Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I'm Bale of Jesse Thorn, where in Chambers

this week clearing the docket and joining me from the great city of Brooklyn, New York

is the man they call the the king of Brooklyn. Judge John Hodgman. Brooklyn has no king.

Brooklyn needs no king. We are in Kings County though. Those county nerds out there for

you. Kings County. You need to know. You need to know a county you're in when you are

registering to vote and when you are voting. So there are definitely types of nerds who

still know every state capital. Do you think that there are county seat nerds? Do you

think that some state capital nerds who learn their state capitals in fifth grade or

whatever then move on to learn all the county seats? Like does Ken Jennings know all the

county seats? I don't know that Ken Jennings could name all of the county seats of every

county in the United States. Not even Ken Jennings necessarily could do that. And that's

why I'm going to devote what is left of my brain to knowing it. However, I'm going to retain

a piece of my brain. The piece that is always firing on all cylinder for the recording

of the Judge John Hodgman podcast. And I'm not going to use the part of my brain that

is devoted to my love for the actor Alan Ruck. We were having some great. I'm sure our

guest is going to get this reference. We're having some great bands, some great bands

before the some great banter. Yeah, we're just bouncing off each other love Island UK

style. And I can and and one of the things that came up is Alan Ruck and one an incredible

actor. He is going back to, you know, whether it's Ferris Bueller's Day off, America's greatest

mythologizing of a high school associate bath or spin city or as one guy in the Star Trek

movie or succession incredibly talented actor criminally underused. But maybe he's doing

maybe he's living his best life. Anyway, here's to Ruck. I'll introduce our guest on the

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