410: Too Weird to Fail
Dear Hank & John
Complexly
4.9 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Are the geese in Mary Oliver’s “Wild Geese” Canada Geese? Why are there taglines on movie posters? Does footballer Joe Lewis have special shorts? How was the alphabetical order decided? Are lone geese searching for the rest of their flock? Should Canada become the 51st US state? …Hank and John Green have answers!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a Complexly podcast. |
| 0:09.6 | Hello and welcome to Dear Hank and John. |
| 0:12.9 | Whereas I prefer to think of it, Dear John and Hank. |
| 0:15.0 | It's a podcast for two brothers offer you dubious advice and answer your questions |
| 0:18.1 | and bring you all the week's news for both Mars, Nancy Wimbled,. Hank, I'm in a very echoy space because I'm in a concrete... |
| 0:24.6 | I'm in a concrete box right now on vacation with my family, but I took the day off because |
| 0:31.0 | they were going on a long boat ride and I just got done with the tour for everything as tuberculosis |
| 0:36.7 | and there were a lot of planes, trains, and automobiles, |
| 0:39.0 | but blessedly there were no birds. |
| 0:41.1 | Jiggles. |
| 0:42.2 | I don't need another, I don't need another method of transportation this week. |
| 0:46.7 | I've had too many. |
| 0:48.3 | Yeah, recently, Catherine wanted to go on vacation, |
| 0:50.7 | and I wanted to go on more of like a staycation, |
| 0:52.7 | so we did a compromise and had an |
| 0:54.5 | altercation. |
| 0:56.9 | That's pretty funny. |
| 0:58.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:58.8 | That's not bad. |
| 1:01.6 | You just got back from vacation as well. |
| 1:04.1 | I did actually. |
| 1:05.1 | And we in fact, both of us very much wanted to go on vacation. |
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