277: One Quirk Too Many
Dear Hank & John
Complexly
4.9 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Why do American weeks start on Sunday? How long should Christmas decorations stay up? How do I add variety to my life? What's a failure that felt like success? Is it okay to use a gift in its thank you card? Hank Green and John Green have answers!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Dear Hank and John. |
| 0:06.3 | Dore's up for a big of a dear John and Hank. |
| 0:08.1 | It's a podcast for two brothers answer your questions, |
| 0:10.3 | give you a big advice and bring them all the way to |
| 0:11.8 | news from both Mars and AFC Wimbledon. |
| 0:14.0 | John, how do you make an octopus giggle? |
| 0:17.4 | I don't know. |
| 0:19.3 | You give them 10 tickles. |
| 0:21.6 | John, octopuses have 10 tickles. |
| 0:24.4 | And I bring this up. |
| 0:26.5 | Hank. |
| 0:27.2 | Yeah, Hank? |
| 0:28.4 | Correct me, science man. |
| 0:29.8 | Well, it's just that I don't know if you've seen the Nobel Prize |
| 0:33.2 | that I keep in the background of the vlog brothers videos. |
| 0:36.4 | It's the Nobel Prize for being extremely pedantic. |
| 0:39.8 | Uh-huh. |
| 0:40.1 | And I won it the old fashioned way, |
| 0:42.3 | which was by pointing out that octopi don't have tentacles. |
| 0:47.7 | Octopodes have feet. |
| 0:50.2 | Oh my god. |
| 0:55.6 | So there are three ways to pluralize octopus. |
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