Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I'm your good time summertime guest bailiff

Montibell Monti from W. R. S. I. 93 9 the river in Northampton, Massachusetts in for Jesse

Thorn. This week go set a tip jar. Emily brings the case against her friend Danny. They

co-host a monthly reading series together. It's a labor of love and the events are free.

Emily thinks they should ask for donations to expand the series. Danny says that would

make for an unhappy ending. Who's right? Who's wrong? Who killed off all of your favorite

characters in the first two books? Only one man can decide. Please rise. As Judge

John Hodgman enters the courtroom and issues the obscure cultural reference.

Spy Rock is a subgenre of popular music from the early 1980s about which one of three

things may be true. One, Spy Rock does not exist. Two, Spy Rock does exist, but only in my

own mind. Or three, Spy Rock exists and is well known to everyone except me. And it

has already been described in great detail by some music officianteau thus rendering my

essay a complete waste of time. Summertime, fun time, guest bailiff Montibell Monti,

swear man. Danny, Emily, please rise and raise your right hands. Place them on this copy

of Warren Peace. Do you promise to tell the truth? Through the best of times and the worst

of times, sucks to your asthma, Piggy, but never to kill a mockingbird, so help you original

Atticus Spencer, whomever? I do. I do. Do you swear to abide by Judge John Hodgman's

ruling despite the fact that on this dark and stormy night, you should call him Ishmael?

Yes, sounds good. Thank you. Judge Hodgman, you may proceed.

Danny and Emily, you may be seated for immediate summary.

At well, I should say end of summary. I love it.

I knew you would, I knew that one was for you, Monti, because you love puns and it's the

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