# PNP 609- Top 5 Rad Moments From The Degenies+ Portal Is NOT The Only New Pin This Week!

**Source:** Poor Man's Pinball Podcast  
**Type:** podcast_episode  
**Published:** 2025-03-17  
**Duration:** 54m 40s  
**Beat:** Pinball

**URL:** https://poormanspinballpodcast.libsyn.com/pnp-609-top-5-rad-moments-from-the-degenies-portal-is-not-the-only-new-pin-this-week

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## Analysis

Orbital Albert recaps the Pinball D-Jennies awards show, discussing sound quality issues, announcing the Portal pinball machine reveal from P3 Multimorphic, and thanking recent donors to his show. He lists D-Jennies award winners and discusses his decision to accept donations after a year without soliciting them.

### Key Claims

- [HIGH] Portal pinball machine announcement coming from P3 Multimorphic today at 10 a.m. Central Time — _Orby states 'go over and check P3 Multimorphics social medias. Portal is going to be announced, or hopefully we get a video'_
- [MEDIUM] D-Jennies awards show had approximately 1,000 views across Twitch and Facebook combined — _Orby estimates 'I know between Twitch and well YouTube didn't work but between Twitch and I'm sure the several hundred that are on Facebook now we're probably getting close to a thousand views'_
- [HIGH] D-Jennies will be re-edited and re-released on YouTube to address audio quality issues — _Orby reports 'Joe announced today on the official Degenerates page on Facebook that he is trying to do a little bit of editing and scrub it up' and 'they're going to re-release it onto their YouTube'_
- [MEDIUM] Party Pinball Podcast receives hundreds of dollars per month from Patreon despite releasing infrequently — _Orby states 'the Party Pinball Podcast with Jason, gets hundreds of dollars a month, especially when you convert it to Canadian' and 'he only releases a show like every like every two months or so'_
- [MEDIUM] Raymond Davidson won Pinmasters tournament in a close final — _Orby notes 'shout out to Raymond Davidson, who won Pinmasters' and 'it wasn't until the finals, the last four holes or so, really, that Ray Day pulled it out'_

### Notable Quotes

> "This was not only a variety show, like thinking the likes of like, I don't know, almost like Star Search or something like that. Like a part talent show, part variety show, part awards show. mostly about pinball, but some parts just weren't."
> — **Orbital Albert**, ~0:10:00
> _Describes the overall nature and format of the D-Jennies awards show_

> "If I could take a portal gun and just zoop right here from the homestead and be at TPF, I would be there in a heartbeat."
> — **Orbital Albert**, ~0:15:00
> _Expresses frustration about being unable to attend Texas Pinball Festival due to maple syrup production season_

> "Portal is going to be announced, or hopefully we get a video, guys. Can we at least get a video? I don't want to see, like, pictures."
> — **Orbital Albert**, ~0:14:30
> _Anticipation for Portal announcement and preference for video reveal over static images_

> "I did the math. That works out to a buck a show. and these are all Americans. These are Americans showing me as a Canadian, we want you to spend your money on American products"
> — **Orbital Albert**, ~0:40:00
> _Expresses gratitude to donors and notes cross-border support_

> "You got one pit you get one little room for pins and i i agree with that"
> — **Orbital Albert**, ~1:20:00
> _Comments on Kate Martin's extreme pinball collecting and the household tension it creates_

### Entities

| Name | Type | Context |
|------|------|---------|
| Orbital Albert | person | Host of Pinball Nerds Podcast, based in Canada, produces Poor Man's Pinball Network shows |
| Joe Cervino | person | Organizer of the Pinball D-Jennies awards show; loud personality known for not having indoor voice |
| P3 Multimorphic | company | Pinball manufacturer announcing Portal machine |
| Portal | game | Upcoming pinball machine from P3 Multimorphic being announced today |
| Christopher Franchi | person | Former podcast contributor; artist/designer transitioning out of podcasting; Orby jokes about Franchi rejoining content |
| Bob Matthews | person | Classic pinball player, winner of 'Most Degenerate Pinball Competition Player' at D-Jennies; known for wearing ~20 pounds of tournament lanyards |
| Derek Thompson | person | Winner of 'Most Degenerate Pinball Trophy Builds' at D-Jennies; runs Yagpin tournament; eliminated Orby from North American Pinball Championships |
| Rebecca Salem | person | Known as Bex; winner of trophy building award at D-Jennies; creates custom in-house trophies, many featuring toilet designs |
| Raymond Davidson | person | Competitive pinball player who won Pinmasters in a close final match |
| Kate Martin | person | Winner of 'Most Degenerate Home Arcade' at D-Jennies; from New York City; owns approximately 16 pinball machines |
| Keith Elwin | person | Former partner of Kate Martin; Orby mentions context of their relationship in pinball collecting discussion |
| Jason | person | Host of Party Pinball Podcast; receives hundreds of dollars monthly from Patreon; releases shows infrequently |
| Drew | person | Donor who contributed 50 cents per episode to Pinball Nerds Podcast |
| Antonio Verduzco | person | Top donor who contributed approximately $137.79 to Pinball Nerds Podcast (~$2 per episode) |
| Ian Harwer | person | Video game and pinball enthusiast; has been guest on Pinball Nerds Podcast multiple times; mentioned as hosting P3 Multimorphic exclusive Portal news |
| Pinball D-Jennies | event | Awards show celebrating degenerate/passionate pinball community members; featured sound quality issues in initial broadcast |
| Gene X Wong | person | Winner of 'Most Degenerate Pinball Photographer' at D-Jennies |
| Drop Target Danielle | person | Wife of Orbital Albert; notified him of Antonio Verduzco's large donation |
| Texas Pinball Festival | event | Upcoming major pinball event; Orby unable to attend due to maple syrup production season |

### Topics

- **Primary:** Portal pinball machine announcement, Pinball D-Jennies awards show recap, Podcast monetization and donor appreciation, P3 Multimorphic and Portal news
- **Secondary:** Audio/sound quality issues in D-Jennies broadcast, D-Jennies award winners and categories, Competitive pinball tournament results

### Sentiment

**Positive** (0.75) — Orby is enthusiastic about Portal announcement and genuinely grateful for donor support. Generally positive about D-Jennies despite technical issues. Some frustration about travel constraints and desire for more frequent shows, but overall upbeat and engaged.

### Signals

- **[event_signal]** Pinball D-Jennies awards show successfully executed despite technical audio issues; estimated ~1,000 views across platforms (confidence: high) — Extensive recap of event, multiple award categories, plan to re-edit and re-release on YouTube to fix audio
- **[community_signal]** Strong community support for independent pinball podcast content; multiple donors contributed after year of free shows (confidence: high) — Five donors contributed varying amounts; Antonio Verduzco's $137.79 donation highlighted as exceptional; contrast with Party Pinball Podcast's monthly Patreon revenue
- **[competitive_signal]** Derek Thompson and Jeff's tilt settings at pinball tournaments; discussion of difficulty adjustments between venues (confidence: medium) — Orby notes Derek formerly 'setting up the hardest tilts ever until Jeff did the tilts at the beast' and Derek's comment that 'tilts would be a little bit easier this year'
- **[community_signal]** Christopher Franchi appears to have transitioned away from podcasting content creation (confidence: medium) — Orby mentions 'christopher franchi out of the game of podcasting' and makes light plea for Franchi to return to content creation
- **[announcement]** Portal pinball machine announcement imminent from P3 Multimorphic (confidence: high) — Orby states announcement happening 'today at 10 a.m. Central Time' and calls Portal announcement a major news item

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## Transcript

 All get around, he's on the rebound Hear the sound of our buddy, oh lordy, it's Orby Pinball nuts rejoice He's tugging pinball, craft beer and coffee Miffed with syrup and honey He hopes to laugh with his family in a random tangent Stories of his boys He's on the poor man's pod network We're gonna get more listeners Welcome back, Pinball Nerds, to episode 609 of your fifth favorite pinball podcast. My name is Orbital Albert, and on today's show... Wait, did I say your fifth favorite pinball podcast? I should have said the degenerate, the most degenerate of all the pinball podcasters, now award-winning. I mean, you already knew it, but now it's in writing, or should I say it's in trophy, because Joe sent me the trophy. It's coming in the mail. That's right. This Saturday, just two days ago, the Pinball D-Jenny's was on. It was better than ever. It was incredible. It was wonderful. It was not without some sound quality issues, especially at the start, some extra echo, a little bit of potato chips could be heard eating on the mic, but they figured that all out and the sound got better and better and better. There still was some popping. For those who haven't had the pleasure of hanging out with Joe Cervino in person, not only is he a very loud speaker, but, you know, you can basically, he doesn't really have an indoor voice, and then over and above that, their microphone was popping. So I don't know how to fix that. I'm not great at technical stuff. That's why I use a snowball. That's why I throw the entire podcast through compression afterwards to hopefully get rid of any popping because myself, just like Joe, does not have a very good indoor voice. But I'm trying to do it because my oldest son is still sleeping right now, so I'm trying to stay quiet. Also, Draco Franchi is here laying at my feet half asleep. Lunatuna Elowen Agar is over here almost asleep. And that's right. Maybe my favorite part, not the most rad, because I do have a top five most rad things that happened at the D-Jennies, as well as a small recap and a list of the winners. but probably my favorite part my favorite part of the entirety Jenny's was the whole world, everyone watching I think it's almost up to a thousand views I know between Twitch and well YouTube didn't work but between Twitch and I'm sure the several hundred that are on Facebook now we're probably getting close to a thousand views so for the thousand of you that got to finally meet Draco Franchi and Luna Tuna Elwynn Agar who aren't on my Facebook who maybe listen to the podcast or maybe have now added me as a friend on Facebook. So thank you for doing that. If you listen to the podcast, I don't really give out an email because I don't check my email very often, nor do I want to have a 9th, 10th, or 11th email to check. I run and operate several small businesses and side hustles, so I have a lot of emails, a lot of Instagram accounts, unfortunately a lot of Facebook accounts that I have to already deal with. and the last thing I want to do is to really tell you to reach out to me on one of those other avenues and not get a hold of me. So if you would like to talk to me more personally, make sure you add me on Facebook under Albert Agar. But today is not about me. Let's get into the Jennys. First of all, shout out to Joe and everybody over there who helped produce it. You could tell they put a lot of hard work into it. They put months and months and months. They put their heart. They put their soul. Again, there was some technical difficulties, but if you could remember, hey, for most of us, this was a free show, unless you paid the 20 bucks to be there, which in person, you probably weren't hearing the echo. So in person, it was probably even better, right? Which, if you can ever get to one of these things in person, whether it be the Twippies or going to TPF like next week, and that reminds me, I do want to talk about, I don't have the details yet, but I do want to talk about hiring. Yes, hiring, because they're going to pay you or at least trade you some things in value, maybe some coffee, maybe some tea, maybe some Pinball Nerds podcast trading cards for you to go do like, I don't know, maybe five mini interviews or five mini selfies. I'm going to have some missions for you to do. Like, dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun. Okay, the one thing I have to say is it was so good to see Craig Bobby. Man, his is so much better than mine. He's like, dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun. His is like incredible. But Craig Bobby, we don't know where he's been. We've really been missing him. He was for years and years and years. my absolute favorite part of the pinball show on TPN and now he's just gone we needed that little Canadian flavor that little bit of A and it's almost the same way no I'm just kidding we're not going down this route we're not going down this route but it was so nice to see Craig Bobby so for nothing else go see Craig Bobby and I'm not going to tell you where and when because I don't remember because I might have had a couple drinks a couple gummies a couple vapes enjoying myself very much during the D-Jennies and I honestly don't watch it sober I mean, unless you're someone who's been sober for years or something like that, I don't want to get you off the wagon or back on the truck or whatever it is. Don't come out of sobriety just for the Degenis. But if you're someone like me that enjoys a little walk on the wilder side, to have a glass of Pinot Grigio. It'll have to be from America now because you're not getting the good stuff from France. But anyways, if you like to have a glass of wine or some really good non-trapist beers from Europe and you like to maybe have a gummy or two, do it and then go watch the DGNs. But I will say this, I'm not going to drop a link for where to go watch the DGNs and how because I don't think you should watch them yet. And this is why. If you haven't watched them, I will say this, maybe don't watch them yet. because Joe announced today on the official Degenerates page on Facebook that he is trying to do a little bit of editing and scrub it up. And I know someone, one of the production members mentioned yesterday as well, they're going to re-release it onto their YouTube. So stay tuned. When they re-release it, my guess is they're going to edit out some of the worst sound parts. And they're probably going to, even just taking the entire show and running it through a compressor to make sure the super high highs are a little bit lower and the super low lows are a little bit higher. And I think that was maybe the biggest issue was going into the awards, the sound of the awards were so loud that it would almost be popping your speakers. And then all of a sudden it was so quiet you had to turn it back up again when Joe was talking. And part of that dynamic going back and forth was what made it challenging to watch. But again, they figured this out. So what I'm going to say is that if you haven't had the pleasure of seeing the D-Genies yet, maybe hold off to watch it. Maybe. Because it sounds like they're going to attempt to fix at least some of those issues when they come up with the YouTube video. Okay? And it was a sight to behold. And the comment that probably has got the most likes under the thank you that was put up on the Facebook page was the comment where I'll paraphrase it where I said, this was not only a variety show, like thinking the likes of like, I don't know, almost like Star Search or something like that. Like a talent. It's a part talent show, part variety show, part awards show. mostly about pinball, but some parts just weren't. I mean, the comedian attempted to make some jokes about pinball that kind of sort of fell a little bit flat, but she was trying. I give her props for trying. And she was kind of funny. There was a couple earlier things. The comedian wasn't my favorite part. If I was doing five rad and one bad, the bad would maybe be the comedian. But, you know, you can skip that part if you're watching the YouTube video, or you can just watch it to see if I'm wrong. Maybe my funny bone is broken. Who knows? Maybe I need to go see the doctor. That was one of my favorite parts. Dr. Dude there when they were at the Gorgar Hospital. They kept doing updates constantly to see how Billy B was doing, or Billy P Pinball, sorry. That was hilarious. That was awesome. That wasn't part of the five rad. So let me just quickly do the five rad, then I'm going to go over the winners, okay? You know what? I'm going to go over the winners first. That's right. Here we go. Okay. Now today at 10 a.m. Central Time, I believe, or 9 a.m. Central Time, today at some point, go over and check P3 Multimorphics social medias. Portal is going to be announced, or hopefully we get a video, guys. Can we at least get a video? I don't want to see, like, pictures. At this point, we've been teased long enough. Let's grab your portal gun, and let's portal from Canada to the United States. Say, hi, everybody. If I could do that for TPF, I'd do it in a heartbeat. Like, y'all, going to TPF without me breaks my little Canadian half-frozen heart, okay? and it's not frozen just because I'm cold. It's frozen because I'm sad that I can't go to TPF. If I could take a portal gun and just zoop right here from the homestead and be at TPF, I would be there in a heartbeat. I would pay the hotel fee. It's not even necessarily the amount of money it takes on the airfare. It's the amount of time and energy, the number of days it would take for me to get there because I'd have to travel through Toronto, then through somewhere else in the States and pay for hotels on the way there and back. it's literally the number of days I'd have to be gone from my homestead during maple sap and season. This is my favorite season slash my least favorite season because I'm doing between six to eight trips a day to currently 25 different taps in three different parts of my seven acres here. So it's a lot of walking. I'm nailing 15,000 steps without even trying, which is good. I'm actually probably going to go for 20,000 today. And then because it's just warm enough today and the sap has now stopped, it's going to be too hot for the next few days. What I'm going to do is I'm going to open all the windows down here and I'm going to start boiling down. That can take 12 hours. So I don't want to be going to bed any later than 10 p.m. tonight. It's got to be up at like 5.30 to 6.30 with the dogs and the kids. So what I'm going to attempt to do is start boiling today at like 10 a.m. Now, will I still go watch the portal video? Yes. Will I have time and energy to do a podcast on it again today? probably not but I already knew that part of my day is scheduled and although you know I haven't got any money from doing this show for the last year straight I did actually get some donations so for those of you who didn't hear the last show I did a little bit of an explanation maybe for why I deleted the previous two shows before that so you can go listen to that and I didn't ask I said if you have even got a tiny bit of enjoyment whether you're hate listening which I'm sure there's lots of you shout out to my hate listeners whether you and I are frenemies and sometimes we're friends and sometimes we're enemies but you still like to listen to me rant and rave like a half lunatic uh from the Canadian Arctic about pinball or whether or not you actually genuinely do kind of enjoy the show a little you could be like these five incredible pinball nerds that donated to the show and they've got me amped up and they got me fired and sometimes I go weeks between shows and part of that reason is because I don't see any financial value in doing the show so I'm not going to spend more time and energy on it and sometimes there's just no news for a while but right now there is a plethora, is that a word? I think it is. There is a huge amount of news so we're going to be talking about a lot of it but first I've got to take the time and thank these five donors and I'm going to go in order. One of these donors thought, wow, and I said this, either 50 cents just like the cost of an old classic pinball machine on location at your local arcade, which I hope you're going to. I said, if you can afford it and you have appreciated any of my last 50 shows in the last year where I have not asked for any type of donation or any type of Patreon. And I will say this, part of the reason I felt okay asking for this is one of my favorite pinball podcasts, the Party Pinball Podcast with Jason, gets hundreds of dollars a month, especially when you convert it to Canadian. Oh my gosh. He has a lot of Patreons and he gets money every single month. and he only releases a show like every like every two months or so like i think he released in january then november like he's only had three or four shows since last summer almost in a year and he gets three or four hundred dollars a month for it which i i think he deserves that money i'm not telling you to like go cancel your patreon with him he deserves every penny of it jason i'd love to hear from you more i love your the production value is second to none especially with with christopher franchi out of the game of podcasting which franchi come back i'll join saps with you. Come on. Let's go. I know you want to get on the mic, Chris. Don't lie, Franchi. But Jason gets hundreds of dollars a month from this Patreon and only does like one pinball podcast every couple months. And again, there's nothing wrong with that. I'm not saying to cancel your money. Jason deserves it. He works very hard. He works probably for weeks doing all the editing and the sound and the robot voice. I'm a robot voice. I like robot pinball. I'm a pinball nerd. all right no singing come on you got too many donos to sing but jason's a rad dude and i appreciate that all the the super generous people in the community donate to him but i have done more shows in the past 10 days than he has done since last summer right so i'm obviously spending way more time and energy on a daily basis not only watching every single second of every major pinball tournament on Twitch but commentating and subbing and donating and supporting and putting links in chat and daring and challenging other people to make donations Thanks to Dalton Dalton Eli by the way Dalton's mother, who's known as Dalton's number one fan in chat, did actually gift me a sub because I said, I dare y'all out there to gift people subs or something. And she was just like, here you go. You did, or I think actually I double dog dared her. So if someone double dog dares you, then you kind of got to do it, right? So thanks to Dalton's number one fan, Dalton's mom. Cheers to you. And I will say this while I'm talking about competitive pinball very quickly, then I'm going to go back to these donos. Oh my gosh, shout out to Raymond Davidson, who won Pinmasters. My boy, I said I didn't want to talk about it until I went back and watched it, and I did go back and watch it, and ooh, it was close. It wasn't until the finals, the last four holes or so, really, that Ray Day pulled it out. And I thought with that stiff competition he wouldn't, but he managed to do it. and so shout out to him for that that was so awesome but what I'm saying is that if if Jason gets hundreds of dollars a month for having a Patreon I don't want to have a Patreon I mean I guess I do need to get a Patreon like um when I was on Wormhole I know that that was brought up many times so I probably do need to get one but I guess my point is because I don't have a Patreon does that mean that you can't take the time and energy to donate to me because I know of the whatever the uh 35 people who voted for me as their second or third favorite pinball podcast and of the 20 people who voted for me as their favorite they certainly think my show's worth at least 50 cents a show right like andrew cidolia i believe possibly wait wait that would be drew that's true oh my god drew thank you how did i not put that together uh drew thank you so much Drew popped me off a 50 cent per episode. Believe it or not, that's 25 US, just so the Americans know. And that actually works out to $35 Canadian. That's incredible. That's more than like happy meals for my whole family or anything like that. So that's incredible. And then we had tribe member Ari Jones gave me a buck per episode. That's right. Thank you so much for that. As well as Darren Walker and Michael Henriksen. I'm very bad at pronunciating names I think I even said pronunciating wrong but I'm trying my best and I thank you thank you thank you I gotta send out a personal message to Drew I was like how do I thank this person and then at the time I know I reached out and I thanked Ari and I thanked Michael but Drew I gotta reach out to and Darren Walker I think I Darren Darren did you just add me to Facebook Darren thank you so much so these people that listen to my show and enjoy my show they said hey Orby's worth like a buck a show. This isn't like a $15 a month Patreon or even a $10 or even a $5 a month. No, that would be $60 to $120 a year. But come on, a buck a show, a buck a show. And I want to bring you more shows. And I'll tell you this, if even one person donates today, and I'm going to give you details more in the end, okay, because I want to get into this top five for the DGNs first. But if even one person donates today, and I'm going to leave my PayPal in chat, if they donate not just to me, but to Joe and all his hard work at the DGNs, I'll be back either later today depending on how long Maple's sapping takes no no I'll be back in the next 24 hours in 24 hours or less I'll be back with a show doing the top 5 rad and one bad for P3 Multimorphics Porto game if not I'm taking a couple days off because I'm freaking exhausted but if y'all are going to show me some appreciation with your little bit of financial value for my thousands of hours I've put in in the last year, thousands of hours if y'all can see it in your heart to even give me a buck a show or be as kind as Antonio Verduzco. Oh my gosh, I definitely pronounced that wrong. But Antonio, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you from my heart, my soul. He said, no, Albert, you're not just worth 25 cents or 50 cents. And of course, this depends upon, you know, how much free spending money you have as well. It's not just a value based, but I appreciate every penny from everybody. I want to be clear about that. But Anthony, Antonio either has a bit more money or said, you know what? I'm going to shock Orby. I'm going to make Orby spit up his angry alpaca coffee, which I did when drop target Danielle told me this donut came in for $137.79, even after taxes, fees, whatever. I don't think PayPal charges much on friends and family, thankfully. But the point is, Antonio, thank you, thank you, thank you. I did the math. That works out to a buck a show. and these are all Americans. These are Americans showing me as a Canadian, we want you to spend your money on American products and also thank you so much for doing a great job over the last year. I'll put great job in quotes. Some days I did a great job. Other days I did a mid job. Other days I did a bad job. They're not all good shows. When you do 600 shows that are more like a blog and you sometimes let yourself record when you're in a bad mood or having a bad day or just fell and hit your head on some ice, they're not always all going to be great shows but what Michael, Andrew, Drew, sorry Drew, Michael, Drew, Antonio, Darren and Ari all saw was the value in donating back to somebody because each and every one of you listening to this show if you're the type of person that if you have a horrible horrible experience at a restaurant like I do like like if I do then you just don't tip. If you have like a decent experience, maybe you tip 10%. You have a great experience, maybe you tip 20%. And maybe you're like me and you're super generous, especially if I know the server and I've been going there a long time. I will tip up to 50%. Well, Antonio, Michael, Darren, Ari, Drew, you're the type of people who will tip. And you're the type of people who will blow Orbeez socks off. And I think if you're any of those 20 people who voted for me as your favorite pinball podcast, and you can afford it. Again, if you only got 10 bucks in your pocket, save it for food. You only got 20 bucks in your pocket, save it for your local pinball arcade for extra money, okay? But if you can afford even 50 cents a show, that'd be 25 American, a dollar a show, or blow my socks off beyond belief, and hook me up with two bucks per show, like Antonio, and hook me up with a hundo, I would be forever grateful, and you're going to see a lot more interviews, you're going to see a lot more shows, you're going to see a lot more content from me. For a year straight, I felt like I asked for donations too much, and now I feel like if I can find the right balance, if I could get even a couple more, I could just not ask for donations again for a long time, because I was blown away by these, but I bet there's one person, I didn't get one dono from a woman. I bet you one female listens to the show and enjoys it enough to at least hook me up with like 50 cents a show. I didn't get any donos from anyone outside of America or even there. Now, Joe Chervino did put in an order for coffee and tea this morning. Thank you, Joe, for that. It wasn't needed. It wasn't needed. It wasn't called for, but I do appreciate it. Let's go over the results. Let's go over the results. I do want to thank everyone who donated. I just suspect that there's either someone who did not listen to my last show and has enjoyed some of my other 50 shows over the last year and believes that I deserve something. And like I said, I would rather just not ask y'all, but I think more than five people of the four to five hundred people that listen to most of my shows. It can't be only one in a hundred that want to toss me 50 cents or a buck a show. Or God forbid, if someone out there is the most generous person on planet Earth, five bucks a show? No. Five bucks, that would be 250 US? that'd be almost like 420 Canadian. That'd be insane. That's not going to happen. But if somehow that did, you're now my official slash unofficial sponsor for the next year. Even though I don't think that's going to happen. But I will say this, let's get back into the Degenees because some cool cool stuff happened. So let's go over the winners quickly. Okay, most degenerate pinball competition player, Bob Matthews, absolutely. When Bob Matthews, he's a classics player for those of you who aren't tourney players. He's a classics player that comes to every tournament wearing all of his previous lanyards from like the past 30 years. Man, I wish I had a little more coffee in my cup. Hold on. Okay, I did have a little bit of a cold. My throat was getting better, but I should have grabbed the second coffee before I started recording. That's what really should have happened, but it didn't. But let's just get into this. Bob Matthews wears like 20 pounds worth of lanyards. It almost goes so high up, it's almost like above his nose, so you can barely see his eyes coming out from under the lanyards. So this man, and he's getting up there in age. I used to be a bit of an ageist, try not to do it now. Now I just look at Bob Matthews and go, wow, if I could even get to within 10 years of Bob Matthews and still be alive on this planet, never mind going to pinball tournaments, that would be incredible. because like and he's still a great player I even I even saw he got pretty far in like a more modern tournament uh later last year like he at least made it to finals right so I thought that was just absolutely incredible but who else is on this list Derek Thompson who took me out of the nationals the North American pinball championships last year Derek Thompson also of Yagpin formerly known for setting up the hardest tilts ever until Jeff did the tilts at the beast but not only has Jeff said the tilts are going to be easier, but I saw Derek Thompson make a comment that the tilts would be a little, let's just say a little bit easier this year. Now this was given to Derek Thompson and Scott Stinchcomb. Probably said that wrong, Scott. I'm just going to call you Scott S. Like a slithery little snake. All right. Okay. Too many S's. Too many S's. most pinball most degenerate pinball trophy builds by becks uh you guys mostly would know rebecca salem of course uh becks does really rad cool in-house trophies uh many of them are toilets and i just like to say becks or beck whatever you want me to call you rebecca you choose i'll call you it okay but i need you to do i've seen all those little toilets that you do and now we need the Upper Decker Trophy. If I ever run a tournament here in Nova Scotia, which I'm hoping to in Moncton this year, I swear to God I am getting the Upper Decker Trophies. It would be so funny to see just a little plasticine turd coming up out of the top of the toilet. Like, wow. I don't know if you can do this, Bex, but a little bit of steam. Can we have some steam heat? Whoo, get hot. Get some steam heat coming up off those turds. Can we do that? that would just be like incredible it would just be it was anyways okay I've asked for too much it's almost like I'm talking about how much I want to see in Harry Potter now I've asked for too much it's JJP don't worry my expectations are low JJP to knock Orby's socks off all you gotta do is put one toy more impressive than the scram that's right I saw people in chat like like for the twippies and they're talking about the most impressive toy and someone's like yo scram we you got to be getting that, Scram. I was like, what? Is that a joke answer? Is Scram as a scoop that can also work as a ramp? Is that really the most impressive toy? I mean, if it was in the new Alice in Wonderland from the Kickstarter campaign, probably. But is it really the most impressive toy that should be in a JJP game? Which used to have the best toy, like Wizard of Oz. I said for years, Wizard of Oz was my favorite pinball machine. I only got to live stream it once, and that was actually at the Gamma Goats place at Ian Harwer's. Shout out. I'm excited to see what he's done with Portal because I know he's a video game nerd and a pinball nerd and he's been on the Pinball Nerds podcast multiple times. And I did say there's some exclusive news about Portal going to the Pinball News magazine. What about Orby? Where's my exclusive news? No, I did get exclusive news. In fact, I got exclusive news from the most degenerate degenerate himself, Joe Gervino, letting me know that Gary Stern himself was going to be on there was some important news, including pricing news. And Joe, Gary Stern wasn't on there. That was you with a bald, I was going to say mask, but I guess it would be like a toupee, but it wasn't a toupee. It's like a Halloween mask that's bald or something. But anyways, Joe, that wasn't really Gary Stern, but I guess you didn't say the real Gary Stern. So I got trolled. I got trolled. I legitimately, like, I can show the receipts, especially if we're in person, and Joe's right there. I could show the receipts. He wasn't like, oh, by the way, Albert, it's going to be me dressed up as Gary Stern. So I thought I had the biggest news drop of my lifetime. And I did this big podcast and it wasn't really Gary Stern. I'll just, you know, cats out of the bag. It wasn't really Gary Stern. Let's go finish these winners though. Most degenerate pinball fail, Ryan Dunn. Not my buddy, Ryan Dunn, the teacher from London, Ontario, a different Ryan Dunn. So sucks that that fail happened i'm sorry ryan but wait was that the guy who we saw the glass break in slow-mo that was so hilarious great production on that as well excuse me most degenerate pinball restoration pinball italy ivan can pronounce your name starts with a c i totally agree with this one Most degenerate home arcade Kate Martin from New York City Girl, you got like 16 pins. Like, my wife is legitimately like, I had one pin not in the arcade when it was starting, when Orby's Arcade was overflowing back in the day. And I put one pinball machine temporarily in our mezzanine and drop targeting it. was like this gotta go this gotta go you got one pit you get one little room for pins and i i agree with that i know other people that start putting pinball machines in their kitchen and they're living around and then they get divorced and then you're like well why did i get divorced it was because pinball machines can't be like everywhere in the house but if you're kate martin they're gonna be everywhere and that's why she is degenerate like literally if you were someone who was going to be like dating her and you were like, yeah, I don't really like pinball machines. Could you just move these from your house? She'd be like, sorry, Leif. I'm guessing, I'm guessing. I don't want to say for sure. I don't want to say for sure. I don't know her that well, but I would, you know. When your ex is Keith Elwin, probably most likely you're going to want to date pinball people. Which again, nothing wrong with that. It's freaking incredible. Someday, maybe sometime, I would get to go to her awesome apartment and see the one pinball machine she has with the back legs in the bathtub and the two legs coming out so you can actually play while sitting on the throne. I thought that is a neat aspect, but like, do you want people while going to the bathroom to play? Okay, I've gone too far. I'm sorry. That was a joke. All right. Most degenerate pinball photographer, Gene X Wong. He was a dude who his, he had this profile, Gene X Wong on Twitter, now X, and basically Elon Musk, who we already knew was kind of a jerk, came in and just stole his account and didn't even pay him for it or ask him or tell him just took the x account right not rad okay let's get through these faster most degenerate pinball meme jordan so this is hup challenge obviously jordan and beck right so different beck of course and brian most degenerate pinball location bathrooms new southern hampshire pinball club and that's only because i didn't have any good pictures of call the office london it certainly would have won in previous years if not. Most degenerate pinball pet, the pinball pig. All right, fine. I still think, you know, you've never hung out with Draco. He is degenerate. Like this, you've never tried to collect maple sap with this guy on a leash, man. Holy cow. Especially in deep snow. It's pretty degeneratized. All right, most degenerate pinball couple, Cliff Albert and Marissa. Would it be Albert now? I'm guessing Marissa Albert and Cliff Albert. So many Halberts. Love it. Okay. Most degenerate pinball streamer, Norma Jennings. That's so cool they gave her that award. That's just, that's incredible. For those of you who don't know, Norma unfortunately lost her battle with cancer, but she was a pinball streamer and I believe she donated the money she got from streaming to cancer. All right. Most degenerate homebrew, saw, shout out to Austin, Eric, Joe, and our boy, Glenn the Skateboarder. Shout out. That's so awesome. Glenn Glenn Waechter. Go listen to Glenn's stuff on Pinball for Y'all. Just type into Google, Pinball for Y'all, Y-A-L-L, and listen to some of Glenn's awesome stuff. And more importantly, if you're a pinball manufacturer listening to this and you need some help with your sound, Glenn set up a professional studio at his house, and he helps out everywhere, every time he can, whenever he can with anything that any pinball podcaster ever asks for. So go support Glenn. Please, please, please. For the love of God. Someone hire him. He has a professional studio at his house. I'm sure there's tons of boutiques out there who would love someone who has played Saw and saw how well the sound, like Glenn didn't just incorporate other people's sounds. Glenn made the backbeats and the songs and the sounds and worked hard to come up with all custom and unique sound effects. 99% of homebrewers don't have that amount of attention to detail. I mean, they do, but they don't have that much attention to detail as far as just the sound goes on it, right? So shout out to Saw. Okay, most degenerate pinball hair, Antoinette Johnson. Most degenerate pinball fashion, Dorianne. Shout out to Dory. I see her a lot of times on Facebook and stuff. She's a big supporter of pinball, of course. Most degenerate pinjury, Jess Warren. That was gnarly. Go look at that one. Most degenerate pinball tattoo, Marcy. shout out most degenerate pinball operator alan seahawk from the memorial and that goes to my boy adam kessler and charlotte phil moore i believe from uh north star pinball i haven't been to north star yet as a canadian this is embarrassing adam came up and gave me a big hug and said he listened to my last show about p3 multimorphic a year ago he said he listened to it multiple times and couldn't agree more and he loved me and gave me a big hug and said keep doing the show and keep being you and so Adam shout out to you it was so great to meet you dude um I mean it wasn't as great to meet you when I met you at Ottawa and you took me over that pinball tournament making me be sixth and you going on to finals but yeah it's uh you know the other time I met you was all incredible we had some beers uh later in the week hung out at um Lumberjack Johnny's had a great time so shout out shout out to North Star Adam and Charlotte so I'd say she's pretty good Charlotte okay most pinball degenerate commentator Chris Stevens my boy Chris Stevens I've been on uh no Chris Stevens came on my podcast before he even had his own podcast then he started his own pinball podcast not sure if that's still going I haven't heard about in a while but he had a pinball podcast there for some time and uh he definitely does live streaming I wonder if he still does that probably but anyways he is an incredible perhaps one of my favorite commentators of all time. Many of you know Steven Bowden. I consider him to be one of the best commentators. Zoe and Debra Tallman, they're like, they're two of my favorites from the last year that I really enjoy listening to, especially because you can tell they're friends and they've played so many tournaments together. They have really good camaraderie together. So they're like, either them or Bruce and Ron from Slam Tilt, one of the two of them, you know, those two couples, listen to them talk. Those pairings, listen to them talk pinball together. Those are my favorite, but wow, Chris Stevens is right up there. Great job, Chris. I believe we got to listen to Chris this year at Pemberg as well. I know he lives in and around and near. He was part of the dojo. He's part of the Pittsburgh group, right? Humblest apologies for my voice. I'm like, should I leave and go get a drink and make y'all listen to dead air or have my voice sound worse than the audio of the Degenes? I'm just kidding, Joe. I'm just kidding. All right. so next was the most degenerate pinball stance by uh dj real or david real dj real he had this like it kind of looks like lyman but it's even longer how far apart his legs are and how far back so it's kind of cool and then um andy bagwell most degenerate pinball director and andy bagwell is also an incredible commentator he was like talking about me doing micro flips and some other stuff while I was playing. I just loved listening to the way he talked about me playing pinball, so that was so cool. Love Andy Bagwell and everything he does. He definitely deserved the tournament director. We might skip this one because we're going to talk about it later, but then we have the pinball degenerate of the year, known as the Lyman F. Sheats Jr.. Rest in peace, Lyman. Memorial Award, and this goes to Penny Epstein, his fiance. Wow. So in the last year, Penny worked really hard to raise money for suicide awareness through the Papa event, among her just being so much part of the pinball community still to this day, going on pinball podcasts, being so brave and talking about such a tough thing. And shout out to her, and she totally is 100% deserving. You are the most pinball degenerate of the year. You win the Lyman F. Sheats Jr. Award, Penny Epstein. So great job. Now, let's get the heck off of here, and let's bring it back to a more traditional Orbeez top five rad, without the bad, because I'm trying to be positive Orbee today, okay? Especially getting like $350 Canadian. This is incredible. This is great. This is huge to me. So I've already told both my boys we're getting one box of American-made, American-printed, and American-profited Pokemon. Not going to be Japanese or Korean. No, no, no. It's going to be American. and then and actually I told Ari this was with his money I went to McDonald's my son Aiden on his way home from work right after we got this first donut went to McDonald's for my first time in a long time and he not only came home with the Charizard boxes which is they're worth by far the most but then the little box that the cards are in came in the Moonbryon also known as the Espeon or the Umbreon sorry the Umbreon and those boxes are actually worth more than if you pull the most expensive card from the pack so those boxes you just never open and they go up in value so Ari's like $50 dono just a buck per show actually put a smile on both my son's face and oh and then Hayden's box wasn't was the one that wasn't so valuable you don't open it and Hayden opened it and he pulled the second most expensive card you can even pull out of there the Dragonite so it's it's it's just incredible it's just such a cool fun thing and I didn't feel bad about going and supporting an American company because it was with American dollars and yet I was treating myself and my family to a nice meal arguably not the healthiest but you know what if you look at it if you're going to go out and have a fast food meal a happy meal is by far one of the most healthiest ones you can get especially if you get it with like diet coke or a diet pop because you're only getting the world's tiniest portion of fries if you split your fries with Luna Tuna, Elowen, Agar, and Franchi, Draco Franchi, to be clear, not the artist, because he doesn't live here. I wish Franchi was my neighbor. That would be cool. That would be cool. I'll be like, yo, I'll come walk Barlow while I'm taking out Franchi and Elowen. It'd be great. But anyways, Ari, thank you so much for that. And to everyone who donated, I promise you with receipts, 100% of every one of those American dollars will be spent in America. And I'll even go so far as to say if one person donates from Australia, I'll find a way to buy something rad from Australia for my fam. If it comes from the UK, I'll do the same there. And I do do Pokemon purchases from both the UK and Australia from time to time. And thankfully, at this point, there's no tariffs. I can't really go online and buy an American product because I'd have to worry about retaliatory tariffs of up to 50% or even God knows 200. But I can buy American products in Canada to support Americans. And if someone sends me some money from Canada the UK or Aussie that's where that money will be spent so there you go anyways let's get back into it the top five things that happened at the pinball de jenny's this last Saturday number five Joe C dressed up as Gary Stern now even though I felt very trolled in that moment I also knew it was hilarious and it was funny like it was like is to us pinball nerds this is the closest to an SNL that we will ever have or some type of if you don't like the politics of SNL, fine, like SCTV or some other, you know, mad TV. I think they were on Fox, so they're more conservative, obviously. But like, it doesn't matter. Just think of any funny skit TV show you grew up watching and loved. That's what this was. And he actually did the voice not bad. He looked pretty close. Both Josie and Gary are, um, they're, they're, they're, you know, similar in stature. So like it kind of passed that way. If he was a skinny, super duper uber skinny person, it wouldn't fit, right? And then number four on the list is the stapling. Now this has nothing to do with pinball, but we got to watch two very funny, two very funny women take industrial staplers and staple Christmas lights a little higher than the breasts, a little higher than the breasts, closer to like where the boob meets, you know, a little bit of side boob meets arm. They stapled Christmas lights to each other to the point that the Christmas lights were strung up and hanging. We couldn't, it didn't zoom in enough to see if there was blood or not, but I would venture there was some blood. Anyways, I love this. I grew up on like, this made Jackass look like Fred Penner. Oh wait, that's a Canadian reference. This made Jackass look like it was Sharon Lois and Bram. Oh damn, Canadian too. Okay, this made Jackass look like it was Mr. Rogers. There you go. Y'all probably know that one. I almost started saying Mr. Rogers, but I'm trying not to. See, now that I get donos, I got to think about the listener a little bit more. And that could actually make my show better. You donating to the show could actually keep me in line, keep me a little more measured, and definitely keep me bringing you back shows more consistently. So I guess money talks and Orby walks. That's how it works. All right. Number three on the list is Orby Wins. Now, you might have noticed the one announcement I didn't announce was that I somehow won. Now, did I suspect? My wife said, like, hey, did you get a message from Joe telling you you were going to win or anything? I said, no. I had no clue. I saw that multiple people, and thank you to everybody in the Pinball Degenerates that voted for me. That was incredible But that being said I had no clue I was actually going to win I mean Slam Tilt had lots of votes in there Bruce can be pretty degenerate from time to time Not Ron usually. Maybe that's why they didn't win. Bruce, you need to do a podcast with someone as degenerate as me. Wouldn't that be wild? I don't think it would work. If Bruce ever interviewed me on Slam Tilt, or if I ever had Bruce over here, we would go so far off kilter. It would be either unlistenable, uneditable, or we both get canceled at once. But it would be a joy. And yes, Bruce, I heard you say in the chat, Orby, why didn't you come down here? Well, I didn't come down there due to financial reasons, but I want to go to the RPC. I will come to the RPC. And at that time, I will kick your butt at Stars, Bruce. You know it. I'll be such a degenny. I'll plop down $100 US on one game of stars against you, you're going down. I am the stars master. I can chill with that center post, that Kirk post better than Ron. No, I'm just kidding. Not better than Ron. Come on, I'm not that crazy. Anyways, I've gone off topic. Let's get back to it. So here's my mini acceptance speech. Is my show by far the most degenerate? Yes. Did Joe say this award category is gone forever now yes and that's okay because we don't need more degenerates in pinball podcasting i'm it i'm is the only degenerate you'll ever need your fifth favorite pinball podcast or according to the twippies your 20th favorite who knows maybe i can work my way up to 19th i'll tell you that i'm gonna try i'm gonna be here i'm in for the long haul hell if i get up to 19th by next year when I'm 45, in just 20 years from now, when I'm 65 and go to retire from homesteading, and when I go to sell the farm and the coffee company, I could be your first favorite pinball podcaster. That would be incredible. That would be a lifelong dream. Nah, I don't even need to get to first. I could settle with being your fifth favorite pinball podcaster. And it looks like I could get there by 60. And that's where I would just stay. I don't need to be top five. I don't want the other pinball podcasters to get upset here and feel threatened, okay? Let's just get back into this. Jesus, my voice is like, it's like Harry Potter eating too many chocolate frogs. I've got a French frog up on my throat like I smoke too many cigarettes, and I have not, guys, I haven't even smoked a ciggy in a year. Isn't that crazy? Or, I don't know, whenever the last time I was in Ontario or whatever, and yet my voice sounds like this. That's right. Have your second coffee before you go to record. Maybe get a little lozenge. I need a, I need a Wow. I can sing better than I can fricking talk. Okay. I got the frog out guys. Guys, I got the frog out. You know, you can, you feel better. You can feel the frogs gone. That frog has gone back to France. All right, let's get into it. Number two. Now I'm not going to say just Roger Sharp, even though Roger Sharp was the highlight of this and not only because I love listening to this man speak but Roger Sharp won all of the cameos so I'll just say all of the cameos getting to see from like Zombie Eddie to Jack Danger all of that was incredible but Roger Sharp brought back the mustache he went from being the man with the mustache for years and years and years and saving pinball to being the man with the goatee and I don't want to be rude and tell people how to wear facial hair I mean when I shave off my beard, I scared people everywhere, so I totally get that. But we're used to seeing for like 40 years Roger Sharp with a mustache. That's how the iconic man is known. And for the last, I believe the last three or four times in the last, maybe since COVID, he's always had a goatee. And not that I don't appreciate a good tea. I mean, I own a tea company, for God's sakes. Of course, I appreciate a good tea. But what I don't appreciate is I missed seeing Roger Sharp's gorgeous mustache. And we got to see it. We got to see it. The man with the mustache is back with the mustache. So that's great. I mean, when you have a goatee, you kind of still have a mustache, but y'all know what I mean. You know what I'm saying. Okay. So that was so good though. All the cameos, the cameos are split up into two parts. Um, when I did my cameo, Franchi's trying to come over here towards the computer right now. So you might hear the mic get moved around, but it's okay, bud. We're going to go for a walk soon. He literally went for a walk right before I started recording. I thought that would give me about 45 minutes, and here we are, 45 minutes in, and he needs to go again, and that's okay. I do want to walk him, so I'm going to be kind of quick here. I didn't expect to win. I appreciate winning. That was incredible, but the funniest and most rad and best thing, literally, Franchi is trying to go onto the computer as we speak. Thanks, bud. Just wait one minute. I'm going to be with you in a minute. Just relax. Literally, my favorite part of the Twippies, before I let y'all go, was Joe Chervino, okay, this guy needs so many pets, Joe Chervino dressed up as Cliff Albert, it was so funny, and the only thing that I was howling, laughing by myself, it is kind of a long award show, so if they edit parts of it out, I, Joe, I think that's okay, if you edit some of the talent stuff down to just like, you know, a shorter part of it, but you do you, it's your show, it was overall incredible, it was wild, it was entertaining, but seeing the actual Cliff Albert come in and push over Joe Chervino, oh my God, this dog is attacking me while I'm doing my show. Okay, chill, just chill. I'm going to be done in like 30 seconds. All right, so guys, please, Joe Chervino, you did a great job. Everyone who helped, you did a great job. It was so fun. The dog is waking up his sister now. and now he wakes up Elowen and now we've got two dogs trying to get love from me. I love loving the dogs, but it's very hard to concentrate. For someone with ADHD like me, it's very hard to concentrate on this show with two dogs. And when I'm the primary person taking care of the entire homestead while trying to be a pinball podcaster, it makes it more challenging. But the good news is I get to have my favorite day of the year, which is burning off all of the maple sap today, all of the maple syrup. Before I go, I do want to give one last shout out to Mike, or Michael, Andrew, better known as Drew, Antonio, Darren, and Ari Jones himself. I want to challenge one more tribe member to donate. Just one more tribe member. One woman. I haven't got a female to donate a single penny like ever. I think actually Dan and Rach. I think Dan and Rachel have donated many times and purchased tea many times. So I shouldn't say that. But I know that usually I think it comes through in Dan's name. And I know there's other people out there and couples that I'm forgetting about that have donated. Kimba, Ryan and Kimba. Oh, and big news. This is probably the biggest news of the show. And I left it right to the end. Congratulations. You get a gold star for staying to the end. Kimba just let us all know that she got the clear from the oncologist as he licks the microphone stand. Stop doing that, please. For the love of frick. He's literally like, you can lick anything in the room. He's licking the microphone stand. it must taste good from all this craft beer residue on it I don't know anyways I had a wonderful time at the D'Genny's I hope you had a wonderful time and I wanted to end it by saying most importantly Kimba got the great news that she no longer has to see oncologists regularly look could could things change in her health in the future yes but she got the five-year stamp Get out there, girl. Get out there, Ryan. Go enjoy life. Have fun. That's what's really important. Okay? That's what's really important is enjoying your life, living life to the fullest. Because we don't know how long we're here on this earth. Will I get to episode 1,000? Who knows? Will I get to episode 1,500? Maybe. Will I get to episode 2,000? Probably not. But now that I've said it, I want to. And you could help that all happen. So what I would like to challenge you all to do is not even 10 of you, not even 5 of you, not even the three of you that I'm hoping, I'm hoping of the 500 or so that listened to many of my episodes, not just five, not just one in a hundred of you are kind enough to donate back to me. Remember, I'm like PBS, I'm like a free station here. Only once per year for a couple weeks will I even ask for money or shorter. If I get to my goal, I'll be honest, my goal is to make back $10 a show. That's less than minimum wage for the amount of time and energy I spend on the show. In fact, that doesn't even break me even in all the money I spend on pinball trips and everything else. But I would like to get to $10 a show. And when I get to that point, I'll stop asking y'all for donos. Because I believe there was a part of the reason why I didn't ask over the last year was to figure out where I wanted to go with the show and how I wanted it to be. And I think the show's got slightly better, albeit slightly. And if you believe the show's got slightly better, or even if not, and you want to hear more from me in the future, then get me fired up, bring me back on the microphone stand in the next 24 hours to let you hear about Portal and donate to me the same way that Mike, Drew, Antonio, Darren, and Ari did. And you'll not only get your name announced right here on the show as a huge, massive thank you, but you'll know for the next year, for the next year straight, that this show was brought to you by your own self. And you can turn on this show any time in the next year. One of my good shows, one of my bad shows. I plan on bringing you 100 in the next year. Not just 50, but 100. I plan on doubling these up, okay? you can let everybody know that this show exists partially because of generous rad pinball donos like you i've waited a year to ask for a penny i feel totally justified in asking for a small bit of help and it's not even just help it's like it's it's due it's due when you donate to a server who went out of their way and did a great job and they were open and they were honest and they helped you with everything they could you give them a bigger donation i've gone out of my way for the last year to never ask for any donations, never have any t-shirts to sell to make money, no Patreons, I don't make any mods, okay? I don't see anyone in person who's like, oh, here, Orby, here's 20 bucks for a free beer. Well, I do, but I have to go to the States for that to happen. That did actually happen when I was down at Lumberjack Johnny's a couple times, so that was rad. But what I'm saying is, please, if you get some enjoyment from this show, give me a small tip either 50 cents a show which is 25 american for the last year or 50 which is a buck a show two bucks a show or especially if you're a big company or a distro i've never been okay with doing sponsorships here's me put myself out there orby's on the big billboard i'm for sale i will give you an official like if someone does five bucks a show for my last year which is 250 American, they will get their name at the start and the end of every one of the 100 shows that I do over the next year. And they will also get my unfettered praise and thank you. It doesn't mean, I mean, if you're a pinball company and you donate and you do something I absolutely hate, I'm obviously still going to call you out on it because I'm that authentic that I can actually have a relationship with some people in some pinball companies and still try to be authentically critical, but do it in a kind and compassionate way. So anyways, if you appreciate the show today, if you appreciate any of the 50 shows I've done in the last year, please donate. It gets me amped up. It gets me revved up, gets me excited. I'll even say this, if I get even one dono over the next 24 hours, I'm going to be back with a show. If I get two, I'm going to be back with two shows this week. And if I get three, I'll do three in the next 10 days. I don't want to overdo it. I don't want to overdo it. But there's a lot of news. In fact, just this morning, last tidbit before I let y'all go, on Kaneda's Facebook page, now remember, Kaneda's right 100% of the time, one in five, okay? He's sitting at about 17 to 18% correctness on his 100% rumor. So take this with a giant massive grain of sea salt from Himalaya, okay? But he said that there's not only one, but two pinball machines going to be revealed this week. So besides Portal, which we already know from P3 Multimorphic, another one. So wow, Guys, it's going to be a great week. I want to talk to you more. If you want to hear from me more, get me fired up. Nail me off a PayPal dono down there in the chat. And please, I double dare one of you to match whatever payment you give to me to Joe Chervino and the Pinball Digenis because he put a hell of a lot of work, a hell of a lot of time. He had to pay a juggler, a person who stands on a board of nails, a preacher. The satanic preacher wasn't my favorite, Joe. I could have came up there and maybe done a better or an ordained dudist preach speech. But, you know, they can't all be winners, right? But, I mean, most of the show was freaking hilarious. All the pinball stuff was a joy. Obviously, my biggest thing for the Twippies and for Joe, maybe for next year, maybe just prerecord the whole thing and then watch it live. like cut to a live at the start and cut to a live at the end but everything else pre-recorded the other thing i didn't mention where there was a guy on there and i think we are being trolled but he actually did 72 hours straight of playing hard body which and broke the world record i think he just did three hours during the show or it was like you know anyways we couldn't hear the sound great for that either but guys my voice is going i gotta go boil maple sap for 12 hours um it's kind of fun it's also kind of a lot of work but until next time pimple nerds remember to eat sleep and breathe the pinball de jenny's if i can find my stop bar meow

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