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🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Do we sweat the same way vegetables do? What should I do if a billionaire sits down at my dinner table? How do I feel sane in today’s world? Can you please tell my twelve year old son to go to sleep? How did we decide the geological time scales? When were chairs invented? How does John manage his fear of TB contamination? What is Salinger-ing? …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. |
| 0:12.1 | Or is I prefer to think of it, Dear John and Hank? |
| 0:13.9 | It's a podcast where two brothers answer your questions, give you to B's advice, |
| 0:17.5 | and bring you all the week's news from both Mars and AFC Women on an actual physical couch together in Los Angeles, California. John, you know what the problem was when |
| 0:25.9 | Jacques Cousteau and Natalie Portman wanted to get married? What? But how would they mash their names |
| 0:30.3 | together? Uh, into a portmanteau. It's a good joke. It's a good joke. |
| 0:38.3 | So we are in Los Angeles filming Ask Hank Anything and we decided that we would make a podcast |
| 0:43.3 | while we're here on this couch. |
| 0:44.3 | I would love. |
| 0:45.3 | It would be so cool to do it like this, except maybe not with four other people in the room. |
| 0:49.3 | It would be great to do it like this every week, especially if you lived in Indianapolis |
| 0:53.3 | because then I wouldn't have to leave Indianapolis. Right. I would just be there. You would be there all the time. We would do so much work. We'd be like Red and Link, you know? Just brothers. They're not brothers. But you know what I mean. They basically. I had a dream last night about Retton Link that they gave me really good advice, and we were just hanging out like the old days days and they were like, man, you gotta take it down a notch. I was like, thanks, Rhett and Link. Yeah. I needed to hear that from you guys. If Rhett or Link said I had to take it down a notch, I'd be like, watch your own business. I'd be like, don't you talk to me about my notches. I think it's so defensive when you tell them to take him down a notch. I do, I mean, well, the reason is, sometimes people are like, why are you doing all this? And I'm like, I don't know. Yeah, you can't answer the question. I need to rein it in. Yeah, you get defensive because you can't answer the question. Yeah, I do not feel like I am acting in my own best interests right now. Earlier today, and we'll get to your question soon, but earlier today Hank told me that he has a Hank's channel video that he's very nervous about uploading because he's worried that it's going to offend people. I don't think it's going to offend people, but people may disagree with certain portions of it. And then I was like, so don't upload it. And you were like, but I can't because it's a banger. It's just that people are |
| 2:02.9 | wrong. Oh. And it's, the video is right. It's good to be you. It's good to be certain. There's |
| 2:10.2 | just, there's a lack of nuance out there in the world. No. You don't say. On the internet? That's what my friends Natalie Portman and Jacques Cousteau have told me. Now, I don't want to get ahead of your joke, but isn't it impossible for Natalie Portman and Jacques Cousteau to get married because Jacques Cousteau is dead? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I think that that's one of the problems with the idea. Yeah, but it's a good joke. Let's answer this question from Bronwyn, who writes, Dear John and Hank. |
| 2:35.2 | Oh, wow, you can see that far? When I'm cooking vegetables and they sweat, like release water in the heat, is this the same way I sweat? No. Bronwyn. No. No. It's not? I mean, because we're releasing. What's the same? We're exposed to heat and we're releasing wet. |
| 2:52.9 | Wetness in order to... |
| 2:53.8 | Do you know that Because we're releasing... What's the same? We're exposed to heat and we're releasing wetness in order to... |
| 2:53.6 | Do you know that we are among the wettest? |
| 2:57.7 | Like humans? |
| 2:58.5 | Yeah. |
| 2:59.0 | Are among the wettest animals? |
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