1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,280 And during one of the tests, it rolled off the track 2 00:00:03,280 --> 00:00:06,520 down the hill across the highway 3 00:00:06,520 --> 00:00:08,400 and into the swamp before it stopped. 4 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:10,960 Was there someone inside? 5 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:13,760 Yes, there's just this kid, 6 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:16,960 just like rolling across the highway. 7 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:20,720 Oh no, that's the funny, I mean, that is terrifying. 8 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:22,600 Thankfully, you know, they made it out alive. 9 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:25,120 They made it out alive, but if I saw that, 10 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:26,560 I don't know what I would do. 11 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:31,560 And this is true, and this is Olivia. 12 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:54,520 And we are oddly curious. 13 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:55,840 In action. 14 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:58,680 And ta-da, ta-da. 15 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:00,320 And Pedro Pascal. 16 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:03,480 How are you, Olivia? 17 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:06,840 I'm pretty good, how are you? 18 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:10,600 I'm really good because I am on my second cup of coffee 19 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:11,640 at your house. 20 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:14,200 Yay, I've only had one cup of coffee. 21 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:15,520 I need to catch up with you, 22 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:18,160 because I am sleep deprived. 23 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:22,160 Oh yeah, I mean, is there any time when we're not? 24 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:24,920 I think that's like a level of survival. 25 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:27,000 I'm like, I don't remember the last time 26 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:28,520 I wasn't sleep deprived. 27 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:30,360 My favorite thing actually right now, 28 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:32,520 and I'm not, this is not being funny, 29 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:34,640 and it can be funny, but it's not, 30 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:37,400 is waking up to get ready for work 31 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:40,280 and you have sent me something at one in the morning. 32 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:44,520 It's either something on Pinterest, a TikTok, 33 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:46,800 or you're like, hey, this person said this. 34 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:49,200 And I'm like, oh, how sweet. 35 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:52,560 She's living her best life when I wanna be living my best life. 36 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:54,000 Is it my best life? 37 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:55,320 I don't know. 38 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:59,800 Yeah, the thing is, the nights that I do work, 39 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:03,440 I work late, and so then I get home, 40 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:07,400 and I wanna relax, and then I relax for a while, 41 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:10,840 and then I also just waste my time on social media, 42 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:12,480 and then I finally go to bed. 43 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:16,560 And then, lately, when I stay up too late, 44 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:19,320 I've been getting heart palpitations, so. 45 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:20,240 Oh. 46 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:22,280 Yeah, I need to fix, oh my gosh, 47 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:26,280 I can't talk, fix my sleep schedule, so I don't die. 48 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:29,520 Wait, you're getting heart palpitations 49 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:31,000 because you're staying up late, 50 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:32,560 so you're not getting enough sleep. 51 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:33,400 Yes. 52 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:34,240 Ah, ooh. 53 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:37,280 Yeah, it's literally like, if I stay up past a certain time, 54 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:40,000 my body's like, ah. 55 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:41,200 Yeah. 56 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:42,640 I'm so sorry. 57 00:02:42,640 --> 00:02:44,480 I mean, I've done it to myself, 58 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:47,040 but I'm trying to fix it slowly. 59 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:51,000 Yeah, usually that is what happens to me 60 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:52,440 when my anxiety's pretty bad. 61 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:53,800 Yeah. 62 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:57,080 My anxiety hasn't been any different than normal, 63 00:02:57,080 --> 00:02:59,480 just bad sleep. 64 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:00,320 I mean, schedule. 65 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:01,160 Yeah. 66 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:04,000 Well, I applaud your efforts. 67 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:04,840 Thank you. 68 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:09,440 Hopefully, there will be less messages from me 69 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:11,320 at one in the morning, I'll still send you messages. 70 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:12,160 Good. 71 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:14,200 But it's always, I'm like, when you wake up 72 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:15,720 and no one has texted you, and you're like, 73 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:18,000 well that's probably good, cause people are sleeping, 74 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:19,320 but you're also like, oh. 75 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:20,600 And I'm like, I'm here. 76 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:21,440 Yeah. 77 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:23,920 Like a night angel. 78 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:27,360 So. 79 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:29,200 I'm trying to think if there's anything I wanted to say 80 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:31,360 before we jump right into what we're doing. 81 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:32,200 I know. 82 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:34,640 I feel like I thought of something earlier, 83 00:03:34,640 --> 00:03:36,320 but of course I didn't write it down. 84 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:37,160 Right. 85 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:39,160 Cause why would I do that? 86 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:40,720 Not me. 87 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:44,160 I did go on a road trip this past weekend, 88 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:47,040 and I did post some things on our Instagram, 89 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:50,560 which were just like either past episode related, 90 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:52,040 which was really fun, cause it was just like, 91 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:53,480 well, we're there. 92 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:57,720 And it made me excited for our hopeful future 93 00:03:57,720 --> 00:03:58,880 podcast road trip. 94 00:03:58,880 --> 00:03:59,720 I know. 95 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:02,600 I'm very happy that you got to go, 96 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:04,920 and I was living vicariously through your pictures, 97 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:06,200 but I'm like, oh, I want to be there. 98 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:07,040 Yeah. 99 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:07,880 Next time, let's do it. 100 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:10,440 And we'll actually eat at Billy's. 101 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:11,440 Yes. 102 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:12,280 Let's do it. 103 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:13,880 And it'll feel a little anticlimactic, 104 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:18,640 cause you're like, oh, it's just like a regular place. 105 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:19,880 There's nothing special. 106 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:20,720 Yeah. 107 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:24,240 I mean, bar food is fun. 108 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:25,080 It is fun. 109 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:26,360 Yeah. 110 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:28,360 Even if it's just run of the mill. 111 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:28,920 Run of the mill. 112 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:31,200 Yeah. 113 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:32,800 Yeah. 114 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:34,480 I don't know if you'll have something 115 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:37,080 to add to the road trip today, but I have something 116 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:38,400 to add to the road trip. 117 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:38,840 Oh yeah. 118 00:04:38,840 --> 00:04:42,640 No, my road trip is in outer space. 119 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:43,960 That's the ultimate road trip. 120 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:44,680 Yeah, I know. 121 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:46,080 Let's make it happen. 122 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:49,320 Elon Musk is like, I'm listening. 123 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:51,080 I'm like, don't listen. 124 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:54,120 Can we go with someone else? 125 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:55,200 Like please don't hurt us. 126 00:04:57,800 --> 00:04:58,160 Yeah. 127 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:01,320 So I might as well just jump right into it. 128 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:02,640 OK. 129 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:09,080 So today, Olivia, I am going to tell you about Haley's Comet 130 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:13,640 or Halley's Comet or Holly's Comet. 131 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:14,920 Oh, I've never heard Holly's. 132 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:15,320 Yeah. 133 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:20,520 So I looked it up, there is not like a correct pronunciation 134 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:32,560 because this guy, Edmund Holly, he named the Comet in 1758. 135 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:33,640 No. 136 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:34,840 1705. 137 00:05:34,840 --> 00:05:36,840 Oh no. 138 00:05:36,840 --> 00:05:38,560 1705. 139 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:39,120 Hold on. 140 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:40,600 Let me 1700. 141 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:41,680 1700. 142 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:42,080 Hold on. 143 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:44,880 I think Roman can actually fix this because I was like, 144 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:49,400 wait, that's the one he predicted that it would be coming around. 145 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:53,320 But I don't know if they actually named it the same time. 146 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:54,680 And I should have written that down. 147 00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:02,720 I'm like, I'm so glad that this can be edited out. 148 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:04,320 I know. 149 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:05,720 OK. 150 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:07,400 Anyway, it was in the 1700s. 151 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:09,080 I'm going to say it was 1705. 152 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:10,360 Just OK. 153 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:11,480 So let me go from there. 154 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:21,720 So Edmund, Haley, Holly, or Halley, in 1705, 155 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:24,880 he was the one who basically discovered 156 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:28,600 that this comet would be seen and come back to Earth. 157 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:31,200 Nobody really knows the correct pronunciation of his name 158 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:32,920 because it was so long ago. 159 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:36,320 But the article I read, it was like, it could be either rhymes 160 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:39,800 with valley, daily, or crawly. 161 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:42,480 So it's like, you kind of pick your Halley, Holly. 162 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:43,480 Choose your own adventure. 163 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:44,960 Choose your own Halley. 164 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:49,600 I like to say Haley because it's like Haley Mills or something. 165 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:50,640 I'm a Halley girl. 166 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:51,440 I'm a Halley girl. 167 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:52,160 Yeah. 168 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:54,200 But I think it was just because I didn't know how 169 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:56,720 to pronounce things when I first learned about it. 170 00:06:56,720 --> 00:06:57,840 I'm like, Halley? 171 00:06:57,840 --> 00:07:00,120 Haley? 172 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:02,680 We could just call it Halley to be different. 173 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:03,840 No, I won't do that. 174 00:07:03,840 --> 00:07:05,000 That's weird. 175 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:10,840 So this, why am I already so like, 176 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:13,000 already got off the rails? 177 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,640 What just happened? 178 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:18,040 OK, Haley's Comet. 179 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:19,480 Yes. 180 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:21,840 And sometimes I will say Comet. 181 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:23,200 I mean Comet. 182 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:23,680 OK. 183 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:26,840 It's like some people might say addict instead of attic. 184 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:30,160 Just auto correct in your mind that Jermaine's Comet. 185 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:31,200 Comet. 186 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:34,680 I don't know why sometimes it just wants to be Comet. 187 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:35,480 Words are hard. 188 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:37,560 Words are so hard. 189 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:41,920 It's like three in the afternoon on a beautiful spring day. 190 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:44,880 And I'm like, why can't I talk? 191 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:46,360 Life is not hard right now. 192 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:47,160 Yeah. 193 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:47,840 Isn't it always? 194 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:49,720 It is always. 195 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:52,760 So the reason why I'm telling you this today, it's, well, 196 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:54,160 Comets are interesting. 197 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:54,760 Yes. 198 00:07:54,760 --> 00:08:00,640 But did you know that Haley's Comet came around Earth? 199 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:02,120 I mean, it didn't really come to Earth. 200 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:03,640 It just goes around Earth. 201 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:08,200 In 1910, and it's nearly uprooted civilization 202 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:08,920 as we know it. 203 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:09,920 I did not know that. 204 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:10,240 No. 205 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:12,800 It is actually really interesting. 206 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:17,240 So we're going to start on May 6, 1910. 207 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:19,520 Haley's Comet is approaching Earth, 208 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:25,440 and it has just killed England's King Edward VII, 209 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:28,800 according to some people. 210 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:31,600 This poor Comet is living its life the best it can, 211 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:34,760 and it has already had a murder accusation just thrown on it. 212 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:37,240 I'm like, I don't remember this on noble blood. 213 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:40,440 No, no. 214 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:42,480 Except when you're thinking about it, you're like, OK, 215 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:46,320 so the Comet's on Earth, he put on a really big trench coat. 216 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:50,440 He went to England, knocked on the door of wherever he was staying, 217 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:52,680 and he was like, may I see my friend Edward? 218 00:08:52,680 --> 00:08:55,120 He assassinated him. 219 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:57,440 Like, no, that is not what happened. 220 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:01,880 So of course, no one could definitively say how a Comet 221 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:05,200 could kill a king, but that's not the only offense 222 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:07,120 of this poor Comet. 223 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:11,120 Brits also figured it was an omen of a coming invasion 224 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:14,040 by the Germans, naturally. 225 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:15,640 Not the aliens? 226 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:18,880 No, the Germans. 227 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:20,880 They're like, this is from Germany. 228 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:23,640 They're like, we're thinking small here. 229 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:24,520 It's Germany. 230 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:27,400 They're always looking at us with their Comet eyes. 231 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:29,840 And then the French felt the Comet 232 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:35,120 was responsible for the flooding of the Seine in Paris. 233 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:36,040 A lot of accusations. 234 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:39,360 A lot of accusations. 235 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:41,320 But really, this is just a cute little comet. 236 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:45,920 So like we said, Edmund Halle, Haley Halle, 237 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:49,800 he discovered this comet. 238 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:50,880 He was an astronomer. 239 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:52,520 He was a very intelligent man. 240 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:54,720 He actually has a really interesting story, 241 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:56,440 like he was the son of a soap maker. 242 00:09:56,440 --> 00:09:59,480 He was really interested in outer space, 243 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:00,680 because why wouldn't you? 244 00:10:00,680 --> 00:10:03,080 But this was a time where it was like less people were really 245 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:05,120 focusing on that as like a career. 246 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:07,400 But his dad bought him a telescope. 247 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:10,000 It was just like from there, he was like, here we go. 248 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:13,560 Which I can't even imagine how much that would cost 249 00:10:13,560 --> 00:10:17,040 to buy a telescope in the late 1600s. 250 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:18,520 They're probably so fancy, too. 251 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:19,160 Very fancy. 252 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:21,160 Yeah, very pretty. 253 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:27,120 So Haley applied Isaac Newton's love motion to the comet, 254 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:30,080 picking the exact week it would appear in the sky. 255 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:32,640 And so when the comet arrived on schedule, 256 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:36,360 it became known as his comet, which is like, how cute is that? 257 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:38,680 Although the comet is much older than him. 258 00:10:38,680 --> 00:10:41,280 And it's like, well, we're in the Western world. 259 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:43,680 It's going to get the Western name. 260 00:10:43,680 --> 00:10:46,720 But he did not live long enough to see this prediction come 261 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:52,280 true, which is like, oh, that's sweet and sad. 262 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:56,680 So this comet arrives to Earth, or the atmosphere, 263 00:10:56,680 --> 00:11:00,160 to be seen every 75 years. 264 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:03,160 So it appeared in 1758. 265 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:06,080 It reappeared in 1835. 266 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:10,000 It is now here in 1910, just killing off kings. 267 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:13,280 Bringing omens. 268 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:14,200 Bringing omens. 269 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:19,200 But before we even go into this crazy, crazy omen-filled 270 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:21,920 comet, let's actually talk about what is a comet. 271 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:22,840 OK, yeah. 272 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:27,880 So it's just a little cute, icy solar system body. 273 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:32,560 It warms up as it passes by the sun, or stars. 274 00:11:32,560 --> 00:11:34,400 And it is outgassing itself. 275 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:35,240 It's what it's called. 276 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:36,040 It's outgassing. 277 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:38,920 It's releasing gas. 278 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:42,200 It produces an extended, gravitationally unbound 279 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:46,720 atmosphere, or coma, surrounding the nucleus. 280 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:48,800 And it sometimes has a tail. 281 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:50,200 Oh, tea. 282 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:50,680 Yeah. 283 00:11:50,680 --> 00:11:56,080 And this tail is just a little trail of gas and dust 284 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:57,480 being blown out from the coma. 285 00:11:57,480 --> 00:11:58,760 Why did they write it like that? 286 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:00,720 It just sounds. 287 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:05,040 Both of your stories have had nature gas. 288 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:06,320 I was like, is this a theme? 289 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:08,280 I'm like, this is interesting. 290 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:09,440 Look at this gas. 291 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:15,360 So comets are very, very common, turns out. 292 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:17,920 Also, I think there's a tea called constant comet. 293 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:19,040 But that is in there. 294 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:19,520 There is. 295 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:22,880 But it's the old people at the place I used to work loved it. 296 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:24,760 But is it comet or comet? 297 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:26,240 I think it's constant comet. 298 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:26,760 Comet. 299 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:28,360 OK. 300 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:33,160 Well, turns out, comets are also constant comets. 301 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:39,400 And so as of November 2021, we have a new 302 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:39,900 one. 303 00:12:39,900 --> 00:12:47,080 There are over 4,500 known comets to Earth, 304 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:51,360 even though there are trillions in the galaxy, of course. 305 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:54,120 Haley's comet became the first comet 306 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:57,440 to be observed in detail by a spacecraft, 307 00:12:57,440 --> 00:13:00,800 providing the first observational data 308 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:02,800 in the structure of a comet nucleus, 309 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:05,760 like we were talking about, of that coma and that tail 310 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:08,240 formation. 311 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:11,000 The word comet is an old English word 312 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:14,360 that has come from the Latin word cometa, which 313 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:18,000 is also the Greek word cometes. 314 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:22,480 And it means wearing long hair. 315 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:30,680 So it literally translates into a long-haired star, 316 00:13:30,680 --> 00:13:31,920 which is so cute. 317 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:33,520 That is really cute. 318 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:37,880 Which I'm like, I guess in the celestial body world 319 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:41,240 comets are like 80s hair bands. 320 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:47,120 It's like Neil Gaiman's depiction of a star. 321 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:48,280 I like your avenue. 322 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:52,440 I was like, this is if Pantera was in the sky. 323 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:54,000 And I'm like, this is Claire Danes. 324 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:55,400 Oh, this is Metallica's star. 325 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:57,800 Oh, yeah. 326 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:00,160 I like that's better. 327 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:03,120 No, Metallica is a star. 328 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:08,200 This star is a master of puppets. 329 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:09,400 And it's not even a star. 330 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:12,080 It's just a little cute little ice thing, 331 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:15,320 just minding its own business. 332 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:20,160 And this comet has, I mean, it's been around for a long time. 333 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:22,120 They can't really predict how long it'll be around, 334 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:24,520 because they said that there's a chance it could eventually 335 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:25,960 run into something. 336 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:29,480 I mean, it's predicted to come again in 2061, 337 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:32,520 because it was the last time it was seen on Earth was 1986. 338 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:34,320 But it could not show up, because it actually, 339 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:36,080 I mean, it's literally living in space. 340 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:38,400 Something could ruin its path. 341 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:40,640 But they said it could take up to 10,000 years for it 342 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:43,360 to even burn out of all of its gas. 343 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:44,320 Wow, that's a lot of gas. 344 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:46,200 That's a lot of gas. 345 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:50,480 But some scholars have proposed that first century 346 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:55,160 Mesopotamian astronomers had already recognized this comet, 347 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:57,680 especially because it's so periodic. 348 00:14:57,680 --> 00:15:02,280 And this theory notes a passage in the Babylonian Talmud 349 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:06,440 that it refers to a star which appears once in 70 years that 350 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:10,680 makes the captains of the ships air. 351 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:12,560 What does that mean? 352 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:14,720 I think it's just because the captains are like, 353 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:17,240 that star is freaking us out. 354 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:18,680 Or maybe they're like trying to. 355 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:19,560 They're like, what is that? 356 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:20,760 Yeah. 357 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:23,400 Like they will chart by the stars. 358 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:24,840 And they're like, that star is moving. 359 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:26,480 It's making us mess up. 360 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:27,480 I don't know. 361 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:29,200 Yeah, that's interesting, because they 362 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:31,800 used to travel by the stars. 363 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:35,000 But I wonder if it's also a really nice way 364 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:40,280 of saying this moving thing in the sky is freaking us out. 365 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:40,680 Yeah. 366 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:43,520 It's causing us to air. 367 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:45,160 I don't know. 368 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:46,920 So now we know. 369 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:48,840 Haley's Comet, it means well. 370 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:50,040 It's just doing its own thing. 371 00:15:50,040 --> 00:15:53,680 It's living in space with a cute little tail. 372 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:56,720 And it has not killed anyone as far as we know. 373 00:15:56,720 --> 00:15:58,040 But it sure freaks them out. 374 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:00,200 It sure freaks them out. 375 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:06,360 So 1910, Haley's Comet, it's back. 376 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:12,920 And because it's showing up at a time where news travels faster, 377 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:16,840 it is getting a little more widespread with smaller areas, 378 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:21,520 like places where the last time it was there, 379 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:23,960 you would not have a paper circulating, 380 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:26,600 or you wouldn't have necessarily news getting to everyone. 381 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:30,400 Now everyone's like, this is happening, this is going down. 382 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:38,760 The Royal Observatory warned that this comet would, quote, 383 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:41,800 cause the Pacific to change basins with the Atlantic 384 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:45,320 and the primeval force of North and South America 385 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:49,480 to be swept into a briny avalanche over the sandy plains 386 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:53,600 of the Great Sahara, tumbling over and over with houses, 387 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:58,360 ships, sharks, whales, and all sorts of living things 388 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:03,040 and one heterogeneous mass of chaotic confusion. 389 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:07,720 Are they saying that Haley's Comet would cause a sharknado? 390 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:11,480 Yes, actually, yes. 391 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:16,160 The first documentation of a sharknado is in 1910. 392 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:20,680 OK, so clearly, the Royal Observatory, 393 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:24,600 this is a well-known circulated source of news. 394 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:26,440 So this is right off the bat, they're like, 395 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:27,960 this is going to happen. 396 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:37,520 This panic is not really like, what's the word, like, 397 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:39,600 this has happened before with comets, 398 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:41,880 especially things in the sky. 399 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:47,160 But this 1910 panic is unlike anything 400 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:49,080 we have ever seen since. 401 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:51,800 And what's funny is, if a comet is the only thing that's 402 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:55,520 going to ruin your life, I wish that was our problem. 403 00:17:55,520 --> 00:17:56,080 Right? 404 00:17:56,080 --> 00:17:57,760 Because since then, things have gone worse. 405 00:17:57,760 --> 00:18:00,040 Oh, to a comet be our worst problem. 406 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:00,520 Right. 407 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:06,600 So people were getting really creative with their anxiety. 408 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:07,600 And it didn't help. 409 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:08,680 I really didn't. 410 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:10,840 Yeah. 411 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:13,000 So in addition to the Royal Observatory, 412 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:15,360 the New York Times, which is still today 413 00:18:15,360 --> 00:18:18,640 a very well-known news source, they 414 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:22,200 announced that this comet went unceremoniously 415 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:25,200 and life as we know it. 416 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:30,160 And the reason is because of a very famous French astronomer 417 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:36,800 named Camille Flamérian, or Camille Flamérian, I guess. 418 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:37,400 Probably. 419 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:39,040 Very nice. 420 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:44,280 He said there was a chance that cyanogen gas 421 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:47,600 would impregnate the atmosphere and possibly 422 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:50,720 snuff out all life on the planet. 423 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:57,240 And everyone kind of glommed onto that and just ran with it. 424 00:18:57,240 --> 00:18:58,920 Oh, I forgot to give my resources. 425 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:01,400 So my resources for this, I'm so sorry, 426 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:05,640 are a wired article by Matt Simon and an all 427 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:08,360 that's interesting article by Genevieve Carleton, 428 00:19:08,360 --> 00:19:10,120 and then of course Wikipedia. 429 00:19:10,120 --> 00:19:13,920 So the all that's interesting article, 430 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:16,440 they said something that I am, I did not write this, 431 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:19,640 but they said, in typical French despair, 432 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:23,160 I did not say that. 433 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:27,760 Camille Flamérian reckoned that as we pass through the comet's 434 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:33,440 tail, Earth, this gas would basically 435 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:39,080 be detected either in your mouth or your nose, 436 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:43,320 and then it would be sufficient enough to cause instant death. 437 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:46,200 And I don't know why this time, again, 438 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:49,640 this comet has been coming around since the Babylonian era. 439 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:53,240 Every 75 years, he's like, but now's the time. 440 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:54,360 Now it's the time. 441 00:19:54,360 --> 00:19:55,800 It's going to kill us. 442 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:57,520 OK. 443 00:19:57,520 --> 00:20:01,920 But even though The New York Times quoted him saying this, 444 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:04,920 not all American astronomers agreed with him. 445 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:11,640 I also put a little note here that there is the, 446 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:14,480 have you heard of the venerable bead? 447 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:16,120 Yeah, some guy. 448 00:20:16,120 --> 00:20:19,040 He was kind of like a philosopher. 449 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:23,160 Back in 700 AD, he warned that comets 450 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:27,920 would portent a change of royal power or plague or wars 451 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:29,320 or winds or heat. 452 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:33,480 So people are quoting this in the news articles, 453 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:36,160 and they're like, well, if this guy said it, it means something. 454 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:37,560 Well, that was 700 AD. 455 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:39,600 They're like, well, obviously then he killed the king. 456 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:41,560 He killed the king. 457 00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:46,080 And so The New York Times went on to say, for example, 458 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:51,240 in England in 1066, it became known as the year of three kings, 459 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:55,200 because three kings all claimed their right to the throne. 460 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:58,360 However, Haley's comet appeared the same year. 461 00:20:58,360 --> 00:21:00,160 And so people were convinced, well, 462 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:05,800 this venerable bead is correct because he said that a comet would 463 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:07,600 bring a change to royal power. 464 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:10,640 And they're like, oh, great. 465 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:17,840 The comet then came in the end of 1764, leading up to 1765. 466 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:19,280 Guess what happened? 467 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:24,600 London had a plague outbreak and then a great fire. 468 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:28,960 And then so already, the world is panicking. 469 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:31,560 Oh my gosh, Haley's comet, every time it comes, 470 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:35,040 it's messing stuff up. 471 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:38,760 Spoiler alert, no, that's not true. 472 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:39,280 What? 473 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:40,600 What? 474 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:45,200 Um, The New York Times went on to add that, for example, 475 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:50,680 in 1680, a Boston preacher named Increase Mather, 476 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:52,040 his first name was Increase. 477 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:52,720 Wow. 478 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:57,280 Yeah, he basically used revelation as a way 479 00:21:57,280 --> 00:22:03,480 to explain the comet is going to be a sign from God, 480 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:07,240 that if we ignored heaven's alarm, 481 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:10,720 then God's anger will strike us down. 482 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:13,520 Again, a comet is just a little ball of gas. 483 00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:18,240 But you know, you know, we do this in business in the sky. 484 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:18,920 Do you have any clue? 485 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:19,640 I know. 486 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:22,560 Oh, to be a comet, just living its best life, 487 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:25,240 not knowing you're being thrown literally every terrible thing 488 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:29,280 that's happened on Earth, right at your face. 489 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:33,280 So back to 1910. 490 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:37,480 One of the skeptics to Flammarian, he 491 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:43,440 noted that the gas, quote, was so rarefied as to be thinner 492 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:49,120 than any vacuum, and therefore posed no threat. 493 00:22:49,120 --> 00:22:53,960 Robert Ball, who is a director of Cambridge Observatory, 494 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:57,800 noted that another famed astronomer, John Herschel, 495 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:00,920 reckoned the whole comet could be squeezed 496 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:08,000 into a portmanteau, which is basically a suitcase. 497 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:09,880 But what was funny is they didn't realize 498 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:12,000 that the comet is actually nine miles long. 499 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:13,920 It could not fit into a suitcase. 500 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:15,280 And so they were like laughing. 501 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:17,200 They're like, this thing is so small. 502 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:18,520 We could just put it in a little bag, 503 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:19,600 and it's not going to kill us. 504 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:21,520 They're like, well, from here it looks like it. 505 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:22,040 Right. 506 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:25,280 So the New York Times clapped back, 507 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:27,960 back when it wasn't, didn't know it was clapping back. 508 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:31,840 And they gave a little vocabulary lesson 509 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:34,160 in the funniest way. 510 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:35,640 And I don't want to read all of this. 511 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:36,320 It's quite a bit. 512 00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:39,560 But they are basically talking about, OK, a portmanteau 513 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:43,760 is a word for a suitcase. 514 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:46,920 And if John Herschel really said that it could be packed 515 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:50,200 in a suitcase, he was talking nonsense. 516 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:53,280 This proposition suggests three factors. 517 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:57,280 The comet, the suitcase, and the packer. 518 00:23:57,280 --> 00:23:59,360 The comet will be visible. 519 00:23:59,360 --> 00:24:01,960 There are plenty of suitcases on Earth, OK? 520 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:04,360 But who's doing the packing? 521 00:24:04,360 --> 00:24:07,520 We do not believe that a comet could be put in a suitcase. 522 00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:10,680 Experience teaches us that very little 523 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:12,680 can be packed in a suitcase by any man. 524 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,440 It should take a woman to pack one properly. 525 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:18,320 There are plenty of women on Earth, of course. 526 00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:23,280 But John Herschel's lighthearted assertion, now gaily, 527 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:26,280 stepfathered by Sir Robert's assertion, 528 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:32,720 will not tempt any woman to do unnecessary packing of a comet. 529 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:35,880 A comet, once packed into a suitcase, or even a trunk, 530 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:37,720 because you know what, that's bigger, 531 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:40,720 would be must beyond recognition and no further use 532 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:41,400 to anybody. 533 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:42,960 Better leave the comet where it is. 534 00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:45,040 We will all feel safer. 535 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:48,520 And quote, that is what they say. 536 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:51,560 Oh, yeah, a comet and your carry-on luggage, 537 00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:53,960 you won't be able to recognize it. 538 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:58,160 But this did not make anyone feel safer because they're like, 539 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:01,200 OK, New York Times, we get it, but we're still scared. 540 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:06,640 For example, just three years prior, a Kentucky newspaper 541 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:10,680 basically said, will the comet collide with Earth? 542 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:12,960 So it's like, OK, is it coming to collide with Earth? 543 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:15,240 Is it going to kill us with its gas? 544 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:17,280 Or is it just being cute in space? 545 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:19,040 Everyone is freaking out. 546 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:20,480 No, it did not smash the Earth. 547 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:23,680 It won't smash the Earth. 548 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:28,920 Another adaption of this jovial outlook, 549 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:33,040 like the New York Times, there was a band called 550 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:35,080 the Toon Smiths at the time. 551 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:39,120 And they made a song about the comet, which was cute. 552 00:25:39,120 --> 00:25:42,720 It's called the comet called Halley, or Haley. 553 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:46,040 There were companies that would use the comet 554 00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:51,240 in their advertising, such as Pear's soap. 555 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:54,880 They would use a slogan called Pear's soap is visible day 556 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:59,000 and night all over the world, much like the comet. 557 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:00,920 Well, OK, soap has nothing to do with that. 558 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:10,040 But some people went as far as creating anti-comet pills. 559 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:10,520 OK. 560 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:14,360 They, one brand, actually promised, quote, 561 00:26:14,360 --> 00:26:19,480 an elixir for escaping the wrath of the heavens, end quote. 562 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:21,440 There was a voodoo doctor in Haiti 563 00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:25,600 who was said to be selling pills as fast as he could make them. 564 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:27,880 I bet he was. 565 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:30,160 Like, what was in those pills? 566 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:34,800 And then two Texans were arrested for marketing sugar pills 567 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:37,520 as a cure-all for all things comet. 568 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:40,240 But police released them shortly because customers 569 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,680 were so upset and demanded their freedom 570 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:45,720 because they wanted the pills, even though they were told 571 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:47,560 they were fake. 572 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:48,560 Acalcebo, maybe. 573 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:51,280 Oh, man, it is strong. 574 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:55,640 And then, of course, gas masks were flying off the shelves. 575 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:59,480 There was a further, if you go even further into this, 576 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,160 it was said that the country of Korea, 577 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,520 because I believe South and North Korea were still 578 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:09,040 this one by this point, they had stopped 579 00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:13,240 going to work because they were so scared. 580 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:14,640 They're like, why work when you are just 581 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:16,600 going to be killed by a comet? 582 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:21,120 There was some articles that were written that said, 583 00:27:21,120 --> 00:27:25,840 a shepherd in Washington state had gone insane with worry 584 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:27,120 about the comet. 585 00:27:27,120 --> 00:27:31,720 Well, a Californian prospector nailed his feet 586 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:33,840 and one hand to a cross. 587 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,760 And despite his agony, pleaded with rescuers 588 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,320 to let him remain there so that he could survive the comet. 589 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:41,280 I'm not really sure how that would make you survive. 590 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:42,040 I don't know. 591 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:43,320 No. 592 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:45,000 Like, it was going to sweep him away? 593 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:46,240 I don't know. 594 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:48,120 I don't know what the reasoning there. 595 00:27:48,120 --> 00:27:49,360 No. 596 00:27:49,360 --> 00:27:52,000 Churches found themselves packed to the brim 597 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:57,080 with worried followers. 598 00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:00,560 And then some people at home were going as far as plugging up 599 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:05,880 their keyholes to keep out the vapors from the comet. 600 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:10,200 But despite this insanity, most people 601 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:12,560 were actually excited about it because it's like, I mean, 602 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:13,760 it's pretty to look at. 603 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:16,600 And you know, to this guy and people 604 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:19,680 felt like it was a once in the lifetime experience, which 605 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:22,160 it is for a lot of us because most people don't 606 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:23,640 get to see it twice in their life. 607 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:25,560 You can see it once. 608 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:29,920 So as Earth passed through the comet's tail on May 19, 609 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:33,960 many curious onlookers packed rooftops, 610 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:36,840 while the French, other than Camille Flamérian, 611 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:41,000 enjoyed special comet dinners and nights out, 612 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:47,320 watching the comet from restaurants and homes. 613 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:51,320 However, Camille Flamérian stuck with his theory. 614 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:55,080 And even though the comet was gone after a few days, 615 00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:58,880 he said four people, just four people on Earth, 616 00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:01,840 had certain olfactory experiences, 617 00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:05,320 which are described variously as smelling of burning vegetables 618 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:07,520 or burning marsh. 619 00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:08,640 So it didn't really kill him. 620 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:10,320 He just, there was smelling something bad. 621 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:14,160 It might have just not been the comet at all. 622 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:16,080 Were they having a stroke? 623 00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:17,960 Maybe. 624 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,600 It's your first sign of smelling a burning marsh. 625 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:23,000 Yikes. 626 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:29,280 So realizing that Earth had survived a near apocalypse, 627 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:33,880 the people of France danced and embraced in the streets. 628 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,120 However, in Atlanta, Georgia, they 629 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:39,080 missed out on all the fun because of cloud cover, 630 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:42,760 although the Atlanta Constitution seemed relieved 631 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:44,800 because they said the clouds saved the city. 632 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:53,400 And I like, whoever wrote this, I think this was Matt Simon. 633 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:55,960 He wrote, Atlanta and the rest of the Earth 634 00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:57,280 were saved by reality. 635 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:04,600 Because for thousands of years, for literally thousands 636 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:08,600 of years, Earth have seen, Earth have seen, 637 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:12,560 Earth has seen so many comets come and go. 638 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:13,840 We're all still here. 639 00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:15,120 It's going to take much more than that. 640 00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:23,640 So two years after this event, an even more fanciful theory 641 00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:30,240 from, I mean, I can sort of read this Chinese name. 642 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:31,120 I don't know about that part. 643 00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:37,520 But Chongqin Liang of Imperial Polytechnic College in Shanghai, 644 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:42,360 he said, quote, it is obvious the comet has no tail at all, 645 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:44,560 but the so-called tail must be the sun rays, 646 00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:47,640 which, while passing through the body of the comet, 647 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:51,120 look like a tail, which is true because it doesn't really 648 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:52,400 have a tail. 649 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:54,720 But should the comet itself be transparent, 650 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:57,720 it should form a convex lens that everything on the Earth 651 00:30:57,720 --> 00:30:59,680 will be burnt to provide the sunlight passes 652 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:01,840 through the body of the comet and the focus 653 00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:04,760 falls on the surface of the Earth. 654 00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:09,720 End quote, so while procrastinating warriors only 655 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,720 got around to proposing that the Earth had survived 656 00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:17,640 this deadly thing, as anyone's guess, it's just really like, 657 00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:21,440 no, we don't need to have protection from a little thing 658 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:25,360 following a ball of gas and ice. 659 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:27,960 But there were a few things that they 660 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:31,240 talked about that, in addition to Haley's comet, which 661 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:36,640 is the most, I guess, well-known comet. 662 00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:42,280 There's also the Hale-Bopp comet, which also 663 00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,440 led to some deaths. 664 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:48,800 So in 1997, members of the Heaven's Gate Colt 665 00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:53,440 committed mass suicide to ascend to the alien spacecraft 666 00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:56,760 they believed was hidden in the comet. 667 00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:57,720 I know it sounded familiar. 668 00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:58,400 Yeah. 669 00:31:58,400 --> 00:31:59,280 And guess what? 670 00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:01,000 That is also not true. 671 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:02,440 I mean, I'm sorry to them. 672 00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:04,360 That will be a few trips. 673 00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:05,800 Yeah, exactly. 674 00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:07,640 And then last but not least, so I 675 00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:09,480 don't know if you remember, in 2020, 676 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:12,400 you could see the Neo-Wise comet? 677 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:13,640 I don't. 678 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:15,480 That was the only highlight of that year, 679 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:18,000 because obviously, we could not do anything. 680 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:21,720 I remember my roommate and I would sneak out at night, 681 00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:23,120 find a place that was really dark, 682 00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:25,600 and just lay in the grass and stare at this guy 683 00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:28,680 to look at Neo-Wise, because we're like, 684 00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:32,120 this is a terrible year, please, can I just do something fun? 685 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:33,560 And it was looking at Neo-Wise. 686 00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:34,200 That's happy. 687 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:34,700 Yeah. 688 00:32:34,700 --> 00:32:41,120 However, many conspiracy theorists blamed COVID-19 689 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:41,960 on Neo-Wise. 690 00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:42,560 Of course. 691 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:43,680 Yeah. 692 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:48,040 Because, I mean, why wouldn't you? 693 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:51,280 But so last but not least, so the people that 694 00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:57,320 survived the comet in 1910 that were alive to see it, 695 00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:02,480 some people were fortunate enough to see it again in 1986, 696 00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:04,280 which I'm like, how special is that? 697 00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:06,160 That is really cool. 698 00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:07,120 And they didn't die. 699 00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,280 But my favorite thing about this is this picture. 700 00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:11,400 And there's really cute old people just looking up 701 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:13,200 into the sky in 1986. 702 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:17,440 And the caption at the bottom of the picture says, 703 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:21,720 these old folks did not die while watching the 1910 704 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:23,680 appearance of Haley's Comet. 705 00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:27,560 And they didn't even die before its reappearance in 1986. 706 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:30,160 Here they are being honored for not dying. 707 00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:36,840 Oh, man. 708 00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:40,520 So at the end of the day, if you're 709 00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:46,760 alive for Haley's Comet in 2061, you really 710 00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:48,480 don't need anything unless you're going 711 00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:50,080 to look at it during the day. 712 00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:51,120 So get sunglasses. 713 00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:53,200 But other than that, you're going to be fine. 714 00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:54,960 You won't kill you. 715 00:33:54,960 --> 00:34:01,640 And that is the story of the unhinged reaction to 1910 Haley 716 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,120 Comet visiting Earth. 717 00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:09,320 Well, I guess humanity hasn't changed that much 718 00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:12,440 with their disproportionate reactions. 719 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:13,480 Yeah. 720 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:16,240 What I think is funny is, I mean, we say this a lot. 721 00:34:16,240 --> 00:34:18,480 It's been coined more recently. 722 00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:26,320 But fake news has the power to append so much. 723 00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:27,080 Yeah. 724 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:30,520 And I love that they're like, you know what? 725 00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:33,920 They're not like, hey, let's not panic the public. 726 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:38,040 They're like, this will literally end life as we know it. 727 00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:41,200 There's going to be animals flying all over. 728 00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:42,520 The oceans will sweat. 729 00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:45,040 They're just like, we're going to panic these people as much 730 00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:46,440 as we possibly can. 731 00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:49,840 And while you feel dumb when it doesn't happen, 732 00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:52,000 and how come I guess the logic here is, 733 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:53,600 if you're an astronomer, don't you 734 00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:58,160 have the ability to logic out the fact 735 00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:02,080 that this comet visits Earth every 75 years 736 00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:03,520 and it hasn't happened before? 737 00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:05,760 What makes 1910 different? 738 00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:08,480 I mean, I guess there's crazy people in every profession. 739 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:09,840 Yeah. 740 00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:12,440 What I really think is that he just wanted to be famous. 741 00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:14,600 Yeah. 742 00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:16,560 You're famous for looking like an idiot. 743 00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:17,040 Yeah. 744 00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:20,520 You're famous for being a boy named Camille. 745 00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:22,440 Actually, the French are like, that's actually 746 00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:24,280 very common French boys name. 747 00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:25,920 I like all the French are like, we're just 748 00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:29,560 going to have nice dinners and watch it. 749 00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:31,200 The French don't fear. 750 00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:33,840 They're like, we start revolutions all the time. 751 00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:35,640 What, a comet's going to take us down? 752 00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:37,280 No. 753 00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:40,000 And I guess the loudest person about it was French. 754 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,040 But they're like, we don't even listen to that guy. 755 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:43,400 They're like, we don't like him. 756 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:44,640 No. 757 00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:45,360 I don't know him. 758 00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:47,800 I don't even know him. 759 00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:50,000 Well, that was a very interesting story. 760 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:50,520 Yeah. 761 00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:52,680 I just thought it was really funny because I was, 762 00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:54,760 I just randomly came across it the other day 763 00:35:54,760 --> 00:36:00,160 and I was laughing so hard because 1910 was not that long ago. 764 00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:01,200 No. 765 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:04,600 And I did not realize that so many people actually 766 00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:07,400 thought Earth was going to just either be burned up 767 00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:10,080 or that everyone was going to die. 768 00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:13,440 And I mean, talk about a slow news day. 769 00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:18,320 But I like that most people have the right idea of just 770 00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:19,280 enjoy it for what it is. 771 00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,560 It's a cool thing that you may not ever get to see. 772 00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:23,800 Yeah. 773 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:26,640 It's pretty and I don't know. 774 00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:28,120 I just, I think it's cute. 775 00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:29,720 I think comets are actually kind of cute. 776 00:36:29,720 --> 00:36:30,960 They are cute. 777 00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:36,440 They're kind of like a little Pikachu in the sky. 778 00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:39,120 Oh, that's happy. 779 00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:43,040 Well, let's take a quick break before my story. 780 00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:43,400 Yeah. 781 00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:45,240 Let's get some more coffee because I have a feeling 782 00:36:45,240 --> 00:36:46,600 this is going to be in. 783 00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:47,960 It's going to be a wild ride. 784 00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:48,880 It's going to be a wild ride. 785 00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:51,560 It's going to be a wild ride. 786 00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:57,760 This podcast is sponsored by listeners like you. 787 00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:00,840 The best way you can support our show is by word of mouth. 788 00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:05,120 So if you know someone that enjoys oddities and curiosities, 789 00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:07,640 please consider sharing our little show with them. 790 00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:09,360 Thank you. 791 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:10,200 All right. 792 00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:12,840 And on to my story. 793 00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:20,840 So your story was out of this world and literally. 794 00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:24,240 The tagline for my story is there's 795 00:37:24,240 --> 00:37:27,600 no place in the world like Action Park. 796 00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:28,920 Ooh. 797 00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:29,800 Oh, no. 798 00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:33,080 I will be talking about Action Park 799 00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:39,080 or as it was dubbed Class Action Park. 800 00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:44,240 A water park in New Jersey in the 80s and 90s. 801 00:37:44,240 --> 00:37:46,400 So already sounds like a red flag. 802 00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:49,480 There's so 80s New Jersey. 803 00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:50,960 Or like, I'm so sorry. 804 00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:51,760 Yeah, I'm sorry. 805 00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:55,000 But I feel like you know. 806 00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:58,800 The sources for my story are the Class Action Park 807 00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:02,200 documentary, Wikipedia, of course. 808 00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:09,000 And then Class Action Park article by Amy Kuprinsky 809 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:12,360 on New Jersey.com. 810 00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:15,960 If New Jersey.com knows about it, then New Jersey knows. 811 00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:17,040 Yeah. 812 00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:19,880 If they're still writing about it all these years later. 813 00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:21,480 Oh, yeah. 814 00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:28,160 OK, so we are going to start with the creator, Jean Mulvihill. 815 00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:31,080 So before Action Park, Jean Mulvihill 816 00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:35,960 ran a brokerage firm on Wall Street called Mayflower Securities. 817 00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,640 And Jean was basically Gordon Gekko 818 00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:40,560 before there was a Gordon Gekko. 819 00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:41,240 Oh. 820 00:38:41,240 --> 00:38:43,400 For those of you who don't know, that 821 00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:45,240 is from the movie Wall Street. 822 00:38:45,240 --> 00:38:47,280 Yes, which I've never seen. 823 00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:48,320 I've never seen it. 824 00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:52,480 But when I think of what Wall Street people look like, 825 00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:55,400 I do think of Michael Douglas in them. 826 00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:56,240 Yeah. 827 00:38:56,240 --> 00:39:00,680 And I'm always like, Gekko, is that a real last name? 828 00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:03,640 Or is it just for fun because he's a lizard? 829 00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:05,520 Oh, I didn't think about that. 830 00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:06,960 That is kind of a weird last name. 831 00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:13,280 Yeah, or is he because he became the Gekko mascot? 832 00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:16,040 Well-known fact. 833 00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:19,280 And him and his friend, Robert Brennan, 834 00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:23,600 would make money selling worthless penny stocks. 835 00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:27,000 Now, I'm not going to get into what penny stocks are 836 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,400 because I barely understand it myself. 837 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:30,840 Just a stock that's very cheap. 838 00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:32,160 It's useless. 839 00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:35,560 It's like a stock that they know is not going to do well. 840 00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:39,560 And so then they sell it to people that don't know any better. 841 00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:40,440 Oh, that's sad. 842 00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:41,440 Yeah, it is really sad. 843 00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:43,040 I don't know anything about the stock market, 844 00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:44,760 but don't let me buy a penny stock. 845 00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:45,400 No. 846 00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:47,400 And again, I have not seen this movie, 847 00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:50,960 but in the documentary, they show a clip of the movie 848 00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:54,560 Wolf of Wall Street, where Jordan Belfort, who's also 849 00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:58,240 a real person, made his money selling penny stocks as well. 850 00:39:58,240 --> 00:39:59,240 Oh, OK. 851 00:39:59,240 --> 00:40:00,160 One of the many things. 852 00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:00,880 It's got an order to cap your order. 853 00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:01,380 Yes. 854 00:40:01,380 --> 00:40:03,760 I'm here to cap your order. 855 00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:06,400 I always thought he was also Gordon Gekko. 856 00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:07,760 This shows what I know. 857 00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:08,600 No, he's not. 858 00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:11,360 I only know that from another podcast 859 00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:13,800 that talked about the movie. 860 00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:18,640 So they were making tons of money before the SEC got onto them 861 00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:23,920 and shut them down, mostly due to Robert Brennan's shady 862 00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:25,040 dealings. 863 00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:28,120 So it looks like Gene Mulvihill was kind of getting away 864 00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:31,000 with it before Robert Brennan came along, 865 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:34,560 and then he kind of blew the operation for them. 866 00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:40,160 So Gene went on to buy two ski resorts in Vernon, New Jersey. 867 00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:44,440 And at this time in the 80s, people like Hugh Hefner 868 00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:47,880 were viewing Vernon like a possible new Atlantic City 869 00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:49,320 or Orlando. 870 00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:51,560 That was the hope is that it was going 871 00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:55,760 to be a place where there would be a lot of tourism 872 00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:57,920 and a lot of nightlife. 873 00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:01,000 And at this time, there was a point. 874 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:02,040 Oh my gosh, I can't talk. 875 00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:05,440 Playboy Lounge that Hugh Hefner started there. 876 00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:08,600 And then people like Tony Bennett and Wayne Newton 877 00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:13,280 were also performing at nightlife spots there. 878 00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:14,880 It feels very Atlantic City. 879 00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:16,640 It does feel very Atlantic City. 880 00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:18,320 So there was some potential. 881 00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:22,320 And Gene, being a businessman, saw the potential there. 882 00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:25,760 During the winter, people would come and ski in Vernon 883 00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:26,800 at the ski resorts. 884 00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:30,280 But Gene, being a businessman, needed a new scheme 885 00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:32,640 to bring people in during the summer. 886 00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:36,520 So he came up with the idea of a water park, Action Park. 887 00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:39,280 And his friend Brennan was helping 888 00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:41,760 to bankroll this project. 889 00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:44,080 So in 1978, the park opened. 890 00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:47,880 And Action Park was one of the first modern water parks. 891 00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:52,480 And it utilized the natural landscape of the mountains 892 00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:53,520 and the ski resort. 893 00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:59,640 So a lot of the attractions were kind of built into the landscape 894 00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:01,000 of it. 895 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:05,640 And all of the water came from the mountain springs. 896 00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:07,400 So it was freezing. 897 00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:08,760 Oh, wow. 898 00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:11,240 And there were four. 899 00:42:11,240 --> 00:42:12,720 I don't know why it says four main parts. 900 00:42:12,720 --> 00:42:13,920 There were three main parts. 901 00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:17,280 Ha ha ha. 902 00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:20,240 Clearly have three portions of the park. 903 00:42:20,240 --> 00:42:25,880 So there was the Alpine Center, Waterworld, and Motorworld. 904 00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:31,280 And Waterworld and Motorworld were divided by a highway going 905 00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:31,760 through. 906 00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:32,400 Like an actual highway. 907 00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:33,560 An actual highway. 908 00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:34,360 Oh, no. 909 00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:38,080 Yeah, so it already sounds a little sketchy. 910 00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:41,440 And then you have a highway going right through the park. 911 00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:43,360 So if you want to get to the other side of the park, 912 00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:46,600 you have to get across the highway. 913 00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:49,200 One of the things that people loved about Action Park 914 00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:52,080 was that it was so different and innovative. 915 00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:55,480 And partly it was because Gene Mulvihill wanted 916 00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:58,080 a really fun and different place. 917 00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:01,320 But it's also partly because absolutely no one 918 00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:04,240 with an engineering background was consulted during the building 919 00:43:04,240 --> 00:43:06,320 of this park. 920 00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:06,880 No one? 921 00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:08,160 No one. 922 00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:12,960 Like there were people that would come up with ride designs. 923 00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:16,720 And it was people that would pitch things 924 00:43:16,720 --> 00:43:21,880 to Disney World and other theme parks and water parks. 925 00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:24,080 And they would be like, absolutely not. 926 00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:25,800 That's way too crazy. 927 00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:28,080 And then they would go to Gene Mulvihill. 928 00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:29,320 And he'd be like, that's great. 929 00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:31,120 Let's just put that in the water park. 930 00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:34,640 And then I'll also tinker with it for some good measure. 931 00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:40,400 And not only that, but the theme park 932 00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:42,880 was essentially run by teens. 933 00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:45,080 All the employees there were teenagers 934 00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:47,640 because they were getting their summer jobs. 935 00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:49,600 But when it comes to safety, that 936 00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:53,600 poses a huge problem when it's just teens that 937 00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:56,880 are in charge of every department, basically. 938 00:43:56,880 --> 00:44:01,280 Because nothing says, I care about people around me 939 00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:03,800 like a teenager. 940 00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:06,400 They're like the least interested in what 941 00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:07,640 anyone's doing. 942 00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:11,200 And also, even if they are trying to enforce rules, 943 00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:14,000 who's going to listen to some teenager? 944 00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:16,440 Either it's other teenagers or adults 945 00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:18,800 who are like, what's this kid going to do to me 946 00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:21,200 if I don't listen to them? 947 00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:25,320 And hazing was also very common among the teen staff. 948 00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:26,160 Oh my gosh. 949 00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:30,280 And they would even try and drown each other 950 00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:32,840 as part of the hazing at the water park. 951 00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:33,360 What? 952 00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:33,880 Yeah. 953 00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:38,520 No one died from that, but definitely some unsafe practices 954 00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:40,080 were going on. 955 00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:42,840 And no one in management cared about labor laws. 956 00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:48,000 So they would be working insane hours during the summer. 957 00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:52,080 One of the most infamous rides is Cannonball Loop. 958 00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:58,880 Now, this wasn't even really designed by a park ride 959 00:44:58,880 --> 00:44:59,920 designer. 960 00:44:59,920 --> 00:45:04,240 Jean took a cocktail napkin, drew a loop delu, 961 00:45:04,240 --> 00:45:06,760 and said, I want this to be a ride. 962 00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:09,920 And then someone expanded upon that. 963 00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:12,800 So it's always great when a cocktail napkin is involved, 964 00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:14,840 because then you know drinking is probably involved too. 965 00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:15,880 Yeah. 966 00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:17,840 Engineers everywhere are like, oh, you 967 00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:22,440 use the cocktail napkin theory. 968 00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:25,920 So Cannonball Loop was an enclosed water slide 969 00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:27,680 that was pitch black. 970 00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:31,160 And also, I just want to stress that everything in this park 971 00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:36,520 was made of cement, concrete, asphalt, whatever. 972 00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:38,520 I just got a concussion here. 973 00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:40,480 I know. 974 00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:42,040 So the slide gets built. 975 00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:45,240 And they send test dummies down. 976 00:45:45,240 --> 00:45:49,800 And according to legend, all the test dummies come out 977 00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:50,800 dismembered. 978 00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:51,800 No. 979 00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:53,440 Oh my gosh. 980 00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:56,760 So thankfully, they made a few changes to things 981 00:45:56,760 --> 00:46:00,080 before they had actual humans tested out. 982 00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:03,680 And then Jean started offering $100 983 00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:07,800 to any of the teen employees who would test the slide. 984 00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:11,600 So the first few kids come out, and their faces are all bloody, 985 00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:13,680 and they can't figure out why. 986 00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:15,520 But then they're like, well, we should probably 987 00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:19,760 put some padding in to make it softer for everyone. 988 00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:22,360 And then more kids went down the slide, 989 00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:25,520 and they were coming out covered in lacerations. 990 00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:29,840 So they opened up the slide, and there were teeth embedded 991 00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:33,320 in the slide from the first group of kids 992 00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:36,400 that when the second group of kids were going down, 993 00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:37,960 the teeth would cut them up. 994 00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:45,080 That's the scariest thing I've ever heard. 995 00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:48,640 I just can't imagine the trauma of being like, 996 00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:49,880 oh, what was that that cut me? 997 00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:51,600 Oh, a human tooth. 998 00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:55,720 Some dentist is like, chitchat. 999 00:46:55,720 --> 00:46:58,480 And then if you were too big for the slide, 1000 00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:01,360 then you would get stuck, like, lodged in it. 1001 00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:02,840 They were just teeth biting you. 1002 00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:03,840 Right. 1003 00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:04,320 Oh, god. 1004 00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:05,960 I didn't even think about that. 1005 00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:09,120 And if you were too small, then you wouldn't have enough momentum 1006 00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:10,600 to get over the loop. 1007 00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:13,440 So there was a hatch built into the side of the slide 1008 00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:16,960 so people could get rescued when they got stuck. 1009 00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:19,600 Not a good sign when you have to put in a rescue hatch. 1010 00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:21,840 No. 1011 00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:26,800 My personal favorite, right, is man in the ball in the ball. 1012 00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:27,400 Man? 1013 00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:29,200 Man in the ball in the ball. 1014 00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:29,800 In the ball. 1015 00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:30,300 Yeah. 1016 00:47:30,300 --> 00:47:32,480 Why that name? 1017 00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:36,680 So park goers would get inside what kind of looks like a hamster 1018 00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:41,560 ball that is rolling around on ball bearings down a track made 1019 00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:43,400 of PVC pipes. 1020 00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:46,520 But of course, the ball is not fixed to the track. 1021 00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:50,320 And it's round so it wouldn't stay on the track. 1022 00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:54,840 And during one of the tests, it rolled off the track down 1023 00:47:54,840 --> 00:48:00,840 the hill across the highway and into the swamp before it stopped. 1024 00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:03,280 What's our son and son? 1025 00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:08,160 They're just this kid just like rolling across the highway. 1026 00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:09,480 Oh, no. 1027 00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:10,360 That's the funny. 1028 00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:11,960 I mean, that is terrifying. 1029 00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:14,240 Thankfully, they made it out alive. 1030 00:48:14,240 --> 00:48:16,360 They made it out alive, but if I saw that, 1031 00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:18,160 I don't know what I would do. 1032 00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:20,400 Crying when I was watching the documentary 1033 00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:22,320 because there's like an animation of it 1034 00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:25,760 going across the highway. 1035 00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:26,880 Oh, gosh. 1036 00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:28,880 Oh, no. 1037 00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:33,200 Another slide was inspired by zero gravity. 1038 00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:36,400 Nothing should be inspired by zero gravity, especially when 1039 00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:39,240 it's made of concrete. 1040 00:48:39,240 --> 00:48:42,520 So it was designed in such a way that people would come down 1041 00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:45,960 the slide and then they would become airborne 1042 00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:49,280 and then come back down onto the slide made of concrete. 1043 00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:50,360 Oh, my gosh. 1044 00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:53,240 As you can imagine, there were some injuries. 1045 00:48:53,240 --> 00:48:57,360 Most notably, one kid came back down so hard 1046 00:48:57,360 --> 00:48:59,480 that he had to be carried away on a backboard. 1047 00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:01,480 Oh. 1048 00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:02,480 Yeah. 1049 00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:03,480 I just, oh. 1050 00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:07,640 It makes it, having been on a backboard before, 1051 00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:09,120 right, that's already. 1052 00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:10,360 I have a firsthand experience. 1053 00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:12,680 An icky feeling, but then just imagining 1054 00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:15,160 that you're just going down a water slide 1055 00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:17,560 and then you get carried out of the park on a backboard. 1056 00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:20,120 Or the whole time you're like, I am having fun. 1057 00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:21,600 This is fun. 1058 00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:24,360 I'm having fun right until you get slammed back down. 1059 00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:26,560 Oh, yeah. 1060 00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:28,560 Moving on. 1061 00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:32,560 The Tarzan swing was just like a rope swing 1062 00:49:32,560 --> 00:49:35,360 that you would swing across into the water. 1063 00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:38,720 But there was an observation deck where everyone that 1064 00:49:38,720 --> 00:49:43,200 was in line for the swing could watch 1065 00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:45,160 when you were going across. 1066 00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:48,920 And all these New Jersey teens are yelling at you 1067 00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:52,480 about how terrible your swing is and what a wuss you are, 1068 00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:55,280 and just yelling obscenities at each other, 1069 00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:58,800 which sounds more traumatic than honestly anything 1070 00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:00,080 in the park to me. 1071 00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:04,040 Because I'm imagining just like a group of teenagers 1072 00:50:04,040 --> 00:50:06,440 watch you and making fun of you. 1073 00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:09,280 That is actually most people's nightmares. 1074 00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:10,080 It's true. 1075 00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:12,400 I don't want an observation deck on anything. 1076 00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:12,920 No. 1077 00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:14,480 Never watch me do anything, please. 1078 00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:16,040 Please. 1079 00:50:16,040 --> 00:50:18,600 And then most people couldn't hold their body weight, 1080 00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:20,960 and they would end up just flopping into the freezing 1081 00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:23,120 cold mountain spring water. 1082 00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:26,680 And the combination of slamming down into the water 1083 00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:29,480 and it being so cold, they would be stunned and forget 1084 00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:30,800 how to swim. 1085 00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:31,880 Oh, no. 1086 00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:35,880 And sometimes would have to be rescued. 1087 00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:36,280 Yeah. 1088 00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:37,960 I have no words. 1089 00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:40,680 Now, back to Jean Mulvihill for a bit. 1090 00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:41,840 OK. 1091 00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:45,280 So Jean didn't believe in insurance, 1092 00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:48,720 but of course he needed insurance to run a water park. 1093 00:50:48,720 --> 00:50:51,960 So instead of getting insurance, he set up 1094 00:50:51,960 --> 00:50:55,600 his own fake insurance company that he called London 1095 00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:58,720 and World Assurance, which sounds super fake. 1096 00:50:58,720 --> 00:51:03,320 It sounds like the London and world. 1097 00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:05,920 And it was in the Cayman Islands, 1098 00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:08,760 and he would also use it to launder money. 1099 00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:12,520 I'm like, Cayman Islands has the unfortunate reputation 1100 00:51:12,520 --> 00:51:14,760 for being the place that people run to when they're running 1101 00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:15,560 from the law. 1102 00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:16,080 Yeah. 1103 00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:19,120 They're like, hey, we don't want that reputation. 1104 00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:19,620 No. 1105 00:51:19,620 --> 00:51:21,320 Because I guess it's like beautiful. 1106 00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:23,560 And I know they have really strict laws there. 1107 00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:25,400 So why are they going there? 1108 00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:26,080 I guess. 1109 00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:27,880 I don't know. 1110 00:51:27,880 --> 00:51:32,480 This eventually led to an 110-count indictment, 1111 00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:34,560 and Jean pled guilty to fraud. 1112 00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:36,760 But that didn't stop action park success. 1113 00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:38,840 Oh, no. 1114 00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:41,640 Now back to more of the park insanity. 1115 00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:45,040 Another feature in the park was the cliff dive. 1116 00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:47,080 There was a slide that you could go down 1117 00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:48,480 from the top of the cliff. 1118 00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:53,040 Or you could just jump 20 feet off the cliff. 1119 00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:54,080 Into what? 1120 00:51:54,080 --> 00:51:56,120 Into freezing cold spring water. 1121 00:51:56,120 --> 00:51:58,680 At least just the ground. 1122 00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:01,480 Now, I don't know about you, but I've jumped off some cliffs 1123 00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:02,320 before. 1124 00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:07,040 Probably most kids have in their childhood as well. 1125 00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:09,480 But usually, there's not a whole lot of people around. 1126 00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:12,960 Just you and a couple friends. 1127 00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:17,280 At the park, there was tons of people jumping in. 1128 00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:19,880 They weren't really regulating how quickly people would 1129 00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:21,600 jump in one after the other. 1130 00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:23,280 Are people landing on each other? 1131 00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:25,680 There was some risk of that. 1132 00:52:25,680 --> 00:52:29,560 And then if you were having any trouble swimming 1133 00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:33,120 or you weren't coming back up, they couldn't really see you. 1134 00:52:33,120 --> 00:52:37,920 Because it was like a murky spring water. 1135 00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:40,840 And so they eventually had to paint the bottom white, 1136 00:52:40,840 --> 00:52:43,440 so they could actually see people. 1137 00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:45,640 And several people, due to not jumping, 1138 00:52:45,640 --> 00:52:48,280 how the lifeguards instructed, because why would they? 1139 00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:49,720 Because they're teenagers. 1140 00:52:49,720 --> 00:52:52,440 On impact would dislocate their shoulders. 1141 00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:54,480 Oh. 1142 00:52:54,480 --> 00:52:58,200 OK, once I jumped off a bridge. 1143 00:52:58,200 --> 00:52:59,160 OK. 1144 00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:03,080 And looking back, I should not have done that. 1145 00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:04,040 But a lot of people do. 1146 00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:10,160 This is an area near my hometown that it's like a 30 foot bridge. 1147 00:53:10,160 --> 00:53:13,080 I think I'm afraid of jumping off things because of that one 1148 00:53:13,080 --> 00:53:14,720 time I did that. 1149 00:53:14,720 --> 00:53:18,560 I don't understand how I would do it around so many people, 1150 00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:22,720 seeing people get injured and then being like, well, I can do it. 1151 00:53:22,720 --> 00:53:24,720 You were like, I'm not going to get injured. 1152 00:53:24,720 --> 00:53:25,360 No. 1153 00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:26,360 Oh, that's scary. 1154 00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:27,240 Yeah. 1155 00:53:27,240 --> 00:53:28,360 But don't worry, though. 1156 00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:30,800 If you had any issues, the lifeguards 1157 00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:34,920 would give you a wristband that said CFS, which stands for Can't 1158 00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:36,520 Effing Swim. 1159 00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:38,400 Seriously? 1160 00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:40,280 And if you had the wristband, that 1161 00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:43,360 meant you probably had already been rescued earlier in the day. 1162 00:53:43,360 --> 00:53:46,240 So they're like, here's your wristband, you idiot. 1163 00:53:46,240 --> 00:53:47,280 You don't know how to swim. 1164 00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:47,960 Yeah. 1165 00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:51,960 These jerk teenagers are just like, this guy can't effing swim. 1166 00:53:51,960 --> 00:53:55,160 Wait, why are they in charge of making wristbands? 1167 00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:56,280 I don't know. 1168 00:53:56,280 --> 00:53:56,840 Why? 1169 00:53:56,840 --> 00:54:00,800 It should say, please help this person. 1170 00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:01,320 Yeah. 1171 00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:02,720 Instead, they're just like. 1172 00:54:02,720 --> 00:54:03,840 Or from New Jersey and were me. 1173 00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:04,640 Negging you. 1174 00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:07,240 Yeah. 1175 00:54:07,240 --> 00:54:10,080 Of course, a park like this is a huge draw 1176 00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:13,760 for adrenaline junkies, latchkey kids, and people 1177 00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:14,760 who are day drinking. 1178 00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:17,760 So people who have no parental support? 1179 00:54:17,760 --> 00:54:21,040 No parental support, no parental guidance. 1180 00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:21,640 Drunk. 1181 00:54:21,640 --> 00:54:24,800 Drunk, probably doing other things at the park. 1182 00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:25,960 Oh, my gosh. 1183 00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:29,480 And there was one ride, in particular, a river raft ride 1184 00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:33,360 that people, due to the current, would often bump into each other. 1185 00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:36,280 It's just like the way the current was, 1186 00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:39,600 people would get piled up and bump into the tube. 1187 00:54:39,600 --> 00:54:41,680 And people would get out of the tube 1188 00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:43,240 and start fist fighting each other. 1189 00:54:43,240 --> 00:54:44,320 Oh, my gosh. 1190 00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:45,560 And it was really funny. 1191 00:54:45,560 --> 00:54:48,680 Someone in the documentary compared the park 1192 00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:49,920 to being like the purge. 1193 00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:54,680 People are just doing whatever they want. 1194 00:54:54,680 --> 00:54:57,080 Yeah, because who's going to stop? 1195 00:54:57,080 --> 00:54:57,600 No one. 1196 00:54:57,600 --> 00:54:58,040 No. 1197 00:54:58,040 --> 00:55:01,240 The teens are probably going to egg them on. 1198 00:55:01,240 --> 00:55:04,360 And another thing that adults would do is go to the park 1199 00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:06,440 and get drunk during the day. 1200 00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:07,040 And then go. 1201 00:55:07,040 --> 00:55:08,560 Wait, why is their alcohol at the park? 1202 00:55:08,560 --> 00:55:09,840 Or are they bringing it with them? 1203 00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:11,720 Oh, there's lots of alcohol at the park. 1204 00:55:11,720 --> 00:55:12,480 Oh, my gosh. 1205 00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:15,640 There's like a full-on beer garden. 1206 00:55:15,640 --> 00:55:17,800 There was like an area where there 1207 00:55:17,800 --> 00:55:19,200 would be lots of festivals. 1208 00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:22,240 Like they would have Oktoberfest and pretty much 1209 00:55:22,240 --> 00:55:24,440 any festival that involves drinking. 1210 00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:25,600 Oh, OK, good. 1211 00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:28,480 And then they would do that during the day. 1212 00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:30,400 And then they would go to motor world at night 1213 00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:35,080 so they could drive drunk around the Speedway. 1214 00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:37,600 And get into a giant Amsterdam ball. 1215 00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:41,200 And some people would even drive the go-karts off the Speedway 1216 00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:42,880 and take it onto the highway. 1217 00:55:42,880 --> 00:55:44,400 No, but you know what? 1218 00:55:44,400 --> 00:55:45,480 Why wouldn't they? 1219 00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:47,440 I would want to eminify was in that situation. 1220 00:55:47,440 --> 00:55:49,200 Maybe like, let's see if I can do it. 1221 00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:51,920 I'm like, don't put it next to a highway. 1222 00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:53,600 Why is it even accessible? 1223 00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:55,400 I almost, it doesn't feel real. 1224 00:55:55,400 --> 00:55:58,360 The fact that this is real is terrifying. 1225 00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:01,440 But I really would love to just be a fly out in the wall 1226 00:56:01,440 --> 00:56:02,440 in the 80s. 1227 00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:04,520 Literally watching this documentary 1228 00:56:04,520 --> 00:56:05,640 felt like a fever dream. 1229 00:56:05,640 --> 00:56:06,480 Yes. 1230 00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:10,080 It's like, what is this? 1231 00:56:10,080 --> 00:56:14,320 It's like someone just made up the worst possible things 1232 00:56:14,320 --> 00:56:17,440 that you could give children access to. 1233 00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:18,800 Yeah. 1234 00:56:18,800 --> 00:56:27,520 OK, so the Alpine slide was a ski lift up to the top of the slide. 1235 00:56:27,520 --> 00:56:31,880 And then you would go down these concrete slides on sleds. 1236 00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:33,840 And the sleds had brakes so that you 1237 00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:36,880 could pull onto slow down at certain points that 1238 00:56:36,880 --> 00:56:39,480 were marked slow down. 1239 00:56:39,480 --> 00:56:43,360 But a lot of times they wouldn't work, 1240 00:56:43,360 --> 00:56:46,240 or the brakes would be broken. 1241 00:56:46,240 --> 00:56:51,320 And people would go either flying off the slide or their sled 1242 00:56:51,320 --> 00:56:54,400 and would get broken bones, concussions, 1243 00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:57,360 or because they're in their swimming suits, 1244 00:56:57,360 --> 00:57:01,400 get burns from the concrete tearing up their skin. 1245 00:57:01,400 --> 00:57:05,680 But fear not, they had an infirmary. 1246 00:57:05,680 --> 00:57:07,320 Oh, good. 1247 00:57:07,320 --> 00:57:09,840 When part full of teen nurses. 1248 00:57:09,840 --> 00:57:12,600 Probably. 1249 00:57:12,600 --> 00:57:14,600 When park goers would come in with burns, 1250 00:57:14,600 --> 00:57:18,000 they would spray a solution on to your burns. 1251 00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:20,440 And apparently it burns so badly that there 1252 00:57:20,440 --> 00:57:22,920 was a circle drawn on the floor. 1253 00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:25,240 And if you managed to stay in the circle, 1254 00:57:25,240 --> 00:57:28,280 when they were spraying it on you, you got a prize. 1255 00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:31,280 And apparently only two people ever got a prize. 1256 00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:32,640 And they just got a stupid pin. 1257 00:57:32,640 --> 00:57:33,520 What is the price? 1258 00:57:33,520 --> 00:57:36,680 Is it a wristband that says, you're an idiot? 1259 00:57:36,680 --> 00:57:39,520 It's like a pin from the park or something. 1260 00:57:39,520 --> 00:57:41,720 It's a token to the beer garden. 1261 00:57:41,720 --> 00:57:44,480 And they're 12. 1262 00:57:44,480 --> 00:57:46,720 And the solution that was sprayed on the burns 1263 00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:50,600 was supposedly a mixture of alcohol and iodine. 1264 00:57:50,600 --> 00:57:51,920 Oh my gosh. 1265 00:57:51,920 --> 00:57:54,200 Yeah. 1266 00:57:54,200 --> 00:57:56,600 And they wouldn't even make the people feel better. 1267 00:57:56,600 --> 00:57:58,560 They'd be like, this is going to hurt. 1268 00:57:58,560 --> 00:57:59,720 Spray you down. 1269 00:57:59,720 --> 00:58:01,480 Is there chain smoking? 1270 00:58:01,480 --> 00:58:04,320 Yeah. 1271 00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:07,280 And employees remember seeing people taken away 1272 00:58:07,280 --> 00:58:11,040 on backboards, on the back of golf carts, 1273 00:58:11,040 --> 00:58:15,080 and later learning that they had spinal fractures or concussions 1274 00:58:15,080 --> 00:58:16,720 and all sorts of horrible injuries. 1275 00:58:19,720 --> 00:58:23,640 Sadly, on July, I think at the exact day, 1276 00:58:23,640 --> 00:58:25,800 I think it was around July 4th weekend, though. 1277 00:58:25,800 --> 00:58:29,640 July 1980, Action Park had its first death. 1278 00:58:29,640 --> 00:58:32,560 George Lawson, Jr. was 19 years old. 1279 00:58:32,560 --> 00:58:34,320 And he had taken the day off from work 1280 00:58:34,320 --> 00:58:37,560 to enjoy a day at Action Park with his friends. 1281 00:58:37,560 --> 00:58:40,560 He went down the alpine slide and was thrown off, 1282 00:58:40,560 --> 00:58:43,800 landing and hitting his head on nearby rocks. 1283 00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:47,280 He was rushed to the hospital and was in critical condition. 1284 00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:49,920 And by the time his family got to the hospital, 1285 00:58:49,920 --> 00:58:51,960 he had already been moved to another hospital 1286 00:58:51,960 --> 00:58:54,640 because he was in such critical condition. 1287 00:58:54,640 --> 00:58:59,360 And his mother recalls seeing his bed soaked in his own blood. 1288 00:58:59,360 --> 00:59:03,160 George was in a coma for a week before he sadly passed away. 1289 00:59:03,160 --> 00:59:05,640 And his mother was so grief-stricken 1290 00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:09,280 that she said she stepped into traffic in front of a truck 1291 00:59:09,280 --> 00:59:11,360 before her husband pulled her out of harm. 1292 00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:13,800 And she said she just didn't want to live with the pain. 1293 00:59:13,800 --> 00:59:14,960 Oh, that's awful. 1294 00:59:14,960 --> 00:59:17,600 I know. 1295 00:59:17,600 --> 00:59:19,720 George was also supposed to be the best man 1296 00:59:19,720 --> 00:59:23,080 at his brother's wedding, but he passed away just the week 1297 00:59:23,080 --> 00:59:24,400 before his brother got married. 1298 00:59:24,400 --> 00:59:24,900 Oh, no. 1299 00:59:24,900 --> 00:59:26,040 That's so sad. 1300 00:59:26,040 --> 00:59:26,920 I know. 1301 00:59:26,920 --> 00:59:29,800 And his family wanted a settlement or some sort 1302 00:59:29,800 --> 00:59:32,120 of acknowledgement from the park that their son's life had 1303 00:59:32,120 --> 00:59:33,760 been taken. 1304 00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:36,960 And their lawyer, I can't believe someone 1305 00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:39,520 would say this to a family, even if it's true in the eyes 1306 00:59:39,520 --> 00:59:43,480 of the law, he said that teens weren't worth that much 1307 00:59:43,480 --> 00:59:45,720 because they're considered a liability. 1308 00:59:45,720 --> 00:59:48,880 And they settled for $100,000. 1309 00:59:48,880 --> 00:59:53,240 But $100,000 in 1980 was probably a lot of money, 1310 00:59:53,240 --> 00:59:55,960 which, I mean, that's not anything compared to a life. 1311 00:59:55,960 --> 00:59:58,040 But it's like, well, shouldn't this 1312 00:59:58,040 --> 01:00:02,960 make them obviously think this could keep happening? 1313 01:00:02,960 --> 01:00:05,760 Let's make safety measures? 1314 01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:06,520 You would think. 1315 01:00:06,520 --> 01:00:11,520 But I mean, Jean had the money to pay people, 1316 01:00:11,520 --> 01:00:14,320 although it was said in the documentary 1317 01:00:14,320 --> 01:00:17,040 that he often did not pay people on time, 1318 01:00:17,040 --> 01:00:19,880 and US Marshals would regularly show up 1319 01:00:19,880 --> 01:00:22,280 to get the payments from him. 1320 01:00:22,280 --> 01:00:24,120 His money was coming from the Cayman Islands. 1321 01:00:24,120 --> 01:00:29,000 He's like, it'll come in four to six business days. 1322 01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:32,000 And to add insults, Jean Mulvihill 1323 01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:35,640 lied to the newspaper and said that George had been an employee, 1324 01:00:35,640 --> 01:00:38,400 that he was there after hours and that it was raining, 1325 01:00:38,400 --> 01:00:40,120 none of which was true. 1326 01:00:40,120 --> 01:00:42,960 And he said this because he didn't 1327 01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:45,640 want to have to report his death to the state. 1328 01:00:45,640 --> 01:00:46,520 Oh my gosh. 1329 01:00:46,520 --> 01:00:48,240 Yeah. 1330 01:00:48,240 --> 01:00:53,440 But I mean, I feel like he would get in trouble for lying. 1331 01:00:53,440 --> 01:00:55,520 I mean, shouldn't he get in trouble for something? 1332 01:00:55,520 --> 01:00:56,760 He should, yeah. 1333 01:00:56,760 --> 01:00:58,840 But it's 1980. 1334 01:00:58,840 --> 01:00:59,560 Yeah. 1335 01:00:59,560 --> 01:01:01,080 We'll go into more of that. 1336 01:01:01,080 --> 01:01:02,480 OK. 1337 01:01:02,480 --> 01:01:06,600 Unfortunately, George was not the only fatality at Action Park. 1338 01:01:06,600 --> 01:01:10,320 One park goer was electrocuted on a ride called 1339 01:01:10,320 --> 01:01:14,680 the Kayak Experience due to underwater fans that 1340 01:01:14,680 --> 01:01:19,080 were used to enhance the current speed. 1341 01:01:19,080 --> 01:01:19,920 Yes. 1342 01:01:19,920 --> 01:01:23,880 They had electric fans underwater. 1343 01:01:23,880 --> 01:01:26,560 And several other people died in a wave pool, 1344 01:01:26,560 --> 01:01:28,600 a particular area in the wave pool 1345 01:01:28,600 --> 01:01:31,120 that was known as the death zone. 1346 01:01:31,120 --> 01:01:32,120 Oh, well. 1347 01:01:32,120 --> 01:01:36,360 Because the wave pool, it was so full of people. 1348 01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:40,240 There was way too many people in at the same time. 1349 01:01:40,240 --> 01:01:44,280 And there was only a few lifeguards on duty, again, 1350 01:01:44,280 --> 01:01:45,520 teenagers. 1351 01:01:45,520 --> 01:01:48,520 And so if someone is struggling and needing help, 1352 01:01:48,520 --> 01:01:51,360 it would be really hard for people to spot them. 1353 01:01:51,360 --> 01:01:54,840 And so several people, they just didn't get there in time 1354 01:01:54,840 --> 01:01:55,480 to save them. 1355 01:01:55,480 --> 01:01:56,680 Oh, that's so sad. 1356 01:01:56,680 --> 01:01:57,560 Yeah. 1357 01:01:57,560 --> 01:02:03,680 And all told, there were six deaths at Action Park. 1358 01:02:03,680 --> 01:02:06,640 The many injuries, deaths, and lawsuits 1359 01:02:06,640 --> 01:02:10,440 caused the park to be dubbed class action park. 1360 01:02:10,440 --> 01:02:13,400 But still, it took a while for the park to close. 1361 01:02:13,400 --> 01:02:15,760 City council members looked the other way, 1362 01:02:15,760 --> 01:02:19,000 either due to family members working on the park, gifts 1363 01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:21,680 from Jean, or being friends with him. 1364 01:02:21,680 --> 01:02:24,360 And not only that, but it brought in a considerable amount 1365 01:02:24,360 --> 01:02:25,720 of revenue for Vernon. 1366 01:02:25,720 --> 01:02:29,480 And they didn't want the cash flow to be cut off. 1367 01:02:29,480 --> 01:02:33,560 And eventually, the park filed for bankruptcy. 1368 01:02:33,560 --> 01:02:37,240 And Jean's partner was finally held accountable by the SEC. 1369 01:02:37,240 --> 01:02:42,280 And at the end of 1996, Action Park finally closed its doors. 1370 01:02:42,280 --> 01:02:46,600 A whole 16 years after the first fatality. 1371 01:02:46,600 --> 01:02:48,320 I know. 1372 01:02:48,320 --> 01:02:53,760 I even can't even imagine being the family of that boy. 1373 01:02:53,760 --> 01:02:54,560 No. 1374 01:02:54,560 --> 01:02:57,800 So terrible that it took that long. 1375 01:02:57,800 --> 01:03:02,840 And then a little follow-up on the park in 1998, 1376 01:03:02,840 --> 01:03:07,520 InterWest bought the property and did a massive overall 1377 01:03:07,520 --> 01:03:10,680 on the park, removing most of the attractions, 1378 01:03:10,680 --> 01:03:13,280 and turning it just into a typical water park 1379 01:03:13,280 --> 01:03:15,040 named Mountain Creek. 1380 01:03:15,040 --> 01:03:19,960 In 2010, it was bought by a group led by Jean Mulvihill. 1381 01:03:19,960 --> 01:03:20,600 Oh, no. 1382 01:03:20,600 --> 01:03:21,840 Get him out of there. 1383 01:03:21,840 --> 01:03:24,760 And they tried to revive Action Park, 1384 01:03:24,760 --> 01:03:27,960 but he passed away two years later. 1385 01:03:27,960 --> 01:03:30,920 And then his son, Andrew, tried to continue on the legacy, 1386 01:03:30,920 --> 01:03:33,560 even attempting to rework the loop slide. 1387 01:03:33,560 --> 01:03:34,600 It didn't work. 1388 01:03:34,600 --> 01:03:35,400 Oh, my gosh. 1389 01:03:35,400 --> 01:03:39,680 And finally, in 2016, it was restored to Mountain Creek Park 1390 01:03:39,680 --> 01:03:43,160 and is owned by a former Action Park employee. 1391 01:03:43,160 --> 01:03:46,680 But he was like a kid when he worked at the park, 1392 01:03:46,680 --> 01:03:49,200 and he seems like he's a nice guy. 1393 01:03:49,200 --> 01:03:52,360 He's like trying to get it out of the wrong hands. 1394 01:03:52,360 --> 01:03:55,400 Yeah, it's just like a normal water park now. 1395 01:03:55,400 --> 01:03:57,840 And it looks like it's pretty nice. 1396 01:03:57,840 --> 01:03:58,200 Oh, good. 1397 01:03:58,200 --> 01:04:01,920 Still around the beautiful nature, but safe. 1398 01:04:01,920 --> 01:04:02,400 Yeah. 1399 01:04:02,400 --> 01:04:03,440 Oh, my gosh. 1400 01:04:03,440 --> 01:04:04,920 Yeah. 1401 01:04:04,920 --> 01:04:07,480 And that is the story of Class Action Park. 1402 01:04:07,480 --> 01:04:08,600 Class Action Park. 1403 01:04:08,600 --> 01:04:12,280 Oh, that's, I kind of knew a little bit about this, 1404 01:04:12,280 --> 01:04:14,600 but this is like eye-opening. 1405 01:04:14,600 --> 01:04:15,240 I know. 1406 01:04:15,240 --> 01:04:19,400 I had to cut out several other rides 1407 01:04:19,400 --> 01:04:21,080 that they talked about just because there 1408 01:04:21,080 --> 01:04:26,400 were so many unhinged rides. 1409 01:04:26,400 --> 01:04:28,360 It's almost like they were in competition to be like, 1410 01:04:28,360 --> 01:04:29,560 what could be worse? 1411 01:04:29,560 --> 01:04:32,000 What's the worst way to throw a kid around? 1412 01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:32,640 I know. 1413 01:04:32,640 --> 01:04:36,280 And some of the people in the documentary 1414 01:04:36,280 --> 01:04:39,760 they were talking about, that was kind of the excitement of it, 1415 01:04:39,760 --> 01:04:43,280 was like, oh, it's so crazy and so dangerous. 1416 01:04:43,280 --> 01:04:46,920 And people would come back with bruises and scrapes 1417 01:04:46,920 --> 01:04:49,280 and wear them as a badge of honor. 1418 01:04:49,280 --> 01:04:49,760 No. 1419 01:04:49,760 --> 01:04:51,720 But then on the flip side, there's 1420 01:04:51,720 --> 01:04:56,760 people who either had loved ones who passed away at the park 1421 01:04:56,760 --> 01:04:59,880 or had traumatic injuries. 1422 01:04:59,880 --> 01:05:03,280 So yeah, it's very interesting to see 1423 01:05:03,280 --> 01:05:07,400 the difference of people who look fondly on the park 1424 01:05:07,400 --> 01:05:08,800 and those who don't. 1425 01:05:08,800 --> 01:05:10,640 They're like, it's just a rite of passage 1426 01:05:10,640 --> 01:05:13,160 to go to a place that might kill you. 1427 01:05:13,160 --> 01:05:13,560 I know. 1428 01:05:13,560 --> 01:05:16,200 That's the fun thing about being a teenager. 1429 01:05:16,200 --> 01:05:16,840 I guess. 1430 01:05:16,840 --> 01:05:19,520 There was one person in the documentary that was like, 1431 01:05:19,520 --> 01:05:22,880 hey, if you can't handle it, get out of Jersey. 1432 01:05:22,880 --> 01:05:26,160 And I'm like, what is Jersey have to be part of this? 1433 01:05:26,160 --> 01:05:29,760 I'm like, let's not be like that. 1434 01:05:29,760 --> 01:05:35,080 The family even brought up of George that he was super 1435 01:05:35,080 --> 01:05:40,280 in shape, very active kid, super strong, 1436 01:05:40,280 --> 01:05:42,720 just had a lot going for him. 1437 01:05:42,720 --> 01:05:45,480 And when they heard that he was injured, initially they were 1438 01:05:45,480 --> 01:05:47,080 like, oh, he's going to be fine. 1439 01:05:47,080 --> 01:05:48,520 Like, he's so tough. 1440 01:05:48,520 --> 01:05:50,360 He's such a strong kid. 1441 01:05:50,360 --> 01:05:54,080 But at the end of the day, if you get a traumatic head injury, 1442 01:05:54,080 --> 01:05:57,640 it doesn't matter how tough you are. 1443 01:05:57,640 --> 01:06:00,600 You can't survive that. 1444 01:06:00,600 --> 01:06:03,200 You can't out strong your brain. 1445 01:06:03,200 --> 01:06:04,400 Right. 1446 01:06:04,400 --> 01:06:06,240 If that even made sense. 1447 01:06:06,240 --> 01:06:07,720 It made sense to me. 1448 01:06:07,720 --> 01:06:08,800 Yeah. 1449 01:06:08,800 --> 01:06:09,560 Oh my gosh. 1450 01:06:09,560 --> 01:06:12,960 Yeah, I can't even imagine because I've 1451 01:06:12,960 --> 01:06:16,400 had a concussion before. 1452 01:06:16,400 --> 01:06:19,000 That's right. 1453 01:06:19,000 --> 01:06:23,720 And it's like, that's minuscule compared to somebody 1454 01:06:23,720 --> 01:06:26,160 having a traumatic brain injury. 1455 01:06:26,160 --> 01:06:29,280 And that really can mess you up for a few days or weeks. 1456 01:06:29,280 --> 01:06:32,280 Like, I think mine was dumb. 1457 01:06:32,280 --> 01:06:34,840 I fell down the stairs holding a bag of knives. 1458 01:06:34,840 --> 01:06:37,160 That's another story from another day. 1459 01:06:37,160 --> 01:06:43,440 But it's just, I can't even imagine just laying there 1460 01:06:43,440 --> 01:06:45,360 in a pool of your own blood. 1461 01:06:45,360 --> 01:06:49,360 And it's because you were having what you thought 1462 01:06:49,360 --> 01:06:50,800 was going to be a fun time. 1463 01:06:50,800 --> 01:06:55,840 It's just, Disney Imagineers are like, 1464 01:06:55,840 --> 01:06:58,160 this is why you actually go to school 1465 01:06:58,160 --> 01:07:00,400 to learn how to build things. 1466 01:07:00,400 --> 01:07:02,560 I know. 1467 01:07:02,560 --> 01:07:06,640 I mean, thankfully, it seems like at least the one guy, 1468 01:07:06,640 --> 01:07:10,440 George, I imagined that he probably didn't feel anything. 1469 01:07:10,440 --> 01:07:12,280 Yeah, I was hoping that too. 1470 01:07:12,280 --> 01:07:15,320 Because I mean, he was like immediately in a coma. 1471 01:07:15,320 --> 01:07:17,560 So hopefully he didn't have any pain. 1472 01:07:17,560 --> 01:07:18,160 Yeah. 1473 01:07:18,160 --> 01:07:24,240 I mean, that's like the only, what's the word? 1474 01:07:24,240 --> 01:07:24,840 Nice thing. 1475 01:07:24,840 --> 01:07:25,320 No. 1476 01:07:25,320 --> 01:07:26,280 That's not the word. 1477 01:07:26,280 --> 01:07:27,600 The only consolation. 1478 01:07:27,600 --> 01:07:28,720 Consolation, yeah. 1479 01:07:28,720 --> 01:07:30,880 I know, because like 19 years old. 1480 01:07:30,880 --> 01:07:32,160 Oh, that's devastating. 1481 01:07:32,160 --> 01:07:33,720 I know. 1482 01:07:33,720 --> 01:07:35,600 Well, that was very well done. 1483 01:07:35,600 --> 01:07:36,960 Thank you. 1484 01:07:36,960 --> 01:07:38,560 And poor New Jersey. 1485 01:07:38,560 --> 01:07:42,400 New Jersey does not want to be thought of as the teenage 1486 01:07:42,400 --> 01:07:43,160 killer. 1487 01:07:43,160 --> 01:07:44,400 It doesn't. 1488 01:07:44,400 --> 01:07:46,680 I would like to go to Vernon, New Jersey, 1489 01:07:46,680 --> 01:07:47,920 though, as part of our road trip, 1490 01:07:47,920 --> 01:07:49,720 because it does look very beautiful. 1491 01:07:49,720 --> 01:07:53,320 Yes, we are going to add it to the list. 1492 01:07:53,320 --> 01:07:56,600 And we can go to the normal sane water park. 1493 01:07:56,600 --> 01:07:57,920 That actually would be fun. 1494 01:07:57,920 --> 01:08:01,920 I think I've been to a water park once. 1495 01:08:01,920 --> 01:08:05,800 And it was during a time when I was wearing a swimsuit 1496 01:08:05,800 --> 01:08:07,360 and feeling very insecure about myself. 1497 01:08:07,360 --> 01:08:08,800 And I did not have a good time. 1498 01:08:08,800 --> 01:08:12,080 So I feel like now I can do it just because it's like, who cares? 1499 01:08:12,080 --> 01:08:13,080 Yeah. 1500 01:08:13,080 --> 01:08:15,640 Let's just go have fun. 1501 01:08:15,640 --> 01:08:19,200 So I was thinking about, I don't know if I 1502 01:08:19,200 --> 01:08:22,200 would have been different if I was born in the 80s or whatever. 1503 01:08:22,200 --> 01:08:25,040 But just as a child at regular water parks, 1504 01:08:25,040 --> 01:08:27,520 I was terrified of the big slide. 1505 01:08:27,520 --> 01:08:28,320 Oh, same. 1506 01:08:28,320 --> 01:08:28,820 Yeah. 1507 01:08:28,820 --> 01:08:33,840 There's absolutely no way I would have gotten any of those rides. 1508 01:08:33,840 --> 01:08:35,640 I would have loved to watch people, 1509 01:08:35,640 --> 01:08:40,280 because I think some people are really good at summer salting, 1510 01:08:40,280 --> 01:08:43,080 or they exit gracefully. 1511 01:08:43,080 --> 01:08:45,600 I just know I would have somehow messed it up 1512 01:08:45,600 --> 01:08:48,240 and wrenched my neck or something. 1513 01:08:48,240 --> 01:08:50,640 But I'll watch people. 1514 01:08:50,640 --> 01:08:55,640 I've seen people share their Atlantis pictures. 1515 01:08:55,640 --> 01:08:59,960 You know, the big water park in Bermuda. 1516 01:08:59,960 --> 01:09:00,720 Is it in Bermuda? 1517 01:09:00,720 --> 01:09:02,720 We were just in Bermuda last week. 1518 01:09:02,720 --> 01:09:03,440 Is it in Bermuda? 1519 01:09:03,440 --> 01:09:05,640 But there's an Atlantis water park 1520 01:09:05,640 --> 01:09:11,480 that's insanely huge where you're in a tube and they drop you. 1521 01:09:11,480 --> 01:09:14,080 Oh, yes. 1522 01:09:14,080 --> 01:09:17,000 I used to watch the Travel Channel 1523 01:09:17,000 --> 01:09:20,440 when they would go to the most extreme theme parks. 1524 01:09:20,440 --> 01:09:25,120 And me and one of our friends, Ashley, 1525 01:09:25,120 --> 01:09:28,760 her and I would always talk about doing a tour of all 1526 01:09:28,760 --> 01:09:30,600 of those crazy water parks. 1527 01:09:30,600 --> 01:09:33,480 I'm like, she needs to watch the action park documentary 1528 01:09:33,480 --> 01:09:36,040 and see what she thinks of it. 1529 01:09:36,040 --> 01:09:38,960 I mean, I have actually talked to Ashley about a water park. 1530 01:09:38,960 --> 01:09:42,320 We talked about Typhoon Lagoon when she went to Disney World, 1531 01:09:42,320 --> 01:09:44,400 which I've never been to Disney World, so she was like. 1532 01:09:44,400 --> 01:09:45,960 And then we went here and here. 1533 01:09:45,960 --> 01:09:48,600 I think Ashley is a water park girl. 1534 01:09:48,600 --> 01:09:51,240 I went to Typhoon Lagoon when I was really little. 1535 01:09:51,240 --> 01:09:56,160 I was like, five when I went to Disney World. 1536 01:09:56,160 --> 01:09:57,720 And Typhoon Lagoon was really fun. 1537 01:09:57,720 --> 01:09:59,200 That's like the safest you could be, 1538 01:09:59,200 --> 01:10:03,720 because it's literally Disney does not want anyone to die. 1539 01:10:03,720 --> 01:10:06,680 They're like, this is not the place to die. 1540 01:10:06,680 --> 01:10:08,400 And I was like five. 1541 01:10:08,400 --> 01:10:11,720 I just hung out in the shallow end of the wave pool. 1542 01:10:11,720 --> 01:10:14,560 I mean, that's what I would do now. 1543 01:10:14,560 --> 01:10:18,320 I'm like, get my drinky drink and hang out by the pool. 1544 01:10:18,320 --> 01:10:20,440 I would just like to sit in the shallow end 1545 01:10:20,440 --> 01:10:22,760 and watch people splash around. 1546 01:10:22,760 --> 01:10:23,840 Yeah, that sounds nice. 1547 01:10:23,840 --> 01:10:24,880 That does sound nice. 1548 01:10:24,880 --> 01:10:28,440 We should go to a water park this summer. 1549 01:10:28,440 --> 01:10:29,120 Where? 1550 01:10:29,120 --> 01:10:29,600 I don't know. 1551 01:10:29,600 --> 01:10:32,200 I don't know where there is one. 1552 01:10:32,200 --> 01:10:36,080 There's that one in Washington, Great Wolf Lodge. 1553 01:10:36,080 --> 01:10:38,000 Yeah, we just drove past that one. 1554 01:10:38,000 --> 01:10:43,200 And I was with a car of four people. 1555 01:10:43,200 --> 01:10:44,240 Three people. 1556 01:10:44,240 --> 01:10:45,360 I was one of four. 1557 01:10:45,360 --> 01:10:47,640 And I went, Great Wolf Lodge. 1558 01:10:47,640 --> 01:10:49,120 And everyone was like, what? 1559 01:10:52,120 --> 01:10:53,200 I thought it was exciting. 1560 01:10:53,200 --> 01:10:55,200 It's not exciting to them. 1561 01:10:55,200 --> 01:10:57,600 Maybe they're not water park people. 1562 01:10:57,600 --> 01:10:59,080 Yeah, probably not. 1563 01:10:59,080 --> 01:11:02,120 But we could be water park people. 1564 01:11:02,120 --> 01:11:03,240 Let's try it out. 1565 01:11:03,240 --> 01:11:04,840 Let's set it to our road trip. 1566 01:11:04,840 --> 01:11:06,160 OK, sounds good to me. 1567 01:11:06,160 --> 01:11:08,760 Yeah. 1568 01:11:08,760 --> 01:11:11,720 Do you have anything to add before we close? 1569 01:11:11,720 --> 01:11:21,800 Um, stay away from any theme parks that 1570 01:11:21,800 --> 01:11:24,240 has you going down concrete. 1571 01:11:24,240 --> 01:11:26,920 Stay away from concrete and going, I mean, 1572 01:11:26,920 --> 01:11:28,680 just don't go down concrete if you can. 1573 01:11:28,680 --> 01:11:33,480 Yeah, and just be careful when you're around concrete 1574 01:11:33,480 --> 01:11:34,600 and large rocks. 1575 01:11:34,600 --> 01:11:35,720 Please don't hit your head. 1576 01:11:35,720 --> 01:11:38,160 Take care of your brain in more ways than one. 1577 01:11:38,160 --> 01:11:39,880 Yeah. 1578 01:11:39,880 --> 01:11:44,560 And don't listen to deranged astronomers, 1579 01:11:44,560 --> 01:11:49,360 because it turns out they don't know what they're talking about. 1580 01:11:49,360 --> 01:11:53,200 And comets are bold and beautiful, 1581 01:11:53,200 --> 01:11:55,200 and they're living their best life. 1582 01:11:55,200 --> 01:11:57,120 They just are vibing. 1583 01:11:57,120 --> 01:12:00,600 They're in the water park of space. 1584 01:12:00,600 --> 01:12:01,680 They're just having fun. 1585 01:12:01,680 --> 01:12:02,600 They're like, whee. 1586 01:12:02,600 --> 01:12:03,120 Yeah. 1587 01:12:03,120 --> 01:12:05,320 That actually, I mean, literally when you see a comet, 1588 01:12:05,320 --> 01:12:09,000 it literally looks like it's going whee. 1589 01:12:09,000 --> 01:12:09,680 Anyway. 1590 01:12:09,680 --> 01:12:16,800 And if anyone says, I have a great idea for a new invention 1591 01:12:16,800 --> 01:12:18,960 and they draw it on a cocktail napkin, don't trust me. 1592 01:12:18,960 --> 01:12:21,320 Burn that napkin. 1593 01:12:21,320 --> 01:12:24,920 Or laugh at it later when you're like, this will never work. 1594 01:12:24,920 --> 01:12:27,720 Yeah. 1595 01:12:27,720 --> 01:12:29,600 That's at least my two cents. 1596 01:12:29,600 --> 01:12:30,520 Yeah, that's a good one. 1597 01:12:30,520 --> 01:12:31,040 I like it. 1598 01:12:31,040 --> 01:12:31,600 Thank you. 1599 01:12:31,600 --> 01:12:37,520 Well, until next time, I hope you enjoy your coffee 1600 01:12:37,520 --> 01:12:39,200 and your kitty. 1601 01:12:39,200 --> 01:12:42,640 And I will also enjoy my kitty at home. 1602 01:12:42,640 --> 01:12:43,440 Say hi to Greg. 1603 01:12:43,440 --> 01:12:46,400 Hi to Greg, because Henry is here. 1604 01:12:46,400 --> 01:12:47,680 Yeah, somewhere. 1605 01:12:47,680 --> 01:12:50,240 Somewhere. 1606 01:12:50,240 --> 01:12:51,040 And I guess that's it. 1607 01:12:51,040 --> 01:12:51,540 Yeah. 1608 01:12:51,540 --> 01:12:52,040 OK. 1609 01:12:52,040 --> 01:12:52,640 Well, goodbye. 1610 01:12:52,640 --> 01:12:53,440 Goodbye. 1611 01:12:53,440 --> 01:12:55,120 Good night. 1612 01:12:55,120 --> 01:13:10,280 Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.