A Carny Explains If The Rides Are Actually Safe
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- Опубликовано: 7 май 2024
- Excerpt from This Past Weekend #496 | A Carnie
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Which guy is the Carny?
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Brothaaaaa Steve , dammmnnn
The answer to that? YES
Bofe.
Valid as fuck lol
I love how they point out the Carny on the thumbnail for any new listeners that may not know which one of them is the carny
Theo def looks like a sophisticated carny 😂
Not every knows this guy is from the real world
Didn't realize there was an arrow 🤣
I’ve never seen this show so I wouldn’t have known but I’ve watched all the carny videos.
Any other fantastic interviews like this?
lmaooo
Little do we know that this carny is only 23 years old. It's a tough life.
He's holding up really well.....he doesn't look older than 52.
🤣😅
Reverse Benjamin Buttons.
😂
People wondering, his weird lip thing is damage from smoking meth pipes and crack etc.
“No enamel, no money.”
This man is gifted.
.."dose em up with that tummy skeet baby, that vomit"
Thought that was cringe , don’t find him funny at all
@@ghettoasmrisangrymanchild1852 this comment time warped from 2016 ^
@@ghettoasmrisangrymanchild1852 so why you watchin?
@@fulltraincar9246 click bait titles
I love how Theo talks to him with passion like he does even the biggest of celebs he's interviewed. Much respect
this shit is far more interesting.
Brother that’s about the only guest he’s ever had that’s relatable
Wow your fucking shallow AF!!!
He is a celebrity to him growing up.
Celebrities are just people, as flawed as the rest of us
this dude looks exactly how i’d expect a carny to look like
Stereotypes exist because they're true 🤷♂️
@@saulspeaks2557i always say this lmao 😂
He does. So does the guest.
The way his eyes light up when Theo brings up people puking.
Both of them
This dude looks like he belongs in a rob zombie movie
😂😂😂
For real lol
😂!
@RobZombie
Fun fact: Rob Zombie grew up in the carnival. His family owned and worked in them. He’s talked about it many times in interviews including a crazy story about a riot/fight that broke out between the carny’s and townspeople. Complete with fires and everything.
The thrill of knowing a bunch of drunks have assembled the rides, is half the rush
😂😂
With stubby fingers !
I hate to break it to you but 99% of the world is probably running on alcohol. Your heart surgeon probably drinks at night. The people that do all the roads and all the important s*** around town. All drink.
The engineers that made them were drunk at the end of their career too
“Oh yea this dude vapes” 😂😂😂
That one line had me dying! 😂😂😂
Vapes? This dude shoots dope in his neck ffs.
@@chriskolb3105 ong, hes def an ex smoker
@@AngelRivera-de1lq yeah of meth. Lmao cigarettes ain’t doin that.
This guy can really roll with the punches of Theo’s randomness. He even adds in some of his own which are just as good imo. Didn’t expect him to be so naturally funny and interesting.
He looks like if Theo spent his life eating and drinking charcoal
Maybe Theo was a carney in another life 😂
Hes still a pos carnie that scams people
@@MisteryMan2000 Theo's a carney in this life.
did you see the coroner from Louisiana? that guy is a good guest as well
Theo- “I think we just seen this guy’s wiener to November rain”
Carney- “ that’s pretty sweet“
😂
yeah.. wtf.
life is crazy.
Lol
came to point that out
Carny is naturally funny. Same with Theo.
Core memory for this man lmao
"She retired? She's 11" - That made me laugh
😂😂😂😂
Carny: “Are the rides safe? Well, let me put it this way. You could get killed crossing the street - or on a carnival ride with loose bolts. Either way, you’re still dead”. 😆
It’s not so much the ride itself that’s scary. It’s knowing your life’s in the hands of a teenager operating it with his headphones on.
That's at amusement parks. Most fairs have adults running everything. They travel so unless the teen is a child of a carny, they're not gonna have teens working.
I love he admits the gravitron was late noght party spot. When i was a kid and the carnival came to town, after it shut down at night. You could see the carnys all head that way, and hear the music all night long
A party in the gravitron sounds fucking awesome wish he could've talked about it a bit more
@@chimiganja4209.... For the first five minutes
yup Ive seen this too ☺️
The damn Zipper. My brother and I were waiting our turn, talkin with the Carny and someone on the ride yells out- "Stop! I'm gonna throw up!" The Carny starts laughing and reaches for the controls to speed it up a notch. My bro and I looked at each other and walked away... decided we wouldn't be goin on the Zipper that day.
Bahahahahaha. Thanks for making my day with this story
A learning moment
The zipper broke me on real rides for a good ten years as a kid
Yeah! That was probably me sitting next to my friend at Cheyenne Frontier Days. I tried to coach him through it, by telling him to breath in his nose and out his mouth. I think it would of worked, if we hadn't flipped going around the top the last time. Never did get the cotton candy stains out of my favorite shirt and pants😢 LoL...
I puked on that ride
"Its a nice day for a white wedding".....
"We just saw that guys weener, listening to November Rain"
😂😂😂
billy idol = axl rose
Theo has had an interesting life for sure 😂
“Whatever I was doing wasn’t healthy for me, you know, because I was conducting electricity.”
😂🤣
Understatement of the year.
I laughed hard af when he said that 😂
Haha 😂😂
Then he goes oh shit that really happens?? 😂😂
"He kicked me in the back... I think he called me the N word" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 sounds bout right
😂😂😂 not dying on my ride white boy
@@BrolandMeeces 😭😭😭
My main memory of riding the Gravitron at a carnival was getting on and as soon as it started spinning some girl who also got on starts screaming "I CANT BREATHE!!!" at the top of her lungs, only for all the ride operators to flat out ignore her while doing tricks inside the gravitron until the ride ended. Shit was wild.
Saying this in public will get you choked out in the street in front of a audience.💀
As a kid I couldn't understand how the guy in center seemed completely unaffected. I remember the guy in the middle shouting and some teenagers who was climbing on the bars. And I loved that ride. As soon as I got out I'd go right back in line. We all called it "the ufo" because it was designed to look like a spinning ufo the first year it came to my small town.
@@steveclark9934 Perhaps this happened pre defund the police timeline? 😂☠️
@@dannychoppa717 Perhaps.
Dude can interview anyone. Either that or he just found the perfect guy. The podcast shouldn't have been so interesting.
I met this carny. Dude is a natural storyteller that deeply loves the ride that his life has been.
@@HeathGoetsch
I agree. It was wild. Expected something different. I could see him becoming something big after this. Amazingly interesting dude.
He can interview anyone but Jesse Ventura
@@joemarley5982wait really?
@@ImGairBair it's like three hours of talking and Theo couldn't get a word in edgewise. He's bitched about it in other podcasts. But Jesse's just being Jesse. You gotta be assertive with him or he'll dominate ya. 😆
The weiner in the graviton story still has me rolllllling
reminds me of willy wonka tunnel when it starts getting really trippy, cept with carnival workers flashing you to billy idol
some top qaulity stand up might get stolen by _____
lmao me too. I do think Theo makes these stories up alot of the times. But it doesn't matter, so fricken funny
To November rain!
Every town carnival has those weirdos. The town dads should get together and F those dudes up.
Unless those are the town's dads!?
“It was a black gentlemen, I think he even called me the N word” 😂😂😂
theo pretends he does not know a thing , but he actually does 😂
Much like the late Norm MacDonald
Better than pretending you do know what you don't.
I think what's nice is he knows some stuff but he doesn't pretend to know more than the guests he yields to experience and he doesn't push past common sense to seem smart
i met this guy and smoked weed with him years ago. hes a good dude. he had to leave when the fair left. it was sad.
Where?
@@BurtonGuster57 illinois
I hope you guys are the guys 😂 and connect 😂… but those are the best moments and relationships I got a sad one . Living in key west Florida met a Vietnamese girl smoke show that lives In Honolulu Hawaii she was on vacation in Florida go figure but she left her friends and stayed at my place for two days and loved on me back rubs and sex it was to good 😂 …. Boys wen she left I cried like a baby so I say all that to say you can make some of the most amazing memories with people who are just there for a second ❤
Todd? It’s me Rufus, I remember smoking with you! Small world bro. I am in charge of the pony rides now. I’m moving up to corporate for sure.
@@humanOilslick what?!?!?!?!
In Texas we have what’s basically a DWI for anyone who assembles a carnival ride while under the influence.
Imagine having those charges! “ rigging a festival game booth “ should be one ..
As a Texan, I’m curious how hard they enforce that law. I’m sure they get away with it all the time. Also, if there’s not a law for it already, there should be something similar for OPERATING the ride under the influence too, not just assembling it.
I’m a Texan and I didn’t know that. I grew up going to the State Fair and the Stock Show in Dallas-Fort Worth. It was great! We’d get an actual day off from school plus a ticket to the fair so we could go. “Fair Day”
@@AliceRose413 yup! Texas Penal Code - PENAL § 49.065. Assembling or Operating an Amusement Ride While Intoxicated
Good
OK greatest line of the whole segment, “yeah it just wasn’t healthy for me because I was like conducting electricity.“. Lol
Bro forms the most surreal sentences xD
"Dose 'em up with that tummy skeet" 💀
Stealing that next time I'm talking about throwing up.
Can't believe he just said that like the most normal term, caught me so off guard
"which ride caused the most vomit?"
"the puke barrel"
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Wasn’t really that funny bro
@@sneakkyz3696party pooper
Theo getting shocked at a carni is most likely a origin story of why he is the man today.
The image of a guy getting punted into the freakshow by a ride is fucking hilarious 🤣🤣🤣
"Yeah, this dude vapes."
I died at that 😂
Got a teddy bear one time for giving the guy like half a joint lol
-xD ... !-
😂😂😂
Good strategy
Legendary
Sometimes you gotta hustle man 😂
I love how Theo has so much shtick but then he also knows enough that it’s not all nonsense he clearly loved it 😂
I think this might be the most natural conversation I've ever seen/heard him have, and he's pretty good most the time at getting people to drop their gaurd and relax enough to have pretty chill conversations with them, so that's saying something imo.
Theo: "And everyone was afraid to say if we saw that guys Weiner to November Rain"
Carny: "That's Sweet"
I like how Theo starts to have the same accent as his guests. 😂
Mitch is such a chill dude! He runs the best Munchies food tent at the Strange Creek and Worm Town festivals over the summer.
Dude!!! Thank you!! I’ve been wondering why he looks so damn familiar!!! Where the days are long and the nights are endless.
@@j-willy4137 Totally! I just wish whoever ran this channel would consider titling the videos "Mitchell the carny explains if the rides are actually safe" rather than just labeling him as a carny. I feel like Mitch has a lot more to his identity than just "carny". He's a person and deserves more respect than this channel is showing him.
Mitch has more experience than most & I agree with you. Mitchell is more than a label!!
Oh shit! I’ve been to creek and worm town! I don’t ever come across people in my area on RUclips lol
"we used to live down the street from the fair ground".... those words say a lot
Bro how? Look up vista ca strawberry festival, it comes every year and it’s a mile down the road from me. And I live in a 700k town home…. So what does it say exactly ?
@@justzzack in most places the neighborhood surrounding a fair ground is poor. Did you not know that? But i truly don't have to know about your strawberry festival. "Bro".
@TrueSeed-ft1jn bah, the kid just hasn't experienced anything outside of southern CA apparently, which is fine. San Diego county is certainly nice, I lived in San Diego for many years, but it's certainly doesn't represent the majority of the poor ass neighborhoods that happen to be close to the fair grounds.
Not true lol every one I’ve been to around the USA was in the opposite
And Orange County! Costa Mesa/Huntington Beach is very nice & the fair is so great! I go to so many shows there, eat, ride rides, a little motor sports & they open til midnight. It’s a party!
My favorite interview you've done so far, Theo. Keep it real, man.
I watched an operator of a "Zipper" die when I was a kid. I just moved to a new town. Went to the county fair and yeeaah it was pretty brutal. dude got his hair caught in the ride, it dragged him to the top where he was basically scalped then it dropped him and he hit a couple parts of the ride on the way down and landed on his back on a fence. Shit was wild.
Holy Shit Dude! 😮
Sheesh! 🎉
Then what?
@goofballbiscuits3647 then he was dead....
@@goofballbiscuits3647I'm assuming there was a funeral
@@TinyTonyGOD💀
Topsfield Fair! Hell yeah! I worked it one season in high school. The carnies are wild.
I love how the thumbnail had to specify which of the two is the carnie lmfaooo
4:15 “oh yeah that dude vapes” bloody sent me omg
No enamel.
No money. 😂
I love the Gravitron.
“Things are gonna change around here.” 😂
Don’t know why but this is one of the best podcast episodes ever.
I used to run a 1950s wheel, we would rock it and shake it, then stop it at the top for 10-15 min for a couple on a date when we were not busy. Aside from the sketchy loading platform didnt have many incidents. I finally got the arcade shift and the tension cable on the wheel broke that night, full load in a free spin for an hour and half. The tilt whirl would light you up with 480v if you touched it in the rain.
Nice
Nice
The tilt. Yep
My best friend & i were at a county fair & were the only ones on the tilt a whirl, which we loved. After 2 back to back rides, the ride operator said he was going to lunch & asked if we wanted to stay on it while he was gone... heck yeah! We couldn't walk a straight line after that, but it was great fun.
More Carneys please. This guy relatable.
Need a part 2
I remember being a little kid at the carnival and the Zipper was a fkn presence man. It looked dark ,dangerous and intriguing all at the same time. Something about the metal and slaming sounds of carts flipping around out of control!
I use to work the fairs on the inside, and I always laughed when I would think of the oats falling out of the marks pockets. I remember one time. Two ride guys were arguing over a watch or something, because it fell out of one of the guys ride, but it fell into the other guys ride.
I always think about how they decided that.
I can't believe I'm saying this but Theo and a Carnie are the most wholesome thing I've seen all day
My first roller coast was the Ring of Fire at the Abilene State Fair. It's just a ring. Just one loop. You start off rocking back and forth and next thing you know you're doing loops... well... when we juuuust got to the top... like the fiiirst time we were completely upside down... my lap latch broke. My safety latch broke and if it wasn't for the fiberglass canopy of the ride, I would have fallen to my death and my body mauled by a rollercaster.
Death scream. Instantly. What was everyone else doing? Laughing. Everyone, laughing. I remember one lady saying to stop the ride as I was passing the operator and HE was laughing! I punched him and screamed at him when I got off and had a full on panic attack at 9 years old. My dad was telling me it was alright and I remember screaming "it's not okay!" I followed my family around the rest of the time and watched them ride rides. I still hold that grudge to this day. "Overeacting".
Suck it up bro. It's time to let it go. 😂
@@darksu6947 no little boy.
@@szczurrat2402 I'm 37 but whatever you say grandpa.
@@darksu6947little boy needs a nap.
@@szczurrat2402 You seem to have forgotten your ptsd meds again grandpa. The flashbacks make you act weird and it's a little off-putting. Here's your meds old man 💊
Bro the Zipper was torture lmao, the Round Up was the one that induced the most vomiting though 😂
“Completing the circuit” is the best way to describe that. Lmao.
Theo calling vomit “tummy skeet” had me in tears. 😂😭
The first Lamb of God track I ever heard was in a gravitron lol, all of us were trying to headbang against the forces
Yea i remember goin on the gravitron as a kid and the operator climbing out, doing a complete 360 walk around and climb back into the booth, man the 90s were a magical time!
“Tummy skeet” Theo really is a one of a kind😂😂
This dude vapes
The zipper lol I still remember being a little kid and waiting in line for that ride and watching the operator collecting the change that fell out of the peoples pockets when flipping over😂 my brother, one time nearly broke his nose on that ride, smashed his face against the cage door. Being a child in the 90s was freaking awesome.
It's really sweet to see Theo finally meeting his childhood hero
"Dose em up with that tummy skeet"
My late older brother worked for Butler amusements all around California for over 20 years (late 70s to 90s). His last ride was the Gravitron. I remember he borrowed a ton of my CDs to play during the ride and I never got any of them back lol.
I definitely rode a ride he operated 100%
I'm 48... never been flung off after 38 years of rides. Life is a gamble... just enjoy it while you can.
"Dose em up wit that tummy skeet"
-Theo Von
4:15 Theo said: "oh yeah, this guy vapes" 💀💀🤣🤣
This was insane 😂 the carny acts like its the secret service 😂😂😂
My uncle was a carny and he would tell us stories ab his time doing it while we'd be sitting around getting high w him. I never got on another carnival ride after those stories cause the stuff he mentioned scared the living sh*t out of me. 🤣
The Zipper was pretty legit tho, before I bowed out the ride game.
I survived Action Park. A carnival ride is nothing.
Colorado river ride. Never forget.
I watch so many videos on that crazy place. Glad you survived with all your limbs (probably) lol
Man, this duo is so freaking hillarious! Thank you guys!
LMAO! Who is this Theo guy? I don't know how I even got to this video but I'm laughing so freaking hard 😂
He’s a comedian from LA
One of my favorites is called The Muisc Express as that thing can really go fast as your two person cart swings back and forth also it goes backwards
In australia the Apollo/Skymaster is called the Hangover.
"You get off you got no enamel, no money" 😂
I keep coming back to this episode man. Fascinating stuff
My childhood friend was part of a traveling carny family. I went with them a lot of the time. Was much fun. I could live like that. Love it.
Great interview with Theo and his uncle.
"Yeah, this dude vapes" LMAO
Theo could talk to a toddler a out their homework snd it would be entertaining hes truly a master artist so quick witted.
I remember being in marching band in Oklahoma in the 90s and we always got to go to the State Fair because it was like a big marching band competition on it's like opening day or whatever so we get to go and hang out there in the evening. And I was on the Gravitron and while it was spinning I started pushing against the gravity and I got my feet up under the pad and stood up on that back pad like it was a surfboard and the guy operating the thing got really mad. He's a screaming so loud it was over that crazy loud music and I had to sit back down quick or he was going to kill the ride for all of us
Any mechanical thing can always fail. Metal on metal touching eventually wears it down. Vibrations eventually shake loose screws.
Awesome interview! Both super funny
I miss the gravitron. Hasnt been at my local fair in over 15 years
Theo getting severely electrocuted and then saying “oh so that happens”
Shocked*
This was one of the best podcasts. Glad Theo brought him on
I find this to be one of the most entertaining and informative interviews I've seen in a long time on any podcast
That's Luis J Gomez standing on the gravitron!😂😂
With rollerblades on 😂
@@humanOilslick He Rollerbladed from Manhattan to Queens on 9/11 just to ride gravitron! 🛼🐍
There is no way that carnival rides are safer than amusement parks. That’s absolute cap.
I could see his point but I’m curious as to say why you say cap?
Idk I've heard of a lot more people getting hurt and k i l l e d at amusement parks than on fair rides.
New rides are probably over engineered akin to the failures of the Boeing 747max
@@erinr8512they also have a lot more space for a lot more people and permanent locations vs only being open for a season
I’d heard this growing up as well and it never made sense to me either. His point about the constant inspections makes sense, and I know from personal experience that some bigger theme parks rides are only inspected yearly at best (for specific tests at least) but those bigger theme parks are not deconstructing/constructing the rides every other week.
Theo is so entertaining and the guests he brings on are so interesting love this podcast ❤❤❤
Zipper ride is still one of my all time favorites… great memories 😢
The zipper is something they should make death row inmates do
Tummy skeet 😂
"Ohh yahh, this dude vapes" had me dead
There's a version of the freak out called the Super Nova that has you sitting on the outside (facing out instead of facing inside at each other) that does complete rotations, I love that ride
I lost my money first time ever on the Zipper...so true.
Shout out to topsfield fairgrounds in northern Massachusetts! Hooty hoo!
Great video. Thanks for posting this. Have a nice day.
Such a good ep!
I Loved this episode! Nobody could interview a carney like Theo!
This carny is cool
Aren’t they all? Lol
No lol I used to date one and somewhat live with then. Most of them are druggie wackos. But yeah some are cool
Most of them are. My buddy was a carny & they’re normal people for the most part. You’ll get a few oddballs here and there but they’re all good people
@@Strutz3E that’s cool. Thanks for sharing
@@Dime_time333 cool 😀
That electrocution story explains...so much.
3:12 the way Theo gets so excited lol I love that so much.