# Episode 7:  "I did something stupid and I don't care!"

**Source:** The Flipside Pinball Podcast  
**Type:** podcast_episode  
**Published:** 2024-08-04  
**Duration:** 25m 18s  
**Beat:** Pinball

**URL:** 364eaaa8-3ed2-42df-b0ef-88185c9873d1

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## Analysis

Retro Ralph discusses personal pinball improvements using Tim Sexton's aiming technique, his tournament play struggles and streak anxiety on Stern Insider Connected, acquiring a heavily modded Godzilla 70th Anniversary machine, and enthusiasm for Pinball Expo. He also touches on upcoming Stern game rumors (X-Men '97 and Metallica on Spike 3) and recommends older educational content from Jersey Jack and the Slow Mo Guys.

### Key Claims

- [HIGH] Tim Sexton released a video three years ago about improving aim by keeping eyes on the flipper rather than the target — _Retro Ralph directly references the video and describes its contents in detail; mentions Sexton is a Stern software developer_
- [MEDIUM] Metallica is rumored to be in development at Stern on Spike 3 architecture — _Retro Ralph states 'the biggest rumor is x-men 97 but then you have metallica also as a rumor' and 'they also say that metallica is going to be on spike 3'; described as rumor, not confirmed_
- [MEDIUM] X-Men '97 is the biggest rumored upcoming Stern title — _Retro Ralph mentions 'the biggest rumor is x-men 97' and speculates about whether it or Metallica will launch at Pinball Expo_
- [MEDIUM] Stern plans to announce their next game soon — _Retro Ralph references 'they're gonna actually talk about their next game soon' in context of timing speculation for X-Men '97 and Metallica_
- [HIGH] Original Metallica was a DMD-based game, not LCD-based — _Retro Ralph states this as factual knowledge about the previous Metallica release_
- [HIGH] Pinball Brothers is shipping ABBA — _Direct statement: 'Pinball Brothers is shipping ABBA'_
- [HIGH] Jersey Jack provided a Willy Wonka machine to Slow Mo Guys for high-speed camera filming — _Retro Ralph describes the collaboration and notes 'they provided a Willy Wonka machine to the slow-mo guys' and 'he had to give it back'_

### Notable Quotes

> "I did something stupid and I don't care!"
> — **Retro Ralph**, ~57:00
> _Episode title reference; context for acquiring Godzilla 70th Anniversary machine through unconventional means_

> "You want to look down at the flippers, then hit the flipper where you think it needs to engage in order to hit that target, then you look up after. If you look up too soon, you tend to hit it at the wrong time."
> — **Retro Ralph (summarizing Tim Sexton)**, ~8:30
> _Core technique for improving shot accuracy; compared to golf instruction_

> "When you want to get something, you figure out a way to achieve that goal. It's weird. It's weird because I think there's other things in life that you wouldn't work as hard at, but when you're like, man, I want that machine...you somehow find it."
> — **Retro Ralph**, ~57:30
> _Reflects collector psychology and motivation for acquiring rare machines_

> "I will do anything. I will sell anything. I will move whatever machines I need to do to make this happen."
> — **Retro Ralph**, ~57:45
> _Demonstrates collector drive and willingness to reorganize collection for desired acquisition_

> "When Papa Rob calls, you pick up that phone."
> — **Retro Ralph**, ~65:00
> _Reference to Rob Burke from Stern; indicates respect within community hierarchy_

> "I'm going to win this thing I'm winning it baby taking home the gold and probably not but hey wishful thinking"
> — **Retro Ralph**, ~82:00
> _Self-deprecating humor about tournament performance while expressing competitive aspirations_

### Entities

| Name | Type | Context |
|------|------|---------|
| Retro Ralph | person | Host of Flipside Pinball Podcast; pinball enthusiast, content creator based in Arizona; participates in tournaments; collects machines |
| Tim Sexton | person | Software developer at Stern Pinball; created instructional video on aiming technique three years ago |
| Rob Burke | person | Referred to as 'Papa Rob'; called Retro Ralph to thank him for Pinball Expo video; appears to be authority figure at Stern or in pinball community |
| Rudy | person | Retro Ralph's friend and tournament rival; beat Retro Ralph by one point in tournament; plays John Wick |
| Nick Madsen | person | Retro Ralph's friend; known for being in 'execution mode' when pursuing goals; collector mindset |
| Mason | person | Collaborator on Retro Ralph's video content; maintains B-roll footage library |
| Kim | person | Retro Ralph's wife; manages household logistics around pinball machine deliveries and setup |
| Flipside Pinball Podcast | organization | Podcast hosted by Retro Ralph; covers pinball culture, personal experiences, and community news; no current sponsors |
| Player One Arcade | company | Location in Surprise, Arizona hosting six-week tournament series where Retro Ralph participates |
| Southern Fried Gaming Expo | event | Gaming event where Retro Ralph played Elton John pinball machine |
| Pinball Expo | event | Major pinball industry event; Retro Ralph attended and created promotional video; Rob Burke involved; location includes Giordano's restaurant |
| Captain's Auctions | company | Southern California pinball showroom with public play; run by CC; hosts tournaments; visited by Retro Ralph for content |
| Stern Pinball | company | Major pinball manufacturer; subject of rumors regarding X-Men '97 and Metallica releases; Tim Sexton employed as developer |
| Pinball Brothers | company | Pinball manufacturer; shipping ABBA machine |
| Jersey Jack Pinball | company | Pinball manufacturer; donated Willy Wonka machine to Slow Mo Guys for high-speed filming collaboration |
| Insider Connected | product | Stern Pinball app feature tracking daily play streaks and badge achievements; source of Retro Ralph's frustration about lost streak |
| John Wick | game | Stern pinball game; Retro Ralph uses for aiming practice; hosting launch party; Retro Ralph has scored 160M on Pro, 111M on LE |
| Godzilla 70th Anniversary | game | Premium pinball machine; heavily modded version acquired by Retro Ralph; incoming delivery during work trip; custom mods in development (black/white versions) |
| Tales of the Arabian Nights | game | Classic pinball machine; Retro Ralph placed first in tournament arena playing this game |
| Foo Fighters | game | Music-themed pinball machine; Retro Ralph used song 'Run' from the game while playing Tales of the Arabian Nights in tournament |
| Willy Wonka | game | Jersey Jack pinball machine; featured in Slow Mo Guys collaboration video; underplayed at typical locations per Retro Ralph |
| Pirates of the Caribbean | game | Jersey Jack machine; Retro Ralph has never played; curious about why it 'didn't do well' despite seeming like strong IP |
| Elton John | game | Jersey Jack machine; Retro Ralph played at Southern Fried Gaming Expo; found it 'pretty cool' |

### Topics

- **Primary:** Shot aiming technique and skill improvement, Stern Pinball upcoming releases (X-Men '97, Metallica rumors), Tournament play strategy and challenges, Collector acquisition of Godzilla 70th Anniversary
- **Secondary:** Insider Connected app streak mechanic and FOMO, Jersey Jack Pinball and Slow Mo Guys collaboration, Pinball Expo anticipation and community gathering
- **Mentioned:** Pinball content creation ecosystem

### Sentiment

**Positive** (0.75) — Retro Ralph is enthusiastic about personal improvements, excited about Godzilla acquisition, and positive about community and content creation. Some frustration about tournament performance, work trip streak loss, and ABBA release timing. Generally optimistic and engaged tone throughout.

### Signals

- **[community_signal]** Stern leadership (Rob Burke) actively engaging with content creators; appreciating community-generated promotional content (Pinball Expo video) (confidence: high) — Retro Ralph: 'Rob Burke actually called me up and he's like, hey, I really appreciated that you made that video... When Papa Rob calls, you pick up that phone'
- **[sentiment_shift]** Jersey Jack Pirates of the Caribbean machine now perceived as underrated/collectable despite poor initial sales; community curious about underutilization at locations (confidence: medium) — Retro Ralph: 'Pirates of the Caribbean... It seems like that would be an IP... Maybe they released it too late... but that just seems like that would be a cash cow... but they're hard to find you don't see them very often'
- **[sentiment_shift]** ABBA game generating minimal enthusiasm from younger/mid-age collector demographic (Retro Ralph is 45); unclear market positioning (confidence: medium) — Retro Ralph: 'I have no desire... I'm 45... I don't know anybody else in my age range that's like hyped for ABBA' and 'ABBA does nothing for me'
- **[event_signal]** John Wick launch party scheduled in Phoenix; last one for the game series (confidence: high) — Retro Ralph: 'I'm going to a John Wick launch party. It's the last one in Phoenix'
- **[market_signal]** Modding ecosystem active around new Godzilla 70th Anniversary; custom black/white cosmetic variants already in development (confidence: high) — Retro Ralph: 'a lot of the mod makers are already starting to create black and white versions of their mods... there's going to be an atomic godzilla black and white... there's already a black and white version'
- **[announcement]** Pinball Brothers shipping ABBA machine (confidence: high) — Retro Ralph: 'Pinball Brothers is shipping ABBA'
- **[rumor_hype]** Metallica rumored for Stern on Spike 3 platform; positioned as re-release/remake of original DMD game (confidence: medium) — Retro Ralph: 'they also say that metallica is going to be on spike 3 so who knows... it's going to be the same game, just redone on the new architecture'
- **[rumor_hype]** X-Men '97 positioned as biggest rumored upcoming Stern title; speculation about whether it launches at Pinball Expo or after Metallica (confidence: medium) — Retro Ralph: 'the biggest rumor is x-men 97 but then you have metallica also as a rumor so like do and then supposedly they're gonna actually talk about their next game soon'
- **[technology_signal]** Headphone use during tournament play emerging as focus/concentration strategy; multiple players observed wearing headphones to block ambient noise (confidence: medium) — Retro Ralph: 'My buddy in a nudge magazine... he's like, Hey man, I play with headphones... I started to observe a lot of other people at the tournament and they a lot of them wear headphones too'

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## Transcript

 Hey guys, welcome back to the Flipside Podcast. I'm your host, Retro Ralph, and we're back for another episode. No idea what episode number it is. Might be eight, maybe? Not sure. But we have an action-packed show for you today. But I gotta say, pinball news in general has been a little slow lately. There isn't a lot going on, but that's okay, because we're going to fill the gap with a couple things. We're going to fill this pinball news void with some interesting things that have been going on in my world as it relates to pinball that I think you'll find interesting. So let's just get this show started. That's what we do here. We don't mess around. There's no sponsors, although if you wanted to sponsor the show, I'd be totally down for that. But right now, there is absolutely no sponsors. actually you know you know i'd love if they would sponsor me i drink this all the time liquid death i drink a crap ton of this liquid death stuff my favorite flavor by far is the lemon lime one but the squeeze to death one is pretty good yeah highly recommend it if you want to if you're sick of drinking just water because in arizona it's like hot as hell so you just drink water all the time but sometimes you just want something different liquid death not sponsored by them But if they wanted to, that'd be pretty freaking awesome. Okay. And what a cool brand to sponsor pinball, right? I mean, just saying. Anyways, no sponsors. Let's go. Let's get into it. So I have notes for today's show because, honestly, there's just so much stuff and I'm kind of scatterbrained. But I want to bring this up because it's an old video. It's actually, I think, like three years old. But I'm always trying to improve my pinball game. And we're going to get to tournament play in a minute because you're probably all wondering how I placed in that tournament that I've been playing for the past six weeks. But we'll get there in a second. But there's this video that's three years old that Tim Sexton, one of the software developers at Stern Pinball made. And it was the title of the video, I think, was Improving Your Aim. And the thing is, I was kind of doing it all wrong all along, right? I noticed I'm kind of inconsistent, right? It's like I can't consistently shoot the same shots over and over and over again. Sometimes I get lucky and it happens, right? But I was watching this video and I'm like, I don't know, what he's saying in this video seems like it would be really difficult to pull off or just be such a difference in how I do things now that it would be hard for me to just pick it up and do it. But that's the whole thing. When you're learning something new, it is hard at first. So his whole thing, and I'm going to summarize the video, but in the video, he's basically he's saying, look, if you were teaching someone to golf, you tell them to look down at the ball, you know, swing, but never take your eye off the ball until you're completely through that swing. And then you look up, right? Well, he's saying in pinball, it's the very same thing. You want to be in the most, in most cases, you want to look down at the flippers. You don't want to look up at the target you're trying to hit. You want to look down at the flippers, then hit the flipper where you think it needs to engage in order to hit that target, then you look up after. If you look up too soon, you tend to hit it at the wrong time. And so I tried practicing this on John Wick, because the reason why I chose John Wick is because that middle ramp, let me rewind for a second. So in John Wick, to start your ball lock, you want to hit the captive ball that's underneath the continental building, right? So you hit that. That's usually a pretty easy shot to get. So you hit that now your now your ball lock is enabled but in order to lock a ball you got to hit it up that middle ramp that center ramp and then you just repeat that process once you lock one ball you have to then hit that that captive ball again it enables the ball lock and you do that process three times and then you hit then you get uh the consecrated the consecrated multiball i think i always say that freaking wrong but that's what you get okay but that middle shot was always hard for me it was easier from the right flipper harder from the left flipper but i was inconsistent it. So I'm like, you know what? I'm going to try to apply Tim Sexton's thing about keeping your eye on the ball and see if I can do it. Cause I kind of generally knew where on the flipper I need to hit it in order to get that shot. So I just, I wasn't, I didn't play for score. I was, I was just practicing. I'm like, I'm going to keep practicing this. And I did it. I don't know. I probably played like 10 games that way. And I was like, crap. Like I had a revelation. I was like, man, this works. Like, of course, Tim's a really good player, right? Like it's, it works. So if, if you're like having a hard time aiming, try this. I'm going to actually have, if you're watching this on YouTube, then I'll have a link. I don't know if I can provide a link if you're listening to it on like Spotify or Apple podcasts, but, but anyway, there's a video by Tim Sexton, how to aim. You can Google it and look it up and find it. But if you are watching it on YouTube, then I'll have a link to it, but it actually works. So try it, try it out, practice it a little bit. And I'm telling you, it is improving my game, not rapidly, but I'm definitely improving. So that's good. Shot accuracy is going up and that's all, that's all I can hope for, right? Because I know I'm not going to be a pro player. I'm not even close, not even like scratching the surface, but I want to improve just like everything else, because as you improve in these games, you get further into the game and the game becomes more fun. Pinball's fun as it is, but when you can progress through the game a little bit more and kind of meet some of the objectives and really understand the code, it gets even more fun a lot of times on a lot of these games so anyways i don't know if that's going to help you but it helped me so that's why i thought i would bring it up so that leads me to my second topic which is tournament play so i've been doing that tournament over at player one arcade in surprise arizona uh the last last week was the last one and uh i placed in the middle somewhere i don't remember i want i want to say out of 40 i was like 21 and rudy was like 20 i think so my buddy rudy beat me by a point um i can't remember how the points go it's like fourth uh hold on one point for four so when you're playing an actual game right during the tournament in the last tournament we played five games so five arenas an arena is a game and then how and then four players per game so it's like if you're in last place you get one point if you in second place you get three points i think and then it second place five in first place seven I think So anyway so Rudy was which is really crazy He was only off by a point. So him and I were, he was ahead of me, but so he did better than me. Now, the thing that sucks is I'm going to miss. They do a, they do a top eight sort of finals, and then they do a bottom eight, everybody, like a loser tournament, basically. And I'm not gonna be able to play in it because I'm gonna be traveling for work, which leads me to another thing, which I'm really frustrated at. So if you guys play a lot of Stern games and you love Insider Connected, the one thing that I love on there is the badge you get for streaks. So a streak is how many consecutive days in a row you play pinball. And right now I'm on 45 and I have to go on this work trip and that's going to destroy my streak. Now, the reason why I think if it was a regular work trip where it was just me and I was visiting a territory that I support, I'd probably go out and seek out a pinball machine. I did that when I was in Denver. I had a recent trip to Denver. I was on a 30-day streak. After a dinner meeting, I think I said this in a podcast before, I found a pinball machine and played it. I met that guy. It was his birthday. It was freaking awesome. I wish I could remember that dude or I wish I could have exchanged numbers with that dude because he was really cool. but I'm going to ruin a streak, man. I just got my 45 day badge. I really want to get my 60 day badge and I'm never going to do it because this is like a senior manager meeting offsite thing. And I just know, I don't know. I don't know. And it's a bunch of engineers. I mean, I should, they should like pinball, but I'm not going to force my hobby on them, even though I want to, just so I can be selfish and not ruin my streak. So, and I'm not going to cheat. You know, I thought about like, oh, well, Kim could scan my Insider Connected at home. But that'd be cheating. I'm not going to cheat. Sucks, man. I want that 60-day badge. So the thing that sucks, if you guys aren't doing this, go into Insider Connected in your account. You go to badges and you can see your streak. Thing is, once you miss one day, it starts all the way back at zero. So I'm kind of bummed about that. But anyway, so there was a little bit of pinball news, but it's not something that really excites me. So Pinball Brothers is shipping ABBA. I don't know, guys, like, no offense. I'm sure there's some older people that listen to the show and I respect my elders, but I have no desire. Like, I'm not an ABBA fan and I don't know any of my friends. I'm 45. I don't know anybody else in my age range that's like hyped for ABBA. I know ABBA was fairly popular, but I kind of think that's more like my mom's age. But my mom is 75. Like, is it is the is like someone in their 70s that would be an ABBA fan? I just don't know. I'm gonna get a bunch of hate to be like, dude, I'm like 60. And I love ABBA. Or I'm 50. I don't know, man, like ABBA does nothing for me. Even if the game was awesome. Like, here's the thing, like the music pinball machine, you got to like that band or like that group. Like I actually am not like the biggest fan of Rush, but I enjoy the pinball machine, but I don't, I don't like, like, I'm somewhat interested in that music, right? Where Led Zeppelin, I love Led Zeppelin, that game kind of sucks though, but I like Led Zeppelin. Foo Fighters, I actually really like Foo Fighters. The game, the game, I like it, I wouldn't want to own it. I did own it for a very short period of time, and I sold it, but I just wasn't a huge fan of it for whatever reason, but I do, if it's on location somewhere i'll absolutely play it but anyways that leads us to one other piece of information this has been rumored for a while that that stern's gonna redo metallica but now i'm kind of interested to know like the timeline of things because you got you got stern the biggest rumor is x-men 97 but then you have metallica also as a rumor so like do and then supposedly they're gonna actually talk about their next game soon so i'm like would they do metallica next and then save like the pinball expo launch for x-men 97 or do they do x-men 97 first and then at pinball expo we'll be all checking out the metallica i don't know i don't know that's weird and then they also say that metallica is going to be on spike 3 so who knows i mean that that could be exciting in itself because i believe the original metallica was a dmd based game so it wasn't an LCD-based game, but I believe it's going to be the same game, just redone on the new architecture. So we'll see. That'll be interesting to see how that goes. So I'm looking at my notes again, just to see what the next topic was here. Oh, I did bring my family in, not bring them in, but my sister was here visiting in town with my brother-in-law, and they came, and it was Monday night, and I had only missed on the tournament, Monday nights, my tournament nights. I can only miss one out of the, when you do the six week tournament, you can, you have like one that you can just sort of like throw away. So I was like, shit, when my family comes to town, I don't want to throw away my, cause I already had thrown one away for a work trip that would have like ruined the whole tournament. So I was like, do you guys want to come to the pinball tournament? You know? And I'm thinking, oh man, I'm going to be hyped. My sister's going to be there. I'm going to like do really well. Yeah. Yeah. No, that actually had the opposite effect it was it was the worst it was the worst tournament day i ever had and my brother-in-law is kind of a ball buster so he was busting my balls about that he's like man you were playing great at home and i was like he's like you're playing great at home man you were like schooling everybody at home what happened here i don't know man i'm just i'm still trying to like figure out my strategy for tournament play it's just so different because imagine when you're at a bar arcade or whatever. Well, especially on tournament night, he plays the music loud. So you hear the music of the location, then you hear all the games. So you're not at all hearing the game you're playing at all. You're hearing like all this ambient noise. And I kind of have ADD as it is. So at home when I play, I either have headphones on because I have the stern headphone little attachment accessory thing, or I'm playing with the music of the game, you know, in the room. And that's the only thing I'm hearing is that. So it's easy to hone in on it, but I find myself very distracted. So my buddy in a nudge magazine, right? He's like, he's like, Hey man, I play with headphones. You know what I mean? And like, that actually helps me stay in the zone. And when he said that to me I started to observe a lot of other people at the tournament and they a lot of them wear headphones too And I think I gotta think the reason why they do that is to stay focused on the game they playing and they not hearing all that ambient noise So I tried it on the last week and I did pretty well Like I had a, I picked, there's a great Foo Fighters song called Run. That song's actually in the Foo Fighters game. I can't remember which city, but that game, the song is in the game. But I had it playing when I was playing Tales of the Arabian Nights and I won. Like I was number one on that on that machine which I was shocked at because I don't know Tales of the Arabian Nights that well I mean I've played it several times but I don't know exactly what to do so I was just like shoot the genie or shoot the lantern shoot the genie dude and then I kind of I got lucky but I I did really well so that was cool but still I didn't do that great because most of the most of the arenas I was in I was placing third so anyway but I got one first so that's cool. But the one thing I wanted to tell you guys about the main topic at hand is that I did it. I did it, guys. I know. But I'm not going to here's the thing. I don't want you guys to make fun of me. But even though I know you will anyway, no matter what I actually say or do. So it's fine. I'm cool with that. But I ended up getting the Godzilla 70th. But I'm not going to tell you how because sometimes I do dysfunctional things to get to get to point A to point B. And don't tell me you listening don't know this. Everyone that's like us, that's in these hobbies, whatever it is, arcade gaming, console gaming, pinball, when you want to get something, you figure out a way to achieve that goal. It's weird. It's weird because I think there's other things in life that you wouldn't work as hard at, but when you're like, man, I want that machine, like I want to use T2, and you go scour the earth, you scour it for every T2 you can find, and you find it. You somehow I'll find it. And I know that I have friends like this. My buddy, Nick Madsen, when he gets something in his head, he's in execution mode. And that's how I am. I get it in my head. I can't get it out of my head. And now I'm in execution mode. I will do anything. I will sell anything. I will move whatever machines I need to do to make this happen. In my mind, I'd build an addition onto my house, even though I can't afford to do that. It's just you figure it out, right? Somehow, some way you make it happen. And you know, you guys know if you're listening and you're in this hobby, you do the same stuff so i'm not going to tell you exactly how i how i'm pulling this off and i and i have a heavily modded Godzilla so it's it's it there's there there's part of me that thinks it's a little bit dumb what i'm doing but but i'm doing it and so i'm excited about that because that's going to be coming unfortunately it's going to come while while i'm gone on my trip i think so i'm like uh i talked to my wife i'm like kim look there's going to be some situations going to happen look these guys are going to come in the house they're going to set up but i'm not going have him set it up i just told him like throw it in the take the old godzilla and throw uh the new godzilla in the room just put the legs on it so that way that you know keep it keep the backbox folded down like i'll do all that so um so plus it's kind of like i i really do still enjoy the unboxing experience so like but to get it on legs first would save me a little bit of time because usually i have to ask him and i'm like holding it up and then i'm like hey put the stool under i'm like kicking the stool under and then kim's like my back hurts actually that's me let's say it says that but i'm like oh my back hurts so anyways so so i did it it's dumb i did it i can't wait though i'm excited and a lot of the mod makers are already starting to create black and white versions of their mods uh so that's cool there's going to be an atomic godzilla black and white there's already a nagali nagali i always forget that guy's name but uh i call it nagali let's call it the let's call it the karaoke building how about that i think that's what it is so that karaoke building there's a black and white version of that already the ditties mod strike towers which are the number one strike tower in my opinion i love that i think they won an award for it i love that strike tower they took a little bit of the color out of it and then because that game has red accents the the strike tower tips or whatever are red versus the blue ones on the traditional ones that came out with the color version of the game so anyways that's exciting so stay tuned for that there'll be footage on the channel for that. I also just did a video about Pinball Expo because a lot of people seem to be going and this is their first year. So I was like, well, maybe it'd be cool to do a video on like what to expect from Pinball Expo. Rob Burke actually called me up and he's like, hey, I really appreciated that you made that video. That was kind of cool. That was a cool moment. When Papa Rob calls, you pick up that phone. It's funny because Rob, when he calls you, if you don't pick up. He immediately after you don't pick up, he doesn't leave voice messages. At least he's never for me. He's like, call Rob. That's all he puts is call Rob. So anyway, so I called him back. I actually was still in bed. And Kim's like, who are you calling? I was like, I'm calling Rob Burke. She's like, oh, okay. She's like, oh, all right. I'll leave you. I'll leave you two alone. But anyways, it was cool. He just said thank you for the video, which I which I really appreciated. He was just saying how excited he is for Pinball Expo this year, and I am too. I'm super excited. So, okay, that leads me to the last thing I want to talk about, because I'm going to try to keep this one short. I don't have a ton, like I said, but I saw a video. This video is old, too. I think this video is like three years old. But if you're into pinball, then there's definitely like a large amount of people that are into the hobby that have like engineering type brains or they're very curious about the inner workings of a pinball machine. and like I said this video was older but a lot of you guys have probably seen videos from this channel called the slow-mo guys they did such a cool video on uh Jersey Jack this was genius by Jersey Jack by the way so Jersey Jack donated you know I think they hey he had to give it back but they provided a Willy Wonka machine to the slow-mo guys so that they could do what they do you know these like super super high frame rate cameras capturing you know things at a ridiculous amount of frames per second so that you can see it back in in like a very very smooth slow motion like stuff your eyes would never be able to pick up and the the coolest part is like they show this part of the video where the flippers he he like at first when he was playing the video back he's like i feel like something might be wrong with the machine so he's like when you flip the flipper without hitting a ball the rubber actually comes away from the flipper like a significant amount It just your eyes never pick it up And I was like that was so wild And he showed like a magnet in slow motion He showed pop bump bumpers in slow motion, the auto launcher, like all that stuff was really cool. Slingshots. I don't know. I think if you're into pinball and you're just, you have that curiosity or you're someone that works on them frequently, you might enjoy it. And I think if you're a pinball fan, you'd enjoy it anyways. I thought it was really cool. And it made me kind of want to play Willy wonka i haven't seen a willy wonka really much on site and if i my problem is i gotta be i gotta be honest with you guys i ignore a lot of the jersey jack games not not like not because i don't want to play them or anything i just feel like when at least in my a lot of the places that i go to they're there but they're kind of like secondary now now i did play elton john at southern fried gaming expo and i was like man this game's pretty cool so like i'd like to log more time on on Elton John. I'd also really like to finally, at one point, I would love to play a Pirates of the Caribbean. It looks so cool, the Jersey Jack Pirates of the Caribbean. I guess it didn't do well. I don't know why, though. Like, I don't know why. It seems like that would be an IP. Maybe they released it too late. I don't remember when that game came out, but maybe like a lot of the fun and excitement around Pirates was already gone. I don't know. Maybe they just chose a wrong time but that just seems like that would be a cash cow you know license to get anyways maybe they'll re-release it at some point like stern's doing with some of their popular games i think that game is now popular after all these years but they're hard to find you don't see them very often so anyways i don't know if any of you guys are if you're watching it on youtube and you you like that game or have opinions on that game i'd love to hear from you because i've never i've never got a chance to play it but that boat that rocks in the back i'm like dude that is so cool I've been watching a lot of videos about it lately. I've actually been watching a lot of videos about pinball in general. There's some really, really good pinball content out there. You know, like over the past like six months, I discovered Wormhole, which I know is a really popular podcast. They have great interviews. Yeah, there's like so many. And then you have the Flip N Out Pinball guys, you have Straight Down the Middle, you have Loser Kid. Like there's so many people connecticist, connecticist, connecticist, Colin, I don't know why I can't say it, connecticist, connecticist, why can't I say that, I feel so stupid, it's like how I can't say Giordano's, I'm Italian and I can't say it, when we're at Pinball Expo, I'm like, let's go to Giordano, I don't know why I can't say it, Giordano's, Giordano, oh, I don't know, I can't say it, I don't know why, I don't just, something's wrong with me, something's definitely wrong with me, Like how, how, how am I like a functioning adult? I have no idea. So anyways, that's all I really been up to. I've been playing a ton of pinball. I haven't really been making much content. I mean, if you really think about it, my last video on pinball expo was really just me writing a voice over. I wrote a voice voiceover. Um, I, you know, Mason has all that B roll footage and I just made sure that I was conscious when I was writing that voiceover to know that we have clips that we can pull for all that stuff. It is kind of cool that I've been doing YouTube for so long that I could actually take a lot of clips that are historical clips. I have a NAS device, which I have it all stored on. And then Mason has a lot of it too. So it's easy for us to take like older content and reuse it because there's a lot of it we haven't used. So I try to pull B-roll from videos we didn't use. You know what I mean? Or sorry, but B-roll that we didn't use for a video because there's so much. Like sometimes we'll leave a shoot or something and there's probably hundreds of clips we don't use. So, but they're not bad clips. It's just, you know, to tell a story, we didn't need them. So we don't use them. But, but that also leaves me with a lot of really cool, like cutting room floor stuff, which can show up in other videos. As a matter of fact, I just found a bunch of footage from when we went out to Captain's Auctions warehouse of their pinball room, which I can't remember what they call that room, but it's open to the public. You can go play if you're in the Southern California area. The captain is awesome. Everyone over there is awesome. Go see CC. She runs that show over there. Man, they do a great job. And there's a lot of very nice pinball machines in that showroom. So you can go play. And I think they run regular tournaments and all that. So that is kind of all I have. But needless to say, there's gonna be a lot more going on. I am gonna this weekend, this weekend, actually, I'm going to a John Wick launch party. It's the last one in Phoenix. And I called up Rudy. I'm like, Rudy, dude, we gotta do this. Come on, man. He's like, his response is like, John Wick kicks my ass. I'm like no no rudy we're gonna kick we're gonna kick ass that's right and rudy's like we're not but i'll go so i don't know at home i kick ass at john wick i don't know at home i'm good i mean i'm not yeah i am good at it i got a hundred so i on the pro i got like 160 million and on my le i got 111 million i think that's a respectable score on john wick but i hope that i can make that happen oh crap my camera just locked up oh great great yeah it does this thing okay well if you're watching the live stream I've now paused but if you're listening to it you're fine so I'm paused because of the thumbs up thing those weird reaction things you can do I don't know anyways guys John Wick launch party I'll let you guys know in the last in the next episode how it goes I'm gonna win this thing I'm winning it baby taking home the gold and probably not but hey wishful thinking alright guys thanks for all your support and continued support of the show. I appreciate it. Colin over at Connect Assist actually said something about me. That's cool. That's cool, man. I'm going to plaster Pinball Expo with flip side stickers, which, as a matter of fact, I've got to get those made. All right, guys, that is it. That's all. Go play some pinball. Go have some fun this weekend. And I will see you on the next one. Take care, everybody. still paused alright guys that's a wrap

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