Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I'm bailiff, Jesse Thorne, and guess what? It's the holiday time of year, and that means it's time for the annual Judge John Hodgman holiday party. With me, as always, my friend and yours, Judge John Hodgman. Hi, John. Hi, my friend and yours, Jesse Thorne, my bailiff,

O'Beliff. Good yule to you, friend. Good yule to you. And bien saturnalia to you all,

the new Maximum Fund headquarters there in downtown Los Angeles. I see you're seated with our

wonderful producer, Jennifer Marmer. Yeah. She's raising the roof.

Now she's doing the Arsenio whoop-woo.

Yeah.

I heard the last bit of renovation needed to do at the Max 1 HQ was to raise the roof.

Yeah, it did need to be raised.

Right on time.

Right before the turn of the new year, I'm here at Technica House in New York City, where we last met with Nick Offerman.

Today wouldn't be an office holiday party without some office guests. I'm here with Jacob Derwin of Technica House, who is waving at a camera that can't see him.

And our old friend, Natalina Lopez, Natty Lopez is here too, helping me out with our special delights.

Now, if you haven't seen or heard this kind of episode before, we have an office holiday party every year.

It started four years ago when a listener named Pam in Seattle suggested, well, she sent us this specific challenge.

Forget eggnog and sprite.

The answer...

Forget everything you thought you knew about eggnog and sprite.

Which already wasn't a lot.

Yeah, right.

But we had listeners who had written in saying,

my friend likes to combine eggnog and spright, and it's disgusting,

and I agreed. It's not the best. But Pam had written in saying the answer is not eggnog

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