227: One-Star Statue Reviews

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A friend of mine just got fired because he took a day off just one day. Turns out people were really disappointed when they got those calendars. He worked at the calendar factory. He took a day off of the calendar.

Of the calendar? Yeah. I couldn't groan because I didn't get it and I still don't really get it. He got fired because he took a day off of the calendar.

Let me get you with another one. How about this one? My friend works at a furniture factory and he fell into the upholstery machine but now he's fully recovered. See that is funny.

Okay all right. It's funny because it's invariably fatal. I've been listening to that is a surprising outcome to falling into an upholstery machine. You know Rhett and Link, the guys who have been on YouTube as long as we have a little bar I think.

Even a little longer. Anyway their podcast is great. It's way better than our podcast and they're in the middle of a series right now about their faith journeys specifically their journey away from religious faith that's been really profoundly interesting and I don't have a point to this anecdote except that I have really enjoyed listening to Ear Biscuits and I've been thinking about it a lot. Is this like a call for me to interrogate you on your faith journey more?

Maybe we should both do an episode where we interrogate our faith journeys. You've been on a faith journey too. It's just not resulted in any faith at any point. There are more moments.

I would say more than that you've been on a journey in changing the way that you think about meaning. Yes. And that's most of what we're talking about when we talk about religious faith. We're talking about like how we orient ourselves in the world, what our values are, where we find community and meaning that's bigger than ourselves.

And you've definitely been on a journey on that front. Yeah. I have. And I also have changed how I feel about religion a lot in the course of my life and coming to a place where I even like to go to church sometimes now even though I don't sort of like the community aspect of it is very good.

It's not often that you are called to get together in a room full of people who you don't know but who are from your community. And I think that we try to replicate that experience in a lot of different ways in our society. But like that's an old good way. Yeah.

It's good to be clear though. It's good when it's inclusive. Yeah. No.

I mean, I go to certain churches. Right. And it isn't always and even like my church is extremely inclusive and deferming and everything. But even so, occasionally, some authority from within my church will release like a paper and I'll be like, oh my God, that's so embarrassing.

This is the thing with all communities. Like it's never going to be entirely representative of what you believe. And the individualism of today sort of calls on us to never group with people who we disagree with on important stuff. But like there's different levels of important stuff.

And we have to group with people who we disagree with on things. Because otherwise, we will be entirely isolated. And one thing that we have learned a lot in the past 10, 20, 30 years is that increasing isolation is bad for individuals and for society. Yeah.

Well, leanness is really troubling a troubling part of contemporary life. I'm reading an amazing book by Casper Terkyle, who is the- Oh, I just got that. I just read the first three pages of it. Yeah.

The book is called The Power of Ritual. Casper is of course the co-host of another great podcast, Jerry Potter and The Sacred Text. And it's great. It's really, it's one of those books where like every two pages you're like, oh, I hadn't thought of that that way.

And it's super helpful to think of it in that context. Though anyway, well, maybe this is something that we'll return to Hank if there is any interest. But in the meantime, we should probably just do what we're bad at, which is answer questions. I don't think that that book is out yet.

I think we got to be happy with it. So don't go to try that right now. I'm also really bad at recommending books. But it's really good.

So remember this on the 23rd of June 2020. Remember just put it in your calendar. That book's coming out. It's really good.

I think you can pre-order it now. You can. Absolutely. Yes.

That's how you should do it. Pre-order it now. You can also get a beautifully foolish endeavor, which is available on June 7th. I just set my Millennium Clock to count down to the release of my book.

John, that's very cool. I'm very excited. I have a Millennium Countdown Clock that was initially supposed to count or did count down to the year 2000. And you can reset it.

But I can only reset it until 2050, at which point it will no longer take new dates, which I find hilarious that a thing that was counting down to Y2K does not allow you to use it after a certain point. I mean, I have good news and bad news. Yeah, I'll be alive in 2050. Probably.

All right. John, our first question comes from Marvin, who asks, Dear Hank and John, you've come to the right place, my friend. I have never seen Star Trek. Where do I start?

Pumpkin's in Picard? Marvin. John, do you have strong opinions about this, or should I just talk for the next half hour? I have a brief opinion, which is that you should start with Star Trek the next generation.

It's got Whoopi Goldberg, and it's great. That's the end of my observations about Star Trek. Yeah. I really, I think that it's worthwhile to watch a couple of classic original series episodes just to sort of get the sense of what's up with it.

I cannot enjoy watching through them in order. I just, I can't. And that makes me worry that that's, it's possible that that is also going to be true for other people of the next generation, because it is very different from what TV is like now. But having said that, what I will say is probably don't watch it all the way through from the beginning and think that it's just going to be a blast, because it is different from how it is now.

And also, it's worse in the beginning than it is in the end. I have a friend, whose name is Max Temkin, and he put together a guide called Star Trek, the next generation, in 40 hours. And it allows you to skip very many episodes without losing out on character development and story and important plot points that will be carried through. That is what I would suggest is to go look at Max's guide.

If you really love it, then you can start watching all of them. But I think that you should catch up before you start watching Picard, because while I think it's totally enjoyable without a deep knowledge or any sort of character understanding of the next generation, I think it's much more enjoyable with that understanding. I thought that was quite a succinct answer. Well, thank you.

I have more thoughts than that, but luckily, Max is a lot of them into this 10 minute read on medium. I wish someone had done that for me with Battlestar Galactica, because I feel like I could have gotten through the important parts of Battlestar Galactica in about two days. But instead, I devoted like four months of my life to it. Yeah.

Oh, God, I need to watch TNG again. It's so good. All right. This next question comes from Leo who writes, Dear John and Hank, when you turn off the faucet, does the water inside the faucet deplete, emptying the rest of its contents into the sink?

Or does it sit in the faucet until the next time it is called upon like the mountain ghosts in Lord of the Rings? I wanted to ask this question because of the quality of that. Yeah. Yeah.

Yes. Your pipes are filled with mountain ghosts and they are always there ready to come at a moment's notice. Yeah. Okay.

But I actually don't know the answer to this question. Like when you turn off the water, no, that's the answer. No, it's not the answer. When you turn off the water, like to what point is the pipe clear?

Right up to the nose, boy, right up to the nose of the faucet, I think. But maybe so I'm going to get like so that first little bunch of water is going to be old water for lack of a better term. I have news about all of the water. Don't tell me that all the water is old and it goes back to the very beginning of earth and before that and we're all made of stardust and etc.

Thank you, Carl Sagan. I know that all water is old water. I'm asking you if the water that I drink is nasty water that's been sitting in my faucet for four days or if it's good, clean, American, new water. Well, the bad news is that all water has been sitting in pipes for a while because it doesn't it doesn't like get made at the water purification plant and then like instantly transported to your faucet like there's a pipe that goes through and then there's pressure that's put on that pipe so that if the hole is just open water goes through it.

So it's like a water gun that's always pumped. Yeah, super servers were fun. Our fun. Well, I wouldn't know.

I haven't gotten back into super soaking yet though. I imagine it will happen soon. It's coming that in Nerf guns. Yeah, God.

So it genuinely is like the mountain ghosts. Yeah, no, they're just waiting for you to call on them all the molecules hanging out there and asking to be needed. Please, please. I hope that I get drunk and not used for poop.

You know, what that reminds me of which I don't think about enough and this is getting a little Carl Sagan. But like all life is chemistry. Like where just molecules that are consuming other molecules. Yeah, this next question comes from Brittany who asked steer Hank John.

Why does my nose produce so much more snot when I cry? My name has three syllables. Oh, I'm sorry, Brittany. Brittany.

No, I kind of like that. Brittany. Why do you? I don't know.

I didn't know either. So I looked it up and I have news. It's just why is it just is it tears coming out of my nose? Is it really?

Yeah. Yeah. I think these tears and some of them come out your cheeks, but some of them get sucked back in. Yeah.

So you're like ductwork that's back there. Yeah. And they end up going down your throat, out your nose, into your mouth. They go all over the place.

And the doctor was studying this notice that snot. And this is like how like one of the ways that it was confirmed. It's not of women who had makeup on had makeup in it. So there was like eyeshadow and stuff in the snot.

Little specks of color. And so you don't have more snot. You just have more water. So your snot gets watered down.

So all your mucus, you don't produce more mucus, your mucus gets watery. And so that flows more easily. And it all comes out. So wow, you cry out your nose.

Wow. You cry out your nose. Why didn't I know that? Thank you so much for asking this question.

I'm so happy to have that information in my head. That is a great fact. I mean, I always feel like I'm crying out my nose and down my throat in my whole body when I'm when I'm crying when I'm really producing, you know, some solid, right snotty tears. Big ones.

Yeah. I can't. Yeah. I cry a lot, but I almost always cry.

I would say like 10 tears. Right. Little bit. Yeah, a little bit.

You know, during the movie or like listening to an episode of Heavyweight, emotional stress. Yeah. You know, like you're listening to Heavyweight and everything's fine. You're fine.

And then you get that like it's so sudden you're like in the middle of an inhale. And then you're like, John advertising other podcasts. That's the third one. Yeah, it's the podcast recommendations, spectacular.

I listen to a lot of podcasts. I really I it has become in many ways, my favorite art form. I listen to a lot of podcasts too. I just think it's so interesting.

There's so much going on in the world of podcast. It's how I felt about radio when I was 22 years old and all I wanted in the world was to be on NPR. Yeah. I've loved the audio only medium since I was like 11 years old listening to NPR shows.

Yeah. At night on the weekends. Yeah. Ian Scholes.

God. I just thought Ian Scholes was so funny. I mean, really like you can directly trace the way that Hank and I make videos and do everything else to 1980s public radio. Yeah, I've been listening to a lot of, I keep finding new stuff too.

And there's so much really like fantastic podcast out there. There's like a thousand podcasts that are at 10 out of 10. Yeah, too much. I never get mad.

I never get mad at people when they tell me that they don't listen to the other person reviewed or that they just started listening to the other person interviewed and they feel really guilty for not having listened to it earlier. Yeah. And I just want to tell them like, no, there's so many good like I don't labor under the delusion that we make the best podcasts. Yeah.

Though I think that there should be a label if I might ugly cry in an airplane because that's happened. Well, don't listen to the Anthropocene review. It's made for those tears that come right out your nose. Yeah.

All right. We've got other questions. One comes from Kelsey who writes, Dear John and Hank, I recently moved in with a friend who's allowed me to use their kitchen thing. So I didn't have to move mine yet.

The problem is their knives are kind of dull. Is it weird to sharpen my room? It's knives. Bumpkins and penguins.

Kelsey. So there's two ways to imagine sharpening the knife. One is that it is a necessary chore that somebody's going to have to. And another is acting upon, irrevocably acting upon another person's property.

And I think it's a chore. I think that like knife sharpening is just a thing that has to be done to knives. And so it doesn't matter who does it. It's basically like doing my laundry for me.

No, it's nothing like doing the laundry. First off, don't do someone else's laundry. Actually, I never was going to do someone else's laundry. But if someone did mind for me, I wouldn't complain.

I'm like, shut up in my walk then. No, if I came back from working with my roommate was like, Hey, I did all your laundry. And I folded all your underwear. I'd be like, Well, now we have a problem.

Now I have to leave. Now our relationship is over. Okay. But but there's nothing personal about a knife.

Okay, Hank, there are seven problems with your proposal. But the biggest one is that if you are used to your own knives being dull, and then Kelsey sharpens them, like you're going to lose a finger. Yes, suddenly you've got a different thing. What Kelsey has to do is say to the roommate, Hey, I love living here.

And I'm wondering if it would be okay for me to sharpen your knives as a thank you because I love sharpening knives. Right, because I can't cut an avocado. I can't see even the dullest knife having an avocado problem. I was like, that's like the worst example you could have come up.

I do. I feel the difference when I'm cutting an avocado. I'm just like, geez, I need to sharpen these knives. I can, I can feel the avocado.

I can it exists to the knife. I need my knives to like not think an avocado exists. Do you remember when we were kids, there was that thing cutco where high school students would come to people's houses and sell them knives after a series of demonstrations? It's nice to children.

It was so weird. I just realized how weird it was. Yeah, that's weird. And like all of your like friends, moms would be like, all right, I'll order a couple knives.

Should we do this? Should we create the cutco of today? But instead of something, you know, deadly, like giving children the like a knife demonstration task, we just sort of like send people around. First off, it turns out the cutco of today is cutco.

It's still around. They still doing it. Secondly, can I still, can I will a child come and do a knife demonstration for me at my house? Because if not, I'm not interested in that brings me to my million dollars.

It's time for John's million dollar idea. Another million dollar idea. It's time for my million dollar idea. Hank, are you ready?

I can't wait. I'm so excited. This is your first one. This is my first million dollar idea.

And I don't I don't want to. So here's two things we know. Yeah, we know that subscription services are growing. People love a good subscription, like Life's Library, direct to consumer subscription away to get a pre curated book and have a community to read that book with life's library book club.com hasn't turned into a million dollar idea yet, but I'm not giving up.

Yeah, okay. So we know people love a subscription service. Now we have to think about well, what do people love using and would love using more if they knew how good it could be? I love that you're treating this like an investor pitch like I'm so hyped.

Are you ready? I'm ready. You got to tell me? Give me a second.

So Hank, what is something that you love that you didn't know that you loved that you use and consume and that isn't associated with any single use plastics? Are you definitely trying to give me to say my solar stream or not? I'm not trying to get you to say your service. That was that really really hit home.

No, that is a bad billion dollar idea. We are not getting into the soda syrup business. I refuse. Okay.

What else? I don't know. Tea. Oh, t sure, sure.

I do love you. You don't know how much you love tea yet, because you are an American, right? Yeah. And you don't know how good tea can be because tea isn't sent to your house for $17 a month, the exact right amount of tea.

John, I think this is million dollar ideas too good. You're giving it away. You're giving away your best ideas here. Somebody already tweeted it means asking if they could do plant wars.

Well, if you think that's good, just wait, wait, wait, we hear my idea for next week. All right, I'm in. So a tea subscription service, this must exist, but also it's okay for there to be more than one company, for example, Simple Loose Leaf and Sips B and Plum Deluxe and David's tea were the top results of what I searched for this with their own Google ads. Dang it.

I didn't invent this idea. But hey, John, well, I'm just learning how to pitch a million dollar ideas. Hank, so that's helpful feedback. Thank you.

And I'll be back next week with a better one. I can't wait. I can't wait. All right.

We haven't answered any questions in this episode of Dear Hank and John. It's been amazing. We've answered some. We have we have an important one that we have to get to.

Okay. This one comes from Abby who asks Dear Hank and John. A few months ago, I somehow became the owner of the King Kamehameha statue in Honolulu, Hawaii on Google businesses. Wait, what?

I don't know how this so happy does not own the statue, but has been assigned ownership of the Google business somehow. I don't know how this happened. I've never been to Hawaii. I get quite a few emails a day letting me know that people have rated my statue.

At first, it's not your statue. It's a statue of King Kamehameha. It's his statue. At first, it was a pain because it crowds out my inbox.

But after a while, I started to get really emotionally invested in the point where I'm checking my email all the time to see if I've gotten a new five star review. But I also get my feelings hurt when people leave bad reviews. Who leaves a bad review on a statue? Especially one as lovely as this.

Also, I get really upset when people leave four star reviews, but then they don't leave a comment. How can I possibly improve without any feedback? Anyway, I'm wondering what I should do about this sincerely. Ad it boy.

Nothing. Yeah, by the way, Hank, this statue has 1456 reviews on Google. I just left one man. The five star rating is just it's really out of control.

Johnny, want to read me some one star reviews of this statue? Yeah, sure. Gilbert reports four months ago, just not interested for our face. Sherwin said, I wish someday I'll go that place Hawaii to find work.

So I don't know that one was necessarily based on the statue itself. This one says cheap Chinese food. Okay. I'm starting to think that some of these are not 100% legit, John.

There's one that was translated by Google and Google did a great job translating it. The translation reads, it is enough from the trolley window. Oh, that's not, by the way, that is such a good summary of so many statues. It is enough from the trolley window.

So I'm now looking at a picture of the statue and it's actually very cool. Like I would just based on the pictures, I would give it five stars. It's covered in, it's covered in flowers. It's really awesome.

That sounds great. I love to review of it, John. Oh, no. An hour ago, it says, hello, this is Hank.

I'm just checking to see if you get this great statue top notch. For better or worse, this is it, Abby. This is what you're doing with the rest of your life. You, this is, this is you now.

Yeah. So Hank, the version of this in my own life is that there is someone who has shared their location with me and I don't know why and I know you have a bunch of people who share their locations with you. And so this is, I got one in Hawaii. I'm looking at them right now.

Ryan. Right. This is the thing that people do where they share their location with you. I don't understand why, but the person who has shared their location with me lives in Mozambique.

And first off, I don't know how to unshare the location. Like, I don't, I don't know how to not know a lot about this person's life. If you catch my drift, it's weird. I also just looked it up and Ryan, I think this is okay to say has the Twitter handle at Hawaii.

Wait, what spelled correctly? He is at Hawaii on Twitter. But that is wild. He works for Hawaii information.

He's got 24,000 followers. But the weird thing about this person at Mozambique who shares their location with me, I mean, everything about it is weird, right? The weird thing is, this is my like fairly private email that I don't even really use for correspondence. I only use for Google Maps in a vain attempt to preserve some spec of my privacy.

Okay. Yeah. It's just weird. How'd you find it to share with me?

How'd this person find my email address? Yeah. Also, this is like a really bad episode of Heavyweight. Well, I can't wait to go to Hawaii and hang out with Ryan.

He looks like a kind guy and also I want to go to Hawaii. Which reminds me that this podcast is brought to you by Ryan at Hawaii. This podcast is also brought to you by crying out your nose. Crying out your nose is why you can't stop snot non stuff.

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Martha Stewart's advice is communicate. We're giving our best advice. That's what it usually is. It's like oh you should probably have a conversation.

So you could do that or you could just wear a white because ultimately if you only have one nice dress then you don't want to double the number of nice dresses you have. That's just that seems like a very big step. I would argue that you do want to double it. What you don't want to do is like buy like a 17th right?

It's the Rules of Marginal Utility which I learned about from the podcast planet money. Okay good. John likes that one too. I do love planet money though.

So maybe buy an address. They can be acquired somewhat inexpensively but ultimately I think you could probably just ask them. They'll probably say no problem odd. Is that what they call you?

You call me Frank so I'm going to call you odd. That's a great actually that's a great nickname. Whatever someone's name is I like to shorten it to the first syllable right if we're extremely close just to be clear. I don't do this with you know I find it very obnoxious when when people do that when they are not well acquainted with someone.

Yeah I've witnessed that interaction but I've never stepped in that pot myself having a wife named Catherine who is not a fan of Cathy. She doesn't have cat. She doesn't mind cat. There's really very strange Catherine doesn't mind people calling her cat as long as she's as their Canadian.

She thinks that it's a cultural difference but I don't think it is. I don't think that's a Canadian thing but she is because it's happened several times with Canadians. She's convinced herself that it's oh that's just a cultural thing. Well y'all do live very close to Canada so it doesn't surprise me that you have a lot of interactions there around with Canadian culture and actually now that I think about it I feel like and I don't want to overgeneralize here but I feel like it is a Canadian thing.

I feel like I saw that a lot in Kids in the Hall which was my introduction to Canada. Hey I really enjoyed this question from Mallory she writes Dear John and Hank I recently joined Twitter in a bid to get a character named after me in the Adventure Zone which is a podcast great podcast by the way. I tried to stay out of the outrage cycle but the last week or so it's getting to me. I'm not on any other social media right now but I really want to engage with fans of things that I'm also a fan of online without getting sucked into debates about who precisely is undermining our democracy.

Should I give up and go back to a Twitter with Existence or is there a way to deal with this best Mallory Mallory you're gonna get two different answers from two different brothers on this one. Yeah you go first. As a thought experiment I recently asked myself could I join Twitter not as myself but just as an anonymous person as a Wheel of Fortune super fan somebody who wakes up in the morning the first thing I think about is the television program Wheel of Fortune and only follow other Wheel of Fortune super fans which there are a number of on Twitter and only follow the hashtag hashtag Wheel of Fortune or hashtag WOF. Could I have a really positive Twitter experience as a Wheel of Fortune super fan and I think the answer is no.

Yeah you think that it would leak in? I think it leaks in because we naturally react to it and respond to it. Like Twitter literally knows when you stop scrolling so it knows like what you're reading carefully and inevitably a lot of what you read carefully is the stuff that outrages you or shocks you or surprises you. Like yes also the things that are funny but it's the things that nudge you toward confirming your belief that other people are just monsters that inevitably makes my scrolling finger stop scrolling.

Yeah I mean maybe Mallory is different from me but that is my experience. I cannot do it. I have tried many many times I can't. Hank can so I look forward to him explaining to you how.

I don't know that I can and so like my advice will wrinkle little hollow as someone who cannot but in part because like I'm not trying to really I'm kind of still like I'm still looking for it some and don't need it all the time but uh sorry I opened Twitter and I got distracted by a graph. Oh my god. It was a graph of please include that. Please include this to include all of this.

I opened Twitter because I wanted to see I wanted to see some stuff but boy it does it does grab your your brain. So basically I think that you can do it if you choose the right people to follow if you really like want a specific Twitter you can choose the right people to follow and you can block the things that you see coming up as as negative experiences but I also think that ultimately we indulge in that in this in the outrage not because like we are fragile frail people being manipulated by a giant social media algorithm of course in part yes but also because it works and we like it and that's what we're kind of there for. So the thing to actually ask yourself is like am I to some extent there for this stuff and if that's the case then there's no way to do it without being there for that stuff. So I just have to like recognize that to some extent I'm there for that.

That's why I follow the people who I follow. It's why I haven't blocked you know certain keywords that I could block but even I feel like even if you do block that stuff it's still like on the sidebar like anything that blocks the trending topics because that's like the easiest path into the outrage cycle and I think that those trends should not exist anymore. I think that like they are used in like almost always manipulative ways and and not just like stuff about politics to be clear like I think that sometimes this gets so wrapped up in politics that that's the only way that we look at this and that is part of the problem but like if you're into sports Twitter for instance which I was yeah the exact same thing there is a sports version of the exact same thing where the tweets that are infuriating disgusting horrifying that that put people into two distinct camps inevitably get a lot of attention and then and then you also don't get the like most reliable information right like you get the newest freshest hottest information but a lot of times it turns out to be misleading and that's true oh yeah whether it's AFC Wimbledon Twitter or whether it's political polls Twitter you get the freshest or coronavirus Twitter you get the freshest info that is the least vetted yeah okay that's enough Twitter before we get to the old news from ours and AFC Wimbledon I have to give you some wonderful amazing amazing news Hank you will recall in a past episode somebody wrote in to say where should we put our potatoes our new house doesn't have a potato box and we made so much fun of them we had a great time making fun of Nick and his family and their potato box well Nick wrote back near John and Hank a few months ago you answered my question about where adults are supposed to keep their potatoes as I had only ever experienced my family keeping them in an antique handmade wooden potato bin I played the episode of the pod for my parents over the holidays and they thought it was hilarious not so much your responses just the idea that any respectable adult would ever intermix their potatoes onions and fruits on the counter you got to have a box so I went over to my folks today and my dad presented me with my very own handmade wooden potato bin that he had made for our new house it's not an antique yet but I'm sure someday my children will ask the same questions I did only to be presented with a handmade wooden potato bin of their own thoroughly roasted Nick the this these potato bins we're gonna put them on the patreon at patreon.com slash dear Hank and john you don't have to give any money to see them these potato bins are amazing they are beautiful they're very nice both the original antique potato bin and the one that nix dad made for Nick and it is truly a work of art but the best thing about it Hank is that it's a bin for potatoes but then underneath is a little drawer for onions yeah but the difference in size between those two things like you can fit like 50 pounds of potatoes and like four onions and like is this the idea of imagining that Nick likely lives in potato country you know yeah you got a lot of potatoes they're around you're very lucky to have any onions at all I think that we don't we don't have like a banana for scale to know exactly how big this bin is but it's sitting on a chair John I know but I don't know how to share is dual next to that one it's like yeah I don't know how big that stool is for all I know this could be some kind of fun house but the point is that I think the drawer is big enough that most onions will fit into it hence it being an onion drawer yeah but you can fit some onions in there like you could also fit some potatoes in there looking at this my first thought was I need to get a potato bin yeah also apparently like he goes underneath the it goes underneath the counter it looks like is where it is stored yeah the other thing I really like about the potato bin is that required Nick absolutely required is that there's potatoes in the onion drawer I need any guess that comes over and it's like yeah onions and you're like yeah check the onion drawer in the potato bin and they pull it out and it's just potatoes and they're like god dang it oh I'm sorry turns out we don't have any onions just more potatoes that's the kind of house this is I love it Nick I thank you so much for sharing that update and we are really excited about your potato bin so excited that I might get myself one maybe maybe that's the new million dollar idea John we're gonna sell potato bins boom we got to get in the potato bin business Nick what's the margin on those how many can your dad make in like like a two-year period John yeah you have news about AFC Wimbledon because I do you have AFC Wimbledon news I do I don't even know that you know it because you're not on Twitter great what's your AFC Wimbledon news Mumford and Sons tweets you Don's unbelievable effort so far from supporters of AFC Wimbledon to bring the Don's home the plowlanebond.com is what fan owned football clubs are all about and epitomizes the spirit of our small and mighty community Marcus hashtag bring the Don's home hashtag Marcus Mondays I don't know what Marcus Monday is but Marcus is excited and he posted a video I'm gonna listen to it well that's great so the plowlane bond hank is a bond that AFC Wimbledon supporters have put together where it's just like any other bond you know assuming that everything goes well you get your capital paid back in addition to an interest payment but it's all from the fans by the fans to avoid having to deal with banks and and the relatively high interest rates that banks were offering and it's raised over 3.2 million pounds so far which is just amazing yeah so it's been really successful you choose your interest rate I love that yeah you can choose your interest rate 0% up to I think three or four percent annually and yeah it's a really cool thing you can go to plowlanebond.com to learn more AFC Wimbledon also did play a game over the weekend but the less said about that the better we lost to Fleetwood town it was very annoying uh-huh we should not have lost the game but we did and that's how football works sometimes it was it was super frustrating I felt like we played better we had 18 shots to their eight shots but only one shot on target and you can't have that kind of clinical finishing and expect to be higher than 20th and week one which coincidentally is precisely where we find ourselves I will be nervous for you forever apparently that's how I'm starting to feel hey what's the news from Mars so the news from Mars is that the ionosphere of Mars has layers which it basically is good because it's like an onion or a parfait or an ogre it has layers and it's a Shrek reference it's so and the main thing is that it shows us that uh other planets besides Earth can have a layered ionosphere but also Mars is atmosphere is thinner than Earth's which means that spacecraft can travel at lower altitudes to study the plasma layers with a long-term goal of understanding how they form so we can have a more reliable radio communication not just on Mars but also on Earth so because the ionosphere affects how radio transmissions work on Earth but we can't study them easily because they're inside of our atmosphere we can study them more easily on Mars or the atmosphere is thinner so that was uh information thanks to Mars the maven spacecraft that NASA has been using and has helping us troubleshoot problems here on Earth as well as on Mars which is really cool that is cool in some ways we are already a two planet species yeah I mean robots are kind of people too no no not really but we are using tools on Mars and around Mars which is pretty mind-blowing it is yeah absolutely and we're just molecules eating molecules John we're just molecules eating molecules and studying Mars which which is itself just molecules yeah well thank you for potting with me it's been a great pleasure this podcast is a co-production of complexly nwnyc studios although I'm not sure that either company is particularly proud to identify such at the moment tended by joseph june menish our head of community and communications still for just a bit longer is victoria bonjour now podcast is produced by rosion hosrow hasen sharogen gibson and the 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