11. Dear Hank & John. 010. When Your Friend Likes Ayn Rand... Part 6/6
• [News from AFC Wimbledon]
John: In AFC Wimbledon news, our long international worldwide nightmare is at last coming to an end, Hank, and AFC Wimbledon will begin their League 2 campaign this Saturday as we're recording the podcast, August 8th, against mighty Plymouth. Hank: So last Saturday for the people listening to the podcast.
John: Well, yeah, I guess, which is a little bit problematic, because I won't be able to know the results. Hank: Oh, yes.
John: I'm going to look into the future, and I am going to predict that AFC Wimbledon beat Plymouth 3-1, two goals from Adebayo Akinfenwa, the Beast, and one goal from George "Francombstein" Francomb, who is a doctor, not a monster, and we win three-nil and in the North stand, which, as you know, Hank, is no longer called the North Stand, it's called the John Green stand, because I'm sponsoring the stand. Did I tell you about that?
Hank: Yep, you did.
John: So in the North stand after George "Francombstein" Francomb scores the third goal, they're going to sing my name and I will weep. That is my prediction for the game.
Hank: Okay. Well, I'm... John: Victory. Victory, glory, the opposite of Chaos, order.
Hank: Well, in the comments on Soundcloud or just on Twitter, you can let us know how John fared in his predictions of AFC Wimbledon's first game of the season, did I say that right? John: God, we'd better win. Hank: You'd better win. John: Oh my God, can you imagine? We've got to get off to a good start, Hank, this is a huge deal. Hank: Well, I mean, really the good news about this season starting is that now you will have actual news to share with us.
John: Oh, I've had news all summer, are you kidding? The resigning of Akinfenwa, a hugely important thing, the sponsorship of the North stand by noted American YA novelist, John Green. There's been a ton of stuff happening at AFC Wimbledon. And by the way, in, I would predict, three weeks, the biggest and most stunning AFC Wimbledon news ever will be announced on this podcast and it will definitely beat whatever your Mars news is for that week, but it's not time for that yet. First, they have to take on Plymouth and then on Tuesday, August 11th, they're taking on Cardiff City in the Capital One Cuppity-Cup-Cup, which is very exciting as well. Cardiff City, Hank, a proper Championship team, like, they're in the second division of football in England, so it's just, it's an incredibly exciting time to be an AFC Wimbledon fan, but then again, I... Exactly, I know what you're thinking, Hank, it's always an incredibly exciting time to be an AFC Wimbledon fan. • [Conclusion]
Hank: And that is the news from Mars and AFC Wimbledon. And that is also the end of the podcast.
John: Thanks so much for listening to today's podcast. What did we learn today, Hank?
Hank: Oh, gosh. You always ask me that question and I never take any notes so I forget.
John: Well, we learned how John feels about Ayn Rand.
Hank: We did learn about that, and we learned that when you're 20, you don't necessarily have to come to an agreement with your partner about life changing huge things, but you should come to those agreements before you go to your Catholic Priest Approval Ceremony thing. What was that?
John: There were, there was no priest there, but yes, that's a beautiful notion. What else did we learn? By the way, neither Sarah nor I is Catholic, I should probably mention that at some point in the podcast. Which made the Catholic Engaged Encounter particularly interesting, because we were learning a lot about Catholicism while we were also encountering our engagement. You know the other thing that we learned, Hank, is when you go to Sweden in August, don't take a bikini, because it's gonna be cold. It's gonna be negative Kelvins cold. Hank: Oh my God. And we learned that negative Kelvin exists.
John: Thank you so much for listening to Dear John and Hank, you can leave questions for us at hankandjohn@gmail.com and we'll try to answer as many as we can in the coming weeks. I'm returning for good! I know that you guys are going to miss the amazing co-hosts that Hank has had, but uh, I'm home for a while now, which means that at least for the foreseeable future, you're stuck with me. Hank: This podcast is edited by Nicholas Jenkins, our theme music is by Gunnarolla, you can find us at hankandjohn@gmail.com, this podcast is available wherever podcasts are sold, and as we say in our hometown...
Hank & John: Don't forget to be awesome.
