Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I'm Bailiff Jesse Thorn. This week we're

clearing the docker. The drunk. The dark bar. The Peter Drucker, Managed Legendary

Management Consultant. Peter Drucker. This week we're at the Rucker, playing Street

Basketball.

Tough mother, tough mother there Jesse. Clark bar, Clark bar, Clark bar. What to do to

die today? Attainee not to, I'll put you. Hi Judge Hodgman. Hello. Are we rolling

with that intro? I think it's good. Yeah I say we keep it. No doubt about it. You know

when you when you can take lead and turn it into gold like we just did. You know that

this? Why would you then throw that gold away? That's alchemy. That's an alchemical

Clark bar of delight. I knew it was some form of metallurgy, but I didn't know exactly

what. Okay. Here is our first case this week. I have a question first. Yeah. Was metallurgy

a character in the dark crystal? Yes. I think that's David Bowie's character in Labyrinth.

Was metallurgy a robotic version of gergie? I think metallurgy is metallurgy the name

of those square guys with the roller treads from Return to Oz. The ones that I still have

nightmares about as an adult. That movie is pure nightmare fuel. If people out there

have never seen it, good. Yeah. It's not that great of a movie and it is really creepy.

It's a really dark Oz film that was made in the 80s in which Dorothy goes back with a

talking chicken and a robot and a Jack Pumpkin head who is a totally bogus scarecrow rip

off. Like it was a third Oz bookie wrote and he's already ripping himself off. Yes. Terrifying.

Who is the book? Faruza Bulk of the island of Dr. Moro. Also, Jesse, it's so nice to be

with you here in Chambers. You may not have noticed yet that I've left the window open in Chambers.

And in Chambers here in Park Slow, out in a little garden behind my building, I hear birds chirping.

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