July 9, 2025 • 48 mins
(00:00:00) From Fans to Experts: Riding through Silverwood with Roller Coaster Alley
(00:01:32) Park Pulse
(00:05:35) Mail Train: Answering Your Most Burning Questions
(00:10:55) Loyal Listener Call
(00:16:41) The Big Drop: Chris Pettey of Roller Coaster Alley
(00:43:34) The Inside Scoop: This Week's Super Secret Insider Tip
We’re joined this week by Chris Pettey, longtime Silverwood fan and co-contributor of the blog Roller Coaster Alley! He’s been riding with us since 1999 and has become a go-to expert on all things Silverwood. From coaster rankings to nostalgic moments, Chris shares what keeps he and his brother Mike coming back season after season.
PLUS, Sara Jean & Jordan call this week's Loyal Listener to surprise them with a pair of tickets and a chance to win up to $75 in Silverwood cash.
Check out this week's episode and make sure to sign up - we could be calling YOU next!
(00:01:32) Park Pulse
(00:05:35) Mail Train: Answering Your Most Burning Questions
(00:10:55) Loyal Listener Call
(00:16:41) The Big Drop: Chris Pettey of Roller Coaster Alley
(00:43:34) The Inside Scoop: This Week's Super Secret Insider Tip
We’re joined this week by Chris Pettey, longtime Silverwood fan and co-contributor of the blog Roller Coaster Alley! He’s been riding with us since 1999 and has become a go-to expert on all things Silverwood. From coaster rankings to nostalgic moments, Chris shares what keeps he and his brother Mike coming back season after season.
PLUS, Sara Jean & Jordan call this week's Loyal Listener to surprise them with a pair of tickets and a chance to win up to $75 in Silverwood cash.
Check out this week's episode and make sure to sign up - we could be calling YOU next!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Silver, Come Joined Up Fun, Come Tied Up Fun.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Sell Wood, Come Tinned Up Fun.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Well, Hey there, thanks so much for joining the fun.
This week, it's another episode of the Silverwood Show podcast.
I'm your host, Sarah Jean. I'm here with Jordan Carter.
He is the marketing and entertainment director here at Silverwood.
And we've got a fun guest this week that we
pulled directly.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Out of the I know, feel a little bad about it,
but I think he secretly loved it.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I think so too, because how often do you get
to be on the Silverwood Show podcast.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
Yes, I mean it was his.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
First podcast, right, it's going to be his first podcast.
And so we've got Chris Patty here and he is
from roller Coaster Alley. Any roller coaster enthusiast out there
probably have heard of that. It's a very popular blog,
especially amongst our Silverwood fans.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
It's been around for quite a while.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yeah, Chris is going to probably be giving us fact
checks on things that we say, because yes, he.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Knows a lot.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
He does know a lot, And I mean he's been
coming here since I think since Tremor's open, Yeah, I think, yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah, So we're.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
We're excited to have him on the show and get
a little insight to kind of their world and how
it relates to us.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah, and how he's watched this park change and kind
of yeah, morph into something different over the years, something
bigger and better.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
So that is coming up in the Big Drop. But
let's kick things off with the park Pulse, Park Pulse.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Okay, I told you, Jordan, you get to bring back
the pulse of the park because yeah, I'm just pulsing
as I walk through the park in the heat.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
So yeah, well the one thing that I have is
coming soon. Just really starting to get the word out
there that July eighteenth is scary Wood my paper bell.
But I'll get it in a little bit. I'll get
in a little bit. You're fine, you don't have home.
Oh she's gonna Okay, at July eighteenth, Scary would applications
(02:05):
open to be a Haunter.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
So okay, that is a big deal.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
That is a big deal, And just to kind of
gives some insight on that date, we we actually do
what we call Midsummer Scream for our past year haunters
and they get to come out to the park and
we show like a movie and we get to tell
them everything that's new for this year, so it's super
fun for them.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Do I get to go?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Yeah, because you're a Haunter. Sure, come on out July eighteenth, Okay, nice?
What time it's in the evening.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
That Okay, after the park closes.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
No, but it's in the main Street theater. So yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
So we and then our food and beverage team gets
us like food and all that stuff. But it's a
really fun, fun event for us to really kick off
the Halloween season in July.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I was literally just telling Jordan today as we were
walking through a country carnival, how I just I miss
the clowns just running and scaring and the smell of
cotton candy.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Do you think you would have ever said that in
your life, No, Pebbles, No, absolutely, because you were scared.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
I was terrified, and now I'm like.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Dreaming of clowns that walk through the games. Who are you?
Speaker 5 (03:11):
I know? Thanks Jordan brought out like my inner.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Monster monster and that's what I do. Yeah, that's what
I get to do, and.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
You do a good job about it.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
So because we're we're ready, We're ready for Scary Wood.
We're already gearing up and getting excited and I almost
felt like a crispness in the air today.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Yeah, it is more chilly today, but it's it's going
to go away.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
But it immediately makes me think of Scary Wood.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I know, I know, but we want the summer here longer.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
But we're going to also talk to to Chris about
scary Wood a little bit too, right because he's he's
a scary Wood fan.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Since the beginning, longer than.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Us, Okay, so we'll definitely have to ask them about that.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
So and what else is pul Well, also, just like
the park is after fourth of July, we get into
really kind of like the prime prime season and your
tourist season. So really excited for the tourism just to
pick up in the area and also at the park
and just to see the faces that can do experience
(04:09):
Eagle Hunt maybe for the first time and Tremors for
the first time with a new upgrade on that. We
also have a new video that we have probably coming
out soon of us writing Tremors. So I know we've
been talking about.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
It for a couple of weeks, but there's been a
lot that's had to go into this.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Yes, it's a it's a detailed video. Let's just the
first cut was like fifteen minutes long.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Yeah, it's awesome.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
It's awesome, and you guys are going to get a
chance to vote on who actually won this competition right on.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
So spoil alert. It's me that is not no you.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Guys, Team Sarah no name. Yeah, I'm a little mister
competitive over here. No I know I win because what
is that?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
What is that? Who's the winner?
Speaker 4 (04:54):
No?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Still have that on a hot No, no, no, no, no, no.
It is my one year anniversary next week, this week, whatever,
it's my one year anniversary. Therefore Sarah gets to congratulations.
That's my that's my pride.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Yeah, we'll stop talking about it. Actually show you guys
one of these days.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
But it is. It's coming out real real soon. Final cut.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Yeah almost there we're getting don't ever play that again.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
No, you're like, what is that?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Am I kicking out of the park Pulse because you
just flatlined with me?
Speaker 5 (05:32):
So I think.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Onto the mail train. You guys still writing it and
we love it. I'm always getting those emails, always getting
those great messages through silverwidthen Park dot com, slash podcast,
or you can email us at podcast at silverwidthe Park
dot Com. So let's go to some of these great questions.
Jessica Everheart wants to know if timber Terror is going
to go backwards for the month of September for last
(05:56):
weekends of opening.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Uh, yes, Jordan, we'll see.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Okay, why, well, it.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Typically does, but there's other plans right now that are
in the works that might change how that happens, as
far as like September being that date more to come.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Okay, do we have suspenseful music to go with that?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Okay, you do? He Actually that seems looking if that
satan again, I swear he just like hearing his own name.
Oh my gosh, look of joy on his face. If
you're listening to this and not watching it, Oh my god,
what am I going to do with you?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Okay, I'm moving on, Jessica, just don't even listen to him.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
We'll let you know soon.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Kathleen raw he'll walk She didn't walk in, but she did.
She wants to know how long this is actually great?
How long can I be in the lazy River? I'm
a teacher and I need to decommisss.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
That's a good question. Can you well opens?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
It opens at eleven okay you I mean, if you
are ready to go, you could get in there probably
in the first thirty to a minute if you're the
first person in line, so you're looking at eleven oh
one floating, okay, you could probably stay in there until
seven o'clock.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Okay, so that's a good eight hour day. That doesn't
could that is a grade eight hour day? Well, that's
one way.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Technically the time would be seven hours and fifty nine
minutes of floating.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah, please get out if you have to use.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
The restroom, yes, please, or if you turn into a
complete yeah yeah yeah. And let's admit our our Jamaican
me crazy drinks.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Well, while you're in there, sunshine make me crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
You can't really get food, but you can get drinks.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
You can get lots of drinks. That's a lot of laps.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
But technically probably seven hours and fifteen minutes.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Yeah, okay, So there's your answer, Kathleen.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
We really hope to see out here, and if you
do decide to come out here and do that, please.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Let us video of that the whole seven hours and
fifty nine minutes.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Will it float?
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Float, float, float until you don't, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Float until you don't we're we're just marketing's all right, Kathleen.
Good luck with that and enjoy your summer girl. And
then Sarah mccannon wants to know. We had some great
questions this week. How can I discreetly pick a water
slide wedgie?
Speaker 5 (08:25):
No, this is a thing, though, y'all.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
And if anybody has ever ridden a water slide here,
you know that that's the thing.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
And and those shorts are the bikini bottom is not
where it was when you first started. So what's the
best way, Jordan, do you think to discreetly pick a wedgie?
Speaker 1 (08:42):
In my opinion, Jordan's got this down to it.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
In my opinion, Yeah, I think it's to stay seated
in the slide, okay, and do a little like shimmy
back and forth, okay, and like just yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Maybe push me out. Yeah you see, that should get
most of me. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
And then if you guy in, but then as you're
standing up, like fix your shorts and discreetly do it
at the same time.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Because for guys it's I think probably easier. Yeah. For girls,
you can't really tell what's going on.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
It's in there.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Yeah, But I'm going to tell the girls this these
day and age the way that swim suits are covering booties.
No one's going to notice anyway, but you got to
do the slide like kind of like you're wiping the
water off your butt as you stand up, okay, and
just kind of slow just.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Think, I think, keeping just seated and fixing it while
you're sitting sat down, sat down.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
And then it looks like you're like fidgeting.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Who cares anything, it's you're rather than standing up and like, yeah,
look what she got.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Hello, Yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Well, I think we're divided.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Here's another thing though, ladies.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Let me just tell you this because we've had this
in previous episodes as well with some of our friends
from local lind Seattle. But just make sure that they fit,
because I went on eagle Hunt here a few weeks ago,
and I didn't realize that I do not have the
same body that I had last time, which is a
good thing. I'm smaller, not bigger, but I'm smaller, but
that means my swimsuit didn't fit quite as well. And
(10:08):
after you've been in the water all day, swimers get bigger. Okay, yeah,
and so then the last thing you want is the
opposite to happen and completely just yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
That's true. There.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Well now I think that's for the guys double knot yeah,
double knot.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Baby guys and girls. If you have a tie bikini bottom,
double not that.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Too, okay, if you can just solving the world's problem.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
No, look at us picking wedgies and all the things.
So thanks, Sarah McCann. That's a great question.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
I want to give away some.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Money, okay, and some tickets and tickets.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yeah, let's do I mean tickets too, but yeah, I'm
really hoping somebody gets the new sounder this week. So
let's play a little game with this week's loyal listener.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Spin that wheel. Let's find a number. We have a winner.
We have a winner, number two sixty four. Let's give
them a call.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Hello, Hey, Melissa, this is Sarah and Jordan from the
Silverwood Show podcast here at Silverwood Theme Park.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
How are you good?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
We're great.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
We wanted to give you a call because we're just
feeling super generous today and give you a pair of
tickets to Silverwood.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
Awesome. Thank you so much. You're so welcome. What are
you up to today?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
We are actually in the car.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I just pulled over but we are heading to some
friend's house for.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Fourth of your life. Nice. Nice, doing a little celebration
as you should.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Yes, we're working, we're working on the holiday over here,
so pre recording some stuff so that we can get
that out after the holiday's done. But hey, want to
play a little game with us really quick while we've
got you pulled over to win some Silverwood cash. Sure,
all right, We're going to do a little game of
truer false with you. Okay, I'm going to give you
five statements, and each one is either true or false,
(11:55):
and if you get it right, you get five dollars
and then at the end of that rearden for each.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
One, so up to the twenty five bucks. And then
Jordan's got.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
A new sounder this week. Yeah, so he's gonna play
sound right for you. And if you guess that, it's
how much more? Fifty fifty more dollars, so you could
went up to seventy five dollars in Silverwood cash.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Are you ready? I'm ready? All right, let's get this started.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Your first statement, Silverwood is the largest theme park in
the Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
True.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Correct, She's got five dollars? That was confident?
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Yes, exactly, okay, number two. Silverwood sits on over four
hundred acres. True two two got ten dollars in the bank.
All right, number three, there have been multiple sasquatch sightings
at Silverwood. Absolutely true, that what we like to hear. Yes,
(12:52):
she is, okay, fifteen dollars in the bank. Next up,
the bird in the Magic Show is a two can.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
True macaw.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
That is gypsy, but it's kind of didn't there used
to be a can way back.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
In the back in two thousand and eleven, there was
a two camp so it was.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Kind of a trick back back, yeah, way back in
the day.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
One more true or false?
Speaker 3 (13:19):
And that is the Roaring Creek log Flume is one
of the original attractions of Country Carnival.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
True, all right, twenty dollars. I like it.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
And you've got a brand new sounder for you this week,
So go ahead, Jordan explain.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
So this new SoundBite is an attraction either in Boulder
Beach or Silverwood. So we're gonna play a little clip
and then we'll have you guess what ride do you
think this is?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
So here it comes, Okay, what ride do you think
that is?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
The log fume?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
You got it?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Good?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Job.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Hey, and I didn't even know that, so I didn't
actually a messaging on that because I had. He's not
telling men because he thinks I keep giving him away.
So you just got some May dollars on top of
your pair of tickets and I'm going to be leaving those.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
We'll call for you.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
I'll give you a call and you know all about
that when we get off the phone. But yeah, so
when's your next visit?
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Hopefully soon?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Well, you go enjoy your afternoon, get back on the road,
drive safely, safe travels, and we'll be seeing.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
You at the park.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Thank you so much, Happy for have a good one bye.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Surprise were we're recording this on the fourth of July.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
It's okay.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Well, I'm unfortunately going to be gone next week, so
we had to get it done early.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Yes, Jordan's leaving me in charge a.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Little bit of a vacation, so right, no, no, not
leaving are you.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Guys watch over? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Yeah, producer Amanda's in charge. Next week. We're just going
to record like five.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Podcast Oh yeah, let's do that. Let's do that.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
So anyways, you're gonna miss Jordan, but you're not gonna
miss Jordan because he's technically going to be on the
show next week even though he's not here, and he's
going to go visit the Lake osous Monster Yogo Pogo.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Hopefully I don't see that. I bring my friends with me.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Yes, yes, there you go, see you're perfect.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Well.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Also, Jordan, can I just mention that you did a
great job yesterday? Yes, Jordan was Dynamite Dan on the train.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
So anybody that's been on the train has seen our
wonderful train performance and robbery, and everybody loves Dynamite Dan
and that character is really Jordan, So I think.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
So, and like, deep down, deep down, I can channel
my own Dan.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
So, yeah, happened.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
To be here on the third of the two a
clock show.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
That was Jordan, that was me. You might be seeing
more of him, so definitely not.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
It's always fun.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
It's super fun to get interact with the crowd and
be able to perform with our amazing performers. Already I'm
excited to do more of that. But I also just
love to watch them too.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Yeah, we have the best teams, I mean, phenomenal, phenomenal teams,
So you can go check out if you're not following
our entertainment crew. You know you can on social media
Silver Forwood Entertainment get to kind of know your range
of rosies and your Dynamite dance and all of that. So,
but what do you say should we grab Chris, bring
him in here and grill him about the park.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Let's do it.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Let's do it, big Trunk.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
And we are back with this week's very special guest.
And you know he's sitting here feeling like he shouldn't
be here, but we kind of really honor you and
your knowledge, especially when it comes to Rose roller coasters.
So we've got is Patty from roller Coaster Alley And
now this is a blog.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
That is Silverwood Artificial Blog. How long have you been
doing this blog?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Okay? So we started in either January or February of
twenty sorry two thousand and one, okay, so almost twenty
there you go.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Yes, I mean he probably knows more about Silverwood than
we do.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Yeah, especially in the early days. Yeah, exactly, exactly how
long have you been visiting Silverwood?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
So me personally, my first visit was ninety nine, so
wind Tremors opened, Okay, that was my first year.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
Is that what brought you here?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Okay, he wanted to experience Trevor's.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
And Mike's first year was a while before that. It
was ninety three or ninety four. It was whenever thunder
Canyon opened, that was the new ninety three. Yeah, yep, yep.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
So we should mention Mike because he's not here and
he's missing out today.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
So tell us about Mike.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
So, Mike's my older brother, oldest brother. He's the brains
behind the operation. The whole thing was was his idea
initially to start the website, and he does most of
the writing and things like that. But he's yeah, and
he's he's been on way more roller coasters than me,
been the more theme parks than me, and you're you're
unfortunately getting the lesser half the Holler coaster. But yeah,
(18:15):
he's he's a great guy, and it's too bad he
couldn't be here. Maybe next time, maybe next time.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Yeah, we can always do the other half.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Yeah, we wish we had a cardboard cut out we could.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Yeah, we've been we've been doing this together for almost
twenty five years now. It's hard to wow. And I'm
saying that.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
So what got you guys so interested in roller coasters?
What where did this all begin.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
We've we've always been theme park and roller coaster geeks
ever since I can remember. And really it was it
was more him forcing me to go on right when
I was a little Yeah right, so I kind of
didn't have a choice, but yeah, he got me hooked
on him just like he is. And so we've we
went to Disneyland lots of times as kids, of course,
(18:57):
and uh yeah, so then when Tremor is open, we
were he'd been telling me you got to get to
Silverwood at some point, you got to get up there,
like they've got some new things that have they've added
since I went there, and even when I went it
was still really fun. So finally we just were like,
all right, we got to go this year. They got
another new roller coaster, let's go check it out. And
(19:17):
so that was kind of the start of our love
of Silverwood all those years ago. Yeah, still got the
picture of both he and me, and I think I
put it up on the posts from nineteen ninety nine
on one of our first rides on Tremors.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
That's awesome.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
So but yeah, you came yesterday and you rode the
new up new Tremors Tremors two point oh dare we
say yes? Does it feel like the ninety nine tremors?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
No?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Not a little different? Yeah, tell us your experience, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
So yeah, it was. Well, if you've been following us
for any length of time, you know we've been kind
of always wishing for Millennium Flyer trains on that ride,
probably from Yeah, yeah, like that would be so great
to get those trains on that roller coaster someday, And
here we are, all these years later with it. So
it surpassed my expectations everything that I wanted it to be.
(20:10):
So that's a huge coming from so not not only that,
but then also getting the whole R m C tradement
across the whole thing. I mean, what more could you
ask for?
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Right?
Speaker 6 (20:18):
Do you consider it a wood coaster anymore? Oh geez,
that's a question for roller Coaster database not. Yeah, I
think I would probably still put it in there, but
I think they, I think they, the true geeks, would
say it's it's technically steel now, but either way, it's tremors, right,
So it's fun.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Oh yeah? And then I mean so smooth smooth?
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Did it feel faster to you?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
It felt the same as it always has speed wise, well,
I'd say the line felt faster. That was That was
one of almost the best part. I was like, we
didn't have to wait at all. We just got right
up there and train pulled out and another one pulls in, and.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
I think the longest we've had as far as weights
was not even coming back around the corner for and
we haven't had to go back and forth with the
queue line.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
So that's what we wanted.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
It's exactly what we wanted.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
We wanted.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Yeah, yeah, Now, I mean, the only thing left to
do is Timbertaire.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
I was going to ask. I was going to say,
do I dare ask the question of when is timber
Tare going to be It's.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Been talked about, We've been talked about. I don't have
a date, but it's been talked about. I think I
think with the success of Tremors, I would be not surprised.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
If it's far behind. I'll just put that out there.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
So how has the response been from like, I mean,
geeks like me or one thing? But what about just
the general public?
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Oh yeah, I think everybody that we've talked to has
just been unbelievably impressed with not only because the to train,
I mean That's probably what people mostly feel is just
the wait times and all the efficiency and all that
kind of stuff that that the new trains allow, especially
because it doesn't have seatbelts, so that takes out another
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whole check up and down.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
But the smoothness, smoothness, I mean for someone like me,
you know, I wouldn't write it before.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
It was terrifying to me.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
And so getting on it and not only being able
to rub it right at once, but multiple times in
a row, and it just got funer.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Yeah, more fun every single time.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Yeah, we wrote it eight times in a row without
getting off because we were doing a little video.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
But you're really gonna enjoy.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Yeah, that should be coming out soon.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Where we did everyday tasks on Tremors to show how
smooth it is. So we ate ice cream, Jordan put
on makeup, we put makeup on, We tied ties, we juggled,
were attempted to juggle, we drew, it was all it
was all fun.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
But yeah, that's that's where we went with it. Do
not try that at home. Try it.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
But we were successful. Yeah, I mean, and that's what's crazy.
You could not have done any of that on Tremors before.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Yeah, at all.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
So what going back to like the early days, what
do you remember as being like your your favorite thing
that has potentially changed till twenty five.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Mm hm, oh that's a good question. Thing that's changed, well,
aside from tremors, you mean, yeah, aside from oh what,
let's see, well the water park, Yeah, just gotten better
and better every year. I mean, I we remember the
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first year it opened, of course, and how crowded it
was and everything, how popular it was. So the fact
that it's so huge now that's great. I'm personally a
big fan of scary would so I've loved seeing how
that's grown over the years. I remember the first year
of that and how that's changed.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Has changed a lot since the first year.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Yes, I'll never forget the train ride that first Oh yeah,
that was interesting, it was.
Speaker 6 (23:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Yes, are you coming back this year?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Oh yeah, always always yep.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
But we're said it's gonna be bigger and batter, bigger
and batter.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
That's yeah, we're working. We're working on all right store
for you.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
So yeah, it's gonna be a great time.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I show back in the day.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yes, I do remember that, Yeah, we I think I
only saw it once or twice, but it was impressive.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Yeah, that's all I've heard is you missed the ice.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
I never saw it, Yeah, but I've heard from everybody
that how great it was.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
I do believe I saw it as a little girl,
and I think what I know now versus what I
didn't know then, just that these were like Olympian.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Skaters.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
I mean, these were really incredible skaters. These just weren't
some random you know that. Yeah, there was incredible. I
wish I would have known that then.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
It was similar to the Magic Show, like you go
into it not really expecting that it's going to something
out here in the middle of northern Idaho. You're like, well, it's, oh,
it'll be fun. But then you watch it and it's like, wow,
that that was really impressive.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
So did you see that the new Magic shows?
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Not yet. We're going today.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
As long as you're going today, I want to spoil
it for you, but be prepared.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
The aerialists are.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Just okay, they are great.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
They are so good it's it's made all the world
of difference, and so yeah, you're really gonna enjoy that.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
So we don't not miss the Magic Show ever.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Yeah, Yeah, that's that's what are some other like must
dos for you.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
What are the top must dos?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Oh geez, well, yeah, all the entertainment usually so the train,
the Magic Show, those are the things that are always
really impressive. Getting on all the coasters. Of course, I
really like the log Ride and Thunder Canyon, all the
you know, the big water ride. The kids love those two.
So yeah, those those are always the things that we
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have to do. And then my kids would tell you
the wave pool. Yeah, that's their like go to in
the water park. They love that, so like.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
They're going to stay in there until they get all
wrinkly fingered and all that. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
What's a favorite memory from the past twenty five years?
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Oh? Wow, Well, let's see, the first time going with
my brother was definitely a big one for sure. And
then taking my at the time she was my fiance
for the first time. It was the weekend that we
got engaged and we came up here. I took her
to sad for I think it was her second visit,
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but the last time she'd been was when she was
really little, so she hadn't seen anything new there. So
that was her first time seeing me on roller coasters
and that was an interesting experience for her.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
I think yeah, probably good thing to get engaged before.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Yeah, so are you more of a screamer or more
of a.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Silent like, oh I scream, I mean not not out
of fear, but.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
Just yeah, I enjoy.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
So she was laughing at me the whole time. She
was like, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (26:56):
I'm get used to this, right, this is happening for
the rest of your life.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
How on coasters she likes them to Yeah, so that's.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Not as as much of a nerd as me, but
she still likes them.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
So that's a great from like the roller coaster alley perspective,
Is there any moments that stand out that have to
do with like the blog that might have just that
that our memories that you'll remember for the rest of
your life.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Hm? Hm, And you're you're giving me a lot of
good questions here.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
I try put you on the spot a little bit.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Well, I I remember when we started and there wasn't
a lot of stuff happening with the park at the time,
and so when Boulder Beach was finally starting to be
constructed and we had something to like report on, yeah, right,
that was exciting. We were like, oh, we have pictures
we can post and we can you know, contact Screamscape
and have them link to our site and so you
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just posted this. So that was fun. Trying to think.
I think when we finally broke through and got to
talk to someone from marketing all those years ago and
got to do an interview, I think that was two
thousand and five when Joe Anne was here and then
and Nancy, so we got to talk to them. That
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was that was pretty cool, the first time getting to
talk to them. And then I think probably the biggest
memory was when we interviewed Gary a long time ago.
It's that's obviously been a while, but that was a
really cool conversation.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Yeah, yeah, what was that?
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Like what what what did you take from that as
far as like his perspectives.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
And I had just read his book prior.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
To interviewing My next question, he read the books.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
I did read the book. Yeah, I read it a
couple of times.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
Yeah, it's a great story.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
But just after reading that and then talking to him,
it's just, you know, he has such a unique vision
for how he wants things to be, and and the
fact that he focuses so much on quality as opposed
to anything else any other metric. He just he knows
if you make it the best you can make it,
then people will come. It's kind of that if you
build it, he will come. Yeah, but yeah he I
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took that from the book that and from talking to
him that that's really what he believes makes Silverwood a
place people want to come back to is that it's
consistently you know, topping out on quality across the board.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Absolutely, And I think that that's what we hear from
him all the time, is like consistency. It doesn't matter
what day you come, doesn't matter how much income you have,
as far as like you're not going to pay for
a better experience. Everybody coming here is getting a very
consistent quality experience.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
I definitely did oh that Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Yeah, and it does.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
It makes all the difference because everybody feels equal here
and everybody feels, you know, the same thing we want. Yeah,
you don't have one person that's reading one review where
this person yeah got to do this, you know, vice versa.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
So yeah, he so much it uh huh. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
You guys on the on the blog have like a
visitor guide that you guys that you guys bring out.
What are your time tips from that visitor guide that
you would share with others who are thinking about coming
out to the park.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Get here early, yes, good, good one, And there's really
no reason not to with the park opening at eleven.
That's what I say in the in the article. It's like,
this isn't Disneyland. It doesn't open at eight am. You
don't have to get up super early to be here
on time, So get here early, I think, depending on
you know, what you're planning to do, especially if you're
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doing the water park on a hot day, that's you've
really got to be here early for that. So that's
probably my biggest tip. You know, you get so much
done in the first hour or two of of a
day at any theme park just because people don't show
up on time, right yeah, or or or staying late.
You know, close the park down if you can. That's
you get the best experience that way. I like saving
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the train usually for later in the evening. One of
one of the memories I have from a very long
time ago, And if you guys remember Steamer, the guy
that used to do the train, there was one time
we rode the very last train of the night and
it was the sun was going down and it was
just the most beautiful thing i'd seen in up out here.
Instead of continuing with his normal spiel, he just said,
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you know what, I'm just gonna turn off the microphone
and let everybody just enjoy this ride through while the
sun's going down. And he got one of I think
he played an instrument or something while we were going
on that ride, and it was just so serene and
nice and everything. So I try to try to do
the train towards the evening to see the sunset. That's
kind of a nice thing to do. Yeah, I those
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are probably the things that come to mind off the
top of my head.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
But yeah, I mean, may need to put that one
in our back pocket just for you.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
We're going to do this, but do it every time.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
There was a nice Exactly, what what is one thing
you would if you were Gary Norton?
Speaker 1 (31:56):
What would what would you love to see at the park?
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Is something that you think either Silver would needs or
just like from a personal want that you would enjoy
mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Well, I mean I would have said, put millennium flyers.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
On truck, right, so we're on the right track.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Oh that is Josh, You know you think about that
all the time and then it's like you get put
on the spot and I'm like, well, what would I do?
Speaker 4 (32:25):
You know?
Speaker 2 (32:28):
You know, you guys have got a lot of good
roller coasters, so it's hard to say, well, you know,
put more big rides in or put another big coaster in.
Entertainment across the board is good. The water park's got
a lot of solid offerings. What would I do next?
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Well, probably probably do timber Terror right the same way
as Tremor. Yeah, I've I've always, I guess my dream
ride if I was to just do whatever I could
back here out here is a B and M flyer
or a B and M wing coaster out in the
in the woods.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
In the woods, what would you what would you call
that ride?
Speaker 6 (33:02):
Like?
Speaker 1 (33:03):
That's what?
Speaker 4 (33:03):
What?
Speaker 1 (33:04):
What would the theme of that ride be? Maybe not
a name?
Speaker 2 (33:06):
I don't know, Eagle Hunt of us.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
That aren't quite as knowledgeable, can you explain what that is?
Speaker 4 (33:17):
B a M wing coaster? So think of a coaster.
The track is in the center and you're sitting off
to the right and left of that track.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
Cool.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Yeah, there's a number of out there if you want
to go take a look.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
But I've always I've always wanted something like that too.
The one thing I've thought about is a launched wing
coaster dueling on Main Street lawn and have it be
called dog Fight and have it very themed with like.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Why not, let's just do.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
It right, let's can we do a dark ride too?
Speaker 1 (33:50):
While a dark rid would be yeah, that's the other thing.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
Yeah, that's why if I was scary.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
You would you would put a dark ride in? What
would your theme of your dark right?
Speaker 5 (33:59):
I want to get abducted by aliens?
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Here?
Speaker 5 (34:05):
My dark ride?
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Not Gary?
Speaker 5 (34:07):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (34:07):
If I was Gary, if you were here Gary and
it was a dark ride.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
You know the theme of the park.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
You We're going through the mountains and it's cold and gosh,
sasquatch and some of the mountain creatures are going to
come and eat you. Okay, what's the big icy creature
that lives in the mountains?
Speaker 4 (34:24):
So you're basically describing the matter horn mm hmmm, I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Wow. For everybody listening, I apologize for ignorance. That was just.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
I haven't got a lot of outside of the park
experience because I don't need to go anywhere else because Silver.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
So guess what that was.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
If that ride didn't exist, that would have been a
genius idea.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Okay, yeah, I mean, okay.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
I'm going to eat you. Yeah, so scary, right, yeah,
what else is scary?
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Exactly?
Speaker 4 (35:05):
I mean Sasquatch and all that stuff would be fine
in the dark. I think, I think a Sasquatch hut
would be awesome, and we already do it on the
train a little bit.
Speaker 5 (35:12):
But yeah, but you're.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Like an interaction.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
That's That's what I would love is to have like
some sort of interactive gamification elements because I mean, honestly,
one of my favorite dark rides that is like the
toy story Mania because it is a shooting element and
uses three D screens and it always has a line,
like why does it always have a line because people
want to beat their score?
Speaker 5 (35:36):
Is like the Spider one.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
It's similar, yeah, similar, that one is a little bit
different techniques.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
But isn't there a Star Wars one like that too?
One of the Star Wars ones is like.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
The Millennium Falcon one. Yeah, kind of kind of the same,
quite the same, Okay, no, but yeah, I would love
to have that sort of shooting.
Speaker 5 (35:55):
Option, interactive maybe tranquilize options.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
We're not shooting sasquatch, but for research.
Speaker 5 (36:01):
Maybe you just capture him in his net.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Okay, yeah, you have like a net you're shooting. Yeah,
just net him.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
He could Yeah exactly. You could be the bad guys
on the train for a day and there you go.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
So how about moving into Scary Wood.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
What's your I mean, I assume what's your favorite attraction?
What's your favorite haunt? Favorite haunt boy over the years?
Over the ever.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Oh well, the train, the train back. Yeah, there was
nothing like that, I don't think ever before or since.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Yeah, zombie anywhere.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
I mean, that was truly unique. I mean, I get
why we couldn't keep doing it, but yeah, you know,
and you know Nick's Nick's natural home is on the
stage right there, so so that that works just fine.
But yeah, that was If I had to pick one
over the years, that'd probably be the one. I'd say
it was by far the best, just because of how
unique it was. There was just nothing like that anywhere.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Yeah, very unique.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
And those for those listening, this bombie would express was
the train hunting zombies on the train going out, and
it's very if you've ridden the train, similar to that,
except for not kid friendly.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
And shooting zombies yeah, like machine guns.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
Yeah, and the reason why we actually ended up having
to get rid of it is because it got so
popular that when when people would get in and it
was the first attraction you saw, they would get in
line and we had have a shut down the line
probably thirty minutes into people showing up because it was
going to be a three four hour wait for them
to get on because that train only runs train and
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it runs thirty minutes at best to get back and.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Then to load and all that.
Speaker 5 (37:40):
Nothing else we could do.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
So even though it was yeah, extremely unique attraction, we
did get a lot of complaints about it because we're like,
I didn't do anything else besides the train.
Speaker 5 (37:50):
Yeah, I hate that was your choice?
Speaker 1 (37:51):
What else and what else about Scary Would?
Speaker 2 (37:54):
Oh, let's see, I think you know theming wise Blood
by us. Yeah, pretty hard to top. That's been. I
remember when that opened the first year and just how
as well I guess compared especially compared to the previous year.
That was the very first year Scary Would, so that
that just was a huge step up in quality. Yeah,
and that was a still every time I go through it,
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I'm I'm reminded of like, Wow, I forgot how great,
how impressive this is?
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Yeah, so it's.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Been around for a while, I know, I know.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
We were just talking the other day about just like
the longevity of our haunts. Yeah, and I don't think
there's another park, or at least of our size, that
holds on other haunts as long as we do.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Usually a lot more turnover.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
Yeah, but when you have a good one like Blood
by You, I mean that's so. And it's still every
year one every year it is the number one haunt
that we have based off survey.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
So yeah, and it's still just as scary as it
was that first year, because I remember that same thing
walking into it that first year and being like, this
is in North Idaho. This is crazy to me, and
that that guy comes down he's really scary over the
top of you, and you're like, wow, this is not
the haunted house I went to, like down the road
over Yeah, this is so not the same thing, and
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walking through that thing and it's still it's my favorite.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
I just absolutely, How have you seen scary would evolve?
Speaker 4 (39:19):
Yeah, maybe not from the first year, but maybe from
years from here two.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Yeah, Well, obviously it's gotten a lot bigger. I think,
you know, each year, you guys seem to just kind
of hone in on the best parts of it, and
there's always something new. I like that, you know, It's
it's nice that every year there seems to be something
different to do that keeps people coming back. I think
the I've liked seeing the different themes of the different
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haunts evolve over time, entertainments, things like that. I think,
you know, doing the magic show during during the Scary
Wood event is it was a great thing to have
come back.
Speaker 4 (40:02):
Now.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
That was something the first year I remember I really
liked because being a big Disneyland fan, I remember the
Haunted Mansion music that was right at the start. Yeah,
I was like that, am I hearing that? Oh wow,
that's pretty cool? But yeah, but yeah, like I said earlier,
we never missed Nick Norton ever, so you know, whether
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it's October or July, we're always going to see him,
so that that's always fun. What else just yeah, it's
just been cool to see it grow and get better
and better every year. And we've been almost every single
year that it's been open. I think we missed one
year if I'm remembering right. Otherwise we've been in every
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single year and gotten pictures and everything. So it's been
fun to kind of see it grow and evolve and change,
and yeah, it's been Do.
Speaker 4 (40:52):
You have any tips for people who maybe haven't been
to Scarywood? And just like the visitor guide for Scary Wood?
Speaker 2 (40:59):
Yeah, so are our Well now you're having me give
away all our secrets.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
I know, Well they're on the website, are they are?
Speaker 2 (41:06):
But you know, we only have like five people that
read the blog, right, so obviously again, get there early
and then I feel like early earlier in the month
that you come, the less crowded it is. But I
feel like, you know, it's been easier to get through
everything in one night since the train was retired. Yeah,
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so you know understand the logistics of that for sure.
But we always just go straight to the far south
end of the park when we get in. Most people
are kind of, you know, staying towards the north side
of the park, and we just go straight for Timber Terror,
do that first once or twice before the line gets
along for that, and then just kind of work our
way back. But that that seems to to be a
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pretty good, uh strategy. Yeah, we've never had a night
where we've not gotten through everything, sometimes multiple times, including
the big coaster too.
Speaker 5 (42:00):
So what's the one monster that scares you the most?
Speaker 4 (42:04):
Uh, there's only one right answer for this in Geordan's case.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
Yeah, Jordan knows what he wants to hear. I know
what I want to hear.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
I will say. Over all the years, the only time
that I actually was legitimately like ran away scared was
the first year and it was the chainsaw guy at
the end of the Terror Canyon. Yeah. I was not
I did not see that coming.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
We got out of the trench and we were starting
to walk up the path and then all of a
sudden he starts chasing us, and I was like, oh, yeah,
we got gotta get out of here. So that that was,
And uh, I think there's a that's a variation of
that guy that's still around.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Yeah, yeah, there's a couple. Yeah, there's a couple.
Speaker 4 (42:47):
But I mean we put a lot of those into
the Swine Haunt this last year.
Speaker 3 (42:52):
So but have you ever been scared by the scary
bush gilly man before?
Speaker 4 (42:56):
Though?
Speaker 2 (42:57):
No, But I know I know, I know who that is.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
Yeah, one of them.
Speaker 5 (43:02):
Get him this year, Jordan. We'll get them. Yes, Yeah,
that's that's going to be the mission.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
We're going to We're going to get man the camera
ready and.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
Then we'll get it on footage.
Speaker 4 (43:13):
Yeah exactly, and if not, then we'll have the chainsaw
guy right behind me.
Speaker 5 (43:17):
Just a good idea, good scar.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
You're not listening, right, Yeah, this is our plan.
Speaker 4 (43:24):
That's right, I guess. I mean the only other thing
we have is the ice cream. Yes, this and this
might be a little on the spot, not like this
whole thing wasn't on the spot already.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:34):
By the way, yeah, let's let's give a little backup
for people, just so they know that we legitimately pulled Chris.
Speaker 5 (43:40):
Out of the park today.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
Yes, he was here ready to go ride rides and
we're like, nope, you're going to be on a podcast,
like yeah, yeah, but we didn't prepare either.
Speaker 4 (43:49):
No, that we we had to be a little more
opportunistic because I mean, when you guys are coming back
probably until later, probably scary wood, scary Wood.
Speaker 3 (43:59):
Yeah, so we went out on our opportunity to talk
to you and so so just so everyone knows, he
did a great job, even though we literally pulled him
in straight off the streets.
Speaker 2 (44:09):
Yes, So anytime I appreciate you guys reaching out. It's
worth on.
Speaker 1 (44:14):
So yeah.
Speaker 4 (44:14):
Well, and one last thing I would say your inside
scoop is like, what's one super secret tip that someone
who maybe had never been here or maybe has been here,
that you would give. I know you've given some tips already,
but maybe you have one more deep in there. Yeah,
that would be useful for someone.
Speaker 2 (44:34):
Oh, stop by the coffee shop in the morning before
you go into the park and get a blueberry muffin top.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
Yes, my favorite standing ovation. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (44:44):
Absolutely. I was introduced to these as of recently.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
I shouldn't know they existed until I told her.
Speaker 5 (44:49):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (44:50):
And then that first taste, that first bite, like and
you know when you think like someone's exaggerating and then
you try it, and I was like, Jordan's not lying,
like he wow, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (45:00):
Well that's I mean. The other thing that I know
you guys always go to is you eat at Lindy's.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
Yes, yes, yeah, are we going to get into this, Yeah,
let's go, let's go. I still not over that you
got rid of the tandem jump and no.
Speaker 5 (45:20):
Jump.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
She doesn't even know what the tandem jump? What what
that was?
Speaker 2 (45:23):
The no? Well, yeah, it's the themed soup and salad
combo that used to used to be on the menu.
Speaker 4 (45:31):
And yeah, we'll have to bring this up because we
got a tweet. Do you still call them tweets? X? No,
we got a tweet yesterday with the picture of the
menu and I saw it and I was like, yeah,
but you like the gingham salad, right.
Speaker 2 (45:51):
Yes, yes, that's so that. Yeah, that would be another.
Speaker 5 (45:54):
Anotherhalad is pretty good. I've had that.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
Yeah, we've been getting that as long as I can remember.
But yeah, we we used to. That was our go
to every time, was the tandem jump the soup and salad.
It was like a half salad, half small soup and
a bread bowl and that was like our favorite thing
to get in. And last year, you guys broke my heart.
Speaker 4 (46:11):
I'm so sorry, but it wasn't us.
Speaker 5 (46:15):
Yeah, because I did have the soup and the bread.
Speaker 3 (46:17):
So I've had the gagham salad and I've had the
soup and the bread bowl.
Speaker 5 (46:20):
I've never had them together.
Speaker 1 (46:22):
You need to jump.
Speaker 4 (46:23):
Oh yeah, okay, well we will pass that one.
Speaker 1 (46:26):
We'll pass on. I would say.
Speaker 4 (46:27):
Another tip is go to a Roller Coast rally blog
and read all of their like ride reviews and their
visitor guide.
Speaker 5 (46:38):
If you're looking for it. You can find it.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
Yeah, it's all there, and you can go back in
the archives and all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (46:43):
I used their blog for knowledge, to get to know
when I first started working here. Yeah, so I mean
that says something right there, like, yeah, all the things
that maybe from a different perspective, you know, doing public
relations and whatnot.
Speaker 4 (46:56):
Well, I like to go on and read anything that
the community like the little like forum post. I know
it doesn't there's not a lot on there, but every
time every time someone posted on there, usually people asking
for like the music, what's the music?
Speaker 1 (47:10):
What's this music? Especially in like the Hans and all
that kind of stuff.
Speaker 5 (47:13):
So our Boulder Beaches playlist.
Speaker 4 (47:14):
Yeah, so if you're listening and you want to like
join the community about that's about Silverwood, go to the
Roller Coastrally blog and enjoin.
Speaker 5 (47:23):
Yeah, give yourself a plug.
Speaker 2 (47:25):
Is it just right? Dot com?
Speaker 3 (47:27):
So perfect? Chris, Thanks so much for being with us today.
It was so much fun. Yes, and yeah, everybody, stay
tuned for next week. Don't forget to sign up as
our next loyal listener. We could be calling you next
at silverwoodthemepark dot com, slash podcast and go ride some
roller coasters we'll do on this week's ride. Redo that,
(47:51):
and that's a wrap on this week's ride. Thanks for
tuning into the Silverwood Show. If you had a blast
to make sure.
Speaker 5 (47:58):
To subscribe, leave us a review, and share the fun.
Speaker 3 (48:01):
With your fellow thrill seekers. Got a question, story, or suggestion,
send it our way to podcast at silverwoodthemepark dot com
for a chance to be featured in our mail train segment.
Speaker 5 (48:12):
Until next time.
Speaker 3 (48:13):
Keep your hands and feet inside the podcast and stay thrilling.
What God come?
Speaker 1 (48:20):
Time that fun
Silver, Come Joined Up Fun, Come Tied Up Fun.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Sell Wood, Come Tinned Up Fun.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Well, Hey there, thanks so much for joining the fun.
This week, it's another episode of the Silverwood Show podcast.
I'm your host, Sarah Jean. I'm here with Jordan Carter.
He is the marketing and entertainment director here at Silverwood.
And we've got a fun guest this week that we
pulled directly.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Out of the I know, feel a little bad about it,
but I think he secretly loved it.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I think so too, because how often do you get
to be on the Silverwood Show podcast.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
Yes, I mean it was his.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
First podcast, right, it's going to be his first podcast.
And so we've got Chris Patty here and he is
from roller Coaster Alley. Any roller coaster enthusiast out there
probably have heard of that. It's a very popular blog,
especially amongst our Silverwood fans.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
It's been around for quite a while.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yeah, Chris is going to probably be giving us fact
checks on things that we say, because yes, he.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Knows a lot.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
He does know a lot, And I mean he's been
coming here since I think since Tremor's open, Yeah, I think, yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah, So we're.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
We're excited to have him on the show and get
a little insight to kind of their world and how
it relates to us.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah, and how he's watched this park change and kind
of yeah, morph into something different over the years, something
bigger and better.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
So that is coming up in the Big Drop. But
let's kick things off with the park Pulse, Park Pulse.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Okay, I told you, Jordan, you get to bring back
the pulse of the park because yeah, I'm just pulsing
as I walk through the park in the heat.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
So yeah, well the one thing that I have is
coming soon. Just really starting to get the word out
there that July eighteenth is scary Wood my paper bell.
But I'll get it in a little bit. I'll get
in a little bit. You're fine, you don't have home.
Oh she's gonna Okay, at July eighteenth, Scary would applications
(02:05):
open to be a Haunter.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
So okay, that is a big deal.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
That is a big deal, And just to kind of
gives some insight on that date, we we actually do
what we call Midsummer Scream for our past year haunters
and they get to come out to the park and
we show like a movie and we get to tell
them everything that's new for this year, so it's super
fun for them.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Do I get to go?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Yeah, because you're a Haunter. Sure, come on out July eighteenth, Okay, nice?
What time it's in the evening.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
That Okay, after the park closes.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
No, but it's in the main Street theater. So yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
So we and then our food and beverage team gets
us like food and all that stuff. But it's a
really fun, fun event for us to really kick off
the Halloween season in July.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I was literally just telling Jordan today as we were
walking through a country carnival, how I just I miss
the clowns just running and scaring and the smell of
cotton candy.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Do you think you would have ever said that in
your life, No, Pebbles, No, absolutely, because you were scared.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
I was terrified, and now I'm like.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Dreaming of clowns that walk through the games. Who are you?
Speaker 5 (03:11):
I know? Thanks Jordan brought out like my inner.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Monster monster and that's what I do. Yeah, that's what
I get to do, and.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
You do a good job about it.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
So because we're we're ready, We're ready for Scary Wood.
We're already gearing up and getting excited and I almost
felt like a crispness in the air today.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Yeah, it is more chilly today, but it's it's going
to go away.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
But it immediately makes me think of Scary Wood.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I know, I know, but we want the summer here longer.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
But we're going to also talk to to Chris about
scary Wood a little bit too, right because he's he's
a scary Wood fan.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Since the beginning, longer than.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Us, Okay, so we'll definitely have to ask them about that.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
So and what else is pul Well, also, just like
the park is after fourth of July, we get into
really kind of like the prime prime season and your
tourist season. So really excited for the tourism just to
pick up in the area and also at the park
and just to see the faces that can do experience
(04:09):
Eagle Hunt maybe for the first time and Tremors for
the first time with a new upgrade on that. We
also have a new video that we have probably coming
out soon of us writing Tremors. So I know we've
been talking about.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
It for a couple of weeks, but there's been a
lot that's had to go into this.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Yes, it's a it's a detailed video. Let's just the
first cut was like fifteen minutes long.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Yeah, it's awesome.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
It's awesome, and you guys are going to get a
chance to vote on who actually won this competition right on.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
So spoil alert. It's me that is not no you.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Guys, Team Sarah no name. Yeah, I'm a little mister
competitive over here. No I know I win because what
is that?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
What is that? Who's the winner?
Speaker 4 (04:54):
No?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Still have that on a hot No, no, no, no, no, no.
It is my one year anniversary next week, this week, whatever,
it's my one year anniversary. Therefore Sarah gets to congratulations.
That's my that's my pride.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Yeah, we'll stop talking about it. Actually show you guys
one of these days.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
But it is. It's coming out real real soon. Final cut.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Yeah almost there we're getting don't ever play that again.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
No, you're like, what is that?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Am I kicking out of the park Pulse because you
just flatlined with me?
Speaker 5 (05:32):
So I think.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Onto the mail train. You guys still writing it and
we love it. I'm always getting those emails, always getting
those great messages through silverwidthen Park dot com, slash podcast,
or you can email us at podcast at silverwidthe Park
dot Com. So let's go to some of these great questions.
Jessica Everheart wants to know if timber Terror is going
to go backwards for the month of September for last
(05:56):
weekends of opening.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Uh, yes, Jordan, we'll see.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Okay, why, well, it.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Typically does, but there's other plans right now that are
in the works that might change how that happens, as
far as like September being that date more to come.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Okay, do we have suspenseful music to go with that?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Okay, you do? He Actually that seems looking if that
satan again, I swear he just like hearing his own name.
Oh my gosh, look of joy on his face. If
you're listening to this and not watching it, Oh my god,
what am I going to do with you?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Okay, I'm moving on, Jessica, just don't even listen to him.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
We'll let you know soon.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Kathleen raw he'll walk She didn't walk in, but she did.
She wants to know how long this is actually great?
How long can I be in the lazy River? I'm
a teacher and I need to decommisss.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
That's a good question. Can you well opens?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
It opens at eleven okay you I mean, if you
are ready to go, you could get in there probably
in the first thirty to a minute if you're the
first person in line, so you're looking at eleven oh
one floating, okay, you could probably stay in there until
seven o'clock.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Okay, so that's a good eight hour day. That doesn't
could that is a grade eight hour day? Well, that's
one way.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Technically the time would be seven hours and fifty nine
minutes of floating.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah, please get out if you have to use.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
The restroom, yes, please, or if you turn into a
complete yeah yeah yeah. And let's admit our our Jamaican
me crazy drinks.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Well, while you're in there, sunshine make me crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
You can't really get food, but you can get drinks.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
You can get lots of drinks. That's a lot of laps.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
But technically probably seven hours and fifteen minutes.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Yeah, okay, So there's your answer, Kathleen.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
We really hope to see out here, and if you
do decide to come out here and do that, please.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Let us video of that the whole seven hours and
fifty nine minutes.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Will it float?
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Float, float, float until you don't, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Float until you don't we're we're just marketing's all right, Kathleen.
Good luck with that and enjoy your summer girl. And
then Sarah mccannon wants to know. We had some great
questions this week. How can I discreetly pick a water
slide wedgie?
Speaker 5 (08:25):
No, this is a thing, though, y'all.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
And if anybody has ever ridden a water slide here,
you know that that's the thing.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
And and those shorts are the bikini bottom is not
where it was when you first started. So what's the
best way, Jordan, do you think to discreetly pick a wedgie?
Speaker 1 (08:42):
In my opinion, Jordan's got this down to it.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
In my opinion, Yeah, I think it's to stay seated
in the slide, okay, and do a little like shimmy
back and forth, okay, and like just yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Maybe push me out. Yeah you see, that should get
most of me. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
And then if you guy in, but then as you're
standing up, like fix your shorts and discreetly do it
at the same time.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Because for guys it's I think probably easier. Yeah. For girls,
you can't really tell what's going on.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
It's in there.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Yeah, But I'm going to tell the girls this these
day and age the way that swim suits are covering booties.
No one's going to notice anyway, but you got to
do the slide like kind of like you're wiping the
water off your butt as you stand up, okay, and
just kind of slow just.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Think, I think, keeping just seated and fixing it while
you're sitting sat down, sat down.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
And then it looks like you're like fidgeting.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Who cares anything, it's you're rather than standing up and like, yeah,
look what she got.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Hello, Yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Well, I think we're divided.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Here's another thing though, ladies.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Let me just tell you this because we've had this
in previous episodes as well with some of our friends
from local lind Seattle. But just make sure that they fit,
because I went on eagle Hunt here a few weeks ago,
and I didn't realize that I do not have the
same body that I had last time, which is a
good thing. I'm smaller, not bigger, but I'm smaller, but
that means my swimsuit didn't fit quite as well. And
(10:08):
after you've been in the water all day, swimers get bigger. Okay, yeah,
and so then the last thing you want is the
opposite to happen and completely just yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
That's true. There.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Well now I think that's for the guys double knot yeah,
double knot.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Baby guys and girls. If you have a tie bikini bottom,
double not that.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Too, okay, if you can just solving the world's problem.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
No, look at us picking wedgies and all the things.
So thanks, Sarah McCann. That's a great question.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
I want to give away some.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Money, okay, and some tickets and tickets.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yeah, let's do I mean tickets too, but yeah, I'm
really hoping somebody gets the new sounder this week. So
let's play a little game with this week's loyal listener.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Spin that wheel. Let's find a number. We have a winner.
We have a winner, number two sixty four. Let's give
them a call.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Hello, Hey, Melissa, this is Sarah and Jordan from the
Silverwood Show podcast here at Silverwood Theme Park.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
How are you good?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
We're great.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
We wanted to give you a call because we're just
feeling super generous today and give you a pair of
tickets to Silverwood.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
Awesome. Thank you so much. You're so welcome. What are
you up to today?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
We are actually in the car.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I just pulled over but we are heading to some
friend's house for.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Fourth of your life. Nice. Nice, doing a little celebration
as you should.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Yes, we're working, we're working on the holiday over here,
so pre recording some stuff so that we can get
that out after the holiday's done. But hey, want to
play a little game with us really quick while we've
got you pulled over to win some Silverwood cash. Sure,
all right, We're going to do a little game of
truer false with you. Okay, I'm going to give you
five statements, and each one is either true or false,
(11:55):
and if you get it right, you get five dollars
and then at the end of that rearden for each.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
One, so up to the twenty five bucks. And then
Jordan's got.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
A new sounder this week. Yeah, so he's gonna play
sound right for you. And if you guess that, it's
how much more? Fifty fifty more dollars, so you could
went up to seventy five dollars in Silverwood cash.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Are you ready? I'm ready? All right, let's get this started.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Your first statement, Silverwood is the largest theme park in
the Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
True.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Correct, She's got five dollars? That was confident?
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Yes, exactly, okay, number two. Silverwood sits on over four
hundred acres. True two two got ten dollars in the bank.
All right, number three, there have been multiple sasquatch sightings
at Silverwood. Absolutely true, that what we like to hear. Yes,
(12:52):
she is, okay, fifteen dollars in the bank. Next up,
the bird in the Magic Show is a two can.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
True macaw.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
That is gypsy, but it's kind of didn't there used
to be a can way back.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
In the back in two thousand and eleven, there was
a two camp so it was.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Kind of a trick back back, yeah, way back in
the day.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
One more true or false?
Speaker 3 (13:19):
And that is the Roaring Creek log Flume is one
of the original attractions of Country Carnival.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
True, all right, twenty dollars. I like it.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
And you've got a brand new sounder for you this week,
So go ahead, Jordan explain.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
So this new SoundBite is an attraction either in Boulder
Beach or Silverwood. So we're gonna play a little clip
and then we'll have you guess what ride do you
think this is?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
So here it comes, Okay, what ride do you think
that is?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
The log fume?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
You got it?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Good?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Job.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Hey, and I didn't even know that, so I didn't
actually a messaging on that because I had. He's not
telling men because he thinks I keep giving him away.
So you just got some May dollars on top of
your pair of tickets and I'm going to be leaving those.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
We'll call for you.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
I'll give you a call and you know all about
that when we get off the phone. But yeah, so
when's your next visit?
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Hopefully soon?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Well, you go enjoy your afternoon, get back on the road,
drive safely, safe travels, and we'll be seeing.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
You at the park.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Thank you so much, Happy for have a good one bye.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Surprise were we're recording this on the fourth of July.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
It's okay.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Well, I'm unfortunately going to be gone next week, so
we had to get it done early.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Yes, Jordan's leaving me in charge a.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Little bit of a vacation, so right, no, no, not
leaving are you.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Guys watch over? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Yeah, producer Amanda's in charge. Next week. We're just going
to record like five.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Podcast Oh yeah, let's do that. Let's do that.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
So anyways, you're gonna miss Jordan, but you're not gonna
miss Jordan because he's technically going to be on the
show next week even though he's not here, and he's
going to go visit the Lake osous Monster Yogo Pogo.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Hopefully I don't see that. I bring my friends with me.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Yes, yes, there you go, see you're perfect.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Well.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Also, Jordan, can I just mention that you did a
great job yesterday? Yes, Jordan was Dynamite Dan on the train.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
So anybody that's been on the train has seen our
wonderful train performance and robbery, and everybody loves Dynamite Dan
and that character is really Jordan, So I think.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
So, and like, deep down, deep down, I can channel
my own Dan.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
So, yeah, happened.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
To be here on the third of the two a
clock show.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
That was Jordan, that was me. You might be seeing
more of him, so definitely not.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
It's always fun.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
It's super fun to get interact with the crowd and
be able to perform with our amazing performers. Already I'm
excited to do more of that. But I also just
love to watch them too.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Yeah, we have the best teams, I mean, phenomenal, phenomenal teams,
So you can go check out if you're not following
our entertainment crew. You know you can on social media
Silver Forwood Entertainment get to kind of know your range
of rosies and your Dynamite dance and all of that. So,
but what do you say should we grab Chris, bring
him in here and grill him about the park.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Let's do it.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Let's do it, big Trunk.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
And we are back with this week's very special guest.
And you know he's sitting here feeling like he shouldn't
be here, but we kind of really honor you and
your knowledge, especially when it comes to Rose roller coasters.
So we've got is Patty from roller Coaster Alley And
now this is a blog.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
That is Silverwood Artificial Blog. How long have you been
doing this blog?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Okay? So we started in either January or February of
twenty sorry two thousand and one, okay, so almost twenty
there you go.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Yes, I mean he probably knows more about Silverwood than
we do.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Yeah, especially in the early days. Yeah, exactly, exactly how
long have you been visiting Silverwood?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
So me personally, my first visit was ninety nine, so
wind Tremors opened, Okay, that was my first year.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
Is that what brought you here?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Okay, he wanted to experience Trevor's.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
And Mike's first year was a while before that. It
was ninety three or ninety four. It was whenever thunder
Canyon opened, that was the new ninety three. Yeah, yep, yep.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
So we should mention Mike because he's not here and
he's missing out today.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
So tell us about Mike.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
So, Mike's my older brother, oldest brother. He's the brains
behind the operation. The whole thing was was his idea
initially to start the website, and he does most of
the writing and things like that. But he's yeah, and
he's he's been on way more roller coasters than me,
been the more theme parks than me, and you're you're
unfortunately getting the lesser half the Holler coaster. But yeah,
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he's he's a great guy, and it's too bad he
couldn't be here. Maybe next time, maybe next time.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Yeah, we can always do the other half.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Yeah, we wish we had a cardboard cut out we could.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Yeah, we've been we've been doing this together for almost
twenty five years now. It's hard to wow. And I'm
saying that.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
So what got you guys so interested in roller coasters?
What where did this all begin.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
We've we've always been theme park and roller coaster geeks
ever since I can remember. And really it was it
was more him forcing me to go on right when
I was a little Yeah right, so I kind of
didn't have a choice, but yeah, he got me hooked
on him just like he is. And so we've we
went to Disneyland lots of times as kids, of course,
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and uh yeah, so then when Tremor is open, we
were he'd been telling me you got to get to
Silverwood at some point, you got to get up there,
like they've got some new things that have they've added
since I went there, and even when I went it
was still really fun. So finally we just were like,
all right, we got to go this year. They got
another new roller coaster, let's go check it out. And
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so that was kind of the start of our love
of Silverwood all those years ago. Yeah, still got the
picture of both he and me, and I think I
put it up on the posts from nineteen ninety nine
on one of our first rides on Tremors.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
That's awesome.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
So but yeah, you came yesterday and you rode the
new up new Tremors Tremors two point oh dare we
say yes? Does it feel like the ninety nine tremors?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
No?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Not a little different? Yeah, tell us your experience, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
So yeah, it was. Well, if you've been following us
for any length of time, you know we've been kind
of always wishing for Millennium Flyer trains on that ride,
probably from Yeah, yeah, like that would be so great
to get those trains on that roller coaster someday, And
here we are, all these years later with it. So
it surpassed my expectations everything that I wanted it to be.
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So that's a huge coming from so not not only that,
but then also getting the whole R m C tradement
across the whole thing. I mean, what more could you
ask for?
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Right?
Speaker 6 (20:18):
Do you consider it a wood coaster anymore? Oh geez,
that's a question for roller Coaster database not. Yeah, I
think I would probably still put it in there, but
I think they, I think they, the true geeks, would
say it's it's technically steel now, but either way, it's tremors, right,
So it's fun.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Oh yeah? And then I mean so smooth smooth?
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Did it feel faster to you?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
It felt the same as it always has speed wise, well,
I'd say the line felt faster. That was That was
one of almost the best part. I was like, we
didn't have to wait at all. We just got right
up there and train pulled out and another one pulls in, and.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
I think the longest we've had as far as weights
was not even coming back around the corner for and
we haven't had to go back and forth with the
queue line.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
So that's what we wanted.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
It's exactly what we wanted.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
We wanted.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Yeah, yeah, Now, I mean, the only thing left to
do is Timbertaire.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
I was going to ask. I was going to say,
do I dare ask the question of when is timber
Tare going to be It's.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Been talked about, We've been talked about. I don't have
a date, but it's been talked about. I think I
think with the success of Tremors, I would be not surprised.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
If it's far behind. I'll just put that out there.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
So how has the response been from like, I mean,
geeks like me or one thing? But what about just
the general public?
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Oh yeah, I think everybody that we've talked to has
just been unbelievably impressed with not only because the to train,
I mean That's probably what people mostly feel is just
the wait times and all the efficiency and all that
kind of stuff that that the new trains allow, especially
because it doesn't have seatbelts, so that takes out another
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whole check up and down.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
But the smoothness, smoothness, I mean for someone like me,
you know, I wouldn't write it before.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
It was terrifying to me.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
And so getting on it and not only being able
to rub it right at once, but multiple times in
a row, and it just got funer.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Yeah, more fun every single time.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Yeah, we wrote it eight times in a row without
getting off because we were doing a little video.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
But you're really gonna enjoy.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Yeah, that should be coming out soon.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Where we did everyday tasks on Tremors to show how
smooth it is. So we ate ice cream, Jordan put
on makeup, we put makeup on, We tied ties, we juggled,
were attempted to juggle, we drew, it was all it
was all fun.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
But yeah, that's that's where we went with it. Do
not try that at home. Try it.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
But we were successful. Yeah, I mean, and that's what's crazy.
You could not have done any of that on Tremors before.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Yeah, at all.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
So what going back to like the early days, what
do you remember as being like your your favorite thing
that has potentially changed till twenty five.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Mm hm, oh that's a good question. Thing that's changed, well,
aside from tremors, you mean, yeah, aside from oh what,
let's see, well the water park, Yeah, just gotten better
and better every year. I mean, I we remember the
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first year it opened, of course, and how crowded it
was and everything, how popular it was. So the fact
that it's so huge now that's great. I'm personally a
big fan of scary would so I've loved seeing how
that's grown over the years. I remember the first year
of that and how that's changed.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Has changed a lot since the first year.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Yes, I'll never forget the train ride that first Oh yeah,
that was interesting, it was.
Speaker 6 (23:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Yes, are you coming back this year?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Oh yeah, always always yep.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
But we're said it's gonna be bigger and batter, bigger
and batter.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
That's yeah, we're working. We're working on all right store
for you.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
So yeah, it's gonna be a great time.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I show back in the day.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yes, I do remember that, Yeah, we I think I
only saw it once or twice, but it was impressive.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Yeah, that's all I've heard is you missed the ice.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
I never saw it, Yeah, but I've heard from everybody
that how great it was.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
I do believe I saw it as a little girl,
and I think what I know now versus what I
didn't know then, just that these were like Olympian.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Skaters.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
I mean, these were really incredible skaters. These just weren't
some random you know that. Yeah, there was incredible. I
wish I would have known that then.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
It was similar to the Magic Show, like you go
into it not really expecting that it's going to something
out here in the middle of northern Idaho. You're like, well, it's, oh,
it'll be fun. But then you watch it and it's like, wow,
that that was really impressive.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
So did you see that the new Magic shows?
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Not yet. We're going today.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
As long as you're going today, I want to spoil
it for you, but be prepared.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
The aerialists are.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Just okay, they are great.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
They are so good it's it's made all the world
of difference, and so yeah, you're really gonna enjoy that.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
So we don't not miss the Magic Show ever.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Yeah, Yeah, that's that's what are some other like must
dos for you.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
What are the top must dos?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Oh geez, well, yeah, all the entertainment usually so the train,
the Magic Show, those are the things that are always
really impressive. Getting on all the coasters. Of course, I
really like the log Ride and Thunder Canyon, all the
you know, the big water ride. The kids love those two.
So yeah, those those are always the things that we
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have to do. And then my kids would tell you
the wave pool. Yeah, that's their like go to in
the water park. They love that, so like.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
They're going to stay in there until they get all
wrinkly fingered and all that. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
What's a favorite memory from the past twenty five years?
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Oh? Wow, Well, let's see, the first time going with
my brother was definitely a big one for sure. And
then taking my at the time she was my fiance
for the first time. It was the weekend that we
got engaged and we came up here. I took her
to sad for I think it was her second visit,
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but the last time she'd been was when she was
really little, so she hadn't seen anything new there. So
that was her first time seeing me on roller coasters
and that was an interesting experience for her.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
I think yeah, probably good thing to get engaged before.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Yeah, so are you more of a screamer or more
of a.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Silent like, oh I scream, I mean not not out
of fear, but.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
Just yeah, I enjoy.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
So she was laughing at me the whole time. She
was like, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (26:56):
I'm get used to this, right, this is happening for
the rest of your life.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
How on coasters she likes them to Yeah, so that's.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Not as as much of a nerd as me, but
she still likes them.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
So that's a great from like the roller coaster alley perspective,
Is there any moments that stand out that have to
do with like the blog that might have just that
that our memories that you'll remember for the rest of
your life.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Hm? Hm, And you're you're giving me a lot of
good questions here.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
I try put you on the spot a little bit.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Well, I I remember when we started and there wasn't
a lot of stuff happening with the park at the time,
and so when Boulder Beach was finally starting to be
constructed and we had something to like report on, yeah, right,
that was exciting. We were like, oh, we have pictures
we can post and we can you know, contact Screamscape
and have them link to our site and so you
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just posted this. So that was fun. Trying to think.
I think when we finally broke through and got to
talk to someone from marketing all those years ago and
got to do an interview, I think that was two
thousand and five when Joe Anne was here and then
and Nancy, so we got to talk to them. That
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was that was pretty cool, the first time getting to
talk to them. And then I think probably the biggest
memory was when we interviewed Gary a long time ago.
It's that's obviously been a while, but that was a
really cool conversation.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Yeah, yeah, what was that?
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Like what what what did you take from that as
far as like his perspectives.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
And I had just read his book prior.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
To interviewing My next question, he read the books.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
I did read the book. Yeah, I read it a
couple of times.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
Yeah, it's a great story.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
But just after reading that and then talking to him,
it's just, you know, he has such a unique vision
for how he wants things to be, and and the
fact that he focuses so much on quality as opposed
to anything else any other metric. He just he knows
if you make it the best you can make it,
then people will come. It's kind of that if you
build it, he will come. Yeah, but yeah he I
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took that from the book that and from talking to
him that that's really what he believes makes Silverwood a
place people want to come back to is that it's
consistently you know, topping out on quality across the board.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Absolutely, And I think that that's what we hear from
him all the time, is like consistency. It doesn't matter
what day you come, doesn't matter how much income you have,
as far as like you're not going to pay for
a better experience. Everybody coming here is getting a very
consistent quality experience.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
I definitely did oh that Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Yeah, and it does.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
It makes all the difference because everybody feels equal here
and everybody feels, you know, the same thing we want. Yeah,
you don't have one person that's reading one review where
this person yeah got to do this, you know, vice versa.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
So yeah, he so much it uh huh. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
You guys on the on the blog have like a
visitor guide that you guys that you guys bring out.
What are your time tips from that visitor guide that
you would share with others who are thinking about coming
out to the park.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Get here early, yes, good, good one, And there's really
no reason not to with the park opening at eleven.
That's what I say in the in the article. It's like,
this isn't Disneyland. It doesn't open at eight am. You
don't have to get up super early to be here
on time, So get here early, I think, depending on
you know, what you're planning to do, especially if you're
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doing the water park on a hot day, that's you've
really got to be here early for that. So that's
probably my biggest tip. You know, you get so much
done in the first hour or two of of a
day at any theme park just because people don't show
up on time, right yeah, or or or staying late.
You know, close the park down if you can. That's
you get the best experience that way. I like saving
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the train usually for later in the evening. One of
one of the memories I have from a very long
time ago, And if you guys remember Steamer, the guy
that used to do the train, there was one time
we rode the very last train of the night and
it was the sun was going down and it was
just the most beautiful thing i'd seen in up out here.
Instead of continuing with his normal spiel, he just said,
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you know what, I'm just gonna turn off the microphone
and let everybody just enjoy this ride through while the
sun's going down. And he got one of I think
he played an instrument or something while we were going
on that ride, and it was just so serene and
nice and everything. So I try to try to do
the train towards the evening to see the sunset. That's
kind of a nice thing to do. Yeah, I those
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are probably the things that come to mind off the
top of my head.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
But yeah, I mean, may need to put that one
in our back pocket just for you.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
We're going to do this, but do it every time.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
There was a nice Exactly, what what is one thing
you would if you were Gary Norton?
Speaker 1 (31:56):
What would what would you love to see at the park?
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Is something that you think either Silver would needs or
just like from a personal want that you would enjoy
mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Well, I mean I would have said, put millennium flyers.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
On truck, right, so we're on the right track.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Oh that is Josh, You know you think about that
all the time and then it's like you get put
on the spot and I'm like, well, what would I do?
Speaker 4 (32:25):
You know?
Speaker 2 (32:28):
You know, you guys have got a lot of good
roller coasters, so it's hard to say, well, you know,
put more big rides in or put another big coaster in.
Entertainment across the board is good. The water park's got
a lot of solid offerings. What would I do next?
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Well, probably probably do timber Terror right the same way
as Tremor. Yeah, I've I've always, I guess my dream
ride if I was to just do whatever I could
back here out here is a B and M flyer
or a B and M wing coaster out in the
in the woods.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
In the woods, what would you what would you call
that ride?
Speaker 6 (33:02):
Like?
Speaker 1 (33:03):
That's what?
Speaker 4 (33:03):
What?
Speaker 1 (33:04):
What would the theme of that ride be? Maybe not
a name?
Speaker 2 (33:06):
I don't know, Eagle Hunt of us.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
That aren't quite as knowledgeable, can you explain what that is?
Speaker 4 (33:17):
B a M wing coaster? So think of a coaster.
The track is in the center and you're sitting off
to the right and left of that track.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
Cool.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Yeah, there's a number of out there if you want
to go take a look.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
But I've always I've always wanted something like that too.
The one thing I've thought about is a launched wing
coaster dueling on Main Street lawn and have it be
called dog Fight and have it very themed with like.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Why not, let's just do.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
It right, let's can we do a dark ride too?
Speaker 1 (33:50):
While a dark rid would be yeah, that's the other thing.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
Yeah, that's why if I was scary.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
You would you would put a dark ride in? What
would your theme of your dark right?
Speaker 5 (33:59):
I want to get abducted by aliens?
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Here?
Speaker 5 (34:05):
My dark ride?
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Not Gary?
Speaker 5 (34:07):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (34:07):
If I was Gary, if you were here Gary and
it was a dark ride.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
You know the theme of the park.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
You We're going through the mountains and it's cold and gosh,
sasquatch and some of the mountain creatures are going to
come and eat you. Okay, what's the big icy creature
that lives in the mountains?
Speaker 4 (34:24):
So you're basically describing the matter horn mm hmmm, I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Wow. For everybody listening, I apologize for ignorance. That was just.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
I haven't got a lot of outside of the park
experience because I don't need to go anywhere else because Silver.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
So guess what that was.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
If that ride didn't exist, that would have been a
genius idea.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Okay, yeah, I mean, okay.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
I'm going to eat you. Yeah, so scary, right, yeah,
what else is scary?
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Exactly?
Speaker 4 (35:05):
I mean Sasquatch and all that stuff would be fine
in the dark. I think, I think a Sasquatch hut
would be awesome, and we already do it on the
train a little bit.
Speaker 5 (35:12):
But yeah, but you're.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Like an interaction.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
That's That's what I would love is to have like
some sort of interactive gamification elements because I mean, honestly,
one of my favorite dark rides that is like the
toy story Mania because it is a shooting element and
uses three D screens and it always has a line,
like why does it always have a line because people
want to beat their score?
Speaker 5 (35:36):
Is like the Spider one.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
It's similar, yeah, similar, that one is a little bit
different techniques.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
But isn't there a Star Wars one like that too?
One of the Star Wars ones is like.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
The Millennium Falcon one. Yeah, kind of kind of the same,
quite the same, Okay, no, but yeah, I would love
to have that sort of shooting.
Speaker 5 (35:55):
Option, interactive maybe tranquilize options.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
We're not shooting sasquatch, but for research.
Speaker 5 (36:01):
Maybe you just capture him in his net.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Okay, yeah, you have like a net you're shooting. Yeah,
just net him.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
He could Yeah exactly. You could be the bad guys
on the train for a day and there you go.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
So how about moving into Scary Wood.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
What's your I mean, I assume what's your favorite attraction?
What's your favorite haunt? Favorite haunt boy over the years?
Over the ever.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Oh well, the train, the train back. Yeah, there was
nothing like that, I don't think ever before or since.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Yeah, zombie anywhere.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
I mean, that was truly unique. I mean, I get
why we couldn't keep doing it, but yeah, you know,
and you know Nick's Nick's natural home is on the
stage right there, so so that that works just fine.
But yeah, that was If I had to pick one
over the years, that'd probably be the one. I'd say
it was by far the best, just because of how
unique it was. There was just nothing like that anywhere.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Yeah, very unique.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
And those for those listening, this bombie would express was
the train hunting zombies on the train going out, and
it's very if you've ridden the train, similar to that,
except for not kid friendly.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
And shooting zombies yeah, like machine guns.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
Yeah, and the reason why we actually ended up having
to get rid of it is because it got so
popular that when when people would get in and it
was the first attraction you saw, they would get in
line and we had have a shut down the line
probably thirty minutes into people showing up because it was
going to be a three four hour wait for them
to get on because that train only runs train and
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it runs thirty minutes at best to get back and.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Then to load and all that.
Speaker 5 (37:40):
Nothing else we could do.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
So even though it was yeah, extremely unique attraction, we
did get a lot of complaints about it because we're like,
I didn't do anything else besides the train.
Speaker 5 (37:50):
Yeah, I hate that was your choice?
Speaker 1 (37:51):
What else and what else about Scary Would?
Speaker 2 (37:54):
Oh, let's see, I think you know theming wise Blood
by us. Yeah, pretty hard to top. That's been. I
remember when that opened the first year and just how
as well I guess compared especially compared to the previous year.
That was the very first year Scary Would, so that
that just was a huge step up in quality. Yeah,
and that was a still every time I go through it,
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I'm I'm reminded of like, Wow, I forgot how great,
how impressive this is?
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Yeah, so it's.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Been around for a while, I know, I know.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
We were just talking the other day about just like
the longevity of our haunts. Yeah, and I don't think
there's another park, or at least of our size, that
holds on other haunts as long as we do.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Usually a lot more turnover.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
Yeah, but when you have a good one like Blood
by You, I mean that's so. And it's still every
year one every year it is the number one haunt
that we have based off survey.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
So yeah, and it's still just as scary as it
was that first year, because I remember that same thing
walking into it that first year and being like, this
is in North Idaho. This is crazy to me, and
that that guy comes down he's really scary over the
top of you, and you're like, wow, this is not
the haunted house I went to, like down the road
over Yeah, this is so not the same thing, and
(39:12):
walking through that thing and it's still it's my favorite.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
I just absolutely, How have you seen scary would evolve?
Speaker 4 (39:19):
Yeah, maybe not from the first year, but maybe from
years from here two.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Yeah, Well, obviously it's gotten a lot bigger. I think,
you know, each year, you guys seem to just kind
of hone in on the best parts of it, and
there's always something new. I like that, you know, It's
it's nice that every year there seems to be something
different to do that keeps people coming back. I think
the I've liked seeing the different themes of the different
(39:49):
haunts evolve over time, entertainments, things like that. I think,
you know, doing the magic show during during the Scary
Wood event is it was a great thing to have
come back.
Speaker 4 (40:02):
Now.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
That was something the first year I remember I really
liked because being a big Disneyland fan, I remember the
Haunted Mansion music that was right at the start. Yeah,
I was like that, am I hearing that? Oh wow,
that's pretty cool? But yeah, but yeah, like I said earlier,
we never missed Nick Norton ever, so you know, whether
(40:23):
it's October or July, we're always going to see him,
so that that's always fun. What else just yeah, it's
just been cool to see it grow and get better
and better every year. And we've been almost every single
year that it's been open. I think we missed one
year if I'm remembering right. Otherwise we've been in every
(40:43):
single year and gotten pictures and everything. So it's been
fun to kind of see it grow and evolve and change,
and yeah, it's been Do.
Speaker 4 (40:52):
You have any tips for people who maybe haven't been
to Scarywood? And just like the visitor guide for Scary Wood?
Speaker 2 (40:59):
Yeah, so are our Well now you're having me give
away all our secrets.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
I know, Well they're on the website, are they are?
Speaker 2 (41:06):
But you know, we only have like five people that
read the blog, right, so obviously again, get there early
and then I feel like early earlier in the month
that you come, the less crowded it is. But I
feel like, you know, it's been easier to get through
everything in one night since the train was retired. Yeah,
(41:27):
so you know understand the logistics of that for sure.
But we always just go straight to the far south
end of the park when we get in. Most people
are kind of, you know, staying towards the north side
of the park, and we just go straight for Timber Terror,
do that first once or twice before the line gets
along for that, and then just kind of work our
way back. But that that seems to to be a
(41:50):
pretty good, uh strategy. Yeah, we've never had a night
where we've not gotten through everything, sometimes multiple times, including
the big coaster too.
Speaker 5 (42:00):
So what's the one monster that scares you the most?
Speaker 4 (42:04):
Uh, there's only one right answer for this in Geordan's case.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
Yeah, Jordan knows what he wants to hear. I know
what I want to hear.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
I will say. Over all the years, the only time
that I actually was legitimately like ran away scared was
the first year and it was the chainsaw guy at
the end of the Terror Canyon. Yeah. I was not
I did not see that coming.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
We got out of the trench and we were starting
to walk up the path and then all of a
sudden he starts chasing us, and I was like, oh, yeah,
we got gotta get out of here. So that that was,
And uh, I think there's a that's a variation of
that guy that's still around.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Yeah, yeah, there's a couple. Yeah, there's a couple.
Speaker 4 (42:47):
But I mean we put a lot of those into
the Swine Haunt this last year.
Speaker 3 (42:52):
So but have you ever been scared by the scary
bush gilly man before?
Speaker 4 (42:56):
Though?
Speaker 2 (42:57):
No, But I know I know, I know who that is.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
Yeah, one of them.
Speaker 5 (43:02):
Get him this year, Jordan. We'll get them. Yes, Yeah,
that's that's going to be the mission.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
We're going to We're going to get man the camera
ready and.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
Then we'll get it on footage.
Speaker 4 (43:13):
Yeah exactly, and if not, then we'll have the chainsaw
guy right behind me.
Speaker 5 (43:17):
Just a good idea, good scar.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
You're not listening, right, Yeah, this is our plan.
Speaker 4 (43:24):
That's right, I guess. I mean the only other thing
we have is the ice cream. Yes, this and this
might be a little on the spot, not like this
whole thing wasn't on the spot already.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:34):
By the way, yeah, let's let's give a little backup
for people, just so they know that we legitimately pulled Chris.
Speaker 5 (43:40):
Out of the park today.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
Yes, he was here ready to go ride rides and
we're like, nope, you're going to be on a podcast,
like yeah, yeah, but we didn't prepare either.
Speaker 4 (43:49):
No, that we we had to be a little more
opportunistic because I mean, when you guys are coming back
probably until later, probably scary wood, scary Wood.
Speaker 3 (43:59):
Yeah, so we went out on our opportunity to talk
to you and so so just so everyone knows, he
did a great job, even though we literally pulled him
in straight off the streets.
Speaker 2 (44:09):
Yes, So anytime I appreciate you guys reaching out. It's
worth on.
Speaker 1 (44:14):
So yeah.
Speaker 4 (44:14):
Well, and one last thing I would say your inside
scoop is like, what's one super secret tip that someone
who maybe had never been here or maybe has been here,
that you would give. I know you've given some tips already,
but maybe you have one more deep in there. Yeah,
that would be useful for someone.
Speaker 2 (44:34):
Oh, stop by the coffee shop in the morning before
you go into the park and get a blueberry muffin top.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
Yes, my favorite standing ovation. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (44:44):
Absolutely. I was introduced to these as of recently.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
I shouldn't know they existed until I told her.
Speaker 5 (44:49):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (44:50):
And then that first taste, that first bite, like and
you know when you think like someone's exaggerating and then
you try it, and I was like, Jordan's not lying,
like he wow, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (45:00):
Well that's I mean. The other thing that I know
you guys always go to is you eat at Lindy's.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
Yes, yes, yeah, are we going to get into this, Yeah,
let's go, let's go. I still not over that you
got rid of the tandem jump and no.
Speaker 5 (45:20):
Jump.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
She doesn't even know what the tandem jump? What what
that was?
Speaker 2 (45:23):
The no? Well, yeah, it's the themed soup and salad
combo that used to used to be on the menu.
Speaker 4 (45:31):
And yeah, we'll have to bring this up because we
got a tweet. Do you still call them tweets? X? No,
we got a tweet yesterday with the picture of the
menu and I saw it and I was like, yeah,
but you like the gingham salad, right.
Speaker 2 (45:51):
Yes, yes, that's so that. Yeah, that would be another.
Speaker 5 (45:54):
Anotherhalad is pretty good. I've had that.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
Yeah, we've been getting that as long as I can remember.
But yeah, we we used to. That was our go
to every time, was the tandem jump the soup and salad.
It was like a half salad, half small soup and
a bread bowl and that was like our favorite thing
to get in. And last year, you guys broke my heart.
Speaker 4 (46:11):
I'm so sorry, but it wasn't us.
Speaker 5 (46:15):
Yeah, because I did have the soup and the bread.
Speaker 3 (46:17):
So I've had the gagham salad and I've had the
soup and the bread bowl.
Speaker 5 (46:20):
I've never had them together.
Speaker 1 (46:22):
You need to jump.
Speaker 4 (46:23):
Oh yeah, okay, well we will pass that one.
Speaker 1 (46:26):
We'll pass on. I would say.
Speaker 4 (46:27):
Another tip is go to a Roller Coast rally blog
and read all of their like ride reviews and their
visitor guide.
Speaker 5 (46:38):
If you're looking for it. You can find it.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
Yeah, it's all there, and you can go back in
the archives and all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (46:43):
I used their blog for knowledge, to get to know
when I first started working here. Yeah, so I mean
that says something right there, like, yeah, all the things
that maybe from a different perspective, you know, doing public
relations and whatnot.
Speaker 4 (46:56):
Well, I like to go on and read anything that
the community like the little like forum post. I know
it doesn't there's not a lot on there, but every
time every time someone posted on there, usually people asking
for like the music, what's the music?
Speaker 1 (47:10):
What's this music? Especially in like the Hans and all
that kind of stuff.
Speaker 5 (47:13):
So our Boulder Beaches playlist.
Speaker 4 (47:14):
Yeah, so if you're listening and you want to like
join the community about that's about Silverwood, go to the
Roller Coastrally blog and enjoin.
Speaker 5 (47:23):
Yeah, give yourself a plug.
Speaker 2 (47:25):
Is it just right? Dot com?
Speaker 3 (47:27):
So perfect? Chris, Thanks so much for being with us today.
It was so much fun. Yes, and yeah, everybody, stay
tuned for next week. Don't forget to sign up as
our next loyal listener. We could be calling you next
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roller coasters we'll do on this week's ride. Redo that,
(47:51):
and that's a wrap on this week's ride. Thanks for
tuning into the Silverwood Show. If you had a blast
to make sure.
Speaker 5 (47:58):
To subscribe, leave us a review, and share the fun.
Speaker 3 (48:01):
With your fellow thrill seekers. Got a question, story, or suggestion,
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for a chance to be featured in our mail train segment.
Speaker 5 (48:12):
Until next time.
Speaker 3 (48:13):
Keep your hands and feet inside the podcast and stay thrilling.
What God come?
Speaker 1 (48:20):
Time that fun
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