Hank Green

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Hank Green has amassed billions of views on YouTube across his various channels. He is a New York Times best-selling author, as well as a musician, comedian, and serial entrepreneur. He is also an outspoken activist and one of the most popular science educators on the planet. He joins Andy Richter this week to discuss his passion for science, the early days of YouTube, turning down Hollywood, maintaining an allegiance to truth, writing a book inspired by his cancer journey, and much more. Do you want to talk to Andy live on SiriusXM’s Conan O’Brien Radio? Tell us your favorite dinner party story - leave a voicemail at 855-266-2604 or fill out our Google Form at BIT.LY/CALLANDYRICHTER. Listen to "The Andy Richter Call-In Show" every Wednesday at 1pm Pacific on SiriusXM's Conan O'Brien Channel.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the three questions. I am your host, Andy Richter, and today I am talking to Hank Green.
0:07.5	Hank is a YouTube creator, New York Times bestselling author, comedian, educator, and entrepreneur.
0:14.0	If you ask me, it's too much. He does too much. He was an early adopter of YouTube with his brother John,
0:22.3	creating the Vlog Brothers channel in 2007 and the Crash Course channel in 2012 amassing billions of views. With his brother
0:29.9	John, he also founded VidCon, the world's largest conference about online videos. His comedy
0:36.6	special, Pissing Out Cancer, is available now on the
0:40.3	Dropout streaming service, and you can find his books at Hankgreen.com or wherever you get books.
0:46.3	Just don't buy them on the street. Here's my conversation with Hank Green.
1:04.8	All right. Well, here we go.
1:06.2	All right. Well, here we go.
1:12.3	Born William Henry Green the second on May 5th, 1980 in Birmingham, Alabama.
1:12.9	Birmingham.
1:13.9	Birmingham.
1:15.6	Look, I'm not a good reader.
1:18.5	And then raised in Orlando, Florida.
1:19.0	Orlando.
1:19.9	Wow.
1:21.9	Speaking of Shaq, we were just talking about Shaq.
1:22.5	Yeah, yeah.
1:27.2	He was, like, I was living in Orlando when Shaq started with the magic.
1:44.2	How long did you live in Orlando for? My entire childhood. So I left to go to college. Oh, to go to college. Oh, okay. Yeah. And what, why Birmingham to Orlando? Oh, that was not, I mean, obviously not my choice. Right. I was, I don't know. I was simply born there.
1:50.2	I think that I think, if I'm remembering the story correctly, my mom just like they went to Birmingham because that's where my mom's family was to have the baby.
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