Brian Laird on WNYC. So this is maybe not the best day to head to Coney Island to ride the cyclone, but it is open for the season. It's 98th season, and 98 rounds up to 100.

So we decided close enough and are making it part of our centennial series, 100 years of 100 things.

Today, number 84, 100 or so years of roller coasters.

And while the cyclone is still chugging up the incline and plunging down the drops,

this area, as some of you know, just lost what was the world's tallest coaster.

King de Kha at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jersey, it was imploded, reportedly to make room for an even more spectacular coaster.

So now we're joined by some experts on this subject, two of the co-hosts of the podcast,

Season Pass, Robert Coker, and Doug Barnes.

Robert is the author of Roller Coasters, A Thrill Seekers Guide to the Ultimate Scream Machines.

Robert and Doug, welcome to WNYC.

Great.

Hi, Brian, thank you.

And between the two of you, we've got both of these sort of bookends of roller coasters covered, and Doug, welcome to WNMIC. Great. Thank you so much for having us.

And between the two of you, we've got both of these sort of bookends of roller coasters covered.

Robert, you know the cyclone well.

And Doug, you rode King de Kha.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, been on Kina Kada.

So it's Robert, too.

Actually, Robert and I rode King de Kha together years ago.

And listeners, we invite a few stories, forgive me while

I have a noise source in the background

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