![]() ![]() ![]() I’m genuinely excited to be here, and just minutes after entering, I get myself some appropriate camouflage: a t-shirt and the cheapest booze available. They get pretty loose with their racial slurs and willingness to pay absurd sums of money for okay beer in uncontrolled environments. There is a smattering of “Make America Great Again” t-shirts and an equal number of oversized t-shirts plastered in screen-printed eagles, wolves, and monster trucks. The vast majority of people at the event are white. Monster Jam’s choice to jam monstrously in Anaheim could be a deliberate one - Orange County is one of the only areas in Southern California that still leans Republican, even if the party’s stronghold on the area has waned with time. The crowds, mostly families, are polite, if teeming with excitement. There’s two men screaming about the second coming of Christ to the thousands of people waiting to get into Monster Jam, just in case you want to get quickie saved before filing into the stadium. “It looks like the name for the ticket is the same name as your name.” Now, is the ticket under the same name as the credit card holder?” It’s for my nephew, Connor.” I try to summon a fictional nephew in my head, who maybe fries ants with a magnifying glass and smells like garbage. “Like, do people get hurt? In the trucks?” ![]() I just got this ticket for my nephew and I, um, I just wanted to make sure his ticket is there.” Instead, I elect for the safe option: pretend I’m just as confused. In fact, I can’t even say with certainty that there won’t be a concert or a snake. Is it one of those concerts where they eat a snake?”įor the first time since purchasing one (one) ticket to a monster truck rally, I realize I don’t have an answer to that question. “I’m in Jamaica and people have been calling all morning. “What is this thing?” she asked, pleasantly for first thing on a Saturday. I called Stubhub the morning of the Monster Jam Rally in Anaheim, CA and the sales representative had more questions for me than I did for her. ![]()
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