429: The Mouse Layer

Dear Hank & John

Complexly

Vlogbrothers, People, Social Media, Soccer, Humor, Heartfelt, Youtube, Itunes:https://feeds.simplecast.com/9yni3wal, John Green, Comedy, Life, Green Brothers, Self-improvement, Advice, Dear Hank And John, Authors, Hank Green, Brothers, Society & Culture, Education, Relationships, Mars, 770430, Improv, Space, Pop Culture, Philosophy, Conversations

4.9 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Why don’t ants drown when it rains? Why is my car covered in bees? How do I balance a profession I love with wanting to have a life outside of work? Why is it easy to put my feet in water, but it’s uncomfortable to get my shoulders in water? How do I help my child navigate questions and fears about religion? Is the “membership rate” in A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor based on a valid economic theory or is it just a plot device? I accidentally walked into my neighbor’s dorm, do I have to go back and apologize even though I’m dying of embarrassment? …Hank and John Green have answers!

If you're in need of dubious advice, email us at [email protected].

Join us for monthly livestreams at patreon.com/dearhankandjohn.

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	You're listening to a Complexly podcast.
0:09.4	Hello and welcome to Dear Hank and John.
0:12.1	Or as I prefer to think of it, Dear John and Hank.
0:14.2	It's a podcast where two brothers answer your questions, give you Dub's advice,
0:17.1	and bring you all the week's news from both Mars.
0:19.2	And AFC Wimbled and John, what do you call
0:21.5	five ants that move into an apartment with another five ants? Ten ants. Tenants. Tenants. Tenants.
0:29.1	Tenants. They are tenants in the apartment. I love it. It's a great joke. How are you doing?
0:36.3	I slept for so long. I've been having a hard time sleeping for over a month. I finally, this weekend, I went to bed and I slept and I went to bed at like 10 and I woke up at like 9.30.
0:52.4	Wow. Good for you, man.
0:54.1	It sounds a little bit like maybe problematic.
0:57.8	Like maybe I've set myself up for another problem.
1:01.9	No, I was very tired.
1:03.5	Wow. I had a lot of fun at a conference over the weekend with Sarah, and now I am also tired.
1:09.0	But in general, I find myself to be tired. I'm 48 years old,
1:12.5	an impossible age. I mean, I never imagined being alive at 48, let alone, like, that I would
1:18.3	continue to grow and change. Oh, yeah. It's very strange to me. I thought of adulthood as like a
1:24.7	zombie apocalypse virus that you ran away from for as long as you could, and then eventually it got you and you became a zombie, you know?
1:30.7	It's like the way, like if you could sit on the subway and like look at all the other people and be like, look at these sheep.
1:35.5	It's like that with ages.
1:37.4	It is like that with ages.
1:38.6	You know that all the people your age are really like sort of rich and, you know, interpersonal dealings and lots of change
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Complexly, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Complexly and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.