August 20th: Winner, South Dakota

[tapstar84]

RACECAR BEDS!!!!

[catonutt]

On a darker note, with a few bottles of whisky, some hookers and maybe some drugs, August 20th John could have conceivably become Charlie Sheen.. Thank God he didn't.

[acissej821]

We should revive the idea of purchasing Winner, South Dakota

[mlemleh]

Wookie!



[BangPullTheTrigger]

You know... I'm suddenly feeling better about my brothers constantly calling me Muffin when I was younger because of my hair.

Thanks, John. ^_^

[ThreeBooksInTheFire]

IMPORTANT:

Do they make double racecarbeds?

[marebear1215]

they have since changed the Wikipedia page. it informed me that in 2009 a resident of Winner won the powerball worth 88.5 million dollars. i found it ironic.

[ironfu]

@marebear1215 I find that awesome.

[toniight1]

My family lives in/is from Winner, and I've been there basically every summer of my life... I think a nerdfighting commune would greatly improve it.

[ReS1sTeNcEgAmEs]

I LIVE IN WINNER SD AND YOUR A FAGGOT.



[aerosmithlover24]

@ReS1sTeNcEgAmEs And clearly you should move somewhere else because you're not a winner.

HOO HA NERDFIGHTERS!

[BlazingLightSword]

@ReS1sTeNcEgAmEs Ehem... You're*

[lillybean118]

I have that bright orange book in the background! I feel awesome, now.....

[Timmytime178]

so many people are in my pants that they go down

[dannerzme]

Am I the only one who kept pushing 0:21 repeatedly?

[TheGirlKiba]

just came to see if anyone else noticed "how we die" in my pants

[OMGawshItsMaya]

Nerdfighters, Winning since 2007 ;D

[mchultgren]

Wooohhh South Dakota! Even though I don't live in Winner (I live in Rapid City, SD), my 9th grade World Geography teacher, who grew up there, took great pleasure in telling us that our school was bigger than the whole town of Winner.

[Tartarugamaus]

Of course Nerdfighters are Winners!!! :)

[MsImprovificationer]

I would like to inform you that you are now on Winner, South Dakota's Wikipedia page for Notable Mentions. You are welcome. :)

[AporiaAZ]

Yeahh....I like the idea...but um have y'all ever been to Winner, South Dakota? Like most small towns its all about jocks and sports and everyone else is subject to hate and discrimination. I actually nominate Winner South Dakota for the most racist city in the nation award lol. No I'm serious!! If you can buy it and change it...go for it, more power to the nerdfighters.

[lcarver909]

I slept in a racecar bed when I was a small child. I guess I've been a Nerdfighter my whole life.

[dolphin64575]

I was going to say that I'd rather sleep in a hammock than a race-car bed, but LifeMustard suggested Tardis beds, and as far as I can figure, you would sleep standing up, LIKE AN ASTRONAUT!

[LifeMustard]

But...I want to sleep in a TARDIS bed...

[dolphin64575]

@LifeMustard But Tardises (sp?) are upright. You would sleep standing up, like an astronaut...

I WANT TO SLEEP LIKE AN ASTRONAUT, NOW!

[LifeMustard]

@dolphin64575 Yeah! Like that, or one of those fold-down beds... Awesome...

[Lauraa4023]

1up!

[ADDawning]

No no, Nerd fighting isn't for winners... WINNING is for NERDFIGHTERS!!!!

[SucreChior]

Just to let you know, winner if full of losers... Haha jk but I used to live there like 3 years ago and it's not worth it. It's full of old people

[34Texican]

In the middle of the night. It wouldn't work out so well. Our public school was sued by the natives, and now my high school has no money. The natives can sit out at their gvmnt housing all day, and still get welfare and benefits. So before you say were mean to natives, you asshole, find out what your talking about.

[34Texican]

Hello fellow commenters, I would like to explain a few things about winner sd, the place of which I currently reside. Our town is quite small, but we are not a bunch of racist hillbillys. I also find it quite bigotted that any of you would assume so. We do have native americans here, but ill be damned if you say that we are all mean to them. If you would like to find out about the native culture and relationship with others id be glad to leave one of you assuming assholes at their free housing

[KatyReaL]

Actually, we know THREE things about a Nerdfighter-owned Winner, South Dakota:

1) Sustainable-material buildings.

2) Race-car beds.

3) Evil-baby orphanage!

[ilovedaddy9090]

I was drawing a moustache on my finger, when i saw the first realated video. I lol'd.

[Gryffinclaw8997]

@RoamingChicken it wouldn't be "like a town filled with nerdifghters," it would BE a town filled with nerdfighters!!!

[Bamberellala]

I hope that someday all the nerdfighters just migrate to Winner, South Dakota. I would love to live in a place called Winner with so many amazing people. Because that would be so. much. win.

[MrsJasperHale08]

I am writing a book where the main characters are from Winner, SD XD Nerdfighters FTW!

[bordercomedens2]

If we (nerdfighters) did purchuse Winner, South Dakota then I would live:

511 In Your Pants Lane

[Zotov13]

Whoever wants to read original article: goo gl/Ryc5e

[stickfigure42]

Idea. We dig a moat around winner if we buy it. So it's an island. *wink wink nudge nudge*

[hayabusha820]

I just hugged my mom, I'm happy that she had me fall out of her vagina. If she haden't, I wouldn't have been able to watch this video. :D

[shantrues]

I laughed so hard I snorted at your puffed hair clip

[chargerfan96]

it would be like Nerdfighteria Island!

[ChristalClear]

it's also very much for frequent failers, and fail-seekers

ALSO!

PURDUE HAS A QUIDDITCH TEAM!

[sk8rcamboy1]

I'm from Winner, I love it up there.

[781228XX]

I never noticed the This machine kills fascist poster before. Paper towns references rock.

[beersweat]

This hill billy thus redneck infested town is the shittiest place I ever visited, with that being said, the majority of people here believe the stock market has a barbed wire fence around it...

[dan2hamilton]

LoL i have family in Winner it is small dirrty and boring

[AandKcafe]

K: I just realized that your puff level is high. :D

[ViolaLullaby]

Wow. This video totally inspired me, John. I believe in the power of nerds! *chants mantra*

[bailszx]

If you watched tonight's episode of American Idol, Malllorie Haley (who went through to the next round) is from Winner, SD. :)

[squaltch]

@bailszx YESS! I saw

[hotpinkelephant11]

I know!!!!!!!! I about peed myself I was so excited. :)

[eragonlover1]

Yeah, um, there's way more of us than 3,000...

Actually, my fellow commenters, Chewbacca's species is spelled wookiee. I learned this from getting the question wrong in Star Wars Trivia Pursuit.

[mushugai]

Wookipedia!

[slinkiesandpie22]

WOOKIE :D

[katiexcoree]

WOOKIE!

[OrionsChild]

Out of stater? I've lived in South Dakota my entire life! You're extraordinarily rude to be watching something brilliant like Vlogbrothers.

[bettythesuperapple]

I'll be in Winner soon!!! :D

[MichelleGirl710]

lol i found out that the information on the wikipedia was written by a kid that graduated about 2 or 3 years ago from winner. He wrote fake stuff and would see how long it would take wikipedia to change it..........can you believe i found this out in english? lol

[GravityProductionz]

1UP+ OMG LOL

[Kathrynhol]

We don't have to purchase it we just take it hostage. Or slowley make every person living there a nerdfighters

[blowtorchacurlyfry1]

i want a race car bed.

[BangPullTheTrigger]

Sadly enough, Winner, SD is full of suck. Racism is... Very big there. People are pretty horrible to the Native Americans. Along with much of the rest of the state.

Ugh. The name is not fitting at all.

[bunger09]

i lived in winner for most og my life and yes there is some racism but it is not that bad some bitch from watertown SD which is 5 hours away and started a huge lawsuit that was not nesscary

[ZeAwesomeNerdettes]

Yea, 1 up baby. XD It's amazing that the Vlogbrothers 2.0 Project inspired the birth of a new community (Nerdfighters!), the war against WorldSuck, and the writing of the brilliance that is Paper Towns. Btw, was it this video that inspired Radar's Omnictionary editing fetish?

YAY OPTIMISM!!! ^_^

~Nerdette Ari

[ALoveLikeWinter]

i would donate money lol

[XoChYnaNrAcHeLXo]

IM FROM WINNER =]

middle of friggen nowhere but

this offends me....

jk =P

DONT DISS WINNER!!!

[peoplecallmeagoth]

AWESOME T-SHIRT! i saw one, and i was gonna buy it, but it was 40$....D:

anyways, awesome video! NERDFIGHTERS FTW!

[edengard]

The loser of a town relocation vote was called Lamro... leading to the Winner, then being nameless, to be called Winner. Just another useless and uninteresting factoid for you.

[TheUmbrellaBoy]

after that guy from winner won all that money, will we have to pay said amount of money plus whatever we would've paid for the town itself? how come there was no video about this? it's a catastrophe

[dustylefou]

LOL I was in Winner once...that place is insanely small, even moreso than Rapid City, where I'm from.

[MichelleGirl710]

^o^ WINNER SOLD A QUARTER OF A BILLION DOLLAR POWERBALL TICKET ^o^

[conzicann]

"Some claim to know, but they are liars."

I will contribute as much as possible to the purchase of Winner. Go team!

[greenbaydude4]

WOOT i live in Winner WOOT haha

[freakmontlokal]

The Opposite of Winner, South Dakota would actually be Loser, North Dakota

[Kathrynhol]

all the nerdfighters shold donate 20 bucks and buy winner!!!

[doodlehh]

um, that would be 'how we die' in my pants.

[doodlehh]

3:36

john has a book called 'how we die'

[3220385]

My cousin has a racecar bed! I <3 it!

[10MrsDavidTennant10]

X D! DFTBA, my friend, DFTBA.

:P

[senorsqueakydesk]

I would totally move to Winner, SD if it were to be made into a Nerdfighter commune.

[kellllmaccc]

i had a racecar bed until the 9th grade. and i'm also female.

judge meeeeee jokes kids, judge me

[tvsuicide4]

If everything else sucked in life, a jokes racecar bed would make up for virtually 25% of the suckiness. 25%!!!

[echoofadistant]

i faved the f out of that vid

[guhnguh]

Before you go acquiring property there, you ought to consider that Winner is "west river" territory. Meaning that any sort of commune, much less a nerd commune would be . . . quite exotic.

[10MrsDavidTennant10]

My surname is Winn. How cool am I.

[Muzz182]

Nerdfight commune in Winner, South Dakota=win.

[TheSailorGeek]

Oh man. I was so move to a Nerdfighter commune. So many hot nerdy girls in one place!

[speede179]

So, I just really like rating these videos and giving them 5 stars because every time I roll the arrow over the 5 stars it says "Awesome!" and makes me happy because Nerdfighters are made of awesome. :)

[falcos]

Yeah, I had the same thought, but wouldn't it be better if when you moused-over 4 stars instead of saying pretty cool it said pretty jokes?

[speede179]

That would be so jokes.

[kira902k]

deep, man.

yay winner!

[Amiryfey]

Humiliation for Charity= Awesome

[ivanandjeska]

take the shame John your awsome

[DittoFreak]

Comment 163:

Did you really get that stuff off of Wikipedia?

Holy carp.

I mean crap.

[bettythesuperapple]

my grandma lives there :)

[MichelleGirl710]

Just to tell you if you bought winner you would have to pay for our million dollor pool ,and our falling down schools. Just wanted to worn you. Well ttyl going to the annuall hayride in Winner Sd. bye-bye

[BarryAldridge]

Muffin head huff awesome. Nerdfighters buying a town be really awesome YEAH. Race car beds ftw. God I love wikipedia for what people say lol, there needs to be some more truth. In my pants jokes lmao.

[Graycloak]

Here's my plan...

We gradually move Nerdfighters to Winner.

Then, after either removing or converting the standing population...

We secede, forming a kind of Nerdfighter's Vatican.

[Superblob27]

What is that shot at 2:34, it's like books about suicide, slang, and dictionaries...

[bcs1982]

The town, not the radio station.

[bcs1982]

I happen to reside in Winner South Dakota. I work at the radio station here. I'll sell it to you for $500.

[equuslover22]

wookiepedia!!!!

[bananas1and2]

Watching these old B2.0 videos makes me feel a lot less lonely late at night.

They make me happy. And I know there are people out there like me who love the environment and nerdfighting and being awesome.

Thank you, John and Hank.

[readingwench]

I think nerdfighters outnumber citizens of winner South Dakota

[lostxpuppet]

hmm..wouldnt it be loser,NORTH dakota?(:

[RoamingChicken]

Imagine the Nerdfighters bought the town! That would be so awesome! It would be like a town filled with nerdfighters!

[54spiritedwill54]

We need a way to calculate awesome levels in ppl, kinda like calculating midichlorians in Jedi

[nickster5008]

ah that shirt is amazing, i want it

[BadgerX153]

Wookiepedia!!

[dude33369]

purchase winer town lmfao

[iwanttotubereallybad]

does this video work for anyone else? it does not load for me?!

[kellijo1776]

okay...enough with the Winner Loser comments...that gets old...I AM FROM WINNER...and really thats not even a good joke....

[kellijo1776]

okay...enough with the Winner Loser comments...that gets old...I AM FROM WINNER...and really thats not even a good joke....

[StarAbbie]

he loves that t-shirt

[mollyferser]

you are sooo the older version of eric from that 70s show!

[NuP0M]

Winner, South Dakota opp. to Loser, North Dakota

LOL

[Stovek]

Muffin head is a strange nickname :p

Me, I used to be called Q-tip.

[ArdelSchwartzenguy]

I'd buy Winner South Dakota. All the decpticons could set up a commune in Loser South Dakota.

[leUNFAMOUS]

AHHH ! i REALLY didnt notice that last comment,

WEEKEEE FTW,

[leUNFAMOUS]

wouldnt the opposide of winner south dakota be loser north dakota ? :P

[7DayTripper7]

wouldnt the opposite of winner south dakota be loser north dakota?

[valleychik56]

I'm from Winner South Dakota!!!!

[jmacsterluv91]

SWEET!!!

[sportynspunky78]

Muffin head?! Oh John. :]

[xtwizzle]

i live in south dakota! haha

[musicmasquerader]

@xtwizzle i know you do! cause i know you! haha

-R

btw we are about 200 ish miles from winner, whcih means we are 200 miles closer to hank than we are to green.

[KatyReaL]

@musicmasquerader I think you mean that you're 200 miles closer to Hank thank you are John, not Green ; )

[musicmasquerader]

@KatyReaL yeah, i did mean hank. lol oops *^.^*

[neniainas]

@musicmasquerader Also, if you are 200 miles from Winner to Hank's direction, that would mean you are actually 400 miles closer to Hank than John. :) (The mathematics nerdfighter side of me just can't let things like this slide, sorry for being a bit of a smart ass. And also late to the discussion.)

[OrionsChild]

Thaaaaaaaat's South Dakota for you. Have we figured out how much Winner is worth? I wager $20.

[stasis1988]

That's BEAUTIFUL weather! I love the rain.

[jackeyramone]

NERD FIGHTING IS FOR WINNERS

[masterzanzabar]

wiki

weaky

wookie

wookie!!!

hahahaha

[AdamsKid93]

Haha! I would totally join the nerdfighter commune! Yeah for race car beds! lol :)

[sk8tolive123]

I live in SD and have been to Winner multiple times for basketball games an stuff. Really a boring town.

[ITSemilyOMG]

Thats because there aren't enough Nerdfighters there :]

[AliceInWorthlesstown]

You could probably purchase my town and turn it into a Nerdfighter town.

Okabena, Minnesota (my town) has a population of less than 200 people!

It could easily be taken over by Nerdfighters without much struggle and turned into a town made of awesome!!

[AliceInWorthlesstown]

Also, the two towns aren't that far apart!

It is only 229.4 miles from Okabena, MN to Winner, SD!!

I don't know if that really has much to do with anything but I am very into the idea of Okabena becoming the home of the Nerdfighters :D

[silverwing2332]

Allright, sounds like a plan. I have a couple of hundred dollars, I hope that's enough.

[AliceInWorthlesstown]

Haha it probably is :]

[coreyg1230]

SADSAC his account got closed???

[kellijo1776]

OMG! GUESS WHAT..LOL...IM FROM WINNER, SD! yur right its out on the middle of nowhere!!! haha...i found your post perty funny! haha..but..the town is fun too!

[kakashiwithoutmask]

OMG RACECAR BEDS

haha racecar is one of my favorite palindromes as is oozy rat in a sanitary zoo

did you get your daily serving of awesome today?

[SeverusZed]

hey, i've been watching the videos backwards from the google, take me to mars, it's interesting. and I noticed that you have the book HOW WE DIE in the background of the video, how is it, is it good, and what is it about?

[MichelleGirl710]

HEY, I Live In WINNER, Sd

P.S. Loser Sd is just north of Winner

JkJkJk

[robinheil]

Are you SERIOUS?! LOL

[ishallcallyounarfba]

A nerdfighter commune would be pretty freakin' awesome. And the end of the video where you discuss your newfound optimism and winner-ish-ness makes me proud to be a nerdfighter who stands for all that decreases worldsuck.

[silverwing2332]

As long as the nerdfighter commune is made of awesome and not like the polygamist commune (which is made of suck), then yeah it would be pretty frackin' sweet

Nerdfighter optimism, its endearing isn't it?

[Selene147]

Nerdfighters FTW. Awesomeness... is awesome.

[frogdude5]

what does FTW stand for?

[KaileeA42]

For the Win, I always wondered that too.....

[Bookworm567]

Wouldn't the opposite of Winner, South Dakota be Loser, North Dakota?

[yeldah239]

wait a minute. if nerdfighters are nerds that fight bad things and decrease world suck, then nerdhaters would hate stuff. they are not quite the opposite.

[wilykitwow]

nerds are the new "bad boy".... and thats a good thing :)

[footballgirl04]

i live in Winner South Dakota and it sucks cause theres no where to hang out

[OrsoIclaim]

Well, we nerdfighters should fix that!

[footballgirl04]

then they should come asap

[thewindowcreakedopen]

Nerd fighters are so jokes!.... and made of awesome!

Nerd fighters unite. *crazy arm movement thing*

:]

[SunFire1051]

whoo hoo... LOVE the 1up shirt

[papplegrassbracelet]

um... is that a majic 8 ball on the top shelf?

[Phobic42]

yay racecar beds!!!

[regularguy5mb]

RACE CAR BEDS!!!!!!? I'm there! When do we make the move?

[tiffanyrippa]

How funny, my folks are from this small town.

[stenforthewin]

NERDFIGHTERS FOR THE WIN.

I think I already commented on this video but it is made of so much awesome that I'm doing it again.

hooray for optimism.

[RememberTheTrees]

that made me happy.

[footballgirl04]

i live in winner but i dont want to be there

[Freekun]

He talks about wikipedia. go there, and a revision is the location of the scavenger hunt thing.

[neeshaknowsall]

yayyaya rain for plants!

[vanillaflame]

I love living in Winner. A guy from indianapolis makes a video on our town, now McDonald's is announcing their monoply winners here. Wow, national look on our town just because people lacked creativity and decided to name it Winner, because they won a dispute.

Wookiepedia. that's amazing.

[footballgirl04]

the dispute was between whether to have Jordan where i live or Lamro now Winner be the main place where the train came throught

[vanillaflame]

ya think? I live bout 2 miles from where Lamro was at, my familys been round winner and gregory for the past 90+ years. Rather than saying that all to people who don't even know about lamro and jordan, and summarize it all with "dispute."

but thanks for attempting to inform me...

[nestryn]

You made me believe in humanity, John.

[barbaram09]

yeah... I'm from Winner too!! Great place - come here and I will make sure all of you nerds have a castle to live in... yup thats right, Winner has castles. You don't even have to purchase it, nobody will notice if you just steal the ownership rights - we're easy going people... we just walk around, bowl, eat at mcdonalds and buy toothbrushes from pamida and dollar general... simple life. oh and theres a buncha bars and churches - way too many for our town.. turn those into ur clubs. lata