So you believe he did the crimes? Yeah, yeah. They were cool. So then that means he's guilty. That's your opinion, ma'am. What are you saying? What I'm saying is this guy's cool. He did kick-ass crimes. But that's what the word guilty means. He did the crimes. So both of you are voting guilty, right? Boy, butthead, this lady just doesn't get it. Wow. Yeah. I guess we're going to be here a while. coming to you from beautiful upstate new york this is a slam fill podcast a show about all things pinball i'm your host ron hallett here with the other host bruce nightingale wasn't that thanksgiving dinner great uh the one i had was okay yeah i i had chinese uh oh Did you go to the restaurant and they chopped the head off of the thing like in a Christmas story? Yes. I did go to the buffet, though. I did go to the Chinese buffet. This is episode 260. 260? Yeah. Wow. Yeah. We're almost at 360 view. Another 100 episodes, we'll see everything around us. Uh-huh. Mm-hmm. Another four years for that. How's it been going, Bruce? It's been going great. It's been swell. It's been great. We just might lose some people and gain some people at the same time. What? Oh. Oh. Oh, all right. Let's just take care of that first. Yeah. I'm going to move this. I had this a little lower. It is low, but I like it because I love how people take everything to butthurt situation. Well, well. Expand to butthurt. People were mad about not about what I thought they would be. No! That's the thing. So, okay. So our last episode, we talked about the whole OBX Flippers incident, the IFPA ruling, and the fact that they weren't going to – Back the women's advisory. Well, yeah, the women's committee or advisory committee wanted them to take the points away, and they didn't. And I even said there's no way they're reversing that. they don't, you know, they're not going to do that. And sure enough, I think almost right after our episode, the points actually went through. Yes, they did. So it's like, yep, they're definitely not changing that. So I think when we had our episode, the whole, like, committee had quit. Yes, they did. I think during the episode I saw that. Yes. Yeah. So there's been some updates. Updates. Updates. Again, all through the pinball kineticist who's been the one pretty much covering this. But basically, they just sent out a thing where they were explaining how the whole structure works at IPA. Yes. Which is Josh Harper's dictator, and we all know this. We all know that. See, we say that all the time, but I don't say it as a joke. I mean – No, we know it. He made it for the past – how many years he took it, he ran with it. Guess what? He's made it what it is today. Some people might not like what it is today, but guess what? He's made it a very good thing. So they've instituted the new diversity and inclusion code document. That explains the whole bathroom thing. Yep. We follow it. We're good. Yes, yes. What is the bathroom code at the Rochester Pinball Collective? 34-3492. Just check it. Yes, so any bathroom you can choose. You can even go into a single bathroom. So guess what? We're all covered. and more changes are on the way. I think they're going to have like a new women's committee or something. Yes, they're already in process. In process. Yep. They also explain in IPA, you can get out of it in two ways. You can be suppressed. Yep. Which basically you contact IPA and say. And nothing counts. You don't want points. You want to be suppressed. Yes, but you still want to play pinball. You still want them. The other way is opt out. Opt out. Now, opt out basically means it's all in the tournament director to be able to figure all that out. Basically, you're in the tournament, but you're not in the tournament. Yeah. And from what I've read from other tournament directors, they've all pretty much said, yeah, we ain't doing it. No, what I've heard is if you opt out, I've heard from certain ones, and I'm not going to name names. I've heard from like three or four. if you opt out in their tournament next year you will be on the list where guess what sorry you're not included would we not like like you can't play in it yeah oh okay well most i've heard is just like we don't we don't allow opt-outs yeah no that's well that's gonna be their thing if you do opt out say you don't even come you pay your thing you opt out and say the go like you know you're trying everyone's trying to go for plus you know the points the 128 is the magic number so you get 250 times you know your yeah i don't know any of that stuff so if you say if you were 126 and three people opted out and you missed those points even though you were bragging like hey this is gonna happen next time next year they're gonna say oh yeah i signed up uh no here's your money back sorry thank you very much i'm so confused if you're a tournament director and you're not allowing opt-outs well then why would you say if you will you say you have to allow opt-outs right you don't have to you really don't i don't understand that whole thing you just said at all well the thing about this say if you pay and then you come in the day of okay and you said i'm opting out and you're like sitting there go fuck i we had 129 people and we needed 128 and you're the third opt-out we just screwed everyone else they're gonna say like hey we don't want to screw everyone else your minority vote shouldn't screw everyone else. So guess what? But couldn't you just say we don't allow opt-outs? They don't. But the problem is, most people are saying that. I can't wait until they enforce it. Well, the thing I don't understand, if you know the tournament doesn't allow opt-outs, why would you pay for it and then opt out? Just to be a dick. You can be a dick. That's your way of making your vote or your disgruntled voice heard. Your disgruntled voice. Okay. Think about it. It's like your quiet protest. as far as the yeah i've heard a lot of people say they're going to suppress and all that of course yeah and i know people have yep and remember i said certain areas of the country might have an issue and sure enough the seattle tournament directors were discussing yep you know different options other than ifpa and all that the thing is there's not going to be another ifpa there's not going to be another thing that's gonna nope make any impact nope and and in the end if you have a regional place a regional area it's not countrywide it's not sponsored by stern it's not that too yeah and and in the end i think this will just kind of fade out well i've heard there's there's people who are doing other things too okay yeah i still think in the end no no i don't mean that i'm talking about being very a-holes all right i still think it'll eventually i mean unless i see one of the majors unless i see pinberg all of a sudden say we're not doing ipa well pinson addy got hurt by it i think they lost some people because people opted out they were the first tournament to deal with it and they they got hurt a little bit and you know is that fair to them no not at all But if you want to have a silent thing, then literally you should have talked about it the day after this happened, and you made your decision because you probably already did, and you say, I'm not coming. Don't do it the day of or the day before. That's just being a real – I just – I picture seeing like a leaderboard of like 20 people and 10 of them just say suppressed player. Guess what? That's your – And that's fine because the tournament director doesn't care about it. It's like, okay, that's all on IPA's side. But I think the person that opts out, don't worry. There might be repercussions to you opting out. If you say a popular tournament you want to go to next year. Oh, hey, all my friends are going next year. Oh, wait a sec. I can't join the tournament? Why not? That's not right. I opted out. Sorry. that's the tournament director's choice and you might get burned by that i still think that would have been easier if they just took the points away from obs no what i think they should have done is i like my idea of you know hey guess what for another year or two your ifpa dollars on us whoever got affected encourage more people to come out again now guess what what the first problem was, as I said, was the owner of the business. And it's going to hurt him. The name Flippers, and you can't have an IFPA tournament, boy, that hurts. And you lost your chance possibly maybe for years, you know, because it's one year and then they'll review it. So, I don't know. I don't want to stay on it. No, no, no, I don't want to stay on this either. Pinball kineticists, if you want to see the latest updates on all this stuff. I think it's going the wrong way for every group. And that's all I'm going to say about that. But, hey, I'm going to say one thing. Hey, when you guys unsubscribe, we had some people who unsubscribed. Well, here's the thing. So I debated talking about this in all the last episodes. I don't want to talk about it. And I think we were one of the only podcasts to talk about it. And we paid the price. Guess what? I don't care about the price. Here's the thing. I thought there would be issues with the whole points thing and should they count, should they not count, all that. I thought that would be the big issue and we might lose people over our views on that. No, that wasn't the issue. That wasn't the issue at all. The issue was trans people in the women's room. That was the issue. Basically, no dicks in the women's room. Yeah. because it puts women and children at risk. Yeah. That was literally the comment, and that was the argument some people gave us. That was the argument. We had a longtime listener who I see at Expo every year who basically said, yeah, I'm out. That's fine. I have no problem with that. Guess what? That's your opinion. That's my opinion. Yeah. That's the thing, though. It's like we're in the world where if you listen to something and they have one opinion, one thing that it's just like oh i'm totally not on board with that that's it yeah i can't listen to you anymore it's like on facebook like if you vote for so and so just unfriend me now unfriend me now it's like what the fuck i know we're literally to that point where we are where my my my view is the only view that matters and nobody else's view guess what i am very open to everyone's view if you don't like star wars the stern star wars then unfriend me immediately Don't even bother listening to this podcast. If you don't like Dialed In, fuck you. Of course, they'll argue like this is a much bigger issue than that. No, no. Or you don't like old Stern pinball machines, old ones, the classic Sterns? You don't deserve this podcast. You know, give me a fucking break. If you aren't mature enough to actually see another view and maybe not agree or disagree with it, but go, I'm not listening to you guys anymore for 258 episodes. I enjoyed you guys, but we had one falling out. Guess what? Hang up. Turn off the podcast right now. I'm not going to say that. I will because guess what? You will, but. I will because guess what? Everyone has a right to state their opinion. If you might not agree, I don't agree with everyone's opinion. But guess what? I don't go blabbing to them saying, oh, I'm not going to listen to you. Guess what? well to be fair he did say he sent it to an email like he didn't blast us and if you notice i'm not bringing up the person's name either i'm like the dude on on uh youtube which i didn't know people actually listen to the youtube really we have the podcast is on youtube and it's literally just a picture of us and it's just audio right and so i figured i figured nobody nobody listens to that No, there was like one dude, and he had like four comments, and they were all basically the same thing. No dicks in the women's room. Like, fuck you, Bruce, fuck you, Bruce, and fuck you, Bruce. Like the other three. Wow. Sounds like maybe he touched a little boy. Whoa. What the fuck? I'm sorry, but that's – guess what? That's the good thing about my location. We have separate bathrooms for everyone. We have singular bathrooms. We have men's bathrooms. We have females' bathrooms. So guess what? Everyone has a bathroom. No problem at all. They all use the same fucking code. Yes, the same code. But just the way people handled it. Guess what? If you don't want to listen, I don't care. It doesn't bother me at all. It really doesn't. I don't know if it bothers you. The thing is, we have all kinds of trans folks that play at our tournaments. Exactly. So maybe that's why I have this different opinion. I don't know. But it's just like... Everyone is a human. I listened to you for all these years, but man, this one issue, this is the deal breaker. And we had this before where actually our other listener who emailed us to tell us he was leaving was because of our Zach. Oh. He was talking about, like, the religious pinball machine, and he said some things that were just like, yeah, that was. Sorry. And I'll say that the last episode, I think I went a little too far with one of my descriptions, and I did make an edit on the podcast, so I'll say that. But it's like, I'll tell you, if you don't want to listen anymore, that's fine, but I will gladly play a game with you at Expo like we had the last couple years because this particular person, we have played multiple games at Expo together. Guess what? If he wants to come and talk about the problem, I have no problem with that either. If he doesn't want to talk about it, I have no problem with that either. I'm not going to push my agenda on anybody. That's not my goal here. My goal here is to have someone come along. You do try to tell everybody that dialed in isn't good. No, dialed in is not good. That's a given. And Star Wars sucks, too. So we all know this. That's just a given. We know classic Sterns are rock, and they're awesome. We know Star Wars sucks, and we know people can have choices in this world. It's just so crazy. I thought there was going to be issues with one particular thing, and it wasn't even like that. No, not one person commented about the IPA part. One person actually commented about the IPA part at all, which shows how many people care about tournaments. Nobody. Nobody. It's more about being a human. Sorry, it is. Think about it. If the person or people who don't want to listen anymore and they have kids down the road and they have choices in their lives and they choose to choose those choices, are they going to disown them then? Think about that. Well, I'll end it with just this. This is actually, other than the email saying I'm not listening to you anymore. We had a lot of people that thanked us. Well, I have one either. I had two people privately. They said, thank you for bringing this up. Yes. Oh, really? Yes. And I was like, I don't even know these people. It was like first time chatters. It was not all for naught. No. We got on the internet. I will say the email we got from our now ex-listener, I do like the last line where he basically just says, play more pinball. That's all it is. And I'll say that, yes. Play more pinball. Play more pinball. But our ball bag, and it's going to be a quick ball bag. This is it. This is from Clint. He says, I just wanted to say that I really appreciate your strong response about the issue with a trans player at a recent IFBA tournament. I listen to every episode and love the podcast. Love the normal, light, hardness, and crass jokes. Fuck yeah. Don't change a thing. I just left you a five-star review on Apple. Wow. We're moving on up. Moving on up. to the east side to that deluxe podcast to the sky oh yes we're moving on up moving on up that's one of the best ones ever on a song? oh yeah oh fuck yeah theme songs from oh fuck yeah so good so good let's see you know just for the I'm going to go to our YouTube channel let's see if we got any more I did not realize anyone actually listened I didn't know you were still doing that yeah I'm being honest I didn't well we didn't But they made it an automated thing, so I don't actually have to do anything. You just put your feed in there, and it does everything for you. So when they did that, it's like, yeah, sure, I'll do it. What the hell? So let's see. 390 followers. Afraid of being gender critical, that was the person. Okay, good. Congratulations. The original video isn't there because I had re-uploaded it, but they were all basically, fuck you, Bruce. So congratulations. Same person. So they're a big fan of you, Bruce. Okay. You know, now I think we can talk about pinball. Well, should I say this one next? Because it kind of brings it down. But Marino, I'm going to say Marino because I assume that's how you say it. Marino Zachariah passed away. one of the Zachariah brothers of the famous Zachariah. So what do you say about that, Bruce? Nah. No Italian comments on that one? No, no, because he passed away. Mm-hmm. But yeah, hopefully we can be doing a Zachariah episode soon on my other podcast, the Silver Ball Chronicles, with me and my other host, David Dennis. And we just recorded an episode that will be coming out hopefully soon. And there's the one plug for that. But, yes, Marino Zachariah, one of the, I believe there's three of them, three brothers. Yes. See, I need an episode for Silver Bowl Chronicles so I know how many brothers there were, if they're still around, et cetera. I need more info. I love another person made a comment. dial it back bruce oh oh you're looking at some of the uh the some of the youtube ones yeah i laugh at that like oh just what if you don't like it have a nice fucking day if you don't like it um just close your ears during those parts yeah or or just don't listen hey it doesn't bother me we got plenty of people we can have dissenting views and listen but i totally agree but if you I literally can't stand one of the two people on the podcast. Exactly. You probably shouldn't listen. You probably shouldn't listen at that point. You know, I really like Ron, but that Bruce guy. Oh, I wish Ron would just talk the entire time. Yes, the golden voice of Ron. It would be pretty boring, folks. Trust me Yeah we need the vulgarity And believe it or not I can be more vulgar than Bruce He can way be more vulgar A lot of times some of the material that you think Bruce came up with is actually my idea You know, like having the kids' tournament that's all Judo games. That was totally my idea. It's like he pulls the chainsaw cord and I just... Sometimes before we record, I'll be like, Hey, Bruce, can you say this? something like oh yeah yeah okay so bruce can get all the heat and i can stay i'm the teflon i'm the teflon host you know i don't care i guess what but as you just said you know if two people are on the like i see if we had five or six people but if two people on the podcast and i speak probably 65 percent of the time would you agree with that uh yeah you probably speak more than me why the fuck are you listening well maybe they like you when you're not going crazy I'm always crazy. No, they want a calmer version of you. They want the version like when you're falling asleep and you're not with it and stuff. That's what they want. Hi. There you go. I've been on painkillers for a couple of weeks now. Yeah, that'll be me, yes. And I'll be just relaxing here and doing a great podcast, a slam-till podcast. Thank you. Hello. I'm Bob Ross. You can make a pinball, do whatever you want in your world. My drool is dripping down the side of my cheek because I lost all muscle control. I don't want that. I want to have fun. I'm going to enjoy myself. You want to drool? I can drool at will. I love drooling. God, I drool in my sleep. My pillow. See, that was the one thing about COVID was you had to give those spit tests. Oh, the blob things? Yeah. No, like the spit. We did a spit test. You had to spit to a cup. Yeah, spit, spit. This was like a dream come true for me because since I can remember, I've always had like super overactive saliva glands where I can literally just drool on command. And most people would take a few shots to get enough into the cup up to the line. And me, like I'm going over the line like no problem. Ting! You must have liked the spitting gallery on Championship Pub, right? Ting! The Champion Pub? Yes. Yes. All right. Next item. we got Wonderland Amusements you know those at that company they're doing the Alice in Wonderland the cheaper the cheaper one which I was surprised actually was playable when I was at Expo I could hit all the ramps and stuff their next game is going to be I wrote TMNT so I assume that means Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles so that's interesting another theme that's been done a couple times and we'll do it again that's right it's been a couple times Yes. Hopefully it'll be green. Let's see. What do we got here? Mutants in a half shell. Turtle power. Black Friday. Yeah. Black Friday. There was some interesting sales in Amazon for Stern pinball machines. Yes, there was. From the Stern Amazon store. And I wrote these specific ones down. They were selling, you could get a new in-box Venom or John Wick Pro for 5K. Wow. I'm guessing they are not selling, and they need to get rid of them. They also had, and I guess these aren't there anymore, but they had WIC premiums for $7,300. Wow. Yeah. What do you think about that? Would you be pissed if you were a distributor? No, you can't be because it's their own. It's selling direct. They're trying to get rid of their. Guess what? If they're not selling it to the customers or to the distributors, they need to get rid of their inventory. So they have a bigger price point to work with. So they're cutting out the distributor, and they're getting rid of inventory that is just sitting in a box, possibly up to a year. So I think it's a smart move. Is it good for distributors? No, not at all. but you have to get rid of inventory and lately the games have yeah after kong i don't even think kong is just okay it shoots great it's great but it's just it's a long player that's the problem with kong not in our league not when i'm playing i can't get used to that center post at all i just forget it's there yeah well let's say let's stay on the subject of stern Okay, let's stay on it. If you remember one of our previous episodes, we said how Stern kind of screwed up and had the X-Men accessories on their store for a brief period when they didn't want it on there yet, and it was pulled. Well, they just released the video, and they're now in the store, the X-Men accessories. What I thought was interesting was when they showed the accessories when they were briefly on the website when they weren't supposed to be. They had the art blades, the side armor, the speaker light kit, and the topper, and the shooter knob. Now that it's released, there's no shooter knob. What do you think's up with that? I want my knob job. And on the video, you can see where they never show the knob at any shot. It cuts off before they show the shooter knob. Maybe it didn't pass the muster. Didn't pass the muster, like maybe it didn't get approved. Yeah, probably didn't get approved from Marvel yet, and maybe it will later on. Who knows? Maybe they're not selling as much. I know Zach Manny always says they sell shooter rods like they're going out of style. Hi, Zach. I thought the Expression Lighting was the number one seller. I would think so, too. I like the Expression Lighting. Yeah, Lighting. The Topper, though. See, I like the Topper, but for $1,500? No fucking way. I mean, you got the Evil Dead Topper. That's $1,400, that thing. Yeah. That is magnificent. And then you got this thing that's $1,500. I'd rather buy a 50-inch TV screen, put it on top, and play X-Men videos on the DVD and just repeat. I mean, Stern had one of the best ones of all time. Black Knight Sword of Rage, and it was $500. I know. Or R2-D2. Well, that was overpriced still. I know, but still. Yes. Yes, but I just – I know. Cash grab. Well, yes, 100% is a cash grab, but I mean that's what you got to do. You got to make money. No, no. You have to make money. Guess what? Would you buy that topper for $900? Yeah, maybe. Yeah. Okay. Okay, so you might sell more at a cheaper price. Would you make as much – would you sell double? probably not but you might you might make some goodwill like a person's purchasing a you know say a premium and it's ninety three hundred dollars now i'm gonna oh i gotta buy the topper gotta buy the expression lights gotta buy this now i'm up to almost twelve thousand dollars almost price of an le because i can't get the le because i missed out on the first day possibly you know and you know the toppers it's like another thing to complain about too when they because harry Harry Potter. Universally, it seems that everyone thinks this is a hit. Everyone loves the game. But the one thing they say is that Topper sucks. It's like, oh, they couldn't get the 100% win there. Something had to be wrong. And, yeah, actually, when you look. And that's the perfect thing to be wrong. Because it's an option. That's true. I'd rather the game be good. Well, actually, no. It's not an option. It's on the CE. If it was an option, you could buy it for one of the other ones, but you can't. But look at this. Mandalorian's topper looks pretty cool, and it's priced at $1,200, if I remember correctly. And way too much money for that. But if the game was good, maybe they might have sold more of those too. So you're damned if you do, you're damned if you don't. I can't wait to see the accessories for Fall of the Empire. Okay. Well, we haven't got to that one yet. Oh, boy. So I had a comment here. Still no Walking Dead gameplay from Stern, but then it came out yesterday. Yesterday. And a few things struck me from watching this. It was basically Raymond Davidson and Jack Danger and John Borg playing it. And, man, is there a chiller guy than John Borg? Oh, he's so easygoing. But they're playing the game, and I was really interested in some of the stuff he was talking about, about the original game. The fact that one of the actors they recorded for the new Walking Dead remastered, they had recorded him in 2014 for the original one and then didn't use it because of the whole licensing snafu. For those who don't remember, basically, Lyman and obviously other people, if they recorded this guy's dialogue, thought they had more of the license than they did. Yeah, they locked in, they thought. And then they found out they couldn't actually use anything from the show. It was literally just the name. So they had to restart it. And that's why it was basically in alpha code when it first came out. Yeah. That was interesting that that solidifies that that was 100% true. The fact that they actually recorded the guy in 2014, and then they couldn't use it, you know. But I'm watching the game, and it definitely looks like it plays a little kinder than the original one. 19 coils. It's got a lot of coils. 19. So the other thing I found interesting is the fact that none of the extra stuff is available in the code. They're talking about all the extra stuff that's coming. It's going to have a couple extra like wizard modes, and it's going to have all this stuff, and all these suggestions are coming in. And I'm thinking like, shouldn't that have already been there? Yeah, I think so. I think that was a miss again. I think they pushed it way too early. I think they should have released it next month. I mean, not even next month because it doesn't sound like they're ready with the new stuff yet. I know, but at least you would say, oh, it's a month away. No, it's like two and a half, three months away. Yeah, but look at Metallica. You've got to go buy Metallica for the ultimate way to do the remaster. That had the new stuff in it from the start. Yeah. I mean, that was pretty much done. I mean, bug fixes and stuff, but I mean, that was ready to go. Yeah. And everyone loved that one. So this one, it's like first you have the art. Everyone thinks it's too bright. No, it's way too bright. Way too bright. Yeah, whatever. Death horror movie. And it's not necessarily one of the ones people were asking for. They want Tron. They want, like, Lord of the Rings, which I don't think you're ever going to get Lord of the Rings. But the other – You know what they needed to do instead of, like, the colorful? They needed to do the Wizard of Oz. You're out of the woods. You're out of the – you're out of the time. And then bang. You shoot Wizard of Oz when you're shooting the – okay. The zombie Wizard of Oz. Zombie Wizard of Oz. We represent the zombie land. The Munchkin zombies. Yeah. It's on VLAN. It's on VLAN. But, yeah, it just seems like this was not ready. No, not even close. I think that this is almost alpha in their new code. Well, here's the thing. So I'm looking at the display, and it looks like literally what they're doing is they're taking the DMD animations and just LCD-ifying it, making graphics. I would say they look fine. They look fine. But what they have is, so they have this horizontal strip in the center of the LCD, which is the size of what the DMD would have been. And that's where all the video is. The bottom is just a border that has your scores in it and other info about, like, how many weapons you have and all that. And then the top has, like, what ball you're on and some other information. So they're literally, it's like a static UI with the DMD in the center. again as opposed to Metallica which had a total redo it's just it's just I don't I don't know man yeah I think yeah Metallica was a full point this is a half point half point you're crying at the end of the game like I'm sure I'll give you better luck next time so Project Pinball Project Pinball. Our friends, they put games into children's hospitals and they raise money by raffles. It's a raffle, not an auction. It's a raffle where you can win a brand new game. Somebody of our group has done it. Which I did once, yes. And I still enter in most of them. They had one for Beetlejuice. And then two and three. It sold out in less than a minute, and it's 200 people to fill it up, like $130 a pop, whatever it is. Yeah. And so they had arranged this with Spooky. They were going to have six of them. Yeah. They sold out like the first few were just instant. Yeah, gangbusters. By the end of that day, they had sold out all six. Yeah. I'm looking. They currently have a Walking Dead remastered LE. Yep. It's at like 30%. Yep. And it's been up there for over a month. Yes. That's, yeah. That's not good, Stern. You picked the wrong game, the Vault. Plus, I forgot, they're supposed to be having one of their Cornerstones coming out? Yeah, it should be in January. I totally forgot about that. It seems like Star Wars just came out to me. Star Wars! So, and the rumor is it's going to be Transformers? Yes, that's what everyone keeps on saying. Hopefully the cartoon one, I assume, and not the movie one. Supposedly it's Elliot Iseman, the guy who did John Wick. Supposedly the next two titles from them are Transformers and Pokemon. The order is not known, like one or the other. Like Pokemon is the game that Jack Danger is working on that Gomez is now finishing up. Woo, I'm going to be keeping more money in my pocket. I can see that happening. So those are the rumors. But we mentioned Star Wars. Now, Bruce, you got to play the new Star Wars. Yes, I did. I played it now. This is my third time. And you have it at the world-famous Rochester Pinball Collective. Where is that located? Not yet. It will be there Thursday. It better be there Thursday because you have a launch party. On Friday and Saturday. Okay. It's there Thursday. That's at 349 West Commercial Street, East Rochester, New York. Yes, it is. Suite 2965. Yes, it is. and okay premium you oh you're a premium okay so but you got to play what was the one you played i played premium and pro oh premium and pro okay bruce you played us for the first time what do you got this day this is the third time okay pro is better pro is better than the premium okay always better than the beater for out the bat that's all right thoughts okay second And it makes – Ron's going to love this. It makes Star Wars, you know – It makes Steve Ritchie Star Wars. Steve Ritchie Star Wars. Okay. Whoa. So-so. Whoa. Not the rules. The rules suck in the Steve Ritchie one. No, they're great. No, they suck. They suck, suck, suck. Oh, okay. the rules are better in the fall of the empire it's the game itself what the fuck okay is that floaty that bad when floaty that could be a setup issue bruce no no no all three i played so it's impossible to not make it floaty according to you well no i'm not saying that but i'm saying everyone is just like it just hits off the sling not the slingshot it hits off the pop bumpers above the things. It's like back and forth, like tennis fucking match again. I'm like, oh, my God, stop. Okay. And then it barely clips it, and then, oh, I'm going to arch and go right down the middle. Like, no power drains. Like, I'm used to sterns. Like, you know, you hit the slingshot, you're ready to jar it a little bit so it doesn't go right out. Nope. Nope, not at all. I think you're playing faulty units or something. Yeah, and then Jabba the Hutt shot. Oh, bad. uh how about the whirlpool that is the job oh that's a job yeah it's terrible uh what else uh the death star shot uh reject the city oh it still rejects i thought they were working on it okay wait no yeah and then wait it gets better and then i had so many rejects off the left shot for the locks for uh i forget which multi well that one is i got in there three times and each time right out right out like you fucker so i'm like watching everyone else and everyone else had the same problem on their games i'm like oh good at least it's not just me oh i just was not happy it just once you get it going it's an okay game okay it does not wow me at all all right it does not not allow okay and we'll get ron's thoughts next year next month oh sorry the end of this month in our year in review coming right at you. It's the year in review coming right at you. And I'm going to give him a challenge. I kind of said my, I mean, the expo, my expo recap, I kind of said what I thought it was. I know, but we're going to go, we're also going to do what you think is going to happen in 2026. Okay. I'm going to put that in your mind so you have two weeks to chew on it. And listeners, if you have any questions, Yes, please. You can send them in to theballbag at slamtailpodcast.gmail.com, or you can post it to our Facebook page. And if anybody wants to come on the podcast, if you're still listening, you can post also. You can send us an email. You can say hi. Hi. Hi. How are you? But, yeah, no, I was not a fan. I want to see what Ron's reaction is when he plays it a couple times. It just was like, ugh. I thought it was. I want it. Actually, you know, it was next to Star Trek Next Generation. Ah. And Mark has a terrible Star Trek Next Generation because. Poor Mark. The reason why is colored LEDs. He fucking clown puked it. Oh, okay. So all the bottom is blue. So you can't even see on a black play field blue lighting. It's worse than white lighting because you can't see anything. Is it black and blue? Yes. And it's just like you're looking down like, oh, wow, there's the ball. Barely I can see it. And his room's dark. You're like, holy fuck. Mark, stop clown puking. And guess what I played more than anything else? Star Trek. Make it sound like a lot. Brand new Stern game right next to it. And I was like, fuck that game. Well, you hate Stern, so come on. I don't hate Stern. Sure you do. No, I don't. I love Godzilla. There hasn't been a good game since Star Trek. I had my best Foo Fighters game ever. Ever. I was on Mark's LE. I got $478 million. I was like, woo-hoo! And I did everything I needed to do. Got the Area 51 got the this got the that Commotron I mean you got to be Commotron Yeah I got to be Commotron I was like woo I was in the Flynn Played awesome You were in the Flynn Yep In like Flynn. In like Flynn, yes. And I was so happy. I was like, this is the way a game should play. Just a lot of fun, a lot of enjoyment. Star Wars, I'm sorry. Okay. Star Wars. I can't even get enthused about it. The old times would be like, Star Wars! It's like Star Wars. I'm talking Star Wars. Star Wars. Yay. Okay. Yay. Do you notice there's barely any Ben Kenobi in this new one? Well, did you know that it appears that there will be 4K original trilogy? Stop it. It's happening. Yes, it leaked. There have been a bunch of clips that have leaked out, and they're on YouTube. They haven't been pulled yet, but it's just including scenes that were, you know, replaced in the special editions. Ah, how about, are they bringing back Biggs in the beginning? Biggs in the beginning? Yeah, did you ever see the end scene where they cut it out where he was? They added that in. The one, the extra Biggs stuff or whatever, they added in to the special edition. Hopefully they cut that out. Yeah, cut that out. That guy sucked. I don't know what he had with his porno mustache. Yes. But he got me distracted. He did have a porn mustache. He did have a porn mustache. He got screwed on that day, and he had a lot more footage than the original. I know he had a lot of footage. And they cut it all out. Yeah. This guy ain't good. Let's cut him out. Okay. That's why you were supposed to know, like, him and Luke were all buddy, buddy and stuff. And that was supposed to be emotional. Hey, I hate it, Biggs. Look at me. I told you. But really, it's just a dude with a mustache who gets blown up. Yeah. Yeah. Plastic Biggs, where are you? Yeah. Plastic Biggs, where are you? Thanks, Reg. Yeah. They announced it's going to be, they're going to have the original Star Wars, the theatrical cut or whatever. It's going to be in 2027 for the 50th anniversary. Nice. So I will be going to a theater to watch that. Wow. Hey, we should go together. Because I went there. We'll enjoy Star Wars together. I've still never seen the original Star Wars in a theater. I went in 97 when I thought I was going to see it, and I saw that abomination. Now, remember, I didn't realize it was any kind of special edition before I came in there because, you know. What the fuck's that thing? Well, when I was walking in, some people were walking out, and I heard them talking about, oh, yeah, when the Death Star blows up, it has this, like, ring thing around it now. Like, what? What the hell is he talking about? Yeah, then I had to watch that abomination with all that CGI. I saw it in 77, son. 77. Yeah, I didn't see it then. At the drive-in. No. Newton drive-in. I would have been three, so I probably would have just went. I was six, and I was like, oh, my God. I had Star Wars, the toys and the figurines and all that stuff. Oh, yeah. Wait a minute. You had the toys and figurines before the movie? How did you do that? No, after that. As soon as I saw it, I was like, oh, my God. I was playing with my figurines while watching the premiere. I was playing with a lot of things when I was younger. Whoa. Oh, my desk. My sports is as big as yours. Yes, that'll be coming. Space balls to the switch for more money. Money. I probably go straight to Netflix and hopefully it won't be bad. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. All right. Next. So I just had some notes here about the Dutch pinball open. Ah, that occurred just that they did. one of the seminars was on harry potter they had all the the David Van Es dutch team who did all the uh display animations for harry potter there and David Van Es at the end he said how he's actually he's leaving jjp after 14 years he said i'm like yeah 2011 that's he was there from the beginning yeah and i i think the first at the beginning it was just him and as they went on he's added more people and actually had a team yeah of guys that work on there where he's kind of more of a supervisory role yeah i think he's the he still does some stuff but it seems like he was more like the guy he's the department head of that yeah so he is leaving what do you say it was just funny the way he said it so after 14 years i i think it's time to do something else Yeah, it could be. But it sounded like his team would still be doing the display animations for JJP. Good, good. I just thought that was interesting. Yeah, it is very interesting, and good luck in his future endeavors. And then Jack Danger was there with the Stern team. Gary Stern was there. Drunk. And Jack Danger, he ripped off my idea. Uh-oh. I might have talked about this on the podcast at some point. I always thought it's kind of ripped off my idea. having some kind of reality show where you see them making a game and they film the whole thing like you're in the boardroom and they come up with the ideas. When the arguments happen, when the blah, blah, blah, you know, all the kind of shit that happens in a reality show, however you want it to make it. And basically what he said is he's going to design a game beginning to end. And it's going to be a license. And they're going to film it all. So you're going to see the whole process from beginning to end. it's like damn it he ripped off my idea telling you that was my idea okay and i thought that was pretty cool but it's gonna have to be a license that's not a super huge license if they're just gonna say it right off the bat what it is imagine it was like beavis and butthead we're gonna be doing like oh god that would drive me yeah now i'd be driving nuts like i here's the meeting where you talk about ideas i'd be shouting ideas out you gotta do this you gotta do this all right what else do i have here oh well we we thought we had the dates for stop and we do you you announced the dates for stop i did announce it and we had to stop and pump the brakes we had to pump the brakes ron ron figured out something well i didn't figure out something so it was supposed to be april what 24th to the yes 26 or whatever. Yep. And when I was watching tournament finals from the Delaware Pinball Collective. Hello, Delaware Pinball Collective. Hello. They happened to mention, like, yes, it hasn't been announced yet, but we have the, what do they call it, the Mid-Atlantic? Mid-Atlantic Championship. Championship. They're going to have there, and it's going to be a circuit event. Yep. And then they said, it's going to be April 24th, 25th, and 26th. It's like, oh, yeah. It's like, well, you just lost all your downstaters that would have played and stopped at that point. Yep. So May 15th through the 17th, boys and girls. Okay. That's when we're going to do it. Tickets go on sale January 1st. Information will be put out in a couple days. All right. Yes. So we had to change. Fuck. and uh we're talking uh yours for uh for uh what's it called uh fall brawl will be still september 20th okay fall brawl fall brawl sounds like a wrestling event yes sounds like a wrestling i think i think there was one called fall brawl yes there was yes and then uh hey i hear the new bike three cabinets are out oh god oh gosh okay so let's just start digging some more shit on stern oh my god so yeah somebody yeah they posted a picture of let's say who did it walking dead yeah they somebody did and uh it was uh don's pinball not don's it was the other one i think it's carrie hardy carrie hardy yes yes so and people were just freaking out about how it looks oh it's bad it's cheap you think it's cheap well i think it's built cheaply it really is like the center support is a metal piece instead of wood and and it's not meshing together properly and it's you know and it's crooked literally it's crooked okay and uh there's holes in the side above the legs. That's not right. Well, the holes, I believe, are probably from some kind of future. But how? The leg's blocking it. Some super leg blighting or something. What the fuck? It was just, I was like, wow, you've been plugging this. Not a fan. You've been plugging this Spike 3 cabinet, like the newest things in sliced bread. And, yeah, it just seemed like you just saved $100 or $50 in wood. Let's see how they hold up. Maybe it'll be another Ghostbusters where the legs keep on loosening up and the corner brackets break. Well, supposedly there's a steel bracket that's keeping those corners together. I'm trying to find. There was. George Gomez said what all the new features were. I'm trying to find the damn thing here. Yeah. God damn it. I should be more prepared. God damn it. Number one, why don't you do this? I thought, I just read it too. This is pissing me off. This is pissing me off. Let's see. Well, while I'm looking for it, why don't you talk about repairs? I'm going to talk about something else. Hey, Ron, do you watch TV? Do I watch TV? No, I do not watch TV, and you know that. Yes, I know that. But you should watch Watson. Episode, what, nine of season two of Watson? Yes. Everyone should watch it. and why should they watch it bruce because uh the one kid who's in the show he designs he's designing his own pinball machine yes and he talks about george gomez as being his favorite designer but keith ellen's the hot one right now yeah but but george gomez is his favorite yes and they made a what what they say they made they made uh the pinball idea originally he had stranger things But they already made that, so I'm going to do Edgar Allan Poe, the Telltale Heart. I don't think that's going to sell too well. No, I don't think so either. Never more. Never more. But, yeah, I'm looking at the corner brackets right here. Ron, I have the picture. They're there. It looks like a Stern style, like the Williams style. They're pretty big. They're pretty beefy. But, yeah, the bottom piece is really – Like the piece that holds the coin box in is just three pieces of sheet metal with a little tab at the end. Not even wood that surrounds anymore. It's just pieces of metal screwed in. The center bracket behind the speaker, metal screwed in. It's just very, very cheap looking. It scares you? It scares me. I'm scared that I can't find the damn post I know I read. this is driving me nuts you're lost without it you're not prepared i'm not prepared i guess yeah so uh this cabinet was given up and the pictures inside and i was like oof even the the tilt bob is still the tilt bob is actually bent in the picture wait a minute how's the bob that you mean the the what the the thing the bob is on yes no no the actual bob the rod itself the rod yes is bent yes okay but without the bottom piece on it not without the without the counterweight it's still bent brand new so you're saying people are not a fan of the new design i wouldn't be it's just being cheaper upon cheaper upon cheaper and it's just well someone said uh that they thought it's yeah it was basically they don't want to raise the price of the game so they're going to keep their same profit margin. Of course. But I wish I could find it. I'll find it by the next damn episode. But basically, Gomez was asked about it, and he gave a whole list of the changes and all that kind of stuff and why they're good, as everyone like you is shitting on them. Yep. I'm sorry, George. I tried to defend Stern, but I can't find the damn post. I literally just read a few hours ago. I thought it was in a certain place, but it does not appear to be. This is driving me nuts. We drive you wild. They'll drive you crazy. Oh, no. You heard them. They were even with the president this weekend. What, Kiss? Yes. They were honored. They were honored? At the Kennedy Center. Oh, my God. Yes. Why? because we're kiss and that's all that's right because i'm kiss that's right i'm kiss i'm kiss we we actually took uh ace freely's award and uh we're gonna melt it down and make some money off of it because no we're gonna take his award and then sign it and then sell it sell it and make more money on it actually i have a stamp of ace freely's signature and we'll just stamp it on When he left the band, he had to sell his signature to us. He had to sell his signature to us. That's how it always works here at Kiss, because Kiss, we're only after one thing, the cash. Kiss is cash. Cash is Kiss. The other thing about Walking Dead I want to mention is it's going to have a selectable 2014 mode. So if you don't want the new stuff, you can play the old school. That's kind of cool, though. I like that idea. I think that's a good idea. I don't think they're going to sell a lot of them. I just don't think so. It doesn't seem like it. It was just – it's like – I think it's going to be one run and done. It's like if Metallica was just how to kill it and do everything right, this has been the opposite. Opposite, yep. Because I just don't think it was ready. No, no, no. It's just not ready. Not ready for primetime. The play field looks ready, but I don't think the code's ready. Not when they're talking about, oh, yeah, we're still coming up with cool ideas and stuff. They're like, what? It's like people are buying this now. Yeah. And the fact that they finally – they were supposed to have a gameplay video like a month ago. Yeah, I know. And I think they felt they probably had to do this at this point because people were getting their games and streaming it. Yeah, before they were. So it's like they're beating the actual manufacturer. They're beating the manufacturer. On actually showing the game off. So, yeah. Yeah, that's not smart, guys. But, yeah. So, repairs? Repairs. I started working on Torpedo Alley finally during my whole debacle of debacles I've been dealing with. I want to say one thing. Everyone who's asked about what I've been going through, I have responded to you personally, and thank you for checking up on me and looking at it. It's nothing to do with me, nothing to do with my wife. It's family issues that I'm dealing with, and it's not good ones. Ron saw some of the side effects of it, and I think Ron was even blown away. The side effect is he can't have league at his house currently. No, I can now, but I'm not going to because I don't have enough time. Oh, okay. It's all emptied out again. But, yeah, it's just been – I've been going through a nightmare with a lot of things, and it's probably going to be literally years of going through it, which is not fair to myself, my family, and unfortunately it's just going to be part of my life probably for a while. and uh it's gonna cut back on a lot of other things in my life so that's the bad part about it uh i don't have a lot of time for repairs lately so but i did get the touch torpedo alley i started to the flipper rebuild and the base plate welds broke and i need new base plates so i had to order those up uh yep yeah having fun with the magoo game let's just say that You, you've done it again. Poor Mike. I love Mike, though. But, yeah. Yes. Yes, Mike. Our league just ended. Yes. Our latest, I guess, winter or fall league, or would it be winter? Probably fall, yeah. I did not win, Bruce. I finished third. What? I didn't win. That's a fail. It is a fail. I love all the games there. I think you now should give up your Slam Tilt podcast card, and we'll find who wants to join us on the next Slantville podcast. Even Ron can't win shit anymore. He sucks. He sucks. Here's the funny thing. I look back to my IFPA last tournament I played in. Can you guess the last tournament I played in? Probably one at Rochester. Probably league or something. No, it was league. It was actually league the last time. So my league ended in April. That was the last tournament I played in. How about me? I'm like 70th something in New York, so I ain't making that shit. Nope, I'm 80th, 89th. Yeah. I think I'm higher in Pennsylvania. Thank you, Alan. Yikes. But, yeah. So, sorry. There we go. We're back to the old. I started working on Torpedo Alley, putting some of that together, uh rebuilding the flippers on one side at least the second side of course i'm waiting for the base plate now uh what else uh what else happened this week we have a weird issue on the tommy keeps on blowing the 50 volt uh solenoid so probably one of the coils is bad we have to figure out which one and when it does blow it just takes out a ton of shit it's pretty wild how william boot almost so i have to figure that that's going on oh what else oh remember my uh star trek le when about two years ago i broke the ramp sure you've had so many issues with that i'm losing track but yes i we broke the ramp again same one the left one so we luckily pinball life has them for sale 149 so we're gonna have to get a new one of those like again and every time i contact cliffy and i've contacted him multiple times like i need your protectors they're better they're bigger never returned my emails oh does he have protectors for that yes bigger better stronger longer couldn't you just buy them no not only on his website uh-huh yes and i email him he's like email me to get contact information to buy these oh oh and i email and email and email and email and email and guess what i get it's probably you're probably blocked blocked yeah Try a different email address when you email him. That's what I would do. Yeah, maybe. But I did it from the pinball, from Rock Pinball. Yeah. You did it from Rochester Pinball Collective. Maybe you guys just spam him, so he's just blocking it. And I did it also from my own. Oh. So, yes, I'm like, you know, like, yeah, I'm like, I wish, and I've heard a lot of other people say he's just overwhelmed, but answer me. Don't you know who I am? No, I don't care about that. I want to write protector so I don't destroy another ramp. Yeah. $150 is $150. Plus decal. And swap out. And those things aren't easy to swap out. You've got to remove the warp ramp. It's a Steve Ritchie game. None of it's going to be easy. It's one thing I learned about Steve. There's only one game worse than that. And that's whitewater. The ramps overlap. Yeah, I've never done a whitewater, but it looks like it would suck. The worst ramp situation I ever did. was actually not the game I thought it would be. World Cup soccer? That's the funny thing. No. What? See, I would think it would be World Cup soccer or, you know, like Star Trek Next Generation when I had that although that really wasn an issue with the ramps No Well the ramp technically underneath the playfield the subway But even that wasn that hard to remove No No no It just sucks It was actually Dirty Harry. Dirty Sanchez? Yes. Wow. Because the ramps crisscross. They do crisscross. So you have to take them off at the same time, but then there's also a buck there and a thing that comes up that you've got to get off. I just remember it was a pain in the ass. Yeah. I can see it. Yeah, so other than that, just basic little repairs going around right now. Yeah, I just want to get Torpedo Alley done, and then I want to pull out. I've been wanting to pull out Meteor for a while, but with all the shit going on with me. He wants to pull out, folks. I want to pull out the Meteor. Give it the old cleaning. Get working. Oh, I did buy something else this past month. Okay. Yes. I've owned two of them. I've owned one and a half, and now I've owned another full one. Can you guess what I am? Two of them? I've owned one and a half, and now I own another one fully. So now I've owned two and a half. What game am I? Another Dragon Fist? Nope. I only own one Dragon Fist. Oh. So think of the games I only own half of. And you know a couple of them. Well, it's not Fireball Classic, is it? No, no, no. No. No. Scooby-Doo? No. Oh, no. I don't know. Another Gamertron I bought. Oh, God. Another Gamertron. Yes. Yep. Are you just trying to buy all of them so no one else can enjoy the awesomeness that is Gamertron? I want one for myself again. Ah, okay. I want the RPC, and then I want one at home again. Because I had one at home for a while, and then I sold it, and then I was like, God, I really missed that game. It's one of the few games I go downstairs and play. so that's it i actually have some repairs believe it or not believe it or not yes pretty easy stuff though um i just went through all my old sterns and bent the one guide the trough guide down so i don't get the deal where it bounces back into the trough over oh Yeah, yeah, yeah. They bend. After a while, they kick up. Yeah, they bend up. So you've got to bend them back down, and that will stop it from continually going back in the trough, which is a pain in the ass during a tournament. The other thing is my Surf and Safari had an issue with the right flipper. It would just occasionally just drop, like further down. Then you'd flip it, and then it'd be back in position again. And I thought it was something to do with like the – what did I think it was? Like the – because the shoe is a separate part. Yes. It's on the metal shaft part. And I thought maybe there was some slippage there. But it was actually slipping way more than that. So it wasn't that. And what it was, it was just – it was loose on the shaft. The two screws – it's got the two screws that go into the shaft, which I hate. I hate that fucking design. It's terrible. As opposed to like the Williams one where you're just the whole thing, you're tightening around it. Yeah. One of them just got loose. But since the other one was still tight, it would like fall back into the divot that's in the shaft. So it would never – because you would think if it was loose that it would slowly go off like more and more and more and more. But no, because of the other ones like in a divot, it would snap back in over and over. It would go out of position and back in, out and back in. So I just tighten the shit out of it and hopefully it will not happen again. there you go so it's back baby yeah baby and i think that's it okay other than the fact that i couldn't figure out how to get the play field out like on service safari you lift it up you're supposed to be able to pull it towards you it even has brackets so you can put it yeah we never pull ours out either and and i know i did it because when i shopped it i had the thing pulled out and sitting on there when i was working on it but i pull the shit out of it it will not move and it's Okay, forget it. I'll put the pre-filled all the way up there. But I know it worked before. I'm missing something here. Yeah, I don't remember either because it acts the same way. I've tried to pull it once or twice, and I'm like, nah. Yeah, it won't move. Am I supposed to lift and pull, but lift from the back? You're supposed to touch the backside while lifting up on it and massage it very gently and make sure it's happy. Okay. Happy ending. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yes. so that's repairs okay yeah hopefully I'll get into with Christmas coming up and everything like that I'm going to probably work on a game or two hopefully before the end of the year got a lot of games in storage at the RPC have yourself a merry little Christmas a merry little hand job why must you ruin everything because it's a Yuletide joint I'm sure that's a Yuletide joint it's a Yule log Do you do it while you're under the mistletoe? Yes, I do. Let's see. I also have one more note here. This is more how this would pertain to pinball if it happens because it looks like there might be some issues to this. Netflix buying out Warner. Possibly. Possibly because now Paramount is coming in and trying to do a hostile takeover. and there might be issues with Netflix buying as far as antitrust being that if they were to buy them, you'd have basically, I think, five media conglomerates that control everything. Yeah. It would be Netflix, Paramount, Disney, Universal, and I think MGM slash Amazon. Yes. I think I got them all, which is pretty fucked up. It's just like there's hardly any companies anymore. No. I think if Netflix buys Warner, that's the end of HBO. They'll kill that. They'll kill all theatrical stuff because they'll just stream everything. And there goes movie theaters. I think movie theaters are done anyway, to be honest. After the strike and after COVID, that was just – I think some will still be around, but I think people don't want to go to the movies to watch. They'll go to the theaters to watch movies. They would rather watch them at home. It's pretty bad when you go look at the movie theater schedules now for Christmas and they have like all these old good movies from Christmas playing every weekend. Like you can go see National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Yeah, they keep playing. Yeah. Yeah, but guess what? That's actually smart for them because what they're putting out these days sucks. Yes. But it's like most people – there's people now, they just build their own home theaters in their house, like the home theater room. And it's like you can watch movies whenever you want. You don't have to go to theater. me and my wife were walking through walmart getting food and everything like that and we went from one side to the other side so we're passing the electronics section i'm like hey look honey 86 inch tv for 700 dollars yeah huh yeah like what the fuck i paid 12 or 13 four years ago and now they're six seven hundred dollars yeah half like jesus fucking christ yeah 85 inch uh you know uh what's it called uh good brands too wasn't it wasn't cheap shit like tcl or that kind of stuff this was you know so many tcl is it cheap well compared to other brands yes it is okay like you know lg and sony and so the netflix thing we're to go through i mean how you think that affects pinball as far as licensing do you think it'll be harder to deal with or easier to deal with or no no no well stranger things i don't know how to deal with stranger things i I never heard a bad thing about the Stranger Things license. I think isn't Beetlejuice like Warner? Yes. The thing is, if you have licensing people you always work with. Yeah, so is Looney Tunes. They might be bye-bye. And I would think that could be a problem depending on who replaces them. No, trust me. They're going to try to sell every license they can. You know why? To help pay for the fucking buyout. Whoever gets them, they got to pay for that thing. So guess what? Hey, you want to do another Looney Tunes pinball machine, you know, volume two? Come on out. Hey, another Harry Potter? Come on down. Whatever we can. So all I know is someone in the physical media like me, you better go out and buy every Warner Archive release you can. Because if they get bought by Netflix, that shit's going to go bye-bye. I have a question for you. Did you hear a rumor about the next JJP? a rumor about the next jjp i've heard one of the or what coming up i've heard sonic and then i've heard uh top gun top gun i heard that big time okay so from two different sources don't even know each other two different sources don't even know each other see i would think that would be the Steve Ritchie one but yes supposedly they said sonic for him which it doesn't seem like that would be him no to me it seems that that would be more maybe more exciting yeah do Sonic. I see Steve Ritchie more as oh yeah, give me that Highway to the Danger Zone. You know, I did F-14 Tomcat. I always wanted to do the actual Top Gun. Because that's basically what it is. Yes. Highway to the It better have Danger Zone in it or just get out. I mean, come on. But yeah, I heard Top Gun. Would you get any of the music? Take My Breath Away, right? Wasn't that in the original one? and you've lost that love and feeling, maybe they can get that one. You've lost that love and feeling. But it'll probably be based on Maverick, I would imagine. Yeah, I think it's going to be Maverick. Where he's got to fly in and hit the exhaust port and get out before the – Oh, wait a minute. It's literally Star Wars to Maverick. He's got to go in and get the exhaust port and whatever. We're going in full throttle. Throttle, yes. Yes. Totally agree. I was like, holy shit. All the way to the – It's like the Big Bang Theory when they're watching Indiana Jones and they're like, what did you think of it? She's like, well, you know, it was okay. Sheldon's girlfriend. She's like, what do you mean? It's the greatest movie of all time. He goes, well, if Indiana Jones wasn't there, it really would happen the same exact way. Probably greatest of the Lost Stars. Yeah. Yes. You see Sheldon like, fuck. that's what i feel like you know you just told me about maverick and top gun i'm like yeah it is a fucking star wars fuck although i i don't think that's true because if if he wasn't there at all they would have just got the medallion from what's her name yes and then he would have found it and then they would have found them and then they would have had the correct coordinates in the map room and they would have but they would have found arc and then they would actually yeah then they would have went to the island and then they would all fried and they were fried so done even if he wasn't there it would have happened see my my issue with it has always been the same thing that that island was full of it's a nazi base like the whole base didn't go to the ceremony no so yeah sure they're all dead but you guys are sitting there on this island that's run by the nazis how did you get out i know i i never understood that he used his boris code he used some kind of radio transmitter that we couldn't see to transfer... Yeah, ask for help. I know. Totally not talking about pinball here. Well, actually, it is. The rumor was that was supposed to be one of the games that got cancelled that Borg was working on. It was supposed to be Raiders of the Lost Ark. Oh, that would have been cool. That's what I heard. Yeah. Although, what the hell do you do with that? It's like you already did the Ark. You've done the Ark multiple times. The Crystal Skull. Oh, that was terrible. That was a terrible game. That was so disappointing. That was a bad game, yes. That was very bad. Was that before they fired everyone too? I think it was. Yeah. Yeah. It's just so bad. Oh, it's really bad. That had your favorite programmer was on that one. Yeah. Doing Lonnie doing Lonnie things where it's like, hit this shot this many times. Okay, now hit it this many times. Okay, now hit it this many times. I know. How many fucking times do I have to hit it? More each time. I know. Don't you understand? That's how it works. Oh, my God. 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I know. it's a it's a two-headed monsters or something yeah yeah brothers i think we're like the thing with two heads like a fucking you know like two twins that didn't form all the way um let's see who's rosie greer is that me or you oh definitely you i'm rosie greer so you're ray milan yep there's an obscure one see if anyone gets that one yeah i doubt they will Oh, that movie was so, it's like, Ray Moland won a fucking Oscar. I know. And he's in a movie where he's a two-headed thing with Rosie Greer, the NFL player. It's just, what the fuck? I know. So great. I love shitty movies. You know, I do. Okay. My Godzilla, my Godzilla 4Ks I got coming from Japan. They're currently in this country. I don't know if I mentioned that the last episode. No, you did not. Yes. I got Godzilla 4Ks from Japan. Oi! Yeah, I want the real deal, and they're not available in this country, because Toho just doesn't do that for some reason. They give shitty masters to Criterion for their releases. But the thing is, it's currently in New York City. Oh, you lost it. Yes, at the Queens Distribution Center. Well, it already got past the Jamaica International Distribution Center. Yeah, because it comes through JFK. Yeah, which reading the reviews, this sounds like the worst post office in the history of post offices. It's got 900 reviews on Google, and it has an average of 1.7 stars out of 5. When you get lost in New York City, Godzilla movies are going to be gone for Christmas. But this one in Queens ain't much better, so I'm kind of concerned. I'm very concerned. They're watching your videos right now, sitting back, drinking a beer. Oh, God. This fucking guy and fucking Albany thinking shit is easy, man. They're awesome. I mean, I got it from eBay, so worst case scenario, I'd get my money back. You'd get your money back. But I would rather have my UHDs. Your videos. Yes. Well, I think you should get your videos. Hey, everyone, Merry fucking Christmas. And happy holidays and a happy new year. Yep, because we'll be around. We're going to do the last episode before the end of the year. We will? We will. That is a promise from Ron. A promise from me, if I can. You heard it right here. I didn't promise shit. You heard it. You heard it. Because as we mentioned in previous episodes, I'm getting foot surgery. Also, my left hip is shit. So that's the hip I've got to be on because the foot surgery is on the right foot. So I'm going to be fucked up. Ron's going to be in a wheelchair at fucking RPC. You motherfuckers. you never know yeah you never can tell I got a scooter for you if you want to buy one I got a scooter for you whatever but yes happy holidays everyone happy holidays to everyone in our cluster of Akai happy holidays to everyone there Zach we know you celebrate some holiday our Zach our Zach oh he doesn't celebrate any come on I can't see him he's probably going to be like me no christmas tree anywhere could you imagine young zach going downstairs christmas you know morning hey where's the milk yeah but there's a whole bunch of trees there and the tree's got all these presents that go open them up yeah where's breakfast right or wrong oh good lord yes yes that would be funny that would be all i would have loved the scene young zach instead of young sheldon we have the new song young zach young zach we love you zach steve fun with holidays yes jeff to yellowless everyone in our cluster buck pinball princess everybody princess you know everybody all of our friends and podcasters uh everyone have a safe holiday yes have a safe and safe and happy holidays and other people you're with because you might not see him next year so anything can happen love them all hate them all just be around them and remember play pinball play pinball all right until next time say goodbye bruce goodbye pinball dud e We'll see you next week. 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