Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I'm Bail of Jesse Thorn. This week you've got Bail.

Lily Files suit against her husband Thaddeus. Thaddeus has had the same email address,

8 Manson at website.com for 18 years. He uses it for everything, including as his contact information for their children's schools.

Lily finds Thaddeus is email address embarrassing and offensive. She'd like him to change it. Thaddeus would like to keep using his email address.

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.

The atmosphere is great of course, but this time I struggled a bit with the sheer ludicrousness of the scenario.

Since this is simultaneously Hodgman's most straight-faced and most preposterous podcast, the image of the dark lords plasticky paw emerging from the mirror in the finale is daring but butthetic, an attempt to reconcile Christian mythology with material science, even in a fictional context, must inevitably fail.

Bail of Jesse Thorn, please swear the litigants in.

Lily and Thaddeus, 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. I do. Do you swear to abide by Judge John Hodgman's ruling, despite the fact that his own email address is Hodgman696969 at website.com? I do.

I do. Judge Hodgman, you wait for seed. Lily and Thaddeus, you may be seated for an immediate summary judgment and one of yours honors can either of you guess the piece of culture that I almost quoted verbatim. I added in my name and podcast to make it a little bit deceptive. Can you guess where it came from? Lily, you seek justice before this court. What's your guess?

I thought we were going to let Thad guess first. You know what? You're right. It's fine. We're going to do a past to Thad, classic past to Thad.

I'm going to be in the initiative. And Lily, you got a few extra moments to consider. Thad, you've been past to. Is it a passage from L.E.Snowgroves book The Swarm on B-Keeping?

A passage from L.E.Snowgroves book The Swarm on B-Keeping? Very common guess on the podcast. Is that something you made up, Thaddeus? No, it's not. It's a real thing. All right, cool. Are you a B-Keeper? I am not.

Great. Well, that was good. We passed enough time there. Lily, I tried to buy you some extra time with the B-Keeper question. What is your answer?

All right. Well, it just sounds to me like someone writing an email complaining about Lord of the Rings.

Well, I'll put that in a guess book. That's about as close as anyone could humanly guess. Because while all guesses are wrong, it is essentially a person writing an email complaining about the Lord of the Rings.

Insofar is as it is a movie review written on a little known movie oriented social media website where people can trade lists of movies that they watch and review movies.

This is a review of John Carpenter's 1987 horror movie Prince of Darkness. And it was reviewed on this site letter box. I don't know if this is still an active social media network.

I chose this review because I thought I was funny. And because of the member of this social media website goes by the name F-Ape Manson, F-Ape Manson, which is the email address in question.

So, at your email address, the one that Lily takes issue with without naming the domain, you confirm that it is Ape Manson at xyz.com or org.edu.

Yes.

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