Ben Cohen

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1,024 appearances 9 recordings 7 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 19 Jun

Ben Cohen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Maybe we should start our own business.

And the only thing we really liked doing was eating.

So it had to be a food business, and our idea was that we wanted to live in a rural college town.

In Vermont?

Well, we didn't know it was going to be Vermont.

And we wanted to take a food trend that was starting off in the big cities and take it to a rural college town.

Smart.

So the two things that were happening at the time were bagels and homemade ice cream.

So first it was going to be bagels, and then we looked into how much the equipment cost, and we couldn't afford it.

So we figured ice cream had to be cheaper, and that's how we decided to go into the ice cream business.

Food for me is mostly texture.

And what I like about ice cream is the contrast of the smooth, creamy ice cream with the crunchy, big chunks.

You know, I do have somewhat of a minimal sense of smell, a minimal sense of taste.

And so the ice cream is also very highly flavored so that I could figure out what the heck I'm eating.

You know, people used to talk about all those dirty hippies, peace and love, you know, derisively.

And I mean, the original peace and love guy is Jesus Christ.

So yeah, I believe that those are the basic things that we need to be working for.

So, you know, people have derisively called me, you know, the hippie businessman.

And I just say, you know, I'm

I'm pretty much following the Sermon on the Mount.

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