Cold open everybody. I just wanted to have a quick note here to say when this podcast comes out on Monday,

it will be one week and one day until the elections in the United States of America.

And if you want to vote in those elections, which I think you should, you should be sending in that mail-in ballot.

You should be going to early vote or you should be making your plan to vote on Election Day and be ready.

So we talk a little bit about voting in this episode. One of the things we say is vote early.

You're getting to be at the point where you're not really voting early.

You're kind of voting at the normal time. So do it now. Now is the time.

And if not, if you don't get it done this week, then then head there or it may be that, you know,

where you live, you don't have early voting. Look it up. You can find out more at how to vote in every state,

which is a YouTube channel, youtube.com slash how to vote in every state, where we will tell you how you

can vote in your state and how it works there, whether you have early voting and whether you can mail

in ballot and how it works on Election Day, all that stuff, all that information is available to you.

So do it now. Please do it. Even before you listen to this podcast, make sure you're all done

getting the voting done. Thank you. And now on with the podcast.

Hello and welcome to Dear Hank and John.

Or is that for a thing with Dear John and Hank? It's a podcast where two brothers answer your

questions, give you the advice and bring you all the week's news from both Mars and AFC Wimbledon.

John. Yeah. You know, originally people put pumpkins on their doorsteps to scare people away,

to scare away potential burglars. Did you know this? No. They were security gourds.

Yeah. I mean, it's okay. We put pumpkins by our doorstep, but not for any Halloween related

reason, just because it makes the squirrels so fricking happy. I would estimate that our pumpkins are on

front doorstep for 14 nanoseconds before the squirrels piece it together. And I have to say, Hank,

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