Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast.

I am bailiff, Jesse Thorne.

We're clearing the docket this week.

I am joined, of course, by the illustrious Judge John Hodgman.

Hi, Judge.

Do I look shiny to you?

Is that what do you mean?

Illustrious?

Yes.

You need some powder, John.

I need a little powder?

I went to the Sephora.

When we started recording our episodes on video, I went to the

Sephora, went up to the counter, hat in hand, and said, is there someone here that can help

me with makeups?

Yeah.

And then a very illustrious young man helped me out. An illustrious young man. Yeah. One time I was working on, here's a bit of showbiz trivia. Hey, Joel Mann up here at WERU and Maine. Do you know that I used to be on television sometimes? Yes, I do. All right. Anyway, I was on television sometimes. And one time I went on a show, and I was so excited to work on this little TV show because it starred a very good friend of mine, two very good friends of mine, indeed.

A couple of famous podcasters, you might say. Anyone would, not Time magazine, but whatever. Neither are we. Cut that cut that no leave it in double it point is

way back when i had to go down to georgia no i'm not the devil nor can i play the fiddle i was playing

second fiddle to a couple of podcasters and i got in that makeup chair to get my makeup put on

and the co-lead of the show said, I'm not going to have any makeup.

It's not for me.

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