A History of Roller Coasters, Part Two: Higher, Faster, More Expensive

Ridiculous History

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In the history of roller coasters, one thing became clear: the public wanted extremes -- the fastest, the highest, the most dangerous of rides. In part two of this week's series, the guys explore the rise of the first legitimate roller coaster tycoon, and ask their fellow Ridiculous Historians for help finding the best roller coasters of the modern day.

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0:00.0	Ridiculous history is a production of I Heart Radio. The Previously on ridiculous history.
0:27.0	ridiculous history.
0:31.0	Kiddy! history. Thank you as always so much for tuning in. Let's give a big shout out to our super producer, Mr. Max the
0:46.4	tycoon Williams.
0:48.0	I am Ben Bullen.
0:51.0	Joy as always with the man the myth of legend a tycoon in his own right Mr.
0:55.1	Noel Brown.
0:56.3	Noel.
0:57.3	Noo.
0:58.3	We've had a we've had a heck of a time with this roller coaster series, right? A lot of ups and downs.
1:06.0	Oh no, no, no, it's okay. We'll allow it. Yeah, no, ups and downs to be sure.
1:12.0	I think we've roughly reached,
1:16.2	approaching modern times, but not, not quite,
1:19.7	we still have a little bit of history.
1:21.0	Oh, yeah, just like the experience of riding a roller coaster
1:26.8	we're having form follow function or form and function be interrelated because our previous episode part one was kind of a
1:35.2	ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch the hill all right and now we are at a
1:40.4	titular point now we're at an apex of roller coaster history because you see with the
1:47.8	dawning of the world's first legit roller coaster tycoon, La Marcus.
1:54.0	I just love to say it his name, La Marcus added Thompson.
1:57.0	He triggered an arms race
2:01.0	amidst the roller coaster manufacturers of the world.
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