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Speaker 1: Let's dive in hey their podcast listeners, I'm Monga's particular

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Speaker 1: and my co host Will Pearson is out today sunning

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Speaker 1: Hey Gabe, Hey, thanks for having me on. Yeah, of course.

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Speaker 1: I know we're doing an episode on ice cream today.

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Speaker 1: Are you an ice cream guy?

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Speaker 1: Oh that's amazing. I kind of love that. So here's

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Speaker 1: this is what you remembered from his youth and what

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Speaker 1: he wanted to bring back. But he also reinstituted the

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Speaker 1: pledge of allegiance before every meeting, which feels very Clint Eastwood.

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Speaker 1: And the article also pointed out, though, that he voted

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Speaker 1: to ban beachfront fireworks on July fourth, which sounds a

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Speaker 1: little antithetical to those other two things.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so much for getting rid of the kill joy mentality. Wow,

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Speaker 2: I know, well, I know, We've got two more ice

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Speaker 2: cream facts to share, but before we do, let's take

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Speaker 2: a quick break.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to part time genius. Abe. Do you know

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Speaker 1: what the grossest ice cream flavor served as a state

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Speaker 1: dinner has to be? No, what's that oyster? It was

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Speaker 1: oyster flavored ice cream. So Jake Cross and A Metal

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Speaker 1: Flaws did the story on the history of ice cream

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Speaker 1: all accounts, the greatest host or hostess in Washington, d C,

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Speaker 1: used to serve oyster ice cream to guests who were

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Speaker 1: totally wowed by it.

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Speaker 2: Wow, I'm kind of surprised people kept coming to these

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. But actually, the other thing I learned

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Speaker 1: from the piece was that George Washington was really the

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Speaker 1: person who made serving ice cream at state dinners a

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Speaker 1: thing like he had a three hundred piece machine to

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Speaker 1: make and serve ice cream in his kitchen, and it

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Speaker 1: sort of became the ultimate sign of luxury if you

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Speaker 1: just such an effort to make, and that's kind of

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Speaker 1: what kicked off America's obsession with it. So I don't know,

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Speaker 1: I think that's my last fact. But how do you

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Speaker 1: want to end this? Well, how about with a really

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Speaker 2: So you know Rupert Grint, right, m.

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Speaker 1: H Yeah, he played Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter movies.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, exactly. And you know, he grew up making

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Speaker 2: those movies. So when he passed his driving exam, he

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Speaker 2: was already worth a lot of money by then. And

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Speaker 2: you know, so one day people on set were talking about,

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Speaker 2: you know what sorts of fancy cars they were thinking

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Speaker 2: about buying with all their HP money, And for some reason,

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Speaker 2: Rupert's dream was to own an ice cream truck, and so,

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Speaker 2: you know, he got one and the first time he

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Speaker 2: took it out for a spin, he actually he went

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Speaker 2: to a pub and when he was leaving, all these

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Speaker 2: And the problem was he hadn't bothered to stock any

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Speaker 2: in the truck, which is just like the world's biggest

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Speaker 2: tease right now. Totaling around in an ice cream truck

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Speaker 2: with zero ice cream on board, what did you think

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Speaker 2: would happen? But anyway, he sort of learned his lesson

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Speaker 2: you know, tons of popsicles, and there's even a working

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Speaker 2: soft serve machine on board, and so sometimes he just

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Speaker 1: It's pretty awesome, right, Yeah, I mean that's great. I

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Speaker 1: mean it is funny. I told a story about people

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Speaker 1: tricking kids with mash turnips instead of ice cream, and

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Speaker 1: you told a story about Ron Weasley magically delivering ice

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Speaker 1: do think you have to take home the trophy today?

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you so much. I think I know just

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Speaker 2: how I'll be celebrating.

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