Podcast: The one with the year of feedback (2024)

We’ve missed out on a lot of feedback in one year. In fact, we dedicated an entire episode to feedback.

We heard about bacon hour at McDonald’s. We don’t want to brag, but every hour is bacon hour at Holiday World & Splashin’ Safari.

We heard from the Coaster Crew. A few times.

Including this wonderful Airtime GIF that isn’t the Tweet we deserved, but is the Tweet we needed.

And Theme Park Families Podcast posing as the Coaster Crew:

Those may be the highlights, but there’s lots more, so give it a listen:

TRANSCRIPT

INTROwith energetic music

Man’svoice: You are next in line for the Official Holiday World Podcast.

ManSpeaking through a P.A. system: Welcome to Holiday World & Splashin’Safari.

Man’svoice: Dropping in from Santa Claus, Indiana

[Techsounds, sonar, typing]

ManSpeaking through P.A. system: Riders will experience swift acceleration,high-speed turns, and sudden stops

[rollercoaster break sounds]

Man’svoice: With park president and CEO, Matt Eckert.

MattEckert: After that bacon soda, I’ll try anything.

Man’sVoice: Fourth Generation Owners, Lauren Crosby…

Lauren’svoice in a short clip: I came back, I’m here

Man’sVoice: and Director of Communications Leah Koch

Leah’svoice in a short clip: ha ha ha ha uhhhhh [drawn out]

Man’svoice: Now still your loose articles and buckle up, keep your hands and legsinside the car at all times.

[Rock music intro music and roller coaster ridesounds]

LEAH: ANND WE’RE BACK! Welcome back toseason two of the Official Holiday World Podcast! We haven’t talked about thisbut season one was a really long season!

MATT: I was wondering why this was “seasontwo”. Wasn’t our first season like seventy-seven?

LAUREN: Yes, yes it was

LEAH: It was through seventy-fiveepisodes technically, but we decided since it’s a fresh format we would taketime to say “It’s season two now”. So.

MATT: It’s like the rebirth

LAUREN: Yeah!

LEAH: And then also depending on howthe calendar goes, you know, I hate to say it, but if we fall off at the end ofthe year or something like that, then we can start fresh and see what kind ofseason works for us. Everyone’s got full disclosure here.

MATT: It’s our podcast we can do whateverwe want!

LEAH: This whole thing is anexperiment, maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t. You’ll tell us I’m sure. SPEAKINGOF!

MATT: We love feedback!

[laughter]

LEAH: Speaking of you telling us, weare Holiday World and we love feedback, okay it’s not holiday’s

LAUREN: Nope!

LEAH: This is Season 2 Episode 3, “TheOne With the Year of Feedback”. We’ve officially announced the return of thepodcast so we can start a new concept-one in every three episodes is going tobe a feedback/Q&A episode. We are trying it, we’ll see how it goes.

[LAUGHTER]

MATT: We reserve the right to changeit.

LEAH: We got a bunch of compliments onFacebook, SO, this is all feedback, yeah..shall we begin? We have a lot tocover!

MATT: Let’s dive in!

LEAH: Let’s start off with Bob Green, @bob05,“Thinking of our friends @HolidayWorld with what we found in the store #howopo”.This was back to the 26^th of December in 2018 and there’s a wholebacon display, it’s kinda hard to see. But it’s a whole display of bacon flavoredproducts. Guys, we can’t escape the bacon!

MATT: This is the fourth episode, andthis is the first time that bacon has been said.

LEAH: But it’s in one of the spots we’llbe recording AFTER this. Sorry to everyone, because everything is a little bitout of order. BUT.

LAUREN: For US, but not the listener

LEAH: No, I’m sorry it’s just in ourteaser, not in the ads. So this is..

MATT: This is the first time we broughtup bacon, this is like a record for us

LEAH: GUUUUYS!

LAUREN: We’re you counting?

LEAH: It’s like the podcast B-Word, wedon’t use any other words that start with that. The next one [feedback post] isfrom Lindsay-Sir Graffis, I’m sure I butchered that, my apologies,@LY_Entertainment from December 30 of 2018 she said “@HolidayWorld Happy BaconDay #HoWoPo”.

MATT: Is that really bacon day? I feellike we’ve had lots of bacon days.

LEAH: I feel like bacon day is everyday.

LAUREN: AMEN!

LEAH: That said, there are two differentbacon days isn’t there? We’ve always had this issue.

LAUREN: I don’t know, maybe bacon day should be whenyou bust out the holiday bacon, versus the casual bacon

LEAH: I feel like bacon day though,there is a tweet that I live my life by, “You don’t let a recipe tell you howmuch garlic to put in, you heart tells you how much”.

MATT: That’s awesome!

LEAH: It’s literally my favorite thingin the world.

MATT: To validate that everyone lovesbacon. We had a breakfast for our employees this morning and by the time we gotto the food all the bacon was gone.

LEAH: It was a bacon-less day for us.We were all at the end of the line.

MATT: The three of us around the tablehere…didn’t get bacon.

LAUREN: I had bacon.

MATT: HOW DID YOU GET BACON?

LEAH: Did you have it this morning?

LAUREN: No, I went to Wendy’s and got bacon fries.

MATT AND LEAH: AHHHHH!

MATT: FOR BREAKFAST?

LAUREN: NO! After!

LEAH: Can you see me seething fromhere?

MATT: Because you didn’t get your fixin

LAUREN: Yeah-I didn’t get my bacon for breakfast so…

LEAH: Can you get just a side of baconat Wendy’s? What would they do to you if you just asked? Just curious, askingfor a friend.

[LOUD LAUGHTER]

MATT: They give you a cup full ofcrumbles.

LEAH: Probably.

LAUREN: Take it like a shot.

MATT: A shot of bacon.

LEAH: Kevin Wilson on December 31 said“5 MONTHS UNTIL HOLIWOOD NIGHTS!!!! @holidayworld #HoWoPo” Thank goodness we’rereading it now.

MATT: It did happen. It did happen, Kevin.I think congratulations are in order, Kevin just got married recently. So,congratulations.

LEAH: Aww, he did! Congrats! That’s awesome!Next, we heard from Ribsin Bacon, Baken, Bacon, I’m already trying to takebacon out of the conversation. On January 1 he said, “@holidayworld Happy NewYear! Can’t wait to drive down in my new car in the spring to get those passesactivated before Holiwood Nights! #HoWoPo”

LAUREN: Allllll riiiiight

LEAH: More of the Holiwood Nightsfeedback, thank goodness we are getting to it now, but the important thing iswe are getting to it.

MATT: You haven’t been forgotten.

LEAH: Alex Wheeler, @_alex_wheelersaid “I’m all caught up on the #HoWoPodcast…@HolidayWorld is @MattEckert caughtup on twitter?

MATT: It’s funny you say that becauseI still have twenty little unread, what do you call them? Tweets?

LAUREN: Notifications?

LEAH: Notifications! That red dot

MATT: Yeah that was January 1, so thatwas last year, I’m still not!

LEAH: [continues reading tweet] Readyfor another season of laughs and sun, can’t wait to see the new Merry Marketplaceand how the H.R. Lobby area looks with the new offices.

LAUREN: It’s pretty.

LEAH: It’s been really nice

LAUREN: Both are pretty!

LEAH: Alex I’m sure you’ve seen it bynow.

MATT: So, tell us what you think!

LEAH: hopefully you like it! Next, weheard from Alex Chubokas, we always struggled with that, @Alexc-h-u-b-o-k-a-sthere we go, on January 5^th, “@HolidayWorld Listening to old #howopoand wondering if Eric ever got his tattoo? Working the inaugural crew at SteelVingance this past summer I had to make sure I made my mark” He’s got a Steelof Vengance tattoo. That’s pretty cool!

LAUREN: That’s fun!

LEAH: To our knowledge, we just askedLori Cotton, because things are all out of order here, so Lori Cotton will be featuredon our next episode which we have already recorded, welcome to the time warpeverybody.

MATT: The next episode which was ourlast episode.

LEAH: YUP! Annd we asked Lori Cottonour director of attractions now and she does not believe that Eric ever got histattoo

LAUREN: Tisk! Tisk!

MATT: This raises my blood pressure.

LEAH: Everybody, he’s still on Twitter,so you know where to find him

MATT: He’s caught up

[laughter]

LEAH: He’s probably all caught up tooon Twittter. We’re still harassing him, he tries to get away, but we stillharass him on social media.

MATT: That’s hilarious

LEAH: That will never go away! Alex Sabatka,@magnumxl89 on January 7 said, “It’s big, it’s bad, it’s what you’ve beencravin’. Hang on tight and enjoy your ride on The Raven. @HolidayWorld.”

MATT:Awwww, I like it! I like his last name, that’s a cool name.

MATT& LEAH: Sabatka

LEAH:That’s fun to say.

MATT:Yeah, mine’s not.

[laughter]

LEAH:We may have taken a hiatus, but The Coaster Crew, thank goodness was stillaround, so I hope you all read this one

MATT:I miss them so much.

LAUREN:I know[sadly]

LEAH:I tried to actually reach out to them ahead of time, but I don’t know if themessage got to them in time, so there’s nothing on Twitter last I checked.

LAUREN:Rude.

MATT:I wouldn’t know.

LEAH:Hopefully we’ll hear from the big green foot soon.

LAUREN:Okay [starting to read]

LEAH:I’m sorry did you want to read something, or do I just keep stepping…

LAUREN:YOU TOLDDDD ME TO READ IT

LEAH:Read it, I’ll shut up

MATT:She was just kidding, not really……GO!

LAUREN:I’M AFRAID NOW TO SPEAK.

LEAH:We’ll stop now.

LAUREN:Just got back from using my TransAmerican Airlines points to fly around the world (Thanks Kareem)

[LAUGHTERFROM ALL]

LAUREN:Searching for the missing #PodSquad& look what came in the mail! Gues they needed a break to work on the flyerfor the best event of the year! #HoWoPo #HoWoPoNo @HolidayWorld

LEAH:With a crying emoji, I love that it’s addressed to, I know I shrank the imageso this is my fault partially, but I love that it says “Mr. Big Green Foot”

LAUREN:That is hilarious

LEAH:I think it does, I need a vision check.

LAUREN:It’s from the Ho Wo Postal Service

LEAH:Yup

MATT:Coaster Crew, please come back!

LAUREN:Ohhh, because, okay. Sorry I have todescribe, I’m out of practice.

LEAH:This is on January 16^th, by the way.

LAUREN:Yeah, sorry. So kitty is dressed up likea mail woman, with her little hat and on her little bag it says HOWo Postal Serviceand she’s got a letter in the bag and I believe George the Eagle is on the stampin the bag. With the Big Green Food holding his letter, there’s an Airtimeposter in the background.

LEAH:Oh yeah, by the way. We mail flyers out to enthusiast, so we, where do we getthat list? Is that past attendees?

LAUREN:Past purchasers, because that’s the onlydata we currently collect.

LEAH:I’m sure if you want to be added to the list, we might be able to find a way, maybenot for this year, but next year. So let us know on that, but yeah, thank you tothe coaster crew for that.

LAUREN:Yes, as always

MATT:We came back so you do too!

LAUREN:I love Kitty as a mailwoman

LEAH:Then we heard from Kevin Wilson on January 20 said, “I know it’s too early topack for Holiwood Nights at @HolidayWorld, but I can still make my “to pack”list and not seem weird, right? #HoWoPo #flightplan”. I think it’s too latenow, sooo

LAUREN:I thoroughly support that though

LEAH:So, go ahead and start making your list for next year.

MATT:Kevin, you do whatever you want.

LAUREN:I make packing lists for every singletrip

MATT:Do they ever change?

LAUREN:Yeah.

MATT:Or are they pretty much the same?

LAUREN:I mean there’s parts that stay the samebut they’re, like I take different clothes

LEAH:I have a packing app

MATT:You have a packing app, really?

LEAH:Yeah, it puts, you check off little things that say, you know, leisure, business,and then you say if you’re going to go swimming, running, things like that soit gives you lists for the things you might do. It’s kinda handy.

MATT:I feel like my wife would like that, she makes lists of lists she needs tomake. Like she is a list maker

LEAH:Yeah, I like a list, mostly because my brain only half-functions at any givenpoint in time and also, I have a scattered brain and that’s just my reality.ADD its great guys!

MATT:But you’re self-aware, so that’s great.

LEAH:Yeah, so I’m self-aware, so I do that, and the packing list helps me a lot itjust helps me forget things, like the basics.

LAUREN:I make my own.

LEAH:A lot of times, the toothbrush

MATT:So, you’re saying she’s lazy

LAUREN:No, I just like to be really thoroughand have my own lists, where I literally outlines, “Monday I will wear this”, “Sawyerwill wear this”, I am thorough.

MATT:And you stick to that?

LAUREN:YEAH!

LEAH:Meanwhile, I’ve forgotten toothbrushes.

[ALLPOD SQUAD LAUGHTER]

LAUREN:If it makes you feel any better, this lasttrip I went on, granted I went on, granted it was just a few weeks ago, sopregnancy brain, I forgot a number of things even thought they are on the list.My bad was that I put baby monitor on the list, as in the unit, not theseparate pieces of the baby monitor. So PART of the monitor made it, not all ofit.

LEAH:NICE!

LAUREN:Nailed it!

LEAH:And that’s why you make a packing list, so smart call. Start early and work atit often, am I right?

LAUREN:YES.

LEAH:Next we heard from Seamus Heaney, @heaney_seamus on January 22, “A worthwhitevisit if you haven’t been-what a year ahead for #Youghal @youghalonline ….” Icould finish this but ya’ll, we got cheeseballed again on Twitter.

LAUREN:[IN SINGSONG VOICE] CHEEEESEBALLED!

MATT:We haven’t been cheezeballed in a while have we?

LEAH:We have not, but I wanted to include this because we responded, “Greeting fromSanta Claus, Indiana! Thinking you tagged us by mismake” …. mismake….you know,it’s been that kinda day. Winky face, but the theme park families podcast camein and said, “Don’t think so. People in Ireland LOVE @HolidayWorld and arecoaster starved with only one park”. I just needed Theme Park Families in thissection for that one. Then we responded with, “….and so the eternal-andinternational-cheezeballing continues. #HoWoPo

[DEEPSIGHS FROM LEAH]

LEAH:In case you guys don’t know what cheezeballing is, because you know we may havesome first-time listeners tuning in

LAUREN:That’s fair

LEAH:And there’s seventy episodes to go back to, seventy-one episodes.

MATT:You HAVE to go listen to them.

LEAH:Yeah, some of them are pretty long, so I’m going to warn you now, but cheezeballingis something that happened to our past Communication Director, Paula Werne. Shehad the fun@holidayworld.com email andshe had from one of our emails, accidentally responded to that email instead ofanother family members email and responded that THEY would be bringing the cheeseball.So it’s become kind an inside joke that we share with everyone on the podcastthat when somebody accidentally tags us wrong or sends us the wrong message,that’s a cheeseball. Coaster101.com @Coaster101 Tweeted on January 23, “Isthere a @McDonalds in Santa Claus, IN? Asking for our friends at @HolidayWorld!#HoWoPo #Bacon” and it is a special called “bacon hour”.

LAUREN:I DID NOT KNOW THIS WAS A THING!!!

MATT:I WAS ABOUT TO SAY, IS THAT A THING??

LAUREN:I DID NOT KNOW THIS HAPPENED!

LEAH:It was January 29, so we missed out

LAUREN:4-5 pm! FREE BACON WITH ANYTHING!!

LEAH:They’ve got bacon coming out of an Oreo McFlurry

LAUREN:WHY DID PAULA NOT TELL US THIS?? I FEELSO CHEATED

MATT:Can we take this back to our McDonalds and say, “Hey we missed this”

LAUREN:WE DIDN’T KNOW!!

[ALLPOD SQUAD LAUGHTER]

LAUREN:I don’t even know what I would put baconon at McDonalds. [gasps in surprise} THE BREAKFAST SAUSAGE BURRITO’S!

MATT& LEAH: OHHHHHHHHH! [both intrigued]

LEAH:Taco Bell’s burrito’s with bacon are the bomb.

MATT:I wonder if you could ask them to add bacon to it if they would.

LAUREN:You might be able to do that. Do it!

MATT:I’ll do it and see what they do.

LEAH:Do it and report back, I expect a full report on our next recording date

MATT:Which will be last week but tomorrow.

LEAH:Next we heard [ laughter], Alex Chubokastweeted @LeahsOboe #howopo I don’tknow how I feel about this, but I still included it. Apparently January 28 wasKazoo day and he was thinking of my oboe and the podsquad. I’m a little offended.

LAUREN:Same thing!

LEAH:I’m a little offended.

MATT:Has the oboe tweeted lately?

LEAH:The oboe hasn’t tweeted lately

MATT:That’s good, so I’m all caught up

LAUREN:I mean, same thing.

LEAH:

[laughter]

OUCH, OUCH, ouch, ouch! I’m just going to be leaving the podcast.

MATT:The kazoo can be your new sound bite since you lost your squeaky toy.

LEAH:HOW are they going to be able to tell the difference in an oboe and a kazoo??

LAUREN:[laughing] Because they sound the same

LEAH:RUDE! Sorry to steal your tagline, Lauren. Next, we heard from Bob Green, “Thispost made me laugh on the air plane yesterday but I struggled in explaining whyit was so funny. I told them to download the @HolidayWorld podcast #howopo

MATT:Word of mouth advertising

LEAH:It (a tweet) says “Yutzy’s Farm Market, it’s going to be a SUPER weekend! Whynot add a cheese ball to your festivities? Zach Yutzy made a fresh batch this morning!Get them while we got them! With a lovely cheeseball spread, it looks greatwith the pretzels and crackers. A cheeseball sounds lovely right now.

LAUREN:It’ does, with bacon.

MATT:It’s been a while since we’ve eaten, so.

LEAH:Ain’t that the truth. Lindsay-SirGraffis @LY_Entertainment we have “No @HolidayWorld podcast would be completewithout #howopo” and it’s a picture of Degrees of Separation and we’ve a fire queenand….

LAUREN:No, just no.

MATT:NO.

LEAH:I’m sorry to you, but we plan to discontinue the game BUT you do have a chanceto reach out and suggest a new game

LAUREN:YES.

LEAH:We’re looking for a new game.

MATT:I do love to win.

LEAH:Sure, we’re looking for a new game and it cannot be seventy degrees or 100degrees or whatever degrees of separation, that’s my only rule.

LAUREN:Yes, we were thinking Pictionary.

LEAH:Something visual, if you’ve listened to the first episode already you get it,you know. Bob Green tweeted to us on February 20^th, eating dinner,oh @bob05 by the way, “eating dinner in Columbus, OH wearing a @HolidayWorldhoodie and get stopped by a non coaster fan who asked how e knew about the parkbeing 4 hours away. We explained that we are coaster crazies. #howopo”.

MATT:Fair enough.

LEAH:I love it, I appreciate it, and thankyou for representing.

LAUREN:I love that’s the entire tweet. I feellike there should be another sentence to it, but I love that that’s it.

LEAH:That explains enough

LAUREN:Thank you.

LEAH:CoasterRadio @Coasterradio on February 20 said, “This week, EB talks with PaulaWerne from @HolidayWorld to hear stories about how they decided upon the namesfor classic rides like The Voyage, The Legend, The Raven and Thunderbird.” Andthis is an episode of CoasterRadio obviously with Paula in it and the ThemePark Families Podcast said #howopo and Coasterradio at the same time? Coaster mindsaround the world might” and It was gif, but it’s a head exploding type ofgesture going on. Chris @s-c-h-n-e-i-daddy,[snicker]

MATT:Schnei-Daddy?

LEAH:“I just happened to see an official holiday world company car in Seymour todayand got so excited. I hope big things are coming and we can’t for you guys toopen! I check daily for new #howopo”

ALL PODSQUAD: AWWWWW!

LEAH:Next Sammy Naas @naas_samuel on February 25 said, “Hey @holidayworld, listeningto Episode 061: The One with the Sharkey from #howopo and cinging because itsnot a tuba 9it’s a sousaphone).” I had to include this one out of correctness,they’re talking about ROY G BIV I believe and they’re right, tuba is theupright thing and the sousaphone is thing that wraps around you.

LAUREN:Ohh, oops.

LEAH:It’s a common mistake I believe, but

MATT:Now we know, I like that hashtag band geeks.

LEAH:yeah, “ #bank geeks, #imabandstudent #c’monman, #ineedtocatchuponthepodcast”.We’ll we gave you plenty of chances, so I hope you got caught up. Trent Burtonon February 28^th tweeted, “Whatever happened to the podcast? I’mhaving withdrawals”.

MATT:We’re here for you man, we’re back.

[LAUGHTER]

LAUREN: Want to make a suggestion? Or have questionsfor the podsquad? There are more ways than ever to reach out to the podcast!

8: Find @holidayworld on Facebook, Twitter andInstagram and use hashtag H-O-W-O-P-O to let us know you’re talking about us.

Matt: You can now CALL US! Dial 812-937-4401and type in extension 8081 to get the HOWOPO voice mailbox

Lauren: Leave your questions and feedback forus there OR you can email us at podcast@holidayworld.com either witha written message or with a voice memo

Leah: again, reach out on social media to@holidayworld and use the hashtag HOWOPO, or call us at 812-937-4401 extension8081, or send us an email to podcast@holidayworld.com

LEAH: When’s the best time to buy a Season Passes? Right Now! Youcan sign up for easy pay options through February 15. For more informationabout our passes and perks go to holidayworld.com/passes

[ROCK MUSIC]

LEAH: On April 6 we heard from ThemePark Families Podcast @themeparkfam, replying to @coasterradio and @lisavclarkshow,“SO proud of EB with his answer for favorite theme park which was of course@HolidayWorld! Indiana representing! #howopo” We are proud to be that for ya.This person’s name is all emojis, looks like a unicorn, an octopus, a carousel,and a candle @akweihe.

MATT: Is that Alyssa?

LEAH: It must be Alyssa, but @Akweiheon April 21 said, “I spotted my favorite sign of spring the other day, butcouldn’t get a picture til today @HolidayWorld #howopo #bigredicee (which wedidn’t get to have last year, Icee wouldn’t let us have that)#canseeitfromsixflagsparkinglot

LAUREN: That’s funny!

LEAH: We do enjoy that, I’d like tosay we don’t, but we do. Matthew David @Shagalang said, “Pigs in blankets I theUK are wrapped in bacon…seems more fitting based on #howopo”.

MATT: That would be pretty good.

LEAH: I think that sounds like anamazing idea, apparently it was also brought up on our facebook page but the Europeanbacon lovers were out in force that day.

[LAUGHTER]

LEAH: Someone responded, “PROVE IT”.

[LAUGHTER]

LEAH: To which Matthew David sent us apicture of in fact little tiny hotdogs wrapped in bacon.

LAUREN: Interesting

LEAH: And the same guy, Jonathan@lepolt said, “ I thought you were great already but that solidifies thatfeeling”. I’m with ya! I think we’ve been doing it all wrong! On April 29,Ribsin Bacon @RibsinBacon tweeted “R.I.P. #HoWoPo?” WE’RE BACK! Only severalmonths later, it’s fine! Arielle tweeted @Coastergirl23 on May12 “@HolidayWorldis #howopo coming back?” to which we replied “#HoWoPoDunno”.

LEAH & MATT: WE’RE BACK!

LEAH: Sorry it took so long, we weretrying to make some decisions and that took a while. We had to dream up the newformat, but we’re excited to be back.

MATT: It’s like Sally Field, “Theylove us, they really love us!”.

LAUREN: All five of you……kidding!

[laughter]

LEAH: RaptorGirl @RaptorGirl94 on May 15said in response to our newest Made to Thrill design from our gift shops said, “That’sso on my shopping list for #HolliwoodNights #HoWoPo”.

MATT: Right there with you RaptorGirl!

LEAH: I don’t know if many people knowthis, but we collaborated with this artist Made to Thrill to create a T-shirt,and we’ve got, [whispers] SPOILER ALERT, we’ve got some more stuff coming fromthem. We’ve got some incredible art.

LAUREN: It’s pretty awesome!

LEAH: They’re incredibly talented andthey created a shirt that says, “Land, Sea, Airtime” and I just love it somuch. ThemeParkfam from Theme Park Families podcast on May 24 said, “After along off season, the five buddies, including the Big(brown)foot are makingtravel plans to get to Airtime at @HolidayWorld’s Holiwood Nights! They’vesecured two planes but might need a few more! Who’s psyched to go? @Coastercrew#howopo And they got, I don’t know, Lauren, I know it’s not the coaster crewbut, if you want to describe the picture they’ve got a little big foot inthere. They’ve got their little kitty stuffed animal who is in an orange dress.

LAUREN: Yes, there’s a dalmatian and I think there’san alligator…

LEAH: They did their best of a Holidog,I think that’s a but a duck maybe but eagle, we’ll call it an eagle, their bestversion of the Coaster Crew and I really like that.

MATT: A for effort!

LAUREN: There’s an Airtime! Poster and a park map, anda brochure. It’s so cute!

LEAH: It was so good to see the ThemePark Families at Holiwood Nights this year. I love it. Annnd next, I have this imagebut it’s actually a gif that I’m going to slide across the table for Lauren todescribe. Do you want me to read it while you watch the gif and describe?

LAUREN: Go.

LEAH: The Coater Crew on May 29^thtweeted, “Excited for #HoliwoodNights? Yes! First Time? No, we’ve been excitedfor HoliWood Nights lots of times! Just practicing a few Airtime! Moves. Whatour parody lacks in parity, we make up for with sincerity. With a airplane and coasteremoji #HoWoPO and #HoWoPoNoMo with a little sad face. Ummm but in this gif wehave some disco dancing going on

LAUREN: Yes, I think I actually did see this prior tothis. So yes, we have Kitty and the Big Green Foot are dancing in his seventy’ssuit/vest something. They’re on the dance floor with a disco ball and they’redancing away and Kitty flies ….

LEAH: Flies away, just like an airplane.

LAUREN: And she returns and lands on the Big GreenFoot, very à la airplane

[Group laughter]

LEAH: Looks like we heard from Alyssa@Akweihe on June 30^th, “I didn’t know something like this was aoption, I expect them at every drink oasis @HolidayWorld this summer #howopo#bigred #freesodaparkingsunscreen. It’s like a Big Red Tap!

LAUREN: That’s what I was going to ask!

MATT: It looks like Big Red on tap,which I support.

LEAH: Oh, yeah, I didn’t include thewhole picture, it’s a screen shot.

LAUREN: That makes A LOT MORE sense-It IS Big Red ontap!

MATT: I wonder where she found this-whereis this?

LEAH: We’re going to need more detailson this, Alyssa please!

LAUREN: The two of you are probably deeply moved by this,I’m like gross.

LEAH: Next we heard from ThrillingMoments Photography on July 19^th, “Racing the hills of the Voyage”.And we’re going to have to include this photo in the podcast blog about theepisode, but the paper doesn’t do it justice. It’s a lovely photo of The Voyage.Next we heard from Coaster Dean @CoasterDean on August 16^th, “Todayis national rollercoaster day so I’m sharing my favorite from @holidayworld TheVoyage” and he shared our POV video, so thanks for calling The Voyage yourfavorite. Then we heard from Bob Green @bob05 on August 30, “It’s back! TheBacon vending machine has returned and has a new home at Ohio Stadium A newproduct idea for @Holidayworld? That bacon machine is there. That sure is a pictureof one.

MATT: That is ridiculous and awesome atthe same time.

LEAH: They also have a hashtag of we miss the podcast.

EVERYONE: AAWWWWWWW!

LEAH Dean Chauvin @CoasterDean onSeptember 5th tweeted “Goodbye Paula” because Arthur Levine wrote a lovelytribute to her and we just retweeted and said, “There are no words for how muchPaula Werne shaped our industry and Holiday World, so all we can say is, “ThankYou.”” We already did our podcast tribute to Paula, but we miss her. We missyou, Paula!

LAUREN: Very much.

MATT: I was laughing at this picturealready

LEAH: Dean Chauvin, @CoasterDeanshared our picture, it’s like an award show picture…

MATT: OF all the pictures.

LEAH: All of my pictures from theGolden Ticket Awards look like this…HERE’S what’s happening. I’m accepting theGolden Ticket Award for Best Water Park Ride out at Silverwood Amusem*nt parkout in Idaho and I have so many chins.

[ALL POD SQUAD LAUGHTER]

LEAH: I have multiple chins, I have nothingleft. It’s all neck, straight from teeth to neck.

MATT: I’m trying to figure out whatyou are doing here?

LEAH: It’s just multiple rings aroundmy neck. What’s happening..

MATT: It’s not THAT bad…

LEAH: someone took a picture, Laurenand I received our 5 year service awards TODAY and if someone took a picture ofme doing that today accepting that award, you would see me with 18 chins. It’swhat I DO when I’m being recognized because I’m very, I’m not, If I’m notmyself, if I’m acting in a show I’m all about being the center of attention. WhenI’m just me and getting recognition, I do not like that, I do NOT want to bethe center of attention. So I tend to scrunch up my chin. In that situation, itwas SO AWKWARD! Some people had been accepting awards at the center of thestage, then all of a sudden they were like “Come over here to the podium”, andI was just like I don’t know what to do, I don’t know where to take thepicture, I don’t know where to stand, I don’t know what’s happening. People werechanging it up and it and God Bless the Amusem*nt Today staff tried so hard to havethat organized and then WE industry people come through whatever they plan and wreckit, no matter what they want us to do. Whatever.

LAUREN: To make matters worse…

MATT: I can attest, she did not looklike this in real time

LAUREN: To make matters worse, your eyes are closed.

[ALL POD SQUAD LAUGHTER]

MATT: That’s why, I don’t know whatyou were doing here.

at you were doing here.

LAUREN: Did you already say that Dean said “Yaay”

LEAH: and now we have come to our announcementwhere we had Stephen create our same Cheetah Chase graphic.

MATT: Which was great.

LEAH: With the hashtag HoWoPo and weposted it in a few places with “Season 2 Coming Soon”. And David Weihe tweetedat us “I miss #HoWoPo” and so we got to share that it was coming soon. So, herresponded “YAY!!!” with a Rapunzel from Tangled GIF with “I promise, I’llbehave”. Ribsinbacon tweeted at us, “@HolidayWorld Did I hear correctly? The Podcastis coming back!?” and we responded “A little birdie told me that you can expectSeason Two soon. But don’t tell Matt about the bird. He hates birds”.

MATT: True Story.

LEAH: We have to share this onebecause this one cracked me up we heard on November 29 from Carlos Arney Jr.said, “I’ve been asking for months and keep getting the same response of “Nodecision has been made” Time to make a decision. It’s been almost a year since#HOWOPO last entertained us. Why did you quit it? Why hasn’t it been broughback? Is it dead?” And I just responded with a simple “Stay tuned” with alittle winky face.

MATT: Nice.

LEAH: That’s a year’s worth offeedback guys. Congratulations, you’ve feedback..fed back..retweeted your wayto the end of another episode of our podcast. You’re listening to the final ofour special binge-worthy drop of three podcast episodes. Please join our nextepisode which will be season 2 episode 4: The One With the Shiny New Toys,which we already recorded. It’s fine.

LAUREN: SPOILER.

LEAH: It’s great, you’re going to loveit! Thank you also to all of our behind-the-scenes podsquad: Stephen Rutherfordfor making us sound good and telling us all the new technology available forpodcasting. Josh Moore for helping me collect questions and feedback, andSabrina for creating the schedule that we WILL follow. Someday. Special thanksto Josh, Sabrina, and Stephen for pretending my jokes have been funny thisweek. It won’t be getting better anytime soon. And thanks to all of you forlistening! Please subscribe and leave a review on iTunes, Spotify, Google PlayMusic, YouTube, Facebook, etc. and tell all your friends. On behalf of ourPodSquad-Matt, Lauren, and myself-thank you. Please be sure to send us yourfeedback and questions by calling us at 812-937-4401 and dial 8081 or emailingus at podsquad@holidayworld.comor reaching us the traditional way on social media by using the hashtag HOWOPO

[Rock music much louder]

Outromusic: You’ve been listening to the official Holiday World Podcast,

Manon Speaker: Welcome back! Did you enjoy your flight?

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Thanksfor taking a ride with us and please come back to see us again soon.

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LAUREN:Did you know if you pick our pick your own price tickets online, you can savemoney? You can save a little bit more by using the official Holliday Worldpodcast promo code HOWOPO. Simply go to Holidayworld.com/save and drop in HOWOPOand let the savings begin!

If you’d like to reach out, send us an email at podcast@holidayworld.com, leave us a voicemail at 812-937-4401 extension 8081, or tag us on social media using the hashtag #HOWOPO.

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