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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you Should Know

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Speaker 1: from House Stuff Works dot com? Hey, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast on Josh Clark with Me as always is

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Speaker 1: Charles W. Chuck Bryant, And this is stuff you should know.

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Speaker 1: The audio podcast that is now transcribed and available on

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Speaker 1: the blogs. It there. Yes, the deaf and heart of

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Speaker 1: hearing community is ready to go. Yes, Josh, and that

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Speaker 1: is exciting. Expand the group of people that can get

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Speaker 1: on the train. You know what I'm saying. I think so,

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Speaker 1: I hope. So you're talking about listen, getting like to

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Speaker 1: experience a podcast and then yes, I know what you're

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Speaker 1: talking about. Um, Chuck, are you ready to do this? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Have you ever? My arms are up? You're been on

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Speaker 1: a roller coaster? I am a roller coaster guy. I

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Speaker 1: like make special trips to states just to ride the coaster,

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Speaker 1: but I've always been a fan. There are plenty of

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Speaker 1: people who do that, and not just the States. Like

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Speaker 1: Japan is big with roller coasters as well, and um

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Speaker 1: do they have huge roller coasters? I could totally see

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Speaker 1: one of them is on the list. Um I didn't

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Speaker 1: get the list. Well, I can't wait to hear it

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Speaker 1: with the other few hundred thousand people at the same

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Speaker 1: time who are listening to this. Um chuck. I am

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Speaker 1: not a roller coaster guy, despite being from originally Ohio,

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Speaker 1: which is the home of arguably the greatest amusement park

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Speaker 1: I was terrified of roller coasters because let me paint

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Speaker 1: you a picture. When I was I think three, my

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Speaker 1: dad said, Josh, here we are at Disney World. Why

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Speaker 1: and I'm damaged. Goods Now, really did that just put

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Speaker 1: an amazing time. Yeah. Sure, but it's the standing in

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Speaker 1: Flags obviously here in Georgia, and we had the family

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Speaker 1: seasons pass every year. And it's at a certain point

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Speaker 1: in age my father said, you know you're gonna go

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Speaker 1: um he uh. He basically breaks down exactly what's going

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Speaker 1: Let's let's take it back to sixteenth century Russia. Who

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Speaker 1: would have thunk it That's where it all began. Josh,

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Speaker 1: you're right, Um. Originally they had these ice slides, very

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Speaker 1: They probably ensured it was rich people too, which rich

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Speaker 1: own way that's different than the way you're being acted on.

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Speaker 1: So there's not just an an interplay between these forces,

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Speaker 1: but there's an interplay between you and the car, like

427
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Speaker 1: the seat pushing on you, the harness pushing on you,

428
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Speaker 1: or maybe even feeling like you're you're lifting up right,

429
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Speaker 1: So talk about that. Yeah, that is the cool waitless

430
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Speaker 1: feeling you get you reach a certain point eventually where

431
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Speaker 1: acceleration and uh gravity balance each other out. So that's

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Speaker 1: where you feel weightless and if you are uh well,

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Speaker 1: actually should we get to the stomach part. Yeah, what's

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Speaker 1: going on inside your body is You're not a solid

435
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Speaker 1: chunk of wood. Most of us aren't. Most of us

436
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Speaker 1: are comprised of different organs all placed in this gushy

437
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Speaker 1: body inside. So these things are gonna react differently. You're

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Speaker 1: different organs are gonna react uh different apart from one another.

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Speaker 1: So if you have that weightless feeling, that is actually

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Speaker 1: your stomach having less force exerted on it in a

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Speaker 1: downward motion, So you feel like your stomach is going

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Speaker 1: up because it kind of is. Yeah, And that's when

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Speaker 1: you're coming down a hill and the force of acceleration

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Speaker 1: and the force of gravity are equal. That's airtime, baby, Well.

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Speaker 1: Airtime is when acceleration exceeds gravity and you feel like

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Speaker 1: you you you don't just feel like you're being pulled upward.

447
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Speaker 1: If you let go, you will lift up in your

448
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Speaker 1: seat because again, the the forces are acting differently on

449
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Speaker 1: the car than they are on you. And it's just

450
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Speaker 1: like a cartoon where like your head stays here in

451
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Speaker 1: your neck just elongates. Yeah, it's virtually the same thing.

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Speaker 1: That's based on that principle that our bodies aren't solid,

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Speaker 1: like you said, right, and that will happen obviously in

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Speaker 1: a free fall ride or when you crest the top

455
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Speaker 1: of a large hill, you'll feel like you're coming out

456
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Speaker 1: of your seat because you are, right. So that's air

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Speaker 1: time when you are actually out of your seat, right, Yes,

458
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Speaker 1: that is the free fall. That's the money moment. That's

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Speaker 1: when you place the penny on your knee and you

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Speaker 1: watch it float. It's kind of dangerous. Probably, well that depends.

461
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Speaker 1: We shouldn't recommend that. Let's not okay. And then um chuck.

462
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Speaker 1: So you've got the interplay between you and the car,

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Speaker 1: all these two forces acting on your gravity and acceleration um.

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Speaker 1: And then also, like you said, there's visual cues, like

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Speaker 1: the the way that a roller coaster designed is so

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Speaker 1: that things are wishing past you, like you're taken into

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Speaker 1: a concrete punker all of a sudden, you feel like

468
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Speaker 1: you're about to smack your head on it, and that

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Speaker 1: you so you have not just the um the physical feelings,

470
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Speaker 1: but you have empirical sensations um of just going really

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Speaker 1: fast in a very dangerous way. Yeah, are a very

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Speaker 1: dangerous place. Yeah. See my fact of the show. Actually

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Speaker 1: it's not the stomach, but the fact that you, as

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Speaker 1: a person, your body cannot feel velocity. And it sounds

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Speaker 1: weird to say that, but if you think about it,

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Speaker 1: if you're on the bullet train and you're standing on

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Speaker 1: the bullet train, you're not going whoa back toward the

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Speaker 1: back of the train. The only thing your body can

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Speaker 1: feel is a change in velocity, which is acceleration, and

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Speaker 1: they use that constantly on a roller coach. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: what they're doing. They're taking advantage of the visual cues

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Speaker 1: and gravity and acceleration and kinectic and potential energy and

483
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Speaker 1: they're giving you the right of your life. Yeah. So

484
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Speaker 1: if you don't close your eyes on a roller coaster,

485
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Speaker 1: because you're missing out on a very important aspect of it.

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Speaker 1: Is what I say, Yeah, or close your eyes pants.

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Speaker 1: I have a picture I used to I don't know

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Speaker 1: where it is, not um of me on the Millennium

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Speaker 1: coaster at Cedar Point, and like it was like one

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Speaker 1: of the official like pictures they take you after the

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Speaker 1: scariest hill and like my eyes are wide open, but

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Speaker 1: I'm my body is clearly vacant, like I've I've left

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Speaker 1: my body for that moment. Did you evacuate your bowels? No? No,

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Speaker 1: I evacuated my body, but not my bowels. I would

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Speaker 1: now admit to that. I get a cedar point with

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Speaker 1: you so bad Now maybe someday. I mean, you've got

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Speaker 1: in laws up there. So is this safe? I mean

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Speaker 1: I know that you you you have a height sting,

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Speaker 1: so that's probably where a lot of that comes from.

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Speaker 1: But is it safe? Are you in danger? Uh? It

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Speaker 1: depends you know less? Well? No, really, last week, Um,

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Speaker 1: there was a three year old that died at a

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Speaker 1: place called Go Bananas in Chicago, and uh, yeah, it

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Speaker 1: looks like there was basically a three year old shouldn't

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Speaker 1: have been on this ride. Um, but it doesn't look

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Speaker 1: like there was any kind a roller coaster air. The

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Speaker 1: kid crawled out from underneath the safety bar, fell out

508
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Speaker 1: felt like three or four feet, which wasn't bad, but

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Speaker 1: fell onto the track and was hit by another car.

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Speaker 1: So it does happen, but this is so infrequent and

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Speaker 1: that was such a freak occurrence that, Um, to answer

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Speaker 1: your question the way you wanted to hear it, Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's safe. Well, we have some stats here from the

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Speaker 1: article josh Um. In two thousand six, little old three

515
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Speaker 1: million people visited theme parks and six hundred of them

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Speaker 1: sought medical attention that year. But the as as Tom

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Speaker 1: Harris points out, these are people who visited theme parks,

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Speaker 1: so for the whole theme park, not just the roller coasters.

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Speaker 1: They could have slipped on the way into the bathroom.

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Speaker 1: They could have gotten in a fist fight with Captain America.

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Speaker 1: So that's total injuries are total people seeking medical attention,

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Speaker 1: only one and thirty of those required overnight in hospitalization.

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Speaker 1: And uh so that means your risk of serious injury

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Speaker 1: just by entering a park is one million in your

525
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Speaker 1: chance of a fatal injury is one and one point

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Speaker 1: five billion. And your chances of a fatal injury in

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Speaker 1: a car crash or fifteen and ten thousand. And they

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Speaker 1: always use a car crash. Yeah, go go feel safe

529
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Speaker 1: in your car now. The most dangerous thing you can

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Speaker 1: do is get in the car. Okay. I wondered though,

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Speaker 1: how much of that obviously has to do with um

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Speaker 1: the fact that we don't ride around in roller coasters

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Speaker 1: that frequently. Oh yeah, we ride around in our cars

534
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Speaker 1: pretty pretty frequently. So so I wonder if the time

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Speaker 1: you know, spent and made it comparable, what the like,

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Speaker 1: how much that margin would narrow. Yeah, it's a good point. Yeah. Well,

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Speaker 1: in two thousand three and UM, the Brain Injury Institute

538
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Speaker 1: of America studied brain fatalities and they found that it's

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Speaker 1: these people had something going on beforehand. So it's not

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Speaker 1: the ride people who suffered death from head injuries or

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Speaker 1: brain injuries or people. Yeah, they they had undetected brain

542
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Speaker 1: conditions already in place. So our advice is, you know

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00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:09,000
Speaker 1: those little warnings that you see, like if you have

544
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Speaker 1: a bad back, or you're pregnant, or you're pad blood pressure,

545
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 1: those aren't just there willy nilly. You should take heed

546
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Speaker 1: and don't go on the ride if you fit any

547
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Speaker 1: of those scriptors. I feel so bad for that family

548
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Speaker 1: in Chicago. That's awful. Um. I have some world records.

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Speaker 1: Should we go over those that the rough transitioner it was,

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Speaker 1: let's do it. Um. Tallest is the King of ka

551
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Speaker 1: at a New Jersey four hundred and sixty ft total

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Speaker 1: with a drop of four feet ninety degree angle. I

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00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 1: saw it. Oh yeah, And if you are a roller

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Speaker 1: coaster person or you are thrilled by roller coasters, are

555
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:50,320
Speaker 1: terrified by them. You can go on to YouTube and

556
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 1: type in a roller coaster name or just roller coaster,

557
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:56,320
Speaker 1: and people love to make little videos from like the

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Speaker 1: first car of like the roller coaster right, and it's

559
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Speaker 1: pretty much a p o V experience, very shaky. One. UM,

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Speaker 1: the fastest is in Dubai. That is at Ferrari World

561
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Speaker 1: and the ride is the Formula Rosa, and that goes

562
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Speaker 1: a hundred and forty nine, which is really fast if

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Speaker 1: you're not used to go on that fast. There are

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Speaker 1: twelve coasters worldwide Josh with a descent angle equal to

565
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Speaker 1: or greater than ninety degrees. I think the Millennium coaster

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Speaker 1: has one. They go up to ninety seven degrees. You're

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Speaker 1: actually like you're inverted, you're angled back the other way,

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Speaker 1: and the Millennium has a safety bar and that's it.

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Speaker 1: Oh is at it? Yeah, So you really feel like

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Speaker 1: you're about to just flip right out of the car. Terrified.

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Speaker 1: The largest woody is the Son of the Beast. I

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Speaker 1: think you mentioned that one. UM. The Screen Machine, and

573
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Speaker 1: here in Atlanta was for a very short time in

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Speaker 1: the early seventies was like a hundred feet all and

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Speaker 1: the fastest Woody is seventy eight miles an hour and

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Speaker 1: that's also Son of the Beast and the most a

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Speaker 1: wheezing sound as it comes into the station. Uh. The

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Speaker 1: oldest one is Leap the Dips. What it's called leaf

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Speaker 1: the Dips. It sounds like an old timey rollers Leap

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00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:10,960
Speaker 1: the Dips. Uh. No. It is a Lakemont Park and

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Speaker 1: Alton to Pennsylvania and it was built in nineteen o

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Speaker 1: two and it's still running. That's another one in Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 1: Pennsylvania is the heart and soul of this country's historic

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Speaker 1: roller coasters. I just decreed that. Okay, So again you

585
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:26,760
Speaker 1: can go onto YouTube check out some pretty cool first

586
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:31,920
Speaker 1: person viewpoint roller coaster rides. Also, one of my favorite

587
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Speaker 1: things to do is to look up photo spreads of

588
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 1: abandoned amusement parks. There's some really cool ones across the world. Um,

589
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Speaker 1: and then you should, I strongly recommend, and I think

590
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Speaker 1: you can join me in that, right, Chuck and going

591
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 1: to read this article how roller coasters work? Um, it

592
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 1: has an entire section on how loop the loops work physics,

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00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:57,720
Speaker 1: Chuck and I opted not to cover that, but there's

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Speaker 1: a there's a whole bunch of pretty cool stuff cool

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Speaker 1: uh pictures. Yeah, and there in a little animation too

596
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 1: on one of them. It's it's just a quality article. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So before you hit the park this summer, you can

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Speaker 1: bore your friends to death by telling them all about UM.

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00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:15,480
Speaker 1: You can type in roller coasters two words uh in

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Speaker 1: the handy search bar how stuff works dot Com to

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00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,720
Speaker 1: get that article UM. And I guess that brings up

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00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 1: listener mail. Josh, you're gonna call this uh for a

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00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,880
Speaker 1: good cause from an old friend like that. And it's

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Speaker 1: from my friend Jason Jenkins and uh he lives in Japan,

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Speaker 1: married a Japanese lady. Let's se the one you're talking

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Speaker 1: about in the Nuclear Meltdown podcast. Okay, my only friend

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Speaker 1: in Japan. Well, although we have lots of podcasts fans here,

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00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 1: and you were like friends as well, so Jason writes

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Speaker 1: in Jinkie is what we call him Jinkie here. Hope

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Speaker 1: Paul is well, buddy. Despite what you may have read,

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00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 1: we are all alive and not turning into an outtake

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Speaker 1: from the latest bio hazard sequel. Not back to normal,

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00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 1: of course, but Tokyo and any percent of the country

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Speaker 1: is much more workaday life than a lot of the

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Speaker 1: media make it out to be. I could go on,

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Speaker 1: but I'll leave it it there. I write to pitch

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Speaker 1: a possible interesting podcast or article for the site. Have

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Speaker 1: you heard a quakebook? Have you heard a quakebook I have?

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Speaker 1: Do you want to describe what it is? Basically, a

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Speaker 1: an ex pat, an American ex pat I think British

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Speaker 1: British ex pat in Japan got a hold of some

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Speaker 1: tweets and basically turned I guess on the ground social

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Speaker 1: media coverage of the quake and the tsunami and the

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Speaker 1: nuclear crisis into an e book basically like a coffee

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Speaker 1: table e book. Um, he got this whole h he

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Speaker 1: got like I think he used like Twitter to enlist

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Speaker 1: somebody to do translations, and it just became this huge, massive,

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Speaker 1: grassroots um push to kind of document this from from

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Speaker 1: the people's view, right yeah. And it it was titled

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Speaker 1: two minutes and forty six seconds after the quake struck,

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Speaker 1: so like immediately this thing was launched without even probably

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Speaker 1: knowing what they were launching at the time. But now

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Speaker 1: there are thirty thousand words of short personal accounts and

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Speaker 1: the like from two hundred writers editors, designers, artists that

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Speaker 1: have all chipped in for this thing. Very cool. So

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Speaker 1: Jason goes on to say, amazing project, completely crowdsourced through

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Speaker 1: And if you want to support Japan Red Cross, which

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