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PIZZAMAS IS UPON US!

2025-09-29 · announcement · John · 5:17 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Projects (also: Nerdfighteria) · mode: Announcements · tags: calendar ritual, self promotion, fundraising ask, community lore

John opens Pizzamas 2025, two weeks of weekday videos back and forth as in 2007, by unboxing this year's Pizza John merch (shirts including one based on his Views shirt, pajama pants, a Leaning Tower of Pisa game, a DM screen, a cutting board, a coloring book), sold only at pizzamas.com for two weeks with all proceeds to Partners In Health.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Pizzamas is upon us: two weeks of weekday videos as in 2007, and an unboxing

  • ★★★ John announces Pizzamas: for the next two weeks the brothers make weekday videos back and forth as in 2007, celebrating brotherly love, joy and charitable e-commerce. — 00:00:00 · Pizzamas

00:00:30 — Unboxing the Pizzamas 2025 merch: shirts, Views shirt, pajama pants, Leaning Tower of Pisa game, keychain, hat, DM screen, cutting board, fidget, coloring book

  • ★★ Unboxing the shirts, John credits the team at DFTBA and says the shirts are now simply awesome t-shirts that happen to be Pizza John themed. — 00:00:30 · DFTBA Records, Pizza John
  • ★★ John says he did not grow a pizza mustache this year (2025) because he made a call to stay married. (playful) — 00:01:03 · Pizza John
  • ★★ John reveals his Views shirt, a Hawaiian shirt he wears when he wants views because it looks cool and fits well, and that it has been turned into a Pizzamas shirt. (playful) — 00:01:26 · Pizzamas
  • ★★ John shows more items than in past years: a Views shirt with his own face on it and Pizza John pajama pants. — 00:02:03 · Pizza John
  • ★★ John presents the Leaning Tower of Pisa game, similar to Jenga except with rules, such as pulling another piece for a tuberculosis factor. — 00:02:32
  • ★★★ John says all the merch is available only at Pizzamas.com during this year's (2025) Pizzamas, the next two weeks, then disappears forever, as there is a different Pizzamas every year. — 00:02:32 · Pizzamas
  • ★★ John shows a puffy Pizzamas bag, a Pizza John 'Nunu' backpack or keychain charm (not a Labubu) and a camo hat that says pizza. — 00:02:32 · Pizza John, Pizzamas
  • ★★ John shows a Pizzamas D&D Dungeon Master screen that goes with the Pizzamas RPG, a digital download this year (2025). — 00:03:18 · Pizzamas
  • ★★ John says this might be his favorite Pizzamas year ever. (hedged) — 00:03:18 · Pizzamas
  • ★★ John shows a subtler item, a Pizza John cutting board made in Montana, plus a Pizzamas fidget and the Pizza John Forever Coloring Book. — 00:04:01 · Montana, Pizzamas, Pizza John
  • ★ John says his children use the fidgets and so does he, as a wonderful distraction from (gestures broadly) everything. (playful) — 00:04:01

00:04:31 — For new Nerdfighters: Pizza John's origin, 100% of proceeds to Partners In Health, two weeks only; sign-off

  • ★★ Welcoming new Nerdfighters at their first Pizzamas, John says he has no idea how his briefly having a mustache in 2008 led to all this. (playful) — 00:04:31 · Nerdfighteria, Pizza John, Pizzamas
  • ★★★ John says they donate 100% of their Pizzamas proceeds to Partners In Health. — 00:04:31 · Partners In Health, Pizzamas
  • ★ John notes that Pizzamas lets him say words he used to say a lot but now rarely does: he will see Hank tomorrow. (playful) — 00:05:00 · Pizzamas

Humor (significant)

  • Trying on the first shirt, John lists what is on it. — 00:00:30

    “I'm a man. I'm a mustache. I'm a pizza. I'm a cat. It's got everything.”

  • John explains why he grew no pizza mustache this year. — 00:01:03

    “I just kind of made a call to stay married.”

  • John's lucky Views shirt, the Hawaiian shirt he wears to get views, has become merch. — 00:01:26

    “And somehow, someone has turned my Views shirt into a pizza.”

  • John models the full Pizza John outfit with pajama pants. — 00:02:03

    “I'm a walking advertisement for a 2008 era meme.”

  • John unveils a backpack charm of his face. — 00:03:18

    “It's not a labubu, Hank. It's a pizza John Nunu.”

  • New Nerdfighters may be confused by their first Pizzamas. — 00:04:31

    “Don't worry. I am also confused.”

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Mentioned

Central: Pizza John · Pizzamas

Also: Works: Dungeons & Dragons · Leaning Tower of Pisa game · Pizza John Forever Coloring Book · Pizzamas one-shot

Organizations: Partners In Health

Rituals: See you tomorrow

Places: Montana

Products: Jenga · Labubu

Only in the description or credits: DFTBA Records

Later videos replying to this one

Part of an exchange of 3 videos, 2025-09-29 – 2025-10-01.