420: The Plant Episode

Dear Hank & John

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4.9 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Does John want to be a corn or pea plant? If we were able to put enough plants on Mars, could they produce enough oxygen for us to be able to breathe? Is there a scientific definition of what constitutes a weed? How do purple leaves work? Should I tell my friend she’s been watering a fake plant for seven months? …Hank and John Green have answers!

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0:00.0	You're listening to a Complexly podcast.
0:09.5	Hello and welcome to dear Hank and John.
0:12.2	Yours I prefer to think of it, dear John and Hank.
0:14.3	It's a podcast where two brothers answer your questions, give you to bea's advice,
0:17.7	and bring you all the week's news from both Mars and AFC Wimbledon. John, I recently asked Oren what the chemical formula for water was. Yeah. And he said, H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O, because it's H-2-O. H-2-O. I like that. That's like a traditional dad joke. Like that, I think that we could be happy with that because like nobody's laughing,
0:38.3	but that's what dad jokes are. They don't have to be, they're not supposed to be good.
0:43.0	100% agree with you that nobody's laughing. We're on the same page there. John. Yeah.
0:49.9	What's the best thing you've ever done? Oh, probably with NerdFiteria raise money to build a hospital and lower the cost of diagnostics and treatments for tuberculosis.
1:07.2	What about you?
1:08.5	Oh, I like when, I want, I like, like, like,, I like like cliff dove into a river once.
1:14.7	Oh, I misread the question.
1:16.8	It's like when, it's like when I was dating that girl in college and she said, what's your
1:22.5	biggest fear?
1:23.2	And I said, probably abandonment.
1:24.8	What's your biggest fear?
1:25.7	And she said, geese.
1:29.6	I had a very small part to play in both those successes with TV and with building the hospital,
1:35.5	but I'm still immensely proud of them. So that's what I'd say. But now that you're asking me
1:40.3	on a different level, I guess it's probably the time I jumped out of an airplane.
1:45.3	Did you what?
1:46.1	You did not do that?
1:47.3	Yeah, I did.
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