Jumping Pews

Hank Green· Host0:00

[gentle music] 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, and I've had conversations with authors and actors and astrophysicists. The first three episodes are with John Green, who is my brother, who you probably know about, Winna Lu, the editor of The New York Times game Connections, and third is our episode with Helen Hunt. Yes, that Helen Hunt, the Oscar-winning actress who has an IMDb credit in 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, with Ze Frank, the guy who basically invented vlogging and who inspired John and I to start the thing that we do now, and also now makes the show True Facts with Ze Frank, which you may have seen, which is absolutely hilarious. Anyway, 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, to understand that the thing that we are is very weird, certainly unique in the history of the Earth, and also of the known universe. Being the kind of thing we are is a weird thing that nothing has ever done before, so it's not surprising that we're not always great at it. But in order to make it through, we're gonna have to be careful, we're gonna have to be thoughtful, we're gonna have