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Speaker 1: The scoop we all take for granted, I didn't know.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back Know. It alls to another episode of the

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Speaker 1: most anticipated podcast on the Black Effect podcast network, especially

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Speaker 1: in February, entitled I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either.

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Speaker 1: I'm beat os and I prefer butter pecan ice cream,

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Speaker 1: But because I'm lactose, usually I'll just get two scoops,

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Speaker 1: a sorbet might mix me a strawberry with a pine apple.

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Speaker 1: And to kick off today's episode, I've got three of

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Speaker 1: the most useless facts you'll never need not a day

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Speaker 1: in life. Up. First, did you know before the eighteen nineties,

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Speaker 1: scooping ice cream was done with two hands? Ill your

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Speaker 1: second useless fact, the tool that every ice cream shop

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Speaker 1: uses today was invented by black man. And your third

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Speaker 1: useless fact. The average American eats about twenty three pounds

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Speaker 1: of ice cream per year, making the US one of

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Speaker 1: the top ice cream consuming countries in the world. Now,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about this tool that was invented by a

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Speaker 1: black man. The tool was an ice cream school. Do

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Speaker 1: you know the name of the black man? Because I didn't,

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Speaker 1: I didn't know, didn't know, I didn't know, I didn't know.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. I

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Speaker 1: didn't know. I didn't know. The ice cream school that

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Speaker 1: spring loaded one hand perfect half spear device that every

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Speaker 1: ice cream shop uses. You've seen it a thousand times.

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Speaker 1: You probably used it yourself. You've definitely eaten what it's produced.

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Speaker 1: But do you have any clue where it came from?

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Speaker 1: That wasn't some corporate design team. That was Alfred L. Crowley,

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Speaker 1: a Black inventor in eighteen ninety seven. Now before Crowley's invention,

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Speaker 1: the way they served ice cream was slow. You're standing

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Speaker 1: there waiting while somebody wrestles with this frozen dairy. It

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Speaker 1: was messy, ice cream was everywhere, the hands all sticky,

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Speaker 1: the dignity compromised. It was inefficient. You needed two spoons,

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Speaker 1: one to school, one to scrape. Of course, it's cold

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Speaker 1: ice cream, so your hands would literally freeze, Like who

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Speaker 1: signs up for that? You gotta use two spoons, like

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Speaker 1: you're performing surgery on deserve. Ice cream struck to everything,

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Speaker 1: hands froze, lines backed up, children crime. Imagine the chaos

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Speaker 1: at a birthday party, you trying to serve twenty kids

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Speaker 1: two spoons. The devil is a lot. The Crowley created

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Speaker 1: a mechanical school with a built in scraper that released

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Speaker 1: the ice cream clean fast, one hand one motion, perfect portions.

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Speaker 1: Patting number five seven, six, three nine five granted February second,

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Speaker 1: eighteen ninety seven to Alfred L. Crowley Man. The design

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Speaker 1: was so good it basically ain't changed in one hundred

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Speaker 1: and twenty seven years. Wait, the last time you seen

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Speaker 1: an invention that didn't need an update for over a century. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: my phone need a software update right now. Nepause for

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Speaker 1: a second. Every ice cream shop on Earth runs on

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Speaker 1: that design. Cold Stone, Basking, Robbins, Ben and Jerry's, that

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Speaker 1: little neighborhood spot, the homemade flavors, the gelato place to

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Speaker 1: charge you eight dollars for two scoops. All of them

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Speaker 1: uses Crowley's design. Again, that's infrastructure. It's not flashy. He's

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Speaker 1: not viral, not trending, but it's foundational. And that's what

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Speaker 1: the theme for this week is hidden in plain sight

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Speaker 1: because Crowley didn't just improve dessert, he redesigned efficiency. But

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Speaker 1: here's what makes the story echo the March and one hundred.

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Speaker 1: Crowley noticed this problem when he was working as a porter.

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Speaker 1: He didn't have a bunch of bread. He ain't have

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Speaker 1: patents stacked by lawyers, he ain't have a design firm.

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Speaker 1: He had observation skill and a solution. That is black innovation.

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Speaker 1: Building what's missing, fix what's broken, and make it work

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Speaker 1: better for everybody else. And then, of course history quietly

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Speaker 1: moves on without ever saying your name. Next time you

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Speaker 1: had a nice cream shop, you look at that scoop,

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Speaker 1: that's Alfred el Crowley eighteen ninety seven, still working, still

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Speaker 1: feeding joy to millions, still hidding in plain sight. And

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Speaker 1: I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either,