It's the Judge John Hodgman podcast, and I'm Bill of Jesse Thorne. With me, Judge John Hodgman. Yes, it's me. Did you know that we release members-only mailbag episodes every month? If you're a member, you probably know. Check your bonus feed now. There's a fresh Membo mailbag right there. If you're not a member or a brand new member, this is what it is. Jesse and Jennifer and I go through letters in the court mailbag, and we answer as many as we can every month. And it's not just cases or disputes. It's etiquette questions, questions about the show. Listeners who have no questions whatsoever just want to talk about something good that's going on in their life. It's all fair game. We love it, but you can only hear it if you're

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right, Jesse? Let's take a listen. I, Amelia, am an early bird. My husband is a night owl. I go to bed around 10 p.m. He stays up until one or two. He frequently asked me to help him with a chore as soon as I say good night. Some of these chores include gathering trash for the next day or hanging just one sheet of drywall. Wow. When I say no, he will roll his eyes, sigh heavily, and accuse me of never wanting to do anything.

I don't wake him up at 7 a.m. for chores.

My bedtime should be respected in the same way.

Please rule that the task must be discussed before 8 p.m.

And make him stop sighing and rolling his eyes.

I want to ask, you ever do any chores at night?

You ever hang any drywall at night, Jennifer, Jesse?

No way.

Have you ever hung any drywall at all?

Never.

Yeah.

I might do some stuff like this at night if no one lived in my house.

Yeah.

Because it's like when nobody's going to bother you, it's all quiet, you don't have anything better to do, you know?

Yeah.

I understand the impulse toward night chores, but it's not, yeah, it's not my choice.

Sometimes it can be very satisfying when your partner has gone to bed and you think you're about to go to bed, but then you get a second wind and you just do the dishes.

We leave the dishes till the next morning. That's just the way we are. I mean, those are households that don't do that, but we do because I got to live.

But then that's always very pleasant, like midnight dish doing, like, and you know in the morning,

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