 The carnival that comes through my neighborhood every winter catches me by surprise every year I'll be settling in for the evening then I'll hear this distant thumping of loud music And I'll think oh one of my neighbors is having a loud party and Then after a while, I'll realize no I'm hearing screaming twos. Oh, oh, it's the carnival One of the big churches in the neighborhood puts this thing on Of course the most popular place is the big tent where all the food is I Told myself I wasn't gonna take any video of this band, but as soon as I made myself that promise they started in with The Peter Gunn theme so I turned around thinking oh are they gonna start like a blues brother's set or something but no they didn't a Question for my overseas viewers correct me if I'm wrong But I've always had the impression that this kind of traveling carnival is a distinctly American phenomenon I've been seeing these things my entire life, and they haven't changed at all when I was a child I wasn't interested in The big fast rides of the roller coasters. I was more interested in these kind of things That were designed to look like cartoon characters or monsters You know machines that had designed to them and I was never interested in cars or motorcycles either But cartoon cars and cartoon motorcycles. Hell. Yeah Wow, this is a fun slide Look at all the fun Those of you who grew up with these carnivals, you know the experience Spending the evening eating sickening corn dogs and tons of cotton candy that cost even more than movie snacks and Even at the age of eight or ten knowing footwell that the Hall of Mirrors and The haunted house ride weren't even worth the 25 cents that you paid to get on them And asking your parents why that ride operator is missing a finger Standing under this machine was just as terrifying as it looks on screen right now It occurred to me while I was shooting this video that Aside from all the cell phones I was seeing with the ACDC music and the BGs and All the kids with their long straight hair and plain t-shirts. This could have been 1978 Like I said before the carnival hasn't changed at all. I Mean, I'm sure half of these big machines are as old as I am These poor animals Remember I was seeing something before about an American phenomenon. Well You can't get any more American than this right here Boy, this video makes the carnival look a lot more awesome than it actually is believe me The thing is they're gonna take all this down at the end of Sunday today the day I'm posting it and Then next Friday only five days later. They're gonna put it all back up One mile down the road in front of the community center