God Save the Teen

Judge John Hodgman

Jesse Thorn

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4.8 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2014

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Callum is a teenager obsessed with British culture, and wants to go to university abroad. His older brother wants him to reconsider.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman Podcast, I'm Baylor Jesse Thorn.
0:06.5	This week, God save the teen.
0:09.1	Calum is a teenage anglophile.
0:11.3	He's a junior in high school and wants to go to university in the UK.
0:15.0	His older brother Will thinks Calum's love of all things British has gone too far.
0:20.2	Who's right?
0:21.2	Who's wrong?
0:22.2	Only one man can decide.
0:23.7	Please rise as Judge John Hodgman enters the courtroom.
0:28.8	Well, I could have been a judge, but I never had the Latin.
0:32.5	I never had the Latin for the judging.
0:35.2	I never had sufficient of it to get through the rigorous judging exams.
0:39.8	They're noted for you, their rigor.
0:42.0	People come staggering out saying, my God, what a rigorous exam.
0:48.3	And so I became a minor instead, a coal minor.
0:52.0	I managed to get through the mining exams.
0:54.4	They're not very rigorous.
0:56.3	They only ask one question.
0:58.7	They ask, who are you?
1:01.5	And I got 75% for that.
1:06.0	The trouble with it is people.
1:07.9	I'm not saying that you get a load of riffraff down the mine.
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