he's john hodgman. this is overheard. ♪ >> smith: john hodgman, welcome. >> hodgman: thank you very much. >> smith: nice to have you here. >> hodgman: it's nice to be here. >> smith: now, let me ask you about this book and its place in this trilogy of books that together represent complete world knowledge. >> hodgman: yes, that's correct. >> smith: this is number three. >> hodgman: it comes at the end. >> smith: it comes at the end. the last one... >> hodgman: ...that's its place. >> smith: more information than you require. >> hodgman: is this book shelving? [ laughter ] >> smith: this is a book shelving segment here on the overheard, yes, i'm going to show you how to shelve your books. >> hodgman: whatever you want to do is fine. >> smith: all right, very well. the purpose of this though is complete world knowledge. >> hodgman: yes. >> smith: as we approach ragnarÖk. >> hodgman: yes. >> smith: i didn't want to mention it earlier because i was a little afraid of this conceptually, so... >> hodgman: peo

we have some great readings lined up with john hodgman and larry doyle next week him and michael hawley as well as the night of staff recommendations later in the month. also, you may have noticed we are filming tonight so if you could please make sure to turn off all cell phones and things like that, any drum machine she may have on your person. you can follow all of our events through our website, brookline booksmith.com or you can purchase thousands of e-books for your google edition. as we move into residential election year, you can be sure to hear a lot about our founding fathers, what they believe, what they said, what it meant to say, and certain parts of the constitution will doubtless be quoted again and again. tonight is not about any of that nonsense. it's about the other nonsense. because tonight we had the pleasure of welcoming back jay wexler, professor of law at boston university. in his first book, "holy hullabaloos," wexler explored church and state with a strange and humorous road trip. in his new book, drank income he examines the foundation of our government, the u.

john hodgman will be in concord at 9:00 a.m. eastern. you can see that on c-span2.e on c-span, you will be able to call in with your questions for newt gingrich. he will join us from dartmouth medical school. we will be live at 7:00 p.m. eastern from the university of new hampshire with ron paul. you can follow our coverage of this year, the campaign online at c-span.org/campaign2012. see video of their views on the economy, the deficit, national security. you can click on the links for c-span media partners for the new hampshire primary next tuesday and south carolina's primary on the first. gop presidential candidate rick santorum stopped at a diner in new hampshire thursday. a little more than 30 miles north of manchester. he spoke with customers for about half an hour. >> welcome to new hampshire. >> thank you. >> we are a homeschooling family. we hear you are. thank you for what you are doing. >> we have a bunch of restaurants. thanks for coming. >> thank you very much. >> congratulations on iowa. >> it is a great country, is it not? >> you did well. >> thank y