58: That's the Science (w/ Flula!)

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Sorry John, where are you? Where are you? I don't even know. I don't even know what he's up to.

Thank you Flula for joining us. This is a comedy podcast where me and usually my brother John, but today Flula Borg, answer your questions, give you Dubuis Advice and bring you all the weeks news from both Mars and AFC Wimbledon. Hey Flula, how are you doing? I'm so good Hank.

How are you doing today? I'm great. I'm so happy to have you on the podcast to help answer some people's questions and I'm sure you're going to be such a wonderful purveyor of Dubuis Advice. I am loved the Dubuis.

So yeah, what are you up to right now? Where are you? I'm currently in a town that is called Los Angeles. I'm wearing a small pair of undipans, no socks and no shirt.

That's not really what I asked, but thank you for letting me what are you wearing Hank? I'm wearing a t-shirt and jeans. I'm not wearing socks though. I'm sock free.

So hot. So hot. Too hot for podcast. Too hot for podcast.

What kind of underpants are you wearing? I'm wearing the kind that is having a slit, so if you are needing to use toilets in the first way, you can just go with that. Great. Do you, by any chance, have a short poem for us today.

I have written one just 0.1 seconds ago. The poem is called Sandwich. Are you ready? Yes.

Here we go. Mmm. Look at you, slices. Mmm.

Look at you, peanuts. I squish you and then I put you on the bread and then I eat you. Delicious. The end.

That was great. Sandwich. It was beautiful. Thank you for sharing your short poem for us, Flula.

Of course, Hank. It's available immediately on a medium. I feel like that's, I feel like that's selling yourself short, Flula. You should maybe, you should just go straight to like printed page and like sell a pamphlet with just your poetry.

That's very smart. I'm emailing and tweeting Simon and Schuster right now. Both of them. Both, always both.

You have to go double or nothing. You know how they say it? I do. Oh, good.

So, yeah. Well, well, I guess we should probably start answering questions from people. I love that when this happens on the podcast with me and you, not John. Do you have any particular question that stuck out to you that you want to answer?

I will go in any direction that you are. You know, like when the man is driving and the man in the other seat, he's riding Uzi. I am, I'm riding Uzi. So you, you might select.

What I'm hearing, Flula, is that you haven't really read any of the questions. That is accurate. Yes. All right.

Well, this one is from Amanda who asks, Dear Hank and Flula, why don't people eat the ends of loaves of bread? What is the need for this discrimination? Oh, I thought that was a good question for you because you obviously are passionate about sandwiches. I do have passion of sandwich.

I have passion of carbohydrates. My answer for Amanda, I will say is I do not discriminate. I will. I do.

Actually, I have something reverse of discriminations. I love the ends of the bread because they are symbolizing a beginning and also an ending. And these are the most fun parts of movies, poems and books and and sandwiches and die-hard movies. But not of life.

No. The beginning of a life is pretty, pretty fun, but the end not so much. Not very much. You are baby once more but with wrinkles.

Yes. Yes. And then you and then you have to not exist anymore. Sad.

That's a sad time. Do you think a lot about death, Flula? I not, you know, not enough. I think if I was thinking more about it, I would be doing many more adventure things.

So no, I would not worry so much about groceries or am I properly hydrated? Things like this. I think it's I think it's very important to keep properly hydrated. But yeah, that's that's interesting to hear.

I think that often my other partner on this podcast, John Green, he thinks a little bit too much about death. Oh, what do you mean? Oh, you know, he's just a worry word. Oh, I would imagine if you're thinking about this, you would say, Hey, perhaps this is happening.

Let me stop my warts and just go with a happy impulse of happiness. That's a happy. Yep. Uh huh.

So I also am surprised to hear you so that you feel like you don't go on enough adventures. Yeah. Well, I think you know it is about blood pressure and I have measured mine and it's usual in a healthy range. I think this is terrible.

I think you should have high blood pressure all the time because of the adventures that are happening, not because of too much sodium. Okay. Do you know what I mean? Yes, I think I do.

But I feel like you lead a very interesting, exciting life. I saw you on Conan. Oh, that was very nice. I was that was a fun time.

I'm not certain how it occurred. But hey, I loved it. He was very friendly and also a tall man of height. He was he was tall.

Do you feel like you had high blood pressure during your Conan O'Brien experience? I experienced, yes, a slight a slight a conibtion or some something where a sin-epsis firing in the brain in a strange location. Absolutely. It was very fun.

Okay. Good. I really enjoyed it. If people who are listening haven't watched that.

It is very worth watching. So are you a German citizen? Yeah, I'm a German citizen ready for the actions. Do you also have American citizenship?

I do not. I'm very jealousy of people. Well, actually, I don't know. Should I have a jealousy of this?

Oh, well, you would be able to vote. But you can't. I cannot vote, but I do wish I could vote for you guys. Yeah.

We would also appreciate that. So, we have another question from Dennis on that. In that vein who asked Dear Hank and Flula, I'm an American citizen and this year will be my first vote ever in an election. You guys have stressed how important it is to vote and to research.

I'm excited to vote, but I'm unsure how to do proper research. Do I check my congressman's website for their policy ideas? How can I check if the data is unbiased? Can I Snapchat them after watching Always Sunny about immigration reform?

Oh, Dennis. Well, Hank, as you are, you are American, man. You are Yankee Doodle Dandy. What would you say to this?

Well, it's not like you don't have elections as well in Germany. Do you vote in German elections? I do. Yeah.

I mean, well, I can say to Dennis, Dennis, I would not Snapchat always sunny for the immigration reform. I think this would not help with the voting. This would help with adding more data bytes to the internet traffic, but this does not educate you. So I would say maybe don't do that one.

So that's my first note. What about you, Hank? I think that it would be good to like, it would be nice if you could Snapchat to a politician and they would snap you back and they'd be like, yeah, no, I totally agree with everything you're saying, but I think that if you represent a virus number of people, it's hard to answer all the snaps that are coming in. True.

So yeah, I think that there are, you can both look at the policy ideas of your congresspeople and it's not that you can or cannot trust those things. I think that in many cases, what you're looking at there is you are learning about not just what they want, but sort of what their values are and like the direction that they think the country should go in. And if you don't agree with those things, then you can look at someone else or if you do, or some of them, but not all of them. And that's how that's going to part of how you get informed.

But I think also there's, not just in terms of candidates, there are always things on your ballot that might throw you for a little bit of a loop, whether they're like local initiatives that are like, we always have somebody who's trying to do a tax levy, like they're going to increase taxes for 10 years by some small amount and they're going to take that money and they're going to make the schools better. But you have to vote for those things and you have to decide whether or not you're one of those people who's like, yes, I will pay a little bit extra money for schools. Or no, I think people should be less smart and educated. You have to pick which one of those people you want to be.

So I don't know, that's up to you. But yeah, I find that indeed trusting a politician's policy statements does make sense. It's not going to tell you what kind of person they are. It's not going to necessarily outline this person is definitely not going to be a jerk.

But it will tell you if they want to represent and do in the government aligns with your values. Unfortunately, you cannot run out and not always. Sometimes you can. For local elections, you can sometimes even go to talk to those people, like go to events and ask them questions and see, get a feel for them.

But you know, you definitely don't have to do that. I think that about an hour's worth of research with a sample ballot will tell you what you want and how to vote. Wow, that was very great. I feel very prepared now to do all the things.

Well, good. I'm sure that Germany needs your vote. I know that there are a great many things of interest and import happening in Germany right now. Yeah, it's a crazy place.

We do not have two parties that are doing sassy things. We have many, many parties, which is nice. These are not parties with hats and salads, but you know, like political parties. We also have salad parties as well.

But we have many more than you guys at the moment. But you are having some new parties, libertarian, not new, but they are making some noises. The libertarians and the greens are doing something still. That's kind of cool.

Yeah, it's very difficult in the way that our voting works for other parties to take up substantial portion of the vote, because they're just not going to actually win, at least not in a national level. So anytime you vote for a third party, you are taking votes. You are kind of in effect taking votes away from the person who is going to put who has the higher chance of winning, who you maybe don't feel great about, but you feel better about than the other person and thus the quandary. But yeah, it's definitely in this year where there are two fairly unpopular candidates at the top of the two main parties.

Yeah, it looks like Gary Johnson is going to do pretty well for a third party candidate, which has happened before in the history of America. But yeah, not recently. I'm excited. I'm not excited.

I dislike this election a lot, and I want it to be over. Yeah, me as well. I mean, I'm just a man hanging out, but I am very confused that it is happening like this. It's a very strange situation that we are observing as Europeans.

We don't really know how this has happened. It's like a movie that gets a sequel, and then they are still 12 more sequels. And you're like, but why are the sequels coming? And then they are still here, and this is so confusing.

So who knows? I'm excited for it to be done. And you know, fingers crossed very hard. Do you, do you ask a question?

Okay, listen, oh, these are some nice ones here. Oh, Riley, here's Riley. Dear Hank and John, oh, dear Hank and Flula, when you were discussing the software update for the Mars rover and its potential sentence, that got me wondering, would it be possible for someone to hack into a rover on another planet? I don't know why anyone would want to do that.

But now I'm just curious if it is possible. Thank you for entertaining this ridiculous question. I love the podcast Hank, you are a sassy muffin of studs. Thank you, Riley.

That's very kind. Yeah, yes, yes, it is possible to hack. I would say that it's possible to hack anything, but you can send like NASA sends not just like messages to tell the rover what to do, but it sends like firmware upgrades and software upgrades. Like it will send an entire new operating system to the rover, have it turn off and reboot with a new operating system.

So you could basically do whatever you want if you could get, figure out how NASA sends the signals, both practically, like physically, which is I'm sure a very large antenna with a huge amount of energy behind it because it has to send all the way to Mars. So you would have to build one of those or hack into NASA's. And then you would have to sort of like look at the messages that NASA sends and either know how the software works because you work at NASA or sort of reverse engineer what, like what protocols they're using and what programming languages they're using. I'm sure that like it's public knowledge what operating system it's based on and what what programming which they use.

But I don't know if it's like the protocols probably aren't public knowledge. So it would be a lot of work and you would be able to maybe hack into a Mars rover and tell it to do something, but please don't. Don't do it. Because they know what they're doing.

It's pretty expensive thing. And that would be mean. I would think that if anybody did hack into the Mars rover, it would have to be like state state sponsored kind of like terrorism thing. Like you have to be like North Korea doing it.

Yeah, yeah, or perhaps just not even sponsored terrorists just sponsored rudeness, you know, it's it's really terrible. It could be rude. But I would tell you, Riley, I've Google searched and the Mars rover runs on Windows 98. So just so you know.

And so that's very exciting. Yes, good. I would have assumed maybe Ubuntu, but oh, like a Linux, some kind of Linux. Ah, yeah, yeah, Red Hat, Red Hat.

All right. We got another question. Do you want to hear it? So bad.

So bad. Here's another question. It's from Elijah who asks, Dear Hank and John, what is the function of the holes in Cheezits and most most other crackers for that matter other than to rob me of cheesy substance that is rightfully not so you're saying that like they make the hole and they're like, ha, ha, Elijah is not going to get this bit of Cheezit. No, I must tell you I know why this is Hank.

May I? Yes. Yes. Okay.

So do you know, like if you are in a Saran rat bag and pretending that you are, let us say you are a piece of chocolate and it is just no air is in the bag. Okay. Okay. Can you can you smell what is what is happening?

Can you smell this this chocolate? Am I the chocolate? No, you are human who's looking at the chocolate. Okay.

So there's a chocolate in a Saran rat bag, no holes. No holes and very tight. No oxygen is inside. Okay.

Got it. Can you can you smell this chocolate? No. Can you enjoy the chocolate in a pasty way?

Not unless I cut up in a Saran rat. Haha. To enter the oxygen which helps to make smells and tastes and these are the holes purposes. The holes in that in the cracker are letting the oxygen touch the cheese and massage it in science ways.

So when you put it in your mouth, then you can taste it more delicious. If it was no holes, there would be no flavor Elijah. You know, and that's why the science. I just I disagree with you.

Well, science is malleable. So I think I have another suggestion. Okay. That if you if you bake a cracker, which is just sort of like a piece of bread, right?

If you throw it in there, it's gonna like puff up and give me like so like think about a goldfish. Yeah. Like a goldfish is a cracker with no with no holes in it. It's just cut into a goldfish.

Yeah. No, but it like sort of like puffed up, right? So I think like with a cheese that are a saltine like you see where the dot is is sort of flat and then it puffed up around that. But if the dot wasn't there, then it just be puffing up all around and it'd be like a like a weird, a weird sphere thing instead of like a flat cracker thing.

So they poke the holes in so that the steam can escape when it while it's baking. So it doesn't puff it up into one of into like a puff pastry with a big bunch of air in the middle. That's that's my thought as to why they put holes in cheese. It's but I like oxygen massages.

Have you ever had an oxygen massage? I have one every day. It is why I am at 84% nudity right now. I'm just feeling the oxygen massaging my epidermis.

Good. It's good. So like any nearby thing that likes flula the way that flula likes chocolate can smell you. Welcome to me, odors.

Do you ever fear that you'll be eaten by a bear? I only fears this if I'm in a forest and it is very dark and I am covered in chocolate. And that happens how often zero times in my life. How about you Hank?

Also zero times in my life. But the way that you said it made me think maybe it was like it was like another version of an oxygen massage for you. Chocolate massage. Oh no.

It's a dream. I have a dream. This is like every month or maybe two months I have a chocolate bear forest dream. I thought that it was a dream like not like what happens at night but like your aspirations for the future.

Oh like a goal is like my vision board. Yeah. It was on my vision board which was a cartoon rendering of my body covered in white chocolate and then a bear white chocolate. White chocolate of course white chocolate which really is not real chocolate which is why the bears don't care.

I mean they're rational beings. They understand the way that everyone else does. White chocolate is just a dangerous lie. I agree.

Oh hey I just remember the real reason of cheesy cracker holes. Necklaces. Necklice. What is the plural of necklaces?

Necklaces is the reason. So there you go. Elijah. Are we still on Elijah or have we moved on?

I will never move on from Elijah. That's right. That's right. Yeah.

Okay. Good. I think we should though. Okay let's move.

Okay. Bye bye. But if anybody out there wants to send us pictures of you wearing a cheese at necklace we will look at them and maybe even put them on our patreon page. Oh all the patreon's will enjoy this picture.

I will. I will and then afterward you can just eat it. You can walk around all day with your cheese at necklace and nibble and always have a snack with you. I think it's a great idea.

Portable jewelry snacks. This is a market niche. Hank it's a market niche. All right.

Hit us with another question. Flula. Great. Grace writes.

Dear Hank and Flula. Hello. I was recently staying in a hotel and after a long day of sightseeing I went down to the hotel pool and also hot tub. I got into the hot tub.

But then five minutes later a large family with many small children entered the premises. This very much stressed me out. My question is what is the proper hotel hot tub etiquette team? I really just want to relax and peace and quiet.

But when is it acceptable to get up and leave if someone is joining you? I don't want to offend. Please help me. Help me very much.

Grace. So I assume that this whole family gave in joined in the hot tub or were they just around? I imagine it was like the toes and calves and pelvises of a large family like any humans in the in the tub. Well I think that there's two I've or guess three.

One is to just sit silently and stay in the hot tub and not interact with your new friends. Two is to just leave which is also completely acceptable. Three is to engage your new friends in conversation and be like hey we are enjoying a hot tub together. I feel like option one is very weird.

But I think option two or three are both fine. You can you know like if they enter they don't know how long you've been in the hot tub. Maybe you've been in the hot tub for an amount of time that is dangerous. So you must leave the hot tub whether or not they had arrived.

So they're not going to feel offended if you're like oh I've finished my hot tub time and you move along. And I imagine they also won't feel offended if you're like hey where are you guys from? I'm visiting from Alberta and hot tub do you often come to hot tubs but I do think that like you can't sort of like stake claim on a hot tub at a hotel and be like I was here first so get your calves and pelvises out of this hot tub family of many people. You cannot do it.

I will tell you to hang my strategy. I stare at the toes of the people walking and if the toes are looking clean I shall stay in the pool. If the toes are looking funky I shall make a pretend of a phone call that I've just received in my head or also I or in the sky and I will pretend someone is calling me and I will just run and scream. Well what what has happened on the phone that makes you run and scream?

I say oh is it is it true? Oh no and then I leave. Okay okay yeah and then I apologize to those guys. So sorry so sorry large family.

Be RB but then I'm never RB. Do you know what I mean? I know exactly what you mean. I think that's a great plan and I don't know that it's necessary but I think that checking out of the toes is a really good thought.

I agree. Thank you for that one. Also maybe if you just stare at their feet for long enough they'll get the point and they'll leave themselves like they'll be like why is this person such a footstarer? This is making me very uncomfortable so they they invaded your hot tub and made you uncomfortable so you got to get back and be like mmm foot mmm yeah feet toes toenails.

Yeah I think if you also mumble those words mmm yeah feet toenails this also works if you repeat it. Okay yeah that definitely works. That definitely works. Perfect.

Yes. Now we got another question. We're flying through them. We are good at this.

Oh I love it. Got another question from Maggie who asks dear Heiken Flula, help! I've scheduled for a colonoscopy in a few weeks and I'm incredibly nervous about it. I've never gone through a medical procedure of this magnitude and I'm not looking forward to having my body both drug-denmatically invaded.

This isn't even to mention the preparation that goes the day before. Do you have any dubious advice on how I can beat less freak out about the whole situation? Oh boy Maggie. This song's very exciting.

I would say to Maggie if she's having a favorite song and a favorite snack and also a favorite pair of socks to wear the socks, eat the snack, listen to the song and repeat like the shampoos. Well I do have one problem with this because I've never had a colonoscopy obviously but you can't eat anything the day before. You can have like lime jello or something. So if lime jello happens to be one of your favorite snacks.

It is! Yeah? Oh thanks Hank Maggie I hope you like lime jello. Just shove it into your mouth just eat many leaders.

I have had several colonoscopies and yes and I'd only have one colon. Yes but different times. Not at the same time. Oh okay.

Got it. Okay. And I will say that it's not so bad. You're right the prep the day before is the worst part.

Make sure that you refrigerate that stuff before you drink it because drinking it warm is the end of the end of days. But one of my favorite things in the world, my favorite sensations in the whole world is the drug that they give you right before you get a colonoscopy. I would definitely be addicted to that drug if I could be. And it makes you feel very good in the three seconds before you are unconscious but it's almost worth the entire experience for me.

And I know that I'm basically talking about illegal drugs right now but it's almost worth the entire experience for those three seconds of what must be just like what people feel when they are the happiest they've ever been. So don't try and get that stuff in a non-medical situation because it would definitely be something that would not and then there's the whole afterwards which is very fun. But it's a very normal procedure that lots of people have done to them and it's it's you know my first colonoscopy I was freaked out and I didn't like it and then now it's just sort of like a thing that happens. And I don't mind at all.

It's kind of like it's kind of like a couple of days out of my schedule that I can't like do stuff but so totally worth it for you know for telling your doctor what your doctor needs to know about your body. So what you're saying Hank is to enjoy these drugs you should treat your body in a way that requires a colonoscopy. That's legal. It's a legalist and I need this colonoscopy now give me these delicious drugs that's what you're saying.

Yeah. No. Okay. Don't do that.

Don't. Okay. I said almost. Not entirely worth it.

I'm worth it. Got it. So close to all so close to worth it but not quite to it. Got it.

Okay. Good. Got it. Great.

Thanks. This is exciting. Yeah. Thank you.

I'm so excited for my first the colon for my first scoping. Yeah. Now. And yeah they put a camera up your butt.

Have you ever have you ever had? Why do they? What? Why do they do that?

So they can look around inside of your colon and see if there's anything wrong. What does this have to do with a colonoscopy? That's what it is. What?

They put a camera in your anus? Yeah. It's like on a snake. It's like a like a like a camera tube.

They feed up there. They put a snake up your anus with a camera. Yes. Basically.

It's it's like a little snake. Like pretty thin. Okay. I mean it can bend itself and look around and even has a little tool on it to like remove things if they need to take a biopsy or remove a polyp.

Oh great. It's got a little laser beam on it to cauterize where they've removed a thing. So okay. Yeah.

Well, it's a laser camera snake. Perfect. I am Maggie very excited for you. Enjoy the drugs.

I would say this would be a very fun time. Just everything that hangs set for the last 60 seconds. Don't listen to that. That's my advice to you, Maggie.

Okay. It will be great. I am now sealing my anus as we speak. So this will never happen to me.

So I am safe. Good luck. I think that if you I think if you seal your anus up, you're gonna need a colonoscopy pretty quick. Oh, it's okay.

This is very this is okay. Keep it open. Okay. Okay.

The whole I'm widening my whole now. All right. Here's another question. It's from Zach who asks, Dear Hank and John, I'm considering using 23 and me to get my personal genetic information.

I'm very curious to learn about my ancestry. However, I'm worried that my genetic code will reveal that I have a gene associated with the disease. I don't want the results to depress me. But at the same time, I realize that my fear of a negative result is irrational since learning about it won't change it.

In fact, learning about a genetic risk might help me take steps to avoid it. Have you ever considered getting a personal genetic information test? And do you have any to be a advice for me? Who?

That's from Zach. Wow. Do you have you ever thought about having your genome? I think that my genome, I have not.

But I imagine I should, I wouldn't maybe like to know, but I don't care so much. I think if like I was feeling funky junkie and like, why do I feel so funky junkie? Maybe it's in my genome, then I would do it. But I'm feeling pretty good.

So I don't care. But if you just said, Hey, hey, flu. I guess what? Here's your genome info.

I would be kind of excited. It'll tell you about your answer. Like, that's mostly what what 23 means about it. It's like telling you sort of where you're from.

And oftentimes it's like, if you're in America, it's like, you are some part German. But if you were a German and they're like, you are not all German. Oh, that would be strange. Yeah, yeah.

That's actually what you want. I'm well, no one is right. I mean, it's like, when it's like a hot dog, right? How much of the hot dog is his beef?

I think it's like, it's three percent his beef and the 97 percent is like happiness or something. I have not. Do you know anything about your ancestry? I know it is German with lots of Germans and the sprinkling of German.

But I imagine also, there must be some tiny doses of French or Viking or you know, who knows something interesting. Antarctic, Antarctic, and something like that. What about you, Hank? Who are you?

I don't know. That's that's one reason why I would be interested because like my family, you know, it it branches off so quickly and then like you completely lose track. And I yeah, I mean, all of the people, all of my grandparents, you know, they're their grandparents. I don't know if all their grandparents, but all of my grandparents were Americans.

So I don't have any like recent immigrants in my family. But I'm from a lot of me is from the South of America, which means not South America, but the South of the US, where there's a lot of like Irish, there's a lot of other it's a lot of very European is my guess. But I would love to know more. I've seen your face and you know your legs and torso.

I would imagine you are European. Well, how when did you swear? Did you see my torso? In my dream is a dream is I was in a forest and in the Bay Area is there and then you are you are holding a lodge you are holding a lodge back of white chocolate.

Okay, dream is dream is going directions. I didn't you didn't mention that the first time. It's a detail I did not want to share with you. But because we are speaking about 23 and me, I was thinking 23 and why not?

I will tell Hank. Well, thank you. I I'm your welcome. You know, I think honesty is the best policy.

Really though, like for sure. I mean, maybe not when it's about a weird bear dream and I'm you know, my torso is out and I've got a bucket of white chocolate, but like usually yeah. I'm regretting this honesty. Yeah, well, you know, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna let it get weird between us.

Thanks Hank. Yeah. Hey, shall I read a question? Sure.

Okay. Hey, oh, we didn't even answer Zach's question. I'll add to Zach. It's one, 23 and me isn't gonna tell you a lot about genetic diseases unless they are very significant and those are things that you should know about for sure because you can indeed be proactive about the diseases that you are genetically either predisposed to or are definitely going to get.

And so yeah, there's nothing wrong with that. And yes, don't worry. What I'll think about what how great it'll be to know that you don't have those diseases, which is the most likely. Yes, nice work, Hank.

Blangs the odds. That's good. Shall I read a question? I'm so excited.

Yes, please, Hank and Fula, I am cheap and don't enjoy sugar beverages. This is Ben who is typing. So when I go eat at a food establishment, I rarely order a soft drink. Good for you, Ben.

Good for you, Ben. Good work, Ben. When I go to a fast food restaurant, I ask for a cup of water. And when possible, I fill the small cups I give me with carbonated water from the drinking fountain, using the little tabby thing, what, what, what, oh, tsk, tsk, Benjamin.

Am I stealing or is it acceptable to drink this sparkle water? Since no one in their right mind would pay for soda and get sparkling soda water, at least not in a merely car. What do you think guys? Love always, Ben, shout out.

So I do this too. And I think that it is the subject of much contention. I pay for soda water, which I dislike doing, and it almost to me seems like I'm doing something stupid, not wrong, but dumb, because clearly, the soda water costs a little bit more than water because they have to carbonate it, so they have to replace the carbonation cylinders. But I can't imagine it costs more than five cents.

So paying for a soda and getting soda water is not a good deal for me. However, when I buy soda water at the store, like if I get a liqueur, then, then like I'm paying roughly similar amounts as if I were buying like a 12 pack of coaks. So it's, it's, I think that it is probably a subject of much debate, and I would be interested to hear if like fast food employees are trained in a specific circumstance, like, no, they are not allowed to get soda water if they just order water. And I don't know, like if it was like, there's some places where there's like, Seagrams club soda, and then you're getting that.

And for some reason that seems better, like, it's better to pay for that, even though it's just bubbly water, I'm pretty sure they're not putting anything in that Seagrams club soda. It's just, it's just the stuff. Just the things. Yeah.

But it's got a brand on it. So it feels more like it's okay to pay for it, and not just like a patty thing, which feels like the water. And also like, you got to say that the water costs the money too, not just, not just the, like, but like the, you know, you're getting ice in the water, then like the ice cost them electricity and pulling the water down cost money. So I don't know, like, it's, it is a weird, it is a weird gray area in the world of soft drinks.

I like your points of ice. It costs money to make ice, but they do not charge you for the ice water. Oh, I said, my here's my simple answer to Ben. If it is a little tabby, then it is free.

If it is a big tabby, then you must pay the dollars. But if it's a tiny tabby, it means who cares. That's the, that is the message I think they are sending to, to the humans purchasing liquids. I want to know what the official McDonald's policy is on this.

Yeah. Me as well. What does, what does Ray Kroc think? I would like to know.

Ray Kroc. He's the founder of McDonald's. You know the name of the founder of McDonald's? Yeah.

You don't know this? I didn't know that. Yeah. Where did you, is that something that's taught in German schools?

No, I just read things. And so like when you walk into sometimes McDonald's, it's like, you know, like a plaque. It's like shout out man who made special sauce and also invented our restaurant, Ray Kroc. No.

No, man, like that. I'm looking at a picture of him right now. Yeah. Yeah.

He's a man and he made McDonald's. Sorry. Yeah. Yeah.

He also, he also founded a hamburger university, which I, which I want to know about. Is that a hamburger? No, I will check. Let me check.

Typey typey. No. No, it is not. It is an Oakbrook.

Very different. Very different. Yeah. That's very exciting.

Nice work, Ray Kroc with your hamburger. Yes. Indeed. You can learn all about how to work at McDonald's there.

Yeah. I like, I had never considered how like, I feel like important this question is it's just people, people don't talk about it. And I think the club soda is totally, like sort of water, totally the direction we should all be going in because I like it. Yeah.

And it's fun. Yeah. And it's guys, not just water. Yeah.

But it's, doesn't have all the weirdness in it. Yeah. Yeah. Do you know it?

But you, if you remember Shakespeare bubbles, bubbles, toil and troubles. That's true. So just don't want to get kicked out of McDonald's. Yeah.

That's troubles because of the bubbles. Shakespeare, he was very, he knew it. He saw it. Now I feel bad for going to McDonald's and paying for my soda water.

Don't know your helping. Your helping Hank. I'm helping who McDonald's. You are levels of guilt.

If you had these all these times, if you had not paid, you would have tiny guilty feelings inside your brain. And now you don't have those. Now you just feel like a silly goose. And that's okay.

Right? Yeah. No. Yep.

I mean, there's, there's, it's, I don't know which one of those feelings is worse. Oh, no. Stealing from McDonald's is never going to make me feel that bad. True.

Yeah. I agree. Ray Kroc doesn't care. No, definitely not.

Definitely not. That's what I said. I got a question for you, Flula. It's, we're going to do, we probably just do one more question.

It's from Rachel who asks Dear Hank and John, I just found out my cousin who lives fairly far away in a different country, just named her newborn girl, the same name me and my husband had picked out for our baby due in January. Can I still use the name? Yes. Add a silent H someplace after a bow.

Yeah. Every name has an alternate spelling now. Don't worry. Yes.

You could, you could spell it every way. And as long as you like put down, oh, it's pronounced like Jenny, but it's spelled D H A N O O I. But it's pronounced Jenny. Jenny.

That's, that's your dispatch. Jenny, right? Yes. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I want to know what the name is. If it's weird enough, I feel like maybe not.

But you know, this is a cousin and this is a faraway country. I think it's fine. Oh, oh, no, wait, wait, wait. I've discovered an intricacy to this question that I did not say out loud.

I have, my cousin lives fairly far away in a different country, just named her newborn girl, the same name me and my husband had picked out for our baby boy due in January. I also think that's still fine, just to be clear, but I had not, I had not accurately portrayed the, the situation. I am so excited to hear this name. Like what is the name that they would like for a lady, but also for a boy?

I am excited. Oh, but there's no, that's why I'm curious. I would like it to be one that is not good for both. Flood, did you know?

Yeah. This is a weird bit of trivia. Jesse's girl. You know, the song.

Yeah. She wishes that she was that girl and how can I find a woman like that? Now he wishes that he had. Yeah.

Jesse is sad because his girl. Yeah. I know it. Yeah.

He's and he's sick, but where's Jesse and I? Where did you go, Jesse? Yeah. Right.

Jesse's girl was named Jesse. So it's Jesse and Jesse? Yeah. Because Jesse's both a boy and a girl name and it's a little known fact that Jesse was getting a girl named Jesse and that's Ric O'Kasek really wanted Jesse, but not the Jesse who was the one with the girl.

The girl named Jesse. He should very much change the title of the song or something, you know, like this is confusing. Which is why he just left it out because it because like, you know, like I'm writing the song, I don't want to talk about Jesse and Jesse. So I'll just leave out Jesse who is Jesse's girl.

I wish that I had Jesse's girl who is also named Jesse. Jesse's girl. The name is also Jesse. That's how it originally went.

That was the original version of that song and the rest of the cars were like, no, Ric, this is this is ludicrous. Yeah, stop it. Stop this immediately, Ric. Okay.