9: Waterslides

Hey everyone! Get ready to slide into this new, bizarrely summery Thanksgiving episode of Figure It Out! This week we slip into the deep, watery world of waterslides! That’s right, we’re talking about your favorite summer activity as a hapless, naive child! The girls make a splash this week when they cover the infamous Action Park as well as the more recent (and more disturbing) incident at Schlitterbahn. They dive into their not-so-near death experience at a waterpark and they cover more than enough other reasons to find a new summer activity for your family to enjoy. Also MAJOR CONTENT WARNING!!! We talk about children being seriously injured and killed, including major bodily harm like beheadings. If you think this might be upsetting this is not the episode for you!! Try our hair episode for some more wholesome content instead! Note: Marlena makes the mistake of saying FLESH eating bacteria at one point when she really means BRAIN eating bacteria. Who knew those were both two different things?? We live in a hellworld! Anyways, when you get to that point in the episode just remember we’re talking about the brain eating horrors, not the flesh eating ones! Sources: https://www.insider.com/water-park-facts-2018-5#pools-at-water-parks-can-also-carry-scary-parasites-like-brain-eating-amoebas-8 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/health-officials-girl-likely-got-brain-eating-amoeba-from-water-park/ https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/naegleria/illness.html https://weirdnj.com/stories/action-park/ https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2020/06/inside-action-park-americas-most-dangerous-amusement-park-founders-son-explores-thrills-spills-and-legacy.html