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Dear Hank & John

435: So Much Idea in That Idea

12/17/202541 min

Do we sweat the same way vegetables do? What should I do if a billionaire sits down at my dinner table? How do I feel sane in today’s world? Can you please tell my twelve year old son to go to sleep? How did we decide the geological time scales? When were chairs invented? How does John manage his fear of TB contamination? What is Salinger-ing? …Hank and John Green have answers!

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Clips

No Baby Billionaires
Life-Made Oxygen Revelation
Trusting Institutions Over Influencers
Lightning Storms On Mars
Be Weirder, Get Better Stories
Singing To Keep Listeners Awake

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First 90 seconds

  1. Hank Green· Host0:01

    You're listening to a Complexly podcast. (instrumental music plays) Hello and welcome to Dear Hank and John.

  2. John Green· Host0:12

    Or as I prefer to think of it, Dear John and Hank.

  3. Hank Green· Host0:13

    It's a podcast where two brothers answer your questions, give you debased advice, and bring you all the weeks news from both Mars and AFC Women on a- on an actual physical couch together in Los Angeles, California. John, you know what the problem was when, when Jacques Cousteau and Natalie Portman wanted to get married?

  4. John Green· Host0:28

    What?

  5. Hank Green· Host0:29

    But how would they mash their names together?

  6. John Green· Host0:31

    Uh, into a portmanteau. (laughs) That's a good joke. That's a good joke. (laughs) So we are in Los Angeles filming Ask Hank Anything, and we decided that we would make a podcast- Yeah. ... while we're here on this couch.

  7. Hank Green· Host0:44

    I would love... It would be so cool to do it like this, except maybe not with four other people in the room.

  8. John Green· Host0:50

    It would be great to do it like this every week, especially if you- (laughs) ... lived in Indianapolis.

  9. Hank Green· Host0:53

    Yeah.

  10. John Green· Host0:53

    Because then I wouldn't have to leave Indianapolis.

  11. Hank Green· Host0:56

    Right. I would just be there.

  12. John Green· Host0:57

    You would be there all the time. We would do so much work tog- We'd be like Rhett and Link, you know?

  13. Hank Green· Host1:02

    Mm-hmm.

  14. John Green· Host1:02

    Just, uh, brothers.

  15. Hank Green· Host1:03

    Yeah.

  16. John Green· Host1:04

    They're not brothers, but you know what I mean.

  17. Hank Green· Host1:05

    They basically.

  18. John Green· Host1:06

    I had a dream last night about Rhett and Link, that they gave me really good advice and we were just hanging out like the old days and they were like, "Man, you gotta take it down a notch." And I was like, "Thanks, Rhett and Link."

  19. Hank Green· Host1:15

    Yeah.

  20. John Green· Host1:15

    I needed to hear that from you guys.

  21. Hank Green· Host1:17

    If Rhett or Link said I had to take it down a notch, I'd be like, "Watch your own business." (laughs) I'd be like, "Don't you talk to me about, about my notches."

  22. John Green· Host1:25

    Hank gets so defensive when you tell him- No. ... to take them down a notch.

  23. Hank Green· Host1:28

    I do. I mean, I... Well, the reason

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