Become a Creator today!Start creating today - Share your story with the world!
Start for free
00:00:00
00:00:01
Episode 36 - Mt Olympus Sucks image

Episode 36 - Mt Olympus Sucks

Your Favorite Coaster Sucks
Avatar
18 Plays5 years ago
Ben and Zach are back to talk about the shittiest park around. Mt Olympus. Also they field some listener questions and hot takes. Quarantine is getting old ya'll. Please give us a 5 star rating, comment and subscribe on whatever app you’re using to listen to Your Favorite Coaster Sucks. Find and contact us here: YourFavoriteCoasterSucks@gmail.com Text/Voicemail (312) 572-9552 Instagram @YourFavoriteCoasterSucks Twitter @YFCS_pod www.facebook.com/UrFavCoasterSux www.yourfavoritecoastersucks.tumblr.com We have shirts and sweatshirts available now with 2 designs in several colors and mad cheap www.amazon.com/s?rh=n%3A71411230…ap_web_7141123011 If you enjoy the show please consider throwing us a buck or two www.patreon.com/yourfavoritecoastersucks Please consider doing your eBay shopping through our referral link to help support the show tinyurl.com/yfcsebay Since you’re listening to this podcast, give Stitcher Premium a try, by using the promo code “Coaster” at checkout on www.stitcherpremium.com/ to receive a free month. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yourfavoritecoastersucks/support
Recommended
Transcript

Intro and Podcasting Challenges

00:00:00
Speaker
Hey Ben, making a podcast is pretty tough, right? Yeah, you gotta like record stuff and then you gotta upload it and it sucks. I know, it's a fucking bummer and it's a lot of effort, but I just found out about Anchor.fm, which lets you record and edit directly through their website or app, as well as upload and publish to platforms such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
00:00:21
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.
00:00:39
Speaker
Welcome to the worst roller coaster podcast on the internet. Now let's join Ben and Zack as they tell you why your favorite coaster sucks. I'm Zack and I am a midi file personified. I'm Ben and I have never murdered somebody. That's going to come back around to bite you.
00:01:13
Speaker
I don't know. I don't know.

Shelter-in-Place Reflections

00:01:16
Speaker
What's up, everybody? We are back. Again, during another another partial lock shelter in place episode. Yeah, we are on we are on three and almost three months now.
00:01:32
Speaker
Coming up on it, coming up on it. So I hope you all enjoyed that last episode with the Coaster Expedition Volume 1. Please, please let us know how you liked it, because we were just talking before we started recording about doing some more. So yeah, yeah, yeah. If you think the show is good, let your favorite Coaster sucks now. If you think the show sucks,

Editing Humor and Conspiracy Theories

00:02:00
Speaker
then our name is RideThisOne. Anyway, that's going to require some editing to make into a usable joke. Well, close enough. You know, this is this is a situation in which the RideThisOne guys would say, you know, this is why your podcast needs editing. Or make it or drop a molestation joke.
00:02:27
Speaker
Well, that's their that's that's their thing. I don't want to bite their shit. I was over a couple of weeks ago. Yeah. Well, that was the thing. Like when I listened to that episode, I was like, holy shit, I sort of got I heard molest or molestation or molested at least like 50 times. Oh, yeah. Yeah. For like for like an hour and a half episode, there was definitely more than 90 molestation jokes.
00:02:55
Speaker
I mean, I suppose if you get it out verbally, it won't happen in real life. I think maybe Jordan has Tourette's and that's just one of his ticks. That could be. Maybe I'm wrong. I don't know. Watch. I'm going to get in hot water for making a Tourette's joke. Meanwhile, the molesting jokes. I mean, at least molestation jokes are always over other kinds of kinds of jokes, like, you know, at least it's not racist.
00:03:21
Speaker
That's true. That's true. There's only one way to go down from a molestation joke. You know, like a molestation joke is kind of like, Ooh, like I feel a little uncomfortable. But then when it's a racist joke, it's just like, uh, uh, I'm a little scared. And if it's a racist molesting joke, Jesus. Ooh. Yeah, that's not good. And you should not be at open mic night.
00:03:51
Speaker
I mean, maybe you should have a career making YouTube videos and posting on mommy blogs about 5G. Plantemic. Oh, my God. Did you watch that video? Nah.
00:04:11
Speaker
So I actually watched it start to finish. So because, like, I love to watch that shit. I will never believe in it. Like, I don't watch it because I believe in it. I watch in it because it's ridiculous. And I feel like you can learn a lot about, you know, watching something you don't agree with. Right. Alex Jones or something.
00:04:32
Speaker
Yeah, like, honestly, like, that's why I kind of admittedly will watch Alex Jones clips, not because I want to believe what he's saying or I think he's a good person, just because it's like that dude's fucking crazy. And I just want to like, I'm curious what he's talking about. Well, it's interesting to have a sense of what's going on in those pockets of American reality.
00:04:53
Speaker
Yeah, right, right. Because otherwise you're just as, you're just as like, uh, close minded and delusional as like, you know, like you should, you should know what every team is, what every play or what every team is playing. If that makes sense. Like whatever, whatever, whatever the playbook is, you should always be aware.
00:05:15
Speaker
Yeah, well, it's like in in law, you know, about discovery and how both cases, both sides in a in a criminal case have to disclose all of their evidence to each other. Right. Kind of putting yourself as an informed individual into that spot. Yeah, right.
00:05:40
Speaker
Yeah. Like, I mean, I've, I mean, I've definitely learned more by watching something I didn't agree with because it challenged like my own belief system. You know, like, like when you have to fact check something and you learn in the process and it makes your own argument stronger. So yeah. And you'd have to prove things to yourself. Yeah. Right. Right. Is that challenging oneself is the way to self growth. Absolutely.
00:06:08
Speaker
So that was my plandemic experience and that shit was fucking ridiculous. It basically follows the same format of every YouTube conspiracy theory where they take five facts that are true and then they have them backed by a professional. So in this case, it was a doctor.
00:06:30
Speaker
three plus three equals six. And then the doctor's like, yes, that's true. And here, then they throw in some clips where it's like three plus three, six, see six. And then it's like six plus six equals 12. And then like 12 minus four equals eight. And you go through these fact checks and then, and then they're like,
00:06:49
Speaker
Babies that were born between March 6th and March 11th in Texas were exposed to whatever 5G and then they throw in all this bullshit and then they pan to the doctor where they're shaking their head to make you think that you're believing it or they're believing it. That was actually the reaction to them explaining the video to the doctor. They're like, real quick, before you leave, here's what we're doing.
00:07:18
Speaker
And he's like, oh, God, I've staked my reputation on this. I'm going to have my license reviewed. Well, she's like an anti-vaxxer. She's been arrested and like.
00:07:33
Speaker
I forgot her name, but she's just some like, and that's the thing too. Honestly, it's not that hard to be a fucking doctor. I'm not saying it's easy and I'm not saying if you're a doctor, it's like you didn't work hard on that. But what I'm saying is, is like really all you need to do is go to medical school and study. And that's all you need to do to become a doctor. You can be crazy as fucking breezy.
00:07:58
Speaker
I mean, you can be. Well, I know that's whatever. I'm just saying, like, it's not like all you have to do. My point is that once you get beyond that, but like we, you know, it's called this number. Dr. Betel, teach you how to become a doctor. Hold on. Hold on. How many doctors are in the US? Like, like, just guess. I don't know the fuck ton.
00:08:25
Speaker
There are over $950,000 or $950,000 doctors in the United States. So like, that's not really that hard to do. My point is this, is that if you can study and you can go through med school, you can be crazy as fuck and believe in the craziest shit. And then once you get that doctorate, like you can say anything and people will believe you.
00:08:52
Speaker
So, so being like, this is true because a doctor says it is like not always true. And I, as I'm saying that, I realize that's what conspiracy theories are saying. I know it's messy. Well, that's why there's such a thing as peer review, which I noticed is very absent in a lot of conspiracy. Oh yeah, totally. Peer review is like,
00:09:18
Speaker
It's not airtight, but it's like, it's like, no, it's pretty good. Everybody agrees. This is pretty much, yeah.
00:09:27
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. And if it gets your peer review, I mean, you know how you know how people can't shut the fuck up about their own opinions. So like, you know, if there's some bullshit in an article and you try to get it peer reviewed, like that shit's going to get called out because everyone loves everyone loves proving other people wrong. Yeah. And that's really what like science is at the

Mount Olympus: A Notorious Theme Park

00:09:46
Speaker
end of the day. Jesus Christ, we should talk about some roller coasters. Yeah. So, yeah. So I'm very excited for this episode. I had this idea.
00:09:57
Speaker
Last night and before I fell asleep and I texted Zach, I was like, we should do an entire episode. That's just about Mount Olympus. So this place, you are a listener shit real quick first. Uh, yeah, we can. Well, I feel like the Mount Olympus thing is more the gist of the show, right? Yeah. All right. So let's get the listener stuff out the way. First of all, shouts to our homie, Logan.
00:10:24
Speaker
What up? Second of all, we've been hearing from a whole shit ton of you. So, um, real quick, I'm going to, we'll read a couple of reviews. We got some questions and we got some hot takes that we can run through. So I say we start with the reviews there at the bottom. Okay. Okay. So this is a five star review and the title is Dr. Oz is questionable.
00:10:51
Speaker
So it says Dr. Oz may be a brain surgeon, but he's endorsed so much quackery. That makes you wonder, did he perform surgery on himself or remove his own brain? First time reviewer, longtime listener, ribs from Wisconsin. Uh, thank you, ribs and bacon. Yeah. Shouts to him. And also this kind of highlights exactly what we were just talking about. Wisconsin. I mean, also doctors.
00:11:19
Speaker
Full circle. Absolutely. It kind of highlights what we were just talking about. You know, but anyway, next review says the title is Awesome Show. It's a five star review. Says this podcast is great. Thank you. I'm 34 years old and up until August 2019, I had never ridden a roller coaster out of a crazy phobia I had of them.
00:11:44
Speaker
My wife and kids eventually talked me into some smaller ones at our home park, Carowinds.
00:11:50
Speaker
Took a few rides over several visits and a trip to Disney World in November, but I'm hooked now and can't get enough. Just got back from Universal Studios and loved The Hulk. Still haven't been on Fury 325 yet, so that's my next one once Carowinds opens. Keep up the awesome work with the podcast, Matt Rappier.
00:12:14
Speaker
Thanks, man. And hopefully you've been enjoying the coasters. Really glad you found enjoyment in writing them and really glad you found the show. Glad you're enjoying. Hopefully you're still listening and stoked to get back and get on some rides. Yeah, definitely. I mean, if this is if you're pretty new to roller coasters and this is one of your your podcast subscriptions, like it's pretty cool because roller coasters are cool. Welcome to the hobby.
00:12:44
Speaker
Yeah, that's gotta be interesting coming into it as an adult. And then the listeners of the show too. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Well, uh, yeah. So man, you're not alone out there. There are adults who enjoy this hobby in case that maybe was something you were thinking too. Uh, we're out here. Um, we are weirdos. That's a thing, but you know, some of us are all right. So, uh,
00:13:13
Speaker
This last review, fun, but not flawless. I love this roller coaster podcast, but I do agree with the other reviewers that there needs to be more editing done. Long pauses really throw me off sometimes and really kills the pacing of this podcast. It's like riding an amazing roller coaster with trims on. Emo, wait, why can't I read this? My eyes are fucked up. The moment, do you know how to say that?
00:13:42
Speaker
Hans Malman. Yeah, it's like a mole man. I'm sorry if I missed it, if that's your real name and I'm messing it up. I don't know. Oh man. But yeah, I mean, uh, fortunately this is a low, like, you know, we have to call ourselves the worst podcast, uh, coaster podcast. So, I mean, we'll try more on that's more on Zach. He edits.
00:14:11
Speaker
Yeah, that's on me. But have you ever edited a goddamn podcast? I mean, it takes it takes a lot of work. I know you have been. I did that one. Takes a lot of work. Yeah, because it's just like the whole starting over, starting over, starting over, starting over.
00:14:30
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, if these are an hour and a half or two hours long, easily four times, well, not easily four, maybe three times the amount of time an episode is in duration is how long the editing takes.
00:14:46
Speaker
I mean, we could just try to take more drugs while we record, so we talk over each other. I was about to say, I think, you know, the weed is kind of regulating those trim breaks a bit. So but I'm glad you enjoyed the show there, emo man. Hopefully you're still listening and we'll try to keep the pauses to. Minimum.
00:15:17
Speaker
Cool. All right. So we had some listener questions. Go ahead, Ben. Uh, so, all right. So at the top, um, so I will re so this, uh, this is in quoted, uh, I will refrain from asking vegan related questions. So I'm sure, you know, Zach, you're going to like to be asked about why you're vegan. Um,
00:15:40
Speaker
We'll just cover this one real quick. If you're thinking about going vegan, do it. If you're thinking about going vegetarian, do it. If you're thinking about trying veganism or trying to reduce your meat, do it. And I'm not passing judgment on you and some vegans are assholes. Okay, moving on.
00:15:57
Speaker
So what are some of your hobbies other than roller coasters? I think I remember Ben saying he likes mountain biking, but that's all I can think of. So yeah, that's true. I kind of just like mountain sports in general, climbing, mountain biking, climbing, rafting.
00:16:15
Speaker
I just bought a paddleboard just like mountain shit. It's why I live out West. I also am picking up photography again, so I went to school for it. And then I never got a job for it. And then I went more. It's like a business librarian signs kind of route. So I'm picking that up again. Hopefully I can make some coaster videos since actually Zach and I used to do coaster videos and post them on theme park review back in the mid 2000s.
00:16:45
Speaker
And all of them are still on YouTube, right? I don't know if all of mine are on, actually. I'll have to I'd have to look for that. I'm pretty sure all of mine still are. That's cool. Do all yours have music? I had to change some of the music. OK. Yeah, I think it's like a lot of my country restricted or whatever. Yeah, right.
00:17:09
Speaker
But it's like, all right, so keep up the good work, guys. Love the show. This is Chris Bender, friends with Coaster Daddy. Other than Coasters, for me, I like to do music stuff, a lot of music stuff. I DJ and produce and play a bunch of stuff poorly, guitar, bass, keyboards, fucks with Ableton and Fruity Loops and use Serato.
00:17:37
Speaker
Check out my shit at Dole Whip. D-O-L-W-I-P. You can find me on SoundCloud, MixCloud, Instagram, Facebook, all the good spots. I'm doing live streams for those a lot so you can catch me on those. That's what I'm doing with most of my free time besides this podcast.
00:17:56
Speaker
Um, haven't worked in a little bit, so I've been really pouring myself into that in this. So that's for me. Thank you, Chris. Thanks a bunch for listening and, uh, you know, shouts to coaster daddy Dale, you know, good dude. We've had him on the show, friend of the show. Um, you could check back a couple episodes and you'll find him on the show. So got a couple of questions here from an old friend of ours,

Listener Questions: Wild Ride Experiences

00:18:20
Speaker
Ben. This is a Mr. Paradise. Okay.
00:18:24
Speaker
So and we know we know Mr. Paradise from way back on a couple of various coaster forms that were centered in the Midwest Midwest coaster madness. Rest in peace. I think I still own the URL for that one.
00:18:42
Speaker
Man, I'd love to talk to the guy that started that site. Oh, yeah. Fuck. I never met him. Nick Berry and I haven't seen him since 2005. OK. Mr. Paradise was a user over there before Ben acquired the site. A bunch of our friends there. It was kind of the the the roots of your favorite coaster sucks, kind of.
00:19:04
Speaker
Um, I guess, but I wasn't that involved with it in the beginning. Not the original, but then you became more involved. When I didn't, I didn't really post something on the original one because the site member, the site like went down in 2007. Oh yeah. That's right. It like went down. I'm like a month or two after I started posting on there with you guys. And then I bought it two years later. All right. So, um, if anybody, that group though, that's how I met you guys. That's how, uh, you know,
00:19:33
Speaker
If anybody out there listening remembers Midwest Coaster Madness and be honest now, because we want to hear your screen name. But if you were a part of it, email us, please. We'd love to hear from you. It's your favorite coaster sucks at Gmail dot com. So Mr. Paradise, it's a pleasure to hear from you. I'm glad he's doing well right now. So he wants to know, has there ever been a time that you went on a ride or coaster and were way too stoned or drunk for it?
00:20:02
Speaker
If so, what happened? Yeah. Oh, do tell. OK, so three things in these. I'll keep them the recent stories. So first one was that Kima Boardwalk. So I had to go down to Houston for work and the first day I was down there, I found out that I was going to be rolled off of my projects.
00:20:26
Speaker
And I was kind of like pissed off and freaking out about shit. So I'm like, I'm going to go to chemo boardwalk and I smoked this gram or half gram joint. And then I went on the ride and like I was so high that I couldn't that I wasn't I didn't think about the ride. Like after the first drop, I just started thinking about work shit so much that it like it was it was a really weird experience. Like imagine being hyper focused about work when you're on a roller coaster and you just don't even understand what's happening.
00:20:55
Speaker
Second time was riding steel vengeance super high and like RMCs when you're really high are really strange because They feel very like robotic and hypnotic So you're not you don't really they almost move they almost go too fast for you to take anything in so you're kind of just like sitting upright with your hands in your lap and
00:21:19
Speaker
just like with a very bland smile on your face, like not understanding like what's happening around you. It's kind of weird. Oh, and then Poltergeist. Writing Poltergeist after high and drunk at night, and it was just this like blur of yellow lights from the, you know, because it's a spaghetti bowl coaster, so.
00:21:45
Speaker
That was pretty fucked up. Anyway, I didn't puke though. Never puked. Yeah, I got pretty fucking high at Six Flags VS to Texas. Thanks, Shockwave Dan. I don't think I was too stoned for any of the rides though. That's good.
00:22:05
Speaker
I've never been too messed up for a coaster. I've had some drunk experiences at parks. Being stoned at parks has never been a bad thing to me, but I've been too drunk at parks once. Yeah, the thing about being too drunk at a park is there's so much walking and waiting that unless you're ripping shots and you go right to the ride, which we used to do when I worked at Cedar Point, but
00:22:34
Speaker
It's kind of hard to be like really fucked up and then maintain that drunkness. We did discover when I worked there that if you, we would go to the Chinese buffet and max the fuck out. And then we would take shots, like we'd take like six vodka shots.
00:22:53
Speaker
like in consecutive order or back to back and then go and ride Magnum. And it was really weird. So like you didn't get drunk at first because your stomach was full of food. But then like your stomach was shaking so much that it would like time release the alcohol, you know, like as you're riding the roller coaster. So you start off fine. And as you ride it, you're getting more and more drunk. And one time, like me and three friends of ours, we like completely blacked out.
00:23:24
Speaker
And that friend of ours, he like stood up on the ride and like stuck his leg outside of the car and stuff. Like it was a, it was a shit show. Good Lord. It's amazing you can remember that. Yeah. I have a pretty good memory of like obscure shit. He also wants to know, has there ever been a coaster that changed your outlook on life? Um, good question. I don't know. Do you have one?
00:23:46
Speaker
Um, I don't know if a roller coaster has ever had that much of an impact on me. Oh, oh, oh, oh, you know what? Uh, what, what coaster was that? Um, I wrote, I wrote a not a kitty coaster. I wrote a like some kind of small junior coaster at a park.
00:24:04
Speaker
And I was by myself. And then, like, as the train rolled into the station, I had one of those like, what the fuck am I doing on this ride? And then I like literally questioned the entire roller coaster enthusiast hobby because I was so ashamed of it. I was like twenty two, twenty three. And like, you know, the ride pulls into the station and I, you know, all these kids are around and just like, what the fuck am I doing with my life?
00:24:30
Speaker
I've had it change my outlook in that way, where it was more ashamed instead of positive.
00:24:38
Speaker
Actually, I do have one until I was like 12 years old. I was really afraid of coasters and wouldn't ride them. And then I went to a great America on a field trip in eighth grade and like a friend made me go on the demon. And I was like, oh, shit, these aren't as bad as I thought they would be, you know. Yeah. And like, I wasn't scared of coasters anymore. Nice. So I guess the demon. Yeah. That changed my outlook on life kind of in that way, you know. Right. Right. Where it's like, yeah, you have fun once you let yourself have fun.
00:25:06
Speaker
I, the demon was like the first coaster, kind of like that for me too. Like I rode wizard, I rode a Viper, I rode Eagle, but I was still like, you know, nervous to get on them. And then I rode demon and I was like, Oh, well this does four inversion. So like, yeah, this is fine. This is fun. Then I wrote Shockwave, I think.
00:25:27
Speaker
Yeah, I'd say demon, I guess then. Yeah, I mean, I guess that that makes sense, though, because it's like the first looping coaster that I guess most people like who grow up in the area would go on. Yeah. Well, what's this one? What's the one park you see going down the massive white collar crime shakedown? See

Hypothetical Coaster Scenarios

00:25:46
Speaker
what? Yeah, definitely see a world. Definitely see a world.
00:25:52
Speaker
hundred percent. Some shady shit comes out about how they got secured the financing for all these rides or something. Wouldn't surprise me.
00:26:03
Speaker
Um, they were using ED five investors and calling all the, the, the rides, their own businesses. It's like icebreaker LLC. Plus like, let's see, they're in just being located in Florida. I actually, I don't know where their headquarters is, but Florida just seeing enough to find out.
00:26:26
Speaker
Florida just seems to be like the capital of, you know, white collar business corruption. So shady shit.
00:26:37
Speaker
Yeah. S movie that had a theme park in it. Beverly Hills cop three. Oh, that's right. Where they show there's like sky rules in there. And that's that was cool. I always liked vacation. I feel like vacation was kind of like the world is headquartered in Orlando.
00:26:57
Speaker
OK, yep, definitely then. Anyway, going back to the other thing, yes, definitely vacation. I'm thinking of Beverly Hills Cop. Yeah. Fuck. Roller coaster. Final Destination 3. Mm hmm. Those are the main ones. Yeah. I'm trying to think of any others.
00:27:14
Speaker
Yeah, I'm drawing a blank. Um, let's see. If you could bring one coaster over to North Korea for Kim Jong Un to ride, knowing that if he hates it, he is going to kill you. What would it be? What if it kills him, though? I know. I mean, the way that fat ass smokes. Um, I mean, why not send him there like an Intamin ball coaster? I was thinking like X2. Yeah. It can't be Asian I could because that would piss him off.
00:27:44
Speaker
Maybe Dino Kanda, though. Yeah. And it can be a B&M. I feel like a B&M would be too boring. He lives. He's he's in. He's like whatever the president or the fuck you call it, North Korea. This is North Korea. They don't want some swooshy, forceless, smooth bullshit. Like you got to send them something a little rough, intense, like like X2, Asian, like
00:28:12
Speaker
Desperado. I know. Keep it on brand with North Korea. Send him the polar coaster as intended for Orlando. Oh, yeah, that work. And just like a bunch of shops that never open, but it's the world's tallest roller coaster. Wouldn't that be crazy if North Korea did build the world's tallest, like world's tallest and fastest roller coaster and like no one could go ride it. Well, you could go ride it. You just have to go through the whole pain in the ass process.
00:28:38
Speaker
Yeah, that's true. I suppose it's really not that hard. You have to like you have to go through China to get a visa. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So then you have to get a visa to go to China and then get a visa to go to North Korea from China. Right. Yeah. And you can only go on like the very specific guided tours. Yeah. Yeah. But if you were like, hey, I want to go ride the coaster, you probably could. Right. If you're a tourist, you know,
00:29:08
Speaker
But honestly, if I was going to North Korea anyway, like the roller coaster wouldn't be my highest priority. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like if if I got to ride it, that would be the cherry on top. But I'm just super fascinated by North Korea in general. No, totally.
00:29:28
Speaker
But as an American, you know, just a touch risky to go visit. So, yeah, maybe polar coaster. That'd be pretty on brand for him. Well, thank you, Mr. Paradise. These next couple of questions and hot takes. These are from the text line, Ben. So go ahead.
00:29:46
Speaker
Are you a virgin? No, but I wish I was. Okay, think about that. Imagine how awesome it would be knowing what you know now to be a virgin as an adult, knowing all the bullshit that happened, how much time you wasted, bad decisions you made on relationships, trying to hook up. I just think it'd be really peaceful to be a virgin.
00:30:12
Speaker
I think, I don't know. No, I don't know. Cause I think there's like a change in your mentality. Yeah. Yeah. That's true. And you kind of need that. Like it's like almost like a confidence kind of. No, I suppose that's true. I feel like you kind of need that as an adult, you know? Yeah. Just like, yeah, you have to like learn how to interact with people and have empathy and you know, all that shit.
00:30:40
Speaker
Yeah. And so with all that said, uh, no for me also. So here's another hot take Cedar fair is better than six Takis. I mean, like, are we talking like specifically like the number six of bags of Takis compared to Cedar fair? Pretty good deal. Yeah, that is a good one. It was cost like one 99 a piece or so. Well, they're the big ones. Those are like three bucks. Okay.
00:31:09
Speaker
So we got a value of about $18 versus the entire corporate entity of Cedar fair. It's a good, it's a good one. Is this like how, how Matt, we make tricked Dick Kinzel into retiring with six bags of talkies. Yeah. He's like, Hey, I got a snack for you out in the car.
00:31:38
Speaker
You know what's funny, remember when they used to give those out for free? Oh, like at the exit of six flags? I remember grabbing a shit ton of those and they were in my trunk for a good year or so. And then they came in handy. I was driving back from Cedar Point, ironically, and I was like, oh shit, I got Takis in the trunk. Nice. So, hot take, boomerangs are good rides.
00:32:07
Speaker
They're no good rides. I like them. No, I don't think they're as shitty as everyone makes them out to be, but I don't think they're particularly great either. When they're good, they're OK. Like if it's not a bad one, I don't mind riding it like I kind of like, ooh, boomerang.
00:32:35
Speaker
Like they're fine. They're fine. I don't really care for going backwards on rides usually. Yeah. Especially if there's inversions. I find it kind of like unsettling to like my stomach and stuff. So with that in mind, you know.
00:32:52
Speaker
I see why it's a good gimmick and it's cheap and it attracts people, but at the same time, not my favorite thing. I don't think they live up to the shit reputation they have, though. So I think that's totally fair. Right. That's true. All right. Hot take. Dragon Challenge. Fire Dragon side was the best invert in America. Better than Alpin Geist, Banshee, Montu, Pyrenees and Black Mamba.
00:33:22
Speaker
What did it say in America? Yeah, I don't know what he's doing. Throwing Pyrenees and black mama in there. Well. Might as well close, but throw in big bad wolf and fucking top gun and shit while you're at it. I mean, I guess I.
00:33:45
Speaker
Those the dueling dragons never had a real big lasting impression on me. They were definitely good rides. I thought I think the fireside was the one that had that giant bunny hill. I like that bunny hills on inverts are a rare thing and they're always awesome. Yeah. But I mean, it was a really cool ride. I really liked it. It didn't deserve to die. Fucking Canole should have gotten it. Yeah, it's too bad.
00:34:13
Speaker
But I'm not blaming Canobals because Universal destroyed it. They probably didn't even try to sell it. Well, I heard that they just had a lot of it. Just age, you know, like it just reached its prime or whatever hit the end of its life. Yeah. Well, imagine it being the ultimate reverse retirement story where a young roller coaster that reaches its, you know, operating end life gets to retire to quiet Pennsylvania being ridden by child molesters.
00:34:44
Speaker
one day a year. And it's kind of as they could like extend those seat belts so much to allow big boy seats to every row.
00:34:59
Speaker
It's like an elastic seatbelt. That should be the next to your favorite coaster suck shirt. Dueling Dragon should have gone to Canobals. It would have won a golden ticket. We should do our own version of the golden tickets, but call them like the, I don't know, shit tickets. Sucky tickets. There's gotta be something catchy we can think of. And then that could be like an official, make the website really official. And then like, you know what I'm saying? It could be like a yearly thing with the awards for the
00:35:27
Speaker
Something like that. Yeah, there's a doing. Hey, you. Yeah, you listening to your favorite coaster sucks. Guess what? You're probably wearing a shirt. You need shirts. I'm almost certain that you're wearing a shirt right now, and if you're not. Hey. But either way.
00:35:58
Speaker
Everybody needs shirts. Everybody. Did you stain your last shirt from a coke bender blowing your nose too many times? Bloody noses. Did it get torn up doing a sick BMX trick? Did it get stained from a B&M invert in the rain? Or did some stripper leave a snail trail on you?
00:36:26
Speaker
Did it get jizzed on from that night you fell asleep after jerking off still with your clothes on? Or your shirt got jizzed out at Hollywood nights during ERT? We've all been in all of those scenarios. So we have a solution for you all. We have shirts.
00:36:53
Speaker
and they're now available on Amazon. And it's a play on the golden tickets, so if you think the golden tickets are bullshit, you should get one. Yeah, that's the great thing. Even if you don't like us, it still just says your favorite coaster sucks. It looks like the golden ticket logo. Wear it when you ride the beast. Make some Kings Island fanboy cry.
00:37:23
Speaker
Tell him that his favorite coaster sucks. Ohio sucks. We also have another design that has like a roller coaster on it and it says your favorite coaster sucks. And holy shit, maybe you're already wearing a shirt and it's not warm enough. You need something else.
00:37:45
Speaker
Problem meet solution we got sweatshirts also at Amazon same designs Here's the beautiful thing Ben the shirts they come in all the sizes What about tall sizes if it if they're available on Amazon they're available don't fuck up our ad
00:38:14
Speaker
We got 10 colors. Don't you ask about any specific fucking shades. I want magenta. I believe it might be available. Nice. Um... The shirts are only 15 bucks! That's cheap as shit. Yeah, what can you get for 15 dollars? I mean like... Besides maybe some food and a few beers but...
00:38:42
Speaker
Nothing else of value. Less than $15. I owe it like a dime bag and a blunt and a lighter. I mean, nothing. Can't get shit for 15 bucks, but you can get your favorite Coaster Sucks shirt.
00:39:00
Speaker
Buy a fucking shirt. 15 bucks. Buy a fucking sweatshirt. 30 bucks. They say your favorite coaster sucks. Nothing else needs to be said, man. Go on Amazon. Type in your favorite coaster sucks. You will find our shit. Go and buy one. And if you send us a picture of you wearing our shirt, we'll repost it. Alright, that's it. Buy a shirt. We're not asking, we're telling.
00:39:29
Speaker
Now back to the show, your favorite coaster sucks. So are you ready to get into the real deal? I'm very, very excited. If only this email would send goddamn piece of shit. There we go. I forgot to turn off my Skype, so I'm getting bugged.
00:40:01
Speaker
Oh, it's all good. I'm just going to send like two sentences of content. Okay. What?
00:40:30
Speaker
It'll be fucking great to not have a job that I have to work beyond five o'clock. You should. It's like, that was a good, that was a nice luxury. Enjoy it. Enjoy it while you have it. If you're out there. Anyway. Okay. Yes.

History and Critiques of Mount Olympus

00:40:57
Speaker
The main topic. I'm very excited.
00:41:00
Speaker
Very excited. Um, so last night I was trying to go to bed and I texted Zach. I was like, we should do an entire episode about Mount Olympus stories because I think that this park is not as well known as, um, I don't know. Is this, is this park like pretty mainstream in the coaster community?
00:41:26
Speaker
It seems like great America and the Dells are parks that people don't really get to that often. Yeah, no. And if they do, it's that it's the combination. Yeah, right. Yeah, I think outside of like outside of the actual Midwest region. Yeah, no, it's not a super like hit park or anything.
00:41:47
Speaker
Yeah, but I would like to say that I think that this is probably the worst theme park in the country by far. Like it is literally a shithole. And I think what makes it worse is like a lot of people are like, oh, well, Eilish is a shithole. And, you know, Eilish Garden sucks. They don't have any rides. And at least Mount Olympus has got good coasters. But like the thing that sucks about Mount Olympus is like
00:42:13
Speaker
You would think that they're trying to sell like a Disney property They market themselves as the world's largest water and theme park It's only the world's largest because there's a fucking ampersand between those two statement or the between the two you know parks and it's like It's just a shithole it's only the world's largest because it takes like 20 fucking minutes to walk across the entire goddamn park and
00:42:42
Speaker
Most of it is like parking lot. It's just like empty dirt lots. Well, I got that. I haven't been on bullshit. I happen to look it up on Wikipedia and I got a little background here. Mount Olympus was started by the lacrosse lac lacarice family. Demetrios lacarice immigrated to the United States from Greece.
00:43:11
Speaker
Served in the Navy, owned and operated several restaurants here in Chicago. Family moved to Wisconsin Dells where Jim and his wife opened a hot dog stand in 1970. Holy shit, what was that? And the entire beer spilled. Here, keep going. I'll take care of this. Okay.
00:43:34
Speaker
Well, they opened a hot dog stand in 1970, which they named Big Chief, after a statue purchased from a trade show. The hot dog stand was a commercial failure, and the Lakaris family was nearly forced to return to Chicago. At the last minute, they found $700 in savings inside a sock, which they invested in a three-wheeler dirt track
00:44:03
Speaker
The family expanded on their property by building a seven-unit motel. And in 1975, they added a go-kart track, Goofy Carts, along the Wisconsin Dells Parkway.
00:44:18
Speaker
Nick Lakaris, Jim and Fochula's son, became the go-karts chief mechanic at the age of nine. Mm-hmm. Seems safe. Between 1978 and 1982, the family's business ventures continued as they opened a campground, trailer court, and began running country-western and Native American ceremony shows.
00:44:42
Speaker
When the lease on the go-kart track ran out in 1980, Goofy Carts was abandoned, and a new cloverleaf track was built next to the big chief hot dog stand. It was also at this location that Nick Licaris started constructing his own go-karts a few years later.
00:45:01
Speaker
Nicola Harris became involved in the design and engineering of the various go-kart tracks on the property, which included the only multi-level go-kart tracks in the world. Big Chief Go-Kart World, as it was then known, developed new techniques for elevated go-kart tracks, which have now become standard. The family purchased several acres along the Wisconsin Dells Parkway, commonly known as the Strip, and continued the park's expansion.
00:45:31
Speaker
In 1995, the park added the first roller coaster in the Wisconsin Dells, Cyclops, and changed its name to Big Chief Carts and Coasters, when they only had one. Another roller coaster, Pegasus, was added the following year, and Zeus opened in 1997.
00:45:50
Speaker
The park acquired Crazy King Ludwig's Adventure Park, which featured its own go-kart track in 1999. This purchase brought big chiefs to a total area of 107 acres. So what we have here is a family can't run a hot dog stand, buys some dirt in Wisconsin,
00:46:19
Speaker
everything blows up around that dirt. And so they happen to luck out. Yeah. So they're like, as long as we make sure that this dirt doesn't get bought by anybody else. So we can just pause until you're good to go.
00:46:56
Speaker
So I have to say, I did not read that story before and it's kind of impressive. I will say it is a little impressive to know that they have been in the Dells since the seventies, but it's funny that they like came from Chicago, couldn't have a hot dog business and then ended up making a theme park. Maybe that's why they seem so like, maybe that's why they don't give a shit about like the park.
00:47:23
Speaker
Yeah, they don't care because it was dirt. It was dirt. They bought dirt. Literally. That's what it says here. It said they. They bought a three wheeler dirt track. I know they invested in a three wheeler dirt track.
00:47:47
Speaker
So first of all, I got to say moving from Chicago to what it presumably in 1970 was probably not the Wisconsin Dells we know today. To open a fucking hot dog stand, probably not the wisest business move. It's proven by the fact that it failed.
00:48:12
Speaker
Well, so, um, the Dells, so actually like the Dells has a pretty interesting history. So, cause initially the Dells are all about, you know, like the Lake, it was like a, it was like a summer Lake, um, kind of vacation destination. It's always been a big staple for Milwaukee, Chicago, Minneapolis. Um, but it definitely seems like the Dells actually probably thrived more.
00:48:38
Speaker
in like before like the 70s and it does today if that makes sense like I guess the Dells was kind of a US attraction and now it's more of a regional attraction. Yeah I've always heard about like the the the shows on Lake Delton always like that's what started the Dells.
00:48:59
Speaker
Yeah. And there was like a lot of natural, kind of like really cool, natural things. There are some cool like caves. There's like the boat tours. It isn't good. It is a pretty interesting, like natural, you know, like, I don't know what you call it, natural landscape, scenery kind of thing. But now it's just sort of like a collection of shitty hotels and water parks. But, fuck dude, there's beer everywhere.
00:49:32
Speaker
Careful with that beer, Ben. So, by the way, what I was trying to do was I was trying to reach for a glass of beer, but my fist went through the glass of beer and it like I punched the glass. Nice. And it fell. So nice. All right. Well, you got no argument for me, shittiest part.
00:49:59
Speaker
It has an overall atmosphere of we don't give a shit and we're trying to keep things operating for as cheap as possible. Right. So here's the thing about the Dells is that it's off of a major interstate and people who travel. So like Wisconsin is sort of like this
00:50:18
Speaker
rich Chicago playground basically it's like we're all the people who own second homes on the on like lakes up north Wisconsin and shit like that so it's like personally I think it's really hard to fuck up a business in the Dells because
00:50:34
Speaker
people on vacation mode will spend money for no reason like they just spend money and it's people from in illinois like they never get out of the city so it's like oh look a tree pay five dollars like you know what i'm saying like so it's kind of like it's just funny that the hot dog stand failed but this park should never have really been as big as it was so all they did was like
00:50:58
Speaker
make an arbitrary border around this property and they never invested in like actual theme park infrastructure. They never, they don't consistently build new rides. The paths are awful. They're just these like, it reminds me of like roller coaster tycoon three paths. Um, there's like, it's disgusting.
00:51:26
Speaker
Yeah, it's just little things. This park has little ways of pissing you off. Every little turn. It's like the ultimate bait and switch. So here's another thing this park does. They used to give out these tickets at, I don't know, let's say you got a car wash.
00:51:46
Speaker
And it was like, oh, like get a car wash and get a free ticket to Mount Olympus. And it has these giant, it's his ticket and it's a giant letters free admission. And then it doesn't really say anything on the ticket. What about any details of it? But then you get to the park and you're like, Hey, I would like my free admission. And then they give you a wristband. And then they're like, Oh, would you like, would you like to, uh, would you like to pay 39 99, um, you know, for the theme park?
00:52:17
Speaker
So like you get a free admission, but if you look on the ticket, it's free admission to the indoor water park, not anything outside, not the outdoor water park. You have to upgrade the ticket to get to that. So you end up paying like 32 bucks for a ticket at the end of the day.
00:52:36
Speaker
They like have half of the rides are up charge attractions. So you pay admission and then you get into a park where you have to pay extra to ride shit. All the rides have one train. So the lines are like an hour and a half every fucking day. The employees do not give a fuck. Like they have no customer service. They don't even speak English. I've seen so many accidents happen at that place.
00:53:05
Speaker
So it's kind of like, it's like millennial, it's like millennial action park. It's like the closest thing we got to the action park experience because you could like do whatever the fuck you wanted on the go-karts and like no one gave a shit. You could climb on pretty sure you could stand up on those go-karts and they wouldn't care. Oh yeah. Yeah. You could do whatever the fuck you wanted. Like, um, one on one click ride.
00:53:30
Speaker
Dude, I remember the crazy shit I think I saw was there was one track that had like a, it was like a giant helix upwards. So it was like 10 levels or six levels, whatever. And like,
00:53:43
Speaker
there was an accident so some girl spun out and then like cars blocked so these kids are like walking on the track and it's a blind turn and like these people in the other go-karts aren't slowing down so and there's no like kill switch or anything so these people like are just walking down the track like avoiding all these people in the other go-karts
00:54:05
Speaker
Um, and then like, I've seen, I've seen times where like, you know, kids would be flying into the loading area and they'd rear end people as they're loading into the car. Yeah. Like once I saw this, uh, once I saw this like mom with like a.
00:54:24
Speaker
I don't know, like a six year old or seven, and she's like picking her up to put her in the cart and like some kid like rear ended the cart. And then like the kid like went fly, like flew like, you know, outside out of the car. Like a mom fell. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I've seen like people get bloody noses. Um, I remember like some girl broke her arm on the wall on one of the water slides on the mic on the mat racer.
00:54:54
Speaker
Cause she was like walking down and the lifeguard wasn't paying attention. So she got struck by like oncoming riders and she fell and like broke her arm. Um, yeah. So I don't know. What are your memories of the place? When is, when was the first time you went there? First time I went there was 2005. I went with, um, a friend of ours and his family and we camped in the adjacent campground. Okay.
00:55:24
Speaker
And like in a tense or? Yeah. Yeah. And I mean. Yeah, like I'm thinking about it now and I'm like trying to remember and I'm like, OK, yeah. It's like there's no shade there for one thing. There's no shade anywhere.
00:55:54
Speaker
No, like literally not. There's no shade. Not even because there's like no trees.
00:56:00
Speaker
Yeah, they natural shade anywhere. Yeah, which, which is another thing. So Zeus actually used to be a pretty amazing coaster because it went out into the trees. It was kind of like the Raven and it was pretty bad ass. Um, and then they built a parking lot. So for some reason they decided to like clear every single tree that was adjacent to Zeus. And so now Zeus is like a parking lot coaster. Yeah.
00:56:29
Speaker
And Hades, Hades. OK, did you ever do you know that new parking lot they built? No, like now the parking lot wraps around Zeus and like the Hades, like by the by like the prelift and the in the queue area. Oh, my God. Really? Yeah, they got rid of all those trees, too, for a new parking. So now there's literally no trees. Yeah. OK, yeah. So there's no shade. I remember that. And then like
00:57:01
Speaker
Like this is remembering 2005. I kind of like remember like the food service, like the way people complain about like Six Flags food service now. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But this was 2005. Which is like, you basically got like a hot dog cart experience in a theme park you paid $45 to get into.
00:57:26
Speaker
Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's not cheap. It wasn't cheap either. And then, yeah, the coasters all have one train. Oh, and then I remember I remember there was a torrential torrential downpour. So, you know, that whole thing about no shade. Yeah. Oof. And this was oh five. So it was before they had that whole indoor section, too.
00:57:57
Speaker
We'll have to get into that in a little bit. Yeah. So double oof. So like me and my me and our friend, I remember we ended up like first we like went under the drop on Hades, like not the first drop, but like the drop out of the station, like in the line because it was like some sort of like structure above you, you know. Right, right.
00:58:24
Speaker
And then it's like, oh, the whole line's empty. So we go up to the station and the station is completely empty. Not even operators, of course. Right. Yeah. So then like we realize it and we like climb over the air gates and we're just like hanging out in the station and like climbing around shit and stuff. And there's a picture of me like straddling one of the rails on Hades.
00:58:57
Speaker
Oh, my God. Yeah, it's really easy to do that there. Yep. On. Sorry, I was smoking, but yeah, it's in then. So, yeah, finally, later on, it stopped raining and the employees came back and we got to ride.
00:59:24
Speaker
But yeah, I mean, that was pretty much my overall impression of the park. Oh, yeah, they had a robo coaster, but it cost like 15 bucks. Yeah, you could ride, but they did allow you to the ride level one for free. Oh, yeah, that's right.
00:59:42
Speaker
Yeah. I think what's so crazy about that park is like, like in 2005, the park was kind of still true to its form. Like it was kind of like, yeah, it's a Dell's park. You know, it's kind of like a small whatever. They got a couple of roller coasters and some go-karts. It's like a go-kart park. It's like an FEC basically.
01:00:10
Speaker
Um, and then in 2000, I think it was 2000, maybe it was 2005. They switched from paper ride to, you know, like a pay one price ticket admission. Oh, no, no, no. That was 2004. That's right. So before 2004, it was paper ride. And then in 2004, they switched to the, like the pay one price model ticket. Um,
01:00:35
Speaker
And then they had a, but it was just a weird place. Cause like the park was huge. It's a massive piece of property, but there's just like nothing in it. So they don't really have any flat rides besides an SNS screaming swing, which is an upcharge. And then they got like a bungee attraction, which had a fucking bungee cord snap on video. Do you remember that? Wasn't that technically when it was owned by somebody else, when it was across the street? No, that was in the park. So the park bought the ride.
01:01:07
Speaker
So the park bought the rides across the street and then brought them over to their property. Oh, my God. And I remember they also. Yeah, yeah. And they had a sky coaster, but I don't think it was technically like the license sky coaster. I think it was the. Oh, my God. I'm like, I'm pretty sure it was like the SNS version, the one that killed a woman in Wisconsin as well.
01:01:34
Speaker
called Air Glory. So, OK. Oh, my God. Air Glory was this was like a sky coaster, but it was a knockoff sky coaster that was literally like a fucking crane. Like it was like a construction crane that had a cable and like flight harnesses with a rip like the same premise, though, as ripcord or the sky coaster. But anyway, that also happened in 2007. So, like,
01:02:06
Speaker
Yeah, the bungee cord snap. If you haven't seen that video, go look it up. Look up Mount Olympus bungee accident. And like, so what happens is this, uh, the gondola or the cage or the car or whatever you want to call it is, you know, it's locked to the, the
01:02:22
Speaker
whatever launch position and then the kid, the bungee cords tighten. And so like right before they're about to like launch it, the bungee cord snaps and it like shoots to the ground and it lands like within like feet of the car. And they almost got hit by it. Um, and it's just like running up right now.
01:02:43
Speaker
Yeah, look that shit up. It's funny because the park initially like tried to get the video removed off of YouTube, but then it like spread all over so they can, you know, of course they did. And of course their social media team doesn't know how to do anything about this stuff. Oh, boy, this is going to be good. It's such a nasty sound, too. It's just like.
01:03:11
Speaker
Ooh, this shit freaks me out. Oh, here we go. And the kid who operating, it looks like he's like, well, like 14. Oh, oh. Holy shit.
01:03:37
Speaker
And the crazy thing too is like, that was both of the cape, both of the bungee cords. Of course. I know that those rides can, like, you're not going to die. Actually, that's honestly, you know, that's actually why there's a cage. It's so in case you hit the tower. Cause apparently they had issues with those in the past. Um, but look at that. Like the kids are just like, dude, those are like kids. They're just like, uh, I guess we'll just lower the other one, right?
01:04:10
Speaker
He doesn't even he doesn't even say anything to the riders either. Oh, man. Like, I'm just so not surprised by that at all. That is that is the Mount Olympus experience.
01:04:29
Speaker
Shit, I remember when our friend Eric and I, we were there for ERT and the operator was pissed that she had to work late. So this is really funny.
01:04:43
Speaker
The operator was standing at the bottom of the station with like two of her friends and they're smoking cigarettes and like Eric goes up and he's like, Hey, uh, this is supposed to be open for ERT. And she just kind of like doesn't even acknowledge him. She just kind of sighs.
01:05:01
Speaker
And then she like slowly walks up the stairs, doesn't say anything to us. And then like, uh, we sit in the back row, she sits at the panel and then she just fucking dispatches the train. Like she didn't give a shit, but then what was cool, she did redeem herself. She actually led us just stay on and she kept sending it through the station. So we got like 10 consecutive rides on, uh, Zeus. Oh, wow.
01:05:31
Speaker
at night. So before they did the parking lot, so there are still some trees back there. That was, so I will say like she, but the funny thing is that in her head, she was probably like, good, I'm not going to let these guys go around, you know, like, or she didn't give a fuck. Yeah. She just sat up there chilling with her feet on the panel, just kept sending it. I'm surprised they didn't let her just smoke on the ride platform. No, that wouldn't be professional.
01:06:04
Speaker
I love the owner. If you're going to smoke on the ride platforms, don't let guests see you. I think that's probably the motto of the of the employee training. Don't let the guests see it. So one thing that I don't let the guests see it. Want to do a rail? Don't let the guests see it.
01:06:32
Speaker
You know, it's weird those, uh, the employee trailers that some of them stay in. That shit's pretty, uh, pretty grim too. I actually, I actually went to hook up. I hooked up with a guy on Grindr who was like an employee there. Oh God. It wasn't that great. It was not great. That sounds like next levels of depressing, like a level was depressing that I can't get my head around. I mean, it was at least clean. So.
01:07:01
Speaker
Like, you know, I was expecting like an odor or something like. Yeah, but like even so, it's a goddamn trailer at Mount Olympus. True, but to be fair, though, it is the Dells. It is the Dells. And there are a lot of like RV parks, trailer parks up there. So it's like, you know what I'm saying? It raises the bar just a little bit. Stop justifying things to yourself.
01:07:32
Speaker
But, um, yeah, so the other thing about this park is that the indoor theme park is a joke. It's like four kiddie rides and a bunch of arcade games and this giant fucking 10. Like, I don't know where the fuck they got this 10. It's a size of like, it's huge and it is the biggest fucking scam ever. It like, and then they got those like fake foam front of it.
01:08:02
Speaker
Hey, we got a pump it up machine in a wild mouse. No, they got rid of the wild mouse. Well, yeah, I know. But when it when it opened. Oh, right. Yeah. They're like an indoor theme park, right? The the I think they called it the Pantheon. Yeah. Yeah, they did. But that's so funny because that's like where the gods sit.
01:08:31
Speaker
It's like the council of the gods. I did see the real one in Rome. That was pretty cool. And I was just like, wow, this is where they got the idea. I'm on Olympus. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. That doesn't make sense. No, man. Scratch that. Why? Holy shit. I just crossed two different cultures. Wow. I'm racist as fuck.
01:09:01
Speaker
Well, but okay. Greco Roman's a thing. So, you know. No, I know, but that's not what I was. I'm trying to help redeem you a little bit, buddy. All right. Dude, it's like.
01:09:19
Speaker
840 and I've been renting about Mount Olympus We can find on this on this Wikipedia page. Oh, here we go. Wait a minute. Okay, so Brandon sent me this video of a fight that happened there. You gotta see this shit. Hold on This shit this shit had me died. He just
01:09:44
Speaker
He just sent this to me like Saturday. Like I just saw this a couple of days ago. Okay, you gotta send me it. Okay, okay. And I sent it. So there's, if you gotta go to the post and there's two different videos on it, it's so funny. I love it. This happened on my Olympus today. Hashtag world star.
01:10:24
Speaker
Did you get it? Yeah, I'm waiting for Facebook to like load up. Oh, damn. Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. Yeah, I want to see it. I'm just waiting for it to load.
01:10:54
Speaker
Oh, boy. OK. I'm waiting for the I got the message now. I'm waiting for the video to load. OK. Just take me to the YouTube. Come on, man.
01:11:24
Speaker
Alright, load it on YouTube. Holy shit, that dude's swinging a full-on chair. Oh! Dude got laid out. No, just watch.
01:12:00
Speaker
Stop filming. I'm watching again because I can't not. Holy shit. That dude got cracked by that chair. Did you see the kid who like laid down and then got back up? Yeah.
01:12:30
Speaker
Hold on, go to the... And then there's the second part, too. Or I think a cop or a security guard's like yelling at him to stop. Holy shit. Yeah, he's like, back up, back up.
01:13:04
Speaker
Yeah, this trash seems just right on brand for fucking Mount Olympus. Those are all the people that thought they got free tickets to the amusement park. And then they got there and were like, oh, fuck, I had to upgrade this ticket for thirty one dollars if I want to ride anything but these five kitty rides inside of this tent. Or those are the people who did not upgrade.
01:13:33
Speaker
Yeah, these are the people who did not upgrade clearly. Yes, I found a list of incidents here on the Wikipedia. Excellent. So on March 6th, 2014, these are just the ones on Wikipedia. So who knows if what else what else is out there?
01:14:01
Speaker
Oh, so much. You would see an accident just being there one day. Like it was so common. That's what I'm saying is like literally millennial action park. Like you just see ambulances all the time.
01:14:12
Speaker
Well, these are the ones that are noteworthy enough to end up on Wikipedia. So on March 6, 2014, a lap bar malfunction caused by an inadequate maintenance occurred on the OPA roller coaster in the indoor theme park, causing a 63-year-old man from Fremont, Wisconsin to fall 17 feet from the ride, sustaining serious injuries that left him in a coma for three weeks.
01:14:39
Speaker
The ride was permanently closed after the incident and later removed. Fucking that's how they got out of that. Shit. You know, it's crazy. Like my lap bars popped up on that ride before. Like I was riding with Eric and like we were going up the lift hill and it just fucking opened.
01:15:02
Speaker
Oh, and oh my God, there's two other instances with this fucking ride. So one was if you could ride it with the thing spinning the whole time.
01:15:12
Speaker
So like the way you did that was if you sat like two people on one side and so it spun, it was like off center, it would spun a lot when it pulled into the station because it was, it's like a Zamperla model. Sometimes like the pin for the locking mechanism doesn't lock. So they have to send the car all around again a second time. So it resets, but they like tell you you're not supposed to ride it like that.
01:15:39
Speaker
But like sometimes if you just ask to let you do it. So it's so I got one ride like that. But like because of the fucking ride, they didn't maintain the cars at all. It didn't really spin much. So it's just kind of like riding it in like a weird angular position. Oh, remember, remember that spinning coaster at Castle Park? Yeah, with that weird lift hill. Yeah, yeah, it's kind of lame like that.
01:16:07
Speaker
Yeah, that sucked. Um, on January 23rd, 2015, a four-year-old nearly drowned in the indoor water park. EMS responded and took the child to St. Clair hospital. Three months after the incident, the Dell's Delton EMS team presented Mount Olympus and the lifeguards involved in rescuing the child with certificates for life-saving efforts. Heroes.
01:16:37
Speaker
That is a thing. Wow. This is the cable snap one is here. But you know what? Let's have even more fun with this. Let's just type in Mount Olympus accidents onto Google and see what happens.
01:16:59
Speaker
Oh, I remembered another Mount Olympus thing with Opa. So when our friend Brandon and I wrote that, he lost his glasses. And so one of the operators went to go look for them like under the track. And you know, there's that one really low section of the of the track by the bunny hill. Wait, which ride? On Opa? Yeah.
01:17:22
Speaker
So she like literally with the ride going, the ride is still going. She just walks down the platform, down the stairs, into the low zone, crosses the tracks, gets Brandon's glasses and walks back. And I was like, oh my God, she's going to get fucking hit because she didn't like she wasn't like looking either. Like the ride was still fucking going. There's a car going up the lift hill.
01:17:54
Speaker
That's crazy. Did you, did you find any accidents? Yeah. Um, let's see. There's, here's the headline from USA today. Two killed 75 hurt on Wisconsin ride since Oh six. And this is from 2016. Wait, what, what was the stat? Two killed 75 hurt. Oh shit. What ride was that?
01:18:25
Speaker
Um. Oh, fuck, it keeps it keeps hitting me with the unblock the ads. It's from the Green Bay Press Gazette.
01:18:49
Speaker
Okay. By the way, for news articles, you should download a Chrome extension called just read. So what it does is it like, it like converts the page into pure text. So like, it's just, you know, black text, white background. Yeah. But does that get around the ad? Yeah. Yeah. Cause it, cause it literally goes into the HTML and only shows you the text. So like, there's no, it's like, there's no ads, videos, autoplay, anything like that.
01:19:18
Speaker
It's really good. It's good if you're reading shit at work. I think I found something even better. But what was that ride? I don't know. It wasn't the same ride. It was just on rides, it said. Oh, on rides. OK, so in general, but still 76 hurt. Think about that shit. Here we go. I found an article from a personal injury attorney.
01:19:48
Speaker
Called. Hurt at an amusement park, but I signed a waiver. Can I sue? That's what I'm saying. Their waiver is literally a sign on the ticket booth that says like, um, right at your own risk. Oh yeah. No insurance right at your own risk. Remember that the park doesn't have insurance. How is that legal?
01:20:16
Speaker
It must've been like some weird loophole in the Wisconsin amusement park system. I think that's probably common for Dell's attractions. I don't know, because it's Wisconsin.
01:20:27
Speaker
I don't know if that's current, but like in 2005, they had these big signs in the ticket booth and it even says like everything on the ticket, it's like everything is right at your own risk, not responsible for injuries or anything like that. So it's like this disclaimer that they literally put on the fucking ticket. I'm just Googling Mount Olympus, no insurance.
01:20:52
Speaker
Um, oh, also they've had this sign in the queue line of Hades that says like Hades is running very aggressive today. Um, something, you know, like right at your own risk or whatever.
01:21:06
Speaker
but like it's always there, but it's on, it's like a temporary sign. So it kind of looks like it's like, oh, maybe it's like just today. Like if a guest doesn't know anything about roller coasters, like think about how many people look past that sound like, oh, I guess it's just running kind of rough today. No big deal. Maybe we got it on a bad day.
01:21:29
Speaker
Just little shit like that, that like they're they're literally fucking their guests. So I googled Mount Olympus. No insurance. And the second result on Google, because the first one was an ad. So I guess actually the first result is a review from a TripAdvisor titled Do Not Stay Here.
01:21:56
Speaker
I haven't read it yet, but should I just read it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. OK, all right. So. My husband and I decided to surprise our two boys with a mini vacation. I have stayed in the Dells many times, but never at Mount Olympus. We found a good deal online, but I guess I should have known better by that. The check in process was fine. We got to our room and went down to the quote theme park, unquote.
01:22:23
Speaker
Not only does it take forever to get there, you have to walk outside because this is an outbuilding. We had our two-year-old with us and there wasn't anything for him to do. I quickly called Kalahari and they were able to get us in at a cheaper rate.
01:22:38
Speaker
When I went to the front desk at Mount Olympus to check out, there were no questions asked. It seems they don't care about customer service at all. If they did, they would have asked anything to make things better. I will never recommend them to anyone, and my next order of business is to give an amazing review to Kalahari. That sounds about right. Location, one star, rooms, one star, service, one star.
01:23:11
Speaker
Was that another, the same one or a different one? No, that was all from that same review.
01:23:16
Speaker
OK, yeah, I mean, I feel really bad for people who I mean, granted, like you should do some research, but at the same time, like that whole park is false advertisement. Everything they build, they call the largest, but they're all arbitrary name or they're like bullshit titles like the world's largest indoor theme park. No, I want to see if there's any other good reviews here on TripAdvisor.
01:23:45
Speaker
Okay, one cool thing about Monolympus is their wave pool. So they have this like insane wave pool that sends like one giant surf wave every like two minutes. Or no, it's like three minutes or something.
01:24:00
Speaker
Maybe it's less than that. Maybe it's more than that. I don't know. But it's not. It's literally like one wave every couple of minutes and it's just one giant fucking like tsunami wave. So it literally it like picks you off the ground and it like tumbles you in this wave and like slams you down and you come off up out of the water and you're like 200 feet back from where you started. Maybe not that far. I'm exaggerating. But like it's pretty fucking insane. That wave pool is nuts.
01:24:33
Speaker
Um, the very first view on the Mount Olympus resort, quote unquote for TripAdvisor one star, the review title, absolutely disgusting. What?
01:24:56
Speaker
My family stayed at a Mount Olympus motel and it was so dirty. Nick, the owner of the Mount Olympus company, should be ashamed of how he runs the company. He really needs to spend money on housekeeping and maintaining the room and making sure everything is clean. We will not be staying there again. We will stay at nicer ones and in the Dells like Great Wolf and Kalahari. What are the good ones like?
01:25:28
Speaker
See the next one down four stars family getaway. We came for a long weekend with another family and it was a great time. When we booked we thought we were in the same building as the water park but turned out we were down the road in building 10. The desk offered to move us to the building attached but we didn't want to pay the higher rate.
01:25:46
Speaker
The rooms adjoined, which was great for our families, and the kids could run back and forth between the rooms. The bunk beds were a huge hit. The beds could use some new mattresses and springs, they weren't very comfy and squeaked with every move. The fridge and microwave were great to have right there, especially with little ones.
01:26:05
Speaker
There was a back road to get you to the water park without having to go on the main road, which was nice. The first day at the water park was wonderful and the kids had a blast. Perfect size for our little ones. Do not go on weekends is super busy and can barely walk or do anything.
01:26:22
Speaker
For the price and our families, it was a great time and will definitely return.

Hotel Experiences and Park Facilities

01:26:27
Speaker
The rooms were very clean and loved no carpet. As a side note, if on the first floor, check to make sure windows are locked as ours originally weren't and no screens. The location was great, though, and no issues. Hmm. Well. I'm glad she had fun.
01:26:52
Speaker
There was still complaints in there, though. Well, the next one down, one star, terrible hotel. Probably the worst experience I've ever had at a hotel.
01:27:12
Speaker
Oh wow. If you purchase tickets online, they hide under the fine print that they're non-refundable. As a marketing professional, this is an absolute dishonest practice of the advertisement and marketing. Oh shit. Yeah. Like that shit.
01:27:28
Speaker
That's what I'm saying, that's the shit they fucking do. I guarantee you when you book a hotel or a room on the hotel, that they hide the fact that you're not part of, because the thing is they make it seem like one resort, but I don't think they tell you what building you're in. So it's sort of like- That's exactly what it says here.
01:27:46
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. So then it's like this like bait and switch up charge bullshit with employees who do not give a fuck about you completely. Like, you know, we've all dealt with like shitty six flags, right? Ops or whatever. But like this is like on another level. Because they don't really speak at the bottom here. It's like, note the relevant, the quote relevant reviews unquote listed on Google reviews are obviously staged. If you look at the newest reviews, they're all terrible.
01:28:19
Speaker
It wouldn't surprise me if they put, if they put fake good reviews on their, on the online, like, yeah, that doesn't surprise me at all. Yeah.
01:28:34
Speaker
Like, um, it's, it's a, the funny thing too is like they, in 2007, we went there for a coaster, like an ACE event and they had a new picnic area. And it was like advertised, like, they're like, welcome to whatever. This is, uh, the new addition for 2007. It's a picnic area. It's where the log flume was. They replaced a log flume with like a park shelter for picnics.
01:29:05
Speaker
Which by the way, the log flume, the reason they took it out is because like the side bracing for the first drop came loose. So like a log could have been sent and like fell off the track essentially. That wouldn't have surprised me. Yeah. Um, and then see how they have that picnic area, which is like apparently an attraction.
01:29:32
Speaker
The bathrooms are fucking disgusting. The exit of the park is through a gift shop. How cheesy is that? I'm pretty sure it's one of the only parks in America that doesn't have smoking areas. You can just smoke. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, yeah. It's like this is the kids area, yeah?
01:29:59
Speaker
It's Wisconsin.

Park Visitors and Ride Memories

01:30:00
Speaker
It's like the, it's like the mom, the drunk mom with the plastic Miller light copper on her neck on beads. Yeah. This is the pack of cigarettes and her boobs and like wearing like Walmart jean cutoffs. With like the $3 flip flops. Yep. Yep. It's the shitty butterfly tattoo.
01:30:33
Speaker
I'm in a bad blonde dye job. That's Wisconsin. Little sunburn. Well, I always got the kids names, always screaming the kids names like Tyler. I say it.
01:31:02
Speaker
Isaac, come here. Get over here. I don't know. Wow. I mean, I have so many memories of this park. It's like it's kind of like a shithole, but it also is like it's pretty magical. It's my home park. Fuck that place.
01:31:30
Speaker
Yeah, fuck that place. But you could go down the road and ride Avalanche. Not anymore. Fuck. That's really sad. You know, it's actually when I was when I saw I was watching a Haiti's POV on Saturday and like I was just thinking, like, isn't it crazy that that opened kind of was oh, five.
01:31:56
Speaker
And there probably won't be any roller coasters like that ever opening again. Cause Hades was pretty crazy for a gravity group. Like for the time, because it was, you know, there, they were like traditional coasters, but they were just nuts. And the first ever gravity group. Yeah. Yeah. But like, we will probably never see a wooden coaster like that ever again.
01:32:23
Speaker
And if you're going to say something about Topper Track, fucking stop right now. No, I'm not. I want you. Oh, our fucking listeners. Oh, if you guys are going to say anything about fucking Topper Track, stop. Yeah, like this is this is only the magic of roller coaster can be built like pre really good computers like before the 2000s.
01:32:50
Speaker
I guess this was still 2005, but it was gravity group. No, but like, yeah, Hades was like an imperfect, crazy, awesome coaster for the first like two years. With that little five car PTC train. Man, yeah, that ride was awesome. An outward bank, like an actual outward bank turn that was like really fucked up because it was like
01:33:19
Speaker
Because it was just enough. Like just enough that you felt it. Yeah, right. Right. And like an extreme amount.
01:33:30
Speaker
Yeah, but it was like also because it was a, because it's a wooden coaster and that because it was rough, like it was more like intense. Like that's a crazy feeling. And our bank, I'm like a rough, I'm like a rough coaster because you're already, you're already like bouncing up and down. And then you get like that jackhammer sensation and like the crazy, you know,
01:33:55
Speaker
like jolts of the outward bank turn that wasn't probably designed by a computer very well. It's a crazy experience. It'll probably never happen again. Yeah, yeah. Well, let's wrap up the whole Mount Olympus section by giving the park a rating on a one to five scale.
01:34:18
Speaker
Well, let's, can we just, let's run through the rides and rate the rides though. Like just really quick. So Opa was removed shitty wild mouse Pegasus was like, yeah, that was all right turns except for like the one big left turn. Remember that it was like, I don't remember the layout all that well. Yeah. It was like, you do like.
01:34:44
Speaker
Like five right turns and you do a left turn and then you do like another five right turns into the station. It's like a weird. It's kind of like a wild mouse. It's like these like little quarter turns. It's like drop quarter turn, drop quarter turn. Little Titans. Oh, that's that Myler. I think. Dive to Atlantis. That mallelor too. Did you read that?
01:35:14
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I liked how they evoked Atlantis after SeaWorld built Journey to Atlantis. Yeah, but their park is themed Greek. So it's, you know, they, they, they got those whatever the rights bragging rights.
01:35:39
Speaker
Let's talk about the only three that actually fucking matter. Yeah. Okay. Zeus. Zeus was fucking like Zeus. See Zeus is not a good ride unless you ride it in the very front row and it's rough, but it does have good air time. I never got really great air time on it. Oh really? Did you ride it in like front and back? I can't remember.
01:36:07
Speaker
I was going to say, cause like for some reason the back road doesn't have air time, but the front road does. Um, and like, it's kind of the only spot that has, it's like literally the only spot that's not rough. Cause otherwise a jackhammer is like crazy. Um, yeah, like, I don't know. I'd rate that like.
01:36:32
Speaker
It's probably like, I don't know. I don't even know where to put it. Let's say like the bottom 40%. Same. Nothing outstanding. Nothing remarkable. I remember it being rough, but I don't remember any good air time. Yeah. I can honestly only think of like one, like one specific night of rides I've ever had on it where it was actually good. And that would be, um, like probably like sometime in 2005 at night. Um,
01:37:03
Speaker
And that's just because it actually went out into the forest, which was cool. You know, it was kind of like a raven in that way. Like the thing is, I'd be willing to definitely give it another shot because wood coasters actually do give different rides.
01:37:21
Speaker
Yeah, I want to get a totally different ride one day, one season, one week from another, because wood changes as a as a substance, unlike steel, which doesn't vary the same way. Right, right. But yes, I'd try it again, but right now I would rate it, I don't know, out of five, I'd say maybe a two and a half. Yeah, it's it's really great in the middle.
01:37:52
Speaker
Cyclops. I'm terrified since they've redone the drop. Yeah, same. I don't know if I want to ride it. It's like kind of like Ghost Rider. I don't know if I want to experience a change like the new Ghost Rider was awesome, but I don't think the reprofiled drop will be awesome. Yeah.
01:38:15
Speaker
Yeah, this was like another one of those like this will never happen ever again, like this type of ride experience. And it probably doesn't exist anywhere anymore of like a drop that's so poorly designed that it just gives like one solid jolt of air time in the back row. And it only had buzz bars. So it's just like crazy experience. That was distinctly remember this one time I was riding that and
01:38:46
Speaker
There was several people on the ride that had beers with them. And of course they dispatched the ride and they're holding their beers and they're like, woo. And it comes back to the station and they're all still holding their beers. Nice. But only fucking Mount Olympus, man. Yeah. In the loop needs to have their free RT at Mount Olympus. Yeah, right. Mount Olympus would never like.
01:39:14
Speaker
Oh, no, that's a keg in the station and shit. That's true. It's true. The shit I'm sure they'll pay for the charge for anything. You'd like to be like, yeah, I want to shoot a porn in your park. And they'd be like, well, how much do you want to pay? Let's talk. Yeah, too bad we were the sworn enemies of them or else I'd say that'd be a perfect place for your favorite coaster sucks me up.
01:39:42
Speaker
That would be kind of fun, actually. Like to do it at like the worst theme park, the park, come on, the Arch Enemy Park. That's where you do the meetup of the of the podcast. That makes the most sense. Do a live podcast recording where we just talk shit about them. Yeah, flush jewel bags down the toilets. No.
01:40:13
Speaker
Make sure they have toilet paper in them first. Also, like if you are going to flush plastic bags down the metal Olympus toilet, like don't we never said that. So don't like post a video of it and use hashtag your favorite coaster sucks. Nope. Use hashtag theme park review. Or ride this one.
01:40:43
Speaker
Yeah. But also don't do it. Yeah, if you're going to do anything destructive at parks, blame ride this one. But like, don't do it. We'll give you we'll give you a sticker. That says ride this one. That's what we should do. We should have a meet up at Mount Olympus and then give stickers. With Rob Alvey's face on him.
01:41:14
Speaker
Oh my god, there's like millions of stickers. Just you guys know the deal. Ooh, I forgot a story, hold on. One more quick story was when I was there with Eric once, there was a tornado warning and this like crazy storm ripped through the park.

Park Incidents and Weather Chaos

01:41:39
Speaker
It picked up one of those giant cigarette urns.
01:41:43
Speaker
In the wind and it slammed it down and like thousands of cigarette butts like went everywhere and they just like showered this whole group of people. This is the greatest thing I've ever seen.
01:41:57
Speaker
this this storm rips through and everyone's like panicking running and like the cigarette urn like lifts up like in front of us like we're running with the cigarette urn it's like in midair and we're like running along with it and then it explodes and goes all over these people
01:42:21
Speaker
the fuck so people are trying to find shelter this storm is nuts the storm apparently had like 70 mile per hour winds and people were trying to go in the gift shops but the the employees were kicking the people out of the gift shops of course like they're trying to close the doors they're like locking the doors pushing the people and then a tree fell on Zeus what
01:42:45
Speaker
Yeah, it like just this giant tree like started to get tipped over from the wind and it broke like next to us for running to the parking lot and this tree just fell on top of Zeus and the prelift section. And then like we saw them cutting it down later and the ride closed. But then like they just like fucking pounded some shit and they opened the ride back up.
01:43:14
Speaker
They're like, is it good to open? Yeah, sure. Yeah, then. All right. So Zeus Cyclops. I mean, I'm going to give it a three and a half.
01:43:34
Speaker
Oh, I'm giving it a four. That right is pretty amazing. Still, it's short for the two. There's two really good drops. So well, there's one good drop and then there was one great drop. So. I mean, like the let's see, there's like. There's like five good spots of airtime on that ride. Because there's the first drop, which is still crazy, like even the first drop is nuts.
01:44:01
Speaker
And then there's like the first bunny hill where there's two pops and then there's like another bunny hill and there's the big one. No, that's such a good ride. I'm giving it like a four. And then of course, Hades, which I'm going to give four and a half. Which one, though?
01:44:23
Speaker
Because I feel like Hades has like 10 different personalities because of like how much that park has neglected the ride. Well, I've written it. Oh, five, oh, seven and 2012. So did you write Hades 360? Yeah. So would you put even Hades 360 in like the four point five? Yeah, we're still pretty good. OK.
01:44:55
Speaker
I wrote it. So I wrote three, six, eighties, three, 16, 20, 13. And I thought it was absolutely garbage, but it was like, again, like that could have just been like the day I was there or whatever, like that summer. Yeah. Cause it was just running really slow and it was like rough. So it just felt like a lot of the airtime wasn't there. And then the pacing was kind of off because of the new trains.
01:45:26
Speaker
But I, I do think old Hades was better. Yeah. Old Hades was really good. Um, that's like, I would say like, that's one of those coasters that would make me sound like one of those old obnoxious a shirt. Acer is like trying to piss or, uh, talk about the beast. Like a millennial talking to, you're never going to beat that one ride from 2005.
01:45:56
Speaker
That's so true. Oh, God. All right. Well, we're going to be old people. We are old people. God damn it. OK, well, well, then if you if you just make it a joke now that way, when you start talking about it later in life, it'll just be like, oh, that's just like a it's just a thing. Yep, we're old. So so we remember that night in 2005.
01:46:25
Speaker
And, you know, just this park does suck, but you should go there if you haven't been there. It's just like set the bar really low. Um.
01:46:36
Speaker
Yeah, picture Disney World and then the opposite of that. Imagine like there's a picture of Disney World and it's blown up in this giant building end to end. And it's like a high definition picture, but it's still just a fucking wall and you get inside and the building's empty. That's my Olympus. I could barely hear that.
01:47:05
Speaker
Oh, fuck. I was saying like Mount Olympus is like it would be like if you took a super audio is coming in all weird. Is it still staticky or what? Yo, man, your audio is coming in super weird. How so? It kind of like just blipped a little bit, maybe if you were talking.
01:47:34
Speaker
Is it still doing it now? Is it the same? It was good for a sec, but then it kept doing it now. Well, what is it? What does it sound like? Uh, it's okay now, but it gets like really robotic and like electronic. Okay. Anyway, picture the opposite of Disney world.

Final Critiques and Listener Engagement

01:48:03
Speaker
Like I was saying, uh, it's like an HD, it's like a picture of Disneyland print, like blown up edge to edge on a building on like the edge on like the side of a building. And then even though it's like HD quality, you still get inside and the building is empty. That's, that's the park. A facade of fun.
01:48:30
Speaker
Yeah, like if Disneyland's the happiest place on Earth, then Mount Olympus is the opposite. But they've got credit, so go get your credits. And like, you know, just don't go on a weekend and don't die. Don't expect anything. Yeah, it's like purely a credit run. Yeah.
01:49:01
Speaker
Uh, go there before you go to great America on the same trip. Yeah. Like if that's saying, if you ever do that region, like those parks always start in Minnesota, like start at value fair, then go to the Dells, then go to great America. Or if you're just doing Dells, great America, go up to the Dells first. Knock it out.
01:49:29
Speaker
Yeah, get that done first, because believe me, it will be a huge disappointment in comparison. Whereas if you go the other way around, Great America will not disappoint in comparison. Well, so that's that's about it, right? Yeah, that's the park.
01:49:59
Speaker
All right. Well, yeah, fuck you, my Olympus, but we'll be back at some point. Fuck. Although now our pictures are going to be printed on the wall. Nick's going to find us and like under the little scooter. Kicks a dog on like the way over. I wouldn't be surprised if him and Rob are good friends.
01:50:30
Speaker
Oh, I'm sure those are like two narcissists, like, you know, in like a business exchange. It's just like, yeah, they're like BFFs. Yeah. They're either like really good friends or like total enemies. No, they're friends. Those guys, those guys, those guys are buds.
01:50:51
Speaker
All right, so time for the annoying shit. Please give us a review, five stars, whatever app you're listening on. Leave us a review there this week. Why don't you tell us about an accident that occurred at Mount Olympus? Fictional or real?
01:51:17
Speaker
Tell us. Tell us about an incident that occurred at Mount Olympus. Real or not. I mean, yeah, best responses will get read on air. And just don't ever stop. Just keep going. Like, do it all the time. Make it a meme. And you know what? Throw the hashtag Mount Olympus in there, too.
01:51:48
Speaker
I know hashtags don't work on podcast apps, but it will show up on Google, which is the important part. So, yeah, go ahead, leave us the review five stars and tell us about an accident that occurred in Mount Olympus, real or fictional. Give us a follow. What?
01:52:15
Speaker
I was just gonna- I just got an idea. In the beginning of the episode, you just throw in a random, like, dog sound like a bird, like a... ...document kick. As evil as- I mean, as fucked up as it is, it just means- At some point in the episode, please. It'll make me shit my- I'll shit myself.
01:52:45
Speaker
I'm going to be working like in here that randomly and I'm just going to show myself. So just please do that. I'm going to put it in right after the part where you're like, he kicked a dog on the way over.
01:53:09
Speaker
Oh, God. Is anybody else going as insane as Ben and I are? Okay, all right. So, don't kick a dog.
01:53:35
Speaker
Hey, Ben, when we're done recording, remind me and I have an idea to tell you. Okay.
01:53:43
Speaker
Um, give us a follow on the socials. Uh, we're on Instagram, your favorite coaster sucks, Twitter, um, YFC S pod, Facebook, your favorite coaster sucks tumbler for whatever fucking reason we're over there. Um, there's a follow there. You can hit us up. Of course you can get ahold of us. Like the way all of our great listeners did by using the email account, your favorite coaster sucks at gmail.com or
01:54:10
Speaker
our wonderful text and voicemail line at 312-572-9552. You leave us a voicemail, we'll play it on the show, you send us a text, we'll talk about it, I might even respond to you. Let's see, what other annoying shit do we have to get through? Is there another annoying shit, Ben?
01:54:33
Speaker
Um, what about the dead ride? How about a dive to Atlantis? Sure. Dive to Atlantis. I'm, I'm having a beer. I'll drink to that. And just for the hell of it. Um, Opa. That was for the old guy that fell 17 feet, but didn't die. Oh, where, where's the, well,
01:55:03
Speaker
Somebody's died at Mount Olympus. Guaranteed it's happened. I guarantee there's been a lot of Disney's pulled there, like the whole Disney thing where they just take them off property and like. Yeah, yeah. Well, I would I would George Zimmerman Zimmerman men's warehouse fucking guarantee it that there's been a death at that park. I think George Zimmerman was the guy that shot Trayvon Martin.
01:55:34
Speaker
Um, yeah. Then what's the men's warehouse guy's name? I don't know. Oh, oh, I'm. Does he say his name in the in the in the shit in the car? You know what I'm talking about. It's like I'm so and so and I guarantee you that you're going to like the way you look.
01:56:00
Speaker
Yeah. What the, Oh my God, why? That's really bad on the marketing team. Like you would think that if they had a better ad, that name would have come up, you know, our thinking, but it hasn't. Um, what the fuck? Yeah. I don't know what his name is. Oh, I found the ad on YouTube. I guess. Play it.
01:56:25
Speaker
I'm trying to know. Yeah, I can't remember. No, this is not the guy. This is like a new ad. The fuck is this? This is not correct. Is it like this is. George Zimmer. OK, OK.
01:56:49
Speaker
Yeah, I was off by three letters. OK, that's a that's a that's that's all right. I'm giving myself a pass on that one. That's so close, especially with another one. I'm giving myself a pass on that. That sounds good. Anyway, I would guarantee it. So just like I can guarantee you're going to love our upcoming episodes. We haven't recorded them yet, but they're going to be great.
01:57:22
Speaker
Do we have any other business, Ben? Um... No, I think that's it. Alright, well then, you know what time it is. Until next time, your favorite poster of the year.