Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I'm Bale of Jesse Thorn. We're clearing the

docket this week. I'm in Chambers. Judge Hodgman, hi, Judge Hodgman.

Yeah, I'm sorry that the Chambers are a little smaller this week. I just learned that a

madman set up my chamber walls to compress an inch every year. I think he's trying to

crush me. Wow, is he just super into Star Wars and slow motion? Yep, and his name is

Elliott Kaelin. Oh, no. Elliott Kaelin from the flop house? Yeah, my podcast

nemesis real-life good friend and obviously courtroom occasional guest Bale of.

What a monster. Even though we had a good time, we're

together here on the Judge John Hodgman podcast couple weeks ago. I think he took

a moment to booby trap my Chambers. So who knows. Very slowly we may be crushed to death.

Is it possible that he made one of those, you know, one of those kind of

grease impressions of the keyhole of your chamber so that he could return later so

he can make his own key and then return later? Look, I've worked with Elliott for a long time.

No one is better at grease impressions than he. Right. Both, both copying keys and

performing as Danny Zuko from Greece. Yeah, well, you've often told me that he was the one that you

wanted. You know, do you know I went to go see a camp production of Greece. I'm not going to tell

you which summer camp some hanging around for children during the summer. Let's just say it was

legal for me to be there. But it occurs to me this is it. I was not surprised, I suppose, that they

edited out the some of the more adult themes of Greece, including a really heart-wrenching song

about Rizzo deciding whether or not to terminate her pregnancy. But I think they mainly cut those

songs for time. Mostly they were happy to have the kids performing songs as if they were drunk.

One of them. When you said they cut out the adult themes, I just assumed you meant a sort of

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