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Episode 58 - CoasterKat and thoosie sociology
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This week on the premier comedy roller coaster podcast Ally (@CoasterKat44) joins Ben and Zach to talk about SooperDooperLooper at Hersheypark, the sociology of the roller coaster enthusiast community, some terrible roller coasters and much more!
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Introduction to Podcasting Challenges and Anchor.fm
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Merchandise Announcement
00:00:39
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00:00:46
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00:01:11
Speaker
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Humorous Insights on Photography at Shows
00:01:31
Speaker
OK, we have seven minutes until doors open. If we jump on the next possible train, we should have plenty of time to get the front row seats for laugh.
00:01:41
Speaker
We better get those seats. I need at least 20 more close-up photos of Wolfie from my YouTube slideshow. It's the last show of the season, too. Did you know that he always freeballs for the last show of the season? I heard. That's why I brought my telephoto lens. Oh shit, look, there's an open seat in the back. You know what, let's just ride together.
00:02:03
Speaker
You know what that means, wink. Did you just say wink out loud? You know what the hell I'm talking about. Oh, oh, hell yeah. It's been a while. You're such a naughty Ace member. Dude, shut the fuck up. He was 19. What? Alright, let's just do this.
00:02:23
Speaker
Yes, I didn't wear my elastic waistband cargo pants for nothing. Ugh! Ugh! God, fuck, god damn. We probably shouldn't have maxed out at Golden Corral. Twice. Today. Sorry, I, uh, you know, I didn't have time to unload my pudding hatch at Bathroom the Ride. LOL. How the fuck are you still able to fit on Raging Bolt? Oh, I usually just lift my gut up. Uh, here, I'll push it to your left.
00:02:51
Speaker
Ugh, dude, I can see your stretch marks. Looks like a topographical map. What the hell is that smell? I told you, I couldn't shower today. Big boo clogged the toilet and it messed up all the water lines at the hotel. Hey, can you guys buckle your seatbelt? It's already buckled. Uh, let me lift this up. Enjoy your ride. Ugh, you smell like the Batman the ride tunnel at Six Flags Over Georgia on a 100 degree day. Okay, you ready for this?
00:03:20
Speaker
Ow, I can't move my leg. My knee is gonna shatter. Here, sit up more. You're not in a recliner. Are we up high enough? No, no, not yet. Not yet. The ride-up can still see us. Okay, okay, let me whip it out. Oh yeah, I can feel it bulge out of your pocket. I can't get this fucking zipper undone. I can't turn around enough. Lift your leg a bit. Ah, fuck, it's digging in my hip. Fuck, yeah, I can reach it now. Here, here, put your lips over. You need to make a seal.
00:03:54
Speaker
Yeah, you like that? Oh god, we're almost at the top. You dropped the fucking lighter! Fuck! You fucking idiot. Oh, this is my favorite part. Ah, fuck. Ah, fuck! Shit, I think they saw the bomb.
00:04:20
Speaker
Dungeon writers on wizard, we have stopped this attraction due to suspicious activity on the train. We will come evacuate the train shortly. Well, no wolfy close-up for me. It's gonna be the worst off-season ever. I'm good. Do you have an extra set of underwear by chance?
Host and Guest Introductions
00:04:43
Speaker
Welcome to the worst roller coaster podcast on the internet. Now, let's join Ben and Zack as they tell you why your favorite coaster sucks. I'm Zack sipping malt liquor cheaply since 2010. I'm Ben and I'm drinking water.
00:05:11
Speaker
I'm Allie, and I'm still going to be bitter over the RMCT Rex. Holy shit, we got Allie in the house. What's going on, Allie? A boring, typical night in Buttfuck, Virginia, sitting here drinking water and taking shots of Blue Raspberry Svenka. That's the life. Whoa. She's getting lit over there. At least you got something going in middle of nowhere, Virginia.
00:05:39
Speaker
Slightly, slightly. So, right now, right up top, good time. Get your plugs in, whatever you want to plug. Oh, God, plugs. Wow, I didn't think this. I know you're on Instagram. Yes, I am on Instagram at Coaster Cat 456, the Chance Hyper GTX Advocate. Follow me, I guess, if you want really bad takes. I don't believe that.
00:06:08
Speaker
You're right. I don't post my takes at all. So, yeah, but you but you do post some interesting coaster stuff and some various coaster looks on occasion. Yeah. Not as much as like some other girls who do the coaster makeup, which mad respect. Holy crap. I don't see how they do that. But coaster makeup. Yeah. Lame coaster nerd used to do a lot of like a stuff with her makeup and themometer rides. It was really cute.
00:06:38
Speaker
She should do it more.
Creative Expressions and Makeup
00:06:40
Speaker
Oh, nice. Like, wait, like she puts on makeup on the coaster or like, no, she puts makeup on like theme to the coaster. Like she did one for a band. She would like little tombstones. It was really cute. Oh, oh, oh. OK, OK. Yeah. No, putting makeup on on a coaster sounds like a death sentence. I'd probably go blind. That'd be a hilarious challenge video. Yeah. Eyeliner on, I don't know, an arrow.
00:07:08
Speaker
eyeliner on Magnum. Fuck that. Oof. Eyeliner on Canyon Blaster. Oh, God. See, I think of the really shitty mind train that's up at Great Escape, so that takes a whole, whole new connotation for me.
00:07:28
Speaker
That has like one of those weirdly banged helixes, right? Yeah, it does. And it's it's awful on its own. It's like it's an exile, but everything there is basically an exile. It's like the socially distanced park, but. That's it is a weird park. It's pretty. It's very. It's amazing. Comet is. Oh, my God. Fucking phenomenal.
00:07:52
Speaker
Yeah, I'm glad it's still good. And I like the history of that ride too. It's pretty interesting. Me too. Me too. It's really cute. I like it a lot.
Podcast Industry and ACE Comments
00:08:00
Speaker
Yeah. And the air time's fucking sick. I think I like that more than Phoenix. We got to figure out what's going on with Zencaster. Zencaster is having a seizure. It's been doing that every time we get into a good conversation and then like it restarts the intro and we're like, wait, hold on.
00:08:21
Speaker
Yeah, I know. I don't know why it does it because it's not like the button is pressed or anything. Like unless I have to click it when it's done, I don't know. Then just doesn't think we're funny and wants us to shut up. It's like when they play the music at the acceptance speeches. Oh, yeah. OK, podcast over. Thanks for trying. Oh, fuck that. I don't know. People surprisingly, people listen to this. So, you know,
00:08:52
Speaker
And the intro of the worst podcast is sort of just covering the basis of it's like a good cop out. Criticize yourself before anybody can criticize you. Exactly, exactly. Plus, it's a fair warning. So if you don't like any part of the show, hey, we warned you up front. We're the worst. That's fair. That's absolutely fair.
00:09:18
Speaker
I mean, I wonder if anybody like listened to the ace podcast and they were like, you know what? I love that. I'm going to expand and try a different podcast. And then they find your favorite coaster sucks. Oh, I didn't even know ace had a podcast. I know that there's you guys, uh, Clint Novox and, um, coaster radio. That's all I know. I'm very out of the loop pun intended. That should be a podcast out of the loop.
00:09:46
Speaker
in the loop, out of the loop. It'll be my snarky, sarcastic parody. That would be a fun podcast. I mean, it would probably be itching the whole time. I think you'd have to be like hungover to just to add an element to it. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. I'm funniest when I'm drunk. Just kidding. I'm always funny. So just get you at like 6 a.m. Mad hungover.
00:10:14
Speaker
before coffee before my coffee. Do you know what though? I have to say like after doing, um, when we did coaster, cozies, I love them. I was kind of really tired and hungover on Sunday when we recorded that. And it was actually kind of more fun for some reason than being totally sober.
00:10:40
Speaker
Everything's more fun when you're hungover, especially work. Just kidding for legal reasons, that was a joke, but... Yeah. I mean, if you're hungover but you have that, like, still drunk kind of, that's the best. Yeah, yeah. But you're also like, how can I get away with sipping a Pedialyte at work?
00:11:02
Speaker
So I was, uh, I was still drunk when I took my site controller test when I was working to record. Good call. Oh God. Like when the written test. Okay. Okay. Then that's fine. That's fine. Like seven in the morning. Yeah. And I got like a perfect score. I was so happy.
00:11:22
Speaker
See, I usually save the drinking for after my tests. I took the GRE to get into my master's program. I left and the first thing I said to my dad was, I need alcohol because he had to drive me there. So I'm like, I'm not driving, so I might as well just.
00:11:36
Speaker
Knock a few back because that was fucking brutal. What are you getting
Allie's Academic Journey and HR Humor
00:11:40
Speaker
a master's in? Holy shit. Oh, I got my master's. I actually graduated this past this past May, but it was in industrial organizational psychology, which is a very pretentious and fancy way of saying I do HR. I was going to say, are there job prospects? But HR is one of those things that there are. So congratulations on picking reasonably.
00:12:01
Speaker
Thank you. Yeah, with psychology, you've got to go on and get a master's degree. So my mom threw like seven kinds of shit fits when I told her, oh, mom, I'm majoring in psych and that I'm like, oh, fuck, I actually have to commit to this. But I did. So it all turned out OK. Can you also like abstractly diagnose why people are assholes or is that like you say that like I don't write in my free time and I haven't diagnosed why half the people in this community fucking suck? That's a dissertation I'd like to see.
00:12:31
Speaker
if I had any balls, I would actually post it. But yeah, yeah, I got like super pretentious in it. Because listen, this lockdown has done strange things to you, girl. And I was just like, Yeah, no, we're gonna dissect. So why did why is everyone? Why do you guys act this way? Why are you all terrible? And it's like, you guys are probably all just like,
00:12:49
Speaker
have really shitty home lives and so you come onto the internet and act like big tough guy because you have you the higher credit count you have the more social capital like I was whipping out the most pretentious terms and that's when I realized my god I need to go outside but I mean that's those all seem like very true points though I mean yeah I think not just like my own dick but yeah
Ohio's Coaster Enthusiasm
00:13:13
Speaker
I mean, yeah, I mean, people, I don't know, like imagine, okay, think of it this way. Why does Ohio have like the most coaster enthusiasts? I thought you were going to just stop at why is Ohio? Why is Ohio is a very valid question. And I don't think anybody is prepared to answer that. Ohio is pretty cool. It's just, uh, Columbus. What?
00:13:40
Speaker
Ohio theses are definitely a different species. That's because there's like literally the only thing that I mean, if you live there, it's like you could get a season pass for Cedar Fair and like there is your year of activity. That's kind of cool. Honestly, yeah, that is pretty cool. And they live pretty close to either. So it's kind of just like kind of at the end of the day, you still have to live in Ohio.
00:14:07
Speaker
That's true. Oh, right. But it's like going, but here's the thing. Your home life or your regular life sucks so bad 99% of the time. So when you go to see your point, it's like, this is my one escape. Oh, exactly. And then it's like, that's when you become an asshole. I don't know. Yeah. And I think people take it more personally. Like you can tell a normal person, Oh, I don't like like maverick, I guess, which is for the record a fucking lie. I love maverick. But for example, sake,
00:14:35
Speaker
Like you could say, Oh, I don't like Maverick into a normal person. It's kind of just like, Oh, yeah, whatever. But to these people who use it as an escape form, it's like almost feels like they're being attacked themselves. And with these kids, especially these younger kids on here, they come on here and
00:14:51
Speaker
liking some of these rides kind of give them this confidence boost and gives them quote unquote friends and I use that as a loose term because half of these people would drop each other the moment that they put something else as their number one but it gives them like this sense of friendship and camaraderie so they feel like they owe these rides so they get defensive and they crusade and it's just like a really fucked up social contract kind of again not to whip out the pretentious terms but I've had a lot of time to think about this
00:15:20
Speaker
You think people construct social contracts with rides in their heads based on the legitimacy of how they're viewed? I mean, that's a really interesting stance and I've never even considered that. I think with a lot of these younger kids, in a weird way, they actually kind of are doing that because
00:15:38
Speaker
I joke with my friends, you're only allowed to like three rides in this fucking community. So with these kids who like have found this acceptance with like having steel vengeance as their number one, because who if you've never followed me before, I'm the one person who vocally does not like that ride.
00:15:53
Speaker
But these kids who have that as their number one, and they find these groups, they find this camaraderie in that. And I think they feel like, oh, because I don't have a lot of friends in my real life. And suddenly, you know, I've got all this acceptance online. I'm in these fan circle jerk group chats. And it happens for more far more rides than just the one. Absolutely. And it gives them like the sense of community of belonging that they may not have at school or, you know, in some cases, even in their home lives.
00:16:22
Speaker
And it's honestly, it's really sad, but, and then they turn around, they're like, oh, that's not your number one, kill yourself. And then I feel a lot less sad, but at the end of the day, it's still kind of sad. Yeah, I mean, I could, I mean, I remember seeing some of the coaster conversations on like the theme park review forum back in 2005, like even when I was younger, I was 15 and I lived in a small town, so I had nothing going on.
00:16:51
Speaker
gang, gang. So you could totally understand. Okay. Gang. Absolutely. I just want to go ahead and say, fuck you coaster boys with your emptiness. Yeah. I mean, sometimes I come on here and I feel like that Cole Sprouse doing the social experiment on Tumblr. I'm like, you guys are fascinating not to sound like a sociopath or anything, but it's just so interesting to watch how these people interact. And it's just like, y'all,
00:17:17
Speaker
And maybe I'm part of the problem by psycho analyzing everybody, but y'all it's a fucking roller coaster. It ain't that deep. I wonder how long that's been going on. I wonder if the internet's making it worse or if it's like the same thing that's always been going on and just now it's really visible.
Internet's Impact on Coaster Community Behavior
00:17:35
Speaker
I think it's probably always been going on, but I do think the internet, not to sound like a boomer up in here, but I think it's just thrown a magnifying glass on it. And I think we're seeing it more just because we're seeing more of everybody, period. Right. Yeah. Yeah. It's interesting to make a website under like a pseudo name and just like put out some generic observations. This is just an observation, but
00:18:03
Speaker
If you would like to publish your thoughts on our blog anonymously or read them, we can do some voice changings. Well, now everybody's going to know it's me, but everybody's going to know it's me now, but I might actually submit that. I don't know because Instagram is just not conducive to writing. Everybody's like photos, photos, art, drawing. And I'm like, that's really cool. I can't do that. Wait, Zach, I have an idea. Your favorite coaster sucks has a Phantom poster.
00:18:33
Speaker
Phantom poster. Yes, I love it. So sort of like the voicemail line, but it's literally just like a phantom post by anonymous. We'll figure out a way to do that with our submission form somehow. Yeah, I would say I just posted on my Tumblr and dropped the link, but I don't want to admit in the year of 2020 that I still use Tumblr. I'm burying that shit. Fuck that.
00:18:57
Speaker
Oh no, Tumblr's still cool. Tumblr's still cool. They banned the porn. They banned the porn. Well, honestly, when they banned the porn, all the awful people left and went to Twitter. So maybe Tumblr's not so bad after all. Yeah, I still find, I still find tons of porn on Tumblr. Okay, drop the links. Drop the links where they at. Well, I'm in this specific thing, so I don't know. You know what I mean? This is a DM conversation. Well, I guess unless you're into gay Tumblr,
00:19:26
Speaker
I'm into gay Tumblr, but from the complete opposite end, so. Oh, OK. Oh, Tumblr is still alive. Thank God. I'm straight into my 30s, so I have no place on Tumblr. Oh, with that said, I did set up your favorite coaster sucks page there. Why? I don't fucking know, but there is one. So.
00:19:49
Speaker
Speaking from experience, there's like no coaster community on Tumblr. That's like the one place I think personification could actually fly because everybody else has a stick up their ass about, oh, it's weird. I'm like, guys, they're just they're just having fun. Let them do their thing, y'all, please. Right. Yeah, there's no there's no closer community on
Coaster Community Absence on Tumblr
00:20:08
Speaker
Tumblr. I mean, it makes sense. Tumblr is definitely more of like a artsy.
00:20:15
Speaker
Yeah, like an expressive place. And people are like, I want to see a picture of a coaster. I want to see Fury, but a fury had massive tits. Oh, massive titty fury. That'll be my new username. Hasn't Hasn't Fury already been like drawn as a furry? Oh, God, I fucking hope not.
00:20:43
Speaker
Yeah, I thought there was that picture. It was like furry three twenty five. Boy, boy, I hope that's not I hope that is not the case. Oh, God. I'm like, I need to look that up. Yeah. It's like a drawing army. It's like a drawing of furries riding the ride. I'm going to see you guys for like emotional damages. You can't do this to me. You can't just drop this shit at me at nine fifty on a calm Thursday night. I'm not drunk enough for this.
00:21:11
Speaker
Um, man, it's probably in that Coaster Ship Posting Group. I'm pretty sure that's where I saw it. I hear that's a very interesting Facebook group. I don't do Facebook, but sometimes, sometimes I'd like to go and just see what happens there. It's a good one. Yeah, that's a, that's a fun place. Although I got to commend you, Facebook is a ship hole. So good job on getting out of there.
00:21:41
Speaker
Oh, I know way too many people from my hometown on Facebook. Fuck that noise. Yeah, it hasn't been fun on Facebook the past year. Oh, gee, I wonder why that is. I know. Now we're not drunk enough to get political on this bitch, so. Oh, no need to be drunk to do that. And also I would want to be. That's Ben's mission, not mine. Wait, wait, wait, what?
00:22:11
Speaker
I was picking up a pen. First you came for the frogs, then you came for the roller coasters with the shit in the water. I swear to God. Wait, you're talking about gay frogs. Yeah. Gay frogs, gay coasters. It's all part of the liberal agenda. Oh, oh great. Yeah. Tell you what it is. It's the, uh, Dollywood elitists. Oh no. Oh no. Wait a minute.
00:22:36
Speaker
Yeah, because isn't that I think it was some guy on Reddit was talking about how he went and every person he saw had like a fucking maga hat on and I'm like, oh, that's like the antithesis of what Dolly herself would stand for. But it's Tennessee. So I'm not surprised. Yeah, there's there's like definitely an irony in a bunch of maga folks going to Dollywood, watching them sing Dolly Parton songs.
00:23:18
Speaker
That's what someone was saying on Twitter about how it's so surprising that, like, there's a not so surprising that there's a bunch of Trump people in the coaster community, but so surprising when you consider how many gay people are in the coaster community. Do you not realize you're shooting your own foot doing that? Sir, sir, I do think a lot of like I think a lot of the Trump supporters that we see on Instagram, though, is just because, again, Instagram skews
00:23:31
Speaker
is off the charts today, boys.
00:23:46
Speaker
Oh, Jesus, very, very heavily towards kids. And I think a lot of these are just kids who are parroting what their parents have told them. But I mean, Facebook, Reddit, yeah. I don't know. Yeah, it's gonna be a weird scene. Like, that's just that just blows my mind being a kid and like, there's just this thing like Instagram there.
00:24:11
Speaker
Oh god, I'm so glad, like, I'm so glad when I was 14, 15, 16, that I didn't have any social media. I would've been, oh god, I would've been on like every cringe compilation ever. Holy shit. Hell, I turned 25 in less than a month and I'd probably land on a cringe compilation, so. Nah, I mean, I think, well, I don't know.
00:24:32
Speaker
You're like around our age and I think anyone who grew up, if you're like 13 and you have like Instagram and YouTube, you're fucked. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. And see like my parents were the ones who were like, everybody you meet on the internet is a 50 year old who's trying to diddle you and get you in the van. And I'm just like, this has made meeting up even at 24 with people.
00:24:56
Speaker
in parks. I like, I have to lie on my ass to my parents and I'm like, I promise they're not an ax murderer. They are not going to show me the free candy in the van. Also I'm an adult now. I'm good. Right. Yeah. It's, it is interesting to think about like before
00:25:18
Speaker
Well, I don't know, just like, oh, like the idea of meeting on like a sketchy message board. You can say you want to meet up opening day. I don't know, man. I mean, with everything that's going on in the coaster community with like in little kids, maybe my parents weren't too far off.
00:25:39
Speaker
That shit is fucking sad. And it's disappointing because that shit's been going on since as long as Ben and I have been in this community and probably fucking longer. Oh, yeah. It's just again, it's like like we'd said earlier, social media has kind of let us put a magnifying glass on it and hear more. And it's just like, oh, shit, this was a lot more prevalent than we thought.
00:26:03
Speaker
Yeah, ugh. But I think, you know, partially I think the onus is on anybody in the community to help pass that magnifying glass around, shine that light a bit. Oh yeah, oh yeah. Absolutely. And it's on the adults who, if you're being approached by a kid and they're being weird, like you're an adult baby, that's on you. You have to be the adult in that situation and say, uh-uh, no.
00:26:32
Speaker
This is exactly what I text it, or not text it, this message withdrew the intern about that whole situation with Chad. If you know someone's under 16, the only thing you should say to them is like, thanks for liking the channel. Good luck with your homework. Go do your homework. I think your mom wants you to wash the dishes. Two thumbs up. Bye. That's it. No more conversation after that. That's it.
00:26:58
Speaker
Yeah, and I have friends in this community who are younger than me, who are minors, but I know that I have to be super careful with them and make sure they're not getting into any shit and toe the line and be respectful because I'm the fucking adult in that situation. I don't care for younger kids to come to me for advice. Yes, think of me as your cool, kind of bitchy older sister in this community. But there are certain lines that as an adult, you have got to set with minors if you're gonna even remotely be friends with them.
00:27:30
Speaker
Absolutely. And I will concede on that as well, that there's a probably a different dynamic being a female. Oh, yeah. Younger females. Oh, yeah. But when there's a when it's when it's inter intergender, do not know that is the stop. Get the fuck out. Do not talk. Yeah, like there is nothing like it yet. I don't know.
00:27:55
Speaker
I just wanted to. Yeah, well, this conversation got deep as fuck straight off straight off the beginning. Yeah, it's a sign of a good show. It's a sign that I never shut the fuck up either. So there we go. Well, that's OK, because it seems like you actually back that with some thought. So, you know, you're you're doing the heavy lifting on like Ben and I. So around that might be a rare in this community thinking before you speak.
00:28:25
Speaker
Yeah, as long as it's, yeah, like you're definitely not just like rambling about dumb shit. Like no, for real, because for real, cause that's like the, there's, there's two different ballparks in that we've done shit subjective, but no, it's good. These are, these are actually themes that we talk about all the time and they're, they've been pretty big right
Pandemic's Effect on Roller Coaster Trips
00:28:51
Speaker
now. So
00:28:52
Speaker
I mean, especially with this pandemic, like people have not been able to go out and go to parks. I mean, my God, I was getting like close to 100 credits every year. I got nine this year and I did not publicly post about any of them because I'm like, oh, God, like I wore my mask. I distance. But I didn't want people to know I was going places because I didn't want to do meetups. I'm like, yo, no, keep me in my bubble. Thank you. I was scared to go into parks for quite a while this year, up until just recently.
00:29:20
Speaker
Same, same here. I went to two parks in October and then I just very recently got back from another park this past weekend, so. Where'd you go? How was it? October, I went to Cedar Point and Kings Island and I had to keep the Kings Island one really under wraps because I have a lot of friends out there and I just did not, did not feel comfortable with meetups, but I had to know if I loved or hated Orion. So I'm like, all right, bitches, I gotta go. I gotta know.
00:29:49
Speaker
Cedar Point was a total, total shit show. I was there the whole day and I only rode two things. The park did a really good job with enforcing the social distancing and cleaning. People there obeyed it. It was just so...
00:30:04
Speaker
So slammed. And same deal with Kings Island. I did get to ride a little bit more. I do like Orion. I take back every bad thing I said about it. And then I recently, like this past weekend, I was at Silver Dollar City, which, again, much applause to the park employees. They did great. Holy shit. The guests were a completely different story from Ohio. I'm like, I wanted to go around, be like, pull your mask up. Please don't come near me. Oh, Jesus. No, stop it. No. But Outlaw Run is great. Outlaw Run is fucking phenomenal.
00:30:35
Speaker
Uh, yeah, but it kind of made up for it. Yeah. That's like the annoying thing is when it's just like your people getting near you. And now it's just even more, it's just like, get the fuck away. I know. And like, there was a bunch of enthusiasts there and they were really respectful. We did hang out for a little bit, but I'm just like, Oh my God. The, the G not just sound like the GP, but like, yeah, the GP there were like, Jesus Christ, dude. Yeah.
00:31:04
Speaker
Come on, dude. Pull your mask up. Please. I don't want to get sick. God, that's disappointing to hear. It's a great park. I can't recommend. I'm so going back next year. Love it. Can't recommend it enough. But I'm definitely going to wait until August and not just for Moonlight Madness. We'll just say that.
00:31:24
Speaker
I thought it was pretty funny. Somebody in our Discord server posted today that they were in Branson and some store like had on their sign still like the Trump sign.
00:31:39
Speaker
Oh Jesus. Oh God. See, I live in Southwest Virginia. I live closer to Roanoke and my family lives closer to like the Kentucky border. And like where I've not been going a whole lot of places, I usually just go home on the weekends to see my family. And it's been a really fun to count how many Trump signs were on that drive down to my family before the election. And then now, because it was like 30, 40 Trump signs and now I see like 10 and I'm just like, ah,
00:32:07
Speaker
Yes. How does it feel? How does it feel? The Fuck Your Feelings crowd is sure having a lot of feelings tonight, aren't they, Jim? God damn, I got to say it probably feels incredibly vilifying being in Virginia. Oh, in this part of Virginia? Absolutely. I'm pretty convinced that my family was the only people in Wise County that actually voted for Biden. I'm pretty convinced. Well, good on you guys.
00:32:37
Speaker
I mean, it's it's fucking easy for Ben and I to sit here like, yeah, yeah. I live in Chicago. Ben lives in Denver. It's real fucking easy to just say, OK, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I like where I live. It's where I, you know, I like the South for the most part. We got good food. People are mostly nice. I like where I live. It's comfortable. I like my job, but I'm also just like.
00:33:07
Speaker
There's some things that I definitely side eye. I have not been to Virginia in years. But I definitely got some like, outstandingly southern vibes. That's neither negative nor positive. It is what it is, you know, it is what it is. But when the plague times are over, come down to Roanoke, come down to Roanoke, say hi, and then we'll go to King's Dominion or something.
00:33:33
Speaker
Totally. Yeah. It's been 15 years since I've been to Kings Dominion and Busch Gardens. So I'm definitely. Holy shit. Definitely come back. I'm, I'm stoked to shit for Pantheon. That might be my Virginia bias jumping out or my Intamin bias jumping out. Probably. It looks so fucking good.
Anticipation for New Coaster Attractions
00:33:50
Speaker
Yeah. It's like someone, I'm sorry. Oh, I was just like, yeah, it looks good.
00:33:57
Speaker
Yeah, it's like someone reached into my head and designed a coaster like directly for me. Cause like, I love Intamin, Busch Gardens, Williamsburg's my favorite park. I love the name. I love the color scheme. And I'm just like, yes, you, you are my child. So everybody else was like, oh, 2020, Iron Gwazi, Orion. And I'm just sitting over here like, I like Pantheon. I'm doing my typical alley bullshit and taking the third option. I like Pantheon.
00:34:25
Speaker
I think that's the sleeper, although I got to say now that it's opening at the same time as Jurassic Coaster, it's really hard to. Mm hmm. Both of those rides look so good. They are my whole last children. I can't think of one without thinking of the other. I know that's like kind of weird, but I just can't think of one without the other. So I'm like, I have to ride them both next year. I have got to like get the infinity stones. I think Velocico has been testing lately.
00:34:54
Speaker
Yeah, and everybody's been bitching about it. Oh, it's too slow. Like, dude, it's testing. Calm down. Not to mention you haven't fucking written it yet. Amen. Amen. Well, I mean, the other thing. OK, like you have to think about it, too, though, like it's probably going to if you had to pick if it's going to be like a maverick or if it's going to be like a cheetah hunt, it's going to be cheetah hunt.
00:35:18
Speaker
because it's a universal, it can't be like a maverick intensity wise. You know what I mean? Yeah, no, I get what you're saying. As proven by the low to the ground barrel roll. I do a barrel roll. Yeah. I still think it looks really good. Honestly, I think it'll probably be my favorite coaster in Florida just because I have an inherent bias towards Intamin. So.
00:35:44
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, that black on black is just that is sick as fuck. I love that. More goth coasters, please. Yeah, I know. It reminds me of like the Batman coasters in the 90s. Yes. And like Jurassic Park is one of my favorite movies. So slap a dinosaur on it. And I'm like, oh, yeah, I'm happy. We're good. Yeah. I mean, they haven't shown what's going to be, you know, there's supposedly going to be some interaction with the Raptors, too.
00:36:13
Speaker
Yeah, it sounds fucking incredible. Dude, I'm so down for it. I'm really excited for it, you know. And I think it's really funny how everybody's freaking out. Oh, my God, it's rolling back like they're testing the anti rollbacks. Calm down. Please calm down. Yeah, it's I wonder if it's because that park is so that park is still open, right? I think it is. I'm pretty sure I know somebody full time.
00:36:43
Speaker
Yeah, I think so. So that's I mean, that's kind of cool that people can see it, but it's probably going to be a problem. Yeah. People bitching. And I think especially this year, everybody's just I mean, it happens every offseason, but especially so where the offseason has been like going on a year for some people. People just want to find shit to bitch about and just to have something to talk about because we're bored. Right. Yeah. Yeah. I mean,
00:37:12
Speaker
It's hard to fault anyone for just trying to come up with things to just say something. Cause at this point with coasters, it's been like dead air with a couple of bursts of static. Yeah, exactly. Like I just want to know if Kentucky kingdom is still getting that Raptor or not. Like, let me know. Please, please. Mr. Ed Hart. I'm asking for a crumb of Raptor. That's all I need. Oh, is there doubts that I might go in now?
00:37:40
Speaker
I think it might've been pushed back a year is what I'm hearing, but I'm also like, do you think people would do that? Go on the internet and tell lies? I don't know what's going on. Well, I mean, you know, that water park in South Dakota is going to get one. Did that one get pushed back or are they still on for 21? I think you got pushed back. Oh, damn. That sucks.
00:38:05
Speaker
Because I was looking at maybe going up there and getting that credit when I went up to Valley Fair and like Arnold's Park and Adventureland for the first time because I'm like, I am simply a whore for the Raptors. Never been on one, but I can tell I'm going to love them. They're so good. Oh, I'm so jealous. I've only been on the one Wonder Woman.
00:38:24
Speaker
Oh, my God, that ride looks so good. I have a deep feeling like I hate to make any calls before I go, but like deep in my soul, I know that's probably going to be my favorite coaster in Texas just because full.
00:38:38
Speaker
Well, don't skip Switchback and Boardwalk Bullet when you go to Texas. Switchback looks so fun. I definitely, definitely want to get there, get Boardwalk Bullet, do Iron Shark because the credits are credit and tantrum is not that bad. I actually enjoyed tantrum when I went to Darien. But absolutely. No, this is this is shaping up to be a fantastic episode already.
Supernatural TV Series Ends
00:38:59
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We're having a better episode than the people who watch Supernatural, so we should applaud ourselves for that.
00:39:06
Speaker
Oh my God. What's supernatural? Oh, supernatural. It's that show, the one that was on the CW that went on for like ever in a day about the two guys that fought monsters. It finally fucking ends tonight and everybody on the internet's going wild and I'm like, I'm just sitting here sipping my water and talking about roller coasters and I'm having way more fun than them. Oh my God. I remember that shit. My sister was into that. Everybody I knew was into it. Like my cousin was into it. My exes were into it. My friends were into it. I'm just like,
00:39:37
Speaker
Okay. All my gay friends, all my gay friends in Milwaukee, not all of them, but like a lot of them. Now that I remember it, we're into that show too. Oh God. Well, good, good riddance to that show. Audio supernatural. You served us well for the memes. There we go. For all the basic Americans out there.
00:40:03
Speaker
I can't tell if you said for all the basic or all the pasty Americans, but it checks out either way. Yeah, both. Those can be interchangeable at times. Pumpkin spice season. There you go. Oh, yeah. And a pumpkin pasty is basic. Get that out of the way. Incredibly basic.
00:40:31
Speaker
Um, holy shit. So we are getting into it. We haven't even done the first thing. What do you, what are you sipping on tonight? Allie? Oh, I was drinking some Svedka blue raspberry earlier, but I'm just, I'm straight water now. So I've got to stay hydrated champs. Yeah. That's a, that's a good call. What is, what is Svedka blue? Like, um, um,
00:40:58
Speaker
I can't really describe the taste other than it tastes like a blue raspberry slushy, but I like it because blue raspberry is like, that's my shit. I love it so much. And vodka is also my drink of choice because that's my pasty basic bitch self coming out, but I like it. I think it's good. I hear the strawberry lemonade one's really good, but I've not tried that one yet.
00:41:20
Speaker
And it also the blue raspberry mixes really well with Baja Blast. So there you go. I just immediately thought of like UV blue and I was like, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I've heard horror stories about that. Yeah, it's so gross. Don't do it. Yeah. No, I actually thought about because I bought my bottle of vodka that I was sipping on tonight, the election night, because I'm like, well, this is going to be a fucking train wreck. Might as well get hammered as America burns.
00:41:48
Speaker
So, and I actually thought about getting UV blue, but everybody that I'd talked to before is like, Svedka, Svedka. And so to everyone that told me to get Svedka, thank you, because it sounds like you saved me from a horrible, horrible night. Yeah. Yeah. UV blue is basically hungover smurf piss. Holy shit. No, thanks. No, thank you.
00:42:13
Speaker
I actually remember taking a poll of UV blue in the parking lot by Gemini when I worked there. We used to do drunk coasters when we weren't working.
00:42:33
Speaker
Yeah. And I remember there's this girl who worked in Camp Snoopy and like, we all got out of work and we were, I was with drunk with my friends. She's like here, you know, it's like pull that UV blue out of the trunk and it was warm.
00:42:49
Speaker
And then like just having that and then like, Oh, let's write Magnum drunk. Like normally, no, normally it's, it's a great time, but because of the UV, it was like, you know, that like acid reflux kind of. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:43:08
Speaker
Drunk coasters are very fun. I got completely Trashed at King's Dominion last summer at carnival and road twisted timbers. It was great. It was great But even drunk me was like still coherent enough to realize I should respect 305 and probably not ride that drunk So that's probably why I'm alive today. I Realized on my most recent trip that I'm now old. I'm
00:43:33
Speaker
I am need drama mean before I ride a coaster years old. So I think trying drunk riding is is done for me. Oh, no, that's not that's not good, bro. No, it's it's fine, because if I take a drama mean first, I'm good. It's it's just broadened. It's just the sadness would come that comes from what knowing and accepting that that just means I'm an old fucking piece of shit now.
00:44:02
Speaker
as opposed to a young piece of shit. Which I felt much better about. Honestly, yeah, you know what? We're all gonna die from climate change in like 30 years anyway, so. Or other ways in a year. This is true. There's a lot of options. There's so many ways. I'm still betting on the aliens, personally. That would be like the more fun one.
00:44:30
Speaker
Aliens are dinosaurs coming back. Like I'm cool with either of those options. Zombies, maybe, but. Dinosaurs coming back would be crazy. Imagine somebody out in the wilderness on mushrooms and they see a dinosaur, like a real one. Holy shit. Me running directly into the jaws of the oncoming T-Rex. Dammit, Alan Schilke, you didn't do this for me, so I got to do it myself.
00:44:52
Speaker
Listen, I will always be so fucking bitter over that because that's all I wanted. I'm just like, please, please, sir, may I have a crumb of T-Rex? That's all I want. Well, technically there was a crumb at IAPA. This is true. And I hear there might possibly be a second crumb at their headquarters factory thingy word up in Idaho. I almost said up in Ohio and I'm like, wait, no, that would be too cursed. I couldn't do that.
00:45:20
Speaker
Wait, what's the thing? What about the T-Rex? Apparently they have like a chunk of the track or something in Idaho with their, um, headquarters, but that's what I've heard. I don't know if it's like a prototype Raptor track and people just labeled it the wrong thing because it's the internet, but I would go. So who knows? Maybe if somebody from RMC hears this podcast, help a bitch out, let me go lay on the T-Rex track so I can die complete.
00:45:47
Speaker
Yeah. Help our guests out. We know you're not going to do anything for us, but help our guests out, please. I think, well, here I'll be, I'll keep it 100 with you. I think you kind of fuck yourself when you give yourself the name, your favorite coaster sucks. Did not pass. Did not pass the market test. Yeah. I don't think we're getting any, um, you know, any invites to anything special from any parks or manufacturers.
00:46:15
Speaker
So we're not getting a group to go to keys to the kingdom as a coaster club. Got it. He canceled kingdom. Sorry. We want to make it canceled. Our event will just be in the parking lot. Yeah, we are going to have our own Q and a session in the parking lot. Now you guys got to do it at a different part. Go to like beach bend Camden somewhere like Yankee Park Saturday. That's what you got to do.
00:46:40
Speaker
And it'll be like in the show Always Sunny, where they do the Patties, the Patti Wagon. Oh, my God. Jesus Christ, please do that. I'd show up. Well, thank you, because otherwise it would be like three neckbeards and Ben and I looking uncomfortable. Three neckbeards asking. So who's your favorite manufacturer?
00:47:11
Speaker
Uh, how long did we agree to do this for? This is the longest hour of my life. Yeah. That's, uh, well, it's watching on keys to the kingdom day. The thing is, is like you saw the video of it, right? The Q and a, like I just like the audience. It just had a weird, it did not pass the vibe check. Yeah. There was a heavy like middle school and mom vibe.
00:47:41
Speaker
Oh, no. Yeah. Yeah. The talent show. Mom, I'm tap dancing. This is definitely not going to traumatize me later in life. Mom, mom, mom, mom, you have to take me. Every one of my favorite YouTubers is going to be there. I can meet them. Oh, no. Oh, no. See, if I like if 12 year old Ali rolled up to my mom and I'm like, Mom, we got to go to this park because I got to see people, she'd be like. What's wrong with you?
00:48:11
Speaker
Yeah, she would probably just ask me what was wrong with me and then send me to my room. And I'd have to like color in a coloring book or whatever I did when I was 12. I've blocked most of that out. You'd have to show her a video with Taylor Bybee in it. I'd have to show her the video of Taylor Bybee where he talks about the dark skinned cast members or something equally offensive. Oh, no, he said, oh, the Six Flags America video.
00:48:35
Speaker
He did one for Fantasialand, too, I think, with talking about the workers really adding to the experience. And I'm like, babe, please. What? Think before you speak. What? Are we on a video?
00:48:49
Speaker
This that's just I've seen the clip itself recycled for memes I don't know the actual video if it's the Fantasia Land review or the Black Mamba review But apparently he said something about dark-skinned cast members and I'm just like, oh buddy You suffer from foot and mouth syndrome way too much Honey, baby, don't do that
00:49:09
Speaker
It must be a new one because or an older one because his most recent videos about Fantasia land are both from March last year. And I'm sure that was an older video because I remember hearing that, too, like in one of his videos. Oh, God, I hope God, I hope. Do you ever see the Six Flags America one?
00:49:33
Speaker
I never saw it in the uncut form, but I've, I've heard the clip. Trust me. I've heard the clip. I've played it for my sister. So now she, we always see, when we see each other, she's like, this is just an observation, but I like your shirt. And we just, we've mean, she doesn't know anything. She fucking hates roller coasters, but she knows everything about the community because I mean, my God, nobody else is going to listen to me. So, so I'm like, Victoria, you get to, you get to share the trauma. Sit down. Let me tell you a tale.
00:50:02
Speaker
So there was this guy, right? Dan DePaula. Oh, my God. I found it. Oh, wait. Oh, no. I found it. All right. Give me a sec. Here we go.
Tumblr and Coaster Humor
00:50:16
Speaker
Somebody like isolated that one part and posted it on our slash roller coaster jerk. I read it. Yes. Thank you. Our slash roller coaster jerk for coming through on this one.
00:50:28
Speaker
Gonna plug for myself here when all that shit came out about Chad Miller, the person that posted the sex offender shuffle with the parody lyrics. That was me. I was proud of that. I love that sub because it's a lot of the same people you know, but then there's a ton of people you don't know. Exactly. I actually used to mod on that sub when it first started and I was like, this is the greatest honor I've piqued. No one could ever like I've peaked. This is it.
00:50:54
Speaker
That that sub is basically, um, there's a new coaster ship posting group on Facebook, which is pretty awesome. The actual coaster ship posting group. That group is basically just our slash roller coaster jerk, but with tea. Oh, rubs my little greedy hands together. See, like, I don't like to get involved in the drama, but holy shit, please tell me about it. I love to know I've got nothing going on. Please feed me. Let me know.
00:51:25
Speaker
Our podcast is made of tea. Go back, listen to our recent episodes with Sean Fullarity. Oh my God. He's a cool guy. He's a very cool guy. He feeds me the son of beast content that I need. As for someone who dunks on everybody, like, oh, that sort of beast is coming back. I think it's a genuinely fascinating ride.
00:51:49
Speaker
Well, he told us a bunch of stories about that and about Stark Raven Mad 03. Oh, yeah. I heard somebody got some really killer airtime that day. Ah, no shit. But he was there. Oh, fuck. He was working the event for Ace. Oh, Jesus Christ. So he told us his whole story. Oh, my God. Yeah. No, thank you. No, thank you. Wow.
00:52:17
Speaker
Yeah. It's a very interesting story. Yeah. Yeah. See, that's one event I don't know if I would ever want to go to because I hear like everybody that goes to Hollywood nights is just like that shit insane. Like there's always some kind of drama bullshit that pops off down there. And I'm like, I am just here for a nice time. And maybe some people that would be nice enough to split some alcohol with me. That's all I'm here for credits and booze. I wonder like, wait, what kind of drama?
00:52:45
Speaker
Yeah, just like people being dicks to each other over like, this isn't your favorite coaster. Let's fight. Like I know back before all hell broke loose. Oh, my God. Planning, planning to fight at Hollywood Nights over some bullshit. And I'm just like, how lame do you have to be to plan your fights six months in advance? Like, oh, my God. We just pulled up. OK, but that's kind of amazing. Like, yeah, that's that's almost the greatest thing I've ever heard.
00:53:15
Speaker
And like, I don't know if they were being sarcastic or if they were serious, but I knew that those people did have beef with each other prior that was genuine. And I'm like, it's Hollywood nights. It's a coaster event. Nobody here functions in society normally. It probably would turn into a fight. Yeah, I bet a little bit it was real or I bet it was at least half real. But I bet that's happened. I bet there's been physical brawls over coasters at some point.
00:53:45
Speaker
Oh my God, for sure, for sure. I mean, I've had people tell me, oh, Steel Vengeance isn't your favorite coaster at Cedar Point. You better never let me catch you at Cedar Point again. I'm like, I know you're 13 living in your mom's basement and drinking like your fifth can of Mountain Dew this hour. But some of these kids give me some school shooter vibes, so I would be a little afraid, honestly. Oh, God. Yeah.
00:54:09
Speaker
I want to get my joke in before I come back to that. Get your joke in. Cause we have to come back to that. I just wanted to say, I hope none of these fights are the result of someone going, Hey, you can't fuck that coaster. That's my coaster to fuck. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Oh my God. Oh my God. I can't start on that. I'm sorry, but yeah, I would not be surprised if those kinds of fights have happened, but yeah. Yeah.
00:54:33
Speaker
coaster. Kin, like, um, Kenny, Kenny, Kenny, Kenny, Kenny, Kenny, Kenny, Kenny, Kenny, Kenny. This is not the shit I expected. I expected this conversation to go a lot of ways, but straight to coast or Kenny Hill was not, not the bridge I thought we were taking today, guys. Now coming back.
00:54:57
Speaker
I mean, I'm really not surprised, but again, something I've never even considered or thought about. The connection of like, coaster people and school shooter vibes. Oh my god. Listen, that might just be me talking out my ass because I'm feeling a little bit. But I mean, some of these kids just like, I'm like, wow, you really, you're saying that with your whole chest. You're really,
00:55:22
Speaker
trying to threaten me not to go to a park because I don't think like you. Cool beans, kiddo. Cool beans. I mean, you just saying that makes me think of a couple of people I've met through toasters. And I'm like, oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. OK. I get told I would not be surprised. A plus B. Like if somebody I knew through ace at some point,
00:55:53
Speaker
Ended up shooting up a place. Oh, no. It just wouldn't fucking surprise me. We're going to shoot at the abandoned park for legal purposes. That's also a joke. But Zach, it did. It did. Remember, well, partially with From the Gap. Oh, my God. Yeah. Rodney. Holy shit. Yeah. Oh, Jesus fucking Christ. Yeah.
00:56:18
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we there was literally a kid on a forum we used to post on who literally was it a threat or something? It was a school shooting threat, I think. Yeah, yeah, I think he got arrested for making a threat on Facebook or something. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. God, this is America, everybody. Congratulations. And he was just he was like an annoying weirdo.
00:56:48
Speaker
But he seemed to be self-aware and make fun of himself, kind of, too. Oh, dear. That's a odd combination. Yeah, it really was. But also, nobody was really surprised. Because I remember one time, people would screen grab weird shit he would post on Facebook and post it on this forum. And he posted one thing that was like,
00:57:16
Speaker
hot tub orgy free to join 20 bucks to watch and we're all just like oh my god what oh my and this was somebody you guys knew through coasters yeah this is a coaster form he posted on there he like worked at family kingdom in south carolina
00:57:38
Speaker
Oh, no, no, no, Swamp Fox. That's the Swamp Fox park. No, not. Yeah, he worked there. Mm hmm. Yeah, he worked there. He operated Swamp Fox. No, not Swamp Fox. Anything but poor Swamp Fox. Yeah. And so later on, he got arrested for making a threat about shooting a school. Well, at least he's not shooting Swamp Fox. We'd have a problem there.
00:58:03
Speaker
But yeah, that was not surprising at all. Plus, um, he, I thought he like did something to his girlfriend. Oh Jesus. Oh Jesus. Oh yeah. That's right. He had like a wife, but he was gay or a girlfriend, but I thought he had a kid too. Damn. I thought the coaster kinnies were the most interesting thing we would be talking about. Damn. Okay. So like,
00:58:31
Speaker
Keeping it 100, the gap was a crazy fucking coaster form. It was more about tea than coasters, really.
00:58:41
Speaker
Yeah. And like I saw one of the questions in the rundown was like, did you ever post on any coaster forums? I have not. But from what I've heard, damn, I think I dodged like 20 bullets consecutively. The most I did me and one of my friends back in 2015, we made like a troll account because Rob Alvey just became a joke with all of us. So we made a TPR account with swag Alvey 69 and we got banned in like four days. It was great. Nice. I'm surprised it took that long.
00:59:10
Speaker
I know, right? And then we're just like, Oh my God, we got banned. And then I got banned on Instagram by him. Cause I made a joke about his Starbucks problems. So I'm just like, we're batting two and O babies. Well, I'm glad to hear that. Um, there is a general distaste of, um, Rob. Yeah. Yeah. Not because of like some pettiness, but just because like he's kind of an apple.
00:59:40
Speaker
Yeah, I think kind of is kind of an understatement there. I'm going to say it, though, just to be perfectly clear, Rob, we'd still love to have you on the show. Just answer anything else. I would love to see him on an episode. I mean, I will be totally fair to you. We won't give you any shit. Just come on, let's talk, man. Anyway, Starbucks. Yeah, we'll get you a Starbucks gift card.
01:00:11
Speaker
And we'll donate a Starbucks gift card. To a viewer of your choice.
Robb Alvey's Coaster Community Lifestyle
01:00:18
Speaker
It's the viewer that Rob Alvey gets to kind of sign a coast or two. He's like, oh yes, generic user number 52. You are T3 at Kentucky Kingdom. Now, how about this? I'm going to put this call out to all of our listeners. If anyone knows Lou, who used to be around TPR,
01:00:38
Speaker
and hung around Rob. If anyone knows her, we'd like to have her on the show. Ben, you remember Lou, right? Yeah. She'd be interesting on this show. But would she talk about Coaster Kinneys and school shooters? Would she talk about psychology? I feel like she doesn't give a shit about Coasters anymore, because if you're that close to Rob, I think you probably are bound to just be like, fuck this, I'm out. Just burn out, yeah.
01:01:07
Speaker
You know how there's some weird people who get into a relationship and then they just post almost candid and discreet photos of their significant other or person they're dating on, like social media? Showing off a new relationship.
01:01:26
Speaker
Towards I'm kind of creepy. I feel like he's done that with certain people that have come and gone throughout the years. On the old Friday days. Yikes. That kind of makes sense. There was always the new flashy friend that would be in all the videos and then they would disappear in a year or two. Banished, gone, boom.
01:01:52
Speaker
Oh, Rob Elvey would be really interesting to study and like have somebody who's more trained in that field of psychology and me and just do like a case study on him. I think that would be really interesting. Well, I mean, he's, he's definitely a smart guy. I mean, he built that. Oh, absolutely. I mean, he, I think he had a lot of marketing background, so. Yeah, didn't he used to work like for a video game development company or something like that? Yeah, Activision. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:02:22
Speaker
But I mean, you've got to be smart to run a company like this and actually profit off of it. Have it be your main thing. Like in the timing of the Internet, everything was like perfect. Oh, my God. Doing the park photo updates and the forum trips like God, that's got to get fucking exhausting. I can't imagine I would be way to burn out. I couldn't do it. Yeah. I mean, like I bet he just like fucking hates going to parks now.
01:02:52
Speaker
That would be so sad. Like I know there are some people who have these like super, super high credit counts. And then they talk about how like they only, like we've got this super high credit count, but there's only like 10 rides they really like. And I'm like, I don't ever want to get to the point where I'm like that. And this isn't fun for me anymore. Like that just seems very sad to me. I don't know.
01:03:14
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, like I'll still get my credit for on like I want I want to get my count up for sure. But it's also like, you know, I still want to have fun. Like what's the point of doing it and blowing all this money because the shit ain't cheap if I'm not having at least some kind of fun. Hey, your favorite coaster sucks listeners. We want to take a quick sec to talk to you about Patreon.
01:03:34
Speaker
Do you have a dollar sitting around your house right now? Well, if so, you should join our Patreon at patreon.com slash your favorite coaster sucks. What else are you going to do with that dollar? There's not a whole hell of a lot you can do with it, but I'll tell you with that dollar, you can join our monthly zoom calls. Those are so much fucking fun. Aren't they Ben? Hell yeah. Pay for friendship. It's a what we're all doing nowadays.
01:03:58
Speaker
Hey man, it's community. We got a nice little community here built up. And yeah, it's behind the paywall, but a buck a month. We think almost anyone can handle that, right, Ben? Hell yeah, you can't even get like a McChicken unless you like live in a state with no sales tax, so. So why not throw it our way? Throw us literally a bone. At patreon.com slash your favorite coaster sucks.
Hershey Park Incident Recap
01:04:21
Speaker
Let's get to our first segment, right? Woo! Mine as well, right? Ben, you got the sound effect queued up?
01:04:28
Speaker
Yeah. All right. So it is time for our killer coaster of the week. And this week's killer coaster is super duper looper at Hershey park. Oh, nice. I didn't know about this one either.
01:04:49
Speaker
And thankfully is a clickable link. I've now learned to include that. It's like 1977, 16 year old worker died from injuries at a local hospital after being struck by one of the coaster cars. Yeah, that'll that'll do it. Yeah. So I'm not sure what the situation was that led to some that to this poor kid getting struck. But maybe it was a maintenance employee is what it says on the citation.
01:05:18
Speaker
Oh, interesting. Yeah, it says the ride had been closed to the public for several hours before the accident, and he was part of a crew adjusting the machinery, and then they didn't reveal any further details. Oh man, imagine crouching down within the track to look at a tire drive or a motor or something, and then ugh. It's kind of like what happened to that guy on Boulder Dash, the dude doing the weed whacking.
01:05:46
Speaker
Oh, that's right. Yeah. Yeah. Oh God. Also I'm like 16 year olds were allowed to be like mechanics. Holy shit. Welcome to the seventies. You could, it was normal to have kids at 16 back then. You just drop out of high school. Yeah. Damn. That's why boomers are all messed up. They were raised by 16, 17 year olds. Oh my God. Jesus Christ.
01:06:16
Speaker
Think about how crazy the 16, 17 year olds are that, you know, on coaster, like coaster people. Oh, no, no, no. That that's a bad sample. That is a bad sample. And they have some kids and, you know, drop out of high school. He works at a diner and like a, you know, whatever Boomers did for Boomers did for their parents to kick on.
01:06:41
Speaker
Are 16, 17 year old coaster kids able to get laid nowadays? Because they weren't when I was 16 or 17. Oh my God. Listen, we're talking about 16 and 17 year olds. I'm talking about getting laid. Oh, I'm declining to comment on that one. No Chad Miller up in this bitch. I'm not saying I mean to each other, not
01:07:07
Speaker
No, no, no, I get you. I get you. And that was really more just me saying when I was 16 or 17, I was not getting laid. Oh, no, me either. Right. Yeah. So it's just like you saying picture a 17 year old coaster kid as a parent. And it's like, well, it's hard to picture a 17 year old coaster kids bit in game, but I guess I'm projecting a little bit.
01:07:35
Speaker
No, I think all jokes are based in a nugget of truth. So. Well, at least at least there's a that's an actual silver lining to that horrible thought then.
Conversational Podcast Style
01:07:51
Speaker
I mean, I'm sorry, but if you're a mechanic on Super Duper Looper, even if you died, you're probably getting mad game. Yeah, maybe I'm a kid. I don't I don't know. I don't know what the hell I'm talking about. I'm.
01:08:03
Speaker
Well, it's just weird that you think about it. You're, you're, you're learning algebra, but you have a job as a mechanic. What could possibly go wrong? You know what I mean? Like you're in, you're in, you're in high school. Like just weird to me. Yeah. I suppose though, if you could drive a car,
01:08:29
Speaker
maintenance guy. Actually, you know, you know what, you know what, though? Actually, now that I think about it, when I was in high school, it was literally 15, 16 year old, 17 year old friends, always fixing my car. That's a good point. That was always a thing. I had a shitty car I paid cash with and like, I just have call friends and they'd fix it. I could see it now.
01:08:55
Speaker
Yeah, but I was also picturing like what if it was like a hazing thing because there's 16 year olds in the fucking maintenance department. So how old is their supervisor 20? So like they're like, OK, all right, here's the deal. You can't be a real mechanic until you stand on the track here and the train's going to come around and you got to move just in time. Oh, my God. Chicken with the train. That's horrible. And like he just gets his foot stuck because it's that Schwartzkopf track.
01:09:25
Speaker
Oh my God. Uh, or, uh, or the supervisors on Quaaludes. Jesus. I believe, yeah, the seventies. He's like, I just got heard about these great drugs from Bill Cosby record. Wait, wait, wait. Hang on. Jesus.
01:09:57
Speaker
Is this the worst podcast you've you've heard? Because because Ben and I can just amp up if we need to. No, no, you guys are good. This is this is fun. This is fun. We're not going on topic and I love that because that's just having a conversation with me. I can't I can't do it. Topics are unnecessary.
01:10:21
Speaker
Yeah, also, it's better to to do this as a conversation than to like be like, OK, we know that people are going to want to know about how they feel about the original Texas Rattler. So what are your top 10 coasters? Oh, wait.
01:10:45
Speaker
Please be sarcasm. Please be sarcasm. Please be sarcasm because I don't think we've ever asked that. And if we did, it was in the earlier days. No, we've always been more of the like, what's the worst one you've ever ridden? Oh, easy time warp at Canada's wonderland. What the fuck? What the fuck? It's like a medieval torture device. It's like it's like being in a washing machine without the water. It's so bad. I don't like it.
01:11:10
Speaker
That's the Valari, right? The Valari? Yes, it is. It's right beside the SLC. And I know the whole meme is like, I've never seen two pretty best friends, but I can guarantee you that right there is two ugly best friends. They should call it like Tim Curry's drag disaster.
01:11:35
Speaker
I mean, the spiral lift is pretty cool, actually. But it's like, that's really cool. And then the rest of this ride is like, Jesus Christ, I should be in line for Yukon Striker right now. Yeah, it is interesting how, like, now that they have those good B&Ms, they still then have the SLC and the volaire, volaire, volaire, whatever the fuck it is. Yeah, I just call it the no, I just call it the no.
01:12:01
Speaker
Well, you know what, though, going back to their top gun, I do really like the queue line. Yeah, the queue line is pretty cool. And then it's like, oh, it's just an SLC. I actually skipped the SLC. I skipped that when I was up there last and I thought, oh, I'll just come back next year with a fast lane. And then Corona was like, are you? And I'm like, cool. Thanks.
Theories on Invalid Passport
01:12:26
Speaker
Yeah, your passport's no good here. Nope. No, it ain't.
01:12:29
Speaker
So yeah, damn it. I know. All right. Well, we got a, we got a fun fucking segment up next since now we've, uh, we've gotten what I think three different theories of how this may have occurred. I like the hazing. I think hazing is what we're going to go with. That makes sense. Her. She didn't want to say anything. Probably.
01:12:57
Speaker
It seems also like it could be likely. But anyway, I don't know. I'm talking out of my ass here, but it was the 70s. We're talking about teenagers. So who knows who knows what drugs they were on.
Action Park Documentary and Park Reviews
01:13:11
Speaker
I saw that documentary about Action Park. Oh, fuck. So anyway, we like to go on to Google and get a bad review of a park. Oh, no.
01:13:27
Speaker
And we've got some really cheesy piano music. So, you know, you're our guest here. If you'd like to read the bad review we found, we would love to invite you to do so. So I'm so happy to do that. It's a bad review. So I've got to get my fake tears going. Got to act like somebody that's not my dog.
01:13:48
Speaker
Excellent. Excellent. It's a short one, but this was by far the best one I could find. So, uh, this is a bad review of Hershey Park. That'll hit the music and you take it away. Even the rides, the same thing you have accommodating seats for those taller or bigger, barely fit anyone who is even slightly overweight or over 60 tall.
01:14:14
Speaker
You would think a company who makes candy more accommodating than the outcome of their product would die. Jesus Christ, what the fuck was that review? You would think a company who makes candy. OK, OK, OK. It's like, hey,
01:14:41
Speaker
You're 5'11 and 300 pounds. I wonder what could possibly go wrong. The outcomes of their product. I don't know why that's so funny to me. It might be because I'm buzzed, but that's funny to me. Yeah, I mean, there's a lot to unpack there, but it's best to throw away the whole suitcase. Just burn it.
01:15:08
Speaker
Set it all on fire, child. Yeah, I mean, I wonder, I can imagine who this kind of person is. Oh, no. Well, super sized Karen. The first thing that stuck out to me is that the fact that they said you're over six feet. So, like, I want to say maybe they're six feet tall, but that really doesn't stop anyone from writing anything.
01:15:36
Speaker
No, it's usually when you get to be like what, six, seven that you can't ride shit. Yeah, just about basketball player height. And there's nothing in Hershey Park that's like specially manufactured where there'd be any reason that it would be different or anything. Maybe they couldn't get their cocoa cruiser credit.
01:15:59
Speaker
I mean, they just they're like, there's barely anything and like slightly overweight, like, OK. That's that there's a slight possibility that that's an accurate description of yourself, but. Slightly, slightly, slightly overweight like that.
01:16:24
Speaker
I don't know. And then over, over six feet. So it's like, I'm, I'm beginning to think it's like some lady and her husband and her husband's like six three and got denied one ride because of like his shoulders or something. Yeah. Maybe like storm runner or Fahrenheit with the restraints.
01:16:44
Speaker
Right. Or maybe he has like an awkward torso and she's just like slightly overweight, I guess is the term. I mean, yeah, I guarantee maybe they tried to go on like, um, maybe it was, you know, like power tower or not. Oh yeah. I don't know.
01:17:12
Speaker
Is there a date on this? It's from about a year ago. Yeah, it might have been the drop towers because those were open then. I wish there was a little more information in this review. I don't know the shortness, the brevity of it. It keeps you guessing. It keeps you on your toes. It leaves you wanting more. It's provocative. It gets the people going.
01:17:39
Speaker
And then of course, ending with a dig at them making candy. That's just, it's just, you've got to give it like the chef's kiss. That's just perfect. I love it. I love it. Engrave this, like tattoo it onto my body. I love it.
01:17:58
Speaker
This should be the admission policy, like on the back of a Hershey Park Day ticket. For every park. It is just like, you'd think our company who makes candy would be more accommodating to the outcome of their product. It's funny because like, it sounds like they kind of have a sense of humor, but like they're pissed. You know what I mean?
01:18:24
Speaker
I don't even know if it's that they have a sense of humor, but maybe it's just that we have such a good sense of humor that we can find it funny. Unintentionally funny, fun, intentional. Right. Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of like it reminds me of the people who like blame McDonald's for getting fat or it's like, Jesus. Personal choice comes in like personal responsibility comes in at a point.
01:18:53
Speaker
accountability. What's that? Well, I mean, even just like, yeah, I understand that there are problems with like willpower and shit, but eventually you got to be like, all right, do I want to make a change? You know, you're right. I mean, I started getting, I started getting denied at a certain point when I was younger and I was like, Oh my God,
01:19:17
Speaker
Is like that for some reason, I'd be in 20 and the thought of not being able to ride certain rides really freaked me out. That makes sense. And that's a very effective fucking. Most of it happened to my dad. I remember he couldn't ride Millennium Force one year. And then he was like determined when I was a kid, he like went on slim fast. He's like, I'm taking you back to Cedar Point next year. We're getting on that roller coaster together.
01:19:46
Speaker
And he did it. He did it. It was awesome. I was super proud of him. I felt bad for him, but he was like, no, no, no, I'm getting on this ride. Like it was. And did you guys like enjoy it and have fun? Oh, yeah, absolutely. It was a bless. That's what's up. So it was cool. You know, at the end, it was not cool to be like, bye, dad, I'm going to ride the ride. See you later.
01:20:12
Speaker
No, get a salad. I'll see you later. Well, Ali, we got we got some questions for you. But before we get into them, if you would like, if you have a question for us, you may ask us one. I do. And it is. Do you believe that OWA is truly the coaster capital of the world? Um, maybe. Southern Express is factually the greatest coaster ever built.
01:20:40
Speaker
Is that the, uh, Zamperla one? That's their kid's coaster. I'll go with the, I'll go with a share of why the hell not. Excellent. Oh, wall supremacy forever. Their new, uh, the Zamperla thing looks weird. Those guards look very weird. I'm just here to push the, oh, wagenda. So.
01:21:01
Speaker
I think our buddy Jordan at Ride This One would have something to say because he's an Alabama fan. So just the proximity there I think would make him say something. Is there a thing going on with OWA though? There was a thing going on this summer. It started from a group chat with me.
01:21:25
Speaker
uh this guy that i'm friends with named Justin and he's like he runs the Kings Island Ohio page and uh one train ops we just really started liking OWA because of this one girl in the community Coaster Queen Cat because we're both just like this this girl just straight up not give a fuck she's an icon to all of us
01:21:44
Speaker
So she says, oh, why is her home park? And anytime you say something about, oh, why she's like, guys, that's my home park. And we're just like, dude, I fucking love Coaster Queen Cat. I would die for her. So we started saying that like, oh, why was the greatest park ever built? And it became a thing for like two weeks. So, yeah, I remember seeing Logan's Instagram and I think his profile icon was. Oh, yeah.
01:22:11
Speaker
Yeah, that really we can all just thank Coaster Queen Cat for that because she's just straight up. She's an icon. This girl has never given a shit in her life and honestly, Queen shit. Her name is not a lie. Dope. Well, that's fun. Oh, it looks like a cool park. Haven't been there. Genuinely, all means aside, it does look pretty cool. I like the color of the coaster track of the whatever it's called, the Zamperla. Roland Thunder. It is really pretty.
01:22:41
Speaker
Any park that close to the water is dope. This is true. Points were made. So I give them, I give them credit for that purely. I mean, I, I know very little about that park. I know it's close to water. So I'm like, that's big ups for that. Yeah. And I genuinely like, I respect, oh, wow. They're doing like a whole, um, native American heritage month thing this, uh, this month. And I'm like, you know what genuinely, I respect you guys.
01:23:08
Speaker
That is the most that's been done in Native American history in Alabama. Yeah. Yeah. They're like, oh, uh, here it's 1973. They're like, they're like parentheses. It's 1952 everywhere else outside of here. So this is as good as you're going to get.
01:23:31
Speaker
Oh, shit.
OWA's Coaster Capital Debate
01:23:32
Speaker
So we we like to go on to our social media before we start doing these episodes to get some questions for our guests. But there's a catch. We don't tell everyone who we're recording with. Right. So these are all questions for a mystery guest. OK. Because this is just a way more fun way to get questions.
01:23:56
Speaker
Oh yeah, absolutely. Cause I feel like if you, if they knew who was coming on, it'd be more just like targeted rant, like random bloat, like, wow, I can't talk, rote, bland ass shit. And I know because if it was me, people would be like, Oh, my coaster cat, what's your number one? And I just have to be like, no, I can't do this. Throw the whole, throw the whole can away. Yeah. So, I mean, it just, it's a fun way to get some credits or credit some questions. I'm down for getting credits too.
01:24:23
Speaker
Do there are credits in the, there are opportunities for credits with our show. Hell yeah. Let's go. So let's get into the questions. What is up? Then you take the Twitter ones. I'll get the Instagram ones. So coaster dad asks a velocity coaster or iron alligator.
01:24:46
Speaker
Team Velocicoaster all the way. I think I said earlier, I am a whore for Intamin, so yeah, Velocicoaster owns my ass already. Oh yeah. It looks way more original than Iron Gwazi. I think people are kind of being needlessly harsh on Iron Gwazi. Like, guys, it was one test run. Give it some credit.
01:25:11
Speaker
But I also, I'm way more team Velocicoaster just because I'm an Intamin fangirl. And I'm just happy to see him back in the States. Yeah, definitely. I mean, yeah, there's there's been a lot of RMC focus in the last decade. So it's cool to have a new Intamin coaster. Exactly. Two, three of them, actually.
01:25:37
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. And I say this as someone who like I just wrote Outlaw Run, loved it to death. There's definitely some RMC fatigue. I don't really appreciate the way that the community like treats them sometimes like they've done wonderful things in terms of like the business and the innovation.
01:25:53
Speaker
But I think people get a little nasty over RMC. So I'm already kind of just like lukewarm on Iron Gwazi. And I know that's not fair to the ride. And I'm probably really going to like it when I go on it. But I'm just like, oh, God, guys, please, please don't overhype this. Please don't put this little alligator on a pedestal that it's only going to fall off of.
01:26:13
Speaker
What, um, what do you mean by nasty? Like meme and defensive. Like I know lightning run is my favorite ride at Kentucky kingdom. Just like for example. And every time I tried to say that people would be like, um, storm chasers at the same park and just this whole, like it's an RMC. It's automatically the best in the park without even giving other things a chance. Oh, right. Yeah.
01:26:38
Speaker
No, that's, that's annoying. That's kind of why I like to talk shit on RMC because so many people are defensive about it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I, I think they're really cool, but there isn't, there's right now there's not an RMC in my top 10 because my problem is like, I ride all of them and they they're too similar and I don't know. I like unique shit. So,
01:27:05
Speaker
At this point, they all kind of feel the same and I don't know where to rank any of them. No, I totally I totally get that. And that's part of why I don't rank anyway. But are you even a coaster person if you don't rank needlessly?
Challenges for Female Coaster Enthusiasts
01:27:20
Speaker
Listen, that would not be the dumbest shit someone's told me. You're not a real enthusiast for this alley. So we're good. We're good. Speaking of ranking, speaking of ranking, there's actually a lot of discrepancy in my top 10. If you listen to this show over the last year, I'm sure I've said that my number one or five or 10 or whatever in between are different multiple times. I don't even know what it is anymore. Yeah. Yeah.
01:27:49
Speaker
And that's the beauty of it. You know, things change. You can go somewhere and get a really shitty ride, go back, and then suddenly it's running so much better, you know? Right. And I was just going to say, I'm sure there's fucking dumb shits who give you a hard time just because you're female. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Not as much as some of the other girls have gotten, but yeah.
01:28:17
Speaker
That's a fucking shame. And fucking if any of those assholes are listening to this, please just don't. That's the thing. You just not. Indoor thoughts, you know, it costs zero dollars to not make that comment. Absolutely. Yeah, exactly. You save yourself the the effort of typing something.
01:28:43
Speaker
Right, right. Roll and scroll, roll your eyes and keep scrolling. Save me from getting in like a bunch of arguments. Yeah, men with access to the internet during a sexual thought is like scary. Oh no. I just mean like, because men are, men get really dumb when they're, you know. Horny brained. Yeah. And then when they have access to the internet and they can't control it, it just gets really weird.
01:29:12
Speaker
and very uncomfortable for people. Yeah, unfortunately. But I think I will say the community has done pretty good about airing that stuff out. And like, I'm actually really proud of how people have handled this. So. Well, hopefully the trend continues. Oh, definitely. And hopefully Ace finally says something. Yikes. They're very quiet.
01:29:40
Speaker
Yeah, I know a few people who have actually canceled their membership because of all of that coming to light. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's hard to justify hanging around when there's pretty solid evidence showing that they're trying to sweep big problems under the rug. Right.
01:30:01
Speaker
I'll be careful here and not be too specific, but it's just very troubling to see that because at the end of this day, at the end of the day, this community is for kids. I mean, we're all older in it, and that's cool too. We're all allowed because we're not doing creepy shit. But this is all for young people, you know? So as the older people in the community, it's our job to keep this shit safe for them.
01:30:28
Speaker
Yeah. Protect the kids, protect the kids. I like how we side barred off of the Florida coast or war to be like protect the damn children. I think, I think that's pretty cool. That's a point we will fucking strive to make here for it. You know, even if we have just a tiny little platform, we're happy to use it to make that fucking point.
01:30:49
Speaker
Exactly, exactly. And that's why I'm always like, if people are saying stuff like, it's a coaster account, you shouldn't post political stuff. I'm like, guys, first of all, it's my page. I do what I want. Thank
Alabama Splash Adventure Parody Discussion
01:30:59
Speaker
you. Second of all, I know I don't have a big platform, but I'm going to use what I have to bring awareness to stuff that needs to be brought to light. Protect the damn person and be your next shirt. For sure. For sure. And I like that shirt idea. Yeah, definitely do that. So, um,
01:31:19
Speaker
to another question. Next question. Coastine Prairie is asking if Alabama Splash Adventures manager, Michael Schwitec, I think I'm not reading that right, were to make a sequel to the parks official parody video, what should it be about?
01:31:40
Speaker
Oh, I didn't know they had an official parody video because honestly, Alabama Splash Adventure wasn't on my radar at all until two days ago when everybody was like, hey, Chance Hyper GTX advocate, they might be getting a Chance Hyper GTX. And I'm like, don't get my hopes up like that. But their next parody video should definitely be about their next ride. Totally. I mean, if Taylor Bibe can make coaster parody videos, what is stopping these people?
01:32:06
Speaker
They made a really painful 21 Pilots parody video. Oh no, no, no, no. Not song parodies, not song parodies. It takes a special brand of comedy to pull that off and pull that off well. And I don't think anybody in the Coaster community could do that. I don't know anything about 21 Pilots, so I didn't even realize it was a song parody. Oh no. But then I heard the original, so it was the song Stressed Out.
01:32:35
Speaker
They did their version about Covid called Spaced Out. No. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah. They'll just parody ride by twenty one pilot, stick with the theme, make it about their new coaster. It'll be awful. The world will explode. There we go. Perfect. I highly recommend you look up that video on YouTube because I described it like a car accident.
01:33:03
Speaker
Horrifying, you hope everyone's okay, but you can't look away. Yeah, I'm gonna have to get a couple more shots in my system before I watch that. But I will watch it later. Before we get to these other couple questions, real quick, once again, I'm gonna share this link for this video that you were talking about, Allie. Oh, no.
01:33:29
Speaker
Is it the Fantasia Land one? Yes. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. So if you look at the bottom of the chat there. Oh, God. Tyler Baby. Tyler Baby. That's that is what I found. So the video. Oh, yeah, I'm going to need to be a little drunker to watch that one. You guys have supplied me with so much cursed content tonight. Thank you.
01:33:55
Speaker
He said they actually had dark skinned employees working. Hold on. They're working this ride and they're dressed in this native kind of outfit. Oh, my God, Taylor, honey. Oh, God.
Fantasia Land Controversy
01:34:18
Speaker
All right. That's OK.
01:34:23
Speaker
Gotta make sure that link makes it to the episode description for all of you so that it lives on. Can you play it over the thing? Please do. How do we do that? I don't know how to route my desktop audio through Zencaster.
01:34:45
Speaker
Maybe that's for the best. Maybe we have to make these people dig a little bit to get to the truly, to the well, the elder auto of Taylor by be saying really embarrassing things. Oh wait, actually, hold on. I could probably, it's in the, um, um, where did you post the link? It's in the chat. Oh, in the chat. That's right.
01:35:18
Speaker
Oh God. God, I'm really glad I could let you guys know that this was a thing that happened. This is my contribution to society.
01:35:29
Speaker
very dark and that's done on purpose. It very much helps set the mood. They have this African music playing and so when the coaster is ready to dispatch, the lights go out even more so than they, I mean it was already dark, but then it goes to pitch black, you dispatch the music's going, it is so cool. The other thing that I thought really helped add to that, I don't know if they do this all the time, but because this is located in the African section, they actually had dark skin cast members working this ride and they're dressed in this native kind of outfit.
01:35:58
Speaker
really super cool. The other thing I'll say is that when that music plays as the coaster is dispatching, it's pretty loud. All right. Oh, that was a thing. Sorry, I just stopped shaking my head. That was the thing that happened. Wow. Wow. Well, thanks. Thanks for reminding me about that.
01:36:27
Speaker
This is what Ali wanted to share with the class today.
Mormon Cartoon Comedy
01:36:30
Speaker
Yeah. Sharon tell time on your favorite coaster. So sharing is caring everybody. Let's just just be the intro that just say little sound bite. Oh no, no, no, no. Yeah. You know, I didn't, I couldn't come up with a decent sketch. So that might be a great intro. Okay.
01:36:54
Speaker
So, um, like Taylor, like Taylor gets like, um, he's in like a planning meeting with like a production company and then describing something. Everyone in the room is like, wait, what, what did you just say? Oh fuck, we're canceled. Oh no. Oh no.
01:37:21
Speaker
We just have to find the other one. We're about Six Flags America. Yeah. Or somebody asks him a question at a YouTube panel and then he answers something like that. Hey Tim, what is an observation you have made within the past six years of your life? Can you land us another wonderful observation?
01:37:49
Speaker
I will say in fairness, he has declined to be on this show twice. Oh no. So maybe at some point he'll come on and be willing to talk about all this. He will be totally down to give you guys some observations. I'm manifesting that for you guys. We need some observations, Taylor.
01:38:14
Speaker
Um, what, what was the thing? Oh, that cartoon about the Mormons, how they believe black people came to be. Yeah. What's, uh, wait, is it the one about the brother and sister, like Sophia and Caleb or whatever? Cause I don't know if that's Mormon or not.
01:38:35
Speaker
But I know some YouTubers that I watch have like totally roasted the shit out of it before. Uh, here you go. This one is in the chat. Oh, no. Oh, no, no, no. And there's an explanation. I'll try to find where the explanation is. That's the part you really want to hear. Oh, come on. Cartoon explanation.
01:39:03
Speaker
So this is put up by the Mormon Church. All right, go to about one minute, 57 seconds. Oh, dear. Yeah, this looks like it was made about the time that that guy died on Super Duper Looper. What in the name of God am I watching? Oh, they're flying or they're falling. Is that what you just said?
01:39:29
Speaker
What was that? Did you hear what they just said in there? No, what? Ideally against Lucifer would be born. What did they just say there? You're getting it born with black skin. This is the Mormon explanation for the Negro. Those who remain neutral in the battle were cursed to be born. Oh, we remained neutral in the battle were cursed to be. Oh, my God, I feel like I can't keep that.
01:39:58
Speaker
Jesus Christ. That is the official Mormon story for how black people came to be. Holy shit. This dude was just like, oh, I found these plates, but I only I can read them. Look, I want to be I want to be completely fair here since I'm not really big on religion in general. I don't want to just give it to the Mormons.
01:40:28
Speaker
So fuck all religions. I'll just put that one out there. That's fine. It's knowing that Golden Horse is stating all along. I yeah, I don't know. There's no coming back from that statement, but we'll just even it out. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I don't want to. This cartoon's getting really weird. You're so. I'm learning so much.
01:40:58
Speaker
I'm not listening. Well, OK, to be fair, I'm not I'm not listening to the audio. I turned the audio off, but it was still playing. And I just caught my eye and it's because I'm still going. And it's like, yeah, this is getting really weird. Hey, at least it only has 36000 views.
Meme Culture Appreciation
01:41:13
Speaker
I suppose it's been around since the 70s. Wait, oh, my God, the comments. I got to know what the. Oh, no. How about instead?
01:41:28
Speaker
I share from you just a moment from that clip that I sent that got memed to hell and it's fucking hilarious. And I think you guys will enjoy it. Here's the video. You guys enjoy. We welcome you back even after. I love when the ad is longer than the actual video. Mormon Jesus.
01:41:58
Speaker
Okay, that guy dancing is pretty good. It feels well within my soul that this has like a million views and the actual video is like less than 40k. That it feels good. Yeah, that makes it that makes it much better, right?
01:42:28
Speaker
It made me feel better that Ben knew more about Mormonism from South Park than from that cartoon. Good lord. Okay, I feel like I can't even say that because that's an unintentional pun, so. What? I just went good lord, and then I'm like, wait, wait a second. Wait. Mormon Jesus. Mormon Jesus.
01:42:52
Speaker
I think that's what I'm going to say from now on, instead of just being like, Jesus, like Mormon Jesus. Perfect. So on that note, SoCalCoaster521, he wants to know favorite coaster that you've ridden that has on an onboard soundtrack.
Music Preferences on Coasters
01:43:18
Speaker
I actually don't think I've been on anything with an onboard soundtrack racking my slightly addled brain. Yeah, I don't know. I actually don't know. But I do know I love Brandon. Brandon is great. If he's listening, Brandon, you're awesome. Definitely. Shouts to Brandon. I know he listens. He's a good dude. Wonderful guy. So shouts to him. Yeah.
01:43:49
Speaker
I don't know. You got, you ever listened to music when you're on a ride or anything like that? I know I'm way too much of a, I'm terrified of losing shit on a ride. So I'm just like, yeah, I'm a stickler for the rules. I keep my shit in lockers or. Yeah. Yeah.
01:44:08
Speaker
Oh, I got to circle back real quick. As an explanation, we we live stream our recordings only to our patrons. So it's only one person watching right now. OK. But he's in the chat here. He said he was commenting on the Taylor Bobby thing. He said, I don't like how he went to a French speaking country and complained about Roode Park guest speaking French.
01:44:35
Speaker
That was Laurent, wasn't it? Was it? I don't even remember, but... I think it was Laurent. That's fucking hilarious. So does this get edited and polished up before it gets posted or is it like the whole two hours of us just sitting here like shit talking with Mormon Jesus? Uh, both. Hell yes, that's what's up.
01:44:58
Speaker
I'm going to take out like the pauses when we talk or whatever, but other than that, everything we're saying, that's all standing. Oh, that's wonderful. Yeah. Cause sometimes I worry like I'm super sarcastic on my story. And I think sometimes that makes me come off as this like unapproachable bitch. And I'm like, no, I promise you I I'm an asshole, but in the funny and endearing way, please.
01:45:22
Speaker
That's how I always justify being an ass in my own mind. And I hope it works. I hope this is coming across. Mormon Jesus is going to make sure we stick the landing. We're fine. Exactly. All right. I'm with it on that. Mormon Jesus is looking out for your favorite coaster socks and everyone involved. Mormon Jesus' favorite podcast. The official podcast of Mormon Jesus.
01:45:53
Speaker
Ben, we've just been canceled by every fucking Mormon. I mean, cool. Oh, my God. Now we're here. Now we're going to have a much easier time getting Taylor on our show. Well, actually, like the weird thing is, from my experience, Mormons have like a good sense of humor, so you can talk so much shit about the religion about Mormons and they'll like.
01:46:18
Speaker
they'll just keep smiling. Like it doesn't bother them. That's how, uh, culty is kind of, that's a good way to put it. It's kind of like, um, I guess to get political again, it's kind of like when you see somebody, like a real big Trump person who was like, this isn't over with the whole like election thing. Oh God.
01:46:45
Speaker
I'm loving Jesus. You, you, you, you make fun of Trump and they're just like, they're just like, you know, they don't care. It just doesn't bother them. They just, I guess. Yeah, that's true. But hopefully unlike the, you know, the Mormons, unlike the Trumpers won't get in your fucking face about it. No, Mormons are pretty chill. Like I've, I've climbed with a handful of Mormons.
01:47:09
Speaker
The only thing I know about Mormons really is I've heard you can't take one fishing with you because they'll smoke all your cigarettes and drink all your beer. I mean, that sounds about right. My God, my Mormon Jesus. Mormon Jesus. That's going to have to be in the title of the episode. Coaster Cat leads us to Mormon Jesus.
01:47:40
Speaker
There it is. I believe it's a Mormon Jesus and cast members. Holy shit. We got another question here. Sean does stuff. Hey, Sean, he's a friend of the show. He says, what kind of milkshakes would you make to bring to all the boys to the yard?
Theme Park Parody Ideas
01:48:08
Speaker
Being a decently attractive woman in the coaster community, I don't need milkshakes. So we're good. Hey, there it is. Yeah. There we go. Although if you were putting them out there, you would attract an even larger crowd of coaster weirdos. Oh, yes, this is the blue ice cream. That shit is actually like crack. I genuinely want some blue ice cream. What is and that's over Texas, right?
01:48:38
Speaker
Now the blue ice cream is Kings Island. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. I've actually never been to over Texas trying to go there maybe next year. I don't know. It's a fun park, but it's like, it's like swamp ass. Swamp ass. Shockwave looks really good. Shockwave is fucking amazing. I love Mindbender. So Shockwave is like up there for me. It's been so long since I've ridden Mindbender, but I want to say it's better than Mindbender.
01:49:07
Speaker
You mean the Riddler mind bender? Oh, right. Yeah. Gross Six Flags. Thank you, Six Flags. Very cool. Like they don't even get.
01:49:21
Speaker
Well, I guess it makes sense because they've already paid for the licensing for all those characters. Yeah. Yeah. I was going to be like, let's call it mind vendor anyway. I mean, it's been that it's been well, that it's like what 78. Yeah. Or whenever. Yeah. Right open. I think it was it 78. That sounds right. Sometimes back then. I think it opened the same year as Loch Ness Monster did.
01:49:46
Speaker
Did it open before or after the 16 year old kid died on super looper do super duper looper after the kid died that year before? I mean, since we're so close, there's no other way to frame that trivia question. Hold on, I'm going to use the bathroom. All right, we got a straight up in the loop moment going on.
01:50:13
Speaker
And in the loop moment. Oh my God. Well, because if you listen to their show, they'll frequently get up to go get a beer or something. As they should. As they should. No, I'm not knocking them for it. It's just hilarious. And Ben's like, all right, I'm going to relieve myself. And it's like, okay, do it.
01:50:40
Speaker
Just don't forget to wash your hands for Mormon Jesus afterwards, kids. Yes. Wash your hands. That goes to all of you. Wash your hands, wear a mask, or else Mormon Jesus will smite you. Mormon Jesus will come back. And he will not be happy. And he will not let us have a 2021 park season. No, no, because that bus fare to get here is fucking expensive. It's just too much.
01:51:07
Speaker
He doesn't want to have to come talk sense into us. So we got another segment that's really fun. This got to go to the rundown for this one. It's underneath all the the guest question section there. Is it the look at this coaster thing? It is. Oh, my God. Yes. I got to get that shit pulled up. So first, first go to our CDB. Montana, Rosa, Delta.
01:51:37
Speaker
Oh, I like the color scheme. It's really pretty. So I would direct you to the picture specifically of the train of the train. Oh, or the car, I guess. That's that's not pretty. Oh, yeah. Picture number four. And then if you go to picture number eight, there are helmets in the seats. What the hell? And I'm not sure if that buckle actually connects to anything.
01:52:09
Speaker
Sad fact that this is somebody want to fuck it. Oh, that's funny, because it's true. So underneath that, we have amazingly found not one, but two actual POVs of this coaster shit. Yeah, I've got a thing in action. This looks.
01:52:36
Speaker
OK, so this looks like it was filmed on a sweet potato, so jot that down. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's about the quality of this first one, although I don't know if anything better could survive, to be fair. Yeah, that's that's true. Just the completely triangular lift and drop, which is just my boy. But the banking is funny. Oh, my God. What?
01:53:04
Speaker
And I like how the POV just stops. Halfway through, it just stops. You can see it on the off-ride where it gets kind of stuck on the lift hill, but then it starts up again. Yeah, that second video has somebody, some brave soul, doesn't have the helmet on. Toaster Dave, apparently.
01:53:32
Speaker
Coaster Dave is braver than any U.S. Marine. Look at this man, he's just straight up not giving a fuck on this thing. Like, I'm sorry, but I'd be terrified. I'd be thinking like this is it. This is curtains for me all. He actually looks fucking excited. Dude, he looks he looks stoked as hell. I mean, he saw it and probably was just laughing looking at it. I would be nervous to ride this.
01:54:02
Speaker
I wouldn't fucking ride this thing, I don't give a shit, I'd skip that credit. I don't know, man, a credit's a credit. What the fuck though? Oh my god, just looking from the off-ride looks even worse than the POV. What in the name of god? Like does it just stop there? This is like Satan contracted somebody to build a coaster.
01:54:28
Speaker
Well, we got to spruce up hell a little bit. You know what? I think this video is like maybe it's from like the park films you as you're on it. Sure. So, you know how they said that like they designed the beast on a napkin and stuff. This is designing a poster on a napkin while you are sloshed. And riding the beast.
01:54:59
Speaker
Oh god, that was that weird thing where it just stops. Now that was that very awkward bump right there. I noticed that it also has inverse banking. What the hell? So fuck you RMC. This coaster did that shit before you guys were around. It's just that nobody who wrote it survived.
01:55:23
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, unfortunately, everyone who's ridden this coaster is no longer with us. Jesus, this opened in 2009. Oh, my God. What the hell? I mean, that was a shitty economy year, so maybe it makes sense. Yeah, they're like, we could we could hire a professional to build our roller coaster or we could have Steve do it.
01:55:54
Speaker
We're going to have that 16 year old maintenance guy design it. Oh my God. Yeah. That's a, that was an experience. I'm surprised like there was no welding cracks. I mean, I'm sure there were, but fatal ones. Yeah. It only operated for four or for six years. So from oh nine to 2015.
01:56:23
Speaker
Seems like six years too many to me, but hey, you know, six, six years is a lot. Wow. Just just wow. And he didn't even wear the helmet. Oh, my God. What a brave man. What a brave man. Yeah. So just like that, that that coaster alone, I think, warranted its own segment. Oh, God, absolutely. It warrants its own whole damn episode.
01:56:51
Speaker
I wish we could find somebody who had been on it. I'd love to talk to them. Maybe not so gone. The guy on Reddit who has like two thousand credits, maybe he's been on it. Yeah, maybe. I know those pictures on our CDB come from Dr. Scheinen. So she's been on it, but she's been on fucking everything. So it's not surprising. We just got to ask. We just got to ask. Interesting life. Maybe maybe I'll email Dr. Scheinen just to be like,
01:57:20
Speaker
Hey, could you tell me about just this roller coaster? This one specifically, Mormon Jesus wants you to tell us about it. Mormon Jesus is asking. Mormon Jesus is asking for a friend.
01:57:41
Speaker
I think she's been on the North Korea coaster too, right? Yeah. Yeah. She's been on like every place that has like some bizarre one off kitty coaster. She's been there. Sam, what a life. Yeah. I don't think she'd ever come on our show. Cause she doesn't even like talk to coaster people. Maybe that's the move.
01:58:08
Speaker
I think it is just ball out with your coaster credits and dip the fuck out of the community. Yeah. Fuck all of you. You're like, I've been on more rides and I'm not talking to you about it. Oh, so you have the rare orphan rocker credit too bad. Yeah, it was dope, but I'm not telling you about it. Nope. I suppose like you're she's a doctor. She's probably just like loaded. She's got she's a L.A. county coroner.
01:58:38
Speaker
Bra. Yeah, it's like it's not just a doctor is like, yeah, no, she could. There's a reason she's been on whatever 1800 coasters or whatever she's at now. Yeah. For sure. But, you know, anyway. Yeah, yeah. So that that coaster is fucking ridiculous. And I don't know what was wrong with that ride, but yeah.
01:59:05
Speaker
Something. Well, that's that's unfair to say it's one thing. Many things that doesn't give credit to all of the things wrong with this ride. It was all of the things. But, hey, the color scheme was still pretty. I like the blue and the kind of kind of reminds me of the SNL sketch where they do like a baking show and the cake turns out like satanic.
01:59:33
Speaker
Yeah, it's like they tried to build a coaster and it turned out to be a demon. Oh, no, we fucked up. Oh, hold on. We got something in the chat here. Oh, shit. What's up? OK. Gabriel is saying, look up a POV of Star Ripper at Star Fantasy Port. Star Ripper, Star Fantasy Port. Oh, God.
02:00:02
Speaker
Oh, this thing. Yeah. Oh, this already doesn't look good. So I just got to get on YouTube and type this one in because. Oh, boy. Oh. Star Ripper is just such an interesting name. Yeah. I also love how there's just a shit ton of construction dust all over the track. I know. Damn, American Dream's got to step their game up.
Star Ripper Coaster at Star Fantasy Port
02:00:29
Speaker
OK, what the fuck is this now?
02:00:32
Speaker
I'm still not over the dust on the track. Like he is a dusty boy. Just think of the air quality. I'd rather not. It's actually better than outdoors in China. Oh God. Yeah. That looks terrible. It was weird that like right out the station, there was a support where on the base of it, it had lights. Yeah.
02:01:00
Speaker
I do got to say the supports on the lift Hill are kind of early. The structures around the lift Hill midway. Yeah, they look kind of cool. Yeah. What, what is wrong with this ride? Yeah. The one I found was like a backwards POV. So I'm getting like extra, what the fuckery from all of this, but
02:01:18
Speaker
That was the first one that came up when I typed it in, but then I found that the second one down was like a correct way. And I'm like, well, if I'm going to watch this, I guess I'll do it the right way. I guess that's certainly a tunnel. I really hope I can get an opportunity to go to China because I love bad arrow loopers. Oh, oh, oh, China's full of like really bad ripoffs.
02:01:47
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Let's see. Like China also has a lot of rides. Fucking good. Like Dina Conda soaring with dragon. Like a lot of the wooden coasters, the GCIs that they have over there look phenomenal. Yeah. And honestly, I'm just as excited to ride something like that as I would be to ride something like coaster through the clouds or whatever. Yeah, totally. This is seriously like somebody's no limits coaster.
02:02:16
Speaker
Yeah, they probably used no limits. Like the way that corkscrew went, it looked like somebody had done it in no limits and they like couldn't get it right. Well, or you know what, it looks like somebody who designed like a novice who, or like a, you know, like your first few no limits coasters were kind of shitty. Yeah. Or it took a while, but like,
02:02:39
Speaker
Somebody's who doesn't know how to use no limits, but they were able to get the forces equalized even though it looks like shit. But that's probably like what they, like what actually happened. It's like here, they had an intern like, yeah, go on no limits and try to make a roller coaster. Hey, can you help us get this corkscrew right? And they're just happy that it works. It's like, well, the forces are all good, so should be fine.
02:03:09
Speaker
This is what we're all about to start building in our backyards. This pandemic keeps going on. Oh yeah. No, no. I think that first one is going to be more accurate. I for one can't wait for our new banked overlords. Mormon Jesus. Mormon Jesus. Mormon Jesus coaster. There we go. Holy roller. Holy roller.
02:03:38
Speaker
You're right. The whole park should be themed to Mormon, Jesus, but Holy Roller should be the central attraction. Let's go. Pay us now. The Mormons should buy the Holy Land experience. Charge $6.66 for parking. It's perfect. Nice. Oh, God.
02:03:57
Speaker
So YouTube went to this guard or the starry sky ripper coaster, that B and M flyer. That looks amazing. That looks really good. Yeah. Okay. Going back to no limits to end this element in this wine coaster. Do you remember that? Like evil? It was like the evil can evil role. No. And the no limits prefab elements. No.
02:04:26
Speaker
Yeah, it was like a really weird. It like made no made no sense. But like it was basically like a triple. It was basically like a barrel roll or like a long zero zero, but it rolled three times. Oh, I kind of vaguely remember that. I am weird because it was just weird because it was like you got a loop, a cobra roll like an Immelmann, a bunny hill.
NoLimits Toilet Paper Coaster
02:04:55
Speaker
And then just the evil, can you roll or whatever the fuck it was called? There was a corkscrew too. Yeah. Corkscrew. Cause like, I remember I can never get a fucking corkscrew, right? They always looked like that fucking ride. Yeah. Ellie, you ever play no limits? No, I haven't myself, but I watch a shit ton of people play it because it's fun to watch people do it. Totally. Yeah. So you know what we're talking about when they look all janky.
02:05:25
Speaker
Look, I think it's even funnier when people make the rides that are purposefully fucked up. Have you ever seen the toilet paper coaster? What? Oh, boy, more. Oh, no, that was great. Yeah. You guys are just supplying me with so much horrible shit. Like, I love it. Thank you. That's what your favorite coaster sucks is here to do. Supply the world with horrible shit. Thank God. Someone's got to do it. Thank you, Mormon Jesus. That was your calling.
02:05:54
Speaker
You know, our podcast is described by one of our former guests as they said, they said it's like nobody likes having to take a shit, but everyone has to do it. Oh, my God.
02:06:13
Speaker
And I'm like, well, I suppose there's a truth to that. And then I remind myself that at the end of the day, when I'm long dead, this is what I'm going to be remembered for. There's worse things you could be remembered for. Well, that's true. It's all about reframing. I could have said I saw dark skinned employees in the African area of Fantasia land. And that it really added to the theming.
02:06:43
Speaker
Yeah, I think the weird part about that was how he said it was really. Did he say it was really cool or something or really interesting thing? Oh, God. OK. All right. Then then let's do one more. I just got to make sure that we're keeping track of these links to share for all the listeners, since, you know, this is an audio medium. So, Ali, here is the toilet paper coaster.
02:07:13
Speaker
Oh, Jesus Christ. I feel like my life is about to change, but possibly not for the better. This is great. I think it's done by the same guy who did the surf limit to TP close due to COVID. Oh God. It's just weirder and weirder and it's great. Christian veggies XYZ coaster.
02:07:41
Speaker
I like the color of the font there, the suspiciously brown font. We know what that is now. Oh my god. What? This is universal level theming here.
02:08:02
Speaker
Oh, so is it spinning? My God, it's spinning. Step aside, Time Traveler. This is like Time Traveler 2. Well, number two. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You walked right into that one. I was like, why am I even going to try? I love the shopping cart stacked on top of each other. And the giant toilet. Oh, great. Now it's now it's Smiler. Storage.
02:08:34
Speaker
What the fuck is this ride? No, no, no, not the trucks. Not the trucks. What the hell? The cows. I admire this person's dedication. Yeah, their dedication is like unmatched. Oh my God. Are they on a dock?
02:09:08
Speaker
It's just funny cause like, you know, we've seen a hundred, no limits POVs before, but like this one just kind of catches you off guard and then it just keeps going. Yeah. It just gets weirder and weirder, but it, it keeps getting more hilarious as well. Oh my God. Do they end up going to like a city? It does like open the boat. I love it. Yeah. Okay.
02:09:37
Speaker
I have several questions. What on earth? And the boat capsized. I love everything about this. Is that Donald Trump?
02:10:05
Speaker
Holy shit. Pun very much intended. Oh my god. Uh, this is it. This is the T-Rex that I've been wanting for life. Oh yeah. There we go. The world just wasn't ready. That transition to the track is. Beautiful art. It's surprising. A surprisingly smooth one.
02:10:29
Speaker
I mean, sure. Considering everything else they've done. Sure. Now it's an invert. Got it. Damn straight it is. It's kind of like one of those golden horse knockoff SLCs. I love how slow it goes. We were talking earlier about like all the rides that people like people want to fuck. Everybody should want to fuck this ride.
02:11:00
Speaker
I mean, there's a lot of holes. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, damn. OK. Well, you put it out there. You know, it's going to get interpreted. Yeah. Holy shit. The vertical drop with the spin on it. And it's back to the toilet paper track, which is awesome. I know. I think this takes the record for world's longest coaster. Somehow Steel Dragon still longer.
02:11:30
Speaker
Dragon continues with the toilet paper track itself to just go around the entirety of Japan Exactly still dragon. Oh, no, it's hot. Oh Taking notes from DC rivals. Oh, and it's got an awesome loop in it there Now it looks like that when we just looked at For a sec there and now it's back to the now it's back to the CP track. Oh, I like how it threads the loop though That's pretty sick
02:11:59
Speaker
This cityscape is wild. Feels kind of racist, not gonna lie, but... Okay, yeah, I could see that. Although, to be honest, the only place a coaster like this would ever get built is China. No, you're right. You're right. I don't know. We say that, but Energy Landy is about to come out with this. Right. Whatever park builds the toilet paper coaster, I'm fucking going to.
02:12:25
Speaker
Falcon's flight ain't shit. See, even the corkscrew on this one, it's forever. Yeah. It switches a couple of times. It's like 30 hours. It just did a like really abrupt change to the SLC. My moods be like, well, especially if you're going to an SLC. Yeah. I wonder how long that took to make.
02:12:54
Speaker
Probably all of quarantine. This person had some passive, aggressive shit they needed to work out. Oh, no. So their entire twenty point in November. Exactly. Exactly. They're like, I have something to do here. I have achieved my higher calling. I'm not finishing until I finish. Now we're doing this shit backwards. Sure. Why not?
02:13:23
Speaker
I wonder if that's an effective method of concentration. I think it just makes you angry at a certain point. Like what? I heard a thing about like the proud boys do that. It'll feel way better than being all upset about everything. Yeah. It's just like a bunch of sexually frustrated people. TP China. Okay. Oh dear. There it is. That was certainly a ride. That ride is as long as COVID.
02:13:53
Speaker
Oh God. Wait a minute. I mean, it kind of felt like it because there was not an actual clear end on that ever kind of got dumped into the water. But guys, don't you know, COVID is going to go away after the election. Yeah. Weren't they supposed to stop talking about it on November 4th? Yeah. Only the corrupt news or the news.
02:14:22
Speaker
The fake news is projecting the election results before they're certified. And it just got sad again. Yeah. And then we just realized the horrible hellscape reality we live in. Oh no. Take me back to the toilet paper coaster. I want to live in the world that toilet paper coaster exists. Please, Mormon Jesus, take us all to the toilet paper coaster. Take me away.
02:14:51
Speaker
So I got to ask you this then. What's up? What's your favorite thing you've seen while recording this episode? Oh man, that toilet paper coaster was really good, but I got to give it to Mormon Jesus. It's hard to beat Mormon Jesus. Yeah, you can. I feel like I would be sent directly to hell for saying anything that's not Mormon Jesus. Well, yeah, I mean, not much can be good. No, you do. You got to bend.
02:15:20
Speaker
Well, I was just gonna say something else about Mormonism. Oh no. I was just saying, if this show influenced you to switch to Mormonism, I, uh, that's sad. Nah, my new God is actually the toilet paper coaster, so we're good. I could see that. We call ourselves paperonis. It's great.
02:15:44
Speaker
You know, there's actually more evidence that the toilet paper coaster is real. Cause I've seen it. You've never seen a paper roller. You mean to tell me that wasn't actual on-ride footage of Mormon Jesus. You got to pay for the on-ride footage of Mormon Jesus. Good Lord.
02:16:12
Speaker
How many how much of our audience can we alienate Ben? Oh, actually, you know what? That's not a fair. That's not a fair thing to say. This is far from the first time we've had very, very terrible religious jokes on this show. And I don't mean bad jokes, religious jokes like a bad Christian stand up like.
Eagle's Fortress Tribute and Future Plans
02:16:36
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Oh, Mormon Jesus. So may he be with us.
02:16:43
Speaker
Come into me, Mormon Jesus. Wait a minute. Wait a second. This is the after dark special then. Got it. So we got one final segment here. Yes. That we like to wrap up with. We like to pay tribute to a dead ride. And since you're our guest, it's only appropriate and fitting that you get to pick. So what ride are we paying tribute to this week?
02:17:14
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Let's go with Eagles fortress suspended. That was in South Korea. Nice. That shit looks so good. Yeah. It looked really good. It is interesting. Like, you know, for a while I was like, Oh, that's stupid. They are how like they TPR like boosted that right up so much on the pole. Mitch Ocker pole. Yeah.
02:17:42
Speaker
Um, but honestly, I could probably see that being my number one coaster just because it looked fucking insane. It really did look super good. I'll also say if it wasn't for Rob doing that, nobody would have ever heard of that ride. No. And that's a damn shame because it looks really good, but it's also too bad. It got torn out like a year after that all happened. Yeah. Yeah. It was torn up pretty early. Yeah. It looked fucking amazing.
02:18:12
Speaker
Like it I don't know if it looked like it was the best steel coaster, but it definitely looked like it was. Fucking amazing, so. Yeah, I mean, it did the whole terrain play stuff, and that's really that's something that I like in rides, so I don't doubt at all that it deserved a place in that conversation. Hmm.
02:18:37
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in terms of like just best coasters period. It's too bad nothing else has been built like that. No, absolutely. It's too expensive for parks, probably to do that nowadays. Honestly, I liked the arrow suspended. Like I really liked Big Bad Wolf. I really like Vortex at Canada's Wonderland. So. Yeah, Big Bad Wolf was great. Big Bad Wolf was awesome. I miss it.
02:19:07
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Yeah, I mean, um, it'd be interesting if a, if whatever manufacturer tries to do that again, or if that even becomes popular, like I wonder how long you have to wait for those kinds of gimmicks to become popular again for the general public. Makes suspended swinging coasters great again.
02:19:31
Speaker
Yeah. They should, they should, they should, there's a technology for it. They should make up, you know, something better. Yeah. Like Vekoma or SNS could probably do it. Can you imagine if Vekoma made like their like new style flying coaster, but it had like an axis like that where it swung. Oh yeah. That'd be awesome.
02:19:54
Speaker
The coma is like the whole be careful who you called ugly and middle school me. I'm like, I'm so here for the shit they're doing now. Seriously, it only took him fucking 30 years, but they finally figured it out. Finally, they're like, no, no, no, no, no, no. The LEC coaster. Take a look. It's like, oh, all right. Like, looks so good. Seriously. That thing looks fucking intense. Mm hmm. Whatever. Like in a good way.
02:20:25
Speaker
The blue one at a energy landia. Yeah. Dude. I'm so stoked for that ride. Honestly, I yeah. Like I know Hyperion and Zandra look really great, but like I'm pulling for a business just because I'm, I'm the weirdo who takes the third option whenever I can. And also I just, I think it looks cute. I think it looks really fun, compact and intense. I'm here for it. Yeah, totally.
02:20:54
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Definitely. That park looks crazy. Honestly, I've heard they've built it up so quick that there's like not really even like hotels around the park. I would sleep in my car if it meant I got to go. So Poland has those weird anti LGBT zones though now. So I wonder that like it wouldn't necessarily weird me out, but it would, you know what I mean? No, I get you.
02:21:23
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Look that up. Yikes. Yeah. That's fucking terrifying. Oh yeah. I guess, I guess, uh, it says from the BBC in Poland, dozens of small towns have declared themselves free of LGBT ideology.
02:21:42
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Jesus, Mormon Jesus. Politicians hostility to gay rights has become a flashpoint, pitting the religious right against more liberal minded polls and gay people living in these areas are faced with a choice. Immigrate, keep their hands down or fight back. Boy. I mean, yeah, it's great. I mean, I grew up in a small town and it's definitely
02:22:12
Speaker
You know, it's a little awkward at times. I mean, yeah, I feel that small town. Everybody knows everybody. I, the less people know about me back home, the better. I just hit the age where I kind of, I have my friends, like my actual friends that I stay in touch with, stay in touch with, but then there's like other people that,
02:22:40
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I would have to like go out of my way to hang out with them for a little bit. And I just, I'm just over it. Yeah. Boy, really getting on the cheery notes here. Yeah. Yeah. All right. We go. So back to a business or a business, a business, right? Let's, let's assume we can all get there safely.
02:23:07
Speaker
Well, it's cool. You're you're taking Ebesis because I'm going to go with Hyperion, I think. I'm loving the love for Hyperion. I remember like there was like a span of a month or so where everybody was like hyping the shit out of that ride. And I'm like, y'all, come on. And then immediately they turned on and they're like, fuck Hyperion. And I'm like, y'all, come on.
02:23:34
Speaker
Well, it's funny, I saw a bunch of people complaining about it having a rattle, which to me, it's really funny. I think that's probably the most, like that's the funniest complaint about a coaster nowadays. It's like, it has a rattle. And it's like, do you know where roller coasters have come from in the last couple of decades? Like, and you're complaining about the rattle. Not to mention,
02:24:02
Speaker
It's going fucking 70 miles an hour or whatever. It doesn't. Hyperion go like almost 90. It's almost a gig or some shit like that. Oh, really? Holy shit. Yeah, it goes like I want to say 88. God damn, I didn't realize it was that fast. They're that tall even. Yeah. That old park looks fucking crazy. Oh, yeah.
02:24:31
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Basically, a 270 foot drop goes up to 88 miles an hour. Holy shit. Wow. Cool. Yeah, Hyperion is not fucking around. It looks like a really good ride. I suppose that weird train makes it look shorter. Mm hmm. Yeah, for some reason, I remember this ride being like, I don't know, maybe like just over 200 or something. Mm hmm.
02:25:01
Speaker
Yeah, it looks pretty good. That's like the Sky Rush trains, right? Yeah, because they're kind of winged. Mm hmm. Oh, my God. I love in the RCD, the RCD, the RCDB picture. There's like a guy with a GoPro chest strap thing. Of course. The one of the drop looks sick, though. I mean, it's just shit that rad looks good.
02:25:31
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It does look really, and I love, love the black on black color scheme. I'm like, yes, I love that. You have to look at a POV of it by a trumpet.
02:25:46
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Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of good stuff over in in Europe. Like I'm super, super locked in on Expedition GeForce just because that's been really high on my bucket list forever. That and the Wallaby belt omega that we still can't get a fucking name for up until they actually announce a name. I'm just calling it Fuckslayer, but I think it looks really good. That's a better name than whatever they're going to give it. Just Fuckslayer 2021.
02:26:12
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That's probably that's the perfect name for any unnamed Intamin air time machine. Yeah, everybody was saying like, oh, it looks like G fourth and DC rivals like had a baby and I'm like, those are my two most sought out ride. So this this is nice. I like this. Oh, fuck, I forgot there was a tunnel on this ride. Oh, Hyperion or.
02:26:39
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Yeah, I typed in a POV because I was like, all right, I got to see one now. We've got to look at it respectfully. Fuck, this ride looks amazing. Hyperion does look really good. I'm just like, shit, I really want to go ride some coasters. It's like most of the stuff that I want to ride now, especially now that I've done Silver Dollar City.
02:27:07
Speaker
It's like overseas, like I want to get my ass out to Germany. I want to get down to Australia. And I'm just like, fuck. Yeah, it's not going to be possible for a few. No. Yeah, even I don't even want to hold my breath for next year.
02:27:27
Speaker
Yeah, no. Now next year I'm trying to get what's left that I need here in America. I still think I'd really like to ride X2. I think X2 looks super good. Oh yeah, it's great. Yeah, it's so good. Maybe go out to Silverwood for the Halloween event and ride Stunt Pilot. Oh yeah, their Halloween event is really good. Yeah, don't they run some of the wooden coasters like backwards or some shit?
02:27:56
Speaker
Yeah. They were on timber terror backwards and they also just do a lot of, uh, there's like a lot of theming and fog and, you know, that kind of thing. That sounds really good. Yeah. So we are, we ended this on circle jerking about energy landia as we should. Perfect. That's what they deserve. It's what they deserve.
02:28:25
Speaker
Yeah, we'll hype them up. Um, I know we've had maybe a handful listeners and no, actually we keep popping up on the charts in another one in the Netherlands. So if you guys can get out there and go support energy landy or go do it, let us know how it is. Hell yeah. And right on tamed for us. Definitely. If you, if you guys are able to travel and go do all that, let us know.
02:28:55
Speaker
And the Netherlands is close to Belgium. Blow a kiss. Blow a kiss to Fox Slayer for me. Yeah. This is from Mr. Catboy. To you, Mr. Fox Slayer. To you. And no matter what that ride's called, its name is Fox Slayer. It's absolutely going to be Fox Slayer from here on out. This is the movement that I'm throwing everything behind. It needs it. It needs it even more than the OA movement.
02:29:25
Speaker
Even more than OY, yes. If it was built at OY, they would have called it Fuckslayer. Obviously. Because OY is simply the best. It's OY-mazing. Well, all right, you want to get any more plugs in? No, just follow me on Instagram. I promise I don't bite. So, Coaster Cat 456.
02:29:53
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because I know how to count. Also, I like King Dica, so there we go. Perfect. King Dica is good. King Dica is very good. Hypership for Jersey Devil, but... Fingers crossed. Next year. Hell yeah, hell yeah. Well, thanks a bunch for coming on. We really appreciate it. Yeah, absolutely. And thank you guys for being so patient and working with the flexibility and having me on it all.
02:30:22
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02:32:05
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