424: Heaven Grades on a Curve

Dear Hank & John

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4.9 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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If you were standing on Mercury or Venus, would the sun look bigger? How long is a "while"? What are career fields that AI won’t be able to replace? How do we not run out of crystals and gemstones? How do I clear the smoke out of my house? …Hank and John Green have answers!

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0:00.0	Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co.
0:05.5	That's audible.co.uk slash wondery.
0:12.7	You're listening to a complexly podcast.
0:20.8	Hello and welcome to dear Hank and John.
0:23.6	Or as I prefer to think of it, dear John and Hank.
0:25.9	It's a podcast where two brothers answer your questions,
0:29.0	give you dubious advice,
0:30.0	and bring you all the week's news from both Mars and AFC, Wimbled and John.
0:33.0	Yeah.
0:33.2	Where do you find a cow with no legs?
0:35.2	Where?
0:36.1	Right where you left it, baby. How you doing?
0:38.9	That's a good joke. That's good. How come they're not always like that? We just got to
0:44.6	this is the thing. We can't analyze each joke. We just got to move on. Okay. We got to move on.
0:50.3	How are you? I'm fine. How are you doing? I've been sick all week. So if I sound a little sick, it's because I am sick. John has postponed two podcasts. And all he has told me is I just don't feel up to it. And I have just assumed that that means that the world is too much. And you'd not like to make a bunch of jokes right now.
1:11.5	No, there's an element of that.
1:12.4	It turns like you actually are ill.
1:13.4	Yeah, mostly I just haven't been able to get out of bed.
1:15.4	I've gotten out of bed three times this week. And each time I was like, that was a mistake. And now I'm out of bed again. And I'm sure I'm going to think it's a mistake again. but here we are.
1:23.1	I'm happy to be making a podcast with you
1:24.6	despite the circumstances.
1:26.2	And, you know, I don't know.
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