Hey, you're listening to the On the Media Midweek podcast. I'm Michael Owenger.

If you caught our latest episode from the weekend, then you heard my interview with Hank Green,

a very popular YouTuber and science communicator. We got a lot of nice feedback about that conversation.

And there were some interesting Q&As that we couldn't fit in the radio

version. So we're bringing you a longer edit here. We begin when I asked Hank about the start

of his YouTube career. I'm being on my career as a content creator screwing around on YouTube

in 2007. We didn't really start to do science

communication and educational stuff for a few years after we started, weirdly enough. It's been a

long journey of being a YouTuber since 2007. Was there a particular video in those early days

that made you realize, this is what I want to do. Like,

this is how I can connect with people.

2007, 2006 was an interesting time and online video because people were just starting to figure out

what it was. And watching Zay Frank, who was kind of in many ways ways the original video blogger, do projects with his audience?

Like, dress up your vacuum cleaner. Let's try and make the Earth a sandwich.

The League of Awesomeness has discovered that never before have two pieces of bread been simultaneously placed on the ground directly opposite each other on the globe.

The first team to document and prove that they've successfully made an Earth sandwich

will get a league of awesomeness certificate and something else.

We've completed the first Earth sandwich.

This point, right through the middle of the earth,

goes right down to New Zealand where there's another baguette.

It was like, oh, that's the thing that's different about this.

I'm not making something for an audience.

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