Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I'm Bale with Jesse Thorn. This week we're clearing the

docket of some holiday themed issues. Hello, Judge Hodgman. Happy generic holiday to you, Jesse Thorn.

And to you, sir, and all the best of luck in your continuing war on Christmas. Do you know what

holiday it is actually? What holiday is it actually? It's Judge John Hodgman's miss. Do you know?

Really? You have your own miss. Well, we do you and I together have our own miss, Jesse, because we

just celebrated our fourth anniversary of dispensing fake internet justice across the non-airwaves.

And more recently, the airwaves on a special episode of NPR's Bulls Eye with Jesse Thorn. Oh, yeah, we finally broke the air.

We finally broke air. Oh, man, it's just like a nice way of saying fart.

And just within several hours of this recording, our friend Jason Simmson, Huntsville, Alabama,

revealed his fifth annual sadness tree, which he of course puts up in a shed to contemplate

hourly each day before Christmas starting December 1st. And let's be clear, you said to contemplate

dowerly, meaning in a dower man or not hourly, meaning every hour. Maybe both. Maybe he's dowerly

in fact, that might be that might be the name of the sadvent elf in the and the rank and bass animated

sadvent special that has never aired, but is being conjured currently within the within the

brainpan of Jason Simms, as he sits in a cold shack staring at his stick of wood and thinking about

this esoteric brand of Catholicism that forces him to not enjoy Christmas before Christmas itself.

I recently watched Rudolph the Red Nose reindeer in the rank and bass edition because my son

had declared that he wanted to watch a Rudolph shell. Sure. And that was the one,

that's one I could come up. That's the one to watch in my experience. I don't think I had seen it.

I mean, I definitely have seen bits and pieces of it and I may have seen it in childhood, but I

don't know. It was I didn't remember it being so weird and boring. It's saying it's time for a reboot.

I really, well, I mean the aesthetics of it. Sure. I find I find very charming.

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