Judge John Hodgman - TEASER: Members Only Mailbag September 2024

Episode Date: September 27, 2024

The September Members Only Mailbag is in the Maximum Fun bonus feed! In this clip, Judge John Hodgman talks about his earliest experiences with a Tesla car. Why is the J Squad talking about Teslas? The answer may surprise you!!!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 is happening NOW! Get your tickets at maximumfun.org/events.

It's the Judge John Hodgman podcast and it's me, producer Jennifer Marmor. I'm back this month to let you know that there's a new Members Only Mailbag episode in the Maximum Fun Bonus Feed. So here's a little clip that I pulled for the regular feed. John is telling Jesse and me about his first experiences with Teslas in the wild. If you're wondering why on earth are we talking about Teslas, it's a totally reasonable question. And I think you know what I'm going to say next. The answer is in the full episode, which you can only listen to if you are a Maximum Fund member.

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Theater tonight as of this episode's release. So please come see us and please say hi to me if you see me. All right, let's get to that clip. The first Tesla I ever saw in the wild, I was driving north on Laurel Canyon Boulevard over the mountains. Los Angeles. Los Angeles. That's in Los Angeles. Going to visit Lindsey Buckingham or something.

Yeah, I was going to I was going to I was going to a Joni Mitchell's old house. Yeah. My her house is a very, very, very fine house. They paved it and put up a parking lot. I don't know if you've been there. Well, you know what? The parking was very convenient.

OK. Yeah. I mean, it's a shame, but yeah. And as I'm driving up the hill, cresting the hill, coming over the hill in the opposite direction, J.K. Simmons driving a Tesla, maybe three days after he got, I think it was Best Supporting Oscar, for Bad Jazz Man in jazz drums or whatever that was called. Yeah, that was called Yell Man.

They called that movie, that movie was called Ace the Movie. Whiplash was the name of the movie. And I don't, look, I liked that movie. I thought he was definitely deserving the Academy Award for that performance, which was horrifying and good. And I was like, you drive Tesla King, you earned that car. And that was 10 years ago, at least,

at a time when Tesla still had a veneer of, like cool to it, I suppose. Or not, it wasn't so firmly associated with pure, pure unrepentant asshole-ism. Yeah. And then, I mean, look, maybe this guy doesn't have this Tesla anymore. But one of the nicest people that I've ever known in my life a

comedian that we all love had gotten himself a Tesla around the same time you could say it Jackie Mason I'm not gonna say who it was but he gave me a ride in his Tesla and I was like this is a cool car I was like if if vacation land is a big bestseller, I'm going to get one of these cars. Well, lucky for me, moderate seller and ended up not getting one because the reputation and frankly, the quality of those cars, if they were ever good, the one time I ever drove one was recently. I, I, I went to go see a mountain goats show with my son, who's a whole human being in his own right in Carboro,

North Carolina at the cat's cradle. We just flew down to see the show. I made a reservation at budget or whatever. Manager's special. You decide, manager. Yeah. Please, manager, you You decide manager. Yeah. Please manager. You should decide that would be great. And they gave me a Tesla.

It's the first time I ever drove one and it felt like I was driving a toy. Cheap as S inside as expensive as it is. All of the, all of the stuff that you touch inside feels like it's gonna crumble in your hands. I didn't enjoy the driving experience. Wasn't cool. Hey manager, should have given Hajime a Hyundai like I drive.

You have an electric Hyundai, right? I do, I have an EV or is it a Hyundai IONIQ 5. And you like it. I like it, there's a lot of interior room. Car talk is a very popular thing to do on a, into radio phones. Sure. Radio phones, radio microphones.

Yeah, we're just a couple of, we're just a couple of local gear heads that are nuts about our wheels. ["Maximum Fun," by The Capsule Band plays.] Maximum Fun, a worker-owned network of artist-owned shows supported directly

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