And I was kind of thinking to myself, well, I don't know what's going to happen to the games. I don't know if they're going to sell. And then between the show, between you talking about it on the podcast, me talking about it on the podcast, having me on, I'm going to keep mentioning it. I know you did some legwork and it turned out that I think you got me, got my games sold a couple of them. You know, I'm not sure actually if you sold a couple of these or more. I'm not even sure. I got to keep talking. It's a little confusing for me. I got six different people buying eight games. So I have all the information here. I got one guy from Wisconsin that's going to be taking the Bonanza and the Palm Springs. That's his name is Dan, I know, I think you recall. Now, I don't know if Dan came from the podcast, he might have. Can you verify that or? I just spoke to him for the first time today actually, I think. Did you get an email from Dan on that? Yeah, yep. Yep. So do you recognize this gentleman that's going to be purchasing these two games? I don't. He took the time to introduce himself. Oh. Okay, great. I think a lot of people did contact me. This one guy in Ohio, Tommy, he got my name off the internet. You know, if you go to VidCamp Pinball on Google, you'll get a ton of information about myself. Mm-hmm. And he's going to be picking up the blue chip and ice frolics on Saturday. You know, I'm not a fan of the old-fashioned style of pinball games or anything like that, but I think it's worth checking out. So, I'm going to have a little chat with some of the players that I've only seen in a couple of games, and they've all been very good. And then another guy, Frank Somehow from Baltimore, Maryland. I've got to tell it straight now, when I see these guys on Saturday, I'll do some chatting with them and figure out on how they came about to knowing about this 10-game Packers deal here in New Jersey, and this way I can get a grip on just how the game sold so I can mimic that in the future because I'm pretty stoked about all the games sold. I was actually going to take the Palm Springs. I might have mentioned it to you. But with my new pickup of the United 1953 Tropics, I think Palm Springs did come out in 1953 with Bowens. So I think they were neck and neck and stealing from each other. And I looked at the artwork and they look almost identical. Yeah, the only... What game do I keep? Right. What do I take? Which one do I take? Do I take the tropics that needs another hundred hours of work? Or do I take perfectly working Palm Springs? Well, as you know, I'm not taking the Palm Springs. Dan's going to be getting that game, like I said, but I don't know how I came to that conclusion. I'll probably, after I sell all the games on Saturday and there's nothing but an empty I'm really, really glad that for two reasons that the game sold. For one, this guy Lou who had this collection in New Jersey for 30 years really dedicated a tremendous amount of time to mechanically and electrically keeping these games running good. So fortunately for these buyers, they're getting a good working game which is going to help I'd say I'm in for a great one-on-one debate. I've been talking with a couple of important people while I was there. I apologize if I have trouble on you. I cван arribat polit valued with a rap quoteist back in opinion. ıkt And all of a professor Schwartz says Ogierkar's solution shows highly likely no 되고 festivitas. That means a serious deport system. Josh- Lashet. Brother Callie Sunilach, former United States' 2004 kle Driver Constantine tou��bus drinks and brevos are due for auction at schoolhome.com. I can't wait to have this go down on Saturday. I'll be going up there real early. I got two dollies, a lot of straps, a lot of cardboard, and I even did some of the organizing with these guys. I helped Tommy by calling Enterprise in Ohio, finding out where they were. I calculated all the mileage for Tommy. I got all the pricing for Tommy and I handed him over the agent down in Enterprise. I got the truck, made sure the truck is going to accommodate four machines because Tommy is driving from Ohio to pick up Frank in Baltimore and then they're coming to New Jersey and they'll be purchasing four games like I said and hopefully we're going to get it in a five I'm going to be a five foot wide by five foot high by 12 foot long van. Oh yeah, that should be no problem. Great, I'm glad you second that. And that's going to be great. Dan from Wisconsin is actually going to get his game shipped from Ray down in the Silver Ball Museum in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Dan had contacted Ray and Ray's going to be coming up and picking up the Bonanza and Palm Springs for Dan and then he's going to be making his way towards Wisconsin in the very near future and he's going to drop them games off to him. So the Cypress Garden is going to be picked up by Gene. I think that guy came from you, Nick, correct? Yeah, I talked to him. He's in, he's from West Virginia and I talked to Frank as well. So I think I sent both of them your way and yeah. All right Nick, I know you're looking for a cut. All right. Not at all. You know, I'm... I thought that was funny. I'm interested in getting these games and... I'm not going to be made with these low prices. Yeah, exactly. I don't think anybody's making anything, so anyway. Yeah, that's great. It is Frank and James, so that helps me out, Nick. The great stuff they came from, their source, I think they came from the pocket? Yeah, I think so, or they met me in York. I don't recall off the top of my head, but yeah, it's one of those things. I'm glad that these new collectors are getting these games and of course I'm really glad for them because these games are working. So as you say they won't have to spend a really long time figuring out how the mechanics work and getting them going from dead. Although, you know, it's not an insurmountable obstacle to do that but it sure helps if you've never played one before to see a working one first and know how they're supposed to work. So yeah, I'm excited for all these folks. Right, and then the last guy is going to be taking the Beach Beauty. Because Frank is taking both Magic Screen Games. Frank is taking the Golden Gate and the Roller Derby. Gene's taking the Cypress Garden. Tommy's taking the Blue Chip and the Ice Rollers. And Dan's taking the Bananas and the Palm Springs. So that left the Beach Beauty. Beach Beauty and that guy, his name is Egon, he's from PA, but some guy, John from the show, you recall Nick, John from the show? I met him. This friend John works with this guy Egon who's taking the Beach Beauty, said something about John met you at the show, so maybe I took John's number, he took my number, do you remember John, do you recall? I met a lot of Johns that day. I'm not sure. But anyway, that's where this gentleman is coming from. He's going to be picking up the Beach Beauty in his Volvo station wagon. He's going to be in New York. He's going to an event with his son and on the way back on Saturday, he's going to stop in New Jersey, pick up this Beach Beauty in the Volvo station wagon and then drive it home and he'll be playing that game. I played that Beach Beauty. It's a nice game. That's excellent. I move almost every leader on that card. Oh really? Yeah, I think so. I actually looked in Jeffrey's book and I played it briefly there at Eleanor's house. But, I mean, beautiful game, gorgeous play field, artwork. I think he's going to be happy with that. So, I think you and Gene are going to be doing something else going on. I think there's something else coming out of this. You might be looking at a double header? Potentially. Yeah, I'd talk with him about that. He knows of a warehouse where there's some games. So he wanted my thoughts on that. So I'd be happy to look at a double header. That's a rarity, as you know. You know, and I'd love to see one of those. Yeah, so I heard that there's some bingos available with Gene and you're going to be hopefully making the trip for him to go look at these games and see what they're all about. So, what we have here is, you know, something good coming out of something good again. There you go. You know, so I mean, you know, by networking and meeting people in West Virginia and Ohio and Baltimore and Wisconsin, where it's not on the East Coast, I mean, it's branching out, which is good. You know, so I'm real glad about all of this. I mean, it's just all good bingo talk, and this is really what I strive for for many years. I just love the games and I tried myself trying to... I have a lot of collectors here in New Jersey. I have a big circle of collectors from the tri-state area that's been visiting my collection now for around 15 years. I have big open house parties once a year and I meet all these guys from PA and Connecticut and New York and Pennsylvania. And you know what? They love when I demonstrate the bingos in my collection when they're here at the parties and they're, you know, they enjoy everything about them, but there's really nothing going on with them to a point where they actually want to add one. So, this happening now, again, I can't emphasize the point. I just feel that now it's starting to happen. I think I'm going to not give up and really try my best to build more of a base of people that are interested in the bingos. And all five of these new guys, Gene, Tom, Egon, Frank, Dan, they all want to get involved It's a podcast. We all want to get involved with getting on the Internet and posting up and talking about this. So this is really the way to go. I mean, word of mouth sometimes, even with a business, and you can advertise and advertise and advertise, but sometimes word of mouth is like the best thing. So, I'm forever grateful for you having the podcast and putting out the word and doing all these episodes which are great because they're going to be there for everybody that wants to get involved and add a bingo pinball machine to their collection. And, you know, the resources are really here now. We have people that are willing to help. We're networked, we're connected, we're branching out. So again, like I said, I'm hoping that you go with Gene and you see a whole bunch of bingos there and they're in, you know, good shape. I mean, they don't have to be working like this 10-game deal. I mean, that's pretty hard to find. Right. You don't really see where a collector is going to be selling some games, although a few years ago, one of the big collectors in Jeffrey Lawton's book was selling some fantastic games from his collection at very reasonable prices. And I mean the bingos themselves from this gentleman's collection. astronomical cosmetically mechanically and I never found out what happened I took the list from him like I did with this pen name game bingo deal and I I try to reach out to some people but I just didn't try my hardest because you weren't on the circuit yet and I'm thinking it was five years ago on Fantastic machines for sale and I'm wondering now, now that, you know, this deal's happening and I see that I can sell 8 to 10 bingos if I give it some time, I mean I'd like to do some research perhaps and see if he's still available and if he ever sold them games and if he just kind of did what I did when I listed these 10 games for sale around a few months ago when I got no hits. Maybe he got no hits and nobody in the collector hobby came through for him and he still has them and now there might be a chance for the newcomers coming in because I feel after this with the continuation of all these new guys getting these games on Saturday and want to participate in the podcast and reach out to others I sure once they get these games they just going to have to plug them in they be running they going to be calling other friends I know Dan from Wisconsin who's going to get the Bonanza in Palm Springs has a big collection of games. He's got all kinds of games, pitch and bats and I mean I did chat with him a little bit and it seems that he's got a nice collection so he has people over so now these people coming over are going to see these games and I feel that Dan, even though he's a first time bingo buyer and he's getting the Bonanza in Palm Springs, I can hear the excitement in his voice. I gave him some knowledge and information on the phone the last week or two. I've been doing it for all these guys that are buying the games. I'm not just selling the games, I'm really taking the extra time out to talk to them And, you know, we pull up the pictures of their games and I go over everything that the teachers do and they've been asking questions. So I'm giving them a great deal of knowledge and information quickly and they're getting it. So they're becoming more excited before they even get the game. So I'm hoping that by me, you know, taking the extra time to explain things and show them that I'm willing to help them in any way I can with them purchasing the games. I'm bringing hand cards and material for packing. I'm going to be explaining things. They're all going to come and play their game before they even put it in the truck. I mean, give them a lesson on how to take a lockdown bar off, slide the glass off, gently lift the playfield up, watch out for the shutter motor. You know, all the general basic things. Maintenance and I'll open up the head and show them the control unit or the, you know, simple things, the trip banks, just to get them acclimated. Right. Beyond just wanting a pinball and playing it, because if you take the time out to do things like this, I think that people get a better idea and it's easier for them to make them more comfortable and pull on to something because they see that, you know, there's so much help, you know? Mm-hmm. Yeah. And I think that's vitally important, especially for a new bingo owner, because I've heard over and over again, and I'm sure you have too, your whole time collecting these games, that they're so daunting or scary inside, you know? But really, they're not bad at all once you realize what, you know, some basic stuff like this is the trip I'm John Popadiuk, and I'll see you next time on Pinball Podcast. Bye. I have copies everywhere at my desk and in my bathroom, in the basement, in the game. I read it and I took it and when I read it I looked in the back box and I learned about these things generally. And just generally you can gain so much knowledge, you know. The foundation of learning about the thing is there's so much to absorb in the very early stages with just learning features, learning literally how to play the game, learning basically The major components which in Russ Jensen's article, Inside Your Bingo, it's a really fabulous way to jumpstart your way into these games and really learn to understand them because he explains in detail kind of the bingo operation from the eight balls and the tree off getting raised up. It's simplified. It's nothing like retracing circuits and opening up the reflex unit and taking apart the circuits and then pulling the shift out. You know, I practiced that. I had some parts. I used to practice just taking the leather clutches off for, you know, just for practice in case one of the bingos went down, I could do it. Yeah, yeah. But these guys are not going to go that far. I really have to say, and this is just my experience, is that I had a lot of bingos. And yes, some of them needed work and I got them going, but once I got them going, they really ran fine. There's some I got that were kind of in people's homes and collectors that had them that kind of they didn't play them for a while so they had a few bugs and I brought them home, fixed a few bugs and never had problems with them. So I don't foresee, you know, people really doing what we do or what you do in particular with taking every unit apart and doing that. That's something that you want to do. Right. I don't know how necessary it is all the time. I don't know what game you have because I hear you talking about it all the time. And no, it's true, I do. And I find myself never doing that. I mean, yeah, I had a search that the plastic hub broke in there. You know what I'm talking about where the leather touches are where it's close to the fake type pieces. And you got to take everything apart and make sure you put it all. I've done work like that and I've had a machine break down but that's one bad problem, not even a bad problem, it's just one problem in so many years of having so many bingos. You know and then the gate time for instance with the motor, I think that's the only motor I ever lost. Yeah, these things are... Honestly, these guys that are going to get these games, I feel that these games guys are being sold on Saturday. I'm just going to plug playing and I think if they continue to play, they're not going to have problems. But then again, the games are really old. Things do happen. I don't want to make it sound like everything goes running great and it's always going to be better. Not that bad. There are some bad ones. And you've got to watch because if you go to these warehouses where they've been laying for 40 years, you're going to have to do what you do then. You know what I'm saying? But I just wanted to touch a little bit on that subject about how dependable all these bingos I've had through the years have really been. And I really didn't do extensive work on any of them, you know, mechanically on a lot of units. I did take just certain sticky stepping units and things that you literally have to take apart. One or two here and there. Now what I'm finding out is the tropics, the United has been sitting since 1961 in this town as home that I got it from a few weeks ago and this machine needs extensive work. So I think maybe for me I didn't get any that many games that really laid for long periods of time. So if you're going to get a game like that I think you're right on track of what you're dealing with some of these games, you know. Yeah, I mean most of mine have lain for a very long time and that's, I enjoy that. You know, I'm sure you can hear that in the podcast. I do enjoy taking these apart, finding the bugs and fixing them. But once they're going, unless there's a problem which I know is going to recur, like I've had a couple on the double up which will just continue to recur until I actually spend a A nickel and get a switch or two. All right. But aside from that, yeah, I mean, these are the most reliable machines that I've ever had in my collection for sure. Gottlieb machines are incredibly reliable, the Wedgeheads especially, but these games though were built to last and take a beating. So they are just fantastic. Right. I agree with you 100 percent and I'm glad we touched base on a little bit of that theory about getting your first bingo and you know I'm kind of trying to converse here to make people out there that are listening that you know think about if you are going to get a Bingo, try to get something that's been in someone's collection or only has a few problems and this way you can get to enjoy them, learn all the basics, the general well-being of the games and the operation and the features, how they work. Because if you get a bingo that's been sitting in a warehouse for 40 plus years or someone's I was home for 30, 40 years. You might have some difficulties getting that game to run, you know, for a long time. You know, we got to leave that to the experts like you and a lot of other people that see me. When you're younger, you can do this. You have the time, you have the passion. I've had 155 machines and at least 30 plus bingos. So, I mean, at this stage of the game for me, it's so wise for me to buy something that is near working, only has a few problems, even though I just picked up the tropics. That's 1961 and it's going to be a long journey for me to get that running. I'm taking my time because I have a lot of other games to play, fortunately. I just want to emphasize that point to everybody listening that's thinking about perhaps getting a game because I think it's going to start happening now. A lot of people are going to want to get pinballs now because there's going to be a lot of talk now that new people are getting them. People are going to be curious to see what they're all about. That's what's going to get them. Once they get one, they're going to be bitten. I'm sure that they're going to get fit because along with buying the thing though, hopefully they get a lot of knowledge about it so that they don't just get a game and not know what they're doing and have to figure it all out by themselves. And you know, there's a lot to get into like the game, you know, you literally have to learn how to play it too now. Once you learn the features and you learn the mechanics or the electric or anything else about the game, you literally have to take control of that game, grab it by the cabinet and get that silver ball to go where you want it to go, which is the best part for me as you're opening it. Oh yeah. That's the first time I listened. I just love to play it. Well, that's the other thing is they're fantastic players too. I mean, that's something I love as well is making that hole when, you know, the machine and everything that it has to throw at you is against you and you still come out on top. I mean, it's a great feeling. And it sure beats, in my estimation anyway, and my pinball playing experience, completing a sequence or, you know, starting a mode or finishing a mode or whatever. In a modern game, I just love getting that last ball for a five and a line. You know, you bring it down to the ball return three, four times in a row, just trying to I like that scenario about you saying, bringing it home three or four times, man. That's such a great feeling. You know you need the number for five in a row, and you miss it, but you get to play the ball over, and you had like a magnificent ball just coming down that play field and I'm already balling a hole as a blocker and whipping off one number and almost going into another and then squeezing it home and get it home, you know? Yeah. That's just a little, you know, even then, normal plays like that are exciting when you're going for final line because that's when you really, your blood starts rushing and you make that, you're kind of shocked and it does choke your body a little bit that you're in all them replays. We take arrays, bad to carry and naturally motion afterみ are notimmune. 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You guys all have the link that I sent you and you've been telling me that you're listening. So, you know, think about coming out to the internet and going to Nick's podcast and placing a comment and getting involved and making this chat grow, you know? Yeah. So, I'm looking forward to that, seeing that happening. And not to change the subject, but I'm also interested in doing some wedgehead podcast. I can't forget about the Red Shirts. There's been a lot of bingo action here on the East Coast here in New Jersey with me. And there's nothing like it. I've been enjoying every minute of it because I go back and forth from the flipper games to the bingos. And, you know, I enjoy them both equally. And I'm hoping that I know you have mentioned something about Wedgetech. Was it putting out free play on one of your podcasts recently? Mm-hmm. So I feel Ricky's starting to get an itch too to perhaps do something a little different down the road when we have some time. Yeah, yeah. There's a lot of Wedgetech collectors out there now. I just got a text from a guy that visited my collection while he was at the Allentown show. He's from Texas. I got a little text today. He was interested to know what my thoughts were about the Golden Arrow versus a Top Guard. But all the EMs are great, so there's no end to promoting any EM. And there's so many other great ones out there. The bingos really are an EM that need to be put back into the hobby. Because all the other ones are there, even though the hobby today is mostly BMD guys. As we've discussed in the past, you know, when we look at this pinball hobby, I mean, EMs are really a fraction of the hobby now. Mm-hmm. Cool. And, you know, that's the other thing is EM advocacy, you know? I really love EM games. So, yeah, I'm right there with you, man. I think it's all good stuff. And I'd really encourage anybody to get EM games, be they wedge heads, be they reverse wedge heads, Chuckles, Saw my name on the internet. He moved from New York to New Jersey up here in Caldwell. And he fly jet planes for CEOs and stuff. And great guy. He called me and said, Hey, Vic, I got a call on to pick up 2 E.M. You want to give me a hand on Saturday? I said, sure.