Judge John Hodgman - TEASER: June 2025 Members Only Mailbag

Episode Date: June 27, 2025

A neighbor has been calling your dog by the wrong name. You never corrected him. It's been years. Should you let him know your dog's actual name? Or let it go? This month's Members Only Mailbag explores this topic, and much more! Here's a sneak peek. If you want to hear the full episode, you have to be a member! Join for just $5 a month and get immediate access to the entire catalog of MaxFun bonus content! Just go to maximumfun.org/join. Judge John Hodgman is member-supported! Join at $5 a month at maximumfun.org/join!

It's the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I'm Bill of Jesse Thorne. With me is John Hodgman. And if you're a Maximum Fund member, make sure to check your bonus feed. The new episode of our Members Only Mailbag is now in that bonus content feed. If you're not a member, here's what you're missing.

If you want the full episode, memberships at Maximum Fund start at just $5 a month. Join us at MaximumFun.org slash join. So you don't miss this monthly treat. I think we had a case similar to this in Portland, Oregon years ago at a live show where someone's neighbor got the wrong name and was calling the litigant by the wrong name.

And the litigant was like, it's too late to correct him. And it's like, no, it's not. Just do it. Do it. Right? You know what? Here, I'm gonna say something. Hey, Jasperman, first of all, I hope you're feeling better.

That message comes from me, John Hodgman on a podcast. We have a podcast in the United States. Maybe you've heard of it. If not, you've got a lot of good company. Point is, dog's name is Monty, not Jasper. Sorry about the confusion, Martin's too embarrassed to tell you, so I recorded

this message for him to put into a thumb drive to slip under your door. Enjoy, and I hope that you are getting better. Goodbye. What? PS? This is producer Jennifer Marmor with a PS. Yes. Post script. Your name is the Jasperman now. Hope you know, hope you're okay with that.

Yeah. Why don't you know? Hey, by the way, Martin, why don't you know this guy's real name? Because I think that's pretty common among dog owners. You know, the dog name, you don't know the person name. I grew up in a household where my mother has a nickname for everyone that she will use with others as though they are familiar with who that person is. To such an extent that there are whole swaths of the city of San Francisco that believe me to be known to people other than my mother as Bundles Buntings. Yes!

How have I never heard this before? You must be Bundles Buntings, they say. Are you Boon-Sol-A Boon-Sol-A, they say? Boon-Sol-A Boon-Sol-A, I feel like I have heard that before. Yeah, we've heard that one. It's so good. But Bundles Buntings. Yeah, there was a song with Bundles Buntings. It had to do with my diapers.

But that was what the nickname was. But the song went, bundles buntings and the big band sound, play for children all over town. Oh yeah, all the people they say, bundles buntings is a friend today, playing the songs that children love to hear, loud and clear.

That's right, children love that big band sound. We'll be back with more Bundles Buntings and his big band orchestra with the Membo Mailbag in just a minute. Maximum Fun, a workaround network of artist-owned shows supported directly by you.