Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 3rd October 2026

0:00From the Zedium podcast network, it's flage for an A-leaves, a little bit of pod. Welcome to a little bit of pod and guys, this could explain everything. Go on. More than 100 riders, now alleged brain injuries from Six Flags rollercoaster following a CNN investigation. Oh, which Six Flags rollercoaster? Well, so these complaints, these people apparently say that they've suffered brain injuries from the rollercoaster in the last two years. And this is the X2, which is the flagship ride at Six Flags in California. I've never been. Last year, our friends, I went along with our friends James, Zane, Mike and Ryan. And we all a little bit like a star. You've never been the same again. We've never been the same again. Okay, I want to say a video of it going, but I've got Google Six Flags rollercoaster X2 and it's all just news reports on the brain.

1:00Yeah, yeah. So there is, there was a news conference last Tuesday announcing the filing of three lawsuits against Six Flags. Yes. It's their biggest attraction. It's like people go from around the world. But it drills through seekers to this park. It's a rotating seat ride with near vertical drops and unpredictable movements. So are they getting dropped so fast their brains are rattling in their space? Maybe, yeah. And I remember this because it's the ride that I think we went on it. We had a fast pass so you can kind of get in there pretty quickly. I know it must be nice. If you can afford it, definitely do it because otherwise you're waiting in like special for rides like this for hours. You have to. It's incredible. It was an amazing ride. You just get off it just like what the fuck? I love to go because I've been to Nottsbury Farm and I've been to Disneyland. But Nottsbury Farm is a bit more adult based. But Six Flags is known as like the next step up in terms of like thrill, see. It's so good. You spend the whole day there. Incredible ride. It's amazing. So apparently, roll allegations are that the rollercoaster has injured riders back more than a decade.

2:03But it've largely been kept under wraps until the CNN investigation. Which documented some serious injuries. And apparently associated with two deaths. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Okay, okay. So I've got some stats here. Top speed 122 kilometers an hour. Yeah. When you've got no windscreen in front of you, I imagine feels more like 200. Yeah. Shhh. It's 1.1 kilometers long and reaches a height elevation of 61 meters. You must be at least 122 centimeters or what is that? Four foot to ride it. Wait, 61 meters high. At its highest point, 61 meters off the ground. Wow. Oh, I want to go. Isn't it funny I read an article like this about how dangerous and thrill seeking and terrifying it isn't I'm like, you get me there. I just love that stuff. It's so fun. Was it flame throws when you and on it? Did you get flame throws? Ah, flame throws. Flamethrower rings. X2 is carefully designed to keep you in total sensory overload the entire ride. Feel your sense of direction disappears.

3:03You fly through an unreal assortment of dives, slips and twists plus two ultra rare Raven turn. Halfway. Yeah. Change their minds midway and become shared drops. So I'm just having a look. What's it called? The ride. The X2. The X2. I'm just looking on YouTube to see if there's rides simulating and making going on. I was trying to find it, but all I could find was news reports. It's been open since 2002. Can you be back row? Describe as the world's first fourth dimension roller coaster. I thought the fourth dimension was time. Am I honest? Is this it? Or so you can get a YouTube clump of like someone's GoPro. Are they going backwards? No, they've pointed the GoPro back. So it's not what you would say, but they're at the back. But we're going high as all hell. Oh, yeah. So as it close now? I don't know. Because of these brand. I mean, obviously don't want to. Three weeks ago, there was something uploaded to America's Coaster Network, which is a YouTube channel.

4:07X2, the final ride, a cinematic tribute to tribute. Tribute. To slaves, magic mountain's wildest coaster. So yeah, maybe it has. Yeah, just while the lawsuits happen. No. What are you going on for? Well, I'm okay. That's right. You are. I just go. It does so good. Giving people brain damage. I don't know. Or are these people coming off and being, you know, all kind of damaged and then blaming the ride, but they were damaged all along. No, no, no. Maybe the damage was the damage all along. It wasn't about the journey. It was about the damage that we damaged along the way. The friendship was the real damage. Yeah.