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Dear Hank & John

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Dear Hank & John

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4.98K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

How do I entertain myself during a quarantine? Where is the center of the universe? Why are the letters on a phone keypad upside down from a keyboard numberpad? Should I stop talking to my friend because they don't like The Mountain Goats? How do I cope with sudden major life changes? Hank Green and John Green have answers!If you're in need of dubious advice, email us at [email protected]! Join us for monthly livestreams and an exclusive weekly podcast at patreon.com/dearhankandjohn. Follow us on Twitter! twitter.com/dearhankandjohn Subscribe to the Nerdfighteria newsletter! https://nerdfighteria.com/nerdfighteria-newsletter

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0:00.0

Hi, cold open here from John and Hank to let you know that we have some exciting new merch available. No, it's not it's to talk about

0:08.0

The global pandemic that is COVID-19 and that has caused so much disruption to so many people's lives. I don't know

0:15.3

Is that how we want to do it? I don't know you tell me you try cold open everybody

0:20.0

It is a stressful and

0:23.0

Disconcerting time and it is when we were all being asked to

0:26.7

Do things that we may not want to do but I'm happy myself to be doing all the hand washing and working from home and not face touching and

0:35.1

Social distancing that I can

0:37.1

That's very easy for you to say and also that we're not you can't do all the social distancing

0:41.6

You can you have to do all the social distancing. Yeah, well, it's like yeah, so this is this is the thing

0:47.8

You are aware of this problem. We are aware of this problem now. Let's have some time where we're not always thinking about it and there is

0:56.0

There is space to be in a world as it exists without it being like without sort of

1:01.7

Experiencing dread during every second of a terrible situation. Yeah, I think we should be calm

1:06.2

I think we should be kind. I think we should be compassionate

1:09.0

But I also think we should understand where we are where this is in history and that there has not been a moment like this in our lives

1:16.2

And there will not be a moment like this again. Hopefully. Yeah, one more try one more try

1:21.6

Hi cold open

1:23.6

Look, we're gonna try to have some laughs today, but

1:28.2

We are also cognizant of the fact that for many of you probably most of you

1:35.4

This is a profoundly

1:38.7

uncertain and

1:40.2

scary

1:41.5

Time we don't know what to say about that all we can say

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