Dear Hank & John

Dear Hank & John
Dear Hank & John Podcast Cover Art
Presentation
Hosted by	Hank Green & John Green
Genre	Comedy
Language	English
Updates	Weekly
Production
Production	Nicholas Jenkins
Theme music composed by	Gunnarolla
Audio format	Podcast (via streaming or downloadable MP3)
No. of episodes	70
Publication
Debut	June 7, 2015
Website	'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 usually around 45 minutes in length however it varies for every episode.^[1][2] 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.^[3] The podcast is primarily funded through the crowdfunding website Patreon.^[4]

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.^[5] 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.

An exclusive Dear Hank & John episode was made as a perk for the annual Project for Awesome fundraising campaign^[6][7] and was released January 18, 2016. The fundraiser raised a total of $1,546,384.^[8]

List of Episodes^[1]

*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

1. 1 2 "Dear Hank & John by Hank Green and John Green on iTunes". iTunes. Retrieved 2016-04-22. 
2. ↑ "Vlogbrothers launch their own podcast". Boing Boing. 2015-06-19. Retrieved 2016-05-26. 
3. ↑ "iTunesCharts.net: 'Dear Hank & John' by Dear Hank & John (American Podcasts iTunes Chart)". www.itunescharts.net. Retrieved 2016-04-22. 
4. ↑ "Dear Hank and John is creating Dubious Advice | Patreon". Patreon. Retrieved 2016-04-22. 
5. ↑ Dear Hank and John (2016-01-20), Dear Hank and John 001 - The Debut: Do You Pee on Your Own Head?, retrieved 2016-04-22 
6. ↑ "The Project for Awesome 2015 kicks off today". Hypable. 2015-12-11. Retrieved 2016-05-26. 
7. ↑ "Annual 'Awesome' fundraiser on deck for John Green". Indianapolis Star. Retrieved 2016-05-26. 
8. ↑ "Project For Awesome 2015". projectforawesome.com. Retrieved 2016-05-26.