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Ep 7: Battle For The Final Round

Final Round Pinball Podcast·podcast_episode·1h 45m·held·Jun 26, 2020
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TL;DR

Pandemic drinking tournament raises spirits when pinball events are cancelled.

Summary

Final Round Pinball Podcast Episode 7 features a drinking game tournament held during COVID-19 lockdowns when live competitions were cancelled. Three groups of pinball community members compete in trivia and drinking challenges for a PinFest trophy, with Corey Hulse, Greg Pavarelli, and Ryan Kuiper advancing to the finals. The episode captures the community's adaptation to pandemic restrictions while celebrating pinball knowledge and personality.

Key Claims

  • PinFest was supposed to be happening in Allentown at the time of this recording but was cancelled due to COVID-19

    high confidence · Corey Hulse discussing postponed PinFest competitions

  • Nicole Bernier broke her leg during an online NAPL award show two weeks prior, after leaning on Iron Maiden to unwrap her foot from a bar stool

    high confidence · Nicole Bernier's personal story shared on-air

  • Pat Lawler's first published game was Banzai Run (not Whirlwind as initially guessed)

    high confidence · Trivia question answered correctly by contestants

  • Death saves are a feature in Tales from the Crypt, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Jurassic Park, and Last Action Hero

    high confidence · Martin Robbins providing game mechanic examples

  • David Brennan became Technical Pinnacle Service Manager at New American Pinball as of the day of recording

    high confidence · Ryan Kuiper announcing his streaming partner's new role

  • Jeff Teolis had his first taco this week (the week of recording)

    high confidence · Final trivia question answer revealed by Teolis

  • Deadpool from Stern had a complete redesign after the original designer left

    high confidence · Final Round trivia question and answer

  • Gottlieb Premier games were known for ripping off themes without paying for licenses

    high confidence · Martin Robbins discussing Gottlieb Premier's practice

  • Raven by Gottlieb Premier ripped off the Rambo theme

    high confidence · Trivia question answered by David Dennis

  • Dave Van Ness left Australia for a woman he met on a cruise ship who lives in Texas, and has been working at Spooky Pinball for 20+ years in film/television

Notable Quotes

  • “Daddy's getting drunk on Final Round.”

    Jeff Teolis @ ~8:00 — Sets the tone for the drinking tournament format and humorous nature of the episode

  • “I've got a basement down here with eight pinball machines and plenty of booze, so I'll make lemonade out of lemons.”

    Dr. Pin @ ~12:00 — Highlights home pinball collection advantages during lockdown

  • “If you know Jeff Teolis as well as I do, you know he has got the most ridiculously limited palate.”

    Martin Robbins @ ~1:07:00 — Humorous character detail about host Jeff Teolis

  • “The water in New York makes the pizza better.”

    Kate Martin @ ~1:10:00 — Passionate debate about regional pizza standards with Jeff Teolis

  • “I left Australia for a lady that lives in Texas, who I met on a cruise ship”

    Dave Van Ness @ ~1:22:00 — Personal backstory of Spooky Pinball animator and content creator

  • “You're the Jack Bauer of Pinball”

    Jeff Teolis (to Jeff Parsons) @ ~1:35:00 — Humorous commentary on Parsons staying awake for 24 hours

  • “This game is the shit. I drank.”

    Martin Robbins @ ~1:26:00 — Demonstrates the drinking game mechanic with trigger word 'shit'

  • “Stern is the word, everybody.”

    Martin Robbins @ ~31:00 — Establishes drinking trigger word for first tournament group

  • “I have lupus. If I don't drink water, I will die tomorrow.”

    Kate Martin @ ~1:09:00 — Health-related explanation for water consumption during drinking game

  • “I'm not wearing pants. Oh, bonus points.”

    David Dennis — Humorous moment awarding bonus points for shocking revelation

Entities

Jeff TeolispersonMartin RobbinspersonCorey HulsepersonJoe FoxpersonNicole BernierpersonKate MartinpersonGreg PavarellipersonRyan KuiperpersonDave Van Nessperson

Signals

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    event_signal: PinFest cancelled due to COVID-19; Final Round Pinball Podcast created substitute tournament with trophy incentive to maintain community engagement

    high · Corey Hulse discussing cancelled PinFest event and announce of PinFest cow trophy being awarded to Final Round tournament winner

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    community_signal: Pinball community adapted to lockdown restrictions by creating remote social and competitive events to maintain connections

    high · Episode concept designed specifically because 'competitions are supposed to happen and there's this little coronavirus that's perhaps postponing some of the events'

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    personnel_signal: David Brennan hired as Technical Pinnacle Service Manager at New American Pinball

    high · Ryan Kuiper announcement: 'as of today he is the Technical Pinnacle Service Manager at New American Pinball as of today'

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    content_signal: Multiple pinball podcasts active and cross-promoting (Final Round, Pinball Players Podcast, Silverball Chronicles, Slam Tilt, Head to Head)

    high · Multiple podcast hosts and contributors featured as contestants; references to their respective shows

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    collector_signal: High-end home collections (8+ machines) common among active players; lockdown increased home play opportunities

    medium · Joe Fox references pinball collection in basement; Dave Van Ness mentions Spooky collecting context; home machines highlighted during lockdown

Transcript

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The Pinball Network is online. Launching final round pinball podcast. It's player versus player and player versus machine. Welcome to the final round. Welcome to another edition of Final Round. My name is Jeff Teolis. My name is Martin Robbins and we've got a special episode this week, Jeff. Special as in what do you do when competitions are supposed to happen and there's this little coronavirus that's perhaps postponing some of the events, cancelling some of the events. What the hell are you supposed to do Marty? Well, every day I'm hearing of a event being cancelled or postponed and it's pretty depressing, but we can still stay connected and I think this week we've got a great way of connecting with people. It's all bullshit, this is just an excuse for Marty to drink on air! Like I need an excuse, seriously. Listen, there's beside me a bottle of Fireball, I've got some Captain Morgan Dark Rum, there may be a beer or two. I know Marty, you've got a bar beside you. I do. I pretty much have opened up the cabinet. It is right next to me. Okay. So the reason we're doing this is because at competitions, you know, you play pinball, you play pinball, but you're usually at a location and there's certainly drinking and fun that goes on or just fun and gathering. We've gathered the people. We've got some drinks. Let's record a podcast and let's do something else. Let's actually make somebody a champion this weekend because there were supposed to be two Stern Pro Circuit events. One of them was happening in Pennsylvania, PinFest, and the guy who runs it is actually joining us right now. Let's bring on our first guest, Corey Hulse. Hey Corey, how are you? Hello, hello Pinball World. How are you doing with, unfortunately, the show supposed to be on right now and right now people will be smuggling beers at the hotel and all kind of good things? Yeah, there would be a raging party going on at one of the official pinfest hotels, which I'm sure would get broken up by the police shortly thereafter, I would be crying in a corner after the first day of competition trying to fix machines and deal with issues that we dealt with and letting the rest of the world party and revel in my tears. So, so what have you been doing instead? Working. Fortunately for me, I do have my job still. And I've been able to work from home. And I also have a 17 month old toddler. Between Karl DeAngelo, I've played two games of pinball since this whole thing has started and really, really, really missing pinball right now. So you need this release. That's why you're on final round here. We're recording on a Friday night. We've got drinks in hand. The kid, if he cries, you know what? Too bad, mom. You look after it. Daddy's getting drunk on final round. Even better, if we hear your baby cry, everyone needs to take a shot. That's a great point. Oh, good job. By the way, there's another take a shot thing We have a special word. We'll get to that in a second. Let's bring on our next guest, the foxiest man in pinball. I can say that only because of his legal name. Joe Fox joins us right now. Joe, how are you? Good evening, guys. How are you? Yeah, we're good. You seem to be holding up. We can see you've got your pinball collection, so you're more fortunate than I think than some by staying at home. You still get to play a lot of pinball machines. I do. And funny enough, I haven't been playing as much as I would think I would during this time period, although my wife's sitting here shaking her head no. Not as much as I'd like, let's put it that way. Well, you're doing the right thing on a Friday night. You're playing in the final round Pinball Podcast Challenge here, and we'll get to that in a second. We just have to bring on our next two guests. Advertising Are slightly less than I've been a little bit slower than the average week with this going on because elective cases have been cut back. So it's been a little bit of a break and when I go in it's obviously, you know, front lines but when I'm at home I get to enjoy life a little bit and the family. So it hasn't been all bad. Not to get too serious but because obviously we're going to get drunk and shenanigans will ensure but... Cheers. But you said you're on the front line, so surely you're the closest to this virus than most people. Does that concern you? Oh my God, yeah. I mean, my biggest concern is that if I'm exposed to this, I'm not going to know it because the prodrome or the period of time before you show symptoms is pretty long with this virus. So I don't want to bring it home, I don't want to give it to anyone else, I don't want to expose my family to it. I'm a fan of pinball, so I'm a fan of pinball, but worst case scenario if I do get it, hopefully I'll be okay. And if I have to self-isolate, I've got a basement down here with eight pinball machines and plenty of booze, so I'll make lemonade out of lemons.

high confidence · Dave Van Ness biographical statement

@ ~1:24:00
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design_innovation: Death save mechanics explored as game design feature across multiple titles (Tales from the Crypt, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Jurassic Park, Last Action Hero)

high · Trivia question and Martin's follow-up providing list of games with death save mechanics

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    historical_signal: Gottlieb Premier era characterized by aggressive unlicensed IP ripping (Raven/Rambo example); broader commentary on manufacturer practices

    high · Martin Robbins describing Gottlieb Premier as 'making some of the shittiest machines that have ever existed' and stating 'they did not want to pay for a license'

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    product_concern: Stern Deadpool required complete redesign after original designer departure; design stability issue

    high · Trivia question: 'Which recent game from Stern had a complete redo after the original designer left the company?' Answer: Deadpool

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    venue_signal: Buttermilk Bar referenced as active pinball venue with community presence; Kate Martin experienced operator

    medium · Kate Martin introduced as having 'experience at Buttermilk Bar'; implied venue management background

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    competitive_signal: WHIP event established as women-focused pinball competition; NAPL (largest pinball league) active with season finals

    high · Kate Martin credited as co-creator of first WHIP event; Nicole Bernier describes NAPL season C finals cancellation

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    industry_signal: Spooky Pinball employs animator/coder specialists for creative and licensing work; indicates investment in visual/design quality

    medium · Dave Van Ness role description: 'taking care of basically their creative needs and licensing' for Spooky Pinball

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    market_signal: Australian pinball talent relocating to US for industry work; international attraction to pinball manufacturing hubs

    medium · Dave Van Ness left Australia to work at Spooky Pinball in Houston, Texas

    • 5:25
    Bullshit, your worst case scenario is pin side PD swoops in and steals Mrs. Pin from you. I'll have no way to fight that for two weeks at least. You should be fearful of more than the virus. Is all I'm saying.
    5:44
    Okay, we want to get to the competition because we've got a lot of people waiting and we've got two competitions. So right now people are actually playing for the final round Pinball Podcast Pinfest Championship in honor of Pinfest that would have been happening right now in Allentown. Corey, you had something you wanted to say about this little final round version. So, for the past few years what we've done is people who have qualified and basically the top 20% of qualifiers have all won a cow trophy. And so, I'm here to announce that the winner of the PinFest final round pinball competition this evening will be going home with a PinFest cow trophy that we will be procuring at such point that we actually get the trophies, whether we're doing PinFest this year or in a future year, a trophy for the winner this evening. Shut the front door! That's awesome, man. Thank you. That is awesome. Thank you very much, Corey. Okay, Marty, I want you to pick the special word because how it's going to work is there are three questions, all right, we're going to give and our contestants will have their hands up in the air so that they can't be Googling the trivia questions. When we ask a question, the first person that waves their hands will go to them. If they get the question right, they will get three points. But we We need a special word that people can earn other points to. So how about you come up with a word. When we say the word, they have to take a drink. The first to do it gets two points, the second and others get one point. If you don't, you lose a point. Okay. So I think we need a word that is going to come up, you know, relatively often but not every two seconds. Stern. Stern is the word, everybody. There you go. Shall we go to our first question? Contestants, Corey, Joe Fox, the pins, hands in the air so that they can't Google. We're watching them too, by the way. Marty, do you have the first question? Okay, I've got the first question is how many letters are there in
    7:44
    International Rescue? Anybody waving? I see Joe Fox. Joe Fox? Not me. I'm just saying hi. Shane. Wasn't thinking about this one... Chris Abern. Edgy. Chris Snapper's télé일래솜 File 순탄 consumers. Chrissy Dracula Pierce数. The question is the one that said it, so he's correct and also gets minus one point. No, no, no, no, but Corey actually raised his hand, so he gets the credit for that one. Do I lie? No, I can't lie. I was going to say 17 because I counted wrong. It was quick casting. When you're past 10, it's a ridiculous amount and that's why it's such a wonderful game, Thunderbirds. Okay, we've got three points for Corey. Everyone else has zero except Dr. Pin, who has negative one. C Barontecone, here's a chance for the pins to gain bonus point right now. Sarah, I want you to count between 78 and 82, go. 78, 79,80,81,82. Incorrect, there is no 80 according to your podcast, sorry no bonus point for you. I would like to say that you are incorrect as well because if you're going to the podcast it is 7879 8181.582. Sorry, whole numbers only. It's not like you're an educator. God help our American students. God help our Canadian students. Oh, come on. Okay, uh, how do we disqualify a Mrs. Pin? Look at all those Stern machines in the background. I'm already out. There's got to be a bylaw for this. Okay, she got a quick two. And a quick one for Dr. T, and you're back to zero. Plus one. No, we're at plus one. You're at plus two. No, no, no, you're playing individually. You don't get to play together. If Mrs. Pin, you advance, Christian goes out. He's gone. He's out of here. Alright, that's good. I'm not bringing you down. That's cool. It's not a combo. I don't know if I'm totally fucked or totally excited right now. This isn't split flipper, alright? This is final round approved. I didn't know. I thought we were a team. We just made the rules up as we went along, right Marty? Correct, like we do each episode. Okay, so next question. Let's get on to it. Okay, hands in the air please. Wave when you want to answer. Which ranks higher on pin side? Popeye Saves the Earth, Bally Kiss, Big Guns or Super Mario Brothers? Jo bro. Jo! Super Mario Bros Take on me, Harry Bartolomeu. In Rendixix en L Guardians propr Savioru conggiale, abdominals moyenne. Susaberum Acquadría, KOB for you!! Military Comeback for you!!
    10:54
    3 I'm kickingPinball, Franchi, Artistician, and I'm I'mKickItAss, you're gonna keep your cow trophy. Another three points for Corey. Shit, Corey. Big Guns comes in at an incredible 253 on pin side out of 300 and something. So well done. All right, Marty, the final question. This one's worth five points. All right, and I want everybody to listen carefully to this question. Is it a Stern question? Oh, no. If Jane gets two, Joe and Corey get one. Hey, what about me? I was drinking too. You were off camera. I'm on camera with Christian. You need to give him a good elbow. I can't help it, you're tag teaming over here. Schmaff. Buy another computer, cheapo. Yeah, exactly. Alright, you're ready. Here's the question. Which recent game from Stern...
    11:56
    Who won that? 100% it was me. Fine. So which recent game from that company had a complete redo after the original designer left the company? Deadpool. Oh shit. Who's got the big mouth? That's me. Heyo, put your hand up. Who was waving? Christian. I'm gonna say Batman 66. That was Chicago Gaming. No dude, it was not. That is incorrect because... Shit! I knew it was wrong! Doesn't that count for... I feel like I should get bonus points for that. Joe Fox... Deadpool. It is Deadpool. Now didn't Joe jump in early though? Joe was disqualified. Well... You're disqualified.
    12:48
    Alright Joe, I'll give you the five fucking points anyway, it's not gonna be easy. We have a winner from Round 1 and it goes to Corey Hulse. Yay, well done Corey. Corey Hulse. Thank you, thank you. I mean I love you. You're a good winner. Corey knows his Stern machines. Oh, there we go guys. Let's go. That was me. Alright Corey, Corey goes on to the finals. First of all, let me just say goodbye to everyone. Joe Fox, Mrs. Pin, Christian, I'm sorry you don't advance but we appreciate you Thank you for playing. Thanks for having us. Thank you. All right, so introducing our next players into the fray of the final round tournament, we have Greg Waparelli, Kate Martin, and Nicole Bernier. How are you, everyone? What's up, everybody? Hello. Greg, this is your first drinking game, I assume. Yup. It's the first time I've ever gotten drunk on a podcast. Marty, we better quickly get a drinking word on there. I mean, those poor people in group A had to do several. So what will our word be this time?
    14:00
    Tilt. Tilt. Okay. Okay. Tilt's a good word. Do we drink on the initial discussion of the word? Kate Martin, a bonus point just for a great idea. Kate Martin, easy bonus point.
    14:15
    I love it. You know, when you can help out in a tournament, it's like being a volunteer. John Papadiuk, Black Water, Persona and Kate with your great suggestion, brilliant. And you know what Kate, it's great that we have you on because of your experience at Buttermilk Bar. You know, you might have some advice for us how we're going to be recovering on Saturday. Any suggestions? Petiolite. What? I don't know if you know what Petiolite is. It's like a little thing you give to kids after they're sick to rehydrate them. It's just like electrolytes and it's flavored like, I don't know, like juice. Best Penn at Spinball Fansuck at Pinball firsthand I'm here to get you a bonus point. Maybe you can tell us, I mean I already know that you were the grand champ at the first ever whip event. An event created by Kate Martin along with some other great people and Elizabeth Cromwell and Jessica DiNardo and others that I'm sorry I'm forgetting, but Nicole, that isn't even your best pinball story. It might have just happened in the last few weeks. It might have happened two weeks ago tonight. What happened? Well, the NAPL, you know the largest pinball league in the world, we were, we had to cancel our finals for season C Barbedingtin 23, so we decided to have an award show online and we were having fun, we were drinking, I had lots of fireball and I went to stand up and my foot was kind of wrapped around the rung of my bar stool, so I leaned forward onto Iron Maiden to get my foot unwrapped and next thing you know, I'm on the ground with a broken leg. Oh no. Broken leg? Live card Inter ﷺòœôm ôëoALÈO� BONبيÄŀŽĒ ĚJÈž� أ nanoĵغ젤ăç� Pilot sign beetle núñđĜĝhèâŠĕëŞġtĕĭŒŝŭ Eenăĵž Milanž GayŽ� I just can't say me me me while I'm drinking. So everyone is at three points right now. Time for some trivia. Again, the secret word is tilt. Oh. Me me me. This time Greg, Greg just with an advance there. Greg got a quickie. It's so natural. It's so natural for me. Nicole and Kate Martin, you both get one each. Now hands in the air. Here we go. Question number one. Hold on, I should probably grab a question here. Again, Nicole, say me, me, me when you know the answer. Will do. What was Pat Lawler's first game? Greg Pavarelli. Whirlwind. Incorrect, minus one for Greg. Me, me, me. Nicole. Earthshaker? That's left. It's not Earthshaker. No. Kate, you can get three points for doing this. You, everyone's already minus one. I don't know. I know that I don't know what it is. Okay. Also the tapping you're hearing is my dog, not anyone typing. Linus McCance. It's just my dog running around. Good old Linus. The answer is Bonsai Run. It is indeed. Oh, god! Sorry. Yeah. What a crazy machine for your first game to have a machine that's got a vertical backglass with a game in it. Like, crazy. What were you thinking, Pat Lawler? Okay. The original game Pat tried to design, just a little history for you while I'm still somewhat sober, was called Wrecking Ball. Summary hardMILEA pense�GIF GraphEIT, Finals. Oh, okay. Let me rephrase it then because that's not the award that actually like gives you points, right? So I'm going to rephrase it. I was technically right, but sure. Yeah, sure. Death saves. It has to be a deathsave. It has to be deathsaves. So name two data-reased pinball machines that award you for a deathsave. Jesus, these are hard. I can guess, but I don't want to lose. Name one, name one then, I'll give you one. You actually get bonus points for doing a death save. Kate Martin. I'm gonna guess and I'm gonna regret it. Royal Rumble? No, ba-ba. Instant regret. Sorry. Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat. I can! I just guessed because it has Deathball2000 effort ice in it. That trick never works. Oh, here we go, Greg Proverelli, what are you gonna say? It's a guess just on concept, but Tales from the Crypt? Correct. Well done. Correct. What are the other ones, Martin? So, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Tales from the Crypt, Jurassic Park and Last Action Hero. I was gonna give Jurassic Park, godgiven! Yeah, you know. Kate, obviously the Superior Jurassic Park game from Daddy. Thank you for it. I'm actually about to buy one. The Superior Jurassic Park game is the one that my dog wears as a costume. So Marty, did I hear my favorite word, bonus? Did I get a bonus? Oh, did someone say Stern? No, no, tilt is the word. Tilt's the word. Oh, there's tilt. There it is. No, but I heard you say bonus points before I answered. Stop trying to irk the system, Waparelli. You seduced me. I agree, I agree. Okay, okay, okay, here we go. Our final question. This is worth five points. Just to give you a point score right now, I've got, I've got to do some math here. Greg Pavarelli is sitting with seven points. Kate Martin is sitting with four points. Still a point. I'm going to give you a point score. I gotta do some math here. Greg Pavarelli is sitting with seven points. Kate Martin is sitting with four points. Still in the base game. Nicole is sitting with three points. The winner of this question could win it all. Hold on, I'm pouring a shot. Atta girl. And I'm gonna make this one difficult because the other two I thought were really difficult. So this is a real, I'm hammered. This is a real. This is going to be difficult. It requires you to be a mind reader. Hold on, I've got to get this down. I would just like to say that I've gotten two Facebook messages from people still in this chat saying that they're impressed that I'm doing shots while everyone else is just sipping their drinks. Kate, I will match you as soon as I can put my hands down. Nicole, I already gave you your bonus. If you broke both, you'd win instantly. You only broke one. The Just just quickly the toes on the other foot So just quickly so Greg Kate and Nicole tilt. I
    21:08
    Think it's pretty even there Man, I definitely would do the chaser I also spilled the Japanese whiskey on my laptop minus points for water. Can I just say oh, yeah? Yeah, sir. I have lupus if I don't drink water. I will die tomorrow. Yeah Leave me alone. Definitely minus points then. I've already minus points in my kidney. So I just want you guys to know that rushing my drink caused me to spill on my laptop, so that was a win. Worth it. You better win then. This makes me feel like I'm keeping my flipper fingers active. Dude, I've been sewing so much lately that I don't even know how to like unclog them. Yeah, Kate's helping by making masks. It's an awesome cause. This requires you to be a mind reader. Think about pinball. In pinball, you have to kind of know where the ball is going to go. So you have to be a bit of a mind reader. So there's a little bit of luck also in pinball. This is all of those things. How well do you know yours truly in the sense that I'm asking you to tell me which is true about what I'm going to say. One of these things is true. One, I cut my wife's hair this week. Two, I changed my winter tire. 3. I had my first ever taco. 4. I grounded my son Carson for beating me in ACDC. Me, me, me, me, me. Nicole, go ahead. Me, me, me, is Nicole. Nicole, go ahead. I'm gonna say you cut your wife's hair. Nicole, I'm sorry. My wife still loves me. That is incorrect. Oh, well. I did not give her the bowl cut. I totally would have though. Kate Martin, change winter tires, first taco or grounded my son Carson for beating me on ACDC. I want it to be grounded your son Carson for beating you on ACDC, but I think it's change your winter tires because of the season. Very good answer, just not the right one. Poverrally. For shits and giggles, you're already our winner, but what do you think? Okay, I think that you definitely grounded your son for ACDC. Martin, can we kick them all out? I had my first ever taco this week. What's wrong with you? If you know Jeff Teolis as well as I do, you know he has got the most ridiculously limited palate. When he came to Australia, it was really difficult to find any food that was interesting because he just terrible palate. The I gotta say I stay with Jeff in Vegas and we had dinner with him and his wife when we were in Europe and I didn't notice it. Maybe I just didn't pick up on it. He seemed to eat normally. Yeah, he probably picked all the places and they were shit. So that's what he does. Yep. I mean when I go to Texas, it's not Tex-Mex. It's all the Tex. It's all barbecue and stuff. So Greg Pavarelli, congratulations. This is my second ever final four of a circuit event so I just wanna say thank you Jeff and Marty. I'm just saying that you're understanding of American cuisines by geography is wrong. I get that but when you... Western fine. I'm mad. I'm literally a Taco Bell pillows next to me. I'm mad about your taco thing. All right. Kate Martin, you are so aggressive when it comes to food. How many times have I'm sorry, but have you gone to my Facebook wall and criticized me for the pizza that I've had? That's not a New York pizza! No, it's actually really nice, it's just not exactly a New York style pizza, even though it's been called a New York style pizza. I'm sure it's better than Deep Dish, but it is not New York style pizza. Penny Epstein and I will both die on this hill. The water in New York makes the pizza better. One of the conditions of selling a Monsters machine was that a guy from Tennessee said that we had to include New York City pizza with the with the pickup. Marty, it's easy. The definition of a New York pizza, if it's thinner than the cardboard box it came in, it's a New York pizza. Okay, so... Nicole, rest up on that leg, enjoy the fireball. We love you and thank you very much for coming on. I hope you're doing well. Yes, thank you. Rest up, Nicole. Did I miss my chance to tell my story? Hold on a second. We'll get to that later. That's for the final round. Kate, I hate to lose you because we might need you by the end of this program when we're all hammered, but God bless you. I'm not going anywhere. Okay. Pavarelli, you're on to the final round. Congratulations. Let's bring on our next group, Martin. We've now got fellow podcaster. We've got Jeff Parsons, another fellow pinball podcaster, David Dennis, and a pinball coder and animator, Dave Van Ness. Welcome everybody. Hey, good day. Thanks for having us on. And a fellow streamer, we've got Ryan Kuiper. How's it going? Holy cow, a group of four, this could be tough. This is, it's a foursome. Yeah, this seems hardly fair. We got to be three people instead of two that doesn work right So we got ryan khyper who you know is turbo grass right from turbo graphics 7 and who else we have a quick chat for us I forgot to check my list of passes arsons david dennis david where's david yes right here i'm the best-looking one here jeff parsons we love you on pinball players podcast thank you very much for Thanks for joining us! How you doing buddy? I'm doing great how about you? Good...good good you had a long episode, your current one. Yeah well that is... that's Joe Lamere, is what that is. Well that's right Martin you know I realize why his episodes were so long? Yeah okay, correct I do believe that some how I was meant to be involved but you know...
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    or David Dennis, a new podcaster we hear him on the Pinball Network and silver ball chronicles with Ron Halem Junior. You having fun you are? Yeah, I am. If I could find anybody but Ron it would have been better, but sometimes you go with who you can get. Yeah. Hey, you might have just lost him. Well done, David. Perfect. You get what you get. Come on, Bruce Nightingale. TurboGrafx7, we've seen him for years on Twitch, and Ryan Kuiper, how are things in Wisconsin, buddy? Things are good. I don't know if anyone saw, but I have a streaming partner, David Brennan, and as of today he is the… Technical Pinnacle ServiceManager at American Pinball as of today. Yeah, we saw that, well done. Yay. Now I write his coattails, it's not about me, it's all about him, so... Awesome. And we've also got Dave Van Ness. Dave Van Ness, you are on Head to Head and you are an animator. I am. Tell us about Rick and Morty, tell us about Spooky Pinball, tell us about why the hell you left Australia to go to Houston, Texas. I left Australia for a lady that lives in Texas, who I met on a cruise ship, and then basically because I work in film and television, I've been doing that for 20 plus years and then fell into the company of Ben Heck and Charlie Emery and been at Spooky ever since, taking care of basically their creative needs and licensing. Sounds easy. Ah, part of the day. Alright, gentlemen, let's get ready to play. You're in Group C. You're trying to make it to the finals with Corey Holtz and Greg Pavarelli for the final round Pinball Podcast PinFest Championship. So much pressure. Woo! And I'm just saying, hmm, who do I root for? David Van Ness. He's in Houston. He's an Aussie, so I know he's on Marty's team. Who do you want to root, did you say? TurboGraphics. Ryan is a big fan of Pinball Profile. That's true. Jeff Parsons is a fellow radio broadcaster. I don't know what's so tough to say. I'm also not wearing pants. Oh, bonus points. Bonus points for David. I need evidence, stand up. I can still take mine off. Yes, please do. Minus one for Jeff. Okay guys, here we go. Oh, funny. Marty, our first question worth three points. Alright, by the way our drinking word is shit. Okay, alright, alright here we go. So, the first question is related to the game Iron Maiden from Stern and this game is the shit. I drank. Awesome. First everyone else gets one point. Go ahead. Who was Iron Maiden before Elwynn joined Stern? Ryan, Ryan, Ryan, Ryan. Jeff, Jeff, Jeff, Jeff, Jeff, Jeff, Jeff. Ryan. Archer. Terran. Dammit! Ryan plus three. Ryan was the first to get it. Congratulations. Hate you, Ryan. Hate you. Shit.
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    Son of a bitch. Some would say you are the shit. He's a shit. I drank. David Dennis. First to get the drink. Everyone else gets one. Okay. Okay, next question. It is a statement that the United States has made a statement that the United States is the Okay, next question. It is a staple at Pinburg. The game is high hand. Without going over, what year was it made?
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    David. 1972. Okay, anybody else? I'll take it. 1976. 71. And TurboGrafx? 73. David, until TurboGrafx opened his big yap, you will be winning.
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    And then that shithead had to say something. That's not even fair. I've got to write this down. Hold on a second. David plus two, plus one there. It is 1973. All right, here we go. Our final question. Go ahead. This is worth five points. Just to give you a point total right now. Ryan is sitting at six points in the lead. David Dennis, close behind at five points. Jeff Parsons and DavidNS, one each, but you can win it here, five points here. Good luck to you. Go ahead, Martin. Okay, so Gottlieb Premier, they were known for themes that they didn't have to pay for. Effectively, they were ripping off other themes. Arguably, they also made some of the shittest machines that have ever existed. Shittest? Hey! Oh, jeez, jeez. Drink, a drink. That was two drinks. So what I want to know is... What theme did they rip off when they created the game Raven? Oh, David. Go ahead, David. That was Rambo. Haha, correct. Well done. Oh, so good. Will that be enough? Such a good game. I was so ready to say Miami Heat. Miami Vice, rather.
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    Yeah... Well, that's the first of, I've got six of the Gottlieb games, Gottlieb Premier games that have ripped off other themes. That was just the first one. We'll see it in other rounds. It's like their whole, it's like their whole catalogue. Correct. That era, definitely, they did not want to pay for a license. Here's the scoring, okay? Some would say they were a bit shit. Oh, franchi-trick. Oh, jeez. Here's the scoring. Oh my god, you're making the math so hard for Jeff. Look at this poor guy. That's right, Parsons. He's all sweaty. Here's the scoring, Jeff Parsons. This is not fair to you. I know. We're recording at 1230 at night. You've been up for 24 straight hours. You're the Jack Bauer Pinball, but I bid you adieu, my friend. Go to bed. All right. Hope things are well in Maine. Love Pinball Players Podcast. All the best. Fuck off.
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    Alright, pants are coming off now if I gotta do that. Jeff Parsons, we love you buddy. Oh, I just lost my, hold on. My fuckin' knock. My fuckin' sauce. Hold on a second there. Jeff Parsons, take care buddy. Thank you, thanks. Thanks Jeff. David Van Ness from Houston, Texas. We thought you had a chance being an Australian. There might be some other Australian chances later. But you, sir, have been voted off the island. Thank you very much. No worries. Good to talk to you buddy. Keep up all the great work at Spooky. Appreciate it. Thanks mate. TurboGraphics7 and David Dennis. David Dennis certainly won every drinking competition when we said shit. That's because I'm Canadian. Fair enough. Minus points. Minus points for being Canadian. But it's going to be TurboGraphics7 by one point ahead of you David. Oh wow. David will be on Silverball Chronicles. Thank you. This is literally the worst day of my life. This game is amazing. This is the worst. There have to be winners, there have to be losers. Nope, screw yous all. This is it. Nope. David, you were my Canadian hope, you fucked up. No, no, fuck Toronto and fuck Australia. New Brunswick, the center of the universe, everybody. I agree with both of that. Thanks, David. Ryan, alright, you're going on the final round. I just want to let everyone know that I'm definitely drunk. By now. I think you were round one. One question to win it all. We've got Greg Pavarelli, we've got Ryan Kuyper, we've got Corey Hulse for the winner of the final round PinFest Championship here. Who will it be? One question to win it So if you would send-in at all for your first ever final round championship, and a lovely prize donated by pinfest€💛£, zorj know€¡公 fuck§§�棒£©, Philable accent we-mek§§ Ф儿£§©¥ Qui¨§©¯ korea w¨µ¢¨ cou pray èon che§µ½¢¤¦bèµ».¦�μ «§§¹Ŧ±±¢©¯ª® ´¢å¶º č㹸•©µ„¼ºª«®¦³¥µª¦§ influšµ¢±³»¼ä±³§¢»¹¢¨®£-� I don't know if you're a pinball guy or a porn guy, Ryan, but you're the winner of the PinFest Championship here on Final Round. Thank you. Tomato, tomato, I don't know. I feel as a 30-year-old that's only been playing pinball for 9 years, that was an unfair question to ask. Ryan, how old are you? I'm turning 38. Yeah, both of you are 30s. Suck it, Pavarelli. Yeah. I want to thank everybody right now. Congratulations Ryan, Corey, we'll FedEx that immediately. We'll spend all kinds of dollars to send that immediately. Yeah, all kinds of dollar. Go to the post office. He will risk COVID-19. He will do it all to make sure Ryan has that lovely trophy or do the wise thing and wait and be safe and stay at home like everyone should be doing. Yes. All right. And there's a gorgeous Star Trek in the background, by the way. Citizen objections to pin pillars carrying S poster, That should be the drinking thing. Yeah. So spectacular is what I meant to say. Corey, congratulations to you and thank you by the way for pinballspinner.com. Yeah. That was a good resource. Very good resource. Well, thank you. We hope that PinFest can happen this year. If not, it'll certainly happen next year. Hoping to be able to just keep contributing to the pinball scene and keep hanging out with all of you lovely people. Thanks, Corey. All the good work that Corey does, like Allentown coming from a local person on the East Coast, is pretty much the premier pinball show in our drivable distance. If you want to get a game, that's the place to go to. They've got a great food market and they've got a really good tournament thanks to Corey and everybody involved. Definitely check it out. And my favorite thing about PinFest is that it gets Mrs. Pin possibly arrested for drinking. Toni Cant John Papadiuk, Black Water, Person at the backbox title or as she said, the best podcast out there. Are you sure that podcast doesn't just embrace other podcasts? John Papadiuk, Blackwater, Person at the backbox title or as she said, the best podcast out there. Are you sure that podcast doesn't just embrace other podcasts? Thank you very much, Christian. Thank you, Corey. Thank you, Greg. Kate Martin, thanks very much for making sure us drunks are in control. You're professional at that. God bless you. So, can I just say I muted y'all when you were doing the third round, and I called I was like, I lost to Greg because of like, the question was what game like gives you points for a death save and he named off like four games immediately and I was like, I hate you so much. I hate everything about you. Well, we've got something in common. The funny thing is, is I've never actually done a death save in my life because I don't know how. What? Oh, play Bet Ons. It's very courteous. Nicole Bernier, the first ever winner at Whipped. Thanks very much for going. How's your leg? The legs okay, I get this cast off on Tuesday and I'll get a new one for another, I don't know, six weeks. Alright. Thank you! For everybody, I've got something to say. Stern tilt shit. Let's go! Yes! Oooh. Ahh. Oh man, that's so good. And I wanna say this whiskey was actually delivered to my door because of pinball. Karl DeAngelo, Pinball Expert at Spooky Pinballarntinct, I was so desperate for pinball during quarantine and isolation and I decided to make an arrangement where I was renting a pinball machine off of an agreement where I sold pinball machines for the owner and I was able to help out a buddy with a game and he sent me this whiskey so pinball produced the alcohol consumption on this pinball podcast. Yeah, fantastic. Thank you, Greg. I love it. Thanks to Woody. Yeah, we all love a good Woody. Oh, you beat me to it. All right, Jeff Parsons, thanks very much, buddy. Jeff Parsons, you're amazing. Thanks for having me. Appreciate it, guys. It was a lot of fun. Thanks, guys. And Joe Fox, always good to hear from you. You guys as well. Thank you. Kate Martin, all the best. Yeah, why not? She's like, yeah, whatever. Fuck off. I was waiting to do a shot with everybody, but then everyone started bleeping. Just do a shot now. Kate, I'll do a damn shot with you, for God's sakes. Nicole, get the fireball out. I try not to drink during quarantine. This is my drinking night, and you have to drink with me now. You woke the beast. I didn't realize that there was a drinking night, but I try to practice every day. Well done. I think the training has paid off. Hey Ryan, congrats man. Thank you. Say goodbye and we will hear you on Silver Ball Chronicles. Goodbye everybody and please tune in to hear a podcast that isn't bad on the TPN network. I can't believe you just shit on the pinball show. Wow. Oh yeah, that's terrible. Casting with that, and your show with that clip, that's the best. But no matter what, that was that way. Oh, Crystal Gemnick is very upset right now. Yeah. I love the plum. Thank you very much. All right, everybody, good night and fuck off. Good night! We gotta get rid of all you. We gotta bring on the next group. God bless. I love you all. Thank you. Jeff, are you going to survive the next group? Who knows? This was the point of this podcast, was to see how far we could go. Hey, one more for you, just because you said that. And Nicole, I got you a drink here, babe. It was so good to see you guys, by the way. I have seen three different stars tonight, and this tells me that you guys picked guests that have good taste in pinball, because stars is generally an underappreciated game, and like, I see everybody today has... We gotta get the next group on, guys. I love you. Bye everybody and star sucks, it's the worst game that's ever been made. Thank you, bye. Alright Martin, it's time for our second round, but before we do that, it's time for our sponsor of the week. Are we doing sponsors now? Why not? We gotta get paid, my friend. Okay, let's do it. My sponsor this week is obviously Four Pillars Gin because it's really what I've been drinking. So chances are your first Four Pillars experience will be money, trade with their rare Dry Gin It's a Dry Gin alright, but not in a traditional London style. What does that mean? In short, the Juniper is still there as a canvas, but painted on that canvas Is a gorgeous blend of modern Australian flavours with the citrus of southern Europe combining with the spice of Southeast Asia All of which makes it an entirely two drinkable gin We reckon our rare, dry gin makes the best G&T in the world and encourage you to play with tonic waters, garnishes and ratios to find your perfect match. Four pillars. Cheers everyone. I just spilled my drink on my laptop so I gotta take a second. Give me a sec. I literally just texted my wife that I was so drunk and one of them just spilled his drink on his laptop. You tell her which one? The host. I mean, I'm just going to tell you, it does what it says on the tin. We knew what this podcast was going to be about. We are keeping it on track. Okay. Alright. Jeff's sponsor is Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters, so you don't electrocute yourself with your electronics. And my sponsor, Fireball Whiskey. You're damn right, it's FireballWhiskey. Canadian Whiskey, God bless you, cinnamon, it gives you super strength to call, oh I don't know, ex-girlfriends and tell them what you really think, ex-bosses, ex-boyfriends, am I right guys? Yeah. FireballWhiskey, you've never done me wrong, God bless you. I just spilt it everywhere. We get these trivia wrong. It's time to introduce our next group, and they are playing for the final round Pinball Podcast Yegpin Championship. I'm wearing my Yegpin shirt right now. It was supposed to happen right now in Edmonton, Alberta. The first year on the Stern Pro Circuit. Sadly, I feel for Derek Thompson, all the organizers, but it will be back in 2021. But right now you have a chance to win the 2020 final round Yegpin Championship. Let's introduce our first three competitors. Alright, all the way from San Jose. Andre Boulay, how are you? I'm good. Good. Can I just say, just a side note, a story about San Jose. I've been to San Jose once and I had the best barbecue I've ever had. There was a Brazilian barbecue place. It's closed down since. I've looked it up. But... It was really good. We were driving back to San Francisco and stopped in San Jose and just happened to cross this I'm glad you have fond memories of it, I hope you come back and we'll get some barbecue elsewhere. One day. By the way, Andre, with a French Canadian name, yes, he is Canadian, he's in San Jose, my wife can translate, I have no idea what you said. Another Canadian, Brent Hayashi, how are you Brent? Good, thank you. How you doing, John? Now, Brent is a player in Victoria, BC. The guy who actually got me into competitive pinball is Dan Bitterlick, and Brent knows him very well. Victoria is starting to be a real growing pinball scene. Tell me about it, Brent. Yeah, we just started out probably about a year and a half ago, and Dan started some pinball leagues here. So we started in a pool hall, and there was a couple of machines there, and then a really good arcade opened up called Quasar's Arcade, And they have about 20 machines on the floor at any given time, so that's where we run another arcade from. Or another, pardon, another arcade, another league. Thank you very much. Looking forward to seeing if you and Andre and our next competitor can advance to the final round Yegpin Championship. This guy's got some wins under his belt. In fact, a former TPF winner and now a new streamer on Top Rope. You know him, you love him. I don't know about love him. Robert Byers joins us. Hello, Robert. Hey, Jeff. How's it going? It's Andre. It's Brent. It's Robert trying to advance to the Yegpin Championship here on Final Round Pinball Podcast. Marty, how it's going to work is just like we did in the first round. We have a secret word. They all have drinks in hand. The first person to have a drink will get two points when we say the secret word. Marty, what's the secret word this round? So, the secret word is going to be wars. Wars? Yep. Did you say the word was wars? I did say the word was wars. The word is wars. Wars is what I'm saying. I just want to make sure that the word is wars. Wars is what it is. Guys, you can't see what we're seeing, but I can tell you what, it's a drinking I'm gonna pass out. So that was a lot of points so you're adding it up. Yup. Circle gets the square. So let's start with our very first trivia question for you guys. You ready? Yup. Before we say the word wars? Okay. You ready? Just put your hand up, just to make sure that we can see whoever is going to be answering it first. No Googling, alright? We need to see that your hand's free. Alright, here we go. First question is, how many machines based on Star Wars... You can drink. ...have been made? Who's first? Everyone's got their hands up. Marty, you tell me who was first. I think Robert was first. Robert. How many? I'll guess the letter. Pah! Pah-pah! Incorrect. Alright. You lose a point, three points for the winner. Andre is next. How many? Five. Pah-pah! I'm sorry. Thanks for playing. Brent, how many do you think there are? Six? Yes! Correct! Woo! Okay. Are you really? Yeah, let me tell you. I think... I'm gonna actually name them. So make sure you've got your glasses handy. I need more alcohol. Alright, so believe it or not there was actually a game made by Sonic in 1987 called Star Wars. Okay, the next one... Okay, by the way guys, just before we start, no more drinking on wars on this question. No! Don't be like that. I've already had 17 shots. But little known, there was actually a game made in Australia by a company called Hankin, and it was based on Star Wars, but it was actually, they didn't actually pay for the license, and it was Empire Strikes Back. It's a terrible machine, just in case. If you ever get to see it, it's very collectible, but it's just not fun to play. There was also the Star Wars trilogy by Sega in 97. There was also Star Wars by Stern, which came out in 2017, and then there was also the Star Wars Home Edition, which came out in 2017. For all, tell me my Pippa definitely runs Parkinson labeling Tornado.
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    Pippa today atist the English way pipeline type to block take, maximum Right, and it's actually episode five. So it makes it a bit better. I think I just passed myself points doing that. So, well done to you Brent. Well, you know, keeping it honest. Of course, I missed that. There's actually episode one as well. Which, can we just say, destroyed pinball. Andre, Brent, Robert, you have 30 seconds to do this. Show me any pinball shirts you've acquired. You can leave the room and go go. Go! Are you kidding me? They're all upstairs. I can't do this. I'm wearing a Detroit pinball wig right now. My fiance will kill me if I put gin there, yeah. Same thing. I'm barging in right now and going through the closet. Like 27 shirts and no. Not worth the points. Robert is giving up the final round championship for a lack of showing shirts. I got a lot of points early from the war. The war. I was drinking like there was no tomorrow. So, Brent, is that your only pinball shirt you've got? It's not the only one, no, I have a couple more in my room, but uh... Oh! I think the question is show us all the pinball shirts you've got, it's not necessarily who's got the most. Totally, yeah, my fiancée's sleeping in there so she'll kill me if I start one game. She'll understand for God's sakes! This is for the championship, she will totally understand! Oh Brent.
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    Andre's coming back. What do you got? Alright, I'm back. I almost pulled a Jeff Teolis and tripped down the stairs. The color DMV shirt, best I could do. Brent and Andre, the winners of that round, Robert. Disappointed. If you give me a second chance, I'll go get them. Oh, now I'm out of breath too. Going into the final question, here's the scoring. Andre, you have four points. Brent, seven points. And Robert, three. The final question is worth five points. And Marty's got a good one. Do I? Get one. Here we go. How many songs do you need to complete to get to ACDC's Wizard Mode Encore? Robert Byers, go first. Paul. That is correct. Andre, you were so close behind. Robert Byers. I knew the answer too. Robert Byers. Oh Andre, you were so close. Did you know the answer? I did. How'd you go Brent? The I wouldn have got it either That was a good war Wars That it Warza So close Robert Byers congratulations You beat Brent you beat Andre two of my fellow Canadians I can't say I'm happy. I mean, congratulations, I guess, but, uh... You're used to being second. Does that mean I have to stay on now?
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    Andre went upstairs. Did I win? Went into a trunk to pull out t-shirts. And still beat him. Andre, Brent, thank you very much for joining us on Final Round. Thank you. Thanks a lot for having me. Good game guys. Really good to meet you guys. Great sports, great guys. Alright, time for Group B on the Final Round Yegpin Championship. We're recording this on a Friday night. We may have had one or two drinks. Our sponsors have provided these so we can't be responsible for that. I want to congratulate our next guest, who is the first two-time appearance person. Is that even a thing? I'm a little hammered. Our first two-time guest? Is that the best way to say it? Yeah, sure. She rocks. Everybody in Arizona knows her. You should too. She's Tracy Lindberg. Tracy, how are you, Tracy? Welcome back, Tracy! Thank you so much for having me back. So, introduction time, right? Mm-hmm. So, I run the Twippy-nominated Tilt Studio Pinball League, as well as Bells and Chimes Phoenix, and I was told there could be a bonus point, so my favorite pinball memory is meeting Jeff Teolis in round one of Pinberg 2016, as well as... Pull him on! Pull him on! Wait, wait, wait! As well as waiting a very long time for Martin to finish a game of Bounty I remember that. Oh my god. I know you were on the show and you were like, oh, I remember you with, you know, Ryan from Combat Pinball, but I'm like, did she remember that I was playing bounty hunter and got the GC on that? Like that was crazy that you remember that. I remember it totally a bonus point. Bonus points. You know, I think the biggest reason Arizona pinball has grown so much, it's because of Tracy Lindbergh. Memories like that, dedication to pinball, Tracy, you rock. Thank you for coming on again as the first two-time guest ever on Final Round. Yay! Well, it was almost going to be Colin McAlpine, but first of all, he hasn't responded to my Skype call to him four times now. And second of all, we recorded the show with him, but we never aired it. Whatever. Colin Martin and I recorded a TPF kind of pre-tournament podcast information. The presentation piece, obviously TPF didn't happen, sadly. So this is the second time Colin has been shunned on Final Round. So, thanks Colin. Doesn't matter. You know who it benefits? Tracy Lindberg and our next guest from Oklahoma City, Travis Murray who's wearing a Pinball Profile World Tour shirt. Boy, I love Tracy, but Travis that shirt. And he's also BFFs with Joe Exotic, so I know that for a fact. Absolutely. By the way Travis, before you begin, the only way to continue, like Tracy will win automatically, unless you can sing, I saw a tiger. Go ahead. I gotta sing I saw a tiger? Like right now? You're gonna finally tell me? Yes, absolutely. Alright. Let me take a drink of beer first. C R A R I O K A N I G H T, here we go. Assault Tiger, I can't sing that, I'm so bad at that. I need music. I- I- yeah, that felt good. I felt good about that. John, can I just steal my favorite memory instead to get points for that? Hold on a second. No, instead of singing, all you've got to say is, that bitch, Carol Baskin, in a very authentic voice. Oh, okay. In Oklahoma voice? Yeah. Yep. Okay. That bitch, Carol Baskins, has ruined my pinball career. What did I just come into? Tracy, are you the only person on the earth who hasn't watched Tiger King on Netflix? We're in COVID-19, for God's sakes. That's all we have is Netflix. I did. We watched it all in one day. You know what's scary about it is I've met him in person before. No way! Yes, well, because in Oklahoma I pet the tigers. I literally pet the tigers and we knew that he was a little eccentric, but... A little? Well, yeah, a little bit, yeah. And then you see Netflix and you're like, oh shit, I pet the tiger, yeah. Is that when you were his friend there for a couple months? Yes! You just lost the point for talking out of turn. How dare you? Can you guys get macho off the line please? But did you, when you obviously went and pet the tigers, sorry to derail this whole podcast but I'm so obsessed with Tiger King, was the whole experience a little bit weird or did you go, oh yeah we're in a tiger zoo and this is normal? Alright so, the tiger zoo was the most normal part of the whole thing. It was meeting Joe himself that wasn't normal at all. The dude was cleaning a shotgun as soon as we walked through the door. I don't know, I can't remember off the top of my head if they show this on a Netflix show, but when you walk through the door, right, and you're checking in on everything, he legit, everything had Joe Exotic on everything in there. And there's a whole wall full of Joe Exotic underwear. At a tiger safari, I didn't know what I walked into. I had no idea. Did you get a Joe Exotic condom at all? I didn't, but I did end up getting the underwear. Tracie203 in American Magazine Ryan, who the fuck is Ryan? By the way, have you got Ryan on yet? I didn't bother adding him. He's so old news. Why is he texting him if you guys want me to try to get him on? He used to be on for the final group, but we've got Greg, we've got John, we've got Gareth, we've got enough Aussies. Okay, here we go. For the first question, by the way, if we say the secret word and you take a drink and you're the first person to take a drink, you get two points. If you take a drink within five seconds you get one point. If you don't take a drink, you lose a point. Mmm. The secret word, Marty, is? Um...pinball. I'm glad you both took a drink, but that doesn't count. What the hell. Alright, here we go. First question. Tracy, Travis, what was John Borg's first game? Hmm...yeah, we're getting nothing here. Three points for the winner.
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    Well done. You don't get bonus points for that, but sure, it's good to know. Marty. Question number two. Tracy has a three point lead. By the way, what was our secret word? I forgot. Pinball. Oh, there we go, guys. Well done. They both get two points. Unless I said pinball again. Tracy, another two. I've got a hard question for you. I think maybe. Depends on whether you know your older machines. Before Stern came out with the Beatles machine, what was the name of the pinball machine With the bootles. You've seen it? It was made in 1967 Tracy, go ahead. Oh, no. Beat time? Yes! Oh, Tracy! Wow. Well done. Travis, you're like a top 100 player. Tracy's just school you. After that first pinball, beer went up my nose and I'm kind of seeing stars there for a second. By the way, even though Travis is right now getting the shit kicked out of them by a trace from Arizona, can I just say Travis, big shoutout to your wife who's a healthcare worker and doing great things right now. Yeah, Amen. I appreciate it, thank you. I'm sure she would too, I'll have to let her know. You have a great family there, young family, lot of kids and I wish the best for you in Oklahoma City. A chance for him to get a bonus point right now Marty, he's getting the shake. Yeah, I mean, I need something here. Yeah, something. A chance for you to say anything. I saw a tiger.
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    Bought the underwear, everything. Colin didn't show up, cause he was scared, cause I beat him once out of eleven times.
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    Tracy, is it worth a sympathy point? I think so. I think it is. Sure. Do I have a chance this last one? Yeah, absolutely not. Can we ask a question that's like in the 2000s, please? I don't know any of this stuff. I'm so stupid. In the 2000s. Know your history, young buck. You're on a podcast with a couple of 50-year-olds. Ah, how dare you. I mean, a couple of 40-year-olds who think they're. How dare you reveal Tracy's ideas. You guys can't diss on Robert like that. Don't do that. Don't do him dirty like that. Give him a newer question, shall we, Martin? I've got another question. I have one. On Pinside, which game is ranked higher? Gilligan's Island, Stellar Wars, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or Rollinging Stone Valley1980? Travis, your last chance. Uhhhhh... Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Positive. 100% because Pinside is never wrong. Tracy, between Gilligan's Island, Stellar Wars and Rolling Stones Valley1980. Killigan's Island. It was close. Second. Stellar Wars. Is that apparently? I love Stellar Wars. It's a funny one. Bonus question just for those listening online right now and thank you for listening to our podcast. Just out of curiosity, a bonus point for both of you, Travis and Tracy. Give me a thumbs up on the video call. Thumbs up or thumbs down. Is Rolling Stones Stern rated higher than Rollingstones Valley 1980? It shouldn't be. You're both right. It's shittier. It's one of the worst games ever. It is actually one of the worst games ever made. But here's a second bonus question. Stellar Wars was a complete, well it was made by Steve Ritchie, was a complete rip-off of another game he made. What was it? If you look at the layout, it's almost identical. What is it? I'll be honest, I've never heard of Stellar Wars. It was when he worked for a different company before he moved to Milling Williams. I'm trying to picture the layout, I've just- Think superhero for God's sakes! Spider-Man? Superman? YAY! SUPERMAN! Travis, you wearing the Pinball Profile World Tour shirt, you're still fucked up. Tracy Lindbergh, congratulations, you're going on to the finals, Arizona represent, Oklahoma City, I'm sorry, you've got Tiger King and Garth Brooks, that's enough. Garth Brooks? Come on. I got my underwear to go back to. I'm fine with that. Good job, Tracy. Thanks for playing. Alright, Tracy, hang tight. You're gonna be on the finals. Thanks, Travis. You're amazing. So no Colin? Has anyone tried contacting Colin? He's probably gone to sleep. Yes, I texted him. He didn't respond. He's asleep. Okay. Martin, are you gonna make it in every half an hour? Cause you look like you're just gonna fall over and piss yourself. PINBALL PINBALL PINBALL PINBALL PINBALL PINBALL PINBALL PINBALL PINBALL PINBALL PINBALL PINBALL PINBALL What time is this in Australia right now? 4pm. You guys have 6 more hours of drinking then, everybody from Australia. I started at midday. Martin after you walked away, Jeff walked away and he was stumbling, he may not come back through that door. That's right, I'm recording here, he's recording, we'll work this out. Here he comes, here he comes. Here he comes. Bit sideways. Here he is. It's a bit slow. He needs to drink when he does announcing for pinball. This would be awesome. I'm pretty sure he does. Yeah. So we should now have Dr. John, Gareth and Greg. No. You're incorrect Marty, you son of a bitch. Well. We have, um, Andre. Dr. John, Gareth and Greg. No. No. No. Robert gets another go with Andre. Oh, you're right. Sorry, I'm just waiting for Jeff's brain to catch up, for him to realize I'm right. Give it a couple of minutes, guys. Marty, you are a god. Sen, you're right. It's the Aussie group. We have Greg, we have Gareth, we have Dr. John. Correct. How's everyone going? Going into the finals are Robert and Tracy. Kate, are you still there? Nah, she's gone. Kate's coming back a little bit later, because she's you a moon stop where is our buttermilk you and she tells us how this works. I hope everyone's having fun. I know we are, so cheers to that. You're astounding, it's meet less Johnette Coffin, I've never know you to be speechless. No, I'd love you all. And everyone, what are we going to do? It's COVID-19 the economy and this shit were fucking isolated. This is something to do. God bless you all for making us happy. Thank you for joining us. And uh, we'll do this again I have a feeling. Danny. It's nice to have people watching me get drunk for a change. On that, let me pour another shot. Not on the keyboard! Fuck it. I'm done, this is my last drink, I can't possibly... Fuck off Marty you bullshitter. I've just gone through half a bottle of gin. Ooooooh wow, big man! Oh, shut up. Fuck you. You and your second rate alcohol. Pizza F wieder Simular slash the Travis, Travis, oh Travis, extra point, too bad, too little, too late. By the way, there's one of the great healthcare workers, Travis, your lovely wife. You're just trying to get votes, votes now for your alcohol, it's not gonna work that way. Australian gin is the best in the world. No, no, no, Travis Murray's a cool shit. Travis, I don't know your wife's name. It's Monica. Oh, Monica, I love Monica. Hi Monica. Hello. Monica is a healthcare worker. Everyone watching, Monica is the shit. No, no, Monica, you are the best. Thank you for everything you do. Yeah, thank you. And thank you for letting Travis be drunk and stupid on a Friday night. I know it's usually every night, but... This time people are watching. Cheers, everyone. I love you all for being on Funnel Room tonight. Thank you, Andre. Thank you, Tracy. Thank you John, thank you Kate, thank you Brent. Robert Baez, Robert Baez, let's move it along. Come on. I didn't say Robert. No, I know. He's just messaged us saying, let's move it along. Oh really? Yeah. Hey, Kite's back. Hey Kite, she's muted. Marty, you've got to love this. An all-Australian Group C here for the final round, Yagpin Championship. You've got an Australian in the final. Who do we have here? I think you're making a very interesting assumption that I like Australians just because I'm Australian. So... hmm... I like Canadians and make Canadians disappointed. Well, at least this way I know that I'm gonna get an Australian in the finals of... what do we say? Is this the Yegpin one or is the Pinfest one? I can't remember. This is the Yegpin one, yeah. So at least I can be guaranteed that we're gonna get an Australian in the Yegpin finals. We've actually got some amazing people. So, first let's start with Greg Silby. He is from Haggis Pinball. Did you know he is an amazing coder? And did you also know that he works for the company that I used to work for? No one's going to find that interesting except for me. How are you, Greg? I'm very well, thank you. Yeah, it's good to be here having a lot of fun and just enjoying watching you guys get completely pissed. Greg, what are you drinking? I'm drinking the nectar of the gods according to Jimmy Page. Jack Daniels. A leds up, hold on a second, I've got the score sheet right here. He just made a leds up on reference. Bonus points! Two points for Greg. Well done. Who else do we have, Marty? We've also got Gareth. Now, Gareth has got to be considered the most important person to final round. I say that because he's communicated to us the most more than anybody else. So, how are you Gareth? Oh, I'm very well, thank you sir. Yourself? Yeah, I'm good. Where are you? Karl DeAngelo, Pinball Player, Spooky Pinball, Franchi, I live in Brisbane, Queensland,Australia, playing pinball since I was about 12, had probably about 30 machines by the time I was 18. I don't have any anymore, I've just got one virtual pinball, that's it. Missed opportunity Gareth, Greg mentioned Led Zeppelin, you had a chance to get a couple of points there, you just plugged Brisbane, sorry about your luck. J.M.: And next we have somebody that you're sure they've been on the show before, whatever boring move on with it and he's on literally every possible media channel when it comes to pinball. And he's in the greatest part of Australia according to him. Queensland is everything, everywhere else is a piece of shit. Queensland, my god, I mean, if you're going to Australia, fuck Sydney, fuck Brisbane, fuck Melbourne, it's all about Queensland. I present you, our resident asshole, John Papadiuk. I can't wait to hear the editing of this. At least you learned something when I saw you over here, Jet. That's a good thing. So I'm sitting here in glorious claims I am. I've got my inspiration with me for those on video. You can see I've got my little inspirational cup. Oh you've got your hard quiz cup. I've got my hard quiz big brass mug, you know Teddy, for my many TV appearances, well my one TV appearance. My one. Yeah, my many ones. Sure, I've been on TV as well John, whatever. I've just got to tell Anne Murray and Corey Hart just to be quiet over there. Can you guys keep it down please? That was legit. Nothing. That cost him a point. Greg, you're already way ahead with the bloods of the Perpents and Dr. John just bought himself a point. Well done, John.
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    The best things out of Canada. I think you'll find Glass Tiger is the best thing out of Canada. What about Rough Trade? What's that? High school confidential, who said that? RoughTrade, I said that. Gareth, two points. Gareth, two points. John, you're already fucked. This is... Ryan Reynolds, Michael J. Fox. I'm running out of things we know from Canada. Nice try there, kiss-ass. I do redheads. Bonus points! Woo! Okay, in this round there's a secret word. When we say the secret word you get two points. If you're the first person to take a drink, you get one point. If you take a drink within five seconds, the secret word, Marty, is... Australia. No one's ever gonna say that word ever. Alright. Not like that anyway. A trivia for our Australia guests. Woohoo! Oh, great! Greg, take a drink! No, no, sorry, we say it's-tray-a. We don't say Australia. Who says that? Australia, man. Australia or stray-a will do. I don't understand what you're saying. No, that's right. We don't understand anybody else's language. Oh, wow. You're representing Haggis Pinball, Greg. Yeah. Step it up, right? We know everybody at Haggis is a complete drunk, so... Two points for Gareth, two points for Dr. John, Greg. The Led Zeppelin reference was gold, but we've been on for two hours, Greg. Take a damn drink for God's sakes. I'm not feeling the peer group pressure at all, so. Oh, look at that. Oh, another loss for Greg. Greg, you're really fucking it up. Banging the feet of your own drum. Alright, Gareth, John, it's all about you. Greg's just in for show. We're just putting you in because you're in an Australia group. Awesome. Nobody took a drink! Oh, shit, I'll take a drink for everyone. Nope, nope. Two points for Marty. He's excited. Okay, our first question. Hands up everyone so we know you're not cheating. What are you drinking, Jeff? Fireball and what? I've got fireball and one for shots. I've got rum and coke for the others. Oh, yeah. Nice. Cheers, mates. Get it up, yeah. Because you're all from Australia, nobody took a drink. What a bunch of morons. I'm not a moron. I'm a moron. What a bunch of meatheads! Because you're all from Australia, Yo! Can you say it proper? Alright, there we go. You all think that ACDC is an Australian band, even though they're from Birmingham, England. Not all of them. Well, Bon Scott was from Australia. Anyway, name ten of the songs on ACDC Pinball. You have 15 seconds, go. Oh jeez. Jeez. Bonus question for what is the best ACDC song ever done? I'll give you a hint, the answer is Thunderstruck. You're damn right. TNT is a close second though. Okay, time's up, show me your list. We're gonna go to Greg first. I've got Hell's Bells, Long Way to the Top, Whole Lotta Rosie, TNT, Highway to Hell and Thunderstruck. I'm just guessing. Six songs for Greg. Dr. John, what do you have? I got back in black, shook me all night long, hell's bells, TNT, thunderstruck, rosy, long way to the top, and then something with rock in it, cause the target's on the right. That doesn't count. I'm not sure I've heard that song, something with rock in it. It's a long way, something to rock, if you wanna rock and roll. It's actually called a long way to the top, but sure, whatever. I'm gonna say that this is supposed to be done. Well, not as many as John, I don't think. Highway to Hell, Rosie, Shoot Me All Night Long, War Machine, Hell's Bells, Rock and Roll Train, Thunderstruck, and TNT. Yes, absolutely, you win for sure. Great, Dr. John. Take a drink for losing. You suck.
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    You're like the underdog here. Yeah, what's going on here, man? Brisbane showing Melbourne and Queensland how it's done. Oh yeah, we're all about arts and cafes. We don't give a shit about pinball trivia. Question number two for three points. By the way, I forget what the secret word was. Was it Australia? Yes it was. Oh, there it is. Gareth, two points. Okay, we're going to revisit one of my favorite topics that we've spoken about before. Gottlieb Premier was known for themes that they didn't want to pay for. They ripped off other themes and the first one we gave an example of was the game was called Raven. They literally ripped off Rambo. What theme did they rip off when they made Hollywood Heat? John Cousin. Miami Vice, baby. Yeah, it was. Dr. John, you Jan Hammer son of a bitch, you got that.
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    Okay, going into the final question, here are the points. I gotta do somatic. Gareth has 10 points. Oooh. Greg, you got the lids up and right off the bat, but you've been shitting the bed since then. 10 points. I mean really, you're just here for a participation. Just to see the good looks. He's here to promote Haggis. God bless Haggis Pinball. I love the Celts, I love you, but you've done better, my friend. I'm actually surprised how well I'm going.
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    Finally this was flags of the world. Dr. John, a former hard quiz winner sitting at 8 points, Gareth 10, Greg at 3, participation badge. Comes down to this, 5 points to see who's the best in Australia. Again, just a reminder, the best in Australia is still not as good as the best in the rest of the world. I just want to put that out there. It's all about who's the best in Australia. We've been on for two hours, pick out a drink. Okay, what is the higher ranked game between these four games? Gilligan Island Stellar Wars Ninja Turtles or Rolling Stones Who went first Marty I don know my vision is literally blurred at the moment Jeff Let's give it to Greg since he doesn't have a chance anyway, Greg. Well, considering we've had the question before, I'll say Star Wars. Yes! We'll all agree with you. Gareth? Star Wars, yeah. At rank number 296 is Stellar Wars. Dr. John, you hard quiz bastard, you're going on to the finals of the Final Round Yeg Pin Championship. Congratulations. Gareth, thank you very much for joining us. All the best to you and Brisbane Pinball Club. Thank you, no props at all. Thank you very much for your support of Final Round. We really appreciate it. Yeah, that's good fun. Good listen. Best podcast on the network, boys. Yes. Yeah, it is. 확퀸 No probes, thanks. Great, thank you very much for joining us. To you, to Damien and everyone at Haggis, I wish you the best of luck. Thanks, Jeff. I haven't seen Damien for four weeks, it's been great. I'm doing my game, I'm waiting for it. No, thanks, Jeff. Dr. John, you're in the finals. Congratulations. Thanks, mate. Don't know how, don't know why, but happy to play. Now is Ryan C now joining the call? He's in the car. I'm here. Oh. Just driving. Well, you missed out on the competition, but you were never going to make the finals, so thanks for participating. See you later. Thanks very much. How drunk is Giola? She sounds pretty hammered. Yeah, he's pretty sober. He's already chipped a fireball on his laptop keyboard, that's all. He's only spilt his drink four times and tripped down the stairs twice. Hold on a second. I just want to say, you know, Colin Urban went to Brisbane masters and he kicked ass. Him and Asher Lefkoff, a couple of North Americans went there, took all your fucking whoppers. And I just want to say I played one, one Australian tournament. 47 people and I won it all. By the way, I was hammered because you assholes, every time you beat me you had to drink fireball. Yeah, but at the end of the day, you're still Canadian, so we win. Commonwealth! We're all the same! I am the greatest player in Australia ever. That's not saying much. Our most highest ranked player is like 60 or something in the world. We're not that good, Jeff. Jason Lambert, Richard Rhodes, I'm the greatest player in Australia. Ever. Whatever. I played one tournament, 47 people, I won it all. I'm the Keith Elwyn of Australia. Yeah! This guy was supposed to compete in the final round Pinball Podcast Yegpin Championship, but unfortunately he was busy. How the hell can you be busy? Ryan C from Austeria, you missed it. Dr. John was in, we had Gareth Hall, we also had Greg Silby, you missed out. You could have won. You're such a pinball whore and yet you missed out. Where were you? You bastards, just trying to set me up. I was out on a socially distanced walking date, Jeff. With an attractive woman who's very good at pinball that he somehow has never met until recently and is totally not catfishing. Truth absolutely, Kate Martin. Was it a catfish, Ryan? Nah, she's real. The real deal. Is she cool? She's very cool, yeah. Let's bring on the finalists right now for the final round of the Egg Pin Championship. She's earned it, she deserves it, she beat some of the best ever, Tracy Lindberg from Bells and Chimes, Australia. Hi Tracy! Woohoo! Yeah, not. Arizona. Okay, let me do that again. I had to drink because you said Australia. Leave that in! Leave that in for sure! Let's bring on the finalists for the final round, Yegpin Championship, Tracy Lindberg from Arizona, congratulations, you're in the finals. Woohoo! Notice I'm gonna delete that old shit. Okay, hold on a second. Can't see. Robert Byers. From Austin, Texas, a former TPF champion, Robert Byers is in the finals. Woo, it's an honor to be here. Let me take another drink. I'm sure he's important for other reasons that actually matter as well. But anyway, pinball, yay, woohoo, pinball! You can check him on streams on Top Rope Pinball. Oh, yeah! And he's the greatest part of Australia ever. I mean, everything else is shit. You've heard about Sydney, you've heard about Brisbane, you've heard about Melbourne. After���ική, Rett � הבPell, Dr. John and Tracy, somebody is going to be, in lieu of the Stern Pro Circuit, the final round Yegpin champion based on this question. One question? One question. What's our secret word? He's taking out a bonus point for drinks. The. The bonus is two words. Tracy got two points for saying the. This was greasy sculpture! Pinella. Now, it's a series of two I missed that. Did you say final round? I said final round. I'm gonna puke. I should have gone with wine instead of tea. Sorry Jeff, you just cut out there. Did you say that this was the final round? Oh god, guys. Seriously?
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    Enough shenanigans. Time for the final round. Jason J. Do we have a question or are we just gonna do the final round thing? Can I just say, I feel like I wanna give bonus points to Robert Baez for staying up this late, cuz he really didn't wanna stay up. At all. Uh, Tracy's been up just as long here on final round. Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. I almost wrote you and asked to be moved to the 830 group. Nah, Tracy. For me she felt like an active participant whereas Robert Baez didn't want to be a part of this from the start. Is what I'm saying. Robert is your camera on? I reckon he's lying in bed. Let us know what Rob is flipping! Marty. Alright let's do this. Do we do one question or three questions? Let's do three questions. Three! Oh yes! Here on Final Round that's the best thing to do on Final Round, Final Round, Final Round.
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    Oh shit, I think someone passed out. It's Robert. Let's go, three questions. Let's go. Jeff Heolus, let's go to find out who is the winner of the Yag Pen Final Round Podcast Pinball Challenge. Robert, Tracy, Dr. John, you are appearing right now on the final round. Can you name two past guests? Go! Dr. John. Two past guests of what? On the final round? Yeah. Really? He's next. Go ahead, Dr. John. Okay, so we've had... Dr. John, you're out. You're googling. Tracy. Tracy Lindberg and Josh Sharp. Give me another one, Tracy. You can't include yourself. Josh Sharp and Brian Dye. Oh, wait. He was on Pinball Profile recently. Yeah, no one listens to that show, so... Robert, you're out. You're out. So, Robert Byers, Ted Polka and Pat Robertson. Yay! Doug! That's a point. Yeah, Doug! They all blew it. They all sound the same. I gotta say, you didn't say there was a rule about not saying yourself. Yeah. Oh, Tracy, come on. I'll give you half a point. This podcast is involving taking shots and drinking. Wow. There are no rules here. So, you know. Alright, here we go. I've got a question for you. You ready guys? Yup. How many machines based on Star Trek have there been? Tracy. Thanks. Name them. Name them? Yup. I feel like it might be five, dang it. Uh, let's see. There's the Bally Star Trek. Yup, that's one. And then there's Star Trek Next Generation, Star Trek 25th Anniversary, Uh, Star Trek Stern. Star Trekstern Premium. No, and you can't count Star Trek anything else, like the Volt edition. She made a couple of homebrews. Come on, Marty, come on, give Tracy a break. Okay, Robert, you are next. Robert. Four. Name them. I just did. What? She just did. You named them four. The four she just said. Some thought Osho interactive assault semifinals Belleys, wys mouse at Kastle . For the first 3 things at Stairway One Will you join a star.... The card is closed, and win is guaranteed Good. Region and club will call. What!? We only reveal our very best, some Dai, You get a bonus point because we fricken love you so much. Take that Dr. John, you piece of shit. She loves me, she can put up a sign. I'm used to it. Can we include Star Trek The Mirror Universe because the amount of work he put into that game? That's a Texas year. Yeah, absolutely we can't.
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    Alright, the last question. Robert and Tracy, you're done. Dr. John, like honest to God dude. It's like, any time you want to participate, step up. It's good. You've got that mug from that TV show that nobody watches, so well done on that. You're a winner in at least two or three people's eyes, so well done. Marty, I might have forgot the secret word, what was it again? Final round. Yeah, there you go, I'm glad someone mentioned it because I'd forgotten it too. It's final round. Final round. So, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on a second, my Scott just got asked, did you say final round? Oh, just letting you know right now, Dr. John, you're in for third place. Well done. There's a bronze medal in your future because you don't have a chance, Gracie and Robert. I can't do math right now, but I'm going to assume you're tied. Pinball суп flavour Howard so the winner of this question wins the Timhy lazy N Pus the best of the worst Thunderbirds. Is the biggest pinball game, more than pinball game more than pin side, but keep going. Keep going. It has a 4.3 rating, which is 4.3 higher than it deserves. So to win on final round, take a drink. There's nothing in that Robert, it doesn't count. I swiped the whole, it's a big bottle and it's gone! Get another drink you asshole! Thunderbirds is the worst game ever. With a 4.3 rating. The second worst game, is it Hercules, Bugs Bunny or Raven? Robert? Bugs Bunny. Ba-bam. Tracy? What were the other options? Hercules? And would you say, Robert, because you were wrong with whatever you said? I said Hercules. No, you did not. I said you waskily wabbered. Hercules. Tracy, the winner. Hercules, the second worst game according to Pinsaw. I'm going to say Hercules. You are the final round, Yagpin champion here. No shame in second place. Dr. John, there is a lot of shame in third place. I mean, nobody likes... Can we just say, there's complete shame in competing in this podcast. I just gotta say, you are all shamed for being a part of this absolute monstrosity. This is an abomination to podcasting everywhere. So well done. Well done. All I can say is I feel like Josh Sharpe. I just feel like Josh Sharpe right now. And it is true. That is well done. Congratulations. Robert Byers will catch you on top rope. Dr. John, you and Emily are on the Pinball Network. Thank you very much for everything you do. My pleasure. Tracy, Arizona representing. Let's hope that Zapcom comes back. Let's hope that Bells and Chimes comes back. Welcome back, you rock. Thank you Tracy Lindbergh, the winner of the Final Round Yagpin Championship. Congratulations. Woohoo! Well done. Joininging us right now is our buttermilk queen, Kate. We may have had a few drinks tonight. Can you please give us some good advice? Drink lots of water before you go to bed and then drink something with sugar in it tomorrow. Oh, okay, sure. I didn't realize that. Will the drinking of water make us piss ourself at night? I'm worried about that. I'm gonna be on. I have no experience with age like yours, so... So can I just say, Kate Martin, thank you very much for joining us again. Besides Winston, my cat who is clearly the cutest pet ever, Linus McPants is freaking awesome. You mean the dog that has literally just pulled his bed out and is sleeping in front of my tablet right now? Lonnis McPants is awesome. I've got it under TNA and he pulled it out because I wasn't paying attention to him, so now he's sleeping in the middle of my room. My living room. That's awesome. Kate and I both have the only Havanese dogs I know in existence in the world. What are they called? Havanese. Havanese? They're like Cuban Maltese. Tracy, congratulations on the big win. I wanna say goodbye to everybody here in Group B. Andre, thanks for joining us, buddy. Thanks for having me. Thanks, Andre. Brent, thank you very much for joining us. Thank you so much, guys. It was great. Gareth, you were close. That Dr. John son of a bitch took out the Australian competition there. I thought it was gonna be you, Gareth. And beat Dr. John in that hard quiz, son of a bitch. Maybe next time, Jeff. Maybe next time. Maybe next time indeed. Well done. Ryan, see you never to chance. We miss you on podcast. Do we though? He's muted. Ryan, turn off your mute! He doesn't know that because I muted him. He's dodging his car as well. I wish I could have done that when we were doing head to head. Ryan, turn off your mute! Yeah, I'm driving you, stupid car! Ryan, we miss you on podcast. You should be on Final Round more often. Cool, thanks Jeff. You're a very nice guy. Win Train!! Whatw naturally amino acid. Gene is in missing in the space of on Pary collect. Comment below how you guys fridge challenge the I want Dr. John to know I love him so much. Thank you, K. I love you too, guys. Oh my god, Tate Martin, you should have seen the stuff he said about you to me. I know. That's the nicest possible way. That hat hoarding bit. Those are the exact words.
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    Travis, all the best to you in Oklahoma City. Alright. I'm so tired. You two up in northern Oklahoma too, Jeff. Thank you. Thanks, Travis. You're amazing. Brent. Brent's still here. Brent, thank you very much. All the best in Victoria, BC. Yeah, thank you very much, Jeff. And Marty? We have communicated a message so many times. It is actually really cool to finally meet you via video format of some kind. I have looked forward to listen you on head to head podcasts and I go to on the next issues Funkies bides thanks to actually kmnew scenario釣it data has escreverполies he wanted to That's called Tuha Pinball, Franchi, and Knapp are the only pinball podcast I listened to. Or listened to. So, which one? Head to Head was the only podcast I could listen to. Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. I'm sorry to hear that, Jeff Teolis, but, you know, you're shot. You. Bitch. Pitch it up all over the place. It should be two Australian assholes talking about stuff. Well, Jeff's an asshole, so you got the half of it. Thank you, Jeff Teolis. Well, listen to this. Smile on Ryan's face right now. How has he been driving for like two hours right now? With one hand. He can only make small turns. It isn't that time to bring up the fact that I met Robert's cousin-in-law at a store like a month ago. I was at a store getting stuff for Bells and Chimes and the small league that I run with like trophies printed and this guy was like, oh you run a pinball league, my cousin's fiance like he plays a lot of pinball in Texas, Robert something and I was like Robert Byers and he was like yes and I was like yeah we're like kind of friends and then I like pulled up my Facebook and I was like look I'm friends with him and he was like I'm not even Facebook friends with him. The people that I think are an asshole, I definitely let them know I think they're an asshole. Alright, are we done guys? Because I am fucking hammered, I'm sorry, but this was so much fun. Cheers guys. We thought this was either going to be a trainwreck or it was going to be really enjoyable. Turns out, a trainwreck is really enjoyable. It took two and a half hours. I dyed my beard a week ago and then shaved it off, so you've got to miss that. He looked like a fucking magician. It was so bad. And also, I've just got to say, there are no secrets when I tell Ryan C anything. Any fucking thing! He tells Everybody All My Fucking Business! He has no fucking filter! Okay. Hey everybody, let Marty and I just do a quick wrap up and we can stay on if we want. I thought you did already! Who won the groups? Hold on a second. Who won the first group? I don't remember. It was... Robert? Robert won the first group. No, no, no, no, like the... before you all got on. Before us. I think... was it Corey? No. Yes. Ryan. Ryan Kuiper won. Who won this group? Tracy? Tracy. Tracy, okay, hold on. Okay, let us just do a quick wrap up and we can talk afterwards. Jesus. Congratulations to Ryan Kuiper, the winner of the Final Round PinFest Championship and also Tracy Lindberg from Arizona. She is the FinalRound Yegpin Champion. Congratulations. Way to go Tracy, way to go Ryan. Hard fought and not an easy victory, easily. Not an easy victory, Marty. Not an easy victory, Marty, right? Boris Rogers Economy Duep H例えば Deachelor nan
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    Marty. It's been fun. It's actually been fun. I really do appreciate it. That was probably Jeff again. I've got to end this podcast, I'm dying for a piss. I'm not even joking. I'm literally going to wet my pants if we don't end. Come check out the Top Rope Pinball Wrestling intros, see who's up next, and always remember, if you smell-la-la-la-la-la what Rob is flippin'! Thanks guys. Thank you Robert. Okay! Thank you Rob. Thank you Tracy in Arizona, hope you're safe, everything's going well. Thanks. Thanks guys. I can now see everybody. So, admittedly, it's all a bit of a blur at the moment. My wife thanked me for shaving for her and she didn't realize it was for this. Don't tell her. You're good. I like to see you, Jeff. You're a very attractive guy. Oh, yeah. Something for the spank bank. Yeah, whatever. I love fingers and Canadians. What can I say? We've just got Trent. Or is Trent? Who the fuck is Trent? I need Travis to say something. Something. Keep talking Travis, the more you talk the more I can see you. Hello? Can you see me? Keep saying a lot of things. A lot of things. Sing something. Fucking Tiger King for God's sakes. To all y'all that I'm also drinking and it's alcohol. Yeah that's not good. Not good. This break is brought to you by Macho Pinball Podcast, Pinball Podcast Watch Show. Doo-doo-doo-doo Podcast Watch. Robert, you go on mute or you lose a point, you son of a bitch. Tracy, put yourself on mute because you'll be going into the final round. Travis, you're on mute because, um, you sucked and you're out. What do you need out of me, Jeff? I'm wearing your shirt. Minus points. Minus points right there, everyone. Andre, Brent and Robert Byers. Give us a second guys, we need to pee. Two minutes. Oh my god, he's barely walking out of the room. I know. My god, what a mess. I don't envy these guys trying to edit this and make this sound like it was any... I hope you don't think either of them are coming back. They make me pass out drunk on the toilet right now. I can't wait to hear what it turns out to be. It's gonna be good.
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