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

game. Molly Files suit against her husband, Jeff. She says Jeff can be overly competitive

when he's playing board games, and he takes his sweet time plotting the perfect move to

crush his opponents. She wants Jeff to get a move on. Jeff says playing the game means

doing it right and taking the time to do so. Who's right? Who's wrong? Only one man can

decide. Please rise as Judge John Hodgman enters the courtroom. How long is a reasonable

time to play a hand of Scrabble? Casual game between friends should have no limit because

come on. It's not that big a deal. Read a magazine or something. If it's sincerely a problem

you can decide on the rules beforehand, you can also for that matter hack into Scrabble

a variety of ways, permitting proper names as long as they are rock fans, allowing people

to look up two letter words, not forcing challenged words to lose a turn. You can customize

Scrabble however you like because it's just a dumb game meant to make our alcoholism seem

fun and smart and to distract us from the idea that we are slowly dying. Bale of Jesse

Thorn, swear them in. 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? I do. Sounds good

to me. Do you swear to abide by Judge John Hodgman's ruling despite the fact that it

takes him frankly no time at all to think of the perfect move in almost every game? That

makes it even better. I do. Diddo. Very well, Judge Hodgman. First of all, I do not

like this at all. Jeff sounds good to me. Diddo. But where do you think we are on the

quad? You think we're hanging out? You think we're having we're having class outside on

the quad today? This is a courtroom. I wish we were. It's been, you know, it's time to

break us through here. You're too, too, too informal, Jeff. I don't know what kind of game

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