54. Ice Cream Trucks, Brooklyn (w/ Matt Hock)

Phil and Jake are joined by returning guest "Million Dollar" Matt Hock (from Space Cadet & The Explosion) to rank ice cream trucks and the New York City borough of Brooklyn on the List of Every Damn Thing.

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SHOW NOTES:

• Here’s the classic Eddie Murphy ice cream truck bit that taught us everything we know.
• Mister Softee is a soft-serve truck that drives around in the mid-Atlantic states. While trying to explain the business benefits of soft-serve, Phil refers to the movie The Founder, which is about McDonalds. One of the central issues in the movie is the original founders of McDonalds want to have real ice cream shakes but storing ice cream is very expensive due to the refrigeration. Soft serve ice cream is much cheaper because it doesn't need to be refrigerated while in transit or storage.
• A meager amount of research leads us to the stance that trucks (aka lorries) are different from vans.
• The racist version of “Turkey in the Straw” that Phil refers to was recorded in 1916, just a few years before Harry Burt created the first ice cream truck. So it follows that this version may be the one people knew in the early days of ice cream truckin’.
• Does sound travel further in warmer weather? There are scientists who will say it travels faster in the summer heat and humidity, but that it travels further in the winter. We think it's mostly due to having windows open in the summer.
• Does ice cream sell better on rainy days? This is some purely anecdotal BS that Phil heard in grade school from a guy who worked at an ice cream shop, and has accepted as the truth. He has no documented proof for this. He looked online but has found nothing that backs it up.
• When Jake talks about the melody from “Ice Cream Man” by Dru Down (featuring Luniz), he's talking about the main part of the song, not the intro featuring “Pop Goes the Weasel”. A few years after this song came out, Master P released a song by the same name (with a similar intro), but it’s not nearly as catchy. Another song by a Bay Area rapper apparently played by some ice cream trucks is “Ice Cream” by Andre Nikatina, which is pretty much just a “Turkey In the Straw” remix.
• Here’s the scene from Friday where the ice cream truck is used as a front for a drug dealer.
• Western Beef is a mid-Atlantic supermarket chain whose mascot is a cactus in a cowboy hat. Their old CEO had mafia ties. The location Phil was thinking about is at 44 Empire Blvd by the park.
• Fud is a brand of hot dogs from Mexico.
• Fuddhism is a restaurant with a goofy name in Truckee, CA.
• Junior’s Cheesecake is a place where Matt likes to urinate.
• Christie’s Jamaican Patties is now closed. It's described as beloved in the linked article so you know it wasn't just Phil that liked it.
• Taqueria Diana in Williamsburg is an outstanding place to get Mexican food (and mezcal). If you’re hungry and in Brooklyn, go there. In fact, if you’re anywhere in New York City, go there. The Williamsburg location is the best.
• Here’s the EDT episode featuring Efrem Schulz where he helped us rank “Weird Al” Yankovic over Bruce Springsteen.

ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
wheat germ * carob * quiescently frozen desserts * holy communion * In-N-Out Burger * “It’s Now or Never” by Elvis Presley * Glasgow Ice Cream Wars * It’s-It * peanut butter ice cream * interspecies animal friends * firefighters * Bill Paxton * rye bread * Christmas trees * pancakes * Coney Island * Hawaii * air conditioning * Jersey Shore * fast fashion * Mendocino County

Below are the Top Ten and Bottom Top items on List of Every Damn Thing as of this episode (for the complete up-to-date list, go here):

TOP TEN:

1. Dolly Parton - person
2. interspecies animal friends - idea
3. sex - idea
4. Clement Street in San Francisco - location
5. Prince - person
6. It’s-It - food
7. Cher - person
8. Pee-Wee Herman - fictional character
9. Donald Duck - fictional character
10. Hank Williams - person

BOTTOM TEN:

170. Jenny McCarthy - person
171. Jon Voight - person
172. Hank Williams, Jr - person
173. British Royal Family - institution
174. Steven Seagal - person
175. McRib - food
176. war - idea
177. cigarettes - drug
178. QAnon - idea
179. transphobia - idea

Theme song by Jade Puget. Graphic design by Jason Mann. This epis...