276: An Onomatopoetic Wifi Explainer
Dear Hank & John
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🗓️ 1 February 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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How does science work? Is it rude to turn off the lights while my dog eats? How does wifi work? Do I always dream and just can't remember sometimes? What do I do as an adult? Why do cans explode in the cold but not bottles? Is it okay to get into something good for the wrong reasons? How do I work from home without burning out? Hank Green and John Green have answers!
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| 0:00.0 | I think we're doing a cold open today. We only do cold opens on important occasions. |
| 0:06.2 | This time around, there's a couple things. I mean, I do have a new book coming out. It's called |
| 0:10.2 | the Ethnic Procene Review. It's available for pre-order everywhere, but that's not really the |
| 0:13.5 | cause of the cold open. We wanted to come here before the intro and just let... |
| 0:19.3 | I know what this is going to be. Just let everybody know that I made a TikTok. |
| 0:24.2 | Oh my God. I make way too many TikToks, but John Green, my brother John Green, makes one TikTok |
| 0:34.2 | every month, every couple months, but you know what they all have in common, Hank. They have a |
| 0:38.4 | variety of topics, but you know what each of them has in common. Solid gold platinum, |
| 0:45.9 | banger TikTok. It's true. John, all my TikToks go platinum, Hank. The only one that didn't |
| 0:51.6 | is the one where you promoted my book. You have 750,000 followers on TikTok after five TikToks? |
| 1:03.3 | Yeah, so the whole reason I made this TikTok was because I was getting really close to |
| 1:07.2 | 666,000 followers, which is a number that, as you know, like I find extremely stressful. |
| 1:12.5 | Uh-huh. And so I was like, I think I'll make a TikTok, because then either a lot of people will |
| 1:16.4 | follow me or a lot of people will unfollow me, but it doesn't matter either way, it's the same result, |
| 1:21.1 | which is that we are no longer near that number. And a lot of people followed me because of my |
| 1:26.1 | really nuanced hot take about how Joe Biden is the 45th president of the United States, |
| 1:30.9 | because we can't keep counting Grover Cleveland twice. Hank, I want it on my tombstone, |
| 1:35.4 | the Grover Cleveland can't be two presidents. Good to talk. |
| 1:38.4 | Good to talk. John, if I can make one contribution to this broken country, let it be that Grover |
| 1:43.4 | Cleveland cannot be the 22nd and the 24th president of the United States. |
| 1:48.4 | John Green, 1977 to 2007, Grover Cleveland is only one man. |
| 2:00.4 | You know, Hank, now that you've said it that way, I'd like to amend my previous statement. |
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