412: This Is Going to Be a Therapy Session (w/ Shan Boodram!)

Dear Hank & John

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4.9 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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How do I become someone people care about? Should I tell my roommate’s boyfriend that she is cheating on him? How do I meet people and start dating? What break-up remedies do you recommend? My boyfriend has a different aesthetic than mine, how do we decorate? How do I deal with the grief of losing a pet that is still alive? …Shan Boodram and John Green have answers.

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0:00.0	You're listening to a Complexly podcast.
0:09.3	Hello and welcome to Dear Hank and John, or in this case, dear John and Shan, it's a very special episode where I am joined by Crash Course Sex Ed host Shan. Hello.
0:23.7	Oh my gosh, that still feels like a dream come true to hear those three words strung together. Is that three words? Crash course host, Shan. It's four.
0:30.3	It's four. But just Crash Course host is three. So that'll work. But it's got to say my name for it to
0:35.9	really zing, you know? That's what the feeling of,
0:39.0	you know, I grew up, I didn't grow up watching Crash Course. That's a lie. I went to college
0:43.0	and I had Crash Course because I think when people say that sometimes they make it seem as if
0:46.5	they're much younger than they are. I was college age when I listened, when I was deep into my crash course phase and it was such a gift to me. And so when I got
0:55.6	that email, it was a literal no-brainer just to be able to give back to this space. And then how
1:01.8	rewarding to see how it's giving back to others in return. So it's all around just amazing experience.
1:06.4	I just wanted to say thank you. I never actually got to say thank you so much to the work that you and your
1:11.8	brother do. I'm just happy to say it to you in person. And thanks for the opportunity to host on
1:15.4	Crash Course. Well, thank you for doing such an amazing job. I'm so proud of Crash Course Sex Ed.
1:19.9	If you haven't seen it, you should check it out. It covers all the topics. I have to confess,
1:24.6	I've been sharing it with my kids because, you know, some of that stuff's a little
1:28.5	hard to talk about. So I'm just like, hey, I think there's a crash course on this.
1:32.8	Can I get your advice on this, actually, John? Because I have a niece and nephew who are 13 and 15.
1:39.8	And I come across this all the time in my work where I speak to parents about sex.
1:45.4	And then the parent is like, oh, my kids aren't even thinking about that.
1:48.7	And that's the majority of people's responses.
1:51.2	But when we know what normal sexual development is and what normally happens age by age,
1:55.8	we know that statistically your kid is probably thinking about it and if they're not someone in classes.
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