Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast, I'm Baylif Jesse Thorne.

This week, anti-social networking.

Lauren brings the case against her friend Mike.

She says Mike texts and emails regularly when they are commuting, having lunch or generally

being social, and then it's rude and distracts him from the conversation.

Mike says using your phone in casual social situations is perfectly okay if you can multitask

and par for the course with our generation.

Who's right and who's rude?

Only one man can decide.

Please rise as Judge John Hodgman enters the court row.

I think if Mike and Lauren want to sit on my shoulders and call themselves tall, they

have the right to give it a try, but there's no requirement that I enjoy sitting here listening

to people lie.

You have part of my attention.

You have the minimum amount.

The rest of my attention is back in my chambers where Baylif Jesse and I are doing things

that no one in this room, including Mike and Lauren, are intellectually or creatively

capable of doing, which is to say we're in there shutting pie holes.

Baylif Jesse, 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?

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