Judge John Hodgman - TEASER: Members Only Mailbag July 2025

Episode Date: July 25, 2025

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memberships at Maximum Fun start at just five bucks a month. Join us, MaximumFun.org slash join and don't miss out. I want to get into this ready to go issue, but just for consistency sake, I will say that I take my shoes off at home, but I don't expect other people to. And I have a pair of Hoka One One mango colored slides. They're like flip-flops that I wear. But then I bring them to Maine and then by the time the second week that we're here in Maine, I'm just wearing them everywhere

inside and out, even in the grocery store. It's disgusting. I mean, part of the thing is I got a lot of shoes. I'm not, look, I'm not just buying shoes, Willy nilly from sample sales, like Jennifer Marmott. No, it was not Willy nilly. I got a lot of shoes and my bedroom is pretty far from the front door. Yeah. And I'm not just like carrying shoes around my house all the time. Like when I take off my shoes, I put them, I take them off by where I put them away.

And I also have hard floors. I don't have like wall to wall carpets with like, I vacuum the rugs that I have. I have very nice rugs, but like, uh, mostly when I'm walking around my house, a lot of it is just walking on a hard floor that once a week gets swept and mopped, you know? Jesse, I think everything's great. You've got nothing to apologize for. You have no idea. You have no idea the intensity of the reactions

to this choice that I make inside my own home. Yeah, we already got 75 emails about it. Yeah. Yeah, people are like, how could you bring outside dirt into your house? That's the most disgusting thing in the history of the world. And I'm like, I don't know.

I'm walking on it when I'm outside too. I spend much of my time outside. It's never poisoned me yet. It's not like you're wearing your shoes to bed. No, that would be gross. And I'm sincerely like I'm walking on the sidewalk. There's a normal amount of dirt on the sidewalk. I have doormats.

I'm not a monster.