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Hank Green: Pissing Out Cancer

When they started becoming ants, when they were descending from wasps, that moment that...

When they started becoming ants, when they were descending from wasps, that moment that happened,
a single gene copied itself a bunch of times in ants
with minor variations, and that gene was in the
ability to smell stuff

Full Transcript

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When they started becoming ants,
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when they were descending from wasps,
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that moment that happened, a single gene copied itself
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a bunch of times in ants with minor variations,
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and that gene was in the ability to smell stuff.
Duration
13 seconds
Views
37
Timestamp in Movie
00:36:50
Uploaded
Apr 03, 2025
Genres
comedy
Production
Dropout

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Movie Summary

Hank Green reflects on the good, the bad, and the weird parts of having cancer.
They just have this remarkable set of pheromones - Hank Green: Pissing Out Cancer 00:10
They just have this remarkable set of pheromones
(audience laughing) - Hank Green: Pissing Out Cancer 00:06
(audience laughing)
But imagine, Doc, an ant who, one day, - Hank Green: Pissing Out Cancer 00:07
But imagine, Doc, an ant who, one day,
And Trent, because he has decided - Hank Green: Pissing Out Cancer 00:09
And Trent, because he has decided
He's gonna clone himself, make a little extra Trent, - Hank Green: Pissing Out Cancer 00:13
He's gonna clone himself, make a little extra Trent,
They're just smelling stuff, and it's making them do things, - Hank Green: Pissing Out Cancer 00:22
They're just smelling stuff, and it's making them ...
(audience cheering) - Hank Green: Pissing Out Cancer 00:10
(audience cheering)
And the weird thing is that this cell - Hank Green: Pissing Out Cancer 00:08
And the weird thing is that this cell
This is a new organism that isn't me anymore, - Hank Green: Pissing Out Cancer 00:08
This is a new organism that isn't me anymore,
A single celled organism whose nearest ancestor is me, - Hank Green: Pissing Out Cancer 00:22
A single celled organism whose nearest ancestor is me,
And he's like, actually, I do have some other appointments - Hank Green: Pissing Out Cancer 00:09
And he's like, actually, I do have some other appointme...
So how do we kill the Trents? First step, chemotherapy. - Hank Green: Pissing Out Cancer 00:06
So how do we kill the Trents? First step, chemotherapy.
I go to get my first infusion at the infusion center. - Hank Green: Pissing Out Cancer 00:07
I go to get my first infusion at the infusion center.
It's the nicest room in the hospital, - Hank Green: Pissing Out Cancer 00:06
It's the nicest room in the hospital,
We have cold yogurt and warm blankets - Hank Green: Pissing Out Cancer 00:06
We have cold yogurt and warm blankets
I sit down, I get hooked up. She stabs me in the chemo port. - Hank Green: Pissing Out Cancer 00:05
I sit down, I get hooked up. She stabs me in the chemo port.
They install a port in your body, - Hank Green: Pissing Out Cancer 00:05
They install a port in your body,
And so she gave me the first chemotherapy bag and she says, - Hank Green: Pissing Out Cancer 00:13
And so she gave me the first chemotherapy bag and she says,
And I'm like, if you don't want it inside of me, - Hank Green: Pissing Out Cancer 00:07
And I'm like, if you don't want it inside of me,
But once it's through the tissues and in your bladder, - Hank Green: Pissing Out Cancer 00:11
But once it's through the tissues and in your bladder,