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

clearing the docket. And with me is the ghost of the Cape Cod Coliseum, Judge John Hodgman.

Oh, thank you for summoning me. Please use a regular voice, John. Please. We have too much

podcast to do. I always say it's a bad nobles a crap. David Lindsay, you know who I'm doing when I

do that voice, right? I'm not quite sure. Okay, let's give it a little. It's a TV personality.

It's not. No, no, no, no. It's a mother always said. He's a bad. No, it was a crap.

Is that that guy from the mouth? That girl over.

Famous down. He's a guy. Yeah. I used to voice many times on the podcast. I should remember

his name by now. No, that's okay. But I'm very glad that you're here and to hear your voice.

David Lindsay of Bears are guests today. Jesse Thorn, you know, David Lindsay of Bear, of course.

David Lindsay of Bear is a Pulitzer prize winning playwright. No, why are you saying no, David?

Because it's pronounced Pulitzer. Oh, classic Pulitzer burn, John. All right. That's fair.

David Lindsay of Bear is a Pulitzer prize winning playwright, screenwriter, lyricist. What do you

call someone who writes the book for famous musicals? A bookist? A bookwriter. Bookwriter.

The breadest. That also works. All those. Or the breadest. We've been talking to him. I've

already said his name five times. David Lindsay of Bear, you know him from his Broadway plays rabbit hole

and the film rabbit hole and good people and funny mirrors. And now based on his play, Kimberly,

a Kimbo, the new musical Kimberly of Kimbo with music by Jeanine Tessori and book and lyrics by,

let's see here who wrote the Oh, it's you David Lindsay of Bear. That's me. You will probably,

listeners will probably also know him from my New York Times magazine profile of him from 2005.

And if you are Sam Potts, you will remember him from high school, Milton Academy and Milton

Massachusetts. David, hello. Hi. Yeah. Thank you. Hello. How are you? I'm great.

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