Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I'm Bale of Jesse Thorne. We're in chambers this week

clearing the docket with anonymous local man Judge John Hodgman. You're dressed like

an undercover cop today. I'm just wearing my black sweatshirt. I can't

rock a vintage 80s chore coat every day. Sometimes I just got to wear my cozy sweatshirt.

You look very cozy and you also look like you're hanging out on a street corner trying to

observe something. And I would probably I would really blend it too. And they were like,

weren't you on board to death? I'm like, I can't talk right now. I'm undercover. I'm a private

investigator now. I'm a private investigator. No, I'm very cozy and also Jesse and I'm very excited.

Why is that? Because I have finished all of my holiday shopping. As we record this, it is not even

December yet. There's the last day of November. And I have finished all of it. And do you know why?

Why? Because I was so anxious about shipping and delays in shipping that I mostly shopped locally.

And when I when I shopped and things were needed to be shipped from place to place,

I started very early and I got it done. Thanks, global supply chain problems.

Well, I thank you, John, for my San Francisco sham rocks sweatshirt.

Jesse, you have been visited by but one spirit this holiday season, but one ghost of a hockey team.

I am here to tell you, wearing the chains I forged in life.

So my favorite sport, extinct hockey, you are about to get visited by two more ghosts of extinct

hockey before this is over. And one of them I almost threw away on my way over here today.

I had to throw away some boxes in the recycling and I threw away your present.

It's because it's in cardboard saying do not bend and I had to go back over to the recycling room

and fish it out on a holiday miracle. Well, I feel like I'm in San Francisco's cow palace right now.

That's where the sham rocks would play. There you go.

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