Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast.

I'm bailiff, Jesse Thorne.

And with me is Judge John Hodgman from Brooklyn, New York City.

Yeah, that's where I am.

I am also, like you, Jesse Thorne, in the past, like all podcasts, we record these a little

bit ahead of time.

And so we are recording this the week before election

day. We do not know the outcome of the election, certainly in the past, and maybe there in the

future when you're listening to this, you still don't know. I hope you do, though. But since the

future is uncertain, we thought maybe this would be a good time to break the settled

law, the nostalgia is a toxic impulse, and take comfortable refuge in the past with one of our

most beloved episodes.

This is the one where when people ask me for an example of what Judge John Hodgman is, this story is the story I tell

them. It's the Bat Brothers. From 2012, eight years ago, eight years these brothers have been

pinging around inside my mind. Yeah, Adam and Noah share a home that they bought together out of foreclosure.

And the problem is that it's invested with bats.

And Adam and Noah have very different ideas of how to deal with the bats.

I have to say, John, in retrospect, the element of this amazing tale that sticks with me the most,

the one that comes back to me more often than any other, has nothing to do with bats flying into bathrooms.

It's merely that as a resident of a large coastal city where homes cost $1.5 million, I often think of

the Bat Brothers buying a giant house to save money. That's right. So enjoy this trip into the

past. This is going all the way back to 2012, as Jennifer Marmer pointed out, pre-mustache logo, Judge John Hodgman,

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