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Ryan Laird on WNYC Studios. 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 WNMIC.

Great. Thank you so 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 King of Kna Kau. So has Robert, too. Actually, Robert and I rode King to Ka together years ago.

And listeners, we invite a few stories, forgive me while I have a noise source in the background

that I'm going to try to kill.

But, yeah, listeners, we want to hear your stories of writing the Cyclone and the late

lamented King Decah, maybe King Decah, especially. I don't know if you can call this, top this call,

however, that we got way back in 2009.

I had ridden on the cyclone with a number of guys I dated, but then, as I said in my wedding vows to my husband, he was the love of my life and a number of things, the last of which

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