Well, yeah, this is my work-wise. We're entering our budget period. I actually spend the month of September working on our organization's budget. I'm at that point where I've run it by the executive director. It's ultimately his budget, so it's his recommendations. He changes what he disagrees with me about. He makes his determinations on how to bring things into balance, and then we get ready to present that to the governing board, and then they get to deal with the shock of how the new reality is or isn't going to be. This last week especially has been that period where I've been working to get everything squared away with the boss so that we're on the same page and we're in agreement on what the budget says and what we're going to present to the governing board for their perusal. Got that out of the way. But it's just time-consuming is the issue. So that aside, I haven't been playing a lot besides the aforementioned pinball tournaments that you had noted. And then yesterday, while I was getting ready to go to Pinpalooza, I tried to turn on my computer in the morning, and it would not start up. The fans would kick on, the computer would not. So the power supply finally gave out the system. It was the system I podcast record on almost always. So that was a bit of a problem. It was over eight years old, though. So I was like, OK, I'll finally go and get a new system. So I had to run out to the store, buy the new computer, and go through that process of starting to migrate all the files over. Before Penapalooza, I, of course, didn't get that all done. And since I didn't get back until after 2 a.m., I did not do it until I got up this morning. But I think I have everything transitioned, hooked up and working. Of course, I'm going to remember certain programs I forgot to reinstall as I go about it. But by and large, everything is squared away, running much better and quieter now. The system had been giving me some warnings for a while that it wasn't happy. But at that age, it's not that surprising. So aside from those things, I think the only other real intro update I'll give is I have at long last finally finished the History of Rome podcast. as longtime listeners may recall. I had to start listening to this because I mispronounced Deus Ex. It's actually not true. I did start the podcast before I did that, but that was always my rationale for hanging my hat on that. I just like history podcasts. So anyway, that was over 74 hours of content. It was ended years ago. He actually has a, that's Mike Duncan's podcast. He actually has a whole other podcast that he does now. But History of Rome was his first, and it was really interesting because I did not know but but you know what you hear through Shakespeare and stuff you go through the Julius Caesar and Augustus and then after that you typically maybe you know about Constantine and such but you don't know a lot about the other emperors or anything and this actually went all the way through to the fall of the western empire so now that I'm finally done with that back on topic I was able to add on some new pinball podcasts because while I was doing History of Rome, I refused to add more podcasts to the queue. I was just like, no, I'm going to punch through this. Anytime any of the casts I was already following would come out, I'd have to move those episodes up top because they're usually news cycle oriented. So I was, you know, every week I had new Xbox podcasts and I have new pinball podcasts and I just have to keep pushing those up ahead of Rome. I finally now all through it, I have added three new podcasts, and they are all pinball themed. So I've added Bage Night Pinball Podcast, Skillshare Pincast, and the Slam Tilt Podcast. And I'll have links to all three of them in the show notes, and you guys can check them out. I've only heard their latest episodes on all of them. Yeah, I'm so far behind on podcast listening that it's not even funny because I've been listening to audiobooks instead of podcasts. so I need to work on that but I'm on book 11 of the Wheel of Time out of 14 so I'm almost done I'm getting there other than that I've got a couple other games I've played but I'll talk about them in the video game section I think that's enough we can pop on over to what's pretty much been our intro already going into the pinballs well you did bring up Pinapalooza I thought before really saying anything else in case anyone isn't And there are probably a lot who aren't familiar. Pinapalooza, it's basically a couple times a year. There's a private collector in Missouri who invites us an invite event. There tends to be an IFPA-sanctioned tournament at it, which Tony mentioned. And it's really neat because his collection is quite impressive. And it's over 80 playable machines. So, I mean, outside of a pinball show, a lot of people just aren't able to have access to that kind of experience. And so I extend my thanks to Todd for inviting me out there yet again. A lot of the regular Kansas City players were there. We had people from Wichita, a lot of people from the Missouri side, all the way out from St. Louis and in between would come out for either doing the tournament or just to go and enjoy the free play of it. And so it's just it's a lot of really well-maintained machines. There's a lot of good camaraderie. And it's just it's really it's a really cool event. And it's something I would never be able to put on because there's just no way I could have that many pens. I don't even think I could fit that many, even if I could afford them. So it's really neat to be able to go. And it's a nice change up from just sort of the usual pattern where you go and do the nicely maintained location pens that we have. But just to go and see this variety of the, like the Orbiter 1, as you mentioned, or being to do a Cactus Canyon, or maybe playing a Mayfair or a Foursquare. I mean, he does all the eras. Anything with Flipper is a spare game. So it was a lot of fun. And anyway, it's a pretty cool event. So keep your eyes out on possibly scoring an invite for it if you're in the Kansas City area. If he knows you, he'll probably invite you. That's kind of how it goes. But anyway, it's a really unique opportunity because outside of the Texas Pinball Festival, this is easily the most pins I've ever seen in one location. Yeah, and it's a nice, very eclectic collection. See how I did that right there? Yes. Bravo. Stuff from all eras. And, I mean, games that are, I mean, from really old EMs that are addictingly fun to even some of the more modern games. I mean, nice ACDC and everything in between. It's definitely a collection to be envied. And so, anyway, I think we've spoken enough about that. so everyone can be tantalized at what they didn't get to experience. So I want to briefly move on to American Pinball. We discussed that at length on the last episode. A lot of the other pinball podcasts have been talking about American Pinball. I don't really have a lot new to say on American Pinball right now, so I'm not going to say a lot. I guess I do need to acknowledge, you know, it's come up. People have contacted me about it, that, yes, I went on Pinside. I released the business license for American Pinball. I asked the village of Streamwood to pull it for me and give me a copy of it, and they did. It's an open record. I didn't really put a lot of commentary with it because that is just sort of an evidentiary release. It's sort of a – just it's a records release that I am doing. I've been working on this as sort of a podcast-oriented research project. I'm not done yet. I am still awaiting the articles regarding incorporation for the organization. And once I get those, they're being sent. I just don't have them at the time of this recording. I will, I guess, release my findings is the sort of thing. And it'll just be an info dump. And I don't know if I'll just tack it on to the next podcast. If it comes early enough and it's too much content to do, I might try and just solo record something so that that can be standalone and people who don't care about this topic can skip it. I haven't decided yet. You're going to cheat on me? No, no. I'd have to run it by you first to figure out. Or have you come on and we do it as a tag team. I don know if you want to sit through all of it or you rather me just record it all and then we do it like an interview where you hear the audio and then we talk about it and do the commentary after that i don know how long it take to run through i tried to write up a narrative and my fingers got sore so i gave up and i wasn you know it still a little too free form because i don't have all the pieces of information that i want i have a lot of records already stored uh i'm gonna probably just google drive them all into a into a folder actually i'm already, I've already got the folder created. I just don't have it publicly shared yet. And just, this is like the last piece of the puzzle that I intend to pursue. I've seen, obviously I, I've released a little bit of that. I mean, I, I released that and I also, well, this wasn't secret. I found the video footage of the Houdini flashing, uh, from Gigabyte, which is the booth that hosted it at G2E. So I've also put that out there. Uh, and that's really all and i know it fueled a lot of discussion and i'm i'm not weighing in on that discussion in terms of do i think you should be interested in houdini or american pinball that's not my position i mean i have an opinion of it but that's not my position my position is if you're interested in truth then this is what you have to do this is truth you have to investigate you have to be bored pulling research and you got to look into things releasing press releases and speculating is not seeking truth. Research is truth. And this is my example of it. And I'm not going to do it every single time. It's too exhausting. And I like to do what the rest of us all like to do on these podcasts, which is we like to commentate. We're not journalists. I was never trained as a journalist. We are not an investigative news team. I would love for pinball to actually have a news-oriented entity that did not think it was their mission to protect pinball companies. And I think that's what's needed right now with American Pinball because there are a lot of people who are concerned. And we need to remember that in a market-based economy, the most important key to it, which very rarely is ever obtained, is that consumers have perfect information. Obviously, that's almost impossible to achieve. But the idea is you are a fully informed consumer, and that's what you use to decide based off of, you know, that's what makes the market work for when you make a determination on your purchase. You are not an informed consumer on American Pinball right now because you have questions and those questions have not been answered and they probably won't be answered at Expo. Some of them will be, but a lot of them won't. And some of them may never be answered. I got curious after I saw the business license because of the reference to J-Pop on it. And so I've kept digging over these last couple of weeks, but it's slow going. So I don't have anything to release on that here. I just want to let people know. I am, yes, I did that. I'm still going to do that. it's just it's slow so sorry but i probably won't have it before expo and the lonely voice of youth cries what is truth yeah i don't really have any uh anything new to add over my thoughts besides the fact that it's obvious this isn't a troll or anything it's all real oh yeah i don't think and from the some of the last sets of rumors i read but i haven't really read much this week in case anything new popped up. I don't think we're going to see anything flipping anywhere. I don't think it's going to be anything more than just a meet and greet, hey, we're here, and this is what we're doing. And hopefully some questions will get answered, but I don't think until after Expo we're really going to have anything to add to this topic. Yeah, that's a good point. And a couple of the primaries behind American Pinball participated in an interview with Pinball Magazine, and they released that as their first podcast, and we'll include a link to that in the show notes, because if you want to hear the corporate response to some of these questions, because Pinball Magazine did ask some good questions. Obviously, they didn't ask all the questions, and how could they? And, of course, when you ask questions, you get answers, and you have new questions. So I'm going to link that. So those of you who want more, go ahead and listen to that. I did extend an invite to their info email. to American Pinball before I released the business license to invite them onto the show. They, as of my last check today, have not responded to that email. We may be too small for them. I may have pissed them off because I put out the business license, and they may never have gotten the email. I don't know. The invite was extended. They did not accept it. I do not expect them to ever be on the show, especially now. But the information I'm releasing is nothing personal. It's completely open record stuff. it's the price of doing business. So deal with it.