Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast.

I'm Bail of Jesse Thorn, we're in Chambers this week clearing the docket, with the

clearest man in America, Judge John Hodgman.

Not just the clearest, also the docketist.

This might come out on or very near to February 29th, the magic day of leap year.

What do you do on leap year, Jesse, to celebrate an extra day of February?

Don't I do.

Is it really a magic day, John?

It's a magic day because the hero of Pirates of Penzance was born on leap year.

What was his name?

Kevin Klein.

No, not Kevin Klein.

He was the pirate king that was my role.

I'm talking about Frederick, the young hero, played by Rex Smith in that movie.

And that guy was born on February 29th, and that's why he thought that he had come of age

and could leave his pirate indentures and get married and no longer be a pirate, but

then it turned out he was born on leap year.

So technically, he was only five instead of 21.

And that's how the pirates kept him.

And I sang a song called Paradox, and it was the subject of one of the most embarrassing

moments of my life.

Because when I met friend of maximum fun, Lin-Manuel Miranda one time, I mentioned to him that

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