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  • Lol " because I just wanted to tell some people some good news. " lol so adorable

  • HANK F-16 FUSELAGES ARE MADE OF HEMP I WORKED FOR AN HOUR OR 2 UN TANGLING HEMP FOR THESE FUSEALAGES ONCE FOR A COMPANY AND QUIT THANKS THIS MIGHT BE A GOOD PRANK CALL

  • rly glad I am nicholas alexander vogel and not don't tell dave

  • I think they needed to be shorter, maybe just one sentence, so you could say them quicker and hang up. The longer they were the more chance that someone would interrupt you.

  • "Hi, you're awesome." *hang up*

  • @CayleeCanFly That would be so jokes! I would do that right now if I wasn't so scared to. 

  • While watching this video, my phone rang. I almost had a heart attack.

  • I'm pretty sure I would die of happiness if Hank Green (or John for that matter) called me out of the blue one day :)

  • They weren't pranked, they were HANKED! ... Really bad joke ;)

  • I just tried it (took about seven calls for anyone to answer) their reaction was kind of an "ooookay?was that... was that the entire purpose of your call...?" "Yes. Yes it was stranger " :)

  • You know you found this so fun i dont even know you and im expecting a phone call

  • Next time my friends come over we are so doing this.

  • <3

  • Oh man, that sure showed them!

  • Anthoer good news fact: Animals, such as the SD black hill cougar (one of which was found in CT) are moving further away from their usual homes. Scientists found that this is not due to global climate change, but due to such a decrease in poachers :)

  • NOW ME NOW ME NOW ME!! <3 I have my phone ready xD

  • i'm going to get me and some of my friends to do this....spread the love and good cheer around....^_^

  • did wheezy waiter copy the vlogbrothers?

  • hank.... you are adorable

  • Argh ! Wheezy Waiter will not be happy 1 (about the Eagle thing)

  • I wonder if anyone who was called came to look up Vlogbrothers and saw their call in this video. XD

  • @E0Kell

    I wasn't trying to attack you, if that's what you thought. And I get what you're saying. You're right about the effects not showing yet. They wouldn't show yet, not in this generation. I just thought you were trying to say that the vaccine prevented all STDs, and I wanted to let you know that it doesn't. Haha.

  • @GabbyAlicex Yeah, I read it again and I was responding to TheCurlyOne13, not you, sorry for that.

    It seemed like the clear contrast wasn't going over well. I just didn't want the confusion to linger. And it does look like I think it prevents STDs by reading what I typed. So thanks for clarifying.

  • The small pox fact - i sure it still does exist in the CDC. Just incase it ever came back.

  • @kyoismyhomeboy

    I should have been clearer--I didn't want E0Kell to think that the vaccination prevented all STDs in general, as that's what it seemed they thought through their comment. It protects against a strain of HPV that could potentially cause cervical cancer, and HPV is an STD...so yeah.

  • "ha! ha! pranked!" wow.

  • @E0Kell The HPV vaccine is obviously a vaccine that prevents as you kindly stated, an STD. Human PapillomaVirus causes cervical cancer in women. A vaccine to prevent the disease would in turn prevent the cancer. Before you correct someone, please do your research.

  • @kyoismyhomeboy You are right but wrong. He tells his prank call, cases of cancer have reduced because of a drug that prevents a virus. The vaccine has only been on the market for a short time, less than five years. It is given to young women, who may be sexually active. The cancer takes 7 to 10 years to develop. Therefore the vaccine is not responsible for a reduction of today's cancer incidents. It was a misleading and incorrect statement. Do your research.

  • @EOKell The HPV vaccine doesn't prevent STDs by any stretch of the means--it protects a sexually active female from obtaining a strand of HPV that could later develop into cervical cancer.

    Just wanted you to know so that you didn't have the wrong idea!

  • @GabbyAlicex My issue is with the pronouncement that cancer is decreasing because of a vaccine. That is not true. It makes no sense. The intention is to reduce future cancer, not reduce today's numbers. HPV develops into cancer therefore it's vaccine is not responsible for reducing incidents of cancer, though it may in the future.

    It prohibits a virus that may over years develop into cancer. The logic is wrong. I hope you understand this without further explanation.

  • i love you hank! :D im so tired of people talking about how the world sucks and our generation is heading into oblivion on the news. its good to hear we're doing stuff right :)

  • The HPV vaccine is not a reason for a decrease in cancer. It does not even make sense. The vaccine was only out for a year or two when this video was made. The HPV vaccine is a drug to prevent STD's. The best way to not get an STD is to not have the "S." Just thought I would point out the flaw in logic. Positive pranks are an awesome idea.

  • @E0Kell HPV prevents the risks of cervical cancer which are increased by unprotected sex. So in fact it can be seen as a form of STD. The risk of cervical cancer has been dramatically decreased since the vaccine's introduction in 2010.Please do not insult Hank's intelligence until you know all of the facts.

  • It's a HANK CALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

  • This is fuckin awesome

  • I want to do this, but instead of giving random pranks, I feel like giving random compliments. I feel like that is much nicer. Although, knowledge is nice too.

  • @ginarocks75 I feel like that would just be creepy :)

  • @ginarocks75 If you're calling them

  • @NicoleInCursive Being creepy is fun. Sometimes. =)

  • @ginarocks75

    Depends on what you say. If you call a random person and tell them "your hair looks pretty today" you've either A. made someone feel stalked B. mocked a bald person or C. all of the above XDD

  • @SnowingWolfGirl I wouldn't say anything as specific as that. I would probably say something "Whatever is stressing you out, calm down because it'll soon be over and your life will get better." Or something like that. Also, I probably won't do it. It was just a YouTube comment. Not to be taken seriously. =)

  • @ginarocks75

    I was also joking :D

  • "ha..ha.. pranked" 

  • Nice idea! But you really shouldn't tell the people you prank call your name...

  • OVER 9000 BALD EAGLES!!!!

  • @TheADHart no you would probally be axe murdered in your bed

  • do you burn callories when doing nothing

  • Haha this is what I do. I call people and tell them they're nice and I love them. OR around Christmas I ask them the true meaning of the season!

  • If I leave my phone number, can I get some positive prank calls? (;

  • everything has dropped significantly in the past year. LOL

  • Decreasing world suck, one phone call at a time :D

  • You beautiful human being

  • this homeless guy was yelling out facts and I throw a apple at him

  • @750982002bny and i thought that violence was going down too...

    threw

    *Love, Daniel

  • NO ONE ANSWERS THEIR PHONES WHAT DO I DO?

  • Why didn't I get a call :( ?

  • if hank prank called me i would die =)

  • I so wish he had prank-called me...

  • I tried this but I ended up calling a prison. The rest of the numbers were out of service.

  • @pbjellybeanful but that's the beauty of it. they just want to spread the word to as many people, and as they do that, Hank or John don't want to divide it into Nerdfighters and others. I think they want to keep the callees just labelled as people. so they can tell the story of how we are all people. But I do admit, a phone call with either of them would be fantastic :D

  • i think we should have a safe word, if you ever call a nerdfighter Hank or John, we would say something and you would just no how awesome we are.

  • @pbjellybeanful i think there already is something we can use for that matter:

    "DFTBA"

  • Hank you're too cute, and if you ever positive prank call me, that would be...well, great obviously.

  • when you said the refrigerator joke, it reminded me of Jim carrey's version of the grinch.

  • I thought that you weren't allowed to say your name, when you prank-call?

  • Pranking Hank. Phrank!

  • 0:38 "Crank calling" ?

  • HANK CALLING.

  • Great job, Hank!

  • One of my favorite parts about the vlogbrothers is that Hank lives in Montana. :D And I thought I was living in a state full of idiots...

  • Haha me and my friends actually prank called people today! (my first experience in this matter, as well) and my friend pretended to be Gollum, accusing them of betraying us and bringing the ring to Sauron. Then he hung up. We also called a pizza place and told them to hold, then played the trololol song and then hung up :P it was fun lol

  • prank calls WERE the most common prank,,, in the 1980's... lol

  • If I give you my number, can you prank call me?:L

  • This is amazing :D

  • what a great idea :D

  • @carribeandreamer06 NERD HATER!! Must. Be. Demolished. o.o

  • You are a good person, Hank Green. The world needs more people like you. It would greatly decrease WorldSuck. DFTBA.

  • @ryaboopsoup it would increase awesome not decreace suck.

  • @legoman2010studios Why not both?

  • I want to be prank called by Hank!

  • dont you mean OVER 9000 pairs of breeding bald eaguls?

  • I tried to do this but couldn't because I didn't want to tell someone a positive cancer fact if they were dying of cancer or the one about the divorce rates if they had been divorced!

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  • one night, my friends and I pranked over 80 numbers, the next day i got at least 7 people calling back. and we got verbably abused by a few too.

    then my dad saw my bill....

  • @96SarahElizabeth Good job. (= lol

  • Is that Rhett?

  • scheisse im kopf????

  • LOVE....LOVE!!! That made me just so happy! LOVE!!!

    Amazing stuff, and so lovely! The world is officially a more positive place thanks to the legendary Hank! DFTBA, and go make someone happy!

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  • Woot this was uploaded on my birthday

  • @FutureAbe don't say like out of place, it's against nerdom

  • You should do video like this again :3

  • This is an awesome idea.

  • I LOVE THIS. SO MUCH.

  • why do the vlogbrothers never vlog together?

  • @Dragonwing16 Because the channel was create for them to contact each other.

  • can you make this a usual thing? Like... every 1st of the month? That would be soooo awesome, and when you run out of positive things (which may or may not happen, you never know) then tell them scary animal facts. People need to know these things >:D

  • Hahaha this is fantastic!! :DD

  • As a telesales person, I am thinking of starting my spiel with a positive fact. 

  • New prank idea: get someone to call all the nerdfighters I know and say "Hi, this is Hank Green of the nerdfighters, and [enter random fact here]".

    IT'S LIKE A PRANKCEPTION.

  • DFTBA

  • i wanna say nuuube but i just cant... so.... great video

  • this is addicting to watch

  • Was that an action figure of the 10th Doctor behind him?

  • @StuckInTheFourWalls

    REALLY? REALLY? Oh my god that's sooo awesome! Did you know who he was then?

  • This is like.. so incredibly nerdy

  • #love

    you should make international prank calls next time! *cough*saudi arabia*cough*

  • I just sent a positive encouraging text to a random number!

  • Thanks Hank, I needed that.

  • Isn't a part of prank calling that it's supposed to be anonymous? But this was still entertaining.

  • If Hank ever prank-called me I'd flip out and shriek down the phone at him.

  • "She was talking, and I just hung up on her. Ha. HA! PRANKED!"

    Made my day. ♥

  • I would call him back and be like, "WAIT, I'M A NERDFIGHTTTEEERRR"

  • My friend called me and left a voicemail with one of these when I was having a bad day. It's still on my voicemail. :)

  • he only exsists in video's!...is that even possible! 

  • I'm just wondering could this be considered spreading propaganda?

  • On my way home yesterday I saw a homeless person who was yelling out random positive facts and statistics. It made me smile.

  • Has anyone done this?  I want to hear stories, this is hilarious XD

  • The smallpox virus does actually still exist, just not in nature.

  • @aang94479 Do you believe that we should exterminate it, making sure that it doesn't get loose and wreak havoc upon the creatures of this planet ever again?

  • @lemonice2700 they keep i so that if it should they could create vaccines from the dead virus'

  • i would be like "omg this is hank, hank green, THE hank green?!"

  • I see you have a Spike Spiegel figure on your bookshelf.

    I am jelly.

  • @D3ZP0T You have an apparent lack of understanding of grammar. Also, you spelled 'n00b' wrong.

  • Crime and violence rates also went down significantly the week that each of the Harry Potter books came out. That's one of my favorite facts :)

  • @PeppyShalamar where did you find this out (and what area did crime go down significantly)? It's such a cool fact. It's a shame JK Rowling is done with the Harry Potter series.

  • @PeppyShalamar That sounds like all Harry Potter fans were the ones committing the crimes though.. they were all too busy reading when the books came out to actually keep the crime happening.

  • why didnt you just not call any alaska area codes? xD

  • I wrote a report on bald eagles being endangered and at the end I wrote " the poaching of eagles is now illeagle."

  • I wanna do this with positive statistics, but also stats that are randomly humorous as well.

    At least it would make for a fun story later for the person you called X3

  • 0:31

  • Thank you for the inspiration for the rest of my evening!

  • You. Punctuated. Every. Fact. With. A hand point. It was distracting, haha.

  • aAny british nerdfighters think he looks a little bit like Russel Howard? Talking about good news and all made me think of it. Hank hasn't got a lazy eye though...

  • I love prank calls!

  • You must be my boyfriend soon. I insist.

  • @ingridasplund But... he's like... married and stuff.

  • you're a genius

  • I like you. You are fun. You're my new favorite youtuber!

  • I GOT ONE!!! The one about divorce rates.YES

  • I feel like it would've been hilarious, if he said, my name is JOHN green! HAHA MEGA DOUBLE PRANK!

  • i really need you to call meh

    

  • Aww Hank you redefine prank calling for nerds [:

  • I love that. Something similar actually happened to me once. I was woken late in the morning (this was during my teenager-hood) by the phone ringing and when I answered a guy just started talking, telling me a story. Unfortunately, because I was barely awake, I have no idea what the story was about, but I remember that it was wonder and positive and uplifting, and at the end he just said, "Thank you for listening, have a wonderful day." and hung up. My bf at the time thought it was gypsies.

  • Hanks gay all day

  • thumbs up to Hanks thumbs up

  • I like that Hank talks with his hands and even waves to people when he says hi, even though he is on the phone, which is something I always noticed myself doing but never really stopped. High five for gesticulation when it's only for your own benefit. :D

  • my parents are in the 20% :(

  • @hellohowareyou90 Mine too :/ But it gets better. DFTBA.

  • @rachelsaunicorn thanks it really helps to here that.. DFTBA :)

  • @hellohowareyou90 No problem :)

  • advert: Wacky Prank Calls.

    Google is slowly but surely understanding everything you and John do.

  • Hank, I love you.

  • it would have been really awkward if the person you called about the divorce had just gotten divorced that day, OR it would have been creepy if that person was thinking about getting divorced but had not yet told anyone. nevertheless, nice job :)

  • i feel so good after all this good news!!

    =D

  • My brother rocks at doing voices, so once, we called my cousin Madison who works at a grocery store. We told her (using a Roy D. Mercer accent) that she stole his wife's purse. Then my aunt came on and told my bro (Roy D. mercer) that this girl was sixteen and he could go to jail.

    Never once did Madison say she didn't steal the purse...in fact, she said she would give back the purse but not the "five hundred" dollars inside...0.o

  • What if the person you told the marriage/divorce fact to was divorced? That'd make you a bit of a jerk, really. The intent was good, though, so I guess that makes you a good person.

  • @nmukerjee27 Or the person he told the teen pregnancy thing to was/has a pregnant teen... or the person he told the cancer thing to had cancer? Jeeeez I hope not...

  • #228,000!!!!!!

  • i love how there is a creepy doll in the background :S

    on the books shelf :O

  • @StraightDoinYourMom2 OH MY GOD THERE IS!!

  • @StraightDoinYourMom2 are you talking about Bobble-John, or the thing in a suit above Bobble-John?

  • I have been staring at my phone since I watched this video...

  • This guy is full of awesome ... XD

  • Epic win. ^_^ I love these videos, this one especially. Huzzah for making something considered culturally inappropriate into something awesome.

  • When I was on a road trip with a good friend of mine, we decided to do some positive prank calls of our own. To pass the time we called the "How's my driving?" numbers on the backs of semi trucks, and left lots of compliments and suggested the drivers get a raise or promotion. I hope we made someone's day.

  • @791brinkman Hello, how about you go back to school and learn to converse eloquently and respectfully towards others via the internet? I'm sorry but 'awkword'? 'Anoying'? 'Redickuluss'? Really? Try opening a dictionary once in a while. And try to not FTBA in future, to make life less 'anoying' for the Nerdfighters who wish to watch Hank (and John) in peace and without the input of mind-numbingly dumb decepticons such as yourself.

    Oh, and you left Caps Lock on. Sucks for you :)