Get your gavels ready, we’re taking a trip back to 2017! Today we’ve got a custody case: both for a kid and for a car! Plus, we’ve got a case about a house painter who barely painted a house, and barely got paid for it, too!
You know the drill. This is Judging Judy, the world’s top Judging Judy comedy podcast. Perfect for fans of the original TV show and those who have never seen laid eyes upon Judy Shendlin, Judging Judy is a hilarious watch-along podcast in the spirit of Doughboys, Cinephobe, Comedy Bang Bang and other storied podcasts. But unlike those other guys, this pod is dedicated not to food or movies or characters. Our only focus is on America’s favorite least favorite TV Judge. After all, it’s our duty to Judge Judy. And we take it very seriously.
After a must-listen recap of what was going on in the world back when this episode aired in 2017(think unaffordable health care, Scandinavian wolves, and Niall Horan), a quiz on what the weather was like in a certain secret city, and a look at the box office(a little movie by Ken Marino gets the spotlight), we hop into the cases.
Our first case concerns two young parents from Georgia and Florida who, ostensibly, are squabbling over repairs made to a car. However, Judy quickly discerns that the car isn’t half as important as the kid these two have together. While the mom technically has custody, the dad is trying to involve himself in his child’s life, even though he doesn’t have the DNA test to prove the kid is even his! Judy has to cut through the noise to try to discern what’s best for the mom, the dad, the kid and the car.
In our second case, everyone’s least favorite person, a Contractor, stiffed a homeowner after they agreed on a price for painting her house. No surprise, after he slowly started doing the job, he decided to jack up the price. Judy has to try to make sense of what, if anything, the homeowner is owed based on what she already paid and what she eventually had to pay to get somebody else to do the job the Contractor didn’t do.
Once we wrap up with the cases, the real fun begins, because then it’s my turn to Judge Judy. Based on an entirely arbitrary set of criteria(in the vein of Whose Line Is It Anyway?), I take what Judy did, what she said, and how she acted and I determine if she did her job or not. If she did, she’s innocent. If not, she’s guilty.
We try to keep it light. We try to keep it simple. We try to keep it fun. But that doesn’t mean we don’t take our job seriously!
Despite being a popular comedy podcast, Judge Judy also offers a piercing view of America, its villains and its heroes. After all, Judy was on TV for over 25 years and had strong public mindshare and an indelible cultural impact. It’s important to take a careful examination into who she was and what she meant to America by way of the cases that came before her.
Judging Judy is the one-of-a-kind podcast that guarantees a good, thoughtful and absurd time, every time.
