Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I am the bailiff of the program, Jesse Thorn.

This week we're in chambers clearing out the docket. And with me is the tallest man in

the world, Judge John Hodgman.

It's a curse more than anything Jesse, to be the tallest man in the world. You know,

I have to eat 17 pizzas a day and children consider me a monster.

Because of the pizza eating.

Yeah, this is like, whoa, disgusting. Why is he just scraping the cheese off the pizza

and shoving it in his mouth? I'm like, well, because I'm trying to eat less carbs. I'm

the tallest man in the world. And I have to eat 35,000 calories a day, but no way. No way

I'm not going to be eating carbs. But you're focusing on pizza nonetheless. Yeah, right.

Thankfully though, I have the love of my wife. I have the dedication of our listeners and

the companionship of my bailiff Jesse Thorn. And I have chambers that no longer have a ceiling

because my head is in the clouds. How are you Jesse? I'm doing all right. You know, I'm

here making it happen clearing this docket. You're there in Los Angeles. I'm here in Brooklyn,

but not for much longer. Here we are. Summer is a beginning. And I'm going to go to camp

to an unnamed coastal town in Maine. And if you haven't been listening to this podcast

very long, the summertime judge John Hodgman, it's like we have class outside. It gets a little

wild. I start recording not in my chambers, but I go to a freeform community radio station

called WERU where Tessetern Joel Man does the Niles and dobs. Not Niles and dobs. The

dials and knobs for me as I talk into a microphone and he keeps trying to convince me to listen

to Joe Bird and the field hippies. Sometimes Monti Bell Monti drops in for some punning action.

You know what it is? It's the Judge John Hodgman podcast with a special New England

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