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This is the Technical Difficulties,
we’re playing Citation Needed.

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Joining me today, he reads books y'know,
it’s Chris Joel.

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Hullo!

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Everybody’s favourite Gary Brannan,
Gary Brannan.

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I--

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Let me get the line out, you b******s!

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And standing in for Matt Gray,
stand-up mathematician Matt Parker!

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Always clear all before an important calculation.

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In front of me I’ve got an article from Wikipedia
and these folks can’t see it.

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Every fact they get right is a point
and a ding

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and there's a special prize for particularly
good answers which is...

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And today we are talking about
the Flip Flap Railway.

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Ay, ah, hah!

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- Hmm. Err. Erp.
- Wow.

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Is this... this is where the word “No”...

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if we had an actual railway tunnel,

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and there’s a big steam engine
coming down the tunnel

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with the word, “no” written on the front
right now.

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You’ll notice that sometimes I have my hand
ready over the ding button here.

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This is not one of those times.

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Er, is it a pneumatic railway?

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...in the south of England?

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Am I right? Am I wrong? I'm wrong.

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He’s wrong.

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Both flipping and flapping are things railroads
should not do.

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Yes.

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So this is some kind of disaster...

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- No, it’s not a disaster.
- Oh!

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If you got on this railway expecting a normal ride,
something has gone wrong.

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Oh, so it’s like a metaphorical railway.

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Whoa. I was going to go for, like, theme park
or something, but I like that better.

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And you’d have got the point. What might
the Flip Flap Railway be?

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Is it a roller coaster?

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Yes, you’re absolutely right.

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Is it one of those scenic railways,
the 19th century ones where it would,

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rather than like a normal rollercoaster now,
you’ve got all the bits and bobs underneath exposed,

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you’d put big panels on
and paint an alpine scene.

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So from a distance it would like you were
riding a train up and down mountains

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and there’s a guy at the back who acts as
a brakeman to stop the train.

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Gaaah!

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The interesting thing about that is:

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No.

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Can I just say--

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But you have successfully got several things
later on that we were going to talk about,

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without any questions. So, yes, absolutely.

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What were those really early rollercoasters
called? We’re talking 17th century here.

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Pushing someone down a hill.

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Yeah!

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Yeah, they weren’t called that, but they
were giant slides.

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The first ones were just
park benches going down a…

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There’s one in France somewhere, where literally
there was a park bench

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and you kind of sat on it sideways and then
it slid down a hill

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and it was terrifyingly dangerous.

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The thing is now when we hear the phrase,
“a park bench”

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we just think of Matt and Tom sliding sideways
down a hill on a very poorly fixed one.

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Yes, there was a gravity track
in Paris in 1812.

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- Gravity track!
- Ohhhh...

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And you said brakeman, this was before that.

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Before someone thought of
stopping the f***ing thing!

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Are you stuck on them forever? Just falling
and falling through eternity like Sisyphus

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pushing the rock…!

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Sorry, wrong meeting.

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Er, no.

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Well, f***!

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What, it wasn’t falling through eternity
for ever? Really?

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I’m getting sick of his negative attitude
this episode.

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Push up a hill, drop back down the hill.

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The very early ones were called Russian Mountains.

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Oh, I just thought you meant
some Russian mountains.

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Well, this is what they originally were.

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Russian sled rides on hills of ice that had
been constructed.

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So that’s where the name came from, and
they would just...

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So, up until the point someone went to Russia
and saw a mountain that had ice on it,

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nobody had had the idea of even sitting on
a cart and riding down a steep hill?

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Not specially constructing an ice hill
200 feet tall to slide down.

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I’ll grant you, that would be difficult
in Norfolk.

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Then you started getting the scenic railways.
Now, you talked about brakemen...

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It’s done with a guy at the back who acts
as a brakeman

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and just puts the brakes on in the right place,

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rather than any kind of retarding device that
you might have on the wheels,

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like you would now.

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Oh, brilliant! So if he decides to let it
all hang out you get a…

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Well if it does that on that height,
everyone’s seeing it, let’s face it.

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The brakeman is the opposite of a hype-man.

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So instead of someone going, “Yeah!” there’s
a guy going, “I don’t know.”

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“Go steady, or I could make this dead boring
for you.”

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You’re right, he is the fun-killer of the
roller coaster world isn’t he?

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“Not that! Too much fun. There we are…”

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“No, everybody be calm.”

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There is also something here in America that
is an early rollercoaster

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that is called the
Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway.

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I both trust and utterly distrust that ride.

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I’m just trying to imagine who thought the
word “chunk” was a good word to put...

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Well, that’s the name of the place where
it was. This was a nine mile track.

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Oh! I don’t know what it is,
but we’re going.

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- Smash cut right now.
- Special!

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Is it just some old railway?

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It was one of the very first permanent railways
in America.

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Is it like that bit in Indiana Jones 2?

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Go on, press it! Go on, I saw you go…

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Yeah, I did, because this is 1827, so what
didn’t they have for this railway?

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Power!

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Harrison Ford!

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Just.

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Lucasfilm special effects.

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Chris gets the point. Yes, they didn’t have that.
Obviously, gravity, they can get cars down,

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how do they get the cars back up?

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Gert big men shoving up.

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Er, you’re close...

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Whoever’s on the ride next.

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You say ride. This, to start off with, was
just genuinely a railway to move coal.

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Oh, someone would have managed
to sneak onto that.

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Yes, you’re absolutely right.

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When there was down-time people would just
sneak onto it and ride the cars down,

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but how do they get the cars back up?

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I guess it’s not a loaded-car-pulls-down-an-empty-car
scenario here?

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No, no.

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Levitation.

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Hosses!

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Yes! You’re absolutely right, mules.

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But they would send down enough cars and then
they would send down the mules...

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- In the car?
- In the car...

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- In the car.
- That's very good.

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- They get a ride!
- And in fact yes, have a point.

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- Their little ears…
- That’s probably not how they felt about it, Gary.

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Yeah, but the first time they’re like
“what the hell is all this”,

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we all would be, but then they’d be like,
“Fantastic.”

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They’d be going down and their little ears'd
be flapping in the wind, all like that…

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I think you’ve chronically misunderstood
what it is to be a mule, my friend.

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And there’s a bloke halfway down doing a
drawing of it

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so they can buy it when they get to the bottom
as a souvenir of the day.

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There’s always the smart mule

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who works out where the etching guy is so
they can make a face.

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I reckon people saw the mules come off going,

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“they look pretty excited, I’m having
a go on that”.

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That is basically what happened.

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I don’t think it was the mules there,

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but it was people going
“this is an exciting ride”.

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“This is fun wasted on mules”, basically.

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And then someone else went,
well, we can charge for this

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when there’s not enough coal to move.

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Or mules to play with.

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Or...

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Steady.

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Lonely country town, let's say...

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That was basically the
world’s first roller coaster.

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Someone sat on the back of one of the mules
as it goes down.

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“This is f***ing awesome!”

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That is Indiana Jones,
just a century too early.

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Nah, that’s Slim Pickens riding the bomb!

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Dr Strangelove with a mule in the compartment.

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Sadly that has now been dismantled.

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There is a trail there you can walk down,

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but I imagine that’s not the same.

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Ironically a trail there you could ride a
mule down,

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which is worse for all concerned,
isn’t it?

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You could, or you could ride a mule down on
a little wagon with some wheels.

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Oh my God, yeah. ...Wagon Wheels?

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They’re just going to go squishy.

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They’d overheat and get flat spots!

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Yes, they’re smaller than they used to be
anyway.

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You can’t trust a marshmallow bearing.

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Can’t, no.

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Just overheat and then
you’d get decent speed.

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Jam lubricant's all well and good up to 50mph,
but once you go over that...

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Yeah. You’re looking for a
stout marmalade aren’t you?

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Something fine-cut though.

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Oh yeah, you don’t want the bits in it.

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You can’t have a coarse shred,
it'll get jammed.

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Oh absolutely, absolutely.

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Marmite is your breakfast lubricant of choice
isn’t it?

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Yes, but it burns up quickly.

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It does and gives off quite the odour.

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And woe betide the man who uses Branston!

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For breakfast?

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Matt, for God’s sake interrupt, you’ve
been going like this for about two minutes.

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Yeah, but I go,
“okay, I think they’re finished”,

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Oh no, there’s more. Yes. No, they’ve
peaked now. No, they haven’t…

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I was just going to say, but then I realised
I was going to give actual advice, saying,

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“use Maltesers as bearings”
then went that’s just a practical….

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Oh yes, yes, you could have a race couldn’t you?
You could have a bearing race!

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I’ve misunderstood this conversation, yes,
yes, if you’re actually going to do it…

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Yes, Maltesers in.

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Chocolate finger, Maltesers…

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What’s the outer race though?

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Oh, that’s a good point.

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Doughnut!

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I’m just going to point out for anyone not
in the UK that Wagon Wheels

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are a type a big chocolate round biscuit,
so...

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- They look a bit like the wheel off a wagon.
- They’re awful.

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If your wagon were about yea-high.

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No, they’re smaller than that.

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Yea-high…

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There we go.

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So we had the Mauch Chunk Switchback,
which is arguably the first rollercoaster…

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For donkeys.

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We had the Russian mountains which could also
be early roller coasters, that sort of thing.

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By the point that we had the Flip Flap Railway,

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there was this idea that you might want to
get in a car that careened down a hill.

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What was the Flip Flap Railway adding to that?

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Flapping.

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Flipping.

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It wasn’t an early attempt to do a loop-the-loop
or something?

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Spot on.

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- Oh my god.
- It was the first loop-the-loop in America.

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And they got the shape wrong?

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Yes!

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Were they lured in by the easy appeal of a
nice circle?

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Yes, they were, would you like to tell us
some more about this?

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Oh, they didn’t think about having a nice, consistent
amount of acceleration on their passengers.

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And I bet they were either passing out or
bleeding from the eyeballs by the time…

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Or both! They’re not mutually exclusive.

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Those poor donkeys.

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You see I thought they’d go too slow and
it’d get to the top

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and they’d stop and all the donkeys would
fall out.

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Yes. That’s exactly where I was going next.

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No, because the problem is, right, the amount
pushing you out as you’re turning...

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I’m going to be very careful here, or physics
teachers will email me afterwards.

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It depends on the rate at which you’re curving,

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and so to stop people from falling out at
the top,

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because the curvature of a circle is pretty
consistent,

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by the time you get to the top you’ve got
to be going bloody fast

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to have enough force to keep you in your seat.

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Or the mule.

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So what you want to actually do is change
the rate at which your loop is curving

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to give you extra force where required.

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And so you don’t have do it all with speed,
you can do it with curvature instead.

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Whereas they tried to do it all with speed
and it didn’t end well.

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Yes. They tried... I’ve already given you
biscuits for that

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but I feel like a round of applause is required
for that thing.

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No further biscuits will ever be issued.
That wins them all, I think.

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A circle is too big, so they use an ellipse
to get you over the top very quickly.

233
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How many Gs were they roughly pulling on this
“centrifugal railway”, as it was called?

234
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Anything above… where does it get painful?
It must be over four...

235
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I think modern roller coasters you can briefly
pull about 5Gs. Which will...

236
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So they were probably clipping seven or eight,

237
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and that’s going to be very uncomfortable.

238
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Yes, it actually pulled 12Gs.

239
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Oh my God.

240
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Yeah, that’s not good.

241
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Not only is it a circular loop, it’s only
a 25 foot circular loop.

242
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That's...!

243
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What were some of the issues with riding this?

244
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Your hat would fly off and you would look
ungentlemanly at the end.

245
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Quite the opposite because if anything your
hat is going to be quite stuck to your head.

246
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Ah, no, it came off on the little hill down
into it, didn’t it?

247
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Er, no, discomfort and neck injuries from
whiplash.

248
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I wouldn’t put discomfort
first in that list.

249
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“Oh dear...”

250
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Discomfort and now I’m like this, yes.

251
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What did they test this with, by the way?

252
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This is at Sea Lion Park at
Coney Island, New York.

253
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- Sea lions?
- Sea lions!

254
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No.

255
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Seals!

256
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Irons!

257
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Okay, not donkeys, not people, not sea lions.

258
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Sh...
A. N. Other livestock?

259
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Monkeys.

260
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Of course, the monkeys.

261
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Sandbags and monkeys were put down.

262
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Sorry! Sandbag... sandbag... “shall we throw
some monkeys in while we’re at it?”

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“Ah, g'wan… they’ll enjoy it,
the donkeys did.”

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Sea Lion Park became Luna Park.
Famous names and all that,

265
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but the Flip Flap Railway was not retained,
why not?

266
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Was it killing people, perchance?

267
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Because of its unpopularity and reputation,
but I will give you the point.

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It was not something you got on a second time.

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For one reason or another.

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No-one got to the end and went, “again!”,
y'know?

271
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But there is one last legendary theme park
I want to talk about.

272
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Is it Flamingo Land, in...?

273
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No, it is Action Park in New Jersey.

274
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Oh God, this is ringing bells and I have absolutely
no idea why. Augh!

275
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Why might it be legendary, for folks who were
kids in the 1980s in New Jersey?

276
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Because it killed a million, billion people
in their wave pool or something?

277
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It hurt a lot of people, certainly.
I’ll give you the point for it.

278
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So, hang on, wait. Your guess was it killed
a million, billion people

279
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and you’re like, close enough to
“a few people got a bit injured”.

280
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Yeah, like, we're...

281
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The error bars are pretty big
on this show, right?

282
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The error bars are massive on this show.

283
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Feel free to chuck some ideas in.

284
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And the reason I mention this in particular,

285
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to do with all the other
things we’ve talked about,

286
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is that they had the Cannonball Loop.

287
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Uh oh.

288
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Which is very similar to a few of the things
we’ve talked about,

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with one important difference.

290
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In a summer park, in a theme park, what did
they have that was a loop-the-loop?

291
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They attempted a water-based loop-the-loop.

292
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- Yes, they did.
- Oh, s***.

293
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It was at their water park.

294
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How do you do that, isn’t the water just
going to fall off at the top?

295
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- Yes.
- And be a shower?

296
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The thing about water is,
it follows the laws of physics.

297
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Ah.

298
00:14:09.589 --> 00:14:14.800
Yes, you are absolutely right.
It was a looping waterslide.

299
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Not the modern kind, there are a couple of
modern looping water-slides,

300
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they do an interesting kind of curve that
technically takes you over.

301
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This was...

302
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Circle.

303
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That would take off your clothes wouldn’t
it?

304
00:14:29.060 --> 00:14:30.500
No, the thing about clothes…

305
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What, it’s really seductive
as you go through the loop...

306
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No, but I thought, is that what happens...

307
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“I see you’ve come to join me in the loop.

308
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“How 'bout we get you out of those wet things?”

309
00:14:39.300 --> 00:14:43.240
It would certainly… having had a couple of
waterslide incidents,

310
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shall we say, moments of unpleasantness...

311
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No, it doesn’t take your clothes off.
Riders were weighed and hosed down with cold water.

312
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What?

313
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And then instructed how to position their
bodies to complete the ride.

314
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No. I’m already not getting on this.

315
00:15:02.949 --> 00:15:05.300
You just wanted an excuse to pose,
let’s be honest here.

316
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It was a laugh.

317
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But you get on top of the ride and someone,

318
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before you even get on the ride,
you’re at a water park.

319
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You’re hoping, I assume, to drop into
nice, warm, bath-like water at the end.

320
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The last thing you want is some bloke with
a hose pipe

321
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with a little spray gun on the end going,
“right, arms up.”

322
00:15:20.130 --> 00:15:21.800
They sent some test dummies down first,

323
00:15:21.819 --> 00:15:23.230
what were the reports on what
happened to them?

324
00:15:23.230 --> 00:15:25.360
They didn’t come down in one,
is what I’m going to guess.

325
00:15:25.360 --> 00:15:27.540
Yes, that’s absolutely right, they were
dismembered on the way down.

326
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And one unfortunate person
at the top of the loop, what happened?

327
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Their clothes fell off.

328
00:15:36.259 --> 00:15:39.790
Trousers caught on a nail! Just hanging there
in space getting showered on.

329
00:15:39.790 --> 00:15:41.740
It was a closed loop. It was a closed tube.

330
00:15:41.740 --> 00:15:43.170
Oh, they’re in a locked…

331
00:15:43.170 --> 00:15:44.779
You know, this is the first one you’ve described

332
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where I’m still thinking
“I want a go on this”.

333
00:15:47.790 --> 00:15:51.980
They got stuck at the top and they had to
add a hatch at one point

334
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to remove people who got stuck at the top

335
00:15:54.189 --> 00:15:55.709
and didn’t want to go down the other side.

336
00:15:55.709 --> 00:15:57.959
Yes, because you’re on this surface now,

337
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and as you go down you’re going to have
that sheer drop.

338
00:16:00.489 --> 00:16:03.910
Yes, “shump, clunk, dunk”, carry on.

339
00:16:03.910 --> 00:16:08.910
Yes, there had to be “extractions”, as
it was put here, which is... not great.

340
00:16:08.910 --> 00:16:12.670
So this person got physically stuck as in
they were too large?

341
00:16:12.670 --> 00:16:14.730
No, they just weren’t going fast enough.

342
00:16:14.730 --> 00:16:16.050
Oh my god.

343
00:16:16.050 --> 00:16:20.369
Employees were offered $100 to test it and
I’m going to quote,

344
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“100 bucks did not buy enough booze
to drown out that memory.”

345
00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:27.960
I’m with Matt, I want a go on this.

346
00:16:29.280 --> 00:16:32.540
At the end of the show, congratulations Matt,
you win this week.

347
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Congratulations.

348
00:16:36.220 --> 00:16:39.440
You win a brand new armoured fighting vehicle

349
00:16:39.440 --> 00:16:43.360
that is actually an old fighting vehicle just
rebooted to look modern.

350
00:16:44.420 --> 00:16:46.200
It’s a JJ Abrams tank.

351
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Ohhh.

352
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So with that we say thank you to Chris Joel,

353
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to Gary Brannan,

354
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and to Matt Parker.

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I’ve been Tom Scott
and we’ll see you next time.