PRETTY GOOD

Hey everybody, Jon again. This is the stupidest video I've ever made. There have been times when a project of mine ended up kind of stupid organically, but this was the first time in many years I sat down at the very start and said to myself, "I am going to make something stupid." I think you'll have fun watching it, but if anyone learns anything at all from it I will be deeply ashamed of myself.

Hey everybody! Jon here again, this time with the first episode of the largest Pretty Good project to date. Throughout humankind’s journey, we’ve often been led forward, or backward, by Tims and Als. Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor, the face of the beloved 1990s sitcom “Home Improvement,” was a thoughtless, inconsiderate, and calamity-prone doofus. Al Borland, his co-host of the show-within-a-show “Tool Time,” was the counterbalancing figure Tim required: wise, mature, empathetic, and an exceptionally skilled craftsman. In the 1800s, the Internet began with a Tim and an Al: the guy you know, Samuel F.B. Morse, and the guy you probably don't, Alfred Vail. In Part 1 of "Fool Time," we explore a partnership that should have worked beautifully if one of them wasn't an attention-desperate entitled no-talent crybaby hack piece of shit.

Hey folks! Jon here again, and I’ve got Part 2 of FOOL TIME ready to roll. In Part 1 (check it out here if you haven’t seen it), we saw the proto-Internet of the 1840s expand throughout North America and Europe in the form of telegraph networks. Now, in the 1850s, the geniuses and dummies in charge of these networks shift their ambitions toward one of the most spectacular engineering feats in human history. Additionally, Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor glues his head to a board.

Hidey-ho, neighbors. I'm Jon, and this is Part 3 of FOOL TIME. In Part 1, we examined the invention of the Internet via Morse code and the expansion of telegraph networks. In Part 2, we got to know the noble mensch who made it his mission to lay a telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean and the doofus tycoon who stole his idea. Now, in Part 3, we'll watch as the Atlantic Telegraph Company tries to pull off this near-impossible feat. Yep, this episode is The One With The Ships. Hope you enjoy.

Hey everybody. I'm Jon, and this is the series finale of FOOL TIME. Thank you so much for showing up for this. This is one of the most interesting and fun projects I've ever had the chance to work on, and I hope you enjoy the final episode.

Hey everybody, it's Jon again. Today, Alex and I have something special for you: the first episode of SCORIGAMI, a four-part documentary series we've wanted to make for a very long time. It's been eight years since I published my original scorigami video on YouTube. Since then we've seen many more instances of scorigami pop up on the board that are of great historical significance. But the real reason we're running this back is that the first time around, I had to leave so many ridiculous stories on the cutting room floor. Scorigami, it turns out, offers a fascinating cross-section of some of the strangest, funniest stories that can be found within NFL history. In this first episode, we're diving into the league's early decades and surfacing with a whole bunch of stories that we bet you've never heard before.

Hey friends, it's Jon again. Alex and I have a brand-new episode of "Scorigami" just for you, completely ad-free and months before it hits YouTube. In the first episode (which is here if you'd like to catch up), we quickly found that scorigami is more than a trivial numbers game. It's a keyhole through which some of the weirdest, funniest stories throughout NFL history can be found, some of which we've been sitting on for many years. In particular, the Rams-Giants game you're about to see is one I've been waiting for an excuse to talk about for at least five years. It's perhaps the dumbest NFL game ever played, which means it is also one of my favorite NFL games ever played

Across nearly an hour of split-screen madness, we'll relive the entire history of the NFL's two-point conversion era with some help from special guest Mina Kimes. We'll also pay tribute to the modern heroes of scorigami: Bobby Hebert, Dwayne Rudd, Trey Junkin, Jeris Pendleton, and Nathan Peterman, the five best and most famous football players of all time.

Anyway, hey, it's Jon again. This final episode of Scorigami in particular is one that Alex and I have been planning, in some form or another, for many years. It features some of the wildest stabs at data visualization we've ever attempted, all in pursuit of questions that ultimately do not matter at all. And although we won't spoil it here, we finally identify the one score on the scorigami board that's technically possible to achieve, but that in practice would completely defy human comprehension.