Class Action Park Review

I was at Action Park once…once.

 

Recorded February 26, 2021

 

Show notes:

 

 

-I feel like I need a shower. 

 

-I’ve been to Action Park

 

-Mulvihill’s tactics

 

-Preventable deaths and injuries 

 

-Reagan and the 80s attitudes

 

-Life is a little more complicated

 

-Death and deregulation; the family of George Larson

 

-People my age and “Back in my day”

 

-80s childhood

 

-Boredom and Balance

 

-80s culture

 

-The F word

 

-Progress is never a straight line

 

-Back to Action Park

 

-Ridiculous slides

 

-The danger of the Wave Pool

 

-Tarzan swing

 

-20 foot cliff

 

-Cannonball Falls

 

-Going slow on the Alpine Slide

 

-Big raft ride

 

-Bottleneck of people on the single person tube ride

 

-Amuseparks and the balance of thrill and safety

 

-Human element

 

-Former employees and Mulvihill

 

-Mulvihill, charities, and my cynicism

 

-Rulebreaking and mischief

 

-Overton Window

 

-Generational divide

 

-Tone of documentaries

 

-Regulation and Texas

 

-Feux rebels

 

-Bootstraps

 

-Nostalgia

 

-Learning from history, staying in the present, and looking forward

 

-Evolving

 

-Follow the directions from experts in this pandemic (wear a mask, stay home if you can, keep your distance, wash your hands, don’t touch your face, get vaccinated when you can)

 

-Get your information from credible sources (New York Times, BBC, NPR, Washington Post, etc.) and not from someone charismatic

 

-Plugs!

 

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