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Orin Green

child · in 86 videos (2016–2026)

Hank and Katherine's son, born over the weekend of 30 October 2016. Hank follows him from a two-year-old travel companion to a nine-year-old who loves Open Sauce, and says the world is better for having him in it.

Child of: Hank Green, Katherine Green

Videos by year: 2016: 7 · 2017: 7 · 2018: 9 · 2019: 7 · 2020: 5 · 2021: 7 · 2022: 13 · 2023: 11 · 2024: 5 · 2025: 6 · 2026: 9

Also known as: Orin

Threads

Also named in the threads: SciShow Kids: launch of the science channel for young kids (2015) · 2016 US presidential election · Hank's paternity leave from vlogbrothers, with guest hosts standing in (2016) · Hank: content platforms will be seen as as significant a shift as the printing press (2021) · Awesome Coffee Club: the brothers' coffee subscription for charity (2022) · Pizzamas 2022 edition · John asks viewers to buy Pizzamas 2022 merch at pizzamas.com before Pizzamas ends (2022) · Hank's Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis and chemotherapy (2023) · Quadragocon 2025 edition: the brothers' fourteen-event competition, ten years after the first · Hank: do two Banana Loca rolls when he gets back to the P4A 2026 livestream (2026)

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

Katherine Green (23) · DFTBA Pin Pals (2) · Bizarre Beasts (3) · Crash Course coin (4) · Journey to the Microcosmos (3) · Focus Friend (2) · United States presidential election (4) · hankschannel (4) · Awesome Socks Club (4) · DFTBA Records (7)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2016

  • 2016-08-03 · Lives Made of Love - Esther Day 2016 — Hank says he knows he is inside a life-changing moment right now because he is going to have a baby. — 00:01:21
  • 2016-08-26 · I'm Just Going to Talk for Four Minutes — Hank says that, having only alluded to it on this channel, he is having a child with Katherine in October, so he is on a travel moratorium. — 00:03:14
  • 2016-11-01 · BABY! BABY! BABY! (And the 10th Annual Project for Awesome) — John announces Hank is a dad: Katherine had a baby boy, Orin, over the weekend (30 October 2016); he is adorable and John is very happy. — 00:00:00
  • 2016-11-09 · My Post-Election Thoughts — John says his nephew Orin was born ten days ago (30 October 2016); his parents bringing him into the world was an act of hope, which heartens John and was not misguided. — 00:02:42
    • John says Orin was born into a better America than his grandparents', made better by people whose hope, from Alabama restaurant counters to Normandy's beaches, held the line in far darker times. — 00:02:53
  • 2016-11-29 · Baby Poop Rookie: Vlogbrothers Reunited — Hank: Asked how Orin is, Hank says he is a good, very cute baby; he may have smiled at Hank that morning, or may just have been pooping. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:20
    • Hank: Asked the most surprising thing about having a baby, Hank says the noise of the poops; on Orin's first day home he pooped with his diaper off and Hank tried to catch it by hand. (playful) — 00:01:22
  • 2016-12-23 · 41 Dad Jokes in 4 Minutes! (with special guest star...) — Hank tells John he is back on the channel and is now officially a dad. — 00:00:00
    • Hank's first dad joke of dadhood: changing his son's diaper, he asked what to change him into, 'a rhinoceros?', got peed on, and loves being officially a dad. (playful) — 00:03:36
  • 2016-12-27 · The Best of My 2016 — John's third memory: meeting baby Orin in Montana; there is nothing like the pride and happiness of seeing his baby brother be such a committed, loving father. — 00:02:01
    • John tells Hank that, visiting him, Katherine and Orin in Montana, he thought Hank had found the thing he is best at. — 00:02:15

2017

  • 2017-03-31 · No Cut Confessional: Priorities — Hank says there is now a baby: for the rest of his life his child will be his prime obligation, which is new for him. — 00:03:13
  • 2017-05-19 · Should I Have a Baby? — Hank says that after six months of parenthood his pros and cons list turned out to be wrong. — 00:00:50
    • Hank says puking, pooping, waking at night and never sleeping normally again are not the worst parts but surprisingly easy; he sometimes even likes being excessively needed. — 00:00:58
    • Sixth, unexpectedly, Hank loves to look at his son, so much that he shows him to people, sorry they can't stare at him all the time. — 00:02:36
  • 2017-07-07 · My Earthquake Story - (And Thoughts About Numbers) — Hank and Katherine still freaked out and ran to the baby's room, only to watch him sleep, since it was over by the time they got there. (playful) — 00:00:14
  • 2017-12-01 · Let's Talk About Stress! — Hank: After sending a bunch of emails Hank had dealt with it, was no longer stressed and could play with his baby and be happy. — 00:02:53
  • 2017-12-08 · I Have (a little bit) HAD IT! — Hank says everything in his personal and professional life is good: he is excited for PodCon, Project for Awesome is coming and his baby is very cute; the rest of the world is the problem. — 00:00:41
  • 2017-12-12 · 2017 is the Best? — John: Fourth, babies: they are amazing, and in 2017 a particularly amazing baby named Orin learned to crawl. (playful) — 00:01:38
  • …and 3 statements more in 2017 — all statements of 2017

2018

  • 2018-03-09 · John's Best Gift to Me — Hank is in Portland, Oregon with his wife and child to see probably his 12th They Might Be Giants show. (hedged) — 00:02:05
  • 2018-04-06 · How to Stop Being Late Forever (advice for myself and other chronically late people) — Hank: His lateness has worsened with the book's deadlines, meetings and signing, and since Orin was born he has had to apply better the strategies built over 20 years of chronic lateness. — 00:00:46
  • 2018-05-18 · Laurel or Yanny and Baby Dance Moves - It's Question Friday — Hank: Asked by Amanda whether he has watched the Orin butt wiggle video today, Hank says he watched it yesterday, but he also has the real thing. (playful) — 00:00:57
    • After many requests to dance, Hank says his baby has a bunch of dance moves and performs his current favorite, which he calls finger guns. (playful) — 00:03:19
  • 2018-08-03 · How Do Adults Make Friends? — Hank's cute Orin story: in the morning Orin says 'Papa Da Nana', meaning pick me up, take me downstairs and feed me a banana. — 00:00:41
  • 2018-10-30 · Watch My Dumb Dancing — Hank's son just turned two. — 00:03:14
  • 2018-11-23 · Four Jokes from a Two year Old — Hank recalls being excited, after having a baby a couple of years ago, to officially tell dad jokes; now Orin, barely two, is telling jokes himself. — 00:00:00
    • Orin has told only four jokes, and Hank shares every one of them in order. (playful) — 00:00:00
    • Of Orin's first joke, 'Mama. Dada.', Hank says he finds it funny too, and for the same reason Orin does. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:44
    • Joke two, 'Blue. Baby.': grasping adjectives, Orin applies them to things they don't fit and finds it funny, with variants like 'blue moon' and 'police bus'. — 00:00:44
  • 2018-12-28 · The Cutest Thing My Son Has Done and More (With Katherine) — Katherine Green: Katherine's cutest Orin moment: left in his crib after a nap with a book, he put his hippo lovey on his lap and said 'Hippo, read a book.' — 00:02:36
    • Katherine Green: Asked how nervous they are for when their child starts watching YouTube, the answer is: very. — 00:03:16
  • …and 4 statements more in 2018 — all statements of 2018

Also named in: Intentionally Ignorant: Does Free Will Exist?

2019

2020

  • 2020-01-14 · Foolish · Beautiful — Hank: The best advice Hank has had from his kid: sometimes Orin says 'Feel happy.' — 00:02:04
  • 2020-03-17 · together. — recommendation: John praises Hank's Twitch streams playing Stardew Valley with his son, which John's kids have loved. — 00:02:26
  • 2020-05-08 · The years start coming and they don't stop coming! — Hank: Orin made Hank a rock sculpture of a ladybug on a leaf and a card with a spiral, which Hank thinks John would appreciate. — 00:03:26
  • 2020-08-14 · Hit The Ground Running — announcement: Hank: SciShow Kids, Orin's favorite YouTube show, is coming back: its hundreds of episodes are now at youtube.com/scishowkids, and new ones start going live on Monday (17 August 2020). — 00:03:19
  • 2020-10-30 · Four Years Ago — Hank: Four years ago today Hank was in the hospital, tired, a little anxious and very happy to have a healthy baby boy and a healthy wife who was now a mom. — 00:00:00
    • Orin was around the 90th percentile in weight but 50th in head circumference, which worried Hank into much googling; within three days his head, squished by birth, was normal. — 00:00:29
    • Like Orin's head size, the laptop story had little data: the story was really our anxiety, and worry about the worry was legitimate, since it could lead people to faulty judgments lived with for years. — 00:01:56
    • Among the useful searches, Hank asked how to know when a baby is done pooping, because he took the diaper off before Orin was done. (playful) — 00:01:56
    • One search was simply 'Orin', Katherine's granddad's name: they had not yet named their son and were searching baby names. — 00:02:36
    • Hank says the world is better for having his son in it, and better for having his worry in it: worry for his son's and everyone else's health and happiness. — 00:03:05
  • …and 1 statement more in 2020 — all statements of 2020

2021

  • 2021-02-26 · Arbitrary but Useful — Hank's son Orin, bouncing on the couch singing the alphabet song, as usual swapped K and J, as he has since learning it almost two years ago. — 00:00:00
    • Hank first thought the order doesn't matter, since there is no good reason for alphabetical order, then decided it is arbitrary but there is a reason for it to be a way: Orin will need to look things up alphabetically. — 00:00:23
    • At two, Orin called himself 'you' ('you are thirsty'), which made sense since everyone called him you; one day, without anyone noticing, he switched to 'I'. — 00:00:44
  • 2021-03-19 · How Will Post Pandemic Behavior Change? — Hank: Among things Hank wants back that will definitely happen is hugging people other than his wife and son. — 00:01:00
  • 2021-05-07 · Are We The Same Person? — Hank shares his identity with John, his parents, his wife and his son, and often imagines himself as more than one person, which he thinks reflects what humans really are. — 00:03:42
  • 2021-09-03 · What the Heck am I doing? — In a comment Hank says Orin's pre-K class has seven students, everyone is masked all day, and he is still nervous, though COVID is very rarely dangerous for kids. — creator comment
    • It is Orin's first week of pre-K, which is cute, sad and scary. — 00:02:39
  • 2021-10-15 · What is Pizzamas? ...and a New Friend — Hank introduces his new cat, still unnamed because a four-year-old is involved; for now he is Kitty, and he has tried on many names. — 00:02:53
    • Hank already loves the kitten; viewers don't get to vote on the name, which is up to Orin. — 00:03:22
  • 2021-10-19 · Cat Names: The Authoritative Guide — John says Hank has just acquired possibly the cutest kitten John has ever seen, and what remains is the fraught work of naming it. — 00:00:00
    • John says Hank's kid's suggestions Kirker, Cacker and Giburker are excellent cat names: unique, and capturing the cuteness of both cat and namer. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2021-10-22 · A Tool with No Blood on It — Hank: In a P.S., Hank says his cat is named Gummy Bear, Orin's decision, cute for a cute bouncy cat; secretly he likes it because Geberker remains a good nickname he still uses. (playful) — 00:03:18
  • …and 1 statement more in 2021 — all statements of 2021

2022

  • 2022-01-07 · For Our 2000th Video: Just a Normal Snowy Day — Hank: A massive snowfall cancelled Orin's school, so Hank's plans went out the window and the 2,000th video is a compilation of clips with his voiceover, one of the faster ways to make a video. — 00:00:00
  • 2022-03-18 · How to Fix Daylight Saving Time — Hank was frustrated this week (week of 14 March 2022) by the clock change: putting his son to bed an hour before the boy thought it was bedtime, and hearing he wasn't sleepy. — 00:00:00
  • 2022-04-01 · I Don't Have a Good Title for This Video. — Hank: Last week (week of 21 March 2022) Hank went on vacation to Seattle, his first real vacation in a long time and Oren's first ever; a favorite part was watching ships come and go in the port. — 00:00:00
  • 2022-04-22 · My Life is on My Walls — Hank shows the X-wing he and Katherine built during the long video at whose end they announced they were having a baby. — 00:00:58
  • 2022-06-10 · My Embarrassing Dermatology Story — Hank says this happens often: yesterday, at a coffee shop with Orin on his first day of summer vacation, two people thanked him for Crash Course, one about to start nursing school. — 00:00:29
  • 2022-07-19 · Why Do Things Exist? — John: Not knowing is weird but exciting: the biggest questions are still waiting to be answered, and Orin is one of the people exploring them. — 00:03:09
    • We are made of the universe, participants in it rather than observers; that is why Orin's question is beautiful: he is the universe trying to understand itself. — 00:03:24
    • In a P.S. John jokes it is probably illegal to market to Orin, who doesn't drink coffee anyway, and points viewers to AwesomeCoffeeClub.com, their new coffee subscription. (playful) — 00:03:40
  • 2022-08-03 · Why is it So Hard to Say 'I Love You'? — Hank notes it is harder to say 'I love you' to John than to Mom, Katherine or Orin, and that it is very hard to say why we do or feel anything. — 00:00:00
  • 2022-08-12 · The Biggest Climate Bill of Your Life - But What does it DO!? — Hank thanks the thousands of viewers who worked on the bill, also on behalf of his son, whose future he wants powered by clean energy. — 00:21:50
  • 2022-09-16 · Here's Why Younger People are Getting Shingles — Hank says that in effect he may have gotten shingles so that his son doesn't have to. (playful, hedged) — 00:03:13
  • 2022-10-05 · Asking an AI Image Generator for Pizza Johns — ask: Hank, showing a Pizzamas item that Orin calls the tiniest statue in the world, says the world needs more access to health care, as in Sierra Leone, where all Pizzamas proceeds go, and the item is available only for a couple more days. — 00:00:00
  • …and 6 statements more in 2022 — all statements of 2022

Also named in: Utter Chippy Butty Chaos, The Wildest Way it Could Possibly Have Gone - Our 16 Year Anniversary

2023

  • 2023-01-06 · After 12 hours in LA I'm a stand-up comic doing ASMR with a side gig as a music promoter — Hank says he did not fall while ice skating but dove in front of Orin to make him laugh, hurting his knee; that is why he is now squatting. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2023-05-05 · New Office Tour!! — Hank: Near the entrance is a little drum cave where Hank and Orin can play the drums. — 00:01:24
  • 2023-06-02 (said on 2023-06-01, implied) · Chemo is Weird, Y'all — Hank told his son Orin about the hair loss; Orin asked when it grows back and was fine on hearing it will, eventually. — 00:03:39
  • 2023-06-27 · Alone on the Cancer Boat: A Vlogbrothers Reunion — John: At VidCon John's children jumped into a deep Squishmallow pit; told he had to jump too to get one for their cousin Orin, John did. (playful) — 00:07:34
  • 2023-07-07 · What to Get for a Cancer Patient — Hank says he treats everything in his life as a project, including his relationships with his son, his wife and his brother: things to invest in and schedule. — 00:05:36
  • 2023-08-03 · I love you, Hank. Happy Esther Day. — John says the summer sucked massively, but he has seen up close how much love matters: from colleagues at DFTBA and Complexly, Hank's spouse and kid, family and friends. — 00:04:18
  • 2023-08-11 · It's About a YouTuber with Cancer — Hank likens Puss's accidental family (love interest Kitty Softpaws, an adopted chihuahua son) to his own: his romantic interest Katherine and his very cute six-year-old son. (playful) — 00:02:16
  • 2023-09-22 · A Feeling I've Never Felt Before — Hank tells how Orin was playing with bigger kids, there was some falling down and one of them squished his head; Orin popped up running and crying, and Hank knew at once he felt the instant, very bad ice-cream-headache feeling of hard pressure on the head. — 00:00:10
    • Hank says at two Orin got new feelings all the time (bubble water, spicy food, dizziness), but at six new sensations come less often and unpleasant ones are surprising and scary. — 00:00:36
  • 2023-10-20 · My 'Injury' — Hank says this morning, watching an old Vlogbrothers video with him, his son Orin said that was Dada before his injury, and Hank did not know what to say. — 00:00:00
    • Hank says that to Orin it made sense: while Hank was ill Daddy couldn't do much, parts of him hurt badly and he couldn't pick him up or wrestle; they called it cancer without explaining what cancer was. — 00:00:13
  • 2023-12-24 · John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated — Hank: On paternity leave with his son Orin, Hank says the most surprising thing about having a baby is the noise of the poops. — 01:06:29
  • …and 1 statement more in 2023 — all statements of 2023

Also named in: The P4A 2023 is The Hottest Club on the Internet

2024

  • 2024-04-26 · One Year Out. — Hank: This year's (2024) parade just happened around Earth Day; Hank had convinced himself he couldn't go, but Orin wanted him there, so he went: the second-worst parade, with lovely moments, and he's glad. — 00:00:44
  • 2024-06-21 · I Was So Sad that I Did Comedy — Hank: That day Hank wrote letters, recorded bedtime stories he tells Orin and made sure Katherine had his passwords; handling practicalities was more comfortable than staring into the abyss. — 00:00:29
  • 2024-11-13 · Some New Things… — Hank says his son Orin has been home sick for three days, with a real fever and now chest inflammation. — 00:29:29
  • 2024-11-22 · Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment — Hank argues his eight-year-old son, probably alive in 2100, will have a historically weird life in a world fractured by circumstances unseen for more than 500 years. — 00:00:29

Also named in: Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg

2025

  • 2025-02-28 · We Will Eradicate Measles — Hank says he need not worry about Orin getting measles, since he is a healthy kid who has had both doses. — 00:05:02
  • 2025-05-30 · My Rare 'Disorder' — Hank says that then he had a child: beyond infancy, kids wake early and their activities, especially school, run on a rigid schedule. — 00:04:31
    • Hank says his son's school can't start later for him and that is no reason not to try to solve the problem; it is just a part of his life harder than average, as everyone has, and not that hard. — 00:07:09
  • 2025-08-05 · ONE TAKE JOHNNY — Hank says Orin turned the trampoline net into a catapult and launched a wet tennis ball into Hank's chin from about 10 feet; his chin is sore and slightly swollen. (playful) — 00:00:53
    • Hank says John started the Quadragocon strong and he thinks John will win the chess too, so Hank hopes to do well in the Orin curls, lifting his son. (hedged) — 00:15:36
  • 2025-08-29 · Does Anyone Else Have This? — Hank says graphic novels affect him similarly though less badly, making immersion more labor, and he is perplexed watching John parse poetry cleanly or Orin absorbed in a comic book. — 00:01:56
  • 2025-11-24 · Good Store Holiday Gift Guide LIVE with Hank and John — Hank says Orin broke his toe without crying, but cried later that week because he felt well enough to go back to school. — 00:46:15
  • …and 2 statements more in 2025 — all statements of 2025

2026

  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — Hank says his son Orin was very upset that the US is getting rid of the penny. — 00:33:09
    • Hank says he asked his son Orin on the way to school whether zero is a number: Orin thought it was, and then, asked to argue that it wasn't, he did. — 05:01:20
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — Hank and Orin do a Roll for Loca: a Twinkie whose filling Hank replaces with cottage cheese, maple syrup and peanut butter. — 01:55:50
    • Hank and Orin are on the third book of the second Warriors series; Hank's favorite cat is Brambleclaw, whom he understands as someone both ambitious and driven by values. (hedged) — 05:40:17
  • 2026-04-03 · I Had a Hallucination This Week — Hank: When Orin was little, Hank talked with him about three kinds of things: made by the universe (Mars, stars, mountains), by life (birds, pine cones, butterfly eggs) and by people (houses, TV shows, jokes). — 00:01:20
  • 2026-07-17 · The Terrors of Middle Age — Hank: Most importantly, his nine-year-old son loves Open Sauce; a dad's business trip is rarely something the child also wants to do. — 00:00:00
  • 2026-10-16 · Is Happiness the Goal? — Lee (quoted): Answering Hank's joke, the nerdfighter Lee wrote that Hank's joy can matter to him because it matters to Katherine, Orin, John or whomever else. — 00:02:16
    • This morning Orin brought Hank to the couch to rate silly faces he had drawn on a scale of 1 to 10. — 00:03:48
  • 2026-10-30 · The Last Normal Year — Hank recalls Pizzagate, and Donald Trump being elected president just days after Hank's son was born, which he found weird. — 00:01:30
  • …and 3 statements more in 2026 — all statements of 2026

Also named in: Project for Awesome 2026 part 3!