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Life & fun · December 1, 2015

Radiolab - The Cold War

Heated passions flare in a world of frozen treats

Radiolab - The Cold War launched on December 1, 2015 with 69 votes, #997 of 3,505 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

What it does

One sunny day in the summer of 2009, a minivan plastered with ice cream stickers rolled up on a three-wheeled truckster topped with a large plastic vanilla ice cream cone. That moment launched a turf war, a stand-off between childhood dreams and free market principles. Editors Joshua Davis and Joshuah Bearman take us to the battlefield of Salem, Oregon, where two ice cream truck vendors reveal tha

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