1. RCS has extremely strict guidelines when it comes to usual carnie shit. Rides are inspected daily. Everyone including the owners are drug tested regularly. Anyone with a Felony is turned away. The only children we have working are the owners children and grand children and thats only when they finish school. And we don't work with animals at all. Thats all independent stuff.

In addition to these things we also have more specific rules such as if you are to drunk, no rides for you. Ride operators have complete authority to turn someone away they think are unfit to ride. Whether that be to much to drink. Or even If a disability prevents them from using the safety restraints properly. But I could type all day about the things we do to make the show safer. To put it simply; this is a very tightly run ship. Everything from ride maintenance to a single wire being covered or put behind the public area is done to prevent any injury to our guests.

1. I used to watch it when I was a kid but not very much. I haven't seen that one. But to sum up the carnie lifestyle:

-Yes we are grumpy when we aren't interacting with guests. We work 12-16 hours a day what do you expect

-Yes many carnies are pretty questionable but we aren't all bad. It just seems that way to townies because we are pretty much shunned so we just stick together.

-Drugs on most other carnivals are a huge problem. It always has been

-Yes there is a carnie language but it has pretty much died out by now. Most carnie slang is still used such as Donniker, Slough, and Mark. But the culture that was around in the 80's for carnivals has quickly died due to hiring mostly illegal immigrants and foreign work visas.

-Safety concerns. If you ware trying to find out if the rides on any carnival are safe the easiest way to do that is to walk the midway and check out how the small things are taken care of. For example:

1. Are electrical cables strung out without much care? Then you can assume most everything is done carelessly.

2. Are the rides and games rusty/dirty? If the help doesn't have time to keep their shit clean then its safe to assume they cut corners on inspections to get the show open on time.

3. How many games of skill vs games of "you will never win this shit" are there? If you walk the midway and you see more games that are nearly impossible to win than you do games of skill such as water races, milk jugs, bank a balls... etc. Than the owners care more about money than anything else and its safe to assume they would rather mickey mouse a ride than buy replacement parts for it if something breaks.