Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I'm bailiff Jesse Thorn, where in chambers

this week clearing the docket with me. As always, the man, the myth, the legend, Judge

John Hodgman. Now, Jesse Thorn, by the time this comes out, I will not even be in the

continental United States. I will be floating at sea down the Mexican Riviera with Jonathan

Colton on his cruise. So that's still a couple of weeks away. So as we speak now, I am in

my chambers here in Brooklyn, New York, but specifically I'm in my my municipal full-body

immersion bath of sunscreen to prepare for this trip. It's a treatment. It's sort of like

tooth whitening, but it's a deep skin protective treatment and I have to sit in this tub of

factor 9,000 sunblock to let it seep in. Is it like a like a tray like with teeth whitening?

Is it judge Hodgman shaped? I had an option. I had an option to get one that was more like

a suit, a suit full of goo that I could wear. So I could do my errands here in Brooklyn

and and what not and move around at well more like slosh around in it, but it was a little

more expensive and I don't want to go outside. I'm looking for opportunities to sit in a

vat for five hours a day anyway. So I took this one. You're always keen on a vat

opportunity. Exactly so. So if you hear me clicking my mouse or typing on my keyboard during

this recording, that is not me. That is a sound effect because of course my arms and hands

are deep in a vat of the sunblock. I also love to sit in a vat, but I don't have to look

for opportunities because I'm one of those super silons. Oh deep BSG cut. Yeah, except for

that I couldn't remember what they were called. So I just said super silons. I think all of the

humanoid silons would emerge from a vat of goo in the new BSG. Did they all go back to the

goo vat? One of them was just in a vat all the time, right? Yeah, I think they were constantly

growing artificial bodies in goo vats. And then if their existing body was murdered or destroyed

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