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It's a podcast where two brothers answer your questions give you to be a advice and make you all the weeks news from both Mars and AFC Wimbledon. John, I heard about the terrible news about the awesome coffee club. I heard that it got decapitated. Oh no, you've made a mistake, Hank.

It got decaffeinated. Oh, that's right. That's right. We're making decaf coffee at awesomecoffeeclub.com.

Hank, we were just talking on the phone and you were like, hold on, before we start recording, I have to think of a joke. And then you said, oh boy. And then the little voice came from on high and said, call ended. I was like, were those the last words my brother will ever speak to me?

Oh boy. And then a rock just came through the window. Well, there was like 45 seconds before I called you back because it is always me who has to call you back. Oh yeah, I was just looking at jokes.

I know. Like earlier in that conversation, it happened previously as well. And you hung up on me and I waited like two minutes. And then I was like, I guess I'll call with back.

But anyway, so you're the initiated. Like, I know you count on me. You count on me to be the older brother. It's good to divide it up so that you're not both calling each other the same time.

Sure. You are a call. So anyway, my point is that he said, oh boy. And then it said called ended and in the intervening minute before we reconnected, I had two full kind of thoughts.

You know how you you can like speed through, you could kind of speed run a worry. That's my specialty actually. You think that like cosmic is good at speed running Super Mario Brothers, you should see me speed run contamination OCD fears. It's incredible.

But okay, what did I do? How did I die? Well, so first I was like, he died. And he said, oh boy, because the gigantic rock fell on his garage and he has no more and this is terrible.

And what a loss for the world and but more importantly for me. And then the second thought was what if Hank just got so kind of overwhelmed that he reached the breaking point all at once. And he just said, oh boy, and he just said, I ended like my phone disappeared. Like the proverbial father going out for a gallon of milk never to return.

And he just he's just gone. I'm now proof that matter can be destroyed. It was too much energy at all just sort of and then it was gone. Anyway, I'm really glad you're here.

Really, really glad because I've become newly aware that at any moment you might not be. So thank you for being here. Well, I want to say a quick apologies for last week's episode where we completely stopped answering questions from listeners providing you with all the weeks news from Mars and as you Wimbledon. I failed to do the sponsor reads and incredibly failed to do the project for awesome messages.

It was a really special episode. We were so we didn't sponsor read. That's so weird. Fell in love with our format people.

That's what happened. We just fell in love. I'm so curious. I haven't I haven't thought to look if anybody's had thoughts about doobly do.

I did ask Craig about doobly do and he said this seems like it would be hard. Yeah, you know, the main thought that I've seen about doobly do is why don't you do doobly do with dropout or doobly do with nebulae, which I could not agree with more. Why or do we do with Netflix? Tell Netflix.

Hey, y'all, you know, it's wrong with your format. Y'all are spending like $150 million making a Martin's course, that's a movie for $150 million. We'll give you three streaming platforms. We'll give you a million dollars.

Give us a hundred million dollars. We'll go out. We'll buy Paramount plus we'll get their whole library, but then more importantly, we're going to do this thing called doobly doo is got game shows on it, but they're like game shows filmed in a basement. We're going to give you three hundreds 26 episodes of seasons.

It's going to be fun. Yeah, you could make that's fine. You could make one two hour movie or you could make three million minutes of high quality content. Yeah.

All right. Hey, let's answer some. Let's actually answer some questions from our listeners this time. I think that's a great idea.

I don't have the questions open and we've been talking for so long and I'm like hungry now. I'm not sure I can do this, but I'm going to try. Okay, we've got a project for us a message to read from last week from Alison from Madison, Wisconsin to Lily and Becca to my dearest Lily and Becca. We all miss you terribly and hope this message brings you the spot of joy you needed today.

The Spice Cabinet requests you visit soon for car smashing and book reading sending all our love across the country. That's lovely. I don't know what any of it means, but it was a great project for awesome message. And if you want us to record a project for awesome message that will air sometime this year for you, check out the project for awesome project for awesome project for awesome.com February 17th to February 19th.

John, yes, this first question comes from Kim who asks, dear Hank and John, I was thinking about ants this morning because ants are great and also because I've heard that the amount of ants on Earth weigh as much as the amount of people on Earth. Genetically speaking though, only the queen ants can reproduce and all the worker ants are more like wireless appendages. So does that mean that ant hills are actually just one person, follow up if I may, what would the best and highest use of wireless appendages be on a whim? Kim, we've got a number of issues, but I want to bring up something else unless you have something immediately you'd like to say.

I don't. I recently was on Twitter and I said, isn't it sort of cool that we, like of all the billions of years the earth has been around, we happen to live at the same time as the largest organism on Earth. And then a bunch of people were like, which one is that, Hank? I was thinking of the blue whale.

But you should never specify Hank. That's one of the great rules. If you want to increase engagement, don't specify so people just like they can have a fight in the comments. And I did walk away from Twitter at that time, so they fought without me.

And I didn't see this all until the next day. And a number of people were saying that the panda, the aspen growth is still our just organism on Earth certainly has is incontension for the title. Great. Some people say the best.

Kim here would like to say that maybe all individual ants are not individual ants. They are extensions of the queen. Now you're reasoning, first of all, there are other ants that are involved in the reproduction, the males, I think they're drones or something like that. Right.

And they're the ones they multiple drones are fertilizing along with the queen. They're loaning the juice. Yeah, they do the juice loans and this is this works out to have a bigger diversity. You don't get it back.

Bigger diverse, thank goodness of ants in the in the in the hill and that's healthy for the an hill. But I do think there is a something here, which is that like in what way is the ant hill not all just one organism and in that case, in what way is not every organism on Earth, not just one organism and in that case, am I yes, the largest organism on Earth. You're part of the largest organism on Earth, which is the only organism on Earth, which is this gross breathing flopping slimy wet film on the surface of the earth. I dropped you.

I just abandoned me. Well, I forgot it was gonna turn on. Wall hank is gone. I'm gonna tell you about what this question made me think of, which is lately, I've been thinking every time like a really every time a billionaire does something really weird or unpleasant or really anytime anyone does something in an attempt to like achieve immortality or to like make their mark upon the human story or whatever.

I've been I've been thinking that I would like to be able to go to their house and sit next to them on the couch and just whisper in their ear, you know, we're just ants, right? Like, you know that like, you know, like when you look at an an hill, you never think like, Oh man, that ant is very impressive. That ant is carrying so much more than the other ants. And look at all that it's doing.

It's really advancing and we're just ants. Okay, just be nice to each other. We're zoom out a little bit and look at us. We're trying so hard.

Like each of us can't just just try to be nice to us. I just ants. Well, what's really interesting to me, like, I also have these impulses to like, what is the thing that I'm like, like, what's the best use of my time or resources or skills and talents? Yeah.

And and when I try and figure out like what like, and I usually don't think about it, I usually do what I think is most valuable. And it's like very subconscious, very culturally impacted. It's like, I often and when I investigate a little bit, it's usually just the things that other people are focused on. That's why you're on Twitter, Hank.

All the other people are must be must be good, because we're social people, we're like ants in a lot of ways. And we go to where the people go and start to pay attention to and value the things that other people pay attention and value. And that's and that's not bad. Like that I feel similar to that.

I'm worried that we're going to answer this question for the full hour, because I feel similarly that when people are like, Indianapolis sucks, I always want to say like, Oh, no, this just isn't your an hill. Like, so you don't you don't live here. You came and like looked at our an hill and you were like, I don't like your an hill. And we're like, okay, we do go back to your an hill, which isn't home to more dead vice presidents than any other location on earth.

Wow. What a great an hill you have over there in New York City. A bigger problem. If this were actually an hill, we would just murder you like just coming over here.

You can't show your face and a different and hill thinking. This is another one of my recent very passionate arguments, which is that all the other animals would be just as bad or worse at being sentient as we are. Like we're terrible. I'm not trying to like say anything good about us, but you think kangaroos are going to do a better job.

Like you give you think kangaroos are going to handle nuclear weapons responsibly. What is the animal that we best at this a gold doodle? Maybe they just are nice. Yeah, the gold doodles would just be like, good God.

Everybody. They'd be like, look at each other running around goofing off. But then nobody, but who would grow the food? We get done.

If we all converted into gold and doodles, everybody would be very happy for three days. The gold and doodles are going to like figure out the fundamental forces of the universe. Three day utopia. Just a bunch of really hungry dogs.

Just this. Right. Then you get real hungry. And then you find out that actually like gold and doodles aren't any better than us.

Not when you're hungry. It's oh yeah, it's very true. Oh no. Oh God.

What were we talking about? I don't know. Let's move on to the next question. I think we did a great job answering that one.

I also have no idea which question document we're using. So it's sort of thrilling for me. I think we're using different ones. Are we?

I have one very specifically. It says recording this day 123. Oh, I just found that one. Okay, great.

Matt and Jessica asked, Dear John and Hank, we're doing a crossword puzzle and we're stuck. The clue is Mars prefix and the word is four letters long and we know blank blank blank. Oh, thank you, Matt and Jessica for reaching out with the kind of breaking news question that we're best at answering here at Dear Hank and John. Like if you have an emergency that needs dealt with today, don't call 311.

We were supposed to email us last week too. So what is it Hank? Is it a Morrow? I think that I know.

Okay. Well, tell me. I'm not going to guess. It's not funny.

I think it's I don't want it to be like aria like Aries. Aria like aria like area. I can as somebody who makes crossword puzzles, I can picture the problem that the creator had to area instead of area. There we go.

We answered the question. Next question. Hank, this is the episode where we answer lots of questions. Good to make up for that.

Give me a bunch of marks trivia. I'll slam them out. All right. You give me one.

John, this next question comes from Kai and I think that you'd be very good at it. I've currently been struck by a cold and not to be dramatic, but this virus I know is ruining my life. I language in myself pity and my inability to breathe out of both of my nostrils. I was struck by a thought when old and times people like pre germ theory got cold.

Did they think they were going to die? How did they know if they were or were dying thanks by by Kai? Yeah. Fairly frequently when I'm very sick.

I'm like, is this it? Right. Like how do I know there's between this feeling? Which is very bad.

Yeah. And the one where I'm actually maybe not going to make it out. Well, this was one of the central things. I knew it.

I knew it. I knew it. I knew it. The doctors did that they could do because they had a lot of experience with people dying.

Sure. And they would be like, this is a there's sort of like three categories. I can fix this. I can't fix this and fairly well.

Right. Yeah. And and for clarity. Most of the things in the first category were actually in the second and third categories.

Well, almost everything in the first category was actually the second category. Right. Yeah. I can give you some but there were things there were things that were helpful in the history of medicine in the humoral era and in you know, Chinese medicine and indigenous American medicine.

There were things that worked. There were also a lot of things that didn't work. But because doctors had a fair amount of experience or like medical practitioners, however, they would describe themselves, had a lot of experience with different kinds of ailments. They often did know how bad it looked, you know, or they knew like, oh, if I've had patients like this in the past, they die.

But I do you do see people worry in historical memoirs that something might be pretending they're deaf. You see a lot of them, a lot of people trying to use the power of positive thinking. That's like one of the heartbreaking things about reading a lot of tuberculosis memoirs like people who lived in these, you know, tuberculosis sanitariums in the 19th and 20th centuries. Like there's a lot of sort of like attempts at positive self talk despite the odds and the miseries and all that.

But I would also say, Hank, that it seems probable that people in the past had a little more tolerance for discomfort than we have. I've noticed that. I've noticed that. I don't exactly understand it, but it seems like they must have.

Yeah, well, I think that it's an experienced thing. You know, you have more discomforts. You start you'll be like, well, this isn't as bad as that other one. You start to be maybe where I had COVID.

I was like, this is as bad as it gets because it's as bad as it's gotten for me. Yeah, I mean, when I had meningitis, I was like, the idea that you could live with this without pain medication is the idea is unbearable. You know what I mean? So yeah, yeah.

All right. Next question comes from anonymous who writes, dear John and Hank, I live in Canada, I work in healthcare. My province is currently experiencing provincial government policies that are undermining public health and premiers are minimizing the influence of experts, which is very troubling. As people who live in America, that wasn't the question.

As people who work to better systems such as your work with partners in health, how do you maintain hopefulness for the work you do within inequitable systems, overthrowing systems isn't off the table, but other ideas are appreciated and honest. I think if you look at the history of completely overthrowing systems, that often doesn't work great. It's very so one of the things that John and I talk about sometimes is that like, there's the grand scheme, but there's also the fact that you don't live in the grand scheme. You live in now.

So, so as far as now goes, it like there are these people who have prejudices and they have fears and they also have ambitions that that they can achieve by praying on the fears of other people and they create systems that hurt people because of that. And I don't know what to do about them except to recognize that things, that because of that, things cannot change as fast as they want and that the world is not going to be the just and fair place that it should be. And I also, one of the things that I have done is I've read about this, I read a book called High Conflict, which is about the ways that conflict moves from productive to unproductive and how to move it back and how very hard that is, but how it happens over and over again, even in cases where people are literally killing each other, wars end and people share those spaces that they once killed each other inside of. And so we move out of that conflict.

I also read a book by David McRaney called How Minds Change, which is very helpful in that it outlines that people are only to some extent capable of having different thoughts than the ones that they have right now. Like, it is, it is a, it is an easy and slow path. And like, it's all frustrating, that the world cannot be just and fair. But there are, it is very helpful to sort of understand some of the mechanisms, like actual physiological mechanisms of how brains work and the kinds of conversations that lead people into feeling safe enough to even question their own perspectives, which they often do not feel.

And I think conflict in particular is a place where you are least likely to be able to, you know, often in the middle of that feeling of high conflict. Yeah. So reading about that has been helpful to me because it has been made me a more productive person in, in those conversations, I think. But it does not make the frustration go away.

And does not make the injustice go away. Right. I think that if you stop at a place of being pissed off about injustice and all you can feel in the face of injustice is hopeless. It sucks.

It's really miserable. Like, it's a really difficult way to go through life. And I think there is evidence, not that the world becomes just, but that it can become more just. If you look at Canada's history of how inequitable Canada's healthcare system was 100 or 200 years ago, I think you see that there is a possibility of things getting better.

The fact that there's a possibility of things getting better, I think critically also implies that there's a possibility of things getting worse. And I get frustrated sometimes when all the, you know, the utopian crowd is like, Oh, these are problems that like will naturally fix themselves. These are problems that fix themselves because Anonymous is working in healthcare, right? Like these are problems that get addressed because millions of people are coming together to make frustrating, incremental, little by little change over decades and over centuries.

And it's like, I think we should be pissed off. I think we should be pissed off about injustice. I think we should be pissed off about the places in there, many of them where the world is moving backwards. That's infuriating.

But I also think that the correct response to that is not hopelessness. I totally agree. I was just listening. I wasn't thinking.

I'm glad you agree with me. That's all that matters. I just want, I just want my brother to agree with me. We need to find more points of disagreement, John, for sure.

Yeah, I'm a little frustrated with that as well. I feel like you haven't done a good job of being annoying recently. And when we do disagree, it's always kind of fake and people can tell that it's fake. And I would like to have some real hardcore disagreements that are real.

I bet we could find some I would like to. All right. What about the divinity of Christ? That's a joke.

We shouldn't get into that on a public podcast. For sure. I think that people should believe what they what they feel is helpful. Well, it's not just what I feel as helpful.

It's what I feel is true. But we don't have to get into it. I will. I don't I don't think Christ needs to be divine for you.

That's great. I love that. I love that for us. All right.

I love that for us too. Rachel writes, Dear John and Hank, I've recently been getting more fiber in my diet. I've been dealing with some stomach issues. I've been looking up ways to do so.

I understand how fruits and vegetables and things is like brand have fiber. But like, what is fiber and how do fiber powder and pills work? Oh, Rachel, have you come to the right place? Yeah.

Hank Green is America's leading expert in how fiber works. Yeah. So there's a bunch of there's a bunch of good things that fiber does for you. But what even is fiber?

So fiber is just for the most part, it's cellulose. So it's indigestible sugars. So wait, I thought you told me not to eat styrofoam peanuts. Well, you absolutely could if they were prepared as if they were food.

Those ones have been sitting around and we're not but we're not prepared in situations that were food safe. Oh, that could be passed. There could be rodents. Wait, I thought you told me not to eat grass, which I thought as if I recall was made entirely of cellulose.

Yeah, I mean, grass also is not prepared in a food safe situation. But you can't eat grass. In fact, you do all the time because we as a grass and so was. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. I've been there. I've been through this, John. I bet you have.

I can feel I could feel the like old man is tired of explaining to young people why the candy grass energy coming just reverberating from your body right now. So the thing about fiber is that it seems to be most good for you when it is sort of like in its, like the forms where it's just in your food normally. So for example, having orange juice and then having the commensurate amount of fiber as would be in an orange, it's kind of less good for you than just having an orange with the fiber. Interesting.

And like, because it just, it sort of moderates the sort of sugar bomb effect and it, like it creates like the whole digestion process happens more slowly and sort of more naturally. But it can sometimes in sort of modern situations or even, you know, just very much depending on your diet, it can be hard to get the amount of fiber that your body would sort of, you know, like existed inside of a system that had a certain amount of fiber and then now it exists inside of a different system. And, you know, we're not going to wait for evolution to catch up. So you could throw some fiber in there.

And the main way we do this was with cilium husks and they grow cilium specifically because it produces a lot of good quality indigestible fiber that they can just grind up and then they put in a pills or they put in an imusol, which like, or powders that you can mix into your drink. And that basically, in that circumstance, the, the, there are a few things that it might do. Like, there is like, it might impact your cholesterol in positive ways. The main thing it does is that it creates a better poop, like it just forms your stool into a more comfortable, like, like firmness, like it's not too hard and it's not too soft.

Not too small and it's not too big. It just gives your colon the material to work with to package your waste in the way that it wants to package it for sort of the ideal experience at the toilet. I love the idea of it. It's like, it gives you the material to work with, like your, your colon is still writing the novel, but the fiber is the alphabet.

Right. Yeah. It's got to do the work one way or the other. But if he's got a bigger, bigger vocabulary, then it's going to be a better book.

Yeah. Yeah. It's basically the exact rule that, like, it's basically how chat GPT came to be. Like, sure, it's better poop GPT.

It's better if it's natural, of course. But like, if it can't be natural, there's always poop GPT. I think, by the way, we should sell Metamucil and it is just Metamucil, but it's under our exciting new brand, poop GPT. I mean, I have had this idea for a while now.

There are a couple of things that I would put in a powder that aren't just silly musk. Okay. And like, I feel a million dollar idea coming on. I'm very excited.

I love it. I could zoomable. Oh, man. I could sell, I could sell the crap out of a supplement fiber.

Could you tell me really good for you? Tell me about this fiber supplement that you want to sell right now. Tell me what's going on. Tell me what's going on.

Tell me what's going on. You made me tell you the idea and then we couldn't talk about anything else. All right. We got to do that.

We got to do a project for us. It's real fast before it tells me about this silly, I'm husk idea for this project. For us, a message comes from Megan who writes, dear Megan, you gave too many spoilers last year. The best place you can be is right here.

You are here and you are alive and this is the best of all possible worlds. Breathe in the unknown and bask in the uncertainty of whatever is going to come. Let me know how it goes. Love you last year's Megan.

Yes. Send my love to Baxter. He is the best thing to happen to me. Well, that's nice.

I don't know if Baxter is a person or an animal. I feel strongly that Baxter is an animal, but I feel bad for having said it. Sarah has an uncle back. Sarah has an uncle back.

Sarah has an uncle back. He listens to the pod. So he's devastated. Yeah.

There's also the character from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I don't think I know about the character. I don't know why that one stuck around. But he was like, as far as I can remember, no Baxter was not like the kind of guy you'd want to have around.

Oh, he was a naughty man. Yeah. I think. Well, no.

Yeah. He was a he was a fly. He was a man who turned into like the fly, but it was the fly of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles universe. This is a great attempt to get me to get off of the top.

This podcast is brought to you by Baxter from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Yeah. He was a fly man, probably made me the exact same way as the fly with Jeff Goldblum, but more comedic and not the kind of guy I think was a big nerd, if I remember correctly. Oh, God forbid.

Today's podcast course is also brought to you by my wife's uncle Baxter, my wife's uncle Baxter, great guy, went skiing with him once in Vermont, very, very funny man. Love nice. Nice. Gave us 18 highball glasses inscribed with our initials when we got married.

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It needs a marketing budget for sure. We need a better marketing budget for the world's largest organism. And of course, today's podcast is brought to you by poop, GPT. Poop, GPT.

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Sure of course. And that has happened two times. So usually we're like here's this new craze. It doesn't do very much as far as we can tell.

There's people have studied it here the studies it doesn't seem to do very much. There was a study that happened once but it seems to have maybe been a statistical anomaly right which happens a lot and you post a statistical anomaly and then you end up sort of chasing your tail for a little bit until you realize it didn't actually do much. Things that seem to do things include fiber uh-huh which is good for your poop. Lion's main mushroom which seems to be legitimately good for for like brain health.

We don't really know why but it's like helps for it helps keep nerves healthy. Okay. I started taking it when I was having shingles just because we made this episode about it and I was like shingles is a nerve problem. All right.

I start doing that. And then the other thing is there was a study that like there were these individually some interventions that had shown really small effects but when you put them all together they had a much larger very noticeable dose-dependent effect which is you know like placebo controlled etc. And it was exercise which you cannot put into a powder unfortunately. That's very efficient.

Just have to do that. Vitamin D which you can and then fish oil which probably would be also a little bit tricky to get into the powder but that was a clear decrease in odds of cancer and it seemed to me like I should be taking these things. Like this study I believe in at this point and so I should be doing this but I'm not because like and like I always forget to take my Metamucil or I forget to take my lion's mane and because like but if I had it all in like one thing and I could do it every morning I feel like I would do it. Right.

Hank I mean I'll be honest with you an actual evidence-based fiber supplement would be amazing. Like first off I don't think there's any reason why Metamucil should own the fiber supplement world. No they don't. There's lots of others.

But my point is that like do the others give their profits charity? Oh coming back around now we got the real juice in the tank. Awesome poop GPT club. Oh boy I'm going to want a bunch of people to at me very good idea Hank.

With the best brand name for this idea because it's not poop GPT. It's probably not poop GPT although my heart my heart wants it but I think that my my heart says yes my head says no. My head says that like poop GPT is never going to be like a billion dollar charity brand. They didn't call it Newman's GPT when they were named the salad dressing you know.

Yeah so it's evidence-based. So I'm fine for some reason. Newman's GPT. I love the idea of a JPT competitor coming out and it's like hey it's me Nell Newman Paul Newman's daughter.

Do you really want to trust your AI to people who are going to spend the profit on making themselves richer or do you want to trust my new JPT? Newman's own GPT. This is a very good idea Hank. I mean unfortunately it's maybe the best idea you've ever had.

Like why? I mean it's been bumping around in there for so long I just never said it out loud. I can't believe we had the idea for you to get a brand deal with Metamucil but we didn't have the idea for you to just take away Metamucil's market share and make the money to charity. I didn't think the idea of just a five or something on its own wasn't that good you know.

It's pretty good. There's so many of them they're all like fun about venture capitalists and they're like there's so many. But that to me is a sign that it's a good idea because none of those venture capitalists are going to give their fight with them. I guess I hear you but I also disagree with you.

You are fighting with big sock. You're taking down all the sock venture capitalists which there are surprising number of actually. I was literally shocking the number of sock venture capitalists more than you'd think. Same with coffee.

There's a lot of people in the sock business. I keep going deeper and finding new ones. And so we don't mind being at war. I don't mind being at war with big coffee.

We don't mind being at war with big sock. Why not go to war with big fiber? Big fiber. Stop giving your money to big fiber.

We've got the fiber solutions for you. Well, well it can't just be fiber. That's the thing. If it's bigger than fiber then it makes sense to me.

It's bigger than fiber is an amazing, amazing. It's close. It's something like that. It's getting there.

That makes me think that this is really a thing. It's bigger than fiber. I love it. Oh God.

I'm tempted to not answer another question but let's answer one more before we get to the all-important news from Mars. Kate asks, what does have a good one mean? A good drive home from the store? A good day?

A good rest of your life? I'm going to penguins. This thing. That's the thing about having a good one.

It's harder to do wrong. Yeah. That's like how when I was a kid I remember I would hear my dad anytime he would see somebody. He didn't say have a good one.

He would say take care and I would be like what from what? But if you just take out the preposition you solve the problem. Yep. Have a good preposition.

Have a good one. You decide. You decide what kind of one, what constitutes a good one for you. Can I ask you a question that's related to this question?

Absolutely. When is it okay to compliment someone? Is it ever okay to just toss out what I think is a quality compliment to a complete stranger? Okay.

So I'm just going to tell you right now you're veering on old men. Why can't I tell ladies to smile more? That's not a way. You're veering on it.

That's what that's why I'm just going to be honest with you. So as a just guys, can I compliment guys? Strangers? Strange guys?

Same issue. Same fundamental problem. What you can say is a compliment on a choice. This is my opinion.

Yeah. You can say a compliment on a choice, but not if it can easily be seen as objectifying. Right. Well, yeah.

I think you can give a compliment on somebody's ideas. Like whenever somebody says something that I find unusually interesting, I do try to say I think that's a very good observation and that is a compliment but it's not a compliment that makes anyone hopefully feel uncomfortable. Yeah. The other day, I was walking down my neighborhood street and there was a woman who had clearly just been at the grocery store and she was walking at a grocery store.

Yeah. And I looked at her and I had the thought she looks like she's ready to take on the day. And I was like, I want to say that to her. I want to be like, you look like you're ready to take on the day.

Because then I thought I'd like someone to say that to me. Well, first off, you don't. You don't like you're right. I hate to tell you.

But you don't. I know. That's the thing. You look tough.

That's why I want somebody to say I want them to be honest with you. You're going to be a little tired. You're going to be a little tired. You're going to be a little tired.

This is the situation. The thing that I'm ready to take on the day. So I think that if you're over 80, you can say you look ready to take on the day. Absolutely.

But I think you've got to hit that 80th birthday where you're allowed to become a sort of a genial older gentleman who has maybe a catchphrase. Like not top. I was the first one that came to mind was top of the morning to you. You look like that.

But not that one. You got to come. But the good news is you got like 30 years to come up with your. I'm really I'm going to be a fun older gentleman.

Oh, I really want to be an eccentric old man. Maybe it's hey, oh I want to put on a plaid suit every morning. What was it you said to me when this call started? I don't remember it was so long ago.

I don't know. You said, oh God. Oh no. Oh no.

Yeah. Oh, maybe the catchphrase will be what you said to me right before hanging up on me. Oh no. That's everybody likes to hear that one.

Just like see a person. Oh no. You know what I said and to this woman instead what I said careful out there because it was really slippery. Oh, it's a great one.

I love careful out there. Careful out there is like take care, but it's even more specific. It's just like, well, the only thing about careful out there now that I think about it is that maybe it's creepy. You know, like maybe it seems like there's a threat and it's me.

You know what that. Yeah. You know what that I don't maybe you can't do careful out there. That's what I like.

And maybe hey, if you're like if you're like 80 years old though when you're not a threat anymore. Yeah, very clearly. You can definitely you never know. Well, you never know.

I don't know. I think I was going to say I think you can compliment somebody's choice of orange juice. I think you can be like, I know you could be like I notice you've got a really high quality fiber supplement that also uses evidence based strong studies to add other ingredients, including lion's made mushrooms. That's right.

And I you know who makes that is me. Hi. Nice. Sucks.

It's me. Those are my socks. I made your socks. Yeah.

Maybe that's what you should say. Maybe that's your for your catchphrase. Just make it a little. You got to sign up for Newman's GPT as well.

It's right. You got to make sure your whole consumptive life is rebuilt around raising money for charity instead of enriching the already rich boy. I thought we did a great job. No, it wasn't our best episode, but to be fair, it was better than last week.

Nobody liked the idea of us boxing together, which is devastating for me. I think I figured it out. Why? Okay.

Because boxing is actually quite violent and most most people kind of don't like that. There's a lot of people in our audience who aren't boxing fans, which was a big surprise to me. I thought they were mostly professional boxing fans. I was stunned.

I thought that we were looking at a lot of professional boxing fans. So my bad. I'd like to be able to promise that I won't participate in any celebrity boxing tournaments, but I'd be able to be able to cross the lottery. It's still a thing.

It's just what's the glory, because boxing is great because it is hilarious. It's a lot of other YouTubers do it. We're big nerds. We're brothers.

It's very funny. You've got the bit. But 16 weeks to glory remains a really wonderful title for something. Yeah, it has to, but it has to be something stupid, like objectively ridiculous that we are working hard toward.

Right. And boxing is a good one of minus the violence and the question is kind of hard to do without the violence. I don't think any of this can happen until our lives free up a little bit, but I think it should be a good goal to try to make 2023 the year where we could do something like 16 weeks to glory in 2024. Yeah.

And also poop GPT. Oh my God, poop GPT is such a good idea. And then I want it. I want it.

Like I want it. I do too. That's the thing. I would be a customer day one.

Yeah, you can put some prebiotic or in there too. Yeah, whatever. Hank, you know the science. I'm just here to sell it.

I'm going to set up a tumbler that's going to sell the heck out of it. Tumbler is famously amenable to corporate interference. It's one of their favorite things. They love a brand.

I did a I bought a socks add on tumbler and I got immediately mad people. Oh, yeah. They don't want they don't want it out for like tumbler. The site is like, do you want to boost this post with our special crablis boosts?

And I'm like, I do you're right. And then people are like, don't do that. Yeah. Yeah.

They're like, wow, nerd. We don't want this to be a successful platform. Yeah. We want this company to lose all of its money.

I love tumbler again, man. I'm back. I'm back in a big way. I love it.

Hank, it makes me so mad. Anyway, thanks for potting with me. Good luck. I'm sure.

Oh, yeah. Do you want to do the news from RZ and AC? Oh, right. We that's.

Oh, Hank, got big news from AC one of them this week. So I'll start. Okay. Now, Hank, there is a force in league two football that we have not talked about in a long time, a powerful, powerful force, arguably the biggest force in the league.

It's frozen pitch, frozen pitch, Hank, there's very little in this world that is as likely to have an undefeated season as frozen pitch. And so AFC will in last two games have both been canceled due to frozen pitch. A lot of games around the league have been canceled. Frozen pitch is often in a race with soggy pitch.

Soggy pitch is another common reason for a match cancellation. But frozen pitch has had a great season so far. And so AFC will then have not had a game, but that has not stopped the drama. Okay.

So two pieces of absolute stunning news. Okay. Neither good. Oh, no.

First off, our brilliant 20 year old Moroccan Messi, Ayuba Saul. Oh, no, he's leaving. Just like you said, just like I said, he's he's going to Qatar. Oh, wow.

A team in Qatar paid that good? Well, they paid us more money than we've ever been paid for any other player. So I guess it's good in that sense. But it's very sad in the sense that I like a Yuba Saul and also he was essential to our chances of winning.

Yes. Since he has not been in the team for January, we have been notably worse. So that's a problem. Yeah.