Shannon Pettypiece

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192 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 3d ago

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Here's the Scoop · Remembering Lindsey Graham and Replacing Graham Platner · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

And they are a private equity-backed Wall Street corporation, and they have been buying up bowling alleys across America, small mom-and-pop operations, some larger bowling chains, to the point where they now own more than one in 10 bowling alleys in America.

Wow.

And when they come in, they make these bowling alleys sort of a more upscale environment.

They put in a lot of money in renovations in some instances.

They give it sort of a nightclub vibe.

They have dim lights.

They put in big screen televisions.

It's supposed to lure in, you know, birthday parties, corporate events, more casual bowlers.

There were four main bowling centers within the city of Wichita up until about 2022.

Lucky Strike came in and bought three of those bowling alleys from a family that had owned them for years.

I ended up talking to a lot of bowlers in the Wichita area about what happened since then.

One guy I talked to even complained about the price of jello shots going up, which sounds silly.

I mean... But it was a league tradition where if the center pin was left standing, you had to buy a round of jello shots for everyone in the league.

So these fun little league traditions that they used to have all of a sudden changed.

And for these league bowlers I talked to, one thing I was kind of struck by is that

In this world where we're all on our phones and people complain about feeling disconnected and isolated, the bowling league, you know, although they have shrunk and it's not what it used to be in the 80s.

It's a community.

It is this community outlet.

So it's losing that as well as just this affordability aspect.

So, I mean, there's a whole policy side of this as well, too, because there are regulations and laws in this country that are supposed to prevent a company from taking control of an industry, raising prices and pushing out all the competitors.

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