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Dear Hank & John

441: The Value of a Single Shoe

2/18/202649 min

How has your relationship with your audience changed? What’s a good lie to tell my coworkers about my butt surgery? Has anyone ever tasted the moon? What’s the highest altitude we have ever recorded a cloud? How long do I have to sit in the bath to touch every molecule of water? What is the value of a single shoe? How do I handle the information that we might live in a black hole? …Hank and John Green have answers!

If you're in need of dubious advice, email us at hankandjohn@gmail.com

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Clips

Giving Complexly to the Public
Panic On The Slopes
Fame vs. Having Audience
Water Vapor: A Lifting Gas
Inside Black Hole Cosmology
De-stigma Butt Surgery Advice
One Shoe Worth Half?

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Hank Green· Host0:00

    [upbeat music] You're listening to a Complexly podcast. [upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to Dear Hank & John.

  2. John Green· Host0:11

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

  3. Hank Green· Host0:14

    It's a podcast where two brothers answer your questions, give you the best advice, and bring you all the week's news from both Mars and AFC Wimbledon. John, did you hear that if you listen to enough Queen- Hmm ... the, that, that, uh, y- that you can go crazy?

  4. John Green· Host0:26

    Oh, no!

  5. Hank Green· Host0:27

    Yeah, they think it's the high mercury content.

  6. John Green· Host0:29

    [laughs] It's good, it's good. Yeah, I mean, I don't wanna, I don't wanna rehash your joke, but I would say more that you can become very sick, because it's not just mental illness that accompanies mercury poisoning, it's all kinds of illnesses.

  7. Hank Green· Host0:42

    But it seems more like a thing that might actually happen if you listen to a lot of Queen.

  8. John Green· Host0:45

    Sure.

  9. Hank Green· Host0:46

    You could actually go crazy, and they do say that about the, the Mad Hatters.

  10. John Green· Host0:50

    Okay. All right.

  11. Hank Green· Host0:51

    They are mad because of the mercury in the hatting equipment. John, by the time this comes out, [chuckles] this will be old news, but the, the new news for us is that we are finally announcing to the world that Complexly is becoming a nonprofit.

  12. John Green· Host1:04

    Yeah.

  13. Hank Green· Host1:04

    And one of the things that I'd like a- as we, as we shift things slightly, [chuckles] is for the Dear Hank & Johns to come out more in line with when they are being recorded, so that this doesn't seem as crazy [chuckles] as what's happening right now.

  14. John Green· Host1:16

    Yeah, it- we- right now we're on, like, a two-week schedule.

  15. Hank Green· Host1:20

    Two-week minimum, sometimes more.

  16. John Green· Host1:21

    Which means that you're getting the AFC Wimbledon news, which I know you need piping hot- [laughs] ... a little bit cold.

  17. Hank Green· Host1:27

    Yeah, yeah, and the Mars news also.

  18. John Green· Host1:29

    Yeah, and I know that

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