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Speaker 1: that so much. That was at no point was that good. Um,

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Speaker 1: minute I'm canceling our normal guest. We're bringing on Garrison.

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Speaker 1: He's reading an episode instead. Nobody gets the podcast episodes. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm ashamed. I was really looking forward to the four

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Speaker 1: it's like several rob zombies worth of corpses. Um. Garrison's here, Hello,

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Speaker 1: That's what we're doing. We're we're all we're all finding

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Speaker 1: it's just glue and glue and PVC pipes together and

428
00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:12,119
Speaker 1: calling it good enough. That's basically how he set up

429
00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:15,920
Speaker 1: his park. UM and Gene. Yeah, I mean it's one

430
00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:17,720
Speaker 1: of those things like you could spend a lot of

431
00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:20,800
Speaker 1: time making sure it can like cover the hold the

432
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,959
Speaker 1: weight of a human body, or that people can travel

433
00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:28,680
Speaker 1: down at without lacerating themselves or cracking bones, but you're

434
00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:31,879
Speaker 1: probably good at just eyeballing it, you know, like why

435
00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:34,920
Speaker 1: why why go further? To be fair, the rides did

436
00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:37,679
Speaker 1: always have a testing phase. He would pay his teenager

437
00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:40,960
Speaker 1: he would pay his teenage employees money to test the rides,

438
00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:43,120
Speaker 1: and many of the many of them did not get

439
00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:46,800
Speaker 1: past the testing phase. Um. So I'm guessing testing for

440
00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:49,679
Speaker 1: Gene was not wildly different from how the SS tested

441
00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:53,120
Speaker 1: vaccines on children in with a high body care. Yeah,

442
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:56,440
Speaker 1: that's basically what happened. Um. It's like the final product

443
00:23:56,560 --> 00:24:00,240
Speaker 1: was was truly a mix of Iron Rand and Lord

444
00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,080
Speaker 1: of the Flies, which sounds amazing, like this is like

445
00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:05,720
Speaker 1: the perfect place to be as a teenager, Like this

446
00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:11,200
Speaker 1: is this the best best combination everything. There's no rules

447
00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:14,920
Speaker 1: in the park, no no regulations from the government. Um.

448
00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:17,760
Speaker 1: We'll get into those legal issues later. Um. Action Park

449
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:20,359
Speaker 1: was it was really only possible in a specific time

450
00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:23,959
Speaker 1: in like like like um Reagan's America. Like it's very

451
00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:26,159
Speaker 1: very obvious that, like, you know, this was like a

452
00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:30,520
Speaker 1: zeitgeist moment. Um and Jane was actually friends because because

453
00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:34,200
Speaker 1: of all street, Jeane was friends with future president Donald Trump. UM.

454
00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:37,159
Speaker 1: And according to parking employees, Trump was very close to

455
00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:40,640
Speaker 1: investing in Action Park and actually dropped by one time

456
00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:43,199
Speaker 1: to take a look. Upon seeing the park, he decided

457
00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:53,120
Speaker 1: that it was too unhinged to invest in. Yeah. Captain

458
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,439
Speaker 1: Covid took one look at Cheese Park. I was like,

459
00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:58,600
Speaker 1: this is gonna get people killed. Yeah, so the park

460
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:01,879
Speaker 1: was too wild for Donald Trup to invest in. UM

461
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:03,960
Speaker 1: and that's kind of that gives you a really good

462
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:10,320
Speaker 1: idea of what the whole what the whole vibe is here. Um.

463
00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:12,480
Speaker 1: There are two other aspects which that made Action Park

464
00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:16,199
Speaker 1: the legend that it is today. Um. Alcohol and the

465
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:21,240
Speaker 1: exclusively local teenage staff. Um. These are the These two things,

466
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:23,440
Speaker 1: combined with the rides, are what made Action Park the

467
00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:28,119
Speaker 1: kind of the legend that it exists as now. M

468
00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:31,399
Speaker 1: journalists um Seth Porges, who has done most of the

469
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:33,919
Speaker 1: work digging into the history of the park, describes the

470
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:37,040
Speaker 1: park's atmosphere like this quote. A lawless land that was

471
00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:41,479
Speaker 1: ruled by drunk teenage employees, frequented by even drunker teenage guests,

472
00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:44,840
Speaker 1: filled with rides seemed too, that seems to defy even

473
00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:47,800
Speaker 1: the most basic notions of physics and common sense. And

474
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:50,240
Speaker 1: that is like that that's the that's the whole idea,

475
00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:52,840
Speaker 1: is that you're in this place that just ignores the

476
00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:55,680
Speaker 1: laws of physics, ignores the laws of the country, full

477
00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:58,280
Speaker 1: with drunk teenagers who are both running the park and

478
00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:02,280
Speaker 1: attending the park, and that's it. And that's like, that's

479
00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:07,520
Speaker 1: how you just get the result that we got. Um. Also,

480
00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:12,359
Speaker 1: they were totally ignoring all all labor loss Um. Jersey

481
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,080
Speaker 1: law requires right operators to be sixteen years old. Fourteen

482
00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:19,560
Speaker 1: year olds would would would frequently be operating these rides. Um. Yeah,

483
00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:21,720
Speaker 1: I mean their little hands can get in and and

484
00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:25,119
Speaker 1: fix things better, I would guess, and all of the

485
00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:28,800
Speaker 1: supervisors for kids like like starting at like sixteen years old,

486
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,680
Speaker 1: because because if you were sixteen years old, that means

487
00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:33,440
Speaker 1: you were already working at the park for two years,

488
00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:36,000
Speaker 1: because you started working there when you were fourteen. So like,

489
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:39,879
Speaker 1: you get bumped up real quickly when you've seen a

490
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:42,000
Speaker 1: lot of death at that point and you can handle it.

491
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:45,359
Speaker 1: One one seventeen year old was a security guard for

492
00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:47,359
Speaker 1: three months and then he got bumped up to supervisor.

493
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:51,040
Speaker 1: So that kind of shows how fast that that progression

494
00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:54,159
Speaker 1: goes In some cases, a previous managers talked about how

495
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 1: the teenage staff would like Hayes new employees by quote

496
00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:00,639
Speaker 1: unquote drowning them in the pool by strapping them to

497
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:02,920
Speaker 1: a board and then floating them upside down and leaving

498
00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:05,600
Speaker 1: them in the pool. Um, and he ends the story

499
00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:09,040
Speaker 1: by seeing things happen at Action Park that we don't

500
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:13,119
Speaker 1: talk about. So that's fun. Um. I don't think anyone

501
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:16,399
Speaker 1: died by getting hazed, but you know, it's it's kind

502
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:18,719
Speaker 1: of unclear. Do you know who won't kill you by

503
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:24,440
Speaker 1: hazing Robert? I mean, basically at any of our podcast

504
00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:28,920
Speaker 1: sponsors will happily kill you for a variety of reasons.

505
00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:31,040
Speaker 1: They're not gonna They're not gonna duct tape you to

506
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 1: a piece of wood and float you upside down in

507
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 1: the swimming pool as a bit. Hello Fresh might um,

508
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 1: look they might. Okay, I'm not gonna say that they won't. Um,

509
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:46,119
Speaker 1: because we've all lost a lot of friends to Hello Fresh.

510
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 1: Look that's all. That's all I'm gonna say about it. Anyway,

511
00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:59,480
Speaker 1: I hope their ads aren't on this. Uh we are back,

512
00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:04,159
Speaker 1: and my god, I for one enjoyed it when Hello

513
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:08,200
Speaker 1: Fresh threatened to hold our heads down under a wave

514
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:13,960
Speaker 1: pool unless we ordered there feducchini alfredo dinner for two. Um,

515
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:19,480
Speaker 1: Hello Fresh, they'll fucking kill you. I honestly don't think

516
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:21,720
Speaker 1: we've ever even had hell of Fresh as a sponsor.

517
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:24,440
Speaker 1: We had one of those food box company sponsors briefly.

518
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:26,159
Speaker 1: I think it was I think it was Blue Apron.

519
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 1: It might have been Blue Apron. I don't think our

520
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:31,000
Speaker 1: fans are really food box people. This is hurting me

521
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 1: and a making it harder for adopts to sell us

522
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 1: food backs. What we can we not like Pigeonhole. I

523
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 1: don't know, Dick pills and sheets are all I want

524
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:45,560
Speaker 1: to sell. Hey, guess what you're not leading this episode? Garrison. Continue,

525
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:48,680
Speaker 1: All right, Garrison, this this is gonna be I think

526
00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 1: we're already going to my favorite quote, um that I

527
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 1: have that I've pulled for this show. This is This

528
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:57,320
Speaker 1: is from Weird New Jersey Magazine, which is a great

529
00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:01,240
Speaker 1: resource just in general. Is there were normal New Jersey magazine?

530
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 1: I don't know, but this magazine was like staffed by

531
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:05,200
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of people who grew up to be

532
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 1: like famous comedians. Um. So it's actually a pretty a

533
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 1: pretty cool site in meg anyway. But here, here, here,

534
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:14,560
Speaker 1: here's a quote about Action Park that's really sums up

535
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 1: the beauty of this place and why I want to

536
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 1: live there. Um quote. It was truly a teen run show,

537
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:25,480
Speaker 1: and I manifested itself in the many ways from right attendance,

538
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:28,640
Speaker 1: willfully ripping the entrance, response from park attendees who misbehaved

539
00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 1: to staff, knowing all the places that one could get

540
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:34,000
Speaker 1: stoned and or drunk to hide from supervisors, and Action

541
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 1: Park on legal trouble for letting underage employees run rides too,

542
00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 1: So chances are your personal safety may have once been

543
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:42,080
Speaker 1: in the hands of a fourteen year old tripping on acid,

544
00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 1: which is the best the best scenario that there was

545
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 1: fourteen year old operators of these rides just tripping on

546
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 1: acid as their leading you through this water slot. I

547
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:58,960
Speaker 1: have a I have a relative that's as detailed as

548
00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 1: I should get who very new really died because he

549
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:02,680
Speaker 1: went to six Flags with his friends and they all

550
00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:04,680
Speaker 1: took a tremendous amount of acid and it was like, oh,

551
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:09,680
Speaker 1: no reason there was a problem. Um. So I can

552
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:12,280
Speaker 1: only imagine that if they had, instead of just being

553
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:15,280
Speaker 1: at six Flags, been like six Flags, it would have

554
00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:21,000
Speaker 1: been a much safer situation to make the whole like

555
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 1: weird teenage atmosphere even better. Um. At the top of

556
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 1: the Alpine Slide on on the mountain there was there

557
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:30,680
Speaker 1: was an employee's only shed that's referred to as the

558
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:35,640
Speaker 1: sex shack Um or the weed shack Um. Basically it's

559
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:38,480
Speaker 1: just tons of drunk, high and horny teens all dating

560
00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:42,240
Speaker 1: each other while running an amusement park. There was there

561
00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 1: was a massive action park employee parties um at the

562
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:48,520
Speaker 1: end of summer, basically a big old night bash where

563
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 1: everyone stayed over at the park. People would get like

564
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:54,440
Speaker 1: blackout drunk and then wake up, go find your whistle,

565
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 1: and then go do quote unquote lifeguarding in the morning. Um.

566
00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 1: And that's just how the park was run. And Jane

567
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 1: was like okay with it because he's like this weird

568
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 1: like libertarian dude, and he's like, yeah, do whatever. You

569
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:09,640
Speaker 1: can go have slow. Yeah, and you can't have sex

570
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 1: to the shed. Go have sex to the shed and

571
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 1: then run the park. Yeah, that's that's I mean, how

572
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 1: else how else are you going to like run an

573
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:24,280
Speaker 1: amusement park like this. You can't hire adults, you can't

574
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:27,880
Speaker 1: hire remo. No adult people are going to complain about

575
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 1: how it's death trapped. The children only care that they're

576
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:34,120
Speaker 1: getting beer money and are allowed to take acid. You

577
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 1: think they're paying for beer. There was so much free

578
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:43,959
Speaker 1: alcoholic action park. Again, this is how all of society

579
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 1: should work. It's like the free from atmosphere was very

580
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:55,080
Speaker 1: inspired by jeans libertarian ideals. Um. He like a few times,

581
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 1: like fake killed himself in front of employees as a joke.

582
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 1: What a fucking just pretending to commit suicide in front

583
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 1: of his tripping employees. They still have blood on their

584
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:10,280
Speaker 1: hands from the last time somebody went down the slide

585
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 1: the wrong way. Uh fucking a. The employees often referred

586
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:20,719
Speaker 1: to him as Uncle Jean Um and that sounds like

587
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,920
Speaker 1: sounds like a specific kind of uncle he kept. He

588
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 1: kept a back ten machine gun in his office drawer.

589
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:31,160
Speaker 1: Good yeah, classic choice. Yeah, Ingram is really I mean,

590
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 1: if you if you might need host down a bunch

591
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 1: of like plain clothes feds trying to close down your

592
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:46,720
Speaker 1: water park. That happened. That happens a few times in

593
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 1: the story. What that he hosts feds down show upen

594
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 1: his park to like to like collect buddy Um. Anyway,

595
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,840
Speaker 1: what a hero he Uh, he got this fake cattle

596
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 1: rod um and hatched an idea to stop people from

597
00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 1: riding the ski lift to the top of the slide

598
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:07,880
Speaker 1: without a ticket. You were about have a ticket to

599
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:11,200
Speaker 1: ride on the steal it. So but like people just

600
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,080
Speaker 1: didn't care. They were just writing it. And He's like, oh,

601
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 1: they should, they should be buying my tickets. So he

602
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:20,080
Speaker 1: got this plan. Um an employee would pretend to be

603
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 1: a park guest and he would and he would he

604
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 1: would get on the left quote unquote without getting without

605
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 1: having a ticket. Uh. The operator were then asked for

606
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:29,920
Speaker 1: a ticket, and then when the incarnito employee didn't have one,

607
00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 1: the park operator would pull up the fake cattle prod

608
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 1: and taste him so that would scare kids into like

609
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 1: not riding the thing without a ticket. And he did this.

610
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 1: This is this is a little skit that he that

611
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:44,280
Speaker 1: he did, um and it resulted in hundreds of parents

612
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 1: calling in to complain that their kids saw someone offerating

613
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 1: the ski lift to kill someone for not having a ticket.

614
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 1: See and I think the fact, honestly, my only opinion

615
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 1: of this is that the fact that he wasn't really

616
00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 1: tasting people for writing the snow out a ticket is

617
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 1: incredible restraint on Jean's part, given the man that he is.

618
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 1: Yes yes, um So, once enough rides were built, Jean

619
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 1: went into marketing mode um and started airing some amazing

620
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 1: TV ads made by his daughter Julie, starring the park's

621
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:20,240
Speaker 1: teenage employees. Um. When when a local TV reporter filming

622
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:24,000
Speaker 1: a live segment on the seventy foot bungee jump called

623
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:28,799
Speaker 1: the snapple snap up whipper snapper cool name? Um So

624
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 1: when when this reporter refused to jump off because he

625
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:35,000
Speaker 1: was scared, Jean's youngest son, Christopher pushed the reporter off

626
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:39,760
Speaker 1: the Leach. Excellent. He was so ready for the twenty

627
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:41,840
Speaker 1: one century. It's a shame that he was born in

628
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:44,600
Speaker 1: the thirties and not like this really could have gotten

629
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:51,359
Speaker 1: uck to some ship these days. Uh So yeah, Onto Onto.

630
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 1: Like how the park operated itself, there were there were

631
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 1: three sections of the park. On on on the mountain,

632
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 1: we had water World and Alpine Center. These had like

633
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:01,479
Speaker 1: all the slides water Slide it's in outdoor adventure based

634
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:04,840
Speaker 1: attractions and uh the close close to the bottom of

635
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 1: the mountain. Uh. There was a section called motor World,

636
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:10,319
Speaker 1: which is like cart racing and like attractions that like

637
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 1: required like motors to run. Essentially, um dividing Water World

638
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 1: and Alpine Center and motor World was the Route ninety

639
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,279
Speaker 1: four highway, So a highway went right through the middle

640
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 1: of the park. Actually, um dividing the different sections up.

641
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 1: Um we will start the deep dive into the into

642
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:30,200
Speaker 1: the rides by discussing way way. So so it's like

643
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:34,840
Speaker 1: if like there was a giant freeway in between California Adventures. Yes, exactly,

644
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 1: and this this this gets used creatively. UM. So I

645
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:44,080
Speaker 1: when you said, I'm like, there has to be a

646
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:46,879
Speaker 1: reason why Garrison is matching this because yeah, there's there,

647
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:51,120
Speaker 1: there's there, there's it's it's it's not a great idea, Um,

648
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:54,279
Speaker 1: it's convenient for like, if you're running in the amusement park,

649
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:55,759
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, you can just pull off off the

650
00:35:55,840 --> 00:36:00,360
Speaker 1: highway in two directions, dear, Both in the best places

651
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 1: I've done go kart writing have been right off of

652
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 1: the highway, and the best Like the danger of that

653
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 1: is because I when I go to play, when I

654
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 1: go go cart writing, I go to hurt people, right, Like,

655
00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 1: my goal is to make sure that if there are

656
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:14,759
Speaker 1: kids on the track, they don't graduate high You would

657
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 1: have loved actually park, Robert Noble, that's the reason to

658
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 1: do go cart you wouldn't say this on The problem

659
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:23,840
Speaker 1: is when you get done go kart writing and you

660
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 1: get right back on the highway, you have to really

661
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 1: be careful to like the like this de escalator, Robert,

662
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:35,439
Speaker 1: because if you've just been like permanently injuring like fourteen years,

663
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:40,880
Speaker 1: threatened to end high school, not end their lives in

664
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:43,799
Speaker 1: their ability to graduate high school. Here's here's the thing.

665
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. You could get drunk at a authentic

666
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:52,279
Speaker 1: German pub right next to the go carts and then

667
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:56,719
Speaker 1: take the go carts onto the highway paradise. What saw

668
00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 1: Zanna do was ending high schoolers. So hi, so here here,

669
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 1: here's here. Here's a list of the motor World rides

670
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 1: courtesy of Theme park tourist dot com, the primier source

671
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:15,000
Speaker 1: of info for amusing park rides. Um, we had the

672
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:18,319
Speaker 1: bumper boats, which is like bumper cars, but boats. Um.

673
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:22,320
Speaker 1: The entrance of the engines of these frequently leaked gasoline.

674
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 1: There was at least one instance where guest needed medical

675
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 1: attention because too much of it when it got onto

676
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:28,840
Speaker 1: his skin. Also, the pond that they were in was

677
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:35,879
Speaker 1: filled with giant snakes. Um, of course it was why not,

678
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:39,840
Speaker 1: because why would you want snakes in the bumper pool.

679
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 1: I bet Old Gene went and got the snakes and

680
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:50,280
Speaker 1: put them in himself. People are gonna think it's authendic

681
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:57,440
Speaker 1: if there aren't snakes. What a hero. Next to the

682
00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 1: bumper boats, we had the Lola cars. These were miniature

683
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:03,880
Speaker 1: race cars an open cockpit on a long track. It

684
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 1: costs It cost extra money to drive the cars, but

685
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 1: people were willing to pay, especially the people who knew

686
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 1: that you could raise the speed to dangerous levels. Without

687
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:12,719
Speaker 1: the right adjustment, you can stick your hand in the

688
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:15,800
Speaker 1: engine and like move a piece of metal that would

689
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 1: make the speed governor of like operate wrong, and you

690
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:23,880
Speaker 1: can get up to like seventy miles an hour on

691
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 1: these Um. So, the park had actually descript so well.

692
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:32,200
Speaker 1: And the best thing is the only way people found

693
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:34,520
Speaker 1: that out. You don't figure that out just if you're

694
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:36,960
Speaker 1: writing it a lot. You figure that out exactly, and

695
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:39,720
Speaker 1: then you're to go to the park and that spread

696
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 1: everywhere else like that, yeah, just started started with park employees,

697
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:45,880
Speaker 1: and it's so we spread to like you know, the teenager,

698
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 1: like you know, underground gossip thing. Um. So, something else

699
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 1: Gene did, which one of his smarter decisions is that

700
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:55,919
Speaker 1: so like there is tons of alcohol everywhere at actually park,

701
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 1: Like there's like alcohol stands so many places that you

702
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 1: don't don't care what age you are, don't care any anything.

703
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 1: But one thing he did as well is he dismantled

704
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:10,120
Speaker 1: a micro brewery pub in Germany and moved it to

705
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:13,399
Speaker 1: Action Park. So from Germany, he moved the entire pub

706
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 1: and he set it up right next to the race cars.

707
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:22,840
Speaker 1: What a perfect human. So after the park was closed,

708
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:26,480
Speaker 1: employees were known to break into the micro brewery Steel

709
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 1: to Steel Beer and then take them take the race

710
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:33,000
Speaker 1: cars onto the highway of Yeah, of course, uh so

711
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 1: next to the and all of this. Gene knew all

712
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 1: of this would happen. Yeah, he's like, yeah, it's fun.

713
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:42,759
Speaker 1: Why not. No, he wanted he wanted to pill those

714
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:48,319
Speaker 1: kids on libertarianism. You don't need fucking driver's licenses. I

715
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:52,000
Speaker 1: don't care what age you are. And if you can

716
00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 1: grab the alcohol, you can drink it. Um. There was

717
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:01,360
Speaker 1: there was there. It's like a sling shot, a bungee

718
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:03,759
Speaker 1: jumping ride or two people were shot up in the air. Um,

719
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:06,480
Speaker 1: and we were upside down. These these are pretty common

720
00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:09,600
Speaker 1: in thesement parks nowadays. Um. Usually usually they cost more

721
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 1: money because of like insurance issues, but Action Park had

722
00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:15,640
Speaker 1: its own insurance set up, which we'll talk about later,

723
00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:18,000
Speaker 1: so you didn't need to do that. Um. Then we

724
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:20,680
Speaker 1: have a super super go karts, which is different from

725
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:24,920
Speaker 1: the race cars. Um, basically people people because the race

726
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:27,840
Speaker 1: cars went to so much faster. I mean, like I

727
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:30,160
Speaker 1: say this, but like the super go karts could also

728
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:32,719
Speaker 1: go fifty miles an hour by messing with messing with

729
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 1: the speed. Governor they would like shove they would shove

730
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:37,120
Speaker 1: a tennis ball in the engine, so you would like

731
00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:40,279
Speaker 1: move the governor stick. It's like these these go carts

732
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:42,759
Speaker 1: still go fifty miles an hour and they were often

733
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 1: used as bumper cars. Um. So gasoline fuel leaks where

734
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 1: another we're on another problem um for for for the

735
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:56,439
Speaker 1: go kart track. There is a quote from an Action

736
00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:59,040
Speaker 1: Park guest um the quote, I still remember being able

737
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 1: to I still remember being able to be served Action

738
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:03,719
Speaker 1: Park or at age seventeen and then go riding the

739
00:41:03,719 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 1: go carts if you knew how without burning yourself on

740
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 1: the muffler to reach behind it and pulled the throttle

741
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 1: pass where the governor was set and just take off

742
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:19,239
Speaker 1: past the other kids. Amazing wow uh um. There was

743
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:22,480
Speaker 1: another boating attraction called the superspeed Boats, which was a

744
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:28,279
Speaker 1: small pond which also had snakes um and people often

745
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:30,120
Speaker 1: fall out of the speedboats, so this was more of

746
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:33,200
Speaker 1: a problem with the snakes um and also writers would

747
00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:36,439
Speaker 1: uh would would would also use the speedboats as bumper boats,

748
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:39,720
Speaker 1: which is a problem because these are super fast. Um.

749
00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:42,480
Speaker 1: There was the one really drunk individual need to be

750
00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:46,879
Speaker 1: rescued by life card after because the boat fully capsized. Um,

751
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:50,239
Speaker 1: but Pepe people fell out you know often, Um, I would,

752
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised, it would be almost disappointed if they didn't.

753
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:56,759
Speaker 1: There was a guy that uh so there there was

754
00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:59,480
Speaker 1: a speedboat parked like in the dock, and another guy

755
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:03,240
Speaker 1: who was sing was going super fast and he jumped

756
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:06,399
Speaker 1: his boat on top of the other doctor boat while

757
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:11,400
Speaker 1: someone was still inside, and they very nearly got to capitabes. Um.

758
00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:13,279
Speaker 1: The the the guy that they got to jumped the boat

759
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 1: then ran off and people never found him or he

760
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 1: never faced any punishment because he was able to run

761
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:19,239
Speaker 1: fast enough, which is yeah, that's kind of how you

762
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 1: do it. Um. If you do something wrong, if you

763
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 1: run quickly, then it's fine. So that was That was

764
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:27,760
Speaker 1: the speedboats and one of one of the best rides

765
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 1: in the motor world. Maybe maybe maybe maybe My favorite

766
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:34,680
Speaker 1: is the tank ride. Um. This ride featured heavily in

767
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:37,600
Speaker 1: the TV ads back in the day. Basically, can we

768
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:40,959
Speaker 1: have Robert guess what that means? The tank ride? Yeah,

769
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 1: I'm guessing like the weapons system, right, like some child

770
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:48,879
Speaker 1: version of a tank pretty much. Um So, Like Jean

771
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:52,680
Speaker 1: built these motorized tanks and they had this whole like

772
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:57,080
Speaker 1: arena and oh man, I'm on board so far. He

773
00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:00,520
Speaker 1: would let guests drive UM in these tanks for five

774
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 1: minutes at a time, shooting tennis balls from from cannons

775
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:06,800
Speaker 1: at the other tanks. Don't don't worry, don't worry, Robert,

776
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:09,680
Speaker 1: it gets it gets better. Um when hit a tank,

777
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 1: what I'm actually stopped for like fifteen seconds, giving the

778
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:14,799
Speaker 1: other tankers and visitors with and also on the on

779
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:17,200
Speaker 1: the edges of the arena also had cannons that people

780
00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:21,160
Speaker 1: could just walk up to and shoot um And uh

781
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 1: so yeah you can, you can just shoot tons tons

782
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:25,759
Speaker 1: of tennis balls. Um. Now, often these tanks would break

783
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:28,200
Speaker 1: down and workers would have to go inside of the

784
00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:31,160
Speaker 1: arena to to to fix the tank, but they didn't

785
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:35,040
Speaker 1: shut down the bronx. So it was like the guy

786
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:37,360
Speaker 1: at a golf course whose job is to clean the

787
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:41,960
Speaker 1: driving rate, so of everyone would try to hit the

788
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 1: employees put the two with the tennis balls just cubs.

789
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:53,480
Speaker 1: This made the tank ride an unpopular workshift. UM. And

790
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:58,000
Speaker 1: there was one time where a park attendee um of

791
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:01,560
Speaker 1: acquired gasoline from inside the park and soaked his tennis

792
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 1: balls inside them, brought them into the tank and then

793
00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:07,040
Speaker 1: lit them on fire and started shooting flaming fireballs out

794
00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 1: of his tank. Um they were, they were kicked out

795
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:13,200
Speaker 1: of the park. Unfortunate, credible, unfortunately, do you see they were?

796
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:15,759
Speaker 1: That should make you manager of the park. This is

797
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:20,160
Speaker 1: where see libertarians are never as consistent. They should not exactly, No,

798
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 1: you should reward that kind of innovation shooting flaming tennis

799
00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:32,279
Speaker 1: balls and employees. Come on, that's amazing. Come on, if

800
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:34,919
Speaker 1: you get hit by one, just dive into the castoline.

801
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:39,759
Speaker 1: You'll be all right. Hey, worst case scenario, you burn

802
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:45,440
Speaker 1: the snap and sol two problems. Oh man. So the

803
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:47,719
Speaker 1: last time I played Bumper Guards, it was this place

804
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:50,040
Speaker 1: in l A that was again right next to a highway,

805
00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:53,080
Speaker 1: and I was just I was going out of my

806
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:55,160
Speaker 1: way to hit kids, as I usually do when I'm

807
00:44:55,200 --> 00:45:01,120
Speaker 1: playing cup bumper cars managed to turn around, so I

808
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:03,759
Speaker 1: was going in the opposite direction and just driving head

809
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:06,799
Speaker 1: on at people. And it was like it was like

810
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:10,520
Speaker 1: me a group of adults who horrified, and these little kids,

811
00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:13,400
Speaker 1: and I would just keep writing around and slamming in

812
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:17,600
Speaker 1: the walls and just screaming death like the row here

813
00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:22,600
Speaker 1: in Faults. It was such a good day. God I

814
00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:25,040
Speaker 1: love bumper cars. Sound real fun. We should. We should

815
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 1: go to Oaks Park sometime. No, I can't go back

816
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 1: to do more bumper cars. It makes me a bit

817
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:34,880
Speaker 1: can't go back. He can, I can't not. I just

818
00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:37,600
Speaker 1: can't not. The only place I can do bumper cars

819
00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:40,960
Speaker 1: safely is Mexico because everyone there, everyone at Mexican bumper

820
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:43,480
Speaker 1: cars is on as much acid and as violent as

821
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:45,520
Speaker 1: I am. Or at least I thought you were going

822
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:47,440
Speaker 1: to say on the four or five in Los Angeles,

823
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:50,840
Speaker 1: because that's basically what it is. No, for every people

824
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:55,239
Speaker 1: four or five, it's very polite, driving, very very That's

825
00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:57,000
Speaker 1: why you need the bumper cars. You need to go

826
00:45:57,080 --> 00:45:58,799
Speaker 1: hurt people on the bumper cars. You need to do

827
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:04,799
Speaker 1: damage to your friends. So you can't do it. We have,

828
00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 1: we have gotten most of the notable motor worldwide. So

829
00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:11,280
Speaker 1: we're gonna move up to Alpine Center. Uh. This housed

830
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 1: all like the sports related attractions UM and like all

831
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:16,440
Speaker 1: like the sports ball fields UM and then you know,

832
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:19,719
Speaker 1: tons of like other slides. It did have another bunge

833
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 1: jumping attraction that was seventy feet tall, which is one

834
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:24,560
Speaker 1: of the safer rides in the entire park. And Action

835
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:27,000
Speaker 1: Park was also briefly home to a skate park obviously

836
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:30,359
Speaker 1: uh now not designed by an engineer or people who

837
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:33,560
Speaker 1: knew anything about skateboarding. So the bulls that ride are

838
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:37,080
Speaker 1: scated in were separated by like um, black pavement and

839
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:39,239
Speaker 1: did it and there was no smooth edges, so a

840
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:42,359
Speaker 1: lot of tumbles. Um. An Action Park employee talked about

841
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:45,160
Speaker 1: the skate park um and he said, uh a quote.

842
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:47,759
Speaker 1: So then they built a skate park, a masterpiece and

843
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:50,600
Speaker 1: design where the smooth bulls were isolated by the black

844
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 1: pavement between them who thought this was a good idea,

845
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:55,160
Speaker 1: The blacktop did not even meet the cement at edge.

846
00:46:55,400 --> 00:46:58,320
Speaker 1: The skate park responsible for many for so many injuries

847
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:00,279
Speaker 1: that we covered up that we covered it up with dirt.

848
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:05,399
Speaker 1: I pretended it never existed. Amazing, that's libertarian jeans back

849
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 1: in my good books. So we covered up with never

850
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:11,440
Speaker 1: resisted and thought of grander ways to hurt people, like

851
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:19,680
Speaker 1: the Honda Odysse's now before you don't even need to

852
00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:22,400
Speaker 1: finish that. I'm just hoping he invented the Honda Odyssey

853
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 1: and that was his final method of revenge on then

854
00:47:27,239 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 1: before the mini men of the same name Honda made

855
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:33,920
Speaker 1: a four wheeled uh a not be tired go kart,

856
00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:37,200
Speaker 1: which like predated a t V S and that was

857
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:39,640
Speaker 1: wicked fun, mostly for the employees who would ride them

858
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:42,560
Speaker 1: through the park, terrorizing everyone in our path. It's quoting

859
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:46,960
Speaker 1: former park employee Tom fergus So, just chasing around park

860
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:48,719
Speaker 1: guests on a t V S and all the CIP

861
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:51,960
Speaker 1: walks after you bury the skate park because it hurt

862
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:56,040
Speaker 1: too many kids. Um do do you know, Robert? Are

863
00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:58,680
Speaker 1: you familiar with the people who don't drive a t

864
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:03,319
Speaker 1: V S at children and at parks? Why would you

865
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:07,200
Speaker 1: not aim and a TV so an a t V garrison.

866
00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:09,759
Speaker 1: I come from the cell. There's two purpose. Grew up

867
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:11,720
Speaker 1: in the prairies. I grew up in the prairies of Canada.

868
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:13,920
Speaker 1: We we had we yeah, I know, yeah, you you

869
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 1: and I have had this conversation with friends who are

870
00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:19,040
Speaker 1: not a TV pill. There's two purposes for an a TV.

871
00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:23,480
Speaker 1: One is to kill large chunks of family, of your

872
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:27,279
Speaker 1: own family and terrible a TV accidents, uh And the

873
00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:29,920
Speaker 1: other is to use as a weapon against people who

874
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:32,239
Speaker 1: irritate you. And those are the jobs of an a

875
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:35,520
Speaker 1: t V um so, Yes, I I can't imagine anyone

876
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:38,319
Speaker 1: not driving it at someone. I hope we I hope

877
00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:41,439
Speaker 1: we do get a sponsorship from Big A TV soon,

878
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:44,160
Speaker 1: because if they can send us free a t V s,

879
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:46,359
Speaker 1: we can have so much fun food and we could

880
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:49,279
Speaker 1: they could, we could get we could wipe out whole

881
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:53,040
Speaker 1: generations in a single weekend away from home. So here

882
00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:55,920
Speaker 1: here's some ads too. Hopefully Big A TV, Sophie get

883
00:48:55,960 --> 00:48:59,240
Speaker 1: on that. Can we can we get an A TV sponsorship? Please? Please?

884
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:09,800
Speaker 1: I'll put that requestion for you. Here's the ads. We're back.

885
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:13,600
Speaker 1: So do you think all this talk about injuring people,

886
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:17,000
Speaker 1: specifically children is going to go badly with our audience,

887
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:24,000
Speaker 1: with our audience, no, with our employment. Probably. Well, look

888
00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:29,440
Speaker 1: you can't here, I don't know that. There's certain So

889
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:32,760
Speaker 1: there's some people who grow up and fun is doing

890
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:35,560
Speaker 1: things that are enjoyable for everyone involved. And there's some

891
00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:42,240
Speaker 1: people who grow up and fun is um damaging each other. Um.

892
00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:45,920
Speaker 1: And I grew up in in in the country a

893
00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:49,040
Speaker 1: decent chunk of my childhood, and so fun often involved

894
00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 1: someone getting horribly injured. And you know that's that, that's

895
00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:56,880
Speaker 1: just life, that's just life. And eventually you seek to

896
00:49:56,920 --> 00:50:00,239
Speaker 1: replicate that fun by having I don't know, fireworks fights

897
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:05,600
Speaker 1: and trying to go bicycle jousting and beating your friends

898
00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:10,560
Speaker 1: with raw fish in public parks. Um. You know, just

899
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:13,640
Speaker 1: good times, great times, great time. Alright. We we could

900
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:16,319
Speaker 1: have had some front times at Action Park. We could

901
00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:20,080
Speaker 1: have had I would have traveled to the state of

902
00:50:20,120 --> 00:50:24,200
Speaker 1: New Jersey to Action Park. I would have rented a

903
00:50:24,239 --> 00:50:29,840
Speaker 1: house for a month. Oh man. So in the Alpine

904
00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:33,000
Speaker 1: Center has a lot of rides that never got through testing. Um.

905
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:37,120
Speaker 1: Possibly maybe my favorite attraction in the entire park, which

906
00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:40,239
Speaker 1: did not last for long, was called the Man in

907
00:50:40,239 --> 00:50:42,480
Speaker 1: the Ball in the Ball UM. It was a giant

908
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:48,600
Speaker 1: metal ball floating inside an even bigger metal ball with

909
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 1: with tiny wheels all around it, and you have someone

910
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:53,920
Speaker 1: in the very middle. UM. The idea was to roll

911
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:57,360
Speaker 1: down a mountain in a ball on a set track.

912
00:50:57,560 --> 00:51:01,400
Speaker 1: Now this the track was made out of you see piping, um,

913
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:04,680
Speaker 1: because no one knew what they were doing um on

914
00:51:04,840 --> 00:51:07,120
Speaker 1: and on human testing day it was it was very

915
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:11,799
Speaker 1: hot and PVC piping like it's plastic, so like it expands.

916
00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:14,919
Speaker 1: So as they were rolling the ball with a person

917
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:18,320
Speaker 1: inside down the mountain, the track completely fell apart um

918
00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:21,319
Speaker 1: and the bull rolled rolled down the mountain, over the

919
00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:25,760
Speaker 1: highway and into the swamp with the snakes with someone

920
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:32,560
Speaker 1: all inside. Um. It did not pass human testing unfortunately. Yes, yeah,

921
00:51:32,640 --> 00:51:36,399
Speaker 1: I know. You can't get everything. I know. Another ride

922
00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:38,880
Speaker 1: that did not last long was the so called zero

923
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:45,439
Speaker 1: gravity Slide, which was allegedly inspired by airplanes. Now, don't care,

924
00:51:46,040 --> 00:51:49,439
Speaker 1: so no one knows how I love that allegedly doing

925
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:52,839
Speaker 1: a lot of heavy lifting there, no, so no one

926
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:55,359
Speaker 1: knows what gravity or our planes are. Who's involved with

927
00:51:55,480 --> 00:51:59,879
Speaker 1: this ride? Um? You was? The goal was you would

928
00:51:59,880 --> 00:52:02,319
Speaker 1: have a slide that you gave enough speed and then

929
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:05,399
Speaker 1: hit a ramp that makes you glide through the air.

930
00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:09,080
Speaker 1: Now that's not how humans work. No, that's not how physics.

931
00:52:09,239 --> 00:52:11,360
Speaker 1: But this guy doesn't know any of that. This man's

932
00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:14,840
Speaker 1: never studied anything in his life. So the idea was

933
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:17,120
Speaker 1: like glad through the air and then land perfectly parallel

934
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:19,960
Speaker 1: back on the slide to go on in another lamp. Um,

935
00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:23,160
Speaker 1: Like this guy's whole plan for building a ride is

936
00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:26,440
Speaker 1: to drive to a home depot parking lot, say Trebajo,

937
00:52:26,520 --> 00:52:31,560
Speaker 1: and hold out a napkin. Yes, that's exactly what happened.

938
00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:35,840
Speaker 1: So and it's a testament to the workers he hired,

939
00:52:35,880 --> 00:52:38,640
Speaker 1: to the day laborers he hired, that fewer people died

940
00:52:38,719 --> 00:52:42,960
Speaker 1: than you once were the episode. You're like, how did

941
00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:45,719
Speaker 1: only x amount of people die? Like it should have

942
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:48,239
Speaker 1: been more. I mean there there there maybe is someone

943
00:52:48,320 --> 00:52:50,640
Speaker 1: that we just don't know about. But like, it's it's

944
00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:53,520
Speaker 1: weird how few there are? Is it? Man? It is

945
00:52:54,719 --> 00:52:57,360
Speaker 1: very absurd. Um. I don't know. As I've learned racing

946
00:52:57,400 --> 00:52:59,839
Speaker 1: go carts, it's harder to kill people than you might think.

947
00:53:01,160 --> 00:53:03,839
Speaker 1: So testing on employees went surprisingly well with the zero

948
00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:06,560
Speaker 1: gravity slide, but then, uh, shortly after it opened, a

949
00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:09,160
Speaker 1: small kid went on and got going super fast and

950
00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:11,319
Speaker 1: he launched so high that he missed the entire slide

951
00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:13,360
Speaker 1: and the landing pad and was sent to the hospital

952
00:53:13,400 --> 00:53:15,600
Speaker 1: and the ride got shut down. Um. So it did,

953
00:53:15,680 --> 00:53:19,279
Speaker 1: just didn't last super long. Um. And probably one one

954
00:53:19,320 --> 00:53:21,319
Speaker 1: of the more infamous rides at Action Park is the

955
00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:24,600
Speaker 1: Alpine Slide. But it's it was the longest running like

956
00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:28,720
Speaker 1: Action Park attraction and it was the first one built. Um.

957
00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:30,600
Speaker 1: This was it was a long, long shoot on the

958
00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:33,920
Speaker 1: side of a mountain. Uh that caused many many major

959
00:53:34,080 --> 00:53:36,920
Speaker 1: perils and injuries. UM. It was I ironically referred to

960
00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:44,080
Speaker 1: as the safest ride there. Um because because because because

961
00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:47,040
Speaker 1: part officials would talk to like the media and say like, no,

962
00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:49,560
Speaker 1: it's save We saw a nine year old grandma carrying

963
00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:52,560
Speaker 1: a baby right down the slide. Um, So that was

964
00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:55,960
Speaker 1: the lie they kept using. Um. Yeah, which is also

965
00:53:56,200 --> 00:53:58,879
Speaker 1: very very frightening to hear, because these tracks were made

966
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:03,160
Speaker 1: out of conca fiber, fiberglass, and asbestos. Well and also

967
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:05,880
Speaker 1: I am absolutely certain, being the man that he was,

968
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:10,759
Speaker 1: if you called something the safest ride at his park,

969
00:54:10,880 --> 00:54:14,080
Speaker 1: Gene would take it as an insult. Yeah, sure, like,

970
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:17,000
Speaker 1: how how dare you? How dare you say that about

971
00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:20,240
Speaker 1: my child? So like the y and Dy bumpy track

972
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:23,200
Speaker 1: was made out of a concrete cement, fiberglass, and asbestos.

973
00:54:23,320 --> 00:54:25,160
Speaker 1: So anyone who took a to anyone who looked like

974
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:27,640
Speaker 1: even a minor hit tended to get like very bad

975
00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:32,040
Speaker 1: like friction burns um on on their skin because you're

976
00:54:32,080 --> 00:54:35,040
Speaker 1: rubbing on all of these rough materials um. And also

977
00:54:35,120 --> 00:54:37,080
Speaker 1: like they were usually just wearing bathing suits, like they

978
00:54:37,080 --> 00:54:41,120
Speaker 1: didn't have much clothes on. Um. This The sled had

979
00:54:41,520 --> 00:54:44,759
Speaker 1: two speeds, very slow because you're breaking the whole time

980
00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:52,640
Speaker 1: or bullet fast, like insanely quick of that. Also the Alpines,

981
00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:54,200
Speaker 1: in order to get to the top of the alpine slide,

982
00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:55,960
Speaker 1: you need to get on the ski left, which we

983
00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:58,239
Speaker 1: are we are talked about with like the fake tasting. Um.

984
00:54:58,560 --> 00:55:01,600
Speaker 1: You know, the ski lift the same thing, um, but

985
00:55:01,719 --> 00:55:04,160
Speaker 1: on on the ski lift up, people would like play games,

986
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:07,520
Speaker 1: games such as like spitting on the people on the

987
00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:12,120
Speaker 1: slide and trying to trying to hit them um or uh.

988
00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:14,000
Speaker 1: When when you're riding up the ski lift, you would

989
00:55:14,040 --> 00:55:17,120
Speaker 1: like strap your sled onto the side, and what you

990
00:55:17,160 --> 00:55:19,479
Speaker 1: would also do is try to drop your herd sled

991
00:55:19,560 --> 00:55:24,479
Speaker 1: on people writing down the slide. It's a whole theme

992
00:55:24,560 --> 00:55:27,200
Speaker 1: park where everybody thinks the way I do at theme parks.

993
00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:30,840
Speaker 1: This was I had a home at one point, Garrison.

994
00:55:30,920 --> 00:55:33,440
Speaker 1: I had a home and I never got to see it.

995
00:55:33,880 --> 00:55:39,160
Speaker 1: This was a daily occurrence. People dropping there like twenty pounds. Literally,

996
00:55:39,239 --> 00:55:43,400
Speaker 1: what else are you going sleds on the people riding down.

997
00:55:44,680 --> 00:55:46,600
Speaker 1: So at the top of the slide there was a

998
00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:50,600
Speaker 1: gallery of bloody pictures of people who rode to ride previously.

999
00:55:56,920 --> 00:56:00,719
Speaker 1: Oh my god. And on your little slide you had

1000
00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:04,439
Speaker 1: you had like a stick break which almost never worked. Yeah,

1001
00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:06,920
Speaker 1: why no, why would That's the least important thing in

1002
00:56:06,920 --> 00:56:11,680
Speaker 1: the entire park. Breaks on anything really need the break

1003
00:56:11,840 --> 00:56:13,919
Speaker 1: to turn the slides. Well, so you're just gonna fly

1004
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:17,040
Speaker 1: on the break. If you're a coward garrison, your breaks

1005
00:56:17,080 --> 00:56:19,960
Speaker 1: are the other people on the ride. That's how that

1006
00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:24,080
Speaker 1: also happens. That's how you make it work. You use

1007
00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:27,000
Speaker 1: their bodies as a break. That happened. That did happen frequently.

1008
00:56:27,680 --> 00:56:29,680
Speaker 1: I'll bet even if you did break properly, the bumps

1009
00:56:29,719 --> 00:56:32,160
Speaker 1: could still send you flying off into like rocky. It's

1010
00:56:32,160 --> 00:56:34,520
Speaker 1: like it's like the around the slide. It was like

1011
00:56:34,719 --> 00:56:38,840
Speaker 1: a mountain. It wasn't like soft grassy. It wasn't soft

1012
00:56:38,880 --> 00:56:44,440
Speaker 1: grassy hills. It was a rocky mountain. There's the pile

1013
00:56:44,520 --> 00:56:47,440
Speaker 1: of rocks, so tye if they were soft rocks, it's

1014
00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:51,520
Speaker 1: the Appellachians, right, that's not the hard mountain. Everything broken,

1015
00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:55,839
Speaker 1: collar bones, broken arms, many concussions. On an average day

1016
00:56:55,840 --> 00:56:59,080
Speaker 1: there was fifty people injured on the slide double double

1017
00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:07,080
Speaker 1: on the weekends. But an incredible place near But it's okay.

1018
00:57:07,120 --> 00:57:09,799
Speaker 1: You've got that brewery right there. You bring your collar bone,

1019
00:57:09,840 --> 00:57:12,879
Speaker 1: you go. Can you get right back on the horse

1020
00:57:12,920 --> 00:57:15,600
Speaker 1: that you can probably find acid from a from like

1021
00:57:15,680 --> 00:57:17,680
Speaker 1: from like a fourteen year old who's riding, who's like

1022
00:57:17,720 --> 00:57:20,520
Speaker 1: operating the water slide. Yeah, I feel like you would

1023
00:57:20,560 --> 00:57:22,920
Speaker 1: have to work to not buy acid from a fourteen

1024
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:25,439
Speaker 1: year old at Action Park like that, that would be

1025
00:57:25,640 --> 00:57:28,320
Speaker 1: that would be an achievement. You'd go back home, was like, yeah,

1026
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:30,120
Speaker 1: I went to Action Park and I did not buy

1027
00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:34,880
Speaker 1: drugs from a child. It's like going to Guatemala. Near

1028
00:57:35,120 --> 00:57:37,440
Speaker 1: near the bottom of the Alpine slide, it was a

1029
00:57:37,480 --> 00:57:42,240
Speaker 1: so called infirmary shack specifically for slide related injuries. UM.

1030
00:57:42,280 --> 00:57:44,320
Speaker 1: Inside the shack there was a white there was a

1031
00:57:44,320 --> 00:57:47,000
Speaker 1: small white circle on the ground UM and to help

1032
00:57:47,120 --> 00:57:49,960
Speaker 1: prevent infection after you know, bad friction burns, they had

1033
00:57:50,040 --> 00:57:53,560
Speaker 1: a special spray which was just alcohol and iodine UM

1034
00:57:53,640 --> 00:57:56,040
Speaker 1: that they would that employees would spray onto the open

1035
00:57:56,040 --> 00:57:58,959
Speaker 1: wounds caused by the slide. Now, if you can stay

1036
00:57:58,960 --> 00:58:01,600
Speaker 1: inside the circle as the employees sprayed you, you would

1037
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:04,000
Speaker 1: win a prize. UM. And if if you ever had

1038
00:58:04,040 --> 00:58:07,120
Speaker 1: a big like traction burn or anything, if if you

1039
00:58:07,200 --> 00:58:09,800
Speaker 1: ever had one, try to get cleaned, especially by any

1040
00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:13,040
Speaker 1: like alcohol based spray. You can imagine how extremely painful.

1041
00:58:13,080 --> 00:58:14,960
Speaker 1: This would be like some of the worst pain you

1042
00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:19,720
Speaker 1: can imagine. Um. So, one employee of recounts over the

1043
00:58:19,720 --> 00:58:21,800
Speaker 1: three years they worked there, only two people ever stayed

1044
00:58:21,840 --> 00:58:24,480
Speaker 1: in the circle. And remember there's like fifty people getting

1045
00:58:24,440 --> 00:58:27,720
Speaker 1: injured on week week days, double on weekends. Um. So

1046
00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:30,000
Speaker 1: only two people stayed in the circle over this employees

1047
00:58:30,040 --> 00:58:33,840
Speaker 1: time working. And the prize was an Action Park pen.

1048
00:58:34,840 --> 00:58:41,560
Speaker 1: So that's worth it. Yeah. And and here's where things

1049
00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:43,680
Speaker 1: get to start to get a little actually get darker.

1050
00:58:43,880 --> 00:58:46,440
Speaker 1: The Aupline slide was the first was the site of

1051
00:58:46,520 --> 00:58:49,560
Speaker 1: the first death at at the park. UM. Nineteen year

1052
00:58:49,600 --> 00:58:52,360
Speaker 1: old George Larson Jr. Was at Action Park with his

1053
00:58:52,440 --> 00:58:56,280
Speaker 1: family on July ninety. He was writing the outline slide

1054
00:58:56,280 --> 00:58:58,280
Speaker 1: and thrown off the track and his head struck a

1055
00:58:58,320 --> 00:59:02,120
Speaker 1: nearby rock. After several as in Tacoma, he died. UM.

1056
00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:04,360
Speaker 1: Jean Mulville tried to cover up the death by saying

1057
00:59:04,400 --> 00:59:07,280
Speaker 1: Larson was an Action Park employee and he snuck in

1058
00:59:07,320 --> 00:59:09,400
Speaker 1: at nighttime and it was raining when the accident happened.

1059
00:59:09,600 --> 00:59:12,640
Speaker 1: None of that is true, um, but this meant that

1060
00:59:12,800 --> 00:59:15,440
Speaker 1: since Jean claimed he was an employee who died, he

1061
00:59:15,480 --> 00:59:18,160
Speaker 1: did not need to report the death to state regulators,

1062
00:59:18,400 --> 00:59:20,920
Speaker 1: so he just lies so he didn't have to report it.

1063
00:59:22,200 --> 00:59:24,760
Speaker 1: And you still you still see this lie reported in

1064
00:59:24,960 --> 00:59:27,439
Speaker 1: a lot of media about Action Park. Um. You still

1065
00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:30,280
Speaker 1: see this lie repeated again that that the first death

1066
00:59:30,320 --> 00:59:32,640
Speaker 1: was an employee you smoking at night, which just did

1067
00:59:32,680 --> 00:59:36,840
Speaker 1: not happen. Um. So the Alpine slide only caused one

1068
00:59:36,920 --> 00:59:39,520
Speaker 1: death that we know of, but it was responsible for

1069
00:59:39,600 --> 00:59:42,920
Speaker 1: most of the lawsuits and around of the citations against

1070
00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:46,720
Speaker 1: Action Park. Um. Yeah, it was also one of the

1071
00:59:46,920 --> 00:59:50,320
Speaker 1: few last rides to get shut down when the park closed. UM.

1072
00:59:50,560 --> 00:59:54,320
Speaker 1: So on now that that that that wraps up the

1073
00:59:54,360 --> 00:59:56,920
Speaker 1: Alpine Center, and we're gonna go onto water World, the

1074
00:59:57,240 --> 01:00:00,640
Speaker 1: final area of the park, um and all end up.

1075
01:00:00,680 --> 01:00:02,640
Speaker 1: The first water World attraction we're gonna talk about has

1076
01:00:02,640 --> 01:00:06,040
Speaker 1: nothing to do with water. It's actually a sky diving simulator. Um.

1077
01:00:06,080 --> 01:00:09,440
Speaker 1: There was a skydiving simulator like wind tunnel outdoors that

1078
01:00:09,480 --> 01:00:13,840
Speaker 1: was invented in Germany four Um. It was the first

1079
01:00:13,880 --> 01:00:16,720
Speaker 1: one was moved to the States. In Night seven at

1080
01:00:16,800 --> 01:00:20,480
Speaker 1: Action Park. Writers were special diving suits, helmets, and ear plugs,

1081
01:00:20,520 --> 01:00:22,760
Speaker 1: and they had an instructor there who would like help you,

1082
01:00:22,800 --> 01:00:27,000
Speaker 1: like get over this giant trampoline with a fan essentially. Um.

1083
01:00:27,120 --> 01:00:29,720
Speaker 1: Most injuries that that the sky diving stimulator came because

1084
01:00:29,720 --> 01:00:32,360
Speaker 1: writers instinctively try to like break their falls by by

1085
01:00:32,400 --> 01:00:34,640
Speaker 1: extending their arms. I used to be a part of instructor.

1086
01:00:34,640 --> 01:00:37,400
Speaker 1: That's pretty common when people fall, they and they don't

1087
01:00:37,440 --> 01:00:39,280
Speaker 1: know how to they try to use their arms and

1088
01:00:39,320 --> 01:00:43,080
Speaker 1: you get a lot of you know, um, like dislocated shoulders, wrists,

1089
01:00:44,440 --> 01:00:47,320
Speaker 1: right yeah, or just like throwing yourself out of the

1090
01:00:47,520 --> 01:00:49,720
Speaker 1: even like landing flat on your back is better than

1091
01:00:49,920 --> 01:00:53,320
Speaker 1: landing on your arm. Um. So yeah, this this because

1092
01:00:53,400 --> 01:00:56,520
Speaker 1: there acust a lot of shoulder The ride caused auto shoulder,

1093
01:00:56,640 --> 01:01:00,720
Speaker 1: just dislocation, um, severed nerves and it almost caused some

1094
01:01:01,040 --> 01:01:04,760
Speaker 1: permanent armed paralysis and a few guests. Um. But now

1095
01:01:04,880 --> 01:01:07,720
Speaker 1: onto the most famous I'll be a short lived action

1096
01:01:07,720 --> 01:01:11,120
Speaker 1: park attraction, the Cannonball Loop. This one was designed on

1097
01:01:11,120 --> 01:01:17,040
Speaker 1: a napkin. Um good. So you know how there's are

1098
01:01:17,080 --> 01:01:19,640
Speaker 1: the coasters that do a little like loop de loop thing,

1099
01:01:20,760 --> 01:01:22,720
Speaker 1: you know, like the basic thing. It's fun, you know

1100
01:01:23,320 --> 01:01:27,200
Speaker 1: loop loop Now, what is that but water slide? Now

1101
01:01:27,240 --> 01:01:29,760
Speaker 1: if you're saying, but that's not how water works, because

1102
01:01:29,760 --> 01:01:31,520
Speaker 1: you can't like shoot water up this thing unles you

1103
01:01:31,520 --> 01:01:33,080
Speaker 1: have like a hose running through it, which he didn't have.

1104
01:01:33,600 --> 01:01:36,640
Speaker 1: That that that doesn't not matter because Jeane drew a

1105
01:01:36,680 --> 01:01:39,080
Speaker 1: little loop loop on a napkin and then built this

1106
01:01:39,200 --> 01:01:43,840
Speaker 1: water slide. Um. In the initial testing, uh, he put

1107
01:01:43,840 --> 01:01:47,080
Speaker 1: down like crash test dummies, um, and the dummies came

1108
01:01:47,080 --> 01:01:51,480
Speaker 1: out with missing limbs and heads. Um. And then when

1109
01:01:51,520 --> 01:01:53,680
Speaker 1: they move on to human testing, Gene offered employees a

1110
01:01:53,760 --> 01:01:57,360
Speaker 1: hundred dollars to ride the cannonball loop, which was like,

1111
01:01:57,480 --> 01:02:00,960
Speaker 1: will you be my flesh mannequin? It's like three hundred

1112
01:02:01,000 --> 01:02:04,960
Speaker 1: dollars in today's money, So if you're if you're a teenager,

1113
01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:07,000
Speaker 1: it's not enough. You could buy like, I don't know,

1114
01:02:07,080 --> 01:02:09,240
Speaker 1: twenty tabs with that or something. It's great. It's a

1115
01:02:09,280 --> 01:02:12,640
Speaker 1: great deal. I mean. And just speaking from a libertarian

1116
01:02:12,680 --> 01:02:16,040
Speaker 1: point of view, there's no greater joy than handing children

1117
01:02:16,160 --> 01:02:19,200
Speaker 1: money to endanger their own lives. That's really that's the

1118
01:02:19,240 --> 01:02:22,760
Speaker 1: peak of that idea. The kind of bello never caused

1119
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:26,960
Speaker 1: super bad injuries. Actually, it's surprising how much it functioned.

1120
01:02:27,320 --> 01:02:29,560
Speaker 1: This because it was just drawn on a napkin. Um.

1121
01:02:29,600 --> 01:02:32,000
Speaker 1: There was like because it looks like look at a

1122
01:02:32,080 --> 01:02:34,840
Speaker 1: picture of it. It's like a looty tunes right, like

1123
01:02:35,080 --> 01:02:40,120
Speaker 1: it's out of its mind. So of there were like,

1124
01:02:40,240 --> 01:02:42,200
Speaker 1: you know, concussions and stuff, but like, you know, it's

1125
01:02:42,200 --> 01:02:45,480
Speaker 1: a concussion. It's bad, but you know it's not, it's

1126
01:02:45,480 --> 01:02:47,280
Speaker 1: not it's not the worst. Um. And there were some

1127
01:02:47,360 --> 01:02:49,600
Speaker 1: very unhappy testicles for having to like loop up and

1128
01:02:49,640 --> 01:02:52,560
Speaker 1: then your body it's you know, the side of the thing. Yeah,

1129
01:02:52,640 --> 01:02:55,160
Speaker 1: I don't feel great afterwards. But the ride was deemed

1130
01:02:55,200 --> 01:02:58,120
Speaker 1: safe enough by Gene and you know, the sheerest impossible

1131
01:02:58,200 --> 01:03:01,920
Speaker 1: nature of the construction was too entire seemed to pass up. Yeah, no,

1132
01:03:02,040 --> 01:03:05,120
Speaker 1: you have to try it. So right before you when

1133
01:03:05,160 --> 01:03:06,840
Speaker 1: the ride opened, right right before you got on, they

1134
01:03:06,880 --> 01:03:08,840
Speaker 1: would have like a garden hose to spray you down

1135
01:03:08,920 --> 01:03:13,360
Speaker 1: to help make you more slippery. Um. And they should

1136
01:03:13,360 --> 01:03:20,520
Speaker 1: have people up gotten those big Yeah. Initially there was

1137
01:03:20,520 --> 01:03:22,200
Speaker 1: no padding at the top of the slide. This caused

1138
01:03:22,200 --> 01:03:24,680
Speaker 1: a lot of injuries, uh, like smashing her head to

1139
01:03:24,680 --> 01:03:26,720
Speaker 1: the top of the loop. Um. But then some film

1140
01:03:26,720 --> 01:03:30,000
Speaker 1: padding was added. The next issue is that right writers

1141
01:03:30,080 --> 01:03:32,760
Speaker 1: kept exiting the slide with bizarre cuts and scratches on

1142
01:03:32,800 --> 01:03:35,800
Speaker 1: their body. When the slide was inspected, they realized that

1143
01:03:35,880 --> 01:03:38,800
Speaker 1: human teeth were found stuck in the home padding from

1144
01:03:38,800 --> 01:03:47,120
Speaker 1: people smashing their heads and tops. Incredible teeth just other

1145
01:03:47,320 --> 01:03:50,560
Speaker 1: people's teeth are imbedded so deeply in it that the

1146
01:03:50,640 --> 01:03:56,440
Speaker 1: teeth are biting passengers after them. Oh my god. The

1147
01:03:56,480 --> 01:03:59,760
Speaker 1: Cannibal Loop was again, the only thing I would change

1148
01:04:00,040 --> 01:04:03,080
Speaker 1: if I were running Action Park was for everyone to

1149
01:04:03,080 --> 01:04:05,600
Speaker 1: be covered in loupe at all times. Would have that

1150
01:04:05,600 --> 01:04:08,760
Speaker 1: would have gotten rid of those deaths. Yeah. So the

1151
01:04:09,360 --> 01:04:11,560
Speaker 1: loop was only open for a little over a month

1152
01:04:11,600 --> 01:04:15,120
Speaker 1: in the summer of nineteen five before the state's Advisory

1153
01:04:15,200 --> 01:04:19,080
Speaker 1: Board on Carnival Amusement Safety or ordered its closure. Too

1154
01:04:19,080 --> 01:04:20,840
Speaker 1: many teeth. You can't have this many teeth in a

1155
01:04:20,880 --> 01:04:25,640
Speaker 1: plain back ry. Gotta get this number of teeth down

1156
01:04:25,680 --> 01:04:28,360
Speaker 1: by half. So moving on to other kind of bizarre

1157
01:04:28,400 --> 01:04:30,760
Speaker 1: water slides, there was one called the Aqua Scoot where

1158
01:04:30,920 --> 01:04:33,440
Speaker 1: writers would have a hard plastic sleds on top of

1159
01:04:33,440 --> 01:04:36,800
Speaker 1: the attraction and go down, you know, a curved a

1160
01:04:36,880 --> 01:04:41,000
Speaker 1: curved open slide um and and uh but on the

1161
01:04:41,080 --> 01:04:42,600
Speaker 1: on the on the track, we had a little like

1162
01:04:42,680 --> 01:04:44,480
Speaker 1: metal rollers, you know, like you have like like like

1163
01:04:44,520 --> 01:04:47,760
Speaker 1: a factory assembly line. So you would rule across these

1164
01:04:47,760 --> 01:04:49,920
Speaker 1: on the sled and then try to skip yourself like

1165
01:04:49,920 --> 01:04:52,480
Speaker 1: a stone over a puddle at the bottom. UM. So

1166
01:04:52,520 --> 01:04:54,000
Speaker 1: it was like it was like it's like your stone skipping,

1167
01:04:54,000 --> 01:04:57,840
Speaker 1: but you're the stone. Um. It didn't know. If you

1168
01:04:57,840 --> 01:05:00,600
Speaker 1: weren't positioned to just write, you would immediately face plant

1169
01:05:00,640 --> 01:05:02,200
Speaker 1: and the and the pool was not very deep. It

1170
01:05:02,240 --> 01:05:03,960
Speaker 1: was only like a foot deep. So you were like

1171
01:05:04,200 --> 01:05:06,160
Speaker 1: slam into the bottom of this, of this, of this

1172
01:05:06,200 --> 01:05:09,800
Speaker 1: little puddle. Also there was a beast nest inside the slide. UM.

1173
01:05:09,960 --> 01:05:13,280
Speaker 1: He just couldn't help himself. I have to believe that

1174
01:05:13,440 --> 01:05:18,400
Speaker 1: every interaction of wildlife with injury is purposeful. Was Jane

1175
01:05:18,440 --> 01:05:21,240
Speaker 1: being like, what else could I stick in here fucking

1176
01:05:21,320 --> 01:05:24,400
Speaker 1: ba's nest? What One of the rides that looks actually

1177
01:05:24,400 --> 01:05:27,960
Speaker 1: super cool? Um was called the Colorado River Ride. It

1178
01:05:28,080 --> 01:05:30,840
Speaker 1: was a group inner tube ride that was a white

1179
01:05:30,840 --> 01:05:34,360
Speaker 1: water rafting simulator. UM. Now it begain life as a

1180
01:05:34,440 --> 01:05:37,960
Speaker 1: lazy river ride, and Jean was like, you know what's

1181
01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:40,560
Speaker 1: more fun than a lazy river rides? Action in the

1182
01:05:40,640 --> 01:05:45,840
Speaker 1: lazy river is white water is Class four rapids. So early, early,

1183
01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:49,320
Speaker 1: early human test pilots came out of this ride. Unconscious. UM.

1184
01:05:49,440 --> 01:05:51,360
Speaker 1: So the intensity was slightly turned down, but it was

1185
01:05:51,400 --> 01:05:54,760
Speaker 1: still very It was still a very intense ride. UM

1186
01:05:54,800 --> 01:05:57,320
Speaker 1: and Jean purposely removed all of the life guards there

1187
01:05:57,440 --> 01:06:00,160
Speaker 1: because quote, there are there are no lifeguards at the

1188
01:06:00,160 --> 01:06:05,080
Speaker 1: Colorado River. Well there you go, there you go. I mean,

1189
01:06:05,200 --> 01:06:14,280
Speaker 1: fair enough, my man, fair enough, there aren't gene You

1190
01:06:14,320 --> 01:06:20,840
Speaker 1: are correct. Nearby where the diving cliffs um like and

1191
01:06:20,880 --> 01:06:25,440
Speaker 1: fifteen feet tall cliffs over a freshwater pool, it was

1192
01:06:25,760 --> 01:06:28,840
Speaker 1: the pools about sixteen feet deep. Because like, the whole

1193
01:06:28,880 --> 01:06:31,400
Speaker 1: inspiration for Action Park was, like Jean says, it was

1194
01:06:31,400 --> 01:06:32,720
Speaker 1: like the nature that he grew up in and he

1195
01:06:32,760 --> 01:06:35,280
Speaker 1: figured out kids couldn't go into real nature, his park

1196
01:06:35,320 --> 01:06:37,280
Speaker 1: would be the next best thing. So this just meant,

1197
01:06:37,320 --> 01:06:40,480
Speaker 1: you know, a Colorado River ride and jumping off cliffs

1198
01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:43,480
Speaker 1: um on on. On the cliffs drimping one, you would

1199
01:06:43,520 --> 01:06:46,240
Speaker 1: often land on top of people because you know, the

1200
01:06:46,320 --> 01:06:47,520
Speaker 1: danger of the ride was at the section of the

1201
01:06:47,560 --> 01:06:49,680
Speaker 1: pool where people landed wasn't blocked off at all, and

1202
01:06:49,680 --> 01:06:52,640
Speaker 1: people would just jump off without caring about what's under them.

1203
01:06:52,840 --> 01:06:54,880
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of collisions and you know you're

1204
01:06:55,280 --> 01:06:58,320
Speaker 1: clading on people over top of a sixteen foot pool,

1205
01:06:58,600 --> 01:07:01,400
Speaker 1: and people did not know how to whim um. Now,

1206
01:07:01,440 --> 01:07:05,760
Speaker 1: of course, shoulders will get constantly dislocated. Um. And the

1207
01:07:06,080 --> 01:07:09,440
Speaker 1: water was much deeper than expected. Eventually they had to

1208
01:07:09,680 --> 01:07:12,200
Speaker 1: paint the bottom of the pool white so it was

1209
01:07:12,200 --> 01:07:15,920
Speaker 1: easy to see bodies. Uh, because it's just hard to

1210
01:07:15,920 --> 01:07:18,120
Speaker 1: tell with you know, you know you're running a good

1211
01:07:18,160 --> 01:07:21,240
Speaker 1: theme park. When the sentence so it was easier to

1212
01:07:21,320 --> 01:07:24,480
Speaker 1: see bodies is added to an explanation of like one

1213
01:07:24,520 --> 01:07:29,560
Speaker 1: of your engineering changes. The now diving cliffs were not

1214
01:07:29,560 --> 01:07:31,960
Speaker 1: the only conflict attraction. There was another one where you're

1215
01:07:31,960 --> 01:07:35,200
Speaker 1: writing on the cliffs called serf Hill. UM. It was

1216
01:07:35,280 --> 01:07:38,560
Speaker 1: it was basically a giant slipping slide on the mountain. Uh.

1217
01:07:38,640 --> 01:07:40,920
Speaker 1: The The original concept was to jump off a cliff

1218
01:07:40,960 --> 01:07:43,320
Speaker 1: and and land on the side to continue the ride.

1219
01:07:43,680 --> 01:07:46,640
Speaker 1: This this this, this idea was abandoned due to space limitations,

1220
01:07:46,840 --> 01:07:49,840
Speaker 1: but Surf Hill got its airborne wish via other means.

1221
01:07:50,000 --> 01:07:53,040
Speaker 1: UM employees so you had like little like like plastic

1222
01:07:53,040 --> 01:07:56,160
Speaker 1: mats to write on. UM and employees would slide extra

1223
01:07:56,240 --> 01:07:58,640
Speaker 1: mats on the slide to make the jumps and ramps

1224
01:07:58,680 --> 01:08:01,920
Speaker 1: bigger and more extreme. Eventually, guests eventually guests got too

1225
01:08:01,960 --> 01:08:04,200
Speaker 1: much air and broke their nap and broke their neck

1226
01:08:04,280 --> 01:08:08,560
Speaker 1: upon landing. Um, and guess what do you know, slide

1227
01:08:08,600 --> 01:08:11,960
Speaker 1: down the slipping slope on on on landing like this

1228
01:08:12,000 --> 01:08:15,400
Speaker 1: little puddle area. Um. There was like ten lanes, but

1229
01:08:15,440 --> 01:08:17,880
Speaker 1: there wasn't many like barriers to speak up between the lanes,

1230
01:08:17,880 --> 01:08:20,240
Speaker 1: so that often be like criss crossing and collisions on

1231
01:08:20,280 --> 01:08:24,719
Speaker 1: the slide itself. Um. The seventh lane was particularly dangerous

1232
01:08:24,760 --> 01:08:28,439
Speaker 1: because that's the one that employees would stick the mats under.

1233
01:08:28,640 --> 01:08:30,840
Speaker 1: When Jeane discovered that the force of hitting the water

1234
01:08:30,920 --> 01:08:33,400
Speaker 1: at the bottom of Surf Hill could tear off bathing suits,

1235
01:08:33,439 --> 01:08:37,400
Speaker 1: he immediately took action by building a grandstand spectator section

1236
01:08:37,560 --> 01:08:43,759
Speaker 1: so people could watch. People watch. Every time I start

1237
01:08:43,840 --> 01:08:46,080
Speaker 1: to think he's not a great guy, he just does

1238
01:08:46,120 --> 01:08:48,640
Speaker 1: the best thing he could pass. People can watch teenagers

1239
01:08:48,960 --> 01:08:52,559
Speaker 1: to get their tops for off. Jean, and you what

1240
01:08:52,680 --> 01:08:57,120
Speaker 1: a perfect libertarian he is. He is checking all of

1241
01:08:57,160 --> 01:09:00,960
Speaker 1: the boxes. He is. He is the plata ideal of

1242
01:09:00,960 --> 01:09:08,120
Speaker 1: a libertarian. You've got borderline child molestation, you've got child labor,

1243
01:09:08,640 --> 01:09:13,000
Speaker 1: you've got uh paying people to endanger their own bodies.

1244
01:09:13,439 --> 01:09:17,680
Speaker 1: You've got a complete contempt for any sort of safety regulations.

1245
01:09:17,680 --> 01:09:22,880
Speaker 1: You've got everything. Libertarians love in a he's he's he's like,

1246
01:09:23,080 --> 01:09:26,559
Speaker 1: he's like their zeus yea. A park employees often would

1247
01:09:26,560 --> 01:09:28,680
Speaker 1: sit by a nearby snack check that offered a good

1248
01:09:28,720 --> 01:09:30,800
Speaker 1: view of surf hill, just excited to see all the

1249
01:09:30,840 --> 01:09:39,840
Speaker 1: injuries and last bakhini tops. Um, god damn it geh.

1250
01:09:42,000 --> 01:09:44,040
Speaker 1: Another water slide called Kennibell falls, which is like a

1251
01:09:44,080 --> 01:09:47,040
Speaker 1: completely covered water slide leading into a massive like like

1252
01:09:47,080 --> 01:09:50,080
Speaker 1: ten ft drop into a pool. Um. According to an

1253
01:09:50,080 --> 01:09:53,000
Speaker 1: action former a former action part guests a cluster of

1254
01:09:53,120 --> 01:09:55,240
Speaker 1: four or five short water slides ended by shooting you

1255
01:09:55,280 --> 01:09:58,000
Speaker 1: into a lake. Various kids would fly out at various times,

1256
01:09:58,200 --> 01:10:01,600
Speaker 1: landing on top of each other mid air um or

1257
01:10:01,720 --> 01:10:05,000
Speaker 1: sometimes landing on a on a sharp rock nearby because

1258
01:10:05,000 --> 01:10:08,160
Speaker 1: you couldn't like you wouldn't like line at to jump correctly. Um. Sure,

1259
01:10:09,240 --> 01:10:13,000
Speaker 1: And often lots of these like tunnels had like very

1260
01:10:13,040 --> 01:10:16,240
Speaker 1: abrupt degree turns, not a forty five degree turns. You

1261
01:10:16,240 --> 01:10:18,479
Speaker 1: would like slam into a wall and keep going to

1262
01:10:18,520 --> 01:10:20,920
Speaker 1: the fourth of the water, um, and just toss you

1263
01:10:21,000 --> 01:10:24,800
Speaker 1: in you know a different direction, um, you know it

1264
01:10:24,800 --> 01:10:27,360
Speaker 1: would it would shoot your young no old body into

1265
01:10:27,360 --> 01:10:30,759
Speaker 1: a gooey pool. Uh, full of crying kids and water snakes.

1266
01:10:30,840 --> 01:10:37,360
Speaker 1: It was awesome. That's the end of the quote. Uh.

1267
01:10:37,520 --> 01:10:40,280
Speaker 1: They had another white water rafting ride called the Roaring Rapids.

1268
01:10:40,280 --> 01:10:42,080
Speaker 1: This one had rafts that you that they were trying

1269
01:10:42,080 --> 01:10:45,400
Speaker 1: to replicate a mountain swimming hole. Uh. Jean turned up

1270
01:10:45,439 --> 01:10:49,639
Speaker 1: the intensity to make it another of class for rapids.

1271
01:10:50,320 --> 01:10:53,680
Speaker 1: Six later, Um, there was a responsible for report after

1272
01:10:53,680 --> 01:10:56,840
Speaker 1: report noting fractured bones and dislicated body parts. They're also

1273
01:10:56,880 --> 01:10:59,559
Speaker 1: exposed bolts on the underside of the tunnel and lots

1274
01:10:59,600 --> 01:11:01,760
Speaker 1: of lots of traffic in the forks of the path

1275
01:11:01,760 --> 01:11:06,400
Speaker 1: that would cause you know, people to like get stuck. Um. Yeah,

1276
01:11:06,439 --> 01:11:10,080
Speaker 1: there was a fractured femurs, collar bones, broken nose into

1277
01:11:10,080 --> 01:11:13,080
Speaker 1: displicant shoulders, and knees. All were inside reports filed by

1278
01:11:13,120 --> 01:11:18,240
Speaker 1: Action Park just in An, India. By UM, they had

1279
01:11:18,240 --> 01:11:21,479
Speaker 1: a very steep water slide called the Superspeedwater Slide UM,

1280
01:11:21,640 --> 01:11:24,200
Speaker 1: which like almost like a completely vertical drop where you

1281
01:11:24,200 --> 01:11:26,840
Speaker 1: would have to like park employees would say, like they

1282
01:11:26,880 --> 01:11:28,760
Speaker 1: actually give instructions for this one because if you fell off,

1283
01:11:28,800 --> 01:11:32,160
Speaker 1: you would like fault to your death. Like very quickly. Um. Sure,

1284
01:11:32,520 --> 01:11:36,000
Speaker 1: so you gotta have a teenager kind of brush over

1285
01:11:36,080 --> 01:11:39,240
Speaker 1: what you're supposed to do to avoid that. Yeah. Yeah,

1286
01:11:39,439 --> 01:11:41,639
Speaker 1: And you will go too super fast on this because

1287
01:11:41,680 --> 01:11:44,880
Speaker 1: you're it's like a vertical drop. Um. And most notably,

1288
01:11:44,880 --> 01:11:47,400
Speaker 1: it would shoot water up your ass and mess up

1289
01:11:47,439 --> 01:11:49,160
Speaker 1: your junk. It was referred to by staff as the

1290
01:11:49,200 --> 01:11:55,880
Speaker 1: freshwater enema ride. Um. So that's fun. Um. Another popular

1291
01:11:55,880 --> 01:11:59,360
Speaker 1: attraction was the Tarzan swing. This was memorable for some

1292
01:11:59,439 --> 01:12:01,639
Speaker 1: good and bad reasons. It's kind of it's it's exact

1293
01:12:01,640 --> 01:12:03,679
Speaker 1: exactly what it sounds like. A giant rope swing into

1294
01:12:03,720 --> 01:12:06,760
Speaker 1: a into like a pool of water. Um. If people

1295
01:12:06,800 --> 01:12:08,479
Speaker 1: held onto the rope too long, they would, you know,

1296
01:12:08,520 --> 01:12:10,840
Speaker 1: they would mess up their swing and go back into

1297
01:12:10,920 --> 01:12:12,479
Speaker 1: like the jumping off point. That's just the problem with

1298
01:12:12,520 --> 01:12:15,679
Speaker 1: rope swings in general. Um. The biggest cause of alarm, however,

1299
01:12:16,120 --> 01:12:19,400
Speaker 1: was the pool of water. It wasn't like a pool

1300
01:12:19,439 --> 01:12:21,760
Speaker 1: of water. This was a section of the mountain that,

1301
01:12:21,800 --> 01:12:26,840
Speaker 1: like river runoff would go into it was freezing cold. Um.

1302
01:12:27,000 --> 01:12:29,000
Speaker 1: Lifeguards were forced to jump in the rescue people who

1303
01:12:29,200 --> 01:12:31,559
Speaker 1: forgot how to swim because they were so im prepared

1304
01:12:31,600 --> 01:12:34,720
Speaker 1: for the shock of the cold water. UM. Now, due

1305
01:12:34,760 --> 01:12:36,760
Speaker 1: to line placement, there was always a large cred of

1306
01:12:36,760 --> 01:12:40,360
Speaker 1: spectators that would often heckle people currently on the ride. UM.

1307
01:12:40,520 --> 01:12:44,719
Speaker 1: Park attendees recounting the crowd chanting pussy at bleeding injured

1308
01:12:44,840 --> 01:12:47,759
Speaker 1: riders after they climb out of this freezing pool. UM.

1309
01:12:47,800 --> 01:12:50,880
Speaker 1: Also the specting Also the spectating area gave a grand

1310
01:12:50,880 --> 01:12:54,200
Speaker 1: opportunity for people who are swinging to flash the flash

1311
01:12:54,320 --> 01:12:58,719
Speaker 1: the nearby crowd with boobs or dicks. Um. So, yeah,

1312
01:12:58,800 --> 01:13:03,840
Speaker 1: that that's the that's the Tarzan swing. Um. Then oh,

1313
01:13:04,280 --> 01:13:08,520
Speaker 1: the they had they had a kayaking uh simulator. UM.

1314
01:13:08,520 --> 01:13:13,720
Speaker 1: It used giants submerged electronic fans underwater to help make

1315
01:13:13,800 --> 01:13:18,080
Speaker 1: turbulent conditions. Um. The kayaks will often get stuck or

1316
01:13:18,360 --> 01:13:21,640
Speaker 1: tip over. And in n two someone fell out of

1317
01:13:21,640 --> 01:13:24,280
Speaker 1: a kayak, got too close to an exposed electrical wire

1318
01:13:24,439 --> 01:13:27,760
Speaker 1: in the underwater fan and got electrocuted and died. Uh.

1319
01:13:27,760 --> 01:13:29,799
Speaker 1: This was the second visitor of death in the history

1320
01:13:29,800 --> 01:13:34,120
Speaker 1: of the park. The kayak ride closed shortly after. So

1321
01:13:34,680 --> 01:13:40,560
Speaker 1: someone got electrocuted because of underwater fans in and then uh.

1322
01:13:40,600 --> 01:13:43,880
Speaker 1: Around this time, they built one of the first wave

1323
01:13:43,960 --> 01:13:48,240
Speaker 1: pools in the country. Um. So the wave pool was

1324
01:13:48,320 --> 01:13:51,360
Speaker 1: nicknamed the Grave Pool for reasons that will become clear

1325
01:13:51,560 --> 01:13:56,200
Speaker 1: very shortly. Um. It was a onet wide by a

1326
01:13:56,320 --> 01:14:01,320
Speaker 1: hundred and tt long pool that caught held between five

1327
01:14:01,400 --> 01:14:04,000
Speaker 1: hundred and a thousand people often like shoulder and shoulder.

1328
01:14:04,000 --> 01:14:06,919
Speaker 1: It's a nightmare. Um. This was a wave pool designed

1329
01:14:06,920 --> 01:14:10,840
Speaker 1: by an engineer. Um. The water was way too marky

1330
01:14:10,880 --> 01:14:12,679
Speaker 1: to see through. There was like a mix of like runner,

1331
01:14:13,360 --> 01:14:16,479
Speaker 1: a mix of like a river runoff, body lotion, human

1332
01:14:16,560 --> 01:14:19,320
Speaker 1: waste and other bodily foods from like open wounds that

1333
01:14:19,400 --> 01:14:24,080
Speaker 1: got the waters really really murky. Um. The the artificial

1334
01:14:24,080 --> 01:14:26,960
Speaker 1: waves would would be like a few meters tall, and

1335
01:14:27,000 --> 01:14:29,280
Speaker 1: they go would go on for twenty straight minutes. Which

1336
01:14:29,320 --> 01:14:31,120
Speaker 1: is way too long for a wave pool. That that's

1337
01:14:31,120 --> 01:14:33,040
Speaker 1: that's not that's not how we do wave pools. Usually

1338
01:14:33,040 --> 01:14:35,240
Speaker 1: it's like five minutes on, ten minutes off or something.

1339
01:14:35,600 --> 01:14:38,720
Speaker 1: But twenty straight minutes of waves. Um, that's plenty of

1340
01:14:38,760 --> 01:14:41,040
Speaker 1: time for a good or for even like a good

1341
01:14:41,040 --> 01:14:42,640
Speaker 1: swimmer to get into some serious trouble because you just

1342
01:14:42,720 --> 01:14:45,600
Speaker 1: keep getting hit by waves and the pool gets pretty

1343
01:14:45,640 --> 01:14:49,679
Speaker 1: pretty deep. Um. Visitors who could not swim well would

1344
01:14:49,720 --> 01:14:51,920
Speaker 1: quickly have water going over their heads. Um. And experience.

1345
01:14:51,960 --> 01:14:54,280
Speaker 1: Swimmers who are used to ocean water didn't realize that

1346
01:14:54,320 --> 01:14:56,640
Speaker 1: the fresh water like the pool was fresh water, so

1347
01:14:56,680 --> 01:14:59,200
Speaker 1: it wasn't nearly as boint, which makes make it a

1348
01:14:59,240 --> 01:15:04,000
Speaker 1: lot more exhaust thing to try to swim through. UM. Yeah,

1349
01:15:04,200 --> 01:15:07,160
Speaker 1: there every few every few minutes, like after the way

1350
01:15:07,160 --> 01:15:08,680
Speaker 1: it's for done, they would they would clear out a

1351
01:15:08,720 --> 01:15:11,040
Speaker 1: particular section of the wave pool to scan for any

1352
01:15:11,040 --> 01:15:14,000
Speaker 1: bodies at the bottom, like at this at the special

1353
01:15:14,000 --> 01:15:16,840
Speaker 1: deep spot, they would clear everyone out to look for it. UM.

1354
01:15:16,960 --> 01:15:19,880
Speaker 1: Former employees claim that lifeguards at the wave pool would

1355
01:15:19,920 --> 01:15:23,439
Speaker 1: often claim thirty saves a day for each for each

1356
01:15:23,479 --> 01:15:26,800
Speaker 1: life UM, where your average your average lifeguard out of

1357
01:15:26,800 --> 01:15:28,600
Speaker 1: pool like may only rescue one or two people in

1358
01:15:28,600 --> 01:15:30,439
Speaker 1: the entire summer. And there were I think there was

1359
01:15:30,479 --> 01:15:33,400
Speaker 1: like there was like twelve lifeguards on duty at the

1360
01:15:33,400 --> 01:15:37,240
Speaker 1: way because it's massive. UM easily one of the scariest

1361
01:15:37,280 --> 01:15:40,080
Speaker 1: tractions at the park. UM. The first death happened in

1362
01:15:40,920 --> 01:15:43,719
Speaker 1: the same year of the kayaking death. UM and another

1363
01:15:43,720 --> 01:15:46,439
Speaker 1: guests round in nine seven. Now two deaths may not

1364
01:15:46,520 --> 01:15:48,600
Speaker 1: sound a lot, but that's that's that's that's that's the

1365
01:15:48,720 --> 01:15:51,960
Speaker 1: low tally. These lifeguards were saving so many people NonStop.

1366
01:15:52,000 --> 01:15:55,599
Speaker 1: There twelve lifeguards and duty saving about thirty people a day.

1367
01:15:55,840 --> 01:15:57,360
Speaker 1: Um for each one of them. It's a it's a

1368
01:15:57,479 --> 01:16:02,280
Speaker 1: nightmare because it was just so big, so so many people. UM.

1369
01:16:02,400 --> 01:16:05,439
Speaker 1: Lifeguards and staff would then give out rerisbands that say

1370
01:16:05,680 --> 01:16:10,080
Speaker 1: c f S or can't fucking swim. So if you

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01:16:10,120 --> 01:16:12,040
Speaker 1: have one of these, if you have one of these

1372
01:16:12,040 --> 01:16:15,760
Speaker 1: wristbands on, you've probably already gotten saved that day. Um.

1373
01:16:15,840 --> 01:16:19,000
Speaker 1: Also in four a man had a heart attack shortly

1374
01:16:19,000 --> 01:16:22,960
Speaker 1: after in the Tarzan swing pool. The the cold water

1375
01:16:23,080 --> 01:16:25,240
Speaker 1: believed to send him into shock, and then he died

1376
01:16:25,240 --> 01:16:27,720
Speaker 1: in the pool because of just how cold it was,

1377
01:16:28,160 --> 01:16:31,599
Speaker 1: like triggered a heart attack. Um. And then a few

1378
01:16:31,680 --> 01:16:35,320
Speaker 1: years later, in slight and slightly related news, UM, not

1379
01:16:35,760 --> 01:16:37,360
Speaker 1: this this is an action park's fault, but I think

1380
01:16:37,360 --> 01:16:40,720
Speaker 1: it's worth mentioning. Um, there was a bus crashed on

1381
01:16:40,760 --> 01:16:43,320
Speaker 1: the way to the park, killing five, killing five people

1382
01:16:43,400 --> 01:16:48,280
Speaker 1: on the on the highway. Um, so that that happened. Yeah,

1383
01:16:48,920 --> 01:16:51,000
Speaker 1: they were going going to the park and it crashed. Uh.

1384
01:16:51,080 --> 01:16:53,040
Speaker 1: This is just this adding on to like this kind

1385
01:16:53,040 --> 01:16:56,840
Speaker 1: of press about the park. Um. But to a certain point,

1386
01:16:56,880 --> 01:16:58,560
Speaker 1: the more kind of danger and death would reported in

1387
01:16:58,560 --> 01:17:00,960
Speaker 1: the media. The more the local kids and teens just

1388
01:17:01,000 --> 01:17:03,479
Speaker 1: wanted to go because the magic and horror of action

1389
01:17:03,520 --> 01:17:05,799
Speaker 1: parks that you could leave with all of your dreams

1390
01:17:05,800 --> 01:17:08,160
Speaker 1: of fun and adventure and freedom come true, or you

1391
01:17:08,160 --> 01:17:11,240
Speaker 1: could leave in a body bag. Um, it's like it's

1392
01:17:11,280 --> 01:17:14,960
Speaker 1: this like, it's this like allure. What everyone really wants

1393
01:17:15,200 --> 01:17:20,080
Speaker 1: is a chance to risk your life. Uh and also

1394
01:17:20,439 --> 01:17:22,879
Speaker 1: not travel more than a couple of hours from home. Yeah,

1395
01:17:22,920 --> 01:17:24,840
Speaker 1: so it's it's hard to say any people actually got

1396
01:17:24,880 --> 01:17:26,840
Speaker 1: hurt here. Uh, the state only requires the park to

1397
01:17:26,880 --> 01:17:29,800
Speaker 1: report serious injuries quote unquote, So unless you left in

1398
01:17:29,840 --> 01:17:35,040
Speaker 1: an ambliance, and we already know that he did, Unless

1399
01:17:35,040 --> 01:17:38,200
Speaker 1: you left in them, wasn't serious injury to this guy.

1400
01:17:38,320 --> 01:17:40,960
Speaker 1: So yeah, unless you left in an ambulance was almost

1401
01:17:41,000 --> 01:17:44,320
Speaker 1: certainly not gonna be reported. Um, but stories like three

1402
01:17:44,320 --> 01:17:46,040
Speaker 1: months in the hospital and the six moments in a

1403
01:17:46,080 --> 01:17:48,720
Speaker 1: body cast and the same day we got there, guy

1404
01:17:49,400 --> 01:17:51,160
Speaker 1: got I got stuck on the cannonball loop and not

1405
01:17:51,240 --> 01:17:53,439
Speaker 1: the person broke there ut cliff diving. We're not uncommon.

1406
01:17:53,479 --> 01:17:56,519
Speaker 1: Those are common sentiments people. People would say not to

1407
01:17:56,560 --> 01:18:02,880
Speaker 1: mention hundreds of thousands of dislocated joint, broken boats and concussions. Um.

1408
01:18:03,200 --> 01:18:07,920
Speaker 1: According to Newsweek UM quote from an emergency room doctor

1409
01:18:08,000 --> 01:18:11,200
Speaker 1: at nearby hospital, They claimed they admitted nearly five to

1410
01:18:11,240 --> 01:18:14,679
Speaker 1: ten people a day from Action Park. Um. Sometimes interesting

1411
01:18:14,720 --> 01:18:21,040
Speaker 1: reported yeah so so. Injuries included like ankle spring sproken bones, cuts, concussions,

1412
01:18:21,040 --> 01:18:24,320
Speaker 1: dislocations and and uh and uh and and head wounds.

1413
01:18:24,439 --> 01:18:27,080
Speaker 1: So a five five people in the emergency room per

1414
01:18:27,120 --> 01:18:31,559
Speaker 1: per day. Um and actually uh. The Vernon, New Jersey

1415
01:18:31,600 --> 01:18:34,479
Speaker 1: Ambliances had to stop serving Action Park because they would

1416
01:18:34,520 --> 01:18:36,679
Speaker 1: keep busy at the park all day. The city forced

1417
01:18:36,680 --> 01:18:39,080
Speaker 1: a Jean to buy two of its own ambliances to

1418
01:18:39,160 --> 01:18:42,760
Speaker 1: have its own Action Park Ambliance fleet. Oh my god.

1419
01:18:42,800 --> 01:18:45,400
Speaker 1: And I bet there's nothing that Jean was more responsible

1420
01:18:45,439 --> 01:18:49,080
Speaker 1: with than owning his own emergency services. And the majority

1421
01:18:49,080 --> 01:18:52,720
Speaker 1: of police calls for Vernon in the day were were

1422
01:18:52,760 --> 01:18:54,559
Speaker 1: for Action Park. There were there were many fights, many

1423
01:18:54,600 --> 01:18:57,920
Speaker 1: brawls because you know, parsity due to the sheer abundance

1424
01:18:57,960 --> 01:19:01,960
Speaker 1: of alcohol. Um. Now you you may be thinking, wow,

1425
01:19:02,000 --> 01:19:04,080
Speaker 1: this park seems pretty dangerous. I bet their insurance bills

1426
01:19:04,120 --> 01:19:08,559
Speaker 1: are pretty expensive. Well no, not really, um, because here's

1427
01:19:08,560 --> 01:19:11,519
Speaker 1: a quote from Seth Um. From seth porches, the journalis

1428
01:19:11,520 --> 01:19:13,679
Speaker 1: who had done most of the work on Action Park. Quote,

1429
01:19:14,120 --> 01:19:23,679
Speaker 1: Jean didn't believe that the concept of insurance. Yeah, this,

1430
01:19:23,680 --> 01:19:27,479
Speaker 1: this guy is like the ARCon of libertarianism. He is,

1431
01:19:27,560 --> 01:19:31,200
Speaker 1: he is, he's their captain planet Iron. Rand and her

1432
01:19:31,280 --> 01:19:35,760
Speaker 1: five best friends all got special rings and she and then,

1433
01:19:36,200 --> 01:19:40,120
Speaker 1: being a libertarian, he abandoned them to make Action Park. Immediately,

1434
01:19:40,320 --> 01:19:41,960
Speaker 1: she thought of if you got hurt, you should deal

1435
01:19:41,960 --> 01:19:45,160
Speaker 1: with that problem yourself. It wasn't his problem dealing. Um,

1436
01:19:45,200 --> 01:19:47,759
Speaker 1: but technically he needed like insurance to run the park.

1437
01:19:48,040 --> 01:19:50,400
Speaker 1: So he did what any true libertarian would do. He

1438
01:19:50,479 --> 01:19:53,320
Speaker 1: made his own fake insurance company in the Cayman Islands.

1439
01:19:59,240 --> 01:20:01,519
Speaker 1: He also used to mag inturdance company the Cayman Islands

1440
01:20:01,560 --> 01:20:06,080
Speaker 1: as a money laundering scheme. Uh yeah, look, he already

1441
01:20:06,120 --> 01:20:09,800
Speaker 1: said he was a libertarian. When when when when a

1442
01:20:09,880 --> 01:20:13,639
Speaker 1: park manager told Jean, like, the state says we can't

1443
01:20:13,760 --> 01:20:17,040
Speaker 1: do that, Jean replied, well, who the hell are they?

1444
01:20:17,200 --> 01:20:20,799
Speaker 1: They can't shut us down? Oh Jean, ah, you beautiful,

1445
01:20:20,800 --> 01:20:26,400
Speaker 1: beautiful animal. Surprisingly this, Surprisingly, this led to a large

1446
01:20:26,400 --> 01:20:30,439
Speaker 1: scale federal investigation. Yeah, that's usually how large scale federal

1447
01:20:30,479 --> 01:20:34,639
Speaker 1: investigations start. That's that's generally the way in the wake

1448
01:20:34,680 --> 01:20:38,479
Speaker 1: of the two deaths in four UM, they investigated Action

1449
01:20:38,479 --> 01:20:41,599
Speaker 1: Park and found all of these like financial fraud elements.

1450
01:20:41,800 --> 01:20:44,040
Speaker 1: This resulted in a three day hearing and the one

1451
01:20:44,160 --> 01:20:47,719
Speaker 1: hundred and ten count indictment UM. Jeane refused to testify

1452
01:20:47,840 --> 01:20:50,559
Speaker 1: or appear in court, but through his lawyer, he eventually

1453
01:20:50,600 --> 01:20:53,880
Speaker 1: pad guilty to counts of fraud, theft, and conspiracy, and

1454
01:20:53,880 --> 01:20:55,880
Speaker 1: he was instructed to give up control of Action Park

1455
01:20:56,120 --> 01:20:59,760
Speaker 1: since some of it was operated on state land. UM,

1456
01:20:59,800 --> 01:21:02,760
Speaker 1: so he hatched a new scheme. He decided to be

1457
01:21:02,800 --> 01:21:06,200
Speaker 1: the worst tenant he possibly could. He stopped paying bills

1458
01:21:06,280 --> 01:21:10,240
Speaker 1: and filing paperwork for all of his like rent to

1459
01:21:10,240 --> 01:21:12,120
Speaker 1: to the state because he because the state owned some

1460
01:21:12,160 --> 01:21:15,120
Speaker 1: of the land, he just stopped paying UM. He did

1461
01:21:15,120 --> 01:21:17,120
Speaker 1: everything he could to piss off this off the state

1462
01:21:17,160 --> 01:21:21,520
Speaker 1: landowners he was renting from. Look, the government can't own land, Garrison.

1463
01:21:21,920 --> 01:21:26,680
Speaker 1: The only people who can own land are weird libertarian

1464
01:21:26,800 --> 01:21:29,280
Speaker 1: He just didn't pay hundreds of thousand dollars in rent,

1465
01:21:29,640 --> 01:21:33,360
Speaker 1: and somehow and somehow this worked. By the mid eighties,

1466
01:21:33,400 --> 01:21:35,920
Speaker 1: the state guards away. The state got so fed up

1467
01:21:35,920 --> 01:21:38,040
Speaker 1: with Jean that they agreed to sell him the land

1468
01:21:38,040 --> 01:21:40,360
Speaker 1: for dollars just to get him out of the way,

1469
01:21:40,360 --> 01:21:42,479
Speaker 1: which he did so then eventually he owned all of

1470
01:21:42,520 --> 01:21:44,400
Speaker 1: the land. Actually park was on because he just stopped

1471
01:21:44,400 --> 01:21:48,120
Speaker 1: paying rent and the state was like, fine, you buy it.

1472
01:21:48,120 --> 01:21:51,639
Speaker 1: It's it's unclear the exact amount, but it's a multiple hundred,

1473
01:21:51,960 --> 01:21:54,600
Speaker 1: multiple of hundreds of thousand dollars. He just didn't pay

1474
01:21:54,800 --> 01:22:00,519
Speaker 1: ums and they were like and they were like, exactly,

1475
01:22:00,920 --> 01:22:03,400
Speaker 1: so it was it was probably around he was that

1476
01:22:03,640 --> 01:22:11,519
Speaker 1: annoying that they see, yeah, like it's it's actually park

1477
01:22:11,600 --> 01:22:14,320
Speaker 1: became like an important part of the local economy. UM

1478
01:22:14,360 --> 01:22:16,679
Speaker 1: for Vernon, you know, brought a lot of people into

1479
01:22:16,680 --> 01:22:20,160
Speaker 1: this small what else are you doing in vern like

1480
01:22:20,360 --> 01:22:23,280
Speaker 1: other businesses had interests in keeping the park open and

1481
01:22:23,320 --> 01:22:26,800
Speaker 1: having good press. Um. Jean would bribe public officials, He

1482
01:22:27,360 --> 01:22:30,840
Speaker 1: bought politicians houses, um, and he found a lot of

1483
01:22:30,880 --> 01:22:32,840
Speaker 1: ways to put people on his payroll, you know, because

1484
01:22:32,880 --> 01:22:34,680
Speaker 1: like he was employing because he was also employing all

1485
01:22:34,680 --> 01:22:38,120
Speaker 1: of their kids, Like all of their kids worked for

1486
01:22:38,200 --> 01:22:41,799
Speaker 1: gene um And according to local reporters who who personally

1487
01:22:41,840 --> 01:22:44,080
Speaker 1: knew gene specifically, like God became friends with him. At

1488
01:22:44,080 --> 01:22:46,200
Speaker 1: the end of his life, he was most certainly involved

1489
01:22:46,200 --> 01:22:49,120
Speaker 1: with the mob Um, there was a lot of sketchy

1490
01:22:49,200 --> 01:22:51,320
Speaker 1: friends Jeane had, and he would say a lot of

1491
01:22:51,400 --> 01:22:54,760
Speaker 1: like weird concerning things. Um he would he would have

1492
01:22:54,840 --> 01:22:56,960
Speaker 1: to make jokes with high level employees. Yeah. I mean,

1493
01:22:57,240 --> 01:22:59,760
Speaker 1: this is the guy who heard that teenagers were having

1494
01:22:59,760 --> 01:23:02,120
Speaker 1: their bathing suits ripped off and said, well, let's find

1495
01:23:02,120 --> 01:23:07,200
Speaker 1: a way for people to watch. To make jokes with

1496
01:23:07,280 --> 01:23:10,320
Speaker 1: high level employees about how like certain managers knew where

1497
01:23:10,320 --> 01:23:13,720
Speaker 1: all the bodies are buried. It's like they couldn't betray him. Um.

1498
01:23:13,840 --> 01:23:17,240
Speaker 1: So like he's had a lot of you know, like jokes. Yeah. No,

1499
01:23:17,920 --> 01:23:21,040
Speaker 1: Um so with with with a fake insurance company, six

1500
01:23:21,040 --> 01:23:23,679
Speaker 1: deaths and an unknown but very high number of of

1501
01:23:23,680 --> 01:23:25,960
Speaker 1: of injuries, you expect a lot of people to sue

1502
01:23:26,000 --> 01:23:29,519
Speaker 1: Action Park for damages, and they tried, but barely anyone

1503
01:23:29,560 --> 01:23:31,840
Speaker 1: ever succeeded. Um. If you tried to sue Action Park,

1504
01:23:31,960 --> 01:23:34,040
Speaker 1: Geane would always refuse to settle. He would take it

1505
01:23:34,080 --> 01:23:36,240
Speaker 1: to trial every single time, and he would make the

1506
01:23:36,320 --> 01:23:40,160
Speaker 1: trial as long and as painful as possible. Um. Action

1507
01:23:40,200 --> 01:23:43,200
Speaker 1: Park would win about nine of cases, and ket he

1508
01:23:43,280 --> 01:23:45,519
Speaker 1: got such such a reputation of being hard to sue

1509
01:23:46,160 --> 01:23:49,880
Speaker 1: UM that most lawyers just didn't even bother um and

1510
01:23:50,200 --> 01:23:54,559
Speaker 1: even when he lost cases, he just wouldn't pay multiple times.

1511
01:23:54,640 --> 01:23:56,240
Speaker 1: U S. Marsha, Yeah he's not. He doesn't pay the

1512
01:23:56,280 --> 01:23:58,720
Speaker 1: government rent. He's not paying you because he killed kill

1513
01:23:59,080 --> 01:24:02,280
Speaker 1: times armed you. Marshals came to the Action Park lot

1514
01:24:02,360 --> 01:24:06,599
Speaker 1: to collect money and like they because they got to

1515
01:24:06,640 --> 01:24:08,320
Speaker 1: know some of the employees, like the points be like,

1516
01:24:08,360 --> 01:24:11,360
Speaker 1: oh no, Gregg's here again with the Marshals. All right,

1517
01:24:11,760 --> 01:24:15,240
Speaker 1: someone someone go get Jeane. We we gotta we we

1518
01:24:15,280 --> 01:24:18,760
Speaker 1: gotta get a check or something. It's it's the U S. Marshals.

1519
01:24:19,280 --> 01:24:23,240
Speaker 1: Tommy Lee Jones is here with Robert Downey Jr. Um.

1520
01:24:23,720 --> 01:24:26,400
Speaker 1: That was the U S. Marshals. Absolutely was Marshal's It's

1521
01:24:26,400 --> 01:24:29,120
Speaker 1: a good movie. Okay, Okay, that was such a great

1522
01:24:31,160 --> 01:24:33,559
Speaker 1: there there. There are like one or two incidents that

1523
01:24:33,680 --> 01:24:36,240
Speaker 1: Jean did have to settle. It related to like certain deaths,

1524
01:24:36,240 --> 01:24:37,920
Speaker 1: but it was it was settling out of court mostly

1525
01:24:37,960 --> 01:24:40,439
Speaker 1: just to shut people up, um and for not very

1526
01:24:40,479 --> 01:24:42,280
Speaker 1: much money, like I think the first death he settled

1527
01:24:42,280 --> 01:24:48,479
Speaker 1: for only fifty UM. So yeah, but the death, danger

1528
01:24:48,520 --> 01:24:51,160
Speaker 1: and scandal of Action Park didn't immediately affect the parks

1529
01:24:51,160 --> 01:24:55,080
Speaker 1: aubility to operate um and like unlike the actual desert

1530
01:24:55,080 --> 01:24:57,799
Speaker 1: Action Park Action Parks, Action Park's own death was like various,

1531
01:24:57,840 --> 01:25:01,080
Speaker 1: It was a very slow process. UM. The nineties recession

1532
01:25:01,120 --> 01:25:03,559
Speaker 1: hit Action Park pretty hard. UM And in the eighties,

1533
01:25:03,640 --> 01:25:07,400
Speaker 1: Jean's parent company, Great American Recreation actually opened two spinoff

1534
01:25:07,439 --> 01:25:11,200
Speaker 1: locations UM that they weren't quite as wild as the original,

1535
01:25:11,479 --> 01:25:13,320
Speaker 1: and both of those were forced forced to shut down

1536
01:25:13,320 --> 01:25:16,280
Speaker 1: in the early nineties. UM And as the eighties came

1537
01:25:16,320 --> 01:25:19,120
Speaker 1: to a close and people started growing up, the dangerw

1538
01:25:19,160 --> 01:25:22,320
Speaker 1: Action Park became less appealing to the new generation of parents.

1539
01:25:22,880 --> 01:25:26,080
Speaker 1: UM and the bad press, deaths and lawsuits piled up,

1540
01:25:26,320 --> 01:25:28,600
Speaker 1: and it started impacting the park's attendants in like the

1541
01:25:28,640 --> 01:25:32,240
Speaker 1: mid nineties. Yeah, people they got what the problem is, Garrison.

1542
01:25:32,240 --> 01:25:34,400
Speaker 1: They took the lead out of the gasoline and parents

1543
01:25:34,400 --> 01:25:37,400
Speaker 1: started carrying about their kids doing things as opposed to

1544
01:25:37,479 --> 01:25:41,080
Speaker 1: just just wanting them away. UM. That's when everything went

1545
01:25:41,080 --> 01:25:44,320
Speaker 1: wrong in American society, if you ask me. The real

1546
01:25:44,400 --> 01:25:48,240
Speaker 1: kicker was when Jean's business partner, Bob Brennan was found

1547
01:25:48,240 --> 01:25:51,680
Speaker 1: guilty of fraud and money laundering and sentenced to ten

1548
01:25:51,760 --> 01:25:56,160
Speaker 1: years in prison. So Jeans Magical Money Tree ran out

1549
01:25:56,479 --> 01:26:01,040
Speaker 1: and by Action Park declared bankruptcy and at the end

1550
01:26:01,200 --> 01:26:04,160
Speaker 1: what they their last operating season was the next summer.

1551
01:26:04,479 --> 01:26:09,559
Speaker 1: So then Action Park closed its gates in nineteen UM.

1552
01:26:09,600 --> 01:26:12,920
Speaker 1: So you know the political you know circle that Action

1553
01:26:12,960 --> 01:26:15,000
Speaker 1: Park was able to exist and had come to an end.

1554
01:26:15,400 --> 01:26:19,320
Speaker 1: Um to Two years later, UH, the ski resort and

1555
01:26:19,360 --> 01:26:22,479
Speaker 1: the park grounds were bought by another amusement park company

1556
01:26:22,800 --> 01:26:25,799
Speaker 1: named Intro West. Most of the old Jerry Rick attractions

1557
01:26:25,800 --> 01:26:28,960
Speaker 1: were ripped out and it was renamed Mountain Creek. It

1558
01:26:29,000 --> 01:26:32,479
Speaker 1: became a generic smalltown ski resort, golf course, and water park.

1559
01:26:32,960 --> 01:26:35,519
Speaker 1: But the story isn't over just yet. UM. In twenty ten,

1560
01:26:36,040 --> 01:26:40,599
Speaker 1: Intro West itself had to declare. UM had to declare

1561
01:26:40,920 --> 01:26:44,240
Speaker 1: bankruptcy and sell Mountain Creek water Park and the ski resort,

1562
01:26:44,720 --> 01:26:47,240
Speaker 1: and Jean, who was now in his like late seventies,

1563
01:26:47,439 --> 01:26:50,880
Speaker 1: decided he wanted his theme park back, so he led

1564
01:26:50,920 --> 01:26:53,160
Speaker 1: a group of investors to gain control the park again,

1565
01:26:53,200 --> 01:26:56,280
Speaker 1: and he succeeded UM. But before he could fully enjoy

1566
01:26:56,360 --> 01:26:59,439
Speaker 1: turning Action Park back into before he could turn Mountain

1567
01:26:59,439 --> 01:27:02,200
Speaker 1: Creek back into Action Park, he died UM into into

1568
01:27:02,200 --> 01:27:05,320
Speaker 1: two US, two US and twelve UM. He had he

1569
01:27:05,560 --> 01:27:09,240
Speaker 1: he shouldn't have lasted into he was. He was seventy

1570
01:27:09,240 --> 01:27:12,000
Speaker 1: eight years old. He died in his home in twos

1571
01:27:12,040 --> 01:27:17,240
Speaker 1: and twelve. UM Two years later, Jean's son Andy, partially

1572
01:27:17,240 --> 01:27:20,799
Speaker 1: capitalizing on nostalgia, revived the Action Park name and added

1573
01:27:20,840 --> 01:27:23,959
Speaker 1: a few more kind of more action attractions and announced

1574
01:27:23,960 --> 01:27:26,639
Speaker 1: plans for a new, updated version of the Cannonball Loop

1575
01:27:26,800 --> 01:27:29,559
Speaker 1: designed by real engineers. Uh. That did not happen, UM,

1576
01:27:29,600 --> 01:27:31,840
Speaker 1: And there's there's that. They're they're they're they're not they're

1577
01:27:31,840 --> 01:27:34,960
Speaker 1: not not actually building it, because in seventeen the park

1578
01:27:35,000 --> 01:27:39,320
Speaker 1: file for bankruptcy again, and a year later ownership changed

1579
01:27:39,360 --> 01:27:42,800
Speaker 1: hands once more. UM, a Vernon native and former Action

1580
01:27:42,800 --> 01:27:45,360
Speaker 1: Park employee Joe Hessan, who worked at the park for

1581
01:27:45,560 --> 01:27:50,640
Speaker 1: eighteen years, bought controlling and then he went on to

1582
01:27:50,720 --> 01:27:55,320
Speaker 1: become like a snowboarding businessman or whatever. UM. He bought

1583
01:27:55,320 --> 01:27:59,040
Speaker 1: controlling shares in Action Park. UM and he had and

1584
01:27:59,080 --> 01:28:01,960
Speaker 1: he uh will have. He has exclusive year round oversight

1585
01:28:02,040 --> 01:28:04,960
Speaker 1: of the park's ski resort and water park operations, and

1586
01:28:05,040 --> 01:28:08,439
Speaker 1: he is the new CEO UM. But as of Mountain

1587
01:28:08,520 --> 01:28:12,280
Speaker 1: Creek was still in like twenty eight million dollars in

1588
01:28:12,320 --> 01:28:16,040
Speaker 1: debt to the state. UM and and that's kind of

1589
01:28:16,320 --> 01:28:19,920
Speaker 1: is obviously not open. Mountain Creek is open, but it's

1590
01:28:19,960 --> 01:28:22,679
Speaker 1: like a boring golf course with a few water slides.

1591
01:28:22,760 --> 01:28:25,080
Speaker 1: It's it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's. It's not Action

1592
01:28:25,160 --> 01:28:27,559
Speaker 1: Park anymore. It is it's it's a totally different thing.

1593
01:28:27,600 --> 01:28:31,080
Speaker 1: It's a ski resort with a few other attractions. Um.

1594
01:28:31,200 --> 01:28:32,960
Speaker 1: And that's kind of the end of Action Park. I

1595
01:28:32,960 --> 01:28:35,280
Speaker 1: know in the last few years it's gotten more popular

1596
01:28:35,280 --> 01:28:38,120
Speaker 1: on the internet. I know last year there was an

1597
01:28:38,240 --> 01:28:42,280
Speaker 1: HBO documentary came out made by Seth pork Is, um,

1598
01:28:42,360 --> 01:28:45,040
Speaker 1: who I only I only found after I did tons

1599
01:28:45,040 --> 01:28:47,400
Speaker 1: of research for this episode. I'm like, oh, someone already

1600
01:28:47,400 --> 01:28:49,760
Speaker 1: did a really good job detailing this. That's gonna it's

1601
01:28:49,800 --> 01:28:52,640
Speaker 1: pretty Um. It's it's, it's, it's, it's, it's it's a

1602
01:28:52,680 --> 01:28:54,160
Speaker 1: great documentary. You can find a whole bunch of weird

1603
01:28:54,240 --> 01:28:57,320
Speaker 1: articles on this. I would recommend you read the New

1604
01:28:57,360 --> 01:29:01,960
Speaker 1: Jersey magazine article on it. It's just hilarious. Um. But yeah,

1605
01:29:02,000 --> 01:29:04,840
Speaker 1: that is the place that I wish I could live at.

1606
01:29:05,439 --> 01:29:10,240
Speaker 1: Uh sounds it sounds of like a blast. It's it's

1607
01:29:10,320 --> 01:29:14,800
Speaker 1: everything that I actually want from libertarianism plus a bunch

1608
01:29:14,800 --> 01:29:17,120
Speaker 1: of things I don't want, which is what libertarian get.

1609
01:29:17,960 --> 01:29:20,799
Speaker 1: It's always what you get. This is why he's described

1610
01:29:20,800 --> 01:29:22,760
Speaker 1: as like it's a mix of Iron Brand and Lord

1611
01:29:22,800 --> 01:29:25,040
Speaker 1: of the Flies. It's like all of the things combined

1612
01:29:25,080 --> 01:29:29,679
Speaker 1: to make this weird like eighties specific you know place

1613
01:29:30,240 --> 01:29:33,280
Speaker 1: that is almost like a fever dream. Um, but yeah,

1614
01:29:33,320 --> 01:29:36,120
Speaker 1: that is that is That is the story of Action Park,

1615
01:29:36,560 --> 01:29:40,120
Speaker 1: probably the world's most dangerous amusement park, not not noting

1616
01:29:40,520 --> 01:29:46,400
Speaker 1: noting park with the most deaths, but the most serious injuries. Absolutely. Um,

1617
01:29:46,680 --> 01:29:50,200
Speaker 1: it's shocking how few people we have reported died there

1618
01:29:50,240 --> 01:29:53,080
Speaker 1: based on like how ridiculous a lot of these riots.

1619
01:29:53,320 --> 01:29:57,000
Speaker 1: I mean, it's gotta be because everyone was drunk enough

1620
01:29:57,040 --> 01:30:00,559
Speaker 1: that they hit limp, you know. So. The one thing

1621
01:30:00,560 --> 01:30:03,760
Speaker 1: I like understated is how many places you could get

1622
01:30:03,800 --> 01:30:08,479
Speaker 1: alcohol for mostly free. We're actually parking so many alcohol stands.

1623
01:30:08,479 --> 01:30:10,519
Speaker 1: They would just give it to the fourteen year old kids.

1624
01:30:10,560 --> 01:30:13,720
Speaker 1: It's just I'm a certain amount of booze. Well, you

1625
01:30:13,800 --> 01:30:18,160
Speaker 1: can't buy this, have it for free. Look, the law

1626
01:30:18,200 --> 01:30:21,320
Speaker 1: says you can purchase alcohol, doesn't say we can't give

1627
01:30:21,320 --> 01:30:24,280
Speaker 1: it to you. That says nothing about drinking and get

1628
01:30:24,320 --> 01:30:27,439
Speaker 1: on them go cops, what's this stay gonna do? Stop me?

1629
01:30:27,520 --> 01:30:33,040
Speaker 1: They can't do that. So yeah, that's that. That is Beeds.

1630
01:30:33,040 --> 01:30:39,680
Speaker 1: They sent Diet on the Cannonball Rock anyway. All right,

1631
01:30:39,920 --> 01:30:42,080
Speaker 1: so that is that is the episode. We ran a

1632
01:30:42,120 --> 01:30:44,559
Speaker 1: little bit long just because there's so much to talk about.

1633
01:30:44,640 --> 01:30:48,599
Speaker 1: But yeah, I've never loved anyone more. I've never been

1634
01:30:49,000 --> 01:30:53,240
Speaker 1: more horrified by the thought of meeting he sounds He's real,

1635
01:30:53,360 --> 01:30:57,320
Speaker 1: real creepy, like listening to his voice sounds exactly what

1636
01:30:57,360 --> 01:31:01,240
Speaker 1: you think is that voice sounds like like like like,

1637
01:31:01,280 --> 01:31:03,719
Speaker 1: think of what we've all said, now imagine him talking.

1638
01:31:04,040 --> 01:31:08,160
Speaker 1: You got it. You got that's it. You got his voice. Yeah, Well,

1639
01:31:08,280 --> 01:31:10,799
Speaker 1: do you have any palpable scarrison? Um, you can finally

1640
01:31:11,000 --> 01:31:15,680
Speaker 1: posting about Catboy made rave outfits on Twitter dot com.

1641
01:31:17,160 --> 01:31:19,120
Speaker 1: You can you do post about that stuff a lot?

1642
01:31:19,160 --> 01:31:22,599
Speaker 1: I do now it's real fun. Yeah, just just just

1643
01:31:22,840 --> 01:31:25,880
Speaker 1: mainly Twitter. I guess at Hungry bow Tie and read

1644
01:31:26,080 --> 01:31:29,559
Speaker 1: read that weird Ingersey article because it is hilarious. Yeah. Yeah,

1645
01:31:29,600 --> 01:31:31,920
Speaker 1: and shout out to Dan O'Brien, the only person from

1646
01:31:31,920 --> 01:31:35,960
Speaker 1: New Jersey I've agreed to know. Um. All right, well,

1647
01:31:37,200 --> 01:31:41,200
Speaker 1: welcome to the end of Behind the Bastards the podcast

1648
01:31:41,240 --> 01:31:43,800
Speaker 1: that's over now, goodbye by