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Episode 147 - Phoenix Phall Phunfest
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This week on the premier comedy roller coaster podcast, Ben and Zach are joined by Jonathan to talk about Phoenix Phall Phunfest at Knoebel's, what makes good food at parks, the best food at a park event and much more!
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Transcript
Dick's Grave and Antique Cars
00:00:41
Speaker
Oh, Zach. Again, a college student again. I'm Ben and I'm. In Omaha again. And I'm Jonathan, and. I just saw Dick this weekend. The Knobel, I'm glad he's still alive. Oh, damn, we did see his grave, though, on the antique cars.
00:01:11
Speaker
That's a little ominous. I know, right? I wonder if he even knows it's there. Well, I bet it was his idea. I bet he demanded it early. Bear me in the antique autos. It's a pretty good impression. I can see him making that demand. That grave ain't vague.
00:01:37
Speaker
Yeah, he wants me into a Phoenix footer. Yeah, just sprinkle his ashes, mix it with the cement. He's like, I was originally wanting to go in the footers of a thousand one knots until TLC made that show. Where else can you get some titties in your face? What's your dad? You know what? I know the ride's not there, but I didn't think to look for that fence.
00:02:08
Speaker
that red fence with the spiky triangles that the other woman was straddling. Oh yeah, surely they've removed that. There's a padlock on there with her initials and 1000. So we were talking about this this weekend. Do you think Dick and the owners even knew that
00:02:33
Speaker
Like, so I'm sure TLC contacted them. They were like, hey, can we film a segment in your park? But I wonder if they actually explained. Like what they were actually trying to do.
Filming Permissions and TLC's Tactics
00:02:44
Speaker
It also kind of seemed like they may not even gotten park permit permission. They just went there in the offseason and like snuck in. Yeah, that's what I thought. That's what it seemed. It seemed very possible. It definitely. Seems.
00:03:03
Speaker
Yeah, plausible, because it doesn't seem like Canobals is the type of place that has a heavy security presence the offseason. Well, it's just like there's no gate. That's what I'm saying. They're like homes there. I don't know who lives in them, but is this something that you guys have discussed on the show? Do people know what we're talking
Obsession with Amusement Rides
00:03:26
Speaker
about? If you don't know, Google I'm in love with an amusement park ride.
00:03:32
Speaker
It'll be the first video that pops up. You won't regret it. Or don't. You know, just to be completely fair. Yeah, you won't be able to forget it. Let's work that way. Yeah, no, there's no one see it. That's for sure. I wonder what that.
00:04:00
Speaker
Whatever that mechanical lubricant is. I know it's super toxic. It's like a carcinogen. And she was definitely sticking it inside of her. Yeah. I wonder where she is now. I really wonder if she thought
00:04:29
Speaker
fucking bolt would come out of her or something. Oh, and I'm going to go. Where is the thousand and one? Not woman. And where she's not. It's kind of wolves. Did you know they made a movie about this? No.
00:04:57
Speaker
Wait, they made a movie inspired by that exact video. What is it called? What is called? It's like an indie movie. It's called Jumbo. But it's the actress was in Portrait of a Lady on Fire, which was an Oscar nominated movie. So it's it's not like I don't think it's like a student film level or something. It's like legit.
00:05:25
Speaker
movie, but it's about a woman who falls in love with an amusement ride. I haven't seen it. I just like this just suddenly made me remember this coming out and I kind of forgot about it. I mean, I'm looking up the trailer right now because. Oh, so this is pretty recent, too.
00:05:54
Speaker
Oh, I see what happened. It came out at like February 2020. Bad time. Easy time to forget things. So it was supposed to be released wide on March 18th, 2020. Wow. That is about the most unfortunate possible release date. Oh, shit. Well, the video might be the actual date we went into lockdown in New York. Oh, shit. Yeah, everything was fucked at that point.
00:06:23
Speaker
Yeah, it has recent reviews. I need to look this up. Yeah, because the trailer even says 2021 on. I mean, imagine if this is the movie that became popular as opposed to Tiger King. I'm like right. All right, I found the trailer I'm sharing in the chat.
00:06:59
Speaker
Yeah, I'll be checking that out. Oh, my God. This movie looks. I mean, it looks OK, but in the trailer. Well, actually, where is this film? Doesn't look like it's in the US. The cast, I think it's
00:07:27
Speaker
I think it's going to be France or Belgium. That's what I was going to say. It sounded like French. Oh, God. There was a part where there was like oil on her face. Yeah, I mean, that's just taken straight from the real inspiration. Yeah. Oh, OK.
00:07:58
Speaker
You know, I haven't I didn't pull the link up. Can you see what kind of ride it is? It looks like a afterburn. It's like a mini move at 32. Oh. Oh, yeah. Well, that looks really interesting.
00:08:29
Speaker
There you go. They made about they made a movie about your listeners. I'm kind of wondering if one of our listeners made that movie. Very popular in Belgium. Also, I mean, for the casting, that woman, I don't think the woman is a fair representation of the actual woman either.
00:08:57
Speaker
With no. Yeah, I'm going to be kind and leave it at that. Fair, fair point. I was also trying to look up, there's a woman who also is really into topsoil dragster. But. I'm trying to all the links are overtaken by the accident.
00:09:28
Speaker
Yeah, I think one of our listeners knows that person. Are they a listener? I remember a few of these type people over the years. I feel I'm trying to remember. I feel like there was at a Jago Lake and it was Six Flags. I think that's where I remember there was a guy where we called Hey Baylor man, because he just all he did was ride.
00:09:56
Speaker
The hay baler, which was, I think, just like a wave swinger. That's like what he did all day. It checks out. The simple life. Remember a single writer, Bob? Oh, yes, your point has a lot of those sorts of people. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's just an Ohio thing.
00:10:30
Speaker
There's that. All right. There's that single. There's that like Cedar Point Singles group on Facebook. Oh, I'm not a part of it. People just send me screenshots from it all the time. As if I want to see this shit.
00:10:52
Speaker
It's like to arrange like meetups at the park or something. It'll be like like a date. I think people post them here on our Discord, right? And you'll see it'll be like some guy in like. It's a picture of like a guy outside of like a smoothie shop, not inside the park,
Coaster Enthusiasts vs. Average Guests
00:11:12
Speaker
just randomly in Ohio wearing like a bandana and like a jean jacket. And they're like.
00:11:22
Speaker
Things are today around 2 p.m. I have a gold pass and a dining plan in case anybody wants to meet up and ride some rides dinner on me. And female preference to female. I think that's how the dining plan works. I saw the poster there were a few were like it would be somebody's mom posting on their behalf.
00:11:49
Speaker
And it's like, my son is 26 years old and single and it has a problem. Like that struggles talking to women. He has a gold pass and really enjoys roller coasters, trying to find, you know, a woman for him or whatever. And they always, it's just funny when they say like prefers females and it's like, well, prefers. So like. There's some more going on, you know,
00:12:19
Speaker
It's just good. That would expand the pool pretty dramatically in this hobby. I'm looking for romance, but like just a friend would be good at this point. Yeah. Which is on me either way. I feel like I was only like a couple fortunate turns away from ending up like that. So I'm not going to make too much.
00:12:49
Speaker
I mean, I think three of us were. Yeah. You know, we're we're like hardcore coaster kids and are like, yeah, early and mid teens. And there's two pretty obvious paths there. Totally man. Yeah, we're like the ones that cut out.
00:13:16
Speaker
I was, well, I was telling Craig that cause he didn't really realize it was a full ACE, like kind of like ACE coaster enthusiast event. And I was just like, just remember, this is only like one or two degrees of separation between me and these people. So I was like, keep that in mind. That's the scary thing. Wait, when, when you're attending the event, there's some degree of separation between you and the other attendees.
00:13:43
Speaker
Well, I just mean like how, you know, as an enthusiast, how I turned out. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know, Ben. I'm going to have to say it reminds me a lot of when you're sitting on the bus and you look around and you go, oh, God, who the fuck is on this thing? Like, look at these people on this fucking bus.
00:14:06
Speaker
That's right. We're closer to the enthusiasts at the event than we are to the average park guests. Although in this case, we're talking about Canobals, so the average park guest is like from central Pennsylvania. I probably really am closer to the average coaster enthusiast than to many of the average Canobals guests.
00:14:36
Speaker
I'm a fish out of water and both. You know, one thing I was I was thinking about, too, though, is like, as far as guests, I didn't really see any crazy, weird guests other than that one. The guy that was wearing that one shirt, that was what did it say? It was like. Watch out or I'm going to flip the switch or no.
00:14:58
Speaker
Yeah, no, there was a woman wearing a hoodie and in the back on the back it said. It said something like. Watch out, Buttercup, you just flip my bitch switch. You just walking around the park with her family in this hoodie on. She's like.
00:15:22
Speaker
Look, we're going to the theme park today. I know somebody is going to flip the bitch switch, so I better put this hoodie on. And I probably did. I wanted to ask her where she got it, but I didn't want to flip it. Excuse me, where'd you get that butter? Where'd you get that hoodie? What? Surprisingly, though, I don't I don't think I saw a single MAGA hat.
00:15:53
Speaker
all day. Well, so here's the thing. And for people who didn't gather this based on context clues, you guys like to dive right into the conversation. Ben and I were at Canobals over the weekend. This is Jonathan, by the way, I've been on like one show before, but it's not important who I am. Yeah, so my feeling on that is that. That's for like, that's for like poking the bear, you know, that's for like going out into
00:16:23
Speaker
mainstream world and like blowing the libs. We were in like their safe space. Like they don't feel the need to like. Show off that kind of stuff. Yeah, that's a good point. We're like on their turf. That's my theory. That makes sense. And I assume both of you are wearing your Biden hat, right? This is hell, yeah.
00:16:55
Speaker
I did notice, though, on the way when we were running the chairlift on the way down.
Politics and Parks
00:17:00
Speaker
I think like Craig put his arm around me and I noticed that like a couple of chairs of people staring at us, but. Nothing hostile. Yeah, I did see a couple. I saw a couple of shirts that were like.
00:17:17
Speaker
And I was crazy. Joe put him in jail, that kind of like weird shit that you can't even like fully figure out what they're even talking about. I did. I did see a couple of those type shirts in the park. Oh, yeah, there was like a Joe Biden shirt, like a I don't remember what it said, but we were in line for Black Diamond. There was like a. It always has like an over exaggerated, like poor graphic, like whoever designed the shirt is not does not understand graphic design.
00:17:48
Speaker
because there's always like four different fonts and it's usually like a full spread shirt. There's always like graphic, like graphic lettering. It's always, it's always super gaudy. Yeah, but here's the deal, right? Social experiment. Design a really shitty t-shirt that's like Biden stole my TV. With like eight different fonts.
00:18:18
Speaker
And like a clip of an old man. And then go to like a mega rally and be like, we got these great shirts for sale. Every dollar that we make is going to help get Biden out of office. Yeah, I feel like that's like half the people at these things are just they're just like there to like make a buck off of it. Tell tell them how you really feel with a T-shirt right here. Get a shirt.
00:18:48
Speaker
Actually. We've got them on sale today, they're only 20 bucks. Two for 40. Or you guys are like the breakdown where the math doesn't make sense. It's like it's like one for 30, two for 75. Three for 150. And the other thing.
00:19:17
Speaker
And I guess this is, on a more serious note, was I've been to Conobles for FunVest, I think, every year for 14 years now. I think it's also just like being there around a crowd that is, I'm sure, like 70% conservative, you know, pretty right wing and not seeing much of that stuff. I think it's just like a sign of like, most people are just
00:19:46
Speaker
They're just kind of like a normal person trying to go about their life and like they're not interested in like wearing shirts and about it and that sort of thing. And sometimes it's easy to get that living if I think all of us live in pretty left leaning places. And so like all we see are the like crazy people. Like you go to an actual like conservative place and
00:20:15
Speaker
It's like people going about their day. Not to wash it, I guess, because like Ben said, maybe they're looking at you a little differently if you're holding your partner's hand and they're same sex, or if you're black or something. So I don't want to dismiss it. But it is sometimes a little refreshing to be there amongst people who are different than all my friends and be like, oh, OK.
00:20:43
Speaker
People are just, they're just trying to have a day at the amusement park. And it also kind of shows too that like at the end of the day, a lot of Americans in general are, are fucked by systemic problems across the board. Obviously some more than others, but like everyone's angry, confused.
00:21:11
Speaker
Yeah, for sure. You certainly see it out in that part of the country, definitely. I mean, can almost seems like. The mountains around it have really hindered it from moving past, I don't know. Roughly 1987. By and large. Which is kind of a little in a way.
00:21:41
Speaker
Yeah, it's like, you know, like a step back in time. Yeah, I don't want to think too much about that. And I don't. But I'm there. But I don't really want to know what Dick Knobel thinks about every topic. Remember years ago, I remember two years ago when he was giving a speech and it seemed like he's about to go on some like deep end political rant.
00:22:10
Speaker
He was just like, there's a tough year, you know, and just everything going on with COVID and, you know, the supply chain issues and everyone was just kind of like. Yeah, yeah, one time years ago, he said something.
00:22:27
Speaker
One time we were there on a non-fun fest day and at the ticket booth, Dick Knobel was actually selling us tickets. It was just randomly. It wasn't like a coaster event. It was just like Dick Knobel's working ticket booth. He said something, I can't remember exactly what it was, something about like church groups from Philly or something that we didn't press too hard on, but ever since they've been like, what does he mean by that? You know what? I'm just not going to think about it too much. He's an old man.
00:23:00
Speaker
It's like, you know, you know who I miss? Kramer. But let's look at the best. And the funniest take a bit of experience I had was like, I went to Lagoon on a Sunday.
Salt Lake City Culture and Politics
00:23:25
Speaker
And I had to like.
00:23:28
Speaker
They asked for my ID because I bought the ticket online. It was the only time they actually like asked to verify the name or whatever. And then they're like, Oh, from Colorado. And it's like, yeah, we just wanted to come into the park. It's a cool park. And they're like, Oh, you picked a good day to go. And then he said somebody like the Mormons aren't it's Sunday. So none of the Mormons are here. Or something. It was just kind of funny. Because in Salt Lake City,
00:23:55
Speaker
So like cities like very heavily Mormon like insanely, you know So like it's kind of like if you're not Mormon people feel more isolated But then when people find it's like you're either like super anti against religion or you're like Mormon So whenever people find each other that aren't Mormon, they kind of have that like handshake of like, oh god these fucking Mormons
00:24:24
Speaker
Go ahead, Zach. I was going to say I've never been to Salt Lake City, but I've heard that a lot about that place. And I'm like, I don't know if the Mormons bother you that much. Maybe just try to move. Beautiful place, though. It's still a cool city. I think Mormons still make up like 40 plus percentage of like seats in their local politics.
00:24:53
Speaker
or whatever, or like the representation is still like half Mormon. But then, yeah, everyone else that's there, they're like trying to get that to change. And the church is like shrinking. The people are leaving at a record number. And so now the Mormon church is like desperately trying to keep control of the state and the city. But I think at this point with everybody moving there, it'll it'll flip eventually.
00:25:19
Speaker
We know the Great Salt Lake is shrinking too, so. That's right. Once that dries up, that they're doomed. It's not just that the lake dries up, everything that's like in the lake will create like a toxic dust cloud. Yep. That'd be like acid rain and shit. Like you can't breathe the air, so.
00:25:42
Speaker
Yeah, because there's already really bad air inversion and pollution there because it's just in this valley. So everything just settles. So yeah, that'll make it worse. I also heard something when the, when that lake dries up, it's going to affect weather patterns and it'll affect snow and like temperature and all that. So yeah, we'll see. We'll probably all move the, move to Denver. Oh yeah. Look out. Yeah.
00:26:09
Speaker
So if you go to Lagoon on a Sunday, does that mean none of the staff working that day are Mormon? I don't know. I don't know how serious it is about like working on Sundays and stuff. I have to admit I'm not terribly educated on Mormonism. I mean, from my understanding of religion, as long as giving a tithe back to God, it doesn't really matter if you show up or not. Go to work.
00:26:38
Speaker
just pay up. I think that is the case for many religions. I've always gotten the sense Mormonism is a little bit more, uh, fricked and they're making you adhere.
00:26:51
Speaker
Yeah, I think for a lot of them, Sunday is the day, like church is kind of like an all day thing. So you have like your service and then you have the community stuff and then you have like a outing and then you spend time with your family the rest of the day. But I don't know if all churches are that, I don't know if it's like other religions where there's like tiers of seriousness within the religion, but yeah, Sundays are pretty quiet there.
00:27:20
Speaker
the fifth of the fifth
00:27:48
Speaker
I'm pretty sure at this point for me to go to church, somebody has to die. Right? Yes. Yeah, I think that's probably true. That's true for me. That's the last time I was in a church, actually, was a funeral. That would probably be the only time moving forward. Even then, it's like, all right.
00:28:10
Speaker
And this is like one of the deconsecrated churches that's like a brewery or like a music venue now. I've been in a few of those. No, those are cool. There's a worship alcohol. I know there's a case to that. There's a gay sex club in Berlin that's in an old church. Oh, yeah, Berlin's got all the cool clubs. I don't think I'm going to get that one.
00:28:42
Speaker
Just saying. Something for everybody. Yeah, no. Hey, that's cool. I just don't think that one's my spot.
Abandoned Parks and Creative Uses
00:28:55
Speaker
I know there also is this gay kink weekend event that's in an old theme park and there is a credit. I think there's a lot of credit.
00:29:12
Speaker
What's the, um, Oh, that's at the Berlin. Yeah. I think, I think it isn't. Yeah. I think it's a brief spree park. I think it's called. Okay.
00:29:24
Speaker
It's just so in the old and like kind of the sort of former industrial area of Berlin where a lot of the the big famous clubs are right near there. There's a park that has like an old abandoned amusement park in it or a lot of the rides are still standing but not operating and it's open to the public so you can walk around. Pretty cool. Oh nice. Oh, speaking of religion and credits,
00:29:51
Speaker
Do you know of that wacky worm that's in the one of the Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn? Yeah, somebody it's not far from where I used to live. Somebody I know tried to ride it. Apparently they did not get allowed in somebody that we know supposedly dressed up to go ride it. Oh, my God. No way.
00:30:17
Speaker
No fucking way. I'm not going to say I don't believe them because they're the type of person that would definitely do that type of thing. But at the same time, they didn't get any pictures inside. Do they speak Yiddish? I feel like you get I feel like dressing only gets you part of the way here. That's what I say. I'm not going to flat out say I don't believe them, but at the same time,
00:30:49
Speaker
I want to believe it and I'm going to tell everyone here I know this story because it's like the best thing I've heard in a long time. So I'm going to choose to believe it's true. But I have some some doubts. I mean, I'll be I'll be completely fair. This was back in like 2008, I think, or 2009.
00:31:13
Speaker
So I don't know if security has been quite at that point, because it would be in 2023. Yeah, interesting. But it's not even a security thing. It's just like you need to you need to presumably talk to someone to like buy a ticket.
00:31:38
Speaker
And if you're wearing like traditional like acidic dress, then you don't speak Yiddish. Could be wrong. I could be wrong. I think that's a pretty enormous red flag and you get asked some questions, but maybe not. Maybe they just feel like, oh, okay. He's visiting from somewhere else. Well, I think the story was too. I don't know if he, I don't know if he said he dressed. I think he, he said he went into a store nearby and bought a yarmulke.
00:32:09
Speaker
Okay. All right. So he wasn't wearing like traditional. Okay. That's, that seems more plausible. Okay. Wow. This is, I, I'm not going to ask who this person is because I know you don't want to call them out, but that is probably the most dedication I've ever heard to getting a credit. I'm not sure that can be topped. It's also slightly, it's also slightly less creepy than asking to borrow a child in your forties.
00:32:40
Speaker
It's definitely less creepy. It's more something. I don't know what it is, but it's more concerning in a strange way. But it has a turntable. It's not it's not focusing. Yeah, I know. A lot. Give me one second.
00:33:09
Speaker
And it is still there. Oh, that's someone I know as well. Interesting. Yeah, so the story is plausible, right? It's something that person would do. He would do it and I think I think he could pass. Same. Pretty easily.
00:33:39
Speaker
As long as you didn't say too much. It would have been, at least you didn't like pretend to be deaf. So you didn't have to talk to anybody. I mean, that's pretty smart. That's actually my, that's kind of my go to when I'm in a foreign country and I like can't communicate properly and speak the language very, very well. And if you're just having like a, like an issue, I usually just start like signing.
00:34:09
Speaker
And the thing is, it's not the pretend to be deaf, but generally signing is more universally understood than like trying to speak another language poorly. But it usually works. So, OK, I I'm looking. Holy shit. So I'm looking at the art page for this. Well, first of all, in the RCDV picture, there are like three.
00:34:37
Speaker
young coaster enthusiasts wearing amusement park shirts maybe they're Jewish probably not who did appear to gain entry and ride this it's a minor mic by the way which is like even worse than a wacky worm it's barely I mean this thing is like a flat circle like this is
00:34:57
Speaker
According to RCDB, it is still operating. Now I'm not sure if they would get the memo on RCDB if it closed, could have closed in the pandemic or something, who knows. But I can see, the photo's funny if you look it up on RCDB, because you can see in the background the window of the storefront, and the signs in the window, like $99 birthday package. The signage is in English.
00:35:24
Speaker
So it is, I think, a wider audience. It's targeting than I kind of pictured in my head. It's feasible. I believe the story. It's called Kids in Action. There's a minor mic that has apparently been operating since 1995, which if it's still there, and I doubt this, that is a 28-year-old minor mic.
00:35:54
Speaker
which doesn't seem possible. There must be a there must be another one because I thought it was a whack. I thought the one that he was talking about was a wacky worm. In and it was in. It's basically like in a city park. I don't know about that and that I've never heard of. I'm only looking at the operating coasters in Brooklyn.
00:36:19
Speaker
Which there is nothing like there's only one other coaster in Brooklyn that is not in. Coney Island and it's at a family fund center, not far from Coney Island in a non non Jewish neighborhood. Now there could have been an older coaster that opened to operate it. How do I see that on our CDB? Closed, yeah, I don't know, defunct.
00:36:51
Speaker
into the bottom of this. Yeah, I don't. I don't know what that would possibly be in like a city park. It could be. It's too bad the gap's not still around. I'm pretty sure there was like a. Back and forth about. If that person actually wrote it.
00:37:28
Speaker
I'm pretty sure the other person in that back and forth. Was their screen name was El Taco? OK, this is the person. This is the person that I know of who tried to write it and failed, but the one he was trying to ride was the one I just sent, which is inside a family fun center.
00:37:53
Speaker
And that's, that's El Taco. They tried and they get the rights. Yeah. I know it because he's a friend of a friend. And when, when I lived not far from there, um, he had asked my friends if I lived in a Hasidic Jewish neighborhood, which I don't, I didn't, I lived in the next neighborhood over. Um, but it was near that fun center. Anyway, we're all inside baseball here. Yeah. Well.
00:38:23
Speaker
So I wonder if El Taco got denied more so because of his like piercings and hair. Yes, we almost I think El Taco could not easily pass. Whereas. Roller monkey. Could. Probably if he was wearing long pants.
00:38:53
Speaker
Right. To see all those tattoos. Yeah, that sounds possible. Yeah, I'm pretty sure those two. It was like a taco with a picture. It didn't happen. And Rolling Monkey was like, I'm telling you.
00:39:22
Speaker
Yeah, I think there's probably like five or six coasters like in New York City. I haven't been on. Just because there are there are a handful of pretty random like any coasters in random places. And I don't really really seek that out anymore. See, I remember there was so I remember watching a movie. Probably like had to have been at least 10 years ago.
00:39:51
Speaker
And I don't remember the name of the movie, but there was a scene where like this boy, like it was like two teenagers, like a boy and a girl, and they were Jewish because they had yarmulke and the kids were wearing like the traditional like Hasidic Jewish clothing. And they rode a wacky worm with a turntable, but it was like literally in this like little park because it was just surrounded by apartment buildings. Um,
00:40:18
Speaker
I don't remember what the movie was, so that's why I was thinking it was a wacky worm. Unless that one is defunct or something. But I know it was definitely like in Brooklyn. Like I'm gonna be on a hunt for this now. For the foreseeable future. Yeah, I'm trying to look up wacky worms in Brooklyn and I can't find anything.
00:40:47
Speaker
Because I know the one at Luna Park has a turntable or it did or whatever one was there. Is it possible it was that one? Are you sure it wasn't just Luna Park? Right. Yeah, that seems like the obvious. It wasn't. Yeah, it wasn't Luna Park is in this because like I remember when I saw the movie, I was like, wait, where the fuck is that? But it was in like a park like it was just in like it was the only thing there and it was in between like apartment buildings.
00:41:18
Speaker
You remember the movie, what it was called? No, I don't remember anything about it. Other than there was Jewish children writing a work you were. Yeah. You know what decade this would have been from? Probably in the 2000s, late 2000s.
00:41:38
Speaker
Just like in the movie, they were like walking through the neighborhood like down the sidewalk and then they like sit down on the ride and they ride. They were like arguing. I remember the scene they were like. It was like a typical romantic comedy where they're like arguing and they're like talking through an argument while they're riding the ride because like the camera was mounted to the train. So it's like them like all upset and they're just like basically talking as the rides going around and they get off and then you know they like go about their day.
00:42:08
Speaker
I don't know. I don't know. If anyone knows, let me know. I cannot find it. Yeah, I'm fascinated by this. I think we're going to need. We're going to need way more. Fortunately. Yeah, I could have been. What? We've been shot somewhere else, I guess. Yeah.
00:42:37
Speaker
Yeah, maybe it wasn't in Brooklyn. Maybe it's somewhere else around New York. I don't know. Right. Yeah, that seems more likely thing because there are. There are a few parks in New York City that that have or have had. Small roller coasters.
00:42:59
Speaker
Flushing Meadows in Queens does, though it's not a wacky worm, it's a myler. Python Pit. Central Park used to for years and hasn't for a little while. Had in the summer a little amusement park, but... Interesting. Mystery.
Movie Coasters and Location Mysteries
00:43:22
Speaker
I wonder if there's a way to look up wacky worms just in New York and RCBB.
00:43:31
Speaker
Who makes wacky worms? They look silly. Zaire. February? Apparently a bunch of different manufacturers do. Fabri is one, Pinfari is one. Oh, Pinfari, OK. A bunch of other ones I've never even heard of.
00:44:01
Speaker
Faju. Okay, right back at you. A bunch of Chinese manufacturers make a version. That's not surprising. This is a coaster-pedia I'm looking at.
00:44:27
Speaker
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00:44:58
Speaker
Well, I think we've run this one to a dead end for now. If anyone has any until now. Like to figure this one out. Yeah, we need some leads on this wacky worm that was in a New York park. Or even what this movie was. Yeah, yeah, it's very unhelpful. And this movie didn't leave much of an impression on you, I don't think. No, because it was on TV.
00:45:25
Speaker
It was like, OK, it was I think it was even like I was in a restaurant or like a store or it was like one of those things were like, I just saw the coat because I remember hearing the story from Chris and then seeing the clip of the movie and then being like, oh, that must have been the coaster he was talking about. But yeah, I don't know what the movie was. Amazing. Yeah, everything.
Canobals Coaster Highlights
00:45:55
Speaker
What was the highlight of Knoebels for you, Ben? Probably Twister, because it's. I mean, I always like Twister, but I was surprised by how good it was running. And like every time I ride it, I have I don't know if it's an expectation thing, but I'm not expecting how powerful the ride is. Yeah, Twister is good. Yeah. Does it ever make you sad it's not at Elitch anymore?
00:46:26
Speaker
Nah, cause I'm sure the one that was there, like, I know that people always talk about how good that one was, but looking at the POVs, I mean, it looked like it was fun, but I don't know. People said it's like, oh, it was like the best wooden coaster ever. But I don't think it was probably as good as the one at Canobals. And they want to take care of it there. Like Twister takes a lot of care.
00:46:54
Speaker
to run the way it does. Like those two big helixes, I feel like the park rebuilds significant parts of them every single year. Yeah, those cannobals has like their own lumber company and they like they really do a lot of TLC on those two coasters. I feel like Twister with its layout is one that would like at most other parks would be a piece of shit. But cannobals keeps it like an immaculate condition. Yeah.
00:47:25
Speaker
It runs so fast too. In comparison to Twister 2 at Elitch, which is a pile of garbage. Twister 3 then. That's right. That's right. I don't have the Twister 3 credit yet. I don't think it's in credit. Well, it's a new experience.
00:47:51
Speaker
I think it just identifies as Twister 3 now. Every year, this happens every year, I'm guilty of it, but I know other people are as well. Every year at Canobals, particularly at Fun Fest, everybody rides Twister and is like, whoa, Twister is running so good this year. I don't remember it being this good.
00:48:19
Speaker
And people do that every year. It's like, well, maybe it's just always been good. So it's like chronically underrated, I think somehow. Maybe just because Phoenix is there. Or maybe one year and I'll just be like, whoa, Twister is running like shit this year. What happened to it?
00:48:41
Speaker
I hope not. And like, I'm not a Phoenix. I'm definitely not a Phoenix underappreciator, but I do think that that ride gets the hype over Twister. And personally, I like Twister more than Phoenix. I wouldn't go that far for me, but I do think they're closer than most people seem to think. And actually, I think this year may have been the first year where I did enjoy my Twister rides more than Phoenix.
00:49:14
Speaker
Did you guys get them back down there on it? And they're flying turns. All three. Hunter Manchin had ERT in the morning. Nice. How is it boring? I wrote it twice. I didn't I didn't think flying turns was going to open for ERT because it was absolutely pouring, but they did open it.
00:49:44
Speaker
Very, very wet. Lots of leaves in there, but we wrote it. Like, I like flying turns. I think our group that we go with is pretty split on that. I really want to ride that one. The only time I've been to Knoebels was 2008. It did a test run while I was there. Hmm.
00:50:08
Speaker
That was like, what, two years, I think, before it actually really opened? Yeah, two or three. And I know it was about two or three after it was supposed to originally open. Yeah. Yeah, I think I started building in like 2005 or 2006. 2005, I think. I mean, earlier. Yeah, that sounds about right. I think it was supposed to open in like 06. So yeah, maybe 04, they started building it.
00:50:39
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, and then it was, yeah, it was Fun Fest 2010. Its surprise opened that day. That was my first Fun Fest. I haven't missed one since.
00:50:53
Speaker
Yeah, it's great. I mean it's just I mean flying turns is to me I feel like I need to use some of my time here to just evangelize about Canobals Which is my favorite park by far in the world? I think it's emblematic of everything about that park Which is there's no rational reason business reason to do something like that It was a completely insane thing to do and to keep pouring money into for years when it was not working
00:51:22
Speaker
They do it because they love it and care about history and care about trying to do unique things and trying to like leave a legacy and not many parks really do that. And you see that like all over that park. So that it's always like even though the ride itself is like maybe a little underwhelming if you don't appreciate the history.
00:51:46
Speaker
It's still, to me, it's like just really cool. There's no one else would attempt to do something like that. Like that, no one's going to build another one of those. No, absolutely not. Do they still have like 30 cents to beat the cannibals? It's not 30 cents anymore, but relatively speaking, everything is still very cheap and very good for what it is. Well, that's the thing I never understood. It's like,
00:52:16
Speaker
It's like an award for the food. And I'm like. The food I tried was not that good. It was fine. It wasn't bad. It just wasn't like, oh, fuck, this is good. I think it. Yeah, I mean, it just has such a wide selection of food for a park. It's like it's like. But at the end of the day, it's still just park food. It's basically like carnival carts of food, and I think
00:52:46
Speaker
Considering actually that story also about the Ace of N at Wildwood and enthusiast food preferences, I think it's probably has a lot to do with that award. Yes, OK. I don't think I told that story when I was on the podcast a few years ago, which I can't believe. If I did, I'm sure there's new listeners, so I should tell it again. You're very relevant.
00:53:13
Speaker
Yeah, I mean I always thought the food award, it's kind of like what should that award be? Is it like a cut should win the award because objectively it has the best food? Or is it like what's the best park food? In which case I think Knobels has a strong argument. It's sort of the greatest hits of like state fair food and it's all
00:53:36
Speaker
Not all, but most of it is, you know, toward the top tier for that type of food. But yeah, you know what you're getting. You're getting a lot of deep fried stuff. You know, we had, you know, deep fried pickles and like, what did I have? That was like a McRib kind of thing. That was actually really good. It's, yeah, I can, I think I could justify them winning that award, but it is true that the enthusiast's palette is,
00:54:06
Speaker
Extremely limited to be very kind. So my story about that, which maybe some people were at this event, Maury's Piers in Wildwood, which is a phenomenal park. I think it's probably up there as one of my favorite parks in America.
00:54:27
Speaker
not many places like that left in the world. Also, family-owned, the Maury family. So, like, Knobel's owned by people who really care about it and care about the legacy that they're leaving and that their family's leaving. They have an event every year called Coaston by the Ocean. I've been a couple times. Highly recommend.
00:54:46
Speaker
I haven't been in probably six or seven years, so I can't speak to how the event is now, but the two times I went it was insane value. You get two days of unlimited rides, including the upcharge rides. There were like three or four ERT sessions. You got access to both water parks. They had all these insane giveaways, multiple meals. It was ludicrous.
00:55:09
Speaker
And the first year I went, or maybe it was the second year, I've been three times, sorry, second time I went, they had one night, this meal on the beach.
00:55:21
Speaker
It was like a Hawaiian-themed catered meal. It was by far the best meal I've had in a park, by far the best meal I've had in an event. I mean, it hardly even, there's no competition for that. I've never had a good meal at an event until this one. I don't know. But it was like an extraordinary spread of like interesting, good food.
00:55:47
Speaker
Like, wow, I just couldn't stop raving about this event. I brought people back the next year.
Maury's Piers Event Critique
00:55:52
Speaker
So after the event, they send out a survey to the attendees, which I filled out immediately. I do a lot of surveys for work, so I try to be sympathetic going, people need surveys done. I try to complete them, but I'm not great about it. Usually, I'm not filling out your survey. But this one, I was like, oh, I had such a great time that I should fill this out for sure.
00:56:15
Speaker
Like I really want to tell these guys, you know, how much of a great time I had and like how much I appreciated this event. Like, wow, they didn't really have to do. They didn't have to do any of this. You know, they they're not getting enough benefit from these coaster enthusiasts to do this. They're just doing it out of the kindness of their heart. So I wrote a nice long response. A few days. This is 2012, by the way. So 11 years ago, a few days later.
00:56:41
Speaker
We get an email, everyone, from Dino Fazio, who is of the Maury's family, I think, or maybe he's just the manager. Oh, he was the director of peer operations and training. It's a good New Jersey name. Dino Fazio. Excellent New Jersey name. Hello, friends. I'm just going to read the email. I pulled it up here.
00:57:04
Speaker
I know many of you from our interaction over the years during Maury's Coaston event. Others I hope to get to know in the coming years. I was just reviewing the results to the survey I sent out yesterday. Only 20 have come in thus far, but the results are generally disappointing. As such, I felt compelled to write to all of you about some of the issues brought up.
00:57:25
Speaker
First bullet point. My absence at this year's event. There are a few comments about this fact and the fact that other members of management and ownership were not present. First, I would like to offer my apologies. The reality is I have been dealing with some medical issues that have kept me in my office for the past couple of weeks. I ventured out for several hours Sunday and was able to catch up with a few of you. Unfortunately, I miss most and I'm sorry for that. Jack and Will, Jack and Will Morey,
00:57:51
Speaker
simply were not very available during the weekend due to various scheduling issues. Believe me, it was not apathy or complacency as suggested by a few survey responses. Alright, so right off the bat here, this is the first of seven bullets on this email. First of all, what a bunch of assholes. This guy's got a medical issue and they're complaining they didn't get to hobnob with park management.
00:58:17
Speaker
and attributing it to apathy or complacency. All right, but that's only the beginning. The next one, I'll skip over. It was something about using the wristbands at the extreme rides. I don't know, sounds like some legitimate mix-up that I'm sure was in on its mistake and got corrected, but people felt the need to gripe about at an event where they paid basically nothing to be given hundreds of dollars worth of things.
00:58:44
Speaker
Third, this one's just random. Dance performers clogging up the restrooms on Adventure Pier on Sunday. This was another miss on our part and I will endeavor to fix the issue in the future. This man has the patience of a saint. I commend him on actually responding to these things.
00:59:03
Speaker
Four, this one, we're not even to the best part, but it's getting good. Those of you who only received 10% off at the gift shop instead of 20% off, please reply to this email and I'll forward to our retail manager and ensure you are reimbursed for the difference. That's really, really, really nice.
00:59:26
Speaker
Seriously, this guy is being had I seen the surveys that he apparently saw, and I would love to see the actual survey responses. I would have said, fuck these people. We're never doing this again ever. Ban, ban, ban. Next one, Ghost Ship Tour, which is an incredible walk through dark ride, by the way, one of the best I've ever seen.
00:59:54
Speaker
A disorganized mess, I'm told. If we offer this again, it won't be. I promise you. Alright, whatever. I didn't think I did that to her so I don't know about that. The last two bullet points and they are the best. Free stuff. I hear your complaints about not enough of it and promise we will try to do more of it in the future.
01:00:17
Speaker
Not enough free stuff. By the way, absolutely remarkable amount of free stuff. Everyone in my group won something substantial. I don't think it's behind me on this bookshelf, but I have this incredible Maury's Peers history book that I won at this event. It's worth like 60 bucks.
01:00:36
Speaker
Unbelievable entitlement. And so the final one. Food at the dinner on Saturday night. Comments ranged from the best you've ever had at an enthusiast event, that was clearly me by the way, to the worst you've had anywhere in your life.
01:00:54
Speaker
I'm not sure how to fix this, but we will try. The food was obviously not your normal cheap hamburgers and hot dogs, but some of you were not impressed. We will try to do better in the future. I like that finally he was letting us a little bit of sarcasm come out there at the end. Just an email that made me ashamed to be into this hobby at all and I wrote him like
01:01:20
Speaker
three page long email after like apologizing on behalf of all these people and saying that it was like the best event I've ever been to. Um, but so needless to say I have been to a future coast soon by the ocean. They did not have a Hawaiian meal. They had hamburgers and hot dogs and that's what you'll get at every event in the future because these people have never been exposed to the slightest bit of culture. That checks out.
01:01:51
Speaker
What was the thing? What was the thing about the tour, the boat tour? What did he say? He just said it was a disorganized mess, I'm told, which which probably wasn't actually true. But I don't think my group did that, so I don't actually know. And if it was, I certainly wouldn't have complained about it. Because I'm not an asshole. That just kind of reminds me of like Hollywood Nights 2021.
01:02:21
Speaker
yes or or the the hollywood nights um 2003 people were like demanding their refunds on their way out while the park was trying to like come to grips with the fact that someone had just died on their ride seriously although i will say in 2021 with the food situation i never
01:03:09
Speaker
Oh, yeah. One moment. And this person goes away and comes back with like a little box. And it's a fucking wrap made of hamburger toppings. I remember that. Like, oh, cool. And that one piece of lettuce, one piece of tomato, some onion ring.
01:03:21
Speaker
they were like
01:03:40
Speaker
Credible. By the way, I'm just seeing in this email that I was reading, he didn't blind carbon copy people, so I actually see all of the email addresses of the people he was emailing. I should just respond to all these people now 11 years later and be like, you bunch of assholes.
01:04:02
Speaker
Read your email addresses right here. This is a public shaming. I can't even imagine what the survey responses would have been. Like, who bids about not enough free stuff? It's free stuff. They didn't give you anything. Right. By definition, there is always enough free stuff.
01:04:31
Speaker
Yeah, zero free stuff is a perfectly acceptable amount. Right, exactly. So anyway, the long story is, Knobel's food for a lot of these people is like the pinnacle of American culinary history. You can get everything from Kondog's old cut.
01:05:03
Speaker
The, um, I will say for some reason, two years ago, I got an iced coffee and I thought about that iced coffee for two years and I don't know why. And then I got it this year and it was just like, not great. It was super sugary and they used like whole milk. It was just like an inch of cream, but it was big though. It was like 40 ounces.
01:05:30
Speaker
Well, that's the other thing, that the number one quality that people are looking for is just size, amount. I guess that's not quality, quantity. Quantity is what matters far more than quality. And see, that's fine, but then it should be more like best value food or something. Yeah, yeah, actually, if it was best value food, I think Knovil's unquestionably is the winner.
01:06:00
Speaker
Cause I'm also like, I don't know. I've heard a lot of good things about the food at Dollywood too. Yeah, I would actually haven't been to both parks a lot. I would think I would give it to Canobals. Like Dollywood, I feel like it's trying to be something more.
01:06:23
Speaker
And that's fine, but it's like not great. Whereas Canobals is just like, look, it's amusement park food, it's fair food. We're not gonna stray from our lane, but we're gonna do this thing pretty good for a good price.
01:06:41
Speaker
That's fair. I see they make a lot of, they make a lot of that stuff there. They're actually making it. Like I saw this year, they had pizza rolls at one of the food stands, which I'd never noticed. Of course I had to order that. It was pretty good. I mean, they are actually, it's not, you know, some store bought thing. They're rolling dough and putting pepperoni and marinara in it, brining it. Nice. The thing I always thought was cool about
01:07:12
Speaker
Thing I thought was cool about Dollywood's food is they got these giant skillets to match the size of the people there. The skillets are good and the cinnamon bread. I don't understand why it's called cinnamon bread. It's just a fucking cinnamon roll. Is it? I can't picture it now.
01:07:40
Speaker
It's rich, it's just a cinnamon roll. If it was, I wouldn't serve it with icing on the side. Oh yeah, I'm looking at it now. Yeah, it's a cinnamon roll that's in a bread pan, basically. It's a cinnamon roll that hasn't been sliced yet. Pretty much. Which are the portion sizes that people demand there.
01:08:08
Speaker
Yeah, it's probably like two Cinnabon. I think it's like looking at a picture of it. It's insane. It's a lot. And yeah, it gets that fucking jizz that goes on top of it. Oh, yeah, we got to have that. This is the best part. I have that.
01:08:41
Speaker
But that's the thing. It's like, it's like, oh, it's cinnamon bread. No, it's a big ass cinnamon roll. Quit trying to spin this shit. Well, I remember one year for the event day. Verbal was that it was a nice event like 2013 and they on the event schedule, it said like you could take home cinnamon bread, but it wasn't cooked and it didn't have the icing. So it was just like a loaf of
01:09:11
Speaker
Like bread. Basically. No, no. I like to think they just had the troll lasers intentionally. Yeah, maybe. But they like had it in a plastic bag and they had this like, you know, little card. It's like, oh, everyone take home a cinnamon bread. And then like you get it and just like a hard loaf. I don't know if you're supposed to like reheat it at home or something, but. Yeah, there's no icing and that was the year I got way too drunk.
01:09:41
Speaker
off of like Stoli Vodka. And so I remember being in the back of Cookie's mini van that didn't have any rear seats. And I'm just sitting on the floor in the back of his van being driven back from the park and like trying to like down this bread to make myself feel better. And I ended up throwing it up. Awesome. Yeah. Little Prince van.
01:10:13
Speaker
You're a dainty little princess, Ben. No, here's the other reason I got sick was not because I necessarily drink too much, but the park had like no water options. So all the water fountains are turned off and they only sell it to Sony. Yeah, it sounds about right. They don't drink water down there. Yeah, they're laying soda. Yeah, it's like, can I get a water one coat coming up?
01:10:38
Speaker
No, I said watch. We got sweet tea. But you mean that stuff you piss in. Yeah, I think that was that's the thing, man, I think if you want water, you just got to ask for a cup of ice. Because the dog water, you want a water board from the south, by the way, I can get away with this for everybody listening at home.
01:11:10
Speaker
Well it's that part of the country where they think carrying around a water bottle is a status symbol. Is that not Denver? What was it? Is that not Denver? That seems like something people in Denver would do. What, carry around water bottles? Berkeley. Yeah. No, well like any state, well like it's like a cultural thing. Anything out west, everyone, you just carry around a water bottle everywhere you go.
01:11:39
Speaker
Because it's dry, it's hot, you need water. But then I've had experiences, especially in the Midwest, where people will judge you for carrying around a water bottle. And it's like, you mean you don't drink water? I don't know. I wasn't hydrated properly until five years ago.
01:12:01
Speaker
I definitely grew up without like anybody ever drinking water around me or anybody saying like, hey, you're you'll you'll feel like way better in every aspect of your life if you just drink water. What are you, some kind of water drinker? It's that's probably like we could fix like half the country's problems if everybody just like hydrated. Yeah. Yeah. It shouldn't be gold in the fucking toilet bowl after you're done piss.
01:12:29
Speaker
That's right. Brown. Just drink a glass or two. Come on. Yeah, like you should have to pee more than twice a day. And it shouldn't stink. Yeah. God, that's like... Smells like sweet tea.
01:12:50
Speaker
And Dasani doesn't count. I remember once I went on a camping trip and I asked somebody to pick up water at the gas station and they bought like just like a six pack or like a pack of Dasani, like the individual Dasani bottles. And it's like, no, no, no, like that's not water. Like you can't, you don't just bring a pack of water bottles on like a weekend trip without water. It's like one person for one day. Yeah.
01:13:20
Speaker
Wait, so what? What's you guys? What would you say is the best park food you've had then? Since we're back to that topic, I'm curious. I don't know. The thing is, is like, I guess I have to give it to Knoebels. I don't know. I don't really like the competition isn't very good. Yeah. I don't see.
01:13:49
Speaker
For me, you know, like Blue Bayou at Disneyland or like Mythos at Island of Adventure? Oh yeah, that's a good one. I've eaten there. That one's really good. Yeah, so that's kind of my question I always have about like the golden tickets or something like that is
01:14:11
Speaker
Like, what are we? It's hard to like compare those places like Universal or Disney with the traditional parks, like they almost can't be. Compared. Because and then the other thing is somewhere, I mean, so I think the best food I've had at a park is probably Italy Gardens in Copenhagen.
01:14:34
Speaker
But again, it's like that park has like restaurants in the parks are like nice, amazing restaurants. Is that like what we're talking about here? Or is it we're talking about like Canobals type? It's kind of a weird thing to give an award for, actually. I agree, I think. But I think it should be a letter of the two. It shouldn't be the best value food.
01:15:04
Speaker
Or like, oh, the biggest pizza slice. Whoa. Like if it's the best park food, it should be. What's the best stuff? What tastes the best, you know? Speaking of big food, I just sent you a link because we were at, we went to Hershey Friday before the event and it's Hershey park stuff, your cup.
Hersheypark's Epic Desserts
01:15:35
Speaker
Just look at, you gotta look at the video. It's fucking disgusting. Oh, is the other one smoosher smore? Yeah, smoosher smore. Stuff your cup. Oh boy. Oh, one pound. No. Oh, yeah. Oh, yes.
01:16:03
Speaker
Choose your mixins. This does kind of look like this. What is it, like 10,000 calories or something? Insane. It's like 100 servings or something. I think it was, I don't know, it's like 50 servings. Boys, I can hold on, hold on, hold on.
01:16:32
Speaker
I got a question. They didn't show it done at the end. But it didn't look like that giant stuff your cup has ridges on the side. No, it's just like a dog food bowl. Yeah, what the fuck? It's not really a good Reese's if it doesn't have a side, right? Right. And there's no. There's no lid on it.
01:17:02
Speaker
Well, they put the little put a top on it. OK, on the website, the pictures of it don't show the lid, I guess, so you get the full effect of the. The stuff piled in it. Yeah, they like they basically it looked from the video, we looked like they take. They do like a marble slab to the peanut butter, so they'll throw in all the mix ins and then like use some spatula blades to like
01:17:31
Speaker
cut up lines and make it together. What's funny too, at the end of the video too, they say like, bring it home to share or keep all to yourself. Yeah, eat all one pound. Actually, only in 2021, it won the IAPA Brass Ring Award.
01:17:57
Speaker
An award-winning experience. Yeah, stuff your cup. Oh my god I don't think Do you have like slice it like a cake so you use a spoon
01:18:24
Speaker
Yeah, it looks like you might just eat out of like a bowl kind of. I can't really. Yeah, they don't they don't show anybody eating it. Like they get the I think what they should do is an accurate representation is you like a cut shot of the people waiting in line for the experience and like showing them trying to eat it. You know, after you stuff your cup, you can scold your bowl.
01:18:55
Speaker
Because if you eat a one pound Reese's, you're going to sit here and it's out. What's the best case scenario? There's a guy on YouTube as a six minute long video of his stuff, your cop experience. I just want to see somebody eat the full thing. Matt Stoney.
01:19:25
Speaker
He's doing a taste testing here at the end. So you guys went to Hershey. Did you get on Wildcat's Revenge? Yeah, we did. Actually, it was a solid like park day because we were only there for maybe two and a half hours and we got on everything. Nice. Which is cool. Yeah, Wildcat was good. I it might be my new favorite behind Outlaw Run. It has a lot of
01:19:55
Speaker
It definitely throws you around more than the other RMCs. Like there's moments where my upper body was getting like thrown forward and it kind of like would then get thrown to the side. Like I couldn't hold my body upright. It's pretty fun. Damn. Some of the laterals are pretty intense. It's definitely a lot more out of control than the others. It also doesn't feel like the formulaic RMCs of the other RMCs, even the, uh,
01:20:23
Speaker
There's a wave turn on there, but that wave turn had a lot more air time than the other ones. So it was I thought it was really good. Yeah, me too. Only wrote it. We only wrote it once, so it's always hard for me to catch a coaster after just one ride when it was at night, too. And I didn't know the layout, so it was a little disorienting. Yeah, I think I was pleasantly surprised. I'm a little bit of an RMC hanger.
01:20:52
Speaker
Um, this one, I didn't think it had a lot of their bullshit that I don't like where it's like trying to pop you around like you're on a flat ride. Yeah. Um, yeah, I liked it. But also to that point, like I did not watch a POV of it at all, which made it way more fun because typically the other RMCs I've seen like, you see what like off rides and POVs and you can kind of get a feel of it.
01:21:17
Speaker
But this I had like no expectation. I had no idea what the layout was and we wrote it at night. So that probably added a lot to it. Yeah, it was good. They also have not dual load exit and loading platforms separately. Oh, nice. So let's be a little with capacity.
01:21:39
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know if they have three trains, but considering, it seems like a lot of RMCs cannot send, like, it definitely seems like there's a problem with those trains where they just cannot get those trains out quick enough. So it's like, if it's gonna stack, you might as well have like a offload platform too. But the crews were okay when we were there. I think they did have three trains.
01:22:07
Speaker
Maybe. I think so, I could be wrong. And they have lockers, free lockers, sort of like Velocicoaster. Nice. When you get close to the station, so you don't have to take all your stuff out before you get in line and you don't have to pay.
01:22:32
Speaker
It's like the dual side where like you put it on one side and when you exit out, you get it out the other side. Yeah, that's really nice. I like when parks do that. The thing is. Yeah, like I. I can't complain like I. If you do it that way, like I have no complaints. Yeah, there's like it's that's like the perfect solution.
01:22:57
Speaker
Yeah, or that or like Iron Gwazi has zipper pouches below the seat. So you like take your stuff, you put it into the pouch and zip it, which I also really like because the thing with lockers is like, yeah, if you have a backpack or loose articles, like lockers, you know, one thing, but for just like your phone and wallet, expecting people to put in a locker is kind of ridiculous.
01:23:24
Speaker
Definitely. I'm glad it seems like a lot of parks are coming up with sensible solutions where people aren't having to pay, which is nice. But, you know, sounds like a pretty good weekend. You get on pandemonium. Yeah, pandemonium is also better than I was expecting. It's not quite make out, but it's it's like 75 percent make out as far as the air time.
01:23:54
Speaker
intensity. And way better than when I wrote it once the year it opened. I think I wrote it in the morning. In this trip, we wrote it at like close to closing. It was like almost 10 p.m. So I'm wondering if that made the difference, because when I wrote it before, I was like very underwhelmed and I didn't even write it a second time. But then this time I was like kind of surprised at how good the air time was in a few places.
01:24:24
Speaker
Nice, nice. That makes me really want to get out there. She's got a great ride. Yeah, for real. That's another one I haven't been to since oh, eight. And so they've added shit. Half of parks in that time. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we also got a walk on on Fahrenheit, which is cool because normally that lines long.
01:24:54
Speaker
And then Storm Runner, there's I guess like a button got sucked down. So we were in line in the station. And then I guess like a button got stuck, so they had to call maintenance, but they got it back up in like 10 minutes. Yeah, sky rush, sky rush is good. It definitely makes a really horrible sound on the first drop that you can hear across the park that I don't remember last time I was there.
01:25:25
Speaker
But like, Skyrush has that like, it's almost like an Arrow first drop, so you get that insane accidental airtime. That's kind of what it feels like. And for it being Intamin built in 2010, or 2010, I'm actually surprised by how imperfect the forces are on the drop. Because it's like you go down, and then right before it starts to pull out, you just get like one last yank.
01:25:53
Speaker
Yeah. It's terrifying. Yeah. And you can hear it. Like you can hear like the whole structure and the train just like making this horrible, like kind of like chunky sound as it goes over it. Doesn't sound good. Interesting. I want to get on this. Well, shit. Sounds like it was a great time.
01:26:24
Speaker
Yeah, it was a fun weekend. I mean, we took a train. So we took the train from New York to Harris, yeah, Harrisburg. Harrisburg, yeah. Which is like three hours. And then had the house rentals, which was like a house on a farm. It's a big, like old ass house, which is pretty nice. Nice.
01:26:54
Speaker
Nice, nice. Well, I'm glad, glad you had a good time. Sounds like fun. I wish I could have joined you, but. Fucking school is calling. And we'll have to get you out of here when one of these years. Yeah, definitely.
01:27:18
Speaker
I have a pretty large collection of friends, some of whom Ben met, who are not interested in coasters or parks. But all it takes is one Canobals trip and they want to go back every year. The magic of Canobals. There's also a moment when we were all back at the house. So, yeah, you're you're lazy. You know, those laser project like those projectors.
01:27:47
Speaker
Zach, they're like project lasers and colors on the wall. Oh, yeah. So there is one. There is one of those going projected behind the TV as we are watching the thousand and one not thousand and one not video and the. And then, uh, yeah, someone sort of playing ballooner videos. Someone who is that someone I didn't play the first one, I played the second one.
01:28:15
Speaker
Are you done? OK. That's funny. Well, you know, I'm getting fucking sleepy. Same. Got anything else? That was about it. Any other thoughts on the time?
01:28:44
Speaker
I'll leave one thought. This is my other thought on canobals. I've talked about how much I love canobals. Next time you're at canobals, when you're going to ride the carousel, right at the line, there's a tree. It's a large tree and it actually goes through a cutout. The roof has been designed around this tree.
01:29:07
Speaker
And like the Flying Turns, and what I said about that, to me that like describes everything about why I love canoples. Because when they like put in the canopy for the carousel, there was this beautiful tree, and every other park, I think in the country, except, you know, maybe like Holiday World or somebody, would have just cut down this tree. Instead, they designed the entire roof of the building around it. So that's like, that to me, that's canoples, sums it all up.
01:29:37
Speaker
Yeah, that's nice little touches. I can really make a park a huge difference in a park. It's a park. I think it is a park first, and then you add the rides. It's a place you don't mind. You enjoy being in, even if you aren't going on the rides, which I can't say about 95% of parks I've been to.
01:30:07
Speaker
That's that's a fair assessment. Well, hey, Jonathan, I'd be remiss. Do you want to look like your socials or anything? No, I don't have much of that shit. What I do, it's locked down. Yeah. Sorry, everybody. Do you have anything to plug? I'm on the discord, so. Doing that, if you're not already. Oh, hey, there it is.
01:30:38
Speaker
I was going to say Wutai.com. That's still up. I'm going to look it up. It's still there. This keeps renewing the domain. Last post 14 years ago. Amazing. Well, it's outlived the gap officially. It has. Rest in peace, 410.
01:31:08
Speaker
Right on. Well, thank you so much for, you know, thanks for joining us and being here and. You know, honestly, it was awesome to have somebody showing Canola some love, because I feel like we've never really got into about that park on this show. No, man, I got to bring the East Coast love. Totally.
01:31:36
Speaker
well thanks thanks for coming on alright fellas anytime yeah and uh yeah join our discord and all that shit we don't have anything to plug either don't use social media yeah i don't know uh until next time your favorite kiss for kiss