All statements about The Anthropocene Reviewed (podcast)

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2017

2017-11-02 · Hank Reviews Everything — John: Reminded of his idea for a channel reviewing not things but ideas of things, John says he was going to call it The Anthropocene Reviewed. — 00:00:08
2017-11-02 · Hank Reviews Everything — announcement: Hank says he will do John's reviews idea in this video, a bunch of them. — 00:00:11

2018

2018-01-02 · BRING IT IN 2018 — announcement: John wants to make at least ten episodes in 2018 of a new podcast, The Anthropocene Reviewed, reviewing different aspects of the human-centered planet. — 00:01:05
2018-01-02 · BRING IT IN 2018 — John: The Anthropocene Reviewed began as a joke between Hank and John, but John has decided to actually do it. — 00:01:14
2018-01-02 · BRING IT IN 2018 — announcement: John: The first episode of The Anthropocene Reviewed reviews Canada geese and Diet Dr Pepper. — 00:01:18
2018-01-02 · BRING IT IN 2018 — announcement: John: The first episode of The Anthropocene Reviewed should be up by the end of January. (hedged) — 00:02:29
2018-01-02 · BRING IT IN 2018 — ask: John asks viewers for feedback on any of his ideas, since there is still time to change all of them. — 00:03:32
2018-01-30 · Hank, I Have Some Advice — announcement: John: The first episode of John's new podcast The Anthropocene Reviewed, reviewing facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale, is out now. — 00:02:41
2018-01-30 · Hank, I Have Some Advice — John: It has been really fun to work on something personal and a little weird; John hopes viewers like it. — 00:03:02
2018-04-24 · This Video is about Red Eyed Tree Frogs? — announcement: John's new podcast The Anthropocene Reviewed tries to look at the world this way; a new episode is out on Thursday, details in the doobly-doo. — 00:03:17
2018-08-14 · Question Tuesday: Secrets & Primes — John, who wrote half an episode of The Anthropocene Reviewed about it, calls pineapple pizza peak Anthropocene, for better and for worse. — 00:02:27
2018-08-14 · Question Tuesday: Secrets & Primes — John says he really loves making The Anthropocene Reviewed. — 00:02:33
2018-11-06 · Taking a Year Off — John says he started his podcast The Anthropocene Reviewed in an attempt to pay more sustained and careful attention. — 00:02:26
2018-11-13 · HAIRMERGENCY! — John says he has the same problem with burnout: he thinks he has time for another thing, such as a podcast reviewing facets of the human-centered planet, a book club or a new novel. — 00:01:05
2018-11-13 · HAIRMERGENCY! — recommendation: John thinks it helps to acknowledge feeling overwhelmed, prioritize the most important relationships and remember what matters, which is not whether The Anthropocene Reviewed comes out on time. (hedged) — 00:03:08
2018-12-07 · BABIES! The 2018 Project for Awesome is here… — announcement: John lists P4A perks, from the P4A commemorative coin and a poster to secret episodes of Dear Hank and John and The Anthropocene Reviewed. — 00:03:04

2019

2019-01-01 · How to Make Goals, Not Resolutions — John met his 2018 goal of ten episodes of his new podcast The Anthropocene Reviewed, making eleven; it was more work than imagined but more fun. — 00:01:40
2019-01-01 · How to Make Goals, Not Resolutions — John: The podcast has been good for forcing John's brain into quiet contemplation amid the loudness everywhere. — 00:01:56
2019-01-01 · How to Make Goals, Not Resolutions — announcement: John wants to write another 11 episodes of The Anthropocene Reviewed. — 00:03:12
2019-01-29 · Do You Believe in Miracles? — recommendation: John wrote a lot about Wimbledon and penalty shootouts in the latest episode of The Anthropocene Reviewed; a new episode comes out in two days. — 00:03:23
2019-02-19 · Battling Apathy and Searching for Meaning on Question Tuesday — announcement: John says Harvey is one of the subjects of the next Anthropocene Reviewed. — 00:01:27
2019-02-19 · Battling Apathy and Searching for Meaning on Question Tuesday — John: Asked for more frequent Anthropocene Reviewed episodes, John says it takes him an entire month to write one. — 00:01:27
2019-03-26 · Optimism and Spider People: Question Tuesday from the Looking for Alaska Set — announcement: John says Vulture named The Anthropocene Reviewed one of its favorite podcasts. — 00:00:58
2019-03-26 · Optimism and Spider People: Question Tuesday from the Looking for Alaska Set — John: Asked about writing a memoir, John says he sort of does, monthly, in The Anthropocene Reviewed. — 00:02:26
2019-04-16 · Doing Somethings — announcement: The description plugs John's podcast The Anthropocene Reviewed and says maybe someday they will do live shows to benefit Partners in Health. (hedged) — video description
2019-05-07 · How I Read and Why — John's reviewing happened at the beginning of the age of everyone reviewing everything, a wave he has ridden profitably if at times uncomfortably his whole adult life; his fascination with reviews led to his podcast The Anthropocene Reviewed. — 00:00:39
2019-06-11 · Why I Haven't Written a New Book — John started writing in a quieter, safer place: The Anthropocene Reviewed podcast, reviewing facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale, from scratch-and-sniff stickers to Taco Bell breakfast. — 00:02:28
2019-06-11 · Why I Haven't Written a New Book — John says books are quiet, interior experiences in a very loud world, as are his favorite podcasts, and thanks viewers for listening regardless of medium. — 00:03:27
2019-07-19 · In Which Hank Consumes the Juice of Over 400 Gushers — announcement: Hank: John will do The Anthropocene Reviewed and the brothers a live Dear Hank and John; Hank calls it a Minitour. — 00:03:01
2019-09-24 · I, Too, Dislike It — In a comment John says poetry, the Microcosmos and The Anthropocene Reviewed are the kind of projects they are trying to focus on. — creator comment
2019-10-30 · this is a video about pineapples. — John: Summarizing his Anthropocene Reviewed episode, John says pineapple pizza was invented in 1962 in Canada by a Greek immigrant inspired by Chinese cuisine to put a South American food on an Italian dish. — 00:00:29
2019-10-30 · this is a video about pineapples. — recommendation: John points to the Anthropocene Reviewed episode on pineapple on pizza, linked below. — 00:03:24
2019-12-03 · We Are Cats Now, I Guess? — announcement: John: A limited-edition signed vinyl of The Anthropocene Reviewed is also a P4A perk. — 00:01:26
2019-12-03 · We Are Cats Now, I Guess? — announcement: John says the brothers are going on tour in January, also for charity, with tickets linked; the description names St. Petersburg, Raleigh and Atlanta. — 00:03:54
2019-12-20 · Reading the First Chapter of A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor — ask: Hank invites viewers to see live Dear Hank and John, live Anthropocene Reviewed and other weirdnesses with John in St. Petersburg, Raleigh and Atlanta in early January; tickets are in the description. — 00:03:43
2019-12-27 · Why I'm Worried about 2020 — ask: Hank invites viewers in St. Petersburg, Atlanta or Raleigh to come to the brothers' little tour; more information is in the description. — 00:03:47

2020

2020-01-03 (said on 2020-01-02, implied) · Re-Thinking our YouTube Channel — ask: Hank invites viewers to come see the brothers in Atlanta, Raleigh or St. Petersburg next week (week of 6 January 2020). — 00:03:50
2020-01-07 · Endings · Beginnings — ask: John says he will be on tour with Hank in St. Petersburg, Atlanta and Raleigh this weekend and invites viewers; he thinks one show is sold out. — 00:02:02
2020-02-11 · 1,100 Days: A Mental and Physical Health Update — John thinks exercise has been good for his writing: he couldn't write The Anthropocene Reviewed without seeing the body-mind and consciousness-nature duality he had created as total BS. — 00:02:26
2020-02-14 · Ending The Great Airplane Seat Debate — ask: Hank invites viewers to come see Dear Hank and John live and The Anthropocene Reviewed live. — 00:03:33
2020-02-18 · wintry mix — John: For years John has wanted to review wintry mix for The Anthropocene Reviewed as a thoroughly Midwestern precipitation: practical, unlovely and unpretentious. — 00:01:13
2020-02-25 · A weird YouTube thing? — ask: John says he and Hank are coming on tour to Indianapolis, Columbus and Ann Arbor, hopes to see viewers there, and points to ticket links in the doobly-doo. — 00:00:00
2020-03-03 · Consciously Experiencing Human Dignity — ask: John: In a pinned comment John says he and Hank will be on tour next week (week of 9 March 2020) in Columbus, Indianapolis and Ann Arbor and hopes to see viewers there. — creator comment
2020-03-06 · I Did Not Get Leprosy! — ask: In a comment John invites viewers to come see him and Hank on tour next week (week of 9 March 2020) in Indianapolis, Columbus or Ann Arbor. — creator comment
2020-03-10 · A Strong but Fleeting Flavor: A Reunion Video — The description thanks everyone who has come out on this mini-tour. — video description
2020-03-10 · A Strong but Fleeting Flavor: A Reunion Video — John: Asked about writing poetry, the brothers joke that they write poetry all the time, besides SciShow Tangents, and podcasts like The Anthropocene Reviewed. (joke) — 00:01:30
2020-04-14 · books that help — recommendation: John loves Lulu Miller's Why Fish Don't Exist, also out today: what The Anthropocene Reviewed wants to be when it grows up, a personal search for meaning, history of taxonomy and life of David Starr Jordan. — 00:01:03
2020-05-26 · you'll never know — recommendation: John: In a pinned comment John recommends Kurzgesagt's lovely animation of part of The Anthropocene Reviewed. — creator comment
2020-08-18 · what's wrong with taking the back streets? — announcement: In a comment John says there will be a big-ish announcement about The Anthropocene Reviewed next week (week of 24 August 2020), so there has never been a better time to start listening. — creator comment
2020-08-18 · what's wrong with taking the back streets? — John: An Anthropocene Reviewed episode discusses the monumental circle drawings of Japanese artist Hiroyuki Doi, who began drawing after his brother's death because circles relieved his grief. — 00:00:29
2020-09-01 · get the show on — John: For two and a half years John has written the podcast The Anthropocene Reviewed, reviewing facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale, from a bacterium to Taco Bell breakfast. — 00:00:00
2020-09-01 · get the show on — announcement: In a comment John says the book is mostly podcast essays plus five to ten new reviews, with some podcast reviews substantially updated and revised, and small differences in scoring and pacing. — creator comment
2020-09-01 · get the show on — John says the podcast is really about hope and whether it is justified, people being wonderful and horrible, and humans being too powerful yet not powerful enough to reshape the climate beneficially. — 00:00:29
2020-09-01 · get the show on — John worries that makes it sound serious: he wants the essays to be funny and sometimes sad, and says he is very bad at talking about his own work. — 00:00:58
2020-09-01 · get the show on — announcement: John: After a year of expanding and revising podcast reviews and writing new ones, John announces The Anthropocene Reviewed will be a book, his first nonfiction book. — 00:00:58
2020-09-01 · get the show on — announcement: John: The Anthropocene Reviewed book will be published on May 18, 2021, is available for pre-order now, and will have an audiobook read by John. — 00:01:27
2020-09-01 · get the show on — John says the response to the podcast, especially the recent quite personal episode he was more worried about sharing than anything, has been overwhelming and generous; he thanks listeners. — 00:01:27
2020-09-01 · get the show on — John says, as he discussed on the latest podcast episode, the three years since Turtles All the Way Down was published have been long and at times very challenging. — 00:03:24
2020-10-15 · Civilization and the Lies We Love — John wrote about this lie for his podcast The Anthropocene Reviewed, but it turns out to be even more interesting and false than he first understood. — 00:00:00
2020-10-15 · Civilization and the Lies We Love — announcement: The description says the whole video is a revision of The Anthropocene Reviewed episode on civilization. — video description
2020-12-29 · Looking Back at My 2020 Goals — announcement: The description says The Anthropocene Reviewed book is available for preorder and comes out, hopefully, on May 18th. (hedged) — video description
2020-12-29 · Looking Back at My 2020 Goals — John: The other creative projects John could not name in January meant The Anthropocene Reviewed, which he successfully put on hiatus, though he misses it. — 00:00:37
2020-12-29 · Looking Back at My 2020 Goals — announcement: John: Barring unforeseen catastrophes, there should be some new episodes of The Anthropocene Reviewed next year (2021). (hedged) — 00:00:45
2020-12-29 · Looking Back at My 2020 Goals — announcement: John: The Anthropocene Reviewed book comes out on May 18th, 2021, hopefully. (hedged) — 00:00:50
2020-12-29 · Looking Back at My 2020 Goals — John: The book John wanted to finish in 2020 is The Anthropocene Reviewed; he has not exactly finished it but has made good progress. — 00:00:58
2020-12-31 · Auld Lang Syne: The Anthropocene Reviewed — announcement: John: In the podcast's first-ever one-review episode John reviews Auld Lang Syne, the song now most associated with New Year's Eve. — 00:00:00
2020-12-31 · Auld Lang Syne: The Anthropocene Reviewed — announcement: The description says The Anthropocene Reviewed will soon be a book and every copy of the first printing will be signed by John. — video description

Also named in: That's the way.

2021

2021-01-12 · My 2021 Vision Board — John: This week's (week of 11 January 2021) board says to review lemmings, as John is a semi-professional reviewer of the Anthropocene interested in lemmings. — 00:01:17
2021-01-12 · My 2021 Vision Board — John: Scratch-and-sniff stickers, time-released medication and triplicate forms all use microencapsulation, which John must understand better for The Anthropocene Reviewed book. — 00:01:46
2021-01-12 · My 2021 Vision Board — John: To make sure every copy of the first US printing of The Anthropocene Reviewed book is signed, John must sign about 10,000 times a week; the stack he shows is about 600. — 00:02:16
2021-01-26 · The Sycamore Tree: The Anthropocene Reviewed — announcement: The description says The Anthropocene Reviewed book, with this essay and 49 others, comes out on May 18th, and signed copies can be pre-ordered. — video description
2021-01-26 · The Sycamore Tree: The Anthropocene Reviewed — announcement: In a comment John confirms he will narrate The Anthropocene Reviewed audiobook. — video description
2021-01-26 · The Sycamore Tree: The Anthropocene Reviewed — John gives sycamore trees four and a half stars. — 00:09:24
2021-02-16 · A Lovely Winter Walk — John says in an Anthropocene Reviewed episode that the light-soaked days are coming, and he really believes it. — 00:02:19
2021-04-27 · What is my new book about? — John: The Anthropocene Reviewed book has arrived; John finds it beautiful and is grateful to the people who made it. — 00:00:00
2021-04-27 · What is my new book about? — announcement: John: A new podcast episode comes out on Thursday (29 April 2021), about Penguins of Madagascar and the smallpox vaccine. — video description
2021-04-27 · What is my new book about? — announcement: John: The Anthropocene Reviewed is essays in the form of in-depth Yelp reviews, reviewing things like viral meningitis, a photograph and the first five minutes of Penguins of Madagascar. — 00:01:27
2021-04-27 · What is my new book about? — announcement: John: It is John's first nonfiction book; most reviews are adapted from his podcast, some are new. — 00:01:27
2021-04-27 · What is my new book about? — ask: John asks podcast listeners who know what the book is about to tell him in comments, since he can't figure out how to talk about it. — 00:02:55
2021-04-27 · What is my new book about? — announcement: John: Signed copies of The Anthropocene Reviewed are available for pre-order now. — 00:02:55
2021-05-11 · I am a small boat. It's Question Tuesday. — announcement: John says his book The Anthropocene Reviewed comes out one week from today; he feels like a small boat facing big waves. — 00:00:03
2021-05-11 · I am a small boat. It's Question Tuesday. — John: Many emails from Anthropocene Reviewed listeners resonate with John, but he won't discuss them: people write with such raw emotion that he wants to protect it. — 00:01:27
2021-05-11 · I am a small boat. It's Question Tuesday. — John compares the emails to a scene in his favorite movie, Harvey, where strangers at a bar bring nothing small: nobody brings anything small to that email address either. — 00:01:35
2021-05-11 · I am a small boat. It's Question Tuesday. — John says that if The Anthropocene Reviewed can make some people feel less alone in that way, he feels very fortunate. — 00:02:15
2021-05-11 · I am a small boat. It's Question Tuesday. — announcement: John: Parts of the book that wouldn't have worked on the podcast: most notably the picture parts, and also the wintry mix parts. (playful) — 00:02:28
2021-05-11 · I am a small boat. It's Question Tuesday. — John confirms he used the word 'deadpan' exactly once in The Anthropocene Reviewed, as in every book since An Abundance of Katherines, another 14-year-old joke he enjoys. — 00:02:36
2021-05-11 · I am a small boat. It's Question Tuesday. — John: Asked what is on his vision board this week (week of 10 May 2021), John answers that he really hopes viewers like The Anthropocene Reviewed book. — 00:03:33
2021-05-11 · I am a small boat. It's Question Tuesday. — announcement: John is going on a virtual tour for The Anthropocene Reviewed next week (week of 17 May 2021); info and tickets are in the description. — 00:03:38
2021-05-14 · This Vlogbrothers Stat Blew My Mind — Hank: On the Turtles All the Way Down tour John told Hank his idea of star-rating facets of the human-centered world; Hank made Hank Reviews Everything in four minutes and never thought about it again. — 00:01:35
2021-05-14 · This Vlogbrothers Stat Blew My Mind — Hank contrasts that John's version of the idea became years of carefully built podcasts and a deeply introspective book, as much comedic memoir as historical exploration. — 00:01:56
2021-05-14 · This Vlogbrothers Stat Blew My Mind — announcement: Hank: The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green comes out May 18 and all copies will be signed; Hank's is. — 00:03:40
2021-05-18 · Saying What I've Needed to Say to Hank for a While — John tells Hank the book started with him: in sprawling conversations about our human moment and belly laughs on a tour bus during a cross-country road trip; so much of John's work and life starts with Hank. — 00:02:50
2021-05-25 · The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated — announcement: John: Signed copies of The Anthropocene Reviewed are available now, and there is an audiobook narrated by John. — video description
2021-05-25 · The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated — John: Marveling at five-star reviews of everything, John told Hank he had once had an idea to review Canada geese; Hank said: The Anthropocene Reviewed. — 00:10:02
2021-05-25 · The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated — John: The book started as a podcast charting contradictions of human life as John experiences it: how we can be so compassionate and so cruel, so persistent and so quick to despair. — 00:12:08
2021-08-24 · It's My Birthday. I Gave Myself This Video. — announcement: John: The final episode, maybe, of John's podcast The Anthropocene Reviewed comes out on Thursday. (hedged) — 00:00:00
2021-08-24 · It's My Birthday. I Gave Myself This Video. — John: The episode is about a drawing sketched by cosmonaut Alexei Leonov in March 1965, shortly after he very narrowly survived the first spacewalk. — 00:00:00
2021-08-24 · It's My Birthday. I Gave Myself This Video. — recommendation: The description says signed copies of The Anthropocene Reviewed are available in many places, including Bookshop. — video description
2021-08-24 · It's My Birthday. I Gave Myself This Video. — John: Leonov's life was fascinating, but the episode is mostly about why we make art and what we give up to make it. — 00:00:29
2021-08-24 · It's My Birthday. I Gave Myself This Video. — John: Three months after The Anthropocene Reviewed book came out, sharing something so personal has been strange, lovely and terrifying; unable to write about that directly, John wrote about space art. — 00:00:29
2021-08-24 · It's My Birthday. I Gave Myself This Video. — John: Working on The Anthropocene Reviewed has been incredible, but John thinks he is ready to go back to writing fiction, maybe, after a long pause. (hedged) — 00:00:58
2021-08-31 · The Woman Who Invented Stuffed Animals — John first learned about Steiff while researching the history of teddy bears for an Anthropocene Reviewed essay, which he links. — video description
2021-11-09 · Hank Green's Million Dollar Ideas — John says he has about one idea every five years: Vlogbrothers in 2006, Crash Course five years later, The Anthropocene Reviewed five years after, and he awaits his fourth. (playful) — 00:00:00
2021-11-16 · Orbital Sunrise: The First Art Made in Space — announcement: The description says the video is adapted from the podcast The Anthropocene Reviewed, also a book, available signed with a bonus zine. — video description

2022

2022-04-08 · Hank and John Discover Chippy Butties — recommendation: John: Asked for a podcast to learn from, John names 99% Invisible, Radiolab, Invisibilia and Throughline, after Hank jokingly suggests The Anthropocene Reviewed. — 00:01:58

2024

2024-09-27 · Is It 2010? IT'S A PARTS VIDEO — John says they made a vinyl of The Anthropocene Reviewed, probably no longer available; he isn't selling it, it just makes him happy that it exists. (hedged) — 00:04:45

2026

2026-02-10 · I Was a Teenage Dirtbag — announcement: John says the 19th Project for Awesome starts in three days, but its fundraiser is already live with P4A-only perks such as a new episode of his podcast The Anthropocene Reviewed. — 00:00:00
2026-02-13 · Why Isn't Everybody a Nonprofit?! — announcement: Hank lists more perks: the Nerdfighter art perk and a bundle of digital downloads, including an exclusive Hank's channel video, an audio first chapter of his book, Zombicorns in PDF and audio, and podcast exclusives. — 00:00:40
2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John brings back his podcast The Anthropocene Reviewed only for the P4A, with an episode reviewing the Galapagos Islands and Kurt Vonnegut's novel Galapagos, for a $10 donation. — 00:24:03
2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says the Galapagos episode of The Anthropocene Reviewed explores his humanism: why he is broadly in favor of humans and life, and why we should celebrate what is good about our species. — 02:01:27
2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John: In his new Anthropocene Reviewed episode John explores his complicated relationship with Galapagos: though Vonnegut was a great humanist, it is a kind of anti-humane novel, and John fears turning anti-humanist as he ages. — 07:10:35
2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 2! — announcement: Hank lists P4A perks including an exclusive Hank's channel video and an exclusive episode of The Anthropocene Reviewed, John's podcast that has not had an episode in years. — 01:02:29
2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — announcement: John: As a P4A perk, John is bringing back The Anthropocene Reviewed with reviews of the Galápagos Islands and of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Galápagos. — 00:46:40
2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — announcement: John says his exclusive new episode of The Anthropocene Reviewed is about the Galápagos Islands and Kurt Vonnegut's novel Galápagos. — 00:18:41
2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — announcement: John's digital perks include Like Letters, the podcast where he and Sarah read the letters they wrote before they started dating, and a new Anthropocene Reviewed episode on the Galápagos Islands and Kurt Vonnegut's novel Galápagos. — 02:47:51
2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — announcement: John calls the $75 digital download bundle, with every digital perk including two chapters of Hank's new book, the steal of every Project for Awesome. — 02:57:19
2026-10-13 · My Lungs Are on the Outside of the Body — John says many people on his tour asked why he hasn't written a sequel to The Anthropocene Reviewed; he wants to ask why they want a sequel to his least commercially successful project. (playful) — 00:01:09