It's the quintessential "heard it from a part timer" reply. People (see Kings Island's Facebook for example) always have a friend of a friend who designs roller coasters for Kings Island (uh, what?) or heard from a ride operator that such-and-such was going to happen. People say, "My friend works at Kings Island in the pretzel stand and they told him that Son of Beast is being demolished. Things like that. For simplicity, we say that these very factual, knowledgable words of wisdom came from "the Dippin' Dots guy."