John Green: We’re Not Merely a Catastrophe
6/4/20261 hr 21 min
John disapproves of his brother's new podcast entirely, but is happy to be here. They talk about why John's worried about Hank, why being in favor of humans is now counter-cultural, if John's seminary training might have helped the brothers' internet success, and what Mark Twain has to do with any of it. They have spent years talking publicly together — but not like this.
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First 90 secondsHank Green· Host0:00
This is Humans.
John Green· Guest0:01
Humans. Humans. Humans. Humans. Humans. Humans. Humans.
Hank Green· Host0:06
I'm Hank Green. My guest today is John Green, which on the one hand is maybe a strange way to begin this podcast because John Green is my brother. We have already spent a pretty significant portion of our lives talking to each other in public. We've made videos together for almost 20 years. We have a podcast together. We have built a lot of my life and a lot of his life in conversation with each other. But also, like, that is exactly why I wanted to start here, because this show is called Humans, and before I started going around asking other people who they are and what they think people are for and why it's so weird to be the thing that we are and how they make sense of being a person, I wanted to start with someone who has shaped how I think about all of that for literally my whole life. And also, I wanted to do this because we don't actually talk like this very often. We talk publicly a lot, but usually in ways where each of us brings our own thing. We answer questions, we tell stories, we do bits, we update each other on our lives. Someone once wrote about us that our YouTube channel, Vlogbrothers, was less a conversation than an extended form of parallel play. So this is a little different. This is me trying, kinda for the first time in quite this way, to sit down with John and really get into it. So for the first episode of Humans, I thought I should start with one of the people who helped make me