Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I'm bailiff Jesse Thorne. This week, suing and a mistrial.

Mike brings the case against his coworker Brooke. Brooke wants to play baseball with her colleagues in a

casual recreational setting. She would love Mike to be part of this group, but he won't step foot on the

field unless it's a softball field. Brooke says baseball and softball are essentially the same game. Just play

ball. But Mike strongly disagrees. Who's right, who's wrong, only one can decide, please rise, as Judge John Hodgman

enters the courtroom and presents an obscure cultural reference. Play softball with the guys,

wife made curly fries, drink about four odules, grounded out, two pop flies, and the Buick

down western stop and gets more brats on sale, chicken, Italian sausages, and orange pop.

Bailiff, Jesse Thorne, please swear the litigants in.

Mike and Brooke, 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. Do you swear to abide by Judge John Hodgman's ruling, despite the fact that he went to a San Francisco Giants game without me? I do. Judge Hodgman, you may proceed. It wasn't on purpose, Jesse. I was invited by our daughter, and we went, and can I get a hoo-ya? Who-ya. Thank you. Yeah. That's something on the internet that I discovered about baseball.

Anyway, Brooke and Mike, you may be seated for an immediate summary judgment in one of

your favorites. Can either of you name the piece of culture that I referenced as I entered

the courtroom? Why don't we start with

you, Brooke? Gosh, I'm going to guess it's a rapper from the 90s, like Noss or something like

that. A rapper from the 90s like Noss was in my video for my promotional video for my book,

That is All back in 2011, directed by Tom Sharpling. So I'll put that in the guest book for sure. I've got to write that here. Everyone can see on the YouTube that I'm absolutely writing this down. There you go. Those are not my notes from a conversation I had with David Reese earlier this week. That is your guess, Brooke. That is. Now, now mike that was a good guess i like that guess

mike i'm going to write your guest down too i'm ready to go i'm ready to write it down what is your

guess i think i'm just going to go with my pre-slugged guess which is uh an episode of dick town

the mystery of the marauding mascot i believe that rap was spoken by the smoking baby.

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