# Episode 49: Top 5 with Martin Tribe Member number 2 and we have another Brickshot! **Source:** Poor Man's Pinball Podcast **Type:** podcast_episode **Published:** 2020-03-18 **Beat:** Pinball **URL:** https://poormanspinballpodcast.libsyn.com/episode-49-top-5-with-martin-tribe-member-number-2-and-we-have-another-brickshot --- ## Analysis Poor Man's Pinball Podcast Episode 49 features Drew and Scott Ian with guest Steven Martin (Tribe member #2), discussing personal pinball restoration projects, community appreciation for show organizers during COVID-19 cancellations, and detailed restoration techniques for Laser War playfield clear-coating and powder-coating. The episode includes Steven Martin's story of accidentally dismissing Steve Richie at Free Play Florida, personal pinball news on multiple restoration projects, and plans to bring Laser War to Pinball Expo. ### Key Claims - [HIGH] Drew is restoring multiple pinball machines simultaneously: Laser War, Firepower, Meteor, and Jurassic Park — _Drew mentions 'Between the donations...the Laser War restore, the Firepower restore, the Meteor restore, the Jurassic Park. I am having so much pinball fun.'_ - [HIGH] Laser War playfield was originally 6-7/10 condition, now improved to 9/10 after restoration work — _Scott Ian states: 'When we saw this thing, it was a 6 out of 10 or 7 out of 10...Now that he's spent all the time on it...it's a 9 out of 10.'_ - [HIGH] KBS The Diamond Coat is a moisture-cure urethane that begins curing immediately upon opening — _Drew explains: 'Once you crack the lid, it's curing because the moisture in the air is already reacting with the product.'_ - [HIGH] Steven Martin initially mistook Steve Richie for a homeless person at Free Play Florida before realizing who he was — _Steven Martin story about encountering Steve Richie in disheveled appearance: 'if you're in Florida, you automatically assume that's a homeless guy and he's going to shake you down.'_ - [HIGH] Dustin at Mirror Image Coating in Racine-Kenosha area performed three-coat metallic powder coating on Laser War lockdown bar and rails — _Drew describes: 'The blue was a three-coat process to get that metallic flake. It looks so good, man. And then the fleck on the red is the lockdown.'_ ### Notable Quotes > "I'm like, having pinball orgasms every day. And I don't want to say I'm going to get burned out because it's just crazy." > — **Drew**, early in episode > _Expresses intense enthusiasm for active restoration projects and pinball collecting hobby_ > "this guy thinks I'm his handler and at this point, I think this guy is a homeless, crazy person looking for change...and Steve Richie doesn't hear so good, so he's talking like that going, and he looks like he just fell off of a plane." > — **Steven Martin**, middle section > _Key moment in Steven Martin's Free Play Florida story about Steve Richie encounter_ > "Once you crack the lid, it's curing because the moisture in the air is already reacting with the product." > — **Drew**, restoration section > _Educational information about moisture-cure urethane properties during restoration process_ > "It was cloudy, and I was like, because I've done woodwork, and I've worked with a lot of polyurethanes...I almost panicked a little bit because it was all scratched up." > — **Drew (Scott Ian)**, restoration section > _Documents anxiety during restoration process when sanding between coats creates cloudy appearance_ > "I could not remove one of the flippers. I tried my best, and I just could not do it...I had to roll around the flipper and then brush underneath it. I'm not ashamed." > — **Scott Ian**, restoration section > _Practical restoration challenge and pragmatic solution during clear-coat application_ ### Entities | Name | Type | Context | |------|------|---------| | Steven Martin | person | Guest on episode, referred to as 'Tribe member number 2', shared story about Steve Richie encounter at Free Play Florida | | Drew | person | Co-host of Poor Man's Pinball Podcast, leading restoration projects on Laser War, Firepower, Meteor, and Jurassic Park | | Scott Ian | person | Co-host of Poor Man's Pinball Podcast, assisting with Laser War restoration and clear-coat application | | Steve Richie | person | Legendary pinball designer encountered by Steven Martin at Free Play Florida; initially not recognized | | Carrie Hardy | person | Mentioned as pinball content creator whom hosts joke about 'cringing' at Texas jokes | | John Borg | person | Referenced in comparison story about awkward meeting; legendary Stern designer | | Dustin | person | Powder coating specialist at Mirror Image Coating in Racine-Kenosha area; performed restoration work on Laser War | | Ed Vanderveen | person | Organizer of pinball shows in Texas; thanked for efforts during COVID-19 show cancellations | | Mark Kim | person | Organizer of pinball shows; thanked for efforts during COVID-19 show cancellations; associated with powder coating work | | Gary Stern | person | CEO of Stern Pinball; thanked in opening for show organization efforts | | Dave Brennan | person | TurboGrafx-7 Twitch stream host who provided restoration technique reference for clear-coat process | | Poor Man's Pinball Podcast | organization | Podcast where this episode originates; hosted by Drew and Scott Ian | | Free Play Florida | event | Pinball show where Steven Martin first attended and encountered Steve Richie | | Laser War | game | Pinball machine being restored by Drew; underwent playfield clear-coating and powder-coating of metal components | | Firepower | game | Classic pinball machine in Drew's restoration pipeline; planned for powder coating work | | Meteor | game | Pinball machine being restored by Drew; planned modifications with orange and lime colors | | Jurassic Park | game | Recent Stern pinball machine in Drew's active restoration/play collection | | Dr. Dude | game | Pinball machine planned for powder coating restoration with pink and lime colors by Scott Ian | | Mirror Image Coating | company | Powder coating company in Racine-Kenosha area; performed restoration work on Laser War; phone: 262-945-2791 | | KBS The Diamond Coat | product | Moisture-cure urethane clear coat product used for Laser War playfield restoration | | Sherwin-Williams | company | Company where Scott Ian worked; referenced for Flock Foam Roller product used in restoration | | Pinball Expo | event | Major pinball show where hosts plan to bring restored Laser War machine for display | | Natural Street Band | organization | Charitable organization receiving donations from Drew | ### Topics - **Primary:** Pinball machine restoration techniques, Clear-coat application and curing processes, Powder coating for pinball metal components, Personal collection and restoration projects, Playfield paint touch-up and color matching - **Secondary:** Pinball show organization and COVID-19 impact, Steve Richie and legendary pinball designer encounters ### Sentiment **Positive** (0.85) — Episode maintains enthusiastic and celebratory tone throughout restoration discussion. Community appreciation expressed for show organizers. Hosts express satisfaction with restoration results. Humorous anecdotes and irreverent banter create lighthearted atmosphere. Some frustration noted during restoration process but ultimately resolved positively. ### Signals - **[restoration_signal]** Detailed documentation of clear-coat restoration process for Laser War playfield using KBS The Diamond Coat moisture-cure urethane with specific application techniques and tools (confidence: high) — Extended technical discussion of 30% xylene reduction, Flock Foam Roller application, 220-grit sanding between coats, naphtha prep work, and moisture-cure urethane properties - **[restoration_signal]** Powder coating restoration of Laser War metal components (lockdown bar, guide rails, brackets, legs) with three-coat metallic process in blue and red colors (confidence: high) — Drew describes 'three-coat process to get that metallic flake' and notes 'brand-new machine' appearance after powder work at Mirror Image Coating - **[community_signal]** Acknowledgment and gratitude toward pinball show organizers (Ed Vanderveen, Mark Kim, Dan Lucin, Gary Stern) during COVID-19 show cancellations (confidence: high) — Opening segment expresses 'heartfelt sympathies' and 'special shout out' to show organizers affected by pandemic cancellations - **[collector_signal]** Drew actively restoring and maintaining multiple high-value pinball machines simultaneously (Laser War, Firepower, Meteor, Jurassic Park) with significant investment in professional restoration services (confidence: high) — Drew states 'spending mate like it is going out of style' and describes multi-project restoration pipeline with professional powder coating work - **[event_signal]** Laser War machine planned for display at upcoming Pinball Expo after restoration completion (confidence: high) — Scott Ian states 'We Are Pinball bringing this thing to a pinball expo, right? We can say that now' and 'this thing coming to the expo because you would be...I knew this thing was going to look good' - **[industry_signal]** Local Wisconsin powder coating specialist (Mirror Image Coating/Dustin) expanding specialty services to pinball community after success with automotive and cycling work (confidence: high) — Drew describes Dustin's business growth from factory worker noticing market gap to opening successful specialty shop with high customer demand - **[content_signal]** Poor Man's Pinball Podcast producing detailed technical restoration content targeting DIY pinball enthusiasts with practical methodology and product recommendations (confidence: high) — Extended episode segment dedicated to step-by-step clear-coat process with specific products, ratios, tools, and techniques; references to other restoration content creators (Dave Brennan, Vid) --- ## Transcript Hello friends, this is Drew from the Portman's Pinball Podcast. I just wanted to start off today's episode with a little bit more of a somber tone before we get into all of our zany craziness. I really wanted to thank all the wonderful people who put on the great pinball shows throughout the year. Ed Vanderveen and his group over down in Texas, Kim and Paul, and Dan Lucin, Susie Lucin, his wife and their family, Gary Heil. At the Poor Man's Pinball Podcast, we just want to offer our heartfelt sympathies for all the people that have been affected as of recent with the coronavirus and all the things going on in today's world. I'm not going to go into too great a detail about those things. We all know what they are. We read the news. But I'm really sad that these shows had to be canceled, but I totally understand why. whether it be about our health or our finances I just wanted to give those people a very special shout out and all the people that help those shows go on on a yearly basis us here at the Poor Man's Pinball Podcast along with many many others in the community we absolutely love and respect everything that you guys do to put on these amazing shows each and every year we will definitely be at both next year and just know that you have some poor men in your corner rooting for you to continue to put out these amazing shows for many, many years to come. Oh, yeah. It's time. You've waited a week or more, and now it's finally here. The time has come for the sloppiest show on the internet. This week's episode of Poor Man's Pinball Podcast. Starring Drew and Ian. That's it, man. Game over, man. Game over. I'm on a need for someone to help me. I'm on a need for somebody to stay. Welcome to the Poor Man's Pinball Podcast, episode number 49, the sloppy show on the internet, and one away from the number 50 milestone. I am Drew, and with me is Ian. How are you doing today, buddy? I'm good, man. How are you doing? I'm doing great, because number two is here with us once again. Tribe member number two, Martin. Number two, Martin. How are you doing, buddy? Hello, one and all. Doing good. How about you guys? We're doing good. Yeah. I would be remiss to make sure that we start off with a Martin story before anything, just because I don't need you dropping all these cool nuggets. We got gypped last time. When you left. Yeah, give us a one to two minute great Martin Pinball story. Oh, boy. Even before what you're drinking? All right, let's do what you're drinking. Let's do what you're drinking. What you're drinking, because we're drinking something great today. Martin, what you drinking, buddy? Well, generally speaking, I'm drinking 896 rum with either just over Coke or ginger beer. but lately I've been just freebasing Advil and Theraflu to keep me alive for another four hours. Is that legal brother? That's right. Is that the cure? That's what we call the old Martin 1-2. No more purple drink. A little crystal. Ian and I are drinking something new today. It's called Soul Boxer. It's basically a pre-mixed brandy old-fashioned. Pretty good, huh? It will be gone tonight. I'm sure it will be. It tastes delicious. It is. It's really good. My dad turned me on to this. He told me, because he's always been a brandy old-fashioned guy. He doesn't drink a ton, but that's one of his go-tos. And he's like, oh, I found this stuff, because he doesn't drink a lot. So he's like, I don't have to mix it. I just pour it over some ice, and you're good. Yeah. It almost tastes like, you know, locally we have the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team, and Miller Park does have old fashions on tap. It almost kind of tastes like that. But only I'm not paying $14 for a little cup. You know what I'm saying? No, absolutely not. Absolutely not. So that's good. Got to love that. So you don't even like mix it in? It's just like a bottle? Yeah, it's literally just a whole bottle. It's got a lot of brandy and a little bit of old-fashioned mix. It's a little sweet. It's sweeter than what I usually do. Yeah, because I'm usually a sour old-fashioned guy. But, yeah, it's tasty. It's sweeter than my normal sweetness. How do the kids say it? 10 out of 10. I'll buy it again. Do they know what the kids say? I don't know. I don't recommend. I don't know. That's how you read those stupid reviews and stuff. I don't know what kids do these days. I just mix it up. You're swiping left on the drink. Yeah. I'm like, swipe left, swipe left. What was last week? Oh, I'm from Texas. I shoot cows. Yeah. I got my guns, and I shoot cows. And then you're like, what? Yeah, and I'm like, I don't know. I've never been to Texas. Pete was like, what are you talking about? You were like, I don't know. I'm assuming that's what Texas is. Carrie Hardy is cringing right now. Oh, yeah, for sure. Carrie Hardy, we love you. I'm bummed I don't get to see you down in Texas. That made me laugh out loud when you said, I was shooting up in the air, shooting cows or whatever. I literally laughed out loud. I'm a nice person, Martin, but when I get drunk, I get a little irreverent sometimes. That's good for the soul. You know what's funny? you say that? Because this is called Soul Boxer. So, yeah, it is good for the soul. It all comes around full circle. Just don't shoot anything tonight. Ian's already rubbing his brow. He's had enough for one night and we just got started. I'm ready to go to bed. It's going to be a good night. In Milwaukee, some guy shot the kids throwing snowballs. Oh, yeah. Martin, you need to come visit us in Milwaukee and we're going to take you on a tour of the city. No. The real city. No, we don't need to do that. Milwaukee's beautiful and charming. I've been in a lot of cities. I'll be all right. He'll figure it out. Well, that's cool, Dan. Exactly. I'm glad we're all here again to talk about pinball and stuff. We've got a good show today, don't we? Very much. We do have a good show, Drew. Drew, do you want to go through everything? Sure. All right, Drew, why don't you go through the rundown, and then we're going to get Martin's story. Cool. So, Martin, prepare. So we got a lot of poor man's podcast, personal pinball news. Big surprise. Again. Drew had been spending money like it is going out of style, and I got to stop before my wife finds out. Yeah, you owe me money. I know. My wife is asking questions. Between donations. Is she really? Of course she is. Oh, my God. Between the donations, which I love to do for Natural Street Band. We'll talk about that a little later. and the Laser War restore, the Firepower restore, the Meteor restore, the Jurassic Park. I am having so much pinball fun. I'm, like, having pinball orgasms every day. And I don't want to say I'm going to get burned out because it's just crazy. Every day I'm on a super high. It's real sticky, guys. It is super sticky. So, anyways, we got that. We got some news. We got a little news from Stern, not much. We got some spooky news. We got some Haggis pinball news. We got some American pinball news. We have a top five. We haven't done that in a few weeks. And we got a new tribe member. We got some charitable stuff to talk about. We got all kinds of stuff. It's a show, baby. Yeah, it's a total show. It's a total show. The total package. That's what they say. That's what the kids are saying also. Maybe somewhere. Swipe right. It's total package. I love it. Swipe left. Swipe right. You need to make us a bumper for that, Martin. Just swipe left. I will. I promise. I'll rope Jennifer, my wife, in on it. That way she can slap me as I'm saying it, or she'll say it, then she'll slap me. We'll figure something out. Perfect. That's our show. Thanks, guys. Thanks for listening. See you later. All right, Martin. Do you have a story you can share with us? Some interesting anecdote? I'm trying to think. Should I bust out the Richie story? Yes. We're going to call this Fireside with Martin. Yes. Fireside with Martin. I'm already pouring my second drink. You better be talking about Richie. You know what I mean? It's just not that crazy of a story, really. So many years back, we go to our very first Free Play Florida. So I had never been to a show. I had never been to a pinball show. But I was really excited because I played pinball for a lot of years, and I just started getting into the world a little bit. And they're like, oh, you should go to this thing. So me and my wife got the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday tickets. We went early so we could get into the hotel because, let's just say, Freeplay Florida, security is pretty lax. So as soon as you get there, you can kind of wander around in this place. That's Florida, baby. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So we're wandering around, and we do a first pass-through, and we're looking at the machines and playing stuff. And then we sit down. I'm not like, I don't know shit about shit, really. I mean, I know pinball machines and I know playing them, but I don't know who people are. I don't know who Pat Lawler is at this point in my life or anything like that, you know. So we're sitting there and just kind of sat down, and I'm wearing an Atari shirt because I screen printed a bunch of shirts that I, like, sold to people. And we're sitting there, and this disheveled, odd-looking guy comes, like, coming over to us. and if you're in Florida, you automatically assume that's a homeless guy and he's going to shake you down. So I immediately put on my city face and I'm kind of like, and the guy goes, oh, you're here for the show? Yeah, what do you want? Kind of like, what do you want? And he thinks, at this point, this guy thinks I'm his handler and at this point, I think this guy is a homeless, crazy person looking for change. and Steve Ritchie doesn't hear so good, so he's got that going, and he looks like he just fell off of a plane. Eh? Or maybe that's just... Sorry. Too much. So at that point, no, at that point, we're both kind of like, get away from us, you insane lunatic. And then we didn't say that directly, but sometimes you don't have to say that. So this guy goes, oh, okay, and he just wanders off. I was like, well, that was weird. Then we just went off and did our stuff. And we go back around, and I'm like, is that that guy? And he's charging $130 to sign a trans flight. And I look at him, and I was like, who is this freaking guy? And at this point, he actually has his handler, because he still can't hear shit. It's in the middle of a convention, you know. Sure. And so somebody yells something to him, and then the handler yells into his ear. And then he says, oh, hi, and signs the person's name or whatever and takes money. But it was just one of those things where you meet one of the greatest guys in the history of pinball, and it didn't mean shit, and I was like, ah, I kind of blew that one. So that was my not-so-great story. Ah, it's a good story. That sounds better than the time I met John Borg. That's way better. He might still remember you in a positive light. Yeah. I don't think so. Well, you know, for your credit, you know, he does look like everybody's crazy uncle, and that's just the observation. Oh, we've been saying that since the beginning. You know, Steve Ritchie is that guy. I guarantee he fell right off the plane in Florida. It's already at 800 degrees, and he's just, like, pissed off. And he's wearing that sweater that he wears, so he's already probably melting in his own juices. And he's, like, looking for someone to save him. And the first person he runs into is me, and I'm like, get out of here, you homeless jerk. What are you doing here? Wait, wait, that homeless jerk is collecting $130 to sign shit. Yeah. I was like, huh. Wait a second. Did he sign 40s for money? Oh, man. It was funny, though. And I was like, oh, I regretted that because I had media passes and everything. At that point, I interviewed Dirty Donnie, and I interviewed people, but I didn't know who the hell he was. Did he get your credentials revoked? No. Yeah. Should have, but I still managed to keep hold of them. That was worth the several-week wait, Martin. That was a good story. It was that great. It's pretty good. Last week, I was like, I think I led that too much. I don't think it's that great of a story. Have you met Ian and I? I met John Borg once and got really drunk and went to a restaurant and puked in a urinal. You know, like, that story was infinitely better, Martin. Good job. Way to go. Yours is more epic, though. I got to tell you that much. I didn't puke on... Well, see, Ian's shaking his head now because he goes, I've seen this like a thousand times. That's every story with us. If that's an epic story, we are the two most epic people in the world. He's like, that's a Saturday night. You guys got to get an intern to carry around a urinal, and then every night just puke at it. Like, that's your gig. Email us at poorman'spinballatgmail.com if you want to be an intern for the Poor Man's Pinball Podcast. Credited intern, right? You can work with a college. I love it. Yeah, local college. Yeah, you college kids aren't doing anything right now, right? I need some audio engineer guy in school to help me with this. I'm able to carry port-a-potty or a urinal. Get me another bottle of booze. Yeah, we need some more soul boxers. That's the way to go. I have them in my basement clear-coating playfield. When we get to that, I have to ask you, if you're doing that the same way as you would do a car where you clear, clear, clear, then you have to buff it down, or cut it and buff it, or if you just... I don't know if pinball machines are the same as cars when you do the clearing. Well, I didn't do it enough. You're similar, right? Well, because I do, like, guitars. And whenever I restore a guitar, I do something weird with it. I clear coat it with, like, triple thick, like, three or four times. Then I, like, then you actually sand it down. Then you buff it. It gives you that really deep, like, gloss. And I didn't know that's the same. Well, it seems like one of those things, you know, I'm learning more about some of this restoring stuff. And, you know, everyone kind of has their own techniques and their own products they use. And, you know, there's lots of good products and there's lots of good techniques. and you just have to find the ones that fit your budget and fit your style, I guess. Let's just go into the personal news and we'll get into it. Yep, that's what we're doing. So, Poor Man's Podcast, Personal Pinball News. And now, the moment you've all been waiting for. Of course, I'm talking about the Poor Man's Pinball Podcast, Personal Pinball News. All right, Laser Ward got clear-coded. Done. Tell me. Did you? No. No, so the process I went with, it was very similar to what I kind of took what I wanted from Dave Jeff Brenner over at TurboGrafx-7 and his Twitch stream where they're restoring an alien star. So they did a – so they clear-coded just recently the last episode I saw anyway. So I did take a bit from that. I took a bit from Vid's Playfield Restoration Guide on Pinsight. Thank you, Vid. Thank you, Dave Jeff Brenner. And what I did was I essentially just made sure everything was, paint-wise, where I wanted it to be. So I did more touch-up work. Parts where I wasn't 100% happy with it because I half-assed it because I was tired that day. So I fixed all that. Stuff that I was just going to leave because I was like, ah, no one's going to notice it. But then it's like, well, you notice it, so it's going to bug you. Why clear coat it now? Just get it done. So I fixed all that. It looks beautiful, guys. I saw it for the first time in person like 10 minutes ago, and it is awesome. Hey, you know, it's funny. Some of my touch-up work, I was looking at it. I was like, ah, it's not the greatest. But once I put the clear coat over it, it actually like all the colors pop. That's the thing I learned from all my research on all this stuff, because I'm doing a lot more of this now, is 99.9% of the people don't notice, and they're going to be like, wow, it looks great. Yeah. So anyway, I just scuffed it up with an extra fine Brillo pad, basically, one of those purple. I just threw one at you, Drew. Purple scotch pad. Yeah, scotch pad. So I basically wiped the play field with that, rubbed it down just so the clear coat had something to bite to, wiped it down with a tack cloth just to make sure that there was any filings or shavings or whatever. Fibers. Fibers, got rid of all that. I did wipe it down with naphtha. I did find that that helped just because I was worried about any residue from leftover glue possibly, which I think was long gone, but I just wanted to make sure. I wiped it down with naphtha also just because I wanted to make sure that there was no, like, play field wax residue. So you wiped down the whole thing with naphtha before? Everything got a good scrubbing with naphtha. Before you did that. You always want to check your rag, too, when you're wiping it down. Make sure what you're wiping down is dirt and not paint. luckily everything was kind of dirt you know so i was i was pretty happy that none of the paint came off so the naphtha evaporates very quickly that's why you like to use it you don't want to use like a water and soap because obviously you don't want liquid there and then you have to wait for that to dry completely and that's just a pain in the ass so naphtha is way easier just wipe it down boom boom boom um plus it won't reactivate your acrylic paints which is nice so after i did all that and let that uh dry and wipe and it dried pretty much instantly the naphtha did um i used KBS Diamond Coat, which is a product I'm unfamiliar with, but I understand the technology, working with Sherwin-Williams. It's a moisture-cure urethane. So some things to know about moisture-cure urethanes. Once you crack the lid, it's curing because the moisture in the air is already reacting with the product. So what you want to do is you want to crack it. You want to pour out what you're going to use as quickly as you can, being mindful of not getting anything in the rim of the paint can because it will weld that lid shut, basically. So make sure that's nice and clean, guys. So what did you roll this on with? Well, we'll get there. So I poured it off into a little cup. My first coat, I used a xylene. I reduced it 30% to help it flow a little better, thin it out. And that way, it'll give you a really good base coat. It'll go into some of the smaller depressions, get in areas like, say, between inserts or wherever, or if the inserts are cupped. It's just going to flow out and level out a lot better when you thin that first coat. So I did 30% with xylene in the KVS Diamond Coat. And then I rolled it with a – so I worked for Sherwin-Williams, big surprise, but I used – there's a product there, a foam roller that I love. I love, love, love. It's called a Flock Foam Roller. it's different than your standard black foam roller because you can't press down on it really it's like a very smooth it's got it's almost like a foam a hard foam that has like a fuzz to it so it really lays down clear coats and paints really really smoothly kind of like a mohair roller if you're familiar with the term but um with the the the foam roller it's kind of big and it's it's just a nice size that you get a really good coverage with it. You're not dipping it in the clear coat as much, and you get a really, really nice even coat. And I don't like the black foam just because I always end up pressing too hard, and when you press too hard, rolling with a black foam roller, you can create air bubbles because you're inserting basically air into the coating as you press down. So, flock foam is what I like to do at Sherwin-Williams. So, basically rolled it out. Now, I could not, and I was laughing with Drew. Funny enough, I could not remove one of the flippers. I tried my best, and I just could not do it. I think we're going to have to replace the whole flipper. So I had to roll around the flipper and then brush underneath it. I'm not ashamed. I'm not ashamed about it. But everything else I removed off the play field completely, switches, all that stuff. I did leave the, you know, where the bulbs plug into, the sockets, all those. I did leave those that are kind of recessed underneath the play field. I left those, but what I did was I took painter's tape, plugged up every one of them, made sure they were nice and secure, and then we were good to go, baby. We rolled. So I rolled that first coat on with the 30% xylene. Went really easy. And then I brushed around the flipper, and there were some other tight spots that I brushed. Worked really well. Smelt worse than I thought. so definitely put some ventilation, open up some windows. You do that down here or do you do that upstairs? I did it right there, baby. Okay, we're in the basement and he's opening some windows. My wife was pissed. Oh, because the whole house stunk? Well, you know, I don't smell it as much because I work with chemical coatings so I didn't smell it. So no, I didn't open up windows. I didn't do anything. I wasn't high or anything. I was just like, I smelled a little bit but I didn't think it was much and then my wife walks in and she's like, what were you doing? Oh, shit. Yeah, all right, here we go, you know. So anyway, ventilation. Use ventilation. Use ventilation, kids. So anyway, after that was down, and I let it cure for 24 hours, let it dry up. Touched it, made sure it wasn't tacky at all. It wasn't. I could see there were some spots where the wood grain did raise. so you can always tell like when you put that first coat guys down and all of a sudden you see like areas on the play field where it looks like you missed the spot you didn't miss the spot you know it's just wood grain it's the way it leveled out all of a sudden things will separate a bit and uh you really want to seal up that wood that's why you want to reduce that first coat so I was like I missed all these spots I was like oh no this is the damn wood grain raising a little bit. So no problem. That's why you do a second coat, even a third coat if you really want to. But I'm going to do two. I did two coats with it, and I'm pretty happy with it. But in between the coats, all I did was I sanded with a 220-grit sandpaper, scuffed it up, wiped it down with a tack cloth. It looks like shit when you do that. It did. I almost panicked a little bit because it was all scratched up. There's nothing worse. It was cloudy, and I was like, because I've done woodwork, and I've worked with a lot of polyurethanes and polycrylics and stuff, and I've never had it where you sand it, and it, like, really looks cloudy, like you can't see anything on the play field. I was like, oh, I think I just fucked this up, you know, but take deep breaths. It's okay. I was just like, I'm just going to clear coat over this and see what happens. Science. Wiped it down with that tack cloth, made sure it was nice and clean, and then sure as shit did the second coat, and it came out beautiful. Now, I'm not 100% done yet. I do want to wet sand because there are some rough areas where, I don't know why it happens, but either a bubble formed or something. I don't know. It just needs to be smoothed out a little bit, but for the most part, it's about 90% super smooth and then you have some areas. When we got this thing, it was a 6 out of 10 or 7 out of 10. You know, the play field, like, all the art was there. You know, there wasn't anything missing. There weren't chunks missing, anything like that. Now that he's spent all the time on it, you know, it's a 9 out of 10. I mean, we could nitpick about a couple things, like perfection, but I think for the average person that's going to see this, they're going to be like, wow, is that a new play field? Oh, yeah. That's definitely a 9 out of 10. Because there are, you know, like when CPR does their bronze, silver, and gold, You know, this would be a silver play field. I'd even go bronze. Okay. I'm a modest man. It's good, and it really looks new. It honestly does, minus the one flipper that's still there. Well, I was happy with the touch-up work. Yeah, it looks really, really good. Touch-up is 100% patience, and I was losing patience there for a little bit because there was a lot of paint missing, especially around the tops. but it's got to work. Because, you know, you could sit there with a brush all day long and be like, this isn't as bright as I want it to be, or this isn't as colorful as I want it to be. I went through, you know, my stars when I did that, it was like, you know, I went through seven, eight different types of yellow until I got it. No, it's not perfect, but it looks, Ian and I are kind of saying, if it looks better. Yeah. I'm not doing damage. Yeah. We're making this thing look better. I was like, at the end of the day, it's the fucking laser work. The powder coat? Ian showed me the powder coat. Oh, my God. We're going to have to put close-up pictures of this. The powder coat came back. Oh, my God. It looks like a brand-new machine. So we did the armor, the lockdown bar. These little metal flakes. And the legs in red with the metal flake. It looks so beautiful. The guide rails and the brackets the spinners are sitting on are a bright metallic blue, and it's... Kaneda, are you listening? You might put this in your house. This is the most... It's the most ridiculous, overkill podcast. Oh, it's... We're not even going to talk about what we paid for it, but... I mean, I know the guy was going to cut me a deal. Sure, sure. Because I know him, but the whole thing was... Yeah. When I went in there with the two colors I had kind of matched up, these were the two colors that I thought nailed it. He had all these color chips and stuff. I was like, I want that color and I want this color. I think I picked out the two most expensive three-coat system powder coat. Here's our new plan. I don't care. We are bringing this thing to Expo, right? We can say that now. If Expo goes on this thing coming to Expo because you would be I saw this powder coat I knew this thing was going to look good He brought out the wire form and it this flaky blue awesome goodness And then you got this contrasting, like, red, shiny, you know, outside rails and legs. Oh, I can't wait for you guys to see this thing. I'm so excited. And this is the guy down in Racine that did this? Yeah. Yeah, he did a good job. He's a local guy. I'm going to be talking about my firepower here in a little bit. I'm bringing the firepower stuff to him soon because this lockdown bar, it looks brand new, and it just looks amazing, and it was just a regular standard, you know, bullshit lockdown bar. He should be doing some work for the doctor dude, too, when I get up there. Oh, there you go. Just bring him your stuff. You want to give him a shout-out? What's his name? What's this guy's name? Yeah, hold on. For all the Wisconsin peeps. Give me a second here. Let me look up the address. He's going to be taking the Dr. Dude back to the 90s glory of, like, pink and lime, like crazy. Or that orange color, orange and lime. It's going to be all kinds of wrong. I'm excited. That's what I'm doing with firepower and meteor. I'm just going nuts. All right, so this guy is located in the Racine-Kenosha border, essentially. His name is Dustin. Super cool guy. And Kim, who you'll probably work with more there. but it's called Mirror Image Coating and their phone number is 262-945-2791 I've known Dustin now for about three years I've been to his shop when he first started he started off at a big powder coater huge factory and he was noticing how many people would come in and want rims powder coated or a bicycle frame powder coated and this big company would be like no it's too small It's too small. It's too small. And all of a sudden, Dustin was like, well, someone's got to do this. I'm going to do it. And then he opened up this little shop, and it was a shithole shop when I first walked in. And now, you know, when I went in to drop this stuff off, I was like, my jaw hit the floor. Like, he had it all nicely remodeled. It's fucking cool in there. It's just cool. It's just like a cool way to work. He has more work than he knows what to do with. Oh, he's making a ton of money. That's awesome. Yeah, he's got shirts that say, got powder. Oh, I love it. Why not? I know. He's doing great. I mean, he had stuff just lined up, powder-coated, like, beautiful rims and pieces for cars. And, yeah, dude. And he's like, he's done a few pinball machines, but not a lot. So I was like, I'll get your name out there, bud. But, yeah, his name is Dustin. Good dude. Good dude. I'm excited. He does it all, and he does it right. He was telling me the process with these. Oh, man. It looks so good. It wasn't just a one-coat thing. I think the blue was a three-coat process to get that metallic flake. It looks so good, man. And then the fleck on the red is the lockdown. So good. So good. All right, we'll move on. Let's leave it. We've got to assemble this fucker eventually. Yep. Pop bumpers are looking good, too. I've got to show you the pops, too, Drew, but we'll do that later. We'll get to it. We'll get to it. All right. I'm done. I'm done. I'm going to break here. Have you done those yet? What's that? Have you done pop bumpers yet? Well, this will be my first time kind of redoing them. Yeah. So we've got the... I haven't taken them apart and done them yet. They look scary to me. I'll do them eventually, but, you know, you're like, oh. The body is easy. Everything is easy except for, well, we're switching the original. The skirts, right? Oh, yeah, the skirts are easy. Everything about it is easy. The physical part, it's the bulb inside. So we're switching from the traditional bayonet to a wedge. To a wedge. A wedge, okay, yeah. Because what we want to do is, because we're doing a clear housing for all the pops, with a black skirt around it, which will match the black on the play field, which is really nice. But we're going to put color changers in those three to make it look like kind of like laser reactors. Oh, cool. Yeah, it'll look sharp. It'll go with all of our... It'll be like a Scott Danesi-y light show. It'll go well with all of our rubbers are going to be translucent, so we're kind of working on all that. Just can't. All right. So did I answer all your questions, Martin, about the clear coat? Oh, yeah. Oh, so much. I actually use that roller for my arcade stuff. Oh, nice. Whenever I do the arcade black, I always use that really nice hard foam. Yeah. Yeah, it works really well. The same way you're talking about it because it makes it look perfect when you're doing them. Yeah, and then to finish up my clear coat, I'm going to wet sand. I'm going to get as high a grit as I can get, and then I'm just going to wet sand some of the little bumps down. I don't know if I mentioned that, but then I'm going to call it. Then I'm going to call it. It's done. Done. Then it's time to assemble. Avengers Assemble? I want to play this thing. I know. It's going to be awesome. I'm excited. I can't wait. It's like sitting next to the beautiful white water. So that's Laserwood. I'm done. Or that's Laser War. I'm done talking for a bit. You got to talk. All right. Meteor. I bought a couple of new boards. I bought the new MPU. I've been working on. How much did that cost? $150. I'm always curious because I had to buy that MPU for space and I was like, man, shit's expensive, but it works really well. Yeah, about $150. The solenoid board I've been working on and working with Dave Jeff Brenner, he's been helping me. So then I got this bright idea because I had that STARS, right? The STARS was working 100% fine. And STARS is the same, you know, same boards pretty much as the Meteor. So I was like, all right, I'm going to take this Starz solenoid board and put it in the meteor. Well, I put it in there. Nothing happened. And I was like, wah, wah. No fire, though, right? No, no fire. So you're good there. No fire, no fire. So I've actually. You've got to look at the bright side of things. Well, here's the thing. I repinned a bunch of connectors. So I'm getting good at this stuff now. like, you know, I'm learning, and I repin some of these connectors, and that's cool, and I put this board in there, and I get nothing, and then I'm like, all right, I'm going to put it back in the stars, and I put it back in the stars, and I get nothing, I'm like, oh, fuck, did I fuck up this board, like, what's going on here, so I call Dave, and he's like, yeah, check these three connectors, there's like a ground and a power and whatever, I'm like, all right, so, so the, the meteor board that I originally got with the game, it was sort of working I could get all the coils to pop on it but just having these miscellaneous issues and most of it is connector stuff that's what everyone says they're like hey you gotta repin all these connectors I'm like alright so I went through and I repinned almost all of them and now I have the attract mode on when I bought this thing it was like dead nothing but you have attract mode I get in there I get attract mode I played a couple games with no sound. I had these different things going on. So I'm just repinning all these connectors. I'm getting there. But I'm getting frustrated and lazy. So then I was like, fuck it. I'm buying a cello knife for it. There you go. Because I was like, you know what? I have two games now that I can use it. So whatever, right? So that's coming. That'll be here soon. But the big thing now is the firepower. because every time I fire up Firepower, and Firepower works 100%. Yep. Every time I play that game, I'm like, wow, this game's really cool, right? The sounds are cool. The shots are cool. It's a fun game. So that one, I'm ready to just tear it apart like laser war and just restore it. So last night, I was drinking a little bit. I'm surprised. Everyone put on their shock face. That's a good story start here. What did you do? And I bought, I finally broke down and bought the hard top for it. Oh, okay. So that's a good drunk story. Yes, yes. You didn't break anything. No, no, no. I didn't break anything. So I got drunk and I couldn't even rock. So the hard top is on its way. I'm going to hard top this thing. I'm going to powder coat it with our boy Dustin. Okay. Here's the thing. I'm going to do the coin door. I'm going to do the legs. Check it out. It's going to be all red. Red coin door. Red legs, red lockdown bar, right? It's firepower. Yep. Red and yellow. Then I found these cool, like, neon light ropes. I'm going to. No. Yes. Don't do it. I'm not. Don't do it. No. There's more. Rope lights are for. They're not rope lights. Rope lights are for really, really bad liquor stores and. Hang on. There's more. I'm like. Bad convenience stores. There's bad liquor stores? Yeah. Hang on. There's more. So. So... Martin, you get me, man. So here's the thing. I'm learning. I'm doing a lot of reading and research on how to add music and sound effects to old Solid State games. Whoa. Okay? That's cool. They sell these adapter boards. They're kind of like Raspberry Pis, if anyone knows what that is, the little computer boards. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Essentially the same thing. But you can just add another switch kind of next to your original switch. and when that switch goes off, guess what happens? You can have music. You can have different sound effects. So I'm going to make this thing. I'm putting a brand new woofer in there. I'm putting brand new speakers in there. This thing is going to be off the hook just crazy. Firepower is going to be like wicked. I can't wait. What's the name of that board that you talked about? It's called FunSpark.com, and they make a MP3 trigger and a wave trigger, you know, for the different. The wave trigger is the newer one. But basically, no, it's just a real simple circuit board, and you can wire up switches to it. But, you know, that part I've gotten really good at. Oh, yeah, because it's so simple, like Raspberry Pis or nothing. Yeah, it's literally like, you know, you wire two wires to the switch, and then you put that switch wherever you want. You just kind of hook up another leaf switch so when the one goes, it pushes down the other one, and guess what? You have music now in your solid state pen. Right? How cool is that? I am super excited about that. With the crazy powder coat and everything else, I'm ready. The hard top, I'm just pumped. I'm excited for you. Firepower. After all the work I just put into this fucking laser war, I wish there was a hard top. No. It would have paid me 30 cents, man. The hard top, guess what they just issued hard tops for, the two new ones? it was Pinbot, which is whatever. Swords of Fury. Yeah. Yep. So I've wanted a Swords of Fury. Everyone knows that. I'm going to buy the biggest piece of shit Swords of Fury I can find for the cheapest. I'm going to do the hard top treatment to that, too. I'm going to learn on firepower. I'm getting me a Swords of Fury. Well, Swords of Fury is just a fantastic game. Oh, it's awesome. Martin, you alive, man? There was a Swords of Fury. There's a Swords of Fury directly across from where Christopher Franchi was sitting at Freeplay Florida of this year because I would sit there and play and I'd hear him talking to that dude from the Munsters. Oh, I remember that. I remember that guy. Then he sat directly across from it and I heard one of his shows he was talking about wanting one. I guarantee he was going over and playing and he was like, I need this game. Oh, yeah. He said he needs it? Yeah, he loves that game. Oh, it's an awesome game. It is a really... We played it at MGC last year. The only kind of downfall in that is those two spinners, you know, they have those two spinners kind of in the upper third on the left side. There's like a little horseshoe and there are two spinners. They literally don't do much in the game. You get a few points, but that's it. They're not part of the game. But other than that. I don't give a shit. There you go. No, I don't either. It's a great game. It really is. So I'm excited. So what's the difference? What is a hard top? A hard top is. Isn't that like where it's already pre-printed? Yes. And then you just kind of put it down? It's a pre-printed, it's not acrylic. It's like a tough vinyl. Yeah, I can't remember what it's, you know, it's not a vinyl sticker. It's actually on like, it's like a plastic, I'm just going to call it a plastic. It's really not. But yeah, it's pre-printed. It has the insert like printing on it. You use, then the inserts are clear with the printing. So you use your original inserts. You basically sand down the play field. you do a little clear over the inserts and then you lay this thing down yeah i've seen okay because i've seen people stripping it down to the white and then that's what they're drawing okay and here's what i thought it was but i've never seen one in real life where i go there it is and there's two methods i'm obviously using the easier method because that's who i am but like you know vid vid has this thing where he like stands down the entire play field and then clears the entire play field, but on their site, they have a lot of guys who have just, you kind of sand around the inserts, and then you spray, you just kind of get one of those spray cans of clear, and you kind of, you know, because the ball isn't actually touching that stuff. So you sand it down flat, then you spray over the inserts, and then you lay this thing over that. I will say this about Vid, though. The Vid is, he does things to like, the fucking ninth degree, tenth degree. He is hardcore. I agree. And super collector stuff. Yeah, and you know what, though? Yeah. Because I watch. The world's greatest one of these things, this dude made it. And you're like, okay, yeah, he did. Yeah, he's a super restorer. And if you can do freaking 80% of what he can do, like what I was trying to do with this clear coat, I'm like, that's a hell of a lot better than if I didn't have him at all. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, because here's the difference. 80% of me mimicking Vid versus 100% Ian on his own. Yeah. No, absolutely. I love you, dude. Thank you so much. We need to get him out of the show. I watched the video of TNT Amusements. They were doing a Comets hardtop. I saw that one. They didn't even take the play field entirely out. They just kind of slid it out. They did the work, and then they kind of laid this thing down while it was, like, in the cabinet. TNT, baby. Correct. So me, you know, with the firepower, I'm going to take this whole thing out. Kind of like Ian, I'm going to take off the top part, and then I'm going to prep it and do the top. But, you know, so it's kind of, yeah, whatever you're comfortable with. And at the end of the day, it's way better than an original play field. Oh, yeah. Sounds awesome. Drew, I'm going to show you this pop bumper real quick. So just can you see from over there? I can see. All right, hold on. Hold on one second. All right, here we go. This took a weird turn. Can I show you? Look at that. Oh, my God. That actually looks really good. Yeah, that's going to look great. When it has an RGB light flying around in there? Yeah. Yeah. We're going to get so much pussy with this pop bumper. That's what I'd say in front of my wife, and she goes, what are you talking about? Pop bumper pussy. Pop bumper pussy. All right, I'm done. I love it. I love it. That's the first time any of those have been used in the same sentence. Yeah. That's weird. It's like you've created history today. There we go. I feel like we did something new there. We did. We did. That was almost as good as me calling Ryan Kuiper at 8 o'clock, 8.30. Hey, man, do you know what's the best game? Is it Beetlejuice or Labyrinth? He's like, wow, that's weird. Yeah, that was weird. All right. Well, let me finish up my poor man's podcast, Personal Pinball News. I thought you were done, man. I'm sorry. It's so much. That's me here. That's firepower. That's laser war. Jurassic Park. Last week, you told me I was a little tempered, right? You expected me to be like, oh, my God, drinking off all the Jurassic Park music in the background. That was kind of fun, right? It was. It was actually really good. I meant to tell you that. Here's the thing. So now I've had like a solid week, right, of playing this thing. Every morning I get up. I put my son off on his day program. I get him off with his transport. And then I make some coffee. Yeah. I make some coffee, I turn on the pinball machine, and I play some Jurassic Park. Cue some music, Ian. Okay, yeah, cue some music. Here's the deal. Jurassic Park may be the best Theron ever made. Here's why I say that. You know, I traded Metallica for The Hobbit, and The Hobbit was fun. I was like, yeah, but you know what? I really like Metallica. Then I traded The Hobbit for Alice Cooper, and I was like, Alice Cooper is really fun. It's a great game. I still kind of miss Metallica. Then I sell Alice Cooper, and I buy me a Jurassic Park. I don't miss Metallica. Fuck you, Metallica. No, I'm serious. Wow. Let's go. Metallica is still one of my favorite games. That'll probably never change, obviously, because it's just something I like. But, yeah, I don't even think about it. Like, I've been worried about Metallica. Like, oh, I want one back, I want one back. And I still want one back. But Jurassic Park, is that good? I know I'm in the honeymoon phase, I get that. But the shots, the rules, the deepness of it. Today I was playing for trying to get through the park, you know, because you go to the different paddocks. I didn't give a shit about the score. That's rare for me in a game. I'm a big score guy. Like, oh, I need to get the highest score. In this game, I'm like, you know what? I just want to go through the paddocks. I want to see what this is all about. I'm proud of you, Drew. Just fun, man. Just fun shit. It's just awesome. That's so cool. So having that kind of a game where you're like, man, this is it. Yes, that's exactly it because almost every game I've ever had, it was like high score, high score, high score. How do I get a higher score? Sure, I want to know how to get a higher score in Jurassic Park, but I don't give a shit if I don't. Yeah, it's an experience at that point. Yes, yes. It's a pinball experience. I put in the headphones kit and the subwoofer kit. My wife hates both because with the headphone kit, she's like yelling at me and I can't hear her. And then with the subwoofer kit, I can't hear her. You're like, that's the point. It works both ways, I guess. I feel like it pays for itself. It does. So I put this thing in. So the Pinnovators, shout out to Pinnovators, they got the cool thing. It's a mute button. So I put in the Pinnovators kit. it's got your wife or for the game so you know i hit i hit the mute button and i got my headphones in and it sounds awesome but then when like i said in the morning when it's just me i fucking crank that fucker up that jurassic park roars and like people are calling the cops they're like there's a fucking dinosaur in your house and i'm like yep there sure is it's in my pants yeah There's a dinosaur in my pants. True a-stories. True a-stories. I love it. Oh, it's awesome. Oh, shit. So, anyways. Sorry. It's really great. This is the last. This is absolutely the last Flip N Out Pinball show. If you're looking for a new pinball machine or an Escalera stair climbing hand truck, call Zach, 812-457-9711. Flip N Out Pinball. Zach, thank you so much. The game's great. A couple tweaks. I still got to tweak the shooter lane. I had to mess with, I hate to say this, I had to mess with, he calls him Sue, the T-Rex head. It was eating the ball, eating the ball, eating the ball, no problem. Then, like, yesterday, like, it missed a few balls. But you know what? It is what it is. It still moves. It still roars. I'm happy with it. You see, we got an email about the fix, the washer fix. I did, yes. That it worked. Yes, that one is a good one. That one's pretty easy because you can just, like I said, if you watch a slow motion video, it's pretty easy. It just kind of banks to the left and then it doesn't come around. So a couple of washers underneath that, that's no big deal. But the T-Rex thing bothers me a little bit, but I'll get that straightened out. Wow. What do you guys have there? Is it loosening up or something? Well, there's like sensors. So basically, you know, when you go on the test, there's like the vertical and the horizontal. and then, you know, we'll call her Sue. Sue opens her mouth, but, you know, she should only open her mouth, like, when she's right on the ramp. You know, there's just like these sections how it. Same as like an optical switch. Yeah, yeah, it's basically what it is. When the optical switches don't talk to each other right. Yeah, correct. So, you know, there's a little futzing with it, but you know what? At the end of the day, I'm happy with it. I got my Raptor Pit mod in there. That's looking pretty good. I got my subwoofer and my headphone kit that's looking real good so I'm excited man it's a great game anyone who's on the fence this Dino Adventureland or not Ian this is one of the best integrations it's really good it's a good Dino Adventure I believe it is actually I do like the game I don't know I feel like you think I hate this game. Well, you hate all Stern games. That's really the thing. You're a Stern hater. And I'm a Stern lover. That's sad. Regardless. All right. Well, fuck them and their three pop-up. Ready? Real quick. Real quick. Four games. Ghostbusters. Love it or hate it? Hate it. Game of Thrones. Love it. Okay. Metallica. Love it. Really? It's okay. Yeah, yeah. It's a good thing you don't love it. I don't hate it, though. I appreciate that game. Okay. Deadpool. Love it. Okay. That's not bad. I also love Lord of the Rings. I love The Simpsons. I love Batman 66. That's a good game. Elvira. Fucking love Elvira. Love Elvira. Hate. Hate. Here's the hate lyrics. Okay. Here we go. I'm ready. I fucking hate Black Knight Sword of Rage. I don't care what you guys say. There's nothing in that game. The animations? They screwed you over. You don't play the animations, bro. No, no, I understand that. But no, the animations are good, though. Yeah, I'm over the animations. But I'm with you, yeah. I don't like... All right, I'm not even going to get into this. You know, the problem is I start hating on people's games. These are people's prides and joys, and that's not why we do this podcast. No, no, but I was just curious. We'll leave it up to Kaneda to piss people off. I don't want to be that guy. Well, all right. Should we get into some news? There's a lot. Hey, Martin, do you have any personal pinball news, my man? No. I just started doing some bumper or the flipper rebuild kits for my Dr. Dude. I got the kit, and I looked at it, and I said, I'm going to wait until I feel a little bit better to do this because of the whole de-soldering shit and, you know, the whole works. Yeah, yeah. Where did you get the kit from? Oh, it was kind of cool. I had an old mame cabinet, and I traded out the local dealer. I traded him a flipper kit and a new fresh glass for the Dr. Dude for this old mame cabinet that I wasn't using. Wow. So it was win-win. I have an old cabinet I'm not using. Can I get a sheet of glass and a flipper kit? I just paid $50 for a Meteor flipper kit. Jesus Christ. Oh. Shit's expensive. When you look at the parts on that, I watched the guy restore it. I watched the YouTube thing. And I was like, it's within my means, but I just, you know, the first time you do something, you're like, I know I'm going to screw something up. What is it going to be? So I'm just going to take my time and do it, though. I'm excited about it. That Dr. Dude's really pulling in together, like, tight and right. It's getting good. I love the fact that you're putting some money into Dr. Dude. I was just about to say, I love the fact that you're Dr. Dude-ment. Yeah. I love the game. I don't know. I play it so much, I laugh and smile every time I play that game. I don't know. See, and that's what it's all about. You know what? We need more of that in the world. Fuck yeah, we do. You guys are going to love it when you come over. Perfect. I can't wait until you move here, man. Seriously. I know. When's the move-in date? Do you have a date in mind? No, I don't know. Our time period this year? I'm going to be at the house tomorrow. That's going to be this year. We have products. When you said that, I was like, oh, that's what they said they were going to use. Ah, beautiful. And so I'm paying some dude for that. And then we've got to put in a couple floors. I mean, Martin, we're going to... I'm still hoping to like April or May, but, you know. We're going to have a big old bro hug when we meet, right? Oh, dude, yeah. Okay. With tons of Leinenkugel and rum and goodness. Wait, are you saying you need Leinenkugel and rum to hug me? Drew wants to kiss you. Drew's a kisser if we've learned anything. I like affection. What can I say? I'm sure the kegerator will make everything happier, you know? It already does. Yeah. You got that right. I was trying to name my daughter Kegurator. My wife said no. She vetoed that idea. She said, should we call her as, like, the first thing that came to my head was Kegurator. Oh, my God. Sure, King. Fine, we'll stick with Kessler's. Yeah. Kessler's was her middle name. All right. Should we move on to some news here? It doesn't matter already. We're at an hour. I love it. You know what? Every time I want to move on now, I find this the last several weeks, Ian's like, we're already at, like, an hour. It doesn't matter anymore. Yeah, here we are. This show is what it is. Life is a blur. This show is as organic as they come. Yep. That's why I love it. Email us at poormanspinball at gmail.com if you think it should be shorter or longer. I don't care. That's what she said. I don't care. It's organic. You should charge twice as much for it. Yeah. It's a pinball show, and we're talking about pinball. Yeah, we are. As long or as short as we need it to be. We charge them twice as much as zero for the podcast. Yeah, exactly. we've said them ten times the price is zero send all your refunds to thepoormanspinballpodcast at gmail.com thepoormanspinball at gmail.com so we got some news let's do this shit so Rick and Morty all that adjustment talk what do we think about that do you think you think that stuff should be adjusted are you talking about our boy Chris yeah well no just in general do you think that stuff should be adjusted at the factory are they going to make those adjustments did you listen to Canadian stuff hey Martin Did you listen to Kaneda's stuff over the weekend? No, I heard a little bit about it. I heard a little bit about the retort from the dude. Yeah, it was. Let's get into that because I think people should listen to that. It's kind of interesting. Very good stuff. Excuse me. So Kaneda opened up with a podcast. Oh, my God. We killed it. We killed the bottle. We're just looking at a whole bottle of Sovox. Whoa. No, no, no. There's like one and a half glasses left, and this just got opened. We killed it. So anyway Kaneda That a boxer Yeah it happened So Kaneda he had a podcast about his review He played two hours over at Jack Bar in New York With his gloves on and his wife. With his gloves on. You know, God help him if he used sanitizer. He needed gloves. Whatever. He had no socks on. No socks. Black ass gloves to make sure that no... Those buttons... He didn't put condoms on his feet. bro they're just two buttons man what are you doing why do you need gloves on for that it really bothered me he had gloves on you don't even know how much it bothered me that he had gloves on i i wish it was those leather ones from the 90s it was leather driving gloves it would have been better it would have been better he had like the black one you always see in like barbecue videos real quick this is just a quick side note because it made it look creepier for some reason Earlier in the week, Chris put up a post, which he deleted. Did you see that? Yeah, the one with the Louis XIII or whatever. He put all his money out for Rick and Morty, all these $100 bills. It was like $8,000 or whatever. Fine, he's buying Rick and Morty. Yeah, he had the Louis XIII cognac. Remy, what is that? Remy Martin, right? No, it's Louis. Oh, is that? I thought they were kind of... No, Louis. Okay. I can tell you the history. I'm not going to get into that. We're not going to get into that. It's fucking Friday. But anyways, so he had the Louis XIII. Yeah, Louis XIII. It's like a $4,000 bottle of cognac, basically. And then he had his keys for his Dodge Demon on top of it. So here's what I think happened, and I'll tell you two quick stories here. So I think his wife probably told him to took it down because he got a lot of heat for it, and people douchebag this and douchebag that and whatever. And I'm not even here to comment on what I think about it because here's what I wanted to do because I thought it was funny because this is me. I'm just like, this is hilarious. So I see this post of this money and the cognac, and then I go into my pinball room and I have a little drink station, right? And at that particular time, I had one of those plastic bottles of Jack. That was like, you know, one of those. My wife and I went on vacation, so I bought. I know where you're going with this. So this is what I did. So I took a few quarters out of my bucket, and I threw them on the table with my Prius keys. So I had my Prius keys for my Prius, and I still have the picture, and the quarters, and like a half bottle of this like plastic Jack Daniels, right? Cost me like $6.99 or whatever. So I thought it would be great if I could grab a screenshot and do a side-by-side and be like, this is how Canada does it, this is how Portman does it, right? because that would be funny, right? And that was it. You be the judge. Yeah. There was no judgment. There was no commentary. It was just funny. Chris is a friend. Yeah, correct. It's all good. So it's just funny. It's all in good... But then I go to find the picture, and it's gone. Yeah, he was getting the heat. Yeah. So it was the lead, and I was... Well, Jason Fowler is, like, holier than thou now. He's, like, father preacher. Yeah, and I was like... Jason Fowler, get a podcast. True. Or keep it to yourself. So I was like, we're laughing about this now. I'd say it to his face. I know, I know. How funny would that have been, though? The Louis XIII versus the Jack Daniels and the Quarters. I mean, that would have just been great, right? I think you should still post that. Okay. Well, I don't have the original picture. All right. You can post yours. All right. That's so funny. Everyone knows. No, exactly. It was great because I'm just like, and I'm laughing to my wife. She's like, what are you giggling about? And I'm like, oh, my God, this is so funny. I could contain myself. Really clever. Yeah. I'm like, this is poor man's stuff. This is great. Like, here's my pinball room. This is what I do. Jack Daniels and quarters. Exactly. Well, you know, and a side note to what we were originally talking about, like how do you feel about the adjustments? I mean, I know listening to Chris for a few years now over at Canada's Pinball Podcast, and I do like the podcast for what it is. But Chris definitely is one of those guys, though. He has no problem. And I feel like, and I kind of understand what his reasoning is, but he's one of those guys where it's like he doesn't want to lift that play field. He doesn't want to look under there. That's not what he does. He'd rather pay, and there's nothing wrong with that. He'd rather pay to make sure that that thing's bulletproof. Yeah, I'd pay for that. Sure, sure. And I get that. I totally understand that. No. Whereas you talk about Jurassic Park having to fix Sue, there is a little bit of joy in your face. When you talk about it. I enjoy that stuff, yeah. We enjoy that. I like tinkering with it. That's a little bit of a difference between our podcasts. Yeah, this is the wrong hobby for that, though. Well, right. You can buy 100 brand new machines, and you're going to have to fix every one of them within a couple months. Well, Zach made that point. He said, you know, Zach's opened up, he said, five or six new in-box in the last few months, and every single one he had to make adjustments to, which... Oh, yeah. I'll say, you know, I've... Here. I'm the cocky Kaneda. Oh, don't be a dick. No, no, no. We love you, Chris. No, I do love you, Chris. No, this is me personally. I have opened up four or five new in-box machines. Yeah. I had to make some adjustments to Alice Cooper. Yep. Metallica was pretty good out of the box. Iron Maiden was pretty good out of the box. Stern does do a better job, I'll admit that. He's less than those games, though. Correct. No, absolutely. No, that was the point I was making. Not so much Metallica, though. There's a bunch of Metallica, so that's pretty good. But they've been making that game for 10 years. No, no, correct. That's probably why they had that thing dialed in. So, Hobbit I had issues with. It was a show game, but it was almost new. Can we just talk about that for a second? Yeah. Because that had a lot of issues. That's what I'm saying. And then our buddy Eric, who has it, Willy Wonka has issues with his. What is he having with his? He can't turn his machine off. Oh, yeah. Every time he turns it off and turns it on, there's like an error message. Yeah. So once he turns it off and on and it's like, it's okay. Like you have to take. He bought a used Wonka Alley. You have to keep turning it off and on. Ooh. And it keeps erring, erring, erring. And then once in a while it'll open up and it'll be like, okay, it's on. And he, like, he doesn't turn it off now because he's worried. Martin, wait for this. $8,500. Oh, my ulcers. No. No, but that's the thing because, you know, so to Canadian's credit, like I said, no, Jurassic Park, you know, it's almost perfect. Yes, I have a few things I have to adjust. And like I said, with Alice Cooper, I had to make a few adjustments. And Rick and Morty, if you get the game like that, you're going to have to make a few adjustments. Right. So, no, I get it. No, I think it's very valid. I'm okay with adjustments. Martin, what were you going to say, buddy? Oh, the one thing I never understood. I don't listen to Chris. I listened to him a little bit, and I was like, I can't take this guy. And that's fine. I just, whatever. It doesn't matter. Yeah, it doesn't. I could have swore for a million times. He was like, only an idiot would just buy a machine. Only a jerk would buy a machine without ever playing it and looking at it. Well, that's what he just did, didn't he? Because you can't buy a Rick and Morty without just saying, give me a machine. Yeah, a little hypocritical at times. No, he, well, I think, no, no. No, I'll give him that. No, no, no. I will say this. No, no, no. I'll defend Chris on this, and I get it. Chris, you're being defended. No, I understand him. I understand what he's talking about. He gets excited just like everybody gets excited in this hobby. That's a good point. You know what? He got caught up in the hype just like us. And he's a marketing guy, and he understands the hype, but he got it. He got hook, line, and sinker. He was into it. He was like, dude, no. This is it. The hype is real. He's like, I want to do this. And you know what? It is. I don't care. The guy gave Charlie over at Spooky money, and he's getting number 50, and God bless him for that. It's awesome helping out Charlie. But to your point, yeah, he's hypocritical to a fault, but it's also because he also is really excited about stuff. Like, he's excited about, you know, like, we're hypocritical, right? Like, there's times where we get really excited and then we get down on something. Yeah. Or we get really excited again. You know, like we were kind of down. I wouldn't say down down, but we were a little like we weren't that impressed with Elvira. And then it took us some time to play it, right? Elvira from the get-go was not impressed. But, yes, when I played it, I really really liked it. Same thing with Deadpool. Deadpool is another good example. You know, there's hypocrisy. Hypocrisy runs wild in this party. Hang on. I'm going to buy a Deadpool right now. No, it just does, though. And to Chris's point, Chris has freaking, what, 500 episodes up? I mean, the dude puts out three episodes a week. Yeah, he's going to be hypocritical more than most because he gets excited and he wants to talk about it. No more or no less than Orbital Albert, who is everyone's darling, which they don't get along, which is hilarious to me because I'm like, you guys are the same person in a way. In a way, Orbital. Albert, listen to me. That's an interesting take, but you're kind of right. You guys both get very, very excited. You guys are the first to put up a podcast, and you're the first one to go, all right, I might not have been right on this one. All right, so let's get this back on track. Soul Boxer is gone. We just cashed the Soul Boxer. That's true. Boxer. That's not where I was going with this. No, no, but look this up online, guys. the Soul Boxer brandy old-fashioned mix. It's the, what is that, leader? It's gone. It don't matter. It doesn't matter what it is. It's a follower now. It's about $20. It's huge. It is completely gone. And we just opened it up before this podcast. Look it up online. That's what we cashed. Drink it. Be happy. Save yourself some coronavirus. But it's so good, isn't it? It is good. We're talking faster. It's so good. When you were saying, oh, it's a little sweet in the beginning, like we've been drinking this now, it is so good. I can't taste it. I know. My teeth fell out. So, anyway. Anyways, Rick and Morty. So, Rick and Morty adjustments we're good with. What do you think about, all right, so anyway, going way back to the Canada stuff, so the first podcast was the review. Second podcast, Scott Danesi chimed in. hey, you need to adjust your machine. X's and O's are wrong. Third podcast, he went to Jack Bar again. No, third podcast, Jack Bar fixed them and talked about the fixes. Yep, yep. So, lo and behold, guys, if you are not a fan of Kaneda, which I understand there are a few out there, not too many, but there's a few, and you're getting a Rick and Morty, I still recommend you listen to those episodes because they will explain the fixes. It's about removing screws and not putting them back in. Because some of those weren't on pin side, and we were talking about some stuff that you should do or shouldn't do or don't want to do. It was easy stuff. It wasn't difficult. Super easy. Fix your game before they come. Charlie, we love you. And I'm sure they're going to adjust. They're probably going to start adjusting going forward. But if you have a Rick and Morty game, just make the adjustments and make it happen. I can't wait. Well, Ian is drunk over there. I can just see it. No, not at all. Martin, what were you going to say? I love that. Sorry. I can't wait to get down to Charlie's place. That's one of the first road trips I want to make. Okay. Are you going to let us know when you get here? Jesus Christ. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure. We'll all go over. He knows me. I've had some correspondence back and forth. I don't care about that. I care about hanging out with Martin. Number two. Road tripping, baby. Yes. Exactly. Exactly. All right. So, anyways, yep. Check out those episodes. There's three episodes. They're all like half a day apart because that's what Canada does because he doesn't work, apparently. Chris, we love you. But Jesus Christ, go back to work. Are you off because of the coronavirus? It's the coronavirus. You can't market right now. Jesus. Why don't you market Corona somehow? Get the Corona beer. What's going on with Haggis Pinball? Haggis Pinball. Nothing. Here's the thing. You know what? I didn't say this in the beginning. That's right. He was going to go to MGC. Damien, we love you. This is the truth. I'm being heartfelt again. I'm trying to as I'm really, really drunk now. In the beginning, I was just kind of drunk. Now I'm really drunk. Damien, we love you. We want you to come on our show. We'll be happy to have you on our show any day. Let's do that. Yes. I'll email him. Yeah, we'll get him on. Maybe next week, maybe the week after. We missed him. He was going to come to my house. They were going to hang out in the basement. I know. We had all things, and this whole thing kind of effed up everyone's plans. So many disappointments. So, Damien, all I want to say is we're looking forward to your launch. I know you're doing it online now, which is great. We wish you all the success in the world. Bummer, we couldn't play more Kelts with you because it's an awesome game. We played it. We loved it. This was fun. Yeah, we even talked about buying one. We might still do that. We're still kind of talking about it with the poor man's pinball. The pocketbook. I have what you're charging. Yeah. We're still going to work it out, though. Yeah. Well, we're poor men, but we'll be okay. But anyways, we... Three-way split, man. Oh, there you go. Oh, Martin. Martin's coming. Get in on this. All right. Damien, this may happen. Rotate. But no, I just want to say, like, Damien, I really like what you're doing. I know you guys, you wanted to show us your cool playfields at TPF, but, you know, obviously that's not happening, so we'll have to wait for your videos and see what you're doing, but we wish you success and want you to come on the show. That was awesome, Drew. Anything else? No, that was great. Okay. Damien, I'm going to be in contact. We'll get you on soon here, bud. Cool. American Pinball? Hot Wheels? Hot Wheels. That should just go into our top five, don't you think? Yep. That's the Zachariah 1979 pinball machine. Did you know that? There is literally a pinball machine from 1979 called Hot Wheels from Zachariah. Is it the Hot Wheels brand? It's just called Hot Wheels. No, it's a car brand. I have no idea. Okay. I know Zachariah is more Italian. Yeah, Zachariah. No, seriously. When I was doing some Googling, trying to do some research for today's show, I was like... Look at you're trying. Yeah, I know. I'm like, here, I'm trying to do some shit. And I'm like, are you serious? And they were like, yeah, they had the flyers and everything. So let's just go right into it. That's pretty interesting, Drew. I don't want to cut you off, but let's get into it because Drew and I are fading fast here. Ooh, that's the understatement of the year. We're a whole boxer bottle in. That's bad. And now it's time for everyone's favorite top five. Let's do a top five, Drew, of Hot Wheels. Okay. Pros and cons, regardless, whatever. Just initial impressions of what we think about Hot Wheels, the pinball machine from American Pinball. Okay. The latest game to be coming out. So it doesn't matter what it is. It's just our top five impressions, basically. Impressions. There you go. Whatever you feel in your gut. Martin, you good with that? Top five things to say. Yep. I like that. That's poor man's style. Top five things that are in your brain. Top five words about Hot Wheels. One, two, three, four, five. American pinball. Okay. I'll start off. You ready? Yeah, go for it. Number five. Number five. It reminds me a bit of The Getaway, which is a good thing. Really? Yeah. How so? Just kind of the layout. Don't say cars. No, not cars. No, the layout and stuff. It's a little bit like Getaway without the supercharger, but it's kind of similar. It's got the RPM, the cool inserts, which we'll talk about later, but yeah. Okay. So it reminds me a bit of Getaway. I've been playing that more in League, and guess what? I beat NHL in Getaway. That's crazy. I know. I beat my... Nemesis? Yeah, Nemesis. He is my Nemesis. Sheldon, I love you. He's a good Nemesis. because he's a good guy. Him and Jeremy asked me to come out the other day. I couldn't go out with them. Oh, that's a shame. They were at Cleveland Pub playing Jurassic Park. I would have loved that. But anyways, go ahead. Me? Yeah, number five. It's colorful. It is colorful. I liked the colors. It pops. Like, in your lineup, at home or on location, that shit will pop. I enjoyed the colors. I was very surprised when I saw it because I get it, the art package probably stock Hot Wheels art from, I guess there's a show that this is kind of based on. Yeah, they're kind of, it looks like the shark show. I don't know if it's called the shark show, but yeah. The dino show. The dino shark. The dino car show. The dino adventure land. Yeah, with cars. Anyway, it's very colorful. Yeah. It kind of pops. I kind of... Dig it? I enjoy the aesthetic of it. Better than Houdini? No. Okay. Better than Oktoberfest? No. But it's got its own thing. It's a different market now. Okay. Martin, what's your take? My first one would be it's a lot better than I thought it was going to be. Hey! Hey, that's positive. Yeah. I was like, this is my stock. And I look at it, I was like, maybe. I don't know. That's all. well played Martin well played I thought I was going to hate it you ready for number four then yes Drew go for it no orange trim and no orange tracker ramps is that a negative or a positive yeah it's a little disappointing really negative here's the thing if if I'm going to embrace this stuff. Is that an orange track, though? Yeah, I know, but just it needed like a... Yeah, it needed a loop-de-loop or it needed a... Right? Or even the orange trim. How many travel corks have you had like that? Even the... All of them. All of them. The T-molding should have been orange. That's just... It's an aesthetics thing. I don't know. More orange. Okay, interesting. I actually really like the translucent ramps, by the way. No, no, they're fine. I don't think they're terrible. I like the orange translucent ramp. I think that's a good nod to, or an homage to, the orange. Anyone expecting those tracks to hold a pinball is not going to happen. Oh, whatever. What's your number for it? Well, they didn't work for the cars. Why should they work for the pinball? Right. That's a good point. We got a room shot there. My number four is dinos? Question mark? Why the fuck are there dinosaurs on this thing? I know it's based on a show, but you're not selling Hot Wheels versus dinosaurs. I don't even know where the dinosaurs come in. I don't get the dinosaurs. What was that show? Remember that cartoon with dinosaur boats or dinosaur trucks? Do you know what I'm talking about? No. It was probably in the late 90s. You have to understand the whole situation here, guys. Drew's eyes are about as wide as, like, a penny on its side. Like, they're splits, and he's really, really focusing hard. Whoa. So what dinosaur show are you talking about, bud? There was a show or a group of toys or something from, like, the 90s or the early 2000s that was, wasn't there something called, like, Shark Cars or Shark Bait or Shark something? Do you know what I'm talking about? So my number four is dinos. What the fuck are they doing on there? Get them out of there. He just completely ignored me. Hot wheels is the theme. Get out of the dinosaur world. Thank you. All right. Martin, what do you got for number four? Number four. I'm going to buy this thing. Motherfucker. You're such an asshole, Ian. I tried to look it up while you were talking. I tried to buy it. It's okay, Martin. I hate Ian. He's my nemesis now. He's the person I hate the most in the world. You know it, Heather. Till tomorrow. It was. No, no, it was. It was before Monday night. It was Kaneda, and now it's Ian. Chris, I love you, Chris Polaris. But Ian. He's moved up to second most hated. Yeah, yeah. Chris, you moved to number two. Ian, you're number one, you fucking asshole. Jesus Christ. This is getting bad. let me find those sharknadoes alright Martin go for it number 4 sir number 4 at first I was like oh that's really cool how that car spins around in the middle and I was like wait why doesn't that car stop spinning around in the middle and I was like ok just stop it there's like this car that spins but it doesn't ever stop spinning and you're like you're making me dizzy it just goes over and over and over and it never stops I was with you man that's gotta be a mode hopefully that can be a thing that you can put If you like Hot Wheels, you go buy your own Hot Wheel, and it snaps in there, and then you have your own Hot Wheel on there. That's what that should be. Yeah, interesting. Confirmation. So, side topic, but kind of related to that. So, I think it was Kaneda. We spoke a lot about Kaneda today. But I think he was the one that said that this was originally Poker Run, and they rethemed it to Hot Wheels. Have you heard that? Everyone was like, what's a poker run? Well, poker run is such a bad theme, right? Yeah, it sure is. Yeah, but you put Hot Wheels in a poker run theme, then it makes kind of sense. It's like, all right, now we're kind of a little bit more mass appeal. But that car spinning around in a circle in a circle. I don't know what that's supposed to be about. What was that cartoon from the 90s? Oh, fuck off, dude. It was like fucking sharks. Drew, I'm ready to skip you. Do you have a number three? No, I do have a number three. All right. And it's okay. I can be mean to Drew, everybody out there. Don't email me. Sometimes he needs to be reined in. You guys see what I'm looking at right now? I just spit the coronavirus on him. Sorry. I've had it from him twice before. The RPM lights in the center. Yeah, number three. That's number three? The RPM lights in the center, a great use of the inserts. I love that. I love lots of cool inserts, and that's cool. Good. Once again, it's kind of back to the getaway. It's got those cool RPM inserts. That's neat. I agree with you 100%. Yeah, totally neat. All right. My number three is I still hate the theme. Sorry, American Pinball. I just – I will say this, though. I will say this 100%. I don't get it. I'm a 38-year-old man. I don't get it. I don't like it. I don't want to buy it. I will. However, because you've made this machine look so much fun, I will put some quarters in it on location. But I have a feeling like a lot of the younger generations are really going to, like, younger kids are going to love this game. And they're going to be begging all you dads out there to buy yourself a Hot Wheels. So I get it in that respect. And I won't judge anyone who buys this game at all. But for me, personally, I have a hard time thinking about owning it, but I'll drop some quarters in it. Does that make sense? Yes. All right. Thank you, Martin. You're still looking up that fucking show. There was a cartoon. It doesn't matter, Drew. Just move past it. All right. I'm moving past it. All right. Martin, your number three would be, I'm not too sure about that offset DMD in the back. Ah. Like, if you look at the... It's an LCD. Yeah, you're so old school, Mr. Doctor Dude. Wait, wait, wait, do not use your words. No, stop it, Drew. That's what I always say. He's such a jerk. Anyway, go ahead, Martin. So, if you're really kind of OCD about liking things all lined up, and then that one's over to the side... Well, that's not going to happen. Yeah, really? I don't know. But, I don't know. The back glass looks nice. So maybe that's why they did it like that. I don't know. Yeah. No, I agree with you 100%, Martin. I feel like it's, looking at it, it's clearly like an artistic thing, right? I mean, listen, if we're in the DMD era, or not even the DMD, but just the early solid states, those cores were all over the place. They were on the left. Yeah. Some were on the right. Some were in the center. some all on the left. Like, it was, they were kind of all over the place, and for whatever reason, that's cool. That's fine. But when you do an LCD screen off to the side, I know what they were trying to do, but... It is interesting, though, that they did that. It's... I'd have to play it. They should have turned it, like, 12 degrees to make, like, action, because then they could have had cars, like, flying around all over in the background. No. It would have made it look like... You're right. It was kind of weird that they just... really true no whatever you're not supposed to be number two where's that car show shark man face car dino car are you going to interrupt me and yawn no not happening shut up Drew you need to get your shit together here have some of this I've been drinking some of this It's Red Bull. Fuck you. It's Red Bull. Are you ready? You're out of control right now. Are you ready for number two? Martin, I'm sorry for that last one. That's okay. All right, Drew, number two. Number two. It's probably a fast, flowy shooter. It looks fast. It looks flowy That not much I like about it Yeah the video I saw of it it looks like that Whoever was playing they hit that right ramp which I think was the orange ramp if I not mistaken Is it orange? Well, there's an orange and a blue ramp, I'm pretty sure. But it looks flowy. They hit that one a bunch of times, and it looked fun. It looked fast. It dropped it back down to the flipper, and, yeah, they were hitting it pretty hard. Um, yeah, no, I'm with you, man. That, that, it does look, it doesn't look very, it doesn't look as clunky as, say, Oktoberfest. I love Oktoberfest. I think it's going to be a good shooter. I think it's going to be a good theme. I mean, you know, it's just a matter of people are going to buy it. But, yeah. All right, my number two is the same as Martin's number four, I think. It was the spinning car. I couldn't get over it. I, Martin, I'm with you 100%, man. I was getting dizzy. I was getting dizzy watching it. I was like, what's the point of this thing? What is it doing? Why are we doing this? Is this part of the code? I couldn't stop looking at it. I couldn't either. I hate to be that fucker driving that car. That looks like, do you remember that James Bond movie, what was it, Moonraker, right? When he's in that thing that's spinning around and around and around and around and around, and then he had to shoot it with that little wrist gun thing he had. But I was like, that's exactly how I felt looking at that. I was like, this is fucking Moonranker, 100%. So that's my number two. Totally. I think my number two is going to be, I think people that have routes are going to love this game. Yes. Because I think it's going to get them bank all day, every day. No, 100%. Like, this is the operator's dream. Yeah, no, I get it. You know, because it does look like it shoots. To your point, Drew, this thing looks like it shoots like crazy. Yeah. There's that one up the middle that looks clunky. The guy, I don't know, I was watching a video and they didn't hit it once. I was like, I don't know about that. But the other ones, they were all shooting them real nice. So I was like, oh, you know. I think it's. Yeah, no, it is because I agree with you because, you know, what a lot of the people are talking about is. Drew's. You guys okay over there? No, Drew's like ready to flip this fucking table. He's being a cocksucker right now. Edit, edit, edit. So, no, what I like about it is because it's colorful, because it shoots, and because younger guys are going to like this, you know, the number one reaction is it looks fun, right? And I would agree 100% that that actually equals the quarter drops. Like, I would seek this out on location 100%. So, to your point, yeah, I agree with you 100% that this should earn on location. Totally. Yeah. Ready for the number one? Yeah, number one. Number one. Ready for this? It's a licensed theme. It's a licensed theme. They did it. American Pinball finally fucking did it. Like, I don't want to be so dramatic about it, but they did it. You know, they had Houdini. Houdini was a good game. They had Oktoberfest. Oktoberfest is a good game They have Hot Wheels Hot Wheels is a good game It's licensed You know People don't It's What's that It's uh I was on to something there It's You know The other two games were great And they're fine but this game kind of takes them over that edge will more people buy it? I don't know oh yeah this will sell better than Oktoberfest 100% what do you think Martin? oh yeah it should sell better than the last two that's my thing I loved Oktoberfest I wish the art for Oktoberfest would have been more what it was Are you still buying October 15? In this day and age, they can't make them like that, I guess. Like the beer garden girls and the craziness and make it like, you know. I don't know. I mean, you can. It's tricky now, though. It really is because you think of like Elvira. She was able to do it because she's kind of selling herself. That's true, yeah. Right? Everyone's like, that's okay because she's okay with this. Powerful woman. Yeah. She's a powerful woman. She's like. She says, this is my sexuality. She's a powerful, sexy woman. I'm going to sell this. But if you just put a random, sexy woman on there, they're like, well, maybe not. You know what I mean? Yeah, you put a monkey grabbing somebody's butt and everyone goes nuts. No. You know what? It's kind of a joke, but it's kind of funny. And it's kind of true when you say that. It is what it is. So I don't know. Yeah. But this isn't that. This is Hot Wheels where it has none of that. And it's like, well. So congratulations, right? Yeah. No, I think American Pinball did okay with this. Yeah, they did. They definitely upped their game. They did okay. It's not the perfect theme. I mean, they should have picked something. Small steps. Yeah. No, absolutely. They should have picked something a little bigger, though, I think, in my opinion. It was a little bit playing it safe. Yeah, for sure. All right. So where are we at? Number one. Is it your number one? No, that was my number one. Your number one was they have a theme. All right. My number one. I hear they're shipping first week of April. That's what they're saying. Are they really? That's the rumor. So they're coming out. They're good. They say they're shipping now, baby. So. Do we believe that? I don't know. But you know how amazing that would be if they were actually able to ship this out and not have a year wait? Like Oktoberfest? That would be awesome. Apparently, their new facility, they've been building these things. So apparently they're ready. So that would be amazing. Very cool. Yeah, that would be amazing if they get these out on time. I mean, it's a shame that TPF was canceled because they'd be able to kind of really give it a good showing. I'm shocked. I'm a little shocked that there's not a professional video out yet of it. but for all intents and purposes, it's supposed to be shipping relatively quickly. Like, you were supposed to be able to pick up this machine at the show. Like, they had a bunch at the CPF. They have a bunch ready to go then. It's ready to go. So if that's true, American Pinball, big kudos to you. That's a huge undertaking, so congratulations. Martin, what's your number one? Yeah, my number one is going to be it's a great price. You're getting the first 500 get a free shaker motor, and I hope they succeed like crazy on this one and roll it into their next bigger one. Yeah, absolutely, 100%. The price isn't bad. It's not free, but it's a good price compared to what a lot of people are throwing out there. No, it's slightly more than a Stern Pro. That's that American pinball right in the sweet spot of Stern, right? You offer a little bit more, as far as money goes, you charge more than a pro, but you offer more features than a premium. You know, so you're in that little sweet underbelly of Stern where you can say, hey, you know, why would you pay for this premium when you can get all this cool stuff in our version? It is interesting that they're charging $69.95 or something. No, $62.95. $60 to $95. They're about $1,000 less than they were charging for Oktoberfest and Houdini. There's less in it. No, no. I understand that. It's refreshing to see that being reflected in the price. No, exactly. That's what's kind of interesting because it's literally $1,000 to $1,200 less than those other ones. When has Stern gone lower in their pro pricing? Never. Right. Exactly. You know, so American Pinball should be applauded for that. I called Zach at Flip N Out Pinball, and he's like, it'll be $10,000 for this Jurassic Park. And I was like, really? Not really. Good joke, bro. Did you write that down for later? No. For your dad jokes? No. No? But it is kind of crazy because what, no, no, seriously, what pinball company is charging less these days? Yeah. I mean, think about it. They're trying to make sure they have a sweet spot, and they're going to just roll this money into the next one, you know? I've been saying that for two years now with American Pinball. You get way more for the dollar. Sure, sure. October fest for $7,000 is a great deal. It doesn't make sense to me, if you're going to buy a pinball machine, why you wouldn't buy from American Pinball in the sense of you get more bang for your buck. You just do. This episode of 4-Minute Pinball Podcast. Yes, it was brought to you by American Pinball. The problem is, obviously, it's a theme. Not everybody wants an Oktoberfest. I do. I want an Oktoberfest. I would love it. You're the only one. So far, they're 2-0 for me. I will put this in a lost column for me personally. I don't care for the Hot Wheels theme. They're 2-1 in my book, but God bless them. They make good machines. They do. I like it. I dig it. I dig it. We'll see. I'm hoping when I play it, I'm like, wow, this is a pretty cool machine. Next up, we have last week's challenge. Last week's challenge, we had Pete Quint in, tribe member number 14. And the dude was absolute fun. Blast. Pete, we love you. We'll have you on anytime you want, man. It got crazy. It was fun. It was awesome. Yeah. You and Pete had a special connection. We got to get the four of us together. We could probably do okay. We'd do all right. We wouldn't podcast that, though. Hang on. Do you guys like Tribe Numbers or not? Email us, fourmanspinball at gmail.com. Let us know if you like Tribe Numbers on, because we're going to keep having them. I enjoy it. I love it. I love it. Number two, I love you like a brother. so anyway we had uh we had pete on and he had a a great charity on for the ronald mcdonald house they were trying to work with partnering or they're partnering with sorry choice of words project pinball and they're trying to get a pinball machine at the ronald mcdonald house of central ohio and drew as always drew got the feels i do he was like You know what? I'm matching any donation from tribe members 11 through 20. Up to 10 bucks. Up to 10 bucks. So, Drew, how did that go? It went great. So, Joseph Hood, Tim Lee, Chris Haper, Brian Thomas, Billy YJ all did $10, and Tim Lee did $20. And Steve Johnson did $100. $100! Whoa! So what I, Steve Johnson. We're not matching that, bro. Nope, you just made the rest of us look bad. Thanks, Steve Johnson. We love you. So what I did, Drew and Ian, what we did was we donated $100 to the Natural Street Band to match all these beautiful people who donated to the Natural Street Band. We're still waiting on a few. There is a slightly new challenge. It was kind of amended because there's one new tribe member, Troy. Swope. You were nominated last week. You're our new tribe member. Donate $10, we'll donate $10 more. So there you go. But we are going to keep going with this. So we have, what, five more tribe members that we haven't heard from. So we will reach out to them and hopefully donate another $50 if they want it. So there you go. That's a lot of freaking money. I'm confused. I thought you Your challenge was you would donate, you're already going to match $100, plus you're going to match an additional $10 for everybody's $10 pledge. Yes. Grand total of $300. Well, $100 from the, yes. Right. $100 from the tribe members. Yep. And $200 from us. Yes. and right now we're at 100 from us and like 50 from them. Well, we're not going to get them. So we should probably just do who submitted. You know what I'm saying? Yes, which was Joseph Hood. Yep. So we have to match all those guys. Which we did. No, we didn't. We only did 100. You know what I'm saying? Sort of. We're already with the fuzzy math right now. We're already going to do 100 to Project Pinball. Regardless. Yes, yes, yes. Correct. So you haven't matched any ones yet. Because you only donated 100. Correct. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, I gotcha. Yeah. All right. So we need to donate everyone's that has donated so far. So, Christopher, Tim Lee, Chris Hickert, Brian Thomas, Billy YJ. Yep. So we won. So it's 60 more dollars. Yep. We owe $60,000. Yeah, correct. All right. So we'll wait another day or two. All right. So we donated $100. That's $10 for every single tribe member that we were going to do for Project Pinball. We donated to the National Street Fan. We're also going to donate $10 for everyone's match. So, Joseph Hood, Tim Lee, Chris Haper, Brian Thomas, Billy YJ, and Steve Johnson. All right. So, that's going to be another $60 or whatever. Yeah, $50. $10 each. $10 each to Project Pimba. Yeah. Yeah, to the National Street Fans. Yep. But we're still waiting on five more tribe members. No, they gave them a week, but we'll extend it to two weeks if you guys are just not listening to us anymore. It happens. We'll get that money out there. We just want to let you guys know this is what actually happened. This is the actual donations that happened. Thank you, sir. May I have another? Poor Man's Pinball Tribe. Thank you, sir. May I have another? Poor Man's Pinball Tribe. Thank you, sir. May I have another? Poor Man's Pinball Tribe. Right now, yeah! At the beginning of our podcasting journey, we appreciate this guy's insight. He always lets us know when we're screwing up constantly because we do. And he's been affected personally from the coronavirus. Has he? Yes. He's an event promoter. Should we do the drum roll? We should. Trap number 22. Jonathan Hall. Jonathan Hall. God bless you, man. Jonathan Hall. We have been listening, man. Welcome to the tribe. Welcome to the tribe, man. You've been out there doing all these great things, and then the coronavirus hits, and now you're like, what else should I do? I should be part of the tribe. Martin, how has the tribe affected your life, your day-to-day life? How has it changed your day-to-day? Well, I noticed that the sun is brighter and my teeth are whiter. My pants fit better. You know what Pete Quinn said? Your pants fit better or they're tighter? My pants were blue sizes that day when I became a tribe member. Jonathan Howell, none of that is true. However. Your underwear might get whiter. We don't know. Welcome to the tribe, Jonathan. Jonathan, we are happy to have you aboard. Jonathan has been on Facebook with us as the guy with the sunglasses. That's what I call him. He's just like. Oh, yeah, the sunglasses again. He's got a cool picture of him with sunglasses. Jonathan, welcome to the tribe, brother. All right, Jonathan, welcome. Welcome. Welcome, welcome. How do you become a tribe member, Drew? You know what? Maybe I should take this. You probably should. All right. There's five pillars of excellence, guys. One, two, three, four, five. Five pillars of excellence. The first, emails. Just say, hey, what's going on? Communicate with us on a regular basis. We love feedback. Wait, the first one's email us? There's no particular order, but there's five. Second one, like us on Facebook. Just like us on Facebook. Super simple, right? Very approachable so far. Third one is to help grow our podcast. What does that mean? That's a big one. share a link or mention us on Telefied. Martin, how do you help us grow on Facebook or anywhere? I tell a friend and they tell a friend and so on and so on. Are you listening? I also plug you guys on my shows. I have a bunch of shows and I always say, make sure you go check them out. I'm there sometimes. You'll like it. So you need a podcast and you need to tell your listeners to like us. It's very simple. It's very simple. That's all you gotta do. Or a billboard Get a billboard along one of your major highways Billboard school too Unless they have a podcast And then Pillars 4 and 5 are top secret I'm sorry kids You will not know until you become a tribe member So Some of the things tribe members get to enjoy Is one We have our own little Facebook group Which is actually really active Considering It's more active than our normal Facebook group It's very, very fun. But it's super fun. Very active, very fun. Clearly, we initiate a like-minded craziness. So, Jonathan Hall, you must be a nut bastard. So, we love you very much. Welcome to the tribe. And, guys, follow the five pillars. You will make it to be a tribe member. Drew, we have one more thing. We do? Chris Haper does. Oh, another brick shot. Another brick shot. Shut up and sit down. this on the fucking media it's all over Facebook it's non-stop I'm sticking it in here I'm fucking talking about it god damn it motherfuckers it's got the whole fucking stock market in a shitter and now what's left well get a drink in your hand sit back sip on it fucking just kickback quit freaking out we're gonna get through it everything's gonna come back we'll have our pinball funds back again everything will be all good in the hood and one other thing why the fuck do podcasters have to talk about code you know one in particular kind of pissed me off a little bit why are we doing and still updating pirates of the caribbean by JJP, you know why, because we sold a fucking thousand fucking games, that's why the game is not done, let's finish it up, will I ever see the final end, probably fucking not, but guess what, I paid a lot of money for a fucking game, that needs to have full code in it, period, the next person, they're going to want to see it, they might even get to it, so yeah do I have a solve yeah I got a solve keep fucking working your ass off maybe I'll make it back on the line sell a thousand more games that's what people want you know there'll probably be a fourteen thousand dollar game again but you know what code makes everything all better and that's my key crystal bridge shot see ya I loved it. I agree with you 100%. All right. So let's thank Martin. Martin. Martin. Oh. The pleasure has been all mine, good sirs. I'm always so thankful when you guys have me on. You're awesome, Martin. I just love you. I love to be part of it. Every day in every way. What can I say? All right. Well, we need you on more, and we're going to get you on more, and we're going to work this out. Can we get the hate mail? No. No hate mail. We get zero hate mail, Martin. We get people that feel sorry for us. We get a lot of, I'm so sorry mail, but we don't get any hate mail. So that's kind of nice. But Martin, thank you so much. Yeah, we are. Thank you guys. Thanks. You always have a wonderful time. Absolutely true. Yes. You did really well today. I did. No. I tried. Guys, send your hate mail to the poor man's symbol podcast. No, the Poor Man Spinball. Poor Man Spinball. Why didn't you put pinball podcast? It always screws me up. Too many words. Hey, Ian, you should have been like, and Drew, pick up some scrambled eggs and go to sleep. Drew, what? Pick up some scrambled eggs and go to sleep. Poor Man Spinball at gmail.com. And we'll be going to sleep very soon. Poor Man Spinball at gmail.com. Yeah, like us on Facebook, the Poor Man Spinball Podcast. and buy our stuff over at Silver Ball Sway. Buy our shit. Yeah, it's the Promoter Tap, poor man's pinball podcast, and we have shirts, we have mugs, we have hats. We've got to rent one of those T-shirt cannons and just start shooting your shirts at people when we drive down the street or something. Absolutely. You know what, Chiz? How far away, yeah, how far along are you on that, Dr. Dude? What's kind of the, what's the plan of attack for that? I mean, how's the play field look? Oh, it's beautiful. Okay, so that's pretty good. The body's solid. I just want to kind of make it one of those almost like a show one. Okay. So I tinker with it. It's fully shopped, new plastics. Nice. I have the new Translight. I have the new decals. I think the first winter up in Wisconsin, I'm going to put it on, strip it down, and just send for powder coating, put the new decals on it, dial it in, They're perfect and right next to Laser War in the why they do that category. Yeah. Super active dude. That's my plan. You know what? Let's all get together. We'll bring our machines to Expo and we'll put them side by side. And people will say, what are you guys doing? We'll put the poor man's trim ball podcast stickers on. And the glass. Yeah, I'll just say, hey. This is what you've been leaving? There's this thing that I can customize. Shout out now. So that's a rabbit hole I would fall down. But we will. It will be good. Drew lives in that rabbit hole. That's where he comes from. Got to come from somewhere, right? All right, guys. Well, thank you very much for listening to the Poor Man's Spinball Podcast. I want to give a special thank you to Martin, listener number 15. But try to remember number two. Number dos. The man himself who does all of our intros and outros and our bumps. He's the best of the best He is one of our best friends And thank you Martin so much for joining us today Thanks Martin Thank you guys, it's always a pleasure Alright, perfect, and Drew Thank you for staying awake this whole time It was really really tough for Drew The whole time, I did it Everybody, give Drew a round of applause He did it He laughed the whole show I'm the star of this episode Pucket Friday might not even include Drew We don't know what's going to happen but we love you very much, guys. Thank you for listening. And, again, like us on Facebook, the Poor Man's Pinball Podcast on Facebook. Email us at thepoormanspinball at gmail.com. Hey, guys. And... poormanspinball at gmail.com. Buy our shirts at Silver Ball Swag. We love you guys. Thank you very much. SilverBallSwag.com. Peace out. Like, okay, if I kiss a dude in front of, like, thousands of people, she goes, you've been kissing dudes for, like, 30 years. She goes, I don't care. It was so great. And then I was like, I'm not going to even tell Ian because that would have been awesome, right? Yeah. Oh, that would have just been so great up on stage. You kissing dudes is apparently up your alley. No, no. I didn't know that about you. His thing was he was going to plant one on me, and I was supposed to look like Starstruck and it was going to be a whole great thing. But deep down you knew. Yeah. All right. Edit, edit, edit. Drew, stop yawning. Why do you keep looking at me like that? Stop yawning into the mic. I can't help it. If you're going to yawn, yawn over here. Just yawn over here. Quit yawning in the mic because every time you yawn in the mic, I got to edit it and I don't like that. So please don't do that. Please, quit yawning into the mic. Stop. Don't drop your drink. You're like my daughter. She's on both two. Drew just spilled his drink on my floor because he's being a baby. Keep your mixing board away from me. There's a paper towel over there by the stadium seats, man. You're okay. Oh, you're just going to grab the ice cubes by your hand? This guy. I tell you, Martin. don't give this man a bottle of freaking booze yeah it looks like I'm looking up some boxers flow mix good lordy I'm just fucking waiting on where's the paper towel it's over here on the stadium seating buddy _(Acquisition: groq_whisper, Enrichment: v3)_ --- *Exported from Journalist Tool on 2026-04-13 | Item ID: e93121fe-9d0c-4745-b1c3-5656e6cb542a*