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Hank, that is not the usual theme music to dear Hank and John. Do you know what you just heard?

Uh, it was Chipmunks.

Right now, Hank, you are listening to the dulcet tones of the Chipmunks singing their hit song. There's no rock and roll on Mars.

So while we were at NerdCut Nerdfighteria, we met up with John Harrison, a Nerdfighter who we've known for a while now.

And he gave me an LP, Hank, an LP, a vinyl record of the Chipmunks singing hit songs from their television program, including their hit song, there's no rock and roll on Mars.

John, when you say hit song, uh, did this one chart? I don't know. I feel like I've heard this one before.

Is it one of the greatest songs ever recorded by the Chipmunks? Yes. Has it been, like, culturally acknowledged as one of the greatest Chipmunks songs?

Not yet, but that's what this podcast is here to do, Hank. It is here to turn Alvin and the Chipmunks singing there's no rock and roll on Mars into the hit that it deserves to be.

Yeah, it's trying to get them to proper credibility. I will say though that John in the Chipmunks coloring book, which I have just found a picture of on DeviantArt,

um, Alvin Simon and Theodore are playing soccer on Mars while singing there's no rock and roll on Mars because there is no beat among the stars.

But they have gone to Mars. So they think that it's worth going despite the lack of rock and roll.

I am a little bit skeptical of the moon that is in the sky in this drawing of the Chipmunks because there's no moon like that on Mars either.

But good try folks of of Chipmunk coloring book illustration, good try. They seem to be having a very good time.

Well, I wanted to thank John for the LP as well as for his friendship and I hope that you're enjoying the pod. Hank, let's start up the proper podcast now, I guess.

Hello and welcome. This is Dear Hank of John.

Here's a comedy podcast about death. We're going to answer your questions, provide you dubious advice, bring you all the weeks news from both Mars and AFC Wimbledon. But first, first, I have to read a short poem, Hank, or actually let's talk about how we're doing. How was NerdCon for you?

Right, it was great. My voice is still a little bit raw and hopefully I won't be coughing too much. I sang my soul out of my mouth and it got out for a little bit, but then I got it back because everybody threw it back to me. It crowdsurfed for a while and it was fantastic.

It really was magical. It made me so excited for VidCon Europe and Amsterdam this April and for VidCon this summer and it just I have to say, Hank, you know, you do a lot of things and sometimes I get overwhelmed with the number of things that you do because I have to be I have to be the tail to your comet and even being that can be a little exhausting. But this weekend at NerdCon, I was reminded that you and the people you work with just put together amazing experiences.

I felt so grateful to be there and I'm very grateful to you and I will stop being sentimental now, but I am really excited to see you again in Amsterdam and then in Anaheim and presumably maybe we'll hang out at some point not in front of thousands of people. Hank, would you like a short poem for today?

Yeah, do it.

Oh, one other thing that's going on in my life as we're recording this, it's Ash Wednesday.

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