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Dear Hank & John

445: Bring Me My Favorites

3/25/202641 min

Can I get an MRI or go through TSA without setting off alarms after getting a knee replacement? Would chugging a hardcore energy drink kill a medieval peasant? What was the go-to mini-break activity before doom-scrolling? What happened to Soggy Pitch? Where should I bring my parents in Amsterdam? Did you have to face excruciating conversations with your parents when you were teens? How do things survive in the deepest parts of the ocean? …Hank and John Green have answers!

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Clips

Why Fish Can’t Reach Abyss
Will The Bench Outlive Me?
Not A Numbers Game
Monster Vs. Medieval Peasant
Parking Tickets, Missoula-Style
Humility Beats Overconfidence

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· Host0:13

    It's a podcast where two brothers answer your questions, give you dubious advice, and bring you all the week's news from both Mars and AFC Wimbledon. John, do you know why they call it chickenpox?

  4. John Green· Host0:22

    No, why?

  5. Hank Green· Host0:23

    Actually, nobody does.

  6. John Green· Host0:25

    Really?

  7. Hank Green· Host0:26

    Yeah. It is, uh, up for debate. We're not sure. It might... It... The, the most likely reason, and this is the silliest and worst reason- Yeah ... is that, uh, the French, at some point, called it, uh, chickenpox after chickpeas, and they would call it their version of chickpox.

  8. John Green· Host0:44

    Oh.

  9. Hank Green· Host0:44

    'Cause they looked kind of like chickpeas. But they don't.

  10. John Green· Host0:47

    They don't really look like [laughs] chickpeas. They're red, for one thing.

  11. Hank Green· Host0:51

    The- there's also the idea that they look like maybe a chicken pecked you.

  12. John Green· Host0:54

    Hmm.

  13. Hank Green· Host0:54

    And there's also the idea, and this is my favorite one, but it's almost certainly not it, it's like smallpox, but it's a chicken.

  14. John Green· Host1:00

    Huh?

  15. Hank Green· Host1:02

    Like, it's, like it's the wussy version of smallpox.

  16. John Green· Host1:05

    Oh, it's like the chicken version of smallpox. Okay.

  17. Hank Green· Host1:08

    Yeah.

  18. John Green· Host1:08

    I get... I g- I can get into that.

  19. Hank Green· Host1:10

    Yeah.

  20. John Green· Host1:11

    I... Like, they call cowpox cowpox because you got it from cows. They, they didn't think in the past- 100% ... that you got it from chickens?

  21. Hank Green· Host1:16

    No, no, no, no. They never thought you got it from chickens. That was never a thing.

  22. John Green· Host1:19

    Wow. Well.

  23. Hank Green· Host1:21

    Yeah. There is no animal reservoir for chickenpox, which means it is eradicable.

  24. John Green· Host1:25

    And indeed will be eradicated in the fullness of time because- I, man, I think it will be

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