Hello and welcome to Dear Hank and John. I said can we do a cold open?

What's a cold open? With no theme music where we just do a cold open.

Okay, so I feel like on especially important

Dear Hank and John episodes when we have especially important news we should start with a cold open instead of starting with the music.

I didn't realize there wasn't especially important news. Oh, yeah.

Hello, this is Hank and John Green. No, no, we are already in the cold open Hank. Okay. What's the especially important news?

Why are you looking at your phone? I'm at VidCon. I'm organizing things.

The especially important news, well there's two pieces of especially important news that we have to get to before I think we start the podcast.

Okay. The first is that in the last episode of Dear Hank and John I slightly undercut my argument that I am acquainted with the Pope by misnaming the Pope.

Yes, you did call him Benedict. In fact his name is Francis. I want to apologize to

my friend the Pope for using the wrong name.

The second and most important news, Hank, is that in our last episode you and I made a bet about whether humans will get to Mars by 2027.

Okay.

And I said that I was going to start a Twitter. Yeah.

Leon Mus. Yeah, for Earth. Leon Mus for Earth number four. Leon Mus number four Earth.

And that Twitter, which you said I was not serious about and I didn't say serious about.

I didn't say serious about. I said you weren't going to follow through and I do not call this a week later following through.

First off, Leon Mus for Earth number four. Leon Mus at Leon Mus number four Earth has 1265 Twitter followers. Hank, do you know how many accounts he follows?

One.

One. You know what that account is? NASA Earth. NASA Earth. NASA's greatest work.

NASA does do a lot of important Earth science.

I would argue it's actually the only important science they do.

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