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Alright, John, you want to make a podcast? Oh, and welcome to Deer Hank and John. Goers up for a Think of a Deer John and Hank. It's a podcast where two brothers answer your questions, give you, give you advice, and bring you all the weeks news from both Mars and AFC Wimbledon John.
Do you know how old Santa Claus is? How old is Santa Claus? He's 1749 years old. And do you know when he's going to turn 1750?
When? On his birthday, John. No, he used to accept that as a joke. I don't acknowledge it.
No one knows when Santa Claus' birthday is so that's as good as I can do. That's the most, literally the most accurate answer. I wasn't a joke. It was just the accurate answer.
Well, in that sense, I appreciate it. Hank, I'm very excited. As you know, we have a Patreon, patreon.com slash I don't remember what it is. Deer Hank and John.
That's a great Patreon handle. Anyway, we have a Patreon on that Patreon. One of the terrible perks that you can get is this really bad podcast we make every week just for our Patreon subscribers. It's called This Week in Rions, but it hasn't been about people named Ryan in like seven months.
So we're finally rebranding it to This Week in Worries, which is the kind of podcast topic I can really get behind because I have a new worry every week. And so every week we'll be discussing our worries of the week as well as anything else that comes up. I think there's like an etymology section. It's like a five or ten minute podcast.
You can get it at patreon.com slash deerhankajon. We don't spend any of that money. It goes to a Complexly to Support Crash Course in SciShow or other educational video projects. But yeah, I just wanted to say that.
Now we can go on to answering questions from our listeners. I am also excited. We're going to try to bring a little bit of joy in and we're also going to... Oh, it's going to be a very funny this week in Worries just to be clear.
Our initial idea is to do the etymology of the thing we are most worried about every week. Yeah, and last week we did the etymology of the word worry, which turns out as a fascinating history, it involves ropes and a feeling of strangulation. Which is sort of like the emotion of 2019, but Hank is coming to an end. 2019 is coming to an end.
What does 2020 hold? Oh boy. Oh, that's kind of wonderful surprises. Oh my God.
This first question comes from Huck who asks deerhankajon, is it okay to go back to your house that you used to live in and ask the new owners who you don't know if you could walk through it? If so, what? Nope. That you can't.
Huck, I'm sorry. I don't think you can. I understand the urge to do this. Like the house that Hank and I grew up in in Orlando, it would be really cool for me to walk through it.
And probably the owners would be fine with it. I'm just telling you that I personally wouldn't do it. Yeah. Because here's the thing, Huck, both literally and figuratively, you can't go home again.
Right. And the closest you can get is when your old house comes up for sale and they put all the pictures on the Internet. Which is great. It's wonderful.
And go to Zillow.com and you look at all of the pictures and then you think, if you're like me, you think, maybe I'll just buy that house and I'll restore it to exactly what it looked like in 1984 and I'll go there once a year on my birthday and walk around my home. That's right. Other people can't have this. It's mine.
Yeah. So I'm going to be a part of the housing crisis by owning a house that no one lives in. What'd you do with your money, John? I bought a house in Orlando, Florida that's only for me and only on my birthday.
Does it still have a giant radio transmission tower in the backyard? Probably not. That was probably a bit of a safety violation. That was definitely the highlight of our childhood home was that our next door neighbor had a 200 foot tall radio tower.
It was huge. And I don't like I don't remember thinking that this was as big of a deal at the time. But at one point, the top of the 200 foot tall radio tower fell off and landed through the screen of our swimming pool and into the pool where we could have been swimming. Yeah, but we weren't.
We weren't. And like if you're going to die, like what you are, you might as well get impaled by the top of a radio tower while swimming. Like that's amazing. I liked the first half of that sentence a lot.
And I dislike the second half of the sentence tremendously. I agree. Never have I, has my opinion on a sentence changed more than in the course of that sentence because you are going to die. But the idea that it is a good death to be impaled by a radio tower in a swimming pool in Orlando, Florida.
Right. That is in the bottom 1% of all possible deaths. Yeah, but like at least you get a Wikipedia page. Maybe you don't.
Yeah, but your Wikipedia page is just list of people who died via impaling of radio towers in Orlando, Florida. And it's like 42 people long. You're not even the star of the list. That was very weird.
What were their names? Oh, what were their names? What was it like? They're definitely dead.
Yeah, they were old then because they were like a hundred and eighty at the time. Yeah. What were their names? And I remember like the sort of mythos around the tower was that he worked in the orange groves.
And she wanted to like talk to him. And so they had like a radio that they could talk back and forth with like cell phones, but in the 60s. Hold on one second. I got a card.
I got a card. Where'd you go, John? He left me. She didn't pick up, but I'll let you know what she calls back.
I got to remember those people's names. Was it? That is correct. Oh my God.
Where did that come from? I didn't sit and access it until I called Mom and she didn't answer. How you called Mom? That's great.
Yeah, that's what. Oh, did you not notice that I put you on hold for like two minutes? No, I had no idea where you went. You disappeared.
I said hold on. I know it is. I know what you called Mom. All I heard you say was hold on and then you disappeared.
Well, I was calling Mom, but she didn't answer. But it doesn't matter because it was definitely the family. Anyway, rest in peace. I think we answered the question, Huck.
Don't go home. You can't go home. Whatever you do. Don't go home.
This next session comes from ZionF, who writes, Dear John and Hank, I've been watching Journey to the microcosmos and listening to the Anthropocene Reviewed and I was wondering how do you guys do your research? Do you just do it yourselves or do other people do it for you? Do you read books or just use the internet? Isn't it super time consuming to research all the time?
Yeah. Yes. Yeah. It is super time consuming.
I mean, yeah, John does all the Anthropocene Reviewed by himself, which is super time consuming. And I can tell you that because I see the YouTube videos he watches and you spend a lot of time researching a single topic, John. I do. I do usually read books as well as using the internet.
I mean, the internet is an amazing resource, but the truth is the vast majority of the world's information isn't on it. At least it isn't on my internet. I can go to the library and access all kinds of databases that I can learn so much more from. So for instance, writing this most recent episode about Aldling Zion had to learn about Robert Burns and this friendship that he had with this older woman who ended up making a blog brother's video about.
And in that process, I started to think like, oh, well, what do we know about where Robert Burns got the poem from? And then I fell down a rabbit hole and I'm reading these biographies of Robert Burns and going to the library and looking stuff up. But for me, that is the joy. I love writing and I love trying to distill what I've learned or what I'm thinking about into sentences.
But for me, the real joy of it is like the thought that just over the next hill might be some amazing fact. Yeah. And there so often is. Like, that's the thing you are rewarded.
It's like a kind of sport where, you know, if you play long enough, you will score a goal and that feels really good. There's nothing like diving into a well-researched book to be like, oh, this is all so much weirder and cooler than I thought. Yeah. So, you know, in prepping for starting Journey to the Microcosmos, I read a couple of books, Microbe Hunters, which is an older book.
It's several decades old. I think it came out in the 60s, maybe. And it's just a look at, you know, the deep history of these people who were first realizing that this other world existed beneath our notice, that like, organisms didn't stop beyond where our perception stopped and how, you know, sort of universe changing that was. And also how it was kind of not accepted for a long time.
And people were like, this doesn't make any sense that that's not an actual living thing. That's just a piece of dust doing dust things. But I do have lots of help with Microcosmos, especially, which is outlined by James, who does all of the video parts. And then Deboki, who also works on Dear Hank and John, also works on tangents, works on a ton of stuff for us, who sort of like does the deeper research to make sure we don't get stuff from, and also writes a lot of the episodes.
Yeah, I've written all of the Anthropocene Reviewed, not because I think I'm the only person who can write it, but because it is such a source of pleasure for me and because it gives me a way to do something on my terms and without too much interference from like broader internet culture, which is really important for me for my brain. And then also like, I just love it. I think one of the things that people don't understand about learning until they get the bug is how good it feels. To find the thing that you've been looking for that you didn't know you were looking for, that piece of information that changes the way you understand the world, or confirms something that you thought but you didn't have much evidence for.
It's so fun to find those little moments and to find the places where like what you're interested in meets up with a larger human story or with your own human experience or whatever. Like that is what I'm really creative when I'm researching and like, it makes learning fun. Ralph. Ralph?
Mom just texted me. It was still in her head too, just sitting around in there. This next question comes from Echo who asks, Dear Hank and John, how do you interrupt each other so well and efficiently but also frequently when you talk and want to move on from certain topics? Whenever I'm with friends, I can never find the proper moment to interject and most of the time one or two friends will talk endlessly without pause and when I do interject, I do it abruptly and then I apologize for interrupting and then I talk super fast so that no one can interrupt me.
I never understand how others find ways to creep into conversation smoothly. Forever a good listener, Echo. Boy, I let first, I want to make it very clear that John and I do not talk as efficiently and smoothly and without interruption as it comes out sounding after Tuna gets his marvelous fingers on it. That is correct.
You should hear a real conversation between us. It's absolutely, it just makes no sense whatsoever. Yeah, Tuna put it in a bit here where it's just complete like some of the stuff you cut out and you know what is interesting and cool no matter what you can't tell everything. You can't then right now, Hank, just so you know in the background, I'm trying to figure out what happened to Ralph.
Oh, right, of course. It's okay, probably not. And smash cut to right now, it has genuinely only been a couple of minutes. Oh, God.
What question were we answering? Oh, man, mom needs to stop texting you. I don't know. We went so far off the rails.
We're so far off the rails. This end of the year spectacular and turned into Hank and John Google someone they met three times 35 years ago. Well, if it's telling me anything, it's that small interactions that we have in people with people in our lives have bigger impacts than we think. All right, this next question comes from Nina because we need to get out of the rabbit hole.
Yeah, this ever has been a nice exploration of why Hank and I like research and how it happens. Yeah, Nina writes Dear John and Hank, can you unpickle the pickle? What? Nina, no, you know, actually, I looked it up.
I looked it up because I thought, why not look it up? Because I love doing research. Yeah. And you know what I found is that it's very hard to unpickle a pickle, probably impossible because it's not just a chemical process.
It's actually a biological one. Yeah, it's a process of fermentation. And so like the really marvelous things that microorganisms do happens to your pickle. It would be very difficult to remove the vinegar and the lactic acid from the pickle.
But after the end of that process, you would not have a cucumber again. You would have a mushy piece of trash. I have great news for you though, Nina. If you have a pickle and you don't and you want a cucumber, just go to the store and get a cucumber.
They're available extraordinarily inexpensively. They cost less than pickles. Yes, because they are far less complicated to create. Like I've grown a lot of cucumbers and I've made a few pickles.
Yeah. And just based on my own gardening experience, all vegetables grown in my garden are worth at least $7.00. That's just how much labor it takes me to create them. Say cucumber is worth about $7.50.
A pickle is worth like $900. Yeah. Homemade pickles, man. We have a pickle for him that was gifted to us.
It's a device that is used in the process of making pickles. And the only reason I'm keeping this pickle frickin around is because I really like hearing or in, say, pickle frickin. Well, I mean, it's pretty easy to pickle a pickle. You know, like we pickle all kinds of vegetables, but we pickle them in ways that we eat them right away.
You know, not like a pickle in can. Like you do with pickle pigs feed or with like pickles that you buy in the store. That seems very complicated and hard. Yeah.
Well, and partially because you have to sort of manage the microbiome of the pickle container so that it does not become poison, which is a very important part. Oh, yeah. No, that's why I don't engage in canning. Yes, because I don't trust myself not to die of botch.
This next question comes from Katie who writes Dear John in Hank, my chemistry class holds a Rice Krispy sculpture making contest every year. I guess you make a ton of Rice Krispy treats and then mold them into something. Since the winner is voted by teachers, I have absolutely no clue what to build. What do teachers like?
Also, if my team wins, we get free test points and my GPA really depends on this. What do I build? Wow, that's already in this episode of Dear Hank and John. We've learned that you can learn anything about anyone.
So you're just going to have to go deep in the rabbit hole on your teachers and find out what kind of people they are. And if you find out that they're sort of like really into meta stuff, you see their Twitter and they're like really into memes. You could make some memes or you could make your Rice Krispy treat into a giant Rice Krispy if they really like that kind of humor. You just got to really get deep on these people.
Know them very deeply. I take it all back and also don't know if I should say this. Hank, in my day, when I was coming up, it was difficult to find information about people on the internet. You know, you had to have access to certain databases that not all people were supposed to have access to and you had to be a reasonably good researcher.
You had to be a private investigator. Yeah. Yeah. To some extent, you had to pay money.
You had to have access to tools that not everyone had access to. Yeah. You and I didn't even stop making the pod. Then again, if somebody Googled me, they would be able to piece together quite a bit of my life as well.
Yeah. John, do you think that in another five years or so, Google can just make a draw my life video for you? It just knows everything about you and it's just like, I'm just going to sketch this person's whole life out. And you're like, wow.
And there will be a ton of things that you forgot to. So you'll be like, oh, right. Yeah. No, that is what we called our little bicycle gang when I was nine.
Oh, that's cute. It's the American Park Marauders. Really? Yeah.
We wore plastic visors instead of helmets because it was the 80s. And you were stock brokers or poker players like who else were plastic visors? You want to talk about an item of clothing. And I know that this has completely ceased to be a podcast and which we answer questions for listeners.
But you want to talk about an item of clothing that literally no longer exists, the plastic visor. It's on sale at Amazon for $6.99. For one or for like 30? Great point.
Great point for one. Well, that is a horrible deal. And first off, that's not even a plastic visor. That is not what I mean at all.
I mean a rich. Right. This is just a costume. There is.
It's $9.50. Shut the front door. I'm paying $9.50 for a plastic visor. I know much this thing's cost.
This one's $15. My God. I guess we got out of the plastic visor business because nobody could afford it. Apparently, the purpose of the green eye shade, John, which I've now done some research, John, is that for people who are engaged in vision, intensive, detailed oriented occupations, it lessens eye strain that was caused by early incandescent lights and candles, which tend to be harsh and bright.
So yeah, but just to be clear, this was an opaque plastic rigid visor. Oh, yours wasn't see through it all. God, no. We wrote with our own puff paint, Merit Park Marauders, on the visor part of the visor because that's how you knew that we were in a bite gang.
John, I can't wait for you to dress up like you this Halloween. Oh, wait. Here's one with a 12 back boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. We're back in business.
This should not be possible. Yeah. We are living in strange time. We are living in strange times.
Yeah. And that is the end of the sentence. Hey, I have an idea. What if we make an advice podcast instead of making a podcast where Hank and John learn how much they can learn from Google?
Absolutely. This next question comes from Cambria who asks, Dear Hank and John, can I still enjoy religious Christmas music if I am an atheist or any religious music for that matter? I like it so much, even though it means nothing to me. Is that okay?
My name is Latin for Wales. Yeah, Cambria. John, yes. Also, I will say that this music does not mean nothing to you.
Right. It doesn't mean the same thing as it means to other people, but you enjoy it and that is meaning in itself. So I will counter you on that. But yes, I still enjoy religious music a lot because for a long time, all music was religious, not.
Or a lot of it anyway. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Of course you can. This is one of the weirdnesses of 21st century life. I think that people feel like they need to be so firmly in one camp or another. And that somehow they're betraying their camp by liking something from the other camp or whatever.
But like Silent Night's a great song. And whether or not you actually think that Jesus, the Son of God was born in a manger on Christmas night has nothing to do with whether Silent Night is a good song. Yeah. In the same way, whether or not you actually think that Steve Harwell is not the sharpest tool in the shed, All Star is a great song.
That's maybe a little bit different from that. But I also know it's basically the same. Okay. I also think that you can enjoy many of the ideas of religious traditions without enjoying all of the structure around them.
And if you can't, then you can't build everything from scratch every life. We have to look to what we learned in the past and you don't have to. You can, but you don't have to take everything from one place. You can pick to some extent.
You don't have to believe in God to think that the idea of a God or a God-like creature being born to poor parents who are living away from their home and who are not welcomed into the community where they find themselves. Whether or not you believe in God is irrelevant to whether or not that story is interesting. There are lots of people who believe in God who don't get in my opinion what is interesting about the story. What was unusual was that that person would be born a God in those circumstances.
Yeah. I understand that some people have bad feelings about institutions and so they want to sort of run away. And that's completely understandable. But for me as a secular person, there's a lot that's really interesting about these stories.
And also they inform so much of the history of the last 2000 years of the history of the planet. And so I think that there's a lot of value actually in looking at those things and appreciating them. There's good stories here. And there's good music here.
Our next question comes from Jenny who writes Dear John and Hank, how do you acknowledge your faults without becoming consumed by them? Also, how do you sell yourself really just three dogs in a trench coat, Jenny? Well, it's very difficult to sell yourself when you're three dogs in a trench coat unless somebody's looking to buy three dogs in a trench coat, which I may be in the market. That sounds pretty cute.
I think that acknowledging your faults, our faults are in flux. And so I think part of it is recognizing my mistakes, recognizing my patterns of mistakes that I've made and trying to correct that pattern. I think it's really important part of acknowledging my faults. Right.
Human nature isn't static and our individual natures aren't static. I'm always going to be an anxious person. I'm often going to comment a problem from a place of fear. That's not likely to fundamentally change about me.
But my level of understanding of that changes and my ability to reshape my behavior because I am more aware of that changes. And I think that's a big part of how to not be consumed by your mistakes is to recognize that they are not something that is necessarily intrinsic to you. And if they are, then there is something, there are ways to be better inside of the conditions you live in. And second, how do you sell yourself?
It does come from a place of confidence. Like you, like figuring out what are the things that you bring and actually believing it is very hard, especially early on in a career when you're really not sure of all those things. So I think a good way to sell yourself is to acknowledge your strengths and build your strengths because that is again not something that is intrinsic to you. Your strengths are going to change as you go through your life.
And I'll tell you when you're 40 years old, you're going to be less good at dancing than you are as a younger person, almost definitely. It hurts more. That's for sure. But you're going to get better at a lot of things.
In fact, I guess if it tracks with experience of most people I know, you get better at more things as you get older. Yeah, you also have to come at these conversations from a place of really understanding that you are valuable as a person. And a lot of us don't feel that way a lot at the time. I know I don't feel that way a lot at the time.
But every human life has value. And so I think really coming to a place where you understand that you're a person of value, you're a person who's worthy of being in conversations of being in the room where it matters or whatever. It's a different room for every person. And I think that we often think that it's the same room for every person.
And like, one weakness I have that I don't have anymore is that I'm much better at understanding that different people have different rooms, though not perfect at it. Because of course, I only have the one set of eyeballs to let through. Which reminds me that today's podcast is brought to you by Hank's set of eyeballs. That's the only one he has.
This podcast is also brought to you by Mr. and Mrs. Radio Tower. Mr.
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Of course, today's podcast is also brought to you by looking up your old home on Realtor.com. Looking up your old home on Realtor.com. That's okay. It's when you go further down the rabbit hole that it gets a little weird.
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Just put some puff paint on those boys and be one of the Merit Park Marauders. Please, please, please wear a helmet. On top of your eyeshade. No.
Just wear a helmet. It comes with a visor. That's the crazy thing. We put items on our heads.
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When trees die, they haunt trees. And this is an artificial tree. A tree died with some unfinished business. I'm not going to speculate on what that was.
And the tree spirit moved into this fake tree so that it could try and get all of its unfinished business done. Whatever that is. Maybe it just really wanted to be a Christmas tree and it just got too big and they just let it grow and then it lit the normal lifespan but it wanted to be a Christmas tree. And that now it is finishing its business in your home and it's sort of like a responsibility.
And this is something that is maybe not known widely but artificial tree companies actually do their best to imbue their trees with the souls of the dead. Yeah, I think they use a kind of like a tree version of an IV drip. Right. Yeah.
You just sort of like hook them up to each other and there's an oculus rift involved. It's very weird. So the long story short is you need to take this artificial tree home. You need to listen to it closely because trees do not speak our language and they do not speak loudly.
You need to listen to this artificial tree closely and over time having this tree in your home you will come to understand what mission the tree who is haunting it needs to fulfill. Then you will fulfill that mission and then you will write a memoir about the experience. Maybe with the help of the tree. Yeah.
Kill it and turn it into paper. That wasn't where I was going. But I like it. Alright Hank before we get to the important news from Mars and A.S.E.
Wimbledon, several people wrote in with versions of this question but Clara wrote in with the simplest version of this question. She wrote Dear John and Hank what dot dot dot dot are fudge rounds. Oh boy. It occurs to me that if you don't know what a fudge round is and you heard our previous podcast where we wax poetic about fudge rounds for like 30 minutes.
You would likely be extremely confused because it sounds potentially scatological. I mean who knows what it could be. But the other thing. Well also like there's no fudge in a fudge round.
Of course not. And so you might think to yourself oh a fudge round this must be something that's very good and like high quality. And it is not that is a there's a 25 cent cookie that you can get at gas stations basically. It is not a cookie.
It's too soft cakey brownie cookie things with some fluffy chocolate mousse in between them. My heart is broken. I have almost never been so disappointed in you. What do you do with them?
What do you think it is? A fudge round is a sandwich. In which the two pieces of bread are chocolate cake. And the filling of the sandwich is chocolate frosting.
Now there are there's more details. It's more of a frosting than an icing. Can I tell you something that Alice said about my mustache after I shaved it after having it for eight days because of the project for awesome? Yeah, please.
I came in to read her a story and she said this is a direct quote. I wrote it to Sarah to make sure I got everything right. And she said finally your mustache is gone. Why did you have to have it?
And I said it was for charity to raise money. And Alice said there's other ways. What is something with fudge rounds? Nothing.
I just was transitioning out of fudge rounds into the news from Mars and AFC Wimbledon before I go buy a fudge round. Yes. Yes. Yes.
Do you hear the slave bells ringing? Do you hear the reindeer up frattering? Singing the songs of angry men like that? It must be that most magical time of the year, the late December run that AFC Wimbledon goes on.
It seems like every time we're doing terribly. And then suddenly in December, the players look at each other and they say, you know what we could do? Win football games. And they're like, oh my God, what if we what if we try to think where we scored more goals than the other teams scored?
And then all the players are like, it's a stark departure from our strategy earlier this season. But it could be good. AFC Wimbledon have now won or tied three consecutive games. We just beat Doncaster this weekend two to one.
And like we won the game. Usually when we win a game, I'm like, oh, you know, sometimes you get lucky. We won the game. We had 33% possession, which isn't a ton.
No. We had 61% pass accuracy. Again, not a ton. We had far fewer shots on target, but we won the game.
We won it two to one. We did. I was a little bit. We did squeak it out a little bit, but we won a football game.
And suddenly AFC Wimbledon are three entire points clear of the relegation zone, which is not amazing. No, it's not a lot. But it's, I mean, it's better than we've been. We're in 19th.
There's a team below us that's also not in the relegation zone. You know what I mean? Like it's been a while since I could say that. A solid team of buffer.
Yeah. Oh, God. Why did you? Why did you root for the most stressful team?
I don't know. But AFC Wimbledon is finished within one point. Our two points of relegation for like three consecutive years would be so nice just to finish 14th. So that form is probably this year going to be good enough to get us safe and another season in League one.
I mean, I'm not feeling like overly optimistic, but it's fun for now. Well, in this week's news from Mars, scientists have mapped out the frozen water buried beneath the planet's surface. It's part of a paper published recently in geophysical research letters and the authors used satellite data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been doing amazing work for a long time. And Mars Odyssey Orbiter based on equipment that are able to detect water, but also using heat sensitive instruments.
The heat sensing data uses the fact that ice conducts heat better than the rocks around it. So you can actually figure out where the ice is and how deep it's buried based on the effect it has on temperature measurements. So we've now got an underground map of where water is on Mars. And it was very cool.
I read about this. And it was cool that NASA kind of released this publicly so that everybody in the world can start to think like, okay, well, that makes, maybe it means that we should try to have the first Mars people here. Or maybe here. Yeah, for clarity, that's not something that's special about NASA.
All space agencies do that right now because we kind of imagined this as a human endeavor rather than one that is national pride in it. And I also think it's cool that now we have this new map of Mars. That is wild if you think about it. It's been a while since we started to have newly detailed maps of places.
Yeah, it's definitely cool. And there's a lot more solar system to explore. So there's lots of cool things to see coming up. You know, actually that reminds me Hank, that next week we're going to do things a little differently.
It's the last pod of the 20 teens. And so Hank and I are going to share with you and each other some of our favorites of this decade. If you want to know any of our particular favorites, you can send me a message on Twitter. If you want to hear about our favorite socks of the decade or our favorite Celts or Waters or our favorite Star Wars movies.
You can go specific. You can go broad. We'll take it on and we'll talk about those things. Instead of doing advice just to take a look back, talk a little bit about what's happened and where we're at and just, you know, appreciate the world a little bit.
Yeah. Well, thanks for your time. Thanks. It was a great time.
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