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Thu. 07/23 - Are Apple Store Closures the New Waffle House Index?

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

A deep dive into America’s most dangerous water park. How to watch Apple’s decisions to predict upcoming COVID-19 hotspots. And the high school girls from Afghanistan who built their own low-cost, open-source ventilator. Sponsors: OurCrowd, info.ourcrowd.com/goodnews Beachbody on Demand, Text "GOODNEWS" to 303030 for a free trial membership Links: New Jersey's Action Park offered fun and injury for the whole family! (A/V Club) Action Park New Jersey: History, stories of dangerous water park (Sports Illustrated) Class Action Park documentary Action Park book Want to Know Where Covid-19 May Hit Next? Watch the Apple Store Closures (Wall Street Journal) Afghan all-girls robotics team designs low-cost ventilator to treat coronavirus patients (Reuters) Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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welcome to the good news ride home for Thursday, July 23rd, 2020.

0:40.3

I'm Jackson Bird.

0:42.3

Today, a deep dive into America's most dangerous water park, how to watch Apple's decisions

0:50.3

to predict upcoming COVID-19 hotspots, and the high school girls from Afghanistan

0:56.9

who built their own low-cost open-source ventilator.

1:01.5

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

1:06.0

If you're from the New Jersey area, you probably have both fond and terrifying memories of a little place called Action Park,

1:15.6

or as it was dubbed, traction park, friction park, accident park, and class action park.

1:23.2

As someone who grew up in the south, the mythos of Action Park is completely new to me.

1:28.1

Although I do feel like some of the disasters that occurred there maybe dissipated down to Texas

1:32.8

and got spread like nameless urban legends.

1:35.7

Like if you're not from New Jersey, did you ever hear about people sustaining serious injuries

1:39.5

from water slides or drowning in wave pools?

1:43.0

More than likely, those stories originated from Action

1:46.0

Park, where they weren't just some urban legends spread on the playground, but genuinely,

1:51.6

tragically, true. Action Park was an amusement and water park in Vernon, New Jersey, that opened in

1:57.5

1978, offering infamously unsafe but thrilling rides, many of which set the

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