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, as always, is Hooded Sweat shirt memo

getter Judge John Hodgman. That's a joke. About something that our audience can't see,

that everyone on this week's program is wearing a hooded sweatshirt.

We are all wearing hooded sweatshirts today on our weekly Judge John Hodgman Zoom call.

Yeah.

It's how we stay in touch, how we stay connected. And it's not just you and me and producer

Jennifer Marmer, Jesse. Look, I'm going to introduce our special guest in a second,

but I got to set this up. It is now December. We are approaching the winter solstice in

the Northern Hemisphere, which this year is December the 21st, the longest night of

the year, the longest night of 2020, like we needed more of it. Whatever holiday you

observer on this time, it's a time across culture is to kindle a light against the darkness

and eat food, take comfort in family and friends, maybe only by Zoom as we're doing now. Don't

travel if you can help it. Definitely eat a lot of food. And hope at the end of this

long night, the sun rises again. But given 2020 so far, all bets are off. The sun may

never rise again. I don't know. We'll see what happens. December 22nd might be the beginning

of perpetual night. Who knows? But if that happens, if the sun doesn't rise, there is someone

you want six feet safely by your side. And that is our special guest, Jean Gray, your

favorite polymathic artist of words and music and pictures and ideas. Member of the Legion

of Judge John Hodgman guest bailiffs, Long Live Legion, famed throughout the world for

a portrayal of Monica on Dictown on Hulu throughout the world minus the UK and Canada and

Australia, basically any other nation, sadly, get a VPN mates, bit deli slash Dictown, the

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