Episode Seventy-eight - Labor Day Soda Jerk Special

Summary: Grab your bobby socks and poodle skirts, flip up your leather collars and race your hot rods down to the old malt shop! It’s the Labor Day Soda Jerk Special, Daddy-O! Find out who’s the biggest jerk when podcast regulars Ron McAdams and James Rohling don their paper hats and bow ties, and start scooping up classic diner and drug store treats. Greg provides the homemade gelato and Ryan the color commentary as a dyspeptic cherry on top. Erik Koski from the Junkmouth Podcast also joins in the fun, although he won't stop hocking straw wrappers at everyone. In an expansion of the Mini-Soda Review, the gang combines various Boylan’s seltzers and sodas with gelato to make lime rickeys, orange creams, strawberry malts, purple cows and New York egg creams. Seattle’s Pig Iron Cola gets blended into a cola float. And James and Ron conduct a blind taste test of Hershey’s, Bosco’s and Fox’s U-Bet chocolate syrups. All these tasty concoctions are paired with episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Learn the history of these classic soda jerk treats while the jukebox plays boogie-woogie, rockabilly, doo wap, and '50s diner rock. It’s the perfect day to end summer and beat the Labor Day heat! All this, and a Kool Aid Man -- who, with the help of his therapist, is finally ready to breakdown some emotional walls -- on this week’s episode of the Revival League Podcast! (This podcast does not represent Alternaversal, Shout Factory or the Kickstarter campaign in any official capacity). EDITOR’S NOTE: In June 2019, this podcast merged with the Damn Dirty Geeks Podcast and became The Damn Dirty Drive-in. These are our classic back catalog episodes, dating back to March 2016. Please enjoy! The new Drive-In podcast opens for business with original sketches, movie discussions, interviews, weird food tastings and more at Episode 168.