Other voices

1604 statements are spoken by someone other than John or Hank speaking as themselves. They are kept apart so a character's line or a guest's answer is never filed as the brothers' opinion. Back to the overview.

Characters and fiction read aloud (74)

Words spoken as a character (a novel read aloud, a sock puppet, an alter ego). Never the brothers' own view.

Dr Lawrence Turtleman (character) (16)

2017-11-10 · The Weirdest Living Animals - (With Dr. Lawrence Turtleman) — Dr. Turtleman notes these organisms are sometimes called 'living fossils' because they resemble their fossils, but says the label is somewhat inaccurate, pointing to an Eons episode. (video description)
2017-11-10 · The Weirdest Living Animals - (With Dr. Lawrence Turtleman) — Dr. Turtleman says Hank handed him the last day of Pizzamas, and he loved its videos: the haul videos, reunions, almond orchards and reviews. (playful) (00:00:02)
2017-11-10 · The Weirdest Living Animals - (With Dr. Lawrence Turtleman) — All organisms on Earth are related; scientists traced this for hundreds of years through morphology and can also trace it through genetics. (00:00:16)
2017-11-10 · The Weirdest Living Animals - (With Dr. Lawrence Turtleman) — Tigers and lions, and wolves and foxes, are visibly related, and a lion and a wolf are more related to each other than to a sheep. (playful) — hedged: “kind of” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:32)
2017-11-10 · The Weirdest Living Animals - (With Dr. Lawrence Turtleman) — The fossil record shows the common ancestor of dogs and cats, the miacid, a proto-carnivore. (00:00:41)
2017-11-10 · The Weirdest Living Animals - (With Dr. Lawrence Turtleman) — Every taxonomic category from domain down to species is a taxon containing multiple taxa, e.g. the order Carnivora holds canids, felids, ursids, pinnipeds and mustelids. (00:00:52)
2017-11-10 · The Weirdest Living Animals - (With Dr. Lawrence Turtleman) — A 'taxonomic island' is an order with only one family, one genus and one species, like there being only one living carnivore. (00:01:12)
2017-11-10 · The Weirdest Living Animals - (With Dr. Lawrence Turtleman) — Only two terrestrial vertebrates are alone in their order: the aardvark (order Tubulidentata) and the hoatzin (order Opisthocomiformes). — hedged: “as far as I can tell” [other hedge] (00:01:28)
2017-11-10 · The Weirdest Living Animals - (With Dr. Lawrence Turtleman) — Aardvarks are extremely successful and roam all across Africa, but all their ancestors have gone extinct. (00:01:37)
2017-11-10 · The Weirdest Living Animals - (With Dr. Lawrence Turtleman) — The hoatzin is a really weird South American bird, as its looks show. (playful) (00:01:45)
2017-11-10 · The Weirdest Living Animals - (With Dr. Lawrence Turtleman) — Runner-up: the non-terrestrial order Coelacanthiformes has two species; coelacanths were thought extinct for 66 million years until one was found in 1938, and later another species. (00:01:51)
2017-11-10 · The Weirdest Living Animals - (With Dr. Lawrence Turtleman) — Order Rhynchocephalia holds the two tuatara species; the second was found living on only one island off New Zealand. (00:02:04)
2017-11-10 · The Weirdest Living Animals - (With Dr. Lawrence Turtleman) — Tuatara look like modern lizards, but their last shared ancestor with lizards and snakes lived over 150 million years ago. (00:02:17)
2017-11-10 · The Weirdest Living Animals - (With Dr. Lawrence Turtleman) — Instead of teeth, tuatara grow their bones up through their gums to bite and chew. (00:02:34)
2017-11-10 · The Weirdest Living Animals - (With Dr. Lawrence Turtleman) — The ginkgo tree takes the cake: a plant sharing only its kingdom with other plants, the only species in its division. (00:02:45)
2017-11-10 · The Weirdest Living Animals - (With Dr. Lawrence Turtleman) — Because humans enjoy ginkgos, they have been planted all over the world from their original home in Asia, welcomed into the Anthropocene. (playful) (00:03:04)

Aza Holmes (character) (10)

2017-09-05 · John Reads the First Chapter of Turtles All the Way Down — Aza opens on when she first realized she might be fictional: lunch at White River High School in Indianapolis at a time set by forces too large to identify. (fiction) (00:00:19)
2017-09-05 · John Reads the First Chapter of Turtles All the Way Down — Aza says your life is a story told about you, not one you tell: you pretend to be the author, but the bell chooses; you are the canvas, not the painter. (fiction) (00:00:49)
2017-09-05 · John Reads the First Chapter of Turtles All the Way Down — Aza likens her lunch table to a long-running Broadway play: Mychal the Artsy One, Daisy her Best and Most Fearless Friend, and herself the Sidekick, somebody's something. (fiction) (00:01:49)
2017-09-05 · John Reads the First Chapter of Turtles All the Way Down — Aza reflects that by cell count humans are about half microbial, with a thousand times more microbes in her than people on Earth; it isn't irrational to worry about being a bacterial colony. (fiction) (00:02:51)
2017-09-05 · John Reads the First Chapter of Turtles All the Way Down — Fearing her stomach noise signals a C. diff infection, Aza rereads Wikipedia on the human microbiome and recalls a Cleveland Clinic case; her self replies she has no fever yet. (fiction) (00:04:22)
2017-09-05 · John Reads the First Chapter of Turtles All the Way Down — Aza wonders whether, if half your cells are not you, the notion of 'me' as a singular pronoun, let alone author of her fate, holds. (fiction) (00:05:27)
2017-09-05 · John Reads the First Chapter of Turtles All the Way Down — Aza describes her compulsion to reopen a callus on her finger to drain imagined infection: once she starts thinking about it, she literally cannot not do it. (fiction) (00:05:48)
2017-09-05 · John Reads the First Chapter of Turtles All the Way Down — Despite Dr. Karen Singh's breathing advice and warnings not to look things up, Aza rereads the article; a thought spiral, followed inward, never ends but tightens infinitely. (fiction) (00:07:52)
2017-09-05 · John Reads the First Chapter of Turtles All the Way Down — Daisy plans to watch Star Wars Rebels with Aza; she loves all of Star Wars, even the Lego show, and writes fan fiction about Chewbacca's love life. (fiction) (00:09:13)
2017-09-05 · John Reads the First Chapter of Turtles All the Way Down — Aza recalls lying beside Davis on a camp dock looking at the same sky, maybe more intimate than eye contact: it is rare to find someone who sees the same world. (fiction) — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:09:53)

Hazel Grace Lancaster (character) (9)

2011-10-28 · Reading Chapter One of The Fault in Our Stars — In the novel, Hazel says depression is not a side effect of cancer but of dying, as is cancer and almost everything else. (fiction) (00:03:10)
2011-10-28 · Reading Chapter One of The Fault in Our Stars — Hazel describes the weekly church-basement support group: leader Patrick retells his survival story, and members compete to outlast one another. (fiction) (00:03:52)
2011-10-28 · Reading Chapter One of The Fault in Our Stars — At group, Hazel meets Augustus Waters, 17, who had osteosarcoma, came at his friend Isaac's request, and says he fears oblivion. (fiction) (00:13:59)
2011-10-28 · Reading Chapter One of The Fault in Our Stars — Hazel answers that a time will come when everyone is dead and all human work forgotten; if that worries you, ignore it, as everyone else does. (fiction) (00:15:55)
2011-11-25 · Chapter TWO of The Fault in Our Stars — In the novel, Hazel suspects Augustus's licence was a 'cancer perk': the little things cancer kids get that regular kids don't, like signed basketballs or homework passes. (fiction) (00:02:50)
2011-11-25 · Chapter TWO of The Fault in Our Stars — Hazel recounts her stage 4 thyroid cancer, diagnosed at 13, nearly dying with fluid in her lungs, and her survival on an experimental drug that didn't work in about 70% of people but worked in her. (fiction) (00:03:45)
2011-11-25 · Chapter TWO of The Fault in Our Stars — Augustus's parents fill their house with sayings on plaques and pillows that they call 'encouragements'. (fiction) (00:07:16)
2011-11-25 · Chapter TWO of The Fault in Our Stars — Hazel's favourite book is An Imperial Affliction, a book so personal that recommending it feels like betrayal; Augustus promises to read it and gives her The Price of Dawn. (fiction) (00:16:31)
2011-11-25 · Chapter TWO of The Fault in Our Stars — Facing the encouragement 'Without pain, how could we know joy?', Hazel dismisses the argument: broccoli existing does not affect how chocolate tastes. (fiction) (00:19:51)

April May (character) (8)

2018-10-12 · Hank Reads from 'An Absolutely Remarkable Thing' — April May introduces herself as one of the most important things ever to happen to humanity and also a woman in her twenties who has made mistakes. (fiction) (00:01:24)
2018-10-12 · Hank Reads from 'An Absolutely Remarkable Thing' — With art-school loans, April settled on a design BFA and took the first job that kept her in New York, at a doomed startup, rather than move home to Northern California. (fiction) (00:02:40)
2018-10-12 · Hank Reads from 'An Absolutely Remarkable Thing' — April lives with Maya, her girlfriend of over a year, but insists they are roommates who are dating, so her bed stays in the living room. (fiction) (00:04:07)
2018-10-12 · Hank Reads from 'An Absolutely Remarkable Thing' — Walking back to the office at night after her metro card is rejected, April finds a ten-foot transformer in samurai armor standing on the sidewalk. (fiction) (00:06:30)
2018-10-12 · Hank Reads from 'An Absolutely Remarkable Thing' — April recalls meeting Andy when a professor put him in her and Maya's group project, the Bubble Bum brand; they became a trio. (fiction) (00:08:28)
2018-10-12 · Hank Reads from 'An Absolutely Remarkable Thing' — April calls Andy at 3 a.m. and tells him to bring his camera and his roommate Jason's lights to film the sculpture. (fiction) (00:11:30)
2018-10-12 · Hank Reads from 'An Absolutely Remarkable Thing' — Andy argues it would be better for the artist if April, not he, were on camera, and she agrees to do it. (fiction) (00:16:54)
2018-10-12 · Hank Reads from 'An Absolutely Remarkable Thing' — April distinguishes fine art, which exists for its own sake, from design, art that does something else, like visual engineering. (fiction) (00:17:24)

Juniper (character) (8)

2026-08-11 · Hollywood, Ending — In 2019 Juniper, rereading the script for Andy Warhol Never Gets Old in Pittsburgh, is summoned to meet Matthew Malone, who plays Warhol, in his hotel lobby. (fiction) (00:00:00)
2026-08-11 · Hollywood, Ending — After her mother's death Juniper first felt relief, but learned it was not over: the dead are not in the past, because you carry them with you. (fiction) (00:01:04)
2026-08-11 · Hollywood, Ending — In the lobby Juniper notices a beautiful, magnetic boy sketching in a notebook who looks like a movie star: her co-star Kai. (fiction) (00:01:26)
2026-08-11 · Hollywood, Ending — Juniper, 22, had been cast out of a relationship with a 36-year-old cinematographer who shot her last film, which flopped; with nothing lined up she enrolled in college and suspected her acting life could be over. (fiction) (00:02:43)
2026-08-11 · Hollywood, Ending — Juniper has learned that true love cannot coexist with true ambition; she wants to become undeniable and stop being a former child star. (fiction) (00:03:30)
2026-08-11 · Hollywood, Ending — Juniper keeps a character notebook for every role, holding that the less serious your job, the more seriously you must take it. (fiction) (00:03:57)
2026-08-11 · Hollywood, Ending — Kai admits he is terrified of the shoot and of sharing a screen with Matthew Malone; Juniper, on sets since six, is at ease there. (fiction) (00:04:27)
2026-08-11 · Hollywood, Ending — Matthew Malone arrives looking much like Warhol, hugs them both and says he used to be 21, as if it were an illness one sometimes survives. (fiction) (00:06:19)

Hank Sock (character) (5)

2009-05-20 · Ulcerative Colitis: A Song — Hank's sock puppet, 'Hank Sock', asks whether Hank is annoyed that John gets to answer questions every Question Tuesday and Hank never does. (joke) (00:02:20)
2009-12-09 · ANNOUNCING! VidCon: Online Video IRL — Hank Sock dismisses the news as Hank and his nerdy friends drinking juicy juices, and says his ingrown toenail is a huge deal too but he isn't making a conference about it. (joke) (00:00:36)
2010-02-17 · WRONG WRONG WRONG — Hank Sock tells Hank that John's video was wrong on five major points and that, back after three weeks, John must be held accountable. (playful) (00:00:07)
2011-01-19 · YOU ARE WRONG! — Hank Sock says there are good reasons we don't drink pig's milk, having to do with pigs' reproductive system and the practice of breeding pigs for meat rather than dairy. (playful) (00:01:42)
2012-01-17 · Thoughts from Places: The Tour — Before the show the brothers meet Hank Sock, who says he is backstage, a little nervous, and can see a lot of people through the crack in the curtain. (fiction) (00:01:01)

Augustus Waters (character) (4)

2011-10-28 · Reading Chapter One of The Fault in Our Stars — Augustus tells Hazel she is beautiful, likens her to V for Vendetta-era Natalie Portman and invites her to watch the film at his house. (fiction) (00:20:54)
2011-10-28 · Reading Chapter One of The Fault in Our Stars — Augustus explains his unlit cigarette as a metaphor: holding the killing thing between your teeth without giving it the power to kill; Hazel then goes to the movie with him. (fiction) (00:26:29)
2011-11-25 · Chapter TWO of The Fault in Our Stars — Augustus tells how, shooting free throws on his last day with both legs, basketball suddenly seemed pointless and made him think of hurdlers jumping arbitrary obstacles. (fiction) (00:12:01)
2011-11-25 · Chapter TWO of The Fault in Our Stars — Augustus asks for Hazel's story, not her cancer story, and urges her not to become her disease, since cancer is in the business of taking people over. (fiction) (00:15:10)

Daisy Ramirez (character) (2)

2017-09-05 · John Reads the First Chapter of Turtles All the Way Down — Daisy tells Mychal his Photoshop project averaging the faces of a hundred Mychals should average exonerated prisoners instead, making it about race, class and mass incarceration. (fiction) (00:05:04)
2017-09-05 · John Reads the First Chapter of Turtles All the Way Down — Daisy shows off her dyed hair; her self-proclaimed life motto is 'Break Hearts, Not Promises'. (fiction) (00:06:42)

Demon Four Year Old (character) (2)

2010-08-18 · Demon Four Year Old Interviewed — The Demon Four-Year-Old opens with the fact that a human brain weighs three pounds. (playful) (00:00:00)
2010-08-18 · Demon Four Year Old Interviewed — Toomey says his favourite food is penguins, which taste of codfish and auroch heart, and that he likes Glenn Beck, at which Hank ends the interview. (joke) (00:01:18)

Evil Hank (character) (2)

2010-08-10 · JOIN THE PEN15 CLUB!! — An 'evil Hank' alter ego berates Hank to stop stalling and be interesting, says this is his job now, and directs each part of the video. (playful) (00:00:00)
2010-08-10 · JOIN THE PEN15 CLUB!! — Evil Hank plays an unexplained internet clip (per the description, a weird Taiwanese video about Snooki) and says it is just an internet thing. (playful) (00:02:50)

Mr Argyle (character) (2)

2007-05-18 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 18: How to Write a Book Proposal — Mr. Argyle, the puppet playing John's editor, says first novels very rarely sell on a proposal; they almost always need the finished manuscript. (playful) (00:02:44)
2007-05-18 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 18: How to Write a Book Proposal — Mr. Argyle, playing the editor, recalls asking John for a proposal for An Abundance of Katherines; Ooby says he didn't know what a proposal was. (playful) (00:03:32)

Harry Potter (character) (1)

2009-05-06 · Dead Boy's Girlfriend — In the song, Harry laments that the first girl he fell for, whom he was too slow to ask to the Yule Ball, is dead Cedric Diggory's girlfriend. (fiction) (00:00:56)

Holden Caulfield (character) (1)

2010-01-28 · RIP JD Salinger — In the passage, Holden pictures thousands of little kids playing in a field of rye by a cliff, with him catching anyone about to go over. (fiction) (00:00:00)

Ian Shoales (character) (1)

2014-03-25 · I Gotta Go: Signing Off and Thinking about Inspiration — In the clip, Ian Shoales advises young people to avoid Colonial American Literature, mocking its authors as all dull. (joke) (00:00:51)

Jarrod (character) (1)

2024-05-20 · Hang on tight, spider monkey, it's the P4A 2024 MEME REVIEW!! — In a clip, Jared reads the sponsor message: the video is brought to you by the Turtles All the Way Down movie, out May 2nd on Max or HBO Max, depending on country. (playful) (00:07:12)

Mychal Turner (character) (1)

2017-09-05 · John Reads the First Chapter of Turtles All the Way Down — Mychal says Davis Pickett's father vanished the night before a raid over bribery, with a $100,000 reward out for him; Aza knew Davis from camp. (fiction) (00:03:31)

Ooby (character) (1)

2007-05-18 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 18: How to Write a Book Proposal — In the puppet scene, Ooby (playing John) says he had finished the manuscript of Looking for Alaska. (playful) (00:02:44)

Guests (1203)

Statements by guests on the channel — their views, not the brothers'.

a guest (128)

2007-03-08 · Brotherhood 2.0: Giving Away Peeps — One of the punks gladly accepts the Peeps and says they will competitively eat them among themselves. (playful) (00:01:58)
2007-04-04 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 2: A Day in the Writer's Life — Someone in the group asks whether a floodlight can have a beam rather than a cone for a passage about insects dancing in light; the group suggests a 'skirt' of light. (playful) (00:02:11)
2007-04-17 · April 17th: Stepped Up — A voice at the rally (not identified) says using less energy more wisely is good for everybody, for the world and for the economy. (00:00:00)
2007-05-04 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 4: The Top Secret Project — A contributor sings a snippet of 'Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard' for Hank. (playful) (00:01:14)
2007-05-04 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 4: The Top Secret Project — Contributors send greetings, including one declaring that Hank is made of awesome today and a group from Holmen High School in Holmen, Wisconsin. (playful) (00:02:06)
2007-06-27 · June 26: The American Library Association Parties — At the Printz reception a speaker recalls checking the Brotherhood 2.0 website for John's video of the phone call and his happy dance, and Hank's toast the next day. (00:01:19)
2007-08-24 · August 24th: John's Secret Project Part 2 — Nerdfighters send John birthday greetings, including one from the entire Penn State College of Medicine class of 2010. (playful) (00:00:03)
2007-08-24 · August 24th: John's Secret Project Part 2 — Greeters note that John is turning 30 and tease him that he is old and will start getting shorter and achy. (playful) (00:00:47)
2007-08-24 · August 24th: John's Secret Project Part 2 — Because John had to eat a blenderized Happy Meal, contributors blenderize birthday cakes for him and drink them on camera. (playful) (00:00:47)
2007-08-24 · August 24th: John's Secret Project Part 2 — One contributor shows a cake spelling John in Nerds before blending it, as proof of dedication to Brotherhood 2.0 and the Nerdfighters. (playful) (00:01:32)
2007-08-24 · August 24th: John's Secret Project Part 2 — Tasters report that the blenderized cake is not terrible, likening it to a weird truffle and saying it is nothing compared to a blenderized Happy Meal. (playful) (00:03:05)
2007-08-24 · August 24th: John's Secret Project Part 2 — The video closes by congratulating John on living and being a Nerdfighter for 30 years, then sings Happy Birthday. (playful) (00:03:34)
2007-08-24 · August 23rd: John's Secret Project Part 1 — The video opens with Happy Birthday sung to John and a WRAS Atlanta radio birthday dedication from his secret siblings and Nerdfighters in Atlanta. (playful) (00:00:03)
2007-08-24 · August 23rd: John's Secret Project Part 1 — A performance of the Time Warp takes up most of the video as a birthday gift for John. (playful) (00:00:42)
2007-08-24 · August 23rd: John's Secret Project Part 1 — A montage of greeters wishes John a happy birthday, among them What The Buck, a Spanish-language greeting and a distro. (playful) (00:04:00)
2007-08-24 · August 23rd: John's Secret Project Part 1 — One greeter offers 'Had hip party by John' as an anagram of 'happy birthday, John'; another ends a greeting with 'In my pants'. (joke) (00:04:29)
2007-12-13 · December 13: Mailing Shopping Thanking. It Must Be Christmas — The tree seller says he doesn't think people are as hardy as they used to be: regular Montanans once went up in the hills, snow or no snow, but a lot of folks no longer do. — hedged: “I don't think” [opinion marker] (00:01:38)
2008-04-10 · Barack John Obama Green — The video opens with a mock press conference: a speaker calling himself John, who 'works for the city', says he announced to his wife, dog and cat that he endorses Senator Barack Obama. (playful) (00:00:00)
2008-05-23 · Happy (Belated) Birthday, Hank — Several Nerdfighters dedicate green actions to Hank's birthday: a scooter ridden to work, recycling with a reusable bag, and an architecture museum on transportation and the environment. (00:07:06)
2008-08-21 · INTERNET SENSATION B$%CH — A parent in the report says the brothers send a strong message about young people in America growing up as individuals. (00:02:58)
2008-08-21 · INTERNET SENSATION B$%CH — A fan in the report says the appeal is having somebody with so much in common with them, like valuing reading and education and thinking that's cool. (00:02:58)
2008-08-25 · Oh John Green, You're 31 — John turns 31: a Nerdfighter says goodbye to 30-year-old John. (00:00:00)
2008-08-25 · Oh John Green, You're 31 — A Nerdfighter thanks John for bringing a book (not named on audio) to life: it meant nothing to them in high school, but rereading it they see its depth. (00:00:00)
2008-08-25 · Oh John Green, You're 31 — A well-wisher tells John, Hank and the Nerdfighters to keep up the good work. (00:01:18)
2008-08-25 · Oh John Green, You're 31 — A Nerdfighter tells John that even though he is getting older he will always be awesome. (00:03:00)
2008-09-13 · Hank Vlogs (and a String Quartet) — The players introduce themselves as current or former Berry College students playing violin, viola and cello. (00:07:45)
2008-10-01 · The Man Who Throws the Tetris Piece — In the opening skit, voices playing the brothers recall playing Tetris together and a dream of it becoming real, ending in alarm over John. (fiction) (00:00:34)
2008-10-17 · Vital Status Report from NYC — At a diner, a guest playfully introduces John Green, Scott Westerfeld and Maureen Johnson as famous people. (playful) (00:00:58)
2008-10-17 · Vital Status Report from NYC — A guest recalls watching early YouTube videos (a rap, Brooke Brodack, lonelygirl15) and says she now understands how such videos get made: amazing to be there, puzzling to watch online. (00:01:27)
2008-10-17 · Vital Status Report from NYC — In a comic bit, a guest who has not read Paper Towns claims it is about paper, sounds like a picture book, and will be a movie with Tom Cruise playing the towns. (joke) (00:02:32)
2009-03-24 · Peeps! Prom! Puppy! — The boy answers that he will go to prom with her: 'Absolutely.' (00:01:47)
2009-06-03 · LeakyCon Fun! — A guest says reaching the hot-dog stand by bus meant a long walk and a two-hour lunch break; the group reaches an industrial park where the vendor should be, but he is not there. (playful) (00:00:00)
2009-06-03 · LeakyCon Fun! — In banter, one person says he quit his day job (no longer a chemical engineer) to be a "full-time wizard"; another says he was a biochemistry undergrad. (playful) (00:00:00)
2009-06-03 · LeakyCon Fun! — The group ends up at a Vietnamese sandwich place described as having one of the dirtiest-looking doors of any place you would actually eat. (playful) (00:00:58)
2009-06-03 · LeakyCon Fun! — Someone says they got drink mixers from a blood mobile after giving blood, joking that they will get drunk for charity. (playful) (00:02:07)
2009-08-24 · HAPPY JOHN DAY!!! — In the montage, Nerdfighters from around the world, one from Bahrain, wish John a happy birthday with greetings, songs, cakes and other tributes. (00:00:43)
2009-11-12 · On a Plane - On the Ground — His plane neighbour, a sound engineer for Blues Traveler, tours about five months a year; it is fun at first, then tapers into wanting to go home. (00:01:44)
2010-05-05 · HANKO DE MAYO!!!!11!! — Nerdfighters show what they planted for Hank: a version of the topsy-turvy tomato plant, purple flowers in a hanging basket, flowers as nerdy as possible. (00:04:41)
2010-05-05 · HANKO DE MAYO!!!!11!! — Self-described jugglers and sword swallowers for VidCon wish Hank a happy birthday. (playful) (00:07:44)
2010-05-05 · HANKO DE MAYO!!!!11!! — More Nerdfighters show their plants: parsley planted on a head, plants to be named Hank plants, three tomato plants to raise oxygen levels, a tree, begonias. (00:07:44)
2010-05-05 · HANKO DE MAYO!!!!11!! — Closing clips: more plants named Hank, peas, a gift 'for your hug bucket', Nerdfighter sign helpers and 'Hank is my hero!'. (00:11:06)
2011-10-17 · VidCon 2012!!! — A VidCon 2011 attendee in the montage calls it the most epic thing they've been at; others describe hugs, love in the room and people rushing the stage. (00:00:00)
2011-10-17 · VidCon 2012!!! — A montage voice describes VidCon as 2,500 people, growing, mostly young, excited makers, and the best community to be around. (00:00:21)
2012-11-30 · VidCon 2013! — An opening montage of VidCon footage has unnamed voices saying the convention is almost three times larger than last year (2011) and praising its community and creators. — hedged: “I believe” [opinion marker] (00:00:00)
2013-04-19 · On Sexual Orientation, with Hannah, Ze, Tyler, and Meg — A guest says coming to understand one's orientation is a long process involving one's whole life, not a one-day realisation. (00:00:16)
2013-04-19 · On Sexual Orientation, with Hannah, Ze, Tyler, and Meg — A guest says they knew they were "for sure gay" from things they found on the internet; actually, a Disney movie. (00:00:22)
2013-04-19 · On Sexual Orientation, with Hannah, Ze, Tyler, and Meg — A guest recalls practising kissing with girl friends, who said it was practice for the boys, and being super into it. (00:00:31)
2013-04-19 · On Sexual Orientation, with Hannah, Ze, Tyler, and Meg — A guest says it was clear their sexual energy had one main driver: women. (00:00:42)
2013-04-19 · On Sexual Orientation, with Hannah, Ze, Tyler, and Meg — A voice says women's bodies are great but there is no drive within them to explore them sexually. (00:00:49)
2013-04-19 · On Sexual Orientation, with Hannah, Ze, Tyler, and Meg — A guest says their coming-out story is simply meeting one girl. (00:00:57)
2013-04-19 · On Sexual Orientation, with Hannah, Ze, Tyler, and Meg — A guest remembers, at eleven and twelve, liking boys like their friends but also having crushes on girls. (00:01:02)
2013-04-19 · On Sexual Orientation, with Hannah, Ze, Tyler, and Meg — A guest has had boyfriends but never fallen in love with men; with girlfriends they are "like a puppy". (00:01:11)
2013-04-19 · On Sexual Orientation, with Hannah, Ze, Tyler, and Meg — A guest says that through high school they said they would never seriously date or marry a woman, but with age they have deeper connections with women. — hedged: “I feel like” [opinion marker] (00:01:21)
2013-04-19 · On Sexual Orientation, with Hannah, Ze, Tyler, and Meg — A guest says being gay is about being in love, not about sex. (00:01:41)
2013-04-19 · On Sexual Orientation, with Hannah, Ze, Tyler, and Meg — A voice is not sure they agree, but could see themselves falling in love with a man more easily than having sex with one. — hedged: “I don't know if I agree” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:45)
2013-04-19 · On Sexual Orientation, with Hannah, Ze, Tyler, and Meg — A guest says they have never felt an intense emotional love for a girl, nor longed for it, nor met a girl they could have it with. (00:02:02)
2013-04-19 · On Sexual Orientation, with Hannah, Ze, Tyler, and Meg — A guest says being gay and their personal identity are totally different things: heels or combat boots, jazz, loving the internet have nothing to do with being gay. (00:02:11)
2013-04-19 · On Sexual Orientation, with Hannah, Ze, Tyler, and Meg — A guest loved collecting Lisa Frank stickers and rainbows; an uncle saw this as a threat, but it never interfered with their inner reckoning about their sexuality. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:25)
2013-04-19 · On Sexual Orientation, with Hannah, Ze, Tyler, and Meg — A guest definitely did not want to be gay, and part of them still does not, because it makes life a bit harder. (00:02:49)
2013-04-19 · On Sexual Orientation, with Hannah, Ze, Tyler, and Meg — A guest says their hardest obstacle is people saying bisexuality is not real, that you must choose or are doing it for attention; it is not true, you can like both. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:53)
2013-04-19 · On Sexual Orientation, with Hannah, Ze, Tyler, and Meg — A guest advises those struggling with their sexuality to be comfortable being the only person comfortable with it; others' acceptance will come. — hedged: “I guess” [epistemic doubt] (00:03:03)
2013-04-19 · On Sexual Orientation, with Hannah, Ze, Tyler, and Meg — A guest says it is getting better, many people will be there for you, and there are resources such as the Trevor Project and people on YouTube telling their stories; you are not alone. (00:03:13)
2013-11-08 · VidCon, Punishments, Comments, and Pumpkins — A voice in the montage says this year's (2013) VidCon is bigger than every previous VidCon combined. (00:00:32)
2013-11-15 · I Have a Band? — A voice in the band asks viewers to say in the comments what super weird skill they have, for a montage of the weirdest skills. (00:02:07)
2013-12-17 · THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2013 IS UPON US! — In the clip, Noor says her son's teeth have not come in as a child's should have by now. (00:01:54)
2014-09-09 · Going to College (in Ethiopia) — A pre-med student says many brilliant minds go to Western countries and don't come back. (00:01:16)
2014-09-09 · Going to College (in Ethiopia) — A future engineer says something is expected of you in terms of what your country needs now. (00:02:35)
2015-12-15 · P4A 2015 - Condensed Soup — A P4A video clip says the world is reaching the highest levels of displacement since World War II. (00:00:44)
2015-12-15 · P4A 2015 - Condensed Soup — The montage shows P4A videos for the Geena Davis Institute, Liberty in North Korea, The Conscious Period and Re-Cycle. (00:00:50)
2015-12-15 · P4A 2015 - Condensed Soup — A Project for Awesome video clip says Re-Cycle takes unwanted bikes from the UK to where they are most needed in Africa. (00:00:54)
2015-12-15 · P4A 2015 - Condensed Soup — A livestream voice lists the toppings (Cholula, minced garlic, chocolate chips, ketchup, mustard) of a pizza they say they will eat when donations reach $300,000. (playful) (00:01:00)
2015-12-15 · P4A 2015 - Condensed Soup — The livestream closes thanking everyone who worked hard over the 48 hours and everyone watching, promising to see viewers in 363 days. (00:02:42)
2016-05-31 · The Most Amazing Day — Radio WDON's commentary of the closing moments reports that Akinfenwa scores from the penalty spot and AFC Wimbledon are a League One club. (00:02:19)
2016-12-01 · See you in Amsterdam, Melbourne, or Anaheim!! (also Boston) — In the opening promo clip, unnamed voices say meeting viewers in real life is the best part of being a creator, and they want to pioneer something new, not a TV show. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:09)
2017-09-22 · How to Invest (and other money questions with The Financial Diet) — A guest says it is better to pay off credit card balances in full if you have the money, without depleting the cash reserves you need for emergencies. (00:00:20)
2017-09-22 · How to Invest (and other money questions with The Financial Diet) — Part of a credit score depends on credit utilization, which paying in full lowers, but missing a payment hurts the score much more than higher utilization. (00:00:34)
2017-09-22 · How to Invest (and other money questions with The Financial Diet) — Long story short: pay the card off if you can, and if you can't, the most important thing is paying on time. (00:00:58)
2017-09-22 · How to Invest (and other money questions with The Financial Diet) — A guest warns there is very little regulation of who can advise you with your money, so advisers may give bad or unqualified advice. (00:01:21)
2017-09-22 · How to Invest (and other money questions with The Financial Diet) — You can start investing really small, and a workplace 401k, which many people have, is already investing. (00:01:27)
2017-09-22 · How to Invest (and other money questions with The Financial Diet) — A guest personally recommends a low-cost firm like Fidelity: good reputation, long history, low barrier, a couple hundred dollars a year, all online. (00:01:42)
2017-09-22 · How to Invest (and other money questions with The Financial Diet) — To eat and spend less on fast food, stop driving past it: plan an alternate route avoiding the places that tempt you most. (00:01:55)
2017-09-22 · How to Invest (and other money questions with The Financial Diet) — The other guest adds: cook at home, the easiest way, or learn copycat recipes of your favourite fast food. (00:02:05)
2017-09-22 · How to Invest (and other money questions with The Financial Diet) — Asked whether to invest in cryptocurrency, the answer is a flat no. (00:02:16)
2017-09-22 · How to Invest (and other money questions with The Financial Diet) — Racking up card debt because it disappears at death ignores the years before then: unpaid bills have effects almost immediately. (00:02:24)
2017-09-22 · How to Invest (and other money questions with The Financial Diet) — Don't cash out a 401k to pay off student loans when changing jobs: the 401k is a very good deal and loans are probably at a low rate, so paying them as they come is better. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:47)
2017-09-22 · How to Invest (and other money questions with The Financial Diet) — Jean prices depend on the kind; jeans began as workman's clothes, are very durable, and a good pair lasts five years. (00:03:21)
2018-06-22 · Stumping EDU Creators - Trivia at VidCon — After many wrong guesses, a creator correctly answers that USB stands for Universal Serial Bus. (00:00:46)
2018-06-22 · Stumping EDU Creators - Trivia at VidCon — The black bear can thrive, whereas every other bear species has declined. (00:01:03)
2018-06-22 · Stumping EDU Creators - Trivia at VidCon — The answer to a geography question (not stated on air) is something located in both Nepal and China. (00:01:31)
2018-06-22 · Stumping EDU Creators - Trivia at VidCon — Another creator once made a song called 'Boogers in My Nose' in the style of Three 6 Mafia. (playful) (00:01:43)
2018-12-21 · The Psychology of Package Thieves — One thief stole because all their friends were doing it and they didn't have many friends or know how to make new ones. (00:00:29)
2018-12-21 · The Psychology of Package Thieves — One thief says there is some satisfaction in just getting away with something. (00:00:29)
2018-12-21 · The Psychology of Package Thieves — One thief had a debatable need to steal during active addiction, and could sell or trade what was stolen. (00:00:29)
2018-12-21 · The Psychology of Package Thieves — One thief says a package could hold a USB cable or an iPhone; it is like anything addictive, and better than their other addictions. (00:01:18)
2018-12-21 · The Psychology of Package Thieves — One thief never really thought about consequences, knowing that being young, charming, white and with a clean record they wouldn't be too bad. (00:01:18)
2018-12-21 · The Psychology of Package Thieves — One thief's group was just having fun until they realised a package was almost certainly a toy for a child to open on Christmas morning; then it stopped being fun. — hedged: “almost certainly” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:18)
2019-01-04 · Bid Daddy Likes Pork Rinds - P4A Recap 2018! — A livestream participant says a challenging episode or topic inspires them to keep working, since difficulty means something is worth talking about. (00:01:33)
2019-01-04 · Bid Daddy Likes Pork Rinds - P4A Recap 2018! — A livestream guest says a problem like global health can feel like spitting on a wildfire, but it isn't: the resources and power you exert have real-world effects. (00:02:50)
2019-06-18 · Question Tuesday with Miles and the Colonel: Manolo! — A guest says John is way funnier than people think, has more 'drip' than you'd expect, knows all the new music and is very hip. (playful) (00:00:00)
2019-06-18 · Question Tuesday with Miles and the Colonel: Manolo! — A guest's favorite scene in the book is the barn scene, where you get to know everybody: confiding your truths to close people is hard because you must trust them not to judge. (00:02:52)
2019-06-18 · Question Tuesday with Miles and the Colonel: Manolo! — Asked the meaning of life, one guest says nobody knows, but thinks it is to learn. (00:02:52)
2019-06-18 · Question Tuesday with Miles and the Colonel: Manolo! — The other guest says the meaning of life is love. (00:03:20)
2019-06-18 · Question Tuesday with Miles and the Colonel: Manolo! — The Looking for Alaska show comes out on Hulu on October 18: eight episodes, all released at once and bingeable. (00:03:41)
2019-10-01 · Why Are Poor Countries Poor? — The Ebola survivor says the treatment facility had only three beds for four of them, so he refused to let his son go and shared a bed with him; he lay struggling for nine days, and his wife, also brought there, died. (00:04:52)
2019-10-08 · Looking for Alaska (...with Alaska) — Asked if they know how John feels about Keanu Reeves, a guest answers that John Green loves Keanu Reeves. (playful) (00:01:27)
2019-10-08 · Looking for Alaska (...with Alaska) — A cast member says they read the book in one sitting and called their mother at three in the morning from a hotel room, crying. (00:01:27)
2019-10-08 · Looking for Alaska (...with Alaska) — Asked their favorite circus act, guests pick the trapeze artists, as everyone has so far, and then the tiger acts. (00:02:26)
2019-10-08 · Looking for Alaska (...with Alaska) — Borrowing her mother's words, a guest says the meaning of life is to be happy. (00:02:26)
2019-10-08 · Looking for Alaska (...with Alaska) — A guest cried on set on the first day and when walking into her room. (00:03:11)
2019-10-08 · Looking for Alaska (...with Alaska) — A guest says the meaning of life is to be with the people you love, be happy and always be yourself. (00:03:11)
2019-11-05 · Letting It Snow with Kiernan Shipka, Shameik Moore, Anna Akana, and Blogbrother John Green — A cast member calls Let It Snow a really funny, light Christmas movie. (00:00:00)
2019-11-05 · Letting It Snow with Kiernan Shipka, Shameik Moore, Anna Akana, and Blogbrother John Green — Asked for their favourite Christmas movie of all time, a cast member names A Muppet Christmas Carol. (00:00:29)
2019-11-05 · Letting It Snow with Kiernan Shipka, Shameik Moore, Anna Akana, and Blogbrother John Green — Cast members say they filmed in real snow with more added on top, and the coldest day was minus 30. (00:00:29)
2019-11-05 · Letting It Snow with Kiernan Shipka, Shameik Moore, Anna Akana, and Blogbrother John Green — Asked how many marshmallows are optimal in hot chocolate, a cast member makes a top layer, eats it, then adds another. (playful) (00:01:00)
2019-11-05 · Letting It Snow with Kiernan Shipka, Shameik Moore, Anna Akana, and Blogbrother John Green — Asked for a favourite holiday song, a cast member names Alvin and the Chipmunks' Christmas song. (00:01:00)
2019-11-05 · Letting It Snow with Kiernan Shipka, Shameik Moore, Anna Akana, and Blogbrother John Green — Asked when to start decorating, a cast member stays on the fence: those who start right after Halloween and those after Thanksgiving are all good people. (playful) (00:01:49)
2019-11-05 · Letting It Snow with Kiernan Shipka, Shameik Moore, Anna Akana, and Blogbrother John Green — The cast tells the authors they couldn't have made it without them. (00:01:49)
2019-11-05 · Letting It Snow with Kiernan Shipka, Shameik Moore, Anna Akana, and Blogbrother John Green — A cast member addressed as Luke says filming was his first time ever sledding, with some camera tricks, though he did his own stunt rolling off. (00:02:29)
2019-11-05 · Letting It Snow with Kiernan Shipka, Shameik Moore, Anna Akana, and Blogbrother John Green — Asked for a favourite gas station snack, a cast member jokes Australia has no gas stations, then names honey soy chicken chips. (playful) (00:02:53)
2019-11-05 · Letting It Snow with Kiernan Shipka, Shameik Moore, Anna Akana, and Blogbrother John Green — Asked where to watch Let It Snow, the cast says November 8 and, they add, from then in perpetuity. (playful) (00:03:23)
2019-12-31 · Project for Awesome 2019 Recap (BUTT IS LEGS) — A livestream voice opens the 13th annual Project for Awesome, noting the P4A is now a teenager. (playful) (00:00:00)
2019-12-31 · Project for Awesome 2019 Recap (BUTT IS LEGS) — In the livestream's 'butt is legs' debate, participants argue the butt is the top or what happens above the legs, and one rules that medically and anatomically butt is legs. (playful) (00:00:32)
2019-12-31 · Project for Awesome 2019 Recap (BUTT IS LEGS) — A livestream voice reads the closing total: $1,303,460 raised, $615,000 of it through the Indiegogo. (00:03:12)
2019-12-31 · Project for Awesome 2019 Recap (BUTT IS LEGS) — A livestream host thanks everyone who made this P4A happen and everyone who stayed with them for the last 48 hours. (00:03:30)
2021-03-12 · A Crisis of Branding — The pizza worker says Hank's TikToks show an intelligent, well-spoken person raising very interesting topics, a nice educational break in their feed. (00:00:51)
2023-05-09 · on hope — An off-camera voice adds watching iCarly with your daughter to the list of valuable things. (playful) (00:01:10)
2025-10-17 · We Never Know What Anything Means — The Endlings clip says Martha died on September 1, 1914, in Cincinnati, Ohio, aged 29, and with her the passenger pigeon became extinct. (00:05:46)
2025-10-17 · We Never Know What Anything Means — The clip says passenger pigeons, a few hundred years earlier, numbered an estimated 3 to 5 billion, darkened the sky for hours, and made up as much as 40% of North America's birds. (00:06:08)

Maureen Johnson (74)

2007-02-23 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 23, 2007: Books — Maureen Johnson says she likes used bookstores, has no problem with them 'taking her money', and loves libraries: you can't not be pro-library. (00:01:47)
2007-02-23 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 23, 2007: Books — Maureen Johnson asks how people are supposed to afford to buy everything they want to read. (00:01:47)
2007-04-04 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 2: A Day in the Writer's Life — Maureen Johnson's 'special message' for Hank: she thinks he's great, and he should 'do the Hummer thing', taking a Hummer for a ride and telling the whole world why Hummers suck. (playful) — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:11)
2007-12-14 · Dec. 14th: John and Maureen Johnson: LIVE FROM NEW YORK CITY — Asked by John which brother she likes more, Maureen Johnson answers Hank. (playful) (00:01:00)
2008-11-17 · Life on Tour — In a staged scene, Maureen Johnson says she and John are mortal enemies because wherever he goes he crosses her name out of Let It Snow; a truce is discussed. (joke) (00:02:02)
2009-06-01 · DFTBA Street Team In Your Pants — Maureen Johnson says she, John and E. Lockhart used to write together every day in a café. (00:00:44)
2009-06-01 · DFTBA Street Team In Your Pants — Maureen says John, on Weight Watchers and complaining about points, flailed with his cream-cheese bagel and dropped it cream cheese down into his lap, filling his corduroy's grooves. (playful) (00:01:30)
2009-06-01 · DFTBA Street Team In Your Pants — As E. Lockhart sought a title for what became The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, Maureen, staring at John's cream cheese, proposed adding 'in your pants' to any title; Looking for Alaska and An Abundance of Katherines came first. (playful) (00:02:00)
2009-06-01 · DFTBA Street Team In Your Pants — Maureen says they played the game for the rest of the day and got nothing else done, and that is how the movement started, because John doesn't know how to eat. (playful) (00:02:23)
2010-01-22 · ThisIsNotJohn — Maureen Johnson introduces herself and says she will be filling in for John while he is off being a father, for the next few days or weeks. (00:00:00)
2010-01-22 · ThisIsNotJohn — She describes herself as a friend of John's and fellow YA author, probably best known to Nerdfighters as the originator of the 'In Your Pants' joke. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:00)
2010-01-22 · ThisIsNotJohn — Maureen jokes that she is 'second prettiest green brother' and the Conan to John's Leno: John is giving her the show only to take it right back, having picked her because she is bad at videos. (joke) (00:00:20)
2010-01-22 · ThisIsNotJohn — Maureen asks viewers to send comments on her performance to her on Twitter rather than by mail, and says she will read them. (00:01:05)
2010-01-22 · ThisIsNotJohn — She says there is another side to John she can help viewers explore, and presents footage she shot of him, cut into a music-video homage. (00:01:25)
2010-01-22 · ThisIsNotJohn — The song 'Actual John Green' casts John as dangerous, with the refrain 'Actual John Green'; most lyrics are unclear in the audio. (joke) (00:01:48)
2010-01-27 · Boobs and the iPad — Maureen records at about 2:30 Wednesday morning while packing for a flight to London, so as not to be punished for a missed video. (playful) (00:00:00)
2010-01-27 · Boobs and the iPad — She tells viewers to turn their expectations down: nothing this week (week of 25 January 2010) will be as complicated as Friday's video, as things are crazy. (playful) (00:00:00)
2010-01-27 · Boobs and the iPad — She thanks viewers for their comments on the last video, including constructive criticism of the 'apocalyptic' lighting, which she is trying to fix. — hedged: “I hope” [wish / hope] (00:00:00)
2010-01-27 · Boobs and the iPad — Maureen says 80% of the comments noticed that 'John Green' had boobs, an interest she says YouTube shares with baby Henry; 'the man just had a baby'. (playful) (00:00:54)
2010-01-27 · Boobs and the iPad — She was in the New York Times this week (week of 25 January 2010), with her picture, by what she calls a weird fluke. (00:01:23)
2010-01-27 · Boobs and the iPad — At the end of last year (2009) she persuaded her publisher to give away free e-books of Suite Scarlett for a couple of weeks. (00:01:23)
2010-01-27 · Boobs and the iPad — Maureen thinks there is a huge benefit to giving away free books and materials whenever possible. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:23)
2010-01-27 · Boobs and the iPad — She is excited about the tablet and will probably buy one, but not on the first day, because new products always have something wrong with them. (playful) — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:53)
2010-01-27 · Boobs and the iPad — Like John, she thinks the coming revolution of e-books and other ways of delivering books will radically change the way we read, and we have to embrace it. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:53)
2010-01-27 · Boobs and the iPad — She says that if the rumors are true, Apple is announcing its tablet today. — hedged: “if all the rumors are true” [other hedge] (00:01:53)
2010-01-27 · Boobs and the iPad — Free books are also good in the form of libraries, which she calls the building blocks of society. (playful) (00:02:22)
2010-01-27 · Boobs and the iPad — Mid-interview she was distracted by her 2010 Rob Pattinson annual and made a Rob Pattinson joke; she implies that joke is what the New York Times quoted. (playful) (00:02:22)
2010-01-27 · Boobs and the iPad — Her advice: never make a Rob Pattinson joke to the New York Times; she had been warned that interviewers quote only the stupidest thing you say, and found it '100% true'. (playful) (00:02:51)
2010-01-27 · Boobs and the iPad — She has a book due: she is finishing a sequel to 13 Little Blue Envelopes. (00:02:51)
2010-01-27 · Boobs and the iPad — Her novel Scarlett Fever comes out on Monday. (00:02:51)
2010-01-27 · Boobs and the iPad — On what Hank should name his dog, Maureen says YouTube has spoken: name it 'Boobs', imagining calling for it in the park; anything else would let Nerdfighteria down. (joke) (00:03:20)
2010-02-05 · DARE TO SUCK — Maureen says she turned in her draft at 1 a.m. last night and is free-ish today, though dazed, as if hit on the head with a plank. (playful) (00:00:00)
2010-02-05 · DARE TO SUCK — Asked by a viewer afraid of sucking at writing, Maureen tells nerdfighters, who want to decrease world suck, that they should instead dare to suck. (playful) (00:00:27)
2010-02-05 · DARE TO SUCK — Maureen says beginners will suck a lot and for a while, and feeling it is a sign they are on the right path, because learning anything means sucking at it. (00:00:59)
2010-02-05 · DARE TO SUCK — Like someone who buys a violin, a beginner must practise for years (she says 8 to 10) before playing Carnegie Hall: you have to suck first. (playful) (00:00:59)
2010-02-05 · DARE TO SUCK — Some things, like crossing roundabouts in England, have serious consequences if you suck at them, but in writing sucking has no real serious consequences. (00:01:28)
2010-02-05 · DARE TO SUCK — Maureen tells aspiring writers not to worry that their first work isn't good or a masterpiece; writing without publishing right away lets you write lots that sucks. (00:01:57)
2010-02-05 · DARE TO SUCK — To 16- to 18-year-olds who ask how to publish their books, she says don't, stop, because they haven't sucked enough yet. (00:01:57)
2010-02-05 · DARE TO SUCK — Maureen says sucking is part of the professional process as well: first drafts, like the one she just turned in, exist to suck and get changed and ripped apart. (00:02:26)
2010-02-05 · DARE TO SUCK — She says writers she knows laugh together about how bad their drafts are. (playful) (00:02:26)
2010-02-05 · DARE TO SUCK — Maureen calls the phrase 'writing is rewriting' 100% true: you rewrite many times, and the work goes from suck to awesome. (00:02:56)
2010-02-05 · DARE TO SUCK — Maureen has viewers say aloud with her: 'I give myself permission to suck.' (00:03:25)
2010-02-05 · DARE TO SUCK — Maureen says John is taking one more week of paternity leave with baby Henry (joking he will then make Henry get a job), so she fills in on Wednesday before John returns. (playful) (00:03:25)
2010-02-10 · HOW TO GET AN AGENT — Maureen shows a Sunday-night clip of herself in a claw-foot tub in Cork, Ireland, where she went for a few days after finishing her deadline; she is now back. (00:00:00)
2010-02-10 · HOW TO GET AN AGENT — Maureen's new novel Scarlett Fever has just come out and is available from local independent booksellers, Barnes and Noble or, if necessary, Amazon. (video description)
2010-02-10 · HOW TO GET AN AGENT — Maureen says this is her last video for vlogbrothers. (00:00:00)
2010-02-10 · HOW TO GET AN AGENT — Answering viewers who asked how a book gets published, Maureen finishes her writing series: once you have finished your work, what you need next is an agent. (00:00:34)
2010-02-10 · HOW TO GET AN AGENT — Maureen says an agent represents you in publishing; almost every author has one because editors usually read nothing unsolicited, only what comes from agents. (00:01:03)
2010-02-10 · HOW TO GET AN AGENT — Maureen says the agent handles contracts, sends out submissions and takes care of the business side so the writer can stay home and write. (00:01:03)
2010-02-10 · HOW TO GET AN AGENT — Maureen says you get an agent by writing a one-page query letter, which must be clean, flawless and fascinating because it is your only shot at their attention. (00:01:03)
2010-02-10 · HOW TO GET AN AGENT — Maureen relays that her agent received 3,500 query letters last year (2009) and took two clients from them. (00:01:32)
2010-02-10 · HOW TO GET AN AGENT — Maureen says getting an agent is hard; publishing is a business, part of why she doesn't think people should publish at 15: it takes adjusting, facts, and much longer writing practice. — hedged: “I don't think” [opinion marker] (00:01:32)
2010-02-10 · HOW TO GET AN AGENT — Maureen says internet advice on query letters ranges from very good to clueless; she would take advice from agents. (00:02:02)
2010-02-10 · HOW TO GET AN AGENT — Passing on her agent's tips, Maureen says not to have your characters write the query letter, or to include praise from people the agent doesn't know. (00:02:31)
2010-02-10 · HOW TO GET AN AGENT — Relaying her agent, Maureen says not to claim your book will be a big movie or the next Twilight, Harry Potter or Wimpy Kid: it is presumptuous and seems arrogant; agents want a clear letter about the story. (00:02:31)
2010-02-10 · HOW TO GET AN AGENT — Relaying her agent's dos, Maureen says to follow the instructions, write a clean letter, check it countless times for mistakes, and make it the best page you have ever written. (00:03:00)
2010-02-10 · HOW TO GET AN AGENT — Ending her stint, done quickly while cooking dinner, Maureen welcomes John back, says she will miss the viewers and asks them to visit her. (00:03:31)
2013-07-23 · Watermelon Internet Trolls — Maureen Johnson says she is filling in for John Green because once again he has contributed to the birth of a human child. (00:00:01)
2013-07-23 · Watermelon Internet Trolls — She says this is nerve-wracking: she is a writer like John but doesn't make videos all the time and doesn't think she's good at it. (00:00:06)
2013-07-23 · Watermelon Internet Trolls — She says some people dislike the internet for various reasons, like her mom, who is confused by it and afraid she'll break it. (playful) (00:00:21)
2013-07-23 · Watermelon Internet Trolls — To those who dismiss the internet as porn and animated GIFs, she replies that maybe so, but in their youth they also didn't join a political discussion with a thousand people. (playful) (00:00:37)
2013-07-23 · Watermelon Internet Trolls — She admits the level of discourse isn't always high: when she filled in during John's first paternity leave, 90% of comments on her first video said John has boobs. (playful) (00:00:55)
2013-07-23 · Watermelon Internet Trolls — She says the last few weeks have been fraught, with a lot in the media and the world that is hard to talk about, making us want to talk constantly yet not know how. (00:01:20)
2013-07-23 · Watermelon Internet Trolls — She says with split opinions it is hard to talk to people of a different viewpoint without screaming or becoming a troll, and trolling is not productive. (00:01:33)
2013-07-23 · Watermelon Internet Trolls — She says we can and indeed have to talk about difficult things where our opinions differ wildly. (00:01:54)
2013-07-23 · Watermelon Internet Trolls — She thinks the internet is teaching us to talk to each other on a scale never seen before; we are just learning the language of mass discussion. — hedged: “I think in many ways” [opinion marker] (00:02:01)
2013-07-23 · Watermelon Internet Trolls — She says using the internet to talk is actually really difficult, which is why the one rule of the internet is don't read the comments. (00:02:16)
2013-07-23 · Watermelon Internet Trolls — If you have read the comments, she advises: pause, breathe, look at some cats, and ask yourself what you want to accomplish - further a good cause or punch a troll in the face. (00:02:23)
2013-07-23 · Watermelon Internet Trolls — She says you can probably accomplish only one; punching a troll probably doesn't improve your cause, make your side look good or further the discussion, so many comments can't become teachable moments. — hedged: “probably not” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:42)
2013-07-23 · Watermelon Internet Trolls — She then mock-reverses herself, urging viewers to answer all the trolls and start a 'Troll Patrol' in this video's comments. (satire) (00:03:10)
2013-07-23 · Watermelon Internet Trolls — She says no one knows how to internet, and anyone who claims to should go eat some watermelon, the only thing that makes sense in this mixed-up world. (playful) (00:03:28)
2013-07-23 · Watermelon Internet Trolls — She tells viewers to follow her on Twitter, saying she is not great at videos but very, very good at Twitter. (playful) (00:03:39)
2017-03-03 · PUNISHED: Blenderized Audience Choice: LIVE! — Maureen Johnson protests that this was not in her contract and says, not joking, that she is legitimately queasy. (playful) (00:02:33)
2023-12-24 · John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated — Maureen Johnson says she and John are mortal enemies because he crosses her name out of Let It Snow and signs her books; they agree to a truce. (playful) (02:33:42)

Ryan Busse (70)

2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says it is really hard in the US political system for someone without money to run for office, so wealthy people tend to run. (00:01:50)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says women fear for privacy, abortion and health care: Montana is surrounded by four states that have drastically curtailed abortion rights. (00:02:43)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says voters also care greatly about access to public lands and waters, and about property taxes and affordability. (00:03:09)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse describes 'the Montana struggle': Montanans accept some hardship for outdoor access, but Gianforte's administration has stretched both affordability and access. (00:03:38)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says he runs to make Montana better: public education is the backbone of democracy and in peril, and attacking women and freedom is wrong. (00:04:47)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says Gianforte, with four mansions and a private jet, does not care if taxes go up, and likes having 'governor' on his business card. (00:04:47)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse calls public lands the ultimate freedom: outside Missoula you can hike public land for miles and camp for months without seeing anyone. (00:05:12)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says Montana is at a tipping point and somebody needs to stand up and fix it. (00:06:42)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says the state had a surplus of over $2.5 billion and need not raise property taxes; the previous four governors fixed the same appraisal problem, Gianforte did not. (00:07:11)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says Montana is one of only nine states that tax Social Security and just put a tax on tips, showing ambivalence toward working people. (00:07:38)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says he and his running mate Rafe are probably the only Democrats in a century to run against Republicans who raised property taxes: 'the low-tax Democrats'. (playful) — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:08:03)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says the fix is easy: the state applies one multiplier to appraisals, and adjusting that one number takes 30 minutes in the legislature. (00:08:43)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says the state did not need the money and will have almost a $3 billion surplus next session. (00:09:08)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says Gianforte blamed the county commissioners for the tax rise and then sued the counties to make them collect more; the Republican commissioners can't stand him. (00:09:33)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse calls the tax rise bad policy but a political opening: be the sane adult in the room and maybe not believe in stegosauruses boarding the ark. (playful) (00:10:12)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says Republicans now come to his events: the property tax mess showed them that voting straight ticket is not always a good deal. (00:11:50)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says Gianforte kicked one in eight people, 136,000 Montanans, off Medicaid, while the state also refuses Medicaid expansion money. (00:12:37)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — At Billings Clinic Busse heard of a man dropped from Medicaid who could not afford his heart medicine for two weeks, then had a bad heart attack and ended up in the ICU. (00:12:37)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says dropping such people is bad business, since the whole state pays for the ICU instead of cheap medicine, and evil to do to them. (00:13:23)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says Gianforte, asked about the Medicaid removals, said it was working as intended. (00:13:51)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says citizens establish government and programs to make life better, within limits; he doesn't want onerous, ineffective government. (00:13:51)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Asked why housing is so expensive, Busse cites supply, people moving in, inflation in building costs, and a lack of foresight. (00:13:51)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says communities cannot function when nurses, mechanics, police, firefighters and teachers can't afford to live there, and the state should spend creatively on housing. (00:14:36)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse cites a development outside Bozeman where philanthropy partnered with a developer to put 64 homes on eight acres. (00:14:36)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says half the homes sell at half market value with preference for teachers, police and firefighters, and 1,200 people applied for 30 homes. (00:15:17)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says Gianforte's administration rolled back local control with bills aimed at Missoula, though communities can work out their own solutions. (00:15:40)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse backs small-scale nuclear for base-load power while pushing hard on renewables; better panels and storage are needed because solar power can't yet be stored. (00:16:22)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says the Colstrip coal plant and mine already has the wires, rails and transmission lines, so a small nuclear plant there would plug in. (00:17:06)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says change is coming whether we like it: coal economics are shifting and climate change is real, and working people must be at the center of the transition. (00:18:12)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says in politics you must be optimistic that good can come of government, elections and science; otherwise it is a dire, sour existence. (00:19:05)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says the hardest stories were on the Blackfeet Reservation (justice inequity, addiction) and from frightened women, yet both can be made better, which gives him hope. (00:19:35)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse worked 25 years in the gun industry and wrote a memoir attacking irresponsible actions by the industry and the gun world. (00:21:05)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says most of his close friends from the gun world no longer talk to him because he criticized the political right. (00:21:50)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says opponents call him a communist gun-grabber, but he hunts with his kids, owns many guns and has sold three million, so it doesn't stick. (00:22:20)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says a freedom as powerful as gun ownership must be balanced with responsibility; he sees himself as the real pro-gun person protecting gun rights. (00:22:50)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says gun companies now market to civil-war fantasies, presenting killing your neighbour in an insurrection as cool. (00:23:37)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says most gun owners, like most conservatives, are responsible and decent; loud 'jackwagons' and social media warriors don't speak for them. (00:23:37)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says the body has triggers that respond very quickly to fear, so it is easy to get people worked up. (00:24:48)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says that although Trump may win Montana by 10 to 20 points, Obama lost the state by only about three and a half to four points. (00:25:15)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse's campaign motto is 'get your Montana back': Montana is not really a red state but a live-and-let-live, egalitarian, purple place. (00:25:43)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says Montanans rewrote their constitution in 1972, with enumerated rights to privacy, an equal public education, to know, and to a clean and healthful environment. (00:26:31)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says the constitution's systems keep Montanans from pulling rank on each other, and Gianforte, wanting to commercialize everything, attacks public access, education and women's rights. (00:27:13)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse calls Gianforte an arsonist hired to run the fire station who hates effective government, elected in the tumult of 2020. (playful) (00:28:17)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says Gianforte has taken apart DPHHS, kicked one in eight Montanans off coverage, attacks public access and wants to privatize public schools. (00:28:46)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says Gianforte is the only governor ever to sue to block public river access, on the East Gallatin. (00:29:49)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse praises Montana's stream access law as anti-feudal: you don't have to be a prince or king to access the river. (00:30:18)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says his campaign has only two rules, have fun and win, and recalls a campaign rafting day. (00:30:46)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says the abortion initiative I-128 polls at 65 to 70 percent, so most Republicans agree; Montanans don't want a governor in their doctor's office. (00:32:31)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says Gianforte signed five restrictive abortion bills, promised to sign more, and signed Senate Bill 154, which would strip the constitutional right to privacy. (00:33:02)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says it is incumbent on him to redefine what a Western Democrat is: direct, no teleprompter statements; Republicans gravitate to him because they believe what they say. (00:35:09)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says many Democrats' actions have long not matched their rhetoric; politicians should believe, fight and convince. (00:35:54)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says voters forget that 98% of policy is decided on election day: winning comes first, so boil the message down. (00:37:00)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says Democrats too often bring a 14-point policy plan to a knife fight, and lose. (playful) (00:37:29)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says he and Gianforte are radically different: he wants government to do good, freedom, no subjugation of women and public land access; Gianforte believes the opposite. (00:38:14)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says most Montanans, even conservative ranchers, don't care about a gay kid, what books people read or who loves whom; they just want to live their lives. (00:39:30)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says the 1972 constitution was written by a hundred ordinary people seated alphabetically, not by party; elected officials could not serve. (00:40:25)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says his two boys were plaintiffs in the Held climate case. (00:40:25)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says in the famous Held case 16 young people sued Montana for violating the right to a clean and healthful environment. (00:40:47)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says that unlike US constitutional cases arguing what the framers thought, Montana has nine living framers; its environment article was written by Mae Nan Ellingson, then 24. (00:41:16)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says Ellingson, the first witness in the Held trial, was questioned for two hours, remembered everything, and said they wrote the constitution for a time like this. (00:42:01)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says organized labor in the United States, certainly in the West, was in many ways born in Montana. (00:42:28)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says Montana's labor history is not pretty: the Copper Kings, including William Clark, bought elections with $100 bills and owned the newspapers. (00:42:58)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says Montana's love of freedom, labor and equal access is a reaction against an era of abusive billionaires. (00:43:26)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse meets little animosity on the trail: people care about the place enough to pause national politics, and even the far right wants public land access. (00:44:49)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse sees Montana as an outpost lab of democracy that could reseed it elsewhere if it dies. (00:45:33)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says the campaign is about 70 days out, and about 80 percent of Montanans vote absentee by mail, with ballots arriving in about 50 days. (00:46:00)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says after about 335 to 340 days of campaigning he has probably passed 80,000 miles; Montana is so big you can drive 11 hours without leaving it. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:46:23)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse jokes that Gianforte has body-slammed a reporter and flies a private jet, neither of which he has done yet; Hank offers to be body-slammed for publicity. (playful) (00:46:48)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says Gianforte refused to debate him, calling the campaign not credible and citing unreleased tax returns, though Busse's campaign has outraised his. (00:47:46)
2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Busse says his campaign will release its tax returns on Tuesday, leaving Gianforte cornered into debating. (00:48:15)

Bill Gates (38)

2014-09-09 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Global Health — Gates says primary health care facilities are how childhood death was brought down from about 25% of all children to about 5%. (00:00:29)
2014-09-09 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Global Health — Gates says getting every vaccine to every child is really hard: vaccines must be kept cold, and most poor children live in rural areas with poor roads and few trained workers. (00:00:37)
2014-09-09 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Global Health — Gates says Ethiopia created a tiered system with a health post at the lowest level and health centers like the one where they are filming. (00:00:48)
2014-09-09 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Global Health — Gates says vaccination rates are still under 30% in pastoral regions where people move around, about 75% in the rest of Ethiopia, with a plan to reach 90%. (00:00:53)
2014-09-09 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Global Health — Asked how we know care drove the drop, Gates says poor countries' statistics are poor except child deaths; deaths were very high, and vaccines against a few infectious diseases cut them a lot. (00:01:18)
2014-09-09 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Global Health — Gates says many surviving children don't fully develop physically or mentally; that requires lowering the disease burden and getting good sanitation and good food. (00:01:39)
2014-09-09 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Global Health — Gates says that as more children survive, mothers choose to have fewer children, making feeding, educating and employing people achievable, so a country gets out of the poverty trap. (00:01:53)
2014-09-09 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Global Health — Gates says health is not the only thing but the central thing a country must get right, or it cannot keep its children alive and support itself. — hedged: “in my view” [other hedge] (00:02:09)
2014-09-22 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Agriculture — Gates says helping farmers grow a lot more is a fantastic thing. (00:00:02)
2014-09-22 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Agriculture — Gates says most of these farmers lack very good seeds, can't afford fertilizer, and get little advice about what to grow and how. (00:00:06)
2014-09-22 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Agriculture — Gates says the upside for African agriculture is that productivity could triple. (00:00:14)
2014-09-22 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Agriculture — Gates says his foundation's dream is to raise that productivity with pretty modest amounts of money. (00:00:19)
2014-09-22 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Agriculture — Gates says the foundation funds crop research for better seeds, but reaching the poorest farmers is hard: carelessly, wealthy farmers near cities become the main beneficiaries. (00:00:27)
2014-09-22 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Agriculture — Gates says they ask farmers how much of their output they must eat themselves, and whether in bad years they eat all of it or still lack enough. (00:00:43)
2014-09-22 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Agriculture — Gates agrees: because people need enough food and farmers are politically influential, prices are very distorted even in rich countries where farming employs only 2% of people. (00:01:12)
2014-09-22 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Agriculture — Gates says distortion is greater in poor countries because of true market failures, such as who will build storage or provide credit. (00:01:25)
2014-09-22 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Agriculture — Gates calls it a huge market failure that banks won't take the credit risk they should, since a drought year could literally bankrupt a bank. (00:01:45)
2014-09-22 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Agriculture — Gates says farm lending is correlated, not uncorrelated, risk: all borrowers' credit is what they grow, so bad weather could leave every one unable to repay. (00:01:58)
2014-09-22 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Agriculture — Gates says buying hybrid seed instead of using leftover seed pays off hugely, but takes getting used to: doing it in a year without rain can leave a debt never repaid. (00:02:10)
2014-09-22 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Agriculture — Asked whether foundations can insulate farmers against that risk, Gates says Mexico's government gives cash support adjusted to the weather; done well, government can play a crop-insurance-type role. (00:02:38)
2014-09-22 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Agriculture — Gates points to micro-insurance and cell phones: learning what price to get, getting advice, even photographing plants to learn what is wrong with them. (00:02:58)
2014-09-22 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Agriculture — Gates says climate change is the only thing working against these farmers; every other factor (output, self-sufficiency, storage, amazing seeds, advanced techniques) favours them. (00:03:09)
2014-09-22 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Agriculture — Gates concludes that, mostly, poor farmers' prospects are a positive story. (00:03:28)
2014-09-29 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Progress — Gates says the disease they are now focused on is polio; the world officially finished smallpox in 1980, when the certificate was signed. (00:00:00)
2014-09-29 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Progress — Gates hopes to get polio certified eradicated by 2018; the credibility and energy from that would let them take new tools and go after a malaria plan. — hedged: “we hope” [other hedge] (00:00:10)
2014-09-29 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Progress — Gates says inventions often go unrecognized as useful for poor countries: slow-leaking thermoses were invented about 15 years ago, yet nobody applied them to the cold-chain problem. (00:00:27)
2014-09-29 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Progress — Gates says poor countries lack electricity and kerosene and propane are expensive and unreliable; they built the first device about a year ago and units are now in the field. (00:00:46)
2014-09-29 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Progress — Gates says rich countries like the US assume reliable refrigerators, 24-hour electricity and easy access to doctors, so matching good ideas with big needs is a pretty imperfect process. (00:00:59)
2014-09-29 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Progress — Gates calls capitalism a weird but fantastic system: it gives people an incentive to work, but lets someone with certain skills and timing end up with mind-blowing resources. (00:01:24)
2014-09-29 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Progress — Gates says he and his wife Melinda asked where the greatest injustice is and where a dollar can save a life or avoid malnutrition, concluding poor countries offer huge impact. (00:01:41)
2014-09-29 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Progress — Gates says in the last ten years Ethiopia cut its childhood death rate from over 15% to about 8%; the US is below 1%. (00:02:03)
2014-09-29 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Progress — Gates says Ethiopia should be able to get childhood death below 2%. — hedged: “should be able to” [other hedge] (00:02:08)
2014-09-29 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Progress — Gates says malnourishment, seen through stunting, is still pretty high in Ethiopia. (00:02:17)
2014-09-29 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Progress — Gates says finding children who aren't growing, getting nutritious food out and improving agricultural productivity ought to virtually eliminate malnutrition. — hedged: “ought to be able to” [other hedge] (00:02:23)
2014-09-29 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Progress — Gates says Ethiopia's stated goal is to become a middle-income country by 2025, and it absolutely can get there. (00:02:32)
2014-09-29 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Progress — Gates calls Ethiopia's progress very exciting: health is an enabling piece, the country is pulling together, the system is well designed and donors look for missing tools. (00:02:38)
2014-09-29 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Progress — Gates says it is a very positive story, one he doesn't think most people know about. — hedged: “I don't think” [opinion marker] (00:02:55)
2018-02-13 · What Can't a Billion Dollars Buy? — Bill Gates says two things magnify impact: inventing a new tool (a magic seed or vaccine) and a delivery system, such as good primary health care or educating farmers. (00:02:28)

Katherine Green (36)

2007-10-11 · October 11th National Coming Out Day — Katherine asks whether Hank is still working on his video, since it is about 10 o'clock at night. (playful) (00:00:09)
2007-12-19 · December 19: The Day that the Nerds Took Over YouTube — Katherine says she is not looking forward to the punishment either, because she is the one who has to film it. (playful) (00:03:13)
2007-12-19 · December 19: The Day that the Nerds Took Over YouTube — Asked by Hank for a message to John, Katherine asks where their Christmas present is. (playful) (00:03:41)
2008-10-30 · Hank and Katherine...On the Rise — Katherine says doing the song with Hank was very frustrating, though she loves him. (00:03:08)
2009-03-11 · I'm Not Edward Cullen: A Song — Katherine's character answers that only Edward can protect her, citing his century of saved-up wealth and virginity, and says she can't love the boyfriend. (parody) (00:00:57)
2009-07-09 · The Katherine is a Master of Science! — Katherine says that in a freak storm she and Hank hid in a bush; talking to her mom, with her computer bag on her shoulder, she fell, hit her head and scraped her arm, but it's okay because she's a master of science. (00:00:07)
2009-12-22 · John and Hank Take on X-Scape! — Katherine says she doesn't think she would enjoy the ride either; it is a little too high. — hedged: “I don't think” [opinion marker] (00:02:53)
2011-09-20 · Fifth Anniversary with The Katherine — Katherine says she could stay married for another five years at least, and tells Hank to ask her again in five years. (playful) (00:00:21)
2011-09-20 · Fifth Anniversary with The Katherine — Asked whether her view of Hank has changed since the wedding, Katherine says no: they dated a long time before marrying, so she already had a formed opinion of him. (00:01:08)
2011-09-20 · Fifth Anniversary with The Katherine — Katherine says she is appreciative of Nerdfighteria but, loving to hang out with Hank, is a little bit jealous of it sometimes. (00:01:20)
2011-09-20 · Fifth Anniversary with The Katherine — Katherine says she enjoys HankGames and rewatching the episodes; she never played video games alone, and growing up the fun was playing Battletoads on the NES with friends. (00:01:33)
2011-09-20 · Fifth Anniversary with The Katherine — Katherine says she hates tiny garden slugs (Lemon gets up from the grass with slugs on her legs) but enjoyed meeting the much bigger slugs in Washington. (00:02:33)
2015-04-24 · Mother Pheasant Plucker - A Song — Asked whether the tour is going well, Katherine says it is going great. (00:02:53)
2016-01-15 · Eating Weird Food from the 50s (with Katherine) — Katherine says the Golden Rabbit is not on the list of things she wants to eat again. (00:00:53)
2016-01-15 · Eating Weird Food from the 50s (with Katherine) — Katherine likens the popovers to a Northern biscuit and would like to try them again. (00:01:28)
2016-01-15 · Eating Weird Food from the 50s (with Katherine) — Katherine says the Mexican Chop Suey smells like dog food. (playful) (00:02:18)
2016-01-15 · Eating Weird Food from the 50s (with Katherine) — Katherine asks why Jell-O even still exists, since people only eat it in prison, high school or the hospital. (playful) (00:03:25)
2016-01-15 · Eating Weird Food from the 50s (with Katherine) — Asked whether, after this, she would rather live today than in the '50s, Katherine says yes. (00:03:37)
2017-02-10 · Valentines Candy Taste Test with Hank and Katherine — Katherine agrees the Oreo is the perfect cookie but is there for the red velvet version's cream cheese icing. (00:00:33)
2017-02-10 · Valentines Candy Taste Test with Hank and Katherine — Katherine is wild about the leopard-shaped Reese's and bets they will end up in the background of Hank's videos. (playful) (00:00:50)
2017-12-22 · Christmas Questions Answered (With Katherine and Hank) — Katherine has only seen parts of It's a Wonderful Life; she sensed it was a downer, which is not what she wants at Christmas. (00:00:29)
2017-12-22 · Christmas Questions Answered (With Katherine and Hank) — Katherine's problem with Christmas is that after long preparation it is suddenly over, leaving her to put everything away. (00:01:31)
2017-12-22 · Christmas Questions Answered (With Katherine and Hank) — Leaving a tree up until the needles fall off when blown on is too late and really dangerous. (00:01:53)
2018-12-28 · The Cutest Thing My Son Has Done and More (With Katherine) — Katherine says she wants to go meat-free for a month to start the year; she has never tried going vegetarian and wants to try it. (00:02:22)
2018-12-28 · The Cutest Thing My Son Has Done and More (With Katherine) — Katherine's cutest Orin moment: left in his crib after a nap with a book, he put his hippo lovey on his lap and said 'Hippo, read a book.' (00:02:36)
2018-12-28 · The Cutest Thing My Son Has Done and More (With Katherine) — Asked how nervous they are for when their child starts watching YouTube, the answer is: very. (00:03:16)
2022-09-27 · The Wildest Way it Could Possibly Have Gone - Our 16 Year Anniversary — Asked for her favorite video they have made together, Katherine picks the one where they cooked bad old foods. (00:00:34)
2022-09-27 · The Wildest Way it Could Possibly Have Gone - Our 16 Year Anniversary — Katherine's favorite Mr. Darcy is the original one from the book; of the actors who played him, Colin Firth. (00:01:03)
2022-09-27 · The Wildest Way it Could Possibly Have Gone - Our 16 Year Anniversary — Katherine would fight four pelican-sized Hanks rather than one Hank-sized pelican, but would hug the Hank-sized pelican, to Hank's dismay. (playful) (00:01:43)
2022-09-27 · The Wildest Way it Could Possibly Have Gone - Our 16 Year Anniversary — Katherine's favorite Hank Green song is The Universe is Weird. (00:01:43)
2022-09-27 · The Wildest Way it Could Possibly Have Gone - Our 16 Year Anniversary — Asked whether a spherical pizza could have toppings inside and out, Katherine imagines a conceptual Mobius strip pizza. (playful) (00:02:19)
2022-09-27 · The Wildest Way it Could Possibly Have Gone - Our 16 Year Anniversary — Asked whether Hank can or should grow a mustache, Katherine says he is welcome to if he would like. (00:02:41)
2023-09-26 · THE REVEAL — Asked by Hank whether his new mustache is good, Katherine answers that it is a look. (playful) (00:02:32)
2024-05-24 · An Ancient Apocalypse — Katherine explains that glacial ice dams built up in the Rocky Mountains and were breached; everything behind them rushed out cataclysmically, carrying rocks stuck in the ice toward the Pacific and dropping them along the way. (00:02:36)
2024-05-24 · An Ancient Apocalypse — Katherine says such rocks are found all over the flood route; Hank calls this one a very large glacial erratic and she agrees. (00:03:03)
2026-09-04 · This is a Terrible Idea… — Katherine says she would not click, not wanting to encourage that kind of behaviour from Hank. (playful) (00:07:22)

Pete Buttigieg (33)

2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — The DOT's triskelion pin represents the three areas it transports in: water, sky and ground. (00:00:31)
2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete says who owns an airport depends, but it is usually the city or the county. (00:01:00)
2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete says airports are funded partly by local government and partly by passenger facility charges, one of the many charges added to an airline ticket. (00:01:00)
2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete says airlines sometimes invest in airports, and in Missoula he is celebrating the Biden-Harris administration's federal funds for the airport. (00:01:40)
2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete says airport control is becoming politically salient: states, notably in the South, are pressing to take control of locally run airports, which concerns the DOT. (00:01:40)
2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete says most US airports were built before 9/11, so security checkpoints and layout must change; the DOT is funding replacements, down to taxiway geometry. (00:03:12)
2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete says that as a child he wanted to be an airline pilot. (00:04:40)
2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete says as mayor he saw many land-use visions die because of parking requirements, and many cities are now moving on from them. (00:05:10)
2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete says safety is automated vehicles' biggest promise: human drivers kill about 40,000 people a year, as many as gun violence, with much less attention. (00:05:40)
2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete says the second big gain may be land use: self-parking cars could park out in the county, freeing land now allocated to parking. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:05:40)
2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete says many cities have found they need less parking than they thought, even with human-driven cars. (00:06:38)
2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — On zipper merges Pete, stressing it is not official policy, says experts told him to go to the end and merge at the last moment; Hank agrees. (playful) (00:07:00)
2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete says chargers are less reliable than gas pumps because they are newer; federal standards for funded chargers include an uptime standard. (00:07:00)
2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete says EVs are where gas cars were around the Model T; Biden set a 500,000-charger goal for the decade, with federal funding where the market won't build. (00:09:33)
2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete says funding lets the government require chargers to be reliable, interoperable and transparent on pricing, as drivers expect at gas stations. (00:10:31)
2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete says e-bikes expand the range of bicycle commuting and who chooses it; bike-commuting cities abroad are ahead, and the US is seeing more. (00:11:14)
2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete says his mother-in-law's topical skin-cancer chemotherapy costs thousands a tube, and the Affordable Care Act is why her small-business family can afford it. (00:13:31)
2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Asked why neighborhood streets aren't built of the long-lasting highway material, Pete says the short answer is cost. (00:14:00)
2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete says as mayor he filled many potholes, about 50,000 in one year. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:14:00)
2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete says the Federal Highway Administration's Turner-Fairbank facility tests a dozen road strips with embedded sensor chips to optimize the next generation of paving. (00:15:38)
2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete describes a market failure: under pressure to cover much quickly, mayors and states would refuse a paving material lasting 50% longer at 30% more cost. (00:16:07)
2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete says the DOT has a little-known R&D side and is even trying to stand up an ARPA-I, like DARPA or ARPA-E. (00:16:07)
2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete says the US is building high-speed rail and he broke ground on a line two weeks ago. (00:18:43)
2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete says Amtrak trains could be faster if the freight railroads owning the tracks yielded; a 50-year-old rule from Amtrak's formation requires host railroads to let passenger trains go first, but they often don't. (00:19:12)
2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete says the independent Surface Transportation Board is stepping up enforcement, the DOT helps with data, and compliance has already improved. (00:20:27)
2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete, raised in Studebaker's South Bend, says from the 1950s to 70s cities came to revolve around cars; more choices like microtransit and e-bikes mean fewer forced car trips. (00:21:24)
2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete says housing and transportation go hand in hand, and for the first time he sees mayors nationwide all focused on one issue: housing. (00:22:23)
2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete says transportation and housing costs hit the monthly budget together, and for lower-income families they exceed 40 percent of the budget. (00:22:52)
2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete says we experience distance in minutes, not miles, so better options like transit-oriented development help. (00:22:52)
2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete says fitting a transportation agenda with a housing agenda also brings a climate payoff, through fewer compelled trips. (00:23:21)
2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete says mayors mostly face non-partisan problems like trash and potholes and must act pragmatically without surrendering their values. (00:23:21)
2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete says the best indication the DOT is doing a good job is whether mayors' jobs are a bit easier. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:24:09)
2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete says being a mayor is harder now than a decade ago, and as mayor he would have welcomed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure package. (00:24:09)

Rosianna Halse Rojas (31)

2013-07-02 · The Perks of Being John's Assistant — Rosianna introduces herself as John's assistant and, 'as of way back when', John and Hank's secret London sister. (00:00:01)
2013-07-02 · The Perks of Being John's Assistant — Because she lives far away in London, people most often ask what she does as John's assistant; after Hank's Missoula and John's Indianapolis offices, she tours hers. (00:00:07)
2013-07-02 · The Perks of Being John's Assistant — She says a large part of her role is scheduling, which she is awesome at, using Craigslist, shared Gmail calendars and Skype credit. (playful) (00:00:38)
2013-07-02 · The Perks of Being John's Assistant — She jokingly lists duties: having John's Pizza John shirts sorted in rainbow order, his car seat warmed, commuting three days a week to Indianapolis, crossword lookups. (joke) (00:00:45)
2013-07-02 · The Perks of Being John's Assistant — In mock 'security testing', like the NSA, she hacks John's accounts and changes his passwords every three hours, every 15 minutes at 'DFTBA con four'. (joke) (00:01:30)
2013-07-02 · The Perks of Being John's Assistant — Rosianna says she is a die-hard West Ham United fan; she admits Steven Gerrard is a very talented Liverpool player, even a little handsome, but feels she betrays her beloved Irons. (playful) (00:02:12)
2013-07-02 · The Perks of Being John's Assistant — Her joke spare-time projects: a library for Henry and Alice from The Jolly Postman to The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and a Globe Theatre replica in John's garden. (joke) (00:02:31)
2013-07-02 · The Perks of Being John's Assistant — Jokes aside, Rosianna says being John's assistant is honestly the best job she has ever had, and it is really cool working with the brothers. (00:02:58)
2013-07-02 · The Perks of Being John's Assistant — She recalls reading John's 'very static' blog in 2006 and being addicted to Brotherhood 2.0 in 2007. (00:03:03)
2013-07-02 · The Perks of Being John's Assistant — The tools she uses for the job without thinking - Skype Out, shared calendars, OnStar emails - weren't really possible back then: 'we're living in the future'. (00:03:10)
2013-07-02 · The Perks of Being John's Assistant — So, she tells Hank, we're living in the future, and she's loving it. (00:03:23)
2014-01-14 · Giving Away Over $700,000 — Rosianna, an internet kid who loves GIFs, Instagram and YouTube, finds something cool in the physical boards at the pitch designed by Nerdfighters living far away. (00:00:30)
2014-11-25 · Tyler, Ingrid, Troye, Hannah, Mandy, Jenn, and Rosianna Visit Paper Towns — Rosianna Rojas confirms she is John's friend and assistant (as John introduces her) and adds that she also has a video blog. (00:02:13)
2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna introduces herself as John's producing partner, John and Hank's secret sister, a YouTuber and an avid user of the internet. (00:00:02)
2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna says she recently hit her limit of the social internet: she scrambled her passwords, deleted apps and backed away, then read more books in a week than in the previous two months. (00:00:11)
2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna says that offline she was less anxious and less angry and communicated far better with friends about how she was actually doing. (00:00:19)
2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna says she is not claiming the internet is bad: she lives thousands of kilometres from most of her friends and loves seeing their updates. (00:00:24)
2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna says the internet is not intrinsically anything: it is a tool and a system we use. — hedged: “I don't think” [opinion marker] (00:00:33)
2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Summing up a piece in Offscreen Magazine, Rosianna says the internet is not inherently one way but constantly changed by us, so we can change it for the better instead of adapting ourselves to its toxic parts. (00:00:41)
2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna says the internet seems made of code and clouds but is really made of people; like so much, it comes back to community. (00:00:51)
2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna says she was reluctant to step back because she had defined herself through the internet and defended the joy of meeting strangers and making things with people you will never meet. (00:00:58)
2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna relays a friend's suggestion that the internet's murkiness comes from it not being designed to hold so many people; in her early AOL days fewer were online and they built it together, rather than entering a ready-made internet like IKEA furniture. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:13)
2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna says she struggles to believe that theory: we are still building the internet, there are voices we aren't hearing and still work to do. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:39)
2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna recalls a West Wing scene in which Jeff has Josh look at the incomplete pyramid on a dollar bill: the seal is unfinished because the country is meant to be unfinished and keep doing better. (00:01:46)
2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna says, idealistically but sincerely, that the internet is not a buried bunker but infrastructure: as humans learn what helps people, the internet will change and we will change it. (00:01:57)
2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna says many people now claim to know the right answer about the internet, but breaking humanity down into bullet-point lists or alphas and betas contradicts everything humans have shown. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:15)
2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna suggests we start by not knowing; what helped her was realizing how long it had been since she logged off, an intentional decision about her online behaviour rather than a passive one. — hedged: “Maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:28)
2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna says that opening her computer she is often on automatic (Twitter feed, inbox, calendar), in a 'nothing state' where she is plasticine, and asks who she is handing it to. — hedged: “kind of” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:42)
2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna relays an Invisibilia episode, recommended by John: Rwanda passed legislation requiring equal representation in government, but it did not necessarily improve gender inequality across the country. (00:03:12)
2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna wonders whether Twitter was a shortcut that didn't quite work, and whether we need more long hard work to get its benefits, like hearing more voices and community organizing, instead of seeing the pyramid as complete. — speculative (hedge words not recorded) (00:03:28)
2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna says the truth is she doesn't know, and she is curious to hear John's thoughts. — explicitly uncertain (hedge words not recorded) (00:03:53)

Katie Mack (28)

2024-04-27 · Katie Mack Explains The Big Bang To John Green — Katie says the popular idea of the Big Bang, a singularity, a tiny infinitesimal point that exploded in all directions, is not really what astronomers mean by the Big Bang theory. (00:00:28)
2024-04-27 · Katie Mack Explains The Big Bang To John Green — Katie says what astronomers mean is much closer to the theme song of the TV show The Big Bang Theory, which she uses as an example because it is actually pretty good. (00:00:43)
2024-04-27 · Katie Mack Explains The Big Bang To John Green — Katie says the Big Bang theory is just the idea that the universe was hot and dense in the beginning, 13.8 billion years ago, and has been expanding and cooling since. (00:01:06)
2024-04-27 · Katie Mack Explains The Big Bang To John Green — Katie says the theory originates in the observation that the universe is expanding now: all the distant galaxies are seen moving away from us. (00:01:17)
2024-04-27 · Katie Mack Explains The Big Bang To John Green — Katie explains that the expansion stretches the light of distant galaxies from visible to infrared, an effect like a passing siren dropping to a lower pitch. (00:01:27)
2024-04-27 · Katie Mack Explains The Big Bang To John Green — Katie says things moving away get redder (longer wavelengths) and things moving toward us bluer (shorter), at all wavelengths of light from radio to gamma rays. (00:01:49)
2024-04-27 · Katie Mack Explains The Big Bang To John Green — Katie says expansion does not mean objects are expanding: galaxies move apart because the empty space between objects is expanding. (00:02:10)
2024-04-27 · Katie Mack Explains The Big Bang To John Green — Katie says the expansion of the universe has been known for a long time, since about the 1920s. — hedged: “I guess” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:17)
2024-04-27 · Katie Mack Explains The Big Bang To John Green — Katie replies that the expansion was seen as soon as we could know there are other galaxies: those far enough away are moving away from us. (00:02:25)
2024-04-27 · Katie Mack Explains The Big Bang To John Green — Katie concludes that if the universe is expanding now it must have been smaller in the past, with the galaxies closer together. (00:02:34)
2024-04-27 · Katie Mack Explains The Big Bang To John Green — Katie says squeezing things makes them hot and dense, so extrapolating back gives a universe that began as a hot, dense soup of energy. (00:02:44)
2024-04-27 · Katie Mack Explains The Big Bang To John Green — Katie says the idea had been floated for a long time, and confirmation came in the 1960s when astronomers began to see the light of that hot, dense soup. (00:03:11)
2024-05-09 · We’re Here Because... Something Broke — Katie says physicists try to show that things that look different are aspects of the same thing seen from different angles, a satisfying move like seeing two faces and a vase as one picture. (00:00:00)
2024-05-09 · We’re Here Because... Something Broke — Katie says physicists always try to make things simpler: rather than many different particles, they want one kind of particle doing different things. (00:00:28)
2024-05-09 · We’re Here Because... Something Broke — Katie says the discovery that the different elements are arrangements of the same fundamental particles was mind-blowing: hydrogen and carbon are just different numbers of protons, neutrons and electrons. (00:00:39)
2024-05-09 · We’re Here Because... Something Broke — Katie says grand unified theories try to show the different forces are really one force that only looks like several because we see it from a weird low-energy perspective. (00:01:02)
2024-05-09 · We’re Here Because... Something Broke — Katie says something changed in the early universe that broke a symmetry: everything was nicely symmetric and perfect, then it broke, which is why there are now all these different things. (00:01:27)
2024-05-09 · We’re Here Because... Something Broke — Katie says there are good theories unifying the strong, weak and electromagnetic forces of particle physics, but physicists have not yet managed it with gravity. (00:01:45)
2024-05-09 · We’re Here Because... Something Broke — Katie defines the terms: unifying the strong, weak and electromagnetic forces gives a grand unified theory; unifying those with gravity gives a theory of everything. (00:02:01)
2024-05-23 · The Weird Timescales of the Universe — Katie says recombination is the moment the first neutral atoms are able to form, and that era begins what is called the dark ages of the cosmos. (00:00:00)
2024-05-23 · The Weird Timescales of the Universe — Katie says the era is called the Dark Ages because the primordial plasma has cooled but there are no stars yet; the universe is mostly hydrogen gas with a little helium. (00:00:27)
2024-05-23 · The Weird Timescales of the Universe — Katie says that while the gas cools and the universe expands, gravity keeps pulling together clouds of cold gas, which start to condense. (00:00:27)
2024-05-23 · The Weird Timescales of the Universe — Asked by John whether 'a while' means two seconds or ten years, Katie says the Dark Ages last millions and millions of years. (00:01:00)
2024-05-23 · The Weird Timescales of the Universe — Katie says cosmic timescales get weird because eras are counted by how much is happening: there can be millions of years of cold hydrogen gas in which not much happens. (00:01:00)
2024-05-23 · The Weird Timescales of the Universe — Katie says the physics of the cosmic dark ages is very simple: you can write down equations for gas cooling, and the gas just does that. (00:01:54)
2024-05-23 · The Weird Timescales of the Universe — Katie says that because there were little variations in density, some clouds of gas start to become denser than others over time. (00:01:54)
2024-05-23 · The Weird Timescales of the Universe — When John suggests that a perfectly uniform observable universe would never have had stars and galaxies, Katie says random particle motion would still give fluctuations, so something would eventually happen, but differently and much later. (00:02:23)
2024-05-23 · The Weird Timescales of the Universe — Katie says those early fluctuations are why there is structure in the universe as we know it. (00:02:48)

Maya Rupert (28)

2020-06-05 · So Much to Do — Maya says the last couple of weeks have hit her very hard despite her experience, and she takes solace in people making community and being there for each other. (00:00:29)
2020-06-05 · So Much to Do — Maya says hopelessness about police violence is misplaced: policy lets officers act dangerously without accountability, so there are policy solutions. (00:01:40)
2020-06-05 · So Much to Do — Maya is heartened by work pointing to policy fixes such as national use-of-force standards and requiring police to de-escalate before using fatal force. (00:02:38)
2020-06-05 · So Much to Do — Maya says now is the time to call elected officials, make this a priority at every level of government, and elect people who take it seriously. (00:03:08)
2020-06-05 · So Much to Do — Maya says she is always taken by young people activating in crises and excited to see them demanding more. (00:03:37)
2020-06-05 · So Much to Do — Maya urges older people in a movement to have the humility to see it changing, and younger people the grace to see that elders had different formative experiences. (00:04:06)
2020-06-05 · So Much to Do — Maya has faith that this generation of organizers, unwilling to compromise, can make this time actually different. (00:05:02)
2020-06-05 · So Much to Do — Maya says people for whom this crisis is formative will be different leaders, and anyone called to do better should run for office or get involved. (00:06:03)
2020-06-05 · So Much to Do — Maya says politics has a cost of entry: those with resources get attention, so our politics is too consumed by who can get money in, and campaign finance reform matters. (00:06:49)
2020-06-05 · So Much to Do — Maya says racial justice is not an issue only for communities of color: this moment is about policing and also a system of white supremacy. (00:07:27)
2020-06-05 · So Much to Do — Maya says Americans talk about race only in crises, so the national conversation is between people who don't care about sounding racist and people whose career it is. (00:08:52)
2020-06-05 · So Much to Do — Maya urges people to challenge themselves to have awkward conversations about race, where good faith earns grace in return. (00:09:21)
2020-06-05 · So Much to Do — Maya says asking someone puts a burden on them; 'Google and read' is good advice, but the material is not easy to start from ground zero. (00:10:50)
2020-06-05 · So Much to Do — Maya recommends So You Want to Talk About Race as an incredible book that meets people where they are. (00:11:39)
2020-06-05 · So Much to Do — Maya says diverse friendships make people willing to carry the burden and give grace, but segregation, especially of white people, makes it a chicken-and-egg problem; the answer is community. (00:12:09)
2020-06-05 · So Much to Do — Maya says guilt makes people want to hide, so working through privilege, acknowledging it and saying it out loud matters. (00:15:10)
2020-06-05 · So Much to Do — Maya says that however friendly she is, raising race brings her more defensiveness, so she pays a bigger penalty for bringing it up. (00:16:24)
2020-06-05 · So Much to Do — Maya says white privilege is very useful for raising issues people of color can't, and for using a platform to elevate others' work and voices. (00:16:48)
2020-06-05 · So Much to Do — Maya rejects the either-or idea that acknowledging privilege means you didn't work hard. (00:17:44)
2020-06-05 · So Much to Do — Maya says privilege isn't binary: as a straight, cis, able-bodied person she can raise issues others can't, so privilege is situational. (00:19:39)
2020-06-05 · So Much to Do — Asked what makes her hopeful, Maya names the young people leading this fight. (00:21:06)
2020-06-05 · So Much to Do — Maya says friends have reached out asking how to talk with their white kids about race, since peers with Black kids already must. (00:21:53)
2020-06-05 · So Much to Do — Maya's favorite thing is social media posts inviting anyone who answers Black Lives Matter with 'all lives matter' to DM the poster. (00:22:20)
2020-06-05 · So Much to Do — Maya says unfollowing people earns likes, but the helpful conversation is private, where you make yourself vulnerable so the other person does too. (00:22:48)
2020-06-05 · So Much to Do — Maya says being an ally on some level sucks: it is uncomfortable hard work done behind closed doors, without likes or retweets. (00:24:19)
2020-06-05 · So Much to Do — Maya says her first Vlogbrothers video was Hank's Harry Potter song about Deathly Hallows, which she saw featured on YouTube's homepage and sent to her sister. (00:25:08)
2020-06-05 · So Much to Do — Maya says she remains impressed by the community: people seeking community, grace and humility, which rarely find a home online, and wanting to do good together. (00:26:11)
2020-06-05 · So Much to Do — Maya says interns taught her TikTok and she made one, but she didn't understand the medium at all. (playful) (00:27:38)

Steve Bullock (27)

2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Bullock explains the order: providers selling internet services to Montana must keep the internet free and open for all Montanans; they may block and throttle, but then cannot sell to the state. (00:01:07)
2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Bullock says New York, New Jersey, Hawaii and Vermont governors did the same, basically taking Montana's executive order; Montana even offered a fill-in template. — hedged: “basically” [other hedge] (00:01:25)
2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Bullock says the order began when his daughter Caroline, having called their congressional representatives about the repeal, called his switchboard; he first said it was federal, then saw states could lead. (00:01:41)
2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Bullock jokes that Hank can thank Caroline for saving the internet. (playful) (00:02:19)
2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Bullock says how he got elected and how he governs are not that different: he shows up, listens and engages with people, not only those who share his thoughts. (00:02:53)
2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Bullock says most people share the same values (a safe community, clean air and water, a good job, a roof) and public policy should talk about those. (00:03:10)
2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Bullock says nationally we need to listen and persuade: winning is not micro-targeting people who agree with everything, but engaging the public and saying why you'll fight for them. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:03:47)
2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Bullock says in a highly polarized system too many people ask what's wrong with those voters instead of what's wrong with themselves or candidates who don't speak to them. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:04:16)
2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Bullock says his Trump-voting supporters, like his wife and children, don't agree with him on everything but believe he'd fight for them and listen to them. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:04:27)
2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Bullock says many candidates run against government as horrible; it has inefficiencies and can be improved, but candidates should run to be part of the solution. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:04:47)
2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Bullock says delegitimizing and tearing down the media, calling anything he disagrees with 'fake news', is not how representative democracy runs. (00:05:15)
2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Bullock says his best advice came from Republican Tom Ridge: you run for office to win, but you win to run government. (00:05:45)
2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Bullock says Montana kids are in publicly funded preschools because of his administration's work, and focusing on that makes the hard parts of office easier. (00:05:57)
2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Bullock says newly elected governors attend what he calls 'baby governor school', run by the National Governors Association. (00:06:30)
2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Bullock says he is about to become chairman of the National Governors Association this summer. (00:06:47)
2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Bullock says to govern you learn from peers, surround yourself with good people and listen as much as you talk; you start out drinking from a firehose. (00:06:57)
2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Bullock tells young people there is no magic age to get involved: a Montana state legislator had not graduated high school when elected. (00:07:22)
2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Bullock urges people to be willing to take the step and risk failing; he has learned more from his setbacks than his successes. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:07:35)
2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Bullock cites a Pew study from last year (2017): for two-thirds of gun owners, a main reason for owning a gun is keeping themselves, family or community safe. (00:08:00)
2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Bullock says gun owners and those wanting restrictions both want to keep their families and communities safe and distrust government's ability to, so there is more commonality than we think. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:08:13)
2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Bullock argues for a public health approach to gun violence, as with cars: seatbelts and airbags didn't solve everything, but safety kept improving. (00:08:28)
2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Bullock says universal background checks could make a meaningful difference. — hedged: “could” [epistemic doubt] (00:08:37)
2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Bullock backs red flag laws letting family or police petition a court to take the gun, for a time, of someone who could be a danger. (00:08:45)
2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Bullock says Parkland, Florida students may fundamentally change things, Montana students walked out in protest, and maybe grown-ups will finally listen to kids. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:09:02)
2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Bullock fears the US, long a beacon of hope and opportunity, is giving up ('advocating') its international leadership role, from climate to peacekeeping coalitions. — hedged: “In some respects” [other hedge] (00:09:23)
2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Bullock worries about divisiveness: not everyone's life is consumed by government, but if government isn't working it can hurt everybody's life. (00:09:43)
2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — In the outtakes Bullock says Montana passed one of the most progressive campaign disclosure laws. (00:11:19)

Adam Schiff (26)

2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — Schiff says the Constitution gives Congress the power of the purse, its strongest power: the president commands the military and agencies but can do nothing unless Congress appropriates money. (00:01:03)
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — Schiff says that power is only as good as Congress's willingness to enforce it; by letting the president ignore its appropriations Congress gives it up, which is sadly where things are now. (00:01:33)
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — Schiff says the administration is breaking the law: shutting down agencies Congress established, spending money on other purposes and not spending money appropriated for fighting disease is illegal. (00:02:02)
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — Schiff says slow courts are not the problem, as lower courts moved quickly despite Bannon-style flooding the zone; the problem is a right-wing Supreme Court that adopted the fringe unitary-executive theory. (00:03:08)
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — Schiff says the immunity ruling let a president commit crimes in office with immunity and strongly suggests broad powers to fire independent commissioners, inspectors general and federal staff. (00:03:37)
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — Schiff says the bigger problem is that Congress could stop this but won't, because its majority shares the president's party, defeating the founders' design of setting ambition against ambition. (00:04:06)
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — Schiff says the check broke down because the president punishes party members who step out of line, using social media to rally online supporters and primary challenges, cowing them. (00:05:18)
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — Schiff says both parties have marginalized moderates and made compromise a dirty word, but the problem is far worse among Republicans because the president enforces right-wing orthodoxy. (00:06:27)
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — Citing Will Rogers' quip, Schiff says Democrats lack a top-down hierarchy: less discipline and diverse opinion are a strength but can weaken cohesion to fight back. (00:06:57)
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — Schiff says he is broadly optimistic that the country will get through this, though he does not want to be Pollyannish about the struggle. (00:08:24)
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — Schiff cites the press being intimidated: the Washington Post changing its editorial policy, the LA Times withholding editorials, reporters kicked out of White House events over 'Gulf of America'. (00:08:54)
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — Schiff says law firms are paying tens to hundreds of millions in fines and taking on the president's pet causes, unimaginable a decade ago, in only month three. (00:09:23)
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — Taking the long view, Schiff says the country survived the Vietnam era, a civil war, world wars, a cold war and a pandemic and will survive this, though rebuilding takes time. (00:09:52)
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — Schiff is confident people will one day ask how that man ever became president; the only questions are how fast and how much damage along the way. (00:10:21)
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — Schiff recalls a Marine in an airport who asked whether Americans will ever talk to each other again and, leaving, said he didn't expect Schiff to be so nice. (00:10:51)
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — Schiff says the biggest, most cross-cutting challenge they face is simply where people get their information. (00:12:12)
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — Schiff says in Walter Cronkite's era people shared agreed facts; now they choose their news, algorithms curate it and contrary views arrive only in obnoxious, vile forms. (00:12:40)
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — Schiff says John's work is extraordinarily important because his viewers have broad interests and political views and can hear contrary views civilly there. (00:13:09)
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — Schiff recalls a young USAID worker in Afghanistan who re-signed for a second year because development work's results cannot be seen in one year. (00:14:08)
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — Schiff says USAID fights disease and builds water systems, and people never forget a country that helped them, making it among the most effective diplomacy: an unmitigated good. (00:15:22)
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — Schiff says seeing USAID disparaged as waste and its devoted staff dismissed by email is destructive and heartbreaking. (00:15:51)
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — Schiff says some harms are permanent: someone who gets TB because of US absence suffers an injury that can be treated but never undone, as with damaged relationships. (00:17:37)
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — Schiff is confident USAID will be fully back, but says the world will always wonder whether the US is one election away from withdrawing support again. (00:18:10)
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — Schiff says competitors stepping into the void are not acting from altruism: they use development or health assistance to gain a foothold and want payback. (00:18:39)
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — Schiff asks about The Fault in Our Stars' title, suggesting it was chosen partly because a person who gets sick is not at fault. — hedged: “My sense is” [other hedge] (00:19:08)
2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — Schiff says with TB and USAID the fault is in ourselves: patients are not at fault, but since TB can be eradicated, failing to do so is all on us. (00:20:07)

Hannah Hart (25)

2013-06-25 · Thoughts from Places: Dog Days of Summer — Hannah wakes in her own bed for the first time in two and a half months, after travelling around the country meeting fans of her channel. (00:00:00)
2013-06-25 · Thoughts from Places: Dog Days of Summer — During her travels she spent time with John and his son Henry, whose fondness for hammers she will not soon forget. (playful) (00:00:00)
2013-06-25 · Thoughts from Places: Dog Days of Summer — Hannah opens with a fake Crash Course intro, then frames her video as a Thoughts from Places about coming home, written at her favourite cafe. (playful) (00:00:38)
2013-06-25 · Thoughts from Places: Dog Days of Summer — Home for only a day, she has already filled her sink with dishes and has post-tour laundry to do; coming home, she says, sucked. (playful) (00:01:34)
2013-06-25 · Thoughts from Places: Dog Days of Summer — She goes to see her therapist, whose comedic approach to her own profession often helps Hannah with what is on her mind. (00:01:34)
2013-06-25 · Thoughts from Places: Dog Days of Summer — Wondering whether to get a dog, she visits a friend's dog and decides dog ownership is mostly like cleaning, the thing she is avoiding, plus saliva. (playful) (00:02:03)
2013-06-25 · Thoughts from Places: Dog Days of Summer — Watching dogs simply happy to be alive, she muses that maybe she needed to be more appreciative and less contemplative: not every journey needs observing from outside. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:47)
2013-06-25 · Thoughts from Places: Dog Days of Summer — Watching the sunset from her porch, she thinks a sunset is like coming home: it seems to stay the same, but we mustn't take it for granted. (00:03:24)
2013-06-25 · Thoughts from Places: Dog Days of Summer — She stops recording because she does not want to go four minutes like Grace did. (playful) (00:03:24)
2016-11-11 · The Trouble with Wishful Thinking — Hannah says people tweet 'make a wish' at 11:11 and she can't be bothered to find out why, since it is the first Friday of President-Elect Trump's 'president-electionry'. (playful) (00:00:07)
2016-11-11 · The Trouble with Wishful Thinking — Hannah says some people voted for Donald Trump to be president, and moreover 46% of people didn't vote at all. (00:00:27)
2016-11-11 · The Trouble with Wishful Thinking — Hannah introduces herself: her YouTube channel is Harto, she is best known for My Drunk Kitchen and most beloved for putting her feelings all over the internet. (00:00:42)
2016-11-11 · The Trouble with Wishful Thinking — Hannah says it occurs to her that wishes are what got us here: wishing is what made 46% of the population not vote. — hedged: “it occurs to me” [other hedge] (00:00:55)
2016-11-11 · The Trouble with Wishful Thinking — Hannah says a wish is your heart's desire, what you truly want to be true, see and do, so it is a great thing because it shows you things about yourself. (00:01:07)
2016-11-11 · The Trouble with Wishful Thinking — Hannah defines the trouble with wishes as wishful thinking: thinking you can do less and still get what you want. (00:01:22)
2016-11-11 · The Trouble with Wishful Thinking — Hannah says she doesn't want to blame 'us' for what just happened but will: it's not our fault, but maybe it is. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:31)
2016-11-11 · The Trouble with Wishful Thinking — Hannah thinks 'we' probably acted on our hopes ourselves, but worries we didn't have enough conversations with other people in our families. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:39)
2016-11-11 · The Trouble with Wishful Thinking — Hannah says it is beautiful that millennials were motivated to vote this year (2016) with a strong turnout, and thinks the next step is talking to family and others who hold other political beliefs or are apathetic. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:00)
2016-11-11 · The Trouble with Wishful Thinking — Hannah thinks it is extraordinary to live in a country where we can still act on our beliefs, and that while we still can, we should. — hedged: “I do think” [opinion marker] (00:02:22)
2016-11-11 · The Trouble with Wishful Thinking — Hannah asks viewers, while it is still safe, to have uncomfortable dinner conversations with family members who hold opposing political beliefs. (00:02:32)
2016-11-11 · The Trouble with Wishful Thinking — Hannah tells viewers to show such family members their Twitter feeds and the racism and violence already incited in 'Trump's America'. (00:02:37)
2016-11-11 · The Trouble with Wishful Thinking — Hannah tells viewers to show friends who didn't vote this, and if they say they didn't vote for Trump, to answer that they didn't vote at all and are guilty by association. (00:02:51)
2016-11-11 · The Trouble with Wishful Thinking — Hannah says people would like to pretend their actions don't matter, but their actions and inactions matter a lot. (00:03:03)
2016-11-11 · The Trouble with Wishful Thinking — Hannah implores viewers to take time to heal, mourn and grieve, because rebuilding strength needs rest. (00:03:11)
2016-11-11 · The Trouble with Wishful Thinking — Hannah cautions against wishful thinking: what we thought was enough isn't, so we can't cross our fingers for a more aligned Congress in two years; the conversations must start now. (00:03:20)

Craig Benzine (22)

2013-06-11 · How To Be John Green — Craig opens by imitating John Green: talking fast, not blinking, dropping pitch before jump cuts and raising his hair's 'puff level'; with glasses he would look exactly like Vsauce. (playful) (00:00:01)
2013-06-11 · How To Be John Green — Craig picks up John's joke that WheezyWaiter is his 'real last name', replaying John's line from the previous video. (playful) (00:00:23)
2013-06-11 · How To Be John Green — Craig explains he is there because John had a baby - Sarah had the baby, John helped - and they brought Alice Green into the world. (playful) (00:00:48)
2013-06-11 · How To Be John Green — Craig recites Hank's list from 'How to Be a Baby Properly' (stuck in the world, cry, sleep 2.5 hours at a time, put stuff in your mouth, cry again, be cute) and says it is what he did in college. (playful) (00:01:09)
2013-06-11 · How To Be John Green — Craig tells Hank and John it is an honour to be on their channel, so he had to step up his usual game (he shows a clip of himself shirtless). (00:01:26)
2013-06-11 · How To Be John Green — Craig makes a 'Nerdfighter clone' to practise talking to Nerdfighters; the clone says DFTBA and is sent to decrease worldsuck in the bathroom with a mop. (joke) (00:01:43)
2013-06-11 · How To Be John Green — Craig parodies more things John does: Question Tuesday with fake questions, a 'Who the eff is Hank?' answer, Sharpie face (a cracker smashed on his forehead), a Thoughts from Places about his office, an Oscar Wilde reading, and a 'not-airport'. (joke) (00:02:07)
2013-06-11 · How To Be John Green — Asked (in his own made-up question) when John is coming back, Craig is not sure, but says it will be a bunch of weeks with different people hosting each week. — hedged: “I'm not sure” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:19)
2013-06-11 · How To Be John Green — Craig says he is called WheezyWaiter because he has asthma and used to be a waiter. (00:02:24)
2013-06-11 · How To Be John Green — Craig says he does not hate Vsauce for looking like him; they really are friends. (playful) (00:02:27)
2016-11-14 · Who the Eff Is Hank? — Craig takes up the question 'Who the eff is Hank?': he is not Hank but Craig, aka WheezyWaiter, and tells the asker to clean up their language. (playful) (00:00:00)
2016-11-14 · Who the Eff Is Hank? — Craig recalls that a few years ago he filled in for John, doing his best impression of him, and says it was well received. (playful) (00:00:13)
2016-11-14 · Who the Eff Is Hank? — For nerdfighters missing Hank, Craig imitates things Hank does: dancing with hip thrusts, singing rock music, breathing, and smiling while he talks. (joke) (00:00:24)
2016-11-14 · Who the Eff Is Hank? — Craig says the term 'pizza' first appeared in a Latin text around the 10th century in southern Italy. (playful) (00:01:00)
2016-11-14 · Who the Eff Is Hank? — Craig says the Latin text was found in Gaeta, Italy, and stated that a person of a certain property was to give the bishop of Gaeta 12 pizzas every day. (playful) (00:01:11)
2016-11-14 · Who the Eff Is Hank? — Craig realises he is giving the history of pizza rather than the science, says history is more John's thing, and apologises. (playful) (00:01:30)
2016-11-14 · Who the Eff Is Hank? — Craig says basic pizza is bread, sauce and cheese, and the bread is made of flour, water and baker's yeast, a living single-celled fungus, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. (playful) (00:01:38)
2016-11-14 · Who the Eff Is Hank? — Calling the Pizza John moustache crucial, Craig says the oldest portrait of a moustache is an Iranian horseman from 300 BC (first saying AD, then correcting himself). (playful) (00:02:11)
2016-11-14 · Who the Eff Is Hank? — Craig thanks Hank and John for having him, says he loves doing these, and asks them to have lots more kids. (playful) (00:02:29)
2026-09-11 · Our Last YouTube View… — Craig says he and Hank have been YouTubers together for a very long time, but he has not been on this channel in a while. (00:00:00)
2026-09-11 · Our Last YouTube View… — Craig suggests that not people but somebody, like a historian, might look at the old videos. — hedged: “might” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:29)
2026-09-11 · Our Last YouTube View… — Asked when his last YouTube view will be, Craig says 2500, and plans to make videos with titles and tags a historian would look up. (playful) (00:03:28)

Mariama (20)

2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Mariama says Sierra Leone reported over 22,000 TB cases in 2024; 15% should be children but only 9% were, so about 3,000 children with TB are missed every year. (00:27:45)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Mariama says health workers have low confidence in diagnosing childhood TB, which is mostly clinical and subjective. (00:28:21)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Mariama says diagnostics are scarce: samples must travel to machines, and x-ray machines are sparse and often broken, so children must be moved to them. (00:28:50)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Mariama says Sierra Leone diagnosed less than 1% of its MDR-TB cases last year (2024). (00:29:22)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Mariama says the target is TPT for 90% of child contacts under five, but only 2.8% has been reached. (00:29:45)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Mariama says the four-month regimen requires excluding severe TB, hard with limited diagnostics and staff, so clinicians are unsure whom to put on four or six months. (00:30:12)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Mariama says TB screening is not yet embedded in child and maternal health services, so many children who come to hospital go undiagnosed. (00:30:39)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Mariama says contact tracing is poor and the system relies on passive case finding, with caregivers bringing children in, rather than actively finding cases. (00:31:01)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Mariama says under-five care is free but financial barriers persist: no enablers for drug-sensitive TB and no social protection, and catastrophic costs impede adherence. (00:31:53)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Mariama sums up: new guidelines, drugs and diagnostics are filters, but the health system itself is a weak sieve with large holes through which the sickest children slip undiagnosed. (00:32:22)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Mariama says TB care is mostly donor funded, so broken machines wait on donors; batteries for x-ray machines took almost three years to fix, forcing patients at Lakka to other facilities. (00:33:32)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Mariama says other facilities prioritize their own patients and do not want TB patients, and moving very sick patients needs oxygen and a nurse. (00:34:31)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Mariama says giving TPT first requires finding every patient's contacts and then excluding active TB, which strains diagnostics and expertise. (00:36:54)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Mariama says rifapentine, which shortens TPT to about three months instead of six, has no child-friendly formulation for kids under two, who mostly get six months. (00:37:42)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Mariama says it is hard to get caregivers to give a potentially toxic drug with side effects to a child who is not sick. (00:38:10)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Mariama says the Global Fund, which supports over 90% of TB services in Sierra Leone, has cut back 12% for the current allocation. (00:39:56)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Mariama says only life-saving activities are kept, so outreach, training, patient enablers and community sensitization with survivor testimony have been cut. (00:40:46)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Mariama thinks those cut activities are also life-saving, because prevention and community engagement curtail TB in the long run. (00:41:12)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Mariama says planned drug resistance, stigma and catastrophic cost surveys were cancelled or postponed, weakening sustainability and increasing donor dependency. (00:41:12)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Mariama finds hope in the community movement around TB: once neglected and stigmatized, it is now discussed openly. (00:57:07)

Sabrina Cruz (20)

2013-07-16 · The Ghost of Teenaged Future — Sabrina introduces herself as the other Nerd Factor winner, known as NerdyandQuirky, and says that, following the pattern of previous videos, she is not John. (00:00:03)
2013-07-16 · The Ghost of Teenaged Future — She says she is a fifteen-year-old experiencing teenage life and noticing the unfortunate things she and her peers do. (00:00:13)
2013-07-16 · The Ghost of Teenaged Future — Like a ghost in a Dickens novel, she warns Hank about the annoying things his niece and nephew might do as teenagers, at least according to stereotypes. (playful) (00:00:19)
2013-07-16 · The Ghost of Teenaged Future — She says friends and social life will become more important than anything else, including online interaction, since real life would involve going outside. (playful) (00:00:27)
2013-07-16 · The Ghost of Teenaged Future — She says teen diets range from no food all day to all the food in the world: left alone she forgets to eat, then binges on snacks and sweets. (playful) (00:00:44)
2013-07-16 · The Ghost of Teenaged Future — She says teenagers of all genders will fangirl, sometimes over people older than them, which is weird but nothing to worry about. (playful) (00:01:07)
2013-07-16 · The Ghost of Teenaged Future — She says meme quoting such as YOLO goes from unironic to ironic use and back to unironic again. (playful) (00:01:21)
2013-07-16 · The Ghost of Teenaged Future — She notes her list (slurred speech, bad vision, trouble breathing) sounds like medicine warnings: aging, like medicine, makes us more mature and intelligent with possible negative side effects. (playful) (00:01:58)
2016-11-04 · Stress and Joy — Sabrina, standing in for Hank, introduces herself: she has just started university and jokes that she is falling apart. (playful) (00:00:03)
2016-11-04 · Stress and Joy — Sabrina says it is hard being a human being: everyone is stressed by different things depending on their work, relationships and age. (00:00:16)
2016-11-04 · Stress and Joy — Sabrina lists her university workload (midterms, presentations, essays, readings, 'suggested' problems) and jokes she would be crying herself to sleep if she got any sleep. (playful) (00:00:27)
2016-11-04 · Stress and Joy — Sabrina's 'plot twist': despite the stress, she is the happiest she has ever been in her life. (00:00:50)
2016-11-04 · Stress and Joy — Sabrina argues that we build a false dichotomy between stress and happiness, assuming happiness exists only when there is no stress. — hedged: “consider the possibility” [other hedge] (00:00:54)
2016-11-04 · Stress and Joy — Sabrina says the biggest hindrance to her happiness for most of her life was a lack of good stress: not anxiety or fear of failure, but the stress of doing something you love that fills every hour. — hedged: “I would argue” [other hedge] (00:01:04)
2016-11-04 · Stress and Joy — Sabrina says growing up she could afford to be lazy, which she calls privilege, so she never worked hard or felt the fulfilment of pushing herself to her limit. (00:01:27)
2016-11-04 · Stress and Joy — Sabrina recalls sitting in her first math lecture towards a math major, realizing she does not know how to do math, and smiling instead of collapsing. (00:01:45)
2016-11-04 · Stress and Joy — Sabrina allows the smile may have been a coping mechanism, but likes to think it was because she is enamored with knowing there is so much more to know. — hedged: “I like to think” [other hedge] (00:02:12)
2016-11-04 · Stress and Joy — Sabrina says that for the first time she feels she is working towards something: the readings and writings that stress her are the same things that build the framework for her happiness. — hedged: “I feel like” [opinion marker] (00:02:21)
2016-11-04 · Stress and Joy — Sabrina says she spends her free time napping, and what is left after that truly appreciating her life, friends and family. (00:02:46)
2016-11-04 · Stress and Joy — Sabrina concludes she is the most stressed she has ever been but the happiest she could hope, and it is good to know the two are not mutually exclusive. (00:02:58)

Irwin (19)

2025-12-05 · Why Don't Rockets Melt Themselves — The guide explains that the engine bell does not melt because the fuel, which he calls a fancy name for kerosene, flows through tubes around it, cooling the metal while warming the fuel for burning. (00:01:17)
2025-12-05 · Why Don't Rockets Melt Themselves — The guide says the Saturn V is a multi-stage rocket, with Wernher von Braun as its chief designer. (00:01:47)
2025-12-05 · Why Don't Rockets Melt Themselves — Asked whether explosive bolts were invented for the rocket, the guide says the designers came mostly from aviation and built on what they knew. (00:02:16)
2025-12-05 · Why Don't Rockets Melt Themselves — The guide says the upper stages use engines burning hydrogen and oxygen, which is much more efficient. (00:02:16)
2025-12-05 · Why Don't Rockets Melt Themselves — The guide says the first stage did not use hydrogen because of size: the oxidizer would distort the stage, and on the ground kerosene and hydrogen give almost the same power. (00:02:44)
2025-12-05 · Why Don't Rockets Melt Themselves — The guide says SpaceX uses methane, less efficient than hydrogen, because methane is easy to find in the solar system. (00:02:44)
2025-12-05 · Why Don't Rockets Melt Themselves — The guide hints that Mars, a place with a lot of red dirt, has quite a bit of methane. (00:03:15)
2025-12-05 · Why Don't Rockets Melt Themselves — The guide says one reason for going back to the Moon is its water, from which oxygen and hydrogen fuel can be extracted rather than carried. (00:03:15)
2025-12-05 · Why Don't Rockets Melt Themselves — The guide says weight is the biggest hurdle in spaceflight, most of each stage being there to carry fuel. (00:03:15)
2025-12-05 · Why Don't Rockets Melt Themselves — The guide says this Saturn V never launched because President Nixon cut the program over budget and war problems and to save costs, while a new winged spacecraft idea arose. (00:03:44)
2025-12-05 · Why Don't Rockets Melt Themselves — The guide says the third stage took astronauts to the Moon: on Mission Control's go for translunar injection, they fired its upper-stage engine. (00:04:13)
2025-12-05 · Why Don't Rockets Melt Themselves — The guide says the upper-stage engine was the only engine of its type able to turn off and on again in the vacuum of space. (00:04:13)
2025-12-05 · Why Don't Rockets Melt Themselves — The guide says that for over 30 years Rocketdyne was the only company able to do this; today SpaceX and Blue Origin use the same idea. (00:04:13)
2025-12-05 · Why Don't Rockets Melt Themselves — The guide says the rocket's computers, its brains, had only kilobytes of power, similar to a jet airliner's avionics bay. (00:05:02)
2025-12-05 · Why Don't Rockets Melt Themselves — The guide says escape stages could pull the capsule off a rocket that exploded or lost control, and Artemis has a similar system, renamed the launch abort system. (00:05:32)
2025-12-05 · Why Don't Rockets Melt Themselves — The guide names Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong as the astronauts who walked on the Moon. (00:05:32)
2025-12-05 · Why Don't Rockets Melt Themselves — The guide calls the third astronaut, Michael Collins, the most important one, because he flew the crew back home. (00:05:32)
2025-12-05 · Why Don't Rockets Melt Themselves — Asked what the capsule window was for, the guide says there is a joystick inside and the crew navigated by the stars through the window. (00:05:32)
2025-12-05 · Why Don't Rockets Melt Themselves — The guide says designers planned a fully automated capsule without a window, but early astronauts refused, so from the Mercury era the window stayed. (00:06:18)

Tessa Violet (18)

2016-12-16 · Fear in Art — Tessa says that in October she had her first music release since her record three years earlier, and spent the hour before the EP came out crying while on tour. (00:00:03)
2016-12-16 · Fear in Art — Tessa says many of her friends with releases in the following months told her they had a similar experience in the hours before their EPs came out. (00:00:16)
2016-12-16 · Fear in Art — Tessa says releasing something is less like giving birth, as friends told her, than like sending your kid off to college: art that was yours for a year leaves and no longer belongs to you. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:30)
2016-12-16 · Fear in Art — Tessa says letting go is especially hard for artists who put their identity in their art, who fear people won't like it, will find it not good enough, or will hate them. (00:00:56)
2016-12-16 · Fear in Art — Tessa says it is hard to create anything and perhaps even harder to put it out, both hard for similar reasons. — hedged: “I don't know if” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:05)
2016-12-16 · Fear in Art — Tessa says a work is perfect while it exists only in your head, but creating it forces you to face your inadequacy, whether lacking hardware you can't afford or not yet knowing how to do it well. (00:01:14)
2016-12-16 · Fear in Art — Tessa says the fear of inadequacy, and of rejection on release, is the reason many people never create at all. — hedged: “I do think” [opinion marker] (00:02:09)
2016-12-16 · Fear in Art — Tessa says it is very vulnerable to say you made something and like it, maybe more so to say you wanted to like it but don't, but that is part of learning and being a beginner. — hedged: “Maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:20)
2016-12-16 · Fear in Art — Tessa concludes it is natural to grieve the loss of ownership and safety when releasing something, and to fear your inadequacy when creating, but neither is a good reason not to try. — hedged: “I guess” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:34)
2016-12-16 · Fear in Art — Tessa introduces herself at the end: she makes video blogs and original music. (00:02:54)
2018-09-07 · Frightened Leech Science with Tessa Violet — Tessa says the climbing leeches knocked into a tube, knocking out a whale bone that rang a bell, and the device was pretty accurate. (00:01:51)
2018-09-07 · Frightened Leech Science with Tessa Violet — Tessa says that in 1842 the inventor Dr. Meriwether built the tempest prognosticator to tell whether a storm was coming, using 12 leeches. (00:01:51)
2018-09-07 · Frightened Leech Science with Tessa Violet — Tessa says leeches crawl upward and out of the water when they sense a storm coming. — hedged: “I guess” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:51)
2018-09-07 · Frightened Leech Science with Tessa Violet — Tessa says she found the article by searching the page for the word 'frightening'. (00:02:50)
2018-09-07 · Frightened Leech Science with Tessa Violet — Asked by Hank, Tessa, who has a copy of his book, says it is so good. (00:02:50)
2018-09-07 · Frightened Leech Science with Tessa Violet — Tessa says reading is a chore for her and she rarely finishes books, yet she started Hank's on Sunday, is three quarters through by Monday (10 September 2018) and read it walking down the street. (00:02:50)
2018-09-07 · Frightened Leech Science with Tessa Violet — Tessa tells viewers to go listen to the single, which she likes a lot, and to tell their friends to like it. (00:02:50)
2018-09-07 · Frightened Leech Science with Tessa Violet — In an outtake, Tessa recalls Hank asking her to host a trivia show and telling her mom that Hank Green had emailed her. (playful) (00:03:30)

Emily Graslie (17)

2012-12-07 · Thoughts from Dead Animals — Emily says the museum has about 21,000 specimens in one tiny room alone. (00:00:42)
2012-12-07 · Thoughts from Dead Animals — Emily says the museum has 7,000 bird specimens, mounted on sticks so they can be picked up. (00:00:47)
2012-12-07 · Thoughts from Dead Animals — Emily says the bird specimens dating from before the 1960s were preserved with arsenic. (00:00:55)
2012-12-07 · Thoughts from Dead Animals — Emily says the hyena skull shows a scavenger that ate bones: worn-down teeth, bone loss and dental abscesses that hyenas often get. (00:01:29)
2012-12-07 · Thoughts from Dead Animals — Emily says possums have more teeth than any other mammal. (00:02:18)
2013-01-18 · Thoughts from Carnegie Hall — In the Brain Scoop clip, Emily Graslie says the first video went very well, she is excited to make the show with viewers, and she was mentioned on the Scientific American website. (00:02:59)
2013-01-18 · Thoughts from Carnegie Hall — Asked the silliest thing children ask on her museum tours, Emily says they always ask if everything is dead, and yes, everything is dead. (playful) (00:03:36)
2013-03-29 · Caviar Brownies - The Second Annual Hungry Games — Emily's brownie smells of sriracha; she likes it and says she will put sriracha in all her brownies from now on. (playful) (00:01:30)
2013-06-21 · New Channels, New Songs, and Just Plain News — The Brain Scoop is going "the best" and will partner with the Field Museum in Chicago. (00:00:55)
2013-06-21 · New Channels, New Songs, and Just Plain News — The Field Museum holds one of the largest and most diverse collections in the world, 25 million artifacts, against 24,000 at her current museum. (00:00:55)
2013-06-21 · New Channels, New Songs, and Just Plain News — A specimen ('he') from her current collection will travel with her on temporary loan to the Field Museum, riding shotgun. (playful) (00:01:22)
2015-05-01 · A $100,000 Egg and A 200M Year Old Pinecone — Emily says a tapeworm's sexual reproductive organs are all in its head, so breaking off a segment does not stop it reproducing; you have to get the head out. (00:00:48)
2015-05-01 · A $100,000 Egg and A 200M Year Old Pinecone — Emily shows a fossilized pine cone whose organic material was all replaced by limestone, a couple hundred million years old. (00:01:41)
2015-05-01 · A $100,000 Egg and A 200M Year Old Pinecone — Emily shows an egg of the extinct elephant bird of Madagascar, next to an ostrich egg for scale, and says the museum's is a real one where many museums have a replica. (00:01:59)
2015-05-01 · A $100,000 Egg and A 200M Year Old Pinecone — Emily guesses there are fewer than half a dozen elephant bird eggs in any museum collection in the world, and asks not to be quoted on it. — hedged: “I don't know, there's probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:17)
2015-05-01 · A $100,000 Egg and A 200M Year Old Pinecone — Emily shows the squirrel she taxidermied recently, from The Brain Scoop's 'How to Taxidermy a Squirrel' episode. (00:02:28)
2015-05-01 · A $100,000 Egg and A 200M Year Old Pinecone — Emily says the president of the museum in Berlin is married to Charles Darwin's great-great-granddaughter and has a swoopy mustache that perfectly mimicked the horns of the buffalo behind her. (playful) (00:02:34)

Mike Green (17)

2013-12-13 · Mom and Dad Green! Extra Special Question Tuesday — Mike says they didn't want him to be a Bill or a Willie and liked 'Hank' as cute, but realizes the name has been a monumental pain for Hank. (playful) (00:00:41)
2013-12-13 · Mom and Dad Green! Extra Special Question Tuesday — Mike says newborn Hank was a little blue and did not have a very high APGAR score. (playful) (00:01:14)
2013-12-13 · Mom and Dad Green! Extra Special Question Tuesday — Mike describes John as a child as wonderful, a little troubled and lonely. (playful) (00:01:39)
2013-12-13 · Mom and Dad Green! Extra Special Question Tuesday — Mike recalls five-year-old John calmly lying down on his back in the Miami airport and saying it was just too much and he couldn't take it anymore. (playful) (00:01:47)
2013-12-13 · Mom and Dad Green! Extra Special Question Tuesday — Mike says it surprises and amuses him that people ask whether Hank is okay with John being so famous and successful. (00:02:31)
2013-12-13 · Mom and Dad Green! Extra Special Question Tuesday — Mike gives his number-one parenting tip in one word: encourage. (00:02:48)
2013-12-13 · Mom and Dad Green! Extra Special Question Tuesday — Mike says they live about 20 minutes outside Asheville and chose the place with a spreadsheet of indicators that came almost all from the census. (00:03:07)
2018-07-20 · Making Bad Decisions with My Dad — Hank learned over dinner that their dad, at eight to ten, would come home from school and eat Wonder Bread topped with two or three teaspoons of sugar; Dad calls it an after-school ritual, not a habit. (00:00:12)
2018-07-20 · Making Bad Decisions with My Dad — Dad says he ate it alone, without his mother or brothers, and that it was just a snack, not getting away with something. (00:01:01)
2018-07-20 · Making Bad Decisions with My Dad — Tasting the recreated sugar bread, Dad recognizes the crunch and finds it not as bad as he expected. (00:01:36)
2018-07-20 · Making Bad Decisions with My Dad — A blurb Dad reads praises the book's earnestly flawed bisexual heroine with direction and commitment issues and its generosity of spirit, calling it timely, sorely needed and highly recommended. (00:02:04)
2018-07-20 · Making Bad Decisions with My Dad — Another blurb calls the book funny, thrilling and an absolute blast to read, saying the writer knew Hank would be good at this but not this good on his first try. (00:02:19)
2018-07-20 · Making Bad Decisions with My Dad — A third blurb calls it the book the writer's teen self would have loved and adult self obsessed over: joyful, devastating, personal, zeitgeisty, modern, classic, fast-paced and thoughtful. (00:02:31)
2018-07-20 · Making Bad Decisions with My Dad — Dad adds his own verdict: he read it, and it's a good book. (00:02:46)
2018-07-20 · Making Bad Decisions with My Dad — Dad was at PodCon, will come again, and says it was great. (00:03:05)
2018-07-20 · Making Bad Decisions with My Dad — Dad says Mama Green is coming to PodCon, though she doesn't like big conferences. (00:03:11)
2018-07-20 · Making Bad Decisions with My Dad — Dad recalls his mentor telling him that the more you cut, the better it gets. (00:03:50)

Cathy Hewison (16)

2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Hewison says children get sick with very few bacteria, which adult-designed tests can't detect, so most never test positive and clinicians must dare to treat without confirmation. (00:43:17)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Hewison says tests rely on coughing up sputum, but small children swallow it and can't be made to cough into a pot. (00:43:46)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Hewison says TB in young children is atypical, so clinicians have to think TB or they will never find it. (00:44:15)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Hewison says children are the most vulnerable yet always the last thought about and never prioritised; no test has ever been developed for TB in children, and it takes political will. (00:44:44)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Hewison says children's formulations exist for all drugs but cost more, so programs buy adult ones, and underdiagnosis leads to expired stock and no reordering: a vicious circle. (00:45:46)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Hewison says nutrition is the number one determinant of TB, children are the most affected, so nutrition is prevention. (00:45:46)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Hewison says improving access to tools and developing new ones is a question of prioritisation and thinking TB, so decision-makers and families must treat children as a priority. (00:46:36)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Hewison says a new generation of tongue-swab tests is mobile, palm-sized and battery-run, so testing can happen on the spot in community screening. (00:48:58)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Hewison says the current test takes about two hours while the new one takes 10 to 30 minutes. (00:49:39)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Hewison says the new machine costs 1% of the current one and the test half as much. (00:50:08)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Hewison says the swab tests are not better at finding bacteria, so they won't fix the problem in kids; tests made for kids, perhaps detecting biomarkers, are needed. (00:50:37)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Hewison says BCG at birth protects children under two well against the severest TB, including meningitis, but not later in life; new vaccines are in the pipeline. (00:51:30)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Hewison says preventive therapy is a great tool and formulations now exist for even the smallest kids. (00:52:58)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Hewison says WHO recently recommended food support for all household members of a TB patient in food-insecure settings, malnourished or not. (00:52:58)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Hewison says TB is often a disease of poverty, spreading where people live close together; the tools exist but political will is lacking. (00:53:27)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Hewison finds hope in seeing a sick child recover and in the buy-in for MSF's TACTiC initiative. (00:56:34)

MagicTurtle643 (15)

2013-07-09 · The World Needs More Magic — MagicTurtle643 introduces himself as one of the two Nerd Factor winners chosen to fill in for John during his paternity leave. (00:00:00)
2013-07-09 · The World Needs More Magic — He says that like John he uses vlogs to put off his novel, and must give a lecture on magical realism in a week for a grad school requirement, not yet done. (playful) (00:00:00)
2013-07-09 · The World Needs More Magic — He thinks the world needs more magic and the supernatural: not that more people should believe in it, since it's all make-believe, but that more people should make-believe it. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:29)
2013-07-09 · The World Needs More Magic — He admires magical realism: a story works like a realistic novel but the author adds supernatural, law-breaking events at will for intrigue, originality and symbolic resonance. (00:00:29)
2013-07-09 · The World Needs More Magic — He says in Sarah Addison Allen's The Girl Who Chased the Moon an ex-husband leaves black dust on all he touches, a physical symbol of the messes hurtful people leave behind. (00:00:58)
2013-07-09 · The World Needs More Magic — He says in her book The Sugar Queen a girl named Chloe is magically chased around by self-help books trying to solve her problems. (playful) (00:01:27)
2013-07-09 · The World Needs More Magic — He isn't saying writers like John should ditch realism, just that you can never have too much imagination; books and movies can do anything because it's pretending. — hedged: “I just think” [opinion marker] (00:01:27)
2013-07-09 · The World Needs More Magic — He hopes we never stop obsessing over witches and superheroes, not for false hope but to exercise the power to make them come true through imagination, better than CGI. — hedged: “I hope” [wish / hope] (00:01:52)
2013-07-09 · The World Needs More Magic — Since we can't decrease world suck with Harry Potter spells, he says all we can do is demand more Harry Potter, which still captivates people. (playful) (00:01:52)
2013-07-09 · The World Needs More Magic — Given dark wizards and no electronics, he thinks he would rather be a muggle; love potions can't match his love for his Nintendo 3DS. (playful) — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:52)
2013-07-09 · The World Needs More Magic — He thinks JK Rowling got one thing wrong: non-magic folk don't hate or deny magic; people love blaming lost keys on ghosts, gnomes or fairies because it's more fun. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:28)
2013-07-09 · The World Needs More Magic — He says he is not arguing we should believe in such things, just that it's healthy to fantasize about them. (00:02:28)
2013-07-09 · The World Needs More Magic — Loving science like any nerdfighter, he says the pleasure of magicians is that they make something amazing happen where magic isn't possible, which is what humans are good at. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:28)
2013-07-09 · The World Needs More Magic — He says all it takes is a community of people who love reading about things that never happened and singing about magical teenagers to make things a little better: Nerdfighters. (00:03:16)
2013-07-09 · The World Needs More Magic — He invites viewers who want more of him to follow the link in the doobly-doo. (00:03:16)

Jad Abumrad (14)

2026-08-26 · Jad Abumrad on Dolly Parton: 'The Unicorn of Unicorns' — Jad says that in all his interviews he goes back again and again: an interview is never just one, but three or four with the same person. (00:01:01)
2026-08-26 · Jad Abumrad on Dolly Parton: 'The Unicorn of Unicorns' — Jad talked with Dolly Parton many times; in one of the last interviews she asked whether he was still here and what he was doing, and he felt the weight of the question. (00:01:01)
2026-08-26 · Jad Abumrad on Dolly Parton: 'The Unicorn of Unicorns' — Looking back, Jad says an interviewer always wants to reach the point where the subject asks why you are still around. (00:01:44)
2026-08-26 · Jad Abumrad on Dolly Parton: 'The Unicorn of Unicorns' — Jad confirms Dolly gave him her quip every time: ask her anything, and she will tell you what she wants you to hear. (00:01:44)
2026-08-26 · Jad Abumrad on Dolly Parton: 'The Unicorn of Unicorns' — Jad came away thinking Dolly is a genius you don't see because she doesn't want you to, using humor as judo to redirect uncomfortable questions in interviews. (00:02:07)
2026-08-26 · Jad Abumrad on Dolly Parton: 'The Unicorn of Unicorns' — Jad says he asked her every question he could, yet he does not feel he really knows her: she creates the feeling of knowing and plays the game too well to get past. (00:02:37)
2026-08-26 · Jad Abumrad on Dolly Parton: 'The Unicorn of Unicorns' — Jad says Dolly came to Nashville at 21 in 1967 to join Porter Wagoner, then the biggest deal in country music with a syndicated show, ostensibly as his backup singer. (00:04:17)
2026-08-26 · Jad Abumrad on Dolly Parton: 'The Unicorn of Unicorns' — Jad says that within a year Dolly was all anyone wanted to see; Wagoner grew jealous, bad-mouthed her in the press and sued her for $3 million when she tried to leave. (00:04:17)
2026-08-26 · Jad Abumrad on Dolly Parton: 'The Unicorn of Unicorns' — Jad says Dolly left by telling Wagoner she had her own dreams and wrote I Will Always Love You for him, a song that went to number one in three successive decades. — hedged: “like” [other hedge] (00:04:46)
2026-08-26 · Jad Abumrad on Dolly Parton: 'The Unicorn of Unicorns' — Jad says Dolly left with an incredible act of kindness while also insisting on her own power. (00:04:46)
2026-08-26 · Jad Abumrad on Dolly Parton: 'The Unicorn of Unicorns' — Jad says Dolly embodies the better ideals of Christianity more than almost anyone. (00:05:23)
2026-08-26 · Jad Abumrad on Dolly Parton: 'The Unicorn of Unicorns' — Jad jokes that seven generations of her family will live off the song. (playful) (00:05:23)
2026-08-26 · Jad Abumrad on Dolly Parton: 'The Unicorn of Unicorns' — Jad says Dolly does it all in solitary gestures, as if mid-game of chess she reveals a piece you didn't know about. (00:05:52)
2026-08-26 · Jad Abumrad on Dolly Parton: 'The Unicorn of Unicorns' — Jad calls Dolly the unicorn of unicorns: he doubts there will be anyone like her once she is gone, but everyone keeps benefiting from what she made. (00:05:52)

Nat Wolff (14)

2013-09-17 · Question Tuesday with Nat Wolff (aka Isaac in The Fault in Our Stars movie) — Asked if Shailene Woodley is a good kisser, Nat says he wouldn't know: Isaac doesn't get to kiss Hazel. (playful) (00:00:28)
2013-09-17 · Question Tuesday with Nat Wolff (aka Isaac in The Fault in Our Stars movie) — Nat says he has filmed the trophy scene and thinks it went well. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:37)
2013-09-17 · Question Tuesday with Nat Wolff (aka Isaac in The Fault in Our Stars movie) — Nat says the movie is very true to the book: people love it and it is already so realistic that barely anything had to change. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:55)
2013-09-17 · Question Tuesday with Nat Wolff (aka Isaac in The Fault in Our Stars movie) — Nat apologises to tweeters about his not being blonde: neither of his parents is blonde, so he couldn't control it. (playful) (00:01:22)
2013-09-17 · Question Tuesday with Nat Wolff (aka Isaac in The Fault in Our Stars movie) — Nat says the one movie he would watch would probably be Taxi Driver, probably his favourite movie of all time. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:36)
2013-09-17 · Question Tuesday with Nat Wolff (aka Isaac in The Fault in Our Stars movie) — Nat says meeting teen cancer survivors at a hospital was overwhelming: within minutes they talked movies, TV and music, and he realised they are normal kids in a really lame situation. (00:01:48)
2013-09-17 · Question Tuesday with Nat Wolff (aka Isaac in The Fault in Our Stars movie) — Nat, on his second movie with director Josh Boone, calls Boone one of his best friends and hopes to work with him for the rest of his career. — hedged: “Hopefully” [wish / hope] (00:02:14)
2013-09-17 · Question Tuesday with Nat Wolff (aka Isaac in The Fault in Our Stars movie) — Nat says that when filming Isaac's blind scenes he really can't see, using covered glasses or contacts, which is freeing: you lose all self-consciousness. (00:02:31)
2013-09-17 · Question Tuesday with Nat Wolff (aka Isaac in The Fault in Our Stars movie) — Nat says he prepared by watching online videos of blind people, meeting a man named Ethan, and watching Scent of a Woman. (00:02:43)
2013-09-17 · Question Tuesday with Nat Wolff (aka Isaac in The Fault in Our Stars movie) — Nat says his favourite book of all time is The Catcher in the Rye, which, like Hazel, he read at an important time in his life. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:03:16)
2014-11-19 · The Future of the Project for Awesome: Pizzamas Day 8 — Nat Wolff announces the P4A will be on December 12 and 13, not its usual time around his December 17 birthday, because that is the end of the Paper Towns shoot. (00:01:06)
2015-06-16 · Paper Towns Madrid with Nat Wolff! THE TOUR BEGINS — Nat says he slept probably an hour. (00:01:17)
2015-06-16 · Paper Towns Madrid with Nat Wolff! THE TOUR BEGINS — Nat says he is going to be John when he grows up. (playful) (00:02:27)
2015-06-23 · Question Tuesday with Cara Delevingne and Nat Wolff — Asked by viewers, Nat Wolff says he would be an elephant and names John Green as the person who has inspired him most in his career. (playful) (00:00:32)

Nandita Venkatesan (13)

2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Nandita says she is a two-time survivor of intestinal (extrapulmonary) TB, first diagnosed in 2007 at 17 as she began university, and cured after about 15 months of treatment. (00:02:12)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Nandita says she relapsed in 2013 after her master's; the drugs did not work well, the disease turned severe, and at 24 she had six abdominal surgeries and about 90 days in hospital. (00:03:29)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Nandita says around November 2013 an injectable drug in her treatment (name unclear) took her hearing completely: she fell asleep at 2 p.m. and woke at 2:15 unable to hear. (00:04:36)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Nandita says learning that a medicine, not the bacteria she was fighting, had taken her hearing made it one of the most horrifying days of her life. (00:06:04)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Nandita hopes TB treatment becomes a cakewalk: take the medicine and be cured, with no such horrifying experiences or existential questions. (00:06:33)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Nandita agrees but adds that no drug is free of side effects (bedaquiline needs care about cardiotoxicity), though researchers regard it as safe. (00:07:31)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Nandita says drugs that destroy ears or kidneys should no longer exist; her hearing loss could have been avoided with better diagnostics or medicines. (00:08:48)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Nandita says that during COVID, studying at Oxford on a full scholarship, she watched drugs and vaccines arrive weekly while people lamented an isolation she had already lived through. (00:09:46)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Nandita hopes that as more survivors share their experiences, others will find the courage to come out and someone to look up to during treatment. (00:45:07)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Nandita says though her intestinal TB was not contagious she was told to keep quiet, so she told people she had an intestinal infection and never named the disease. (00:46:19)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Nandita says people fear TB as contagious without knowing that patients adhering to treatment become non-infectious within weeks or months and can date and live normally; such facts should be widely shared. (00:46:48)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Nandita says the patent opposition they won faced skeptics questioning their motives, since both had finished treatment, and asking whether they were against innovation or understood the economics. (00:54:31)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Nandita says she is not against innovation and, highly educated, understands the economics; she wants innovation to reach people, since science must benefit everyone. (00:55:54)

Phumeza Tisile (13)

2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Phumeza welcomes the news: South Africa was the only country getting bedaquiline from J&J at a much higher price than any other, which angered activists. (00:11:58)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Phumeza says at 19, a first-year student, she was tired and breathless; a private doctor sent her to a Cape Town public clinic, where her TB test came back negative after weeks. (00:13:20)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Phumeza says, down to 32 kg, she was diagnosed by chest X-ray, got worse on first-line drugs, then was found to have MDR-TB and hospitalized at Brooklyn Chest Hospital on many pills and a painful daily injection. (00:13:58)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Phumeza says she woke up deaf; staff wrote 'deaf' in red capitals on her folder and explained in writing that nothing could be done. (00:15:04)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Phumeza says after lung surgery her drugs failed and she had full-blown XDR-TB with a 20% chance of survival; an MSF doctor offered a new drug, and she was cured after three years and eight months. (00:17:18)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Phumeza says she was left deaf and could not return to university; she was lucky to get cochlear implants, which cost 40,000 US dollars. (00:17:18)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Phumeza wishes today's Xpert test had existed: knowing she had XDR-TB from the start would have prevented her hearing loss, daily vomiting and years of suffering. (00:17:54)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Phumeza says it makes no sense to create a solution and then keep it out of reach of the people who need it most, as with bedaquiline and the Xpert test. (00:19:35)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Phumeza says in almost a year in hospital she lost people close to her who could have been saved with better drugs. (00:43:27)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Phumeza says TB stigma is still huge: media tie it to death, people hide it and few speak out, so stigma must be broken down for people to seek care. (00:43:27)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Phumeza tells J&J and Cepheid that with so many gaps in TB care, survivors cannot also be fighting over drugs and diagnostics, and the companies are making it very difficult. (00:44:25)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Phumeza calls for universal TB testing (yearly for people with HIV, contacts and the previously treated) and services near people's homes, since stigma drives people to distant clinics. (00:53:46)
2023-09-19 · So, um.... GOOD NEWS?!?!?! — In a clip, Phumeza Tisile says her lowest weight was 32 kg. (00:01:31)

Trisha Pasricha (13)

2026-04-07 · I've Been Pooping All Wrong — Dr. Pasricha says she has studied how the gut and the brain communicate for about 20 years. (00:02:55)
2026-04-07 · I've Been Pooping All Wrong — Dr. Pasricha says the brain's influence on the gut has been known for over 100 years; only in recent decades has the gut's influence on the brain emerged. (00:02:55)
2026-04-07 · I've Been Pooping All Wrong — Dr. Pasricha says gut microbes are not puppeteers thinking for us, but with the GI tract they create the neurochemical weather in which thoughts and moods form, influencing OCD. (00:04:09)
2026-04-07 · I've Been Pooping All Wrong — Dr. Pasricha calls the gut its own brain: it has 500 million neurons and produces most of the body's serotonin and dopamine. (00:04:56)
2026-04-07 · I've Been Pooping All Wrong — Dr. Pasricha describes mouse studies: mice whose microbiome is wiped and replaced with fecal microbes from people with OCD begin to mimic OCD-like behaviors. (00:05:45)
2026-04-07 · I've Been Pooping All Wrong — Dr. Pasricha says mechanisms that look clear-cut in mouse studies often don't pan out in humans, whose lives are far more complicated. (00:06:23)
2026-04-07 · I've Been Pooping All Wrong — Dr. Pasricha says people with OCD consistently show increased intestinal permeability, though it is unknown whether that is cause or effect. (00:06:48)
2026-04-07 · I've Been Pooping All Wrong — Dr. Pasricha says people with OCD tend to eat less fiber, not necessarily a cause, and less fiber means fewer anti-inflammatory short-chain fatty acids from gut microbes. (00:06:48)
2026-04-07 · I've Been Pooping All Wrong — Dr. Pasricha says the fix is not a probiotic, whatever people hear, but diet could play a role. — hedged: “it could be through diet” [epistemic doubt] (00:07:25)
2026-04-07 · I've Been Pooping All Wrong — Asked by John, Dr. Pasricha says fiber is the number one thing for gut health: the most boring advice a doctor can give, when people want to hear about a supplement or product. (00:07:55)
2026-04-07 · I've Been Pooping All Wrong — Dr. Pasricha says about 95% of Americans are not meeting their fiber goals. (00:08:43)
2026-04-07 · I've Been Pooping All Wrong — Dr. Pasricha says fiber improves poop's shape and consistency overnight and, long term, supports the gut lining and feeds microbes that make anti-inflammatory compounds. (00:08:43)
2026-04-07 · I've Been Pooping All Wrong — Dr. Pasricha's one piece of advice for anyone: assume you are in the 95% not getting enough fiber, and eat more fiber, for gut and brain health. (00:09:12)

Ani Herna Sari (12)

2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Ani introduces herself as a TB survivor in Indonesia who now leads the TB survivor organization Rekat Peduli Indonesia Foundation. (00:02:49)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Ani says in 2011 an x-ray indicated TB though two sputum tests were negative; the doctor still gave TB medicine she thinks was inadequate, and she kept coughing blood for months. (00:03:17)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Ani says another doctor tested her sputum over three months and found her resistant to three medicines; she started MDR-TB treatment on 11 November 2011. (00:04:23)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Ani found herself pregnant in February 2012; pregnancy plus drug side effects meant daily vomiting, and she wanted to give up but kept fighting for her baby. (00:04:48)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Ani says when her water broke early and she needed surgery, she was put in glass isolation and asked to change hospitals, which she calls stigma, and was separated from her baby for five days. (00:05:17)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Ani says her baby was healthy, took TB preventive therapy and later got the BCG vaccine; she recovered in 2013. (00:06:33)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Ani says in 2015 she cared for her brother with drug-sensitive TB, and afterwards she and her son were infected, her second struggle with TB. (00:06:33)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Ani says her nine-month-old, still breastfeeding, kept spitting out the crushed medicine; she was depressed, and her family's support gave her courage. (00:07:36)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Ani says giving her child bitter pills he vomited up was painful; she felt she had failed as a mother, since he got TB despite TPT and BCG. (00:12:43)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Ani says survivors can be role models for families who may not know they have TB, giving education and awareness about infection, masks and nutrition. (00:13:58)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Ani says survivors also advocate with stakeholders so people on treatment get their right to the best service. (00:14:45)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Ani finds hope when every mother has clear TB information, every child is diagnosed and treated, and families see patients as human beings, not cases. (00:58:43)

Ashley C. Ford (12)

2021-06-08 · Feelings, Little Tunnels, and Oprah: It's Question Tuesday with Ashley C. Ford — Ashley is not a fan of seagulls (nor is John): one chased her husband down a beach. (playful) (00:00:15)
2021-06-08 · Feelings, Little Tunnels, and Oprah: It's Question Tuesday with Ashley C. Ford — Having Oprah love her book feels like stripping off wet, soggy clothes after a whole cold day outside and getting into the perfect hot shower. (00:00:29)
2021-06-08 · Feelings, Little Tunnels, and Oprah: It's Question Tuesday with Ashley C. Ford — Somebody's Daughter is about Ashley's girlhood in a difficult parental situation: her mom had emotional issues and hard interactions with her, while her father was incarcerated the whole time. (00:00:58)
2021-06-08 · Feelings, Little Tunnels, and Oprah: It's Question Tuesday with Ashley C. Ford — The book is about dealing with that, the feelings that come from it, and the hope of making it to the other side. (00:01:21)
2021-06-08 · Feelings, Little Tunnels, and Oprah: It's Question Tuesday with Ashley C. Ford — Asked when the worry about releasing a book ends and relief sets in, Ashley turns it back on John. (playful) (00:01:30)
2021-06-08 · Feelings, Little Tunnels, and Oprah: It's Question Tuesday with Ashley C. Ford — Coming home to Indiana after so much time in New York has been perfect. (00:01:35)
2021-06-08 · Feelings, Little Tunnels, and Oprah: It's Question Tuesday with Ashley C. Ford — Ashley wishes someone had told her there is no such thing as a bad feeling: feeling anger, sadness or frustration was not punishment and not wrongdoing. (00:01:40)
2021-06-08 · Feelings, Little Tunnels, and Oprah: It's Question Tuesday with Ashley C. Ford — Trauma is hard partly because you can't tell when or how it will end; not seeing when something will end doesn't mean it won't. (00:02:08)
2021-06-08 · Feelings, Little Tunnels, and Oprah: It's Question Tuesday with Ashley C. Ford — Someone once described emotions to Ashley as curving little tunnels: walking in you can't see the light for a long time, but following the curve you eventually see it. (00:02:20)
2021-06-08 · Feelings, Little Tunnels, and Oprah: It's Question Tuesday with Ashley C. Ford — Many people were taught to stop in the middle of the tunnel, which doesn't work for processing emotions: you have to go through it, and there's always a way out. (00:02:37)
2021-06-08 · Feelings, Little Tunnels, and Oprah: It's Question Tuesday with Ashley C. Ford — Memoir in itself asserts that every human life has a story. (00:02:55)
2021-06-08 · Feelings, Little Tunnels, and Oprah: It's Question Tuesday with Ashley C. Ford — Ashley's favorite thing about the Midwest is driving far too fast on back roads past cornfields, listening to yacht rock such as Christopher Cross. (00:03:03)

Denise Juneau (12)

2016-10-21 · Coming Out, Goats, Government, and Attack Ads with Denise Juneau — Juneau says that on the MSU campus a voter-registration effort uses a live 'vote goat' that goes around to draw people over so they can be registered. (00:01:42)
2016-10-21 · Coming Out, Goats, Government, and Attack Ads with Denise Juneau — Juneau says the Superintendent of Public Instruction is basically the head of all Montana's schools, elected every four years as one of the statewide offices under the state constitution. (00:02:08)
2016-10-21 · Coming Out, Goats, Government, and Attack Ads with Denise Juneau — Juneau says running for Congress differs totally from her statewide race: bigger issues, more scrutiny, a larger microscope on you, but also a bigger megaphone. (00:02:29)
2016-10-21 · Coming Out, Goats, Government, and Attack Ads with Denise Juneau — Juneau says the worst part is politics' negativity and divisiveness: good ideas go undiscussed as people draw ideological lines and talk about fear-based issues instead of ones that matter. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:48)
2016-10-21 · Coming Out, Goats, Government, and Attack Ads with Denise Juneau — Juneau confirms she came out during the campaign by introducing her partner, saying you need the person in your life there to support you. (00:03:05)
2016-10-21 · Coming Out, Goats, Government, and Attack Ads with Denise Juneau — Juneau says coming out had political and personal reasons: people expect access to who candidates are, and running for Congress she wanted things out there, given possible negativity. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:03:20)
2016-10-21 · Coming Out, Goats, Government, and Attack Ads with Denise Juneau — Juneau says despite stereotypes about Montana, her coming out hasn't become a political issue, which she thinks speaks volumes for the state, the country and their direction. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:03:35)
2016-10-21 · Coming Out, Goats, Government, and Attack Ads with Denise Juneau — Juneau says her Twitter bio's '54th generation Montanan' just means a long time: American Indian people were here before America was a country, history she brings to the race. (playful) (00:03:55)
2016-10-21 · Coming Out, Goats, Government, and Attack Ads with Denise Juneau — Juneau says every hateful message or letter is matched by three or four good ones, or parents crediting Graduation Matters Montana for a child's graduating; the good outweighs the haters. (00:04:40)
2016-10-21 · Coming Out, Goats, Government, and Attack Ads with Denise Juneau — Juneau says to put governing before winning, be present: show up where people gather, set aside your partisan hat, listen; government's function is making things better, so elections matter. (00:05:06)
2016-10-21 · Coming Out, Goats, Government, and Attack Ads with Denise Juneau — Juneau says debates are scary, with questions you must guess; at her last debate an audience member asked how she'd help LGBTQ people, and she answered: first, get elected. (playful) (00:05:45)
2016-10-21 · Coming Out, Goats, Government, and Attack Ads with Denise Juneau — Juneau jokes again 'number one, get elected'; not naive about what needs fixing or divisive politics, she is optimistic and thinks most candidates want things better for those they represent. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:06:19)

Lex Croucher (12)

2016-11-18 · Are Pets Ethical? — Lex says it has been a tough few weeks and a tough year, even for her cat, who does not really understand celebrity deaths or politics. (playful) (00:00:01)
2016-11-18 · Are Pets Ethical? — Lex introduces her cat Felicity: an indoor cat all her life, nine years old, adopted about a month ago, friendly and fond of laps. (00:00:15)
2016-11-18 · Are Pets Ethical? — Lex says owning a cat is good for her, selfishly: it gives routine and purpose, makes her responsible for someone else and so for herself, and relaxes her. (00:00:37)
2016-11-18 · Are Pets Ethical? — Lex says the cat gets food, shelter, water, catnip and an owner who, like the parent of a newborn, has accepted years of poor sleep. (playful) (00:01:04)
2016-11-18 · Are Pets Ethical? — Lex says the more she thinks about it, the weirder it is to have brought an animal into her home: Felicity is domesticated, but a bedroom is not her natural habitat. — hedged: “I don’t think” [opinion marker] (00:01:31)
2016-11-18 · Are Pets Ethical? — Lex avoids the indoor-versus-outdoor cat debate, but says Felicity, never outside and older, would be in trouble if simply let out the front door. (playful) (00:01:40)
2016-11-18 · Are Pets Ethical? — Lex says she looked up rabbit lifespans: eight to twelve years domesticated, one to two years in the wild, where animals face hunger, cold, illness and predators. (00:02:13)
2016-11-18 · Are Pets Ethical? — Lex asks whether it is better for an animal to have a long, comfortable life that is not instinctive, or a short, natural one running free and terrified. — explicitly uncertain (hedge words not recorded) (00:02:28)
2016-11-18 · Are Pets Ethical? — Lex says our love of pets has caused overbreeding, creating a huge overpopulation problem that leaves animals without homes. (00:02:50)
2016-11-18 · Are Pets Ethical? — Lex relays that animal charities urge people to spay and neuter their pets and to adopt rather than shop when getting an animal. (00:02:57)
2016-11-18 · Are Pets Ethical? — Lex says people think rescue animals are damaged and difficult, but Felicity is neither. (00:03:03)
2016-11-18 · Are Pets Ethical? — Lex thinks her cat is very happy with her; she cannot undo the domestication of pets, so she is happy to give one a loving home. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:03:14)

Sarah Urist Green (12)

2007-08-14 · August 14th: The Blenderized Happy Meal (and Leg Waxing) — Sarah predicts the punishment will go better than the chin wax and rates the coming pain a five on John's one-to-ten scale. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:41)
2008-06-26 · Don't Suck on That Bone — Sarah says she is pretty excited, calling it a really big day for Willy. (playful) (00:00:00)
2008-12-08 · I Am Afraid of Heights — Sarah, filming, tells John to get on the table after he says he doesn't think he can do it. (00:02:02)
2009-06-10 · Eating a FAT SANDWICH — Sarah predicts it will be better than the blenderized Happy Meal, consistency-wise, because the bun is a familiar element. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:24)
2009-07-28 · Love and Romance Questions ANSWERED — Sarah says asking someone out with a check-yes-or-no note has never been cool and is the wimp's way; she recommends asking them. (00:02:34)
2009-11-29 · John Reviews Twilight and New Moon — Asked by John whether she needs a man who can bench press her body weight to feel whole, Sarah (the Yeti) answers "Obviously not." (playful) (00:01:38)
2010-06-16 · In Defense of Contemporary Art — Sarah says a green, TARDIS-like structure is a temporary intervention into the landscape, there for only a few days, meant to remind us of our humanity. (00:01:10)
2010-06-16 · In Defense of Contemporary Art — A project by the artist collective Type A has two rings that cast a single shadow exactly one day a year, at the summer solstice. (00:01:10)
2012-05-08 · Tiny Chickens Invade, But Still I Vote — Sarah phones John to remind him to vote. (00:00:52)
2012-10-09 · Attacked by Squirrels and Neoclassicism: Thoughts from Places, Washington D.C. — Asked before and after the museum, Sarah says her feelings about American history and the United States are mixed. (00:02:43)
2012-11-06 · Terrible at Frenching: My Spicy Summer Camp Story — The Yeti says that is why she has never wanted to live at any time but now. (playful) (00:01:29)
2021-04-13 · My Truly Mortifying Self-Talk — Asked how she feels about getting vaccinated, Sarah says fantastic: very excited, though the excited parts of her brain are, figuratively at least, very close to the nervous parts. (playful) (00:00:00)

Carole Mitnick (11)

2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Dr. Mitnick says bedaquiline was part of the regimen that finally cured Phumeza, as John saw with his friend Henry; many call it a Lazarus effect, like early antiretroviral therapy for HIV. (00:30:05)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Dr. Mitnick says bedaquiline is now the linchpin of every multidrug-resistant TB regimen, for adults, children, pregnant people and people with HIV. (00:30:35)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Dr. Mitnick says about 500,000 people newly get drug-resistant TB each year, only around 200,000 or fewer are treated, and a backlog of one to one and a half million untreated people accumulates. (00:31:02)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Dr. Mitnick likens bedaquiline to pyrazinamide and rifampin in the 1970s, which cut ordinary TB treatment from 18 to six months; now more people can be treated for less money and toxicity. (00:31:46)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Dr. Mitnick tells companies that serving those most in need pays: good PR, motivated employees and retention, and name recognition in emerging markets, as bedaquiline brings J&J; they need not rely on unlimited profits. (00:34:44)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Dr. Mitnick says people go into pharma and biotech for the thrill of discovery that helps people, not to restrict access, so campaigns like this must be demoralizing for them. (00:35:14)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Dr. Mitnick says estimated public, largely US, tax-funded investment in bedaquiline was 1.6 to 5 times J&J's own, including a phase three trial, and J&J also got an FDA accelerated-review voucher. (00:36:02)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Dr. Mitnick says companies are totally opaque about cartridge and development costs; an MSF-commissioned study put the cost of a cartridge at $3.50 to $4. (00:40:54)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Dr. Mitnick says asking sick people to disclose burdens them and does not destigmatize; rapid diagnosis and treatment, which make people non-infectious almost at once, do. (00:50:44)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Dr. Mitnick says unlimited profiteering kills: profits on life-saving treatment need limits, though profit can still drive innovation. (00:51:39)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Dr. Mitnick calls for an end to double dipping: taking public funds to develop something and then profiting from it endlessly. (00:52:05)

Sofishtication (11)

2024-08-30 · The Two Coolest Things we Know About Sharks — Jaida says people are shocked that the largest fish on the planet is a shark, the whale shark; the largest recorded was around 61 feet long. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:27)
2024-08-30 · The Two Coolest Things we Know About Sharks — Jaida says the average whale shark is closer to about 35 feet long. (00:01:56)
2024-08-30 · The Two Coolest Things we Know About Sharks — Jaida says people have a very healthy fear of sharks, which she understands, but the fear must not get in the way of respect for them. (00:01:56)
2024-08-30 · The Two Coolest Things we Know About Sharks — Jaida says bull sharks swim in fresh water, and one has been found so far up the Mississippi that it was in Illinois. (00:02:31)
2024-08-30 · The Two Coolest Things we Know About Sharks — Jaida says the whale shark is a filter feeder whose teeth are no more than a couple of centimeters long and which cannot swallow anything bigger than a grapefruit. (00:02:31)
2024-08-30 · The Two Coolest Things we Know About Sharks — Jaida says whale sharks eat zooplankton (correcting herself from phytoplankton) and also sargassum seaweed, making them the second shark species identified as omnivorous, after the bonnethead. (00:03:00)
2024-08-30 · The Two Coolest Things we Know About Sharks — Jaida says the bonnethead, the smallest hammerhead species, eats and digests seagrass for nutrients; scientists had thought both sharks ate plants only incidentally. (00:03:00)
2024-08-30 · The Two Coolest Things we Know About Sharks — Jaida says the more you know about something the less you typically fear it: sharks seem mysterious after Jaws, but learning that some physically cannot swallow you eases the fear. (00:03:00)
2024-08-30 · The Two Coolest Things we Know About Sharks — Jaida says whale sharks have dermal denticles on their eyeballs, discovered around 2020 when someone first looked at a whale shark eye under a microscope. — hedged: “I believe” [opinion marker] (00:05:46)
2024-08-30 · The Two Coolest Things we Know About Sharks — Jaida hypothesizes the eye denticles protect the eyes from pathogens and parasites. — speculative (hedge words not recorded) (00:05:46)
2024-08-30 · The Two Coolest Things we Know About Sharks — Jaida says sharks are the coolest: there are so many filling so many niches, from the tropics to the Arctic, fast and slow, big and small. (00:07:02)

Sydney Green (11)

2007-01-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 2nd — Off camera, the brothers' mother answers John's prompt by telling Hank she loves him. (00:01:19)
2007-08-28 · August 28th: Starring Mom — Mom says she keeps asking young people she meets whether they know about Nerdfighters, hoping one will give her the sign. (playful) (00:01:42)
2008-07-08 · Hank Tried to Kill Me With a Hammer — On the phone, the brothers' mom says it was the other way around (Hank tried to kill John) and answers yes when John asks whether he ever tried to kill Hank. (00:01:40)
2013-12-13 · Mom and Dad Green! Extra Special Question Tuesday — Sydney says that, being Southern, they named Hank William Henry after his two grandfathers. (00:00:36)
2013-12-13 · Mom and Dad Green! Extra Special Question Tuesday — Sydney says she had no girl name for Hank because she knew he was a boy; the girl name for John was Elizabeth. (00:00:59)
2013-12-13 · Mom and Dad Green! Extra Special Question Tuesday — Sydney says John was always into embellishing the truth. (playful) (00:01:44)
2013-12-13 · Mom and Dad Green! Extra Special Question Tuesday — Sydney recalls that small Hank, who could not yet really talk, once got tired of John yelling at him and took a hammer to him. (playful) (00:02:04)
2013-12-13 · Mom and Dad Green! Extra Special Question Tuesday — Sydney says their friends and family clearly understand what John does, but not what Hank does with the videos. (playful) (00:02:21)
2013-12-13 · Mom and Dad Green! Extra Special Question Tuesday — Sydney says Mike's number-one marriage tip is persistence and her own parenting tip is along the same lines. — hedged: “I think maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:54)
2013-12-13 · Mom and Dad Green! Extra Special Question Tuesday — Sydney says she loves that it is time for the Project for Awesome, her favorite time of year. (00:03:48)
2017-06-20 · FIRST! Green Brothers Reunited Again — Their mom, called on the phone, says it was John, not Hank, who fell out of a tree house. (00:01:33)

Charlie McDonnell (10)

2012-04-27 · Hank Talks to Charlie McDonnell — Charlie says it feels weird not making a video today; he feels most at home in front of the camera, so being in some video is reassuring. (00:00:00)
2012-04-27 · Hank Talks to Charlie McDonnell — Charlie finds Missoula lovely and little; he likes that compact Bath can be walked everywhere, whereas in bigger America you drive. (00:00:27)
2012-04-27 · Hank Talks to Charlie McDonnell — Asked the last thing he screamed at, Charlie says he rarely screams; bungee jumping was mostly silent, and he screamed only because he felt he needed to. (playful) (00:00:27)
2012-04-27 · Hank Talks to Charlie McDonnell — Asked which word he would eliminate from English, Charlie picks 'moist'. (playful) (00:01:15)
2012-04-27 · Hank Talks to Charlie McDonnell — Asked whether he would kill baby Hitler, Charlie wonders why Hank asks after years of the Evil Baby Orphanage; told the orphanage is not an option, he says he would kill the baby. (playful) (00:01:35)
2012-04-27 · Hank Talks to Charlie McDonnell — Charlie's worst Challenge Charlie challenge was trying several challenges at once: he threw up halfway and the video was never made. (00:01:35)
2012-04-27 · Hank Talks to Charlie McDonnell — Offered Pinkie Pie on his bicep or DFTBA inside his lip, Charlie says he wants no tattoos: an hour of extreme pain for something no one will see. (playful) (00:02:05)
2012-04-27 · Hank Talks to Charlie McDonnell — Charlie says he edited much more than he wrote this past week; for an effects-heavy video like Forever Yours writing and editing took about equal time, otherwise writing takes longer. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:32)
2012-04-27 · Hank Talks to Charlie McDonnell — Charlie says he spends more time making videos than playing video games, but only just; he and Hank end the interview to go play video games. (playful) (00:03:08)
2013-08-23 · Thoughts from Bath: The Legacy of Wealth — Charlie remarks that Bath Abbey is painted in an episode of Community. (00:00:30)

Cree Cicchino (10)

2022-05-24 · Hello! Meet Daisy! — Cree says she is not working today but is visiting the set out of pure love for the cast and crew. (00:00:00)
2022-05-24 · Hello! Meet Daisy! — Asked for her favourite Beatle, Cree gives her sister's favourite, Ringo; her favourite colour is burgundy. — hedged: “which I'm pretty sure is” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:00)
2022-05-24 · Hello! Meet Daisy! — Cree says she read the book, calls it gorgeous, and says she devoured it very quickly. (00:00:29)
2022-05-24 · Hello! Meet Daisy! — Cree says that as she gets older she appreciates being the hype man for the people in her life. (00:00:29)
2022-05-24 · Hello! Meet Daisy! — Cree has seen the other adaptations of John's books; for The Fault in Our Stars she went with friends who brought blankets, knowing they would cry. (00:01:27)
2022-05-24 · Hello! Meet Daisy! — Cree likes puppies but would be a kitten herself: a house cat who likes being inside, lying in patches of sun. (00:02:25)
2022-05-24 · Hello! Meet Daisy! — Asked about Star Wars fan fiction, Cree says she loved writing growing up, and everything she wrote as a kid was messy, unintentional fan fiction of books or shows she liked. (00:02:54)
2022-05-24 · Hello! Meet Daisy! — Cree says everyone has a relationship with mental health struggles, even if they are not their own, and she certainly does. (00:02:54)
2022-05-24 · Hello! Meet Daisy! — Cree says she saw a lot of herself and her own mental health journey in Aza. (00:03:24)
2022-05-24 · Hello! Meet Daisy! — Cree says the cast and crew know it is a really important assignment and take it very seriously. (00:03:24)

Hannah Marks (10)

2022-07-05 · Director Hannah Marks Is Nervous To Meet You — Hannah says she just wants to meet Hank, whom she has never met, and is scared of the comments. (00:00:00)
2022-07-05 · Director Hannah Marks Is Nervous To Meet You — Hannah says the first thing she and John agreed on was that Aza's brain is the movie's conflict, something rarely seen and hard to tackle because it is invisible. (00:00:29)
2022-07-05 · Director Hannah Marks Is Nervous To Meet You — Hannah says directing John was bliss: he was terrific, is a great actor, and needs to stop saying he is a terrible actor. (00:00:58)
2022-07-05 · Director Hannah Marks Is Nervous To Meet You — Hannah reveals that John does squats in the movie; she cannot guarantee they will make the final cut, but they will be in the director's cut. (playful) (00:00:58)
2022-07-05 · Director Hannah Marks Is Nervous To Meet You — Hannah says she joined TikTok just for John's account. (00:01:27)
2022-07-05 · Director Hannah Marks Is Nervous To Meet You — Hannah passes on her mother's advice not to marry anyone unless they like the Beatles and dogs. (00:01:49)
2022-07-05 · Director Hannah Marks Is Nervous To Meet You — Hannah's favourite Beatle is Paul McCartney since watching a new documentary; before that it was John Lennon. (00:02:19)
2022-07-05 · Director Hannah Marks Is Nervous To Meet You — Hannah's real favourite colour is orange, from the book cover's orange spiral; for luck she wore orange nail polish or an orange shirt when interviewing for the job. (00:02:19)
2022-07-05 · Director Hannah Marks Is Nervous To Meet You — Hannah says the film's palette has pops of orange and teal, the colours of Aza's and Daisy's cars. (00:03:05)
2022-07-05 · Director Hannah Marks Is Nervous To Meet You — Hannah says it is because she loves the book so much: she came in a huge fan. (00:03:34)

James at War (10)

2010-07-08 · Los Angeles Earthquake at VidCon — James claims the earthquake made a button fall off his jacket. (playful) (00:00:57)
2010-07-08 · Los Angeles Earthquake at VidCon — James, who Hank says looks 12, has five kids. (00:01:26)
2010-07-08 · Los Angeles Earthquake at VidCon — James lives in Alaska because the Air Force sent him there, a place he had chosen. (00:01:26)
2010-07-08 · Los Angeles Earthquake at VidCon — In Alaska James's wife, a club manager, hated hearing the same songs, so he wrote new words for her: the songs Pop Star and Hey Harry Potter. (00:01:26)
2010-07-08 · Los Angeles Earthquake at VidCon — Just as he discovered YouTube he posted both songs; both went viral, to his surprise, and he kept writing songs mostly for his wife. (00:02:11)
2010-07-08 · Los Angeles Earthquake at VidCon — James stopped making videos because the war on terror raised the Air Force tempo; YouTube took a back burner to the profession of arms. (00:02:38)
2010-07-08 · Los Angeles Earthquake at VidCon — James says he is coming back: he leaves the Air Force in August for full-time writing and videos. (00:02:38)
2010-07-08 · Los Angeles Earthquake at VidCon — Asked about plans, James says new Harry Potter and Twilight movies and new games are coming, and that is his niche; Hank sums it up as dorkifying popular songs. (00:03:13)
2010-07-08 · Los Angeles Earthquake at VidCon — James calls himself a dork: someone kind of into everything but not really good at anything. (playful) (00:03:13)
2010-07-08 · Los Angeles Earthquake at VidCon — James thanks Hank and says he can't wait for VidCon to start and be over so he can make a video about it. (playful) (00:03:37)

Nathan Zed (10)

2016-11-25 · You're Not Good Enough — Nathan says he is not good at a lot of things: sports, pottery, juggling, and he would make a terrible doctor. (playful) (00:00:18)
2016-11-25 · You're Not Good Enough — Nathan says even at the things he thinks he is good at, he always feels not good enough, with a tiny voice in his head questioning him. (00:01:07)
2016-11-25 · You're Not Good Enough — Nathan says his problem is that if he is not amazing at something he asks what the point of doing it is, e.g. why sing when people can listen to Adele. (00:01:24)
2016-11-25 · You're Not Good Enough — Nathan says the only way to be amazing at something is to practise, but he hates being at the first level where he is bad and feeling the most unqualified person in the room. (00:01:41)
2016-11-25 · You're Not Good Enough — Nathan recalls a kid in art class turning round while he drew a giraffe; the taunting he imagined was probably in his head, and the kid probably said it looked pretty good. (playful) — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:57)
2016-11-25 · You're Not Good Enough — Nathan says he has no answer to the problem of not feeling good enough; it is something he still goes through every day. (00:02:33)
2016-11-25 · You're Not Good Enough — Nathan says what he is trying now is just doing things he loves, regardless of how good he is at them, and not caring. (00:02:39)
2016-11-25 · You're Not Good Enough — Nathan cites the saying 'You miss 100% of the shots you don't take' (basketball, he clarifies, not alcohol). (playful) (00:02:44)
2016-11-25 · You're Not Good Enough — Nathan likens a life to a burrito: you may not have the best chicken or sour cream, but rolled together your ingredients make a pretty good burrito, i.e. person. (playful) (00:03:05)
2016-11-25 · You're Not Good Enough — Nathan invites viewers to follow him on YouTube and Twitter for more food-based inspirational metaphors. (playful) (00:03:34)

Allison Raskin (9)

2016-11-16 · Why We Left Buzzfeed (Some Thoughts on Taking Risks) — Allison says their channel is a comedy channel that rarely gets real, and they are using this video to answer a question many people ask them. (00:00:05)
2016-11-16 · Why We Left Buzzfeed (Some Thoughts on Taking Risks) — Allison says BuzzFeed was an incredible environment of people their own age making stuff, and she once thought it sad she could not work there her entire life. (00:01:10)
2016-11-16 · Why We Left Buzzfeed (Some Thoughts on Taking Risks) — Allison says after a few months things changed: there was pushback about their having their own channel, and their department's role was unclear. (00:01:22)
2016-11-16 · Why We Left Buzzfeed (Some Thoughts on Taking Risks) — Allison says jobs can be left: listen to yourself, and if a job is no longer the right fit, even at a great company, you break up as in a relationship. (00:01:57)
2016-11-16 · Why We Left Buzzfeed (Some Thoughts on Taking Risks) — Allison says she remains grateful to BuzzFeed for incredible exposure, but a company is always a company and is not your friend, even when your coworkers are. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:47)
2016-11-16 · Why We Left Buzzfeed (Some Thoughts on Taking Risks) — Allison says big companies can trick you with stability and creative freedom, but at a certain point you have to remember you need to take risks. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:03:14)
2016-11-16 · Why We Left Buzzfeed (Some Thoughts on Taking Risks) — Allison says many people are happiest staying long-term at a company, but it was not right for them; their main message is to listen to your gut and what feels right for you. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:03:47)
2016-11-16 · Why We Left Buzzfeed (Some Thoughts on Taking Risks) — Allison says the other side isn't roses — constant stress — but they have worked on projects much bigger and more their own than they could have at BuzzFeed. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:04:03)
2016-11-16 · Why We Left Buzzfeed (Some Thoughts on Taking Risks) — Allison says talking sincerely into a camera feels uncomfortable and asks where the jokes are. (playful) (00:04:17)

Animesh Sinha (9)

2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Dr. Sinha says TB has classically gone with poverty: incidence rises after wars and in poor places and falls as living conditions, nutrition and immunity improve, as in the US. (00:21:03)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Dr. Sinha says most TB cases are in low and middle income countries; India accounts for around 3 million of the around 10 million cases each year. (00:21:52)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Dr. Sinha says poverty will take time to improve, but people suffering today do not deserve to die or go undiagnosed; they must be diagnosed and treated correctly now. (00:22:13)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Dr. Sinha says most people still get microscopy, which misses half of people with TB and cannot tell drug-resistant from drug-sensitive TB, so wrong first-line treatment breeds more resistance. (00:23:11)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Dr. Sinha says GeneXpert shows within two hours whether you have TB and whether it is drug-resistant, while culture-based resistance testing takes months, often too late. (00:24:27)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Dr. Sinha rejects the claim that cost is not the main barrier: otherwise countries would roll the test out widely; low and middle income countries like India cannot afford enough tests at current cartridge prices. (00:25:35)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Answering a chat question, Dr. Sinha says skin tests only show past exposure to TB bacteria, not active disease, so GeneXpert, not skin testing, is the test of choice for most people with TB. (00:27:22)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Dr. Sinha adds that Cepheid received around $250 million in public funding to develop the Xpert technology. (00:40:54)
2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — Dr. Sinha says Cepheid and Danaher should drop the GeneXpert cartridge price to five dollars for all diseases, including TB, to find missing cases and treat them early. (00:52:28)

Cara Delevingne (9)

2014-12-09 · Question Tuesday with Cara Delevingne of Paper Towns — Asked what it is like to kiss Nat, Cara says he is a really good kisser, as she and a friend who also kissed him agreed. (playful) (00:00:11)
2014-12-09 · Question Tuesday with Cara Delevingne of Paper Towns — Cara says she relates to Margo, which she thinks is why she got the part: she has lived many of the character's stories, said many of the script's lines, and like Margo runs on instinct. — hedged: “I think that's why I got the part” [opinion marker] (00:00:30)
2014-12-09 · Question Tuesday with Cara Delevingne of Paper Towns — Asked for her opinion of John's eyebrows, Cara says she expected them to be coarser and finds them nice, with a good texture. (playful) (00:01:17)
2014-12-09 · Question Tuesday with Cara Delevingne of Paper Towns — Cara says she has read Paper Towns and really liked it; she had not known how good John was and expected him to be younger, since he writes a young perspective so well. (00:01:39)
2014-12-09 · Question Tuesday with Cara Delevingne of Paper Towns — Cara says she cried when she learned she had been cast, alone in a hotel room getting ready for work when the call came. (00:02:03)
2014-12-09 · Question Tuesday with Cara Delevingne of Paper Towns — Asked whether the world should contain a puppy-sized elephant or an elephant-sized puppy, Cara chooses the puppy-sized elephant, to John's delight. (playful) (00:03:10)
2014-12-09 · Question Tuesday with Cara Delevingne of Paper Towns — Asked the meaning of life, Cara answers: love. (00:03:24)
2015-06-23 · Question Tuesday with Cara Delevingne and Nat Wolff — Asked whether she would ride a llama, Cara Delevingne says obviously, because she wants to see how hard a llama actually spits; Nat says no. (playful) (00:01:51)
2015-06-23 · Question Tuesday with Cara Delevingne and Nat Wolff — Cara Delevingne's advice for getting over a breakup: be distracted and get a new one, since there are plenty of them. (playful) (00:02:08)

Natalia (9)

2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Natalia says children often lack classic TB symptoms: a nine-year-old patient, Francisco, first showed only less playing and eating, so loss of playfulness, appetite and weight must join fever, cough and night sweats. (00:16:39)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Natalia says delayed diagnosis delays treatment; GeneXpert sensitivity in children is not the best, but they always request it because a negative result is also information. (00:18:28)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Natalia describes Regina, a one-year-old whose mother has resistant TB; using the treatment decision algorithm she could have been treated the day her mother was diagnosed, but three months were lost. (00:21:27)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Natalia says stockouts of pediatric formulations are a major struggle: other formulations risk toxicity, resistance and refusal, so pediatric formulations must be pushed. (00:21:51)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Natalia says pediatric formulations exist, but pharmacy supply chains in Mozambique are difficult. (00:22:48)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Natalia says in Mozambique, with high HIV incidence, TB stigma is worst when a child has HIV co-infection. (00:23:38)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Natalia says the lack of information in communities and among health staff about new diagnostics and treatments is sometimes a bigger problem than stigma; information is power. (00:24:16)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Natalia says most people still think TB treatment takes six months, but a large group of eligible children can get four months. (00:25:12)
2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — Dr. Natalia finds hope in people speaking out about TB, which is curable, with new diagnostics, better treatments and vaccines coming. (00:58:15)

Halston Sage (8)

2014-10-28 · The Paper Towns Movie IS HERE! — Halston Sage says she loves the book and even highlighted it, and that her younger sister is a huge fan. (00:01:25)
2014-11-11 · Lacey and Angela Question Tuesday: Pizzamas Day 2 — After several flubbed attempts, Halston Sage introduces Question Tuesday, answering real questions from real nerdfighters. (00:00:20)
2014-11-11 · Lacey and Angela Question Tuesday: Pizzamas Day 2 — Halston Sage's favourite scene in the movie or book is the bathtub scene with Q. (00:00:27)
2014-11-11 · Lacey and Angela Question Tuesday: Pizzamas Day 2 — Halston Sage's favourite song is 'Banana Pancakes' by Jack Johnson. (00:01:29)
2014-11-11 · Lacey and Angela Question Tuesday: Pizzamas Day 2 — Asked which boy in the cast can do the most push-ups, Halston Sage points to Austin, who did push-ups between takes to stay warm. (00:01:46)
2014-11-11 · Lacey and Angela Question Tuesday: Pizzamas Day 2 — Asked for a favourite book, Halston Sage answers Paper Towns and asks John whether he has read it. (playful) (00:02:22)
2014-11-11 · Lacey and Angela Question Tuesday: Pizzamas Day 2 — Halston Sage says the cast sometimes sing together before a big group scene. (00:03:03)
2014-11-11 · Lacey and Angela Question Tuesday: Pizzamas Day 2 — Halston Sage's advice for the heartbroken: surround yourself with friends and family and remember you can love again. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:03:07)

Grace Helbig (7)

2013-06-18 · 50 Ways to Pretend to Be Smarter — Grace Helbig (DailyGrace, daily videos five days a week) fills in for John Green while he is away with his new baby. (playful) (00:00:36)
2013-06-18 · 50 Ways to Pretend to Be Smarter — Grace says the Vlogbrothers inspire her (very smart, articulate, nurturing, progressive, community-driven) and that filling in for one of them is stressful. (00:00:36)
2013-06-18 · 50 Ways to Pretend to Be Smarter — Concluding she is not as smart as the Vlogbrothers, Grace offers to teach how to trick people into thinking you're more intelligent, cultured or socially sophisticated than you are. (playful) (00:01:19)
2013-06-18 · 50 Ways to Pretend to Be Smarter — Grace's list, first part: call art 'derivative', mention the film Basquiat, carry On the Road, say you watch Bill Maher and love soccer, carry a Moleskine, French-press coffee, a leather messenger bag, smudged glasses. (satire) (00:01:19)
2013-06-18 · 50 Ways to Pretend to Be Smarter — Grace's cheese and food markers: know a cheese besides mozzarella or cheddar, own a cheese board or knife, shop at Whole Foods and quiz its cheese counter, Gruyere mac and cheese, truffle oil, scones, a wine decanter; 'a lot of this is about cheese'. (satire) (00:02:35)
2013-06-18 · 50 Ways to Pretend to Be Smarter — Grace's media markers: NPR as a car preset, a specific favorite Simpsons episode, finding the new Arrested Development season more nostalgic than groundbreaking, reblogging the New Yorker, Wes Anderson, Ira Glass, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ken Jennings on Twitter, Alanis Morissette's misuse of 'ironic'. (satire) (00:03:15)
2013-06-18 · 50 Ways to Pretend to Be Smarter — Grace's possessions and habits: a typewriter, a telescope, one architecture book, unused Rosetta Stone, a friend with a Prius, whittling, leather furniture, pipes, museum plans, talk of Ethiopian food, a bike on the wall; finally, understanding sarcasm. (satire) (00:04:19)

Hussam (7)

2016-03-15 · The Extraordinary Story of Hussam: Teenager, Writer, and Syrian Refugee — Hussam says he learned English in the camp in three months of hard study, downloading YouTube videos to learn speaking and listening. (00:00:21)
2016-03-15 · The Extraordinary Story of Hussam: Teenager, Writer, and Syrian Refugee — Hussam recounts the teacher shouting to lie down, an airplane shelling the school with missiles, and many students, his friends, killed or injured, including a friend he names. (00:00:56)
2016-03-15 · The Extraordinary Story of Hussam: Teenager, Writer, and Syrian Refugee — Hussam says this moment is why the family left: no school, no work, no life; Syria was not safe, so they went to Jordan for a better life. (00:01:52)
2016-03-15 · The Extraordinary Story of Hussam: Teenager, Writer, and Syrian Refugee — Hussam says his family is in three parts: one in Syria, one in Germany, one in Jordan, plus a brother in Turkey. (00:02:04)
2016-03-15 · The Extraordinary Story of Hussam: Teenager, Writer, and Syrian Refugee — Hussam says he likes writing adventure stories, such as someone lost in a forest who finds something in the night. (00:02:32)
2016-03-15 · The Extraordinary Story of Hussam: Teenager, Writer, and Syrian Refugee — Asked about being a writer or translator, Hussam says he hopes to go into engineering like his father in Germany, finish his studies and work for a company helping Syria. — hedged: “I hope” [wish / hope] (00:02:44)
2016-03-15 · The Extraordinary Story of Hussam: Teenager, Writer, and Syrian Refugee — Hussam says rebuilding Syria is his dream: it is his country, "the green country", and he loves it very much. (00:03:01)

Ryder Burgin (7)

2014-12-06 · A Brief History of Homestar Runner — Ryder says in Atlanta in 1996, University of Georgia students Mike Chapman and Craig Zobel, finding children's books bad, wrote a quasi-parody starring Homestar Runner, Strong Bad and The Cheat. (00:00:13)
2014-12-06 · A Brief History of Homestar Runner — Ryder says the early site's simple children's-book-style cartoons introduced regulars: Marzipan (voiced by Missy Palmer), Strong Mad, Strong Sad, Bubs, Coach Z, the King of Town and the Poopsmith. (00:00:48)
2014-12-06 · A Brief History of Homestar Runner — Ryder says that after a couple of years and a redesign the site took off with its first recurring series, Strong Bad Email. (00:01:07)
2014-12-06 · A Brief History of Homestar Runner — Ryder says Strong Bad emails massively boosted traffic, but with no analytics viewership is unknown; thousands of emails arrived daily and merch sales let the Chaps go full-time. (00:01:34)
2014-12-06 · A Brief History of Homestar Runner — Ryder says Telltale Games approached the Chaps about a point-and-click adventure game, and Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People was announced on April 10, 2008 for WiiWare and PC. (00:02:07)
2014-12-06 · A Brief History of Homestar Runner — Ryder says after ten years the two took a break; Matt moved to LA, writing and directing for Yo Gabba Gabba and Gravity Falls; it unexpectedly lasted four years. (00:02:37)
2014-12-06 · A Brief History of Homestar Runner — Ryder says the internet has changed: Flash sites are past, everyone uses YouTube, and Homestar's interactivity can't be done there, so its modernization remains to be seen. (00:03:18)

Alice Green (6)

2019-07-23 · What to Love and How — Asked by John, Alice says she is six and that Liverpool has won the European Championship six times. (playful) (00:03:51)
2025-07-29 · Dad and Daughter Play Dress to Impress — Alice explains the game: players dress up to a theme, other players vote on the looks, and whoever gets the most stars wins. (00:00:00)
2025-07-29 · Dad and Daughter Play Dress to Impress — Alice admits she paid for the game's VIP pass with her own money: 799 Robux. (00:03:03)
2025-07-29 · Dad and Daughter Play Dress to Impress — Asked the meaning of Dress to Impress, Alice says it is to dress up, show off your outfits, and see and appreciate other people's. (00:06:14)
2025-07-29 · Dad and Daughter Play Dress to Impress — Alice says being a fashion designer in real life may be one of her goals; John says the game lets her do that work. — hedged: “maybe maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:08:25)
2025-07-29 · Dad and Daughter Play Dress to Impress — Alice already knew the TB facts: she hasn't read John's book but has heard it from him talking over the years. (playful) (00:10:10)

Gaby Dunn (6)

2016-11-16 · Why We Left Buzzfeed (Some Thoughts on Taking Risks) — Gaby says they left BuzzFeed over a year ago; Allison calls it probably one of the scariest decisions they have ever had to make. (00:00:33)
2016-11-16 · Why We Left Buzzfeed (Some Thoughts on Taking Risks) — Gaby says she had had a writing job before and was 26, so she was less enthused; Allison says it was her first writing job, at 25. (playful) (00:00:41)
2016-11-16 · Why We Left Buzzfeed (Some Thoughts on Taking Risks) — Gaby says they toyed with dropping Just Between Us to commit to BuzzFeed, but it did not feel right; Allison says outside interest came and they chose to prioritize the growing channel because it is theirs. (00:01:41)
2016-11-16 · Why We Left Buzzfeed (Some Thoughts on Taking Risks) — Gaby says a company owns everything you make for it; people let go from BuzzFeed can never make their series again because it is BuzzFeed's intellectual property. (00:02:12)
2016-11-16 · Why We Left Buzzfeed (Some Thoughts on Taking Risks) — Gaby says this scared her: whether to give BuzzFeed her best ideas, and the idea of it owning anything to do with Just Between Us. (00:02:31)
2016-11-16 · Why We Left Buzzfeed (Some Thoughts on Taking Risks) — Gaby says in the end you only have yourself and what you've made; she wondered whether any of these companies would exist in five years, and only the two of them were sure. (00:03:24)

Isabela Merced (6)

2022-06-07 · Hello! Meet Aza! — Isabela says acting is odd to be into because, unlike singing, you can't just do it whenever someone asks. (00:00:29)
2022-06-07 · Hello! Meet Aza! — Isabela says that is reassuring, since actors are in their career because they need reassurance and affirmation; John adds that the same is true for writers. (00:00:29)
2022-06-07 · Hello! Meet Aza! — Isabela says she partly copied the way John talks for the role. (00:01:10)
2022-06-07 · Hello! Meet Aza! — Isabela says that filming the hand-sanitizer scene, in her view the movie's climax and its most difficult scene, she blacked out and cannot remember doing it. (00:01:10)
2022-06-07 · Hello! Meet Aza! — Isabela says the role taught her that she needs to give herself a break. (00:02:09)
2022-06-07 · Hello! Meet Aza! — Isabela says that as a parent she will always want her children to share things with her without looking too desperate. (00:02:59)

Kallie Moore (6)

2018-02-16 · Thoughts from VERY Dead Animals — Kallie says the mammoth toe tips, lighter than Hank expected, are only thousands of years old, so there has been less time for mineralization. (00:01:01)
2018-02-16 · Thoughts from VERY Dead Animals — Kallie says today's horses in the region were imported from Europe, while the original horses started here and then left or died out. (00:01:13)
2018-02-16 · Thoughts from VERY Dead Animals — Kallie says the 10,000-year cutoff for a fossil is completely arbitrary; much charismatic megafauna was extinct by then, but mammoths survived until about 4,000 years ago on High Arctic islands. (00:01:22)
2018-02-16 · Thoughts from VERY Dead Animals — Kallie shows a favorite specimen, a fossil with a striking internal pattern that is either a sponge or a hydrozoan. — hedged: “It's either” [other hedge] (00:02:28)
2018-02-16 · Thoughts from VERY Dead Animals — Kallie says the collection has fossil poop, though probably no Triassic poop, and some amazing soft-body preservation. — hedged: “I don't think” [opinion marker] (00:02:38)
2018-02-16 · Thoughts from VERY Dead Animals — Kallie says the collection's oldest specimen is a bacterial mat from Australia, about 2.75 billion years old: this is what life was. — hedged: “it's like” [other hedge] (00:03:13)

Lindsay Nikole (6)

2024-11-15 · Whales are Fish (and Everything Else is Beetles) with Lindsay Nikole — Lindsay says 25% of all discovered animal species are beetles, some 350,000 species; Hank had heard it only as a share of insects. (00:00:00)
2024-11-15 · Whales are Fish (and Everything Else is Beetles) with Lindsay Nikole — Lindsay says many species remain unfound: scientists estimate about 10 million insect species alone, and 1.5 million have been found. — hedged: “what, like” [other hedge] (00:00:30)
2024-11-15 · Whales are Fish (and Everything Else is Beetles) with Lindsay Nikole — Lindsay says weevils are beetles and the biggest group of beetles; the weevil, especially the acorn weevil, is her favourite beetle form. (00:00:58)
2024-11-15 · Whales are Fish (and Everything Else is Beetles) with Lindsay Nikole — Lindsay says we humans are fish; Hank says only taxonomically, not morphologically, and Lindsay says whales fall under the same category. (00:01:57)
2024-11-15 · Whales are Fish (and Everything Else is Beetles) with Lindsay Nikole — Lindsay objects that whales swim with different undulations and have no gills. (00:01:57)
2024-11-15 · Whales are Fish (and Everything Else is Beetles) with Lindsay Nikole — Lindsay says there are about seven different phyla of worms. — hedged: “like” [other hedge] (00:04:16)

Luzu (6)

2017-02-17 · As Cold as The Milk: Learning Spanish with Luzu — Luzu says 'as cold as milk' is an expression used only in Spain; even people in Latin America ask him what he means about milk. (00:00:16)
2017-02-17 · As Cold as The Milk: Learning Spanish with Luzu — Luzu says switching the language you make videos in is like losing levels in a game, like having your Pokémon Go levels stolen and going back to 1. (00:00:30)
2017-02-17 · As Cold as The Milk: Learning Spanish with Luzu — Luzu feels he can't express himself correctly in English; he speaks much better in Spanish. — hedged: “I feel like” [opinion marker] (00:00:44)
2017-02-17 · As Cold as The Milk: Learning Spanish with Luzu — Teaching Hank Spanish word by word, Luzu gets him to tell everyone to subscribe to Luzu's channel. (playful) (00:01:51)
2017-02-17 · As Cold as The Milk: Learning Spanish with Luzu — After botching 'I slit the sheet', Luzu says outsiders take a long time to learn the difference between 'sheet' and other words. (playful) (00:02:23)
2017-02-17 · As Cold as The Milk: Learning Spanish with Luzu — Asked for a tutorial on being cool, Luzu says they have different kinds of cool: Hank is intellectually cool, Luzu cool in all the other ways. (playful) (00:02:46)

Michelle Obama (6)

2019-03-19 · Writing and Marriage Advice from Michelle Obama — Michelle Obama says it was valuable that she and Barack were older when they married. (00:00:58)
2019-03-19 · Writing and Marriage Advice from Michelle Obama — Michelle Obama says she shared so much about her marriage because young couples know little about marriage when they marry; nobody gives a guidebook for building a life with another person. (00:00:58)
2019-03-19 · Writing and Marriage Advice from Michelle Obama — Michelle Obama says marriage is inherently unequal, and not just by gender: there is never a 50-50 split of 'you do half and I do half'; life isn't that clean. (00:00:58)
2019-03-19 · Writing and Marriage Advice from Michelle Obama — Michelle Obama says people see her and Barack as relationship goals and only see the good stuff; not telling how hard it was would be dishonest about what it takes to build what they have. (00:01:30)
2019-03-19 · Writing and Marriage Advice from Michelle Obama — Michelle Obama says there is a reason second grade stuck with her; she still remembers not getting a star the first time because she didn't know the word "white": a mundane story that tells a truth about her consistent since age four or five. (00:01:59)
2019-03-19 · Writing and Marriage Advice from Michelle Obama — Michelle Obama says she doesn't worry about what she doesn't remember: we all remember maybe ten good childhood stories, each with meaning, and should value them enough to understand why they stuck. (00:02:28)

Jaz Sinclair (5)

2014-11-11 · Lacey and Angela Question Tuesday: Pizzamas Day 2 — Jaz Sinclair's favourite scene is Drunk Ben. (00:00:30)
2014-11-11 · Lacey and Angela Question Tuesday: Pizzamas Day 2 — Asked whether John is a good executive producer, Jaz Sinclair says he does so much. (playful) (00:00:46)
2014-11-11 · Lacey and Angela Question Tuesday: Pizzamas Day 2 — Jaz Sinclair's favourite prop on the Paper Towns set is the Black Santas. (00:01:18)
2014-11-11 · Lacey and Angela Question Tuesday: Pizzamas Day 2 — Jaz Sinclair's favourite band right now is the Milk Carton Kids. (00:01:36)
2014-11-11 · Lacey and Angela Question Tuesday: Pizzamas Day 2 — Jaz Sinclair's advice for the heartbroken: use it rather than wait for the pain to pass, by writing, painting, drawing, singing or crying; such intense emotions are rare and not necessarily bad if used. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:03:15)

John Engen (5)

2011-02-21 · Hank Interviews His Mayor — Engen says everyone should have a chance to talk to their mayor: local government is the front line, citizens' opportunity to interact. (00:00:54)
2011-02-21 · Hank Interviews His Mayor — Engen has a rescued labradoodle and a Humane Society cat, and recently lost his beloved 13-year-old greyhound. (00:01:07)
2011-02-21 · Hank Interviews His Mayor — Before becoming mayor Engen worked at Golf Land, an indoor miniature golf course, at Hansen's Famous Ice Cream Store, and for a long time at the Missoulian newspaper. (00:01:31)
2011-02-21 · Hank Interviews His Mayor — Engen calls mayor the best job he has ever had: very challenging, a fantastic education and a real opportunity to get things done. (00:02:04)
2011-02-21 · Hank Interviews His Mayor — Engen says the mayor is responsible for the day-to-day operations of Missoula, which has about 500 full-time city employees. (00:02:24)

Neil Gaiman (5)

2007-05-01 · May 1st: Neil Gaiman in Helena — Asked whether anything beats seeing your name on a book's spine, Gaiman says you think that if you did it once you'd never need anything more, comparing it to figuring out sex at 14. (playful) (00:01:09)
2007-05-01 · May 1st: Neil Gaiman in Helena — In the lecture clip Gaiman says being an author is not just another day at the office but magic, every bit as good as you think it would be, and nothing else he would want to do. (00:01:24)
2013-01-15 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — Neil Gaiman's advice: read everything, don't wait for elves to write your novel, and finish things, because a glorious failure teaches more than something never finished. (01:47:25)
2013-01-15 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — Neil Gaiman recalls Gene Wolfe telling him, after he finished American Gods and thought he had figured out novels, that you only figure out how to write the novel you're on. (01:54:46)
2013-01-15 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — Neil Gaiman says writing at your rawest also protects you, because readers say they thought they were alone in feeling that, which returns as a blanket of love. (01:56:59)

Rainn Wilson (5)

2012-08-13 · John and Rainn Wilson Talk Romance — Rainn advises someone just dumped to feel the feelings first: a breakup is the death of a relationship, with a grieving process that must be fully processed. — hedged: “I think that” [opinion marker] (00:00:24)
2012-08-13 · John and Rainn Wilson Talk Romance — Rainn says people urge the dumped to get back out and have fun, but you can't really move on until you've felt the pain; then you can move on in many ways. (00:00:24)
2012-08-13 · John and Rainn Wilson Talk Romance — Rainn likens moving on too early to a scalp cyst that was not fully removed: if the doctor doesn't get it all, it grows back. (00:00:58)
2012-08-13 · John and Rainn Wilson Talk Romance — Rainn tells of having his scrotum drained for a hydrocele: one side swelled far larger, a syringe took about eight ounces, it refilled, and surgery removed a membrane. (playful) (00:01:20)
2012-08-13 · John and Rainn Wilson Talk Romance — Rainn says SoulPancake talks about life's big questions and will explore them on its new YouTube channel. (00:02:49)

Zulaiha (5)

2015-05-12 · Becoming Someone Else — Zulaiha changes from her everyday Western clothing into the traditional clothing that people like her mother wear every day. (00:01:05)
2015-05-12 · Becoming Someone Else — Zulaiha says she respects people who wear such clothing without caring what others think or feeling self-conscious. (00:01:13)
2015-05-12 · Becoming Someone Else — Asked by John, Zulaiha says she does not feel self-conscious wearing hijab in public; she is used to it. (00:01:23)
2015-05-12 · Becoming Someone Else — Zulaiha felt little different, she thinks because she links the clothes with her family, around whom she acts differently, but not with work. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:38)
2015-05-12 · Becoming Someone Else — Zulaiha wonders if she is more comfortable in this clothing than she thought and should wear it every day. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:47)

Ansel Elgort (4)

2013-09-10 · Secrets of the Movies: Thoughts from The Fault in Our Stars Set — Asked whether he has read the book, Ansel Elgort says yes, jokes that it was all right, then says he loved it. (playful) (00:02:59)
2013-10-04 · Q&A with Ansel Elgort and Mike Birbiglia from The Fault in Our Stars Movie Set — Ansel says he thinks 'Johnsel' is already a thing, and ships it too. (playful) — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:46)
2013-10-04 · Q&A with Ansel Elgort and Mike Birbiglia from The Fault in Our Stars Movie Set — Asked for his favorite scene so far, Ansel names a car scene with Gus filmed Friday night (John stops spoilers) and calls it his favorite scene as an actor. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:06)
2013-10-04 · Q&A with Ansel Elgort and Mike Birbiglia from The Fault in Our Stars Movie Set — Ansel says that while shooting Divergent in Chicago, Shailene gave him a package not to open; days later Josh Boone told him to open it: a rotten Dutch cheese and tomato sandwich meant he got the part. (00:01:25)

Daniel Biss (4)

2008-09-21 · The Pwning of Oprah — Daniel Biss confirms he is a professional mathematician with a PhD from MIT and that 41,818 is larger than 41,365. (playful) (00:01:25)
2011-07-27 · 150,000 Autographs — Daniel Biss, called in as 'Brotherhood 2.0 resident mathematician', works out that signing 150,000 copies means 2,000 books a day. (00:01:54)
2015-10-20 · Nerdfighteria's Resident Comptroller? — In a clip, Daniel says that when frustrated he asks whether something is broken and corrupt or he just doesn't get to be Emperor; when it's the latter, that's good, because it means no Mussolini. (00:02:35)
2015-10-20 · Nerdfighteria's Resident Comptroller? — Daniel says people of goodwill must accept the slowness of the political process, or it gets taken over by people deliberately trying to steal from it. (00:02:44)

Dave (4)

2016-11-10 · The Museum of Pizza Johns Past — Dave, DFTBA's operations manager, introduces the staff: Caenaan the warehouse manager, Rachel the head of creator support and Meg the head of customer service. (00:00:01)
2016-11-10 · The Museum of Pizza Johns Past — Dave introduces Valerie, who lives in Missoula and works for VidCon, as the designer of Pizza John, which led to Pizzamas: her lasting legacy. (00:00:35)
2016-11-10 · The Museum of Pizza Johns Past — Dave shows the November sock, designed by Rachel and sold only through the DFTBA Awesome Sox Club, and asks viewers to buy one of the 500 remaining subscriptions soon. (00:03:13)
2018-12-14 · Cute Goth Shock Collar Trivia Punishment for Charity — The topic of the whole trivia round is things Hank should know about his companies and employees. (00:00:58)

Denny Love (4)

2019-06-18 · Question Tuesday with Miles and the Colonel: Manolo! — Denny Love had not read the book before he got the audition; he read it in less than a day and knew the story was special. (00:00:43)
2019-06-18 · Question Tuesday with Miles and the Colonel: Manolo! — John says Denny Love memorized one of the Colonel's monologues from the book when he auditioned (the scene was just shot); Denny says it was so beautiful and wrenching that he had to have performed it even if he never got to play the Colonel. (00:01:12)
2019-06-18 · Question Tuesday with Miles and the Colonel: Manolo! — Denny Love says what he likes most about the Colonel is his huge heart: he cares so much about people, the school and the world, which viewers will see in the show. (00:01:12)
2019-06-18 · Question Tuesday with Miles and the Colonel: Manolo! — Asked what name he would pick the way Alaska picks hers, Denny Love chooses Manolo, his name in Spanish class, which he thinks means the romantic one; Charlie was Pierre in French. (playful) (00:01:12)

Jesse Jenkins (4)

2022-08-12 · The Biggest Climate Bill of Your Life - But What does it DO!? — Jesse Jenkins recalls that wind power under $100 per megawatt hour, triple the normal rate, was a great deal, and solar cost ten times normal power. (00:02:32)
2022-08-12 · The Biggest Climate Bill of Your Life - But What does it DO!? — Jenkins says supportive policies in the US, China, Germany, Japan and elsewhere turned expensive alternatives into cheap, trillion-dollar mainstream technologies scaling rapidly. (00:03:02)
2022-08-12 · The Biggest Climate Bill of Your Life - But What does it DO!? — Jenkins recalls that, as he was leaving for vacation with his family, he got the call from Senator Schumer's staff that the bill was dead. (00:18:50)
2022-08-12 · The Biggest Climate Bill of Your Life - But What does it DO!? — Jenkins likens the fight to the phases of grief: some stopped at anger at Manchin, while some, including a few senators, bargained, and against all odds it worked. (00:18:57)

Nicola (4)

2020-02-21 · The Muck of Millennia — The mudlark says a horse skull in her collection could well be Roman. — hedged: “could well be” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:33)
2020-02-21 · The Muck of Millennia — The mudlark says about 90% of her collection was washed up by the river. (00:01:33)
2020-02-21 · The Muck of Millennia — The mudlark shows a Roman pot, probably from 200, marvelling that it survived so long. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:03)
2020-02-21 · The Muck of Millennia — The mudlark shows an old Victorian baby bottle, a perfect breeding ground for bacteria and terrible for babies' milk. (00:02:03)

Rachel (4)

2016-11-10 · The Museum of Pizza Johns Past — Rachel lists this year's (2016) designers: Judy Kaufmann, Sara Cervantes, Julia Pott, Rachel herself, TEKST (Big John Pizzeria), Ming Doyle (an indigo design) and the design duo Rude. (00:01:56)
2016-11-10 · The Museum of Pizza Johns Past — Rachel models the collection's very soft pajama pants, called the PJ-PJ. (playful) (00:02:23)
2016-11-10 · The Museum of Pizza Johns Past — Rachel says the personal pizza Pizzamas box holds box-only items: a hot and fresh shirt and notepad, a Pizza John pizza cutter with bottle opener and an apron with gold imprints. (00:02:31)
2016-11-10 · The Museum of Pizza Johns Past — Rachel says that, as last year (2015), one item gives its proceeds to charity: 100% of profits from the Pizza John pet leash go to the Animal Legal Defense Fund. (00:02:52)

Charlie Plummer (3)

2019-06-18 · Question Tuesday with Miles and the Colonel: Manolo! — Charlie Plummer read the book at 15 and for the first time passionately wanted to be part of something and play a specific character; now he is living that. (00:00:43)
2019-06-18 · Question Tuesday with Miles and the Colonel: Manolo! — Charlie Plummer says he can relate to too many of Miles's traits to pick one. (00:01:12)
2019-06-18 · Question Tuesday with Miles and the Colonel: Manolo! — Charlie Plummer picks Bon Iver's '29 #Strafford APTS' as the song that captures the atmosphere of Looking for Alaska. (00:03:20)

Chris (3)

2025-08-01 · We Stole a Man's Blood — Chris says that about six months earlier, in the fall near his birthday, he happened to see a video that mentioned DKMS and that the cheek swab is a very easy and accessible option. (00:00:29)
2025-08-01 · We Stole a Man's Blood — Chris says donating meant about four hours of mild discomfort that day and a week of medication beforehand, to hopefully extend or possibly save someone's life. — hedged: “hopefully” [wish / hope] (00:00:58)
2025-08-01 · We Stole a Man's Blood — Chris says he got a couple of texts and emails, realized it was probably important, and was very happy to hear it. (00:02:11)

Chris Waters (3)

2014-02-25 · John and Chris Meet in the Middle — Chris asks whether art is just some guy hiking with his dog to arbitrarily meet a friend he made an appointment with three hours ago; he finds it exciting and nerve-racking. (playful) (00:01:05)
2014-02-25 · John and Chris Meet in the Middle — Chris says the meeting made him think this is how people travelled 200 years ago. (00:03:18)
2014-02-25 · John and Chris Meet in the Middle — Chris says that the meeting made him feel like a kid again. (00:03:28)

Debbie Kitto (3)

2007-12-24 · THE NERDFIGHTER HAPPY DANCE PROJECT — Debbie Kitto's song tells viewers not to contain their joy: whenever the feeling grabs you, anywhere and with anyone, everyone has a happy dance. (00:01:36)
2007-12-24 · THE NERDFIGHTER HAPPY DANCE PROJECT — Debbie Kitto's tribute song thanks John and Hank: the world is better because of them, and the global Nerdfighter community will stand. (00:07:43)
2007-12-24 · THE NERDFIGHTER HAPPY DANCE PROJECT — The tribute lists what the brothers brought: intelligent humor, blended meals, 'In My Pants', DFTBA, songs on Wednesday, stuff on heads, awesome and togetherness. (00:08:13)

Henry Green (3)

2012-10-16 · Burning Peeps, My OTP, and Velociraptors: It's Question Tuesday — Asked to settle velociraptor versus brontosaurus, John asks Henry, who prefers velociraptors. (00:02:01)
2013-12-10 · Cooking with a 3-Year-Old: Slobber Carrots and Gross Barbecue — Henry explains that slobber carrots are cooked carrots and agrees that barbecue is basically meat and barbecue sauce. (00:00:21)
2014-04-01 · VELOCIRAPTORS — John's son suggests the topic: a velociraptor. (00:00:04)

M. T. Anderson (3)

2007-09-24 · September 24: Airports and M. T. Anderson — M. T. Anderson gives viewers a guide to the art on his apartment wall: young lovers, young body parasites and the central nervous system. (playful) (00:01:29)
2007-09-24 · September 24: Airports and M. T. Anderson — M. T. Anderson says the art reminds you that while nestled with loved ones, parasites still live on you; love is found in your mouth and eyebrows too. (playful) (00:01:55)
2012-06-12 · Chris Colfer, John Green, Mob Wives, and Jeffrey Eugenides: Thoughts from Places Book Expo — M. T. Anderson, whom John says always speaks in full and beautiful sentences, says criticizing a book character's intelligence is a huge insult to teen intellectuals already put down by peers. — hedged: “I always feel like” [opinion marker] (00:01:27)

Robert Tyminski (3)

2018-12-21 · The Psychology of Package Thieves — Tyminski says most theft is not because people need it; the opportunistic category driven by social and economic deprivation is pretty small. (00:01:47)
2018-12-21 · The Psychology of Package Thieves — Tyminski says thieves felt strength in getting away with it, in fooling and duping people, and in the rush, as shoplifters do too. (00:02:20)
2018-12-21 · The Psychology of Package Thieves — Tyminski says stealing together is a defense against guilt: people prone to guilt get to divide it and feel it less. (00:02:20)

Valerie2776 (3)

2016-11-10 · The Museum of Pizza Johns Past — Valerie gives the ten-second history of Pizza John: John likes pizza, once had a mustache in a video, and all of this followed. (playful) (00:01:00)
2016-11-10 · The Museum of Pizza Johns Past — The staff tour Pizza John designs by year: the 2010 original; 2012 green, neon nineties, eyes, vampire and evil; a 2013 hoodie; 2014 Bowie, glowy, halftone, Obey; 2015 Warhol, rainbow, blue neon, Pisa, Misfits, faux-knitted and nebula. (00:01:18)
2016-11-10 · The Museum of Pizza Johns Past — Valerie says that this year (2016), as Hank said, they asked their favourite designers to design Pizza John shirts. (00:01:50)

German actor and chess boxer (name not given) (2)

2008-10-06 · Berlin and Let it Snow (in Your Pants) — The actor greets Hank after reading with John and says he is the runner-up European champion in heavyweight chess boxing. (00:02:49)
2008-10-06 · Berlin and Let it Snow (in Your Pants) — The actor explains that chess boxing alternates four minutes of chess with two minutes of boxing, and can be won by knockout. (00:02:49)

Alex Day (2)

2008-10-17 · Vital Status Report from NYC — Alex Day introduces himself as responsible for the largest tag project in history. (playful) (00:00:58)
2008-10-17 · Vital Status Report from NYC — Alex says that after finishing Paper Towns and seeing it would launch in New York, he asked Charlie to come and booked tickets leaving in about two and a half days. (00:02:03)

Brittany Broski (2)

2023-11-03 · We Need to talk about Sarapocial Relationships — In a clip from Colin and Samir's show, Brittany Broski says every decision she makes is for her audience; she doesn't want them mad or unhappy with her content. (00:00:50)
2023-11-03 · We Need to talk about Sarapocial Relationships — Brittany Broski says she thinks it is unacceptable for a creator not to be attached to their audience. (00:00:50)

Coe Booth (2)

2007-04-30 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 30: Hellos from Los Angeles — In the final introduction, Coe Booth tells Hank she thinks he's really cute and knows he's married. (playful) — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:32)
2007-04-30 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 30: Hellos from Los Angeles — In her acceptance, Coe Booth hopes her book will reach kids who rarely see themselves represented in literature. (00:01:40)

Esther Earl (2)

2010-07-05 · With Esther — Esther doesn't know which Harry Potter character she'd be, maybe a mix of Luna and someone else; she agrees half Luna, half Dumbledore would be very beautiful. (playful) — hedged: “I don't know” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:00)
2010-08-27 · Rest In Awesome, Esther — In the clip Esther says she might tell her younger self that family is important. — hedged: “Maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:03:07)

Felicia Day (2)

2013-04-12 · Felicia Day, Hannah Hart, and The Fine Brothers — Felicia Day says the most common annoying question she gets is what Nathan Fillion smells like. (playful) (00:01:01)
2015-11-06 · Announcing VidCon 2016! June 23 - 25 (and Pizzamas 2015!) — In the opening montage Felicia Day says video, to her, is a way to make people feel like they belong. (00:00:15)

Isata Dumbuya (2)

2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — Isata Dumbuya says results in the new space the babies moved to are already phenomenal after three months, but it was full yesterday, so the MCOE cannot come soon enough. (00:02:48)
2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — Isata Dumbuya says the MCOE will be a place where Sierra Leonean women know for the first time they deserve the same care, treatment and equipment as anyone else. (00:02:48)

John Darnielle (2)

2013-01-15 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — John Darnielle says many people would never have heard The Mountain Goats if John weren't relentlessly telling them to listen, and plays 'Love Love Love', a song John digs. (01:32:38)
2013-01-15 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — Darnielle says he was sent a hardback book and found a Mountain Goats song in it ('Paper Towns'), then plays 'Game Shows Touch Our Lives'. (01:39:10)

Julian Randall (2)

2019-09-24 · I, Too, Dislike It — Julian Randall introduces his poem 'On the Night I Consider Coming Out to My Parents', written in the aftermath of the Pulse shooting. (00:02:15)
2019-09-24 · I, Too, Dislike It — In the poem Julian names himself black, Dominican and bisexual, afraid of banishment and of worrying his praying mother, and stays quiet. (00:02:27)

Julie Strauss-Gabel (2)

2010-06-25 · Book Nerd PARADISE — Asked whether the new book will be John's next book for sure, his editor says yes; she says she loves it, though she has not finished it. (playful) (00:00:34)
2010-06-25 · Book Nerd PARADISE — John's editor describes the book: a desert island, a dangerously attractive boy who's up to no good (John demurs), and a girl narrator. (00:00:34)

Kimya Dawson (2)

2012-08-03 · I Don't Understand My Life — In a cameo, Kimya Dawson answers that she doesn't understand her life either. (playful) (00:00:26)
2013-01-15 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — Kimya Dawson sings that judging and stereotyping people is pointless because everyone is really complicated, and we need more compassion. (02:27:49)

Marcus Browne (2)

2025-01-14 · So I Bought My Team a Pro Football Player — Marcus Browne says he is grateful and happy to get his feet back under the table, work and showcase his talent. (00:02:55)
2025-01-14 · So I Bought My Team a Pro Football Player — Marcus Browne says he understands the streaming because he used to stream on Twitch himself. (00:02:55)

Marion (2)

2008-06-27 · Marion the Nerdfightarion — Marion says she is speeding to try to pick up the book John Green just showed he was signing, a Maureen Johnson book. (00:00:51)
2008-06-27 · Marion the Nerdfightarion — Marion gets the book, repeats that she can't believe she got it, and describes the signature as 'J, scribble'. (playful) (00:01:25)

Michael Regan (2)

2022-08-12 · The Biggest Climate Bill of Your Life - But What does it DO!? — EPA Administrator Michael Regan says technology, quick innovation and new business models mean we can move faster than ever before. (00:04:00)
2022-08-12 · The Biggest Climate Bill of Your Life - But What does it DO!? — Regan says grants go to community groups with universities and incubators, and solutions can look a thousand and one ways: there is no one size fits all. (00:12:41)

Robert D. Braun (2)

2011-07-11 · Hank Talks to NASA About the Space Shuttle — Bobby Braun says a whole host of American vehicles, being designed now by competing US companies, will carry American crews; he cannot say which will fly. (00:01:28)
2011-07-11 · Hank Talks to NASA About the Space Shuttle — A NASA voice (apparently Braun) says NASA will turn its attention to deep space, places not visited before, while low orbit remains a fantastic laboratory. (00:01:57)

Aida (1)

2016-06-07 · Zaatari: Thoughts from a Refugee Camp — Asked why she came to Jordan, Aida asks John to picture a barrel bomb falling on his roof and checking whether pieces of flesh in the house are from his family. (00:00:57)

Amy (1)

2017-01-20 · Behind the Scenes of My Life — Amy shows her updated calendar collection, one available on DFTBA unless sold out; Hank says it is now sold out. (00:02:24)

Amy Krouse Rosenthal (1)

2010-10-04 · The Terrible Burden of Destiny: Chicago and Waupaca — Amy Krouse Rosenthal gives the date and time of her event: 10-10-10 at 10:10 p.m. (00:02:03)

Andrew Huang (1)

2013-11-15 · I Have a Band? — Andrew Huang says his channel Songs To Wear Pants To is where many musical adventures happen; the weirdest request was a sexy song about airplane terminology. (00:00:55)

Ashley Clements (1)

2013-01-15 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — Ashley Clements and Daniel Gordh read the Anne Frank House chapter of The Fault in Our Stars, ending with Hazel and Augustus's kiss, the applause and the walk back to the hotel. (fiction) (00:39:10)

Bailor Barrie (1)

2019-10-01 · Why Are Poor Countries Poor? — Asked about treating Ebola patients, Dr. Bailor Barrie recalls seeing maybe 50 patients one day and finding only 20 the next: it was horrible. (00:05:17)

Barack Obama (1)

2015-01-23 · Interviewing the President — Greeting Hank, President Obama jokes that the White House is the people's house and he is only leasing it, with the lease running out in two years. (playful) (00:02:51)

Ben Richardson (1)

2013-09-10 · Secrets of the Movies: Thoughts from The Fault in Our Stars Set — Cinematographer Ben Richardson agrees, and explains that a second camera would be visible in the shots they had just filmed. (00:00:52)

Bill Martin (1)

2008-10-01 · The Man Who Throws the Tetris Piece — The song casts the unseen figure who throws the Tetris pieces as the greatest video-game villain, one nobody can defeat and who never gives the straight piece. (fiction) (00:01:49)

Brady Haran (1)

2012-10-19 · Revolutionizing Education...With Weirdos — Brady Haran introduces himself as a UK-based video journalist who runs several channels, including Periodic Videos, Numberphile, Sixty Symbols and Deep Sky Videos. (00:01:27)

Caenaan (1)

2016-11-10 · The Museum of Pizza Johns Past — Caenaan says the warehouse forklift is, of course, named Forky McForkface. (playful) (00:00:10)

Caitlin (1)

2017-01-20 · Behind the Scenes of My Life — Caitlin says she is reading about ways to start a new job for a How to Adult script, not because she is looking for one. (00:01:02)

Ceri (1)

2017-01-20 · Behind the Scenes of My Life — Ceri says she is editing Crash Course Film. (00:00:53)

Charles Bolden (1)

2011-07-11 · Hank Talks to NASA About the Space Shuttle — A NASA voice (apparently Bolden) says astronauts will reach the space station as almost entirely since the Columbia accident: on Soyuz from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (00:00:58)

Chris (1)

2016-11-07 · It's Pizzamas!!! (Thoughts From the Place Where they Print Our Shirts) — Chris, Zoo City's owner, says he has no idea why he started a print shop, ten years ago. (00:00:46)

Cory (1)

2016-11-07 · It's Pizzamas!!! (Thoughts From the Place Where they Print Our Shirts) — Cory, the ink mixer, says he was listening to Hank's podcast before Hank walked in. (00:01:19)

Courtney (1)

2014-03-21 · The Great Goose Migration — Courtney adds that daylight saving time is hell on babies. (playful) (00:02:18)

Dan John Miller (1)

2008-07-30 · Audiobooks and 8 8 08 — Dan John Miller is heard reading lines, apparently from the audiobook. (fiction) (00:02:23)

Derek Muller (1)

2012-10-19 · Revolutionizing Education...With Weirdos — Derek Muller explains his channel name Veritasium as 'the element of truth': veritas is the Latin word for truth, plus the traditional '-ium' ending. (00:00:58)

Destin Sandlin (1)

2012-10-19 · Revolutionizing Education...With Weirdos — Destin shows Hank a spring that is stretched and wadded up and then, once heated, recovers its shape ('It's alive!'). (playful) (00:02:14)

Devon Murray (1)

2013-06-28 · Plane Butts, Fish Farts, LeakyCon, and Marriage Equality — Devon Murray tells Hank he recently blew up his brand-new microwave while showering upstairs, filling the house with smoke. (00:02:12)

Elyse Marshall (1)

2025-03-18 · ITS ALL HAPPENING — Elise tells John he nailed it and denies that she always says that. (playful) (00:00:00)

Ettore Rossetti (1)

2014-12-19 · BUTFARTMAN Is Coming To Town! — Ettore Rossetti thanks 'you and your community' for the time and contributions, calling them truly awesome, as their name suggests. (00:03:27)

Fran (1)

2010-09-24 · Dumping My Girlfriend — Fran says she is a big fan of Nerdfighteria and feels like she is a Nerdfighter. (00:01:54)

Franchesca Ramsey (1)

2015-11-06 · Announcing VidCon 2016! June 23 - 25 (and Pizzamas 2015!) — In the montage Franchesca Ramsey says she was not seeing people like her represented in television. (00:00:21)

Grace (1)

2024-03-15 · The Worst Things About Not Having Cancer — In a clip from her video, Grace voices the post-treatment urge to make up for lost time: get creative, get a schedule, work out. (playful) (00:00:00)

Heather (1)

2010-03-08 · GIGANTIC CHICKEN EGG!! — Heather says she gets about a hundred eggs a day, about 3,000 a month. (00:02:20)

Henry Reider (1)

2023-08-15 · Henry — Henry says he is back to pursue his dreams and is so happy to be alive again. (00:04:42)

Henry (1)

2017-01-20 · Behind the Scenes of My Life — Henry, who does not work for Hank, says he rents his office from Hank. (00:01:46)

Henry Reich (1)

2013-05-17 · GIFs, JIFs, Whip Pans, Trivia, and BATMAN! — Henry Reich explains that light is affected by black holes because gravity is an interaction between objects with energy and momentum, which light has. (00:02:18)

Jacob (1)

2014-03-21 · The Great Goose Migration — Asked by Hank, farmer Jacob says he does not like daylight saving time. (00:02:17)

Jake Schreier (1)

2014-11-17 · Combines and Movie Magic: Pizzamas Day 6 — Asked by John how the movie is going, director Jake Schreier says it is going super well. (00:01:49)

Jeffrey Katzenberg (1)

2014-11-20 · Announcing VidCon 2015! — In the montage Jeffrey Katzenberg says those in online video today will understand it best tomorrow, and that is what he is investing in. (00:00:24)

Jenn McAllister (1)

2014-11-25 · Tyler, Ingrid, Troye, Hannah, Mandy, Jenn, and Rosianna Visit Paper Towns — Jenn McAllister: the meaning of life is to find something you're passionate about, do it all the time and love doing it. (00:03:44)

Jenna Marbles (1)

2014-11-20 · Announcing VidCon 2015! — In the VidCon 2014 montage Jenna Marbles says she lives for the hugs, for VidCon and for the meet and greets. (00:00:04)

Jessi Knudsen Castañeda (1)

2014-12-19 · BUTFARTMAN Is Coming To Town! — Asked by Reid Reimers why a skunk, Lollipop, is in the room, Jessi Knudsen Castañeda answers that she is awesome. (playful) (00:01:23)

Joe Incandela (1)

2011-10-03 · The LHC and Alex's Survey — In an interview clip, Joe Incandela says that after 15 years of preparation he wonders what if nothing is found, but something has to give: a find would be studied for details on where to look next, and no find would be even more exciting, if hard to explain to funders. (00:02:36)

Joel (1)

2007-03-30 · March 30th: Manliness! — Asked about the meat at dinner, Joel says it mixes two kinds of small young deer. (00:01:57)

Joia Mukherjee (1)

2014-12-19 · BUTFARTMAN Is Coming To Town! — Joia Mukherjee says all of us need to work together and commit for the long haul. (00:03:23)

Julie (1)

2017-01-20 · Behind the Scenes of My Life — Julie says her official title is Director of Operations. (00:02:08)

Kristine Froseth (1)

2019-10-08 · Looking for Alaska (...with Alaska) — Kristine Froseth thinks her internal life is quite similar to Alaska's, but externally they are very different. (00:03:11)

Boston voter in Hank's clip (1)

2020-10-23 · 10 Reasons to Vote RIGHT NOW — Reason eight, a clip: a Boston woman voting at Fenway, Dunkies in hand, says she is ready to vote for Joe Biden though she wishes it were Bernie Sanders, because it is a team sport. (playful) (00:02:11)

Laura (1)

2015-09-15 · John Gets a Tattoo — Asked the least painful place for an inkless tattoo, tattoo artist Laura says anywhere with some good muscle. (00:00:26)

Lindsey Doe (1)

2013-06-21 · New Channels, New Songs, and Just Plain News — Lindsay Doe introduces herself: a clinical sexologist with a bachelor's in psychology and a master's in health and human performance (health promotion). (00:03:22)

Link Neal (1)

2014-12-19 · BUTFARTMAN Is Coming To Town! — Link Neal says 'we' appreciate what the brothers have done to create this outlet. (00:03:18)

Lori Garver (1)

2011-07-11 · Hank Talks to NASA About the Space Shuttle — Lori Garver gives the final word: NASA is excited about the future and is all about increasing the awesome. (playful) (00:03:24)

Lou (1)

2016-11-07 · It's Pizzamas!!! (Thoughts From the Place Where they Print Our Shirts) — Lou, a press operator, says he started printing in his garage at 17, went to school for graphic design, and it took twenty years to come back around. (00:00:54)

Marcus (1)

2017-01-20 · Behind the Scenes of My Life — Marcus, the newest staff member, says he is learning to animate on top of Hank's videos. (00:01:26)

Matthew (1)

2017-01-20 · Behind the Scenes of My Life — Matthew says he is working on The Financial Diet. (00:00:32)

Meg (1)

2016-11-10 · The Museum of Pizza Johns Past — Meg notes that the 2015 Rainbow Pizza John was their first charity shirt. (00:01:40)

Meheret (1)

2014-09-09 · Going to College (in Ethiopia) — Meheret describes her initiative as volunteers who want a better community, country and society. (00:00:54)

Michael Aranda (1)

2013-03-29 · Caviar Brownies - The Second Annual Hungry Games — Michael says all he can think about is how they are going to outdo this next year (2014). (playful) (00:03:38)

Michael Carmichael (1)

2020-05-01 · I Need to Get Myself Away from this Place — Michael says he wants to get a picture of John to put up. (00:02:04)

Mike Lombardo (1)

2010-05-05 · HANKO DE MAYO!!!!11!! — Mike Lombardo's song 'You Should Know' tells Hank how much these people care, that this is just the beginning, and that they will be standing there for him. (00:08:55)

Mike Massimino (1)

2011-07-11 · Hank Talks to NASA About the Space Shuttle — Mike Massimino says the first thing he wants is faster rockets with more powerful engines to get beyond low orbit and further into the solar system. (00:02:26)

Molly Lewis (1)

2010-05-05 · HANKO DE MAYO!!!!11!! — In her song 'My Hope', Molly Lewis hopes people's old Myspace pages stay up long enough for their children to find and be embarrassed by them. (playful) (00:01:31)

Mulualem Gessesse (1)

2014-07-29 · Listen: Thoughts from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — Asked by John several times why she chose her specialty, Dr. Gessesse eventually answers that her concern is for Ethiopian newborns. (00:01:20)

Musa Mohammed (1)

2016-06-07 · Zaatari: Thoughts from a Refugee Camp — Musa Mohammed's message to people in the US and Europe: refugees are people, and being a refugee does not set him apart from any other human being. (00:02:30)

Nick (1)

2012-12-21 · Meet the Team: The Missoula Office (And P4A and TheBrainScoop) — Nick says his dormant channel The Lonely Director is coming back. (00:00:50)

Robert Michael Pyle (1)

2007-04-23 · April 23rd: Celebrity — Asked what picking up a spare feels like, Robert Michael Pyle says it feels even better than writing a good paragraph. (playful) (00:00:00)

Sean (1)

2018-06-22 · Stumping EDU Creators - Trivia at VidCon — Sean answers that Le Pétomane was a Frenchman who could fart and was an entertainer. (00:02:57)

Shailene Woodley (1)

2013-09-10 · Secrets of the Movies: Thoughts from The Fault in Our Stars Set — Shailene Woodley says she has read the book multiple times; it is in her top two favorite books ever, alongside 1984, which she really loves. (00:03:22)

Sofia Vassilieva (1)

2019-10-08 · Looking for Alaska (...with Alaska) — Praised for a good accent as Lara, Sofia Vassilieva credits her Russian parents: she can roll her Rs. (00:01:27)

Steve Grove (1)

2015-01-23 · Interviewing the President — A Google employee, Steve Grove, assures Hank that nobody in the White House, not even the President's staff, will see his questions beforehand. (00:00:18)

Tobias (1)

2011-05-09 · Trading Underwear for Rice Crispy Treats: Queens Day in Amsterdam (Thoughts from Places) — Tobias says he looked in his wardrobe and had nothing orange. (00:01:10)

Toby Hendy (1)

2018-06-22 · Stumping EDU Creators - Trivia at VidCon — One creator makes physics videos now but still has long hair tutorials on her channel. (00:01:47)

Secret Brother Tom (1)

2007-02-20 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 20th: Computer Trouble — Tom introduces himself as the brothers' third brother, whom they have never met or heard of, with a chemical-engineering degree, a wife and some kids. (joke) (00:01:48)

Troye Sivan (1)

2014-11-25 · Tyler, Ingrid, Troye, Hannah, Mandy, Jenn, and Rosianna Visit Paper Towns — Troye Sivan names Moulin Rouge as his favourite movie and Cape Town as his favourite city, and says the meaning of life is to be happy and do good. (00:02:55)

Tyler Oakley (1)

2014-11-25 · Tyler, Ingrid, Troye, Hannah, Mandy, Jenn, and Rosianna Visit Paper Towns — Asked the meaning of life, Tyler Oakley answers: love. (00:00:45)

Ubay (1)

2016-06-07 · Zaatari: Thoughts from a Refugee Camp — Ubay says his biggest fear is child labour: his generation will become more illiterate year by year and be unable to help Syria afterwards. (00:00:22)

Valerie (1)

2017-01-20 · Behind the Scenes of My Life — Valerie says she is working on signage for NerdCon: Nerdfighteria. (00:02:44)

Quoted voices (154)

Someone else's words read out or relayed by a brother.

John Green (quoted) (17)

2007-02-28 · Brotherhood 2.0: Everyone Poops in my Pants, a Picture Book — In the story Hank's small problem is that everyone poops in his pants: each morning dozens of people surround his house chanting for his pants. (fiction) (00:00:04)
2007-02-28 · Brotherhood 2.0: Everyone Poops in my Pants, a Picture Book — The story concedes not literally everyone has: poor people can't afford to fly to Montana and babies are busy with their own, but statistically an improbably large number have. (fiction) (00:00:43)
2007-02-28 · Brotherhood 2.0: Everyone Poops in my Pants, a Picture Book — The pant-poopers listed: Hank's mom, dad and brother John, Kirsten Dunst during Spider-Man 2, Liverpool Football Club, Günter Grass, Stephen Dedalus, Al Roker and Lenin. (fiction) (00:00:43)
2007-02-28 · Brotherhood 2.0: Everyone Poops in my Pants, a Picture Book — The story mocks George W. Bush as so incompetent he failed to poop in Hank's pants, then claimed he never meant to; his poop 'looks exactly like bullshit'. (playful) (00:01:46)
2007-02-28 · Brotherhood 2.0: Everyone Poops in my Pants, a Picture Book — The story says Barack Obama came by and pooped in Hank's pants, and his poop kind of makes the narrator believe in America again. (playful) — hedged: “kind of” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:19)
2007-02-28 · Brotherhood 2.0: Everyone Poops in my Pants, a Picture Book — The story's narrator mostly dislikes it, but everyone has a cross to bear (chronic back pain, Team Karen, being Republican); it could be worse. (fiction) (00:02:19)
2007-10-29 · October 29th: It Just Isn't Fair — In the book, narrator Alvin, a smart 'total nerd' nicknamed Wimp, spends money on clothes to be cool, which fails; he befriends Rick, whose father is dead, and both end up popular. (fiction) (00:01:22)
2007-10-29 · October 29th: It Just Isn't Fair — The book's author note says John Green, born in Indianapolis, is eight, has written five books, hopes to finish his latest by the end of the school year, and much of the story isn't true. — hedged: “hopefully” [wish / hope] (00:02:44)
2010-01-20 · OMG MY BROTHER HAD A BABY — Hank relays John's words: the birth was 'freaking weird', Sarah 'worked so hard', fatherhood is 'actually, like, really great', and he has been awake 46 of the last 48 hours. (00:02:36)
2018-07-06 · This Ends in Death — John texts back that the word is eschatology, which covers the whole human apocalypse, not just individual death; eschatological anxiety is fear of apocalyptic events. (00:01:20)
2018-11-09 · I Don't Know What Work Is — In that 2011 chat John wrote that he wanted to do things that change the world and that YouTube will buy into, focusing on ideas YouTube would pay for that would also change the world. (00:02:10)
2020-04-24 · The Sharpest Tool in the Shed — Hank recalls John telling him he has tried every permanent marker there is and that Sharpie makes the best marker. (00:02:32)
2021-06-25 · The Surprising Origin of Crash Course — In the chat John proposes a hilarious, fun five-minute video with lots of visual aids covering the whole French Revolution, which no one in education treats as interesting. (00:00:15)
2021-06-25 · The Surprising Origin of Crash Course — John's chat calls the deal made in an indoor tennis court the most interesting moment in world history, except for when the prince of Nepal became a serial killer. (playful) (00:00:29)
2023-05-19 · So, I've got cancer — John answered Hank with a very John Green thought: a year from now would have been better. (playful) (00:04:20)
2025-11-14 · The End of The Penny (and of Congress??) — An opening clip argues that money exists to facilitate exchange, that pennies don't do that effectively, and that the penny is a metaphor for larger problems. (00:00:07)
2026-09-25 · Who Has Signed Their Name the Most Times? — On the phone this morning John told Hank he is a little proud of the record: he didn't expect a big deal, then it happened on stage and he was delighted. (00:03:53)

Kurt Vonnegut (quoted) (9)

2007-04-12 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 12th: A Eulogy for Vonnegut — Vonnegut writes that wherever he is, reaching the very edge of a natural body of water gives him serenity and tells him where he is and which way home lies. (00:00:10)
2007-04-12 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 12th: A Eulogy for Vonnegut — Vonnegut traces this to making his first mental maps as a small child in summers on the shores of Lake Maxinkuckee in northern Indiana, whose closed-loop shore always led home. (00:00:10)
2007-04-12 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 12th: A Eulogy for Vonnegut — Vonnegut gives the lake as three miles long and two and a half miles across at its widest. (00:00:41)
2007-04-12 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 12th: A Eulogy for Vonnegut — Vonnegut asks the reader, 'my indispensable collaborator', whether their deepest understanding of time, space and destiny is also shaped by earliest experiences of geography and the rules for getting home. — speculative (hedge words not recorded) (00:00:41)
2007-04-12 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 12th: A Eulogy for Vonnegut — Vonnegut recalls his family's unheated cottage beside four cottages of close relatives; his father's generation had summered there as children, almost immediate successors to the Potawatomi. (00:01:11)
2007-04-12 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 12th: A Eulogy for Vonnegut — Vonnegut recalls that his grown father would call out a nonsense phrase from their childhood, German for 'Do abbots mow hay?', and a relative would reply 'Yes, abbots mow hay!' (00:01:40)
2007-04-12 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 12th: A Eulogy for Vonnegut — Vonnegut says those families have vanished from the lake without a trace, but he is not sad: imprinted on his young mind, it will be his lake as long as he lives, so he has no wish to visit. (00:02:04)
2007-04-12 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 12th: A Eulogy for Vonnegut — Seeing the lake from about six miles up on a flight from Louisville to Chicago was emotionally uninvolving, Vonnegut writes, because the real lake is the one in his head. (00:02:04)
2026-09-01 · You Can't Go Home Again, but I Tried — John cites Kurt Vonnegut: home is not some far place but Indianapolis when he was nine, with his family and pets, and there is no way to get there again. (00:00:29)

Barack Obama (quoted) (6)

2008-04-10 · Barack John Obama Green — In the speech clip, Obama says every child is our problem and our responsibility, and that we have to invest to make sure they are prepared. (00:01:26)
2011-05-02 · Osama Bin Laden is Dead — In his address Obama announces that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda. (00:00:41)
2013-02-15 · Baby, Harlem, Obama, Dance Crazes, Big Week — Obama answers that he doesn't know, suggesting people get emotionally attached to the way things have been. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:05)
2013-02-15 · Baby, Harlem, Obama, Dance Crazes, Big Week — Obama explains he won't state a name preference: if the parents chose otherwise, the child would forever say the President doesn't like its name. (00:02:42)
2013-02-15 · Baby, Harlem, Obama, Dance Crazes, Big Week — Obama tells John that the main thing is to tell the child, whichever name they choose, not to forget to be awesome. (00:02:49)
2025-11-14 · The End of The Penny (and of Congress??) — In the replayed answer Obama says the penny needs legislation and that, given the big issues they face daily, they cannot get to it. (00:00:56)

Bill Gates (quoted) (4)

2014-01-21 · Are Poor Countries Doomed? — Quoting Bill Gates: look skeptically at anyone who treats an entire continent as an undifferentiated mass of poverty and disease. (00:01:14)
2017-02-14 · Human Life Is Getting Better. Faster Than Ever Before. — Bill Gates, as John relays him, says saving children's lives is the best deal in philanthropy. (00:02:11)
2017-02-14 · Human Life Is Getting Better. Faster Than Ever Before. — Bill Gates, as John relays him, says malnutrition destroys the most human potential on the planet. (00:02:49)
2019-02-12 · Are Textbooks Obsolete? — John cites Bill Gates in the letter: educational materials should complement what teachers do, not replace it. (00:02:55)

Paul Farmer (quoted) (4)

2022-02-22 · On the Death of My Hero — In Infections and Inequalities, which John calls brilliant, Farmer wrote that opposing aggressive MDR-TB treatment in poor countries values lives differently: its advocates would never accept that death sentence. (00:01:27)
2022-03-29 · An H of G — John quotes how Farmer once defined the H of G: I know you are a good guy, so I will interpret what you say and do in a favorable light. (00:00:58)
2023-03-28 · My Tuberculosis Reading List — Farmer argues tuberculosis cannot be separated from the social conditions that lead to it, such as poverty, malnutrition and overcrowded housing. (00:01:56)
2024-06-18 · The Tea — As John's late friend Paul Farmer often reminded him, resources are limited but less limited than they have ever been. (00:06:14)

Susan Carlson (quoted) (4)

2008-08-21 · INTERNET SENSATION B$%CH — The report says the brothers' public video communication became a YouTube sensation with 13.5 million viewers to date. (00:01:43)
2008-08-21 · INTERNET SENSATION B$%CH — The report says John was already a successful teen author whose fame skyrocketed through the internet, and that he was back in Chicago, where he once lived, promoting his books at the library. (00:02:08)
2008-08-21 · INTERNET SENSATION B$%CH — The report says about 400 young adults came to the library event, some waiting over two hours to meet the brothers. (00:02:08)
2008-08-21 · INTERNET SENSATION B$%CH — The report says that after a year of video-only messages the brothers communicate in other ways again, but the vlogs will continue. (00:03:27)

Amy Krouse Rosenthal (quoted) (3)

2023-12-30 · John's Review of Auld Lang Syne — In Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Amy reckoned 80 years at 29,220 days and perhaps 12,395 looks at a tree: a lot, but not infinite, and so too measly. (00:10:19)
2026-08-03 · Esther Day 2026: Some Thoughts on Loss — John reads Amy Krouse Rosenthal's reckoning that a generous 80-year life amounts to 29,220 days on Earth. (00:01:27)
2026-08-03 · Esther Day 2026: Some Thoughts on Loss — In the passage, Rosenthal guesses she may get to look at a tree some 12,395 more times: a lot, but not infinite, and anything less than infinite is unsatisfactory. (00:01:27)

Hank Green (quoted) (3)

2010-05-05 · HANKO DE MAYO!!!!11!! — Hank's song 'Nerdfighteria Island' imagines John and Hank waking on an island that is like the internet in 3D, full of nerdy friends making videos. (playful) (00:05:07)
2020-06-23 · You'll Never Shine if You Don't Glow — As John recounts, Hank said geological temperature differentials might perhaps fuel life on such planets, but there would be no light, unless they make it themselves. — hedged: “perhaps” [epistemic doubt] (00:03:24)
2021-09-21 · how we spend our days — John cites Hank, 'the great philosopher': you will always struggle with not feeling productive until you accept that your own joy can be something you produce. (00:02:55)

Keanu Reeves (quoted) (3)

2019-05-17 · Keanu. — Asked by Stephen Colbert what he thinks happens when we die, Keanu Reeves answers that the ones who love us will miss us. (00:00:00)
2019-05-21 · Keanu Reeves: A Love Letter — Keanu once said he is Mickey Mouse: people don't know who is inside the suit. (00:02:26)
2025-07-11 · The Ones Who Love Us — On a TV show, asked what happens when we die, Keanu Reeves answers that he knows the ones who love us will miss us. (00:00:00)

Lee (quoted) (3)

2026-10-16 · Is Happiness the Goal? — Answering Hank's joke, the nerdfighter Lee wrote that Hank's joy can matter to him because it matters to Katherine, Orin, John or whomever else. (00:02:16)
2026-10-16 · Is Happiness the Goal? — Lee also wrote that Hank's joy can matter to him because other things that matter are easier to engage with amid joy than amid misery. (00:02:16)
2026-10-16 · Is Happiness the Goal? — Lee added that Hank's joy can matter to him because nothing awaits him in the divine for resisting his own joy. (00:02:16)

Melinda French Gates (quoted) (3)

2014-01-21 · Are Poor Countries Doomed? — Quoting Melinda Gates: we make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist upon their suffering. (00:02:31)
2017-02-14 · Human Life Is Getting Better. Faster Than Ever Before. — Melinda Gates, as John relays her, points out that no country in the last 50 years has emerged from poverty without expanding access to contraceptives. (00:03:18)
2019-02-12 · Are Textbooks Obsolete? — John reports Melinda Gates: almost half of college students are over 25 and more than half have a job, and they often lack time or resources to navigate an inefficient, inflexible learning environment. (00:01:27)

Neal Mohan (quoted) (3)

2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — In a Bloomberg interview, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says that if YouTube were used to train Sora, it would be against YouTube's policy. (00:05:21)
2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Mohan says YouTube's terms of service allow scraping titles, channel names and creator names, but downloading transcripts or video is a clear violation. (00:05:21)
2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Asked whether Google uses YouTube to train Gemini, Mohan says Google uses YouTube content in accordance with the terms of service or individual contracts with creators. (00:06:36)

Aaron Carroll (quoted) (2)

2015-03-24 · Is Obamacare Working? The Affordable Care Act Five Years Later — Aaron Carroll, as quoted by John: health care trade-offs are messy; cleaner reform risks the private market, cheaper care needs more regulation, covering more people for less needs more tax dollars. (00:06:52)
2017-03-28 · Why Can't America Have a Grown-Up Healthcare Conversation? — Dr. Carroll, quoted by John from Twitter: however you reform health care there will be trade-offs, and those who promise you everything are lying. (00:06:45)

Daniel Biss (quoted) (2)

2015-10-20 · Nerdfighteria's Resident Comptroller? — Daniel, quoted by John, calls the effects of Illinois operating without a budget 'an insane patchwork quilt of incomprehensible nonsense'. (00:02:05)
2024-06-25 · taking a break — Biss thought he brought clean water daily to Twitter's toxic lake, but realized he was only raising the toxic lake's level while ruining a bit of clean water. (00:01:56)

E. B. White (quoted) (2)

2018-04-03 · On Punctuality — White wrote that we teach our child almost nothing we believe in but teach punctuality, especially if enforcing it disturbs the peace; his father taught that missing a train was life's greatest defeat. (00:02:02)
2018-04-03 · On Punctuality — White wrote that only after many years did he learn an escaping train carries away nothing vital to his health; trains are so magnificent we mistake them for destiny. (00:02:17)

Elena Kagan (quoted) (2)

2023-03-03 · The Law That Made the Internet — In a clip Hank plays from the Supreme Court hearing, Justice Kagan asks why the tech industry gets a pass when every other industry has to internalize the cost of misconduct. (00:02:55)
2023-03-03 · The Law That Made the Internet — Justice Kagan adds that the justices are a court, really don't know about these things, and are not the nine greatest experts on the internet. (00:03:02)

Grace Han (quoted) (2)

2021-03-16 · How a Book Cover Gets Designed — Grace, quoted by John, says she brainstorms while thinking of someone who would most need the book; for this book she was that someone, having lost a close friend and growing cynical in the pandemic. (00:01:56)
2021-03-16 · How a Book Cover Gets Designed — Grace says the introduction's pathways and labyrinths and the sunsets essay, urging her to take off her armor of cynicism, led to intertwining paths lit by sunset colors. (00:02:26)

Isaac Asimov (quoted) (2)

2026-09-25 · Who Has Signed Their Name the Most Times? — In 1969 Asimov wrote that his policy was to give autographs graciously when asked and to force them on people when not asked. (playful) (00:02:55)
2026-09-25 · Who Has Signed Their Name the Most Times? — About 21 years later Asimov wrote that he was heartily tired of signing, hated the look of his signature and resented signing checks. (00:03:24)

Jane Goodall (quoted) (2)

2024-03-08 · I Believed These Four Lies — In the clip Goodall says we cannot hide from population growth because it underlies many problems, which would not be problems at the population of 500 years ago. (00:02:46)
2024-03-08 · I Believed These Four Lies — Just before, Goodall says that without improving the lives of local people there is no hope of saving the chimpanzees, describing a program that asked villagers what would help them. (00:03:15)

Katherine Green (quoted) (2)

2022-02-25 · When You Can't Fix Everything… — Katherine told Hank that no problems are unconnected to other problems, so working on one thing is in a way working on everything. (00:00:56)
2023-02-10 · If it ain't broke don't fix it. — After watching John's video this week (week of 6 February 2023), Katherine told Hank she was engaged but relaxed. (00:00:00)

Mustafa Suleyman (quoted) (2)

2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — The CEO of Microsoft AI says content on the open web has, since the 90s, been fair use that anyone can copy and reproduce, freeware. (00:13:26)
2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — The Microsoft AI CEO says content whose publisher explicitly forbade scraping beyond indexing is a gray area that will work its way through the courts. (00:15:21)

John's psychiatrist (quoted) (2)

2024-08-06 · What Helped Through Depression — John's psychiatrist said they needed to shift John's understanding of himself and how toxic online spaces inform it, which no one had told him before. (00:02:26)
2024-08-06 · What Helped Through Depression — The psychiatrist said John isn't acting on that belief about himself: his core belief seems to be that he is worthless, so he takes every online message saying so as true because it confirms it. (00:02:26)

Roald Dahl (quoted) (2)

2025-02-28 · We Will Eradicate Measles — Hank reads Roald Dahl's account: his eldest daughter Olivia caught measles at seven, and while recovering grew sleepy, fell unconscious within an hour and died within 12 hours, in 1962. (00:03:09)
2025-02-28 · We Will Eradicate Measles — In the passage Dahl says doctors still could not help a child with that reaction, but parents can insist their child is immunized, which he could not do for Olivia. (00:04:11)

Sarah Urist Green (quoted) (2)

2007-05-29 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 29: The Goth Scene and Evil Ladies — Sarah's poem thanks Hank for his warning but says one Yeti's womb can manage only two children, and that John must stop to stay married. (playful) (00:02:44)
2007-05-29 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 29: The Goth Scene and Evil Ladies — The poem says their kids needn't play soccer: the only team they will make is a two-man luge, and Sarah may someday be a 'luge team making machine'. (playful) (00:03:11)

Susan Sontag (quoted) (2)

2017-11-03 · Because We're Here — John cites Susan Sontag: depression is melancholy minus its charms. (00:01:06)
2019-02-05 · Deepfake: A Brief History of Unreliable Images — John quotes Susan Sontag in 1977: people now describe a violent event they lived through as seeming like a movie, to explain how real it was. (00:03:24)

33ranjit (quoted) (1)

2020-03-03 · Consciously Experiencing Human Dignity — YouTube commenter 33Ranjit wrote that Art Assignment videos look at what humans do without shirking problems but never ridicule others: exercises in consciously experiencing human dignity. (00:00:29)

Ann Russell (quoted) (1)

2023-06-23 · Understanding Cancer Survival Rates — Hank shares TikTok creator Ann Russell's point, made during her own cancer diagnosis, that someone with an 85% chance of dying within five years is 100% alive now. (00:10:06)

Arthur Schopenhauer (quoted) (1)

2017-09-05 · John Reads the First Chapter of Turtles All the Way Down — The novel's epigraph, from Arthur Schopenhauer: man can do what he wills, but cannot will what he wills. (00:00:13)

Barbara Duden (quoted) (1)

2023-02-07 · Mid-Morning Existential Crisis: The Format Returns — John recalls Barbara Duden writing that pain is inside the body, so it leaves no trace for the historian. (00:01:32)

Bill Ott (quoted) (1)

2023-04-18 · goodbye to my friend — Bill maintained that a novel's job was to be good and true, and that novels needed hope like fish need bicycles. (00:02:08)

Blake (quoted) (1)

2007-06-04 · Brotherhood 2.0: June 4th: The First Nerdfighter Wedding! — Blake commented that cars should never run on coal, but developing cleaner coal technology makes sense since countries like India and China won't phase out coal in 50 years. (00:02:31)

Carole Mitnick (quoted) (1)

2023-06-27 · Alone on the Cancer Boat: A Vlogbrothers Reunion — Mitnick's example that it has been done before: Wikipedia is an effort to extend the quality and length of human lives in a not-for-profit way. (00:07:04)

Ceyda Torun (quoted) (1)

2017-05-10 · Seeing Myself Through a Cat's Eyes — Ceyda Torun told Hank that the people-cat relationship is one of the only relationships with another species that people don't dominate: cats live with people of their own accord. (00:02:58)

Dan Brown (quoted) (1)

2010-07-14 · Top 10 VIDCON MOMENTS — In a clip, Dan Brown announces Dan 3.0: for one year he is putting complete control of his life in viewers' hands. (00:00:34)

David Foster Wallace (quoted) (1)

2012-09-18 · Existential Airport Anxiety — John reads Wallace's The Pale King: dullness may hurt because it fails to distract us from a deeper, ambient pain, behind the 'terror of silence' of screens everywhere. — hedged: “Maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:29)

Delfina V. Barbiero (quoted) (1)

2020-07-07 · You're a Rock Star — Delfina V. Barbiero's USA Today review calls the book's world grounded in reality, written before the pandemic yet with many parallels, and a hopeful read. (00:00:00)

Donald Hall (quoted) (1)

2020-09-08 · That's the way. — In the essay Hall writes that couples' gazes meet as they look at a third thing: objects, practices, arts, institutions, games or people that give a site of joint rapture; third things are essential to marriages. (00:00:58)

Edna St. Vincent Millay (quoted) (1)

2026-07-21 · One Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy — John cites Edna St. Vincent Millay: life is not one damn thing after another but one damn thing over and over. (00:01:27)

Elaine Scarry (quoted) (1)

2016-05-10 · On Pain — John quotes Scarry: to have great pain is to have certainty; to hear that another person has pain is to have doubt. (00:01:58)

Eudora Welty (quoted) (1)

2018-01-16 · My Hollywood Star, Brexit Pears, and Hank's Book: It's QUESTION TUESDAY — Quoting Eudora Welty, John says a sheltered life can be a daring life as well, since all serious daring starts from within; so live your life. (00:03:32)

Ezra Klein (quoted) (1)

2025-02-07 · What Trump's Doing — Hank cites the line from Ezra Klein's essay he has been thinking about all week: Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. (00:02:34)

F. Scott Fitzgerald (quoted) (1)

2009-05-04 · Oinkbarf Pandemic! An Intellectual Response to Swine Flu — Quoting F. Scott Fitzgerald: the test of a first-rate intelligence is holding two opposing ideas at once; he must balance the futility of effort and the necessity to struggle. (00:02:39)

Florence Foster Jenkins (quoted) (1)

2012-11-20 · Great at Being Terrible: The Florence Foster Jenkins Story — John quotes Jenkins: people may say she can't sing, but no one can say she didn't sing. (00:02:56)

Fred Rogers (quoted) (1)

2024-10-01 · On Fame and Chappell Roan — John reports that Mr. Rogers once said fame is a four-letter word, then paused a long time before adding 'like love'. (00:01:19)

George R. R. Martin (quoted) (1)

2019-05-03 · What Game of Thrones is Really About — In a clip, George R. R. Martin says there is a broad parallel: we fight over important issues such as foreign and domestic policy, but none matter if we're dead and our cities are under the ocean. (00:00:33)

George Washington (quoted) (1)

2019-10-30 · this is a video about pineapples. — John quotes Washington: of all the new foods, none pleased his taste as did the pine(apple). (00:02:55)

Girum Tefera (quoted) (1)

2023-08-15 · Henry — Dr. Tefera says that before Partners In Health came, a person in Sierra Leone with MDR-TB was just waiting for the time of their death. (00:01:40)

Henning Mankell (quoted) (1)

2015-10-06 · Question Tuesday: My Social Media Hiatus, My Excellent German, and Books! — In a passage John reads, Mankell calls himself at eight, when imagination had the same value as the real world and imagining a mother was survival, his greatest idol. (00:01:52)

Ibrahim Rogers (quoted) (1)

2022-01-04 · After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING — The facility's chief health officer, Ibrahim Rogers, says his first challenge is water: every inch of their work needs water. (00:07:01)

Ira Glass (quoted) (1)

2016-12-16 · Fear in Art — Ira Glass, quoted by Tessa: creative people start with good taste, but for the first couple of years their work is not that good, and their killer taste is why their work disappoints them. (00:01:42)

Jeff Bezos (quoted) (1)

2026-08-21 · Not (Just) Dunking on Jeff Bezos — In a clip Hank plays, Jeff Bezos says he would love to see a trillion humans living in the solar system, which would give a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins at any time. (00:00:58)

Jennifer Burek Pierce (quoted) (1)

2021-08-17 · Who Owns Nerdfighteria? — Burek Pierce writes that Nerdfighteria's answer to the conundrum is, in part, to recognise that money accrues from creative work and to make a gift of it to others. (00:02:26)

Johnny Harris (quoted) (1)

2021-10-15 · What is Pizzamas? ...and a New Friend — Johnny Harris commented on Hank's last Pizzamas video that he has been a die-hard fan for a decade but still doesn't understand what Pizzamas is, and kind of loves that. (00:00:58)

Joia Mukherjee (quoted) (1)

2022-04-19 · How do you cross the Sad Gap? — Dr. Mukherjee said charities leaving when the crisis ended would leave Sierra Leone's health system more fragile, so PIH was going and staying, to build a stronger system for the next catastrophe. (00:02:26)

Jon Lascher (quoted) (1)

2022-11-15 · 3 Years In: What Happened, Why, and What's Next — PIH's Jon Lascher wrote to John that the community, now a shared community, has paved the way for more partners to join and for PIH to expand its work. (00:04:52)

Jon Stewart (quoted) (1)

2024-03-08 · I Believed These Four Lies — In a clip, Jon Stewart, discussing whether Americans are the most taxed people, reads 8% as the average tax burden. (00:04:14)

Joseph Campbell (quoted) (1)

2015-12-22 · The Myth Reawakens — Campbell, quoted by John: a hero ventures from the everyday world into supernatural wonder, meets fabulous forces and wins a decisive victory. (00:00:45)

Joyce (quoted) (1)

2026-04-14 · Babies. Babies. Babies. — Joyce Sinese, who oversees ambulance services for Kono District, says that for pregnant women every minute is very important. (00:01:56)

Kamala Harris (quoted) (1)

2016-11-09 · My Post-Election Thoughts — Kamala Harris, quoted by John: this is a time to fight for who we are. (00:01:57)

Karam Husain (quoted) (1)

2016-01-26 · Billionaires and Radical Hope: Thoughts from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland — Husain, as reported by Boo: everyone in Annawadi says they will make their child a doctor or lawyer and get rich, but it is vanity; your boat goes west, you praise your navigation, then the wind blows you east. (00:02:32)

Katrina Vandenberg (quoted) (1)

2011-04-20 · Tulipomania — John closes with Vandenberg's lines asking whether we aren't sorry we will never see a tulip worth offering all we own for its promise. (00:01:49)

Kevin McCarthy (quoted) (1)

2015-10-23 · Benghazi: Explained — In a clip, Kevin McCarthy says everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, but after the Benghazi special committee, he asks, what are her numbers today? (00:05:07)

Lauren Lapkus (quoted) (1)

2018-03-09 · John's Best Gift to Me — Lauren Lapkus tweeted that older siblings are the original influencers: her brother called sausage pizza gross and she didn't eat it for 20 years. (00:00:13)

Lianne Graham (quoted) (1)

2009-08-18 · So Jokes: Video EP — Lianne Graham's song 'Looking for Alaska' addresses Alaska: the singer hopes she has escaped 'this labyrinth of suffering', recalls Thomas Edison's last words, and is still looking for her. (fiction) (00:09:08)

Lin-Manuel Miranda (quoted) (1)

2016-11-09 · My Post-Election Thoughts — Lin-Manuel Miranda, quoted by John: he loves this country and there is more work to do than ever. (00:01:53)

Lupe Fiasco (quoted) (1)

2013-08-13 · Shailene's Hair, Unfair Monopoly, and the Just World Fallacy — Lupe Fiasco, in a tweet John reads, asks whether people who harness power can only do so in the tradition of those before them, yielding the same results. — speculative (hedge words not recorded) (00:01:40)

Mae Jemison (quoted) (1)

2021-11-16 · Orbital Sunrise: The First Art Made in Space — Astronaut Mae Jemison said that in space she feels more expansive and very connected to the universe. (00:01:49)

Mark Rober (quoted) (1)

2019-01-11 · What is Burnout? — Mark Rober told Hank that burnout is when the treadmill keeps going but the dopamine runs out: you keep running though it no longer feels good. (00:00:29)

Max Roser (quoted) (1)

2016-08-16 · Some Good News: 16 Ways 2016 Is Not a Total Dumpster Fire — Max Roser of Our World in Data, as John relays him, notes that no headline ever reads that global child mortality fell by a tiny fraction since yesterday. (00:00:15)

Michael Stevens (quoted) (1)

2026-07-17 · The Terrors of Middle Age — Talking with Hank, Michael Stevens of Vsauce said he accepts that skills once in demand and slow to develop are now accessible to almost anyone: a sign of human progress. (00:02:20)

Mike Green (quoted) (1)

2024-08-13 · The Time a Spy Visited Me Because of P*tin. — John's dad concluded that they had decided John was neither an asset nor a threat, just a dad from Indianapolis. — hedged: “Sounds like” [other hedge] (00:04:01)

Mike Rugnetta (quoted) (1)

2026-10-01 · Are We Still YouTubers? — As Hank summarises it, Mike Rugnetta's case is that content implies a commodity, so content creators produce a thing to be consumed with little interest in what it is made of. (00:00:42)

Molly Lewis (quoted) (1)

2010-04-23 · VidCon: User Generated Conference — Molly Lewis, as Hank quotes her, says VidCon needs to set up a room just for Calvinball. (00:01:09)

Mustafa Bundu (quoted) (1)

2022-01-18 · The Miracle of the Leone Stars — Sierra Leonean footballer Mustafa Bundu told a reporter the team wants people to see the positives in Sierra Leone, in football and beyond, not just war or Ebola. (00:00:00)

Peter Mugyenyi (quoted) (1)

2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — Mugyenyi said the drugs are where the disease is not, and the disease is where the drugs are not. (00:05:43)

Philip Roth (quoted) (1)

2019-09-10 · Another Contender in the Room — The passage both highlighted in The Human Stain: the pleasure is not in owning the person but in having another contender in the room with you. (00:00:00)

Pope John Paul II (quoted) (1)

2018-03-13 · Who Should We Root For? — John quotes Pope John Paul II: of all the unimportant things, football is the most important. (00:03:28)

13-year-old Syrian refugee (clip) (quoted) (1)

2015-09-08 · Understanding the Refugee Crisis in Europe, Syria, and around the World — In a clip, the 13-year-old Syrian refugee pleads for help for Syrians now: just stop the war, and they won't want to go to Europe. (00:08:44)

Richard Katrovas (quoted) (1)

2014-05-27 · ALL THE SHIRTS (and some paths to community) — Poet Richard Katrovas, a boxing fan, wrote that boxing serves as a mottled lens unto the bifurcated human heart, whose one true nature is to break apart. (00:03:37)

Saladin Ahmed (quoted) (1)

2016-11-09 · My Post-Election Thoughts — Saladin Ahmed, quoted by John: it is our job to fight those in power and stick up for the powerless, whoever is president. (00:01:46)

Samuel Ashworth (quoted) (1)

2018-01-09 · Your Attention — Samuel Ashworth wrote that no Twitter user needs telling why it is the worst: it is an endlessly self-renewing bonfire of outrage and confusion. (00:00:18)

Seth Godin (quoted) (1)

2007-10-11 · October 11th National Coming Out Day — Seth Godin, as relayed by Hank, says YouTube video is not only going to be but already is a better medium than books, reaching far more eyeballs on many topics. (00:00:58)

Stan Muller (quoted) (1)

2021-02-16 · A Lovely Winter Walk — Crash Course co-founder Stan Muller has told John that when you live in the middle of history, you never know exactly what it means. (00:01:27)

Todd (quoted) (1)

2026-09-18 · John was Wrong about YouTube Views — In a YouTube clip from about three years ago, Todd says flipping past Shorts does not count as views; some platforms count impressions, but YouTube wants a view to encode intent to watch. (00:00:58)

Tony Hawk (quoted) (1)

2024-10-01 · On Fame and Chappell Roan — John reports that Tony Hawk said he had tried all the major drugs and fame was the worst one. (00:01:19)

Victor Glover (quoted) (1)

2021-11-16 · Orbital Sunrise: The First Art Made in Space — American astronaut Victor Glover wrote that the bands of color of the orbital sunrise remind him of Psalm 30: weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. (00:01:25)

Virginia Woolf (quoted) (1)

2022-06-21 · On Disease — John quotes Virginia Woolf: given how common illness is and how great the spiritual change it brings, it is strange that illness is not a prime theme of literature. (00:00:58)

W. H. Auden (quoted) (1)

2013-05-21 · Poetry Makes Nothing Happen: Thoughts on Ai Weiwei from the Indianapolis Museum of Art — John quotes W. H. Auden: poetry makes nothing happen; it is a way of happening, a mouth. (00:02:54)

Woodrow Wilson Clements (quoted) (1)

2018-01-02 · BRING IT IN 2018 — Clements maintained that you cannot tell anyone what Dr Pepper tastes like because it is so different: not apple, orange, strawberry, root beer or even cola. (00:01:41)

Yvonne Holden (quoted) (1)

2021-06-01 · My Two Favorite Books of the Year — Yvonne Holden, who works at a plantation centered on enslaved people's experiences, notes in the book that legacies are not just what we choose; many we don't choose. (00:01:20)

Zadie Smith (quoted) (1)

2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna quotes Zadie Smith in Lenny Letter: feelings need vertical depth, and many social platforms provoke feelings she doesn't enjoy, from being falsely puffed up to being hurt or infuriated. (00:02:55)

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2007-08-30 · August 30th: A Secret Project for Nerdfighters — The brothers say the surprise is that they are making a video together, so it is less 'good morning, Hank/John' than 'good morning, Nerdfighters'. (playful) — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:10)
2007-08-30 · August 30th: A Secret Project for Nerdfighters — Asked which brother is which and why Sarah is called the Yeti, they introduce themselves and joke that she is so hairy. (joke) (00:00:45)
2007-08-30 · August 30th: A Secret Project for Nerdfighters — Asked why an 'I' is missing from 'communication' in the animated intro, they answer that there is no I in brotherhood. (playful) (00:00:45)
2007-08-30 · August 30th: A Secret Project for Nerdfighters — Anyone who wants to become a nerdfighter probably already is one; technically you should go to Brotherhood2.com and write a song. (00:01:14)
2007-08-30 · August 30th: A Secret Project for Nerdfighters — To become a secret sibling, make a video response to one of their YouTube videos, preferably several, every day. (playful) (00:01:14)
2007-08-30 · August 30th: A Secret Project for Nerdfighters — Rules: happy dance videos should be about 10 seconds long and emailed to an address given on air. (00:02:46)
2007-08-30 · August 30th: A Secret Project for Nerdfighters — Because Nerdfighters procrastinate, the deadline is October 1st at the very latest. (00:03:10)
2007-08-30 · August 30th: A Secret Project for Nerdfighters — They suggest wearing Halloween costumes if already made, and organizing dances in front of the seven wonders of the world, such as the Hanging Gardens of Babylon or the pyramids. (playful) (00:03:10)
2007-08-30 · August 30th: A Secret Project for Nerdfighters — For newcomers: a happy dance is the dance you do when you are incredibly happy; two examples are shown. (00:03:40)
2007-12-24 · THE NERDFIGHTER HAPPY DANCE PROJECT — The brothers present the Brotherhood 2.0 Happy Dance Project at long last: Nerdfighters from six continents sharing the dance they do when really happy. (video description)
2007-12-24 · THE NERDFIGHTER HAPPY DANCE PROJECT — The brothers thank their father, 'Dad 1.0', for all his help making the Happy Dance Project video. (video description)
2007-12-24 · THE NERDFIGHTER HAPPY DANCE PROJECT — The description credits Wynflete for the music and Distemper, 'the world's greatest Russian Ska band', and wishes Nerdfighters happy holidays with thanks for everything. (video description)
2007-12-24 · THE NERDFIGHTER HAPPY DANCE PROJECT — The description addresses Nerdfighters whose happy dance does not appear in the video, apparently apologising. (video description)
2007-12-24 · THE NERDFIGHTER HAPPY DANCE PROJECT — The brothers apologise to Nerdfighters whose happy dance is missing from the compilation and ask them to upload it to YouTube as a video response. (video description)
2007-12-24 · THE NERDFIGHTER HAPPY DANCE PROJECT — Hank and John explain the idea: rather than a compilation of their own happy dances, all Nerdfighters send dances filmed in front of awesome places in their towns, compiled into one video. (00:00:01)
2007-12-31 · Dec 31: Goodbye Brotherhood 2.0 — The chorus says goodbye to Brotherhood 2.0, telling viewers the brothers know they will be sad to see it go. (00:00:40)
2007-12-31 · Dec 31: Goodbye Brotherhood 2.0 — The song recalls the year on YouTube: 'the Buck' taking over, Chris Crocker crying, Tay Zonday singing, Lonelygirl dying and 'some guy' saying 'don't tase me bro'. (playful) (00:00:40)
2007-12-31 · Dec 31: Goodbye Brotherhood 2.0 — The song lists the year's in-jokes: thinking about 'my pants' (the forum) makes them do their happy dance, along with 'Peels' (unclear), shirtless pictures and wax on John's chin. (playful) (00:01:24)
2007-12-31 · Dec 31: Goodbye Brotherhood 2.0 — The song asks whether the brothers are closer now than they were a year ago. — explicitly uncertain (hedge words not recorded) (00:01:24)
2007-12-31 · Dec 31: Goodbye Brotherhood 2.0 — The song says that while writing it they realised it has been about more than the two of them, which is why it is sad to sing goodbye. (00:01:59)
2007-12-31 · Dec 31: Goodbye Brotherhood 2.0 — The song states that the project is ending and that its rules seem to need some amending. — hedged: “it seems” [epistemic doubt] (00:03:00)
2007-12-31 · Dec 31: Goodbye Brotherhood 2.0 — Addressing all of YouTube, the song says hello to whatever comes next, toasts a thousand more secret projects, says they fell in love with nerdfighting, and greets 2008. (00:03:00)
2008-11-04 · Election Night In Indianapolis! — The brothers note that Elizabeth Dole no longer has a job, thanking their Dad and Mom for not voting for her; 'we just don't like Elizabeth Dole'. (playful) (00:00:44)
2008-12-18 · Introducing...The Awesome — The brothers say YouTube let them be guest editors of its front page for a day. (00:01:35)
2008-12-18 · Introducing...The Awesome — They say they featured none of their own videos and no best friends, except a video their parents made. (playful) (00:01:35)
2008-12-18 · Introducing...The Awesome — The speaker feels guilty about amazing P4A videos left off the front page and tells viewers to search around for more Project for Awesome videos. (00:01:35)
2008-12-18 · Introducing...The Awesome — They thank the people known as Nerdfighters who helped make the project such a success. (00:02:04)
2008-12-18 · Introducing...The Awesome — The brothers thank viewers for checking out P4A videos and for considering giving time and money to people and organisations that do the right thing. (00:02:04)
2009-02-18 · Fake Movie Talk With A Sock — Hank and Hank Sock agree movies this year (2009) mostly stink, with two exceptions: Coraline and Slumdog Millionaire. (playful) (00:00:00)
2009-06-21 · The World Sucks: Help it Suck Less — One brother partners with EngenderHealth and the other with the Book Wish Foundation; they will make videos for these charities, upload and share them. (00:02:00)
2009-06-21 · The World Sucks: Help it Suck Less — The brothers tell YouTube this is a chance to use video-making skills to decrease worldwide suck, and hope viewers will take it. — hedged: “We hope” [other hedge] (00:02:29)
2009-12-23 · Amazing Christmas Facts With John and Hank — The brothers say Alabama was the first US state to recognize Christmas as an official holiday, declaring it a state holiday in 1838. (00:01:03)
2009-12-23 · Amazing Christmas Facts With John and Hank — In Canada, Santa's postal code is H0H0H0: Canadian postal codes alternate letter and number, so it reads HO HO HO in leetspeak. (00:02:50)
2009-12-23 · Amazing Christmas Facts With John and Hank — The brothers close the facts by singing the playground parody 'Jingle Bells, Batman Smells'. (playful) (00:03:18)
2009-12-27 · How To Be a Nerdfighter: A Vlogbrothers FAQ — The brothers explain that 'the Yeti' is John's wife and 'the Katherine' is Hank's wife. (playful) (00:02:55)
2011-08-15 · HANKLERFISH! — Hank coins the verb 'to Hanklerfish'; John sums up a Hanklerfish as an anglerfish drawn by a Hank, Hank agrees any Hank can make one, and John offers Hank Williams III. (playful) (00:02:40)
2011-08-17 · Hank's Question Tuesday DEBUT! — Asked why they never come to Ireland or mention it, the brothers mention it and declare the matter done. (joke) (00:00:21)
2011-08-17 · Hank's Question Tuesday DEBUT! — Hank keeps Kermit on his ceiling as his 'household god'; John says that is where he keeps Padre Pio, a Roman Catholic saint. (playful) (00:01:33)
2011-08-19 · Outtake Insanity and NERD FACTOR — The brothers fumble the Hanklerfish maths: 7,500 of 150,000 sheets is 5%, after guessing half a percent and getting 20 on Hank's calculator. (playful) (00:00:40)
2012-01-27 · In 'N' Out-Erview — The brothers banter about the tour shows: a show line 'my greatest accomplishment is being your brother' is called a favourite joke, and one brother gets shocked almost every night instead of the other (speakers unclear). (playful) (00:01:27)
2012-05-29 · Nerds at the Beach: A REUNION VIDEO! — The brothers open with their reunion-video gag (each 'here in beautiful Florida', John: 'What? It's a reunion video!'); John says it never gets old, though viewers may disagree. (playful) (00:00:00)
2012-05-29 · Nerds at the Beach: A REUNION VIDEO! — Hank is reading Endymion at the beach; John calls him a nerd. (playful) (00:00:57)
2012-05-29 · Nerds at the Beach: A REUNION VIDEO! — Hank likens John's inner tube to the internet ('we just all want bigger tubes'); John calls it the worst of the tortured metaphors he draws in Thoughts from Places videos. (playful) (00:01:17)
2013-01-15 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — Hank's teammate is Hannah Hart, host of My Drunk Kitchen; John's is Neil Gaiman, best-selling author who has written Doctor Who scripts. (01:44:05)
2013-01-15 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — In a lightning round the brothers answer quick questions; one says white chocolate is not chocolate, 'it's just candy', and Hank's pearly-gates answer is 'DFTBA!'. (playful) (01:59:42)
2013-08-03 · Esther Day 2013 — John and Hank tell each other 'I love you'. (00:00:18)
2013-11-26 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — Hank appears beside John for a surprise reunion video; they point to the lending and donation links and look forward to a great P4A. (00:03:34)
2013-11-26 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — In a PS John shows a picture of Matt Smith doing the Nerdfighter sign with Danish Nerdfighters; Hank notes that Mom collects kaleidoscopes. (00:03:47)
2013-11-29 · REUNION! Arm Wrestling, Drawing, and Questions with Hank and John! — The description says the brothers are in North Carolina visiting their parents for Thanksgiving and are thankful for each other, their families and viewers. (video description)
2013-11-29 · REUNION! Arm Wrestling, Drawing, and Questions with Hank and John! — Asked who would win at arm wrestling, the brothers arm-wrestle; John concedes, saying he could have kept going but was laughing too hard, and Hank claims he won with his wit. (playful) (00:00:27)
2013-11-29 · REUNION! Arm Wrestling, Drawing, and Questions with Hank and John! — Both brothers say they have cried at one of John's books, Hank joking that he looked at it and cried. (playful) (00:00:43)
2013-11-29 · REUNION! Arm Wrestling, Drawing, and Questions with Hank and John! — Giving each other catchphrases, Hank gives John 'Imagine complexly!' and John gives Hank 'fart fart fart'. (playful) (00:00:52)
2013-11-29 · REUNION! Arm Wrestling, Drawing, and Questions with Hank and John! — They show childhood family photos from the albums in the room they are in, including John giving Hank a bear hug. (00:01:04)
2013-11-29 · REUNION! Arm Wrestling, Drawing, and Questions with Hank and John! — They have turkey, not pizza, for a normal Thanksgiving; both prefer pumpkin pie, and there is only one pumpkin pie this year (2013). (00:01:28)
2013-11-29 · REUNION! Arm Wrestling, Drawing, and Questions with Hank and John! — Hank would not eat John if John were the last turkey on Earth; John is amused that anyone would eat the last turkey on Earth, which Hank likens to eating the last ivory-billed woodpecker. (playful) (00:01:48)
2013-11-29 · REUNION! Arm Wrestling, Drawing, and Questions with Hank and John! — They show drawings of each other: Hank's on sparkle-pen paper, apparently with a Hanklerfish earring for John, and John's of Hank as a beaver playing the guitar. (playful) (00:02:14)
2013-11-29 · REUNION! Arm Wrestling, Drawing, and Questions with Hank and John! — For Black Friday DFTBA.com has $3 shipping on all orders, no matter the size, even international. (00:03:00)
2013-11-29 · REUNION! Arm Wrestling, Drawing, and Questions with Hank and John! — John says the best P4A videos can also be used by the charities in their outreach to donors; Hank says they love that and hope it happens a lot this year (2013). (00:03:31)
2014-09-05 · REUNION TUESDAY! FRIDAY! WHATEVER! — John fumbles the Question Tuesday intro several times; Hank points out it is Friday and they upload it on Hank's day anyway. (playful) (00:00:11)
2014-11-28 · Global Health and Human Hair: What the Vlogbrothers are Thankful For — John and Hank ask Nerdfighteria to say one serious thing and one silly thing they are thankful for. (00:02:59)
2015-01-20 · REUNION MINIGOLF — John opens Question Tuesday from a minigolf course, pretending Hank is too busy with the President; Hank is there with him in Florida. (playful) (00:00:00)
2015-01-20 · REUNION MINIGOLF — Swapping glasses, John finds Hank's prescription close to his own; Hank finds John's glasses disgustingly dirty, though he rarely cleans his own. (playful) (00:01:07)
2015-01-20 · REUNION MINIGOLF — Tied going into the final hole, Hank wins the round and asks John how it feels to be less good than him. (playful) (00:02:39)
2015-05-05 · Reunions! Birthdays! Podcasts! Mountains! Happy 35th Birthday, Hank — John has not got Hank a formal present and offers him anything he wants; Hank asks for a whole mountain, which John says he lacks the resources to buy. (playful) (00:00:32)
2015-05-05 · Reunions! Birthdays! Podcasts! Mountains! Happy 35th Birthday, Hank — They plan segments on their own interests: John would do 'This Week (week of 4 May 2015) in AFC Wimbledon' on fourth-tier football and Hank would do Mars, which he has cared about forever. (playful) (00:01:56)
2015-05-05 · Reunions! Birthdays! Podcasts! Mountains! Happy 35th Birthday, Hank — Hank says Mars is more interesting so AFC Wimbledon must come first; John disagrees: Mars is uninhabitable while AFC Wimbledon is made of humans, the most interesting thing. (playful) (00:02:11)
2015-05-05 · Reunions! Birthdays! Podcasts! Mountains! Happy 35th Birthday, Hank — Hank wants his video this week (week of 4 May 2015), also for his birthday, to be a Vlogbrothers Olympics; John names it a 'quadragocon', which Hank declares has fourteen events, the first being who wins Blue Steel. (playful) (00:03:22)
2015-05-08 · QUADRAGOCON 2015 - WHO WILL WIN! — At croquet Hank does not really know how it works and John thinks you just go through the wickets. (playful) (00:00:50)
2015-08-25 · Question Tuesday: The Goat Edition — Hank interrupts John's Question Tuesday; at dinner the night before he made a dumb face in a photo that everyone decided was 'goatobombing', photobombing while looking like a goat. (playful) (00:00:05)
2015-08-25 · Question Tuesday: The Goat Edition — John asks why all the questions are about goats; Hank admits he asked for questions and also asked people to ask about goats, and John finds his tweet 'Goat questions preferred'. (playful) (00:01:15)
2015-08-25 · Question Tuesday: The Goat Edition — Asked their favourite goat breed, Hank picks the American mountain goat; John says The Mountain Goats too, specifically John Darnielle. (playful) (00:02:37)
2015-11-18 · SUIT UP! A Very Fancy Reunion Video (Pizzamas Day 8) — Asked for the best kind of chocolate, both brothers answer 'dark' at the same moment. (playful) (00:00:35)
2016-03-25 · Snapchat Question Time! — Both brothers say you always shampoo, then condition; neither had heard of conditioning first. (playful) (00:02:04)
2016-11-29 · Baby Poop Rookie: Vlogbrothers Reunited — The brothers switch glasses, as they do every time; Hank finds John's lenses dirty and their left-eye lenses about the same. (playful) (00:01:49)
2016-11-29 · Baby Poop Rookie: Vlogbrothers Reunited — Asked for self-care advice, Hank defers to Self-Care Bunny, which John says is there to remind you to be nice to yourself. (playful) (00:02:56)
2016-11-29 · Baby Poop Rookie: Vlogbrothers Reunited — Recalling Nathan Zed's video, the brothers say you are a good burrito, not the best: stop putting pressure on yourself, as there are only different kinds of good burritos. (playful) (00:03:05)
2016-11-29 · Baby Poop Rookie: Vlogbrothers Reunited — John thanks Hank for taking time away from his baby for the video; Hank says to thank Katherine. (00:03:38)
2016-12-13 · P4A 2016 Hilarity Reprise - OVER $2M RAISED!! — A montage of P4A 2016 livestream moments: confetti, Save the Children staff, Big Bird, YouTuber guests, John answering questions and the Cheez Doodles Guy. (playful) (00:00:00)
2017-10-31 · Where are Whale Balls? Question Tuesday: Pizza Edition — The description says Hank and John sneaked around backstage in Bellingham, Washington, and found a theatre set for a Question Tuesday meant to be mostly pizza questions. (video description)
2018-10-02 · How Much Do You Love Each Other? It's Question Tuesday — Asked which characters in An Absolutely Remarkable Thing they are most like, the brothers name April and Andy. (playful) (00:01:00)
2018-11-05 · Reading Mean Comments with John — Hank and John appear together in an unplanned Pizzamas reunion video: they are together because their cousin is getting married. (00:00:00)
2018-11-05 · Reading Mean Comments with John — Commenters say Hank looks like Minkus from Boy Meets World, handsome Squidward, one of the Proclaimers, a YA urban fantasy hero, Alton Brown and Scott Pilgrim. (playful) (00:00:29)
2018-11-05 · Reading Mean Comments with John — Commenters say John looks like Jimmy Neutron, a Lamborghini-touting scammer, a Weeble, middle-aged James Potter, Megamind with hair, a young Santa Claus and Tom Hanks. (playful) (00:00:29)
2018-11-05 · Reading Mean Comments with John — Discussing a comment, the brothers note that James Potter died at 21 and was never middle-aged in the Harry Potter books. (playful) (00:01:34)
2019-07-12 · Why Are We Still Doing This? - Reunion Video! — The brothers say they don't want to quit and agree not to. (00:02:33)
2019-08-20 · Hank and John's Smooth Airport Reunion — Asked their Patronus, the brothers name a tiny, new baby bear cub that sometimes falls over and a very old fox. (playful) (00:02:34)
2020-01-14 · Foolish · Beautiful — Asked what is foolish but also beautiful, both brothers answer in unison: the internet, and humanity. (playful) (00:01:43)
2020-03-10 · A Strong but Fleeting Flavor: A Reunion Video — The description thanks everyone who has come out on this mini-tour. (video description)
2020-03-10 · A Strong but Fleeting Flavor: A Reunion Video — The brothers establish that Juicy Fruit is the yellow gum and, with Google and Wikipedia, that the striped gum with a zebra mascot is Fruit Stripe. (00:01:42)
2020-03-10 · A Strong but Fleeting Flavor: A Reunion Video — Asked by the brothers, Google says Charlotte Brontë, the most famous and longest-lived of the sisters, died on 31 March 1855. (00:02:55)
2022-04-08 · Hank and John Discover Chippy Butties — The brothers say they are in the same place because it is their mother's birthday; Hank says they will make a video and play Spider-Man video games. (00:00:00)
2022-04-08 · Hank and John Discover Chippy Butties — Asked how to keep learning after school stops, the brothers first answer: use Crash Course. (playful) (00:00:58)
2022-04-08 · Hank and John Discover Chippy Butties — Hank says learning after school is about being curious and knowing how to chase the question, best done by reading nonfiction; John adds it takes the time, space and skillset to pursue that curiosity. (00:01:33)
2022-04-08 · Hank and John Discover Chippy Butties — Hank says he often balks at reading a big book on a subject, then does and has many questions; John says that is his relationship with science, medical history and history books. (00:01:33)
2022-09-27 · The Wildest Way it Could Possibly Have Gone - Our 16 Year Anniversary — Hank and Katherine agree their favorite Taskmaster contestant is Bob Mortimer: you can't beat him in any contest. (00:01:03)
2023-02-14 · Worst Reunion Video Ever ... or Best? — The brothers say they have had an awesome time without collaborating or making content, instead making 'a different kind of content called life'. (playful) (00:01:18)
2023-02-14 · Worst Reunion Video Ever ... or Best? — The brothers say they have had only about two fights since becoming professional partners; one, about two weeks ago, came when one of them was exhausted and being annoying. (playful) (00:01:50)
2023-02-14 · Worst Reunion Video Ever ... or Best? — The brothers say John offered Sarah a million-dollar bet that their outdoor couch swung like an outdoor swing; she declined because he seemed so confident, and it turned out to be a stationary outdoor bed. (playful) (00:02:10)
2023-06-30 · Bon Your Vivant — Asked their favorite baseball team, both answer the Missoula PaddleHeads; they went to a game yesterday, which was wildly enjoyable, and the team won. (playful) (00:03:25)
2023-12-24 · John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated — On vacation together in Jamaica, the brothers call going on vacation without making content about it the most radical, countercultural thing two content creators could do in 2023. (playful) (00:00:24)
2023-12-24 · John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated — In an FAQ, the brothers say a nerdfighter is made of awesome, and Nerdfighteria is the community around their videos doing awesome things and fighting world suck. (02:17:44)
2023-12-24 · John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated — Asked whether they have real jobs: Hank runs the environmental technology site EcoGeek; John is an award-winning author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines and Paper Towns. (02:17:44)
2023-12-24 · John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated — The FAQ says nobody is too young, old, weird or anything else: if you want to be a nerdfighter, you are one. (02:18:41)
2023-12-24 · John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated — A Nerdfighter dictionary lightning round defines puppy-sized elephants, stuff on heads, French the llama, puff levels, Decepticons, the Giant Squid of Anger, tiny chicken disease, secret siblings, in your pants and the gang sign. (02:18:41)
2023-12-24 · John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated — For newcomers, the brothers point to a playlist of 20 Vlogbrothers videos giving a broader sense of Nerdfighteria. (02:20:08)
2024-04-09 · Hank and John Reunited WITH RAX — Asked by a viewer for car karaoke, the brothers sing an a cappella Rax parody of a Fastball song about Hank going to Rax for roast beef. (playful) (00:00:58)
2024-04-09 · Hank and John Reunited WITH RAX — Though they drove past about five fast-food restaurants, including an Arby's, to get there, the Rax was not not busy: people were going, with a line of cars at the drive-thru. (00:02:53)
2024-04-09 · Hank and John Reunited WITH RAX — Asked who picks the music, they say they play none, only singing Rax parodies, because they rarely get to hang out in person and are just chatting. (00:03:22)
2024-04-09 · Hank and John Reunited WITH RAX — The brothers impersonate Zeus demanding devotion and goats, then doubt Zeus would be pleased with the impersonation. (joke) (00:04:28)
2024-10-08 · Hank Steals John's Cells — The description calls this a video about the importance and ease of joining the bone marrow donor registry and says Nerdfighteria can expand the registry together. (video description)
2024-10-11 · October 11, 2024 - Goofing off with John (a Vlogbrothers Video) — The brothers say they have at least touched every YouTube genre, including a makeup tutorial and a prank video. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:47)
2024-10-11 · October 11, 2024 - Goofing off with John (a Vlogbrothers Video) — The brothers say they don't want to spend too much time looking backward, because it makes them feel finished, like a nostalgia act. (00:04:13)
2024-10-11 · October 11, 2024 - Goofing off with John (a Vlogbrothers Video) — John adds that eventually you become a nostalgia act anyway, and Hank that it is just another YouTube genre. (playful) (00:04:13)
2024-10-29 · If Hank and John Were God for 15 Minutes — Hank adds that small people would use a third of the consumption; John that with fewer cells they would probably live longer; and Hank that they would get less cancer, as a chihuahua outlives a mastiff. (playful) — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:00)
2024-10-29 · If Hank and John Were God for 15 Minutes — Hank says killing someone would not kill you but would just hurt really badly; John adds that it would last forever, like chronic pain, and that ordering someone else to hurt a person brings at least as much pain. (hypothetical) (00:02:36)
2024-10-29 · If Hank and John Were God for 15 Minutes — The brothers note the rule spirals: it ends war because no one can kill anybody, but no one could hurt anybody or put them in prison, or do anything bad, even financially. (hypothetical) (00:03:33)
2024-10-29 · If Hank and John Were God for 15 Minutes — The brothers conclude that actually being God would be very hard. (00:04:01)
2025-07-15 · LLAMAS Are NOT What You Think — Brainstorming a clickbait title, the brothers riff 'Elon Musk isn't who you think he is' into the video's title about llamas. (joke) (00:00:29)
2025-07-15 · LLAMAS Are NOT What You Think — Fighting 10 llama-sized fish or 100 fish-sized llamas depends on the fish: guppy-sized llamas would be a party, a whale shark a real problem. (playful) (00:04:51)
2025-07-15 · LLAMAS Are NOT What You Think — Asked whether they are llama or fish guys, both brothers say they are more fish guys; Hank is 'double fishing' in a fish t-shirt over a fish shirt. (playful) (00:06:55)
2025-09-19 · Let's Just Be Stupid For a Moment — The brothers text the same YouTuber at once to see who gets a reply first; he answers both in one group message. (playful) (00:02:16)
2025-09-19 · Let's Just Be Stupid For a Moment — They score the texting event a tie, half a point each. (playful) (00:02:49)
2025-09-19 · Let's Just Be Stupid For a Moment — Midway, the score stands at four and a half to three and a half, counting push-ups already won. (00:02:49)
2025-09-19 · Let's Just Be Stupid For a Moment — The chess game ends without checkmate: one brother is disqualified for an illegal bishop move and they agree to call it a draw. (playful) (00:05:37)
2026-06-23 · A Very French Reunion — Asked whether a long marriage is the biggest accomplishment, the brothers agree it is hard, also lovely, and takes luck. (00:06:34)
2026-07-08 · Project for Awesome Recap Video 2026!! — The description thanks everyone for the very goofy good fun, Tuna for editing this recap, and all of the donors. (video description)
2026-07-08 · Project for Awesome Recap Video 2026!! — The recap opens with a montage of greetings from the livestream: the brothers, guests including Freddie Wong, and viewers greeting from places like Alaska, Australia and a Vegas hot tub. (00:00:00)

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2007-05-04 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 4: The Top Secret Project — The description says John reveals the Top Secret Project: all the Nerdfighters come together to wish Hank a happy birthday. (video description)
2007-05-04 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 4: The Top Secret Project — The description promises the channel will return to defending intellectual freedom next week (week of 7 May 2007). (video description)
2007-05-04 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 4: The Top Secret Project — The description points viewers to Brotherhood2.com for several more Top Secret Project birthday videos, including one from Maureen Johnson. (video description)
2007-09-12 · September 12: Paper Towns, Part 1 — The description says Paper Towns will be published by Dutton in September 2008, provided John finishes it on time; John says it comes out next year (2008). (00:00:00)
2007-11-16 · November 16th: Green Cars at the LA Auto Show — The description says Hank is abducted at the end of the video and, in the abductor's voice, orders viewers to obey if they want to see him again. (fiction) (00:03:29)
2007-11-19 · November 19th: HOORAY HOORAY HAPPY HOORAY! — The description says the book John is writing with David Levithan should come out around summer 2009. (00:00:00)
2008-08-17 · Stockholm Sweden — The description announces that the clue has been found and links to a Nerdfighter Ning forum thread to discuss it. (video description)
2008-08-20 · Scavenger Hunting — The description announces that the scavenger-hunt clue has been found and links to a Nerdfighter Ning forum thread for discussion. (video description)
2008-08-20 · Scavenger Hunting — The description invites viewers who want to follow the scavenger hunt, with its (existent) prizes, to subscribe to the neverftba YouTube channel. (playful) (video description)
2008-08-20 · Scavenger Hunting — The description says the clue is in a Danish book, calling that pretty simple, and reminds Nerdfighters that calling is cheating. (video description)
2008-08-20 · Scavenger Hunting — The description apologises that organising Nerdfighter gatherings in Scandinavia proved impossible and promises to do it next time. (video description)
2008-08-25 · Oh John Green, You're 31 — The description presents the video as Nerdfighters saying happy birthday to John. (video description)
2008-08-25 · Oh John Green, You're 31 — The description awards the non-existent Nerdfighter Prize of the Day to a fan for a cake called 'Looking for Alaska: A Cake'. (playful) (video description)
2008-10-31 · Show 'n Tell Thursday — In the description John says it is still Thursday where he is, having just got home from the tour event, and hopes that gets him out of a punishment. (playful) — hedged: “I hope” [wish / hope] (video description)
2008-10-31 · SPWNING Halloween — In the description Hank thanks Sistersalad for the word 'Spwn'. (video description)
2009-03-11 · I'm Not Edward Cullen: A Song — The description says the song is on the album This Machine Pwns n00bs and gives the chords (C, F, G). (00:00:00)
2010-07-28 · Umbrellas Amuse Me: Observations from One Day in Munich — The description names the featured book, Ishmael and the Return of the Dugongs, and recommends buying the 'hilarious' first book in the series, Don't Call Me Ishmael. (video description)
2010-08-02 · I Love Hank: Esther Day 2010 — The description points to Esther's own vlog and asks viewers to wish her a happy birthday and to make someone they love aware of that love today. (video description)
2011-02-16 · This Video Brought to you by Nyquil — The description says Hank will play $20 shows in Seattle and Portland with musical comedians Paul and Storm and Mike Phirman. (video description)
2011-03-16 · Why Did Fukushima Explode? — The description asks viewers to donate, linking the American Red Cross disaster relief page. (video description)
2012-04-06 · Can I be Space President? — The description corrects the video: at 2:26 Amber Straughn is wrongly presented as a Northrop Grumman employee; she actually works for NASA as Deputy Project Scientist for Education and Public Outreach. (video description)
2012-04-12 · Introducing Lizzie Bennet — The description says the first two episodes of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries are out now. (video description)
2012-08-13 · John and Rainn Wilson Talk Romance — The description says a nine-minute extended cut of the conversation is available on Hank's channel. (video description)
2012-08-13 · John and Rainn Wilson Talk Romance — The description calls this a very special Monday talk that does not supersede John's Tuesday video. (video description)
2012-08-17 · Open Letter to the Wizards — The description links the Secret Mailing List and says it will be used only once or twice and then deleted. (video description)
2012-08-17 · Open Letter to the Wizards — The description offers proof that the video is less than four minutes long. (video description)
2012-08-17 · Open Letter to the Wizards — The description thanks Harry and the Potters and Neil Cicierega for helping inspire the song. (video description)
2014-04-04 · Mass Incarceration in the US — The description thanks Visually for facilitating the video, Kurzgesagt for the animation and the Prison Policy Initiative for research and fact-checking. (video description)
2015-02-10 · Understanding Boko Haram — In the description John gives the 'standard reminder' that educational videos are allowed to be over four minutes long. (video description)
2015-02-17 · Places I've Never Been — The description says the poster by Risa (and Melody) is $10, as is Melody's own poster. (video description)
2015-10-20 · Nerdfighteria's Resident Comptroller? — The description gives the fundraiser details: John and Daniel will talk government and politics on Saturday, November 21st at Ravinia Festival's Bennett Gordon Hall, Highland Park, Illinois. (video description)
2016-03-25 · Snapchat Question Time! — The description says Hank Green and the Perfect Strangers, Driftless Pony Club and Harry and the Potters, featuring Rob Scallon and Andrew Huang, tour in May, starting May 16 in Lawrence, Kansas. (video description)
2016-11-14 · Who the Eff Is Hank? — The description says Craig Benzine stands in for Hank on the second Monday of Pizzamas. (video description)
2016-11-14 · Who the Eff Is Hank? — The description says Pizzamas 2016 merch is only available until Friday (18 November 2016). (video description)
2016-11-16 · Why We Left Buzzfeed (Some Thoughts on Taking Risks) — The description says Allison and Gaby from Just Between Us stand in for Hank to talk about taking risks in a career and why they left BuzzFeed. (video description)
2016-11-18 · Are Pets Ethical? — The description says Lex Croucher fills in for Hank on the last day of Pizzamas to talk about whether pets are ethical with her cat Felicity. (video description)
2016-11-25 · You're Not Good Enough — The description says Nathan Zed fills in for Hank while he is on paternity leave, to discuss the taunt 'you're not good enough'. (video description)
2016-12-01 · See you in Amsterdam, Melbourne, or Anaheim!! (also Boston) — The description says viewers can also see Hank and John in February in Boston at NerdCon: Nerdfighteria. (video description)
2016-12-01 · See you in Amsterdam, Melbourne, or Anaheim!! (also Boston) — The description lists VidCon Europe guests including Hannah Hart, Rhett and Link, Nathan Zed, Mamrie Hart, Charlie McDonnell and Dodie Clark. (video description)
2016-12-02 · Logging Off — The description says Rosianna fills in for Hank during his paternity leave to talk about logging off and the internet as a work in progress. (video description)
2016-12-02 · Logging Off — The description lists further reading: Invisibilia's 'Outside In', Zadie Smith in Lenny Letter, and Offscreen. (video description)
2016-12-16 · Fear in Art — The description says Tessa Violet fills in for Hank on the last day of his vlogbrothers paternity leave to talk about fear in art. (video description)
2016-12-20 · How Giraffes Mate, and Why It Matters — The description says John re-introduces Nerdfighteria to giraffe sex, long a staple of the vlogbrothers channel. (video description)
2016-12-20 · How Giraffes Mate, and Why It Matters — The video's figures for the combined weight of humans, livestock and large wild animals come from Yuval Harari's book Sapiens. (video description)
2025-10-24 · What Will Books Become? — The description says P4A Nerdfighter Art submissions are open until Wednesday (29 October 2025), October 29, 2025 at projectforawesome.com/physicalart. (video description)

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2009-01-03 · Giraffe Love and Other Questions ANSWERED — A viewer says John's videos that discuss giraffe mating get on average ten times more views than those that don't. (00:00:21)