • “interior ministry” — “the interior ministry announced that Ahmadinejad was winning with 63% of the vote.” — John, Iran Election Fraud: 5 Reasons to Doubt the Results (00:01:20)
• Montana Office of Public Instruction — 1 reference
  • “Superintendent of Public Instruction” — “You are the Superintendent of Public Instruction.” — Hank, Coming Out, Goats, Government, and Attack Ads with Denise Juneau (00:02:08)
• National Police Accountability Project — 1 reference
  • “nlg-npap.org” — video description, --- (00:00:00)
• newly emerged political party (unnamed by Hank) — 1 reference
  • “newly emerged political party” — “newly emerged political party that believes and says that they believe that the energy industry in America needs to be …” — Hank, ANOTHER Oil Rig Explosion?! REALLY?! (00:03:04)
• Newman's Own — 1 reference
  • “Newman zone” — “It is the Newman zone of Savage X Fenty.” — Hank, I'm Glad I Ignored That Billionaire (00:02:59)
• Oprichniki — 1 reference
  • “quasi-police force” — “you have this quasi-police force that goes around massacring boyers and also anyone else” — John, TERRIBLE (00:01:51)
• Pakistan Armed Forces — 1 reference
  • “The military” — John, Shaving for Pakistan (00:01:15)
• Pakistan Army — 1 reference
  • “the army” — “is no longer the head of the army.” — John, November 7: Discussing the Political Situation in Pakistan (00:01:02)
• Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum — 1 reference
  • “a weird, tiny research museum in Missoula” — “I made a video with a person I met at a weird, tiny research museum in Missoula, which led” — Hank, Changing Our Business a Bit (00:00:42)
• Supreme Court of India — 1 reference
  • “India's highest court” — “Her fight took her to India's highest court,” — John, John Goes ... to the UNITED NATIONS? (00:02:30)
• Supreme Court of the United States — 1 reference
  • “the judicial branch” — “The judicial branch, which literally believes that corporations are people,” — John, How We're Spending Your Money: The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Quarterly Report (00:00:14)
• Tamarod — 1 reference
  • “A small group of young people starts going door to door, asking people to sign a petition” — “A small group of young people starts going door to door, asking people to sign a petition,” — Hank, Egypt....Explained! (00:05:39)
• The Children's Museum of Indianapolis — 1 reference
  • “our children's museum” — “professional sports teams; our children’s museum is being attacked by dinosaurs” — John, America's Capital of Dead Vice Presidents (00:00:06)
• Tumblr — 1 reference
  • “Tumblogs” — “and Tumblogs full of GIFs (jifs).” — Hank, 1000 VIDEOS!!! (00:01:17)
• Unitarian Universalist church in Missoula — 1 reference
  • “the Unitarian Universalist church” — “first at the Unitarian Universalist church with the Whomping Willows and several other” — Hank, Top 7 Tips for LIFE (00:03:45)
• United States Armed Forces — 1 reference
  • “the military” — video description, Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! (00:00:00)
• United States Department of Defense — 1 reference
  • “National Defense” — “13% goes to National Defense, 13% goes to Medicaid, and” — John, DOGE Is Not Cutting Government Spending (00:01:27)
• United States Department of Health and Human Services — 1 reference
  • “the Department of Health” — “being designed by the United States Department of Agriculture and not the Department of Health,” — Hank, I AM A BAD PERSON! (00:02:26)
• United States Electoral College — 1 reference
  • “The president of the United States is elected by the states” — “The President of the United States is elected by the states, not by the citizens.” — Hank, These Maps are Lying (if you let them) (00:02:41)
• Universal Postal Union — 1 reference
  • “a secret cabal” — “It's partly because international shipping rates are decided by a secret cabal independent of actual transportation costs, but that's not what this video is about.” — John, this is a video about pineapples. (00:00:00)
• University of Chicago Divinity School — 1 reference
  • “divinity school at the University of Chicago” — “I'm 22, and I've just been accepted to divinity school at the University of Chicago.” — John, An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall (00:50:10)
• Wimbledon F.C. — 1 reference
  • “their football club, founded in 1889” — “Plough Lane, before eventually being told that their football club, founded in 1889, basically no longer existed.” — John, That's the way. (00:01:56)

Projects

• Animal Wonders — 1 reference
  • “a new channel” — “We're launching a new channel this week with Jessi Knudsen Castañeda and her husband Augusto,” — Hank, The Myth of Greatness (00:01:59)
• The Art Assignment — 1 reference
  • “art show” — “art show with PBS Digital.” — John, Is Obamacare Working? The Affordable Care Act Five Years Later (00:04:28)

Places

• United States — 9 references
  • “American” — “… misgivings about the oink barf vaccine I read a study that only 40% of parents of American school children plan to get their kids vaccinated and the number one reason they cited was …” — John, H1N1 Vaccine Fears (00:00:47)
  • “Americans” — “Americans are not more likely to commit suicide around Christmas.” — John, But Is Worm Pizza Poisonous? (00:01:30)
  • “being an American” — “love about being an American and I really do love this country though that” — Hank, AMERICA, DAMMIT! - Thoughts from Glacier National Park (00:02:13)
  • “Americans” — “Trying to get Americans to believe” — John, The Russian Reversal (00:00:44)
  • “my country” — “Honorable mention shark fact, there are individual sharks that are alive today that were born before my country existed.” — Hank, The 19 Best Facts (00:00:29)
  • “this country” — “It feels like this country is being constantly re-traumatized” — Hank, The Time for Politics (00:00:56)
  • “America” — “Because, look, America is extremely paved there are so many roads and so many parking lots” — Hank, The Kony 2012 of Roads - Solar Freakin' Roadways (00:00:15)
  • “as a country” — “Are we currently making a big one as a country?” — Hank, No Video Today!! (00:01:45)
  • “the U.S.” — “Now we're going to be limiting our conversation to the U.S. here because this is a legal thing and the law is different in different places.” — Hank, Why Isn't Everybody a Nonprofit?! (00:01:56)
• Milky Way — 6 references
  • “our galaxy” — “In our galaxy, there are at least 200 billion of them.” — Hank, I Shall BLOW YOUR MIND (00:00:29)
  • “The galaxy” — “The galaxy just keeps on spinning with 400 billion stars in it.” — Hank, The Fermi Paradox: A Song (00:00:31)
  • “our galaxy” — “is likewise basically insignificant compared to the size of our galaxy which, once again,” — Hank, Draw My Life + 16 Other Suggestions (00:03:06)
  • “our galaxy” — “When we look out at other solar systems in our galaxy,” — Hank, They Say it Gets Colder (00:00:01)
  • “our part of the galaxy” — video description, how it all ends (00:00:00)
  • “the galaxy” — “There's a billion of those all over the galaxy.” — Hank, Moon Joy (00:02:53)
• France — 4 references
  • “The French” — “The French first penetrated Chad in 1891.” — John, SOMALI PIRATES! France Penetrates Chad! (00:01:01)
  • “the French” — “Like Benjamin Franklin negotiated important treaties with the French, Drake says that there really ain't much poppin' off in the music industry without him.” — John, Started from the Bottom: Benjamin Franklin and Drake Compared (00:00:58)
  • “French” — “Furthermore, most of Greece's debt was owed to German and French banks.” — John, Understanding the Financial Crisis in Greece (00:03:43)
  • “French” — “literally, in part because this french basketball player's” — Hank, I Have Uncovered an Olympics Mystery… (00:00:47)
• United Kingdom — 4 references
  • “British” — “Hopefully there are no British Nerdfighters who think that we should not have seceded from your oppressive rule.” — Hank, America Stands for Awesome (00:00:41)
  • “the British government” — “the British government did not do a great job paying him back for that.” — Hank, Be The Change - vlogbrothers (00:00:46)
  • “the British” — “What is now Nigeria was colonized by the British for much of the 20th century, but Northern” — John, Understanding Boko Haram (00:00:43)
  • “British” — “First, in British books, pain in the arse led pain in the ass for a little while, but America …” — Hank, Pain in the _____ (00:05:50)
• Canada — 3 references
  • “Canadian” — “For one thing, he is Canadian, which is arguably the best place to be born in the world today.” — John, Started from the Bottom: Benjamin Franklin and Drake Compared (00:02:26)
  • “Canadians” — “Most Canadians live closer to Venezuela than Liberians live to Botswana.” — John, Going to College (in Ethiopia) (00:00:20)
  • “Canadian” — “… thing about the World Cup unlike, say the World Series, which will maybe occasionally have a Canadian team in it,” — Hank, Sports are Dumb (00:02:30)
• International Space Station — 3 references
  • “a space station” — “for over ten years, a space station that provides our first permanent foot hold in space and” — Hank, NASA: Increasing Awesome (00:01:43)
  • “the space station” — “So first question, how are we going to get the space astronauts to the space station without the space shuttle?” — Hank, Hank Talks to NASA About the Space Shuttle (00:00:58)
  • “the space station” — “… sitting on top of the SLS won't be traveling the same humdrum journeys to and from the space station.” — Hank, The Future of Manned Space Exploration (00:00:38)
• Ancient Greece — 2 references
  • “the Greeks” — “We switched back to the North being on top because we got obsessed with the Greeks during the Rennaisance.” — Hank, 42 Amazing Maps (00:03:17)
  • “ancient Greek” — “But the story I know is that there was like an ancient Greek guy.” — Hank, Has Anyone Ever Accidentally Seen me Naked (Question Tuesday on a Friday) (00:05:56)
• Confederate States of America — 2 references
  • “the former Confederacy” — “… Virginia, which, at least for a few hours last night, was the capital not only of the former Confederacy, but also the world capital of Nerdfighterstan.” — John, September 28th: Nerdfighting!!! (00:00:00)
  • “the South” — “and, the South was like:” — Hank, Black Friday: An Accident of History (00:00:40)
• Earth — 2 references
  • “a planet that is traveling around the Sun” — “course unless you consider that all humans were on a planet that is traveling around the sun at 67,000 miles per hour.” — John, Fine, I'll take the bait. (00:00:31)
  • “he drew home” — John, Orbital Sunrise: The First Art Made in Space (00:06:50)
• Indianapolis — 2 references
  • “my entire hometown” — “… of coffee while marveling at the fact that Amsterdam's Spouw Square contains more English-language bookstores than my entire hometown of one million people.” — John, Wrong but Right: Thoughts from Places Amsterdam (00:00:00)
  • “Kurt Vonnegut's hometown” — “my heart–partly because I ended up in Kurt Vonnegut’s hometown, living” — John, My Most Valuable Books (00:00:38)
• Missoula Montana Airport — 2 references
  • “the new airport” — “But then we get another one cause there’s one at the new airport.” — Hank, This is a Video!! (00:01:28)
  • “your amazingly dope new airport” — Hank, Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg (00:00:09)
• Netherlands — 2 references
  • “the average Dutch person” — “… a video blog has created more carbon in the last nine and a half months than the average Dutch person creates in an entire year.” — John, October 12th: Carbon Re-Neutralizing Brotherhood 2.0 (00:03:14)
  • “Dutch” — “Not you, Hank, I know you're not Dutch, but the other people, they might be.” — John, Meeting Greg Mortenson (00:02:33)
• New York City — 2 references
  • “this great city” — “… band called they might be Giants and they they covered a song we really love about this great city so we thought we'd sing that for you now you called me last night on the …” — John, An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall (02:44:05)
  • “New Yorkers” — “like we did for Californians and New Yorkers and Texans.” — Hank, The Surprising Truth About FLORIDA MAN! (00:03:12)
• Plough Lane — 2 references
  • “a beautiful new stadium owned and built by the fans” — “So we've got a beautiful new stadium owned and built by the fans” — John, America's Second Favorite Fourth Tier English Soccer Team (00:01:38)
  • “AFC Wimbledon’s stadium” — “You may have seen that AFC Wimbledon’s stadium” — John, Is It 2010? IT'S A PARTS VIDEO (00:01:35)
• Saudi Arabia — 2 references
  • “Saudi” — “These madrases, by the way, are all paid for with Saudi oil money.” — John, Shaving for Pakistan (00:00:53)
  • “the Saudi government” — “the Saudi government will not let you into Mecca” — John, Is Obama a Muslim? Examine the Evidence! (00:02:16)
• Sweden — 2 references
  • “the average Swede” — “Nerdfighteria, in four years, has created more carbon emissions than the average Swede” — John, WE ARE 812 YEARS OLD (00:02:09)
  • “Swedish” — “like the Swedish cover of Turtles All the Way Down.” — John, How a Book Cover Gets Designed (00:00:24)
• abandoned hospital (unnamed) — 1 reference
  • “an extremely creepy long abandoned hospital” — “an extremely creepy long abandoned hospital now sometimes used as a setting” — John, Beneath an Abandoned Hospital: Thoughts from Places (00:00:16)
• Ancient Egypt — 1 reference
  • “Egyptians” — “conquered Egyptians had.” — Hank, Why Does January First Start the New Year? - New Year's Explained (00:02:10)
• Ancient Rome — 1 reference
  • “Romans” — “Romans didn't eat pizza because tomatoes wouldn't come to Italy for another 1500 years.” — John, How Young Is History? (00:00:35)
• Antwerpen-Centraal railway station — 1 reference
  • “the train station” — “left and Winkles to the right, and emerged from the train station into this central square.” — John, Winkels to the Left, Winkels to the Right: Thoughts from Places, Antwerp (00:00:44)
• Biosphere 2 — 1 reference
  • “Biodome didn't work” — “We, like, Biodome didn't work.” — Hank, Project for Awesome: The Nature Conservancy (00:00:33)
• Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport — 1 reference
  • “the Birmingham, Alabama airport” — “Specifically, the Birmingham, Alabama airport: a great airport in almost every respect.” — John, On Exhaustion (00:00:04)
• Cave of the Crystals — 1 reference
  • “a giant cave full of some of the largest crystals ever discovered on Earth” — “taken out, those brothers drilled down into a giant cave full of some of the largest crystals ever discovered on Earth.” — Hank, The Earth is an Alien Planet (00:00:38)
• Cheyenne, Wyoming (city) — 1 reference
  • “the largest city in Wyoming” — “And by the way, I don't mean the largest city in Wyoming with a population of 65,000 human souls.” — John, why we make art (00:00:00)
• Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin — 1 reference
  • “A cathedral that took so long to construct” — “A cathedral that took so long to construct that Romanesque arches sit right next to Gothic arches.” — Hank, The Space Time Continuum: Thoughts from Dublin (00:01:07)
• De Wallen — 1 reference
  • “the red-white district” — “Maps of the red-white district are dominated by a church, swans swim up the canal while on the banks of that …” — John, I'm Not Going Down: Thoughts from Amsterdam (00:01:17)
• Denmark — 1 reference
  • “Danish” — video description, Scavenger Hunting (00:00:00)
• Disneyland — 1 reference
  • “the happiest place on Earth” — “of explosives in the US is the happiest place on Earth.” — Hank, The 19 Best Facts (00:02:07)
• Down House — 1 reference
  • “the home of Charles Darwin” — “and the home of Charles Darwin, which is actually a 35 minutes drive away.” — John, Thoughts from Places: BROMLEY! (00:00:59)
• East Coast of the United States — 1 reference
  • “an entire coast of America” — “I also got you an entire coast of America.” — Hank, HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN! (00:00:00)
• Eris — 1 reference
  • “Trans-Neptunian object” — “Hank is a Trans-Neptunian object 27 percent” — John, Peanut Butter Face Question Tuesday (00:00:51)
• flower market in Amsterdam — 1 reference
  • “the flower market” — “By the way just to orient you, we’re going to the flower market.” — John, Tulipomania (00:00:20)
• French First Republic — 1 reference
  • “declare France to be a republic” — “invite the vast majority of parliament and declare France to be a republic.” — John, Headless Monarchy: The French Revolution, Part II (00:04:53)
• Germany — 1 reference
  • “German” — “Furthermore, most of Greece's debt was owed to German and French banks.” — John, Understanding the Financial Crisis in Greece (00:03:43)
• Gliese 581g — 1 reference
  • “a planet that may have liquid water on it” — “Also, they found a planet that may have liquid water on it 20 light years away that could easily support life.” — Hank, Supernote and Charlie's Birthday (00:02:54)
• Great Lakes — 1 reference
  • “America's third coast” — video description, Civil Twilight (00:00:00)
• Great Pyramid of Giza — 1 reference
  • “Get to the pyramids!” — both, August 30th: A Secret Project for Nerdfighters (00:03:10)
• Green Line — 1 reference
  • “a map similar to the 1949 map” — “At that point, Fatah and Israel can sit down together and draw a map similar to the 1949 map” — John, Israel. Gaza. PUPPY! (00:02:58)
• Indiana Jones Adventure — 1 reference
  • “Indiana Jones ride” — “Like the other day I was standing in line for the Indiana Jones ride at” — John, Hank Tried to Kill Me With a Hammer (00:02:58)
• Indianapolis International Airport — 1 reference
  • “our airport” — “And while I do dearly love our airport, named best airport in America four years running” — John, The Best of My 2016 (00:02:28)
• Interstate 4 — 1 reference
  • “the interstate in Orlando” — “which is about the interstate in Orlando and how much people dislike it” — Hank, Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg (00:04:40)
• Ireland — 1 reference
  • “Irish person” — “First question: How many potatoes did the average Irish person eat per day in 1844?” — John, Question Tuesday: The Potato Edition (00:00:09)
• Italy — 1 reference
  • “an Italian castle” — “was found in microbes in the soil at the base of an Italian castle.” — Hank, Did Natural Cancer Treatments Save My Life? (00:00:57)
• Mars — 1 reference
  • “a place with a lot of red dirt” — “And a place with a lot of red dirt has quite a bit of methane.” — Hank, Why Don't Rockets Melt Themselves (00:03:15)
• Midwestern United States — 1 reference
  • “American middle” — “So here in the American middle, there's a common weather phenomenon we call wintry mix.” — John, wintry mix (00:00:44)
• Military dictatorship in Brazil — 1 reference
  • “military dictatorship” — “military dictatorship, and in a stunning turn of events that military” — Hank, Brazil's Government is Falling Apart...and it's Good News? (00:01:01)
• Missoula, Montana — 1 reference
  • “my hometown” — “Additionally, as a Halloween special for you all, I went out to visit a company in my hometown that makes tools specifically for killing zombies.” — Hank, Pumpkin Slashing, Sexy Watermelons, and Zombie Tools with Jayne (00:00:42)
• monument to a dead sheep (airport) — 1 reference
  • “A monument to dead sheep” — “A monument to dead sheep is kinda interesting.” — John, Narrowly Avoiding Arrest: Some Airport Insanity (00:02:06)
• Nazi Germany — 1 reference
  • “the Nazis” — “Radio was fantastic for the Nazis, the Catholic Church was fractured by the printing press.” — Hank, We're Thinking About Facebook Wrong (00:04:26)
• North Dakota — 1 reference
  • “both the Dakotas” — “We are surrounded by four states, Idaho, Wyoming, both the Dakotas, where a woman's right to privacy and abortion have been drastically curtailed and some of …” — Hank, My Governor is Weirder than Yours (00:02:43)
• Northern Ireland — 1 reference
  • “Northern Irish” — “So Northern Irish people, Welsh people, Scottish people, all British.” — Hank, What's the Difference Between A and Z (00:00:58)
• Norway — 1 reference
  • “Norwegian” — “The answer is three percent--if you're Norwegian.” — John, Are Poor Countries Doomed? (00:01:53)
• Palace of Westminster — 1 reference
  • “Parliament” — “Then we saw Cafe Nerd and a skate park and Parliament Backlit in a downright Hogwartsian way and an American Viking on a Harley scooter and the …” — John, Headless Statues and Elton John's Piano: Seeing Sights in London (Thoughts from Places) (00:02:26)
• Pike Place Market — 1 reference
  • “the public market” — “One of the awesomest parts of Seattle is the public market.” — Hank, April 3rd: Seattle! (00:00:09)
• Pittsburgh International Airport — 1 reference
  • “the airport that I am currently in” — “I can't say that that's a tremendous vote of confidence for the airport that I am currently in.” — Hank, August 31: Copyright and Airports (00:02:51)
• Portland, Oregon — 1 reference
  • “Portlander” — “And again, are you a Seattleite or a Portlander?” — Hank, Hank Interviews His Mayor (00:03:18)
• Rashidun Caliphate — 1 reference
  • “the Age of the Golden Caliphate - the first four caliphs” — “Like in Islam there's the Age of the Golden Caliphate - the first four caliphs;” — John, On Religion (Redux) (00:02:05)
• ruins in Holiday Park (placeholder) — 1 reference
  • “weird, fake ruins” — “So, there are these weird, fake ruins in” — John, Signing Psychosis Takes Over (00:02:16)
• Scotland — 1 reference
  • “Scottish” — “Irish people, Welsh people, Scottish people: all British - though they probably don't want” — Hank, What's the Difference Between A and Z (00:01:04)
• silver-dollar casino in Montana — 1 reference
  • “the world-famous 10,000 silver dollar casino slash bar slash restaurant slash gift shop slash laundromat slash RV park” — “While still in Montana, we needed to relieve ourselves at the world-famous 10,000 silver dollar casino slash bar slash restaurant slash gift shop slash laundromat slash RV park slash whatever else.” — Hank, October 19th: Missoula to Seattle (00:00:53)
• Smoking Hole — 1 reference
  • “the place I used to smoke cigarettes” — “We went to campus in the middle of the night and I took her to the place I used to smoke cigarettes - don't smoke - and there was graffiti there that said "The best is yet to …” — John, On Exhaustion (00:00:27)
• South Dakota — 1 reference
  • “both the Dakotas” — “We are surrounded by four states, Idaho, Wyoming, both the Dakotas, where a woman's right to privacy and abortion have been drastically curtailed and some of …” — Hank, My Governor is Weirder than Yours (00:02:43)
• Sun (star) — 1 reference
  • “our star” — “Each cycle, it gets colder in parts of our world as we tilt away from our star” — John, Nourished by Leaving (00:02:49)
• Swindon — 1 reference
  • “a town known primarily for its railroad museum and stunningly complex roundabout” — “In 1999, Jimmy Glass was the backup goalkeeper at Swindon, a town known primarily for its railroad museum and stunningly complex roundabout.” — John, BELIEVE: The Jimmy Glass Story (00:00:46)
• Texas — 1 reference
  • “Texans” — “like we did for Californians and New Yorkers and Texans.” — Hank, The Surprising Truth About FLORIDA MAN! (00:03:12)
• TFiOS Bench — 1 reference
  • “a bench in Amsterdam” — “Fault in Our Stars was filmed on a bench in Amsterdam;” — John, The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated (00:09:47)
• United Artists Theatre Building — 1 reference
  • “the abandoned cathedral, I mean theater, in Detroit” — “First, we're going to look at these beautiful pictures that the guide shot inside the abandoned cathedral, I mean theater, in Detroit.” — John, Brotherhood 2.0: March 21st: Put Stuff on Your Head (00:00:03)
• Wales — 1 reference
  • “Welsh” — “Irish people, Welsh people, Scottish people: all British - though they probably don't want” — Hank, What's the Difference Between A and Z (00:01:04)
• water park where Hank films — 1 reference
  • “a water park” — “Good morning, John, I'm apparently at a water park because it is very hot here.” — Hank, How to Get to Pluto: From a Waterpark (00:00:00)
• world's smallest courthouse (Arthur, Nebraska) — 1 reference
  • “world's smallest courthouse” — “and Alaska, and San Francisco, and Arthur, Nebraska, home of the world's smallest courthouse.” — John, Baby on the Road: Thoughts from Places (00:00:39)
• YouTube Space LA — 1 reference
  • “YouTube creator space” — “And I got to hang out at the YouTube creator space, which is so crazy that I.” — Hank, VidCon 2013! (00:00:45)

Laws, cases & policies

• Abolish the US penny — 14 references
  • “I HATE PENNIES!!!!” — John, I HATE PENNIES!!!! (Also Nickels.) (00:00:17)
  • “how much I hate pennies” — “Nerdfighters, you may know how much I hate pennies.” — John, PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2010: Save the Children and Partners in Health (00:00:28)
  • “he hates pennies” — “… last week, but I've become obsessed with the YouTuber CGP Grey, who's just brilliant, I mean, he hates pennies, he loves Britain, he's just like” — John, Things I Can Do (00:01:27)
  • “here in America we're keeping our pennies” — “But Hank, here in America we're keeping our pennies and that makes sense because our pennies also don't facilitate commerce and they cost 2.1 cents …” — John, Idiotic Governance: How Our Political Discourse Hurts Our Economy (00:00:10)
  • “legislation to kill the penny” — “Why is legislation to kill the penny being held up in Congress?” — John, Burning Peeps, My OTP, and Velociraptors: It's Question Tuesday (00:00:35)
  • “HOW DO WE STILL LIVE IN A WORLD WITH PENNIES” — John, Talking to the President (00:01:43)
  • “we should stop minting pennies” — “[John]: Almost all economists agree that we should stop minting pennies.” — John, Baby, Harlem, Obama, Dance Crazes, Big Week (00:01:53)
  • “pennies are a terrible idea” — “acknowledged that pennies are a terrible idea.” — John, Doing Things, On the Importance of (00:00:17)
  • “You shouldn't even exist, pennies!” — John, What's in the Box in the Box in the Box? (00:01:38)
  • “pennies” — “Are you still mad that pennies exist?” — John, How Will the World End? Why Even Get Out of Bed? It's Question Tuesday. (00:01:31)
  • “this frickin' piece of useless metal that my government is too busy being terrible to not get rid of” — Hank, Decluttering the Somewhat Embarrassing Nightstand of a 39 Year-Old Best-Selling Author (00:02:43)
  • “one-cent coins” — “And also, you know how the United States continues to mint one-cent coins,” — John, We Are Cats Now, I Guess? (00:01:31)
  • “profound hatred of the US penny” — “Eleven years ago I made a video exploring my profound hatred of the US penny, and I do still very much hate them.” — John, This Video Is Actually Three Videos (00:01:07)
  • “my long-standing crusade against the US penny” — “The most notable example of this in my own life is probably my long-standing crusade against the US penny.” — John, Instantly Debateable (00:02:08)
• Viacom International Inc. v. YouTube, Inc. — 5 references
  • “our lawsuit” — “This is about our lawsuit.” — Hank, YouTube vs. Viacom The Battle Explained (00:02:39)
  • “Viacom is suing YouTube for a billion dollars” — “So Hank, as you explained in your excellent video on Friday, Viacom is suing YouTube for a billion dollars because one, Viacom believes that YouTube only became popular by using pirated content and that therefore …” — John, Viacom PWNED on Piracy (00:00:55)
  • “Viacom is suing YouTube” — “One, Viacom is suing YouTube for profiting off of content that Viacom owned.” — Hank, Should We Sue Viacom? (00:00:29)
  • “what they're suing YouTube for” — “… did to me and what they've done to hundreds of others is the exact same as what they're suing YouTube for purportedly doing to them.” — John, Mmmm....PARTS (00:00:00)
  • “its lawsuit against Viacom” — “YouTube won its lawsuit against Viacom.” — Hank, GOOOOOOOL!!!! (00:01:05)
• Affordable Care Act — 2 references
  • “the Senate bill” — “For our purposes, I'm mostly gonna talk about the Senate bill.” — John, Adorable Puppy Explains Health Care Bill (00:00:00)
  • “the new healthcare legislation” — “Tell me about the diseases that you have, and tell me how you're feeling about the new healthcare legislation.” — Hank, Top 10 Weirdest Diseases (00:03:49)
• American Health Care Act — 2 references
  • “The Republican bill” — “The Republican bill sought to reduce government spending” — John, Why Can't America Have a Grown-Up Healthcare Conversation? (00:04:04)
  • “this healthcare bill” — “And third, I'm just really bummed out that the House of Representatives pushed through this healthcare bill that's totally unstudied, super probably unhelpful, and why?” — Hank, Sick and Tired (00:00:00)
• Health Extension Program — 2 references
  • “health extension workers” — “So then I travelled to the next healthcare tier, the outpost where health extension workers” — John, Baby Names: Thoughts from Rural Ethiopia (00:01:35)
  • “health-post” — “So Ethiopia created this system where at the lowest level, there's a health-post, and here,” — Bill Gates, Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Global Health (00:00:48)
• Health insurance cooperative — 2 references
  • “non-profit insurance companies” — “… a diet, who say that instead of a public option, we can create these sort of non-profit insurance companies that will then have to compete with private insurance, and because they won't be for-profit companies, …” — John, Health Care Overhaul Summarized Via MASSIVE PIG (00:02:02)
  • “non-profit insurance companies” — “… a diet, who say that instead of a public option, we can create these sort of non-profit insurance companies that will then have to compete with private insurance.” — John, Health Care Reform Thought Bubble (00:01:30)
• Health insurance marketplace — 2 references
  • “insurance exchange” — “… for instance, from not insuring people who have pre-existing conditions, and it creates a private-based non-profit insurance exchange where people who don't have jobs or work for themselves or” — John, Adorable Puppy Explains Health Care Bill (00:00:00)
  • “the exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act” — “First, using the exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act, and second, using the private insurance options that existed before the Affordable Care Act, which, …” — John, Applying for Health Insurance: Then and Now (00:00:00)
• Inflation Reduction Act — 2 references
  • “the largest single piece of climate change legislation” — “going to sign the largest single piece of climate change legislation” — Hank, The Biggest Climate Bill of Your Life - But What does it DO!? (00:00:02)
  • “a large piece of legislation” — “a large piece of legislation and how complicated it is” — Hank, What if a lot of the Cynicism is Unjustified??? (00:01:13)
• Montana state health insurance plan (unnamed) — 2 references
  • “a somewhat affordable plan” — “… the way, is not known for its liberal bias, partnered with a private insurer to create a somewhat affordable plan that offers health insurance to anyone who needs it regardless of whether they have a pre-existing …” — John, Health Care Reform: The Hank Factor (00:02:04)
  • “catastrophic coverage plan” — “Now, thanks to the state of Montana, you currently have a so-called catastrophic coverage plan, which caps your out-of-pocket health expenses at $10,000 per year.” — John, Bigger Pizzas: A Capitalist Case for Health Care Reform (00:02:26)
• North Carolina Amendment 1 — 2 references
  • “outright ban gay marriage like stick it in the constitution” — “just decided to just outright ban gay marriage like stick it in the constitution” — Hank, Your Arguments Are Invalid: Gay Marriage (00:00:09)
  • “the one just voted on in North Carolina” — “but laws like the one just voted on in North Carolina make it unclear whether intersex people are allowed to marry anyone.” — John, Religion and Gay Marriage (00:01:34)
• Tax Cuts and Jobs Act — 2 references
  • “That's not how the Republicans in Congress want it to work.” — Hank, Why Are Taxes So Complicated? (The Musical?) (00:02:47)
  • “that one tax cut that you forgot about” — “was that one tax cut that you forgot about.” — Hank, Should I Run for President?? (00:03:30)
• Affordable Health Care for America Act — 1 reference
  • “one that passed the House of Representatives” — “… that's harder to do than you would think because there are actually two healthcare reform bills, one that passed the House of Representatives and one that passed the Senate.” — John, Adorable Puppy Explains Health Care Bill (00:00:00)
• America's College Promise — 1 reference
  • “make two years of community college free for all students” — “… have been waiting for this, President Obama, who just announced that he's going to try and make two years of community college free for all students, thus broadening the toolkit of Americans, thumbs up on that one, is going to have …” — Hank, Is School Broken? (Also...ANNOUNCEMENTS OF IMPORT) (00:02:41)
• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act — 1 reference
  • “the economic stimulus package” — “Today I'm going to talk about the economic stimulus package, but before we get to that, you may be wondering, John, why are you wearing …” — John, Stimulus Plan Explained (00:00:00)
• Bolsa Família — 1 reference
  • “an extremely successful social program that basically paid poor families to send their children to school” — “achievements, including an extremely successful social program that basically paid poor families to send their children to school, a program that's” — Hank, Brazil's Government is Falling Apart...and it's Good News? (00:03:05)
• California Automatic Renewal Law — 1 reference
  • “California has passed a law making this illegal” — “Already, California has passed a law making this illegal.” — Hank, Why isn't This Illegal? (00:03:03)
• Click-to-cancel rule — 1 reference
  • “a rule change that will make this illegal” — “has proposed a rule change that will make this illegal.” — Hank, Why isn't This Illegal? (00:03:33)
• Dickey Amendment — 1 reference
  • “a 20-year ban” — “… the CDC to study and fund the study of the public health effects of guns after a 20-year ban.” — Hank, Hey, Let's Change Some Things (00:01:51)
• Egypt–Israel peace treaty — 1 reference
  • “a peace treaty” — “Okay, so it's 1979, and the president of Egypt, Anwar al-Sadat, signs a peace treaty with” — John, Revolution in Egypt: A 4-Minute Introduction (00:00:35)
• European Union-Ukraine Association Agreement — 1 reference
  • “an agreement to strengthen” — “In November 2013, Yanukovych announced that Ukraine would abandon an agreement to strengthen” — John, Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context (00:04:13)
• Executive Order 13769 — 1 reference
  • “ban on all refugees entering the United States” — “As part of President Trump's ban on all refugees entering the United States,” — Hank, Are We Making Things Worse? (00:02:26)
• French Republican calendar — 1 reference
  • “the Committee of Public Safety decided to change the French calendar” — John, REIGN OF TERROR: The French Revolution, Part III (00:02:36)
• FTC Non-Compete Clause Rule — 1 reference
  • “a rule that bans non-compete agreements” — “For example, this FTC board also created a rule that bans non compete agreements.” — Hank, Why isn't This Illegal? (00:04:02)
• Gregorian calendar — 1 reference
  • “there are 12 months in a year” — “Like for example, that there are 12 months in a year.” — Hank, Thank God We Got This Right… (00:01:35)
• Hong Kong Basic Law — 1 reference
  • “Hong Kong's constitution, which isn't really a constitution” — “Now, Hong Kong's constitution, which isn't really a constitution, eventually calls for” — Hank, Hong Kong Protests Explained (00:04:07)
• Individual mandate — 1 reference
  • “do you have to get insurance” — “So under this bill, if you're eligible for insurance, do you have to get insurance?” — John, Adorable Puppy Explains Health Care Bill (00:02:40)
• Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act — 1 reference
  • “the infrastructure bill” — “$7.5 billion approved as part of the infrastructure bill” — Hank, Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg (00:07:42)
• International Fixed Calendar — 1 reference
  • “13 months with 28 days each” — “So obviously we should have 13 months with 28 days each and then have a few days that are monthless, which would be awesome.” — Hank, My 2025 Bingo Card (00:01:14)
• Julian calendar — 1 reference
  • “a solar calendar” — “in favor of a solar calendar, like the ones that the recently” — Hank, Why Does January First Start the New Year? - New Year's Explained (00:02:10)
• Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program — 1 reference
  • “heating support for low-income families” — “… just not gonna get there by firing federal employees or canceling politically divisive small projects like heating support for low-income families or whatever because there just isn't enough money in them.” — John, DOGE Is Not Cutting Government Spending (00:02:55)
• Montana Stream Access Law — 1 reference
  • “public river stream access law” — “amazing public river stream access law, we call it.” — Hank, My Governor is Weirder than Yours (00:30:18)
• Montana TikTok ban — 1 reference
  • “the first state to pass a TikTok ban” — “… want to be in, which is that I live in the state of Montana, which is the first state to pass a TikTok ban.” — Hank, On TikTok Bans (00:00:00)
• MyPlate — 1 reference
  • “plate in which half of the plate is vegetables and fruits” — “plate in which half of the plate is vegetables and fruits, which is fantastic.” — Hank, I AM A BAD PERSON! (00:02:12)
• National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius — 1 reference
  • “a 2012 Supreme Court decision” — “Now, the ACA has never been fully implemented because a 2012 Supreme Court decision made” — John, Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Health Care Reform Proposals (00:02:22)
• Net neutrality — 1 reference
  • “control what goes through their pipes at what speeds” — “… fighting for, you know, those underdogs, the internet providers, Comcast and such, so that they can control what goes through their pipes at what speeds and how much we pay for individual pieces.” — Hank, Sick and Tired (00:00:00)
• New Deal — 1 reference
  • “All these government created jobs” — “All these government created jobs being given to people of all socio-economic” — Hank, Top 5 Actual Conspiracies (00:02:36)
• Phase-out of the Canadian penny — 1 reference
  • “discontinue it's penny” — “So Hank, the great nation of Canada recently decided to discontinue it's penny.” — John, Idiotic Governance: How Our Political Discourse Hurts Our Economy (00:00:03)
• President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief — 1 reference
  • “AIDS treatment in the developing world” — “access to and availability of AIDS treatment in the developing world.” — John, What Can't a Billion Dollars Buy? (00:03:20)
• Public option — 1 reference
  • “Medicare for all who want it” — “he did want what's called the Medicare for all who want it plan,” — Hank, Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg (00:12:09)
• Roman calendar — 1 reference
  • “this calendar that's hundreds of years old” — “It's based on this calendar that's hundreds of years old,” — Hank, Why Does January First Start the New Year? - New Year's Explained (00:00:51)
• Sinhala Only Act — 1 reference
  • “Sinhalese should be the only language in all of Sri Lanka” — John, Peanut Butter Face Discusses Sri Lanka (00:01:35)
• Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons — 1 reference
  • “a treaty” — “So some countries got together at the UN to create a treaty that said” — Hank, Why Do So Few Countries Have Nukes? (00:03:35)
• Trump administration travel ban on Sierra Leone — 1 reference
  • “total travel ban” — “… impossible for Henri and Isatu to visit me in the United States because there is a total travel ban that has been” — John, Poverty Is Expensive (00:02:26)
• Trump v. United States — 1 reference
  • “that immunity case” — “that immunity case where the court said basically a president can commit crimes while in office and be immune, …” — John, Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? (00:03:37)
• Two-state solution — 1 reference
  • “An independent Israel, an independent Palestine, and a shared Jerusalem” — John, Israel. Gaza. PUPPY! (00:01:01)
• United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine — 1 reference
  • “Britain's colonization of Palestine should end and that two independent states should be created” — “The UN decides that Britain's colonization of Palestine should end and that two independent states should be created, Israel, a sovereign homeland for the Jewish people, and an independent Palestine.” — John, Israel. Gaza. PUPPY! (00:01:01)
• United States embargo against Cuba — 1 reference
  • “Then we're never gonna buy anything from you, ever again.” — “Then we're never gonna buy anything from you, ever again. "” — Hank, Why are Barns Red and Kardashians Famous (00:01:26)
• US federal highway funding bill (2012) — 1 reference
  • “the highway bill” — “Example two: the highway bill.” — John, Idiotic Governance: How Our Political Discourse Hurts Our Economy (00:01:48)
• US government subsidy for plug-in hybrids — 1 reference
  • “a huge subsidy from the US government” — “And then if you wait not too long, the Chevrolet Volt will be available with a huge subsidy from the US government.” — Hank, Hank Green from the Detroit Auto Show (00:03:31)

Events

• United States presidential election — 36 references in 35 videos
  • “I didn't vote in 2000” — “And also, uh, I didn't vote in 2000, even though I could have voted in Florida.” — John, Brotherhood 2.0: Eating Toilet Paper (00:00:40)
  • “endorse a presidential candidate in the primary” — “If so, should we endorse a presidential candidate in the primary?” — John, Brotherhood 2.0: March 1, 2007: Sophistication. And balls. (00:02:19)
  • “in 2008” — “Who are you going to vote for in 2008 if not Barack Obama?” — John, Brotherhood 2.0: May 31: Yogurt eating (00:00:41)
  • “the national election that's coming up” — “I'll just talk about the local election in Chicago has kind of gotten me thinking about the national election that's coming up.” — Hank, August 9th: Anagramming Guide to the 2008 Elections (00:00:58)
  • “the upcoming election” — “One more reason why I'm leaning very strongly toward the left in the upcoming election.” — Hank, Sledding and YouTube Tag (00:01:20)
  • “presidential candidates” — “"Which one of the presidential candidates” — John, People Who Love Giraffes Who Love Giraffes (00:03:04)
  • “10 of the most likely running mates for Barack Obama in 2008” — “that I'd like to introduce you to 10 of the most likely running mates for Barack Obama in 2008.” — John, VEEPSTAKES! (00:00:46)
  • “Election Day” — “November 4th, Election Day Spectacular in Greenwood, Indiana.” — John, Paper Towns Tour Dates! (00:02:56)
  • “tonight's debate” — “When I was watching tonight's debate,” — John, John Green on the Debate (00:00:01)
  • “this debate” — “… where we talk about clean technology, so obviously there was a lot of good stuff in this debate for me.” — Hank, Hank on the Debate (00:00:00)
  • “the most recent presidential debate” — “com in response to the most recent presidential debate.” — Hank, Let it Snow Let it Snow Let it Snow (00:03:17)
  • “feels very much like November 4th” — “… I filled in the little circles, and I put it in the ballot box, so that feels very much like November 4th to me.” — Hank, Early Voting with Hank (00:00:00)
  • “Election Day” — “We're coming home to you tomorrow for the Election Day Spectacular in Greenwood, Indiana.” — John, Hank and John from the Road (00:02:18)
  • “election returns” — “Sitting in Indianapolis, basking in the afterglow of a Nerdfighter event, watching election returns.” — John, Election Night In Indianapolis! (00:00:00)
  • “the election” — video description, On Loving One Another or Dying (00:00:00)
  • “run for president” — “Reason two, she wants to run for president.” — John, Sarah Palin Resigning! Four Possible Reasons Why (00:01:15)
  • “election time” — “Because it is now election time!” — Hank, Happy Birthday John Green! (00:02:41)
  • “election season” — “Here in the United States, election season is upon us.” — Hank, You. Must. Vote. (00:00:00)
  • “America is about to pick its president for the next four years” — “Finally the biggest piece of news out there is that America is about to pick its president for the next four years.” — Hank, Disney Buys Star Wars and DFTVA! (00:01:12)
  • “the two major candidates for President” — video description, Policy and Politics: Brotherhood 2.0 Week Begins (00:00:00)
  • “The election here in America” — “The election here in America is tomorrow.” — Hank, Spicy Summer Camp Story (00:00:01)
  • “Election Day” — “it's Election Day?” — John, Terrible at Frenching: My Spicy Summer Camp Story (00:00:39)
  • “This election” — “This election was one for the history books.” — Hank, The 51st State (00:00:00)
  • “this election season” — “and the deeper we get into this election season, the harder it's gonna get.” — Hank, The Politics of "Parks and Rec" (00:03:05)
  • “election season” — “Especially in an election season.” — John, A Brief History of the Non-Denial Denial (00:03:00)
  • “the presidential ballot” — “Two things; first in most states there will be more than two candidates on the presidential ballot.” — John, Why I Didn't Vote (And Six Reasons You Might Not) (00:00:17)
  • “the 2012 election” — “like, 57.5% of eligible American voters, voted in the 2012 election.” — John, Why I Didn't Vote (And Six Reasons You Might Not) (00:02:07)
  • “election years” — “gets harder during election years which always highlight what I dislike about” — Hank, AMERICA, DAMMIT! - Thoughts from Glacier National Park (00:02:18)
  • “this election season” — “impossible, maybe, to think much about policy this election season” — Hank, Compassion, Weakness, and the 2016 Election (00:00:04)
  • “the election” — “increased after the election for people who didn't vote for Donald Trump.” — Hank, Finding Respite in 2018 (00:00:57)
  • “the presidential election” — “… show John Kerry with Jane Fonda at an anti-war rally was widely distributed in 2004 during the presidential election, even though it is completely fake.” — John, Deepfake: A Brief History of Unreliable Images (00:01:57)
  • “election year” — “Also, this is an election year, and it's gonna be stressful because of that.” — Hank, Why I'm Worried about 2020 (00:01:10)
  • “our general election” — “Here in the US it is 10 days away from our general election.” — Hank, 10 Reasons to Vote RIGHT NOW (00:00:00)
  • “on the ballot in November” — “for some reason, that Donald Trump will be on the ballot in November,” — Hank, I'm Scared of 2024...So Here's 3 Optimistic Thoughts (00:01:09)
  • “five candidates for president” — “There's five candidates for president.” — Hank, My Ballot Made Me Angry (00:00:08)
  • “Donald Trump was elected president” — “And then, you know, Pizzagate and Donald Trump was elected president just days after my son was born.” — Hank, The Last Normal Year (00:01:30)
• COVID-19 pandemic — 10 references
  • “what's happening right now” — “… process of getting diagnosed and coming to terms with a chronic illness feels somewhat similar to what's happening right now just, you know, gestures broadly.” — Hank, The Sudden Obliteration of Expectation (00:08:42)
  • “A pandemic” — “they can just keep raising prices to compete with each other, a pandemic” — Hank, Your Brain Gets Smart, but Your Head Gets Dumb (00:02:28)
  • “a big deal occurring” — “a moment where we were all starting to get used to the idea that there was a big deal occurring and that our lives would be changed significantly for a long period of time.” — Hank, I ain't she was with well and I so and it's and but so and I'll and (00:00:35)
  • “pandemic-induced” — “As of now, because of pandemic-induced” — Hank, Everything a Normal Person Needs to Know About Helium (00:03:02)
  • “pandemic” — “because we are inside of a pandemic that demands a constant, exhausting” — John, This Video Is Actually Three Videos (00:02:42)
  • “the pandemic” — “We're not done with the pandemic part, and yet we are transitioning somehow into the tremendous geopolitical instability caused by a dictator …” — Hank, Is it All Hopeless? (00:01:19)
  • “a pandemic that has killed millions of people” — “And the second big shock is that we have been living through a pandemic that has killed millions of people has disabled countless others,” — Hank, I'm Scared of 2024...So Here's 3 Optimistic Thoughts (00:04:33)
  • “the pandemic” — “During the pandemic, though,” — Hank, The Weirdest Thing I Did in LA (00:01:07)
  • “hundred year pandemic” — “We've been through a hundred year pandemic, and we will survive this too.” — John, Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? (00:09:52)
  • “a pandemic” — “Now, there was a pandemic that got in the way, and so we haven't done it exactly every four years, but …” — John, ONE TAKE JOHNNY (00:05:10)
• Western African Ebola virus epidemic — 6 references
  • “an Ebola outbreak” — John, EBOLA! (...meningitis) (00:00:39)
  • “as long as the outbreak is worsening in West Africa” — “But Hank as long as the outbreak is worsening in West Africa, there will be other outbreaks” — John, Ebola: What IS Terrifying (00:01:06)
  • “an outbreak” — Hank, NONSENSE: P4A 2014 - Partners in Health (00:00:50)
  • “an Ebola outbreak in Liberia” — “Like, an Ebola outbreak in Liberia is just a Liberian problem, right?” — John, Understanding the Refugee Crisis in Europe, Syria, and around the World (00:07:49)
  • “Ebola outbreak” — “… system was further weakened, first by the Sierra Leone Civil War, and then by a horrifying Ebola outbreak.” — John, Looking Away (Again) (00:00:29)
  • “Ebola” — “response to ebola, I don’t feel calm exactly.” — John, My 2021 Vision Board (00:02:53)
• 2007–2008 financial crisis — 5 references
  • “the financial crisis” — video description, Stimulus Plan Explained (00:00:00)
  • “the economic crisis” — “So right now, I've got the economic crisis, I've got Iraq,” — John, Peanut Butter Face Discusses Sri Lanka (00:00:12)
  • “the foreclosure crisis” — “… public health problem is a bigger drain on the world economy than Wall Street bankers, or the foreclosure crisis, or Tiger Woods' infidelity, which could actually single-handedly put golf into a recession, but that's …” — John, Eyelash Malaria (00:01:13)
  • “something of a financial crisis” — “Well, you might remember than in 2008, there was something of a financial crisis.” — Hank, Why is College So Expensive? (00:00:41)
  • “the entire economy crashed” — “just stopped existing and the entire economy crashed.” — Hank, What I learned from the weirdest day of my life (00:01:15)
• Syrian civil war — 5 references
  • “the war in Syria” — “and the war in Syria, and I also think we should make videos about stuff that we care about” — John, Thoughts for Nerdfighteria (00:02:28)
  • “a horrifying civil war there” — “forced to flee Syria as a result of a horrifying civil war there, and both Save the Children” — John, The Refugee Crises: Project for Awesome 2015 (00:00:24)
  • “An airplane shelled the school with missiles” — “So, just- An airplane shelled the school with missiles.” — Hussam, The Extraordinary Story of Hussam: Teenager, Writer, and Syrian Refugee (00:01:02)
  • “the horrors of war” — “the horrors of war or the trauma of dislocation, but I don't really know what it's like to be a …” — John, Zaatari: Thoughts from a Refugee Camp (00:01:20)
  • “escape the fighting” — “… a successful entrepeneur in Syria, but then he had to leave everything behind in 2012 to escape the fighting” — John, Syrian Refugees in the United States: One Family's Story (00:00:08)
• 2013 United States federal government shutdown — 4 references in 3 videos
  • “my government shut down” — “… morning, John, and welcome to a special edition of "Let's Understand the News" 'cause this morning my government shut down.” — Hank, The Lowdown on the Shutdown (00:00:00)
  • “the government shutdown” — “so I want to thank you for your video about the government shutdown, which I previously didn't understand at all,” — John, Q&A with Ansel Elgort and Mike Birbiglia from The Fault in Our Stars Movie Set (00:00:10)
  • “the government hadn't shut down” — “If the government hadn't shut down, none of this would've happened.” — John, Q&A with Ansel Elgort and Mike Birbiglia from The Fault in Our Stars Movie Set (00:03:46)
  • “This whole government shutdown” — “This whole government shutdown has got everything off for Scroberty Prop here at Vlogbrothers.” — John, Applying for Health Insurance: Then and Now (00:05:54)
• 2010 Haiti earthquake — 3 references
  • “in the worst possible place on Earth” — John, Froghoppin' with Gatsby (00:03:17)
  • “the situation in Haiti” — “Two, obviously the situation in Haiti is dire and we all need to help in whatever way we can.” — Hank, Introduction to Chemistry with Hank (00:03:24)
  • “the earthquake there” — “supplies to Haiti after the earthquake there.” — John, Giving Away Over $700,000 (00:01:10)
• conference of a society of writers (2007, Los Angeles) — 3 references
  • “the conference of a society of writers” — “I'm going to the conference of a society of writers.” — John, August 2nd: Airports and Box Fans (00:00:09)
  • “this great conference” — “Hank, I'd like to thank everyone at the SCVWI for hosting this great conference and also for putting me on that gigantic video screen.” — John, August 6th: JK Rowling and I Will ... Be Punished (00:03:46)
  • “your conference thingy” — “Good luck at your conference thingy.” — Hank, August 7th: Curd Fighter Nurt (00:02:50)
• Egyptian revolution of 2011 — 3 references
  • “people hit the streets” — “So on January 25, 2011, people hit the streets.” — John, Revolution in Egypt: A 4-Minute Introduction (00:02:17)
  • “So Mubarak steps down.” — “"So Mubarak steps down.” — Hank, Egypt....Explained! (00:03:05)
  • “the rebels in Cairo's Tahrir Square when they want freedom and democracy” — “Like, it's easy to root for the rebels in Cairo's Tahrir Square when they want freedom and democracy, but the actual complex business of rebuilding a state, as we’ve seen in” — John, Understanding the Central African Republic (00:01:03)
• First inauguration of Barack Obama — 3 references
  • “sworn in as the 44th president of the United States” — “It's Sunday, January 18th, 2009, the day before the day before Barack Obama will be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States.” — John, PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA Inaugurated: Some Historical Background (00:00:00)
  • “Barack Obama's inauguration speech” — “… than me reading my old journals and talking about my old self, I suggest you watch Barack Obama's inauguration speech because it was pretty amazing.” — Hank, Hank's Journal!!! (00:03:32)
  • “Obama sworn in” — “Iran's election and mass recession and Obama sworn in.” — Hank, The STUPIDEST NEWS STORIES of 2009 (a song) (00:01:13)
• Great Recession — 3 references
  • “mass recession” — “Iran's election and mass recession and Obama sworn in.” — Hank, The STUPIDEST NEWS STORIES of 2009 (a song) (00:01:13)
  • “a worldwide recession” — “the fact we're coming out of a worldwide recession in the total economic output” — John, The Greek Debt Crisis Explained in Four Minutes (00:02:27)
  • “the 2008 US recession” — “in Greece, and when the 2008 US recession became global, Greece was disproportionately” — John, Understanding the Financial Crisis in Greece (00:02:08)
• John Green and Maggie Stiefvater's charity race car race — 3 references
  • “race car race” — “somehow or another, I agreed to a race car race with my friend, Maggie.” — John, Writing, Walling, Racing, and Wizard Schooling (00:00:32)
  • “drag race” — “How prepared do you feel for your drag race against Maggie Stiefvater on Friday?” — a viewer, Question Tuesday: My Social Media Hiatus, My Excellent German, and Books! (00:02:37)
  • “raced cars on a dirt track” — “to Princeton, Minnesota, where I raced cars on a dirt track against best-selling author” — John, John Green's Fiery Race Car Disaster (00:00:05)
• Neolithic Revolution — 3 references
  • “the advent of agriculture and domesticated livestock” — “And then around 12,000 years ago communities started to get bigger with the advent of agriculture and domesticated livestock.” — John, Why Cities? (00:00:13)
  • “why humans transitioned to agriculture” — “So we'll never really know the answers to big questions like why humans transitioned to agriculture, or the answers to small questions like why prehistoric cave paintings so rarely depicted human …” — John, you'll never know (00:00:29)
  • “Neolithic farmers” — “but theres a chance that these cuttings taken by neolithic farmers of this” — Hank, Eating an 11,000 Year Old Fruit (00:02:26)
• Philae landing — 3 references
  • “humans landed a thing on a comet” — “John: I'm also grateful that humans landed a thing on a comet.” — John, Global Health and Human Hair: What the Vlogbrothers are Thankful For (00:02:30)
  • “We landed a probe on a comet” — “We landed a probe on a comet, Curiosity realized that it's definitely for sure roving around” — Hank, The Best and Worst of 2014 (00:01:17)
  • “humans landed a thing on a comet” — “I'm also grateful that humans landed a thing on a comet.” — Hank, John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated (01:25:56)
• Spanish flu — 3 references
  • “the pandemic of 1918” — “happened during the pandemic of 1918, which killed more people than all of World War II.” — John, Oinkbarf Pandemic! An Intellectual Response to Swine Flu (00:01:34)
  • “a global disease pandemic” — “to it occurred alongside a global disease pandemic.” — John, --- (00:01:57)
  • “the great influenza pandemic” — “In 1918, when Stokes was 18 years old, he again nearly died during the great influenza pandemic when he became ill while working at a munitions factory.” — John, EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS (00:02:43)
• YouTube Asks Obama — 3 references
  • “I interviewed the President of the United States” — “Yesterday I interviewed the President of the United States at the White House in Washington,” — Hank, Interviewing the President (00:00:01)
  • “Interviewing President Obama” — “Interviewing President Obama was something I could never regret, but being thrown into” — Hank, Thoughts from the Edge (00:00:11)
  • “I interviewed the President” — “if you heard about this, but recently I interviewed the President.” — Hank, You Will Be Forgotten ...And That's OK (00:01:27)
• YouTube Education Summit — 3 references
  • “a thing for people who make and encourage and are excited about educational video online” — “I'm here to attend a thing for people who make and encourage and are excited about educational video online.” — Hank, Revolutionizing Education...With Weirdos (00:00:00)
  • “an EDU Conference at YouTube” — “Anyway, as I was saying, I'm going to San Francisco for an EDU Conference at YouTube.” — Hank, TFiOS Movie, Emma Approved, Subbable Update, etc (00:01:14)
  • “ended the event” — “Which is why I'm glad that YouTube ended the event by taking everybody to the exploratorium in San Francisco,” — Hank, Curiosity is the Greatest Human Quality (00:00:36)
• 1991 Ukrainian independence referendum — 2 references
  • “a nationwide referendum” — “has had a nationwide referendum and 90% of people, including a majority of those living” — John, Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context (00:02:33)
  • “referendum to vote on whether to become an independent nation” — “when the Soviet Union is breaking up, Ukraine holds a referendum to vote on whether to become an independent nation.” — John, Ukraine and Russia: What Caused the War? (00:03:50)
• 2005 UEFA Champions League Final — 2 references
  • “Champions League Final” — “home from the hospital, I showed them Liverpool's Champions League Final victory over AC Milan” — John, The Best Worst Thing (00:01:53)
  • “Liverpool's fifth European Cup” — “We tell each other where we were in 2005, when Steven Gerrard lifted Liverpool's fifth European Cup.” — John, What to Love and How (00:00:57)
• 2009 Iranian presidential election — 2 references
  • “the presidential election in Iran” — “Today I'm going to tell you five reasons why I think the presidential election in Iran was fraudulent.” — John, Iran Election Fraud: 5 Reasons to Doubt the Results (00:00:01)
  • “the Iran election” — video description, Half a Beard (00:00:00)
• 2009 Southeastern United States floods — 2 references
  • “giant Floods” — “… go up But the kind of drought where you can't shower anymore, and now they're having giant Floods this is something that I kind of somehow missed like I'm here now and it's obviously …” — Hank, Nine Die in Georgia Floods - Kanye is a Jackass (00:00:00)
  • “that flood” — “Hank, do you remember when all Georgia fled that flood the left thousand homeless and” — Hank, The STUPIDEST NEWS STORIES of 2009 (a song) (00:00:27)
• 2011 United States debt-ceiling crisis — 2 references
  • “the stupidest game of chicken ever” — “and Congress, just barely, in the stupidest game of chicken ever,” — John, Understanding America's Debt Problem (00:02:17)
  • “the U.S. nearly defaulted on its sovereign debt” — “the U.S. nearly defaulted on its sovereign debt,” — John, Understand the Sequester (Spoiler: It's Bananas.) (00:02:26)
• 2019 UEFA Champions League Final — 2 references
  • “a sporting event that's happening thousands of miles away” — “is not going to effect the outcome of a sporting event that's happening thousands of miles away” — John, On Sharing the Walk (00:00:48)
  • “lifted the trophy for Liverpool again” — “I guess we will tell each other where we were in 2019, when Jordan Henderson lifted the trophy for Liverpool again.” — John, What to Love and How (00:01:27)
• American Civil War — 2 references
  • “The union dead” — “The union dead, the first marriage of Knightstown.” — John, Thoughts from Places: Small Town America (00:00:48)
  • “the war that separated America from itself” — “during the war that separated America from itself.” — John, Making the World's Largest Ball of Paint (00:01:17)
• Apollo 11 — 2 references
  • “Neil Armstrong walked on the freaking moon” — “And finally, #6: Neil Armstrong walked on the freaking moon.” — Hank, Six Reasons Neil Armstrong was a BADASS (00:03:11)
  • “moon landing” — “It's strange to think that my parents were alive for the moon landing and their parents” — John, The Format but it hurts to stand up (00:01:06)
• Assassination of Benazir Bhutto — 2 references
  • “was recently assassinated” — “Hank, as I'm sure you already know, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, was recently assassinated.” — John, Nerdfighting in 2008, Pakistan, and Hillary Clinton (00:01:05)
  • “was therefore assassinated” — “who, while certainly controversial, had at least some political talent, and was therefore assassinated” — John, Shaving for Pakistan (00:02:07)
• Balloon boy hoax — 2 references
  • “a flying saucer balloon flying over Colorado” — “… could choose to think about anything in the world, why on earth would you think about a flying saucer balloon flying over Colorado?” — John, The Balloon Boy Hoax (00:00:36)
  • “You got really upset about” — “You got really upset about Falcon Heen.” — Hank, FRENCH THE LLAMA! John is 33! (00:03:23)
• Central African Republic Civil War — 2 references
  • “a coup that eventually spiraled into sectarian violence” — “and thousands killed after a coup that eventually spiraled into sectarian violence.” — John, THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2013 IS UPON US! (00:01:09)
  • “this conflict” — “Hank, like I said earlier, this conflict is difficult and complicated.” — John, Understanding the Central African Republic (00:04:33)
• DARPA Network Challenge — 2 references
  • “10 large 8 feet across weather balloons” — “Is putting up 10 large 8 feet across weather balloons across the United States and the first person to locate and submit all 10 locations of …” — Hank, $40,000 of Red Balloons (00:00:00)
  • “the red balloon thing” — “But John, it became very clear to me as I was doing the red balloon thing, that this was very similar to being a resistance fighter.” — Hank, Announcing the 2009 Project for Awesome!!! (00:00:29)
• Deportation of the Crimean Tatars — 2 references
  • “Stalin forcibly deported” — “Then following World War II, Stalin forcibly deported the Crimean peninsula's entire indigenous” — John, Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context (00:01:24)
  • “Almost the entire indigenous population of Tatar people were forcibly deported” — “Almost the entire indigenous population of Tatar people were forcibly deported from their home in the Crimean Peninsula.” — John, Ukraine and Russia: What Caused the War? (00:02:26)
• dissolution of the Soviet Union — 2 references
  • “the breakup of the Soviet Union” — “Many Tatars have returned to Crimea since the breakup of the Soviet Union, but today” — John, Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context (00:02:27)
  • “the Soviet Union is breaking up” — “when the Soviet Union is breaking up, Ukraine holds a referendum to” — John, Ukraine and Russia: What Caused the War? (00:03:50)
• George Floyd protests — 2 references
  • “the protests in the U.S.” — “Honestly, I worry my talking about the protests in the U.S. might sound like, and could be, just virtue-signaling BS.” — John, --- (00:00:00)
  • “George Floyd” — “He's just at the right place with money in a time when, you know, COVID and George Floyd and Portland, like there was so much stuff happening in our society.” — Hank, My Governor is Weirder than Yours (00:28:17)
• Independence Day (United States) — 2 references
  • “America's big birthday” — “Hank, I don't know if you know this, but yesterday was America's big birthday.” — John, July 5th: The Regions Bank Freedom Blast (00:00:10)
  • “pretend to have a war to celebrate America's independence” — “would pretend to have a war to celebrate America's independence.” — John, Paternity Leave Ends! And I Find Myself… (00:00:38)
• Iraq War — 2 references
  • “The situation in Iraq” — “The situation in Iraq is totally like this corn dog because.” — Hank, The Political Situation at the County Fair (00:01:37)
  • “the invasion of Iraq” — “So Hank, a few years ago, just after the invasion of Iraq, I was watching the news with my friend” — John, PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2010: Save the Children and Partners in Health (00:00:47)
• Justin Bieber DUI arrest — 2 references
  • “arrested for DUI” — “you that Justin Bieber was recently arrested for DUI, driving a rented Lamborghini, and” — John, A Middle Aged Man (00:02:05)
  • “Justin Bieber was arrested” — “Why do I know the color of the rented Lamborghini that Justin Bieber was arrested in a decade ago, but I don't know the name of like my children's classmate?” — John, Pizza Sized Johns or John Sized Pizza? It's Question Thursday (00:01:57)
• Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany — 2 references
  • “put little pink triangles on gay people” — “Hitler put little pink triangles on gay people during World War II because he wanted to label” — Hank, Punishments, Floods, and Pink Hitler Babies (00:00:45)
  • “a 100,000 people were arrested in Nazi German for being gay” — “1- a 100,000 people were arrested in Nazi German for being gay.” — John, Hitler and Sex! (00:01:04)
• Smuggling of silkworm eggs into the Byzantine Empire — 2 references
  • “two monks smuggled like” — “Ended when two guys, two monks smuggled like” — John, TFiOS Movie, Bees, Babies, and More! (00:02:47)
  • “two monks, smuggled” — “I learned that the whole Chinese monopoly on world silk trade ended when two guys, two monks, smuggled, like, seven silkworms or something out of China and took them to the Byzantine Empire, …” — Hank, John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated (01:46:13)
• South Sudanese Civil War — 2 references
  • “conflict in South Sudan” — “So since 2013, conflict in South Sudan has forced more than 250,000 South Sudanese people” — John, The Refugee Crises: Project for Awesome 2015 (00:00:42)
  • “South Sudanese refugee crisis” — “Save the Children is very active in the ongoing South Sudanese refugee crisis” — John, The Difference A Decade Makes: The 10th Annual Project for Awesome Is Here! (00:02:04)
• Tennis Court Oath — 2 references
  • “a very significant event in the French Revolution occurred in an indoor tennis court” — “Like, I can tell you that a very significant event in the French Revolution occurred in an indoor tennis court.” — John, Consider the Lemming (00:02:16)
  • “they made a deal in an indoor tennis court” — “interesting but I mean, they made a deal in an indoor tennis court because the” — Hank, The Surprising Origin of Crash Course (00:00:30)
• Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami — 2 references
  • “the disaster in Japan” — “Suddenly, along with the disaster in Japan, it has become kind of necessary to understand” — Hank, Why Did Fukushima Explode? (00:00:01)
  • “the earthquake that hit Japan” — “That was about 23,000 times less powerful than the earthquake that hit Japan, so remember that and continue living in a place with not many earthquakes because they're …” — Hank, HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN! (00:00:29)
• Ukrainian War of Independence — 2 references
  • “from 1917 to 1921 Ukraine was mired in endless wars” — “In fact from 1917 to 1921 Ukraine was mired in endless wars among competing factions including” — John, Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context (00:00:46)
  • “a war between the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Bolsheviks” — “From 1917 to 1921, there was a war between the Ukrainian People’s Republic and the Bolsheviks, who were just coming to power in Russia.” — John, Ukraine and Russia: What Caused the War? (00:00:56)
• United States Academic Decathlon — 2 references
  • “Alabama state academic decathlon” — “… Hank, as you know, I was the third best economist among all C students at the Alabama state academic decathlon in 1994, but even a professional like myself does not know how” — John, Understanding the Financial Crisis in Greece (00:00:10)
  • “academic decathlon” — “Wait, are we talking about like running and jumping decathlon or academic decathlon?” — John, Decathlons, Pretension, and the Weirdest Animal I've Met: It's Question Thursday (00:00:26)
• Western Montana Fair — 2 references
  • “We went to the fair.” — Hank, August 13: The Fair!!!! (00:00:09)
  • “the fair” — “I want to talk about the fair.” — Hank, The Fair: Testacular! (00:00:29)
• World War II — 2 references
  • “a war in which 60 million people died” — “there was a war in which 60 million people died.” — Hank, Never Satisfied: The Story of Humans ¦-/ (00:02:06)
  • “world wars” — “We've been through world wars.” — John, Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? (00:09:52)
• 2010 Copiapó mining accident — 2 references in 1 videos
  • “Chilean miner coming to the surface” — John, On Hope and Chile (00:00:03)
  • “the mine collapse” — “For the first 17 days after the mine collapse, those miners lived 2,000 feet under the ground on two days worth of rations” — John, On Hope and Chile (00:02:23)
• 15 April 2013 Iraq attacks — 1 reference
  • “attacks in Iraq” — “attacks in Iraq yesterday that killed dozens of people and there were helpers.” — John, Flags and Helpers (00:01:27)
• 1954 transfer of Crimea — 1 reference
  • “transfer the Crimean peninsula from Russia” — “And then Stalin's successor, Khrushchev, decided to transfer the Crimean peninsula from Russia” — John, Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context (00:01:44)
• 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre — 1 reference
  • “the 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square” — “Now maybe even more importantly, since the 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square, the people” — Hank, Hong Kong Protests Explained (00:04:28)
• 1990 Myanmar general election — 1 reference
  • “agreed to have elections” — “And in 1990, when the military government of Burma finally bowed to international pressure and agreed to have elections, Aung San Suu Kyi won!” — John, Burma! Myanmar? BURMA! (00:02:00)
• 2004 Ukrainian presidential election — 1 reference
  • “In 2004 there was an election” — “In 2004 there was an election and there were widespread reports of vote-rigging, but the” — John, Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context (00:02:54)
• 2005 Iranian presidential election — 1 reference
  • “presidential election was in 2005” — “Hank, the last time Iran had a presidential election was in 2005,” — John, Iran Election Fraud: 5 Reasons to Doubt the Results (00:02:09)
• 2006 democracy movement in Nepal — 1 reference
  • “pro-democracy protests in 2006” — “And there were pro-democracy protests in 2006.” — John, OCT. 26: DISCUSSING NEPAL WHILE EATING TOILET PAPER (00:02:11)
• 2006 Palestinian legislative election — 1 reference
  • “in 2006, the Palestinians have their first really free elections” — “So then in 2006, the Palestinians have their first really free elections, and the Fatah Party, which has been the most powerful political party in Pakistan for …” — John, Israel. Gaza. PUPPY! (00:01:30)
• 2008 Nepalese Constituent Assembly election — 1 reference
  • “Nepal had a free and fair election” — “in a long time, Nepal had a free and fair election, even though they chose to elect a plurality of Maoists who aren't known for continuing …” — John, Ranting and Giving Stuff Away (00:01:17)
• 2008 Pakistani general election — 1 reference
  • “parliamentary elections that were supposed to happen this month” — “Musharraf, the dictatorial president of Pakistan, has used Bhutto's death to delay parliamentary elections that were supposed to happen this month.” — John, Nerdfighting in 2008, Pakistan, and Hillary Clinton (00:01:34)
• 2009 Bangladesh Rifles revolt — 1 reference
  • “this mutiny going on in the army in Bangladesh” — “Meanwhile, at approximately the same time, there's this mutiny going on in the army in Bangladesh, which would have been hilarious for its incompetence had it not killed so many people …” — John, PEEPS for Bangladesh (00:00:41)
• 2009 Bozeman explosion — 1 reference
  • “a gas leak led to the explosion of three buildings” — “… big news this week, aside of course from the unexpected reappearance of my puff, is that a gas leak led to the explosion of three buildings in Bozeman, Montana.” — John, PEEPS for Bangladesh (00:00:00)
• 2009 Iranian presidential election protests — 1 reference
  • “The protesters” — “The protesters are inspired by Islam.” — John, On Iran, Islam, and Amazingly Stupid Comments (00:02:26)
• 2010 Ukrainian presidential election — 1 reference
  • “the presidential election, declared free and fair by international observers” — “And the presidential election, declared free and fair by international observers, was won” — John, Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context (00:04:05)
• 2011 OPERA faster-than-light neutrino anomaly — 1 reference
  • “that neutrino that supposedly went faster than light” — “One thing we did talk about is that neutrino that supposedly went faster than light.” — Hank, The LHC and Alex's Survey (00:03:05)
• 2011 Super Outbreak — 1 reference
  • “the tornadoes” — “damage done by the tornadoes and talk to the people there, and then during the attack itself” — Hank, Osama Bin Laden is Dead (00:02:32)
• 2011 Tucson shooting — 1 reference
  • “the tragedy in Tucson” — “And we wanna make simple assumptions about the tragedy in Tucson.” — Hank, YOU ARE WRONG! (00:02:55)
• 2011 Virginia earthquake — 1 reference
  • “an earthquake that wasn't a big deal” — “that's pretty embarrassed right now about how freaked out they got about an earthquake that wasn't a big deal.” — Hank, HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN! (00:00:29)
• 2012 Puerto Rican status referendum — 1 reference
  • “they actually have decided that” — “But now that, apparently, they actually have decided that, that raises some really interesting issues.” — Hank, The 51st State (00:01:46)
• 2012 Republican Party presidential primaries — 1 reference
  • “this year's Republican presidential hopefuls” — “And so I wanted to see what mysteries the magic of anagramming could tell us about this year's Republican presidential hopefuls.” — Hank, 2011 Presidential Anagrams!! (00:00:00)
• 2013 Saravan earthquake — 1 reference
  • “tremendous earthquake at the Iran-Pakistan border” — “There was a tremendous earthquake at the Iran-Pakistan border this morning and there are helpers.” — John, Flags and Helpers (00:01:27)
• 2014 United States elections — 1 reference
  • “the poll on November 4th” — “"I can't get to the poll on November 4th.” — Hank, Ten Terrible Reason to not Vote (and two good ones) (00:01:46)
• 2015 Baga massacre — 1 reference
  • “they seized the town of Baga, burned it to the ground, murdered” — “On January 3rd of this year, they seized the town of Baga, burned it to the ground, murdered” — John, Understanding Boko Haram (00:04:54)
• 2015 Canadian federal election — 1 reference
  • “the 2015 campaign period” — “In Canada, the 2015 campaign period is 78 days, among the longest in Canadian history,” — John, 454 Days: Understanding America's Ridiculous Political Campaigns (00:00:45)
• 2015 Greek bailout referendum — 1 reference
  • “a referendum” — “of negotiations, and then the Greek government put it to a referendum: "Should we continue” — John, Understanding the Financial Crisis in Greece (00:05:36)
• 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries — 1 reference
  • “And on the democratic side” — “And on the democratic side, Hilary Clinton beat Bernie Sanders by a similar margin” — John, Understanding the Primaries: Delegates, Democracy, and America's Nonstop Political Party (00:00:30)
• 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries — 1 reference
  • “on the Republican side” — “and on the Republican side, Donald Trump beat Ted Cruz statewide by about .19 percent” — John, Understanding the Primaries: Delegates, Democracy, and America's Nonstop Political Party (00:00:24)
• 2016 United States House of Representatives election in Montana — 1 reference
  • “this race” — “and it’s important to bring that aspect of history to this race as well.” — Denise Juneau, Coming Out, Goats, Government, and Attack Ads with Denise Juneau (00:04:17)
• 2016 United States presidential debates — 1 reference
  • “Sunday's US presidential debate” — “So in Sunday's US presidential debate, a voter asked:” — John, Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Tax Plans (00:00:01)
• 2018 United States elections — 1 reference
  • “November 6th is the day” — “If you're in the US, November 6th is the day.” — Hank, The Rigged Election (00:03:44)
• 2018–2019 United States federal government shutdown — 1 reference
  • “much of the United States federal government is not currently functioning” — “To cite one particularly egregious example, much of the United States federal government is not currently functioning because Congress can't pass a bill to fund it.” — John, How to Make Goals, Not Resolutions (00:00:00)
• 2020 Twitter account hijacking — 1 reference
  • “a hack” — “a month ago, had a hack that basically exposed all of the direct messages” — Hank, Break the Mold (00:00:58)
• 2020 United States presidential debates — 1 reference
  • “a virtual town hall debate” — “were going to have a virtual Town Hall debate where the 2 candidates wouldn’t be in the” — Hank, John Predicts the Future! (00:01:44)
• 2024 Montana gubernatorial election — 1 reference
  • “wants to be my governor” — “Ryan Bussey wants to be my governor.” — Hank, My Governor is Weirder than Yours (00:00:29)
• 2024 New Jersey drone sightings — 1 reference
  • “Over the last month, there have been thousands of sightings of objects like this.” — “Over the last month, there have been thousands of sightings of objects like this. There are videos of oddly shaped objects in the sky.” — Hank, Fine, I'll Talk About the Drones… (00:00:29)
• 8888 Uprising — 1 reference
  • “huge student protests” — “Immediately after Ne Win resigned in 1988, there were these huge student protests.” — John, Burma! Myanmar? BURMA! (00:01:48)
• Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping — 1 reference
  • “a massive crackdown on corruption” — Hank, Hong Kong Protests Explained (00:03:07)
• Apollo program — 1 reference
  • “the program” — “… did this just uh they built this whole thing and never launched it president nixon cut the program because we had a budget problem we had a war problem and we wanted to save …” — Hank, Why Don't Rockets Melt Themselves (00:03:44)
• Artemis program — 1 reference
  • “four people can send back a picture of the whole planet on the way to the moon” — “… be lit on fire and lift yet more fuel into orbit around the Earth so that four people can send back a picture of the whole planet on the way to the moon.” — Hank, I Had a Hallucination This Week (00:00:50)
• Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand — 1 reference
  • “the assassination of the austro-hungarian archduke franz ferdinand” — “So World War I began after the assassination of the Austro Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife the Duchess Sophie.” — John, Did TB Cause World War I? (00:00:43)
• Assassination of John F. Kennedy — 1 reference
  • “assassination of her husband” — “Like, consider Warhol's series depicting Jackie Kennedy just before and just after the assassination of her husband, President John F.” — John, The Instagramification of Human Experience (00:01:27)
• Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — 1 reference
  • “the bombs dropped in Japan” — “as destructive as the bombs dropped in Japan were, they were only a fraction of what could be done.” — Hank, Why Do So Few Countries Have Nukes? (00:03:17)
• Attack on Pearl Harbor — 1 reference
  • “don't send a bunch of bombers over to” — “and interesting island nation, don't send a bunch of bombers over to, um,” — Hank, TOP 7 FAILS OF HISTORY (00:01:51)
• Banco Central burglary at Fortaleza — 1 reference
  • “largest bank robbery of all time” — “This was, depending on how you count, the largest bank robbery of all time.” — Hank, The Largest Theft of All Time (00:00:31)
• bird deaths (January 2011) — 1 reference
  • “all the dying birds” — “I'm a little bit freaked out by all the dying birds, and now that thousands of birds have” — Hank, Top 5 Ridiculous Conspiracy Theories (00:00:01)
• Black Death — 1 reference
  • “approximately half of all Europeans died of plague” — “accounts of the 4 year period in which approximately half of all Europeans died of plague.” — John, 11 Great Books You Probably Haven't Read (00:01:12)
• Black Saturday bushfires — 1 reference
  • “the deadliest wildfires in the history of Australia” — “the deadliest wildfires in the history of Australia are currently raging in the south of the country.” — John, All Aboard the Fail Boat (00:02:27)
• Boston Marathon bombing — 1 reference
  • “coordinated attacks near the finish line of the Boston Marathon” — “It turns out there were coordinated attacks near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing at least two people and injuring more than a hundred.” — John, Flags and Helpers (00:00:00)
• Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity — 1 reference
  • “a ridiculously fancy advertising industry convention” — “So, I went to France last week, where I was presenting at a ridiculously fancy advertising industry convention and I spent most of my week alternating between just being tremendously” — Hank, Thoughts from Yachts (00:00:01)
• Chadian Civil War (2005–2010) — 1 reference
  • “at war with even more corrupt rebel forces” — “Chad being the country where an amazingly corrupt dictator and his government are at war with even more corrupt rebel forces.” — John, SOMALI PIRATES! France Penetrates Chad! (00:00:02)
• Champ de Mars massacre — 1 reference
  • “the Jacobins have a huge petition drive in the Champ de Mars” — “Alright, so the next month, July, the Jacobins have a huge petition drive in the Champ de Mars and lots of people come to sign the petition saying,” — John, Headless Monarchy: The French Revolution, Part II (00:01:58)
• Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping — 1 reference
  • “they kidnapped 276 girls from” — “And then, in 2014, Boko Haram got worldwide attention when they kidnapped 276 girls from” — John, Understanding Boko Haram (00:04:45)
• Classic Tetris Monthly — 1 reference
  • “classic Tetris tournament” — “Every month there is a classic Tetris tournament where the world's best players of a 36-year-old video game battle it out, and it is …” — John, get your game on (00:01:27)
• Cold War — 1 reference
  • “like the US and the Soviets did in the 1980s” — “we'll have an ever escalating arms race, like the US and the Soviets did in the 1980s, only” — John, The Cold War of Nerdfighteria (00:01:57)
• Columbian exchange — 1 reference
  • “the exchange between the Americas and the rest of the world” — “Anyway, the exchange between the Americas and the rest of the world that began with” — John, The History of Pizza and the History of John: Pizzamas Day 4 (00:01:10)
• Connecticut Compromise — 1 reference
  • “they made a compromise” — “They marched across the aisle, as it were, and they made a compromise.” — Hank, The Stadium of Representatives: The End of B20 Week :-( (00:00:58)
• Dear Class of 2020 — 1 reference
  • “class of 2020 celebration” — “Several weeks ago YouTube asked me to be part of their class of 2020 celebration, and I wanted to share today some of the resulting video which I made in …” — John, i could use a little fuel myself (00:00:00)
• Deepwater Horizon oil spill — 1 reference
  • “the outpouring of millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico” — “This will actually mark an end to the outpouring of millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.” — Hank, VidCon, Oil Spill, Punishments, Shane Dawson, and my Balls (00:02:13)
• Delft Explosion — 1 reference
  • “The very first large man-made explosion” — “Number one: The very first large man-made explosion” — Hank, Top 10 Freaking Amazing Explosions (00:00:17)
• Dot-com bubble — 1 reference
  • “dot-com companies” — “In the year 2000, more than a dozen dot-com companies blew their funding, paying more than $2 million for 30-second spots.” — Hank, An Extremely Brief History of Superbowl Commercials (00:01:46)
• Earth Hour — 1 reference
  • “turned off its lights. all of them for an hour last week” — “The city of Sydney turned off its lights. all of them for an hour last week.” — Hank, April 11th: EcoGeek Podcasting (00:02:12)
• earthquake at Hank's house (July 2017) — 1 reference
  • “my house started to shake a bunch” — “A couple hours after I went to bed two nights ago, my house started to shake a bunch.” — Hank, My Earthquake Story - (And Thoughts About Numbers) (00:00:00)
• earthquake felt in Los Angeles (July 2010) — 1 reference
  • “That was an earthquake” — Hank, Los Angeles Earthquake at VidCon (00:00:00)
• Egyptian coup d'état — 1 reference
  • “Egypt had a revolution this week” — “So, Egypt had a revolution this week and if you're an American like me, you're probably like,” — Hank, Egypt....Explained! (00:00:00)
• Egyptian presidential election — 1 reference
  • “The election happens” — “The election happens and it is super annoying because we have two people in first and second, getting 25 …” — Hank, Egypt....Explained! (00:04:30)
• English teachers' conference (Chicago) — 1 reference
  • “a very crowded English teachers' conference” — “at a very crowded English teachers' conference” — John, Old Man Narrates Young Girl (00:00:07)
• Euromaidan — 1 reference
  • “the protests began in Kiev's Independence Square” — “And that is when the protests began in Kiev's Independence Square.” — John, Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context (00:04:22)
• European debt crisis — 1 reference
  • “sovereign debt problems in Europe” — “I've already talked about sovereign debt problems in Europe; today I want to talk about the” — John, Understanding America's Debt Problem (00:00:07)
• European migrant crisis — 1 reference
  • “the refugee crisis going on around the world” — “I wanna talk today about the refugee crisis going on around the world but let's begin” — John, Understanding the Refugee Crisis in Europe, Syria, and around the World (00:00:01)
• European wars of religion — 1 reference
  • “religious wars” — “Because after the print revolution, there were 200 years of religious wars, and for a hundred of them, the best-selling book after the Bible was about how …” — Hank, Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment (00:29:53)
• Execution of Louis XVI — 1 reference
  • “what happened to King Louis XVI in January of 1793” — “which is precisely what happened to King Louis XVI in January of 1793.” — John, Headless Monarchy: The French Revolution, Part II (00:05:25)
• First impeachment of Donald Trump — 1 reference
  • “impeached our president” — “And, also, we just impeached our president about the fact that” — Hank, Why I'm Worried about 2020 (00:01:14)
• Flight to Varennes — 1 reference
  • “captured in the city of Varennes” — “Still dressed as servants, Louis and Marie Antoinette are captured in the city of Varennes just one day after leaving.” — John, Headless Monarchy: The French Revolution, Part II (00:01:32)
• French Revolution of 1848 — 1 reference
  • “a new revolution came to France” — “until it was displayed in 1848 as a new revolution came to France.” — John, Liberty Leading the People: How Revolutions Turn (00:03:19)
• Fukushima nuclear accident — 1 reference
  • “the Fukushima plant after it melted down” — “on the Fukushima plant after it melted down received.” — Hank, Let's Try Radiation Therapy! (00:01:35)
• Gaza War (2008–2009) — 1 reference
  • “the Israeli army invaded the Gaza Strip last night” — “It's Sunday, it's Newsday, and since the Israeli army invaded the Gaza Strip last night, I suppose I have to talk about it, even though it makes me miserable.” — John, Israel. Gaza. PUPPY! (00:00:02)
• German Peasants' War — 1 reference
  • “a peasant rebellion” — “During a peasant rebellion, which was in part actually inspired by his work, he called on landowners to just …” — Hank, Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment (00:10:34)
• Great Moon Hoax — 1 reference
  • “the race of people on the moon” — “… Sun printed a six-part series by John Herschel, the most respected astronomer of the times, about the race of people on the moon and the goats and the bison there and the winged beasts that bathed in the rivers.” — Hank, The Top 10 Greatest Hoaxes of All Time (00:02:43)
• Greek government-debt crisis — 1 reference
  • “the economic crisis in Greece” — “the economic crisis in Greece should or will end.” — John, Understanding the Financial Crisis in Greece (00:00:14)
• Gunpowder Plot — 1 reference
  • “plot to blow up the British Parliament” — “plot to blow up the British Parliament in 1605, and its like we call it "Guy Fawkes” — Hank, Top 5 Actual Conspiracies (00:01:57)
• Halifax Explosion — 1 reference
  • “the largest accidental explosion of all time” — “The second explosion I'm gonna talk about is the largest accidental explosion of all time.” — Hank, Top 10 Freaking Amazing Explosions (00:00:33)
• Halloween (holiday) — 1 reference
  • “trick-or-treating” — “Like last night, Hank, there was this little six-year-old nerdfighter who was trick-or-treating and he came up to my door and he said, trick-or-treat!” — John, November 1st: When Nerdfighters Fall in Nerdfighter-Like (00:00:49)
• Holodomor — 1 reference
  • “As many as 10 million Ukrainians starved to death in 1932 and 1933” — “As many as 10 million Ukrainians starved to death in 1932 and 1933 thanks to Stalin's” — John, Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context (00:01:10)
• Hurricane Katrina — 1 reference
  • “the storm” — “… who covered an entire house in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans two years after the storm with latex and cheesecloth and then peeled it off so we have this like ghostly remnant …” — John, Ruins, LOLBooks, and the Blurbing Book Club (00:00:31)
• I-35W Mississippi River bridge collapse — 1 reference
  • “the disaster in Minneapolis” — “This is because of the disaster in Minneapolis.” — Hank, August 3: The Retail Dance (00:03:28)
• Illinois budget impasse — 1 reference
  • “the state regularly has no budget” — “For one thing, Illinois politics are so dysfunctional that the state regularly has no budget.” — John, Why I Won't Run for Office (00:00:27)
• Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff — 1 reference
  • “two current hearings trying to impeach her” — “Rousseff is impeached, and there are two current hearings trying to impeach her, a” — Hank, Brazil's Government is Falling Apart...and it's Good News? (00:06:56)
• Indianapolis 500 — 1 reference
  • “a race car thing” — “Like, we have a race car thing, some professional sports teams, our children's museum is being attacked by dinosaurs, which is pretty …” — John, America's Capital of Dead Vice Presidents (00:00:00)
• Iron Bowl — 1 reference
  • “an Alabama-Auburn football game” — “Chad, but as anyone who's ever been to an Alabama-Auburn football game can attest, there's also tribalism in America.” — John, SOMALI PIRATES! France Penetrates Chad! (00:01:01)
• January 6 United States Capitol attack — 1 reference
  • “a siege of the Capitol building” — “And when I see every other hand during a siege of the capitol building holding up a phone,” — Hank, Influencers and Insurrectionists (00:01:59)
• July Revolution — 1 reference
  • “so-called Second French Revolution” — “France having become king after the so-called second French Revolution” — John, Sawdust Bread (00:01:46)
• Killing of Osama bin Laden — 1 reference
  • “a precision military strike” — “in a precision military strike, Katherine and I played Mario Kart Wii.” — Hank, Osama Bin Laden is Dead (00:00:28)
• Lawyers' Movement — 1 reference
  • “all of Pakistan's lawyers” — “The first people to protest the suspension of the Constitution and the removal of these judges, all of Pakistan's lawyers.” — John, November 7: Discussing the Political Situation in Pakistan (00:03:42)
• Mars hoax — 1 reference
  • “Mars will be as big as the moon” — “… like 1995 and everybody was saying, if you go outside and look at the sky tonight, Mars will be as big as the moon.” — Hank, The Top 10 Greatest Hoaxes of All Time (00:00:29)
• Mars Science Laboratory — 1 reference
  • “remote-controlled SUV” — “Besides launching what amounts to a pretty much remote-controlled SUV onto the surface” — Hank, NASA: Increasing Awesome (00:02:00)
• Mensalão scandal — 1 reference
  • “a scandal which saw members of congress being paid $12,000 a month” — “2005, his government was involved in a scandal which saw members of congress being paid $12,000 a month to vote the way that Lula wanted them to vote, but” — Hank, Brazil's Government is Falling Apart...and it's Good News? (00:03:36)
• Mines in the Battle of Messines — 1 reference
  • “the largest explosion before the advent of nuclear weapons” — “Explosion number four: The largest explosion before the advent of nuclear weapons” — Hank, Top 10 Freaking Amazing Explosions (00:01:12)
• Miracle on Ice — 1 reference
  • “the U.S. defeating the USSR in hockey” — “Of course, I know there's nothing miraculous about a completed Hail Mary or the U.S. defeating the USSR in hockey by” — John, Do You Believe in Miracles? (00:00:57)
• Mission Accomplished speech — 1 reference
  • “Mission Accomplished banner” — “That's why you don't put a Mission Accomplished banner on your aircraft carrier.” — John, Sex, Sports, and Caster Semenya (00:01:46)
• Mother's Day — 1 reference
  • “having a time every year to say thanks to your mom” — “Like having a time every year to say thanks to your mom, even if it was created by a greeting card company, that's a good tradition.” — Hank, I Love John: Esther Day 2019 (00:01:12)
• MTV Movie & TV Awards — 1 reference
  • “golden bucket of popcorn” — “John, congratulations on your golden bucket of popcorn, that's weird - that's just - weird.” — Hank, 7 Weirdest Marriages (or Lack Thereof) From an Airport (00:01:36)
• Nepalese Civil War — 1 reference
  • “The country's in the middle of the civil war with all these Maoist rebels” — John, OCT. 26: DISCUSSING NEPAL WHILE EATING TOILET PAPER (00:00:37)
• Nepalese royal massacre — 1 reference
  • “proceeds to kill pretty much his entire family” — “… you would expect from a crown prince, which is that he gets a machine gun and proceeds to kill pretty much his entire family.” — John, OCT. 26: DISCUSSING NEPAL WHILE EATING TOILET PAPER (00:01:10)
• New Year's Day — 1 reference
  • “the first day of the new year” — “But that is when January first became the first day of the new year in Rome.” — Hank, Why Does January First Start the New Year? - New Year's Explained (00:01:38)
• Nigerian Civil War — 1 reference
  • “a 1967 civil war” — “to a bunch of coups and then, eventually, to a 1967 civil war.” — John, Understanding Boko Haram (00:02:00)
• Normandy landings — 1 reference
  • “the beaches of Normandy” — “to the beaches of Normandy help them to stand together and hold the line in circumstances” — John, My Post-Election Thoughts (00:03:02)
• North American International Auto Show — 1 reference
  • “It's a pretty gigantic spectacle” — Hank, Brotherhood 2.0: January 9th (00:01:16)
• North Korean long-range missile launch (placeholder) — 1 reference
  • “North Korea launched a long-range missile into the ocean” — “and then, North Korea launched a long-range missile into the ocean.” — John, The EVIL BABY ORPHANAGE Returns for North Korea (00:00:19)
• November 2015 Paris attacks — 1 reference
  • “lots of people killing lots of people in France; in Paris” — “As I make this video, there are lots of people killing lots of people in France; in Paris.” — Hank, Feeling About Paris (00:00:01)
• Occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge — 1 reference
  • “some people with guns decided to take over the refuge's headquarters” — “But then some people with guns decided to take over the refuge's headquarters.” — John, Who Owns Oregon? Some Historical Context on the so-called Militia Occupation of Public Lands (00:00:07)
• Olympic Games — 1 reference
  • “the final Olympic hockey game” — “… by percentages is a much bigger deal in Canada, where around 80% of the population watched the final Olympic hockey game.” — Hank, Peeing, Pooping, Prescription Drugs, and Ramen Noodle Fires (00:01:57)
• Operation Car Wash — 1 reference
  • “corruption scandals in Brazil” — “corruption scandals in Brazil or even” — John, My Information Diet (00:02:00)
• Piracy off the coast of Somalia — 1 reference
  • “Somali pirates” — “In fact, in the last year, it's estimated that Somali pirates from Puntland have made more than $150 million in ransom.” — John, SOMALI PIRATES! France Penetrates Chad! (00:03:04)
• Procession of the Species — 1 reference
  • “adorable little event” — “there is an adorable little event where children and also a lot of adults” — Hank, One Year Out. (00:00:02)
• Pulse nightclub shooting — 1 reference
  • “49 people, killed in a gay club in Orlando” — “And now, 49 people, killed in a gay club in Orlando.” — John, Orlando (00:00:43)
• Quidditch World Cup — 1 reference
  • “the actual game of actual Quidditch” — “Every year in New York, Harry Potter fans get together and they play the actual game of actual Quidditch on an actual Quidditch pitch.” — Hank, 27 Part Video (00:02:02)
• Russia-Ukraine gas disputes — 1 reference
  • “cut off gas supplies” — “debt, and his friendliness towards Europe infuriated Russia, which cut off gas supplies” — John, Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context (00:03:46)
• Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections — 1 reference
  • “the Russian government's interference in our 2016 Elections” — “and the Russian government's interference in our 2016 Elections, but first a couple notes.” — John, Trump and Russia: An Introduction to What We Know (and What We Don't) (00:00:05)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine — 1 reference
  • “a dictator with a bunch of nukes invading a neighboring country” — “… the pandemic part, and yet we are transitioning somehow into the tremendous geopolitical instability caused by a dictator with a bunch of nukes invading a neighboring country and starting a horrific and unnecessary-” — Hank, Is it All Hopeless? (00:01:19)
• Russian military move into Crimea (2014) — 1 reference
  • “Putin regime marched into the Crimean Peninsula” — “Putin regime marched into the Crimean Peninsula, ostensibly to protect ethnic Russians there” — John, Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context (00:04:42)
• Russian Revolution — 1 reference
  • “its famous communist revolution” — “Then towards the end of World War I, Russia had its famous communist revolution” — John, Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context (00:00:37)
• Russo-Georgian War — 1 reference
  • “back when Russia” — “… if I said it, even though that would have prevented a fair bit of freak out back when Russia” — Hank, Wait...How Do You Pronounce Turkey??? (00:02:55)
• Rwandan genocide — 1 reference
  • “something happened in Rwanda” — “was understanding that something happened in Rwanda.” — Hank, Brotherhood 2.0: Peeps and Genocide (00:01:40)
• Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting — 1 reference
  • “the number of hugs per gunshot victim” — “I'm just trying to remember that the world is a good place and that the number of hugs per gunshot victim is very, very high.” — Hank, I Got Nothin… (00:00:07)
• Scripps National Spelling Bee — 1 reference
  • “Spelling Bee” — “And then, I got to meet Spelling Bee co-champion Ansun Sujoe, unquestionably the highlight” — John, The Fault in Our Stars Movie Premiere (00:02:02)
• Sierra Leone Civil War — 1 reference
  • “a horrific and seemingly endless civil war” — “12 years ago Sierra Leone was mired in a horrific and seemingly endless civil war but today” — John, Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context (00:06:43)
• Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 — 1 reference
  • “the eclipse” — “And then, of course, this Monday there was the eclipse.” — Hank, Trust and Fire - Thoughts from the Smoke (00:00:28)
• Somali Civil War — 1 reference
  • “a 20-year-long civil war” — “There's been a 20-year-long civil war.” — John, SOMALI PIRATES! France Penetrates Chad! (00:01:59)
• Sri Lankan Civil War — 1 reference
  • “civil war” — “and I'm like "Oh, there's been a civil war going on?” — John, Peanut Butter Face Discusses Sri Lanka (00:00:33)
• stories of abusive relationships between online creators and their fans — 1 reference
  • “troubling stories about manipulative and abusive relationships between online creators and their fans” — video description, Sexual Abuse, Consent, and Culture (00:00:00)
• Taiji dolphin drive hunt — 1 reference
  • “the dolphin harvest in Japan” — “What's going on with the dolphin harvest in Japan is not, there isn't a word for it.” — Hank, The iPad and Dolphin Murder (00:03:25)
• Terminus — 1 reference
  • “the Harry Potter convention” — “assisted by the fact that it happened to coincide with the Harry Potter convention.” — John, Beckoning Lovely (00:01:32)
• Toronto Public Library strike — 1 reference
  • “2,300 librarians just went on strike in Toronto” — “- 2,300 librarians just went on strike in Toronto.” — John, Sharpie Face Question Tuesday (00:01:52)
• Transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong — 1 reference
  • “Hong Kong becomes part of China” — “1997: after 150 years of British rule, Hong Kong becomes part of China.” — Hank, Hong Kong Protests Explained (00:00:58)
• Tunisian revolution — 1 reference
  • “Tunisia suddenly and unexpectedly got rid” — “But then in beginning of 2011, Egypt's neighbor Tunisia suddenly and unexpectedly got rid” — John, Revolution in Egypt: A 4-Minute Introduction (00:01:31)
• Umbrella Movement — 1 reference
  • “tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Hong Kong to protest” — “Last Sunday, tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Hong Kong to protest.” — Hank, Hong Kong Protests Explained (00:00:01)
• Voskhod 2 — 1 reference
  • “the first spacewalk” — “very narrowly survived the first spacewalk.” — John, It's My Birthday. I Gave Myself This Video. (00:00:29)
• War in Darfur — 1 reference
  • “DARF-er” — “… every day And I'm scared to hell of climate change Three hundred thousand people die from DARF-er And no one tried to stop it, don't know where we were We spent a million …” — Hank, Project for Awesome: The Nature Conservancy (00:02:51)
• War in North-West Pakistan — 1 reference
  • “that war” — “And even though that war is unpopular in Pakistan, and seen as kind of unwinnable,” — John, Shaving for Pakistan (00:01:37)
• War of the First Coalition — 1 reference
  • “joined Austria in a war against France” — “immediately joined Austria in a war against France.” — John, Headless Monarchy: The French Revolution, Part II (00:04:32)
• Waupaca Book Festival — 1 reference
  • “a book festival in Waupaca” — “I was headed to a book festival in Waupaca, Wisconsin, but first I had to drive through Chicago,” — John, The Terrible Burden of Destiny: Chicago and Waupaca (00:00:15)
• World War I — 1 reference
  • “world wars” — “We've been through world wars.” — John, Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? (00:09:52)
• Writers Guild of America strike — 1 reference
  • “I'm on strike” — “But unfortunately, I'm on strike.” — John, Dec. 10: MY BOOK IS GONNA BE A MOVIE!!! (someday) (00:02:11)
• Yemen cholera outbreak — 1 reference
  • “the worst outbreak of cholera since at least 1949” — “and thousands more have died from what is the worst outbreak of cholera since at least 1949, when good records started being kept.” — John, The Causes of Cholera (00:01:41)
• YouTube Adpocalypse — 1 reference
  • “this hullabaloo” — “But what we DO know is after this hullabaloo, all of the algorithms got TIGHTENED.” — Hank, The Adpocalypse: What it Means (00:02:29)
• YouTube Survey — 1 reference
  • “the survey” — “Who do you want to answer the survey next?” — Hank, The LHC and Alex's Survey (00:01:44)

Measures

• annual number of under-five deaths — 1 reference
  • “seven million kids under the age of five” — “But seven million kids under the age of five are going to die this year, and most of them will die of diseases that can …” — John, THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2012 IS HERE! Save the Children. (00:01:50)
• global maternal mortality — 1 reference
  • “maternal death over the last 25 years” — “Like today, the World Health Organization announced that maternal death over the last 25 years” — John, Cheez Doodles Guy, Ringo Silver, and Dad Jokes (Pizzamas Day 4) (00:00:26)
• infant mortality rate — 1 reference
  • “the number of infants who die per thousand births” — “being watched, the number of infants who die per thousand births is below 6.” — Hank, A Lie I Heard this Week (00:02:07)
• international poverty line — 1 reference
  • “less than $1.25 a day” — “… 1.4 billion people who live in what is called absolute poverty, which means they survive on less than $1.25 a day and have inadequate resources to get food, water, and sh**.” — John, THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2012 IS HERE! Save the Children. (00:00:23)
• NASA's annual budget — 1 reference
  • “about 18 billion dollars” — “large amount of money, about 18 billion dollars, and this begs the question, "What is NASA” — Hank, NASA: Increasing Awesome (00:01:26)
• NASA's share of the US federal budget — 1 reference
  • “smaller than one half of a penny” — “it would be smaller than one half of a penny.” — Hank, NASA: Increasing Awesome (00:01:23)
• number of close friends — 1 reference
  • “really intimate things about your brokenness” — “really intimate things about your brokenness with.” — Hank, How to Make Friends (00:00:58)
• number of people in extreme poverty — 1 reference
  • “about 1.4 billion people” — “There are about 1.4 billion people who live in what is called absolute poverty, which means they survive on less than $1.25 …” — John, THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2012 IS HERE! Save the Children. (00:00:23)
• Save the Children program spending share — 1 reference
  • “91% of donations” — “91% of donations go not to fundraising efforts or overhead, but directly to programs.” — John, THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2012 IS HERE! Save the Children. (00:02:20)
• world population — 1 reference
  • “global population of humans” — “What was the most recent year in which the overall global population of humans declined?” — John, The General Crisis (00:00:04)