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Death. Taxes. Pizzamas.

2026-09-28 · announcement · John · 4:16 · watch on YouTube

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

John opens Pizzamas 2026, unboxing this year's Western-themed Pizza John merch (mug, hat, bandanas, bolo tie, shirts, denim jacket, hoodie, sweatpants) filmed before he left on his Hollywood, Ending tour, with inserts from the road, and notes that all Pizzamas royalties go 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 begins: the mustache, two weeks of back-and-forth videos, love, pizza and e-commerce for charity; John confesses he comes from the past

  • ★★★ John announces Pizzamas: for two weeks the brothers make videos back and forth like in 2007, even on tour, a celebration of love, pizza and e-commerce for charity. — 00:00:00 · Pizzamas
  • ★★ John says his mustache can only mean one thing: it is Pizzamas. (playful) — 00:00:00 · Pizza John, Pizzamas

00:00:30 — John from the future on tour; mug, hat, bandanas, stickers, Western-themed bolo tie, pencils; thanks to DFTBA

  • ★★ John says he filmed the unboxing in the past because, now on the road for Hollywood, Ending, he could not bring the merch; he speaks from a hotel-room floor, he thinks in Portland, Maine. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:30 · Hollywood, Ending
  • ★★ John begins the reveal of this year's (2026) Pizzamas items with a Pizza John mug and a hat he likes enough to wear for the rest of the video. — 00:00:30 · Pizza John, Pizzamas
  • ★★ John shows a bandana for pets and one for humans, a sticker set, and a Western-themed Pizzamas bolo tie he will learn to wear. — 00:01:04 · Pizzamas
  • ★★ John says that while filming he did not realize this year’s (2026) Pizza John is Western-themed because he has been playing Red Dead Redemption 2 on John’s Channel, though of course it is. — 00:01:04 · Pizza John
  • ★★ John does not know how the DFTBA team makes Pizzamas better every year, but they do, and he is grateful. — 00:01:04 · DFTBA Records, Pizzamas
  • ★ John shows a Pizzamas pencil pack, which he jokes he will use on the road as a toothbrush holder, plus pencils and a sticky pad. (playful) — 00:01:04 · Pizzamas

00:01:52 — For new viewers: Valerie2776 created Pizza John almost 20 years ago

  • ★★ For new viewers, John explains that Valerie2776 created Pizza John almost 20 years ago. — 00:01:52 · Pizza John

00:02:14 — Apparel: comfortable shirts with royalties to Partners In Health, Mola pizza shirt, Warhol shirt, denim jacket, hoodie, sweatpants, dish towels, patches

  • ★★ John says this year's (2026) shirts are super comfortable, the kind you would wear every day that happen to be Pizzamas shirts. — 00:02:14 · Pizzamas
  • ★★★ John says no one is paying him to praise the shirts, because 100% of the Pizzamas royalties go to support Partners In Health. — 00:02:14 · Partners In Health, Pizzamas
  • ★★ John shows a Mola pizza shirt, joking that he is a fish with a mustache. (playful) — 00:02:14
  • ★★ John shows a shirt with an old-school 70s vibe and one combining Andy Warhol, Hollywood, Ending and Pizza John. — 00:02:43 · Hollywood, Ending, Pizza John
  • ★★ John singles out a denim jacket whose buttons each bear Pizza John and whose back he finds very cool. — 00:02:43 · Pizza John
  • ★★ John shows a Let's Dough This Pizza John hoodie with him delivering pizza on a motorcycle, and matching sweatpants with Pizza John on the butt. — 00:03:20 · Pizza John
  • ★★ John says he must pack for 13 days in a carry-on bag but might bring the denim jacket on the road. (hedged) — 00:03:20
  • ★ John shows Pizza John Swedish dish towels to replace paper towels and Pizza John patches. — 00:03:20 · Pizza John

00:03:48 — Pizzamas on tour, buy at pizzamas.com within two weeks, see you tomorrow

  • ★★ John says this Pizzamas feels especially magic; doing it through 25 airports in the next 23 days will be exhausting but worth it. — 00:03:48 · Pizzamas
  • ★★★ John says all the merch is available only during this year's (2026) Pizzamas at pizzamas.com; anyone who doesn't get it in the next two weeks will live without it. — 00:03:48 · Pizzamas
  • ★ John savours saying he will see Hank tomorrow, which he only gets to say a couple of times a year. (playful) — 00:03:48

Humor (significant)

  • Before the reveal, John confesses something to Hank — 00:00:00

    “I am coming to you from an inglorious place called the past.”

  • Holding the Pizza John mug, John adds a pizzeria-style slogan — 00:00:30

    “Family run since 2009, Hank.”

  • John asks Hank whether he has a pet — 00:00:30

    “Well, I have a pet bandana for you.”

  • Showing the Pizzamas pencil pack — 00:01:04

    “which I'm going to use on the road as my toothbrush holder”

  • Showing the Mola pizza shirt — 00:02:14

    “I'm a fish, Hank. I'm a fish with a mustache.”

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Mentioned

Central: Pizza John · Pizzamas

Also: Andy Warhol · Hollywood, Ending · John's Channel · Partners In Health · Portland, Maine · Red Dead Redemption 2 · See you tomorrow

Only in the description or credits: DFTBA Records · Valerie2776

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