Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I'm Bale of Jesse Thorn. This week we're

in Chambers clearing the docket. Hello, Judge Hodgman. Why high Jesse, how are you?

You know, we get a lot more cases than we could ever possibly adjudicate in the course

of a single episode. That's true. Or see, I guess, a series of single episodes. Or my

explanation of this is really poor. But the moral of the story is sometimes we have to do one

episode where we decide a bunch of cases. That's a clearing the docket episode. Does that make sense?

Absolutely. There are issues where maybe a president has already been set or the decision is so clear

cut and the opportunity for me to be brutal and harsh is so delicious. And yet I don't want to

have to say it to someone's face. So we settle it behind their backs. Yeah. Well, let's kick things

off with something from Lewis. My mother is your terrible. No, no, we haven't ever heard the

Judge Hodgman. Is it not appropriate for me to prejudge? No. All right. I always Lewis have to say

my mother bought me a portable battery charger earlier this year, which works very well for

charging my phone. However, it does not have enough power to charge my portable handheld gaming

device. My mother recently bought a new charger for herself, which does have adequate power to

charge a gaming device. I proposed that we trade chargers. She doesn't need the extra juice from

the supercharger. I do. But she doesn't want to cheat. She doesn't want to trade. She believes

that because she bought it, she deserves to keep it. What do you say, Judge Hodgman? See, I told you,

I was right. He was terrible. I didn't need to hear this thing. I'm going to presume, I'm going to

give everyone the benefit of the doubt here and presume that Lewis is a child because his mommy is

buying him chargers for his phone and for his gaming console. And presumably also to go underneath

his dining plates. You don't eat without chargers that hear a home do you? Wow. Wow.

I have to walk out of the room for a second and just process that. That was amazing. Thank you.

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