An Undigested Bit of Beef LIVE in Brookline

Judge John Hodgman

Jesse Thorn

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4.8 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Are you a Bronze Hotdog or a Scrooge? Does A CHRISTMAS CAROL have too many ghosts?

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I'm bailiff, Jesse Thorne. With me is Judge
0:06.3	John Hodgman. And this is a very special episode of our program. Yeah, they say you can't go home again.
0:14.2	I guess that person never heard of trains, planes, or automobiles, because I went home with you to my hometown
0:19.9	of Brookline, Massachusetts, and my other home,
0:23.2	the Coolidge Corner Theater, where I used to work as a teenager, to present this wonderful
0:27.9	live episode of Judge John Hodgman in Brookline, Massachusetts.
0:32.0	We heard disputes about leftovers.
0:34.3	We heard disputes about pies.
0:36.0	We heard disputes about Charles Dickens'
0:37.8	Christmas Carol, or I'm sorry, a Christmas Carol.
0:40.6	I guess maybe Charles Dickens is going to write another one.
0:42.6	Who knows?
0:43.1	We also spoke with Sam Couture from the Massachusetts Historical Society
0:47.9	about a priceless artifact in the museum's collection.
0:51.5	Let's go to the stage at the John Hodgman Memorial Coolidge Corner Theater.
1:00.7	People of Brookline, you asked us for live justice and we are here to deliver it. The court of
1:07.8	Judge John Hodgman is now in session.
1:17.6	Please welcome to the stage, Jordan and Sarah.
1:25.3	Jordan brings the case against his wife Sarah.
1:28.3	Jordan says that Sarah leaves a few morsels of food on her plate at dinner, even when she's still hungry.
1:36.3	Then she carefully stores these leftover morsels in the fridge, usually to rot.
1:47.7	Jordan says these morsels are trash.
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