416: The Free Will Episode

Dear Hank & John

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4.9 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Why do fish jump out of the water? What do I talk about in therapy? If the whole world quarantined itself for six weeks, would all viruses die out? If I want to donate to the TB cause, what is the best organization to do that with? Does a place without wind exist? Why does diet Dr. Pepper taste so differently when it is cold versus when it is room temperature? What do I do when it is my circus, but not my monkeys? …Hank and John Green have answers!

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0:00.0	You're listening to a Complexly podcast.
0:09.4	Hello and welcome to Dear Hank and John.
0:12.2	Or as I prefer to think of it, Dear John and Hank.
0:14.3	It's a podcast where two brothers answer your questions, give UDbous advice,
0:17.3	and bring you all the week's news from both Mars and AFC Wimbledon.
0:19.8	John.
0:20.4	Yeah.
0:20.6	Recently, there was a theft of $20,000 of college textbooks from the University of Montana bookstore.
0:29.3	Wow.
0:29.5	But luckily, luckily, the authorities were able to get both of those books back.
0:35.2	See, that's a good joke, because it's not a pun.
0:39.4	No, it's not.
0:40.4	It's a cultural commentary.
0:42.5	Exactly.
0:43.1	It's analysis.
0:44.1	It's biting analysis of what's broken about the college system in the United States.
0:48.5	No, it keeps getting worse.
0:50.1	They were so expensive when I was in school.
0:52.0	I, like, paid for an entire summer of food by dumpster
0:56.8	diving textbooks. I know. I remember. You also would dumpster dive for electronics that just needed
1:03.4	a little bit of repair and then repair them and sell them on eBay. But mostly, actually,
1:09.0	you paid for that summer of food by selling my baseball cards on eBay without my permission.
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