Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman Podcast. I'm Baylif Jesse Thorn. This week we're clearing the docket. I'm in Chambers with Judge Hodgman.

Hi, Judge Hodgman.

Happy New Year, Jesse. Happy New Year. It's January 27th, 2016.

Happy New Year. I kiss you on the mouth. Have you been singing all-dlanseign for 28 days? No, no, no. This is New Year. It's Canadian New Year.

It's when they celebrate it in Canada. We have a lot of Canadian listeners and I respect them and they're weird alternate holidays as well.

This is the day that the three kings celebrate New Year's. Exactly so. How's your New Year going so far, Jesse Thorn?

I know you're, you know what? I got no complaints about 2016. I don't like how legendary entertainers, legendary and beloved entertainers keep dying, but the truth is that we all died.

Yes, today is a day that we learned that not only David Bowie and Lenny, excuse me, Lenny, Lenny and Squiggy, but also Lemmy from Motorhead and of course Alan Rickman, the news broke this morning, not this morning, the morning of this recording.

I know it was very, very sobering and sad here as he is one of my favorite actors. Yeah, and he was a wonderful guest on Bullseye as was Lemmy actually.

I've heard Lemmy, but I haven't heard Alan Rickman. I will go back into the archives and listen to it. How can I get there?

Oh, you just go to Maximumfund.org or go into iTunes, your favorite podcasting application or search on SoundCloud. There's a variety of different ways to find my interview with Alan Rickman in which we do funny French accents to each other.

May we all hold? I will, I honestly have never heard that and I'm going to go listen to it right now and I'm glad we got a completely organic plug in for the group.

I'm going to go back into the podcast and radio show Bullseye with Jesse Thorne.

As long as we're getting plugs in, let's get a case settled. Here's something from Matt. During a recent mid-morning flight from New York to Miami, I witnessed an incident across the aisle.

It was a two-seat row, both seats occupied. The person at the window was snoozing and had closed the shade.

Isle seat asked them to open the shade.

Window seat said, no.

Isle seat again asked more insistently and was told, no again.

In the next 120 seconds, the situation ramped up into raised voices, loud sighs, accusations

of rudeness from both parties, and finally the frantic ding-ding of the flight attendant

bell.

Isle seat then demanded a new seat.

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