Hayden's, you know, he doesn't have to pay for gas. He doesn't have to pay for, I'll save food when he's with me. If he's going to go out to some fancy... Doesn't Chicago have the fancy steakhouses or something? Or is that... Am I thinking of... Wait, they have famous pizza places. Or am I thinking of Chicago? Or wait, am I thinking of Pittsburgh? I don't know. I've never been to Chicago, but I'm excited. Because on the way home, even though it's six hours longer, we're going to go down by Chicago, probably on the Sunday morning, after Pinmasters. Hayden is not going to play Pinmasters. He loves pinball, but he doesn't want to spend his $500 cash on Pinmasters. He would like to play some of the before and after events, or mostly after events, I'm guessing at Lumberjack Johnny's and all the other places. Fingers crossed, even if he can't drink alcohol there, which I wouldn't want him to anyway, so he could drive us back to the hotel, but fingers crossed he can play in those tournaments, for the love of God. If not, we're going to have to get someone to get him a McLovin ID or something like that, because this man will want to go. Anyways, I'm at an hour 45. I've gone way too long. Alas, I wanted to tell you guys the one tip. And I was very shocked by this. And I don't really like talking about stuff like this too much. But basically, Danielle and I don't usually sleep. My wonderful wife, we don't normally sleep in the same bed. We have a king-size pull-out. I'm on this $4,000, we got it for two grand, scratch-dense sale. But we're on this really comfortable, probably the most comfortable pull-out mattress, bed, couch I've ever been on. So we rotate. and as soon as Hayden's moved out, which is probably sooner rather than later, which is why I really wanted to come on this road trip, that spare bedroom, well, that room will turn into a spare bedroom, we're going to get a brand new bed for there, and then Danielle and I will probably rotate in there because we both want to sleep in the bed. The bed is slightly more comfortable, but more importantly, then you get to cuddle with Luna Tuna Elwynn. Now, the reason we don't sleep in the same bed isn't just because I thrash and move my arms around while I'm sleeping, but it's mostly because I'm a snorer. Like, I can snore sometimes seconds into falling asleep And although I am now officially a lumberjack, because I do chop down trees, not only to make more space for my maple saplings, but also for heat energy, because I have a wood furnace, I can tell you this, I chop logs louder than most chainsaws. I do, I just do. So this is also good, because I was going to beg and plead to have someone sleep in the hotel room with me in De Pere, in Green Bay. I'm just going to say Green Bay. Can I say that? I'll just say D82. When I'm there, I was going to... And Hayden can easily sleep in a room with me. Because this man, not only does he also snore like his dad, maybe not as loud or whatever, but he can sleep through anything. So he is going to bring earplugs. Once he's asleep, he stays asleep. He's going to bring earplugs. I don't have to worry about that. I don't have to worry about paying for Ubers. I don't have to worry about constantly driving back and forth from, not Madison, Green Bay to De Pere. I don't have to worry about a DD. And honestly, Hayden's kind of like physical protection. Not that I would hope I wouldn't need it. but I'm a man who's getting older. I'm almost in my mid-40s. I'm hitting that midlife crisis age. I don't really walk, talk, pump, jump like I used to. I've got shoulder issues, back issues, brain issues, systemic moron issues. We are the moron brothers. Don't get along with others. Okay, so I'm glad Hayden's coming. He is going to be my, like, Hayden, for those of you who don't know, my son's going through to become a personal trainer. The dude is, like, freaking ripped. like he's like, I don't know, okay ripped is the wrong term, he's more like Jack like, I don't know, think Michael Phelps right, like he's not like a, well he's super duper duper natty he does no testosterone, he doesn't do any steroids but the man is a gym rat lives in the gym, loves the gym loves working out has been trying to encourage his dad to lose some weight hey hey hey, fat Orby but anyways Hayden's coming with me so if you can, this episode was hard to do Sometimes episodes are hard to do because I'm so upset. Today's, we found out that Hayden's passport is good to go. My passport is good to go. My dad saved the day and is tossing us an extra $250,000 because now that we're out over $2,000,000, it's going to be real tricky. So thank you, Mr. Agar, Pops. Popsaroni for that one. I'm also going to toss Hayden $250,000. So yeah, I'm out $2,000,000 and I'm giving an extra $250,000 to him. But I think that this will be a memorable experience for Hayden for his whole life. It doesn't cost any more to have two people in the hotel room than one. It's probably easier and it's just safer. It's just safer driving all the way across there. That being said, if you're listening to this pinball podcast right now and you happen to live in and around the Ottawa and or I guess it would be Ottawa or Kanata area and you'd like a drop target or sorry, drop target is not coming. I don't want to over promise that. But if you want Orby and well, I used to call him Hurry Up Hayden, but he really hates Hurry Up. So he should come up with a different name. But if you wanted us to come by your house and chill there, and I don't know, whatever. You want us to go, if we have any energy, I would love to go check out that really cool bar with all the pierogies in Ottawa. Or maybe Mike Castleman's live stream. In fact, when I was asking Mike how and when he's getting there, I'm not going to go into too many details. But a friend of the show, Mike Castleman, his son Carter won. And then even Mike was supposed to go. I think he was runner-up in Quebec. But for a number of reasons, neither of them are going. So I was trying to even maybe going to piggyback with them after I found out the airline canceled. That's not possible. But if anyone's listening and they live in that area and they'd like to throw us up to help us save a couple hundred bucks on a hotel, I will tell you this. I will bring you collectibles and or coffee. So if you like basketball, football, baseball, I will bring you easily, I'll say it right here, $100 in either coffee or collectibles if I can stay at your house somewhere in the Ottawa or Kanata area on Tuesday, March, whatever Tuesday that is, like the 5th. So, yeah, other than that, I'm just really excited. I know Rachel Risto has already offered to help me with a couple hookups while I'm in Madison, Wisconsin, for numerous different things that we don't talk about unless we're playing Minecraft. And, yeah, I'm just really excited. I'm going to get to meet so many people. These people get to meet my son. That's just kind of like, I mean, most people that know me well or listen to this show, they know how important my sons are to me. My sons are more important to me than... I'm trying to think. They're more important to me than pinball, and I eat, sleep, breathe pinball. So they're more important to me than... And I know you all, a couple of you are thinking, why is drop target Danielle upset with you? Well, Danielle and I did have a pretty big disagreement this weekend because I explained to her that even though I'm out this $2,000 and I'm going to be negative money on my board, because at this point she's going, well, I wanted you to go, but now that we're out this $1,400 plus the other money that brings us well over $2,000 for the airfare and everything else, and now that you're going to have to get hotels, like two extra hotels, oh, and I'm going to be spending like $400 or $500 minimum on gas, and that's even in the Corolla. I already did an air filter change. I got an oil change to get ready for it. Or, well, we already need an oil change, but that was done last Monday. I put in a new air filter just before that. I'll probably put in, like, super high-end gas. You don't care about any of this. The point is, Danielle was a little bit upset because I said to her, honey, I know that I'm now in the negatives on the board, but I still have to go. And she basically said, like, I don't mind you going, but, like, where is this money coming from? And I said, I'm really sorry. We're basically going to have to take it off the home equity line of credit. And we've been trying not to touch that bad boy. Like, I've been, like, we've been eating, like, extra portions of rice for a day or two, like, leading up to payday. Like, we are struggling. Like, I'm smoking, or sorry, vaping my homegrown devil's lettuce as opposed to, like, the high-end stuff, okay? That's how bad the finances are here on the homestead. But it don't feel bad for me. That's totally normal this time of year. So I'm probably going to have to advance, like, a couple grand off the stupid HELOC. the same thing when I was messaged to see if I was going to nationals and I wrote back I wouldn't miss it for the world I would not miss it for the world now that being said the one way I would not make it the one way a bankrupt uh airline agency not going to stop me the cheapest uh rental car I can find from Toronto being $900 to rent a car to go not going to stop me the cheapest flight I can find being well over $700 that gets me there anywhere near the right time not going to stop me the fact that I can't even enjoy the devil's lettuce the entire time I'm in Madison, Wisconsin. People who know me are going to be like, who is this guy? I'm just going to show up at like the 82 and be like, well, hello everybody. My name is Albert. And this is me sober for the first time. No, I'm not going to say that. But I was thinking this was going to be weird. I know Eric Stone likes to pray to God that he does well in the tournaments and stuff, or at least he used to. I don't want to be presumptuous, Eric. I have no clue. But in my heart of hearts, I just see like an SNL skit of like Eric Stone kneeling beside his bed in the hotel going, Dear Lord Jesus, let me clobber Orby tomorrow in the first round at Nationals so I can go on to like just, I don't know, do great for you God, or whatever people say when they're praying. And then I'm going to be in a hotel across the street, probably a much shittier, crappier hotel, and I'm going to be kneeling by my bed and I'm going to be saying, Dear Lucifer, please allow your son Satan to come down to earth and make sure that, as much as I love Eric, just please allow every single ball to be a house ball, and please allow every single... No, I would pray like this. Dear Satan, please allow Eric Stone's balls to every score be 6-6-6, and allow every outlane to go to an outlane, and allow his nudges to not work, and allow the flippers to die if he's about to beat Orby's score. No, I wouldn't do that. Well, guys, I love you. I'm in love with you. Drop target Danielle will forgive me. She is going to transfer the money over. I was also just in a bad mood of being a dick and honestly probably not the best temperament I've been for about a week straight when I found out that the flight got cancelled. For a week straight, I was telling everyone who would listen, I'm not going to nationals now. Fuck them and that's the plane and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. and drop target Danielle as always is just like Orby she doesn't really call me Orby but she's like Albert relax where there's a will there's a way and if you have to miss it this time you can go next year and I felt like grabbing drop target and going listen honey I'm not going to win ever again it was an absolute fluke I won this year but part of that was that was not a fluke is the one pinball tip I wanted to give everybody quickly before the end of the show here And you're going to think this is far-fetched. If you want more information on this, I suppose if you see an impersonal chat about it, don't message me about it. This, they're my only fans. These are the two things I'm not going to talk to you about through Facebook. Everything else, sure, fair game. But I actually do an exercise that I do every night, and it's called lucid dreaming. And for the about 5% of you listening who can lucid dream, which is essentially the number, lucid dreaming, the one in 20 people who more than once a week can, in a dream, say, whoa, I'm in a dream. And there's little tricks to start lucid dreaming more. But in the dreams, if you visualize a pinball machine you want to get better at that you've already played, that's a trick. It has to be a pinball machine you're very familiar with. Once or twice in a dream, I did play Godzilla, even though I don't think I did much good on it but I did play Godzilla in my dreams after watching lots of hours of it being streamed before I played Godzilla. Now it's more helpful the better you know the game the more work you can do. So now can you while you're in your sleep I'm sure many of us listening now have woken up and you're in a pinball arcade maybe you're playing a pinball machine you don't recognize. If you're in a pinball arcade and you're playing a pinball machine that you don't recognize the theme maybe it's from American Pinball. Who knows? No I'm just kidding. That was a low blow. I'm sorry. But what you do is you visualize the pinball machine beside you. So, for instance, I've played so much Metallica and so much Kiss.