Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I'm Baylif Jesse Thorn with me as always the great Judge John Hodgman. How are you Judge? Hi?

What is that voice mean?

Are we starting off all our episodes with a confusing voice from here on out?

I just realized that I did that. That's the voice of Morris.

It went well close. Well, I actually kind of, yes, I hadn't thought about it that way.

It's the voice of Moriarty from the Benedict Cumberbatch Sherlock.

Oh, sure.

When he introduced, when he first saw him at the pool, now I have to forget who that actor is, so I have to look it up.

Sherlock.

Andrew Scott.

And he goes,

Hi.

It was one of the most hilarious and creepy moments in television history.

But we were just talking about some of the greatest detectives of literature before we started this podcast proper.

Were we not, Jesse, you confess that you have read over 15 Hardy Boys?

I've read probably, I think a solid 20 Hardy Boys in five Nancy Drew's.

And I'm going to throw on top of that five to seven Tom Swift and his flying labs.

Really? Now you're going into, that's a deep cut in American Jewish literature.

I use it sometimes. I don't know if this is allowed, but I sometimes would go to Art Vark Books,

which is actually still there on Church Street in San Francisco, not far from my childhood home.

And I would just sit in the children's section and read an entire Hardy Boys book.

And as you walked out of there, you would just lean over to the person behind the counter, probably a grad student or go and just,

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