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Episode 121 - Nobody likes you when it's '23
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This week on the premier comedy roller coaster podcast Ben and Zach are back from their break with a recap of their travels and covering some of the roller coaster news including a teaser about Top Thrill Dragster at Cedar Point, Universal opening parks in Texas and Las Vegas and Disney making changes to the parks as well as much more.
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Transcript
Podcast Introduction
00:00:01
Speaker
Welcome to the worst roller coaster podcast on the internet. Now let's join Ben and Zach as they tell you why your favorite coaster sucks.
Holiday Mishaps
00:00:15
Speaker
I'm Zach and I watched Dolanite with my mother-in-law over Christmas. I'm Ben and I almost got COVID from my mom on Christmas.
00:00:30
Speaker
Whoa, yikes, really? Yeah, but I've already had it twice, so I don't, I just think I was like, fine. I didn't get it. Okay, so now at this point you're- It's all good. Daring to ask it again, yeah. Just asking to get it again, that's all right. What is that, super immunity? Yep. Bring on the super immunity, I need some super immunity.
00:01:02
Speaker
Welcome back to your favorite coaster sucks.
Podcast Hiatus and Return
00:01:05
Speaker
Holy shit, we're fucking back. It's been forever. Yeah, my laptop was still like on standby since the last time we recorded. Man, don't let Sony hear that. It is a Sony.
00:01:32
Speaker
That's hilarious because I just picked a random brand. Yeah, it's a Sony VIO from 2010. So surely having it on for fucking one month straight is going to be good for it. Yeah. Still going though. I mean, this thing, like, it's hard to die.
00:01:55
Speaker
I've like been like every time I've like moved or dropped it or spilled water on it, I'm like, all right, it's time for a new one, but it still works. Well, that's good to hear that is a quality built machine, apparently. Still running Windows XP, I assume. No, so actually this summer I updated it to Windows 10.
00:02:25
Speaker
Wow. So for the first like 85 episodes, I'm really impressed that you were able to get a 2010 Sony VIO to run fucking windows 10.
00:02:44
Speaker
Yeah, it was one of those things where like it asked me every day, I've used this machine since we've pretty much since we've started recording. And then finally, it was just like, no, like you cannot skip like your when your machine is updating whether you like it or not. And then it was like useless for four hours or whatever. And it's fine. Hey, man, the fact it's still working.
00:03:13
Speaker
At this point you, you know, you could just go to Costco and get a laptop. Yeah, but we'll see. This is still better than. We'll talk offline about it. I was using my work. I was using my Deloitte laptop for recordings, actually, now that I think about it for a while.
00:03:41
Speaker
But at least we got a show running here, you know? Um, and it's great to be back. I miss doing this. Although it was nice to have a break. Yeah. Same. We haven't taken a long break for a long while. I feel like winter is a good break time just cause there's not much going on. Yeah. And now we got a bunch of shit to catch up on too.
00:04:12
Speaker
We left off on doing commentary on those, uh, great America videos. Well, I mean, and since you brought up great America, I'll take a chance right now or chance I'll take the opportunity right now to remind everyone we're going to have a great America meetup in June.
Theme Park Meetup Plans
00:04:32
Speaker
Six flags, great America. Now it's at the point where it's actually close.
00:04:40
Speaker
Right. I know we're, um, you know, five months away, a little bit less. So, um, that is June. I want to say 15th, but give me a second. Uh, that is going to be June 16th through the 18th.
00:05:02
Speaker
16 through the 18th and we will also be there was some chatter about this on our discord. I wanted to answer this because there were some questions. Yes, we are still having any Northern California, California's Great America meetup. The dates for that are September 15th through the 17th. So couple months apart, we're doing two meetups this year. Our meetup in Northern California, barring some
00:05:33
Speaker
whatever, uh, should have ride this one participating and co-hosting. But, um, you know, regardless, you know, Ben and I are going to be throwing a meetup at each great America this year. So come hang out. That's all of them. That's damn right. Every great America that there is, we're going to be having a meetup at.
00:06:05
Speaker
And pretty soon, that'll just be one. Q, Q, James Huttfield, sad but true. But no, it's good. Oh, sorry, didn't mean to steamroll you real quick. I just wanted to say that we got brought up on our discord. If that was still happening, it is still happening.
00:06:33
Speaker
There's two meetups this year. Try to make it to both. You'll get a sticker if you do. We don't really have stickers. We'll make sure you get a special prize if you come to both. We'll know if you're there. The one at Six Flags Great America, we're doing our live podcast at the Belvedere Cinema as well. So make sure you come out for that.
00:07:04
Speaker
Yeah, and I guess we'll look into possibly Mount Olympus as well. People are interested. That's on the table. I think that'd be pretty fun too. Absolutely. Yeah, I think that's on the table, certainly. That's going to depend on, I think, who shows up, what the interest level is.
00:07:32
Speaker
You know, we're on host duty, so I prefer the democratic approach to things. If it's a group consensus, then I say we do it. Or you know what, we could split up if that's needed too. Our meetups are pretty open, is what I'm trying to say. The last one in November,
00:07:59
Speaker
When we were all on the strip in fucking Pigeon Forge, we ended up splitting up a bit. And then everybody got back together at night for the fucking party, and it was great. Yeah, so Ben, we've been gone for a month.
00:08:30
Speaker
It feels like it's been about a month. It's been a little longer, actually, probably about five weeks. Yeah. So but why don't we go ahead? You first. Let's catch everybody up with what we've been doing. So it did a little Christmas road trip where we drove to Amarillo.
00:08:59
Speaker
which is the closest I'll probably ever be to the national roller coaster museum. It's only a 45 minutes away, but because they're not open to the public, um, did not go. Did you tell them you were with your favorite coaster sucks? No, I didn't even try to contact. I, I was just kind of pessimistic about it. I'm like, they're not going to fucking,
00:09:24
Speaker
Either it's you take the angle of from your favorite coaster sucks and possibly get a no, or you're just a nobody and possibly get a no. So I didn't even try. Well, you could tell him you're from your favorite coaster sucks and definitely get a no, or you could just say you're some asshole and definitely get a no. Yeah.
00:09:52
Speaker
There wasn't, I did have an itch to just like drive past it and take a picture of the outside. Um, but an hour and a half of driving though, it's kind of a little excessive for that being that it's just a shed. You know, it's, I really wonder if it's got like a sign on it though. Um, it's probably like a, it's probably like a really small sign just right like above the door. It's a piece of, it's a piece of paper with a Sharpie.
00:10:23
Speaker
just as like museum. I want to see if there's like a exit sign on the highway. Doubt it. He's in pain for that. Or if they would actually, they would raise the money to buy a sign for the highway, but just like not tell anybody how much it actually costs. They're like, we need $50,000 raised for a highway sign.
00:10:53
Speaker
It costs $10,000. Yes, but we need 50. So it was my boyfriend and I. So we had two dogs with us. And then we drove from Amarillo to Branson past Frontier City.
00:11:19
Speaker
Um, no, it was closed obviously. But I was like, look, there's roller coasters. And I'm like, that's a Schwartz cough. And he's just like, okay. Um, and then we, yeah, we went, we got the Branson and I, I was expecting more Christmas shit in Branson, but
00:11:48
Speaker
They have that little downtown area that's got Christmas lights and stuff, but for the most part, Branson is just kind of the same over Christmas. Did you do some praying or country music in? Yeah, so we did try to pray the gay away once we were there. Considered about, considered converting to Christianity. Didn't work though.
00:12:19
Speaker
And then, uh, we ate at this really odd place called like some, something, someone, it's like something's tree house or crazy ice tree house or some shit. Um, and you walk in and they're like, welcome to crazy ice. And then it's like, they give you a shot and they're like, yeah, everybody gets a shot.
00:12:45
Speaker
or it's like if your first time first timers get a free shot or something like that. Um, I don't know. Bizarre. Um, we stayed at this, we stayed at this giant resort, like Chateau on the hill or Chateau on the lake or some shit. Um, which is pretty close to the park. Was it luxurious?
00:13:10
Speaker
Not really. Like maybe for Branson, but they have a, but they have a $160 resort fee, which we were talking about earlier. So of course when you look it up on price line, it's like the cheapest hotel. 30 bucks a night. Oh cool. Yeah. And then they tack on the resort fee, like right as you're checking out. Um,
00:13:36
Speaker
But then yeah, we got to go to silver dollar city during the day. It was fine. Got to meet up with Slater. Um, he grabbed me from the hotel. Um, and then God on all the rides got on time traveler, I'll all run wildfire powder keg, um, whatever they call fire in the hole, blazing fury.
00:14:03
Speaker
I think that's the Tallywood. Right, right. Backwards, other way around. Yeah. Yeah. And then we got a Trimless ride on the mine train. Oh, nice. Which was actually really fun. Because I've ridden it before. But you know that double helix with the tunnel? Yeah. Yeah, that helix Trimless is crazy. So that was pretty fun.
00:14:30
Speaker
Dude, I bet like it seems like that whole ride is downhill somehow, except for the lift. Yeah. Um, Christmas lights are fun, I guess, you know, standard affair. Um, the temperature though, like, so I thought the rides open at a certain temperature and they'll stay open, but they were pretty strict about temperatures. So, um, we got on everything, which we're basically going for rerides.
00:15:01
Speaker
we were in line for powder keg and then it went down because it hit 42 and then we were in line for, um, what was it? Oh yeah. Time traveler. And then it went down. So they're pretty strict about like the temperature, but, um, we got a night ride on our run in the fucking cold, which is great. Um,
00:15:26
Speaker
Yeah, that's a fun park. Like, I don't know. I wish it was more accessible because I'd like to go there more often. But the, uh, their holiday event is pretty good. Wasn't too crowded. Okay. Yeah. I've been curious about that. Then, um, drove up to Wisconsin, somehow missed the giant snow storm. I don't know how the fuck like,
00:15:54
Speaker
We, we like just missed it going to Wisconsin and then we just missed it. Like it just ended when we left. Um, but what was crazy. So we got to Wisconsin. It was like five below 18 inches of snow. Geez. Um, both my parents got COVID. Um, like the day before we got there. Um, so then we decided to get an Airbnb in Milwaukee.
00:16:24
Speaker
Um, but on our, on our drive back though, like we probably passed like hundreds of cars and semis in the ditch that they just abandoned. Um, the storm was so bad. Geez.
00:16:40
Speaker
I don't know how the fuck we missed. Like we missed it both ways and I have no idea cause I wasn't even paying attention to the weather. It was like, oh shit, there's a snow storm. And then we get to Wisconsin and we're looking on the, on the news and it's like, you know, thousands of cars stranded and spun out and like flights are delayed and all that shit. So that's crazy, man. Well, glad you made it safely.
00:17:07
Speaker
Oh, the worst part. So we get back to Denver at like four in the morning because we drove straight from Wisconsin back and one of the dogs got skunked in my backyard. Oh God. So we do this like giant drive fucking exhausted just trying
Travel Adventures
00:17:26
Speaker
to go to bed and then dog gets skunked.
00:17:31
Speaker
And it's one of those things like when it happens, it's like, okay, this is like a four hour ordeal. Like this isn't like, we're not sleeping. So that sucked. Oh man. Yeah. Isn't there some kind of repellent you can get for the skunks?
00:17:50
Speaker
There is, but I mean, skunks are like, they're like trash raccoons still. They don't give a shit. So I got a, I basically just got a fixed offense. So. Okay. Cause I was going to say, I know your dog got skunked before. Yeah. And I killed it. I killed the skunk.
00:18:13
Speaker
And I thought it was fine because the skunk was living under the shed. So I killed it. I'm like, OK, it should be good now. But one came from the alley. There was like a whole pack of them in the neighborhood. Oh, man, I was here. I was here my neighbor outside with a paintball gun, like blasting something on his roof. So I was so fucking Colorado. I got to I got to figure something out.
00:18:44
Speaker
Well, it sounds like you had a pretty good trip. Yeah, it was a good trip. Classic road trip. There's no real issues, so. Well, it's good to hear. And then you went to Mexico, right? Yeah, this past weekend went to Cabo, which is a good time.
00:19:11
Speaker
and did a lot of things I normally wouldn't have done on my own. But when you have somebody helping you out, it's makes it a little easier. Um, so we stayed on like a, one of those like classic boutique hotel kind of places, um, where there's,
00:19:33
Speaker
something you would see in like an influencer, Instagrammer photo. Um, Oh, y'all doing some bougie shit. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so like it was all inclusive. So you could just like order drinks at the pool and stuff. And, uh, did some beach time at some, some oysters, some good seafood, lots of drinks.
00:20:04
Speaker
And then we had like a private yacht rental. So we got to go out on the water and snorkel and somebody made us fajitas and daiquiris while we were on the boat. So yeah, it was a good time. It's not, I've never done anything like that before. But when I was, when I was on the yacht though, I had a, like a kind of a epiphany. I was like,
00:20:32
Speaker
Imagine those billionaires, like a Jeffrey Epstein or a Bill Clinton, maybe Bill Clinton. One more thing, the Microsoft got Bill Gates. I was like, once you own a yacht and you're out on the water every day and you have nothing to worry about, the pipeline of yacht ownership to human trafficking is very short.
00:21:02
Speaker
I was like, because if you have a yacht and that's your life, you're kind of like, what else do I have to do? I'm bored. I need a thrill. I can do whatever the fuck I want. So yeah, dude, there's a lot of like, you could tell there's just a lot of like fucking big ass yachts of rich ass people out there in the water.
00:21:24
Speaker
Well that got extremely dark quickly and also let's make sure Ben doesn't get yacht money.
00:21:33
Speaker
I'm not saying I'm gonna do that. Sure, yeah. He was just like, the pipeline from yacht ownership to human trafficking. Can we play the tape back? I'm just saying you're a billionaire. You can do whatever the fuck you want. You're doing coke on a yacht. You're like, what's next? What's next? I can get away with anything.
00:22:02
Speaker
I don't think, I mean, I don't think you have to be a billionaire to do coke on a yacht. No, but I'm saying if you're a billionaire, like, but my point is, is like, okay, for like us peasants, right? Like being on a yacht for a few hours is like a luxury, right? But if you're that rich and that you need, that's just your life, right? You're like, I'm just going to buy a yacht with my pocket change, you know? And, uh, you're all drugged up. I don't know.
00:22:32
Speaker
You're doing some shady business deals. You're in Mexico. I'm just saying, I see how the industry happens and why those people get involved because those people are probably just bored. I mean, maybe. I'm saying this from a very unfortunate point of view.
00:23:00
Speaker
Headed rich people have like nothing to worry about. Must be fucking nice. Just start your own Amazon. It's that easy. All you need is a garage, an idea, and like $10 million from your parents. It's easy. Some property in Northern California. Yep.
00:23:29
Speaker
Well, it sounds like you had a hell of a break. Yeah, it was a good time. It's kind of it. There is one other thing we did recently. I can't remember. The break is kind of a blur. Anyway, what about you? What about your break?
00:24:00
Speaker
Oh man, it was fucking awesome. We went out to Vegas and we, just by happenstance, our flight from Chicago to Vegas was the day before that giant snowstorm. So we left that night in the snow. We knew the snow was coming in that next morning.
00:24:22
Speaker
Oh shit. Yeah. It's like perfect timing. We checked in and United wanted us. They're like, Oh, you know, you could change to a flight tomorrow, but it was no price difference. It wasn't like we got any kind of refund. It was like, Nope. Yeah. So we made it out there. Stay the night at a Harris. Just one night, which is pretty good. Enjoyed Harris.
00:24:53
Speaker
Have you been the Harris before? I've like walked through it, but never stayed there. Yeah, it was nice. It was, um, our room had a view of the high roller Ferris wheel. Nice. Gaming floor was all right. A little small, but not bad. Then we stayed at Mirage.
00:25:22
Speaker
Um, we were, we, we were scheduled only stay at Mirage for like two days, but we extended it because, uh, Ryan's mom had like a sore throat. We were going to stay with her, but we were like, uh, she's got, she might have COVID and we got COVID back in September. So I was like, no, let's not mess with that. Like we'll just stay in the hotel for a few extra days. Um, so we saw Adele.
00:25:54
Speaker
That was fucking amazing. That was an incredible show. Amazing production. Sound was fantastic. Venue was nice. Just all around. Great show. My only minor gripe at the Adele show.
00:26:22
Speaker
She did not play chasing pavements. Is that a. So whatever. It's what it's from 19, like our first album. So, but, you know, can't complain too much. We got those tickets at face value when they first went on sale.
00:26:47
Speaker
And face value first on sale is not what they were charging at the box office. Mind you. Um, cause they were charging like 230 a ticket for the seats we are in and we were like the very last row. Oh sure. We, we paid less than half of that. Probably about a half with the fees per ticket. No, it's fucking cool. Yeah, this is great. Um,
00:27:15
Speaker
So we stayed at Mirage and it had just been taken over by Hard Rock, the ownership. So that was a little clunky, but we did get $100 FNB credit, which is nice.
00:27:35
Speaker
And because of the stay and a little bit of play that got registered there, got a $60 credit for Hard Rock when we were dining later on on the trip, which is cool.
Theme Park Challenges
00:27:50
Speaker
So then we went to California. We stopped at Prim on the way to go to Buffalo Bills.
00:28:02
Speaker
And that's when I got to go check out Desperado. Yeah, I saw the pictures. So it's reopening in March.
00:28:15
Speaker
I'm not putting a whole lot of stock into that. And I'll tell you why not just because of what I showed in those pictures, which I'll get into a little bit. But I also pretty much bought them out of stock of what they had left of Desperado merchandise, which, by the way, we got shirts. And they are going to our patrons. So we'll be arranging that shortly. Some prizes for the patrons.
00:28:44
Speaker
Um, if you want to be eligible, go on to patreon.com slash your favorite coaster sucks. Sign up just at starting at just $1 a month. We're going to put the names in the randomizer and pull one out. So everybody is equally eligible. No matter your donation amount. What, uh, what are the zest broader shirts? Are they good? What do they look like? They are really cool designs. Only problem with them is they only had a size small.
00:29:15
Speaker
So we only have size small shirts to give away, but it's a shirt. It can be used to, um, well, back patch, right. Or, you know, it's like a navy blue. You could probably put it onto like a sweatshirt. Yeah. Or if you're a small person, if you wear a size small,
00:29:47
Speaker
Or you could frame it. I don't know. There's a lot of options. Point is, yes, we pretty much bought them out of stock of merchandise. Now, we didn't do that immediately. We made two trips there. The first one, when I posted that picture, we bought a couple things, including those shirts. Then when we were coming back from California, we made a second stop. That's when I bought out the rest of the merchandise, basically. So,
00:30:16
Speaker
I talked to an employee in the gift shop there when I was buying the merchandise and they made it seem like basically what's going on is that the owners of Buffalo Bills either are unwilling or unable to hire mechanics to get the ride to be able to pass state inspection.
00:30:48
Speaker
I mean, I guess that makes sense. You probably need, I'm just thinking about it from a cost perspective. Like they probably have like at least seven full-time people just for that ride. I'm sure it requires at least like two mechanics full-time at a bare minimum. And then like,
00:31:13
Speaker
four part time operators and one full time like operations manager. So yeah, you're right. Probably about seven people, but also, um, you know, the budget of maintenance itself.
00:31:36
Speaker
which no matter how you price the ride. Now, our buddy Brandon, who's from Vegas, speculated that it has to do, you know, there's that safety tag on the panel that says the ride has been deemed unsafe by the state.
00:32:00
Speaker
And Brandon speculated that they just don't have the money to clear that up with the state. Because who knows what kind of paperwork needs to be filed and what fees are associated with that. Because the big thing to remember is that like, really, it's twofold. One is that.
00:32:26
Speaker
Buffalo bills just reopened on December 23rd. Yeah. I mean, it's pretty recent. I guess opening that ride is probably not a priority. I don't think so. It's not, it's not, and it's not the end of times for the ride necessarily. It's, I mean, it's likely, but
00:32:50
Speaker
It's probably not even on the table for at least until they get caught up from COVID. I'll tell you a couple of things on the plus side. Now, um, I'm, I was able to make my way up to the loading platform and I can tell you a couple of things. One, there is one train onsite confirmed.
00:33:19
Speaker
No sign of a second train anywhere. Yeah. I think they had like, is it a blue train and a pink train? I think so. Blue train still there. Blue train is in the safety break behind the loading station, uh, with the roll door leading to that safety brake, uh, seal closed.
00:33:44
Speaker
And it appeared that the shop the maintenance shop was pretty much empty Which is you know kind of to be expected however Everything else in the station looked completely ready to like basically everything looked like it was fine just from my Perspective you know
00:34:15
Speaker
Everything looked about the same as it did when we last wrote it in 2009. So I can say the log flume is definitely done. There's no water in any of it, and there was a couple logs just sitting on the ground in the station.
00:34:43
Speaker
like in the trough, but on the floor of the trough. Yeah. I'm sure that, I'm sure that concrete has a leak somewhere or something. Sure. But also it's like, it's gotta be like a swimming pool where like it's meant to have water. So if it doesn't, it's bad for, you know what I mean? At least for extended periods. Cause I understand like the off season and stuff, but like,
00:35:12
Speaker
At a certain point, no water's got to be damaging just for that concrete, you know? Well, I feel like it'd probably be maybe okay. I think I would be probably like pumps because pumps require constant maintenance. There's probably a lot of pumps on that. So just like one pump being broken. It's probably a lot of money.
00:35:38
Speaker
Yeah, so I wouldn't put a whole lot of hope into Desperado. It's I would say it's confirmed that the log flume is done. But the thing is, I also wouldn't say that Desperado is done done. I mean, I guess it can't be it probably can't be confirmed for at least like another six months if they just reopened.
00:36:06
Speaker
Well, here's the thing, that safety lockout tag was from 2019. Oh, okay. But, I thought that's maybe the last time there was reports of it testing, or no, it's tested since then, I thought maybe. No, no, not.
00:36:34
Speaker
Um, I, I, okay. I was going to say, I don't remember it specifically, but I thought there was a tweet out there saying that someone saw it testing. Yeah. It's definitely possible that it tested since then it's
00:36:55
Speaker
Like here's the thing. It doesn't really matter when it got locked out. If they test it, then that, I would say that's even more hopeful that it's possibly going to reopen. Cause why else would they be testing it ever? You know, Maybe it was just a retry. They're like, well, we failed 2019. We haven't done anything. Let's just, they'll come out for free. Let's just retest it and see what happens.
00:37:25
Speaker
It's kind of like, have you ever, have you ever like not studied for a test in high school and you failed it and then you did a makeup test and you did just as bad on the makeup or on the retake? You're like, well, at least I didn't try. The worst is getting a lower score on the retake. And I got a fuck.
00:37:55
Speaker
Yeah. Um, it wouldn't surprise me if that ride has like hairline fractures all over it or something, something weird to the foundation. Yeah, I'm sure it's not in good shape. The property itself was not in good shape. Um,
00:38:19
Speaker
You know, Prim is an odd area and the 15 gets crazy backed up there now, too. But I do wish the best of luck to Buffalo Bills. And I hope to see the coast to reopen, but based off of what that
00:38:46
Speaker
Lady in the shop told me because it seemed like she'd been working there for a while. Like since Desperado had operated. That and the stuff in the station, I would say not super likely. So, yeah, we made our way to California. We hit Magic Mountain. It was really busy and a whole fuckload of rides were closed.
00:39:18
Speaker
Like most everything was fucking closed. Aren't all their B&Ms closed right now? Batman was running, but we didn't go on it. Scream, I think, was running, but we didn't go on it. Riddler's was down. Tatsu was running, but we didn't go on it. What did you guys, uh, what'd you guys ride?
00:39:44
Speaker
Here's, here's everything, right? Uh, Ninja, we did row four. It's a good time. That's a good ride. I think it's really underrated. Yeah. Like, I mean, it's definitely the best existing suspended maybe between that. I agree with them doing that. And, uh, actually vortex of Canada is one early and it's pretty good too. That is pretty good.
00:40:12
Speaker
Yeah, I like, I like both of those. Um, we did apocalypse in row 10. It was fucking hauling few good pops of air time. That's good. Cause the last time I wrote it, it was so bad. It was slow as shit. There was like no air time on it.
00:40:34
Speaker
So that's interesting. Well, here's the deal. It was, um, it was like raining both of our park days in California. Oh, that's probably good for the ride. Yeah. Yeah. They didn't have the misters on or anything. So I think that definitely helped. Um, we got on wonder woman and I was in row seven. So
00:41:02
Speaker
It was lacking air time in the Hills and, um, was lacking laterals in the terms. It was pretty disappointing for a Raptor. Not going to lie. Yeah, that's what I keep hearing. Um, I mean, was it, I guess it, I mean, it probably is a completely different ride experience than, uh,
00:41:29
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than the other ones. I mean, is there like, I mean, are there like positive G's or is there anything memorable? Uh, here's what stood out to me. Of course, first drop was great. That was really good. But then like basically it runs. It's like, it's almost, it doesn't run fast enough for being a Raptor. Cause like in the transitions,
00:41:58
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You know how like Wonder Woman at Fiesta Texas, it like fucking whips you. Instead of doing that, it like ends up doing like almost like a B and M shuffle type of deal where it like jank goes through. Yeah. Right. Like like picture in your head, like there's a very iconic shot of like Batman, the ride going through one of the corkscrews.
00:42:27
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And you can see the train like switching angles. Yeah. Like it's being jerked from one angle to another kind of, you know what I'm talking about? Yeah, yeah. It's that it's because those corkscrews are like flat spins. Right. So it's like the radius changes, I think, or like the radius changes twice, I think it like. Yeah, I know what you're talking about.
00:42:57
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So basically the transitions, all the transitions on there have that at least the high ones, the ones that are at like lower speed, you know.
00:43:09
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And so instead of like getting like a real whip or air time or anything, you're kind of just like, Oh, I'm like chunk chunk. And then through the inversion or whatever, you know? Yeah. They probably had to tone it down for those long ash trains. But I think that long as it's almost like, um, probably rides like a Tivoli.
00:43:35
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with the super long train, like the one at the one of them all of America. I mean. I would like to try it again in either the front or the back. Because obviously sevens like dead center. But you know, on that ride, you just get what you get.
00:44:03
Speaker
And I suppose we could have let people go in front of us, but we're a group of three. So that was a little tricky to try and figure that out. Right. Yeah. So, um, you know, not a bad ride, but definitely disappointing with the precedent of, uh, the wonder woman at Fiesta Texas.
00:44:33
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So we got on West Coast Racers. Zenro one. Some good air time, good ride, good hang time. My brother-in-law and my wife rode Justice League Battle for Metropolis. I skipped because I wasn't feeling so hot. Sounds like you got to start taking a Dramamine. Yeah, I didn't take any that day.
00:45:03
Speaker
So I was like, I'm going to pass on the screen ride, you know? Um, then we rode gold rusher at night, which was really fun. Um, we had all been puffing a vape that I brought with. So we were all definitely feeling pretty good. Nice. Something about night rides, you know, you're in that bright mindset.
00:45:36
Speaker
Oh, for sure. So then we were like looking at a store, right? And I came upon, because it was holiday in the park still, these like glasses, they look like the glasses that you normally get, like at like Meow Wolf, where it makes the light, like the light refracting ones. Right. Yeah. But I put them on and I realized these were not just light reflected refractive classes.
00:46:06
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They made gingerbread and snowmen appear where the lights were. So I bought three pairs because there's three different kinds. There's gingerbread, snowmen, and snowflakes. And they worked with all the different Christmas lights.
00:46:29
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And me and my wife and my brother-in-law stood there with these glasses on for about five minutes in the midway, just staring at lights going like, Oh my God, look over there. Look at those gingerbread men. It was great. And it was like one of my favorite recent memories at a theme park. Yeah, I can imagine that.
00:46:57
Speaker
Yeah, those glasses are, um, yeah, I know what you're talking about because, uh, Cedar Point used to sell those data. We're all like turning our heads to make them dance and shit. It was so funny. Oh yeah. Was, um, the Tatsu have those, uh, those led lights in the wheels. Not that I saw.
00:47:30
Speaker
Those are the fucking sky tower was closed. I don't know if that thing's ever going to open again. Yeah. I mean, probably not. It's probably pain in the ass to operate. I just really want to ride it. But also like it's just an elevator. Yeah, but it's at the top of the mountain.
00:47:56
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No, I mean like I see the view. All right. I mean, like I was thinking like maybe it's a weird maintenance thing, but at the same time, it's like it is just an elevator. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's an elevator, but, you know, and. Yeah, the can't win them all. We've heard the thing I've never been called to. I was just like, I was just going to say the it's weird how a lot of those are close because like I've never been in the one in the village.
00:48:28
Speaker
Like I don't think it's been open since like the nineties. Weird. I mean, I've been on the one at six legs over Texas. Yeah. And the, um, the Kings Island Kings Dominion parks are still going. I haven't been on those ones. I gotta do those.
00:48:58
Speaker
So, um, yeah, that was magic mountain day. It was fun. Good times. We were there pretty much open to close without leaving, which I haven't done at a park in a long time, like even leaving. Well, you know how the parking lot is there to go to the car. That's not a viable option at magic mountain. Yeah, it's not too close.
00:49:26
Speaker
No, and you can't really like leave the parking lot. And forget walking from the park down to that next road like no way. But yeah, it was pretty cool. So the next day we did not. And it was like, raining. Like it was drizzling a little bit on Magic Mountain Day in the morning.
00:49:53
Speaker
It definitely what you would call a rainy day in California. But, you know, not terrible. Not stay was straight up raining. Like the whole day. But despite that. Everybody in Southern California was still there. So crowded with closed rides.
00:50:24
Speaker
Uh, well, the rides weren't, they were closing intermittently due to the weather. Um, so first thing we ended up going for was Jaguar, because it was like hour and a half to two plus hours for everything. So we're like, all right, we bought fast lanes.
00:50:54
Speaker
Because it was like, all right, let's just cough up the fucking money. Otherwise, this is going to be miserable with the rain and the crowds. So we're like, cool, let's do Jaguar. We go to Jaguar. We all take our own row, which is that's the trick, apparently.
00:51:18
Speaker
Okay. Jaguar. Yeah. You know, because that's, they're pretty tight seats. So you ride in your own row as an adult and that's, it's much better. Uh, also they are tearing the fuck out of the Fiesta village over there that they're building. And, uh, Montezuma's was like, there's a whole pieces of track just gone. Now we were getting off of, uh,
00:51:46
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Jaguar standing there figuring out the next ride to go to and a rides employee comes up and says, Hey, are you Zach? And I say, yeah. And turns out he's a listener to the show. So huge shout out to Garrett who works at Jaguar. Um. Yeah, that was cool. Always love to meet a listener in the wild, you know.
00:52:13
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Um, so we did ghost, ghost rider to back row. Um, great lats. Pretty solid. Um, then we did ghost rider in the front. Fucking great air time and also great lats. Um, and then it still was raining. Um, hang time was down. Accelerator was down. Accelerator is just like closed for the whole day.
00:52:43
Speaker
I'm not sure if it's like closed seasonally right now or what the paint job looked. It's it's a paint job. So then finally, we rode silver bullet row eight. A lot of that ride is like better every time I ride it.
00:53:14
Speaker
Uh, sorry, which one silver bullet? Oh yeah. It's not bad. I, I mean that first drop is a disappointment, but it's got some good positive G's. I know the, like that helix and the last, uh, corkscrew are pretty good.
00:53:32
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Yeah. Everything after the loop basically is pretty good. The overbank Cobra roll zero G corkscrew turn corkscrew. He likes all of that. Shit's good. It's like, I don't know. I used to think like shit, this red so weak, but it's really just the first drop. Yeah. That first drop is so weird.
00:54:03
Speaker
I wonder why that, I wonder why they did that. Yeah, it's definitely odd, but I mean, rest of the ride's really cool. Yeah. I like it more every time I ride it. I'll put it that way. It's kind of in that sweet spot between old, it's like old B and M, but when they were trying new stuff,
00:54:29
Speaker
Yeah. It's before they got really swooshy, but like the start of the swooshiness. Yeah. It's also weird how silent that coaster is. It is. It must be full of sand. Yeah. It's a sand coaster. Hybrid. Hey, can we take a bathroom break?
00:54:55
Speaker
Bathroom break. All right, here's a pause for you all to go take a leak and listen to an ad. Aha, we're back. That was a good one. Hope you enjoyed rocking that piss. Or whatever the fuck you were doing. It was good. Welcome back to your favorite coaster socks, Ben. How was that shit? It was great.
00:55:28
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Uh, uh, seven of 10. Yeah. It wasn't quite like a top two, but feeling good now. Remember that time at Disney California adventure. Yeah. So
00:55:56
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We made our way back to Vegas just in time for New Year's Eve. And we decided to go try out staying downtown. So we stayed at the historic Hotel Apache in Binions.
00:56:18
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And that was fucking OK. Fremont on New Year's is probably the wildest fucking thing I've ever seen. Is it pretty? Is there a lot of people out there? Like it was like elbow to elbow packed people. Good, good mood, though. Good vibes. We saw the whalers, Julie and Marley and the whalers. Oh, cool. Yeah, it was awesome.
00:56:48
Speaker
And then the drinks hit pretty hard and Rhianne had to get to sleep pretty early. I mean, the bartender, we got our first drinks and the bartender poured us like doubles and we didn't really have dinner. So I think. It's New Year's Eve, it's Vegas. Anyway, we stayed at the the hotel Apache for a couple days there downtown.
00:57:19
Speaker
downtown's fucking cool. If you go to Vegas, even in downtown Vegas, right? Yeah. Fremont street experience. Um, the el Cortez has fucking coin slots, man. What do you mean? It's like you put coins in and it gives you coins when you win. Oh, I gotcha.
00:57:48
Speaker
Oh, it's, it, it's really cool. Yeah. Back with like a bucket of coins, like a bucket of quarters. Yeah. Yeah. Except now they don't have quarters. It's they had dollar coins. Yeah.
00:58:13
Speaker
But it's like, it's cool. Cause there's one bank of machines basically at the El Cortez and they're all dollar machines, dollar coins, but the max bet one pay line is two bucks. Like I got it. I hit 80 bucks on one of them at one point. And then, um, we saw a lady get a hand pay on one.
00:58:42
Speaker
What do you mean a hand pay? Um, like if you win above usually 1200 bucks and the tenant has to come pay you, especially on a coin. Cause the coins don't have the ticket and ticket out.
00:59:03
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Oh, and as it as if if if it wasn't already pretty clear from this whole thing, apparently, much like you're an elevator enthusiast, I found out I'm a gaming enthusiast. Like what kind of gaming? Primarily slots, but. I'm looking into giving video poker a try.
00:59:33
Speaker
I think the payouts are better. So we stayed a couple of days with my mother-in-law and we were going to come back to Chicago, but then wouldn't you know it, I got an email from New York, New York that we could stay a week for about 200 bucks.
00:59:59
Speaker
So we decided we'd stay a week. Yeah, that's cool. Did you, uh, ride the coaster? No. Have you been wanting to have you been on with the new trains? No. Haven't been on since, uh, since my wedding. I wanted to, um,
01:00:25
Speaker
But like the couple of times we had an opportunity to, Rhianne wasn't feeling up for it. And I didn't really want to go by myself, you know, for 20 bucks or whatever. So it's like, nah, it's not a huge deal. I got the credit. It's not a new credit with a new train, just to be clear.
01:00:49
Speaker
Um, but we did, we did see the new Cirque Show at New York, New York, that replaced Zumanity, which I had seen, um, called Mad Apple, which was really fun. Mad Apple. You ever seen a shirt? Yeah. You ever seen any of the Cirque shows? No. Dude, really?
01:01:18
Speaker
There's a lot I haven't seen. I've never like, I don't dislike live entertainment, but it's just never been a thing for me. Well, you really should. Not necessarily just Cirque, but yeah, live entertainment. I saw love at first fright though.
01:01:50
Speaker
And it was lovely Let's see, do we do anything else of note? Yeah more gaming
01:02:08
Speaker
Stopped at every casino on the strip and left some money all over the place. I mean, I don't know.
01:02:29
Speaker
We're trying to plan another one back to Vegas cause we got players club cards everywhere and we got mailers coming in now. So hopefully comp nights send us some comp nights. Yeah. I suppose it's one of those things where if you play into that long enough, it's, um, it's like genius marketing towards a lot of people that are probably like legitimate gambling addicts. Like they're just trying to,
01:03:00
Speaker
They're just trying to throw out fish hooks to get you back. Oh yeah. Whereas like I enjoy gaming, but I don't have a big budget for it. I try to be as efficient as possible though for getting comps. Yeah. So come on bet your house.
01:03:25
Speaker
The 40 K you save this 40 K you save your kids college. Fuck it. Video poker. They're like, your kid's not going to college. You know that. But they they'll do cash advances at the cashier there, dude, or not even at the cashier at the fucking ATMs. Yeah, I accidentally did one once.
01:03:53
Speaker
Damn. I thought I was doing a rig. I thought I was doing a regular withdrawal and uh, yeah, I did a cash advance on like a shitty credit card or the high interest rate. Oh shit. I mean, it wasn't that bad. I just paid it off, but the fee was still like, I think it was only for 60 bucks too. I like tried taking out 60 bucks with ended up being a cash advance. And I think it was still like a $25 fee.
01:04:24
Speaker
Plus there's like an ATM fee in Vegas. It's like 10 bucks almost everywhere. Yeah. Yeah. It sounds about right. Hey, but when you're drunk, right? Or you're like gaming really hard and you're like losing and you're like, I just got to bet more. Yeah.
01:04:53
Speaker
I'll win it back. I mean, I'm sure there's probably like lots of people like that. Yeah. Oh, I mean, I feel like gambling is a pretty big issue. That's why like, like Vegas is just a facade to like funnel gambling addicts from the rest of the country. They're like, Hey, it's for families, but we know what you're going to do when your wife and kids go to bed.
01:05:23
Speaker
You're going to bet that car. I mean, I feel like Vegas is kind of like. Trying to reinvent itself, though, for like our generation. Yeah, because they know like this, the past generation is very sad. Rascals and oxygen tanks.
01:05:53
Speaker
people chain smoking their retirement away. That's what I'm saying. Like Park MGM, formerly Monte Carlo, that's, that's the first smoke free property on the strip. Yeah, actually it's probably going to go that way pretty quick. Like I could see them going smoke free like within the next few years and then
01:06:24
Speaker
There will only be a couple like smokers resorts left. I feel like casinos will basically make it because they already a bunch of them already have like non-smoking areas on the floor. I feel like they'll probably just flip it and make like certain areas, smoking areas.
01:06:49
Speaker
Like on the casino floor, it'll still be indoors so you could still sit at a slot machine and smoke a cigarette, but it'll only be in like one particular gaming section. I always find the smoking law really hilarious how it's still it basically only applies to casinos. In the in the mentality behind that is like
01:07:16
Speaker
If people have to get up and break from their habit while they're gambling, we're going to make less money. Yep. That's exactly it. Especially cause in Vegas, those casinos on the strip are the huge ones with the confusing layouts. So like if you have to walk all the way outside to go smoke a cigarette, you're never coming back in. Yeah.
01:07:53
Speaker
But yeah, dude, it also, it got me thinking a lot about how we need to do a meetup in Vegas at some point. Yeah, it'd be fun. Maybe maybe 2024 or something. Yeah.
01:08:23
Speaker
or like over the winter. I don't know. Even if it's a smaller one. Yeah. Cause I mean, granted there's not a huge amount of actual coasters there. Um, but if you're over 21, there's plenty of shit to do. Yeah. Maybe, maybe we'll try and, uh, arrange for that.
01:08:55
Speaker
Let's, let's call it maybe tentatively like February 24. Sounds good. It's just over a year away. Yeah. I mean, we got two coming up this year. And just so we're clear on that, everybody, we won't be adding any more to the schedule in 2023. We're going to try out two.
01:09:27
Speaker
And yeah, maybe that'll be like an off season when we can do. Now the question is where, where, where would be the best strip hotel for us to have a meetup? Cause I think getting a room block would be the best way to go. I don't know. Probably can't go wrong.
01:09:58
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I don't know, man. I like, I feel like maybe ex caliber or just New York, New York. Cause there's a roller coaster there that could work too. Stay in one of the towers. Hey, do you remember what floor you stayed on with John for the wedding? I don't remember what floor, but, uh, I mean, it was basically at the, at the lift till the coaster.
01:10:29
Speaker
at the top or how far or like what how high up. I couldn't tell you maybe like. We were basically like at the top height of the roller coaster, maybe a little. OK, that's what I thought. You were like 20th floor or something. Yeah. Because we had one room on the fourth floor that I got as a comp night.
01:11:00
Speaker
And we had booked a whole week there, but it was booked as one comp night plus the rest of the week. And they called me all rude the next day after the comp night, like, when are you checking out? I'm like, uh, on Friday.
01:11:17
Speaker
They're like, are you extending your reservation? So we get into this whole thing. I had to go down there and they sent us up to the 19th floor instead of the shitty room we were in on the fourth floor, which had been just renovated like within the past two months. That's cool. Yeah, dude. And our view was about equal with the top of the lift hill, just slightly under it.
01:11:46
Speaker
And I was trying to remember that room you guys had for the wedding. It was, it was very similar to the one we were in, I think just probably, you know, down the floor. Yeah, it was probably mid twenties. I have a, I could probably find a picture, but yeah, I just remember it was like right at the height of the lift Hill.
01:12:15
Speaker
And that trip was good. Yeah. It was kind of cool. I mean, you know, being there during COVID, it was like weird and like dead. It's a weird time. It was, but it still was like, it was like an odd time, but it was like everyone that was there was a hundred percent Vegas, you know, like so on board for being there.
01:12:49
Speaker
Like I remember, I don't know. We're all hanging out going pretty hard in the suite. But yeah, I think doing a meetup there would be fun. Get a room block.
01:13:19
Speaker
I bet we could arrange ERT too. Yeah, probably. Well, we could just do a fake marriage. Right? What's your next thing? Your next trip?
01:13:50
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I honestly have nothing scheduled until the Northern California meetup. Nice. Other than, you know, we're doing the grid six flags here in America made up here in June. I might try to get back to Vegas. Seeing as the mother-in-law is out there.
01:14:18
Speaker
Yeah, I think the next coaster or ride is probably going to be primordial. If that, if that opens this year, I think it, I think it's supposed to. Is it? Yeah. I think I don't know. They've been building it for like 10 years now. I know. It's been forever.
01:14:47
Speaker
So, um, a couple of things happened while we were away. Oh, 2023. Yeah. It was open this year. Oh, nice. Well, hopefully that does happen and you get on there. Now, um,
01:15:17
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Did you see, see their point tweet about dragster? Yeah, I did with their, uh, the baby I'm ready to the go song. So phallic, such a phallic tweet that video. Yeah. I don't, I mean, it sounds like, I don't know. I believe the rumors, probably a three car train limb launch. I don't know. Re theme of the area.
01:15:52
Speaker
Now it's going to be Dragster's 23rd birthday this year, or 20th. Isn't that kind of funny? Yeah. Before I forget, I also saw a tweet that was, or I think it was on Reddit maybe, and it was like, more time has passed between, or no, Raging Bull is older.
01:16:20
Speaker
Then the park was old when they built raging bowl. I hate you and I hate everybody and everything and shut the fuck up. Seriously. I hate that though. Make it stop.
01:16:50
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No time. Fickle mistress. So here was some big shit that happened. Universal announced they're going to have a new park in Texas and a new haunt horror experience in Vegas. That sounds cool. I wonder, um,
01:17:16
Speaker
I feel like Texas needs more parks. I mean, they have the population and the climate. Yeah, I mean, Kota Land is going to open eventually, hopefully. Also amazing to see Universal planting a flag in Texas because like. I kind of would have thought Disney would have done that first, but.
01:17:45
Speaker
Guess not. Yeah. Disney could go to Texas too. They still could. Yeah. Wasn't that a thing? Wasn't that like a, like a, one of those like anti-woke Florida things where they're like, or were like Texas invited Disney to move to Texas or something?
01:18:14
Speaker
No, that was during covid and it was like all the companies were moving from California to Texas. So it was like Disneyland's going to move to Texas. Excuse me.
01:18:37
Speaker
Well, it'll be interesting to see those. I'm especially excited about, um, the year round Halloween horror nights park in Vegas.
Theme Park Announcements
01:18:46
Speaker
Yeah, it seemed, and well, I was just going to say too. Oh, so it's year round. Nice. Yeah. Yeah. It's going to be at the same complex area 15. Yeah. It currently has, um, meow Wolf's Omega Mart. Okay.
01:19:05
Speaker
I was going to say though, like I'm surprised universal hasn't expanded their Halloween horn nights because they could open up like a few individual houses. Like they could probably put one in like Chicago or Los Angeles or something. Yeah. I mean, it would be cool if they had like a pop up horror nights experience.
01:19:30
Speaker
But I think this will be more of a permanent fixture, like almost like a park from the renderings I saw. It looks like basically it'll be like eight to 10 areas for scares for mazes that can be changed out. OK, so it's going to be like multiple, multiple mazes.
01:19:58
Speaker
Yeah, I think it's gonna be basically like if you put just Halloween horror nights with sans any rides or anything Just made a park just for horror nights Which I think is a great idea in Vegas Being like pretty much right off the strip
01:20:24
Speaker
I was thinking about it, too. It's surprising to me that there's not a theme park in Vegas. I mean, I know there's the the adventure dome, but I mean like a big, big one. Yeah, there's got to be a reason why it doesn't work there. Maybe it's just maybe it's like like the the people who would go the most would be locals and locals would probably just go to like California. I don't know.
01:20:53
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could be that, but I mean, think about it. It's Nevada. All you'd have to do is buy up some of that cheap ass land that's currently like where they filmed the road runner, even if it's like 30 minutes away from the strip and then just offer a free shuttle from the strip. Yeah.
01:21:22
Speaker
Like a free shuttle if you buy a parking mission, you know? Because there was tons of families when we were there. Like with strollers and shit, little kids. Which is so awkward sometimes in Vegas.
01:21:51
Speaker
Well, yeah, I wonder, um, we were talking about it before, but I, it's going to be interesting to see that like transition and decline of the gambling culture. I mean, I think it's always going to be there, but it's definitely like sports betting. Holy shit. That is so much everywhere in Vegas now. Oh, I bet. Every place has some sort of sports book.
01:22:24
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I wonder where you could, I wonder where the McCamey McCamey banner had their bedding location. Oh yeah. That was so, that's so, that's so creepy. That guy, like, I dunno, I'm sure we brought it up before, but there was a haunted house in San Francisco that slowly spiraled into just like a, like a kidnapping
01:22:50
Speaker
Like abuse simulation. What was funny was like it was a house and then it was like a house for small groups. And then it was a house where just like one person would go in. But then it was, there's, then the haunted house wasn't even there and it was literally just like a kidnapping thing with like six kidnappers. And then you'd sign up and have like a weekend of kidnapping. Um, and then they would like,
01:23:19
Speaker
waterboard you and like shove gross food in your mouth and stuff. Fucking torture fantasy camp. Yeah. And they would live stream it the whole thing to a group in Vegas. And then I guess people would like either they would like bet on stuff like, Oh, make her eat the caviar. I'm going to bet that she's not going to puke her. I don't know.
01:23:50
Speaker
How do you, but how would an odds maker make odds for that? That's what I don't get. Yeah. I don't know how those bets would be like laid out like that. I mean, cause anything like that, they're going to need an odds maker to make the odds. And it's like, Oh, I don't know. Do you know her? Do you know what her stomach's like?
01:24:21
Speaker
Oh, man. So we're talking a bit about Disney and Splash Mountain fucking closed now. Yeah, I saw that. Well, I should clarify, one of them is closed now. People, I saw like a post about somebody selling the water.
01:24:51
Speaker
That's a great idea. I mean, if people sell their bathwater. Suppose splash mountains close second. You know, that's a good idea. Combine the two and we can sell like Brer rabbit bathwater. Yeah, I saw that. I saw the videos of like the last rides or whatever.
01:25:21
Speaker
I just, I just laugh whenever I go into the comments about the re-theme. And it's just all like, woke Disney, Democrats, Biden. Right. Cause Biden had something to do with splash mountain. You know, it was,
01:25:50
Speaker
Have you heard about the whole, the whole woke woke M&Ms? Yes. Oh my God. And then like Tucker Carlson has like a 20 minute bit about it. Oh my God. It's so funny. You ever just think, is this the real world?
01:26:20
Speaker
Why don't I just stop buying the M&Ms? If anything, it tells you so much about Fox News demographic of people who just can't put down M&Ms. You know what I mean? You can't just put them... You can't just stop eating. Obviously, M&Ms is not a fucking sponsor of theirs.
01:26:53
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Uh, Disney drops some other news. They're allowing park hopping after two without reservations for pass holders at Disney world and no more hotel parking fees at Disney world. Sweet. So the park hopping for no worries. Okay. So you still have to have a park hopper, but you just don't have to reserve like when you go in. So like,
01:27:24
Speaker
Up until now, it's had to be like you had to have a reservation and start your day at the park where your reservation was to park hop. But now they're making it that after the park hopping time, 2 p.m., you can go in without a reservation, basically.
01:27:44
Speaker
for pass holders. There might have been other stuff I missed. I don't know. I don't have a fucking AP. So I don't keep up to date on every single thing. Don't hate me. I put it out to the Discord. If anyone had any questions and we got two. So you ready for some questions?
01:28:16
Speaker
Uh, good. Uh, Stein, Steen, Stein, they asked, what are some of the wildest things you've seen at a park, whether it be from staff or guests? Shit. There's so many, but I can't think of any now.
01:28:44
Speaker
Kids go into the bathroom at the direction of their parents. Wait, what? Like in the queue line. Oh. And like a kid just takes a piss. You've never seen that? No. I think I've seen it twice. Like just on the ground? Uh, usually like,
01:29:13
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Like it's Superman at Great America, like in that cue block where there's like some grass and trees just like peeing into the grass. And I think maybe a Disney world, same type of thing.
01:29:40
Speaker
Yeah, Disney. I mean, that makes sense at Disney. It doesn't surprise me. Probably that. I'm trying to I'm trying to think. Um.
01:30:12
Speaker
I don't know what something I'm trying to think of something crazy that's happened when we've both been at a park. Oh, when we've both been there. Yeah. Like a funny story. Well, like those people that like cried about not getting the last rule on Raging Bull. Oh, yeah. That was fun.
01:30:41
Speaker
that like our buddy, just like he really wanted to fuck with those people. Yeah. And our, our system was pretty good. Um, we figured it out. I forgot what we did be like, put, I don't remember.
01:31:09
Speaker
That's such a dick move. I think, I think what we did was like, we had six of us in the last row and then the gate would, like we, the gate would open, but only like two of us would go in. You know, you'd like stand halfway as if you were born in the, as the gates were closing, you'd quit like run to the back, like back through the, you know, back through the air gate.
01:31:37
Speaker
And I remember like the first time it happened, she was just like, nice going guys. And then they were all pissed. And then, um, what was funny though too was like rows six, seven, and eight also had like three or four people. So they got this, they had to sit in the middle.
01:31:59
Speaker
Oh, and it was closing day. That's what it was. That's why it was a big deal because we were like, well, they're going to care extra hard about having the last ride in the back on closing day. And then so for closing day, they got stuck in the middle row. Yeah, what a dick move. It is a funny story, but it's also a total dick move. Yeah.
01:32:24
Speaker
Well, there was like, there's kids are like, yeah, that's funny. Yeah. I mean, there was like a group of three of them. Because there was a big boo. Yeah. And Cheeto cunt. Yeah. Whack-a-mole.
01:32:51
Speaker
Remember when we saw Big Boo? I think it was in that video from like 2012 where we were like walking past her and she like shouted. But it was just like, it kind of sounded like a dog barking.
01:33:18
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Oh, yes, I sure do. I was going to look, were there any would you rathers? There are not. I don't think. Let me check. There might be. I don't think so, though. Oh, here we go. Would you rather?
01:33:47
Speaker
have GCI and B and M go bankrupt or have Intamin and S and S go bankrupt. Um, I'll just say B and M and GCI cause their rides are okay. We haven't. I guess Intamin and S and S for me.
01:34:17
Speaker
Cause they don't build a whole lot of stuff anymore. It seems like Intamin's reputation though is getting better. That's true. And Vekoma. Yeah, Vekoma's turn that shit around. Um, SNS though, they can't, I mean, they can't get anything right.
01:34:46
Speaker
No, not since the 40 free spins. Would you rather spend a day with baby or his beard? Um. I don't know.
01:35:13
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probably by be by be definitely. Well, thanks for sending those. Would you rather is in a Lance and Brandon? Um, here's another question we got ribs and bacon. Our buddy, he asked is asa cult.
01:35:37
Speaker
He says, I've been reading up on Scientology a lot and there's a lot of common aspects, especially the treatment of people who question things happening. It's a good observation. I mean, it's, I think it's more of just kind of like a, it's kind of like a high school clique.
01:36:01
Speaker
Ace formed itself, all these people that were there from the beginning are still in it, and they don't want change. So it's kind of like a mean girls club. Yeah, it's a classic old friends group. But instead of something like a podcast, where it is what it is, it is a
01:36:30
Speaker
giant organization that claims itself to be, you know, like a public. Public facing like organization. Honestly, like I don't even know what. I don't know. I mean, we've talked so much shit about it before. But yeah, I mean, there's not a whole lot of new ground to cover here, although I will say this.
01:36:59
Speaker
I've been getting some messages from people curious about the museum. And I think I'll just let it stand as this. Watch the video on our YouTube channel about the museum.
01:37:25
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all the information's there, and the longer it's been since that video's been uploaded that they haven't opened, the funnier it gets. Because I was thinking about doing an update, and I was like, no, it's funnier to just leave it. So check out that video.
01:37:51
Speaker
It'll be linked in the episode description if I remember. And also listen back to our episodes with Sean Flaherty. He was on the executive committee or close in ACE in the early 2000s when the museum was formally started around that time within ACE. It's now a separate organization.
01:38:22
Speaker
Okay. That makes sense. Easier for the books. Yeah. I mean, there's plenty of info, but I think they, they don't, that friends group certainly does not like me and that's okay. Boo hoo.
01:38:53
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, it's just coasters. It's not even coasters. It's a very, very specific set of people. Just open it and people will shut up. Yep.
01:39:20
Speaker
Well, I think the other thing really too at large is like transparency, which both ACE and the museum lack completely. Yeah. I mean, I guess it'd be nice to know like what's going on day to day. Yeah. I mean, they've collected a lot in donations and for a place that has always been opening soon,
01:39:49
Speaker
You think they could give more detail than just, oh, we're working on it. But. Instead. They choose the oh, you're criticizing us block. That's their their method, so.
01:40:17
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I will say, if they ever do open, I'll happily pay a ticket price to go in. I'll even buy a t-shirt. I'll buy a beer. Yeah, they got t-shirts for sale right now. Yeah, see, that's like not, I don't know.
01:40:45
Speaker
It's not like it's literally a warehouse with shit in it. Like what exactly do you have the work on? Wouldn't it be funny if they're given the land or the building, but they didn't look into like a zoning or codes or whatever. So they're like just not able to open it.
01:41:13
Speaker
It could be. They didn't tell anybody. It's not zoned for commercial use. Yeah. They're like, no, no, no, we're nonprofit. They're like, yeah, that's still commercial. They're like, Oh. Yeah. Like two years from now, they'll be like, all right, we're, we have to move locations.
01:41:43
Speaker
It's back to the trunk of Tim's car. They've got cool stuff in there. I mean, I don't know. That's why I'm saying if the fucking place opens, I'll gladly pay a ticket price to go in and see it. Until then,
01:42:09
Speaker
Is there any chance I can get you to just hang up a poster in your garage so we can open it up as the international roller coaster museum? I know it might have to be the, it might have to be the, uh, yeah, I just need some pamphlets, a table, the civil chair.
01:42:39
Speaker
Just put a desk in your garage and a poster of a roller coaster or a poster map of a park. And then you just say, yeah, this is the actual desk from the International Roller Coaster Museum. I like it. The shed, so the shed is going to be multi-use in the summer this summer.
01:43:12
Speaker
That's what I'm saying. We can figure out how to acquire a wheel or something. It might also be a sex room. Well, you know, the fucking roller coaster museum already is. Oh, do you think anybody's like fucked on those? I'm like the cars or whatever they have in there. I'm going to answer. I'm going to answer your question with the question. How could they not have true?
01:43:45
Speaker
Say you've got a big fucking warehouse full of old coaster shit and the big bad wolf car. It's like you see where I'm going. It's like it's like a scene also from My Strange Addiction. Well, yeah, the one thousand one knocks lady was definitely in there.
01:44:11
Speaker
That's why it's not opening. They have to keep updating their security system because she keeps breaking in. They're like, it's not here. Ma'am, this is a Denny's. What the fuck is up, Denny's?
01:44:41
Speaker
God, if we could live podcast from a Denny's. That'd be fun. That'd be amazing. Cause like Denny's is a classic, especially the one in Gurney. Nothing like Denny's. God, fucking Denny's. We'll try that sometime maybe.
01:45:11
Speaker
We're going to have to figure out some way to pull off something for Northern California. Like a Denny's possible possible. A Denny's that could work though.
01:45:38
Speaker
Oh, I'm picturing it now. It works in my mind. I forgot when we were in Branson, we almost went to a Paula Deen's kitchen. I hear you can taste the racism right in the food there. It's in the butter. The hate. So I've heard hates in the butter. Stick it in the butter.
01:46:11
Speaker
Yeah. What did you end up going to Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede instead? No, we went to that crazy Al's whatever crazy Ike's tree house. Where you got a free shot. Yeah. It's an interesting spot.
01:46:37
Speaker
I mean, I'm going to say I didn't even know that there was a place in Branson that had alcohol. So that's pretty cool. Yeah, I guess now that I think about it, I assumed it would all be dry, but we had actually, no, that's the only place we ate. So I had room with me and we're in that like big Chateau resort, whatever the hell it was called. And, uh,
01:47:08
Speaker
I was like taking Ruger out and we were walking through the lobby and he like started shitting like in the doorway. It's kind of funny. Good dog, man. He's like, can you time my walks better?
Hotel Dog Dilemmas
01:47:31
Speaker
Well, I think it was confusing because the inside it was like a whole landscaped area with like trees and a waterfall and like stuff like that. So I think he was probably just like confused. He didn't realize, you know, we're inside. Oh, you poor dog. Although that's pretty funny. Just,
01:47:59
Speaker
You're like walking along and he's just shitting uncontrollably behind you. Well, it wasn't like a, it was like a, it was like a drop, like a, like a single turd. I was like, come on. No, no, no. I was also, well, I was also just really paranoid because they had, um, they had, um, I only said we had one dog and we had two dogs and they had a weight limit of like 45 pounds.
01:48:29
Speaker
And uh, Ruger's like 63 pounds, but he doesn't look, he doesn't, he doesn't look that big. Um, so I was just like, fuck, I don't want to like get kicked out of this hotel. Plus the, um, plus, uh, Margo, she was like barking. The hotel called us and they were like, Hey, are you in your room? Like we're getting complaints about a dog barking in your room.
01:48:59
Speaker
I was like, uh, yeah, we'll be right there. And then so we walk into the hotel and there's like six people at the front desk complaining about a dog barking. Smooth. Yeah. Well, it sounds like, uh, you're enjoying
01:49:27
Speaker
your dog adventure. Yeah.
Amusing Theme Park Theories
01:49:30
Speaker
Yeah. He's doing good. Hated the car, but no shitting in the car this time. Well, that's good.
01:49:53
Speaker
What other coasters shit? What other coasters just going on? Like, do you ever, um, do you ever watch theme park predictions? No, I get a kick out of it when I'm like really high. I'll watch that late at night.
01:50:13
Speaker
Now the stuff he makes is pretty, like he makes really good, no limits, ghosters, but the, uh, the premise of the videos are always pretty amusing though. It's like, it's like, so here's what we know about top. It's like, here's what we know about Cedar Point. It's like they have a limited amount of land.
01:50:32
Speaker
And we know that Tony Clark said that he wanted to expand the theme park and build more family attractions. So this can only mean three things. A re-themed dragster midway, two new kiddie rides, but I think the most likely scenario will be a 500 foot B&M 4D coaster. And then he builds a recreation of it, where it would go. It's just so funny because they were so off the wall.
01:51:03
Speaker
That's fucking funny. I'll have to check it out, because that sounds amusing. I don't think much else is going on. It's the offseason and it is very much the offseason. Bob Iger, I guess, is I don't know, there's some article
01:51:34
Speaker
I forgot what it said was kind of funny. It was like Bob Iger is walking around the park. This means that he's not aware of the state of the park or something. Yeah, OK, Disney fans. Which also like so if I get destroyed, basically, Bob Iger. Put all this all these plans into motion.
01:52:04
Speaker
Then Chapick took over. The plans became executed. Bob Iger's plans then were executed under Chapick. He was like painted as the villain. Then they fired him and then Bob Iger came back to the park. That was, he basically left it as, or as intended.
01:52:28
Speaker
pretty much. Yeah. So they basically just hired a guy to be like a punching bag for two years and walk away with, was it like $200 million or something? Some, some in that area. Yeah. That's a sweet job. It is. She's got to be the fall guy. Cause now he can go be fucking president anywhere. Yeah.
01:53:01
Speaker
at any one of those shit dick companies.
Disney Discussions
01:53:07
Speaker
Did you hear the, um, WTF podcast episode with the Abigail Disney? Yeah, dude, that was amazing. Yeah, that was a good one. I was, I was just really surprised by some of the stuff she said.
01:53:32
Speaker
but she seemed incredibly, uh, grounded for someone of her background. Yeah. Yeah. It's cool when people get out of that stuff, especially these like legacy family, like wealth, you know, entities, um, like the kind of like that will in her Harry and Kate or whatever.
01:54:03
Speaker
whatever their names are, leaving the royal family. Yeah, whoever they are. I've heard about that. I haven't watched it though. Basically, the quick summary is, is it Kate? I don't remember the fucker, whatever the hell her name is.
01:54:29
Speaker
Anyway, so she's, so she's like half black and Henry, obviously there was a royal wedding and basically the royal family rejected her because the royal family didn't want like a black woman in the, in the family. Cause it like, it like, you know, soiled the DNA or whatever.
01:54:53
Speaker
Lovely. So they did a bunch of like gaslighting and basically kicked them out of the family or kicked them to the point where they left. It's a lot of wow. It's a lot of drama. Wow. Sounds like some old money bullshit to me. Yeah.
01:55:26
Speaker
So what the fuck else has been out, man?
Creative Hobbies and Community Engagement
01:55:30
Speaker
We're, we're loading this one. Chock full of content. Just, just for you guys. Hmm. Um, I might, uh, I might buy a sewing machine. I think I might get in like making clothes. Nice. Might be the gayest thing.
01:55:53
Speaker
It's like I found, I finally found my gauging thing. It's going to be making clothes. Sewing's not gay. Basically I cannot. I'm sick of not finding jackets that fit me. And I was like, well, I could buy a sewing machine and I could try to make my own stuff. So we'll see what happens.
01:56:27
Speaker
Well, I hope it goes well. I mean, it'll take a little practice, but you'll get it, dude. Sewing's legit. Started gay clothing line. Gay clothes. Ben's gay clothes. Just put like bare print paws on things.
01:56:57
Speaker
I got to say there's too many, I know too many gay guys that they claim themselves to be like entrepreneurs, but they just have like an Etsy shop of like bare print t-shirts and underwear. It's kind of cringy. I'm not going to be that guy. Bend bare clothes.
01:57:30
Speaker
Oh shit. All right. Well, it's good to be back doing this again. Yeah. It's about time. Yeah. It was nice to have a break though. Yeah, for sure. There's just, um, time to relax. I haven't worked out in like five weeks and I feel like shit. Oh, I haven't worked out in
01:57:59
Speaker
Probably about two months. God damn it. Winter sucks for that though. Yeah, I need to get skiing again. It's already February. Holy shit, it is almost February. God.
01:58:31
Speaker
All right, well, um, shit. You got anything else for this one, Ben? Uh, not until next week. All right. All right. Well then fucking let's wrap the motherfucker up. We're coming into two hours. That seems like a good first episode back. Sounds good.
01:59:00
Speaker
Yeah. So let's see, uh, I'll say this join our discord. That's, I think that's the, the, the main thing I want to get at now, uh, fuck social media. You can call us or email all that info is in the episode description, but our discords where all the activity is at join that it's always active. Even if the show is not happening, there's a lot of good talk in there over the break.
01:59:30
Speaker
including Ben posting some saucy pictures from Mexico. I forgot about that. I was drunk on a boat. I'm on a boat. Um, there's an old reference for you. So
01:59:52
Speaker
Join the Discord, it's fun. Sign up on Patreon, even though we took a month off. We're back, we're here, we're rocking. We're gonna do a Patreon call, but it's probably too late to join it for this month by the time you're hearing this. Not sorry. Join the next one. Thanks to all of our patrons.
02:00:21
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the best and they make the YFCS world go round. Do we have anything else Ben? Uh, no, I'm all good.
02:00:36
Speaker
All right, for sure. Well, thanks a bunch for listening, everybody. Thanks for joining us again here in twenty twenty three. And we're looking forward to sharing a lot of fun and funny moments and two fucking meetups with you this year. So. Come on out. Six Flags Great America in June. California's Great America in September. That's right, that's right.
02:01:06
Speaker
And, uh, yeah. All right, y'all. Thanks so much for listening. Until next time. Your favorite coaster sucks.