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Episode 120 - One more for '22
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This week on the premier comedy roller coaster podcast Ben and Zach discuss the end of the year, their 2023 SFGAm meetup plans and watch a TV special from Great America's opening (the audio timing gets slightly off towards the end, my apologies).
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Transcript
00:00:06
Speaker
Uh huh. That's right.
Influencer's Global Roller Coaster Adventures
00:00:11
Speaker
I'm an influencer of rollercoasting Boasting about it in the videos I'm posting I've been to more parts and I've got more credits Joke about me, I'll ban you from my subreddit My life is just so much better than yours I went to 70 countries on a theme park tour And since we're on the topic I can sense you going toward it Don't you dare ask me how I can afford it Exploiting park videos commercially for profit
00:00:39
Speaker
And I ain't gonna stop it Is it expressly forbidden by the park rules? Yes But I could give a shit less I'm above all rules A bona fide superstar National roller coaster museum I drink at the bar I'm on top I made it to the big time Dragster airtime production I got a camera bag and a pair of khaki pants on Jam a logo on my polo shirt like a Don I'm chasing clout without a doubt
00:01:09
Speaker
Catch me at I ever and I'm wallin' out I got a camera bag and a pair of khaki pants on Jam a logo on my polo shirt like a gun I'm chasing clout without a doubt Catch me at I ever and I'm wallin' out You can't do what I do, cut the line past you Ride again in row two, shoot an interview I'm a filmmaker, I'm a journalist
00:01:32
Speaker
I'm a content mine, has it dried up yet? I re-rank the roller coasters that I've written for content, theorize how tall B&M hypers could really get. I list arrow suspendeds and kissed a support beam, pissed off PR teams with media day livestreams, but I'm internet famous and I'll just say you're hatin' or that you're acting jealous if you call me out on this.
00:01:54
Speaker
Deflect, redirect, blame the toxic internet Switching off the camera cause I gotta smoke a cigarette Unpaid in turns, I edit in my videos While I'm jet setting to a wacky worm in Tokyo I know the designers and the whole ride crew And that's why I am better than you I got a camera bag and a pair of khaki pants on Jam a logo on my polo shirt like a don I'm chasing clout without a doubt
00:02:21
Speaker
Catch me at Iyapa and I'm wallin' out I got a camera bag and a pair of khaki pants on Chama logo on my polo shirt like a don I'm chasing clout without a doubt Catch me at Iyapa and I'm wallin' out
Introductions and Culinary Mishaps
00:02:43
Speaker
Welcome to the worst roller coaster podcast on the internet. Now let's join Ben and Zach as they tell you why your favorite coaster sucks. I'm Zach and that's the last time I get to say that in 2022. I'm Ben and I'm eating some Chinese food.
00:03:14
Speaker
Ooh, what you got, some lo mein? Nah, it's chicken fried rice. And actually, that's it. That's literally it. So I tried to order Indian food, except I got the complete wrong entrees. And they're entrees I don't like to eat, so I had to order something else. That seems light for you, just one dish.
00:03:45
Speaker
That's not a dig. I'm trying to trim up for the holidays. Go get it all back. Yeah, exactly. That's the fuck it's all about, man. That is what the fuck the holidays are for. And I hope all you get to do that with your holidays. Whichever one's name may be that you celebrate.
00:04:15
Speaker
I don't care, they're all just wonderful in their own way. Even the fake ones. Festivus for the rest of us. Yep. The, or Six Flags holiday in the park. That holiday only exists in some places.
00:04:49
Speaker
They stopped celebrating that in the Chicago area. That's because they they love Satan. Yeah, when it when it comes to Six Flags holiday celebrations, I'm definitely an atheist because I no longer believe in them.
Holiday Traditions and Family Reflections
00:05:10
Speaker
Because they're not real. Damn it.
00:05:16
Speaker
Oh, welcome back to your favorite coaster sucks, where you'll find out all about how much the hosts celebrate the holidays. I don't know. You know how hard I celebrate? I'm not a huge holidays guy. Yeah, I think it's different when you if you're like you don't have kids. Agreed. I mean, I love to see my family.
00:05:49
Speaker
But I mean, really Christmas is like something you do for your kids. And if you don't have kids, it's kind of just like a drinking day. No eating. Yeah. Eating and drinking. Just company. Kinda. Yeah. Reflect on the current status of your life. Watch home alone. Yeah. Die hard.
00:06:21
Speaker
Christmas vacation. Yeah, that's probably the one movie I'll watch every year. The I like the Christmas story, but without having cable, it's hard to watch. I was gonna say that one I haven't seen in a long time. I'd be up for a rewatch.
00:06:44
Speaker
It's good. It's, it's like, uh, it holds up. It's classic. And I, I like that it's different than other Christmas movies. It's uh, it's not very campy. No, that's a, that's a good one. Other than that one, like racist part, that's not aged well. Which part? In the Chinese restaurant when they're singing. Oh, right. Yeah.
00:07:18
Speaker
But we don't need to go into, uh, you know, culturally contextualizing previous, uh, transgressions of, of, of things we weren't even around for. Yeah. That's a little beyond the reach of our show. That's a good discussion for Twitter.
Twitter's Transformation to Long-form Content
00:07:39
Speaker
Yeah. Now that, uh, now that all the extremists are freed, go hashtag that one.
00:07:49
Speaker
It's I'm kind of enjoying the, the, the collapse of Twitter. It's, it's pretty incredible. It gets crazy. Yeah. Like long before Elon Musk owned that thing, but now it's just accelerated. Yeah. I mean, it went from
00:08:15
Speaker
Yeah, it went from like, it went from tweets that are just like, that were just like, I'm eating a kale salad to like 20 tweet long, like full on essays. Full on fucking manifestos. Yeah. I also, I read something that they want to expand the Twitter account or the Twitter character count to like 2000 characters.
00:08:44
Speaker
Stop. We're done. At that point, you might as well just like use Facebook. Shut the whole thing. Fucking down. We're done. Yeah, you're better off. You're better off posting a fucking picture of a notepad screenshot at that point. Yeah, right. Open up the notes app and type out your apology or whatever.
00:09:13
Speaker
Who needs 2000 characters to fucking tweet? All Twitter is is racism. And here's my new shit. Check it out. I'm like, or like, fuck you. That's the other thing. There's those three things. That's all Twitter is. I'm like C level journalist trying to be relevant.
00:09:39
Speaker
Do, do news outlets even like reference tweets as a thing anymore? No, but they use it to like boost their own, like they use it to boost their own stuff typically. Cause they're, um, I dunno, like journalists egos are pumped up by the number of likes and retweets and whatnot.
Elon Musk's Controversial Moments
00:10:02
Speaker
So since we're talking about Elon Musk,
00:10:08
Speaker
Can we talk about how he got fucking booed off stage at a Dave Chappelle show? Yeah, that was funny. So first of all, Dave Chappelle in San Francisco, considering the previous controversy and then have Elon Musk who just fired like thousands of Twitter employees in a city where Twitter is located. It almost seemed like it was like
00:10:39
Speaker
I don't want to mean, I don't want to say it was like intentional, but it just seemed like a, like a 3d chess move on his part for some reason. It didn't sit right with me. Who is Chappelle? No, no, not for Chappelle for Elon Musk. Oh, see, I would put, I would put it more on Chappelle. Although I don't know if he ever is like exactly trying to be the center of controversy. Yeah.
00:11:08
Speaker
Musk absolutely is. I guess you're right because I don't see Dave Chappelle just saying to Elon Musk, hey, do you want to come on stage during my show? I definitely see that more going like Elon Musk saying to Dave Chappelle, hey, let me come on stage during your show. I hosted SNL. I'm funny.
00:11:36
Speaker
Which was, that was a, that was a bad episode. It was really bad. Yeah. Cause like he's not funny. If I biggest regret was not selling Dogecoin right before that episode.
00:11:57
Speaker
I was, I was arguing with people the night before because people were like, Dogecoin is going to go to a dollar after the episode because Elon Musk is going to make a bit about it. I'm like, no, he's not. It's going to crash right before the show starts. And like, sure enough, exactly like time that I didn't follow my own advice. Yeah, well, lucky for me, I only lost 15 bucks on Dogecoin.
00:12:26
Speaker
Oh, did you buy some after it went up? I bought some because a friend of mine said to buy some. And I don't I'm not particularly attentive to the markets. Crypto to me, I view as a long term gamble. Yeah, basically, I mean, that's not. Yeah, yeah, it's a slot machine where the reels aren't going to hit for 20 years.
00:12:56
Speaker
Yeah. So, you know, put in 200 bucks in 2020 and maybe in 2040, I'm fucking set. I don't know. You know, I bought, I bought like, I bought like 10,000 Dutch coin when it was like fractions of a penny and I bought it
Regrets Over Dogecoin Profits
00:13:20
Speaker
drunk. I was with like, I was with my friend and roommate at the time.
00:13:26
Speaker
And we were just like browsing Robinhood and drinking and we're like, we should just buy Dogecoin as a joke. And this is before it was kind of a meme because we're like, yeah, all these like Gen Z kids are going to do it out of rebellion and think it's funny to buy like a fake cryptocurrency. And like, I just didn't touch it for a year.
00:13:49
Speaker
Then I watched that should go up and I'm like, Oh, it's, it might keep going up. And then it, I still, I never sold it. So I still have it. It's just sitting there. Yeah, I still have mine. Let's see how much is my 20 initial $20 investment of Dogecoin worth? Put 20 in and we are sitting at a very cool, um, $4 and 40 cents.
00:14:20
Speaker
Nice. Yep. Like, right now is actually a really good time to buy crypto. As of the time of recording, if you're listening to this in the future, no. Yeah. My little quick bit about crypto is like,
00:14:45
Speaker
I think both sides of the argument are kind of stupid because you have people who are like, who think it's like, no, man, like this is, it's the future. Like, do you want to be a millionaire? Like you got to buy Bitcoin, you got to buy Ethereum and like, you know, people who buy NFTs and stuff. Then you have the other side that are like, no, it's all, oh, what, that fake, that fake shit. That's not based on anything. That's a scam. It's going to go to zero when like,
00:15:12
Speaker
The middle ground is kind of like, it could go up. It might not. It could go down. Who knows? At the end of the day, it's just an asset that has a price attached to it. So, you know, might as well put a little in and see what happens. I am not concerned, I guess, about the value reaching zero.
00:15:38
Speaker
I think there's enough of a community around at least Bitcoin to always have some modicum of faith in the currency itself.
00:15:58
Speaker
I mean, it's, it's the same as a stock cause guess, guess what? There's a lot of companies out there that are fake themselves and aren't based on anything. And yet they're have, they have stock movements too. Like, I dunno.
00:16:12
Speaker
You, it's really just, yeah, it's about the people or it's a community that has faith in it. That really is what matters. So who knows? Just don't buy what you can lose. And that's like, I think, I think the problem was like during COVID people were like dumping money in that they really didn't have. So they would like put thousands of dollars in and like their savings in, and then it crashed and then they like lost their job. You know, like you don't want to do that.
00:16:44
Speaker
No, you got to treat it as you would any other investment. Especially a particularly volatile one. Like, I'm certainly not expecting that I'll hit it rich, you know? Yeah.
Economic Volatility and Investment Uncertainty
00:17:02
Speaker
But. I know based on the very the volatility and variability that
00:17:12
Speaker
My initial investment on Bitcoin at one point had almost 10 times its initial buy-in value. Yeah. It's cooled down a bit since then, but like it's a volatile currency. Yeah. God, we talk a lot about crypto on this show.
00:17:38
Speaker
And I mean too, if you compare it to the, yep, we're getting into money again. But if you compare it to the US dollar, if you had $100 in your savings account pre-COVID, you basically lost 23% of your purchasing power. So sure, crypto crash, or stocks are crashing, the housing market's crashing, but so is your savings in a way.
00:18:08
Speaker
Oh, it's because the whole economy is just like fucked at the moment. And yeah. The thing about the economy is even the economists. Don't really know. Yeah, they just know the history. Oh, when this thing happened in this, then this is how the market reacted. But even the fucking Fed, you think those guys know what the fuck?
00:18:37
Speaker
Jerome Powell or whoever. No, not happening. Everybody's making it. Yeah. Hopefully educated guesses. And that's the best case situation. Yep.
Federal Reserve's Inflation Strategy
00:18:57
Speaker
You know, and my advice is to learn how to barter the, um, I mean, the federal reserve literally said that
00:19:07
Speaker
in order to bring inflation down, they need unemployment to go up in wages to come down. So that's literally what they're trying to do. Yeah. Um, it'll be fun to revisit this episode in like five years. Yeah.
00:19:36
Speaker
Here's here's the thing, though. It's crazy to me now that that FTX guy got arrested. How all the like major news outlets are like framing it as if like, see how see how fucking crypto is just like a scam. Yeah, right. Which is in. Yeah, people. Yeah, people don't know how to differentiate the difference of like
00:20:05
Speaker
Bitcoin itself or crypto itself in like an exchange. I mean, the best comparison is like the US dollar and Chase Bank, right? Like if Chase Bank does something corrupt and loses your money, it doesn't mean that the dollar is fake. It means that the service you're using to manage your dollars is is bullshit. Exactly. It's like you don't you don't say you don't say, oh, music festivals are a scam because of the fire festival. Yeah.
00:20:36
Speaker
Like, nope, there's, there's real ones. It's just that one was fucked. Although the one thing I do find funny are the people who spent like millions of dollars on NFTs. Cause like, NFT like,
00:20:55
Speaker
From, I don't know, my, in my opinion, NFTs are not, like should not be used for like art and storing value on art. And NFT is just like, it should be used for like, like a deed of ownership for like a house or a car, like smart contracts. It's not meant to sell a picture of a, of like a pile of shit for $5 million.
00:21:20
Speaker
Right. Like, yeah, I hope whoever owns the original nine cat gift is really happy. But also it kind of seemed like that whole community, except for the people at the very bottom who got fucked the hardest, all like didn't even really understand the actual value of what they were doing.
Skepticism Towards NFTs
00:21:48
Speaker
No, yeah.
00:21:51
Speaker
Because I remember reading some Twitter threads where it would be like, yeah, you know, our community is really trustworthy. You know, I put, you know, five million of Ethereum in this dude's account on good faith or whatever. Because I know, you know, he'll get me back. It's like, do you realize what you're doing?
00:22:21
Speaker
You did that for a board ape, really? Well, it was a fun ride. I mean, since you brought up NFTs, I guess I'll just get the plug out there. We still got three available. So you can get your very timely Bob Chapec NFT.
00:22:52
Speaker
or your figment popcorn bucket NFT, or your Minnie Mouse Pantsuit NFT. They were all made by me in MS Paint. How much are they going for? I did not pay to have them minted. Oh, OK. So if you want them, they're available.
00:23:19
Speaker
but you got to offer more than what it costs to have them minted. That's the only catch. So if you would like them, I'm being serious here. If you are interested in purchasing any of our NFTs, please shoot me a message. We can negotiate a price because it's rather costly to mint it versus how we may lose money on minting it.
00:23:49
Speaker
Yeah. So I'd rather not just dump money into something that would be hilarious, but also might just be 200 bucks to get an NFT that we then have to deal with. Is it, is minting worth 200 bucks? It's, it's based on the price of Ethereum. Okay. So like it was 200 bucks when I last looked or
00:24:18
Speaker
you can like put them up for auction, but I didn't want to do that because nobody, there wasn't a whole lot of interest at the time that I could see. Not to turn this into an ad for our NFTs, but they are available. So, you know, bye, bye, bye. As the almighty Jim Cramer once said,
00:24:49
Speaker
Bye, bye, baby. Bye, bye, bye. Sell, sell, sell. Which how is that guy still on TV? I don't fucking know. Probably on like the third clone by now. It's kind of funny because all of this stuff I've watched about like. The Great Recession pretty much points to him.
00:25:25
Speaker
telling a unprepared public basically not to have faith in the economy.
00:25:44
Speaker
Go ahead. I, uh, I love, I love going back on to Google news and then finding, um, like realtor articles
Timeless Real Estate Advice
00:25:54
Speaker
from 2006, 2007 that talk about how it's like still the best time to buy a house. And you know, the classic, they're not making any more land. Inventory is only going to go down. Don't get priced out.
00:26:15
Speaker
type of thing. So lots of good parallels for today. Yeah. And here's the deal with that whole, they're not making any more land thing. As long as there's a goddamn tree to knock over in this country, there's plenty of land. Yeah. Yes, it has to be where trees are because people need to be where water is. But yeah, there's
00:26:46
Speaker
That reminds me of one of the funniest memes I saw on Facebook.
Humorous COVID Conspiracy Theory
00:26:51
Speaker
Um, so, you know, you know, my, my hometown homies. Yep. I'm familiar with the crew. It was the, uh, the parents of, of that group, one of the parents of that group. She posted this picture of a map of COVID cases.
00:27:16
Speaker
And, you know, it had like the big dots around like New York city, Jersey, you know, Boston, like all down the East coast and then like Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, you know, obviously the basically the, you know, the major cities. And she was like, it's interesting that that COVID or that was it, it was like interesting to how there's more COVID cases around water.
00:27:47
Speaker
It seems weird to me without realizing that like if you just map out the major population centers in the US, they're all around water. They're all on the coast. Yep. So it was just funny seeing that little conspiracy theory brew like five days into COVID. Like it was, and you couldn't even reply. Like you couldn't even explain it. It just would have gone right over their head.
00:28:15
Speaker
That was almost like the people with the 5G that were like, look at this, the cell phone maps are exactly like the covid maps. Yeah, it's like. Yeah, there's a correlation between population density and covid spread. Or or like the electoral map after. After an election where it just has like the states, whether they're red or blue,
00:28:45
Speaker
And of course, like, you know, the two thirds of the giant center of the US is all red. They're like, doesn't look like Trump lost to me. Oh, classics.
00:29:07
Speaker
Yeah. Although it would be very interesting to see anybody actually take steps to try and, uh, Oh my God. Are we doing this?
Delayed Roller Coaster Discussions
00:29:18
Speaker
Let's just walk away. All right. Let's do it. Uh, yeah. Cause I was like, you know what? We are coming up on 30 minutes. Oh God. And we haven't even said anything about a roller coaster yet.
00:29:36
Speaker
Well, I'll be 45 minutes from the national roller coaster museum. Um, we'll see if I can make something work. If I step foot in the roller coaster museum, we'll have a different tune on the status of that. But yeah. Just to be clear, if you make it in the roller coaster museum, I need, we need an entire episode.
00:30:06
Speaker
dedicated to the wonders of the historic preservation contained in those walls. I'm sure it's great. Look, I, I will leave it at this. I would love to see the place. Same.
The Wizard Roller Coaster's Rescue
00:30:38
Speaker
I've never been one to speak on this subject very much, but... Good God, I'm gonna kill myself. Okay, all right. All right, coughing. We're good. It's fine, not a call for help. No trigger warning, nothing. Okay, we're back. I'll say this.
00:31:08
Speaker
The Wizard. What about it? Did I need more? It's The Wizard. Good point. It was going to close in August of 2002. And then Shockwave closed instead.
00:31:42
Speaker
The very suspicious image of a train parked in the transfer track with a missing car. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But how about this less suspicious image of a child's drawing of the wizard? There was some public outcry. I wonder if they kept those.
00:32:16
Speaker
I, uh, I kind of vaguely remember them showing some during like screams and dreams, whichever one had Superman in it. Yes. Yeah. I remember that. So they might. Or maybe that was somebody, somebody whose kid who was working on that movie. They're like, make a drawing of the wizard quick. Right.
00:32:48
Speaker
Or it was just Hank, slamming, just like drawing them himself, making it look like kids or, or some like, yeah, someone in management like just drew what they thought was a very serious, like good image. They're like, look what I did. Like, Oh my God, it looks like a kid did that. It was that guy from undercover boss who showed Joel manby his RCT two parks.
00:33:21
Speaker
This is a real deep cut, I'm sorry. I'm glad, I'm glad you got there though. He's like, look, I drew the wizard. Which side note, whatever happened to that guy? I don't know. He worked in like stroller rental or something.
00:33:52
Speaker
Interesting. Don't you remember? Did you ever watch Undercover Boss with, uh, they had Herschen Parks? Yeah, but I don't, I don't remember the stroller part. Well, they had a segment where the CEO goes and works in the stroller rental and like the manager of the stroller rental is like this super awkward Susie. And he like,
00:34:18
Speaker
blurts out to the CEO during lunch like, yeah, I wanna be the CEO of this company one day. And he's like, oh, well, who's that now? He's like, Joel Manby. Dude's a little freaked out that he knows his name. He's like, let me show you. I have like some ideas in mind. He pulls out a laptop in their break room and he opens up RollerCoaster Tycoon.
00:34:48
Speaker
Yeah, I remember that part. Look. I'm not trying to shit on that dude, it was just hilarious. I hope that dude got whatever job he was looking for.
00:35:14
Speaker
But bring in, yeah, I hope he's doing something better than stroller rental.
Theme Park Work Experiences
00:35:20
Speaker
Yeah. Like if you're working in a park, it's got to be, I mean, I'm sure it's pretty chill, but yeah. Yeah, dude, I would love to work at a park again. That'd be fun.
00:35:46
Speaker
do something low key, like sweeping. Yes. Like when I was younger, I used to think sweeps would be a bad job, but then after working on rides for a bit, I kind of understand the appeal of it. Dude, I would never want to be in rides again. What was that? I would never want to be in rides again.
00:36:13
Speaker
Yeah, rides is cool, but it's just, uh, it sucks. It's so like, it's so draining while concurrently being monotonous. Yeah. That's a great mixture for, uh, people's safety, by the way. It really like, and let me tell you rotating every 30 minutes or whatever that doesn't fucking break the monotony.
00:36:42
Speaker
Like, I don't know. I enjoyed working in rides, but I would not want to do it again. Yeah. And even like, um, I mean, even working at Coaster, I think. I don't know, after like trying other stuff like.
00:37:01
Speaker
I think what made working at like working at Skycoaster was pretty cool because you didn't really have a rush. Like you had, you always had a line, but every time somebody wrote it, you were like fully interacting with them. You could like have full conversations. Like every ride cycle is kind of different, but like checking a lap bar every 45 seconds, like bending over, standing up, doing like thousands of squats a day in the hot sun.
00:37:29
Speaker
working 12 hours a day, pushing buttons, hand signals. Trying to schedule breaks for people. Yeah. And everybody takes long breaks. Fuck. What the hell? Um, yeah, I don't know why breaks like scheduling breaks was always super stressful.
00:38:00
Speaker
I remember like a couple times I was the person in charge of my unit and it would be like, you'd have to write down eight names and be like, okay, they'd have to take a 15. They have to get a lunch and like, be like, oh fuck, they're working till four. So they got to do it before this time. But this person comes in at two, but we don't have anybody to cover from this time to this time. Like it was, yeah, it was always bad. Or there'd be days where you'd,
00:38:31
Speaker
We, like we had days where sometimes like your, like your lunch and your break were super close together. Like sometimes it was only an hour and a half or two hours difference, but you were working from like 10 to midnight. So it's like, Oh cool. You know, you get in at 10, you were, you were going to work till midnight and your break is at like one 30 and then your lunch is at three and then you come back and then you're just working from four to midnight straight.
00:39:00
Speaker
Yeah, I always hated that. And like, I remember I had a couple of people that smoked too, and they'd be like, can you let me take a smoke break? Yeah. And then everybody needs a break. Yeah. Like, yeah. I remember restroom breaks being the worst.
00:39:25
Speaker
Cause you'd get like a call on the radio or a call at your ride and be like, can somebody like, I need to go to the bathroom. So you'd be like, okay, uh, this dude is coming back from break. When he gets back, you go there, you go to that ride so that they can go to the bathroom. Then when they go back, you go there, you let them go to break. And when they get back, they go to this place. Like, Oh God.
00:39:54
Speaker
Yeah, my, my second summer there was, um, we had a few people that were demanding smoke breaks like every two hours, but people in the crew smoked. Like I, I smoked at the time, but I always, I would always just have like, like a cigarette on the way to the cafeteria and then one on the way back. And then I was usually good. Hey, you gotta maximize your breaks for cigarettes.
00:40:18
Speaker
Yeah. But then once, once these people started demanding cigarette breaks and suddenly everybody else was like, well, I want to be able to like leave for 15 minutes randomly, you know, then it became an issue. And slowly implemented, uh, okay, you can go smoke, but you have to bring a fucking sweeper with you and you have to at least like do a rotation, a sweep, then go hide quick smoke and then sweep back.
00:40:50
Speaker
makes sense. That's, that's a pretty fair compromise. So it became like a punishment reward thing. Yeah, that's a fair compromise. You're not getting a straight up break, but you do get the nicotine that you need. Cause I was not a smoker at that time. So I didn't even know the, the, the feeling of addiction, but I still sympathized. I was like, I don't know, but sure. I know you need it. So
00:41:21
Speaker
And no, if I was going to work at a park again, I'd really want to be a theater tech again, dude. That's the best job at any park. Yeah, I mean, that's that sounds cool. I. I always thought about doing bellhop at like breakers. That could be fun if and this is a big if
00:41:52
Speaker
if people tip you decently. Yeah. Thing is too is like, um, I guess at a park like Cedar Point, I could see it going both ways. I could see there being kind of like a, you know, like that, like the ass, like the family that has like the asshole dad that works. And there's like the stay at home mom with like three, four kids. They're all in soccer, you know, and they're always, it's like a Karen mom and just like a really douchey dad.
00:42:23
Speaker
So when they go on vacation, it's like, this is our vacation. So they just blow like a shit ton of money on stupid shit. I could see them being like, okay, tippers. The dad's already hammered by the time he gets to the park. I could see that going both ways though, where I could see them being like, everything's so goddamn expensive already at this fucking park. We have to give you five bucks too.
00:42:51
Speaker
I'm sorry. I dragged fucking 10 year bags up here. Get a good workout, stay in shape. I mean, there's definitely some benefits to that. I also heard that the shifts are shorter. Like you don't work all like they only do the service. You know, it's pretty much like mornings when people are checking in and out.
00:43:20
Speaker
Yeah, that makes sense. They might have one available in the afternoon for checkout. Like a late checkout, but yeah, no, that makes sense. Probably 6 a.m. to like 11 or something or noon at the most. Oh, were we going to watch that other great America Park video? We could do that. We could do that. That's something we could do.
00:43:49
Speaker
I mean, we should want to warm up. Was it? I want to hype up our our meet up again, because I think, you know, we got to we owe it to all of our listeners to make sure that they all are aware that we're throwing a meet up at Six Flags Great America in
Great America Meetup Plans
00:44:09
Speaker
June. Now, I had everybody John over to my place this past week, just a few days ago.
00:44:18
Speaker
It's good to see him. He's helping me out on that project I'm currently working on. And after speaking with him, I think we've made a minor adjustment to the meetup. Very minor. So instead of recording the podcast at the cinema on Friday night, we're actually going to record Saturday evening.
00:44:50
Speaker
on the 17th. And then Sunday is the park day. Well, we could do park day. Here's the thing. All right. So the Belvedere Cinema Gallery that we'll be recording at. Unfortunately, does not currently have working restrooms.
00:45:13
Speaker
And the mall closes at 7. So our access to the mall's restrooms ends at 7. John's running an event there. He's going to be showing National Lampoon's vacation starting at 4 o'clock. So it's 6 o'clock. We'll do our recording, which here's a big, big one. Drum roll.
00:45:43
Speaker
We'll be doing live commentary with, um, on the theater screen. You're never too old. The 1979 great America special. That's the, um, is that the music one? Yeah. The one that starts with, with all the musical numbers and stuff.
00:46:09
Speaker
Yeah, so we'll be recording in a theater. Ben and I will be up at the front with a with a desk and microphones watching on a laptop facing you guys, the audience, and behind us will be a screen showing the same thing that we're watching in real time. So. We're going to watch this crazy ass Great America TV special from 1979.
00:46:38
Speaker
and do live commentary and it's going to be awesome. So we'll be done by about seven, 15 hard cut off is seven. So we'll be out of there before seven 30, right? Great America will close at 10 or possibly later. So we'll be about a 15 minute drive from the park. So we'll easily be able to go back over and close out the park. Yeah, that sounds good.
00:47:08
Speaker
So, yeah, so we'll do, you know, we can plan to hit opening for Saturday. Now, these dates, for those of you listening,
00:47:21
Speaker
uh, Friday night, June 16th, we'll all meet up. Everyone who's, uh, crashing in the group stay place. Um, Saturday is 17th. We'll meet up at the park. We'll have the podcast recording in the evening, and then we will go back to the park and host some sort of after party and Sunday the 18th, you know, maybe we'll, we'll do great America or possibly we'll do, uh, an expedition up to Mount Olympus.
00:47:54
Speaker
But certainly get on our Discord. We've got details there for how you can sign up to stay at the fucking crash pad. Your favorite coaster sucks house. And even if you don't want to stay there, definitely come join for the podcast. Go watch.
00:48:19
Speaker
National Lampoon's vacation, if you like. Always fun to have an opportunity to see that on a theater screen. And then definitely come watch us do commentary on the never too old special. And actually, as it turns out, we'll be headlining the Art Walk event taking place there.
00:48:50
Speaker
OK, cool. Yeah, how about that? We're we're top billing over vacation. So I'm hoping all you in the Midwest will make it out June 16th through 18th, 2023, six legs during America. Y'all, it's going to be awesome. We got a ton of rides to do.
00:49:18
Speaker
I think probably you and I being there will probably unlock a lot of memories and stories that we haven't even told on the show. Yeah, that's true. So there's some deep repressed memories of that park.
00:49:48
Speaker
Um. Yeah, no, I'd love to see all you out there. I hope everybody makes it out. It'll be great to see you. And boy, oh boy, you are not going to want to miss the you're never too old special. Again, we'll be in an actual cinema. I'm so stoked for that, man. Oh, yeah, seeing
00:50:19
Speaker
a 70s musical performance. I'm scrubbing through it right now. This thing is so crazy, especially the like part where they're in front of the corkscrews. It is wild, dude. That special is fucking wild. So, um,
00:50:45
Speaker
Yeah, I'm excited. You guys will all be able to watch the special in real time while we are more or less on a stage doing live commentary, doing this thing. And I mean, that's one of the coolest. That's probably the coolest. Well, we've only done one live recording. So I guess we're upping the bar.
00:51:19
Speaker
Definitely. So with that said, yeah, if we want to do screams and dreams, man. But I will say, what do you think you're most excited for at our Great America meetup? In June? Probably.
00:51:50
Speaker
I mean, doing the live show will be cool. However, I think experiencing like that hot blacktop again will be, and then walking into like the Batman bathrooms that are overflowing with water will be a good, good nostalgia trip. Seriously, those bathrooms are always fucking flooded.
00:52:15
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know the air conditioning, but it's like ice cold air condition. The air conditioning in those bathrooms are usually pretty good. It's like a fucking. Yeah. Yeah. The other one that's like that is the one in County Fair between American Eagle and Goliath. Yeah. That one also has always like a fucking quarter inch of standing water in it.
00:52:46
Speaker
And it's like, I don't know if somebody just mopped or if somebody just pissed all over the floor. Because it starts to all kind of you can't tell if it's cleaner or piss because it all kind of starts to smell the same. Yeah, yeah, it's disgusting. I will say best bathroom at Great America to me. Is the one outside the park in the like right outside the gates. Oh, yeah, that's a good one.
00:53:16
Speaker
Yeah, ever since they closed like the ticket boots over there, nobody's ever in that area. I think of all the times I've used that restroom either going into the park or coming out of it, I've seen one other person once in recent seasons. Yeah, it's funny too, because like I literally hit that bathroom every time, like right before I go through the entrance and then every time on the way out, like every time.
00:53:47
Speaker
It's, it's pretty great. Not gonna lie. And I also kind of remembering the water fountain being decent too, or the bubbler. That I can't speak to. I have not used a water fountain since COVID.
00:54:14
Speaker
I'm not afraid to. Yeah, I'm more like I get a water bottle or a cup of water. And I'm good. I don't even know if they're back on because, yeah, water fountains are disgusting. God, that's still a memories of like there's always the means, though, of like the good water fountains.
00:54:44
Speaker
Like in school, there was always like good ones and bad ones. Oh yeah, definitely. God, every good one there is, I can still like taste it. Our, uh, our band room in high school had a water fountain like inside of the room. That one was so good. Always cold. It like the water felt different. It tasted different. It was so good. Good, good. Like water pressure.
00:55:17
Speaker
What I found is one of those things that like would be interesting to have in a, in a home. I mean, you can literally buy them and plug them into the wall. That's, that'd be pretty cool to have in like, just in your house. That's what I'm saying. Like if you put it, like if your bedroom was near your bathroom and not near your kitchen,
00:55:43
Speaker
you put it somewhere between the bedroom and the bathroom. So you go wake up to take a piss in the middle of the night. You gotta, you gotta drink a water on the way back. Yeah. Hmm. I wonder how much they cost. Don't you need to like set up plumbing for them though? Yeah, you do, but not super. I mean, that's not impossible. Plumbing is not,
00:56:12
Speaker
too difficult. Let's see. You, you take care of the plumbing. I'm not a plumbing guy. So I wouldn't trust myself with a, with a Home Depot toolkit and a afternoon's worth of YouTube knowledge. So you can buy a LK standard, like elementary school water fountain for like 700 bucks.
00:56:41
Speaker
That's pretty pricey, but also makes sense. They're not, I mean, they got, um, but they're, but they're also, they contain filters. So, so if you, like, cause some water filters are like 500 bucks. Oh God, Jesus Christ. Yeah, they're not too bad.
00:57:11
Speaker
I mean, I would definitely not say no, but it's much lower on the priority list than something like, say a journal. Yeah. Dude, a journal in your home would be fucking amazing. Yeah, that's doable. That would be like.
00:57:41
Speaker
You could put that in the back of a man cave and just put two sheets of plywall. Of fucking plywood on either side. Plywall, I can mine two words on either side, though, without even a door. And it'd be like, yep, there it is. Yeah, I think those are even cheaper. I've actually I mean, I've seen those in people's basements before. Like
00:58:15
Speaker
But here's the deal. If I get a urinal, I'm getting the one that goes to the floor. Cause the ones that don't go to the floor always have a goddamn piss dribble puddle right in front of them. Yeah. I wonder if you can even find those. Yeah. You can literally buy a Kohler urinal for 170 bucks. No shit. Really? Yeah.
00:58:45
Speaker
I'm like way too stoked about that for a guy who lives in an apartment. I mean, why not? I think you should for sure. I could literally put one in my laundry. You know what? So I'm going to be getting a stack of washer and dryer.
00:59:10
Speaker
And I'll have room with plumbing already set up. I should just put a urinal in there so that way. I agree. Because things is like when I have people over in the backyard and stuff, my bed or my bathroom is like on the other side of the house by the bedrooms. But if I put a urinal right there, it's right up back. So if like when I have people over and like parties and stuff, people can just go to the urinal. I mean, women will have to use the toilet, unfortunately, but
00:59:42
Speaker
considering my ratio of female friends. What? You need to do that. And then we can put up a couple of artifacts and get the museum open. Cause once you have a, a urinal that's easily accessible, then you've got the bathroom situation covered. Yeah, that's true.
01:00:11
Speaker
I mean, I think that we may even have a folding table in the budget. Intern, international. Roller coaster museum. Because I mean, all we need to do that is have one artifact from Canada.
01:00:42
Speaker
Yeah, Canada's Wonderland map. Exactly. Boom. International. I was actually going through tubs of shit at my parents' house and I kept the, for some reason, the receipt and the ticket stub from the West Edmonton Mall from 2009.
01:01:07
Speaker
Uh, well, that sounds like a relic from international roller coaster museum. It is. I mean, absolutely. It is. Look at that. It's a historical document of what the pricing was like in 2009. I think it was like 47 Canadian.
01:01:42
Speaker
I have no idea what that would be in American. I remember on that trip, well, especially doing trips so young, like I kind of miss that feeling of getting out on the road and being like, OK, on this trip for nine days and I have exactly five hundred and eighty dollars in my checking account. I cannot overdraft.
01:02:10
Speaker
and then budgeting for like that whole trip. I kind of miss the feeling of like going on one of those long trips and like, okay, like I have my phone so like my folks can reach me if they need to or like any of my friends or whatever.
01:02:36
Speaker
but like otherwise I'm just going to be on this trip for the next eight days or whatever, you know? Yeah. Like, I guess that's more of a smartphone thing, but yeah. Yeah. That's what sucked about traveling, consulting, like, um,
01:03:04
Speaker
The first month was like exciting, you know? Cause it's like, oh, sweet. Jump on a plane, go here, stay in a hotel here, go here, you know, fly this place. But then after like, you're just working the whole time because you got your smartphone with you. So you're like making power points on the flight, trying to take a call on the flight with the flight, like the onboard wifi that would not work half the time.
01:03:42
Speaker
Yeah, that sounds shitty. I think there's only like two jobs that involve travel that I'd want to do. What's that? Well, really, it's only one job and that's touring entertainer. Touring what? Entertainer. Oh, yeah.
01:04:17
Speaker
I used to think stand up, but the older I am, the more I think that probably wouldn't gel with me. The amount of free time and being alone, that's a bad combination. It can be, but like if you, yeah.
01:04:44
Speaker
If you're me, it is. If you're in a cool spot, it's great, but if you're in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in a La Quinta. Yeah, that can turn into key bombs pretty quick. But anyway. Yeah, should we? I digress.
01:05:13
Speaker
Should we watch this? Yeah, let me find it. We're going to be watching Screams and Dreams, volume two. Holy shit. Oh, wait, do you want to do that other one? We talked about the. That Great American one with the interviews, that one, there's so much fun to rip on. Not this episode.
01:05:44
Speaker
Cause we're already an hour. I've been looking forward to that all week. Dude, that one's over an hour long. We do parts of it. Break it up. I mean, that's a, that's a commitment, man. Come on. That one is so good though.
01:06:12
Speaker
It's pretty fucking funny. Yeah. Let's just do two parts. We can break this out. Listeners won't care. Let's stretch the shit out. Okay. I'm trying to find this one now. Okay. Here it is.
01:06:41
Speaker
Yeah, this one's an hour and 13 minutes, so we'll definitely break this one up. Okay, I gave you the chat in the link in the chat. Yes.
01:06:58
Speaker
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01:07:19
Speaker
So anchor.fm is not a porn site, right? Not yet, because it's still free, too. So you know they'll start charging once they got only fan style content. That's good. That's good to hear. So if you want to jump on the train before it's all titties and pussies, download the anchor app or go to anchor.fm to get started.
01:07:38
Speaker
All right, the link is in the episode description. So go check it out. If you're lazy, then just type in the opening of Great America in Gurney, Illinois or ILL 1976. It's on YouTube.
Retro TV Special on Great America
01:07:53
Speaker
So here we go. One. No, wait, we're coming down. Three, two, one, play.
01:08:03
Speaker
That afro is ridiculous. Here's some random field we found. Yeah, he's like across the street. His hair makes it look like he's probably doing cocaine between sets. You know, also the shirt with the two tone shirt with the collar.
01:08:30
Speaker
Welcome to great America and a celebration at great America. That was a good effect though Like if he was This is like the cheesiest fucking effect editing that one was bad that cut wasn't really bad
01:08:57
Speaker
This is very much like 2006 YouTube. So, okay. So it's going to follow her. She's the one doing the interviews. I think he does some too. I can't even tell what that is. That's the park being constructed. You can see the highway in the background there.
01:09:27
Speaker
And then you can see the parking lot. The park's starting to take shape. And there it goes. Great helicopter shot. That's where American Eagle's at now.
01:09:56
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, this is pretty cool to see. That's, um... Oh, that's the Grand American Raceway, right? Uh, yeah. At that time, I think it was the Barney Oldfield Speedway. And there goes Turn of the Century. This music, though.
01:10:26
Speaker
Oh, I always forget about the, uh, sky ride. Yeah. Delta flyer, Eagle, Eagle's flight. And dude, look at that. There's no trees there. Dude, they didn't even have pictorium or sky track.
01:10:55
Speaker
Yeah, it looks so weird underground. So Sandy, are you ready? I sure am. Stay with us for our celebration at Great America. OK, legit, this is awesome. I'm glad that this is on the Internet. Welcome back to our celebration at Great America. We'll have a lot of stars and music. I'm kind of excited. So what's a better way to start this off? Are these people relevant outside of
01:11:30
Speaker
I... I tried to Google them, and there was nothing. So my guess is they were just on-air personalities for the TV station that broadcast this. Yeah. WLS in Chicago.
01:11:59
Speaker
Okay, so this is kind of yeah Go ahead. I was gonna say I always kind of forget about the parade Yeah, dude this parade looked awesome. Oh my god look at those character suits though that peppy little peel head is Ridiculous
01:12:23
Speaker
Dude they have a whole swing band in that trolley Dude there is no way they got character like they got people coming in and out of floats. No way. Oh Yeah, I didn't even think about that they wouldn't do that nowadays way too much injury risk and
01:12:53
Speaker
Man, look at that parade float. That's awesome. Look at that, ladies just leaving. Oh, dude, that's awesome. They had a float for every area. Was that a clown? I...
01:13:22
Speaker
didn't see. Yeah, in the unicycle, that's a clown, yeah. Is the parade today still based on the areas of the park? No. No, because these floats don't even... I don't know if they exist anymore. I've never
01:13:51
Speaker
In my experience, I never saw any of these floats anywhere. Yo, that like, whatever that creature was, was weird. Like, something from...
01:14:15
Speaker
fucking Foster's Home for Imaginary Creatures. Yeah. Yo, this parade looked awesome. It's like a Disney parade. Legit, it is. Oh, and she just ran off.
01:14:55
Speaker
And, like, there she is, back where she just left from. Also, what's funny is, like, that shirt that she's wearing, I can't tell if it's, like, a Great America costume or something she's wearing legitimately.
01:15:14
Speaker
Not sure. And actually, let me correct myself. She was not back where she went from. The parade was going the opposite direction into the other area. Wow, they had somebody performing up on that. On top of that, the Emporium and in Orleans place there.
01:15:41
Speaker
That's the thing, they could do something up there today for pretty. That was Jimmy Anderson's office for a while. OK. They could put like a three person jazz band up there.
01:16:02
Speaker
Well, they added like a skeleton jazz band animatronic during Fright Fest. But unfortunately, that Emporium store has been closed. Pretty much every visit I made in 2022, that store was closed. Which is weird because it had merchandise in it. Probably some weird staffing thing. I'm sure.
01:16:35
Speaker
So much polyester. And these dance moves, my god. Those vests, holy moly.
01:16:56
Speaker
OK, so very, very interesting. And here's the nerd coming out and me. I don't know if you noticed from that high shot, that crane shot there. Look at that. There's a switch track for the trolleys. Oh, yeah. On the left side. That's like in front of Superman, right? Um, closer to Carousel. You can see there's Rulodage.
01:17:27
Speaker
in that one shot, it was like directly behind them. That's the entrance of Roulodage. They're right in front of, they're like in between Antoine's and the Emporium. Yeah, because there's the Emporium directly behind them in this shot. I think they've filled that out with like planters. Okay, yeah, because I feel like it, I feel like I remember seeing that before, but there's something on top of it.
01:18:01
Speaker
Yeah, they are in the roulodage queue. I always forget that ride is there. Dude, I love that ride. God, the paint on the trolleys looks so fucking nice. I'm not saying bring the trolleys back is an attraction, but please paint them that color again. Where's everybody?
01:18:40
Speaker
This dude doesn't understand how to read a fucking map. He's like, I just did a bunch of blow in the bathroom and now I'm all disoriented and confused. And he's, he's right in front of fucking grand music hall. Like that's an easy place to know where you're at.
01:19:01
Speaker
Oh, boy. Oh, boy. You know, one theater I never went inside of was at least I don't think I did was the one where Dark Knight is. What was that called? Theater Royale, really? Yeah.
01:19:29
Speaker
You never saw like the two-night show or anything? I don't think so. Oh man, you never saw Susan Rosen when it was there? No, I didn't see Susan Rosen until... I'm trying to remember. She was in like, Victorian ones. She was in... Southwest Territory theater once.
01:19:59
Speaker
Yep. Yeah, they put her in the amphitheater, which was terrible. And then she was in Picto, um, for a long time. Which was fine. It wasn't the best, but it was better than the amphitheater, which is now gone. Picto's gone too. Heck, Susan Rosen, may she rest in peace.
01:20:35
Speaker
So he just straight up got to drive that car through the park. I'm kinda jealous. Also, you gotta love an all-white except for one cast doing The Wiz.
01:21:10
Speaker
This is awkward. The story of oil.
01:21:17
Speaker
Yeah, the theming on that ride. Let's steal this fucking car.
01:21:50
Speaker
So he asked him about a when you were filming a movie and the guy answered with well this happened when I wasn't filming a movie but uh
01:22:08
Speaker
I don't even know what this dude's talking about. He kind of talks with the Kinko guy. Dude, notice the amico? Oh yeah. Notice that amico sticker on the car? Yeah. And also the guy walking through the shot. They also couldn't film this from a different angle. The what? The dude that walked through the shot?
01:22:39
Speaker
But, like, they couldn't get a second camera angle on this. This is so awkward. Like, the interviewer is facing away from the camera. Yeah. Oh, that guy likes new experiences. I have no clue. Or maybe they tried to film on the camera.
01:23:10
Speaker
Did they like hid the camera? They're like, all right, I'm actually gonna like go up to him and start talking to him and like, you just got to hide in the bush. It was the only way they could get him on camera. He's like, I only agreed to this shit because I wanted to come to this park.
01:23:39
Speaker
Oh my god. Yeah, and they immediately had to stop because they can't get the car back onto the iron rail in the middle. Dude, three tracks. I feel like I only ever remember one track on that ride.
01:24:11
Speaker
I feel like they had two, but they only used one at a time. Yeah, like I think you could see two tracks, but they only used one side of it. That sounds really familiar.
01:24:37
Speaker
Man, yeah, three tracks. That must have been a beast for capacity with all those cars. At least for an antique auto's ride. This doesn't look like West Virginia to me. Yeah, West Virginia looks a lot like Gurney, Illinois.
01:25:14
Speaker
Who is she? Why is there one wearing a dress? Oh, here we go. Like, you can see the detail of the people on the ground. You would not be able to tell if that's the guy.
01:25:44
Speaker
Sandy, Sandy, what are you doing up here? Ah, she can't hear me up there. Well, let's meet these guys. These are the Scott twins from Nova Scotia, Canada. And you are? Rene. And you are? Raymond. Well, hi. Where are we? We're in Yukon territory. And this is our tree climbing exhibition. What goes on here? Oh, they have a race here. They race up. Uh, they climb the trees. And they race back down. And the guy that hits the ground first, the winner.
01:26:12
Speaker
Very simple. Simple? Sounds difficult to me, is it? Very hard, yeah. Takes a lot of strength and... darn it. Do you think that we could have a race right now so we can all watch and see who can get up first? Right. Okay, we'll put a show on for you. Well, let's do a show, okay? Good enough. Yeah. Okay. This is so awkward. Yeah, the awkwardness between just like... Okay, would you hold it ready? Yeah. You start the race. The kill for these races are... Turner is ready. The test is ready. One, two, go.
01:26:46
Speaker
Okay, this looks insane.
01:27:11
Speaker
Wow. That is truly amazing. That's a difficult thing to do. I'll have to acknowledge that. So they put in a shot of a different race because there's no camera visible. I'll ask you guys something. You're very quick to ask me to do that. Yeah. What do you guys do here? We're log rollers. We roll logs in the water. Right in the water. I can try that. You want me to go to that? I'd like to see you guys do it, okay? Let's go over and take a look at the log rollers.
01:27:33
Speaker
It's almost like they hired a guy, they hired this guy, but he was visibly getting upset. Have you ever seen Winnebago Man?
01:27:43
Speaker
No. It's like this guy who's doing narrations for Winnebago minivans, but he has like a meltdown every time they do a shot. So there's just this long b-roll of him just like freaking out and cussing. Oh yeah!
01:28:12
Speaker
Their show, it takes a lot out of them, but ours is a little bit more dangerous. We're being high. Would you learn how to do that? Oh, in college. Believe it or not. In college, you're learning how to climb a tree. Yeah, on the West Coast, they have competitions throughout the Northwest and different types of old, full-time logging events. Canadian, North-West, or American? American. Washington State. And that's what you do in Washington State? Yes. Very interesting. Alright, we're ready for the log rolling now. Yeah, that seems like a Washington State type of thing.
01:28:49
Speaker
I mean, this is pretty impressive. Yeah, it's fun. Like I was saying last week, I used to teach this at the YMCA that I worked at.
01:29:07
Speaker
We actually had a fucking log rolling class. It's really not that hard to learn. Yeah, it's really not that hard to learn.
01:29:23
Speaker
It's obviously just more difficult when you're doing it with someone who has like more skill than you. It's like the competition part of it is tough, but you can do it yourself. You could learn in like a day. I mean that makes sense. Like the actual log rolling doesn't seem tough, but competing seems incredibly tough.
01:29:52
Speaker
Here's a little foot race again. See what happens here. I don't know how long they can keep this up. But this the whole way this thing has been shot is that it seems like they're like they like snuck a camera in. You know what I mean? They're doing this stuff without park permission. They had to go around a pillar. Somebody's got to go. Somebody's got to go. It looks like Raymond and only one camera.
01:30:23
Speaker
Oh my god, an end to the Wilderness Theater. You know the Wilderness Theater is still used? Is it used for anything besides, like, private events?
01:30:54
Speaker
The only thing I know for sure that it's used for is cheerleading competitions. Okay, that makes sense. Because I'm pretty sure that pool was filled in. And everything else is pretty much the same there. That was great, you know what? Yeah.
01:31:21
Speaker
I recognize the melody, but I didn't understand the words. It was Yankee Doodle Dandy. Oh, no, of course. A bicentennial a year. How long have you been working with a dolphin? Five years. And have you been working with Nemo and Neptune? Or did I get that? No, that's Neptune. This is Neptune. And Nemo. Nemo and Neptune. I feel like that's not the answer she was expecting for some reason. Eight months. Five years. Oh.
01:31:48
Speaker
So did you go to school for this? Oh, that's it. Oh, they're probably dead. Yeah. Let's be honest, they died when Six Flags bought the park.
01:32:10
Speaker
They put them in, like, giant, like, plastic bags and stored them in the shed. You know, like when you buy goldfish from the pet store. They probably sold them to SeaWorld. They're like, yeah, we'll sell you these SeaWorld. How do you want us to ship them? FedEx or UPS and SeaWorld is like, wait, what?
01:32:40
Speaker
They're like, wait, you can do that? That's not cute. That's terrifying.
01:33:02
Speaker
Would you like for him to give you a kiss? I really would. Dolphins are so cute though. Okay. Lean over. Get up close to the pool. Take your finger and point to your cheek. Take your finger. Okay. Dolphins are gonna outlive us. Okay, wait a second. Hold on. Right here. Right here. This was the last she was ever seen.
01:33:32
Speaker
It was really awkward. It was, right? Important personalities in great America. It's like it just turned time just pause. It has a terrible transition. We take this occasion to have a good interview with you. I'd like to start on a very personal basis. If you don't mind bugs, how old are you? Well, I was born in nineteen thirty eight, which makes me thirty seven years old, Doc.
01:34:02
Speaker
Who created you and how? Well, Bugs Hardaway, he made the first drawing of me. Bugs is his real name. Bugs Hardaway. So we call him Bugs Bunny. I love the bug suit. Who is this guy Mel Blanc?
01:34:21
Speaker
He's some guy that creates voices and sound. With the what? Just the bug suit with the Uncle Sam get up is great. Yeah. Whoa, that Daffy head though. And the legs are just tight.
01:34:49
Speaker
Okay, I love that Yosemite Sam costume. Interesting. Okay, why is Sylvester wearing a trench coat? Tweety makes sense in that way. It's kind of weird that he's a full-size character now.
01:35:20
Speaker
Marry it, great America. Yeah, thanks, Tasmanian Devil. Isn't he nuts? Oh, and there's also Honey Bunny. She's out to lunch.
01:35:31
Speaker
Those guys just like what the fuck am I doing? It's like am I tripping right now? Come on guys, we really don't need this scene, do we? What's even more awkward?
01:35:54
Speaker
is that this is Mel Blanc in an obviously pre-recorded bit and they just had people standing there. Okay, we're gonna file this number under has aged extremely poorly.
01:36:26
Speaker
and you will see why.
01:36:50
Speaker
And here they are, right in Hometown Square. Oh no.
01:37:05
Speaker
No no no, let's not. Oh no. This is so bad.
01:37:49
Speaker
Yeah, some pieces of history don't need a musical number. Oh my god, did you see that? Yeah.
01:38:00
Speaker
Well, I haven't been able to find Steve yet, but I was. Oh my God. I think we're done. And they have good carvers in there and they have beautiful pieces of wood for sale. This is one of the handicraft stores that they have at Great America. They have such stores as broom making stores, pottery stores, glass blowing stores, all sorts of candy crafts that you can enjoy. You can watch. She hasn't blinked once. Maybe try to do it yourself. Hi, Paul. Hello. How are you?
01:38:42
Speaker
It was inspired by a man I know who has three testicles. You really need two camera angles for this.
01:38:51
Speaker
She's like, I put Vaseline on my eyeballs.
01:39:05
Speaker
And she's like touching them. Right.
01:39:15
Speaker
And this is out of his personal collection, and he brought it in just for display purposes. How awkward is that? He's just like, uh, yeah, why did you grab that? Uh, that's Jim's. He's gonna be so pissed. These are templates.
01:39:57
Speaker
He's like, can you please just like back the fuck up? She's like so close to him.
01:40:10
Speaker
It's like the Greek of like Marblites and Bombay.
01:40:21
Speaker
You know what? I think I've just about got it. I think you've showed me enough. And I see that you have all the tools laid out over there for me. Yeah. But I think I'm ready to try this on my own. All right? Sure. All right, Paul. Just watch me. He's just like, uh, uh. Here? OK, fine. Let me get it. And then I'll be ready. Oh, fuck. Let me do something special for you, Paul. He's like, oh, god, you're going to fuck this up. No, right here? Yeah. OK. He's like, what are you doing? That's not where it goes. Here? Mm-hmm. OK.
01:40:51
Speaker
Wait a minute. Oh, you're really going to love this ball because it's going to be something that's very special and something that will really show off Great America at its best. He's just like, aha. OK, now, don't look too close. This is like a Tim and Eric bit. OK, how am I doing so far? Excellent. I see you come along. I'm glad you do. Well, there was your second camera angle.
01:41:33
Speaker
Yeah, dude, that's definitely like a Tim and Eric bit.
01:41:48
Speaker
Okay. I'm sure you see where this is going already. Right. It's gonna go to that scene from Ghost. Wasn't that Ghost? Yeah. I've never seen that movie. I know the scene you're talking about though. It sounds like such a weird movie.
01:42:13
Speaker
and then i brought the walls up and that's what this is here um yeah work the walls it's you know it's kind of going to be kind of rounded and close and stuff and it looks similar to this one oh let me touch that would you hand that here this is leather hard wait you can't hold it by the hand oh you can't because it's still wet it has held it from the bottom and she's like yeah don't fuck this up
01:42:36
Speaker
Yeah, I just finished this. That's so nice of you to describe it as unusual. The first firing is to get it hard and then you glaze it and fire it the second time.
01:43:06
Speaker
It would have been, watch, she actually, like, ended up breaking one anyway. She's like, so can I swing this around? I'd really prefer you not. Okay, and then you fire it again for the final time and then it's totally finished? Right. So it's fire, fire, glaze, fire? Uh, no. Fire, glaze, fire. Fire, glaze, fire.
01:43:34
Speaker
No, it sounds fairly easy. Do you think I could start? Uh, you could finish what I'm doing here. Oh, okay. I'd love to. She's like. All right. Um, can I get a smock? Uh-huh. Sure. Okay. Cause I noticed you have an apron on and I just... Honestly, though, messed up because I'm trying to find... Could Tim and Eric even stage something this awkward? I think I've caught up with him. I've lost him again. I don't think so.
01:44:01
Speaker
This is probably like what they were basing their comedy on though. Oh boy. She gonna make a dick. This is not gonna go well.
01:44:23
Speaker
Can I try the spindle? Oh god. Oh.
01:44:56
Speaker
That lady's like, well, that was my afternoon. Now the transition again. They they paused on the like. Worst face, too.
01:45:19
Speaker
Look who I just ran across here. Great America. Jerry Stiller, one of America's great actors. And he's here and I thought we'd sit down. Hello, Steve. What are you doing here? What are you doing here? I'm here. I'm looking for Anne and my kids. They're on the turn of the sun. Yo, Jerry still has a kid. That thing that turns around twice. Why aren't you there? Because I'm scared. I can't take thrills. I'm very thrilled to be just wait his kid to be here.
01:45:44
Speaker
He said his kid was there. Ben Stiller? Yeah, I was making a dumb joke.
01:45:56
Speaker
How about the fun involved at Pheasant Run? Oh, you mean at the Pheasant Run Theater? Oh, I'm glad you mentioned that because we're having a marvelous time there with Three on a Runway, a movie. I think I hope it's going to be a movie. It's written by Donna De Matteo and we're here in St. Charles doing the show. We'll be there for the next five weeks. I'm having a marvelous time with Carl Stone Jr. Wow. So Jerry Stiller was doing a stage production in the Chicagoland area.
01:46:22
Speaker
I don't quite know what bag to put you in. Which one should I put you in? In my heart, I'm Laurence Olivier. I see. But on the outside, I mean, what was he doing back then? Ask my wife who I am. She says, I don't know. That's the way I. That's the way I feel. I love it all. What's funny about this is, like, was Jerry Stiller just like that early of a career person? And then in reality, we do it.
01:46:49
Speaker
If this were to come out today, it'd be like a D actor. Yeah, I'm not sure what level he was at. I have a hard time seeing him and not seeing Frank Costanza.
01:47:13
Speaker
Which, picturing him here as Frank Costanza and him talking about Stellan George instead is even fucking funny here.
01:47:44
Speaker
But these hosts are definitely way lower than he is. Okay, what in the hell is happening? Why is an old man feeding little kids mysterious? He just cosmied those six kids. Who are those kids?
01:48:19
Speaker
Plus that suit that he's wearing. I get it's the seventies, but nobody, nobody was like, Hey, why are you giving those kids your funnel cake? Did you see that two second clip of Jerry Stiller with the giant hot dog giant sandwich? Yeah, that was weird out of place. Can we change the lyrics of this fucking song?
01:48:49
Speaker
Maybe? It's really the third lyric that's a problem.
Chattanooga Choo Choo Trivia
01:49:02
Speaker
Wait, I can't fully hear it. What is it? You're familiar with the song Chattanooga choo choo? Yeah. How does it start? What are the first three words?
01:49:25
Speaker
I'll give you a hint, the first two are pardon me. The words are pardon me boy.
01:49:50
Speaker
The Wizard.
Circus Life and Performer Backgrounds
01:50:00
Speaker
Bad shot of vloggers, Ron. Yeah, that is bad.
01:50:06
Speaker
And another terrible transition, Sean. Yes, but while I was looking around backstage at the circus, I ran into John Russell. He's the catcher for the Trapeze Act. And a rather good-looking young gentleman, as you'll be able to see for yourself. I know you love John a lot. I get to see the look on your face, John. Why? Why, yeah. No, no, not too often. You don't? I mean, all those huge muscles and everything. Oh, my god. What the fuck? When you get up there and swing a little bit. And that's what you get from front, too, all of that.
01:50:35
Speaker
He's probably gay, leave him alone.
01:50:50
Speaker
I just kept asking them to let me get up there. At last I did. So that happened while you were in college. But I'm still in college. And you're still in college. I have one quarter to go. I graduated. She's like, oh. I was thinking maybe you ran away from home and joined the circus. Everyone that's at the show here at Marriott that's in the circus is either in college now or have just graduated or in high school. And nowadays there'd be a PR of those. Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. We're all amateur performers. Everybody here is a working professional.
01:51:19
Speaker
What? What the fuck?
01:51:39
Speaker
Yes, because some guys like to smile at me and say, you know, you're wearing tights, but not too many people smile because I don't think I look like a girl. No, I don't think you do either, Joan. I think you look good. And it kind of suits the act. What the hell? When you're blind, everybody expects you to wear it all. Walking around in the middle of the park, they might notice it, but, you know, when you're swinging... You do stick out a little bit there. So what do you want to do after you graduate from college? Well, that's...
01:52:06
Speaker
That's kind of up in the air at this point. She's like, I'll teach you a few things. And actually there's not an awful lot that prepares me for, I'm using it for a pre-law degree. Uh, since I'm getting out in December, I can't start school right away. So to law school right away, I have to wait till
Career Uncertainty and Law School Contemplation
01:52:20
Speaker
next fall. So I think that, uh, I think I might swing a little bit. I can't find a job. She's like, Oh, yeah. He said that's a weird word choice. Everybody else thought that.
01:52:33
Speaker
Well, that's probably like what the trapeze people call it. You have to go on. You have to do a show. Right. Well, I'm sure. And then she's just like, huh?
01:52:42
Speaker
Well, in fact, I think they're starting to put the flying net up right now. So, uh, usually before I go up, I'd like to check it. Uh, I don't blame you one bit. Right, right. John, thank you very much. Certainly. Listen, I'm gonna come out here and watch it, too. Okay, great. Let me get back to you and check it. And if you're trying to get your dick sucked after the show... She definitely... She definitely looked at his ass, like, three
Circus Logistics and Performances
01:53:02
Speaker
times. But it is, it's the most thrilling part. Look at those people on the flying trapeze.
01:53:13
Speaker
Dude, the level of thirst dripping off of her in that interview. Yeah, that was gross. You can even hear just like one shot.
01:53:43
Speaker
Dude, this must have been so expensive to pay all these circus performers. Well, I'm sure, but also if they didn't have that many rides to maintain, it's probably like a, you know, balances out kinda.
01:54:10
Speaker
Yeah, but even so, you know the old parts and labor deal. Labor is always the most expensive part of anything. Like, this unedited circus footage is just odd. Like, they're presenting it as if it's live, which it's clearly not.
01:54:43
Speaker
Yeah, because they're not cutting away to any people. This was probably just like a little warm-up they did.
01:55:10
Speaker
It would be really fun to try swinging on one of those. Like doing that? That would be fun. Yeah.
Trapeze Experience Excitement
01:55:22
Speaker
A lot of places have classes. Landing into the net like that?
01:55:49
Speaker
I feel like I'd fuck myself up with that flip out of the nut, though. Also, this cut. Really? Yeah, right? It's like, so did he die?
01:56:09
Speaker
Yeah, the untold story. Right? Like, it goes black and white. Done. You see this place over here? Looks like a firehouse, doesn't it?
Quirky Firehouse Attraction
01:56:23
Speaker
But inside, they serve some terrific ice cream and they've got a great barbershop court firehouse quartet that sings. Sandy would love this place and I'd like to buy her some ice cream. But when I do, when I do, I'll bring her back. She's out there.
01:56:41
Speaker
college kids right you know a singing fire department where did they ever come up with this original idea
01:57:26
Speaker
You know, I think
01:57:32
Speaker
Barbershop music is kind of best left where it was. It's not. I mean, it's cute, but so I guess this was like a show or it was like something they did like on Saturdays.
01:57:59
Speaker
No, the firehouse in hometown was an ice cream shop and these guys would sing, I don't know how frequently, but I got to imagine a few times a day at least. You're the honey that we love so well. Little lies we love you, little lies we love you, love you in the spring
01:58:29
Speaker
She's like, I'm trying to get fucked by these trapezes.
Awkward Barbershop Quartet Encounter
01:58:33
Speaker
She's like, but the four of you will do. How old are you? What high school do you go to?
01:59:01
Speaker
That was weird that they like passed her around. That was the nicest thing that anyone ever sang to me, of course. And she picked up a mic. They're like... Right? Can I find out who you all are? Tom Allen. Hi Tom. Mike Treske. Hi Mike. I'm Steve Larocco. Hi Steve. Bill Birch. Bill, gee, you really have a beautiful sound. Have you been singing long? Yes, we've been together for about two and a half years now. We started when we were juniors in high school.
01:59:28
Speaker
and now you're really old men two and a half years later oh yeah you having a lot of fun yeah it's really a fun time so let's see junior in high school plus two and a half years they haven't written a song about that yet you see there's a song on the south side of chicago but not on the south side of milwaukee
01:59:52
Speaker
Have you heard of green nail, Ben? No, I understand something happened that you almost didn't get paid or orient because of a certain haircut that was needed. Maybe four haircuts were needed in the group. Yes, we came down here. Unfortunately, our hair was at college length instead of job. Wait a minute. What is college length hair? Well, you know what is college length hair kind of thing.
02:00:17
Speaker
Right, college length. So what did you do? We had Mike the barber cut our hair. Well you see, we had a legitimate excuse for having long hair. We go to school in Eau Claire where it gets awful cold so you have to have fairly long hair to, you know, keep it. Oh, you've all heard that before, right? Mm-hmm. You know, so you cut everybody's hair? You cut your own hair? No, Tom cut my hair and my ear and just about everything else on me with it.
02:00:46
Speaker
These guys couldn't go to a fucking barbershop. I think these guys are after her. All four of them are like, is she throwing out the vibe? Tell you what, how'd you like to join us in a song?
02:01:33
Speaker
See, she even said no.
02:01:58
Speaker
Like why did they put her in the middle of this?
02:02:06
Speaker
Yeah, see, the awkwardness has kind of flipped. They got word from all the other people in the park, but... Yo, the TV ladies, DTF.
Nostalgia Marketing with 50s Music
02:02:33
Speaker
And all four of them is like music drives women crazy. Oh. Oh. Glory home. Hey, Zach. Can we pause for a second?
02:02:59
Speaker
Sure. All right. Pausing, pausing the video and. All right, we're back. I'll do a countdown for the start point. All right. What? What are you at? 5501. OK, cool.
02:03:19
Speaker
I'm literally lost it. Okay. All right, you good? Yeah. Cool. All right. Three, two, one, play. All right. Whoa, man.
02:03:38
Speaker
That's like a Tim and Eric cut too with the one guy who's just like not responding like the other guys. If he just looked directly at the camera. Yo, that shirt. She's like a Star Wars villain.
02:04:06
Speaker
How many rides? Holy shit, that hair is like in place. Five. How many people work here? It's a helmet. And these are mainly young... That is fucking Lego hair. That are working here part-time during the summer or having full-time jobs during the summer on a seasonal basis. You mean like these people behind us here? Like these wonderful people behind us. Okay, why is this framed so that there is bulge happening in the shot? What do you do here, Lee?
02:04:33
Speaker
Well, I work in Maggie Brown. And, uh, working Maggie Brown. Well, I prepare the chicken. Best chicken in the restaurant. Yes. Yes. They got the best chicken there. Uh, biggest restaurant and, uh,
02:04:46
Speaker
Sometimes I work on the line. I do cashiering sometimes. Things like that.
Amusement Park Staff Roles
02:04:50
Speaker
Thank you, Levi. Be nice to me. Okay, Laura. Laura's got a terrific smile. I want you just to... She laughs a lot. She has a good time. Let's zero in on Laura's smile. Okay, um... Look right at that camera. Give me... So... Laura, what do you do besides smile? Okay, that's practically what I always do. Okay, thank you, Laura.
02:05:11
Speaker
He's like, oh, I thought that was a person. What are you doing here? Is that a red wizard car in the background? Yeah. Well, I don't know if I saw a red one.
02:05:29
Speaker
but definitely notice the pace of the operations. Yeah. Uh, we work at the same ride, the Yankee Cooper flume ride, which is located in Yankee Harbor.
02:05:56
Speaker
He's like, you're not going to call the supervisor on me, are you? Yo, how come that dude looked like the guy from a clockwork orange? I don't know if I've seen that. Just Google the poster. You'll know exactly what I'm talking about.
Interview with a 'Security Host'
02:06:20
Speaker
What is it?
02:06:23
Speaker
a clockwork orange i'd like to talk to you i'd like to get off what can you do they do all the time and of course i have to say i'm sorry i'll meet you after work no i bet you smile a lot though yes okay nice to meet both of you earl come on in earl basket and i don't have to tell you really what he does he's uh he's the man around here okay yeah you're with i guess you would say security yes um i'm one of the um one of several security hosts
02:06:53
Speaker
In the park. Oh, I like that security host. And what do you do essentially? Well, I'm generally located inside the interior as well as the perimeter of the park. Why is he saying that to all these young girls? That's really creepy. What is it? You smile a lot? You do? He said that to the other girl he talked to. Occasionally. Occasionally, I somewhat...
02:07:22
Speaker
It's like, oh shit, I have drugs in my pocket. You don't have like a dog sniffing, drug sniffing dog around here, do you?
02:07:49
Speaker
uh don't worry i'm handcuffed i can't do a thing to you michelle what is what is your last name bradley ever talked to a guy with handcuffs before you have i don't want to ask you about your life uh tell us about the music show well the show covers um musical eras all the way from the blues to the 70s um songs from the wiz but the era that gets the most response is probably the 50s
02:08:18
Speaker
Yeah, they handcuffed him from the front so he can't really stop from having issues with these teenage girls.
Diverse Music Show Performances
02:08:28
Speaker
Danny and the Juniors, do you know that you do Danny and the Juniors? No. You see, you know the song. They're so young, they remember the song. At The Hop. That was Danny and the Juniors, and you do Joey Dee and the Starlighters, the Peppermint Twist, and some of those. You know what I'd like to see?
02:08:48
Speaker
I would like to be able right now to see that whole 50 medley. Okay. You think we can do that? Let's watch the music of Earl. How old do you think the host is in that? And Earl, would you come here and get the handcuffs off? I don't know. This is classic boomer fucking...
02:09:16
Speaker
gatekeeping about music You see that girl go no don't Can you get the handcuffs off no don't
70s Nostalgia Questioned
02:09:43
Speaker
Wow. Oh, the good old 50s. You know, this this just proves that nostalgia marketing is not new. Yeah. I mean, this is only a 20 year gap between the 50s and the 70s. This is kind of like millennials today getting marketed like some 41 and. You know, when we were young festival. Yeah. Yeah.
02:10:17
Speaker
It's like when you were a kid and you saw people being nostalgic about the 70s, you're like, oh man, that's so lame. That's us now. Yeah. See, here's the thing that was weird about me as a kid, though. Like, especially when I was a teenager, I had this weird fascination with the 70s.
02:10:42
Speaker
and like I don't know I was like I was like nostalgic for the 70s even though I wasn't there but now I'm like I know more about it and I'm like no the 70s sucked we're lucky that there there was a couple great theme parks and a few great albums to come out of that time otherwise
02:11:20
Speaker
And I know some of our listeners maybe are going to have something to say about that comment, but I defy you, please go back and look at the top music charts from the 70s and honestly defend them. You could definitely see his dick in those pants.
02:11:47
Speaker
These costumes are horrible. Yeah. That's what was funny about Cedar Point uniforms, because they were like, I think it I think it was in 2009 or 2010 when they were like, oh, we found this giant batch of like 30 year old uniforms. Let's just reuse these. And that's what they used.
02:12:17
Speaker
That's horrible. So the women had to wear these, like, one-piece jumpers. That's... really bad. I mean, as cheesy as this is, I will admit the cast is fucking getting it. Yeah.
02:12:48
Speaker
These freeze frame endings though are Really something And they're all dead I mean
Amusement Park Entertainment Comparisons
02:13:10
Speaker
All of the, like, staff members that they've been interviewing are, like, in their 70s now. Yeah. Or, like you said, perhaps past. You could tell it just rained, and, like, he's like, I don't want to sit on this bench.
02:13:48
Speaker
They made her sing the number Yeah
02:14:00
Speaker
Also, very surprising, they had like a vaudevillian style show. This is almost like bordering on like a... What would you call it? Like a burlesque. Right. Like obviously no nudity, but it's... It's a little racy.
02:14:33
Speaker
Oh, this is the other guy. I guess so. What? So...
02:15:04
Speaker
Like Boomerang. This is like a bad, like independent film. This is still kind of playing like a Tim and Eric sketch to me.
Old Film and Sketch Humorous Observations
02:15:23
Speaker
Yeah. I'd like to know, honey, how big is your ranch?
02:15:32
Speaker
Oh my god, is that Kristen Wiig? Look how more empty the room is now. Continuity error. Oh, they're gonna fuck each other. Yo, she's about to make a sale.
02:16:09
Speaker
300 roses.
02:16:26
Speaker
Did he actually hit him with anything? Yeah, probably. Excellent.
02:16:46
Speaker
I was just doing a bunch of quaaludes. I've been here this whole time.
High School Mix-up Mishap
02:16:51
Speaker
I've been sitting on this bench having a fuck of a trip. She's like, accidentally fucked the high school kid. We got to get the fuck out of here.
02:17:08
Speaker
We can never come back to Illinois, Steve. Accidentally fucked a high school kid. I'm pretty sure that's everybody's excuse.
02:17:36
Speaker
No, no, no, let me clarify. Oh my God, look at her eye. That was such a fucked up photo.
02:18:04
Speaker
Flash ones. You couldn't get the actual licensed music so they had to make this like cheap knockoff. Right.
02:18:27
Speaker
I'm just really glad that somehow before there was VCRs and VHS available
Early Home Video Recording Challenges
02:18:35
Speaker
for consumers, that somehow this special lives on on YouTube. Yeah, for sure. I was saying to John when he was over here, dude, can you imagine if we would have had access to all this shit when we were kids?
02:19:00
Speaker
I used to do that with I would record Howard Schultz. Who's that? They just credited a guy named Howard Schultz. I was like the Starbucks guy. So what I used to do was I would export all I would play through all my camera footage into a VCR.
02:19:25
Speaker
put it on a blank tape and then pass it to another VCR and you just hit like play start record but you know like the you know the RCA cables yeah
02:19:38
Speaker
So what I would do is like I converted the headphone jack to an RCA cable. So like then when you recorded it to the second VCR, the left channel was just audio and then the right channel was just the video audio. So it sounded really weird if you had like a sound system. That's hilarious.
Karaoke Machine Rapping Anecdote
02:20:13
Speaker
It's kind of like how the first time I ever recorded myself rapping, I used one of those fucking karaoke machines. Oh, nice. With like the two tape decks. And you put the beat on the A deck and a blank tape on the B deck. And you just better not fuck it up.
02:20:42
Speaker
Well, holy shit, we made it through the whole special. Nice. And we've given you all the gift of over two hours of content. To hold you through till we get back. Because we won't be back until 2023. Yeah, what's your traveling? Oh, that's right. Yeah, you'll be out of town.
02:21:12
Speaker
You're going to be traveling. Yeah, I was kind of bummed. I'm looking at the 10 day forecast for Branson. And while. Outlaw run is likely to be open, time traveler and wildfire probably won't. Boo.
02:21:42
Speaker
That sucks. But at least you'll get an outlaw run. Yeah. Or hopefully the weather changes. I mean, every day I check it, it goes up a little bit. But yeah. OK, so it was supposed to be a high of 34, now it's a high of 39. So. Oh, there you go. You're getting closer. Got the faith. Well, I hope all your travels go well.
02:22:12
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Yeah, have fun on your California and then Nevada. Yeah, Vegas, California back to Vegas. And then back home. Yeah, I'm gonna do Magic Mountain and knots. So that'll be fun. And obviously some Vegas stuff. So yeah, it's gonna be great.
02:22:44
Speaker
And you're going to be all over the place. Not near too many coasters, basically. Yeah. Amarillo. Friday. Branson on Monday and Tuesday and then to Wisconsin and then driving home. So. Back to Denver. Damn, well, I hope it's I hope it's a good trip and it's safe. Always will be. We got two dogs in the back.
02:23:15
Speaker
Well, there you go. Um, yeah, well, I guess. We get to close out another year here on your favorite coaster sucks.
Year-end Farewell and Future Plans
02:23:31
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You did it. Yeah, sure did. And we're looking forward to another fucking awesome year with all of you in 2023.
02:23:46
Speaker
So I want to thank all of our listeners. You all are fucking amazing. Thank our patrons. And we have a new patron. Patreon, a new patron. Let me not forget their name. And by that, I mean, let me look it up so I can say it correctly. Thanks a bunch to Anthony Steinbacher. Thanks for joining up.
02:24:16
Speaker
Hopefully we get you on the discord. Um, thank you all for listening, making this such a blast to do. And I'm looking forward to bringing you all more contents in 2023. Oh yeah. Got anything else? You got anything else Ben? Um, well,
02:24:44
Speaker
This year was a lot better than a few past years. Just thinking back to doing this show during like 2020, we got through a year. It's been a good year. We got through the year. Things are getting better. Things are still bad, but you know,
02:25:10
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So, I don't know, ride some rides and... Yeah, I really appreciate how much our community around this show has grown this year.
02:25:25
Speaker
And with that, two more meetups next year keeps growing. Absolutely. Yeah, no, it's getting bigger every year and I'm really glad. So I'm glad you all are, uh, you know, on the ride with us and shit. Before we get too sentimental though, I think we better wrap this fucker up. All right. Sounds good. Have a good holiday new year.
02:25:55
Speaker
And yeah, see you next year. Yeah, you too. And to everybody out there listening, on behalf of us, enjoy your holidays, be safe. Don't overindulge unless you need to. Don't drive drunk, especially don't drive drunk. Get an Uber.
02:26:23
Speaker
Don't start using elf bars. Do not start using elf bars. If you don't know what that is, don't even look it up. Um, and, uh, I dunno, we'll have some fun new content to share with you guys in the new year.
02:26:54
Speaker
But thanks to all of you. And you know what? I guess we'll squeeze this one in on the last episode of the year. Because we never addressed it officially on the show.
Coaster Death Pool Winner Announcement
02:27:12
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And since this is the last episode of 2022, I think that we need to publicly say real quick that our friend Nathan Hart
02:27:22
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won the 2022 coaster death pool. Oh shit. We never, yeah, that's right. What were the, what were the winning, do you have the winning picks up? He submitted dragster. Okay. Which here's the deal.
02:27:53
Speaker
not a lot of ride closures were announced this year that actually took place dragster. I'm comfortable calling it a death because it's going to be a different ride. Yeah. And a new credit. Exactly. It's going to be a different ride. So I think, you know, he picked dragster.
02:28:22
Speaker
And importantly came to the cabin and asked specifically if he had won. So that's a helpful tip for all of you. If you participate in any of our contests, especially the coaster death pool, follow up in Q4. Although we do technically have two weeks left, right? We do.
02:28:55
Speaker
So, but I guess this is also to say if you're still listening right now and you also submitted dragster on our discord, send me a message and we'll figure out a prize for you. Um, I'll go back and check to verify. So don't just message me, you know, we're going to verify that you actually set it there.
02:29:20
Speaker
But if you did actually say dragster in the death pool because I i'm pretty sure a couple people did Yeah, I kind of feel like that was um, yeah, I kind of remember that too Yeah, that's why i'm saying we gave nathan a prize at the cabin for calling dragster But I know we had more than one person called dragster. So that if that was you
02:29:49
Speaker
And here's the thing, crucially, you have to be the one that's listening two and a half hours in to even hear this. But if that was you that called for dragster on the coast, your death pool, let me know, reach out to me. We will figure out a prize for you. You won fair and square, you know, so Nathan's not our only winner, but
02:30:20
Speaker
If you want your prize, get in touch with me. We'll host another one next year, right? Yeah, it's a fun little thing to keep in mind, especially because if this year there weren't that many, I don't know, just a hunch. I feel like although what's interesting is all the ones that the ones that would repeat every year, like a lot of people would say,
02:30:48
Speaker
Like what? I don't know. Like Anaconda. Anaconda. Asperado. Yeah. The boss. Yeah, boss. Dragon Mountain kind of. Yeah. Oh, time warp and. That other one at Canada's Wonderland.
02:31:18
Speaker
Uh, Beastie and... No, the SLC. Oh, right. Yeah. The SLC and the Velari. They really need to make that into a B&M. Yeah, that'd be a big enough plot. Yeah, it's a huge plot and it's all a queue line.
02:31:43
Speaker
So there you go, that's something to look forward to, y'all. We'll open up the Coaster Death Pool probably first week of January, and we'll keep that open until for about a month, so probably until the first week of February. So get your picks in order now. Good Lord, dying over here.
02:32:14
Speaker
I think that's all I got. You got anything else Ben? No, I'm good. You can wait till next year. All right. Well, um, call us up. Three one two five raw five LA leave us a voicemail. Um, email us your favorite coaster sex at gmail.com. Does the best way to get in touch with us or
02:32:42
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or our Discord, which the link can be found in the episode description. Go there, join our Discord. We're there. You could talk to us and other awesome members of the community there because it's an awesome, awesome community. All right.
02:33:06
Speaker
With all that said, Happy New Years to everybody, Happy Holidays, and until next time, your favorite coaster sucks.