Who doesn’t love going to an amusement park in the summer with their kids or grandchildren? BUT – are the rides safe and are ‘express lanes’ fair and in the spirit of our democratic nation? And where did these corporate playlands come from in the first place? We send our co-host on an all-expense paid trip to one of America’s favorite parks – to investigate first hand. Back in 1955, an entrepreneur named Walt Disney made a crazy investment that everyone on Wall Street advised him not to do. He put almost every dime he had on the line ... and held his breath. It was an early theme park called, “Disneyland”. Despite early dire projections, Disney’s big gamble paid off a 10 thousand times over and so have its many sister parks. Taking Disney’s example, hundreds of theme parks, around the world, have now, collectively, become multi-trillion $$$ dollar businesses, 60+ years later. Yet…do dire scandals lie simmering beneath these places of... so-called, family happiness?

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Panic At The Amusement Park

Frequent guest contributor to WFAN sports radio in New York City, “Leonardo from Manhattan,” self-described Nats hater (he even hates the food in our ball park!) joins the Cheap Seats crew to represent our seminal rival and current Division leader, the Mets.

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A Millennial girl and a Gen Xer guy deconstruct the Washington Nationals and the game of MLB baseball generally. Both devotional and irreverent, we blow up the “sports talk” genre with humorous, unapologetic, and shamelessly opinionated baseball news outside the press box, the dugout, and the stadium urinals.

Panic At The Amusement Park

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