Alice

Everyone has to wait for the defendant or the, you know, whoever to get in.

Honestly, the most important person, especially during any sort of a substantive hearing or a trial.

is the court reporter.

The judge, a good judge, and a good courtroom deputy will always check with the court reporter before anything starts.

Madam court reporter, are you ready to start?

And if she's not, nobody's moving.

If she needs a bathroom break, everyone's taking a bathroom break.

So that's just like background.

Way to go.

And by the way, we have such a dearth.

We need court reporters.

And this is actually could be an inhibition to justice because we actually cannot have many of our change of pleas, our guilty plea hearings, all of these without court reporters.

So oftentimes we have to schedule around court reporters if we don't have enough court reporters to be present for our hearings.

reading off what's on the screen because we're going through documents and she's sitting right next to him it's just and he is like taking a knee like as if on the field but his 50 yard line was the court reporter's lap essentially and she and she was this tiny little lady and he was this hulk of a man and he was just and he only spoke in like volume 100 right there was no so she must have been going deaf in one ear

As he was screaming, because he was a little bit deaf, which is why he couldn't hear.

So he spoke very loudly as well.

I don't get those.

I always get chastised by the court reporters to speak slower.

Really?

I get chastised a lot, especially, obviously, you guys are all nodding along when I get going on an oral argument or something.