Now who's responsi- I say who's responsible for this unwarranted attack on my person? I say, I say, I say, pay attention now, boy. This is, of course, Foghorn Leghorn presents the Pinball Junk Drawer. You all asked for it. I say, I say, you all asked for it now. You're gonna get it. Boy, oh boy, are you gonna get it. Go, I say, go away, boy, you bother me. And we are back, baby. This is, of course, the Pinball Junk Drawer. Big Show 43. My name's Foghorn Leghorn, and with me as always, the talented and lovely... This is Sally. Just Sally? There's no craft brew this week. Oh, zing. Zinging yourself. Yeah. Craft brew Sally. It's just going to be Sally this week because she does not have a segment prepared, and that's okay. You know, we could talk a little bit about our striving to have top shelf booze for a bar that we don't have. Excellent. That's not, that'll be after the show. We're not even going to drop in the beer thing. We'll just talk a little bit about it. All right. For the heck of it. Okay. You know, every day I'm out, I did see an ad for a Austin Powers in Traverse City. And it was 5,600. I was like, no. That's, no. It was nice. That's the problem. It was pretty much, I think, perfect. Done. Yeah, we want a beat. Not beat, but cheap. Yes. I want a cheap one. That's the problem. So as I was perusing all these, it's always the same ones. There's these ones that are, like if you go on Facebook Marketplace, I have saved searches, like Schwinn Homegrown, because I have homegrown mountain bikes that I really love, so I always look for those. Cheap. And, you know, and like there's a couple Wii games I do for the Wii show. And I always do pinball. And it's the same kind of like recycled garbage. And then there's the same ads that are like, we buy used machines. And I was like, no, you don't. But there was one that popped up. And I was like, what the hell is this? And it said, it was like police force pinball. And I was like, well, we played that up at District 82, I think. I think that's the one that got voted to get yanked. I think so, too. Because, yeah. so I was like it said like 225 bucks I was like well that's really cheap it must be still smoldering or something like that no that was 225 for the playfield protector that you would like you would if you had a police force or bought one you could take everything off the playfield and then put pay 225 dollars to put this piece of plastic down and then put everything back on your playfield and I was like for 10 bucks more I could just get a new police force I think I don't it's like 233 out of 290 on Bin's side. 290 is Thunderbirds. Take that, Raven. The joke of Binball Raven has gotten a boost up. Which I play Raven. I don't hate it. I always wanted to buy a Raven and just restore it, but make it better. Get it like a real artist and get rid of that camo side and make it something. I don't know. It still could be in the cards. You never know. Or for 235, or I'm sorry, for 235, maybe I'll find a full police force game to restore. Right. I don't think I'll do that. No. So we did, we talked about last week, our last show, we talked about the Barry Osler's barbecue challenge that they're raffling off for our... Project Pinball. Project Pinball.org. we always call out to Project Pinball because we know Dan we believe in the whole thing it's like a really awesome 501c if you don't know what we're talking about look them up projectpinball.org it's putting pinball machines into children's hospitals it's a really really cool thing and they have this they have a raffle for number one of this the barbecue challenge pinball machine and first I was like we'll get some we'll buy a couple and then I was you know I listened to people talk about it and I was looking at it and I was like I don't think I want to buy any you know what I mean like party money I'm really on the fence about it I don't know why because we're not going to win you know we would just you never know that's what I mean like if you throw 75 bucks yeah but then we'd have to pay for shipping and then but it is a machine then we have a pinball machine for like 235 I don't think we would way more than that but you know it was one of those things where I'm kind of like What do you think about it? Well, I was kind of on the fence about it, too, just because the theme really does nothing for me. No. It's not even like pizza. No. Pizza, I'd be like, well, I'm on board with pizza or something. I don't know. But you just said this is number one, which would be like a piece of more of like a – Collectible. Yeah. Right. Right. Like we have number one of the barbecue challenge. Yeah. I mean, somebody out there has the number one of like Cosmic Carnival, but who gives a crap? Right. I mean, I guess it's still cool. Yeah. I remember seeing those when they were making them. I actually toured that factory when they were making the Carnival, the Carnival, Cosmic Carnivals. Is that the one that lit on fire at Freeplay? Yes. Well, not number one, then. That was the prototype that lit on fire. We ran. I was like, hey, your machine's on fire. He's like, oh. And then those are kind of pretty. You know, because they had the Donny Gillies (Dirty Donny) art. And I remember the first couple had, like, plaques on them or something like that. So maybe this one has a plaque on it, too. Well, I guess. Yeah. Maybe we'll just buy one. Yeah. I was like, oh, we'll buy two. And I was like, eh. I mean, I would say let's put our names in there just because. Yeah, why not, right? It's $75 for the project pinball. And that's important. How about I let you do this? Because I won't. But you should. Just do it. Just do it. Just find 75 bucks and buy it, and we'll be okay. Excellent. I do want to do a shout-out to our, I don't want to say friend, but I guess friend. Yeah, friend. Local friend Don from Don's Pinball. I hit him up because I know we're starting to gear up for Expo. I know Expo's in October. But October's going to hit us in the face faster than we can imagine. So we want to get Pinball Junk Jaws stickers made. and so I hit him up and he actually he clued me in he said it was sticker mule but he also like sent and so I got a discount Nice Because he referred me So I got like off or something like that That's awesome. Yeah. Thanks, Don. Yeah, he's a cool guy. He said we have to go hang out, and I know we have to. Right. But this is super busy right now. It just seems like I can't even find a weekend day. I know. We will. He also, on his show, he was talking that it's rumored that Stern might be up for sale. Hmm. That's weird. That's interesting. It is like, I don't know. I don't know if it matters. Like, it might. I mean. It could matter if they, like, you know. This might be what's been in the works for a while, though. You know, like, them bringing in that Seth. Yeah, from Disney. From Disney. Yeah. And Stern. Because Gary's, you know. He's up there. Well, he wants to spend time with his grandkids. Yeah. He wants to relax. You know, he's worked hard. Oh, yeah. I don't know if he'd ever. Like, I doubt he could ever, like, just leave. Yeah. He's like, you know. But speaking of grandkids, we became honorary grandparents again this week. Yeah, we did. Yep. So Kaneko has a daughter and a son. Uh-huh. And then Kiyok has a daughter. A daughter. And Sarah has a daughter. These are all Japanese exchange students. and now Tao who was our daughter she's a Vietnamese exchange student then she became a U.S. citizen and then she quickly surpassed my education level two times over and now she's like a she's a nurse and a pharmacist yeah like wait just she I was like hey I have a oh you don't care no state nothing okay never mind so she I have a B in it in who cares it doesn't matter I'm old she's like oh daddy so now she just had a happy healthy baby girl baby girl and she's adorable yes she is so we'll start putting away money for her her first baby's first pinball machine yes a raven uh she's not about we'll put our we'll put that money towards chrissy's first pinball okay a raven oh i'm sorry sorry so yeah that we're excited about that i know you're going to be going down to see them and visit the new Kentucky. They're all happy and healthy. Louisville. Louisville. You have to say Louisville. If you say it wrong, people throw things at you. I'm assuming barbecue. I don't know. I don't know what they throw at you in bullets maybe. No. So, I mean, what do you think about this? They throw bourbon at you in Louisville. Oh, right. That's right. Well, then I'm going to start making fun of Louisville more often. I could use people throwing whiskey at me. So, I mean, what do you think about the stern sale? Does it matter? I guess it could it could I mean I the company I work for currently was the purchaser of a company I used to work for and it does it happened to us it happened to me twice over right and then I left so I don't know what to say I know I mean if they're gonna keep with like the company's like direction yeah like if they or if they're gonna strip it down and do everything on the cheap so they can flip it, then it's bad. Right. If they're gonna keep it as it is and keep growing it as the market leader that it is, well then, who cares? I guess it's gonna be a wait and see. That's like everything, though. And who knows? Maybe it's up for sale and his kids are gonna buy it. You know what I mean? It might just be a... No, I don't think that's... Well, you never know. I guess I shouldn't say no. What the hell? Who knows? It's just a rumor right now. We'll see. I'm not excited for it, but I was also not excited to hear Gary was stepping down. Right. Not even stepping down. That's a weird way of saying it. Stepping aside, I guess. Yeah, exactly. Passing the reins over. I was like, you know. I'm sure there's some IndySG insiders that are like, yay. But we know him in a different way. We're like, yay, we love Gary Stern. We know him personally. Ish. Personally ish. Yeah. So we did one of the exciting things that we did this week. Although neither of us are competitive pinball players, we signed up for a tournament. What did we sign up for? It piqued my interest because I'm a little bit more comfortable with the older machines. I play modern machines mostly, but I seem to, I don't want to say excel. I like older machines. I can spend a lot of time playing them and I enjoy it. So we signed up for the District 82 Saturday Night Classic Pinball Tournament. Do we have to wear Saturday Night Fever clothes like polyester and like those big heels? I don't have any of those. I don't see. We'll have to hit up Amazon. Okay. All right. Go ahead. So Saturday Night Classics. Wow. So it's like it starts at like 515 and goes till whenever I guess. Yeah. I know. I hope it's not too late. I'm old. Yeah. I know. But it looks like it's just games from 1964 to 1985. Well, I'll tell you what, probably it's not going to be too bad because modern games are long players compared to the old ones. They were harsh and they took your money quickly. So, I mean, I'm sure, I'm not even like, I'm just going to play. If I don't come in last, I'll be happy. But who knows? So we're both, you're doing it too? Yeah. All right. Why not? Because if I knock you out, then you're going to be angry at me. I'll be like, hey, can you make sure we're not in the same queues for a while? Can you put us in different brackets? Exactly. Also, I don't know anything about competitive. I played in two or three, whatever it was. Yeah. We don't think we've ever played together. No, and we've never played at District 82 either. Right. Which I didn't realize this, but I was listening to a podcast. District 82 is such like a hub for Whopper points. and like everyone in Wisconsin like is really high up because of how good District 82 is and I didn't really realize that we had such a we've been really lucky like the asylum and then we had the Dunedin Museum replay museum and now we have Lumberjack Johnny's and District 82 where we live has had really really great pinball resources I'm very thankful for that Lumberjack Johnny's is insane Yeah, I know I say that a lot on this show right it's nuts like they're not paying us to to talk about them Yeah, the machines that they have out are crazy. Yeah, like the bond 60th and just all that so It be exciting What do you what do you Like I don know how many people are signed up or do they have a limit of how many people can be They have a list here of who is signed up Oh, no. And I may be the only girl so far. It's okay. Yeah. You'll be fine. I don't really care. They're not going to lip off to Craft Brew Sally. Yeah. And also not when Foghorn Laker went standing next to you. That's how you get hit in the head with a craft brew bottle. Oh, that's sad. Oh, man. Oh, no violence. It's all happy. I think we're going to be fine. Don't worry. Don't stress over it. Oh, it looks like it's open to 95 players. And so far there's 23 signed up. Do you think upper 45 or lower 45? I'm going to say lower 45, I bet. Like, I think I like playing it, but I don't know. I bet you I'm below. So you're going to be 45-er. Or lower. Or 45 to 90. I'm going to be in the bad side. But I don't think I'm that skilled. I'm going to say that, too. These guys are like – there's like really good players. So I guarantee they're going to be like mopping me up. I'll be like, oh. Oh, yeah, the owner of the District 82 is in there. So we're done. We're not winning. Well, no. I didn't anticipate winning. It's going to be just like, oh, you know, maybe like – I was hoping maybe like 30th or 40th, but I'll just stick with the lower 45. Right. Let's just have fun. There's a couple names on here I recognize. so we're done. Yeah. Like the like the Fox Cities stream guys on there and you're like look Steven Bowden and and there's Eric Stone yeah sure and then you know you beat Eric Stone before and then there's the Josh Sharpe hell what the hell Shannon Sharp's going to be there that football player all the Sharps yeah no enough dumbness it'll be exciting I was like at first Because I don't really, I'm not a competitive pinball player, but I do have fun when I do them sometimes. Right. Because I don't care. That's the key. If you go in not caring, I always have fun. But if you really stress over it, then it's this big weird thing and then it's not fun. And how can an evening of pinball be terrible? We'll see. Yeah. I'm kidding. I know. It'll be great. So that is when? When is that? That's like April 13th. Wow. Tax day. It's really close to tax day. Yeah. Our taxes have been in. We've already spent our refund. People make this big deal about taxes. I'm like, ours is done like January 30th, and it's like spent by February 10th. Well, not spent, but spent. The only other thing I had today, what other topics do you have? I had one other thing I was going to talk about a little bit. I was thinking. Well, you mentioned we were going to talk about our top shelf booze. Oh, yeah. We'll do that last, if that's okay. We'll send it off with some booze talk. Everyone loves that. I was driving and I was thinking, because I was listening to people beating up on some of these non-licensed pins and stuff like that. And I was thinking about how a lot of times music pins, they take heat, but they are like a perfect match for pinball and for bars. It's an easy sell kind of thing. Rush. Well, every Rush fan wants that. And ACDC. And now they have that Motorhead one floating around that's a custom, but I bet it's not going to be a custom soon. and it because i heard it was a really nice homebrew but i think what happens is like we all have these dream themes we talk about you know everyone everyone talks of course like harry potter's like out there everyone says well for bands you have you have rush or not rush i'm sorry a pink floyd yeah is a big one that that people think and then like i always say like wu-tang would be like the perfect one because it has rap music but it also could be a kung a karate kung fu crossover. Kind of how Foo Fighters is also the fighting an alien guy. Right. That way if you don't like Foo Fighters, well you like aliens or something. Whatever. I don't know what the hell it is. So that would be so easy to have the Wu-Tang. But the problem is licensing these... Pink Floyd notoriously hates each other. So you're never going to get that signed. It's neat to talk about. None of them are going to say, yes, here, take these songs. Yeah, because they would do it just because they hate each other. Right. Like to spite each other. That's how deep that divide is. And then, but then like Wu-Tang would be awesome. But Wu-Tang Clan has like 20,000 people. Right. So like over the years, they've had so many different people come and go, so who is it? Who has the rights? Right. And what songs can you use? Because those guys have to say yes, unless, you know, unless they sold their library to Sony, but then you still have to get, I don't know. I think it's a nightmare, really. Yeah. Unless it's one of these that you've seen like Metallica or like ACDC. Now, those guys have had band members come and go a little, but you're kind of dealing with one group. Well, even like Elton John. One dude. Yeah. Who you know already likes pinball. He already had one out there. Right. And he's flamboyant. He likes having his name out there. So that's easy sell. I didn't think that was going to be a good game. Oh, it is so good. What an awesome game. It shoots like crazy. I swear you know every song and you're like I'm not an Elton John fan but I know every one of these freaking songs so apparently I am an Elton John fan I remember that one day you came home from work and I was watching the Elton John like thing on I don't know if it was on Hulu or Prime or whatever and I knew every single one of those songs and I liked them all I do too I mean yeah you do well what's that one I always start I pick it every time I play the Elton John and I start dancing around like an idiot. That's every song. No, it's like this 80s, it's like late 80s, early 90s. It's one of those, I'm still standing. That's the one. I start wiggling my butt and jumping around. I look like Speedo Man Dan. Oh my God. That's a reference from the olden times. Speedo Man, he was hilarious. But he'd be a butt wiggling fool if you put him in front of that machine. He'd probably be dancing next to him. He would be in a Speedo too. Yeah, he would. That's how he got his name. yeah but it was it's just a fun game you know and whenever people rag on these you're like you've never even played it and people are talking crap about it I don't know right I guess I should stop caring what people write because who cares right you know and you go up and you play it well that's what happens when we look at movie reviews too like there's movies that we love that people are like oh that's the worst movie ever yeah and even if they're right who cares I love it right you know I don't think many people have Death Race 2000 as their number one and or number two top movie of all time. I sure as hell do. I love that movie. You know to be honest Godzilla is still the king Yeah But I don know Death Race is always top two or three It up there Yeah No joke And not the new ones The old one 1970 So I don't know. It's just an interesting thing. There's a lot of bands out there that could make an awesome pin. Now, whether it happens or not, who knows? Right. Maybe this barbecue challenge one is paving the roads to all the food-themed ones now. I don't think we want food themed ones. I don't think anyone wants those. I guess the theory is kind of like, oh, every barbecue place would want one of those in their thing to make. Right. That wouldn't happen. Because barbecue places are like turnover. Oh, yeah, they're so gross. Oh, my God. You'd have to, like my little, my little, like my little thing. You'd have to have one on each side. You'd be just slapping it with the, what's that stuff called? Sanitizer. For those of you who don't know the inside joke. I use those sanitizer things in like when we were in Disneyland every single one of them the Purell one that goes and drops that foam so for Christmas, Crafter Sally got me one of those for the basement down here so I am always well sanitized he was trying to sanitize the sanitizer the other day and that backfired on him that was an endless loop of nonsense even for me that was a loop of nonsense it got me it beat me I, I, sanitizer one, foghorn leghorn zero. That's how that worked out. I mean, every single one we walked past at Disneyland, he had to go, he like walked in front of me to get to it. Oh yeah. Pushing down kids to get to that sanitizer ride. Get all those, all those human germs off me. Yuck. Yikes. All right. So I guess, uh, no, no beer, no crap for Sally. Well, I, I, I thought of something while we were, while we were just in here. It's not really beer related, but... Well, let me dust off the sun. No, no, no. No, okay. We're just going to roll with it. Yeah, we're just going to roll with it. So this past weekend, I played in a pool tournament. On a Saturday, pool tournament starts at 10 a.m. So I play on a bar league. So we go to a bar at 10 a.m. And everybody is like two or three drinks deep by the time we get there. 10 a.m. 10 a.m. I was like, hmm, I am in Wisconsin. I was like, hmm, I don't think I could live here anymore. I don't know. I can't keep up with anybody. And I mean, it was, and all of them continued to drink till, I think I called you at what, six or close to seven. Yeah, it was pretty late, yeah. But by the time I was done, and they were drinking all day long and playing pool. How do you do that? I don't know. I break things when I get like four or five in if I'm expected to do anything. It might go bad quick. I'm not a, I don't know. I was very surprised at the amount of alcohol being consumed in the morning. I remember neighbor Hillbilly Paul said, don't ever try and out-drink a Wisconsinite. Yeah, he did warn us about that. Yeah, he was correct. I don't know about what else, but he was correct about that. So it was interesting. And he said even, and it was all the staples. Some of them got into a fight. Yeah, it was. One of the friends got into a sloppy fight. Yeah, well. Moving on. I can't talk about that. You weren't involved though, right? No, I wasn't involved. Crab Boots Alley and her pool stick came home in one piece. Everything was happening. Right. And not drunk. No, no, because you're driving. Right. You're kind of driving. Exactly. Well, there you go. So I guess the rule is don't drink all day and play pool. Or if you do, take an Uber. And don't try to out-drink a Wisconsinite. Yeah, you'll lose. I think that's pretty much established. Right. Oh, well, a little light on the content this time. but what are we going to do folks? We're going to talk about our top shelf booze. Oh, that was the whole thing. No. Well, you talked about it in the beginning. We can't not talk about it now. We can. All right, go ahead. You talk about it. Oh, you talk about it. So, all right. So, we've been, the whole thing was we were saving up for this grand bar and finished basement and that's not going to happen but we might still do the bar down here. I think we're a kegerator and a half-assed bar away from having a bar down here. Right, exactly. So we'll probably have something. But over the years, we've been – because we don't drink mixed drinks, and we don't really drink a lot of liquor. If anything, we just drink beer. I don't really – rum. I drink rum from time to time. But it's like – so we've been buying top-end liquor every now and then and putting it away for this bar that we were going to have or we hope to have. so we actually ended up getting a google spreadsheet to track the booze that we had because you know these are like like the vodka i just bought was what was it like 40 dollars or like it was the top like we we try and get the top end kind of booze for all these things and we're getting there and we we're only missing a few things like i want to get a nice thing of bailey's and i get some but you know if we ever start making mixed drinks we're set yeah we are we We just need the mix-ins. Well, we just need a bar. Yeah, that would be good. Yeah. We also have a gigantic crate of Tiki mugs. Yes. What do we have? The Rick and Morty Seasons 1 and 2 Tiki mug set. I have a Baby Yoda. I have an Elvira with her big boobs. I need that Elvira salt and pepper shaker. If I don't get that for my birthday, I'm just going to buy it. Enough of this horsing around. and get this done. Alright, that was just, there was no real no nothing really to talk about. We've been saving up and at some point we're going to have to have a break out and have some cocktails. Yes. We'll see how that works. Cocktail craft, no craft cocktail brew sally. That doesn't work. Craft cocktail sally. That sounds too dirty. I don't like that. Alright, we'll just go with craft brew sally. Drinks a mixed drink with some crap in it. Yeah. All right. That's what I do over this week. I don't think we have anything else to do. We'll let you guys know if we win that barbecue pinball machine. And we're going to have another show before the tournament, right? Yeah, we've got one more. All right, cool. Maybe, yeah. Thanks for listening, everyone. This has been the Pinball Junk Jaws Show 43. Thanks for listening, one and all. You have anything else to crack through? No. All right. Get us out of here. Bill Paxton. That's it, man. Game over, man. Game over.