Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I'm Belif Jesse Thorn, we're in chambers this

week clearing the docket and with me is the man known best for his Brooklyn General

Store hat of which my six year old son also has one. Judge John Thorn. That's right. I

can see you Jesse Thorn and you're looking well. I'm wearing a summer card again. Yeah well I

mean you please bundle up it's got to be all the way down to a hundred degrees out there in Los

Angeles. There's only one climate zone in my house and so when we set the thermostat to like 78

or 80 which is usually what we do in the hottest parts of the year. Yeah. Somehow still in my office

it is 32 degrees so I'm currently wearing shorts and a t-shirt but over my t-shirt I'm wearing a

cashmere card again and I'm also wearing like a wool lined slippers. You know I think that that's

the outfit of the pandemic like we don't know what's happening. We don't know what we're preparing for. We

don't know what's happening. Thanks. I love a summer cardigan. That's why I call you summer card E.T. Yeah thank you. Yeah

you're welcome. I'm a dad. Also outside my window right now thanks to the current disaster situation

in California. They appear to be using red filters on the sky like they were shooting dune. Yeah yeah

it may just be that they've got a few shots left for that timetay chalamette dune. I look I will go

on and on and on about that trailer but for now I don't want to go on and on because we've got a

very special case I don't want to waste time messing around I love you but Emily Brewster is back

long time long time year one friend of the court Emily Brewster who listeners will remember

is Alex Scott for Dictionary and works at the Dictionary the Marion Webster Dictionary

she's an editor there and she discovered the the word A go back go back that's still true right Emily?

Oh yes yes that one's all mine. Have you discovered any more words since you discovered A?

Oh gosh have I discovered any new words um short infodemic is one I was researching recently.

Really infodemic that sounds hot and relevant what's that all about?

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