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Dear Hank & John

428: Hard Pivot to Balls

Dear Hank & John

Complexly

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4.98K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

If humanity is around long enough, could another species evolve to look like us to deter predators? What did people do when they woke up before the existence of phones? What’s your favorite replacement for a swear word? How do purple baby carrots exist? How do I cope with the end of childhood? …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.

0:12.8

Yours I prefer to think of it, dear John and Hank.

0:15.0

It's a podcast where two brothers answer your questions,

0:16.9

give you to be advice, and bring you all the week's news from both Mars and AFC Wimbledon.

0:20.8

John, I had a police officer knock on my door. Oh. And I opened it up and I said, oh my gosh, what's what going on? And he said, we're looking for a man with one eye. And I said, well, you should probably use two. How's our, how's, how's life? How's life? I've been in four states in the last five days and two countries in the last seven days. So I'm a little, I'm like jet lagged, but not in the technical sense, just in the soul sense. But I'm trying to embrace travel because I'm going to be doing a lot of it. So I'm just, I'm just living my life. This is my life and I love my life.

0:55.6

And I'm very grateful to be able to travel and to have my job. I miss my family a little bit. But I'm home right now. Look at it. I'm in my office. So life is good. How are you? I'm good. I'm about to do some traveling myself. When I booked this thing, I was feeling really bad.

1:09.4

And I was like, I have to believe I'm going to be feeling better by the time this comes around.

1:14.3

And I was feeling really bad. And I was like, I have to believe I'm going to be feeling better by the time this comes around. And I was right. And that is huge news. It's just, it's very good. Because it's going to be like a 12-hour shoot in Los Angeles. Like, I'm going to get there at 7.30 at night. Yeah. be like a stylist waiting for me at my hotel room to like do my styling and then I get up

1:29.7

the next morning and have like go from. 7.30 at night. There's going to be like a stylist waiting for me at my hotel room to like do my

1:28.5

styling. And then I get up the next morning and have like go from like eight to I don't know.

1:35.0

Can you say what this shoot is for, Hank? I cannot right now. Is it for something hilarious?

1:39.8

It is for something very dumb. Yeah. It is not it's not something that like you're excited that I'm going to be doing.

1:45.8

No, I'm going to be like, oh, Hank did that.

1:47.6

No.

1:47.8

Some tiny percentage of people will be excited that you're doing it.

1:51.8

But it is a pretty small.

1:53.0

I know what it is.

1:54.1

And it is, in my opinion, actively hilarious.

1:57.9

But listen, man, get your bag in a minimally unethical way is my feeling about

2:06.5

that shoot. Yeah. When I got the email, I was like, is this a bad thing? And then I got the thing.

2:13.6

I was like, I got to make sure this isn't like evil. You can say you got the mobile game because it's for a mobile game.

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