Dear Hank & John - 334: The Nose of A Mouse

Episode Date: May 31, 2022

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Hello and welcome to Dear Hank and John. I was I preferred to think of it dear John and Hank. It's a podcast where two brothers answer your questions, give you the advice and bring you all the weeks news from both Mars and AFC Wimbledon. John, I'm feeling okay. My teeth really hurt. They hurt. Can you ask me why my teeth hurt? Oh, I'm sorry. Why do you, why do your teeth

hurt? I was confused why, why, why you're both feeling okay and your teeth hurt. That's a sentence that could only be spoken by somebody whose teeth do not hurt because when, when you are in extreme dental pain, one thing you are not is okay. All right. I'm sorry. Go on. I'm, I, he just got, he couldn't process the sentence. I couldn't, it made no sense to me. I've had dental pain. My teeth hurt because I've been, I've been chewing on coins because I want to leave a little tooth mark

on every single crash course coin, John. Is that a joke or is that just, I don't have to keep asking questions. Oh, why do you want to do whatever that is? Because I heard that bitcoins are very valuable. That's a good joke. You're not going to play along though. You made it actually pretty hard for me.

I actually think that it's a better joke because we drew it out. So you're welcome. Hank mentioned that because right now the Crash Course coin is available for only two weeks at Crash Course coin.com. This is a really important part of how we fund Crash Course each year. And this year the Crash Course coin, Hank, is exceptionally beautiful. It features a design from the Lasco cave paintings that like take us back to those very early days of human curiosity and wonder and art making. The coin is so cool, you can check it out at Crash Course Coin.com. Thus ends the promo portion of the program. And if you get one that has a little tooth mark

on it, that's extra special one. That's, that's, that's gross. That's super gross, but it is a bit coin. And I believe, I believe that, that token is not fungible correctly from wrong. Well, the crap that I've had. The $500 crash coins, weirdly enough, are numbered with individual numbers, which makes them technically non-fungible and that they are not all identical to each other. But the difference between most non-fungible tokens and these crash-course coin non-fungible

tokens is that the coins are physical and also do good in the world. You said it not me. All right. Hank. So, my phone died three days ago while I was talking to my psychiatrist. I'm not sure that it was my psychiatrist, but all at once my battery went from like 60% down to 4% and then to 0% and then it could not be recovered and has been declared DOA by the hardworking folks in Apple repair. And this means that for the last three days, I've had no phone, no TikTok, no GPS.

I had to drive from Cincinnati to Indianapolis, Hank, like it was the Oregon Trail. Like it was the 18th century. I had, all I had was the little GPS dot on my, on my car screen, tell them me whether I was going western or north or southeast. Thank God I had that. And I eventually made it to Indianapolis. It was not the easiest journey of my life. But I, there was a moment, Hank, where I was really lost in a small town in Indiana trying to figure out which

way to Indianapolis. There was a moment when I was really lost and it was starting to get dark and I did feel a little bit like, you know, maybe, maybe this is it. Maybe I just set up camp here. Maybe I declared this the new Zion. And, um, fine, fine. Can I hunt a cow? I'm just gonna have dinner tonight. I'm gonna have dinner tonight. I'm gonna have dinner tonight. I'm gonna have dinner tonight. I'm gonna have dinner tonight. I'm gonna have dinner tonight. I'm gonna have dinner tonight. I'm gonna have dinner tonight. I'm gonna have dinner tonight.

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Yeah, very reliant, almost physiologically reliant. I mean, in some ways, definitely physiologically reliant. For example, as we talk about it, I do, like, it is triggering a response in me that wants to go and check and see something on it. Yeah. I don't know what. The phone is great at making you pick it up and check to see,

just see how it's doing. I can't tell you how many times over the last three days, I've pulled my dead phone out of my pocket and clicked the on button as if something will happen. Why is it in your pocket? Oh, it's also my wallet. Oh, yes, I also have that situation going. I gotta go, also I got to go to Paris tomorrow for reasons that we discussed at the end of the podcast.

And I mean, I'm a pretty adventurous explorer, I guess, but like showing up in Paris with basically no warning and no phone is gonna be challenging. It's challenging. Are you gonna bring some travelers checks? Yeah. That's a great question. I hadn't even thought of that whole angle. About money.

I think probably you'll be able to use your credit card still. But I do sometimes think about how we existed right at the end of an era for a little bit, where you would go to triple A, you'd walk in there and you'd be like, hey, I'm going to go to, I'm going to go to Milwaukee. Can you tell me about the construction that might be on the way and how to get there? Because other, like you could also just get an atlas, a large, completely keeping your

car. And then it would be wet and gross and dirty. Because it's a car. But Triple A would make you a triptick. Where is the triptick? It was sort of a custom made spiral bound book. And you would just go page by page of your directions. It was great.

I loved a triptick. I bet they still do them for the over 80s. It's a great, it's a great word. It's a great brand. Yeah, kind of a shame that we don't need them anymore. Well, I'll tell you what, I needed one last night trying to get home to Indianapolis, but here I am.

I've made it. I've made it. Hopefully during the recording of this podcast, my doorbell will ring and it will be someone bringing me a phone. That's great. Well, John, you have missed about 400 TikToks that would have been like the viral moment

of the month in 2011. So... That we would still be talking about the reporting them now. If only they had been released in 2011. It turns out that in the future everyone will be world famous for 1.5 nanoseconds. Andy, we're all got it so wrong. 15 minutes. And it's over.

And it's over. Maybe if you're Kim Kardashian. What is this? A YouTube video? All right, take let's answer some questions from our listeners. What is this? A YouTube video? All right, heck, let's answer some questions from our listeners beginning with this critically important question from Caleb who writes, dear John and Hank, how do we know what happens when you get sucked into a black hole?

Like I realize that we don't know, no. But where did the theories come from? Because I've heard things about being stretched into spaghetti or time stopping. So I'm not sure what to believe. Plus, I just watched Interstellar, so that's confusing, even if it's not based in fact. Please help me understand this very important aspect

of everyday life. Blannets are real, Caleb. Blannets? Blannets are real. Blannets. Black. Can I call planets? Oh, they are real.

There are black hole planets. Planets to go around black holes. Hmm, it's real. There are black hole planets planets to go around black holes. Hmm. It's true. It happens. Why are those do those planets have to make their own light like like deep sea fish do? What? One time you said the most beautiful thing to me. Oh, what was it? Which one? And I think about it all the time. It almost moved me to tears. And then you just, you said which one? As if like, you just, you just roll out bangers anytime you want. Yeah, that's why people listen to us, John. I say beautiful, thoughtful things. And you make goofy

science jokes. No, right. I got confused. You said you were like, if a planet escapes the gravity of its sun, it just kind of like hurls off into space infinitely. And I said that seems like it would be a real problem for life. And you said, yeah, it would be. There wouldn't be any light. And then you paused and said,

unless the life on that planet figured out how to make their own light. And I thought that was so beautiful. It was a reminder that we actually can make our own light. Like not necessarily what we do. In particular, well, I guess we can make our own light. And it's lovely. The fact that there are creatures on this earth that can make their own light is a source of tremendous hope for me. But anyway, that's not what the question is about. What happens when I get sucked into a black hole hank?

Well, I don't know. You can read about it, but how do we know what happens when you get sucked into a black hole? Obviously no one's ever done it. So it's all math. But we have a pretty good idea of how the universe works at the edge of a black hole and sort of like entering into the black hole. And then once you're in the black hole, that's where we don't have a good idea of how the universe works. And in there, in sort of what they call the singularity, which is where all that mass is crushed down into a very small space. That's the science word for, and it's very weird.

And so it just sort of physics breaks, and we don't know and can never know what it's like in there, which is pretty cool, but maybe a little bit of a bummer, because we're used to the idea that we're going to know things. And I feel like in general, we know so much now, people ask questions and they expect it to be answers, but oftentimes, and in fact, maybe, if, you know, depending on the kinds of questions you're asking, it's always, and not probably maybe this, but not totally sure.

I mean, so correct me if I'm wrong here, Hank, but one of the reasons we are so interested in black holes is the same reason we're interested in other sort of weird, surprising parts of the universe, or facets of the universe, which is that the rules of physics don't work as well in these edge cases as they work for most of us, most of the time. Yeah, we love an edge case, for sure. And so the edge cases help us to understand like,

well, and how often times what are we not understanding about the rules? Yeah. The edge cases are sort of like where there is space left to learn, and also they are opportunities for greater inquisition and sort of finding out, oh, okay. So if that's working that way, then maybe we got something wrong.

And we know a tremendous amount, and almost all of this stuff we learned in the last 100 or 150 years, it was not long ago that we didn't know that there were other galaxies. That's relatively recent. Yeah, for a long time, there was a huge debate, right? Like whether or not those smudges in the sky

were gas clouds or galaxies. Yeah, right. And we can barely see any of them with the naked eye. And so you had to sort of like wait for telescopes before you could even see the smudges let alone, like try and identify what they were. That is another weird thing about building knowledge is that it is so contingent upon building technology, but sometimes we don't know which technologies to build

because we don't know what kind of knowledge we actually are seeking. Yeah. It's part of what makes the James Webb Space Telescope so exciting is that we have a pretty good idea that looking at this kind of light will help us understand something we really want to understand about the beginning of the universe.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And previous telescopes that have gone up to study stuff have done a lot of both confirming our ideas and requiring that we rethink stuff. So that's definitely going to happen, and I'm very excited for it. But basically, when you hear about what happens

when you go into a black hole, it's basically physicists and science communicators saying, here is an equation. How do I tell a story about that that will be interesting to people? And so that's, that's basically what's happening. And I think that that is of worthwhile pursuit for sure. Great. There's really only two things, John. Yeah. There's math and there's stories. That's Great. There's really only two things, John. Yeah.

There's math and there's stories. That's it. That's everything. Yeah, but the weird thing is that math is a kind of story and story is a kind of math. John, this next question comes from Katherine who asks, Dear Hank and John, I have a summer job in my suburb of Montreal where I drive around town to do maintenance on baseball fields. That's interesting, I bet it requires a GPS. The thing is that I have to do this with with an assigned partner and I got paired with a man. It's about your age. I'm a 24-year-old

girl. How do I make these nine-hour shifts less awkward? I'm pretty sure that asking him how his kids are doing is just going to get old quickly. Unde Toa, Catherine. Hmm. You are right. Now we don't know anything about this man except that he's about our age, John. Yeah. And apparently he has children. What band can Catherine listen to that is just going to astound a 41-year-old

with the knowledge that Catherine contains. It's got to have, it's got to be a deep cut, right? Like it can't be Nirvana's nevermind. No, right, right, right, right. Because every 41-year-old knows that the kids these days listen to Nirvana. It's got to be vastly deeper than that. Yeah, you have to, you have to just be like under your breath singing all of three elevens, don't let me down. Or alternately, what if you're singing three elevens,

don't let me down, but you're also singing Michael Bolton, but you're also at the same time. This is tricky because we don't know enough about this guy. It could be like Alan Jackson's Chattahoochi. That's what I'm saying. You probably might really love that. No Hank, that is exactly the idea. You developed such a breadth of knowledge about popular music in 1993 that you astonished this person not only by knowing 311 and Alan Jackson's way down Yonder on the Chattahoochi, but also you know Montel Jordan's,

this is how we do it. You are able to like sing every single hit from 1993. You're like, oh, I also happen to know Selene Dion, like all good Canadians. And oh. In the middle of the night. Is that a Selene Dion scene? No, it's the Billy Joe song. Remember of dreams. It was like his last hit.

That one. I remember. Yeah. You know what? Oh, oh, God. Also. Also. Remember that meatloaf song? I'll do anything for them, but I won't do that. That was the year Salt and Peppers, what a man came out. That is, that is the year. What is love? Maybe don't hurt me. Was that 1993 God?

What a year? What a year. What a year? What a year in American life. Here's what you gotta do. You gotta, you hear, this is what everyone in the world wants. Every person in the world wants someone to say to them, teach me about the things that you love.

Teach me your ways. Teach me the things that you know that I don't know. And this guy definitely has something. It might be rush, it might be, it might be debarged, but it's something. It might not even be music, and that's okay. That's also okay. I think that is our actual advice. Don't attempt to become an expert

in this person's childhood years. Instead, ask them when you give the expertise. Yeah, exactly. Let them lend you give the expertise. Yeah, exactly. Let them lend you their expertise. I was in the van recently to go to the movie set. They take you from your car in crew parking to the set in a van. The van is driven by someone. The person was telling me that they restore classic cars

and that's their job when they're not doing movie stuff. And so I was asking them, well, what's your favorite car? What's what was a great, what was a good year for the Camaro? He said, do you have a Camaro? I said, no, but I'm thinking about getting one. That's it. Suddenly. Yeah, exactly.

But I wasn't. But I suddenly I'm thinking like, I'd look pretty good in a Camaro. Like people will see a Camaro and they want to see a 45 year old dad walk out of it and I fit the bill. You look over to Camaro. It's always the same guy. It is. And that guy is increasing me.

I'm not necessarily happy about it, but like, that's the situation we're in and I kind of want to come here. I didn't know what happened, but it kind of did. Yeah, yeah. And specifically, like, I want to know, like, what's a good year for a Camaro that I can walk out of my Camaro and people can be like, hey, tell me all about your Camaro and I can be like, listen, I don't know anything about it. I was just met this guy and he told me it was a good year.

Yeah. Yeah, I'm actually really excited about the new Chevy Cazaro, which is their EV Camaro. I can't tell what you're kidding. Cazooor, Cazaro! Hire me GM, I'm available. I can make up brand names like that, like just a snap. There's got to be a Z in it somewhere. I might be a Zomerro. I'd be a cut, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a,

Camerozo. What about it? Come, come, come, come, Camerozo. Camerozo's a zero vibe in it. It could just be like, come, comeero plus zero. That's what it's called. I think you're missing an opportunity to get rid of all the consonants and just go hard Z zero. You're right. Oh my God, I retire. I'm a terrible brander. The Chevrolet.

I've never got a brand. a brand. There's a zero. There's a zero. It's like you can only say it one way, just like AFC Wimbledon's new manager, Johnny Jackson. Do you know what the electric Camaro is actually gonna be called? What is it gonna be called? That gonna be called the Camaro.

Are you kidding me? It's terrible. They could have called it the Zazero, which literally has the word zero in it, but instead they chose to call it the Camaro. Oh, these, I mean, of course. No wonder electric cars aren't gonna take off as fast as they ought to.

They don't have us, do in the branding. That's right. Oh, well, I could, and you've gotta put me in charge of designing it too. Hey, can I ask you, I'm sure that I'd do a great job. Can I ask you a question about our shared YouTube history? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I actually have one for you. Why are you watching so many videos about the video game Track Mania, which appears to be some kind of car racing video game from like 12 years ago.

Hold on, let me look at the, our YouTube history. I don't see this in here. What are you talking about? Every time I go to the front page of YouTube, a video about track Mania is recommended to me. I can only conclude that this is because you've been watching a lot of Trackmania videos. Do you think it's a complete coincidence? Um, yeah, I'm looking at one now that's called the hardest climb of Trackmania. It's right here on the front page of my YouTube. On vlogrothers? No, YouTube.com, Hank, YouTube.com.

No, no, no, no, but like you're in the vlog where there's a count. Yeah, where else would I be? I don't know. I have a bunch. So, so here's what I think is happening, John. I have started to watch F1 videos. And I think that, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah1 compilation YouTube videos. Oh, Mr. I don't know who Lewis Hamilton is. You know, that first one's super fantastic. He's suddenly an effort-staffed, he's done some cool thing.

Videos. I like the ones where they don't crash. Those are the best ones where they made the safe, the safe passes. Yeah, and I think that YouTube is like, hey, he seems to like F1. Here's some track mania. Right, it's like F1 but a video game. Okay, that's so cool. I'm going to, I have to ask you a question about our YouTube is like, hey, he seems to like F1. Here's some track Mania. Right. It's like F1, but a video game. Okay. I'm going to, I have to ask you a question about our sure YouTube history, John, because the other day you watched a video about how to export a premiere file and only the audio, which I think is so adorable. We have been doing this since 2007, and you don't know how to export an MP3 from Premiere.

I do. It's just that it also comes with video. Well, I'm so glad that you figured this out. So it's like, so I'll send the file to Tuna and Tuna will be like, I'm not sure that this file needs to be 1.2 gigabytes. Yeah, it's just like a black screen. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. That's awesome.

Oh my lord, John, we gotta ask more questions. Help, help, quick before we embarrass ourselves further. Oh, all right. I thought you were gonna ask me about my really bad habit of late night YouTube watching. No, whoof, cow, whoof, oh yeah, yeah, I watched those treatment videos. That's really picked up when I'm like coming home from set. It's three o'clock in the morning and I'm lonely and I'm meeting a frozen pizza.

And I'm like, I'm going to do it. I'm going to watch the hoof GP. This next question comes from Bell who writes, dear John and Hank, I've been given a typewriter shaped planter. Well, that took a turn. I mean, it might be the only thing that really functionally one can do with the typewriter these days. What would be a metaphorically resonant plant to put in it? It will live indoors next to a window. Oh, thank you for that clarification, Bell, because Hank and I are such botanists

that we will totally cater our answer to your needs. Right. Furns and flowers, Bell. Do you have an answer to this question, John, because it feels like you shouldn't have asked it if you didn't, because I got nothing. I've succulents, I guess. Why succulents? I don't know. They're easy. They're pretty. They're easy. I'll give you some planter. Yeah. It's metaphorically resonant, hard

to kill, just like the Quarty keyboard layout. It's impossible at this point we will never get rid of it. It will be there forever. It won't be there forever because the world for as long as humans are typing. I don't have an answer. I'm sorry. In the middle of the night. I go walking in my street. Do the man move out? Do the room so dream. I don't know, man. We've been very bold. I'm very bold.

I'm very bold. I'm very bold. I'm very bold. I'm very bold. I'm very bold. I'm very bold. I'm very bold. I'm very bold.

I'm very bold. I'm very bold. I'm very bold. I'm very bold. I'm very bold. I'm very bold. I sleep. Yeah, I go walking on my I thought yes But you say he didn't you sing on my street? That's what I thought it was yeah, well I thought it was on the street So we were both wrong Sabina writes dear John and Hank why do we have upper and lowercase letters but not upper and lowercase numbers?

How do I express to someone that a number is important over text the way that I can express that things are important with capital letters, pumpkins and penguins, subpoena. Now this is a great, you all caps numbers. Where is the uppercase number? Or indeed, the lower case number, I'm not sure which one I'm looking at. I think we're looking at the uppercase numbers. All right. So because that's how it worked. Originally, we had upper case letters and then we worked lower case in as like a separate system. And this was before cases even existed.

Because the case was literally the case that the blocks were put in. And there was an upper case where the big letters were and there was a lower case. It was a box. That type setters. There were two cases. Yes.

Before you answer this question, Hank, which I think is a great question, I just want to pause to note how incredible, like we think that this information revolution is weird and it is extremely weird and obviously I would argue it's not going great, but that information revolution is also really weird. And one of the ways that you can grapple with how weird it was is how humans had to figure out what writing was going to look like if it wasn't made by hands. Yeah, I mean, there was stuff to work from. There was like, tizzled stuff, like gravestones. And there were all kinds of other things too.

Yeah, I don't think it was primarily gravestones. I'm just saying, like, it is very, it was very, very weird if the sudden widespread availability of text. Yes, so weird. And it's so upset like, upsetting, upsetting in like the traditional term. Like so weird that a bunch of people in Europe started to be like, why can't we read the Bible? It's easy enough to print. And then just write it down in German. That turned into a sub. A Hull of a blue. Quite a Hull of a mess. Quite a mess. I mean, that's why now when I go to my church, they have to ride the line.

I don't know if you know this about the Episcopal Church egg, but the Episcopal Church is a classic example of, you know how like when you don't want to make a decision, you sort of end up making both decisions. Yeah. So the Episcopal Church didn't want to, didn't want to like, they were like, man, a lot of people are fighting about this trans-estabulation stuff and whether or not this becomes the body of Christ or if it's just the bread of heaven.

And there's, is it the body or is it just bread? Man, there's a lot of wars going on about this business. I know how we'll solve this issue. When we give you the wafer, we'll say, the body of Christ and the bread of heaven. Boom! Is that what they say? That's what they say.

And then when you drink, look, we need to solve the problems. We need some, we got some big problems to need to solve, and I'm open to anything. That's right, that's right. Like I, maybe that I'm open to anything. That's right. That's right. Like, maybe that's the solution to Twitter. Yeah. Maybe there's some kind of body of Christ, bread of heaven solution to that whole Hava

Blue. But Hank, what are we going to do about the goal-recase number issue? Because I think this does have to exist immediately. Well, so how would I do it? So first of all, capital's weird, uppercase weird, the whole thing, like some languages don't have this at all, there's no real reason why we would need them.

Different languages have totally different rules for capitalization, like in German, every now and is capitalized, which is wild. In our language, I is capitalized. Why?

Buh, uh, somebody somewhere decided that for some reason that is no longer relevant. There's no good reason, but we do it. And it looks very weird. There is no good reason. I remember learning it in elementary school

and being like, I still don't get it. Like, you keep explaining it to me, but it seems I seems more like he or she or it that it seems like Henry, John or Hank. Well, it especially seems more like me, which is the same damn word. Well, me is very similar to she. Maybe that's what it is.

Maybe it's that there is no reason. It doesn't matter. We're not gonna get to the bottom of it. We're not linguists. But the point is that when you need to emphasize a number, how do you do it? You use asterisks on the beginning and the end. I like to use the squiggly. I like to use the squiggly just below the escape key, the tilde.

The tilde. Yeah, tilde is good. Two tildes. I will often use two tildes if I want to be like, this salad cost tilde, tilde, $18. You know what I do? I usually do, I usually write one eight, and then you know what I usually do.

I either write out the word for the number in all capital letters, like $18 or I write the number and then behind that I write United States dollars, which I think is a way of emphasizing how expensive something is. Can we go through and decide how the lower case numbers are going to look though, just for the, so we can do it. I think that one is obviously an upside down exclamation point. Sure. Just going to be a huge problem in Spanish, but I'm for it.

It's also just an eye. So that's a problem. Two is going to be like the two, but no little thing on the bottom. So just like half a heart. I like it. Three is going to be. It's got to be the bottom half of the three. But I'm half of the three just a little stiff to see. Yeah, a little see. Like a see, but the top part of the sea doesn't quite come all the way around to the bottom part of the sea, you know? Yeah.

A four is just a little spiral. Okay. Very small spiral. That's going to be a harder one for me to learn. But I you'll get it. You know, I'll get there. Don't worry. Five is going to be the nose of a mouse. Six is going to be like that thing that they have on the top of the house with the rooster and the arrow that shows you which way the wind is blowing wind. Wind, wind, wind. Yeah.

The rooster. Yeah. Seven is going to be the entire Apollo launch vehicle, the Saturn 5 rocket. Oh, that was a great one. Eight, of course, is going to be, it's largely conceptual. It's the concept of knowing that you must hold on to hope, even though ultimately everything is for naught. Yeah. And then a lowercase nine is of course, just the laughter of a child. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

And then the zero is just a lowercase. Oh, that one's crazy. And that won't be a problem at all when we're trying to do our passwords. It won't be, it'll never be an issue. It's already, it's already a huge problem. It's already a massive problem. I'm gonna put a dot in the middle of the oh so that I know that it's not an oh. Oh, man. I think the thing that that worked out well.

What a fact. I guess, by the way, is brought to you is brought to you by the lapper of a child. Otherwise known as lowercase nine. It's one of the very best things in the world. The other day I was just as trying to elicit the lowercase nine. It's one of the very best things in the world. The other day I was trying to elicit the lowercase nine from a child at a restaurant by hiding behind a napkin and the child instead burst into tears, continue to cry for the next 15 minutes.

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That is very sweet. It's Cosset. He said so clearly in his pronunciation guide, John. I'm a little over-cosset. He did say Cosset quite clearly in his pronunciation guide, and I went with my heart, which I've been told is never wrong, so I'm very confused. That's what it says. This next question comes from Sabrina who asks,

dear Hank and John, why do we have upper and lower case letters, but not upper and lower case numbers? I think that the lower case one, we did that. Like a headband. No. No.

No. He's starting over. It's like when you pull the string on the Teddy Ruck's bin, he's going back. There's a snake in my boot. This next question comes from Evelyn, who asks, dear, Anconjohn, I've heard a lot of people talking about Democrats and Republicans. It's amazing. It's amazing. It's amazing.

The touchy great sentence. I have also heard so many people talking about Democrats and Republicans. It's so true. It's the most, it's the truest sentence I've ever made. That's because I have to say say there are even commercials about them. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha between them? What are the values of each of them? What are they fighting for? Why do they keep changing all the time? The values? Why is it all such a big deal? I'm thoroughly confused. Please help. I have not died seven and a half times. Everyone, that's a great book. Very good. I mean, Hank, I'm glad that you decided that we were going to wait into these waters. Well, I don't know. Can we, how, like, so we've got 15 minutes left, maybe. Can you tell me what a Democrat and a Republican is?

All right. In the US. I love this question. It is true that many people are talking about Democrats and Republicans. It's also true that, like, these things change over time. Like, the Republican Party and the Democratic Party today are very different from where they were 40 years ago

or 100 years ago or certainly 150 years ago. With the Democratic Party, you can actually go online, Evelyn, and read the party platform. That is the group of policy positions and overall value structures that the Democratic Party ratified at their most recent convention. The Republican Party has traditionally had a platform of its own as well that you could go online and read. But right now it doesn't have one because it has not ratified a platform of any kind over, I think since 2016. So that's not possible. But you can read the Wikipedia article on current Republican party positions, which is like a platform kind of.

Yeah, yeah, it is certainly complex and it is also values based. And those values and worldviews are complicated, but I think that reading through platforms is definitely not super-honorous way to get a good idea of the actual real difference between these things. And it would be nice if there was more than a Wikipedia page

or sort of a ballot, PDF, like look at what current Republican perspectives are. But, all right, Hank, before we get to the all important news from Mars and AFC, we'll then let's answer this question from Kate, who writes, when I first started dating my husband, he took me backpack get to the all important news from Mars and AFC world, and let's answer this question from Kate who writes, Dear Jonathan Hank, when I first started dating my husband, he took me backpacking in the very remote canyon lands of Utah.

It was over a hundred degrees in my entire heritage, from near or above the Arctic Circle in Norway, so as you can imagine, I didn't fare too well. I ended up getting severe heat exhaustion, and my then boyfriend had to carry both of our backpacks to get me to safety. A park ranger later told me that once you sustain a heat injury, you're far more susceptible to them in the future. I'm not looking to test that, but I do wonder why that is. The cold doesn't bother me anyway, Kate.

So Deboki and I looked through and tried to figure this out. One thing Deboki said is, I hate the hot as well, but my people are from the hot place, so I don't know how much heritage is involved. But the thing that we came to is that this isn't like rolling your ankle where once you do it once, you're more likely to do it again

because you've like loosened to the tendons. It's more like having loose tendons to begin with. And so now you roll your ankle a lot. You were always more susceptible to heat exhaustion. And the first time you got in has now you know that you are a person who is more likely to get to have this problem. So it doesn't seem like you've sort of loosened your heat exhaustion tendons. It seems like they were always loose. Well, that's interesting. Well, that's interesting.

But that is a real thing that people who get it are more likely to get it because they were always predisposed to it. So I have noticed that my children have different relationships with the heat, and I wonder if this is related, where Alice, it is never too cold for Alice. She is always happy to be outside in the dead of winter. And Henry is always happy to be outside in summer. So I don't even know that it's shared within families, but Alice gets overheated so easily.

And Henry never does. Yeah, that's how I feel. I grew up in Florida where I was just like, I don't want, why would anybody like this or ever go outside? I remember growing up in Florida and like I wore a trench coat, you know, like in summer. Yeah, you did.

And my memory of it is that I was never really that hot, but I also like the way I remember that those years at Eddie Raite is that I was also never really inside of my body. Like, well, I was thinking you were never really outside of your house. No, I was, though. I remember waiting for at the bus stop and it being very, very hot, but at the same time being like, well, but it doesn't really matter anyway because I'm not really there. Like, it's going to be real weird for us to have teenagers, John. Oh, God.

Oh, God. I got help us indeed. All right. I fell on that note. AFC Wimbledon Hank with their new manager, Johnny Jackson, have released their retained list. This is a big moment because it's like who is still under contract and who is moving on. Now, there's a couple things to bear in mind here. One of which, and I think this is very important, is that as we begin, as we return to fourth tier English soccer, we will probably lose some of our best players because they will move on. Like a Ubisoft, there's already interest in him from Premier League teams, which would be great because he's under contract, so they'd have to pay us a fee. So that could be awesome. Interesting. Awesome. But so a Ubasol is on the retained list as is Jack Rodone probably are two best players.

Jack Rodone is played for Wimbledon since he was like four years old. His parents are Wimbledon supporters. He will probably either go to a championship team like a team in the second tier or else to a Premier League team. And so will a Ubasol. So they're still under contract, but they don't really, it doesn't really matter. How do you handle these Premier League players and lose so many games? Well, because they're 20.

No, okay. So it's more that Premier League teams are betting on them to be great players one day. And also, you know, two players do not make a team. But we will have Nick Zannev next year, our long time goalkeeper, we will also have Alex Woodyard, our captain, who had a really great season in midfield, despite the fact that we were terrible. And critically for me,

we are retaining my personal favorite player, Will Nightingale, who has played for Wimbledon since he was 11 years old, and is one of the longest serving members of the dawns. Also, Luke McCormick is staying in midfield and Aaron Cosgrove is staying. Some of the players leaving are Eglikazia, who came back, Ben Hennigan, who was probably our best central defender last year and a long time Wimble Donian or Don Darius Charles. So we've got it.

I mean, the retained list is a little, it's pretty much what you would expect. It's most of the players who signed to your contracts are coming back for their second year. But I think a lot of those players will actually play and hopefully will be successful in league two. But the truth is we're going to have to we're definitely going to have to recruit good players, especially especially players who can score goals because I don't know that we have any on this list. Like we have good, a lot of good midfielders on this list, but I don't see anybody who can score goals

other than a Ubisoft and Jack Rodone who are both probably gonna leave. So Johnny Jackson's got a big job on his hands. Boy, he's a very handsome lad. He has an extremely full head of hair for a man his age. So I have confidence in him. All right, well good. The news from Mars is kind of sad.

The insight lander will be ending its mission on Mars this summer because of a lack of power. So like a bunch of other crafts, not all of them. The insight uses solar panels to generate power. And in previous missions, we've gotten lucky. I don't know if it's been like the way that the wind blows or the geology or whatever, that the wind would blow the dust off of the solar panels.

And that would be how the thing would survive. Those solar panels, when it first unfurled, could produce about 5,000 watt hours of energy per soul, so brew like Martian day. And now they're down to like 500. So that's not, and it continues to go down. So they've done a couple of operations to try and extend the life of the lander by clearing off the dust in a couple of smart clever little ways, but that none of those things are going to extend the mission forever. And so after three years, four years, insight is going to be ending its mission.

It's done a lot of good. It's done a lot of cool stuff. It did have that other piece that did not work where it tried to drill into Mars and that that never happened, but It has provided some very good data even with the ball which Got got some information on the sort of internal temperature of Mars Yeah, and right now. It's just got its seismometers measuring Mars quakes and that's gonna keep it's gonna keep doing that until the end of the summer Yeah, I mean it was supposed to be two years, right? Like that was the expected mission length. I know they always kind of try to go conservative on that.

They do always go conservative. They're, it's not unusual for a sort of six month mission to end up lasting 10 years. So right. It is a little bit of a, it is a little bit of a bummer. I think if you asked anybody internally, they'd be like, I kind of wish that's what last would have lasted long. Yeah. But they did a lot of good stuff.

And the data will continue to be crunched in lots of good information or continue to come out. Well, insight is dead, long live perseverance. Yeah, yes, very much so. Percy is doing plenty right now, as well as my news is zero electric Camaro. Well, Hank, I'm off to purchase a zero Camaro, but thank you for ponding with me. And thanks to everybody for your questions, you can submit your questions at Hank and John

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