Armchair Anonymous: Cedar Point
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Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to Armchair Expert early and ad-free right now. Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. Or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Anonymous. I'm Dan Shepard, joined by Lily Padman and Aaron Michael Weakley. Hello, baby. Hello, baby. This is a long time coming. Crazy Cedar Point stories.
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Aaron, do you have a crazy one? A crazy one? Yeah, I don't have a crazy one. I just have the wet butt cuts.
I mean, that story lives on forever. I will never not remember wiping my butt with that brown paper towel.
Yes, that you take out of the big machine. I would make a piece of it and put it between my butt sheets.
To stay in there.
Yeah, you have to. I never had that any other place in my life. I've been to Disneyland a bunch of times that have never gotten a wet butt cut. It turns out it's not a good fix either. No, that rough recycled paper just tears up.
Yeah.
Yeah. Well, we don't have any wet butt cut stories, but we do have four crazy Cedar Point stories. Please enjoy.
Hard times come and go.
Hello. How's it going? Good. Now you have the Mandalorian and Stranger Things posters behind you, but they don't look issued by the studio.
It's an artist I found on Etsy. And so I have a collection of Stranger Things, Mandalorian, and I have a Ted Lasso one. My whole office is filled with all kinds of nerdy stuff. I love... comic books and superheroes you can kind of see over here there's a whole bunch of marvel and dc stuff the hall of justice kind of photo there it seems we got superman in the mix yes you know like the famous picture of the construction workers on the beam yeah oh yeah yeah so if you look over it's marvel and dc guys and then you can see i got ninja turtles and everything over here i like this where are you at i feel like i need to ask you to guess
I weirdly saw some graphic when you signed on. It would be a cheat. Does it say Wyoming? It did say Wyoming, but my shirt might help. We got a Michigan shirt on.
That's a great start. I didn't even know that.
You didn't know that was Michigan? Monica.
I'm sorry. Actually, we should have been able to guess based on the prompt.
Well, but that's a three-state area, minimally, and folks from Ontario, probably even Canada. All right, where are you at in Michigan?
I work for the city of Wyoming. Wyoming's just outside of Grand Rapids. I run the Wyoming Senior Center.
Oh, for the ones that didn't make it down to Florida?
We actually have all of our snowbirds coming back right now. Everybody's showing up and telling me all their stories about warm weather and No snow. And it makes me envious.
OK, so you've got a Cedar Point story.
I do have a Cedar Point story. So being from Michigan, growing up here, Cedar Point was a regular vacation spot for us. I have a couple of stories. I could have told you how I got engaged at Cedar Point.
Oh, wow. I would have liked that.
Romantic. I could tell you the time when we went in high school. And Dax, are you familiar with the ripcord ride there? No, what's the ripcord? It's kind of like a bungee jumping thing. Oh.
We have that at Six Flags.
I have a story about how you have to be 18 and older to do that. And so we were on this family vacation and my mom and aunt and uncles forbid all of us from going on it. And my dad, who can be a bit of a rascal... signed off on the waiver for all of us to ride it.
Oh, my God.
What is the story about Chad's childhood Cedar Point tornado experience?
At what age? We were probably 16, and he got caught, and he got the silent treatment the rest of the trip from the family.
Oh, okay, but nothing from the brass at Cedar Point?
No, no, nothing from that. But this story actually is about when I survived three tornadoes that hit Cedar Point. Okay.
Okay, set the scene. What year? What month?
The year is 1998, and it's summer. This particular trip was with my aunt and uncle. my sister, and four cousins. At the time, my sister was 11. Two of my cousins were 13. Me and another cousin were 14, and my oldest cousin was 17. So the plan for this trip is my aunt and uncle are taking all six kids to Cedar Point. The first day, they take us to the park. They are not ride people.
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