Welcome to Judge John Hodgman. I'm Bale of Jesse Thorn. We're in Chambers this week,

clearing the docket. And with me is a man who spent a solid seven minutes so

resolutely staring into the middle distance that Jennifer Marmer and I thought

his screen was frozen. Yes. Judge John Hodgman. You know why I'm

practicing my still sitting? Why is that? I'm auditioning for Madame Tussauds. Oh

congratulations. That is a good booking. Who will you be portraying? I presume

it's not John Hodgman. I'm auditioning as myself, but I'm happy for any role

that they might put me in. Got it. So you're hoping to go into the comedy

character actor slash podcast or wing? Yeah. Like next to Pete Holmes or

whatever. Absolutely. The Hall of White Guys. Yeah. You know, speaking of podcast

Jesse Thorn, I was talking to our friend Linda Holmes. Oh, the great Linda Holmes

from NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour. Yeah. Sometime guest host of Bullseye with Jesse

Thorn. Yes. And a friend of our show and she's been on she is the person who

coined the term little weird Z's at least on this show. A claimed novelist.

That's right. And we were chatting via, you know, thumb talk, you know,

on the phones. Sure. And I was explaining to her like, I just don't go on to

Twitter that often because I value my feelings and sanity. And B because I was

like, you know, I was just a natural 50 year old thing to say is like, who cares

would I have to say? You know, never thought that before when I was in my 30s,

40s. Right. Now I'm like, who cares what I have to say? And then I realize, John

Hodgman, don't think that way. That's your kids talking John Hodgman, who cares

what you have to say. Because the reality is Jesse that I have people in my life.

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