454: Flippin’ Heck
Dear Hank & John
Complexly
4.9 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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How do I adjust to a new school? Are ducks up to something? Why are puzzles so satisfying? Do ocean mammals drink salt water? How did Hank come up with 2D glasses? If the sun disappeared, would earth eventually find another star to orbit? …Hank and John Green have answers!
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| 0:00.0 | Real quick, everybody, straight message. |
| 0:01.5 | Here from Hank Green, I have had a really weird career. |
| 0:04.5 | I've done a lot of really cool things. |
| 0:06.2 | But by far the thing that I get thanked for the most in public and am most proud of and |
| 0:12.7 | am most amazed by because, of course, like, this is not a thing that I did. |
| 0:17.0 | It is a thing that many people did that I helped with is crash course. YouTube.com slash |
| 0:21.7 | crash course. It is really good. It helps people learn in situations where they need that help. |
| 0:27.7 | It helps lower the barrier to getting information in your head. We've never charged anybody for it. |
| 0:32.2 | We've never advertised it. We've never convinced a school board to buy it. The only reason people use crash Course is because a student decides to use it because they think that it's going to help them, or a teacher decides to use it because they think they're going to help their student. That's how we want Crash Course to be. The only reason it's successful is because people are choosing to use it. And I know that sounds crazy, but in educational media, that is not often to how things go. But there are two true things about the world. Number one, making Crash Course is expensive. It's a lot more expensive than making the average YouTube video, because you got to get things right. You've got to have consultants. You've got to have a lot of review. And a second thing that's true is that some people, and not most, but some people have extra money. And this is the only reason |
| 1:12.2 | that Crash Course works. It is because some people who can pay for it so that not everyone else has to. |
| 1:18.9 | And now that Complexly is a nonprofit, that's a thing that happened this year, complexity, |
| 1:22.7 | the parent company of Crash Course is a nonprofit. So we belong structurally, officially to the public. And so |
| 1:29.0 | that's going to help out with this situation. And the other thing that helps out is that right now, |
| 1:33.4 | the 26 CrashCourse Coin is here and is only available until May 29th at CrashCorescoin.com. |
| 1:39.2 | Not everybody has the money to buy a CrashCourse coin, but everybody has the time to consider |
| 1:43.7 | whether or not |
| 1:44.5 | they're the person who should. And if you just considered that, you've done the job, because some |
| 1:49.6 | of you considered it and said, you know, actually I am. And some of you considered it and said, |
| 1:53.6 | no, I need to make responsible financial decisions right now. That's all I'm asking. Everybody who |
| 1:59.0 | considered it did their job and the ones who realized that they could financially support CrashCores, those people, they are now going to CrashCorescoin.com, right? |
| 2:08.2 | They are now on their way to crashcorescoin.com to get these beautiful coins. |
| 2:12.8 | Every coin helps us reach thousands of learners and your purchase is tax deductible, which I am told |
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