We'll be right back. Pinball Nerds Podcast. Coming to you from beautiful River Higgins, New York. Let's go start. Welcome back, Pinball Nerds, to episode 557 of your fifth favorite pinball podcast. My name is Orbital Albert, and on today's show, we are going to be talking about so many issues, it's hard to even go over them all. But of course, we're going to be doing five rad and one bad about Multimorphic P3's newest pinball machine, the Princess Bride. Also, we're going to be talking about Haggis, their current headaches. We're also going to be talking about bankruptcy. And I don't want to clickbait you guys this one time, or at least on this one issue. I am not talking about, I know you're all thinking, oh, is Haggis Pinball bankrupt now? First, they're recapitalizing. Now, a lot of times, and again, I do have a marketing degree from Fanshawe Business College. Something that we go over there is that very often recapitalizations are the first step or the last thing they do before bankruptcy and solvency. So a large portion of companies, they don't just pull a Michael Scott in the office and go, I declare bankruptcy. No, no. And then Dwight Schrute runs. Anyways, sorry. I've gone off topic. What else would you expect? I miss you guys. It's been a couple weeks. I'm not going to lie. I was super duper depressed. I was feeling sorry for myself. off. I was being a whining, crying little orby in the corner over there for about the last four, you know, probably for about four or five days. Some really bad shit went, shoot, I'm trying not to swear in 2024. Some bad stuff went down here on the old homestead. I am going to talk about that later. I am going to talk about the company that, and I do have the receipts for it, is going bankrupt. Yes, that news, I'm going to, and it does affect pinball, big time. That news, I'm going to hold, you know, I'm going to hold on to that until near the end, because I think that probably I can put that in my pocket, and maybe I'll keep a couple of you wandering ears. I did want to say a couple notes from the last episode. Not really the last episode. The last episode was Joe Chervino doing the D. Jennings preview. We're going to talk about the D. Jennings later. Can't wait for it. It was awesome. If you haven't seen it, go watch it. It looked cool. It sounded cool. It had, like, really cool, like, SNIL-style, like, skits that were, oh, you probably already seen it. Most of the people listening to this have already seen it. But, in case you haven't, I'm going to go over just a couple things I loved, and one thing I figured out about the DJing as well, watching it, and now have permission to say publicly. Of course, I wanted to clear that with whom I was speaking of first, but let's just say this. I did make an accident, a little baby poo-poo. I made a little accident on episode 555, where I was talking about maybe perhaps in Minecraft, you know, another pinball content creator getting possibly perhaps maybe sued. And I got so many messages from that one. That must have been a good one. I don't really remember what I said. Somehow it was two hours. I meant for it to be a 20-minute pod, and somehow it was two hours. Don't know how that one happened. I do apologize. It probably went a little bit off-topic. And to you, all the people out there that I pissed off, I want to start by saying, sorry. Not sorry! No, I'm just kidding. I mean, like, I'm kind of sorry. Like, if I said something personally rude about you, I'm sorry. I've hurt your feelings because I was being a dick. But if I was just being honest and talking about your company in a way that maybe you don't love, maybe it makes you give you the little icky wickies because I'm not just saying all positive stuff at 365 all the time. maybe I actually want to help out these pinball companies maybe I want to use my honors degree in marketing to help them get a little bit better and one of the things I do want to give the shout out to they're still doing it American Pinball every Wednesday night I see they're putting up the post I want them to keep staying hyped I hope they keep doing giveaways I hope they keep clickbaiting a little bit because they went from having the biggest news for their first show to like now it's very understated but keep it up I think it's good that they're doing that I think it's great that they're doing that. I want them to keep doing that. Cheers to you, Steven Bowden, and the entire team over there, American Pinball. Now, as far as their next machine being Korean barbecue, ain't nobody on the east coast of Canada that be loving some Korean barbecue more than your boy, Orby. Okay? I get in there with those Korean barbecue. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Korean barbecue people. You lose money when I come there. I don't even care if you charge me $49.95 for all you can eat Korean barbecue. that the first time you come over with the meat for me, you know when you get the little hibachi and you get to cook it in the middle yourself? You're probably going to make some money on Drop Target Danielle. She's only getting like two or three, you know, she's only asking for two or three more. They bring like four meats to you first and then you fry them up yourself and you get a little bit of that, the pork with like the in-house made kimchi and it's all saucy and it's been marinating for like a month or something, you know, and then you try all these different meats and man, those barbecue owners, they lose money on me. I am the largest, like I go to the, I could tell you the top Korean barbecue place in St. John, Charlottetown. There's only one in Charlottetown. Well, there's kind of two. There's only one authentic one in Charlottetown. I got to eat there with Drop Target Danielle. It was her 40th birthday anniversary last weekend. I am going to talk a little bit about that at the very end if I even have time. I better talk quicker. Wow, we've gone off topic here. But what I'm saying is I freaking love Korean barbecue. I also worked on a German food truck where we served German and, well, arguably, I guess, leaning towards maybe Dutch or Holland stuff sometimes. But, wow. If food truck is their next game, I, no, it can't be. I worked in a food truck. I'm like a total, like, stoner, hippie, like, foodie dude who loves food tricks. Tricks. Food tricks. Hey, look at this burger. I'll make it disappear. Look over there. Who's in the sky? A bird? A plane? no, it's Orby eating your burger. No, not a food truck, but a food truck. If anybody on planet Earth was going to buy a food truck between me and Gordon Ramsay, it'd probably be me. You know what I mean? Food truck ain't going to fly. Korean barbecue ain't going to fly. Honestly, bring back GTF. I would buy GTF. I would buy GTF 2. The return. The even more fucked up. We're here to steal your goddash darn ice cream. I swore again. I'm sorry, guys. This except I'll probably never be safe for work. I'm not even safe for my own work, so why would I be safe for your work? Let's be honest. Now, hopefully you work in the car and you're listening to me while driving around. Ain't nobody going to get mad at you for me dropping an F-bomb. But I'm going to try. I'm trying not to. I'm trying not to. Okay, so going back to that episode that I did at 5.55, talking about another pinball podcast. It's kind of funny because that pinball podcaster reached out to me and was like, was this episode about me? And I was like, oh, it could be, maybe, possibly, sort of, dot, dot, dot, in Minecraft. because they specifically didn't want me to use their name and I may or may not have... You know, I think that... We're in the clear. I haven't got a cease and desist. And just before any lawyers come after me, I have $0.00. In fact, after what happened to me in the last week, I have less than $0.00. And although Danielle, Drop Target Danielle, had a wonderful birthday, she wasn't very happy with your boy, Orby, over the last couple days because I'm probably going to have to spend thousands of dollars more than I wanted to. But again, we're going to talk about that later. So Ryan Barry, Ryan Barry, who many of you know, is my new pin turn here, my Australian pin turn. So Ryan Barry, he reached out to me and let me know, dude, you're going to have a lot of Aussies and even more Kiwis pissed at you. You said that Lorde was Australian, but she is, she's, I'm not going to do the Aussie accent. I'm not going to do it. I want to really bad. I'll wait until the podcast is off, and I will bug the shit out of, like, my son Hayden or something with it. But I'm not going to do it here. I'm not going to do it. No Aussie accent. Okay. So Ryan Barry, who does an incredible Aussie accent. Or wait, is it New Zealandish accent? Can New Zealanders tell the difference between Aussies accents and vice versa? I bet you they can. I'll tell you what. If you guys, just for shaves, I almost did it again, and giggles, if you're bored, look up Cape Brown. Cape Breton accent. I've watched the first few videos. It's hilarious. That's only like two hours from me. Cape Breton people, don't come for me. I love you. I find your linguistic differentials cute and fun and interesting. I'm not making fun of you at all. I say so many words completely wrong, totally obscure. I grew up in a little village of 400 people, shed in Ontario, the rhubarb capital of Canada. I don't say anything right. You don't have to either. But even more interesting is Newfoundland. And Newfoundland accents are like, sorry, what was that? Sorry, a sphincter says what? Anyways, yeah, so Ryan Barry has a, well, he let me know that Lorde is very New Zealand-ish, not Australian-ish. From a singing standpoint, I can't tell if they're New Zealand-ish or not, okay? I can't. New Zealand-er-ish? I don't know what the term is. If you're from Halifax, you're a Haligonian. If you're a Ryan Barry, I always complain about how far it is for me to get to location pinball. Ryan Barry was saying it's 12 hours for him to play location pinball. No wonder he's got so many pinballs at home. But shout out to Ryan. Ryan and his wife did the very first episode. They just, you know what, if you have a microphone at home and you love pinball and you want to do a podcast, just try it. Because Ryan tried it and he did a great job. He goes off topic less than me, less filler words, completely. He's probably, it sounds like he's sober during it. I'm not going to lie. Now, I've only listened to the first two episodes. The third one just came out. His pinball podcast. Get your pens ready. Take out your notes. Get your, take off your, no, wait. Get your fingers in the air with your Apple, what's the new goggle the new young kids are wearing? The young fellas. They're wearing those Apple eyeglasses. Whatever it is, the VR thing that everyone's got now walking around. Like, I think in New York City in two years you're just going to see all these people with bleached arseholes walking around with these fucking things on their face. Like, I ain't even augmented reality. Anyways, sorry. See, I've gone, I'm being ageist again. I'm being, this time at least I'm being ageist towards young people. But, you know, my son Hayden and I kind of, he thinks it's really cool. I think it's just too much. I don't know if you guys saw the video of that guy wearing the Apple Air, whatever the hell they are, the VR goggles. And he was at the basketball game. And he's like, he's in the front row at a Lakers game. And he's, this freaking dork is standing up like checking his email and shit, not even watching the freaking game going on. I'm like, sit down, take your goggles off your face, or you do not get to sit front row Lakers. Like, come on, get in there, enjoy the show, don't be a dork. All right. So Ryan Barry let me know that Lorde, I'm really sorry for that, is not from Austria. She's from there. So, you know what, I think I made that mistake already. But he also let me know that he has a new podcast called Phantom Till, where he gave me shout outs on episode one and episode two. Ryan, you did not have to do that, but thank you so much. episode 3 I haven't listened to yet but wow wow wow wow now speaking of shoutouts I was going to use this for part of the title and y'all know I'm probably the only well wait I'm trying to think who else is it's just myself and Crystal Gemnick Gemnick? Gemnick? Gemnick? myself and Crystal from I think she works at JJP now or something she is herself and myself we are the only people to have been on both oh wait no No, we were the only two pinball podcasters to be part of the original people that were announced, like, right before TPN started, that have left. I guess that's not true either, because Ken Cromwell left. But the good news is, is that we were over there, we did that, she had her own thing that she did, like, she even, she had two podcasts before that. She also had, like, Bumpers Trumpers or something before that, which had something to do with, like, driving to pinball tournaments while doing a podcast. anyways we would love to hear from crystal maybe i should invite her on the show that'd be cool um but yeah so i ended up i'm probably the only person who's been on both networks but like you know i was on a network of one pimple nerd podcast then went over to tpn did top three with orby for a little bit loved that ken cromwell was actually my editor that was a fun time didn't feel like i really fit in then and then i also felt like some of my content was copying my own stuff. But the main reason I left TPM because I was afraid that if I wanted to say something about like one of the pinball companies that say one of the distros or one of the other people there is friends with someone in the company, I just didn't want to offend anybody. And I also didn't want to filter myself. So trying to filter myself is very challenging. I've been to a wedding before and had to be quiet. It's tricky. Even at a funeral, you know, at a funeral, you're supposed to know to like be quiet or be somber. And I'm telling jokes and jumping up and high-fiving dead bodies in the casket. You're not supposed to do that stuff. Like, you're supposed to be, like, quiet and subdued. And that's just not my personality. That's just not how I roll. I'm more like the Tom Green of Canada. Wait, Tom Green moved back to Canada. So Tom Green is now the Tom Green of Canada. Okay, I'm the Tom Green of the Maritimes. Y'all got it? I am. I am walking like a stone in our... I have no clue how I got that song in my head. And I don't even remember who it is, but it's someone from the 90s. All right, let's get back into it. So, speaking of, speaking of podcasters, I did want to give a very quick shout out to Mr. Don from Don's Pinball Podcast. Mr. Donald Garrison, happy birthday to, wait, no, I'm not going to sing in English. That's boring. Y'all heard that before. Probably shouldn't even sing at all. But if I'm going to sing, Dore mi fa solat i Don. All right, here we go. Okay, so I'm ready. I'm going to sing, this is just for Don. Everyone else, skip ahead 35 seconds. I'm going to sing to Don in Dutch. Oui, oui, oui, oui, oui, oui, oui. L'on zonne de l'éve, l'on zonne de l'éve, l'on zonne de l'éve in de glorie. in the glory in the glory hip hip okay I'm not going to sing the whole the whole growing like a tall tree end part but basically I'm sorry to all the Dutch German and French people who can tell how bad my accent was there my Omas who's like the only person who's like super fluent in Dutch that I know left in my life is well I guess I don't know her left in my life but she's no longer with us she's gone up to the big she's probably up there playing, what is it, that crazy game that she liked to play with the cards? That weird game, Bridge. Bridge, she loved Euchre. She's probably up there just playing some Bridge. She made a Bridge to Nowhere and she's going there fast. So who knows, maybe she's up there with my mom partying it up. My mom and my grandma getting to finally be reunited after a long time with my best friend. It's great. Okay. Let's move forward here. Don, happy birthday to you, buddy. That was a really cool live stream he did. You guys can go check it out on his YouTube. I did want to give a big, big shout out, okay, to Spooky Luke and Bug. They, after working their butts off all day long, they drove up Don for his birthday. It was weird because it was like in a gymnasium and it kept filling up with smoke. And all I could think is like, these poor kids are going to come there tomorrow and it's going to be all smoky in there. because, like, now, did they just smoke a big fat blunt before they turn on the live stream, or did Don bring a smoke machine? I don't know. I couldn't say for sure. I wasn't able to see either. I don't want to be presumptuous. Maybe, wait, it's illegal there. Isn't it illegal in Wisconsin? Is Wisconsin, like, the last state where weed is illegal? Weed's been legal here for, like, a decade. What's going on there? And speaking of, when I'm traveling to the Nationals, oh, my God, like, what am I, oh, my God, can I get arrested? Do they put you in jail? I need to know the crimes. I can go five days without marijuana in Wisconsin. I can do it. I can do it. I can do it. I will do it. I once went two days in Vegas not able to get weed. That was in 1999? No, no, no, no, no. That would have been like 2001, 2002. So it's been 20 years. There was that one time I had a really, really, really bad sinus infection and couldn't get out of bed, and I think I was also low or something. There was one day, like, 15 years ago where I didn't get high, but, um, I don't know, it's probably good for your system, like, it probably resets you and stuff. But it's just weird that I'm going to be in this country with all these new strains and all this cool, like, stuff happening in all these other states around Wisconsin. And Wisconsin, you want to get high? You want to go, you want to come to Wisconsin and come get high? What you going to do? You got to eat that cheese. here's the good news is cheese actually uses the same dopamine receptors as crack cocaine and the thing is like if you're going to do crack just microdose it you know what I mean like just get up in the morning just do a little just a little microdose because if you go overboard on that stuff you'll be using losing your teeth you know it gets bad no I'm just I'm totally kidding that was a joke don't use that out of context if you're going to microdose just do it black tar heroin like I don't. Alright, let's get back to pinball. So, I did want to cheers to the old, I did want to cheers so much to Spooky. That's really cool that they took time and energy out of their day to do that. Now listen, don't ask me for this link. I'm not sending it to you. Nobody else gets it. Don kind of knows about one of my little side hustles and my side hobbies. I'm part of this kind of group on OnlyFans where there's a lot of farmers and homesteaders. at Stetters. No, we're not naked in the pictures, but maybe you know, maybe just one of the two straps on your overalls is coming down and maybe there's a tiny nip slip. Okay? If Paula Abdul, no wait, if Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake can show a nip at the Super Bowl, I can certainly certainly, I can certainly show a nip. I'm my only fan. So, don't ask for the link. I'm not going to give it to you. You'll never be able to figure it out. But Don, just until midnight last night, I gave him a temp link for free to go on and check out my OnlyFans. Don, I hope you loved your gift. It was incredible. I know Mr. Christopher Franchi always gives people gifts on their birthday. In fact, I'm waiting for a gift from Franchi right now. I don't want to tell you guys what it is in case it doesn't get here, but I'm waiting for a super rad gift from Franchi right now. And I hope it's coming, Franchi. I hope it's coming. I know I've been waiting for some time. But Franchi did a custom birthday song and message for Don, which he attempted to play on the live stream, but then something happened and they left. So I'm sorry, Franchi. I guess I just, I beat you again. Because, you know, you sent him a, you know, a birthday message, which is very nice, very kind, super awesome. But I gave him a link to my OnlyFans, where he gets to see me and a goat in compromising positions. Me with a pitchfork and one of the three pitchforks is missing. I'll let you guess what hole it's in. No, okay, I took it too far again. Anyways, don't ask me. I'm not going to tell you. I don't care if you see me at the cheese factory in Wisconsin hanging out with... I don't even know anything about Wisconsin. I've got to go read about it today. I'm very curious. Very curious. I'd better get on with this show. Oh, my God. We haven't even gotten to the meat and potatoes. We're stuck on the frickin' Timbits or Burt Bits or Albert Bits or Orby Bits or Titty Bitties. I don't know what we're stuck on. We're an itty-bitty titty committee? We're stuck on something, but let's move forward here. Okay, so I can't read my own writing, so I don't know what I'm supposed to talk about. Oh, we were going to talk about the company that went bankrupt. I remember that. Oh, back on TPN. So, yeah, that's where I was going with this. Thank you, thank you, thank you. That's right. I'm back on TPN, baby. I know a lot of you are saying, No, Orby, don't leave the Poor Man's Fibble Network! Wait, no one's saying that. Not even one person voted for me. Y'all can't be mad. If I go over to TPN, y'all can't be mad, because it's like, hey, he was on Poor Man's from episode, what, 580? Or 480 to episode 560. So, like, hey, if I'm only on Poor Man's for 80 episodes, that's a long time to be on here, and y'all didn't vote for me once, so don't even be mad if I leave Poor Man's. But here's the good news. I'm not leaving the Poor Man's Pimple Network, not only because I am a dedicated tribe member, perhaps the most dedicated of all the tribes members, except for Ian and Drew, our fearless leaders, of course, but here's the thing. Jeff Teolis and Marty Robbins gave me a shout out on their most recent show talking about me being the big underdog. And the first person that Teolis thought of when he thought of underdogs was me getting to go represent the Nationals. Now, Jeff, I love you, bro. I know where you're coming from, but I'll just say this, Jeff, I'm not that much of an underdog, I probably have played in more tournaments than everybody on the East Coast combined, except for maybe, like, Matt Wall, Peter and Megan, Tom and June, and, like, I don't know, there's probably one other person I can't, oh, Doug Parsons, for sure, so, like, of those people, like, you know what I mean, like, I play the most number of tournaments, I have the most number of wins, I'm one of only three people from the east coast of canada that i'm aware of that has gone to pinberg or any event that even that big or close to it i mean i know a couple people like i know david dennis went to pentastic once and but for the most part and then also that's my home bar where provincials was played so i wasn't really like i go there all the frick i'm in monkton like every single week for supplies and stuff for angry alpaca oh i wasn't supposed to name my okay forget the name forget the name of the coffee Company, for my coffee company. I no longer advertise on the Pinball Nerds Podcast for my coffee company, and I have not since November. Thank you very much. This is advertisement free. I'm just trying to, I want my numbers to get better. I want you guys to enjoy the show. I want you to get some, a little, you know, a little, little nuggies once in a while, some yummy, yummy, yummy. But go over there and listen to Rumors, if you haven't. Marty Robbins, of course, of Haggis. Now, I will say, I got clickbaited. If any of you guys are ever mad at me for clickbaiting, I got clickbaited so bad, I felt like I was baited alone. You know what I mean? Just, yeah, Jesus. I was so mad that whole time they posted rumors right after Haggis announced recapitalization. So I, like many of you, assumed that the rumors were about that. However, I think this might have been done purposefully, but I can't prove it. Okay, so this is only maybe in Minecraft. if Jeff and Haggis and Marty were smart, they would release a podcast called Rumors at the exact same time that the rumors were released, therefore at the same time causing everyone to click on it, but then not hearing anything about the rumors, giving basically final round a couple weeks for, I mean, basically, you know, allowing the pinball community to, you know, figure out what's going on and for all the, you know, all the heat that's on Haggis to cool down before such a point at which, you know, they come back on the final round, and I'm guessing Marty and Jeff would have to talk about them. But I don't know. I have no clue. I have no insider information. I rarely, if ever, even chat with Jeff anymore, so I have no clue. I haven't talked to Marty since I was on the final round a couple years ago. And before that, the only time I ever got to meet Marty and talk to him in real life was actually in line at the Intergalactic Pinball Tournament at Pembroke many, many, many moons ago. So, yes, let's just, yeah, let's try to get back on track here. Okay, so I did want to give a big, quick shout-out to the D'Genny's, okay? The D'Genny's were incredible. If you have not checked out the D'Genny's, Joe Chervino's baby, you can now go watch it. It was originally on Facebook, but now it's just on YouTube, so I think Pinball Degenerates or join the group on Facebook, which takes like two seconds. Wow, wow, wow, Joe, you blew my mind. I don't want to give it away for some people who haven't listened, but there's these little snippets and clips that are very reminiscent of like a Quentin Tarantino film. You know, the end scene was much more like Reservoir Dogs. But all the way, here's a tidbit I was going to give you guys. I knew right away, but I didn't want to say anything. I said nothing in chat. I said nothing to anyone else until I confirmed with the person. And I don't want to give this away too much, but one of the voices, like the primary voices in all of the skits, I assumed might have been a friend of the show who does the theme song, Glenn the Skateboarder. So that's right. Glenn did say that since I figured it out on my own, because I didn't even ask him, I was like, dude, that's so cool that you did the voices for that. So yes, everybody knows that Glenn did the TEMA, Themetrical Integrated Mechanical Association. I don't remember it, Joe. I'm sorry. but I'm working on it. Glenn does a really rad song with his buddy about that. The video was shot well. I know during the D-Jennies, the quality went down just a little tiny, tiny, tiny bit, but here's the good news. Here's the good news. Even though the quality went down just a little tiny bit, the sound was incredible, and afterwards, Glenn posted it. You can go check that. I think he probably has it up by now under Pinball for y'all. I believe if you type that into Google, Let me just double confirm that so I don't be such a dork. Pinball for y'all. Y'all is like a down south thing, right? I use it too. I just, I think it's charming. There it is. Yep. Pinball for y'all, but it's Y, is that apostrophe? A-L-L. And when you click on the top, there you go. Now, I don't know if he has that new song up here yet. Hey, Pinball Nerds podcast theme 2.0 is up there. Slam tilt song. 12 Podcasts of Christmas. Remember Glenn did that for all of us pinball podcasters. He sent it in to... Glenn just does so much for the pinball community. Like, if you can't... If you don't love Glenn, who even are you? If you can't get along with Glenn the Skateboarder, are you even worth two bits? No, probably not, because Glenn is funny, charming, hilarious, awesome, you know, humble, musically gifted. like, so Glenn killed it, thank you so much, um, nudge it gently, that was funny, 100th episode speech, was that for me, I don't, I don't think that was for me, but, uh, anyways, all of Glenn's music is on pinball for y'all, he recently got into a little bit of hot water, which I thought was the dumbest thing ever, I'm not gonna bring it back up, but a little bit of an online drama, and it was silly willy-billy, it didn't need to be done, literally, like, just, yeah, I'm gonna leave it at that because, um, drama free since episode 493, back to your regular scheduled program. All right. So Glenn, uh, I love you, bro. I love you. And I'm in love with you. And speaking of, I just wanted to give a little shout out to one of my pinball buddies. Um, he reached out to me to let me know, or, or she, or she, I don't want to, uh, don't want be doxing anybody, how? But he or she reached out to me and said, dude, I listen to every show. Thank you so much. I don't know if this is a thank you so much for what you do, but they just said, they said a couple other things I'm not going to go into, which would give them away, but they basically said, I still listen to every single show. And this is, this is, the reason I'm being a little bit coy is because it is someone that, you know, well, to be honest, all of you in pinball would know them, but I don't want to out them as being a pinball nerd, because, you know, maybe I say or do things once in a while. It's kind of funny. I'm like the only podcast people secretly can't like. Ooh, do you listen to Orby? No, I don't. Do you? Oh, no, I wouldn't. He says things that we don't like. But I get it. I get it. I didn't get a single Twippy vote, so I totally get it. But even though I didn't get a single Twippy vote, one of my favorite people in pinball listens to each and every episode, and that really got my engine running, because I had some bad, bad news last week. I did. I had some really, really bad news. I'm going to go into that. I couldn't record. I was so depressed. I want to use that mildly because it wasn't like a severe depression, but I was like in such a bad place, I couldn't record. And something really bad happens to me when I get stressed out. Let me know if this happens to any of you guys. It just happened right there. I was trying to say the word if, and I said it. So when I get really like anxious, and I get really upset, I tend to talk a lot, but I also stutter a lot. I became a stuttering Sally last week. Like, I was trying to ta-ta-ta, like, like, okay. I'll try to say, like, my intro. I'll try to say, like, my intro to the show. Welcome back to Molnar's episodes 307. Like, so what happens is, and that was me, like, that was me turning it on a bit extra, but that actually happens. If you ever hear me stuttering, it means I'm probably having a tough day. It happens all the time anyways, if I'm more drunk and more high and everything. but you will hear it happen a lot if I'm having a bad day. So all those shows you hear me kind of stuttering a lot, it means I'm going through it, right? And we all do. It's not just me. We all have bad days. It's not just me. We all have bad days. We all have bad weeks. We all lose thousands of dollars for no particular reason out of nowhere. Like, okay, okay, okay, okay. Let's move forward. Let's move forward. All right. Oh, my God. Did I skip to the back? Okay. So I did want to thank Final Round, Jeff and Marty. Go over there and listen to that. I also really wanted to tell you guys, and this one I'm not even going to... This one I do have to save to the end, okay? But I don't really... I didn't want to clickbait it. That's why I'm saying it halfway through. I'm going to tell you guys the real truth to why I won and how. And this is the real truth. I know I said it before, but I was totally just kidding. So look, is the real reason that I won the New Brunswick Pinball Championships because in the final round I wasn't nervous at all because I got to play my son Hayden? No! That's not the real reason! Of course that helped me win the final round, but I had to get to that final round. So then I kind of told y the real reason I won is because I listened to Ian and Drew the Ian and Drew show episode 2 and it got me pumped up because I was like man Ian and Drew these guys are back Pew pew pew pew Throwing a little dawn alarm, whatever those are there. What would the hockey one be? Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo! I don't know. Anyways, so... Oh my gosh. Oh, so the real reason is, and I can tell you guys, and the real reason actually, because listening to Ian and Drew's show really did get me pumped up. That was definitely a small part of it. But I'm about to tell you all the real reason. And this one little tiny tip I'm going to tell you at the end. This little tiny tip. Just the tip. This little tiny tip is going to make you way better at pinball. And guess what? You don't have to spend a penny. You do not have to buy a pinball machine. You don't even have to go play a pinball machine. In fact, you don't even have to spend any extra time or energy, and you may be able to get significantly better. Now, all the other tips I've ever given out in almost 600 episodes of this show only help amateur players or maybe the odd novice. I've never given a tip out that's actually going to help the Raymond Davidson of the world, the Esther Lefkos, the Jared August, the Keith Elowens, okay? I never have, ever, ever, ever, until today. because this tip, this tip's going to put someone in the top 100 in the top 50. This tip's going to put someone in the top 25 in the world in the top 10. That's what's going to happen today, okay? It is going to take someone in the top five, and no, it probably won't matter for the top five, but for the most part, it's going to help people that aren't in the top 1,000. The people in the top 1,000, I think it says limited. I'll say limited, but still maybe some value. Everybody else on planet Earth, the other 120,000 ranked players, everybody on planet earth who doesn't who loves pinball but doesn't even play any tournaments this is also going to help your game and it will also increase how rad your life is so i am going to talk about that at the very very end but there's a reason i'm saving for the end so um yeah uh what else we got here so probably don't need to mention any of this let's just hop right into let's just hop right into it. He says 33 minutes in to Princess Bride. So I want to just say here that you know, Stephen Silver is part of the Poor Man's Pinball Tribe with me. He's also the lead creator, I believe designer on this kind of thing. So Stephen Silver, I love you. I'm going to try not to be biased, but I just want to be open and honest to everybody. When there's bias there, there's bias there. Because he is a tribe member, maybe, maybe, maybe I'm not going to go on hard on him as I would on like Home Pin if they release the exact same pin. And maybe I'm not going to go on as hard as him as I would if, like, I don't know, Pinball Adventures released it. Of course, if Pinball Adventures released it, it probably would be barely working, never get to you. And anyways, probably have illegal callouts that were stolen from Barney Fife and everything else. Yeah. Anyways, the point is, is that I want to talk about P3 and I want to be open and honest, but I also want to let you know that there is probably some bias here. So that being said, let's just get right into it. All right. 5 Rad, number one, and this one's, these are how I thought of them, these are how they came into Orby's crazy head, okay, number one is the mode integration, this is not the shots, this is not the artwork, this is not the mechs or the toys, this is not the LCD screen, this is the modes integration, so we watched the live stream there, the multi-morphic live stream, great job on the live stream, I'm not going to lie, I, Jerry, I love you, my voice tunes out to you, you get 20 seconds, and this is what I hear, okay, sorry, sorry, see, see how annoying that was, that, that is, I'm sorry, you need some, imagine if I came on to my, this is, this is my impression, Jerry, I love you, thank you, everything you do for pinball. This is my impression of me being Jerry introducing the Pinball Nerds podcast. Ready? Welcome back, Pinball Nerds, to episode 557 of your fifth favorite pinball podcast. My name is Jerry Stellenberger, and we're going to be talking today about P3 Multimorphics' newest machine, which is the Princess Bride, and here are some of the rules for the machine, and also blah, blah, blah, blah. And it's like, I love you, Jerry. I love everything you guys are doing there. You need a Jack Danger. You need an Orbital Albert. You need, even Steven Bowden's got a little more charisma in the schisma. You need a little wisdom in the, okay. You know what I'm saying? You need something. You need like, like, like literally anyone, anyone who streamed for TPN back in the day. Grab them to come in and help you. Like just someone with some, hey, ha, ooh, a little, because Jerry, I think you're perfect for the job that Jerry does. I just don't think that Jerry, I actually think Jerry from Rick and Morty could do a better job, you know, previewing a new, so Jerry, I love you, but I had to keep skipping. I had to, for my own sanity, I had to keep skipping when this man was talking. I'd rather listen to Dwight Sullivan and that's a stretch. Okay. I'd rather listen to Dwight Sullivan do rules for four hours than Jerry for another 30 seconds. I'm sorry, Jerry. I love you. Don't, you can be in the live streams. Don't be the main person. you need a hype man even look at stern like zach sharp uh isn't maybe like you know the biggest what you know like hype guy or something like that um but every single time like even when like uh you know they all dressed up for jurassic park like t-rex right and like you know you got to get into it a little bit you got to be laughing and joking i'm not gonna lie probably having a couple beers there might loosen y'all up a little everyone's kind of like eating food quietly in the background where Jerry was doing like 85% of the talking for the first 20 minutes, and it was hard to get through, but I love P3 Multimorphic. They're an awesome company. I like the pinball machine. I did not think maybe the launch was as good as it could be, but you know what? The video looked good, and everything else looked decent, and they were trying to be as entertaining as I think they could be. I just think they need someone more entertaining. Now, the good news was they had Stephen Silver there playing. He made a joke on Facebook about, you can see how bad I play in front of 10,000 players. Don't worry. First of all, Stephen Silver, I don't think that many of the 10,000 players, because we were on the front page of Twitch, I don't think that many of them knew you, so it's okay. Second of all, you had some good balls, but yeah, you had some, you made some mistakes, but who wouldn't be nervous? I get nervous playing in front of like five people at the bar. Who wouldn't get nervous? You're playing in front of 10,000 people. Like I haven't played in front of 10,000 people at like, I've been to 200 events, I haven't played in front of 10,000 people. So, anyways, the launch was pretty decent. You need someone that's funny, that's interesting, that uses intonation, that exhilarates you, that gets you excited for it. I just stuttered again. Damn, stuttering Sally. Okay, so, okay, let's get back to the top five rad. Number one was I love, love, loved all the integration. So, I believe maybe it was Colin MacAlpine that was helping with those rules and such, which, what a perfect person to help with the rules, right? Got to meet Colin at Pemberg, actually ran into him playing Wonka right before we went to Pemberg at this little tiny arcade where my buddy Peace, I think he used to work there, or his partner, showed up to Peace, by the way, as soon as Pemberg happened. Peace reached out to me, the guy who let me stay at his spare bedroom last time, reached out to me right away and said if you got into Pemberg, you can have my spare bedroom again. Peace, you're so rad. Thanks, my guy. Peace was also nominated for a D-Jenny. So, yes. And if I went off track on the D-Jenny's, go back and watch it. They were incredible. They were awesome. I did not win. I did not win for the dog. I believe it was the Marco Specialties dog that has passed away that won, which makes sense. That dog worked, you know, served pinball at Marco Specialties, and is no longer with us. So what a great, and, you know, who could have won better than that? But Luna Tuna, Elowen, Agar the Fifth still got a shout-out, so good for her. and she has many years left to apply. I feel like eventually she'll win. Probably next year it's going to be Franchise Dog. Then the year after that it's going to be Linus. Barlow's going to win next year. Then Linus McMuffin Pants or whatever their name is from Kate's Dog is going to win the next year. But Tuna, Luna Tuna Elwyn, she doesn't even know. She doesn't even care about getting any D. Jenny Award. All she wants is some more food. Let's be honest. We had lasagna last night. She went back for seconds. I'm not going to lie. And you know who had thirds of lasagna? It's the cutest little thing in the world. I promise I'll go back in a second. But this morning, I had some leftover lasagna, and I chopped it up into these little tiny pieces. I would say the pieces were, like, you know, about as big as your pinky nail or smaller. And I chopped them up, and I gave them to all the little, I gave them to our four little chickens in there. You can probably hear them running around. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. If you've never seen anything so cute, even though I dropped in, like, 20 little pieces, You know, and this is about the size of their hand or their beak or their, I don't know, like, you know, they can barely just eat them at once. So the one guy, the one chick, I know, I guess they're all girls because we have females, lying birds, but the one chick, she goes down, she literally is a chick. She goes down and she grabs a piece of lasagna, but she can't swallow it and she can't bite into it because, like, her peck's not, like, I don't know, not thick enough or her jaw's not strong enough or sharp enough. I don't know. So she can't do it. So then the other bird runs up and steals it out of her mouth. And then she's like licking her lips. Well, like, oh, at least I got some sauce. And then the other freaking chick steals it from her mouth. And I'm going, well, that's gross. Imagine if humans did that. Like if I was just at a show and like Tim the Lion Man Lee was eating a piece of pizza. And I just went over and ate it from him. And then Drew just came and baby birded it from me. And then he, you know, it would get weird. It'd get weird. No baby birding. Let's not baby bird. Okay. So, oh, by the way, Tim the Lion Man Lee messaged me about episode 555. and he said, although he had to listen to it in chunks, and everybody out there, all my nerd herd, all the listeners, it's totally rad if you break it up into bits. I'm glad you do that. It makes sense to. I'm talking very quickly. I'm covering a number of subjects. Probably you're exhausted from listening to me. If you don't think I'm exhausted performing like this, you don't know Jack. Whack. Ba-da-da-ba-da-ba. Okay, so, Tim the Lion Manly wrote me and he said that And Mistress Anne slash his wife was, okay, I don't have it open right now, but he said something about she was like visibly laughing out loud. So I guess it was a funny episode because he said that she doesn't do that very often, the Pinball Podcast, and she actually found it very entertaining. And even though Glenn and Tim do message me from time to time about, you know, their thoughts on a podcast or something like that, which I always highly value, Tim in himself has like very rarely said oh my god you had like my family laughing my wife laughing like people who aren't even into pinball so if you didn't listen to episode 555 go back there and listen to it believe me there's only 30 seconds of drama in the whole two hours tons of other good information in there but I understand if you're drama drama free since episode 493 you don't want none of that bad old d in your life that stinky d then just let it be and don't listen I don't care all right so let's see here oh yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes so the modes number one by far the coolest part the modes uh and how they're integrated so there's one mode where you're just using one hand then there's another mode where like the the sword is is spinning around and you have to aim that direction then there's another mode i thought this was even cooler they're almost taking the thing that they did american pimple didn't beer fest with the flippers being, you know, they're very weak, or they don't work very well at all, or they only work like for a split second. Well, there's one mode where the flippers only work for a split second. I think they did that in Avengers, like you can't hold the flipper up. So there's one of those modes. But then there's another mode where your flippers are super weak, and you have to hit these targets to make your flippers more strong, because you're getting ready to do like a fight. And that's totally true when you're training for, you know, any type of like, well, it's someone who's done over 200 endurance events with her training for a marathon, you know, even, even a, not a super marathon, an ultra marathon, like a 50K or higher. Even my last ultra marathon I did, which was my last pre-COVID race. My lungs haven't been great for the past two years, even though I quit smoking all the ciggies, even though I quit smoking the ciggies, like my lungs didn't rebound that well because I haven't been doing cardio. So I need to start doing cardio again, I'm going to get my, because right now, honestly, most people are going to see me on camera at like D82, if I make it on camera, if I even, you know, who knows, pin masters or something, probably not going to happen against Eric Stone, but y'all going to see me, and this is what everyone's going to say, hey, hey, hey, Fat Albert, or if you're in the office, hey, hey, hey, Fat Albert, oh, that hurt my throat, okay, so the modes are integrated the best I have ever seen in pinball and I've been doing this podcasting thing for a while, like eight years now. I've been hardcore. And actually, Colin, while I'm talking about how long I've been in pinball, Colin from the Kineticist did have a really neat question that normally these questions don't really get me like thinking, but I believe it was Colin. I don't know who else works for the Kineticist. I think it was Colin that put this up, but his question was very simple yesterday. He said, what percent of your life have you been actively involved actively act actively involved in the pinball hobby and I said wow that's a tough question this really had me thinking for some time I said from age eight until I was around 21 then I barely thought much about it until I was 35 and now I have been hardcore back into it for about eight years so I worked it out and it worked out to like 21 years of my 42 well now 43 soon to be 44 years I've been like hardcore into pinball like for all of those years from when I was a little kid all the way into my 20s I didn't walk over to a pool table first I didn't go over to darts I did go over to golden tea but not golden tea first I didn't go over to foosball or here in Canada like we have everywhere in Canada everybody's got air hockey you got to get in line put your loonie or your toonie down to play air hockey next day so like uh no I wasn't just doing that I was the one nerd over playing pinball in the corner always that was me that was the guy like literally if my friends had to find me at the mall if they were going to food court, I'd be like, no, no, no, no, no, I got three free credits on Twilight Zone, you guys go to the food court, come back and get me later. And they'd be like, okay, we'll go. Anyways, the kineticist, I believe Colin, said 50% is impressive. And I said, thanks. Also, I'm using this as content for my pod today, keep up the bad work. So I just want to say thanks to Colin. I wanted to say thanks to all the news agencies out there. Thanks so much to Jason Knapp of Knapp Arcade. He was just talking about how there's a good chance that X-Men 97 is coming. Well, X-Men 97, like, that's the X-Men everyone's nostalgic for. If that comes out, and thanks for the article, Jason. But thanks to everyone who's doing news. Even Nudge. Like, Nudge, I just saw on Facebook. Nudge has been killing it, and tons of, like, content creators outside of the pinball world have been talking about what's called short content. So, short content is just, like, 30-second clips, 45-second clips. All of these clips that are coming out are really killing it. So I even know Pinball Jen. She's been doing little short clips good for her. I saw her do like a little short or like a TikTok or a Snapchat or an Insta short or whatever they are, X or whatever. I saw her doing one talking about getting dressed up for the DJs which I thought was hilarious. Shout out Pinball Jen. She's interesting. I might want to have her on the show too. I could start doing interviews again. You know what? I did Joe's interview. I was so nervous for it. You guys probably couldn't tell but I had a couple beers first, and Joe and I just kind of booked it last minute, so I didn't have time to get nervous about it. I owe Kerry Hardy an interview on this show. I owe Jason Knapp an interview on this show. I've already reached out, and I've mentioned to at least two other people who I'd like to have on the show. So I'm going to start doing interviews again. It will happen. Just let me go do the Nationals. Let me go do the Nationals, make it home alive, and not broke, and not be divorced. Jesus, I'll talk about that in a minute. I don't want to get divorced. It's not where I love, I eat, sleep, breathe pinball, but like I don't love pinball so much that I can get kicked out of my house and be living under, well, living in a van down by the river, or in my case, the ocean. The ocean, you're not really close. Absolutely nobody listening to this knows where that song was from, but it's the tragically hip in a song I believe called Just the Ocean. Anyways, let's get back into it. so Princess Bride number two okay number two on the list is the artwork wow when I saw the artwork and I think it is like their version of the premium LE like the higher end one when I saw the artwork on the side of like the Andre artwork on I believe the right hand side of the cab oh my god like I re-bound the video twice and looked at it and I was like wow like like somewhere Andre the Giant is up in heaven um you know with uh well I don't know who he's with, but maybe he's hanging out with my mom or my oma. I don't know, but he's up there. And if he looks down at that pinball machine, he's thinking if only his giant frickin' fingers that were the size of beer coasters could fit on a flipper, he'd love playing it. And let's be honest, the first time this man went to go do a slam tilt, he'd probably just destroy the pinball machine and do a million bits. What a rad dude. I actually have a decent collection of Andre the Giant stuff. I don't have any autographed Andre the Giant stuff, but I do have some limited cards and numbers. Anyways, I've gone off topic again. My best friend in the world, Matthew Megaphone, excuse me, he is a massive wrestling fan. So I've been stuck watching. When I was a kid, I loved watching wrestling. Nowadays, sorry, Josh Mudd, don't be mad at me, tribe member, friend there of the show. But no, I don't watch wrestling currently anymore. I have enough drama in my life. I don't need extra drama, no. But the artwork, the artwork is great. And I wanted to add into this, not just the artwork, but I think the LCD screen implementation for the center. And I was watching it with Drop Target Danielle, who is my ever-patient, awesome, loving, hopefully wife-to-be for a long time. But she said, wow, she hates having to try to look up. She's not particularly good at it. She plays on the fly. She doesn't cradle up. So anytime there's something happening on the LCD screen, she never sees it. She's never, even if the ball's locked, she's not comfortable glancing up. She doesn't know how long the lock's going to last or where the ball's going to come up. Halloween. Screw you, Halloween and your lifters. And Ultraman, probably, but I haven't tried it yet. Maybe Ultraman does a better job, like, being like, yo, the ball's about to come out of the secret location, sir. But, no, the implementation. We've seen this before. There was that other company from Great Britain, the Car Rocket something, Car Nitro something. I forget who it was. but there was a company that had a screen in the middle I got to play that pin once a long time ago and I believe Eric's house back at Kitchener Waterloo there back in the day, Hoosier I forget his name, anyways I got to play it there once and then, you know, there's lots of other games that have like little screens implemented but I think the best screen, and I'm sorry Barrels of Fun and Labyrinth because that screen implementation at the back probably would have won, but all of a sudden Multimorphic P3 said, and Jerry Sullenberger? Sullenberger? Jerry said, excuse me guys, could you please hold my beer? No, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Jerry said, please hold my beer for a second because I'm going to make screens even better than Barrels of Fun. You think Barrels of Fun is a cool new pinball company? Watch out, because it's about to get Barrels of Sad. Okay, so next one on the list is number three is all of the cool mechs, including by far my favorite, even though there's quite a few there, by far my favorite, I think yours, The Cliffs of Dorking, I forget what it's called, The Cliffs of the Royal Tenenbaums, I don't know what it was called, they're these cliffs, and there's a ball and a magnet, and the more shots that you hit, the ball goes further and further up, ingenious, indubitably, no, I don't know what the short, what does the short guy say in that, anyways, yeah, fanciful, No, cliffs of dorking. It is incredible. Number four on this list is the shots. I absolutely love the shots. Stephen Silver, if you're the man who came up with the shots, this pin, I would say from a shots perspective, feels the closest to like an OG pin. So I'm not going to say a real pin, but I'm going to say like an OG, like an old school, like how they used to make them pre-P3, pre-multimorphic. Okay. So the shots look great. there's the balls going in and out wherever like you know the first the first few iterations I kind of knew like I didn't really love I have played it you know I don't know three or four of the first P3 games shout out to Ian Harewer a friend of the show who now Ian actually has his own games and he did Bird Birdwatcher I think it's Birdwatcher don't quote me on that it's looking for birds it's not Pokemon I'll tell you that it's not Pokemon It is not Pokemon. Speaking of Pokemon, when I was doing some research, I heard a little bit of kickback from a couple different people about Pokemon being an upcoming pinball title. I want you in your head to think, how much money is the Looney Tunes brand worth overall? And look this up right on Google, or sorry, right on Wikipedia. You can just type up which brands in this world are worth the most money, and you'll see this exact list I did. Looney Tunes is up there. Looney Tunes as a brand between, you know, their lunch boxes and their video games and all their clothing and their shoes and their Space Jam and everything. Looney Tunes is worth $15 billion, okay? Now, think to yourself, Transformers, even bigger. Transformers is still to this day, since the 80s to this day, Transformers have never stopped making comic books. It went over to IDW for a bit. I think Marvel did it originally. I forget who's even doing it now. I think it's back to IDW, but it went to another comic. so Transformers have never really and then Transformers had all those movies Transformers have never became a dead brand they've never became irrelevant they've made tons of money on merch you think nowadays you could even go to any any playground I don't know in Australia or New Zealand I'm sorry I don't want to piss those guys off again but you go to any playground any school in like Canada or the United States you're probably going to see at least one kid between grade 2 and grade 8 or grade 6 with like a lunchbox or a backpack that's Transformers, or talking about Transformers, or going to see the movie, or their dad loves the movies, or their dad gave them this Transformers toy, or... I remember once... No, I'm not even going to go down that road. I'm not going to... We're already too long in time. Okay, there you go. Look, I restrained myself one time, guys. So, Transformers, $25 billion. Now, Star Wars. I know what you're thinking. Star Wars. How big is Star Wars? Looney Tunes, $15 billion. Transformers, $15 billion. Star Wars is worth $42 billion. Star Wars is one of the biggest brands in the world. Okay? Even Marvel. Marvel is slightly bigger than that, I believe, at $50 something. Okay? The Marvel Universe. How much do you think Pokemon is? Just ask yourself. Is it bigger than Looney Tunes at $15 million? Eh, probably not, right? It's some little kid's show. Is it bigger than Transformers at $25 million? Is it bigger than Star Wars at $40 billion? Is it bigger than all of the Marvel Universe combined? the answer is yes because it's the number one brand in the world it's bigger than the second biggest brand which is harry potter around i think 70 billion don't quote me on that one i'd have to double check i did write down a couple of the numbers but harry potter is at 88 billion dollars and it's growing every single day there's been like i think there's been now well over 20 pokemon video games there's video games for every system going all the way back to the game boy um they're not slowing down. Pokemon Go is still ranked number one in Canada for revenue brought in by a game, not by a new game, but overall by any mobile app. You know, Pokemon cards are graded. That's right, Pokemon cards are graded by the largest grader in the world, PSA, okay? PSA grades more Pokemon cards than all the other sports combined. More than basketball, baseball, football, hockey, and soccer combined. So Pokemon is not going anywhere. Whoever gets the rights to do Pokemon will not only make a shat's ton of money, but they'll introduce tons of new people. Like people like my son's age, all the way up to 25, who are super duper nostalgic for it. And then guess what? You've got the dads from about 35 to 55 who want to be relevant and cool to their kids. And, you know, they're adolescent teenagers and they want to commit to them. I can tell you right now, I would take $500 off Guardians of the Galaxy in a heartbeat to sell it in time to be able to be one of the first people. Pokemon is a theme I would be willing to lose money on. Everyone's like, I don't want to lose money in buying a new and boxed pinball machine. Then don't buy a new and boxed pinball. Okay, I don't want to do that voice. That voice is rude. But don't buy a new and boxed pinball machine then. If you don't want to lose money on a new and boxed pinball machine, buy it used. Buy it used like, you know, a pinball machine in its average lifetime, a stern pro may have anywhere from minimum, I would say probably five on the low end to 15 to 20, maybe even 30 different owners if it's a popular title. Okay, I know that there are medieval madnesses out there have been owned by 30 people. I know there's twilight zones out there have been owned by 15 to 20 people. So if 15 to 20 people are going to own this pin, only one person, only one in 20 people need to take the hit. Now, does one in 20 people need to take the hit so that pinball companies don't die, sure, let the people who make a hell of a lot more than probably most of us listening make, do that, let them take the hit on it, but I would be proud to take the hit on Harry Potter, and I'll be proud to take the hit on Pokemon, just to get that freaking pin, my hands on that pin, six, seven, eight, nine months early, and to know I'm the only one, you know, just to unbox it in that one time of my life, other than that, those are the, maybe back in the future would be in those top three, but that's it, so probably went a little bit off topic here. Probably don't know where I was on topic at, but so let's take a look here. Okay, so number four is the shots and the number of different shots, and number five, oh, number five is a good one. Number five is the one I'm the most excited to talk about, is the price. So every single time there's a new pin that comes out that is priced well under, well under a Stern Pro that you can just get and throw in your arcade and be playing within minutes of getting it, and it doesn't take up more room in your arcade. So if you live in, it's not just for people living in fancy penthouses in New York City, okay? This is for people who live all across North America, all across the world, especially in Europe where there's less square footage per person, far less. You don't maybe have room for 5, 10, 15, 20 pins at your house. You might have room for 3 to 5. Well, if you only have room for, like most of us, you only have room for three to five pins, if one of your three to five pins is a P3 Multimorphic, you now can have Scott Danesi's masterpiece, Final Resistance. You can have probably the coolest P3 pin to ever come out until last week, Weird Al. And just also very similar to me. I'm the Canadian Weird Al, right? But you can have Weird Al. You can have Heist. Heist is really rad. I voted for Heist having the best mod at any pinball machine, or not the best mod, the best mech, the year that Heist came out, with that giant crane, okay, you can have cosmic kart racing, where you can race your other friends from all the way around the world, you can have Birdwatcher, and you can have Birdwatcher on any of those, which is kind of neat, you can have, you know, Drained, and you can have, and there's, you know, every single time a new must-have P3 Multimorphic cab comes out, it brings the cost, like, let's say there's only four pins that you want from it, and it's going to cost you 12,000 to get the original system and $3,000 for the other ones. We're talking it's going to cost you $25,000 to get these four pins. When you look at the average cost of that, it is under $6,000 per pin taxes, landage, shipping, everything. And you have four incredible titles, but those four incredible titles only take up the space of one pinball machine. The advantages of this are astounding. They're incredible. You'd have to say at this point, if you were only going to own one pinball machine, it would absolutely without a doubt, if you were going to get sent to a desert island, I don't even care if you're Gary Stern. You'd have to admit, if you're being truthfully honest, if you could only take one pinball machine with you to an island, it'd probably be a P3. Because you'd get all the modules. And even if you only got it with one module, you can still play like 15 other games on that one module. Without even changing out that module. For like $50 to $100 to max $200 per extra add-on game. so you can get 15 games in one module now does anyone want to play Cosmic Kart Racing or like wait I don't know if that's one of them does anyone want to do Bird Watcher on Princess Bride probably I hope so or Drained I don't know maybe it sounds like fun it can't hurt right you've already got it so congratulations to you P3 Multimorphic get yourself a showman get someone who can like run the live streams and be more entertaining and capture because 10,000 people were watching them there of the like non-pinball people that came over if they happen to tune in I'm sorry Jerry I love you but if they tune in while Jerry was talking and no one was playing they probably tuned right out okay that's just what happened I'm sorry yeah anyways that's all I'm gonna say so I love P3 Jerry didn't do anything wrong I just think they need to hire they need a Jack Danger they need And, you know, okay, they did have, to be fair, to be fair, to be fair, they did have Kevin Manning, okay, of Buffalo Pinball, and he certainly is at least somewhat entertaining, and, you know, he talks with lots of intonation, and I love Kevin. So he was there, but he didn't talk much. When he was talking, I was able to, like, at least pay attention and get what he was saying. But, like, with Jerry, it was, I had to, maybe it's because I'm ADD, probably. Maybe it's because I'm bipolar, probably. Maybe it's because I'm a freaking wacko. Probably. But you need to, like, Jack Danger, I never had that problem. Jack Danger, I could stay in a live stream from when he first started, and Jack would even tell you this, he could start at, like, 7 p.m. While I was making dinner for the family, I had Deadflip on in the background. While I was playing pinball, I had Deadflip on in the background on a Bluetooth speaker, like, loud, while watching him while I was playing. While I was watching other TV shows or watching a show with my wife, I would have it on mute and be watching or have one headphone in when my wife went to bed at night I would say good night to her maybe hang out with her some quality time little pickle tickle say good night do whatever you know and then after that what it would do is I would go listen to Jack Danger and watch Jack Danger and type in the chat and I couldn get enough of this guy this guy could stop playing pinball and just dance with a ladder for three and a half or four hours after that and just be a DJ and play music and talk about life And he was so freaking entertaining. So you've got to get someone who's used to talking to a crowd the same way you wouldn't take a really good live streamer and hope that live streamer could step into Jerry's position and do how hard running a company is. You can't expect someone who's really good at running a company to be perhaps great at organizing and running the live stream. So maybe next time, let the Buffalo Pinball guys talk a bit more and or get like a showman. But cheers and shout out to Buffalo Pinball. Love you dudes. Thank you for doing what you do. I will say this. When I go listen to Buffalo Pinball, their sometimes monthly and sometimes bi-monthly pinball podcast on YouTube, Brody even talked pinball. I will say this. I think that both of them are very, very, very good at speaking honestly about their opinions without too much. You know what I mean? They're not doing too much arsehole kissing, okay? They're not kissing those bleached arses too, too much. They're at least, you know, they're, you know, and I know that they were even talking about David Fix on the last podcast, and that gave me some insights into David Fix. So again, I'll say this. I love Dave Fix. Love, and I always have. For years, I watch every minute. Dave Fix is a showman. Dave Fix is entertaining. Dave Fix is funnier. The live streams are funnier for AP when Dave Fix is there. It's not just his beautiful mustache, flowing mustache that he used to braid in the 70s, okay? It's not just the giant crocodile Dundee Iron Man. Wait, wait, wait, I went into pirate. I wasn't supposed to do Australian or New Zealand-ish today, okay? I'd save that for in Minecraft. But I think that he is good at American Pinball. I just, I don't know. I don't know if I don't know I don't know behind the walls I don't know if he's good enough to save American Pinball I don't know I don't know if anyone is at this point the only thing that could save American Pinball would be getting a license they're basically like they're like this kid grounding in the ocean and he's 10 feet away from the Titanic now the Titanic is not going down yet just for a point of reference in your head and he's yelling to the Titanic help I'm drowning and like literally all the people on the ship are like okay, grab this life vest. They're throwing you lifeboats. They're throwing you that, you know, that nerdy ring thing on the long rope. They're throwing that. And the guy's going, oh, no, I don't want to touch the life raft. Oh, no, no, no, no. No, no, I could. Guys, you're great at making machines. You have Steven Bowden to do all your commentary and your live streaming and to help with your rules and your code. You have Josh Kugler back. No, wait. No, no, no, they don't. He went over to P3. Never mind. That's fake news, fake news. But no, but like, American Pinball, I want them to succeed. I love them. I hope they do succeed. But are they going to succeed? I would say most probably, it's going to be hard for them to succeed without a license. That's all I'll say. If they're okay with just selling a couple each time, that's fine as well. But let's move forward here. The price of P3 Multimorphic has made everything more yummy, more edible, more findable, more doable, and at a better price. So the one thing, okay, before I get to the one thing I really dislike the most about P3 Multimorphic and it's challenging, and it isn't Jerry, don't worry. Okay, it's not Jerry, it's not the Jerry ramp, and it's not Jerry from Rick and Morty. And it's not even those swords. I do not like those swords. The highest end one, the LE one, which is a whole other bucket of chum that we have to talk about where there's blood in the water. Now you have to go buy the whole system to get the high end, which it does kind of burn everybody else from P3 Multimorphic who would like the highest end one but already owns a P3 system, okay? But that's not what it's about. It's those swords. They're so ugly. You've got to interwrap your interlace, your fingers all around. Like, I think I heard that on Dawns. He explained it that way. It's like, whoa. Then I started looking at it. I don't like the swords there. I just don't. That's not a good place for a sword. It's just not, okay? S-W-O-R-D. How else would you pronounce it? Come on. We're just having fun here. We're just having fun here, you swards, you bunch of swerdy nerdies. Yeah. So the bad, the worst part is this, and I mentioned this a couple shows ago, and if you didn't hear it, I'll go over it again. Pinball all the way during COVID just needed to be spectacular. If you made a pinball machine that either the shots looked fun or the theme was decent or it didn't matter what it was, it would sell. because nobody could keep pinball machines in stock. But now that COVID's done, and now that all that stuff's over, the pinball machines need to be real and spectacular. Just like Terry Hatcher said when she bumped her head back in on Seinfeld when they were trying to find out if her breasts were implants or real, and Jerry thought, well, they must be implants because they're just, they're freaking incredible. Of course, she pops her head back in and she says, and by the way, they're spectacular and they're real. Or sorry, no, she says they are real and they're spectacular. And then she leaves. And it was like the funniest moment of that episode. Maybe the funniest moment of that season. What? Okay. Sorry, Hayden was giving me a stare like he had something to say. But nope, he's just letting me know that he's running the printer. So instead of having background noises of just chickens, we've got print. Are you printing a lot of pages? Just three pages. Well, that's nothing. Okay. So, yes, as if I needed Hayden to distract me. I get distracted by a fart in the wind over here, okay? So, yes, but Terry Hatcher has said they have to be real and they have to be spectacular. The place where I play pinball the most is in Moncton. And Spin It Records, shout out to Pat and the whole crew there who are awesome at the pinball machines, even though it's a little tricky on a Saturday when there's that many people looking for records to actually try to play pinball and not get in their way, but that's fine. It is what it is. Shout out to Pat and everybody there. But the first day, as far as I know, the first day that Weird Al came out, Pat ordered it. He still hasn't got it. So I'm sorry. They're not real. If you're someone right now who doesn't currently own a P3 Multimorphic, like the main machine, and you need to get the main machine to go along with your Princess Bride, like the top-end version, I'm sorry, but I can't imagine you're not waiting at least a year. I can't imagine it. maybe maybe maybe maybe they stop making weird owls and just start making these I don't know but like the weird owls aren't out the base systems for the weird so there's some weird owls are out of course I know some some people have them but like if they still haven't got the primary machines out for that and they still haven't done the weird owls they would have to I'm assuming unless I'm wrong which I could be because I don't work for a pinball company just some stoner dude in the middle of nowhere in Nova Scotia the the most furthest north pinball podcast around the planet here, but if I had to guess, if I was a gambling man, which I am, but I'm not going to gamble on this because I have no clue, but to the best of my knowledge, they have not well, unless it's there in Moncton and got there this morning, the last time I was in Moncton, it wasn't there. So the Weird Owls, let's say they even finish the Weird Owls by, I don't know, the end of summer. Then they've got to do Scott Danesi's masterpiece, right? Final Resurrection. Completion, finals. Final Resistance. When they finish final resistance, even if it was a smaller run than Weird Al, it took, what, two and a half years? Two years for Weird Al? It couldn't be longer to get Weird Al done? Maybe we only take a year, so by next spring, maybe they're done all Scott Danesi's games? In my head, I'm thinking, they're going to make the lower end Princess Brides first, so maybe those are available next summer? Jerry and team are already saying they're going to be available this summer. I don't understand. Are you going to stop the line and make people who are still waiting years on a weird owl, you're going to stop the line and go make a machine that came out like three systems later. And then I don't know what they're going to do. I hope everybody, listen, if this is your dream thing, Princess Bride, buy it. I think I'm very confident when I say that I believe that they'll still be around in a couple of years from now. It seems to me like they're doing just fine. However, you're going to be waiting a long time. And if you're getting that top end one, I, you know, talk to Jerry, talk to your distributor, talk to other people who've bought and own P3s, don't talk to me, but just, I would be hesitant, because that, I don't know if it's non-refundable or not, that money could be locked away for years, like, and I could be wrong, tomorrow Jerry could start releasing these, I have no clue, but I'm just saying I would be hesitant towards, okay, so that is the thing, that is the bad part, is it's spectacular, the machine is spectacular. Princess Bride is spectacular. Princess Bride is their best pin. Just looking at it, I think it's like better integrated than Weird Al. Maybe the music's not as cool, but the music's very mellow and relaxing. I want to get a Weird Al. Drop Target, Danielle wants to get Princess Bride. She said that every major, she is, she's watched it like a hundred times. When I met her, she was quoting it all day to the point that I was like, enough Princess Bride, baby. Come on. I'll drink the wine with you, lover, but please, please, please stop doing the wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, that voice. Like, there was another pinball podcaster doing that voice, and I had to skip it because it was annoying. All right. I do lots of annoying things, so pot calling the kettle black, monsieur. Oh, monsieur. Oh, monsieur. Okay. Here we go. I had to flip the page here. I didn't want to talk about this part. Hopefully no one's still here listening. But I have to talk about the headache with Haggis, okay? So I'm going to start by saying this the same way I did with Stephen Silver. I played in the London Pinball I didn't just play in it with Jeff Teolis but Jeff Teolis was one of the I don't think he was the president but I think he was maybe the vice president he was up there, he was in the council he was in the group of people that got there early that helped with the pins he did all that stuff and then I think he was not only a tournament director but I think he also helped with the Kitter Waterloo group that I played in monthly and then he also helped run all the tournaments in Hamilton there I don't know, like, basically I would see Jeff like sometimes three, four times a month to play in pinball tournaments. And, you know, we weren't close friends. We didn't travel often together because he lived about an hour away. But I know him very well and I have a lot of respect for Jeff. And I don't ever want to say anything negative about Jeff without me knowing for sure. And here's the thing about Haggis. I just don't know for sure. And like Jeff will quite often tell you his best friend is Marty. And if Jeff's best friend is Marty, and I used to, of course, love Ryan, Ryan Say and Marty, I'm not supposed to do an Ozzy Octagon. You're banned. You're banned, zombie. No, no more Ozzy. So I have no clue. I don't know what the real truth is, what's happening. I will say this. I probably can't talk about it without being, like, kinder than I should be. Would I, at this point, put money into Haggis? Probably not. unless I was the absolute millionaire and I wanted to save them do I think Haggis makes a great product? Seemingly yes, I thought they did until I heard Bruce talk about his fathom on Slam Tilt but I thought they made just really, you know they're hitting the hammer with the thing and I thought they just made a really good product but according to some people the products have some issues coming outside the box but that's either here or there, I haven't heard too much of that the main issue is how long it takes to get these friggin things it's the exact same issue as we're seeing with P3 Multimorphic it's not that they don't make a quality product it's not that they don't get good themes it's not that we don't they certainly have a hype man like Marty is a hype man if you've ever had a hype man in your life now would I like to see Haggis doing more live streaming we know for years that Marty did live streaming with Head to Head I would sometimes I would be the only Canuck in there chatting in the mornings because you know Australia and we're anyways Marty knows how to live stream I would love to see Marty live streaming the same way I encouraged Steven Bowden to be live streaming. I know Marty's going, oh, brother. Oh, brother, Albert. Oh, Obie. Obie, you underdog. Oh, Obie, don't do that. Okay, sorry. Wait, I think I went British. I think I was, like, pulling a little UK pinball podcast, a little Neil McCrae there for you. But I just think that, like, no, if I had a non-refundable deposit, I'd probably be upset. If I paid for the whole thing, I'd be shit and frickin' bricks. I'd be a shit brick, all right? So much for not swearing this episode, you P.O. See, when I get really excited, I swear a lot, and I'm really upset, I swear a lot, and I'm really drunk, I swear a lot. All the other times, I, like, don't have to swear. Weddings or a funeral, I try not to swear, briefly, until the after party. I have either. Okay, so what I want to say is, because I don't believe I can do a good job explaining the Haggis situation, I will say this. Most large companies who go into bankruptcy are the same large companies who previously to that, you'll quite often hear them go into recapitalization. Recapitalization can be a TSN turning point where we could say five years from now, remember Haggis did the recapitalization. And since then, they've built products far quicker. They've got stuff out of the door. They've cleaned up their quality issues. They've got better their marketing and communication. I think Marty's their marketing and communication guy. So I will say this. I would like to see more marketing and communication because we see very little marketing and communication. Now, maybe that's because of Damien or maybe it's because of Marty. I don't know. Maybe Marty's hands are tied. But we need to see more of that. There needs to be more transparency. There needs to be more, you know, at least like at what point? Like, in the last year, we've heard more from Home Pin than we have Damien. Like, that's weird. Like, that's weird that Home Pin has been on the Aussie Pinball Podcast, but in the last year, I don't remember ever hearing Damien or Marty on the Aussie Pinball Podcast. So, Dr. John, come on, we'd like to hear that. And maybe Dr. John's asking, and they just don't want to talk right now. I don't know. But maybe, and I hope, I hope to God, please, I'm not going to be a negative answer to your Debbie Downer. I hope to God. Now, with Deep Root, I wanted them to fail because that guy was a dick. And that's even before I knew he was stealing money from senior citizens. But this company, I don't want them to fail. I don't think that they are Deep Root. I don't even think Haggis is American Pinball. I think that Haggis, unfortunately, like Kerry Hardy mentioned, they're one of these, like, 40% of the companies, small businesses that basically are either bankrupt or on the verge of bankruptcy in Australia since COVID. it. I think that they were on a good route, and they got deflected. Do I think Celts is, like, ever going to be an awesome, incredible pinball machine? Of course not. Do I think Centaur is? Yes, because I already love Centaur. You know, Fathom I already really liked. I think their Fathom looks gorgeous. I've said that before. Like, literally, until Christopher Franchi's masterpiece, Elton John by Jersey Jack came out, and thank you, it's also a masterpiece not just the artwork Franchi, but also because of Steve Ritchie. So, until then, I think like Fathom's like highest end with that cool like lit artwork, the lights that come out the bottom and how beautiful it looked inside, I think until then, the Fathom Revisited might be the most beautiful pin ever until we saw that one. Ah, the Munsters Premium, I don't know. Ah, oh, Elvira Blood Red. Okay, there's lots of beautiful pins coming out lately. Beautiful pins are not the problem. The problem is the new Unboxed prices have not adjusted yet. They have not corrected. They're still going to correct. Whichever company moves fast. It doesn't matter if it's Stern, Jersey Jack. We have seen, was it not Pinball Brothers, but there was the other company that just lowered the price on one of their music pins. Anyways, we are seeing some people either lower their prices or keep their prices stable. And remember, when we're in a high inflationary period between 3% to 6%, when a pinball company goes two years in a row, not raising their prices, that means that they've taken a hit for up to 12% of inflation. So it's like the price came down almost 15% when you don't see an increase. So if all we're going to get from these larger companies is no increases, that's fine. But I'm telling you right now, whichever company pivots, and I think American Pinball could do it, if American Pinball said, hey, 500 bucks off every pin in our stock, I think you might have a couple of people move on, especially with streaming it each week, Houdini, Beer Fest. Oh, Legends of Valhalla. I'm supposed to wait to the end to talk about this because I was on my trip with my wonderful wife, hopefully still to be my wife in the future. But I'm stuttering again, see? We actually were at Seven's Pinball-O-Rama there in Prince Edward Island, in good old Charlottetown, or just outside of it, and I got to play Legends of Valhalla. And I actually spent quite a bit of time on it this time, because I played all the other gimmicky-type pins there quite a bit, and some of them are in good condition, some of them are in mediocre condition, some of them are pretty rough. But for a place that has tons of people playing all the time, I will say this, they're in a hell of a better condition than the tilt machines at Tilt in London, Ontario. But I really came around on Legends of Valhalla. I started to figure out some of the weird different shots. Do I think it shoots as good as any Elloween pin? No. But I love the callouts. Shout out to Jeff Teola. See how it's hard? See how it's hard for me to ever say anything negative about Haggis when I get Jeff Teolis on Legends of Valhalla yelling at me the whole eight hours I'm playing there. But no, I'm really, okay, you know what hasn't grown on me? Hot Wheels. No, no, no, no. I tried to play it three times. I couldn't get through the air tools sound. I had a really good ball on my first game. I had a really good ball. Like, I was playing for like 15 minutes. I was starting races. I was freaking doing, I was doing everything but doing a loop-to-loop, a color-changing car wash, and a jump ramp. I did everything but that. I guess those were the three shots I must have missed. But I swear to God, at the end of the ball, it was like you were in the Stern factory on the line with the air tools. Zing, zing, zing, zing, zing, zing, zing, zing, zing, zing, zing, zing, zing, zing, zing, zing, zing, zing, zing, zing, zing, zing, zing, zing, zing, zing. There was air tool sounds for 45 seconds after I stopped playing. I was like, that's too much air tools. That's too much. Even if you're like the man who created the air tool, and it's your favorite sound on earth because you think of ka-Bradlee Ching, ka-Bradlee Ching like you're getting royalty every time someone uses an air tool. You still don't want to hear hours of air tools. Please, for the love of God, someone at American Pinball, if you just do a code update where you say, hey, 25% less air tools, people would buy it. People would go for it. But no, okay, they wouldn't. I would. I would maybe consider it. No, I won't. I don't like the shocks in that game. I don't like that game. I don't like the modes. I don't like the setup. I don't like that game. I don't like that game. And I love Hot Wheels. I'm a Hot Wheels collector. I have probably one of the premier Batman Hot Wheels collections on planet Earth, including a shat's ton of Harley Quinn Hot Wheels. So I love Hot Wheels, but maybe because I had such large expectations, that's why great expectations equal, you know, pride comes before the fall. The bigger they are, the harder they hit, whatever that is. So go listen to Cary Hardy is what I'm saying, because I think his take on Haggis is chef's kiss. he he really comes at it from a like look he doesn't want to not talk about it because so many people want to talk about haggis but at the same time he doesn't want to roast damien or marty because they may maybe they have not misstepped at all we don't know i mean other than not doing very much communication not very much marketing not very many factory tours and not streaming that's lost like if you have marty on your team and marty was streaming even once a week and maybe the second most like fun outgoing showman there was streaming once a week and they would do like you know, probably not Celts or Celts or whatever it is, you know, but if people were live streaming like, you know, Centaur and Fathom Revisited and then the one week they would just play the original Fathom and then the next week maybe Marty talked more about the rules he did and Fathom Revisited. If they were out there all the time talking to the public, answering questions, I think it would slowly give people slightly more confidence. Are they going to go start buying immediately? No. But maybe that prevents, they go, this is a real company, Marty's really there. People are trying. These guys are working their asses off. And who knows? Maybe there's a live stream with a factory in the background with all the people. And then we do get to hear some air tools. Those are the air tools I want to hear. The air tools working, making Haggis pinball machines work. Right? Those are the good air tools that we want. So who knows? I don't know. You don't know. Kerry Hardy doesn't know. And he's way more connected in pinball than me. He even reached out to Damien. And nobody really knows. What we do know is that any time any pinball company that's barely dripping out a pinball machine once in a while says we're going to be even slower, not good news. Any time on planet Earth that we hear a pinball company say, we're really sorry, you know, you paid for this in full months ago, but you're not going to get it for months, if not a year, bad news. That being said, I will agree with Kerry Hardy. I do not think Haggis is deep root. if I were like paycheck to paycheck and I fully paid for my haggis pin give your head a shake that was Philly to do that with your money but most people who paid for those haggis pins in full are probably fairly well off now to anyone out there who's listening to this who paid for their haggis pin in full isn't well off and is now afraid they're just never going to get their pin I would say you're probably going to get your pin at this point I think you're going to get your pin it's just going to take a long time you're going to have to practice patience and maybe you're going to have to sell your, you know, you might have to sell to someone for a bit less. You take maybe a $500, $1,000 hit. It sucks, but it's life. It's life. I took a $500 hit in the last week. In fact, I took a multi-thousand dollar hit. I'm going to tell you guys about that in just a second. But first of all, go watch Kerry Hardy's video. Refreshing, important. I'm glad he did it. I appreciate it. I really like it. Let's go into this next part. and this next part is, well, it's the end of the show, my friends. Here it is, that little tidbit you waited the whole hour. Now, listen, Christopher Franchi and other people listening that don't love hearing me go off topic and talk about non-pinball stuff, this is your time to cut bait. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. A little race car sounds for you. You guys just got out of here faster than Don's pinball podcast on a skateboard. No, Don's not like four. Don's doing four pinball unboxings in 24 hours. and I've never done one. And I should be jealous, but I'm not, because Don works hella hard for it. Anyone who saw Don in the livestream knew this man was tired. He had been up 72 hours without a nap. Poor guy. Plus, he's got a hella hard job. Plus, he has a young kid, right? Plus, it's possible that his wife may be more demanding than mine, who's pretty chill and relaxed. I don't know that to be true for sure. Monica seems like a gem, though, so who knows? I just happen to have a really mellow, like, you know, basically a hippie hipster wife who's like pretty mellow and chill about stuff, which is awesome, which is why I hope I don't lose her, which is now why I'm going to talk first about bankruptcy, which has to do with some personal stuff. The company that I bought my airline ticket to, to go to the nationals in De Pere, De Pere, De Beer, De Pere. I don't know where it is. It's south of Green Bay, Wisconsin. And that thing, that part, I think I, Green Bay, I think I can pronounce Green Bay. No problem. The company called Lynx Air, after I paid in full, after I had already got my pre-registration, after I had already done everything, claimed bankruptcy last Monday. And Tuesday morning, Danielle let me know. So Danielle immediately at lunch went to our credit union and spoke to them. and they said that from what they understand, the chances of getting your back money from creditor protection, and ironically, hopefully it doesn't have anything to do with American Pimble or Haggis, but it could in their future. It could. I'm just saying both of those companies, no one would be too shocked if they filed bankruptcy. We would be upset, but we wouldn't be too shocked, because both of them now, I'd be shocked a couple weeks ago with Haggis maybe, but just with how everything's gone the last year with AP, and everything's gone now the last year and a half with Haggis, no one here would be that shocked about insolvency. Because typically, insolvency happens right as or during, if not before bankruptcy. They're very synonymous. They're essentially similar things, even though at one point there's certain higher... Creditors who have a bigger stake in the game get paid first. So I'm sorry. If Haggis or AP goes bankrupt, your $1,000 deposit is probably at the bottom of their creditor list. That means they have to pay back whoever makes their boards first. Well, I guess AP does that in-house, so they should be okay with that. But whoever makes their cabs, whoever they get their parts from, whoever they get their LCD screens from, whoever they buy their paint from, whoever they buy their wood from, whoever they buy their metal components from, will all be paid back before you. And this is evident by what happened at the bank after Lynx Airlines claimed bankruptcy. And I know what you're thinking. Orby, how does this affect him? Well, I might not be able to go to the Nationals, or at least that's what I spent a week thinking. because I talked to my dad this morning and even though the bank said that there's zero to little chance I'll ever get a freaking penny of that money, which was like all the money on my board. I am not independently wealthy. I'm independent, but I'm not wealthy. I get $300 a month allowance, okay? That's like, I don't know, 75 bucks a week, right? That's more than enough. That's for cards, comics, craft beer, and yes, even the devil's lettuce. And fast food, which I haven't bought any since last year, thank God I did have one, I tried some Domino's pizza last month, but I won't go too hard on that yet. But I've had fast food since 2023. That's kind of a, I didn't think I'd make it this long. What are we, six, seven weeks? I'm almost eight weeks without fast food. That's all right. I will be traveling to De Pere, and I'll be eating no De Pere's or De Apples. I'll be eating all of De Fast Food while I'm in De Pere, okay? So very excited for De Pere. In fact, I do think I have one more episode for you guys. But I know you're thinking, but wait, Orby, if your flight got canceled, The bank says you're not getting the money back for it, and you absolutely cannot afford to fly with any of the expensive airlines. And the one other mediocre, not expensive airline is now just way too expensive. And even if I did fly into Toronto, I would still have to take a bus to Detroit or Sarnia or Port Edward, and then I would have to take a train or a bus or a flight to Madison, no, to Green Bay, and then I would have to take an Uber, a car, a train, or my two legs, or can you rent scooters or bicycles there? I don't know. Or rent a scooter and a bicycle. It said it's like 20 minutes to get to the father, the pair. So I was talking to my dad this morning, who is not a world traveler, and he came up with a simple solution to my problem. Because I said, Dad, I now either have to drive for 52 hours across five provinces in like several states, or, wait, is it several states? No, no, no, no, I would go through Canada. It's just one state, it's Wisconsin. On the way back, I would go through Illinois and Michigan, I think. Illinois and Michigan. I don't know my geography, plus, you know, I do know geography. I just don't know American geography as good as I probably should. But my dad, my dad, the guy with agoraphobia for 40 years who for sometimes years in his life could not even leave his apartment barely, You can now, thank God. But he's never came to visit me here on the East Coast. And, Dad, if you're listening, I love you and you're a hero. But you need to get your ass out here to the East Coast, my friend. I don't even care if you have a freaking heart attack on that airplane. You take five or six clonazepams. You don't drink anymore. But, like, just do whatever you need to do, my guy. Maybe get your dopamine rushing. My dad is like a square, like the true square, which I guess I'm going to be in de pair for a little bit. Someone told me there's no alcohol at D82. you're talking the top pinball bar in the world the top pinball arcade on the planet and you can't even have a little brew ska can't even have a little how are you going to wet your whistle your mouth is going to be all dry from smoking a ganja but wait you're not allowed to smoke to ganja but you can in a different state so are you telling me i'm going to drive to illinois to get high and then come back to wisconsin this is y'all in the states it's weird rules like oh so what if you get baked in detroit then when you go to leave and you go to harlem you're like you get arrested there, because they're like, oh, there's no high people in Harlem. I don't think Harlem is there. I think I was thinking of 8 Mile. But anyways, alas, these are all first world problems, because my dad saved the day. And he said, Albert, you can't do that drive by yourself. I can't. I have spina bifida. Don't worry, it's the good one. But I have tons of back pain. Even just sitting here talking to you for this amount of time is actually hurting my back. I need to stretch all the time. I sit on tennis balls when I drive. I literally do a self-massage in the morning, and I do yoga and stretches and freaking I do dog. I do downward dog. I do upwards horse. I do backwards triangle. You know, I'm doing all this stuff for my back. There's no, I can't sit in a car longer than two hours straight. Unless I'm in the passenger side and I can like fully like put it back and stretch and lay on my left hip and my right hip and keep stretching and stuff. I cannot sit in a car longer than two hours. I just can't. I can't. I wish I could. It starts to like flare. I guess I could if I took like anti-inflammatory and like Advil or Tylenol and shit. I don't want to be on drugs driving across Canada. Well, I mean, I do, but not those types of drugs. So my dad came up with the coolest solution ever. He said, well, Hayden will just be finishing his certified personal trainer program. He won't be working yet. He did get second in New Brunswick. He'd probably love to see the States. He's only been to the States like maybe three times. I think we went to Derry and Lake Six Flags once or twice. And I brought him to Buffalo. Buffalo soldier. and got the hot of America. Oh, whoa, whoa. Okay, now I'm just thinking. We need to end this show, guys. We need to end this show. I need to go. My maple buckets are full. Yes, with water, but mostly maple sap because it's 11 degrees here. I don't know what that is in Fahrenheit. Chicken update real quick for y'all. Chickens are doing okay. Oh, the big news I was trying to give you guys. Who cares about the chicken update? I do remember that the Loser Kids, I don't know if it was Josh or Scott. I'm not sure which one or both of them run the Facebook page, but they said something about, we're so sorry that you can hear kids in the background of our recent episode. It's only at the start. Hopefully, y'all can get through it, something like that. And I wrote immediately. I was like, for the last month, all my nerd herd, every one of you nerd herders listening right now had to listen to chickens in the background. And for that, reach around. Don't give yourself a reach around. That's boring. You get that from someone else. But reach around right now and pat your own back. There you go. You patted your own back. You did great. Cheers. Thank you. But, so my dad said, if he's getting his income tax money back, he said, I know that you're out a lot of money from that trip, Albert. And I know that you now have to either drive yourself or you have to basically miss nationals I tried every even Eric Stone under Stone Cold Deals That right Eric Stone my competitor in round one He was helping me get there He talking about these weird ways of traveling I don think we have them in Canada Apparently, if you fly into one place, but then you say you're going direct to another, he was talking about all these weird things that you do with the flights. And then even Ray Day chirped in. He was saying, no, no, I do the opposite. Like, I say I'm going to this place, but I just don't take the second one. And it's like, that doesn't happen in Canada. I live on a little tiny island called Nova Scotia that you can drive from the north of the South, In like two hours, we have one airport that even has planes bigger than like an RC plane. Okay. And that one airport only flies to a couple places. And like none of them are in the U.S. Maybe, I've never looked. Maybe they do fly to New York City like once a month or something. But like it is called an international airport. But they get like the odd flight from Europe. It's 99% just like Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, Quebec City, and Vancouver. Those are the odd time you'll see like Regina. Regina. Put that in your Regina and smoke it. Or medicine hat. Put the Regina in your medicine hat. Okay. I've gone off topic again. But so Hayden is going to, oh my God. I don't want to lose this two-hour podcast. Hold on a second. I'm going to dive under the couch. Hold on. Here we go. Whoa. Okay. I never played it. Okay. All right. Didn't think I would talk this long, but I've surprised nobody. I've surprised absolutely no one, including myself. But now I must go because I can tell that the maple syrup buckets are overflowing. Luna Tuna, Eloyn V, who was, in my mind anyway, she was a runner-up for that award. Come on. Let's be honest. Come on. Joe, was she a runner-up? Okay. There is no runner-ups, but she got a mention. Oh, and another shout-out. Shout-out to Joe. myself and Mike Dimas of Pinball Shenanigans, my pinball mentor, my pinball dude who got me into it back in the day and bought and sold to me most of the 15 pinball machines I've got to buy and sell in my life. So shout out to Mike Dimas and myself. We both won prizes. I won a really cool D. Jenny's poster. So get this. I won a poster that I'm in. Isn't that awesome? Like I'm on, I don't know, I'm like the second row down and it doesn't matter. But I always wanted that poster and now I get to get it. Joe, if you're listening, I'm sorry. I did promise I would whip there on your website. Everybody listening, if you enjoy the Degenis, please find the link somewhere. I'm sure that you can find it faster than me. Message Joe. He'd love to send the link. But go on there and buy some degenerate stuff. Joe loses money every single year on this. He puts his heart and soul into it. If you're listening to this right now, in place of telling you to go buy any coffee or tea, don't worry about that. Oh, someone did. I think it was a pinball nerd from Chicago. Chicago. I didn't recognize the name. And was it Matt? I won't give away your last name. I don't want to dox anyone here today, meow. But whoever it was, I'll say the name on my next pod. Someone bought a pinball nerd's podcast, Orbeez Potion Tea. And we were so shocked because we were like, what? I haven't even talked about the name of my coffee company. So to the person who bought all those teas on there, thank you. There is coffee if you're Jones in the coffee and you can't get some from Drew, which hopefully he's almost sold those. We're getting close to a year, so hopefully Drew's sold most of those. But get your coffee from Drew. But if you can't get it from Drew, you can go onto the Facebook page for Angry Alpaca and click the shop now. Maybe you feel slightly sorry that I'm out $1,400 from this last weekend between airfare, which I'll never get back. Most likely, maybe I'll get it back. I'll update you guys if I get it back. but between airfare and then unfortunately and you can hear it my voice part of the reason why I didn't come back here sooner was because I was sick but Owen my youngest son got the sickest he's ever been never misses school he ended up missing our we only buy monthly a couple like not in the summer so maybe five four shows a year we do this giant show with 200 vendors in Halifax I normally make between $700 to $1,000 at it. We had to miss that show, not only because Owen was sick, not only because I was sick, but because we got hit with a giant, powerful storm, and all of the police out here, we call them RCMP. Yes, that stands for Royal Mounted Canadian Police. However, they're not mounted on horses here. Don't worry, they're actually in police cars. But the RCMP told everybody for three days leading up to this massive storm, do not be on the road unless you absolutely have to, and especially don't go over the pass. Well, the pass is the end of the mountain range that, yes, goes up through the Poconos and through Maine and through New York State and all the way down through the Appalachians. But we are the very end. I think it's also part of the Laurentians up in Quebec. But basically, the very end of that same Appalachia mountain range, there's the very end part of it, we believe. I think. I could be wrong. I'd have to research it. Maybe that's more in New Brunswick. But basically, there's this one mountain area that you have to pass. And where you pass, you have to pay a toll. And you're way high up in the mountains. And the Carl Weathers there gets crazy. So not only did we miss that show, but then I missed my show the next day in Moncton because the snow plows still hadn't got by the next day. And the snow was still coming down. There was like two and a half feet of snow. There's no way I could have backed out of the driveway. Not even with Hayden and Owen pushing and everything. There was just, it was too crazy. Now, thankfully, like, Danielle didn't have to go to work that day. Hayden and Owen didn't have anywhere to go. Everybody in the family was kind of sick. But shout-out to Martin. I'm sorry I missed your show in Halifax. Shout-out to AMG. Or shout-out to Martin. I missed your show in Moncton. Shout-out to AMG. Sorry I missed that one. Hopefully they're not mad at me. I explained to them, like, we even tried the morning of. We barely made it past Amherst. And, like, I was going off the road. I was having to drive at 30. I could see other cars were having real issues at all the intersections. And I was like, no. I'm not driving for a five-hour round trip on the worst day of the year in a small little car, which, yes, thanks to Drew, we do have snow tires. However, it's like there's no all-wheel drive. It's not a Subaru. It's not a truck. I don't have all-wheel drive. You know, I don't have metal studs in my tires. I wasn't going to chance my life, Danielle's life, everybody else's, especially because my wife was already sort of annoyed. When we found out that, so between these three things being canceled, I'm out over $1,500 well I have no clue how good sales would have been to Halifax if I take my average sales in Halifax I'm out well over $2,000 now $2,000 Canadian Americans that's only like $0.15 $15 no it's like $1,500 US so I'm out like $1,500 US well it turns out how much money did I have on the board for my trip after I paid for my flight $1,347 left to my name that I'm allowed to use for my trip and that's basically gone because of everything that happened in the last week and now we found out, so it's like a double whammy because not only am I out the hundreds and hundreds of dollars for the flight, but now they're also not paying it back and I still need to get there so I'm not asking any of y'all to feel sorry for me, I'm just saying I'm trying to, I wasn't going to advertise on this thing I'll say this, if you wanted at all to help me out today, what you could do is you can go over to Pinball Degenerates and buy some stickers, buy a poster. I don't know if there's t-shirts. Buy a t-shirt. Support Pinball Degenerates. Support stuff that Joe Cervino does in the future. We need fun, interesting, different, unique people like him. I will say this. There is, and I almost don't even want to mention the show, but there is a large pinball show over on the Pinball Network, and they didn't even mention the Degenis. Fail. Come on! That was the biggest news of the week since you guys were on last. It really was. I mean, okay, maybe it wasn't as big as the Haggis news. But, you know, you can go gatekeep that all you want. But don't be gatekeeping, like, come on, talk about the DJs or say it's in the gatekeep. Like, the DJs, it's awesome. It was like, even if you don't love everything that happened in it, even if it's a bit too weird or obscure for you or something like that, like, you still have to celebrate how fun it was and how many, I mean, it's got hundreds of views, probably getting close to a thousand if not more. And it was just very fun. We need to keep pinball weird. And Joe Cherubino and all those pinball degenerates over there, the Cliff Alberts of the world, if you may, even the Ryan Berries, they keep pinball fun and different and unique and exciting. Okay? And if you're going to claim that you're like the biggest thing in pinball, you better damn well at least report briefly on the pinball degenerates. Anyways, I did hear on the Eclectic Gamers Pinball Podcast they talked about it. I know they talked about it on Slam Tilt, because those guys are rad AF. You're heading out to the gym? Where are you going? From where? Okay. All right, I'll see you in a bit. And speaking of Hayden, as you guys all heard, Hayden's very excited he's going to get to come with me. He's going to be going over to... And the funny thing is, the only thing Hayden asked after we... I was trying to talk him into this. His grandfather's giving him $250. I'm giving him $250 just to come. A, so he'll be my DD. if I want to have a couple beers at Lumberjack Johnny's. Wait, I don't even... Hayden wants to play the after and before events at Lumberjack Johnny's, but because he's 19, does that mean he can't even go to Lumberjack Johnny's either? I hope not. It's crazy. This poor guy waited 19 years to be able to have a craft beer with his dad, and he's going to go to the States, and we're going to be near Chicago, good old Chi-town itself, some of the top craft breweries in all of the world, not even the United States or North America. Chicago has some of the top craft breweries in the entire world, and I won't even be able to go there and try them. Yeah, that's crazy. Anyways, Hayden's coming with me. It's going to be awesome. That way I can drive two hours, Hayden can drive two hours, I can drive two hours. When I'm not driving, I can be sitting shotgun and be stretching and laying all the way back and laying on my side and, you know, doing all this stuff to like... Yeah, and also... So, listen, do we now have to drive 70 hours? Because the quickest way for me to get to De Pere is by going up and around whatever great lake that is there. Is it Lake Ontario? No. It's Lake Huron. You have to go up and around Lake Huron and come down between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan to get there, which I've never seen Lake Superior or Lake Michigan, so that's going to be really cool. And as a guy who grew up in southwestern Ontario, like half an hour from Sarnia, like, I'm just shocked. Like, I swam and hung out in Lake Huron a thousand times, Lake Ontario more than I probably should have. It's probably what's wrong with me mentally because Lake Ontario is so frickin' poisoned with pollution that, you know, you're lucky to find even a three-eyed fish rather than a four or five-eyed fish. But anyways, I can't wait for all of y'all that were waiting for me to, I did give you guys a warning and say goodbye to you if you didn't want to hear about personal. But that's what's happening. Shout out to my dad, Kirk. Thank you very much, sir. He's going to be supporting us. That way Hayden has a little bit of money for his pocket. 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. 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 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. 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. Those games are the ones I revert to. The Beatles, I like playing the Beatles and trying to repeatedly hit that loop. In your dream, the pinball machine beside the weird pinball machine that isn't even, it looks like an AI-generated blah, right? It doesn't look good. It looks blah. Tell yourself, oh, the one beside me is Kiss. When you look over at it, if you're able to lucid dream properly, boom, it will be Kiss. It might look slightly different, but you make sure that that layout looks correct. As long as the layout is close to the real layout of, say, Kiss, or any pinball machine you want to get better at, you play it in your dreams. And I know most of you are saying, bullshit, Orby, bullshit. You're more likely to have dated Jennifer Connelly, which I did try to date. Her or her cousin, we're not totally sure. And she did come to Sheddon, the Ruberty Capital of Canada. That part is for sure. her grandparents did live there. The old labyrinth girl herself. The only thing that labyrinth was missing. They added the screen, but not the girl. Don't they know sex sells? Sex sells. I'm sorry. No, you don't need Jennifer Connelly for that, but it certainly doesn't hurt. What the hell is going on here? Okay. So, little Orby Jr. is on his way home. He has provincials this weekend. I do have to go talk to him, and I have maple syrup overflowing, so I'm not going to talk for any longer, but I will tell you this. That it has been proven in sports, hobbies, other games of skill that if you lucid dream about it, go ask Google, don't take my word for it, if you lucid dream about it, you can actually get better. And they did this in a double-blind placebo, where half of them were taught to lucid, they had to take lucid dreamers, and they tested doing, I think it was a puzzle or something like that, and they did this puzzle for two weeks in their dreams, after trying it once, and then they did it again, and the other group didn't do it for two weeks, and the group that came back was like twice as fast at it, it's remarkable. Now again, Is this going to give you rules knowledge? Absolutely not. But can it possibly allow you to get better at knowing when to dead bounce? Yes. Can it help you get better with your accuracy? Yes. Can it help you get better at just being more calm, more stable, more deliberate? Yes. Do I think that it actually is the reason why I won the New Brunswick Pinball Championships? Probably not. But I can tell you this. for two months leading up to it, every night, I tried to think about a specific machine that was there, whether it was Jurassic Park, or, well, I didn't even know that one was going to be there until sooner, but whether it was Circus Voltaire, or, like, pretty much every game out there that's solid state or newer, I've played hundreds of times, I know the rules of, I've played digitally, so practicing it in my brain, in my head, is actually beneficial. Where's your brother? He drove down there to pick you up. Oh, my God. okay okay anyways guys I gotta go deal with fam stuff I love you guys I'm in love with you thanks for listening I know it sounds a little bit silly first of all if you're someone who can already lucid dream you probably already lucid dream about playing pinball and know when you lucid dream about playing pinball does it always have to be can you just be sometimes having fun or I'll tell you what the ramps and all the mechs in my dreams when I'm playing pinball are insane and sometimes I do like I can remember the thing about lucid dreaming is when you wake up from a lucid dream, you can often remember back far further. Sometimes I can remember back honestly hitting up five or six arcades in a town I've never been to, but I remember the specific pinball machines I played in my dreams. And I'll know when I got to wizard mode, and I'll know when I get to multiball. And it's really weird. Sometimes my head or my brain goes really super low to the playfield. I know even Lyman Shoots, rest in peace, when Lyman was playing, he liked to spread out his legs and look from a really low angle. And I mean, if you're going to take cues from one person and how they play, it'd probably be Lyman, since he's probably considered the best rules developer of all time, if not the best. So anyways, I know what you're thinking. I know what you're thinking. Albert, how the hell am I going to learn to lucid dream? Well, that's on you. You can go figure it out yourself. The way that I tricked myself into doing it is 10 times a day. It sounds stupid. Don't do it when you're at work in front of your co-workers, because you'll probably get made fun of. Don't do it in front of your family or your partner, because they'll probably be like, huh? What? You want to do this when no one's looking. Just pinch your arm and say, am I in a dream right now? And pinch your arm. And when you feel the pain from the pinch, don't like pinch it so hard you're bruising, just gentle pinch, just enough to feel the pain. And as soon as you feel the pain, you go, nope, I'm not dreaming, because that hurt. Well, the very first time, the next time, as you're falling asleep, to tell yourself and think about playing a specific machine. Especially on a day when you don't have to wake up to an alarm. I hate waking up to an alarm and this is why because I never remember my dreams on those days and it's very disappointing. Sometimes I can remember back 2, 3, 4 hours and I practice everything from, I was in and this is my last side one and I'm going to let you all go for the day but I remember being in this is just an example that proves that lucid dreaming works. I remember before I had ever done my first triathlon, for like two or three weeks, I practiced doing my transition in real life and in my dreams. So your transition is when you come out of swimming your, you know, whatever it was, one kilometer, I don't know, 500, 600 meters, I don't know, yards, 500, 600 yards. When you come out of swimming, you have a wetsuit on. You have to get the wetsuit off. You have to dry your body. You have to put on your helmet. You have to put on your socks. You have to put on your shoes, which should be already tied, use a shoehorn, get your feet in the shoes as quick as you can, and then you also have to put on your shirt, which usually will have your bib number, which you have to have your bib number on, or the race director won't let you leave the transition area. Well, I practiced and practiced and practiced, but I knew that the top triathlete at that level from Guelph was going to be in the race at the time, coming all the way down to London to do the HSBC, I don't think it was a Subaru series, it was one under the Subaru series triathlon. But anyways, the point is, I beat the top guy and the second highest guy in all Canada at that level at my transitions. Of 140 people in the race, I had a 7.8, sorry, no, I had a 7, like a, it was under 20 seconds. From when I crossed the line to get in there, to imagine, now I was already pulling down my wetsuit, it was already down by my hips before I crossed the transition line. You're wearing a, like a, basically a bracelet on your ankle, which has your chip time. and it was like, I'd have to look it up, maybe it was 30 seconds, but it was hella quick, and I was like 6 or 7 seconds quicker than the top guy in the province. And my buddy Pete said, oh my god, there's your brother outside, go wave to him. Oh, okay, sorry. Anyways, guys, I'm trying to parent, Luna Tuna, Elowen's looking at me like, when the hell are we going to go get that maple sap? I'm getting hungry, I get to finally break my fast, I'm going to have some lasagna. they call me the Garfield of pinball podcasters, I love you guys honestly is it going to change the world are you going to go from becoming a shitty pinball player to like a great one, of course not but I do truly honestly believe that for many of us to have especially if you own the same 4 or 5 pins you can practice those, it will help you with your dead bounces at least a little it doesn't cost anything to try so maybe I'm wrong and maybe it doesn't help you Like, maybe you're the 19 out of 20 people who just can't figure out how to lucid dream. I will tell you this. When you figure out how to lucid dream, probably the coolest part is just saying, anytime you want, you'll fly somewhere. Like, I can just close my eyes. Oh, in fact, the other day, I was playing Elton John, the most beautiful pinball machine on planet Earth, in my dream. And while playing Elton John, I said, whoa, I can fly like the commercial. And I honestly, I started flying up like in the commercial. Imagine playing a whole game of Elton John while flying up. You can go do it tonight in bed or in Minecraft, whichever you prefer. Pinball nerds, until next time, remember to eat, sleep, and breathe Phantom Tilt Pinball.