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Stream 625: Rush (Stern) LE

Don't Panic Flip·video·1h 30m·analyzed·Jul 16, 2023
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TL;DR

Don't Panic Flip plays Rush LE with extensive commentary on District 82 tournament and pinball community.

Summary

Don't Panic Flip streams gameplay of Stern's Rush LE pinball machine with extensive pre-game banter involving technical setup, sound mixing using NVIDIA ML tools, and detailed recounting of attending District 82 Larry Day tournament in Wisconsin. The host discusses community experiences, tournament logistics, and game pricing concerns while intermittently playing Rush.

Key Claims

  • District 82 tournament started at 8am, which the host criticizes as unusually early

    high confidence · Don't Panic Flip directly describing his District 82 experience; stated multiple times as frustration point

  • The pinball community is overwhelmingly helpful and focused on skill-based competition rather than gatekeeping knowledge

    high confidence · Don't Panic Flip reflecting on tournament experience across multiple venues (District 82, Pinball Jones, Flip Side, Pinberg)

  • Bond 60th Anniversary pinball costs $20k, which the host considers too expensive despite liking the game

    high confidence · Don't Panic Flip discussing pricing: 'Do I want it at 20k? No... at 10k and one I would happily pay for but at 20k, no.'

  • District 82 uses BYOB format with nearby gas station/convenience store and Starbucks for supplies

    high confidence · Don't Panic Flip describing venue logistics after attending tournament

  • Rush LE has audio issues with no sound coming from the machine during stream

    medium confidence · Don't Panic Flip noting during gameplay: 'I notice there's just no sound coming from Rush whatsoever at this point'

  • NVIDIA background sound removal ML tool integrated for filtering pinball machine audio, set to 77 to preserve flipper sounds

    high confidence · Don't Panic Flip explaining technical setup: 'we have dialed in the sound of the flippers using the NVIDIA background sound removal tool... at 77 right now'

  • District 82 tournament had 150 participants and was claustrophobic with limited physical space

    high confidence · Don't Panic Flip: 'There were 150 people in the tournament, and there are times where you are doing this and you were being bumped and pushed'

  • Flippin' Out Pinball is selling Ice Cold Beer remake merchandise

    high confidence · Don't Panic Flip: 'So Flippin' Out Pinball is doing the ice cold beer remake. There you go.'

Notable Quotes

  • “In pinball, it's the people. You betcha, we're getting a five-year DPF cake.”

    Don't Panic Flip@ 25:53 — Expresses core value of pinball community and upcoming 5-year streaming anniversary

  • “Do I want a Bond 60th? Yes... But do I want it at 20k? No, that is a deal I feel like at this point at 10k and one I would happily pay for but at 20k, no.”

    Don't Panic Flip@ 40:16 — Direct pricing criticism of premium pinball machines; indicates market resistance at $20k price point

  • “the overwhelming majority of people in the pinball hobby are truly interested in winning based on skill and luck and everything else and not a lack of rules or knowledge”

    Don't Panic Flip@ 29:46 — Characterization of competitive pinball community values and inclusive tournament culture

  • “Everything I just explained, honestly, I feel like had nothing to do with me and everything to do with the community.”

    Don't Panic Flip@ 29:42 — Credits community support for successful tournament experience despite personal skill gaps

  • “I really hope I put off very positive vibes despite the fact that I'm talking like a sloth... loss of coordination at a level I've never personally experienced.”

    Don't Panic Flip@ 27:31 — Self-deprecating commentary on physical state after late-night casino activities during tournament weekend

Entities

Don't Panic FlippersonDistrict 82eventZach SharpepersonManupersonEscherpersonRachelpersonCarrie Wingperson

Signals

  • ?

    community_signal: District 82 tournament demonstrated inclusive, helpful competitive pinball community with experienced players actively coaching newer/less skilled participants

    high · Host describes Escher, Carrie Wing, Rachel providing strategic coaching throughout tournament; notes 80% of groups ask if anyone needs rule explanation before starting

  • ?

    event_signal: Host planning streaming content and meetups around Texas Pinball Festival (April) and Colorado 4/20 event with community members

    high · Host confirmed attending Texas Pinball Festival with Jedi and Surreal (no streaming), Dialed In (Collectors Edition) visiting Colorado for 4/20, potential streaming setup for casino trips

  • ~

    sentiment_shift: Strong positive sentiment toward competitive pinball community culture emphasizing skill-based competition, knowledge-sharing, and inclusive tournament atmosphere

    high · Host: 'the overwhelming majority of people in the pinball hobby are truly interested in winning based on skill and luck... not a lack of rules or knowledge'; describes community as highlight keeping him engaged

  • ?

    event_signal: District 82 Larry Day tournament in Wisconsin with 150 participants; venue logistical concerns (8am start, space constraints) noted

    high · Host attended and detailed experience; criticized 8am start time, claustrophobic conditions with 150 people bumping/pushing to access machines

  • $

    market_signal: Flippin' Out Pinball actively merchandising/manufacturing Ice Cold Beer remake, indicating aftermarket/homebrew game production in community

Transcript

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0:00
🎵 We'll be right back. Thank you. We'll be right back. Thank you. Hi. Good evening.
5:13
I think, yeah, I think this volume should be working over here, but you guys can't hear the music. Dice, good evening. George, by God, I haven't seen you in four days. Yeah. Okay, cool. You heard the music. I'm going to put this other music on. So, nope, nope, I think now you're hearing an echo.
5:35
Evidently, the routing of sound got mixed up. Oh, yeah, something not Godzilla. Borg Dog, yeah, I'm right there with you. I get it, that's a lot of Godzilla recently. On Twitch, it has a mute button now, yes.
5:52
Yeah, so I turned that off. I gotta figure out what I, whoa, Ooh, got to figure out what I did to the routing, because chat should be coming through, but not the microphone. Give me two seconds here.
6:06
Oh, you know what? In fact, y'all didn't even get to hear the cool, fun intro. We'll be right back. Are you familiar with the Pinball Network? If you're not, maybe if you just give me a moment to speak directly to you about what the Pinball Network is and what it could mean to you. The Pinball Network is a collection of content creators across multiple media. It's YouTube, that is podcasting, that is Twitch streams. Okay, I'm talking to you. And they do it out of the goodness of their beings, out of the goodness of their souls, out of the goodness of pinball, to further pinball as a hobby and the community. That is the reason they do the things they do. They do it for you. So if you're not familiar with the Pinball Network, you should be. I suggest you check out all of those people who are a part of the network. You should give each of them a follow if what you're interested in is soul-enriching pinball-related content.
Keith Elwin
person
Jackson Jackson Geeperson
Rush LEgame
Bond 60th Anniversarygame
Ice Cold Beergame
Stern Pinballcompany
Flippin' Out Pinballcompany
Poor Man's Pinball Podcastorganization
Pinball Networkorganization
Pinball Jonesvenue
Flip Sidevenue
Pinbergevent
Texas Pinball Festivalevent
Dialed In (Collectors Edition)person
Surrealperson
Jedi McMuffinperson
NVIDIA ML background sound removaltechnology

high · Host identifies Flippin' Out Pinball (associated with Zach Sharpe) as source for Ice Cold Beer remake availability

  • $

    market_signal: Host expresses market resistance to $20k pricing on Bond 60th Anniversary; would purchase at $10k but not $20k

    high · Direct statement: 'Do I want it at 20k? No... at 10k and one I would happily pay for but at 20k, no.'

  • ?

    product_concern: Rush LE experiencing audio/sound system issues during stream gameplay

    medium · Host notes: 'I notice there's just no sound coming from Rush whatsoever at this point' during gameplay

  • ?

    technology_signal: Integration of NVIDIA ML-based background sound removal tool in streaming setup for targeted audio filtering of pinball machines

    high · Host explains: 'we have dialed in the sound of the flippers using the NVIDIA background sound removal tool... at 77 right now, which we all agreed was the perfect amount'

    • 7:15
    Okay, we got it figured out. Now I should be able to turn on the music and you won't hear an echo of me when I turn the music on. Now the background music should just be there and it shouldn't be overly loud.
    7:29
    I just realized you pronounce twitches. Pardon me. Do you have a moment to speak about our Lord and Savior pinball? People who don't watch or play pinball have an unusually high level of thetans in their blood. By the way, this is the cool new microphone. This is the one that creates a particular voice that I find, I feel like, sexy. Yeah, I don't know what a thetan is either, by the way. And on top of that, you should be able to hear me quite nicely from over here.
    8:06
    How are the levels? How is the sound? That's the nonsense that Scientologists are trying to get out of them. And by the way, speaking of Scientologists, which isn't related at all, but did you guys see that the Mormon church today got a $5 million fine for having hid a $32 billion investment account and not paid taxes on it? I thought that was a really fun piece of news that slid maybe a little bit under the radar. I don't watch television news, so maybe it didn't slide anywhere near as much as I thought.
    8:43
    I just realized that I'm reading chat on this very little screen when I have a dedicated screen specifically for it.
    8:56
    What happened? Be right back. Might need to call my accountant. Yes. All right, Jedi's got his headphones on. Jedi.
    9:05
    You tell me, how sexy is this voice right now? And your response could actually be, George, that's not sexy. That's just really close to the microphone. Sexy level, 8.9 out of 10.
    9:24
    Taylor commenting, that's a lot of untaxed influence. Your tablet has been updated. All right, dank chat is on. It's connecting.
    9:36
    Okay, got fine sweet, because if we find them an actual value, Yeah, I mean, $5 million when it's a $32 billion investment account? That's not... That's a... That's a bug bite.
    9:49
    Give me a few... Cool whip. Or... Quill whitten. My accountant says we're okay. Apparently it was getting out of gross negligence. Yeah, yeah. I wouldn't... If you are a member of the Mormon Church, I wouldn't be concerned. Honestly, I was talking about it earlier today. Like, if all you had to do on a $32 billion investment account was pay a $5 million fee every once in a while, not that big of a deal.
    10:21
    So, let's go over here and check out what we got today. I gotta say, I'm digging the updated layout with the two-camera breakout. So this camera here, right? And then right here we have another camera, which is on a specific part of the play field. The only thing I think I don't like at this point is that, like, my OCD is kicking in, and it really wants this line to be moved a little bit this way, so that way the two cameras at the bottom are the same horizontal space. But at the same time, I feel like there should be more room for the person talking. Oh, that's right. sounds great the mix in general is great the music loud and clear but it doesn't dominate your voice if i finally got to play pinball against george i showed up what true mediocrity looks like which is funny because dice also commented when we played he's like i would have expected you to win more games taylor stop being ocd got it um let's see here him he pretends not to flex Right. Okay, cool. So I'm glad that the mix is good. And on top of that, if you remember, we've incorporated the machine learning algorithm from NVIDIA into this. So on top of that, we have reduced the sounds and noises of the pinball machine, and we have direct control over that at this point.
    11:46
    Wouldn't OCD be CDO? Yeah, obviously. Actually, if I want to stroke your OCD, your player cam is having a little bit of tearing.
    11:57
    Hi, CMK. I disagree on the tearing. It looks pristine. That camera looks amazing. Are you kidding me right now? Hi.
    12:16
    I have this feedback. I have that feedback over there. I have the direct feedback from the camera. It looks okay. here let's go let's go what do you think over here is there any tearing none also dice what do you think of this or anybody else out there who happens to be a fan uh it comes in and goes looks good right now so it might just be encoding okay it could totally be that this is now my new favorite shirt. I know, right? Like this nailed it. It doesn't say the word sex, which is good because I couldn't wear it if it said the word sex on it. So it's just the logo. I know. I'm very excited. I am horribly difficult to buy clothing for. And it's, I don't know why, I'm ridiculously picky. and on top of that, I constantly prune all of my clothing. I have very little clothing because I have very little clothing I feel comfortable in. How are you doing that thing with your mouth?
    13:27
    Just definitely forget about it, Scott. My God, that was my introduction to Audrey Plaza, by the way. Like that, yeah, it's awesome.
    13:39
    That all aligned up. We've got colors. I think we're good. Seraph. So it was a really good day one. All right, District 82. Let's talk about it. District 82 is a fantastic location. The pinball machines there were all kept in great order. They had somebody working on them constantly. And that first day, I was playing pretty well. I had moments where I wish I would have done things differently. but honestly, I was really happy I got into A Division. And everyone was there. Zach McCarthy, Escher, Ray Day, Keith Elwin,
    14:20
    and like a dozen other people. Jared August, Jordan DeShane, all the people from like the whole top 50. Laser Lose was there. There was the most amazing of amazing talent. Tim Sexton was all there. and I made it into A and I felt so good that I went out and partied that night dice and on top of that the worst case of an inability to actually go back to sleep hit so not only did I get fairly intoxicated and continued for some reason but also slept horribly woke up the next morning and I don't know if you know this but District 82 likes their tournaments to start at 8am why?
    15:19
    what? I get it these are the best of the best but this isn't hey Game Club Central Marty thank you be a billionaire if you're wasting your money someone else play pinball mic drop right there marty you're fantastic mpt3k rating with 23 beautiful individuals manu who is also just battling on guardians of the galaxy i may have been lurking while i was getting all the new equipment set up. Manu, awesome stream. Flipstream, well done. Who ended up winning, though? The last I looked, it was 2-3.
    16:14
    And we're close to a hype train. Flipstream just subscribed. Yes! I mean, Flipstream, Flipstream. Brian, I wanted you to win. I was rooting. But, like, Manu hasn't won in a while, right? Like, we can, it's good. Yeah. billionaire pinball one marty manu lost wait what play pinball so who actually won was it was it manu or was it flip stream okay that was a joke four to three manu lost again mpc3k i'm sorry Thank you, by the way. Surreal.
    17:00
    Flipstream. Thank you. I hate that epic game. And Marty, you all are fantastic. Somebody just threw bits out on top of Taylor dropping 100 bits. We hit the hype train.
    17:17
    Thank you. Dice gifting five tier one subs. there's a pandemic going on, but pinball? Jeez, you could be playing pinball. You're sitting there watching someone else pinball? You're like the sad guy at the bar who didn't bring any friggin' quarters. Hope you have a great day. Cheers.
    17:37
    Dice, thank you. And Dice gifting tier one subs, also gifting all of the drinks and shots. I feel like while we were at the casino, um, I'm, despite the fact that day two, I had no abilities to play pinball whatsoever, I'm still looking back on that as maybe one of my most favorite recent vacations. Dice, you were the highlight. Thank you.
    18:06
    Taylor dropping, thank you. Yeah, Marty. So I went to District 82 in Wisconsin and got to meet Dice for the first time and we partied it up at the casino just outside of Green Bay right across from the airport actually. No, in Green Bay. two nights in a row. And it was awesome. Mr. Hardluck, dropping it. You're paying your money. You must be a billionaire. If you're wasting your money, watching someone else play pinball. Watching someone else play pinball. Mr. Hardluck, you are fantastic. My hat's off to you. Thank you. And for everyone who just got gifted a sub, But please, if you have not done so already, thank Dice. We could all use thanking Dice a little bit more often for being so involved on so many different streams. And, but wait, there's more. If you call in in the next vent in five minutes, Dice is coming out to Colorado for 420 this year. In Colorado for 420.
    19:16
    Well, for Dice, he's going to really enjoy the 420 aspect. I will not be partaking. I don't want to die. Um, but we're gonna have a really, really good time. I'm looking for it. No, Seraph, I don't have Godzilla, and I haven't found a way to get it. That said, I am getting a new pin.
    19:35
    Kind of in the very near future. Amiga can be welcome. It's 420 AM here now, says Amiga. Oh my, I'm so far back on chats right now. Hold on, I gotta, I gotta go back up.
    19:48
    It was pinball. Pinball won. Jedi McMuffin is only 115,600 tomfoolery points away from George's next tattoo. On top of that, I got Jackson Gee doing the artwork for my next piece. And I'm really excited. He is supposed to free up in a week. And we're going to get that started. Super excited. So I'm really hoping whoever does that picks the Jackson Gee art as a tattoo. Because I think it's going to be awesome. Because as of right now, it's a narwhal and a penguin that will be battling and destroying a city of pinball machines. I'm, that's, that's gonna be the art piece. Oh yeah, we're gonna do tons of t-shirt giveaways and stuff like that. Like, I, I just love his art. If anything, I want to promote Jackson Key, because I think the, he's the guy who does all the Yagpin artwork. He's done a whole bunch of stuff, and it's just fantastic.
    20:43
    Oh, you are in trouble, 420 and magic stuff. kind of another oh uh no god higher peanut i really want an ice cold beer so manu introduced me to ice cold beer uh when i was out in california last and i i love it also jedi right like is this shirt not amazing it's so fun it's so fun and there's a company remaking them uh i think um i don't know who who all is selling them just pinball distributors are selling uh free cold beer. I feel like we need to call Zach late at night on the weekends to see if he's a distributor for it. Elagos, good evening. Um, I know, Manu, it totally makes sense that Fliptronic would want one because I want one. And we have very similar tastes. Uh, how far did you go on ICB? Oh, not at all. Like Manu's like, here, George, I'll show you. Just do this. You do this, do this. And He made it to like seven or eight and I couldn't make it past two or three, but I really enjoyed failing. There you go. Perfect. Nailed it. My highest is seven. But I really enjoyed failing at least 50 times on two or three. I could never make it to the, to the next level up.
    22:00
    Okay. So flipping out is doing the ice cold beer remake. There you go. So if you're interested in picking up an ice cold beer remake, make sure to call Zach, call him late at night. Like, if anybody from this stream calls Zach during normal business hours, I would be disappointed. Right? Like, we have a thing. We call Zach when he should be sleeping. Right? That's what we do.
    22:28
    They called Chaplin Doodles Okay I done What Serio we baking little we are we are we baking cookies i have an oven so yeah uh dice is coming out here i so excited we i feel like we're gonna have to stream we're gonna have to set something up there's gonna be a massive streaming situation uh i actually did that one night and left a message for nick back when i thought they were the same person wait like nick the pinsomniac nick uh oh and then jedi mcmuffin is gonna be out here in march so what are we gonna cook excellent question i'm not a cook so the better question jedi is what are you gonna cook I mean, if we're going to do it, it better be blue. Right? We have to cook. I don't cook. That's like, I get business done. Oh, no. Somebody just did. My new gifting five. Tier one subs. Gamer MVP. Retro game gal. Hardcore pin. Vinny blanking. Captain spam. Enjoy that. we just completed a hype train and I received a level 3 hype train emote. Manu.
    23:54
    My hat's off to you. Thank you. It's all good. You're getting us that much closer to the next level 4 hype train and that is appreciated. Thank you. You know what's really cool now, by the way, is that hype trains get you promoted on the front page of Twitch, right? Well, I wouldn't Say you missed it, Bob.
    24:16
    I have been, I spit, I spat upon the play field. We just cleaned that up right there. No big deal. Hey, something just happened. Remy, thank you so much for the follow. That's appreciated. And welcome to the stream where we do play pinball. I promise there will be pinball at some point. It's probably just not a lot of pinball. So catching back up. The story.
    24:42
    Lies. Uh, the sto- oh my god, don't subscribers- yes, and subscribers do get extra channel points. So, chat, help me out here.
    24:56
    When somebody redeems the tattoo, am I allowed to disable the tattoo? Like, the first one who gets there is the one who activates it. I don't- I don't- I don't have to leave it up there forever, right? What do I do with my 124k channel points? I need to start coming up with ways to spend the channel points.
    25:18
    So when you run out of emotes, I just want to point out, I never thought anybody would actually get there. That was over five years ago. It'll be five years in April. Wow. Oh, my God. Dice. Is it April? It is April. Dice. We might have to celebrate five years streaming in April.
    25:41
    So Jedi. Also, what are we cooking? I get to go hang out with Surreal at TPF. And Manu. Like, the pinball community is so amazing. That is honestly what keeps me going. In pinball, it's the people.
    25:59
    You betcha, we're getting a five-year DPF cake. And Jedi is still going to TPF. Yes! That's awesome, because we're not streaming at TPF. We are just having fun. You never thought people would get 150k? There's a Doom demo channel I use for background noise where I've got a mill. Yeah, okay, okay. Okay. Ooh, meth. I think we should do a mobile drinking stream. Jedi, I'm totally down for a mobile drinking stream. Surreal's still on the meth thing. Not to be concerned at all, I think. So, District 82, day one was fantastic. went home, uh, and then got talked into going to the casino where Dice and Jay-Z kept us up. And this was the second night. Was this the first night of the casino? I think that was the second night of the casino because Thursday night was the first night where I had a really great night and I had a very fun jackpot. Uh, and, uh, and then the second night I did not have such a great night, but Jay-Z had a great night. And it was funny because Jay-Z was like, I'm so tired. I don't know but the second she hit a jackpot 130 a.m why are we going home george i'm like because i have to be back at district 82 at 8 a.m this morning this morning like literally six and a half hours from now so made it back to district 82 no amount of coffee could could get me there and it was it was um i'm just happy i feel like i i really hope i put off very positive vibes despite the fact that I'm talking like basic trapping skills didn't work. It was a loss of coordination at a level I've never personally experienced. So day one was fantastic. Day two was actually really fun. Despite that, I got to play a ton of new games. And it was so great too, because I don't know how to play any of these games. So in between every round, Escher would come over and he'd be like, all right, George, what game do you want? This is what you need to do on this game. Focus on this. screw everything else and I would just nod and be like yes okay that's what I'm gonna do but he's describing the games like I've actually seen the play fields and know where the shots are so if you've ever been in a situation where someone is trying to explain something like let's talk about compound interest but you have to know what interest is in the first place and money and like how math works but if you know none of those things and someone tries to explain it that's kind of the situation so I'm like okay do the thing memorize the stuff hit the shot and collect your bling totally makes sense i'd get over there and fail it wonderfully uh i'm not at all interested in meth i lose all my whale plumber like superpowers i don't think you're capable of negative vibes yeah so i i really hope i continued putting off really positive vibes despite the fact i was just like i don't even care i made it into the into the into the a group i feel i i i already I already succeeded, but I had, uh, Escher on one hand, um, Carrie Wing was fantastic and also was helping me out all day. And then, uh, Rachel from, uh, um, oh my God, the podcast, uh,
    29:11
    the Poor Men's Pinball Podcast with, with Rachel. Rachel is just like a box of sunshine. And she not only made cookies for everyone, but she's like, George, let me know when you get to a machine, and if nobody else is telling you how to play it, I will walk you through it, start to finish, in like less than 60 seconds. So if you are ever in a situation where you're like, I don't know that I want to check out competitive pinball, realize that everything I just explained, honestly, I feel like had nothing to do with me and everything to do with the community. That's how it was the entire time. There's obviously exceptions where people are not interested in helping out others, but the overwhelming majority of people in the pinball hobby are truly interested in winning based on skill and luck and everything else and not a lack of rules or knowledge. like you could be sitting there in a group with people and the people are asking you like hey it looked a bit like you were flailing there i don't want to judge but do you know how to play this actually i don't know what i'm supposed to be doing all right well here's the strategy i'm using right now you should try that like that that's it dice exactly yeah and but that's the thing is i've experienced that exact same thing in in fort collins at pinball jones and at the flip side and any tournament i have gone to or been a part of even uh at pinberg was the same thing where you get into a group and i don't know like 80 of the time everyone's like before we get started does anyone not know how to play this game um yeah but with that quantity of games district 82 so many games such a great area and it was really well coordinated too so uh district 82 is one of those cool areas where if you get the opportunity to go i really suggest it um a bit claustrophobic i would say is the only negative there was 150 people in the tournament and there are times where you are doing this and you were being bumped and push uh in order just to make room to get to the pinball machines and uh and and i know that can be that that can be a struggle um i remember at one point i'm like i i could use a margarita right about now. Which is perfect, by the way, because Jay-Z dropped off a Starbucks coffee, a Mountain Dew, and a six-pack of, uh, high noon uh, these high noon vodka and sodas and margaritas. Uh, that's called a love sarcophagus. Yes. Shout out to Eric. Uh, Eric, I'm assuming you're talking about Eric Wurtenberger or Dice. Which Eric are you referring to there?
    31:54
    Eric with a K, the only one I can think of. Oh, wait. Eric is the guy who actually ran District 82. Was it Eric Thorin? Eric the Red? Yeah, the owner of District 82. Eric was amazing. Man, who else was... There were so many cool... Andy Bagwell was just another really cheery, happy-go-lucky person.
    32:17
    Tom from Fox Cities at one point was like, Hey, where's George? Came over and said, I need a picture with George. And he's just another really happy, awesome person. Uh, yeah, I don't think I ran into one, uh, one person. I feel like if there was, if there was a, a dark cloud at District 82, I, I could, I, I was probably the only dark cloud there, and I really don't, I don't think I was, despite how frustrated I was with not being able to, like, flip a flipper. Um, but, uh, but yeah, it was, it was so cool. Very cool experience. So Anyway, if you were curious about District 82, that's how it was. It was a really good time. Great pinball. The location is fantastic. It is definitely BYOB. Right next to it is a gas station with a quick mart. If you've never been to a quick mart before, it is a grocery store and a gas station. They have everything. Very surreal experience at a quick mart. also there's a Starbucks right across the street so if you want coffee it's right there and I'd say actually two negatives the other negative is that they start that they start at 8am like Bucky's yeah surreal it is it's nowhere near as big as but like the quickmarts are all over the place but it actually has like a massive amount of donuts all the I feel like fun little foods that you could shake a stick at and then full on groceries like I could I could, it was like walking into, um, like just a very small grocery store. Sorry. Ah, a quick trip. I'm sorry, Dice. Yeah, not Quick Mart. I think Quick Mart is from, uh, not Harry and the Hendersons. What's the cartoon with Bart Simpson? The Simpsons. There we go.
    34:07
    I'm waiting for the terminal reboot at Bucky's. We're getting a Bucky's out in, uh, in Colorado. Simpsons is the Quick E-Mart. Okay. Oops, pretty close. uh so you've discovered superettes oh is that what they call them superettes okay i have discovered a superette and i would love a superette out here that was 24 7 because i think fort collins now everything closes on weekdays by like 11 that would be that would be fantastic if we had something like that all right it is 10 35 we've been going for 30 minutes still have not started up a game of pinball. Let's make that happen. There we go. Had to hit the start button a few times there. Lies, I say. Do we really have to start pinball? Do we? All right. How?
    35:04
    Remember, we have dialed in the sound of the flippers using the NVIDIA background sound removal tool tool i think we we have it in at 77 right now which we all agreed was the perfect amount where you can still hear the flippers without them becoming uh over overpowering also i've there's just no sound coming from rush whatsoever at this point uh charlie barron's isn't just blowing smoke quick trip is the wisconsin institution oh man that reminds me Uh, we went to, we stopped off and, and had a brunch at a Perkins in Manitowoc, uh, Wisconsin, which is where Charlie Barron's is from, from Manitowoc Minute. And, uh, and that is really, uh, I was mildly disappointed enough to tag Charlie on Twitter who didn't respond like he shouldn't with me and my like, just pitiful amount of followers on Twitter. but uh i was disappointed he wasn't there to personally greet me as i entered the the wonderful city of manitowoc with like 500 people i know i dice i we have perkins elsewhere it just felt very wisconsin to go to perkins um starting at 30 minutes that's 30 whole minutes earlier than usual good good point good point surreal mine's at 78 no big deal got it okay What's funny is I think Jay-Z got somewhat sick from Perkins. I, on the other hand, ordered the meat and breakfast, sorry, the meat and eggs plate. It was like four different types of meat, some scrambled eggs, and I was just happy. It was a pick-and-up blanket.
    36:49
    So here we go. First game of the night. This might be a little distracting. I'm going to do that. How is this for my voice? Is this too close?
    37:09
    I think I'd like to hang out with Red Letter Media if I go to Wisconsin. What is Red Letter Media? All right, there's two.
    37:24
    And there we go. So we are now in Spirit of the Radio, which requires some blue shots. And then every so many blue shots, you get to collect a jackpot there.
    37:50
    We got a double. Wow. that really seemed unnecessary all right so we need to post transfer and then hit the jackpot shot which is the easiest shot in the game. Alright, so now we're at Radio Jackpot 2 of 2.
    38:28
    So, how many of those jackpots do we need to get? There's one. There's two. And there's three. So that is 3 of 3 radio jackpots. Man.
    38:59
    Eh, let's see here. Well, oh. They're pretty standoffish, even in real life. Well, so am I, Dice, in real life. Not really. No, Surreal is full of it. Brendan is one of the nicer people you meet. Eh, never meet your heroes, except George, and maybe Anne Hathaway, because where Anne Hathaway. No, wait. What's the joke about where there's a way there's a... Anne Hathaway.
    39:30
    Got it. Dice, I know you were typing it as I was thinking it. I'll see your Anne Hathaway and raise you in Aubrey Plaza. Now, Aubrey Plaza is someone I would absolutely love to meet. Have any thoughts on this? Oh, that's right. We were going to chat about other pinball-related news and events. Bond 60th. Do I want one? Yes.
    39:54
    Yes. Let me say that again in full screen. Do I want a Bond 60th? Yes. Does it look like a fantastic pin? Yes. It looks awesome. I love the flow. That game looks like it's a barrel of laughs and a smorgasbord of fun. but do I want it at 20k? No, that is a deal I feel like at this point at 10k and one I would happily pay for but at 20k, no.
    40:31
    Oh, and possibly the greatest thing that could have happened over the weekend, I got to see the Cookie Monster hat in real life. Was it standoffish? Not at all. Most charming hat I've ever met. Huh, right?
    40:43
    Don't panic flip. Just tell Zach to give you the old TPN discount. I don't know that they can do much on the 20th.
    40:54
    Honestly, I never asked what the cost is. It's 20k, I'm pretty sure. All right. So now we have to hit, I think, two... No, one record to get back in.
    41:14
    Not what I was hoping for. Oh, but it's in La Via Strangiato. And now we're at Spirit of the Radio. Not good.
    41:32
    Also not good. There we go. So we're back in Spirit of the Radio. And I feel like... Oh, and a multiball? Okay, we're in a multiball. It would help if we... Your face!
    41:52
    I caught it! I'm counting it as an I caught it. Uh, let's see here. Oh my god, hit that shot, George!
    42:31
    Alright, we're gonna try it again. There it is! Cool, cool. I'll take that. Oh, wow, that went backwards.
    43:02
    All right, what do we need to hit? I think we need to hit this left orbit. Totally got there. Got it. All right, so we got our super for 4.7.
    43:25
    Oh, that's not good. All right. We've been banned down. Captain Spam, welcome. Remember to ask your doctor if playfield cam is right. It's right for you.
    43:57
    And I don't know, man. That's flashing a lot. I feel like we need... Oh, multi-balls. Now one less hit. Jackpot's boosted. Plus... Oh, so this is the rewards we're getting. And we're now in Tom Sawyer.
    44:13
    We're cool. We're fine. No biggie. What's the big deal? Got it. Nice work, everyone. I was just starting to get the hang of Rush at the office, and now they might replace it. Curses! Or biscuits.
    44:34
    Cool, cool, cool. I was at two dangers. Otherwise, it would have nudged that a lot, obviously. How we doing on alignment? I feel like I did move the pinball machine a bit. So we need to both make a social night. Yes, yes, we need another social night. I'll take sentences I didn't expect to hear today for 800, Alex. What is weird in Tom Sawyer?
    45:07
    Cool cool cool Like where the game head is at It like why make you flip Alright. We completed Spirit of the Radio, so now we're gonna need two records.
    45:25
    There's one, and there's two. Now we're ready to start working, man. All right. We got working, man. Shots advance time in the workday. Get to 5 p.m. and clock in. So there are some fast flashing shots. Left orbit to left ramp. Those are worth 20 minutes instead of 10.
    45:58
    So just do that. So that right there is 30 minutes, that little combo. I'm going to try it again. That's another 30 minutes. There we go. We're one hour in. It should already be 10 o'clock. I'm going to slow things down, hit it up there.
    46:28
    And now we're on the wrong side, which is fine. Now I'm going to go and do that. That's fine. Shoot the scoop.
    46:46
    Okay, okay. Feeling it. Feeling the things. Oh, there we go. There we go. All right. Now the microphone. It's funny. Camera one, camera two. And in both situations, this microphone is just slightly in the play field. Now it's not. Now we're good.
    47:07
    Shoot the scoop. All right, let's get another game in. And then we can take a step back and talk about the Bond 60th again.
    47:22
    All right, we need one record. Got it. And that's going to be La Via Strangiato, which is fine. Oh, no.
    47:37
    Now, La Via Strangiato is a shoot the lit shot kind of mode. And the lit shot right now is the right ramp. So let's try and post-transfer over. Now, it's consistent on rushes. Going right to left is usually very difficult. But we figured it out the last time. It's a slow... It's a very slow flip. That was evidently not slow enough. We're going to try it again. If you do a standard post transfer, it does that. And then it can oftentimes roll over to the other side, which works. It just... It doesn't feel anywhere near as consistent. But if you do a slow post transfer on a rush, it'll jump to the other side. You know, try it once first. you were right first time you hear George cuss in real life it's like seeing a leprechaun riding a unicorn it screams F-bombs it's glorious I don't know what you're talking about I don't swear right ramp is now 2x we're going to try it again I'm going to try the slow nope slower
    48:52
    And that's how you post transfer. Yep, totally makes sense. There it is. Try it again. Got to hit that right ramp. Got it. Okay, now it goes up and around. We've got to hit the flashing pink shot. Missed it by that much.
    49:15
    Got it. Kiwi Frenzy, welcome. All right, now we hit this left orbit. And either the ramp or that shot. I think I'm going to try that again. Normally, just holding up that right flipper is really nice. Oh, it didn't quite make it.
    49:40
    Try it again. That was just bad pony-owning right there. Wow. I kind of just watched it fall. That was great.
    49:57
    Oh. Nope, that was my bad. Post transfers normally take a tour of the play field. Can confirm. Wow, dusting off bad pony owning. Can't beat the classics. No, you can't.
    50:16
    All right. I don't want to mess with this God, I did shoulders today and it's not Oh God, that hurt a lot Alright, there we go We did the stuff Now it's completely out of the frame of the game, I have no more excuses Point the mic at your face Okay, that's better Thank you I'd like to thank my sponsor uh let's see i haven't watched the 60th stream yet so you are all forbidden from talking about it tonight kiwi frenzy it honestly it nothing i don't feel like any any new new stuff was dropped it was just great to see the flow happen kind of naturally especially with keith running the game i took very liberal usage of not being restrained by twitch tos of my speech yeah No, DICE didn't hold anything back. All of the stuff that would have definitely gotten us banned on Twitch was let loose. What are we at? Ball 2.
    51:32
    Don't even know what happened there. All right, what are we ready? We're ready to start big money. This is my favorite mode in the game. I don't know, I like this mode. I like the pink colors on the table. It just seems great. Hey, DJ Roddler, thank you so much for that follow.
    51:55
    No idea what all that was about. All right, so we need to hit a certain amount of shots before we essentially qualify big money. And then after that, we enable the multiplier that carries over.
    52:16
    No idea what's going on here. Alright, hit that shot. Good, and now we're going to go left orbit. Nope.
    52:33
    Evidently we're not. Oh, that was mean, game. Let's see here. I'm going to go ahead and peace out to watch some old vids of the demo scene to inspire my new project. Just what the hell can I do with a single shader? Have a good night, everyone. Surreal, have a great night. Thank you so much for hanging out with us. And I came here for the sound of solenoids.
    53:03
    Okay, that's blurry for some reason. But we're not actually blurry. How are we doing? It's 10.54. We're slightly off. I think that's aligned a little bit better. Here we go. Love me some solenoid Gomez.
    53:28
    What do we need to do? Got it. We're back in big money. All right, there's three. What are we at? We're at 1x.
    53:49
    All right, so that's going to be 2x. Is it 2x? Nope, now we're at 1x. I'm sorry, I did that wrong. This is 2x. now we need drop catch missed a little bit it's fine uh what's the secret to those flipper catch shots mine still bounce dj roddler uh that i mean you saw what happened there i was trying for a drop catch and I just just dropped it I forgot the catch part of the drop catch uh that is live catches and drop catches the dead flips there's there's all the all the the different skills right let's see if we can we can show any of them off right there so that was a little drop catch to help deaden some of the momentum because what I didn't want to have it do was roll so far up the back that when it comes back forward, it rolls off the edge. It's trying to reduce momentum around the flippers. Wow, that was... And that was a dead flip.
    55:07
    Just like that. Once again, deaden a lot of the movement. So that way, you have more control when it actually lands on the other flipper.
    55:17
    Really? That one, we're just going to hold it up. So I'm going to try and go the horseshoe. Right there. That was a tip of the flipper shot. There it goes. Okay, so now we're in Spirit of the Radio. This is that weird one where you've got to get, I think, three jackpots.
    55:41
    There's some very, very weird stuff there. That was a rollover from one of the other side. Give it a little forward nudge to get it to go over. There's a shot.
    55:58
    Okay, now I'm going to try... What am I going to do? I think I'm going to hit... Try and backhand this right horseshoe.
    56:11
    Again. Drop catch. Missed it. Dead bounce. and then just watch it drain. So there you go. I don't know why I felt the need to just point out all of the different weird flipper skills there, but they are there. There are things. Have you ever seen five free games pop when you roll the bones? Thanks so much for the tips. Oh, five free games. I don't think I've ever seen five free games.
    56:49
    All right. So Captain Spam saying, huh, something must be missing on the version of Rush at the Office because I never see the rainbow shots light when the time machine is ready.
    56:59
    So question for you, Captain Spam. There's a ramp going up to the time machine, and I have the LE and the premium have a ramp on a motor that actually goes up and down. So right now, you'll see what happens here. I'm going to hit it once.
    57:20
    Maybe. I don't know if I can do it. Just don't die, George. Here we go. So check out what happens. If you don't, right now the ramp isn't up, and I realize that's kind of hard to see. Oh, no, you can look at the other camera. The ramp is down.
    57:39
    There. That's all I wanted to show, was just when the ramp is down, what happens? You hit, like, a brick wall, and it counts the shot, and then it kicks it back. Like that.
    57:52
    And then you actually get to see the ramp go up, which hopefully you saw in the camera number four. It scrolls past but never lands. I think it's fake. Okay.
    58:11
    How is the music coming through, by the way? Can you guys hear it? Is it there or is it overpowering? Because I could also turn it up if it's too quiet because man these are these are all my my pinball bangers
    58:26
    Also I Need another drink so we're gonna break for a second and I'm gonna go grab a drink so I'm gonna
    58:36
    Okay, you've got the pro but what I meant was how the major shots were lighting for 2x got it Yeah, I'm guessing there's less LEDs music is there I think it's perfectly just above background noise. Okay, so dice, leave it where it's at.
    58:52
    And I'm going to kill it, and I'm going to go to this little video while I go grab a drink. Nope. Stupid touchscreen. There we go. Right back.
    59:04
    Are you familiar with the Pinball Network? If you're not, maybe if you just give me a moment to speak directly to you about what the Pinball Network is and what it could mean to you. The Pinball Network is a collection of content creators across multiple media. It's YouTube, that is podcasting, that is Twitch streams. Okay, I'm talking to you. And they do it out of the goodness of their beings, out of the goodness of their souls, out of the goodness of pinball, to further pinball as a hobby and the community. That is the reason they do the things they do. They do it for you. So if you're not familiar with the Pinball Network, you should be. I suggest you check out all of those people who are a part of the network. You should give each of them a follow if what you're interested in is soul-enriching pinball-related content.
    60:06
    I just want to point out, that was all winged. Like, there was no script for that. that was that that was that was just something that we randomly came up with all right music should be back on now and uh cheers by the way i have yet another vodka soda but this one is a grapefruit so grapefruit vodka soda cheers if y'all are partaking and oh my god we're on ball three with 3.5 million that's obviously how you want to start the game oh that's weird the game just reset gotta get that checked out whoo log that one oh so before we go too far all right what is what are what are people's thoughts on uh on bond 60th because i liked it once again not sure it's worth the 20k but if you take how much it is off the table and just assume that you will get to play it on location at some point for somebody who justified the purchase um did it did you check out Deadflip tonight and did you watch the video of the new game and did anyone have any concerns or thoughts about it uh did you realize in Clerks 3 that anytime they're at the store and drinking a beverage, it's a cannabis seltzer? No, I did not. Fun little tidbit lets you see just how loose of a show they're running there. Hello. Hey, Brooklyn, welcome. 60th looks great, ignoring the price. Exactly. It looks great if you ignore the price of it. Yeah, I am really excited to play it. The flow looks fantastic. you can see it's got the the three inline drop targets with the scoop back behind so there's your uh there's your uh what's the 1978 uh basketball um not the Hoosiers it's something Harlem Globetrotters so the it's basically a thing from Harlem Globetrotters it's got a great big spinny hat right in the middle which is both gorgeous and irritating and then it's got the loops it's got the ability, you can hit all of the shots and combo them in a way where you can get all four spinners, four spinners spinning at the same time. Hey, somebody just did something. Thick Franks, Francis, thank you so much for that follow. Uh, Dice, I'll probably pick up a pro. I'm sold. It's fun.
    62:48
    Oh, wait, you're talking about the standard bond. Dice, I agree. So, uh, Dice, uh, Jay-Z and I all got to play a bunch of uh of bond uh a bond on a pro and i gotta say the more time i spend on bond pro the more i like it i think the rule set is finally coming around and i'm starting to appreciate the layout despite the fact that bond uh the bond pro nor the bond premium or ellie really didn't do anything special it is another fun enjoyable layout it doesn't like it has a satisfying shot, but once again, and which is the left orbit that goes all the way up and around, that is super satisfying. It's just not, it bothers me to spit, like, that the same price of a Godzilla Pro is the same price as, as Bond Pro. Bond Pro is a great game, but it's not, it doesn't have all the coolness that Godzilla has, even at the pro level. Uh, not new, but when the next Cornerstone gets announced and people start dumping Bonds, I'll get one secondhand. Dice, that actually sounds like a really good idea. And on that note, I just got excited again about the fact that I have another pin coming in very soon.
    64:00
    BondT seems horrible. Sorry, BondT, C and K. Are you referring to standard Bond Pro Premium or the Bond 60th?
    64:12
    Because, man, once again, if Bond 60th was the Pro, okay. it's i can understand why people don't like the artwork for whatever reason it works for me i i like it it feels very retro and throwback i i actually like the look of the play field as well um the layout on it is it doesn't do anything new it doesn't nothing mind-blowing no big changes it doesn't have a big building where it crisscrosses and comes back like it doesn't do anything special But I finally, when I was playing with Dice in Wisconsin, I finally felt the flow for the first time. And I'm like, okay, I think if I spent more time finding out where the shots are, I think I could really enjoy this.
    64:59
    Hi, Tracy. Welcome. It makes me think of, like, Sopranos-era pins. It does. It almost feels, in some ways, like a single-level game. I know there are ramps, but it doesn't... It just feels like they added extra shots without the ramps being there. Like, when I hit a ramp on this game, you know it's a ramp. And it feels very rampy. There's ramps all over the place. The ramps on Bond are very different. It doesn't feel... It almost doesn't feel like a multi-level game. That's a weird way to point out or talk about a game which is very obviously not a single level game, but it doesn't, I don't know. That's my big issue with Bond. And yeah, I think I would jump on what Dice was getting at, which is just wait for them to drop in price. But the code, if the code hits it and it hits hard, it may not.
    65:56
    Stugatz Ramp. Tracy, I don't get that. Left orbit shot I love. Rest is fine. The shot that's in between the two right ramps. That one, my problem, it can be a fantastic shot. My problem with it is that it doesn't, despite how hard I hit it, it doesn't always make it on the pros that I've played. It doesn't always go all the way around. It's like it tags something and falls back into the pops when it's not supposed to.
    66:27
    Oh, it was the small boat ramp on Sopranos. Yeah, that little tiny thing that goes up into like an elevated scoop or saucer or something like that. Yeah, I completely agree. It's weird. If the Bond Pro had been a home pin, I'd have two already. Really? You like the home pins?
    66:49
    But yeah, I want to play Bond 60th. If Bond 60th continues dropping in price... Maybe. Maybe. That looks like such a fun pin. But it would have to drop a lot in price. I just don't think it's going to happen. You drinking high noon and high midnight? Yeah, I think I, is it? Oh yeah, these are high noons. Look at that. Look at that high noon. Also, look at that bokeh. Look at that bokeh. That is amazing.
    67:19
    Hi. Oh my god. You love the idea of homepens. Uh, fun. I got some work people interested in going to the gym, which is making the gym more fun, despite the fact I'm not working out as much because we're like alternating. So as opposed to me just like going in and spending an hour and doing my 10 or 11 exercises I doing like seven or eight now But man shoulder day is always rough That left shoulder hurts a lot Makes me think of good times at expos and such TPF next month. Let's go. Yes, Tracy. I'm very excited.
    68:01
    All right. Next game. All right. Let's try to be better at pinball here. Good start. Like where that's going.
    68:20
    All right. We've got our first record. And it is Working Man. I don't like Working Man. But whatever. We got to do Working Man, so let's do it.
    68:34
    Really? Okay. I'm going to do this left orbit to left ramp. Totally got there. I'm going to try... Oh, wow. I keep forgetting to turn off the shaker motor on this. I need to do that. Not good. I'm gonna try the the horseshoe to uh to middle ramp got the horseshoe wow worked out really well uh you still don't know what the differences are with the albums okay I can explain that or there's actually a short video that Ray Day put together called Baby's First Rush tutorial.
    69:36
    Oh, show you 100% solenoid cut. Okay, I can do it. So we go to sources. Oh no, I think I can do it from here. I can go to filters.
    69:54
    Oh, I'm at 70, not 77. There we go. All right. This is now 100%. Are you ready? Hey, Sprinkle Britches, welcome to the stream. Awesome name.
    70:18
    Hold up. So, I'm going to talk. Hello and welcome. My name is Don't Panic Flip. actually my name is George the name of this stream is don't panic flip and now while I'm talking right now I am flipping the heck out of this pinball machine hopefully you can see that while I was talking could you hear the flippers at all in the background now that was while I was talking when I'm not talking can you hear these flippers anything because I can't tell I don't have feedback at this point but that was with a filter set to 100% of the background noise removed.
    71:01
    Nothing. Crazy, CNK. Okay, so now I'm going to put it back down to 70%. Hold up. It's really hard with the touchscreen to move this around.
    71:18
    Come on. There we go. Seven. Oh, now it's at 69. All right, it's at 69. Now I'm going to flip. I can assure you it's very loud to me physically here.
    71:38
    Can I do the same with my kids? Okay, now you can hear it, and it's turned down, so it's only removing 67%. Do you guys want to hear what it would be like if I had no sound suppression? let's do that so i'm gonna go here and go to filters all right this is at zero suppression intensity is what it's called are there actually three rush tables or are they just different artwork sprinkle britches there are the way that stern does it excuse me uh is they do three different versions but of the three different versions Stern does two different tables, which is the premium LE is one table and the pro is another. And there's usually a pretty significant difference between the premium LE and the pro or a couple of differences. And in this case, this is the LE. So I'll walk through what those differences are. But in the meantime, would you like to hear what the flippers sound like without any suppression? This would be like what it was like a month ago before I enabled the NVIDIA stuff. so you should be hearing it uh i this is a condenser microphone and the way the condenser microphone's uh profile is it shouldn't be it's it's the way it should be grabbing sound from just this side with a little bit on the back side so you're you're you're getting some of the noise removal just because of the style of the microphone. So now I'm going to put it back to 70%. Crap, it's at 71%. Here we go.
    73:36
    There you go. That's at 71% background suppression. It's so freaking cool. Yeah, sprinkle britches. It is a huge difference if you're talking about the sound. Now, on the pinball table, right here are three drop targets. On the pro, there's a target behind. On the premium and LE, when those drop targets go down, there's a shot behind there. And then two metal prongs that come up through the play field and turn that shot into a captive ball. so the ball actually gets stuck back there for one of the multi balls and i can show that at some point also uh there is a bass drum right here that has a moving arm on it that the pro that's just a piece of plastic uh on the premium and le there is a ramp in fact you can see it on so there's a camera right here and if you if you look there's a time machine with three physical lights on it and a ramp that moves up and down to allow you access to that time machine uh and what else there's something there's one other major difference i think like i'm not i'm not remembering right now maybe that's it so those those are the three big differences and somebody else helped me out was Was there anything else, or was that it? I think that's it. I think there was three differences.
    75:09
    A good way to explain a cadetzer mic is what a musician has facing towards the audience so that they can still get some of us in their ear monitors.
    75:19
    Okay. The buck ramp. Oh, right, yes. Thank you, Kiwi Frenzy. And here's the other thing. I'll show this shot. On the pro... there it is this is gonna kick it up and send it back on the pro it doesn't do that on the pro it's just a dead end and it bounces back out but this is a buck which means it's a vertical up kick uh like a little saucer it goes into and then it has a valve or a plunger kind of like a reverse plunger that when it's magnetized, it shoots the ball up into its own little return ramp safely to the right ramp. It's a huge improvement, I think, on the Premium LE versus the Pro. So there's actually four major differences between just this one game. And you can't see it, but I have Turtles over to my left and the Mandalorian, and both of those are Premiums, once again, have pretty significant differences between the pro the premium and the pro and the premium le the le and the premium the biggest differences are artwork uh stern le's have a translate instead of a back glass i'm sorry have a back glass instead of a translate and um it's signed uh there's usually some things here and there like the le on rush um has the expression lighting kit already in it. You didn't have to buy it separate, and they haven't even made the expression lighting kits for any of the rushes available yet. So we got it way early, and yeah, those are the big differences. I would say the Mandalorian Premium LE is one of the biggest differences, playing-wise, between the Pro, and I would absolutely recommend the Mandalorian Premium LE over the Pro, if you're ever interested major differences between the three models are also price yes the uh pro right now is usually going for like 6800 the premium now around 9000 and the le's i want to say between 11 and 12 but those prices honestly could be way off let's try it again can't find the shots there we go so the ramp is up and you can see it there on once again nope that screen and what are we in right now we are in oh tom sawyer so we got to hit the right orbit and the left orbit.
    78:05
    Totally got there. It's a great start. Great start. Love this. We've got a multiball ready. I do need I think at least one of these. Oh, that's right, Tracy, you were interested in hearing what the difference between the records are, so I'm going to show you. Right now, we've got a blue record that we've grabbed, and by selecting blue, we get Spirit of the Radio as the mode. Now, I have an orange record here, I have another blue over there, I have a pink on the right ramp, and another pink on the right orbit. Let's see what happens when I hit an orange. I'm going to try and hit an orange. I don't know that I'm actually going to be able to do it. I did not. I'm going to try it again. Oh, nope. Because I hit the rush targets, it adjusted. So now I'm going to go for the horseshoe, which has a pink on it. So let's see. I'm still highlighted on Spirit of the Radio. What happens when I hit... Oh, my God. George, hit a shot.
    79:32
    I'm so sorry. That was a waste of everybody's time. We are now all dumber for having listened to you.
    79:58
    You know what? No, no, no. we're gonna show this off. We're gonna do it. Yeah, that was awful. Alright, so let's try it again. We need one of these guys to light.
    80:16
    So I'm gonna go for the horseshoe, which is a light blue. Got it. all right so we hit a light blue record and suddenly tom sawyer is lit light blue is associated to tom sawyer so that explains it now on that shot over there we have dark blue which is spirit of the radio what happens when we hit spirit of the radio it stayed as tom sawyer because tom Sawyer had, I'm guessing, precedent at this point. So now what I have left on the play field is another Tom Sawyer shot here. I've got an orange shot on the right ramp and a pink shot. So what happens when I hit Tom Sawyer on the left orbit? Totally got it.
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    Did not work. So now I'm going to try what happens when I hit orange on the right ramp. Maybe. I don't know if I can actually hit that shot.
    81:20
    Let's see what happens if we hit anything. Come on. There we go. I don't know what shot we just hit, but it was enough to actually change it to big money. Now we have pink, we have whatever that shot is over there, and a blue lit. So we have three different records hit. I'm going to cancel out of this instant info. And what's nice is we only needed one record to qualify our mode. But because we had two additional records, we actually have a shot value increase of 20%, meaning that all mode shots in this mode, their value will be increased by 20%. Now what's great is that because I have the big money lit right now, if I can hit other pink shots, uh, I will increase that value even, even better. I think is what happens more better, but I'm not gonna, instead, I'm just going to start the mode and take my 20% bonus.
    82:32
    There's a pink shot. That was mean game. So now I fell out of the mode, and I need to hit a shot in order to get back into a mode, but here's the thing, is that I just hit a light blue shot. I didn't hit a pink shot. So what did that do? That moved me over to Tom Sawyer because Tom Sawyer is light blue. so can I hit another light blue shot and continue increasing at a much higher rate my Tom Sawyer mode bonus or do I hit green and potentially light limelight I didn't Tom Sawyer is still lit but I did create another green light here on the left orbit so I'm going to try that I don't know what's going to happen we'll see got it hey and we switched it now we have two greens and I'm at 20% shot value. Uh, and I don't see any other greens on the inner orbit, kind of. Man.
    84:00
    Let's hit the horseshoe. Let's try that again. I'm going to hit the horseshoe and then try and hit the inner orbit.
    84:15
    Or not. What about lights that are flashing multiple colors, like at the buck? Okay, cool. So in that situation, if it's flashing multiple colors, I think it counts. Like you hit a shot, but it's good for any color. It's like a wild card.
    84:37
    I really want to hit that inner orbit now. There it goes. So now we hit three shots all green. And we're at a 30% shot value, and I think all of those three shots that I just hit that are green now get multiplied.
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    Okay. Got it. Got it, but it didn't count because that's an issue. and left orbit to that shot okay good now we've completed the first round of limelight we need to collect our jackpot in the middle and now we get to do it all over again that's great yeah that was awful but anyway uh what are your favorite quips from the game alex's little one-offs are a trip sprinkle britches i'm gonna i'm gonna be very truthful with you in that i really don't care too much about rush i don't know that i've actually listened to any to any of those uh from the game. Definitely not to a point I feel like where I could point out specifics that I like. I enjoy playing the game. I think the rule set on this is fantastic, but I'm not a huge Rush fan. I do like, I don't dislike Rush music, so I prefer Rush to something like Iron Maiden, despite the fact that I like both games. Actually, I probably like both games about equally at this point. But I really haven't gotten into like listening to the game and the callouts in it. um but everyone it is 11 30 and i am still struggling to get back uh into the things after taking some time off and all the travel so i'm gonna call it let's go find someone to raid this evening uh and uh we'll be back on thursday this week fair enough i'd seen them oh my gosh Sprinkle britches. So you're a big Rush fan. That's, congratulations.
    87:25
    And I feel like that's a, I love hearing when a big fan ends up getting a theme that they're really interested in. Especially when it turns out to be something like Rush, which is, it's like Borderline of Rules masterpiece in my mind. And if you happen to like the band, I could totally see why you would appreciate it so much because every single mode in this game is tied to not only the music, but there's little nuances to the code as to how each of those modes should be played, which are immersive, I think, if you're a fan. Like, there's a lot of thought that went into every single component of the Rush Pinball machine, and I'm just not a super fan enough to appreciate all of it, but I can appreciate the fact that the work went in.
    88:14
    If I had a sponsor, I'd thank he or she again. C&K, I have no sponsors, literally. I just learned that there's a goth prom in Denver at the end of June. QDL, I didn't know that there was a goth prom.
    88:31
    And especially at the end of June. That seems like a really awful time to hold a goth prom. Like everybody's wearing all black at one of the hottest times of the year and likely fully clothed. It's going to just FYI, at the end of June, that it's going to probably be 90 to 100 degrees.
    88:53
    But let's go find someone to raid. Y'all have an amazing Tuesday. I hope you have a very fun and enjoyable Wednesday, and we'll see you back on Thursday. See ya.
    89:08
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