Thu. 07/23 - Are Apple Store Closures the New Waffle House Index?
Cool Stuff Daily
Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff
4.6 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:28.7 | 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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