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 kangaroo of the kangaroo court himself,

Judge John Hodgman. Oh, you have to forgive me if you hear a steady drip, drip, drip.

Every gutter is dripping here in Park Slop Brooklyn. We got so that's fun. Park Slop.

Yeah, I know. I just came up with that today. I'm sure I'm sure I'm not the first. Another

bumble genesis hit us. Jesse, I just have something that I need to say. I got a letter from Suzanne

Dropkin this week. And you may recognize the last name, but not the first. Over the years,

I've told the story of my childhood friend Joe Dropkin. Jesse, back when I was eight,

the movie Alien came out. Did you ever see the movie Alien Jesse?

An amazing movie. Yeah. Great movie. It's a great movie. Is it suitable for an eight-year-old?

Would you say? No, no, no. No, no. No, no. No, no. No, no. Our rated movie and...

Very scary. Very scary movie. And I did not see it when it came out. But somehow around that time,

for some reason, my entire extended family and two-headed that I liked the movie Alien,

even though I could not see it legally. My dad gave me the Alien comic book adaptation of the movie

by Archie Goodwin and Walt Simonson. It's absolutely brilliant. It was published by Heavy Metal

Magazine. It's a great comic book adaptation of a movie that is beautiful and terrifying and

wildly inappropriate for kids. And as an eight or nine-year-old, I read this and I'm like,

I shouldn't be reading this. And then the following Christmas I received an Alien Action Figure

for Christmas. Did you know there was an Alien Action Figure? I've talked about it before in

the podcast, but I might have to bring some people up to date on this. Jesse, do you know about this

thing? Is it an action figure of the Alien from the movie Alien? Yeah. Yeah. 20th Century Fox thought,

hey, you know what? Star Wars was a big merchandising hit. And we gave those licensing rights

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