Hank Green is a creator and science communicator who desperately wants us to realize how bizarre and special we are. Every week he has a conversation with one of the eight billion weirdos living on planet Earth.
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Kal McRaven: You Have to Be So Delusional And Egotistical
Oct 15, 2026
Kal McRaven, known as FunkyFrogBait, is a YouTuber with more than 3 million followers who makes video essays calling out some of the internet’s worst trends. They talk with Hank about their…
Jennifer Sciubba: The Weirdest Thing Ever to Happen to Humans
Oct 08, 2026
Jennifer Sciubba is a political demographer and the president and CEO of the Population Reference Bureau, so she’s a pretty good authority on what global data says about falling fertility rates (news…
Gianmarco Soresi Is Striving for Excellence
Oct 01, 2026
Comedian Gianmarco Soresi thinks the plot of Black Swan — the perfect performance followed by death — is a beautiful end to life. He talks with Hank about how comedy is like building a table when the…
Tessa Violet Says There Will Be Joy — Probably
Sep 24, 2026
Tessa Violet is a singer-songwriter and former YouTuber whose new album, There Will Be Joy, is a meditation on internal growth. Tessa and Hank talk about their long friendship, what it’s like to go…
Ted Dintersmith: Should We Teach Math Differently?
Sep 17, 2026
Ted Dintersmith is a Stanford engineering Ph.D., a successful venture capitalist, and now a committed math reformer. Hank and Ted talk about why questions are more important than answers, how AI is…
T-Pain Doesn't Forget
Sep 10, 2026
T-Pain is a Grammy-winning artist, songwriter, and music producer. These days he produces music while streaming live on Twitch so that people can see exactly how human his process is. On this…
Hannah Ritchie: The Future Is Not Bleak
Sep 03, 2026
Hannah Ritchie is a data scientist, author, and deputy editor of Our World in Data — and she's convinced the world is making more progress than the headlines show. Hannah and Hank talk about why…
Jerome Goddard: Welcome to the Bug Kingdom
Aug 27, 2026
Jerome Goddard is a medical entomologist, extension professor at Mississippi State University, fiction author, and now a TikTok star. Jerome and Hank cover things you’d expect: bug populations…
Sam Forstag Might Be My Congressman
Aug 20, 2026
Sam Forstag is a former smokejumper who’s running for Congress in Montana’s U.S. House District 1. He’s the Democratic candidate, but is he actually a Democrat? Hank and Sam break down what’s wrong…
Katie Mack: The Death of the Universe
Aug 13, 2026
Katie Mack is an astrophysicist who studies the end of the universe. Hank and Katie talk about the value of the Artemis II mission, how we can see the beginning of time, and when the universe may…
Maya Rupert: The Inauthenticity of Authenticity
Aug 06, 2026
Maya Rupert is a political strategist and social justice leader. She also served as the campaign manager for Julián Castro’s presidential campaign, and is Hank’s friend and political confidante! The…
Astronaut Reid Wiseman Thinks We're Going to Be OK
Jul 30, 2026
The commander of NASA’s Artemis II mission slid into Hank’s DMs on Instagram asking to talk. Their conversation covers what it’s like to leave Earth behind, why astronauts need to be active…
Vicky Holmes: Finding Humanity in Feral Cats
Jul 23, 2026
The original author of the Warrior Cats book series has contributed to over 70 books about feral felines, all while not liking cats. Hank and Vicky discuss following your “still, small voice of…
Andy Weir: Are We Technocrats Or Are We Humans?
Jul 16, 2026
The writer of The Martian and Project Hail Mary proudly calls himself a “Hank Green-ist.” Andy and Hank talk about why the present is always better than the past, the state of science fiction today…
Alexis Nikole Nelson: How Foraging Became Weird
Jul 09, 2026
Known to millions as the Black Forager, Alexis Nikole Nelson turned a lifetime of plant knowledge and a theater degree’s worth of showmanship into a social-media account that empowers followers to…
Jad Abumrad: The Space Between the Brains
Jul 02, 2026
The co-creator of Radiolab is as much a fan of Hank’s as Hank is of him. The two talk about Dolly Parton, how to close the gap between your taste and your ability, and why it’s essential that we…
Ze Frank: Get Uncomfortable
Jun 25, 2026
Ze Frank invented vlogging according to Hank. The creator of the YouTube series True Facts and The Show talks to Hank about getting ideas out into the world, why he prefers discomfort when making…
Helen Hunt: When the Universe Betrays You
Jun 18, 2026
Oscar-winner Helen Hunt calls out Hank for a video he made about her 20 years ago. They get into aging and Hollywood, why it’s moving to see people giving a shit, and how to be relentless. Helen also…
Puzzle-Maker Wyna Liu's Just a Little Mean
Jun 11, 2026
Wyna Liu is the maker of one of Hank's favorite games: Connections. In the New York Times game, players sort 16 words into four categories. Wyna and Hank geek out on what makes a great puzzle, why…
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John Green: We’re Not Merely a Catastrophe
Jun 04, 2026
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…
Welcome to Humans
May 14, 2026
Hank Green is a creator and science communicator who desperately wants us to realize how bizarre and special we are. Every week he has a conversation with one of the eight billion weirdos living on…
