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FNO Pinball Ep 16B: Jurassic Park Pro Pinball Machine

Flip n Out Pinball·video·1h 14m·analyzed·Aug 21, 2019
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TL;DR

Jurassic Park Pro gameplay stream with technical issues, community chat, and Star Wars announcement.

Summary

Flippin' Out Pinball livestream featuring gameplay of Jurassic Park Pro pinball with hosts discussing the game's design, art, and mechanics. Stream experienced technical crashes but continued with community engagement, chat interaction, and a surprise call-in from Zach Menny (owner of Flippin' Out Pinball) announcing that Star Wars The Pin will arrive for streaming in the coming weeks.

Key Claims

  • Stern Pinball currently has eight different titles in production, with every Pro and Premium model available to ship

    high confidence · Zach Menny stated: 'They crank out so many damn pinball machines that I think right now, of all of the hell, they probably have eight different titles on the line... out of every one of them, every pro and premium is available to ship.'

  • Star Wars The Pin will arrive for streaming within the next couple of weeks

    high confidence · Zach Menny: 'They're supposed to be on the line this week and next, I believe. So we're going to see one of those in the next couple weeks.'

  • George Gomez agreed to stream Jurassic Park Pro if the channel gets one

    high confidence · Zach Menny revealed George Gomez was asked to stream and responded positively to the opportunity

  • Jurassic Park Pro lacks clear rule guidance on some modes, particularly how to trigger the first mode

    medium confidence · Host stated: 'when you initially start to get that first mode, you've got to hit that left ramp, but there's nothing on the play field that's flashing that's telling me to hit that left ramp'

  • Some shots on Jurassic Park Pro right side are tighter than desired

    medium confidence · Host mentioned tight shots on the right side, though acknowledged this doesn't frustrate them significantly

Notable Quotes

  • “Everything that we have goes back into the stream. We have yet to spend a single cent on anything personal for ourselves.”

    Host (Flippin' Out Pinball)@ 7:04 — Demonstrates the self-funded nature of the streaming operation and reinvestment philosophy

  • “Pinball's the bottom of the totem pole on Twitch. We're definitely not Fortnite as far as in comparison.”

    Host@ 15:33 — Acknowledges niche market positioning of pinball streaming on Twitch

  • “I'm on the road. I'm on my way up to you guys. Give me about five hours, I'll be there.”

    Zach Menny@ 29:00 — Surprise announcement that Zach Menny was traveling to studio for in-person streaming

  • “They've got stock of every single title, pro and premium, ready to ship. That's, what more can we ask for as enthusiasts?”

    Zach Menny@ 28:26 — Highlights Stern's production capacity and inventory management

  • “It's just, it's a place for pinball people, by pinball people, chilling out with pinball people.”

    Zach Menny@ 25:22 — Articulates the core mission and community nature of the streaming platform

Entities

Flippin' Out PinballcompanyZach MennypersonJurassic Park ProgameStar Wars The PingameGeorge GomezpersonStern PinballcompanyKenpersonBillpersonSteveperson

Signals

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    business_signal: Stern Pinball maintaining robust production of eight titles with full Pro and Premium inventory available to ship

    high · Zach Menny: 'They've got stock of every single title, pro and premium, ready to ship.'

  • ?

    community_signal: Successful streamer-community relationship model developing around pinball content with consistent viewership and subscriber growth

    medium · Hosts discussed people hanging in chat 20-30 minutes after streams end, community members gifting subs, and collaborative support among streamers

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Jurassic Park Pro lacks clear rule guidance on initial mode triggers, requiring players to reference rule card or learn through trial and error

    medium · Host noted lack of playfield indicators for left ramp shot to trigger first mode; mentioned needing 10-12 games to grasp basic rules

  • $

    market_signal: Star Wars The Pin positioned as non-enthusiast-focused game; Zach explicitly stated it's 'not a thing that's aimed towards us'

    medium · Zach Menny: 'it's not a thing that's aimed towards us. So I thought, you know what, let's show it off.'

  • ?

    announcement: Star Wars The Pin confirmed to arrive at Flippin' Out Pinball for streaming within 1-2 weeks

    high · Zach Menny stated: 'They're supposed to be on the line this week and next, I believe. So we're going to see one of those in the next couple weeks.'

Transcript

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0:00
Oh, just joking. Staff incapacitated. All right, guys, so what's going on with the stream? All right, we're back. Hold on, we're going to wait for Ken to finish this ball.
0:16
What's going on? Is someone on the stream? Yeah. Hang on, it's Anthony. I think we're good. If you guys refresh, it's good to go. Do a quick refresh. What's wrong?
0:35
I guess it crashed for some folks. Okay, yeah. So everybody, if you just refresh, it will come back. So far. Sounds like a Twitch issue.
0:46
Sounds like nothing happened on our end. I'm liking Ricky Ruru's answer. He's like, Stern heard that talk about Modsman and killed the stream. Oh, no.
0:57
All right. We'll cut that. Cut that. Cut the talk out. Yeah, you know what? I think, Birdo Drink, I think you make a good point there, too, with them purposely holding stuff back.
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1:14
And right now, apparently... Yeah, that's very true. CMK, I'm back. I mean, they already do it, right? Well, you want to buy the armor or, you know, whatever. Well, yeah. I mean, that's the LE stuff, though.
1:25
And apparently, right now, we have zero viewers. that means Bill's going to go get burritos. But there are viewers, even though it says zero. I know, I know. Just being a smart aleck. Yeah, I mean, they do. But you can't put everything into a game, though. I mean, you'd like to, but I mean. Welcome back, guys. Welcome back, everybody.
1:47
So what happened there? Things just went dark, and you can hear us chatting here, or did the whole thing just kind of stop? You might need to look into that a little bit.
2:02
Kerry, I agree with you. The premium artwork is a little better, man. I like it a lot more than the pro art. Not that the pro art is bad. It's your personal preference. So everybody froze.
2:12
Lost audio and video. Okay. All right. Oh, no. Nice ball. So here's what we got going on. So what happened? So the stream crashed or what? Frozen crashed. Lost audio and video. Nice. But chat was up the whole time, right, guys? Is it still crashed? No. Or no? If you refresh your browser, we're back, baby. Completely dead back now. Sounds like a Twitch problem. Yeah, it does. I don't know why that would go dead. None of our stuff. Well, I assume we're running the software here. So my apologies.
2:50
I think it was the T-Rex. Let's do real quick here. Who was the last person? Let me check something here.
3:02
You guys can keep talking. Nedry Champion. Chat was up. Can't get a champ again. No. Ken had a couple decent balls. I wish Southwest Pennsylvania Pinhead was still in chat, because I think he was offering bits for a 100 million point ball.
3:20
Oh, well, hey, sorry for the chat issues. I suppose we can... Do you want to play one more or do you want to get into after hours at this point?
3:30
I'd play another one. You guys call. Your call, guys. Bill's call. Bill's got to get up early. Which is totally cool. Pay some bills and then we'll do one more game. All right, I'm going to go pay some bills too. Everyone's going to pay some bills? Let's pay some bills here on the special, not the special one, Late Pinball Podcast, because we already did that today. No, we're special. This is the Flippin' Out Streaming Network. Sorry, Zach.
4:07
We're back. Hey, where'd the bill go? So that's code for Bill stepping out. Hey, Kerry, thanks for coming in. You got to go take a sleazy. We will. what you're going to do our best mac jedi uh says goodbye letter carry carry hardy uh check the obs x split logs there should be an error log somewhere yeah i'll absolutely check that out i just need a tutorial on how to get to those logs and a tutorial on how to download those logs but uh yep stream was frozen sorry guys i don't know how that happened uh pirate cat red eye that was awesome i really really appreciate it that's that's huge now pirate cat red eye uh i tip my my ipa to you i don't say 46 so let's we'll do one more three-player game here see if we can knock out some of these last pin quest challenges and then as we get it to nine o'clock we'll get into after hours and we'll see where after hours takes us sure usually takes us uh into the 9 30 10 o'clock hour i know bill usually leaves early and for those of you that are sticking around in chat maybe uh oh there we go in obs settings open configuration folder cool I will check that out later. And for the record, guys, if the stream ever crashes, you don't have to wait for me to finish my ball. Just let me know because I'm going to jump off and make sure that we're not crashed. No, dude. Finish your ball. No. It's all good. Can't let everybody just hang in the balance while I'm probably on my typical epic ball. We still had chat going, so only multiple people got completely shut out. Okay. Looks like we dropped some viewers in there, so that's too bad. Maybe for the best. Maybe something bad is going to happen. That's all good.
5:46
So anyhow. We'll wait for Bill to get back, and then we'll have him start up. Maybe we just fire this up and go in reverse order. You want to? Yeah. Go for it. All right, let's go. Let's do it. You've had some of your best games in reverse order. That's true. So let's see what you got.
6:04
Chat runs on other servers than the video streams. Okay. So do you think it was a server issue? I don't know. Like, things looked and sounded fine on our end.
6:17
But again. Where's Bob and I? All right. Boom. Oh, Captain Red Eye. Saul Rosenberg. What's that? Are you paying off for the 100 million balls?
6:42
Is that what that was? It said two 100 mil balls. Because I remember earlier. Oh, was that Pirate Cat Red Eye that said that? I'm sorry. I thought that was Southwest Pennsylvania Pinhead. Oh, early in the night. Oh, dude, that's huge, man. I appreciate that. I thought that was just like a. So nice of you. Just for that one round. Yeah, and I was totally just busting chops. Listen, that's generous and I appreciate it. Again, we're throwing. Everything that we have goes back into the stream. Yeah, whatever. So we have yet to spend a single cent on anything personal for ourselves. It's just if you're going to contribute to the show. My new shoes are beautiful. Yeah, everything is gone. We bought Steve some new shoes. Wait, what shoes? If you're going to contribute to the stream, whether it be by bits or subs, then we want you to ultimately have that payout too. So we're in the process of actually adding additional rigs to our streaming channel here. so we'll be able to stream off-site at Bill's house, at Steve's house. Different games, too. Different games. So it's going to be fun, and we appreciate it. Pirate Captain Red Eye, thank you very much for the bits, man. I appreciate it. Yes. Thank you, guys. That's huge. So Pirate Captain Red Eye paid out 1,000 bits for the 100 million ball, which is pretty awesome. Nice. I thought you were earning it, man.
7:55
I didn't earn it, but I see what you're saying. It was fun. I appreciated it. Ryan, what's going on, man? Hey, what's up, Ryan? TurboGrafx-7? I heard you had an epic bachelor party stream that had happened recently, in which case you were having some fun. There were stories of a body that had to be dragged out from under a pinball machine off camera. It was evident that Ryan was having a good time. So for those of you that missed the party, TurboGrafx-7, follow him on Twitch.
8:20
That's our buddy Ryan out in Wisconsin. Can you confirm or deny that there was a death at that party? what happened there there was a body that was being drugged i mean i heard pleading the fifth is fine too on that kind of deal so that's fine uh he's not saying much it was a stream with drinking yeah those those have the potential of being the best and the most dangerous streams i'm glad you had fun man i'm glad you had fun we have any other streamers that are here in chat anybody else that streams on a regular basis I know we've got our regulars that pop in and out but if you stream that's great and we appreciate being involved in the streaming community
9:10
heard a dead guy was moved out of the way I heard the same thing that was a quick ball oh it's over? I had a quick one too I think we're trying to get to after hours as quick as we can oh yeah I'm kinda uh the gun it i it's under 350 i would probably say probably under 100 in all honesty if not 100 just over mag jedi okay we'll have to check that out man Yeah, I'm trying to think. I mean, it might have had 20.
9:55
I mean, if we shot high, 30 plays the day that we got it. I think last week we might have got 20 plays on it. Tonight, maybe 20, so 70.
10:06
I know Ken's probably played it about 20 times or maybe 30. So, yeah, that's probably right around 100.
10:15
Nice Hey, nothing says love like Dragging your buddy out From underneath a pinball machine So you could stream it We'll have to do that Good drunk stories about pinball So TurboGrafx has a 15% Alcohol IPA? No, I don't even know TurboGrafx, what are you drinking over there? Dude, he loaded us up with beer when he came down here, man. That was crazy.
10:49
Grim Tim, it is a cool game, man. Dude, when we got this, I was really pissed that we couldn't bring it to my house right away. Still kind of aggravated. Honestly, every night I've been trying to get down there and play pinball just because I can't play this game right now at my house.
11:04
I'm excited to get a new game in. Oh, yeah. What's your KKS new game? What game is that? This game. Oh, yeah. Jurassic Park? Yeah. Great game, guys. I'm psyched for the Premium. Now, I know the play field layout's the same, but, I mean, there's some added toys. You've got the moving T-Rex. You've got the door that goes up in the control room. You've got the launching Velociraptor.
11:27
I'm really excited to play that game. Sadly, I don't know that we'll be able to play one of these here, because when Jurassic Park Pro leaves, we have Star Wars The Pin coming in after that. And then by the time the Premium comes out, I don't even know if it makes sense that we go back to Jurassic Park. I hope that we do, though. I do. I'd love to play at the Premier. Me too. Snabby Tries, have a good night, man. Appreciate it. I don't know why you have a case of the Sads, but hopefully all is well. Snabby Tries, well, listen, before you leave, man, if there's anything that you would like to discuss in chat where we can cheer you up, feel free.
12:02
No reason for a case of the Sads. Not on Monday Night Pinball. We're going to make you happy, man. Or my lady. I always assume that there's a bunch of gentlemen hanging out in chat, and I do not want to assume that there's not some ladies in chat. I hope that there are. If there are ladies in chat, raise your hand, because I'm always assuming it's 90. Raise your virtual hand. 95 to 100%. I think it's 100%. Dudes. I think it's mostly 100%. Every so often, a moto comes in, and she hangs out. Sure. Yeah, yeah. And it's always fun having her in chat. And there have been a couple of the ladies coming in and saying hello. so it's always fun.
12:41
The Ricky Rue. He's like, hey, just joking. Birdo Drink played the premium at Pinberg, and it was cool, but the pro was just as fun. Yeah, I assume it's got to be just as fun, but I love the additional eye candy, the additional moving mechs. That's just kind of how I roll, so I can see me justifying the price to upgrade to the premium.
13:00
This pro is quite loaded, though. And Black6 says, I think I'd go pro if I was picking one up. Might wait until pro pops up on the used market absolutely uh now snippy's coming back she said well at the moment i'm just kind of clueless on how to generate new views when i stream i do pinball mostly i plan on making a schedule but besides that how do i draw in views well i first of all didn't realize that you were a streamer so if anybody's here wants to wants to cheer up uh snivy tries go ahead and click and follow the channel and then when they go live uh absolutely go in there and check it out see what's I'll make sure that after today I add you to my follow list, and I'll absolutely jump in there. Yeah. I love it. Don't be sad. We were given an interesting platform because we had been doing a podcast for about a year, and everybody knows who Zach Menny is, and when he bought a flipping out pinball, it made sense for us to kind of get into an alliance to start the streaming channel, and so far we've been real happy.
13:57
Snivy says, that's kind of why I'm sad, because streaming is going nowhere. Just keep, just keep. I'm telling you, having a conversation like this in a chat room with a bunch of people that are pinball people and that stream, you'll have additional views. I'll make it a point to try to get over there. When do you stream?
14:17
Rename your stream Flipdad, and you are Johnny Dangerous. There you go, Jobber. A little reverse play on words there.
14:26
Yeah, play totally hammered. That's Blade Fury Pinside. 42 Gits, always interact with chat. I think that's the key. You've got to interact with chat. Interact with chat, for sure. And sometimes it's hard. Like when we have a guest on and the guest is telling a story, out of respect, you want to listen to everything that they're taking in, but you don't want to lose what's going on in chat. So sometimes it's almost impossible to do. It was like last week. We had Jurassic Park, and I was sitting over there, and I just wanted to just watch Jurassic Park. Yeah, yeah. I was like, sorry, guys. I'm falling behind here. There was like 130, 140 people that were in chat. And I was cruising. I was cruising for a bit. If you looked away for a second, I mean, those are good problems to have, I assume, on Twitch. But I was like, what's going on over here?
15:06
So Snivy plans on streaming weekdays, or weekends, 2 p.m. Pacific Standard Time to about 5 p.m. All right, well, there you go, guys. If you haven't given Snivy Tries a follow, consider doing so.
15:21
Ricky Rude, do you have a player cam at Snivy Tries? So Snivy's getting some feedback and some tips. I love it. There we go. Pinball is a niche market. so you're going to get less viewers in general anyways. I could not agree more. Pinball's the bottom of the totem pole on Twitch. We're definitely not Fortnite as far as in comparison. I don't know. We haven't checked out basket weaving on Twitch, though. Oh. There's more basket weavers than pinball players. Don't give me ideas. You know, I'm always looking for something new.
15:47
Flippin' Out's basket weaving channel will be coming along in the next few weeks. Flippin' Weavin', man. Flippin' Weavin'. We'll flip and weave up in here. So I once got on a plane, and this might have been before, pre-9-11. But actually, I think it was after, which is I was like, how is this possible? Some old lady came on with these huge aluminum basket weaving, like crocheting needles. Yeah, like stabby stabs. Oh, yeah, yeah. I was like, how did this lady get on? I had to throw my toenail clippers away but she brought these stab cabins that's a little jacked up makes me question the TSA a little bit well they're aluminum maybe they didn't register alright I just step back in I hear you guys having a conversation about toenail clippers gonna play my lowest ball right here there you go yes we are a close group though all right so jurassic park is obviously a good game what don't you guys like about it fair question i would say at this point and again it might be because i just don't have enough time on the pin there's not anything that i'm disappointed with on the game as a whole or even individual. Now, there are some assets in the game where maybe the artwork style is not your thing. I'm not mad or pissed off about it. It's Jurassic Park. It's got dinosaurs on it. They don't look crappy. Oh, you see what I did there? Looked like crap, because Johnny Crap is the guy that illustrated those. They do look crappy.
17:35
So, yeah. No, it's just there's... I can't think of anything. I think maybe the one thing... Like, for instance, sometimes extra ball is lit, and I'm not sure how to get the extra ball. Or when you initially start to get that first mode, you've got to hit that left ramp, but there's nothing on the play field that's flashing that's telling me to hit that left ramp. You just kind of hit the ramp and you fall into that first mode. So that was frustrating at first. It took me 10 or 12 games to get a basic grasp of the rules, and what I always fail to do, nice save, Steve, I always fail to read the rule card on the apron, and it tells you so much. But I like to step up to a pin and start flipping and try to figure it out myself, and then when I get frustrated you look down and the obvious answers are there.
18:18
I like the game, dude. I think we need a lot more time and a better environment to figure it out. Better environment? This is the I do better when I focused in my own basement I did have deja vu I say without cameras and lights and people drinking beer and you drinking generic orange soda
18:41
The art's cool, but I would like to change it up maybe a little bit, but that's about it. Right. I get you. I get you. So, now there are some shots that are a little bit tighter than I wish that they were, but it doesn't frustrate me to the point where I'm mad at the game. shots on the right side are tough. Loser Kid, three is resubscribe or resubscribe for three months. Thanks, Josh. Good times and great pinball, he says. I appreciate it, man. I absolutely appreciate it. So we've got some people that have resubbed for their third consecutive... It doesn't even seem like we've been doing this three months already. Yeah, it doesn't even seem like it. And if you think about it, we were streaming for like six weeks prior to that because we had to get affiliate status to even be able to accept subs. Sure, yeah. We've been doing this like nine years.
19:22
Yes. Damn. happy flying getting some signal blips again maybe are we having some more uh issues with the uh with the stream because it's coming in loud and clear on our end yeah if anybody else has anything else let us know i prefer not to shut it down and relaunch it i'd prefer to kind of get us going into after hours yeah after this game and then uh we'll we'll drive the train to about 9.30 or so, and then let you guys and girls get on with your night. Your pinball night. It's pinball night in America because it's Monday Night Pinball. Wookiee Jeep, take it easy, buddy. Might have just been a momentary bandwidth issue. I appreciate the help. This is what's nice about the chat community, too. If something happens and we're not sure, we've got you guys kind of backing us up.
20:10
Thank you. So, res dropped, froze for a second, now back. I don't know. Resolution dropped and froze, then back again. Thank you. so okay so we're gonna have to look into that that osb folder i'm gonna get into those logs yeah yeah you're gonna be i'm gonna put them under the microscope steve staying up till four in the morning looking at them logs with my stream login intellectual thought process with log heaven and then see what happens so that's it guys that's jurassic park all right so pin quest but let let's let's go check out what we did with our pin quest tonight All right.
20:57
So the pin quest challenges of the night, we were able to hit the start the chaos multi-ball for the 500 bits. We did outscore the 172 million, Neil personal best on Jurassic Park for 500 bits, but we, we failed to reach the 818 million individual score points. We failed to meet each of the 500 and 750 million team points. It was a good, solid effort. It just wasn't in the cards for us tonight. Go, Ken. We thank PinQuest and PinQuest.com for giving us those challenges every single week. Ken got them both. Last week was nice. We all had our individual PinQuest. That was good. Absolutely. So at this part, we're going to get into the after-hours portion of the program right after we pay some bills.
21:43
We are getting ready to get into after hours, ladies and gentlemen, as we're going to fire up the live phone call, the live call-in segment of the show.
22:00
If you are new to the channel, we're going to come back here in a second. We'll have a live number on there. Give us a call. If you've not called before, we encourage you to do so. Just chat some pinball here. as we close out the night.
22:15
Close out the night. Closing time. Thank you, Brother Dave. Oh, you know what? I just realized we've got the after hours, the Chuck Ernst banner. That's still up.
22:34
Hey, Chuck is with us in spirit. Chuck's here in spirit. Always. Chuck was here last week. Call us. We'll just forward your call to Chuck. Yeah, that's how it goes, I suppose.
22:45
So Chuck, obviously, is not with us today. But if you want to give us a call at 630-283-2888, you can go ahead and do that. Dave Fahlgren, thank you for the bit, buddy. I appreciate it. Bye.
22:57
All right, let's see what we've got going on in chat. We have, yes, Niby, thanks for sharing your thoughts and your frustrations with pinball streaming. I think it makes sense. I think you're going to be good to go. it's a good community so the one thing i realize is that the streamers support each other and i really do appreciate that as we go in and take our first call thanks for calling the flipping out pinball network how can we help you hey my fellas oh hang on jp tonight baby what's up zachary you guys think i'm not gonna jump in here all live and boisterous and energetic I'm ready to go, baby. Where do we go? We missed you, man. We count on it. It probably makes more sense now that I think about it for us to just call you after the stream instead of you having to call in all the time. Can we do that? Because you are the boss, brother. I should be connecting you to us instead of you having to call and check in on our whereabouts. How dare you do that to my boss? Sorry, man. How are you, Zach?
23:53
I'm doing well, gentlemen. I've been watching the stream. I've been trying to catch up on a little bit of the day job. I'm wrapping up a Wizard of Oz Ruby Red. and you know what's going in its box? No, I don't.
24:07
A little Jurassic Park Pro. Did you get your Pro? Oh, did you get your Pro? Nice, dude. Yeah, so you're going to be unboxing that and selfishly playing it, you know, to make sure all the kinks and stuff work those out before I put it in the flipping out showroom. Cool. Dude, that is unbelievable, man. Are you pretty pumped up?
24:27
I'm very pumped up. Seeing you guys play, I know that you give me some good scores to try to compete with tonight. So I'm pumped for that. Hopefully get a couple of buddies locally that will come over here and we'll play through the wee hours and we'll wake up two hours later and go to work. When is that? Is that happening tonight?
24:44
Well, hell yeah. Oh, wow. Now, see, now this is where it would be a nice, easy transition to go to Studio F, the Flippin' Out Pinball Studio, where you could just go ahead and just transition over and just keep this stream going to like 2 in the morning because we have the early shift and you're a night owl. Do you think people would really hang out, though? Oh, yes. I absolutely think so. Because you know what's funny is when we end the stream at night, and we usually, we've ended around anywhere between 9.30 and 11 o'clock at night. Yep. People still hang out and chat for like 20, 30 minutes. They're just hanging out. And it's great. And it's because literally this is a hangout. Like what we've envisioned has come to fruition. And it's just, it's a place for pinball people, by pinball people, chilling out with pinball people. It's been great. You know what I think we need to do We need to ask chat Because I want each and every one of those people in chat That's like the best The best in group chat and streaming But ask them Let's see what day time They think that I should start streaming It'll probably be in the fall When should I start streaming I would love to hear I'll do it I know you would You're one of the hardest working guys in pinball So I do not doubt for a fact Dude, he'll be streaming until 3 in the morning. Until 4 in the morning.
26:00
But, hey, so I wanted to thank you, man, because you kind of let a little Easter egg out and surprised us tonight by saying that we're going to be getting a Star Wars The Pin over here to stream for a little bit. So I'm excited to actually do that.
26:13
Oh, yeah. Why not? I mean, we're probably not going to see a whole hell of a lot of that pinball machine just because, you know, as the enthusiasts, right, it's not a thing that's aimed towards us. So I thought, you know what, let's show it off. I'm going to get one for the showroom, so I'll let you guys have it first, and then you wear it out, and then I'll put it in the showroom for the rest of the crowd to play. That's awesome, man. That is awesome. So you think they're on the line pretty soon here in the next couple weeks?
26:41
Yeah, actually, they are on. They're supposed to be on the line this week and next, I believe. So we're going to see one of those in the next couple weeks. That's huge. So it'd be nice to get another week on Jurassic Park at least, though, right? I mean, we're going to do this next week. yeah i'd like to see jurassic park another week just because there's so much cool stuff and who knows who wants to stop uh by from certain pinball to stream it i don't know i've got a little somebody that uh i invited on to stream that pinball machine and uh the quote was let's see if we can make that happen so i am going to actually uh i'm gonna i'm gonna ask that gentleman to follow through on on his uh willingness or at least on a podcast to say we'll see if we can make that happen. Stern pinball. No, it wasn't Lonnie. It wasn't Lonnie Dennis. Dennis is like, Gary Stern. It was not Lonnie. And it's not Gary Stern. But I'm not going to say who it is. I'll just say who it is. It's George Gomez.
27:37
We had George Gomez on. We talked about the pin. And I said, hey, if we get one, would you come stream it? Yeah, it'd be huge to have George Gomez out. Very cool. It'd absolutely be fun. Holy moly. He's a good guy. That would be fantastic. That would be fun. Something else. Speaking of George Gomez, and how cool that guy is, our homie-gomie, Carson Shatford, little homie-gomie. How cool is this, you guys? A lot of people don't realize how badass and how efficient and how ass-kicking CERN Pinball is. Here's how cool this company is. They crank out so many damn pinball machines that I think right now, of all of the hell, they probably have eight different titles on the line. That's not even counting pros, premium LE versions. out of every one of them, every pro and premium is available to ship. Every one of them. Yeah. They've got stock of every single title, pro and premium, ready to ship. That's, what more can we ask for as enthusiasts?
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Dallas Cost, thanks for the follow. We appreciate it. We've got another person jumping aboard on the Flippin' Up Pinball Train, Zach. And then we had a question from Need More Pins. Wants to know, when will Zach be here in person to stream with us? When is that going to happen? Good question. Because the last time you streamed with us, Zach, was earlier on in the summer when we had the Black Knight Sword of Rage LE stream and it was outside under the gazebo. When are you coming back next? When can we expect you in studio?
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I'm on the road. I'm on my way up to you guys. Give me about five hours, I'll be there. Let's do it. That would be crazy. Bill Webb pulling all nighter right now? Absolutely. I'll go to work at 6 just like this. It's fine. No worries. Hey, Bill. Bill, you know what, buddy? I'll fucking go in with you, bud. How about that? Could you imagine just bringing Zach to work? Hey, who's this guy? I brought my helper. Taco Pizza. That's 225 bets. Thank you, Taco Pizza. Thank you, Taco. Appreciate it. Oh, Penn Stadium just blew up with gift subs. Gifting again. Penn Stadium is the Santa Claus of subs, where just when you least expect it, he's coming down your chimney and he's dropping you off. That's awesome, man. Zach, dude, thank you, Scott. He's always making it. Thank you, Scott. He's making it rain subs. Always making it rain. A couple more things I wanted to remind everybody in chat before I let you three beautiful men go. Number one, I do still have a couple Wonka LEs literally in stock. No waiting. No nothing like that. You get flaming into me, bam, that thing is coming out. Flipping out pinballs flipping fast. So you can come out to you really quick. As well as Jurassic Park pros. If you're waiting on one, wait no longer. It's out of here. You're ready to go. I still have a couple. Actually, I have two Oktoberfests that you can get one hell of a deal on right now because we opened them up for the Atlanta show. I did a couple hundred plays on them. They're, like, new. But why not save $500 or more on a brand-new Oktoberfest? Couldn't agree more. All of that. That's a deal. Great game. Give me a call or a message. I'm happy to help you out in your business. And Dennis says that Zach puts the flip in flipping out.
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Absolutely. Absolutely does, huh? If you guys haven't heard, a couple self-plugs here, because that's what I'm all about. Hey, well, it's your channel, man. Absolutely. Listen, if you're not selling pins, none of this is possible. So that's, I mean, it's the trade-off. I love it. Nobody I know is mad that you're doing this. I can see that.
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I've got to sell my friends. In chat right now, at Zonris, right, I want everybody in chat to show that man some love, because he is my compadre, my better half when it comes to the This Week in Pinball podcast. couldn't do it without him so he's a good sport he takes the best punch in pinball including myself and I think one hell of a punch but the guys fantastic Zahnriff I love you buddy I do want to clone him though wouldn't that be awesome you guys like it I heard that you wanted to clone a little mini Creasel and before we get on that subject FN Slayer with the thousand bits thank you man appreciate it good hearing seeing everybody coming back and chatting thanks thanks for contributing to the stream really appreciate it And then the last thing before I go. Yeah, but hold on. Hold on before you go. Yeah, go ahead. Hold on. Relax. You there? I want you to sit down on my couch. I'm here. No, I'm kidding. Oh, no. So you want him to clone a little mini Dennis and keep him around you at all times. Because I know the dynamic between the two of you. You feel like a part of you is missing when he's not there. Right? Absolutely. I know.
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That's why I got to have him in my shirt pocket so he's close to my heart at all times. That's amazing. Got to have him. Got to have him there. I know you do. It's good. You guys are a good dynamic duo. Before we go, what was his name? Sniveling? Snivy. Snivy tries? Snivy tries. Yeah, Snivy tries. Yeah. It sounds like Snivy's really been trying, but he's coming up short.
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No, it's okay. We got a little update while you're on the phone here. Zonrith, who's Dennis Creasle, just donated two bits for us to hang up on you, Zach. And Lord of the Ring Breath has also used 2-Bit. So he's been having Lord of the Ring Breath. I love Lord of the Ring Breath. You've got multiple people. I love it. I'm willing to shut you out of here, Zach. Everyone is donating 2-Bits to have them hang up on you. As soon as we hit $200 and 2-Bit increments. I think I see a new t-shirt from Dennis, too. We're not hanging up. Dennis should just have a t-shirt. This is unnecessary.
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Hey, Chad, you know what? I got your 2-Bits right here, baby. Hey! Oh! Ouch. So, no, real quick. Snivy tries, or Snivy's been trying. At first, I was going to kind of poke fun at him. I was going to say, you know what? You know how to get people to actually watch your stream? Play actual real pinball, right? Because he plays the pinball FX thing. But no. Okay, so he's doing digital. It's okay. No, yeah, so he's doing the digital FX 4.5, whatever the hell it is. But no, here's the truth. If you guys are listening, he's still listening as the player count is going down. here's how you get people here's how you get people to watch you bring it to zero just be entertaining nobody gives two shits about what you're streaming nobody cares about what game you're playing nobody cares people tune in because of this right here we get a group people are talking right have fun take risk this is this is the thing with yourself out there with our channel zach and you hit it on the head it doesn't matter what you stream is long and when you say being entertaining, it's not solely reliant on the host of the channel because when the chat starts going, everybody entertains themselves and it's like a hangout every single week. When you have that kind of community within your channel, it thrives from there. It's great to see a lot of the same names each and every week come in the chat.
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It's really exciting to see new follows every single week and new people pop in and posting. We appreciate it. It's great. It's always a good time.
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I'll get off here so we can hear Fulgren and Dr. John show. Zach, last thing. They were saying they want to see real games like Popeye. I'm going to change that to Demolition Man. But other than that, I think we're good.
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Just a bit outside on that one. Just a bit outside. Tried the corner and missed. Yeah, if you want to play a real wide body with lightning flippers, it's all Popeye, baby.
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Oh, jeez. All right, brother. You have a good night, man. That's a good one, Maniacs Peace Alright, be good Well, ladies and gentlemen, Zach Menny from Many Things, straight down the middle of Pinball Show Zach Menny from This Week in Pinball co-host there with Dennis Creasel and then Zach Menny, the owner and operator with his wife Nicole Menny of the Flippin' Out Pinball, distributorship If you're going to buy a pinball machine and you don't have a distributor find Zach another guy that I would put my reputation on. The guy just is a hard worker, and you're not going to get better service, at least in my experience. I never had a bad distributor, but I've never had one that was as great as Zach. And that's why I will keep my business going his way. So we appreciate it. Anyhow, thoughts, Jurassic Park. I think we're going to run this stream for like another 15 minutes before we shut it down at 930. Now Zach's talking about getting himself up and running on the stream, and it'll be on the channel. so we'll have a couple nights a week where we can actually rock this thing out. And I can't wait for him to do it. Yeah, dude. Nobody's more entertaining. 4 a.m. on a Tuesday? Yes. Well, no, I don't know if he's going to do 4 a.m. Oh, we've got other plans, too, besides, you know. Well, I mean, think about it. Like, right now, the guy, it's 9.20. He's getting ready to unbox at Jurassic Park. He's out of his mind, dude. Set it up. You know, it might be 10. Invite people over. It might be 10.20 in Texas. It might be 10.20 in Indiana. Because that line in Indiana and Illinois kind of zigzags around here, right? The one thing that I know about Zach, too, is that he will stay up until 2, 3 in the morning and play in this Jurassic Park Pro, and then he'll try to help kids in his other profession half in the back from the prior morning's pinball. Thanks for calling the Flippin' Out Pinball Network.
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Hello. Hey, what's up? How are you? It's good. It's me, Dr. John. I know it's you, Dr. John. I said, hey, what's up? See, now before, I'd have to give you this introduction. Hey, what's up? Now we just buddies Dr John We can just be casual Hey what up man How are you 920 920 it says We are recovering from a heavy week of pinball in the Brisbane Masters where we were thoroughly introduced to high-level pinball by two 16-year-old boys from America and one older gentleman from America. Yeah.
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We got a little information on your segment today that'll be aired tomorrow on Special to Unlit Pinball Podcast. Dr. John covering Spooky Pinball. Yep.
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It's good times. You have fun? Yep. So Bowen, we had an absolute ball. It was just like going out onto a golf course and having a couple of rounds with Tiger Woods and just letting you know just how bad a pinball player you can be compared to these high-level guys because Escher Lefkoff and Colin Urban are just outstanding competitors. And Bowen is way up there. as well and just get coming through behind them. So it's so good to see the youth coming through and dominating pinball. There is a future. We like to let everybody know how bad of pinball players we are live on stream every single week. Absolutely. Very well. We like humbling ourselves. Right. Yeah, when I see what some of these guys can do, ball control and just it's pretty unbelievable. So let me ask you this, Dr. John. How is it that you know Bo and Karen? So you guys have like a personal relationship or is it just like a mutual or respect for one another? Because it seems like you've got some nice access as far as having good conversations, good banter with them, that you graciously share with us on Special Inlet.
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I've met Bowen probably five years ago. I can't remember what show. One of the shows I went over to, and we had a few bottles of wine over dinner and stayed in touch over that. And then I normally get to America about twice a year for pinball shows and things like that, and we always catch up. have a meal and a drink. So we chat regularly, and that's how I know him and managed to invite him to come over for this event as our sort of honored guest with him and Steve Ritchie. So that's how we know each other. That's awesome. Purely through pinball. Got a nice little brotherhood going. I want to take a quick time out and thanks, I think, Aesop30 for following the channel. I appreciate it. So is Brisbane Masters, it's all over with, right? It's completed, it's done, or is it still going? no i was uh finished on sunday okay it's now tuesday here so it's all done and uh there's the cleanup to do but my um yes it was a my daughter emily of course took a shine to escher and i think she took a shine to emily very nice pretty inseparable for the entire weekend they were there that's awesome um so she's looking forward to coming over to indisc in California in January to catch up with the Lefkoff family again. And, yeah, we'll do another U.S. trip. Well, good. Rock it out. If you have a connecting flight at O'Hare or whatever, let me know, because I will rifle up there. I won't miss you a second time in the same year here in the U.S., Dr. John. No worries. That'll definitely be next year at Pinnberg. Sounds good to me. I'm looking forward to it, man.
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Cool, boy. Thanks for the stream. Love Jurassic Park. It looks like it's a winner. It is a winner, man. It's a winner, man. Thanks for everything. Thanks for coming in here every week, and thanks for everything you do for our show, Dr. John. We really appreciate it. We're in debt to you, buddy. No worries. Bye. Be good. All right. Have a good night. All right. See you, John. See you.
40:27
Always good hearing from Dr. John. Now, that cues up the Dave Fulgren music, right? He needs his own intro music, because those guys are back-to-back normally. Normally, it's Dr. John Fulgren. We need some intro music, right, for these guys?
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All right. Well, this is not Dave Fulgren. Let's see who this is. Hey, thanks for calling the Flippin' Out Streaming Network.
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Hello, this is Jobber. Hey, Jobber, what's up? Well, I'm calling because I have a beef with the proprietor of this channel. Although, if I am going to buy a pinball, I will buy it from Flippin' Out. But that being said, virtual pinball is pinball. And if you want to play one, you can do so this weekend at the 2D Con in Minneapolis at the Hyatt Regency, Friday through Sunday. mine is called the dumpster fire and I've made it out of 90% recycled material anyways it was the quickest easiest way I could think of doing a plug I have nothing else to talk about good night good luck we talked about this last week we did Chuck I mean what are your thoughts on that Chuck he's speechless Chuck is speechless he was here it's virtual pinball but it's good times hey if you have a good time with it whatever man it doesn't matter you know if it brings people together you have a good time that's all you can ask for right you know what yeah what's that well let's take this next call you want to do it no no we'll know what you want to welcome it into the channel sure you want to you want to work the call board here we go ready go ahead welcome to the flipping out pinball channel what is going on hi guys Maybe Chaz.
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Paper Chaz? What's up? Still working on that intro. That was good, man. You had me going. I was hanging on the edge of my seat.
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So what I was planning on doing was potentially streaming after you guys kind of closed up shop. And I was wondering, do you guys know anything about Theater of Magic or Medieval Madness? as far as what?
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Like the shots to do. Oh, jeez. Anything secret. Castle. No. The things that might need. I don't know. Listen, you're asking the wrong people for that with all due respect. Slappy tries, yeah. What I would recommend that you actually do. Did you share a plane tonight? Yeah, because we're not the best people to ask for that. Now, we've played these games, but I would cram a Papa tutorial on each of those pins real fast. For sure. And then figure that out. Because for me, it's the best way that I like to learn a rule set or how to approach scoring on a pinball machine before. If I'm having problems or if I'm getting ready to play one for the first time. I wish I could help you out on strategies and whatnot. I haven't played a theater of magic in a long, long time. Probably at maybe at your house. Yeah, my house. Theater of magic? Yeah. Oh, no, no, no, no. Medieval. Yeah, medieval at your house. But when was the last time I was at your house?
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It was still snowing. 1986? Yeah. It was a good year. Snivy Man, I'm sorry. I wish I could help you out, but I just cannot. I can recommend everybody try to... If you're going to stream tonight, go check them out. See what you've got going on. Check out the Papa, though, if you want to get some screenshots. You know what the Papa tutorials are? Are you familiar with that?
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No, I don't think I'm familiar with that, actually. If you could drop me a link sometime, I'd appreciate it. Or just go on Google and type in Papa Theater of Magic. or Papa medieval madness, P-A-P-A. And you'll get some nice videos that will tutorial that pin for you real quick and you'll be ready to go.
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All right, cool. All right, man, good luck. Yeah, buddy. I know for a fact that the first thing I need to do is not drain down the middle, right? Yeah, well, that's number one. I don't know, we've been pretty successful draining. We made that look pretty good. We've cornered that market, so you're going to have to do something else.
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We're the quick drains. But have fun tonight. And if we can, I'll try to jump in and see what you've got going on. I might be streaming in about 10 minutes once I figure out OBS, and it's shenanigans. Oh, yeah. Well, it's always, yeah, OBS is an animal thing. We have until 4 in the morning figuring that out. Yeah. Don't worry about that. Once you get it live, hopefully you get some followers from the channel tonight. And your channel there is, how can people find you?
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It's just, am I allowed to post a link in the chat? You can try. I don't know if it'll work or not. Or you can just let us know what your screen name is, and people can hear it in real time.
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The screen name is twitch.tv slash Snivy Tries. I'm not creative enough to come up with a fancy name. No, that works, man. Hey, ours is Flippin' Out Pinball, so that is what it is. But yeah, good. Good luck, and we'll try to jump in there later. And if for whatever reason I don't catch you tonight, I'm going to follow your channel, and when you go on next time, I'll make sure I jump in. all right awesome all right good i have to say yeah thank you guys for the really fun and engaging stream it was amazing watching you guys fail at jurassic park for two hours yes thank you nobody fails like us yeah i mean go big or go home i'm glad you can appreciate the amount of work that goes into failure over here so i do appreciate it hey i'm just glad you guys got like 35 bucks off pin quest hey so pin quest is a sponsor of the channel and it's good having them aboard and i recommend if anybody hasn't checked out pin quest go to pinquest.com and see what it's all about uh earn some uh be be compensated for your efforts on location without having a grand chef a machine but yeah let's not even try thanks for calling in man and we'll catch you a little bit all right cool cool man uh job bridge uh at some point we will Dude, sorry, I read that and I didn't want to ignore you. What's that? Stream at my house again. When we get the rig and whatever.
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Jabba remembers us streaming at your house? Jabba, did you see that stream? He asked, why are we streaming at Bill's house? Right. Good question. Hey, so the Flippin' Out line is hopping today. Bill, you want to get on this one? Sure. Snivy for president.
46:40
Thank you for calling out the Flippin' Out Pinball channel. How can we help you? Hey, it's Scott from Penn Stadium. Hey! Scott! It's raining subs.
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See, this isn't like a real phone call. We don't hear from you enough, Scott. Did we do something wrong? Are we getting in trouble, Scott? I think we are. No. You know what? You know what's funny? He's like, listen, you son of a bitches.
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No, I'm kidding, Scott. Go ahead. No, I heard your really professional voicemail message because I was calling when I thought he was getting off. And then I thought it was you answering. But it was so elongated. I'm like, oh, he's messing with me. he knows it's me calling and I'm like, Oh, it's the real message.
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Is there a voicemail on the, for the line? I didn't even know who did, who is it like a computer voice?
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No, it's you. It's Ken. And it, and it has you set up on there and, and it says, thanks for calling. We must be on the other line with it on the stream. And you know, it just sounded like a real, it was Stevie. It sounded like a real person, which was you. Oh, that's crazy. I forgot that I did that. Dennis is awesome. It's long, man. You got me and you didn't know you got me. I didn't even know that I had that set up, man. I apologize. Testing it when it first happened. It was like a minute and a half. I probably put on the generic message and I still had me talking to himself. Where I was cussing at the end of it saying, how do I turn this off?
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I didn't listen to all of it. I just hung up. That's what happens at my house too. Nobody listens to all of it. You never get voicemails. It's perfect. What's going on, man? Yeah, what's up?
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Oh, not much, man. I just wanted to say hi and say hey to everyone out there. And just I really appreciate you guys taking the time to do this stream. But in addition to that, you know, Zach being so cool with offering these pins up. And I don't know. It is something everybody's really looking forward to. I think it's something, you know, we all talked about the beginning being a great idea. And, I mean, I look forward to it every Monday night. I do, too. I absolutely do. You know, it's a blast. Like, I mean, it really is a blast. and everybody's been cool, like people in chat. I mean, it's just good. It's good, and I think you guys are doing a killer job, and I appreciate the kind words you guys said earlier, and I know you mean that. A hundred percent we mean it, Scott. And like I said, I'll go to bat for you any day, brother. I promise you that.
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Oh, yeah. Now, you know what? Ever since the beginning of Penn Stadium, I've had to take a lot of curveballs, and I'm used to it. Yeah, no. Any good business is going to have some people that are potential setbacks. But, I mean, you handle it gracefully, man. I've never seen you lose your cool with anybody. If anything else, you've been more than professional under some of the circumstances. So that being said, I know majority-wise you've got a big fan base and a customer base that follows not just the product but yourself. and putting yourself out there, doing all these pinball shows, traveling throughout the country,
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extending the brand to everybody. And with all the behind the scenes, I don't think a lot of people realize all the sponsoring that you do and all of the product that you give away in order for people to help further their pinball adventures and their personal things with pinball. And that's a lot of behind the scenes stuff that a lot of people don't realize. So if it was all about the glory and the fame, you'd be publicizing all that and you just don't do it. So nicely done. Yeah. No, no, I appreciate it. And also, you know, like when things like this do happen, it does come up like there's always like, you know, a head that pops in pinball and it happens to be 10 stadiums probably like biannual every six months. There's something going, you know, like some some thread going on fire or whatever. But yeah, it really doesn't bother me or faze me. But, you know, and I and I know that, you know, a lot of people, maybe some people think, oh, man, Scott's taking a hit. And, you know, I feel bad for them. And I don't want anybody to feel that way because when you get yourself out there and, you know, you get anything, a product or a podcast, just these things are normal. Like it's just it's part of the it's part of the nature of the business. And, you know, and when these things do occur, I mean, my business literally picks up and I don't ask for it to be that way. Like, I'm not glad that things happen, you know, but but I do throw up my business thrives from it. And in addition to that, you know, it's like however I handle the situations, you know, a chance for me to be able to show myself and how I feel. And, you know, so it's just a good opportunity is all it really is. You do well on that, Scott. Yeah, for sure. You take it in stride and, you know, and you handle situations very gracefully. You'd be an excellent PR firm for any company. Yeah. You know what I mean? He handles everything with grace. You know how I handle everything. Yeah. So, no, we appreciate it. We appreciate everything you do for pinball, man. You know that. And on a personal note, we know that you're a good guy, so it makes everything easier.
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Absolutely. Well, and also, too, behind the scenes, it's not pretty. I'm doing about 70 or 80 hours a week, and I prefer to just it be me doing it just because I know I can manage my business that well and make sure that I'm giving good customer service. But meaning it's not pretty in the sense that, I mean, it's a lot of work. I mean, the whole time I'm watching the stream, I'm working, building lights, putting hovers together, and I just enjoy it. You know, like it's just something that's rewarding for me. And when that one customer says, hey, man, you just changed my game. I love your lights. Like that just makes it for me. I don't care how many hours I put in for it, you know, like into it. It's just it's cool that way. It's awesome, man. Keep doing what you're doing. And, you know, curious to see the evolution of Penn Stadium because just when you think it doesn't get any better, you got something else that comes out that improves on an existing product. And the nice thing is every time you make an improvement on a product, you don't alienate the old product because all those old products are able to be upgraded to what you've got working currently. So that's kind of nice, too. Yeah. I don't want to. I've talked about this before, but I really don't like the idea of planned obsolescence. So that's one of the business models of Model 10 Stadium is you, you know, I mean, heck, if with all these different products I came out with, that means that every three months you would be like, oh, no, I wish I didn't buy it now. I wish I got it later. And I don't want somebody feeling like, you know, they got stuck with something. I want them to know that they can grow with the technology. So anyways, that's my motto. And I'll stick by it whenever possible. And I've got a lot of cool stuff coming down the road that I haven't even announced. And I'm excited and look forward to seeing everybody's response later on. So stuff's brewing right now as we speak. I think that's what Zach has planned for us. It's planned obsolescence, I think, is what it is for the Ken, Bill, and Steve portion of the Flip. As soon as he gets his own stream up and running, we're going to be kicked to the curb. Right. I'm going to hold that Star Wars the pin hostage until we get back on stream. So I have to have to go rogue for a while. But Scott, I appreciate you calling in and thank you so much for everything tonight. You're a great supporter of the channel and we're happy to be in alliance with you, buddy.
53:37
Oh, yeah. Hey, hey, same here. Thanks for taking my call on you guys. Have a good evening. You got it, man. Thanks, Scott.
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Later. See you. Dude, that's another guy that works so hard and he just has a new baby. That's I mean, that's a daunting task, taking care of like a toddler. or a baby, and then working 70, 80 hours a week. It's like, oh, my goodness. It's one of those things.
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Hey, thanks for calling the Flippin' Out Streaming Network. Ha-ha. What's up, you maniac? Hey. What's up, Dave? Hello. Let's get some energy in this show, huh? Hey, man. That was getting so boring listening to every personal interest story. I'm like a panther in a cage pacing around this garage. Come on. Do you have a knife in your hand right now, Dave? Oh, Jesus. What's that? Do you have a knife in your hand right now, buddy?
54:25
I'm good. Actually, I just put a socket wrench down. I just put the socket wrench down. Okay, put everything down, man. Oh, no. All right. You all right, man?
54:38
Who, me? Yeah. I don't know who you're talking to at this time, Ken. Usually when Ken puts me on, the area's in the middle of a conversation, and I've got to wait.
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Bill's usually halfway home by the time I get on. This is true. pandemonium i'm i'm literally leaving after this call fyi well i was gonna say that was part of my call is bill it's bill it's time for you to go home yes uh you know what dennis thank you for that uh dennis another buddy man you you know dennis and dave are on your uh listen man they are on point with uh bill's making sure bill's not gonna be a little tired Well, they want to see me next week. Goddamn, we're having a bad day tomorrow. Goddamn, we're out of tea. Bill is the beauty in the booth with all the beauty sleep that he's been getting. Going home early All those five hours of sleep FYI FYI Dude The wife is sleeping so terrible Dude sleep is a commodity at my house right now I got you. I would sell this. Yeah. All right. Hey, yeah, whatever. That's all right. All right. What's up, Dave? What's going on?
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Man, what's not going on? Just calling in to shoot the shit a little bit tonight? Yeah. Any tornadoes on the plane? Yeah, just saying what's up. Actually, hey, I'm going to the Iron Maiden show on Thursday. That's some exciting pinball news. Where is that? Where are they playing?
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I guess it's at Tinley. I don't know. Mark called me today. He's like, dude, I got tickets. You want to go? I was like, I think I can do that. So, yeah, that's going to be. Interesting. Whatever they're calling Tinley Park now. But, yeah, I don't have an Iron Maiden shirt, so I guess I'll just wear my Zombie Yeti shirt. I was going to say, probably run into Zombie Yeti over there. I guarantee he's going to be out there. Ironed up. Good times. Iron's up. Nice. Yeah.
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Iron's up. But, yeah, you know, you guys kind of brought up an interesting thing with the mods as well. You know, it just seems like there's so many mods now that you could almost skip out of the pros and get some of these mods and really get close to it. You mean get a pro and then blame it to a premium? I mean, what are you thinking? So the way that the pros are made now, I mean, there's still play field differences, though. Sometimes. You might be missing like a mech or two. Yeah, but not too crazy. I like to buy the premiums. Not Jurassic Park especially. The Pro and the Premium are very similar. I like to buy the premiums and then strip off the mechs and sell them to Pro buyers at a marked up price. I like the term Pro. Ken's Mods.com. Let's pull the whole play field out of it. $500. That's right. T-Rex. Guys, I got to run. Hey, Dave. Dave knows how to clear a room. Hang on. You hang out for one more minute. You guys all leaving? I'll wait a second. I'll run this chat. I've got something for you upstairs too, but I might not be able to give it to you today because you're leaving a little bit early. I will run chat then until whatever. Yeah. Run this chat out. Well, no. I'm kidding. That's a good thing. Yeah, but you're right, Dave. What?
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Are you still there, Dave? Yeah, I am. I don't know what the heck just happened. It was like pandemonium. It's always pandemonium when you call. You called and you energized this with your own grand opening. It was pretty impressive.
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Got to get up, boys. We got to get up. Yeah, I agree. It's only 930. um but yeah i i well especially like with the jersey jack stuff i mean that guy that's making those mods for the pirates it's it's amazing he's got a spinning pop bumper now for that for that standard model and you've got the actuating that opens and closes yeah that's amazing which is i mean that that gave them a real hard time that trunk if he's got that thing running smooth that's gonna be pretty sweet yeah i'm looking somebody already has it down here he just hasn't put it in yet. So we're waiting for him to put it in. I'm looking forward to seeing how it looks. I know what you're talking about. I'd be curious to get some feedback on that. Absolutely, man. The mod community is knocking it out of the park. You've not seen better mods ever in the history of pinball than you're seeing right now. With a few exceptions.
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How long till the builders pull the plug, like you guys said? And what point is that going to get where they're just going to finally put their hand out and say, guys... I think it makes sense for a pinball company to align with the mod community and try to sell that stuff on consignment or something. I mean, it'll reach more people. I don't know if they can keep up. I'm sure there's some type of business insurance and things that go along with the mods and whatnot. But, yeah, I mean, sky's the limit. We'll see what happens. I want to see where the market goes with pinball right now as we kind of look at the stock market and everything. And I wonder if we see a little bit of a dip here in pricing. I think right now we are seeing a little bit of pricing that's starting to drop a little bit, and I want to see if it sustains itself or what happens.
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I think things have gotten a little soft, but it's also the time of year. So that's kind of been my thing.
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Everybody's doing boats and back to school right now. I think once after Labor Day goes and everybody puts their boats in dock and the kids are already settled into school and they got their backpacks, it's like, all right, now I got this open spot in my basement. What am I going to put there? So that's usually what I've seen with the trend. Now, after, you know, once Expo, and plus Expo usually starts a frenzy up too. You know, usually Expo and TPF, people start getting hungry because they're seeing all the stuff flying. They do. I think that'll be indicative of what's, you know, that'll be a good indicator of what we're going to see. But, yeah, it feels a little soft. I mean, I've been sitting on a couple games over here. I just sold my Black Knight, my old Black Knight, and I got a guy looking at my Black Knight 2000. So it feels like it's starting to pick up again. Ooh, nice. Yeah. I mean, here's the thing, guys. How many awesome games have come out in the past six months? How many games can you buy? Yeah. Hey! I mean, Chuck just left. See you, Chuck. That's a good point. Chuck's gone.
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So it's been, it'll be an interesting year. Hopefully it finishes out strong for everybody, and I can't wait to see. I mean, there's still two. You've got the Denise game, and you've got Elvira still floating up there. So there's a whole lot of good pinball left. Yeah, I agree, man. We've got a couple more games coming out, at least three that we know of before the end of the year. And I think Jersey Jack probably shows us their next game. So I think you can count on four.
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And on that note, I forgot about that. Bill's leaving. Yeah. All right, Dave, we'll talk to you later. Bill's leaving. All right, Bill. Brother Dennis. Hey, man, good job, brother. Good night, Bill. Be safe.
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All right, we'll see you guys. All right, Dave. Well, we appreciate your calling every single week, man. Love seeing you in chat, brother. Yeah, buddy. Always, always good to talk to you guys. Keep up the good work. Thanks, everybody, for supporting the show, and we'll talk to you next week. Thank you for supporting the show, Dave. Love it, man. Big time.
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Go Bears. Hey, Monday night pinball, brother. Monday night pinball. Thanks, man. Scott says, little boo. Good times, good times. We'll take one more call before we end this. Have a good night. End this out. Hey, Bill. Always good seeing you, brother. Absolutely. You all right, Scott? You can't stay away, can you, Bill? No, I'm fine. It's tough. It's drowning back in. I think I forgot something down here. I should be in bed right now. Is that your cup over there? It is. All right. Don't forget that mod. All right, guys.
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I think this is going to do it for the Flippin' Out Streaming Network. Hey, thanks for calling the Flippin' Out Streaming Network. This is Ken and Steve.
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Oh, God, hello? Hello? Oh. Who's that? Hi. Look at you. Look at little Sammy. Who is... Oh, did I make it on the air? What's up? Oh, my gosh. You made it on the air. Oh, my God. Thank you so much. I got so scared. I was very upset. I was talking the whole time on the computer, and no one was talking back to me. My friend set it all up with the microphone, and he got my profile name up there on the Twitches. And I was very excited. And I was talking, but no one was talking to me. But thank you very much. I'm very excited. Thank you. Hey, thanks for coming in. It's nice to have you on. Yeah, buddy. What's on your mind? Where have you been lately? You've been on a little bit of a hiatus, I understand. I had to go back up to Canarsie up there. My friend was very sick, so I had to go help him out there. I'm sorry to hear that. Yeah, that's okay. He's doing better now. Thank you. We played some pinball. But he's getting some bed rest right now. No, bed rest.
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That's good. Not the best rest. What does any of your summer constitute? Are you going to be hitting some pinball shows? Or what are you going to be doing? Oh, that's right. I live up here in Houston. and so they got the the huge market expo coming up there and and home that's good you're gonna get a chance to jump on uh deep root their rosa machine right oh i'm so excited yes i i hope i could do another one of those uh on the floor corresponded for uh for jason and matthew over there that'll be great that's unbelievable i i've got a formal request from the owner of the channel his name is zach i think you know who he is oh i love jackery oh i love jackery he's such a nice boy thank you well he's inviting you to come on the podcast uh if you'd like to make an appearance there at some point there sammy oh god oh my god i'm so nervous oh yeah i would oh if that's okay i would like to make i would like to talk a little bit about the pinball yes yeah that'd be great you could talk about the pinballs over there flipping up on the on the This Week in Pinball podcast, and it's great that... Oh, yes. Oh, go ahead. Kabuki, stop it. Kabuki.
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My dog is licking my foot. I'm sorry. He's blonde. You got some peanut butter on the foot over there, Sammy, or no? You good? No, it's my little dog. He's a little picky. His name's Kabuki. Hi, Kabuki. Hey, Kabuki.
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I didn't want to make... I told him to just listen to poor adults only. Sammy, are you a Twitch guy? Why do you like to watch the pinball streams? As we thank the bearded Baron. Thank you for following. I'm sorry. Go ahead, Sammy. I had to get my friend to help me. I don't watch. I like that game and stuff like that. I watch on the YouTube and whatnot, but I don't have time. I'm very, very busy. How did you find us tonight?
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Oh, I love you guys. I listen to your show and I hear you. I said my friend, I said I want to see them on the Twitch. And they said, with Sammy, you've got to get all signed up for that. Can you sign me up there? And then Zachary said, I'm not real because I don't have the S. Well, that was my friend's fault. He messed that one up because, you know, Jason's always called me Sammy Pinball. But it's really Sammy Pinballs. But it's okay. I love Jason. He's my friend.
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All right. Love it. Right? Because the point of contention was, like, would Sammy Pinball create an account that doesn't say Sammy Pinballs with the S? So you're saying that it was a mistake or that there was a conscious effort to leave off the yes?
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No, it was a mistake. He is my friend. I'm going to call him right now to have it changed. All right. Well, you can always create another account. Yes. We're happy to have you on. We appreciate you calling in. And don't be a stranger.
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Thank you so much. Thank you, Kenneth. I love you guys. You're so very nice. Thank you very, very much. Well, thank you for what you do for Pinball, Sammy. We appreciate all your efforts and your enthusiasm, buddy. You're a good guy. Oh, thank you. That means so much. Thank you. Good time, Sammy. Have a good one, okay?
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Kabuki! Kabuki. All right, well, hey, that's a fitting way to end the night, actually, here on the Flippin' Out Streaming Network. Kabuchi! So for those of you that don't know, Sammy Pinballs made his first appearance on the Slap Save Pinball podcast with Jason Fowler and Matt Kanin. And he's been kind of a reappearing guest on that show with his own segment. I haven't heard from him as of late, so we kind of dropped into flipping out streaming network. Everybody that doesn't have a current job in pinball stops in here at some point.
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We're the breeding ground to the rest of your career in pinball. That was nice. Love it. Anybody that knows me knows that I like to have a grand finish here, and I hope not to disappoint. I want to thank Bill Webb for – where did Bill go? Bill – He's gone. Bill's gone. Just a little bit. Bill's gone. I want to thank Bill Webb for being here, my partner from the Special One-Leg Pinball Podcast. Steve, always a pleasure having you in, man. You add something to the stream that nobody else could add, actually, and nobody else could take away. So that's absolutely nice. I want to go ahead and I want to thank the sponsors, right? So we've got Scott from Penn Stadium. He called in. Excellent guy. Excellent product. And just thank you so much for supporting the stream. The gift subs tonight were overly generous, and we hope that everybody takes advantage of those. I wanted to thank Neil at PinQuest, who just jumped on board with some sponsorship and gives us those PinQuest challenges of the week. We grabbed two of them this week, two out of five, but we've yet to blank, so we appreciate Neil and his efforts. I want to take a quick minute and round out the top ten for weekly top chairs. We have got PinQuest Pinball, Pirate Cat and Red Eye, Pin Stadium, FN Slayer, Taco Pizza, whose name is up on the Jurassic Park leaderboard tonight, Rebel Guitars, Southwest Pennsylvania Pinhead, Willie's Pinball Palace, Slap Save Pinball, and Chris the Pintern. Thank you guys for being the top of the series this week for the last six days. But we thank everybody. And if you're not giving bits, it's totally fine because we're not asking for bits. Just being here and chatting and coming here every single week is what drives us. It doesn't hurt that we're playing the newest pinball machines either. I'm not going to lie. But it's great. It's great. I'm here for the chat, hanging out with you guys and playing pinball. We've noticed that, and it's probably because of Jurassic Park being here, but we've noticed a nice little spike in the viewer counts and the numbers. And I think as everybody gets more comfortable with what we're doing and realizes that you can come hang out and have a good time on a weekly basis, we expect those numbers to keep going. So the bigger the family, the better off we all are. So it's good times, right? Everybody else, that's good. Dave Fulgren, thanks for the two bits, buddy. 42 Gits is talking to Flippin' Out Pinball. Thank you, Davey. Can you get the Super Escalera handle? Mac Jedi, love your stream and your podcast keep up the fantastic work guys you know what, thank you Mac Jedi Lord of the Ring Breath, thank you for the bitties buddy thank you for the 20 bitties little self promotion here if you don't know what a podcast is I encourage you to figure out what that is because if you like casual talk about pinball, a little bit of the news, a little bit of entertainment special when lit pinball podcast hosted by myself, my co-host Bill Webb who's not here with me tonight he was here but he left, we do it every single week and it's fun. Also, check out This Week in Pinball podcast. That's hosted by Zach Menne, who is also the owner of Flippin' Up Pinball with his wife, Nicole. And that brings me to a smooth transition to thanking those two. Because without Zach and Nicole Menne allowing us and trusting us to have these machines in our studio, trust us not to be complete idiots where we're going to make fools out of ourselves. Not with pinball scoring because we do that already, but just as presenting ourselves in a professional demeanor. Your trust means the world to us and the opportunity that you've given us to play these games and share them with the Twitch world means a lot to us. So Zach and Nicole, thank you very, very much. And I will say that every single week because you guys are giving us opportunities that we ordinarily wouldn't have. So we appreciate it. So I think that's it, guys. Podcast Addict, as Dave Fahlgren is saying, is a great app that you can grab on your phone. That's what I use. That's a good one. So do I. And type in pinball. And there's several pinball podcasts. Really good ones. Find them all. So check them all out. you've got Slap Save Pinball Podcast with Sammy Pinballs, who makes his appearance there all the time.
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Jobber wants to know who Flippin' Out Pinball actually is. And then you've got Dr. John still here. Zach and all your friends saying, yay. Yeah, thanks, Taco Pizza. So on that, for Bill Webb and for Steve Biddy, good morning, good afternoon, and good evening. And don't forget to take some time out of your day and play some pinball. So long, everybody.
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Well, that was, can you do that again? That was like some Seinfeld stuff. Nice job. One more time. Thank you.