Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I'm Baelif Jesse Thorne this week. We're clearing the

docket. How are you Judge Hodgman? I am so ready to clear up some dockets. It's crazy.

Stocket is severely clogged. You know what you got to do. You got to get somebody out here to

hydrojet the docket once and a while. I feel like the docket is a little is a little backed up. I

mean I don't know how far back our docket goes at this point maybe maybe three months I've been

traveling so much. Well let's hear the first case from Trent. I own a comic book store and I

produce a scene with my friend Steve. What? Well I think we've discovered how far back the docket

goes. Judge yeah but I didn't realize it goes all the way back to 1992. What does Steve do?

I mean what does Steve do? Presumably he's like a modem repairman or something. Yeah that's right.

He repairs the modem couplers that you use when you're going to hack into WAPER.

He's a mechanic who supplies us in in Geos. Yeah. Oh well remember those good old times.

No I mean only vaguely. Yeah that's true. That's true. You're too young to remember these good old times.

This is one of the most amazing things about my friendship with Jesse Thorne. You guys I've known

Jesse for a decade and for a decade he's constantly and consistently surprised me with his deep knowledge

of cultural ephemera from a decade before he should have been aware of culture. In other words

when we talk about Zines Jesse do you know what fact sheet five is? I do know what he's exactly. That's

the scene that's about it's like a list of Zines. It's a scene of Zines. It's a review of Zines. I

used to love getting fact sheet five in the mail and reading about all the different Zines I could

write away for. But there's no reason. That was when I was 19 years old and you were nine.

I think that it is a it is a byproduct of a childhood spent in the Isles of Art Vark books in San

Francisco. Reading old old issues slash copies of Research magazine. You have always been

unnaturally aged as have I been and that is why we run a tight ship of a courtroom. So let's get

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