Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I'm Bail of Jesse Thorn. We're clearing the

docket this week. How are you, Judge Hodgman?

Woo!

It sounds like you're super spooky this week. Halloween is coming. Welcome to my chambers.

I'm not going to do this entire episode in the voice of famed monologues and performance

artist Edgar Oliver, who you may have heard on the Moth story hour and who has been telling

stories in New York City forever and always talks like this. But it is one of my favorite

voices to do. Maybe I will save this one for Halloween. But you can see that I am putting

up my Halloween decorations here in chambers.

Judge Hodgman, did you do that impression in your SNL audition?

They're like, bring two celebrity impressions. Oh, too. Well, how about Edgar Oliver and

Jonathan Ames?

It does sound a little like Jonathan Ames. I think there may have been some crossover.

But if you do yourself a favor, everybody, if you haven't heard of Edgar Oliver, go

on to the internet type in Edgar Oliver spelled in the traditional manners. And listen

to him tell one of his incredible stories of growing up in Savannah, Georgia. And he's

such an amazing storyteller. And he really does talk like that. And I met him one time.

And I said, I'm going to go see or show this afternoon. And he said, Oh, good.

Yeah. One of the great, great moments of my life. Maybe I'll do a Halloween episode

in Edgar Oliver voice. Yeah. But I didn't, I didn't use him. I didn't use Jonathan Ames

to audition for SNL. It was Edgar Oliver and I ran, obviously. Got it. Got it.

You want to get to the docket here? Yes, I do. Let me just put my dry ice away. Apparently

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