S2, Ep. 13 - Exploring the Magic and Mayhem of Amusement Parks

Welcome dear Hero, to another episode of Hero or Dick! Ride along with us on our lighthearted look at amusement parks, theme parks, and carnivals. As usual, Kate and KJ keep it real—and a tiny bit humorous—as they explore the joys of the park experience—greasy food, sketchy ride safety and the germ-laden water parks we all secretly love, well…maybe.

Thanks for listening!

Kate & KJ

Transcript

Speaker 1 0:01

Hello.

Speaker 2 0:02

Can you hear me?

Speaker 1 0:02

Welcome.

Speaker 2 0:04

Hey.

Speaker 1 0:04

Hero or Dick.

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Season 2.

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2 episode.

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Lucky 13.

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13 and we're broadcasting from the nice hot box that is Horse Brothers Studio.

Speaker 2 0:16

It's a little warm in here, a little warm in Alpena. That's warm, it's summer. We like it, not gonna complain. No, no, no not complaining at all.

Speaker 1 0:24

When will we complain Winter?

Speaker 2 0:27

Well, it depends on who you are. Some people complain if it's too hot and then when it's winter it's too cold. It's like moved to somewhere where it's steady-eddy all the time. Good luck finding it now.

Speaker 1 0:39

Do you get agitated when you're hot and sticky?

Speaker 2 0:43

Yeah, I don't like to be.

Speaker 1 0:46

Isn agitated when you're hot and sticky? Yeah, I don't like to be, isn't that terrible? It's like like it can like put a damper on a trip.

Speaker 2 0:49

Uh, shopping on a car ride and you know what I found out in my car when I turn the ac on the button below it is the heated seat, and so I accidentally turned the air on and the heat on my seat it was not good.

Speaker 1 1:06

Well, that's a weird. Do Ferraris have that feature? I don't know. You have a Ferrari, but the Buicks do.

Speaker 2 1:12

Oh, that's right, you know funny, I love my.

Speaker 1 1:15

Buick. It's a nice looking car. It's a nice driving car Shout out to Buick. They've really redesigned.

Speaker 2 1:21

Yes, they're one of our sponsors. And Alpina GMC yes, they're always good.

Speaker 1 1:25

Actually yes, and the staff there.

Speaker 2 1:27

I love them.

Speaker 1 1:29

What's his name? Colby Cody Plowman, the young guy. He sold us a car there.

Speaker 2 1:34

Oh yeah, Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 1:35

What'd you buy the kid? I bought him a train, oh those are nice. We went there. What year is it?

Speaker 2 1:43

2020. So it doesn't have the bump outs anymore, like I had a train in it. I hated the way it looked and I was complaining about it to someone. They go what do you care, You're sitting inside.

Speaker 1 1:55

Well, you care how you look. You don't want to be all hot and sweaty and uncomfortable in a big bowed out car.

Speaker 2 2:03

It's kind of a mom car. Don't tell Julie. Oh, he knows.

Speaker 1 2:05

He liked it because it was a family car.

Speaker 2 2:08

You can fiddle with people.

Speaker 1 2:12

Back to the guy that sold this to us. I'm big about proactivity and blah, blah, blah. So they weren't open. It was after hours and he happened to be in the back washing his truck and he saw us. It came all. I think it was crappy weather too. He came all the way across the parking lot it wasn't working Talked to us it was really nice and I remembered that.

Speaker 1 2:32

Uh-huh and so months later, I don't know if he remembered me, but I went back to him and said I'm coming to you to buy this car because of that day. Brownie points Remember that stuff, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. What are we talking about today?

Speaker 2 2:43

Today we're going to talk about, not about GMCs.

Speaker 1 2:46

It's not about cars. No, it's not about cars. We should do an episode about cars we could do. I love cars.

Speaker 2 2:50

Could we have the Cars song in the background by Gary Neumann? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Today though we're going to, because it's in my notes.

Speaker 1 3:09

Okay, and you know who happens to be at amusement park today.

Speaker 2 3:11

Who. Julian my kid In the terrain. Mr, terrain no no.

Speaker 1 3:16

He went with friends.

Speaker 2 3:17

Now, what amusement park did he go to?

Speaker 1 3:20

Yes, he didn't tell us. No, he went to Cedar Point oh.

Speaker 2 3:24

Cedar, the big one, it's probably about 5,000 degrees there today. And there's probably a million people there too.

Speaker 1 3:29

He's been nice enough to actually check in with his mother the last two mornings.

Speaker 2 3:32

Oh good job Good job. We like to know, us moms like to know, especially when kids are out of touch.

Speaker 1 3:38

I'm still waiting for my pictures, though. I said, take some pictures.

Speaker 2 3:42

No.

Speaker 1 3:42

Nothing, but anyway amusement parks.

Speaker 2 3:45

And Cedar Point is a big one. Huge it's in Ohio but a lot of Michigan people go there. Have you ever been to that one Twice. I was there years ago. The hot ride there was the Blue Streak. What about the Gemini. It's after my time what I went when I was maybe 12, 10 or 12. So that was a little while ago, just a few years ago.

Speaker 1 4:11

See, I've been there twice and Brooke was just asking me about that because I actually told her what this is. I usually don't tell her what it's about. I let it be a surprise. She's always really surprised.

Speaker 2 4:21

Probably not last week.

Speaker 1 4:22

Bookstores, Ooh surprise surprise, probably not last week. Bookstores, ooh surprise, oh yeah, no, she, she listens, she's one of the four. One of the four. But no, I was talking about how I went there once when I was a kid. My parents actually, I'll never forget that we're little they actually took us. That was a big deal.

Speaker 2 4:35

That is a big family all the way to ohio, wow I don't remember it, I just remember getting there.

Speaker 1 4:40

I don't remember anything about my childhood much, but I remember going there. I don.

Speaker 2 4:43

I don't remember when you guys went so it must have been not during my time.

Speaker 1 4:46

And then I went with some friends when I was in my late teens or I don't know. Again, the old memory.

Speaker 2 4:53

I was drinking back in the day. Well, and I think you know you remember going, but I don't know, I don't remember much about it. I remember waiting in line In the heat. In the heat. Waiting and waiting, waiting and waiting.

Speaker 1 5:11

So amusement parks evolved from I like this European pleasure gardens. I liked that too. Don't you like that? I saw something about that, oh God.

Speaker 2 5:20

Because the oldest one opened in Denmark in 1583, and it was called the Pleasure Garden.

Speaker 1 5:28

Ooh, that sounds so risque doesn't it? Yeah, let's take a ride.

Speaker 2 5:32

They had live entertainment fireworks, dancing games, probably some kind of ride too, mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 5:41

What about the first one? It was in the United States, lake Compounce, connecticut. In Connecticut, yes, 1846.

Speaker 2 5:48

That's a long time ago.

Speaker 1 5:49

Oldest continuously operating amusement park.

Speaker 2 5:52

Well, it used to be a picnic park. Yes, and I did see that, yeah, since 1846. But then I did and I don't know. Is it still going on? It must still be going on.

Speaker 1 6:04

Maybe not, maybe, it was just the longest running at the time.

Speaker 2 6:07

So the other one that kind of has that claim to fame, the longest continually operating theme park I've been to and it's in the North Pole, new York. It's in upstate New York where my grandparents lived in Lake Placid, saranac Lake area, and that's where it is.

Speaker 1 6:29

Very cool and it's called Santa's Workshop. Really Is it big, small.

Speaker 2 6:33

No, it's not huge, but it's, you know, medium-sized and it's more geared towards young kids. I can remember going to that one because it's like you're going to.

Speaker 1 6:43

Santa's house. I mean you were going to that one because it's like you're going to santa's house.

Speaker 2 6:48

Yeah, I mean, that's his real house, really convinced of that. Yeah, santa's is wandering around. Hey, it's summertime, check these rides out, that's pretty cool, so they had like real, you know and it makes sense.

Speaker 1 6:56

What is santa gonna do in?

Speaker 2 6:57

the summer. I know he's just hanging out were there elves and everything there were. There were elves, he had a train reindeer uh, yeah, there's some reindeer.

Speaker 2 7:05

They had a magical carousel that somewhere. I still have a picture of myself riding on this carousel. It's just, I just wanted to do that over and over and over again. Um, yeah, and then small rides. So it was. It's very magical for younger kids. I can remember going there later, when I was a teen. It was still okay, you know, but it wasn't. I knew that wasn't Santa walking around. How did you know?

Speaker 1 7:30

Well, maybe it was. You don't know.

Speaker 2 7:34

I don't Crush my dreams, all right.

Speaker 1 7:36

What other ones you got on your list. Well, you got all the Disney parks.

Speaker 2 7:38

Well, yeah, you have those. I mean, those are a given.

Speaker 1 7:41

Never been to one.

Speaker 2 7:42

No, nope, I have been to one, because those same grandparents who lived in Lake Placid retired and moved to Winter Haven Florida. You know, hold on a second.

Speaker 1 7:53

How cool are these grandparents that you have?

Speaker 2 7:55

They moved places.

Speaker 1 7:56

I wanted to go to Lake Placid Winter Haven they got the Santa shop down the road, and now you're going to Disney.

Speaker 2 8:03

And then they were about 45 minutes from disney, so we would go and stay with them. I spend a day, you know, doing grandparent things and then, we'd go disney for a day, then we take a day off and hang out with them, and it was great. We did that more than once. Yeah, so that was disney world. Um, I haven't been there in years, mind you. Last time I went was probably about 35 years ago. Cassidy was young and I took her.

Speaker 1 8:31

I think now maybe it was the same. I mean, it's like a whole world. You can have your hotel in there, yeah you can I never splurged for that.

Speaker 2 8:42

I had the money to do that.

Speaker 1 8:43

It's expensive anyway.

Speaker 2 8:45

Well, when we would go with my grandparents, so I can remember my grandfather, my dad, Cassidy, and I went and my grandfather, we got three-day passes.

Speaker 1 8:55

And.

Speaker 2 8:55

I don't even know if you can do that anymore, maybe.

Speaker 1 9:02

But he was a resident and a senior citizen and he got his dirt and he fit you in a duffel bag.

Speaker 2 9:06

No, we paid, but it wasn't that much then I'm sure it's hundreds of dollars now.

Speaker 1 9:12

How do people do it? I wish I still had my ticket. How do they do it? How do people afford anything?

Speaker 2 9:16

I don't know. I think that's a trip that you save for. Sure, you know a theme park like Disney or Universal park like disney or universal um, which is kind of, I think, more geared towards older kids, harry potter world. You gotta save for that one. That's a big vacation, yeah bush gardens I have been there too.

Speaker 1 9:35

You're killing me right now uh, dollywood, uh, no but that I want to go to Dollywood.

Speaker 2 9:43

Let me visit Dollywood and I would reassess the whole thing, but then I looked at it online. This is a bunch of rides too, but every now and then Dolly shows up.

Speaker 1 9:55

Oh, plastic Dolly. No, she's not had any work done.

Speaker 2 9:59

Well no.

Speaker 1 10:01

I think Okay you go with that she is proud of the work she got done. I love Dolly. Have you been to the Legoland one?

Speaker 2 10:08

I have not been to Legoland I haven't either.

Speaker 1 10:13

No, it was an amusement park Does that count as an amusement park?

Speaker 2 10:17

Do they have rides and stuff like that? Yeah, where is it?

Speaker 1 10:20

Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 2 10:21

Denmark or somewhere where they make Legos? Aren't Legos for European?

Speaker 1 10:26

Are they?

Speaker 2 10:27

Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 10:27

That's worthy of an episode.

Speaker 2 10:29

Yeah, legos, I love Legos.

Speaker 1 10:31

Yeah, oh, man and I would go to their world. Why wouldn't you? Well, I remember there was a Snoopy Land inside of the Mall of America in Innsmouth.

Speaker 2 10:42

Park right.

Speaker 1 10:44

Uh-.

Speaker 2 10:45

Wait, that was. They had a Lego store.

Speaker 1 10:47

Didn't they have a Legoland part of that? I mean, this isn't the same thing, obviously, but Anyway, yeah, how come that amusement park's not on here? That's not really an amusement park.

Speaker 2 10:56

Too small Because it's in Mall of America.

Speaker 1 10:58

I don't know.

Speaker 2 10:59

I guess it's an amusement park. Maybe it's not there anymore, I don't know. I haven't been to.

Speaker 1 11:03

Mall of a bit to Hooters.

Speaker 2 11:07

Because there's no Hooters in Michigan. I just heard that they're all closing.

Speaker 1 11:11

Aw.

Speaker 2 11:12

Yeah.

Speaker 1 11:12

No, I worked. I didn't work, I lived.

Speaker 2 11:17

Guys work at.

Speaker 1 11:17

Hooters, I did live and work in the Minneapolis St Paul area for a long time and a buddy of mine would go to the Mall of America and do that. There was like a bar over there and blah, blah, blah, but the Mall of america was, wow, pretty neat for its time, yeah yeah I miss malls.

Speaker 2 11:32

Yeah, we could do a show on that too, I do love them all so so back to amusement park. So, um, and how about carnival? So you got a theme park, and the difference between an amusement park and a carnival is the games, no dirty people an amusement park is stationary, it doesn't move oh, the carnival comes to the fair and moves around although it's high quality equipment. Yes, yes why does anybody don't? People just don't even go on those rides. And what do you think about the?

Speaker 1 12:12

background checks for the workers.

Speaker 2 12:14

I think you can't pass to get a job here. No offense, no, no offense.

Speaker 1 12:19

But I bet if you're a carnival worker you're looking at the guy next to you thinking how did he get a job here?

Speaker 2 12:24

I have known some carnival workers and they were fine people.

Speaker 1 12:27

Yes, how fun would it be to travel with that group?

Speaker 2 12:30

carnival workers, and they were fine people.

Speaker 1 12:29

Yes, how fun would it be to travel with that group?

Speaker 2 12:29

Well, they were young people and just doing it for the summer and travel all over yeah. And doing some other stuff and put up those Ferris wheel all hung over.

Speaker 1 12:42

Oh my god, some of those people were running the rides. They just look like somebody shooting. That's scary.

Speaker 2 12:49

But a carnival, and it sounds so colorful and romantic, but in reality it's greasy food and dangerous rides and then throwing up.

Speaker 1 13:01

What did you say? The last one Throwing? Up oh yeah, it's true, I know, and the selection here at the Alpena County Fair isn't. When I was a kid it seemed like you said more romantic, bigger. But now you go and it's like, was this the same?

Speaker 2 13:15

stuff that was here. It's the same stuff. We're just smaller, bigger people Because it's like four rides yeah. I always liked the Ferris wheel. I do like the Ferris wheel. I'm not sure I was going to mention Too high. How about roller coasters, usually the big draw for every theme park, amusement park, carnival even.

Speaker 1 13:34

Yeah.

Speaker 2 13:35

It's always the scary scary. Not a big fan. Well, I've just seen a lot go on wrong lately, Like people are hanging upside down or oh sorry, something happened, You're going to have to walk down from that.

Speaker 1 13:49

Think they comp your visit. No, you, just that's it.

Speaker 2 13:53

No, I don't think they comp your visit and you just waited in line for an hour to get out of the state.

Speaker 1 13:57

I did read though that it's only like one in well, not I mean one in 16 million people die, or something like that, so that's pretty nice On a roller coaster. Just at an amusement park.

Speaker 2 14:07

I don't believe. I believe that number's higher.

Speaker 1 14:10

I'm telling you, where was it.

Speaker 2 14:12

Let me look at my notes.

Speaker 1 14:14

We're going to have to fact check that. Where's Kenny? Kenny's not here. He's our fact checker. Kenny oh come on, it's here somewhere. Well, never mind. It just says fatal accidents are extremely rare because there's rigorous safety protocols.

Speaker 2 14:30

They probably are, and I'm sure especially now there's more OSHA or whatever involved, you and I can't put up a Ferris wheel downtown and charge money. We can't no, so forget that.

Speaker 1 14:47

What do you got there Any more about carnivals?

Speaker 2 14:52

um, what do you got there about any more? About carnivals, and well, I did have some listed that are popular in our area, that are cedar point uh, michigan's adventure never been never been there either, because water parks are kind of an amusement park's dirty cousin. Cesspools, that's exactly the word I wrote down.

Speaker 1 15:14

Cesspools of germs and disease.

Speaker 2 15:17

Dirty diapers and peeing all over. I can't imagine why anyone would go to a water park unless you owned it and only let three people in. There's not enough chlorine in the world that can kill that stuff. No no, unless you owned it and only let three people in. Yeah.

Speaker 1 15:31

There's not enough chlorine in the world.

Speaker 2 15:32

That can kill that stuff. No, no.

Speaker 1 15:35

Hey, what about? You said the word carnival, in my mind went to the cruise ships.

Speaker 2 15:39

Oh, carnival cruise ships.

Speaker 1 15:40

They have amusement parks, don't they? I think they do. Some do. They're huge. Are you a cruiser? I can't remember I'm not.

Speaker 2 15:45

I have never been on a cruise I would go on a river cruise, though I'm hoping.

Speaker 1 15:50

Like a gambling boat. No.

Speaker 2 15:55

Just no.

Speaker 1 15:56

Okay, we go back and forth about the cruise thing. I don't know, unless you're on a boat in the middle of the ocean. I think that scares me right there, and you hear a lot of bad things that happen lately, but that's what you hear.

Speaker 2 16:09

But that's what you hear. A lot of bad things that happen lately, but that's what you hear. But that's what you hear, right. So I do get quite a few catalogs, these big beautiful catalogs from Viking and from another.

Speaker 1 16:20

So you know they're doing good all those catalogs.

Speaker 2 16:22

Smithsonian. They do some small ship cruises and tours, so I've been looking at the river cruises because then you have land on both sides the whole time.

Speaker 1 16:34

You know something goes wrong. You want to see shore.

Speaker 2 16:37

There's a lot to see, To observe, I should say, Otherwise you know you're on a big boat.

Speaker 1 16:43

Looking out at the blue.

Speaker 2 16:45

Which is not all bad, but kind of scary bad in my world.

Speaker 1 16:49

I don't know. That's it tidal wave, that's it One rogue wave. You're not going to outrun that One rogue wave, pirates.

Speaker 2 16:55

Pirates. It's happened yeah.

Speaker 1 16:58

Syphilis.

Speaker 2 16:59

I don't know about that.

Speaker 1 17:00

I don't either, but that could run rampant on Mars. It must. I'm just kidding.

Speaker 2 17:06

So, okay, we kind of diverted from amusement parks but cruises.

Speaker 1 17:11

Right Carnival, that's where it got me yeah.

Speaker 2 17:13

I get almost right over I don't know, I guess, since neither one of us have been on a cruise, possibly one of or both of us should take a cruise before we decide that.

Speaker 1 17:23

Yeah, I thought so too.

Speaker 2 17:25

I think a European river cruise All right, that sounds really nice. You book?

Speaker 1 17:29

that, and then you can go to that bookstore you want to go to over there.

Speaker 2 17:32

Yeah, that's in England.

Speaker 1 17:34

Same. Thing.

Speaker 2 17:35

No, it's not. It's not at all.

Speaker 1 17:37

America.

Speaker 2 17:38

America.

Speaker 1 17:39

Abandoned parks, those are spooky. Those are almost better than ones that are still in. Like go right when it's getting dark and start going to that thing and walking around.

Speaker 2 17:51

There's many a book that starts that way.

Speaker 1 17:53

Stephen King has a couple of really good ones there's some TV shows that start like that Movies Didn't Stranger Things have the abandoned amusement park, did they?

Speaker 2 18:03

I don't even know. You know, I watched the first season. I loved it. I watched the second season. I liked it.

Speaker 1 18:10

It went down. I'm done with you. They were really reaching. Come on, winona. Oh yeah, yeah, she was mom and a purse thief right, I don't know, you can't believe the headlines. Oh like in real life. Yeah, sure, she was kind of an it girl like in real life. Yeah.

Speaker 2 18:28

Oh Sure.

Speaker 1 18:29

Mm-hmm. Sure she was kind of an it girl back in the day. She was.

Speaker 2 18:34

She was Johnny Depp's girlfriend and he had a tattoo that said yes, winona forever, and he turned it to Wino. And after they broke up he turned it to Wino forever.

Speaker 1 18:44

He's got some goals in life, doesn't he?

Speaker 2 18:47

I like that though I mean, that was clever.

Speaker 1 18:50

Weird facts. Give them to me, I don't have much. It just says they'll use mannequins to fill rides on off days, so it looks like they're full sometimes. Did you know?

Speaker 2 19:02

that I did not know that.

Speaker 1 19:04

And Disneyland has a hidden basketball court inside the Matterhorn for the staff. Really, yeah, I wouldn't make that up.

Speaker 2 19:11

So that's Disney Now. I do remember when I was. One of my earliest memories is I'm four years old, we live in California and we went to Disneyland. Hey, let's take the kids on this Matterhorn ride, it'll be fine it won't scar them for life at all. I couldn't see over the edge, so I'm just like.

Speaker 1 19:31

Just getting moved all over.

Speaker 2 19:33

Just moved all over, terrified, but have fun. And then the other ride they had was when they turned you into a molecule. They shrunk you down to a molecule.

Speaker 1 19:46

I was like Was that like Honey, I Shrunk the Kids? It was Honey, I Shrunk the kids it was honey.

Speaker 2 19:50

I shrunk the kids way before honey. I shrunk the kids, but they did this, this ride, and then they showed how they you know, I was supposedly shrunk, you and I was like uh, this is it for us. My whole, at least my whole family got shrunk because we are molecules now, that's kind of freaking out.

Speaker 2 20:05

That's really cool and the other thing is we, we went there and then we moved cross country to New York State upstate New York actually and so we went in the Small World ride and I sang the Small World song from California to New York.

Speaker 1 20:26

Wow yeah, that was pleasing.

Speaker 2 20:28

Oh yeah, my family loved it. That was also the summer that I left the crayons in the back window of the car.

Speaker 1 20:37

Beautiful.

Speaker 2 20:41

Stayed there a long time too.

Speaker 1 20:43

Should do that to somebody.

Speaker 2 20:46

I don't think there are things in the back of a car anymore. Nobody has like a. You know where the seat was. There was like a little shelf back there. That's just not there anymore.

Speaker 1 20:56

Times have changed.

Speaker 2 20:57

Yes, they have. That's why I'm not singing small world.

Speaker 1 20:59

Nobody's driving around with those fancy Buicks.

Speaker 2 21:02

It probably was a Buick. It probably might do, so what else you got?

Speaker 1 21:07

I don't know. It's just that they're actually important, because not only for entertainment but cultural significance. You know you got people coming from all over to come to these things. You do, and so you get to encounter some other folks. And then the economy. I mean they employ a lot of people, they do. And when COVID hit that was not good because a lot of people were out of work and people couldn't have fun like that.

Speaker 1 21:28

So and then there's been a big shift, obviously, from just an old-fashioned wooden roller coaster to more immersive experiences like you've been talking about, you know, over the years. There's a lot more pyrotechnics and you're like in the ride. In the ride instead of just on the ride. Yep.

Speaker 2 21:48

Yes, yes, and some of those rides are. Those are the ones I remember, although I do remember being in Disney World and in Tomorrowland and whatever their roller coaster was I can't remember the name of it and it is in the dark, so every now and then you catch a flash of lights and you're just moving all around. You're on this roller coaster. It was pretty freaky. Yeah it was a little scary. I went on it again, though.

Speaker 1 22:19

You ever been on one that's like I haven't a mine ride.

Speaker 2 22:23

Oh, and then you go down the log ride kind of thing. Oh, I don't know about that, but, like you know, in a splash.

Speaker 1 22:29

I've seen the ones where it looks like you're going in a mine. Yeah ones where it looks like you're going in a mine.

Speaker 2 22:34

Yeah, okay, yeah, you've been on stuff again yeah, okay, you need to get out and live I know what am I doing what are you doing? Leave right now.

Speaker 1 22:40

I can't come on, I gotta do something you need to go to disney world once. I don't know I don't like people that much, like a lot of people.

Speaker 2 22:48

There is a lot of people there although there are lowish times, there's still a of people, but not a shit ton of people like there probably is now, and it's not 900 degrees. We went in the fall one time.

Speaker 1 23:03

Oh, good call.

Speaker 2 23:04

And it was really nice. It was very nice. It rained a couple times, that's okay. You're in Florida, what do you care? Yeah, all right. So overall I'm going to say amusement, theme parks, amusement parks and carnivals, you know.

Speaker 1 23:20

Just say it. I don't like it, throw it in there, carnivals in there, with it.

Speaker 2 23:24

The heroes, maybe when I was younger or when people are young, but they're just dicks now because they rarely live up to the romanticized hype.

Speaker 1 23:33

All of it, or just carnivals, most of it.

Speaker 2 23:36

No.

Speaker 1 23:38

They're all dicks, sorry.

Speaker 2 23:39

That's okay.

Speaker 1 23:41

I'm going to say heroic, because I'm still a novice, because you haven't been, I haven't been, yeah, I've just been to Cedar Point, I can't remember either time. And the Alpena County Fair, oh no, where did I go?

Speaker 2 23:54

Michigan State Fair oh, that was probably a big whoop-dee-doo.

Speaker 1 23:57

Iowa State Fair. Oh, that's a real big whoop-dee-doo. I didn't go on any rides, but I saw them.

Speaker 2 24:01

Did you have a lot of corn products?

Speaker 1 24:03

I had a lot of. Well, my wife keeps me on a short leash, which she used to, because I think she could see the way I was headed with drinking and eating and being fat, and so she would scale me back. But, man, you couldn't get anything on a stick fried.

Speaker 2 24:19

Oh yeah yeah, we had an Alpina Fair fried Oreos.

Speaker 1 24:26

Hmm, no.

Speaker 2 24:26

It's not as good as it sounds. No.

Speaker 1 24:28

Just regular Oreos and milk is pretty good.

Speaker 2 24:30

Yeah, why mess with success, mm-hmm. So you say heroic Sure. Heroic, but let's revisit after you visit.

Speaker 1 24:36

Yes, okay, and I'll do the same for Carnival Cruise Ships.

Speaker 2 24:38

And I will. If I go to Dollywood, I will revisit that that would be fun.

Speaker 1 24:44

We should do the podcast from there.

Speaker 2 24:45

Okay, live from Dollywood.

Speaker 1 24:47

Maybe Dolly would be on it. She would.

Speaker 2 24:50

She probably would do it. I'll call her. Oh you crazy kids.

Speaker 1 24:55

Kenny. I'll give her a call, Kenny.

Speaker 2 24:56

Kenny? Oh, I thought you meant Kenny Rogers. No, he dead.

Speaker 1 25:00

He is, isn't he?

Speaker 2 25:01

I believe. So yeah, huh, yeah. Here's some fast fives for you, though.

Speaker 1 25:05

Okay.

Speaker 2 25:05

Okay, First one bumper cars.

Speaker 1 25:08

Dick.

Speaker 2 25:09

Why.

Speaker 1 25:09

Because people always, people always speed up and smack you when you can't see and shake your kidneys. That's the whole freaking point of it If you're the one giving it out.

Speaker 2 25:16

I say Hero because usually you're on there before you can drive. So you think you're hot shit, because you're driving. Okay, how about log rides, which means you go and get splashed, get wet. Yeah, I think Hero on that one. How about Ferris wheel, dick? Oh, my personal favorite is Ferris wheel. Why do you say that?

Speaker 1 25:41

I don't like heights.

Speaker 2 25:42

I got to get over it, though. What about the London Eye? You're going to go to London and not go on the London Eye.

Speaker 1 25:46

There's a very good chance.

Speaker 2 25:48

You really should. It's beautiful.

Speaker 1 25:51

Who knows, I got to get over that. Yeah, you need to I didn't go ziplining last year with my family because nope. There were like hundreds of feet going 50 miles an hour over a canyon on a rope, On a rope I don't know man. They made it.

Speaker 2 26:08

They lived, they did Yay.

Speaker 1 26:10

And I guess I would have too.

Speaker 2 26:11

but we don't know that for sure. That's true, and I guess I would have too, but we don't know that for sure. That's true. How about?

Speaker 1 26:17

Tilt-A-Whirl. Oh my God, I'm going to say Hero, yeah, and I can mess you up.

Speaker 2 26:21

I can. Yeah, it makes you very dizzy.

Speaker 1 26:23

It makes you realize who you are as a human.

Speaker 2 26:26

Tilt-A-Whirl. Get off the Tilt-A-Whirl and give us some truth. Okay, and the last one is the carousel, what you know like, where the horses are and there's all the animals.

Speaker 1 26:40

I like that.

Speaker 2 26:41

And then there's the wimp out where you can sit down.

Speaker 1 26:44

I'll say Hero.

Speaker 2 26:45

I think Hero on that one too.

Speaker 1 26:46

We forgot one, though. What Gravitron Isn't that where the walls?

Speaker 2 26:50

Yeah, you stick to the wall and the floor drops out. I don't think they can do those anymore. I don't know. I remember being on one at the Alpena County Fair when I was a teen Spooky.

Speaker 1 26:59

Yeah.

Speaker 2 27:01

Let's just spin these people so fast so they stick to the wall, and then we'll drop the floor on them. This will be great.

Speaker 1 27:08

Yeah, let's hope that it works.

Speaker 2 27:10

Yeah, Before we go, we should mention really quick, since we've got a couple minutes, that also at a carnival you get games.

Speaker 1 27:22

Games.

Speaker 2 27:23

Which you're never going to win anything. Great, this might be rigged. What Thanks for?

Amusement Park Game Chatter

Speaker 1 27:30

bursting that balloon. I let you look behind the curtain on that one. And the guys? What about the? Not just guys? I got to be democratic here the people. The people gals, whatever the pushy people that are not forcing you to come play a game what you don't want to win our prize. No, come on, no I don't, oh dude, you'll be alone. I try to avoid those people. I walk away on the other side and then they yell at you more.

Speaker 2 27:55

And then, what are you going to win?

Speaker 1 27:56

really Stuffed animal Rubber ducky. Maybe, yeah, what games. There's the shooting, the balloon things. There's throwing the ball things or throwing like a ring. We won some Pepsi.

Speaker 2 28:10

once Throwing a ring on a bottle of Pepsi.

Speaker 1 28:14

Oh, you won a Pepsi, yeah.

Speaker 2 28:18

And then drank it and went on the.

Speaker 1 28:19

Tilt-A-Whirl no Gravitron.

Speaker 2 28:20

Yep Threw up.

Speaker 1 28:21

That's fizzy.

Speaker 2 28:23

Oh, my god Not coming back.

Speaker 1 28:25

I bet you had Pop Rocks too.

Speaker 2 28:27

Oh, maybe A gut full of Pop Rocks and Pepsi Put you on the Gravitron. It wasn't good.

Speaker 1 28:33

What else you?

Speaker 2 28:34

got. That's what I got.

Speaker 1 28:36

The fans want a minute more. I don't know what you're telling them.

Speaker 2 28:38

Well, I wanted to tell people to email us at herordick2023 at gmailcom. They could do that.

Speaker 1 28:47

They could do that.

Speaker 2 28:48

Cassidy can.

Speaker 1 28:49

Thank you, cassidy. We're available on Apple, spotify, amazon and some other ones Buzzsprout. Buzzsprout, sorry, buzzsprout, yeah, the only one we aren't is on Google.

Speaker 2 29:02

I don't know what the hell they do with their podcasts. They have issues, those people. They're not going anywhere.

Speaker 1 29:08

Ever since that movie with Vince Vaughn and that Owen Wilson guy, that place is just Wedding Crashers. No, oh, but that was a Wilson guy. That place is just wedding crashers no. Oh, but that was a good one too. No, what's? That one where they go to be inter the internship or internship where they're interns for Google.

Speaker 2 29:20

Oh, I don't know that. I didn't watch that I need some stupid humor, so I'll look for that.

Speaker 1 29:26

All right, well, thanks everybody.

Speaker 2 29:27

Thanks everyone.

Speaker 1 29:30

Yeah.