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The Single Rider Line Episode 12: With Guest Host Logan From Coaster Cuzzies!
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Lance is back at it again but this time, with Logan from Coaster Cuzzies! We discuss religion, coaster news, personal experiences, and more! All the TSRL bullshit you have come to expect.
Coaster Cuzzies Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coastercuzzies/
Logans's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatguyfromsaskatchatoon/
Lance's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/this_is_lunarus/
Lance's Twitter: @lunarusirl
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Transcript
Introduction and Teaser of 'The Beast' Ride
00:00:04
Speaker
Sunday! Sunday! you ready for the highest and fastest poster in the world? Are you ready for island dares you to come face to face with the beast. The beast. 7,000 feet.
00:00:23
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um
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You can't hear my voice. The Loch Ness Monster lives. This man can't handle it.
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wow Oh, no.
Mechanical Delays and Host Introductions
00:00:45
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Mr. Pop.
00:01:08
Speaker
All riders waiting and on top build rapture we are currently experiencing a mechanical issue and we do not know the length of the way. Once again, Where was it? Yeah, so we' we're going to start with the the anxiousness, right? So basically, before we started recording this, I was saying how I'm anxious for some reason to to record this, because typically I'm just talking to myself into a microphone with nobody else on the other line. And for some reason, i'm like nervous now. but I don't I don't know. Welcome back to the single writer line. and I'm your host, Lance. We are joined by our second guest ever on the show. If you want to go ahead and introduce yourself now is your chance
00:01:50
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I am Logan. I'm and just a dude who lives in the middle of nowhere, Canada. You may know me as my screen name, that guy from Saskatchewan. And I'm here. ah Well, I'm here because I ran into Lance in the single rider line here. Yeah, we are. We're in the single rider line for what coaster are we lined for again? I don't I don't remember. Do I pick the coaster? We'll find out when we get to the front of the line. So stay tuned to the end of the episode.
00:02:19
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and So you're just giving me new ideas. So so basically we just list off a random ass coaster at the end of this now. Is is that what we're doing? Sure. Sure. All right. All right. I already have one in mind and won a golden ticket award a few years back and it's it's probably not what you're thinking. so Okay. So we'll get to the end and we'll count on like three, two, one, and say the exact same coaster at the same time and everyone's minds will be blown. All right. Sounds good. And yeah for context, we have not planned this ahead. Oh, not at all. So I'm excited to see what happens here.
Logan's Podcasting Journey Begins
00:02:52
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Same here.
00:02:53
Speaker
So so so we met through through your favorite coaster sucks, I believe um that was the amount of people you meet just through the community is is is pretty fucking nuts because you've been you've been listening to them for forever, haven't you? I yeah, I think episode three, I believe was the first one I caught live. um And then since then, yeah, I've been listening to them. the hit They used to drop on, I think Fridays. Yeah, I think they still drop on Fridays.
00:03:25
Speaker
So don't know so how did did you just like run into them on Spotify or how did you happen about their podcast? I was I'm curious. I've I've I've been told. You've been told. Hold on. Whoops. Accidentally muted myself or me and Castor. Yes. How do you happen about their podcast?
00:03:49
Speaker
I think it would have been because back in the day I listened to In The Loop, ah Season Pass podcast and Coaster Radio all throughout high school. So obviously I wasn't around back then. I believe when In The Loop started, I was four. ah So didn't catch those off the start. But when I did start listening, I went back to the beginning and then eventually caught up. So I listened because I don't know. It's just the way I listen to podcasts for whatever reason.
Co-hosting and Community Building with 'Coaster Cuzzies'
00:04:12
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I like to know like the lore behind all the stuff.
00:04:16
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So I did that with those three coaster radio, um, plugged ride this one at one point. Uh, so then I started listening to ride this one as kind of like your guilty pleasure college kind of podcast. Uh, and then they started, uh, like beef, but not beef with Zach and Ben when they started your favorite coaster sucks. And that's how I was introduced to them. Oh, yeah. Okay. So that, so you just went through the chain of.
00:04:40
Speaker
of coaster of coaster podcast in the loop has been around since since you were four so you were so that was like what year 2000 I don't know exactly when they started but I know coaster radio started and I want to say oh five or oh six Jesus so that would have been like either my preschooler kindergarten year depending on which one of those it was so How do you even go about running a podcast pre 2010? You feel like, I feel like you need like a radio presence. so that's like Yeah. Like coaster radio with both their, uh, cause they both work in media with local television companies and stuff to my understanding. So they kind of knew that whole scene and made it happen.
00:05:18
Speaker
Oh, OK. So I know absolutely nothing about coaster radio. So that explains a lot. So thank you for for enlightening me. So they just I don't know why I'm asking you questions about coaster radio when you do. It's a single writer line topic. We talked about this if for for whatever coaster we're in line for. Well, no, no, no, no. It's like I ah it's like I'm talking to you. It's like, yeah, let me interview you about a podcast that you don't do work for, you know.
00:05:46
Speaker
Oh, you're oh, you're an engineer. Oh, so how are you know, how do they make Legos? You know, how like, how does how does that whole thing work? So it's actually this massive factory in Denmark. I'm not even making that shit up. I kind of know how Legos are made. I'm a fucking nerd.
00:06:08
Speaker
So. So you are you familiar with them at all? Like, have you met them before Coast to Radio? I haven't met anybody in the community other than ah my friend Mitch, who is also like co-hosts because he's we used to do a podcast back together during the pandemic up until I think we lasted till 2023, 2022 somewhere in there.
00:06:30
Speaker
Then you guys had a major falling out and major drama went down. Oh yeah. The TV host out there. And that, that, that was my claim to fame. Actually. Um, this whole beef with me and my friend, Mitch, that's, uh, we, we canceled our podcast and went and invaded the coaster. Cause he's, and now we work over there. So how did that, so how did that whole thing go down? Like, how'd you go from your own podcast to coaster? Cause he's just.
00:06:54
Speaker
decided to just get an offer from them to it's like, all right, here's $5 million dollars for a three year contract at the coaster. I fucking wish. No, um what happened was Caleb lost his co-host after, I don't even remember how many episodes, like 70 or 80 maybe. um They just, you know, timing wasn't working out and didn't want to be in the show anymore. There was like lots of motivation there, but Caleb kept trucking away. and ah Kind of simultaneously as that was happening, me and Mitch, our podcast was called Prairie Coasting. It was all like Canadian side of things with the coaster stuff and just our perspectives and growing up in the middle of nowhere, Canada.
00:07:32
Speaker
So we basically it was just kind of like a quarantine like COVID project. I had always, like I said, both start episode, listen to podcasts and always thought it'd be fun to have my own. So I just, you know, what better way to learn how to podcast than just experiment through doing and just trial by fire. So did that with Mitch and then we just, I don't know, our lives.
00:07:54
Speaker
stuff just kept coming up cuz i was kinda like the whole theme of pericosting it was like our one consistent thing during every single week especially in our lowest points there is just something to do and eventually like the show just kind of grew its purpose and like it just no longer ah had a need to kinda stick around.
00:08:12
Speaker
So we thought, well, we're still creative and we want to still do things. But Prairie Coasting just kind of like it lived its life. We're kind of done with it. We're happy with how it came out. Would have been nice to do a proper send off. But then Caleb reached out and well, i don't I don't know exactly who reached out to who. But eventually we got all talking together and we're like, hey, why don't we just basically take our talents over to the cousins and just work for you guys?
00:08:35
Speaker
That way we still do stuff and get to have fun, be creative, ah but then we just rebranded the kuzzies a little bit. And yeah, now it's like a bigger enterprise a little bit. Yeah. So what, so what you're telling me is that you were tired of doing all the work and you wanted to have somebody, um, you know, just piggyback off of somebody else's. Gotcha. I'm kidding. It'd be fun. And that's why I'm here. No, but I know I do like the majority of the editing and the behind the scenes work for the cuzzies. So while I'm on, I don't know, like one episode a week at this point, like one episode a month at this point, I pretty much have a say in editing almost all of them.
00:09:13
Speaker
So you're the backbone behind, uh, behind coaster kuzzies and what makes it flow in the first place. I'm assuming you upload all the stuff to RSS feed and basically do everything once they're, once they're done recording shit. Yeah. Uh, yeah, for the most part, I think Caleb still hasn't given me the actual login info or he couldn't figure it out. I think we tried to transfer that over at some point for the Spotify account. So he technically posts it all, but yeah, I tied it all up. I do all the editing.
00:09:39
Speaker
And then like, I know the best way of putting it is the cousins are weekly because of me. Otherwise they'd have to be like biweekly. Gotcha. Okay. Well, if you want to go ahead and shout out, I mean, we'll do it again at the end, but here's a good time too. Yeah. Solo.to slash coaster. Cause he's has the links to all of the socials, the podcast feeds, any of the apps you'd want to listen to it. And we also have a discord that's constantly bumping. I just give it an overhaul cause season three drops today, election day in the States.
00:10:09
Speaker
Uh, so if you're interested in any of that kind of stuff, uh, go check it out all over there at solar.to slash coaster. Cause he's sweet. Thank you. Thank you for doing that. Speaking of the election. Um,
00:10:22
Speaker
I was going to make a joke here, but I don't know what I was going to joke about. oh yeah I meant to bring this up earlier because i was I was thinking about this. I was sitting earlier eating lunch. I was eating some frozen gluten-free chicken tenders from Costco.
00:10:40
Speaker
and I was thinking like if if you were to have like two roller coasters were to run for the presidential election, a Democrat and Republican one. What are we who who who are we nominating oh for for each side? This is a good one.
00:10:57
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Because I don't know why I was thinking about this because I think I'm just so tired of the election bullshit and the amount of ads. It's so mentally draining. Yeah. And obviously you're you're up in Canada so you don't get, you know, the election ads. But I'm sure that that had a drum bumper sticker the other day. So we definitely have influence that trickles north of the border.
00:11:22
Speaker
Do they have Canadian plates? Oh, yeah. It was just ah I live in like rural. Some people have described it as like the Mississippi of Canada. But but why? like You can't vote in that election. You can't do anything. Why? You're not doing anything. I don't get it. I don't really understand either. But I don't know the culture, the aesthetic. Trump is a cult following. So it's kind of just spreads everywhere.
00:11:54
Speaker
Clearly, I mean, it's not like it's. I'm trying to think of a good, OK, cult following cancer that spreads everywhere. What roller coaster would that be? Steel vengeance. Steel vengeance. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Steel vengeance is good, actually. um I'm going to say Phoenix because that coaster gets so much hype and has won so many golden ticket awards and I don't.
00:12:23
Speaker
Get it. Same with Sky Rush. Sky Rush is a super overrated hot take. OK. And doesn't doesn't particularly do anything with its with its layout, in my opinion.
00:12:36
Speaker
No, that's that's very fair. I was thinking I like Phoenix as a good shout because I've heard ah stories as of recently that the patrons and the guests at that park are um unfortunately pretty racist. So not like obviously all of them, but to the point where enough people that I've talked to have been pretty uncomfortable in that place and a couple of left early because of it. So I think Phoenix is a good shout for ah the one half there. And then what did you say for the other side of it?
00:13:07
Speaker
I said I said sky rush as well um Because I feel like everybody loves that thing for some reason and I don't Get it. I've i've wrote it. I've wrote it in the back row. It's it's just okay. It's I was I got in line the single writer line not really I was with my girlfriend and Wade in the line got in the back row and um my expectations were super high, but they were high ish because I mean the amount of people that talk about sky rush and how amazing it is and how it's in their top 15 and they have 5 billion credits is quite a few and I get off or no, I hit the breaker and it's just like that was
00:13:49
Speaker
It was okay. That's about it. Nothing. Nothing special in my opinion. Um, but again, I feel like everybody loves it. So that's, that's kind of, I don't, I feel like Phoenix is a better choice still, but I consider that a good runner up in my opinion. No, that's a good, yeah. I like that. I'm trying to think of like,
00:14:12
Speaker
When I think the other side, I think of like a B and&M hyper that is there, but it's not great. You know what I mean? Like it's a hyper in the end of the day, but it's not fantastic. You don't hear people talking about it a lot. Goliath. Goliath at which park?
00:14:32
Speaker
uh isn't it new england has the hype the the hyper i think goliath at new england i think is the giant inverted boomerang uh damn it which one is that hold on I know, uh, La Ron up here in Canada has a hyper called Goliath and oh yeah anyone who says it's not a hyper, it's a hyper coaster model. Grow up. that's not I don't know. It's in the, it's like a hyper junior. It's like in the high hundreds. I think it's like 180 some feet or something.
00:15:08
Speaker
But it does everything a hyper coaster does, it's a hyper. Goliath at <unk> the Rhond. That thing slams you into the brake run after getting you a little queasy because I can't do air time. And then what do you get hit with when you get to the brake run? Just all the smoke from the meat barbecue stand that's right underneath the brake run. That doesn't sound that doesn't sound too bad. I mean, like when you're nauseous, it's not fun. When you're not nauseous, it's a good time.
00:15:37
Speaker
OK, that's that's fair. All right. So Wikipedia says it's 174.8 feet tall and has a drop of 170. So. I mean, it's a hyper model. It's not a hyper coaster, though, would you say that's a fair assessment or or no? It can be whatever it wants to be. Credits are a social construct.
00:16:05
Speaker
Not that this is a credit, but yeah, I don't know. Fair fair enough. What were we talking about again? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So you're saying Goliath at Laurent would be a good... Oh, Goliath is that over Georgia? Okay.
00:16:23
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Yeah, I forgot they have that hyper there, too. Is that one we were like raging bull? Raging bulls. Raging bulls pretty good, though. Like, I mean, it's got to be competitive on both sides, I think, because. Like it's got to be something people like. Well, no, people like raging bull. um One sec.
00:16:46
Speaker
I'm going to check Goliath at Biden. We're a coaster. Why would he be Magnum XL 200? Why would he be Magnum XL 200? That's my question.
00:17:02
Speaker
Because he's old and his speech is ah you know kind kind of out there, just like Magnum's ah triangular hills. ah Me and my girlfriend call Magnum triangles. That's that's our nickname for it. um That's a good one. I like that.
00:17:23
Speaker
Anytime we talk about it, it's like, yeah, do you want to go ride triangles? Sure. um Well, I mean, but but Biden dropped out, though. So it's it's Kamala and and Trump. So we got to. Yeah. What's it? We got to find a representation for Kamala, Kamala, whatever.
Comparing Coasters to Political Figures
00:17:40
Speaker
how How is that pronounced? Is it Kamala or Kamala? Kamala, Kamala. I don't know. You smoking some camels?
00:17:48
Speaker
You got any you got any camels left over there, man? I know what another parks. There's no smoking in line, but I need I need some camels. I don't know what that was. I apologize. It was so fucking stupid. All right, so we got Phoenix. Well, actually, I'm going to roll back real quick. What racist people at. At a. Canoples.
00:18:15
Speaker
Herkinobles isn't ah the greatest crowd out in rural Pennsylvania. I mean that's that's fair. You're out in the middle of bumfuck nowhere. It's not like it's uh gonna be like Chicago or Detroit where it's Super blue over there. Yeah um I was gonna say something else and I totally forgot. Oh, this brings up a good story. um I was at closing day for Kings Island on Sunday and there was a guy I was trying to get the last train of the year on Diamondback and uh excuse me and there was this guy probably two or three rows back and he was uh
00:19:01
Speaker
He was just screaming at Kamala Harris, let's go Brandon and all this other shit. Like, come on, man. We're at an amusement park. We're not here for for politics. And the write offs were telling him to shut up and he still wouldn't shut up and I would have kicked him out.
00:19:18
Speaker
It was the last, it was like the last five minutes of them being open. So there's not really a point to, to kick in. I definitely wouldn't have let him on the last ride of the night. Cause I'm a petty rat up like that. I've done things like that before. He was already on the, he was already on the train and locked in. So ah
Politics in Amusement Parks
00:19:34
Speaker
fuck it. Don't send it. Yeah. ah Up bar. Tell him to get out of there. I mean,
00:19:40
Speaker
if i was If I was still working at Kings Island, that's I totally would have done that. I mean, regardless, if he was I don't care if he was preaching Trump stuff or Kamala stuff, just keep politics out of roller coasters. So anyways, back to politics and roller coasters. Bernie Sanders is, what you might call it, Loch Ness Monster, 1000%.
00:20:01
Speaker
How is he elaborate? I want to hear your reasoning on this. Both are old as fuck. Both still keep fighting the good fight. Both still have the cult following and love, and they're going to die doing what they love to do. I never hear about Bernie Sanders anymore. I only ever hear about Trump. Like Bernie Sanders has fallen off the face of the earth, at least from my point of view.
00:20:25
Speaker
I just fucking love Bernie and I also like his a the memes that have come from him have been iconic the mittens I had my screen saver on my laptop and university was a Bernie Sanders with his mittens sitting on front row of a velocico stir
00:20:49
Speaker
And then I also really loved Andrew Yang. So two guys that never got the actual like nomination, but they are my favorite politicians in the States. I need to look this up now. Bernie Sanders. I just make it the thumbnail for this episode.
00:21:11
Speaker
Bernie Sanders on Velocicoaster images. Oh, it's not on here. Come on. ah Gosh darn it. I'll see if I can find it on my old laptop then Here's there's one of uh somebody made it their thumbnails just a picture of him with the mittens in front of railblazer for some reason But it's not that I kind of find the velocity coaster one. That one's good. That one's great and then there was also the the other one, the, I'm asking for another, what was that other meme? He's asking for money. I'm once again asking for a financial donation. Financial support. That one was pretty good too.
00:21:55
Speaker
I don't know if it was asked as the mids, but it was funny. I made one of those in the Cuzzys Discord because I was bugging Caleb to try and give me like admin access to the Discord so I could spruce it up. And he just kept forgetting. So then I made one one day and then I did the at to everybody. And then it was just that picture. And it's like I am once again asking for admin response, like whatever is called roles or whatever.
00:22:22
Speaker
I just like Bernie.
00:22:25
Speaker
I could tell. I could tell. so when did you So when did you fall in love with your beloved husband Bernie Sanders? I honestly don't know sometime probably in the Clinton Trump ah lead up to whether that be 2016 election.
00:22:46
Speaker
Yeah, I figured you were just you just fell in love with him while sitting next to while sitting next to him on Velocico. You know, I haven't seen that picture, but I'm assuming you're just you're just right there, you know. I was right there. He was a very fortunate single rider. One of the Secret Service was in the row behind us, making sure I didn't do anything to Bernie while we rode all myself. You didn't get my hands exclusively in the air.
00:23:15
Speaker
I would have, I would have smoothed them. I don't know what this is. That was in COVID times though. So we had to keep our masks on. oh you know If it was today's day and age, I would have. Oh, okay. Yeah. That makes, that makes more sense then. So the secret servers were just sitting behind you. I'm assuming they weren't smiling. I mean, you couldn't see their faces anyways. They had their masks on. Well, aside from the one guy, no, I'm kidding. All right. Elaborate elaborate. What am I missing here?
00:23:45
Speaker
Well, there was this one secret service dude who didn't seem to be fully in compliance with all of their policies and procedures that was hanging out behind us. um I heard you got fired at the end of the day. Oh, okay. All right. That's thank you. Thank you for elaborating. I thought you were about to go somewhere and start talking about acorn cop for some reason figured that has something to play into it. That's a good callback to fucking acorn cop.
00:24:14
Speaker
I've been hit. No, you haven't been hit. An acorn fell on the top of your squad car and you got all trigger happy. But go off. I can't believe that guy in the back didn't die. Like that was so he's he's lucky. It's the fact that there was like all of them just unloaded fire on their own fucking patrol car that they handcuffed a guy and put him in.
00:24:39
Speaker
It's like, A, where the fuck's he getting a gun? B, how the fuck are you shooting a gun with your hand stub on your back? Like, what the fuck?
00:24:50
Speaker
i have I need to re-listen to that guy's, like, what he said afterwards because, like, I don't remember. It was some dumb it was something dumb. Did he blame the guy in the car? I have no idea what it is. Yeah, I don't know. i he I know he thought the dude in the car was the reason that he heard shots fired. Oh, my God. I don't hate the people behind cops. I just hate the system. There needs to be way better training for these poor people. Yeah, I mean, it's like what, six months, I think, here in the US. Google, help me. How long do you have to
00:25:31
Speaker
I can type God damn it to be a police officer up here in Canada to become a part of the RCMP. You only have to work for 26 weeks in training here. It's a for the Cincinnati police department. You have to go through 28 weeks of training um or at least 740 hours.
00:26:01
Speaker
740 hours when they even got me off of fucking probation to lifeguard You like our probation was 1080 and that's life guarding you did you to get a thousand eighty hours Like in our contracts, not to be certified. i I could have made that more of a thing. But in our contracts, in order for us to like actually not be able to like just you get, like be it was one of those things where we were in a union. So once you get past the 1080, then the employer doesn't have the right to like pretty much get rid of you, because they don't like you anymore. Yeah. So yeah I guess not even remotely close to the same, because we're talking about training.
00:26:44
Speaker
um But anyway, let's just pretend like that actually was a more relevant link than it turned out to be. No, I mean, I mean, I kind of get it, though, because a thousand and eighty hours is a long ass time compared to the training you got to do for for being a police officer. That's that's a big that's a big jump. I mean, I get where you're I get where you're coming from. Yeah. Give yourself some more credit, man. You're it made your analogy made some sense.
00:27:12
Speaker
Not a bunch of sense, but enough of sense. Beauty. Beauty. So other coasters then, or do you have other coasters that we're trying to pick? So. So we got Phoenix and then we've got. Are we doing Goliath at great at great adventure? Over Georgia or or no?
00:27:41
Speaker
I don't know. um I feel like I feel like that's too tame. You know, I feel like. You know, I mean, both both sides of the aisle, I've just been attacking each other recently. I feel like it should be coasters that are kind of in constant. Oh, OK, here we go. What about the voyage? Oh, the voyage and the beast.
00:28:07
Speaker
um The voyage would work. Everybody, I feel like everybody likes the voyage. I've never heard have had anybody say it's bad, but then I've had people say that the beast is better. I'm going to. Are you saying the voyage for for for blue or for red? Probably blue if we're sticking with the cannobals being red. OK, all right, yeah, that would. That's fair, yeah, let's go with that because.
00:28:39
Speaker
Because Canobals and Phoenix don't really deserve that award every year, even though they still get it. And the voyage kicks ass. And I just wrote it two weekends ago. Yeah, that's I'd say that's pretty fair. I'll put a poll. I'm pretty sure I can do polls on on Spotify if I'm correct. I think you can, yeah. Yeah, i'll I'll put a poll. So go check out the poll. We'll do one for ah for the voyage or for or for Phoenix. And this is going to determine ah who who wins the the roller coaster election for 2024. And we'll do this again and in four years.
00:29:21
Speaker
Who are you voting for in this roller coaster election? I'm gonna hit the write-in ballot and I'm gonna write in, I don't know, X2 maybe? X2, okay. That's not a bad thing. Go ahead. X2 out of left field. If I had to pick from one of the two,
00:29:43
Speaker
um I don't know. I don't think I'd enjoy the voyage, but it's one that's like more iconic that I want to like just be able to say I've ridden and have an experience. So I'm going to pick that one. Are you a fan of wooden coasters in general or or no? because I love wooden coasters. Voyage just looks like with the way that it just keeps its momentum, it looks insane. Like I think it's too much because I'm very much realized when I went out east and rode some big coasters for the first time in a decade, I was like, huh?
00:30:12
Speaker
I don't actually like anything that's kind of longer than a minute, if it's real intense. so you're a ah So youre you're a came to car kind of guy, just quick, quick, uh, up and done story. I like a good one trick pony. Yeah. Like I really like Yukon striker and those dive coasters. I, that was like the model that was most anticipated for me to like ever get on. And then finally doing that was really freaking cool. But then I also just like, and honestly, my favorite types of coasters are like the super long family themed ones. Those are good too. I like those. I like those a lot. When did you get out there?
00:30:51
Speaker
Uh, out East. Yeah. Uh, would have been July 2023, 2023. Do you mind recap of that trip or, uh, recap of that one was I flew out East to meet Mitch for the first time ever. Uh, cause we met online and then did a podcast together for like 80 episodes. Yeah. So, um, after the show, well, yeah, after the show died a year later, I went out there to meet him.
00:31:17
Speaker
And then we drove up to Montreal to go to Lauren and check out the city, uh, for a long weekend. Then went back down to the GTA. I went to Canada's wonderland on a Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday. And then we just did a bunch of stuff outside and in around Toronto. It's not a Tuesday, Sunday, and a Thursday. Yeah. Why not like back to back off all, all the days, just Well, since ah like that's like we did the long weekend in Montreal because Mitch took the day off of work, we could drive up there and have the extended weekend. And then since I was already in the city anyway, he came with me on the Tuesday for my first trip, but then Thursday he had to work. So I just went down there um and then hit up the park by myself, met it up with some people that I know online. And then Sunday was like our big final send off.
00:32:08
Speaker
OK, that makes that makes more sense. I was I was curious as to why. It wasn't just a coaster trip, essentially, because I went to two Blue Jays games on the Friday, Saturday. We went on top of the CN Tower for the edge walk on the Wednesday. So that was super fun being on top of the CN Tower outside. Just hang it off. That's cool. The Blue Jays win the unfortunately, yes. Unfortunately, yes. Oh, I'm an Angels fan. So I was a Tawny and trout because That was the highlight of one of the highlights of the whole trip was a Tawny's first at bat. First ball he sees he goes yard opposite field. Wow, man, yeah he destroyed that thing. That was the only run they scored and those two games.
00:32:54
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Um, but it's okay. It's hard to win a baseball game when you leave 33 guys on base over the two games. Jesus Christ. Yeah. It was a rough one. Um, that was the game that Alex Manila lost control of his curve ball and smoked. Uh, what was his face? Uh, Taylor Ward right in the face and broke it. Oh my God. Yeah. I remember seeing that clip. That was, I was there in person for that. I just came back from refilling my drink cup and I was like, well, shit.
00:33:21
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Yeah, that was hard. I saw that. That was hard to watch, dude. I almost like had to cover my eyes. It's like who clearly wasn't intentional, but like he was thrown all over the place that day. There's a reason he went back to the minors like right after that performance. I mean, yeah, if you're if you're throwing wild pitches like that, that often you can't you got to get your shit figured out before you get called back up to the majors. Yeah.
00:33:50
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100 percent. I'm sorry about the Angels this past season. It's OK. I fell for the trap that I always do. Baseball is phenomenal at building up the opening day hype. And I fell subject to buying MLB TV subscription just to see the Angels load the bases on the bottom of the first inning and go down four to one.
00:34:17
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Trout, he went out quick for the year. Definitely did not get my hundred and 40 bucks worth. So not next year. 140, but here I got a really cool. I got a really cool trick for you. I don't know if you have it up there. It's called stream East. I don't think I've heard of that before.
00:34:38
Speaker
OK, so it's a um for the sake of legality, definitely legal website where you can watch ah basically any sporting event you want and with at no charge. Definitely legal. um I use it to watch ah football games that aren't on ah Like if they're on Amazon Prime, I'll use stream east because I'm not paying for Amazon Prime to watch football I use it for baseball games since the Reds are always blacked out in Local areas because of the dumbass cable agreement they have with but Bali sports Bali
00:35:22
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um and used it to watch some of the World Series because some of it wasn't on regular TV for whatever dumb-ass reason.
Canadian Sports Broadcasting Simplified
00:35:33
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Interesting. That's one of the nice parts of living in Canada. Any of these sports, you don't have to deal with all the different cable providers because only one person, which is typically TSN or sports, and it has the rights to this stuff. Oh, so you don't have to worry about that up there?
00:35:48
Speaker
No, not at all. So like we'll obviously get select games. Uh, we get all of the bills games for the most part, all of the Seahawks games, like all the markets that are close to Canada. Uh-huh. And then we got all like the big name games, like America's game of the week. We always get all the prime time, but yeah, like ah you can have cable to watch it off the stage channels, but if you're just watching it off a TSN, then I'll just be select games. But it's at least all just on one provider.
00:36:16
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Why can't we have nice things here in America? Like out of them, out of the many hours of talking to you, I've just come to learn that Canada just kind of seems like a better place to live. It's not fantastic by any means, but yeah, I'd say it's better than America, hands down. I mean, you guys have, you don't have to worry about getting 50 different subscriptions for sports. You don't have to worry about.
00:36:44
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Guns don't seem to be as much of an issue. though Not at all. I've never once gone out in public and been like, oh, shit, there's guns around. Actually, that's a lie. I went to Cabela's parking lot once, a.k.a. Bass Pro Shop. We walk here. Yeah, ah they just rebranded up here to Bass Pro Shops because I think they're phasing out the Cabela's name. OK.
00:37:07
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But anyway, I walked into that store and saw a bunch of guns and was very off put. I didn't like it, even though it was all just for hunting. So then I was just like, this is not like I don't know. It was just a weird feeling knowing that someone in that parking lot definitely has a gun in the vehicle. Yeah, I don't know how I'm going to do in rural Wisconsin in three weeks. But here we go. Whenever you whenever you come back from that trip, let me know how it goes, because I'm I'm excited for you, man, getting to go to a football game and.
00:37:36
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Rambo prime time Thanksgiving night. Oh, it's going to be a good time. So how much can I ask how much the tickets were or you can decline to answer that question? i Really freaking expensive. And I was even more pissed off when I got to check out and realize that the site didn't automatically convert to Canadian. So I was out another like a lot of money. I think they came out to be like high 300 by the end of it.
00:38:05
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Per person or per ticket? Yeah, per ticket. OK. High 300. Yeah, that's that's that seems about right for. Yeah. Prime time for a prime time game. 300 like just shy of 400 bucks. I did good. I think it was like three ninety five and we're on the twenty five yard line. Nineteen rows up. That's not awful. at all That's really good. Yeah, I did a good job but um and because I was on there the day tickets came on. It came out. So obviously it's a sellout every single game by default.
00:38:34
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Yep. And then, yeah, you just got to find the good resale sale tickets. So I did good. How do you my question is, how do you get a hold of the tickets prior to resell? Because I bet they're way cheaper that way. I don't know for sure. I'd imagine they probably have because I know they have like decades long season ticket wait list.
00:38:59
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So I'm thinking they probably have some sort of like pool where it's like a single game tickets, like early access or something would be my guess. I don't know. Because I'm curious about doing that for a bangles game because as shitty as they are right now, I want to go see Joe Burrow throw the ball around and his beautiful abs. um Yeah, I'd have to I have to call them and ask about that because.
00:39:28
Speaker
Bangles tickets and just football tickets in general are so fucking expensive. Just Canada How would you take it's there I, okay. So at our stadium, we have a season tickets for the standing room only the 19 plus area pill country is what it is. So on the South end zone, it's just five rows of standing level only. And those season tickets are $300. So that'll get you the preseason game and then the nine regular season games. And then if they host the playoff game, that as well. Wow.
00:40:03
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And then if you're looking at the cheapest tickets, which would be north end zone, lower bowl, uh, you're looking at three 53 60 as starting rate for season tickets. That's not bad at all. No. So I had C to season tickets this year for pill countries. So 600 total.
00:40:22
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I went to checkout, found out I had 160 bucks in my Ticketmaster account. So I was like, fuck yeah, I'm going to apply that to checkout. So I got both of them for the 440.
00:40:35
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Then I sold my Labor Day tickets, which is the biggest game of the year, for $100. So check that down to $340. And then playoff game, my dad also bought season tickets. ah Sorry, my dad also bought tickets for that game. So then sold those again down to $240. Every single time I went down to Regina, that the friends paid for the other seat. So every single game I was getting $40. So multiply four times, what that'd be, $8.
00:41:01
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And then you're looking at 32. It's like I made money off of buying tickets and going to the rider games. Wow. I did get this year. How are the ah like food prices and stuff there? I'm assuming they're ridiculous. ah Like it's stadium prices, but you could get something that's like a very generous, large portion of food for 20 bucks.
00:41:23
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It's not bad at all. I mean, not especially when you consider going to McDonald's and just getting a Big Mac meal, if you upsize the fries and the drink is already like 16, 17 bucks nowadays. I hate thinking about that. I know. I remember the days when it used to be, it used to say 849 Big Mac combo. 849.
00:41:44
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I remember getting a number like the $5 meal stuff. Yeah. And like the, just how they kind of bring them back the, uh, what's it called? The five for five at Wendy's. Oh, the value meal stuff. But now they're, now it's all gone. And like the dollar menu at, uh, McDonald's, there's nothing on there that's under a dollar or that's a dollar now it's two to two to $3 minimum.
00:42:12
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Yeah, like 320 is what it is for a Junior Chicken or a McDouble. 320 gods. I fuck with the Junior Chickens, though. Those are so yummy.
00:42:23
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I don't eat McDonald's very often because majority of their stuff isn't gluten free. One time I was there with some friends, um, cause they wanted to get food and I was like, all right, yeah, sure. Everybody else wants it. I'll just get a burger with no bun. So I got that and I got some apple slices and, uh, I got like the, the, the specific one I went to, um I ordered three bags of apple slices. Um,
00:42:51
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just because I wanted some apples and ah they bring out my food. I open the bag and apparently at this one specific McDonald's location, whenever you order one bag of apple slices, they give you two. So I got six bags of apples. How many caramel dips did you get? None.
00:43:11
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What? I don't get I don't get the caramel caramel dips. um Sorry, i' know caramel um caramel caramel. Yes, that's filthy Americans in our caramel, not our caramel.
00:43:29
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But, yeah, no no caramel dips, just ah the apples. So I had probably, I don't know, three or four apples worth of slices there and ah just a burger with no bite. That sounds like a fucking nutritious meal, if you ask me. It was extremely nutritious. That was the healthiest I felt in years. Not actually. All the apples go hard, though.
00:43:57
Speaker
They do. And then the bag they come in is like, I don't know, the bag just is it's really cute. It's nice. Yeah. I haven't gotten a I've gotten McDonald's since then and I have no intentions of going back. Not saying their food is bad, just so much wheat and I can't eat that shit, man. Or otherwise, I'll I'll pass out and die live in one big wheat field. So don't eat it and you'll be fine.
00:44:25
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Yeah, I like eating it. Actually, I like eating wheat straight off the stock, you know, just just munching onto it. You know, that's that's the best way, best way to go about it, in my opinion. Yeah. speaking Speaking of season tickets real quick, I got to season tickets to the Dayton Dragons. That's our minor league team. OK. I got them last year and they were.
00:44:48
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I got two tickets for an eight game package. Um, and it was 250 bucks, I think. Um, so I believe it's $13 a game per seat. And then you also get sent a, um, a card in the mail, which has a gift card on in it and that that you can use towards merchandise, that you can use towards food, um whatever at the park. And then you also get a bunch of vouchers and stuff for 25% off um the store um or the team store at the stadium. So it was a lot of fun last year. They made it to the playoffs and then got absolutely destroyed.
00:45:36
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um I should say destroy. They they lost um their playoffs are only best of threes until the until the final series. But in both their games, they got really, really close, but just couldn't pull it together in the end. But decided to go to go back next year because they only have ah it'll be their twenty fifth season of existence in Dayton. So it's twenty five years of Dayton Dragons baseball. And I got a Ellie De La Cruz bobblehead sitting here on my desk in his dragons uniform. So I'm I'm glad I have that. It's pretty neat. That's pretty sick. We just got a baseball team last year and that was fun. The Saskatoon berries. The Saskatoon berries. Yep. Named after the fruit from Saskatoon. The berries. Yeah. So so you have a fruit there just called berry.
00:46:29
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Oh, like it's no like they're Saskatoon berries. It's one of the oh, yeah, it's one of I think six indigenous like berries indigenous to Saskatchewan. I didn't even know that you guys had that there. I was thinking like berries is like so vague, but they're just called Saskatoon berries. Yeah. Think of them as like a really tart blueberry that's a little bit smaller and then they just grow out in the wild.
00:46:55
Speaker
So like there's plenty of places around the city that you can just walk in public and pick berries. Interesting. I didn't know that. That's really cool. I wish we had that here. you Yeah. And then our campus also has like a whole little crab apple grove. So like our city has quite a few places you can go around and just pick fresh fruit throughout the year. You can just pick it off the the bush or the tree and eat it while you're walking down the road. No, exactly. What? I'm okay. I got to go up there now just just to do that. That sounds cool.
00:47:25
Speaker
Yeah, the city's been making a push for more community gardens and stuff lately, too. So I hope we keep going that trend because nothing annoys me more than like, I don't know, we have so many trees and stuff in public. Why can't we make some of them fruit bearing and actually use them for something?
00:47:39
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Yeah, here in good old Dayton, Ohio, we have it's just roads and occasional tree trees area and then just so so much farmland. It's it's kind of frustrating how much farmland there is. That is all of Saskatchewan. We are the world's leading producer in so many different crops. Wheat, I'm assuming. I think we're up there and we canola for sure.
00:48:09
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ah Oddly enough, Uranium, we're one of the world's leading producers. We're also Potash, like all the fertilizer. We're the world's leading producer of that. Our ah local amusement park up here in downtown Saskatoon is all Potash themed and sponsored by the company.
00:48:28
Speaker
you i'm I'm more interested in the Uranium. So are you going going to be giving that to to Google and Microsoft since they're starting those nuclear power plants back up again?
00:48:39
Speaker
I mean, whoever pays the money, I'm sure they give it out to you because it's all just harvested up like way in the north of the province. Mm hmm. So our northernmost community in Saskatchewan is literally called Uranium City, and it's only accessible by plane. It reminds me of like a fallout game, you know, just going to have a nuclear bomb go off there and then. The whole place is going to be filled with radiation. How how do you harvest uranium? Do you just?
00:49:08
Speaker
Well, a lot of mining and refining, probably. I don't know. Let me see. All right, Google, let's do this again. How radio like like just you radium by itself. Radio, radio, active shit used to like terrify the hell out of me. Like the good old elephant's foot out in Chernobyl, that. Oh, yes. Even though it's just a blob of mass.
00:49:40
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Uranium is considered mildly radioactive, meaning it emits radiation, but due to its very long half-life, the decay rate is extremely slow, making it only weakly radioactive compared to many other radioactive elements. The primary risk from from uranium comes from ingesting or inhaling it, as its radiation is primarily alpha particles, which are easily blocked by skin. Okay, risk factor.
00:50:08
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uh basically don't eat it and don't breathe it in. I feel like that's a good rule to follow for 90% of things in life.
00:50:21
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Don't eat it and don't breathe. There's a lot of things you shouldn't eat or breathe. Yeah. Deplete uranium is less radioactive than natural uranium and enriched uranium is more radioactive than natural yeah uranium. Uranium. It's kind of a tongue twister. When enriched uranium is ninety seven point five percent pure.
00:50:41
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um It's about 75 times more radioactive than natural uranium. Thank you, Google. Very cool. Or no, CDC dot.gov. Thank you, US government. Appreciate you. I am obsessed with just learning or random shit. Like nothing is more fun to me than just hopping on YouTube and going down all of the rabbit holes.
00:51:04
Speaker
I fucking love those. Do you ever go down the like how it's made rabbit holes sometimes? that Oh my God. Business Insider has been one of my favorite ones lately because you get to actually see like how just typical things are like produced and it's like, holy fuck. The living conditions that you think are trash here and other places in the world is just unfathomable.
00:51:27
Speaker
Yeah. I don't like to think about how some of the stuff that we have on a regular basis here is is made. Otherwise, I feel like shit all the time. I just like to be um what what should we call it? and it An informed consumer. Yeah.
00:51:43
Speaker
Like I was watching a 10 minute long little video all about like a how garlic's produced. So essentially like Gilroy Gardens was mentioned in that big time because Gilroy is like the biggest garlic producer in all of North America. So they are like the big high quality stuff. And then China's like shipping in all this really cheap, lee produce garlic and stuff that's just produced with, you know, isn below livable wage workers.
00:52:14
Speaker
Anyway, I'm not going to bore the people listening to our single writer line conversation about garlic. I mean, I don't think it's boring. I mean, it's how it's made and it's how how the world is. It's not like you're talking about doing your taxes. Yeah. So on my some of my tax form this year, I brought in X amount of dollars and I had to pay this so much. You know, I'm not looking looking forward to doing taxes this year. I have four different jobs and it's going to be a pain. Oh, no, I'm sorry.
00:52:44
Speaker
four different jobs. You said you have four different jobs. I know we talked about this before, but. I am on payroll at four different places and I still don't have enough income. I love my life. I'm sorry, sir. I'm very sorry. No, it's the work life up here in Canada is interesting. There's jobs are a hard one to come by that have enough hours and stuff. So they've ah been pausing the amount of people they've been like, like letting emigrate to the country.
00:53:15
Speaker
So hopefully that strains itself out a little bit in the next couple years and then we can keep pumping the people in because that's my favorite part about Canada is all the different cultures that come to live here. So you have too many people in the workforce. We don't have enough. Like everybody here, I mean, um I shouldn't say we don't have enough. I should say that people are more picky about what jobs they do. But like,
00:53:38
Speaker
we're Everybody here is understaffed. We constantly need people. Every place is always short still. ah The amount of fast food places I go into that don't have ah don't have ah enough employees or it's like peak lunch hour, they have one person at the counter. you know Yeah, no I know what you mean. The local church is chicken. ah Their evening hours are pretty abysmal.
00:54:09
Speaker
and The churches chicken up there. Well, yeah, we just got them in our city last year. So we got two of them now. And it's probably my favorite chicken joint. I've never been. We only have one here in Dayton, but I don't even know that they existed up in good old Canada just recently yeah expanded. they could I'm sure that in like bigger cities, they've probably have been in Canada for a little while longer. But yeah, it was a big get here in Saskatoon.
00:54:35
Speaker
churches chicken. I've never had it. It's only fried if I'm correct. Yeah. Uh, from my understanding, yes, it's all Texas fried chicken. All right. Yeah. Cause if it's fried, I've, I've never had it. My, my go-to as much as I don't like some of their policies is, uh, is Chick-fil-A. Um, yeah, I don't know if I'm going to try that or not when I'm down in the States. We'll see. My question is why wouldn't you? Is it because of what they, how they've acted or or no?
00:55:04
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I don't know I just don't love yeah like I just don't love chick-fil-a as a brand I feel like I'd want to try it just so like once again I have that piece to talk about when chick-fil-a comes up in popular conversation
00:55:19
Speaker
I don't know. It's good, but the chicken isn't much better than I'd say it's on par with the same chicken you would get from Chipotle, which I'm assuming you guys have there. um We don't. The closest Chipotle to me is in Calgary. ah So seven hours away. I have had Chipotle, though, when I was out in Toronto. OK, really fucking good. I love Chipotle. Chipotle is my life.
00:55:44
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That's my life. Yeah. Chipolas are pretty all over the place here. Oh, I just dumped a massive amount of Diet Coke all over me. Oh my God.
00:55:56
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Shit. I'm in a puddle of Diet Coke. This is where I wish we were recording with our, with our cameras on. Do you do you need a second to get that, get that cleaned up? I can pause. I am not getting rid of my spot in the single rider line. We have been waiting in this line for 55 minutes already. I am not restarting. You're not restarting. Okay. Well, I mean, like I could, uh, you know, I'm pretty sure this is considered line jumping, but I could like jump out of line. You just like hold my spot real quick. and i My friends are up there. Let me through.
00:56:27
Speaker
That is the most annoying thing ever. I hate that. I don't move. I like to just start. I don't know. I don't start stuff. I just stir the pot. Yeah, I don't. ah If people have friends up there, I let them slide. But because that's that's different. But I've had some people where they just straight up jump in line. It's like, you do you really think that you're going to get away with this? So what I do is I talk to the people either behind them or in front of me who also saw it.
00:56:56
Speaker
And then we wait until we get to the very front of the line, get the separator, and then say something up to them. So then they've waited through the maximum amount of time possible, and then they have to restart all. That's pretty good. It's kind of shitty, but I don't care because you're shitty for jumping in line. No, calling people and their shitty behaviors out is never shitty. That's just we've been engraved to believe that with the backgrounds we've had growing up. Yeah.
00:57:27
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which we've talked about and on the episode, which as of today, isn't up yet, but will be coming out later this month over at the Coaster Cozies. I think it will be their episode two or three that drops on the Fridays. Do you have a you have a date for it yet or or no m date is going to be either. Sorry, let me just see what the dates are are on Fridays, because, OK, so it'll either be dropping on the 15th, 22nd or 29th.
00:57:55
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so keep an ear out for that yeah probably the 22nd i'm thinking okay sounds good speaking speaking of dates um kind of kind of off topic but kind of on topic tomorrow or today is tuesday november 5th which is probably Most people are probably not listening to it on this day, but by the time most people are listening to this, I know you posted about this earlier on your Instagram story. Planet coaster two is on its way. I am so fucking excited. We are officially 22 hours out.
00:58:32
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How long but did you how long did you play the or I'm assuming you played the original. Yeah, not the original Planet Coaster. No, I ah grew up playing a lot of roller coaster tycoon, the original and then to like we talked about when you're over on my podcast, I got roller coaster tycoon three took a little while before I had a computer that was beefy enough to run the game. Then when I did, that's the game I played the most throughout like middle school and into early high school.
00:58:58
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So I haven't played a game since then in terms of like new coaster games. So I'm really excited to get into that because it's also, I think Frontier is the same developer, which they did a roller coaster tycoon three. So I'm curious to see what the new like platform, all the the different building mechanics and all that stuff is like. So so you haven't played the original. You've only played three or RCT three. Yeah. um It's.
00:59:28
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It's just a lot different. You're gonna have to get used to the camera controls. I saw you have a PS5. I don't know what all you play on there. um What do you play on there now that we're on the topic actually? I've been loving the heck out of BO6 now that that's out. I'm a big zombies player for Call of Duty. I dabble in the multiplayer every now and then. Prop Hunt is always a fun time. But I truly have the Call of Duty games for zombies. I got Wreckfest. I've been playing that a ton. Subnautica I just got and I'm playing it through for the first time.
00:59:57
Speaker
Minecraft is always a good time. I got a server with my brothers a little bit of everything Okay, so camera control is is no There's nothing new to you. Um, I don't know how it works on controller, but on PC. It's a little strange You have to like hit T to switch between the two different camera modes Interesting you have one where it's like more of a panoramic view and you can move around faster 360 or Yeah, so you can like rotate around different parts that you're working on. It's like you're trying to get, say you're making a zero G roll and you don't want to use the pre-made part, you can um you can rotate around it so that you can see better what your're um what you're doing with it. Interesting. And how you're twisting it. So I'm not getting it on console because I have a pretty beefy PC.
01:00:50
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um Yeah, PC is the way to play that game, I think. I just um been trying to contain all my video games to the PlayStation ah just because it's, I don't know, easier set up for me. And then that way I can keep my laptop free for all the podcast stuff. Have you played Rocket League before? On PlayStation, tons of hours yet, not like as religiously as you have. But I'm very familiar with the game. All right. I was going to say, if you want to play sometime, hit me up, man. Can you play cross platform on that?
01:01:21
Speaker
Yes, there's cross platform so we could we could do rumble or casual or knock out or snow day or whatever you want to do. I skill difference. I could give less of a fuck about as long as we're having a good time. Exactly.
01:01:36
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So they're adding drop. I didn't put this into our little ah overview thing before we started recording this. But as far as I remember, they're adding the drop track and a switch track into it. So that's that's going to be really fun to look at. Have you watched any of the trailers or anything for it or?
01:01:55
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I might have. I don't really remember anything. All I remember seen is that they added water parks to this game, and that was the reason I bought it, because that was my favorite feature of
Anticipation for Planet Coaster 2
01:02:04
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roller coaster. Take in three was the fact you could build water slides and water parks.
01:02:08
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I know you're a water park, a water park guy in general. I am. So are you just going to do just a strictly water park park and then also do like a a hybrid park where you get a dry and a and a water park? Yeah, we'll see. Like the last thing that I worked on when I played Roller Coast Tycoon 3 was I love to build like mall parks because that's what I grew up around. Right. West Edmonton Mall is my home park five and a half hours away.
01:02:36
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Um, so I was building one of those and I love to do like a mix of the two is what I've been like trying to figure out how to do. So like in in or what do you call it? Intertwining like coasters, water slides, pools, all that kind of stuff. I'm so I'm so fucking excited for this game, man. I think it's going to be fun. it It will be. I was reading through some of the the like pat the the pre stuff they put out, so.
01:03:05
Speaker
You've got the the new coaster stuff, obviously at the water parks. You have to worry about shade now. So if you don't have enough shade for your guests, then they'll be upset. um You have to provide sunscreen for them in the shops. I'm going to give them the Six Flags experience. Have a Six Flags day. They're going to.
01:03:31
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you're going to have weather that you have to deal with. So if it's storming, um you can sell, but people are going to run for cover or they're going to buy umbrellas. um You got to worry about two new types of employees. You have the lifeguards and then you have the ride ops now and the original ride ops you didn't have to worry about. It was just a
01:03:58
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It was just the food stand employees and and that sort of thing. um um But there's a ton of different employees you got to worry about, make sure they stay happy. um Obviously, all the stuff the original game had, um the building looks far more refined compared to the original. But this is this was looking good. You should do a recreation of West Edmonton Mall in Planet Coaster too, if you can. Obviously, without the like cover. but That would be interesting. The thing that I I'll be curious to see how many like just in game parts and like scenery pieces and things that are already used. Because I know lots of these like showcase parks I've been seen out on YouTube, so many people create their own scenery and just import it into the game. So I'll be curious to see what I can play around with, because I got really into open RCT two during the pandemic. Yeah.
01:04:54
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So like I was at the point where I was like downloading custom train designs and all that stuff into the game. So I'll be curious to see what they're all is in this planet coaster, too, because I'm going to go into it pretty blind because I think it'd be fun. I know I'm going to be behind on the whole gameplay side of it anyway, but I feel like it would just be a more fun, raw experience to just raw dog it and go and see what it's like.
01:05:15
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Yeah, well, then I will shut up and not talk about anything else because there's a lot. Oh, you're fine. You weren't feeling any. I'm not worried about the spoilers, right? OK, because I don't know how how it looks in the game. I don't know what the building mechanics are like. It'll be. Gotcha. OK, yeah, I think if you like RCT and open RCT, you're going to love Planet Coaster. It's just a far more refined experience um compared to that. And now that ah they've finally put it on console, I think it'll I think it'll do pretty well.
01:05:44
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um My only gripe as a PC player is that they've capped the amount of people that you can have in your park at 6,000. Um, and it wasn't capped in the original planet coaster. So I hope that as a PC player, we have the option to turn that off on, uh, on PC. So then I can have, uh, 30,000 people in my park all at once. Just be like Disney on black Friday. Yes, exactly.
01:06:14
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Full park lines are four hours long for everything fast lane $200 and even the fast lane lines are ah or Two and a half hours compared to the four so I'm curious to see what the lines are going to be like at Mall of America, because I'm going on a Tuesday, which is one of two non-peak days, so it's like the rotating rides on Thanksgiving week, and then I'll be going again on the Saturday, and I think the Saturday will be pretty slammed.
01:06:44
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Okay, so Mall of America. Gotta remember what they have there. They have ah the SpongeBob Eurofighter, which I'm super excited to try. I'm expecting it to be rough as shit because Gerstlauers just are, and I've never loved the shake and jank to them. But it looks like a fun concept. I've always wanted to be on one of those, like beyond vertical drops.
01:07:05
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I'm super excited for the log flume. That's my number one, like um anticipated ride there. And then my number two is orange streak. Cause Oh boy, do I love it Tivoli. Orange streak. Um, there's a half pipe there. If that's open, I'm going to be really excited to go on those. Cause I, that was a coaster I built in every single one of my rollercoaster tycoon three parks. Cause they're so cheap to build and thrilling. Okay.
01:07:34
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Yeah, Spongebob Squarepants rock bottom plunge You said you're going when the Tuesday ah before Thanksgiving and then the Wednesday Okay, so i say it's closed from November 4th through November 8th. I was just making sure Yeah, fairly odd coaster and the oh, yeah, I can see the yeah I forgot about the fairly odd coaster that one's gonna be fun too because that's a clone but that was the original of the clones and You said orange streak, right? I'm so excited. Is it closed while I'm there? No, it's open. It's just it's it's called the Pepsi orange streak. Fuck Pepsi. It's the orange streak. They can at least seem it to crush. Doesn't Pepsi hold the rights to like distributing that? Come on, man. I don't know. There's the so you get the Pepsi orange streak in the Pepsi, Pepsi, the big one. Pepsi, no, Pepsi, Max, the big one, I think. Yeah, you got.
01:08:30
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Where is there? Hold on. I'm looking at the trying to find there. I also really want to do the zip line across the whole park. That looks super fun. All right. Family. If I can find that shell shock girl, that'd be hilarious. Shell shock girl. There's some girl, on some woman on tick tock whose entire account is just dedicated to doing flips on shell shock.
01:08:59
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or Shell Razor, there we go. Look at my GPS trying to explain rides. a Shell Razor, or it might not even be shellraisrs Shell Razor. Shell Razor's at the... American Dream in New York. Well, we're just gonna go with Shell the Ride. Shell the Ride. Let me go to Thrill. It's one of those like ones where you can control your wings to flip. Kanna's Wonderland has a similar ride, just a different model. Yeah, yeah. So her entire TikTok account is dedicated to flipping on that thing. It's her favorite ride there. She almost exclusively rides it and just flips. Oh, yeah. Shell Shock. I'm seeing it now. Okay. Gotcha.
01:09:38
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They have a sensory guide. That's cool. Like they have a it shows what ah like they have an IBCCS sensory guide and and it has a. It has a number scale for every. For every for every ride here, that's awesome, so like.
01:09:58
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On a scale of 1 to 5, 10 being the highest, 1 being the lowest. For touch, they have it rated as 5. This is for shell shock, by the way. OK. Paste is 1. Sound is 3. Smell is 1. And sight is 6. Interesting.
01:10:12
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That's really cool. That's that's how we should be like rating rides from now on. More of that kind of stuff. Accessibility is awesome. Yeah, that would be for rock bottom plunge. They have a touch set at seven tastes at at one sound set at four. That lift hill sounds pretty scary. um Smell one and site seven. I think if I licked from top to bottom, the restraint on that thing, it'd be more than a one.
01:10:41
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We'll report back. I'll send him a trip report. Yeah. Can we do it? Can we do a taste test of the yeah that that you should do that do that on every take on every trip from now on. Just do a taste test of the restraint. Give us. Oh, my God. Add it to the coaster, because he's only fans account that we were joking about before.
01:11:02
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Yeah, go go listen to that episode whenever it comes out on on the coaster, because he's podcast. That was that was a pretty kickass episode. If you ask me, I thought it was fun. I made very minimal cuts to two. So the majority of our conversations were in the yeah, the actual podcast that's going to drop eventually. What did you cut? You can I I put the RCT ducks over the names of I think it was your ex-girlfriend. Oh, all right.
01:11:32
Speaker
So there's a little quack quack quack and then I cut a little bit of the Talk at the end about Doing the deed on various rides. Oh That was the best part. All right Yeah, well when I found out that apparently a few of the co-hosts mothers listen to the show Oh
01:11:58
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Apparently chef's Jeff's mom has become an avid listener. Uh, so no they know what they're getting into. I just wanted to keep it like just a little bit lower. Okay. All right. That's, that's fair enough. So we're still fine, right? Like it's a viewer discretion is advised kind of conversation towards the end. Yeah. All right. That makes, that makes more sense. But yeah, 90, 95% of all the stuff is in the episode. So very minimal edits were made.
01:12:25
Speaker
OK, that's that's good, because I haven't told my parents about this podcast. I don't think I ever will. um I'm pretty sure they know I curse, but I don't. I don't want to go down that road with them, so I just avoid it and ah pray to God they never find it. Yeah, that's kind of where I'm at with the podcast, too. Like, I'll tell him, be like, hey, I'm going down to the States and I managed to get comp tickets because of the show or doing all this and all the connections I make. Like, they're pretty chill with it now.
01:12:56
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I don't think they actually listen because it's pretty nerdy and they don't care. But like if they do, I am not the son they know me as on the show. I'm my authentic self on there. And not that I am not around my parents, but I just, you know, I mean, I we grew up not like being allowed to swear and all that stuff. So I still keep my filter when I go visit the parents.
01:13:16
Speaker
Yeah, that's how that's essentially how I am with them. Like this stuff probably doesn't interest them. um It's a little it's a little strange if you want to call it that, but it's definitely definitely not for them and they have no reason to really listen to it. So we're going to keep it that way and not cause any more issues. Because I'm assuming if you're if your parents were to listen to to your podcast, then that would not go over well if they were to ah I'm assuming they want to have a discussion with you or no. Would they just not say anything? I don't know, because historically, my parents have been very just like taboo with certain topics. I think the biggest one that would be interesting to see the reactions on would be any of the ah like the the high stories. Oh, oh yeah that would be I don't think I've ever recorded while I was high before, because I just wouldn't enjoy that. Mm hmm.
01:14:16
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Cause I don't, I don't know, but like all the conversations I've had about just like, you know, random little like thoughts in the middle of the night.
01:14:27
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I think they'd be, I think they'd be chill with it though. My parents have very much come around on the whole me living my life now. I'm happy for you, man. I'm glad, I'm glad your parents have, have come around on that and that.
01:14:45
Speaker
I mean, it sounds, based on what you're telling me, it sounds like your relationship is, is fairly good. Yeah. Ever since I moved out, it's been better than it ever has been. And that's been fun. It's been nice to have that be the case. Cause before I like, I was the first kid that they had. So I was the practice baby.
01:15:03
Speaker
Um, and it very much felt like I was more of a responsibility than like an actual person to talk to. Yeah. And now that I moved out and I'm no longer a responsibility, I get to see more of like the friend side of things of having parents. And that's been fun. That's good. I'm glad that I'm glad that things have improved for you guys. That's kind of how mine, that's kind of how it was for me. Uh, I feel like, you know, especially once I, uh,
01:15:32
Speaker
started having my own opinions and didn't just repeat what the religion told me. yeah um they that was debt That became a huge strain point. And now that I've moved out, I think I've gotten used to it. I introduced them to my girlfriend for the first time this past weekend and oh okay it went over pretty smoothly. So Nice. Hopefully, hopefully continues to stay that way. I haven't really had any issues with them when they talk to me relatively consistently and religion is never a topic. So that's I think they've kind of realized that if they want to keep the peace, then they have to make their own effort
Family Dynamics and Religious Experiences
01:16:11
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as well. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's the impression I'm getting with with your parents or my wrong here.
01:16:17
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Uh, yeah, pretty much. I would say like they've never been like, like stirring the pot or anything. That would definitely be my grandma. Uh, but she's also come around to like my entire life. Cause I opened up to all the stuff that that church did. That was all fucky with me. Um, she still attends and whatnot, but she has a lot of spite and just issues with that place. She goes for her own self, not for anyone else at this point. Mm-hmm.
01:16:42
Speaker
um And um' all it also helps with me being the only one who still makes an effort to do stuff with her weekly because she just lives by herself in a condo. And I'm the like one of the few people that actually goes and visits her every single week. So um she knows that like, hey, yes, there's things we don't see eye to eye on. But like it's my grandson that actually gives a shit about me. So I better not do anything to sever that connection. Yeah, that's a my parents are or not my parents. I'd say my dad specifically. He likes to kind of stir the pot for some dumbass reason. try He tries to kind of get like he doesn't do it very often, but once in a while he'll
01:17:21
Speaker
but try and do like a whole like gacha kind of thing. I could very get a reaction on you kind of thing. Yeah, I could very easily refute it, but I just don't because why bother? Yeah. And he's that's what he's looking for. You know, by responding to him, he's winning. So I just let him say what he wants to say. And if he wants to believe that, that's you know, that's his choice. But yeah, that's that's very that's become less and less prevalent. The the longer, the longer things go on. So my dad and your grandma are
01:17:55
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are alike, but if we, I feel like we're seeing paths or differences as well. So we're kind of in the same spot, man. I mean, we've talked about this. We talked this about talked about this on the other um the other episode. So I don't, I mean, we can't dive back into it if that's what you want to do.
01:18:13
Speaker
i'm just that I'm good with letting the conversation go wherever it goes like because that's all also been like the one of the more interesting things and why I enjoy chatting with you is because you're the only one I'd say that has been like going through that process slash has like left a really culty religion.
01:18:31
Speaker
So while we had very different experiences or like levels of like being in it and et cetera, et cetera, I'm not comparing myself to you, but just like having a person to both confide in, but also just chat about that stuff and bounce some ideas around is always nice.
01:18:47
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Yeah, it's really cathartic.
Community Support and Deconstructing Religion
01:18:49
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Um, I don't know if you do this at all, but, um, I spent a lot of time on, it's called the R slash X J W Reddit. Um, not, not specific, not saying you, you specifically go onto that Reddit, but, um, just reading other people's experiences on there who have gone through something similar is really, really, is really nice. And, uh, I haven't made any friends or anything on there like that, but, uh,
01:19:17
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It's good to read other people's stories and to keep up with how people are doing and it's good motivation. That's nice. nicea
01:19:27
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Yeah, cathartic. I already used that word, but just it's a good experience. ah ah Do you do that at all with other groups or anything like that? Yeah, like the people that really helped me start to understand how to like strip down all of the stuff that I've been taught and really deconstruct good.
01:19:45
Speaker
Um, would have been the dirty rotten church kids podcast. Oh. They were super fun. They went through, they had people on the show. What I really enjoyed about them is they had ah people who even studied like the analytics and the statistics behind like people leaving the church and who like followed all these things they had professionals on. And they just were able to to like provide a lot of insight of like, hey, this is like a massive trend. They shared so many different people's experiences. There's just a really cool community over there for a lot of people who are like leaving abusive ah religions and all that kind of stuff.
01:20:20
Speaker
So that was really fun because they came from the evangelical side of things like I kind of did. um So that was a really cool place. Unfortunately, one of the co-hosts was not the greatest person in the end. They found out that he was hiding in a fair and stuff like that, ah which was really sucky because that was a very common theme amongst a lot of like people who have left.
01:20:45
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Uh, so it kind of just like caused their little community to not feel super like great again afterwards. Um, but then the other hosts that was on there, Adrian, he continued it on for a year with like guest hosts that rotated through, but they, I think just wrapped it up last year, actually.
01:21:03
Speaker
But definitely, once again, like another thing that served its place, it was nice to hear a lot of people's different stories about stuff they went through as well, because right that whole mentality of, oh, we're not alone, like it's happened to other people too. It just, I don't know, it's therapeutic.
Humor and Stereotypes in Names
01:21:17
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It is very therapeutic. It's nice ah hearing somebody else's story and relating that to to your own. its It's kind of sad. um Excuse me. It's kind of sad that
01:21:34
Speaker
Like that's such a such a double standard for that guy. I don't know. Did you mention his name or no? I think his name was Josh. I kind of forget because those two years ago I last listened. Oh, those is Jay names. Have you heard that before Jay? We talked about this last time, but I i i haven't heard the Jay one specifically. The one that always made me laugh was ah ah what was it?
01:21:57
Speaker
How does it go? It's like, um nothing, had fucking hell. Here I go, just completely not being able to. But the point was, it was like, no one will fuck you up like the girl that has two A's and ends with a. Oh, I've heard that before. um I'm talking like from a female perspective, I've heard that ah J names are are not good. So that's ah that, you know, J names are always going to break your heart. So Justin, James. ah I don't know why I'm blanking on J names. Josh,
01:22:35
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josh ah Joseph.
01:22:40
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So, yeah. Yeah. So, Josh, you know, we should have seen that coming from from the beginning. His name starts with the letter J. So therefore he is a shitty person. And if your name starts with the letter J, whoever is listening to this, go fuck yourself. I'm kidding. ah shh Yeah, obviously, that's that's not true. But, you know, it does it it does kind of seem like it whenever you apply a what what's it called observation bias. I think that's what it is.
01:23:10
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Oh, yeah. Yep. So kind of like how when you like get a new vehicle and all of a sudden it's everywhere. Yeah. Yeah. I've seen I've seen that before. or You start like doing research on something and then all of a sudden you start seeing it everywhere because that's what you're thinking about. um Yeah. News media likes to do that a lot. It's like, oh, point point something out. That's churches do that. They'll blame, ah you know,
01:23:38
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just world events on Satan ah and religion and or not on religion but uh layman on satan and it's like oh yeah well i i'm explaining this poorly but i hope my point is getting across um no you're definitely making sense that's how it always is if it's good it's all God's doing if it's bad it's all you being fucked over by the devil and you're awful for falling for it Yeah, it's a very, very double standard. It's not.
01:24:10
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And anything you do good is not, it's never your own doing. It's always, it's always God. It's always Jesus for for for blessing you to do that. It's not you and your own abilities. It's God. Okay. I, uh, sorry, I'm doubling back to the whole J names thing. Uh, so not J names, but very much in the same spirit of that conversation. I found my favorite tweet of all time. Okay. Let's hear it.
01:24:35
Speaker
It is by Deconstructiongirl. Go follow her on Instagram. She has good content. hu it ah So she ah tweeted, Christian girls be like, there's no one else on this planet like this man. God broke the mold when he made you. And it's just Connor, human equivalent of a Honda Accord, whose favorite food is toast and thinks taking off your bra is adequate foreplay.
01:25:00
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yeah that's that sounds about right that's that is not adequate foreplay for any guys listening to this you should know that if you're listening to this and you don't and you're all right we're not going to get into that conversation right now i feel like i i'd be open and willing to give sex tips but that's going to be behind a paywall behind you don't get that for free on the coaster because he's only fans go check it out This is like the third time I plugged a non-existent thing Caleb is going to kill me. No, I'm kidding So so if you guys do make it and Caleb's You said whose moms listens to it chef Jeff's mother chef Jeff's mother. Yeah, so chef Jeff's mother has to go check out the the coaster cuz he's only She won't be disappointed I can at least say that
01:25:53
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Yeah, I've seen it and there's some great great content Like I said the feet picture of just the the feet and the front middle row No, wait the front row and the middle seat just like hanging over a dive coaster. I still think that's the ultimate foot picture.
01:26:12
Speaker
that's that'd be that's a pretty that's a pretty good one or you or if you like what you can do is you buy a funnel cake and you like stick your foot in the funnel cake and take a picture of it in front of ah you know just on the floor ah that'd be pretty good um slap it on a beaver tail Yeah, hell yeah. Stick it in, or since, you know, up in, since you're up in Canada, throw it in some poutine, that'd be pretty good too. Get like your five chicken tendies and put them between your toes.
01:26:46
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Speaking of, speaking of poutine, it took me a split second to understand what you just said.
01:26:55
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So stick the tendies between your toes. It's like what you did with the pencils whenever you were a kid. It's like, yeah, I'm Wolverine, you know. But with your feet and chicken tendies. Yeah, exactly. If you really want to, you record yourself eating the chicken tendies while you're like you pick like you pick something up with your feet. I'm sure you've done that before. Oh, yeah. On the ground, pick it up with your toes handed to yourself, but you like eat the chicken tendies.
01:27:22
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off of, off of your toes, you know, that'd be pretty good content. As Dora would say, delicioso. I'm not, I'm, I'm American. What does that mean? I think that's Spanish for delicious. Delicious. Okay. So onto to a completely different topic. Uh, now that we've made this a little awkward, would you consider this awkward or no?
01:27:52
Speaker
I consider my existence awkward by nature. So this is normal for me, but I would classify it under the awkward. Yes. Okay. Gotcha. Do you want me to cut all of that last part out? I don't give a fuck. Okay. All right. I'm not editing. Keep whatever you want in. Well, just for, I just want to make sure that, you know, you are comfortable with this being posted onto the internet in the first place. it's not it's Yeah, it's not under my stuff. So you're fine. All right. Sounds good. I will, uh,
01:28:22
Speaker
I will I will credit you as the editor and the writer of ah of this episode, though, and link your Instagram and the coaster because these podcasts, it'll be under the single writer line, but it will look like you did all of the work for that. How about that? You know what? I will create a LinkedIn account just for this episode. Have your title as professional chicken tenders ah foot eater or something like that. I don't know.
01:28:49
Speaker
Yeah, there'll be something a little more catchy, but along the lines of that for sure. Yeah. Yeah. That was, that was not catchy whatsoever. Um, where was I going with this? I don't know where you pivot from chicken tenders and feet. Like this is such a hard topic to go off of. It's like, well, you know,
01:29:11
Speaker
I got one. I got one. What's the worst B.O. experience you've had at an amusement park? Oh, boy. Like not you personally stanking, but just like walking past people or like stuck in line with people. Well, I don't do that, but people. Well, first off, I have a little bit of a tangent. Why? How do people not understand that they have to wear deodorant after the age of like 10?
01:29:36
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um It's fucking disgusting whenever you're a what looks to be 26 year old man with a receding hairline and you're not wearing deodorant to an amusement park. ah How do you get to this point in your life? Genuine genuine question. How are you not wearing deodorant? um I'd say my worst was There was a guy in line for Mystic Timbers. He was, he wasn't directly behind me, but he was a few people back and you're in the switchbacks. So you pass them yeah every once in a while. I was there by myself. He just had this classic look of like, he doesn't take care of himself. He kind of had like the, the kind of like straggly ish.
01:30:27
Speaker
neck beard thing going on. Um, he had like a, he had like a man bun that didn't look good whatsoever. He was wearing majority black clothing and, uh, his hair was pulled back obviously cause he had the man bun going on and you could just smell him from forever away. And everybody knew it was this guy cause you could just tell his clothes were in the greatest shape. Um, he was just there by himself. I don't know why. Um,
01:30:57
Speaker
But apparently deodorant doesn't apply to him or he air quotes, doesn't smell. It was, it was pretty awful. That's rough. How about, rough one how about for you? What's the worst BO experience you've had?
Amusement Park Smell Tests and Stories
01:31:13
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20, the year was, uh, the year of our Lord was 2010.
01:31:19
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I was in California in line for accelerator after just completing a stellar performance I may add at the three point shootout. I was nine years old. I was in line with my dad for accelerator and this couple in front of us had like these weird, like, you know how sometimes parks do like the tattooy type thingies in their parks? Like the Hina tattoos. Yeah. So it was like that, but it just like reeked of tar. Oh,
01:31:46
Speaker
So like if they were standing the one way, perfect. The second that we are downwind of them, it was like chlorine bad. Oh God. it It stunk. It was not a fun time. I was super nauseous by the time we got onto the ride, but it was worth it because the accelerator kicked ass.
01:32:04
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That's the one accelerator model I haven't been on. And I um i apologize for your poor experience. they should do like Whenever you go through security, they should do a smell test of you. Just have one guy there who's like really into it. Just smell every single person that walks through. And if they don't pass the smell test, they they're sent home. They they get kicked out. They can't They can't go if we can train like dogs to sniff drugs, we should be able to like train them to have a certain threshold on how much B.O. is too much B.O. Well, dogs like B.O. though. I mean, they'll eat poop. So this is true. They and love nothing more than to look up your sweat. Yeah. So that's why you got to have or just have somebody who absolutely hates it, but you pay them a lot of money.
01:32:50
Speaker
Like if you pay me $100 an hour to smell people walk into amusement park to make sure that they don't have B.O. I mean, majority of people would probably like smell fine. You know, you just kind of like not saying you have to like touch them or like put your nose on them, but just like briefly like stand next to them like with and it's like, all right, you're good. And then you get that one person and it's like, all right, get the fuck out of here. I feel like that would be an adequate, an adequate job, you know,
01:33:21
Speaker
That is true. um But in the day and age of parks, what do you call them? Part chains combining and the corporate overlords growing bigger. There's no way they're adding another job into that place. No, absolutely not. They'll just steal they'll just shut down another game or two on the Midway and those will be the new sniffers at the front of the park.
01:33:42
Speaker
getting paid $12 an hour to smell people's armpits as they walk into the bar. And then like, do you have sniffers stationed on the rides then of like, Hey, this is when we need to clean it. I mean, you'd you'd think so. You just have all of the, just have the ride ops do it as well, just to be safe. Like as they go to push down your lap bar, they just like take a whiff of you real quick, you know,
01:34:05
Speaker
So you have a grouper, you have the panel, you have the seat checkers and you have a sniffer. No, no, no, no. The seat checkers are the sniffers. Oh, cause you know, we're cutting corners here. Got to save costs. That sort of thing. You see one of the seat checkers that just has his nose on the seat and you're like, Oh, that's just Dave. He's really into his job.
01:34:29
Speaker
He takes pride in his line of work. I mean, Dave, and he's like he's kind of creepy. He's like 50 years old, clearly too too old to be working or not clear not too old, but just ah he works rides for for the wrong reasons. We'll put it that way. um We think he's harmless, but he does have a lot of ah metal militia memorabilia.
01:34:56
Speaker
He had a few felonies a few years back, but those were some, uh, just some, some happy little accidents. You know, he definitely has pit vipers and not just one pair either. Oh God. I hate those. I hate those glasses there. I don't, what's the appeal of them for anybody listening to this, uh, at me on Twitter at lunaris, IRL and tell me the appeal of pit vipers. I don't get it.
01:35:21
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I'll never forget the time that I was doing an orientation for a new lifeguard at one of our outdoor pools, and this kid had pit vipers on. ah so I was explaining to him, like yep, that's the black dot at the bottom of the deep end. If you can't see it, yeah shut down the deep end because that means you don't have visibility to the bottom. and As he like leans over to look in, his pit vipers fall off his face and into the water.
01:35:45
Speaker
And then when he got the mode after the chlorine like fucked with the filter on him so they just weren't usable and he completely wrecked them and I thought it was the funniest thing ever. Oh my god. So wait so the chlorine will destroy the uh... I think there was some sort of like tint on them that wasn't just like built into like some sort of like spray or cover screen like a film almost. Oh okay so it's something he did himself.
01:36:09
Speaker
No, like I think he bought them like that. Oh, OK. I didn't know. I didn't know you could do that. Well, like, you know how, like, ah I don't know. You might not know, but like ski goggles, they have like that whatchamacallum, like that spray on there so they don't fog up. Oh, yeah. But the second you like wipe and mess around with that, it like completely fucks up your lenses and you pretty much i have to get new ones because there's not much saving in it. Yeah, I've seen that before or kind of like ah what's it called?
01:36:36
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like swimming goggles, you have to like put that, uh, do the same thing so they don't fog up. Yeah. But you know, as soon as they get wet, you have to like reapply it. Like there's a spray thing that you can buy for it or whatever. Oh, see, my dad always told me just to spit into my goggles and wipe it around. And then that would stop them from fogging up. Nope. Now looking back at it, I think I understand why I had pink eyes so many times as a kid.
01:37:04
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Yeah, that'll that'll do it. Retrospect. It's a beautiful thing. How often do you have pink eye? You said I was known more for ear infections than pink eye as a kid, but I definitely had it like at least a handful of times. You're in so like, were you one of those kids who got like some you had like an ailment going on like all year round or any time? No, it wasn't so much. It was more so just like any time I got any kind of common cold, I got an ear infection up until like the age of four.
01:37:34
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So like me and that banana flavored medicine got to know each other very good. Banana flavored medicine. You guys you never had the banana flavored medicine. No, you guys have banana flavored medicine in the first place. When you're really sick as a kid in the hospital would give you either, uh, what was it? It was either like grape cherry or banana. And the banana hits so good because it tasted like those artificial bananas that are apparently like based after bananas that no longer exist. I think they were saying.
01:38:02
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What? You guys, i've I've never heard of this. Someone has to have heard of banana flavored kids medicine. I'm, I'm looking this up. I'm thinking like over the counter stuff, but hold on. Oh, I don't know if it came on like a bottle or what it did, but it was like a prescription that you get filled up and it was banana flavored banana flavored medicine.
01:38:25
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I personally think the banana flavored medicine they gave you over the counter for prescriptions as kid is the gateway drug and not the marijuana.
01:38:38
Speaker
Who hold on Reddit save me. It exists. I'm not losing my mind banana flavored medicine. I believe you. I'm just trying to see what this is. Amoxicillin.
01:38:52
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That sounds right. It's like a really strange yellow. Yeah. Came in like a little bottle. Yeah, it's Lloyd. This picture is from Lloyd's pharmacy. Oh, this is this is from Ireland.
01:39:10
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What this one? We have a city that straddles the Saskatchewan Alberta border called Lloyd Minster.
01:39:21
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Yeah. Amoxicillin sugar, something.
01:39:28
Speaker
Yeah. Huh. Strange. It's under Amoxicillin. I think that'd be used to treat bacterial infections. Let me see. If my few microbiology classes still ah hold up. Amoxicillin.
01:39:47
Speaker
So in case you guys haven't noticed already, the ride might it have ah gone down or something because ah it's been an hour and 40 minutes and we're still in this single rider line. Yeah, no, they're they're extended hotunt hours are just, ah you know, just really long. It's probably they're probably on like one train ops or something right now or yeah, it's probably probably gone down.
01:40:08
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Yeah, we're this is hey, it'll be worth it though. It'll be worth it for this mystery ride that we're on. You know, I'm very yeah, I was gonna say I'm very excited to find out what ride we're actually on. Yeah. All right. So this is the AI overview from Google.
Apple vs. Android Debate
01:40:22
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I love the AI overview from Google. I know a lot of people shit on it. I thoroughly enjoy it. My Google Pixel. Oh, so good. Oh, you have a pixel. I do have a pixel now. I used to have one of them Chinese spy phones.
01:40:35
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Because Costco gave me $250 in Costco gift cards to take it. So the phone was literally more than free. What was the brand? ah The Huawei. The Huawei? I had a Huawei P30 Pro from 2019 up until two months ago. I have never heard of that before. Huawei. Yep. H-U-A-W-E-I, I believe.
01:41:03
Speaker
Huawei hold on because back right before 2000 they're trying to break into the North American market so they just that had like heavy discounts to for anyone who took their phone and like the specs on these things were really good because they had like the best camera on the market which is what I wanted it on my phone and it was just all in all a really solid phone is Android which I love fuck Apple it's the worst thing ever You think, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You think Apple is the worst thing ever? I hate Apple. Why? It's so expensive. It's so pretentious. How is it? And none of it is even like it's it's such a nice status symbol for no reason at all. AirPods, are you kidding me? They don't need to cost that much.
01:41:45
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the amount of other good Bluetooth. No, I haven't used them. I'm not paying that much for fucking AirPods. OK, OK, I'm going to defend Apple real quick. You're right. It's a status symbol to to some sort, but that's it depends on who you are. I have I have an Apple. I have an iPhone.
01:42:02
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And the reason why i have an iphone is because their interface and ecosystem is so well put together like my like i do have air pods i bought them on sale for a hundred and fifty bucks. The pros and the same.
01:42:20
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um mean I mean, keep going. All right. So hear me out. So I take out my AirPods. I put them in. They pair to my phone. I don't have to go into the Bluetooth. I don't have to mess with it. um You can automatically switch between all of the different transparency modes and noise cancellation. The sound quality is really good.
01:42:38
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um It automatically tracks where i parked my car whenever i go to parks so i can just know where my car is that on maps i don't have to do anything i don't have to touch anything. um Whenever i'm if i do have my air pods in which i do have which i do a lot whenever i'm shopping and i'm at work.
01:42:56
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I can just, and it asks for a phone call, I can just say answer and it will let me talk to them. I could still hear my surroundings and the way it integrates with Apple Pay and all of their other shit is beautiful. It is seamless and it works great. So yes, it's a status symbol. However, it's also a pretty good product. That is my defense of Apple and their Yes, it's overpriced. I'll give you that. But it's good. Yeah, it's that's just it, though. Like they they forced you to get into their whole entire thing. It's it's the whole like you said, Apple ecosystem. It's insane. And like all the the other thing for me is there's just so many features I just do not need. I'm a simple man. I mean, doesn't your have doesn't your phone have a lot of features that you don't need or use every all the time? Probably, but I'm also not paying hundreds of dollars for them is my point. so
01:43:53
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Fair enough. yeah like Yeah, you're completely allowed to like Apple all that. My girlfriend is an Apple phone, but nothing else. And she, I think, is finally at the point where she'd switch over to Android. She's just on a really good phone plan right now that's grandfathered in, so she didn't want to get off of it.
01:44:10
Speaker
Fair enough. I just like their user interface in general. It's a lot. the The fact that there hasn't been a back button and in years on it just pisses me off. That's my biggest gripe about my Pixel 8 is that there's no back button anymore. And I fucking hate that. What do you have a back button? There's no back button on the phone. I like my literal back of the phone. No, like on the bottom of the phone, like a home. Oh, a home button. A home button and and a back button like you would have on a computer in the top left corner. Gotcha. OK.
01:44:40
Speaker
Yeah, my Huawei had one of those and that's just how I navigate and go around. But now it's all this like swiping bullshit. And like it's it's fine. It is quicker when you actually learn it. It's just I don't know. Just put a back button on a phone. Make it easy to use. I think once I think if they were to add a back button again, people would not be would not be too happy about it. But like what's the negative in adding a back button? That's what I don't understand. Your phone screens are way too big.
01:45:11
Speaker
What what size like how big is your phone? just out of curiosity um six inches talll-ish okay like Is that there larger? I'm assuming they have like a larger version. Yeah, like they have a pixel and they have like a pixel. Yeah, I don't know what how what the size of the Pixel 9 is, but this phone is the same size of my old one, which is nice.
01:45:32
Speaker
Well, that's good. It's not like too much of a of a size difference. Yeah, I don't have like a tablet in my pocket. Let's put it that way. OK, I have the 14 pro max, which is a little big, but it's not too big. It's big enough. You know, it's the size of a DS. Let's put it that way. It's not the size of a DS. You know, actually, if if a DS were folded up, but it weren't as thick, I would say, yeah, it's about the size of a DS.
01:45:58
Speaker
Like just the bottom. Yeah. That's, that's pretty much what this is with, I have a real heavy duty phone case, so it's probably like two thirds the thickness of a DS. Okay. I, I don't have a case on mine. I did for a bit, but it was messing with the cameras and all that. So I have to get another one. I just haven't gotten around to it yet. That's fair. It looks good without a case. It's like a Matt gray. Oh yeah.
01:46:27
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oxicillin. I was a moxicillin. I had it pulled up and I never read it, but it's a ah penicillin antibiotic. It's used to treat bacterial infections such as chest infections, including pneumonia and dental abs, abstinence or absences. I don't know. OK. And infections in the ears. There you go. Yep. So that's your that's your shit, man.
01:46:54
Speaker
bronchitis, ear infections, and pinka. That's what I was known for. Also throwing up. I threw up almost every single Christmas in my childhood. Why? I just always got sick around that time. I don't know. Like my body doesn't get sick often, but it gets sick at the same time normally. That's how I am. I always get sick in September every single year for no explicit reason other than my body wants to be sick.
01:47:20
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Well and kids are gross and things are spreading so much more around that time of year because it's like everyone was out being free range chickens during the summer living their best lives and then you put them all back in a coop together and all of a sudden they're all just little dirty Petri dishes. Free range chickens. I don't have a better way to describe early elementary school kids than that.
01:47:43
Speaker
I mean, yeah, that's that's a pretty good. It's a pretty good analogy, just. So are they going to get when when do they get sent to the butcher? Exactly. ah Puberty, whenever that hits. It's like middle school. Once the chemicals in their brains start to get a little weird and hopefully they balance that. But if not, hopefully they find the right drugs. Just make sure you get them vaccinated.
01:48:12
Speaker
Yeah. Did you have to get special vaccines whenever you went into middle school or high school? Yeah, at grade six. We got a lot of shots. That was fun. Yeah. Okay. um I'll never forget the one girl who was like such just was not having it and throwing a fit and screaming and crying. And it was very entertaining.
01:48:31
Speaker
Oh, you had to get them in school. Oh, yeah. What? Well, they just lined you up in a row and then it was just like bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. Yeah. Well, you see a flu shots at school if we wanted. We never got that for us. It was like, all right, you got to go get this done. You got to provide paperwork. um Otherwise, you know, we're going to have the police. Sure. We had to have I'm sure we had to have some paperwork like brought home and signed by our parents for the actual like booster shots in grade six.
01:48:57
Speaker
But anytime we did like flu shots, no, it was just like you stand in the line. They have like a bunch of the things ready and it's just literally bang, next one, bang, next one. Like they got in and out done in like 10 minutes. Huh. Or like when I got my COVID shots, our city had a drive-thru clinic.
01:49:16
Speaker
So efficient and so much fun. I woke up at 4.45 a.m. to go grab my cousin. I called his high school at the time and said, hey, he's not coming in today. We're going to go get our COVID shots. So we hit up Tim's to get some donuts. We watched three Netflix movies in the parking lot and eventually we got our shots at 10 a.m. Three Netflix movies.
01:49:41
Speaker
What did you watch, do you remember? ah All the outbreak-y type shows, so I watched Love and Monsters. I watched, um what was it called? Train to Busan, I watched, that was a really fun one. That was a zombie, Korean zombie movie, phenomenal, highly recommend it. um And then there was some other one, I forget the name of it, but the premise was like the US government made a bioweapon, I forget if it was by accident or not, but it was ah like in Africa and it made like the fatality rate of like 99%.
01:50:17
Speaker
Oh, wow. So then anyway, it got to this one little community in America, I believe, and accidentally affected them because it's spread out across the world a little bit. So their solution was just to nuke this town off the map. That's something America would do.
01:50:33
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Yeah. Y'all like the nukes, especially Truman. Truman liked his nukes. Yeah. I feel like the whole nuke thing is just the world's biggest dick measuring contest. Like nobody, everybody knows that as soon as you launch one, you know, all bets are off, but nobody, nobody has the balls to do it. And I'm, I hope it stays that way. I was getting off topic, but No, you right. I mean, you know, if the United States fires one, then you're going to have every country that hates us firing one back. If you have one of the countries that hates the United States fires one, then you're going to have all of NATO. And then, yeah, it's NATO is so fucked, though, because the states has the power to just veto anything.
01:51:24
Speaker
Yeah, so it's like not even really a thing. It's more so just more or less states proxy stuff. Yeah, it's so. It's it's so unbalanced, I mean. If if the US were to get hit by something, obviously the US would show up, but I'm sure Canada would show up. I'm sure the UK would show up. I'm sure Japan would show up. Everybody that has financial interest in us.
Canadian Perspective on U.S. Politics
01:51:53
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I wouldn't want to show up, but they would. Yeah. Kind of have to, because like at any point in time, we can become North Montana at pretty much the snap of a finger. North? Wait, what? Well, we're we're just north of the border. So that like we always joke around about, like hey, if the state's ever just was done with us, we'd quickly become the 52nd state of North Montana. Just the the largest state in the entire United States, so an entire new new United States. Yeah.
01:52:28
Speaker
so then you could be how many electoral votes would you be worth uh like negative one no one whoever wins that the nobody shows up or they do show up they're like don't vote for me please please do not vote for me i don't want you guys to to don't don't show up to the polls don't go like we would be like porter rico and just not be allowed to vote We're like, the states controls everything that we do, but we don't actually have a say in the democracy. I don't get that with Puerto Rico. Why? Apparently, they were supposed to become a state at one point. If I'm not wrong, I feel like they're them. And then it's Washington, D.C. What's Washington, D.C. exactly? Washington, D.C. is a state. It's just a small area. And I don't believe its citizens can vote. Let me see.
01:53:23
Speaker
Because they're talking about also making that one. Puerto Rico and then that. But then the Republicans were so against it for a long time because they just assumed that that would equal two more like Democrat seats.
01:53:39
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I don't know. We just got finished with two elections up here in Saskatchewan, and I'm all election doubt. I don't blame you. And then I'm sure you guys hear about ours quite a bit or no.
01:53:50
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No, we do. It's, it's always reported on because the state just has to be talked about everywhere in the world. I don't know my interest in it's pretty minimal. I don't blame you. Same here. I'm ready for it to be over. I know Ohio is going to swing so far, right? That I mean, it's, that's just what's going to happen. So, and then, uh, the rest is out of my control and I'll be glad when today is over and pray to God there's not civil unrest and that the National Guard doesn't have to step in again again hopefully if they if they have to it's a bit sooner this time like the way I see it is there's no way Trump loses the selection because even if he loses this election he ain't gonna declare himself the loser I mean if you declare I mean even if he does lose
01:54:44
Speaker
I mean, eventually, I mean, here's the last, last thing with January six, because Trump was still technically president whenever January six was going on. Um, so he had the call on when the national guard came out to, uh, to get things put back together and he just didn't do it. So now that, I mean, now that Biden's still in office and that we've had January six already happened, I feel like It's going to be, you know, everybody's going to be on on high alert for the next for the next couple of months. I know that one of the I forget what state it was, but their governor said, if you want to play militia, fuck around and find out. So I remember I remember that being said, at least fairly recently. So we'll we'll see how this goes. Oh boy. I'll just stay inside and play Planet Coaster, too.
01:55:42
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and were We just need to have that music playing over like, have that music play over clips of January 6th. Oh my god, January 6th riots but it's the light of us all.
01:56:01
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Oh my fucking god, so we need to make this and send it over to Ben and Zach to post. Oh, that would be great. Well, it's like when you use the tweezer tools to pick people up and drop them, but you just clip to the dude falling off the wall.
01:56:22
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Oh my fucking god. I think that might be the first thing I do is make a January 6th theme park.
01:56:32
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uh have a coaster titled we're storming the capital why because it's a revolution have a have a cap like have rebuild the capital building or at least the shell of it and then have the uh have the coaster go through the rooms so like have it go and have it like have this have a scene on the inside of the capital building where it's the uh what's that room where they're all sitting there and like certifying everything have a bunch of protesters in there and have it do like a, a, a heartline roll through the, through the room. You know, that'd be, that'd be kind of cool. The park map move, like move out of the way. What's his name? Like chief beef. Yeah. chief be Move out of the way. Chief beef, the water Buffalo man is, is in town.
01:57:23
Speaker
I'm reading the January 6 Wikipedia page cause why not? Um, six people died, which that does not get talked about enough with the amount that this comes up and just gets brushed off. But it's a claims that three people died of natural causes. How the fuck do you die of a natural cause during all of this? How does that get determined? I One was shot by Capitol police, another died of a drug overdose, three died of natural causes, and a police officer died after being assaulted by rioters. I'm surprised more people didn't die to be honest with you. It was, yeah, and crazy. I remember watching that whole thing live.
01:58:09
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Have you watched any of the interviews with the police officers that were you there? I don't. I'm sure I watched a couple when it happened, but I don't remember any of the cop ones. The only interview I remember so well is the lady with the onion in the towel. The onion in the towel? What? Well, they're interviewing the her and she was crying um and she was crying because she just had a cut onion in a towel that she kept pressing against her eyes to make tears.
01:58:36
Speaker
And then she's like, why they're like, why are you here? And she's like, because because we're storming the capital, it's revolution. And then she's just in tears because she's putting an onion against her eyes, like just baffled, it was so weird. People are, I question the people that live in the United States at times. There are people that showed up with full ass work badges just on their shirts. I was like, you you wouldn't even think to take your work badge off. You're asking to get fired.
01:59:04
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Yeah, I don't know. you You're making it so easy to be identified. Yeah. There was a, I remember watching a interview with a police officer recently and how like they knew for a fact that they were outnumbered there and that the national, since the National Guard wasn't there, they knew that they couldn't They couldn't attack the protesters because if they were to if they were to shoot somebody, then they were probably going to be out, then they would be definitely outgunned, most likely. So once again, mind boggling to think about. Yeah. Yeah. Because I'm sure there was a lot of guns in the. In the in the crowd there, probably so.
01:59:46
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My favorite story of the whole January 6th thing, though, was the team that was going with the massive um Tiger King signed. Wait, what? There was a team. What was the actual Tiger King's name?
02:00:01
Speaker
Joe Exotic. Yeah. Yeah. There is a team going there to try and get attention, to try and get Trump's attention. ah So he could pardon Joe Exotic before his presidency was over. And they had the sign out. They're all set. It was about to happen. It looked like it might actually be in place to like somehow the Hail Mary might have worked. ah But then January 6 starts to happen. So then they just completely get overshadowed.
02:00:27
Speaker
And they're just like, they're storming the Capitol. We're not going to, we're not going to be able to get a pardon for Joe now. Shit.
02:00:36
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Oh no. That's my favorite little like tidbit fact about January six is the fact that that pretty much was the final nail in the coffin for no pardon for Joe exotic. Uh, how tragic that an animal abuser didn't get a pardon.
02:00:56
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Yeah. OK. All right. Let's let's change topics here. Do you want to hit the news? Yeah, let's hit the news. All right. So we've got some we got some news rolling in as of recording day. This will be uploaded the same day. So this will still be relevant as of time of listening, assuming you're listening to it within the first week or so.
Six Flags New Orleans Future Plans
02:01:15
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So Six Flags New Orleans has started demolition after 19 years or 19 years after being hit by Hurricane Katrina.
02:01:25
Speaker
um I ref I refrained from saying that making a hurricane tortilla joke there do it and oh that's just divine I was gonna quote it you know a little kid in the pantry oh hurricane Katrina more like hurricane tortilla Anyway, what's happening at New Orleans? So New Orleans based Smoot construction was hired to lead demolition and has started to dismantle the site's many unsalable structures. ah Land developer Bayou Phoenix has made proposals including a warehouse disparate distribution center, a warehouse and distribution center and an election.
02:02:11
Speaker
an educational facility run by local nonprofit called STEM NOLA, a water park, hotel, esports arena and movie studio. What is it with trying to turn amusement parks into esports places? Do you remember whenever Six Flags tried doing that? I do you remember that. And then ah what was it? Cedar Point also has the whole big I don't know if it's esports, but they have the whole big actual sports complex in Sandusky, don't they?
02:02:37
Speaker
Yeah, they have and there is an eSports area in there. It's not very big, but they do have it. It's called Cedar Point, East. I think it's genius. Like, you know, you're going to bring these people in. You're able to host events, make a little bit of money off of that. But then you're also going to then have them stay over and do like a day at the park or an afternoon.
02:02:58
Speaker
That I get like having it outside the park as a separate thing, but putting it inside the park, like Six Flags, I believe. Fuck, why am I blanking? Fiesta Texas, like there is inside the park. Interesting. I really, really you don't understand. So is it just like a hall where you go in and can like play some PS5?
02:03:22
Speaker
Yeah. So they have like a bunch of computers and they have some game consoles typically as well. And you can rent them per hour and play games on them, which I don't particularly. I like that sort of thing. I love playing competitive video games, but I don't get it in an amusement park. It's very strange if you ask me. Yeah, that's an interesting place. So you have to then pay admission to then go and rent out this place.
02:03:51
Speaker
I'm sure it's not particularly cheap either because majority like there's one here in Dayton. um It's seven bucks an hour, which isn't bad. But I'm sure it's ridiculous at Fiesta Texas. Let me check. Fiesta Texas eSports.
02:04:16
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Let me see if it's still here. Yeah. E6 gaming at Six Flags Fiesta Texas in San Antonio. Oh, God. Custom built razor PC stations equipped the latest 480 graphic cards, 280 hertz monitors and a suite of razor gear, including the latest keyboards, mice and headsets.
02:04:40
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E6 Gaming, powered by Coca-Cola, is a state-of-the-art competitive gaming campus that is complete with the newest high-tech equipment and the industry's biggest titles, providing an unmatched gaming experience, in addition to the most advanced gaming complex at Eddie Amusement Park in the country.
02:04:58
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This brand new space features an ultra modern 52 seat lounge with cell phone charging stations, a full service bar to sip a signature cocktail, and a retail space filled with anime and gaming collectibles. Why I don't are have you have you stumbled across the Zara goes the theater. The what a 1601 seat full size theater that can be used for eSports events and gameplay during large scale tournaments.
02:05:27
Speaker
And this is where? Six Flags vs. The Texas.
02:05:33
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That's what I'm looking for. Wait, so that they're using their theater for gaming. You can. It appears this. Oh, OK. All right, so I found um I found their pricing guides. So okay they have three different options. Oh yeah. I'm seeing this too. Now the three different levels. Yeah. $14 an hour to stream. That's ridiculous. Or for, or for one hours, $14, two hours as 19 best deal, three hours, $30 and then four hours for $35 or you can just get an all day pass. Passable. They're exclusive. You get the fourth hour free.
02:06:21
Speaker
And then the you can't get an all day streaming pass. You can't go there and stream all day long. Game with the best. They have 40 80s in their PCs, series X's and PS5's. They've got like a game table for like tabletop games. Bring some crocan all. Again, though, why? Why would you go to six flags?
02:06:49
Speaker
So yes, the Texas has a dive coaster. Yeah. Nice. I'd rather good. I'd rather go ride the dive coaster than play video games. I would. So you go to Fiesta Texas. You pay. We see. let Let me look at tickets real quick. Tickets and passes.
02:07:12
Speaker
No, I don't want a membership. I want a daily ticket. You pay at minimum $49.
02:07:19
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to then go pay more money.
02:07:28
Speaker
Hold on. Well, they have a river rat per its red and they have a log flume. Oh, except it's like a Disney World style log flume. I don't like those ones where they're two cedars. They just don't feel as authentic. It has a little bunny hill, though, so that's fun.
02:07:49
Speaker
Man, one day tickets are actually pretty cheap for Fiesta Texas. They're thirty five bucks. Oh, I know from thirty five dollars. OK, they they get you there. Whoops. Their water park looks pretty solid. Fifty four dollars. So you pay. So if you want to go on a Saturday, you're paying fifty five dollars plus whatever to go play fucking video games. Which you can do at home. But yes, Fiesta Texas is a great park. Not saying it's a bad park in the slightest. I haven't been there. Water Park looks awesome.
02:08:19
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Do they have a water coaster? I don't think so, but they have so many different types of raft slides.
02:08:29
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I want to try a water coaster so bad. I think ah Holiday World would be a really fun park. I think I'd be a big fan of it. I need to go back there during the summer for their ah for water park. Apparently, it's really good. and I saw the water coaster there whenever I was there. Obviously, it was closed because it was October. but I think they have like three or four of them now, don't they?
02:08:49
Speaker
They have three or four water coasters. Are you serious? Yeah, they have like two absolutely massive one, Mammoth and. What's the other one called? There's the Cheetah Chase, which is the two racing ones. And then there's yeah, Mammoth, what's the other one called? I can't remember this.
02:09:14
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Because Mammoth is the biggest one, and then there's another one, too, though.
02:09:21
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People are just like screaming at this and be like, why does he have the credentials to have a podcast? Holiday water, holiday world water park slides.
02:09:33
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This is but me because I definitely know the name of it. I just can't remember. Rides and slides. Here we go. Uh, the voyage, no filter by splash and safari.
02:09:49
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So they have, uh,
02:09:55
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Bacculli, I think is how, what it's called. It's like a four person slide for our four person raft slide. Okay. Um, that one's doesn't appear to be a water coaster. That's not the one I was thinking. There is mammoth water coaster, Cheetah chase water coaster. Um,
02:10:17
Speaker
And wildebeest water coaster. Wildebeest. That's that's it. They look fun. This this water park looks awesome. I got so much. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like the yeah ah ER r teeter in Hollywood Nights. Screw the coasters. I would be on these water sleds. Isn't Hollywood Nights in like early May? I thought it was the first weekend of June. I could be wrong, though. Yeah. OK, never mind then.
02:10:45
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I have zero interest in going. I think that could be up there for my personal hell. I think it'd be fun to like see and have your own group of people, but I would not want to be at a place when it's already catered to people. ah Because my one experience with Ace members was one of the worst experiences I've ever had in a park. Yeah, Ace ace people are, and just coaster enthusiasts in general, are not You got to pick and choose with a fine tooth comb. Just for example, I was at ah Cedar Point last Saturday for their closing day. And I tried to get the last train of the year on Seal Vengeance. And so was everybody else. And everybody was just kind of waiting in the back and just kind of you know stalling as long as possible. And security was like kind of pushing us along. Let go. Go. Get on the fucking ride.
02:11:39
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um and uh man people were people even even a lot of the enthusiasts were like still trying to do their best to play dumb like oh my locker's not working even though they clearly have all their shit in a locker um and just just trying to do what they can and then uh yeah it was they're not rude they're just You know, in the ass. Yeah. Just, just, just listen to the, to the employees and go. It's not that difficult, but yeah. And they're entitled to most, a lot, a lot of them, no a thousand percent. That was my biggest issue when I was at wonderland.
02:12:23
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If you're not an Ace member, or if you are an Ace member, this is not directed directly at you. It's those specific people. You know who you are. Um, you know, Oh, well, I have, you know, 300 credits and, uh, Oh, you only have a measly 75. Oh, what are you doing in my presence? You, you peasant. Um, obviously not like that, but that's, that's how it is. swine Yeah. Or like, they'll correct you on on dumbass stuff. That doesn't matter.
02:12:53
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Diamondback is actually 235 feet tall, not 240. you know cool What was your experience with with Ace members? Let me hear it.
02:13:05
Speaker
So, i like I was talking about Zaudice last July 2023, when we were there on the Sunday, all of the local Wonderland enthusiasts wanted to do a Last Ride of the Night on Leviathan. That sounds awful. Just get on the damn coaster and let the ride ops go home. But anyway, um I had Flash Pass or whatever the hell it's called at Cedar Fair.
02:13:31
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Um, so then me and then everyone else that had it, uh, we went up and just did that with like 15 minutes till park closed because Perry drove up from Ohio and then he was driving back down in the day. So like a 10 or 11 hours on the road for 12 hour park day.
02:13:48
Speaker
So we just were like, let's just get on this thing. I treat it as my final ride, get off of it if we have time to get on one more cool. But like, let's just make this our last ride. But I'd been avoiding all these people throughout the day at the park, purposely like going on tall rides to see if I could find where they are, go to different corners of the park because they all wanted to hang out with me and I had no interest in them.
02:14:11
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ah So then we got there and a bunch of them were like, oh, well, I haven't gone to ride a coaster with Logan. So let's all go on with him. So we hop onto the coaster and as we get dispatched out of the station, we're going up the lift. I look over at Perry and I was like, hey, how funny would it be if for whatever reason we got stuck on this thing and these guys weren't able to get off and run back in line for their last ride of the night because there were like three rows of them?
02:14:37
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Leviathan. So ah we go super fun ride, great time flying through the night. um And then as we hit the brake run, we're stacked. We're stacked three deep in this bitch.
02:14:48
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oh And then Perry looks over at me and he's like, you did not just speak that into existence. And I'm sitting here laughing my ass off. But the more I was laughing, the more pissed off these people were getting. And I don't even think they were like concerned about me laughing at first. They're just mad.
02:15:05
Speaker
They're like, what's wrong with it? Why is the ride not going? We're going to miss her last ride. Blah, blah, blah, bla blah, blah, blah. So they're just going and going and going. um They find out that someone in the station, when they are crossing over to put their bags and the cubbies, uh, their phone fell out and onto the track.
02:15:26
Speaker
So then they had to stop the ride to retrieve the phone and a bunch of them were like ride ops at the time too, or like former ride ops. That's not a park policy and bla blah, blah, blah. So they're sitting on the train on the very end of the like break run at the end, just screaming at them. That's not policy. You're not doing it right. Like telling them how to do their job, but like screaming from a football fields distance away on the but back of the brake run.
02:15:50
Speaker
So at this point, I'm losing my shit because I think this is the funniest thing ever. I popped another gummy in the evening. So like we're still on the peak with the good edible. And I'm just laughing my ass off because I'm like, this is like the truest coaster enthusiast experience of my life. Yeah. um Eventually, I was just laughing a little too much and we weren't going anywhere anytime soon. So then the focus started to shift to me and people were starting to blame me for the reason they couldn't get back on.
02:16:17
Speaker
How was that year? That's what I said. I'm like, I don't know what you guys are talking about. Y'all made the choice yourself to hop on this with me. I've been avoiding you all day. I didn't ask for you to come on this with me and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So then they started like trying to blame the one guy who is with me who like also was avoiding them for the day to hang out with me.
02:16:37
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And then I was like, no, I'll leave them alone kind of thing. yeah And then basically I was told to just kind of like shut up because like, while I get to go back to Saskatoon, these people are going to have to deal with this. You still live in Toronto. So I'm like, fair enough. I won't make an issue for you guys, but like Jesus Christ, hold your ground.
02:16:53
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Anyway, eventually we get ourselves into the station. It's now like 10 0 4. We're past closing time. And then what do these motherfuckers do? They leave their things in the station, run down to the start, and then they'd be like, no, well we we need to go again, though, because we left our stuff up in the station. Like we got to go grab it. Oh, my God. They're like, well, OK, we'll just escort you up the stairs and then like losing in their mind. The other half of the group that didn't have the fast lane or whatever it is.
02:17:21
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They didn't even hop in the regular line. So they didn't even get a ride in because they just chose not to go in. So then anyway, the whole big group is there. Two of the girls are like losing their mind with the area supervisor, telling them you got to let us on and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm sitting here recording it because I'm very well thinking this is going to go to the direction where I'm going to have to show security this video.
02:17:44
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um Eventually, everything worked out. And yeah, that was my experience with Ace members. What a wonderful bunch that you definitely want to spend time with. Exactly. I want to pay money to be associated with these sorts of people. Doesn't that sound like such a wonderful thing? Yeah, like just I don't know, man. I like the whole concept of like, oh, it's a way to like get a big group of people to like be able to do events and things. But like go the holiday world route and just do park sponsored events. Like Fiesta Texas did like the roller coaster rodeo.
02:18:22
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Do more of those kinds of things. Yeah. Kings Island does their. I forget what it's called. They do their enthusiast event every May there for a bit. Coast Cedar Point does coast or mania. You know, it's. ah Yeah, that's sort of thing. Go to those. Exactly. Don't ruin it for for Logan.
02:18:50
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Yeah, because my experience is the only one that matters. No, I don't. Clearly. I don't care in the world. I just felt so bad for the poorer employees because I knew if that were me, that's the last thing I want to deal with after working a super long shift. Yeah, shitty, shitty coaster enthusiasts are the worst. They really are.
02:19:10
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Hey, in that situation, though, then you can kind of go on a power trip if you're the if you're the employees, because you can just tell them no, no matter how much they yell at you. Yep. Go home. Parks closed. Not our not our problem. No, exactly. ah You know what else is closed? I was just about to talk about that. Go ahead. Funplex and Myrtle Beach.
02:19:34
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good Good transition. that was pretty That was pretty well done, sir. But yes, Funplex in Myrtle Beach is closed permanently.
Amusement Park Closures and Announcements
02:19:42
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um The park put out a statement saying, drum roll please, since 2021, the ah Funplex Myrtle Beach, the Funplex Myrtle Beach, that's been that's weird and very worldly, has been a place of thrills, laughter, and unforgettable memories. We are incredibly proud of the community we have built together and the countless smiles we have shared.
02:20:04
Speaker
It is with heavy hearts that we are leaving Myrtle Beach. The Funplex will continue to operate its two parks in Mount Laurel and East Hanover, New Jersey. We hope if you are in the area, you will enjoy our parks up there. Thank you once again for being part of the Funplex family. We cherish the memories we have created together.
02:20:28
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02:20:31
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What a legacy. Four years. A whole four years. And in case you're wondering what you missed out on, the park had a coaster called Fun in the Sun. It was a SPF visa with an SPF visa spinning coaster and had ah the hamster wheels on there as well. I remember seeing those at IAPA and they just never really took off. I mean, I've seen a few get sold, but I mean,
02:21:01
Speaker
I just can't imagine the right experience would be good. I know. I feel like it'd be painful. janky Yeah. And don't those things have like the classic over the shoulder restraints? They don't have vest restraints. Yeah, they're just like heavily, heavily padded over the shoulders from what I remember seeing. If anything, you think you'd want a vest restraint because that would hold you in there better, but you wouldn't be banging your head around so much. I'm not. I'm not a huge fan.
02:21:30
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I don't know. No one has seemed one of these to a washing machine yet. And I think that's a missed opportunity.
02:21:38
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that That is that is a really good missed opportunity sponsored by Whirlpool Whirlpool, the roller coaster. Sponsored by Samsung. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, like it's little jingle.
02:21:52
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yeah whenever it's done ah that's the music it whenever you uh whenever you first start going up the lift hill whenever you press a button when we press the startup button it plays that sound as you dispatch exactly I'd be pretty good. I'm not missing much with funplex. I've never been had that and some other flat rides and That's uh, that's about it a whole four years. That's not very long No No, it is not How many unforgettable memories were actually made at this place? That's what I'm wondering I'd say at least one I
02:22:36
Speaker
It wasn't a good one. look you know Yeah, it was unforgettable because some unspeakable things happened in the family restroom. um That's just thats just a guess. I won't be forgetting that one anytime soon. Put it that way. You know what? Never mind. I'm not going to continue to lay into that joke that can go south really quickly. Moving down the list.
02:23:04
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ah All right, you said you before we recorded you said you had some hot takes about this so I'll read it I changed it a little bit but So the article initially called this a roller coaster. I changed it to powered coaster because it is a powered coaster.
02:23:20
Speaker
But Iron Man, Powered Coaster, and other Marvel attractions are coming to Disney Cruise Line. um It'll be a mock ride's Spike coaster model that will set the world record for the longest powered coaster at sea with 820 feet of track, besting the Carnival Bolt's 721 track length. um The ride will feature theming based on Iron Man, where riders will be testing out Tony Stark's latest Iron Cycle invention.
02:23:48
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Disney says after a quick driving lesson from Friday, guests will set out on a gravity defying ride suspended 30 feet above the upper deck. Wow. A board. What is the longest coast roller coaster at sea? I just I don't know. Like why are we thinking this to Iron Man? Because they have the money to. ah But like you also have that money to theme it to so many other things.
02:24:18
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They can make that a really good Moana ride, I feel like. You know, yeah, Moana do a Tron at sea. You could do any sort of cowboy ride with like Toy Story. I'll send you the link real quick on ah on the Zen caster. But like if you look at the promotional art they have for it, like the cruise ship itself, if you scroll down, the train looks cool. But the.
02:24:45
Speaker
One where it shows like the inside of the deck, it just has like giant wall prints of Spider-Man and Iron Man. yeah looks like a So bad. Kid go kart track and some rinky dank dumb little flat. Yeah. I just have questions about these choices, that's all.
02:25:05
Speaker
Yeah, I'm not. Do what does work on a cruise ship like this is a water park. If you have some good water slides, that's the best way to go about it if you're trying to try to do that. I once ah talked to a dude on Instagram almost daily who was from Brazil, spoke Portuguese, so he had really broken English and he was a lifeguard on MSC. Really? It was really cool hearing the stories about being a lifeguard at sea. So If I'm correct, don't they get paid like way less than what the American is essentially just doing it to travel the world, right? And when they're important, and have their couple of days off, you can go check out different things. But yeah, like there's no good money to be made there. Gotcha. OK, very like isolated in and like, yeah, that would be a bad, a bad thing to do. I mean, if you're looking to travel the world and on
02:26:04
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and do it cheaply. That's not a bad bad idea. I always thought like yeah working in those kind of settings would be super fun. like I think one of the most fun jobs in the world would be just like an event director at like a senior like a care home. I'd have so much fun with that. What would what events would you set up?
02:26:25
Speaker
You can do so many different things. So I've seen lots of fun things where you have like yoga balls and like pool noodles and you can do a little drumming along lessons with like the old people to keep their movement and dexterity. A lot of different things you can do with like, uh, which McCollum little ah badminton rackets, balloons, and then you can go out to all the cool little local things and get in for like heavily discounted or free. Be a fun time.
02:26:51
Speaker
This doesn't sound like too bad of a time. I'm not too fond of nursing homes. um would you well Would you consider nursing home? No? Yes? No? I don't know.
02:27:05
Speaker
I would ah like either there's both ways of it, obviously, I was thinking more so of it'd be more fun to be in like the care homes for like the people who just need like extra help with things like, oh, abilities and special needs and things. Oh, but there's also still like the senior centers as well. I want to be working with like the care home style. OK, I misheard you. I thought whenever you said care homes, I was thinking like more like senior homes. All right. Never mind. That's different. That's different. All right. Whoops. That that came off probably really wrong. But correction has been noted. We had a few that came to the pool and they're super fun. One of my favorite memories from when I was lifeguarding was when this group was in during a public swim in the afternoon. So it was pretty quiet. It was on a weekday. So all the kids were in school. But there are a bunch of moms with their babies in like the beach area. Yep.
02:27:52
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And this one dude, he's in his late 30s, had his, um what should we call it? I forget what they were actually called. But anyway, the person who was there with him, um not like his guardian or whatever, but the one helping him out supervising him, et cetera. So he's like, I need to go to the washroom. She's like, okay, hop out, go to the washroom. He hops out of the pool, turns around, trunks down to his ankles and just starts peeing into the pool.
02:28:21
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And then she starts like she's mortified and and starts screaming. Absolutely terrified. It's like, it's like, stop that. Put it away. Go wash him. And she's like trying to get out of the pool to like go like physically force them there. But then he just starts running side to side, like blocking air with his stream. And it was the funniest thing I had ever seen. Lifeguard. God.
02:28:43
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She felt so bad they went over and talked to the moms to make sure that there was going to be no issues falling up and everyone was in the same boat just being like, that was the funniest thing we've seen in a long time. Oh my God. The kids were all too young to understand what was going on. It was just so funny. Oh my God.
02:29:02
Speaker
So life lesson, if you want to make sure nobody gets out of the pool, block them with your stream. what They got lots of good pool stories. um But yeah, I don't know. This coaster, it's a coaster. I don't know, like I guess. So why do you think it's a roller coaster, not a powered coaster? Well, they're the same thing. It it rolls and it coasts. But it's propelled most of the way. It's not going based off of gravity. I'm not saying it's not a coaster. I'm just saying. Yeah, but like then your top thrill too would be a powered coaster. That's that's launched though. This is like something you can you have full power throughout the entire thing and you can control your speed.
02:29:52
Speaker
I don't know. I think if it has wheels and it's on a track, it counts.
02:30:00
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I'm trying to think about a good example of this. um Like I know the premise of it. They're like two seater cars and you kind of like straddle it and there's a button to make it go quicker.
02:30:12
Speaker
But like it's a roller coaster. You look at it. Oh, that looks like a roller coaster. It is a roller coaster. It looks like one. It does roll. It does coast. But I would still consider a powered coaster. And then I would still consider a power coaster a credit. I would consider a credit to.
02:30:32
Speaker
I mean it's not, ah I think the credit thing is a dumb argument here if you think it's not a credit, but powered coasters are credits and I would say a majority of people's eyes. You know what's not a credit? Kid B coasters.
02:30:46
Speaker
One more time? Kitty coasters. You don't think kitty coasters are credits? Why? Leave the kids alone. You don't need to credit horror around children. All right. No, I'm kidding. Hey, I have I have the Kings Island Kitty credits from whenever I was a small child. I wrote them with my with my dad and my mom. So I think that I think I'm good. I think yeah, I think I had all the ones that magic mountain question mark. Not speeding on Zollis because that was added after, but I think I have the other three.
02:31:19
Speaker
What are they? I haven't been to magic mountain, uh, magic flyer, which is, I don't even know what the manufacturer is there, but it's basically just an oval with like an eight foot tall lift. And if you bunny hops on the back RC DB, help us. You have an ENF Myler that's Canyon blaster. That one was fun. Pretty whippy. Then you have a, uh, what was it? Vekoma family coaster, the roadrunner express.
02:31:47
Speaker
And then, that one actually came from the first part we talked about, Six Flags Nolans. Oh, so that's what so that one got salvaged? Yeah, that one and their Batman, I think, were the two roller coasters they saved, because the Batman is Titan at Fiesta Texas. Oh, that's cool. What was the one that you said that was the one that you said you didn't know the manufacturer of? a Magic Flyer. Magic Flyer. Previously called perscy's Percy Something.
02:32:16
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Because it was Thomas themed and then before that it was Goliath Junior. Any guesses on the manufacturer? I've got it pulled up right here. i Premier. Bradley and Kay. oh I've never heard of them until now. Interesting. Yeah, I i don't know.
02:32:41
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trying to see what else they see in the speed Gonzalez.
Amusement Park Ride Discussions
02:32:45
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That's a Zamperla. Yeah, that's a launch one. Hey, they if they can make if they can make ah a launch kitty coaster, they can make a launch strata coaster, you know, same same difference there. Yep.
02:33:00
Speaker
um And then did you write cold Russia while you were there or no? Yeah, that one was fun. I really like the helix at the end of the ride. and then Roadrunner Express that is a Vekoma. You already mentioned that though. Yeah. Those are fun. so fun Yeah. Is that the one I'm thinking about? No, it's a different model, but to They have the super long trains. I'm trying to think of i'm thinking of Cobra at Six Flags Discovery. Yeah, that's a Tivoli. I love Tivolis. So I've been on Autosled, now known as Cooty Coaster at Galaxy Land, powered by Hasbro. Cooty Coaster? Cooty Coaster, yeah. And then I've been on Jaguar at Knots. That one was very, very fun.
02:33:53
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I think that's it for Tivolace.
Brand Ownership and Speculations
02:33:55
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So I'm excited to go on Pepsi Orange Streak. Pepsi Orange Streak. Does Pepsi, who owns Crush? I think it might be Coke. Because I know they distribute it. Carrie Dr. Pepper owns Crush. Yeah, and then Pepsi does the bottling for Dr. Pepper, at least up in Canada, the distribution.
02:34:21
Speaker
So like if you're at a fountain machine, Crush and Dr. Pepper would be on the Pepsi one. Gotcha. Okay. And then Coca-Cola owns Fanta. So that makes, that makes more sense. Yeah. Also Coke owns both Powerade and Gatorade. What they do. I know that one blew my mind. Cause I always thought Gatorade was Coke and Powerade was Pepsi, but nope. So what's just for like fake, uh, competition or.
02:34:50
Speaker
I have no idea. I would imagine they're probably just separate entities that they both bought, but who knows? That's really strange. Because I know Gatorade was developed by the University of Florida, hence the name Gatorade. Yeah, I know that. Because it was like their sports drink for the team.
02:35:09
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huh Odd. How long until we get Prime in theme parks? ah i hope I hope never.
02:35:21
Speaker
I agree. I mean, I don't think it tastes bad, but just with like the people behind it way too sweet. The people behind it are just really, really shitty, in my opinion. So yeah, I know there's there's a there's a redemption arc where I wasn't hating on Logan Paul for a while and now he's back in my bad books big time.
02:35:41
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, for for a while there, he he was just kind of doing his own thing. He wasn't doing anything shitty. And now he's back and doing his shitty stuff with KSI. KSI never hated, especially early on in internet culture, never the greatest person. But his ego used to be more so just a character, and now it's more so the persona.
02:36:05
Speaker
Yeah, I feel like it's taken kind of taking over him. I didn't used to hate KSI either. I don't hate him now, but just ah not a fan of how he's been acting as of as of late. I have been enjoying that. His latest song has been getting roasted so big. Yeah, because he was arguing with what Dan TDM or something like that. That was funny as hell. That was funny. All the memes that came out of that were great.
Mr. Beast Show and 2016 Nostalgia
02:36:35
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Like Mr. Beast has fallen off big time, too. He has a new show going on to Prime that's been dubbed like the highest money like reward or wherever you call it for the game show. ah They're filming it just outside of Toronto. They built like a little village. A little village. What does it consist of? I have no idea. I just saw a bunch of like cabin type looking like sleeping places.
02:37:04
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I don't know. It just looked very dystopian. All right. I got to look this up. Mr. Beast Village.
02:37:17
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In Toronto. Toronto. A miniature city in Toronto. It's a reality competition. Yeah, something like that. Oh, this is very dystopian. Oh my God. Right? Yeah.
02:37:32
Speaker
What the hell? I don't love the timeline that we're in. I feel like ever since fucking Harambe was killed, we've just been on a downward spiral. That's such a pivotal point. And I'm not saying that that's what caused it, but that was definitely like the time that you can pinpoint when things started to become weird.
02:37:50
Speaker
26, that was 2016, right? Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Yeah. 2016 ever since then. It's just been, it's just been kind of garbage, man. 2018 was pretty good too. 2017, 2016 through 2019 wasn't bad. 2020 beyond has been, been pretty shit. I peaked in grade seven. So shut up 2013. We enjoyed you. You're a great year.
02:38:16
Speaker
It's been all downhill ever since. My favorite years of my life were 09 to 2014. Really? Yeah. You like it. You like those more than where you're at now in life with where I'm at now. But like as a kid, you, that was like, while I was still a kid and pretty oblivious to the religion stuff, like it was just a chore, not like something I was really into. Yeah, that's true. That's true.
02:38:42
Speaker
I do enjoy being out of it now. I wouldn't change where I'm at now for anything. But if I look back at where my fondest memories are, they're typically from 2010 to 2012.
02:38:55
Speaker
That's kind of where I'm sitting. Mine. That's my fondest memories as of now are probably twenty nineteen to twenty twenty one roughly. Yeah. it's Like or not fondest, but just ah like most burned into my brain, I should say. Yeah. And I'd say I'd say fondest memories would be twenty nineteen through twenty seventeen because that's when I was I was in high school, but I hung out a lot with my friends online playing games and that sort of thing. So yeah. You got anything else? Oh, you want to discuss? I don't think so. We finished the wrap of the news. We've almost recorded for three hours now. Are we almost at the front of this line? Are we actually going to get to board? I'd say we're at the front of the line. i Just saw a train, a train cycle. So do you want to shout out your ah your socials and everything one more time before we get on the train?
Podcast Promotions and Future Guests
02:39:54
Speaker
If you want to find my little corner of the Instagrams, I'm at that guy from Saskatchewan Tune. ah Literally, if you just put that guy from and then SA, I should pop up. So don't worry about spelling Saskatchewan Tune and right. ah Over on the Cozzies, go check out our podcast. ah We're starting season three. So we're into the 200s of our episodes now. That kicked off today. And we're also releasing our fifth podcast.
02:40:23
Speaker
Cause like the cousins is kind of just like the overarching umbrella. And then we have separate shows for different things. So we're going to debut the Friday episode this week. Uh, we got Goliath on from ride this one. And then we're going to have a airtime mic on and you, so you guys will be our first three. Yeah, that'd be pretty good. I'm excited for those to see how it goes. Cause we got lots of connections and there's going to be some really cool people we're going to bring on to interview and work with.
02:40:53
Speaker
Get if you can get. Damn, what's his name? um Ryan, the Ryan mechanic, if you could get him on, that would be awesome. I will add it to a list of people to reach out to, because I know we have a different Ryan that is already in the works of coming on. Oh, man, El Toro. I am not going to name names. OK, all right.
02:41:17
Speaker
Alright, well, I will so i won't pester anymore then. Alright, we're at the front of the line. do you what what Which coaster are we on? On three. Okay. Three, two, one, Daddy Pig Coaster. Oh, I forgot to say my thing. Shit. We fucking teased this the whole episode and I dropped the fucking ball. Oh my god.
02:41:42
Speaker
I guess I never actually thought about a name. And then I just put on the spot and I was like, mind bender. No, wait, mind bender is gone. ah And then I forgot. So, uh, shit, daddy pigoted. I can't say it wasn't going to be daddy pig. I said it was a gold ticket award winner yeah earlier in the episode. So I figured I'd roll with that because that one like best new family, like best coaster of 2021 or something like that. USA Today poll. Yeah, something like that.
02:42:10
Speaker
Uh, I'm going to steal what Ben said on the latest episode of your favorite coaster sucks. But if you had the ability to go out there and vote for your fucking daddy pig, you better as hell voted it in this federal election. Yeah, exactly.
Encouragement to Vote
02:42:24
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Uh, go, go vote. It is election day. So this will be up. Um, by the time it's up, you'll probably only have like an hour or so to go, to go do it, but go vote, go do it. It's good. Um,
02:42:38
Speaker
It's ah how you can your you can make your voice be heard. And just a reminder that we are in control of the government, not the other way around. So um damn right. Second Amendment, baby. No, I'm kidding. Yeah, let's go invade the Capitol building again.
02:42:57
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um
02:43:00
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All right, well, i'd say that's I'd say that's about it. We're about to get on this thing. So you guys have a great one. Thank you again, Logan, for for joining me. It was good. Thanks for having me. It was good talking to you. And we will see you next time in the single rider line.