A Carny | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #496

today's guest is a Carney out of the New. England area and his family has been. involved in the carnival business for. over 100 years I'm excited to learn all. about the behind the scenes of the food. the games the prizes the um the. debauchery everything that goes in uh to. the Carney Universe today's guest is. Carney Mitch candano.

[Music]. I'll sit and tell you my. stories. shine on. me and I will find a. [Applause]. song Mitch the Carney Baby good to see. you thank you man thank you for having. me so thanks for coming on dude so we.

just want to learn about cares and. Carnival employees fairs everything like. it um what is Carney an appropriate term. yeah I was born and raised to Carney my. grandparents were carne's my parents. were carne's my brother and his kids of. Carney still oh yeah so it's it runs. deep man 1918 he started and can I say. before we really get going I got to. thank you for having a poor pedestrian. like me on cuz you know I don't wear a. watch and I don't use a washcloth so Tom. would never have me on on appreciate.

yeah talk oh yeah does he he doesn't. like the pores he doesn't like the pores. I don't know why yeah I don't know dude. I think we're great people yeah look I. don't yeah I'm not yeah I don't have a. washcloth I I probably should have one. that's what I use he has some he hates. washcloths oh he hates them he hates. them yeah yeah yeah I think well I I. I'll use a washcloth like to get like in. here though yeah right I mean how do you. get it out how you really I tried to use. my fingernail getting it out and then.

just like putting it like that into the. drain or whatever but I don't think. that's enough sometimes especially as. you get older yeah you know um but Wet. Willie yeah you got it doing a Wet. Willie on somebody yeah yeah I remember. doing I'm going to sneak one up on you. later are you really dude just wear a. condom bro oh I will okay that's all I'm. asking for you know I mean it's a leash. you could do dude the Irish hello for. sure man it's our first time too so I'll.

definitely keep it covered yeah um but. dude thanks yeah so I I guess I'm just. curious like so what is a Carney what is. the term so carne Carnival you know. Carnival worker okay I guess is where it. came from and uh so that's what we are. and I know there's all different. versions I know people. sometimes think of like uh somebody that. just got out of prison coveting tattoos. smelling like cabbage you know missing a. couple fingers and they think that's a. Carney that's working the ride or. something like that oh yeah that Irish. deodorant yeah you know and uh we don't.

we Carneys don't call them Carneys we. call them like 40 MERS or greenh help or. something like that cuz like a 40 mile. he's just trying to get onto the road. and get 40 miles down the street to the. next lot so you can get out of whatever. situation he was in when he joined the. carnival okay so there's different types. so you have actual cars that are like. they've been in there for a while yeah. like their families are out there they. have kids they raise their kids out. there and then you got 40 MERS yeah we. call them 40 MERS and those are guys. that are just kind of like maybe just.

got out of doing some time and they're. just trying to trying to get a job and. you know get out of town and get out of. town yep just trying to get their just. something yeah and so a lot of times the. carnival will hire folks like that just. because they need like a lot of it's. tough to find help out there you know. people that want to travel and just be. out there every day and you know living. at the carnival yeah and you're in a. different town every week and you know. you don't get much time off so it's it's. wild yeah it's interesting well it's. kind of interesting it's kind of similar. to uh comedians because you go to a town.

or a city for a few days and then you. hit the road and you go to somewhere. else yeah yeah um I'd say like that's. like the calling like a a open micer. like a comic is kind of like calling one. of those ride guys a Carne is kind of. like the same thing you know they okay I. see what you're saying yeah yeah yeah. that makes good sense man um and your. family's been doing you said hundreds of. years well since 1918 my grandfather. started selling cotton candy in 1918 wow. yeah what brought him into that I'm. really not sure he came over from Italy. he was born in 1900 and so he was about.

four or five years old came over on the. boat to Ellis Island and all that and uh. I don't know he was 18 years old and. started selling cotton candy at like. street fairs and little things like that. and um yeah it's just kind of how we. started and got into it I actually still. have some cotton candy machines that he. built handmade like wooden frame and. like you know belt driven like old old. school they obviously don't work but cuz. then now they're like all sturdy metal. like you know industrial looking like. the on whirpool makes yeah yeah some. that but um yeah we have have a [ __ ].

sock in it or whatever you're like this. is like one of these you're looking at. yeah so we have a couple like that I are. older those are kind of like the those. kind of seem like residential ones that. you can kind of like buy for your house. so your grandfather came over and he. started selling cotton so he selling. cotton candy yeah he's selling cotton. candy and then like what he just gets a. job and he stays like he just kept doing. it and then you know he had kids and. then my father got into it and my father.

and mother started their own whole. Carnival business where they started. buying rides and games and food and. everything and uh you know we had a. whole Carnival called Candy's amusements. you know way back before I was born and. then when I was born they kind of split. up and my dad started working for bigger. carnivals like the real big ones that. did big the big county fairs and state. fairs and stuff like that yeah so we. started working for a company like that. and then went for ended up working for.

uh another the biggest one in New. England called Fiesta Shows and so he. worked for them up until he died and so. he was kind of like you know uh big shot. out there he ran like food and games and. stuff for him out there and was a lot. man so what and so did you what was one. of your first jobs in the carnival yeah. yep and so what's the difference between. a carnival and a fair because we had the. fair would come a lot right yeah so the. fair is just the same thing yeah it's. basically except the fair is they have. like the animals and everything like.

that like you have the whole. agricultural part of it you know and. sometimes they'll have like demolition. derbies and oh and all that and like the. races and um all the agricultural like. the pigs cows all that stuff so that's. what kind of distinguishes it from a. fair to a carnival and they kind of been. long running like up where we are we. have the tops field Fair it's been. around for like 150 years or something. like that yeah how does that 4 element. fit in because that's also a whole. different element than the rides and the. games like that's kind of would always. like I remember we'd always have to walk.

over to like the livestock shed or. whatever it was like a bomb shelter or. whatever that had a bunch of pigs in it. and stuff and you'd have to go over. there and uh they have the pig races you. ever see those yeah and they have like. the kids art like you'd won like third. place whatever it was pretty bad a lot. of it like Jesus Christ like they hid it. over here behind the goats you know it. wasn't that great of art but you'd be. able to go over there and like um they. had like crocheting and a lot of local. crafts but uh did you guys ever had beef.

was there like a lot of like beef. between cares and the Liv be was in the. carnivals between the carnival wow like. so during the spring when we're doing. just. carnivals we would split up into like. three different sections so you could do. three cities at the same time but then. when we got to the fairs we would all. get together and then the fights would. break out oh yeah like crazy fights so. what was a lot of the beef between the. people the the workers oh I'm a first. unit no you know you're just a lonely. from guy from the third unit like you.

know you shouldn't be over here like. with us or partying with us or hanging. you know they kind of look down on you. like it's just like anything else you. know the first unit got all the big. rides and the nice stuff and then the. second unit was kind of stepped down and. then the third unit was like they got. all the [ __ ] all the bad rides all the. bad stuff so whenever they all teamed up. there was all these beefs going on like. you know oh territorial stuff. territorial stuff yeah yeah huh so like. what was your first job in in it I think. my first I think I was Pro probably.

selling cotton candy probably in the in. the floss we call it a floss stand and. it was the one that did cotton candy. snow cones popcorn and Candy Apples oo. yeah yeah and the caramel apples with. sprinkles I love that man oh man car I. still make caramel apples oh that's so. good that's so good man and people don't. think about them that much no if you ask. somebody what are you thinking about. they never say caramel apples man that's. true it just you know it's like. something you don't hear as much as you. wish you should cuz are so good when you.

get them they're so good yeah they. really are and was that like what goes. into making cotton candy like what is it. sugar and and. colorin oh okay that's it sugar and. colorin yeah and it's honestly not a lot. of sugar but what how does it get the um. cotton or whatever it heats up uhhuh to. so it heats the sugar up so it like gets. real stringy and like fluffs out like. that it goes in the machine so that that. head there in the middle spins really. fast and it Heats up some people get.

crazy with the cotton candy have you. seen the people that make the animals. and stuff with the cotton candy uh-uh oh. no you should check that out really oh. they get crazy they make all kinds of. animals and stuff with the cotton candy. to give to the kids I don't know how. they do it I got a girl that works for. me one of mitches [ __ ] yeah yeah and. she wants to start figuring out how to. do that really yeah and that's what you. call them mitches [ __ ] I don't call. them that they call thems that oh yeah. so don't cancel me guys no it could be a. union yeah who know a lot of these. different there's a lot of different.

my friend is in the Pipe Fitters union. and he's always yelling about something. but um yeah these girls they call. themselves mitches [ __ ] huh yeah they. all made shirts that say mitches [ __ ]. on it it's pretty wild and those are. your friends yeah friends they I pretty. much hire friends or they become friends. real fast once they start working for me. yeah like sill love you babe and so what. about this bring that back up sorry I'm. just trying to learn about this so. cotton candy it is made by Heating and. liquefying sugar and spinning it. centrifugally through minute holes.

minute holes causing it to rapidly cool. and re resolidify into a fine strands it. is often sold at fa circuses carnivals. wow so you just put some sugar in a hot. in the hot yeah and that thing that. spins in the middle you pour sugar in. there and you color you color the sugar. ahead of time okay and it starts. spinning and next thing you know it. makes cotton candy yeah it's coming out. crazy and you got your stick and you. whipping it around how fast how long. does it take it doesn't take long to. fill up a bag wow but I don't know if. this guy's gonna get CRA maybe he does I.

don't know I've seen some there is some. people that really make some intricate. stuff with the cotton candy yeah there's. a machine that's just kind of like the. one I have just like that so that was. like my first gig you know like there's. a picture of me I was born in the summer. so like soon as I was born my mom had me. right out L on the road with her so. there's a picture of me sitting at by. the cotton in my little car seat sitting. up by the cotton candy machine while. she's making cotton candy you know a. month old seriously so your family was. just out there like yeah and so like.

what towns was that usually oh man we. did like the Topsfield Fair the. Marshfield Fair out on Cape Cod the. Bangor and Scout heagan Fair up in Maine. Rochester Fair in New Hampshire uh. hopkington fair in New Hampshire. um there was a really big one in. Connecticut we did wow yeah and then in. the spring it was just all the spring. was always sometimes you do some a lot. of the same stuff but a lot of times it. would get switched up because like if. you didn't do that well the year before. or whatever you know they would find you.

another place to go yeah you know and. towards the end I don't do carnivals. anymore I'm still in the business of. like selling food and stuff like that. but I don't do carnivals cuz towards the. end of when I was doing it they were. still like we were doing like these. closed down strip centers you know what. I mean like all a and Kmart parking lots. where everything's boarded up and we're. in the parking lot trying to make. nobody's coming you got like you know. nobody there so this is uh somebody. making cotton candy right here yep is. the machine you're talking about mine's.

similar to that I don't know if it's. they have a different speed or a heat it. might be the same but the it does seem. like a different consistency than the. one I use that that I make and so what. is it the Sugar's in there it's just. spraying it out really hot yep and it. cools off immediately oh wow so this is. that's all cotton candy so this is a. cotton candy machine right here yep okay. and so that's the sugar is inside of. that see that little thing yeah that's. spinning super fast right in the middle. it's spinning so fast you can't even. tell it's spin. yeah and it's just blowing Hot Sugar out.

blowing Hot Sugar mayy yeah and now this. guy wow and this is a Korean guy oh he's. getting down huh yeah look at. him he going to make an umbrella it. looks like he's making yeah like maybe a. UFO yeah. something wow yeah these guys get. creative I don't know how they do it so. you guys would never do anything like. this at the fairs huh no I didn't even. really leave it on sticks that often cuz. I I wasn't that good at spinning it.

because you want it to be like nice and. big and fluffy on a stick when you give. it to people that's true and so I wasn't. even that great at that I would always. put it in a bag and sell the bag cotton. candy wow this is unbelievably creative. stuff. yeah here we go now do you get jealous. when you see somebody taking it to. another level of course I know me too. it's like when you see somebody that's. just that great crushing it on the stage. me Tim Dylan you're like ah damn I'm. just regular cotton candy oh man you. went Tim more on the same level come on.

don't that guy so funny he is oh is so. funny to be around um thank you for. saying that's nice you to say that um. okay so you're working the cotton candy. that's how you get started out what kind. of like groups are at the at the. carnival at the uh yeah we definitely. say separated okay what kind of groups. are at the carnival like are there CU. there's the games right there are the. joines the what is it we call them. joines joines Y and what what is that. the joints St the trailers we call them.

joints okay and so they work the joints. okay so they work the games those are. the joints and then there's the food yep. then the concessions concessions and. then there's um and you got the ride. jocks ride jocks yep and are those. groups kind of like they keep to their. own a little bit or what yeah for the. most part the joinings and concessions. are mingle and you know I mingled with. everybody just I knew everybody but you. know a lot of times some of the ride. guys would mingle with some of the r. some of the concessions a little bit and. you know they would mingle a little bit. for but for the most part they were.

their own Crews you know yeah did you. ever work the rides I yeah yeah I did it. all I cuz you know I was just out there. when I was a kid before I even like. worked officially I would like I knew. everybody so I would jump on the ride. hey let me run this ride for a little. while or I would work inside the haunted. houses scaring people when I was like. you know 12 13 years old right you know. and like they had the walk-in H you know. haunted houses or the ones you ride. through and I would go in there and like. scare the people coming through and. stuff like that and you know that was. always fun and why is your family so. tied in just for doing it for so long.

right honestly and um you know even. before my father you know I had I had a. um my grandfather around the same time I. guess well yeah he was my I had a great. uncle or was he a he was my father's. great uncle I believe or cousin and he. was already big in the in the circus. business he was one of the biggest. freaks in the world he was uh most. famous three-legged man Franklin Tini. Frank lentini yep there he.

is oh wow yeah he had three legs four. feet two dicks 16 toes oh wow he had two. wieners on him yep oh my gosh two peees. dude I couldn't even you could serve. dude you could serve yeah it's almost. like you're like a damn soda found at. that point leg dick leg dick leg like. you could have urin an infant out of the. other it was wild and they both worked. really yeah oh my gosh and how did y'all.

know that was it did they write it down. somewhere yeah well cuz he was so. everybody wanted to know you know so. like when he was traveling the freak. shows and he was really well spoken they. called him like the mayor of the freaks. cuz he would go and speak for everybody. like when he'd be like you know we want. more money or we want better working. conditions or whatever he would be the. guy that would go talk to everybody he. worked for ring Lane uh baram and Bailey. he worked for all the all the big freak. shows and circuses wow Frank lentini was. born in Sicily in 1881 he the fifth of. 12 children yeah and they didn't his his.

parents didn't really like him that much. gave him to his aunt yeah they they were. kind of ashamed of him cuz he had three. legs each of different lengths now that. I that is a that's a lot too you know. because then you're like um throw it. your hip like that's got to be crazy. yeah it's got to be tough on your joints. a fourth foot that's stuck out of one of. his knees 16 fingers and an extra set of. genitals wow running on that spare Jenny. dude huh keep the lights on bro uh his. condition was the result of a parasitic.

twin that was attached to his body at. the base of his spine wow it was too. they couldn't take it off cuz especially. back then I'm sure that but they. definitely it was too dangerous to try. to remove he would go on and work with. every major circus including barn and. Bailey in his act he would kick a soccer. ball ride a bike and skate he kick it. out of his third leg like hold the ball. over a football and kick it with his. third oh bro that's got to be so. incredible huh yeah imagine run and you. just kick somebody with your third leg.

while you're running dude imagine you. could play footsie with with two women. under the table you still have an extra. leg in different directions yeah and one. leg and one extra foot to tap to the. music you're listening to dude what a. time brother his career span more than. 40 years and he came to be known as the. king in the circus energy for his hard. work and presence he married and had. four children wow all his children came. off fine he died a long failure damn. You' think he got it he got one of his. legs caught in something you know what.

I'm saying just the odds cuz every now. and then my M almost get one of my legs. caught in something wow look at that. zoom in on one of these photos please I. love the one on the right where he's got. like the one in the and he's got each. other foot on a stool it's that such a. trip yeah it almost looks like uh no. let's go to the other one that he was. talking about yeah that what you mean. the black and the leather yeah wow look. at those pants those pants have to be. like what the [ __ ] are we doing he said. he would buy two sets of shoes and he. give his uh fourth shoe the extra shoe.

to a buddy that lost the leg oh so they. all went to use oh that's beautiful man. yeah you just don't see that kind of. stuff anymore that's the toughest part. about stuff um wow unbelievable look at. that dude there he is is an old man down. there yeah can we get one more picture. of him Frank. lentini oh how I wonder what would it be. like imagine you this had to be such a. flex so you cross your leg and then you. cross the other one over.

bro you must people must have thought. you were Jordan Peterson no matter what. right that had to be so. wild unbelievable what else they used a. picture of him on the uh back of an. Allison Chains album was her yeah they. have a three-legged dog on the front and. he's the three-legged man on the back I. think I remember that yeah it was. actually their best album down in a hole. is that them yeah i' like to fly. but my is.

all you know it dude that's so. incredible so this is a relative of. yours yeah yeah he was um it was my. dad's either great uncle or cousin I. can't remember I tried to like really. narrow it down but it's you know so long. ago. and um my dad's not with us so I can't. ask him anymore I'm sorry to hear that. man that's all right um 23 and me though. they might not even have these kind of. yeah my my brother actually started. doing that going back to see with the 23.

and me and like yeah he's got the. ancestory going on so he's trying to. like put it all together yeah yeah so I. tried to find out some more information. about him through that I know he had. four kids um they were all came out. normal no parasitic twins there wow so. yeah being a parasitic twin can you. bring that up for. me first of all I've always thought. twins should have. to fight to see who who win who who gets. to make the shots call the shots gets to. stay alive yeah you know that's it's got. to be tough and I'm not saying that.

nobody deserves to be alive but it's. just like cuz it's kind of crazy when. you meet one guy and then you meet and. you know they're kind of just each half. of a guy or whatever and you're like. what are we doing here like at least you. two get together and decide what you. want to say and then come tell us you. know it's like cuz it's a lot of extra. kind of like back and forth you know a. parasitic twin is a type of conjoined. twin where one feet is stops developing. but remains attached to its twin wow the. other twin continues to develop but is. usually born with the limbs organs or.

other tissue structures from its. parasitic twins still attached it's a. very rare condition gosh dude imagine to. to see oh what is that sorry oh no. that's another child blew me off oh that. child is uh she looks like Tila Tequila. a little bit you zoom in on see that you. know what I'm talking about. yeah um DOA cat I don't know DOA cat. dude. that's bro that's [ __ ] hilarious dude. I don't even know what TOA cat looks.

like what oh I don't know dude no that. kid has longer hair than do c I think. yeah imagine being a parasite like. imagine knowing that your brother. something was like a part of you and now. that they're it's almost like you got to. live it's like nature like put you must. feel a lot there must be like a lot of. responsibility you know and then seeing. your brother's wiener if you look at. your own wiener and see your brother's. wiener does that make you gay if you. jerk off that wiener no dude it just. makes you a cool brother I.

think touche dude to not polish your. brother off once a year or something on. you know that's kind of rude day after. Christmas or whatever it's not rude I. think it's just well if you don't ever. let him come yeah that is kind of rude. it's uh I bet when you get to heaven. he's going to be like hey come on God 36. years and not one. nut yeah brother I left that thing down. there for a reason you know what I'm. saying couldn't took advantage of that. yeah I'm who helped you out and gave you. the third leg I gave you a [ __ ] job.

you know that's wild man um so people. like Frank lentini what was that group. that group was called what is freaks. freaks okay they were the freak Show the. freak shows and that was popular did you. ever work with that um so occasionally. the carnivals would have freak shows. join up with us um but they were all you. know Corner Store freaks they weren't. really great like we had the we had the. uh the rip off of the lobster man and I.

actually think he was a relative of the. original Lobster man but he had fake. gloves that he would put on to make. himself have fake lobster hands oh. really oh yeah that's not real then no. we had a lot of that yeah yeah so it was. a lot of yeah cuz they had like the. freaks were like the bearded lady I. remember you would hear about um what. like the four titted sister whatever you. they'd always have something you know. the lisy Jew they have something rolling. through the lizard man or something like. thatz man life mermaid was we one they'd.

have a girl in a tank with like a fake. suit on acting like she was a real. mermaid oh yeah the for shoulder atalian. they have that guy yeah um oh the. smallest horse I met the world's. smallest horse one time oh we used to. have that too yeah yeah Tom Thumb is the. one that I'm met I don't know the name. of the one I had we had but yeah he was. at the fairs with the agricult he'd be. there PID 50 cents and get to walk up. and walk around and see them and go in. yeah they had the dollar they had I. remember they had one dude at the fair. in our toown it was like if you gave him.

a dollar he would tell you if you were. fat or not right yeah or guess your age. or your weight or like stuff like that. but this dude I remember you give him a. dollar and he just call you [ __ ] fat. oh really and then you just yeah he was. like the fat dollar guy or whatever. that's what the [ __ ] and you just walk. off you're like Jesus Christ dude I. think he was just out there hustling. people yeah he might not even have. worked with the with the connal dude. honestly a new one that guy could have. been working different a couple of them. right here General Tom Thumb uh Charles.

Sherwood Stratton was actually a. relative of PT Barnum when Barnum. learned of stratton's dwarfism he sensed. opportunity baram took Stratton under. his wing and taught him how to sing. dance and impersonate famous historical. figures. wow oh that was a lobster boy oh here's. Lobster boy right here as shocking as. his appearance is Grady Styles's real. life story is even more shocking. Styles's condition was known as eroda.

I think you got it ectrodactyly which. causes hands and feet to fuse into. claws yes yeah the condition ran in. Styles's family in fact he was the sixth. generation in his family to have it his. father was already performing in the. circus when Grady was born so he entered. circus life early as the Lobster Boy wow. huh oh that was his kid yeah pinching. ass and taking names that guy wow look. at him and there's a picture right there. bearded lady and lobster boy they fell. in love oh that's that's romantic a.

Valentine's Day love story huh wow I. wonder what their kids would come out. like huh yeah beard lobsters yeah it'd. be interesting I mean it would probably. be something yeah you'd see it like one. of those fancy Omas places or whatever. you know I don't think Bennie Hana would. be running that probably not you know. get you a cut of freaking hair Lobster. you know it might be who else did they. have let me see a few more of them these. were all the freaks right yeah Lionel.

the lion-faced man born Steven Bowski in. 1891 Poland Lionel the lion-faced man. endured a medical condition known as. Hyper chosis which is commonly. associated with werewolf syndrome for. obvious reasons in an odd twist of fate. his mother was convinced the condition. was caused by her witnessing his father. being mauled by a lion when she was. pregnant still that was a coincidence Al. be it a crazy coincidence.

wow I haven't heard of him unable to. handle his appearance any longer she put. him up for adoption when he was four. years old oh he was adopted by a German. Entertainer who put him on the circus. circuit see and he made a life for. himself we still we need freak shows. it's true huh that way these freaks can. make a living yeah they don't have and. and they had I remember what was that. thing they had a. dime I want to think cuz they almost had. one in the a dime Museum can you look. that.

up I thought you were talking about. somebody that pays a Dime dime Museum. and freak shows from the popular Coney. Island amusement park in New York City. to traveling circuses and sideshows. Exhibits that featured people with. physical differences with some sort of. the most prevalent attractions in the. 19th and early 20th centuries wow dime. museums often featured humans who were. considered different for the public to. view and. experience yeah because I think they had. some places where you could pay a dime I. guess was the name I'm assuming from. 1840 until 1940 freak shows were at.

their height historians typically marked. 1840 as the beginning of the freak Show. era the museum contain many exhibits of. historic artifacts and gaffs oh that was. the year PT Barnum began the American. Museum a New York City attraction that. caused a dime to enter there it is the. museum also hous many people who are. considered to be Rarities worthy of. exhibition wow so you'd have other. people included Tom Tom Tom Tom there he. is a person with dwarfism the Aztec. twins.

albinos um and many other living. Curiosities. wow dude that's almost like a deak. fraternity somewhere you know it really. is I mean it's yeah it's different but. it's probably similar so you so did you. ever cross so you cross paths with some. of these guys but it wasn't like yeah. not like like I said the the the lobster. man a boy that was with us I had heard I. didn't really talk to that he was a. relative of the actual Lobster man but. he had fake claws that he would put on. and uh we actually he had one of the. last living munchkin though that was out.

there torn with us at the freak Show as. one of the dwarfs and he was uh was one. of the original munchkins and smoking. bongs with them he'd have to stand up on. the on a picnic table in order to like. hit the bong yeah a that's beautiful. yeah he was like 70 years old hitting. the bong with us 70 yeah wow I think he. was that old I I was I was young but I'm. pretty sure he was up there and he was a. little little guy yeah he was in a. munchkin from the original movie from. Wizard of ours he was in Wizard Oz you. smoke dope with a Wizard of Oz Munch no.

way yeah dude that's incredible man it. was pretty wild God dang that's lucky. yeah that's crazy man because just to be. able to get to do something like that. yeah wow I watch that movie a bunch. Jerry Marin that was the guy he or this. was one of them the last surviving adult. munchkin okay when did he die what's it. say that 2016 okay yeah it was probably. him he said he was the last. one bring up a picture of this dude.

wow and there bullshitting me though too. I was at the carnival so he could have. been bullshitting me too yeah he could. have been full of [ __ ] it could have. just been a little dude trying to. [ __ ] get high yeah well he he it. could have been a seven-year-old with a. cane trying to [ __ ] beard on put a. beard on him look at Jerry Maron right. there on Wikipedia he's huffing he's got. a cigar on him right there. wow oh yeah that guy that's beautiful um. so so the freaks weren't as much of a. part of you guys' Universe not as much. no you know and now what about the rides.

because yeah I want to go through some. of the different stuff because by us. they would have the rides would come. right oh yeah the fair would come we. were excited we lived right down the. street from the fairgr so we'd walk over. there and um the day before the fair you. could go and for 50 cents you could get. on a ride but they were just plugging. them [ __ ] in yeah man and you were. the test subjects oh dude you would. going fly off oh the zipper we go in. that dude. you ever you remember the zipper zi is.

my favorite ride oh bro I I'd get all my. money i' have saved up my allowance I. would go down there cuz the day before. cuz if you went regular day it was $8 to. get in we like [ __ ] that dude you know I. got $2 I'm going in I got my quarters in. my pockets but the zipper would Shake. all your money out of your pocket they. did that on purpose oh dude it was. horrible I get out I had no more money I. had to vomit it was Shake I remember. shook a couple of my teeth like my baby. teeth out or whatever I like I believe. it yeah you get out you had no enamel.

you had no money yeah because they can. really get it going when they want they. know how to run it so they could like. really get you whip it around and drop. it it was it it it was unbelievable D it. literally felt like you'd been put in. the garbage dispos y that was a tough. ride I loved it did you yeah it was my. favorite one really yeah what was cool. though when I was a kid in school and. you know you would go on field trips to. the fair I don't know if you guys did. that in your school but we would take. field trips to the tops field fair when. we were in grade school but I would skip. that day of school and I would just go. to the carnival with the fair of my.

father MH and uh the rides weren't open. yet they kind of were only there to. supposed to be going to the 48 stuff and. all the agricultural stuff and so I. would go over and grab sneak over some. of my grab my friends from the uh from. their chaperon and bring them over to. the rides and the ride guys would let us. all ride the rides while they were rest. of the school was at the 4 section oh. that's nice so it was pretty cool oh. yeah cuz you were kind of dialed in huh. yeah yeah yeah I knew everybody you know. they all looked out for me I was like oh. it's little Mitch like I knew cuz I was. running around as a little kid so. everybody you know knew and it would.

copy a little bit of drugs or something. sometimes oh yeah I mean it was it was. it was wild was there drug use out there. a little bit yeah yeah just a little bit. and what were the drugs really what were. some of it I mean weed yeah of course. weed alcohol I mean especially I mean. when we were at the fairs you're open. for so long like you close at 11:00 at. night you got to open 11:00 in the. morning so we're crushing beers as fast. as we can once we close to get it as. drunk and as [ __ ] up as fast as we can.

to go to sleep or just have fun if we. could yeah just to have fun and were. people doing drugs too like what kind of. uppers are we talking. cocaine yeah yeah plenty of cocaine. going around [ __ ]. yeah I'll tell you just to step up. though they have straightened out these. days they drug test and all that [ __ ]. now but oh why bro if you drug test a. guy who's working the fair ride for me. get [ __ ] you want a good ride or not I. I want a real ride from a real drug. useing American that's what I want yes.

okay dude we used to go we would get on. the Gravitron right Gravitron was great. we would throw so many parties in that. at night bro this one guy we get in. there right and I remember like that you. would get against the thing and it would. like slowly move you up the wall start. spinning and there was a guy in the. middle he's like are you ready to rock. I'm like who the [ __ ] is he talking to. right this guy was always just in his. own world bro and the thing was spinning. and I swear one time this dude got his. we like was just showing his wiener to. people who are and he was playing a nice.

day for a wide wedding and you were so. you couldn't even turn your so even. though you felt like you were visually. being molested or whatever you couldn't. turn your head to look and see if. anybody else knew what was going on so. you get off and everybody was just. afraid to say I think we just seen that. guy's wiener you know um to November. Rain you know oh that's pretty sweet. and there was some parts of it were nice. when they would play some of the ballads.

in there but yeah that was heroing going. in there yeah that rid's pretty crazy. sometimes a guy would get out if you got. a really Wild guy he would get out and. he would come cuz you know how they and. hang on the pole yeah dude it walk and. hang and pull himself around it and go. back in while the ride was running. you're like what is this guy doing yeah. the dude would be walk I totally he. would walk he could even walk around the. thing yeah you have to hold on to the. railing but he could walk around it yeah. oh my God I forgot about that yeah he.

kind of was like the guy at the skating. rink that kind of was like with the SHA. like the dude who would go through and. do the backward skating and like skate. through your girlfriend's legs or. whatever like who the [ __ ] is this guy. yeah it like kind of REM me of that guy. you know oh here he is right here this. is somebody on a Gravitron is somebody. trying to sit up on it yeah he's trying. to push it up on his own. something we used to like flip ourselves. upside down and be upside down in there. on the against the wall yeah you could.

move all around oh wow yeah we didn't. know we were too small to do some of. this this is like late teens oh that kid. looks about our size oh yeah he's. standing straight out oh yeah this dude. Vapes oh yeah he does um yeah that it. was fun we used to throw a lot of After. parties in the Gravitron in the. Gravitron yeah take me through some of. that like and is it men and women come. too or no depend yeah I mean we had some. girls out there working for sure yeah. some of the guys were definitely better. looking yeah but uh you know we had we.

we had some ratchets up in there I mean. if you're going to work a ride and. travel to Carnival and especially if it. was 20 30 years ago yeah yeah it was you. got to be a tough Chi you sure do and. like there was some of them I mean this. one girl's you know they had crazy this. girl had bust a nut on me tattooed on. her ankle oh yeah you know head ho was. another one tattooed on her oh wow yeah. these girls some of them had the lot. lizards tatto sh on their feet really oh. yeah so it was women that were probably.

just doing their best out there that had. been through a lot probably yeah I mean. you got good ones too I'm not going to. lie you bust a nut on me is a lot that. was that was pretty rough well it's yeah. I thought it was sexual harassment every. time she walked past me I was like this. is she wasn't goodlooking oh yeah she. well she's not saying marry me you know. what I'm saying like but but still. that's all yeah that seems to be. yeah bust and then what do you even say.

now that she's married has a family what. do you even adjust those letter like. like um yeah what could you change that. to oh you could do us you me I think. bust if you put the B&T bust a take out. the a cover that up nut take out the n. and T just the U yeah us and then it. would be a blank and then it would be. you just the youu and then nut on me. take out the on and just me does that.

make any sense or not not really but. it's probably still better than bust a. nut on me yeah it would it would just. say. you oh it would say us you me yep yeah. make it work I think it'll. [ __ ] it'll go better if you're yeah. if you're at the grocery Market it's GNA. go way better cuz if you're walking over. by a cabbage and you get some hella. fresh produce on your back you know yeah. you're like is that from well you told. me dude that's the freshest produce they.

got freaking seing bro yeah take me. through like a good party night out. there well the party nights like in the. Gravitron yeah because they had the. sound system in there already oh yeah. you know and you had the walls so you. can get in there and like you know. really be able to party and get loud and. not bother too many of the the you know. the bosses cuz you know the bosses still. stayed out there in their trailers too. so you didn't always you didn't want to. wake them up in the middle of the night. and have them come out like why is. everybody getting. bunk house everybody you know we open in. 3 hours wow so yeah and what was the.

sleeping quarters like so I mean be. honest with you my family didn't care. where I slept at that point like I was. 13 14 just sleeping wherever wow yeah. mostly in games I'd sleep in the game at. night one of the games no way really. yeah wow it was pretty wild wild yeah it. was I mean I've even slept I mean. wherever sometimes especially when. you're going over the road like. everything's torn down you got no place. to go you're waiting for your ride like. I've passed out in the generator box.

before just waiting and what is that. just the electrical thing yeah the giant. generators that run everything yeah and. because everything's packed up and that. thing's always open you got a nice cozy. pile of wires you could crawl up on like. a cat and pass out for a little bit yeah. man it's kind of romantic almost uh yeah. it's it's wild I mean for the most part. when we got a little older you know um. yeah where there bunks so like where did. everybody sleep so they had bunks the. ride guys had bunks okay so theide. operators had bunks yeah they would put. most of those guys up in bunks and were. they like a trailer like what type of.

bunks yeah it was just a giant trailer. they would buy like they almost looked. like one of the uh like an 18wheeler. trailer and they would just turn it into. U bunk rooms they would just chop it all. up okay um some of them they had some. that were built professionally as house. trailers they had those ones too and. they were I mean those were it was. pretty tough cuz it was like B two bunk. beds and you know you're in there with. and it was time it was like a closet. with just two beds yeah. and you know that's what they had the. ride guy the r uh the games and the.

joines were on their own unless you know. what do you mean on their own like. people would sleep in sleeping bags or. people would stay at motels or what yeah. wherever you could like if you made. enough money to get a motel you get a. motel if you didn't you didn't sleep in. a tent or like there was at a point. after I stopped stay staying in the. games when I was younger I ended up. bringing a couple of my friends out on. the road with me and so as soon as high. school was done for the summer we'd go. out on the road until you know school. started back up and so I'd BR bring a. couple of friends with me out there. Doogie Jay and uh we we'd set up like.

our own Tent City away from everybody so. we could party and not bother anybody. yeah yeah and we'd have a nice campfire. we even brought we used to travel with a. a lizard with us too we always brought. him with us we had a nice little cage. for him and he was our little buddy we. set him up yeah and we just drank we had. we had all our tents and nice fire going. and we'd party out there couple men in a. lizard bro it's like the Bible or you. know like a whatever the new Bible the. WR will be yeah the carne Bible yeah huh.

yeah it was fun man and um yeah a lot of. people slept in their games so that. would be it you just crash in there and. they would just pop it back open in the. morning yep roll roll your sleeping bag. up put it on the counter and what were. some of the other rides man do you. remember the sky Master the sky Master. yeah they call it the Apollo sometimes. it was. too um yeah two like boats it look like. but they would go upside down so you. were closed in and they like this they. were opposite they would swing opposite. of each other and then they'd go upside.

down and sometimes they would hold you. up there yeah and hold you while you're. upside down and you could shake it and. like Shake everybody's money out of. their pockets oh yeah there it is damn. dude oh yeah yeah this was for the big. kids I don't think I went on this at the. time yeah I used to run that sometimes. so it was really easy to tear down and. set up and sometimes I would run it and. you're in the dogh house and you know. it's just a kind just a remote control. like a little joystick you get it going. you rock it back and forth until you get. enough energy to get it up and around. and you could hold it up there and you'd.

hold it and you just shake it a little. bit and wiggle it so it go back and. forth a little bit you start shaking the. money out of their pockets so it All. Falls Down although one time there was a. bad bad scene because you're always. supposed to wait till the end of the. ride to go pick up the money well a kid. who ran it all the time was trying to be. a daredevil and he ran through to get. the money while it was on while the ride. was still in while he was up top mhm. ended up getting hit uhuh oh yeah was. pretty wild he lived he lived he did. live wow but it was a mess I wasn't.

there at that at that Carnival or fair. when it happened but I was at the next. one and you lose a limb they put you. just right over in a freak Show now you. go right to the freak show that thing. punts you right or you could be in a. game after that too you know cuz you can. work a game with one arm or in a. wheelchair wow so so a guy got damaged. up pretty good yeah he got hit pretty. good damn it was pretty crazy is that. one of the worst accidents you've ever. seen out there that that was probably. the worst yeah we were running that skyd.

one time and the you know how you got. the shoulder bars that come down it had. let go while the girl was in there but. the C your caged in still too but she. was flopping around while it was going. around like the while she was upside. down the shoulder bars came up and she. fell into the cart and like just getting. just banged around getting banged around. while I was spinning around and how long. if somebody's not doing well on a ride. can you shut it down for them does it. take a few seconds yeah it'll take. sometimes uh some take longer than. others to slow down and come to a stop.

wow yeah I mean there was one the. freakout I don't know if you've heard of. the. freakout the freak out yeah it's a. pretty dope ride now now that's my. favorite ride I'd say out all of them. let me see it's kind of like a it's an. arm and it's got these other arms that. come down and those spin while it goes. back and forth and you get an awesome. sense of weightlessness almost like a. like a roller coaster I'd say like that. first Dro there it is freak. out oh that's pretty cool.

looking yeah they didn't have the freak. out oh so that so that goes like a. pendulum and Spins and Spins yeah oh. yeah and um dude I remember yeah we. would get on that swing one of them was. like a swing set you just faced out yeah. a swinger yeah and it would just then. you would just people would just be you. would just people would be. vomiting like people be like standing. watching you and then literally come.

around and just splash just dose him up. with that [ __ ] with that tummy ski. baby that Mom it you got to wash up a. lot of puke on some of those rides they. get a lot of pukers we had one I don't. even remember the name of the official. name of the ride but we called it the. puke Barrel yeah well that's what I'm. saying dude you guys were making [ __ ] up. yeah that was the name of it the puke. Barrel I was like okay I don't even know. the official name and if what what ride. caused the most vomit you think the puke. Barrel really probably it was uh it. looked like one of those metal 55g drums.

you know those metal like garbage can. barrels but it was huge okay yeah you. know and so it was massive and say it. was on its side and you go in it had a. sliding door and you go in and then. there were two seats that people could. sit in circle seats and those spun like. this while the floor rocked back and. forth like this and the outside barrels. spun like this with strob BLS going on. inside I mean of course who's not going. to. puke yeah it was pretty wild yeah it's. good. stuff so we actually owned one of those.

candas my mom and dad owned a couple of. them actually would have been so they. split up when I was like a year old so. they ended up I was too young to kind of. help with the business so my mom sold. most of the rides by the time I was you. know a teenager or so we still had some. stuff Kitty rides and stuff but we had. gotten rid of she had gotten rid of all. the major rides that she had had yeah. bring that video up your going to show. us. and now what do you do when something. what is this what is this here oh that's.

looks like the we called them the. thousand one Knights I'm not sure what. this version is called but that's what. it was okay yeah it looks like the whole. thing is shaking so people are going and. jumping on the side to like hold it it. yeah yeah what do you a carnival ride in. Traverse City Michigan suddenly. malfunction what do you do when this. kind of thing happens what do y all do. you shut it the F down but how do you I. mean people are trying to save this. thing from falling over yeah they're all.

trying to get some weight on it is that. a realistic approach you think is that. safe or would you tell the I mean it. could. be oh cuz that was one of the things. about the carnival you always felt. like nobody had your back in a way yeah. which was something exciting about. it and deathly alarming like and you. felt like if you died they wouldn't tell. your parents yeah could I mean we've. probably buried some bodies out back I.

mean in the haunted house probably some. of those bodies in there probably kids. that just never made it. out no but I'll be honest with you. though the carnival rides are a lot. safer than probably a music Parks. amusement parks really yeah cuz they get. inspected every week so you're getting. State inspectors every single week every. time you set up they have to come in and. like and uh you know give it a a. go-ahead so what's the worst accident. you've ever seen out there there so that. was I mean I didn't see the kid get hit.

by the sky Master but that was probably. the worst although it one fair that I. was at at Topsfield Fair I forget the. name of the ride but somebody did come. flying out of it but they didn't die or. I can I wish I could remember the. ride but they always say those people. didn't die but you never see those. people anymore yeah that's true you know. or like they'll be like yeah they yeah. Janet didn't die and they like then why. isn't yeah yeah where is she yeah oh she. went to Florida she retired yeah people.

yeah she retired she's. 11 like yeah where did. she so that's just the thing I think. sometimes about that kind of stuff that. seems like a little bit tricky man we. like I was saying they um like I did. they uh they do inspect them a lot more. than like your your regular music parks. that are just set up year round they. only get like one or two inspections a. year oh yeah and so but the carnival. like they have to get state inspection. every week every time you set up in a. new place so okay wow I didn't I I did.

not expect that yeah cuz it seems like. they're not even you know where the. Shady part comes in is where like say. something breaks or something happens. during the week and then it gets fixed. not up to par in between inspections in. between inspections ah and you just got. to have the ride you got to have it. going you got to make the money yeah and. then so you have you have a your main. ride guys all so all the ride foremans. have to do a once inspection every day.

and they have to fill out a form and say. they inspected their ride I mean. but yeah and then you have the ride. super who's in charge of all those guys. and is he yeah but it's like how Li how. real how if they're locked in cool if. they're not then it's whatever yeah yeah. I could be a ride yeah if I was a ride. super dude you're like yeah okay you. just takeing the forms you're like yep. everything's fine or you yeah people. ain't going be everybody not going to be.

living if I'm a ride super to be honest. and no offense to anybody okay so you. got the rides I'm trying to think of the. other rides there were uh there was some. um there was like you know what we used. to do too on the remember the super. slide yeah super slide was pretty fun. with that burlap sack yeah you know when. it's really fun during the rainstorm and. you get a black trash bag really oh yeah. you don't even touch that bottom. Hill just a off you got to open up the. fence at the bottom of the ride because.

I've seen. people hit that fence so hard oh yeah go. right under it hit it hard just get. scalped on their way under oh yeah they. got that fishnet face for the rest of. their life oh yeah I've seen yeah there. nothing like just yeah really after. hours you know getting drunk going down. sometimes we would just wet it on our. own we'd get a hose and soak the slide. and grab a trash bag yeah that sounds. like fun dude would you guys have some. fun like that like was there oh yeah I. mean there was one crazy party we were. we were um we're all partying it was. like the beginning of the year it was.

like the second or third Carnival so we. were all like warmed up now we're like. all right let's have this is one because. you'd have parties where everybody would. party together like the ride guys. everybody food joints even some of the. owners you know what I mean some of the. parties once in a while MH and so this. was like a beginning of the year like. let's get you know let's have a welcome. home party everybody's in and so we're. partying all throughout the carnival. like we're on the sea dragon and you can. unlock the sea dragon and get it. swinging manually you just get a couple. kids on each side swinging it one way.

and you just really you can get it going. so we were partying up on yeah we were. parying up on the sea dragon late one. night M and uh there was a new guy that. I guess the ride sub didn't like he had. just started oh yeah and uh he passed. out drunk in his car and he was driving. like this brand new white escort or. something like that you know nice and. white pretty nice yeah but it was small. car cheap car but it was it was new and. uh the ride super really didn't like him. and he was pastel drunk in this car. right on the side of the on the sea. dragon and we're up in the top seat just. sitting up there having a couple drinks.

putting them back and what they do they. set them on all of a well not quite all. of a sudden the r supera goes over to. his house trailer and he opens up his he. gets a five gallon bucket and he opens. up his [ __ ] drain his tank and he. fills up the five gallon bucket with all. the [ __ ] water and he goes over and he. dumps it on the guy's car oh and nothing. the guy doesn't wake up nothing so he. keeps doing it over and over again until. he dumped his his whole tank onto this. dude's car and he just slept through the. night like that all day and we're. laughing hysterically about this but. it's outside of the car right it's.

outside of the car it's on his car but. on the outside so it's just CED now and. yeah just everything and uh but that. night I didn't see him but the next spot. I remember I'm walking by and he's. outside and it's he's trying to scrub it. all off and it's just got this brown. tint and you could see where it like. swirled all around like he could not get. that thing clean for the life of him he. didn't last another week he didn't no. was there a lot of stuff like that. there's a lot of like uh um hazing and.

stuff oh yeah yeah oh yeah yeah and what. about um take me into so I feel like. that's kind of the rides I'm trying to. think of any more the rides that I the. Zipper was just harrowing I know I would. get on it and I be like I'm not getting. on it this year because last year I got. hurt and I don't have any more money or. whatever and I got electrocuted and you. electrocuted oh dude I got electrocuted. cuz that was one of the big things is. one time I got off of I think it.

probably was the zipper I got off and I. touched I've told this story before I've. touched the two like metal bars we were. getting off of like the stair bars. whatever and it completed a circuit and. I just bro got lit and I couldn't let go. right and some guy working the ride. behind me um it was a black gentleman he. called me he's like get moving and I I. was like I can't. and then he just [ __ ] kicked me right.

in the back dude I think he even called. me the N word but I think he kicked me. in the back and thank God he did because. I was just like part of the I was just. completing the circuit I was just. probably powering a [ __ ] Lantern or. something down the street yeah yeah. whatever I was doing dude it was. unhealthy for me yeah you know cuz I was. conducting electricity and um thank God. but yeah I just remember be it was. very very. it seemed like um there were some safety. issues I would say yeah it sounds like.

it yeah we I've definitely run into a. few live rides before yeah especially. during that happened yeah it's happened. to me okay yep so that's a real thing. yep cuz I know my whole life I was like. I know this happened man well how does. that happen um because there's so much. wiring going on in those things like all. the lights and everywhere and back then. too you know now with LEDs they don't. take as much but back then you had those. really hot lights and they took a lot. more power and so you got bigger. currents running through and something. could just get cut or pinched somewhere.

along the line and next thing you know. you're making that life damn God yeah. that thing really caught me up to speed. boy I [ __ ] aged probably eight months. I went home my mother's like God you. seem different you know hey Ma you. already grew a must stache from me yeah. I was like things are going to change. around here yeah I'm wear the pants now. but I remember that dud we walk over and. yeah the rides would just be getting set.

up in the distance and we'd come in and. they'd they'd have somebody standing. over there for 50 cents you could get. over there and get you a couple tickets. and go get on them yeah and the other. kids people didn't know cuz the fair. wasn't open yeah but we knew this could. we live right there and so we'd all walk. over there that's cool we I don't we. never did anything like that it was. pretty cool man what about so so take me. into some of the games yeah the games. the games are fun let's get interesting. cuz you had the booth you had the game. boost yeah we had game boost we own some.

uh my brother still has I I think he. still has one or two you know they're. definitely not as profitable as they. used to be yeah um but yeah I used to. have all kinds of games I mean a lot of. them are illegal now you know maybe I. should throw on yeah maybe I should. throw on some like Shades or something. if I want to spill Secrets like the the. magician telling us secrets of the about. the games yeah you want to put some on. no I'm just kidding they all know who I. am now anyway it's too late well I yeah. cuz I there was videos that came out. years ago about like exposing all the. games or whatever I didn't like that.

[ __ ] I. knew that you pretty much weren't going. to win no there's something that you. were not going to win unless they want. you to win ah if you if they got if if. they got enough money out of you and. they got a good tip going there's a big. crowd or if you're in a wheelchair or. something probably if you're maybe it's. all depends on how much money you spent. yeah and then like if they got a nice. crowd and they want to keep that and a. lot of like if the crowd is really like. if they've been there a while and they. really want to see that dude win and he.

spent enough money and you know you. could get now you could if that dude. wins everybody's going to stop playing. yeah you know so ah so the part of it is. some strategy yeah oh there's a lot of. strategy to it what was one of the games. that was the toughest game to win. probably you think the toughest to win. like. legitimately well so there was some that. just can't be won okay so okay so take. me like what is one of them so like the. cover the the red spot did you guys ever. have that one cover the red spot so.

there would be be a big red circle yeah. you get like a little disc yeah yeah. could not be won legally oh there would. be one that could be one on that the guy. would show you how to do it on cuz that. one can be one okay and he would always. use that one and I've worked that game. before so I know how it's. done and then you have all the other. ones the circles are just slightly too. big to be completely covered oh so the. base Circle yep there it is ah cover the.

spot okay so you see how that one's. covered all down there with the five. disc it's completely covered so. sometimes those red circles are just. slightly too big where it's. mathematically impossible to cover it. all dude the saddest part I just. remembered this so my brother he was. like the older brother you know and like. he like was trying to win a game and I. knew we didn't have much money you know. so like he kept trying to win and like I. knew he it started to be a little bit. thing like I got to win this my.

brother's watching me you know and he. [ __ ] didn't win and I could feel it. just break his [ __ ] heart oh man I. have seen God I so many hearts broken oh. my God I've seen families broken up oh I. mean they've spent their whole mortgage. lost the car like lost everything yeah. even traded their kid in like trying to. win I swear to God sometimes you'll see. the kids still up there as a prize now. you can win them. yeah you guys want you guys want this uh.

stuffed bunny with a cleft palet or you. want Ricky and like n no we we got a. real life Ginger over here we got to. feed Ricky man we'll take that [ __ ]. we'll take that that uh hoppy the cleft. palet [ __ ] Easter hero over there man. it's if you got a gambler play you know. somebody that gambles they know it's up. no you they lose everything cuz they. want win to win and then you tell them. hey man if you win not only will you get.

the prize but I'll give you your all. your money. back oh every dollar you spent I will. give it back if you win want to play. again. [ __ ] wow and now a gambler is not going. to say no and how hard is it have you. ever had to run somebody up like that I. kind of have by the time those games are. kind I mean I ran the red spot and stuff. but I was a kid I was still a teenager. then so I wasn't a real agent you know. but were there some people they were. good at oh man wow they were so good.

like when I was a real little kid and. before I was working I would you know. sit on the counters with some of these. guys you know and they're not busy and. I'd sit down and hang out but then all. of a sudden a mark would walk by and. they'd get them and I would just see. them run them up cuz like you pay your. bills righto like you pay your bills. every month yeah yeah so just don't. worry about paying me up front just keep. playing I'll tell you how much you woe. at the end nuh oh yeah what what do you. think is the most you ever seen somebody. lose on a carnival game game I've seen. somebody lose a car like legit had to. give up their car nuh-uh yeah who who's.

going to enforce it though well cuz. they're gambled they're G like most most. gamblers pay their like if they have it. they'll pay their debt so they'll go get. they'll go get the title and sign it. over right there to keep playing really. yeah I mean you ever been to a casino. like some of these guys some of these. gamblers are like they lose everything. I'm amazed at somebody yeah I have. friends that are uh real successful and. I'm amazed at some of these guys that.

just go gamble all the time I don't I'm. so thankful I don't get any uh like I. like to play you know I'll play some. games you know I like to do yeah we play. prize picks and stuff like that and but. I don't I'm not the guy that's betting. betting the house yeah yeah no I'm so. man I'm thankful to God that I don't. have that I've seen I've seen people. like like they'll go home and they're. like I just got hustled and then they'll. end up like going to the cops or.

something like that and coming down the. next day and you got to squash the beef. and make everybody happy like I've seen. that happen new hampster man loses life. savings on carnival game let's look at. it I probably saw that Epsom New. Hampshire from the salts I. guess um Henry. Grio says he lost his life savings. $2,600 damn life savings carnival game. and all he has to show for it is a. stuffed banana with dreadlocks wow oh. you got the dreaded one though dude BLM.

bro that's all I'm saying dude yeah at. least you got the dreaded banana. dude wow yeah it's it was crazy those. games are illegal now though up there. well it says you're expecting the kids. to win a few things let the kids have a. good time say griol I just didn't turn. it just didn't turn out that way grib. Holm says he attended a Manchester. Carnival run by New Hampshire based. Fiesta Shows you mention them that's us. it is that's who we worked for Wow and. wanted to win an Xbox Connect at a game. called tubs of fun yeah I'll tell you.

about that one where contestants toss. balls into a tub ain't happening it. isn't what is it so the bushel basket. that's what it is the tubs of fun so. they take those remember those old Apple. bushel baskets oh yes I remember this. and they' be up on the side yeah like at. an angle kind of yeah at an angle kind. and you got to toss the softball in. there yes. yes there it is oh there's some guys. getting it right. here yeah. yeah so there's a there's a trick to it. you see how he's doing it you got to.

give it a spin and it's got to hit right. on the edge I see so it'll like it'll. kind of like use its momentum to stay in. there and they're using plastic ones too. they I don't know right go back to the. bushel basket can you find The Bushel. baskets in the one we're talking about. it's the same game but the bush those. were made of the wooden ones like the. original Apple bushel baskets yeah so. take me through it so what the problem. they were at like an angle right it's. that same same same same thing as that. with the plastic ones except they were. wooden um they just won't stay in there.

the softball's so light and bouncy and. the back of those baskets are just so. bouncy as well that they would just. bounce out you can't get the ball to. stay in there damn it's it's really I. mean if you know a trick and you like. they were doing if you could get the. right back spin on it and hit it right. at the edge you can get it to stay in. there but how they get people so easily. is they'll the guy sitting in the in the. booth can toss the ball in there from. his angle it'll easily go in there and. stay in there and then you give the.

other ball to the guy and be like look. at how easy it is throw the ball in. there and give him a free here's a free. shot see how easy it is and then they. throw it in there and because that other. Ball's already in the basket it'll. deaden that second ball and that second. ball will stay in so now people like oh. my God that was so easy but now when you. give them the balls they don't have that. first ball in there and they won't get. that ball to stay in there. wow and you're like no it's like this. this you know what you doing wrong Bud. you're hitting it in the wrong place. watch what I do watch what I do and you. take that ball and you're like just like.

this throw it in there and it goes in. and you're like here's this ball watch. try it now and they do it and they're. like oh I did it you're right and then. you give them both balls again and then. they can never do it again and you just. keep a and keep the cycle going dude I. remember the weird there was always the. weirdest energy when you were the kid. and you were up there at the thing and. you once you'd engaged in the. conversation with the booth guy if. you're a kid you're like you start to. feel like man I got to play now I. already started talking to this guy you. know I I know only got a couple of bucks.

here what am I going to do you know and. then you would play and then you would. [ __ ] miss the first one and you'd be. like I am such a [ __ ] loser yeah I am. a loser and they know you're not going. to win two and then just trying to get. that two bucks out of you and get you. out of the get you out of their. hair God that was hard and I'll tell you. what if Eric Adams was there he would. have found out that there wasn't a X Box. in that box yeah. oh oh so you're saying that if they have.

the prizes some of the prizes aren't. even in the boxes no wow oh yeah because. they know nobody can win it so why. you're not even going to put a real. prize they just put PlayStation boxes. and Xboxes I mean damn dude and the. crazy Eric Adams will probably find the. yo that TI in there. but what's in here and Mitch is talking. about the episode with um who we with. Shane Gillis we looked that AR video. that was so funny dude yeah that was a. crazy video I can't believe they're. doing the drug searches like that but. yeah oh but sometimes we would win.

something and it would be a felt Elvis. or a felt picture of a something oh I. remember those felt pictures remember it. like it was like neon and felt some of. it would be felt like not all of it yeah. you had a black light or something it. would look like you'd be able to see it. really the posters they had those felt. posters that's what it was yeah yeah. yeah um yeah remember those I forgot. about those yeah the stard art games. like the the ones that you throw the. dart at oh that was fun with the. balloons yeah the balloons are a hostile. though too it is oh yeah because they.

don't always have like CU oh because. you'd have a DOT behind it or something. you had to have a um they'd have. different um circles under there and. they'd say small medium large like what. size prize you win and you know they. would never have an extra large up under. there or if they did it would be under. like a really like barely blown up. balloon so the dart would always bounce. God cuz I based how I felt about myself. for the rest of the year on how well I. did on these games that was the that was. the thing yeah even the start art game.

like if you didn't get that Dart right. in the red star Dart you yeah that's. what we called it the star Dart where it. was like you had to throw a dart get it. in the red and it couldn't touch the. border around it it would be a black. border around the red star and if it. touched any part of the the dart was. touching the black just a little bit you. didn't win oh and the thing was if you'd. think it would be in there completely. you know you're on the ground you hit it. and you're like oh did that go in and. the person working the game would go up. and look and if it was all the way in. but it was close he would just touch it.

a little bit and push the dart so it. would touch the black nuh oh. yeah yeah I don't you just have to do it. nice and smooth so you just you know you. just barely push the dart up a little. bit so it'll start touching the border. and be like oh you're so close Bud come. on up and take a look you'll see it's. touching the black I don't even remember. that one stard Dart I remember they had. the water horse but that was a. competition against other people so. somebody always won yeah I mean there. are ones that are slower than others. naturally like the games like you could. hit them both at the same time and one. just Rises a lot slower than the other.

one or blows up the other one I remember. yeah one sometimes it didn't even make. any sense I remember one time it was. like ring the [ __ ] fish and they had. fish swimming and you just throw the. [ __ ] rings in there get a fish yeah. you didn't get [ __ ] you're like how do. you even know if you got it like you. lost you're like ah [ __ ] dude I'm a. loser man 12 more months of winter it's. like punani Phil just seeing your. [ __ ] reality man each year when I. went it was like God forgot how much. yeah I based my like who I was off of.

that man it just like because I I would. save my money each you know I was very. particular about saving my money so when. we go down there I'd have you know I'd. plan ahead and I would get my little I. would keep my money in like one of those. gim beam those purple Jim Beam bags you. know you remember with the draw string. yeah oh yeah I keep my money crowny yeah. the Crown Royal bag sorry the Crown. Royal bag and I bring it down there and. god dude just felt horrible ring toss.

that was one now that was fun I will say. this cuz you know why cuz you got a. bunch of rings yeah and they can't lie. to you you either getting it on the. bottle that you're not like that's a. legitimate game that those are still. around right that was a lot of fun I. remember um those ones were a hustle oh. yeah the weighted yeah the weighted. everybody knows that now but and this is. we're looking at the weighted uh milk. bottles yep and the soft bottles yeah. what was so hard about it just they're. waited they're not going to knock over. with the um softball because you'd fill. them with you'd fill them with lead or.

cement or whatever and the top one would. be empty so if people said oh they're. waited you would just grab the empty one. and hand it to them and be like oh look. it dude they're not weighted. ah wow that's pretty crazy the bushel. basket that was another one that was a. hustle what was that I mean not the. bushel the bankle ball wait remember the. bank ball the it was like um there was a. wooden backdrop back uh-huh and there. was like a laundry basket underneath and. you had to like throw the ball against. the back and it fall into the basket.

yep yes I remember that so some of them. were so confusing to me I didn't play. them you would just push that basket in. so it would never do it right so we. never do it so never drop in where did. y'all keep the fish at night who was. with all the fish we had a fish lady no. way you had a fish lady no the girl that. ran the rides like I never worked the. fish game or like we didn't own one but. I knew the girls that ran it yeah they. just had a trailer that was full of five. gallon drums full of fish and they bag.

them up wow cuz that was a craziest part. cuz you'd [ __ ] get home and you'd. have a fish you know yeah you're like. look at this fish yeah and your neighbor. would be like we're going to cook them. [ __ ] you know and you have your. neighbor would go cook six six of those. goldfish or baby Koy they called them. goldfish get pretty big if you let them. if you just let them go yeah I've seen. some really big ones my sister w a. goldfish once and they put it in their. fish tank or whatever and it grew into. like a a big fish carp or whatever yeah. I didn't realize how big they got it it.

couldn't even turn around the tank they. got for it was so small the fish. couldn't even [ __ ] turn around it was. just like it would just always be. straight ahead look at this dude right. there crazy one of the world's biggest. goldfish has been caught weighing in at. 67 lbs 4 o the enormous specimen was. found in a fishery in France by British. angler Andy hacket who reportedly spin. over 25 minutes reeling the fish in can. you. imagine reeling that in and being like.

what in the [ __ ] what did I just catch I. thought these. were two. win bro and if we're not this right here. could should tell you if you don't think. there's stuff in the water that is. turning your. kids trans or multi-armed or. whatever then this is a [ __ ] fair. goldfish yeah this is a parking lot uh.

minnow half of them probably spray. painted gold yeah that was supposed to. die right when you got home yep if you. made it that far yeah that's the ETD on. these things the second you cross your. doorstep they're supposed to die it's. how most kids learn about death is from. a fair. goldfish but here we are modern day and. this mother 67 pounds and living in. France unbelievable probably working at.

a crep or something. chocolot it's just unfuck and people are. like the water's safe the water ain't. [ __ ]. safe God I'm sorry to get crazy but this. [ __ ] it's like how much proof do you. need it's in your face that the water's. bad. yeah I mean that is uh that thing could. work in the freak Show yeah. I paid 50 cents to go see that oh you. staple another little [ __ ] to that thing.

I think of [ __ ] it'll do 11 years in. a freak Bowl work over there and and and. nipy freak bowl or whatever it's called. when you a dreaded banana son um alive. alive alive but some of the gay yeah I. remember some of the people that worked. like some of the one lady I remember for. she we we gave her 50 cents she we she. would we were just scrap cing her back. while she was smoking a joint or. whatever oh nice and we're and then. she's like I'm all done and we're like.

what the [ __ ] is that did you get the. roach we didn't get anything we didn't. we might have got a little like contact. high or secondhand High yeah that's what. she that's what you were paying for but. yeah I remember we gave that lady like a. couple of us there was like three of us. scratching her back at the same time we. didn't even know her I was like damn. dude this [ __ ] is wild but it's kind of. cool yeah that sounds like she would. work she she'd be good in the dunk tank. man those dunk tank clowns were. something else man yeah what so yeah. take me on some of the other periphery. characters that were part of the. carnival yeah the dunk Tang clown guy.

was he was I mean you have to have a. really special guy to be up there and. really like be able to like go at people. all day get them pissed off enough to. like spend their life savings trying to. knock you into a pool water what kind of. stuff is he saying he's just saying like. I slept with your wife last night like. you know your brother's an NW or. whatever yeah you know and he would have. to get W sometimes he would have to have. cops protect him when closed like to. walk him to his you know get him off the. lot cuz people wanted to kick his ass I. mean I've seen people you know beat him.

like not beat him up but go after him if. they what if he didn't have protection. you know because not all the time you. know at the fairs you had cops around. but you wouldn't always have cops at the. carnivals and stuff and he would really. get people going like they're not even. trying to dunk them they're trying to. throw the ball through the fence like. they're smashing that fence with the. ball really oh yeah so that guy had to. have some real coonies or just be not. even mentally that great or whatever. yeah wow it was wild he would uh yeah. they would he would get into some. serious [ __ ] yeah a lot of beefs you.

don't see him what would they yell so. they were just like yeah yeah I was with. your sister's mother last night oh I was. with your daughter last night you know. what I mean with your daughter and the. guy saying his daughter's 11 they don't. care that's what I'm saying these guys. were get mad the dude's just yelling up. like I slept with your 11-year-old. daughter last night what are you going. to do about it Jesus yeah the dude just. like hey I'm a pedophile just he thinks. he's protected by [ __ ] 40 gallons. this dude just like walking by with his.

kid doesn't even know all of a sudden. the guy's like what what did you. say God it's just heartbroken dude oh. it's a sick world man yes who else was. there they were like barkers I remember. like oh there was the guess your weight. guy yeah guess your weight that a real. thing you was a real thing yeah he would. guess your weight or your birth date or. um what else would he guess there was. something else how did they do it it was. just a it was really just came down to. numbers like they couldn't really do it. but it was you could tell like they just.

got good at it you could tell look at. somebody cuz there was that you had you. had it average you know what I mean you. could be off by like 10 pounds or. whatever it was you know five pounds. either way or when they guess your birth. date they could be. like I don't know if it had to be like. the same month I know there was like a. window where it wasn't the exact date. but I think it might have been if it was. in that sign you know what I mean oh. yeah if they're Sagittariuses I'll know. dude exctly or Le or something you could. tell one of my ex girlfriends was a. Sagittarius and I'll spot them [ __ ].

anywhere now you know I'll spot them 200. yards away you got a saggy on the. [ __ ] coming over the ridge watch. out um we had some characters man I. remember the guy that worked the uh the. big old guy that worked the the diner. the sausage stand when I was a kid I. mean this is when smoking was still. allowed he to have a big old cigar in. his mouth Italian. dude like what the what what do you. [ __ ] kids want huh [ __ ] ashes have. fallen into the pile of onion and. peppers right there big old cigar just. always hanging over his mouth while he's. working the grill those were the best.

onions too you were like you know love. get them riled up until you get the ash. in there you know what I mean you want. that Ash yeah little free burnt W you. got to be careful on the first day of. the carnivals though maybe sometimes if. they brought like some sometimes they'd. bring the leftovers from the last. Carnival and try to sell it y oh yeah. it's like that's a good point right yeah. so because the carnival ends on a Sunday. yep and then it starts back on a. Thursday um sometimes a Wednesday. sometimes we do overnighters where you. would tear down Sunday night set up.

Sunday night and then open Monday yeah. it's like tear out so theyd close you a. little early like 5 or six o'clock on a. Sunday night then you got to tear down. drive to the next location start setting. up and then open up that night so what. other periphery people do y'all use do. you guys hire other locals you said. there were like 40 MERS like guys that. would come on you're I mean they're. always looking for help I mean it was. kind of set up back then you had like. the main Carnival owner that owned like. like say Fiesta Shows he owned all the. rides mostly and um Sometimes some of.

the games and food but you would have. other families that owned like you know. they had a whole grip of you know games. or a whole bunch of food stands and you. would and with the games there was a lot. of families that owned a bunch of. different games and they would join up. with the carnival and you would tour. with that Carnival for the year okay so. it was a lot of like smaller family. businesses would join up under the. larger umbrella of the carnival yep ah I. see so there was a lot of that and so a. lot of that's gone by the wayside now.

like they start buying up other Carnival. businesses then they start buying their. own games and food and hiring people to. run them for them instead of like you. know having people come in renting. everything yep so it's some larger. conglomerates now you think yeah wow. yeah I know like Fiesta definitely. bought a bunch out and that's how they. got so big in New. England and um yeah started like we own. stuff my family still does my brother. still owns stuff out out there and does. it but then he also manages stuff for.

the owner of Fiesta Shows okay so that. gets him like good locations you know. what I mean and like Prime spots and. stuff was there a lot of camaraderie. amongst you guys was there a lot of. party and what was that like like what. was some of the lifestyle like yeah so. we had some camaraderie like definitely. like the ride guys like they would all. have their own Crews especially like. some of the bigger rides had like four. five six guys as a crew if they like. there would be different Crews they'd. have the Music Fest and like the Sea. Dragon crew they call themselves The. [ __ ] crew and you'd have these.

different Crews and so they had a really. tight knit and then like the ride guys. on a hole mostly did the food guys too. would and then you know the different. families obviously with with the people. that worked for that family were pretty. tight-knit and then you know yeah at. night you know who whoever whoever you. clicked with you know what I mean and I. I clicked with everybody I would party. with anybody from like the lowest ride. guy to like the the owners out you know. were you a pretty hard partyer or no. yeah man real hard yeah pretty hard yeah.

by the time I hit 21 I was already. [ __ ] and puking blood for drinking. so much no way oh yeah Jesus yeah it was. pretty wild well did that run in your. family alcoholism or drinking that much. um cuz that's kind of a lot of drinking. yeah it's all I really like I didn't. grow my dad like my dad my mom and dad. got divorced when I was a year old and. so you know I had one foot in the. carnival and another one in the I grew. up in like a pretty inner city city like. you know was in New York no outside of.

Boston called Lawrence Lawrence. Massachusetts yeah Lawrence. Massachusetts wow so it's like a lot of. gang activity and stuff there oh yeah. that's fun so and like the the carnival. was like my Escape in the summer which. isn't much of so it's like the Carnival. of the hood like which one you want yeah. and uh damn and um so yeah I drank a lot. partied hard and when the parties get. pretty crazy with SH [ __ ] a little bit. we yeah it would be pretty crazy. especially when you go to these bigger. towns cuz like you go to some of these. towns you know and the girls are like.

especially the the lot lizards you know. the ones that like they love the car the. car when the carnival comes to town. because they ain't got nobody else like. especially up in the sticks of Maine or. something like that really so you're. saying there was a lot of like uh like. hookers almost that would come and. service the carnival workers yeah not. not hookers it's like straight up hoes I. guess oh girls that didn't want money. yeah girls that just wanted a party y. and oh wow You' get car fulls of them. sometimes really oh yeah oh wow I never. thought of that at like a fair you know.

at one of some of the big fairs man they. would show up after you already closed. down and everything car fulls of chicks. would show up looking a party no yeah. why did they know you guys had drugs or. something yeah they just look like oh. the Carnival's in town like let's go. meet the cars you know you know so the. only thing that happens every year in. their Town wow that's freaking ripping. bro but then the next night you got the. Carill of the dude showing up looking. and be like yo [ __ ] my old lady last. night yeah you got fights breaking out. all the. time yeah how well how Wild would some.

of those parties get pretty wild pretty. wild yeah yeah some of the fights were. pretty crazy I mean it was no different. than being in the city sometimes like it. was so the dude dudes would roll up and. they'd want to settle the score yeah. right and they couldn't because there's. just so many Carneys like really yeah. you know you show up with a car full of. people or even two cars I mean we have. hundreds of people would you guys get in. fights a were there a lot of fights out. there yeah there were I didn't fight a. lot I wasn't much of a fighter I didn't. like to fight but I've seen some crazy. ones like I was I got arrested for one.

of them uhuh take do that so we were at. just a situation where we were in. Connecticut and all the carnivals got. together you know and so you got the. first unit like oh the third unit's down. there like we got to go show them who's. boss you know what I mean and they go. down and I'm and I didn't even really. know anybody from the third unit at that. point and I was friends with a lot of. the kids from the first unit and uh I. was was on some uh I was on some I think. I was on some dancing condoms maybe that. night some paper some assd oh some LSD.

yeah go baby yeah and so there was a few. of us on it and so they came up and they. were like oh we just got into a big. fight down there like down in tent city. and blah blah blah and I was like and a. couple of the kids are like but no way. like let's go down there again and blah. blah blah let's go and so I'm tripping. and I'm like all right let's see where. this goes and I just went to go see the. action yeah and so I'm down there and. like. it just all hell breaks loose like. people are getting ripped out of their. tents like swords are coming flying out.

like it was wild like I'm seeing like. little droplets of blood fly by my face. like laughing at me and stuff and I'm. standing in the middle like what is. going on like this is like there was. just 30 people yeah it was crazy and. like security tried to stop it and they. got beat up and so now they're all. standing up against the fence like. ripped shirts and like holding on for. dear life they're like we don't want no. part of that and the girls are screaming. at them like stop this help go stop the. fight go stop the fight and like the. cops are on on their way don't worry. about it like we not we don't want.

nothing more to do with it so stad. showed up and uh I I left and the cops. were out there looking around or. whatever and there was some people and I. I didn't really think much of it cuz I. didn't I wasn't involved I was there but. I wasn't involved I wasn't fighting yeah. and so I was just like I'm not too. worried about it I'm going to go walk. around and see what's up and as soon as. I went out there cop's like get on your. knees he comes running up to me with a. can of why he's trying to get a BJ I. guess I don't know he he comes running. at me like with mace with oh like Jesus.

Christ I'm like what is going on Cops. now too and so and I'm tripping so I'm. like oh God damn dude I'm like yeah. whatever you. what bro one time I and what they take. you to jail they maed you yeah no they. didn't ma me but they did take me to. jail they did yeah and you showed up in. jail were you still tripping you start. yeah yeah I was tripping pretty hard I. remember I was like standing in the. hallway and a few of my friends got. arrested and a bunch of the kids from. the other side that got beat up got. arrested oh yeah and uh I'm in the.

hallway and it was like I remember there. being like this textured wall and I. couldn't stare at it I was just like it. was going crazy at me and so I turned. away and the cops just like put your. [ __ ] face against the wall spitting. on me and like get like at a GU concert. or something yeah I was like wow okay. worse than gu oh and so face the wall. and they brought me into the cell and. whatever we I bonded out the next day I. had a hitchhike back to the carnival no. oh yeah as soon as I get back to the car. and they put me in a cell with one of.

the kids that got beat up and so my. friends are in another cell I'm in the. cell with there and I'm still tripping. and I'm just like yelling fresh fish and. like I'm just kind of being out of my. mind and yelling that at yourself no the. cops oh the cops H I think or maybe it. was the kid that got beat up cuz yeah I. think people yell that at you if you're. the fresh one yeah I know but you like. I'm beat him to the punch I'm going to. yell it yeah oh I like that and uh they. decided to keep me in there for a while. because I like they everybody got bonded. out they let everybody leave and I'm.

still in there and then they went to. lunch the cops and I'm like what is. going on um like they even they were. gone for an hour hour and a half or so. and then they come back and I finally. had calmed down wow and they and I was. already bonded like I but they kept me. in the cell for an extra couple hours. they finally let me out hitched back to. the carnival because of the whole scene. it was on the. news I got fired that day and had to. pack up my house trailer and hit the. road.

damn that's wow man it was pretty crazy. so uh but I got back home and my mom was. doing an event that weekend so I just. jumped on with one of her events and. just went right back to. work were your parents were they always. in in the were they working at carnivals. as well yeah so my dad was at was he at. the one that that happened he might have. been there might have been in another. one what was he doing at the carnivals. so my dad was uh he managed food in. games okay so he just running around.

doing that yeah he was an old man by. then by the time I was around he was 50. when he had me oh okay so by the time I. was like working 15 16 he was already. almost pushing 70 you know yeah and he. looked like an old Italian mafia like. dude like he cap like this with his Cane. like what are you guys doing over here. get to work hitting his Kane hitting his. Kane at you like come on come on like. Colonel Parker he he's a good dude miss. your. dad. um what was the uh what's some of the.

wildest like was there some pretty good. like sex activity going on out there. because everybody always thinks I think. there's this Vibe you think about like. Carney's like the ride shut down and. then the party starts you know like I. think that's what the the energy you. feel like happens you know yeah like I. said you get those car full of girls. show up like one of those girls that. showed up the head ho tattoo I was. telling you about that was one of the. girls that she wasn't even an employee. she was one of the girls that showed up. looking a party that said bust a nut on. me no this one said head ho head ho on.

it yeah wow yeah just the advertising. that they have that's wild to me usually. you don't know like a girl's tattoo. would be like a secret you know yeah. like any like you know like love is. forever or whatever and you're like well. [ __ ] I'm gonna have to decipher this you. know but if somebody just like bust a. nut on me or whatever it's like well. this just like not as much guess work I. guess but yeah and it' be crazy I mean.

they the girls like to party just as. much as the guys so you know there would. be a lot of crazy stuff going down you. know um looking a party looking to get. down. and yeah I've seen some stuff I mean. there you know a friend yeah I've seen. some stuff A friend of mine like this. chick really wanted to get down with a. couple friends of mine so he breaks into. somebody's house trailer that we had. never I don't know whose trailer it was. he climbs through the window Goldie. locking huh next thing I know he's. kicking the door open and the door comes. flying open we're all standing outside.

and we're like what the hell what's. going on he's like we got a spot now. let's go and he brings her in there and. right on somebody's bed I don't know. whose bed cuz they had the couch pulled. out so the doors wide open he's going to. town right there with wow yeah just. making love huh no I don't would to call. love but was something going on yeah. making almost love God. yeah um so it was um it was interesting. I can tell you about another crazy game. that we had was uh was called the crazy. bike you ever heard of that one crazy.

bike yeah it was a bicycle where if you. turn left the wheel went right and if. you turn the handlebars right the wheel. went left oh my gosh no yeah and so I. owned one of those and uh I couldn't. ride it I couldn't but good my one of my. best friends learned how to ride it so. we put it out there and if you could. ride at 10 ft we would give you 50 bucks. wow yeah that thing was a hustle it was. it was pretty tough to run I I mean but. if you could learn how to ride it and. the kid that worked for me was really. good he'd he'd be able to sit on the. handlebars backwards and ride it like he.

got really good at it is a unicycle no. it it's a b regular bicycle two wheel. bike a crazy bike and we called it a. crazy bike and so the if you turn it to. the left the wheel went to the right yep. wow if you turn to the right the wheel. went left so hard to try to figure out. how to ride that really especially if. you never had oh my God I couldn't even. imagine this man it's like cuz your in. dyslexia yeah yeah it's like Lexia made. a piece of Transportation but he could. yeah he my friend could ride it all. around the carnival like that.

wow oh that's a Vibe yeah and so we. would do it if you drove it 10 feet we. would mark it on the ground if you drove. it 10 feet we'd give you 50 bucks and. now was there a lot of ladies to me did. you guys call regular people civilians. what did y'all call them marks marks. yeah God so everybody that walked. through it was like we how much can we. got to we got to get it out of them yeah. we got to get it get that Mark and if. you got you'd call it out like you know. we got you got a fresh one you got a. Mark here and a lot of people would wear. these pins called I love Robin marks but.

it would be spelled out like Robin r o b. i n and then Marx underneath it so it. looked like somebody's name who was. Robin Marx I was I was Robin marks I got. it but nobody was really actually Robin. marks huh no bring up a picture for. Robin marks let's just find some there's. got to be. somebody there we go Robin marks oh wow. there is one and so yeah. there she is right there oh sweetie I. can fall in love with her with her. husband yeah and like for the games you.

would either you'd e either be an agent. or a clerk that's what we call the. people that work the games like they. joines but an agent is somebody that can. rob a mark and clerk is somebody that's. just going to collect his money and not. really hustle him so like what give me. an example of how those would be at the. game like a clerk is somebody that. doesn't really doesn't really know how. to hustle somebody okay you know what I. mean he would just be there like oh you. want to play he'll collect your money. and you can play the game but he's not. going to sit there and try to hustle you. out of B Money okay where an agent is. going to try to take you for everything. you got and who were the agents were.

there was it like usually older people. was it younger could it be anybody it. was anybody anybody that was good at. hustling really like it was all all ages. whites was it Native America like who. type was it any come on it was Whites. Whites yeah it's kind of a white sport. Carnival Ling yeah yeah has it has it. changed like or I remember it being like. that it was like kind of maybe white and. black guys that work or white and black. people that work there I guess kind of. all we had in our area yeah up up there.

and up north we didn't really there's. not a lot of blacks up north yeah I mean. one of my best friends artist he was an. older guy and he worked out there my. whole life he was best friends with my. brother cuz all my siblings were much. older than me and so yeah we had some. out there and some you know some uh I. guess it's some Puerto Ricans and stuff. like but not really I mean now they have. a lot of um Mexicans and South Africans. oh really yeah that's pretty much who's. running the rides now why what's changed. like how have things changed yeah since.

the past to now well it was hard finding. I think really good ride help so they I. don't know why it was Mexico and South. South Africa I don't know why those two. countries were picked but apparently. it's sold to him that you're going to go. on a work and vacation you get to see. the United States and work and make. money while you're at it which is all. [ __ ] you're just you're you're in. the carnival and you're at that Carnival. it doesn't look any different wherever. you go you just it's the same lot so. you're not you're not seeing anything.

different would you ever get some free. time I did yeah cuz you were a kid I was. a kid and like your parents were they. didn't make money they weren't made any. I mean we were poor yeah wow so it's not. a big money maker no and my parents were. divorced so like so they were splitting. the money no I don't know or like when. you have two homesteads going it's it's. like yeah but I didn't see my dad much. growing up like really like yeah until I. started joining the carnival I mean I. would once in a while like I would see.

him on like holidays and stuff and once. in a while I would go stay at his house. I guess I remember but yeah it was I. didn't see him that much until I really. had be at the carnival to see him yeah. yeah oh man it's kind of a. bummer it's kind of interesting it is. bummer my dad was a hard ass too so I'm. guess I'm glad that I didn't see as much. from what my brother said oh yeah he was. great when I was I mean he was an old. man so he was just like a whatever. people yeah start to lose their steam. yeah their Edge but so it was definitely.

different my mom you know trying to hold. the carnival together herself when all. the kids were already grown and out of. the house and not helping anymore and I. was still like a really young kid so. yeah we didn't and we live we didn't. have much money like I was getting. school lunches and [ __ ] like that oh. yeah same man yeah school lunches was. always so weird cuz you had to go get. the ticket each day in the morning did. you have to do that no I forgot how they. did it I think it was just like when you. signed up and I don't remember we had to.

go get the free ticket each day so it'. be like kind of embarrassing I felt like. it was embarrassing I remember that cuz. I think it was by name or something like. that or a separate line or yeah a. separate line I remember you'd have to. go to get the free ticket from the lady. and had a y on it yeah and if you paid. ticket had a x on it yeah and I remember. yeah we had to get the free ticket I. forgot about that man. yeah I'm not saying like I'm ashamed of. or anything but I remember feeling at. the time like at the time yeah you feel.

trying to just like pretend you weren't. getting that one you're like I don't. know why they have me on this list. that's strange yeah you're there yeah. really it happens every day. true God they must have make some poor. whoever's making these lists is just. confused. huh um a lot of times people look at the. carnival as a sad that like I think it. got that rap over the years in a way. that it just like was a negative what. are some positives about it cuz I also.

loved like I loved go there was. something like you almost felt like you. were in the big city in a way because. there was these lights going on and. there was you know people would come. that you didn't normally get to see. because there were kids that went to. different schools and that if they. didn't go to your school then maybe. you'd see them there um those are things. that I liked about it there were like. gang you know like yeah you got to gang. gamble or play games you didn't get to. do that there was no other world that. you got to do that in as a kid you know.

yeah no you definitely felt a sense of. like when you had a good weekend or a. good day and stuff and you felt like. everything went off smooth especially if. you're doing food or like games that. aren a ripoff of rides like you know a. lot of the ride guys would feel pride in. having like a really nice ride with all. the lights working and stuff like that. making sure every bulb is fixed cuz then. you got some rides where the ride super. the ride guys didn't really give a [ __ ]. and like all the lights are busted you. got one his light going and like yeah. that's it no music and yeah the r guys. you know like I said he's like one of.

those guys that just got out of prison. and yeah so he's not he doesn't really. care about the ride that much but when. but for the families that are out there. and like when you have a good weekend or. like a really nice fair and you feel. good about like you know putting on a. good show for everybody and like having. a good you know i' had pride in having. really like the cleanest stands and. putting out quality food you know you. mean like a family's running like a if a. family owned like we do the games or we. do the RO like we do the food and we do. the rock games so there would be some.

organization to that yeah there would be. multiple families there would be like. you know sometimes 10 12 different. families out there yeah all owning I. mean sometimes you would have one guy. that just owned his one game and he. would travel everywhere with you with. you just running his one game and that's. what he. owned was there another world of caring. where it was like somebody owned all of. it and they would just hire all the. people yeah it's becoming that now oh it. is yeah it definitely is what is it like.

about that what is it that makes people. go to a carnival you think or go to a. fair like what is. it fun they want to go on the rides yeah. they want to have some fun they want to. escape we need more escapism these days. yeah it was fun I definitely remember it. was fun yeah and that was the thing like. it was crazy and stuff and we have some. crazy stories but we always wanted to. make sure like we had we wanted to. provide a good time for the people too I. mean granted the rides definitely you. know are I mean the games are a hustle. and some agents did take it too far you.

know I agree like those people that were. getting robbed of their life savings. like you're taking it too far yeah but. um for the most part like you do want. the people to have a good time and come. back the next day and bring more people. and any animals ever get loose out there. when you got oh man one time we let a. chicken go we we stole a chicken or a. rooster and we put it up in the doghouse. of the Music Fest so when the next day. they came to work there was just wild. rooster up in the up in the dogghouse. and the dogghouse is the control room. where you run the ride oh nice and the.

Music Fest is the one where like they go. around it's like they're you're in a car. that kind of swings and it goes around. like this big like uh not a track but. it's kind because it's on an arm so they. kind of the cars swing and they swing. around and they're playing like crazy. music or whatever I think I remember. that one and then it's like are you guys. ready to go backwards let's go backwards. this time there it is Music Fest yeah. dude. God those rods are such a big thing. where kid yeah we put a we put a chicken. in the dog house one time for the for.

the R so when they showed up the next. day yeah yeah because I remember one. time a lady just brought a box of cats. and [ __ ] just dumped that [ __ ] out. at the fair that's a good place to get. rid of them yeah I think that was like. some of the vibe it was just like people. that had extra animals or whatever and. they're like we're going to bring them. up here cuz we knew people be up here. and if they want a cat they got it or. whatever but yeah there was always some. weird [ __ ] like that going on any love. stories over the years you see where car. met each other and yeah I met I'm I mean.

back in the day that's the only place I. really met I mean my friend April who I. was been with I was with for you know. almost 10 years or something we were 16. 17 when we hooked up and you met at a. carnival yeah she worked for somebody. and I was working out there and she. worked for a friend of mine another. family let me Dart that balloon huh she. was actually pregnant when we hooked up. already. really wow that seems illegal that's. crazy in the of God but I don't know. we're still friends that I still I mean.

rayquan her son is works for me now yeah. yeah really wow yeah her son works for. me like really yeah so wow that's love. man yeah well that's thing we're still. best friends you know yeah we're not. together obviously but yeah we're best. friends still. and damn so yeah we had Love Can Happen. out there I think my nephew met his wife. out there he's met he just got married a. year or two ago he met her out there. yeah yeah but she was South African I. think she came over from that. whole when they brought all cuz they.

keep bringing more South Africans over. every year why just for that work and. vacation they sell people think that. they're going to come to America and. make a lot of money and travel and see. the country but are they bummed out when. they get here or no they're like most of. them are they are but they're already. here and they're already here some of. them pay to go back home like you got to. like but some of them love it and some. of them end up rising up and getting. positions of power too yeah so it goes. both ways some of them hated it some of. them didn't mind it and some of them. loved it oh yeah Mexicans I don't know.

because they all spoke Mexican I. couldn't figure it out if they liked it. or not yeah I think Mexican people. adjust pretty well yeah they just adjust. well to most things you know I would. like to be. Mexican it probably be fun oh yeah I. think i' would be I don't if I'd be good. at it but I would be I know I would try. my best but I don't know I don't know I. don't know you well my girlfriend's half. Mexican really yeah and yeah does she. seem does that part of her seem good I. love it yeah there you go yeah yeah I.

would just we'll see what happens but I. any that's like a bigger conversation. but what about like gypsies did y'all. ever run across those types of folks oh. yeah we had some GP talking about yeah. man we had some that did like the uh. psychic readings and stuff like that. yeah yeah a lot of mushes out there we. didn't see them much they were gypsies. so they were Travelers they were. Travelers like cuz normally like if you. wanted to do the big fairs you would. have to like as a like if you were a. gypsy that just wanted to come in and do. it like in us or different families that.

were out there they would make you do. the spring season with them and you had. to do all the [ __ ] spots if you wanted. to get the good spots you know what I. mean oh yeah it's just like comedy yeah. so but I don't know how the gypsies got. away with it maybe just cuz like what do. you mean he got away with it they would. do what they wouldn't have to do the. [ __ ] spots sometimes you would just see. a [ __ ] like a psychic reader or somebody. that did like the palm reading or the or. the cards and you only see them at like. some of some of the big fairs and they. wouldn't have to do like all the [ __ ]. spots oh they didn't have to play the. smaller ones in this and the ones you.

didn't love yeah they were funny man and. you'd walk by like cuz I never went into. them but she would always like come on. in I don't want and they they're so. perceptive because they would try to get. you to think that they were being. psychic or they knew something but. they're just watching what's going on. out in the carnival and they're like oh. there's going to be a blonde in your. life I see it and it's like yeah cuz you. saw me last night hanging out with her. right like but they're uh yeah the. gypsies are yeah real interesting my.

brother's friend Donnie is a gypsy I. think he won't I he might not admit it. but I think he is but I don't know if he. is but he is he is but I wouldn't mind. being a I don't know much about it I. don't I just wish I knew more about it I. like kind of simple you know I like kind. of like jewelry or whatever. and sometimes I don't like a lot I mean. I they're so secret they're like gypsies. are unique they're. very they're like Co yeah you don't know. what's going on Navy Seals but of like.

complete [ __ ] you don't know what. they're thinking what they're like if. they're being if they're being serious. or not if like they're telling Hest yeah. you don't know they just say stuff and. they have their own language too yeah. they do yeah it's. pretty K I can't even speak it right. really is that pig latin Carney oh. that's Carney yeah carne is tough cuz. you you have to oh there a Carney. language yeah. really yeah like what are you what are. you oh it's like a pig latin kind of.

yeah you put e EZ before every vowel oh. my so it gets tough e e EZ yeah oh my g. e z it would be gizard oh my. Gad so o would be EO Misa Gad oh my God. EO Misa giz. wow be bard. you put EOD above e EZ before every. vowel so God would be giz.

beust. Eon what was what did the lady say beust. EA oh. yeah. Eon bu oh man that's a so how do you. shut the carnival down and move it to. the next place what's that set like. what's the breakdown like in the setup. when you close at night you wait for the. big Gondola wheel to close down that's. how you know you're closed what is the.

big Gondola wheel big ferris wheel the. giant Ferris wheel you wait for the. lights to go off and that means you. closed that's when you know it's time to. close and you close down and uh. depending on what you ran um games were. really easy to tear down you know the. hardest thing was putting on the hitch. after they took your game away cuz the. hitches come off the that pull the. trailer that you pull the trailer by you. got to take those off so you can put all. the games butt them up to each other. make the Midway wait hold on when you. say make the Midway what do you mean and. you put them right into the truck when. you put you know when you go on to the.

mid the Midway is like where all the. games and the food are they're all able. to butt up against each other flat. because you take the hitch off with that. that goes onto the that you hook the. truck up to you back the truck up to the. hitch oh yeah and so that comes off and. that's probably the hardest part of like. tearing down a game okay is taking that. on and off and how do you all travel it. all out there how does it all move out. so it's up to each family they usually. have trucks that P that pull their stuff. and somebody that works for them usually. would be a driver or two they might have. a couple drivers um or you might hire a.

trucking company to come in and pull. your stuff um the the carnival that like. the carnival itself they own big trucks. that pull their stuff and they also hire. people out too depending on how fast you. got to get the stuff over the road how. far it is if you can make multiple trips. or not CU sometimes if you're only going. you know 50 60 miles you can make. multiple trips but if you're going a. couple hundred miles you might not want. to make as many trips trips you know you. don't have the time yeah so you'll hire. a trucking company to come in and take. it and I used to tear down rides and. stuff too for extra money so I would do.

like sometimes up to five rides a night. I tear down set up I would tear down. five rides go set up five rides and you. know you make good extra money doing. that that was Cash yeah so what do they. pay an extra 50 bucks to help turn Rod. or something W so you do four or five a. night make EXT bucks that's great yeah. yeah and so like the stand I have now. like some of the even back then at the. carnival we had a wooden frame like I. ran towards the end I ran all I was in. charge of the food stands for my brother.

and my father mhm and um we had the wood. frame sausage stands that had the. counters that came along the side that. you could sit at and sit at the counters. and like watch them cook and stuff like. that I don't know if you had them down. here or not but that so that's what I. have now that's what I use out at the. festivals too okay and that's a lot of. work cuz everything has to come out of. the truck you know the grills the fry. the fridges like everything comes out. you how would they move the big rides. how do they get those to the next town. or whatever yeah big big truck you tear.

down and most of them they fold down. pretty small like a lot of them F they. fold onto a semi or just onto a trailer. onto a semi-trailer on it's a trailer. yeah it's got wheels under it right. right some of them are ground we call. the other ones that aren't on a trailer. ground mounts okay so they'll have a. trailer for it and but everything has to. come off the trailer and set up on the. ground okay but then some are on the. trailer it's s and the trailer just. unfolds like a you know like a. Transformer how hard is it to break down. whole Carnival does it take a whole day. or they get it done in a matter of it.

depends I mean you could move you can. get it done fairly fast you know. sometimes you can be have everything. done in like a good six hours or. so wow really M and do they travel at. night usually or when does it happen. yeah yeah cuz usually close Sunday. nights and so you're done depending on. how late you close sometimes you'll. close early um some Sundays though they. do the uh the bracelets where you buy a. bracelet you could ride all the rides. all day and night and so when they do.

that and if you're making money stay. open later because you don't want to you. don't want to close on people is what we. call it oh yeah there's people still. there huh. yeah it was one other game we used to. play where you would like put the slide. the money and it would you pay and get. these thing of coins and you put the. coins in and it would push called the. splash down is one of the wins we called. it yeah it would move the coins forward. and sometimes it would push a little. like a an actual quarter would be on top. of them it would push a quarter off or a. dollar we use quarters in ours oh you do. yeah there was sometimes depending on. the state sometimes you had to use coins.

sometimes you can use quarters in main. you can use quarters yeah and so but. those are a hustle too are they yeah cuz. there's a couple different ways they. hustled it sometimes there would be uh. something under the quarters of the. coins there's like this triangle right. at the front of the lip mhm so when. they're pushing they push sideways and. if you want see on the sides there's the. splash Downs on the sides did you notice. before that there's an out of bounds so. the coins can push into the out of. bounds so you would put a lot of weight. in the.

middle so instead of pushing forward it. would push to the side yeah cuz they. could fall off to the side and if they. fell off in the middle you got it you. got it right but if they follow the. sides the house gets it a yeah that was. it right there and so the more weight. you put in the front the more it's going. to push to the sides. damn sometimes people would glue that. [ __ ] down nuh-uh oh yeah. oh God you know what it taught you. though it taught you about loss man it. taught you that life is gonna [ __ ].

you're probably gonna lose yeah you know. and you're probably gonna knock somebody. up yeah it just taught me that. everything is a [ __ ] Hustle Man. everything in life whether it's your HB. guy whether it's your teacher at high. school yeah whether it's your second. [ __ ] wiener yeah it's a [ __ ]. hustle Life's a Hustle dude cuz yeah. Life's a Hustle Man um that was another. thing speaking of his wiener that was. the way he made money you asking how.

like I knew he used it he used to make. these pamphlets and he' sell those. things to everybody because he was tired. of answering all those questions if his. penis worked or not how he really like. like his like uh hygiene and stuff like. that the great lentini you mean yeah the. great lentini so I'd love to get a hold. of one of those wow that'd be. fascinating if you had that pamphlet. bring up that bring that up one more. time I want to look at him as we close. out here my dad had three nipples did he. really y wow an extra nipple right down. here that's almost that's like a third.

leg it's kind of like a third it's like. it seems like it's the same genetics you. know yeah I I was kind of wondering that. if it was because of the gene type thing. Franklin Tini for as long as I can. remember uh sideo attractions let's look. at two more of them before we go mirino. the invulnerable man mirin daa was born. in roddam in the Netherlands in 1912. mirin was famous for piercing his body. with sharp objects and suffering no pain. or even bleeding as a result he also had. boiling water hurled at him and survived. being shot in the head multiple times. Miram was not affiliated with any one.

Sao act or circus with the idea of being. a human pen cushion was one that was. popular in that industry wow so he would. put pens right through himself he was. the real article wow that's pretty crazy. I think I remember hearing about him. really when I was when I was researching. my uncle there I remember and the. elastic man too there was a guy that. maybe that was him that could like. stretch his skin really crazy. mirin Dao maybe it was him while he. would perform he would also preach and. say that his abilities were the result. of God showing those he performed for.

that there was something better out. there while he preached he would also. condemn the idea of materialism huh so. he kind of had a message with what he. was doing. interesting interesting man um Mitch man. nice to meet a Carney bro nice to meet a. guy that's uh that's been through it and. able to come here and share a little bit. of what the world and universe is like. yeah it's it's been quite a ride man. it's definitely been interesting and I. would to change it for the world it's. taught me a lot and uh it got me yeah it.

got me I mean it's where it's where I am. today it got me here to meet you yeah. man it got me here to meet you and I'm. I'm the job I have now like selling food. out there is uh they treat me like a. rock star out there and I'm not going to. lie like they they really do and I have. to give a shout out to all those all. those all my nieces and NE out there in. the world that really like support me. and take care of me out there like they. really love Uncle Mitch's Munchies home. of the turtle Dick Sandwich really Y and.

it's real meat yeah Turtle Dick Sandwich. there's only two places in the country. that could sell it oh wow yep it's in D. it's got to be in danger or whatever. yeah so we do it we do it you know now. we go get we get the turtle we snip it. and send it back off in the wild are you. serious no oh but we do sell a turtle. dick sandwich but it's not real but it's. not a turtle dick okay. but that's what it says on the menu it. says Turtle dick sandwich and then it. says if you have to ask it's not for you. oh I see so we [ __ ] with well that's. just one of the thing it's like you just.

can't even get real turtle dick anymore. no but you should see all the turtle. dicks we have now people make turtle. dick like we have all these Turtle dicks. a dancing Turtle dick and just all this. crazy [ __ ] out there the games continue. man man they don't stop I love it thanks. MIT so much for your time man um yeah I. appreciate you coming dude and spend. some time with us and uh I'm going to. see you on the ninth yeah yeah it's. actually what I do in the winter I work. for my buddy's Company North Beast up. there with Ashley and frankley at um. Mass Amherst oh yeah Saturday night or. something Saturday night yeah I think a.

Friday night Saturday night Friday night. yeah yeah yeah I'm GNA be working it. that's crazy yeah I'll see you soon then. yeah it's crazy um Mitch thank you so. much man nice to meet you bro nice to. meet you sorry for this rightwe all good. I'm nervous. still just floting on the breeze and I. feel I'm falling like these leaves I. must be. Cornerstone oh but when I reach that. ground I'll share this piece of my I.

found I can feel it in my. bones but it's going to take.