Ben Cohen
speaker
1,024 appearances
9 recordings
7 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 19 Jun
Ben Cohen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He was not involved.
He won his election for mayor just a little after we opened.
And I remember being down in the basement of Memorial Auditorium at his victory party scooping ice cream.
And it was...
It was a wonderful, wonderful time.
It was a beautiful time.
Oh, off for Celsius below zero winter.
This was Jerry's idea that...
It was January.
It was really cold.
Nobody was coming in for ice cream.
And right across the street from us was this time and temperature sign at the bank, at the Burleson Savings Bank.
So he came up with this idea that we would announce that we would take a penny off the cost of an ice cream cone per Celsius degree below zero.
Oh, boy.
You know, it did get pretty cold and people did get a significant discount.
I mean, when we opened up, the price of a cone was 52 cents.
They hadn't retired the penny yet.
We got the math whiz here.
Did you do that all out in your head or did you use AI?
Yeah, we did have a big problem with over-scooping.
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