All the pinball people on a weekly basis. Out here I have Fundy Flippers, but I don't have, unfortunately, what I had, the Monday Night Pinball where every single week I'm meeting up with the same 15-20 people. You really get to know them well and check in on them on a weekly basis. That being said, now that I've mentioned it, I am just going to apologize to everybody. Last Saturday was the Fundy Flippers I was supposed to play David Dennis and Fredericton at Dillon's Arcade. I had every intention of going and the day before we finally got insurance on Hayden's car and after we put the template in the back, my oldest son Hayden bought a 16 year old car, but yeah, it's his first car. He bought an old Honda Fit with his money he worked from working at the community center this summer and we finally got it insured for him, got the template, came home, put the template on and we had only driven the car like two blocks the day he bought it like a month and a half ago from like straight down the road from his I'm here with my best friend Carson Syos and we didn't realize how bad of condition the CV joint, the front right CV joint was in and driving from here up just to the Joggins Fossil Cliffs eight minutes away we heard like every time we were turning to the right it's a lot of bad clicking and I said Hayden as a driving instructor who's put half a million kilometers I think that's like 300,000 miles on two cars before I my 30th birthday I've heard a lot of CV joints close to I'm not upset with the people who bought the car from whatsoever. It's a 16 year old car, these things will go. And I think the car could make it 3-6 months here just doing little drives to town or back 15 minutes away. But I don't think that it would have been a prudent idea for us to try to drive Hayden's new car 3 and a half, what, 4 hours away and what, 700 kilometers round trip? I'm going to be doing a round trip up and down mountain hills with tons of curves all the way to Fredericton and chance him having the car break down and then I can't even imagine it'd probably be upwards of like 1500 bucks to get the car towed from Fredericton back to where we were and that's like half the cost of what he paid for the car right so I just didn't think it was a good idea and more importantly it's not my car it's Hayden's car and Hayden was like dad I really don't think we should now knowing that this Saturday was our last market of the roveloonils.tv They are a number of Heinz shoes are selling well today. I am very proud to announce that I am Mink1 which is the largest shoe Room of the Inc. And this summer there is little over 100 pieces yes to the Bureau, it was justury purchase and October they did not even know that the revenue felt this year just a little bit too much to be happy about. Yeah, it is. I mean y'all don't get tired of it. Let me tell you a little story. Some people will spend a half day doing nothing... Hmm Some might get confused and run off to the observatory We put like milk chocolate chips inside and then Danielle actually does the drizzle on top of them. Those ones sell really well. So with getting less and less customers every week, we had to find a way to increase our income and especially with stupid Hurricane Fiona biting into all of our extra money we had sitting on our credit card finally. And yeah, I don't even know where I was going with that, but I wasn't able to make it to Fundy Flippers last Saturday. I didn't want a chance wrecking Hayden's car, which he also uses for work. I didn't want a chance, not that I thought it would wreck it, but even if there's a 10% chance and it's his car and he's not comfortable, I just didn't want to put him in that position. I love pinball. I eat, sleep, breathe pinball, but I also don't want to allow my love for pinball to make the rest of my family's life worse. There's just no way Danielle could have used ... We use our Corolla, which is significantly bigger than a Honda Fit, and we can barely fit in our two tables, everything we need I'm just going to let you know that we have a new product coming out this weekend and I know it's a big deal. I'm sure you might want to get it. There's no way I was going to chance putting all that into this 16-year-old Honda Fit and A have the Honda Fit break down and then Hayden's without a car or B basically make Danielle not be able to make it to our last market of the year which we actually need the money from and also just we serve a good purpose. And I'm sorry, Tom, but I think I even called it Fundy O Flippers, which is Fundy Flippers, and they call it the O pin is the actual name of the tournament. So again, sorry, Tom. That's me and my lack of my brain being able to work very well. But that was at the end of a very long, very fun interview with David Dennis. So hey, if that's the biggest thing I got wrong, I think overall the interview came out great. If you haven't listened to that one, go back and listen to it. Because there was a couple hundred of you that listened to the Craig Bobby one. Craig Bobbi's very popular, I get it, okay, he does the dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun, but that wasn't even like 10% as good as Craig Bobbi's. But there was a couple hundred of you who did listen to Craig Bobbi's who haven't yet listened to David Dennis's, and David Dennis, not only did he give us the exclusive that his next show was going to be George Gomez, go over to TPN. When you're done listening to all the episodes on the Poor Man's Pinball Network, I guess You can go over to the second sloppiest pinball network because, well, there's only two pinball networks as far as I know, but you can go over to, I give you permission to go over to the pinball network and listen to the new Silver Ball Chronicles with Ron Howlett and Dave Dennis, and they chat all about Mr. George Gomez. And honestly, I don't want to say they're all my favorite episodes, but there's, you know, the Python Angelo one really sticks out to me. I'm going to be talking about the pinball industry and getting to hear about icons in the industry, especially ones that are still relevant today like George Gomez. So interesting. You think, oh, a pinball nerd like me that's done 500 episodes and has been into pinball now for, don't worry Dave Fix, I'm well over five years. I think I'm probably into about seven years of really getting back into pinball and playing tournaments about five years again. You know, I'm really into pinball and there's still tons of stuff about George Gomez I just didn't know about that I got by listening to that. So go listen to that episode. Now, let's talk about Bond on a Wand or lack thereof. Now, as far as the livestream goes, did Dead Flip do a great job? Mr. Jack Danger, you sure did. I apologize, my silly fan just came on there on my laptop so I had to unplug it for a second. But Jack Danger did a great job with the live stream and in fact I think that Deadflip did such a great job with the live stream and not just him, like not just the video and the audio quality and the setup of the gear and all that kind of stuff. That counts. Those are your table stakes. That counts. But what he did a really, really, really good job with was really just making sure that, well it wasn't just him, but it was more so George Gomez, Mike Vinacore, and I will say this, Mr. Dwight Sullivan, are you listening? I doubt you listen. But if you are listening, Dwight, go back and watch Mike Vinacore explain the rules in James Bond. But Bayer will achieve In the last five minutes I just hear wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah whatever the teacher and Charlie Brown, you know what I mean? That's all I have is I got five minutes for you. If you're talking about multipliers past that, my brain is just gone. I'm thinking about cheeseburgers, craft beer, or that fart I've been holding in the whole podcast. You know what I mean? Other than thinking about the best part of waking up, is Orbeez coffee in your cup. Sorry. I remember back in good old marketing school, they said you got to mention something three times to have someone, you know, consider purchasing something. So there you go. There's your two of your three times for angry alpaca coffee. Alright. The Bond On The Wand. Such a cool feature, Mr. George Gomez. Why is it not coded in there? According to, like, from the best of memory, now maybe I was reloading the vape, or maybe I was grabbing myself a new beer. I like to have a couple beers for the livestreams, okay? Maybe I was busy talking to Drop Target Danielle, who knows? But the first time, and I wrote this down, it was 46 minutes into the livestream when we finally saw the Bond on the Wand move. I hope that the rocket ship is not supposed to be the primary feature in the game. I'm assuming the bond on the wand is. I don't think it's the little carvuck. I definitely, definitely, definitely hope it's not that auto shooting feature on the left with the aquatic, the underwater fight scene. I hope that's not supposed to be the primary feature. But if Bond on the Wand is the primary mech, if it's the main toy, if it's the big boy, then why don't we see it being used more often? I counted three times I saw that sucker be implemented into modes. Three times. I also would love to see... I would love to see somehow, and this is a coding thing, thank God, this is not a design thing, this is a coding thing, somehow code in so that the flippers can be used, so that the player or the action button, I don't care, well probably flippers make more sense, Make it so at least one of the modes, and I don't care if it's a mini wizard mode at the very end that you'd rarely use if you're worried about breaking the mech or something, but you have to make it so that in one of the modes, I don't care if it's coordinated with a video mode, I want to see that the bond on the wand is movable by the player. Okay? That's what I want to see. I don't want to see it just auto turns out and drops something and goes back. You know? Make it much more like something that a lot of us pinball nerds love who also go to arcades. You know you love the penny pushers or whatever they're called. You know you love the crane games. We're in arcades anyways. We've got a couple credits left. You're gonna go over there and play that crane game. Well, make it like you have all these options where you can make this bond on the wand go from, I'm not gonna say lame, because it is cool. He picks up the ball and he moves with the magnet. But I want to see the player at the very least use the action button to decide when you drop it. And if you drop it at the right time, it's worth significantly more than if you drop it one of the easier times to drop it, right? Maybe the wand moves faster at a certain point? I don't know. Maybe the mech can't do that. But I'm assuming they can put into the code somehow, some way to make the mech work. If you could make the mech go back and forth either in coordination, like, okay, have it going during a multiball. Like if one multiball starts with the ball attached to the bond on the wand, and then you have to figure out a way to either cradle up or get the ball into, you know, stall the ball, Get it into another mechanism, get it into the underwater underground feature, do something to interact with it because I do like, okay, everyone's complaining about the giant dildo to the left that vibrates, right? Okay, what kind of world do a whole bunch of men complain about something like this, first of all? Second of all, I get that it itself is not that cool because you don't really interact with it other than just getting to it, just getting to the dildo, right? You gotta break your way through that wall. What I do like about it is that the functionality of making drop targets important again. I've talked about this forever. Many of you guys know how much I love Metallica for the inline drops. Many of you have heard me talk about Future Spa and why I love that so much. Dolly's one of my favorite old EMs, of course, that has the inline drops. I love that TNA made drop targets important again by using the Danesi lock. Of course, that was brought back in Rick and Morty. I love all the... having a row of stand-up targets just in a row, it's yes way... or sorry, drop down targets is way better than having just, you know, the targets that you hit that stay there and are static. Of course, watching them drop down is better, but having the drop down targets in a long row to me is like, meh, it's fine. But George Gomez is always talking about how much, you know, drop targets cost. So if you're going to use them, at least have them in something fun, like in a fun feature, like, or the one... You know, in Space Shuttle, it blocks the ramp, right? So you want the drop target to be important again, and I think that James Bond has done a good job doing that. Let's talk a little bit about the artwork. I still think I like the Playfield artwork, but I don't necessarily love it. I still really like the left side of the cabinets, but I definitely... I mean, we didn't see that really in the live stream. I saw that a little more at Expo, so I guess I'll save my thoughts on that to when I'm talking about Expo in a minute. But I can say that as far as the code goes, you could tell the codes early, but the code already had like more, I won't call them animations, they were on the LCD screen, they were like shots from the movies and stuff. It already had enough of those going. The music itself, the dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun, the thing that Craig Bobby does so well, that one song got very grinding. Even though, yes, some parts Gomez said, some parts get louder and some other parts get quieter, he did answer the question and thank you for addressing it. He did answer the question. There's more music coming. He said there's several, I think he named at least three if not four more Bond songs that are coming. So it won't just be that over and over. By the time that you could actually get your hot little hands on one of these bad boys, other than at the, you know, couple arcades they have it in Chicago And the couple arcades that are going to be getting it soon, like by the time you could actually get one in your home, which might be sooner the next April, George Gomez said he doesn't agree with that or know where people got that from, but whatever. By the time you could actually get these pinball machines, more than likely the code is going to be way, way, way more up to date, i.e. those stupid sounds will be gone, including the other thing, Hot Wheels, are you taking notes? Those are the many weird Оп ISY attacks that know Jlaughs, JamsMy Shears and Sh Stadt Jr. I love that. I love the idea that you as a sound nerd and sound is so important to me with pinball machines part of the reason why TNA is one of the greatest pinball machines out there. Another reason why like John Borg's favorite machine for me other than Metallica is definitely Tron and I just love the sound package in Tron. fondue, Subwoofer and the bass and it was just it was incredible and if you have a good sound package in a game if it's on location I don't mind that much but if you have a good sound package in a game it just makes such an incredible difference such an incredible difference to gameplay enjoyment and and and what I would call replayability okay that's what it is any sound package I can get away with playing five or six times but it's you know like when you're watching that James Bond live stream if you just watch an hour of it even Tips 290. Let the picture done. The sound in the spinner is incredible. I just got to play Beatles. By the way, East Coast Pinball Nerds, they do have a Beatles on location at Spin It Records in Moncton now. That spinner sounds incredible and it's so fun. I love the spinner mode. The spinner mode is probably my favorite mode of all the game modes in the Beatles. I managed to get like 1.3 million and then like 1.6 million on the Beatles and I think I got free games for both of them. Anyways, I had a great time, love the Beatles, totally underrated game still to this point. And of course that was Gomez's last game, right? So what else do I have here in my notes? Mike Vinacore, I thought this was ironically funny. He does of course rules implementation. He goes up to play his first ball on his new game after doing a great job explaining the rules. The ball comes out of the pops after the plunge and goes straight down the left out lane. Now, of course, the ball save is still on, so it comes out again and goes straight down the left orbit again, the left orbit, the left out lane. And Mike was just like, okay, and walked away. So I think that they need to use code to fix that because I know, I don't want to call it the Star Wars curse, but I know in Star Wars they had to change the code again because sometimes your auto launch would also just go up and hit those two things. ...