WFMU: Therese: Playlist from July 5, 2020

Listener comments!
	♥ 5:16pm mariano: Hey, where is everybody? Or where am I? Can't seem to find the right playlist.
	♥ 5:18pm Therese: @mariano- you are in the Playlist Neitherlands! Come back at 6pm!
	♥ 5:55pm slugluv1313: ahhh okay there you all are! hiya Therese and Billiy Jam and Skeletons and Mariano! just signing in, got totally confused by the playlist mystery :) (hah! well, Mercury and like four other planets ARE in Retrograde! and, i hear the Moon will be hanging out with Saturn and Jupiter later tonight) SO looking forward to this ACTION PARK special! Therese, i had no idea that you actually worked there, HOW did i miss that!
	♥ 6:01pm chresti: Hi Therese! Everybody!
	♥ 6:01pm lukavino: i think the Action Park wikipedia entry might be my favorite on the entire site.
	♥ 6:02pm Therese: Hello all! Welcome to the Alpine Slide. You are responsible for controlling the speed and balance of your cart.
	6:03pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63Chan7: The ferocious & indomitable T Rez.
	6:04pm ami ad: Hello DJ. Hello all. am i late for today's playlist?
	♥ 6:04pm lukavino: i need to track down that ep of Headbanger’s Ball where Riki took Alice In Chains to AP (or vice versa).
	6:04pm Jett: Hello Therese, finally you are on. I am so thankful. I've missed you.
	🎸 ♥ 6:05pm Michael in Montclair: Hi Therese and everyone!
	6:06pm SoCal Denis: Darn. Is the show 2 hours now?
	6:06pm Hyperskee: Grass skiing ..now that was a burner ...
	6:07pm BH: on checking a calendar for 1776. July 4th, 1776 was a Thursday. An excellent entry if any of us get bored enough to want to figure out "the most significant day by day of the week" (example 'most significant Thursday ever')
	♥ 6:07pm Franco Twinkie: Oh hey, Therese.
	♥ 6:07pm radioronan: Hello Therese. I just read the Action Park article by Andy Mulvihill in Esquire this morning. www.esquire.com...
	6:07pm ami ad: @lukavino:Used to record Headbanger's ball in high school,Into the Pit too.Watched it the next day usually.
	6:08pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: WFMU - U.S.America's most derangedist bemusement heart.
	6:09pm queems: hell yes!!!! finally someone is playing the hollies version
	6:09pm Jett: I love the Hollies version of "Sandy" ty for playing.
	♥ 6:11pm Therese: I love the original, but this version doesn't get nearly enough attention.
	6:13pm tracy in LA: Yes. I love it too, thx!
	♥ 6:14pm slugluv1313: YES!!!!!!!! i have always adored The Hollies' version of "Sandy" too! (i think it is on their "Another Night" LP -- which i never had, but borrowed from my local library constantly when i was a teenager in the 70s)
	6:16pm Jett: I like the first three albums by Springsteen, after that he really begins to lose me, and as time progresses he just gets worse and worse. A rare occasional good track.
	6:16pm ?: Therese Rules √√√√√
	6:17pm Jett: Yes, Therese rules!❤️
	🎸 ♥ 6:21pm Ken From Hyde Park: I have signed the various waivers and release forms and declare I am ready to listen. I have the emergency room on speed dial and know the location of the first aid kit.
	🎸 ♥ 6:22pm suzyhotrod: I am so pumped for this upcoming interview! <wooder slider>
	♥ 6:23pm lukavino: omg i remember this Best Show call.
	6:24pm Peter in tappan: Yes Therese of course!!! At action park! Haha
	6:24pm Peter in tappan: Got a biggg smile over here
	6:25pm Choggie: Isn't it Mountain Creek Water Park now with safe safe safer rides?
	♥ 6:26pm Therese: Sigh. Yeah. Not sure if it's open this summer with the Covid and all...
	6:27pm Kim: A diy waterpark hahaha So glad I caught this show!
	🎸 ♥ 6:29pm Handy Haversack: Hi, Therese, hi, all! We seem to be just in time for Alpine Slide time!
	♥ 6:30pm Franco Twinkie: This is so fantastic! When is someone going to get their head torn off?
	6:30pm Choggie: Betcha some retired gumba from one of the Jersey families opened Action Park as a front
	🎸 ♥ 6:30pm suzyhotrod: I've never been so proud to say that I've been injured on an alpine slide in the 80s. But it was in PA, not Jersey.
	6:31pm Choggie: FYI: a group of turkeys is called a rafter
	♥ 6:31pm Therese: @Suzyhotrod- was it at POCONO ACTION PARK?!
	6:32pm Choggie: Ambulance drivers musta loved the place
	6:33pm Peter in tappan: I pretty much left my nipples on a concrete kiddie splash pad at like age 8.
	🎸 ♥ 6:33pm suzyhotrod: Camelback! Which is still there, sans alpine slide. I was secretly hoping we would have shared both a scarring experience with an easy bake oven, AND injuries on an alpine slide. But alas, we don't have that in common.
	6:34pm Kim: I want to know if Andy dated a Playboy Bunnny!?
	♥ 6:34pm Therese: My alpine slide scars are all on the inside, Suzy!
	♥ 6:37pm Therese: Warning- the audio may be a bit wonky at first...
	6:38pm Siobhan: Two near-death experiences in the tidal wave pool and some good cement burns on my arms. Which yes, means I kept going back in spite of all of the above
	6:40pm Jett: Nothing that you do could be wonky. I think you are so awesome! @Therese
	🎸 ♥ 6:45pm Ken From Hyde Park: This is the tube with the loop-de-loop near the bottom?
	6:45pm BH: listening from a market where the local amusement park has had one ride fatality in 47 years (and when it happened, it was a big deal). So, this is wild compared to my points of reference for amusement parks.
	♥ 6:46pm efd: thank you John Hodgman for having the discretion to say "Cover your A."
	♥ 6:46pm Therese: He's a pro, @efd!
	♥ 6:46pm mariano: Hi Therese, Ruth, folks.
	♥ 6:46pm efd: The best.
	6:47pm Martinibomb: I helped John out in a greenroom about 2yrs ago with Jean Grey both super nice people
	6:47pm Kim: Kamikazie?
	♥ 6:48pm Therese: @Kim- we didn't even get to the Kamaikaze! Or the Aqua Skoot, or the Battle Action Tanks....
	♥ 6:48pm Franco Twinkie: I bet a lot of these teenagers got jobs in the sexual punishment business after they graduated from Action Park.
	6:50pm Kim: Ice cold water!!
	6:54pm Chud: Woo, Maine!
	♥ 6:55pm Franco Twinkie: Lobster MacNuggets?
	6:55pm Martinibomb: Defunctland did a little documentary about it.
	♥ 6:56pm Sean: Rocky Point in RI is coming to mind
	6:56pm Chud: The McDonalds by me had a McLobster sandwich for a while in the 90's
	♥ 6:57pm efd: like coming to Broad-way!
	♥ 6:57pm mariano: Defunctland has some really great episodes.
	6:57pm BH: Over/under on the number of Broadway plays she had been to: 0.5
	♥ 6:57pm Franco Twinkie: Chud, I knew it was something like that!
	♥ 6:57pm chresti: Action Park Senior Village.
	♥ 6:58pm chresti: Action Park Senior Village.
	🎸 ♥ 6:58pm Handy Haversack: What a coup! Great talk, Therese! We alpine slid in Vermont once, YEARS ago ... maybe 2004?
	♥ 6:59pm chresti: OOps, A double.
	♥ 7:00pm Franco Twinkie: I've seen some real crap-ass fun parks, but nothing like this.
	7:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Aha. Body Mods...
	7:10pm Kim: Sprayed them with a garden hose lol
	♥ 7:10pm Therese: True story!
	7:11pm Joe R.: This is great Therese—only just learned after 28 years of marriage that my wife worked there briefly (and of bunch of her family too it turns out) (oh, and we just ordered the book too :D)
	♥ 7:12pm Therese: @Joe R: I may know your wife!
	♥ 7:14pm Franco Twinkie: Okay, I'm going to get the book, but I have to know - how many times was the park sued?
	♥ 7:15pm Therese: pfft- your guess is as good as mine, @Franco Twinkie.
	7:16pm Chud: I agree, this book is a must-read!
	♥ 7:16pm slugluv1313: @ Franco -- hah! apparently a LOT of crap going on at a buncha Jersey places -- Haunted Mansion had a ton of allegations of sexual assault on visitors by the workers -- Jungle Habitat too, and the poor creatures who had to "live" there were treated horribly, may died :(
	7:17pm BH: "There's places that bar right turns on red lights" is a surprise entrant for things to surprise me from this show. (Although I can make some reasonable guesses about why that ban exists)
	7:17pm Joe R.: @therese - she says she worked there in ‘83 but only for a couple of weeks?
	♥ 7:18pm Therese: ah, that is before my time. I think it was '88 or '89 when I first worked there.
	♥ 7:20pm Franco Twinkie: I like that, chasing the leisure dollar.
	♥ 7:22pm Tome: Cannonball Loop Cannonball Loop, the infamous looping water slide, was only opened for brief periods in Action Park's existence. In the mid-1980s GAR built an enclosed water slide, not unusual for that time; in fact, the park already had several such slides. On this one, however, they decided to build a complete vertical loop at the end, similar to that of a roller coaster.[43] The resulting slide, called the "Cannonball Loop", was so intimidating, that employees have reported they were offered $100 (equivalent to $238 in 2019) to test it. Fergus, who described himself as "one of the idiots" who took the offer, said, "$100 did not buy enough booze to drown out that memory."[39] The slide was opened for only one month in summer 1985 before it was closed at the order of the state's Advisory Board on Carnival Amusement Ride Safety, a highly unusual move at the time.[3] One worker told a local newspaper that "there were too many bloody noses and back injuries" from riders, and it was widely rumored, and reported in Weird NJ, that some of the test dummies sent down before it opened had been dismembered and decapitated.[3] A rider also reportedly got stuck at the top of the loop due to insufficient water pressure, and a hatch had to be installed at the bottom of the slope to allow for future extractions.[3] The ride supposedly reopened a few more times over the years. In the summers of 1995 and 1996, it was opened for several days before further injuries forced its permanent shutdown.
	♥ 7:22pm Tome: Never got to ride that one
	7:27pm BH: Wonder how often the 'Advisory Board on Carnival Amusement Ride Safety' had to meet Just remembered a much more recent situation around where I live involving the world's tallest/fastest water slide... which ended with it killing a kid (the park shut down shortly after). It's possible lessons still need to be learned for non-dangerous water slides?
	7:28pm Peter in tappan: Knoxville read this guy like the back of a box of Cheerios
	7:28pm Peter in tappan: Got the rights for the cost of a plane ticket
	7:29pm John from Madison: Great show thanks.
	♥ 7:31pm northguineahills: Oddly enough, I was visiting my aunt and uncle when I was 13 (lived in FL at the time), and visitied Action Park. It was September, and there were maybe 5 other people there. I got to do the water slide loop, and had a blast w/ my bros. It wasn't until I moved to NYC 20 years later that I was told about the notoriety of the Action Park.
	♥ 7:31pm Franco Twinkie: This is kind of like when people tell me they saw the Beatles.To bad you missed out - it'll never happen again.
	♥ 7:31pm northguineahills: jinx!
	♥ 7:31pm northguineahills: errrr, not 20 years later, 10 years later....
	7:32pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: This is a job for Ron Obvious.
	♥ 7:32pm northguineahills: oh, and I found out the year I went was the last year it was open....
	♥ 7:33pm Franco Twinkie: Thanks Andy!
	7:35pm Dave Miss: The alpine slide was the BEST
	♥ 7:35pm northguineahills: ahh, Canonball Loop, that one! I loved it!
	♥ 7:36pm Franco Twinkie: Wow Therese. I see you in a whole different light now.
	♥ 7:36pm northguineahills: unfortunately, the Alpine slide was closed when I was there, I remember looking at it and wishing it was open....
	♥ 7:36pm lukavino: Therese, this was so special. thank you.
	♥ 7:36pm Therese: The Bailey Ball, as promised: slate.com...
	♥ 7:39pm Pauly from Clifton: Therese, thanks for the interview with Andy. As a teen being reared in North Jersey in the early 80s, Action Park was the place to go. Much closer than Six Flags Great Adventure and much cooler...and much more dangerous!
	♥ 7:40pm lukavino: Baltimora!!
	♥ 7:40pm Therese: Yes- Baltimora's 'Tarzan Boy!'
	♥ 7:41pm slugluv1313: omg TARZAN BOY!!!
	7:44pm Siobhan: This is so amazing
	7:44pm HexFamChan: This is killing me hahaha
	♥ 7:44pm Therese: Yeah, the place was NUTS.
	♥ 7:45pm northguineahills: Excellent!
	♥ 7:45pm efd: That was an amazing story, and this whole show has been great!
	🎸 ♥ 7:46pm Handy Haversack: What efd said!
	♥ 7:48pm slugluv1313: what a fantastic show, Therese -- thank you so much!
	♥ 7:48pm Franco Twinkie: Therese, when I was in junior high I knew a girl who saw The Rolling Stones at Altamont. It was kind of like "You did what!?!" This is kind of like that.
	♥ 7:48pm lukavino: Billy Jam lead in was HOT
	7:48pm HexFamChan: Yeah Billy Jam! That was dope!
	♥ 7:49pm Franco Twinkie: This is excellent holiday programming!
	♥ 7:49pm Therese: @Franco Twinkie whuuuuuttttt?!?!
	7:50pm Jett: I like you @Therese for 3 hours, but if it makes you happy, I will not complain. I can never get enough of you. ❤️
	♥ 7:50pm efd: omg
	♥ 7:50pm neil quarantino: Thank you Therese, great interviews. I worked in the ski and rental shops and had some wild times there!
	♥ 7:50pm efd: NEM HOOTERS!!
	♥ 7:51pm Franco Twinkie: Whuuuttt, been at a historical brawl?
	♥ 7:51pm lukavino: Hooters rule. “All You Zombies” is unassailable.
	♥ 7:51pm chresti: Wow, thanks Therese!
	🎸 ♥ 7:51pm Handy Haversack: We missed Billy Jam! Sigh. We're going off on a walk to the pond. Thanks, Therese! WHOA. Hooters!
	♥ 7:51pm Aitch: Settle down EFD
	♥ 7:51pm Bootsie: Ahhhhh I love this song!
	♥ 7:51pm slugluv1313: gosh i do not even like The Hooters but THIS is freaking awesome!
	♥ 7:51pm mariano: Thank you Therese and Ruth!
	♥ 7:52pm Therese: @efd they played at Action Park! I think more than once!
	♥ 7:52pm Therese: Joe Belock saw them there!
	♥ 7:53pm Therese: And I may or may not have lost a bet with Philly Boy Roy...
	♥ 7:53pm lukavino: also their fire cover of Skatalites “Man On The Street”
	♥ 7:53pm mariano: slugluv: Not my all-time favorites either, but this song really takes me back (and is taking me back as I type!).
	7:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Worse things happened in the 80s.
	♥ 7:53pm efd: haha! I have to say, I am in the same camp as slugluv on this one.
	7:53pm Erik Brynildsen: Amazing show and this song is perfect. Thanks Therese! I was only at Action Park once since I grew up in Ocean County. The Alpine Slide was freakin' awesome
	♥ 7:54pm Leon: It warms my heart to hear the Hooters on WFMU!
	🎸 ♥ 7:54pm Handy Haversack: Like those summers you and I worked at Action Park, Mariano, and the moon was made of potential, and I was decapitated on that water slide, which only brought us closer together.
	♥ 7:55pm mariano: Lol Handy!
	♥ 7:56pm slugluv1313: hahahahahaha @ mariano and handy!
	♥ 7:56pm CleanShirt: This was magnificent. In the most “hell yeah” kind of way
	🎸 ♥ 7:57pm Ken From Hyde Park: In summary: Action Park, fun yet dangerous. Thanks, Therese!
	♥ 7:57pm radioronan: Thanks Therese - Thanks skeleton crew!
	♥ 7:58pm northguineahills: anytime to play a Fairport cover is a great time!
	♥ 7:59pm slugluv1313: who knows where the time goes indeed! gorgeous version -- i adore Judy Collins' version too, and of course the original Sandy Denny chills
	🎸 ♥ 7:59pm PeterD: Great show!
	7:59pm HexFamChan: The Action Park stuff… my kid and I were ROLLIN'! Thanks Therese!
	7:59pm Jett: bye Therese ty
	♥ 8:01pm Franco Twinkie: Thanks Therese, you are awesome!
	8:01pm ?: Therese Rules ThereseTherese
	🎸 ♥ 8:19am Ken From Hyde Park: New York Times interview with the author: www.nytimes.com...

Therese: Playlist from July 5, 2020

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July 5, 2020: The ACTION NEVER STOPS!
Action Park is hard to explain. That will not stop me from trying. Featuring an interview with Andy Mulvihill, son of the park's founder and co-author of Action Park: Fast Times, Wild Rides, and the Untold Story of America's Most Dangerous Amusement Park and other special guests...

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Comments	New	Approx. start time
XTC	Statue of Liberty "Statue of Liberty" by "XTC"	Civics 91.1: Therese's 2016 Premium	WFMU Premium 2016			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Count Five	Declaration of Independence	Psychotic Reaction	Double Shot Records			0:02:36 (Pop-up)
Sad13	A Fine Day for a Parade "A Fine Day for a Parade" by "Sad13"	Saving for a Custom Van	Father Daughter Records	Tribute to Adam Schlesinger, all proceeds benefit MusiCares COVID Relief Fund	*	0:04:24 (Pop-up)
The Hollies	Sandy (4th of July, Asbury Park)	Single	Polydor Records			0:08:26 (Pop-up)
Violent Femmes	American Music "American Music" by "Violent Femmes"	Add It Up (1981-1993)	Slash/Reprise Records			0:12:30 (Pop-up)
Solomon Burke	None of Us Are Free	Don't Give Up on Me	Fat Possum Records			0:16:14 (Pop-up)
Tom Scharpling with Gregg from Philadephia	Tom talks Action Park with the Greggulator	The Best Show on WFMU, March 29, 2011	WFMU Archives			0:21:33 (Pop-up)
Shellac	Dog and Pony Show "Dog and Pony Show" by "Shellac"	At Action Park	Touch and Go Records	No relation to NJ's Action Park, but still...		0:23:04 (Pop-up)
Unknown	Action Park Commercial "Action Park Commercial" by "Unknown"	via YouTube	No Label			0:26:59 (Pop-up)
Melissa F. from Vernon, NJ, former Action Park Ride Attendant	Turkey, TURKEY!!!		No Label			0:28:14 (Pop-up)
Unknown	1988 Action Park Commercial	via YouTube	No Label			0:30:19 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The B-52's	Follow Your Bliss "Follow Your Bliss" by "The B-52's"	Cosmic Thing	Reprise Records			0:30:56 (Pop-up)
John Hodgman speaks with Therese	Action Park Memories...	via Skype	No Label			0:36:34 (Pop-up)
Unknown	1983 Action Park Commercial	via YouTube				0:56:56 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The B-52's	Follow Your Bliss "Follow Your Bliss" by "The B-52's"	Cosmic Thing	Reprise Records			0:57:28 (Pop-up)
Andy Mulvihill speaks with Therese	Andy discusses his new book, Action Park: Fast Times, Wild Rides, and the Untold Story of America's Most Dangerous Amusment Park	via Skype	No Label			0:59:01 (Pop-up)
Unknown	1982 Action Park Commercial	via YouTube	No Label			1:33:22 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The B-52's	Follow Your Bliss "Follow Your Bliss" by "The B-52's"	Cosmic Thing	Reprise Records			1:33:54 (Pop-up)
Danny P. from Los Angeles, former host of the Jungle Challenge	All Hell Breaks Loose at the Jungle Challenge		No Label			1:38:06 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The B-52's	Follow Your Bliss "Follow Your Bliss" by "The B-52's"	Cosmic Thing	Reprise Records			1:44:24 (Pop-up)
The Hooters	And We Danced "And We Danced" by "The Hooters"	Nervous Night	Columbia Records	The Hooters performed at Action Park at least once.		1:50:03 (Pop-up)
Fleetwood Mac	You Made a Hit "You Made a Hit" by "Fleetwood Mac"	Don't Go, Please Stay/You Made a Hit	Hyperion Books/ Warner Special Projects	from a single tucked into the back cover of Mick Fleetwood's book, "My 25 Years in Fleetwood Mac."		1:54:20 (Pop-up)
Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs	Who Knows Where the Time Goes?	Under The Covers, Vol. 1	Shout! Factory			1:57:32 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	♥ 5:16pm mariano: Hey, where is everybody? Or where am I? Can't seem to find the right playlist.
	♥ 5:18pm Therese: @mariano- you are in the Playlist Neitherlands! Come back at 6pm!
	♥ 5:55pm slugluv1313: ahhh okay there you all are! hiya Therese and Billiy Jam and Skeletons and Mariano! just signing in, got totally confused by the playlist mystery :) (hah! well, Mercury and like four other planets ARE in Retrograde! and, i hear the Moon will be hanging out with Saturn and Jupiter later tonight) SO looking forward to this ACTION PARK special! Therese, i had no idea that you actually worked there, HOW did i miss that!
	♥ 6:01pm chresti: Hi Therese! Everybody!
	♥ 6:01pm lukavino: i think the Action Park wikipedia entry might be my favorite on the entire site.
	♥ 6:02pm Therese: Hello all! Welcome to the Alpine Slide. You are responsible for controlling the speed and balance of your cart.
	6:03pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63Chan7: The ferocious & indomitable T Rez.
	6:04pm ami ad: Hello DJ. Hello all. am i late for today's playlist?
	♥ 6:04pm lukavino: i need to track down that ep of Headbanger’s Ball where Riki took Alice In Chains to AP (or vice versa).
	6:04pm Jett: Hello Therese, finally you are on. I am so thankful. I've missed you.
	🎸 ♥ 6:05pm Michael in Montclair: Hi Therese and everyone!
	6:06pm SoCal Denis: Darn. Is the show 2 hours now?
	6:06pm Hyperskee: Grass skiing ..now that was a burner ...
	6:07pm BH: on checking a calendar for 1776. July 4th, 1776 was a Thursday. An excellent entry if any of us get bored enough to want to figure out "the most significant day by day of the week" (example 'most significant Thursday ever')
	♥ 6:07pm Franco Twinkie: Oh hey, Therese.
	♥ 6:07pm radioronan: Hello Therese. I just read the Action Park article by Andy Mulvihill in Esquire this morning. www.esquire.com...
	6:07pm ami ad: @lukavino:Used to record Headbanger's ball in high school,Into the Pit too.Watched it the next day usually.
	6:08pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: WFMU - U.S.America's most derangedist bemusement heart.
	6:09pm queems: hell yes!!!! finally someone is playing the hollies version
	6:09pm Jett: I love the Hollies version of "Sandy" ty for playing.
	♥ 6:11pm Therese: I love the original, but this version doesn't get nearly enough attention.
	6:13pm tracy in LA: Yes. I love it too, thx!
	♥ 6:14pm slugluv1313: YES!!!!!!!! i have always adored The Hollies' version of "Sandy" too! (i think it is on their "Another Night" LP -- which i never had, but borrowed from my local library constantly when i was a teenager in the 70s)
	6:16pm Jett: I like the first three albums by Springsteen, after that he really begins to lose me, and as time progresses he just gets worse and worse. A rare occasional good track.
	6:16pm ?: Therese Rules √√√√√
	6:17pm Jett: Yes, Therese rules!❤️
	🎸 ♥ 6:21pm Ken From Hyde Park: I have signed the various waivers and release forms and declare I am ready to listen. I have the emergency room on speed dial and know the location of the first aid kit.
	🎸 ♥ 6:22pm suzyhotrod: I am so pumped for this upcoming interview! <wooder slider>
	♥ 6:23pm lukavino: omg i remember this Best Show call.
	6:24pm Peter in tappan: Yes Therese of course!!! At action park! Haha
	6:24pm Peter in tappan: Got a biggg smile over here
	6:25pm Choggie: Isn't it Mountain Creek Water Park now with safe safe safer rides?
	♥ 6:26pm Therese: Sigh. Yeah. Not sure if it's open this summer with the Covid and all...
	6:27pm Kim: A diy waterpark hahaha So glad I caught this show!
	🎸 ♥ 6:29pm Handy Haversack: Hi, Therese, hi, all! We seem to be just in time for Alpine Slide time!
	♥ 6:30pm Franco Twinkie: This is so fantastic! When is someone going to get their head torn off?
	6:30pm Choggie: Betcha some retired gumba from one of the Jersey families opened Action Park as a front
	🎸 ♥ 6:30pm suzyhotrod: I've never been so proud to say that I've been injured on an alpine slide in the 80s. But it was in PA, not Jersey.
	6:31pm Choggie: FYI: a group of turkeys is called a rafter
	♥ 6:31pm Therese: @Suzyhotrod- was it at POCONO ACTION PARK?!
	6:32pm Choggie: Ambulance drivers musta loved the place
	6:33pm Peter in tappan: I pretty much left my nipples on a concrete kiddie splash pad at like age 8.
	🎸 ♥ 6:33pm suzyhotrod: Camelback! Which is still there, sans alpine slide. I was secretly hoping we would have shared both a scarring experience with an easy bake oven, AND injuries on an alpine slide. But alas, we don't have that in common.
	6:34pm Kim: I want to know if Andy dated a Playboy Bunnny!?
	♥ 6:34pm Therese: My alpine slide scars are all on the inside, Suzy!
	♥ 6:37pm Therese: Warning- the audio may be a bit wonky at first...
	6:38pm Siobhan: Two near-death experiences in the tidal wave pool and some good cement burns on my arms. Which yes, means I kept going back in spite of all of the above
	6:40pm Jett: Nothing that you do could be wonky. I think you are so awesome! @Therese
	🎸 ♥ 6:45pm Ken From Hyde Park: This is the tube with the loop-de-loop near the bottom?
	6:45pm BH: listening from a market where the local amusement park has had one ride fatality in 47 years (and when it happened, it was a big deal). So, this is wild compared to my points of reference for amusement parks.
	♥ 6:46pm efd: thank you John Hodgman for having the discretion to say "Cover your A."
	♥ 6:46pm Therese: He's a pro, @efd!
	♥ 6:46pm mariano: Hi Therese, Ruth, folks.
	♥ 6:46pm efd: The best.
	6:47pm Martinibomb: I helped John out in a greenroom about 2yrs ago with Jean Grey both super nice people
	6:47pm Kim: Kamikazie?
	♥ 6:48pm Therese: @Kim- we didn't even get to the Kamaikaze! Or the Aqua Skoot, or the Battle Action Tanks....
	♥ 6:48pm Franco Twinkie: I bet a lot of these teenagers got jobs in the sexual punishment business after they graduated from Action Park.
	6:50pm Kim: Ice cold water!!
	6:54pm Chud: Woo, Maine!
	♥ 6:55pm Franco Twinkie: Lobster MacNuggets?
	6:55pm Martinibomb: Defunctland did a little documentary about it.
	♥ 6:56pm Sean: Rocky Point in RI is coming to mind
	6:56pm Chud: The McDonalds by me had a McLobster sandwich for a while in the 90's
	♥ 6:57pm efd: like coming to Broad-way!
	♥ 6:57pm mariano: Defunctland has some really great episodes.
	6:57pm BH: Over/under on the number of Broadway plays she had been to: 0.5
	♥ 6:57pm Franco Twinkie: Chud, I knew it was something like that!
	♥ 6:57pm chresti: Action Park Senior Village.
	♥ 6:58pm chresti: Action Park Senior Village.
	🎸 ♥ 6:58pm Handy Haversack: What a coup! Great talk, Therese! We alpine slid in Vermont once, YEARS ago ... maybe 2004?
	♥ 6:59pm chresti: OOps, A double.
	♥ 7:00pm Franco Twinkie: I've seen some real crap-ass fun parks, but nothing like this.
	7:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Aha. Body Mods...
	7:10pm Kim: Sprayed them with a garden hose lol
	♥ 7:10pm Therese: True story!
	7:11pm Joe R.: This is great Therese—only just learned after 28 years of marriage that my wife worked there briefly (and of bunch of her family too it turns out) (oh, and we just ordered the book too :D)
	♥ 7:12pm Therese: @Joe R: I may know your wife!
	♥ 7:14pm Franco Twinkie: Okay, I'm going to get the book, but I have to know - how many times was the park sued?
	♥ 7:15pm Therese: pfft- your guess is as good as mine, @Franco Twinkie.
	7:16pm Chud: I agree, this book is a must-read!
	♥ 7:16pm slugluv1313: @ Franco -- hah! apparently a LOT of crap going on at a buncha Jersey places -- Haunted Mansion had a ton of allegations of sexual assault on visitors by the workers -- Jungle Habitat too, and the poor creatures who had to "live" there were treated horribly, may died :(
	7:17pm BH: "There's places that bar right turns on red lights" is a surprise entrant for things to surprise me from this show. (Although I can make some reasonable guesses about why that ban exists)
	7:17pm Joe R.: @therese - she says she worked there in ‘83 but only for a couple of weeks?
	♥ 7:18pm Therese: ah, that is before my time. I think it was '88 or '89 when I first worked there.
	♥ 7:20pm Franco Twinkie: I like that, chasing the leisure dollar.
	♥ 7:22pm Tome: Cannonball Loop Cannonball Loop, the infamous looping water slide, was only opened for brief periods in Action Park's existence. In the mid-1980s GAR built an enclosed water slide, not unusual for that time; in fact, the park already had several such slides. On this one, however, they decided to build a complete vertical loop at the end, similar to that of a roller coaster.[43] The resulting slide, called the "Cannonball Loop", was so intimidating, that employees have reported they were offered $100 (equivalent to $238 in 2019) to test it. Fergus, who described himself as "one of the idiots" who took the offer, said, "$100 did not buy enough booze to drown out that memory."[39] The slide was opened for only one month in summer 1985 before it was closed at the order of the state's Advisory Board on Carnival Amusement Ride Safety, a highly unusual move at the time.[3] One worker told a local newspaper that "there were too many bloody noses and back injuries" from riders, and it was widely rumored, and reported in Weird NJ, that some of the test dummies sent down before it opened had been dismembered and decapitated.[3] A rider also reportedly got stuck at the top of the loop due to insufficient water pressure, and a hatch had to be installed at the bottom of the slope to allow for future extractions.[3] The ride supposedly reopened a few more times over the years. In the summers of 1995 and 1996, it was opened for several days before further injuries forced its permanent shutdown.
	♥ 7:22pm Tome: Never got to ride that one
	7:27pm BH: Wonder how often the 'Advisory Board on Carnival Amusement Ride Safety' had to meet Just remembered a much more recent situation around where I live involving the world's tallest/fastest water slide... which ended with it killing a kid (the park shut down shortly after). It's possible lessons still need to be learned for non-dangerous water slides?
	7:28pm Peter in tappan: Knoxville read this guy like the back of a box of Cheerios
	7:28pm Peter in tappan: Got the rights for the cost of a plane ticket
	7:29pm John from Madison: Great show thanks.
	♥ 7:31pm northguineahills: Oddly enough, I was visiting my aunt and uncle when I was 13 (lived in FL at the time), and visitied Action Park. It was September, and there were maybe 5 other people there. I got to do the water slide loop, and had a blast w/ my bros. It wasn't until I moved to NYC 20 years later that I was told about the notoriety of the Action Park.
	♥ 7:31pm Franco Twinkie: This is kind of like when people tell me they saw the Beatles.To bad you missed out - it'll never happen again.
	♥ 7:31pm northguineahills: jinx!
	♥ 7:31pm northguineahills: errrr, not 20 years later, 10 years later....
	7:32pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: This is a job for Ron Obvious.
	♥ 7:32pm northguineahills: oh, and I found out the year I went was the last year it was open....
	♥ 7:33pm Franco Twinkie: Thanks Andy!
	7:35pm Dave Miss: The alpine slide was the BEST
	♥ 7:35pm northguineahills: ahh, Canonball Loop, that one! I loved it!
	♥ 7:36pm Franco Twinkie: Wow Therese. I see you in a whole different light now.
	♥ 7:36pm northguineahills: unfortunately, the Alpine slide was closed when I was there, I remember looking at it and wishing it was open....
	♥ 7:36pm lukavino: Therese, this was so special. thank you.
	♥ 7:36pm Therese: The Bailey Ball, as promised: slate.com...
	♥ 7:39pm Pauly from Clifton: Therese, thanks for the interview with Andy. As a teen being reared in North Jersey in the early 80s, Action Park was the place to go. Much closer than Six Flags Great Adventure and much cooler...and much more dangerous!
	♥ 7:40pm lukavino: Baltimora!!
	♥ 7:40pm Therese: Yes- Baltimora's 'Tarzan Boy!'
	♥ 7:41pm slugluv1313: omg TARZAN BOY!!!
	7:44pm Siobhan: This is so amazing
	7:44pm HexFamChan: This is killing me hahaha
	♥ 7:44pm Therese: Yeah, the place was NUTS.
	♥ 7:45pm northguineahills: Excellent!
	♥ 7:45pm efd: That was an amazing story, and this whole show has been great!
	🎸 ♥ 7:46pm Handy Haversack: What efd said!
	♥ 7:48pm slugluv1313: what a fantastic show, Therese -- thank you so much!
	♥ 7:48pm Franco Twinkie: Therese, when I was in junior high I knew a girl who saw The Rolling Stones at Altamont. It was kind of like "You did what!?!" This is kind of like that.
	♥ 7:48pm lukavino: Billy Jam lead in was HOT
	7:48pm HexFamChan: Yeah Billy Jam! That was dope!
	♥ 7:49pm Franco Twinkie: This is excellent holiday programming!
	♥ 7:49pm Therese: @Franco Twinkie whuuuuuttttt?!?!
	7:50pm Jett: I like you @Therese for 3 hours, but if it makes you happy, I will not complain. I can never get enough of you. ❤️
	♥ 7:50pm efd: omg
	♥ 7:50pm neil quarantino: Thank you Therese, great interviews. I worked in the ski and rental shops and had some wild times there!
	♥ 7:50pm efd: NEM HOOTERS!!
	♥ 7:51pm Franco Twinkie: Whuuuttt, been at a historical brawl?
	♥ 7:51pm lukavino: Hooters rule. “All You Zombies” is unassailable.
	♥ 7:51pm chresti: Wow, thanks Therese!
	🎸 ♥ 7:51pm Handy Haversack: We missed Billy Jam! Sigh. We're going off on a walk to the pond. Thanks, Therese! WHOA. Hooters!
	♥ 7:51pm Aitch: Settle down EFD
	♥ 7:51pm Bootsie: Ahhhhh I love this song!
	♥ 7:51pm slugluv1313: gosh i do not even like The Hooters but THIS is freaking awesome!
	♥ 7:51pm mariano: Thank you Therese and Ruth!
	♥ 7:52pm Therese: @efd they played at Action Park! I think more than once!
	♥ 7:52pm Therese: Joe Belock saw them there!
	♥ 7:53pm Therese: And I may or may not have lost a bet with Philly Boy Roy...
	♥ 7:53pm lukavino: also their fire cover of Skatalites “Man On The Street”
	♥ 7:53pm mariano: slugluv: Not my all-time favorites either, but this song really takes me back (and is taking me back as I type!).
	7:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Worse things happened in the 80s.
	♥ 7:53pm efd: haha! I have to say, I am in the same camp as slugluv on this one.
	7:53pm Erik Brynildsen: Amazing show and this song is perfect. Thanks Therese! I was only at Action Park once since I grew up in Ocean County. The Alpine Slide was freakin' awesome
	♥ 7:54pm Leon: It warms my heart to hear the Hooters on WFMU!
	🎸 ♥ 7:54pm Handy Haversack: Like those summers you and I worked at Action Park, Mariano, and the moon was made of potential, and I was decapitated on that water slide, which only brought us closer together.
	♥ 7:55pm mariano: Lol Handy!
	♥ 7:56pm slugluv1313: hahahahahaha @ mariano and handy!
	♥ 7:56pm CleanShirt: This was magnificent. In the most “hell yeah” kind of way
	🎸 ♥ 7:57pm Ken From Hyde Park: In summary: Action Park, fun yet dangerous. Thanks, Therese!
	♥ 7:57pm radioronan: Thanks Therese - Thanks skeleton crew!
	♥ 7:58pm northguineahills: anytime to play a Fairport cover is a great time!
	♥ 7:59pm slugluv1313: who knows where the time goes indeed! gorgeous version -- i adore Judy Collins' version too, and of course the original Sandy Denny chills
	🎸 ♥ 7:59pm PeterD: Great show!
	7:59pm HexFamChan: The Action Park stuff… my kid and I were ROLLIN'! Thanks Therese!
	7:59pm Jett: bye Therese ty
	♥ 8:01pm Franco Twinkie: Thanks Therese, you are awesome!
	8:01pm ?: Therese Rules ThereseTherese
	🎸 ♥ 8:19am Ken From Hyde Park: New York Times interview with the author: www.nytimes.com...

Therese: Playlist from July 5, 2020

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