I got a condom in my pocket, I'm gonna meet me pretty girl. I got a condom in my pocket, I'm gonna meet me pretty girl. What's going on Patreon people? I'm a hoochie coochie papa, I am in love with the whole world. And with the sultry sounds of the Red Elvises, we are back with another episode. This one's strictly for the Patreon portion of everybody. How you doing, everybody? How you doing? I am at the end of a deep day of travel. I want to cover exactly what I'm doing because it sparked an idea in me for some content generation that I think can be pretty fun. Also, I'll touch on some topics and things, but here it is, okay? I am at the very beginning, the very start, the crux of an adventure, as Frodo Baggins would put it. What is happening is I am doing 14 days straight of this new job that I have out here in Maine, the 24-hour shifts in the frozen north wastes. Here's what had happened. I finished up my job in Wisconsin. I did seven days of night shifts. I finished up. I got off in the morning, drove on into Benton after meeting with the realtors about the houses, the old ones. We're going to get them sold. that's going to free up so much of my economy. It's absurd. I'm very excited about it. I got down into Benton. Monica was making dead bars. So those dead bars that Spooky Pinball is sending out now that are back in stock, she made them all. She sat there and made 150 of them. They're all packaged. They're ready to ship out here soon this coming week. So if you've got a dead bar, Monica's hands are all over it. So apologies for the DNA in your house. But that was amazing. And I would love nothing more than to just hang out there. I popped in with Bug and Luke on the floor. They're getting all the mechanisms in the Beetlejuices. They are now putting the populated playfields with the mechs into the cabinets, entering like the final stages of testing for the first games to be going out, which was incredible. I wanted to spend the next 14 days in the Spooky Factory, hanging out with my wife, annoying her at work, plus playing with Beetlejuice, plus just hanging out in Benton. But I had a prior engagement, as it were. So I went to bed after getting the powder-coated armor and wire forms in for Fall of the Empire. I updated the code last night. I was able to play for about 45 minutes before I got to go to bed, which just – it's awful, man. I finished up a week of work out of town. I come back into Benton, and it's like Beetlejuice is going into boxes. Monica's making dead bars and printing the final labels for Evil Dead, which is ending its run in like this week. And then I've got Fall of the Empire parts finally in. We got a code update, which substantially improves the game. I've got my C3OPO topper there. And what happens? I go to sleep for two hours. My alarm goes off at 1 a.m. I'm driving to Chicago O'Hare to arrive there at 4 o'clock in a snowstorm for a 6 a.m. flight to do 14 days away from family, away from pinball, away from everything fun up here in the northern reaches because I am, at my heart, a humanitarian. So here's what had happened. Mild delay of the airport connection in Washington, D.C. It was only an hour. It's acceptable. It's wintertime, whatever. Everything worked out. My plan was to hit Walmart and Sam's Club to load up for the week, the weeks, as it were, just because there's nothing up here. I have to go into Canada if I want to go to a Walmart. There's, like, nothing up in this part of Maine. So I got my supplies. They're sitting here looking at me on the table. And then I found a pinball arcade. It's actually indoor glow-in-the-dark golf with 11 pinball machines and some arcade machines, too. Cool place, Orono Arcade. It's right outside of Bangor, Maine. I had no idea this town was here. It's a great little town. The University of Maine is right there. This place is only open Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. And wouldn't you know it, as luck would have it, today is Friday. So I was actually able to go and play some damn pinball. This place, right, I look on the pinball map, and there's, you know, ones, twos, and threes around the Bangor area. But this was an 11 that jumped out. And I click on it, and not only do they have a dune, but they've got a labyrinth and an Avatar CE. They have a Harry Potter Wizard Edition, and they had a handful of Stern LEs as well. Like it's a well-appointed arcade. I was very impressed. All on Coindrop, all on tokens. I go in there. I buy $25 worth of tokens. Now here's the plan, right? I was supposed to land at noon. I have to work at 8 p.m. It's a three-and-a-half-hour drive I have to make. So I had a solid like four to five hours to muck around in Bangor. I got delayed an hour. Walmart didn't have the stuff I wanted. Sam's Club didn't have the stuff I wanted. And so I went and played some pinball and I had myself like a good hour. I wanted to order a pizza from this place up the street, grab it and then eat it on the way to work. So I go into this place and I get, you know, you just swipe your card. He's like, you can buy tokens like they're 90 cents for four of them or you can pay 25 bucks and get like a whole bucket load. So I'm like, yeah, I'll pay you $25 to play your pinball machines. Good, sir. That's no problem. I went right over to Dune, and I'd like to start there. So this is Dune with code updates. This isn't pre-launched Dune. This isn't Dune that failed to impress. Guys, Dune was in such a rough shape when they showed it to us at the factory. The scoop sound was the same as the jump sound from Mario, like Super Mario World. It was like it's so inappropriate for fitting the theme. Like it was so strange. And then there was no call outs. There was like no assets and even like the stuff on the cool screen in the back of the game. There wasn't like a whole heck of a lot that was there. So it was a bit frustrating. It was a bit frustrating. So now I'm able to play it and I'm like I hit a harvester. I watched it explode on the screen inside the game underneath the glass. That was incredible. There's a lot more of the programming for like, you know, the water effects that come in where you're harvesting or whatever. So it was like that day night cycle thing was going on. I was able to appreciate that. I was able to hear the call outs, the in-universe accents, which sound kind of cringe. But, you know, I can hear them. They're in there. That's fantastic. And the shots were good. I was able to kind of like, you know, every now and then call my shot and make it, which was, you know, giving me the feels. I was having a good game on it. I was getting through some modes, got to some multi balls. The worm was moving. And moreover, I was impressed with the fact that I was just in a kind of a quiet arcade. There was a couple other people there. But I was able to just play Dune, get my hands on the cabinet, feel its girth between my hands, betwixt my fingers, looking at the sculpts in the game, the soup can worm mech, and all the shots and the lighting and stuff and the music and the finish of it and the powder coat and the back glass and the topper. I'm like, okay, I get it. I think this is a good game, everything being said. Now, I still think the theme doesn't speak to me, doesn't draw me in personally. but as far as if this was any other theme with the sculpts that are in there the gameplay the shots the layout i think it's fun i think this is a good game i think if you got one and caveat you got one and it works then yeah like i think this is perfectly fine it may always remain a location game for me but as i was playing it and i only played the one game and i played for 10 or 15 minutes, which is part of the issue I ran into. It was a fun, it was a good game. So if you really like this theme and I don't hate it, but like, if I had this in my game room, I think it tolerated for a year or so. I think, you know, you know, if I have the choice between this and a Godfather CE, I think I may pick up a dune and have more fun with it than I would with a Godfather CE, all other things being equal. So yeah, I think it's actually a fun game. If people have it, go ahead and hang on to it. I think that's fine. So I had a good game on that. That was good. I walked over to the Harry Potter Wizard Edition. I think this is an edition I don't think I have played. I think I played the Arcade Editions at Expo. I had the CE version, and then my friends all wanted to play the CE when we were at Expo, so we mainly played that one. But like I wanted to because if I get a Harry Potter again it probably going to be the Wizard because I don need that top stuff The topper didn terribly impress me you know for the price um you know and i really like rad cows i really like that movie art you got villains on one side heroes on the other that's exactly what i want and then the wizard edition for only two thousand dollars more gives you powder coat or shaker motor and visiglass and a topper with some lighting integrations yeah it doesn't do all the cool things that the ce version does but it's still fun it was still pretty cool um so i got to play it now this one was playing well okay it played fine the only issue was the uh quidditch flipper completely unworking like dead like no wires hooked up to it something is going on with it like no life out of that at all which i i can't believe i can't even press upon you how much that negatively affects the game when you shoot up the quidditch ramp and it goes right around that you know a little orbit you're like perfect and now i just want to hit that ramp and nothing bupkis oh that was not fun sir that was not fun because it's fun to be up there and loop that shot and hit the posts and start the quidditch game and all that and get to the quidditch multiball which is like one of the more rewarding multi-balls of the game um and you just can't you couldn't do it couldn't do it that that sucked and then i got a couple of shots right up in that death eater crevice just smacked him right in the back and nothing like the switch in there isn't registering it's probably just a wire that's unsoldered a connection that the needs connected you know there's something i want to flip it up and and fix whatever it was but that was a frustrating game to play of harry potter i still did pretty good um but like you know when you only got three of the flippers and you i would have been in a death eater battle man i would have been in the death eater and like i lost on it so that sucked that sucked but i i checked out the rest of the arcade um it was fun going over to their their wall of sterns which were all le's and basically it was like a best of don's prior games that he's owned right Elvira Blood Red Kiss was there John Wick LE was there Venom LE was there that a Mandalorian uh D&D LE was there which I still have but everything else is kind of like things that that I used to own I think it might have been an Avengers or something that I had never owned and a Mandalorian I've never owned Mandalorian but for the most part it was like oh hey it's it's my games the ones that I had um Elvira was down and having some issues uh so I just jumped on John Wick man and I gotta say had a great time on John Wick got two extra balls unlocked several of the multi balls the deconsecrated multiball I did twice I think the car multiball did it twice um ended up with like you know north of 280 million points or something I got my name in there for one of the um multiball chase scores or something I was the highest which was nice and I played that game for a good 15-20 minutes um you know and so that was a very satisfying game of wick to just walk up there and it's like i kind of remember where the shots are i kind of remember the code there's more stuff in there now i went into the uh you know the dark mode a couple of times and like now i can wrap my head around like what you're supposed to do during that mode so that was fun and then um i leveled up to level 49 on john wick so it was good it was a good game but it was one game it was one game i got a uh i got a free score or a free game on it and i i left it there for the kiddos of course i moved down i wanted to play some vent and i gotta say after all this time and all this code and all the the ridicule and everything venom is still for me a fun game it may be a bad game on the pin side what hop 100 um an le may only be seven thousand dollars and lost half of its value but it's to me it's it's still a fun game to play i was able to log in and there's all my characters all my friends that i unlocked I was all the way up to Grendel when I last left off, so I was able to fight Grendel a couple of times. And, you know, I was able to find the shots again just like I did on my game, you know? And then when you find the shots on Venom, for me, and I can hit shots reliably, like I can cradle up and I know that I can get, you know, into the scoop for the mystery prize or, you know, start those mini modes and things. You know, I can lock two balls and then hold the action button to suspend it and then lock a third one and then go into it with, like, the add-a-ball sleeper character and stuff. Like I know all that code inside and out from having the game and playing it half a thousand times. And so getting able to be there again, I set the number two high score at this arcade. Orono Arcade is where it was. So I went ahead and put that in there. That was super fun. Realized I'd been playing for about 20 minutes again on this game. And so I had played four pinball games in one hour essentially is what happened. And I think it's because my skills leveled up a bit. um maybe the games were set a little bit loose a little bit more forgiving with uh ball saves but but damn um i still had a huge pocket full of tokens but like i had to get going it was about four o'clock which is when this pizza place opened i had to absolutely leave town by 4 30 in order to get to work on time it's three and a half hours up there and then it was eight degrees in northern maine the roads were ice so like it's not like i could just set the Antonio Cruz control to 80 and just rocket right on up there man a lot of times i was going well below the speed limit just to stay on the road and avoid moose and it's getting dark um so yeah it was just a it was a bit harrowing but we made it with about 20 minutes to spare i was able to check in unload the car get changed get over get my sign out and that's all done and now day one of 14 is officially started i'm gonna go absolutely stir crazy here for two complete full solid weeks there's no pinball here uh there's hardly any shopping let me let me review the rundown of what's in this town okay i want to say what's in this town and like what's here with the next services like 45 minutes away and an international border okay there's a cvs there's a mcdonald's there's a grocery store which is absolutely like just a grocery store it's not a super center uh there's a dollar general that's it that that's it there's a couple of saloons a little brew pub that does pizzas and and like that's it the rest of it is all like uh service supply outlets for snowmobiles moose hunting supplies there's a hardware store but like no harbor freight like that's it that's all that's up here um if i drive 45 minutes and cross the border into canada there is a cool little town with a walmart and some more big box retail and stuff not a lot you know it's it's not like a huge town or anything but it's like something of substance i can go over there but if i go over to the canadian walmart i can't bring back food and produce and meat i gotta declare everything at the border it's kind of a hassle like if you want to run up there and you know get some canadian breakfast cereal that's fine but you know if i want to go up there and just like buy a bunch of stuff it's a little problematic because you have to stop the border declare everything you know and it's a small town right so the people that live here and cross the border frequently the border patrol knows them you know and just kind of waves them through I show up. I've got a rental car with an out-of-state license plate. I tell them, oh, I'm just going to Walmart. They're like, you drove up from Massachusetts just to go to the Walmart in this little town, Mr. Drug Trafficker? Why don't you tell us what you're really here for? So it's like it becomes this whole thing. I'm a traveling health care worker. I'm from out of town. I'm from Wisconsin. My plate says I'm from Massachusetts. It's a rental car. I come up for a week every month. I'm just going to Walmart. And it's like – and I try to preempt it. Now that I've done it a couple of times, I pull up. I'm like, hey, how are you doing? Travel doctor. Going to Walmart. Be back in 20 minutes. It doesn't fly. They still have to go through all the questioning every single time. And I try to make it easy, and they're trained for that stuff. And I've got to do it both ways too. So it's not the easiest thing to do. It's not the easiest thing to do. I want to come up with something fun, a challenge, so I don't completely go insane. So starting today, what I would like to do is a 14-day challenge of creating some form of content each day, whether that be a Patreon podcast, a typical podcast, a WAP episode, a live stream, a Patreon live stream, a YouTube live stream, just something, something. Maybe like just a vlog. Maybe I do a Dawn of the Magic episode and get that kicked back off. Maybe I dance around in my underwear on OnlyFans. Something. I want to do something every day and see if I can keep my mind somewhat sane. Now the plan is once this is done I get to go back home and lay low for about three full days Chilling in Benton hanging out with the fam going down to Galena for some food heading over to the Sam's Club in Dubuque, getting a car wash, fucking around with the spooky guys who, like, those guys on the line are some real ones, man. Like, I'm relating to these, these are like my people, right? Like, yes, okay, like, I downplay a lot what my profession is because people get the wrong idea. Like, oh, you're a physician. You must be some sort of like mentally stable, you know, traditional came from money kind of thing person, which is absolutely not the case. You know, I'm still the same skateboarding anarchist deep down that I've always been. It's just I lucked or stumbled my way backwards into this job somehow. And so now I'm like on the other side, like, shouldn't someone have stopped me from doing this? So like being able to relate to like actual real people with really real problems and issues was just fantastic. Just sitting there, I'm learning soldering like I'm just any other person. And it's like I'm feeling more like myself than I have in a decade. And that was super fun. And I want to get back to that like as soon as possible. So let's make some content. Let me know if you think that's a great idea. And we will roll with it. Programming note, I took my Pinside mod store down because I knew I was going to be traveling a lot. And what I didn't want to happen was somebody orders a Kong shooter rod and I can't make it for three weeks. And that's frustrating. You know, you order something, you pay for it. You're like, OK, I paid my money. I want my toy prize. And then, you know, I've got to tell you, remind me in a couple of weeks like that sucks. So I just said, you know what, I'm going to shut it down. Maybe people will be initially disappointed, but like they won't be sitting there like, where the hell's my stuff? Where's where's my decoder ring, dude? Where's my spy camera? Right. So I did that. So what has happened is people are now emailing me directly. Don, I want to start with you to write. Don, I need a banana rod. Don, are you still making Jaws chum buckets? And it's like, yes, I'm making all this stuff still. I'll fulfill your order. But honestly, I don't know what to do with this information right now. Please wait and email me again. I don't know, in a couple of weeks. What I would like to do is I want to celebrate my most popular mod ever that I've made, that Jaws chum bucket, that little KFC bucket of chicken that you swap out for the chum bucket, and then you just have this little KFC toy inside your shark game for no reason. KFC was never mentioned in the Jaws movie. It's just the chum bucket to me reminded me of a bucket of chicken for I don't know what kind of reasons. And it's been fun. I sold these things for $25, including shipping. I don't care where you are. Maybe if you're in Australia, the shipping is $30. I was still sending them out there just for fun. I did this strictly because it made me laugh and other people liked it, right? And then I took them off the Pinside store because I didn't want to get copyright struck. I stole the KFC logo. I'm making these things. I'm charging money. I get a cease and desist and like a big lawsuit. I don't want that. I don't want that I just wanted to make something that was funny, right and I wanted to cover my own costs and things So here's what I want to do. I want to celebrate this thing I want to make I want to scale it up make it like make a chicken bucket the size of a gallon of milk It's just for myself like a trophy version, but i'm thinking of making these things and just giving them out for free Like if you're a patreon member, maybe i'll make one for every patreon member or if any patreon member wants one They email me. I don't want like 100 emails so um we'll figure it out we'll figure it out but i want to do a whole run of these make a bunch and then if anybody out there on patreon land wants one of these you just let me know i'll send it out to you you're already paying me plenty of money i want to give back i want to get as many of these buckets out into the world as possible and then maybe you don't have a jaws chances are you probably don't or you did and you sold it or you're thinking of getting one again you got a friend with a josh you got you probably have a location or something take it there and give it to them and let's see how many of these damn buckets we can get out there man i think they are absolutely hilarious whenever i come across a jaws in public and my stupid bucket is in it it's just like it's like that's my baby it's out there i love that feeling and i know other people are digging it too so let's do that i'm gonna when i get back get a couple days off we're gonna fire up the 3d print farm i'm gonna make a ton of buckets and then i'll make an announcement if you want one just let me know and i'll be ready to just ship it directly out to you no no must no fuss no waiting what do you think is that a good idea i think that's a cool idea and then i have so many more ideas for things that i want to do fall of the empire from stern pinball i actually was having fun with it yesterday now it's a pinball machine of course it's going to be fun even john wick is fun even venom is fun so fall of the empire is fun for a game now i would have preferred that this new layout that jack danger is developing um oh crap i got something in the oven hang on a second i got my new baking bacon cooking rack and you know it's brand new from the store so i want to throw it in the oven and heat it up just to get like those factory oils and plastics and things just obliterated before i start cooking like the best meat in the world on it as far as i'm concerned um you follow you up our super fun game was this where i was at um so I'm making this one over for the one up lounge. I really wanted to have it done by now, but like I've been pulled in 10 different directions. Like I haven't had time to make mods for it. I've got flipper toppers for it. Of course, I've got a couple of little things here and there I've made, but I just got the powder coat back. And so I wanted to do something fun with this one and powder coating wire forms. It turns out adds a whole lot. Yes. I got the idea from spooky pinball. I've done it on a couple of games now and like, talk about elevating the game. It's, it's incredible. So the two wire forms on the left side, the one that goes around the AT-AT and the one that comes down from the hyperspace, I've done those in red because they're over near Vader. And so it's kind of like a red Vader lightsaber. And then the other one I did blue on the other side of the game because that's kind of like the Jedi lightsaber color. Now, I know like the Luke shot is over on the left, so it doesn't perfectly match up. But I went ahead and did that. These things are chrome to begin with. and so at the suggestion of my new powder coater shout out to half-baked powder coating and in east western wisconsin um he was like why don't you candy coat these since you already have the chrome rather than using like the illusion color i was planning on doing um and i'm like let's do it and man i got these things back and they absolutely look like metallic glowing red blue like very brilliant colors like very intense um really nice like shine to it and it almost looks like uh some of the packaging for like the star wars re-release films on dvd or hd or whatever where it was like they had this sheen to them you know uh that's kind of what this looks like is it the light really plays on it because it's that really bright intense candy coat over a chrome wire form uh so i got those in here and yeah yeah like this effect this effect works man this effect works so i've got a plan to make a topper it's going to be you know my typical kind of box of lights topper that's up there i want to go get this c-3po head that i saw at uh at hollywood studios down at walt disney world it's um it's it does some voices and it's got some lighting effects in it i just want to take it and mount it and have it look around while you're playing um i think that would be super fun so i'll come up with my own topper for this game and i'll get it out to him eventually it's gonna be soon probably by march um i've got a couple other ideas for some mods that i would really like to make for this game because these flat plastics The job that's up there doesn't make a lot of sense. I want something. I'd rather have Jabba's sail barge up there or like just a big Sarlacc monster and you shoot underneath them or something. You know, rather than or even like Jabba's palace would look nice up there rather than just a plastic job. It looks like it's out of a 1980s nightlight. You know what I mean? You know what I mean? So maybe we'll do something like that. Also, Penwoofer reached out and sold me a set of speakers for Spike 3 that he just developed. So I need to put them in there and then give him some feedback, take some photos and things. These were not free. I think he gave me like a 10% discount or something to try them out and do some work for him. So I'm excited to see like how these elevated. Also, that included this new lighting that he's doing, speaker lighting. So I don't know how the approach is going to be. I would have preferred to replicate what in the LE and get the lighting speaker package from Stern directly They have not announced when that is going to be available at all I already bought and paid for the expression lights and I have no idea when those are coming or when they available This is the frustrating part of it with Stern for me. Like I've been happy to buy the premiums and then put in my own work to elevate them to kind of match some of the aesthetics of an LE, but where it makes sense to divert kind of in my own way to do that. But now lately, like if you buy a premium, there's just no way to know if and when the accessories are going to be available that you'll need how much they'll be it's it you know so it's hard to like go in on that and so if pokemon were to release today which it didn't um you know that would be what i would hesitate at you know because if i get a premium in i gotta put invisiglass and shaker motor i've got to do all this work to it and some of it you know if there's expression lights because it's spike three if there's speaker lights a speaker upgrade like when am i going to be able to get that you know i can have laser cut armor done for me in Barcelona or Benton. I've got powder coders all throughout the state that I can use. I can move quickly and have that done, but I can't tell a customer that would like this game made over when they can get it based on when I can get the first party accessories from Stern. So that's a bit of a frustrating thing that I've run into, but that's where we are in that world. So American Pinball was sold. This was wild. It came out of nowhere. Now, American pinball has been rumored to have been for sale in the past like don't forget this about a year a year and a half ago um there was thoughts of american pinball closing um i was just a fledgling podcaster at the time i made this funny graphic image of the ametron office of american pinball and it photoshopped very crudely a spirit halloween banner on the side of the building and like i posted that on facebook and like got some like industry hate that came back at me you It was like the first time that that had happened in my podcasting career, which was super fun because I'd always just kind of been a subversive troll before. And it's like now, oh, people know my email address. They're going to get at me. So it was just a joke, guys. It was just a joke. But I had mentioned back then that if you were to buy American Pinball, OK, what exactly is it that you're buying? Because Ametron owns that building. So you're not getting that building. If you were to walk up and buy American Pinball and now you hold the certificate that you own it, what actually did you buy? And that's my question for JD the Weed Man or whoever this guy is from Texas about this company. Like are you getting – I'm buying the license to make Hot Wheels? Like how many more Hot Wheels are there to make? Or Oktoberfest or Valhalla? Like I think that that teat has been milked. Like, I don't know that there's you can't do an anniversary edition of Houdini or something and expect like 500 units to then sell. So, like, are you just buying like the service contracts to service these machines? Are you buying the technology behind the boards? Because you can go out and get fast boards like barrels of funds using. You can hire a coder to come up with your own system like the warden system that Spooky Pinball is using. You get the in-house spike system that Stern is using, you know, so like these Amtron boards like you can just buy Amtron boards from Amtron, I'm sure. So do you need to own American Pinball in order to get this? I'm sure you would get all of their assets. I'm sure you would get their parts bin, but what is that really worth? That's just off-the-shelf parts. There are boxes of playfields over there on pallets for Hot Wheels and Valhalla and stuff. So I'm sure you'd get all those, but what would you exactly be doing with them? So if I get this guy on the podcast, which I'd love to do, the question I'm going to ask him is, like dude like like tell me what did you buy exactly um because it sounds like they're now leasing out the building that was formerly just gifted to them because they were a subsidiary of ametron so now they're paying rent for this building they've got a higher staff so you know if you were just leasing a building you can lease a building anywhere um are there assets that are owned by american pinball that are valuable um there's this masters of the universe machine that supposedly the Riot guys had made. This is the guys that did Valhalla's layout, the guys that did Wrath of Olympus, which American Pinball was going to produce but didn't. So do they come up with Masters of the Universe? Do you own that? Because they own that unless they contracted it and sold it and American Pinball bought it and then you're buying that. But then why buy the whole company? I'm sure you could reach out and just buy that if you want. I'm just confused on what exactly this man purchased. Now, so far, there's been very little word out or anything, but there was a bit of an interview that Jason Knapp did. Halle be his name. Thank you for your service, sir, for getting in there quickly with this. The dude's just an animal. It sounds like this is somebody that has money, has been successful in business before, legitimately enjoys pinball, has an Addams Family and 40 other games, and really wants to elevate this company, really get the the tech improvement side where it needs to be the service where it needs to be and like kick it off to a full-fledged company i just think there is so much like ill will that has been built within the community with this company with these games um so much like lackluster releases so many good ideas that were poorly executed like gtf and so many just like bizarre ideas that make you question like the common sense thinking of the company like with something like barrios barbecue challenge just making it out of a pitch meeting and then you know for cuphead to be 98 of the way there and then just dumpstered like what is happening here what this guy seems like he'd be better off just like starting new or coming in with funding for turner pinball just blowing that up like hey turner here's some actual resources let's make some great games i got some ideas so i'm i don't wish the guy ill none of us do we're just trying to understand exactly what it is that's happening here and what did he buy what exactly did he buy um the the ai generated logos are kind of weird um i pointed out a lot of people pointed this out that the one of the american pinball logos with that red white and blue spot uh striped background is really just the the dutch netherlands flag that's back there and then it says american pinball on top with ai flippers that the dimensions are off it just doesn't instill confidence and like you know they're not making games to sell next to the at games virtual pinball machine at sam's club like they're making games pitched at us like the people that obsess over every little detail and speck of dust and and bubbling piece of clear coat on a play field so like you've got to come at us with something better more robust than just an ai generated image over the dutch flag you know if you want to impress us american pinball there are great pinball artists out there that can do logos for you didn't american pinball just prior or just prior to burials barbecue challenge just after gtf get like new graphics done and logos and then never really ran with it again a lot of just strange decisions and what exactly did this guy buy that's what i want to find out that's what i want to find out guys i'm stuck up here in northern maine for the next 14 days i don't know why I agreed to this. I know that this money will help with the move. So we were going to get through it. And I think I'm going to drag you guys along with me. And as best as I can, let me see if I can complete 14 days of fresh content as we go on. All right. So thank you so much for your continued generosity and being members here. I want to continue to give back to you guys. And hopefully this is escalating in content and value for you guys. I want to deliver it straight to you. I know when I started, I said I didn't want to take shows and put them behind paywalls. I didn't want to hold back rumors and put them strictly behind Patreon. But there's so many people supporting here that I think I'm just commanded to do that now. And I don't even feel bad about it. I want you guys to feel like the most pampered Patreon that there is in the realm of pinball. This has been Don. We're going to rock this joint. We're going to rock this joint. We're going to roll this joint. We're going to roll this joint. We're going to smoke this joint. Until we sound like Pink Floyd