On the Judge John Hodgman Podcast, Judge John Hodgman considers how much X-Men lore is too much X-Men lore. “So your adult child is lore dumping about X-MEN. You love your kid, but you can’t care this much about these mutants. What should you do? Only one can […]
Monét X Change has a case on Judge John Hodgman’s podcast! “Andy says he and his fiancé Monét X Change have an adorable meet-cute story. But Monét says that this meet-cute is meet-fake: it DIDN’T HAPPEN. Who’s right?” Listen here.
Judge John Hodgman hears cases related to the card game, Magic: The Gathering… or, in the context of the show, Spellcast! The Getalong. Listen here.
The Honorable Judge John Hodgman hears a Pokémon-related dispute on the Judge John Hodgman podcast. “Cameron brings the case against his friend Shooka. When Cameron and Shooka were in college, Cameron was obsessed with Pokémon Go. One day, Cameron was distracted with Pokémon Go, so Shooka took his […]
Memory is an unreliable narrator. It seems so absolutely sure of itself when it’s telling you things that it’s easy to forget it can’t wholly be trusted. There are always gaps and discrepancies, sections that get revised in light of subsequent events or reshaped to soften the sharpest […]
Judge John Hodgman decides a case of towering nerdiness: “Jordan, a lifelong comic book fan, and his friend Charles were discussing the DC comics villain Mr. Mxyzptlk and made a wager: if Jordan’s friends could trick him into saying his own name backwards, he’d owe them five dollars.”
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