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Prologue: Prologue Ira Glass From WBEZ Chicago, it's This American Life.
序言：序言 来自 WBEZ 芝加哥的 Ira Glass，这就是美国生活。
I'm Ira Glass.
我是艾拉·格拉斯。
OK.
好的。
So we're going through the gate here into the park?
那么我们要从这里的大门进入公园吗？
Yeah, we're going-- this is our morning-- this is the morning walk into the park.
是的，我们要去——这是我们的早晨——这是早上走进公园。
See, everybody will split up into their different sections and get the park open.
看，每个人都会分成不同的部分，让公园开放。
And we'll start putting out prizes and--
我们将开始颁发奖品——
We're at an amusement park in Kansas City, Missouri called Worlds of Fun.
我们在密苏里州堪萨斯城的一个名为“欢乐世界”的游乐园。
We're going to be spending the entire hour today at amusement parks.
今天我们将在游乐园里度过整整一个小时。
It's five minutes before opening, and I'm walking with Cole Lindbergh, who's 25 with permanently-mussed hair and the cheerful vibe of the Bosom Buddies-era Tom Hanks.
距离开业还有五分钟，我和科尔·林德伯格 (Cole Lindbergh) 一起散步，他今年 25 岁，头发永远凌乱，有着《知心好友》时代汤姆·汉克斯 (Tom Hanks) 的欢快氛围。
He's been coming to this park since he was a little kid, started working here as a summer job at 14, and then basically just never left.
他从小就来这个公园，14 岁开始在这里做暑期工，然后基本上就没有离开过。
It became his real job.
这成了他真正的工作。
11 years later, he is a full-time, year-round employee.
11年后，他成为一名全职、常年员工。
I love amusement parks.
我喜欢游乐园。
Any time my family would go on vacation, we'd schedule it around an amusement park, because I love roller coasters.
每当我的家人去度假时，我们都会安排在游乐园周围，因为我喜欢过山车。
I loved amusement parks.
我喜欢游乐园。
I mean, I've walked-- this pathway that we're taking right now-- I've walked it thousands and thousands and thousands of times.
我的意思是，我已经走过了——我们现在正在走的这条路——我已经走过了成千上万次。
When he was little, his family had season passes here, and they would come a lot.
当他小的时候，他的家人在这里有季票，他们会经常来。
He'd travel to any new roller coaster to try it out, daydreamed about a job where he would design parks and build roller coasters.
他会去任何新的过山车尝试一下，并梦想着有一份设计公园和建造过山车的工作。
And when his dad drove him here at the age of 14 for a job interview-- he wore a suit to that interview-- just sitting inside the park's offices, which are utilitarian-- picture the principal's office at a public high school-- even that was exciting.
当他 14 岁时，父亲开车送他来这里参加工作面试时——他穿着一套西装参加面试——只是坐在公园的办公室里，这些办公室很实用——想象一下公立高中的校长办公室——即使这样也很令人兴奋。
I remember being like, oh, wow.
我记得当时的感觉是，哦，哇。
This is the inner sanctum.
这里是内殿。
This is the inner workings.
这就是内部工作原理。
This is where all the cool stuff happens.
这就是所有很酷的事情发生的地方。
And then the first time actually getting in the uniform, actually working at the park-- I remember, to me, it was like, wow.
然后第一次真正穿上制服，真正在公园工作——我记得，对我来说，那感觉就像，哇。
This is surreal.
这是超现实的。
I'm actually working in an amusement park now.
我现在实际上在游乐园工作。
And to me, that was kind of, like, awesome.
对我来说，这真是太棒了。
That was awesome.
太棒了。
I'm so excited about this.
我对此感到非常兴奋。
You might think that enthusiasm would diminish over time.
您可能认为热情会随着时间的推移而减弱。
But what's incredible about Cole is that, even after a decade here, even after becoming an adult and working 60-, 70-hour weeks, every week, all summer, even with the pressure in his current job of running a whole department and hitting financial targets and buying all the supplies and hiring and supervising over 100 young people, he is still pretty psyched about working at an amusement park.
但科尔令人难以置信的是，即使在这里工作了十年，即使在成为成年人并每周工作 60 到 70 个小时，整个夏天，即使他目前的工作面临着管理整个部门、实现财务目标、购买所有物资、雇用和监督 100 多名年轻人的压力，他仍然对在游乐园工作感到非常兴奋。
And it is not a glamour job.
这并不是一份光鲜亮丽的工作。
The department Cole runs is the games department at Worlds of Fun.
科尔管理的部门是 Worlds of Fun 的游戏部门。
This is 32 games, the kind that you would see at any carnival or midway, where you get three softballs to try to throw them into a milk can, or you throw beanbags at targets, or you shoot darts to knock over a stack of cups.
这是 32 场比赛，就像你在任何嘉年华或中途都会看到的那样，你让三个垒球尝试将它们扔进牛奶罐，或者你向目标扔豆袋，或者你射飞镖打翻一堆杯子。
Nobody comes to an amusement park for the games.
没有人来游乐园看比赛。
Cole himself never went to an amusement park for the games.
科尔本人从未去过游乐园观看比赛。
But he's an extrovert, and he has filled the department with extroverts, like Mallory.
但他是一个外向的人，而且他的部门里都是外向的人，比如马洛里。
The park is barely open-- hardly any customers here at all-- when Cole stops by her game on his morning rounds.
当科尔早上打球的时候，公园几乎没有开放——这里几乎没有顾客。
Yeah, Mallory loves talking on the mic.
是的，马洛里喜欢用麦克风说话。
Mallory does a good job on the mic.
马洛里的麦克风表现很好。
(WHISPERING) Thank you!
（低声）谢谢！
I appreciate it.
我很感激。
Let's hear it.
我们来听听吧。
Go for it.
大胆试试吧。
Try to get people to play.
尝试让人们来玩。
All righty.
好吧。
We're over here at three-point challenge today looking for out first winner!
今天我们在这里参加三分挑战赛，寻找第一个获胜者！
You come on over here.
你过来一下。
You have 40 seconds on the clock, 12 shots up, and you could be walking away with some awesome prizes!
您还有 40 秒的时间，还有 12 次投篮机会，您可能会赢得一些超棒的奖品！
We have--
我们有——
This is exactly how Cole trains the kids to talk on the mic.
这正是科尔训练孩子们用麦克风说话的方式。
Don't stop.
别停下来。
Get a flow.
获得流量。
Have fun.
玩得开心。
If you have fun, that's what's going to sell the game.
如果你玩得开心，这就是游戏的卖点。
Watching Cole run the games department at Worlds of Fun is watching somebody who was raised here and who completely, thoroughly mastered everything.
看着科尔管理 Worlds of Fun 的游戏部门，就像看着一个在这里长大、彻底掌握一切的人。
It's rare to witness somebody so happily great at any job.
很少有人能如此快乐地从事任何工作。
All right.
好的。
Let's gather around, guys.
伙计们，我们聚集在一起吧。
Is there still people in cash patrol?
现金巡逻还有人吗？
Anybody know?
有人知道吗？
It's the first shift meeting of the day.
这是今天的第一次轮班会议。
About 30 teenagers and college kids mill around a big tree before their shifts start.
大约 30 名青少年和大学生在轮班开始前围着一棵大树转圈。
All right, guys.
好吧，伙计们。
Listen up.
听着。
Gather round.
聚集一圈。
Let's do this.
让我们这样做吧。
Here we go.
开始了。
Shh.
嘘。
Quiet, please.
请安静。
Real quick.
真快。
Real quick.
真快。
Here we go.
开始了。
Today is Saturday.
今天是星期六。
Oh, yeah!
哦，是啊！
Cole Lindbergh Today is a busy day.
科尔·林德伯格 今天是忙碌的一天。
Today is the day that we have a very good day, because there are going to be a lot of people playing games.
今天是我们度过非常愉快的一天，因为会有很多人玩游戏。
And today, of course, is one of my favorite days of the season.
当然，今天是我这个季节最喜欢的日子之一。
It is the second round of the Sweet 16 Tournament.
这是甜蜜16强赛的第二轮。
Let's take a look.
我们来看一下。
Sam, do you want to hold this up a little higher?
萨姆，你想把它举得高一点吗？
OK.
好的。
We've got--
我们有——
One of the guys, Sam, holds up a poster board with tournament brackets on it, like for any sports tournament.
其中一个叫萨姆的家伙举着一块海报板，上面有锦标赛支架，就像任何体育锦标赛一样。
The Sweet 16 Tournament pits the kids in all 32 games in the park against each other, in pairs, in a four-week competition to make the most money.
Sweet 16 锦标赛让孩子们参加公园内的全部 32 场比赛，两人一组，在为期 4 周的比赛中争夺最多的奖金。
Last week, half the games were eliminated.
上周，一半的比赛被淘汰。
Cole is here letting the remaining games know who they're competing with today.
科尔在这里让剩下的比赛知道他们今天的对手是谁。
We have Pigs of Fury, Bullpen versus Goblet Toss, Lion's Den.
我们有愤怒的猪、牛棚与高脚杯、狮子的巢穴。
Now-- can you hold that for me real quick?
现在——你能尽快帮我拿一下吗？
Now-- wait, hold on!
现在——等一下，坚持住！
Before we go any further, could this possibly be a precursor for today?
在我们进一步讨论之前，这可能是今天的前兆吗？
Yesterday, the number-one game in the park was Scale Africa.
昨天，公园里排名第一的游戏是“Scale Africa”。
[CHEERING] Ira Glass OK.
[欢呼] Ira Glass 好的。
Scale Africa is a scale-- a game where they guess your weight or age.
非洲秤是一种秤——一种猜测你的体重或年龄的游戏。
And it's in the Africa part of the park, hence Scale Africa.
它位于公园的非洲部分，因此称为“规模非洲”。
And it's no surprise that it's number one.
它成为第一名也就不足为奇了。
It always makes tons of money.
它总是能赚很多钱。
All the games in the park are grouped together into four different teams, which they call Games I, Games II, Games III, and Games IV.
公园里的所有游戏都分为四个不同的团队，他们称之为游戏 I、游戏 II、游戏 III 和游戏 IV。
And these four teams-- Games I through IV-- compete against each other all summer long, like teams at summer camp, in a three-month-long color war.
这四支球队——第一场到第四场——整个夏天都在相互竞争，就像夏令营的球队一样，进行一场长达三个月的色彩大战。
Most other amusement parks don't go this far to make things interesting for the workers.
大多数其他游乐园不会为了让工作人员感到有趣而走这么远。
This park, Worlds of Fun, is owned by a company called Cedar Fair that owns 11 amusement parks and six water parks.
这个名为 Worlds of Fun 的公园由一家名为 Cedar Fair 的公司所有，该公司拥有 11 个游乐园和 6 个水上乐园。
And Cole knows the guys who run the games departments at the other parks.
科尔认识其他公园的游戏部门负责人。
And some of them do competitions like this between the employees.
其中一些公司在员工之间进行类似的竞争。
But I don't think they do it to the extent of what we do.
但我认为他们没有达到我们所做的程度。
Yeah, we-- every year, I talk about-- we had the Death Match Tournament.
是的，我们——每年，我谈到——我们都会举办死亡竞赛锦标赛。
We have the Sweet 16 Tournament.
我们有甜蜜16强锦标赛。
A couple years ago, we did a thing called Toss the Boss.
几年前，我们做了一个叫做“Toss the Boss”的事情。
And basically what happened was is that, every single day, I'd pull a game out of the hat.
基本上发生的事情是，每一天，我都会从帽子里拿出一款游戏。
And if that game was the number-one game in the park for that day, then that section would get to throw me in the pond.
如果那场比赛是当天公园里排名第一的比赛，那么那个部分就会把我扔进池塘里。
The pond is not a good-looking pond.
这个池塘不是一个好看的池塘。
It's gross, and it smells.
很恶心，而且有臭味。
And the deal was is that, if you are the number-one game in the park, you get to throw me in the pond.
协议是，如果你是公园里的头号游戏，你就可以把我扔进池塘里。
So finally, one day, the game that he picked from the hat that day tried their hardest and actually became the number-one game in the park for the day.
所以终于有一天，他那天从帽子里挑选出来的游戏尽了最大努力，实际上成为了当天公园里的第一名游戏。
And--
还有——
D'oh!
噢！
Ira Glass Of course, they made a video about this because it's present-day America.
Ira Glass 当然，他们制作了有关此的视频，因为这是当今的美国。
And Cole went and told his peers, his colleagues-- the guys who run the games departments at the other parks-- all about what happened.
科尔去告诉他的同事、同事——其他公园的游戏部门负责人——所有发生的事情。
I go and I tell the other parks about this.
我去告诉其他公园这件事。
And I showed a picture.
我展示了一张照片。
Like, oh, there's me all soaking wet.
就像，哦，我全身都湿透了。
And I got laughed at.
我还被嘲笑了。
Like, why would you ever do that?
就像，你为什么要这么做？
And to me, in my mind, I was just like, why would you not do that?
对我来说，在我心里，我就想，你为什么不这样做呢？
Why would you not want to get people excited about working in the game that they're in?
为什么你不想让人们对他们所参与的游戏中的工作感到兴奋呢？
At least they may try.
至少他们可以尝试。
They may do a little bit more.
他们可能会做得更多一点。
And if I can get a little bit more out of them, we're good, even if the game only makes a little bit more money.
如果我能从他们身上得到更多一点，我们就很好，即使游戏只赚了一点点钱。
All right.
好的。
So there's a lot of people in the park today.
所以今天公园里人很多。
Now, I have composed a song about today, which I now want to sing for you.
现在，我创作了一首关于今天的歌曲，现在我想唱给你们听。
Everybody close-- Cole Lindbergh And you can all sing along.
大家都很亲近——Cole Lindbergh 你们都可以一起唱。
[STRUMS GUITAR] OK.
[扫弦吉他] 好的。
(SINGING) Saturday.
（唱歌）星期六。
It's Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday.
今天是星期六，星期六，星期六，星期六。
(SINGING) Today, I don't feel like riding any rides.
（唱）今天，我不想骑任何游乐设施。
Whistle, whistle.
吹口哨，吹口哨。
Cole Lindbergh (SINGING) I just want to play all the games.
科尔·林德伯格（唱歌）我只想玩所有的游戏。
And I really like playing Mamba Ball-- win a giant top frog or a big basketball.
我真的很喜欢玩曼巴球——赢得一只巨大的顶级青蛙或一个大篮球。
Yes, today, I don't feel like riding any rides, just playing games.
是的，今天我不想骑任何游乐设施，只是玩游戏。
(SINGING) Whoo-hoo!
（唱歌）呼呼！
Whoo!
呼！
Whoo-hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo!
呼呼、呼、呼、呼、呼、呼！
All right.
好的。
Let's have a good day, guys.
伙计们，让我们度过美好的一天。
Everybody in, all right?
大家都进来，好吗？
[CHEERING] All right.
[欢呼] 好吧。
Games on three!
比赛三分！
1, 2, 3!
1、2、3！
Games!
游戏！
Cole Lindbergh All right.
科尔·林德伯格 好吧。
Let's have a good day.
让我们度过美好的一天。
Well, today, on our radio show, we go to amusement parks all over the country.
嗯，今天，在我们的广播节目中，我们去了全国各地的游乐园。
We see stuff backstage that we had no idea was going on, like that song.
我们在后台看到一些我们不知道发生的事情，就像那首歌一样。
We hear Jonathan Goldstein's story about moving to the Jersey Shore for a summer when he was 16, and we hear your stories.
我们听到乔纳森·戈德斯坦 (Jonathan Goldstein) 讲述他 16 岁时搬到泽西海岸过夏天的故事，我们也听到您的故事。
We asked you to call in with your amusement park stories, and you told some great ones.
我们邀请您打电话讲述您的游乐园故事，您讲述了一些很棒的故事。
Today's show was recorded and first broadcast a few years ago when you could attend amusement parks without wearing a face mask or taking precautions to avoid a deadly and deeply-contagious coronavirus.
今天的节目是几年前录制并首次播出的，当时你可以在不戴口罩或采取预防措施来避免致命且具有深度传染性的冠状病毒的情况下去游乐园。
Let us return to those happy days, shall we?
让我们一起回到那些快乐的日子吧？
It's summer.
现在是夏天。
It's hot.
很热。
Let's spend an hour at a really fun place at a safe social distance-- in fact, the safest imaginable-- that is, over the radio.
让我们在一个非常有趣的地方度过一个小时，保持安全的社交距离——事实上，是可以想象到的最安全的距离——也就是说，通过广播。
Let's ride the rides.
我们来乘坐游乐设施吧。
Let's gorge out on terrible great food together for an hour.
让我们一起吃上一个小时的美味佳肴吧。
Cue the roller coaster sound now!
现在就听听过山车的声音吧！
Act One.
第一幕。
Gameboy Grows Up.
游戏男孩长大了。
Following Cole Lindbergh around on his early-morning tour of Words of Fun park, I learned a couple things.
跟随科尔·林德伯格 (Cole Lindbergh) 清晨参观 Words of Fun 公园，我学到了一些东西。
First of all, people play the games because they want to win the prizes.
首先，人们玩游戏是因为他们想赢得奖品。
And so an important part of his job is actually guessing what prizes are going to excite people.
因此，他工作的一个重要部分实际上是猜测什么奖品会让人们兴奋。
We kind of just go, it is what it is.
我们就这样走了，就是这样。
Oh, I've got to show you the lemur.
哦，我得给你看狐猴。
Do you want to see what a lemur is?
你想看看狐猴是什么吗？
Yeah.
是的。
Cole Lindbergh People love these.
科尔·林德伯格 人们喜欢这些。
This is a lemur.
这是狐猴。
People play for this all the time.
人们一直在为此而玩。
This is one of our number-one prizes.
这是我们的头号奖项之一。
Who'd have thought?
谁会想到呢？
It's a fluorescent-colored monkey, the size of a teddy bear, with huge eyes and a super-long tail.
这是一只荧光色的猴子，大小如泰迪熊，有着巨大的眼睛和超长的尾巴。
When they put it into the dart game, the dart game became one of the most popular games in the park-- doubled its business.
当他们把它应用到飞镖游戏中时，飞镖游戏成为了公园里最受欢迎的游戏之一——生意额翻了一番。
I also learned that Cole invents games.
我还了解到科尔发明了游戏。
We round a corner and I see why he asked.
我们拐过一个拐角，我明白他为什么问了。
What we're looking at right now is a giant slingshot with a launcher that you launch, basically, beanbags at pigs.
我们现在看到的是一个带有发射器的巨型弹弓，基本上可以向猪发射豆袋。
And we built this.
我们建造了这个。
So you got permission from the Angry Birds people--
所以你得到了《愤怒的小鸟》人员的许可——
Well-- Ira Glass This turns out to be an awkward question.
嗯——艾拉·格拉斯（Ira Glass） 事实证明这是一个尴尬的问题。
Cole points out that this slingshot game is not actually called Angry Birds.
科尔指出，这款弹弓游戏实际上并不叫《愤怒的小鸟》。
It's called Pigs of Fury-- Pigs of Fury.
它的名字叫《愤怒的猪》——《愤怒的猪》。
So now this is one of our number-one games.
所以现在这是我们排名第一的游戏之一。
People love shooting a giant slingshot.
人们喜欢射击巨型弹弓。
Before I flew out to Kansas City to meet Cole, I watched his YouTube videos online.
在我飞往堪萨斯城见科尔之前，我在线观看了他的 YouTube 视频。
Yes, he has YouTube videos, and I heartily recommend them.
是的，他有 YouTube 视频，我衷心推荐它们。
They are shot, directed, and starring Cole.
这些影片由科尔拍摄、执导并主演。
They are low-tech.
他们技术含量低。
They're low-budget.
他们的预算很低。
In this one, he wears a Viking helmet, and a fake mustache, and wire-rimmed glasses.
在这张照片中，他戴着维京头盔、假胡子和金属框眼镜。
And he's walking through a video arcade.
他正在走过一个电子游戏厅。
Those are his echoey footsteps that you're hearing.
你听到的是他回声的脚步声。
Next, he's inside what looks like-- you know those old arcade machines with the mechanical claw that picks up prizes?
接下来，他在里面，看起来像——你知道那些带有机械爪的老式街机，可以拾取奖品吗？
This one is big enough for a person to stand inside, and Cole is inside it, surrounded by huge stuffed animals.
这个大得足以容一个人站在里面，科尔就在里面，周围都是巨大的毛绒动物。
And he raps.
他说唱。
(RAPPING) I give out prizes when you come play my games.
（说唱）当你来玩我的游戏时，我会颁发奖品。
If you see me with a mic, I guess it's your birthday.
如果你看到我拿着麦克风，我猜今天是你的生日。
I'm a really cool guy because I make winners every day.
我是一个很酷的人，因为我每天都能成为赢家。
Win a bear, a dog, and a giant mon-kay.
赢得一只熊、一只狗和一只巨型猴。
OK, I'm going to stop the video right there.
好的，我要停止视频了。
When he says "a bear, a dog, and a giant mon-kay," then we have three quick shots of stuffed animal prizes-- a bear, a dog, and a giant mon-kay.
当他说“一只熊、一只狗和一只巨型猴狒狒”时，我们就看到了三张毛绒动物奖品的快速镜头——一只熊、一只狗和一只巨型猴狒。
(RAPPING) Sometimes people just don't play games.
（说唱）有时人们只是不玩游戏。
I'm asking how they're doing, and they say, "No way!"
我问他们怎么样，他们说：“不可能！”
As the video continues, the teenagers on his staff join him.
随着视频的继续，他的员工中的青少年也加入了他的行列。
And they're all dancing around, and they're hitting whack-a-mole moles on the beat.
他们都在跳舞，随着节拍打地鼠。
And everything that they do in this video is so deeply uncool that you know that they must really like and trust each other.
他们在这段视频中所做的一切都非常不酷，你知道他们一定非常喜欢并信任彼此。
And their total commitment to what they're doing actually flips the dorkiness and makes it cool.
他们对自己正在做的事情的全身心投入实际上扭转了愚蠢并使其变得很酷。
(RAPPING) Get it in the can.
（敲击声）把它放进罐子里。
Get this ball right in that can.
把这个球放进那个罐子里。
You can do it, man.
你能做到的，伙计。
Just get this ball right in that can, because all I want to do is--
只要把这个球放进那个罐子里，因为我想做的就是——
[GUNSHOTS] [MUSIC - "PAPER PLANES" BY MIA]
[枪声] [音乐 - MIA 的“纸飞机”]
[CHA-CHING] (SINGING) Come play my games.
[CHA-CHING]（唱歌）来玩我的游戏吧。
(RAPPING) All I wanna do is-- [GUNSHOTS]
（说唱）我想做的就是——[枪声]
[CHA-CHING] Cole Lindbergh (RAPPING) Come play my games.
[CHA-CHING] Cole Lindbergh（说唱）来玩我的游戏。
(RAPPING) All I wanna-- Ira Glass There are over a dozen videos, all set in the amusement park, with the stuffed animal prizes always playing surprisingly central roles, like the sci-fi special effects movie they made where a mysterious ray from outer space hits, and the stuffed animal prizes all come to life, seeking vengeance.
（说唱）我想要的——艾拉·格拉斯（Ira Glass） 有十多个视频，都以游乐园为背景，毛绒动物奖品总是扮演令人惊讶的核心角色，就像他们制作的科幻特效电影，来自外太空的神秘射线击中，毛绒动物奖品都活了过来，寻求复仇。
Key line?
关键线？
The prizes attacked me.
奖品攻击了我。
I was in my game.
我在我的游戏中。
The earth shook.
大地震动。
And next thing I knew, I was being pummelled by bears!
接下来我就知道，我被熊殴打了！
The only semi-normal video of the bunch is a training video.
这群视频中唯一的半正常视频是训练视频。
This one opens on Cole.
这一篇以科尔为开场。
He's in a suit and tie in front of a bookcase, reading a book.
他穿着西装，打着领带，站在书柜前看书。
He looks up, startled, as if the camera surprised him.
他惊讶地抬起头，好像镜头让他感到惊讶。
Hello.
你好。
How are you?
你好吗？
I was just reading.
我只是在读书。
Welcome to the World of Fun Games Training Video.
欢迎来到趣味游戏培训视频世界。
My name is Cole.
我叫科尔。
I'll be taking you on this wonderful journey.
我将带你踏上这段美妙的旅程。
Here.
这里。
When he says "wonderful journey," he mugs at the camera with this gesture that communicates the idea "I know this is completely ridiculous." In fact, the entire video seems to be making fun of the idea of training videos while, at the same time, it is a training video, explaining how to sign in, how to use the till card, how to stock prizes.
当他说“美妙的旅程”时，他对着镜头做了个鬼脸，这个手势传达了这样的想法：“我知道这完全是荒谬的。”事实上，整个视频似乎在嘲笑培训视频的想法，同时它也是一个培训视频，解释如何登录，如何使用收银卡，如何股票奖品。
I saw these videos, and all I could think of was, these people really love their jobs.
我看到这些视频，我所能想到的就是，这些人真的很热爱他们的工作。
And I thought about Michael Scott, the fictional boss on The Office.
我想到了迈克尔·斯科特，《办公室》中虚构的老板。
I'd say that there's a lot of Michael Scott in this job.
我想说，这份工作中有很多迈克尔·斯科特的身影。
I'd say there's a lot of Michael Scott in me, probably.
我想说，我身上可能有很多迈克尔·斯科特的影子。
I do silly things that everybody looks at me later and go, why did he do that?
我做了一些愚蠢的事情，后来每个人都看着我然后走开，他为什么这么做？
Why was it deemed necessary for Cole to dress up wearing a big beard and a raincoat, and tell everyone he lived downtown under the bridge and he was there to motivational speaker them today?
为什么科尔有必要打扮得留着大胡子，穿着雨衣，告诉大家他住在市中心的桥下，今天他在那里给他们励志演讲呢？
(GRAVELLY VOICE) "Hi, everybody.
（沙哑的声音）“大家好。
I'm Phil Bridges"-- and go out and talk to people.
我是菲尔·布里奇斯”——出去和人们交谈。
What went through his thought process?
他的思维过程经历了什么？
And I've run out with a squirt gun all the time.
我一直拿着水枪出去。
I got my big Super Soaker.
我得到了我的大超级浸泡器。
And on busy days, I'll take the Super Soaker, and I'll fill it up with ice water, and I'll sneak around the corner and just-- they're all standing there, and I'll just go, "light them up!" and just spray across the whole group.
在忙碌的日子里，我会拿着超级浸泡器，我会在里面装满冰水，然后我会偷偷溜到拐角处，然后——他们都站在那里，我就会去，“点燃他们！”然后喷洒在整个团体上。
That's what makes it fun!
这就是它的乐趣所在！
They're going to remember Phil Bridges more than anything else throughout the day.
他们一整天都会最记得菲尔·布里奇斯。
And so if they're talking about, "Did you guys see what Cole did at the shift meeting?" even if they say "that was stupid" or "that was not funny," they're still going to be talking about it.
因此，如果他们谈论的是“你们看到科尔在轮班会议上做了什么吗？”即使他们说“那很愚蠢”或“那不好笑”，他们仍然会谈论它。
And that's still going to get them happy about this job.
这仍然会让他们对这份工作感到满意。
So does that work in practice?
那么这在实践中有效吗？
After all, if you think about it, amusement park jobs are not, on their face, very fun, you know?
毕竟，如果你想一想，游乐园的工作从表面上看并不很有趣，你知道吗？
Taking tickets, strapping people into rides, convincing passersby to throw three balls into a can.
抢票、将人们绑在游乐设施上、说服路人将三个球扔进罐子里。
Well, the Saturday that I visited turned out to be one of the busiest, hottest days of the summer.
嗯，我去的那个星期六是夏天最繁忙、最热的日子之一。
There was a concert at the park, which brought in thousands of extra people.
公园里举办了一场音乐会，吸引了数千人前来。
And of course, this was Sweet 16 round two, which did seem to matter to the kids.
当然，这是甜蜜十六强第二轮，这对孩子们来说似乎很重要。
Before the shift, Haley and a couple of the other kids from Games III pulled Cole aside and crowded close so kids from other teams couldn't see.
轮班前，海莉和第三届奥运会的其他几个孩子把科尔拉到一边，挤得很近，这样其他队的孩子就看不到。
So this is-- you have a secret weapon that is going--
所以这就是——你有一个秘密武器——
A secret weapon.
秘密武器。
Cole Lindbergh They're going--
科尔·林德伯格 他们要去——
Secret weapon.
秘密武器。
Cole Lindbergh --to show you the secret weapon and what--
科尔·林德伯格——向你展示秘密武器以及什么——
It's a-- Cole Lindbergh And don't let anybody see it.
这是——科尔·林德伯格（Cole Lindbergh），不要让任何人看到它。
--guaranteed victory.
——胜利有保证。
Cole Lindbergh Guaranteed victory.
科尔·林德伯格 (Cole Lindbergh) 保证获胜。
--is that-- Ira Glass You made the costume?
——那是—— Ira Glass 服装是你做的吗？
I made the costume, yeah.
服装是我做的，是的。
Woman Because she's awesome.
女人因为她很棒。
Because we have a game with bananas that's in Sweet 16.
因为我们在 Sweet 16 中有一款香蕉游戏。
That's right.
没错。
Woman So we're going to have somebody running around in this costume to try to sell it.
女人所以我们会派人穿着这套服装跑来跑去试图卖掉它。
It's kind of big and it's kind of rough, because I didn't--
它有点大，也有点粗糙，因为我没有——
Wait, David's coming.
等等，大卫来了。
Put it away.
把它收起来。
Put it away.
把它收起来。
Did you just go buy fabric?
你刚去买布料吗？
Haley No, I've had this fabric.
海莉 不，我有这种布料。
So this is the head hole, the arms hole.
这是头部孔，手臂孔。
And it's going to look like the bananas in Lion's Den.
它看起来就像狮子巢穴中的香蕉。
Is that exciting?
这令人兴奋吗？
Cole Lindbergh I like it.
科尔·林德伯格 我喜欢它。
That is more than exciting.
这真是令人兴奋不已。
People are going to be stopping, taking pictures.
人们会停下来拍照。
Oh, maybe I'll win one, too.
哦，也许我也会赢得一个。
Meanwhile, the guys in Games IV were doing great in Sweet 16.
与此同时，第四届运动会的队员们在甜蜜 16 强中表现出色。
All their games had survived the first round.
他们所有的比赛都通过了第一轮。
Games I was eliminated completely in the first round of Sweet 16.
比赛我在甜蜜16强第一轮就被彻底淘汰。
As for Games II, Max and Okson are pulling a double shift, hoping to break the record for how much has ever been made-- ever-- in their two games.
至于第二场比赛，马克斯和奥克森将实行双班制，希望打破他们在两场比赛中的收入记录。
Their not-so-secret strategy?
他们的不那么秘密的策略？
All right.
好的。
So strobe light, strobe light.
所以频闪灯，频闪灯。
You want two blacklights out there.
你需要两个黑灯在那里。
Max and his team leader Dominic are setting up at a game called Roll-A-Ball, which is one of the older games in the park.
马克斯和他的队长多米尼克正在准备一场名为“滚球”的游戏，这是公园里最古老的游戏之一。
Basically, it's just skee ball.
基本上，这只是斯基球。
But as you get points, it moves a little wooden pig, which is in a race with all the other riders.
但当你获得积分时，它会移动一只小木猪，它正在与所有其他骑手进行比赛。
This doesn't make any sense.
这没有任何意义。
It actually doesn't matter.
其实没关系。
Here's what you need to know.
这是您需要了解的内容。
Games II is hoping to turn this creaky, 16-year-old game Roll-A-Ball, which never does well, into a crazy dance party they call Techno Ball.
Games II 希望将这款已有 16 年历史、一直表现不佳的老旧游戏 Roll-A-Ball 变成一场疯狂的舞会，他们称之为 Techno Ball。
Max and Dominic have brought in a disco ball.
马克斯和多米尼克带来了一个迪斯科舞会。
They brought in lighting gear.
他们带来了照明设备。
And Dominic is explaining to Max how he wants to set it all up.
多米尼克正在向麦克斯解释他想如何安排这一切。
You're going to put a light on that toy chest.
你要在那个玩具箱上放一盏灯。
You're going to put a light on that box.
你要在那个盒子上放一盏灯。
They're shining at the disco ball.
他们在迪斯科舞会上闪闪发光。
The disco ball is going to be moving.
迪斯科球将会移动。
If it's all dark in here, people will want to walk on it.
如果这里一片漆黑，人们就会想要在上面行走。
They'll be like, "Whoa, what am I stepping on?
他们会说，“哇，我踩到了什么？
Whoa, lights!" [LAUGHS]
哇，灯！” [笑]
I know.
我知道。
Maybe it'll be too much for people to handle.
也许这对人们来说太难以处理了。
Half an hour before the park opened, Haley and Claire had gotten to work early and were down in Games III by Scale Africa.
公园开园前半小时，海莉和克莱尔很早就开始工作，参加了 Scale Africa 举办的第三届运动会。
We wanted to set out the most prizes that we could, make the piles extravagant, do a lot of flash.
我们想设置尽可能多的奖品，让奖品堆得奢华，做很多闪光。
And that takes a lot of time.
这需要很多时间。
So we came out here early.
所以我们很早就出来了。
So just describe what we're looking at.
因此，只需描述我们正在查看的内容即可。
There's a pyramid here of--
这里有一座金字塔——
Turtles.
海龟。
And there's pandas, lions.
还有熊猫、狮子。
There's going to be one of tigers.
将会有一只老虎。
There's going to be one--
将会有一个——
Each pyramid has over 100 stuffed animals in it, which is bigger than I think you're probably imagining it.
每个金字塔里都有 100 多个毛绒动物，比我想象的还要大。
It's nearly waist high.
已经快到腰部那么高了。
And so there are four big, pastel-colored piles of plush toys right in the middle of the walkway looking so, so easy to win.
因此，走道中间有四堆色彩柔和的大毛绒玩具，看起来很容易获胜。
Basically--
基本上——
Every prize we've got.
我们得到的每一个奖品。
Haley Every prize we've got, yeah.
海莉 我们得到的每一个奖品，是的。
We're throwing it out here.
我们把它扔在这里。
Haley We're going big or go home.
海莉：我们要么干大事，要么回家。
We really want to win.
我们真的很想赢。
We brought in streamers, balloons, energy drinks.
我们带来了彩带、气球、能量饮料。
We got a whole bunch of energy drinks.
我们买了一大堆能量饮料。
We got a whole bunch of Gatorade.
我们买了一大堆佳得乐。
We brought in food for everyone.
我们为大家带来了食物。
--everyone stays energized, get pumped up for the whole day.
——每个人都保持精力充沛，一整天都充满活力。
We really want to win.
我们真的很想赢。
We lost Death Match in a very painful battle.
我们在一场非常痛苦的战斗中输掉了死亡竞赛。
Years ago, I was the lead of Games III.
几年前，我是第三届奥运会的领队。
This was my section.
这是我的部分。
Cole gets just as excited as the kids do when you get him talking about all the fun things that he did back when he was Haley and Claire's age, working here, running Games III.
当科尔谈论他在海莉和克莱尔这个年纪时所做的所有有趣的事情、在这里工作、运行 Games III 时，他会像孩子们一样兴奋。
His team would dress as pirates for the guessing game.
他的团队会打扮成海盗来参加猜谜游戏。
And they'd be out at the scale, and they'd do guessing pirates.
他们会在规模上进行猜测，并猜测海盗。
"Gaar, your age be-- gaar!" Stuff like that.
“加尔，你的年纪是——加尔！”诸如此类的事情。
2004 came around-- we dominated.
2004 年到来了——我们占据了主导地位。
We beat everyone.
我们击败了所有人。
It was awesome.
太棒了。
[LAUGHS] And I-- so I'm--
[笑]我——所以我——
It is still so alive for him.
对他来说，它仍然那么鲜活。
They dominated in 2004 by tricking out one of the games with music, and all kinds of commotion, and turning it into a party, doubling its take for the day.
他们在 2004 年占据了主导地位，他们用音乐和各种骚动装饰了其中一场比赛，并将其变成了一场派对，使当天的收入翻了一番。
We brought my fog machine in from home, because at the time, I was in high school and I had a band.
我们从家里带来了烟雾机，因为当时我正在上高中，我有一支乐队。
And people flocked to it.
人们蜂拥而至。
And we destroyed Games II.
我们毁掉了游戏二。
We destroyed them that year.
那一年我们摧毁了它们。
It was the happiest I'd been, because in 2003, we had gotten so close to winning.
这是我最高兴的一次，因为2003年，我们距离胜利如此之近。
And I just kept on saying, 2004's the year.
我只是一直说，2004 年就是这一年。
Games III.
游戏三。
We're bringing the Sweet 16 back.
我们要把甜蜜 16 强带回来。
2004.
2004年。
And we did.
我们做到了。
We won.
我们赢了。
And I was really happy.
我真的很高兴。
What am I going to guess for you?
我给你猜猜什么？
I can guess your age, weight, or birthday month.
我可以猜出你的年龄、体重或生日月份。
Late morning, when I checked back at Games III, the pyramids of plush toys looked pretty much exactly as big as they had earlier that morning.
早上晚些时候，当我回顾第三届奥运会时，毛绒玩具的金字塔看起来和那天早上早些时候的一样大。
Things were slow.
事情进展得很慢。
And to goose the business, one of the supervisors, Sarah, was standing on the roof of this little hut.
为了推动业务，其中一位主管莎拉站在这个小小屋的屋顶上。
--off the roof.
——从屋顶上下来。
Woman She's staying on the roof until--
女人 她一直待在屋顶上直到——
I'm staying here for 100.
我在这里住100块。
Woman --she gets 100 guesses.
女人——她有 100 次猜测。
I'm here until I get 88 more guesses.
我会一直在这里直到我再得到 88 个猜测。
And then I'm going to allow myself to take a bathroom break.
然后我会允许自己去洗手间休息一下。
So any of you guys walking by, if you guys want to come play my game, help me out, get me off this roof-- it's only $5 to play.
所以你们路过的任何人，如果你们想来玩我的游戏，请帮助我，让我离开这个屋顶——玩游戏只需 5 美元。
I can guess your age, weight, or birthday month.
我可以猜出你的年龄、体重或生日月份。
This is a technique that I recognize from 1,000 Public Radio pledge drives, and it was working about as slowly for her as it works for us.
这是我从 1,000 次公共广播电台宣誓活动中认识到的一项技术，它对她和对我们一样缓慢。
Strangers just don't care if some girl on the roof gets to take a bathroom break.
陌生人根本不在乎屋顶上的某个女孩是否能上厕所。
I'm stuck here until I can get 88 more people to play.
我被困在这里，直到我能再吸引 88 个人来玩。
Seriously?
严重地？
And all you people don't want to help me out.
你们所有人都不想帮助我。
Thanks.
谢谢。
Peace.
和平。
Thanks for the luck.
谢谢你的运气。
You should come-- I dare you guys to come feel these turtles.
你应该来——我敢说你们都来感受一下这些海龟。
It sounds like a weird thing, but we really have the softest turtles in town.
这听起来很奇怪，但我们确实拥有镇上最柔软的海龟。
You should feel one.
你应该有一种感觉。
They're really soft.
它们真的很柔软。
After a while, Sarah switched technique and finally managed to rustle up a crowd through the simple tactic of making a series of insanely terrible guesses.
过了一会儿，莎拉改变了技巧，最终通过做出一系列疯狂可怕的猜测的简单策略成功地吸引了人群。
First, there is a dad who looks like he's 42 and, in fact, is 42.
首先，有一个看上去42岁的爸爸，实际上已经42岁了。
Sarah guesses 25.
莎拉猜测是 25。
Then a grandmother, who is standing there with kids and grandkids-- Sarah writes her guess for this woman's age on a whiteboard.
然后，一位祖母带着孩子和孙子站在那里，莎拉在白板上写下了她对这个女人年龄的猜测。
This could be really wrong.
这可能真的是错误的。
I get the feeling it's really wrong, but that's OK.
我觉得这确实是错误的，但没关系。
We'll see.
我们拭目以待。
You guys like this guess?
大家喜欢这个猜测吗？
Maybe?
或许？
All right.
好的。
Turn around.
回转。
How old are you?
你今年多大？
I'm 52!
我52岁了！
Sarah I guessed you're 37.
莎拉，我猜你已经 37 岁了。
It's sunglasses.
这是太阳镜。
Sunglasses really throw me off.
太阳镜真的让我很失望。
But congratulations!
但恭喜你！
You get to pick out any prize you want.
你可以挑选任何你想要的奖品。
Later, Sarah privately confirmed for me that she did intentionally take a dive, which is fine with Cole, because it turns out it doesn't matter if the kids guess right.
后来，莎拉私下向我证实，她确实是故意潜水的，这对科尔来说没什么问题，因为事实证明，孩子们猜对了并不重要。
The game costs $5 to play.
该游戏的游玩费用为 5 美元。
The prizes cost less than $5.
奖品价格不到 5 美元。
Sarah can be wrong with every single guess, and they'd still make a nice profit.
莎拉的每一个猜测都可能是错误的，但他们仍然可以获得不错的利润。
In fact, it's good to lose, because people carrying prizes around the park are a walking advertisement for all the games.
事实上，输了也是好事，因为公园里拿着奖品的人就像是所有游戏的活广告。
Cole's journey from summertime employee, like Sarah, to full-time, year-round boss happened in a couple of steps.
科尔从莎拉这样的暑期员工，到全年全职老板，只走了几步。
He said, as a nerdy kid in high school in a small town, it was nice to come to a place where his personality was rewarded.
他说，作为一个在小镇上读高中的书呆子，很高兴来到一个他的个性得到回报的地方。
I couldn't wait until the summer, because when it was summertime, I get to come to Worlds of Fun and work with people that are just like me, and enjoy our whole summer together.
我等不及夏天了，因为到了夏天，我就可以来到Worlds of Fun，和和我一样的人一起工作，一起享受整个夏天。
So after years of that, in his senior year at the University of Kansas at Lawrence, he got a phone call offering him the job of games manager.
多年之后，在堪萨斯大学劳伦斯分校读大四时，他接到一个电话，邀请他担任游戏经理。
And he dropped out of school to take it.
他辍学了。
It's probably one of the hardest decisions I've ever had to make.
这可能是我做过的最艰难的决定之一。
But I said, OK, this opportunity is probably only going to come along once in a lifetime.
但我说，好吧，这个机会可能一生只有一次。
As you'd imagine, it hasn't been such a popular decision with the family.
正如你所想象的那样，这并不是一个受到家人欢迎的决定。
So I have a full year left.
所以我还有整整一年的时间。
I'm one full year of college left.
我还剩下大学一年的时间。
It comes up when you least expect it.
它会在你最意想不到的时候出现。
It comes up when they-- like, "Oh, I know you're working real hard, but when are you getting back to school?" Or my grandmother-- "Now, before I pass on, you need to make sure that you've completed college"-- my grandma all the time.
当他们——比如，“哦，我知道你工作很努力，但是你什么时候回到学校？”时，就会出现这种情况。或者我的祖母——“现在，在我去世之前，你需要确保你已经完成了大学学业”——我的祖母一直如此。
And I get it a lot from the girlfriend, too.
我也从女朋友那里得到了很多。
"When are you going to finish?" Because she just graduated college.
“你打算什么时候完成？”因为她刚刚大学毕业。
This girlfriend and Cole are pretty serious.
这位女朋友和科尔相当认真。
They just moved in together.
他们刚刚搬到一起。
They met in Games back in 2006, though she moved on from Games.
他们早在 2006 年就在 Games 上认识了，但她后来离开了 Games。
I get that all the time.
我一直都明白这一点。
She's like, "We're not going to be together forever if you don't finish college." I get it a lot.
她说：“如果你没有完成大学学业，我们就不会永远在一起。”我明白了很多。
[SIGHS] Once a week-- maybe once every two weeks, depending on the week.
[叹气]每周一次——也许每两周一次，具体取决于星期。
I don't know.
我不知道。
I don't know.
我不知道。
Lots of very accomplished people don't have college degrees.
许多非常有成就的人没有大学学位。
Yeah.
是的。
But Steve Jobs-- he changed the world.
但史蒂夫·乔布斯——他改变了世界。
I'm just a lowly little games manager in a small mid-size park in Kansas City.
我只是堪萨斯城一个中小型公园里的一个卑微的小游戏经理。
[BLOWS PAPER HORN] Who wants to play some games?
[吹纸喇叭]谁想玩一些游戏？
Whoo!
呼！
By midday, down in Games III, that is Dustin, who's wearing the full-body banana suit that Haley handmade for him, which looks amazing.
中午，在第三届奥运会上，达斯汀穿着海莉亲手为他制作的全身香蕉套装，看起来棒极了。
But it is 94 degrees, which is sapping everybody's energy.
但气温高达 94 度，正在消耗每个人的精力。
And business is slow.
而且生意很慢。
Oh, all right.
哦，好吧。
Well, hey, you guys have a great day.
嗯，嘿，你们今天过得愉快。
Though, as the day wears on, people slowly migrate from the rides to the games.
不过，随着时间的推移，人们慢慢地从游乐设施转向了游戏。
And by nightfall, when it cools off, the guys in Games II finally get Techno Ball working.
到了夜幕降临，天气转凉时，游戏 II 中的人们终于开始使用 Techno Ball 了。
Max and Okson are covered from head to toe in glow lights.
马克斯和奥克森从头到脚都被辉光照亮。
Cole and I round a corner together, and we see them in the distance.
科尔和我一起绕过拐角，我们在远处看到了他们。
And there's a crowd of three dozen people surrounding the game.
比赛周围聚集了三打人。
It's fantastic.
太棒了。
Oh my goodness.
哦，我的天啊。
Oh, let's go look at Techno Ball.
哦，我们去看看科技球吧。
Look at this!
看看这个！
[TECHNO MUSIC PLAYING] [CHEERING AND SHOUTING]
[电子音乐播放] [欢呼和喊叫]
In a big cir-- yeah, four other guys all dancing in a big circle to techno music.
在一个大圆圈里——是的，另外四个人围成一个大圈，伴随着电子音乐跳舞。
And how many people are actually playing?
而真正有多少人在玩呢？
That's Dominic, the team leader here at Games II.
那是多米尼克，第二届运动会的队长。
Oh, look.
哦，看。
Dom's all embarrassed.
Dom很尴尬。
Hi, Dom.
嗨，多姆。
What's up?
这是怎么回事？
Cole Lindbergh How many people are playing the game, Dom?
Cole Lindbergh Dom，有多少人在玩这个游戏？
Yeah.
是的。
But why aren't we turning that into game play?
但我们为什么不把它变成游戏呢？
Cole suggests, maybe they should dance inside the game instead of on the walkway in front of the game so people would be pulled in to play.
科尔建议，也许他们应该在游戏内跳舞，而不是在游戏前的走道上跳舞，这样人们就会被吸引进去玩。
Dom does not want to do this.
Dom 不想这样做。
And listen to what a good boss Cole is.
听听科尔是一个多么好的老板。
He's firm, but he's very nice about it.
他很坚定，但他对此非常友善。
You're so close.
你是如此接近。
Dominic Do you see how much attention I just attracted?
多米尼克 你看到我刚刚吸引了多少关注吗？
It did!
确实如此！
But then you didn't have anybody out here talking to them, saying, "Hey, why aren't you playing the game?"
但那时没有人跟他们说话，说：“嘿，你为什么不玩游戏？”
I know.
我知道。
But I was hoping that they would realize that.
但我希望他们能够意识到这一点。
No, no, no. They're not going to realize that.
不，不，不。他们不会意识到这一点。
You know that.
你知道的。
And better than anyone, you should know that.
你应该比任何人都清楚这一点。
They're not going to just be like, "Oh." It looks fine.
他们不会只是说“哦”。看起来不错。
All the lights-- I'm not going to deny the awesomeness, but I am going to say that--
所有的灯光——我不会否认它的美妙，但我要说——
No more dance parties.
不再有舞会了。
Cole Lindbergh I really think the dance parties are not going to help you win.
科尔·林德伯格（Cole Lindbergh） 我真的认为舞会不会帮助你获胜。
I walked down to check on Games III.
我走下来查看第三届奥运会。
It is 10:30 at night.
现在是晚上10点30分。
Claire has been here for 13 hours since I saw her setting up pyramids of plush before the gates opened to the park.
自从我看到克莱尔在公园大门打开前搭建起毛绒金字塔以来，她已经在这里待了 13 个小时。
Those pyramids were now raggedy piles maybe half their original size, which means that they did great.
这些金字塔现在是破烂的一堆，可能只有原来大小的一半，这意味着它们做得很好。
They got lots of people to play.
他们有很多人来玩。
They've probably given away 500 prizes for wrong guesses.
他们可能因为猜错而放弃了 500 个奖品。
And Claire has had exactly the kind of day that Cole wants for all the kids.
克莱尔度过了科尔希望所有孩子们都过的日子。
Did you have fun today?
今天你玩得开心吗？
Claire Yes, I had a lot of fun.
克莱尔：是的，我玩得很开心。
I had no idea what time it was until about 20 minutes ago when I checked.
我不知道现在几点了，直到大约 20 分钟前我查看时才知道。
It just didn't occur to me that I needed to check the time.
我只是没有想到我需要检查时间。
Yeah.
是的。
Ira Glass When did you take your first break today?
Ira Glass 你今天第一次休息是什么时候？
This is Claire's third year here.
这是克莱尔在这里的第三年。
She's 18, going to Missouri State in the fall to study nursing.
她今年 18 岁，秋季前往密苏里州学习护理。
And she tells me what a lot of kids here tell me.
她告诉了我这里很多孩子告诉我的事情。
She wouldn't keep coming back to work at Worlds of Fun if not for Cole.
如果没有科尔，她就不会继续回到欢乐世界工作。
Definitely not.
绝对不是。
I don't think any other boss would do the Rally Days, the Death Match, the Sweet 16, the Toss the Boss-- just all the fun stuff that we do that keeps us going through the season and just keeps this job exciting every day.
我不认为任何其他老板会做集会日、死亡竞赛、甜蜜16强、扔老板——我们所做的所有有趣的事情让我们度过了整个赛季，让这份工作每天都令人兴奋。
Sam, one of the leaders for Games IV, has been here for three summers.
萨姆是第四届运动会的领队之一，他已经在这里度过了三个夏天。
And he also says that Cole is the reason that he keeps coming back.
他还说科尔是他不断回来的原因。
Honestly, no one else could do a better job.
老实说，没有人能做得更好。
He was made to do this.
他是被迫这样做的。
It's funny watching him do something like sing a goofy song for you guys in the morning.
看着他早上为你们唱一首愚蠢的歌曲之类的事情很有趣。
You can imagine high school students and college students rolling their eyes at somebody doing that.
你可以想象高中生和大学生对这样做的人翻白眼。
But nobody does.
但没有人这样做。
No, it's weird.
不，这很奇怪。
It's almost like, that's the thing to do.
几乎就像，这就是要做的事情。
Whatever Cole does is the thing to be doing at that moment.
无论科尔做什么，都是那一刻要做的事情。
And we just all feel like that was the right move.
我们都觉得这是正确的举动。
Do you remember what it was like the first time you saw one of his videos?
您还记得第一次看到他的视频时的感觉吗？
I do.
我愿意。
I remember seeing it, and I was like, that's my boss.
我记得看到它，我就想，那是我的老板。
And he just made that video.
他刚刚制作了那个视频。
And it was so cool, because I went and even showed some of my friends.
这太酷了，因为我去了，甚至还给我的一些朋友看了。
They were all like, who's this guy?
他们都说，这家伙是谁？
It's like, that's my boss.
就好像，那是我的老板。
That's so weird, because a lot of people would say, well, it's an amusement park.
这太奇怪了，因为很多人会说，好吧，这是一个游乐园。
You're great at working at an amusement park.
你很擅长在游乐园工作。
That doesn't mean, by the way, that he is seen by his bosses as some kind of superstar.
顺便说一句，这并不意味着他被老板视为某种超级明星。
He gets respect, sure.
当然，他得到了尊重。
Everybody likes him.
每个人都喜欢他。
His immediate boss, Matt, thinks that there's nobody better at games in any of the 11 amusement parks owned by their parent company, Cedar Fair.
他的顶头上司马特 (Matt) 认为，在其母公司 Cedar Fair 旗下的 11 个游乐园中，没有人比他们更擅长玩游戏。
But Cole is working at one of the smallest of the 11 parks.
但科尔在 11 个公园中最小的一个公园工作。
So other games managers at bigger parks bring in way more money than Cole does.
因此，更大公园的其他比赛经理赚到的钱比科尔多得多。
And games, in the grand scheme of things, is actually the smallest revenue producer at most amusement parks.
从长远来看，游戏实际上是大多数游乐园中最小的收入来源。
The biggest money at an amusement park comes from ticket sales.
游乐园最大的收入来自门票销售。
Then there's food-- everybody buys food-- then merch.
然后是食物——每个人都买食物——然后是商品。
And then, bringing up the rear, is games.
然后，排在后面的是游戏。
What Cole does has less effect on the company's bottom line than lots of people in the company.
与公司中的许多人相比，科尔所做的事情对公司利润的影响要小。
And as much as Cole loves this job, he can't help but wonder, how long can a person do this job?
尽管科尔非常热爱这份工作，但他不禁想知道，一个人能做这份工作多久？
So the one thing that I always say is, I'm 25 now.
所以我总是说的一件事是，我现在25岁了。
I started here when I was 14.
我14岁时就开始来这里。
And the weird thing is, is that I'm getting older, but everybody else in the department-- staying the same age.
奇怪的是，我变老了，但部门里的其他人却保持着同样的年龄。
All right.
好的。
I'm going to stop the tape right there.
我要把磁带停在那里。
Yes, I know.
是的，我知道。
Matthew McConaughey, Dazed and Confused.
马修·麦康纳，《茫然与困惑》。
Cole has seen the film, too.
科尔也看过这部电影。
But the thing I'm wondering for you is, do you feel like somehow, accidentally, in this job, you got stuck in high school, you got stuck at 15?
但我想问你的是，你是否觉得不知何故，意外地，在这份工作中，你被困在高中，被困在 15 岁？
Like, there's a part of you where you're still back there?
就像，你的一部分还在那里？
I like working out in the park with the kids, absolutely.
我绝对喜欢和孩子们在公园里锻炼。
100%.
100%。
The goofball part.
傻瓜部分。
Cole Lindbergh The goofball part.
科尔·林德伯格 (Cole Lindbergh) 傻瓜部分。
The part where you get to act their age instead of your age.
你可以扮演他们的年龄而不是你的年龄。
Yes.
是的。
Does that make me sound bad?
这让我听起来很糟糕吗？
I'm still a manager.
我还是个经理。
I'm still overseeing 100 people that work for me.
我仍在监督为我工作的 100 名员工。
But at the same time, 10 years from now, I don't think I could still be a goofball.
但与此同时，十年后，我不认为我仍然是个傻瓜。
I think that'd just get creepy, [LAUGHS] you know?
我认为这会变得令人毛骨悚然，[笑]你知道吗？
You're 35, and you work with a bunch of high schoolers in a-- is that creepy?
你已经 35 岁了，和一群高中生一起工作——这很令人毛骨悚然吗？
Maybe.
或许。
Maybe not.
也许不是。
I don't know.
我不知道。
Do you worry that you'll never be happier in any job than you are in this one?
您是否担心您在任何工作中都不会比在这份工作中更快乐？
Yes, absolutely.
是的，绝对是。
Ira Glass That's a weird fate-- to know that you're in the best job you may ever have at 25, especially when it's a job that you know in your heart-- that can't last.
艾拉·格拉斯（Ira Glass）：这是一种奇怪的命运——在 25 岁的时候就知道自己从事着有史以来最好的工作，尤其是当你心里知道这是一份工作时——这种命运不会持续太久。
We first broadcast this story in 2011.
我们于 2011 年首次播出这个故事。
Cole is now solidly in his 30s.
科尔现在已经三十多岁了。
He left his job at Worlds of Fun years ago, worked for a while in sales at a toy company, traveled a little, giving motivational talks about being a boss at an amusement park.
几年前，他辞去了 Worlds of Fun 的工作，在一家玩具公司做过一段时间的销售工作，还去旅行过一些，并发表了关于如何成为一家游乐园老板的励志演讲。
Now he works in sales at a tech company.
现在他在一家科技公司从事销售工作。
And he's a dad, which he loves-- really, really loves.
他是一位父亲，他爱这一点——真的、真的很爱。
Cole's still crazy about amusement parks.
科尔仍然对游乐园很着迷。
He actually helped set up an alumni association for his old staff at the games department, worked out a deal with Worlds of Fun to allow old games kids to go back to the park and work a shift in games, relive the glory.
他还帮助游戏部门的老员工成立了校友会，并与Worlds of Fun达成了一项协议，让老游戏的孩子们回到公园，在游戏中轮班，重温辉煌。
His latest project is figuring out how he can build a roller coaster in his backyard.
他的最新项目是弄清楚如何在他的后院建造一个过山车。
Well, coming up, carnies float in the air, scary things happen on rides, and bold steps forward for paintball targets everywhere.
好吧，接下来，卡尼漂浮在空中，游乐设施上会发生可怕的事情，并且大胆地向前迈出一步，瞄准无处不在的彩弹目标。
Our hour of amusement parks continues in a minute from Chicago Public Radio when our program continues.
当我们的节目继续时，我们的游乐园时间将在芝加哥公共广播电台一分钟后继续。
It's This American Life.
这就是美国生活。
I'm Ira Glass.
我是艾拉·格拉斯。
Each week on our show, of course, we choose a theme, bring you different kinds of stories on that theme.
当然，我们的节目每周都会选择一个主题，为您带来有关该主题的不同类型的故事。
Today's show-- amusement parks.
今天的节目——游乐园。
It's July.
现在是七月。
It's hot.
很热。
We wanted to go someplace fun here on the radio, someplace that lots of us, me included, would never visit today because of coronavirus.
我们想去广播电台的某个有趣的地方，因为冠状病毒，我们很多人，包括我在内，今天永远不会去的地方。
Today's show is a rerun, recorded before all that.
今天的节目是重播，是之前录制的。
We've arrived at Act Two of our program.
我们已经到了节目的第二幕了。
Act Two-- Great Adventures.
第二幕——大冒险。
Well, we asked you, our listeners, to call in with your amusement park stories.
好吧，我们请你们，我们的听众，打电话来讲述你们的游乐园故事。
Nearly 300 of you did.
你们当中有近 300 人这样做了。
And one of our producers, Jane Marie, listened to all of those voicemail messages.
我们的制作人之一简·玛丽收听了所有这些语音邮件。
She joins me now.
她现在加入我。
Hey, Jane.
嘿，简。
Hey.
嘿。
Ira Glass So Jane, trends, patterns?
Ira Glass 所以简，趋势、模式？
What can you tell me?
你能告诉我什么？
Yeah.
是的。
There's creepy carnies, and hot carnies, and carnies that people married.
有令人毛骨悚然的狂欢节，有热辣的狂欢节，还有人们结婚的狂欢节。
And a bunch of people called and told stories about carnies making the ride go too fast or keeping them on the ride too long.
一群人打电话讲述了关于卡尼让骑行速度太快或让他们在骑行时间太长的故事。
OK, yeah.
好的，是的。
Jane Marie These two calls that I'm going to play are from Barry Silver and Penny Delaney Cothran.
Jane Marie 我要播放的这两个电话来自 Barry Silver 和 Penny Delaney Cothran。
And they had the same exact crazy carnie story, only they happened years apart and in different cities.
他们有同样的疯狂嘉年华故事，只是发生的时间相隔数年，而且发生在不同的城市。
But it's fun to imagine they're talking about the same guy.
但想象他们谈论的是同一个人很有趣。
(SUBJECT) PENNY DELANEY COTHRAN: My amusement park story involves the Gravitron.
（主题）PENNY DELANEY COTHRAN：我的游乐园故事涉及 Gravitron。
Yeah.
是的。
Oh, let me interrupt real quick, because the Gravitron-- that was the most popular ride people talked about in the phone calls.
哦，让我很快打断一下，因为 Gravitron——这是人们在电话中谈论的最受欢迎的游乐设施。
Huh.
呵呵。
Jane Marie That's the one where it's a cylinder, and you climb in it, and you put your back up against the inside wall of the cylinder--
简·玛丽 那是一个圆柱体，你爬进去，然后把你的背靠在圆柱体的内壁上——
Oh, right.
哦，对了。
And it spins around, and the floor drops out.
它旋转起来，地板掉下来。
(SUBJECT) PENNY DELANEY COTHRAN: There was a carnie there, and he was waving us all in.
（主题）PENNY DELANEY COTHRAN：那里有一个卡尼，他正在向我们所有人挥手。
And we had purchased tickets.
而且我们已经买了票。
And I guess our first sign that this is going to be an interesting ride was when he said no to the tickets we offered him and just waved us in.
我想我们第一个迹象表明这将是一次有趣的旅程是当他拒绝我们提供给他的门票并挥手让我们进去时。
I was working for the World of Wonder sideshow last month.
上个月我正在为《奇迹世界》杂耍节目工作。
I had made friends with the carnie who was running the Gravitron.
我和运行 Gravitron 的卡尼成了朋友。
(SUBJECT) PENNY DELANEY COTHRAN: He started up the ride, and the music was blaring.
（主题）PENNY DELANEY COTHRAN：他启动了游乐设施，音乐震耳欲聋。
And I remember it was Motley Crue's "Dr. Feelgood."
我记得那是 Motley Crue 的《Dr. Feelgood》。
Anyway, he gave me a private showing where I'm riding inside this thing.
不管怎样，他给我私人展示了我在这东西里的位置。
Music's blasting.
音乐震耳欲聋。
(SUBJECT) PENNY DELANEY COTHRAN: And the lights were going.
（主题）PENNY DELANEY COTHRAN：灯就亮了。
And we were spinning around, and this centrifugal force was pushing us up against the wall.
我们在旋转，这种离心力将我们推到墙上。
And the next thing I know, this carnie steps out from behind his operating box and comes out into the centrifuge, and proceeds to pull himself up and place his feet on the spinning wall and walk over the riders, step by step, with his body completely horizontal to the earth.
接下来我知道的是，这个卡尼从操作箱后面走出来，进入离心机，然后把自己拉起来，把脚放在旋转的墙上，一步一步地从骑手身上走过，身体与地面完全水平。
He's standing on the wall next to me, surfing inside of the Gravitron.
他站在我旁边的墙上，在重力场内冲浪。
That's right, the ride operator left the control panel to start surfing the inside, parallel to the ground.
没错，游乐设施操作员离开了控制面板，开始在与地面平行的内部冲浪。
(SUBJECT) PENNY DELANEY COTHRAN: The force was holding his feet against the wall, and it was just the most amazing thing I'd ever seen.
（主题）PENNY DELANEY COTHRAN：一股力量把他的脚压在墙上，这是我见过的最令人惊奇的事情。
Best experience of my life.
我一生中最好的经历。
Ira Glass So I know, because you told me right before we sat down, that a lot of the stories that people called in to tell were love stories.
艾拉·格拉斯 所以我知道，因为你在我们坐下之前告诉我，人们打电话来讲述的很多故事都是爱情故事。
Tons of love stories, or like-like stories.
无数的爱情故事，或者类似的故事。
[LAUGHTER] Like, summer flings, summer romances, first kisses.
[笑声] 比如，夏日狂欢、夏日浪漫、初吻。
There were people that lost their virginity on rides.
有些人在乘车时失去了童贞。
Ew.
呃。
Jane Marie Yeah.
简·玛丽 是的。
Don't do that.
不要那样做。
But then there were the proposals.
但随后就有了一些建议。
There were a lot of people proposing at amusement parks, some more successfully than others.
有很多人在游乐园求婚，有些人比其他人更成功。
My name is Natasha.
我叫娜塔莎。
And in May, my boyfriend proposed to me on a roller coaster.
五月，我男朋友在过山车上向我求婚。
We were on a Viper.
我们乘坐的是毒蛇号。
He said, "Will you marry me?" And he popped open the ring box.
他说：“你愿意嫁给我吗？”然后他打开了戒指盒。
And the ring fell out of the box and down into the pits of Viper.
戒指从盒子里掉出来，掉进了毒蛇的深坑里。
It was pretty awful.
这真是太糟糕了。
I started trying to get the ride operator to stop the car.
我开始尝试让乘车运营商停车。
The director of operations at the park assembled a team of about 20 people, and they searched for the ring for hours.
公园运营总监组建了一支约 20 人的团队，花了几个小时寻找戒指。
And that happened in May.
那件事发生在五月。
So the kicker here is that that ring was actually my grandmother's ring, and they're actually still searching for it.
所以这里的关键是那枚戒指实际上是我祖母的戒指，而且他们实际上仍在寻找它。
We have yet to find it.
我们还没有找到它。
So I called Natasha, actually, to see if they'd found it yet.
事实上，我打电话给娜塔莎，看看他们是否已经找到了。
And she said that the park had called her recently and said they found a ring.
她说公园最近给她打电话说他们发现了一枚戒指。
But it wasn't hers.
但这不是她的。
There was another engagement ring.
还有另一枚订婚戒指。
Well, it's good to know that her fiancé wasn't the only dummy.
好吧，很高兴知道她的未婚夫不是唯一的假人。
Right.
正确的。
And then we got a bunch of scary calls.
然后我们接到了一堆可怕的电话。
So this is a scary one.
所以这是一个可怕的事情。
Wendy in Austin, Texas-- she and her friend went to the fair.
德克萨斯州奥斯汀的温迪——她和她的朋友去参加了集市。
And they were getting on a roller coaster.
他们正在坐过山车。
It was one of those medium-sized fair roller coasters where there's one big drop and then a loop-de-loop.
这是一种中型公平过山车，先有一个大的下降，然后再循环。
But as she was getting on, she was futzing around with her purse.
但当她继续前进时，她却在摆弄她的钱包。
I reached up to pull the harness down over me, and it locked above my head.
我伸手将安全带拉到身上，它就锁在我的头顶上。
And I have nothing holding me into the roller coaster.
我没有什么能阻止我坐上过山车。
So I look over in horror as the carnie guy that was running the ride looks at me, and he pushes the button to go, and the thing starts to go.
所以当我惊恐地看着负责骑乘的卡尼人看着我时，他按下了按钮，然后事情就开始了。
And I'm telling him, wait, wait, wait!
我告诉他，等等，等等，等等！
Stop, stop!
停下来，停下来！
I don't have my seat belt on!
我没系安全带！
I know.
我知道。
So now she's going up the hill.
所以现在她要上山了。
So she said she turned to her friend, and she just decided to wrap her arms and legs around her friend.
所以她说她转向她的朋友，然后她决定用胳膊和腿拥抱她的朋友。
Euh.
呃。
Jane Marie I know.
简·玛丽我知道。
And so they go down the hill, and then they go through the loop-de-loop.
于是他们下了山，然后穿过环路。
So she's upside down?
所以说她是颠倒过来的？
Jane Marie I know, just hanging onto her friend.
我认识简·玛丽，她正紧紧抓住她的朋友。
As tight as I can, to stay inside the ride.
尽我所能，留在车内。
And what really got scary is we whipped around the corners.
真正可怕的是我们在拐角处。
I almost got thrown out, but I didn't.
我差点被赶出去，但我没有。
She said that she had whiplash for a week and that she was too young to realize that she probably could have sued them.
她说她颈部扭伤已经一周了，而且她还太年轻，没有意识到她可能可以起诉他们。
Hm.
嗯。
Jane Marie So there's another story from this woman, Susan.
简·玛丽 这个女人苏珊还有另一个故事。
Her 3-year-old wanted to go to the fair, but it was super late at night.
她三岁的孩子想去参加集市，但已经是深夜了。
And so they humored him, and they were like, sure, we'll take you.
所以他们迁就了他，然后说，当然，我们会带你去。
But they figured he would fall asleep on the way there.
但他们认为他会在路上睡着。
But he didn't.
但他没有。
He stayed awake.
他保持清醒。
So I said, OK, I'll take you in for one ride on the Ferris wheel, and then we'll go back to the car.
于是我说，好吧，我带你去坐一趟摩天轮，然后我们就回到车上。
My husband didn't even put his shoes on, because he didn't think he'd make it there.
我丈夫甚至没有穿鞋，因为他认为他无法到达那里。
So we took him to the Ferris wheel, and he kept pointing to the Scrambler saying that he wanted to go on the Scrambler.
于是我们带他去了摩天轮，他一直指着扰频器说他要上扰频器。
And I said, no, no, no. And we got off the ride.
我说，不，不，不。我们下了车。
I held the chain for the person behind me to come out.
我拉着链子让身后的人出来。
And when I turned back around, he was gone.
当我回头时，他已经走了。
We could not find him anywhere.
我们到处都找不到他。
And as we're looking around-- and we have a whole group looking for this little three-year-old boy-- I looked up, and he was inside the gate of the Scrambler.
当我们环顾四周时——我们有一整群人在寻找这个三岁的小男孩——我抬头一看，他就在扰频器的大门内。
And the Scrambler was going.
扰频器正在运行。
His head was just at the car level.
他的头刚好与汽车齐平。
And the carnie woman stopped the ride, and she stopped it in time.
那个卡尼女人停下了车，她及时停下了。
She walked over, picked him up, handed him to me.
她走过去，把他抱起来，递给我。
She didn't say a word.
她什么也没说。
And I took him.
我带了他。
And he said, "She was really scary." And I said, "That woman was an angel." And so I will never bad-mouth a carnie again.
他说：“她真的很可怕。”我说：“那个女人是天使。”所以我再也不会说卡尼的坏话了。
I'm glad we finally have some unequivocally pro-carnie material in this story.
我很高兴我们终于在这个故事中得到了一些明确支持卡尼的材料。
Me too.
我也是。
Woman Hi.
女人嗨。
My amusement park story takes place in Disneyland.
我的游乐园故事发生在迪士尼乐园。
And I was really excited to go on the haunted house ride.
我真的很兴奋能够去鬼屋之旅。
I forget what it's called.
我忘记它叫什么了。
Anyways, the door opens, and you are let into a room.
不管怎样，门打开了，你被带进了一个房间。
And the door opens into a dark, empty room.
门打开，进入一个黑暗、空荡荡的房间。
And there is a person, a little-- little person.
还有一个人，一个小小人。
He was in the room already.
他已经在房间里了。
And I thought it was part of the haunted house, so I started screaming.
我以为这是鬼屋的一部分，所以我开始尖叫。
And he was looking at me because I was screaming.
他看着我，因为我在尖叫。
And he was screaming at me.
他对我尖叫。
We were both screaming at each other.
我们都互相尖叫。
And then we both realized that it was not part of the haunted house and that we were just waiting in line with each other.
然后我们都意识到这不是鬼屋的一部分，我们只是在排队等候。
And we pretended like nothing happened.
我们假装什么都没发生。
And finally, there were the puke stories.
最后，还有呕吐的故事。
Mm-hmm.
嗯嗯。
Ira Glass And is the story more than just, I was on a ride, and I puked?
艾拉·格拉斯（Ira Glass） 这个故事不仅仅是我在乘车时吐了？
Yeah.
是的。
It's "I was on a ride and I puked," or "I was on a ride and I got puked on."
它是“我在乘车时，我吐了”，或者“我在乘车时，我被吐了”。
Well, I don't want to hear that.
好吧，我不想听这个。
Wait, was there any that had a twist?
等等，有没有什么扭曲的地方？
Was it a surprise plot twist?
这是一个令人惊讶的情节转折吗？
The one that stands out for me is, this lady was on that Ocean Motion ride that's like a big boat that swings back and forth.
对我来说最引人注目的是，这位女士乘坐的是海洋运动游乐设施，就像一艘来回摆动的大船。
Yeah, just swings.
是的，只是摇摆。
Ira Glass --and up and down, yeah.
艾拉·格拉斯（Ira Glass）——上下，是的。
It's like a pendulum.
它就像一个钟摆。
And so she was up at the highest part of the boat, and she saw the guy on the other end of the boat start puking.
于是她就到了船的最高处，然后她看到船另一端的那个人开始呕吐。
And so then she was swinging down at the puke.
然后她就因呕吐而倒下。
Oh, no. And did she see the puke in midair--
哦，不。她有没有看到半空中的呕吐物——
I could see, in slow motion, this line of vomit coming towards me.
我可以看到，在慢动作中，这条呕吐物正向我走来。
Ew!
呃！
Woman About two seconds later, it splatters the entire right side of my body.
女人 大约两秒钟后，它溅落在我身体的整个右侧。
There's nowhere to go!
无处可去！
You can't get off the boat!
你不能下船！
Jane Marie-- she used to be a producer here.
简·玛丽——她曾经是这里的制片人。
These days, she is the host of the podcast The Dream, a show we really like.
如今，她是播客《梦想》的主持人，这是我们非常喜欢的节目。
It's about multi-level marketing schemes and the people who get caught up in them.
这是关于多层次营销计划以及陷入其中的人们。
Act Three-- What I Didn't Do On My Summer Vacation.
第三幕——我暑假里没有做的事。
Sometimes, somebody ends up in an amusement park who really has no business there at all, who was not built to thrill at the thrills that the amusement park offers.
有时，有些人最终来到了一个游乐园，但他在那里根本没有任何意义，他生来就不是为了享受游乐园提供的刺激而感到兴奋的。
As a teenager, Jonathan Goldstein spent a summer working at an amusement park-- one that was situated right on the beach-- in Wildwood, New Jersey.
青少年时期，乔纳森·戈尔茨坦在新泽西州怀尔德伍德的一家游乐园工作了一个夏天，该游乐园位于海滩上。
It is your typical amusement park on the beach.
这是典型的海滩游乐园。
There's a boardwalk, three wooden piers with roller coasters and a Ferris wheel, and lots of dropped popcorn and hot dog buns for the seagulls to eat.
这里有一条木板路、三个带过山车和摩天轮的木码头，还有很多掉落的爆米花和热狗面包供海鸥吃。
It's been 29 years since Jonathan went to work at Wildwood, and he always wanted to go back.
乔纳森 (Jonathan) 去怀尔德伍德工作已经 29 年了，他一直想回去。
And so we sent him, along with one of our producers, Jonathan Menjivar.
所以我们派了他和我们的制片人之一乔纳森·门吉瓦 (Jonathan Menjivar) 一起去。
A quick note to listeners.
给听众的一个简短说明。
This story has nothing explicit in it, but it does make reference to the existence of sex, as does this warning.
这个故事没有任何明确的内容，但它确实提到了性的存在，就像这个警告一样。
The smell of garbage is really bringing it all back in a rush.
垃圾的气味真的让一切都匆忙恢复了。
Maybe I could bring back a bag with some saltwater taffy.
也许我可以带一袋盐水太妃糖回来。
After a whole religious rebirth that I won't go into here, the summer of my 16th year found me seriously considering yeshiva, rabbinical school, for the fall.
在经历了一次宗教重生之后（我不会在这里详细介绍），我第 16 年的夏天发现我认真考虑秋季去犹太学校（犹太学校）。
My rabbi suggested I spend the summer at this religious camp just to give me a better idea of what was to come.
我的拉比建议我在这个宗教营地度过夏天，只是为了让我更好地了解即将发生的事情。
But my best friend Evan said that summer camp was for suckers, and religious camp was even worse, and that if I came with him to Wildwood, he'd personally make sure I had a good time.
但我最好的朋友埃文说夏令营是给傻瓜的，宗教营更糟糕，如果我和他一起去怀尔德伍德，他会亲自确保我玩得很开心。
"I'll get you L'ed really good," he wrote, like a blood oath in my 1986 high school yearbook.
“我会让你获得真正的好成绩，”他写道，就像我 1986 年高中年鉴上的血誓。
That's L'ed as in the letter L.
这就是字母 L 中的 L'ed。
And getting L'ed seemed important, especially if I was going to be giving my life over to the Torah, a text that placed greater emphasis on getting C'ed, as in circumcised.
获得 L'ed 似乎很重要，尤其是如果我打算将自己的生命交给托拉（Torah），而托拉文本更加强调获得 C'ed，就像割礼一样。
And so I went to Wildwood.
所以我去了怀尔德伍德。
And now, I was back.
现在，我回来了。
As you've seen getting here, my sense of direction isn't my forte.
正如你所见，我的方向感并不是我的强项。
Man, it's like the whole summer I was just floating around in a jar of formaldehyde.
伙计，就像整个夏天我都漂浮在一罐甲醛中一样。
The plan was to go down and get jobs.
计划是下去寻找工作。
It was what a lot of teenagers in my town did.
我镇上的很多青少年就是这样做的。
Evan's older brother had done it years earlier and had arranged a job for Evan handing out darts to patsies eager to pop balloons on the boardwalk.
埃文的哥哥几年前就这么做了，并为埃文安排了一份工作，向那些渴望在木板路上戳破气球的小偷分发飞镖。
And I was supposed to get a job, too.
我也应该找到一份工作。
But on our fourth night there, still without work, I sat on the edge of my bed and felt that sense of being a failure.
但到了第四个晚上，我仍然没有工作，坐在床边，感受到了一种失败的感觉。
This feeling would eventually become a staple in my life, something I'd grow comfortable with in bars, gyms, offices, and bedrooms.
这种感觉最终将成为我生活中的主要内容，我会在酒吧、健身房、办公室和卧室中逐渐适应这种感觉。
But just then, the feeling was strange and new, and I didn't quite know what to do with it.
但就在那时，这种感觉很陌生，很新鲜，我不知道该怎么办。
We lived in a co-ed boarding house run by a woman with a face like a clenched fist named Mrs. D.
我们住在一所男女混合的寄宿处，由一位名叫 D 夫人的女人经营，她的脸像紧握的拳头。
I spent my days hanging out at Evan's balloon stand, where his boss finally became so tired of having me around that he pulled some strings to get me a job working as a change boy at an arcade.
我整天在埃文的气球摊上闲逛，他的老板终于厌倦了我的存在，于是他用一些手段为我找到了一份在游乐场当换尿布童的工作。
If you walk down the boardwalk, there was a point where it looked like the fun had come to an end.
如果你沿着木板路走下去，就会发现乐趣似乎已经结束了。
My arcade was just a few yards past that.
我的拱廊就在距离那儿几码远的地方。
--that's what I'm thinking.
——我就是这么想的。
I'm-- I think-- if anything, maybe that little shack right over there was the arcade, where there's a roller coaster going over it now.
我——我想——如果有的话，也许那边的那个小棚屋就是拱廊，现在有一个过山车从上面经过。
It's like the little house that Alvy Singer grew up in in Annie Hall.
这就像阿尔维·辛格在安妮霍尔长大的小房子。
You've still got pizza parlors, games with unwinnable prizes, and the vague threat of violence about to erupt.
你仍然有披萨店、无法赢得奖品的游戏，以及即将爆发的模糊的暴力威胁。
In other words, Wildwood hadn't changed much.
换句话说，怀尔德伍德并没有发生太大变化。
Back then, everything looked like 1986.
那时，一切看起来都像 1986 年。
Now?
现在？
1987.
1987年。
Though, as it turns out, the arcade I worked at is long gone.
然而，事实证明，我工作的游乐场早已不复存在。
Even at the time, all the other arcades were carpeted and air-conditioned.
即使在当时，所有其他拱廊都铺有地毯并装有空调。
But mine was like an outhouse with all the oldest, skankiest games, all their joysticks having had the joy jerked right out of them years earlier.
但我的就像一个户外厕所，里面有所有最古老、最肮脏的游戏，所有的操纵杆都在几年前就被猛烈地抽离了。
On the 4th of July, I remember watching the fireworks through a little crack in the wall right above the Donkey Kong machine.
7 月 4 日，我记得通过大金刚机器上方墙上的一个小裂缝观看烟花。
I felt like a young Tony Montana just having come to America, except the only person I wanted to kill was myself.
我感觉自己就像年轻的托尼·蒙大拿刚刚来到美国，只不过我唯一想杀的人就是我自己。
Being a human change machine is just one of the jobs that seems only to exist on the boardwalk, like the guy who's paid to dance in front of the T-shirt shop to draw customers or the girl who blows bubbles all day outside a souvenir store.
成为一个人类改变机器只是似乎只存在于木板路上的工作之一，就像在 T 恤店前跳舞以吸引顾客的男人或在纪念品商店外整天吹泡泡的女孩一样。
Yes, that's my job.
是的，那是我的工作。
I take money from them.
我从他们那里拿钱。
That's your whole job, is just blowing bubbles?
这就是你的全部工作，只是吹泡泡吗？
No. No, of course.
不，不，当然。
Jonathan Goldstein The bubble girl tells me she is from Bulgaria.
乔纳森·戈德斯坦（Jonathan Goldstein） 泡泡女孩告诉我她来自保加利亚。
The Bulgarian bubble girl is very young-looking-- like, "first time away from home" young.
这位保加利亚泡泡女孩看起来非常年轻——就像“第一次离开家”的年轻。
And as she explains to me her work responsibilities, she is approached by a man who turns out to be her boss.
当她向我解释她的工作职责时，一个男人找到了她，而这个男人竟然是她的老板。
He plants a big kiss on her cheek, as though marking his territory.
他在她脸颊上印下一个大大的吻，仿佛标记了他的领地。
Is it a good summer?
这是一个美好的夏天吗？
Man Yeah, it's all right.
是的，没关系。
It's all right.
没关系。
This boardwalk's getting bad.
这条木板路越来越糟糕了。
At nighttime, this boardwalk is bad.
晚上的时候，这条木板路很糟糕。
What do you mean?
你是什么意思？
Like-- Man Like, bad fights and people stabbing people and shooting people.
就像——像男人一样，激烈的打架和人们刺伤人、射击人。
Yeah.
是的。
You go two blocks off the boardwalk, there was a shooting and stabbing the other day.
你走出木板路两个街区，前几天发生了枪击和刺伤事件。
Holy cow.
圣牛。
Man It's worse under the boardwalk.
伙计，木板路下面的情况更糟。
[LAUGHS]
[笑]
Oh, sex and drugs.
哦，性和毒品。
I park underneath my store, and you can see underneath it here.
我把车停在我的商店下面，你可以在这里看到它下面。
And you catch them all the time down under there.
你总是能在下面抓住它们。
They go right down them steps, and right underneath the boardwalk.
他们径直走下台阶，来到木板路下面。
Yep.
是的。
All right.
好的。
See you later.
稍后见。
Oh, boy.
哦，男孩。
That was creepy.
那真是令人毛骨悚然。
My old boss, Mike, was creepy, too.
我的前老板迈克也很令人毛骨悚然。
Mike always wore sunglasses and a red, skintight bathing suit that, for some reason I could never quite fathom, always appeared to be wet.
迈克总是戴着墨镜和红色紧身泳衣，出于某种我永远无法理解的原因，它总是显得湿漉漉的。
My friend Evan said that it was unwholesome how Mike's arms were so short.
我的朋友埃文说迈克的手臂这么短是不健康的。
"He's like a T-Rex," Evan said.
“他就像一只霸王龙，”埃文说。
The first time Mike paid me, he had to get all crooked to get his wallet out.
迈克第一次付钱给我时，他费了好大劲才把钱包拿出来。
Most of the time, I was in the arcade all by myself, and hardly anyone ever came in-- just little kids who sat on the ancient skee ball machines asking for free games.
大多数时候，我一个人呆在游戏厅里，几乎没有人进来——只有小孩子坐在古老的斯基球机上要求免费游戏。
Those old skee ball machines haven't really changed.
那些老式的滚球机并没有真正改变。
Now, my technique used to be, I'd do a sort of bank shot.
现在，我过去的技术是，我会做一种银行投篮。
There was this sweet spot that I would hit on the right bank.
我会在右岸找到这个最佳位置。
[BALL ROLLING] That was really close, wasn't it?
[球滚动]那真的很接近，不是吗？
You got the lowest amount of points you can get.
您获得了可以获得的最低分数。
You're like my son that I'm taking out trying to-- "You got the lowest one, dad." That little beer cozy is going to be mine.
你就像我的儿子，我要带你去尝试——“你的成绩是最低的，爸爸。”那个小啤酒舒适区将是我的了。
No longer will my hand have to be so frigid when I'm drinking a Budweiser.
当我喝百威啤酒时，我的手将不再那么冰冷。
[BALL ROLLING] Mike was an alcoholic, and he left me to open and close the place most of the time.
[球滚动] 迈克是个酒鬼，他大部分时间都让我来开关这个地方。
Sometimes he would stagger in in the middle of the afternoon and lay down on the lopsided pool table.
有时他会在下午三点左右摇摇晃晃地进来，躺在倾斜的台球桌上。
Once comfortably spread out, he'd ask me to cover him from head to toe with the stuffed animals for skee ball so he could sleep without getting caught by the old woman who ran the pier.
一旦舒服地躺下来，他就会让我从头到脚用滑板球的毛绒动物盖住他，这样他就可以睡觉，而不会被经营码头的老妇人抓住。
Every time I put Mike to bed, I became more and more convinced that yeshiva was the place for me.
每次我让迈克上床睡觉，我就越来越相信犹太学院就是适合我的地方。
When he wasn't goofing off drunk, Mike was furthering Evan's work of trying to get me L'ed.
当迈克不喝醉的时候，他就在继续埃文的工作，试图让我获得 L'ed。
He would invite Nancy, the 19-year-old redhead who ran the water squirt game next door, over so he could tell her about how she should "devirginalize" me.
他会邀请隔壁经营水枪游戏的 19 岁红发女孩南希过来，这样他就可以告诉她应该如何“去处女化”我。
Nancy was a Jersey girl who wore low-backed shirts that showed off a large, complicated dragon tattoo.
南希是一位泽西岛女孩，她穿着低背衬衫，上面有一个巨大而复杂的龙纹身。
She told me it was a Chinese wind god and that an old biker boyfriend had given it to her.
她告诉我这是一个中国风神，是一个骑自行车的老男友送给她的。
It started at her neck and slithered all the way down into her pants to blow across the tundra.
它从她的脖子开始，一直滑到她的裤子里，吹过苔原。
In the afternoon, when business was slow, Nancy would come by and tell me about how Mike had just been over pleading on my behalf, and how she tried to explain to him that "We was just friends, right?" "Oh, yeah," I'd say, swallowing back the hard lump of foul-tasting virgin tears congealing in my throat.
下午，生意不景气时，南希会过来告诉我迈克刚刚如何为我过度恳求，以及她如何试图向他解释“我们只是朋友，对吗？” “哦，是的，”我一边说，一边把凝结在喉咙里的、难闻的处女泪水咽回去。
"The best."
“最好的。”
(SUBJECT) WOMAN (ON SPEAKER): Watch the tram car, please.
（主题）女士（对着发言者）：请注意电车车厢。
When you listen to this music, don't you feel like you're going to round the corner and you're going to see, like, Joe Pesci beating someone to death with a baseball bat?
当你听这首音乐时，难道你不觉得你即将转过街角，你会看到乔·佩西用棒球棒把某人打死吗？
That's all I could think about.
这就是我所能想到的。
It's a song called "Wildwood Days." Do you hear it?
这是一首名为“Wildwood Days”的歌曲。你听到了吗？
"Wildwood Days and Wildwood Nights."
“怀尔德伍德的白天和怀尔德伍德的夜晚。”
Yeah.
是的。
[MUSIC - "WILDWOOD DAYS" BY BOBBY RYDELL]
[音乐 - 鲍比·莱德尔的《怀尔德伍德时代》]
(SINGING) Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, those Wildwood days.
（唱歌）哇，哇，哇，哇，那些怀尔德伍德的日子。
My producer Jonathan and I walk down the boardwalk, where we discover what's got to be the very worst job in Wildwood.
我的制片人乔纳森和我沿着木板路走，在那里我们发现怀尔德伍德最糟糕的工作是什么。
(SUBJECT) DUTZ BONUS, JR.: Most of the stuff I do is just off the top of my head.
（主题）DUTZ BONUS, JR.：我所做的大部分事情都只是我的想法。
It's whatever I can pick up on the spot.
这是我当场能捡到的东西。
[POPPING] Jonathan Goldstein This is Dutz Bonus, Jr. The sounds you hear are people shooting at him with guns.
[POPPING] Jonathan Goldstein 这是 Dutz Bonus, Jr. 你听到的声音是人们用枪向他射击的声音。
Dutz Bonus, Jr. is a human paintball target.
Dutz Bonus, Jr. 是一个人体彩弹目标。
He shuffles back and forth and eggs on the crowd while being splattered like a Jackson Pollock canvas.
他来回拖着脚步，向人群扔蛋，同时又像杰克逊·波洛克的画布一样被溅得水花四溅。
(SUBJECT) DUTZ BONUS, JR.: [CHUCKLES] I'll put it as blunt as I can, because this is how it is on my tax forms, too.
（主题）DUTZ BONUS, JR.：[咯咯笑]我会尽可能直白地说，因为我的税表上也是这样的。
I'm an entertainer-- not the dancer kind.
我是一个艺人——不是舞者。
But basically, I get suited up in hockey gear, and I get shot at all night.
但基本上，我穿上曲棍球装备，整晚都会被射击。
And it doesn't start to get to you a little bit?
这并没有开始让你感到一点点困扰吗？
Do you dream about it?
你有梦想吗？
(SUBJECT) DUTZ BONUS, JR.: No, I love it.
（主题）DUTZ BONUS, JR.：不，我喜欢它。
It's entertaining to me, because this is one of the jobs that I can be as creative as I want to be.
这对我来说很有趣，因为这是我可以随心所欲地发挥创造力的工作之一。
And it's just like web page design.
这就像网页设计一样。
When you go in, you can do whatever you want.
当你进去后，你可以做任何你想做的事情。
Before Dutz, human paintball targets simply shuffled from side to side, holding a shield.
在杜兹之前，人类彩弹目标只是拿着盾牌从一边移动到另一边。
Then, one day, Dutz dropped his shield and began to moonwalk.
然后，有一天，杜兹丢下了盾牌，开始月球漫步。
Soulja Boy was to follow.
Soulja Boy 紧随其后。
He also invented shadowboxing at the paintballs and running towards the shooters.
他还发明了彩弹射击和跑向射手的太极拳。
Dutz is protected by a suit that looks like what you'd come up with if you tried to build a Michelin Man costume out of moist newspaper and epoxy glue.
杜兹受到一套防护服的保护，这套防护服看起来就像你试图用潮湿的报纸和环氧树脂胶制作米其林轮胎人服装一样。
So people are armed with paintball guns?
那么人们都配备了彩弹枪吗？
(SUBJECT) DUTZ BONUS, JR.: Yeah, that we provide, because a lot of people try to-- they want to bring their own, but we don't allow that.
（主题）DUTZ BONUS, JR.：是的，我们提供，因为很多人试图——他们想自带，但我们不允许这样做。
It's just not going to happen.
这不会发生。
So the suit that you wear protects you from any pain?
那么您穿的防护服可以保护您免受任何疼痛吗？
(SUBJECT) DUTZ BONUS, JR.: For the most part, yeah.
（主题）DUTZ BONUS, JR.： 大部分情况下，是的。
There's some weak spots.
有一些弱点。
But I can't say where the weak spots are, because then a lot of people will find out.
但我不能说弱点在哪里，因为那样很多人就会发现。
And then it becomes a little dangerous.
然后就变得有点危险了。
Before agreeing to talk with me, Dutz wanted to finish his break with the woman who works next door at the old-timey photo place.
在同意与我交谈之前，杜兹想与在旧式照相馆隔壁工作的那位女士结束他的休息。
As it turns out, she's his wife, who he met on this very boardwalk.
事实证明，她是他的妻子，他就是在这条木板路上认识的。
Dutz might spend his day getting fired at in a cage.
杜兹可能会在笼子里度过一天，遭受枪击。
But at least, on his time off, he has someone to talk to, someone with whom to share the secret weak spots in his armor.
但至少，在他休息的时候，他有人可以交谈，有人可以分享他盔甲上秘密的弱点。
Back when I lived there, Wildwood had this reputation for being a big party town.
当我住在那里时，怀尔德伍德以派对大镇而闻名。
People were supposed to be scoring like nuts on the boardwalk every night.
人们应该每晚都在木板路上疯狂得分。
And actually, they were.
事实上，他们确实是。
The only real action I got that summer, though, was in the form of a single kiss.
然而，那个夏天我唯一真正的行动是一个吻。
I later referred to it as the kiss that ruined my summer.
我后来把它称为毁了我夏天的吻。
It happened while I was out walking on the boardwalk late one night.
这件事发生在一天深夜我在木板路上散步时。
I saw a group of older girls, maybe in their early 20s, coming toward me.
我看到一群年龄较大的女孩，大约二十岁出头，朝我走过来。
One of them, a little ahead of the others, was spinning with her arms stuck out and her long, blonde hair all over the place.
其中一个比其他人稍早一点，伸出双臂，旋转着，金色的长发散落在各处。
Just as she got right up close to me, she grabbed the back of my neck and put her lips right on mine.
就在她靠近我的时候，她抓住了我的后颈，将她的嘴唇放在了我的嘴唇上。
I remember, as she pulled back, I spastically grabbed onto her wrist.
我记得，当她向后退时，我痉挛地抓住了她的手腕。
I didn't want her to leave.
我不想让她离开。
Her friends had to pry my fingers off, one at a time, as she stood there smiling at me all stoned and airy.
当她站在那里对我微笑时，她的朋友们不得不一次一根地撬开我的手指。
That night, back at the boarding house in our room, I spent the rest of the evening obsessing, as it might have been the last one I'd receive until I got married.
那天晚上，回到我们房间的寄宿处，我整个晚上都在沉迷其中，因为这可能是我结婚前收到的最后一份礼物。
That kiss pretty much felt like my swinging bachelorhood.
那个吻几乎就像我摇摆不定的单身生活。
In yeshiva, I'd be the mysterious one with a past.
在犹太学院，我是一个有着过去的神秘人物。
For the rest of the summer, I couldn't pass a woman on the boardwalk without thinking that we should somehow be meeting in a kiss, that that's how life should really be.
在整个夏天的剩余时间里，每当我在木板路上与一个女人擦肩而过时，我都会想到我们应该以某种方式接吻，这才是生活真正应该的样子。
It turned walking along the boardwalk into a relentless drizzle of small but horrible disappointments.
沿着木板路行走变成了一场无情的毛毛细雨，充满了小而可怕的失望。
I didn't know it then, but that summer would prove the best one I'd have as a teenager.
当时我并不知道，那个夏天将成为我青少年时期度过的最美好的夏天。
Even though I was worked like an indentured servant, giving every penny of my earnings to Mrs. D, even though I made no friends, and even though I only made it to the beach but once, where I sat on a mildewy boarding house washcloth, exhausted and pale, that whole summer felt like some big, fat vacation, just because I was 16 and away from my parents for the first time.
尽管我像一个契约仆人一样工作，把收入的每一分钱都给了D太太，尽管我没有交到朋友，尽管我只去过一次海滩，坐在发霉的寄宿毛巾上，疲惫而苍白，整个夏天感觉就像是一个漫长而充实的假期，仅仅因为我16岁了，第一次离开父母。
When I got back home, I didn't end up going to yeshiva.
当我回到家时，我最终没有去犹太学院。
I didn't bring home any pen pals, money, or happy, romantic memories.
我没有带任何笔友、金钱或快乐、浪漫的回忆回家。
But I did bring back a pair of black pants covered in small, white skulls.
但我确实带回了一条黑色裤子，上面布满了白色的小头骨。
They were really baggy, and I had to wear them with 10-inch cuffs at the bottom.
它们真的很宽松，我不得不在底部穿10英寸的袖口。
But when I showed up for my first day back at school, I thought I looked really punk rock.
但当我回到学校的第一天出现时，我觉得我看起来真的很朋克摇滚。
I thought, like anyone who'd never been L'ed, that they were the pants of someone who got L'ed all summer long.
我想，就像所有从未上过 L'ed 的人一样，它们是整个夏天都上过 L'ed 的人的裤子。
Jonathan Goldstein is the host of the podcast Heavyweight.
乔纳森·戈尔茨坦是播客《重量级》的主持人。
Check it out on Spotify or whatever you get your podcasts.
在 Spotify 或任何您能找到的播客上查看一下。
There's a list of their best, favorite episodes.
这里列出了他们最好、最喜欢的剧集。
Just search "Heavyweight Starter Kit" on Spotify.
只需在 Spotify 上搜索“重量级入门套件”即可。
A lot of winners today?
今天中奖的人多吗？
Man Everybody wins.
男人，每个人都赢了。
Do you have, like, a patter?
你有类似的说法吗？
What would you say to get a guy like me to come over?
你会说什么让像我这样的人过来？
I don't know if I would call you in.
我不知道我是否会叫你进来。
You don't look like the type of guy that would spend money here, you know?
你看起来不像是那种会在这里花钱的人，知道吗？
You get three shots for five--
你五枪三枪——
Was he saying that I'm too cool a customer, or was he saying, "You're too cheap a Jew?"
他是在说我这个顾客太酷了，还是说“你这个犹太人太卑鄙了？”
[MUSIC - "ROLLER COASTER BY THE SEA" BY JONATHAN RICHMAN AND THE MODERN LOVERS]
[音乐 - 乔纳森·里奇曼和现代恋人的“海边过山车”]
(SINGING) You see, I went on the roller coaster last night when I was feeling bad, down by the sea in Santa Cruz, and I was feeling sad.
（唱歌）你看，昨晚我在圣克鲁斯海边坐过山车，心情不好，我感到悲伤。
But we went down and around, and it knocked me out of my head.
但我们下楼转了一圈，这让我大吃一惊。
Well, our program was produced today by Jane Marie and me, with Ben Calhoun, Sarah Koenig, Jonathan Menjivar, Lisa Pollak, Robin Semien, Alissa Shipp, and Nancy Updike.
好吧，我们今天的节目是由简·玛丽和我、本·卡尔霍恩、莎拉·科尼格、乔纳森·门吉瓦尔、丽莎·波拉克、罗宾·塞米恩、艾丽莎·希普和南希·厄普代克共同制作的。
Senior producer for today's show is Julie Snyder.
今天节目的高级制片人是朱莉·斯奈德。
Production help on this rerun from Nora Gill, Catherine Raimondo, Stowe Nelson, and Matt Tierney.
诺拉·吉尔、凯瑟琳·雷蒙多、斯托·尼尔森和马特·蒂尔尼为这部重播剧提供了制作帮助。
Special thanks today to Bill Childs, Dave Althoff, Kim Martin, Jeff Potts, Dave Dickerson, Amy Silverman, Lindsey Young at Morey's Pier in Wildwood, New Jersey.
今天特别感谢新泽西州怀尔德伍德莫雷码头的 Bill Childs、Dave Althoff、Kim Martin、Jeff Potts、Dave Dickerson、Amy Silverman、Lindsey Young。
Original music scoring in Act One of our show by Dave Hill, featuring Dave Hill on guitar.
我们节目第一幕的原创配乐由戴夫·希尔 (Dave Hill) 创作，由戴夫·希尔 (Dave Hill) 担任吉他手。
This American Life is delivered to public radio stations by PRX, the Public Radio Exchange.
《美国生活》由公共广播电台 PRX 向公共广播电台播出。
Thanks, as always, to our program's co-founder, Mr. Torey Malatia, whose turtle breeding experiments are finally paying off.
一如既往地感谢我们项目的联合创始人 Torey Malatia 先生，他的海龟繁殖实验终于获得了回报。
I dare you guys to come feel these turtles.
我敢说你们可以来感受一下这些海龟。
It sounds like a weird thing, but we really have the softest turtles in town.
这听起来很奇怪，但我们确实拥有镇上最柔软的海龟。
You should feel one.
你应该有一种感觉。
They're really soft.
它们真的很柔软。
I'm Ira Glass.
我是艾拉·格拉斯。
Back next week with more stories of This American Life.
下周我们将带来更多《美国生活》的故事。
[MUSIC - "ROLLER COASTER BY THE SEA" BY JONATHAN RICHMAN AND THE MODERN LOVERS]
[音乐 - 乔纳森·里奇曼和现代恋人的“海边过山车”]
(SINGING) Roller coaster by the water, you made me feel more as I ought to, whoa, whoa.
（唱）水边的过山车，你让我感觉更应该，哇，哇。
Yes, you knocked me out of my head.
是的，你让我神魂颠倒。
This American Life is produced in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago and delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange.
《This American Life》与 WBEZ Chicago 合作制作，并由 PRX 公共广播电台传送到各电台。