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Hardy Night LIVE! National Pinball Day w/Special Guests!

Cary Hardy YouTube Live Streams·video·1h 32m·analyzed·Aug 2, 2025
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TL;DR

Carrie Hardy celebrates National Pinball Day with Roger Sharp interview and PinQuest platform promotion.

Summary

Carrie Hardy hosts a National Pinball Day live stream featuring Roger Sharp (legendary pinball figure, celebrating his 77th birthday), discussion of PinQuest location engagement platform, and announcements about upcoming pinball titles for 2026. Hardy conducts informal interviews focused on Sharp's legacy and philosophy, promotes Pinball at the Beach event (tickets on sale late August), and introduces PinQuest's national challenges and operator tools.

Key Claims

  • Roger Sharp's father passed away at age 52, which influenced Sharp's perspective on lifespan

    high confidence · Roger Sharp directly stated: 'I lost my father when he was very young... he passed away when he was 52 as a young person of 12, 13'

  • Roger Sharp turned down multiple executive positions: Mike Stroll offer at Williams (1980), Don Osborne at Atari, and role at Gottlieb

    high confidence · Sharp enumerated: 'if i had made the decision and there was no decision at that point to be made when mike stroll offered me a position at williams back in 1980 to become vice president'

  • Pinball at the Beach tickets go on sale late August (around August 23rd)

    high confidence · Carrie Hardy stated: 'around that time point is when pinball at the beach tickets are going to go on sale'

  • PinQuest is currently operational only in Colorado with plans for national expansion

    high confidence · Neil confirmed: 'yeah it's just in colorado right now' when discussing location availability

  • PinQuest subscription pricing is $29/month for full package, $24/month without redemption, with basic package available

    high confidence · Neil stated: 'We are a monthly subscription fee. It's twenty nine dollars a month... Twenty four. If you don't want to use redemption'

Notable Quotes

  • “I've never lived my life with would have, should have, or could have.”

    Roger Sharp@ 18:59 — Sharp's personal philosophy on living without regrets, foundational to his approach to major life decisions

  • “You're going to live longer than you think. Truthfully.”

    Roger Sharp@ 19:45 — Sharp's advice to his younger self, reflecting on his father's early death at 52 and his own longevity

  • “I would like to hopefully be remembered for God that I was principled that I was honest probably to a fault”

    Roger Sharp@ 23:02 — Sharp articulates his desired legacy in the pinball industry

  • “all of the decisions that I have made brought me to a point where I am now. And I like where I am.”

    Roger Sharp@ 19:52 — Reflects Sharp's acceptance of his life trajectory despite turning down major opportunities

  • “big dick energy if I've ever seen it”

    Carrie Hardy@ 3:31 — Hardy's characterization of someone dropping a mic and walking out; reflects casual tone of stream

  • “I could easily make this go on and on. But, you know, I just wanted to get your feedback on a couple of those things”

    Carrie Hardy@ 23:34 — Hardy acknowledging desire to continue longer conversation with Sharp while respecting his time

  • “To prevent cheating, something we do is you are not able to access a photo album or anything like that. We are using the camera and manual processing”

Entities

Carrie HardypersonRoger SharppersonNeilpersonJoe CaravinopersonEdpersonMike StrollpersonDon OsbornepersonBob BloompersonBoyd BrownpersonChristopher Franchiperson

Signals

  • ?

    business_signal: PinQuest expanding from Colorado-only operation to national footprint; seeking operator adoption and location partnerships

    high · Neil stated platform currently in Colorado only; Hardy and Neil discussing outreach to local arcades; nationwide location-based challenges already operational; monthly subscription model established at $24-29

  • ?

    community_signal: Carrie Hardy establishing content creator sponsorships and promotional partnerships (PinQuest guest host month of August; Pinball at the Beach promotion)

    high · Hardy announced: 'this month of august I am actually the guest sponsor slash takeover for PinQuest'; previously featured Loser Kid Podcast and Nap's Arcade in same capacity

  • ?

    event_signal: National Pinball Day observed with prominent figure interview and community engagement; Roger Sharp birthday celebration integrated into broader pinball community observance

    high · Entire stream structure centered on National Pinball Day; Joe Caravino credited with bringing event to prominence; multiple references to celebrating Sharp's 77th birthday as part of the occasion

  • ?

    event_signal: Pinball at the Beach 2025 expected to sell out; significant uptick in demand predicted due to word-of-mouth from inaugural 2024 event

    medium · Hardy predicted sellout: 'i definitely foresee people going i missed out i don't want to miss out this year'; marketing push underway with promo codes and early ticket strategy

  • ?

    community_signal: Roger Sharp transitioning to increased public appearances and travel at age 77; calendar filling with domestic and international event invitations

Transcript

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0:30
Thank you. that's when you get the negative feedback because you don't agree with how they think turns out stern was like gotcha bitch i just i'm trying to wrap my head around this maybe they've learned something from every game and this time it'll be different what i gotta show everybody my wiener it's my wiener I mean, it's basically a Led Zeppelin jukebox with flippers. The game is going to sell. He just did a mic drop and then walked the hell out of the room. That's big dick energy if I've ever seen it. It's pinball. It shouldn't be too serious. I mean, if you take pinball to a serious level, you get the Godfather.
3:43
Lie back down. I know I'm going to get some hate from those of you out there that are probably doing it, but that's what it is. The back glass says Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles right there at the top and four inches up. If that, the title's there again. That makes no sense. And I mean, what's concerning to me is that through the whole build process, no one brought it up that, hey, maybe we should make this a little bit better. No one mentioned it. We believe this idea to be the best course of action for us and for you. but mainly because it's going to cost us nothing. If he dies, he dies.
4:28
We need to find out what these suckers will pay for a crappy product that your toddler drew for us. She draws on a first grade level. And the thing is, I know one of the people over social media has informed me that a lot of the times, at least as of three years ago, majority of the things that I would post or say to them was blocked. Why are you promoting and asking for deposits on a game that's still six months out?

Neil (PinQuest)@ 34:41 — Details anti-cheat measures in PinQuest blind scoring system

  • “It gives each location their own little ecosystem where they can basically provide drive engagement and reward players for playing at their location”

    Neil (PinQuest)@ 37:28 — Core value proposition of PinQuest platform for operators

    • Enzoperson
    Hectorperson
    Sterlingperson
    Paul Molinariperson
    PinQuestproduct
    Pinball at the Beachevent
    International Pinball Day / National Pinball Dayevent
    Expoevent
    Ellen Sharpperson
    Silverball Swagproduct
    Woodford Reserveproduct
    Ellenperson
    The Man Who Saved Pinballproduct

    high · Sharp stated: 'I have a few other events that people have reached out both domestically as well as overseas for me to be a guest. And it looks like the calendar is kind of filling up'

  • ?

    rumor_hype: Upcoming 2026 pinball titles to be discussed later in stream; specific games not yet revealed

    medium · Hardy stated: 'after we talk with Neil, that's when I'm going to bring on somebody else, and we're going to start talking about upcoming titles. Potentially all titles for 2026. We'll see how it goes.'

    • 5:05
    Alright! Testies! Testies 1, 2, 3 Let's do audio and video check before we get this roller coaster that's more than likely going to be rocky let's just be honest here guys um but i'm a little excited about this stream honestly and if everything goes according to plan i think that uh you'll enjoy it too
    5:33
    we made it through carrie's greatest hits so far greatest hits so far I need to update that I've got plans on updating that one so who all do we have in chat currently right now what's going on Brandon welcome Adam we are about to go Damon thank you for joining here Russell's here not cuphead jojo rice welcome paul went to todd's live stream to tell him i was coming to your stream oh no uh let's go from the pinball studio which by the way i am wearing a uh before i switch that let me make sure i'd switch this i'm wearing a pinball studio t-shirt thanks for sending me the shirt there sterling uh russell's got the wife here uh carrie how high did you climb and calm because i sometimes do games just to see how high i can get that is a grind man and that's gonna be part of my review for that game when i get to that point if you want to do that method i don't recommend just doing just the climb jason welcome and franchi of course here here to shill for spooky and all the gloriousness there so here's what it is guys before i get started on everything you may want to tell your friends to hop on this stream because my first guest is kind of a big deal.
    7:21
    Enzo, coming in strong with the $31. Buy some locks for your bedroom. That's kind of an inside story right there on the Patreon thing.
    7:38
    In a nutshell, my daughter was asking from underneath the door if she was going to have a baby brother. all right so but yeah uh let me message my first guest just to make sure they are ready to go uh and then when i get the okay then i will invite this individual on and i'm i'm not gonna lie to you guys i i do my best to not do that i'm a little nervous about this slash excited because it is someone that I highly respect in this industry slash hobby. And all right, we got the go ahead. So before we get started again, welcome to the channel, guys, where I talk and do everything pinball. We've had a bit of a dry spell when it comes to pinball news and all of that, but that's starting to wane down. Things are about to pick up. And before we get started, shall we do word of the day for this stream?
    8:57
    Shall we? We can figure out what word I cannot say, or if I do say, then I've got to drink. Or I'm just going to drink anyway. So it's up to you guys. We can play this side game of word of the day. I will not be I should not be saying cuffhead and I don't the last last word was a topper and I that was something that I could really catch myself from saying can your liver take it I would assume so
    9:44
    I can't say stern? No, that would be horrible because later on in this stream, guys, I've got another guest that's got some information that I think a lot of you are going to find very interesting. What's in the bottle?
    10:04
    Get a little closer. Woodford Reserve, double oat. Kudos to Hector for supplying me with these bottles. Hector, I'm down to two bottles. This one and the one in the cupboard. Can't say code or coded.
    10:25
    Not even on the rocks because I forgot to get some of my cubes made. So I'm actually using one of those giant whiskey pinballs. It's National Pinball Day, guys. So we're gonna, you know, celebrate as much as we can.
    10:43
    So, five minutes, I'm going to give this individual a call. Hold on, he's messaging me right here. Oh my god, I just clicked on everything that I shouldn't have. Give me a second.
    11:13
    I can't say weak or loose. I think I'll join you and pour a couple of fingers. Cheers. You know what? Let's do... Not a lot of chiming. Moist yet. Let me just use the word moist. I don't think I should be... I'll be using that word anyways. you guys aren't chiming in with what i can't say very well here okay wide body nah i'm looking forward uh like you know let's okay let's do i'm gonna end up saying not saying that i'm trying to find a word that would actually be challenging that i might actually say do we want to use potter i don't think i'm going to be talking about harry potter in this stream though guys can't say apparently okay there you go I like that because I'm pretty sure that's a word that I typically say is apparently.
    12:17
    But you got to remember, if I say the word apparently, then you've got to spam it in chat for me to drink because I'm probably not even going to notice it.
    12:27
    Because I'm pretty sure that's a word that I tend to say. Like, are you freaking kidding me? No. All right, guys, so I'm going to give this person a call here in three minutes.
    12:44
    Paul Molinari coming in strong with the $10 in chat. Thank you very much. Very much appreciated. Can't say y'all.
    12:55
    Oh, man, I'm hoping this goes over good. I did a little bit of a test before the stream, and I think we should be okay.
    13:06
    Oh, man. So, let me get him on here, and I'm sure that you're going to recognize him just by his voice. I told him that this wouldn't be a long chat, but we'll see how it goes.
    13:36
    Oh, man. Here we go. Hold on. People don't see you just yet. Hey, dude. The one, the only, Roger Sharp.
    13:58
    Where? So, everyone, by all means, put in the chat, happy birthday, because today is his birthday. Roger, how old are you? Oh, God, I'm older than dirt. Double sevens.
    14:15
    I'd like to forget each and every year, but I'm not able to. So, by all means, thank you very much for coming on here for a real quick thing. By all means, everybody should be celebrating today and it's due to you and your actions and everything. So, I thought it was only suiting to have you on here. I would love to someday eventually have a legitimate discussion with you and everything, but I just wanted everybody to see the man, the myth, the legend right here. And if you don't know who he is, then by all means, you need to watch the movie that's all about him that I thoroughly enjoy, by the way. I really enjoyed it. And the man who saved pinball. And I still, to this day, still see people sharing it on social media like, have you guys seen this movie? It is so great. our bodies like we saw this a long time ago we all know it's great especially the uh the teaser that somebody wound up doing in advance of the release i think that that was even uh even better
    15:18
    i wish i would have gotten a lot of assets earlier i could have made it you know even better but i was like i'm gonna i'm gonna just in my mind picture how things went down make it a little more dramatic and everything but um gary please turn on subtitles i'm hoping that it loud enough talk again for me roger make sure people can hear you oh okay well hopefully they can you know i'm old it's difficult for me to speak up on my screen it looks like you should be good but my my mic turns itself down because i started getting excited so let me turn myself up a little bit right there no not a problem and thank you for uh for reaching some quarters baby you know truly today is uh you know what the first uh annual international uh pinball day thanks to Joe Caravino and all that he's wound up doing to kind of bring that to the forefront. So very appreciative of all of that. Yeah, well, by all means, we truly appreciate what it is that you've done for us. And it's something that I think about. And I was like, you know, what am I going to ask? I told you this would be a quick conversation. I don't want to take up too much of your evening. I'm sure you're there with the wife and eating cake or whatever and ice cream. But it's like, you know, at this age and all that, you're just packed full of history. And that's one thing I always tell people when you're on podcasts and doing interviews. It's like, they're like, oh, you know, they tend to go on for a while, but I'm always like, I could listen to Roger just talk. I would be like perfectly fine sitting around a fireplace and just, you know, just keep talking to me kind of thing. Just let me know all the knowledge that you have.
    17:00
    Thank you for that. I mean, I know that my sons have made fun of me because I tend to be long-winded. I go on for days. So, you know, it's not necessarily my adult years so much as it is just my style. So I'm trying to get better, truthfully. One word answers as best as possible, not to prolong the pain and agony for people listening. It's not pain and agony for me. I'm sorry but it's like it's wanting to it automatically adjust for me and I can fix that here in a second give me a bit and now my dogs are barking where is that let me fix that over here to where it's okay doing that it's on my end and it's me my dogs are over here barking like what what kind of dogs I've got dachshunds so that's anything that moves I have two beagles it's okay talk about barking I don't know why it should be just fine I think it looked like it was actually disabled, so hopefully – why does it keep doing that? It's like automatically lowering me down.
    18:24
    So this is what we're – Roger, I want to ask you if there was anything – if you could go back in time to talk to yourself, what is something that you would have told yourself? I don't know, to whether it be make a certain point in your life easier, you know, just something that you feel like, man, if only I would have told myself this, then things would have ended up, you know, a certain way that you would, I don't know, prefer, like more, whatever kind of thing. Wow. Nobody's ever asked me that.
    18:59
    You know, I've mentioned, and maybe in public, but also definitely in past with friends and family, that I've never lived my life with would have, should have, or could have. and I find that somewhat remarkable just from the standpoint of not having any regrets for the good or the bad all the things that have shaped me and without wanting to get too philosophical about this I think that you know if I could have gone back and told alright I don't want to be too morbid especially on my birthday but I would have told myself, guess what? You're going to live longer than you think.
    19:49
    Truthfully. And we don't have to belabor why, but I think that all of the decisions that I have made brought me to a point where I am now.
    20:03
    And I like where I am. Could things have been different? Absolutely. and much of what wound up occurring was out of my control so i mean some examples if i had made the decision and there was no decision at that point to be made when mike stroll offered me a position at williams back in 1980 to become vice president i could have taken that i was on the east coast but i didn't when Don Osborne, the late Don Osborne of Atari, reached out asking me to come and work at Atari.
    20:45
    And I didn't. Bob Bloom, Boyd Brown, asking me to come in and effectively step in to the role of Marshall Karras, what he was doing over at then Gottlieb before the takeover.
    21:01
    And for whatever reasons, that didn't happen. Mike Stroll again stepping in and saving me from making a decision to go to Capcom before Capcom shut down so I look at all of those events with a different perspective if you will but as I said I mean in looking back at all of the various we'll call them milestones you know I think the big thing probably was going to be telling my younger self, you are going to get back to the Midwest.
    21:41
    I was on the East Coast. I accomplished and achieved a heck of a lot when I was in New York and my previous careers. But I always wanted to come back to the Chicago area. And that's where I wanted the boys to be raised. and you know at one point I used to think that dreams can come true and in that particular instance it did so I don't know if that's the correct answer or at least the shortest one you might have gotten I love how you answered it to the point of like you know you're going to live longer than you think I think that's a really great thing to tell yourself especially when we don't know when the end is for us and I think that kind of segues me into I'm hoping that doesn't sound morbid, but, you know, death is inevitable. And so I guess my question to you is.
    22:34
    When that day does happen for you. What do you want to be remembered for? Well. Let me give you the answer. And then also let me share with you. I lost my father when he was very young. So I think that that kind of set things up. that you know he passed away when he was 52 as a young person of 12 13 you wind up thinking maybe 52 is my end date so that was the premise for it what I would like to hopefully be remembered for God that I was principled that I was honest probably to a fault
    23:26
    Did I talk too much? Definitely don't talk too much. Like I said, this stream could go on and on, but I'm trying to preserve more time. I could easily make this go on and on. But, you know, I just wanted to get your feedback on a couple of those things, because, you know, I mean, a lot of people don't listen to podcasts. And I really wish that we had like a Rolodex of all the interviews that you've done. And I would really like to get a copy of your book that is basically like so uber rare kind of thing. I don't know if I'm ever going to be able to read the darn thing, but I would love for that to be like, you know, re-released somehow or another. I may be able to surprise you about that last part. I uncovered a stash of a few books. So there may be a point in time, Kerry, where that may become a possibility and a reality. Hell yeah. That'd be great.
    24:19
    And I guess we can kind of lighten this up, you know, and then I'll let you get back to enjoying your birthday.
    24:24
    I'm going to assume you're planning on attending Expo this year. So will people get to see you and meet you at Expo? I am and I have a few other events that people have reached out both domestically as well as overseas for me to be a guest.
    24:42
    And it looks like the calendar is kind of filling up not only for myself, but also for Ellen, for the two of us to kind of travel hither and yon. So, yes, to answer the question, I am planning on making it to Expo. All things go very cool. so then the other question I have also when it comes to a show what about pinball at the beach are you a beach person could we potentially get you out there in February in Florida St. Petersburg at pinball at the beach well it's interesting that you would ask that unless you've already been talking to Ed and know I may have communications with all kinds of people there you go and I received an email today I think it's what February 6th to the 8th just to give a plug for the show. Yeah.
    25:31
    I actually just came back from Florida. I have a house down further south outside of Fort Lauderdale. So yeah, the idea of being up in St. Pete in February away from Chicago winter sounds very appealing. So I wrote back and said, yes, I'm open to that possibility. Didn't know if Ellen would join me. So we'll see about working out those details. But I was able to catch a short video that he shared with me that some fellow by the name of Kerry Hardy wound up doing. It looked pretty awesome, I have to say. It is, because it is. And I am going to have to keep messing with my mic right here because it keeps wanting to auto turn me down. Maybe my microphone is just too close and I'll stand back. I'm going to assume that's probably the problem. But we'll try this, guys. Let me get the mic further away from me and maybe it'll stay. I keep thinking that you're not going to be able to hear me. So we'll see. Is this distance, are you able to hear me just fine kind of thing? Yeah, I mean, I am. Yeah, I mean, you are. But sometimes in chat on YouTube and everything, it starts coming in weird. But I could see my damn thing much better on sound. Okay, good. All right. Roger, I'm going to wrap this up. So it's good to know that it's a very high possibility that we'll get to see you out there on the beach. You know, I'm very thankful that you took the call and happy birthday to you. And thank you very much for everything that you've done for this industry and that you will hopefully continue to do for this industry. Hey, Kerry, my sincere pleasure, truthfully. And thank you for all that you wind up doing. I don't really keep track too much of podcasts and all the rest of it. But I know that you're one of the more formidable folks out there. And I think the fact that you touch so many people with all that you have to offer, unblemished, truthfully, I really do respect and admire that. So keep on doing all the good stuff that you do. And again, thank you for taking a few minutes away from all the other good stuff to give me a platform for a few minutes. No problem, Roger. Thank you very much for taking my call. I'll let you get back to enjoying your birthday. Guys and chat, by all means, wish Roger here a happy birthday. Roger I'll talk to you later man take care my friend be good bye oh my god guys I don't know if I'm going to be able to remove the smile from my face oh man I would love to have a chat with Roger all the time we've only ever chatted in person kind of thing And so it was great to speak to him over this. And like I said, I could have gone on and on and just made it solely talking to Roger. And hopefully my audio is coming in good now and it's not fluctuating in and out now that I'm further away from the mic. Now that I'm not trying to deep throat my microphone, I'm hoping that the audio is coming in good for you guys.
    28:39
    Yes, no, maybe. I don't know. still low let me turn it up or i'll just crank it up over here on uh obs why is it wanting to oh there um maybe that's a little better please don't don't don't throw go with the mic yet We'll see what I can do. So I do have a couple of other guests that are lined up.
    29:19
    And I'm responding to some of the messages that are on here. But I do have a list of items here that I want to make sure that I cross off the list. So I've already informed all my patrons about Pinball at the Beach. And we did somewhat of a small discussion right there with Roger. look forward to i want to say it's august late august 23rd around that time point is when pinball at the beach tickets are going to go on sale all the tickets and all that information i've got that information posted up on my patreon but i do highly recommend this show i think that it definitely will be a sellout compared to last year a lot of people last year were just kind of like oh it's a new show it could be bad it could be good but you know and now that word of mouth has gone around over the last 12 months i definitely foresee people going i missed out i don't want to miss out this year and so by all means around august 23rd is when you should see the hotel rooms and the tickets and everything go on sale and if you want to save a little bit of money on the tickets then you may want to hold off for a hardy promo code because you know guys i'm i'm like a lot of you out there i want to pinch pennies wherever i can i want to save some money kind of thing and i always love saving you guys money so if there's a product or a service or whatever that i can get you guys just a little bit cheaper then i'm going to try for it so and with that being said this month of august I am actually the guest sponsor slash takeover for PinQuest.
    31:08
    And to segue into that, I believe I have Neil, who owns PinQuest on here, and I'm going to have just a quick chat with him if he's available. Let me see if he's ready to go. I'm just going to call him. If he's ready to go, he's ready to go. If he's not. but I wanted to go over a little bit of Pinquest with you guys here. And then after we talk with Neil, that's when I'm going to bring on somebody else, and we're going to start talking about upcoming titles.
    31:39
    Potentially all titles for 2026. We'll see how it goes. All right, so let me give a Neil call here and see if he's ready to rock and roll.
    31:54
    Let me see if he's even going to answer If he's ready He's ready? Can you hear me? Can you see me? Alright Neil I need you to tell these fine people Out there about PinQuest Because you had The first month that you came back You had Loser Kid They were the month of June And then you had Nap Arcade that was the month of July and now I'm the month of August that started today. That is correct. If you would like to tell people, I guess, a little bit more about this. And here's the thing, guys, when it comes to PinQuest, and this is something I was discussing with Neil when he was talking to me about it. This is the challenge that's currently in place is the lack of information and the lack of basically people don't even really know what it is. Yep. And so this is what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to spread the information, give all the information that you can, and not only that, we've got a promo code that will give you the ability to try PinQuest at no charge or anything out there when it comes to location play and everything. So that's, again, trying to save some cash where we can right there, guys. So, Neil, in a nutshell, tell me all about PinQuest. Sure, man. First of all, though, you didn't tell me I was going to be following up a legend. And it's my heart's racing a little bit. We got a long way to go on that one.
    33:24
    But now, man, I appreciate you having me on and I appreciate you being the guest host. So, all right. So I want to dive in with what you've got going on as the guest host, first of all. So PinQuest, we have a national location. So as we grow, we wanted to make sure people didn't download the app and have nothing to do. So if you download the app right now and there's no location participating near you, there is our national PinQuest challenges. and that's what Kerry is the guest host for this month. So we've got a couple of things going on. We have what we call a virtual league. So Kerry gave us a game bank and we added a couple games. Yeah, perfect.
    34:04
    Whenever it loads. All right. Oh, zoom out. All right. So here is the game bank. Awesome. So yeah, so that's the game bank Kerry picked for this month. So in that league each week, we're going to have four randomly drawn games from that game bank that players will then submit blind scores for. So you can go play these games anywhere. It doesn't matter if you play them at home on location, but you're going to have the opportunity to submit your highest score. You get to submit one score for each game. So make sure it's your best score. All the scores go in blind. Now, to prevent cheating, something we do is you are not able to access a photo album or anything like that. We are using the camera and manual processing to make sure that people aren't cheating. But basically, when you get your top achieved score, you snap a photo. It has to be alive. You upload it, and then that score has been submitted for the week, again, blind. No one's going to see your score. At the end of the week, all the scores are revealed, and then we rank players by assigning points. Uh, so it's just like your traditional league, your, your playing games, your earning points each week at the end, we accumulate, uh, at the end of the league, the top 25 players are going to win a carry Hardy, uh, enamel, super nice little pin. They're, they're awesome. They're turned out way better. I don't know if anyone saw the loser kid ones. We're about to get the nap ones delivered, but I'll, uh, you can see a picture of those loser kid ones on our Facebook page. Um, and then we'll also do a random draw for 25 people, uh, to also have the opportunity to win one of those that doesn't fall in the top 25. We're also going to do a random draw for some Kerry Hardy swag, as we do run silver ball swag as well. And the first place in that league will also get a special Pin Quest League trophy. So questions there?
    35:58
    Let's see. It's, like, backing me off right here. So I guess I've got to, like, get the hell away from my microphone. Guys, I apologize for my mic coming in and out. It's aggravating me too. So when it comes to this right here, basically what I'm asking for you guys out there in chat is to reach out to your local arcade. If not, if you own a local arcade, then you need to visit the PinQuest website and all the information is there. I've got a hearty promo code that gives you the first month free. So for whatever reason, you see that that's not something that you want to do or something that you want to go further in, then you can cancel at any time. Yeah, for sure. And do you want me to touch on what the operator tools are real quick? You can do it real quick. Let me bring it up right here. The full PDF, I guess, is what this is. Oh, my goodness. It's coming up over here now. Don't make me update Adobe. Don't you do it.
    37:05
    What's new with Edge? All right. All right, so I've got it up on here now. So I'm not sure if you want to talk about it, but this is all the information right here. Yeah, so there's a video on YouTube that goes over all of this. It's a little explainer video. It runs through each one of these slides and shows you all the features. But basically the intent of pin quest is it gives each location their own little ecosystem where they can basically, you know, provide drive engagement and reward players for playing at their location. So you can set up custom quests each month and reward players in states that allow this to earn what we call quest bucks. Locations can then, they have an on-demand redemption shop where people can redeem those quest bucks to earn swag. There's also a full-blown league management tool in there. This is a super easy league manager, so location doesn't have to sign up for a bunch of different services. You can run absolutely everything inside of it. We also have a tournament manager. Now, as it is right now, we have pretty basic tournament functionality, but it's enough to, again, give a location that's not running these extreme tournaments and just wants to start, you know, offering a different form of engagement with their with their patrons. So it's really, again, all in one encompassing package to drive engagement at your location. We are a monthly subscription fee. It's twenty nine dollars a month. If you have our redemption set up again, that's only available in certain states. Twenty four. If you don't want to use redemption, then we also have an extremely basic package that allows people to, track their counts and their maintenance logs. And everything is included in our premium packages, including those maintenance logs. One thing that I really want to touch on that it's kind of new to us is we have a feature called PinQuest TV. If you scroll down there, to the very bottom, it'll show PinQuest TV. But basically, we have an Amazon Fire Stick app, and people can display slideshows, leaderboards. Yes, even other leaderboards. You just simply paste a URL. If you want to display your Insider Connected leaderboards in there too, it'll pop them up on the TV. There's no branding of PinQuest when somebody does that or anything like that. But it gives the location the ability to basically have an all pinball feed running on their TVs. So that's what I got in a nutshell. Hopefully I didn't confuse anyone. If anyone wants to reach out, I'm available. By all means, you can always reach out to him via the website or email is the email on your website for pin quest and everything you can download the app that was the thing that he's like yeah download the app but i was like all right find location and i'm like i'm not seeing anything around me he's like he's like yeah it's just in colorado right now so that's all i'm asking for you guys to do is to reach out to your local arcade tell them about it tell them to look into it and like i said hardy promo code what is the hardy promo called hardy pq yep hardy pq all right so i'll try to put that into the video description down below guys that way you operators out there can give it a shot save it if you like it you don't like it you know it was for you but basically you're just trying to spread the word about it that's right and it works for trade shows too by the way oh there you go yeah cool i'm gonna let you go thanks for coming in here so thanks so much for the time no problem man bye bye all right guys i i know it seemed like i was like you know throwing like you know advertisements in there but i'm trying to help him out to spread the word that's the thing is that when you have a company a business like this and you're trying to spread the word it's difficult kind of thing especially when you have a big competitor technically with insider connected but this is another option that you have at a location to challenge things and potentially get swag so I thought that was kind of interesting so let's finish up by let me reach out to the next guest here and we'll see if we are ready to go surprisingly enough I'm actually on schedule what I was telling these individuals what time that we would be doing this okay guys so We're going to bring on an individual now.
    41:42
    Oh, no. What's up? Am I coming into the interwebs clear? I think so. Probably louder than me, more than likely. I guess I've got to get further back. Let me take these off so I can listen. Hi, everybody. How you doing?
    41:57
    So in case you haven't already recognized, this is Don from Don's Pinball Podcast. And some of you are probably going, why?
    42:04
    Right. The heck do I know? Yeah. I got my cadaver scrubs on. I was just out there burying some bodies. I mean, doing automotive work. And you happened to catch me here. You look very clean for someone that was working on a diesel truck. so i i guess what it is is that i'm sure people are curious about this i know i'm definitely curious about it i stumbled across this on on your patreon page ah you you first up six different themes and you merely asked hey guys what do you think about these things right here kind of thing and i was like well i know a couple of those are actually in the works right now so i think somebody knows something more than just, I think this is fishing kind of thing. So I reached out to you, kind of curiosity, and I didn't know if you wanted to divulge this type of information and discuss it a little bit and a little bit of time that you have or what? Sure. So, I mean, one of my favorite things about this whole hobby is the speculation, you know, what's coming next. Everything is so top secret. Nothing's released until it's released, you know, unlike video games and movies where we know things months and years out, right? And then as a consumer of these products, I always have to hedge my bets. Like something gets released, do I want to go on this thing? Because if I do, I'm risking not having cash for something that might be better around the corner or worse, you know? So I don't have any kind of like solid inside info. But what I do have is I keep my ear open. And what I've found over my last three years of really focusing on this hobby is that when rumors keep coming around with an increasing frequency, they tend to happen. And so over the last couple of weeks and then just into this week, things started to kind of, you know, appear from the fog, as it were, for like the next, say, six releases from, I don't know, one of the Illinois pinball companies. Let's just call them Stern. so I cobbled these together just put it out there like if this is correct or you know whatever you know I just want to gauge the interest you know and get a discussion going about it and so here we are let's discuss so like so what we're gonna do are we gonna do all six are we gonna like name these cuz like again we had to preface this with this is speculative rumor not a picture at all Not official. Do not take this to the bank. It's ironclad. This is what's coming next by whom or anything like that. But I will say that there's definitely multiples of these that are for sure in the works. But a couple of them I was like, I didn't know about that one. Yeah.
    44:49
    I'm trying to make sure who it is. Wait to see if it was like George Gomez or something like that. Oh, shoot. Yeah. Don't get Papa George mad at me. And this isn't like an info dump from any one person. This is just kind of like, you know, I hear these little things and I notice patterns when they when they come back up again. And then it can start out like insidious, like, oh, there's they can do a music pin sometime in the next year and a half. I'm like, great. Nostradamus. No crap. Then start to they start to solidify a little bit more and you put the clues together. And what would make business sense? You know, not what I personally want, but what I could see a corporation coming to. and that's kind of how this all came up so i mean let's just get the the next one out of the bag which i think is like the strong rumors that we have currently is that borg is next and he's coming with star wars and there was a lot of speculation going around of which star wars is it the new one is it the one two three episodes and and but like no it's going to be the original again it's going it be like more 5.6? And as I dug into this a bit more, he did the original Data East Star Wars back in the day. And they like to reach back for ideas and, you know, remaster them for the new. So wouldn't it be something if this Data East game was kind of refreshed and brought up to modern standards with that awesome R2 ramp that goes around the circle? Or it could be completely different or something completely different altogether. I don't know. But that seems to be the most solid thing Threw me for a loop a little bit when they announced the home version showing up at Costco and it like okay well is that where people were getting the Star Wars news But then it kept getting hit with no, actually, more Star Wars. Yeah, because they didn't even today, was it today that they released brand new art blades for Star Wars? I want to say there's like brand new art packages. Guys in chat, correct me if I'm wrong, but I was sent something earlier that, hey, they have updated Star Wars art blades. So, I mean, Stern's obviously never going to drop Star Wars as a license. They're going to hold on to this thing and just milk this thing for as long as they possibly can. Give me that Xantham milk, man. I'll be there every time. And so by choosing 4, 5, and 6, they've already done it before. So a lot of this is already familiar territory for them, which is safe, which is the kind of territory that they're kind of going in right now, especially with the soft market. So it just makes more sense that it would be the original 4, 5, and 6 again. Yeah, and it's been a year since they had a Disney license with X-Men last September. So here we are one year later, September. We'll see if we're right. Yeah, we'll see. So that's more than likely coming up probably towards the end of this month, maybe even the middle.
    47:41
    Yeah, X-Men was like September 4th last year. So I'm thinking first, second week of September. Yeah, we'll probably get an announcement end of August and then the reveal probably early September. That would make sense. Then, if history repeats itself, we're going to get a remastered. A remastered? Around expo time. Yeah. And so what's the current information that you have on that? I mean, what I've been hearing over and over again is The Walking Dead, another Borg title, right? A game that I've always kind of really liked the layout of it. It's unique enough but familiar enough. there's things to bash it's grotesque but it's got that damn dmd and like i like the lcd assets you know when i see stuff or when i a ball traps up or something i can see a scene play out so a little refreshing of the rules you know make you know re-engineer things that maybe weren't perfect the first time and it's not my first choice for a remaster that would be tron ghost busters lord of the rings but here we are yeah and that's why i lean even more towards it being it's got to be The Walking Dead because they're going to do something that doesn't make sense. From my perspective. So it's just like, okay, nothing against the game The Walking Dead. It's just the theme kind of has died down. It's not currently popular. It doesn't really have nostalgia to it or anything like you have Tron and Ghostbusters. But I think since we have a screen with this one, not a dot matrix, and now we're going to have to probably have all new licenses with actors and whatnot. But what if they just decide to go the comic book route? Oh, there we go. That's new information. All right, I hadn't considered that. They've done comic art before. Yeah, that leaves the door wide open for what all they can do when it comes to story, visuals on screen. I mean, they could do all kinds of stuff if it was the comic book version. I'm picturing zombie yeti purples and oranges, but in Walking Dead for some reason, and my brain's having problems.
    49:44
    So, because like, a part of me, a lot of us think that it should be Tron, because we got the new Tron movie coming out later this year. It's like, that would be the time to strike when, you know, the iron is hot kind of thing. But it's like, no, let's do The Walking Dead. Give me some quarters, baby. Stringer, thank you very much for the two bucks. Very much appreciated. Love you, long time. Solid. Solid. but uh so like i'm curious that that would go over well because a lot of people only know the walking dead for the tv series yeah and you know the game's available you know it's not like metallica was where it was still commanding high prices or freaking ghostbusters so like how much demand is there and we said the same thing about jaws 50th and that thing's flying off the shelves so yeah right and i think if they do the visuals like the improvement that they did with metallica I still think that Metallica, that has some of the best visuals that Stern has done to date. Amazing. Yeah, I was like, that's probably the best I've seen that you guys have done. It looks so great. And I'm not even a Metallica fan, but I recognize greatness when I see it. So it's kind of curious how they're going to do this with The Walking Dead. And I'm like, well, maybe if it was all the comic book, then there's a world of possibilities that they could do it. Yeah.
    50:59
    All right. Well, I think we just nailed it. Yeah. We'll see. We'll see come Expo. Will we see two-hour lines like we saw with Metallica, though? That's the question. Oh, God. I don't know.
    51:11
    So what are we hearing that's coming after the remaster? So January, we've been hearing this for a year or so, the Pokemon rumor. Got to catch them all, 150 monsters. Is it Jack Danger? Is it Elwynn? Is Jack off of it and Elwynn's onto it? Or maybe within this launch window, maybe Jack's design part is done and he's floated off to streaming and things. And then this will just kind of float through the queue while everybody gets the assets and everything where it needs to be, code and all that. But that's what I'm hearing, I guess, for the January spot.
    51:44
    So that's kind of what I'm leaning towards also. So it's like, you know, we know that Jack said that, you know, there's basically a segue between what he was doing at Stern when it comes to designing to what he's about to be doing as being head of community. So I kind of like what you said right there when it comes to the design portion being done. Now comes all the other assets and materials and code and everything like that. So we're looking at Pokemon by Jack Danger quarter one. Yeah, and I can see coming off of the third project and saying, you know what, can I just take a little break here? Let me skip a release window and go stream some stuff. I haven't talked to him, but that would make sense to me. So in your opinion, how do you think Pokemon would do in this industry slash with the hobby of the people and everything? I mean, I've got... Were you in Pokemon?
    52:36
    So I was a little bit older for it. My brother definitely was. And then people to this day still play Pokemon cards and all that. I will say that my non-pinball friends, when they ask me about machines, they keep coming up, hey, is that Pokemon game out yet?
    52:51
    Because they've heard me talk about it. And they're like, oh, that's something I think I would get for my house. My kids would love it, whatever. So, yeah, actually, I think, you know, all the pieces are there. Yeah, I think Pokemon is a huge license. I just don't know how many people in this hobby are, you know, champing at the bit for it kind of thing. But I think there's a lot of closeted Pokemon lovers out there that are just not saying that they love Pokemon. I meet a lot of people that are all about it. And I grew up, I think, right there at the time period of when Pokemon was a big deal. There was a whole Game Boy Red vs. Blue or whatever it was. I just never got into it. But I know a lot of people that did, and they loved it. The most I ever got into Pokemon was Smash Brothers. So that's the only characters I know was Pikachu and other... I don't even know it that much. But I think there's a lot that they could do, and I think that's where Insider Connected will just take off. It's perfect for Insider Connected. Now that they've had games that have come out that you've leveled up before, this would be like the ultimate one, man. Yeah. So I think it would do awesome. So I'm thinking, if that's happening, maybe January. Okay. So then after we got Pokemon, I think this is when we get into some territory that people probably haven't been talking about. Completely off the rails, But like as much as I was like, there's no way, no way. And then it keeps coming back like actually, yeah. So now here the order may be a little bit out of order. But what I'm hearing is they're going to reach down into the Transformers well again and bring back another title.
    54:28
    Is it a movie? Is it Generation One? No idea. And so who are we thinking is going to do that one? Is that going to be Eddie? I think Eddie and team would be back up. Yeah. I know.
    54:45
    I mean, I don't know. I don't even know what to say in regards to that. So like I said, when I saw your thing, I was like, I haven't heard about that kind of thing.
    54:54
    It's something that's not in my top 10, but I can see it. I can see somebody in a corporate boardroom once they go through all the assets and everything and pitch it, where it could kind of come out of committee like that. and so that's what makes me think there might be some truth to it yeah so I'm definitely curious especially at which version they decide to go for I don't think we're going to see a movie version I would hope it would be Transformers like nostalgia version how cool would that be yeah like the original cartoon yeah my name is activist prime yeah that would be pretty cool I would be much more behind that instead of showing me like you know movies stuff like no I'd definitely be up for that So then what do we got coming supposedly after that? So I've been hearing for like two years that they're getting a video game license and not Pokemon. And I've heard Call of Duty, but now I'm hearing more Fallout.
    55:50
    What do you think of that? This is the one that I'm excited about. For the whole year of 2026 from start, this is the game where I'm like, yeah. Yeah, because – and this is where I was honestly thinking that it would be a Dwight-coded game because of how he likes the whole RPG and leveling up aspect. And then you have Fallout, which implements that, and it's like, okay, the next question alongside that, is it going to be with a new TV series that's on Amazon, or is it going to be video games? and I prefer the video game because that gives them much more freedom to do whatever they want. And I think that's the, probably the path that they're going to choose. Yeah. Again, you could implement leveling. There's a lot of world building that's happened within that license. Um, when I first heard this, my first thought went to borderlands and I was like, Oh God, no, not that. But then I'm like, Oh no, wait, this is, this is fallout. This is like the bomb shelters, the post-apocalyptic stuff. Okay. Nuka color, whatever. I get it. All right, so yeah, I could get more on board with that. Who would be up for it? I guess this would be Elwynn. That would be a home run, because that would give me a lot more confidence, because I already love the theme in general.
    57:06
    And you have Elwynn who can design a game, and you know it's going to shoot pretty damn good. So I'm just curious about the coding on that. That's why I said, I was like, that's weird, because I feel like if it was going to be a Dwight game, just the way you would need the RPG aspect on it. But maybe he's got people in the shoot now, like, you know, maybe Elizabeth and everything. Get Elizabeth all over it, have Dwight there to spit some ideas. I think that would be the win then for 26.
    57:35
    Yep, that would be, that's the one out of all the games that I'm aware of where I'm like, that's the next one from Stern that I'm excited about type of thing. I think that's going to be really cool looking. I'm curious to see where they go with it when it comes to whether it be the show versus the game. I really do hope it's the game because I think that just gives them much more freedom. And I think that's what they'll want to do anyways, because it seems like whatever saves them money on licensing and everything like that, that's the path that they're more than likely going to take. Makes sense. Yeah. Less chance for headaches of licensors changing their mind halfway down when something's already basically finished. Nobody wants that. So I like it. I like it. So what are you seeing after Fallout then?
    58:21
    So it would probably be, that's the remaster window, would be like late September, October. And I keep hearing music pin, and I'm thinking, what remastered music pin? And the leading rumor now, ACDC. Aka-daka.
    58:38
    Hell's Bell. I think a lot of people would prefer some other games over ACDC, but it's not like ACDC is a bad game. But I just think there's preferences for them to bring some other games out kind of thing. Yeah, I think compared to KISS or compared to Elvis I would much rather see a remastered ACDC given the option. Yeah.
    59:02
    And I think ACDC came out around the time whenever I came to my first Texas Pinball Festival. I think that was like the big thing, either that one or Avengers. One of those two was from Stern, and they were promoting, I think actually it was a bit of an Avengers first, and then it was ACDC. So some people would chat, like, please, ACDC. I mean, did they give ACDC the same treatment that they did for Metallica? Expression lights, new art, that bell mechanism is awesome, the shooter mechanism is awesome, the lower play field, take it or leave it. Eh?
    59:37
    Maybe, yeah. And it's like, you know, then you have, like, George here in chat's asking for Ozzy, And it's like, I don't know, I mean, I think a lot of people hope for Ozzy because, you know, he just passed away. But, like, even if, you know, like, since he just passed away, it's like you're still at least a year and a half to two years out for them to possibly even probably even start working on an Ozzy pinball machine like Sabbath.
    60:00
    So with that. Maybe they'll surprise us with Slayer, but that's what I'm hearing. Yeah. So now we're through all the way towards the end of, like, next year. So then I guess that brings us to the last title of the year for upcoming next year. Or January 27, yeah. Yeah. So what are we looking at there? That I don't know. I only heard those six. After that, my crystal ball is fuzzy.
    60:28
    Damn, I guess I lost count. We've already gone through six titles already. Damn. That was six, yeah. Star Wars should be imminent.
    60:35
    Then we'll get Walking Dead, Pokemon, Fallout. AC, DC. Agadax. Am I missing? Transformers. Oh, Transformers. Okay, yeah. Okay. That'll be the venom. It fills a couple of months, and then it goes. I don't know. So, guys, out of curiosity, if that lineup for Stern bodes true,
    61:02
    how excited are you for next year kind of thing? I'm definitely curious on where people stand on the potential of those titles being what's released next year from Stern Pinball. Yeah. Could be completely wrong. I have no idea. No official inside information came to me. No one person was like, here's a bunch of assets. You know, I didn't see any plastics at the factory. I wasn't digging through the dumpsters. But it's just like little bits and pieces I've been collecting over the last few months. And it's been increasing the last couple of weeks for whatever reason. That's what we got. So far, I'm not getting a lot of positive feedback on what 2026 looks like. I also am not. Because I did the same thing. I was like, I saw your list, and I was like, well, I know a couple of those, but if the rest of those are what's coming out, then I'm not looking forward to next year. But I guess my wallet is. Right, yeah. So that's what's mucking through the rumor mill here. All right. Well, that's what I wanted to reach out to you for. I wanted people to hear it from the horse's mouth, you know, kind of thing. So that way, if this information starts spreading throughout, I want people to know what the source is, not what your sources are, but at least that you know that, hey, this came from you kind of thing. Otherwise, I could just, you know, say it. And then whenever it does come true or if it does come true, I could be like, I was right. Yeah. Or I could say my source was right because your knowledge is only as good as your source kind of thing. your information kind of thing. And if nothing else, it's a little bit of mental exercise and some workshopping and focus grouping. So either one people can pray for it to be true or people can pray for it to be raw. You know, we live in the reality that brought us ABBA that brought us burritos barbecue challenge. Anything can happen.
    62:53
    All right, Don, I'm wrapping it up. I've been here about an hour now. Thank you for tuning in or thank you for joining in here and all the information out there. we'll see if it comes true by all means and if it does come true i'll be sure to say that i was right and uh all right but get back to get back to work man i'm gonna close this up man take it sleepy love you long time all right buddy like and subscribe bye
    63:20
    all right guys so it's just me and you that was my guests for this evening so let's give a little bit of a you know back and forth between what kind of information we just got and let's divulge what we're talking about here Carrie what do you think will actually make it to market like what from Stern Fallout and Pokemon will feel like the standouts it's like as much as i don't really care for pokemon i think that game's gonna do pretty damn good i mean there's a lot of closeted pokemon fans out there extremely excited for pokemon and fallout definitely for fallout and for those that don't know anything about fallout just bear with us i think you're really going to enjoy it especially if they implement a lot of things it's got to be one of those things where it's a choose-your-own-adventure. That would make Fallout really good, because there's so many different factions in Fallout that you could do go this direction for this, go this direction for that. So if it's like a choose-your-own-adventure, I think that would be pretty interesting.
    64:40
    Jojo Rice, If true, I'll be hoping for Beetlejuice from Spooky instead. I think we're supposed to get an official probably release from Spooky maybe November?
    64:54
    I don't know, so I'm not divulging information I shouldn't. I'm merely speculating. I'm just saying if history repeats itself, then probably late November to early December is where we tend to get a release. But I will tell you that if you want to play their next title before anybody else, then you may want to go to Pinball at the Beach because they will be there just as they were last year with their Evil Dead. and that's where a lot of people got to play Evil Dead for the first time.
    65:31
    You almost got me to say it there, Johnny. You almost got me to say it. Pinball Studio, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!
    65:42
    Stern needs to make a head-to-head pin to battle other players on location. With Insider connected and leveling up, they could make it pretty awesome to battle Pokemon versus each other. I think if they do the whole Pokemon thing with Insider Connected, it's going to be about going to certain locations to obtain certain Pokemon because you've got to catch them all. You're only going to get certain Pokemon if you go to a certain show. And that's where Insider Connected is going to just blow the F up. There's so much that they could do with it. And if you really want to piss off a lot of people, and this is not my idea. I think this is actually an idea from Kaneda. or something that he heard, is that the LEs potentially could be shipping out with random art packages with different Pokemon. So for those high-end FU money collectors out there, they're going to be like trying to scour the internet for anybody that's got a Pikachu or anybody that's got a Fluffy whatever. I don't know the names of these things.
    66:47
    Yeah, Pokemon Go, the pinball edition. Yeah. I figure with a new Tron movie this year, Tron remake would be the best. Yeah, and that's how you can get a good idea of what Stern is going to do. You go, what would make sense? What would make them the most money? Okay, let's do the opposite.
    67:10
    We got Stranger Things series finale coming up towards the end of the year. You would think that they would do something special with Stranger Things, whether it be a re-release or maybe a major code update or something like that. Who knows? They still could.
    67:25
    But I doubt it. Transformers of the cartoon movie would be sweet. I'm hoping that my audio is coming in pretty straightforward now and it's not doing what it was earlier. I apologize, guys. I definitely will look into this for whatever reason. It's wanting to auto-adjust to keep me from peaking, and I kind of wish it would do a better job of not doing that.
    67:54
    Power Rangers would print money. Would it? Without doubt. I mean, I grew up with the Power Rangers age. I had a crush on Kimberly, you know, growing up, but I don't know if I would want a machine dedicated to it.
    68:14
    As a gamer, I'd love to see Halo or Uncharted. Well, Halo, if rumors are correct, should be coming from PlayMechanics slash CGC.
    68:30
    And if that's true, then you're looking at another couple of years, because you know how fast CGC is.
    68:39
    Who was supposed to have G.I. Joe? Was it American? not to my knowledge I think G.I. Joe if it was to be done would be done by barrels of fun but Brian I believe who still may own the rights to that it didn't seem like it would be a theme that they would actually do like I said I really don't know I'm merely speculating on that kind of thing would I think it would do well more than likely I think if they do it like the cartoon style I don't see why not Did you get rid of Deadpool? Yes, I did sell Deadpool to my local arcade. And what did I get in its place?
    69:22
    I don't think I got it. Oh, yeah, no. What I did, I sold Deadpool, and that went towards getting the King Kong.
    69:36
    Hoping to get my Medieval Madness Merlin before 26 I hope you do too man it sucks that CGC takes forever to get their games out
    69:48
    Barbie Dreamhouse pinball anybody? I'm curious about that. Would you think Barbie would do really well?
    70:04
    I almost want to throw up a poll right here. Let's see here. That's not what I want to do. Start a poll.
    70:20
    Which would you prefer? That's not going to... Can I change that? Okay. And... What was the other one?
    70:35
    Oh, yeah. Pokemon. I'm mainly just curious on this. It would kill our location. It would be the dream getaway for all dads to get wife and daughters involved.
    70:54
    My daughters, they never talk about Barbie. So I'm kind of curious if that still is something that even children these days are interested in because there's so many other boys out there. It's an oversaturation, kind of like how our pinball market is right now. Way oversaturated.
    71:18
    Hey, Franchi, are you still on here? So good. we'll see if Franchi's still on here or not I'm curious about something the LE bubblegum pink armor man that would definitely stick out that would draw attention without a doubt does Barbie twerk? Strawberry shortcake? yes Christopher Franchi barbyard that's not what I was asking about oh man kids would love a taylor swift oh i don't so that's my main question right there it's like um let's vote right now hold on let's start this so i can keep track so what games are allegedly coming out next year from stern so we got let's see which one is the most anticipated out of the alleged lineup so first we got uh well we pretty much know star wars and the walking deads next So let's do the one that's in 2026. Let's do Pokemon.
    72:53
    And what was it? ACDC. Transformers. Fallout. Okay. So out of these, so it looks like 86% of people say Pokemon. Sorry, guys.
    73:15
    Let's see out of... three, four. Okay. Pokemon. ACDC. Transformers. I thought I added an option right there. And Fallout. Out of these four, if you could only have one. Like, seriously. Let's just take money out of the equation. Let's just... We're just strictly going on theme.
    73:47
    All. Not talking about do a quality designer out of the question theme alone out of these four, which one do you choose?
    74:06
    I wonder if Borg's Indiana Jones was returned to Star Wars. it's like Indiana Jones if you were going to do another Indiana Jones it would have to be the old movies because not many people like the new movies you can't I picked Fallout for my friend is there a poll? yes I posted it up just now I'm not sure if you're watching on your TV or on your phone but if you're on your phone it should have prompted so far in the lead it's fallout with acdc in second since started dnd like to see a final fantasy and see i don't as much as i would love to say Final Fantasy would be great. I think it's still not going to reach a lot of people. And you've got to remember Stern is the big fish. They need to make a game that reaches the most amount of people. So they're digging into nostalgia. They're going to be playing it safe. And they need a license that is universally recognized. They can't pump out something niche. That's the glorious thing about being a boutique manufacturer, is they have the ability to go, we just need X amount of 100 of these games to sell. Star can't say, well, we just need 300 of these games to sell. Russell, thank you very much for the $20. Very much appreciated. We all missed your content, Gary. Thanks for the tonight. Sharp was an awesome bonus. You're very welcome, Russell. thank you very much for the support also he is a patreon supporter mario is a safe pick yeah mario is easy safe pick but that is also an easy money maker on location whoever gets mario every arcade every single friggin one will purchase that game as much as a lot of people don't care for the gameplay of the godly mario brothers it kills on locations because it's universally recognized everyone knows who mario is everyone knows who sonic is quarters go in Alright, let's end the poll right there. It looks like Fallout wins with a 41% out of only 37 votes. So it's a very small pattern kind of thing.
    76:56
    Alright. But it also needs to be an amazing game. The smaller guys are stepping it up, especially in the value area. at $10K for a fully loaded machine versus a Stern LE at $14K. And this is the glorious thing about boutiques as well. Especially when it comes to Spooky Pinball, what they're going to be offering at the end of this year. It's...
    77:23
    I mean... In case you guys don't already know, I will be getting this game. Spooky's next. It's mine. Unless something drastic happens,
    77:38
    it's going to be back here. If you haven't already got your name on a list, which is free, by the way,
    77:50
    reach out to your distro that supports Spooky Pinball and get your name on a list. I wonder. I was going to ask Franchi if he was still on here, but he's not on here. maybe maybe i can get someone from spooky pinball on here let me see no guarantees but let me try let me reach out give me a minute here guys
    78:23
    evidently my phone has been blowing up on my lanta by the way how's my audio coming in now I haven't had to adjust it in a while. Is it coming in pretty clear for you guys?
    78:41
    Spooky DJ, I'm lurking, but I probably don't have the info you want. Let me reach out to Bug. Let me just call him. he's probably trying to sleep or he's probably doing something hold on I can easily just blame the alcohol he ain't gonna answer
    79:25
    oh man what are you wearing oh man i didn't mean to disturb you what well i'm currently in a live stream and and we're just like talking about everything pinball and everything so we're currently on the subject of spooky and i'm telling them that hey if you don't have a spot for you know spooky is next, then you need to call your distro and get your name on a list. But I was kind of curious if there's anything that I could tell the audience out here about what's coming from you guys, or if you just want to keep your lips shut and not worry about it, if there's anything that you want to divulge at this point in time.
    80:11
    No, they can't hear you. I can probably put you on speaker. I just want to, hold on. Whatever you want. I'm ready, whatever. Okay, you're on speaker now. All right, here's the deal. Chris Franchiart. We got standard body cabinet. We got three flippers. We got bumpers. And we got something that eats the ball. There we go. Something that eats the ball. There we go. That's what everybody wants. We just want something that eats the damn ball.
    80:40
    Jaws the Revenge. All right, man. I'll let you get back to having dinner and everything. I didn't want to take up too much of your time.
    80:48
    All right. Love you a long time. Bye. Will do. spooky bug says hi everyone so hopefully there's a little bit i don't know why i'm still wearing headphones i don't need to bug eats the ball i try to do what i can for you guys i try to save you money where i can i try to like get the info where i can so i think there's even some more details on pinball at the beach that i can divulge let me see here real quick uh let's see here social events on friday saturday evening will include contemporarily adult beverages and food courtesy of various sponsors and i think uh he may have a bloody mary slash mimosa bar on sunday morning so that's still in the air on that And there's karaoke that I may or may not attend again this year. It's usually hosted by John Borg.
    81:52
    But that seemed to go pretty well was the karaoke thing last year. I can't support Spooky after the screwing I got on Rob Zombie.
    82:07
    Beetlejuice will hurt since I'll want it. and I think this is something that has changed with this title and this is something I'm glad that has changed and that's been the burden that spooky is a badge that they've had to wear is that some people have had issues with QC that's why a lot of locations weren't purchasing spooky games. But Evil Dead,
    82:36
    something changed. For the better, obviously. In locations, the only problem that they tend to have is that their cash box is filling up, which is a good problem to have.
    82:48
    Now granted, this is, you know, one, but it's a big one change that has occurred in their history. Which I'm excited about, because I really and looking forward to the next game. And so I'm hoping that the quality and everything is there for that one.
    83:11
    Yeah, see, my local can't keep Scooby or Halloween running. Makes me sad. Yeah, Pinball Studio, they have come a long way. And even they joke about this. Even like Spooky Lucas even said it himself. He's like, yeah, it only took us a decade to learn how to build a pinball machine. But with the way that they have their lines set up and everything, I think they've learned a lot. That's one thing that they have learned from mistakes. They listen to you guys out there, and they follow through. And that's something that I think a lot of manufacturers are not doing as well. I think definitely every manufacturer is listening. but I think Spooky has got their ear closer to the ground and is more willing to listen to us out there and what they've got coming as long as they keep their QC in check they're printing money for the next 3 or 4 years guys and that's all they've got to do guys just keep putting Franchion art where it just looks as pretty as it does keep implementing the theme as well as you have been and make your QC great and that's all we pretty much ask for from any manufacturer but it's just sadly can't be that way My Evil Dead has been rock solid not even a reboot, that's awesome to hear Gotta Roll Gang, Pinquest, thank you very much Neil for tuning in hopefully people talk to their location owners and maybe we can get pin quest to start spreading around the hobby my halloween hasn't had any problems so this is the thing that always happens and you've always got like when i do my videos and i talk about i'm having issues with this or i'm having issues with that you're always going to have that person that has the perfect machine and even me with my king kong i like i've had problems that people go my work's just fine people's arms that fell off their King Kong. Mine are just fine.
    85:25
    There's always an outlier. But we're going to be wrapping this up here in the next few minutes because I need to eat me some dinner. All I've got in me is bourbon, which isn't the worst thing.
    85:45
    And if you've got a pinball at the beach, you're going to see a lot more bourbon. And something I'm going to look into, because when it comes to sponsorship and hosting these events and everything, I'm going to look into potentially hosting one.
    86:01
    I don't know what that costs, but it will obviously be something through my patrons out there. I just can't see Beetlejuice being as big to print money for years. Hmm. Please be one of other IPs. And that's the thing, is that I'm not saying that one particular game is what's going to print them money. I'm just saying over the next three or four years, what they've got coming, theme-wise alone,
    86:34
    it's going to speak to the majority of people out there. Why is my mic so low? No, don't tell me it's doing this crap again. It keeps adjusting, and I'm going to fix that. I mainly have that for whenever I'm recording a video, so that way it's consistent. But when I'm doing things live and I'm moving around a lot, my WaveXLR adjusts to what I'm doing.
    87:07
    So I apologize if my audio is ducking more than it should be. you going to be at expo this year i haven't signed up yet i know i need to go i just don't know if i'm going to be there all weekend i don't think i need to be there all weekend i think i just need to go there for a date play all the new stuff visit and chit chat with everybody there have some drinks have some fun and then make my way back to texas because my work schedule will potentially change between now and then or it could not where I'm currently training new techs to basically take my position on this particular shift
    88:01
    rum is better it depends on the rum audio enslaved I've had some really good rum it was from Florida and it was something I don't even know the brand but it was like something coconut and it tasted like it was poured directly from a coconut and I love me some coconut delicious
    88:31
    Beetlejuice will sell out so quick getting a bourbon room at pinball at the beach I don't like I have a room like for drinking. That's the thing about Pinball at the Beach, in case you guys aren't aware, there's so many places to go and eat and drink there. And I don't want to say pinball is secondary, but that's the glorious thing about this show, is that there's a limited amount of people that can even attend. It's targeting the exclusive experience. So you don't have to worry about going and waiting in these long lines to play these new games because there's literally only 1,000 people that can potentially be there. And those 1,000 people have the ability to go to these nearby restaurants, to the ocean that is merely 40 yards away.
    89:30
    That's the glorious thing is that instead of my wife being in the room reading or writing a book or whatever, she can just go to the beach.
    89:38
    And then there's times where I'm like, you know what? I'm going to have me a drink and I'm going to go to the beach kind of thing.
    89:48
    We'll be there at pinball at the beach. I'm telling you guys, in case you missed it earlier today, I mean, I let all the information out of my Patreon. They too will be the first ones to know the promo code and everything to save you some money on the tickets. The current price, I believe, for pinball at the beach for a full weekend pass is $1.99. There are no single-day passes. That's not going to happen.
    90:14
    Like I said, they're targeting the exclusivity of it. Come to Houston Expo, this fucker. Maybe if my work schedule has changed, then I should be able to there, Russell. and the $1.99 that's before my discount code i don't know how much the discount code is going to save i'm going to assume 25 bucks try the vip experience guys all right guys let's bring this to a close an hour and a half i i think this went pretty good like i said in case you missed it we had roger sharp on here earlier, it's his birthday for the next two and a half hours. So by all means, send him a message, post on his Facebook. A lot that we have in this industry is thanks to that man right there. And I feel completely, I'm still, it's awesome that I got to share the conversation that me and him had with all of you out there. And potentially, if that's something that interests you to have a further discussion, I would love to have an interview chat with him, a recorded session or something like that. Or if you want it to be live, I'm sure we might be able to rearrange that as well kind of thing. But I have no problems just sitting back and letting them go. And I know a lot of people want to keep their podcast to a certain time frame, and I completely understand that. But then you have people like me that are just like, let the man talk. Let him do his thing. this is a fountain of knowledge here let them talk alright guys thank you for joining the stream love you guys a long time hopefully you had a good time as well hopefully you got some information out there that was pretty interesting we'll see if all the rumors and everything bode to be true when it comes to Stern's lineup for next year but I think the Star Wars thing I'll probably do a video on this one coming up soon and talking about that it's like it's gotta be Star Wars but yeah more of that to come.
    92:29
    I'll talk to you guys later. Peace out.