Welcome to the Judge John Hodgeman podcast. I'm Baileth. Oh, what's wrong? Judge Hodgeman?

I'm a little sick, Jesse. I'm sorry, buddy. I just want to pre-apologize to everyone for how

froggy I sound and how stuffy I sound and also for the sloshing because I'm sitting in a hot

tub full of bone broth, restorative bone broth. Did you ever listen to that one? This American

life that Iroh hosted when he was sick and literally just he got like 500 letters that were

worried he was about to die. There's something about the combination of how much your voice is

affected when you're sick. Plus, the fact that you can't see the person leads to some very serious

conclusions. Yeah, podcasting and radio are an intimate form and when you hear someone suffering,

you feel they're suffering. Just as when you hear someone chewing, you feel like throwing up.

I got so many letters when I was chewing salt on that last one where I was chewing, I first

to ate some macintosh apples with salt on them. Yeah. And then I just ate some salt. Yeah. And I'm like,

I am doing this on purpose to gross you out. That was clearly the joke. I clearly gave a trigger

warning, but people were still running going, how dare you do that? It really doesn't matter. I mean,

it's like the cilantro of podcasting chewing on microphone. That's right. 70% of people,

it doesn't, they're not worried about it. Right. 30% of people will murder you. And 1% of them,

their pee smells funny the next day. We're clearing the doc at this week on Judge Sean Hodgman.

Let's start with something from Jeff. My wife and I have a longstanding dispute regarding the use

of the expression an hour or two when describing one's estimated time of arrival. She says it's

unreasonable to give one time estimate and it's double in one phrase. What a fun couple.

For her, saying an hour or two is different than saying a minute or two. To me, it's no different

than saying a 2 p.m. for example, that I'll be there between three and four. It simply gives a one

hour window of time in which I expect to arrive. Given uncertainties and traffic and the length of

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