Is Butter Pecan For Old People?

Judge John Hodgman

Jesse Thorn

Justice, Society & Culture, World, Knowledge, Kids & Family, Relationships, Mac, Comedy, John Hodgman, Information, Show, Judge, More, John Hodgeman, Pc, Jesse Thorn

4.8 • 7.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Is Butter Pecan ice cream for old people? Or is it a flavor for all ages? It's time to clear the docket of all your coldest Ice Cream Queries.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I am bailiff Jesse Thorne. We're clearing the summer docket. With me is Judge John Hodgman. Hi, John. How are you? Well, I'm very well, Jesse. How are you? I'm back in Brooklyn, New York. You are back, as always, at at headquarters at Maximum Fun in downtown Los Angeles.
0:23.6	But while this is coming out after Memorial Day, so you know I'm wearing my white pants and my
0:30.2	Searsucker underwear.
0:32.7	A little bit before Memorial Day, we went to Mexico together.
0:38.5	Yeah, we had to go. That was a pretty amazing thing. So as long-time listeners know, or even
0:46.7	medium-time listeners know, a year or so ago, we ran a fundraising campaign for our friends at an
0:54.0	organization called All Ottrolado,
0:56.5	who do services for migrants on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.
1:04.3	And if we thought, we truly thought, or at least I truly thought, that we might be able to match through fundraising.
1:18.1	My wife and I put up 30K, and I was like, I wonder if we could match this.
1:24.3	Like, I really wanted to do something.
1:29.0	And I was like, maybe if I talk about it on Judge John Hodgman, we could match that.
1:35.1	And I said, Jesse, good luck.
1:37.9	Because if there's one thing I've learned over the years of interacting with Judge John Hodgman listeners.
1:45.0	They're not kind.
1:46.8	No.
1:47.0	They're profoundly selfish skin flints.
1:49.7	Yeah, marked by contempt for others.
1:52.0	Yeah, yeah, they're takers.
1:53.5	You know what I mean?
1:54.2	They're takers and mooches.
1:56.2	And I guess I was proven wrong.
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