Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I'm Bale of Jesse Thorne. We're in chambers this week

clearing the docket with me as always. He's the King of all justice Judge John Hodgman.

Jesse, did you go down to the Big Easy New Orleans? Yes or no?

I went to the Great City of New Orleans. Yes. Did you les a la Bontan roulet or what?

Vougatiavic Mosseswa. Syswa?

May we? Did you have a good time there? I haven't been there in a long time.

I had a fantastic time. It was my best friend Pete Fields wedding from Slow Motion Cowboys.

And they had I think a total of six bands plus a second line.

Hmm. So I think it was two bands the night before, two bands the day of two bands that night.

Plus a second line that day. Oh, all that plus all you can drink. My grain suffers paradise.

Let's go. Here is a case from Neil in Milwaukee. My wife Liz and I have a dispute about the saying

that starts you get what you get and you blank. Uh huh. I know this one. I'm a parent.

I say the next part is you don't get upset because it rhymes. Hmm. My wife says the saying is you

get what you get and you don't throw a fit. She just claims that's how the saying goes.

That makes no sense to me. Please explain to her she is wrong. Jesse, you ever say these words,

you get what you get and you either don't get upset or don't throw a fit. Yeah, it's about radical

acceptance, right? Oh, I don't know. I think it was just something you say to kids. Okay. Either way.

That's what they call in AA the serenity prayer, right? Hmm.

God or whatever grant me the courage to change what can be changed. The serenity, the grace

to accept what can't be changed from the wisdom to not throw a fit. It's hard not to throw a fit.

I must throw a fit. I must throw a fit when I was on an airplane. Well, you were in New Orleans.

I was on an airplane with my family and our son was seated behind us and there were two teenage

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