Dear Hank & John

Dear Hank & John is a podcast hosted by the Green brothers: musician and YouTube entrepreneur Hank Green and young-adult novelist and film producer, John Green. The podcast is produced and edited by Nicholas Jenkins with additional help from Rosianna Halse Rojas. First released in June 2015, Hank and John Green answer questions e-mailed by listeners, give "dubious" advice and talk about the weekly news for the planet Mars and the 3rd tier English football club AFC Wimbledon. Episodes are typically around 45 minutes in length. Upon the podcast's debut, it reached the number 4 position on the US iTunes performance chart and hit a peak position of number 2 two days later. Dear Hank & John has also been charted on iTunes in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Canada, Spain, Australia and Brazil. The podcast is primarily funded through the crowdfunding website Patreon.
The podcast follows a general format which starts with John reading a short poem. The main portion of the show then has the brothers offering comedic advice to questions received from listeners. Usually, at some point in the question segment, the brothers 'plug' various 'sponsors' of the show in a humorous manner that references topics from that week. The show then moves to the news segment, with Hank delivering the news about Mars and John the news about the AFC Wimbledon football club. Finally, the brothers discuss 'what they learned today', before reading the credits at the show's close. The brothers' schedule has sometimes led them to miss several episodes (notably for John during the summer of 2015 due to the Paper Towns publicity tour, and for Hank in late 2016 for his paternity leave); various friends of the brothers have filled in for each missing host on those occasions.
In March 2017, a 'bonus' supplemental podcast, titled This Week in Ryans, started to become available for those who support the podcast on Patreon at the $5/month level or higher. In each episode, a person or thing named Ryan is selected to be discussed and analyzed by the hosts in a short segment.
An exclusive Dear Hank & John episode has been made as a perk for the annual Project for Awesome fundraising campaign each year since 2015.
Dear Hank and John introduced a "phrase of the week" to the podcast with their 108th episode. This consists of a game played by the Green brothers in which both parties have a phrase only known to themselves, chosen before the podcast, that they must slip in during the duration of the recording without the other brother noticing. At the end of the podcast each brother gets one guess at the other brother's "phrase of the week"; if guessed right, that brother becomes the winner for that episode.
== Live Performances ==
On John's book tour for Turtles All the Way Down (October 10 - November 2, 2017) the Green brothers put on about a two hour long performance filled with monologues, silly songs, and a live version of Dear Hank & John. This live production of their podcast included taking real questions from real Nerdfighters who were in attendance in the audience at that particular stop of the tour. Segments that were recorded across the tour were later edited into a single podcast, and released as its 114th episode.
== Platforms ==
Dear Hank and John is available to listeners on a multitude of platforms. Most commonly streamed on iTunes the podcast also has thousands of "views" on the Dear Hank and John YouTube page where they upload episodes several days after the initial release on iTunes. The podcast has also been released on the audio websites like SoundCloud, PodBay.fm, and many other podcast related websites.
== List of Episodes ==
Episode No.	Original Release Date	Episode Title 	Notes
1 	7 Jun 2015 	The Debut: Do You Pee on Your Own Head? 	
2 	16 Jun 2015 	It's a Humour Podcast! 	
3 	23 Jun 2015 	Pain Demands to be Felt. 	
4 	30 Jun 2015 	What's in a Name? 	
5 	7 Jul 2015 	Should I Lie to Get a Job?* 	Guest: Maureen Johnson
6 	15 Jul 2015 	Would You Eat a Moon Sandwich?* 	Guest: Emma Blackery
7 	22 Jul 2015 	What to do about Stomach Farts?* 	Guests: Charlie McDonnell and Jimmy Hill
8 	29 Jul 2015 	Dear Hank and Grace!* 	Guest: Grace Helbig
9 	5 Aug 2015 	Dear Hank and Felicia* 	Guest: Felicia Day
10 	12 Aug 2015 	When Your Friend Likes Ayn Rand... 	
11 	18 Aug 2015 	How do you "Make Something of Yourself"? 	
12 	25 Aug 2015 	Tree Climbing Strategies 	
13 	1 Sep 2015 	John and Hank and Wheezy Waiter! 	Guest: Craig Benzine
14 	9 Sep 2015 	Jurassic Mars 	
15 	15 Sep 2015 	Get That in Your Mouth! 	
16 	22 Sep 2015 	Handling Awful Roomates(sic) 	
17 	29 Sep 2015 	Meeting Taylor Swift('s parents) 	
18 	7 Oct 2015 	Coming to Terms with your Nerdiness 	
19 	12 Oct 2015 	Should I Abandon My Stuffed Animal? 	
20 	20 Oct 2015 	This Episode Contains Puke 	
21 	27 Oct 2015 	Who Am I? 	
22 	2 Nov 2015 	Post-Menopausal Cousin Marriage 	
23 	10 Nov 2015 	OH MY GOD IT'S BURNING 	
24 	18 Nov 2015 	The Great Finger Licking Debate 	
25 	24 Nov 2015 	LIVE IN NEW YORK it's NARS MEWS 	
26 	2 Dec 2015 	Should I Make Out With My Roommate? 	
27 	8 Dec 2015 	Giving Gifts Without Breaking the Bank 	
28 	15 Dec 2015 	John's Top Ten Probable Apocalypse List 	
29 	22 Dec 2015 	Barbershop Genghis 	
30 	12 Jan 2016 	Ending the Hiaaeetus! 	
31 	19 Jan 2016 	Breakin' the Law (and Being Good.) 	
32 	27 Jan 2016 	Broccoli Flavoured Chocolate 	
33 	4 Feb 2016 	Putting Water in Cereal!?! 	
34 	9 Feb 2016 	YouTube Freaky Friday 	
35 	17 Feb 2016 	Should I Get Baptized if I Don't Believe? 	
36 	23 Feb 2016 	Grief is Super Weird 	
37 	2 Mar 2016 	The Floridiest Place 	
38 	8 Mar 2016 	The Smelling in Your Dwelling 	
39 	16 Mar 2016 	Feelings are Alright* 	Guest: Katherine Green
40 	22 Mar 2016 	Almost Distressingly Good Advice 	
41 	29 Mar 2016 	In the Absence of Toes 	
42 	6 Apr 2016 	Mayonnaise Malaise 	
43 	12 Apr 2016 	Gotta Be Kitten 	
44 	20 Apr 2016 	A Life Sandwich 	
45 	25 Apr 2016 	Not Knowing 	
46 	2 May 2016 	Brotherhood 3.0 	
47 	17 May 2016 	You're Gonna Be Okay 	
48 	24 May 2016 	Pizza John Priorities 	
49 	31 May 2016 	Not Not An Adult† 	Guest: Sydney Green
50 	8 Jun 2016 	Things Are Like Other Things 	
51 	14 Jun 2016 	Weird/Bad Dancefighting 	
52 	20 Jun 2016 	We are in this together. 	
53 	29 Jun 2016 	The Worst Episode Ever 	
54 	6 Jul 2016 	Nerd Punk 	
55 	26 Jul 2016 	A Proper Dumpster Fire 	
56 	1 Aug 2016 	Is It Going to Throw Up? 	
57 	8 Aug 2016 	Og Nomekop 	
58 	16 Aug 2016 	That's the Science (w/ Flula!)* 	Guest: Flula Borg
59 	22 Aug 2016 	Hank's Disaster Preparedness Plan 	
60 	29 Aug 2016 	There is Almost Always a Future 	
61 	6 Sep 2016 	Tiny Acts of Kindness 	
62 	13 Sep 2016 	Pumpkins and Penguins (and Fiddles) 	
63 	20 Sep 2016 	World Queen 	
64 	26 Sep 2016 	Really Terrible Scandinavian Geography Lessons 	
65 	3 Oct 2016 	But... You're a Horse 	
66 	17 Oct 2016 	A Great Bit of Oratory 	
67 	24 Oct 2016 	Feeling Home 	
68 	1 Nov 2016 	Gaga in Space (w/ Tyler Oakley!)† 	Guest: Tyler Oakley
69 	7 Nov 2016 	Live from NerdCon: Stories (w/ Karen Hallion!)† 	Guest: Karen Hallion
70 	23 Nov 2016 	The Rhythmic Thud of the Space Bar (w/ Ashley Ford!)† 	Guest: Ashley Ford
71 	5 Dec 2016 	Only Pause for Applause (w/ Hannah Hart!)† 	Guest: Hannah Hart
72 	12 Dec 2016 	Planet Dirt (Hank Returns!) 	
73 	19 Dec 2016 	Planes, Trains, and Automosqueals 	
74 	28 Dec 2016 	The Kindness Muscle 	
75 	3 Jan 2017 	The Nutrient Coconut Milk of Sin (w/ Katherine Green!)*	Guest: Katherine Green
76 	9 Jan 2017 	Best of Dear Hank & John 	
77 	16 Jan 2017 	Save Us, Giant Octopus 	
78 	23 Jan 2017 	Being Sure 	
79 	30 Jan 2017 	Tiny Useless Pelvises (That Are Still There) 	
80 	8 Feb 2017 	Life is Hard and Also Has Good Things 	
81 	13 Feb 2017 	Always Making Progress Forever 	
82 	20 Feb 2017 	Where There Was Previously Nothing 	
83 	6 Mar 2017 	There's No Rock and Roll on Mars 	
84 	13 Mar 2017 	Live from NerdCon: Nerdfighteria! 	
85 	20 Mar 2017 	Stay Gold, Potaterson 	
86 	27 Mar 2017 	This Week in Ryans 	
87 	3 Apr 2017 	The Future is Gonna Rule 	
88 	10 Apr 2017 	Hank's Profound Graduation Speech 	
89 	24 Apr 2017 	A Rich Guy with an Affinity for Bats 	
90 	2 May 2017 	Glitter Soul 	
91 	8 May 2017 	Everything is Everything (w/ Mayim Bialik!)* 	Guest: Mayim Bialik
92 	15 May 2017 	Cewebrity 	
93 	22 May 2017 	Nothing Fits on a Bumper Sticker 	
94 	29 May 2017 	Pocket Conspiracy Theories (w/ Matthew Gaydos!)* 	Guest: Matthew Gaydos
Special 	3 June 2017 	Special Shorty with Travis McElroy* 	Guest: Travis McElroy
95 	5 June 2017 	Lawn Care Vigilantism 	
96 	12 June 2017 	Next Level Laziness 	
97 	19 June 2017 	Lemon Salty Whales 	
98 	26 June 2017 	An Army of Burrito Children (w/ Dodie Clark!)* 	Guest: Dodie Clark
99 	3 July 2017 	A Fusing of the Hair 	
100 	24 July 2017 	100th Episode Extravaganza Spectacular!!! 	
101 	31 July 2017 	Knit like a Mofo 	
102 	7 Aug 2017 	The Friend Bucket 	
103 	14 Aug 2017 	There Are No Boxes (w/ Gaby Dunn!)* 	Guest: Gaby Dunn
104 	21 Aug 2017 	Dove Quivering 	
105 	28 Aug 2017 	Fancy Diving 	
106 	5 Sept 2017 	Cannibal Mermaids 	
107 	11 Sept 2017 	skREvEL! 	
108 	18 Sept 2017 	We Would All Be Flounders 	
109 	25 Sept 2017 	The Catastrophizing Kindergarten Teacher 	
110 	2 Oct 2017 	One and Less Extra Bone 	
111 	9 Oct 2017 	Omagles All the Way Down 	
112 	24 Oct 2017 	Toaster Is a Wolf to Dog 	
113 	30 Oct 2017 	Aardvarks with Guns 	
114 	6 Nov 2017 	Confused About Batman 	
115 	13 Nov 2017 	Semi-Immortal 35-Year-Olds on Mars 	
116 	20 Nov 2017 	Do Not Enter the Craft Fort! (w/ Caitlin Hofmeister!)* 	Guest: Caitlin Hofmeister
117 	27 Nov 2017 	Lightsaber Your Tiny House* 	Guest: Katherine Green
118 	4 Dec 2017 	Heavy Baby Bib! (w/ Alex Goldman!)* 	Guest: Alex Goldman
119 	12 Dec 2017 	Water Is Dry (w/ Greg Miller!)* 	Guest: Greg Miller
Special 	16 Dec 2017 	Special Shorty: It's Project for Awesome Time 	
120 	18 Dec 2017 	Snake Cuddle Time 	
121 	25 Dec 2017 	Every Plum Has Its Thorn 	
122 	8 Jan 2018 	The Last Brand Deal 	
123 	15 Jan 2018 	The Incredible Glamorous Hulk 	
124 	23 Jan 2018 	Liars and Litterers and Thieves 	
125 	29 Jan 2018 	Book Hangovers (w/ Sarah Urist Green!)† 	Guest: Sarah Urist Green
*indicates John Green is absent for the episode; †indicates Hank Green is absent for the episode
==See also==
*My Brother, My Brother and Me
*Hello Internet
== References ==
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