Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I'm your guest Baylor,

Monte Belmonti from 939 the River in North Hampton, Massachusetts in for Jesse Thorn.

This week, legal wholesome, Lisa brings the case against her husband Matt.

Matt has accumulated a large collection of socks. He began with solid colors and now has expanded

to fancier, patterned socks. Lisa says the collection has gotten out of hand and wants Matt to

call the herd. Matt says put a sock in it Lisa, who's right, who's wrong. Only one man can decide,

please rise as Judge John Hodgman enters the courtroom and socks it to them with an obscure cultural

reference. I visited the home of a client in her 50s. As always, we started with her clothes.

We moved through her wardrobe at a smooth pace, finished the underwear, and we're ready to start

organizing her socks. But when she pulled open her sock drawer, I could not suppress a gasp.

It was full of potato-like lumps that rolled about. She had folded back the tops to form balls

and tied her stockings tightly in the middle. I was speechless. Let me state here and now never,

ever ball up your socks. I pointed to the balled-up socks. I said, look at them carefully.

This should be a time for them to rest. Do you really think your socks can get any rest like that?

End quote, guest bail of Montebele Monte Swerve them in. Lisa and Matt, please rise and raise your

right hands. But raise them as sock puppets and come up with fancy sock puppet voices to answer when

I ask you. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth about socks, whole and holy,

so help you sock demon or whatever evil being constantly steals that other matching socks somewhere

out of my laundry? I do. I do. That was not a cute puppet voice, Matt. Do you swear to abide by

Judge John Hodgman's ruling despite the fact that he is not wearing any socks in the middle of

a New England winter? Oh, I do. Lisa. I do. I love it. Thank you, Judge Hodgman. You made

proceed. Lisa and Matt, you made me seated. Let me just first of all say it's so nice to be here in

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