# Episode 37: Dad Jokes! Pinball! and Drew came up with a Top 10!

**Source:** Poor Man's Pinball Podcast  
**Type:** podcast_episode  
**Published:** 2019-12-05  
**Beat:** Pinball

**URL:** https://poormanspinballpodcast.libsyn.com/episode-37-dad-jokes-pinball-and-drew-came-up-with-a-top-10

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## Analysis

Poor Man's Pinball Podcast episode 37 features hosts Scott Ian and Drew discussing dad jokes, personal pinball projects, and industry news. Drew celebrates completing restoration of Firepower and shares his discovery of the Pindigo score-tracking app. The hosts discuss rumors of a Rick and Morty pinball machine, critique the $775 Star Wars topper as poor value compared to alternatives, and praise recent production of The Super Awesome Pinball Show. A listener submission covers Freeplay Florida 2019 arcade expo experiences.

### Key Claims

- [MEDIUM] Strong rumors exist that someone has secured the Rick and Morty pinball license — _Scott Ian and Drew discussing unconfirmed industry rumors about Rick and Morty IP licensing_
- [HIGH] Star Wars topper is priced at $775 and limited to 500 units — _Scott Ian and Drew discussing official Star Wars topper product details_
- [HIGH] Shatrick Black Knight topper costs less than $400 and is considered superior value — _Scott Ian stating topper pricing comparison: 'It was less than $400' vs Star Wars at $775_
- [HIGH] Pindigo is a free score-tracking app similar to Instagram for pinball scores with global rankings — _Drew explaining Pindigo app features: 'It tracks your scores. You can follow people. It's kind of like an Instagram type thing'_
- [HIGH] Christopher Franchi created artwork for Guardians of the Galaxy pinball with hidden Easter eggs — _Hosts discussing The Super Awesome Pinball Show episode featuring Franchi's tutorial on playfield artwork_
- [HIGH] Drew completed full restoration of Firepower pinball machine and increased confidence in machine repair skills — _Drew's personal pinball news segment: 'Firepower is officially complete it is 100 working'_
- [MEDIUM] Freeplay Florida is a three-day annual event in Orlando running for approximately 10-12 years — _Steven Martin listener submission describing Freeplay Florida event structure and history_
- [MEDIUM] Little Shop of The Games is a dominant distributor showing at Freeplay Florida with Stern and JJP inventory — _Steven Martin's Freeplay Florida report describing distributor presence and machine selection_
- [MEDIUM] Elvira's House of Horrors uses open IP B-movies, with no licensing fees required for the film clips — _Scott Ian commenting on Elvira game: 'I don't think they paid a cent for any of those'_
- [HIGH] The Super Awesome Pinball Show features production quality requiring significant editing effort — _Scott Ian discussing production value: 'the editor in me was shuddering throughout the whole thing'_

### Notable Quotes

> "Firepower is officially complete it is 100 working i did it all with my set of rocks"
> — **Drew**, Personal Pinball News segment
> _Announcement of major machine restoration completion showing growth in technical repair skills_

> "You've still got to pay for shipping. Yeah. I understand there's a cost for shipping, but at that price, that has to be built into the profit. I mean, come on."
> — **Scott Ian**, Star Wars Topper discussion
> _Criticism of Star Wars topper pricing and additional shipping costs at premium price point_

> "It's literally half the price... The Shatrick Black Knight topper is less than $400... vs Star Wars at $775"
> — **Scott Ian**, Topper Comparison segment
> _Direct value comparison highlighting poor pricing strategy of Star Wars topper_

> "It's like Indigo, but with a P. Yeah, Pindigo."
> — **Drew/Scott Ian**, Technology segment
> _Introduction of new score-tracking app discovery to audience_

> "You could buy a Firepower, or you can buy a topper for your Star Wars... That's a bitch slap of truth, kids"
> — **Scott Ian**, Topper pricing analysis
> _Stark illustration of topper pricing absurdity relative to actual pinball machine cost_

> "I watched like a handful it's it's an okay show but it's not a 90s show or not even it's a 2010s show... I don't know who the target demographic is."
> — **Drew**, Rick and Morty licensing discussion
> _Skepticism about Rick and Morty IP appeal for pinball licensing_

> "They just released the Shatrick Black Knight topper yeah how much is that now It was less than $400. Shut up. I'm not kidding. It's half the price."
> — **Scott Ian and Drew**, Topper pricing segment
> _Shock at pricing disparity between competing toppers_

> "I am number six in the world. It's almost a little sad... I'm like, oh, man."
> — **Drew**, Pindigo app discussion
> _Humorous reaction to global ranking transparency via score-tracking app_

> "There's a million things in Star Wars I could come up with that are better than R2-D2... You couldn't get a big fat Jabba the Hutt up there?"
> — **Scott Ian**, Star Wars topper criticism
> _Creative alternatives to poorly-received topper design_

> "It grabbed my attention from across the room at Pinball Expo. I was like, holy shit."
> — **Scott Ian**, Black Knight topper praise
> _Contrast of positive reception for alternative topper design_

### Entities

| Name | Type | Context |
|------|------|---------|
| Drew | person | Co-host of Poor Man's Pinball Podcast, completed Firepower restoration, Pindigo user |
| Scott Ian | person | Co-host of Poor Man's Pinball Podcast, provides industry commentary and criticism |
| Steven Martin | person | Listener #15 and podcast contributor, attended Freeplay Florida 2019, submitted unsolicited event review |
| Christopher Franchi | person | Pinball artist/designer, featured on The Super Awesome Pinball Show discussing Guardians of the Galaxy artwork |
| Josh Seeker | person | Friend of the show, went score chasing with Drew and discovered Pindigo app |
| The Super Awesome Pinball Show | organization | Pinball podcast praised by hosts for production quality, features Christopher Franchi tutorial |
| Pindigo | product | Free score-tracking app for pinball, functions like Instagram for pinball scores with global rankings |
| Freeplay Florida | event | Annual three-day pinball and arcade expo in Orlando, runs 10-12 years, held in November |
| Firepower | game | Classic pinball machine restored by Drew, ranks #100 on Pinside Top 100 |
| Star Wars topper | product | Official Stern pinball accessory, priced at $775, limited to 500 units, criticized for poor design and value |
| Shatrick Black Knight topper | product | Competing topper product priced under $400, praised as superior value and design alternative |
| Elvira's House of Horrors | game | Spooky Pinball game featuring B-movie clips, uses open IP films with no licensing costs |
| Rick and Morty | product | Animated TV series, subject of rumored pinball licensing deal, discussed as potential location game |
| Little Shop of The Games | company | Dominant pinball distributor in Florida region, displayed machines at Freeplay Florida 2019 |
| Zach Sharpe | person | Appeared on This Week in Pinball discussing Canada vs USA pinball culture |
| David Dennis | person | Appeared on This Week in Pinball discussing Canadian Thanksgiving, new to pinball media |

### Topics

- **Primary:** Star Wars Topper Pricing and Design, Drew's Firepower Restoration Project, Pindigo Score-Tracking App, Rick and Morty Pinball License Rumors, Freeplay Florida 2019 Event Report
- **Secondary:** The Super Awesome Pinball Show Production Quality, Dad Jokes and Entertainment
- **Mentioned:** Pinball Machine Trading and Resale

### Sentiment

**Mixed** (0.55) — Hosts show enthusiasm for Firepower restoration, Pindigo discovery, and The Super Awesome Pinball Show, but express significant frustration with Star Wars topper pricing, design, and business practices. Mixed opinions on Rick and Morty licensing. Generally positive podcast tone but critical of industry pricing decisions.

### Signals

- **[community_signal]** The Super Awesome Pinball Show receiving positive industry reception and community engagement (confidence: medium) — Scott Ian praising show: 'they did a great job' and discussing featured content including Christopher Franchi tutorial
- **[design_philosophy]** Star Wars topper R2D2 half-unit design criticized as conceptually weak compared to alternatives like full-size Sphero R2D2 or Jabba the Hutt (confidence: high) — Scott Ian: 'I always thought it looked super lame' and proposing alternatives: 'You couldn't get a big fat Jabba the Hutt up there?'
- **[event_signal]** Freeplay Florida 2019 successfully attracted major industry presence and diverse attendee base including AVGN, panel discussions, and distributor participation (confidence: high) — Steven Martin's comprehensive event report detailing vendor presence, machines, and guest appearances
- **[licensing_signal]** Elvira's House of Horrors uses exclusively open-source/public domain B-movies requiring no licensing fees (confidence: medium) — Scott Ian commenting: 'I don't think they paid a cent for any of those' regarding B-movie clips featured in game
- **[market_signal]** Firepower maintaining marginal position at #100 on Pinside Top 100 with low voter count (~20 votes estimated) (confidence: medium) — Drew stating: 'It hovers between that 103 and 98' and 'I don't remember how many votes it has, though. Maybe it only has 20 votes'
- **[community_signal]** Christopher Franchi's involvement with recent pinball artwork production, featured on The Super Awesome Pinball Show (confidence: medium) — Hosts discussing Franchi's Guardians of the Galaxy playfield tutorial and Easter egg design philosophy
- **[market_signal]** Star Wars topper pricing at $775 perceived as excessive, representing $800+ total cost with shipping vs actual Firepower machine cost of $650 (confidence: high) — Scott Ian stating: 'You could buy a Firepower, or you can buy a topper for your Star Wars' and criticism of additional shipping charges
- **[announcement]** Star Wars pinball topper officially released at $775 with 500-unit limited production (confidence: high) — Scott Ian confirming: 'we have a Star Wars topper, $775' and 'It's limited. We only made 5,000 of them. Yep. Sorry. 500.'
- **[product_strategy]** Shatrick Black Knight topper positioned as superior value and design alternative at under $400 vs Star Wars at $775 (confidence: high) — Scott Ian comparing: 'It was less than $400. Shut up. I'm not kidding. It's half the price.' and 'That's a head turner'
- **[rumor_hype]** Strong rumors of Rick and Morty pinball license acquisition by unknown manufacturer (confidence: medium) — Scott Ian states 'there is uh strong rumors out there that uh somebody has the rick and morty license' but both hosts express skepticism about market viability
- **[sentiment_shift]** Community skepticism about Rick and Morty pinball appeal, with both hosts doubting mass-market viability despite rumored licensing deal (confidence: medium) — Drew: 'I think it's stupid' and both hosts discussing limited appeal to younger generation and audience demographics
- **[technology_signal]** Pindigo app launch enabling global score tracking and competition (confidence: high) — Drew discovering Pindigo as 'app' that 'tracks your scores. You can follow people. It's kind of like an Instagram type thing'

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## Transcript

 game's over losers oh yeah it's time the wait is over you've waited a week or more and now it is finally here the time has come for this week's Poor Man's Pinball Podcast starring Drew and starring Ian. That's it, man. Game over, man. Game over. Game over. One of the nights, I'm a tramp in vain One of the nights, if I drink and clean I'm gonna drink my night away Welcome to the Poor Man's Pinball Podcast, episode number 37, the sloppiest show on the internet. My name is Ian. I'm Drew. I'm here. And we are here ready to rock and roll. Rock your fucking faces off. How does that feel? Doesn't it melt your fucking faces off? We're going to rock it off. Rock it off, melt it off. I'm not that hot. No. Drew, what you drinking today, buddy? Beam and Coke. Just a big, fat ice cube. Some Beam. Ian bought a brand new bottle for Thanksgiving. It looks like no one touched it, so I'm touching it today. No, no. There's a lot of untouched things at the bar this Thanksgiving, so I am drinking. I have a case of Coors Banquet beer to take care of tonight. Get rid of it, man. Opened it up. Down the gullets. Coors Banquet's good, though. It's a good beer. It's a good tasting beer. It's old school. I like the little bottles. It makes my little hands feel huge. The little grenade bottles, yeah. It's kind of cool. So what you been up to, man? How you doing? Good, man. Just status quo. Had Thanksgiving, so actually last week was good. Got an extra day off. How about you? Yeah, I was off. I don't know. I worked Black Friday. But, yeah, Turkey Day was good, and the weekend was good. Awesome. No complaints, man. Hope everyone out there in pinball land loved their Turkey Day. And for you, I heard, I forgot, one of the Canadians was talking about their Turkey Day. And they're like, yep, we have ours at the appropriate time in October. Oh, yeah, that was on Twip. Oh, that's right. It's pretty funny. I don't know who that guy was. David Dennis. Yeah, don't know who that guy is. Good job, David Dennis. He's new to pinball, but yeah, he was... Aren't we all? Him and Zach were going back and forth, United States versus Canada. It was actually kind of entertaining. Yeah, those Canadians, they're proud. They are. Well, he said, we just watch you guys' politics, and we just go, what did he say, from our mountaintop. And he goes, what is going on down there? Same old, same old. Yeah. Nothing's changed. We're the laughingstock of the world. Yet, we're still the best. I was going to say, but still the best country in the world. Suck on that Canada and buttholes What the hell are we talking about here? I don't know We're splitting hairs now Yeah, I love it I love you Canadians Alright, what do we got today? What do we got today? We got a special show We have Dad Joke Day It's Dad Joke Day People love Dad Jokes Dad Jokes are always good So, Dad Joke We're going to do some personal pinball news We got other news. We got shit going on today, guys. I don't know. We're just going to go through the list, and we're going to see how we get through this, all right? Yep. Dad joke and a top ten today. Not just a top five. Well, it's not our official top five. Drew just got creative today. Yeah. He's like, fuck, I want to make a top ten list. I came up with this idea. I thought it was great, and as always, Ian sighed and went, okay. Drew's top ten list. Whatever. Let's do it. Fine. it's our show it's his show it's my show we can do whatever you want and we are it's all good do you watch the super awesome pinball show uh yeah i listened to most of it and i thought they did a pretty good job i think uh it was it was entertaining uh there was um they swear too much poking poking poking um no i i don't know i mean it was only one episode they didn't actually talk I mean, they talked about pinball. They were talking about some of the pinball shows, I think. The recent arcade. There was, what, an arcade show down in, was that Houston or something? Or somewhere in Texas, maybe. Yeah, they talked about the Houston, and they also talked about Freeplay Florida. Yep, yep. So they were talking about these different shows, and one of the funny things I just thought of, they said Jersey Jack and Stern and American Pinball, because it wasn't a pinball-centric place. They were all kind of shoved in one corner together. Yeah, that was pretty awesome. So I'm just picturing Gary Stern and Jack just kind of like arms crossed, staring at each other. And then American Josh Coogler is there, and he's just like, hi, guys. Right. You know? Yeah. No, good show, Chris and Dr. Pin and Ed Van Der Veen from Texas Pinball Festival. Thank you. Thank you, Drew. So very cool, very cool. So, yeah, my favorite part was when Christopher Franchi was talking about his artwork, and he gave a tutorial on how he did the Guardians of the Galaxy play field. And I don't want to spoil it. I think you guys should all go listen to it. But it involves a unicorn and Christopher Franchi hunting one in the woods. It was pretty wild, dude. It was pretty funny. I was cracking up. Well, he has a lot of Easter eggs in his art, which is going to make a lot. Well done. And I just hope they can keep that production value going steady because the editor in me was shuddering throughout the whole thing. I was like, oh, my God. There was a lot of production value. And some people like that. Some people don't. But, yeah, it's a good show. I'm excited to see how it goes. There would be no fucking way we would be able to do that. No. That one show alone would have taken me a month to do. I just couldn't do it. All the time when I ask you, hey, you can just edit this in. You can do this. Yeah, why don't we do this cool sound effect? I want it to sound like a bugle, but then I want to morph it into a rhinoceros owl. And then can you make me just sound like George Clooney throughout the whole thing? Yeah. Make it sound like you're riding a monkey with peacock feathers. You know, just fucking cool. Yeah. Chris Ranchi will do it for you. I can't do it. Sure. Sure. It's a super awesome pinball show. So fuck yeah. So everybody give that a follow. Give it a listen. Like them on Facebook. They're awesome. Awesome. Awesome. All right. So Dad Joke Day. So Dad Joke Day, if you are just joining us, which I'm sure some of you are, Dad Joke Day is basically we set a random timer. You're going to hear a ding. When you hear that, we're going to get a dad joke. So we'll take turns, and I don't know. There's no actual point to this. We don't take the score. We just laugh at bad jokes. This is just part of the fun. Drew, Ian, and a podcast walk into a bar. and of course by that i mean it's time for the smash sensation dad jokes for fun today mine are all star war themed oh jesus all right well i guess we have a topper to talk about don't we we do oh good segue see i didn't even think of that when i was doing this i was like oh these star wars jokes are funny i love star wars and yeah and then the topper gets released and oh yeah we'll talk about you didn't even know no no i did no no but when i was picking out the jokes i you know whatever well played drew we have another segment here for you um martin listener number 15 tribesman number two uh was at free play florida and he sent in his review so martin take it away brother hey all you out there in poor man pinball podcast listener land listener number 15 martin here figured i would uh send my free play florida 2019 unsolicited update, kind of talking about the expo, and I also figured this would give Ian and Drew some time to use the bathroom and freshen their drinks and whatnot. So anyway, Freeplay Florida is a three-day event. They have it every year. I think it's going on 10 or 12 years. I'm not too sure about that one. Fact-checking, won't you? It's a three-day event Friday, Saturday, Sunday. It's over in Orlando, usually sometime in November. This is my third one in a row that I've been to. This one, they're always different because there's volunteers that run the event, and it's also like people donate their own machines for these events. So there's no set. This is what's going to be there each and every year. There's always like Little Shop of Games, who is like the dominant distributor down here. He showed up with Stern Alley, Stern Pinball Alley, which was just this massive row. And he also had a bunch of really nice JJP stuff there. American Pinball was there with a row of their, mostly they had the Monster Bashes there, so it was a good time a lot of arcade, it's more and more transitioning to 50% arcade, 50% pinball, give or take they always try and fill in with a lot of the other guys, like a lot of panel discussions the Angry Nintendo Nerd Angry Video Game Nerd was there, and David Crane was there the Q-Bert guy was there Butch Patrick was there Franchi was there, which was cool I got to meet him, I made sure I said, hey, I love the new Poor Man Pinball Podcast shirt you made and he said, oh thanks I told him I was listening to it at 15 and he didn't, I don't think he knew what that was doesn't matter, I bought some artwork so he was okay, he was like, oh great I bought a nice, the Munsters Translite and Beatles not Translite, the artwork that turned into the Translites so he's a cool guy after listening to him talk and some of that I can tell he's a really cool guy just some general impressions got to spend some time on Elvira and fell in love with Elvira I didn't expect to either I wasn't sure about that one because I know it was the third one I had a long running B-movie review podcast called Slow Robot a Go-Go and it had like 350 335 shows something like that I don't remember. But there was a lot of B-movies. So I've done that for years and years and years, talked about B-movies, watched these horrible movies. And they had the video clips, and she's riffing on these movies. And I knew every one of them. I own every one of them. So I kind of felt at home playing it, if you know what I mean. Spent some time on the Star Wars, the one with the Hyperloop and the other one. That was a surprise because I really liked that pinball machine. And I didn't expect to. I didn't even expect to play it. It wasn't one I was like, oh, I can't wait to play the Star Wars Comic Sans Edition or whatever they call it. They had a row of the JJP stuff where they had a JJP limited edition Wonka there. So it had the Wonka Vader and the Gobstopper and all that stuff. That was gorgeous. They had a Ruby Red and a Yellow Brick World edition of the Woz, which I'm not a super fan of the JJP stuff. They're great shooting games. They're beautiful. I just, there's something about them, me personally. It's just my opinion. don't get angry everyone it's okay to have opinions um i'm trying to think what else they had down that road because they had a ton of sterns too they had the dialed in they had a bunch of wonkas to get everyone there then they had um they had some older like metallica and uh iron man and stuff like that i was playing the hulk and uh are the avengers and i was really lighting it up and the hulk's arm fell off and slid down down the bottom of the playfield that was funny i had to text the guy because his number was there and i kind of texted him saying hey I turned your machine off because the Hulk's arm fell off. That was an experience. We also finally got to put in a bunch of time on an Oktoberfest. Hadn't got to play one, and I've always been chomping at the bit to get at one. Really dig the machine. That might have made it into my, not top ten, but definitely on the lookout for my bar room, you know, arcade, whatever you want to call it. I played it and played it, and I was like, I bet you there's a lot going on in that game. I mean, I'm sure it's a lot more deep, a lot deeper than what I got to. Because, you know, at an expo, you're always kind of like, oh, you just, you're standing there, you're waiting in line, and you get up to play, you play it, and you don't get any time because then you turn around and there's a line, you've got to either go to the back of the line or whatever. But as I played it, it was late Friday night and there was no one else around. Like, it kind of, like, was closing down and there was a lot of people were out drinking or whatever. I got to go on it a couple times in a row. and that's when I really kind of hopped on and played it and got into some modes and started unlocking stuff and I was like, this is a fun game. I totally dig on the Oktoberfest game. I would be very proud to have one of those in my collection. But overall it was great. I always go over there. We stay for three days. I interview people. Got to interview Dirty Donnie a couple years ago right after he did the artwork for Metallica and Aerosmith. He just put out that Backlight book. Talked with Billy Mitchell. Walter Day was there. they're there every year it's kind of an interesting thing they're in tight with the organizers or something like that but enough talk talk Freeplay Florida is a fun thing if you're ever down in the area in November look it up you'll be glad you did if you don't that's fine too this has been listener number 15 thanks for dropping this in guys keep on keeping on and now I think we're going to drop in some words of wisdom from the one and only Randy Macho Man Savage as true today as it ever was you know something maybe I am insane maybe I am insane and maybe it's time for you to find out how insane I am yeah right now yeah alright so I added that post production so Martin I just want to say thank you so very much for submitting that so we can put it in our show always want to know more about other trade shows I just find them so interesting arcade shows in general always had a small dream to meet Billy Mitchell at one of these shows and if he wasn't super busy I would just kidnap his ass and we would go to a bar I would get him super drunk and I'd be like tell me all of your stories from the 80s every single one of them I don't know it's this weird thing I want to do so if you know Billy Mitchell please don't tell him that Ian wants to kidnap him i'd appreciate that um i want it to be a surprise and as far as octoberfest i agree with you 100 dude that game is awesome um i disagree with your jersey jack assessment those machines are works of fucking art so I love those things top to bottom They all beautiful And yeah but no Oktoberfest I agree with you 100 Elvira, yeah, dude, those B-movies on Elvira, 100%. Super cheesy movies that are like open IP. That's why they were able to use them. I don't think they paid a cent for any of those. I recognized a couple of them. I know I did see, you know, the original Night of the Living Dead. That's a pretty easy one. But there was another one or two that I could pick out because I'm kind of a B-horror fan myself. No, the Elvira Package is a great game. Don't get me wrong. That game is a lot of fun. Whoever owns it is probably very happy with that purchase. It's just a little rich for my blood. I'm a poor man after all. All right, that's enough with the post-production stuff. We'll go right back to your regularly scheduled program. Thanks, guys. Bye. all right drew what do you got for the poor man's podcast personal pinball news uh a couple of things um some some old stuff some new stuff um firepower is officially complete it is 100 working i did it all with my set of rocks yeah it's a whole tool chest of rocks people it's impressive i got small rocks big rocks medium-sized rocks hard rocks soft rocks they're all in there but uh smooth rocks skinny rocks yeah yeah sharp rocks you know i get the job done but uh no i'm you know what my my confidence level in working on pinball machines has has doubled tripled quadrupled i mean i i did literally every facet of the machine on on here and it was very cool and i got it done and i'm ready to take on a bigger project now nice nice so that that's that's what i'm most excited about but you know what when i first got this game and it wasn't working because I didn't know how it was supposed to sound or whatever. I didn't watch a lot of videos. And I turned the thing on, and the sounds were all screwed up, and I didn't know that. And I'm like, this game sucks. Yeah. And I'm playing this thing, and it's slow and whatever, so I make all these adjustments, and I fix all this stuff. That game is really cool. Cool. Firepower is a neat game. Cool. And it's in the top 100, which is literally number 100. For now. It made it, yeah. Better than Black Rose, huh? Yeah. You people suck. Yeah. It hovers between that 103 and 98. I mean, it's in there, though. You voters. Yep. Give me a headache. The voters. I don't remember how many votes it has, though. Maybe it only has 20 votes, one of those. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. The Black Rose should get more love than it does. No worries. It's only my first love. It's all right. Don't worry, everybody. So there's that. But my Dracula trade, I didn't get a lot of people who wanted to trade anything. A lot of people wanted to buy it, so now I'm... Yeah, I knew that was going to be hit or miss. I know. That segment was a good idea, Drew, though. It was a good idea. It was a worthy try. You tried hard. It was. Now you just fucking sell it. Yeah, I'm just going to... Get it out of the house. Yeah, I'm going to sell it and... Take your winnings and then build me with your newfound power, firepower. Build me an Oktoberfest, man. It's coming, man. All right, sounds good. So I'm working on something for Poor Man's Pinball Christmas, which I won't share with anyone. Ian doesn't even know yet. No, don't want to know. I got a Christmas surprise for Ian, which will be revealed in a few weeks. I don't have shit for him. It's going to be a one-sided Christmas. Nope. It's all right, though. You're going to love it. And lastly, last week on Wednesday before Thanksgiving, I went out with our buddy Josh Seekert. Josh, friend of the show, friend of us. Yep, we had a great time. Love you, Josh. Went out, played a bunch of pinball. We found an attack from Mars with no tote bob. So him and I moved it at least 10 feet across the floor. Shame. Shame. We racked up the score. Shame. It was pretty funny. Then we found an Iron Maiden with no tote bob, and we did the exact same thing. That's a lot easier to move, though. Oh, my God. That thing was like half the weight of the attack from Mars. Oh, yeah, that's crazy. It's turns. There's not much in them. It was nutty. If I ever bought a stern, I'd have to throw a bunch of rocks in it or something. Just weight it down. Talk a lot about rocks on this show. Poor man's pinball, personal, rocks. We got rock news for you. You want to know more about rocks? Ask us. We got all sorts of rocks here. We'll tell you. We'll put rocks on our machine. We use them to fix the machine. So we're out. Move past it. Yeah, I'm just not going to acknowledge that he said that, because we said rocks too many times in this episode already. Yeah. So we're out playing, and he's taking pictures of all the scores, and I'm like, what are you doing, man? I love score chasing, too. And he goes, oh, there's this app. And I'm like a monkey. I'm like, what? And there's this app called Pindigo. Pindigo. Pindigo. There you go. I was trying to think how to say it. There you go. Thanks, Ian. It's like Indigo, but with a P. Yeah, Pindigo. And it tracks your scores. You can follow people. It's kind of like an Instagram type thing, but you post your scores on the game. You see how you're doing against your friends. You see how you're doing against the world. It's just kind of cool. I'm taking on the world. And actually, not that this is any surprise, because LaserCue is not the world's most popular game, I am number six on there. I am number six in the world. It's almost a little sad. I know. People out there are like, oh, I'm great at LaserCue. I just don't post my fucking scores everywhere. I'm like, oh, man. So it's just fun to see where you are and you rank against people. And most games I'm, like, number, like, 512 out of, like, 515, you know. Yeah, when I got to play Street Fighter online, Street Fighter 2, I always thought I was a really good player until I saw my world ranking. Oh, they just get, yeah. It's like 2,000-something. I was like, well, I'm never playing this game again. Yep. So anyways, check it out, Pindigo. It's a cool little app, and it's free, and you can follow me on there. I'm poor man's pinball. I'm pin to go. All right. Very nice. There you go. That's my news. You got any news? No. I had some high scores, but Drew fucking came in here and got his high score. I almost wiped him off my machine today, guys. He fucking comes in here. I'm trying to podcast, and he won't stop until he beats my scores, which the fucker did. I'm not really happy with Drew right now. I know. He's shitty with me right now. I'm very shitty with him. I'm not feeling well. I'm a little sick. I'm a little under the Carl Weathers. He's beating my scores. Yeah, I'm a little pissed off. I'm sorry. I'm only human. And the asshole I am, I was like, I should have turned the machine off. I should just put this in the pinball news, and I'm like, no, I'm not going to rub it in his face. But you brought it up, right? Yeah, well, it's because I'm salty. $402 million. It's on Pindigo. Oh, fuck you. It's official. What a dick. I'm changing my batteries tonight, accidentally. All right, so let's get into some news. Shall we get into some news? Do-do-do-do-do. News. that's the newsreel people i don't know what we're uh rick and morty there is uh strong rumors out there that uh somebody has the rick and morty license what do you think about that i think it's stupid yeah have you ever watched any of the shows yeah i watched like a handful it's it's an okay show but it's a 90s show or not not even it's a 2010 show like yeah it started yeah seven eight It's not of my generation. I don't know who's... Yeah, I don't know who the target demographic is. Yeah, I don't get it. What station did that sit on? Was that Adult Swim? Yeah. Or was that... Was it? I think so. You know, like I said, I watched a few episodes. It's entertaining. I like a lot of the adult animation stuff, but... Yeah, it's a raunchier Back to the Future. Yeah. The old man and the young kid. Yeah. Time travel and shit. But the old man's like a drunk and whatever. It's just, there's some moments, but I keep hearing people bringing it up, though, like they want it. And I don't know that I can see. I don't know how many people want it. Yeah, I can't see the masses. It's a numbers game. Yeah, I don't think it's there. But it seems like this rumor is going to come true, and somebody must know something. I don't know. I don't know. I doubt it. You don't think so? No. But also, if they're trying to appeal to the younger generation, that was Ian dropping a bottle cap. They don't have any money, the younger generation. No, that's very true. That's why I don't understand where they're going. Maybe on location. Yeah. I could see that. Yeah, it probably would be an excellent location pin, especially if Stern did it or something. It's a great location pin. Young kids playing pinball at the bar. Yeah, I get the clips from the show on there. Yeah, probably cheap. Yeah, I could see that. Okay. All right, also, we got a Star Wars topper, $775. Okay, forget price for a moment What do you think of the topper? I always thought it looked pretty lame It's super lame For Star Wars, the Star Wars universe I thought it's a half R2D2 And like a metal thing I know it's supposed to be him setting like an X-Wing To make it look like an X-Wing Here's the thing, and I'm going to ruin all the distributors days here Because I know millions and millions of people listen to us Millions And their family So somebody on Pinside in the Star Wars topper thread put a couple pictures up. They said, okay, this is what you do. You go to Spiro.com. They sell those remote control everything, right? Yeah. They have a cool R2-D2. It costs like $89.99. It looks super cool. It's about 12 inches tall. Someone mounted it on top of their Star Wars machine. It looks cool as shit. Cool. so i was just like you know that that's more my style be like okay get this thing you know lights up it makes noise you can you can do all these different things with it it's like i said it's 89 or 99 or whatever it is and it was super cool and it was almost as big as this thing but it was a full-size r2d2 yeah yeah super neat ian howard had a joke on facebook today about you know he was just gonna buy a bunch of r2d2s cut them in half and glue them on a fake plastic metal thing and he's like I will sell them for $300 and he said I'll also have a special on the R2-D2 bottom half so if you need an R2-D2 bottom half hit them up those are $55 I mean seriously it's not too far off though I mean it is a plastic R2-D2 on a plastic thing and it just moves around and lights up it's not even that cool looking the real kick in the ass is they just released the Black Knight topper yeah how much is that now It was less than $400. Shut up. I'm not kidding. It's half the price. It's literally half the price. You're joking. Nope. All right, if you haven't seen the Black Knight topper, that's a head turner. Well, that's my point. That's a beautiful topper. If, you know, okay, $399, you know, once again, I'm not a topper guy, but $399, it's at least, you can stomach it. That's worth it, though. Yeah. That's a head turner. And the black, a literal head turner. Yeah, well, name another topper that freaks people out like that. Oh, it's super cool. Yeah, it got my attention from across the room in Expo. I was like, holy shit. The CGC topper for the new Medieval Madness. You know, it's cool, but that comes with the game. That's the difference. Yeah, right. So, you know, you bought a $9,000 Star Wars LE. Guess what? You don't get this topper. You've got to spend another $800. And here's the worst part. I don't know why this upset me more than the topper itself. You've still got to pay for shipping. Yeah. I understand there's a cost for shipping, but at that price, that has to be built into the profit. I mean, come on. How much did you pay for your LaserCube? $1,500. Okay. How much did you pay for Firepower? $650. So you could buy a Firepower, or you can buy a topper for your Star Wars. I knew there was a correlation there. And that's the, you know... That's a slap of truth right there. bitch slap of truth kids because usually you'll compare numbers like that you gotta exaggerate and say oh I could get a pinball machine for that price no I got a pinball machine for that price you can't play R2D2 I have a R2D2 with that like I said I have that little BB-8 the Sphero one on my phone my wife got it a couple years ago it's fun to play with but it was only like $79 I mean it's a topper and it's the Star Wars universe so you couldn't get a big fat Jabba the Hutt up there? How cool would that be? Oh, that... You know, I'm a big Jabba fan. That's a cool idea. Yeah. Like a super big, just the whole thing. Yeah, just sitting up there fucking, you know, talking in huddies and smoking out of the thing. Yeah, the pipe on there? Yeah. Oh, man, that would be $800. If it was the whole width of the machine. I'd take it, yeah. Yes. That's cool. There's a million things in Star Wars I could come up with that are better than R2-D2. Yeah. Sorry. I'm sorry. To me, it was a swing and a miss. But they're going to sell them all. They're limited edition, by the way. 500 limited. 500. It's the old Jersey Jack limited. Yep. It's limited. We only got 5,000 of them. Yep. Sorry. So, anyways, dad joke, right? Oh, you know, I never hit the damn random timer button. I was just going to. Fail. All right, go ahead, brother. Okay. Speaking of Star Wars, if your significant other isn't a Star Wars fan, then you're looking for love in Alderaan places. Oh, Jesus Christ. That's just what you're going to expect, guys, in dad joke time. All right. All this Star Wars talk got me Star Wars goofy. All right, I'm going to start the timer now. Here we go. All right, so, son of a bitch. I'm still giggling over here. Andrew spit out his drink. All right, so we got Wonka's collector's editions coming out, huh? They are. They're going out the door. people seem to be happy with them and the playfield seem to be okay good job Jack we love that we love hearing all that that's all great news still one of the sexiest machines around guys I want one Jersey Jack may have solved their playfield issues knock on wood with a rock Drew brought his rocks with him one more thing to add to the Franchi shirt yeah there you go but no man Is there a better machine that came out this year that looks better than Willy Wonka? No, I don't think so. It's the prettiest damn machine of the year, for me anyway. Who do you think is going to win Game of the Year, Wonka or Jurassic Park? No, it's going to be Jurassic Park. There's way more people that play Jurassic Park. There's too many of them out there. It's a numbers game. So, Elwin wins Game of the Year with Iron Maiden. And then Jurassic Park. Chances are he's going to win it with Jurassic Park, right? Yeah. So next year when he's up and he makes Keith Elwin's Super Adventureland, number three. Dirty Dancing, the pinball machine. Footloose, with no Kevin Bacon. Yeah, couldn't afford Kevin Bacon. He'll pull it out. He'll win. John Lithgow will do some of the voices. It'll just be a game based on the Dirty Dancing, or no, sorry, the Footloose movie universe. Yeah. Just like Jurassic Park has nothing to do with the game or the movie. He makes this game now. Now it to the point where people just buy this game no matter what it is because it his third game Yep Right I mean we almost to that point with him I would think Yep Good for you. Yeah. Good for Stern. Man, I'm looking forward to see. 2020 might be one of the best years for pinball yet. Young guys, man. Yep. You need those young designers, that's for sure. All right. So what else we got? Not much going on in Spooky World. They're just, you know, they're getting their toppers out. They're finishing up Alice Cooper, and they're getting ready to, you know, announce Scott Zanissi's game before the end of the year. Yeah, do they give a show yet they're going to go to? Not necessarily, but, you know, Charlie was pretty adamant that he at least wanted to reveal it to the world. All right. So, you know, Alice Cooper is a – We love you, Charlie. The last I saw on the Pinside thread, they were shipping, like, number 470, 475. Oh, yeah, they are. Yeah, they're right at the end. So there might be a, I think they said there's a few games left you can purchase, but that's about it. All right, we got a dad joke. Read it, brother. What does food surf on? Don't know. Microwaves. Microwaves. Ooh, that was bad and so good. Starting the timer now. Okay. You guys earned for a treat today. That's it for spooky. American Pinball. They said that game number three is going to be announced at TPF. Oh, so that's when we're going to find out about Rick and Morty, huh? Yes, that is when Rick and Morty will be announced. And they said announced. They didn't say revealed, I don't think. So, you know, it'll be interesting. I never really picked up on that. Don't quote me on that, but I'm pretty sure it was like, we will tell you what the game is, but we're not necessarily going to have it there ready to play or anything. What if it's a tie-in to their Flying Dutchman? Yeah, it's the Flying Dutchman pinball. That would be terrible. Flying Dutchman. What does the sea captain in The Simpsons have? The Frying Dutchman. The Frying Dutchman. Yeah, he's the sea captain, and he has that restaurant. Yes. Yeah, he's the Frying Dutchman. Yeah. So the Flying Dutchman, if I'm not mistaken, is the ghost ship. That's the ghost ship that people see in the seas. It's the flying Dutchman. Yeah, don't they talk about that in Pirates of the Caribbean? I mean, I know it's like Pirates lore to begin with. Oh, yeah, I don't know. I think they make mentions. Maybe that's Davy Jones' ship in those movies. Yeah, I think so. See, it got weird. As soon as I saw Fish Face, I was done with that whole movie. Oh, really? Yeah, dude. The first one was good because... All right, here's a tangent. Might as well. This isn't a fucking Friday episode, but we might as well go into it. It's fucking Monday. I love pirate movies in general, like even old school Errol Flynn movies, Captain Blood, fantastic movie. Anyway, Crimson Pirate. Anyway, so there was a time where pirates used to be super badass and scary and awesome and evil and dastardly and badass. And for whatever reason, Disney was like, no, not scary enough. We got to turn them into octopus faces. He looks like the alien face that was eating the facehugger or whatever. It's like an octopus that's eating his face. The first movie, they're like, no, they got to be zombies. Zombie pirates. That's way scarier. Now they can walk underwater. Which makes it stupid. When Jack Sparrow was a zombie and Captain Barbossa were zombies, and then they had the sword fight at the end, I'm like, what the fuck's the point? You're both dead. You can't do it. You can't hurt each other. Why were they sword fighting? those movies i was stupid i watched for you know just this is gonna sound silly for pure entertainment i know what some movies are but like i don't remember any of it because it was like yeah you know there's some funny jokes yeah it's just yeah more of the story is i guess long story short is i loved the potential of those movies i loved um jack sparrow you know that character and i loved everything regarding that franchise except for all the supernatural real stupid shit that they put out there. All the CGI dumb shit. I was just like, I'm over this. Yeah, but you know, that's commonplace now. Well, yeah, it's not necessarily a good thing. No, no, but it's what sells, and it is what it is. Makes it a blockbuster, I guess. It's kind of bullshit, but it is what it is. All right, so we don't know what this game is. It's just going to be announced at TPF. So stay tuned, ladies and gentlemen. Stay tuned. For the Flying Dutchman, Pro Premium, and LE versions. Just in case your kids can't get enough of the redemption machine. Here you go. You get a pinball machine. For fun on the screen, they'll have a cameo of the frying Dutchman from The Simpsons. Yeah, there you go. All right, Drew. Let's go into your top ten list. Why don't you tell us all about it? So I was thinking this past week of actually hearing about Franchi's new show, the super awesome pinball show. It got me thinking. I'm like, okay, another podcast coming out, right? One more. And I'm like, you know, a lot of these podcasts, and we've talked about this in the past, they report the news. Some do it well. Some do it a little less than well. Whatever. It's all over the board. But a lot of them are kind of the same. Yeah. Very samey. Yeah. They show up. They talk pinball. And they're very knowledgeable. And a lot of them actually have great personalities. But sometimes that doesn't always show through because they're just talking about pinball or whatever. Yeah. And trying to be professional. Yeah. Yeah, and nothing wrong with that. No, nothing wrong at all. Most of the shows are actually great, and I listen to most of the shows, and I enjoy most of the shows. Yeah. But it got me thinking that we're obviously different. Ian and I always talk about everyone's swimming this way, and I'm pointing to the right, and now Ian and I are going far left as possible. We try to go the opposite direction. We are swimming across the green, across the sea, whatever. We're salmon swimming upstream. I'm not swimming behind Ken Cromwell. I don't know what he's placing in the water Not downstream from him Oh dad joke We got a dad joke Alright What city is Chewbacca from Arlington That's a good one but Milwaukee Jesus Christ Let me get worse Alright perfect That reset the timer now I told you that was the theme So anyways, so it just got me thinking. I was like, you know, we... You'll never hear Milwaukee in another... Yeah, well, and actually that's a good segue to me finishing explaining this. You know, there's a lot of things that we say and do on here that you just won't hear anywhere else. Right. For a lot of different reasons. Yes. You know, you're going to hear, oh, I didn't like the Star Wars topper or whatever. It's too expensive. Yeah, that's whatever. You're going to hear that everywhere. But what you're not going to hear here are these 10 things. They're either phrases or things that we do on the podcast. Yes. Okay. It's kind of a combination. So we'll just switch back and forth. Ian, you'll start with number 10 and you'll explain it. And then I'll do nine and so on and so forth. All right. So number 10, cheese slices. I think every pinball podcast you just won't hear the word cheese slice. No, it's totally true. and I don't even know if we know 100% what it means, but that's our rating scale. What's this we? You came up with it. You designed it. We're in this together, motherfucker. So anything past zero is a cheese slice. All right. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. So, you know, the super awesome pinball show, I gave it a seven cheese slices. Yeah. They did good. Right now I'll give them an eight. I'll wait for judgment until a few more, but, yeah, I think they're doing a solid job. Great job. Number nine, what we're doing today, dad jokes. Dad jokes. Are you going to hear dad jokes on any other podcast? You may hear jokes that are, but yeah. Yeah, not cool dad jokes like Milwaukee. Come on. You're just never going to hear it. Because it's terrible. You poor bastards. All right. Number seven. Number eight. Oh, number eight. Oh, love letters. Of course, another one of mine. Actually, I think all three of these so far have been my ideas. Yep. So, love letters is just a great way to get a little raunchy and get a little steamy with our pinball. That's all. And people love all these things. Yes, thank you. Number seven. Number seven is kind of an idea. It's kind of a phrase. It's things that, you know, I think some podcasts might want to go here, but they just don't because, you know. Every time. um you know game x sucks it's terrible you know sometimes you might hear like a podcast talking about like an older game like that but you will never hear them talk about a brand new game that's come out because they want the designer to come on their show or they want you know that company to be in good favor with them so they're just not going to say oh elvira sucks and elvira doesn't suck, by the way. I meant to put that in a poor man's pinball personal news. I actually got a lot of time on the new Elvira. It's not a bad game. It's a super fun game. I know it is. I enjoyed it. It's very cool. We never had a problem with the game. The game sucks because of the price. The price sucks. The game's awesome. That's the best $5,000 game I've ever seen. It's super fun to shoot. I was having a lot of fun with it the other night. Anyways. But, yeah, GameX sucks. You won't hear it. All right, number six. Whatcha drinking? That just came out naturally, I think, when we first started this. We're talking pinball. We're drinking. We're drinking, baby. Here we are. How it is. Cheers, Drew. Cheers. And here's another Ian original. Number five. I think this is you, dude. Sockwatch. Sockwatch. Sockwatch. Drew started the Sockwatch because he was looking at his feet all the time. See, I can't even remember anymore. I drank too much. But, yeah, Sockwatch. yeah that was some funny shit where else are we going to be looking for other podcasters socks but the poor man's pinball podcast so much that we have sock watch and he confirmed no socks he doesn't sock he doesn't sock alright my turn dad joke um what do you call a cow with a twitch hmm this is for you Drew beef jerky that's a good one man A little beef jerky. Yeah. All right. Timer is reset. Cool. Number four, Ian. This one's for you. Number four. Did you change that? I don't remember reading that. All right. Nope. That's for you. Number four, dick in your hand. Hey, Ken Cromwell, I'm calling you out. Next podcast, I want you to say dick in your hand. No, don't do it. To the listening audience. Don't do it. You'll lose lots of listeners quickly. You're going to be scraping the bottom of the barrel with us. Don't do it. You're a highbrow, brother. We're lowbrow. Yeah, that's just a reference to Drew getting drunk at Expo and puking in a urinal with his dick in his hand. Yeah, that was the only time we ever said that phrase on this show. Yeah, but now it has a total connotation to itself. Oh, number three. See, I don't remember this one. Oh, I tried to find the clip. I really wanted to insert the clip, and if we can find it, we will insert it into this episode. But, yeah. Careful with your... There's Ian with his editing again. No, just careful with your wordplay there. You're going to insert something in your mouth. Balls in your mouth. When have we said that? Oh, there was an episode. I can't remember the context. It was... We're going to find the clip. Balls. All right. Balls in your mouth. Yeah. There's a clip out there floating around on the interwebs. Sloppiest show on the internet, my friend. You know it. All right. Number two. Yeah, this was all fact-checked, by the way. Okay, I'm sorry. I just don't remember that one. It wasn't really. Number two. I know, I saw the look on your face. This one is something that's true and near and dear to my heart. What the fuck are we doing here? I don't know anything about pinball. Yeah, any other pinball podcasts? Are you saying that? No. No, everyone's an expert on the podcast scene. Everyone knows everything. Power of editing, you know? We just don't do it. Yeah, fact checks? no we just admit to it sorry guys we we get um i wouldn't say every week but like probably a couple times a month we'll get like a message where someone will just fact check us and they'll be like oh i was listening to this and that's not right and we're like yeah what was that one on pinsight i love it was like you guys are a fucking train wreck don't change yeah he was telling us the things that we said wrong but he goes i i love it he goes yeah you guys made a few errors who cares yeah i think that one was about a sponsorship remember yeah uh kessler's the sponsor us oh that's right and then the um the jim beam yeah we got the makers mark yeah the parent company wrong like we it was we had it right but we said it wrong or something and we're like we don't know who makes jim beam we don't set it way around i still think it's like sunbeam santorium speaking at which i'm drinking sunbeam and coke sanitation sanatorium that's what it was yeah sanatorium i don't know whatever okay all right you're number one number one on the count of three three two one suck on that buttholes there you go everybody there's your top 10 crazy ass things that we come up with and say on a weekly basis just for your entertainment yeah you you won't hear them anywhere else if you want to hear those things you got to come here lucky you and this is the episode where it all happened in one episode so yeah this is the gift that keeps on giving her all 10 of them and we'll probably never do this segment ever again that was a good segment dad joke dad joke time oh this one is topical oh jesus you ready for this no but go ahead If Boba Fett were a Transformer, what would he be? I don't know. A Mandalorian. I don't get it. DeLorean car? A Mandalorian? Oh, Jesus. You know, only the most streamed show ever in the history of the world. I know what Mandalorian is, buddy. Have you seen an episode yet? Yeah. Oh, you started watching it? I watched... I almost got through three episodes. I know there's a fourth one now. Fuck It Friday. We'll talk about that. Yes. If you guys haven't checked out, yeah, we will talk about this Fuck It Friday, but it was a super cool show. And supposedly, it is the most streamed show of all time. Yeah, it beat Stranger Things. Yeah, that was the one. Yeah. Crazy. Yeah. It's only been out like three weeks, and it's just crazy. So anyways, good show. Watch it. Absolutely. What are we doing on time here? Oh, we're doing perfect on time. All right. So... Thank you sir may I have another Poor man pinball tribe Thank you sir may I have another poor man pinball tribe thank you sir may I have another poor man pinball tribe thank you sir may I have another poor man's pinball tribe we are gonna do our tribe members so the poor man's pinball tribe something that's near and dear to our hearts we always talk about it this is all about our listenership that follows our five pillars of excellence, and they join our tribe. And we're not reading those off again, because we're just not. I can't find them anyway, Drew. They're written in this notebook somewhere. But these are people that we really, like, we cherish all you guys, but these people, like I said, we just, we talk to quite a bit, and we really enjoy all the communication and things that you guys bring to the podcast for us. Like us on Facebook. I'm just going to go through it. Yep. Like us on Facebook. Communicate with us regularly, whether it be email, message on Facebook, message on Pinside, something like that. I'm Captain Flint on Pinside. What are you? Drewbow81. Drewbow81. So find us there. And then the third one is to help us grow our brand, whether it's just sharing our stuff on Facebook or, you know, just helping us grow. recommending us to all your friends and the other two pillars are secret top secret for your eyes only for our eyes our eyes only uh so just just to remind five pillars of excellence baby five of them five pillars so this is week three week three yeah who do we have so far for the poor man's tribe yep we're gonna recap recap number one the guy leading the charge uh ryan geiper turbo Geographic7. Number two, Martin, our listener number 15, the man himself who does a lot of our intros and outros. Number three, these are our Canadian brethrens, Brad Hopkins and number four, Ian Hower. Number five, this is the new one. Should we do it? Let's do it. All right. Number five. All right, good, buddy. Eric Walker. Eric, Episode 4, Walker, the man himself, the badass that he is, the king and undisputed champ of all love letters, one of our best friends. For a man who does not know much about the hobby, he has joined us in a way. Yes. And he tolerates us in the best of ways, and we appreciate him for that. He was the one on here talking about how he wanted to get a Playboy pinball for his wife, which was hilarious. And his three-year-old son. And his three-year-old son. That was episode four. So that was just priceless. He went to MGC with us. He had a great time with the Wonka reveal. Came to Expo with us. He's still in the market for a pinball machine, guys. Just a quick update. But life has a way, man. Life finds a way to take your money. But he's still in the market. So he's still saving and holding out for the big bucks. He wants a big machine. His number one machine is going to be a big one. He's leaning towards Jurassic Park right now. He really liked that one. Eric, you've always been a friend of ours, and he's constantly helping us out with stuff, and he's kind of a guy that's behind the scenes. So, Eric, we love you. Yep. All right. Welcome to the tribe, brother. Welcome to the tribe. You are number five. Top five, Eric. Congratulations. All right. Number six. Michael, damn it, I'm thirsty Williams. Michael Williams? He is, I'll call him a local boy because he's from Madison, which is Milwaukee's sister city here. And, yeah, he emails us almost weekly with drink recipes, which we love. Yes, which we love. We haven't had a time to do the last couple, but we're going to do them. Yep. You know, he's the one that won our contest. He came up and found us at Expo. You know, he's constantly just sends us, you know, fun stuff. and we just, you know, we talk to him, and we are going to actually get to play some pinball with him. Yeah, he's just a fun, cool dude. He's good for the tribe, good for the podcast. He's everything pinball. He runs tournaments. He's real big into the tournament scene out in Madison, so if any of you guys are going out there, look him up on Facebook and find him because, like I said, he runs most of these tournaments out there. He's got one of our shirts, so he's sporting us proud at his tournaments. Yeah, I think their group is called Madison Pinball, if I'm not mistaken. I'll have to double-check that. Michael Williams, thank you so much, sir. Thank you, sir. You are the coolest, and you are a tribe member. You're officially number six. Number six. Number six. Congratulations, guys. So that's six down and a bunch to go. Yeah, so many more. We're not forgetting you guys. This is a process. And we said we're only going to do two a week because we didn't want to just say, oh, here's 10, here's 12. Yeah. It's just not special. Let's give two people some goddamn love, right? Yeah. So thank you very much, Eric Walker and Michael Williams. The swag bag is still in development. Yeah, we're still talking about it. I know you guys aren't hounding us for it yet. It's got to be unique, goddammit. But it's also got to speak to us, but it's also got to be cheap as shit. Yeah. How can we say we love you with no money? And a bag of dirt just doesn't do it, you know? This is special poor man dirt. It's from Milwaukee. It's the best dirt. It's from Milwaukee. All right, here we go. We got a dad joke. Give us a good one. Way better than Mandalorian. I don't have a good one. None of them are good. That's the problem. What do you call a grandma on speed dial? Don't know. An Instagram. Oh, my God. Oh, that one was bad. So bad. So good. So good. All right. Mailbag. Mailbag. Addies. Mail call. I got just one special one today. Yeah, I like that special one. We should do that one. Yeah, I'm going to. So last week, just to set the scene, we just told you we inducted Ian Hauer into our tribe. Rich Buck Ian. Rich Fuckian. And we made a joke about the swag bag. And we're like, oh, send $100 and we'll get you a swag bag right out. I think that was more of a shill bill. We were going to give him a shill bill for promoting the charity. Yeah, but we also just, well, whatever. But we made a joke about $100. I think we said $1,000, but Rich Fuckian just did $100. So anyways, we get an email from him, and he said, I don't know if they do good work. Remember, he's from Canada. He made a $100 donation in the Poor Man's Pinball podcast name to the Wisconsin Humane Society, which holds a special place for Ian and I because we both got our dogs from there. Yeah, I got two dogs from there. So three dogs have been rescued from the Wisconsin Humane Society. They do great work. They got places all over. The big one is here in Milwaukee. Ian Hauer from the bottom of our hearts we really do thank you it was very generous of you we have a donation in the name of the poor man's pinball pocket wasn't that weird to see that we got this email from Wisconsin Humane Society saying a donation has been made in your name and I was like wow we're legit yeah we felt like we touched the world a little bit through Ian Hauer no Ian seriously we're not joking Three dogs. We love them to death. They're our family. And yeah, Wisconsin Maine Society, if anyone out there is listening, we'd love to have you on. We can talk about Wisconsin Maine Society on fucking Friday. Yeah, no worries. So anyways, yeah, thanks again, Ian Hauer. That was very generous. And that's why he's in the tribe because we didn't know he was going to do that. We were obviously joking, and just that shows you the type of person we want. Yeah. All right, and we have some more news here, mailbag news. We have Twip. Now, they just released their conditions for the podcast segment. So this is where I'm going to need to call on all of our listeners. It's for the Twippy votes. Yeah, for Twippy voting. The podcast voting will be done basically. There's going to be a pre-vote starting. Well, it'll already be going once you hear this. So it starts on the 3rd, which is Tuesday. What they're going to do is they're going to count all the pre-votes for things like the write-ins, like podcast, and the top 10 of each one will be on a drop-down menu for the Twippy voting. Does that make sense? Did I say that right? So, yeah, I'm reading right here on Twip's website. These will be write-in votes, and they will determine the drop-down selections. So we would like to at least hit the drop-down. For January voting. Yes. December 3rd through December 12th. So you have about, what is that, nine days, ten days. Yes. So I would like to be on that drop-down menu. I'd like to think that we're a top ten podcast, guys, as much as we joke about it. Sorry, here are the writing categories. All right. Favorite streamer, Pinball Podcast, Pinball YouTube, Pinball Mod, Homebrew, Rookie of the Year, not limited, yeah, New Designers, Artist Coders. then they got more like competitive players and people who do like articles online and stuff so if that's the case don't forget about our buddy Ryan Kuyper from TurboGrafx7 as well favorite pinball streamer for sure streamer make sure you get the TurboGrafx7 down vote for Turbo and then for podcast please don't forget your poor pin at the poor man's pinball podcast so that'd mean a lot to be a top 10 podcast I know we're not going to win a Twippy this year but fucked if we don't deserve a top 10 mention. Yeah, we want some votes on the board. That's all. Yeah, we just want to be recognized for just a split second before Mrs. Penn kicks us off. Anything else as far as messages? Yeah, there probably was a couple more. Yeah, Josh Mudd and I were going back and forth. Funny story, I accidentally blocked Josh Mudd. He's also a potential for our tribe members. He sent me a message. He said, send this to Ian. He blocked me, that asshole. I don't know how I blocked the man, but I blocked the man. I actually joked with him. I was like, man, I've never blocked anyone on Facebook except for my ex-wife. That's so funny. But funny story, last week's episode when I did the love letters, it was about hard bodies, the pinball machine. well my inspiration was uh add on pit side and it was um troy north was selling a probably one of the prettiest hard bodies i'd ever seen the armor was uh powder coated pink i saw that yes beautiful well my man josh mudd was the one who bought it so way to go josh good pickup awesome game dude so i was i was pretty impressed with it so yeah that it just made my heart go pitter-patter so i was glad that it's in the poor man tribes family so thank you very much josh and sorry for blocking your brother whoops oh well all right timer dad joke what did master yoda say when he first saw himself in 4k wrinkly i am hdmi oh jesus they don't get any better from here folks we're at the end of the show so i'm just gonna go with mine now uh did you hear about that new movie constipation no it never came out oh my god that's awesome i i i have one more and it's not star wars related perfect i got arrested because I left my car at the bar and took the bus home. It turned out I was in no condition to drive that either. You redeemed yourself, sir. That's good. I like that one. Yeah, I do enjoy that one. A good drinking one for us. Did you hear about the shampoo shortage in Jamaica? No. It was a dreadful situation. Dreadful situation. Jamaican dread joke. Yeah. alright one more one more Star Wars cause I left it out is BB hungry? no BB ate and that should have stayed out motherfucker alright very cool alright well that's it man let's wrap it up let's do it man that was a short episode uh no we did good I'm happy with it I'm just saying it was shorter than usual I should say yeah not as much news I didn't want to spend too much time on a fucking topper. Yeah. Because we don't play toppers. You play a topper? I don't play a topper. For $750, you better play a fucking topper. My firepower costs less than that. I just want to emphasize that just a little bit. I'm having so much fun with firepower. Yeah, R2-D2, I'd be looking at it going, hmm. Here's what you do with your $750. You buy firepower. You put it on top of your fucking Star Wars. Boom. You got a topper that's $750. Yeah, and it's like Space Day. You can play it. They're like, okay, here you go. Yeah. Oh, man. Get a little stepladder up there and fly the shit out of it. Oh, terrible. I get it. I mean, shit's expensive, and who knows how much they had to pay for that. No, and the whole thing, all jokes aside, I mean, we know they, you know, Disney's taking a big chunk of that. I get it. That licensing stuff is so expensive. With Disney, it's crazy. Which is bullshit, because that mouse has had the same pair of shoes on since, like, 38. Yeah. He hasn't changed his clothes. He's got his red shorts or whatever. He's done. You know what they say, though. What the fuck do you need all this money for? All the richest people you know. That's what they do. They wear old clothes. They drive old cars. That's what Vicky does. Yeah. Yeah, he's driving a car from like 1982. You know, if it still runs. I mean, that's the way it is. That's it, brother. All right. Well, thank you, everybody, for listening. Thanks, guys. Don't forget to email us, poormanspinball at gmail.com. Like us on Facebook, Poor Man Spinball Podcast. Find us on Instagram. Not. Yeah. And remember, suck on that, buttholes. All right. You guys take care. Thanks, guys. Thank you.

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