Judge John Hodgman - Teaser: Members Only Mailbag August 2024

Episode Date: August 30, 2024

In the August Membo Mailbag, the J Squad guesses a little DC Comics trivia! Will they get the right answer? Why are they talking about DC trivia? You'll have to hear the entire episode to find out.For the full episode, check your members only bonus content feed! Not yet a member? It’s easy to become one! Go to maximumfun.org/join and become a member at $5 a month or higher.Don’t know how to access your bonus content? Click here for instructions! Judge John Hodgman: Road Court! Tickets are on sale NOW! For dates and more information, go to maximumfun.org/events.

It's the Judge John Hodgman podcast and I'm producer Jennifer Marmor. It's the last Friday of the month. You know what that means, a new Membo mailbag. So here's a clip from this month's episode. We're in the middle of a DC Comics trivia quiz. Jesse, John and Joel have some trouble coming up with the correct answer as you will hear. What is the answer to the question anyway? And why are we talking about DC trivia? Well, you know what I'm about to say. You're going to have to hear the full episode to find out. If you're a Max Fund member, you can just go ahead and check your bonus feed and this episode in full will be right there. If you're not a member, it's so easy to become one. Just go to MaximumFund.org slash join. Any membership at the $5 a month

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We can't wait to see you on the road. In the post-crisis Wonder Woman comics, which ancient plant deity was responsible for transforming archaeologist Barbara Ann Minerva into Wonder Woman's nemesis, the Cheetah? Which ancient plant deity transformed Barbara Ann Minerva into Wonder Woman's nemesis, the Cheetah? I got this one. Okay. Apple King. Apple King. Apple King. Who's Apple King?

He's the king of all types of apples, be it Gala, Granny Smith, Honeycrisp. Yeah. Even even newer apple varietals like Jazz. I thought it was the king of carrot flowers. So, you know, is Apple King a good guy or a bad guy? Depends on the day. Sort of depends on the context. He's a sort of modern antihero. Right. Sometimes sometimes if he's not stored correctly, he can get mealy.

Sometimes if he doesn't like you, he gives you a red delicious. Sometimes a worm drives him. Apple King, an original character invented by Jesse Thorne at this moment. Joel Mann. Here, let me give you some context here. This is the post-crisis DC universe. So in the mid-1986 or 87, don't at me, DC rebooted its entire continuity of its universe, wiping out its history to that point in a storyline called Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Supergirl died, the Flash died, and a lot of history got rewritten and rebooted from that moment going forward. It's happened about 17 times since then, but it was the first time that anyone had ever done this. And if you talk about post-crisis, we're talking about after that restart of their whole history. We're talking about Wonder Woman,

who is a character invented by William Moulton Marston, a notorious eccentric and bondage aficionado. That's why there's a golden lasso in that story. Also the so-called inventor of the lie detector, which is also why there's a golden lasso in that story. Also the so-called inventor of the lie detector, which is also why there's a golden lasso in that story. Anyway, she was formed by mud and a quasi ancient Grecian community of all women called Amazons on a mystical island called Themyscira or Paradise Island. So we're looking for an ancient plant deity who turned a woman

into the cheetah, Wonder Woman's nemesis. And I'm kind of thinking, I don't know the answer but I'm kind of thinking it's got to come from like a Greek pantheon is my guess. So who are the plant goddesses?

Ceres is the goddess of agriculture in the Roman pantheon. This is all just me trying to explain. I know some stuff, Alex. Clearly I know some stuff. I can talk my way around this answer, but I don't know the answer. Grape man. Grape man.

All right, Apple King, Grape Man. And I'm going to say Satsuma Kid just to round out the homages.