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Episode 284 - Finding 400 in New England

Paul Joseph Lorio III Season 8 Episode 284

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It's been six months since we got our 399th coaster credit so it was about time we hit 400 and we found it at Six Flags New England.

How did we spend the day?  Let's talk about this great trip we had riding Superman and Wicked Cyclone and eating Pork BBQ.

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Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to the 125 Roller Coaster Challenge, Trend and Staple Podcast, guys. And this is Paul. And today we are going to be talking about one of the trips I really enjoyed. Probably a little bit too far for a typical day trip, but it's our trip to Six Flags, New England. But before we do, guys, uh, we got to talk about a couple things here. And first of all, wow, we are really taking off with this podcast. I am so excited to see how these numbers have been in the last month. So thank you guys. Thank you so much. And if you're listening to us on Audible, uh, Apple Podcasts, uh, Spotify, anywhere where you're listening to us, uh, please follow us. Because the more uh people are enjoying this um format and podcast and stuff like that, the more you want to do it. So we might right now we're doing about two episodes a week. We might up it up to three here because there's always new topics, there's always new trips, there's always more things that we're doing, and we want to share that with you. And of course, we are striving to get to uh 10,000 subscribers on our YouTube channel. So if you listen to this on YouTube, guys, like and subscribe. And uh what we're doing with it is the last two episodes are actually live for the public, and then uh all the other ones are going to be then moved to the uh the back catalog is being moved to membership. So if you do like the podcast and you're like, wow, I'd like to hear different ones and uh some from the past, um 199 is the membership. So we we're keeping that very, very inexpensive. There's also exclusive shorts, exclusive videos that go up just for our uh members. So for$199, you get more than, I mean, I think a donut nowadays or is like almost a dollar. So for the price of two donuts or price of a half a gallon of gas, you can actually get exclusive content and get our entire um back catalog of um uh uh podcasts and stuff like that. So so without further ado, let's talk about our trip to Six Flags, New England. Now, it has been a while. It's been a while since we have been to Six Flags New England. It's been over three years. So imagine my surprise when I was looking. I was like, okay, I have a Thursday off. It's supposed to be nice weather. Where can I go? And I'm looking, I'm looking, I'm looking, and Great Adventures closed during the week, and Hershey Park closed during a week, and all these parks close to me are closed during the week. The only one that was close that was open was uh Bush Gardens Williamsburg, which I love, my favorite park. However, that's quite a drive. And then I was like, you know what? Let me just go through to Six Flags app. Uh I do like the new app. Um, great job on that. Um, I love the fact that it defaulted. My um Six Flags home park is no longer a great adventure, it's now Dorney Park. Uh, I don't know how I feel about that automatic change there because I still consider Dorney Park Cedar Fair, and I still consider Six Flags, Six Flags Great Adventure, Six Flags Great Adventure. But, you know, they know better than me. And I started going through there and I noticed wait a second, Six Flags New England is on spring break. They're open. So I'm like, you know what? I'm working late. I do a bartending job and stuff like that. I was working late, but you know what? I'm gonna make this happen. So I shift my schedule around, got out of there at 9 o'clock at night, woke up the next day, 5 o'clock in the morning, because the park opens at 11, woke up at uh 5, 5:30. The goal was to get on the road by 6:30, 6.15. I was on the road by 6.15, and I took the 280-mile one-way drive to Six Flags, New England. I'm not joking. I drove close to 600 miles that day and hit traffic because you gotta go by New York, and we all know New York is, but I got to the park, um, I think like 1115, 11:20. So right after rope drop, which I always like. I I'm not a big fan of waiting in line for the rope drop and all that stuff. I know a lot of uh content creators say, you gotta get there, rope drop, you gotta get there rope drop. I don't really need to get there a rope drop. Um, I like to get there a little bit after so I can literally walk right in, which I did. Now, before we get started, let's talk about the things I was looking to do. So it's been a while, been a while. Yes, I do that all the time. And because of that, I looked at what we did in the past, and most of what we did in the past was an explorer, uh, which is about three or four years old, and we did uh a couple spotlights and some shorts. So we are going into this park, not much filming, not much film at all. So I decided I'm gonna redo the explorer, which I have dropped already and is doing incredibly well. Uh, the other thing, too, is I've been doing our park days when it comes to parks. Now, the next episode we're gonna do because I cannot believe how many people are nerds like me and they want to know the numbers behind the channel. So because of that, um you're gonna find out how popular our park day is. Let's eat, let's play, uh, the produce videos that we do and stuff like that. That'll be the next episode. But let's just say I was always under the impression I gotta do an R Park Day. And also there was a special reason why I had to do the R Park Day, and I'll mention that in a few minutes. Um, and then also looking at it, can I do unplugged? Can I do a let's eat, let's play? I decided the next one I really had to do was let's eat because there's it's weird. Um it does well, it always does well. People love food, people love food, but there's a couple outliers that really skewed the numbers, and there is a chance there's two uh out of our top 15 videos that we have done, two of them are let's eat, and the second one is uh of all time is let's eat uh at Liberty of the Seas. And then we have one Let's Eat at Hershey Park. So because of that, I was like, you know what? Let me do the let's eat. So that's my plan going in is ride some coasters because I, you know, this park I haven't been to. So every coaster I ride also counts in a 125 roller coaster challenge. So let's break it down real quick. I pulled in there. Uh, because I had the Diamond League VIP, I didn't have to go across the street to that parking lot that's over yonder. Uh, because I always remember that that you park there and then you gotta keep going all the way across, and you have the MM steps or whatever they are, go across the bridge and come down. Because I had the Diamond League VIP, I saw preferred parking. I'm like, I'm supposed to get that. I turned in, preferred parking, not a problem. Wow, I was right by the park. So, but let's talk about the one reason why I was really excited to go here. If you've been following the podcast or the YouTube channel, you know in November I did a couple coasters over at SeaWorld Orlando that I needed, and I was at$399. I was at 399 coasters. So the next coaster, the next new coaster I get, it's going to have a milestone, which is 400 coasters. And at one point I was like, oh, I'll go down to Georgia and do Air Force One, or oh, you know what? Sandy, Sandy would be great over at uh Nickelodeon Universe. Oh, it's always down and stuff like that. It got to the point where I'm sitting there thinking, well, I could probably justify just waiting for barrels of fun, uh, coming to Six Flags Great Adventure, the old Rage Encajon, and do that. Well, another reason why Six Flags New England was important to me was they already opened their new for 2026 ride, Quantum Accelerator. So I was going to get number 400. As long as it was open, I was going to get number 400 today because I was going to go quantum accelerator. So let's talk about the day and tell you how everything worked out. All right. So I get into uh the preferred parking, I go right on in, and I look over to the right-hand side and I see a huge line at guest services. Now, because I have the Diamond Elite VIP pass, I get four front of the line passes, but I don't want to wait in that line. But I got smart. At Great Adventure, I realized I don't need to go to guest services, I just need the website to go and activate it. Because once you're in the park, it's going to automatically activate it. So this was my trial run. I when I was at Great Adventure, I saved the fast pass or flash pass, whatever they call it, um information and it worked. I just went to the website, I put in my um a pass number and my password, and boom, there was the four front-of-the-line passes. Fantastic. Did not have to waste any time. So when I go to Dawny Park, Great Adventure, or I go to any park this year, I'm automatically now know how I can get those passes without dealing with guest services. I saved probably about a half hour, 45 minutes by doing that. Now, if you know anything about the rules that we kind of came up with, we have what we like to call the roller skate rule. So let me explain the roller skate rule to anybody new. If not, you know, I'm sorry I'm telling the story again. But it is kind of important. So we went to, I think it was our second year or third year. Uh Ari and I went to Kentucky Kingdom. And uh, oh, it was the second year. So it was Kentucky Kingdom, and we were gonna go ride, and you know, our plan was have a fun day at Kentucky Kingdom. It was before we had the YouTube channel, even before I think we had the uh uh podcast, had this podcast. So we started riding and we jumped on Lightning Run uh run and stuff like that, and then Aerie really liked the wooden coaster, Thunder Run, and there was no line for Storm Chaser. So I'm like, I'm gonna marathon Storm Chaser. So I jumped on it and I'm flipping around doing this, and I'm trying different seats and all that. Then all of a sudden it started to rain. And we end up having to hide under, you know, this um, you know, awning or over by the uh carousel, and we're looking at roller skate, and we're like, oh man, we still need to get the roller skate credit. Now it's no longer called roller skate, but I don't care, it's the roller skate rule. Still gotta get that credit. And it rained, and we're like, oh, it's gonna break, it's gonna break. Hour and a half later, we finally made a decision. Okay, this is not letting up. However, it's not raining at Holiday World. Let's hop in the car. We get the hour because of the um time difference, and we went. And we never got the roller skate. Never got to ride roller skate. To this day, I have still not ridden roller skate. So now we have what we call the roller skate rule, which is any new credits you do first. Before an explorer, before doing any filming, you get your butt and get the credit. So what I did then was, of course, I did the intro to the R Park day, and I did, you know, where we're going. I went directly to uh Quantum Accelerator, and I'm happy to say I now have 400 coaster credits. Now, all in all, was Quantum Accelerator worthy of number 400? No, not at all. It is a very good ride, it is a fun ride, it is a family ride. The launch is 45 miles per hour. Now, I think that's the second launch. The first launch isn't even that fair. It is a great, great coaster for that park. They need more family attractions. Not everything has to be a wicked cyclone or Superman the ride. However, for it to be number 400, wonk, wonk, wonk. It should have been Airy Force One. It should have been something bigger. So, but it is my 400th credit. I enjoyed it, it was good. And because of the front of the line pass, the line was huge. It was probably like a half hour, 40 minutes. I walked right on. I was probably two trains I waited for. So got that credit, all good to go. And then from that point, I was like, okay, you know what? I knocked that out. Now let's go back to the front and let's do the explore. And we did a full park explore. We started um right at the main entrance. We went to the left, went all the way around uh crackle uh crank axle saloon and all that by Quantum Accelerator, went all the way down by uh Wicked Cyclone, walked back and then dug into the DC universe, went over to Gotham, then came by uh Rockville. We did an exclude a very good tour. We hit the Houdini ride, we hit this, but what we didn't do with that explore is the two kids' sections. And there's a reason for that. I always had a philosophy that parents should not have to watch a 45-minute video to just see the kid sections. So I also filmed that day, Explore uh Looney Tunes movie town and explore Kidopolis, I believe it's called. Um, so those are two separate ones that will be coming out, you know. If not out now, they're gonna be coming out, you know, sometime in May. So three Explorers we filmed, which was great. During that time, after I got done doing the explores, I'm like, okay, you know what? Every coaster in this place counts to the 125. Because if you remember, any rides we did last year are not going to count this year. So we're not gonna go back to Hershey Park and just, oh, super dooboo looper again, super doobooper again every year, super dooboo looper again. No, this year they have to be coasters we didn't do the year before. This was a new park. We haven't been to this park last year. I mean, I got the credits in the past, but they I haven't rated them in the last year. So as soon as I was done with the explore, jumped right over to Wicked Cyclone. My god, Wicked Cyclone had a huge line. Yet again, front of line pass, probably five trains, four trains. You know, they were only running running one train, which made it even worse. But thank God for that. But we got on Wicked Cyclone, and I gotta say, it was a great ride. It was it wasn't a hot day, so I know rides kind of slow down when it's not hot, but man, this thing was flying. It hit the um uh the brake run pretty good. So, because I always know people talk about it, oh, it's two and a half times around, and maybe that half around isn't good enough with the height and stuff like that. It flew into that um uh station and stuff like that. Great ride, fantastic ride. Love that ride. Then I walked over and I saw Flashback was that was closed, and so was Pandemonium. So those are two rides. Now, don't get me wrong, no tears in my eyes for not getting on flashback. Flashback, one of the worst uh Vacoma um coasters I've ever been on. Uh it's it's pretty original, which isn't a good thing. Usually when you think, oh, it's the original this and original that, oh, it's vintage. No, the original uh, you know, hang and bang around your head, not great. The tracking is there. It it's an eyesore in the middle of quantum, because it's right next to quantum accelerator. It's kind of an eyesore in between those two. So, but it would have been a credit. So that was closed. And Pandemonium, which is their spinning mouse, was also closed. All right. So I'm walking through and I'm like, okay, I knocked out a Wikis Cyclone in this section, let me go. And I walk right by Thunderbolt, and I'm like, you know what? Years ago, Thunderbolt was considered one of the worst roller coasters we have ever been on. It scored really low. Uh at the time it was pretty rough. Uh the layout has always been kind of it's a figure eight, but it's not like a figure eight like you have with um Thunder Hawk over at uh Dorney Park. This figure eight, it kind of crisscrosses itself. And I was like, you know what? I'm gonna give it a try. I'm gonna give it a try. And I did not use the front of line pass, even though it was one train uh and it was there's a lot of kids in line. I waited the full half hour to get on it. And I gotta say, it was a much better ride than I remembered. So is it one of the best wooden coasters I've ever been on? Heck no. But it's definitely not considered one of the worst anymore. Uh the ride I got was very solid. Um, it was fun. You know, it wasn't anything, there wasn't much airtime. It was kind of pedestrian. Uh, what I did like was the fact I never realized it's kind of like right on a big drop-off. Uh so when you're there, it makes sense that it's right by the drop-off because the lower level is where DC Universe is. But, you know, looking over the side and being like, oh, that looks like a pretty big drop there. It's not the drop you're on, but you know, it was kind of neat seeing that. Uh, all in all though, Thunderbolt definitely exceeded my expectations, which is a positive. Uh, after that, I went down to the DC Universe and I had to use my frontal line pass on Superman the Ride. Now, if you're familiar with Superman the Ride, you know up until I think 2009, it won the Golden Ticket Award five, six times. So this was at one point the pinnacle of roller coasters. And there was an accident years ago, so the restraints are a little bit more restrictive than they were when the ride officially started. And at one point I love it because they have all the golden ticket awards, and then one year it was Bizarro, so it's kind of like, oh, okay, bizarro there. But uh, and for years, this was the king of this uh park, and people still to this day have the debate which one's the the top coaster. Is it Wicked Cyclone or is it Superman the Ride? I'm here to tell you that it is Wicked Cyclone. Superman the Ride is good, and don't get me wrong, the height is really nice. I think it's like 230 feet. It's right beautifully scenic, right up against the um uh Connecticut River, I believe it is. It is beautiful going up that lift hill. A slow lift hill, but beautiful going up that lift hill. Uh, but for me, like I said, it's a really good ride. I like the fact that it's kind of two rides put together. It's nothing compared to Superman the Riot of Steel Steel, which is over at um Darien Lake and was at one point at Six Flags America, might still be there. Um this one is kind of a mixture. The first part of it is all about airtime. You're going up and down the hills and you're popping out of your seat. Then halfway through it, it becomes a twister layout where you're kind of twisting a back and forth, some helixes here, you're going underneath the path, you're going over the path, and at the end, it gives you three bunny hills coming back. So you got the airtime again there, too. Really good layout, really good coaster. And don't get me wrong, it is going to move up on my list. Uh, I usually had it the lower, like 70 to well, actually, probably 80 to 120 was where it always kind of sat. No, the ride I had this time was pretty good. I had was near the back. I didn't get the back back, but I moved myself probably like three rows from the back. Um, the one thing I liked was I was a single rider, so I was able to, oh, okay, yeah. Oh, you want to even up your rows? Okay, I'll jump here. Oh, oh, you're going by yourself? Oh, do you mind if I jump with you there? I can maneuver and not wait in that line as long. Even though I had a front line pass, it still was a long ride. Um, there was a there was a weight to it. But I can't even imagine if I did not have the front of the line passes how well my day would have gone. So jumped on it. It is number two in the park. So don't get me wrong. It's not, oh my god, this ride sucks, man. Why would people like it? No, no, no. It is a the second coaster at this park. But to me, with the two rides I had, the gap between those two, it wasn't closed. A lot of people are like, oh, it's really close. It could be Superman, oh, it could be Wicked Cyclone. To me, it's Wicked Cyclone, then dot dot dot, Superman. There is a separation there and on that. But all in all, really good ride. And uh, you know, jumped on that, had a good time. So now I'm down there on the bottom side there, and I look over, and Catwoman's whip is closed. Now, I know earlier in the day when I did the walkthrough, it was open, so I'm wondering if there was a maintenance issue. But the other one they had there was the longest name ever for a roller coaster. Gotham City Gauntlet Escape from Arkham Asylum, uh, which is a mouse. Now, I went to go in line for this, and I I was starting to go into the line. I was in the queue, and I was looking at it, and I noticed the placards were gone. In the past, they used to have when you did your switchbacks, there'd be a villain on each one. I noticed that all those were gone. Uh the cars were still were still themed pretty awesomely, you know, to the villains and stuff like that. But I noticed I was gone. But then when I rounded the corner, I saw a pretty solid line. And I'm like, I'm only gonna stay until 5. So I got there around 11 30, started, you know, by 12 15 I was um starting to film the explorer. But that's a 45 minute video and stuff like that. So at this point, it's like 3, 3 30. I still had to go to the other side of the park, and I didn't mention this before, though, every time I went into a section, I did the let's eat. So when I was at Wicked Cyclone, I Did the food things there when I was over in the middle of the park? I was doing the food things there. When I was down in DC Universe, hey, there's a Johnny Rockets. So I was filming, and the thing about let's eat, let's play merch, it's an all or nothing game. If I miss any stands on the let's eat, that's all the comments I'm gonna get about that. It's gonna be, hey, you missed the the the beer, uh the uh pretzel stand in the back and stuff like that. So when I do these, I gotta keep in mind that I either gotta get them all or just delete it. So because of that, I'm looking at the line of Arkham Asylum and I'm like, I I I can't can't risk it at this point. So did not get that credit this year. May go back this year to try to check out the water park because I've never done the water park, and if I do, I'll pick it up then. So now I'm going through and I'm finishing up uh I did the uh Looney Tunes before the movie town. Uh I decided, okay, I gotta knock out uh Ketopia. So uh uh Kidopolis, sorry, Kidopolis. So I did that, and now I'm over at the Gotham City part. So there's actually two DC areas, so God forbid if they ever decide to uh Six Flags Drops this park. The amount of re-theming that this park is going to need to do with the Gotham City section and the DC Universe section, I don't even want to consider it. But I'm in the Gotham City section and I have one more front-of-line pass. And I'm looking at two coasters. I'm not gonna do the Joker, I don't uh enjoy the Jokers. Um, so and I knew I had a five and a half hour drive back, so I'm like, I'm not gonna do that, alright? Uh so Joker was off the board, but I was torn between Ridders Revenge, which is the Vacoma SLC, or Batman the Dark Knight, which is a floorless BM. And I only have one pass left. So I'm kind of going back and forth, and I'm doing my villain snacks, and I'm doing uh there's a Dirty Dogs, I think, is a hot dog stand back there, and I'm filming that. And finally, I was like, you know what? I'm gonna use it with Dark Knight. No offense to Riddler's Revenge. I know it is probably one of the best um SLCs with uh you know the retracking, repainting, the uh new trains, the uh new restraints. It's up there with the Great Nor'easter. However, the Dark Knight is a custom BM. So I jump on it. And the funny thing about this was so I get in line and I had a frontline pass, I used it. Uh and by the way, the system works really good. I bring my bag now. I don't really do lockers because uh and I had no problems with New England, but one of the problems I had, and if you listen to the King's Dominion episode, you know I wasn't too thrilled. They don't want you to bring your bag up there, but you need to bring your phone so you can do the um so you can scan uh the um you know the front of the line passes. But then your phone is literally sitting in a station, they have big signs, not responsible for anything lost or stolen. Well, you're forcing me to bring my phone, and it's very easy for somebody just to walk out and grab your phone. So I got into the habit now that if they're gonna make me do that, I'm bringing my bag. Because at least then it's more difficult for that, it's more obvious if somebody's stealing, stealing a bag. And also, I have a Six Flags America bag. Nobody else is gonna have a Six Flags America bag over in New England or in King, you know, maybe King's Dominion. Nobody else is gonna have it. I think it's the watermelon one. So I feel pretty confident in the fact that my bag's not going to get ripped off in the station. I'm not confident on the phone. So I brought my bag everywhere, and you know, nobody said anything, so I was happy about that. But if they were, I'm gonna say, you're forcing me to bring my phone. I want I can't get a locker because I need to bring my phone here. I'm not gonna have my phone sitting there. So let me know in the comment section if you agree with me or not. But got on the dark night, and I'm in this row with a family, and the dad was so scared, like closing his eyes going up the thing. And and his child the whole time was like, Come on, dad, come on, dad, open your eyes, dad. Come on, dad, dad, I have never seen a guy, it reminds me of me 20 years ago, just so petrified of every aspect of this. And he's like, How many times are we going upside down at the end? It was the 20, 25. I'm like, it was five, sir. Um, but it's funny to still see sometimes. I miss the fact that I don't have that fear, fear anymore. Don't get me wrong, when I do top thrill two, I'm gonna be a little nervous. Uh, when I do uh some of these other really tall ones, but this year I've done Pantherian, I've done um Sky Rush, uh, which we'll talk about later. Um another episode. I've done uh what's the other ones there? Uh oh, I did um El Toro. So I've done a lot of the big boys um here at Superman the Ride and all that. Uh I I can't even imagine what his life would be if he went on Superman or Wicked Cyclone. I mean, but it was neat to see that uh that fear again because you hardly ever see it. And then after that, I um headed out. I did jump in, I went to get in line for Villa's Revenge, and again, it was it wasn't a huge line, but it was a line I couldn't justify because at that point it's like 420, maybe 415. Uh, and I'm kind of like, I'm hungry. I just literally did a let's eat, and I'm hungry. I am hungry. So I'm like, you know what? There's a barbecue place. JB's uh barbecue, I believe it was called. And this was threw me for a loop because usually at most of these parks, you have when we do a let's eat, we have it broken down into signature restaurant, we have it broken down into table service, which would be a waiter, waitress, um, quick uh quick stop, which is you know a typical stand where you go there. I want to I want a burger, here's a burger, go find a place to sit, and then like snack bars or bar bars. I hardly ever see table service. This one was actually table service. You ordered it, and then you sat down with a little placard, and then a waitress brought it out to you, or or one of the people brought it out to you. And I haven't seen that in such a long time. I don't think it's a I guess it's a good system, so the line doesn't back up, but it's also one of those things, these poor girls are looking around trying to find a placard that says 40 and stuff like that, and there's outdoor seating where I was, so you're like how many times they walked around and go, damn it, it must be outside. Um, but I had the pork barbecue and my god, it tasted like heaven. It's been so long. Uh because I'm bartending over at Applebee's, so I've been eating, you know, riblets, uh, maybe that's about the only pork I get uh would be riblets. You know, I I live off a lot of Ultimate Trios and two for 25s, um, a lot of fried food and stuff like that. So to sit there and just have a pork barbecue sandwich with waffle fries was heavenly. And then I was like, okay, I'm over here back at crack uh crank axle uh area of the park, the western side, and I'm like, you know what? They have one of two of the best flat rides I've ever been on. They have a Houdini there, it's on top of the hill. It's kind of by itself. There's another flat ride there that wasn't open that day, but it's kind of on top of the hill, and I'm like, I gotta do Houdini. So I jumped in line quick and I did Houdini. I'm not gonna ruin Houdini, but if you get a chance over at Six Flags New England or Six Flags Great Adventure to ride Houdini, honestly, I was just thinking about it, riding Houdini was probably the last time I had that experience that that guy on The Dark Knight had, where he was like, what the hell's going on? What's going on? Oh my god, that's Houdini. So I jumped on Houdini. At that point, it was like uh five o'clock. And I'm like, all right, I'm gonna hop in the car, I'm gonna fill up my drink, um, fill up the drink because I got a long ride, and I drove the five and a half hours back. Uh so to recap, I did five coasters, I did Quantum Accelerator, Wicked Cyclone, um, Thunderbolt, uh, I also did uh Superman the Ride, and I did The Dark Knight. So I actually did, yeah, five. I did five uh coasters. I did Houdini, uh, but video wise, I knocked out Explore the entire park, explore Looney Tune Movie Town, explore Kidopolis, and our park day, because the reason why I decided to do our park day was because it was my 400th coaster. So that's a milestone. So let's, you know, put that together. And it may be out by now, uh, may not be. Um, you know, I don't know when I'm dropping this one, uh, but it's gonna be pretty close. And then I did a let's eat, and I'm curious to see how the let's eat works because I really think let's eat um may or may not be the one that needs to be done. Maybe let's play needs to be done, maybe merch is more popular. You know what? Let's we're we're gonna segue that into our next episode, which will be dropping in a few days, which is gonna be called by the numbers. And we're actually going to break down so if you are into the stats of um a YouTube channel, and on that end there, I'm just gonna lay it out for you because we have 520. Actually, we have a few more now, but when I did the count, we had 520 um videos that we did that are full length. Now, if you look at our site, we have like 1,500. We did a lot of shorts. Uh, we we're cutting back on the shorts now, but we did a lot of shorts early on to gain viewers and stuff like that. We're at 7800, 7,900 right now. We're closing on at 8,000 subscribers. Uh, a lot of that came through shorts. But we're gonna go through the 520 and we're going to break them down into the different categories that we do. We're gonna tell you the numbers, the raw numbers, and then how the percentages work there. And then together we're gonna figure out you know, I haven't done it yet, which ones make the most sense to ride uh to for me to video when I hit a new park. So, guys, once again, that was our trip to Six Flags, New England. Highly recommend the park. We may be back to do the water slides and then pick up those four or five coasters that we weren't able to get. But all in all, guys, I can't wait to see you in the queue in 2027.