Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I'm Baylif Jesse Thorn. We're in chambers

this week clearing the docket with me as always. The man, the myth, the legend. Judge

John Hodgman.

I'll take you a while to remember my name. I've been giving you the full James Brown lately,

but I forgot to. No, that's fine. I'm, look, you know, we're tired. We just got back

from tour. It was a wonderful time. I want to say thank you to everyone who came out

to our shows. I'm now back in my permanent chambers and everything is in good order.

I'd asked Travis McElroy to come by and water the plants and he did a great job and he

turned it into a podcast called Waterton with Trav. And that's, that's now number one

on the podcast charts and in development for a gd comedy for, with Zach Braf starring.

So it's all back normal in the world, but not all is just we have a few cases, just a few

instances of injustice in this world and we are about to solve them. So let's do it,

Charlie. Here's something from Christina. My husband, Joey and I like to do the New York

Times Crossword puzzle online. When we're stuck, we'll often use the internet to help

us fill in answers. Will shorts himself says it's not cheating to do so. When I'm stuck

while solving puzzles by myself, I occasionally use the check word feature on the puzzle.

This confirms whether or not the answer is correct. You don't need to tell me, Christina.

Joey calls me a cheater when I do this. I don't see the difference between using the internet

to look things up and using the tool provided by the puzzle to confirm an answer is this

cheating or am I safe to continue checking my answers and still consider myself an honorable

puzzler. So if I understand this correctly, Joey goes along with Will shorts and saying

that using the internet that is checking or confirming an answer using a search engine

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