Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I'm Pailiff Jesse Thorn. We're in Chambers this week

clearing the docket with legendarily spooky hockey ghost. Judge John Hodgman. You referred to my

Halloween costume, my last minute Halloween costume. You know, you did a great job. Thank you.

You were dressed as an extinct hockey ghost. Yes. You have a passion. As long time listeners know,

you have a passion for for dead hockey teams that don't exist anymore. You do have to be clear.

No passion for hockey as far as I know. Not particularly. No. Just like the idea of the San Francisco

sea lions. I did order. I have to say I did order a hat this week for a new expansion existing

hockey team that is about to start play. It is not a dead hockey team. It is a hockey team just

being born. A minor league team that a listener alerted me to in Savannah, Georgia called the

Savannah pirate ghosts. It's just the best name for a team. Yeah. That's a it's doing a lot. The

only the only minor hockey team that I have any allegiance to is the Belfast Giants of Belfast

Northern Ireland. Both because my stepmother is is from Belfast. But also because you know,

this is a professional hockey team, but it's a relatively low level professional hockey team.

There's not a ton of ice in Belfast. Right. Naturally occurring. Right. But like one of the guys

who's the one of the people of the team, you know, there's minor league hockey. There's three people

that work for the team. Right. One of those people is a max funster. He said, anytime I'm in Belfast,

I can go to a free minor league Irish league hockey game. It's probably the major leagues of Irish.

Well, the problem with giant hockey is that the ring also has to be giant. Otherwise,

the giant has no room to maneuver. That's a good point. That's a good point. And instead of

Zamboni's, they have 50 men with pork rinds skating over the surface of the ice to grease it.

That's how you get ready for why not? So you get ready for giants. It's a Paul Bunyan reference,

Jesse. Well, you made a reference, I'm a spiritual reference to my Halloween costume, which was

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