Are Billionaires Dropping Inventors in Volcanoes? | Siobhan Thompson Asks Hank Anything

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  @complexly · 4 months ago (edited) · pinned

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• SA

  @sammycatto7252 · 4 months ago (edited)

  A note for the AHA team, if Hank and the guest are discussing pets, please please please put a picture of their adorable pets in post !

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• MP

  @mpbx3003 · 4 months ago

  I&apos;m not fully sure how to articulate it, but Hank and Siobhan together feels like a character from the original British show meeting their counterpart from the American remake.

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• MA

  @Matematyk_empiryczny · 4 months ago

  Hank is just going through the whole cast of Dropout and I am not complaining one bit!

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• CA

  @calumboland1953 · 4 months ago (edited)

  Siobhan’s poetics discussion was genuinely thrilling to listen to. To sit down and advocate for ‘actually these things were intentional, and we’re not over egging it, and critical engagement of great works leads to positive experiences with them’ was a delightfully refreshing change of pace which I thoroughly enjoyed hearing

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• BI

  @biolard5574 · 4 months ago

  &quot;do you think poems are just creating a state of ecstasy for themselves and then letting the pen run across the page?&quot; is an incredible phrase, thank you siobhan

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• GR

  @GrayVMhan · 4 months ago

  Zac Oyama when?

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• MO

  @morganmoore4686 · 4 months ago

  Okay, now I would like a video where Siobhan talks to John about poetry. &nbsp;That would be brilliant.

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• MA

  @ManicShot · 4 months ago

  Hank&apos;s distrust of art analysis is funny to me — that scrutinising an aesthetic somehow detracts from the vibes. But consider how specious that sounds when applied to science, as so famously rebuffed by Carl Sagan:<br><br>&quot;It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not stirring to understand how the world actually works — that white light is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive the wavelengths of light, that transparent air reflects light, that in so doing it discriminates among the waves, and that the sky is blue for the same reason that the sunset is red? It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.&quot;

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• EM

  @EmmettMcMullan · 4 months ago

  The debate about composition at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rveUASDFk58&amp;t=1535">25:35</a> is so compelling. I love Hank, and I love that Hank frequently will record a moment where his assumptions are tested fiercely, a lacuna in his knowledge of the world will reveal itself nakedly, and he&apos;ll just leave that in the finished edit. That takes a lot of humility. And as in all things, thank god for Siobhan Thompson

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• IA

  @ianm-jt1mt · 4 months ago

  this, and sam reich&apos;s last meal within the same few days is genuinely amazing

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• CR

  @Crystalfalls100 · 4 months ago

  I think Siobhan is right that learning about things/how they are made (re: poetry and wine) doesn’t make them less beautiful!

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