Worlds of Fun with Heidi Gardner
Podcast: The Ride
Forever Dog
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2025
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
Heidi Gardner joins PTR to share family tales from Kansas City, Missouri's theme park "Worlds of Fun." A park that packs multiple planets' worth of enjoyment into 235 acres.
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| 0:00.0 | Forever. |
| 0:01.8 | Dog. |
| 0:04.0 | Warning. |
| 0:05.4 | The following podcast is the biggest Kansas City-related media event of the last few days. |
| 0:12.2 | It may contain a deeply confusing Mount Rushmore, |
| 0:16.1 | Torrid Affairs with comical theme park scientists, and esteemed giant underpants. |
| 0:22.2 | Heidi Gardner whisks us to her beloved hometown park, worlds of fun, not to mention oceans of fun, |
| 0:28.8 | on today's podcast The Ride, a podcast about theme parks where we don't like to get political, |
| 0:57.1 | but we think the president is like Worlds of Fun's iconic balloon. |
| 1:01.6 | He's full of hot air. |
| 1:04.4 | I'm Scott Gertner, and I'd like to apologize for that as soon as it has come out of my mouth, |
| 1:09.7 | and I like to apologize to my |
| 1:11.2 | Carlson. Hello? I don't accept the apology. That's that is fine. It's going to take a process |
| 1:17.5 | of healing. Yeah. The struggle, the internal struggle to think of a to think of a world's fun joke |
| 1:23.6 | at the top. I sympathize with trying to come up with a joke, but still, this is going to |
| 1:28.0 | take months to repair my relationship and my trust in you. That is, that is absolutely fine. Jason |
| 1:34.1 | Sheridan. How are you doing? Good. I don't know. I think I'm tacking the other way. And Scott, |
| 1:40.8 | I was going to say that's why they pay you the big bucks you know |
| 1:44.7 | that's Mike skeptical but I'm like I don't know I kind of liked it no huh a hell of a |
| 1:53.8 | yeah okay well thank you no a hell a hell of a writing sample uh and proof of the scathing |
| 1:59.6 | political satire that we do here which I I hope that our guest is down for. |
| 2:05.4 | Now that she knows this is the kind of territory we can go into. |
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