Hello and welcome to Dear Hank and John. It's a comedy podcast about death where myself

John Green and usually my brother Hank Green, although not this week because he is on paternity

leave, answer your questions, provide you dubious advice and bring you all the week's news

from both Mars and AFC Wimbledon. This week I am so thrilled to be joined by Ashley Ford.

Hi, Ashley.

Hi, John. I'm so glad to be here.

So tell us a little bit about yourself. Right, I like to put the self promo right at the

beginning, so 100% of listeners hear it.

Okay, my name is Ashley Ford. Obviously I'm a writer and an editor and I do those things,

sort of like freelance or as some people want to be more fancy, call it self-employed.

And then during the day I'm a development executive at a company called Matter Studios and I

work in web series and documentaries for them. I'm working on a book. I write stuff on

the internet all the time and I'm just like pretty much around, like I'm just around.

Actually, I think one of the best follows that you can possibly have on the website Twitter,

but also I'm a huge fan of your essays, both memoirs and otherwise, and very excited

for your book.

Oh, thanks, John. I'm excited about it too. We just got to, you know, do the thing, finish

the thing.

I'm familiar with that very problem. I'm living with it right now.

So Ashley, we've got to start the pod by answering the question that we received overwhelmingly

over the last few days, which is one version or another of what? Oh, God, panic. What?

How? What do we do? How do I move forward from people who are concerned about the results

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