445: Bring Me My Favorites
Dear Hank & John
Complexly
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🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Can I get an MRI or go through TSA without setting off alarms after getting a knee replacement? Would chugging a hardcore energy drink kill a medieval peasant? What was the go-to mini-break activity before doom-scrolling? What happened to Soggy Pitch? Where should I bring my parents in Amsterdam? Did you have to face excruciating conversations with your parents when you were teens? How do things survive in the deepest parts of the ocean? …Hank and John Green have answers!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a Complexly podcast. |
| 0:09.2 | Hello and welcome to Dear Hank and John. |
| 0:11.9 | Yours, I prefer to think of it, Dear John and Hank. |
| 0:14.1 | It's a podcast where two brothers answer your questions, |
| 0:16.7 | give you to me to B's advice and bring me all the week's news from both Mars and AFC Wimbledon. |
| 0:20.6 | John, do you know where they call it chickenpox? |
| 0:22.8 | No, why? |
| 0:24.1 | Actually, nobody does. |
| 0:26.1 | Really? |
| 0:27.3 | Yeah, it is an up for debate. |
| 0:29.7 | We're not sure it might, the most likely reason, and this is the silliest and worst reason, |
| 0:35.5 | is that the French at some point called it |
| 0:39.5 | chickenpox after chickpeas, and they would call it their version of chickpocks, because they |
| 0:45.0 | look kind of like chickpeas, but they don't. |
| 0:47.5 | They don't really look like chickpeas. They're red for one thing. |
| 0:51.6 | There's also the idea that they look like maybe a chicken pecked you, and there's also the idea, and this is my favorite one, but it's almost certainly not it. It's like smallpox, but it's a chicken. Huh? Like it's the woozy version of smallpox. Oh, it's like the chicken version of smallpox. Okay, I can get into that. I, like they call cowpox, cowpox, because you got it from cows. They didn't think in the past that you got it from chickens? No, no, no, no, no. They never thought you got it from chickens. That was never a thing. Wow. Well, yeah. There is no animal reservoir for chicken pox, which means it is eradicable. And indeed, will be eradicated in the fullness of time because... I think it will be. We've got a good vaccine for it now, which means that in the future, if you get the chickenpox vaccine, you won't have to get shingles, which Hank currently has, which is basically a chickenpox reactivation. There is a small chance that you would still get shingles, but it is much less likely. |
| 1:45.3 | And then in the fullness of time, no one will ever get shingles again, because we will get |
| 1:50.1 | everybody vaccinated and people won't get chicken bucks anymore. |
| 1:53.1 | And we'll have better and better vaccines and better technologies. |
| 1:55.9 | And we're going to keep doing better things by learning more about our world. |
| 2:00.3 | And in the fullness of full time, there won't be people. |
| 2:04.8 | So there will be no people left to get chicken pox. |
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