Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast.

I'm Baylor Jesse Thorn.

This week, in lawful gathering, Ruben brings the case against his wife, Megan.

They live in a small neighborhood near several family members.

They have dinner with their extended family almost every night, with family members rotating

the cooking responsibilities.

Megan likes the arrangement.

Ruben wants to opt out.

Only one man can decide.

These rise as Judge John Hodgman enters the courtroom.

This undoubtedly is the philosophy of the origin of shame after the fall.

Adam and Eve first sunk the spiritual and essential in eating the forbidden fruit, and

then, having lost the true balance of their natures, they sunk the spiritual and essential

in their relations with each other by pushing prematurely beyond the amative to the

propagative, and so became ashamed and began to look with an evil eye on the instruments

of their folly.

Jesse Thorn swear him in.

Please rise and raise your right hand.

Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you

God or whatever?

Yes, I do.

Do you swear to abide by Judge John Hodgman's ruling, despite the fact that in his household,

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