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July 26, 2025 14 mins
Twists, turns, and that stomach-dropping thrill — roller coasters are the beating heart of any amusement park. But what does the future hold for these scream-inducing machines?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Fuzz, where we envision ideas we'll all
be buzzing about in the future. The Fuzz in the future, Sure.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
In the future, in the future.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
In the future.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
While the things we talk about on this podcast might
seem impossible or even slightly insane, so did magnetic launches,
five hundred foot drops and inverted coasters, And yet thrill
seekers everywhere are.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Lining up for more trail seekers. That's right. On today's episode,
we're talking about roller coasters. You know, those gravity defying
metal monsters that toss you through loops, drops and corkscrews.
Why you scream for dear life, But what will coasters

(01:13):
look like one hundred years from now? Let's take a
ride into the future, Shad, What do you think.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
I think we should do it, mostly because I'd probably
need to get away from you calling roller coasters metal monsters.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Scary metal monsters. I wish they were called metal monsters.
What if in an alternate universe roller coasters were actually
called metal monsters, not roller coasters.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Sounds like a better world to me, right.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah, I'm excited about this episode because roller coasters that
we enjoy in the summertime, not a lot of time.
Outside of that, unless you live in a warm climate,
we do not have a limited window of activity.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yeah, coasters all so interesting because they keep taking them
a level up, But it's a slow evolution, right, each
summer there's something new comes out and it gets a
little bit crazier than the last one. So year by
year we're like slowly ticking up a notch. So you
can only imagine where we'll go in say, one hundred years.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Well, you know, I think there's only one place we
can go from here. Let's step into the time machine.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
The year is twenty three eighty one. Vacations are boring,
gravity is optional, and your thrills. Welcome to Coast Reverse,
the galaxy's first interplanetary thrill, part because one planet just
wasn't enough for the adrenaline economy. Forget roar coasters made
of steel. Sure they're cute, but not here. Here they're

(03:01):
made of sound. At Coast Reverse, our rides are sculpted
from sound itself. High frequency vibration rails resonate through the
vacuum of space and hum you forward at face melting speeds.
No wheels, no tracks, just pure sonnet propulsion, and unlike
those physical fee park restrictions. At coaster Verse, there are
no height requirements, no turnstiles, no lines. You heard that right.

(03:25):
Your mind is temporarily untethered and your body is along
for the ride. Strap in metaphorically as you get launched
through a black hole inverted around Saturn's rings and blast
it into a loop that technically defies three known laws
of physics and one intertalactic zoning regulation. Because the future
isn't about physical thrills, It's about transcendent terror wrapped in

(03:47):
tasteful branding. Book Your launch window today, coaster Verse, or
the only thing standing between you and the universe is.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
An ironclad liability waiver.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
For a limited time, riders get a complementary on ride
photo captured by a psychic orb and edited in real time.
And yes, your terrified expression will probably be used in
a coaster Verse promotional ad. Remember that ironclad liability waiver.
That's your consent, Just verbally accepted terms, and you'll be
phasing through asteroid fields and screaming nebule loops before you

(04:19):
know it.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Coaster Verse, coaster Verse, What do you think?

Speaker 3 (04:31):
I think it sounds pretty intense, So let me see
if I've got this straight you're riding on sound waves.
There's no physical coaster.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Right, there's no physical coaster. The sound actually transfers to you.
How that happens not super documented.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
That's often the case.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
There's a little bit of language that I saw there
that says, there's like almost like this metaphysical thing that's happening,
but it's not a physical cost of sorts.

Speaker 4 (05:01):
Do you feel like.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
You're just floating there? Do you feel like you're actually
in something like the feeling?

Speaker 1 (05:06):
So, I don't think you feel like you're in a
solid contraption.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
Sounds terrifying. That would be fun in a base jumping
sort of way where you're just flying, but you know
you're on a track. Right, you're kind of following a
pattern I guess as you're flying through space and barely
missing things.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
I think there is something to this idea of thrill seeking, right.
I also like that they call it the adrenaline economy,
because isn't that what it is? The thrill seekers of
the world. They're looking for that next Like you said,
what's the next thing? How are we going to amp
this up? I think that's probably the evolution of that.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
Not only that, it's almost like what content creators are
now what YouTube is now? Maybe that's kind of almost
what this world has emerged to be. What are different
ways we can show people these crazy thrills?

Speaker 1 (05:57):
And you know, you get that photo capture by a
psychic orb. I don't even know what that is, but
it sounds amazing.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
Yeah, who doesn't want a photo of you screaming through space?
And you like, how'd you get that? You know, psychic orb?

Speaker 1 (06:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (06:12):
I wonder if you can see other souls.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
While you're riding. Oh that's a great question, crazy future,
crazy trip.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
Would you take our ride? Are you gonna do it?

Speaker 1 (06:22):
I think I would. I think After the podcast is over,
I'm gonna hop back into the time machine go for
this ride.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
Try it out?

Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah, try it out?

Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yeah, good one. I tried it out too. It sounds
like fun. Well, let me take you into a different
future of roller coasters. Step with me into the time.

Speaker 5 (06:50):
Oh right, this is Zarnad Jones. It's June seventeenth, twenty
two to seventy five.

Speaker 6 (06:57):
I just stumbled up from having the Hell the Transdimential
Screamer at Apex Amusement Nexus, and my brain is still
trying to realign its atoms into something vaguely coherent. Let
me try to describe what happened before I lose consciousness
from emotional whiplash and nano lung fatigue. First, you get
strapped into this thing that looks like the love child
of a spaceship and a medieval torture device. It whispers

(07:20):
soothing things to you, like you will not perish.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
Today, comforting.

Speaker 5 (07:25):
The operator tells you that the safety harness injects you
with a temporary existential detachment serum.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
To reduce screaming induced brain implosion. We start by launching up.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Not just wow, look the parking lot is getting smaller.

Speaker 5 (07:42):
I mean up through clouds, past weather balloons.

Speaker 4 (07:47):
And right into the stratosphere.

Speaker 5 (07:49):
I saw a flock of geese and aviator goggles give
us a salute.

Speaker 4 (07:52):
That's how high we were.

Speaker 5 (07:54):
At one point we hit holy crap altitude and I
swear I high fived a low orbit satellite.

Speaker 4 (08:01):
My ear drums were filing complaints with HR. And then
it happens. The ascension loop.

Speaker 5 (08:07):
The coaster does a slow, graceful three hundred and sixty
degree loop and a thin, icy vapor layer known only
to pilots and very confused angels. It was peaceful, transcendent.
I saw my childhood dog. He was running across a
cloud made of marshmallow, and he was definitely judging me.
And then the drop, not just a drop.

Speaker 7 (08:31):
The drop, the track just disappears, I mean it vanishes, poof,
and then the whole car goes vertical and fires us
like guilt out of a Catholic school into the Earth's crust.
You don't even scream, the sound gets left behind you
open your mouth and your soul exits first, looking over

(08:52):
its shoulder like nope.

Speaker 5 (08:54):
Then we passed magma dinosaurs and a guy named Carl
who got lost lunking in twenty ninety three.

Speaker 4 (09:03):
The heat thinks Satan's Jacuzzi. My eyelashes melted, and I
liked it. We hit the Core Loop.

Speaker 5 (09:11):
A zero gravity court screw through a spinning chamber of
liquid nickel. It smelled like burning regrets and chili. At
some point, I think the ride inverted time. We went
so fast I saw myself getting on the ride again.

Speaker 4 (09:23):
That version of me looked hopeful.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
What a fool.

Speaker 5 (09:28):
Then bam, the coaster does a reverse launch back up
through the layers of the planet like a deranged mole.

Speaker 4 (09:34):
Then we rock it back.

Speaker 5 (09:35):
To the surface, crashed through a holographic stained glass.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
Cathedral, and roll into the station through a chorus of
robotic cherubs singing.

Speaker 4 (09:43):
Ride again, Sinner.

Speaker 5 (09:45):
The coaster stopped and I fell out of the seat, sobbing, laughing,
and proposing to the nearest food kiosk.

Speaker 4 (09:51):
Would I ride it again?

Speaker 5 (09:53):
Only after therapy and a new pair of reinforced a
dradal glands.

Speaker 4 (09:58):
Twelve out of ten we lose the lava angels again.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
Hell yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
So that's from Heaven to Hell, the Transdimensional Screamer. We
got a review there from you know, somebody who had
just ridden it. That was a lucky find, that no
nugget of content.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
I mean that guy he should have his own podcast.

Speaker 3 (10:29):
I mean, I mean I think he might.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
So I come with questions, is this guy's review? Is
it just a regular roller coaster? It could just be
in his mind. He's like, I saw the angels at
my childhood dog and he was judging me, and then
I'm like you then you go down. He's like, my
eyelids melted or whatever.

Speaker 4 (10:51):
This is a great question.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
Is it his exaggerated hyperbole or is this thing actually going,
you know, to the edge of the space and then
to the core of the earth and back again.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
Because I love both possibilities. The one possibility of his
exaggeration is fantastic. The other of it actually happening like
he says, is also fantastic. Like I love everything about it.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
So yeah, and that's a question we don't know the
answer to. It's possible he's riding the tiniest roller coaster,
you know, like we'd consider a kid's ride. Now, maybe
they don't have any of that in the future. So
this is terrifying.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
Yeah, this is like his first time riding a coaster,
but he's like riding literally like those little baby coasteries. Yeah, yeah,
that would be So that makes it even better to
think that way, even though I love the picture that
he painted, and if those are literal visualizations that he's
giving us, great. I would love to see my childhood

(11:56):
dog once again. You know, I'm sure he wouldn't judge me,
but you know, you might.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
It seemed at least with some of that, right, it's
just a clever wordplay. But what if you want to
ride a roller coaster that was so intense it caused
either mass hallucinations or you're seeing.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
Angels or dead people or something of that nature. Are
you in, whether it's one or the other, I'm in.
I'm on that coaster all day. Here's what I love
about it is the branding for the coaster is amazing.
From Heaven to Hell TM. Yeah, it's trademarked. It should be.

(12:37):
If it's not a coaster, it should be a coaster.
I mean, how awesome is that name? It is good.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
I mean you get an idea of where you're going, right.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Like I imagine if it was a physical coaster, which
I'm not sure if that's what this is or not.
Could you imagine like having a coaster that they've burrowed
into the earth, you know, into the core of the earth,
and that's what you're experiencing. How far out would that be?
I mean that would be insane.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
Let me throw out a third possibility here, Zarnac Jones
didn't even ride a roller coaster.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
He's hallucinating, you mean.

Speaker 3 (13:17):
Yeah, probably less appealing that way.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
But yeah, I mean there's always that possibility.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
Yeah, there was the idea that the future could just
be filled with a bunch of people who are actually
doing nothing and going from nowhere but just producing, you know, content.
People are just listening to it and creating it.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
I mean, some might say these are at competing theme
parks in the future at Coast Verse and From Heaven
to Hell.

Speaker 3 (13:44):
Different spaces, different types of thrills. They could definitely be competitors.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
Yeah, I wonder if on from Heaven to Hell, if
you get a photo on the ride, you know what
that looks like. Yeah, he did not mention it, but
you know, he seemed to have a lot going on Zarnac.
Of course it's Zarnac. He's never really ridden that coaster. Well,
whether you're a thrill seeker and you're a part of
the adrenaline economy, the future adrenaline economy, or you're not,

(14:13):
you know, you're you're just someone who likes to hear
about coasters but never ride them yourself. Hopefully you got
a lot out of this episode, because we are in
the season of coasters right now. We hope you enjoyed
this episode of the Future of roller Coasters. That's all
for the Fuzz. Tune in next time for more of

(14:34):
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