He isn't on Twitter, and didn't know he had become an international phenomenon until he started getting calls from reporters barely more than an hour after the hearing ended, he said. In the interview, Ponton, who was representing the state of Texas in the case, said that he was using his secretary's computer and that she was "mortified" by the mistake. This causes Phillips to look up, and, finally, the exchange draws a smile and a laugh from him as Ferguson responds: “I can see that.” “I’ve got my assistant here and she’s trying to.” To get the hearing moving, he offers: “I’m prepared to go forward with it.” Then, crucially, he clarifies: “I’m here live. “I don’t know how to remove it,” he says. “Mr Ponton, I believe you have a filter turned on in the video settings,” Judge Roy Ferguson, presiding over the case, begins by telling Ponton in the video. Though the shared recording was less than a minute long, its comedy unfurled second by second, as if it were meticulously scripted.
“If I can make the country chuckle for a moment in these difficult times they’re going through, I’m happy to let them do that at my expense,” he said in a phone interview on Tuesday afternoon. It offered an injection of harmless levity when many people are experiencing a rough time – and Ponton took it in good spirits. The result was a video immediately hailed across the internet as an instant classic, in the rarefied company of classics like Knife Kid and BBC Dad. But here was Rod Ponton, an attorney in Texas, unable to figure out how to turn off the cat filter on his Zoom call during a hearing on Tuesday. Courts usually don't let cats argue cases.
Ponton responds saying he's aware and says, "I'm here live, I'm not a cat." The video was posted to the court's YouTube page, which houses a series of its virtual streams.įerguson took to Twitter on Monday and shared a friendly reminder as many continue to grow accustomed to the new world of virtual meetings.It was a civil-forfeiture case hearing like any other hearing, except for the lawyer cat. In the video, Judge Roy Ferguson warns Ponton, saying "I believe you have a filter turned on in the video settings." As he tried to hurry and turn the filter off, he told a Texas judge, "I'm here live, I'm not a cat!" See for yourself in the video above.īREWSTER COUNTY, Texas - An attorney in west Texas received some unexpected attention during a Zoom call that involved the face of a friendly cat.ĭuring a virtual court proceeding on Tuesday in the 394th Judicial District Court in Brewster County, Texas, attorney Rod Ponton logged on to the meeting with a cat filter emblazoned across his screen.
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