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Mekado Murphy

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214 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Daily
Sunday Special: The Enduring Power of Amusement Parks

You rode all the rides, and you liked the family coaster, which doesn't do any loops or anything.

The Daily
Sunday Special: The Enduring Power of Amusement Parks

You know, and that surprised me because you're Mr. Adrenaline.

The Daily
Sunday Special: The Enduring Power of Amusement Parks

They like mist in that park.

The Daily
Sunday Special: The Enduring Power of Amusement Parks

Yes.

The Daily
Sunday Special: The Enduring Power of Amusement Parks

And the people that work there.

The Daily
Sunday Special: The Enduring Power of Amusement Parks

People that work there.

The Daily
Sunday Special: The Enduring Power of Amusement Parks

Yeah.

The Daily
Sunday Special: The Enduring Power of Amusement Parks

A man died.

The Daily
Sunday Special: The Enduring Power of Amusement Parks

On that coaster and there have been, you know, it's gotten pretty icky pretty quickly.

The Daily
Sunday Special: The Enduring Power of Amusement Parks

Other people have come forward to say they, you know, felt unsafe on that attraction.

The Daily
Sunday Special: The Enduring Power of Amusement Parks

And so, yeah.

The Daily
Sunday Special: The Enduring Power of Amusement Parks

They'll do an investigation and it's sort of, you know, you want to feel safe.

The Daily
Sunday Special: The Enduring Power of Amusement Parks

And that just being in the news infects the feeling everywhere.

The Daily
Sunday Special: The Enduring Power of Amusement Parks

It takes you out of this is a joyful, happy, I don't have to worry about the real world place.

The Daily
Sunday Special: The Enduring Power of Amusement Parks

And suddenly you do, right?

The Daily
Sunday Special: The Enduring Power of Amusement Parks

It's increasingly the entire strategy.

The Daily
Sunday Special: The Enduring Power of Amusement Parks

You know, it used to be that Disneyland, Disney parks had, you know, the rides that were quirky and weird and one-offs.

The Daily
Sunday Special: The Enduring Power of Amusement Parks

And that increasingly is not the case anymore.

The Daily
Sunday Special: The Enduring Power of Amusement Parks

And that's because they've realized that younger audiences in particular care more about, you know, rides that they know.

The Daily
Sunday Special: The Enduring Power of Amusement Parks

The classic example or biggest example is probably the Tower of Terror at Disneyland was Twilight Zone themed.