# PNP Ep. 549- Days 7-12 of the 12 Days of Dorking

**Source:** Poor Man's Pinball Podcast  
**Type:** podcast_episode  
**Published:** 2023-12-23  
**Beat:** Pinball

**URL:** https://poormanspinballpodcast.libsyn.com/pnp-ep-549-days-7-12-of-the-12-days-of-dorking

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## Analysis

Orbital Albert hosts episode 549 of Poor Man's Pinball Podcast, covering days 7-12 of his '12 Days of Christmas' special while recovering from a shoulder injury. He counts down his top five art packages of 2023, featuring Scooby-Doo, Venom, Foo Fighters, Elvira's Blood Red Edition, and Elton John, interspersed with songs, personal anecdotes, and commentary on pinball design and the industry.

### Key Claims

- [MEDIUM] Elvira's Blood Red Edition is the second most beautiful machine released in 2023 — _Orbital Albert's personal ranking in episode 549_
- [MEDIUM] Stern is 'borrowing from Peter to pay Paul' with the Blood Red Edition release strategy — _Orbital Albert's critical commentary on Stern's pricing/release tactics_
- [MEDIUM] Elton John's Franchise art package on the lower-end model is superior to the higher-end editions — _Orbital Albert's personal assessment of Christopher Franchi's art direction choices_
- [MEDIUM] Elton John has flow comparable to Steve Ritchie's Star Trek and is a 'flow monster' — _Orbital Albert's gameplay comparison and design assessment_
- [LOW] Elton John will likely sell for 2-2.5x the price of a Stern Pro on the used market — _Orbital Albert's speculation about secondary market pricing_
- [MEDIUM] Scooby-Doo's art package is 'exactly what you expected' and perfectly executed — _Orbital Albert's aesthetic evaluation of the 2023 release_
- [MEDIUM] Godfather has superior artistic quality to other games on the list from a museum/university art perspective — _Orbital Albert's acknowledgment of Christopher Franchi's skill despite personal theme dislike_

### Notable Quotes

> "I did something bad to my shoulder, my right shoulder, and I've been on a lot of pain medication trying to heal... This is almost as bad [as breaking my arm in 14 places]."
> — **Orbital Albert**, ~2:00
> _Explains the episode's structure and format change for the '12 Days' special_

> "Everything was done very, very, very well. Everything was where you wanted to see it... everything was in its right place, if I had to quote Radiohead."
> — **Orbital Albert**, ~15:00
> _Assessment of Scooby-Doo's art package design_

> "I literally would sell my blood, my plasma, and my sperm to an underground clinic at pennies on the dollar... No, I'm just kidding. I would do crazy things for this thing. It's gorgeous."
> — **Orbital Albert**, ~27:00
> _Hyperbolic praise for Elvira's Blood Red Edition aesthetics_

> "It's got a higher flow rate than Niagara Falls. I'm serious. And it looks gorgeous. So we've got the first machine here that I can think of as long as I've been in pinball that is a flow monster with also just the most incredible art."
> — **Orbital Albert**, ~38:00
> _Praise for Elton John's combination of flow and art design_

> "I believe that Stern here is doing something in pinball that you should never do. And that is borrowing from Peter to pay Paul."
> — **Orbital Albert**, ~42:00
> _Critical industry commentary about Stern's release strategy_

### Entities

| Name | Type | Context |
|------|------|---------|
| Orbital Albert | person | Host of Poor Man's Pinball Podcast, pinball enthusiast and commentator, recovering from shoulder injury during recording |
| Drop Target Danielle | person | Orbital Albert's wife, briefly appears on episode to introduce segment in French, involved in Angry Alpaca coffee company |
| Christopher Franchi | person | Pinball artist, designer of Godfather and Elton John art packages, frequently referenced for artistic excellence |
| Zombie Yeti | person | Pinball artist, created Venom art package, ranked highly for overall pinball art output |
| Jack Danger | person | Pinball designer, described as having two hits in a row, designed Jurassic Park Home Edition |
| Keith Elwin | person | Pinball designer, less than 10 years in industry but described as 'best pinball designer on the planet' |
| Steve Ritchie | person | Classic pinball designer, created Star Trek which Orbital Albert references as exemplar of flow design |
| Jeff Teolas | person | Designer of Elvira pinball machines, described as easy shooters |
| John H. | person | Orbital Albert's late uncle, former radio host on CHRW station in Canada, ran 'Blues Never Die' show |
| Dave Clark | person | Drummer in Orbital Albert's punk rock band, passed away, honored with charity tournament |
| Dan Lazar | person | Pinball community member, known as 'Dan the Man,' fan of The Beaches band |
| Brad Hopkins | person | Pinball player from London, participated in Monday Night Pinball League at Call the Office |
| Poor Man's Pinball | organization | Podcast network hosting multiple shows including Poor Man's Pinball Podcast and The Drew and Ian Show |
| Scooby-Doo | game | 2023 pinball release ranked #5 for art package by Orbital Albert, Stern manufacturer |
| Venom | game | Pinball machine with art by Zombie Yeti, ranked highly for artistic execution |
| Foo Fighters | game | 2023 pinball release ranked in top 3, Stern manufacturer, requested addition of 'Big Me' song |
| Elvira's Blood Red Edition | game | Stern 2023 release, ranked second most beautiful by Orbital Albert, criticized for business strategy |
| Elton John | game | 2023 pinball release with Christopher Franchi art, exceptional flow design comparable to Star Trek |
| Godfather | game | Pinball machine with art by Christopher Franchi, not on Orbital Albert's top 5 list despite artistic merit |
| Star Trek | game | Classic Steve Ritchie design, benchmark for flow and shooting design |
| Stern | company | Major pinball manufacturer, criticized for Blood Red Edition release strategy |
| Angry Alpaca | organization | Coffee company operated by Orbital Albert and Drop Target Danielle |

### Topics

- **Primary:** Top 5 Art Packages of 2023, Pinball Game Design and Flow, Christopher Franchi's Art Direction, Stern Manufacturing Strategy, Elton John Machine Praise
- **Secondary:** Personal Health and Recording Challenges, Music and Pop Culture Integration, Community Events and Charity

### Sentiment

**Positive** (0.72) — Generally enthusiastic about the 2023 pinball art packages with specific praise for Elton John, Scooby-Doo, Elvira, and Venom. Critical commentary on Stern's business strategy tempers enthusiasm. Personal anecdotes and tangents add warmth but also indicate host fatigue and medication effects.

### Signals

- **[collector_signal]** Elton John expected to command 2-2.5x Stern Pro pricing on used market, making it unaffordable for average collectors (confidence: low) — Orbital Albert speculates: 'Even on the used market, it's going to sell for probably twice, what, two and a half times a Stern Pro?'
- **[design_philosophy]** Orbital Albert identifies Elton John as first machine combining exceptional flow (Star Trek-level) with top-tier art package aesthetics (confidence: medium) — 'For the first time ever we've got that [flow monster with incredible art]'
- **[product_strategy]** Stern criticized for 'borrowing from Peter to pay Paul' strategy with Blood Red Edition, suggesting aggressive limited edition tactics (confidence: medium) — Orbital Albert: 'Stern here is doing something in pinball that you should never do. And that is borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.'
- **[design_innovation]** Christopher Franchi's art direction choices on Elton John criticized for lower-end art superiority vs higher-end editions (confidence: medium) — Orbital Albert: 'I think Franchise art package does not have those cool like... I think Franchise topper should have been on the lower model'
- **[content_signal]** Poor Man's Pinball expanding to multiple shows including Drew and Ian Show relaunch, testing storage capacity at 90% (confidence: high) — We are at 90% for our storage capacity for all the different shows here on the Poor Man's Pinball Network, including Drew and Ian who are fricking back with episode one'
- **[gameplay_signal]** Elton John identified as exceptional flow design with flow rate compared to Niagara Falls, similar caliber to Star Trek (confidence: medium) — 'It's got a higher flow rate than Niagara Falls. I'm serious... it's a flow frickin' monster.'
- **[community_signal]** Orbital Albert organizing charity pinball tournaments honoring deceased community members (confidence: high) — Dave Clark charity tournament December 23rd featuring Monday Night Pinball League participants
- **[sentiment_shift]** Shift in appreciation for Zombie Yeti's Venom art despite acknowledging it's not his best work (confidence: medium) — 'Venom was done perfectly. I don't think it could have been done much better by anybody.'

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## Transcript

 fought giving every east east east east east east I'll chew the Keith's truth book but I don't even know, this time it was me, suffering in the third degree. Now the calendar's just one page, of course I am excited, tonight's the night I've set my mind up and don't do much about it. Offline broadcasting, streaming, online advertising, product bones, solicitation, there has been a Welcome back pinball nerds to episode 549 of your fifth favorite pinball podcast. My name is Orbital Albert and on today's episode, or should I say episodes, this Christmas special is brought to you by the letter O. For Orbital Albert we're going to be counting down not only one day of Christmas or two, but six days of Christmas. That's right. I humbly apologize. In the most boring story ever that I'm not going to go into details here, I pulled a muscle or stretched or ripped or overstrained or I did something bad, I don't know because I can't get into the doctor until Tuesday, but I did something bad to my shoulder, my right shoulder, and I've been on a lot of pain medication trying to heal. Like seriously, I've been a skateboarder for years, I've had bad pain before, I've snapped my left arm into 14 places before and this, although breaking your arm into 14 places sounds bad, This is almost as bad. I can't even pick my nose, guys. Come on. I can't, I can't, I can't. I'm a righty. I can't, I, you know, when you're going number two, I can't do the, you know, I can't, you know, I can't do that stuff. It's not fun. It's not good, but let's just get into it. We've got six episodes to do here. I didn't want to let you all down and not do them. So I wrote them all out at once. I'm going to do them here right now. But first, I'm going to get my wonderful wife, Drop Target Danielle. Welcome to the show. Hi! You haven't been on a lot of shows with us this year, but you've been very, very, very busy between our coffee company, Angry Alpaca, and also working. I just wondered if there's anything you wanted to say to all the awesome, rad people who ordered this year. Thank you so, so much. We really appreciate it. That's awesome. And because you do speak French, I'm not going to lie, I might ask you to write this out shortly before. You had very short notice to write this up, so if your pronunciation is not a perfectamando Oh, wait, that's Spanish? I don't know. If her pronunciation is not perfect to any of you Québécois listening or like from North Star Pinball there in Montreal or way over there in France, Le Flipper de France, if you're listening or even if you're in Holland or Germany, I know they speak a lot of French there, my wonderful wife Danielle here is going to be kind enough this Christmas to join the show only for a brief period of time. And she's going to introduce the first, I will call it, because we already did the first six days of Christmas, she's going to be introducing the seventh day of Christmas, also known as episode 549. So without further ado, go ahead, honey. Okay. Welcome back, Flipper amateurs, to episode 549 of your favorite Flipper podcast. Je m'appelle DropTaggerDaniel et aujourd'hui nous parlerons de les cinq meilleurs packages artistiques de Flipper. Oh my gosh, I don't know what you said. It was so funny, honey. I don't know what you said. I apologize, the speaker is a little bit further away from you. And it's possible that you speak a little quieter than me, but in English that translates to... Oh, the whole thing? No, no, no, no, no, no, not the whole thing. In English it's tell them what they're going to listen to. We're going to talk about the five best art packages of 2023. Damn, I love that. When you speak French like that, it gets me all like, wow, I get proud. I'm just like, that's my girl. Bye. Have fun. Drop Target's going to say bye to the nerds. She's going to wrap some prezzies. See ya. Wouldn't want to be ya. Don't nerd out with your turnout. Alright pinball nerds, let's just get right into it. The top five. Now I want to do something a little different this year. You're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, you do something a little bit different every year Orby. First of all, thank you to all the listens I got on the last six episodes. I attempted to delete like two episodes ago because I went on to the poor man's, you know, a little behind the sausage here, wait, behind the curtain, how the sausage is being made here. I went on there and I saw that we are at 90% for our storage capacity for all the different shows here on the Poor Man's Pinball Network, including Drew and Ian who are fricking back with episode one, which is really their second episode since they're back with the Drew and Ian show. I loved that. I loved being a fly on the wall. If you haven't listened, of course you have, but if you haven't listened, go back and listen to Drew and Ian show number one. You're like a fly on the wall at like kind of a fun, it's not a tournament, but I think they're all just there playing, having fun, shooting the shots, drinking some beers, The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., Mirco Playfields, Tim Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. Cue the music, please. We're all captains, man! Like, and we got our captains back! Like, they're in their natural habitat again! Rawr! They're out to be sloppy! Rawr! Let them go! Let the cougars go! I don't know. Anyways, love you Drew, love you Ian, glad you guys are back. Go listen to that show if you haven't. I'm trying to think, I think there was a new Pinball Junk Drawer, I haven't got to listen to that yet, but I'm excited to get to listen to that over the holidays. And I will just say this, props to, I had a really fun time in the episode. The Top 5 Ways to Save Money for Next Year. Even if you look at that and you go, oh, it's a chore. What are we here, what are we going to school, Orby? I want to have fun. I try to have fun during the episode, but I also think it's probably one of my most thoughtful best episodes I've ever had. So anyways, go back and listen to that one if you haven't. The other ones are, meh. You know, when you're just, when you're writing one a day for that many days straight, they're not all going to be gold. You know what I'm saying? Especially when they're not edited, they're straight off the cuff, they're unfiltered, just like my coffee. I'm unfiltered folks. All right, so let's get into this top five list. What I've done here, a couple of you, I got really, really good feedback. I did an episode this year. I don't want to be a Debbie Downer. I don't want to be a negative Nancy. I don't want to be a somber Sally, but I got to let you know that this year, unfortunately, my Uncle John, John H., passed away. Sorry, John, but you led a full life. You had a great time. I'm your radio show talk host on CHRW, probably one of the top indie radio stations in all Canada, certainly one of the top university or college radio stations. He ran the Blues Never Die for a long time. Unfortunately, that's not true with My Uncle John because he did. And the show still goes on. I believe it's still there on Wednesday night. If you do live in, well, you live anywhere. You can listen to indie, you can listen to CHRW online anywhere by just typing it into Google. And if you are into blues or jazz, that's a cool show. Younger gentleman kind of took over for him and is doing a great job with it. I believe it's still running. I haven't checked for some time. But anyways, on that show that I did a little tribute to my Uncle John, I played one song to go along with every single solitary, you know, like, like, point that I made during it. So I'm not going to do that for all six shows right now. That would be absolutely nuts. I want to respect your time. I want to respect my time. And our annual, like, we play a couple of games of poker during the year here. We all love Hold'em. I don't play for cash because it's with a 15-year-old and an 18-year-old, but I will go find a cool Pokemon box that's unripped or I'll go find some really cool cards or I'll go find... It doesn't even matter. It can just be a $30, $40 fun gift and the winner will get that. And then what we always do is Last Place has to do a load of dishes right after they lose, which I frankly love because you always need extra dishes done unless you're rich and you have a dishwasher, but come on. I live out in the woods in the middle of nowhere. I don't have a dishwasher. Like maybe like 1% of the people in my county are rich enough for a dishwasher. But no, with our septic, it's highly, highly advised to not have a dishwasher because we have a smaller septic tank and we live in an area full of Joshua Clay so it can't process that much water. This is boring. Let's get into it. So the first one I'm going to say for art packages, this is just my personal preference. Krantz, I'm going to do more for the nerds, but that was kind of just a little taste, just a little, a little, you know, a little something, something. So Scooby Doo, I would say Scooby Dooby, sorry, when I did it for the Twippies, I was more so talking about like my, what I think overall in society, what the pinball nerds in general would have loved. This is my personal preference. Like I just look at it and I go, wow. Now a good example of that is that... I'm sorry Franchi! Don't not send me those cards you were supposed to send me from Expo because of this, but Franchi, I'm really sorry. But Godfather didn't make the list. Now, just from an artistic standpoint, if you were to get like the top museum artists or like college or university educated artistes on the planet to look at it, they probably would tell you that Godfather is better than many on this list from an artistic standpoint. And it might be, but maybe I just can't stand the theme so bad that I can't see the forest through the trees. Or maybe just the art package wasn't Franchi's best. Could be a little bit of column A, a little bit of column B. But number five on this list is Scooby. That's right. I loved that art package. I think from top to bottom it was perfect. It's exactly what you expected. It did look like the norm, so it's not like they went out of the box to do like... I would say I don't want to like, I don't want to be blasé about it. I think everything was in its right place, if I had to quote Radiohead. But basically everything was done very, very, very well. Everything was where you wanted to see it. I don't think, I'm sure, okay, maybe Zombie Yeti or Christopher Franchi would be the two men on this planet who could possibly have maybe done a better art package than that. But I don't know. I don't know. I've never seen their scooby-doobs. I've never seen their doobs anywhere. But I sure will while I'm playing this song. So each time I name one of these top five art packages, I'm going to be playing one song kind of as a cheers to my Uncle John, kind of just for fun. Don't worry though, I'm not going to play more than a minute of each song. That also gives me a chance to maybe, you know, partake in some sociables, have a little craft beer here. I'm actually drinking a very strange blend that probably most pinball nerds would not Flat woah low in the back mystics decares me We're like, um, uh, what were those? Tearjerkers? Remember those candies you had when you were a kid? Or when I was a kid anyway, some of you might have been a little or a little bit younger, but there was these things called tearjerkers and you almost couldn't stand them in your mouth? That's how the first sip of the raspberry is. The pineapple's a little more like down to earth, but whoo, she sour. Well, I love both of these beers separately, but when you blend the two together, it's It's almost like if Keith Elwin were to get together with Jack Danger and make a pin together. Wouldn't that be insane? Wouldn't we love that? Because then you'd have like the guy who's been, I'm not going to call him a veteran because he's only been, you know, he's been in this less than 10 years, but I would say he's not an amateur either. You know, he's kind of a novice, even though he's like the best pinball designer on the planet, according to me. And then you have Jack Danger who's came out of the gates, like he's roaring like a ball. Like he's two for two. He's had two hits in a row. So it's like, you know, cheers Foo Fighters. He did the Jurassic Park Home Edition as well, right? So anyways, I've talked too long. We've got six episodes to get through. Holy shouts, it's already 12 minutes in. Let's go ahead and play a little bit of that epic Scooby Dooby theme. Scooby Dooby Doo, where are you? We got some work to do now. Perfect. Okay, that was enough. You've heard that a lot. We've heard it on repeat over and over and over. Now I'm not going to necessarily play a song from the game each time. That's just our little warm up there. We're just getting into this, okay? We're just getting into this. I tried to tie in something from the song to something from the game, but... Chef's Kiss, fuck it. I'm just gonna go all out here. A French, I will give a French Chef's Kiss to this next art package. That's right, Venom by Zombietti. Now I know some of y'all are saying Venom isn't necessarily Zombie Yeti's best art package. I would agree it's definitely not, but it's still incredible and it's still better than probably, if you look at the thousands of pinball machines that came out, probably better than 99.5% of all the pins that have ever came out. And of all the pins that are better than him, most of those are Christopher Franchi and Zombie Yeti. So he's not getting beat by many. I still think Venom was done perfectly. I don't think it could have been done much better by anybody. I still don't quite think it was as good as... I don't want to give it away, but maybe another one of Zombietti's art packages coming up shortly. So let's do a little bit of Venom by Eminem. I'm a talent all gelatin, think my skeleton's meltin', wicked, I get all high, well I think I smell the centebellum, fake manure, how I make a lure, screw it to hell with it, I went through hell with accelerants and blew up my, my, my stuff again. Volkswagen, Caspian, bucket mantas, my flaskin', mehwin, went from Hellman's and bein' a Ralph in Corfitt, Skrull Jam, Rivallympics, 97, Greeknik, how can I be down man? Bazaar in Florida, Bruce Rohn slept on the floor of the motel then Dr. Dre said, hell yeah, and I got his stamp like a postcard with the mailman And I know they're gonna hate but I don't care, I barely can wait to hit him with the stare and the facewear and the faces, fuckin' walk in a brick pan and get laced because that's gonna taste like venom RUNAWAY Rzzled Tow triumphed the Olympic sesame line Northwestern's C&K Ferrarichographions 5-1, 4-1, I don't know. Nobody was watching once they were up by 3 with 5 minutes left, but that was an awesome game. Cheers to you, Zombietti, because you also get number 3 of the top 5 pinball machines of the year for Foo Fighters. Without further ado, I'm going to play the best Foo Fighters song that was not originally included on the first package. I don't think it was on the updated one either, but I should really check that out. And if I'm wrong, go ahead and email me at pinballnerds at gmail.com. But if not, I guess I was right. Please, Jack Danger, if you're only going to add one more song, make it Big Me. The best song ever by the band... Excuse me, the Foo Fighters. Here we go, nerds! Hope you don't mind if I sing along. When I talk about it, it carries on, reasons only new. When I talk about it, it means all, treasons all renew. All right, guys, that was kind of fun. Please, someone put Big Me into the song and give me some of that Mentos. Mmm, yum yum. Super glizzy. Mmm, yummy. Love Mentos. Who doesn't like Mentos? If you have not seen the Big Me video for a while, put it on. It'll turn that frown upside down. They're walking around, they're going through limos, they're eating Mentos. I don't know how much money Mentos paid them, but that's probably of any movie, of any TV The Best Entwinement We've Ever Seen Between A Commercial Product Okay, There Was Maybe That One Doritos Commercial At The Super Bowl But It's Like It's Up There Right So Go Check Out That Food I Wonder How Much Dave Grohl Got Paid For That I Don't Know Maybe He Didn't I Don't Know I Have No Clue I Have No Insight Into That But Next We're Gonna Move On To Elvira's Blood Red Edition Now You Can Believe Me This Is Not The Last Time Don't Ever Drink This One Now, you can believe me, this is not the last time. Don't ever drink and drive. If you are going to drink and do something, it should be play pinball or podcast, because those things are probably safe. Even though it's not safe for me to be doing this right now, because I'm probably past the point that I should still even be talking into a microphone. But I don't have an edit button, and I don't have an editor, and that's why you're going to get it straight up from Orbs. All right, so, Elvira's Blood Red Edition. I'm going to say most of what I want to say about this later other than it's more than a chef's kiss. This is more like a chef's Zedjay. And if you don't know what a Zedjay is, you probably can't afford it. Alright, so, anyways, Elvira's Blood Red Edition. Gorgeous. Gorgeous. Like, I literally would sell my blood, my plasma, and my sperm to an underground clinic at pennies on the dollar and just hope I could produce enough to... No, I'm just kidding. I would do crazy things for this thing. It's gorgeous. Now, I've never got to... I'm probably the only pinball podcaster who's never played Elvira, not just the Blood The Red Edition, but any of them. I hear it's an easy shooter from Jeff Teolas, more about him later as well. But I hear it's a very, very, very easy shooter. I hear that people don't like it in tournaments because it tends to go on for evs. But it seems to be a really fun home game. It's really welcoming to newer players. It's really intuitive. I love the callouts. I like the shtick in it. I like the throwback to those old-timey movies. I like the sounds. I like the music. I like the animations. The Shots Look Good. So I mean I think I would enjoy it. Maybe, you know, maybe like a Lord of the Rings or Hobbit or whatever, maybe you don't want it, they play so frickin' long you don't want to have it in tourneys, but it doesn't mean it's not an incredible pin. And as someone who's now semi-retire, oh I almost said the other hard word, as someone who's now semi-retired from pinball podcasting, I really don't give a shatz about if it's very good at, you know, for tournaments. So anyways, I know what you're thinking. You're going to play that hokey-tokey Elvira song. Elvira, Elvira, Elvira. No, I'm not going to play that because ain't nobody want to listen to that. I'm actually going to cheat a little and play a song from my favorite band. And you'd probably be surprised that I'm not going to suggest The Beaches right now. And don't worry, I'm not going to sing along again. I apologize. I love that song from Foo Fighters. I've got to sing along with Dave Grohl to that song, seeing them live. Oh, I forget the music hall, but it was in Toronto. It was incredible on their Skin and Bones acoustic tour. But it doesn't matter, so I want to sing. And I apologize for singing. I promise you I will try my best not to sing to the very end of the episode because I've got a song lined up, and it might get me in trouble. I might get some smankings for this song, but I'm going to sing it to you. I'm going to sing it to you. Oh, my gosh, I'm losing battery power on both quicker than I thought possible. cheanadiesdombier betray jullie, peMOEf All the best! In fact, it's so pretty, if you look at it in person, you might just need some sunglasses. Because, whoa, whoa, whoa, I jumped ahead! What the, put down the beer or take another sip, I don't know. Let's go back to the Vira Blood Red. I'm going to be playing one of my favorite bands of all time, if not my favorite band of all time, Death From Above 1979. That's right. This, uh, Toronto band or Mississauga or somewhere in around there, the old GTA, got to see these These guys before live in concert had a rad time in it. I tried to come up with my favorite song that had blood in the theme and this is Blood on Our Hands. This is the Justice remix. This came off the Romance Bloody Romance album that was from Last Gang Records. This came out about a year after the original Blood on Our Hands. If you're not really into like, if you're not a big raver, you're not into techno, this is like a collab of like, you know, almost Rage Against the Machine and techno music I would say, uh, so if you're not into like, if you don't like this techno version of it, go over to YouTube and just type in Blood on Our Hands, uh, and you'll see it's from Death From Above 1979. That's more the rock version. This is more the techno version. The old Orby used to be a raver back in the day and do way too much E. Would've loved this, so I gotta play it for the old, the Ord, Old Al, the old Orby before Zach Meny even named me that. Alright, here we go. Elton John's I'm Still Standin'. No, that was the Elton John song I was going to play. But you'll have to wait to see what's for Elton John if it is even number one. Now is Death From Above's 1979, which is the year I was conceived in, by the way, Blood On Our Hands, Justice Remix. You're standing swayed from a bedroom where we're running from. I got a signal from the face of death You a mom on We Will Love Us Two I a sister I dancing yeah I never silent I shoot you one the one you need more You a superhero I gonna stone you I won be your slave I hate you You gonna go away If you guys weren't here, I'd just keep listening to that song and I'd stand up and jump around like I did when I saw them at the Ottawa Blues Fest. Man, I got punched in the head like, I don't know, six, seven times from that. A lot of the photographers, and I feel bad for them because they're there doing their job. They're at the front row of the mosh pit. They're doing their job getting video, taking pictures, all the media's there. This is like not the headlining band. I think the headlining band was like Alice Cooper or no wait maybe it was Rob Zombie. I don't know. I don't like Alice Cooper or Rob Zombie so I didn't go see. I mean I stood back and kind of watched but I didn't go in the mosh pit plus I was exhausted from Death From Above but they were one of the headlining bands the first year of the Ottawa basically the very first time that Death From Above played again after their hiatus and that night was absolutely insane. I ended up getting trapped in an elevator for like three and a half hours and unfortunately The night started incredible, but what happened is every time I'd be crowd surfing, people slowly throw you forward. I can stay up easily for a good solid full song if I've got a big enough crowd and people know what they're doing. Even at my size, I was probably 220 back then, maybe even 230, 240 before I started trying to at least watch my weight a little bit and be a little healthier. I just remember the same one photographer, two or three times I came down and crushed The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., Mirco Playfields, Tim Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. I got a message, at least from Dan the Man, who I will chat about later as well. Dan the Man Lazar was kind enough to let me know how much he loved the beaches, since he heard that time when I played the five songs from the beaches before I went to that concert. That concert was life-changing, by the way. By the last two encore songs, I ended up being like three feet away from probably my biggest musical crush on the planet, which is the two sisters that make up... It's completely platonic. It's just as from like one lead guitarist to another or sorry I should say rhythm guitarist and also co-lead singer. And I do want to shout this out. It's December 23rd right now. I know Brad Hopkins there in London shout out. Don't know if you listen too much anymore. Who was that other gentleman? I really liked him and I can't remember his name who got third. But there was quite a few people from the Monday Night Pinball League at Call the Office came out to my December 23rd charity pinball tournament I had on December 23rd a couple years ago. And it was a celebration for our drummer, Dave Clark, who has unfortunately passed away. And Dave Clark was just incredible. I was just in a shitty little punk rock band for, I don't know, maybe a year. We played maybe three shows, like one actual concert where like people came and I don't even think people paid, but like, you know what I mean? Nothing serious. We weren't that good. We just had fun. But unfortunately, Dave Clark's no longer here and we were able to raise a couple hundred dollars and toss it to the charity of choice of his parents and his parents came as well. And for a parent, for you to have to say goodbye to your kid is like probably the hardest thing on earth. But he had already been given two kidneys, one from his mom, then several years later, one from his sister. And unfortunately, he just wasn't, he was, I think he had the record for like the longest person to live with like artificial kidneys, like without their own in Canada or something, right? So Dave, cheers to you up in heaven, bro. I'm gonna have a little sip of my pineapple raspberry sour Dole Whip Tide & Boar Rate Meow. Cheers. A little moment of silence for everybody. Anyways, don't know how I got on that topic. These things happen. Let's keep going. We're on show one and we're 30 minutes in. I'm never gonna get through six, guys. Okay. Next on the list, you already know it's Elton John. And I was originally gonna play I'm Still Standing. I think that's by him. I was gonna look it up, but I didn't. J.F. I'm sorry, I didn't because I realized the only thing I don't like about Elton John, the only thing, okay, no, okay, there's two things I don't like, I just remember the second. The second is that Franchise art package does not have those cool like, and I love Franchise topper, but I think Franchise topper should have been on the lower model and I think Franchise edition of art should have been the highest model and then I think the topper they put on the highest edition. And I don't remember the names because there's like five different names from different people The best art package of the two are not even close. And I still like that art package. It's just to me not even nearly as good as the lower end one by Christopher Franci. So, uh, anyways, the night, here's the nightmare situation for me. I actually like that, the flow of that, and people have said for years and years and years, I even said right here on the Pinball Nerds Podcast, that my favorite pinball machine from a flow standpoint and a shooting standpoint, not a theme standpoint, uh, was Steve Ritchie's Star Trek, and I think this is pretty close to that. I mean, it's obviously not identical. I think he's added some shots, taken some away, but it looks to be a flow frickin' monster. My pet monster, a monster of a friend. But it does look to be a flow monster, okay? It's got a higher flow rate than Niagara Falls. I'm serious. And it looks gorgeous. So we've got the first machine here that I can think of as long as I've been in pinball that is a flow monster with also just the most incredible art And it's like, for the first time ever we've got that, but it's a nightmare situation because I'll never be able to afford it. Even on the used market, it's going to sell for probably twice, what, two and a half times a Stern Pro? I'll just never be able to afford it. And honestly, that's not my nightmare. And that's why I'm going to play Dreams Nightmare Remix, the ultra zany edition, by the Jersey Lawman. Now this is a much less, much or less known artist, only has 6,000 subs. This is a much or less known artist, but this was featured on the H3H3 podcast, my favorite podcast of all time, which is not even a pinball podcast, and I watch like religiously three times a week, but they are on vacation right now. Here is Dream. So Dream, you might know him. He formerly was a YouTube or Twitch Minecraft streamer. I just got some hot water recently, so I don't advocate anything Dream has done, but this song is fire. Pull me up, pull me up from the cage I've known. Oh, pull me up, pull me up by the roots we've grown. All the things you've said keep me in my head, wish that I could step into yours instead. You're so close but I'm on my own cause I just don't know where you go. Call me in, call me in, if you can take a look at me. Oh, baby I just don't know what you understand. Oh, it's good to see you got me in my head. John Popadiuk, The Willy Wacko Show, Se descobrikuł się, by Frithjof Achenbach, kompetitor Sauer Roger de Din Malm on 1. hearts com Todd All right nerds, there you go. Thank you for listening to that. I know that very few of you have heard that before, nor will very few of you care. It's not really an awesome style of music. It's sort of an inside joke between me, myself, and Orby. All right, so episode, that's right, on the 12th, no wait, on the seventh day of Christmas, Orby gave to me Alvira Blood Red Edition. So we just talked about Alvira being the second most beautiful of all of the machines released in 2023. But there's something not as pretty and not as beautiful, not as B-A-U-tiful that we have to talk about. And that is the fact that I believe that Stern here is doing something in pinball that you should never do. And that is borrowing from Peter to pay Paul. So what do I mean by that for those of you, you know, maybe who don't really understand where I'm coming from here? Basically, I would say that the Blood Red Edition was akin to buying pinball machines on credit. Again, is it the same as buying it on a home equity line of credit at like two points above prime or is it more like buying it on a high interest credit card? That's hard to say and that's where we're gonna break it down here. So, Elvira's Blood Red Edition, when they did that, what they did is they got a quick infusion of money fast because it looked better than any other edition ever done. However, at the same time they pissed off, what was it? I forget if it was 750 or 1000 LEs they did of Elvira. It doesn't matter. It pissed off every single solitary guy who thought they had the most beautiful Elvira ever. However, those dudes weren't just pissed off once. What is it? Once, twice, scorned three times a lady? I don't know. Fool me once, fool me twice, fool me the third time, you probably bought a pin from deeproot. No, I don't know. But basically, what I think is happening here is they are saying, we know that we have this The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., Mirco Playfields, Tim Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. And it was a super LE basically. That would have pissed off all the all the LE buyers who thought and then the super LE buyers and then they came out with that Alvarez 20th something edition like a year later and that would have pissed off the LE buyers as well as the people who spent like 25 and you know what I mean? Was that the same one? Am I confusing myself? Maybe. But then after that then they came out with the nicest prettiest version of them all. The one that everybody covets, the one that everybody wants. www.willywonka.com The jack fuuka doыв challenging知道 more than I can believe The Voyage ofым and my mean happiness pumps my bur τους I guess, but if you're going to buy some pinball and you're buying a Vyra's Blood Red Edition right now and you set it beside the $25,000 pin, you'll know forever that yours not only costs half the price but it looks better and it has a better chance of holding its value because of that. So if you introduce a pinball machine that has all the features of the last one and it looks better and it's half the price, you've now pissed off thousands of people and those thousands of people are slightly less likely to buy the next LE. So from a financial standpoint, there's 0% chance that Stern needed it. They were about to go bankrupt if they didn't do it. They just saw the advantage of doing it. And they had somebody in there who said, hey, if we make it look prettier and we, you know, and I'm not even like, I am for profit. I'm not a commie or something like that. Okay. I am a very for profit guy. I'm a small business owner. I voted libertarian in the past. Okay. Which is far right of center. I don't talk about politics on the show, but I'll just say I voted left. I voted right. I would say right now the premier of Nova Scotia is conservative and I would strongly consider voting for him again the next election even if I didn't vote for him in the last one. So, but there's positives and negatives of both sides. I consider myself near apolitical. It caused arguments and strife between family, friends, coworkers for far too long. I now just choose to not really talk about it. I don't even really know which side is right and I don't want to know because the time and energy it would take to try to assess that would be near impossible. So that's why Orbeez Podcast drama free since episode 493. Y'all know that so I'm not going to talk about it. But I will say this, that sitting in the Stern, if I were there, and I've had the opportunity to work at some very large companies and sit in, I even helped consult on, I don't talk about this very often, but a really rad company called Illbrew and Goose. And I think the owner, Dan, would be quite okay with me mentioning this. The Story of the Homingbird Homestead Banner was created by Daniela and I. They are the most successful brand of fashion in the world. In the world they are the most successful brand of We did their bug spray for them. We've been thousands of dollars a year. It was the best selling all natural bug spray in Canada. In London, Ontario hands down. Anyways, that's not the point. I've gone off topic a little bit here. I do apologize. The point is that every time that Stern has to sit down from here on out and they're in the boardroom and they have to say, guys, but why didn't the alleys sell out? Why didn't they even sell through to distros? You're always going to think, mmm, fuck dude. Like should we have done that Elvira Blood Red? Should we have borrowed from Peter to pay Paul? Peter is right now. Peter's who you're borrowing money from. And Paul is future Paul. Paul's like he got in the DeLorean with Doc and Marty and he traveled into 2025 when it's still probably a little bit of a bear market. I don't want to say that, but probably a little bit. It never is good. We were in a once in a generation. What you saw in COVID, the guys who jumped in and only bought pinball machines then because they could make money on them constantly and own them and that now they're leaving, those guys are gone forever. They're not coming back and that's okay. We don't need them in this. And those guys are fine too. So what? They saw something cool and they jumped on it. I'm not mad at them for doing that. I hope they still go to a pinball arcade once in a while, buy a craft beer, get some food, support anywhere locally that has pinball, but especially really good pinball arcades that have not just awesome craft beer. I think that's a staple of an awesome arcade, but really maintain their machines, right? So anyways, what I will say to just end episode number seven of the 12 Days of Christmas or number two for today is that I think that Stern has got to be really careful. From time to time, if they make another version of a game, it's fine, but don't make it better Don't make it prettier than your previous LEs. Don't make it prettier than every machine you've ever made and half the price. Like next year if you came out with another James Bond 70th edition by Keith Elwin with a better, and believe me, that's the only thing lacking on that pin is the artwork. So if they did come out with a new artwork for it and they just offered it 20k again, so you don't piss off all the guys who paid 20 or 22k. Like don't offer it at eight grand and go, oh but it looks way better than Keith Elwin's other one. Don't do that. I know the whole, I know many of the Pinball Nerds are mad at me. They're like, why? I want them to make a new package of an OfferDK. That would be good for the hobby, but bad for Stern's future sales. And anyways, I've gone off topic. I've talked about this topic too long. Something this was related to, we're going to go into now. So on the eighth day of Christmas, Orby gave to me, yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck, Buying pins on credit. So it's something that's been brought up this year a couple times by a little bit of drama situation that may have happened between Don and Kaneda. So I do want to talk about it right now. I have a Guardians of the Galaxy Pro here that I bought 100% on credit. I pay 6.5% right now, so it works out to be a little under $500 a year that I would pay for a $9,000 pin. I actually do think we had about $1,500 cash we threw towards it, so we probably only put about seven and a half on our HELOC. But because we had a lot of room left on our HELOC, and also because I promised Danielle when I sold all of those other pins because we needed the money, I said when we have access to money again, I want to buy at least one pin to have at my house at all time. It's not because I'm a pinball podcaster just out of vanity and my ego is bigger than Massachusetts, Massive two-tests. It's because I love playing at home. And I love playing at home. And you're like, wait, don't add in another pinball podcast. I'm going to add in another little segment here, or at least idea or opinion. I didn't answer this ever from Colin at the Kineticist. The other part of your top five pins of all time was what do you love the most about playing pinball? And pretty much everybody said the same thing that I was going to say, and that's why I didn't want to say it, which was like playing with friends. Of course I have the most fun playing with friends. Of course I have the most fun playing a big pinball tournament, getting to finals and winning the sucker, right? Of course I have the most fun just even shooting the shots, having a couple of brewskas, maybe smoking a cigar or something else, you know, and just having fun and playing with friends. Of course that is the best part about pinball, we all know that. But my answer to that question, my honest question, my honest answer to that question I'm going to give you a little bit of a rundown of my favorite things about playing pinball. The first thing is that it is the best thing to do to burn time. It is the best thing to do to distract you on the planet. Quite often when Drop Target Danielle gets home from work, I'll be playing pinball. I will have cleaned up the house that morning, played some video games in the afternoon, maybe did some parenting that morning, a little bit that night, maybe did a podcast, maybe www.ğıyusexgrn.com I know I said that 80s song way too much at the start, but you know, what can you do? Merry Christmas, Glenn, Glenn the Skateboarder, Tim the, well, I call him the Lion Man. I think Lion Man is something else in pinball. I don't know what that means. I've heard people say it, but I call him Tim the Lion Man Lee. Each and every tribe member, every one of you buttholes, every person who is on the Poor Man's Pinball Facebook page, cheers. Thank you for all your interactions. Thank every person who's ever listened to any episode of my show this year. Thank every content creator. Whether or not I like you or agree with every word you say, thank you for all your hard work because it's so hard to sit here and just give your opinion, especially, I'll be honest, I would say a solo podcast is probably harder. The only reason that a podcast where I'm interviewing someone is harder is trying to get our times lined up. Once I'm actually on there and talking to them, it's great because I don't have to talk I'm going to talk for more than half of the episode, or at least I shouldn't, right? So I'm trying, I will do, I'm bringing back interviews next year. I will say this, I'm going to do, do, do, do, lightning round, mini top five for next year, five ways my show's going to be even better next year. A, less coffee advertising. I'm sorry, I kind of needed the money and I was trying to sell through product, but no, less coffee advertising. I hear that loud and clear. In fact, I'm going to take this moment to say the number two difference is that we've got a new sponsor and it's Cosmic Collectibles. I know y'all rather hear me talk about sports cards or comic books or something rather than coffee. Am I right? Am I right? Or am I right? The number three thing is I'm going to talk even less about my personal life. I'll probably deviate to it from time to time, but I know even Christopher Franchi, one of the best pinball podcasters of all time, told me, Orby, you've got to talk less about your family, your friends, what you had for lunch, how many times you farted, and what your burps smell like. We want to know about pinball. So I'm going to try to keep it pinballerish more often. It's not going to be perfect. I'm also going to try to go off topic slightly less often. I'm also going to try to keep the shows slightly shorter. And definitely do way, way, way, way, way more interviews. But let's go back to buying pinball machines on credit. When would be a good time to buy a pinball machine on credit? I actually bought a pinball machine from Mike Dimas and I didn't buy it specifically off credit, but for the next month I knew I had all these expenses coming in that I couldn't jr said new But remember, 18 or 16% actualized interest rate is between 40 to 50%. That means if you owe $100 for a whole year on that card, you're not going to pay 18% interest or 16. You're going to pay between 40 to 50%, which is 40 to 50 bucks and not 100 bucks. So if you have 10 grand on high interest credit, like most pinball machines cost that or more, you're going to easily pay between 40 to 50%, which is 4,000 or 5,000 interest. So no, I do not advise you to buy a pinball machine 100% on credit. But if you have to use your mortgage or your home equity line of credit, who cares? Now Zach Meny didn't, he didn't, he is not sponsoring Pinball Nerds Podcast. He didn't call me and tell me to say this. All the distros across North America didn't write me, like Jersey Jack didn't, I didn't get a message from Ken Cromwell this morning saying, oh Orby, can you please make sure that you try to talk to people to use their credit? No. If you have a home equity line of credit that's sitting at 1, 2, 3% above prime, who cares? You're paying a couple hundred dollars a year. You're going to save that in the number of plays you get on that particular pin. Now, if you own like 20 pins, maybe don't buy a pin on credit because you already have 20. But if you're like me and you just don't have 10 grand extra sitting around and you have to put it on your home equity line of credit, which I think in America you have that, but basically it's like a mortgage, right? And you can do it and only pay a couple hundred a year in interest and it brings that much joy and excitement to your family. In an ideal world would you ever buy pinball on credit Probably not But we only live one time And I can tell you right now if we got hit by a frickin nuclear bomb tomorrow of Russia and Ukraine I don know whatever happening China I don know whatever If something bad were to happen COVID I sorry Ian whichever Ian doesn like you to mention that from the final round But if something bad were to happen I would look back and go well I didn have a pinball machine at my house for the last three years so I could pay down my mortgage quicker Fuck that I would much rather have the joy and especially living in the country where it's an hour round trip or sorry for me the closest pinball machine is like 45 minutes so it's an hour and a half round trip to Sackville and they only have three old solid states 1EM and Jurassic Park which I love but I'm you know I'm sort of sick of so anyways I did want to talk about that I wanted to have an open and honest conversation I did have a friend who did buy a pinball machine 100% on credit and I I know he used high interest credit, but he also knew he had a big job coming up. He was going to get lots of overtime. He makes like $35 an hour, so with overtime he's going to be making like $50 something an hour. And he did pay it off in three months. So if you can pay it off in three months, you only end up paying a couple hundred bucks interest. That's probably not the end of the world. He didn't buy the entire thing on it, right? But he was afraid he was going to lose his deal. So that's another time it might be worthwhile. Let's say you can get a pinball machine that's normally ... I don't know, I'll say like ... I'm Using extreme example, but let's say that you could find during the height of the pandemic when Jersey Jack's Pirates of the Caribbean was selling for 20k. I think it's down to like 15 now or maybe even a little lower. But if you could buy it and say you had a friend who said, oh, I bought it for 12, I'm going to sell it for 12. And you had to borrow a little money and you bought a little money. You bought the machine, you played it for a month, loved it. You sold it for like, I don't know, 18 grand. You made 6k. You toss your buddy like a grand just for like, hey buddy, like thank you so much for that awesome deal. Wanted to give you some, maybe you give more, I don't know, it depends how good a friend you are. But the point is, if you have to do some situation like that, like the deal was just too good to turn down. I once bought a car on credit, a Corsica, Chevy Corsica, remember those pieces of garbage? My buddy went to the Honda dealership to buy a brand new Civic and they said, oh, we'll give you 500 bucks for it. I said, Pete, and some of you who know Burnout Pete, that story from a long time ago, that's the same Pete, best friend for years, shout out, my buddy Pete there, good old Shedden or London, Ontario, or Dorchester now. But I told Pete, let me pay you $1,000. He goes, you're not going to get more than $1,000 for it on the market. I said, yes, I will. Let me pay you $1,000 tomorrow. I paid $1,000 for it. I got it safety and e-tested for I think $175. I cleaned the whole thing, spent all day getting rid of the stupid skateboarding stickers in the back thing. My fingernails were bleeding by the end by the time I got everything done and cleaned. It was beautiful. Put it in the newspaper back then. Remember pre-Kijiji and everything? This was like 2000 or something. There was internet but there wasn't that much internet stuff was still done in my newspaper and I had like nine or ten people showed up the day and time I said I would be there and the very first people offered $100 more than I'd asked for. Well, when Pete found out that I bought it from him for $1,000 and sold it the next day There are also some strange and alternative ideas of how to put your pinball machine on aежlr link in the description box below. You'll also see a first-hand-nova cover of the Pinball Mesh video in the description box, so make sure that you're in that middle position by asked to moiste this article, CBS News On Celebration I'm going to rock and roll a little bit more, but I'm going to go quicker here. Number four of the day, also known as on the, hold on, I can't do math, 10th day of Christmas, Orby gave to me his top 10 most rad content creators. So I really wanted to talk about this. I didn't want to be too, like I didn't, I don't want to be dramatic about it or anything. I hope people know that I had a couple of beers when I wrote up this list and wrote I'm a big fan of the show and I've also had some pain medication that I'm not even really supposed to be mixing with alcohol at this point. Do as I say, not as I do kids, I don't know. Do your own thing, do your own research, you guys will figure it all out, probably shouldn't be doing it. But I am killing my liver and kidneys right now for you guys. Taking a little bit of the old ibuprofen to get rid of the swelling in my shoulder, while also having some beer so I can be a little bit more fun. And, uh, honestly I would have had some beers tonight anyways, uh, while playing our pinball tournament. So, here they are, just off the top of my head, this was off the top of my head, I started with number one and came backwards, okay. Um, I don't want anyone to take any, this is, yeah, this is just for fun. So, when I filled out my Twippy ballot, I gave what I thought was the top three, like, like just from like an outsider standpoint, I tried to be, I tried to drop my biases at the door, okay. Leave your stories in a sack, sir. Number 10 on the list is Tom from Tom Talks. He's got something to say, Tom Talks. You don't know if he'll ever talk, but he might talk. But usually he doesn't, but he might talk. No, Tom Talks. Tom from Fox Cities Pinball. He does really, really awesome pinball streaming. Love all of the commentary, at least when he's talking. He's there at D82 a lot, District 82 of course, world renowned pinball location. He's also part of Triple Drain of course with Travis and Joel, so love him on both of those. So cheers Tom, thanks for all that you do. You've been deemed by Orby to be in your top 10 most read pinball content creators of 2023. Number 9 is Mike Dimas, showroom of Pinball Shenanigans on YouTube, y'all know him, and And if you don't, go check out Pinball Shenanigans on YouTube. Number 8, Joel Engelbreth. I'm not a good pronouncer-nator. I am not. A lot of people F up my last name, Agar, and they call me Albert Agar, or they just call me Garth. They're like, what's up Garth? Not much, what's up Lane? Car, game on! Alright, number 7 on the list. I can't even read my own writing. It's Martin Robbins, formerly of Head to Head Pinball, currently with Haggis, of course. We don't get to hear from Martin nearly as much as we get to hear from his co-host there, because his co-host also has another pinball show and is a pinball commentator and lives in North America. But I love everything that Marty has done. He just doesn't really give two shits. He has fun. He takes a piss out of everybody. He's good buddies with Ryan Say. Like Ryan Say would have made the list if the Dingo didn't eat my baby when they was having some shrimps on the barbie. Oh my god, my Australian viewers, they're gonna, they're ending the show right now. I just got cancelled. I got cancelled all at once. The only thing worse would be if I did like Irish Pirate, but I'm not gonna, it's not gonna happen. It's not gonna happen. I can do Dutch though, guys. Welterduste. I can do Dutch. Oosterblief? Ach, verdomme't. No, I won't do Dutch. I won't do Dutch. Marty Robbins, cheers to you. Thanks for doing all the hard work you do with the pinball company, with Haggis, and then on top of that also still doing the final round, so that's awesome. Number six on this list is Bruce Nightingale himself. Brucey, good ol' Bruce, I love you bro. I know you listen to the show, you've said it several times on Slam Tilt, but Bruce, you were at funding, you could have been higher up on this list, Bruce, and I know that's all you wanted in life was to be like, I got number one on Orbeez list, yeah! Woo! But he can't say that, because he's down there at Numero Sisa. Because not just because he doesn't visit me when he was up here at Fundy Flippers, but you know, he's only on one podcast, like what is that? Like all the other guys on this list are so busy, they're streaming, and Bruce is like eh, yeah he's got some type of like, you know, he's got the, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, I'm supposed to remember it. I was going to say the Delaware Pinball Collective, but it's not. The Rochester, Rochester. How could I forget that? Something, something, West 80 something street. I forget. Go listen to Slam Tilt. Bruce will tell you where it is. Google it. Google will tell you where it is. Love you, Bruce. I'm just fucking with you, bro. I don't really give a shit that you didn't hang out with me. You know, you're probably on vacay with your wife or something like that, so you weren't going to be calling. And honestly, I didn't hear you hang out with David Dennis, because if you hung out with David Dennis, then you didn't talk to me. It's like, oh my God. You'd be in the same boat with Kaneda over there. I wouldn't be talking to you. No, I'm just kidding. We would never put you in that boat, Bruce. I wouldn't do that. All right, number five, David Dennis himself. What up, Silver Ball? Silver Ball Chronicles, the man. He used to do some live streaming. David, I'd love to see you do some more live streaming. One of my favorite live streams, in fact, of all time, if not maybe my favorite. Dave and I, Dave brought me over to his house. He made up some awesome ribs. I brought him some gluten-free beers. I brought myself a lot of not gluten-free beers. We did a live stream. It took forever to get everything working because I hadn't done a live stream since Ontario because I hadn't had fast enough internet. It was great. We did Simpsons for like three hours and I think we did like maybe two hours of Tron. That was an epic marathon of a night. I probably was hungover for about a week, but David Dennis was the hostess with the mostess and I had a great time there. Him and his wife were just incredible. They were awesome hosts. I had a fun time. You know, if I still livestreamed, I would, you know, consider begging him to let me back there to do it, but I don't really do that too much anymore. Who knows? So maybe 2024, things will change. Guess we'll have to see. Number four on the list, the top 10 content, most rad content creators of 2023 is none other than Kerry Hardy. You've said it before, he's by far my favorite YouTube creator. I like that it feels like he's very unfiltered. Kari Hardy is kind of like, I feel like he is to what I am to podcasting to YouTube, except for he's way better at editing, his stuff is way funnier, he's better looking, he's nicer, he's more genuine, and he has a way better pinball collection. But you know, besides all the important, no I'm just kidding, Kari Hardy, sorry, but Kari Hardy, I do like that, and all things aside, unfortunately, he made what I think was a Pretty tame video about American Pinball and they took him off the media list for Expo. Not cool, Expo! It's like if American Pinball could even be less cool, they would have to get, you know, they would have to like talk to someone from Expo to, or I guess David Fix works with them, to say oh no you can't be, because he said one thing we didn't like about GTF, even though he did so many like videos where at least from the, for the most part he said positive things, but because he was honest, oh you told the truth in a nice way, oh I'm sorry I'm sorry you told the truth. That was BS. If you want to ban Kaneda from a freaking media mixer, cool. I totally get that. I don't necessarily agree with it, but I get it. I get it. But Kerry Hardy being banned from anything? This man has put thousands of blood, sweat, and tears. If you're listening to this right now, go become one of this guy's Patreons. Go help him out. Honestly, he has done so much for pinball that he doesn't get credit He's probably the most underrated creator in all of pinball. Alright, next on that list is Joe Chervino of the Pinball Degenerates himself. And remember, the Degenerates is the Degenies. The most degenerate pinball award show on the planet is coming up in less than two months. Excited for that. Joe's been doing a lot more live streams and really interacting and he's really putting himself out there. TheM Clinton Channel I have the hoodie which is incredible. It's my warmest hoodie. It looks awesome. I love all the artwork on it. I love all the stickers. Even today, today I got to send out all my orders for Angry Alpaca and Joe was one of them and I got to ironically he ordered the Pinball Nerds tee that the very last one in fact that has Orbeez pinball degeneratized you know animated picture on it and then he also got the card and I also fired him off just for fun because I know he loves the Blue Jays. atau estab salah bloody, charger on peggy hmm fc winds bobuchet rookie cardaaa de Groot super extensive cargo really cool looking card and kind of fun if he gets that bad boy sign when he goes to see the Jays it would definitely definitely increase value all right so the next on this list is ron Howard all right from slam kill pinball and silver ball chronicles and he also does captioning af extingula live streaming quite often when they record HGTV's on youtube http://www.youtube.com.au http://www.youtube.com.au Number one on the list, Mr. Jeff Teolas! Come and get that crown, boy! Yeah! Jeff, I love you, Jeff. Not only are you killing it on my favorite pinball podcast currently, The Final Round, but maybe more importantly for the pinball community, you work your butt off for also Pinball Profile. And I think you're at like 400 episodes of Pinball Profile, probably like getting close to 100 episodes of the other one now. So Jeff and I have almost done like the same number of episodes. The big difference is his episodes are good. Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Why don't you go Jeff yourself? Merry Christmas! No, I love you Jeff. And oh, and above that, Jeff also does some of my favorite color commentary for all pinball commentating. He does know the rules fairly well, but quite often he's sitting in the booth with someone who might know the rules a little better. So he adds a lot of color and I really think that he works hard to ask the questions that the viewer would be asking. And that's what I love about listening to Jeff. I think he's a great commentator. I think he's a great commentator. I think he's a great commentator. I think he's a great commentator. I think he's a great commentator. I think he's a great commentator. I'm going to might know the rules a little better. So he adds a lot of color and I really think that he works hard to ask the questions that the viewer would be asking. And that's what I love about listening to Jeff Teolas do commentary. I think overall Jeff is just great for pinball. He does the in-between cuts quite often to when you have winners of a big tournament and that sort of thing. I'm going to have a little sip of this beer. Cause my throat is getting perched. All right, so cheers to all those content creators, and I know I left a whole bunch out here. I probably should have had Don, I just remember that, I was like Don from Don's Pinball Podcast. Probably, Don would have slid in at number 11, and I do, I don't want people to think that like, Zach from This Week in Pinball, or I guess I should say five years ago when he switched over We are now moving over to um, uh, The Pinball Show. Sorry and then there's obviously Chris from Kaneda's Pinball Podcast. I think that they are both very, very, very entertaining. They didn't quite slide in there either, but I think they're both very entertaining. I disagree with a lot of what both of them say fairly often. I mean, not a lot, not like 90%, but a good amount, typically. So maybe that's why they didn't squeak on there, but I just, those ten people were the top ten that I thought of, in the order that I thought of them. So that's how that works. Yeah, and I guess I get to choose who's most rad because it's my show, right? All right, number five for the, so, blah blah blah blah doing the math, for the 11th day of Christmas Orbie gave to me Falling Out of Love with Jack Danger. All right, this isn't gonna, I don't have any, like I'm not spreading any rumors here. I'm not even going to say anything negative or rude about Jack because I love Jack, but I loved Jack more and I loved Jack better as a pinball creator from a personal level. Now, it's arguable to say that as a pinball designer, he gives back more to the pinball world, certainly for himself, for his own, like, I don't know, like he's very humble. I'm sitting in a little bit of liquid. But I will say this. I love you Jack. It's just me personally, probably of all the pinball content creators that I just named, I spent more time in Jack's dead flip chat than any of them. Probably more than most of them combined. I hung out with this man. I remember I even went through a tough time like I don't know six seven years ago and it was really really cold one February in London there wasn't much going on yes every single Monday night I went to Monday Night Pinball I called the office every single Thursday I went to All You Can Play every single Friday I brewed beer I brewed over a hundred beers through the London Home Brewers Guild with the Plaid Brothers so I have an affinity for craft beer as well those dudes liked pinball as well but they weren't like they weren't coming out to pinball tournaments very often shout out Travis and Steve shout out But I absolutely, absolutely forgot what I was talking about. But, where were we here? Okay, okay, okay. Falling Out of Love with Jack Danger. I spent probably 20 to 30 hours feeling very intimate with this guy, talking with him quite often. Like, I felt like it wasn't even, I felt like maybe it's because a good chunk of what I was saying was like funny or made sense or whatever. I felt like Jack Danger read out more of my comments than the average person. It's not like he read every comment I ever put in, but I felt very intimate, very close to him. I wouldn't say I was in love with him, like being in love with a partner. I was in love with him like how I'm in love with pinball, like how I'm in love with Leon Dreisaitl, and how I'm in love with Conor McDavid and Sidney Crosby. And right now, well, I probably didn't love Jack Danger as much as I love Elwin. Come on. I mean, Elwin's sitting here at my feet, keeping my feet all comfy cozies, because she's pretty cold out. I think it was minus 17 with the wind chill yesterday, which was like, even in our old farmhouse, I had to take stockings and put them over all the old vents, because like cold air was somehow seeping through the basement and the chimney up into the house, and it was like freezing. So I took all our empty stockings with, have yet to be filled. Their stockings were hung with care. And like, Twitch isn't the same. Jack, I'm gonna call you out right now. Mr. Danger, can I call you? Because you're in trouble. I will not call you by your first name, Mr. Danger. You ruined Twitch for me. I can't go on Twitch and watch any other livestreamers now. I just can't. I can go watch pinball tournament livestreamers, but I can't watch like... Jack was so good, like just so good at live streaming and talking to the crowd and reading chat while playing. He could be in wizard mode for his first time and still keep up with reading chat. It was nuts. I'd be like, mods, can you ban Orville Elbert, a five-minute band, for putting a link to his podcast in there? No, I only did that once accidentally, and I think I did get a five-minute band. It wasn't directly from Jack. It was during the Stern whatever. But I thought when because I was now subbed to Jack when I was just new at Twitch, I thought it said because one time I tried to link and it said, oh, you cannot leave links unless you're you've subscribed. So then I subscribed and I thought once I subscribed, if it was pertinent to the conversation, I could leave links. And it's like, no, you can't leave links. Like, I guess if someone said, hey, where can I sign up for a pinball tournament? You left the IFPA link. It would be OK. But like people were saying, who do you think is going to win the Stern Pro Circuit Championships? And I was leaving the link for Pinball Nerds Podcast. I was like, well, I'll tell you who I think is going to win. You got to listen to it right here. Anyways, yeah, got a little band for that. A little band, a little slap. And right now, I want to band you, Jack. No, I'm just kidding. I'll never band Jack, even though I still got to get him a pickle beer so he can come on the show. That would be incredible. I'm still looking for a pickle dildo or pickle dildo. I'm looking in a place called Dildo. Believe it or not, you can look it up. Dildo Newfoundland. They have a craft brewery there called Dildo Brewing. And apparently they have seasonally made in the past a dill pickle beer I've been told. So I might actually have to take a 16 hour boat ride because flying there's just too crazy expensive. And once you get there there's no cars to rent so like you're kind of just like stuck at the airport or like you know there's not all it's Newfoundland does not have a lot of ubers driving around the I'm going to go there, Jack, and after I have my dildo brewing can in my hand, I'm going to deliver it to you at Stern, and then you'll be forced to do that interview with me, because wow. I would probably, meh, maybe Keith Elwin, Jack Danger, they'd be right up there for my two favorite guys. Escher Lefkoff, I just recently heard him interviewed over there on the Aussie Pinball Podcast on TPN. Go check that out if you haven't. Great job over there, awesome interview. But yeah, Escher would probably be up there as well from a tournament standpoint. Raymond Davidson. I kind of embarrassed myself last Christmas, which is for, I know there was some people in the Tribe who had mentioned they, or at least, okay, some people in quotes. One person had said, oh, is Orby going to be drunk calling people this year? The answer is no, because I was drunk and I was stupid and I accidentally called Rayday and I maybe didn't let him know I was live on a pinball podcast. He didn't say anything bad because he's just such a cool, kind-hearted, rad dude, but I could have got him in trouble possibly or me or vice versa. I could have just not, like, I guess I would have had to not upload the show. I mean, at the same time, I had, like, mentioned to several people, including in previous shows, that I would be doing that call-in that night, but obviously he hadn't heard that and wasn't aware of that, which is totally fine. The man's super-duper busy over there, but Ray Day, I love you. And because of that stupid mess-up, I was kind of afraid to do it this year, and I know you're not supposed to allow your fear to... I probably should have done it. And actually I was considering maybe doing it had I not ripped this frickin' my shoulder muscle here and kinda, you know, kinda changed up what I was gonna have to do. But let's move on here. Jack Danger, I'm still in love with you. I'm just kidding. I'm just in love with you different. Now I'm in love with you as a pinball designer. And I'm like, wow, what an awesome pinball designer. He makes cool, unique, fun shots. He brought the thing you always talked about, like you go through the out lane and then, you know, the whatever dead bounce back in. And yeah, he did it. Keep it up, Jack. I love you. But someday, somehow, if you start live streaming on a more consistent basis, I'll be back there, your number one fan. Flippers and butts, bud. All right, so number six, also known as On the Twelfth Day of Christmas, Orby gave to me the top stream of the year. Alright, so I know some of you would say, oh it would be one of those crazy Eric Stone videos where he's playing Creature from the Black Lagoon and he comes back to win by like 400 million and plays for an hour and a half. Or it might be one of the Eric Stone streams where he freaks out and smashes or yells or screams or distracts everybody within five rows of him just because he didn get first place for once Or maybe it's one of those, like one of my favorite moments actually, Jeff Teolos was in the commentating booth, Pogo, I forget his real name, but right before he'd play he'd go like a pogo and he'd go ba-do-ing ba-do-ing ba-do-ing ba-do-ing ba-do-ing ba-do-ing ba-do-ing like about ten times right before he played every ball. I'm sorry I forgot your name, but he went on to help out with the rules and stuff for Labyrinth. So that's pretty awesome. There you go, Pogo. Congrats. Not just on Labyrinth, but man, boy, you got some calves. Everyone thinks Eric Meunier and Keith Elwin have the best calves in pinball. I bet you Pogo might even be better. And then of course the moment I thought of right away, the best streaming moment of the year, Travis Muri getting the double zeroes. Oh I'm sorry, you wanted some points? Too bad, you get a double donut. That was a really big tournament, Travis thought he could replunge because he didn't think anyways. He ended up getting zero zero and it moved to the next player. I've never, I've played thousands of pinball games on hundreds of different machines, I've never seen anyone get zero. I think I've actually played over 150 tournaments between IFBA tournaments and home tournaments now, maybe a bit more. Travis, you were right up there. I'll give you the runners up for this, Travis. But the number one moment... Oh, I was supposed to look up his name. I think it's Drew. I'm going to fix this in the new year. I will fix this and have his name and maybe I might even interview him. But the gentleman, I think his name is Drew, who did the 24-hour stream or he tried to do the 24-hour stream to beat the guy from Toronto who did the 24-hour stream, Bim Ball. and he did 27 28 maybe even 29 who knows 30 hours oh my god like this is insane this guy was epic he got five minutes off per hour and it went down as an official Guinness World Book of Records uh thing so that was incredible it was great it was wonderful damn i spilled this beer uh there's a sip at the bottom there's a little sip so i can quench my whistle but cheers to you drew or who knew it's not that drew but i can tell you nerds this one thing this year is That is the publiciver story. I'm sorry I had a couple beers. I had a couple stupid Ibuprofen's. I might have had a couple vapes. I could have had a few edibles. Maybe, maybe, maybe I had some Rice Krispies squares that were tainted with a little black tar heroin. We don't know. We're not really 100% sure. All we know is that boy, Dunby Moore, lit up than a Christmas tree. And this is like, you know, I've had the opportunity to play with some of the top poker players in the world for years and years and years. I was in the poker space before I came here. I actually was a paid writer, believe it or not. I know y'all are like, what the fudge? Orby, you're lying. No, I was a paid writer. I wasn't paid that much, but I was a paid writer on pocketfives.com, which was actually a decent sized poker website back in the day, and I probably got into about the top 10 writers on there who were actually getting paid out. I also got to play the most winningest pinball player of all time. They also call him the baby, the child, the whiner from the negative Nancy of poker, if you will, Mr. Phil Hellmuth. Phil Hellmuth, and in fact, Phil was so mad at me that I took him out of a pinball tournament, a big pinball tournament. We were playing for tens of thousands of dollars to go to the World Poker Tour Championship in Aruba. And I took him out on a massive bluff, and then he showed Queen King, and I showed Big Slick. For those of you who don't know, basically we both had a pair of Kings on the flop, but I had a pair of Kings ace high, and I thought for sure I had him. So he re-raised, I re-raised, he re-raised all in, I waited forever. Or sorry, he re-raised like half his stack, I immediately re-raised all in, he thought about it, he maxed out his timer, and he called me a whole bunch of names and he folded and he showed queen king, and there was a queen and a king up on the flop so we had two pair, but he thought I might, might, might, might, might have trips and I'd been playing super tight for the other four hours of the tournament, and I'd been at his table for like three hours of that, so we'd been playing together for a long time, and he had seen me playing, back And like, in fact right back then I would play less than 4% of my hands, so out of a hundred hands I'd play less than 4% and, uh. Basically he was mad at me, so he trolled me. And him and I ended up going and playing some $5-$10 small blind-big blind. OMITB, we ended up playing some, uh, No Limit Together. So, he actually added me to, uh, it was a website called UltimateBet наши redeeming They had, like, a Facebook messenger for UltimateBet and him and I were on there. We argued back and forth and back and forth and I didn't get to go to the tournament. I got I think eighth in the top five, won the $8,500 tournament trip to Aruba for two plus airfare plus hotel plus $5,000 US buy-in. I had to beat hundreds of players even to make it down to the final table and that's where that happened with Phil and I. He ended up getting ninth, I ended up getting eighth. It's not a big deal. Eighth or seventh, I don't really remember. It was a long time ago. I haven't even know why I started talking about this, but I can tell you... Oh, the pinball brat, that's it, no, the poker brat, that's what they called him. Don't know why I started talking about this, probably shouldn't have, probably shouldn't be recording anymore, but I will say this, I'm going to end the show, and I'm sorry Chris, you kind of deserve this. I know that Martin Robbins, who I mentioned, once called Chris from Kaneda's Pinball Podcast unkind. Wait, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, that was, sorry Martin, that was Damian, the The owner and several other people have said that Kena has been rude and mean and perhaps the meanest thing he did just because I joked about Kaneda bleaching his butthole which I'm gonna be honest Kaneda if you ever try to say that that's not true I will show the receipts okay I have the video evidence or at least the pictures he sent me before and after pictures of and I mean I'm basically a butthole professional because I'm here on the sloppiest pinball network and we're a bunch of buttholes He did need to bleach that butthole, but at the same time, I don't want to see that. TMI Chris, TMI, too much information, I don't want to see those pictures bro. I just don't want to see them okay. I'll hear all your pinball gossip, but I don't want to see those pictures. I'm just kidding, he never sent me those pictures. I don't know why it is, but maybe, you know, I was a little bit rough on him on one of my last shows, and because of that, I think, even though I'm not entirely sure, and I should probably reach out to him, which I might do after this, depending on if he ever talks I'm sorry, I'm going to have to do this again after he hears a song I'm about to sing. I won't say poor Mr. Chris, but basically he ends up becoming the butt of a lot of jokes because he Fs himself over. And I try to tell him stuff like, dude, you've got to stop dragging content creators into the mud because eventually they're going to fight back. And this kind of was the year that the other pinball content creators fought back. And it was a beautiful accident, if that makes sense. It was like the drama you never wanted to hear about that would never stop. That was also kind of intriguing and kind of interesting. And I'm sorry, I don't like, like I like being opinionated, but in this one particular case, I think that Kaneda did a lot of shit wrong. I think some of the people on the other side maybe made some more minor mistakes, but I do think it was primarily Chris's fault. Although I wish that the Twippies were happening live. That's maybe my biggest teardrop of the year. There's there you go. Show number seven. The teardrop of the year is they're not going to be live. Second teardrop is there's not a whole bunch of other categories. I don't know which one's worse. They're both bad. But, Kris, you've been a naughty boy this year. You're on the naughty list. So, unfortunately, let's be honest, if there's anyone in pinball who would be considered a bit of a Grinch, it would be you. So, Kris, for all the times you were mean this year, here you go. No, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, wait, stop the presses, hold on. I talked so long that I actually, my Bluetooth actually stopped working. Maybe that's like, maybe Chris is like tapping into my Wi-Fi from New York telling me I shouldn't do this. Okay, so anyways, I'm just, I'm trying to have fun here, I'm trying to entertain. I'm not, I'm not being serious about anything, I'm certainly not doxing anybody or anything crazy like that, let's be honest. I'm singing a fun little song here, so hopefully it works this time. Nope. Okay, well, it looks like I have to reconnect to my Bluetooth, which I shall do now. Anyways, I don't proclaim to be the best singer on the planet. I certainly, certainly, certainly am not. But I'm only going to sing for a minute. Nobody wants to hear me sing even for that long. But this is just kind of fun. I really wanted to sing a Kriesel song and I couldn't think of one more relevant to sum up 2023 than this one. So for all the times you were mean and rude to every single pinball content creator, including Kries I will say this, you did not even add Pinball Nerds Podcast to your stupid fake award show. I know you don't like it called fake but it kind of is fake because everyone can see the voting so they just pile on to vote for whoever has the best because everyone wants to be first. So I hope if you ever do your dumb award show again you actually do it with proper voting where it's hidden and people can... But anyways, I hope he doesn't do the award show again because it was stupid, it wasn't fun, and we all knew who was going to win. However, I do appreciate all content creators, and Chris is probably right more often than he's not. He's wrong a lot, but he quite often is right about certain things, and at the very least he's entertaining. So I will say you're entertaining, but you're mean. You're a mean one, Chris Kaneda. You really are a heel. You're as cuddly as a cactus canyon. You're as charming as an eel. Chris Kaneda. You're a bad banana with a greasy black peel. You're a monster. Chris Kouros. Your heart's an empty hole. Your brain is full of spiders. You've got garlic in your soul. Chris Kores. I wouldn't touch you with Zach Meny's 10-foot pole. Your villain, Mr. Grinch. No, I do think that Chris can sometimes be toxic. I certainly don't think he's a terrorist. I think that's taking it way too far. Sometimes he's a dork. Sometimes he has really bad fashion sense. And I mean, he probably does strike me as someone who would bleach his asshole, even though I have no proof of that. But that being said, go ahead and bleach your asshole. Go ahead and wear your silly little clothes and your $10,000 Gucci handbags or man purses or Mercer. Whatever it is you do, do your thing. Be all flashy. Be better than now. I don't even give I'm not going to give a shit if you're humble about it, but stop making fun of other pinball content creators. Just get over yourself. Sure, you have more people who pay to hear you rant and rave like a lunatic than anyone else, but it's like the Jersey Shore like I've said before. It's basically you want to watch the car accident. And I told Chris a month and a half ago as a Christmas present, I would subscribe to Kaneda's Pinball Podcast if he stopped throwing other pinball content creators under the bus. And then, not only does he call me out on some crazy weird thing about advertising for Flip N Out, I let Drop Target Daniela say it twice, she didn't understand, I didn't understand. He said, oh, you're going to let Orbit of Albert just say Flip N Out a thousand times? I was like, what the fuck are you talking about, bro? It wasn't funny, nor did it make sense. At least be one of the two, for God's sakes. If you're not going to be entertaining, at least be funny or make sense. Anyways, I think he was just mad, and we have not talked for quite some time since I did that show where I called him out for being a bit of a doof, but he needed to be called out for being a bit of a doof. At the same time, I can forgive people. I can move on. I'll go back to being frenemies with him and talk to him again. However, you throw a dumb award show and you don't even add me a... You added Don for fuck's sake! You added like tons of other smaller content creators. I've done over 500 shows. He knows my name is not Orbiter Albert, as he called me in the show. I've corrected it on him several times. He does it on purpose. It's like when I called him Kaneda or Too Cool for School Russ, he doesn't like it. So like maybe just call me orbital Albert or just call me Orby. Is that easier? Can you figure that one out, Chris? I don't know. You can't pronounce water. So why, why, you know, drinking, you know, American beer is like damn close to falling out of a boat and it's wooter. I don't know. Just maybe be a little bit nicer. I don't care if you pronounce water ever again. Just be a little bit nicer. You've started fights with like 15 people this year. Let's just drop this. I want to be drama free since episode 493. I don't want to talk about this shit next year. I just want to encourage people to enjoy doing the sport, the hobby, the collection, the collectibles, I call it anyways. The thing that we do that we all love, let's keep doing that. And the shit that we don't love, let's just be done with that. Which is probably for right now, I'm not going to lie, for like a month or two, probably award shows. But the D-Geneys get a pass, and hopefully when the Twippies come back, I'll still watch I'm not sure if you guys are watching this or not, but I'm sure you're watching this and enjoying the Twippies this year. But hopefully when they come back live, they got that panache. They got everything down pat. They got the sound going. They you know, anyways, I've gone off topic. Before I finish for the year, I would be wrong if I didn't take the time and energy to thank each and every person that ordered Angry Alpaca. And I'll tell you why you should care about this and why it's important. It's important because I've never taken a penny from any sponsorship and I've been offered I've said no every time for this exact reason because if my only sponsorship is my own small company, my coffee company, then I don't have to worry about pissing off anybody by something I say. I'd have to say something pretty terrible for Drop Target Danielle to be like, yo, you're fired. Like that's crazy. I don't want to, or not you're fired, but like I don't want you to have a sponsorship for our coffee company on there anymore. And to date, knock on wood, there we go. I know that was hard with an effed up shoulder, but I just want to thank everybody who ordered. These people who order allow you to listen to the show for free. And all you effin' pinball nerds out there who didn't order some coffee, please at least go vote for me in the twippies if I am one of your favorite pinball podcasters, okay? Because I'd like to get some votes this year if nothing else, but the coffee was more than enough. Let's name them while we can. Tim the Lion Man Lee, thank you so much. Matthew Kaiser, just looking back on our Shopify store, oh my gosh, or is it Square I think? Matthew Kaiser, you've ordered three times! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Three times! Dan Lazar, Dan and Rachel Lazar, Dan the man, you guys would know him here on the pinball, I think they were just interviewed on the Tribe Multiball with Rachel not too long ago, he's really awesome Tribe member of course, rad dude, awesome, orders tons every time he orders, he's ordered three times this year, he tied for my top customer of the year as well. Joe Farnsworth, Michael Williams, Scott Voigt, Anthony Scudero, also known as Scoots. What up Scoots? Jason Forbes has ordered not once but twice. And actually I've been listening to that pinball, sorry, the coffee podcast that you recommended, Mr. Forbes. Thank you so much, my dude. By the way, Jason, all your stuff's been shipped off. In fact, everybody on this list, we had four orders go out yesterday, I think. So everybody's got their order sent out. I was so glad to get that done. We did have the power out for a couple days earlier this week, so that kind of... it did push it back a little bit. I wish it had been done earlier, but it wasn't. But, um, Jason Forbes twice, thank you. Donald Garrison, also known as Don's Pinball Podcast, ordered a couple times. Thanks, Don. Uh, Steven Haberman, Haberman, Haberman, I'm the Haberman. Uh, Steven, thank you so much for ordering. Chris Warren, Kelly Beaver, Colin... Colin, how do you pronounce your last name? It's not Alzheimer's, I know that, but it's close to that. But let's just, can I just call you Colin Kineticist? Colin, thank you so much for your order. Monty, Monty, I'm not gonna try to pronounce your name, Bolzoni? And Joe Chervino, that one I know because he's been on the podcast a couple times. Thank you, Joe, Mr. Degenerate himself. And Joe actually ordered last year as well. And I know a couple people on this list, like Dan Lazar, Dan and Rachel, they ordered several times last year. Tim ordered last year. And I know I'm forgetting about some people probably. I know there's one or two people who ordered who just like told me they wanted it and then they either email money transferred me the money or something like they didn't actually buy it through theirs to either try to save a little on shipping or so I could just hand it to them in person. So thank you to each and every person that supported the show this year. I really appreciate it. Obviously this type of show is not conducive to getting a lot of sponsors because I talk really the truth. I go off topic. I talk about lots of subjects that tons of sponsors wouldn't love, which I get. I totally get. It's not PC. It's not family friendly. We're not social warrior justices, justice warriors here. I don't know what they call them. I don't know. None of that's happening. But I also go off track and talk a lot about drugs and alcohol. So most of it is jokes. Most of it is jokes. I can tell you all it's been a long, long, long, long time since I've done anything I'm a good guy, I follow the rules, I am not a rule breaker. Okay, I sort of am. But I hope you guys enjoyed that song. Chris, take it easy. Relax. Don't get your panties in a knot that are covering your bleached butt. Okay? Don't do it. Don't do it. Because they're already in such a frickin' knot, they're probably all balled up in there from you arguing with like 15 people this year. I'm just glad I wasn't one of them. Kaneda and I have had beefs in other years. This year, it was pretty subtle. Other than the BS he said about flipping out with me, it's been pretty subtle. I've been I've came out relatively unscathed nothing like dawn god oh my god imagine being dawn and you just got into pinball podcasting and that's what you have to deal with oh my god I'd be like f that I'm never doing pinball podcasting again I am out nerds oh and in the live streams I do have to give an asterisk the best live stream of the year the asterisk and I already mentioned this is why I didn't bring it up again I already said this on the twippy ballot ballot but the best live The second best one of the year was Don live streaming, well talking to the camera, well being live on his Pinball channel, well talking pinball, well taking off in a parachute and landing. Cheers to you Don and honestly Kaneda, Zach Meny, any other pinball podcasters I've ever beefed with, and I haven't beefed with either of these guys for probably I think almost a year. That was good. I mean Zach Meny was, you know, didn't really get in a lot of beefs this year, which is like pretty good. That's like a normal for him, right? So that was good. So I think overall, even though Kaneda had issues with tons of people, I think overall pinball this year, like we didn't see Franchi getting into it too many people, which is good. And overall, I didn't beef with hardly anybody, which I loved. Dank you all. Thank you very much. Hajidemashite, Albert Doze, Dojo, Yoroshiku. Thank you guys so much. Have yourselves a wonderful year. I only know one line in Japanese and that was it. I had to say it. Thank you so much. I'm going to go probably lose a lot of money or money playing poker against my fam right now. I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas. I know that I promised to do one show a day for 12 days. It didn't work. I did six shows today. I hope it's worth it. Honestly, if any of y'all were smart, you could have broken up in the sixth spot and just paused after each show, but who would do that? Who would do that? You probably listen to it all at once or in a couple, right? But I love you all. I am semi-retiring from pinball tournaments, but I still want to make it out to Expo and or TPF next year. I have so many pinball people, especially so many people in the Poor Men's Pinball Tribe that I haven't got to meet that I really, really, really want to meet, and just tons of people in pinball outside of the tribe as well. So I'm really I'm more excited about meeting people this year than playing in tournaments and I would say coming up to 2024 this is the first year in like seven years that I'm more excited to meet more of the people in pinball and check out the expos and check out the shows than I am even excited about playing in tournaments and so that's kind of a big change for me as well coming up to 2024 but I love you all I have nothing to sell to you there's no advertising in today's show but what I will say is this go out and supportlocal Savage, Bypad and Tri Hunger, TRUMA Well maintained say I just wanted to let you guys know maybe give them a Google review maybe recommend them to a friend or family member maybe post on pin side about how awesome the services or how well the machines are maintained or how good the beer is or the food or how kind the staff are there's so many rad places out there to play pinball and we don't want to lose them because even myself sometimes I might not really be able to afford to even have a pinball machine at home but I'll always get to go on location and check out some machines and if if you can't do that for some reason If you live in an area where you can't go support local pinball that way, then do this for me. Go join the Patreon of your favorite pinball content creator. Or support them by buying a shirt. Or support them by liking their Facebook page. Or joining their livestreams. Or voting for them in the twippies. But go support pinball as a whole this Christmas. Let's all do something good. Let's do good in the neighborhood. Let's drop all the beefs. Let's take that beef and squash it. We'll put it here. We'll get Hulk Hogan to, Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant to like put it between them and they'll just, they'll suplex it to death and those beefs are gone. Let's move on. Let's have a wonderful 2024. Who's excited for Jaws? I'm not. No, I'm excited for Jaws because it's by Keith Elwin. I'm not excited for Jaws because I saw that movie like 40 years ago, 35 years ago once. I did think it was scary and I never watched it again. I'm sure it's a very well done movie. It's Steven Spielberg, right? It's got to be good. Everything he did, he was basically the Midas man of Hollywood. Everything he did turned to gold, right? So he's incredible. It's obviously a very good movie. It just doesn't hit home personally with me. That's all. I am excited to see what Keith Elwin does and who knows maybe I'll change my tune. Thank you for listening to me sing way more than any man should ever sing live. I apologize for that. My voice isn't 100%. I got some type of cold kicking in but I got through it and it was fun and hopefully you enjoyed it. I love you. Until next time pinball nerds, remember to eat, sleep, and breathe pinball.

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