Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast.

I'm Bayliffe Jesse Thorn and with me is Judge John Hodgman from Brooklyn, New York

City.

Yeah, that's where I am.

I am also like you, Jesse Thorn, 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, let's 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 as a toxic impulse and take comfortable refuge in the

past.

And 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.

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