446: Just Chatting… With Me

Dear Hank & John

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🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Where does bubblegum flavor come from? Why do our voices change as we get older? Why does moving suck? Can a stump go on living once the top of its tree has been cut off? What are some ways to find a third space and be part of a community? What can I do to not be so nervous speaking in class? …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.
0:11.7	Or is I prefer to think of it, Dear John and Hank.
0:13.8	It's a podcast where two brothers answer your questions, give you dubious advice,
0:17.1	and bring you all the week's news from both Mars and AFC Wimbledon, John.
0:21.1	Yeah.
0:21.4	What word becomes longer when you remove two letters?
0:26.4	What?
0:27.8	Longer.
0:31.6	It's true.
0:33.2	It's true.
0:34.7	How are you?
0:36.1	I'm still struggling.
0:56.6	Hank, I have big news. I have a major announcement. Oh, no. Yeah. I've been keeping a secret from the dear Hank and John audience for the last, like... Is it under your hat? It's under my hat, Hank. He's bald, everybody! No, it's a new book. It's a new book, Hank. Oh, it's a new book. It's a new book. It's under his hat. You can't see it because it's a new book it's a new book Hank oh it's a new book it's under his hat you can't see it because it's a podcast but there it is whoop i have written a novel it is coming out
1:02.4	september 22nd signed copies are available for pre-order now it is called hollywood ending
1:07.8	hollywood comma ending there's a comma in the title Hank a controversial comma ending. There's a comma in the title, Hank, a controversial
1:11.8	comma. Wow. Why is there a comma? Hollywood ending. Hollywood ending. It's about two people in
1:20.5	their 20s who are stars of a movie, and the movie, which is about Andy Warhol's last year,
1:26.8	is kind of blowing up.
1:28.0	And alongside it, their lives are blowing up in ways that are exciting and intoxicating and also terrifying and painful.
1:36.2	And Hank, you haven't read it yet.
1:38.7	No, it's true.
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