Dear Hank & John - 209: Sword Dabbing (Live from Minneapolis, MN!)

Episode Date: October 7, 2019

How should I invest to survive a financial downturn? How often do I really need to change my underwear? Am I a bag? How do help seventh graders? Should we think about the 2D world? What are wedding planning tips? How do I stop imitating accents? How do I deal with the ghosts? How do I innovate in a sword company? John Green and Hank green give advice! If you're in need of dubious advice, email us at [e-mail]. Join us for monthly livestreams and an exclusive weekly podcast at patreon.com/dearhankandjohn. Follow us on Twitter! twitter.com/dearhankandjohn Subscribe to the Nerdfighteria newsletter! https://nerdfighteria.com/nerdfighteria-newsletter

Hello, dear Hank and John Lissnerz. I'm still all alone. Mostly I have no reason to talk to my brother. I know that I could call him, but why would I? Because usually we have a podcast that we record together and that's when I call him, but now I don't have that excuse. And so here I am, feeling lost in a loan and the waves cast about by the desperation

of existing mostly on the social internet in 2019. This is, however, a real life thing that happened in the real world. And we did that in Minneapolis, Minnesota where there were many excellent questions from our listeners. What a fun time it was. We're going to do more live shows soon. A note, though, this podcast got cut off at the end and I don't know why. But before the outro, there's going to be the whole podcast, so that's going to start

right now. Hello. Hello. And welcome to Dear Icon John. Or as I've heard, think of a dear John in Hank. It's a podcast for two brothers, answer your questions, give you to be Hello, and welcome to Dear Haken John. Or as I've heard, think of a dear John and Hank. It's a podcast where two brothers answer your questions, give you to be advice, and also quiz each other in true false questions, because we don't really know what the news from AOC Wimbledon N Mars is this week.

We've been too busy, John. I know what the news from AOC Wimbledon. They tied one one against Ackrington Stanley. It's a humiliation. I'm very sorry to hear about that, John. Yes. Did you hear that the mayor of St. Paul made large soft drinks illegal?

Oh, I think I know where this is going. Now you have to get a minisoda. No, don't applaud. I mean, it encourages him. The biggest thing about them applauding right now is that you have to have heard that joke. Yeah. Well, the only reason they haven't heard it is because it's not called soda here. As a fellow resident of the middle west, I feel like it's my obligation to stand up for pop.

Both as a description of fizzy drinks, as well as in general for pop culture. All right. A feel has been greatly maligned by those people who don't live in flyover country. And meanwhile, we get to properly and unironically enjoy lots of wonderful art that is made for people, which I just think is great. Like, I, like, Old Town Road is a great song, and if you don't agree with me, I'll fight you.

Like, I'm... It's it. I will. I will bring it. We're not having any fights at our live events. That's not the kind of show this is. And we're not the kind of YouTubers we are. Hank, you're absolutely right. But after the show, dude, meet me out back. Love it, dance off.

Go west side story on it. All right. Let's answer some questions from our listeners. Do you have all of them? Oh, good. That's how I like it. That's how I like it. It's not handed me my questions. All right. Our first question. So we're going to answer some questions from our listeners. You have all of them. Oh, good, that's how I like it. It's not handed me my questions.

All right, our first question, so we're going to answer some of the questions that you submitted, either on these pieces of paper or by emailing us in advance of the show. Our first question comes from AJ. Oh, an important thing about this is that we had people submit the songs that they would like to play when the ambulance is taking them to the hospital rather than a siren. This is my million dollar idea.

I think that everyone should be able to submit a song that they wish to have played as their siren song. It's called siren songs. That's the name of the... That's new. That's the name of my business. Come up with that. Siren songs. Yeah, the name of my business. Came up with that. SirenSongsLLC, sirensongs.com, sirensongs.biz.

Got the whole thing locked down. Every time you update your medical information, you can also update your siren song if your music tastes change, et cetera. So AJ's ambulance song, or siren song, is praying by Kesha, both because it would help me get some much needed spiritual energy. And because that song's high note is essentially an actual ambulance siren.

And AJ writes, dear John and Hank, if traditional investment seems a little iffy at the moment, what are some unconventional but excellent investments we can make now in order to survive a financial downturn? Dubious advice is especially welcome. John. That's the only kind we got, AJ. Especially in this particular circumstance, I've got a little bit for you.

What if siren songs takes investment? Oh, yeah. That's a great idea. Yeah. Yeah. We're going to grow so fast, and then we're going to sell to Universal Music Group. I don't know. Yeah, it's going to be amazing.

It's a great investment opportunity. So that's one, obviously. I would say the biggest investment opportunity that's out there right now is owning 2 or 3% of a third-tier English soccer club called AFC Wibbleman. We are looking for what a hank earlier referred to. I thought rather smartly as people with docs. If you've got a doc, John's got a soccer team to sell you. I know we're in a doc.

AJ, there's a lot of kinds of investment, right? Like there's the kinds of investment that will give you a financial return. Those are not interesting. And then there are the kinds of investments that will give you an financial return those are not interesting and then there are the kinds of investments that will give you an emotional return those are interesting and that's why you should put all of your money in a fc winkelpoth every dollar empty out your 401k bet big go hard also if there's anything actual to take out of this it's always good to invest in yourself if there are things that you can do whether that's taking new skills, like getting skills that you didn't have before, trying things out on your own, working with people, trying, like, going to school.

Going to school during a recession is great. It's sort of the thing to do. You don't want to graduate into a recession, but it's great to just be in school during one. I graduated into a recession and it was kind of unpleasant, yeah, not recommended. Also, please remember that things are gonna be fine. Most things, things are not gonna be fine in the long run, obviously, for you as an individual or for the species, but things are also not gonna be fine in probably in like the short, short run, but there is a medium run in which things are also not going to be fine and probably in the short, short run.

But there is a medium run in which things are going to be fine. How long will it be? Nobody knows. We got another question. It was written in crayon and it just not appeared to have a name. You know what does have a name? It's from Adam. It's from Adam.

And it says, first it says, I dislike cream cheese at the top, but then it's been scratched out. I dislike cream cheese. No, I don't want to ask that instead, Adam has asked, do I really need to change my underwear every day? And Adam, I'm going to guess at your age. Either you're like 26. Ha ha ha ha ha. Or you're like 26 or you're like seven.

Great handwriting, either way. And we don't want to know any more specifics about Adam because we don't have last names on the cards. The answer to your question, Adam, is if you're seven, you change clothes as often as your parents tell you to. And I know my kids listen to the pod and I'm not looking to introduce nuance into the question of how often it's necessary to change one's underwear.

Uncle Hank here. You should change. Don't do this. You're underwear as often as your parents say, but you don't need a new pair of underwear every day. No, no, Henry, Alice. Change your underwear every day. Here's my underwear changing policy.

I'm just going to lay it all on the table. Air on the side of caution, which is also my overall world view. Sure. I couldn't tell you how often I changed underwear. John, it's not entirely clear to me. Oh my god. Oh, I want to go in a time machine.

But the only thing I want the time machine to do is to take me back right before that moment. It's only... We have another question. We have another question. We have another question. We have another question. And then everybody who listens to the podcast when it comes out. We have another question.

This one comes from Stacey, whose ambulance song is Tonight to Night by the Smashing Pumpkins. It's a bold choice, Stacey. Yeah, before the build-up, everybody is just gonna be like, what do you wanna do? Go to sleep? Right, yeah, nobody's gonna get out of the way of Tonight Tonight. Yeah.

Dear John and Hank, while going through the self-checkout line at some stores, you are asked at the Kiosk to select if you brought your own bang and you can get a very modest discount for doing so. Most of the time when I go through the self checkout line, though, I'm only purchasing one or two items, like a frozen pizza and a tube of toothpaste. I'm gonna have your life.

I don't need a bag. I can carry my purchase out of the store. My question is, can I claim this discount if I opt out by not using a bag at all? Or put another way, am I a bag? Yeah. Yeah. No, I mean, we're all... We don't have any jokes for that answer.

It just really likes the question. We're all bags. Everybody's bags. Yeah, I mean, it's bags of water. Just a big bag of soup. That's what it made me think about. We're like a skin-in-case soup. So we are a bag that carries around all of the soup.

But there's something meta about it, because we're also a bag that can carry other items. Yeah. We're both an exterior and an interior bag. And in that sense, I think we might be unique among bags. Yeah. Among the many unique things that humans are unlike anything else, we are also... We're both kinds of bag.

Yeah. We're different from any other kind of bag. But yeah, you're definitely a bag. If anybody at Target ever gives you a hard time, I said Target, by the way, because I know that they have their headquarters here. And I'm just desperate for any kind of brand deal with them. If you work at Target and you want to see someone sell their soul,

please email me. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. We got a lot of money to raise. But yeah, you're good, and if anybody ever gives you a hard time, you just very calmly look at them and say, oh, I took the 5 cent discount because I don't know if you know about this, but I am a bag.

And I guarantee you that ends the conversation. This next comes from Shelby who asks, what encouragement would you give to a seventh grade English teacher or anybody who works with teenagers who just wants their students to be kind to each other? There's also the little misspelling at the top here and then Shelby has just written a curse word and exclamation at the top. I'm like, come on, you're a teacher. Oh, it might be a little bit of a stressful time there, you know, back to school, teaching seventh grade, the single most difficult job known to humans.

Yeah. Now I remember, I remember being a seventh grade, uh, seventh grader, and if you wanted to make me be a more thoughtful human, uh, you would have a tall order. I, I don't know that there, there is a strategy for that that would not include things that would not be allowed by the state. Yeah. Well, here's the thing, though, Shelby. First off, thank you.

I feel like we should always be thanking teachers and librarians for being the most important professionals in our social order and yet somehow also the least appropriately paid. So thank you. I was in seventh grade, I remember vividly, it was probably the worst year of my life and I've had some dizzies. And the thing that I remember about my seventh grade teachers now is that they probably did not feel like they were having a lot of success with me. They probably felt like, oh boy, this is a lost cause and not getting any better through the course of the year. But now I am here partly because of the generosity that they showed me in that year when I felt so alone and so scared and so separate and distant from everyone. And so one of the hard things about being a teacher

is a lot of times you don't know the impact that you're having until, well, ever, because students are ungrateful and never come back and say, thank you. But you do have a huge impact, and it's a longitudinal impact. So if you're anything like my seventh grade English teacher, you know, like that person will be somebody I think about as long as I'm able to think. So thanks for doing that work. Dear Hank and John, this is from Devon who asks, is it possible there is a two-dimensional

being that can only see our movies and drawings, but not us. Do you feel more pressure being the ambassadors to the two-dimensional world? Pfft. I imagine what they would think of it. Like, they would be like, these people are nuts. Yeah, well, I think they could see the whole thing. They would also feel the same.

Probably, but you've got to think Hank, these are people who, their interaction with humanity is like 30% lawn order SVU, because that's at least 30% of two-dimensional screen images at any time are lawn order SVU. They must be like, these people are monsters. And they're like, thank God, you don't have to live in the three-dimensional world.

It's horrible. Yeah, we don't even have veins. I don't know, I don't really have not clear on how their bodies work. Look, Devon, I feel a lot of pressure to be ambassadors to all sorts of beings. Most take three-dimensional, I'm already... I'm already plenty stressed out about that. Most people are three-dimensional.

I'm already... I'm already plenty stressed out about that. Yeah, I'm stressed out. I'm trying to be ambassadors to all of you. Right now, there's a lot of you. I'm nervous. I have to pee all the time. Yeah.

There's definitely someone in the audience who's not having fun. And I think about them all the time. Because like... I know what... It's me. I know. I'm that one. Yeah, I know you're, it's me. I know, that's, I'm that one. Yeah, I know you're trying and I'm trying. So we're both in it together.

It's just not happening. And I'm sorry. I just, whoever you are, and hopefully there's only one of you. If there's a bunch of you, I'm even more sorry. This next question comes from Maggie. Because the song is a little help from my friends by the Beatles. That's good.

That's good. That'll get people to clear out of the way. It'll remind people that you're human and that they have obligations to other members of the social order. That's a good strategy, Maggie. She writes, dear John, I think my fiancee and I are in the midst of wedding planning.

And we're working on what details are most important to us. At your wedding, what detail made you feel most special? And what detail did you wish you had not spent so much time on? So Maggie, my aunt and uncle are in the audience. My wife's aunt and uncle, actually. But I think of them as my aunt and uncle. I hope that doesn't bother you. And so I have to answer this question in a somewhat circuitous way.

But when I arrived at my wedding, the first thing I said was, wow! Look at all this stuff. Because I played no role. And I would say, yeah, no role whatsoever. And so every detail delighted me. Oh, God. Yeah, I felt like I was at a party that had been planned very well by someone else for me, which is the best kind of party. No, no one gets that, including me. So, wedding invitations, I feel like we spent a lot

of time thinking about, and a lot of money on. Oh, God, yes. And every moment of time we spent thinking about the extra resulted in us spending more money. Like, we were somehow convincing ourselves that it mattered what kind of paper. This was the whole thing. Super thick. Did not, yeah. It was saying that the ink was raised.

You could feel it when you touched it. Embossed. No, it was bad. All of it was bad. Not bad. It was fine. It was great. But it was not necessary.

That, I think, was the detail that I was like, why? Why do we spend so much time thinking about paper? The thing that I think was correct to spend the most time thinking about was the playlist. Oh, I was going to say the marriage. I feel like there should be a rule for every hour you spend wedding planning.

You should spend an hour marriage planning. Yeah, let's actually have a conversation about what this life together for the next 50 years will be like. Sarah and I had this real weird experience. We did a Catholic engagement counter. We got married in a Catholic, wow. Okay, we got a Catholic. I know the Catholic. We got a Catholic engaged encounter. We got married in a Catholic, wow. Okay, we got a Catholic engagement counter, super fan. They know the story or they just know Catholic engaged encounters.

It was really good. It was a really good experience to catch. It sounds like something you would like a ride at Disneyland. The Catholic engaged encounter. It felt like that at times, yeah. But it was in a monastery in Alabama, and we were with other couples from Alabama, and it was a real education.

It was just intense. I wept so many times, and the other guys, like definitely thought of me as kind of an alien being. And I remember at one point, like another guy was like, he had his arm around me. And he was like, man, I don't know what's going on, but it's gonna be all right. That's like top Alabama empathy. No, that was the equivalent of at the top. That was the equivalent of him, like whispering in my ear, I know you're pain, I see it, and I am with you in it.

Yeah. All right, we got to do a thing where we're going to have a few people stand up. There's a microphone, I think, right there. We're going to have a few people stand up. If we don't say your name, don't stand up. First, we'd like to have the following three people stand up and ask their questions. If you don't mind, ask the question that you submitted, not some weird new question that's going to stress me out. First, we have Lauren, whose song is Barakuda by Heart? That's the IMB went song.

I've got one. This one's from Gemma, who is in seat 11e. It's like this kind of card, so you don't have a song, so I'm very happy. Yeah, Gemma, if you could come up as well. And lastly, Kelly, whose Iambulant song is, if today was your last day, by Nickelback. LAUGHTER I love it.

I love the bravery and that. I kill it. That is one of the bravest things that I've ever seen. Yeah. I love the embrace of the pop. To go to an internet gathering. Yeah. And make it about, I love it. Great. Who's first? Hi, my name is Lauren. Hi, Lauren. How's it going?

It's going good. This is awesome. I know. What's your question? Okay, so I work in like customer service at a bakery. Great. And I have this problem where people with different accents will come up and I will imitate their accent. Oh. How do I stop this? Yeah, normal.

I'm going to need an example. Yeah, so for example, if Steve the Minotaur came in and was like, hello, I would like some customer service, please. I'd say have a nice day. I'm so bad about it. Yeah, yeah, and see you be like, it's wait, are you a minute old? By the way, if you want to,

like Hank faked a British accent when we were kids for a year. It was practice. Imagine living all the time with Steve fab. It was that bad. It was that bad. It was not that bad.

You would be at breakfast and you would say, pass the butter, but you would say, pass the butter? Oh. Oh. I can't. There was a very sort of working class. It was the most ridiculous.

I just thought it was cute. It wasn't. Warren, this reminds me of one time when my cousins and I went fly fishing, and we had a very rough and burly fly fishing guide and my cousin Mike introduced himself by saying, Nimes Mike, damn glad to meet you. And we all just looked at him like, Mike? That's not.

We all know. It's a hard thing to do because you start, you know, like we're social beings, we like to mimic each other, we like to answer each other. So what I would recommend doing is leaning way the heck into it. Oh God. Going as hard into it as you can. And then when people are like, are you from Cardiff being like, yes. I just see how far you can go. Just go see how long you're way through it. Other option, other option instead like sometimes I have a hard time remembering

what my accent is after talking to somebody with another accent. Just go with a completely new one. If you if there's Southern go go Cardiff. Just be from Liverpool suddenly. Yeah yeah like because I, because I can't lock back in, our mom has this problem. It's deep, deep, that we don't even want to, it's deep. It's going to, we went to the UK with my mom and she comes back and she's a Southern lady

with this very, very interesting American Southern British accent. Yo. There was deep, it sounded American Southern British accent. Yo. There was deep, it sounded, it was weird. I love her very much, and I know that she listened to the podcast. Yeah.

She knows. She knows. OK. We love you, mom. We have no solutions for you. What are you kidding? We solved the problem twice. Thank you, Lauren.

Yep, great solutions for you. Thank you. Thank you. Hello. Hello. I'm the infamous Kelly. Thank you. Great solutions for you. Thank you. Hello. Hello, I'm the infamous Kelly. Oh, hi Kelly. Yes, hello. So I have a problem I need your help with. Okay.

My sister and I live in an apartment above a theater. It's a pretty small town, so it's a pretty small theater. Is it Brainerd? Say that again? Is it Brainerd? It is not. Unfortunately, I'm sorry. It's in the opposite direction.

Got to be a little farther south. But I don't know if anyone believes in paranormal stuff. But my sister and I have had some really weird experiences happen up there. Sure. We called in a paranormal investigation. You called an paranormal investigation team. They caught evidence.

Were they local? They were local, yes. They're like in your small city. They are in the city next to us. Okay great. How big is that city? Rochester's about a hundred thousand. Oh, yeah, Rochester's a proper. Yeah. Oh, Rochester's a proper city. Yes. Yeah, that's not my question. My question is I'm scared easily There's ghosts up there. How do I deal with them? Do I make friends with them? Do I fight them? Do I yell at them? I mean do these darn annoying ghosts So you had some things so you live above a theater, that's strike one.

Immediately you're like, maybe ghosts. We live above a theater. Most ghosts are above theaters. Yeah. Yeah. You know, accidents happen. And when they do in a theater, it's very dramatic. It's just definitional.

Then when you, then the instructor number two is some things happen. What's a thing that happened? We heard a man coughing in the bathroom. Lights turn on and off and I have those old shades that you pull down and they've snapped up a couple times. All right, all of those are pretty, that's Strike two for sure. Strike three is you call in a paranormal investigation team

and they do the only thing they can do which is say there's ghosts. Like, do they arrive some places they can't do? Very rarely you get a negative review. But they did provide us with evidence. We have voices from the apartment. My sister has a phrase, she says, hey, Chica all the time.

So they caught a voice of a ghost saying, hey, Chica, like they're mimicking her. Ooh, I think maybe you have really smart rats. That have emphysema. I've heard her, I've heard her. I've heard her like it dark. Yeah. The thing that you do in this situation

is you live with the ghosts that you have to live with while you have to live with them. And then over time maybe you start to feel more comfortable in the space. This is always the case. We are always like carrying with us whether we're experiential or not. Like we are always carrying with us ghosts. So this is actually good practice for you because the rest of your life you will also be constantly haunted by other things. And so the fact that you're learning how to live with this now I would argue is good news.

That's great. That's great advice, John. My only other piece of advice is can you get them to pay rent? It's a big problem. Yeah. Big problem with ghosts. Yeah, they're like, you tell them how much rent is in there. Like, that is enough to buy 45 horses. Yeah. Why would I pay that much? I could buy the entire theater for that amount. Right. They don't understand inflation. Is the joke.

So, yeah, no, we got it. I guess it's great. It's the best inflation joke of the whole night. Thank you for your question. Good luck with your ghosts. Gemma. Hi, yeah, I'm Gemma. So I'm a professional sword maker. Yeah. And I... It's not as cool as it sounds, I promise. Yeah, I mean it's not as cool as being a seventh grade teacher, but it's cool. So I just joined my parents company.

They're also professional sword makers. Yeah, multi-generational. They've been in business for over like 30 years. They're really set in their ways. So my question is, as the new employee, how do I update the image of swords? How do I bring my own sword ideas to the sword company? Well, still respecting the business that they've created. So we need some big sword ideas. So this is the best question we've ever received.

Yeah. I don't know. Not since we got a question from somebody who is a professional Pokemon card player, have I been so impressed with someone's career? So I get the... What? Great. You don't have to tell us the name of the business if you don't want to. I probably doesn't matter. It's Omega Artworks. Okay. Great. Okay, so everybody get your swords from Omega Artworks. They're local. Please be nice. My mom answers all the emails. Yes, support your local sword maker. That's what I always say when it comes to sword purchases.

You don't support the local ones. You're just going to end up with just Amazon making your swords. Just the big box swords. I think the obvious thing here is to try to make them feel young and hip by incorporating stuff that young people are interested in into the sword itself, a BTS sword, as I'm kind of a TikTok sword. Yeah, there used to be swords for specific activities, right? There were like special swords for like dueling, so maybe you could make like a dabbing sword?

Oh, I hope nobody got that on tape. No. For the listeners at home, I definitely didn't dab. I don't know. Sword Dapping does seem dangerous, but maybe it's what's coming. Maybe it's what's next. It seems to me, it's possible, Gemma,

that you have your own ideas. Do you have your own ideas for how to hip up the swords? Uh, I have some ideas. Mostly, like, right now a lot of the sword designs, they really look like they're from the 80s. What? What? You know, 80s.

Oh, yeah, I don't know what 80s swords look like. Yeah. Like a Conan, that kind of thing, yeah. Yeah, and you want some more like needle, the sword that on your starts souls. Use this kind of sword? Sure, I don't really know what a contemporary sword looks like, but yeah, yeah, something.

Well, the cool thing is that over the next like 10 or 20 years, you're going to invent the idea of a contemporary sword. Yeah, it's your job, which is so beautiful. So in the end, I don't think we can help you except to say that you are already going to do this and we are excited to see how it goes. Thank you, Gemma. Which reminds me, John, that this podcast is brought to you by Omega Swordworks.

Omega Swordworks swords both 80s and modern. Today's podcast is also brought to you by Target, or at least I would like it to be. And also this podcast is brought to you by two-day-old underpants. Nope. Two-day-old underpants available. Nope, nope, nope, nope. God.

Lastly, this podcast is brought to you by Ghost Inflation. Ghost Inflation, it's real. And now comes the part of the live show podcast where I ask John Truerfaw's questions and then I get to tell him how wrong he is about stuff. Okay, lightning round, lightning round, go go. Number one, a Texas firefighter who saved a farmer's piglets from a fire received a thank you present six months later. It was a package of sausages. True.

That is true. Number 13, that happened. That's why they were saved. Number 13, the Italian dictator Mussolini had his people sell anti-Mussolini publications so that they could make money from dissidents before they arrested them. That's so good, true. Fall! Dang it! I've made it all up. Number 14. At your right, he's too pleased with himself to do that. The US Navy used to contract with a private defense contractor to produce controls for

naval submarines and they cost tens of thousands of dollars. Now they use Xbox controllers. True. True. Number 15, the creator of Fortnite holds the Guinness World Record for owning the most VHS copies of ET, the extraterrestrial. False. It is false. He does, however, own almost more land than anyone else in North Carolina.

I did know that. He's conservationist. It's great. In sixth, does someone boo? It's a good for good reasons. Just for clarity, he bought it to protect it. Number 16. In the 1980s, a marine biologist created

an educational comic book called The Intertitle Zone that featured a sponge named Bob, and that marine biologist later went on to create SpongeBob Squarepants. False. True. True. Today I learned. Number 17, many doctors split up into the first 10. Oh.

Here, like, number 11. Where the first 10- Numbers don't matter. Okay, clearly, number 17, go. Number 42, many doctors still use beepers and hospitals because they're integrated into software that could cost tens of thousands of dollars or tens of millions of dollars to replace.

100% true. False, they use beepers in hospitals because hospitals are often dead zones for cell phones. Oh, okay. Well, I know they still use beepers because Henry's friend's dad carries one. Like, beeps? Yeah. He beeps sometimes.

He's a cardiologist. Number three. I asked him a lot about my heart and he says calm down. I'm not at work. Do I ask you to write me novels? I'm not. Number three out of two. Koalas.

Yep. Poo-ping their sleep. Pfft. True. True. Ioo-p in their sleep. True? True. True. I sang a song about it on Vlogbrothers once. Oh, I forgot it. We made a lot of videos.

Number two in the small town in Michigan, where Larry Page grew up, there are hundreds of millionaires because his parents convinced the town that Google would be a big deal. Uh, true. False, but there is a town in Ford, where there are hundreds of millionaires, because some guy in the Depression convinced them all to buy Coca-Cola stock.

Most of this episode got, got, but the little bit at the end made it so that I have to record my own outro. So get ready for that. Thank you for listening, this podcast is edited by Joseph Tune of Metash. It's produced by Rosie on a Hal for O'Hassen shared in Gibson. It's a co-production of Complexly and WNYC Studios. Our head of community and communications is Victoria von Jornow and the music

that you hear at the beginning of the podcast and the end of the podcast is by the great Guna Rolla. Thank you. And as they say in our hometown, don't forget to be awesome. you