Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I'm guest Bayliffe David Reese filling in for Jesse Thorn.

We are in Chambers this week to clear the docket. John? Hello? It's me David. I know you're my friend, my pal, my bud.

W. B. West. And we've got a lot of justice to dispense. But first of all, I want to say thank you David Reese for dropping by to help me wade through all this injustice today.

Because I know you're busy over there on your own podcast election profit makers. Extremely busy making profits off this election.

Starly kind and John Kimball talking. It is I'll say this. I listen to only a couple of podcasts that touch on politics of the day.

Because it's hard. There's a lot. There's a lot going on. And sometimes you just want to listen to two guys talk about what food they hate or whatever.

But if you all have not checked out election profit makers, check it out because Starly and John and David are having conversations about events of the day structured in a loose way around this website predictic.org where you can essentially buy stock in various political events happening or not happening.

But it is so funny and so cathartic and so great to hear you guys talk about whatever you're talking about. And can I also say this skyline rating that's been going on is amazing.

I'll explain please so one of the co hosts on election profit makers is my friend from seventh grade. He's not in seventh grade, but we met in seventh grade. He's he's old like me now. Right John Kimball and John Kimball is a huge fan of all kinds of data.

Especially obviously being from Chapel Hill. He's very interested in college basketball and infrastructure modern urban infrastructure and especially skylines and he's consistently re ranking the world's great skylines.

So you know sorted according to population of metropolitan statistical areas sorted according to raw aesthetics and so he's always bringing in these crazy theories about skylines.

I don't know if you've listened to this week's episode. I don't know the teacher.

You don't have to put this in your podcast, but it is an exclusive. So you might want to a teacher and Bali who listens to our podcast asked their class of third graders to rank the world's skylines.

Wow. And send us a pie chart of the results and John Hodgman. Guess what the number two skyline was according to these third graders in Indonesia.

I'm all right number two skyline number two according to third place you and I have been together. Oh, okay.

Um, Fort Lauderdale Florida Hartford Connecticut. No. Yes. How dare. How dare they. It was number two. And John Kimball when we were talking about these results on the podcast.

And Kimball was like, you know what Hartford is a great skyline. It's thick. And I got disgusted. You know what? I've driven up I 91 many, many times in my life.

There is a certain Emerald City type. Magistie of all of those fairly tall buildings arising up out of the otherwise bland poppy fields of Connecticut surrounding it.

But let me tell you something. I've been in that skyline. We both have right after 5 p.m. You know what makes that skyline so pristine. Complete absence of human beings. Right. Exactly. That's like the world without a skyline. Yeah.

You know, I'm like the world without us. Oh, no, I read that one. Is that a booklet you read? It was a best seller like 12 years ago when people are talking about it now and Conte and reference to COVID.

It was basically a scientist was like, okay, pretend all humans just disappeared off the face of the earth. First of all, what a relief. Right. What would happen. And then it's like, well, after four hours, the New York City subway pumps are no longer pumping water. So all this street start to collapse.

Oh, after a year and a half, deer are living in the top floor of the CEO's suites of skies. It just goes through like the world without us. It's the perfect title. Like here's what would happen. Yeah.

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