450: Diet Coke is Tea (w/ Keith Habersberger!)

Dear Hank & John

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🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

What is a word like “vegetarian” to describe a person who does not willingly want to consume AI-generated content? How do you avoid doomspiraling when trying to reconnect with your creativity? What’s the tastiest drink? Why do banks always tell you what the temperature is outside? Do I need to get a checkbook? What book should I read? Why are parking lot sunsets so beautiful and particularly, why are Meijer parking lots? How can I convince my friends who are visiting that it is a better place to see the sunset than over Lake Michigan?…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 Keith Habersberger.
0:13.1	It's a podcast for two brothers and sometimes a brother and some other guy.
0:17.5	Answer your questions, give you to the easiest advice, and bring you all the weeks' news from both Mars and AFC Wimbledon. Keith, John couldn't be here this week, so we got a guy who looks like he could definitely be our brother. Definitely, I feel like I could be in the family. I feel like, yeah, I feel like you're in it. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we could get Joe Hanson in here. We could get Grant O'Brien in here. Man. Oh, wow. If the five of us did a thing,
0:41.5	I have thought we should find some sort of thing. The way that people do like the Ryan Fest,
0:46.7	like in Oregon and where they like get, instead of getting people with the same name, just people
0:50.3	who look enough like us that we're cool with it.
0:55.1	Yeah.
0:55.6	You know, just guys with faces who are white and have glasses.
0:59.9	I mean, that's pretty much it.
1:01.6	Yeah.
1:02.4	But it is fun that how many of us are specifically like YouTubers from different but similar geek and nerd niches.
1:09.4	Yeah.
1:10.1	You know, I think we're all the top of a different
1:12.3	nerd stack in particular. Oh, what top, what nerd stack are you on top of? Food.
1:19.1	Oh, yeah, I guess so. Have you ever had Taco Johns? I have had Taco Johns. Did you have all of
1:24.1	Taco Johns? No, I haven't because it's just in like the center of America.
1:28.5	Yeah, we have Taco Johns here.
1:29.8	They have that weird sauce that's named after a lady. That's not familiar, actually. Maybe it's a different. Oh, Runza. Sorry. Do you know Runza? No. I was just thinking about Taco Johns because the one by my house closed and I haven't had that barita that smells a little bit like propane in so long.
1:45.1	I've only had Taco Johns a couple times a little bit like propane in so long.
1:45.1	I've only had Taco Johns a couple times and it was back when I was touring almost 15 years ago.
1:50.4	Oh, I see. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Back when you had to. I just miss it. This is great for me as a
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