Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I'm Bale of Jesse Thornt. This week we're clearing the docket. How are you, Judge Hodgman?

I'm good. You know what I call clearing the docket? What do you call it?

I have a little docky. Oh really? Is that what you're...

Well, among who do you like when you're... because you've never said that to me?

By myself and my chambers. I feel like I have a little docky.

That is of course a reference to the great Tim Meadows joke from Saturday Night Live.

When Tim Meadows the genius would appear on the show to talk about how much he loves hockey.

And he would say I love hockey so much. Like I don't remember who was the it was like weekend

update. I don't remember who was the official anchor for it. But Tim Meadows would appear as the

hockey commentator. Like you really love hockey Tim? And he's like yeah that's why they call me

Little Hockey. Still makes me laugh. I love Little Hockey. And here's a little docky for y'all

in your ears. Here's something from Rebecca. I bring a case against my boyfriend,

Loan. He confuses weight staff and our fellow dining companions with the way he orders food

in restaurants. I think it's proper to order drinks then appetizers, then mains, and hold off

on ordering dessert till later. Loan will usually order at random or flip through naming

dishes from the back of the menu to the front. I can see that it confuses the weight staff and

our friends when he reels off the main dishes then goes to the appetizers. It appears as though he's

forgotten to order the appetizers and sometimes he has. That's a parenthetical exclamation.

You know what a radio professional like yourself doesn't need to add a parenthetical

explanation to what is obviously a parenthetical exclamation you nailed it.

You know it's a lot like being a Shakespearean actor. What you're really reading is the punctuation.

Also you're dressed up as a girl. That's true. And everyone is pretending that they can't tell that

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