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Humans

by Hank Green
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  • Chris La Tray: We’re All Anishinaabe

    October 22, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min

    Chris La Tray is an Anishinaabe/Métis storyteller and Montana’s former poet laureate. He’s also a citizen of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indian. He and Hank talk about his memoir Becoming Little Shell, and what it’s like to realize…

  • Kal McRaven: You Have to Be So Delusional And Egotistical

    October 15, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

    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 homeschooling and evangelical Christian…

  • Jennifer Sciubba: The Weirdest Thing Ever to Happen to Humans

    October 8, 2026 · 1 hr 16 min

    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 flash: they are!). She and Hank talk…

  • Gianmarco Soresi Is Striving for Excellence

    October 1, 2026 · 59 min

    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 ruler is always changing, how he…

  • Tessa Violet Says There Will Be Joy — Probably

    September 24, 2026 · 54 min

    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 viral in Russian under dubious…

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  • Ted Dintersmith: Should We Teach Math Differently?

    September 17, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

    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 going to impact education, and Ted’s book…

  • T-Pain Doesn't Forget

    September 10, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min

    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 episode, T-Pain and Hank talk about the pain of…

  • Hannah Ritchie: The Future Is Not Bleak

    September 3, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min

    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 incremental change is good but not sexy, a…

  • Jerome Goddard: Welcome to the Bug Kingdom

    August 27, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min

    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, insect-borne illnesses, and tick saliva, but…

  • Sam Forstag Might Be My Congressman

    August 20, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

    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 with the two-party system, how the U.S…

  • Katie Mack: The Death of the Universe

    August 13, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

    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 end. Plus, Katie tells Hank that dark…

  • Maya Rupert: The Inauthenticity of Authenticity

    August 6, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

    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 two talk about Maya’s book, The Real…

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About the show

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.