Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I'm Baylor F. Jessie Thorn. This week,

habeas spiritus, Rachel brings the case against her boyfriend Anton. Rachel believes that

psychics with real spiritual gifts do exist and wants Anton to visit one with her. Anton

is what he calls an unshakable realist and says all psychics are faking it. They're just

in it for the cash. Should Anton give psychics a chance? Only one man can decide. Please

rise as Judge John Hodgman enters the courtroom and issues the obscure cultural reference.

It's our first evening aboard and there she is. She's sitting on the throne of the stage,

unexpectedly giving a rambling grumpy lecture. I don't like tofu, she grows. I'd sooner

eat a sponge and then try to get a workman. I've always wanted to put a little salarium on the back

of my house. You know, glass, they put it on backward. People don't care anymore. The audience listens

politely. For all the time Sylvia gets things psychically wrong, which she does a lot. I sometimes

think if she tells you your kid is dead, you should probably presume the child's alive and vice versa.

She still has an enormous following end up quote, bail if Jesse, swear them in and whatever ghost

is out there gasping at my quote, I order thee stop. Please rise and raise your right hands. Do

you swear to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God or whatever?

I do. I do. Do you swear to abide by Judge John Hodgman's ruling despite the fact that

he already knows how it's going to come out? Sure. I do. Very well, Judge Hodgman. Rachel and Anton,

you may be seated. Rachel, since you bring this case to my court, for an immediate summary judgment

in your favor, can you name the source of the quote that I quoted as I entered the courtroom?

I feel like I can name the topic, but I don't know who quoted it. I think it's about famed

psychic, Sylvia Brown, who often appears on Montel, but I do not know. I mean, I must have been

whoever or one of her enemies is. I don't know who's whoever one of her enemies is. Maybe it was

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