Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I'm Baylor F. Jesse Thorn. This week Judge Hodgman, we're clearing the docket.

We're in my chambers, all alone just the two of us in chambers. Do, do, do, do. We're in chambers. Do you know that I listened to a lot of easy listening stations

growing up? That song is called Chambers and then in parentheses love theme from Judge John Hodgman.

I just realized it is it's hardwired into my DNA to sing like Robert Goulet songs because growing up, I listen to a lot of that be adult contemporary.

Yeah, sounds like a docket. No, that would be easy. That would be easy. Robert Goulet was really that's pre-adult contemporary.

Like a single one with a voice. In the fountain. I think I'm murdering three coins in the fountain.

Right now I'm imagining that anytime you hear any song your mind automatically generates a string section.

When I was growing up in Brookline, Massachusetts, my mom and dad, the master bathroom of this house, I remember it as being about the size of a squash court.

Because you lived in an abandoned mansion, right? Yes, we lived. It's absolutely true.

We lived in an abandoned mansion that had been owned by a commune in a very nice part of town.

They left it in very ill repair. My mother was able to buy it for a song.

In order to compensate for her Catholic upbringing in a row house in Philadelphia with five sisters and a brother,

she bought a 16 room home, had a single child and became an atheist.

Slash home renovator. Slash wing assigner.

Yeah, well that's a whole other story. But one of the things about this house was it was so huge.

But this master bathroom was very large and fully carpeted and had a window seat in it.

And on the window seat was a clock radio, which was always tuned into, I think it was WHDH at the time,

was the easy listening station. There was a lot of Neil Diamond being played.

And that's what I remember that just being on all the time in that bathroom.

You don't bring me flowers. You don't sing me love songs.

You do sing me love songs. I know. I just I've been doing it all day. I don't know why you're,

I mean, it's this whole thing opened with me singing you love songs. I don't know why you're complaining about it.

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