Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I'm Bale of Jesse Thorn. This week, scheduled

for a drain mint. Karen brings the case against her husband, Matt. Part of their property has a

pasture that slopes downward. This creates a low spot that fills with a foot of water during

certain times of the year. Karen calls this area the frog bog. Matt wants to fill it in. Karen

wants to leave that bog alone. Who's right? Who's wrong? Only one can decide. Please rise.

This Judge John Hodgman enters the courtroom and presents an obscure cultural reference.

I was sitting at the edge of the marsh when the council came to bring me the news.

They handed me a bowl of cooked wild grasses and they gave me the ceremonial shoes.

Swear the men, young Danish women, swear the men, Danish sky. Swear the men cold air I'm going away.

Swear the men, swear the men, swear the men, Bale of Jesse Thorn. Please swear the litigants in.

Karen and Matt, please rise and raise your right hands. Do you swear to tell the truth, the

whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God or whatever? Yes. Yes. Do you swear to abide

by Judge John Hodgman's ruling despite the fact that he has moral objections to amphibians?

Yes. Yes. Do you live in too many kinds of places?

Judge Hodgman, you may proceed. I got nothing against our amphibian friends. I love a frog.

I love a newt. I love an oam. Do you want an oam is? No. It's a kind of salamander. I don't know

that it's amphibians, so don't write me letters, but it lives in total darkness's entire life.

It is so creepy looking. I had a pet frog when I was a kid. Putros Putros Fraggie.

Of course I knew that. Karen and Matt, you may be seated for an immediate summary,

judge me in one of your favors. I should have made the cultural reference about Putros Putros Fraggie,

but I didn't. Can either of you name the piece of culture that I referenced as I entered the courtroom?

Karen, I don't really start with you. Okay. Boy, I thought you were going to go like an agricultural

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