Hero or Dick
Welcome to Hero or Dick!
We started this podcast with a blunt question about people: Hero or Dick?
Then we found ourselves asking it about places, traditions, entertainment, and the ordinary stuff we’d never thought to question before. Who gets praised? What gets overlooked? Why are we so sure we know the story?
We pick something that interests us, do our homework, and sit down to talk. We bring facts, opinions, and stories from our own lives, and follow the occasional tangent.
Sometimes we reach a verdict. Sometimes the question gets more interesting.
If that sounds like a conversation you’d want to be part of, join us.
~ Kate & KJ
Drop us a line at hello@heroordick.com
Hero or Dick
S2, Ep. 13 - Exploring the Magic and Mayhem of Amusement Parks
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
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
Amusement Parks Through the Years
Speaker 1Hello .
Speaker 2Can you hear me ?
Speaker 1Welcome .
Speaker 2Hey .
Speaker 1Hero or Dick .
Speaker 2Season 2 .
Speaker 12 episode .
Speaker 2Lucky 13 .
Speaker 113 and we're broadcasting from the nice hot box that is Horse Brothers Studio .
Speaker 2It'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 1When will we complain Winter ?
Speaker 2Well , 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 1Do you get agitated when you're hot and sticky ?
Speaker 2Yeah , I don't like to be .
Speaker 1Isn 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 2Uh , 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 1Well , that's a weird . Do Ferraris have that feature ? I don't know . You have a Ferrari , but the Buicks do .
Speaker 2Oh , that's right , you know funny , I love my .
Speaker 1Buick . It's a nice looking car . It's a nice driving car Shout out to Buick . They've really redesigned .
Speaker 2Yes , they're one of our sponsors . And Alpina GMC yes , they're always good .
Speaker 1Actually yes , and the staff there .
Speaker 2I love them .
Speaker 1What's his name ? Colby Cody Plowman , the young guy . He sold us a car there .
Speaker 2Oh yeah , Mm-hmm .
Speaker 1What'd you buy the kid ? I bought him a train , oh those are nice . We went there . What year is it ?
Speaker 22020 . 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 1Well , you care how you look . You don't want to be all hot and sweaty and uncomfortable in a big bowed out car .
Speaker 2It's kind of a mom car . Don't tell Julie . Oh , he knows .
Speaker 1He liked it because it was a family car .
Speaker 2You can fiddle with people .
Speaker 1Back 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 1Uh-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 2Today we're going to talk about , not about GMCs .
Speaker 1It's not about cars . No , it's not about cars . We should do an episode about cars we could do . I love cars .
Speaker 2Could 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 1Okay , and you know who happens to be at amusement park today .
Speaker 2Who . Julian my kid In the terrain . Mr , terrain no no .
Speaker 1He went with friends .
Speaker 2Now , what amusement park did he go to ?
Speaker 1Yes , he didn't tell us . No , he went to Cedar Point oh .
Speaker 2Cedar , the big one , it's probably about 5,000 degrees there today . And there's probably a million people there too .
Speaker 1He's been nice enough to actually check in with his mother the last two mornings .
Speaker 2Oh good job Good job . We like to know , us moms like to know , especially when kids are out of touch .
Speaker 1I'm still waiting for my pictures , though . I said , take some pictures .
Speaker 2No .
Speaker 1Nothing , but anyway amusement parks .
Speaker 2And 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 1See , 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 2Probably not last week .
Speaker 1Bookstores , 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 2That is a big family all the way to ohio , wow I don't remember it , I just remember getting there .
Speaker 1I don't remember anything about my childhood much , but I remember going there . I don .
Speaker 2I don't remember when you guys went so it must have been not during my time .
Speaker 1And then I went with some friends when I was in my late teens or I don't know . Again , the old memory .
Speaker 2I 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 1So 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 2Because the oldest one opened in Denmark in 1583 , and it was called the Pleasure Garden .
Speaker 1Ooh , that sounds so risque doesn't it ? Yeah , let's take a ride .
Speaker 2They had live entertainment fireworks , dancing games , probably some kind of ride too , mm-hmm .
Speaker 1What about the first one ? It was in the United States , lake Compounce , connecticut . In Connecticut , yes , 1846 .
Speaker 2That's a long time ago .
Speaker 1Oldest continuously operating amusement park .
Speaker 2Well , 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 1Maybe not , maybe , it was just the longest running at the time .
Speaker 2So 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 1Very cool and it's called Santa's Workshop . Really Is it big , small .
Speaker 2No , 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 1Santa's house . I mean you were going to that one because it's like you're going to santa's house .
Speaker 2Yeah , 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 1What is santa gonna do in ?
Speaker 2the 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 2They 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 1Well , maybe it was . You don't know .
Speaker 2I don't Crush my dreams , all right .
Speaker 1What other ones you got on your list . Well , you got all the Disney parks .
Speaker 2Well , yeah , you have those . I mean , those are a given .
Speaker 1Never been to one .
Speaker 2No , 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 1How cool are these grandparents that you have ?
Speaker 2They moved places .
Speaker 1I wanted to go to Lake Placid Winter Haven they got the Santa shop down the road , and now you're going to Disney .
Speaker 2And 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 1I 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 2I had the money to do that .
Speaker 1It's expensive anyway .
Speaker 2Well , 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 1And .
Speaker 2I don't even know if you can do that anymore , maybe .
Speaker 1But he was a resident and a senior citizen and he got his dirt and he fit you in a duffel bag .
Speaker 2No , we paid , but it wasn't that much then I'm sure it's hundreds of dollars now .
Speaker 1How do people do it ? I wish I still had my ticket . How do they do it ? How do people afford anything ?
Speaker 2I 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 1You're killing me right now uh , dollywood , uh , no but that I want to go to Dollywood .
Speaker 2Let 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 1Oh , plastic Dolly . No , she's not had any work done .
Speaker 2Well no .
Speaker 1I 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 2I have not been to Legoland I haven't either .
Speaker 1No , it was an amusement park Does that count as an amusement park ?
Speaker 2Do they have rides and stuff like that ? Yeah , where is it ?
Speaker 1Yeah , I don't know .
Speaker 2Denmark or somewhere where they make Legos ? Aren't Legos for European ?
Speaker 1Are they ?
Speaker 2Oh yeah .
Speaker 1That's worthy of an episode .
Speaker 2Yeah , legos , I love Legos .
Speaker 1Yeah , 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 2Park right .
Speaker 1Uh- .
Speaker 2Wait , that was . They had a Lego store .
Speaker 1Didn'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 2Too small Because it's in Mall of America .
Speaker 1I don't know .
Speaker 2I guess it's an amusement park . Maybe it's not there anymore , I don't know . I haven't been to .
Speaker 1Mall of a bit to Hooters .
Speaker 2Because there's no Hooters in Michigan . I just heard that they're all closing .
Speaker 1Aw .
Speaker 2Yeah .
Speaker 1No , I worked . I didn't work , I lived .
Speaker 2Guys work at .
Speaker 1Hooters , 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 2Yeah , 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 1background checks for the workers .
Speaker 2I think you can't pass to get a job here . No offense , no , no offense .
Speaker 1But 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 2I have known some carnival workers and they were fine people .
Speaker 1Yes , how fun would it be to travel with that group ?
Speaker 2carnival workers , and they were fine people .
Speaker 1Yes , how fun would it be to travel with that group ?
Speaker 2Well , 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 1Oh my god , some of those people were running the rides . They just look like somebody shooting . That's scary .
Amusement Park Conversations
Speaker 2But a carnival , and it sounds so colorful and romantic , but in reality it's greasy food and dangerous rides and then throwing up .
Speaker 1What 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 2stuff 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 1Yeah .
Speaker 2It'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 1Think they comp your visit . No , you , just that's it .
Speaker 2No , I don't think they comp your visit and you just waited in line for an hour to get out of the state .
Speaker 1I 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 2I don't believe . I believe that number's higher .
Speaker 1I'm telling you , where was it .
Speaker 2Let me look at my notes .
Speaker 1We'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 2They 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 1What do you got there Any more about carnivals ?
Speaker 2um , 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 1Cesspools of germs and disease .
Speaker 2Dirty 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 1There's not enough chlorine in the world .
Speaker 2That can kill that stuff . No , no .
Speaker 1Hey , what about ? You said the word carnival , in my mind went to the cruise ships .
Speaker 2Oh , carnival cruise ships .
Speaker 1They 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 2I have never been on a cruise I would go on a river cruise , though I'm hoping .
Speaker 1Like a gambling boat . No .
Speaker 2Just no .
Speaker 1Okay , 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 2But 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 1So you know they're doing good all those catalogs .
Speaker 2Smithsonian . 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 1You know something goes wrong . You want to see shore .
Speaker 2There's a lot to see , To observe , I should say , Otherwise you know you're on a big boat .
Speaker 1Looking out at the blue .
Speaker 2Which is not all bad , but kind of scary bad in my world .
Speaker 1I 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 2Pirates . It's happened yeah .
Speaker 1Syphilis .
Speaker 2I don't know about that .
Speaker 1I don't either , but that could run rampant on Mars . It must . I'm just kidding .
Speaker 2So , okay , we kind of diverted from amusement parks but cruises .
Speaker 1Right Carnival , that's where it got me yeah .
Speaker 2I 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 1Yeah , I thought so too .
Speaker 2I think a European river cruise All right , that sounds really nice . You book ?
Speaker 1that , and then you can go to that bookstore you want to go to over there .
Speaker 2Yeah , that's in England .
Speaker 1Same . Thing .
Speaker 2No , it's not . It's not at all .
Speaker 1America .
Speaker 2America .
Speaker 1Abandoned 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 2There's many a book that starts that way .
Speaker 1Stephen 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 2I don't even know . You know , I watched the first season . I loved it . I watched the second season . I liked it .
Speaker 1It 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 2Oh Sure .
Speaker 1Mm-hmm . Sure she was kind of an it girl back in the day . She was .
Speaker 2She 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 1He's got some goals in life , doesn't he ?
Speaker 2I like that though I mean , that was clever .
Speaker 1Weird 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 2that I did not know that .
Speaker 1And Disneyland has a hidden basketball court inside the Matterhorn for the staff . Really , yeah , I wouldn't make that up .
Speaker 2So 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 1Just getting moved all over .
Speaker 2Just 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 1I was like Was that like Honey , I Shrunk the Kids ? It was Honey , I Shrunk the kids it was honey .
Speaker 2I 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 2That'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 1Wow yeah , that was pleasing .
Speaker 2Oh yeah , my family loved it . That was also the summer that I left the crayons in the back window of the car .
Speaker 1Beautiful .
Speaker 2Stayed there a long time too .
Speaker 1Should do that to somebody .
Speaker 2I 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 1Times have changed .
Speaker 2Yes , they have . That's why I'm not singing small world .
Speaker 1Nobody's driving around with those fancy Buicks .
Speaker 2It probably was a Buick . It probably might do , so what else you got ?
Speaker 1I 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 1So 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 2Yes , 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 1You ever been on one that's like I haven't a mine ride .
Speaker 2Oh , 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 1I'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 2Yeah , 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 1I 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 2There 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 1Oh , good call .
Speaker 2And 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 1Just say it . I don't like it , throw it in there , carnivals in there , with it .
Speaker 2The 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 1All of it , or just carnivals , most of it .
Speaker 2No .
Speaker 1They're all dicks , sorry .
Speaker 2That's okay .
Carnival Rides and Games Analysis
Speaker 1I'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 2Michigan State Fair oh , that was probably a big whoop-dee-doo .
Speaker 1Iowa State Fair . Oh , that's a real big whoop-dee-doo . I didn't go on any rides , but I saw them .
Speaker 2Did you have a lot of corn products ?
Speaker 1I 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 2Oh yeah yeah , we had an Alpina Fair fried Oreos .
Speaker 1Hmm , no .
Speaker 2It's not as good as it sounds . No .
Speaker 1Just regular Oreos and milk is pretty good .
Speaker 2Yeah , why mess with success , mm-hmm . So you say heroic Sure . Heroic , but let's revisit after you visit .
Speaker 1Yes , okay , and I'll do the same for Carnival Cruise Ships .
Speaker 2And I will . If I go to Dollywood , I will revisit that that would be fun .
Speaker 1We should do the podcast from there .
Speaker 2Okay , live from Dollywood .
Speaker 1Maybe Dolly would be on it . She would .
Speaker 2She probably would do it . I'll call her . Oh you crazy kids .
Speaker 1Kenny . I'll give her a call , Kenny .
Speaker 2Kenny ? Oh , I thought you meant Kenny Rogers . No , he dead .
Speaker 1He is , isn't he ?
Speaker 2I believe . So yeah , huh , yeah . Here's some fast fives for you , though .
Speaker 1Okay .
Speaker 2Okay , First one bumper cars .
Speaker 1Dick .
Speaker 2Why .
Speaker 1Because 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 2I 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 1I don't like heights .
Speaker 2I 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 1There's a very good chance .
Speaker 2You really should . It's beautiful .
Speaker 1Who 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 2They lived , they did Yay .
Speaker 1And I guess I would have too .
Speaker 2but 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 1Tilt-A-Whirl . Oh my God , I'm going to say Hero , yeah , and I can mess you up .
Speaker 2I can . Yeah , it makes you very dizzy .
Speaker 1It makes you realize who you are as a human .
Speaker 2Tilt-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 1I like that .
Speaker 2And then there's the wimp out where you can sit down .
Speaker 1I'll say Hero .
Speaker 2I think Hero on that one too .
Speaker 1We forgot one , though . What Gravitron Isn't that where the walls ?
Speaker 2Yeah , 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 1Yeah .
Speaker 2Let'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 1Yeah , let's hope that it works .
Speaker 2Yeah , Before we go , we should mention really quick , since we've got a couple minutes , that also at a carnival you get games .
Speaker 1Games .
Speaker 2Which you're never going to win anything . Great , this might be rigged . What Thanks for ?
Speaker 1bursting that balloon . I let you look behind the curtain
Amusement Park Game Chatter
Speaker 1on 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 2And then , what are you going to win ?
Speaker 1really 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 2once Throwing a ring on a bottle of Pepsi .
Speaker 1Oh , you won a Pepsi , yeah .
Speaker 2And then drank it and went on the .
Speaker 1Tilt-A-Whirl no Gravitron .
Speaker 2Yep Threw up .
Speaker 1That's fizzy .
Speaker 2Oh , my god Not coming back .
Speaker 1I bet you had Pop Rocks too .
Speaker 2Oh , maybe A gut full of Pop Rocks and Pepsi Put you on the Gravitron . It wasn't good .
Speaker 1What else you ?
Speaker 2got . That's what I got .
Speaker 1The fans want a minute more . I don't know what you're telling them .
Speaker 2Well , I wanted to tell people to email us at herordick2023 at gmailcom . They could do that .
Speaker 1They could do that .
Speaker 2Cassidy can .
Speaker 1Thank 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 2I don't know what the hell they do with their podcasts . They have issues , those people . They're not going anywhere .
Speaker 1Ever 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 2Oh , I don't know that . I didn't watch that I need some stupid humor , so I'll look for that .
Speaker 1All right , well , thanks everybody .
Speaker 2Thanks everyone .
Speaker 1Yeah .
People on this episode
Podcasts we love
Check out these other fine podcasts recommended by us, not an algorithm.
SmartLess
Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, Will Arnett
Inside Conan: An Important Hollywood Podcast
Team Coco & Earwolf
