We're going to do this, but we're going to do this right. We're going to do this right. How's everybody doing? Welcome. Welcome, welcome. I'm so excited to do this. Okay, here we go. Here we go. Crank up the... The best of pinball. All right, we got 10 people already. Let's go. Hold on. How's the volume? How's it going? We're going to get going in about five minutes, so take your time. Come in. Join the lobby. We're going to do this. I want to do this all on YouTube. I don't want to do this. Let's see. I don't want to do this on a... Here we go. We're going to copy this. Come. How's everybody going? This is like... We're going to... All right. All right, so we're doing this on YouTube. I'm not doing this on Facebook, so I just put a link on Facebook. If you want to watch, let's do this. How's everybody doing? Hello, everybody. I need a drink. So we said we're going to do this. We're going to do it right. And it's going to be awesome. I've worked all day on this show. So it's going to be a conversation. There's a lot of – I struggled with a lot. I struggled with a lot of these selections because it's not – this was probably the best year in terms of pinball award shows. Guys, on Facebook, join YouTube. Let's do this. Okay, I'll be right back. Okay, because Brenna gave me a glass of water, but I'm like, I need something a little stronger. Can you get me, should I do Manhattan or red wine to start the show? Start with a wine? I think you should start with the Manhattan. What are we thinking? the show is going to be I would say guys we're going to be about a little bit over an hour Manhattan it is yeah alright how's everybody doing now I feel I can hear myself now this is going to be good so we're going to share a screen real quick alright here we go this is going to be like. It's going to be like one of these shows. I'm blocking. Hold on a second. Let's just put it over. Oh, let's just do this. It's like probably the only text that I block. Oh, man. Come on. Let's do this. Here we go. I never... The only thing I didn't test it with was this one. Okay, here we go. All right. But before we get started, though, let's... We got to Manhattan. How's everybody doing? Wow. We got a big pour of Manhattan right now from Brenda. Thank you, Brenda. I mean, it's a big pour. It's a big pour. How are you guys doing? Who we got in the house tonight? Keep all the lights on. let's do this. We're going to let people come through the door in a little bit. Let's just connect with the kids for a little bit. We got 61 people here. We'll get some more. We're going to obviously let the people watch at their convenience. But how's everybody doing, by the way? I'm reading the messages. Guys, light up the chat. Has anyone chatted after Brandon? Hit up the chat. Let's make sure we're going good here. Let the show begin. Who's ready for some awards? I'm ready. Who actually voted on these? I voted on these, Bill Brand. As I said, this is one man's opinion. This is one man's opinion who has been surveying, if you will, this entire pinball space for over 13 years. So I think there's something to be said for that. Every week, I study this hobby. I watch what's going on. I see these releases. I play these games. And, you know, no, this is not the Twippies. The Twippies, by the way, I think voting starts on Monday, aka nobody cares. All right, the Twippies are dead. They're dead. There's like four categories, by the way. Star Wars is the best game. Yeah, I don't know. I don't think it's going to win. Hey, Brenda. Babe. Yeah, do you know where my glasses are at so I can see? All right. Guys, I got a Manhattan inside here. We're going to have some fun tonight. Happy New Year's, I want to say. I hope each and every one of you had a great New Year's with your family. It's been a, I don't know, it's been like a weird year. I don't know how you guys feel, but I feel like the outside world is always negative. bringing me down. And I love the pinball world because it's a little bit of a quantum of solace in this universe for each and every one of us to sort of find each other in a common space that makes us all just feel good. We get to look at these games. And I will say we're going to see it when we see all the games this year. The sheer amount of pinball games available in one year, it's hard to deny that we are not in a new golden era of pinball. We are. I mean, the prices are high, but, man, there's more companies trying to succeed in this hobby than ever before. So we should all feel really good about that. So we're going to get going here in just a few seconds. Brenda's looking for my eyeglasses. I've spent, you know, this is not just going to be me talking. I'm going to have a slideshow, as you can see. How many Merlins this year? What do you mean Merlins? Oh, the Manhattan Strong. Should we get going? Let's do this. All right. All right, so I think I have to, you know, as we think about the 2025 year in pinball, you know, the years I've been covering this hobby, I've seen award shows where certain games just swept. Godzilla was one of those years, won everything. I was there, Guns N' Roses, I think, won everything. What are the, you know, you know what's crazy? I think dialed in one game of the year when dialed in came out. And I really do think this hobby is in an interesting crossroads right now where there's a lot of new people coming into the hobby. There's a lot of people that have been in this hobby for a really long time who have seen it. We've seen like the the prices go from a stern le being sixty five hundred to thirteen thousand. And, you know, and this is why, like, I think pinball now is in a really interesting point. So we're going to go over the best of pinball in 2025. Now, I think this year has a few standout hits. We're going to see that. But I think where this industry is going is going to be very exciting. And there's a lot of really amazing excitement happening in pinball. I'm not worried about the view count, guys. I'll get more people tomorrow. I mean, it's Friday. It's the holidays. I let people know today about this show. This show will go up at a later date. People can watch it at their convenience. I'm really not that worried about how many people are watching live right now. Brenda, they might be in the guest bedroom. My glasses, people. I can't, you know, I'm just trying to read better. Okay. Do you use total number of votes or total number one votes? All right, let's do this. Are we ready? All right. So let me ask you guys a question. When I go, like, next, I just, like, you know, as I start this show, I just want to give a few thanks. Because, you know, as I think about this hobby and what makes covering this hobby so interesting, and I've said this for many, many years, um foremost i think we need to thank the manufacturers of pinball we are now in 2025 at a place where there are over i think there's somewhere between 13 and 15 pinball manufacturers making pinball games and we do spend an inordinate amount of time in this hobby singling out certain individuals like designers and artists seem to get most of the credit, then the coders. But the truth is, at each of these companies are so many men and women who get absolutely no credit, who walk into a pinball company every day and actually put these games together. So I do want to give a shout out to all of the pinball companies out there, all the thankless individuals inside those companies who are making these games each and every single day without you, we would not have this hobby where it is today. And I think that is something that we should all, you know, whether we like a company or not, a lot of those individuals deserve all of, you know, all of the applause, if you will, for making these games and putting them in boxes and getting them to each and every one of us. Yeah, the line workers, right? It's like, how many of you know, if I were to ask you guys right now, how many of you guys know a single line worker at a, Brenda, they're not in there. Hold on one second, guys. I'm going to, I'm going to go find my glasses real quick. Give me, give me a one second break. And Brenda, like they can't be in that many places. Hold on. I'll be right back. Hold on. Here is a stereo. Oh, good morning. Thank you. All right, we're going to do it. Saying it's my ability to read anything. All right, we're back. Brenda can't find them. We'll see if Brenda finds them. Okay. So, definitely want to thank the manufacturer. So, second in our list of thank yous are the operators of the pinball world. And, you know, when you think about bringing pinball to the masses and all the the operators out there, it's a really amazing thing that in 2025, we still have people operating location. These are individuals that are really gaining such valuable information on like issues with the games, on what's popular. You know, we hear it all the time, like certain games might just be like great location games and not perfect for homeownership. You know, when we hear Pokemon, everyone's like it's going to be an operator's dream. And that's great. It brings new people in the pinball. I love the fact that we can go out there and play pinball out on location without having to spend so much money and buying new in box games. So for all the operators out there, thank you so much for operating pinball. it's not the most financially lucrative thing you could operate. You could just have some redemption machines. But the fact that there are operators all throughout America, and you know who you are, thank you so much. Thank you, of course, to our dealers and distro friends out there. You know who they are. There's just, for some reason, we're still working with dealers and distros, and maybe one day Canada will be one. But in the end, we all have a lot of great relationships with dealers and distros who help us not only get the games we're looking for, but also the customer service that a lot of people need whenever you have an issue with your games. Guys, you're the best. And then all the content creators out there of the world, you know who they are. There's so many to mention. When I started in this hobby, there were maybe just a handful of content creators. I grew up with Nate Shivers. I grew up with Spooky Had a Pinball Podcast. There was like barely any. Now there's like 40 pinball podcasters. There's so many YouTubers out there. And for those of you who make pinball content, you guys know that it is not the easiest to entertain an audience every single week when a new game only comes out every few months. So I just want to thank you guys. Unless you actually pick up a mic and try to keep people entertained, it's not as easy as people think. We have to thank the private equity investors. Without them, there would be no Stern Pinball. And without them, we would have more impressive mechanisms in Stern Pinball machine. You know, I put Pinside up here and I mean this because even though I'm banned from Pinside, I still do consider Pinside to be the sort of epicenter and the magnetic place where so many people who discover this hobby and want to go a layer deeper and find community, they go to Pinside. and without Pinside, I would not be where I am today. Not just because they banned me and it made me do a podcast, but without Pinside, you really wouldn't find the community the way you would if Pinside wasn't there. So I want to thank Robin and everybody there and for all the people there that hyper post all the time, thank you because, you know, I don't necessarily understand if it's a rich use of time or not, But you are keeping this community alive every single day. And I think that's really important. And I think it's easy. I mean, just imagine a pinball community without Pinside. It doesn't seem exciting. And, you know, and also, you know, thank all of you, the community. You guys are the best. You guys absolutely are what is the most valuable part of this hobby. I always say this. Tonight we're going to celebrate the games of pinball. But you don't need to spend a lot of money. on a pinball machine to really find what's valuable about pinball. What's really valuable about this hobby are the people that you meet, the friends you make, and the community that comes together. And that's really what makes this hobby so special for me. I really do feel if, you know, if I were to lose the community I made in this hobby, I would lose half of my, you know, real kind of family through life because this is the family we choose. And I think it's It's kind of amazing. And selfishly, thank you, the Canada Club members, because seriously, it's still amazing that every month we have the most subscribers to Canada's Pinball Podcast. And, you know, for about like five years now, we've had such a loyal following and it's such a great community. And if you are curious and if you're just watching this now, Canada's Pinball Podcast on Patreon, we do about three shows a week. We've got the Facebook Live every Saturday morning. But I really do appreciate every single person who contributes to the show. And then lastly, and certainly not least, is the patient partners and the family members of each and every person here. Because if you're married to someone who's in the pinball, it requires patience. And I will say this, my family, the amount of hours that it takes to create content, to study the hobby, to make shows, it really is a picture of my beautiful family before we get to the actual games tonight. I love this photo. This was Halloween. We were K-pop demon hunters. and I love that fact that there is the shade happening over Brenda's shoulder. Brenda, what's the character in K-pop that you are in Demon Hunter? Does anyone know? What's the K-pop Demon Hunter character you are in Halloween? Rui? Rooney? Okay. Rooney. All right, cool. Thank you for the 10 bucks. Pinball vibes. Let's do this. All right. So, here we go. Are you guys ready? Roomy. Yeah, thank you, Deadflip. Yeah, Jack Danger knows what I'm talking about here. All right. So, let's get to it. So, those are my thank yous. Now, we're going to get to the nominees of the 2025 Canada Kudos Pinball Awards. And as I was saying, there's a lot of nominees. Now, a lot of manufacturers, more than we ever would have expected. We've got, look, they're not all going to be like this, but first we've got Home Pin making the Blues Brothers, okay? Did anyone order this game? I haven't even seen a single unboxing. I can tell you right now, if you're a Home Pin fan, they're not going to win any awards tonight. Unfortunately, the industry is just so far beyond this title. but it's out. And then we have from France, I believe, Space Hunt Pinball. Did anyone order a Space Hunt? You know, it was funny. When I was going through this tonight, Killian saw all the games, and he goes, I want the pink game. I want Space Hunt. So if only he had the money. So we've got Space Hunt, Merlin's Arcade from Turner Pinball. we've got her from the pinball brothers sort of the uh the compliment to alien if you will sans arnold schwarzenegger um we've got portal pinball from multimorphic uh portal uh is shipping this year it's uh definitely you know one of the most intricate games that multimorphic has brought to the market is anyone taking this seriously at all wow cracking nurses okay cool here you go bro should we uh i i love when people are like are like trolling like we're just we're just we're just going through the pinball you know like some of these games they they're they're new for the year but they're not brand new games so we got um medieval madness the merlin edition from chicago gaming company 20 25 games you know alice is adventures in wonderland this game kind of revealed October of 2024. So it's now shipping this year. So it is eligible for all the awards that we're going to go over. But it, you know, it had a little bit of an earlier reveal, if you will. And then we, you know, kind of two titles from Barrels of Fun. And, you know, look, Winchester is not shipping yet. Neither is Beetlejuice. So we're going to talk about this. These games that aren't currently shipping to consumers, they are eligible for stuff like best artwork. They're eligible for stuff like best theme. They're eligible for stuff like best topper. If they've revealed something in this game that is not going to change, then they're absolutely eligible. What they're not eligible for yet is stuff like gameplay and designer and this and that, like, because just people haven't played it enough. And I haven't even played these games enough. So that is, you know, how we're going to do this. But Dune is a game that came out, I believe, sometime around March of 2025 and is, I think, to date, they've made around a few hundred of these games. So, you know, same thing with Spooky, right? We had Evil Dead, which came out at the very end of 2024. It's really been Spooky's game throughout 2025. And then we got the reveal of Beetlejuice, which set the pinball world on fire. If you got one, congratulations. If you got a show game, congratulations. But these two games have been a real turning point for this company. Obviously, we're going to talk about that more throughout the night. But Evil Dead and Beetlejuice have really been the new cornerstones, if you will, of what spooky pinball is. Harry Potter, right? The theme that for a decade was impossible to get. J.K. Rowling would not give permission to anyone to make Harry Potter pinball. The rumor was that she did not want these games to be in bars. She considered bars to be seedy places. And miraculously, Jersey Jack Pinball doesn't just get Harry Potter. They get all eight movies. They have all the assets. Even if they mute some of the clips, now they're unmuted. But you know what I'm saying? Like this game really is one of the turning points in pinball in terms of magnanimous theme. and just a theme that we never thought we'd get. And now we have it in Harry Potter pinball. And then the last company, but not the least company, when we turn and Stern continues, you know, as you see, like every other company in the entire industry is maybe one game, really one game a year. There really isn't another pinball company that is making more than one game a year. Some companies are still making leftover games that they revealed years prior, but Stern Pinball continues to be the juggernaut in this industry. And they've released in 2025 Dungeons and Dragons, King Kong, Jaws 50th, Star Wars, Fall of the Empire and The Walking Dead Remastered. And so as much as we sort of compare all pinball companies equally, we have to take our hat off to Stern Pinball, a company that is capable of making these many games in one year. I mean, you look at this right here. This would be five years of spooky pinball. This would be five years of any other pinball company. This would be 79 years of Dutch pinball to get five games out the door. All right. So but that being said, I think what we're going to see when we go through the award show is that Stern Pinball has some work to do. That quantity does not equal quality. And I've witnessed award shows, ladies and gentlemen, where Stern Pinball has swept, where they won almost every category. And I think what's happening now in pinball is a changing of the guard, as I've been saying over the last year. I think the boutique companies have really improved their product. I think Jersey Jack finally has amazing gameplay. And I think it's a whole new pinball world. Thank you, Dark Link. Merry Christmas. Appreciate the donation, brother. And for those of you who are enjoying the show, would love any contributions that you see. So let's get to it. We're going to start today's Canada's Kudos Pinball Award show with the best theme. Okay, so this is like an interesting category because this does not take into consideration how well you executed that theme. That will be the next award, which is best theme integration. So what is the best theme in all of pinball this past year? And when you think about it, what does that mean? You know, is it relevant to the demographic? Did it create great sales? Was it a theme that is just super popular in the world? Was it impossible to get? And so when we think about the different themes out there, we have everything from Dungeons and Dragons. It's funny watching Stranger Things Season 5 right now. I feel like Stern messed up. I really do. I feel like Stern should have released D&D to coincide with the final season of Stranger Things in which Dungeons and Dragons is a central part of that show. But I digress. Pinball companies have the worst marketing. We all know it. So if you look at all these themes and you say, like, what's the best? Again, you know, you probably would land at Star Wars if we didn't have, like, so many Star Wars games that were underwhelming. So I'm curious, like, what do you guys think is the best? I'm going to read some of your responses, then I'm going to show you who won the Kaneda Kudo. Are those my glasses? You found them? All right. So the 2025. This is going to be so exciting that I can now read everything perfectly. Oh, there we go. Perfect. You're welcome. Thank you, Brenda. Brenda, come in and say hi real quick. Just come say hi. You look great. You don't ever have to check how you look. Come here. Come in. Come say hi. look at this. How's it going, everyone? Look at this beautiful... I'm in my pajamas. Yeah, she's in her pajamas. I'm going to go and enjoy, I don't know, something on Netflix while you're down there because I got a preview of it earlier on. I worked all day on this deck. Okay. Hopefully they appreciate it. All right. So the winner for the best theme of 2025 is Harry Potter. And now I realize that my little image is going to bleed over the winner title, but you'll know what the winner is. It doesn't matter. Okay, so Harry Potter. Look, in the end, there is no denying the fact that this theme, when you think about it, it's the greatest selling book series of all time. another interesting fact when they made Harry Potter the novel it originally only printed 500 copies in the UK they also didn't believe that anybody would buy a book about a boy wizard if it was written by a woman this is this is all true so that's why they had her abbreviate her name, JK Rowling. She has no K, middle name. So it is all made up to make her sound more like Tolkien. Oh, man. Thank you so much. Turbo 20, $5 a month subscriber from day one, never canceled. Thank you, brother. I appreciate that. Okay. So Harry Potter, best theme of the year. I think a lot of you agree with this. I saw a lot of the comments. Very, very, very amazing that the Abbas family was able to secure this game. Not just secure the theme, also get the theme song and, you know, all eight movies. All right. I know no one ever does give a hundred bucks. So thank you, Turbo Man. I really appreciate it. Wow. I didn't do this for the money. All right. So this is where it gets interesting. This is why I love pinball, because just because you have the best theme doesn't always mean you integrated the theme the best. So as we think about best theme integration, to me, that's something on a whole nother level. That is, how well did you take the theme And how well did you create a world under glass? Did you put all the elements from that theme under the glass in a way that's physical, in a way that's relatable to fans of the theme? Did you, you know, did you like create mechanisms and a variety of mechanisms that really just bring the theme to life? you know and so when I think about theme integration did you get the assets that people want did you put Brenda it's too loud up there Brenda thank you well like I'm not doing an award show down here you know and and did you get the clips did you get the actor did you call outs like how like how much did you surround the game with the you know just bringing the theme to life in the best possible way. And so as we think about the nominators, you know, King Kong with no assets from the King Kong movies ain't going to take it. You're not going to get this with no Arnold in Predator, right? Beetlejuice, too early to tell. I'll say that right now. You know, Winchester, too early to tell. Star Wars, got everything in it, but nothing feels special. So the winner for best theme integration in a pinball machine in 2025. And this was tough. And I want to say this came down to two games that I was back and forth. So much so that I even had the other one winning earlier today. And I just I went around both games for like in like 20 minutes. And you know what it came down to? I split hairs on this. I split hairs because it came down to the amount that's under the glass, that's interactive, and really brings the theme to life. And so the winner is Evil Dead for Best Theme Integration. and the reason Evil Dead wins best theme integration is surely because of how much of the Evil Dead world is in this game. And I go to the features of this game and to take nothing away from the amazing theme integrations in Harry Potter and in Dune, because those were the other ones that were really in my strong consideration I just didn't feel like Potter. I'll give you an example why Potter didn't win best theme integration for me. You don't even have Hogwarts Castle under the glass, right? Like the main thing is the spinning staircase. That's the main mech. And like Quidditch, right? You play this Quidditch game, which is flying around Hogwarts Castle on broomsticks, this sport. Are you telling me that that upper left play field is like playing Quidditch? Come on. That game needed to have the Star Wars hyperdrive in it. You know, all the way around the game should have been the game of Quidditch. So I just think Evil Dead with the shotgun mech, the cabin, the hand, you know, all the stuff in this game, the head that pops up from underneath from the basement. There's so much in this game that interacts and integrates with the theme so perfectly that I just feel like Evil Dead took the theme and just integrated it so well and with so much stuff. OK, now I do want to say very, very strong, honorable mentions to Dune Pinball and to Harry Potter, which would have been, you know, runner ups in this category. best nations you know this is one when i think about animations you know this is this is getting to be a tricky one because so much of pinball now and so much of the pinball magic uh is is really basically on the screen now and i do believe that the lcd screen in our hobby has been a blessing and a curse. I do. I think about my first pinball machine, Lord of the Rings, which I still think has some of the best pinball moments and magic in any pinball ever. And it didn't rely on the screen. It was all below the glass. And before they had a screen, a big LCD screen, the designers really had to put more magic below the glass. So I do think that there's a lot happening now on the LCD screen at all times, most of which you will never see. You will never see 80% of what's happening while you're looking down. But that being said, there is an art form to making what is on that screen really look beautiful, cohesive and organized and, you know, sort of connected to your gameplay. So, you know, once you learn how everything's going to be in the game and on the screen, there's a beauty to what the animations are. And what I struggle with, and I mean this when I say this, what I really struggle with with this category, and I have to be honest, this is kind of one of my least favorite categories because I really don't feel like it's fair because certain games a la King Kong if you will are relying solely on animations so it feels a little unfair to have a game that's got nothing but animations competing with games that have clips from movies clips from tv shows you know they're not really animating much other than the templates around those clips and the fonts and, you know, segues between things. But it's really, really a hard category to land on. So when I looked at everything and I went and I looked at I looked at Dungeons and Dragons, I looked at King Kong. I watched Harry Potter. I watched Predator, Evil Dead, Beetlejuice. You know, in the end, though, in the end, for me, like, what put this game over the top was just the overall beauty of the presentation of the game. and that to me to Jean-Paul DeWin for Harry Potter of best animations and this may be I don't think so it may be the last game he does with JJP for a while I know he's now moving on to doing Back to the Future with Dutch Pinball. But when I, again, this one to me, I think he deserves it. I think there's praise to go around for other animations that happen in pinball. It is a really difficult category because the mediums are so radically different and the way the games are coded. it, but I will say Harry Potter, when you just look at what's on the screen, it's absolutely gorgeous. Albeit a little bit complex, but it's absolutely gorgeous. All right, let's, because I, you know, we get the best coat. How's everybody doing? Let's take a little pause, have a drink. You guys got a drink in hand? Anyone got a drink? williams road show is the best game ever made i don't know brendan we're here this is free of charge no one had to fly to texas for this the kraken dude is is cracking me up let's see the hardest part of this is waiting five minutes for your god-awful comebacks who's are you guys like like i i love what's going on with kraken here let's see cracking welcome to the party no you know the chat here is always the best so thank you guys for hanging out and chatting keep it hilarious cracking keep i t funny brother um oh man friday who's not excited to go back to work next week i mean it's just like monday's coming it's it just feels like that big dark blob in Fifth Element coming towards us. We all got to get back to work, most of us, but it's not there yet. It's not there yet. Kaz, thank you for the stars, brother. I do think we've had the most amount of money ever donated ever, Brenda, $100. $100. Let's see, from Turbo, 20 pounds. He's been a $5 a month subscriber from day one. I love it. All right. Let's see. Oh, my God. Kraken. Keep it professional. Okay, so best code. Best code. This one. This is another hard one. You know, when you think about best code, it's, to me, the best code is simple. And I know that is something that is a little hard to explain. But when a pinball code is done well, it does a few things. First and foremost it connects you to the theme in a very easy way You walk up to the game you see the theme you hit start and instantly it communicates what you doing You know what you're doing. And from there, I think really good code is deep but easy to understand. Thank you, Dr. Pinball, for the five bucks, the five euros. or Lee. It's easy to understand. And I think if I had one indictment of a lot of modern pinball games, they're overly complex. There's way too much going on. And I get that a lot of these coders have a lot that they want to do, but they should leave some of it on the editing room floor. And, you know, I know that Trippi Award is named after Lyman Sheets Jr. And Lyman is still the greatest coder of all time because Lyman knew that you could make a game approachable, understandable, and deep at the same time without being complex. And that is something that not a lot of modern pinball machines understand. And when it comes to best code too, the other thing that's really, and we're going to have another category you're going to see is best launch code, is a lot of these games are now coming out with incomplete code from day one. And, you know, when you think about that, it's really a tragedy that a lot of people are buying these games and they're half-baked. But, you know, when a game fully matures and you think about the code on the game, what is the code in these games that really does sort of pull you in to the theme has a lot of really fun moments the code also like wakens up all that stuff that's under the glass all the mechs and really you know creates those pinball moments if i were to like in the most simple way articulate what creates the greatest pinball moments, it's the code. Because the coder is the conductor, if you will, of the orchestra that's in front of you. And a coder can make a game do anything. So, okay, so here's the deal. Jaws 50th is not eligible for this category, because Jaws 50th came out like over a year ago. Jaws 50th, absolutely. I'm just going to say this right now. If it were amongst this set, it would win, but it's not because Jaws code is, has already been out for like a year and a half. The 50th was just a trim package. So like, just keep in mind, That's why Jaws can't win here. Well, Jaws 50th should not be eligible for best code in 2025, in my honest opinion. All right? All right, so here we go. Kraken, you know what? You just called me. You just said you're bored. Oh, man. I'm going to let, you know what? I'm going to let everyone else decide because I just think – now I just think you're trolling, bro. And you know what, Kraken? I never see you on here ever. And now – see, you made the mistake, bro. I'm just going to let you know this before you go. You made the mistake. You just got to know how to troll the right way, troll in the chats. No, he's been here, but he's not a member of the – he's never here. He's never here. He's gone. It's all right. Hello. We'll let him sign in with another name. Yeah. Okay. So let me ask you guys. So I'm going to do this from now on. What do you guys think out of this list is the greatest code of 2025? And I'm going to ask you guys to type what you think should win here, and then I will announce the Canada Kudo winner. I want to see how close I am to the populist vote. Harry Potter, Evil Dead, Evil Dead. D&D draws 50th. Harry Potter, Harry Potter. D&D, Evil Dead. Right. I love that I'm seeing like the same three games over and over again. King Kong. Okay, one King Kong vote. Where is Merlin's Arcade? Yeah, Merlin's is Evil Dead. Okay, D&D, Evil Dead. I will say this. The three games that everybody's mentioned, if you're even mentioning D&D, Harry Potter, and Evil Dead were the majority of them. I think if you own one of those three games, you have a very, very amazingly coded game. But there can only be one winner. There can only be one Kudo Award winner. And again, when I think about the code and the moments, I just think this game just really comes at you from the very moment you hit start and you get to select which movie you want to see. it's evil dead. So best code, Kaneda Kudo winner goes to Ben Heck, Ben Heckendorn over at Spooky Pinball. And yes, the AI version of Ben Heck is a little weirder to look at, but there's just something beautiful happening over at Spooky and in their coding department where they really get And they understand the simplicity, but also the magic of what makes great code work. And I think it's a lesson to everybody else out there. Don't overcomplicate it. You know, I'll never forget the moment when Keith Johnson handed me the Avatar rule set. and I knew the game wasn't going to be good because of that. What is this? Like, nobody thinks about Avatar like that. The truth, Carnage, Evil Dead, thank you for the $20. But, look, I think this game is really amazingly coded. I think people have a lot of high hopes for Beetlejuice because of what's happening over at Spooky. And congratulations to Ben Heck. I think you've done some amazing work and I'm happy to see you putting your skills on a game that is making its way to market and really just seeing a lot of accolades. So, OK, but the reason I this this is a new category. You know, you're not going to see this category at the Twippies. And I don't know what Jamie's doing over at the roundtable with those award shows. I don't know if there's, you know, Kerry's got his vote on the best of. There's a lot of us, you know, and look, I love all of it. Seven ninety seven. Y'all hate HP of the crazy death killer HP Dodge Charger. Right. The number of things that made no sense. The Stranger Things finale. All right. You know, maximum prime. Thank you for the ten dollars, bro. I don't understand exactly what you're saying. I kind of need a Rosetta Stone to decipher all of that. But I did think the Stranger Things finale was total garbage. garbage the whole season was garbage like I don't need to see all of them crying every single episode and then all of a sudden they're they're going up against a Godzilla-like creature with with garbage cans and and like like the whole thing was ridiculous they lost me they lost me okay I don't want to talk about it I'm not going to spoil it for those who haven't watched okay so best launch code and the reason why i wanted to make this a category is i think this hobby has entered into a space where far too many companies are releasing games well before they should release the games i see games like dune pinball a game that is a multi-billion dollar franchise that has really like everything you'd want from the theme released too early because they were anxious about getting crowded you know out or like you know overshadowed if you will by King Kong and Harry Potter so they released the game early with the code so incomplete that everyone's first experiences with the game is bad. And when you do that, all you do is hurt the reputation of the game. And I would argue that Dune Pinball is a game that has never recovered from that terrible launch. And, you know, there's just too many games that are coming out these days. Look at The Walking Dead. Stern Pinball, the biggest pinball company in the world, is remastering a game that came out like 13 years ago and they released the game with everything the whole code is licensor approval pending how did you have so much time to get this game out and then everything is still pending approval and again you see the same response like everyone's is like ah like I there's too many games that are doing it right and so I wanted to recognize a company that on day one gives you the right product on day one and sorry but how many of you out there buy anything in your lives that's incomplete the day it arrives do you buy a watch and there's only 11 hours on it? Do you buy a car and it's missing one wheel? So out of all these pinball companies, all these games, I just want to say there is one company that consistently, on day one of sales, day one of customers unboxing their games, gives you the most. And this has been the way for a while. And I think they deserve the credit for this. I think it takes effort. And I think it takes discipline to do this and to do this right. It takes the right staff. And so the winner for the best launch code in 2025 goes to Harry Potter. and Mr. Joe Katz. And, you know, I played Harry Potter on day one, and there was so much in it. There was so much in it. And they've been polishing it. They've been adjusting things here and there. But for the most part, you know, this game on day one absolutely had a ton in it. And I think Jersey Jack as an organization has consistently put a lot in their games on day one. So J.J.P. Cody is always – I mean, there's going to be troll comments that I'll try not to read, But I don't agree that JJP has always had pretty much consistent code at launch. And I think they deserve the credit for doing that. Ralph did a great job with the launch as well. Well, we're not there yet. We have best pinball launch. how do you guys feel about this how you guys feeling right now 144 people you know what i love about the comments i'm reading it you get a comment like the code on potter is superb and then another comment's like it's a bunch of jumbled mess it's like and this is why i love this hobby like literally you guys are both commenting on the same thing and couldn't have different opinions, you know, more different opinions. I am drinking the Manhattan. Are you guys enjoying the show? You guys enjoying the show? You join the party free of charge? You know, I enjoyed making this. I'm sorry that my little screen in the bottom right cuts off the winning names. But, you know, you know what I'm talking about. I just want to say thank you guys for tuning in on a Friday night. This is a lot of fun. We're going to do tomorrow the Saturday Morning Spectacular. I think we're – I just want to say thank you. I really do. I thank each and every one of you for hanging out, for being a part of this hobby. The more I get older and the more I look at the world, the more I realize the most valuable thing is community and relationships. And I mean that. There's a level of community that this hobby delivers that is way more valuable than the games. Award shows are hard. Jack Dager. Jack, remember when you did it? Jack, I still remember when you – Enemoto. I remember getting up there. That was probably my favorite trippy speech I ever gave where I talked about how I always say the games are, what do I say, like non-essential, but they are essential because they bring us all together. I love you, Jack Danger. Can we all for a moment just give a virtual round of applause to Mr. Jack Danger who's hanging out here tonight? I really can't understand. I can't even explain what a beautiful man Jack is and a beautiful human being. And it's so exciting to see Jack go from being a content creator to a designer. And he's still, to this day, and I mean this, to this day, There is not another human being on planet Earth that can play pinball while streaming, while reading the chat, while engaging everybody and making it work. You know what I'm saying? Pinball streaming is probably the boringest thing you could ever watch on planet Earth. and Jack Danger makes it exciting. To me, that's like hard stop genius. Hard stop. We can't wait to see your half of Pokemon. You know, Jack, whatever part of Pokemon sucks, that's George Gomez's part. The parts of Pokemon we like, Jack Danger's. it's going to be good. It's going to be good. I love you, Jack. Always a good friend. You know, had many, many, many great conversations with Jack. Always off the record. He never gives many leaks, by the way. By the way, if you're a Stern employee listening to this right now, Jack never discloses anything he shouldn't. He's an adamant professional. Even as much as I try to bribe him to give me like info and details, he never does so um screw you jack i know it's pokemon and the the good part of the game is yours and go i feel like gomez is gonna put the james bond missile like somewhere in the game he's like you know like they never really appreciated my james bond missile until jigglypuff was on it like i just something like do you guys actually think george gomez like actually has seen a single Pokemon episode. But here's the kicker. Do we think maybe it's not Pokemon? It has to be, though. It's so weird to me. I just I have this vision of like George taking over Pokemon and being forced to watch Pokemon cartoons and him being like, what have I done with my life? How did it come to this? Driving a Porsche and I have to watch Pokemon. I'm not doing it. Oh, man. All right. I feel like we're getting into it. It took a while. You know, it's hard. It's hard doing award shows. I can feel. I can feel the roundtables and diphen of Canada. You know, six, where would I win? 56 times ineligible? Oh, the Manhattan's kicking in a little bit. That's what's happening. How are you guys doing? Are we having a good time? I feel like it got a lot better when we kicked that dude out, right? He's just like the trolls. Hector, what's up, brother? Hector's in the house. Franchi's in the house. Brett Abbas might be joining tonight. Ian's in the house. Oh, man. I love you guys, by the way. If you want to say I love you guys, I'm not even drunk. I should get drunk and just, I don't know, talk about Star Wars, Fall of the Empire being a meta, but I won't. all right best music best music in a pin who's got you know like you know on the bright side we all die so i'm gonna get effed up tonight like like if mgk was in a pin it would win this by the way if you guys if you guys haven't listened to mgk's lost americana like it's the best album of like the year like easily okay star wars is really good i don't know star wars star wars has the theme song on repeat every new ball it's annoying the space on theme song okay so here's the thing about music and this has always been another difficult category like animations because the thing about music and best music in a pin is sometimes you get like a music pin right you get you want to see the nominees again are you serious well I mean here's most I mean when you think about music you know sometimes like what I love about this year there's no music pins there's no music pins so we don't have to give the winner to like Guns N' Roses or ACDC right it's like like I always felt like that was cheating like Like, okay, so like some dude, like Scott Denise is going to make better songs than Axl Rose, you know? So when you think about music and like what makes, well, Franchi, Winchester is not eligible for this. I know it's up here, but it's just too new. Like I just put Winchester up here to satiate the 525 guys who have one. But it's too new. I haven't heard enough of the music. nobody has. So when you think about music, it's interesting because you get like, you know, D&D's got very like D&D specific, it like, it fits. Beetlejuice has, again, ineligible for this because it's too early. Harry Potter's got the John Williams theme song and David Theo on music. But, yeah, I will say, like, with Potter, like, I feel like feels, feels like, feels presence wasn't the same as it was on Pirates. And I think people would agree with that. Evil Dead's got great music. Portal, I haven't heard the music. Predator, yeah, it's got the music from the movie. But I'm going to tell you right now, the winner in this category, it comes down to one simple thing. This is a game where the music, and I've played this game a bunch, and, like, the music just drives the experience. So if I were to position this as that, like, name me a game where the music just is driving the pinball experience. It's the momentum in the game. It's pushing you through the game itself, and it's just like an epic wave of sounds and orchestra, and it just hits. It just hits. and I mean it was a cinematic masterpiece with this orchestration it goes to to Dune Pinball and I put names up here because I think there's some people in this hobby that are not household names that should be and I'm hoping that this award show starts to give some recognition, if you will, to some individuals in this hobby that are absolutely phenomenal. And so Jeff Dodson, aka Dirty Pool, who did the music for Dune alongside the movie Score, is absolutely phenomenal. And I do believe that this game has one of the greatest audio experiences you will ever hear in a pinball machine ever. And it is on a whole different level. And again, didn't launch with the greatest code, but I don't think anybody in a dark game room who today turns on a Dune and cranks the volume. I feel like Dune on volume two is like every other game on volume 10. And it's an absolute audio masterpiece. So thank you, Jeff. And again, I want each and every one of you here to add Jeff Dotson to your name of talented individuals in our hobby, the same way you know Scott Denise, the same way you know David Thiel, I think Jeff Dotson needs to be a household name in this hobby. We got Dotson here. Ian, you're funny, man. You're funny. I'm going to keep drinking these Manhattans. Is that okay with you guys? I feel looser. that's what she's, is that what she said? I think maybe, I don't know. Is that appropriate? I don't know. Hmm. Oh, this is good. This is good. Nine, 10 on a Friday night. What else are you going to do? What else can you do? Yeah, I love it. I love it. Yeah. Dune, Dune sounds amazing. Look, we got bug in the house. We got, we got more categories to go, baby. what's up? Scream and scream, scream and scream and scream. It doesn't roll off the tongue. I got to be honest, bug. I mean, it's there. The words are there. But when I see it, it almost like makes me dyslexic seeing bugs scream and scream. I don't know. Maybe maybe now I got it. How are you guys doing? Are you guys all members of Canadian Spinball Podcast, by the way? I lost another like 10 or 14 members at the end of every month. Like people, people cancel and then they always come back. It's always annoying. Like seriously, it is $5 a month. It's five bucks a month. I went to the like local village store to get an iced coffee. It was five bucks for one iced coffee. I give you, on average, 12 shows, lives. We do chats. I'm just saying. It's the only good. There's no tariffs on Canada's Pinball Podcast. I'm feeling saucy now. I may actually tell you guys what I saw about Sonic the Hedgehog. Is that what I know about Back to the Future? This is the problem when Canada gets saucy. Starts talking freely like, oh, shoot, what's he going to say about Sonic? Oh, no. Back to the future. I know people have seen it. Talk to them. No, it's good. It's good. Because it's all good vibes now. It's all good vibes. Nothing happening tonight is going to be negative. We're not going to talk about Cuphead. We're not going to talk about American Pinball's 18th logo. Have you seen these guys? they just have a new logo now again. I know Francis here, Francis, like how many logos is American pinball going to have? Like they've got more logos than games. I'm going to tell you right now, American pinball will never, ever make a great game. And the reason why is the karma from that company will sink them. Okay. And when you think about a brand, what great brand do you know that has had to change its logo five times? Name me one. It's like they just don't get it. They don't get it. And if you work at American Pinball, I feel sorry for you because you guys came after me and tried to get me terminated. Yeah, there it is. The truth comes out. Not only that, they came after me right when I had a new baby and tried to get me terminated. OK, so I just was like, just like, OK, forget forget that happened. not nope not gonna do it not gonna do it gotcha all right all right best mech in a game brenda brenda's hot by the way i'm i'm getting kind of saucy i'm feeling like jack danger and i need to get her get us like going to a like i don't know just like have a phone conversation and you know what i hate about jack dangers every time i see him he's like taller than me more handsome than me it's just just the thing the thing dude you know jack what did like a stern spa day be amazing like like who the hell wants to go see john borg star wars so if stern invited me to go see john borg star wars i'd be like nah i'm good But they were like, but we're going to do a spa day with our team in a spa, in a sauna. I'd be like, I'll be there. I'll be there. Let me know when. I'll be there. You know what I'm saying? I'd much rather go in a sauna with a stern team than a spa. Man. Pokemon and chill. It's going to get good. Man, I may need more Manhattan soon. Now I'm getting saucy. And I didn't really have much dinner. There's something about, like, that, like, buzz you get when you have had no food all day. It's how I stay in shape. All right, so best met. I've got a whole Manhattan badge, so we're going to do this tonight, baby. We're going to do this. We have 179 people now. People just, like, discovering this now. Like, what happened? Is Colin here? Colin, you here? Twippy's dead. Okay. To me, this category means a lot. And the reason why Best Mech means a lot is I do think that this hobby has been misallocated to digital assets. to me pinball will always be an analog physical game analog physical a steel ball hitting things interacting with it and and this is like this is like everything you know it's so embarrassing i'm just gonna say this it's embarrassing that our hobby in 2025 if you put the best pinball mechs of this year against the best pinball mechs of 1995. 1995's mechs are way better. 30 years later, we've absolutely abandoned mechanical engineering that's actually impressive. And when you think about pinball and the reason why when people walk up to a game, they get excited, they see something mechanical they want to see happen. Nobody walks up to a game and wants to see something happening on the screen. Nobody's, like, disappointed because there wasn't, like, a digital thing that occurred. We're disappointed because the physicality isn't there. and you know like there's a lot there's a lot of effort to bring this back and I will say like I I think we've we've reached a point in pinball when we look at the games of 2025 I don't know out of all the stuff in pinball I pulled up like what I would consider to be the best mechs of this year. Right? Am I missing anything? We have the Potter stairs. We've got the worm in Dune. We've got the gong, King Kong, the subway. We've got Evil Dead with the cabin. We've got D&D's got both the dragon and the cube that uses the magnet two different ways. I'm going to go get another drink, and I want you guys to think about this. I'm going to ask you guys what your pick would be in a second. Don't say it yet. But I'll say this. I just want to say this without hesitation. There's work to be done in this hobby. this hobby there was a comment made a few years ago and it was made by a content creator I think Zach said this that shots are the new toys in pinball like literally just like like a physical shot is the new toy and I want to say like that is what Stern Pinball wants to hear. That is what a lot of these pinball companies want to hear, that we've removed the mechanical magic from these games and we consider just flow to be a toy. And flow is not a toy. I'm sorry. A great toy is the disappearing magnet genie in Totem. It's the theater of magic trunk. It's the Addams Family thing grabbing the ball. A great toy, you know, when you think about in the world of pinball, like a mech that just interacts with the ball. I consider Balrog, bashing him is amazing the way he swings out. The ring that magnetically grabs a ball in midair. In Aerosmith, the toy box that flings the ball. The milk can shot in Houdini. There's great toys throughout pinball. Rudy from Funhouse. Guys, name me in the chat section here your favorite mechanisms in pinball. Look, I love the crane in Batman, even though it doesn't have anything to do with Batman. I love Slimer swinging down. You know, there's just like, there's just a lot of like nothingness in modern pinball. You know, the dinosaur in Jurassic Park, the bridge in Godzilla, the building in Godzilla. Alien eating the ball. But my point is, when we say, like, best mech in pinball, we should have a plethora of responses, and we don't. And we don't. The laser cannons in Star Trek, the next generation. And I really do believe that this hobby in general, this industry in general, has emphasized digital assets over mechanical assets. And for obvious reasons, they're cheaper, they don't break, but they're cheaper. And yet we're spending the most we've ever spent on pinball. and yet when you look at the games mechanically, they're not as impressive as they should be. I mean, the fact that we accepted Jaws not eating the ball as a thing is embarrassing. Hold on a second. I need to get some more Manhattan. Let's do this. I'll be right back. Oh, the award show is going great, Brenda. Oh, man. This is like a big pour. This is a big pour. This is a big pour, which means it's about to get saucy in here. All right, here we go. I mean, Indiana Jones. All right, so the best American pinball this year. Okay. So, the winner of this category, and the reason why this is winning is I want to recognize a company that is creating a mech that like does like three things like blew up the bomb a little bit but they put it in anyway and it just like it just feels like we need more of this. And again, like the winner of this is Dune. And I also want this man to become another household name. How many of you out there know who Travis I don't want to butcher his last name. Most man. So he's the mechanical engineer over at Barrels of Fun that made this mech. And, you know, the reason why I want Travis to become a household name as well, that doesn't look like Travis? I mean, frankly, I grabbed it off of LinkedIn. Like, this is AI, by the way. So, like, imagine... Well, I mean, it made him look a little... I mean, Jamie says it does. This was Travis's LinkedIn photo. So, I mean, given through my AI filter. Jamie, how are you doing, brother, by the way? I love you. Oh, hold on. I left the refrigerator open. Hold on. Oh, man. We're at that point. We're at that point now. Where Canada's leaving the refrigerator door open. All right. So, okay. So, the worm mech in this game. It's absolutely an engineering marvel. I know it's flows down gameplay a little bit. But you know what? I'm so tired. Can I get on a soapbox? I'm so tired of these tournament players who hate mechs. You guys, go play your Stern Pros and be hoes. Because I'm just tired of tournament players that don't want a mech to do something wow and slow game play down because they're so busy trying to win 40 bucks or a Trans Light. like, sorry, I'm spending $10,000 to $15,000 on a game. Like, I want something, wow. I want something when my friends come over, let me show you this game, do that. Nobody cares about your stupid, like, never-ending flow to win a damn Translate because you're in a tournament. A pinball machine that doesn't have a mechanical moment of wow is garbage. Let me repeat that. Now, you could ask me, so what about Guns N' Roses, Kaneda? Right? What about Guns N' Roses? and I would argue that Guns N' Roses mechanical wow, I know this is weird, it's the lights, it's the lights, it's the damn lights, the damn lights, Guns N' Roses, like, I, it's such a weird pin to have the only one in my house, because, like, I really it doesn't do me any favors because it doesn't it doesn't support anything anymore you know what I saying it like it doesn shoot good it doesn have mechs that are good It not even like a relevant theme anymore for the most part Like it not even like Axel on like you know he on Ozempic now He looks better now than he does in the pin. I don't, I'm going to get rid of it. I promise. But it's still, I will say this. Guns N' Roses, when new people come over my house and they are like, wow you have a pinball machine and you show them like live and let die they're like they're blown away man and it's like easy to get to it it's not like imagine like your friends come over and you're like here's a pirates of the caribbean and let's select from one of 22 characters they're like go screw yourself bro like and then even when you pick one of 22 characters how long before you can show somebody a wow moment in Pirates. And yet, so that game's $40,000 and Guns N' Roses is tanking in value? Get out of here. A pinball machin e should be a five to ten minute experience. For a Galactic Tank Force? I don't even know if they have the lunch boxes. they're selling they're selling Galactic Tanks they're selling the damn like paintings or something hmm okay how we doing are we doing good is everybody doing good we're losing some people we lose some people alright best topper best topper alright okay so for this category um the toppers have to be from the manufacturers okay none of this but no third party topper bs avatar topper was last year come on these are the toppers these are the toppers from 2025 that have been revealed okay so the i i looked at all these i looked at all these toppers and these are all eligible jaws harry potter the walking dead um um kong evil dead beetlejuice portal dune did you pre-order your dune topper coming out august of 2026. I just want to say like. OK, so like. Can we can we all just like for a minute, just can we just huddle here? How do we have like 176 people now? Like, how do we just get like. Can we look in the in the lower left? can we look at Star Wars Topper? Can I curse for a second? Are you guys okay if I curse right now? Just tell me yes or no. I try to keep this PG if my kids hear this one day and I'm wearing a purple label Ralph Lauren tux, which I am right now. Purple label tie. You know, it's just... Look at that. Can we just look at that piece of shit in the lower left corner? Like, who the hell at Stern Pinball, like, approved that? Look at that. Look how dumb that looks. See 3PO's head. Okay, decapitate it. flanked by a bunch of what the fuck behind them. Like, I don't, I'm sorry, like, I don't normally curse, but, like, what is, like, to me, Stern Pinball has become an organization. And, like, and then the LED light strip pointing at your face. Like, in the end, like, I mean this, right? This is, like, this is, I know, spoiler, I just, I think I just gave away the winner. Hold on. Oh, okay. I'm just going to, okay. So I'm going back and forth. The winner is Beetlejuice. Because this topper is amazing, but I want to go back. I want to go back because I don't even know if I want to go back. I just feel like, you know, this, let's just, you know, I want to, I do want to like stay on this for a second because I'm going to like really just blow this up. Like, I just, I just want to look at this. I just want to look, I just want to look at this. No, but like, like, like, let's look at this. What, what, what is this? Like, literally, they've got their company logo on the ends of the LED strip. I know, like, guys, I'm not even drunk. You guys are like, here, here, come. No, there's no drunker. But like, look at this, guys. like, it's sitting on top, and I don't know why, hold on, hold on, let me get rid of this. No, I mean, I mean this when I say it, like, I'm not trying to be, like, I'm just, I'm just, how do you have a company? And I mean this, like, this is the, this is like one of the biggest IPs in the world. How do you have a company that like puts this it's weird that I found this image because that's not even the new Star Wars backlash, right? Like that's the old one. Like I I guess they that's not the new one, right? That's the old Star Wars game. I just I worry I worry about Stern because they've got so many people there like hundreds of people and nobody walked by this topper and was like like what what is this like what's I don't understand like what's behind them I it's backwards compatible okay i i'm just saying like stern like you you need to get get it together like okay let's let's go on because i said it's going to be a positive show it's going to be a positive show and all right so it just wins okay best reveal best reveal this is not going to turn into some drunken ranch show don't worry people don't worry canada haters you're not gonna you're not going to be able to like take this footage and get me fired. I get it. I get what you guys are trying to do. Um, all right. So best reveal. Okay. So this is a, this is like a marketing moment. This is, this takes into consideration. How did you reveal your game? Timing content. what did it create at launch right like what was the sequence of things as a marketer this is what I do for a living I'm very um invested if you will in this kind of category this doesn't this was never a twippy category marketing doesn't matter to most pinball companies but this is a thing that I think deserves to be recognized um so Winchester, Beetlejuice, people are saying, you know, I will say this. The, it's not a reveal. And it's, it's not, you know, it's not always how much money you spend. I mean, the best reveal in pinball to me is like you created a moment. You know, you created a moment. You created excitement. You created like extreme demand on the day your order banks open. And I think that's probably the best indication of a great reveal. Like, which one of these games created extreme demand through its reveals, like, strategy that made demand just incredible? I want to ask you guys, like, what was your favorite? Who do you think had the best pinball reveal in 2025? Let me read what you guys say first. And I'm just going to keep drinking these Manhattans and then tell you guys what Sonic the Hedgehog looks like. Winchester. Okay. Beetlejuice. Winchester. Any more guesses? Come on, guys. Harry Potter Ralph's video Predator Who's any of the guys who's Predator Come on man like Merlin's Arcade Cause Cause knows how to troll the right way yeah like you guys okay so okay yeah i mean i think you guys are like you guys are kind of right where my head was at i think there's two games here that had the best reveal for different reasons but you know there can only be one Kaneda Kudo winner and you know I struggle with this one and I do because you know I hear if I'm reading the comments right I see a lot of Betelgeuse and Winchester, right? And I see a lot of the secrecy of Winchester. The Walking Dead wasn't on the list. I see a lot of, you know, the unexpected nature of Winchester and how coming out of nowhere, right, led to a two-day sellout. Amazing. You know, absolutely amazing what David Van Ness and his team achieved with that secrecy. Had I known that it was Winchester, I had club members who knew the theme that didn't tell me. You know, Harry Potter, I want to say this, like Harry Potter had great launch. Right. Like Retro Ralph did great video vignette on the game. You know, what's in it, like all the all the details. Only issue was he left the keys. You got to go back and watch the video. He left the keys in the backbox. Something. Something only Canada will let you know about right now. Pretty drunk on Manhattan's. He left the keys in the backbox. Go look at the video. Keys on the backbox. I love Ralph. Ralph does great videos. think about like potter is like like jersey jack is just you know they're known for these like elaborate launch videos but like potter's launch it didn't blow us away and and the thing about potter launch was this is right after it launched what happened what happened the entire conversation was around the ai art debacle so that's why like that's kind of what killed the potter launch for me was the ai issue like wait they didn't even realize like their own artist like turn this game over to ai filtering and then they like seriously like the The first games had the issue. Like, okay. And that became the big issue. So the winner for best reveal. And I'm going to give it away when I say this. But this company has sort of carved out a reveal moment of the year that they own. Like, when you think about it, like, there's no other pinball company that is absolutely now owns an entire, like, portion of the year. that like everyone's just waiting for their game. And then when they do reveal it, they do it in a way that is so personal and so intimate that you don't even need the expensive, flashy videos. And I think that to me is what speaks volumes. And so the winner for best reveal goes to Beetlejuice. Okay, and I want to say this. Because Winchester, gang, Winchester, in my honest opinion, wasn't even revealed. It was just dropped. Like, and they had no idea whether or not it was going to be, like, a success or failure. But to me, Bug and Luke's Beetlejuice reveal with the Zack video was absolutely, like, they had the whole, like, teaser, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice. They nailed it. And this game, like, sold out before it was even available. So Don had his midnight release party. No, that's my thing. It's like, gang, gang, listen to me. As a marketer, Winchester didn't even have, like, a reveal strategy. They just dropped it out of nowhere. and it worked right it worked but that but like that's not a full reveal strategy okay hp one hand down we have some harry potter fans in the house wait okay so john you think that winchester should have won i i i want to read your guys comments because look here's the good news here's the good news you want to know what the good news is that harry potter well not harry i can't say this about harry potter but here's the good news that beetlejuice and winchester sold out within a day or two and and i would say this both of them did it right you know what i'm saying as a marketer i would not walk in to barrels of funds office and say hey you should have done this differently nope you nailed it spooky with beetlejuice you nailed it and that is something to be said right i mean beetlejuice was kind of sold out before it was even revealed winchester we didn't know about sold out within two days, they're both absolutely crushing it with reveals. And I think if we're all honest amongst thieves here right now, all the excitement about new game reveals is happening now in unique spaces, right? It's happening with barrels. It's happening with spooky. It's happening, with the boutique companies of the world. And Stern has a new game coming out in just a few weeks, and nobody cares. To me, that's the big shift happening in pinball, is the boutique reveals JJP's Sonic, baby. I wish you could see... I'm not going to say anything more, but Sonic is going to crush. It's a goat. It's a goat kind of game. okay okay so i want to say this best reveal goes to spooky for beetlejuice everything they did to launch that game the personal connection to it and a very very strong second honorable mention um you know i would say first to retro ralph's harry potter content and then you know like The barrels got real lucky with the surprise, but that was never the strategy. You got to, you got to, what's rigged? What is rigged? Gray balls. I want to, I want to call you out. What's rigged? Look at, look at this. Look at this great AI art I've done here with Bug and Luke being held up in gothic frames by an animated Beeljuice. You think this is easy? I spent all day making this. Colin's not going to do anything. He's just going to have a crappy voting system and then do a podcast to announce the winners. All right. Let's go. Let's go on. All right. So, like... All right. So, here's the deal. Here's the deal. Here's the lowdown. He says the spooky gifts for your kids made them win. Oh, my God. I mean, the Sparkle Smash puzzle. Okay, so most collectible. This is a category that should be a category moving forward. What game that was revealed in 2025 do you think will hold the most value in the future? that is it there is no other like you bought a game for this and it is collectible because more people will want it than there will ever be supply I want to hear your answers Winchester what Winchester Evil Dead okay okay winchester all day spinal spinal tap you know 905 904 pinball zion like come on zine or whatever come on tell me what do you think what do you a year from now a year from now when we're doing this show next year, which game do you think will have the most value? Just keep it coming, people. Because I'm going to keep it drinking the Manhattans. Jaws 50. I'm going to let you guys answer a few more times. All right. So, like, this one's tough, right? And, of course, I was... Scotty. um let me give you my rationale for the winner here and i was torn here i was torn like a lot of you guys winchester beetlejuice rise like what 999 beetlejuices 80 show games which i hate i hate can i go on a rant for a little bit I think I think Bug and Luke's decision To make 80's show games Is garbage And I've said it before I'll say it again 80's show games is a cop out Greedy Move That should never happen again What is that 80's show games Like I don't You're making what? How many? How many are you making? And then you're making show games? So what, like, you could just, like, arbitrarily determine the amount of show games you make based on the demand to appease your dealers who are crying because they have customers who can't get it. It's garbage. Gang, gang, have you ever seen another pinball company make show games? Just tell me. Tell me. Has Stern ever made a show game of an alley? It's for people to play them? who cares? Okay. Well, look, they're never doing it again. Here's the deal. Luke has said they're never doing it again. You know why he's never doing it again? Because he knows it's BS. Okay. But here's the simple facts about this category. And it's... Okay. I don't even know. I don't even need this slide. Like, you know, I've been struggling with this one for a while. And I'll tell you why. Because there's two things at play here. There's IP popularity and then there's units, right? And I'm just going to be honest. This is obviously between Winchester and Beetlejuice. Right? So 525 Winchesters and 8, no, was it 999 Vito Juices, right? Okay, so in the end, this is a hard one for me. because as of today, as of today, neither game is up for sale on the secondhand market, right? Neither game. You can't find either game. Beto juices have been selling a few of them secondhand for $4,000 or $5,000 over sticker. But I just want to say this. Like, in the end, what will ultimately happen is this. The IP will win. And in a world where there's, like, millions of fans, the ultimate better collectible in the long run, I'm just talking the long run, is going to be Beetlejuice. It's just going to be Beetlejuice. Like, I think what's going to happen, and this is just Canada, is I think when people get Winchester and they, you know, they're just not going to, like, you know, it's just not going to have that cultural, like, connection. and, you know, again, people have seen so little on it. But Beetlejuice is an IP that's lasted like 30 years in culture. So Cliff, why do you think Beetlejuice is going to be riddled with problems? like I love the comments I problems now in the end you know theme is going to win out there are millions there are millions of Beetlejuice fans if I told you guys Winchester six months ago you wouldn't have cared that's all i'm saying like i think winchester's gonna do just fine i think winchester's are gonna hold value but i think in the end beetle juices are gonna be unobtainium for people i do i do i think if i had to put and they're they're around the same price like 11 12 000 down on winchester or beetle juice i think the beetle juices are going to hold value more because I don't think the Beetlejuice people are going to sell their games. I think the Winchester people are going to get them, going to get tired of walking to the house, and they're going to get rid of them. Retro Ralph, you son of a bitch. It's the real Retro Ralph. Happy New Year's. Great show. Oh, man. Ralph, this is for 10 months of my Canada Club membership. Ralph, I love you, brother. um, Ralph, you know, I, um, I just want to say like, thank you, man. Like you, you bring a level of energy. Can we get, can we all like everyone watching right now? Can we all give a, a hard sup or a clap to retro Ralph? Because I will say like, I, I, I need a retro Ralph in my life. Like we all need retro Ralph in our life like this guy's positivity is optimism his like he's so good for this hobby he's so good and like it was wrong of me to indict him for collecting arcade one-ups we're all just the same nerds in the same space like Ralph I love you brother I'm glad you're here and you know you have done such a good thing for this hobby and you make such good content and you know on a production level it's better than mine of course like I always say this to friends like literally making amazing production value like I am the lo-fi like jerkweed at the end of the block compared to these guys he did leave the keys in the backbox it's funny you know you kale was the one who like told me that i didn't even notice it like but like i'll say this like all the content creators these days we're at a point now where like i think everyone gets along like ralph don me jeng is like zach like there's no beef anywhere all right all right so we keep going all right let's do this let's do this because like okay best value okay let me ask you guys what's the best value in pinball we're gonna we're gonna wrap this up soon because i know we've been going for almost two hours i'm in my manhattans now and like now i'm getting worried like people are gonna contact hr best value kong pro hmm what's the best value in pinball Jaws 50th hmm Evil Dead hmm spooky beetle juicer evil dead. Okay. It's rigged. One man's favorites. This dude just like this dude just realizing that all of this is one man's favorites. This whole thing is rigged, bro. It's Canada's favorite stuff. Where you been? Let me raise you my Dodge Demon. Bring your Prius to Roydon, Connecticut. The best value is playing on location. Electric Bat Arcade. Kel Hernandez. Never heard of him. It's not exactly true. We were like brothers. Airplane the movie. Anybody get it? Come on. People. It's weirdly quiet. I'm surprised Brendan's not like what are you doing? And you're purple. And you're you All right. Did that work? Are we back? I mean, you know what? There's no cell phones in rehab. Let me tell you guys, like, okay. So I figured it out, right? Everyone's still here? Like, let me give you the best song ever. Like I don't know like maybe there are no like Cell phones or rehabs On the bright side We all die One day someone came and fucked up tonight I want to talk to you Because it go on time Last night click All right. All right. We're back. Okay. Best value. Let's just do this. alright so out of all these games I got to say the best value you know when I thought about this I thought about what do you get for the money you know what do you get you get Get all the assets. You get all the max. You get all the. You guys are talking pros. Like. Like pros are pros. I'm like. You know. Oh man. I'm just like. You know. The winner here. The reason why I picked Harry Potter. For 10 grand You get everything I mean this is like This game is the Harry Potter Arcade edition You don't even You don't lose any mechs You don't lose any art It's It's kind of incredible And I know for a fact That when Jersey Jack Launched this game there was a emergency meeting at Stern. Like, what are they doing? Can you hear me? Can you guys hear me? Alright. I'm going to say unplug your mic again. All right, you guys are all here. Look, I don't think that like... I don't know, man. I'll tell you why I'm not beat up. I don't know. Maybe it should be Beetlejuice. Keep going. All right. This is a good one. This is the kind of category where, like, who has these categories? Like, who's got most improved pinball company? Like, this is what we should celebrate. Like companies that are getting better, that are like doing things differently. So let me ask you guys. Oh, shit. I'm like my computer is about to die. Hold on. How much? Eight percent. Hold on. I need to charge this. But tell me who you think is the most improved company. so beautiful he's back what do we got here barrels, JP alright what do we got here most improved companies Okay. A lot of interesting... You know, when I thought about this one, most improved um it came down to a few factors and it was like a company that you know was making decisions and and then all of a sudden they did something that like like absolutely in 2025 like gave them the juice like gave them the mojo and like they made a decision that was just like unexpected and just like worked out and then I think they've you know they've got the elements goes to... Now and I think the most improved company to me goes to Barrels And the reason I say this and I mean this is this Winchester launch we have to recognize that this company went from like unable to sell a thousand dunes to selling 525 games in two days. And so they're now in a position of extreme opportunity and now they have to see it through. And I do think they're the most like improved. I do. In the end, like again, I went back and forth between Barrels and Spooky because Spooky, you know, with all their improvements from Evil Dead and Beetlejuice. But in the end, for me, Barrels of Fun, they had the best, like, turnaround. They just did. Like, Evil Dead sold out kind of quickly. But Barrels, like, this game, and if they can execute this properly, and the mechs in both Dune and the assets in Dune, Like, to me, Dune and Winchester, to me, are indicative of a company that's right on the precipice of amazing stuff. I mean this. And they just need to, like, put it all together now. All right? All right, keep going. This one was hard. So, best artwork. Best artwork. So, I'm going to say this right now. This is, this is like, this is the only time I've ever struggled for hours. and I'm going to drink more Manhattan and I'm going to absolutely own this one. I want to know how you guys feel so like this is hard man you know this is the problem now is we are now in a period where pinball art is just insane This is like, this is, you know, this is not your, this is not your CSI drag and drop crap. and you know when I think about this um I you know I so what do you guys think like let me ask you guys it's not going to be Star Wars And You know I want to say One of my most Revealing moments of the year Was when Zombie Yeti Hit me up at like Almost one in the morning And said I was like the reason Why he hated working in pinball And I was destroying His family And I I want to say to Jeremy Packer, I still love you, and you shouldn't blame me for your family woes. And maybe just don't make King Kong look like that. Look at that. Look at King Kong there. What is that? It's like I don't even know if his head is proportionate to his chest. Like, the whole thing is just, looks like a comic book for my kid. Hold the line, stay positive. Okay. So, here's my thing with best artwork. Okay. And I will say that we are now in a period where this category is as contentious and as, you know, competitive as it used to be for, like, best pinball podcast. Like, this is hard. like this is really hard because there are like there are so many stunning games that I can't even David Van Ness is joining now 2 hours and 15 minutes after this show started David, you've already missed many Dune wins tonight, you have to go back and re-watch but you had a very good showing tonight. Here's the reality of all these art packages. And I don't like to do this. And, you know, the reason why I say there's a tie and I will hopefully never do this again is I think there is a there are two art packages that just cemented for me a new sort of foundation, if you will, for what an artistic pinball machine can look like. And I mean this, like when you walk into a room and I think about art, I think about just walking into a room and seeing an artistic, I can't even talk, an artistic representation of a pinball machine. And the tie here to me is warranted because one is more of the expected and one is more of the unexpected. And I think one just slams the theme into your face and one is more like artistic. Like it's more like metaphorical. It's more like simplistic. Okay, I'm just gonna No, I'm just gonna say this. And like it's not maybe Dune. and like i struggle with this because i'm gonna be honest i'm gonna be honest i gave this to one game initially okay no not like no this one was like really hard for me and the reason why is like I gave this to one game, and then I couldn't ignore the genius decision by another game to go in an artistic direction that led to 3,000 orders. so and I wanted to discuss I wanted to discuss this with you guys when we get here so my my winner tie for best artwork is Evil Dead which I think is a better game. I think Evil Dead is a nicer art package than Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice is great, but I also just wanted to acknowledge that the Nima Lima Harry Potter collector's edition artwork is insane. It's just literally like the fact that they went so radically different on the art on the Harry Potter CE, gang, 3,000 people ordered it. And I understand that there was the AI gate and the play field, But in the end, in the end, these two games, to me, were the two greatest artistic representations of pinball in 2025. Like, they're both stunning. And, like, I know Beetlejuice is equally stunning. stunning. Like, I love Beetlejuice, but I think Evil Dead is better than Beetlejuice. I just do. I think it has more, like, more pop. It just does. And I just want to know what you guys think of this. But the thing is this. Weighted voting is just me. I just, I couldn't, I couldn't award Franchi without awarding JJP's Nimalina. Why is it lame, Pinball Trey? My rationale for this is like this this JJP art this JJP art sold 3,000 units Yeah, I don't like the J.J.P. Topper Okay Let's move on Let's move on You guys are getting easy Man, damn Like I I I I like I'm like I'm nervous now I think Evil Dead Art is better than Beetlejuice Are you guys like Let's do this Alright We've been going like Alright we've been going like two and a half hours Okay here we go Alright let's go Best layout designer I'm sorry like so all the designs in pinball dungeons and dragons we've got star wars we've got wide bodies and evil dead and predator we've got dungeons and dragons star wars wait did we already wait hold on we got harry potter King Kong, and Dune. I mean, I feel like these are the three. Alright. What do you think, guys? The best designer of the year. Who designed the best pinball machine of 2025? Man, I keep dropping this mic. Come on. Who's... you know, this was a wine where I wasn't, you know, I've played all these games, you know, many times. And I know we're getting towards the end. And I know, like, thank you guys for bringing on this lot. I will say this. The biggest threat to Stern Pinball is that the company that actually has the nicest platform and beautiful games would make games as fun and make the gameplay as enjoyable. Machine. Without a doubt. The best designer, and sorry for his AI image, but the best designer and the best game of the year is Harry Potter. And if you haven't played Harry Potter, this game is absolutely phenomenal. Like, I think Jack is laughing at the Eric. But, like, literally, this game is next-level fun from a shooter standpoint. And, like, Kong is a great shooter, but Harry Potter has more than – like, when you put a Harry Potter next to a King Kong, it makes King Kong look like a Tinker Toy. So, I think Eric Minier has made his greatest shooting game ever on the biggest theme he's ever had. He looks like James Franco. Like, guys, this is all AI. Okay, let's keep going. Because, like, I know you guys are like, the pinball company of the year. Let's keep going. who do you think is the pinball company here i mean i know we're at we've gotten late i'm a bunch of manhattans in ralph joined he's hanging out like people are gonna watch this tomorrow and be like what happened i don't even know what happened i don't even know what's up I don't even care Stranger things suck The whole world's woke The whole world's sad Kids don't even want to I don't know everyone's got to be The janitors are American pinball What the Okay so like When I think about the pinball company of the year And I mean this when I say this. So, you know, I talk a lot about on my podcast, for those of you who have not joined, I don't even say now. Now we have like 176. All of a sudden, we have like the most viewers now right now that we've ever had. To me, the pinball company of the year is the pinball company that is in it. Like they're just in it. Like they're building their brand with their people that makes me feel good and the community feel good about buying a product from them. And I mean this when I say this. When you listen to Stern Pinball lately, which is the biggest pinball company in the world, and they get interviewed, what do you hear? oh, we couldn't do this because of licensure approval. Oh, you know, all these excuses. Oh, John Borg only had eight months to make Star Wars. It's like, shut up. Shut up. Like, if Wars, then why are you charging me $13,000 for the game? Have you noticed tonight? Have you noticed something? Stern Pinball hasn't won a single award. And spoiler alert, they're not going to win any award tonight. And I would say that they don't deserve any award in any of the categories tonight. And this is the changing of the guard that I've been talking about. the biggest pinball company in the world with the most people the most resources has failed to make the best product they failed to make the best brand so when i talk about pinball company of the year i'm talking about a pinball company that i s connected with the community that consistently consistently like is a part of the people they're trying to sell to and they talk to us on a daily basis you know and you here's the best part about a company and its culture and the brand is there's no faking it like it's either real or it's fake and when it's real it's authentic and I just want to say that this company that is going to win this award has really shown me what. And I'm sorry that I'm a loss for words because I'm just thinking about my own experience with them. And and I used to rail on these guys for a long time. I think this company has shown me what perseverance, what discipline, what listening to the community, what passion is. And I think there's no other word than passion. And I think these guys have the most passion and the most desire to make the greatest pinball machines moving forward right now. And it's because it's all they have. Like, you know, they're like this is in their blood. Like, OK, so, you know, like. But, you know, my winner for pinball company of the year goes to Spooky. and when I think about this company, and I think about, you know, who they are, and, like, the, you know, the cast they've assembled, and the, and, you know, it's hard for me to even talk about these guys in 2025 without remembering what they went through trying to sell America's most haunted because I was there. There's a lot of new pinball people that don't remember what this company went through and the kinds of games they were making and the glue guns and the brick shots and to making Beetlejuice and to making Evil Dead and to now making games that are more in demand than games from Stern Pinball. Again, remember, like, this award show is honoring the best of last year. And not a single award went to Stern Pinball. I mean, just stop and think about that. And I think any award show will have the same results. And I just want to say, like, for this company that's now going to come out with Goonies and Gremlins, I mean, it's just like, for the next two years, gang, we're going to have the same shit show to get a Gremlins and a Goonies. So, I just want to think this is where pinball is going. It's like this really overly passionate family will beat the big corporation every day of the week. And I think this is what makes me so excited about pinball is seeing folks like this. The folks over at Barrels of Fun, the folks at Dutch Pinball, all the boutique companies, companies jersey jack pinball by the way which i still consider to be boutique like i know what jersey jack has coming gang and it's like it's bonkers bro like the abbess family is like tight like they're they're they're bringing it the spooky family's bringing it like barrels family's bringing it like stern is just like they're stuck they're stuck so i just want to say congratulations to all the folks at Spooky. I love you guys. And we're running late. All right. We're at the game of the year. I mean, I almost got this done in two hours. Look, it costs nobody anything. Who's still here? Where's Bar? All right, the game of the year. I mean, look, I... This is... This is an important award. Who made the best pinball game in 2025? That's it. Like, like, throw out all the other categories. I want to ask you guys right now. In your mind, who made the best pinball game of 2025? And I'm just going to read your answers. who just said Beto Juice like honestly who's throwing Beto Juice at any more votes You know, I, um You know, I, um I had a moment at, um At, um Pinball Expo Before, I don't know Jake Danzig tried to get me kicked out like he did he like brought over the cops and but um I had a moment I got to walk across all the machines and you know Winchester, Evil Dead, Harry Potter, Star Wars everything I I got to see everything and there was a moment where I um you know I walked over one of the machines of last year and you know I just I just had this like feeling like like they just like nailed it like they just got it like they just like again you have to put things in perspective like if you were to remove yourself from this equation and you were going to tell someone what was the biggest and best pinball machine that got launched in 2025 like to me that's what this is about like what was the greatest game Of 2025 In the history of pinball What would you say? Like you need to see this I sound like I sound like a need after my six beer Okay okay so you know like it's no Jaws 50th doesn't count I'm sorry for you Jaws 50th owners and I know we're getting late I'm gonna end this with so my game of the year and it's honestly well deserved and the team that made the game should be very you know very excited because I think Jersey Jack pinball and it's hard for me because I know I know it's coming I know it's coming from this company but Harry Potter pinball is a monumental achievement in both theme integration design and I think Eric Menier is one of the greats and I think he knows it and I think this game is going to be a game that just solidifies itself in pinball history. And I keep saying this. There's going to be a new reckoning where the modern pinball collector is not going to want all the garbage of the past. And they're going to want Potter and Beetlejuice and Winchester and Dune. Like, they're going to want the new games in their collection, and they're not going to want the old stuff. And you know what was the most telltale sign for me in this whole award show? Stern Pinball didn't win a single award. Let me stop and repeat that. Stern Pinball did not win a single kudo. and you know I love George and I love Seth and I love my friends at Stern and Jack and but Stern Pinball the biggest pinball company in the world did not win a single award so let me ask you guys right now before I go do you think there was any Stern Pinball game that should have won an award in any of these stories that we're going to sub? Like, did I get anything wrong? Should Stern have won anything in any of these categories? Because this is, to me, this is the new world order of pinball. you think that Keith Elwin should have won for King Kong. I don't know. I just don't think Kong is a better layout than Potter. I think Kong is like, yeah, it's neither here nor there. I think Potter layout is way better Why are people saying Rush? I'm not even sure What people's agendas are With saying Rush Did you guys enjoy the Canada Kudos Awards? I really worked hard On the whole slideshow today I spent the whole day I know that my videos are not as good as Ralph's and all that, but I just want to say I love this hobby. I love you guys. And, you know, I really do feel that this hobby and this industry is at a crossroads. And I think the boutique companies with the passion are going to crush it. And I think the big guys are going to... They're going to struggle. And I know, you know, look, I've heard a lot about Pokemon recently. And, you know, I'm not hearing good things about Pokemon. I like I. I've seen some stuff on Sonic. I'm going to tell you right now, Sonic the Hedgehog is absolutely. It's just like, what do I do? What do I say? Like, Brett's going to be mad at me. Like, I can't say much. Like, J.J.P.'s momentum moving into 20 – I have to say this. Like, get ready for the greatest Steve Ritchie pin of all time. That's all I'm going to say. Like, get ready for it. I want to read your questions. Okay, here we go. I mean, like, I... So, what I hear about Pokemon is bad, people. But, like... I'll tell you this. Okay, so... I'm not supposed to say this, but... I've seen... Should I say this? I'm not supposed to say this. Should I say this? Um, I don't... Let me drink. I need some MGK, because I'm like, I'm really struggling here, because like... Um... Can you hear that? Okay, okay, here's the deal. Yeah, I'm not supposed to do this. like that, tell them I can do it, alright, two things, like, the sonic cabinet is crazy, I've seen it, it's crazy, it's crazy, like, it's just, it's gonna be a cabinet that, like, even Ralph is like man man Canada Canada here's the thing like I've um I've I mean It's a JJP cabinet So here's What I know about Pokemon Everything I hear about Pokemon is Underwhelming I mean honestly like this guy's not Okay I am gonna close down so like Everybody look I appreciate you guys I hope you guys enjoyed The whole Canada kudos Let's Hang out tomorrow morning I'm a little buzz Like it happens I haven't done anything Inappropriate which makes me Happy But I'll tell you this If I were you If I were you I would grab Listen to me Listen to me Grab a Winchester Right Grab a Jaws 50th Grab it Like seriously Like don't be stupid Like You gotta think about this fact That like That this is all they ever make of Jaws And it's like The 50th And that's it Like Like Jaws is gonna be popular For like 50 more years So don't be dumb Like just grab a Jaws 50th Grab a Winchester Grab a Beetlejuice if you can Um All the other Stern games Are stupid like And then I went Just like Fly to Um Fly to Dublin Ireland yeah I mean let me end this with one final provocation I would take any pinball money you have fly to Dublin, Ireland March get there by March 12th you know why and get tickets for the pit for Machine Gun Kelly. That's it. And I promise you, your life will be ten times better. I'm just loving it, Chad. I kind of need to get a Jaws 50s for my house. All right, everybody, look. Congratulations to all the winners. Love you guys. Guys. If you're not a member of the Canadian Pinball Podcast, like, join. Come on. I'm just like... Just trying to figure it out. But anyway. Namaste. Rush Ali. Alright, we're out. I want to share the winners again. I think this is, like, important. Like, these are... There's a lot of people here that, you know, you guys... You guys don't even know about it. There's a lot of individuals. This is the future of pinball. And I mean this when I say this. There's not a single award given to Stern Pinball. Like when you think about that, the biggest pinball company in the world with 400 or 500 employees hasn't done a single thing. To me, that's everything. All right? And I know this is just one man's award show. All you Rush guys, I would say, why is Rush being discussed in the chat? guys have a good night I'll see you tomorrow on the Saturday morning spectacular Jack Danger is still the house later brother