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Judge John Hodgman

Robe Hate Court

Judge John Hodgman

Jesse Thorn

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4.87.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Snowflake brings the case against her husband, Oge. Oge has worn the same bathrobe for the last 25 years and Snowflake would like him to get rid of it. Oge says it’s a perfectly good robe and he wants to keep it. Who's right? Who's wrong? Thank you to Andrew McNair & Brick Sprickly for suggesting this week's title! To suggest a title for a future episode, like Judge John Hodgman on Facebook. We regularly put a call for submissions.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast.

0:05.7

I'm Baylif Jesse Thorn.

0:07.6

This week, Rob Hate Court.

0:11.0

Snowflake brings the case against her husband, Oge.

0:14.0

Oge has worn the same bathrobe for the last 25 years and Snowflake would like him to

0:19.6

get rid of it.

0:20.6

Oge says it's a perfectly good robe and he wants to keep it.

0:24.7

Who's right?

0:25.7

Who's wrong?

0:26.7

Only one man can decide.

0:28.4

This rise as Judge John Hodgman enters the courtroom and presents an obscure cultural

0:34.6

reference.

0:36.1

And then one Thursday, some 2,000 years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying

0:41.2

how great it would be to be nice to people for a change.

0:44.9

A fake internet judge sitting in his own small office in Brooklyn suddenly realized what

0:49.8

it was that had been going wrong all this time and he finally knew how the world could

0:54.0

be made a good and happy place.

0:56.2

And this time it was right, it would work and no one would have to get nailed to anything.

1:02.4

Baylif Jesse Thorn, please swear them in.

1:04.9

Please rise and raise your right hands.

1:07.8

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

1:12.1

God or whatever?

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