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You're listening to a compleomplexly podcast. Hello and welcome to Dear Hank and John. Or I prefer to think of it, dear John and Hank? It's a podcast where two brothers answer your questions, give you dubious advice and bring you all the week's news from both Mars and AFC Wimbled and John. What? is the difference between a well dressed man on a unicycle poorly dressed man on a bicycle What is that? tire Ah, yes, on two levels. Two different ways It's funny twice. It's funny in two different ways. It's not funny in either way, V, but it is funny in two ways some. And that makes it funny V By being, it multiplies Yes. Well, Hank and I are starting the podcast late today because we have been talking about my book ending, which Hank read finally. You know I went up to to like a nice little spot And I just sat down with it And man it freaking took over my brain What mom said is she was like, it's the most surprising John Green book I've ever read. Hm She didn't say that to me, but That's nice. Like plotwise surprising or I think that she was very surprised by Well, I can't tell you now, we're talking to the people. But the twists and turns, the act the twist turns. yes. I think that there was a a which is funny because it's a pot thing that I I didn't know it was going to happen, but I got very worried it was going to happen Yeah. And I texted you about it and I was like, is this what's going to happen? And then you would text, which made me even more worried. Yeah, it's definitely the book that I worked the hardest on the structure and what happens. Like my books famously are just two people sitting in a room in the dark chatting, But this book is a little more than that It's got a mystery element to it There's like there's like a couple of central mysteries that I'm very curious about and feel will get resolved Right, I don't know that it's a mystery, but there is a sense in which likeike things happen, which Traditionally in a John Green book, nothing happens. So I tried to I tried to insert a couple things, you know, just just to reward the people And I just I loved the ending which Uh I love the ending. I'm going to tell you anything about the ending in a public forum, but I'm just very I was very happy about the ending. Yeah Yeah. well Here's what I'll say about the ending and thank you for reading it and thank you for your kind words about it both on the air and off the air. It's available for preorder. Now you can get a signed copy at Hollywood Endingbook. com G.ry sorry, that should have been me. I apologize What I'll say about the ending that isn't a spoiler is the Every time I write an ending in like a first or second draft Sarah reads it and she's like This is crazy This doesn'tw got a gun and went to shoot up a drug cartel or something. Yeah, like when it's actually Hazel and Peter Van Houghton got a gun and went to shoot up a drug cartel Oh man. you m misreembered. Uh That's not even to remember the time that Peter Van Houghten tied Hazel to literal train tracks to recreate the trolley problem. What Yeah Man, you're you got like a fun house mirror of John Green books up and there in that head that I don't know about Margaroth Spiegelman surviving an earthquake in India Uh, in this community where a single artist has built a bunch of human style figurines and created a sort of city made of sculptures Yes. The list goes on and on. This is a great lore drop. You know, my books ended in their first drafts? How. how they end the literal exact words that are in the final. That'sazing that must be an amazing feeling. And now I've had it because I I gave Sarah the first draft And she read the ending and she was like, I liked the ending. And I was like, what do you mean you liked the ending? And she was like, I thought it was good And I was like, what But it's crazy. And she was like, no, I liked it. I thought it was great. I Yeah, and that's the ending. You did it Yeah, it's pretty much the same ending. I mean, I had to do some Yeah changes and shifts in a different epilogue and like but relative to author ties young woman to train tracks, it's the same ending Who gets her off the train tracks Augustus. Yeah it's a different book, Hank. It's a different book. It's a very different book Do he hey. That book might be fourteen years old, but that is a spoiler Okay, well plead for the words that I said there Um Yeah. It's funny how like I'm very, very concerned about my this book especially being spoiled because I want people who who want to read it cold to be able to read it cold. Like that's really important to me because it is you know, it is a book with applaud. Boy Also just because I want people to read it knowing what I want them to know and not more And And yet I also feel this protectiveness over my books from fifteen years ago or twenty years ago where people will like spoil looking for Alaska and I'll be like, hey now, there's a big audience here Yeah, And some of them haven't read Loo for Alaska. But at some point you do have to be able to talk about the endings of books, right? Like at some point you do have to be able to discuss in public that the book has an ending Honestly, I'm surprised that Sarah wasn't that baffled by when Kai enters the Jedi temple and kills the As. There you can go. Well, I mean he had to do it He had to do it that guy Yeah, u He's actually named after somebody in karate kid, not somebody in Star Wars, but you're close. you're in the right, you're in the right generation. And then he then he kicked that guy Yeah, even though one of his legs was really messed up. There you go. again a flying kick John, you want to answer some questions from our. Let's do it. Let's do it. As me some questions let's see. firstirst we've got one from from Siddney and her mom who asks Dear Hank and John, mee and my mom were driving at night and it was a waxing crescent moon However, we can still see the outline of the whole moon. Me and my mom's question is why can we still see the outline How does the moon work? Sincerely, Sydney and her mom Do you know why you can see a little bit of the moon, John? So here's a confession for you. I've had this experience and I always thought that my brain was filling in the rest of the edge of the moon. Interesting, yeah,. So I just assumed that it was an illusion caused by my totally unreliable brain, which wouldn't be the first one I think I believe that what is happening here is that there's some light bouncing off the earth lighten up a bit of the moon Oh, like Wait, like our electricity? No, So, so like the part of of the world that Sydney was in at that moment was dark. But from the moon's perspective, only part of the Eth was dark. Sure Sdne was in, but there was another part of the Eth that wasn't dark in that light. bouncing not city light, but sunlight is b off of the But what's so weird about that is that I always have to remind myself that the moon does not shine light, it reflects light because it's so bright up there.s so bright up there, but it's all sunlight bouncing off the moon Do When did we figure that out? and do you think the first person who figured it out was laughed out of the room I think that we've known that one for a long time. I think w I think that one's likeound for a long time that like stars make their own light The brightest object in our night sky does not make its own light byy a long time, I mean You know Heliocentic thousandousands of years Tens of thousands of years. Let me correct myself, heleliocentric solar systemy. There's no way we've known for multiple thousands of years that the Eth does not make that the mooon does not make its own life. I should I'm kind of talking out on my butt right now. I can think. I think this was Greece. I think we figured that out in Greece time, but I could Google it. Do you want me to wait while I do some research real quick Yeah, you you You figure this out. while I share with listeners that The first time I ever noticed moonlight I was twenty two years old and I was working at the children's hospital. I would work a lot of twenty four hour shifts. and so I would like go outside in the emergency department at like three AM whichich is one of the most realistic things about the television show The Pit is they show people taking smoke breaks, which is very very real in the nineties at least And u And I would just go outside in the emergency department and I noticed that there was moonlight that was separate from light and I realized that the moonlight was coming from a sun that I couldn't see. And that struck me as very beautiful and important in addition to the sort of silveriness of the moonlight. And so I've often written about moonlight as a result I remember biking home from school once and it was dark out and I kept, you know, you'd see your like shadow as you go under streetlights. and then I Like entered an area with no street lightights and yet there was still a shadow and I was like, why is there this shadow? There's no sh light And I could see my moonshadow also hit me very hard and I went home and I wrote an essay about it because this was grad school. So when I say school, I mean I was a man So you were also about twenty two. We were about the same age when we discovered moonlight. So my point is if I made it to adulthood without knowing that moonlight existed, you're gonna have a hard time selling me on the fact that early humans figured out that the moon wasn't shining its own light. I like that you think that the Greeks were early humans. Do you want to know who first wrote about this that we know of His name was Anxigoris Where do you think anxagorus lived Loraxand? Loraxand. That's correct. aboutbout twenty five hundred years ago Dang it! Yeah H God, back when there were a lot of Tuffla trees so many. Yeah, the Greeks were were taking them and grinding them up and turning them into Snuff it, sniff it, snuff forurl sniff something Yeah. Snorfls, something like that. Shing like that. Well, That is amazing. and human capacity for discovery and inquiry continues to astonish me. It is not only a phenomenon of moder of super modern humans, It is also a phenomenon that goes all the way back three hundred thousand years. Crazy. Crazy to look up there and be like would explain this and then figure it out. and be right. And not only that, we weren't even the only species to do this. Neanderthals were doing it too. They were figuring out what was going on with the stars Cool look So it's yeah, that dim glow is in fact called Earthhine which Eth youine Earth shine. Um, and and and do you want to know how long we've known about Earthhine? How long Around five hundred years. you w to know the guy's name who figured that out urer wrote it down for the first time anyway. Leonardo da Vinci What Crazy. That Oxagoris we forgot about, but not Leonardo. we got his paintings up still Not only that, I mean, he named a ninja turtle That's how you really secure foreveress, Hank, is you get a child's toy named after you All, Hank we another the question from Rebecca who writes dear John Hank, I started basil from seed this year because I did not want to needlessly kill any plants trying to do the life thing, so I did not thin them out. Y You did not I now have one hundred and seventeen basil plants I managed to get seventy seven in various permanent pots. What do I do with the remaining forty plants buried in basil, Rebecca Rebecca, you just started a business. Yeah, I will say at the grocery store I go to, the basil is on sale in ziploc bags that were clearly also purchased at that store. Like somebody is the basil supplier for my grocery store and they live Like I could probably hit their house with a baseball is how I Yes. So you couldn't h their house with a baseball, but someone could. What do you mean? Like I wouldn't want to get in trouble. You don't trust me to be a rebellious I trust I don't trust you to hit baseball very far Oh I would I would yeah, I wouldn't be hitting it with a baseball bat. I would have no idea how to do that Well then I don't trust you to be able to throw a baseball outside your own yard Have you heard my theory on grocery stores and baseballs No, very much not. I think that that that grocery store can no longer be a good grocery store if you could not imagine taking the roof off and throwing a baseball from one corner of it to the other Oh, you think it's too big if too big St I like a big grocery store. No I hateem. I hate them. I'm in there forever Oh, there's an international grocery store in Indianapolis that's just endless. I mean, it's just's that's almost like a museum. Now now I'm into that Where I'm like, is covering things ball fields of grocery store. Ands there's like spices you've never heard of. Yes, absolutely. Yeah, that's different. That I'd go for. But like for everyday grocery shopping, I know what I need. I don't need anything in particular weird. I need peanut butter and jelly and bread Right. And I just like, I want to get in and out. But I want to have it be, you know, I don't want to be just in like a gas station. I want to be in a place that also ideally has like a Dallus. Okay. All right You know who invented the grocery store you're pitching to me Eat cheese First off, that guy's name, that guy has a name And it's not that che. Thatuck cheese. It's Charles Entertertainment cheese. My bad, my bad Charles and Eamem and cheheese Uh no, I think it's whoever created Piggly wiggly, Joh Right? ant's thunders. Yeah Clarence Saunders You can see how I confuse him for Chucky for Charles Entertainment cheheese. The inventor of Piggly Wiggly. The first ever self service grocery store that also no, he didn't invent it. So I think he didn't invent the modern grocery store until he lost control of Piggly wiggly, went bankrupt and started a new chain of grocery stores which he wanted to call Clarentnce Saunders grocery store, but the owners of Piggly Wiggly were like, no way, man, you can't start a rival grocery store. We bought this from you and you sign a nonc compete clause And so he ended up calling it the Clarence Saunders sole owner of My N Grocery store What? Yeah Man, I love it I love how fueled by spite we can be. Oh, Clarence Saunders was big time fueled by spite You once said that there was going to be a a ball stadium in Memphis for his Memphis football team That was going to be adorned with like the spiked heads of his enemies I mean, I gotta tell you, Sewn, like My past is littered with former nemeses that I'd never think about anymore and that's like the biggest win Yeah, do you have current nemeses though? I do. I do. I do and I hope that someday they will they will be forgotten Lay it out for me, Hank, whoo are your top two nembissies? I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours No, I'll just leep it out Both embarrassing. It well, my top nemesis is Elon Musk Okay, that's not embarrassing. I'm not believing. No But like I'm like I can't. There's never a time of time where Elon Musk is like, oh man Hank Green is my nemesis I think he doesn't like me. I think he legitimately doesn't like me I think when he thinks about either of us, which isn't dolphin, he he feels that we are virtue signaling Snuffy He thinks that liberal trash. Yeah, he thinks that we caught the Woke Mind virus. I mean, he thinks that we spread the woke mind virus. It's even worse than that. Yeah. But I bet he regrets naming Starlink after the Fall in our stars Is that what he told you That's what he told the public on a tweet. Oh man Oh, I just think about when I told him that he shouldn't have spread misinformation and he responded to me And therefore Twitter should die Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah I was like I was like, no, man, that's not what I said. I feel like I feel like that was a big escalation. Yeah, that's a classic Classic Eon escaalation. My nemesis I have two. Tucker Carlson is one. There's no getting around it. I don't want Tucker Carlson to be my nemesis.s but it's in there. They take root But he took root and it's hard for me to not like I still get fed a fair amount of Tucker Carlson content when I'm in an algorithmically generated space because they know that I'll watch it with all the love in my heart Yeah, I don't have that I watch it and I'm challenged by my own faith tradition that calls for me to love my enemies Um And then the other one is our liieutenant governor Mikea Beckwith who U, tried to get my books removed from the YA section of a local library in the only job he ever had before becoming liieutenant governor And then when I wrote a letter to the library board, including him being like, what the actual heck? likeike these are YA books and they should be in the YA section He threw the librarian in the community under the bus and was like, oh, yeah, no, like I didn't mean for that to happen when I wrote this legislation that said that yeah, every book that describes sex should not be in the YA section. And if it has I don't know what you're talking about. like the Fallar Stars is great And then he's still banned looking for Alaska. I really dislike that guy. I find to be intellectually disingenuous Yeah It's funny what gets its hooks into us Yeah, it's one thing to like ban a book Right Yeah. It's another thing to ban a bunch of books by your neighbor. Yeah. Right? Like he and I are neighbors And no shows it just makes me think that like when ten percent of the people who walk through the grocery store recognize me, they recognize me as like someone they despise, which is just a bummer. And I don't like Mikea Beckwith for like furthering that false narrative And then I said he was my nemesis and the indie star asked how he felt about me. And he was like, oh, I like John Yeah Well, that's the thing There so much of this is just about like what thing will get me attention right now, not about any Aual feelings of animosity or even any belief in what should you know, or maybe they believe it in a moment and then they haven't they haven't considered that belief very deeply But yeah, it's mostly about what will get attention in a moment. And a lot of people's decisions these days make a lot more sense if you ask instead of like, what's the sort of worldview behind this if you ask Is this going to deliver attention to them? Yeah including from me on my podcast, inside my platform right now. And that is what you do with a hundred basil plants Today's podcast is brought to you by Rebecca's basil plants. Rebecca's basil plants available at Rebecca's house right now. Yeah you could maybe put it in Like a Facebook post or something. Maybe somebody wants your basil That's totally a thing. People bu people buy starts Yeah, ye. I buy starts all the time. I was just gonna tell you to throw them away, but I need three basil plants, I just don't need forty This podcast is also brought to you by Leonardo Da Vinci, the Ninja Jurtle. Leonardo da Vinci theinja Turtle, bet you didn't know his last name was Da Vinci. And of course, today's podcast is brought to you by Leonardo da Vinci, the moonshine manan. Leonardo da Vinci thehine man. Maybe Maybe I don't know. It was Earthshine, but maybe there's a guy who lives in like the mountains of Tennessee.' all Leonardo da Vinci who wass out there making moonshine all the time That's what I'm talking about. that's what I'm talking about. Leonardo da Vinci the moonshine, man, Hank That guy in Kentucky. Oh, we're relese today. And this podcast also brought to you by one more person, Peter Van Huon tied a human person to the railroad tracks just to illustrate The trolley problem wasn't his best moment All right, here comes a question from Carr, who writes, Dear John and perhaps Hank. I'm sixteen this year. Recently, I said something to my mom without fully thinking about it and she's completely avoiding me. Every time I try to speak to her, she stays silent and does something along the lines of throwing her phone or closing a door with a little more than needed force. The passive aggressiveness is driving me bonkers. Of course I regret what I said but I have No idea how to make amends with her. We've always been really close and although I would not admit to her, I really miss her. is there any way I can meend our relationship? Agsty and confused car, car. play them This bit All right You miss your mom. You love your mom You regret what you said And you wish you could take it back but also Mom I understand as a parent of a sixteen year old getting your feelings hurt by a sixteen year old, but you've got to remember they don't have a prefrontal cortex, man. L They're not able. it's they want to, but they can't. Like they they they They They're struggling So you're going to have to meet halfway. Yeah. So this podcast is going to be your Yes Aends. We've given you we've given you an opportunity here and I don't know if if it's if it's takeable. because we are just two guys. But it seems like you honestly regret the thing that you said. Yeah. it seems like It this could be a hard thing to to get in and like ultimately like done damage done is is it is like might take its own time to heal, but I don't think Uh, that that If you're having But if you're having the thought, is there any way I can mend our relationship, that's worrying because like of course there is.. Of course you will once again have a relationship between a mother and a child. and And And also I would say that like there's space here to if there's other adults that you feel comfortable bringing into the situation, if it starts to feel like that kind of difficulty you can also bring that in because Yeah. Yeah, don't just ask your internet Uncles for help, ask your real uncles for help. Yeah, hopefully there are some around can who can give this who can give this advice, but though you will not admit it to your mom, hopefully we can admit it for you, you miss her and you do regret the thing that you said, whatever it was When I was sixteen, I told my mom that I did drugs, even though I didn't It's funny. It's the opposite of what I did when I was sixteen My point is that you can't rely on a sixteen year old. They're like the le and I say this with love, car. like it's not A dig Um But man Wife is life can be hard Yeah, yeah And time tends to heal, but I'm so sorry that this is happening. And it's very hard when the people we love when we when we hurt the people we love, even if we do it on purpose, the regret is real and We learn Yeah Yeah. You can't take things back, but you can move things forward All right, John, this next question comes from Gwen, who asks Dear Hank and John, how do light particles not bounce off of each other and get all jumbled up together? From what I understand, objects reflect light in every direction, right? It seems like the light particles from my shoe or my chair or my sister should be hitting one another and messing up their trajectory. Is this because light is a wave and not a particle But wouldn't waves mess one another up as well? I've been plagued by this for some time Hkins and Penguins, Gwen thirird one. ood stuff. I'm going to avoid this one, Gwen. I'm going to kind of poke it with the stick And say I don't understand it Yeah, that makes sense that you would do that. But would light is it light you could wave an a particle? I don't know if that helps. It doesn't really. But if you could if you could wager something outside of L is both a particle and a wave of Wh isn't light into itself U because it has no mass Yeah, kind of Light, it turns out, doesn't bump into itself. It's just like two photons Pass directly over one another. evenven if They were big enough that they would probablyabilistically hit each other very often, which You know, in terms of bigness, this is a little bit of a difficult thing to say here because there's kind of, they don't have a size from what I can tell. But even if they were big enough, they would just pass through each other. They don't interact with one another, which is amazing Turns out Photons don't, don't touch. They don't engage with electromagnetism, which is the thing that makes touch happen, which it seems like what makes touch happen should just be existing. But indeed, that is not the case. You can exist and not touch That's so weird Yeah, I know That's so weird I don't even know what to say about that. exxcept that like The rules of the universe are So weird and the like the more you look into the universe, the weirder it gets.h evenven though like I was reading Katie Max's new book that's not out yet, so I shouldn't be promoing it, but talks about how The way we're taught about atoms when we're in Middle school and then in high school is useful but not accurate And then like an atom is actually so much more than the sort of electron shell that I imagined it to have Yeah, there's there's a lot of weird stuff going on in there. So much weird stuff. That' the more you didig, the weirder it gets. Yeah Yeah, and there's all kinds of like geometries that seem like, did somebody make that up, but then it's like real Yeah Yeah. I don't know, man But they don't touch, so they don't bounce and they don't collect up and they just like go exactly the way that they're gonna to go, which is super useful for using them to detect the world around us They're always coming from where they're coming from Okay, well We can can you can bend their trajectory, but always only by bending space itself M or by having them pass through different materials. So you know, like if the speed of light is different in one material than another, which it is, don't ask me why then light will bend as it enters that material the way it does with like glass Wow, and then you can get them to like bunch up, which, you know, magnifying gllass would do That. That's a mind blower All right, Hank, before we get to the all important news from Mars and AFC Wimbledon, let'swer one quest. This one from Ruby, who writes deear John and Hank is a Bitish lister, I'm always struck how American you guys are. Do you notice your Americanness? Despite having similar cultures and being constantly exposed to American media, I always feel like, wow, these people are different from me or we have totally different worldviews and cultures. Do you feel that difference when you visit other countries withith globalization? Will there be a day when we aren't as conscious of the distinctive separation between peoples Ta and biscuits or dinner and cookies, Ruby it's more like a late afternoon snack stacky in cookies I I do notice it. and I think while if I were to move out of the U S, I would move to the UK because it would be the least culturally disruptive. It is an important reminder that anybody who moves anywhere experiences a pretty intense cultural disruption and the Further you move from what you're used to, especially if you're in a different language environment, if you're in a different, you know moing a cultural environment, like the harder it is And it's It would be Like the three months or six months, however long I lived in the Netherlands, I was shocked by how different it was and how hard it was for me to get accustomed to the difference And that's a place where things are not very different at all. No totally England would be the same. Yeah, England is such an interesting example because it is like Outside of like Canada, I guess, the most similar place to America You know, like, literally the the The language is the same, the colonists that beat this country where English U Certainly not exclusively, but in our history primarily. and the and the We share a lot of media, you know, we laun a lot of the same shows, but then you show me Mr. Blobby and I'm like, no way you're not messing with me right now. That cannot possibly be a thing that would Mr. Blobby cannot have happened in America That is well, neither could Dr. Who Yeah, so many so many different things. And like there are all of these and you you you don't understand how much cultural knowledge you have of your place. And there's such an interesting thing about England where it feels like there should be nothing. and so the fact that there's so much is is like really illustrative. Why does I feel like there should be nothing because it's one third of a small island It's just like they speak English Right. They likeike we know they go to they have about the same number of years of school as we do. They have There's lots of shared systems. Yeah. Right. They drive on the other side of the road, which is weird. but that is weird. They drive. Um, you know, it's not like, u Yeahah, they got a lot of the same cars even Yeah Their cars are a little smaller, but your point is different cars. Yeah. Yeah We got we get we our cars have gone really off out of hand, I gott to say. I know. I'm buying a small car just as a act of counter culturalism I can't I can't wait to to get back into a small car I know a fairly small car actually. I know your car because it's also my car. it's not too big. If it's big to me, I want to get back of that bolt Yeah, you miss your bolt. Man, I'll tell you what? What a car I mean I'll tell you, prices have used bolts going up right now. Why? Well, let's not get into that price price of bolts. It's a great car, veryer small It's the most affordable electric car in America. I think they're going to I think they're going to be to the moon, everybody's going to have a bolt Counter culture begins with a be and starts with a Chevy. All right. That' my that's my slogan for when they hire me to be the spokesperson for the Chevy Bull What were we talking about? I feel like did we get it I think we got it Okay, Wait John, I want to ask one more question before you get the news from Mercy one. Okay This is from Emily, who asks Steer Hinkking John, what am I supposed to be doing with my tongue at the dentist? DFTVA Emily. Hm H This reminds lastast time I was at the dentist, my dentist asked me said my teeth were stained and asked me if I smoke or drink coffee, and I told him that I drank it Like you drank smoke No I dress. Oh, ' you were making a pun Do smoke or drink coffee? I drink it Yeah ' b I feel like you actually liked it. You just couldn't let yourself Nope. You're wrong. You're wrong. You've been misinformed. What are you supposed to do with your tuuck of the dentist? It's in there the whole time. We can't get rid of it. You got a tentacle in your mouth. Don't think about it too much. Yeah, I think the key is not to think about it actually. I don't think because I think what your tongue does naturally is just fine. But then you start it's like when you're getting photographed and you start to think about where your hands are then you're like, whyy do I have these? Yeah, someomebody take these away Yeah. It's like that I just want the dentist to take care of it for me I'm like, wherever that tongue' supposed to be put it there. I tell ya though It has a mind of its own sometimes. It Well, the tongue desperately wishes to participate in the dental procedures, which of course, is the one thing it can't do It's like, what is that? There it's sharp I think in general, the less you think about what you're supposed to be doing with your tongue, the better off you are when it comes to dentistry Yeah. And I think that the dentist, here's what I'll tell you Pretty much every mouth that dentist ever dealt with There's been a tongue in there They're experts in this Yeah. So like what you're doing That's normal. They've seen it Don't seem every way a tongue can go. There you go. All right, what's the news from Mars this week In the news from Mars? Did I tell you I got Stay music No I just did it for you. Great And now I'm trying to find actually, I was trying to kill time. Wh I found it which I do now have. in news from Mars, John, do you know what astronauts do with their dirty clothes I want you to guess U put them in a hamper. Step one It's just like normal. The step one is just like normal. Step two is completely different from normal. Okay What do they do? instead of washing washing them, which they can't do because they do not have water up there Right. They put them in a pot and burn them up in the Earth's atmosphere. You sh Kidding me Not, That's what they do I'll you just put on their clothes? And they just they send more up. They have temporary clothes. Yes It's way better to do way than to to take the resources to clean them. Yeah, they wear them for like three to five days and then they They fold them up real tight And they put them in a bag and that's a great fact That's a great fact with a lot of other stuff that goes into the thing to get burnnt up in the atmosphere. But on a mission to Mars, this is less convenient because resupply is not as easy. It'd be better to reuse stuff if possible. So scientists at the University of Alabama Huntville and the Marshall Space Flight Center have developed a device that blasts helium air and water vapor along with electricity at the clothing And that blast makes oxygen ions that get into the fabric of the clothing and kills off microbes through oxidative stress Basically it just gives them too many reactive oxygen molecules to deal with and they die. That blast is safe and doesn't cause any damage to the fabric But it's also currently not very efficient. So far the gun can clean about a patch, a square centimeter wide at a time Oh, okay. so that's That's really inefficient. firstirst step, the researchers are still refining the idea. They're also looking at developing a plasma washing machine, which I didn't do any more research on, but is a cool sounding couple of words. That is cool sounding. That sounds like the future, man. Yeah. and it made Duboki and I then spent a huge amount of time talking about whether or not we could use these systems just on our armpets. That's a great idea It one centimeter at a time. Yeah, yeah, that's way easier than cleaning a whole garment Right. But I like I got worried about introducing oxidative stress to the cells of my body rather than just on the body Well, your arpit is made of my body. You are a little paranoid about cancer. I don't know why Wouldn't want to get armed at Gancer Um, which al which I already did in a way You did. You had cancer in the armpit. You had it elsewhere, but yeah, it was in the armpit too Well, Hank, the news from AFC Wimbledon this week is that it's been a year to the day as we're recording this. since Miles Hippoite scored that goal. at Wembley, to send AFC Wimbledon back to the third tier of English football, where we managed barely to stay last season Yes. We are the only out of all the teams that were promoted via the playoffs in the last six years F fromom league two to league one We are the only one that survived a season in League one Wow. So that's something to be proud of. It does indicate that there's going to be some stress next year. Bite We're going to do our difficult. It continues to be difficult. And we don't have a buyer yet for the twenty five percent of AFC Wimbledon that is now available. We haven't found the right partner, or at least if we have, I don't know about it Um, yet to, u to buy that remaining twenty five percent that's available before the Ds trust the Ds trust owns at least fifty one percent of the club. but we haven't found that twenty five percent owner who potentially could could fuel a little extra capital into the club that could keep us going for make us a little more sustainable But we're not there yet. So it looks like it's going to be another hard season But life is full of hard seasons and we somehow make it through Dooh do you know who Hipplyatitus was in Greek mythology? I don't He was the son of Theseus associated with and this is crazy, horses. Chastity soccer balls and karate kicks didid you make up soccer balls and karate kicks? Did you you made those two up? I made those two up, yeah. Okay. G, sorry Well, Miles Hippelite is if I recall correctly, a Grenadian international. He plays his international football for Grenada It's a French name, I think. Is that is that related Probably. Probably, let me find out. Yeah ly Al hip aite W born in England and he represents Grenade at an international level Interesting And he's never soent Yes, but it was a French colony. Grenada was. I believe it was until the seventeen sixties So much, so much world, John. It's fascinating to watch Orren realize how much world there is. He's never really been interested in u Uh like cultural geography. J right physical geography so far, but he's starting to ask questions about last night, he was like, Why is there whyy are there guineas in Africa? but then there's also a guinea in in the Oceania when you' G guinea I was like, God b, I't we read all about Al use of the word guuinea Wow Well, that sounds interesting. And New Guinea is just like any other new place where it wass like, this seems like it looks a lot like that other place that we were before I just want to state for the record that Um, Grenade was also a British colony. So who knows? Who knows We're learning. We're learning, John It's also invaded by a little nation called the United States seems like something we'd do Thanks for listening to our podcast You can email us your questions at Hankin John Gmail. comot This podcast was edited by Linus Oenhaouse. It was mixed by Joseph Tuna Metish. Our marketing spepecialist is Brook Shotwell. 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