Not only that, but the judge remarked that he was like 37 minutes late or something. So in other words, even if he had set his alarm correctly, he would have still been 7 minutes late.
To me this is shocking for something that should mean the world to him. In my industry, it is considered standard practice to be at any scheduled in-person event 15-30 minutes early. Our saying is, “if you’re there right on time, you’re late”. Walking in at 8:00 for an 8:00 deadline is a tremendously bad idea and you will make many people upset and frustrated with you. Get there early. This mong couldn’t even handle that. And again, this wasn’t a janitor night shift at Wally World, this is (what he imagines is) his bread and butter. And he can’t even afford the court personnel the respect of even being fucking theoretically on time!
ETA: the other striking thing I got from listening to the audio — I had only ever read the transcript until recently — was how fucking dumb Russell sounds. Now I’m not talking about his Moebius mouth. I won’t hold that against him. But it takes him AGES to collect his thoughts, to respond to questions, to reorient to another line of questioning, or even just — even after like 45 seconds of preamble from the judge — fucking explain his own dumb actions. He just sounds really, really slow and low IQ. His mush mouth being cured tomorrow would do nothing to fix that.