Jumping Pews
Dear Hank & John
Complexly
4.9 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Hank interviews John in the first episode of his new podcast, Humans! They talk about why John's worried about Hank, why being in favor of humans is now counter-cultural, how John's seminary training might have helped the brothers' internet success, and what Mark Twain has to do with any of it. You’ve heard them interact before — but not like this.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it is Hank. I'm sorry to have invaded the dear Hank and John feed for my own nefarious purposes here, but I have a little sample for you to listen to, a sample of a new podcast I'm doing, which is called Humans, in which I have conversations with interesting people about how weird and awful and wonderful it is to be a person. I've recorded about a dozen of these already, |
| 0:22.9 | and I've had conversations with authors and actors and astrophysicists. |
| 0:26.9 | The first three episodes are with John Green, who is my brother, |
| 0:30.2 | who you probably know about, Winelieu, |
| 0:32.6 | the editor of the New York Times Game Connections, |
| 0:35.4 | and third is our episode with Helen Hunt. |
| 0:39.0 | Yes, that Helen Hunt, |
| 0:44.3 | the Oscar-winning actress who has an IMDB credited every one of the last 50 years and who I had a huge crush on in high school. And then our fourth episode is probably going to be, I think, |
| 0:49.3 | with Zay Frank, the guy who basically invented vlogging and who inspired John and I to start the thing that we do now, |
| 0:57.0 | and also now makes the show True Facts with Zay Frank, which you may have seen, just absolutely hilarious anyway. |
| 1:02.0 | The overall conceit of the show is that it is good to take a little bit of time here and there to zoom out a little, |
| 1:08.0 | to understand that the thing that we are is very weird, certainly unique |
| 1:13.0 | in the history of the Earth, and also of the known universe. Being the kind of thing we are |
| 1:18.9 | is a weird thing that nothing has ever done before, so it's not surprising that we're not |
| 1:23.9 | always great at it. But in order to make it through, we're going to have to be careful, we're going to have to be thoughtful, we're going to have to think and listen. |
| 1:32.1 | So that's really what the idea is. |
| 1:34.1 | I'm just trying to talk to interesting people and extract from them ways in which humanity can survive. |
| 1:39.8 | New episodes come out every Thursday, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:43.6 | And now I will play for you a little |
| 1:45.1 | teaser of the first episode of humans with my brother John Green. I hear you talk a lot about |
| 1:52.0 | in favorable ways, like things lacking sentimentality. Like you wanted to write an unsentimental |
| 1:57.4 | cancer book. Yeah. But you're also very earnest. |
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