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Hank Green's Brother

2025-03-11 · announcement · John · 4:05 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Projects (also: Personal life) · mode: Announcements · tags: self promotion, community lore

A week before Everything Is Tuberculosis comes out, John says his most important job is being Hank Green's brother, fielding Hank's endless ideas, and announces Hank's relaunch of EcoGeek as a subscription for eco-friendly cleaning supplies whose profits go to the Coral Reef Alliance.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Long-microphone-cord opener, book plug, and his more important job: being Hank Green's brother

  • ★ John opens by saying that now that he has a 50-foot microphone cord, nothing and no one can stop him. (playful) — 00:00:01
  • ★★ John says his book Everything Is Tuberculosis comes out next week (week of 17 March 2025) and is available for pre-order now, with signed copies wherever books are sold. — 00:00:04 · Everything Is Tuberculosis
  • ★★ John says he has a job even more important than being the book's author: being Hank Green's brother. (playful) — 00:00:12 · Hank Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis

00:00:22 — Greeting; John shushes his dog Potato to keep the Format vibe

  • ★ John tells his dog Potato he is trying to make a video and Potato has to take it down a notch and get with the Format vibe. (playful) — 00:00:24

00:00:34 — Hank's constant stream of ideas: absurd, excellent and terrible

00:01:16 — EcoGeek's history as a blog and its relaunch as an eco cleaning-supply subscription funding the Coral Reef Alliance, with weather and sneeze interludes

  • ★★ John recalls that one of Hank's early ideas was EcoGeek, a blog charting the intersection of technology and the environment, which he rooted for from afar. — 00:01:16 · EcoGeek, Hank Green
  • ★★ John says EcoGeek was successful, but the volume of Hank's other projects overwhelmed him and it sort of went away, except Hank Green ideas never do. — 00:01:28 · EcoGeek, Hank Green
  • ★★★ John announces Hank is relaunching EcoGeek, no longer a blog but a subscription service for home cleaning products for eco-conscious homes. — 00:01:41 · EcoGeek, Hank Green
  • ★★ John says EcoGeek brings non-toxic cleaning supplies, from laundry sheets to hand soap, dishwasher tablets and glass cleaner, curating the best from the internet as the blog once curated information. — 00:01:54 · EcoGeek
  • ★★★ John says EcoGeek launches today and 100% of its profits go to the Coral Reef Alliance in support of its Maui Watershed Project. — 00:02:08 · EcoGeek
  • ★★ John says the idea was developed by DFTBA with Hank, and he is promoting it the week before his book because he thinks it is brilliant. — 00:02:27 · DFTBA Records, Hank Green, EcoGeek
  • ★★★ John says he has used EcoGeek's cleaning supplies exclusively for about two months and it is a game changer: less weight to ship, and the stuff is amazing. — 00:02:44 · EcoGeek
  • ★★ John says that instead of enriching billionaires by buying something like Tide, he is fighting coral reef devastation. — 00:02:50 · economic inequality, EcoGeek
  • ★★ John hopes viewers like EcoGeek and says they should check it out via the link in the description. — 00:02:57 · EcoGeek, doobly-doo

00:03:00 — Tribute to Hank: being his brother is stressful but John's favorite job

  • ★★★ John tells Hank that being his brother is stressful but his favorite job: Hank's idea calls are exhausting, always another horizon, yet invigorating and fun. — 00:03:00 · Hank Green
  • ★★★ John says Hank's ideas help coral reefs in Maui, hospitals in Sierra Leone and TB clinics in Lesotho, and Hank's desire to make a difference inspires him, especially now. — 00:03:18 · Hank Green, Sierra Leone, tuberculosis

00:03:37 — Book-launch weeks: videos may slip, 18 airports in 19 days, thanks for pre-orders; sign-off

  • ★★ John says the next few weeks will be weird, stressful and overwhelming, and he might not make a video every Tuesday, though he will do his best. (hedged) — 00:03:37 · Everything Is Tuberculosis
  • ★★ John says he loves an airport, which is good because he will be in 18 of them over the next 19 days. — 00:03:43 · Everything Is Tuberculosis
  • ★★ John thanks everyone who pre-ordered the book: only seven days until it is out, and he is excited and appropriately nervous. — 00:03:51 · Everything Is Tuberculosis

Humor (significant)

  • John opens by boasting about his new, longer microphone cord. — 00:00:01

    “Now that I've got a 50-foot microphone cord, nothing and no one can stop me.”

  • Listing Hank's million-dollar ideas, John includes one that inverts the whole point of 3D film. — 00:00:45

    “He's figured out a way to render 3D movies in a crisp two dimensions.”

  • John realizes they forgot to check the weather when they went outside earlier, then reports that it is nice out with a line of spring poetry. — 00:02:19

    “Yeah, it's nice out.”

  • After a building series of uh-ohs, John lets out a huge sneeze. — 00:02:40

    “That is not normal. What just happened to me is never normal.”

  • John signs off to Hank, recalling Hank's constant idea calls. — 00:04:00

    “Hank, I will see you on Friday, unless you FaceTime me with an idea before that.”

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Mentioned

Central: EcoGeek

Also: Projects: Awesome Socks Club · SciShow · Sun Basin Soap

Works: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing · Everything Is Tuberculosis · Spring is like a perhaps hand

Organizations: Coral Reef Alliance · Maternal Center of Excellence

Terms: doobly-doo

Concepts: economic inequality · tuberculosis

Places: Lesotho · Maui · Sierra Leone

Products: Tide

animal: Potato (animal)

Only in the description or credits: DFTBA Records · Good Store

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