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Chapter 1: Who are the hosts and guests introducing the episode?
Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to Armchair Expert early and ad-free right now. Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. Or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Anonymous. I'm Dan Shepard, joined by Lily Padman and Aaron Michael Weakley. Hello, baby. Hello, baby. This is a long time coming. Crazy Cedar Point stories.
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Aaron, do you have a crazy one? A crazy one? Yeah, I don't have a crazy one. I just have the wet butt cuts.
I mean, that story lives on forever. I will never not remember wiping my butt with that brown paper towel.
Yes, that you take out of the big machine. I would make a piece of it and put it between my butt sheets.
To stay in there.
Yeah, you have to. I never had that any other place in my life. I've been to Disneyland a bunch of times that have never gotten a wet butt cut. It turns out it's not a good fix either. No, that rough recycled paper just tears up.
Yeah.
Yeah. Well, we don't have any wet butt cut stories, but we do have four crazy Cedar Point stories. Please enjoy.
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Chapter 2: What is the story about Chad's childhood Cedar Point tornado experience?
At what age? We were probably 16, and he got caught, and he got the silent treatment the rest of the trip from the family.
Oh, okay, but nothing from the brass at Cedar Point?
No, no, nothing from that. But this story actually is about when I survived three tornadoes that hit Cedar Point. Okay.
Okay, set the scene. What year? What month?
The year is 1998, and it's summer. This particular trip was with my aunt and uncle. my sister, and four cousins. At the time, my sister was 11. Two of my cousins were 13. Me and another cousin were 14, and my oldest cousin was 17. So the plan for this trip is my aunt and uncle are taking all six kids to Cedar Point. The first day, they take us to the park. They are not ride people.
So they're like, hey, you guys go off. We're going to do the shows. We're going to eat some food, meet up with us at these times and don't get into too much trouble. So the second day it comes around, me and uncle have decided they don't really want to do Cedar Point for a second day. So they say, hey, we're just going to drop you guys off at the park for the day. Are you guys staying at Breakers?
Where are you staying? We're staying at a campground outside of Cedar Point. We're not even on property.
Oh, okay. Okay. Okay.
Yeah. So their plan is we're going to drop you off in the morning. We'll pick you up at night. I mean, it's the 1990s. Parenting was just a little different. However, I have a 10-year-old son now. And I'm like, there's no scenario where I would just send him to Cedar Point with people a few years older than him with no parental supervision. And cell phones weren't a thing in 1998.
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Chapter 3: What was the impact of the tornadoes on Chad's Cedar Point visit?
The passenger door open. My cousin sitting right next to that door. We ripped like the whole front end off his car. And the door goes flying off my aunt's van. Oh, boy. We come to a stop. The door sliding on the road behind us. Oh, boy. Cops show up. They know the other car's at fault because they turned into the turning lane without anything.
But they're like, we have a bunch of witnesses saying you were driving with your doors open. They write me a ticket. And I asked them, I'm like, can I at least get the car back to the campsite and try to get the door back on on our own? So they're like, yeah. So we throw the door in our new friend's Ford Explorer, go back to the campsite.
After an hour or two of wrestling, we get the door back on the van. It's all bent. The gaps in the door are huge. We duct tape the gaps on the door. We're like, all right, well, tomorrow we're going to drive 10 hours with it like this. Oh, my God. And that night it rained really hard. The campsite was right on Lake Erie. All the sites but ours flooded out.
So our new friends who were right on the lake had an air mattress was literally floating. Oh, my goodness. The next day, you know, we all help each other pack up, dry out, and we head home.
And the duct tape held up on all those highway speeds? Yeah, it held the whole ride home. Fortunately, it didn't rain. What did your aunt have to say when she saw the vehicle?
We called her from the site. Well, my cousin did since it was his mom. She took it really well. And then when she saw the van, it was a little harder. But in the long run, she was just happy we were all okay.
That's what she's got to do.
I know.
Okay, wait, I think we have a photograph. Oh, this is the gang, the Canadians.
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