1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Roller Coasters and Ferris Wheels: July 8th, 12:25pm

Episode Date: July 8, 2025

Roller Coasters and Ferris WheelsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

You're listening to one-on-one with DP, sponsored by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul, on 937 The Ticket and the Ticket FM.com. It is funny. Black and I were talking about through all of it, right, that what moves people is funny to me. And we were talking about, you know, amusement parks. and I am deeply, deeply, deeply, deeply affected by a fear of heights. Deeply affected.

And I mean, somehow I've managed to get over it being on planes to the point now where I prefer to sit at the window. And the window could be open and I'm fine. Takeoffs and landing, don't bother me. But glass windows and high floors? No. You know those outdoor elevators? No.

No to that. But roller coasters. And as a kid, we had one near us. We had one in Maryland. And then one in Richmond, Virginia, King's Dominion. And had a roller coaster rebel yell. And the whole point was, could you get over the original ascent? And then immediate top of the way.

world descending to the bottom. But, Bach, you said a thing that we bonded on that Ferris wheels, you could ask me to give blood before you ask me to get on a Ferris wheel. Bach, where do you stand on that? Oh, no, I'm glad that, yeah, I'm glad that we talked about it

because I usually get weird looks when I say I hate Ferris wheels. They're very frightening because, I mean, they just take you in the air that you barely have a very, like a bar that barely comes down. if the wind moves at all, if you're there with a kid. I mean, it's so frightening. You can easily fall out. And then they, and then obviously they're loading people. So they stop you at the top.

It's kind of shaking up there. It's like the roller coasters, yeah, you're high, but at least you're just moving. So you're like thinking about something else. When you're just sitting there with a, you know, kind of moving back and forth at the top in the wind, oh, man. And there are no new fares wheels. That's right.

They're all creaking. You hear, you hear your pending death. And it's click, click, click here. You go, wait a minute. Wait a minute. You have me on this, this wheel of death, and you didn't bother to oil the joints. You didn't. And then you're going to take me to the top of the world.

And again, it is that bar, right? And you hope that that click down locks. But I'm also this way. nothing takes me down a social media rabbit hole, like the videos of people who pass out on amusement park rides. Bach, I will, listen, if I find a feed where they're, you know, because they have the video camera, right? The video camera's there in the face of the people.

And it's usually a couple. Sometimes it's your best friends, but sometimes it's a couple. And the guy is usually there trying to be super-minded. but it's always the guy who passes out. And I mean, passes out and faints and then wakes up in the middle of his passout to pass out again. That's right.

And I can fuck. I will turn down the sound of a playoff game to watch people pass out on a fairs will or on an amusement park. Like the ones that drop, like it takes you up to the top of this thing. And again, we don't know who built it. We don't know what kind of day they were having. We don't know the guy who's running it, right?

Because he often looks like he had a rough night. I've never been on an amusement park ride where the person who was operating the ride of death looked like they should be running the run, that they should be responsible for a box life at the top of this Ferris wheel. Well, it's either that or just a teenage kid, right? It's somebody that looks like they don't know what, you know,

looks like they've had a rough night, like you said, or a kid, they just get fresh out of the street. Like, yeah, whatever, I'm push a button, here it goes. Good luck, fuck. So I'm not, I'm just not that. I'm, I'm, and there are people that, that can go on speed, like, I can go on a speed ride. I can go on an, on an upside down ride.

But I do not, like the top of, of any roller coaster, it is the final 20 seconds of getting to the top of the first dip. And then it is the feeling in your stomach when you get to the top and you're looking over into the abyss and you see your future or not. And then your stomach being pulled by gravity into your throat as you ascend. and it's a quick, deep essential. And there's the feeling. And I know that that's part of the thrill for people. But I'm also, as you asked the question, am I a thrill seeker?

No. Like, I have parasail off beaches in islands, and I'm fine. I can go up as high as you want if I have gone from the ground up. except I cannot paracel off a cliff. Nothing in me is comfortable or would continue to exist, Bach, if you had attached me to a parasail and then asked me to run towards the end of a cliff and fly off. There's, bra, Bob, are you, can you do that? Can you, are you like a bungee?

I've done a few things, but as I get older, I really, I just kind of lost the taste for it. I also have a crack stole, so I probably shouldn't do that. You matured into it. You matured into it. Yeah, yeah. And the same thing with roller coasters. About my mid-20s, it was like, all right, now my stomach doesn't like roller coasters,

so now I don't like roller coaster. Like, I think it's always fascinating. And people are like, you're afraid of heights. Yes, I'm afraid of heights. I mean, and it's weird, too, like going across bridges, these high bridges, Becky and I travel quite a bit. and we have to make it a part of the consideration of where we go on vacation. Because if we were in San Jose, California,

and we were going to see her nephew. And we had to get in the car and go up like a mountain and across a bridge. And my palms were a torrential downpour of sweat of my body and my brain telling me, hey, bro, we are on the side. Like, there's a, there's, when you go to Hawaii, there's a, a road to Lahaina. And Lahaina starts at the base of, of the beach.

And there's a road that snakes from the base to the top of the mountain. And there's only one lane. There's only, like, there's two lanes. There's one lane coming in one lane. going. So once you're on this road to Lahaina, you can't get off of it. You cannot get off it. They have stops along the way where people there, they're selling you coconut water and, you know, drinks and watermelon, et cetera. But you're not getting off. Well, I didn't know any of this. And my three friends didn't tell me. And Bach, they got me in the car. And I'm in the backseat.

And I mean to tell you, I curled up, I have, I didn't understand. the fetal position until this trip that I curled up and went, what is happening? Because you're sitting on the side, Bach, it's the window and the side of the cliff, water, and a deep fall. Oh, yeah. And my body, my brain was like, hey, bro, we're out. Like, we're going to take a nap. It's crazy, too, how experienced drivers through those territories. They'll just wing it, you know, just be going to, like, there's like, there's no threat at all of in, winning death. Like you see those people on commercials and it's mind blowing to me. Like it's, there are roads in California. When they talk about those roads,

where people get sports cars and they just zoom on the cliff. And I'm like, you don't appreciate light. Uh, okay. Good to know. Good to know. I'm not that person. So I got to read this text. This is fantastic. So Ted says, I worked in an amusement park in Omaha called Penny Park. I was a ride operator. One day I was running one of those super high chain seat rides where it spins you in a circle about 50 feet off the ground on a single chair hooked by chains. In the middle of the ride, I hit the stop button and it didn't stop. I hit it about nine more times and it still didn't stop. And then I started to panic. I actually left the ride to a worker while it was still spinning people around.

And he finally came over and unplugged it. It was the point. It was at, that point I decided I would never actually get on one of those rides again. You just, Ted, that's the text of the day, kind sir, I'm giving you a ticket t-shirt, come by the station to pick it up. Because that is my, that is fully my expectation of thinking on any of those rides, that we're all just taking a chance.

But can you imagine if the guy just goes, hey, pop, just unplug it. And it's that simple. Because what if you're on the ride and it's working and somebody just unplugs it? Well, you, and I mean, I would be worried about like, okay, does it come to a sudden stop when you unplug it? Is it going to still slow down? Well, you're spinning. And science tells you objects in motion tend to stay in motion.

Nothing good is going to happen from this. Nothing good. And the fact that this exists in all of those amusement park rides. All of them, all of them, all of them, all of them. And it's there. Yeah, magic that part. Because in the fact that I don't bounce anymore, I just go thud. Yeah, all of that in truth.

All of that, yeah. Rubber duck asked the question. And Bach, I'll ask, so what would it take to get you to skydine? That from a plane. Yeah. I was about to do that before my son was born, and then I thought better of it after becoming a parent. Important cargo.

A very important cargo, Bock. You need to consider that. No. I have friends who have all done it. No. No. There will be no. There will be no skydiving.

Thomas and Lincoln says it's Ferris wheel is a giant hamster wheel of death for humans. I do not disagree with you, sir, at all. We're talking about biggest sports villains. We have about five texts, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve text. We'll get to, we will read them all when we come back. 101. Download our app by searching 93.7 a ticket in your app store. You're listening to one-on-one with DP on 937 the ticket and the ticketfm.com.