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Episode 159 Coastermania
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This week on the premier comedy roller coaster podcast, Ben and Zach discuss park news and watch "Coastermania" the classic BBC documentary (available on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0rE20RdJ30 )
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Introduction and Weather Talk
00:00:02
urfavoritecoastersux
I'm Zach, but you can call me Bart.
00:00:07
beb
I'm Ben and I'm in the outside.
00:00:10
urfavoritecoastersux
In the outside.
00:00:13
beb
Hey, there's our window here of recording of like warm outside night temperatures is very short. So taking advantage of it.
00:00:24
urfavoritecoastersux
Well, our window here of stupidly humid is perfectly in effect.
00:00:33
beb
Is it a, is it ridiculous there right now?
00:00:37
urfavoritecoastersux
I wouldn't call it ridiculous, but I'd call it humid and stupid.
00:00:42
beb
Yeah.
00:00:44
urfavoritecoastersux
ah You're welcome in advance for the visual, everybody, but I'm sitting without a shirt on.
00:00:50
beb
Nice.
00:00:52
urfavoritecoastersux
With a fan going on me.
00:00:52
beb
We're at, we, uh, I think today we had like 6% humidity and like one Oh one.
00:01:02
beb
So it wasn't like, it sucked, but it wasn't like that bad. You know, like now it's perfect.
00:01:13
urfavoritecoastersux
Yeah, we're at 77 percent humidity and 79 degrees. So. Could be much worse, but also could be way, way better.
00:01:29
beb
Yeah, it's a little sticky.
00:01:33
beb
I don't miss, I don't miss that shit. Like every time I go back to the Midwest, um, where it's like not cold, it's just like uncomfortable feeling where you're like, you're outside and it's not hot, but it's really humid to be too humid to be comfortable. And then you step inside and if it's got a central AC, it's like too cold and humid.
Air Conditioning Discussion
00:01:56
beb
And then, so you're just kind of like. The transition of inside the outside is so drastic. It's just like startling.
00:02:03
beb
Hey.
00:02:04
urfavoritecoastersux
See, I find that a good AC will reduce some of the humidity.
00:02:08
beb
Yeah.
00:02:10
urfavoritecoastersux
But that adds to how stark the contrast is.
00:02:14
beb
Yeah.
00:02:15
urfavoritecoastersux
Between outside and inside, because you're like, oh, it's so nice in here when you get in and then you get cold after a few and then you walk back out and you're like, oh, my God, I can't walk at the same pace because it's like I'm walking through peanut butter.
00:02:32
beb
yeah yeah it's uh it's it's kind of like on those uh on water slides those like fog screens or they have the movie projector you know i don't know i think escape the pompe had that or whatever the fuck the one in sea world i don't know what was it called atlantis yeah
00:02:46
urfavoritecoastersux
Yeah Journey to Atlantis
00:02:58
beb
That's kinda what it feels like. You're just walking through a ah layer of floating water.
00:03:06
urfavoritecoastersux
Kind of like, um, out in the West, like, especially in like Vegas or Arizona, like at the outdoor malls where they have like the towers that like spray the like mist water, you know?
00:03:20
beb
Yeah.
00:03:21
urfavoritecoastersux
But like, it's like 104 degrees. So it just kind of drips down and it's like, Oh good. Now it's humid here instead.
00:03:31
beb
Yeah, but when it's dry, though, that shit works pretty well. I like i had a swamp cooler um in my first apartment here, and that shit almost worked better than a ah then Central AC. But the key is is like when it's dry enough. So if like to like today, if the dew points or the you know humidity is 6%, you like basically blast the inside of your house with moisture, but then it evaporates. And through evaporation, it cools off. Um, cause that's what's weird.
00:04:04
beb
My centrally seat in this house, like it kind of stops working once it gets too hot and dry. Like you don't feel a difference. There's like no moisture to evaporate.
00:04:12
urfavoritecoastersux
Interesting.
00:04:15
urfavoritecoastersux
does That makes sense.
00:04:15
beb
Um, so like today I like looked at the thermostat and I'm like, holy shit, it's 85 in here.
00:04:19
urfavoritecoastersux
and
00:04:22
beb
But like, there was like no moisture in the air. or like on my skin. I just knew I was dehydrated because like I drank three liters of water and my piss was still dark yellow.
00:04:36
urfavoritecoastersux
And wait, correct me if I'm wrong here, like ah a central AC works different than like a window unit or an upright where it like draws in air and circulates it around like essentially a heating element, but in reverse where it's like cold water running through there.
00:04:55
beb
um it's the same like it's the same output basically like versus a swamp cooler like a swamp cooler doesn't have any cooling element it's literally just it's like a basically just like pumping mist into your house but the window
00:05:18
urfavoritecoastersux
So like a humidifier.
00:05:21
beb
kind of, yeah, it's basically like a humidifier with a fan, with a fan. So it's like blowing air through your duct work that contains moisture.
00:05:33
urfavoritecoastersux
OK, I gotcha.
00:05:36
beb
Or they do have standalone units too, where it's literally just like a a standalone thing you put in the middle of your room and then it like blows moisture air. I guess it's like a humidifier. It might work the same way. I'm not sure.
00:05:51
urfavoritecoastersux
And see sitting here where it's humidity, 77%. It's hard for me to, to visualize how that helps, but like talking through that, I'm like, Oh yeah, that makes sense.
00:05:59
beb
Yeah. Yeah, so the key though, I didn't realize this. You have to crack your windows. So it seems counterintuitive, but you got to open your windows for the swamp cooler to work. so that way the moisture can get like sucked out of the house.
00:06:19
urfavoritecoastersux
Weird.
00:06:21
beb
And then through that suction of evaporation, ah evaporation cools down everything.
00:06:30
urfavoritecoastersux
Huh.
00:06:34
urfavoritecoastersux
I got a lot to learn about cooling.
Podcast Humor and Roller Coaster Talk
00:06:41
urfavoritecoastersux
And I just want to welcome everyone back to your favorite coaster sucks. We are obviously an all roller coaster podcast, but occasionally we will delve into the world of HVAC.
00:06:54
beb
I mean, if you've ever been to a theme park in the summer, you probably think about the AC, especially in the AC in a gift shop. Think about it. It's a hundred and and whatever. It's 90 degrees at Cedar Point, 80% humidity. You just waited two hours for Millennium Force and the hot sun. And then you walk into that gift shop.
00:07:17
urfavoritecoastersux
And your left nut is sticking to your leg.
00:07:25
urfavoritecoastersux
Speaking of Cedar Point and it being 80% humidity. I recently saw a picture of a water spout occurring at Cedar Point.
00:07:35
beb
Yeah, I saw that. That looked pretty sweet. I've never seen one like that clear when I worked there. That was pretty it a good photo.
00:07:50
urfavoritecoastersux
That's pretty scary.
00:07:53
beb
I think the good thing about water spouts though is that if they form over the water, they dissipate the second they hit land, if I'm not mistaken.
00:08:07
beb
So fortunately, I think tornadoes forming on Cedar Point itself is pretty minimal because it's not much land for the, the, like the funnel cloud, the form and touchdown. And then if it's a water spout, it just breaks up when it, once it hits the land. But imagine seeing that if you were like tripping.
Film Critiques and 4DX Experience
00:08:32
urfavoritecoastersux
Be like these these fucking twisters 40x shows are crazy Which side note I want to see that shit so bad, but there's nowhere to see him It's gone in 40x Um Yeah
00:08:48
beb
Wait, wait, Twisters? Oh, what what are, what are even, what is even a 4DX theater? Is that like where the seats move and stuff? Okay.
00:09:04
urfavoritecoastersux
I saw a video of one of Twister's and that motherfucker jumped a foot. I'm not even being hy hyperbolic. That shit jumped up a foot. The people sitting on there were getting airtime.
00:09:20
beb
Nice.
00:09:23
beb
That sounds cool. Imagine, wouldn't it be funny though, if like you go to, so you go to like a 40X theater and the movie is like really boring. It's just like, um, trying to think of like a really boring movie. That's just people talking.
00:09:40
beb
Uh,
00:09:40
urfavoritecoastersux
Nixon Frost.
00:09:44
beb
what's, what's, uh,
00:09:46
urfavoritecoastersux
It's about an interview that this journalist did with Nixon.
00:09:51
beb
ah Okay.
00:09:53
urfavoritecoastersux
Yep, it's in 40 acts.
00:09:56
beb
but
00:09:59
beb
What like the with this seats like slightly rotate every time like the camera moves or it's like, or it's like, or it's like every time like someone like coughs, there's like a cough sound in the background. It just like bumps a little bit.
00:10:17
urfavoritecoastersux
When somebody stands up, the chair bumps up a little bit.
00:10:20
beb
Yeah.
00:10:26
urfavoritecoastersux
Yeah, it looks wild.
00:10:26
beb
there's some Okay.
00:10:27
urfavoritecoastersux
I mean, I think what here's the problem, right, is that Disney strong armed every all the theaters. So Twisters got shoved the fuck out. And so the only movie in 40 X right now is Deadpool and Wolverine.
00:10:42
urfavoritecoastersux
Which is fine if you're into Deadpool and Wolverine. I'll give you my honest opinion here. I saw the first Deadpool and here was my takeaways. You ready for this? First of all, Ryan Reynolds making meta commentary, not humor.
00:11:02
urfavoritecoastersux
Uh, not humor and lack of a plot with big action scenes. Not a comedy movie.
00:11:11
beb
Yeah. Did you see the, so did you see this newest one?
00:11:18
urfavoritecoastersux
I did not because I was unimpressed by the first one.
00:11:22
beb
Okay. I haven't seen, ah no, I haven't seen it, but I heard it's basically like,
00:11:23
urfavoritecoastersux
Did you?
00:11:28
beb
Kind of like the whole meta commentary, but it's like if like a bunch of 12 year olds wrote what they thought would be rated R dick jokes. Is basically this new one is like what I've taken away.
00:11:48
urfavoritecoastersux
I mean, it made a shitload of money, so people are seeing it. Right. That's and that's fine.
00:11:53
beb
Yeah.
00:11:54
urfavoritecoastersux
Not a judgment call. Just doesn't seem like the type of thing I would enjoy.
00:12:00
beb
Yeah. um ah Did you see Twisters?
00:12:08
urfavoritecoastersux
No, I probably will, though, because as much as I want to see it in 40 acts, I don't think that's going to be an option.
00:12:14
beb
Yeah. I saw it. I have a few takeaway notes. I don't want to ruin it. um I'll just say it's it's it's a little awkward.
00:12:22
urfavoritecoastersux
Look, it.
00:12:27
urfavoritecoastersux
Don't spoil it. Is there a tornado?
00:12:31
beb
There is.
00:12:32
urfavoritecoastersux
Ah, spoil.
00:12:33
beb
this it It's not a sequel. Or at least it's not a deliberate sequel. The casting is a little odd. It's very confusing. It doesn't know what it wants to be.
00:12:52
beb
ah
00:12:52
urfavoritecoastersux
They're like, ever since that tornado killed Bill Paxton.
00:12:57
beb
Well, there there is definitely like, there is an element to that where it's like, you know, oh no, like someone had, any you know, someone doing some science experiment, had a, you know, incident. And then it's just like, oh no, please come back. It's like, no, no, no, I can't go back. I can't go back to tornadoes. I've, I've, I'm done with that part of my life. No, no, no. Just come back for one week, please. It's like one of those storylines. And then, um, also very,
00:13:22
urfavoritecoastersux
ever since hele how Ever since Helen Hunt had Bill Paxton killed by a tornado.
00:13:30
beb
Who's Bill Paxton?
00:13:33
urfavoritecoastersux
The male co-star of the original Twister film.
00:13:37
beb
Oh. Ah. That makes sense.
00:13:42
urfavoritecoastersux
pop-up video here, co-stars Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt had a reportedly tumultuous situation ah relationship off-screen, which ah led to when they made the Twister Ride It Out attraction at Universal Studios Orlando.
00:13:42
beb
ah
00:14:03
urfavoritecoastersux
They filmed their sequences for the intro video separately, and they were stitched together in a in a split screen.
00:14:12
beb
Oh, interesting. You know, I've heard that. I've heard that and I didn't put, I didn't put that together. Okay. That's cool.
00:14:23
urfavoritecoastersux
And then Bill Paxton died.
00:14:25
beb
Okay.
00:14:26
urfavoritecoastersux
Which explains the joke about Helen Hunt having him killed with a tornado. Anyway.
00:14:34
beb
Well, there's also, so it also tries really hard to be like pro-america almost like did you see the but not no no no but they they do a very good job of making it ambiguously not left or right but like in their attempts to make it not left or right it's just a little clunky And like you'll, when you see it, you'll, you'll know what I'm talking about. It's just like, there are these moments where like a montage is about to start and you're like, Ooh, which direction does this to go? And you're like, Oh, ah okay. Now this is just awkward. You should have at least like picked one side, you know? Um, so yeah, there's a, there's a lot of like America kind of themes, which like, whatever, at least it's not divisive. That's fine. Um,
00:15:24
urfavoritecoastersux
Actually, that's, that's only cause you saw the American cut of the film.
00:15:29
beb
oh True yeah, I'm interested what oh They also They also have commentary on the on influencer culture So basically
00:15:33
urfavoritecoastersux
In China, in China, it's a lovely picture about a road trip.
00:15:41
urfavoritecoastersux
It's a delightful, romantic comedy.
00:15:51
urfavoritecoastersux
Oh, I'm sure that's great.
00:15:53
beb
So basically a side a side there a side story is like oh no like we're these we're these like purists like Scientists tornado chaser and now oh god here come all these youtuber influencers coming out with selfie sticks chasing tornadoes and getting in the way um So there's some of that and then um Also, what's really this is really weird I will spoil this because it doesn't have anything to do with the plot. but like So the main character who like studied meteorology, you know whatever, she her one of her original school partners is a person of color who has this insane crush on her, like insane crush. And they've worked together and they've been friends forever and blah, blah, blah.
00:16:49
beb
when she comes back he's like trying to like swoon her and like oh I you know like let's like be friends again and she's like very very distant and avoidant and so part of you is like oh okay like they'll work together they'll reconnect and then like she'll fall in love with him again you know type of thing but instead she ends up falling in love with the white guy who is MAGA coded and like, you know, small town, ah Oklahoma, corn fed, you know, storm chaser guy. And she falls in love with him. But at the very, very end, it also seems like, oh, is this going to be like a weird, awkward love triangle? Because like, they're not closing the gap of the first character. And then at the very end, she ends up being with this, like, white guy is very weird, like very awkward. And I don't know, like what the intent of that was, but
00:17:42
urfavoritecoastersux
I'm pretty sure that wrapped up in the opening ceremony at the Olympics.
00:17:50
urfavoritecoastersux
I'm really glad you know exactly what I'm talking about.
00:17:55
beb
But are if you do you plan on seeing it?
00:17:57
urfavoritecoastersux
Yes.
00:17:58
beb
Okay, yeah. So just those are just my takeaway notes. um
00:18:02
urfavoritecoastersux
I'll be on the lookout for it.
00:18:04
beb
Yeah, it's so weird. like It's literally like they intended for the plot to be that these two people, they were together, they split up, they reconnected, they found their passion again, they started working together. you know And then they were going to fall in love it and then it just completely U-turns like, Oh, actually there's this like new guy that comes in the picture who's white and she falls in love with him. So anyway, that's a word like the America theme. And like, you're not really sure whether it's like left or right coded is so just yeah. Anyway, it was a weird movie.
00:18:41
beb
um Fun, but I probably will never see it again.
00:18:48
urfavoritecoastersux
I don't think I ever saw the original after I saw it the first time in theaters.
00:18:52
beb
Yeah, fair.
00:18:56
urfavoritecoastersux
Yeah. ah Excuse me.
00:19:00
urfavoritecoastersux
And I'm also kind of just like. I mean, it's a movie about tornadoes. Of course, it's got to have all of that going on.
00:19:10
beb
I mean, it's I mean, it's the summer film of the move of the year of the summer. Like last summer was we had Barbie and Oppenheimer and I guess we get this.
Film Industry Insights
00:19:29
beb
We're also in a year coming out of the big writer strike, so like the movies are probably gonna get worse over the next 18 months.
00:19:38
urfavoritecoastersux
I don't know, dude, there was a movie about Tetris not that long ago.
00:19:44
beb
But that that was before the strike though, which is even sadder. Yeah, there was like this 12 month period where suddenly like All of these brand movies came out cause there was, cause there was the flaming hot video and there was the like the Nike video or movie video movie, the Nike movie. Then there's the flaming hot movie. Um, what I thought was funny was I watched the Oscars and they had like, you know, like sometimes they do musical scores from movies.
00:20:17
beb
ah And there was this one that was like very highly produced like there was like 50 people on stage like doing song and dance and They said it was like for the flaming hot movie, but I never saw the flaming hot movie But I was like I can't imagine in like a movie about a brand that this ever would make sense Where there's like 50 people doing like a song and dance? um
00:20:41
urfavoritecoastersux
so Like and now the nominees for best biopic about a corporation netting over 1.5 million dollars annually The nominees are The social network What were the other ones that like really pushed that whole thing um The founder
00:21:10
beb
what was What was the founder?
00:21:13
urfavoritecoastersux
About McDonald's.
00:21:14
beb
Oh, yeah. Never saw that one. But I know of it.
00:21:21
urfavoritecoastersux
That's weird and like even Barbie, I would say is in the same boat where it's basically just like. You're paying to watch a long commercial.
00:21:35
beb
Yeah, I mean, Barbie did a decent job at making it its own thing, but I guess there is going to be kind of like the Barbie Cinematic Universe or I guess the Mattel Cinematic Universe.
00:21:50
urfavoritecoastersux
Yeah, you know Hot Wheels.
00:21:52
beb
Yeah. Yeah, Hot Wheels Barbie crossover, I guess. I don't know what else did Mattel do?
00:21:58
urfavoritecoastersux
Hot Wheels is gonna be a gritty crime ah crime drama.
00:22:05
beb
Would it be funny if they just rip off cars? And it's just like, they just literally rip off the plot and like the talking car thing.
00:22:16
urfavoritecoastersux
Yeah, they're like Lightning Burt Reynolds.
00:22:23
beb
Yeah, I don't know, I don't know what they're gonna, I mean, I don't know, we'll see.
00:22:31
urfavoritecoastersux
I think that all started with the Lego movie.
00:22:35
beb
yeah Yeah.
00:22:42
urfavoritecoastersux
Companies were like, how can we charge people to watch commercials?
00:22:48
beb
Well, it's also just like a way to make money on your, I don't know, selling. I'm just, oh wait, we're still recording, right? Okay.
00:23:00
urfavoritecoastersux
Yes, indeed.
00:23:00
beb
I'm just making sure my audio is getting in. um I'm just like, I feel like movies are either sequels or that's like rehashed IP or it's like, ah I just want like a movie that's just ah original. That's like highly produced that people talk about.
00:23:21
urfavoritecoastersux
Yes, just give me Beverly Hills Cop four, damn it.
00:23:29
beb
But these like independent house movies, these like horror movies are the only ones that are really doing that. And like, I guess A24. A24 is like the only, they're the only ones out there doing original stuff.
00:23:41
urfavoritecoastersux
Bruh, Civil War was awesome.
00:23:43
beb
Yeah, Civil War was good. um
00:23:50
beb
I'm trying to think of other ones that were, I don't know. Well, I mean, the other thing too is like the direct to streaming industry kind of like changes things too.
00:24:05
urfavoritecoastersux
Yeah. Have you ever watched a trailer for one of those movies and you're like, what is this piece of shit? Right.
00:24:14
beb
Yeah.
00:24:14
urfavoritecoastersux
And then like, but think about it, right? Somebody got up every morning and stayed up late writing that script and they believed in it.
00:24:24
beb
Yeah.
00:24:26
urfavoritecoastersux
They believed in it enough to go take it to people and present it and be like, Hey, you know, this script right here, you want to spend $7.8 million dollars making it happen, right?
00:24:44
urfavoritecoastersux
And people believed in it enough. And fucking people made a set and a company auditioned actors. and
00:24:57
beb
Yeah, but I don't want to say that it's not even that people believe in it. They just saw it was like, Oh, this has potential to make money. It's purely like spreadsheet work. It's like, well, here's how much our budget is. And like, here's how much it'll probably make. Like this is a viable business decision.
Creative Brainstorming and Podcast Memories
00:25:19
urfavoritecoastersux
OK, well, then how how and where do we pitch your favorite coaster sucks? The shitty TV show.
00:25:28
beb
I mean, I like that idea, the mockumentary of the, uh, of like the guy, I forgot the premise. It was like his dad died and his dad was close to riding like 500 roller coasters. So then he like followed his dad foots, his dad's footsteps and like traveled the country to ride 500 different roller coasters. And then his 500th is going to be the beast during ERT at coaster con. but then like throws up and just like covers the train in puke, so they have to shut the ride down during ERT. And then it's basically just like mockumentary style, just like interviewing acers and, you know, enthusiasts and whatnot. All the Borat style.
00:26:20
urfavoritecoastersux
That'd be fun, but we couldn't do it.
00:26:22
beb
this is Yeah, at this point, probably not.
00:26:30
beb
But I think like basically, like there's but unfortunately, there's not a lot of mainstream humor in roller coasters, but like if you I think if you present it from the idea of, like oh, here's some guy who like knows nothing of roller coasters, but he's like learning about the culture and kind of like making fun of it along the way, there's some potential for it to be funny. kind of like Best in show or something like that, where it's like a hyper-specific It's like a hyper specific like niche community that you're kind of like making mainstream.
00:27:07
urfavoritecoastersux
What if it was like this, it's like a, like a web roundup type of show. So at the beginning we find like a couple, couple of good videos, funny videos about theme parks.
00:27:25
urfavoritecoastersux
Then we talk about a specific ride.
00:27:30
beb
oh web show yeah we're just reviewing the theme park vloggers call it theme park review review review the reviewers
00:27:50
urfavoritecoastersux
But who does review the reviewers?
00:27:54
urfavoritecoastersux
Who Rob Alvey's the Rob Alvey?
00:27:57
beb
I mean, there's podcasts about podcasts. There's YouTube channels about YouTube channels.
00:28:04
urfavoritecoastersux
And that's the other thing I was going to ask you. When are we going to go back and do our commentary episodes about our old episodes?
00:28:15
beb
I mean, there might be a few fun ones to do, like anyone's with guests. Maybe like there's a few guest interviews we had, like
00:28:27
urfavoritecoastersux
but We bring them back on. And just show, okay, what were you thinking right here?
00:28:36
beb
yeah remember the one that was like three hours long and like i think we've talked we talked to like a total of like 20 minutes well i don't want to say the guess but like
00:28:39
urfavoritecoastersux
Okay. Well, what were you thinking right here?
00:28:57
urfavoritecoastersux
Who was the guest?
00:29:02
beb
ah
00:29:06
beb
It was, they just talked and talked and talked. It was, um, I don't want to say it.
00:29:17
urfavoritecoastersux
Was it a single guest or was it two guests?
00:29:19
beb
Well, it started off as two guests, but then one of them had the drops and we were just with one.
00:29:22
urfavoritecoastersux
Yes.
00:29:23
beb
Yeah.
00:29:24
urfavoritecoastersux
Yeah.
00:29:27
beb
And I think like 40 minutes went past and not either of you, neither of us said a word. And then like, we were just texting each other. It was like, uh, he's still there. And then I think after 40 minutes, there was like a, Oh, Hey, sorry. i I talk a lot. And we're just like, Oh, uh, Hey, yeah. Um, yeah, that's crazy.
00:29:50
urfavoritecoastersux
Yeah, you do.
00:29:58
urfavoritecoastersux
And well, here's a challenge to our listeners.
00:29:58
beb
Or that.
00:30:00
urfavoritecoastersux
Go listen back to every one of our episodes and figure out which one we're talking about. um
00:30:08
beb
or the magical, the would have been magical episode that we lost.
00:30:14
urfavoritecoastersux
Which one was that?
00:30:15
beb
The one that took place in a backyard.
00:30:20
beb
um
00:30:24
beb
They got pretty drunk and loud.
00:30:28
urfavoritecoastersux
Oh, yeah.
00:30:30
beb
That one would have been amazing.
00:30:30
urfavoritecoastersux
Yep.
00:30:31
beb
Cause like, I mean, and like he was actually cool and like fun to talk to. And it was a fun episode. um but I respect that we couldn't post it. I probably would feel the same way, but yeah, that was, that would have been a great episode.
00:30:50
urfavoritecoastersux
Yeah, now I understand why people declined to come on the show.
00:30:54
beb
Yeah.
00:30:59
urfavoritecoastersux
I think it's cause we make our guests really comfortable and that's not always a great thing to be when you're being recorded.
00:31:02
beb
Yeah. yeah
00:31:10
beb
Yeah.
00:31:12
urfavoritecoastersux
You and I don't mind cause we're pros at this shit.
00:31:16
beb
Well, shit, I've been doing this over now for like almost a year now. More than that, maybe. Sometimes it helps, sometimes it doesn't, I don't know.
00:31:32
beb
I do notice like it's easier to record outside for some reason. Like I'm looking up at stars right now. It's just way more, way easier to talk than like staring at a wall. There were times where like there is whatever, when I moved back to Denver and I had that one apartment for like five months and there were times where like I would just get like, you know, smoke and like have a couple drinks and I'm just like staring at a blank wall. And I'm just like questioning existence. And I'm just staring at this microphone. It's like, it's kind of like that Zoom fatigue everyone had during COVID where like everyone was hanging out on Zoom. But there's that moment where you get too fucked up to like stare at a screen. And you just have this like weird self-awareness of like, man, I'm fucking alone. What am I doing?
00:32:24
urfavoritecoastersux
Yep.
00:32:29
beb
But,
00:32:33
urfavoritecoastersux
I mean, I had some weird times on this podcast.
00:32:39
beb
Yeah.
00:32:39
urfavoritecoastersux
And I'll tell you what's crazy, man.
00:32:42
urfavoritecoastersux
We're coming up on our fucking five year anniversary.
00:32:46
beb
I mean, that's cool and a little terrifying, I guess.
00:32:52
beb
Uh, nice. Well, a lot has happened in five years.
00:32:59
urfavoritecoastersux
Yeah. Sure has. I'm glad we started this show. When we did.
00:33:11
beb
Oh, for sure. Yeah.
00:33:18
urfavoritecoastersux
I feel like you and I were doing a podcast before we started recording it. but
00:33:25
beb
Yeah, yeah, definitely. Well, uh, why not? Let's get, uh, some repeat. I'm trying to think of guests we had on that, like, We're on in the very beginning that we could have on again.
00:33:46
urfavoritecoastersux
I know who would be great.
00:33:49
beb
Who's that?
00:33:50
urfavoritecoastersux
John Ravel.
00:33:51
beb
Yeah, let's let's get him on.
00:33:58
beb
Also, for a commentary episode, ah Dan Shockwave Dan sent me a movie, and I don't remember the name of it. um But it was filmed completely at Eelage Gardens.
00:34:16
urfavoritecoastersux
That's wild.
00:34:17
beb
And it's, it's crazy. What is it called? Oh, three ninjas. High noon at Mega Mountain. So they call, they refer to Eelage as Mega Mountain.
00:34:30
urfavoritecoastersux
That's not that ah same DVD that was on at the cabin, right?
00:34:35
beb
No.
00:34:40
urfavoritecoastersux
Oh, speaking of commentary, we got an email.
00:34:46
beb
Oh shit, okay.
00:34:50
urfavoritecoastersux
Um, our buddy, John, and I'll just keep it at that says, uh, love the show and have a possible suggestion for a watch along episode. If you haven't seen or heard about this one, costar mania, a one hour BBC documentary from sometime in the mid nineties. ah They go on to say, I have this on VHS taped from the Discovery Channel in like 97 of course. There's a good chance that may have been the only time it was played on US TV. Somewhere ah lost at my mom's house, but it's also on YouTube these days and they were very kind and included a link.
00:35:34
urfavoritecoastersux
um They go on to say it definitely has some good old ah some good info and insights, but more importantly, it's completely batshit in a very British way.
00:35:47
beb
okay that's what Nice.
00:35:48
urfavoritecoastersux
It's definitely the only coaster documentary to prominently feature the main theme music from A Clockwork Orange.
00:36:00
urfavoritecoastersux
Thanks a lot and keep up the good work. ah Thank you so much, first of all, for your email, John. Really appreciate it. And thank you for believing that what we do here is good work.
00:36:16
beb
Well, whatever.
00:36:16
urfavoritecoastersux
um Secondly.
00:36:17
beb
I mean, that sounds amazing. Um, is it, is it available on
Upcoming News and Theme Park Updates
00:36:21
beb
YouTube?
00:36:21
urfavoritecoastersux
It is, uh, like I was saying, our, uh, our friend John here was nice enough to include a link.
00:36:22
beb
Oh, cool. Okay.
00:36:27
urfavoritecoastersux
So, um, I think if you're down for a commentary episode, like an impromptu commentary, we might as well, uh, cause we could run through the news real quick. Top thrill to still closed.
00:36:39
beb
Yeah.
00:36:39
urfavoritecoastersux
Great America's teasing a new ride, but I don't think it'll be a coaster, but who the fuck knows? Um, Oh, Cedar Fair and Six Flags ah parks are all going to be on one pass starting next year.
00:36:54
beb
Oh wow, okay.
00:36:57
urfavoritecoastersux
um There was a thing Schlitterbahn Schlitterbahn passes have a $75 upgrade, which brings the total to $150 gets you into all Cedar Fair and all Six Flags parks.
00:37:14
beb
Wait, what, it's a, hold on, upcharge, $150 upcharge.
00:37:18
urfavoritecoastersux
Um, it's a $70, um, add on fee, which brings the total to one 50, which is amazing.
00:37:22
beb
Oh, okay, so it's, so what is the total Okay.
00:37:29
beb
Yeah. I mean, shit, that's pretty good. Although we'll see, we'll see if they, although I don't see that many people doing that other than enthusiasts and enthusiasts don't make up that much of their total numbers.
00:37:43
urfavoritecoastersux
Well, in Texas though,
00:37:45
beb
Oh, true.
00:37:49
beb
Wait, but what, what, what Cedar fair parks would texas be Texas beginning or
00:37:50
urfavoritecoastersux
nah well Schlitterbahn it is cedar fair's own Schlitterbahn for a couple years now
00:37:58
beb
Wait, oh, I totally misheard everything. So wait, this isn't Six Flags and Cedar Fair first.
00:38:08
beb
Oh, I didn't, I didn't even realize that. Okay. Gotcha. Damn. That's actually, okay. I wonder, I'm curious what a Schluter bond season pass would have costed then if like,
00:38:28
beb
Yeah. Cause I mean, really the only markets I see that being like where it might fuck over would be like, obviously Northern California, uh, DC, LA.
00:38:39
urfavoritecoastersux
right and like um Philadelphia, New Jersey.
00:38:47
beb
Yeah. Yeah. I guess there's a couple.
00:38:59
beb
I feel like Ohio theses will never go to a city, like they're not gonna drive their ass to Great America unless they're like an actual coaster enthusiast.
00:38:59
urfavoritecoastersux
But I think it's
00:39:08
beb
Because like Ohio, there's like Ohio coaster theses, but then there's also just like Ohio Cedar Fair people. And there's even a subset of like Kings Island people, Cedar Point people that don't even like go to each other's parks.
00:39:25
urfavoritecoastersux
Yeah, Ohio is weird. And, uh, not sorry, Ohio.
00:39:28
beb
and they like
00:39:31
urfavoritecoastersux
You know who you are. And I don't mean individually.
00:39:33
beb
it
00:39:34
urfavoritecoastersux
me individually I mean, you know who you are.
00:39:38
beb
Yeah. It's like, yeah, I've been a Cedar Point 150 times this year and I've been on Fury and I've been to Knott's Berry Farm. It's like, have you ever been to Great America? It's like five hours away now.
00:39:57
urfavoritecoastersux
It's like, I've been on Raptor 600 times since 2022. Oh yeah, have you ever been on Orion? No.
00:40:10
beb
Yeah, that's fucking weird.
00:40:13
urfavoritecoastersux
Ohio's weird, and again, you know who you are. And much love to our Ohio listeners, but again, you know who you are.
00:40:31
urfavoritecoastersux
So, uh, coaster mania.
00:40:34
beb
All right. I'm going to, I'm going to step forward five, piss in my yard.
00:40:35
urfavoritecoastersux
ah Let me.
00:40:41
urfavoritecoastersux
Hey, yo.
00:40:43
beb
It's my favorite thing about being outside in the summertime.
00:40:48
urfavoritecoastersux
Pissing in the yard, pissing in the yard.
00:40:53
beb
One second.
00:40:58
urfavoritecoastersux
but Excuse me. We'll see if we can find any more news here um Elvira is set to return to not scary farm kinda cuz she's dead Hate to sound cold about it, but She is ah Looks like
00:41:27
urfavoritecoastersux
Kenny Woods Racer was being held up by concrete blocks.
00:41:33
beb
Oh yeah, I saw that shit. Um, that's pretty funny.
00:41:38
urfavoritecoastersux
I mean, sure, it's old as shit, so, yeah, probably.
00:41:44
beb
It's like, oh, you mean like what every single county fair ride does with their rides? And suddenly it's a problem. I love the comments. It's like, oh, is my favorite part. It's just like, this isn't safe. I'm not putting my family on this.
00:42:06
beb
Oh, I have a brief trip report for fucking Brazil.
Ben's Brazil Trip
00:42:14
beb
ah
00:42:14
urfavoritecoastersux
Oh, yeah, for sure.
00:42:17
beb
Technically, no coasters, but I did pass a Pinfari Looper at a mall. um It wasn't open when I was there, unfortunately. but So as funny as I kind of opened up about the coaster thing to a few of my coworkers like local co-workers down there and like, All of a sudden, like some, one of the guys, he like sends me a picture and he's like, dude, there's a roller coaster. He's like, you should go ride it on your break or on lunch, whatever. And, but it wasn't open. And so now they're all like, I have a feeling if there's any kind of like fair carnival, they'll send me a pictures. It was great time. Brazil was pretty sweet. Um, the flight down there wasn't fun.
00:43:01
beb
Like, uh, I had to connect in Houston and then connect in South Paulo. And then went to Belo horizontal. Um, so it was, it was like a super fucking long day. And also the worst thing too, was like my flight outbound was delayed into Houston and like they always do this shit, you know, like, um,
00:43:31
beb
Like they won't, you know how like they won't let you off the plane if like after a certain time. Well, so like I was supposed to land at like five o'clock and the plane takes off at five 10. And so I like told the flight, I was like, Hey, I have a connection and I'm probably going to miss it. And because this is like, there's only one of these flights a day, I'm going to have to wait a whole next day. I was like, I'm trying not to like get stuck in Houston. Um, And then we sat on the taxi or we sat at the gate for like 30 minutes at Denver. And I'm just like watching the, the arrival, the estimated arrival, keep going up and up and up and up. And um it's like 30 minutes past last call boarding. And I'm like, Hey, I'm missing this flight. Can I get, please get off the plane? Like I'm not getting stuck in Houston. And they like wouldn't let me. And then I was all grumpy and pissed off about that. And then,
00:44:26
beb
Um, so we take off land in Houston. They decided to hold the flight literally for me, which made me feel special. And they made the, we got to the gate next to the plane I needed to get onto. Um, and then, but it was that feeling of like running off of, like running off of a plane. running through an airport, but then like sitting down in a full plane and you're like, Oh man, I'm stuck here for 10 hours. You're like sweating out of breath. You didn't have time to use the bathroom. You didn't have time to get water or snacks or anything. Uh, so that sucked.
00:45:04
urfavoritecoastersux
That does suck.
00:45:06
beb
At least like, if you want a 10 hour flight, you want to like prepare a little bit. Yeah. Um, Brazil was sweet. Like I, it opened up my eyes to like international travel again. Cause like, I think I just hate Europe. Like I think I'm just over Europe. Like Europe is so touristy and it's hard to get away from tourism and like everything's kind of like ruined by tourism in Europe. And like it was cool to like go somewhere that was totally different. That wasn't fucked up by tournaments because there's no tourism in the city I was in. It's like six million people and there's like no tourism.
00:45:48
beb
Um, so that was really cool. Everyone is super friendly. Everyone is super chill. Amazing food. The weather was great. It's their winter and it was still like in the eighties every day, sunny, dry.
00:46:01
urfavoritecoastersux
Damn.
00:46:03
beb
Um, I had amazing, like food was so good. And like, uh, everyone, and so the other thing I liked was that no one really spoke English and it's Portuguese, but like, No one was a dick about it. Like they, met like every time I interacted with somebody, I felt like, Oh, yeah. Hey, dumb, dumb American. I'm speaking English. And they didn't know English, but they like made an effort to like accommodate you as like best as they could. So they would like pull out their phone and like make sure they understood you and, uh, would like be super helpful to you. They're like, grab somebody like, do you speak English? Do you speak English? So all positive things to say.
00:46:47
urfavoritecoastersux
So go to Brazil.
00:46:47
beb
so yeah I think like if you want to international travel just cancel Europe don't go to Europe it's yeah it's just like I'm always uncomfortable there like I feel like and I am mean I get it it's like Europe like would you say that Europe invented tourism like
00:46:49
urfavoritecoastersux
Come to Brazil.
00:46:57
urfavoritecoastersux
Cancel Europe. They want to kiss all the time. So.
00:47:12
beb
If you think about like when when tourism was like a literal viable thing for the masses, I feel like Europe was like the first destination of tourism and like Europe's gotten like face fucked to death by tourism for the last like 100 years, 50 years, whatever.
00:47:13
urfavoritecoastersux
I don't know.
00:47:31
beb
And so you get probably since the start of like intercontinental plane travel,
00:47:31
urfavoritecoastersux
Yeah, but how long have they been marketing themselves as a tourist destination?
00:47:41
urfavoritecoastersux
OK, so seems like it's kind of by design then, right?
00:47:47
beb
or Right. Yeah But like the thing about Europe is like it's like I get it. It's like cuz it's changed rapidly changing you have people from all over the world trying to like invest and like buy Airbnb's and shit and everything's crowded and So like you the locals are always grumpy and they always you know, they're deal with shitty tourists They're always mad at people like you like usually walk off the plane and somebody's mad at you just existing It's like It always, I am always uncomfortable everywhere I've gone in Europe and like all the cities are the same and they just feel like scammy and like uneasy.
00:48:31
beb
And so like for a while I was kind of just like, I don't know if I have really like international travel and then like going somewhere different where it's like, Oh, like this is, this is what it's supposed to be. Like, um, was a nice change. So cancel Europe. If you just want to go to a different country, don't go to Europe, go somewhere else.
00:48:52
beb
Hashtag can't s...
00:48:52
urfavoritecoastersux
yeah cancel cancel europe they want to kiss on the mouth and smoke cigarettes all the time and because you can't name their their fucking prime minister
00:49:00
beb
Pretend they don't know English and then just like be all smug and pretentious about you and like make you feel stupid because you don't I don't know, you've never had some hyper specific local cheese that only exists in this one town and you've never heard of it before.
00:49:26
beb
And like with the food thing too is like, whenever you talk about like food in Italy and like, like, Oh, how's Italy? It's like, I don't know. I ate at a truck stop for lunch every day when I was there. And my food is literally microwaved. um And it's like, oh, like, you know, people always talk about like food in Italy. It's like food in Italy is really good. Like I get it, but like, it's also like, I mean, there's good food everywhere. It's just, it's just pasta. It's just pasta and tomatoes, things and cheese.
00:49:59
urfavoritecoastersux
You're like, yeah, food and newly is great, but have you had buggies?
00:50:02
beb
Have you ever just ate a whole bag of Bucky's balls in a sitting?
00:50:10
urfavoritecoastersux
Yes.
00:50:13
beb
I think one bag is like 2,000 calories.
00:50:16
urfavoritecoastersux
That sounds about right.
00:50:17
beb
Yeah.
00:50:21
beb
Bucky's balls.
00:50:25
urfavoritecoastersux
I believe they're called Beaver Nuggets.
00:50:27
beb
Oh, that's right. Beaver nuggets.
00:50:30
urfavoritecoastersux
I don't think they're Bucky's balls.
00:50:30
beb
ah for
00:50:38
beb
Okay, so I got this link. um um Are we gonna try to play audio through the recording or um is it gonna be BYOB on the audio?
00:50:48
urfavoritecoastersux
No, I don't know if we can do that. Let me see. I don't think we can do that here.
00:50:58
beb
Okay, let me try to see.
00:50:59
urfavoritecoastersux
I think we're gonna have to do it the old-school way count it on down and let it rip and if we get the ads we get the ads yes
00:51:09
beb
okay let me try to see and i discovered that there was a club out there of people who like roller coasters as much as I do. Can you hear it? Joining first drop was probably the best thing that happened to me. think the quality is going to be okay. for only enough to like Is it balanced between like my audio and the YouTube audio?
00:51:41
beb
are
00:51:41
urfavoritecoastersux
I mean it's fine. Hold on, bring it back to the beginning though.
00:51:43
beb
It was my five-year-old daughter, and she said, don't dad, let's go ride a great road coaster over here.
00:51:48
urfavoritecoastersux
Wait, wait, wait.
00:51:51
beb
Every time I see one, I have to get on, though.
00:51:52
urfavoritecoastersux
Take it back and we got to do the countdown because I got to see what's going on too.
00:51:54
beb
Oh, and I discovered that there was a... Every time I see one, I have to get on, though.
00:52:03
beb
Every time I see one, I have to get on, though.
00:52:10
beb
Okay. So if you're listening, see, I never, I never know what's better for people at home. If it's like better to have the audio with our recordings.
00:52:20
urfavoritecoastersux
I can, I, it's lined up right now.
00:52:20
beb
So that way, okay. So it's, but you know what I mean? If you're listening, that if you end up watching this at home, is it easier for you to mute? your audio and listen to the audio of the video through the recording? Or is it better to not have the audio through the recording and listen to it? Just let us know.
00:52:40
urfavoritecoastersux
I think it's better to just us record and people can time it themselves, but let us know that's our take from here.
00:52:40
beb
I don't know.
00:52:44
beb
Yeah.
00:52:48
beb
yeah
00:52:49
urfavoritecoastersux
y'all are the listeners so anyway I'm lined up at the beginning yeah cool
00:52:53
beb
Okay. And can you, you can still hear me, right? Fine. Okay, cool. right
00:53:02
beb
All right, I'm lined up on zeros. Three, two, one. Quiet. Every time I see one, I have to get on one.
Roller Coaster Enthusiasm and Club Dedication
00:53:13
beb
But when I discovered it, there was a club out there of people who like roller coasters as much as I do, I just went crazy.
00:53:14
urfavoritecoastersux
Yeah, my my video is perfectly lined up with this. When I discovered there was a club out there.
00:53:21
beb
Joining first drop was probably the best thing that's ever happened them to me. And the rest would go 200 feet up in the air and thrown down the other side.
00:53:29
urfavoritecoastersux
That's a sweet hat.
00:53:29
beb
Only nifters. Yeah, I like that one.
00:53:34
beb
So is it is it British enthusiasts in the US? are
00:53:38
urfavoritecoastersux
I guess so.
00:53:43
beb
are
00:53:49
urfavoritecoastersux
Yeah, this is very 90s.
00:53:49
beb
anybody
00:53:51
urfavoritecoastersux
The music and the slo-mo footage.
00:54:05
beb
I've definitely never seen this, I don't think. Unless, you know, what?
00:54:13
beb
Oh, I'll till after the eternal.
00:54:21
beb
a
00:54:24
beb
a a
00:54:24
urfavoritecoastersux
Yeah, this is peak 90s right here.
00:54:34
urfavoritecoastersux
Coaster mania. Not to be confused with coaster mania.
00:54:37
beb
was my five-year-old father. And she said, gee, dad, let's go ride a great roller coaster over there. We got up and they said, you can go and stand at number eight on the roadie pod farm. You know what I said? No, no, no, no. I said, you're going to go let that little girl ride. You know, and the man just looked at me, he said, not only are we going to let that little girl ride, but we're going to let you ride. And up the hill was Glenn listening to that back ratchet going tick, tick, tick. It was like the end of your life. You were going to be And then there was the ride. I don't remember anything of what happened. I think I shut my ears. I think I shut my eyes. Jesus, I got back to the loading station. I said, I'm very cool. My daughter just jumped right at that roller coaster car and said, let's go again. And I said, all right, let's go again.
00:55:29
beb
In 1974, I wrote an article for the New York Times.
00:55:31
urfavoritecoastersux
That was a long story.
00:55:33
beb
Yeah, I was a little confused for a moment. I found there were a lot of other roller coaster nets.
00:55:43
urfavoritecoastersux
OK, comments, fucking amazing.
00:55:45
beb
About 10,000 motors. All these people saying, I thought I was the only one. Sort of closet roller coaster riders.
00:56:04
beb
i don't know sorry I want to ride Phoenix and Comet close together, but I don't want to say I almost like Comet more than Phoenix.
00:56:13
urfavoritecoastersux
I think I would agree, but I'd after i have to write them again.
00:56:15
beb
Yeah, the other circuit is with one trip forward.
00:56:19
urfavoritecoastersux
Dude, Hercules, Hercules looked awesome.
00:56:24
beb
My wife doesn't particularly like roller coasters. And when we got married, we made our own vows. And she said that she would love, honor cherries, and ride the occasional roller coaster. And she has honored that. she She looks upon my passion with bemused tolerance.
00:56:46
urfavoritecoastersux
OK.
00:56:49
beb
ah time was when I was a weird and Louise was the organist of our church. We were at Blackpool. It was like season.
00:56:57
urfavoritecoastersux
That was even weirder.
00:56:59
beb
At the end of the day, how weve lived the rational I asked her to marry me, but I don't know.
00:57:00
urfavoritecoastersux
Did they die?
00:57:05
beb
It's not the right to come by me like a few things with like church pastors and stuff.
00:57:11
urfavoritecoastersux
With the covenant.
00:57:12
beb
like wonderfully engaged Six months later. It seems a little dated. I've always felt that anyone who needed to have an overriding passion, and I felt at least roller coasters, was a hobby that I could join in with and identify with.
00:57:26
urfavoritecoastersux
Yeah, you know, you know what roller coaster enthusiasts and the Catholic Church have in common?
00:57:27
beb
There are many ways in which an active coaster enthusiast has often assumed this hobby. It's visiting the amusement parks, especially as they open new rides. It's to encourage the preservation of interesting and classic and important roller coasters.
00:57:41
urfavoritecoastersux
You find your own punchline for that joke, fen friends.
00:57:42
beb
and of course to ride them all over the world. I'm not interested in how many gallons of paint or nuts and bolts or how long the track is or really who designed it. I know some of the major designers now but really I don't enjoy the experience of riding and if I feel it's not worth it then I'm letting it go off and do it alone and I find something else to do.
00:58:04
beb
I love roller coasters and I love running the club but it takes up a hell of a lot of time. my roll go
00:58:09
urfavoritecoastersux
That's awesome.
00:58:10
beb
doing my proper job. And then I come home with a language of 30 letters to open and there's normally about 20 plus um messages on the outside.
00:58:11
urfavoritecoastersux
like Yeah, that hedge fence, that's awesome.
00:58:18
urfavoritecoastersux
Look at that haircut glasses combo.
00:58:19
beb
Because I loved him very much. How did you hear him say something about RCC? You just accept these things because you want to be with someone, but it is so consuming. it It takes over so much that it just becomes completely unbearable at times. Couldn't just be a member of the roller coaster club because I want to be involved in it. I want to get the recognition that I was that person, that I was based on the...
00:58:41
urfavoritecoastersux
He is not wearing a shirt that says you must be this tall to ride.
00:58:44
beb
Oh god, I just realised that... ...reducing this magazine that people were going... And then just like that hair and glasses combo... ...to just be a normal member. It's not enough for me.
00:58:52
urfavoritecoastersux
He's like ladies.
00:58:56
beb
In our air-conditioned fellowship... Every couple that I have married on a roller coaster is still married, as far as I know. I think it increases the chances because they're willing to play. They're willing to look at life with a ah little more excitement and they're willing to play with it. And they're looking willing to look at a relationship with something that's not very dull or traditional. Okay, you could cut this little segment and take it out of context and then you'd bring your finger.
00:59:30
urfavoritecoastersux
You could but also as someone who got married on a roller coaster.
00:59:30
beb
I think now, because we're married, it's like, oh, well, I've got her and she's stuck.
00:59:33
urfavoritecoastersux
I liked what he was saying You could play with it and then cut it rate to to um ah fucking Shit, what's his name from arrow that one interview?
00:59:35
beb
No, no, right. But so I don't have to try so hard. He's like, you could play with it. Well, you were talking to a reporter on the phone and the answer machine cut in and I was listening back to some um some of the answer machine messages, I don't know, a couple of weeks later. And I actually heard him say to her, well, I do love roller coasters more than I do now.
00:59:52
urfavoritecoastersux
Where he's like the gyrations and
00:59:57
beb
No, but I heard you on the recorded message on the answer machine actually say it. I can't get out of it. One of the great features of this hobby is the day away and a day out and of doing it with people who are family and friends together. It always is a very enjoyable way to spend a day, to get out, have a complete change, to come back home refreshed and ready again for the next six days of ministry. So there's certainly something therapeutic enjoying a whole day at an amusement park.
01:00:32
beb
My grandfather put up the first roller coaster here in about 1904, and ever since we've had roller coasters, we've just built new ones, one after the other. And it's been almost our trademark, actually, in a way. And gradually, we've become a Europe's home of roller coasters. We've no wooden roller coasters here, but any other park, I think almost in the world, except one park in America. And our total number of roller coasters, which is 11, is the number for any amusement park anywhere in the world.
01:01:02
beb
What about parks you're referring to? Roller coasters.
01:01:05
urfavoritecoastersux
Yeah, he was salty as fuck about that.
01:01:05
beb
I've enjoyed all my life from about the age of seven. That was my first experience of a rail roller coaster. I always was very fond of the Big Dipper. That was quite the biggest thing of that time.
01:01:31
beb
I was fond of the big dipper.
01:01:37
urfavoritecoastersux
It's weird how she's like sitting in a car being driven around by somebody like inside the park.
01:01:41
beb
I know. When my father opened the big dipper, he charged a shilling. to ride. The local people were absolutely gassed. He said, a shilling to ride a coach. Well, he said, you're only all about minutes or so. And he said, yes, I know it was expensive, of course, but then it cost a lot of money to build. But he said, for that, I'm giving them a mahogany pay desk and a terrozzer entrance for an event.
01:02:20
beb
I think one of the most exciting things we did did was to, when my husband was alive, and he organized the Grand National, which is a racing coaster, and there are many roads today.
01:02:36
urfavoritecoastersux
I've heard a lot of good things about the grand national damn
01:02:38
beb
Oh, that's when I had long trains.
01:02:44
beb
I think recently, or not recently, but like, I don't know, probably a while ago, they changed it to like that's on the three, four-seater trains. Those trains are really long.
01:03:05
beb
The only place we've ever seen when we've been to Blackpool is the Pleasure Beach. I've never been up the tower. What best place to actually be? Never seen the zoo. We've never been the lakes, we've never been anywhere. Yeah, but roller coaster things actually got ten world-class rides and in a music park. Why are you going to waste time going down the prom? Yeah, but because I might like to walk along the prom. Well, you're going down a bird thing or a broom or something.
01:03:30
urfavoritecoastersux
Hahaha
01:03:31
beb
A week on Monday, my wife and I are setting off on another three-week trip across North America, and we set up the itinerary so that by the time we come home at the end of it, I should be able to say quite truthfully that I've been on every wooden roller coaster in North America. In the three weeks that we've got planned, we expect to drive about seven and a half thousand miles, and during that time we'll be tuning in to all the local Christian radio stations, and we'll be taking with us on audio preset, the complete New Testament.
01:03:59
urfavoritecoastersux
Oh, OK.
01:04:02
beb
That takes about 24 hours to listen through, and we'll probably be able to do two or three times as we drive around the great
01:04:08
urfavoritecoastersux
Oh, they didn't die.
01:04:15
urfavoritecoastersux
Yes.
01:04:16
beb
Well they're right, every morning coaster in North America, they'd have to go from at least Toronto to Vancouver.
01:04:28
beb
trying So far we've been to Houston, Dallas, Ohio and Tulsa, Kansas City, St. Louis, Kentucky.
01:04:36
urfavoritecoastersux
I think they were like, who's excited for this ride and this ride and Iron Dragon.
01:04:38
beb
instantly those weren allowed the lost till they they came course how so stupid so mad had to do it This trip, particularly, is promised to be able to ride about 50 coasters on limited freedoms.
01:04:47
urfavoritecoastersux
Michael Bolton.
01:04:52
urfavoritecoastersux
Like that singer guy.
01:04:53
beb
We can actually have an hour exclusive on each of the rides, and adding up to about five or six hours exclusive rides, actually which is incredibly important to a real roller coaster enthusiast well the last one i didn't even get to come on so it's nicer to be here but we're going to now is americana is a small family round park man it's tough to drag your wife on that kind of trip a great wooden roller coaster and it's a really good fun ride i've
01:05:16
urfavoritecoastersux
That's cruel. Oh, wow. Americana, LaSortsville Lake.
01:05:22
beb
been to americana four times in the past every time it's been raining that was with the screeching eagle right it's the first time i've been here when it's not been raining
01:05:30
urfavoritecoastersux
Correct.
01:05:30
beb
and hope the cases not running my
01:05:30
urfavoritecoastersux
And there it is.
01:05:33
beb
get there um oh go my up
01:05:40
beb
but
01:05:50
beb
It's like that scene from an old Simpsons where they like made fun of enthusiasts.
01:05:58
beb
there hos like
01:05:58
urfavoritecoastersux
That's fucking hilarious. Yeah.
01:06:01
beb
How did town rollercoaster weirdos? In Russia, they call rollercoasters American mountains.
01:06:07
urfavoritecoastersux
And they're like, whoa.
01:06:08
beb
And yet, actually, the rollercoaster started in Russia in the 16th century. And they were for these ice slimes. These hills are as high as the rollercoasters now. And they were dangerous. The next story, supposedly, the French picked up on the Russian rollercoaster and added wheels with ice slimes.
01:06:25
urfavoritecoastersux
Although honestly, being a big group of British people, I'm surprised they haven't started singing some song that we've never heard in America.
01:06:31
beb
And the Americans grabbed it, and we didn't let go of it. If you study European history or American history, you'll see the history of the country, including social history, economic history. We're like nothing really wrong with the trees. We reflected in what the roller coaster is doing, how many there are, where they are, what kinds of them there are. So if you look at ah the latest contemporary coaster in the United States, which is now the inverted coaster, where you are suspended from an overhead track and and the coaster does not only boots, but it can do corkscrews. And you look at a most primitive roller coaster in the United States, the Gravity Switchback Railway, which was built in 1884 at Tony Allen, New York.
01:07:19
beb
I mean, just just think about the the technological development that is reflected between those two rides.
01:07:28
urfavoritecoastersux
Yeah. And since then, Coasters launched now.
01:07:29
beb
By the time you got to the roaring 20s, you had 2,000 roller coasters. Americans were fanatics. And in fact, you could say a roller coaster had the same personality as Charlie Chaplin and all the other heroes of that time period.
01:07:50
urfavoritecoastersux
That's a weird way to phrase that.
01:07:55
beb
ri there
01:08:00
urfavoritecoastersux
oh god
01:08:02
beb
That's the old one.
01:08:03
urfavoritecoastersux
Oh God.
01:08:09
beb
Although I guess it looks decent in that show.
01:08:15
beb
It is ah big not It is not the steepest.
01:08:16
urfavoritecoastersux
Yeah, it looks fine.
01:08:19
beb
You know, it's just the best roller coaster.
01:08:24
urfavoritecoastersux
I don't know about all that.
01:08:30
urfavoritecoastersux
Bro, look, it's the beastie boys.
01:08:41
beb
It's a nice little frickin' lift-up.
01:08:47
beb
My glasses, cock, wicks, and those are in the pool.
01:08:48
urfavoritecoastersux
Look, not the straightest roller coaster, not the steepest, but it's the best.
01:08:53
beb
Somebody order a great one.
01:08:56
beb
what they all so yeah lost we find him we give it back
01:09:05
beb
a man recovers verse
01:09:05
urfavoritecoastersux
But you don't like the Cyclone? Fuck off. You don't like the Cyclone.
01:09:08
beb
I mean, it was president than a friend ofruman said i mean well the drop of the cyclone is pretty steep. I mean, you can kind of see it in that shot. that was good i So it has not stopped action, reaction, and people go through that. That's how the coastal tourism developed. you A little over 20 years ago.
01:09:39
beb
The cyclone was one of three roller coasters on the island, three broken coasters, over which the tornado burned down subsequently.
01:09:40
urfavoritecoastersux
Cold clams, cold beer.
01:09:47
beb
The thunderbolt is and so ah condemned ride. The cyclone is the only one left. In fact, the cyclone was the only broken roller coaster in New York City.
01:10:02
beb
There's also a weird too, because the thunderbolt is basically a cyclone. We have only 272 operating costars. And there are many reasons as to why the United States has dropped from 2,000 to only 272 in all of North America this year. And it's all reflected in our cultural history, economic history, certainly international. Wait, 200 total costars or 200 wooden costars? but
01:10:30
urfavoritecoastersux
I think wooden.
01:10:30
beb
eyes car that their road coast Slowly. As cities grew larger, they got nearer the parks. And finally, the park was in the city and all these fires started, which are really arson. Many parks burned to the ground.
01:10:50
beb
It happened so fast. By the time the fire department got here, the roadway roofs with the tar fueled the fire from underneath. One sack caught in a coaster caught. It just filled it probably 100-something feet in air.
01:11:07
beb
The raw cat people came here from far away just to give her a ride because of its reputation. It was a real aggressive ride, fast and short. And it really gave you a job for your money. Yeah, the ride did look pretty nuts.
01:11:26
urfavoritecoastersux
I didn't even know there was a coaster in Youngstown to be honest with you.
01:11:31
beb
There was someone who listened to the yeah operators and they stood up. And he came around the corner and fell, which he was killed. That's a shame. But it was quite a ride.
01:11:50
beb
What was up with that? He, like, laughed? He's like, yeah, you're just killed. Yeah, it was quite a ride. Oh, God.
01:12:14
beb
These adults are acting like how I acted on coasters when I was, like, 12.
01:12:22
urfavoritecoastersux
Yep, that's some batshit British shit.
01:12:26
beb
We started in this thing start out with one roller coaster that went further off the ground and the top speed was about 30 miles an hour and it was a pretty exciting coaster. We had sharp corners and things like that. We hadn't learned a great deal about well turning and curving and what happens to the people when you do some of these things. Then it got up to 75 feet high and at about that time we saw we were going to corkscrews go upside down. And that was a more exciting and worth a thing that had happened before.
01:13:06
beb
In the case of just broader here of course we have a couple buildings and a casino we had to deal with. And when I look at one of these rides, after it's all up and running and all of this, I can hear people screaming and go stand around by the train and they get off and how great it was. And that's what makes it all worthwhile.
01:13:43
beb
I think everyone in the world knows by now that I don't ride the things anymore. I've ridden enough of them in my time to know what they do and I've just given up going on. These are just me. Maybe this was the problem with Arrow. They're like, hey Ron, I know you built this thing but you gotta get off he's like on it. like so it's your fuck And No, no, no. 42 years ago, I was reading in an American magazine and saw a picture of a roller coaster.
01:14:08
urfavoritecoastersux
He's like, yeah, I know what these things do to you.
01:14:13
beb
I was very impressed, and my father said, and that was the first roller coaster in Japan.
01:14:15
urfavoritecoastersux
They have a he has a model of the um the the heart line coaster next to him.
01:14:23
beb
Oh, that's cool. Oh, yeah, I missed it. Was that the guy? Was that like a Tokyo guy?
01:14:31
urfavoritecoastersux
Yeah.
01:14:36
beb
milk so Nowadays, yeah Japanese people ride roller coasters, throwing their arms up, and screaming with excitement.
01:14:36
urfavoritecoastersux
Is that bandit a yummy yearland?
01:14:38
urfavoritecoastersux
Yep.
01:14:45
beb
let me see But in the early days of coasters, they would grip like one way. I think what's crazy, look at those over-the-shoulder restraints, and there's no ladder. So much so, there were injuries caused by people banging their heads. yeah else They were too shy to show their feelings. nothing got that can you so the white canyon at yumi reland supplement regulation used to be very very strict about building in wood
01:15:16
beb
but present have been relaxed but building wooden rural a acrosss in japan
01:15:23
urfavoritecoastersux
page
01:15:24
beb
from them in instead
01:15:29
beb
Apparently that thing was rough as shit.
01:15:40
beb
I think it's funny too, they're like, oh, it's much more relaxed nowadays.
01:15:48
urfavoritecoastersux
Page Yeah, they're like this is way better than it would have been five years ago I
01:15:48
beb
What roller coasters are personally, in fact, what they have to do is they go up and down. Somebody had to teach you how to build a roller coaster. Somebody had to teach you how to take care of roller coasters because that was, we weren't written down anywhere. We had no manuals, we had no books to look at. Not exactly the most reputable guy on building roller coasters.
01:16:07
urfavoritecoastersux
Somebody had to build you out of teacher teach you how to build a roller coaster.
01:16:09
beb
Dude, that room that that this is this looks like a movie set like the contrast of the shirt and the wallpaper about four years ago that he was going to retire and um me and my brother and my husband and I said we've grown up in this business so um this is all we know so that's how custom coasters got started
01:16:23
urfavoritecoastersux
I think I recognize that that's from ah Field of Dreams.
01:16:33
beb
what so changed over Just think that little shop there is built now some of the largest wooden coasters ever built. We between 50 and 60 degree banks. We use a two seated articulating that turns and And it swivels more so than just a slow type train. And I think the new technology of Woody will bring a new light in England and overseas. So this whole coaster sits like on a hillside. Everybody in the park can see it.
01:17:09
beb
I mean, I moved. I like CCR a little bit.
01:17:18
urfavoritecoastersux
megaphobia.
01:17:20
beb
We can't get one on Thursday. Okay, so will we? It's going to be Friday. Just smoking the seag.
01:17:33
beb
The thing looks nice, that one down there, we thought we'd have to take that big bow off. No, I think it's fine. I think it's going to clear, I'm sure it's going to clear. I think you'll be fine on that one. I know, it'll be great.
01:17:46
beb
for talking about we
01:17:51
urfavoritecoastersux
Yeah, I think so.
01:17:56
beb
next fifty five once it comes after there yeah face of so it's tell
01:18:05
beb
When I came out here I thought it was a very nice place to put a wooden coaster and and the excitement of it is the the natural feeling of West Wales and the coaster kind of just blends in with the background. It's fair to say that custom wanted to build a coaster in Europe and they wanted a coaster of a decent enough size ah to be able to bring respective clients. We screw them for a damn good deal. So, for under £2 million, pounds I think it's unbeatable value. This one here has 11 crossovers.
01:18:36
beb
It's amazing. it It intertwines in itself 11 times. It will basically be screwed in for a guest deal. A wooden rollercoaster in Europe. It will be when it opens next year, and we've got to have a message like that in order to attract people to it, basically.
01:18:47
urfavoritecoastersux
I also love how all these Brits are referring to England as Europe.
01:18:52
beb
yeah
01:18:59
beb
Amuzo trucks to grow and be successful to compete with the big leagues have to have a good wooden roller coaster. We always buy a truck, but we didn't think we had the capital to finance one, but I talked for first with the people from the roller coaster industry about the feasibility of moving one, and they all advised me that we couldn't do it.
01:19:13
urfavoritecoastersux
Sure is. Although what, this is like 30 years ago?
01:19:25
beb
But we found this coaster in San Antonio. The park had been closed for five years. And there's this monster that nobody knew what to do with. And we thought we could pull this thing off. Because you know, you can build a roller coaster new and spend a lot of money and have a bummer.
01:19:48
beb
Phoenix truly symbolizes the name of that coaster because they should have done that to the dragons and they have turned a roller coaster that was all forgotten into one that is now highly regarded by American coaster enthusiasts.
01:19:59
urfavoritecoastersux
Right?
01:20:21
beb
phoenix is running great in fact it's running great Even in the 90s
01:20:32
urfavoritecoastersux
They can always like that price has only gone up 10% This kid
01:21:00
beb
ro I have a degree in engineering geophysics but really i have I also have an honorary degree I think in crisis engineering because that's what you gotta have to run a place like this. In the front seat you get the visual rush and that is exciting. In the front seat also you tend to get more pushed over the top of the hill and that gives you more negative chance of sensation feeling lighter than air going. This guy was in a lot of different things in Discovery Channel, right? The suit with common phrase.
01:21:30
urfavoritecoastersux
Yeah.
01:21:40
beb
part of the fun of the roller coaster is that you can't see all the clips. So the surprise and the mystery of the ride is part of that which captivates you about the ride. The good roller coaster is almost like a good movie.
01:21:53
urfavoritecoastersux
There's the beast.
01:21:57
beb
It has to have a narrative flow. It has to have a beginning, a middle, an end. A great roller coaster has a sense of drama about it. It's not just components. The beast in Cincinnati, Ohio or at Kings Island is one of those coasters that can never be photographed completely because it goes out into the woods. It sprawls over this huge area. And part of the joy of that ride is it goes into different elements. It comes out of this brake run and it goes into a tunnel, rather a rather long tunnel. It comes out of the tunnel and then you're racing through the woods. There's just no way to encapsulate that ride unless you ride it.
01:22:40
beb
don know cost i screening at for you but today I know about building good coasters and lots of good ones. You can thrill people with a first drop. But if you keep up the level of excitement all the way around, you will terrify people so much and they will never want to ride your coaster again. I mean, I think it's a pretty fair statement made by Togo.
01:23:05
urfavoritecoastersux
agreed I feel like there's some good air time on that hill too and seriously
01:23:07
beb
That looks so cool.
01:23:18
beb
Yeah.
01:23:20
beb
put When designing the rollercoaster after each dynamic session... It's like right next to a road. You have to give people time to catch the breath so that they can enjoy all the excitement and all the clues. I like to think of roller coasters as a lot more with the mechanical system. ah Did Ron Toomer, was he like a total asshole that we don't know about? He just demands to be driven around in the limo. My idea of landscape is a hill with a wooden rollercoaster on the top with the huge drops and the twisting turns.
01:23:51
urfavoritecoastersux
Maybe.
01:23:55
urfavoritecoastersux
He's like, I'm 80 years old.
01:23:57
beb
My idea of landscape, you can have your trees and your p flowers and everything else that goes with it.
01:24:10
beb
Dramatic.
01:24:21
urfavoritecoastersux
Sounds like a Casio keyboard.
01:24:27
urfavoritecoastersux
One.
01:24:34
beb
You just like suck a microphone next to the speaker ah
01:24:47
beb
Oh there's that song no one knew about. you like a face in the car What the fuck is that? choice would make walk cash
01:25:05
urfavoritecoastersux
Yep.
01:25:06
beb
see a one
01:25:07
urfavoritecoastersux
What in the hell is this?
01:25:09
beb
Oh, it's so sad. Look at roadway executive suites. To the next side, but I'm going to enjoy.
01:25:22
urfavoritecoastersux
I don't know if I've ever heard of roadway executive suites.
01:25:23
beb
You go back to work, you go back to reality, and we haven't lived reality at all. It just means they wash their comforter. no harvey two three three i go two scream john joe one three four game above two four seven like for heart one that's trev because they step join down the road one three now i seejaular draw like love it seven
01:25:41
urfavoritecoastersux
Oh, look at that we a key party.
01:26:00
beb
God,
01:26:02
urfavoritecoastersux
They're fucking doing trivia.
01:26:03
beb
it's like it's... right? buy not go i it going
01:26:12
urfavoritecoastersux
There's another song that we don't recognize.
01:26:19
beb
scar
01:26:28
beb
Like, as British enthusiasts, it's... It's cringy, but they're not assholes. maybe
01:26:38
urfavoritecoastersux
No, they're just weird.
01:26:39
beb
Yeah. Like, if you compare it to, say, like, TPR or something...
01:26:47
urfavoritecoastersux
Yeah, but this is also the late 90s.
01:26:47
beb
Yeah.
01:26:53
beb
ten twenty a hundred time The 13th ride was even better. The 14th ride was through you. It was great. The 15th ride was the beautiful girl that you got to ride. The 16th ride was the dog that would never win the ride.
01:27:06
urfavoritecoastersux
This. This dude's been talking since that first interview.
01:27:09
beb
It was great. This one was at Christian's. I thought he used to ride him and made you roll him cut a skirt.
01:27:13
urfavoritecoastersux
And they just cut back to him right now.
01:27:15
beb
It's suddenly the end of the evening. You're going to shut the ride and you're yelling at them on the loading platform. Keep it up. Give us one more ride. And the guys looking at you. Hey. h guy What do you mean, one more ride? And you say, one more ride. Give us one more ride. That's all we want. And usually the ones riding, if you want that one more ride. Oh my god. agent
01:27:40
urfavoritecoastersux
Hey, teenager, press the buttons.
01:27:44
beb
Oh, blue streak with buzz bars.
01:27:53
beb
Some of the Gorilla Curses can be rather hard work on the upper chest of ladies, on the upper body of ladies. So you need to be well supported. Word of time Josh that. Just in case. If you've got it loose and you've got it looking down, if it can loose, it would be painful. Whenever you ride with a man, you try to hold your position and you don't try to knock into them. Whenever you ride with a woman, it's a little different. You don't mind knocking into them. Maybe there's also a little more padding there and it's a little nicer.
01:28:25
beb
Whoa, that's creepy.
01:28:25
urfavoritecoastersux
Oh my god.
01:28:27
beb
I remember a hustle of magazine saying, rollercoaster is for bottle and socks. No, I haven't found a rollercoaster that can do with that yet.
01:28:37
beb
Then we'd say I'm not looking. A lot really goes into the preparation and then the exhilaration and the excitement and then you get back to the loading station and the thing's all over.
01:28:41
urfavoritecoastersux
Oh Lord.
01:28:50
beb
Give me the rollercoaster. Anytime. Watch it back in line. They did, but I was throwing yellow. It's busy to park this area. What thoughts are parking natures here? They're all used. Traveling round the world to get on the coasters can be very expensive, and particularly on a recent trip to Japan. When we worked out my park entry for one ride on a roller coaster, it actually cost me £40 to get on a ride called the Moonsalt Scramble, because that was the only ride I did.
01:29:22
urfavoritecoastersux
Yeah, but you wrote moon salt scramble.
01:29:23
beb
Actually...
01:29:26
beb
yeah the thing with nuts like you can just visually see it from just the off-ride how insane the positive G's were
01:29:45
beb
Oh. Oh.
01:30:07
beb
17th day of our tour around North American amusement parks, and here at Coney Island, that this reckons us being our 28th amusement park on the trip so far, but we've driven 6,528 miles to get here. We've listened to the New Testament all the way through, we're actually on the second time round in there. Let's go join the king.
01:30:32
beb
Jesus. its a great feeling and great to be able to say that here on this cony island and cyclone a wonderful ride They haven't really kept up with them that much. Like this is the first time we're hearing about them.
01:30:43
urfavoritecoastersux
No. And they're stopped on a lift tail.
01:30:49
beb
Yeah. and it has a message on the bottom that probably isn't visible that says to believe in jesus and beside but called du him to give us parking places where we've needed them in the car
01:31:06
beb
It's kind of strange about the reason people get on coasters too, because we notice that there is but there some kind of an incident that occurs. Two trains crash together for some reason and people get shaken up, close the thing down for a few days, and more people in everything to flock to the thing is if they're challenging. was going to happen but parks aren't like a I love how he mentions trains colliding as if it's like a normal occurrence.
01:31:36
urfavoritecoastersux
You know, sometimes two trains are just going to hit each other. It's an arrow. What do you want?
01:31:43
beb
It's like when the Madam Olympus owner mentioned that. when they happen test to be spectacular
01:31:54
beb
The tragedy at the Battersea Park, almost a quarter percent trigger,
01:32:03
beb
but roll the coasting it was operated by my He did it. ill which shouldn't
01:32:16
urfavoritecoastersux
It was like I was only six years old that day.
01:32:17
beb
All the crackers put some in it, children to and adults. I think there was a man inside it. Most the people at the back didn't come down backwards. We went round and dropped. around the corner and we got the first carriage, just reached the top and then I think the cable broke, I didn't know it and it all came backwards very quickly. And what happened after that? Well, there seems to be the screaming but then it was very hard, I think it was just too short. Really it goes by when I don't think about that, you see. It all seemed to happen at the same time where the industry changed quite dramatically in these seventies and eighties
01:33:00
beb
I'm guessing they like didn't have an ANSI rollback.
01:33:05
urfavoritecoastersux
Probably based off of that description Shockwave
01:33:06
beb
Yeah. new technology It started talking about ah another roller coaster without anything specific in mind probably 10 years ago. And I was riding a roller coaster in Illinois and I realized that the technology of steel coasters had come far enough to make a truly exhilarating line. And I had worked on the Thunderbolt quite a bit and realized in the middle of the night that if you could take the track through the Thunderbolt over the first set of tracks, under the second set of tracks, that you would immediately create a unique line.
01:33:34
urfavoritecoastersux
It definitely was a shockwave.
01:33:50
beb
um' driving out the middle nightqua i gotta see it i got to see and essentially came to the spot right here look down the hill found out my goodness it can be done and then the adrenaline it um was almost like a coaster ride itself
01:34:07
beb
Let's take note of the head banging because apparently this one is pretty brutal.
01:34:10
urfavoritecoastersux
Look at the look at this first drop. That's the same first drop of Shockwave.
01:34:14
beb
Yeah.
01:34:22
beb
It does suck that hit they focused on inversions, and I know that was a thing for the time, but...
01:34:47
urfavoritecoastersux
This is like sun-drowned footage.
01:34:51
beb
And the thing that we've seen over the last 10 years is what some writers have called a coaster arms race going on in the United States. And I and our company have been accused of turning the thing. What happens when you build the most biggest roller coaster is if the guy can say, I've got the biggest one in the world, people will come from around the world to look at it and get on it. Well I heard about the first rollercoaster
Blackpool Pleasure Beach History
01:35:23
beb
to be built. It was over 240 foot high. That was at the park called Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. So the year it opened, I went to see it and I sat in the front seat early one morning and went down the first dip and it was an amazing experience. It was almost like St Paul on the road to Damascus.
01:35:46
beb
I saw a vision and I said we must have one at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. So I rang up the the ride manufacturers in Utah and said to them I want a ride like this one but bigger. The British have a way of making like a story so much more interesting but also well damn do you see that jolt and that drop?
01:36:11
urfavoritecoastersux
Yeah, that was nasty.
01:36:15
beb
That was pre-reprofile.
01:36:22
beb
That was insane.
01:36:23
urfavoritecoastersux
Isn't this thing like Magnum, where they do work on it like every year?
01:36:28
beb
I mean, I'm sure. I do you know that the first drop was like completely re-profiled.
01:36:47
beb
I hope they show another view of this. We had the flask of tea, and it was a big plus. And we enjoyed every minute of it. This is the five minute wonder. It's for all time, isn't it? It's for all time. And I'm privileged. When I die, I've been privileged to see what, well, to me, it's one of the... And again, they're just sitting in their car.
01:37:26
beb
and welcome yeah to me
01:37:29
urfavoritecoastersux
Right?
01:37:29
beb
them what i'm going no out i been given i'm proud to have been proud to you
01:37:36
urfavoritecoastersux
That's an old married couple just talking over each other.
01:37:39
beb
yeah whenever there is ah acent of a new right enthusiast get probably overex exciteded and and almost go to the length breaking the law so Was that a thing? Is it ties? When I first heard about the cleanse of the big one for height and dimension, they were making cleanse for 235 feet high lift hill. At first I thought, well this is fantastic, this is going to be the largest ride in the world. I immediately, you started to think, that well what is the height of this lift hill then?
01:38:11
beb
I decided to make a trip to Blackpool to find out the correct height. I climbed over left hill to the top and dropped a plumb line off the side and I measured it four or five times to ensure accuracy, which turned out to be 214ft, which is obviously a difference between the 235ft climb. I then realised that this is the difference, the difference is the height of the Pleasure Beach. I will see that. Oh, that's sneaky. That drop there, I've never been gone before. guitar
01:38:42
beb
I think they just like gave like a subtle jab at Blackpool about lying about the record. leave a check Just super casual.
01:38:48
urfavoritecoastersux
Yeah, that was a super British.
01:38:51
beb
suspended there must
01:38:52
urfavoritecoastersux
It was a super British jab.
01:38:53
beb
<unk> of Yeah. that the air must lift chance to check at everything there must be a little gap between all the wheels has got to me you can never have everything in putting all so it was slow most fun there is a ride at Kennywood which is the second mega coaster to be built.
Amusement Park Competition and Culture
01:39:10
beb
Now there they have a very steep drop that goes down the cliff, but the ride and the pull-up on the ride aren't very high at all. But of course as it's going down the cliff, they claim that their first lift is slightly longer than ours, but it starts at a very low height.
01:39:27
beb
That's the highest roller coaster and at the moment we think the fastest roller coaster in the world. This will always be the fastest roller coaster in the world because we're not starting at zero miles an hour or kilometers an hour, limit them over the goal. We are going about 18 miles an hour, so that's how we get over 80 miles an hour at the bottom. So for all those roller coaster builders out there, you're going to have to go about 260 feet in the air to build it. So yes, that's great. And there's one upmanship among the poorest breed of people who run amusement parks.
01:39:58
urfavoritecoastersux
Take that.
01:40:00
beb
But I think the main deal of benefit of those are the public, because they end up getting bigger and better rides.
01:40:09
beb
i've looked up but um so prevail i look like it with a lot of water especially women i a slow rollup of the window that i know very much
01:40:23
beb
The ultimate is always justro next thanks sir but ultimate roller coaster is just going to be built next year.
01:40:24
urfavoritecoastersux
Is that a Rolls Royce?
01:40:32
beb
I can't believe what they've done with roller posters already i care What happened to the married couple? Are they just going to like? three the years of yo
01:40:38
urfavoritecoastersux
the They're on their 1800th playthrough of the New Testament That was such a weird special
01:40:40
beb
they're coming back station dead little bit too wild to sort most people life i not sure i would want my dream roll coast
01:40:53
beb
if it were built then i would want anothers dream True. So true.
01:41:10
beb
I mean, it's nice to get a little bit of a glimpse into the Brits culture versus our own. If they remade that in ah for it'd be a little bit different.
01:41:30
urfavoritecoastersux
oh yeah that was interesting thank you john for sending us that that was a very weird one did you just hit a bong ah
01:41:43
beb
I feel like um the ah just I'm holding the microphone in my hand.
01:41:55
beb
So I'm just playing around with... you know
01:42:09
urfavoritecoastersux
Right on.
01:42:10
beb
um
01:42:20
urfavoritecoastersux
Yes.
01:42:20
beb
oh I'm just Yeah, oops yeah same It's funny cuz like anyone who heads audio and kind of loud
01:42:25
urfavoritecoastersux
Well, I don't know. I'm getting a little get tired.
01:42:49
beb
And so like, I wonder if my neighbors heard that. It would have just sounded like shitty, classical music.
01:42:59
urfavoritecoastersux
and like weird British songs and.
01:43:05
beb
I mean, were any of the people in this video me, dude?
01:43:11
urfavoritecoastersux
Look, dude, there was like. A Catholic roller coaster enthusiast.
01:43:17
beb
Yeah, you literally, it's like,
01:43:22
urfavoritecoastersux
Statistically speaking.
01:43:26
urfavoritecoastersux
Make your own punch line there.
01:43:30
beb
They also didn't really have a follow up of the, uh, a couple with the guy who dragged his wife on that coaster trip. Also the, they were separate coaster trips, right? One was like, I didn't really follow that one was like on a tour bus. And then the other.
01:43:48
urfavoritecoastersux
Yeah, one was like the the guy and his wife, the priest and the priest's wife.
01:43:53
beb
Yeah.
01:43:56
urfavoritecoastersux
And yeah, and then that one couple was like, I think I'll divorce him.
01:44:10
beb
ah
01:44:11
urfavoritecoastersux
Go on divorce me. You're not taking me season pass.
01:44:17
beb
I wonder if they're doing well.
01:44:19
urfavoritecoastersux
I hope so.
01:44:22
urfavoritecoastersux
I hope they have an 11s is with some tea every day. Have a cuppa and a
01:44:30
beb
Wait, lozenges?
01:44:33
urfavoritecoastersux
cuppa.
01:44:34
beb
Yeah, cuppa.
01:44:34
urfavoritecoastersux
Oh, 11s is like a British.
01:44:37
beb
Oh, is that.
01:44:40
beb
Biscuit thing.
01:44:41
urfavoritecoastersux
It's like tea time, but in the morning.
01:44:43
beb
OK. Hashtag cancel Europe.
01:44:49
urfavoritecoastersux
fucking kissing on the mouth and the cigarettes always with the cigarettes in the mouth kissing the
01:45:00
beb
And like.
01:45:02
urfavoritecoastersux
cheese cheese and cigarettes and then they want to kiss you on the mouth
01:45:06
beb
Yeah.
01:45:08
beb
And then like coffee, like black coffee, like legit black coffee. Or just makes it your mouth dry and like bitter and gritty.
01:45:18
urfavoritecoastersux
Yeah, like the espresso where you're like, I got a shit now.
01:45:18
beb
And then just like.
01:45:22
beb
Yeah. Didn't take no breath mint or yeah. I mean, I know it's not just Europe.
01:45:30
urfavoritecoastersux
And then there's there's no AC.
01:45:32
beb
It's not just Europeans. I'm just, I've just, there are a lot of people.
01:45:36
urfavoritecoastersux
Yeah, but they also don't have AC out there.
01:45:39
beb
Yeah, true.
01:45:44
beb
I will say there's like a very distinct, like when I was in Italy last, like in our office, they had a lot of espresso breaks, which was like cool. Like it was, it was pretty nice, but then like a lack of water to drink. So you're just drinking this like pure black espresso. That's like sticking to every surface of your mouth. And you feel like your mouth, like getting like, you know, like sticky, you know, and I'm like, Like, you know, like when you drink coffee without milk, it kind of like, it's like really hard for that flavor to flush out of your mouth.
01:46:23
urfavoritecoastersux
It's the acids.
01:46:24
beb
Yeah.
01:46:25
urfavoritecoastersux
Super acidic.
01:46:26
beb
Yeah.
01:46:30
beb
I just imagine just ripping a fat unfiltered hand rolled cigarette right after.
01:46:40
urfavoritecoastersux
ahjona
01:46:44
urfavoritecoastersux
ah
01:46:53
urfavoritecoastersux
ah yeah um I am getting a little sleepy over here.
01:47:00
beb
yeah same here
01:47:02
urfavoritecoastersux
All right. Well, I guess let's let's wrap it on up and it's fun recording and we'll be back to your normally scheduled programming soon.
01:47:17
urfavoritecoastersux
and Yeah, I don't know. Thank you for listening. Hope you enjoyed coaster mania. Thanks to John for sending that in and ah If you have a suggestion for Commentary episode you'd like to hear send us an email your favorite coaster sucks at gmail.com Yeah, that's about it you got anything else Ben I
01:47:24
beb
Yeah, same here.
01:47:43
beb
Uh, not really. Um, I'm trying to think like, uh, I like just open scream scape. There's like, what does it it feel this summer in coaster news just feels very quiet.
Roller Coaster Construction Updates
01:48:02
urfavoritecoastersux
I mean, tracks are still closed. Oh, I mean, top throw to.
01:48:06
beb
Yeah.
01:48:09
beb
Like I know, like like, doesn't it seem like this is the fourth summer in a row where it's like, Oh, yeah, not much going on.
01:48:20
urfavoritecoastersux
Kind of.
01:48:23
beb
I mean, like the flash is still under construction.
01:48:27
urfavoritecoastersux
It seems slower this year than any other year.
01:48:30
beb
Yeah. And it's fairly big news with the merger.
01:48:37
urfavoritecoastersux
Which is just going to slow everything, all the other news down.
01:48:40
beb
Yeah. I mean, like the flash are opening super late is kind of a owner. If that's a ah result of the merger, like the first kind of the first symptom we're seeing. Although I guess.
01:48:54
urfavoritecoastersux
No, that's just six flags.
01:48:57
beb
Yeah, it's true.
01:49:01
beb
And in comparison, the fucking a wing coaster at Kings Dominion is like already halfway built.
01:49:08
urfavoritecoastersux
I got leaked at the name of it. I forget what it was, but.
01:49:11
beb
Yeah. I might try to go to that area. So DC. Would you consider that like a DC like triangle of. Six Flags America, the Kings Dominion and. ah Bush Gardens.
01:49:33
urfavoritecoastersux
well Bush gardens in Kings Dominion are like only an hour apart. I think six flags America's a little closer like Baltimore, right?
01:49:40
beb
ah Yeah. I was thinking of like taking an an impromptu trip out there to hit those three parks.
01:49:47
urfavoritecoastersux
I Think it's definitely doable I Would hit up our buddy on our discord Because he would know
01:49:49
beb
Yeah.
01:49:53
beb
Yeah. Yeah. I was going to do that.
01:50:01
urfavoritecoastersux
He would certainly know.
01:50:03
beb
Because once I hit those three, I think like I've pretty much caught up on like new coasters that I've been missing out on.
01:50:14
urfavoritecoastersux
Nice.
01:50:14
beb
so
01:50:22
urfavoritecoastersux
Will you have to give us a trip report?
01:50:24
beb
So... Yeah, we'll see. Alright, cool.
Conclusion and Future Hopes
01:50:31
urfavoritecoastersux
right on fucking awesome was good to be back ah hopefully they'll be some news for us to cover next time
01:50:40
beb
Probably not, but ah we can at least just make fun of Hopefully we get some merger blunders and I'll have to, if you see Twister 2, I'll have to hear what you think about it.
01:51:00
urfavoritecoastersux
Yeah, definitely Buckle up Alright
01:51:02
beb
Because it's a weird one, it's a weird movie.
01:51:13
urfavoritecoastersux
then fucking a good times indeed Well, thanks y'all for being a part of this shit as always and um
01:51:29
urfavoritecoastersux
oh Shit, I'm good. We good. We cool. We good um Yeah, yeah anything else Right on oh fucking Yeah, it's been a blast and we'll be back very soon and until next time your favorite coaster sucks
01:51:39
beb
Nah, all good.
01:51:51
beb
Your favorite coaster sucks.