282: The Silly Brothers
Dear Hank & John
Complexly
4.9 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Who writes author bios in the back of books? Why do things burn up when entering the atmosphere but not exiting it? Would you stay in a space hotel? Where does stimulus money come from? Can humans reduce carbon emission as much as we need to? Can you make a cake? How do you get sauces delivered? Hank Green and John Green have answers!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Dear Hank and John. |
| 0:06.6 | Of course I prefer to think of it dear John and Hank. |
| 0:08.7 | It's a podcast where two brothers answer your questions, |
| 0:11.1 | give you the best advice and bring you all the weeks news from both Mars and AFC Wimbledon. |
| 0:15.2 | John. Yeah. |
| 0:16.4 | I had a joke about the vaccines, but I decided not to tell it, |
| 0:21.3 | because I was afraid not everyone will get it. |
| 0:24.4 | That's pretty good. |
| 0:27.0 | That's pretty, the way you told the joke betrayed a certain level of frustration and fatigue. |
| 0:35.2 | You didn't bring the full, hammy, Hank Green, get the crowd riled up, |
| 0:41.4 | kind of vibe that you usually bring, but to be fair, that's not where we are right now. |
| 0:46.1 | No. Hank and I are both in a different place. |
| 0:48.9 | It's a weird place of frustration and exhaustion. |
| 0:52.9 | If I sound a little weird, it's because my computer just stopped working and so I'm recording |
| 0:57.8 | on my handheld recorder. |
| 0:59.8 | I can't see the questions and I had to remember that joke, which I had written, but I had forgotten. |
| 1:06.1 | It was lucky that it started out. |
| 1:08.6 | I was going to tell a joke. |
| 1:10.6 | Yeah, that was good. |
| 1:11.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:12.8 | I'm going to have to ask all the questions because Hank's computer doesn't work. |
| 1:16.9 | If I sound like a person who hasn't slept in 10 days, that's because I haven't, because |
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