The Ice Cream Van Conspiracy
Is that van selling ice cream or collecting data? The neighborhood splits into teams.
About the Episode
Summer heat hit, an ice cream van rolled through, and one neighbor asked—innocently or not—whether anyone else thought the timing was a little too perfect. Within a day the thread had split into Team Innocent Treats and Team This Is How They Get You, complete with anecdotes about childhood summers and one person who linked to an article that did not support their point.
We unpack how quickly a harmless jingle can become a Rorschach test for how much you trust strangers in vehicles. Along the way we highlight the funniest attempts at detective work, including a debate about whether the van’s stickers looked “official enough.”
By the finale we are less interested in solving the mystery than in naming the real villain: group chat momentum and the human need to have a take before dessert melts.
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