A lot of songs about ice cream
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🗓️ 29 August 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You know Ronald Reagan back in the 80s he said many things but forever changed the course |
| 0:13.0 | of history. No one is Mr. Softy. That's right. But one thing that he did in 1984 I think |
| 0:20.2 | is the one thing that everyone remembers him most for and that is he's designated |
| 0:25.6 | July National Ice Cream Month. That's right. His most famous words weren't tear down |
| 0:34.7 | this wall. We have a copy of the proclamation here. It's holding it. Yes and it begins |
| 0:39.9 | ice cream is a nutritious and wholesome food enjoyed by over 90% of the people in the United |
| 0:45.6 | States. It enjoys a reputation as the perfect dessert and snack food. |
| 0:51.6 | Blah blah blah blah. Now therefore I Ronald Reagan president of the United States of America |
| 0:57.1 | do hereby proclaim July 1984 as National Ice Cream Month and I call upon the people of |
| 1:04.2 | the United States to observe these events with appropriate ceremonies and activities. |
| 1:08.6 | So this is it. This is our ceremony. This is our appropriate activity. We thought what |
| 1:13.4 | better way to celebrate summer than with ice cream and it turns out there are a lot of |
| 1:17.7 | songs about ice cream. So we asked everybody to tell us stories of ice cream and tell us |
| 1:22.1 | about songs for ice cream. The entire show. Our songs of ice cream. Let's kick it off |
| 1:27.3 | and I do my favorite. Yeah. Let's do that. Let's do that. Yeah. I mean Johnson Richmond |
| 1:32.6 | in the modern lovers ice cream man. Yay. |
| 1:38.6 | Hi there everybody. We're the one of the lovers. We're going to sing about the ice cream |
| 1:44.6 | man for you. Well now ice cream man. I heard your truck outside. It's really neat. Ice |
| 1:57.6 | cream man. I'm on my blog. Your little child. They're real and they're rough. Ice cream man. |
| 2:08.6 | Ice cream man. Bring your bell. Play the music. I've learned to love so well. Ice cream man. |
| 2:18.6 | I mean playing your chimes in the afternoon so fine. Ice cream man. Ice cream. |
| 2:29.6 | I'm on my street. I heard your truck delay. Any. Any. Any. Ice cream man. I'm on my blog now. |
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