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Episode 66: TMNT Banner Give away!!! Plus our first Live Stream!

Poor Man's Pinball Podcast·podcast_episode·analyzed·Aug 4, 2020
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TL;DR

Poor Man's Pinball debuts on Twitch with spontaneous dad joke contest and TMNT banner giveaway.

Summary

Poor Man's Pinball Podcast hosts Ian and Drew debut their first live Twitch stream (Episode 66) while conducting a TMNT banner giveaway sponsored by Flip It Out Pinball. The episode is largely unplanned, consisting of free-flowing dad jokes submitted by listeners, personal pinball news (Drew's high score on Jurassic Park), and tangential discussions. They also discuss community sentiment from Pinside forums about why pinball isn't mainstream, briefly touch on Pinball Stadium's Neos LED product release, and announce technical improvements like the potential "Bar Cam" feature for future streams.

Key Claims

  • Drew achieved a $951 million score on Jurassic Park with multiple multiballs including Raptor and Chaos modes, plus $200M from collecting fossils.

    high confidence · Drew, personal pinball news segment

  • The TMNT banner giveaway was sponsored by Zach Sharpe from Flip It Out Pinball.

    high confidence · Ian and Drew, giveaway announcement

  • Pinball Stadium released Neos (LED product line) with anti-blur technology that prevents line visibility on ramps, and includes versions with Fusion features and four Flashes.

    medium confidence · Drew, news segment (incomplete discussion)

  • David Dennis from Silver Ball Chronicles won the TMNT banner by submitting the dog skydiving joke ('Scares the shit out of the dog').

    high confidence · Ian and Drew, winner announcement

  • This was the Poor Man's Pinball Podcast's first live Twitch stream, unplanned but executed when they had enough immediate audience interest.

    high confidence · Ian and Drew, stream opening

Notable Quotes

  • “This is our debut on Twitch. Does that mean we're going to be gaming?... I was actually thinking about adding a second camera just for the bar so when we make drinks, we stream our drinks.”

    Drew @ opening segment — Sets the tone for the spontaneous, idea-generating nature of the stream; introduces the "Bar Cam" concept.

  • “Anything worth doing is worth doing right. And as you know, we're always really good at planning. That's not. You should be going like this, not like this. They can see you now. They can see your lies.”

    Ian @ planning discussion — Self-aware humor about their lack of preparation despite attempting to claim otherwise; acknowledges the transparency of live streaming.

  • “That code is too deep, kids. That's too fucking deep. The code's gone too far.”

    Ian @ Jurassic Park discussion — Commentary on the depth/complexity of Jurassic Park's rule set, particularly the fossil collection mechanic.

  • “I have a house full of very expensive and very heavy games. They take up ridiculous amounts of space. Let me repeat: games. I'm the idiot, not them.”

    Dave H (Pinside forum user) @ Pinside thread discussion — Self-deprecating take on collector obsession; reflects broader community sentiment about pinball's niche appeal.

  • “It's the obsessive personalities that I find most soft-footing it. It's not the pinball thing. It's everything. The hardcore in every hobby are nuts.”

    Dar Scott (Pinside forum user) @ Pinside thread discussion — Normalized perspective that hardcore enthusiasm is common across hobbies, not unique to pinball.

  • “You didn't win with that one either... They're getting worse.”

    Ian @ dad joke segment — Running commentary during joke readings; shows real-time judgment of submissions.

  • “Did you hear about the professional nudist pinball enthusiast? Every game he plays results in him straight free-balling... Except for left out lane.”

    Tribe member (anonymous) — First pinball-themed dad joke submitted; play on pinball terminology (free-balling, outlane).

Entities

Poor Man's Pinball PodcastorganizationIanpersonDrewpersonZach SharpepersonDavid DennispersonFlip It Out PinballorganizationTim LeepersonJeff LaGrangepersonJurassic Parkgame

Signals

  • ?

    content_signal: Poor Man's Pinball Podcast expands from audio-only podcast format to live Twitch streaming, adding video and real-time interaction capabilities.

    high · Episode 66 is explicitly described as 'our debut on Twitch' and hosts discuss the novelty of being able to show their faces and streaming the bartending process.

  • ?

    community_signal: High volume of dad joke submissions from listeners (30+ jokes from multiple contributors, including one submitter with ~10 jokes), indicating strong community participation and interaction with the podcast.

    high · Ian mentions 'I didn't expect to have unlimited amounts of dad jokes sent our way' and hosts work through approximately 30-40 submissions during the episode.

  • ~

    sentiment_shift: Positive community sentiment reflected in Pinside forum thread discussing why people aren't into pinball; responses normalize hobby passion and acknowledge family/lifestyle constraints rather than dismissing non-participants.

    medium · Forum responses from Dave H, Dar Scott, and others show self-aware, humorous perspective on collector obsession rather than gatekeeping.

  • ?

    product_launch: Pinball Stadium released Neos LED product line featuring anti-blur technology to reduce ramp line visibility, with multiple variants including Fusion and four-Flash configurations.

    medium · Drew mentions 'Pinball Stadium released Neos' with 'anti-blur technology, so you don't see the lines on your ramps.' Discussion indicates multiple product variants but details are incomplete.

  • ?

    gameplay_signal: Hosts comment on the complexity/depth of Jurassic Park's rule set, particularly the fossil collection mechanic, suggesting the code has evolved significantly beyond base theme.

Transcript

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0:00
all right the poor man's pinball podcast is sponsored by the following flipping out pin shades twit pin stadium lights and pinball prices.com now pin shade it's drew the stylish eyewear you wear to make yourself look cool when you play pinball if as if you needed i wear them when i enter the bedroom as well that's a good one uh but you can uh but you can uh put our uh A little coupon code PIN SHADES, PORRMANS with an S. PORRMANS with an S to get free shipping. Free shipping. And then PIN STADIUM is PORRMAN for 10% off, kids.
0:54
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls of all ages, step right up. It's time for the one, the only, the Four Man's Pinball Podcast.
1:20
Alright, let's cut that shit. How's everyone doing out there in podcast land? My name is Ian. I'm Drew. And welcome. Wait, wait. You said podcast land. Podcast. We're Twitching. We are no longer in podcast land, my friend. That's true. We are in the land of Twitch streaming. We are multimedia. Are we multimedia? We can multimedia now. I can show everyone my nipple, and it's all good. I've seen it. It's not.
1:49
Yeah, you and my wife. Only two people that see my nipples. So this is our debut on Twitch. Does that mean we're going to be gaming?
1:58
You know, I was actually thinking about adding a second camera just for the bar so when we make drinks, we stream our drinks. Write that down. All right, we'll write it down. Write that down. This is what we do, kids. This is where we get our best ideas while we're podcasting, and then they're usually terrible ideas, but we try to implement them anyways. All right, so what would you call that? Bartending cam? Bartender cam?
@ dad joke segment
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Neosproduct
Silver Ball Chroniclesorganization
Twitch Pinball Networkorganization
Pin Shadesproduct
Pinsideorganization

medium · Ian states 'That code is too deep, kids... The code's gone too far' while discussing fossil collection alongside dinosaur modes and multiballs.

  • ?

    venue_signal: Reference to Dave Brennan's basement as a location where pinball is played (implied game collection or venue).

    low · Ian mentions 'I haven't done anything since I was in Kuiper... in Dave Brennan's basement. I love saying that.'

  • ?

    sponsor_signal: Multiple active sponsors supporting the podcast: Flip It Out Pinball (banner giveaway), Pin Shades (eyewear with discount code), Twitch Pinball Network (Stadium Lights), and Pinball Prices dot com.

    high · Opening sponsor read lists all four organizations; Flip It Out specifically providing TMNT banner prize for contest.

    • 2:21
    I'm going to write it down. It needs a better name than that. It needs a cool... Yeah, that's what it is, but we need a cool name for it. And then we've got to flash it across the screen. We'll call it the... So let's ask the people. We've got a few listeners here and watchers already on our Twitch debut. See, here's the thing, guys. This wasn't really a debut. We were just going to test shit out today, but we were just like, fuck it. Let's just roll with it. There's enough of an audience. Here we are. Yep. Billy Y.J. Sucks to be you guys. He says, nice. Is this a Glenn riff? Yep. That's Glenn. And that is listener number 15 doing our brand new opening because we just didn't want the, I don't know, the Twitch police. Yeah, the copyright police to get on our ass about our songs. Yeah, because that song is definitely. Is that song maybe out of copyright now? That's an older song, isn't it? No, that song is relatively new. Is it? Yeah. Okay. All right, so I've got to write down bartender cam. It's taking a while.
    3:12
    Bar cam would probably be fine because it's a cool idea. Bar cam. Do, do, do, do, do. Bar cam watch. Bar cam. So as you can tell already, our Twitch stream is going to be no better than our podcast. Except now you get to see our ugly faces while we're doing this. Oh, boys live. Number 25 is here. Number 30 is here. Tim Lee is here. Chris Chandler, what's going on, brother?
    3:36
    So do we have to have pants off when we watch? You know what? There's no rules. Okay, pants are coming off. No, so. Yeah, you guys can see me doing this stuff. Twitch said no pornography, but this is the farthest thing from.
    3:53
    We are drinking. We're drinking good. What are we drinking today, Drew? Hey. We can show them the bottles now. Oh, this is so different. The camera's right there. We keep looking at the screen. We are drinking screwball whiskey, as always. This stuff. Driftless gin. This is the shit I was wearing on my lap. That's the shit he spilled last week, guys. It's delicious. Tastes so good. Yeah. It's gin. It can't taste good. Actually, it's not gin. It's Driftless Glen. It's vodka. Is that like our Driftless Glen Wechter?
    4:27
    Yep, that's why I do it. That's why I drink it. We love you, Driftless Glen. Yes. That's your new name now. Trademark that shit. All right, it is trademarked. Trademark. I'll drink to that. The Slop Cam. I like that idea. Slop Cam? That is a good one.
    4:41
    All right, pants are optional. The Bartender Cam. that's gonna happen eventually we'll have it right up here in this little corner ideas yep and then we're just gonna do it sound good sounds great perfect all right what do we got today dude dude dude dude the drew drew uh well all my notes are not showing up because one note sucks ass so all right spoiler alert we're gonna give away that teenage green is a turtle banner that is happening yeah that's what we're gonna do today is just gonna be a dad joke day free flowing we had zero plans we didn't even plan to twitch today no we were getting ready to podcast i had notes now we have none they will show up eventually because this thing's not syncing but whatever and then uh ian's showing me the new uh twitch stuff and then we're just like should we just do this fog it let's do it and here we are anything worth doing is worth doing right and as you know we're always really good at planning that's not you should be going like this not like this they can see you now they can see your lies we don't plan very well oh there's gonna be a lot of that but no but we're really excited about this because uh we've been talking about it for a long time um we've been trying to sell t-shirts to raise money for this um we finally sold our third t-shirt i'm just kidding you guys have been great um so you know we got our equipment and we're we're working on some kinks but uh oh that sounded kinky we're working on the kinks We've been working on kinks for years, kids. So here we are. So does everything sound okay? Everything look good?
    6:13
    Turbo says we're looking good, which is nice. Yeah, Turbo, you are the resident expert, so tell us your tricks and tips. Yeah. Anyway, all right. So what are we doing? We're doing our Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle banner giveaway. Boom. It's a dad joke. That's done. Dad jokes. But it's going to be done a little differently because of the banner giveaway. Most of this is just going to be dad jokes. We had a ton of dad jokes. We had a literal shit ton of dad jokes. That is a unit of measure that you guys might not be familiar with, but it's really a real thing.
    6:45
    But Drew can't get logged into his computer, so it's fine. So we don't have any jokes right now, but we can shoot the shit. Nope. One note shows up on my phone, so we're just going to the phone. What's going on in Pinball Land? How about personal pinball news? Should we do personal pinball news? We should.
    7:06
    All right, so personal pinball news. Drew, do you have anything going on this week? I saw you got a pretty good score on – now you can talk shit to Tim Lee. He's here. But you got a good score on Jurassic Park as well? You know what? That was the first thing on my personal pinball news. So Jurassic Park, I blew it up for almost $1 billion with a B, $951 million. And in my notes, I wrote this verbatim, and this I will not forget, Suck on that, Tim Lee.
    7:39
    Just kidding, Lee. Those are fighting words. Tim and I, we talk every week. So, yeah, he's my best friend of me. Ah, okay. I love me some Tim Lee. But anyways, no, it was really exciting because everything lined up, right? I'm going through the modes. I'm going through the paddocks. I collected like, I don't know, I caught like four dinosaurs. I rescued all these people. That sounds amazing. Right? Totally amazing. I know. No idea what you're talking about. What is going on? Anyone with a game knows what I'm talking about. So I rescued all these people. Then I had three really good multiballs. I had a pretty good T-Rex multiball, but then I got the Raptor multiball, and I blew it up with a couple of double jackpots. And then Chaos multiball did the same. And then I got $200 million for collecting these fossils. When you complete stuff, you get fossils. and then you lost me at dinosaurs dude sure oh no and that just shows you how deep this game is though you collect fossils as well yeah but i thought you're at jurassic park oh that's a good point shouldn't they be like keep going fail i don't get it they're well there still could be fossils on the island from the original dinosaurs there you go we're digging deep now that code is too deep kids that's too fucking deep the coat the coat's gone too far yeah yeah you could there's there's there's multiple movies they could borrow from but what do they decide to do they're going full-on fossil oh absolutely absolutely whatever uh sorry i just got this text so i'm just going to share this since he's a uh tribe member uh everyone jeff lagrange tribe member number something he is 50 years old today hey happy birthday i wished him a happy birthday a little while ago and he said damn i guess facebook hasn't forgotten me and neither have you thanks brother all right thanks to see just participating and he doesn't even know it yep i didn't even know he was on facebook he's barely he's one of those guys who like has an account and when you look at it the last picture was like 2009 you know he's one of those guys We're streaming for you, Jeff. Yes, Jeff. This was all planned out. Happy birthday, Jeff.
    9:55
    All right. Anyway. See what happens during the live feed. And this is all the stuff that you guys don't hear when it gets edited out. But guess what? Ian can't edit this. No, this is live, baby. This is happening. This is what goes on. And you guys are going to understand why Ian hates me. And he makes that face all the time. Let's just do it. Let's go. You know, for dinner today, guys, I had poutine. for my canadian brethren out there i had poutine and uh i made it the gravy was thick and delicious the fries were soggy as hell the cheese was good did you ask albert or brad hopkins how to make some poutine i can cook dude because i can make some gravy and fries but those guys are they're from canada they're the poutine experts yeah well they need to join my ship because i got poutine on lockdown and well here's the reason why i love to share that because now i'm drinking for like two i got a food baby and me and all that salty goodness gravy gravy salty goodness they're watching you it looks like you're doing something over i know i'm guys we if we don't have notes this is going to be a bigger train wreck than usual well i don't know if that's possible but all right anyway let's go back to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle is it gone I fucking don't know I spent a lot of time on these notes no there's a lot of notes that's why I'm that's why I'm a little frustrated but but I'm still I'm still happy I'm still I'm still great where do we go I'm sure we're still there but I'm just gonna get us logged in here because we need these damn dad jokes yeah because all the dad jokes are there in one of the folders all right so personal pinball news for me yeah i uh i haven't done anything since i was in kuiper no in uh dave brennan's basement so love saying that i love being in dave brennan's basement but i um nope nothing i didn't play much pinball at all i tried to play uh oh shit what did i do i tried to play a game of Oktoberfest the other day while I was waiting for some shit to load, and it was a disaster. I played like absolute shit, but it's okay. You know how it is. You play shit for one game, the next game you're probably going to get a high score. So I was kind of looking forward to that, but no dice.
    12:20
    So we're logged in here. So nothing else cool in Ian's personal pinball news? No, I've been actually getting back into Pinside a little bit, reading some some threads fucking garbage hot garbage hot garbage has that changed no no nothing's changed yeah speaking of that i came you know last week we were talking about our collector discussion what kind of collector are you and this and that and i saw a thread that wasn't exactly that but it was um oh there it's on yours see what is it episode 66 and dad joke contest there you go okay perfect we're in baby well apparently ian's ian's computer likes us so uh so anyways there was um go to that episode 66 um the collector's discussion and there was a thread up inside someone put the topic was why do so many people not give a crap about pinball and i i got some of the responses here um because i just thought it was pretty interesting so how many people not give a crap about pinball so dave h says i have a house full of very expensive and very heavy games they take up ridiculous amounts of space let me repeat games i'm the idiot not them dave you are so right there then we got ep the geek eric friffki eric friffki my boy on every niche forum about whatever niche thing there's a thread just like this one wondering about why so many people care about competition go-karting embroidery or seahorse breeding and then mr crazy levy sometimes there's a guy who likes to clip a car battery to his ball sack in the garage while the family is sleeping and in between jolts he's wondering why everyone else isn't into his favorite hobby either different strokes oh my god there's a lot of these here yeah there's like one or two more uh dar scott i enjoy pinball but it's just a fun thing to do when i'm alone i enjoy pinball when my wife is getting ready and i need to kill 30 minutes i enjoy working on machine in the evenings i'm not too busy it's a nice distraction it's the obsessive personalities that i find out most soft-footing it's not the pinball thing it's everything the hardcore is in every hobby are nuts you know he's right there you know every hobby has their obsessive hardcore people and maybe we some of those i don i don know did you look around we on fucking twitch talking about this shit Alright Is this it Yeah that was the message from Martin Oh, got it. Alright, we're back.
    15:04
    But no, I just thought it was kind of neat and fun to discuss that last week. And yeah, some cool stuff. Alright, did you guys lose us for a bit there or are we good to go? Alright, we're looking sometimes. gravy salty goodness ian yep you heard it here first folks who said that i don't know all right so here we go boom so dad joke day we're gonna be doing uh the teenage mutant turtle giveaway obviously given uh to us by zag manny from flipping out pinball super excited uh when i came up with this idea and drew and i were talking about it we're like fuck it let's just do a dad joke thing uh i didn't expect to have unlimited amounts of dad jokes sent our way so uh i have not listened or read to any read any of these dad jokes so i saw most of them because i compiled them drew compiled them em is your name em your name's not em um it will be if i have a few more of these it's gonna keep being it will be uh so i thought it'd be it'd be fun we'll read all those and uh we will pick a winner all right man sounds good there were there were a lot of submissions and some people they decided to write 20 of them which is fine so but there were a lot of submissions a lot of good stuff and uh yeah we'll get to that towards the end of this uh i'm not even cost an episode i'll call this whatever this is yeah what episode is this episode 66 right yeah welcome to the poor man's pinball podcast episode number 66 the sloppiest show on the internet now live oh we get to start over started oh wait email us at poor man's pinball if you want us to start over. PortmanSpinBall at gmail.com. Now we have our cheat sheet here.
    16:47
    Now I know what the hell I'm talking about. We've been talking about that for a year and a half. It's finally right in front of us after all this fucking time. Jesus Christ. All right, so let's do this. Let's get right into it, guys. Let's get into these dad jokes. We're not doing this at the end of the show. We're doing it now.
    17:03
    I thought the whole show was going to be dad joke show. Cool. How many are on here? 30, 40. There's a lot. There's a lot, dude. Mm-hmm. We can go in between. We can go back and forth. What else did you have for our episode today?
    17:17
    I'm just looking here. Shoot the shit. We did that good. What else we got? These things. All right, this is mailbag, right?
    17:28
    Yep. All right. Perfect. So we're right on track. This is exactly what we planned. Oh, I love it. This is just exactly what we thought it was going to be. All right, dad joke contest. All right, I'm going to start off with the first dad joke here. All right? You guys ready for this shit? It's going to be a long night, so let's get this ready.
    17:48
    I'm going to take a sip. Cheers. What are you guys drinking out there? Are you guys drinking it all with us, or is it just going to be Drew and I? Because now we're going to request cocktails being shared here with the group.
    18:02
    You like the epilepsy sign flashing in the background. Is that bothering you? We can always turn that off, pal. Just let me know. it's simply everything in the background is simply just plugged in so and if you had if you had a brown with it let me know all right so all right are we still frozen guys or can you see are we frozen i don't know well whatever we're gonna keep going so let's do this dad joke here ready number one uh why does santa claus have such a big sack we're coming in hot he only comes once the year good or cringy that's just the other thing that's pretty good redemption bourbon straight all right there we go do i need to break out my bottle of gin absolutely jaeger billy how are we coming in we coming in all right people are losing us they can't hear us or no i think the video uh whatever you guys aren't used to seeing our pretty faces anyway so it's all good I can see you that's all that matters my Williams 1371 thank you sir alright so Drew you ready what do you call my cheese I don't know nachos cheese nacho cheese there was an S in there hold on hold on are you doing that was the part of that email yep alright next dad joke you know how a lot of guys carry their wallet in the back pocket well what do you call it when you fart in your wallet gas money that's a dad joke that is the epitome of a dad joke and that was from an actual dad that's that's when you know it's good or cringy if you will jesus christ this is gonna be a long night i should be drinking more No. All right, keep going. I have a Russian friend who's a sound engineer. Is this racist? Yes. He's a sound engineer. And a check one, two.
    20:25
    I was drinking my milkshake on a cliff and thought, wow, this is legendary, cop. I'm arresting you for illegal downloading the entire Wikipedia.
    20:36
    Man, wait. I can explain everything. I feel like that was multiple jokes. uh it was uh hang on we just got a message from michael damon on thirsty williams rebooted my computer and you guys synced up and got better all right sounds good man all right well whatever i think i screwed that last joke up it's fine it's neither one were good anyway they weren't so let's keep going whoever that was you're not winning sorry it was josh mud josh no banner for you sir you couldn't have you don't have room to fit it in his fucking place anyway it's fine that is very true all right you ready yep uh why don't blind people skydive i don't know scares the shit out of the dog that's pretty good i'm gonna check that one as uh that's a favorite that's a maybe well i'm gonna i'm gonna read his second one because this this one was actually one of my favorites so this guy might all right might come out ready why does michael j fox make the best milkshakes oh no oh because he only uses the freshest ingredients uh that one another check so far that that's going in the top five category he is in the running you know what might happen uh because we haven't picked a winner yet we're gonna run through these and then maybe we'll have a vote at the end of the top three or four or something we'll see how it goes but man that those are those are pretty good scares the shit out of the dog that's pretty funny all right here we go um a rabbit goes to the dentist and the dentist says i need to pull a tooth but i'll give you novocaine the rabbit answered no way not me doc i'm an ether bunny ether bunny i see what he did there i don't like what he did there but i see what he did there he's an ether bunny oh is this a pinball podcast no it's a pinball twitch stream it's it's the dad joke day love it guys um is everyone left or are they still here i don't know when is a door not a door i don't know when it's a jar oh jesus christ I think I've heard that one. Yeah, I have too. That one's old, but it's a goodie. Ooh, this one I like too. What's the difference between a garbanzo bean and a chickpea? Daddy never had a garbanzo bean on his face. That's a picture of Ivanka with the Goya beans. Chickpea on his face. All right. Nice. You're giving me all the gross ones to read, I see. Hey, they're just in order, my friend. They are just in order. Okay, you ready? Oh, here's a Star Wars dad joke.
    23:29
    Why don't you ever see Ewoks in the wild? They are Endor pets. No? Is this like that show with the celebrities where they try to make each other laugh? Yeah. You ever see that one? Will Ferrell and James Franco. This is exactly it. Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty good. All right. Hang on. Oh, no. Sorry, he had a drink recipe with that. The only drink recipe you'll ever need. Scotch neat. Take glass, add scotch.
    23:58
    Fair enough. Good recipe. All right. I think things are getting choppy because I keep going back and forth on my screen.
    24:14
    I'm just going to rely on you since it seems like you've got yours open now, okay? Cool. I'm also going to stop this.
    24:24
    We're just going to have to deal with that. All right. Sorry, guys. We've got to get through a little of these hiccups. And I'm going to keep drinking. And hopefully we'll get it done. Hopefully we'll get this done. So you want me to keep reading them? Go for it, dude. I'll just sit here and drink. Cool. This is what I was hoping for. I love it. This was my plan from day one. Why can't you hear a pterodactyl use the bathroom? Because the P is silent. Ah, you knew that one. We've heard this one. Yeah. OK. Here is somebody who wrote us a whole bunch. OK. Okay. He's trying to improve his chances. Yes. I'm only sending party invites to 25 letters of the alphabet. I don't know why.
    25:04
    Oh. Let it sink in. Let it settle. Sorry. Some of these highbrow jokes, these highbrow jokes, I have to really think about. Wait for it.
    25:17
    I'm only, oh, that's, I'm reading a book about the history of glue. I can't put it down. yeah that one wasn't good sorry this guy this is the first year we're not going to europe because of covid 19 oh normally we don't go because we can't afford it oh that's okay are we good yeah point for you bud i used to hate facial hair but then it grew on me that one didn't land either yeah what's better than a dad bod not sure a father figure they're getting worse sorry you didn't win with that one either i can tell you that justice is a dish best served cold if it were served warm it would be just water just ice just yeah okay have we lost every listener now every viewer uh i dig you dig he digs she digs we dig they dig it's not a long poem but it's deep oh my oh this is horrible my boss said my math skills are average that's just mean i like that one all right what happens if you life gives you melons what's that you're dyslexic
    26:42
    is melons and lemons same letters get it no i get it buddy melons lemons nothing nothing my wife just completed a 40-week bodybuilding program this morning it's a girl and weighs seven pounds eight ounces pretty good pretty good a man walks into a bar and this is all the same guy by the way there's about 10 more he's got a man walks into a bar and with that he loses the international limbo championship oh jesus yeah no matter how far you push the envelope it'll always be stationary that's that's good i like that what's the best time to go to the dentist uh i don't know 2 30 2 30 2 30 yeah come on uh hold on a second Guys, I understand you're having problems with our video. We're just going to keep going forward, and hopefully things kind of even out. I'm showing 60 frames per second. We're right there, if not just a little bit lower. We're not moving much. We're just going to keep going with this, and I hope you guys can see this. Should I get closer to Ian? Does that help? No, it's not doing anything. I know. It's this. Okay, go for it. That was my bad dad joke. Yeah. My wife said, I never buy her jewelry, flowers, or candy. I didn't even know she sold them.
    28:10
    I was addicted to soap, but I'm clean now. Two more from this guy, and then we're moving on to someone else. Oh, that was all the same guy? Oh, yeah. Oh, come on.
    28:23
    Disqualified. Too many. That's fine. But it's a lot of jokes, so it's good. Recent studies say that 9 out of 10 people who are afraid of hurdles never get over it. Oh. Terrible. My wife is really mad at the fact that I have no sense of direction, so I packed up my stuff and write.
    28:41
    Yeah. We had that last week. Yeah, I think we heard that one before. Okay, we're on to somebody new. All right. Sorry, that guy. You didn't win either. No, it's fine. I thought I won the argument with my wife as to how I arranged the dining room furniture, but then I got home, the tables were turned. Pretty good. Yeah. yesterday a clown held the door open for me i thought it was a nice gesture oh talk about political statements jesus uh where did noah keep his bees i don't know in the archives archives oh jesus uh it was an emotional wedding even the cake was in tears yeah yeah yeah not not good so two guys are talking right hey bro yeah bro can you pass me that pamphlet brochure that one got some legs that one that one good all right brochure yeah right brochure down That one going in the top five I never forget the last thing my grandfather said before he kicked the bucket Watch how far I can kick this bucket.
    30:01
    Eh, not as good as brochure. Do you know what comes after USA? What? USB. Oh, shit. Why was this story?
    30:14
    Stormtrooper Lonely? another star wars because he missed everyone ah yep i heard that one too what rock group has four guys in it that can't sing mount rushmore your mom is still really into me every time i walk by she says what an ass son of a gun that was from a tribe member i'll just leave that there so since everyone is going to recycle other people's dad jokes i'm going to recycle one i actually made up uh in the last oh the late night tribe zoom okay so the tribe member how much fun can you have with a double dildo oh my god okay twice as much twice as much guys because you have
    31:10
    I haven't noticed how hot I am. I actually pulled that one out of the Corn Fest. Oh, Jesus. Yeah, and then some other stuff. We weren't going to give his identity here.
    31:21
    What's up, buttholes? And then he writes us an email, which we can share later. But here's his joke. Did you hear about the professional nudist pinball enthusiast? Every game he plays results with him straight free-balling.
    31:34
    Hey, that was the first pinball one. Except for left out lane. That was pretty good, too. That was good, too. I like the left eye line. And he says, thanks, guys. Keep on rocking. Best podcast running.
    31:45
    Thank you, sir. We appreciate that. Lies. But we appreciate it. No, no, lies. We do appreciate it. We are the best podcast running. Hey, man, whatever. Has anyone else just sat in front of a mic and told dad jokes on a pinball podcast before? Was that all the pinball? That was it, yeah. Oh, my god. That was a lot. I told you, there was like 30 of them. I really think only one guy really stepped up. Michael J. Fox. Yeah, the skydiving dog. OK. Who's that? You know who that was? No. David Dennis. David Dennis? Yeah. The non-tribe member tribe member? Pinball Chronicles, right? Silver Ball Chronicles. Banner.
    32:29
    From Flippin' Out Pinball, because that was the one I had starred, and Ian didn't know that, and he liked his first joke about the dog is scared shitless. I fucking liked it. Yeah, it was a good one. Okay. I really liked that one. So no voting, no nothing, David Dennis. Yeah, you win the banner, man. You walked away with that one easy. Zach, you got to pay extra shipping for Canada. Oh, is he another Canadian? Oh, yeah. Oh, we got a lot of Canadians. Zach, sorry, man. We just spent more of your money, but you'll be okay because I'm buying a machine from you and probably another one, so you'll be fine. You will survive. David Dennis. You will survive. Yeah, he's on the pinball network. He'll figure it out. Yep, absolutely. Well, congratulations, David Dennis. That was cool. Thank you for all the guys that sent in. That was a lot. It was quite a bit. They just kept coming in, which is cool. Yeah, absolutely. Pretty impressed with everybody's efforts there with that one. All right, so what else we got going on today, Drew? I don't know. Anything cool in the news? I mean, obviously, it's been slow.
    33:28
    So Penn Stadium released Neos. I saw that. What do you think about that? The Neos. Now, there's two different types of Neos. They have the Fusions. That's like the Flasher, the Orion's Belt, everything all in one. Yes. Because they already have that. Yeah. But this has the anti-blur technology, so you don't see the lines on your ramps and stuff. And then there's one, though. Isn't there one that incorporates four Flashes as well? Like, I saw today in the emails. There's two different versions of the Neo. So the Neo Fusion and then the Neo pin stadiums. Is that what it is? Yes. I thought there was like an ultimate Neo. I did do...
    34:06
    I copied some of the stuff on there just for the Neo Fusions. I'm sorry, the Neo Penn Stadiums. But it sounds like a cool product. I might try those out on my Turtles. All right. So we'll see.
    34:22
    Laser work could use them. Yeah, once again. We'll get those shitty laser, the hyper beams out of there and get the $400 ones in there. Because, yeah, those lines on the ramp, sometimes they are a little distracting. Yeah.
    34:39
    So if this really... You got to wonder how he does that, though. You know what I mean? Because it's like, it's light, and it's there, and there's still separate lights, which is kind of bizarre. Oh, as far as the actual... The blurring. Scott, if you really want to impress me, I want to see it in connection.
    35:02
    You can't leave this plugged in for more than 10 minutes. It will burn your house down. 300 degrees. You could also use it in your Easy-Bake oven. You can make special Albert brownies. You can make your brownies. You can play your pinball. we're gonna call them the poor man's pin stadium ovens oh i love it i love it and and if one breaks you just got to go buy a 10 cent ball i think i'm gonna have to send him a message scat over at pins uh pin stadiums do you want that old school look in your pinball machines we got the thing for you hey anything you want to do that's uh you want to go old school we can go old school could you imagine going to it comes with his own power supply it's this big no it's like it's a transformer bro is that your subwoofer nope transformer don't go near it go to one it will turn your nuts gray go to one of those old em guys and say hey hey old em guy uh we got these special incandescent Oh, my God. This thing took a dive. It did. We got excited. It's been sitting there for a while.
    36:29
    I wonder what transitions we're playing. So, anyways, no, I think that would be cool, though. I'm excited about those Neos, actually. So, we'll see. David Dennis, is that you? T-W-U-T-O-R-T? No, that's Tim Lee. That's not Tim Lee. That's Tim Lee.
    36:46
    Hi, Tim. All right, anyway. Tell Ian who you are. I thought he was the T-W-T-E-E guy. T-W-O-R-T. Tim, tell me I'm right. Son of a bitch. Am I right? All right, well, then you didn't win shit, Tim Lee.
    37:05
    If you're not David Dennis, you didn't win shit. Yeah, maybe if you wanted some old-school incandescent pin stadiums, maybe you won those. We're selling those. We're doing pre-orders, but we need some pre-order money. We're going to make so much money on just the bulbs themselves because they're going to have to be replaced every other game. Send $300 to poormanspinball at gmail.com, and we will ship those out in about 10 years. Yeah, just in case you want it to be a little warmer. Yeah, see? You could have that in a garage in the winter, and it'll heat up your garage. Perfect. And start your place on fire. It's the mod that keeps on giving. I love it. It's Christmas time. Look at all those old Christmas bombs. You put those big ass, those big, huge Christmas bombs in there.
    37:52
    Just be like, okay. The ones that are like lead paint on the outside. Yeah. That's perfect. Oh, my God. Oh, shit. All right. So that's Penn Stadium. Sorry. We'll move past that news. What other news did we have?
    38:05
    I don't know. I didn't retwit today. There was an awesome interview on Loser Kid. You're wearing the hat. Show them the hat. That's the hat.
    38:17
    Fits like a glove. Loser Kid did an interview with Butch Peel. And here is my one takeaway, and I'm going to try to be serious, and I'm going to try to not throw anybody under the bus. This goes well when we go serious.
    38:32
    Not super serious. uh so he he landed a job at chicago gaming which is awesome yes he's working alongside franchi which is super huzzah huzzah um when he from his own words he talked about how he got shit canned from jjp hr called him on friday and just told him sorry you're done and that was it well it sounds like a lot of those uh guys are having issues like that sure and i know i know there's two sides to every story but i would have just thought you know for someone who's been with that company you know for several years they would have you know maybe sat him down whatever but just to get a phone call and be like yeah you're done hey guys how's the uh the video uh quality now are we all up to date now because what i did was i eliminated everything that was running in the background and i also lowered our settings slightly our our output so let me know it's it's showing good on my end but i just want to make sure you guys are seeing the beauty that is dronian all right um and you're right it was tim lee hi tim hey tim how's ann doing how's the mistress doing uh all right so that sounds very very like bullshit it is and like i said there's two sides of every story so i'm not and you know he talked about his relationship with with jack himself and i know jack's not you know a principal part of the company anymore he's just a you know a minority owner if you will um so you know he's still friends with jack and you know jack has a lot of respect for him anyways but but fast forward you know then he's talking about his new stuff with um with chicago gaming and how you know he's been in the industry for you know 30 plus years he was in the army he's an engineer electrical engineer really fascinating story and this guy he literally he's retired now and he does pinball every day 24 hours a day super cool you know he seems like a wealth of knowledge he had to see at his cool personality and just it was just just check it out loser kid um i think it was july 31st um so a few days ago and super super cool uh i recommend everyone listen to that interview all right so if there If there was a pinball company out there that needed to hire two assholes for their social media, who would hire us?
    41:01
    Which defunct pinball company would hire us? We're looking at you, Dutch Pinball. Oh, I don't know if I want to do that.
    41:15
    Like, eh. I don't know if I want to do that. Highway Pinball. You think anyone's going to come knocking on our door? American Pinball will. They will? I've talked up Oktoberfest so much. We should be getting jobs by the end of the month. You are, like, one of the biggest proponents of it, which is great. It's the best game I've ever played in the history of pinball. You've owned five or six games now, and that's the one that's here. So that's cool.
    41:43
    That's good stuff, guys. It's good stuff. All right. So, yeah, the Butch Peel thing. And Kaneda kind of alluded to that. Let's go back to that a little bit. Let's actually be a podcast for a second here. And Butch talked about that, the Canada thing. Did he really? Yeah. He said he didn't really know him very well, and then all of a sudden, you know, people were, like, messaging him. Like, you know, lots of people. Like, hey, this is bullshit and whatever. Right. And he's pretty well loved in this community. No, and I get that, which is fantastic. And he's done a lot for Spooky. He did a lot for JJP. Yeah. He has done a lot. and i'm almost certain a lot of the things he's done for like a spooky i don't think he was getting paid top dollar i think it was more for the love of the game and getting sure he's retired he just getting into something that he loves so with that being said um you know with the jersey jack thing moving to illinois and then obviously not really i'm not really i didn't really grasp what that meant but to just fire everybody and almost start a new with the exception of your designers it's kind of what they did yeah it is crazy it is it's it's that's fucking cutthroat man that's pinball baby is that though is it no and like it sounds like it was it was it was a huge decision and i don't think jersey jack had fucking squat to say about it so no and and like i said you I've fired a bunch of people over the years. I know what it's like, but I just – I get it's a business decision. I don't begrudge them for that. I just think the way he described it – and like I said, maybe there's more to the story. We'll never know, and that's fine. But I just think it could have went a little bit better. I think they could have done it a little bit differently. That's all. I'm pretty sure this is Michael Williams. He says the best part of that story was that he went from IED detectors to pinball. Yeah, he talked about that. he was in the army like trying to save people's lives and shit and now he's like i'm making pinball what do you say it's so much more than i what one of the ied both ways yeah uh one of the one of the best uh lines he had in there was he said yeah anyone anyone that works for a pinball company and doesn't have fun with that there's something wrong with you you know and because he just he he breathes this shit and he just he loves it and he goes you know i i do it every day i talk about it every day i play i um you know i just i fix games you know he has he has like an old monster bash and you know he just he just loves it for like i think he's 40 years no that's cool very cool yeah you go from being in the army to now you're you know helping design games and like i said he can from something as serious as ied detection of pinball? Talk about no stress. There's nothing a pinball machine will ever do to distress him out He could plug it in It could start on fire He be like no that cool plugs it in and it blows up he be like i could probably detect that if you need help with that there's nothing that guy can't do there's nothing that box of lights is going to be able to do to surprise that man no he's he's he's seen it all he's been through it all and then he's just It's like, okay, cool. This is what we're doing. I need more ice. Uh-oh. I need more ice, too. Look, guys. We're going to actually do our cocktail break. Look at this. Why not?
    45:36
    Thank you. All right, sorry about that, guys. And we're back, sort of, maybe. We made it. It's fine. We're back. We have our new cocktails.
    47:26
    That is so funny. Sure, the cocktail break sound is uninterrupted. LOL. Oops. Yeah, we got it all working out. All right, so can you guys hear us? We're back. All right, so the Butch Peel story, fantastic.
    47:45
    Penn Stadium story, so-so. Incandescent bulbs on Penn Stadium. Incandescent. Not a good plan. What else is going on in the pinball world? Guys, what are you guys playing right now? Let's get interactive with our guys here.
    48:01
    There's something right about the first live stream being as sloppy as the podcast. yeah this isn't anything new i don't know you guys we're right at home once again it doesn't work all the time you guys you guys see the sort of edited kind of polished version this is what goes on every week yeah podcast we just happen to get to edit that out look at this zero sweat because we're used to this shit show and you guys get to see my red shiny face because i've had way too much sun this summer and way too many cocktails yeah that's what it is the cocktails don't blame the sun the sun it's the vitamin d can you see you can see i can pin rule pins rule yeah thanks man i'm glad it's everything's working yeah i just realized now i can't use my laptop for anything other than streaming which is fine all right so moving forward so we we knocked that bug off the list right we got one more down well yeah and and we'll come up with some fun interactive stuff too that'll be you know for the stream and whatnot so we're just like i said we even plan on doing this today yeah you guys want to see something cool so you know when we do our reviews this is something that we had uh our animator work on so we had it we paid top dollar for it so we have an animator the same animator who did heist over at uh p3 multimorphic he helped us out with some animations and uh one of them being drew specifically requested that when we do our reviews you know how we do review things and cheese slices it's like the dumbest shit right we pick an arbitrary number like Jurassic Park's art package is like two cheese slices but the shots on layout is like 25 cheese slices so Drew I feel like quagmire right now Drew hit it why don't you hit our JP is like 25 cheese slices no
    50:02
    Oh, 25 cheese slices. And 25 more, because Jurassic Park's awesome. And I think Turtles is going to be like 50 cheese slices, because that's what happens.
    50:28
    And this is Reggie. Oh, there's Turtles' cheese slices. We got a slight delay, guys. That happened. That threw me off. Okay. Well, at least it worked. We got cheese slices. It's raining cheese slices when we're talking about reviewing games. You tried to explain to somebody, hey, I want it to rain cheese slices.
    50:47
    Once again, words we thought we never would put together, but we did. Too many masturbation breaks. Who said that? Lieb. I thought. Hey, Lieb. never too many masturbations. Really? Yeah.
    51:19
    Holy shit. This went fast. It does. It does every week. I guess. Alright. So, mailbag? Yep, mail... That was our mailbag thing. Maybe not. Yeah.
    51:35
    Ian and Drew, I was listening to episode 41. I think you all mentioned that becoming operators has been an idea of yours for a while. I think a lot of us in the hobby have tossed that idea around. Yep, we sure have. And I think we have a list of questions we'd like to know before jumping in the water. Mainly, how much money can you actually make? What's the typical split with the venue? How many machines do you need to start, et cetera, et cetera? And watchers.
    51:59
    We actually recently potentially landed an operator who doesn't normally want to do podcasts, but a friend of ours convinced him to potentially come on our show. So it's a pretty well-known venue. I'm not going to mention it now because I don't know if it's solidified, but we might have this operator on in the semi-near future. because I think that would be interesting fodder, don't you? Yeah, absolutely. Talking to an operator, especially after COVID and what they're doing and if they could really lay out some of the – We've all thought about it, right? Ian and I have talked about it for a couple of years. If we can get money from pinball machines to buy more pinball machines. That's the dream, right? It makes sense, right? Every few months, get another pinball machine. Zach Menny at Flippin' Out Pinball, I love Zach. and when he became a distributor i'm like doing his reviews everyone you everyone knew it was like man this dude has too much money he's just buying them and selling them just for the review. But now he is the buyer. Yeah. But, you know, let's be honest. If you worked a full-time job and you were able to take care of your family, and, you know, Brian Cosner is a good example. Anyone who knows Cos out there? You know, he routes like four or five pinball machines, right? So he can route these few machines, make some extra side cash. You know, it doesn't make a ton because he only has four machines. That's cool. but if he wants to bring one of those machines home and just play it for a while he can right you know it's right it's super cool so yeah it's awesome you build up a collection of 10 or 12 or 20 machines you put a handful of them out on a route you buy a couple new ones you tell the wife hey i'm putting this on route sneak it in your game room you're golden yeah he's got it from an inner space
    54:19
    feature standpoint. Ooh, tough words. Currently just working with all the machines for sale, scraped off inside, plan to add in other sources. What are some features you'd like to see? You know, sort, search, triggers, price comparisons, blah, blah, blah. Thanks for your input, Brian. So yeah, Brian, it looks like he's trying to come up with a more comprehensive website for selling pinballs. That's kind of cool. Yeah, I mentioned a couple things. What did you respond to him? Just specific, just like if I was only interested, because there's specific type of collectors, right? Dave Brand is like early solid states. So if there is a way to just search by year type. Like early solid states versus DMD. versus new, modern. Okay. No, I thought that was cool because you're right. We go to Pinside, we go to Facebook, but how cool it, like say Doc Finlay with pinballprices.com.
    55:45
    That's what we do here at the Pornman's Mobile Podcast. Slash Twitch. Disconnected. Back to unwatchable. Reconnection successful. Well, thanks, OBS Studio. We're learning. Womp womp. We're getting better. But that was my last mailbag, so it is what it is.
    56:15
    a learning curve all right so hey not bad not bad for a first uh run that we didn't plan on doing yeah this is totally out of the blue but thanks guys for joining us i don't know if anyone's even there anymore but uh hope everything is going well on your end um drew how'd it feel it felt good what'd you learn today uh i learned that we know nothing about twitch i learned that too and uh and we gotta remember to do that in our shows remember we talked about that a month ago or so what did you learn today because that's always a funny yeah one of us always has something really good can i give him any
    57:13
    Oh, I gave it that many cheese slices. It was fine. Your cheese slices keep killing us, kid. Oh, my God. I give this episode one cheese slice We're going to have to figure out our settings And go real low school Oh my god this is a disaster Didn't you just buy this computer Yeah well clearly we didn't think we were going to be streaming Okay This was just a podcasting computer Alright kids we're out of here We're going to start fighting I'll see you guys next week Oh I love you guys thanks for joining in This has been fun Yeah I'm on vacation next week but we'll figure something out We'll get something in Thanks guys have a great day Cool. Later. Peace out.
    58:41
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