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Judge John Hodgman

Jesse Thorn

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4.8 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

A long-standing family dispute, memories, and a grey house. Did it exist? Or was it just a figment of a child's imagination? Only one can decide!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I'm Bale of Jesse Thorn. With me is Judge John Hodgman. Happy New Year.
0:14.0	I don't like to say happy New Year. I like to say hopeful New Year.
0:17.0	Hopeful New Year to you.
0:18.0	In honor of this wonderful New Year, hopefully wonderful New Year,
0:23.0	we're running one of our all-time favorite episodes of Judge John Hodgman.
0:28.0	It's one that we talk about all the time, but that you might not have heard. It is from quite a while ago.
0:33.0	It's called Rasha Mom.
0:35.0	This is episode 58. It originally ran almost a decade ago.
0:40.0	We were often referred to it as the Greyhouse episode for reasons that you will understand.
0:45.0	It is about a dispute within a family as to whether or not a house existed or not.
0:50.0	Yeah, amazing.
0:51.0	It was such an interesting exploration of ambiguity and its role in family lore.
0:57.0	That when the truth of the Greyhouse was finally revealed,
1:02.0	I think it was on a Reddit board somewhere or whatever.
1:06.0	I read the truth and honestly I decided to forget the truth.
1:10.0	And I still don't remember what's true or what's not.
1:13.0	Yeah, you couldn't handle it.
1:14.0	I couldn't handle the truth.
1:16.0	We also mentioned David Rees in his book How to Sharpen Pencils in this episode,
1:20.0	which came out around that time, which is a great book about literally How to Sharpen Pencils.
1:25.0	I'd also like to direct your attention after this episode.
1:28.0	Go listen to the most recent episode of election profit makers.
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