457: Big Ball Curators
Dear Hank & John
Complexly
4.9 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
How do I best support someone trying to quit smoking? Why do migraines create such strange symptoms? Why are dead people and animals in cartoons often depicted with Xs for eyes? What do I do with a headstone in my backyard that is from the 1800s? How should I display all my nerdfighter memorabilia? Do ducks have ears? …Hank and John Green have answers!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. Before we get started, I want to tell you about humans. Humans is a podcast where I talk to people about the questions that I have about being a person. And sometimes those conversations are with people who have just had experience being people, like my brother, or the editor of the New York Times game connections. These are just people who've like done it and tried weird stuff, |
| 0:22.6 | and so I want to talk to them about how they do it. |
| 0:24.6 | But I also am talking to people who have maybe some special insight |
| 0:28.6 | into what's going on with humans, like Hannah Richie, who is a data scientist, |
| 0:31.6 | who studies our impact on the climate, |
| 0:34.6 | or Jennifer Shuba, who studies demography and what it means for humans that people are having fewer kids than they used to. |
| 0:41.3 | I also just had a conversation with the author of the Warriors books. |
| 0:46.3 | These are books about cats that live in the woods. |
| 0:48.3 | I did not realize that this was a person who would have so much insight into humanity, |
| 0:53.3 | and also into the responsibilities that |
| 0:55.8 | we have when we create content for children. That conversation was so good. It's going to be |
| 1:00.6 | a while before it comes out. But oh my God. So yeah, I'm talking to authors and actors and astrophysicists, |
| 1:06.9 | and it's cool. And it's really interesting and fun and I've really been enjoying it. I'm so glad it's finally out into the world. The overall conceit is just that like it's cool, and it's really interesting and fun, and I've really been enjoying it. |
| 1:10.9 | I'm so glad it's finally out into the world. |
| 1:13.4 | The overall conceit is just that it's good to take a little time to zoom out sometimes |
| 1:17.1 | to understand that the thing that we are is very weird and unique in the history of our Earth |
| 1:23.3 | and also the known universe, and we don't know how to do it. |
| 1:27.0 | No one's ever been the kind of thing that we are. And so we have to figure this out. And so I want to talk to people about figuring it out. New episodes come out every Thursday. You can find it wherever you get podcasts. All you've got to do is search humans. And then if that doesn't work, add my name onto the end and you'll find it. First episode is with John Green, a guy you've probably heard of, and I'm pretty sure it's out now. |
| 1:52.1 | You're listening to a Complexly podcast. |
| 2:00.1 | Hello, and welcome to Dear Hank and John. |
| 2:03.4 | I prefer to think of it, Dear John and Hank. |
| 2:05.5 | It's a podcast where two brothers answer your questions, give you to me to be advice, |
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