Hello and welcome to Dear Hank at John.

Norse I prefer to think of it dear John and Hank.

It's a comedy podcast for me and my brother John, answer your questions, give you a

dubious advice and bring you all the week's news from both Mars and AFC Wimbledon and

how you're doing John.

I'm doing well.

I'm just back from Northern Jordan where I spent the last few days visiting refugee camps

and Syrian refugees who are living in cities.

In Jordan most of the over 600,000 refugees from the Syrian war living in Jordan are living

not in camps but in cities.

It was a fascinating trip, very emotionally exhausting at times very difficult but also

I feel really really lucky to have been able to go and to have been able to hear some of

the stories of refugees, their families and also stories from people living in Jordan about

how the refugee crisis has reshaped their country since 10% of all people living in Jordan

right now are Syrian refugees, more than a quarter of people living in Lebanon right

now are Syrian refugees.

The scope of the problem is truly overwhelming and I think it was really important to me

to be able to go there to get a human sense of it, to be able to see it not in terms

of hundreds of thousands and millions and big statistics but instead in terms of actual

people.

That is fantastic and I am really impressed that you did it.

You sound a little bit ill.

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