Dear Hank & John - 257: There Eye Am (w/ Taha Khan at VidCon London!)

Episode Date: September 14, 2020

Why do different animals make such different noises? What's the deal with Fahrenheit? How do I not invite all my friends to a gathering? Why is my hair darker when it's wet but not underwater? Is snot me? What do I do with a lot of starfruit? Hank Green and Taha Khan have answers!If you're in need of dubious advice, email us at [e-mail] us for monthly livestreams and an exclusive weekly podcast at patreon.com/dearhankandjohn.Follow us on Twitter! twitter.com/dearhankandjohn

Hello, everyone. It's Hank, an absolute pleasure to talk with you. This week, we got one from the archives. It was a little bit of a weird recording of Dear Hank and John, because I was at VidCon London, and suddenly I was like, Taha, do you want to go record an episode of Dear Hank and John with me in my hotel room? And if we're being honest, I was not super prepared to do that. I probably should have been more prepared, like I had to run across the street to get batteries kind of situation. We had a few episodes banked in preparation

for my book tour that never happened, so we've got these old episodes of Dear Anker John that we just don't, we just haven't released. So yeah, this one is super old, old enough that Vidcoms were still happening. The day I recorded this was, for example, the last time I got a professional haircut, it's just been my mother-in-law and me ever since then. So sit back, enjoy a message from another time, and also remember you can pre-order the Anthroposian-reviewed book now. Anyway, on with this show, everybody! Hello and welcome to Dear Hank and John. Whereas I like to call it, did Tah-Han Hank?

Did the podcast were two people, usually two brothers, but sometimes two friends answer your questions, give you a duly advice and bring you all the week's news from Mars and AFC Wimbledon, though we might not do that today because we're recording this in advance and we're recording it. With a special guest Tah-Hakan who has just given me this dad joke to tell you and I will tell it back to him. Why do cows have hooves? Why do cows have hooves?

Because they lack toes. A-A-A classic first time I'm here in that one. Tell us a little bit about yourself. I'm Tah-Ha, and I make YouTube videos... ...intermittantly. I tweet a lot. and I make YouTube videos intermittently. I tweet a lot. I get mentioned that in your podcast a lot. Sometimes, yeah.

And I make TikToks and I go to university. I think that's my full, full of music videos as well. I did that for you. Nice. And you, did you broker, have you ever brokered an oat milk brand deal? I haven't. However, I am tangentially related to people who have done so. Dang it. Have you ever brokered a brand deal at all? Yes.

Oh, for what? For, I did a book brand deal with Penguin Books. Oh, they're my publisher. And the reason that it sounds a little echoey, by the way, is that recording with Penguin Books. Oh, they're my publisher. And the reason that it sounds a little echoey, by the way, is that we're recording this in a hotel room, not in a studio or anything, it's very cozy in environment. We're less than a foot away from each other. One foot could have been placed in between us,

and it would be too much of a distance. There are some feet that would not fit between us. What? No. Yeah, some people's feet are very big. I have a got pretty big feet. Do you think you can hike is pushing a shoe in between all it'll noses right now? That's bits, but I don't have the biggest feet. Yeah, that's true. That's true. That

was an experience. I put the part of the shoe that is more than going to be stinky closer to my face. Understandable. You got the toe part. I appreciate your shoe etiquette. Yeah. In this. What the thing I wanted to talk about before we started the podcast, there was really that ketchup packet. Oh my God. Oh my God. I know it says it was 40 grams, but it I was I have to explain what we're talking about. Yeah. So we got we just got room service in the hotel because we were both starving and I had a long day at VidCon London. And we were delivered along with our chips.

Chips, as you'd call them. Some stokes, doubly tasty tomato ketchup, twice the tomatoes in every dollop. So that's just the per dollop. How many dollops do you think we're in this thing? It's what it's saying, it's saying there's twice the tomato. The density of tomatos within the ketchup is already hot. Yeah, and then they also gave you a lot of ketchup.

So it's like all double the tomato. The tomato, but like quadruple or eight tuple. Yeah, I would say. It's an out of a normal ketchup packet. Yeah. Made in the UK. I opened it up and I started to pour it out and then it just kept happening. And pouring is the right word. Yeah. Like it was pouring out. Like it most

packets you have to squeeze them out. Yeah, you got it. Yeah. That's how it fell. That's how it fell. Well, and we came with a giant pack of her mayonnaise too. Though I feel like the mayonnaise had a little less than it. 32, no leaders as opposed to 40 grams, which that is bizarre. I guess the volume is the same between grams and millilitres. So that's fine. For water.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Man, it's probably, and ketchup, I assume slightly different. Oh, well. Density is then water. This is why you're the science guy. That's what they pay me, the big bucks for. We only do delicious is what it says.

I can't recommend this ketchup enough. It was both really good. It tasted of it, which is very good, but also the experience of opening a ketchup packet that is the size, I don't know, of a mouse? Yeah, sort of a mouse. Of a mouse, so you just have a big, big mouse. You just have a big mouse lying around

just to fill it with ketchup. You can fill it all the way up. Yeah. It was like a water balloon. I actually would, if you all want to imagine this, I recommend getting 40 grams of ketchup and putting in a water balloon. I don't think it's like that.

It's exactly like that. Ah, I'm going to continue to be amazed by it and I want to remember that ketchup. I want to remember that experience. And I wonder if, if like 10 years from now, every ketchup packet's gonna be like that and we'll look back and be like, kids today, they don't know how good they got it.

We have to squeeze seven ketchup. To get. Yeah, we're gonna have the worst kids today. Like my grandparents are like, kids today, when I was there age, we didn't have like food or heat. And I'm gonna be like, kids today, the ketchup packets are so big. Kids today, they don't know how good their internet is.

Oh, the density of automotives and ketchup was so low. It was super inadequate, deeply disgusting. I have some questions from our listeners. Now that we've gotten through the most important part of the podcast, which is measuring the distance between our faces and talking about the amount of ketchup that exists inside of a stokeless ketchup packet. And that question comes from Sydney

who asks, dear Hank and Taha, why do different animals make such different noises? It makes sense to me that birds would like sound different from mammals, but it seems like cat meows and dog barks should have more overlap. Not the city in Australia, Sydney. I know this because my mother is named Sydney, just like the city in Australia. You know your mother is not the city in Australia. It's definite. No, I know that there are people who are named that.

Oh, okay. That was a weird way to phrase that sentence. I know. This question might very well be for my mom. It does sound like the kind of question she would ask. Tah-ha, why do dogs and cats sound different? Hmm. So, there was once a dog and a cat that sounded the same, but turns out, I actually think cats and dogs do sound very similar.

So, I was like trying to, I just disagreed with the premise of the question and I was like, how do I answer this question accepting the premise? Well, you don't have to accept the premise. No, I will, like a whimper of a dog and a meow of a cat. Not different. Yeah. And sometimes my cat does sort of like growl when something's gone. Yeah.

That she doesn't like. She'll be like, and I also feel like if you size it up a cat to the size of a dog, that you would get more of like a doggy, dog-ish style sounds, because if you size it up even more to like a big cat, they do. They definitely growl and run and run and run more. Yeah, yeah. They don't bark. No. Yeah. Yeah. They don't bark. No. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I like, I think ultimately the actual answer to the question is like evolutionary

pressure, right? Barking has a purpose and cats don't require that purpose. Cats aren't trying to protect their clan and let everybody know that something's going on because they're not social animals in the wild the way that dogs are. Yeah. So dogs are communicating with one another with loud, pointy noises and cats are sort of more communicating close up or with big scary noises. I wonder if this, Wonder if dog and cat is a bad example,

but maybe the point still stands? Because I also want to know what the fuck says. I have no idea. Foxes make bunches of noises. Okay, yep. They kipper. I think. What is that called? What they call it?

Oh, that's a fox. Oh, you've heard that one before? Yeah, there's foxes in London. Hippos are big. Very big. And they sound a little like cows, which are also very big. Yeah. It's sort of sort of a sort of cowly noise, but also a little bit of a piggy noise. Like a pig cow.

Yeah. Hippos are basically a, like a pig cow. Yeah. The hippos are basically a big house. Yeah. Pig house. Yeah. Yeah, that ain't guys' name. That's like... That's like...

That's like... Yeah, it seems like it scales up and down. Yeah. But like whales don't make little epitonizes, they do, but they also go like, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, do, but they also go like, it's whatever is needed. Have you tried to, I was gonna say, have you ever tried to drown another manhole? Yeah, we should just hold a catch-up back at it on our water and see, because I'm pretty sure it was alive.

So we've decided that they don't sound that different and that you're wrong, Sydney. Yeah. I'm sorry, Sydney. This is not the impression that I wanted to give, but this is the impression that I'm giving. This next question comes from Anne who asks, Dear Hank and John, you're also going to disagree with the premise of this question. Probably, maybe. I don't understand Fahrenheit. I've heard people say that it's hot at a hundred degrees Fahrenheit, but also that you have a fever when your body temperature is above 40 degrees Fahrenheit No, you've gotten it wrong and I understand it's confusing when your body temperature is 40 degrees Fahrenheit You've been quite dead for a long time

Okay, when it's a hundred degrees Fahrenheit, it's hot when okay 40 degrees Fahrenheit is so lost 40 Fahrenheit is cold, okay, 100 Fahrenheit is hot. I'm so lost. 40 Fahrenheit is cold. Okay, 100 Fahrenheit is hot. I thought zero was cold. Also cold. 40 is like chili. I thought the whole point of Fahrenheit was, oh, when a human looks at zero, they're like fast cold.

And when they look at 100, they're like, oh, that's pretty hot. Yeah, and 40 is like chili. Okay, but it's like, well, jump a weather? Yeah, and then jacket weather is zero. Yeah, well Ford is like, Gilly. Okay, but it's like, well, jump whoever? Yeah, and then Jackie weather is zero. Yeah, well, even more. Zero is pretty hard to get to.

Which, I think it's not perfectly, it's actually, it wasn't decided. Fahrenheit wasn't like, I should make a scale where a hundred is hot for a human and zero is cold for a human. He was like, I should make a scale that encapsulates all of the temperatures that occur where I live.

So he just lived in a place where it didn't get much colder than zero ever and it didn't get much hotter than 100 ever. So he was like, here's my scale. So what's your Fahrenheit? Just what's your Fahrenheit right now? My body temperature? Yeah.

Is like 98, 97. Oh, yeah. Wow. So 40 Fahrenheit, you're is like 98 97. Oh, yeah, wow say 40 sometimes you get some bum info. Somebody says something around you and you hold on to it. So this is this is 40 degrees C. Celsius is hot. 40 degrees C would be like 40 degrees C would be like body temperature. Really? What's 40 C? What temperature gauge do you use? Are you just Kelvin? No, are you Celsius? So what's 4DC? That's really hot.

That's not really hot. It's temperature, I think it's about the temperature of a human butt. I thought that was like 27. No. It's 37 degrees this human body temperature. Whoa. But if it's 37 degrees outside, it's like, it's hot.

Yeah. Because of the air. Because it's air. If you're getting like 37 degree water, it feels almost cool. Wow. Do you want to know about why that is? Because it's wet. Wet things are cold.

I guess it's that it's carrying the heat away. So if water is like 35 degrees, it's carrying heat away from your body. Yeah. If air is 35 degrees, it's carrying heat away from your body. Yeah. If air is 35 degrees, it's carrying heat away from your body, but it's not doing it efficiently. Yeah. And that's why solids would also be hot because they don't carry anything away from your body.

Oh yeah. If you were in a solid block of, you know, 35 degree, yeah, the main problem would be that you're inside of a solid block. Don't let your friends do this to you. Put you inside of a solid block. Don't let your friends do this to you. Put you inside of a solid block. Yeah, no, anything. So it's like, you know, just pouring a solid block of, yeah, well, you know, what's a common solid block?

I guess plaster is usually what people are mold around. Yeah, that was that YouTuber who plastered a bathtub and then did you hear about this? No. It was a British YouTuber, unfortunately. Put a bunch of plaster in a bathtub and then got in it. And I think it was like a challenge. What was his friends nearby? Yeah.

Okay, good. But they had to call the fire engines. Yeah, specifically. No one, not the fire people. What they called fire people. Fire people. There you go no one, not the fire people. What they called fire fighters. There you go. Yeah. And now villains isn't stuff. And to chip them out. Yeah, to chip them out. Did you have peanut in there? Did you end up peeing in there? Yeah, because he was stuck in there for a while. Oh, I don't know. I do. I, I, all I knew about it is because

everyone loves the NHS here. If you don't, you know, fight me. And there was a lot of outrage over the fact that they were like, they were wasting a lot of resources of the NHS. That's how I heard about it. Mm. I love that. I love that sort of societal cohesion where people are like, don't do stupid shit, we're all paying for this.

Yeah. Yeah. All right, this one's from Eleanor, who asks, dear Hank and Tah-Ha, I'm too good at making friends. Whoa. I've never gotten this question before. This is the first. OK.

We've gotten lots of questions that are the opposite of this question. I can only invite 10 people to my party, and I have like 30 pals. You actually have experience with this, because you have so many pals. Should I just not tell some of them and hope they forget birthdays and BFFs forever?

So I always have it a birthday. Can only invite 10 of her pals, but has 30 pals. This sounds like a maths question I would get in an exam. Eleanor has 10 friends. No, Eleanor has more than 10. Oh, Eleanor has 30 friends. Yeah. Hmm, what would you do? What would I do?

I just talk to a bunch of them, don't show up. Well, you can always rule a thumb, 10% or just not going to show up. Right. You're going to schedule it on an important day. Yeah. Some day when people are doing something, Christmas. Yeah. I feel like if you've got 30 pals, you should do three things

and just have invite 10 of them each. That's what I do. Sounds expensive. Well, you should do three things and just have invite ten of them each. That's what I do. Sounds expensive. Well, you could just play board games or do something free. Good car. Yeah. I always do stuff free. Let me think. What will you do? Do you have many friends?

I like this. Three board game nights in a row. Yeah. Yeah. Because then you get to go to three. So that sounds like a perfect deal. Yeah. That's still, I feel like we're avoiding the question. Well, I guess the question is, should I not tell some of them? No, they don't definitely not.

I think you should definitely not tell. Hmm, actually, yes. I do that all the time. That's what you do. That's how social lives work. It is. You just tell. I do this all the time. And then it happens to me too, where I see like my friends like on Instagram and they're like hanging like three people are hanging out and I don't know about this hangout. I was not pulled that this would happen. Yeah. It's not that I said no, but maybe I would have.

But it's that I didn't get a chance to say. I don't know. Really, another way you could do it is you ask people like, oh, when are you free this week? And then whatever day is they saying no to? You make sure that there are only 10 people that I say yes to. And then when people are like, oh man. There's a math problem.

Yeah, they're like, oh, you didn't invite me. I'm like, oh no, I asked you that you were like, when you were free and turns out you weren't that day. And we were gonna do it. So you send out a doodle, you know what a doodle is? Yes, like a thing that you draw in a mask book, was I? It's also an app. It's a web.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Start up where you can say, tell me what times you're available. And then you just pick one time when only 10 people are available. Can they see the results they can? Oh, that's true.

I don't like it. It has to be a new app. This is your $1,000 idea. Are you talking about Google Forms? No, it's an app that lets people put in their times when they're available, and then you say, I only want to hang out with six people, and then it finds the time when only six people are available.

Or you say, I want to hang out with these five people, but I want to invite 10 people. Tell me when just these five people can hang out. Oh my God. I think this will only be relevant to Eleanor and maybe one other person. People who are good at friends. Yeah.

I like it. So we gotta have a million. Do you have another million dollar idea or is this one it? What other million dollar idea do you have? Cardrophobic coating in the inside of ketchup packets. So you open up a 40 gram ketchup packet. You don't squeeze it. It just explodes out.

It just like just shoots out like from an artery. No, it's not gonna be highly pressured. I'm not gonna... I'm not gonna make a grenade. Oh man, we got it. Do you have a car? I do not. Do you know anyone with a car? I want to run over one of these ketchup packets with a car.

There's so much ketchup. It's so much ketchup. Oh my God. All right. All right. I think one, we have a solution to this problem that is not nefarious, which is that you have multiple parties

and why the f*** not. Yeah. And two, we have a nefarious solution, which is just to plan around when people aren't available. Yes. I love it. Both ways. Yes.

Oh, I have another idea. I've got a curse you do. So I do board games nights where I invite like 25 people, but I'm like, I am banking on less than 10 people coming because the biggest backboard game I can do is 10 people. Yeah, so now what I do is I have like a rolling I have a Facebook event and I have a rolling invite. So I'll invite some people. What's they say they can't come on about some more people? I invite some more people until I get to my 10 right and then I'm good. Right good. Right. And the other like honest thing is that this will happen forever and for always.

Yeah. You know, we will always like not be inviting everybody. We want to invite and we should also know that we don't get invited. It's not because people didn't want to. It might be because it's because we said no one too many times, which is something that happens with me and that I need to communicate.

I would like the opportunity to say yes because I need to hang out with people more. Yeah. Taha, I need to hang out with people more. You can hang out with me. I'll thank you for coming over to my hotel room having burgers with me and eating the best ketchup. The best ketchup. I only the finest quichob. Catherine asks, dear Hank and Taha, I have blonde hair, and I'd like to know why, if water is clear, does my hair get darker when it is wet? Oh.

It doesn't seem to happen when my hair is actually in the water, like in a pool, my hair looks the same color when it's underwater, but when I'm not underwater, my hair looks way darker when it's wet. Why does this happen? That's pretty cool.

That is pretty cool. I'm going to go with some Tahoe science right now. Okay. Okay. Firstly, when your hair is under the water, it is not yet wet. It is only wet when you come out of the water. The internet had this conversation already and I don't know that we need to get into it.

But okay, so the hair when it is under water, it's not wet. It's not wet. Okay, I'm going to let it go. Yeah, it don't need, because it is underwater, it's not wet. It's not wet. Okay, I'm gonna let it go. Yeah, I don't need, yep, because it's hair surrounded by air, and then that's water, hair surrounded by water. Both states are not wet. But when it is hair surrounded by water, surrounded by air, that it's wet, it has to be a layer of situation.

Yeah, exactly. I mean, technically, if you're under water, then I guess it is, there's a lot of water, but then there's a... So... Yeah, you have to be on a... You have to be... Well, in what situation, you have to have like a cap on top. Yeah.

Like something to prevent you from getting to the air, for it to not be wet. Yeah, I guess my science is already full in the part. However, I will power through. I would say because it clumps together, and then the lights can't get through as fast. And everyone, no, light is the same speed the whole time. Like, you can change the speed of light in different mediums, so it doesn't change.

But that's not what's happening. You just gave me an inch. And I took a mile. I was like, oh, that ballad is my whole thing. Let me think. I'm going to figure this out. Are you? I can do it.

It has to do with light. Light refracts more less. It's not really a refracture. Light is dampened by the water. Light is absorbed, reflected, reflected. You got it right the first time. I just, I should go ahead of the wrong time. Refracted, reflected.

Oh, yes. Okay, light is reflected less, less when the water is right. The light is reflected more. Light. I'm light. Yes. Is. That's correct, okay? Reflected. Yeah. Better. By. Yeah. By the water. Uh-huh. More. Uh-huh. When it is wet. Well, obviously, there's water. Okay. So, do you? Okay. The light is reflected more.

Mm-hmm. By the water and the hair. You're not really there. And then there's a tortoise on the hair. And that's it. That's engulfed somehow. So the light goes through the water, hits your hair. Yeah. Then the light that comes off your hair is what we're seeing Yes, as the color of the hair. Yeah. So like a lot of the light gets absorbed by the hair and then the stuff that gets reflected is what we see.

Yeah, but when there is water on the hair, some of the light as it's exiting to come back to us, gets reflected back onto the hair again and reabsorbed and reabsorbed more. So basically the light has sort of a second chance to get absorbed by your hair. So some of the light, not all of the light will hit your hair more than one time. And then some of the light will, like it's an exponential. Right.

And so some of the will keep going until sort of all of it gets absorbed. And so more of the light gets absorbed by the hair. So it is the reflection on the outgoing. So the surface of the water as the light is going out, surface between the water and the air is going out, surface between the water and the air can reflect back to the hair. Okay, so what I'm hearing is, when the hair is in the water, it is not wet.

Well, I mean, this is an interesting thing, because like, dark, like hair is darker when it's wet, but it's not darker when it's in the water. Right. So that is interesting. That sounds like we've definitively conclude. Yeah. Water is not wet. That water is not wet.

I never really thought water was wet. I never thought about it. But when I said, really that whole thing happened on the internet like six months ago. And you were just like, I can't be bothered. No, I was just like Huh, I don't really understand what they're talking about and I just moved on with my life They were like they were like water is wet and I was like yeah water is not wet the things that is on it is wet and I was like yeah sure Okay, I can see both sides. It wasn't even that. I felt like they were agreeing. Yeah

And I was like okay, these are both sides. It wasn't even that. I felt like they would agree. Yeah. And I was like, okay. These are both correct. Yeah. Okay. That's honestly, I actually see where you're coming from. Yeah. That actually makes sense to me. But like both of those things are true.

Because it's like the word wet is just meaning two different things. Yeah. So like one is the property of the water is wetness. Yeah. And the other one is that one. It's on something it is wet. You figured it out way too fast. Yeah. So one is the property of the water is wetness. Yeah. And the other one is that one that it's on something it is wet. You figured it out way too fast. Yeah. You can't tell anyone, you couldn't have told anyone though because then other fun would be spoiled. Yeah. They would hear your explanation and they'd be like, Oh, I wanted to have an argument. What about the memes?

Which reminds me that this podcast is brought to you by The Memes. Mostly the ones with SpongeBob in them. Oh, yes. This episode is brought to you by Heat. Ah, Heat! For when you're cold. And this podcast is additionally brought to you by Taha's new app, Duble, where you can go and cut your friends out of your life

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small mice, the size of ketchup packets. Don't squeeze too hard. That's the tackle. We only do delicious. Tah-hah, what's soon another question? It's from Carolina. Okay, Carolina asks, dear Hank and Tah-hah, I just kind of choked on a bit of apple. When I coughed it out, part of it shot deep into my nose. Wait, wait, the physics of this doesn't work.

Your nose is above your mouth. Yeah, but you cough and like pressure as in did it come out of their mouth and then go up the nose? No, no, in the back. Oh, back in the back there. Okay, okay, okay. I'm with you.

You've got to wait. Somehow you coughed out your mouth and it like upped you off the wall. Yeah it would like, I'll be in the office. I'll be in the office. I'll be in the office. I'll be in the office. I'll be in the office. I'll be in the office. I'll be in the office.

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Sometimes I have like a really big bugger and I'm like, wow, that went all the way up. This is not part of the question. No, you're straight from the question into, I was so confused. You stop reading it and just staring at me and I was like, wow, he really memorized this part of the question. Sorry, Carolina continues. Then I wondered, is this a foreign object? And if so, what do I normally sneeze? Is not me?

So technically, does not have my DNA, but also is not me and is me and not. Gazooontite, Carolina, who says, you almost definitely pronounced that wrong. I'm Uruguayan, so say Carolina, my bad. You were right. I did pronounce it wrong. Thank you for letting me know. So it's not you.

You know, do you know about biology at all? I got 100% in the last biology test I did. You're GCSEs? Yeah. You got 100% in your biology GCSE. I got 100% in all of my science GCSEs. Everybody, every British person who was the podcast just grown and was like, I don't like this guy anymore.

Oh dear. Okay, but also see the last question where we did some science. Right, you know? None of us did well. Okay, I think Snot does have your DNA. Sure, but not because Snot is made of your cells because it's just scraping against your cells. Yeah, it's just got some cells in it.

Yeah. Just like this table has my DNA on it. Yeah. So this table isn't me. Just like this table has some cells on it. Yeah. Just like your spit has, just like this table has my DNA on it. Yeah. So this table isn't me. Just like this table has some cells on it. Because there's some batteries on the table. Well now everyone's back on your side. But I don't think it is you because you is a philosophical point of... Right, my hand isn't even me. You are your consciousness. I'm just the story I tell about myself.

Yeah. That's how I feel about myself. So it's really about the story you're telling. In the story you tell yourself, Carolina, are you your snot? Only you can answer that question. And what is the you that is answering that question? Is it your snot that thinks that your snot is you? Or is it you? And in that case, what is your snot? And what is you in this case, which is, yeah, I think that's what the soldier boy

song was about. You, is that the part you mean? I like to think that he really pondered over that. Yeah, he was like, Oh, man, you. I can't quote any more of that soldier by song because the entire rest of it's pretty vulgar. Yeah. The apple is not you. We can say that definitively. Yes. And I think that my spit's not really me,

but I also like, are my finger knows me? No. Yeah. So are things that are me. But I really feel like my face is me. Do you feel like your face is you I really feel like my face is me. Do you feel like your face is you? I think that my body is me.

I think my eyeballs are me only. They are kind of part of your brain. Yeah. But I guess because I don't like, can't conceptualize my brain, I feel like my eyeballs. Oh, your brain isn't even you. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know about that. I'm looking at, like I'm looking at right now, and I'm kind of upset.

I've just, it's become very easy for me to imagine you as just a pair of eyeballs floating in space. Yeah, I feel like my eyes are like, but they still have lids just to be clear in my eyes. I imagine that I'm not in mine. No, no. I think my eyes are part of the islands are part of the package because they're like, express, so much expression is in my guess. So, yeah.

So, do you ever see yourself in the mirror and do you have mirrors in your life in my life? Yes. So, you would look into the mirror and you would say, there I am. There I am. Nice. The two eyes.

When I look at myself, I don't think I recognize it as me. I'm like, is that I think that might make you a little unusual? Oh. I'm guessing. I, yeah. Tweet at Tah-Ha. He's at Tah-Ha Khan.

No, not. Ha-ha-ha. Tweet at the Twitter. Khan stop me, K-H-A. Yeah, Khan stop me. K-H-A and ST-O-P-M-E. One last question, Tah-ha, before we go. Are you ready?

I'm ready. Are you sad that the podcast is ending? Yeah, kind of. This last question comes from Rana who asks, Dear Hank and Tahha, my coworker has a star fruit tree, and he keeps bringing in a lot of star fruit. They're not particularly tasty, but we hate to waste food. So far, my other coworker made a chutney with the star fruit, and it was pretty good.

What else can we do with a lot of star fruit? Is it rhymes with piranha? Rana. So star fruit. I've had star fruit before, and I can agree that I didn't love it. I don't know if I just had bad star fruit, but I didn't find it appealing. This is, so this to me, bringing in subpar produce is a workplace negative when you're like, bring it into the office and be like, everyone, experience the slow demise of this cucumber with me.

I didn't, I didn't think it was good enough to let it die alone with only me watching. I wanted to subject everyone to that experience. And so I think that your co-worker needs to understand that maybe unless he's a big fan of star fruit or know some people who are, that these star fruit are the equivalent of acorns, which is that they just go to the ground and they fall there. And then that's not. Is it waste? Not really. Because it wasn't like part of the food industrial system that creates, you know, consumes a lot

of water and a lot of energy. It was just a tree that has, now you're replacing something that might, if you know, are eating star fruit instead of something else. But it's as far as the food waste problem goes, I try not to worry about this too much, but I guess that might be because my neighbors have a plum tree and I just walk over a lot of plums. There's so many plums.

I mean, I eat them, I eat some of them, but there's just too many plums. I feel like that's my, I'm in this particular situation. I have eaten the plums that were on my neighbor's tree. Do they care? Yeah, and they were not probably saving for anything because there are too many plums. Yeah, what's stopping you from just taking them all

and making them into compost? Yeah, I mean, that's also fine. You should be like, I'd love to summon more of these. If somebody's got a compost heap to make compost with, you could certainly do that. Not everybody has space for a compost. Oh, yeah, that's true. You put more trees.

Yeah, you could make, yeah, make new star fruit and be like, oh, God, now there's problem with someone else's. I like the part where they're shaped like stars. That's really good. So in conclusion. In conclusion, I don't. I don't. I shift the frame of the solutions that you've presented

by presenting alternative options to your coworker, such as stop it, or leave us alone. I do not need more responsibility in my life. I already have a great deal of that. I do not need more responsibility in my life. I am already, I already have a great deal of that. I do not need to feel as if it is my job to handle the final step of this tree's reproductive process. Exactly. Ta, thank you for making a podcast with me. Thank you for having me. You can find Ta-Ha on Twitter at CONSTOPME.

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