441: The Value of a Single Shoe
Dear Hank & John
Complexly
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🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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How has your relationship with your audience changed? What’s a good lie to tell my coworkers about my butt surgery? Has anyone ever tasted the moon? What’s the highest altitude we have ever recorded a cloud? How long do I have to sit in the bath to touch every molecule of water? What is the value of a single shoe? How do I handle the information that we might live in a black hole? …Hank and John Green have answers!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a Complexly podcast. |
| 0:09.3 | Hello and welcome to dear Hank and John. |
| 0:11.8 | Or as I prefer to think of it, dear John and Hank. |
| 0:13.9 | It's a podcast where two brothers answer your question, |
| 0:15.9 | give you to me to this advice and bring you all the week's news from both Mars and AFC Wimbledon. |
| 0:19.7 | John, did you hear that if you listen to enough queen that you can go crazy? |
| 0:26.6 | Oh, no. |
| 0:27.6 | Yeah, they think it's the high mercury content. |
| 0:30.8 | It's good. |
| 0:31.8 | It's good. |
| 0:32.5 | I mean, I don't want to rehash your joke, but I would say more that you can become very sick |
| 0:37.3 | because it's not just mental illness that accompanies mercury poisoning. It's all kinds of |
| 0:42.2 | illnesses. But it seems more like a thing that might actually happen if you listen to a lot of |
| 0:45.6 | queen. It could actually go crazy. And they do say that about the mad hatters. Okay. All right. |
| 0:51.6 | They are mad because of the mercury and the hatting equipment. |
| 1:03.8 | John, by the time this comes out, this will be old news, but the new news for us is that we are finally announcing to the world that complexly is becoming a nonprofit. |
| 1:04.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:28.0 | And one of the things that I'd like as we shift things slightly is for the Deerhanging Johns to come out more in line with when they are being recorded so that this doesn't seem as crazy as what's happening right now. Yeah, right now we're on like a two-week schedule. Two-week minimum, sometimes more. Which means that you're getting the AFC Wimbledon News, which I know you need piping hot, a little bit cold. Yeah, yeah, and the Mars News also. Yeah, and I know that that's why people come to the podcast think, and so it's hard for what if Artemis has launched? Like Artemis 2 might be on the way to the moon right now. Could be. I have no idea. We wouldn't know. The reason we decided to become a nonprofit for those who don't know because I know some people don't watch our |
| 1:44.9 | YouTube videos, which is fine. Don't feel pressure to. I know this because it turns out that our |
| 1:49.3 | hit podcast is actually bigger than our YouTube channel that we always thought was much bigger than our |
| 1:53.4 | hit podcast. So, Complexly is the educational media company that makes Crash Course and SciShow and |
| 1:59.8 | study hall and Askank Anything and lots of other shows. And it has functioned in some ways in the sense that it |
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