John became the tuberculosis guy, so it's only fitting Hank became the cancer guy. Both doing their part to spread awareness of their respective disease. John hasn't had tuberculosis, but he sure knows a lot about it from reading up on it.
Honestly... as much as this must be a tough pill to swallow, the fact that Hank has been one of the best science communicators of the past decade, known for getting his facts straight - correcting them when necessary, and delivering it all with a smile and a pinch of comedy - there's not a better person I'd imagine taking up the role of "the cancer guy" even if just for a moment. Discussing science and experiencing it firsthand are two extremely different perspectives and Hank has been given the unfortunate but extraordinarily unique opportunity to experience both and, with the style and lovable personality he's got - does so in a way I was in the wrong for even questioning.
Hank crying about that father was genuinely profound... and yet, all I can think about is how he has the special ability to anticipate his depression and schedule a reminder about it
I'm a theatre kid and can tell you a lot of people would get depressed the day after the show finished. You go from over the Moon vibrancy to the dull gray of normality and it hits you pretty hard.
I can only imagine the anxiety of joking about cancer in front of other people w cancer. From my perspective as a cancer caregiver, i found every bit of the show a delight and very healing. I'm so glad Hank has been hearing that too
I’m currently in chemotherapy for breast cancer and my nurses have learned that if there is a joke to be made I’m going to make it. I’ve worn a t shirt that says “My oncologist does my hair”. I threatened to go looking for my doctor while doing my best William Shatner impression (my doctor’s name is Khan). I’ve got another t shirt with an outline of an IV pole that says “Pole Dancer”. Humor is what is getting me through this and I’m very glad I’ve been able to keep that. I would rather be laughing than crying and in the group of patients that I see every week I would say most of us are like that. We want to be able to laugh and find the humor.
@@michellekindley9298 idk about you, but I had young adult cancer (diagnosed at 19 and 21), and honestly, YA cancer survivors have such dark humor, which can make other people super uncomfortable. I had to really watch out not to slip a "but I'm dying!" comment with the wrong crowd. I remember the first time I vomited from chemo, I came out of the bathroom and did my best 'Sixth Sense' impression with "I'm feeling much better now". Did a great job breaking the discomfort with my family. ... btw, I'm 35 now, doing well :)
@@divergentdreamer I was already the proud owner of a dark sense of humor - I used to work in admin in an in patient psych hospital. If you don’t get a dark sense of humor from that then you never will. I’m just very much a use humor to break the tension and I’d rather be laughing than crying type of person. Glad to hear you’re doing well. They keep telling me “you’re so young” and I’m looking at them going “I’m a 51 year old 4x grandma”. I’ve got a good prognosis, I just have to get through the crap to get there but my oncologist has said my surgery was “very successful” and I’ve been doing “fabulously well” and coming from an oncologist, I’ll take it.
On the point of not turning on the camera on the bad days - we've rarely seen you cry, Hank. Which does make sense - you're in a different mode by the time you're on camera. But thank you for getting the Dropout team involved this time, so you could share this journey a different way. 💚
if i was him i wouldn't turn it on, either. he deserves to have that space, you know? to have a bad day without worrying about what it'll look like on RU-vid. crying isn't fun to do most of the time.
@@durdleduc8520 1000%. This was a rare, special, and safe moment. But in vlogbrothers and everywhere else - as he said here and so many times elsewhere - Hank doesn't need to (and shouldn't!) show everything.
@@durdleduc8520it's also just the selection bias of disease and disability. You don't see a lot of people who are too depressed to get out of bed turn on a camera, you don't see the people who run out of air going across the room walking around the grocery store. In order to engage in public life, there's a health bar that you literally need to pass over, and the people who don't aren't seen. And if you have flares, of mental or physical health, you aren't seen during your worst flares.
@@GaviLazan I did, that's cool too, although not technically a dropout Collab lol. Also I find it hilarious that Brennan's initials are "BLM" I had never thought about that before
@@-Teague- not dropout, but it's in the greater DOXU (dropout extended universe) 😋 Yeah, apparently he prefers it abbreviated as "BLeeM" for that reason. There are like three or four different BLMs and he wasn't to be clear about who/what is being spoken about or something.
It just occurred to be that i dont think ive ever seen Hank cry like THAT and it really made him more human. We love you Hank and are so happy that you made this happen.
It's like... seeing the Bearded Man and knowing he's sick the first night carries some heavy energy. He's there with his wife, who will grieve him sooner or later, and he doesn't have a lot to say. It puts weight on the comedian, to finesse that scene. Then he comes back, so you know he's working through his feelings and he might also want to communicate with you. And he brought his daughter, so you know he is getting something from your routine and he thinks that she, another person who will sooner or later grieve him, will also gain something of value from this routine. It's a lot of weight on you, the comedian.
My sister was already 5 or 6 months into her cancer treatment when you announced yours last year so I've followed your journey fairly closely, it was of great comfort to me to hear your perspectives, experiences, and positive outcomes when my sister's were not going so well. They gave me hope in the dark times when I needed it most. Sadly my sister died in March mere hours after her doctors told her there was nothing more they could do, it happened so quickly I wasn't able to see her before she died. I don't think I'll be able to watch your comedy special, watching this trailer was too upsetting and I'm not sure I can manage the whole thing. I'm so sorry, I know that will be hard for you to hear since you're clearly struggling through your own survivorship guilt but I do want you to know how grateful I am that you've shared your journey with us. You gave me hope even when there was none, I was able to reassure my sister with that hope and that was a gift, a gift of relieving stress that you gave even at your lowest ebb. Thank you Hank ❤
I had a similar experience - my mom was diagnosed with terminal cancer a week before Hank announced his. She got worse while he got better. She died, and he went into remission. Your comment that he gave a gift of hope - that resonates with me too. Sending you a big virtual hug 💛
Thank you for sharing your story with us. I am sending you so much love as you navigate the never predictable path of grief. Just remember that even though your journey is personal, you are never alone. We all walk with each other. ❤❤❤❤
I know that this is an EXTREMELY para social relationship but man am I glad to have hank in my life in this way. The way he talks about painful and scary stuff makes me capable of thinking about them without l despairing. I don’t know exactly why. Very grateful.
I can only imagine the tsunami of emotions you would have felt when that dad brought his daughter as a fellow dad. The relief that he liked it, the joy that he wanted to share it with his daughter. The grief that he was dying. Maybe even a little guilt that you weren't. Humour in the face of the overwhelming is a powerful thing. Thank you for sharing this powerful thing with us, Hank.
I was told five years ago that my cancer was inoperable, untreatable, and terminal. I'm still here and doing quite well for some reason and I just take life one day at a time. I've outlived the given prognosis and every day is a gift.
I was officially diagnosed in Sept of 22. I wasn't supposed to still be here last Christmas. Just keep putting one foot in front of the other and do all the living you can.
I was at the show that was filmed for the special. I was really blown away by your stand up. As someone who's been doing comedy a long time, what caught me off guard was not how funny you were, but how comfortable you were on stage and how you had the timing and stage presence of someone who's been doing stand up for decades. I know people who have worked a very long time and aren't as good at this as you.
"Two nights later he was back-" Awww, that's sweet. "And he brought his daughter." And now I'm crying. *Hank starts crying* Aaaand now I'm bawling at my desk before noon.
My mom recently passed away with cancer. She said she wanted to see the world before she died. And to maybe bring me along for the ride. It accelerated so fast that she never got to do that. I'm glad that father had the chance to experience your show with their daughter. I imagine that my mom would have loved your show with me. And would have travelled the world to see it.
Omg. First Brennan and now Hank being honest about getting bullied as kids and how it affected them makes me cry. Thank you both for being honest about this. It's hard.
6:25. Imagine you’re going to be dead very soon. And you hear of an infinitesimally specifically relatable comedy show, that just might cheer up your daughter. So you scout an earlier show alone, just to make sure she’ll get a little laugh. About the thing that’s going to kill you.
I've had melanoma twice, and will likely have it again due to having a P0T1 gene mutation. It's a drag, but I just try to live life as well as I can. The biggest thing I have found that works for me is humor. And as I am sure you have discovered, we can get pretty dark when we joke about our health. I've long considered doing a show myself, as I not only have my health to draw on, but I'm also a special education teacher, and man, there's a *lot* of stuff I can draw on from that. Seeing you do it is making me give it some more thought.
When I opened this video, I was surprised to see John Green instead of Hank. Turns out it was an ad for NOCD. Even though it was skippable, I watched the whole thing because it was John.
My Dad died of lung cancer on 5/14, my stepdad died of leukemia 5/17. In the end all they wanted was to help other cancer patients, laugh and see their grandchildren play. Thank you Hank for making us laugh and teaching us a thing or two about our beautiful world. Keep going.
Can't wait. I wasn't going to originally because my year subscription of Dropout ended in May, but I just resubscribed in June for another year when I found this was happening.
I had the same reaction to watching hank cry as I do if I ever see my dad cry or being close to crying. I just went "Omg Omg no no I can't watch hank cry no no no no I can't" and then started bawling my eyes out
You are an incredibly important person to so many of us. Your empathy and love and brightness are so inspiring and you make so many of us feel seen and connected. Thank you hank for being you and thank you science for helping hank stay with us longer.
Isn't it a little silly and a lot of beautiful that I bursted into tears together with Hank and now feel tremendous love for this man I don't know that first went to check out this show and then brought his daughter a few days later. Jeez, I love people.
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Did I watch this on Dropout five minutes ago? Yes. Will I watch it again here? Absolutely.
@@hankschannel what a great stim! I haven't used a yo-yo since I was a kid. I used to love it. I think I'll get a nice one and see what I think. I have some nerve damage in my hand so might be calming and therapeutic at the same time.
Hank, you are such an inspiration. You have touched so many lives, and are actually changing the world for the better. Thanks for sharing your love with us.
Nothing negative towards Hank, who has every right to use his resources; but I do wonder what the world would be like if more people could hire an expert to coach them and rent a venue for 8 weeks to practice every time they had the inkling to learn a new skill. I expect a huge range of people from a spectrum of backgrounds could become competent at a wide gamut of useful skills. A boon to themselves and a boost to the professions and hobbies they joined as all their unique experiences and insights broaden the possibility space of the fields of knowledge they gain access to. Back in the working class world, most of us are lucky to get decent professional level coaching in the single field we're supposed to use to make our living. New hobbies, when we have time for them, are chosen from a limited pool based on cost and still have to be sacrificed for to work into the budget. It's wild to imagine what young people could become (and make of our society) if they had access to those kinds of resources.
Yep, you got me. I’m a heavily bearded man with two young kids with multiple complex chronic illnesses. The possibility of not being all your kids wants you to be hits pretty hard. I can’t imagine dealing with not being able to stick around for them at all let alone the struggle of being limited. Thanks.
Hank, This season may not last forever, it may be the shortest page in your book… Or it could be multiple chapters… This will always be in your book though. How you grew, laughed, cried, and rose above. How you turned around and helped those struggling. How you turned pain into beauty and love, and spread it so much farther. Your creation, your self, your story. Truly inspiring, Hank. I’m excited to see where you go next!! May you go farther than your wildest dreams.
Just watched the special on Dropout and came back here to say wow. What an incredible special. I laughed out loud by myself multiple times, got a little misty eyed toward the end, and absolutely loved it. So many favorite parts including the Orioles dream sequence, the ant with wings explanation, and the closing rant. Just wow. Great first special Hank!!!!!! Highly recommend getting a dropout subscription to watch it.
i just realized that i've never seen Hank cried before this video. and i know there's a lot of crying behind the scene because of course, you don't wanna turn on the camera to you sobbing (unless you're name is dodie in 2018) but fuck it got me teared up!! i can't wait to watch this special special !!
Hank, We love you because you're real. Your experiences are real. Your factoids are because you're genuinely interested in learning. We appreciate you. You make us laugh, and we cry with you. My father has cancer was never supposed to live as long as he has. living eight hours drive away from him makes it hard for me to see him on a regular basis. But I stay positive and have related to your plight. Thanks for everything!! You make a difference for all of us. :)
When you're just sitting around cuddling your dog and a Green Brothers video pops up, you watch it. That's just what you do if you're a fan. What I didn't expect was to burst into tears. Being sick is a humbling experience. Being real sick is a full-time job. Scheduling doctors appointments , labs, surgeons , and therapists, depending on the severity. But if you're Hank Green, you take that crap ball that is serious illness and all that entails and brings laughter and knowledge to the masses. Because that's just what you do. Go on with your bad self, Hank, you freaking rock. I'm so glad your treatment worked. It would suck hard if the world lost a Green brother.
Yep, being sick is a lot of work. Sadly so many people don't, or even refuse, to understand it and just see sick people as lazy. Whether it's a chronic illness or something more threatening like cancer, they don't understand that it's not "I've got a cold but I'll be fine in a few days".
@waffles3629 i have chronic illness and I'm also a cancer survivor. I have to say people in general were a lot more understanding and helpful and compassionate when i said the word cancer than when i say PCOS or lupus. Both suck plenty but it was nice for once not to have to fight to be beleived. Not saying i want cancer back just wish people would be as kind about the other stuff.
@@evalevy2909 sadly that sounds about right. I have chronic migraine and so many people do not get it's not "just a headache". I get so much "you need a new excuse, you used that last time" for symptoms I have dealt with every single day for the last 2,605 days (just over 7 years). I also frequently had family members compare me to my grandma who had cancer, which REALLY pissed me off. Because she was one of the only family members who didn't judge me for being chronically ill. Also she had no chance of money issues and didn't work so she wasn't using all of her time and energy to work enough to scrape by paycheck to paycheck. I'm glad people were considerate when you had cancer.
I have so much love, respect and mad admiration for Hank.this video made me cry. And i have a special thought of support for the bearded person that went twice to see him.all my support to everyone that has cancer, and to their loved ones.
My sister got to go to a couple of those Missoula shows. 🥰 I can't put into words how much this means to us. Cancer hit our family really f'n hard within the last few years.
cancer is treatable... what worked for me was a. positive attitude (no negative thoughts/emotions, nothing feeding the cancer )and b. I didn't take it seriously I made fun of it and my situation and c. I prayed to God and the Saints and hoped for the best...eventually I was cured. Be careful what u eat/drink, where u live, some places r down right toxic and who u hang with, avoid negative people. ..I wish u and your family the best. Stay healthy. Lots of love, Chris
Ahh Hank, this brought tears to my eyes. I appreciate the multifaceted person you are so much. Thank you for sharing your curiosities and passions with us, and inspiring us all these years.
I love the community and family and systems and structure and universe that all had to work together to give us this man and his brother. We're all so lucky.
Hank… I hope you are reading these comments It’s ok to cry. You are a true man and I can’t say how much I respect you. What you are doing is incredible and what you have done, documenting every stage of this awful experience is beyond strong. You are truly the best of us and you inspire thousands every day You are a massive part of the reason that I’m into science and I’ve been following your activity on RU-vid for a long time, you have literally been an instrumental part in the development of my ideologies. Whenever you are feeling down remember how much you mean to us
Thank you Hank for finding reasons to laugh in one of the darkest places there is, and thank you Dropout for giving it the biggest audience possible. Every hand that touched this project is attached to a wonderful person.
Imagine being Hank Green’s bully. He of course is probably way more successful than any bully he had, but most importantly, so incredibly wholesome and has contributed so much to the world.
I feel like you're a good friend. Thank you for this. My mother and father barely survived cancer, i lost 2 grandparents to it and 3 friends. Cancer hits close to home for me and being able to laugh about it makes it feel a little less terrible.
Thats so awesome! Been watching you for about a decade and got Hodgkins diagnosis around same time:went through the abvd chemo at the same time too. The whole experience is ironically rife with comedy so glad you decided to do this. From my perspective i don’t think it’s weird at all!! Congrats on finishing.
The last couple days have been pretty rough but watching this you just put everything back into perspective and I truly appreciate you. I laughed I cried and you are the best. Thank you.
It feels weird for this to be coming out now. My family is starting the process of figuring out what kind of cancer my dad has. He got his first suspicious CT results just this past Monday. I think I'm really going to need the hope and the honesty of Hank's cancer comedy when the 21st rolls around. Thank you, Hank, for being the funny Science Guy I need in the world this year.
Hank becoming the emotional brother was simultaneously not on my bingo card and even more emotionally resonant than all the (very resonant) emotionality from John over the years.
Anthony Jeselnik had a bit on his show where he would tell jokes you can't tell, but he would do it directly to the people involved- so jokes about a religion at their church, etc. I remember seeing him do cancer to a cancer support group right when I was in the middle of chemo. It was freeing. That this was something personal to you makes it better. My favorite quote is "Life doesn't cease to be funny when someone dies any more than it ceases to be serious when someone tells a joke." It's easy to make a topic sacred because it's sad but that just makes it unassailable.
I watched your special on Dropout the other day-- some of the funniest, most educational and poignant comedy I've ever seen! So effing glad your pee was cloudy!
I cannot wait to see it - as I‘m based in Switzerland, it wasn‘t really in the cards to see it live aha, but I very much look forward to seeing it online. Gotta admit, the anecdote with the terminally ill bearded guy made me instantly cry.. i know this is a parasocial relationship, but hank getting cancer made me think about life a lot, and also all the people I sadly lost even in my young(ish) years. But coming to the point - well done hank, it seems like such a nice thing you made out of such a bad thing
Comedy is indeed hard. I've always been a fan of comedy, and there is a pretty standard path that most comedians take to getting good at it. The hard part about that path is that it generally takes 15 years. 15 years of travelling the country performing for very, very little money while constantly working on your material, your act, etc. And then, if you're lucky, you 'make it'. I think it's likely a bit like the Malcolm Gladwell "10000 hours" sort of mastery. I'm looking forward to Hank's comedy, though. I had been wanting to subscribe to Dropout and then he announced he was going to be on Dimension 20 (one of the main reasons I wanted to subscribe) and that sealed the deal. Haven't regretted that at all, I watch the hell out of Dropout now. Great stuff.
I have had a crazy and intense medical history starting with a brain tumor at 16 months old. I too feel like i have to do something with all of my medical experiences. I recently joined r/AMA to share some of my experiences. I think that if I don’t share anything about it, I went through all of that for nothing. It also gave me some GREAT English essays that have made my editors shed a tear or two
My father in law recently passed from prostate cancer that metastasized in the lungs. I watched almost everyone of your videos while he was going through chemo. They really helped me through it. Can't wait to watch the special.
Oh Honey, your sadness, I just want to hold you and this man AND his daughter. I have uniquely been there: after 11 years of horrific illness I was finally starting to see some small improvements and was talking with my workers about it when my Boss piped up about his back pain and the next day he got his stage 4 untreatable. He only lived a few more weeks. That man had 3 kids under 8 and a wife he loved in a way I have rarely witnessed. My heart, Hank. I feel you. What a gift you're giving people. You did this for you and now, like everything you two touch(they should rename the Midas Touch to be the Green Touch) it's helping in ways you couldn't forsee. Nice.
OK, OK! After months of debating if I should subscribe to dropout, I'll finally do it. I'll watch this special and then I can finally watch every season of Dimension 20.
My 13 y.o just asked me who, out of all people that have existed in the last 1,000 years, would i want to spend my last lunch with.. and it cant be family or friends. They picked Merryl Streepe, I picked Hank Green. This is why ❤. What a cool human he is.
