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PNP 674- Franchi Hurt Me+ All The News From The Last Month+ Fathers Day VoiceMails LIVE!

Poor Man's Pinball Podcast·podcast_episode·1h 41m·analyzed·Jun 22, 2026
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TL;DR

Orbital Albert discusses Oliver Tree, job burnout, and recent pinball news including toppers and Arabian Night.

Summary

Orbital Albert hosts Poor Man's A A A Pinball Podcast episode 674, opening with tributes to Oliver Tree following the musician's death, then covering his recent burnout managing a farmer's market while juggling parenthood and pinball. He discusses recent pinball news including Jersey Jack's Sonic topper reveal, the Pokemon topper, and Arabian Night remake, while planning Father's Day voicemail segments to other pinball-playing dads.

Key Claims

  • Oliver Tree passed away last week in a helicopter crash; he was 32 years old

    high confidence · Orbital Albert, opening segment - this was a significant personal moment for the host who considered Tree a distant influence

  • Orbital Albert managed a farmer's market for four months, was doing 34-38 hours/week despite being hired for 20 hours/week, and was recently let go

    high confidence · Orbital Albert's extended personal narrative about his employment situation and reasons for podcast hiatus

  • Orbital Albert's oldest son Hayden may be returning to play pinball competitively after considering leaving Grand Prairie due to mail delivery difficulties in winter

    high confidence · Orbital Albert discussing his sons' situations and their potential impact on local pinball scene

  • Pokemon Pinball machine at Vortex is not properly leveled and is too floaty, causing unfair play where balls drift right out lane

    high confidence · Orbital Albert's direct observation at Vortex in Sackville, Nova Scotia; he plans to offer to buy their Pokemon singles inventory to get permission to level the machine

  • Orbital Albert's youngest son Owen's high school won River Hibbert District School's first softball provincial finals in 79 years

    high confidence · Orbital Albert proudly announcing his son's athletic achievement as explanation for recent podcast hiatus

  • This is Orbital Albert's 10th podcast episode of 2026 (as of the recording date), despite it being six months into the year

    high confidence · Orbital Albert's self-assessment of his podcast output compared to other shows like Triple Drain

  • Steve Ritchie may not be heavily involved in rules design or score balancing for Jersey Jack games, unlike Keith Elwin

    medium confidence · Orbital Albert's speculation about designer involvement models, explicitly inviting correction from Ritchie

  • Pokemon topper features five layers of waves with different directions and lighting, plus an animatronic tail

Notable Quotes

  • “Oliver Tree was someone that I almost...he had a podcast that the whole group of us that are behind the paywall Call Each Other Family. That's how close we think of each other...I really feel like he was, I don't know, like a distant cousin almost.”

    Orbital Albert @ Early segment — Establishes the personal impact of Oliver Tree's death on Orbital Albert and his community

  • “For the last four months I've been managing a farmer's market. The job itself was advertised as 20 hours per week. Most weeks I was doing between like 34 to 38 hours a week. Many of them volunteer hours.”

    Orbital Albert @ Mid-segment — Core explanation for the podcast hiatus and burnout affecting content production

  • “I don't think they've updated the code there, and I can tell you this, I love you Vortex, but that game is not level. It's also, you can see from the bubble, it's not high enough. You've got it way too floaty.”

    Orbital Albert @ Pokemon discussion — Technical complaint about a specific machine's setup at a local venue, indicating maintenance issues

  • “I walked 2,800 kilometers...Imagine walking 2100 miles...Every one in 333 Magikarps is shiny...So I had to walk in total over 3,000 kilometers. Do you understand some weekends I was putting in 80 to 90 kilometers of walking?”

    Orbital Albert @ Magikarp topper discussion — Demonstrates Orbital Albert's deep fandom context for why the Magikarp topper resonates with him personally

  • “Arabian Night. This is a poor man's Aladdin...I would actually, if Jasmine was on there and Aladdin, I would be more into it if they were re-theming.”

    Orbital Albert @ Arabian Nights discussion — Expresses skepticism about the Arabian Nights remake theme choice compared to what would generate more excitement

  • “Now that I've been fired, little Orby Jr. basically got what I think he's all, he might have one more exam next week or something, but he's basically done school besides graduation.”

    Orbital Albert @ Mid-segment — Marks the turning point where Orbital Albert regains time for podcast production after his employment ended

Entities

Orbital AlbertpersonOliver TreepersonSteve RitchiepersonKeith ElwinpersonJack DangerpersonOwen (Little Orby Jr.)personHayden (The Hey Dude)personJersey Jack Pinballcompany

Signals

  • ?

    content_signal: Orbital Albert provides extensive explanation for 6-month podcast production gap: managing farmer's market 34-38 hours/week while supporting sons through high school completion and provincial athletics, combined with homestead responsibilities

    high · Extended personal narrative detailing employment, family commitments, and farm obligations as reasons for reduced episode output; promises return to 2 episodes/week schedule now that farmer's market job ended

  • ?

    community_signal: Orbital Albert experienced significant burnout from dual high-demand roles: underpaid community manager position (20 hours contracted, 34-38 actual) handling 45-60 messages weekly plus unpaid volunteer hours, coinciding with intensive parenting responsibilities

    high · Detailed account of managing farmer's market with 45-60 daily messages requiring response, volunteer hours, venue setup, cleaning duties; combined with managing two high-school sons' academic/athletic schedules and homestead responsibilities

  • ?

    product_concern: Pokemon Pinball at Vortex Games in Sackville, Nova Scotia exhibits leveling and floatiness problems affecting fair gameplay; machine tilts toward left outlane, causes ball to drift right out lane

    high · Orbital Albert's direct observation: 'that game is not level...you've got it way too floaty...the ball's not getting hung up, but it's very floaty and it's leaning so hardcore to the left. Often it will shoot out the right out lane'

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Pinball designers vary significantly in their level of involvement with rules design, code updates, and score balancing; Keith Elwin model (heavy involvement across all phases) contrasted with other designers who may contribute only initial concept

    medium · Orbital Albert's comparison: 'some designers just go there and they design the play field and maybe they'll give you one or two ideas for the rules and they walk away...Not Elwin. Elwin overlooks all of the rules, helps write some of the rules'

Transcript

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0:00
Mind an old damn business, don't try to find me, I'm better left alone than in this, it doesn't surprise me, do you really think that I could care if you really don't like me, or somebody else, it could be anyone else out there. Don't fret, I don't ever want to see you, I don't ever want to meet you again. One thing, when the rain in your eyes are getting and you're dreaming like you're worth nothing. Don't fret, I don't ever want to see you. Welcome back pinball nerds to episode 674 of your fifth favorite pinball podcast. My name's Orbital Albert and that was Oliver Tree's Miss You. As many of you know, I'm sure Oliver Tree passed away last week from a helicopter that went down, unfortunately. I don't want to start the show being a Debbie Downer, a Negative Nancy. I miss you all too much. I want to keep it positive, but Oliver Tree was someone that I almost, he had a podcast that the whole group of us that are behind the paywall Call Each Other Family. That's how close we think of each other. A podcast that I am in the live chat of three days a week often, maybe four days a week when we do the behind the wall one. And he was on it 19 times, even more if you include Collins. So Oliver Tree, who you just heard there, was someone that I've spent probably 100 hours, like just, you know, never me personally talking to him, obviously. But I really feel like he was, I don't know, like a distant cousin almost. So he wasn't just a musician for me. In fact, the last decade or so, I don't really listen to electronic music anymore. I used to be a raver and all about that type of stuff, and I'm not really anymore. But I still love Oliver Tree. So five times today, and I promise never to play it that long again, but five times today. Well, four more times because we just heard one. And I am going to play about 20 seconds of Oliver Tree songs just because just like one of his albums was called Ugly is Beautiful. He totally was a different type of pop artist. He totally was. I mean, to me, he was the Elowen of modern electro dance pop, if you will. OK, because much like Elowen, Elowen doesn't some designers just go there and they design the play field and maybe they'll give you one or two ideas for the rules and they walk away and they're done with. That's it, right? Not Elwin. Elwin overlooks all of the rules, helps write some of the rules. I know he's not out there coding every little bit of it, but he certainly is helping with code updates and balancing and score balancing. And because he's such a high-level pinball player, he's able to do that. And much like that, Oliver Tree didn't just write every single solitary lyric you heard. He didn't just write every melody you heard. It's not like he's in a band where he's collaborating where someone else is doing the drums and someone else is doing the lyrics and someone else is doing the bass line and another guy's doing the lead guitar and then you have the rhythm guitar over there doing his freaking thing, okay? It's not like that. He literally was doing every part of it. And then not only that, every single solitary music video he did, he wrote, produced, and directed as well as starring in. So to me he is like the Elwin of pop stars and the world lost a bright soul when we lost him. And honestly I was ready to record about a week ago and after he passed I honestly needed a couple days. And I know that sounds really silly because oh he's just a movie star you didn't know him. Like am I gonna like freak out or something when Bruce Willis passes? I've spent hundreds of hours being entertained by Bruce Willis movies. Probably not. I might be a little bit down for a day or two, but we've known Bruce Willis is sick for like the past two decades. Oliver Tree was 32 years old. He probably had like six, seven, eight albums in him or more to go. He probably had another 20 appearances on the H3 podcast with Ethan Klein. This is not a political, I'm not going down a political route because I know a lot of people will not agree with many of Ethan's politics. But that being said, Oliver Tree, much like me, is somewhat, he was pretty much apolitical, or at least in his public life he was very apolitical, much like me. So anyways, today what are we going to be doing? I don't want to be a double Debbie Downer, but I do got to talk about something that happened. Franchi really hurt me, okay? Something that Franchi did really, really hurt me, and I am going to talk about it at the end because I don't want to be a Debbie Downer. This is my Father's Day special. I'm a pinball father, proud father of two, of two now high school graduates, that's right. L-O-J, as he got to put his initials in on Pokemon Pinball today when we were playing in Sackville. Shout out to Bagtown down there, alright? Good old New Brunswick. We got to play Pokemon and Owen took his dad off number one on the leaderboard. Now, Orbeez still has the Grand Champion score, but LOJ, also known as Little Orbeez Jr., as you would know him as he uses his, I thought it was so funny he uses that as his official, you know, his initials on Pinball Machines. On his third or fourth game of Pokemon, he got like 190 million, which I think is pretty good. I don't think they've updated the code there, and I can tell you this, I love you Vortex Games, but that game is not level. It's also, you can see from the bubble, it's not high enough. You've got it way too floaty. Jack Danger did not design this beautiful game to play that way, so please, for the love of God, I don't think you listen, Vortex. But I'm going to go in there and just, in the nicest way possible, maybe I'll offer to buy, like, I might offer to buy up their entire Pokemon single stock. I think they only have a couple hundred bucks worth of Pokemon singles. I will literally tell the owner, who I'm buddies with, thankfully, and I will say, I will buy all your Pokemon single stock up that you've been just sitting on for a long time. I don't see them getting bought and refreshed often. It's primarily a Magic the Gathering store. I will tell him, if you will let me just take five minutes to level Pokemon, because it's driving me nuts that when the ball comes out of the left orbit, it's either just not coming off very nice. Maybe that's part of the issue. I know that was part of the issue at the factory. The ball's not getting hung up, but it's very floaty and it's leaning so hardcore to the left. Often it will shoot out the right out lane and it's not very fair. So anyways, I did write down some notes. I will be honest, guys, without me recording as much, I do get a little bit rusty. Okay, like rusty spoons. And, you know, I just want you to keep your expectations low. So I have a piece of bad news or good news depending on how you look at it. Depending on if you're the farmer's market's bank account or if you are Albert's.

high confidence · Orbital Albert's detailed technical description of the topper he viewed in imagery

Stern Pinball
company
Vortexcompany
Spooky Pinballcompany
Chicago Gaming Companycompany
Pokemon Pinballgame
Sonic the Hedgehoggame
Arabian Nightgame
Jamie Burchellperson
Knapp Arcadeperson
Ed Robertsonperson
River Hibbert District Schoolorganization
Miniatures Museumvenue
  • ?

    collector_signal: Orbital Albert exhibits extreme Pokemon collecting dedication, including walking 3,000+ kilometers to obtain a shiny Magikarp, holding a $450 Korean Magikarp card as his most valuable collectible

    high · Detailed account: 'I think I walked 2,800 kilometers...had to walk it 400 kilometers...over 3,000 kilometers total...some weekends I was putting in 80 to 90 kilometers of walking'; 'My most expensive card that I own is a Korean Magikarp that's sitting at like $450'

  • ?

    product_strategy: Magikarp Pokemon topper represents significant engineering advancement with five-layer animated wave system, directional lighting effects, and animatronic tail mechanism; positions premium topper at higher pricing tier than flat plastic alternatives

    high · Orbital Albert's technical breakdown: 'five layers of waves that all go different directions with different cool lighting on them...he has a fully animatronic tail that waggles back and forth'; notes topper could justify $999 pricing

  • $

    market_signal: Community preference for recognizable major IP (Aladdin) over lesser-known alternatives (Arabian Nights); expectation that remakes should refresh themes rather than reproduce exact classic designs

    medium · Orbital Albert's opinion on Arabian Nights: 'this is a poor man's Aladdin...I would actually, if Jasmine was on there and Aladdin, I would be more into it if they were re-theming'; notes 99% of audience already played Arabian Nights digitally

  • ?

    competitive_signal: Potential increase in local competitive pinball activity in Maritime Canada if Orbital Albert's eldest son Hayden returns from Grand Prairie; signals seasonal challenges with outdoor mail delivery affecting young talent retention

    medium · Orbital Albert: 'The Hey Dude himself may be playing pinball again in Fundy Flippers and Hub City Flipout...Hayden might be coming back to play again with us in the fall'; references son's struggle with winter postal work in Arctic-adjacent Canadian city

  • ?

    venue_signal: Multiple pinball venues operational in Maritime Canada region: Vortex Games (Sackville, Nova Scotia), Fundy Flippers, Hub City Flipout, Freddie Flipout (Fredericton area)

    high · Orbital Albert references playing at multiple venues: Vortex Games, Bagtown, 'Fundy Flippers and Hub City Flipout and the Fredericton one as well. Freddie Flipout'

  • ?

    personnel_signal: Steve Ritchie moved to Jersey Jack Pinball as designer; has designed Sonic the Hedgehog topper; Orbital Albert questions depth of Ritchie's involvement in rules design compared to other high-profile designers

    high · News segment mentions 'Jersey Jacks, Sonic the Hedgehog Topper'; Orbital Albert's speculation about Ritchie's design involvement model and invitation for correction suggests recent transition or new project

  • ?

    product_launch: Multiple pinball topper announcements/reveals in recent month: Jersey Jack Sonic topper, Pokemon Magikarp topper with significant mechanical features; toppers emerging as major product differentiation and FOMO-driving accessories

    high · Podcast discusses 'very first images of Jersey Jacks...Sonic the Hedgehog Topper' and extensive Magikarp topper technical details; Orbital Albert notes topper enthusiasm within community

    • 7:18
    For the last four months I've been managing a farmer's market. The job itself was advertised as 20 hours per week. Most weeks I was doing between like 34 to 38 hours a week. Many of them volunteer hours. I did bank, eventually ended up banking some of my extra hours when I was like everything I was doing past 30 even though I was only getting paid for 20 because it is a not-for-profit organization that did not have a lot of money and I really wanted to hit the ground running and get their social media whipped into shape. I did a really good job with their social media. I was sometimes getting between 21,000 and 24,000 views. Mind you, their Facebook page has like 6,000 likes and their Instagram has a couple grand. So when I would do a reel and put it on, you know, share it on both, that would get a couple thousand that way. When I would do a live, it would get 2,000 or 3,000, maybe 4,000 or 5,000 if I was lucky. The pitchers would always get a few thousand views. But this was a major increase of between 400% to 500% from what they were getting before because no one was doing a live stream previously. The previous managers weren't really comfortable doing a live stream. You guys know me. I'm fairly comfortable doing that type of stuff. So anyways, I really did help the farmer's market grow. I kind of had to train. It's not that I was hired on for a term. I could have and did want to stay longer. However, the market couldn't really afford me, and the market did such a great job hiring their summer intern, which is covered by the government money, yada, yada, yada, that basically the summer intern could essentially do my job and they're not going to need me until the fall, till the however many weeks it is. I wouldn't know because the board deals with that. But until the intern's gone in the fall, I definitely don't have a job. Now, I didn't, I was kind of annoyed about being fired even though I felt like I had worked so hard or let go as they called it because in your first six months they don't even have to give you a reason obviously. And it was kind of expected that like, I'll be honest, I think they've gone through like six managers in the past five or six years. So it does happen a lot when you're paying only a few dollars an hour over minimum wage and you're expected to do the amount of social media, marketing, advertising. When I would come into my office on Wednesday mornings, I was off from Saturday afternoon until Wednesday mornings at 8 a.m. When I would come in, I would have between voicemails, Instagram messages, Facebook messages.
    9:41
    Thank God we didn't, we were talking about starting a TikTok account. Thank God we didn't do TikTok because then I would have more crap to take care of. And then primarily our email and our voicemails on the phone, I would have between 45 and 60 messages to respond to. And typically by the time I took my lunch break and I came back, I would have between 15 to 20 more responses to get back to. And I'll be honest, guys, I love sitting here and talking to you guys on the mic. I love all day being at the farmer's market and trying the different foods and talking to the vendors and helping everybody set up I'm putting all the pylons out for the food trucks. Like, I will do all that stuff. I check all the bathrooms to make sure they're clean. I'm the first one there in the morning. I'm there for, what, an hour before even the intern comes in by myself from 6.30 to 7.30. I'm making sure there's no, like, needles. Thankfully, I didn't find any needles, but I found a lot of, like, beer cans and stuff. I just clean up the whole outdoor park that we're having it at or in the case of, you know, when we were at the hockey arena before, I would set up all the tables. This is so boring. I'm boring, you guys. For the past four months, I have been so burnt out trying to be a dad of a son who's kind of struggling with his job, I'll be honest, in Grand Prairie and his life there. And my oldest son is considering coming back home. So the Hey Dude himself may be playing pinball again in Fundy Flippers and Hub City Flipout and the Fredericton one as well. Freddie Flipout, I think, is that one. Hayden might be coming back to play again with us in the fall. He's not sure if he wants to attempt another winter in one of the coldest cities in already a very cold country delivering mail outside. And I totally respect and understand that. You know who else would respect and understand that? Let me have a little sip of my Pepsi here for a second. Before I just go minor off topic, it's about Ed Robertson, guys. It's about Ed Robertson. But I'm just, I'm a little dry-mouthed, a little parched, got a little pasties, okay? I'm going to have a sip of that. I'm sorry Jamie. Something way better than Diet Coke. Diet Pepsi. Actually Pepsi Zero. Actually the best is Diet Pepsi Cherry. OMG. Alright. Let's play a little bit of Oliver Tree here. I know some of my viewers skew a bit older or maybe you just love country music or rock and you're not a fan of like pop music at all or electro anything. You know what I mean? But this dude is the real deal. The last song, I think it had like 40 million on TikTok and then it had like 130 million or something on YouTube. It doesn't really matter though. But this dude is like, people know him. Not everybody, but people know him. He's not like, I would say he's probably top 100 Billboard artist in the last maybe decade. He's kind of fallen off the last year's Sawyer Oliver Tree. Shouldn't say that about someone who's newly no longer with us. But anyways, this is one of my favorite songs by him called Cash Machine. Absolutely love the video. In the video, he's driving a modded up DeLorean, or really a DMC, I think. And he's got it modded. He's made it pink like a Barbie DeLorean. He's got the wings up and he's turned it into the hovercraft from Back to the Future. And he's riding along in the desert. It's just such a spectacular. If you like good music videos and you even remotely don't hate Oliver's music, you should check out a couple of his videos. And also, all of the money from his will, instead of giving it to his family or giving it to his friends, he's giving all of his money to an organization called, oh, I should know this, I'm so sorry, something about little geniuses. Something about little artists who are little geniuses. He tried to make it funny, but basically it's for like upcoming like artists of all sorts who don't have a lot of money to like struggling artists when they're younger to get young people into art. So I think that's such also such a great, cool initiative. Anyways, here's a little bit of Cash Machine by Oliver Tree. What's this? This bad boy's at 46 milli. So not one of his big hits, but one that I certainly loved.
    13:52
    What's it all for? Why does it seem like it's no one more? What is it going on? Turns out you don't need that stuff. What's it all for? Why does it seem like it's no one more?
    14:16
    That was Oliver Tree's Cash Machine. Such a cool video. Right now he actually went from the desert to riding his hovercraft DeLorean on water and he's being chased by people in skidoos. What do you call those? Not skidoos. Oh my god, that's such a Canadian answer. Jet skis. Jet skis, not skidoos. I'm sorry. All right, let's just get back into it here. What are we going to talk about with pinball? I was going to tell my Ed Robertson story just for a very, very, very quick side ramble here. Sorry. He, Ed Robertson used to do a television show on the Outdoor Life Network in Canada, also known as OLN, and it was called Ed's Up. And he would go try out all these different jobs. And he actually went to one of the most beautiful cities in Canada, out in Vancouver, B.C., and he tried to be a postal worker. And he realized, holy crap, being a postal worker is way harder than most people think. Not only do you have the dogs. I mean, he was doing this in Vancouver on a nice sunny, I don't know if it was a sunny day, but I don't remember it raining or snowing or anything.
    15:20
    Now, imagine going another like seven, eight, nine hours north of where like most nice Canadian cities are, where most people live, which is within an hour of the United States border. I think like 70 or 80 percent of Canadians live within 100 kilometers of the border. So anyways, he's hours and hours and hours further north, getting very close to the Arctic Circle, and he's delivering mail outdoors in the winter. In a town so far north, and you can Google this to make sure it's not just a Canadian fairy tale, I'm telling you, they don't really shovel the sidewalks or the roads. Not really. Like, they just basically let it pile up and pile up and pile up because it just keeps coming and it's so cold and it's so frozen for so long. I don't know if it's too expensive or it's just too freaking cold, but they don't do it. Anyways, I wanted to run down a whole bunch of stuff. Thank you so much to Jason Knapp of Knapp's Arcade. Make sure you go over to KnappArcade.org. I'm on backslash blog right now reading about the news. I did want to go over some pinball news. I've probably gone off topic too many times here, but then I'm also going to be calling some pinball nerds that are also dads and just leaving them voicemails. Now, how did I get the idea to do this? The reason I got the idea to do this is because Jamie did a call-in show, the JBS show, of course, on YouTube. Jamie Burchill, as many of you know him, formerly of Wormhole. I just shouldn't have to say that anymore. But go over there and like, subscribe, and follow him. He's such an interesting dude. But on Friday night he did a call-in show and I tried very hard to stay sober enough to call in right till 10 o'clock. But of course the call-in show did start at 10. But right at 10 I think like come on, come on Ralph, retro Ralph over there as I call him Rad Ralph. He called in a couple times so then I wasn't able to get through so it kept just sending me, say your name blah blah blah, sending me this voicemail thing. So I kept being like Jamie, I said I would call in today but like I got to go to bed soon. And I didn't have to go to bed per se, but my wife and I were supposed to go, you know, have a little date night and watch a movie and chill out for a bit and have some chill time. And I was very much so, she was waiting for me and I was like, but he's going to answer this time, he's going to answer this time. And then I swear to God, right as I thought I was about to get through by just, just a second, this, this young kid called in. He started singing like the Cleveland Browns show. It was actually really funny, really entertaining, way better singer than I am. Honestly, way entertaining than my phone call when I eventually got through. But after calling seven, eight, nine times and leaving Jamie way too many voice messages saying, I don't want to call anymore. On my last try after one hour and one minute, I felt like I was a kid in high school when you're trying to call into your favorite radio show on your local station and be like, Hey, will you play blah, blah, blah, Tom Cochran's Life's a Highway? I don't even know. New Kids on the Block when I was in grade 5 or something? I don't even know. I can't even remember. But you'd call over and over and over and ask for your favorite band. I think when I lived in London, I was calling FM96 to get them to play a band that probably no one listening to this has ever heard of called the Gendarvas. I wanted them to play a song called The First Day of Spring, which was one of my favorite songs by them. Local London Band, Shout Out. Not as cool as Kitty, but let's just move on here to Nap Arcade and let's go over some news. I don't have a lot of time and I don't have a lot of energy to write an entire brand new show, but it has been so long. And I will say this, a lot of people are writing me like, hey, is your show over? Are you done, Orby? No, sometimes I work my butt off and over the past two months, not only have I been dealing with a lot of stuff with Hayden and just having to be present as a dad And talk on the phone a lot and do live streams and kind of help them figure out some stuff. But also my youngest son, Little Orby Jr., graduating high school while going to provincials. And for the first time in 79 years, River Hibbert District School won softball finals. In fact, I think they've only won table tennis like 10 years ago and a couple other small provincial things. I don't know if their team has ever won. So shout out to my son Owen. Somehow they won softball. But while Owen was doing that, he was also very busy being in table tennis, being in badminton. And then after he went to badminton districts and regionals, he ended up finding out from the university he's going to next year that he got in. And then his coach there was giving him like cardio drills to do and like drills, like court stuff he needs to work on in practice. So he's doing that and at the same time he's trying to get his grades as high as possible to try to get as many grants as he can for university. And then at the same time it's springtime here on the homestead so I've got everything from maple syrup to well that's a whole other story we'll talk about another day. But my chickens of course Jerry, Elaine, and George, poor old Kramer. But and then just there's just so much and then I'm trying to get all my crops planted for the year as well at the same time. So what happened is the Pinball podcast took a backseat. That's the long way of me telling you. I'm really, really sorry, but don't worry. Now that I've been fired, little Orby Jr. basically got what I think he's all, he might have one more exam next week or something, but he's basically done school besides graduation. So and then for the summer, he's already got a summer job. I'm so proud of him. Now he's going back to work at the same museum here in town. By the way, if you are, I have to give a quick shout out. If you are in River Hepperts, Nova Scotia, you better darn well tootin' pop by the Miniatures Museum and go see Little Orby Jr. Because he's now not only working there, but he's the manager. And that's so cool that he's going to get to put on his resume that he was the manager of somewhere before he goes away to university. That should really help him. He only has two employees under him. It wasn't like me when I was managing the market. Oh my gosh, guys. Some days at the market there was upwards of 40 vendors. Some vendors have just one person. Lots of vendors have two people. A couple have three people at their table. So I was managing between the volunteers. I wasn't really managing the board members. They were just kind of like they would be there. I mean, it felt like some of them needed managing once in a while. But between the volunteers, between the intern and between all of the vendors, I was sometimes managing like 60, 75 people on a big day. So that was a lot of work. That was very stressful. And then on top of that, everything else I just told you was going on. So I apologize and I do want to apologize to all of my Patreons. I am so sorry. I have not been doing anything behind the paywall there. I wish I could say I have been, but you're going to get me back a lot more often because I just got freed up for 38 hours a week. Even if I did two podcasts a week, which is going to be my new goal throughout the summer, guys, two podcasts a week. This is only, I think, oh, I just counted right before I started the show. This is my 10th podcast of the year. And yes, I know we are six months in, but guys, Triple Drain, before they recorded their last podcast, because they did apologize because it had been so long, they had only done four since last summer. I've done 10 this year. So that means I'm not even halfway through the year. Let's say I do even two more this, well, geez, we got, in two days, we got Sonic, or wait, Sega. Sega and Sonic or Sonic Spinball or whatever. Steve Ritchie's masterpiece maybe? Besides Star Trek? Come on, who knows.
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    But I'm really, really excited to be back. You've been caught up. You've been filled in. Let's keep moving on here. Let's talk about the news that's happened in Pinball. This is, of course, first and foremost, a blog about me and how I interact with Pinball. This is not just another... This isn't your average, everyday, Pinball tell you the news. Is noper noper. All right, let's take a look here. So the very first images of Jersey Jacks, and again, thank you, I'm on NAP Arcade here. The very first images of Jersey Jacks, Sonic the Hedgehog Topper. It looks like a look at Transformers Pinball on the line and more. So, okay, I just don't want to F with Sonic right now. I want to wait until I see the whole thing. Now bear in mind that Steve Ritchie is from what I understand one of these designers like I spoke about earlier that doesn't necessarily help with a ton of the rules even though he might have an idea for one or two modes or something like that and he doesn't really sit there and do score balancing because I don't think he was ever very much of a competitive player and Steve Ritchie get in my DMs leave me a voicemail if I'm wrong my guy I could be wrong I could be totally totally totally wrong. Oh my God. Should I be calling Roger Sharp and leaving a message? No, that's too weird. I don't know him that well. Happy Father's Day. Hopefully Zach and Josh reached out and said Happy Father's Day. All right. Let's keep going on here. How many Winchester Mystery Houses have been made? Oh, I'm going to guess a hundo without even reading the article. I'm not going to read every article, guys. I wouldn't do that to you. My podcasts already tend to be long. Now I got to talk about this. Oh my God. The Billy the Fish. Which, I mean, sorry, the Magikarp Pokemon Topper.
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    Frickin', I almost swore. I almost swore, but it is frickin' incredible. It is incredible. I don't think aesthetically it necessarily totally jives with the rest of it. But wow. First of all, you guys have to remember, for about six years, I was a Gyarados stan. Gyarados was my Pokemon. Actually, Shiny Gyarados was my Pokemon. And like that, oh, I hunted a Shiny Gyarados for what? I think I walked 2,800 kilometers. In miles that probably 2 miles Imagine walking 2100 miles Every one in 333 Magikarps is shiny and after you get a shiny Magikarp you have to now walk it 400 kilometers which again would be about 279 miles I believe because you only get one candy per kilometer until you get 300 or 400 candies You need at least 300 to evolve it, but 400 to really give it any power. So I had to walk in total over 3,000 kilometers. Do you understand some weekends I was putting in 80 to 90 kilometers of walking? That's like walking two marathons in a weekend just to try to get shiny Magikarp. So for me to see Magikarp, Magikarp has so much, and I know how nerdy this sounds, but remember it's called the Pimball Nerds Podcast. My name is Orville Albury. I am a good nerd. All right. So I love his little tail when it squiggles. I love when he looks over at you. See that little mustache? That is telling you that he's not really a carp. He's a koi. Well, okay. To be fair, carp do have a mustache like that because they're often called catfish, correct? Hence the whiskers. But I still, to me, he in many ways, shapes and forms, especially when he expands. If you look at a Koi, they look much more like a Gyarados. So anyways, because I love Gyarados so much, I in turn also love Magikarp. My most expensive card that I own is a Korean Magikarp that's sitting at like $450. It's the most beautiful Magikarp on planet Earth. So I love that it has the letters up there. I love the waves. The waves look so cool. Now, do I think it's going to be overpriced? I think for this one they would actually be very justified in asking $999. And if they ask $999, I think people would be standing up and applauding for how cool it is, for how much motion it has, the fact that it has an extra mode, and the fact that the waves move. People always say, oh, I don't want just a flat plastic. If you look at the Magic Cart topper, it is the opposite of the Harry Potter collector's topper that's just flat plastics with pictures of Hogwarts. This is the opposite. It has one, two, three, four, five layers of waves that all go different directions with different cool lighting on them. On top of that, he has a fully animatronic tail that waggles back and forth just like on the fishing game. Why is that? I'm not remembering the name. Anyways, I hear you. You're yelling, we get it. You like the toppers. STFU. Move on. Okay, let's move on. Something I care even way, way, way less about than a topper, and I'm not called Albert the topper king. Oh no, that's not me. But that topper, it just might. I need to see in person to be sure. Play before you pay. This is the way, as he say, Mr. Orbe. Okay? But Arabian Nights. Nobody cares. Are you listening? What is it, Pedretti? I don't even care who's making it. Arabian Nights. I really want you guys to shake your f***ing heads and think about it. Does anyone care about it? And I'm sorry, if you're actually from the Middle East, yes, you probably care about it. But to everybody else, this is a poor man's Aladdin. I want maybe an Aladdin. If you had the genie in here and you had the rights for using Robin Williams quotes, oh my god, there's like 500 funny quotes between the first, what, three, four, five Aladdins, whatever. I don't know how many you could get access to. Plus, we don't have any Disney pins, like, ever. I would actually, if Jasmine was on there and Aladdin, I would be more into it if they were re-theming. And someone will, for sure. Look, do I think there is cool toys in Arabian Nights? Yes. But because 99% of people who could afford to buy this are going to have to, there's no way at this price they can put it into an arcade. Like, the odd arcade, the odd pinball specialty arcade will have Arabian Nights. It has, like, the mech with the lamp is kind of cool. Definitely the mech that comes up where it could, like, cut your finger off if you reached in at the wrong time where it grabs it from the out lane and puts it into the in lane. That's frickin' cool as hell. But every single person listening to this podcast has to be so freaking pinballs deep into pinball that we've all played Arabian Nights either enough in person or digitally because it was the free game digitally on like Pinball Arcade or Pinball FX. Everybody's played it enough that we know all the rules. So it would be so boring in your house. It would be almost as boring as having Pokemon with which both Owen and I beat all the people in it. There was like nothing left to do in the whole game. We even did the Team Rocket multiball. Like there's just, I don't know what's happening. Stern, are you listening? I feel like it's Joe Chervino's podcast. Dude, where's the code? Like that's what, shout out Joe. Oh, I don't need to call Joe. I don't think Joe's a dad, but I do want to call some dads today. So anyways, let's barrel on through. Let's just, let's be like a bull in a glass shop. That's not the, that's the wrong idiom, idiot. All right, so Barrels of Fun launches Barrels Reserve. This sucks. Are you listening? This sucks. It's a bad idea. You're trying to get your cake and eat that shit too. It's going to come get back and bite you. Don't do it barrels. David Van S., you already said I got to interview and I'm very excited to have you on the show leading up to your next coming pinball machine. Don't do the reserve. Take it back. Pretend it's a late April Fool's gift. Say, just kidding. Say, oopsies. Say, we've got so much negative feedback, we're just not going to do this to you. Because remember how you had a really, really, really garbage theme like Winchester and you sold out? You will never again sell out no matter, I don't care if you got Back to the Future and you only had a thousand, you would not sell out. I don't care if you had Goonies and you only had a thousand, you wouldn't sell out. I don't care if you had Star Wars makes love to Pokemon while hooking up with Spider-Man. It wouldn't matter. You wouldn't be able to sell out because the reason you sold out of 500 is because it's limited.
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    And if you have two, there's two to, there's approximately two to 4,000 people who get pinball enough to know about the LEs and consider buying every LE. If even half those people, 2,000 of them did sign up for this, including all the people who like to make money, He's probably like, could be like a quarter of those people or people I would consider flippers or semi-flippers who buy it and keep it for three to six months and sell it for money. Okay.
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    You're going to piss off and annoy them because they won't know what it's limited to. Imagine you say, okay, we're going to come up with a mediocre theme like Winchester again. And we're going to try to sell, and I will say, I think Dungeon Crawler Carl is way better than Winchester. But if they try to do 1,000 of it and they limit it to 1,000, they might sell out. But if they try to do 1,000 Dungeon Crawler Carl's and then they have the barrel reserve list of 2,000 people and only like 500 of the 2,000 people buy one of the 1,000, that would mean when the 1,000 sold out a week later that 1,500 more people could buy it immediately. And like, of course they're going to go, oh my God, wow, I have this opportunity. I have to buy it because I saw Winchester went up. So surely this, no, Winchester went up because there was 500 and it had the Carl effect. You're not going to get the Carl effect on every future release. And if you, I mean, again, if it's 500 and it's Carl D'Angelo, yes, you'll probably be able to sell it out eventually, but not if you pull this stuff. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Other companies have attempted to do this and they have burnt their customers and in turn their customers have burnt them back and they've lost their goodwill. And you're going to lose all the goodwill that Barrels of Fun has slowly built up over the last year. It's going to like a fart in the wind. It will disappear. Do you understand? Like my coffee breath, after I brush, floss, and gargle, it will be gone. Do you understand? Your goodwill will have dissipated and you'll be sitting in a room going, what did we do? Sure, we raised a little bit of, we raised whatever, 2,000 times, what is it, 75 bucks? Ooh, we raised like, I don't even know what that is, that's under 20,000. Ooh, we raised 18 grand. Who cares? It just is, just tell your collectors, be open and honest and tell them how many you're going to make. Did you not see how much Goodwill Spooky lost? To this day, I am going to roast Spooky every single release that they do show games and they don't tell people about the show games. Remember, every single Beetlejuice was sold and then they went, oh and by the way, we're going to make 200 or 300 or 400. How many show games are making? I'm supposed to know the exact number. I don't remember the exact number. You know why? Because they never officially told us. So we don't know. We don't know if 50 went to this distro, 40 went to this distro, 30 went to Free Play Florida. You know what I mean? Like whatever pinball at the beach had like another 50. Like we don't know. Like so there's nobody even knows. So Spooky works for years to get all this, you know, slowly build up from everyone saying their quality was crap and to like now their quality is mildly better. And then all of a sudden, on top of that, like, give me a break. So, you know, I think that Spooky has said they will not do show games anymore, and I think that's the right move. If you want to do show games, it's okay, but you just need to state it and include it in your limited number. Don't say we're only making a thousand and then, oh yeah, we're making a couple hundred show games after you sold out of the thousand. This is identical. They're going to see the same backlash, but it will be even worse because even people going in early will know that. So do I appreciate that Barrels is trying to get away with the whole cake and eat it too like Spooky did? Yes, I get it. You're a small company. You feel bad when you sell it and you could have made more profits. I get it. But that's the game. By Spooky saying they would never ever do not even one single solitary show game ever again, And they recouped some of their lost, you know, goodwill. I still think we'll all wonder, though, if they say they're going to do a thousand Goonies, are they really going to do a couple hundred later? Maybe. I hope not. I hope they don't. Anyways, let's move on. There you go. There's my unreserved pitch to barrels to never, ever, ever do anything as stupid from a marketing app. Even ask chat. Even go ask Meta AI. Even go ask any AI service. Hey, if we're a collectibles company first where 90% of our product goes directly into someone's house who considers it not an investment but at least a place to safely park their money typically within reason, within 10%. You know, I paid $9,500 for Guardians of the Galaxy. I sold it for $8,500. I got like 10,000 plays on it. So I was playing 10 cents a play. I got 10,000 plays on it between me, my family, my friends, my neighbors, coworkers, everything else. 10,000 plays in a year and a half and I only lost a thousand dollars on it. That means it cost me 10 freaking pennies. We don't even have pennies here in Canada. It's such a low amount of money you couldn't even put 10 pennies in a machine if you want because they don't exist. They're not even legal tender here. You'd have to throw in two shiny nickels. Hey you got a nickel mister? Bing! That's how much it cost me to have that much joy and pleasure in my house. Okay, so Pinball can be an inexpensive thing, but if Barrels of Fun wants to continue to see their stock rise, to see their graph go up of Goodwill, the Goodwill graph is very important, don't underestimate it. They're going to need to do a full reversal, beep, beep, beep, back it up, there you go. See, I don't need a soundboard, I can do live effects. All right, first official images of Jersey Jack's upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog. Ah, I don't want to talk, I don't, Retro Ralph, I love you, but I don't want to talk about any Sonic stuff to like, I didn't, I know that the video that was shot where you're like Sonic and you're on the pinball and you're moving around the machine, I know that was very, very, very, very hard to shoot and I think it was well done. But it left me with more questions than answers and made me go like, hmm, come on. I don't like this much of a drip feed. It's too much for me. It's too much for anybody with hardcore ADHD. It's like, just let me see the pinball machine when we're ready. I think Stern does a good job. They might show you like a logo or something like that. But if you're going to show me parts of the play field, just let me see the play field. All right, Pedretti Gaming officially blah blah blah nobody cares Arabian Nights oh my god the purple is atrocious that purple is so disgusting remember some people didn't like Transformers was half purple and half red please do this right now unless you're driving a car or you're in the shower I don't want you to be a slippery sally and fall down in the shower and hurt yourself okay but if you're somewhere safe if you're sitting on the toilet like about one percent of you are listening to me right now if you're chilling Killing on your couch, laying in bed, picking your nose, doing whatever, making a sandwich, okay? Drinking a nice, beautiful hot coffee. Bring up the picture of the ugly Arabian Nights with the purple trim. I think that's the most expensive version. And then bring up the LE of Transformers. Whatever you say about Optimus Prime not moving, which we'll talk about that in a second. Whatever you say about that. God damn it. The Arabian... You would have to be colorblind. You'd probably have to be Helen Keller or Stephen, no Ray Charles. Wait, didn't we find out that Ray Charles might have a little bit of sight once or twice? Didn't he almost fall and then he caught himself or something? Anyway, it doesn't matter. You'd have to be Helen freaking Keller. Okay. Okay, because you'd have to also not be able to hear anybody for no one to tell you how gross that purple trim looks on there. Please, make it yellow, make it orange would pop against that blue, you could make it like a teal against the blue, but that purple is clashing so bad. There was this one girl in public school who always wore two clashing like neons. Like it'd be like neon pink with like neon orange and I'd be like, ah, it's hurting my eyes. That's what I feel like when I look at this Arabian Nights. And I love Middle Eastern food more than anyone else. I actually went to a school where white kids were like, there was less white kids than non. And many of the, most of the people in my grade eight class, like a lot of them were Middle Eastern people. Shout out. Ziyad Osman, Neaf El-Rafi, okay. Shout out to a lot of them. I still know a couple of them. And I love Middle Eastern food. But who, it's a story about getting lost in the desert. Like, it's just, just really be honest. I know some people say they don't like the Pokemon theme. Cool, fine, I get it. But, like, Sonic, how cool of a story that is. Star Wars, how cool of a story that is. Jurassic Park, how cool of a story that is. And then Arabian Nights that nobody knows, no one's heard of. This is the tale of the Bard and the Beetle. It's like, okay, cool. I don't know. I don't know what to tell you. I don't know who this is for. This is for dudes who just have way too much money and not a lot of taste. Anyways, all right. I've been a little bit harsh to Pertarity. Am I being too harsh, guys? It's my first one back. I said keep your expectations low. Let me look over here at the time. I'm probably going on. I haven't even called a single person and left a single message 41 minutes in. What is wrong with you? All right, we're going to play a little bit of Oliver Tree. I'm going to come back and we're going to do pew, pew, pew, pew, the speed round. Okay, this is a little bit of Life Goes On and On and On, although unfortunately no longer for Oliver Tree. Here it is.
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    On and on and on and on and on. If you best believe it, I'ma rip you up to pieces. All right, guys. Wow. Okay. This is sitting at 509 million views. So, yes, life goes on. It is ranked number two on the global top music video list currently. So, I'm assuming it got higher since he passed. But what a video. This video is probably his best video. It's super wild. I'll be honest. He does die in the video. And, of course, it's called Life Goes On. And ironically, I almost want to ask Chatless, but I'm too afraid to because I don't actually want to know. He dies in this video by falling, and of course in real life he fell from a helicopter, and as reported, somebody jumped from the helicopter shortly before it hit the ground. So there's a very good chance that it's very unlikely that you make a music video that you die while falling, and then you die while falling is what I was getting to. So Oliver Tree, again, my heart goes out to you, my family, the H3 family, Ethan Klein, Ila, everybody over there. It's just, it's really, really, really tough because you really get, listen, the same way that many of you right now have listened to me for some of you 10, 20 hours, if you just started listening in the last year, you know, we're almost up at episode 700. So, you know, if you've listened to me for hundreds of hours, even though you've never met me, most of you have never shook my hand. I've still never got to meet Glenn the Skateboarder or Drury in right here from the Poor Men's Pinball Network. You know, I've never got to meet so many people from the tribe that I want to meet, so many other. I got to meet a couple content creators and stuff when I did go to Pinmasters a couple years ago. But I still haven't met the vast majority of pinball people who listen to my show of the four to six hundred people who listen religiously. And imagine if I died, right? You would be like, well, I shouldn't be upset because I never met that Orby guy. He's just some stranger who lives in the middle of butt-eff nowhere in beautiful River Hibbett, Nova Scotia, other than the amount of ticks and flies and gnats and horse flies there is right now. It is beautiful, but I'm doing a lot of scratching. I'm trying not to scratch right now so it doesn't pick up on the mic, but there's a lot of bugs right now, but we're doing okay. The Veggie Garden is doing okay, And I've got a lot of deet. The old Albert used to use all natural. And when you live out here, I'm sorry, you got to spray that deet on. You got to slather that. You got to slather that deet on you like you're Scrooge McDuck swimming in a pool of gold. Gold coins. Who wouldn't want to swim in a pool of gold? Come on. Oliver Tree. Oliver Tree. I hope they figure out why the helicopter crashed and what the hell was going on. Oh my gosh. Anyways, I get really nervous about flying, guys. I do. I get really nervous about flying. And I shouldn't because I know it's like twice as safe as driving in a car or like three times as safe as a train. It still freaks me out. It still gets me a little bit riled up, if you know what I'm saying. Okay, let's head back here to NAP. We're going to try to fire it up and go a little quicker here. Okay, new Multimorphic Pinball module coming soon. Okay, that's kind of cool. 24-hour pinball tournament. Oh no, it's gone, isn't it? The Sanctum. That's so sad. Sorry, Sanctum. It says Sea Lion Wharf. I wonder if that's the new... Oh, that's from Crazy Taxi. Okay, Crazy Taxi's coming back. Not pinball related, but who doesn't like to have a... The only time I drink and drive is Crazy Taxi, Grand Theft Auto, and Fortnite. There you go. So, yeah, if you're going to, don't smoke and fly unless you're not the one driving the plane or helicopter and definitely don't drink and drive. If you're going to have a brewski then or two or five or twelve, then take an Uber, take a cab, walk home, sleep in a ditch. Anything's better than drinking and driving. That's my PSA of the day. Let's get back into it here. New Multimorphic Pinball module. Okay, I'm excited to see it, but like I still haven't seen Portal in the public. I gotta play poor old man. My buddy Ian Harwer, frickin' Ian's been on the show five, six, seven times. He's probably the most learned man we've ever had on here from a rules standpoint, I'll tell you that. I don't know, maybe Eric Stone when he was on would be pretty far up there. Isn't Eric Stone, no matter what anyone says about Eric Stone, I'll tell you what, this man is interesting to watch. Very interesting, very interesting. Okay, let's take a look at Optimus Prime. We've got the Optimus Prime topper here. I'm going to do it a little further. Wait a minute. Wait. Guys, I just got something on the wire. You guys want to take a look at the screen? What? Yeah. Hello there. My name is Optimus Prime. Freedom is the right of all sentient beings. You all are one. Stern. Stern. Stern. You could get the topper to be animated and move. You could get a 6 inch by 6 inch giant Optimus Prime head to talk and move and light up and turn left and right and raise its eyebrows and have every, okay, maybe not the eyebrows, but like really look and feel, you know, I mean, it's very robotic. But why did you put the money in the topper? Make the Optimus Prime in the machine actually work? What is going on? I need to ask this. Listen, this is a little bit conspiracy here, okay? I don't want Kaneda Army to go get me in trouble. I don't want to start any beefs, okay? It's all on record, but can you imagine? I have no proof this is true. I have asked no one at Stern. I have not asked Kaneda. I have no clue. This is just my own in my head. This is just a silly little thought that made me laugh the other day. Okay, Kaneda pushed and pushed and pushed for, you've got the touch! I'm not going to sing again, I already did that once, but he pushed and pushed and pushed for it. He kept saying, if it doesn't have it, I won't buy it. If it has it, I'm getting the LE. If it has it, I have to wonder, if Kaneda is not over-exaggerating his influence over there at Stern, and he's having all these late-night texting conversations all the time with George Gomez going, It better have You Got the Touch. I'm not buying it. I'm going to tell all my thousands and thousands of fans. He does have the biggest audience. I'm going to tell all the LE collectors who listen to me not to buy it if it doesn't have you. You Got the Touch! The stupidest, worst. Do you know how many awesome songs there are in the 80s? That is the dumbest, worst song from an artist who was a nobody. Like that song, like yes, it had one iconic movie scene once. But like that song sucks. I guarantee you they didn't get that song to the last minute because of how they barely included it in the game and they barely included it in any of the live streams and they barely included it in the teaser. They didn't include it to like the last five seconds of the teaser. So I guarantee you they got it last minute and I please, I hope I'm wrong. Conspiracy theory time. If they paid, let's say, even $100,000 for the rights to that, maybe it was less, maybe it was $50,000, I don't know. But let's just say, God forbid, they paid $100,000 for that. What if that $100,000 was the difference in the bomb to be able to make Optimus Prime work? They were like, I'm sorry, we just don't have the last $100,000 R&D to get Optimus Prime fully working because we got this as the touch. And then Kaneda said nah Optimus Prime doesn move so I not buying it But what if Optimus Prime didn move because he bitched moaned and complained for months leading up to it that he had to have the you got the touch you got the feeling you got the it like the worst song ever Please, Lord God, I said, I said I could never buy a Transformers because that song's in it. And if it was in it and it was in a mode, I really think that someone will mod it so you never have to hear that God forsaken song. And arcades are going to be like, I tried having Transformers, but some of the better pinball players figured out how to get in that mode with You Got the Touch, and it drove me effing bonkers and I had to get rid of it. Like, I really think that will happen. For audiophiles like me, it's going to drive people nuts because that song is so grinding and so annoying. Every time I hear that song, I fast forward it in Transformers. I have to. It's horrible. And the funny part is, can you imagine if they, and I don't think this is necessarily what happened, but I'm saying it's within the realm of a conspiracy theory and that's all it is. What if George Gomes is sitting in there going, guys, we already shot part of the trailer with Optimus moving, yada yada yada, we're going to have to try to cut that out so they don't really see that.
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    The whole Canadian army, he's going to tell them all not to buy the LEs, that's thousands of people who won't buy the LE potentially, if we don't at least add that stupid song. I know they wanted $150,000 worth, more than we wanted, but if you think about it really, that's only 10 LEs. I think we could sell 10 LEs more with it. Yeah, but George, then that's going to take money out of the bomb. We think we're down to the last few, we've got maybe 200 hours left of testing to do to really get the R&D perfect to make sure Optimus Prime can transform. Now listen, do I actually think this happened? I'll say probably not, but is there a 3% chance, a 5% chance? At some point, you either have to believe Kaneda and that he's telling the truth, that he is really talking to George Gomes and he really is influencing them and he really is telling them from the top down what to do and having like, you know, because obviously, obviously, they added you got the touch late. So it was either really, really expensive and they weren't sure if they could fit it in the bomb or somebody was talking to Kaneda late at night where he kept saying that. And we know like just from seeing Jack Danger, George Gomes and multiple, multiple other Stern employees who are often talking to, you know, even Zombie Eddie texting him in the middle of the night. I don't think they talk too much anymore, but Zombie Eddie, by the way, you're always welcome on my show. I told you that. I had offered that at the time if you want to clear the air, but, you know, at the time you didn't think it was a good idea. And probably with how upset with Canada it probably was a good idea that you didn't. So anyways, Chris, I'm not trying to start any beef. I'm just curious. I have to ask these questions. Chris always says, no one else can talk like me and calls out the pinball companies like me. Yeah, I do. Maybe not as good as you. Maybe, sorry, not as well as you, which is totally fine. But I would like to say this, Chris. Happy Father's Day from one pinball dad to another. Happy Father's Day. And speaking of, yeah, this Transformers topper, I don't know. It's not it. It's just not it. It's cool. I've seen it's way better than flat. It beats out every flat plastic that does nothing. But can you imagine looking at this going, why doesn't the Optimus Prime under the glass do anything? Yet the Optimus Prime on top, they've spent how much of the, probably the truth is they spent more of the bomb on figuring out the topper than, you know, obviously whatever this giant dude does on top is way, way, way, way. Way harder to do than this tiny little micro machine under the glass making it gently go up or down, right? I would assume. I'm not an engineer. I don't know. And maybe I'm wrong. And here's the cool part. We're just never going to know. Because if that's true, George would never tell Chris that. And if George was told Chris that, Chris would just never tell us that, I don't think. Maybe. But who knows. Anyways, let's move on. I will say this. I was watching poor Carrie Hardy. And I did say this on a Patreon show that you can still go listen to behind the wall. When I was talking about the issues people could have with Spooky Speak. And now apparently because there's some deal between Spooky and Flippin' Out, if you say bye-bye-bye, that's right, I just said bye-bye-bye, so any of you people who are listening in a room who own a Spooky, your machine just started turning on and freaking out. Not once, not twice, but three times without Kerry Hardy even saying Beetlejuice or the magic word and trying really hard not to say bye-bye-bye. But when you're talking about buying a pinball machine, it's hard not to say bye. So Kerry Hardy can no longer even shoot in the same room with Beetlejuice until he figures out how to get the godforsaken Spooky Speak off of. Oh yeah, and that was another idea that came from Canada! Imagine how much more could be in that machine if it didn't have Spooky Speak. Imagine how much time and energy and they could have had more time for R&D to work out any kinks and to make sure everything was working properly and make sure the scoring was balanced. But anyways, none of these things matter. The point is that poor Kerry Hardy right in the middle of his live stream trying to talk about playing Sonic but yet not talk about playing Sonic. Which was, that was a fun live stream. That was cool to be in there. Man, I love Josh and Kerry Hardy about him getting mad and pulling out a loaded gun and taking off the safety and going on a gun ramp because he didn't have Chipotle and was hungry. Anyone who thinks that my stern rant about swimming in gold is worse than Kerry Hardy pulling out a loaded gun because there wasn't enough guns on a pinball machine, you need to give your head a shake because mine was like pretty wild, but it wasn't like pulling out a loaded gun wild in the middle of a pinball live stream. And the thing is, Kerry Hardy doesn't mind me bugging him about it. I brought it up, I believe, on our Christmas show. I brought it up multiple times in his chat. I still think this would be the best selling shirt ever on pinball swag if you did a, if I don't get my Chipotle the guns are coming out. And it just had a picture of you like with your pipes, not with real guns, come on, but with your pipes just like the guns are coming out and then you're like this way to the beach and you're flexing. I think that would be hilarious. Funny AF. If you ever need some extra money from your Patreons, you could say my top tier Patreons are the only ones that are going to get this limited edition. Kerry Hardy, you'd have the most number of your Patreons bump up to the highest level that you've ever seen. There you go. There's your marketing advice for the day. Let's get the heck off here. I don't want to talk about any more pinball issues. You guys don't want to talk. American Pinball, the Lego Pinball would be incredible. Are you guys following this whole Lego thing? Let me have my last little sip of my Diet Pepsi here. Will I play a little one and only for Oliver Tree? Oliver Tree is, and, well I would guess he was a one of a kind. This one and only was only from two years ago. So this is the most modern song, probably the least listened. It only had about 40 million, 30 million views here. So definitely like, you guys might not recognize this one, But this is a little bit more of a modern one. A little bit past probably his peak, but still incredible.
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    Wow. So in this video, he's like doing, he's a world class like pogo, is it called a pogo stick, pogo jumper? He's a pogo dude. I think it's pogo stick, pogo jumper. I can't remember the name. I'm getting very tired, guys. It is 11.18pm here. My wife will want me to be going to bed very soon and not playing loud music because she's got to go to work early tomorrow.
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    Yes, I did promise. Oh, I want to talk about this whole thing with Franchi. I still got that to do. I want to call some pinball nerds. I've got to get started on that. Do you guys mind if I go a little long? I'm not going to do a three-hour podcast. I'll tell you what, right now, this is a great place because we're all done the pinball news. First of all, if you're like Mr. Christopher Franchi, my old buddy, my old friend, the OG himself, if you're like my buddy Christopher Franchi, he only wants me to talk about pinball. Certainly I didn't do that this episode because I did have to give some shoutouts to my boy Oliver Tree. But I tried to stay on topic somewhat. We covered a lot of pinball bases here. And that's the thing is I don't have time to get to all of them, but I do want to shout out some pinball dads. So if you're like Christopher Franchi and you don't want to listen to any more, just go enjoy your day. Come back and listen to me later. I'll be back in a... Don't worry, I'm not going to make you wait weeks. I'll be back probably in two to three days whenever we get to see Sonic finally with five rad and one bad. Aren't you excited for it? I'm excited for it. But I did want to say, also, if you don't like longer podcasts, I know a lot of people don't like it. This is the perfect place for a break. Everything you're going to hear past this is really part two of the Father's Day special where I'm just going to call and leave voicemails because I end up leaving three voicemails for Jamie the other day during his JBS live stream. So I thought it would be really, really funny to, and go listen to that, by the way. I think I'm about, I'm like an hour through his thing. But don't go listen to my part. You've got to go listen to the Cleveland Show kid that kept calling in and Rad Ralph, Retro Ralph calling in and just everybody who called in was great. So go check out his call-in show. And Jamie, just do it again. I know you had some, what do you call it, old man fumble rooskies with the old, what is that, the YOLO machine. You only live once. Am I right? Unless you're all of a tree, you might come back as Rob Dyrdrick. No, that's a rumor. That's a bad rumor. All right. So let's leave some messages for some. Now, I didn't, I could not, I have over 600 people on my Facebook list. The chances of me actually being able to, like, remember and shout out and thank every single solitary, you know, every pinball dad on my list would be near impossible. So I just picked a couple, and we're quickly going to kind of do that. And to you, each and every person, let me start by thanking everybody on Patreon. John, I am down to only 15. That's on me. That's not on you. To the 15 that are still around, thank you, thank you, thank you. Oh, I will mention Enzo, and that would be a good place to start. Enzo did get his coffee and his tea the other day.
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    So Enzo, well, I guess I'll just say it in here. Here we go. All right. First voicemails for fathers on Father's Day. Hey Enzo, it's this Orby here. I am recording a podcast and I just wanted to reach out and wish you a very happy Father's Day. Now I know in Australia it's the day after Father's Day, but I started with you first. So just know here in Canada and in my heart it's still happy Father's Day. Hopefully your kids made you breakfast in bed or did whatever, had some fun with you. And thanks again so much for being a top tier patron for as long as you were. I hope you enjoy all the coffee, tea you got, and Pokemon cards. And let me know, my guy. I want to hear. I know you're really busy, but once you get a chance to brew some of that tea or coffee, I'm curious to hear. And don't worry, I'm not going to use anything you say as like an advertisement because currently right now Angry Alpaca is still on hiatus. So no, you can't buy it, so don't try to. All right, Enzo. Love you, bro. Have a rad night. Cheers. And say hello to all our mutual mates there in Australia. There we go, Enzo. Okay, I'll try not to make them all that long. That was too long, wasn't it? Okay, let's go a little bit quicker. I did mention Jamie, and even though he got a couple the other day, he did not get a Father's Day one, so here you go. Hey Jamie, it's just Orbital Albert here. Thanks so much for taking my call during the live stream the other day. I'm currently recording a podcast and just calling a couple of the pinball dads. I don't have time for everybody, but a couple of the awesome pinball dads that make content out there and friends of mine. Just wishing them a happy Father's Day. I know I think your son has gone away to college or university or did he just graduate? Maybe he's back. I'm not sure. But either way, I hope you had a wonderful Father's Day. Maybe you got to play some pinball. Either way, keep doing those live call-ins. It was so much fun to be part of it. And dude, honestly, Pinball's got so much brighter since you came into the content space. Between Wormhole and what you're doing now with the JBS show, you've interviewed literally like dozens and dozens and dozens of Pinball content creators. Tons of content creators. I thought I was deep in the game, but you've introduced me to tons of content creators I've never even heard of. So shout out to you, Mr. Jamie Burchill, and happy Father's Day.
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    There we go. It's just that easy. This is fun. Guys, reach out to your family, reach out to your friends. You're never going to regret sending a nice message out of nowhere. And that's the thing. People expect a message if you're supposed to hang out with them the next day or something.
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    But to just send a fun message out of nowhere, isn't that great? No. Oh, my God. I hit the call button. No, I hope it didn't ring. Retro Ralph. I'm sorry if it rang.
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    Oh, my God, Ralph. I just about had a heart attack. I accidentally hit the phone button and it came up to start calling you, but I just wanted to leave you a voicemail because I'm recording a podcast live. So, Retro Ralph, listen, first of all I want to start by saying happy Father's Day. Second of all, the next time that Jamie does a live call in, could you leave some time for us to talk? Like you get to talk to him on the round table all the time. Could you let a couple of us call in and chat with him? I never got to talk to Jamie on the phone during a live stream before. Come on. No, I'm just kidding. I think it was actually the Cleveland guy calling and saying, this is a Cleveland Brown show. It's not, oh wait, no, that's a Tom Green show. Anyways, I've gone off topic, Retro Ralph. What else would you expect? I hope you had an awesome Father's Day. I know I left you a message on your birthday. Listen, I don't want to start any situation like what you got with Jenga's there when you said he was from the Netherlands. No, you know who's from Holland, sir? Hop, hop, World Cup, let's go. I am 50% Dutch. If you're not Dutch, you're not much. Not Genghis. Na, na, na, na. Have you met Genghis? Have you heard Genghis? This man is not, that's not a Dutch accent. That's Austrian. This man is obviously half Austrian and he lives in Finland as we all know. Come on. Finland doesn't even sound like Denmark or Netherlands. Nederlands as they would say it. Am I right? So you can tell this, I mean, I'll be honest, I know he's mentioned multiple times, he does not like enjoying the wacky tabacky, and that's a very Dutch thing as well. So anyways, stop bugging Genghis, and don't pick on Teolis, for God's sake, the man is the busiest man in pinball. Have you not seen him? He's everywhere. He's commentating, he's TDing, he's at the Canadian Nationals, he's at the Stern Pro Circuit Finals, he's everywhere. There! He's going to be doing the Buffalo, what's the one in Buffalo coming up soon? I should know, I'm sorry Jeff, the Beast! There you go. And he runs Maple as well. This man is busy, has a full-time job, he's also a dad. Oh my god, I got to call Teolas also. But anyways, have an awesome, awesome Father's Day, Retro Ralph, and thanks for all your awesome content. Peace out, nerd. Oh no, people are starting to write me back already. Don't write back, I'm recording live. Oh my god. I don't even want to call Kale, but I have to. And the sad part is, I don't even know if he's a dad. I'm not sure he's never mentioned it. All right, Kale, I'm sorry for sending you a message out of the blue. It's a little bit weird. I am recording a Pimball Nerds podcast right now, but I just wanted to reach out and say Happy Father's Day. And I know you're going, but wait, Albert, I've never mentioned I'm a dad on the show, have I? I don't think you have, Kale. If you have, Kale, I'm sorry. I'm not always paying the best attention. I don't have a fantastic memory like you and especially your co-host, Serge. So I was actually calling you because I don't have Serge on any social medias. Feel free to let him know he can add me if he'd like, but I don't have Serge. I haven't looked for him or anything like that. I don't know if he even has Facebook. But anyways, I know Serge has mentioned before, he's a very busy dad and he doesn't have as much time as he would like to do all the pinball stuff and go to all the pinball shows and stuff. And I can relate to that because as my sons are getting older, I'll finally get to start to go to like Pinball Expo and TPF. And as my wife and I sell the house, I don't know why I'm telling you all this. But anyways, Cale, I wanted to ask you to wish Serge a very happy Father's Day from Oral Albert. And I wanted to thank both you and Serge for all your awesome content. I freaking love it. Listen, do I even absorb like half of what Serge is talking about when you guys are going over the rules on a new game? No. But I appreciate it and honestly, I feel like I at least kind of know the game when I get to see it live streamed or played after that. So thank you guys for all the awesome content that you do over there. We really appreciate it. I believe it's just at the Electric Bat on YouTube and everything. But shout out to Kale Hernandez and all the hard work him and Rachel are doing over there at probably the coolest arcade on planet Earth. Someday my wife and I will get to come down there. And when I'm coming to the arcade, Kale, I'm staying for like a week straight. I'm sorry. I'm going to be in there every second of every day playing up all the machines, getting to know all the locals. It's going to be a blast. I can't wait to do it someday. Peace out, nerd. Oh, my God. Guys, I did two minutes. That's too long. Okay, wait. Jack Danger. This will be easy. This will be easy. Jack, I haven't really even talked to Jack in so long. I think I briefly talked with him on a live stream once or twice, but let's see. Here we go. Okay.
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    Jack Danger, I got to play Pokemon today with my son for the first time. Now, I've got to play myself a couple times, but my son, who is a hardcore Pinball, and, well, not Pinball, but Pokemon nerd than me, got to play with me, and he loved the game. He was excited about it. He beat everything, but I think the Charmander Wright Orbit won. Like, he got to Team Rocket Multiball. He had a great time with it. He loved it. We liked the shots. We liked the artwork. We enjoyed the callouts. Of course, you know, he wanted Greninja to be on there. But Greninja is by far his favorite Pokemon, but Greninja is not on there, which is totally fine. I know, Jack, that's not up to you. And that's okay, Jack. When you and I are just having a beer the next time I get to hang out with you and buy you a sour, because I know how much you love sour beers. Thanks for drinking that, though, even though I know you don't love them. But the next time that we get to hang out and I buy you a beer, I'm going to let you call it Pokemon. You won't have to say Poke-A-Mon. I know you're part Canadian, Jack, or you at least lived in Canada for some time when you were younger. So just pretend you're Canadian when you're saying it so they don't get you in trouble. Poke-A-Mon! And I know what he's saying because for like 20 years, Jack's just called it Pokemon. Because that's what, we've all just called it Pokemon. Not Poke-A-Mon. And I get it, but who knows? Maybe Pikachu's from Canada, eh? You never know. Alright, have a rad day. Thanks for making such an awesome machine. I still love all your content and I'm your biggest fan. If you ever want to come on the show, I'd love to have you. And if not, that's cool too, bro. Take it easy. Happy Father's Day. Thanks for all that you do for pinball, dude. Oh, by the way, can I make a prediction? I think that Pokemon will actually outsell Adam's Family. I don't know if it will be two months from now or two years from now, but I would guess at some point I would be shocked. I would be shocked that if the money printing machine for arcades known as the Pokemon Pro doesn't outsell, that the total sales of Pokemon doesn't outsell Adam's Family, I would be shocked. Love you, bro. Have a rad night. All right. I said I wouldn't be two minutes. Guys, I'm going to rapid fire. We're going rapid, rapid, rapid. Okay. Jeff Teolis. All right. Here we go. Oh, no. Do I have to smooth it out between Teolis? For those of you who don't know, apparently poor old Retro Ralph recorded. Wait, should I? Maybe? Oh, no. Hi. Okay. Jeff. Sorry. I'm so sorry, Jeff. It's Orbital Albert here with the Pimble Nerds podcast. I'm just calling some of my favorite content creators and wishing them a very, very happy Father's Day. Thank you for all you do for pinball, for all the TDing, for putting up with drunk idiots like me at the show or sometimes stumbling around and late getting to their machines because they were outside getting some fresh air or who knows, practicing for a backflip. And also, I just wanted to apologize. Please forgive Rad Ralph. He's like me. Sometimes he gets a little paranoid. He gets a little anxiety. I was listening to that live stream and I knew without a doubt, Jeff, you were going to put out the podcast either way. I just figured you were a little bit behind because you might be busy with like your day job and TD and Maple and Canadian Nationals and like interviewing Vladimir Guerrero. Come on, you're busy with all your jobs, right? So just forgive Rad Ralph. He really is pretty rad. But, you know, sometimes he gets a little paranoid. He has a little bit of anxiety. I don't know why. But I love him. I love you. Can we all just be friends? Why can't we be friends? Why can't we be friends? I hung up on Jeff. I closed the freaking phone. Okay, Don, Donathan. Don, okay, listen, when I called Don, I gotta not mention how much money he made off getting that given, given, given an L-E-F price and then selling it right away. Hey, Don, I know you said it was because of the code. I'll just say this, Don, because I can't say it to you live on the voicemail. And fingers crossed you do listen to this. Please, just like I said, the Barrels of Fun stock went down with the Reserve stock and the Spooky stock went down. All the goodwill went down the drain when Spooky did however many 88 or 110 or however many show games they did after promising they would only do X number of LE. your stock goes down as a content creator when you say to everybody please guys I really missed out I really want to get Pokemon I'm getting into Pokemon I'm opening packs I really want the LE and then you get the LE then just a couple with a month later a couple weeks later a month and a half later you sell it for a profit and you just say because the code is bad but like but like one of your fans lost out on three to five grand depending on when they sold it exactly to make sure that you got an LE and then you kind of betrayed them by doing that that's just my thought. I just, I felt weird about that, so that's why I haven't talked to Don in a while. I've also been very busy at my job, but anyways, today I am calling you, Don, to primarily say, happy frickin' Father's Day, sir. Shout out, I know I haven't talked to you much for a while. We used to talk a lot more than we do now, of course, but even four or five months ago before I got really busy with my new job and life, etc. Wow, people are writing back quickly. I don't think I should listen to any of these voicemails. It is nice to write back voicemails. I'll tell you what, if I get their permission, I will play it on the next show. How about that, guys? Alright, so Donald Garrison, I hope you're enjoying building your machine over there at Spooky. I'm curious to see if a Donald Garrison machine built by a self-proclaimed Burger King manager comes out as well as the typical Spooky crew. I've got to assume your reliability and quality is not going to be quite as high because you're literally doing everything for the first time. Everything you're doing when you're building your machine, you're doing it for the first, it'd be like, I don't know, it'd be like me trying to build my Toyota Corolla. I probably wouldn't, my very first time if I built the whole car from scratch, even if I had the same instructions they have at the Toyota plant, it probably just wouldn't be the one that someone would want to buy. But anyways, I think as long as you're open and honest when you go to sell the Beetlejuice, and if you go to sell the Beetlejuice, that you made it yourself, I think it will be fine. I don't know why I went on this side rant. I'm sorry. Don, just like all the listeners, please forgive me. I know not what I say. I'm very rusty. I haven't done a show in like two months or something. So anyways, love you, bro. Happy Father's Day. Hope you have a rad night. Take it easy and peace out, nerd. By the way, next time you come to New Brunswick, can we please hang out? You keep coming here and not telling me until after you leave, and I could have just driven an hour and a half and hung out with you in Moncton or Fredericton, bro. That would be so rad to get to hang out with you. I keep thinking you're the pokaroo. I'll never get to meet you in real life, man. He doesn't even get that. He doesn't even get the reference, guys. I hung up on him, too. All right. Wow. A couple of people wrote back that I didn't think would write back. Oh, Don, by the way, if you're listening, say, uh, happy father's day to Genghis over there. And is it Finland? God, I know it's not the Netherlands, but I don't remember now. The accent sounds like you're from the same place as Arnold Schwarzenegger, which is like Germany or that little village, Switzerland or something, that little weird like country in the middle. I don't remember. All right. Oh my God. I'm just going to say it out loud rather than calling them. Shout out to Sean Russell. I remember back in the day I was the driving instructor for your daughter. So shout out to her and shout out to Sean. Hopefully you guys are doing well. Shout out to my buddy Rod. Shout out to David Dennis over there. Should we call David Dennis? I'm going to call David Dennis only because this man has not came out to a single pinball tournament this year and we have one in less than two weeks. Hey Dave can I call you Dave Everyone else calls you David I like to call you Dave Anyways Dave Dennis listen Silver Ball Chronicles my favorite history pinball podcast No, not my favorite history pinball podcast. My favorite history podcast on Planetary. Probably the only one I listen to, but still my favorite. Love to listen to you and Ron go on. I love all the research you do for it. It's great. I think you have probably the coolest evergreen podcast, which basically means people can listen to it forever. I wanted to call to say two things. Number one, happy Father's Day. Sorry I haven't talked to you for a while. I've been busy. I'm sure you've been busy as well. And second of all, maybe more importantly than happy Father's Day, get your cute little behind out to Flippin's Arcade next weekend. I think it's seven days yesterday. So it would be on the 26th, I believe. But double check, you live right there in Fredericton. You only have to drive for 10 minutes, David Dennis. I'm calling you David Dennis just like a parent that's disappointed. Not mad, but disappointed. I haven't seen you at like the last six pinball tournaments. So it's 10-15 minutes away. Listen, I know you love your kids, but tell your wife because today is still Father's Day, oh honey, the last little cherry on top to make my, listen solely, to make my Father's Day just perfect. It's been wonderful so far, but just to make it perfect, is there any way I could ask for just a daddy baby? Next Saturday from noon till 6, Orville Albert wants to buy me a craft beer or two. Play some pinball, catch up, shoot the shots because we haven't talked in a while. Alright, I've gone on way too long. David Dennis, love you bro. Thanks for all you do for the pinball community and happy Foggers Day.
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    Alright, is this getting lame? It's probably getting lame. I'm just calling people saying the same thing. I'm sorry guys. I'll just read these out loud very quickly. Tom of Fox City's Pinball. I don't even know Tom well enough to leave a random voicemail since I've maybe said happy birthday to him on Facebook five or six times and talked to him in the chat. I mean, I've talked to him in the chat for Fox City's Pinball a lot, but I'm not going to leave him a message. But shout out to Tom, of course. His son is even better than him. What is his name? Shout out to Aaron of Fast Pinball, of course. I know he was talking about having his son's something team over it all play pinball. That's how I remembered. He's a dad. Oh my God, I have to call Glenn. I have to. If I call no one else, Christopher Franchi, I love you, bro. I, you know, I got to bring up the Franchi thing. I got to. I got to bring it up. I love you, Franchi. But Franchi, you're also a dad. So let me first, before I say anything bad about Franchi, let me just say that, Franchi, I do love you. I love you like a strange, weird uncle, I guess, kind of thing. That's how I kind of always thought of you. But like the strange, weird uncle I want to hang out with, I want to give a big hug to, I want to give a high five to, I want to, you know, you're one of the very few content creators. Myself, Rachel Risto, and you are the only three content creators even left from the Poor Man's Pinball tribe. I think Jay Hall does a little bit of stuff. Cause does some stuff. People know Cause, of course. But like Ian and Drew, we don't hear from much anymore. And then Tim the Lion Man Lee, we don't get to hear from much anymore either. But Glenn the Skateboarder we hear from. So there you go. There's another tribe member we still hear from. So anyways, Christopher Franchi, I love you, bro. If you ever want to be on the show in the future, you can be on the show in the future. I'm going to talk about that in a second, but I've got to just say Glenn. Glenn will probably like write back right away unless he's like sleeping or something. Oh, it's Glenn's birthday in three days. Everybody listening, make sure you message Glenn and say, hey, Orbeez told me to. No, you don't have to say that. It would be funny though. Send him a voicemail. Send Glenn a voicemail for his birthday. Let's see how many people send Glenn a voicemail. It's very easy. Probably half of you listening right now are part of the, Glenn has like 2,000 friends on Facebook and like 1,999 of them are like, one of them is his dry cleaner and the other 1,999 are all pinball nerds. He's like maxed out as pinball nerds, right? So half of you listening right now can just go on there, open Messenger, click on Glenn, click on the message button in the bottom left-hand corner. It looks like a little microphone and you press it like I'm about to press it now.
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    Glenn, what's up my nerd? I'm sorry I haven't got to talk to you as much as I would have loved to recently. You are definitely the one pinball person I feel bad that we haven't got to chat very much in the last, I would say, four months. But don't worry, I got fired from my job. Woo! Sort of good, sort of bad. But anyways, I didn't get fired so much as I didn't get my required four of seven votes from the board to return. Because I was on a month-to-month term basically until I hit six months, at which point they have to give you a good reason for firing you. But anyways, the intern they hired took over my job. I don't know why I'm telling you all this. The nerds already know that. I've ran way too long on this podcast, and I'm sorry, Glenn. But I love you, bro. I wanted to call and say happy Father's Day. I hope your daughter, I think it's Bryn, is playing baseball or slow pitch. I forget what it's called. Windmill. It's not softball. It's slow pitch, I believe. Not baseball. It's a form of baseball. A type of baseball. And she's doing very well. She's in university or college there. and then I think your son is playing tennis? I could be wrong about that one. But shout out to you and all your kids and your family and thanks so much for everything you do for pinball and wow dude. Like I am mostly calling content creators to thank them so much for how much joy, pleasure, entertainment they give me just to, you know, when I'm out here by myself cutting the lawn on the John Deere. Like right now it's raining so much I'm having to cut the lawn like every four days. You know how boring it would be just driving around listening to this? Just watching grass grow. Literally watching grass grow. Instead, I get to watch grass grow while listening to Glenn sing awesome songs at the start of the pinball roundtable. Or at, today you're not on today's show because this is the Oliver Tree Show. Glenn, I don't know if you like Oliver Tree, but bad news, spoiler alert, he's no longer with us. You probably know that if you did like him. But if not, Glenn, go check out Oliver Tree. I don't think you'd hate him. Anyways, I'm sure you've heard of him probably. You're very, very musically gifted. And Glenn, I'll just say this. I don't want to give anything away, but I'm excited to see which music projects, if any, that you work on next, whether it's a homebrew or not. I can't wait to see it. Love you, bro. Take it easy. Let's try to stay in contact a little bit.
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    Gown, gown, gown. Oh my gosh. Okay. I'm not writing anybody else, but I did have on here to, I would like to say to my fathers, Kirk and Ian, my dad and my stepdad, happy Father's Day. I've had some differences with both of you, but like I don't hold any begrudged whatever. I'm just very, very, very excited that you're both doing well and you're living large. I did want to save two things. A little bit of a mini Transformers rant for the end. And then I did want to talk about the Franchi situation. Then I'm going to let you all go. We're getting very closer. I'm probably way past my time. Oh my God. I'm at an hour and 22 minutes. What a loser. What a freaking loser. Major loser walk on. All right. So do you guys remember Matthew McConaughey in Dazed and Confused? And he rolls up. And man, there is a lot of it. This is pinball adjacent. There is a lot of pinball machines, really gorgeous, beautiful, well-maintained pinball machines. These EMs are sparkling. Okay. In the late 70s or whatever it was, Dazed and Confused, I think it's mid-70s, late, early 70s, late. I don't know. Sometime in the 70s. Okay. It was a wild child hippie time. That's what it was. And basically if someone was going to give you a ride somewhere, it was kind of expected that you hooked them up with either grass or the word that rhymes with that, that you have, why can't I even say that word anymore? What's wrong with me? Guys, I used to swear like a drunken sailor and now sober as a cat, I couldn't swear if I wanted to. A couple of beers, I mean, it comes all back. But yeah, so anyways, Matthew McConaughey is very much so into women. And when a younger man, the main protagonist in the movie, don't remember his thing, he gets in the car. Matthew McConaughey says, you probably all remember, hey man, you got a joint? And the kid goes, no man, not right now. And then he goes, be a lot cooler if you did. And that is exactly what I think about the Optimus Prime. Does the MF-er have to transform? Well, kind of. It's called Transformers. And Jamie said the same thing I said. It was so funny because he kept saying it with poor Elizabeth Gieske in the chat there. Now, I can understand why Optimus Prime not moving is even more annoying in the pro because at least in the premium in the LE, you've got Soundwave freaking boo, boo, boo, boo. You know what? I couldn't figure out what Soundwave reminded me of. Soundwave reminds me of Yoshi. No, yeah, and Super Mario 2, the weird Japanese one that ended up coming out in America. But that's another story. In Super Mario 2, he shoots, like Yoshi at the end of each level, shoots those eggs out of his mouth at you and goes, poof, poof. You know what I mean? You guys can probably visualize it right now, right? That's what Soundwave reminds me of. But he's like turbo shooting them. They're coming out of his cassette, not his mouth. But anyways, Jamie was playing the pro at Eureka Heights during his live stream and he kept being like, but the Transformer, we knew Optimus Prime transformed. If he just transformed, it could be like the pro could be, it's like Pinocchio, you could be a real boy, said Geppetto. You know what I mean? Like he's this close to being a real pinball machine. You got Gieski doing the code, and yes, that was, I believe, the real Gieski in code, like at Gieski is like, that's her Twitch name, and YouTube, I believe. Unless it's someone pretending to be her, but it was, she was super knowledgeable about all the rules in every live stream, so I'm 99% sure it's her. She was also in the Flippin' Out stream and they were talking to her with Joel and Jared. So, oh my God, by the way, Jared did the Flippin' Out stream by himself the other day. And can I just say this? He did better than I thought he might do. Because without Joel there talking 90% of the time, Jared actually has to kind of step it up. And he did a great job. He did really good. And Joel, this is no beef against you, believe me, I've been in live streams where I talked more than 90% of the time. People are like, could you just shut up? Could your show just be freaking done? You're, oh, I was born a rambling man.
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    Pretty good, how's it going with you? Say, man, you got a joint? Uh, no, not on me, man. It'd be a lot cooler if you did. Kind of creepy laugh at the end, especially when you're talking to like a younger dude, but whatever. It'd be a lot cooler if you did. That's every single time I see someone bash Optimus Prime in every live stream. I just hear Matthew McConaughey. Okay, it's fine that Shark doesn't eat ball because we didn't see videos of Shark eat ball. Okay, we didn't lose Shark eat ball so you could add, you got the touch. What a stupid song. I would rather listen to Gangman Style. I'd rather listen to What Does a Fox Say. My ears would bleed and I'd still, if you told me I had to listen to What Does a Fox Say for the rest of my life on repeat, the highest possible volume, and said, but you'll never have to listen to You've Got the Touch, I would make the trade. I would make the trade and get my tinnitus even worse and go insane. That song is so tacky. It's so horrible. I don't know who wrote it. I feel like AI had to have written it then gone back in time because that's how disgusting and stupid and it's also like perverty and creepy and weird. I don't know. It's just I don't like it. And I don't like that they put it in the machine and I really don't like that there's a tiny chance that because someone pushed really really hard to get a horrible song in a great game that now it's possible that could be the reason why we couldn't figure out how to make Optimus Prime transform. Transform? 99% of Pinball nerds on planet Earth would say, hmm, on one side of the scales, Optimus Prime transforming in an Optimus Prime Transformers machine, or listening to You Got the Touch, which clearly wasn't in the original show, so we're not nostalgic for it, was only in the movies 20 years later, and the movies were meh. I mean, okay, they're fine, but that's not the vibe. You can't put up... Anyways, hopefully that didn't happen. And hopefully they just added you got the touch at the last minute because they're morons and want to see people's ears bleed. And at the same time, for a different, altogether different reason, having nothing to do with Bomb, they thought it'd be smarter to not have Optimus Prime transform. This is worse than Shark Doesn't Eat Ball. This is way worse than that. Let's be honest. And Stern, I love you. I hope I don't get disinvited in the future because of me just being open and honest. But I'm saying this because I love you. Do not let content creators change your mind. If you have it that you want the transformer to transform, use your amazing engineers like Elliot Eisman. You've done way more impressive stuff than making a transformer, a six inch transformer just slightly go up and down. You've done way, way, way more impressive stuff than that in even the 80s and 90s. Back before you were even called Stern Pinball. Do you know what I'm saying? Like you did way better stuff than this for years and years and years. Making one thing, having one moving toy in a pro is a must. You have to have one toy that interacts with the ball in the pro. You have to and you don't. And I think Transformers is really, really, really, I don't think Transformers will have a long tail just no matter how good the code is. Right? Because I think it's still missing the je ne sais quoi we'd say here. Okay? 30 minutes away from the only bilingual province in all Canada. That's what we'd say. Listen, does Optimus Prime have to transform?
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    No! He doesn't have to transform! Say, man. But, if he did, it would be... It'd be a lot cooler if you did. Now every time you see a Transformers live stream and every time you go to play it, if you're playing the pro, or it doesn't even matter, the pro exaggerates it even more, but every time you're playing it and you bash Optimus Prime, you're going to hear in your head either, be a lot cooler if you did, when talking about him transform, or you're going to hear, you got the touch! And every time you hear that stupid song, you're going to go, oh my God, is this dumb song and how much this song cost to get put in last minute? Is that potentially the reason why last minute at the exact same time they made it so Optimus Prime? Think about it. It all happened at the same time. It's starting to make sense. Does it make sense? Probably not. But possibly, yes. And that's why it's wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, the conspiracy. All right, I've gone on way too long. Oliver Tree is going to sing us out, but I got to talk about this Franchi situation. It's very, very, very serious. And some of y'all have sat, probably Franchi, if he even still listens to one in a hundred of my episodes, is like, oh my god, what is Orbel Albert talking about? Just, today, Junior, spit it out already, bro. Okay, I'll spit it out. But for Father's Day, my son and I played an epic game of tennis today and the set ended up 5-7. For the first time ever, this 17-year-old beat his 46-year-old, soon to be 46-year-old, next month by the way. July 30th, same birthday as Harry Potter, him and I, within a day. But no, good old Harry Potter and I are very close on birthdays. We both have a scar. And you know, if you've seen me play pinball, you'd probably say I'm a little magical with the flippers. That's what she said. All right. So, uh, Franchi, I'm really sorry, but I came home and we had been gone longer than we'd like to be. And I'm sure Franchi was very, very excited to see his mom. But when I put Franchi on his leash and opened the front door, he ran so hard towards Danielle, who was grabbing some groceries out of the trunk, that he made me trip and fall in the grass onto the ground in my knees. And I either sprained or strained something in my right ankle. And it really, really hurt me. Draco Franchi, I know you're over there sleeping. I love you, sir. You're my favorite dog. Don't tell Lunatuna, Elowen Agar. You're like my favorite dog. Don't tell Elowen that I love Franchi more, okay? But Franchi and I, we've grown really close. She's getting a bit older. She's a little past mid-age. Elowen doesn't come hang out with me and play with me as much. This man will throw a Frisbee back and forth with me until my arm is sore. And that takes a long time. Like I'm an endurance athlete. Come on. Or at least I used to be. Semi-retired endurance athlete. Give me a break. I've done over 200 endurance events. Anyways, that is neither here nor there. Everybody, I've been way too long. And guys, if you thought I was going to call out Christopher Franchi on this show, you've got another thing coming because I want to have him on the show. In fact, I invited Franchi on the show after Beetlejuice. He wasn't able to come. Then I invited him on the show around the time of TPF. He wasn't on the show, but he did say, oh Albert, you didn't invite me on the Christmas show. I wanted to be on the Christmas show. And I said, well I didn't know you wanted to be on the Christmas show. You hadn't came on the show for a while before that. I'll invite you in the future. So he said after TPF he was hoping to come on and since then I haven't heard from him, which is totally cool. I haven't been bugging him much. He hasn't responded. So it's fine. Listen, if I invite you on the show and you don't end up coming on the show, no harm, no foul. I promise you I won't lose a wink of sleep. What I will lose a wink of sleep from is I was starting to run to train for a 5K and I now probably can't run for a week or two because my old ass has a sprained freaking ankle because Franchi freaking turbo sprinted towards his mama because he's a mama's boy. I get it. My wife's pretty cool. Okay. She's pretty awesome. I run towards her like that too. When she comes home from work and I missed her all day, I sprint towards her just like that. The difference is I don't have a leash on and I'm not going to hurt my owner because she is my owner and she doesn't put the leash on until later. All right. I don't know where that came from. That was totally just a joke. That's not true. This is a comedy podcast. All right. So I said that some bad stuff happened and some good stuff happened. I'm going to go into the good stuff on another show. I'm going to let you nerds go. She's got to get into bed. I'm probably already in trouble. I need to go have another Diet Koda because I'm very parched because I sweated so much. I had an awesome Father's Day. I got to go out for a nice lunch with the fam. I got to talk to my son. I got to call my dad. I hope that all you fathers out there, you rad dads, you pinball nerd fathers out there, go play more pinball with your kids. Play the machines that they want to play. If they want to try tournaments, introduce it to them. And if they don't love tournaments, that's okay too. Help them get into pinball in their own way. You know what I did? I'll tell you this one little, because it is Fajrish Day, I've said this tip like 20 times, but dads, Dr. Joy Brown, who I used to listen to all the time as a driving instructor when I was sitting in a car 14 to 16 hours a day, many times half an hour, 45 minutes between students as I'm driving across the 10th largest town in Canada, shout out to London, Ontario, the poorest city. I would always have to listen to talk radio because if you're in the car 14 hours a day, you get sick of radio radio or even if you have 100 CDs, you get sick of it, right? So I was listening to Dr. Joy Brown and she would tell parents left, right and center, bribe your kids, bribe your kids. And I'm a big fan of this. If you want your kid to do something, just bribe them. So I would say to my sons, I'd say, hey, I'm going to have a three strikes pinball tournament tonight. If you want to play in the pinball tournament with us, I know you were maybe going to make plans to do this or go to the gym or something. But if you stay and play the pinball tournament, I'll just say you don't have to do your loaded dishes until tomorrow. Or I'll do them for you tomorrow. And they'll go, okay. So like, I don't think you're being a bad parent. Don't be like, oh, I'll give you $100 for every game. Like, yeah, no, be reasonable. Oh, you really wanted a ride Friday night, really late at night? Okay, sure. How about this? Saturday morning when we go to the record shop, can we pop by an arcade and just play like 15 minutes of pinball, whatever games you want? You know what I mean? Like come up with a fair and equitable trade where you're going out of your way to do a favor for them that you don't necessarily have to do that you haven't already committed to do and be a rad dad that way or mom, parent, whoever, doesn't matter. Any type of parent figure, go be rad, go help them and just encourage them softly, gently to get into pinball. That's what I did with both my sons and they now both absolutely love pinball. In fact, my son Hayden had to compete against his own dad in the top two for the entire province. He finished second in the province in 2023, and Owen has been smoking me every time we go to play pinball recently, and I think if he comes next Saturday, there's a chance that he'll go to finals long before his pops does. By the way, shout out to Tom MacArthur. We got to go play at his house of the Fundy Flippers at Open 50, the 50th. Shout out to 50. We got to go play there and I did go to finals. I think I qualified second or no, I think I qualified third and then I ended up losing in the first round of finals but out of 20 people to get fifth is totally fine. Oh, I got 6th because I got almost a million points on... I got to play Pulp Fiction by the first time. Quick 20-second review. Love it. Like it more than I thought I would. Looks good. Plays fun.
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    It's slower and way more stop-and-go than I thought. You have to save the ball a lot more. It's definitely a harder shooter than I thought. That inline drop shot to the left to get in to lock the balls, that's harder than I thought. But when you do lock all three balls and after two balls are locked that like the suitcase of gold starts to turn and the light starts to come on, that is a pinball moment. That is for a dude who I don't really love Quentin Tarantino as much as I used to, but I certainly still love like Kill Bill and definitely Pulp Fiction. And for what it was, I think it is a really good machine. And I, unfortunately, the guy who won Provincials a year after me, Jaden, and is in first or second right now in the entire province, much younger dude than me and has better reflexes, way better flipper skills. He's overall just way better pinball than me. He went on to have a major comeback and end up beating my score, even though I blew it up on ball three and got almost, almost a million. He came back and got a million, beat me by like 20,000 or something silly. So anyway, shout out to him. He ended up getting fifth, and the winner was Doug Parsons. Doug Parsons. A lot of you guys who play in the Northeast will know Doug, of course, like Joe Lemire and the whole crowd at Pintastic. He's made it to finals in the Classics event, and I think even the main event there multiple times. Really good player, very consistent player. Shout out to Doug, who got first. And then June, who took me out, that was, of course, her house. She beat me on. Speaking of Jeff Teolis, the gentleman who did the call-outs for Legends of Valhalla, I believe. I got to the wizard mode and got like $110 million on Legends of a Hollow, which is a pretty sick score, I believe. A pretty decent score. The game before it, so I felt like I was being rude if in finals I didn't pick it. So I picked it in finals, but right after I picked it, Tom was like, June's got all the GCs and all the top scores on that machine. And I'm like, oh yeah, tell me now. It's almost like you want your wife to do well in the pinball tournament, Tom. No, I'm just kidding. But thanks to Tom for hosting number 50. Thanks for all the barbecue. Shout out, Alex was there. I got to give Alex one of my patrons some of his stuff. Enzo got his stuff. I still owe, I think, one or two people on Patreon. Lower level people that I said I would send some stuff to. But I think for the most part, everyone's got their stuff. Anyways, if you would like to join me on Patreon, I would really appreciate it and I super duper duper need the money now that I'm losing even my 20 hours a week at basically minimum wage, which was still like $400 a week, which is, you know, that's $1,600 a month my family's not going to have coming in with my son going to university and my other son moving home soon. That's going to be a ton of expenses getting all of his stuff back from the other end of the country, but we're working on it. We're doing well here. And remember, if I can get enough kicking on Patreon, sometimes it is the difference. I remember I was up to like $196 coming in on my Patreon. Canadian, Canadian, so about half that US or like 40% less. So like 120 American. But I told my wife if I got up to 200 Canadian between her income and the money I saved being a homesteader and running Angry Alpaca, I wouldn't have to go get a part-time job. But I had to go get a part-time job because I was never able to get it up to $200. I was one Patreon short. Well, right now I'm at $98, so I'm one Patreon away from it being $100, which would be awesome. But anyways, I am super late, and thank you for listening. And remember, everybody, if you don't like hour and 40-minute podcasts, then just pretend that you have two 50-minute podcasts or you have three 30-minute podcasts. Am I right? Am I right? I'm probably wrong. Guys, said it was going to be rusty first time back, but we've shaken off at least some of the rust. The next time it'll be slightly mildly better. I hopefully promise. Until next time, remember to eat, sleep, and breathe. Happy Father's Day, Rad Dads.