This Is The Name Of Your Mullet

Judge John Hodgman

Jesse Thorn

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4.8 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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It’s time to clear the docket! This week, we're taking on NAMING DISPUTES! Who has the naming rights to an inflatable dinosaur? What to name a mullet? And how many names of different Alpha Flight members can John and Jesse come up with?

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast. Me, I'm Bill of Jesse Thorn. We're in chambers
0:08.7	this week to clear the docket and with me is Brooklyn's own Judge John Hodgman.
0:15.7	Brooklyn and Brooklyn lines and maybe even Brooklyn in zone. Judge John Hodgman had
0:23.4	a wonderful sleep last night, ready to name some people places and things, emphasis on people.
0:30.8	This is a big responsibility, Jesse Thorn. Naming is power. Naming is very powerful and that's
0:39.8	why humans get to rename themselves in case their names are wrong. But today, no one has more power
0:48.6	than the court of Judge John Hodgman because people have brought things to be named. And I'm not
0:54.2	going to say do whatever you like. I'm going to tell you this is going to be named this. And that's
1:00.5	going to be binding Jesse Thorn unless you're a human in which case you can change your name. Yeah.
1:08.0	Or the name of the thing or the backyard pub that you've built in Des Moines, Iowa. We're going to
1:14.3	name a lot of different things. Jesse, do you like your name Jesse Thorn? I do. It's pretty cool.
1:18.4	I've always liked my name. Yeah. One time someone told me it sounded like a secret agent. And since then
1:23.4	I've been completely on board. It's a really cool, that is a really cool name for a character in a book.
1:28.9	Now, my name is John Hodgman. It is also my dad's name. I've never had any problem with it whatsoever.
1:36.6	The only problem I have with it is when people think that my name is Jonathan, which it is not.
1:42.2	And people think they're being cutesy by being extra formal with me and they go, well, Jonathan,
1:47.8	you're wrong about something. No, my name is John. And I'm always right.
1:54.3	But I did have to make a choice when I became a person who had a thing published in a magazine.
2:01.7	What was my byline going to be? Was it going to be John Hodgman or John K Hodgman or John Kellogg
2:09.9	Hodgman? Is that is my middle name or Jonathan Livingston Seagull?
2:15.6	Second time in a week that's come up. Isn't that weird? It's very weird. It's very weird.
2:20.2	Very obscure. What kind of a spiritual novel of the 60s? Is that what that was? I think it was from
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