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🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Do dogs have a preferred direction to chase their tail in? Why do we put the dollar sign before the number? Why don’t we have a word for “dying of thirst”? How do I approach public notoriety? …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.
0:12.7	Or as I prefer to think of it, Dear John and Hank.
0:14.9	It's a podcast where two brothers answer your questions, give you to be advice and bring you all the week's news from both Mars and AFC Wimbledon.
0:20.9	John, you know what the big problem with eating a clock is?
0:23.6	What's that?
0:24.5	It's very time-consuming.
0:27.4	How's my brother doing?
0:31.0	Medium. Medium well, I would say.
0:35.3	Cooked on both sides, for sure.
0:37.6	I have been recovering from walking pneumonia, which is a great disease name.
0:42.5	Oh, my God, yeah.
0:44.2	Yeah.
0:44.8	Yeah, is that just mean that you're fine, but you have pneumonia?
0:48.4	Exactly.
0:49.1	It means that I can walk around, but I still have pneumonia.
0:51.8	I like the idea that the pneumonia is the one doing the walking.
0:55.6	Mm-hmm.
0:56.2	Well, I don't think it's a good disease name.
0:58.5	I don't like to be critical of the doctors, but I think in this case, it's like an old-fashioned
1:02.6	disease name.
1:03.2	It's like dropsy or something or consumption.
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