TEASER: September 2025 Members Only Mailbag

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I'm Bill of Jesse Thorne with me, Judge John Hodgman.

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But there is no, I mean, look, now, Emily, I want to know, well, I'm sorry that your marriage didn't work out.

I hope it's all for the best.

I'm glad that it wasn't over the litter box situation, although it could, you know, I'm sure many marriages have ended that way.

For people who are not pregnant, scooping the litter box is a gross chore, but probably not poisonous.

And so it really just comes down to personal ick.

Whether smell bothers you more than

the mouthfeel of that feeted 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 litter 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.

I wanted to wear a mask and gloves.

Why not?

Oh, yeah.

But the ick, 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 Smokey 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 one Joe Garden wrote.

Friend 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 joker, know who did.

Maybe it was Carol Cole.

Maybe it was Todd Hansen.

Oh, maybe it was Joe Randazzo.

All those wonderful onionies.

What a bunch of nice folks were writing The Onion.

Just incredibly sharp comedic minds and really nice people.

And well, the onion is still going.

So, anyway, if you wrote that joke, let us know.

I still think of it and laugh.

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