Objection D'Art

Judge John Hodgman

Jesse Thorn

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4.8 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Susan says that her art historian husband, David, is too obsessed with an artist he's studying. She wants him to stop buying paintings!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Judge John Hodgeman podcast. I'm bailiff, Jesse Thorne. This week,
0:06.6	objection dart. Susan brings the case against her husband, David. David is an art history professor.
0:13.9	For the last year, he's been researching an early 20th century American Impressionist named Agnes Millen Richmond. He started buying her paintings,
0:24.1	and they're expensive. Susan says they have too many already. She says her husband is obsessed.
0:31.4	Who's right, who's wrong, only one can decide. Please rise as Judge John Hodgman enters the courtroom
0:37.1	and presents an obscure cultural
0:39.3	reference. Can I pose a somewhat abstract, purely hypothetical question? Sure. If you knew you were
0:48.8	going to die possibly soon, what would you do? Am I the richest man on earth?
0:55.2	No, you're you.
0:57.2	Do I have a superpower?
0:59.6	No, you're you.
1:01.9	I know I'm me, but do I have a superpower?
1:04.5	Okay, you're invisible and you know you're going to die.
1:08.8	What would you do?
1:10.6	Okay, that's easy. I'd go to space camp.
1:12.6	Space camp?
1:14.6	Yeah, it's in Alabama. It's where kids go and learn to become astronauts.
1:18.6	Always going to go since I was nine.
1:20.6	You're invisible, and you would go to space camp?
1:24.6	I didn't pick Invisible. You picked Invisible.
1:30.5	Aren't you too old to go to space camp?
1:33.2	You're never too old to go to Space Camp, dude.
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