Oh, righty. It is time for the ultimate deep cut episode. Welcome to For Your Amusement,

a theme park podcast that aims to exhaustively evaluate the world's most popular theme park

attractions to determine if they are world class. I'm Ryan Bergara and I'm Byron Marin. And for this episode's

featured attraction, we saddle up and grab our pickax because it's time to hitch a ride on Calico's

fastest set of wheels in the west, ghost rider at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California.

Love this theme park. One of my all-time favorites since I was a little boy.

But then again, what am I but a SoCal native?

So I wonder if anybody outside of SoCal knows this park exists.

Let's help everyone else out with that.

To understand Ghost Rider, you got to understand Knott's Berry Farm.

And its history dates back to 1923, where the Knott's family,

led by Walter and his wife Cordelia Knott, they build a little roadside stand, a roadside stand

to sell berries. Hence the name Barry Farm. Now in 1932, Walter links up with a man by the name of

Rudolph Boisen. He goes on to acquire the

Boisenberry, which becomes a big hit. It's a massive berry. They have a lovely Boisenberry

festival every year that I frequent. I eat my body weight in Boisenberry treats. Also just funny

that someone is allowed to be named Rudolph Boisen. Now, the Great Depression leads to a massive price drop in land.

So the Knott's, even though they're not flesh with cash, they decide to double down.

They buy a bunch more land.

And then in 1934, Cordelia knot has this game-changing idea.

She begins to sell fried chicken dinners in her tea

room. This fried chicken becomes so coveted that people show up by the hundreds waiting hours

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