2024-11-27
23 分钟An extended version of Micah's interview with Youtuber Hank Green.
Hey, you're listening to the on the Media Midweek podcast.
I'm Michael Owinger.
If you caught our latest episode from the weekend, then you heard my interview with Hank Green, a very popular YouTuber and science communicator.
We got a lot of nice feedback about that conversation, and there were some interesting Q&As that we couldn't fit in the radio version.
So we're bringing you a longer edit.
Here we begin When I asked Hank about the start of his YouTube career.
Being on my career as a content creator screwing around on YouTube in 2007, we didn't really start to do science communication and educational stuff for a few years after we started.
Weirdly enough, it's been a long journey of being a YouTuber since 2007.
Was there a particular video in those early days that made you realize, this is what I want to do?
Like, this is how I can connect with people?
2007, 2006 was interesting time in online video because people were just starting to figure out what it was.
And watching ze Frank, who was kind of, in many ways, the original video blogger, do projects with his audience, like, dress up your vacuum cleaner.
Let's try and make the earth a sandwich.
The League of Awesomeness has discovered that never before have two pieces of bread.
Been simultaneously placed on the ground directly opposite each other.
On the first team to document and prove that they've successfully made an Earth sandwich will get a League of Awesomeness certificate.
And something else.
We've completed the first Earth sandwich.
This point right through the middle of the Earth goes right down to New Zealand where there's another baguette.
It was like, oh, that's the thing that's different about this.