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PNP Ep. 517- Stern Foo Fighters Announced and Teaser Trailor

Poor Man's Pinball Podcast·podcast_episode·analyzed·Feb 24, 2023
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TL;DR

Stern announces Foo Fighters pinball; host predicts Jack Danger as designer and massive location sales success.

Summary

Orville Albert (Orby) of Poor Man's Pinball Podcast celebrates the official announcement of Stern Foo Fighters pinball, speculating Jack Danger is the designer based on Keith Elwin's stated unavailability and recent designer release schedules. He discusses the band's history, his personal fandom since high school, and predicts this will be the best-selling music-themed pinball machine in history due to the Foo Fighters' modern rock appeal and contemporary relevance versus classic rock bands.

Key Claims

  • Keith Elwin confirmed on Loser Kids podcast he will not be releasing any pins for the remainder of the year

    high confidence · Orby cites direct confirmation from Keith Elwin on Loser Kids podcast with hosts Josh Roop and Matt Scott

  • A new Foo Fighters album is being released this month

    medium confidence · Orby states 'one of the other members in the band let it slip last week in an interview' about the new album

  • The Foo Fighters' drummer passed away last year

    high confidence · Orby references 'the drummer from the Foo Fighters passed away last year' and speculates this may have delayed the pinball machine release

  • Pat Smear has been a full-time Foo Fighters member since 2010 after rejoining in 2005

    high confidence · Orby quotes: 'He left in 1997 before rejoining in 2005 and has been a full-time member since 2010'

  • Foo Fighters pinball will be the biggest-selling music-themed pinball machine ever

    low confidence · Orby's personal prediction: 'I think this will sell more machines to location than any pinball machine in history that is rock'

Notable Quotes

  • “It is official that Stern is doing Foo Fighters Pinball. Now this is a long time rumor.”

    Orville Albert (Orby) @ ~2:00 — Confirms the announcement of Stern Foo Fighters pinball and acknowledges years of prior speculation

  • “Jack Danger is by far the youngest of the Stern designers, so that would make sense that the youngest rock or modern band ever be premiered on a pinball machine, if you can call it that, is done by him.”

    Orville Albert (Orby) @ ~3:30 — Primary reasoning for speculating Jack Danger as the designer

  • “I have been asking and begging and pleading anyone who would listen, talking about how we need a modern rock band.”

    Orville Albert (Orby) @ ~22:00 — Expresses long-held community desire for modern rock themes versus classic rock licensing

  • “I think this will sell more machines to location than any pinball machine in history that is rock, that is music, music-oriented.”

    Orville Albert (Orby) @ ~50:30 — Bold prediction about commercial potential based on band relevance and venue appeal

  • “I'm not even going to lie though hun, you might not want to sit there because I'm about to blast this music”

    Orville Albert (Orby) @ ~30:00 — Humorous interaction with guest (Drop Target Danielle) showing authentic enthusiasm for the announcement

Entities

Stern PinballcompanyFoo FightersgameJack DangerpersonKeith ElwinpersonJohn BorgpersonBrian EddypersonFoo Fightersgame

Signals

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    announcement: Stern officially announced Foo Fighters pinball with teaser trailer featuring animations of band in van with aliens and 'All My Life' song

    high · Orby states 'It is official. Well, it's sort of official. It's official that Stern is doing Foo Fighters Pinball' and describes watching the teaser trailer released Friday, February 24

  • ?

    personnel_signal: Keith Elwin confirmed unavailability for remainder of year, supporting inference that Jack Danger designed Foo Fighters

    high · Keith Elwin 'confirmed on the Loser Kids' most recent episode...that he would not be coming out with any pins for the rest of the year'

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Designer selection rationale based on age alignment with modern band theme and release schedule constraints

    medium · Orby reasoning: 'Jack Danger is by far the youngest of the Stern designers, so that would make sense that the youngest rock or modern band ever be premiered on a pinball machine'

  • ?

    licensing_signal: Foo Fighters pinball represents shift toward modern rock bands versus classic 1970s rock licensing pattern

    high · Orby: 'I have been asking and begging and pleading anyone who would listen, talking about how we need a modern rock band' and discusses average age of classic rock band fans (55-65) versus modern rock appeal

  • ?

    hype_cycle: FOMO marketing expected Monday following Friday announcement with teaser trailer, following typical Stern release protocol

    medium · Orby: 'by Monday we'll get like a teaser video...I think Monday that they are going to come out with the teaser video'

Transcript

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0:00
Thank you. If you talked about it, I could stand the truth If we could get around it, I know that it's true If you talked about it, carries on, reasons only new But it's you, Jack Dangerstern Welcome back Pinball Nerds to episode 517 of your fifth favorite pinball podcast. My name is Orbital Albert and on today's episode we get to talk all things Foo Fighters. That's right, it is official. Well, it's sort of official. It's official that Stern is doing Foo Fighters pinball. Now this is a long time rumor. Of course, I try not to talk about rumors. I like to talk about things that are substantial and real and here and you can see and here and hopefully very soon touch. Now, what hasn't been confirmed is who the heck is doing the artwork, who the heck is doing the designing, who designed this. Now, we would be led to believe that most likely it's Jack Danger. First of all, Jack Danger is by far the youngest of the Stern designers, so that would make sense that the youngest rock band to ever be premiered on a pinball machine, if you can call it that, is done by him. Also, Keith Elwin has already confirmed on the Loser Kids' most recent episode, cheers over there to Josh and Scott, shout out, they confirmed when they were speaking with Keith Elwin, or he confirmed, that he would not be coming out with any pins for the rest of the year, for the remainder. So that would lead us to believe that because John Borg most recently just had Rush come out, of course, that the next cornerstone in line would most likely be Jack Danger. Of course, right before that we had, I'm just trying to think, like Mandalorian, obviously.
2:37
So I don't know. I guess it could be Brian Eddy, or Brian Eddy, Brian Eddy. It could be Brian Eddy next, but I think that it's Jack Danger. I could be wrong. We don't know. I did reach out to Jack. I said if you could give me any little tiny tidbit of information, just confirm you know it does or it doesn't have an outlane spinner just confirm if I didn't care if he just confirmed it had flippers I was trying to get some confirmation I'm not sure if he's allowed to talk about it probably not so Jack you know I gotta ask buddy but sorry for bugging you I'm probably one of the most busiest days of your life uh but maybe not because maybe he didn't design it we don't know here's what I do know I am so thrilled I'm excited I'm stoked now if this were Albert 20 years ago when I listened to a lot more punk rock and heavier type stuff, even though a lot of their music is, you can hear, by Big Me, one of my favorite, if not my favorite song, definitely my favorite music video by the Foo Fighters. Go watch the Big Me video on YouTube if you haven't seen it. It's incredible. It's hilarious. It's funny. It's the one that you might remember with the Mentos from either the late 90s or early 2000s. Of course, Dave Grohl, as well as, well, Chris Novoselic was in Nirvana as well as Dave Grohl. Kurt Cobain, unfortunately, has passed. I'm just trying to remember. I would have all known this years ago, but you know me. Not only do I enjoy the vaporizer and the craft beer and all these things that don't help with your memory, I just generally don't remember this stuff. But I thought it was at least, Pat Schmier, I thought Pat Schmier took over playing. The bass player from Nirvana went over to Foo Fighters, and I'm not sure if he's still there. Let me ask Google while we're talking. Is Pat Schmier still in the Foo Fighters?
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    market_signal: Predicted strong location/venue demand based on band relevance and contemporary appeal versus classic rock machines

    low · Orby: 'I think this will sell more machines to location than any pinball machine in history that is rock...I do think it will sell probably more than Guns N' Roses and Toy Story 4 combined'

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    sentiment_shift: Community enthusiasm for modern rock IP choices over traditional 1970s/1980s classic rock licensing

    medium · Orby positioning Foo Fighters as answer to long-standing community requests for contemporary music themes instead of aging rock legends

  • ?

    product_launch: Stern teaser trailer released February 24 (Friday) with animation and 'All My Life' song; full reveal expected Monday

    high · Orby watched trailer released 'one minute ago, released by Stern' on February 24 and describes animation sequence with band and aliens

    • 4:31
    Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Yep. After the suicide of frontman Kurt Cobain, drummer Dave Grohl went on to become rock and roll band Foo Fighters. Did Pat Smear quit the Foo Fighters? He left in 1997 before rejoining in 2005 and has been a full-time member since 2010. Okay, so Pat, the rad dude on the bass, Pat's still there, so that's good. I thought he had came and gone a couple times. And then, obviously, unfortunately, the drummer from the Foo Fighters passed away last year, which was obviously very unfortunate. it. I know he had a young son and such and was struggling with some substance abuse issues. So if you or yourself or anyone you know is struggling with substance abuse issues, those are very serious. Make sure you get that taken care of and go seek professional medical help, if not just talk to a family friend or member to get started. But let's get past that. My guess is because of the passing of the drummer, they didn't release this pinball machine until later. I don't know if it would have ran into copyright issues or just out of respect. Now, that being said, I know there is also a new Foo Fighters album being released. Of course, we all know that because one of the other members in the band let it slip last week in an interview that the new album was coming out this month. And before that, it was rumored, but it wasn't for sure. So I don't want to have to prove to you guys how big of a Foo Fighters fan I am, but you've had to hear me dish on so many rock bands that I could not stand. You guys know that I absolutely hate, hate, hate Aerosmith. I strongly dislike Metallica. I'm not a huge fan of Iron Maiden. My favorite song of any pinball machine that's came out in the last 10 years was like the Godzilla song from Blue Oyster Cult. Sorry, Amanda from Free Play Pinball Podcast. I'm sorry. I love that song. I know you're sick of it because you've heard it millions of times, and I would love to play Godzilla so much that I was also sick of it, but out here in the boondocks, in the schticks, in the middle of nowhere, River Hibbert, Chenova, Scotia, we have 0.000 Godzillas. In fact, as far as I know, from every Facebook group, from every forum I've looked at, nobody on the east coast of Canada, in fact, has a Godzilla. So I've never, I mean, I've heard the song, you know, during the live stream, but until today, we got to hear that beautiful beautiful uh i believe it's times like these let me double check i'm gonna bring up stern right now i was actually just sitting here and i was planning on releasing a podcast tomorrow morning that i've already written that i'm excited about so it's look for another podcast in the next few days you're not gonna have to wait that long for me at this time.
    7:30
    Oh, it was All My Life. I'm so sorry. Yes, it was All My Life. I also thought the animations in Stern's hype trailer release, I thought they were very, very, very cool. You see the whole band hop into a van and they're driving around like crazy. You also saw like an alien kind of helping out, like pressing some numbers. I don't know if that's like their little nod or like here, hold my beer, deep root. You know, it kind of looked like the dude from Raza mixed with the creature from the Black Lagoon. I don't know. It was really cool, though. I was already stoked about whatever Jack Danger came out with next, and again, we don't know for sure. But, you know, after getting to play his first crack at it with his home pin, the Jurassic Park home pin, of course, you know, I was very, very, very stoked to see what he did next. and also as being a huge Jack Danger fan, a huge Foo Fighters fan, all the way through high school, I would get in trouble in grade 11 and grade 12 guitar class. I was in grade 11 and grade 12 advanced guitar. And myself and my best buddy, Melvis Megaphone, who I just recently talked about, bought my Star Wars 1, my CBCS 6.5, the very first comic book to feature most of the Star Wars characters. He recently just purchased that. Thank you so much, Matt. I really, really, really appreciate that. But Matt and I would get in trouble in guitar class for after we had learned whatever song we were working on. It was classical guitar, so it was a lot of finger picking, a lot of coming around the neck and using your thumb. And Matt and I had this whole thing going. I ended up with a 97 in grade 12 advanced, or no, maybe that was grade 11. It was one of the two years that we had our class together. I ended up getting a 97 and Matt got a 98 he beat me by one percent we were like the top two in the class by far like I think the third highest mark was like 87 or something like that but Matt and I would meticulously practice every single song and just play it so hard in fact if it wasn't for Eric Clapton's Tears in Heaven which is an incredibly hard song to play even at a slow even at half speed, it's incredibly difficult to play on a guitar, especially a classical guitar. But if it wasn't for that particular song, I was never able to nail a couple of the chord progressions in it and a couple just of the, you know, there's finger picking and all this difficult stuff in that song. All my guitarist nerds out there, you know what I'm talking about.
    10:03
    Matt and I would quite frequently get in trouble for going off and playing Nirvana songs. He could play every song on the album. I could play like the top two or three hits. Right. And so, of course, as I was huge in a nirvana, everyone called like said I had Kurt Cobain hair, which I did. If you see great my grade 12 grad picture, I have long, you know, bleach blonde hair. I kind of dressed halfway between grunge and skater, which I guess they're kind of sort of close. I was maybe a little a little punk rocky, maybe near the end of grade 12, but nothing too hardcore. I didn't end up having a faux hawk and all the other likes like getting hardcore into punk until after high school. I was much more into indie rock. And, of course, when the Foo Fighters came out with their first album, some of my buddies hated it because they thought it didn't sound enough like Nirvana. And I loved their first album. I loved their second album. I loved their third album. I'm not going to lie, somewhere around that fourth album when I was, you know, kind of getting older and not really – I'm not going to say that I thought that the Foo Fighters sold out because I don't necessarily believe that. I think that they're a super rad band, and I think they've written copious amounts of just incredible songs. But I felt by the fourth or fifth album, I just wasn't as into them anymore, even though individual songs have came out that I love. And believe it or not, years later when Dave Grohl and the band came out with their, I think it's called the Skin and Bones album, which was their acoustic album, they went back and they did songs like Everlong which you know always there was always an acoustic version of Everlong but they went back and highlighted and featured songs that they felt would be better they took some heavy rock songs and actually converted them to acoustic and it was just a beautiful album and after that they went and toured and they did their Skin and Bones tour and this was their first and as far as I know last ever acoustic tour so getting to see these guys really stripped down and play an acoustic set was great and I'm not going to lie, it's the most I've ever spent on tickets. I believe it was around $700 for two tickets. I don't even think that was including taxes or anything. I had to drive to Toronto. I do remember at the time I had, unfortunately, in between driver's ed students, some nervous Nelly had turned left into my front driver's side thing and completely wrecked my brand new, brand new to me, 2006 Volkswagen Jetta. so I ended up going in to rent a car and when I rented a car because I paid the big bucks like almost a thousand dollars a month for my driver's ed insurance when I went into budget rent a car they were like oh by the way your rental company allows you to spend up to fifty dollars a day on a car and I was like sweet what's the fastest car you have or what's the best car you have and they're showing me all these cars they're oh you can get this lexus you can get this and then the guy was like oh and then we do have a brand new mazda 6 it's only been rented twice from us it It had like less than 2,000 kilometers on it. Brand new Mazda 6 with Tektronic, which is where you can shift the gears with your hands. So you could actually drive it as a stick shift, sort of. You weren't using the full stick shift, but you were the one choosing when. Anyways, it was crazy. Yes, you could burn the tires and that. That car probably never drove right again. I had a hoot driving that for about a week until my money came in for the new car. I taught zero drivers in the Mazda 6 because who would do that? But yeah if you ever get the opportunity to you know if you someone like me who never going to afford my own sports car much more than probably like a Kia whatever like you know the lowest end possible sport car ever If you get the chance to rent a Mazda 6 just do it You going to love it And you only live once I'm not saying, like, go drink and drive or do anything stupid or, like, dangerously, like, you know, tailgate people or anything. I'm just saying find an open parking lot and drive the shit out of that car because, frankly, every single solitary one of these car rental companies fucks us any time they can. Once in a while you've got to tell them to turn the other cheek can take a little spanking when you can, right? So to be fair, I returned it with no nicks, no dents, no scratches, full tank of gas. I did all that kind of stuff. Just, you know, it's a sports car. It's meant to be driven. It's not meant to just, it's not grandma's Cadillac. You don't just slowly drive it when it's not raining. This is meant to be driven. Sort of like this band is meant to be driven because honestly, these guys still wail. I went back and watched some Foo Fighters footage over the last couple months. Actually for Christmas, my wife got me the new Dave Grohl book because she knows how much I like Dave Grohl and I like the Foo Fighters. And she got me his new book after hearing it was really good. It's called The Storyteller. And I still, I'm not done reading it. She did get it for me for Christmas. So it's not like I've had it for that long, but I should have read it by now. I always have time to make sure I read at least one comic book a day. I should try to, you know, read some more. And I think this is my excuse. If I was waiting for a round to it, to get a round to it, I just got a round to it. You know what I mean? Like for me to be able to read his entire autobiography before the pinball machine comes out or before it's at least live streamed or what have you, that is just incredible. Now, my hope is today is of course the 24th of February. And my sincere hope is Friday the 24th that by Monday we'll get like a teaser video. This is how it usually works, right? Like Stern did not follow their usual protocol that they set for themselves when James Bond came out. And my strong hope and my sense is they want to get back to that, some sense of normalcy, some sense of just killing it with the releases. And so if I know Stern the way that I think that I know Stern, I think Monday that they are going to come out with the teaser video. They could surprise us, and that's okay too, but I think they like to set the trap on Friday, start the FOMO train going, choo-choo, and as soon as it's left the building, they start throwing, you know, like Back to the Future and Back to the Future 3 when they're throwing those big, weird, like they look like knitting things. Like, I don't know, they're crazy colors, and they're throwing them on the trains in the train furnace to make it go faster. That's what's going to happen over the next few days. You're going to hear me talk about it. I'll probably be the first pinball nerd with a podcast out about it. most likely, I can tell you this, I was sitting here, and when it came out, it said, like, in my, when you're watching YouTube, it said, one minute ago, released by Stern, I wasn't on Facebook, I wasn't on Pennside, no one texted me, no one messaged me, I was just sitting there, and when I watched it, I was the 50th person to click, and by the time it finished, it said, came out two minutes ago, so I, very few people were able to watch it before me, and I took maybe 10 minutes to get done some things I had to get done, and think of what I wanted to talk about during the show, listen to a couple of their songs.
    16:52
    And, wow, I have been asking and begging and pleading to anyone who would listen, talking about how we need a modern rock band. Now, I know they've been around since the late 90s or mid-90s, even maybe when they formed. I'm trying to remember when Kurt Cobain died.
    17:11
    1994? Thanks, son. There's Drop Target Danielle there, by the way. Everybody who's listening, I just want to start by saying, thank you so much to everybody who reached out. I even saw Dan the Man and quite a few other pinball nerds reached out on Angry Alpaca and said happy birthday to you. Tell everybody how your birthday was.
    17:29
    Thank you. You put me on the spot here a bit, but, no, I had a good time. I appreciate it. And you're going to have an even better time when we go out this weekend for your birthday dinner. Absolutely.
    17:40
    Absolutely. Okay. Well, just really quickly while you're here since I've already got you, if you could just tell us maybe what do you think about Stern finally coming out with a more modern rock band as opposed to a band that came out in the 70s for once you're putting me on the spot here but I think it's good it's great for I know them I know their songs I'm a fan you keep saying I put you on the spot but you were reading a book and then you decided to chime in when I was mid podcast so really I don't know if I'm putting you on the spot or you put yourself there. I appreciate the answer, and I do appreciate the answer. I mean, I understand for you, you'd rather see probably like Weezer or Radiohead. You don't listen to Foo Fighters as much. But, do you not think it's better than Aerosmith?
    18:31
    Yeah. Okay. I mean, I do like ACDC. I've always said I like ACDC. I don't love Iron Maiden. I don't love Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Teen over 15 times in a row. I like it when the songs change up I do like Rush, I don't like Love Rush, but I do like Rush very much and as a Canadian I have to say that or I'm going to get a maple syrup squashed in my face and I'll have to chug one against Ryan C again but go back to your book babe go back to your book, we'll chat soon I'm not going to lie though hun, you might not want to sit there because I'm about to blast this music so Foo Fighters are, to anyone like that was saying, I think I heard Kaneda say a couple weeks ago or something when he was talking about this that, I'm just paraphrasing here, so I believe he was saying that he didn't think they were that good of a band or they weren't that awesome, and I was fighting with him. I think it was in a Saturday morning thing, and I was like, dude, you're wrong. Like, they're not just, you know, they didn't, and the crazy part was, like, I guess if you only have ever heard them on the radio, you'd only know them by, like, their five largest radio hits, but I listen to every single album up until, you know, I don't know, 10 years ago that they ever came out with, and I have at least listened to some of their newer stuff. And I do plan on listening to more of it. But the great news is you can tell from the trailer, A, it's not just going to be all their new music. This would be the whole Toy Story 4 thing over again. If they said, oh, yeah, we're going to do Foo Fighters, but we're not going to do any of their big hits, right? Like, we're not going to do Everlong, or we're not going to do times like these, or, you know, we're not going to do any of their big hits like that. It's like, no, no, no, no, you need to do their big songs. So, with that being said, let's talk about a couple of their biggest songs quickly here. And also, I'm going to talk about what I'm expecting from it. So, my hope is that they have no less than six songs, but ideally, it would be 12 or more. So, anywhere between six to 12 would be fine. I think if it's less than six, for me personally, I don't know if you want to say I'm auditorily challenged or what. I can't listen to this. Music grinds on me a lot, which was part of what, when I was speaking with Jonathan Hall there, by the way. Thank you so much, Jonathan Hall, for being on the last show. That podcast is, you know, I know Jonathan Hall is a tribe favorite, so I figured it'd do well. But remember, there's only 50 or so people in the tribe from the Poor Man's Pinball tribe. But, of course, there's tons of you, and I jokingly call you honorary tribe members. And I mean each and every one of you. I guess you're not a tribe member per se. And I don't want Drew and Ian to get mad at me now that they're back, of course. But I would just say that you're poor man's pinball network fans, right? So you're people who listen to a lot of the different shows that are here. and I think that a lot of you know that with the Foo Fighters coming in that we're going to see a resurgence of not only younger people coming in but even middle-aged dudes like me that are right around 40 that like, you know, my stepdad's favorite band was Aerosmith. My uncle loved Iron Maiden.
    21:49
    Drop Target Danielle sitting here right beside me. Her dad's favorite band was ACDC. So, you know, a lot of the guys who like bands, even Rush, the average Rush fan is probably, what, 55 to 65, right? I'm just telling it like it is, okay? I'm 42. I grew up on classic rock stations, listened to all those guys. But on FM 96 was like, you know, FM 96 was like, shout out to London, Ontario, the Four City. That was our, like, modern rock station at the time, like playing everything new that was coming out. Yes, on 90s Nooners, they would go back and they would play, or like 80s Lunch, whatever, they would go back and play some bands from the 70s and 80s. But by the time that the Foo Fighters even came out, all of those other bands were almost irrelevant. Like Guns N' Roses, were people still listening to them in early 2000s? Yes, of course, but they were way past their peak. Were people still listening to ACDC in the early 2000s when Foo Fighters was just coming out and peaking? Yes, but they were way past their peak. I don't even know if they were still touring in the early 2000s. I don't even, I have no clue about all of those bands, nor would I give a shit because I don't like that music. It's not that I don't like that music. Again, as a rock dude, I respect that. Like, I respect the Beatles. Like, until today, until we found out Foo Fighters were coming out, the Beatles is my favorite band to have ever had a pinball machine, ever. And then probably number two is Weird Al. And then probably number three is ACDC. And then from there it goes into, like, who do I dislike more? you know like growing up I just like I was friends with dudes who like Metallica like even Melvis my good buddy but but I didn't ever listen to them I didn't ever record them I didn't ever download them I didn't ever listen to them um but speaking of listening you're getting sick of my voice I'm getting sick of my voice let's just for anyone listening maybe who doesn't know the Foo Fighters as well as me let me give you a little tour I'm not going to play the whole song maybe first 10 or 15 seconds to get into it. This is their song on YouTube, which has the most views. This is The Pretender. You've probably, you probably have heard this one, I'm not going to lie, but this is called The Pretender. This one has, I want you to guess right now their top song. How many views do you think it has just on YouTube? Keeping in mind that this song came out before or in around right when YouTube came out, right? So how many views do you think it has? Because if you don't think that, if you think, oh, well, Guns N' Roses is a bigger, yeah, Guns N' Roses is a bigger band than the Foo Fighters. Are they better? No. Are they more relevant? No. I mean, it's arguable, but no.
    24:20
    Do I respect Guns N' Roses? A little. I mean, I love that, I think it was Axel helped lots with the pinball machine, and I think that Eric Menyer did an incredible job implementing it. I really do. But,
    24:36
    are they as good as the Foo Fighters? I don't think so. I just don't think so. Okay, so here it is, The Pretender by the Foo Fighters. Please don't play a commercial, YouTube. Oh, no. They're going to play a commercial. Can you believe that? What a bunch of jerks. I'm just going to pause it because they're being jerks. Not cool.
    24:57
    All right. Come on. 30-second commercial after a 15-second? That is not cool. Oh, there's Pat Smear. Told you he's still in the band.
    25:42
    All right, I don't want to listen to too much of the song, but you get the point. Like, if you can't listen to that song and that doesn't get you frickin' jimmied, if that doesn't get you so frickin' amped up you're about to explode, then maybe you need to listen to times like these.
    26:12
    I'm a runaway, I'm a runaway, I'm a runaway. I'm a runner, drive away Follow the wheels back home All right, nearly 70 million views on there. Here's, like, probably their biggest radio hit anyways, even though it has about half the views. It's got a quarter billion. That's correct, a quarter billion. Just over 256 million listens. This is just, like, I'm sure on Spotify it's way, way more than this, but this is, of course, Ever Long, probably my second or third favorite song by them. definitely their biggest radio hit I would say from back in the day Uh this could be a little a long intro here Let me just
    27:41
    I'll wait for you There you go. I don't want to play too much of these songs. First of all, I don't want to piss off. I highly doubt that Dave Roll is going to be listening to the Pinball Nerds podcast, but who knows? And Jack Danger, if you're listening and you wanted to happen to send this to him, you could. I'm not saying you got to. I don't even know. Maybe you guys are on a first-terms basis, But I know a lot of times as, you know, like Ed Robertson helped Rush kind of do all their call-outs and, like, implement the sound and stuff in there, it's possible. It's very possible that even if Jack Danger didn't get to meet with the Foo Fighters, that he is at least in contact with them. But why the hell on earth would he send them this half-assed podcast? He wouldn't. I just think it would be cool if somehow, some way, you know, I'm going to try to put in the proper tags and stuff. somehow he discovered this and Dave Grohl got to hear me gushing about how rad it is for them to have finally got a pinball machine and I think that right now if you are a pinball bar that plays rock music if you're a rock bar that has pinball machines if you are a live music venue you need to get I think this will be and I'm putting this on the record right now I think this will sell more machines to location than any pinball machine in history that is rock, that is music, music-orientated. Why would I say rock? Because we know that there was lots of other non-rock bands that had music pins before this. So, no, I don't think it's going to sell more than Adam's Family. No, I don't think it's going to sell more than Godzilla. yes I do think it will sell more than every P3 Multimorphic pinball machine combined yes I do think it will sell probably more than Guns N' Roses and Toy Story 4 combined and I do actually think it will sell a hell of a lot more than Led Zeppelin I don't know if it's going to outsell Rush not only had John Borg behind it which you know John Borg has tons of awesome fans like Jack Danger said in the Bond 60th Elwynn's Bond 60th stream John Borg is the coolest pinball designer on the planet. He doesn't even have to try. Unlike me, I've got to try all the time not to be so nerdy, and even then I'm still pretty much just a big old nerd. Okay, so, I mean, you guys have heard his songs. You guys can type it in and listen to it. I probably would have to play, well, you guys know the song that was played in the, the song in the Stern thing is All My Life. I like that. We can play that for a second. I think it was the perfect song for the theme, to be honest. Like, for the, I think it was the perfect song for the Stern trailer, so. Oh, another commercial, YouTube? I'm going to have to get YouTube Premium. Come on, here. Or learn how to edit better. One or the other. Probably get YouTube Premium.
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    All my life I've been searching for something. Searching for a new serpent ball machine. All my life I've been searching for something Okay, sorry Oh no All my life I've been searching for something Something that would cause me release And I've had nothing to ask for But I'm getting close Closer to the prize at the end of your rope All night long I'm dreaming of the day When it comes around and it's taken away Please be with me feeling that I feel the most Feel like I'm alive when I see your ghost If you go watch the video for all my life, you'll get to see my man has, like, serious hardcore punk rock burns from back in the day. But again, this is a pretty old song by them, so, you know. I also used to have pretty, pretty, pretty big burns. I liked their more rocky stuff that came out in their very first album. I'm just trying to think of, like, I can't think of any. I can't even see what the one video looks like, but I can't think about it. But even though this got overplayed on the radio as well, I think that Monkey Wrench was probably my favorite song off, I believe, their second album other than Big Me. So let's play a little bit of that, and then I probably won't play any more songs for you guys because you can go play these yourselves. But I just wanted to give a little taste. Oh, sure, it's going to be a long entry to it now, I guess. Oh my god, I forgot. This is where he's in the elevator and he has to listen to the Monkey Wrench version. No. He's listening to another Foo Fighters song in the elevator. Elevator. What have we done with innocence?
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    If it's a bit with time, it never made much sense. And let's impress the data. We'll see you next time. Okay, I lied. I got to play one more song from their first album. I looked it up quickly there. This is called This Is A Call.
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    This is a call to all my past resignations. I don't remember the words. Anyways, yeah. I should probably not sing. But I will. When this is done, I'm going to go sing some boo. You son of a bitch. Dove, you didn't pay me a freaking penny. Dove, you owe me money. What do you think you are, angry alpaca? advertising on here because the best part of waking up is Orbeez coffee in your cup.
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    Here is This Is A Call. All they ever wanted was a pinball All right, no more singing, I promise. Wow, I just, whoo! I am beyond belief. I am stoked. I have no clue if anything I ever said at any point helped this, but I know that I did a top five modern rock bands that need to have a pinball machine made, And I would like to think old school or even from 150 episodes ago would have, should have, and could have included the old Foo Fighters. And by the way, Foo Fighters, I believe, had something to do with like World War, I don't know if it was World War I or II. In my head it sticks out as II, but that was like the name that they gave for, they were like fighting UFOs or something. I don't know. Anyways, Google it, look it up yourself. congratulations Jack if this is your first cornerstone I'm so stoked for it I don't even care who did it I'm really stoked for it it could be a brand new guy at Stern we believe it's going to be Zombie Yeti on the art but we don't know because maybe he was on Venom I don't know the animations look like the animations look incredible the animations look great they're obviously going to be using some of their old songs which is wonderful who knows we don't know about the toys we don't know about the mechs we don't know about the shots we don't know about any of that. But, I mean, think about Stern's, like, last five pins. Like, probably even going all the way back to Game of Thrones. Has there been any that were, like, just a big fart? Like, a big, not really. There hasn't been any big whiff-offs. They haven't had a swing and a miss. As Franchi would say, they've been hitting it out of the park, one after another after another. Home run, home run, home run, home run derby. They're basically Vladimir Guerrero out there, okay? They're Shohei Otani. They're Alex Rodriguez, if you have to. They're someone who can hit the ball really far, really often, all the time. That's Stern. Stern's the big hitters. They're the big boys, and they're going to come out here, and they're going to keep hitting it, and they're going to keep bashing it. And I will be straight up and be honest right now. If you're American Pinball, okay? If you're CGC, if you're one of these other companies who was thinking in the next month or two you're going to release a pin, you're probably shaking in your little booties because you're going, holy shats, how the frick am I going to compete with Dave Grohl and anything Dave Grohl puts his hands to usually turns to gold. Because this man works his asshole off.
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    I know that there are the hardcore rockers out there like Mr. Cliff Albert. Cliff Albert's awesome interview while my show just hit 500 listens, which I thought was pretty cool. That doesn't happen to a lot of my shows, don't get quite that many. Sometimes they do, but I will say this. Jonathan Hall, wow, he looks like right now he's going to be trending for probably the third most listens I've ever had on any show. So if you haven't had the chance to go listen to that, we talk about lots of things besides just shooting you straight from the hip and telling you all the good, the bad, and the ugly about James Bond's 60th anniversary by Keith Elwin. We also talk about lots of other pinball stuff, so go and listen to that episode if you haven't had the chance. It's just a treat having Jay Hall on. I'm frankly shocked that Jonathan Hall doesn't have his own pinball podcast. I might be having him on here a little bit more often. I know that he used to go on with Drew fairly often, and of course with Ian being back, I'm not sure if Jay Hall will still continue to go on with Drew. I hope so. I thought Drew and J-Hall had great chemistry, so maybe any time that Ian's not able to record, J-Hall can step in and pinch hit, because I like to hear his opinion. J-Hall is not only entertaining, but he's telling you the truth, and there's no slant. He's not selling you on anything, except for when he told you that his favorite angry alpaca coffee is our light roast City Lights, and he said that makes an amazing... I think he used the term chef's kiss. No, I just made that up. But he said that our City Lights makes an amazing coffee. After I played all that loud music, Danielle did actually leave. And I'm going to be straight up with you guys since my last show, and that was only three or four days ago. I was hoping that at least one person would buy something off my eBay collectibles page between my video games, my comics, my graded sports cards, or that someone would put in an order for coffee because, as you all know, who listened to the last show, I get to take her out for her birthday this weekend. And as of right now, look, I like McDonald's as much as the next guy, but she doesn't. If I have to bring her to fast food, I will. Hayden is just starting college for a construction program that costs $12,500.
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    So that's taken a big dent. And then to boot, the day before he was supposed to hand in his medical to make sure that he can drive and operate all the big machinery and stuff at the college, because he's taking like a road workers construction trade program, he actually found out, unfortunately, he has astigmatism in both eyes, fairly severe, and that he can't operate any of that machinery until he gets glasses. so we out of nowhere already being almost flat broke from helping him pay for all his schooling stuff had to somehow come up with another 165 dollars to do an eye test because it had to be done within 24 hours and unfortunately that found out that he had to get glasses ordered and of course he has to have regular glasses then also glasses for driving and we we knew with summer coming up so long story short between my man going to college and all you parents out there of kids going to college you know and Hayden's program is like a drop like when I finished college I only took marketing of course business marketing and I was $28,000 in debt and that was with my parents buying all my books in first and second year that was with me moving back home I actually had to move back home in second year because I was broke ass and I just couldn't really afford even my $375 a month bachelor apartment London Ontario so anyways I'm flat fucking broke. There's almost zero chance. And just like Matt from Colorado there, who generously got, I think, eight or nine bags of coffee, I did throw in two extra bags there for Matt just as a thank you. And believe me, if you order from me, you're going to get some cool freaking shit with it It not just going to be the awesome organic super tasty coffee I know we have in stock right now just one or two bags I believe of the Light Roast There might be a couple small bags of some of our other ones And other than that, we are like a mobile cafe who's off-season. So until a couple weeks from now, we're not going to start stocking tons of stuff. But we just got a brand-new order in. Again, thanks to Matt ordering and thanks to Tim Lee ordering, we were able to even have the funds to put in a large order to get all of our fresh coffee sent. and as of right now I believe there's six bags left of East Coast Dark Roast probably not great for an espresso but really good in a percolator really good in those, I don't know, those little pod things if you get the reusable pod and you just grind up the coffee like you normally would and you run it through those in fact, I wouldn't probably make a dark roast in an espresso machine of course you'd use the City Lights for that but what I'm asking, if you enjoyed today's show if you enjoyed my last show If you're someone out there who's listened to even a fraction of my 517 episodes and you'd like to support the show for all the time, energy, and hard work I put into it, because it is a lot. I do consider this a part-time job for me. I've told every person who meets me, I say I'm 50% stay-at-home dad and house husband, 25% small business owner, 25% pinball podcaster. And then they go, huh? They do like a home improvement. Not Al Borland. Tim the Tool Man. you know, they do a second take like, what? Pimmo Podcasting? I say, you know, honestly, like I actually make a little bit of money on the side doing it. Again, when you do a $20, $30, $40 order from us, of course, that's not all profit. It's the exact same thing. In fact, there's at least like, there's at least two of my graded comics on there that I'm barely going to break even on. After I paid for the comic and paid for the grading, it didn't grade as high as I thought. And that's the risk you take sometimes when you're grading comics. But it is a fun little side hobby that I do that makes us some money. And to anyone listening who's in the East Coast, I'm going to be doing a toy show in Moncton. Look it up under Moncton Toy Show. I believe it's coming up on Sunday, March 12th. So that's like two weeks from now. Yeah, two weeks from now. Two and a half weeks from now. And then also on, if you live in the Halifax area, talking to you, Doug Parsons and Greg and a couple of the other listeners down there. if you're listening right now also Megan, I forgot about Megan and George St. Pierre gorgeous Georges if you're listening and you want to come visit me and support or just come say hi give me a high five and check out all my I will have more sports cards collectibles than comics, I'm doing the Halifax sports card show on Saturday the March 11th and then on the 12th there but if you're listening from far away and you want to help support me and make it so I don't have to go to Harvey's or A&Dubs with my wife so I could actually sit down and have a nice meal. The only freaking way we can do that, we're actually finally between college and just a number of other things that have happened, we're actually maxed out on everything. So the only way that you would, and the big thing I wanted to give her was I wanted to tell her, hey, I ended up getting a sale from the show and I can give you a massage because she would freaking, it's been cold here for so long. we're on our fourth Friday in a row with a snow day and she was scheduled to work for three of the four of them so you know she gets paid like what I know after taxes say 150 bucks so she's out 600 bucks just from the last four Fridays then we're out a good chunk of that 12 grand of course not all of it thank God Hayden saved up a lot of money himself just like he did when he bought his car and everything there but we knew that a big chunk of it was going to go to that and now we're supporting him by paying for all of his gas, which the gas is going to be $200, well, $180 a week, just gas there and back. The college is an hour and a half away, and we can't really afford to put him in residence. That's like thousands of dollars, right, putting a kid in residence, even just for three months, for the last three months of the program. But anyways, that's not your fault. If you just listened and you enjoyed it, maybe send it in a link to a friend or maybe like it or maybe share it. But if you can afford it and you want to help support me, support the show, that would be super awesome. You can go on to the Pinball Nerds Podcast Facebook page, and I believe the most recent link is a link to my eBay store, and it's just called Hummingbird Soap. If you want to search for us that way, just directly through eBay. It's a little more tricky. I wish eBay made it easier. I don't know how to search for the store name, and if you just type Hummingbird Soap, it's just going to come up with, like, Hummingbird Soaps. It's not going to be our company. No, we don't sell soap anymore. We've changed it, but it's just such a big hassle to change your name through eBay. We've never done it.
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    And then, if you're someone who's considered buying coffee for a long, long time from us, and you've heard so much about this coffee, you just want to try it if it's as good as Orby says it is, first of all, you can ask any of the awesome people who have ordered it and reordered it how good it is. And second of all, I'll just say this.
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    If you're someone reordering, I always throw in an extra little nifty-gifty, but this is for anybody who orders. And today is the 25th, just so I can have money before I take Danielle to town in two days on the 26th.
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    If you, between now and the end of the 26th, if you make a purchase on either through Angry Alpaca or through Hummingbird Soap, our eBay store, if you make a purchase for $100 or more, I'm going to throw in a free graded X-Men comic. The last time it sold, it was just over $50 plus shipping. So I'll even say it's about a $70 value. I've never sold it. I've had it sitting around here forever. It's a bit lower grade than I wanted, but it's a cool X-Men cover. It's a graded comic by CGC. It's $40 U.S. just to get a comic graded by CGC, never mind shipping, handling, duties, FedEx. I owe FedEx now duty money from all my CGC stuff coming back and my CBCS. But if you ever thought it'd be really cool to just have a graded X-Men comic that's protected from UV light, put in an order for $100 or more whether it be coffee, whether it be tea whether it be collectibles any order that comes in between now and the end of the day on the 26th I will throw that in for free because I know if you're ordering $100 or more the shipping of the if you just order one or two bags it's going to almost double my shipping, they're very heavy the case that the comic goes into to protect it's very heavy and it's large it's pretty big, it's 20-30% bigger than even the comic itself just so that I don't have to pay the shipping cost for it and so I don't feel too butthurt about losing a $50. I value that about $50. That's what I would sell it for to show. So if you want to help me out, go ahead and do that. And if not, just thank you for listening. I hope you're as excited. I saw a negative Nancy there do a quick comment on the very first, I don't know if it was Pinball Enthusiast or someone. Someone shared. I think it was Nap Arcade. And thank you, Jason Nap, for sharing that so quickly and always be on top of the pinball news and for everything you do for pinball, buddy. I really appreciate that. But Jason shared this, and some negative Nancy, some frickin' Debbie Downer, I'm not going to say their name, they immediately wrote, oh, great, not another rock band pinball machine.
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    Dude, 90% of pinball machines released have nothing to do with music. If you look at, like, the 4,000 pinball titles, there's maybe 100 that are music. So, like, one in 40 pinball. Now, nowadays, it's slightly more than one in pinball, 40. And, of course, with Cern, it's more than one in 40. But if you look over at American Pinball, they've never released. Oh, wait, no, Alice Cooper is.
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    Oh, I'm getting confused again. No, Spooky released Alice Cooper. So Spooky has released now two music pins because they also did Rob Zombie. But American Pinball has never released one.
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    You know, a lot of, Jersey Jack, of course, has. But a lot of pinball companies have never released anything rock band wise. and at the very least even if you're not a huge Foo Fighters fan that's totally cool you don't have to like every music that comes out there I certainly don't but if even if you don't like Foo Fighters you have to understand that there is going to be a large percentage of people on the planet males and females I'll say 35 and under or even you know up to 45 and under who would probably never give a shit about going over and playing Guns and Roses or ACDC or Metallica or one of these 70s or 80s bands, they just wouldn't care. But if they saw Foo Fighters, they'd go, holy shit, okay, this was one of my favorite bands growing up, or when I was a teenager, or in my 20s, I got to go see them live.
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    Everybody knows who Dave Roll is. They're going to go, or if they were a huge Nirvana fan, they're going to go, I have to play that. Even if they'd never played pinball before in their life, they probably would literally grab the bartender, or go up to whomever and get change and be like, how do I start this thing? I have to try it. I have to play it. And I think this is not only going to bring a lot of people into pinball, but I think we're going to see a younger demographic buying this particular pinball machine than perhaps any other pinball machine before it. And that's what we want. We want more young people getting into pinball. Now, will the sales be as good because the average guy who's 35, certainly when I was 35, I couldn't afford any pinball machines. It wasn't until I was probably even 37, 38 that I could start buying cheap ones, like, you know, whatever, Meteor for $1,200 or Solar Ride for $1,100 or whatever. You know what I mean? Like it wasn't until I was, my kids were a little bit older and we had been around a little bit longer. I'm sure there is lots of people under 20 or under 30 who can afford a pinball machine. There's probably not that many under 20. But there's going to be that sweet swap between like 30-year-olds and probably 45-year-olds, probably mostly men, but some women who absolutely love the Foo Fighters and might actually consider buying a pinball machine who would have never even thought to play one before. And it just takes one of those people to really be an influential person in pinball, whether they become a pinball podcaster, a live streamer, a designer, a coder, someone who helps with music, someone who uses their skills in one way, shape, or form to help further pinball. So overall, recognize that even if you don't like the Foo Fighters, And even if you're like that negative Nancy on the Nap Arcade one going, I don't want to die there, Rocky. Roll pinball machine. Even if, like, Elvis is your favorite, you can go out and get an Elvis machine. Even if you love the pinball wizard song, right, in Tommy, you can go get a Tommy machine, which, you know, I think most of us are sick of. But what I'm saying is there is, you know, apparently Jersey Jack is coming out with Elton John. is, okay, maybe not as many people who like Foo Fighters will like Elton John, but there's a large demographic of, I think, I think, I think a lot of women listen to Elton John. I could be wrong. That demographic was like older women. I'm pretty sure my Alma loved him, right? So like there is this demographic of plus 70 year old women who are going to love Elton John. There is, they're out there. Whether or not they're going to go out and buy a Elton John pinball machine, I don't know, probably not but maybe but to all of you out there who have complained in the past that they they need to stop doing dad rock the dad rock is done the dad rock is done this is they are still modern they are still relevant they still tour they are in fact we're touring when unfortunately the drummer passed away i can't wait to hear what else is going to happen you keep listening right here to the pinball nerds podcast on the poor men's pinball network because whatever happens next. I'll probably be the first person to talk about it. And the one thing you know is, if I'm talking about coffee, yeah, my views are probably, I've probably got a little slant to it. You know what I'm saying? I am obviously, even though I happen to know personally that we use Laughing Whale, which is the best, not just organic, not just green, not just solar powered, but they are the best tasting coffee roastery on the east coast of Canada, if not probably like this way of Montreal, maybe this way of Quebec. I haven't tried every little tiny bean roaster in Quebec City, I'm not going to lie, but I've tried all the good ones on the east coast, whether it be in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, or even Newfoundland. I've tried them all, especially all the good ones, every one that I could get delivered anyways, and I can tell you right now, it is the best of the east coast, and that's saying something because we take our coffee very, very seriously here in Canada. We really do. So, listen, pinball nerds, please go out there, and if you can all afford it, I'd super appreciate it. The only thing I want to be able to do this weekend is to be able to really treat my wife, and I'd love during dinner to be able to say, hey, I did a little shout out on the pinball podcast, and this generous listen nerd hooked us up by doing a coffee order, buying something off the collectibles page, the old eBay, and because of that, honey, not only do we not have to go to A&W for your birthday meal, but I get to give her a gift certificate for a massage, which I think at the local place is like 80 bucks. So someone even puts it in order for like 140. Someone even puts it in order for over 100. That will give us enough extra money so I can bring her out for like a decent middle-of-the-road meal in Moncton for her birthday, and I can also offer her at least a half an hour, if not 45-minute massage from me, of course, but really from you. Thanks, Pinball Nerds. Until next time, remember to eat, sleep, and breathe Stern's new Foo Fighters Pinball.