# Episode 124 – Back In The Saddle

**Source:** Slam Tilt Podcast  
**Type:** podcast_episode  
**Published:** 2019-02-26  
**Beat:** Pinball

**URL:** https://www.slamtiltpodcast.com/2019/02/26/episode-124-back-in-the-saddle/

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## Analysis

Ron Hallett and Bruce Nightingale return to the Slam Tilt Podcast after a two-month hiatus to discuss Pinburgh 2024 ticket sales (which sold out in under five seconds), upcoming local tournaments including Stomp West 2 in April, the PAPA/Stern/IFPA Pro Circuit Finals in Chicago, and arcade/pinball machine acquisitions and maintenance at Ron's bar Level Zero.

### Key Claims

- [HIGH] Pinburgh 2024 main tickets sold out in under five seconds — _Bruce Nightingale, discussing ticket sales on Jan 23 at 12 p.m. Eastern Time_
- [HIGH] The 50 VIP Pinburgh tickets sold out in approximately three milliseconds — _Ron and Bruce discussing the 11 a.m. VIP release on Jan 23_
- [MEDIUM] Pinburgh hotel rooms at Drury Inn sold out or nearly sold out; Omni still has availability — _Ron discussing hotel booking strategy before the main Pinburgh ticket sale_
- [HIGH] Eric Russell (CNY) is ranked #40 nationally and qualified for the PAPA/Stern/IFPA Pro Circuit Finals in Chicago — _Ron and Bruce discussing the March circuit finals and top 40 players_
- [HIGH] The PAPA Circuit Finals will use Cheetah as one of the tournament games — _Ron mentioning that Bruce said 'they already released the list of games' and one was Cheetah_
- [HIGH] Lethal Weapon 3 has bugs including randomized Leo Awards and fight scene starts that make it unfair for tournament play — _Bruce describing the rule set issues with the game he owns_
- [HIGH] IFPA's website crashed because players were pounding it trying to look up their player numbers before Pinburgh sign-ups — _Ron and Bruce discussing why IFPA's site crashed during the Pinburgh registration process_
- [HIGH] Ron purchased a Cyberball 2072 arcade cabinet from Minneapolis and brought it to Silver Ball Saloon in East Rochester, NY — _Ron describing his road trip to Minneapolis for the arcade game_
- [HIGH] Stomp West 2 tournament is tentatively scheduled for April 6th with 32 players and a flat entry fee including a free drink and food discount — _Bruce and Ron discussing the upcoming tournament details_
- [HIGH] The Upstate New York tournament (invitational, top 16 players) is being held at Ron's arcade, Level Zero, next week — _Ron and Bruce discussing the location change from lower Upstate New York to Level Zero_

### Notable Quotes

> "It's more nerve-wracking than the Pinburgh I won. It's more nerve-wracking than any tournament I've ever been in."
> — **Ron Hallett**, ~18:00
> _Describes the stress of buying Pinburgh tickets in the ultra-fast ticket sales process_

> "Under five seconds, ladies and gentlemen."
> — **Bruce Nightingale**, ~14:30
> _Confirms Pinburgh main ticket sale completion time_

> "You just go for that. You can always go back and get that. There are certain things like if you're going to go on a trip, get the hotel as soon as you can."
> — **Ron Hallett**, ~22:00
> _Advises on booking strategy: prioritize hotel cancellation policies over tickets_

> "It's basically a lottery. It's all chance whether you get in or not."
> — **Ron Hallett**, ~25:00
> _Describes community perception of Pinburgh ticket availability system_

> "The rule set is so awesomely balanced. It just needs some tweaks, I think, to be a good tournament game."
> — **Bruce Nightingale**, ~50:00
> _Assesses Lethal Weapon 3's competitive viability despite issues_

> "Cyberball is a futuristic football game from 2072... with robots that you can blow up and you can throw and pass and there's no downs."
> — **Ron Hallett**, ~55:00
> _Describes the arcade game he purchased_

> "I think for Papa, it's a constant battle because they're the professional and amateur pinball association. It's a battle between the professionals and amateurs."
> — **Bruce Nightingale**, ~35:00
> _Frames the Pinburgh ticket allocation tension as reflecting PAPA's core mission conflict_

> "So advanced knowledge, folks, you heard it here. [Cheetah] will most probably have the tournament ROM in it."
> — **Ron Hallett**, ~70:00
> _Insider knowledge about PAPA Circuit Finals game setup, hints at non-random collects rule_

### Entities

| Name | Type | Context |
|------|------|---------|
| Ron Hallett | person | Co-host of Slam Tilt Podcast, operator of Level Zero arcade bar in Rochester, NY, tournament organizer, IFPA player #671 |
| Bruce Nightingale | person | Co-host of Slam Tilt Podcast, tournament organizer, pinball enthusiast, runs events from Cameron Silver Ball Saloon and Ron's venue |
| Eric Russell | person | Top 40 nationally ranked pinball player from Central New York (CNY), IFPA player, qualified for PAPA/Stern/IFPA Pro Circuit Finals in Chicago |
| Pinburgh | event | Largest pinball tournament on the planet, 2024 edition sold out in under 5 seconds, located in Pittsburgh, PA |
| PAPA | organization | Professional and Amateur Pinball Association; organizes Pinburgh tournament and Pro Circuit Finals; website crashed during IFPA number lookups for Pinburgh registration |
| Silver Ball Saloon | venue | Arcade/bar in East Rochester, NY where Bruce Nightingale is associated; now hosts Cyberball 2072 arcade cabinet |
| Level Zero | venue | Ron Hallett's basement arcade/bar in Rochester, NY; hosting site for Upstate NY invitational tournament on Feb 24; contains multiple pinball and arcade machines |
| Lethal Weapon 3 | game | Pinball machine owned by Bruce; has rule set balance issues including randomized Leo Awards, fight scene randomness, and multiball bugs; needs code updates for tournament viability |
| Cheetah | game | Pinball game selected for PAPA/Stern/IFPA Pro Circuit Finals in Chicago; will likely use tournament ROM with non-random collects |
| Cyberball 2072 | game | 1980s futuristic football arcade game; Ron traveled to Minneapolis to acquire home-use cabinet; now at Silver Ball Saloon |
| Whodunit | game | Pinball machine at Level Zero; recently shopped/serviced to play like a 'completely different game' for upcoming tournament |
| Spanish Eyes | game | Pinball machine at Level Zero; recently shopped and now plays like real game vs. neutered version; in tournament lineup |
| The Prospector | game | Pinball machine at Level Zero; 99% completed project picked up in summer; will be in tournament |
| TNA | game | Pinball machine at Level Zero; recently had audio cable replaced and drop target issues fixed; in tournament lineup |
| IFPA | organization | International Flipper Pinball Association; website crashed during Pinburgh registration when players looked up player numbers; maintains WPPR rankings |
| Stomp West 2 | event | Upcoming pinball tournament tentatively scheduled for April 6 at Level Zero; 32-player capacity with flat fee entry, free drink, and food discount |
| This Week in Pinball | content_signal | Podcast on which Ron and Bruce both appeared during their Slam Tilt hiatus; Bruce noted Ron's episode was 'very good' |
| Upstate New York Championship Tournament | event | Invite-only tournament for top 16 regional players; held next week at Level Zero (Feb 24); features match play, five-game sets; Dumble of the Nation format |
| Jerry Bernard | person | #1 qualifier for Upstate NY Championship Tournament |
| Andy Cushman | person | #3 qualifier for Upstate NY Championship Tournament |
| Steve Daniels | person | New England player, #13 qualifier for Upstate NY Championship, first New Englander invited to Upstate NY tournament |
| Phil Birnbaum | person | Canadian player, #14 qualifier for Upstate NY Championship Tournament |
| Steph | person | Known as 'the pinball princess'; displays her IFPA player number on letters, which Ron uses as reference for his own number |

### Topics

- **Primary:** Pinburgh 2024 ticket sales and logistics, Tournament organization and competitive scene (Upstate NY, Stomp West, PAPA Circuit Finals), Pinball machine acquisition, restoration, and maintenance
- **Secondary:** Lethal Weapon 3 code quality and tournament viability, IFPA/PAPA integration and ticket system design, Arcade game collecting and venue operations, Community sentiment on Pinburgh accessibility and fairness
- **Mentioned:** Host return and podcast logistics

### Sentiment

**Positive** (0.72) — Hosts are upbeat and excited about return, tournament activity, and venue updates. Community frustration about Pinburgh tickets is noted but presented matter-of-factly. Some criticism of rule set issues in Lethal Weapon 3 and IFPA infrastructure, but overall tone is playful and engaged.

### Signals

- **[event_signal]** Pinburgh 2024 main tickets sold out in under 5 seconds; VIP tickets sold out in ~3 milliseconds on Jan 23 at 12 p.m. ET. Drury Inn hotel rooms sold out/near capacity; Omni has availability. (confidence: high) — Bruce and Ron both confirmed sub-5-second sell-out, discussed hotel booking in real-time
- **[competitive_signal]** Eric Russell (CNY) qualified as #40 nationally for PAPA/Stern/IFPA Pro Circuit Finals in Chicago in March; Cheetah selected as one of tournament games (confidence: high) — Ron explicitly states Eric is #40 and going to Chicago; Bruce and Ron discuss Cheetah selection
- **[code_update]** Lethal Weapon 3 has unresolved issues: randomized Leo Awards, random fight scene starts, cow video mode unfair scoring, and multiball code bugs where game thinks multiball is active after drain (confidence: high) — Bruce detailed specific bugs and stated 'it just needs some tweaks to be a good tournament game' and game is buggy
- **[venue_signal]** Ron's Level Zero arcade bar hosting major local tournament next week (Upstate NY Championship) with 16 invited players plus 2 alternates; venue expanded to include recently serviced Whodunit, Spanish Eyes, Prospector, Lethal Weapon 3, and TNA (confidence: high) — Ron discusses multiple machine refreshes and tournament at Level Zero; Bruce confirms details
- **[product_launch]** Ron acquired Cyberball 2072 arcade cabinet from Minneapolis; now installed at Silver Ball Saloon in East Rochester, NY (confidence: high) — Ron detailed the road trip and current location; Bruce confirmed location details
- **[content_signal]** Slam Tilt Podcast returns after ~2 month hiatus; both hosts appeared on This Week in Pinball podcast during break; Bruce notes Ron's episode was 'very good' (confidence: high) — Ron and Bruce discuss their breaks and guest appearances; acknowledge 2-month absence
- **[community_signal]** Pinburgh 2024 changed ticket system to 48-hour waitlist model instead of 15-minute refresh pool. Reported cases of players buying 5 tickets to help friends enter; some people claimed false IFPA numbers (e.g., putting '1') to complete registration (confidence: high) — Ron and Bruce detail both ticket allocation methods and gaming behavior; discuss Discord coordination
- **[regulatory_signal]** IFPA website crashed when players mass-looked-up player numbers before Pinburgh registration. Pinburgh required IFPA number in registration form, causing bottleneck. (confidence: high) — Ron saw the site crash numbers; Bruce and Ron discuss why the crash happened
- **[tournament_signal]** Stomp West 2 rescheduled from March 9 to April 6 because top regional/national players (including Jeff Teolis and Eric Russell) will be in Chicago for PAPA Circuit Finals; tentatively 32-player capacity with flat fee + free drink + food discount (confidence: high) — Ron and Bruce discuss the conflict and new date; confirm April 6 is tentative
- **[operational_signal]** Ron performing flipper rebuilds, audio cable replacements (3.5mm cables on TNA), and drop target repairs (Williams single-drop-target compression springs) at Level Zero to prepare for tournament (confidence: high) — Ron details specific repairs and parts; Bruce discusses ongoing maintenance
- **[machine_intel]** Ron has insider knowledge that Cheetah at PAPA Circuit Finals will use tournament ROM with non-random collects, contradicting Raymond Davidson's preference (confidence: high) — Ron states 'advanced knowledge, folks' and explains he sent PAPA a Dropbox link with tournament ROM in May of previous year; recently re-uploaded it
- **[sentiment_shift]** Community sentiment shows frustration over Pinburgh ticket scarcity and allocation fairness; complaints about lottery nature, but hosts frame it as inevitable given finite capacity (1000 slots vs. much larger demand) (confidence: high) — Ron mentions 'a whole discussion like on Tilt Forums' and 'a lot of pissed off people'; Levy's suggestion of reserving 100 slots for top-100 ranked players noted and dismissed

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## Transcript

 You're gonna take these fries, and you're gonna pay for them. I said I don't want any fries! Would you like to speak to my manager? Yes, I would. I'm back! Coming to you from beautiful upstate New York, this is the Slam Tilt Podcast, a show about all things pinball. I'm your host, Ron Hallett, here with my co-host, Bruce Nightingale. Hey, Marty and Ryan. Thanks for having me on today. Oh, bite me. You know what? You're not impressed. That was one take, ladies and gentlemen. Confirm. That was one take. Yes, it was. After two months, he still knows how to do that. Yeah, and we just fucked around with headsets for like ten minutes. I didn't. Well, yeah. I was trying this new gaming headset. It's the same one I used on the This Week in Pinball podcast, but it was not cooperating. I was just too basey. So welcome to episode, what is this, 124, I believe? Is it? It is. Episode 124, and I don't know, what's the byline for this guy? Bruce and Ron are back. We're back again. We're back again. Um, yeah, we, we, we're out of movies. This is episode 124. Welcome, everyone. We're, we're back. After Bruce keeps starting polls, trying to... I have, you should see... Actually, not, not polls. What was it? You, like, going to our Facebook page and, and telling them to beg Ron to come back on. And did it work? Uh, I was going to come back on anyway, Bruce. I know that, but still, I had to jumpstart you. You had to jumpstart me, yeah. Mm-hmm. You had to start me up. Start me up and never stop. You got it. Look at this. I had to turn my headset up a little bit. Man, now everything's back. But I'm wired with this headset. See, the other one was wireless. I could walk around. I'm always wired. Yeah, that much is certain. Yes, it is. So, yeah, and, like, does everyone think it's like we've been gone for six months or something? I think we were gone for, like, a month. Two months. No, it hasn't been two months. No, it hasn't. December 31st. That's when we recorded. I know, but you released it, okay, the 3rd. There you go. So it's been over a month and a half at least. There you go. There you go. So two months. All right. It's okay. I've taken the Dave Letterman route. Yes, he has. He is the Unabomber. When the show ended, I just started growing my beard out, and it's getting to extreme levels now. It is. I'm getting compliments from fellow beard people, I've noticed. But yes. So fellow bears. Fellow bears. Well, it's time to take advantage of my Italian-ness and grow out the facial hair, man. There you go. Yeah. Hey, so what did you do to you yesterday? What did I do to you yesterday? What did you do to me yesterday? What did you do yesterday? I played lots of Kiss, Bruce. Lots of Kiss. Oh, so sorry. Have you seen our farewell tour yet, Bruce? It started. Yes, I saw he brought his father out to his show, Paul Stanley, and his father's 99 years old. Yes, because he listens to lots of Kiss, Bruce. That's what happens. Wow. Yes. I think his dad listens to it like, man, you guys suck. Yeah, man, what the fuck is this crap? Why do you play this? Well, I guess they already got, like, because they were lip syncing everything. Yeah. So they're basically like mini Kiss. But they were lip syncing, and there was like a cueing issue, and they started like the vocals before the song started. There's a video out there. It's quite funny. Yeah, that's pretty bad. And you're paying more money for it. That's even better. But, you know, we're trying to put on the best show we can, Bruce, and we just can't sing anymore because we're really old. It means you should retire, Gene. Yes, we are. After this farewell tour, I need some more money. We always need more money. I know that. what did I do yesterday well there were certain tickets that went on sale yesterday oh what would that be you got your Mariah Carey tickets didn't you no I did not get my I got my Barry Manilow tickets oh excellent you came and you stopped me from shaving and you vended away oh Brucie or maybe I got tickets to see Frankie Valli I did sing with him you know I know you did. You would have heard that story on the This Week in Pinball podcast. It's funny how we both did podcasts in between our mid-day pay. It was better for me because when I was done, I didn't have to do anything. It was so liberating. Like, oh, man, this is the greatest thing ever. That's why I keep on busting your chops to do more podcasts. It's kind of like you after this podcast. You won't have to do anything. That's not true. Okay. Well, wait a minute. What are you doing via the podcast? I'm going to promote it and show the goodwill to all men and women out there in Pinball Land. Show the goodwill to all. Okay. He's back, ladies and gentlemen. I had no idea what that really meant. But, yes, Pinberg tickets, they went on sale. How did you do with your VIP first? Okay, yeah. So, okay. For those who don't know, Pinberg is the largest tournament on the planet. And they did this thing where they had, was it 50? 50. They did. They had like the main on sale was Saturday, this past Saturday. I guess I should say what date, depending on how long it takes me to edit this stupid thing. Yeah, Saturday the 23rd at 12 a.m. 12 a.m. 12 p.m. Eastern Time, they released. It was going to be the main. But before that, at 11 a.m., they were going to have 50 VIP tickets. And, Bruce, what does the VIP experience give you? Because I don't have that in front of me. A special lanyard. Okay. An hour to get in beforehand the show. An hour to get in beforehand the show. Before the show. Okay. Like what they did at California Stream all the time. And a special seating area. Oh-ho. Which is the most important thing, I thought. So are they like super cushy seats? I don't know. They have a guard in front of them saying, like, where's your pass if you go to go in that area? The knights who say neat. It's knee, but yes. Yeah, so they sold out pretty fast. Yeah, they sold out in three seconds. No, it was like three milliseconds. It was like they were gone. Yeah. Like instantly. Yep. So you think, like, okay. We're in trouble. No. You're thinking, well, there's going to be 950 more of these. So this shouldn't, you know, what was it last year, 800? 840. 840. So it's like you have way more chance of getting it. Yeah. You have a 20% faster chance. So how fast did they sell out, Bruce? I think the overall tally was like, I'm going to look right now. I thought it was under five seconds. Was it? Yeah. Wow. Yep. Under five seconds, ladies and gentlemen. And so, Ron, what's your wait list place? No, I got in. Oh, okay. Me too. Yeah. And I used a little cheats to get in. Little cheats to get in. Yep. Well, what's the little cheats? I hooked in. I hardwired right into the back of the modem. Okay. That's not really a cheat, but yeah. That does help. I thought you were going to say you were using your bot network to like. No, no, no, no. Turned off everything in the house. that was network draining network draining yes i gotcha and i turned everything off on my computer in the background except for just a couple basic things okay well yeah you kind of had my paranoia level what i did oh my god what i did was i have i just built a streaming pc which we'll get more into that but it's like the fastest machine in the house by far it's like ridiculous power and i have it down in level zero in the basement i have it hardwired you know for the streaming so what i did is basically what you did i made sure everything was off that might uh you know use network except my phone and i it's funny i have a wired mouse hooked up to it but i was i was gonna put a wireless mouse on it and i still am going to but i was thinking like you know what what happens if this wireless mouse dies right at the point of clickage yep yeah so i've had the wired mouse on there and your hand on f5 hand on f5 i was using chrome um i have one extension i use for chrome which is an ad blocker i turned it off just in case yep and yeah just started f5 in it and i I thought I lost it, though, because it came up. I put two tickets in for me and my dad, right? And then you go to the screen where the checkout button is. I hit the checkout button. It says, you must select an insurance option. Oh, I know. It's like, oh, shit. Like, fuck. Boom. I immediately clicked that, hit it, and I'm figuring, like, I'm fucked. Yep. The next train is going to come up. But no, it came up like, ah. I had my 15 minutes. But even then, I'm still nervous as fuck. It is more nerve-wracking. Get it done as fast as you can. Well, no. You don't have to. You have 15 minutes. No, if you lose the internet, you're screwed. Well, that's true. No. But I was like, it is far more nerve-wracking than any – it was more nerve-wracking than the Pinburgh I won. It's more nerve-wracking than any tournament I've ever been in. I'll tell you that. I agree. But the funny thing is I saw all these people that said they tried to buy their ticket and their Pinburgh ticket. Why would you do that? Fail. That's a fail. Because most of them fail. You just go for that. You can always go back and get that. Yeah. There are certain things like if you're going to go on a trip, get the hotel as soon as you can if it's cancelable. That's the first thing you look at because the hotel rooms went on available earlier in the week. Yes, they did. And I guess the Drury sold out or close to sell out, and then the Omni I think still has rooms. I got the Omni. Yeah, I got the Drury. I got the Drury. I actually got the Omni this time. What does that tell you? Moving on up in the world. Moving on up. So I got the Drury. I think that's how you say it. and the first thing I look at, what's the cancel Ryan Policky? Okay, within 24 hours, fine, great. So boom, I had that set, even though I don't know if I'm even getting into Pinburgh. Then you go for Pinburgh. Then you wait because you never know what could happen. Life can suck sometimes. It can. And you may need to cancel. So I usually wait until like probably a week before I'll actually get the actual show tickets. That's the way I do it. But, I mean, man, there was a lot of pissed off people. They did it differently. Last year, they did the deal where, like, if someone went to get a ticket and they didn't, like, finish the checkout process, it went back into the pool. So, like, 15 minutes. So, like, at 12.15, if you started refreshing, more tickets would become available. Yes. They changed it this year, which I think was a good idea. They basically changed it so, like, say you didn't get in. You're waitlisted. You enter your shit in. You're on the wait list. Then as the tickets become available, you get an email saying, congratulations, you're next on the wait list. You have 48 hours to buy this ticket. And that's the way they did it. It seemed to be a better way. Yeah, I agree. Yeah. But, I mean, still people were – Livid. Livid about, yes, usually the ones that didn't get in. And I see it, but it's like, you know, this is supposed to be for everyone. You know, they need more people, which the Papa people said, like, no. So it's impossible. Yeah. And it's like it's a lottery. I heard that a lot. It's basically a lottery. It's all chance whether you get in or not. Well, some people didn't get in in the beginning. Well, yes. And I would love to see the stats. The most tickets you can buy at once is five. Yes. And last year, I think they only had either zero or maybe one purchase of five. There's going to be significantly more than that this year. Yes. I know for a fact of multiple people who basically got five tickets to see who didn't get in and then just added their names and then they're in. Yep. I mean, that would be a great use of Discord for those who don't know what that is. I mean, it's basically Skype, but it's better. It's used mostly by a lot of gamers use it. So basically you have like five of your buddies. You all get each other's info, your name, email address, IFPA number, which we'll have to talk about that. You get all this information together, and then all five of you just pound the site at 12, say like one of the five gets in. They put all five people's information in. Boom, done. Or if like two of five get in, have one put all five in, make sure it goes through, and then maybe you message other people, hi, I got like a – I got three or four minutes. Give me your info. Yeah, give me your info. Now, what they did this year is because they got sick of trying to find everyone's IFPA number. That's why it takes so long to submit Pinberg to IFPA. They made that like a requirement when you signed up for your IFPA number. Which crashed IFPA. Which crashed IFPA's site because everyone was just pounding their site trying to get their IFPA number, and it killed it. Yes, it did. I actually saw the numbers from that. Yes, there was a website. That's how it spiked. Oh, my God. But I'd like to thank Steph, the pinball princess. Thanks to her, I know my number. Yes. Because on her letters, she always has her player number. So I just looked up my – I wonder what my player number is, and it's ingrained in my head. So is my father's number. We're 365 and 364. He's 364. He's ahead of me for some reason. Well, he's better than you. That's true. So what's your number? 671. So mine's easy. So I just, you know, six and one on the outside equals seven in the middle. Very good. I'd love to have, like, 420 would be a cool one. 69, 690, anything like that. Or the single digits like all the famous guys have. Yeah. But, yeah, that's what some people are doing. It's like, I couldn't get to this site, so I just put, like, one. Yeah. Keith Elman's going to be getting points for multiple people. Yeah, multiple people. Keith's going, yeah. Yeah. Like he needs it. I know. Anything else? I mean, yeah, there's a whole discussion like on Tilt Forums, of course, about this. Yeah? Yeah. You had Levy there. I think the first 100 people should just get first crack. The first 100 ranked. It's like, of course, Levy. What rank are you, Levy? Oh, 44. Okay. Oh, okay, yeah. We love you, Levy, but no. I think for Papa, it's a constant battle because they're the professional and amateur pinball association. It's a battle between the professionals and amateurs. Who will win? And there's a lot of people I know that did not make it in. Local people, Bob and Andy and Jason. I still think they're in. And Brad. The thing is, if you got in the wait list immediately, you're in. I'm sorry. They went last year. What did they go up to the wait list? Like 150. It was ridiculous how high up they went in the wait list. And a lot of these people are going to drop out. there were people who were waitlisted yesterday that were within like 15 minutes they're getting emails like congratulations you know i know why i know why also because some people i know booked five tickets with their name on four of them thinking they could transfer them no that's you can't do that you know that and why would they think they can do that i don't understand they didn't read the rules even if you don't read the rules does anyone think that that they would let you do that. No, I don't. But yeah, I to me, that's a common sense thing. Oh, no, we just lost some listeners. What else is new? OK, so we're down to 12 again. Yeah, it's my fault again. That's my fault. It's usually not my fault. Usually your fault. Yeah, but this time it's yours. So what have you been up to in these past? Well, I was on a podcast. Yes, so was I. I was on the This Week in Pinball podcast. I was heard. I was awesome. I was told. Or at least passable. You were very good. Because you know I didn't listen to the episode. Of course not. But I did listen to your episode. Oh, with me and Marty on head-to-head? Yes. You were definitely Bruce, yes. There's some very Bruce comments there. And your point? Yeah. I probably wouldn't have edited them out, so. They were near crossing the line, but not quite. No. Nah. Nah. I'm in Australia time. That was where I I was raring to go. You were in Australian time, so you were raring to go. Yep. Okay, it makes perfect sense to me. It does, finally. I finally figured him out, folks, after how many years? I finally figured Bruce out. Well, I picked up a game. What did you pick up? Lethal Weapon 3. You know, there are those games that I really like, and it's a rare thing. You really like a game. You get it. and then you end up liking it even more. And that's what's happening with Lethal Weapon 3. Oh, yeah. Told you. The rule set is so awesomely balanced. It just needs some tweaks, I think, to be a good tournament game. Like the random Leo Awards. What Leo wants, Leo gets. It has to be made non-random. The fight scenes starting needs to be non-random, because I can't figure out. Every once in a while when you hit it in the saucer, you get the fight thing. I'm running the pre-Williams is going to sue us ROMs. So it has the multiball and it has the cow in the video mode, which that is also not fair because the cow gives you a million no matter where he is. So someone would complain about that. They lost by, you know, like a couple thousand points or something. And it's buggy. I've had at least two instances where I've been like out of multiball, but it still thinks I'm in multiball. Oh, wow. And it makes no sense because it's not a switch issue because the second you drain, it knows the ball's over. It knows the turn's over. You know what I mean? It's not like the typical, I think there's two balls in play. Like the switches are working. It's just bad code. That stinks. So just remember that, folks, who's ever gotten in the upstate, if you're going to pick that. It could screw you. It could screw you. Well, it'll probably get thrown out if that happens. Okay. So I bought a lot of things lately. Well, yeah, you did another ridiculous road trip. Which you talked about on Head to Head, but you could talk about it on the only podcast that matters. Ooh. Zing. Zing. Yeah, right. Pachinko. Yeah, I drove out to Minneapolis. Minneapolis. A hotbed of pinball, by the way. No, but it's not for pinball. It was for an arcade game. What? $100 cyberball. $100? Well, clue the listeners in. What is cyberball? Cyberball is a futuristic football game from 2072. Yeah, it's actually Cyberball 2072 is the name. And it's with robots that you can blow up and you can throw and pass and there's no downs. There's a ball, which is called the Cyberball, that goes from cool to warm to hot to critical. And if you pass the 50-yard line, it resets the Cyberball back to cool again. So if you're on the 40-yard line, you gain five yards and you're critical and you get hit, The ball blows up, and the robot that you're controlling blows up. I think we should do this for real football. You need to move the ball. If you don't, it explodes. Yep, I totally agree with this. It's a great game. Me and Bruce played this at, like, many a California extreme. Including my house. I had a four-player. Yeah, there's two versions. There's the two-player, and then there's the tournament four-player edition, which is actually two teams, but one player is offense, one player's defense. Yes. Yeah. It's just such a great game. It is. And he went to Minnesota for this. It was a home use only one. No burn in on the monitor. Looks and plays fantastico. And where's that located now, Bruce? It is at the Silver Ball Saloon in East Rochester, New York, 135 West Commercial Street. Okay. Just checking. Just checking. And I bought a joust. Okay. Arcade game. Oh, the arcade game. Okay. Yep. Did you know I did the artwork for that? I know you did. Yes. It is great artwork. It's incredible. Python is number one. I bought my taxi back. I don't think I talked about that. Yeah, you did. You did talk about that. Okay. Okay. So that's good. I have a deal in place for a Tempest. Oh, God. A vector monitor. Yep. Do you know how to fix those? Yep. Of course you do. I just found a deal on one of your favorite games of all time. Oh, really? Okay. Video game. Yeah. Karate Champ. Oh. You got to put that at the bar so I can just get the record. There you go. You can have the record here. You can get it. The problem is as soon as the day's over and you shut it off, there goes the record. That's true. You never turn it off. Well, no. No. What you do is you get those like – you used to have in the arcades back in the day, the high score, like the clips to the game. Mm-hmm. You should do that, actually. That's a good idea. I think you could even you can I think it's like the timeout arcade or something they had like repros you can print you can print them out and put them on the card so it looks like you old time out arcade It was an arcade chain like on the East Coast you should do that to keep actual track of the high scores. I do do that. You do do? I do. Where do you keep track of them? Behind the bar? No. On a big chalkboard. Oh, okay. I got rid of one game. Indiana Jones is gone. Yay! I mean, oh. Yeah. You won't be able to do your cheat thing on it anymore. I know. The cheat thing, the frog trick. Hello, my baby. Hello, my honey. Hello, my ragtime girl. You're the only person I've ever seen do that. Because it requires, what, a code at the beginning. Yes. And then you have to actually get into the video mode, which is not always easy with the glass on. Then you have to do the right pattern. Yep. Yeah. But then once you do that, it's all easy. Yeah. You have to count the number of tunnels and then go through the, yeah. The fourth right one. The fourth right one, yeah. So other than that, nothing new and exciting. Bar's been very busy. That's good. Lots of parties coming up. Lots and lots of parties. Parties are always good. Yes, they are. And just doing everything we can to have fun here. Yeah. I do miss my brother. Oh. I have not seen my brother in two months. But we talked about Stomp to West, and we were talking about March. We had to delay it because we had two parties coming up. Yeah, we were talking about March. You gave a date. You said it was going to be March 9th. I know, but we talked about it. You can't have it March 9th because all the top players are going to be in Chicago. Exactly, that's what I found out. That's why you had to reschedule it. I mean, all the top players are going to be there. Even Jeff Teolis, I mean, not a top player, but he's going to be there in Chicago. So is Eric Russell. Oh, Eric? Eric made the top 40. He is number 40. Congratulations, Eric. We are, of course, talking about the circuit finals. Yes. Now, which Eric Russell is this? Definitely CNY. He's the best player. Yes, he is. Yeah. Funny story about that. This is the, what, the Papa slash Stern slash IFPA Pro Circuit. And they're going to be doing, what, the top 40 players for, what, last year? Yes. Whatever the hell it is. And then they're also doing the Heads Up Challenge. So they're going to have probably a bunch of new sterns there. I'm sure it will be like head-to-head monsters or whatever. Oh, yeah, we'll have to talk about monsters. Then they're also – they already released the list of games. Did you see what one of the games was? Cheetah. Yes. I wonder why. I have a funny story about that. After the New York City Pinball Championships last year, Papa basically asked me for a copy of the tournament ROM the one that makes it so you just have the one collect and I basically just sent them a Dropbox link this was in May of last year so I got an email I think last week from Papa basically saying we tried the link and it didn't work it's like well yeah because I left it up there for a month and then I took it down because I figured they would have downloaded it They never downloaded it. They even replied to my original email from May of last year saying that was ready. So I had to put it up there again, and they got it. So advanced knowledge, folks, you heard it here. It will most probably have the tournament ROM in it. Which Raymond Davidson will be disappointed. Yes, he will. No endless collects. So I was very happy that one of Upstate New York's finest players will be in. Yes. Which is very cool. It is very cool. And what are you doing? I'm hearing sound. Are you in the bathroom? No. What is that? That's the compressor. That's the compressor? Yes. It's loud. It is very loud. But it's compressing. It's cooling a cooler where the beer is. Ah. Yeah, so Stomp West 2, Stomp 2 West, whatever it's going to be called, is April. April 6th. Okay, tentative date, folks. April 6th. Put it on your calendars. What we're going to do probably is going to have a flat fee, entry fee, with some things taking out. But you also get a free drink and that kind of stuff also at the bar. And a discount coupon for food. And it'll be limited. I think we're going to do 32 people. Okay. Make it, you know, fun, fun, fun. Fun, fun, fun. For everyone. There's also another tournament coming up. It is next week. Invite only. Well, you had to be good in upstate, I guess. The top 16 are now up. They're up, up, up. Yes. Bruce sent out an email. In the right way. Yes. He sent out an email. He did it the right way. I was so impressed. But it's Bruce. So he had to have a statement in there that confused me. What else is new? Okay. Well, we can have our listeners. You can email us. No, you don't have to. Yes, you do. I need something to email. There's hardly anything in the ball bag. Oh, my. Oh, my. His email said, it stated, actually, do I have a copy of it? No, you don't. Yes, I hold. No. You deleted it from my mailbox? You have the power. Yeah, I do. Holy shit, dude. You are one powerful dude. I am. Oh, man. I think I deleted it. Yes. So while we're doing that. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I was going to go over the top 16. Oh, yeah. Go over the top 16 where I'm looking for the email. Go for it. So number one qualifier is Jerry Bernard. Number two is Eric Russell, CNY, the one who is going to the PAPA Circuit Finals. Number three is Andy Cushman. Number four is Zach, our world-famous Zach. Number five is Alberto Santana. Number six is Frank Romero. Number seven is myself. Number eight is Howard Levine. Number nine is Greg Paparelli, Waparelli. Number ten is Bob Merlo. Number eleven is Ed Zeldman. Number twelve is Mike Ventino. Number 13, we're going to let in the first time ever a New Robert Englunds into the upstate New York. Because Steve Daniels is coming all the way out to Ron's Arcade, level zero, and play there. Number 14 is Phil Birnbaum from Canada, our one Canadian. Matt Sells from Rochester, number 15. And number 16, our own pinball princess. This will be a Dumble of the Nation match play five game set. and we have two alternates, Nick Kaiser and Brandon Hoffman. So hopefully we don't need alternates, but if we do, we have those two guys in the back ready to rock and waiting for Ron. Come on, Ron. Yeah, I got the email in front of me. It says, hi, everyone. If you have responded to the last email, do not respond back to this one. Very clear. Very good. Last days to respond. And midnight, 2.23, is the last chance to say yes or no for this event. Midnight, 2.23. Now, what would you think that means? See, I take it the way I think. I take it to mean exactly what that says. Midnight at 2.23 would be Friday going into Saturday. Because midnight is the beginning of the next, is the first time of the next day. But, of course, Bruce, what did you mean it? That's exactly what you just said. No, you meant it's Saturday night. Liar. We talked about this before we went on. I know, but I still had to make it look stupid for a minute. I'm like, what? So what you need to do, Bruce, do what insurance companies do. $11.59. They do $12.01 to $11.59, which I always have to ask, well, what happens if I get in a car accident right at midnight? Is it like the one minute I'm not covered? Is that a loophole? Think about it. Interesting. But look at that. You monster need very interesting lives. So the Upstates at level zero. Yeah, we didn't even get into this part. I mean, originally it wasn't really going to be at my house. Nope. But there was some scheduling issues. Yeah, we were going to have it once. We were going to have it down in lower New York, of lower Upstate New York. Yep. but it didn't work out, so I had to go to a backup. Yeah, I got an email from Bruce, like, could you do this? Like, I guess so. Honestly, I was not. I have several games that were down. But you had a whole month to do it. I'm busy. I don't have a lot of time. You have no podcast anymore. Oh, stop, stop. So, to get prepared for this, we have a freshly shopped Whodunit, which plays like a completely different game. It's awesome. We have a freshly chopped Spanish eyes, which, holy shit, did that make a difference. It's like a completely different game now. The old one was like neutered Spanish eyes. This is like the real Spanish eyes that is now appearing. The prospector that I picked up, you may remember, I think during the summer, that's pretty much coming to a conclusion. That's 99% done right now. Nice. So that will be in. What else? Lethal Weapon, that was not there. Obviously, for anyone who's been to level zero before, that was not there last time. That is in. What else? I did a flipper rebuild on that, so that's all I did. It needs a shop job, but I don't have time. But still, everything works. Then we have TNA, your favorite game. I think I was able to fix some of the last remaining issues with it, which were, if anyone remembers, we had sound issues. I replaced the, I always call it the eighth-inch cable. It's like, I guess, what, the 3.5-millimeter audio cable? It corrected all those issues. I started having issues with the second drop target again. You know what it was? This is great, Bruce. Mm-hmm. Okay? Here we go. Now, these are Williams, these are basically Williams, you know, single drop target max. They're Williams. So you know on the target, when it slides up and down, there's a compression spring. So when you press the drop target, it will press against the compression spring, it will go past the lip, and then it will fall because of another spring, the extension spring that pulls it down. what was happening the compression spring did not compress enough oh my it wasn't tight enough it was a bad literally like i took out one of the target mechs that worked compared the springs and the one was shorter than the other my spring's better than your spring but it made no sense it's like really i mean they just take these from a pile of spring so i had like so literally i cut like one and a half loop out of the spring to make it the same, compress down the same amount as the one that worked. So now your spring is stronger. It's shorter. All the issues are completely gone, literally. I even kept a little piece of it, just like, this is how much it takes for your game to not work right. It's insane. And the big deal is the streaming rig was built. I have the Carl D'Python Anghelo model mobile streaming rig wireless HDMI I hope to have it fully done I want to run some tests on it but I should be able to roll this thing to every single game at any time since I'm not playing in the tournament he did qualify I declined which I've had at least three people ask me if that was a joke Nope. It's like, nope. I have no desire to play my own games. I would rather run the stream. There you go. That's what I'll be doing, running the stream and probably fixing stuff that will break. And I'll be going over there and breaking his TNA so we'll have no problems. Why do you hate TNA? It sucks. It doesn't suck. It sucks. So wrong. So I think we know what people are going to pick against you, Bruce. I encourage it. I play especially good at games that I hate. Yep. What else did I work on? I think that's about it. I mean, that's been taking most of my time trying to get all this shit ready. I mean, my one table is now the streaming table. It's the stream station. It's permanent. Is it golden? It's not golden. I don't even get that. Golden stream? I thought you were going for a Golden Showers reference but I didn't really, yeah so good to have Bruce back this is the best this is the best, yes it is no filter baby, no fucking filter oh, nope, nope, edit no swearing, no swearing, this is the new clean podcast full fucking shit that's great Bruce, that's great let's just keep every swear I have it's the kiss way Bruce So let's beep every swear I have. You can self-beep yourself. You have a mute button. Yeah, just go for it. No filter. So let's look at my little... Monsters! Oh, Monsters! That was weird. Look at my little... And then I stopped. Well, hey now. Oh, Monsters. I didn't even have that on here. But yes, Monsters! Monsters came out! Yes, it did. Yes, it did. I got to play it. Yes, you did. And? I like Monster Bash. It's fun. What? I'm not saying anything. I haven't played it yet, so I can't say anything. It shoots really good. I mean, the play field, Flow City. If you're a Flow man, which I know you are, you will love it. It has the Terminator 2 ramp thing going. You can go back and forth. It's got the orbit that goes all the way around. It's got, you know, it's Flow City. Nice. And it basically felt like kind of playing Monster Bash. You have all the characters. you hit them a certain number of times to get into a monster bash. I mean, monster madness. Mmm. Wow. And then it has a zap button that you, like every time it blinks, you hit it to build your zap meter. And if it's high enough, you get zap jackpots. Then it has this thing where you build up super jackpots and you can go to collect them and then you can decline by holding the button down and then keep going. To build it up more. To build it up more. The thing is, I notice I don't know if it... I'm trying to remember when I actually shot it in there whether it said what the actual total you'd be collecting was before you canceled out. I don't remember. But, I mean, artwork is cool. I mean, it definitely fits the theme. The video stuff is cool. Especially if you were into the monsters, I'm sure you'll love it. I'm going to play it this week. They have one in town, and I'm going to play it this week. I guess the woman who was the original Marilyn, Like the first 13 episodes, she just died. Oh, really? I think today. Oh, my God. Yeah. Because Eddie Munster, I don't know his real name. What's his name? Patrick? Patrick something, yes. Bruce Patrick? No, no. Is that Bruce? No. Something Patrick. Yeah. Okay, I got to look this up. I thought it was Bruce Patrick. What happens if it's Bruce? What are you going to do? It's not. No? It's not. That's not. You don't think so? I guarantee it. Guaranteed it. Are you going to put money on this? Yes, I will. Okay. Let's see. Eddie Monster. Oh, no. This is his fictional character. No, I want to know who played him. I'm going right now. Butch Patrick. Butch. Not Bruce. See, I told you. It wasn't. Yeah, so Beverly Owen just died today. I guess she was the original Marilyn in the first 13 episodes or something. Actually, she died February 21st. Oh, okay. I didn't remember her in the first. I never watched the show, so I wouldn't know the difference. She got married. That's why she left. Oh, but, okay. Did her character, like? No. Or did it just all of a sudden was a different person? Yep. They did what they did to the Bewitched. Yeah, poor Dick York. Yeah, he got screwed. Yeah, yeah. He basically, you know, your back is shot. You can't do this. Okay, we'll replace you with someone else. And literally the same character. Yes, same height, same everything. It's just like, imagine if you watch that show, like, um. What just happened? What happened to Darren? What happened to Darren? Darren is different. Mommy, why is she kissing another man? Yeah. This doesn't make any sense. What the hell? So, yeah, whether you'll like it, I don't know. You'll love the play field. You'll love how it shoots. I don't know if you'll like the rules. I mean, it's like bash things a certain number of times type rules. It definitely felt a lot like Monster Bash, just the concept of it, especially with the monster, especially when you see Herman sitting there, like, oh, it's Frankenstein. Yeah. We'll see. I'm afraid I don't have any more information on that. And you know where I played that game? World Famous Rock Fantasy. Actually, no, I played it at TAPT, which is the bar that's next to the World Famous Rock Fantasy, But it has all the rock fantasy games in it. When I was playing in the Winter Open. Mmm. Yeah. I made the finals. Top eight cash out. Guess where I ended up. Ninth. Yeah, somewhere in there, yeah. How you doing there, killer? Yeah. Never be cashing. Mmm-hmm. I see that. That's my motto. And you're living up to it. Mmm-hmm. Oh, yeah. I flamed out. The last... Like, I got into the finals. The first game we played, what did we play? We played, damn it, oh, Kiss. How could I forget? We played the greatest game ever, Kiss. God. And I actually had a good game. I won. Wow. Isn't that great? Then we played Dolly. And Dolly didn't really feel like giving me much of a chance. I ended up third. And then we played Walking Dead, but it broke. so we ended up on um a batman 66 then there was like a three-way tie oh wow continue and then then we played deadpool and i i think i finished last on deadpool because basically and this deadpool so you have the lock shot which is hard to hit yep so i'm like okay i'm gonna start battles you would hit it in the the scoop it knows it's in the scoop because it would eject it but it wouldn't start a battle and it did that at least three or four times to me wow congratulations yeah it was doing that to the other players too but i literally had a situation where i put three in a row in there and i could not start a fucking battle which you know it kind of really handicaps me here did you ask for the td to come over it was happening for everyone so let's play on okay and by that time we're already late as you can imagine 11 hours i heard we were One of the main reasons we were late, we had to start an hour later because of... PINBURG! Originally, it was supposed to be 1 o'clock start time, but I just said straight out, okay, I'm missing the first round then, because I'm going to be home getting my PINBURG tickets. For sure. So I'm going to be late. So a lot of people must have been saying that, so they moved it to 2, start time to 2. Which I was still late. Just got in. Me and Steph were the last two people to sign up. Yikes. It was fun. I had some good games. I usually do. I had some shitty games. Which you usually do. Yeah, yeah. I got, like, Spider-Man, Ball 3. I went for Black Suit. Got the first two locks. And the left flipper on that, the Spider-Man, is up way too high. So it's easy to backhand, like, really easy to backhand the spinner. I'm going to have to get the lock. So I have the third lock lit. I make a really good save. Full trap on the left flipper. Backhand it. miss, hit the target, the stand-up that's there, right down the middle. Oh, so mad. Why am I so inaccurate, Bruce? I don't know. You've got to get over those inaccuracies. I have to get over the inaccuracies. Just will my way to better accuracy. You got it. Okay. So that was the winner open. It was won by Howard Levine. He swept it, I heard. Yes. He got to hold the world-famous Hulk head. And I did notice several people from my league were there. I'm noticing that more and more. More people from my league are showing up there. I think they're getting tired of playing the same two games. Wow. Which I will be doing later today. Yes. I'll be playing Simpsons, Bimbo, Party, and Twilight Zone again. Probably have to get them out there and come out to Stomp West. That's a long haul. Three hours. It's two hours to Middletown. Well, I'll make the trek to Rochester for Stomp West, of course. I know you will. I know. Oh, I know. So let's see. What else do I have on my list here? Winter Open. Oh, we just talked about that. Yes, yes, we did. Oh, okay. Here's a discussion I'd like to have. Let's piss some people off probably. All right. We're good at that. You're good at that. I mean, we're good at that. Looks like pinball is going to be on ESPN. The Ocho. The Ocho. Which people at work had to explain to me what that even meant. Oh, you don't know that? I thought that was an actual channel. Oh, my God, no. It's like, no, it's from the movie Dodgeball. They had a fictional ESPN Ocho. Like, oh, okay, I had no idea. Oh my God yeah it fucking funny You should watch Dodgeball Actually I probably should watch that because it made by the South Park guys and usually I find anything they do funny Yeah But I guess ESPN2 has like a day every year that like Ocho Day All the states. Yeah, which they do like weird sports and weird stuff. They had Dodgeball last year. They had – what else did they have? Lightsaber Battles. Lightsaber Battles. So what they're going to do is they're going to have a full ESPN camera crew is going to be at the circuit finals to film. This is going to be next weekend. And then it will air, yeah, August, what did you say it was? August 8th? Yeah, I think it is August 8th, yes. Okay, so August, so Jesus, like five months later, but yes. So I wonder how the pinball players are going to react to that, Having some of those higher-end tournament players don't like when people get within, like, you know, 10 feet of them. They're going to have a camera crew, like, right in their face. I just love that reaction. In your face. They're going to be like, get the fuck out of here. But it brought up a whole discussion, at least in one of the forums I was in, about pinball being a sport. And specifically, I guess there is a – there's going to be – there's an offshore betting site that actually is taking bets on the circuit finals. Yep. And it's like, is pinball a sport? Do you think pinball is a sport, Bruce? Yes. It is not. It is. It is not a sport. You cannot have a sport where the referees and tournament directors and players are the same thing. I agree with that. But it can't be a sport. But no, but hold on. Bowen Kerins does not play in certain tournaments, and he's the director. And Doug Polka does direct in certain tournaments. You're naming Pinberg. You're naming Pinburgh and Papa are probably the only two major ones where the people who are running it don't actually play in it. True. And it should be. And honestly, it needs to be more that way. But the problem is there's not a lot of situations where you can get a lot of points, so you feel like you're missing out on a possible. Okay, we have ESPN Ocho is there to film in this legitimate contest or the circuit final. This Papa Circuit, Papa slash Stern slash IFPA Circuit final, right? And, okay, we have our final four. In our final four, we have IFPA President Josh Sharpe. We have IFPA Vice President and Stern Director of Marketing Zach Sharp. We have Stern Employee Designer Keith Elwin. And we have Trent Augustine, Stern's biggest distributor. They're our final four. How's that going to look to anyone watching that? Kind of excited. one-sided yeah but guess what yeah and and i didn't even go into indisc because i think that was after the show ended i went to indisc with a buddy who's a non-pinhead so you're getting like a complete but he's like a sports fan okay so you're getting a complete non-biased thing okay and and i'm explaining everything to him he's seeing the whole the qualifying all that stuff and and and i'm so like there's there's Keith Elwin right there he's he's the one he's like the greatest player of all time. Like, oh, cool. And it's like, but then he's like, didn't you say he works for Stern? Like, yep. It's like, but some of the games in the tournament are Stern games. It's like, yeah, not only that, one of them is Iron Maiden. It's his game. Well, that doesn't seem right. And I agree. Just Jim Belisio. He's one of the tournament directors. But he's playing in it. Yep. But that doesn't seem right. Yep. This is just from, you know, we're kind of insulating our little pinball bubble here. And the argument is always the same from the people who do it. But it's like, if I'm going through the pain of organizing these tournaments, which it is a pain in the ass to do these tournaments. It is. I agree. Then, God damn it, I'm playing with it. In it. Playing with it. That sounded weird. Playing in it. No, you're keeping that one. But, you know, I mean, you have situations like InDisc. One of the tournament directors won one of the classics divisions. Yep. The other tournament director almost won the whole thing. Yep. You know. You had New York City Pinball Championships last year. One of the tournament directors, one of the organizers won the classics. Yep. You know. Maybe we have to have a thing of ruling where if you're involved, you. Well, I'm just thinking if you, I'm going back to the sport thing. If it's supposed to be an actual sport, most games have like a government. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Okay. Hold on. I have a rebuttal to this one. Okay. Curling. No, Tom Brady has all the referees on his side. Oh, Jesus Christ. I expected them to jump on him when they won the Super Bowl. I thought they were going to come up and start patting him on the back. Can I have your autograph, Mr. Brady? No, they already have the autograph. They got the checks from him. I'd come up to him and ask for his wife's autograph. I don't want your autograph, dude. But, yeah. Yeah, but, I mean, like, even other sports that are really not sports, like darts. Like, when you watch darts, do you see, like, the official, the one who's looking at, you know, where the darts land and all that. Is he one of the players, like, possibly in the same match? You know what I mean? Or, you know, like, do you see the players, like, off to the side? Like, oh, he's reffing this round. It's like, no, you have actual officials and you have players. You have, you know, they're all separate. It'd be like, to do an analogy, it'd be like the Masters, the first golf majors coming up in a couple months. So, say, if Jordan Spieth, he's like a top American player. He's won the Masters before. Say, like, we have announced our tournament director for the Masters, and main official is Jordan Spieth. That's funny. Yeah. People will be like, no. No, I know. I mean, I don't, you know. And I will now go the other way. Okay. Where, you know, I look at it like I put all this time and effort into the tournaments that I do, and then I then have to be cut out of it and not even get a chance to do anything with it. Sucks, doesn't it? It does, and it's hard. It's very hard. I was waiting for that, yeah. But it's like, that's why I pulled myself out of all these tournaments. Well, maybe I will for Stomp West. You get it too? No. Stomp West? They're not my games. I'll play in that. Okay, good. Good. But it's like, realistically, for anything with the Stomp name on it, neither of us should be playing. We should be like the ambassadors of awesomeness. Well, maybe. Guess what? Then I'm going to state it right now. I will not play in Stomp 2 West. Right now. Okay. How's that? I will be the TD that has nothing to do with anything except for repairing and making calls. All right. How's that? I'll say I will play in it, and I'll just bring streaming gear. Yeah, I'll help you with the streaming. and repairs and everything. We'll both do a tag team and we'll do it the right way. Oh, my. Yes. I get topped, though. We're going to practice what we preach, you know, from me, the hypocrite, because, you know, Upstates have been in my house before. I know they have. And I played in it before. And I'm going to play in it this time. But after this one, we're going to do that. Unfortunately, I could actually pass the choice. Here we go. You are making all the tournament director decisions at the Upstate New York Championships. No. Yes? No. I have no desire to do that. Unfortunately, you have to. You know why? No. I don't know any of the rules, dude. That's why you have the book. No, I don't have the book. Does your Josh Sharpe talk about this? Yeah, yeah. Read the book. Read the book. No, I'm not reading the book. I can't read. I have bad reading skills. Reading is fundamental. Reading is fundamental. But I think that would be a good thing. No. Yes. Love you, brother. No. No, I'm not doing that. I love when I'm at Rock Fantasy and, like, Greg will tell me, like, for rulings, go to me, Howard, or if both of us are busy, go to Ron. It's like, what the fuck? No. Why go to me? I don't know. I think there's this thing that, like, people think I know all these rulings, that I know all this shit. I don't know shit. I actually did read it after Josh told everyone to do it. It was actually pretty – I learned a couple things. I learned something today. Ding, ding, ding. But, yeah. But for Stomp West, we will not play. Oh, okay. That means more spots. You can. You can. No. The other thing about Stomp West is still most of those games are your games that I've played 30 zillion times when they were at your house. I mean, literally. Like, I know how your Attack from Mars plays. I know how all these games play because it's, yeah, You have to tilt too tight on that. At least it was when I was there. But. Oh, did I got to tell you something else? Good. Yours plays better than the remake. I'll tell you that. Yes, of course. Now, there's new products out. New products out? Yep. Did you know that there's a new product out for Cheetah? Yes. Oh, you know where we're going? I bought it. Yes. If you remember from our, what's it called again? Pinballreplacementparts.com. Yes. I got it. PinballReplacementParts.com sells a lot of like... Light boards. Yeah, light boards for games that, you know, had their light boards sucked. So, and it replaces it with a modern, like, circuit board style light board with the twist sockets. 5-5-5, yes. So that will be there forever. He does, he did Nineball. He did... Meteor. Meteor. And Big Game. Yep. When I did my Cheetah, he didn't have anything for Cheetah. So I used, like, part of a Big Game one. Yep, and added for Golds. And then did a manual, like individual sockets for the last row. Well, he actually has the 12 socket. 12 socket. And I bought it for my cheetah. Yep. And I bought them for Meteor. Mm-hmm. So Meteor is being done by Zach and myself right now. Hi, Zach. Hi, Zach. It is working partially right now. Boy, the soundboard did a lot of weird things, though. Did you see the video I posted, the wrapping Meteor? um i heard the video yes yes yeah it's not like it was rapping yeah i did i thought that was a background like um no that's the game that's very weird and it's something to do with the game because i pulled the soundboard out and put it in my cheetah do you pulled it out okay i pulled it out and i put in the cheetah and the cheetah you know sounded exactly as it should and i blew up a soundboard this week you blew up a soundboard okay a SB300, brand new Weebly one. How'd you blow it up? I missed the pin. You've done that on multiple occasions, Albers. Problem is, these people who fucking replace connectors never fill in where the cutout is. You mean the key pin? Yeah, the key pin. And I'm so sick of... I do it all the time. I have a ton of connectors. When I do connectors, I have a connector box and my box is about 12 inches by like two and a half inches by you know by eight inches that's a big box that's a big box connectors and and pins and everything like that i can do you know all different styles 1.100.156 is and i have all the block outs the key pins yeah it's just so annoying Mm-hmm. People, if you're going to go through the effort, even if you don't have one, stick a piece of wood in there. Oh. A toothpick. Oh. Shove a toothpick in there and break it off. Or you can just take the one from the old connector that you're replacing. It all depends. It all depends how hard it is to get out. I will give it that. Some are hard to get out. Okay. But you can use a toothpick. Shove a toothpick in there. Cut it with a pair of dikes. There's your toothpick. Okay. All right. Do it. Do it. The public service announcement from Bruce. Motherfuckers. Wow. It's all right. Pinball is a sport. Yes, it is. No, it's not. It is. There's another reason it can't be a... Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Do you sweat? There's another... I don't sweat. I've seen you sweat while playing pinball. When? When have you... Maybe at a rock fantasy event where it was like 90 degrees in there. But you did sweat. That had nothing to do with playing pinball. It wasn't stressful at all? It wasn't competitive? That has nothing to do with something being a sport. So you think if something's competitive, instant sport? So do you think poker is a sport? No, poker is not a sport. Golf is not a sport? No, golf is not a sport. A sport, to me, is something that's played by athletes. Like, your average person cannot do this. You have to be an athlete. Okay, American Ninja. Yes. Is that a sport? Those are athletes. I know, but is that a sport? That's way more of a sport than golf or pinball. No, it's not. Hell yeah. It's a competition. It's timed. It requires athleticism. I would say that's definitely more of a sport. But it's not a head-to-head sport in certain ways as you would look at it. How is pinball a head-to-head sport? You're playing for score most of the time. But eventually in the finals, you're playing head-to-head. Okay. They never play head-to-head, really. They're not racing against each other. Golf isn't head-to-head unless it's match play. It's just playing for the lowest score. I know, but in ways like head-to-head pinball, when you have the two games at once going for a certain goal. You're playing head-to-head. You're playing against each other for the same goal, same thing. It's a competitive game. It's not a sport. It's a sport. Here's the simplest thing I can say. I am an athlete. No, no. I'm not an athlete. See, I am not an athlete at all, and I have won a Pinberg C Division, but I've won a Pinberg. There's no way it's a sport if I'm winning stuff, period. Period. That's the easiest. To me, that's the most clearest, easiest reason I can give why it's not a sport. Wow. Basically, if I can be good at it, it can't be a sport. I'm not saying it's not competitive. I'm not saying it's not stress-inducing. The thing I don't understand, and maybe it's because I've been doing this too long, people get nervous when they play a really good player. I get nervous when I play lower players. I just don't. Like when I played, it was at Mystic Pinball that was a critical hit tournament. I got to play Bowen like for the first time. I was so psyched. And then I beat him. And then it got reversed because of the card stuff. But I won't get into that. But, you know, I don't understand why people would get nervous because all the pressure is on the better player. Exactly. Like you. I do worse when I play lower players. Yeah, I mean, like, if I'm playing Keith Ellman, I'm supposed to lose. Exactly. There's no pressure on me. If I win, people are going to be like, Keith, what happened there? Yeah, exactly. What the hell, man? That sucked. I don't understand. I want to play more top players, but I never end up in the groups to play them because I suck. But, you know, like every once in a while in Pinberg, if you get a couple hot rounds, you'll be in that group with, you know, with actual better players. where I can say, like, you know, I beat Kaylee on a game of Sopranos. Exactly. Where the plunger was removed because of him. Yeah. I know, but that's the way I look at it. I do worse when I play lower. Like, in league this year, all my bad nights in league for Western New York pinball has been when I'm playing the lower player players because I'm like, ah, I got to win, I got to win. And I get myself so... They're going to come up to you. I heard the podcast, Bruce. So I'm a lower player. Yes. Fuck you. Ranking, ranking. It'll start beating you up. Ranking. Yeah. Yeah. So not a sport, people, but Bruce says it is. It is. Hey, that sounds like a poll. Hey, you can put a poll on the site, Mr. Facebook social media director. There you go. There you go. That's your one takeaway. I want a sport or no sport poll. Okay. Okay, Sporto. I think I'm going to lose. I think you will, too. Yeah, because people are wrong, but yeah. You are, Sporto. So if everyone votes that way, you're going to then say, okay, it's a sport. No, I'm going to say they're all wrong. Okay, see, so why even bother then? I'm just curious what our listeners think. See, I don't. Oh, do you have any more flippers? Which ones? Sir flippers. No. Oh. You took them all. No, no. The cheetah, the two I took were for our quick silver. I know, but I have one more out of that. That's all I have, and I only have one. Damn it, people. Somebody make those, please. And Pinball Life made the shafts wrong. Some thicknesses on the ones he reproduced. For the earlier games. Yes. Yeah, so for, what was it? Your. Yeah, pre-Big Game. Yes. Yeah, the ones that. The shafts. Yeah, the shafts don't fit in the. They don't. In the bushings. Yeah, they don't fit in the bushings as we have discovered. Yeah. So 0.3 millimeters 0.4 millimeters less And we'd be good It's literally that fine You have to ream out unfortunately Ream away, ream away, ream away Ream away Oh now I won't be able to listen to that song Jungle Lions Ream away Ream away, ream away In the jungle Okay enough You're loving it aren't you We're back, baby. We're back. What else do we have going on? Let's go to this week in pinball. I heard there's some controversy with other podcasts. See, we go away for two months, and everyone starts, like, you know, fighting with each other. Okay, what? Do we have to talk? What's going on, Bruce? Be the gossip hound. Everyone wants to be, like, everyone wants to be friendly. Everyone wants to, you know, there's controversies about Twitter. There's controversies between podcasters. We go away and all this shit happens. I want to be fucking involved. I'm going to start calling out podcasts I don't like. Goddamn cocksuckers. Jesus. No, I'm joking. But guess what? What? Everyone's allowed to have their opinion. Even if it's wrong? Even if it's wrong, but guess what? Some points that are brought up are very valid points. but don't afterwards have everyone gang up going oh you know guess what shit happens now when podcasts actually say well you know let's all get along but the same podcast that's saying that is making fun of two other podcasts go fuck off then that's what I'm going to say right then and there there are alternate routes to every destination Bruce just takes the most fucking direct and going the views of Bruce Nightingale are of his own and not of the Slamtail Podcast Incorporated. Yeah. Oh, fuck off. Did you know Oktoberfest is on the line? It is. Actually, I'd really like to play one where I could hit the side ramp shot. In other words, one in somebody's house with full power with the sound cranked up so I can get the full experience. So, yeah, they got a shot here of the... Oh, this is from this week in pinball. Hi, Jeff. The Oktoberfest is on the line. There's a picture. Of the line, all the rotisseries, October Fests. Yep. Yeah, Scott D'Anici was trolling people again with these. Yep, with his second game. Yeah, his second game. I was going to say Penthouse Party. Penthouse Party. With, like, literally a smidgen of the play field. Like, literally one little thing. Like, I'm like, what is it? What is it? I love it. Everyone always wants to see these things just troll the hell out of them. I like that approach. Dead Flip now streaming with the JJP team. That's interesting to me. for many reasons. Because Eric... Oh, God. Maneer? Maneer. Mayonnaise. Mayonnaise. Oh, no. Eric of JJP. Yep. He was once on a Deadflip stream where he wore, like, his Jersey Jack shirt. I know Jack Danger took shit for that from Stern. Yes. So it's just... That's why I was surprised when they announced this stream to begin with. So I guess it's all good now. Yeah. But I was very surprised with that. The thing is, it was also pre-Zach Sharp as the director of marketing. And he's ever shown the attitude like, we're number one. If you want to do other things with the other ones, I don't care. Yep. It just doesn't matter to us, which is really a better attitude to take. It's just like, this doesn't hurt Stern in any way. No, no, no. Anything that helps Finball helps Stern. Whoa, what was that? Me scratching my nose. I'm just looking for things of note. Oh, the Pentastic will be moving. Oh, really? Where? They're going to be moving to Boxborough, Massachusetts next year, which is 40 minutes further away, which kind of sucks for me. But it's supposedly a bigger facility, et cetera, et cetera. So the 2020 Pentastic show will be in Boxborough, Massachusetts. Very cool. And a bigger hotel, you're saying? So supposedly, while I'm looking at the article, right again at thisweekinpinball.com, there's something about it being larger. Let's see. We are pleased that we will get an additional 5,000 square feet, more function rooms, and don't give up any aspects of the show that people like. Good. Very good. So for TWIP you should donate If you using TWIP I saying this because you know we haven done anything with them in two months so you should all take advantage of TWIP and try to donate And maybe we should too Did you donate after being on their podcast? Nice, Bruce. I just threw him right in the fucking bus. What a dick. Just asked that right on the podcast. Bruce, did you give to charities this year? Yes, I did. I did. You are a dick. I did. So have I, Bruce. Okay, who'd you give it to? I give to charities all the time. The Bruce Nightingale Charity appreciates it very much. Whitewater for $4,300 in Piscataway, New Jersey. Wow, so expensive now. How much did you get yours for? $1,300. Yeah. I was talking about that, of course, and how prices have just gone through the fucking roof. Oh, you were talking about that on Head to Head. Head to head. Yeah, I heard you guys were talking about the pinball market. They're a very intelligent conversation. How did you pull that off? I really struggled with it. I mean, it was almost like you knew what you were talking about. It was weird. Somewhat. I mean, I know you were making it all up, but. Yeah, of course. I was supposed to be on that, too. Yeah, I know. Yeah, basically. Are we right? Right? Well, you know, you made some comments or something. Well, no, I did not. You insinuated I didn't want to be on or something. Yes, of course. But I also insinuated and Marty also insinuated that you are Ryan and Ryan is you. Except for those pictures we took of ourselves together at Texas Pinball Festival. We were both in the same room. They were photoshopped. Okay. Yep, we mean. Or the podcast that we have both been on talking at the same time. So you're saying I'm the greatest voice actor ever. You got it. Yep. editing does wonders you've said it yourself you've edited a lot of stuff out of this show okay yes yes so i'm sick of doing ryan c so i i have like that's why he's not on head to head right now i'm sick of doing his voice see uh no we were supposed to we recorded it was it sunday at five we were supposed to record yes sir and we're doing a conversion and it was postponed It was actually supposed to take place last weekend, and it got moved two months ahead. So then we were going to just work. We were going to do a mock conversion, and we were going to work Monday, which was President's Day, which we usually get off. But everything went so quickly, they moved all the schedules up, so I ended up having to work Sunday from like 4 to 8 or 4 to 9, the exact time that you guys were recording out. which I was actually bummed because I wanted to be on that and it's like I wouldn't have to edit. I'm like this. See? Oh, I got to edit all this. See, now my euphoria of recording again is dissipating. Oh, way too fast. When I went out to Minneapolis, though. Have you heard that a lot, Bruce? Yes, way too fast. When I went out to Minneapolis, though, I stopped at the Jelly Belly Factory north of Chicago. I bought me 20 pounds of jelly beans. Nice. Yep. I'm trying for my diabetes. Wilford Brimley, you will live forever. Actually, he's not dead. He's not dead. I keep thinking he's dead. Nope, not dead. He's like one of those guys. He's got those supplies for his diabetes. Oh, man. Okay. You're like, oh, God, that's good. Yes, it never ends. Okay, we'll get to a segment that I know you love, the mail ball bag. There you go Wow That's a month's worth So Damn I really got him that time Yeah Yes, the mail ball bag Is No, it's just Only one email I thought we had a couple emails No I mean, we might have had some – I don't think we had stuff at the Facebook site. Well, we had Bruce post on the Facebook site, you know, let Ron know you want the podcast again. So everyone starts posting. This is from Bill. Hi, Bill. Hi, Bill. Of course, you sent this a while ago. This was sent on January – no, February 1st. So we're in the same month. Good. He says, hey, guys. I realize that there's no set date for your next show, but I think this would be a good topic for you guys as it's not time sensitive. What are your thoughts on the Spike 2 system and the node boards, particularly the issues of not having schematics available, the very limited number of people that can work on SMD, which stands for surface mount, and the whole idea that if a 50-cent component fails, you have to pay hundreds of dollars to replace the whole board. What do you think? I am not a big fan of it yet. I don't like it for multiple reasons. I don't like it for no fuses. There are no fuses on any of the boards in Spike or Spike 2. Which is a bad thing. Fuses are good. They stop from other things blowing up. And it seems like a lot of node boards do blow up. It's actually pretty common. Not common common, but when you look at SAM, the weakest part of SAM was always the flipper transistor. they always blew up when you go to spike it's the node board and guess what a transistor that i can put on myself for three dollars and maybe if i have to go up the line a little bit take a couple more things out maybe ten dollars worth of parts or a node board for 150 dollars that i can only get from stern and if they have it in stock and no schematics even look it up and try to fix it which i know zach's gonna yelling right now at the at the radio saying weebly which who who is weebly again we believe the boards for the uh bally repairs or anything like that the circuit boards for the soundboard the sp300s and he has no schematics on any of his stuff either he needs to put out schematics he's put a lot of these boards put out schematics so everyone could have a chance to fix what you're selling. Everyone criticized, oh wait a second, now everyone criticized Highway Pinball not having schematics on their stuff. And it seems like Stern should do the same thing. I think it's good for Stern that it's cheaper to manufacture and sucks for the people getting the games because it's harder to fix. But do we know if it is really cheaper or not? It's got, it's all about just ease of assembly, cheapness. It's ease of assembly and less wire. Yep. But is it cheaper if they have to replace these boards a lot and under warranty or, because I know some people that are getting warranty silver older than what the warranty is. Well, what is the typical warranty? Clue me in, Bruce. 90 days. 90 days. 90 days. That's all Stern offers. So the 91st day when my node board blows up. You could have to pay for it if they choose that it was, but sometimes code comes out and blows up node boards. We've seen that. Well, what happens if I just have, like, one light out? It's just going to stay out forever because I can't replace it? Yep. Or, but if, you know, sometimes the node board will drop out a flipper or coil bank or anything else, then you're kind of S.O.L. with that, too. And then you have, like... You have a $7,000 paperweight. Well, yeah, then you have, like, your Chicago Gaming or whatever system they're using. Their own proprietary stuff, yeah. Do they have Schemax for that? I have no idea. Do they? I think they do now, actually, also. Let's see. The only thing about those is you have all these boards under the play field. Yeah, I don't like that. It's just such a bad idea. I don't understand why people keep going that route of putting boards anywhere near the play field. I agree. I don't understand that. And just have another convinced JJP to change them. Yeah, put the shit in the head. Yep. I don't know. It seems, I'm sure there must be reasons, but it seems kind of like common sense to not to have boards where stuff vibrates. Yeah. You know, I don't know. Call me crazy. Oh, you're crazy. So thank you, Bill. So what did you think of Spike? You never said yourself. That's what I said. I said it's good for Stern and sucks for the people getting the games. I'm looking at the manual right now for Monster Bash. Monster Bash. So we're going to move that to the archive. So the mail ball bag is empty. There you go. There you go. Oh, no, wait a minute. We just cut an email. No. Yeah, but it's the thing that you still haven't fixed. We're all your reviews. Hopefully it's a good one. You keep getting five-star reviews, dude. That's good. Try to make it happy. They have wiring diagrams, but I don't think they have schematics yet. Let's see. I'm looking right now. and they have different stuff they have pcb stuff yeah so more than what stern has so i will say they they're a little better but stern supposedly is releasing the schematics so we will see that soon enough all right well praise the schematic so i'm looking here uh i think i got through most of my stuff here what do you have planned for this month coming up any besides tournaments that kind of stuff. Not really. I have nothing really planned for this month, March. Oh, what am I saying? Texas. I was going to say Texas. Texas Pinball Festival. That's right. Wow. Yeah. Get that hang of a Franchi. I got to pay for that, actually. What do I have? Let's see. I got my flight tickets. I got my hotel. I just got to pay for the show. I probably should do that now, huh? Yeah, maybe. I usually wait until the last second in case something happens. But since I have the plane tickets at this point. You're kind of stuck. Yeah, I'm kind of stuck. Stuck in the middle with you. Stuck in the middle with you. See? Catchy, huh? Yeah, by who? What's it? Steelers wheel. Steelers wheel? Wow, you got that. Thank you. Holy shit. I blew your mind away, didn't I? Wow. Oh. I should have bet money on that one, huh? And their lead singer had another major hit. Mm. Which I, like, when he died, they said, the monster hit so-and-so. It's like, I've never heard that. And then they played it like, oh, okay. I gotcha. I gotcha. I think, what was his name? I can't remember his name. But the song was Baker Street. Oh. It's the one that's got the saxophone is the most. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah, I know the song, yeah. Which the guy who did the saxophone solo tried to say, like, he came up with that. But then they found an actual demo of the singer playing basically the solo, note for note, on guitar. Jerry Rafferty. Jerry Rafferty. Yeah, Texas. Texas should be exciting. Upstate Championships. Upstate Championships. I have Western New York finals for Western New York Pinball League. I get to play some good upstate players in the first round. So fun, fun, fun. More pinball, more fun. More pinball, more fun. So Texas, what's going to be revealed there, do you think? Mr. Inside Info. I think it's going to be Oktoberfest coming out with the new improved Oktoberfest. That's it. Oktoberfest coming out with the new improved Oktoberfest. So the game is coming out with itself. No, the game is coming out with a new play field adjustments and new artwork. So it's kind of like a new game. But Oktoberfest isn't coming out with Oktoberfest. American Pinball would be coming out with Oktoberfest. Well, no, because it's Oktoberfest 2, Electric Boogaloo. And the problem is you knew exactly what I was saying. So that even makes me more happy. And me more confused. Hopefully the monkey is not offensive. I hope he's dry humping something else. Oh, he's dry humping. Wait a second. He's a dry hump of guy's leg. Then there can't be any controversy. Why don't you dry hump a beer mug or something? Exactly, yeah. There you go. Oh. Let me just say that. Ugh. Oh, I feel dirty now. I need to take a shower. Well, I think that was good. Yeah. That was – well, let's see. Checkbox. He did mail ball bag. Let's see. Going through my list. Gene Simmons. Check. Did Python for a second. Say hi to Zach. Say hi to Steve. Oh, hi, Steve. Hi, Jeff Teolis. Jeff Teolis. I didn't do Stewie. There you go. Welcome, everyone. I'm so happy we're back, Bruce. Yes. Let's see. Got to check all the boxes, you know. The fans demand it. Yep. All 10 of them. Or 12. How many are we down to? 12. So I pissed another one off? Okay, 12. Well, downloads are increasing exponentially. So did you like our cluster, Vuck? I loved it. Okay. I loved it. Five and a half hour edit on that bitch. Yeah. It was easy. It was easy. I just loved this. Come right in. Walk right in. Hey, guys. How you doing? You know how hard it was to get all those people together? And they're still together on the same chat? And there's like an hour of footage after that. I know. But they're still talking on the same chat we have set up from that two months ago. Oh, we should give out a shout out to Dennis. Oh, that is... Some bastard broke into his house. Yeah, fucking cocksucker. Yeah. Dennis of the Eclectic Gamers podcast. Sorry, Dennis, that sucks. I would never wish that upon anybody. Yeah. I worry about that, because that got me thinking, like, eh. Because in my old house, I had a security system. Yeah, in this place, at the bar, I have a security system. A good one. Sometimes it goes off too much. and at the house you know i don't have much there anymore so it's not a big deal and i have safes for my stuff and well you have a guard dog yeah yeah gg who's gonna be he's gonna be 15 next month she'll just rip their throat right out yeah that's it so uh i did miss you these past two months you know that yeah you miss me too right it's just not the same man if only i didn't have to edit it would be perfect. I know. You didn't have to. It wasn't just do Raw. That's the name of the title. No. Raw. No. No. Red and Raw? I can't do that. I can't do that. How about Red and Raw? It's my personality. I just can't do that. How about Red and Raw? Red and Raw. Red and Raw. No. What we need is. Wow. I need a clone. I need a clone. That could be the outtake. Yes. What do you shoot with that whole episode of outtakes? That's what you could have done. Well, the problem is someone would have to go through all the raw footage. Footage. All the raw, like, yeah, the raw audio files. Do you know how many hours of raw footage or edits you would have? Oh, God. You know, there's a piece of data I'd like to know. Yeah, we know how many episodes. We have 124 episodes now. How many actual hours have we talked on this show? Oh, God. I mean, we had a string there where, like, every episode. The first thing they give us that can have their name immortalized. Immortalized? No, that's way too much work to get your name immortalized. No, it's not. It works perfect. You should do, like, the first person that does that gets a free entry into Stomp West. I don't even care if your data's right, because we ain't going to check it. No, we'll check it then. Oh, see, then we have to do the work. What's the point? Because I want to make sure somebody does it for us first. Someone's probably got a spreadsheet somewhere. Actually, all you really need is the running times of every episode and just add them. But don't screw up your adding. And it's not like they're not on a website where you can easily get that info. Yeah, I know. Oh, man, I hope our website still works. Does it? I don't know. I haven't been there forever. I haven't tried to upload anything in like a month and a half. That would suck. That would. I can't upload our episode, Bruce. Mm-hmm. I can't. Ryan C. has blocked us from our own website. He's changed my password. It is. It's still up. It is. It is. It is. It is. Clusterfuck 2, the quickening. I can email and everything else. Wow, look at this wonderful site. Yeah, after you did all that work. Yeah, you can search for the guest you want, and they'll come right up. We've got all our links on the – well, yeah, might as well go to the end. We are the Slam Tilt Podcast. This has been Episode 124. We can be found at slamtiltpodcast.com. Look in the upper right. Look at all our wonderful links. I'm looking at them now for Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, whatever this thing is, our email address, which is slamtillpodcast at gmail.com. Twitch, hopefully next weekend, Saturday, you will see our wonderful Twitch channel come up with exciting tournament coverage of the upstate finals. And hopefully before then, actually, because I want to test all the shit and make sure it works, which I'm probably going to have to do a thing where I play against myself, Ron 1 versus Ron 2, when I provide commentary. I will be out there Friday night. Oh. Oh. So maybe we'll get a little pre-gaming in. Yeah, but, okay, is that fair? You're getting pre-gaming. Yeah. You're getting free practice. I can do it on my own game. Your own game. Oh, Quicksilver. Ta-da. There you go. So you just play Quicksilver over and over. That's the one game that may be an issue because it's the one game that doesn't have a line of sight to the stuff from the middle of the basement. So we'll see. We'll have to see about that. Oh, did the polls come in yet for the whole, what was it? Quicksilver versus, what was that Gottlieb game from head to head? Oh, no, I didn't see it. I don't think they posted it. So I think he knows he was going to lose already. It was like Big House or something, wasn't it? No, it was Title Fight. Title Fight versus Quicksilver. I think you're right. He probably didn't even post it because it just, why? Why would you even? Oh, no, it's up. Oh, it did? Oh, okay. It is. Oh, my God. We are slam dunking this. 77% to 23%. Wow! I want to see who the morons voted for this. That's good. Are you going to call them out by name, Bruce? No, I can't. It won't show me that until the end of the poll. Then you will call them out by name. Yes, I will. That's mean. And that's Bruce. That is Bruce. Hold on, let me go there. Just look up Head to Head. On Facebook and you'll see it. Head to Head Pinball. Here we go. Podcast. Quicksilver versus Title... I like the Title Fight GIF, though. Yeah. Or GIF, sorry. Yeah. I like the poster that they did. Yeah. They call me Bruce. Yeah. And cross that Ryan C in your name. That was perfect. Yeah. Yeah. Very nice. Very nice of them. All right. So thanks, everyone. You can come see me at the Silver Ball Saloon, 135 West Commercial Street, East Rochester, New York. You can also check out my other website, which is pinballlifter.com. Use your brain, not your back. check us out we are going to be at allentown this year oh really first announcement we are going to be at allentown selling one booth small easy compact in and out bye bye bye see me at allentown ask for autographs from ron and bruce um uh jerry uh he hugged me he listened to the podcast yeah i had no idea what he was doing it's like oh bruce said to hug you on the podcast like oh god I totally forgot about that. It works so well, doesn't it? So, I will be at Texas. So come up to Ron and hug him. No, don't. Don't do that. Yes, yes, yes. No. Hopefully something other than Oktoberfest happens there. I don't think so. I was really bummed about the Deep Root thing. Yeah, you got deep rooted. No. I really wanted to see some new games. You got deep rooted. How does it feel? It feels like. Thank you, everybody. Say goodbye, Bruce. Goodbye, Jerry Egma. Oh my Oh my Oh my Oh my Oh my Say goodbye, Bruce. I don't have a name yet. Fail! I've been failing. I haven't done this in two months. What the fuck? I got one fucking job, but I didn't fucking do it. No, you have another job, the pole. Pole, I'll get it at later. Oh, Jesus.

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