Judge John Hodgman - TEASER: September 2025 Members Only Mailbag

Episode Date: September 26, 2025

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It's the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I'm Bill of Jesse Thorne. With me, Judge John Hodgman. Hey, if you are a maximum fund member, first of all, thank you. And second of all, check your bonus feed right now because the new episode of the Membo Mailbag is now in your bonus content feed. We have a lot of fun talking about all of your letters that were sent in using a secret passphrase, which only members know.

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and so it really just comes down to personal ick whether smell bothers you more than the than the mouth feel of that fetid odor coming out of the litter box and I'll tell you what it's not always the poop and pee it's also the littered dust that's not good oh yeah I used to also like put my shirt over my face too I like

yeah wear a wear a mask and gloves Why not? Oh, yeah. But whichever way icks you more mouth or nose is fine, and it doesn't have to be one way or the other. Trust me. I'm sure not even smoky and midnight could agree upon the best way to scoop their own litter. But then they don't have to because they've tricked you into doing it.

Jesse, you know what my favorite headline from the onion of all time was? What's that? It was just one of those side headlines that didn't actually link to an article or have an article with it. do you want a box of poop in your apartment get a cat that sounds like when joe garden wrote and joe garden hey joe garden if you're listening joe garden wonderfully funny person and great guy and maybe a listener to this and definitely a writer for the onion in the day if you wrote that joke or no who did it was carol cole maybe it was todd hanson all maybe it was joe randazzo all those wonderful onionies or so what a bunch of nice what a bunch of nice what a bunch of

nice folks were right in the onion. Just incredibly sharp comedic minds and really nice people. Well, the onion is still going. So anyway, if you wrote that joke, let us know. I still think of it and laugh. There it is. If you want to hear the full episode, memberships at Maximum Fund start at just $5 a month.

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