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#123 - I saw the light - The Classic Pinball Podcast

The Classic Pinball Podcast·podcast_episode·1h 15m·analyzed·Dec 31, 2024
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TL;DR

Year-end Classic Pinball Podcast reviews restorations, lighting tech, parts sourcing, and repair challenges.

Summary

George and Dave conclude their 2024 podcast season with a year-in-review episode, discussing restoration projects (Buck Rogers), lighting innovations (Constantino Mitchell LED replacements), parts sourcing challenges (chime boxes and target banks), and technical repair stories. The episode covers deep dives into pinball parts compatibility, a customer restoration narrative with emotional resonance, aftermarket LED lighting solutions, and troubleshooting experiences with vintage solid-state games, particularly issues with Mexican-made bridge rectifiers.

Key Claims

  • Bally and Stern solid-state target banks are similar but not swappable between manufacturers

    high confidence · Dave (co-host) directly answers George's question about part compatibility

  • Stern used cheaper pot metal in early solid-state games causing wear, while Bally used bushings that lasted longer

    high confidence · Dave explains material differences between manufacturers' target bank construction

  • Dead chime bars are a real problem in early solid-state games—minute cracks in metal develop that affect tone

    medium confidence · Dave describes this as part of his parts research deep dive

  • Constantino Mitchell (automotive engineer) produces LED glass 4447 replacements for Bally/Stern Space Station lighting that are 3-6x brighter with proper color matching

    high confidence · George (co-host) personally tested the product in his Mata Hari and Paragon games with positive results

  • Bridge rectifiers manufactured in Mexico from the early 1980s are now failing en masse in System 80 and Williams games

    high confidence · George extensively documented this issue during repair work, noting consistent failures and shortened lifespan

  • Buck Rogers machine's back glass was deemed 'too misogynistic' by its owner and donated to the Oddfellows club

    high confidence · George tells the story of Miriam's restoration project, including the history of how the machine was given away

  • David Humphrey (NNWC board designer/The Ace) offered free board reprogramming service for a defective System 80 Spider-Man board

    high confidence · George describes calling Humphrey on Sunday evening and receiving immediate assistance

  • Episode 115 (Pintastic coverage) was the show's best-performing episode of 2024, streaming 762% above average

    high confidence · George cites Spotify year-in-review analytics for the podcast

Notable Quotes

  • “They're not selling this thing. They're saying this thing is a problem.”

    George @ ~6:00 — Explains the dead chime bar concept—a manufacturing defect, not a feature, caused by metal fatigue

  • “The board is saying it needs reprogramming. Free of charge, send it to me, I'll reprogram it and send it back to you.”

    David Humphrey (The Ace) @ ~43:00 — Shows willingness of industry figures to help fellow collectors/repair people at no cost

  • “I can't believe the game looks as good as it does...considering it was in a basement.”

    George (reflecting on Miriam's Buck Rogers restoration) @ ~25:00 — Notes quality of restoration work despite severe environmental damage

  • “I'm on fire, I can fix, fix, fix.”

    George @ ~36:00 — Describes the satisfying experience of successful repair days

  • “Why have a fuse on the flipper board if it fails it should blow that fuse...but it blows the main fuse which is really bizarre.”

    George @ ~48:00 — Highlights unusual electrical circuit design flaw in vintage System 80 game

Entities

GeorgepersonDavepersonConstantino MitchellpersonDavid Humphrey (The Ace)personMiriampersonConstantino Mitchell LightingcompanyKanedapersonPinsideorganization

Signals

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    technology_signal: Constantino Mitchell developing LED replacements for vintage pinball lighting including glass 4447 elements (3-6x brightness) and new products (Yop Pop bumper lights, Yop Dot socket replacements)

    high · George personally tested products in Mata Hari and Paragon; products confirmed available on Pinside with active sales

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    product_concern: Mexican-manufactured bridge rectifiers from early 1980s failing en masse across System 80 and Williams games; systemic quality issue affecting multiple machines

    high · George documented multiple failures during repair work; noted consistent pattern across different game models and manufacturers

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    restoration_signal: Buck Rogers machine restoration completed for customer Miriam; significant work on back glass and main board alkaline damage; 2-year restoration timeline

    high · George details full story of machine discovery, condition assessment, and delivery with emotional customer narrative

  • ?

    community_signal: David Humphrey (NNWC designer) providing free board reprogramming service to repair community; exploring transition to full-time board repair work

    high · George describes personal experience calling Humphrey for emergency System 80 Spider-Man board support

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    supply_chain_signal: Challenges sourcing complete target banks for Bally games; aftermarket vendors (like 'Twenty Eyes') providing individual replacement parts at lower cost than factory solutions

    medium · Dave discusses sourcing efforts and identifies vendor for replacement target links; notes Marco Specialties only sells individual pieces not complete assemblies

Transcript

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0:00
Music We are rolling. Okay, here we go. Alright. Hello and welcome to the last show of 2024. It's the Classic Pinball Podcast and my name is George and his name is Dave. Hello. Really George? Hello George. Hello George. Take a breath. Well, we're coming up quick to 2025 and 2024 will be a distant memory. Nothing like cutting it short. Here it is Sunday, just before the next holiday. And as promised, this is the last show of 2024 for the Classic Pinball Podcast. It's time to trumpet. Let's go. All right.
1:22
Okay. I'm gonna do a quick review of our show this year. I promised 12 shows. This is our 12th show. We did seven shows on games. We did three show shows. So Allentown and
1:36
Pentastic We did an island show and then we did a mess Man, what was the mess? Ag mess Oh that mess yes Ag mess. Yes, I had a mess. Yes, dearly departed. Yeah. Oh, yeah, not so dearly
1:58
Okay, let's see. What else do I want to... I have a top ten list, but we'll save that for a little bit. I want to talk about you getting me going since our last podcast a little over two weeks ago. I call it Dave's Treasure Hunt. You spoke about chime boxes and targets and I went deep dive. I started looking through my boxes for parts. Okay, what'd you find? I found two chime boxes, one really nice, one not so nice. But did you know there's a such thing as a dead chime bar? Yes, I know what it is. You gave me a very funny look there. Yeah, dead chime bar would be when they first were making, some of them corrected, they first were making solid state games, they needed to have some kind of rumbling sound to sound like an EM so that people wouldn't get freaked out All right, that's a good one. Never heard of it before. I don't mean that never heard. You go. I get it. You get what I mean.

A parts vendor (referenced as 'Twenty Eyes') sells replacement target links for Bally games at $3 each

medium confidence · Dave mentions sourcing virgin/unused target links as replacement parts

  • Constantino Mitchell is developing new LED products including a 'Yop Pop' (two-sided LED bumper light) and 'Yop Dot' (backbox light socket replacement)

    medium confidence · George describes very new products shown on Pinside with minimal documentation or pictures yet

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    design_innovation: Back-to-back LED technology in Constantino Mitchell products eliminates circular halo artifacts from standard incandescent replacements while maintaining proper color temperature

    high · George reports significant visual improvement in Mata Hari and Paragon after installation; product uses automotive lighting engineering principles

  • ?

    operational_signal: Multi-game service appointments with selective scope management; repair technician triaging work based on complexity and success probability

    medium · George describes Woburn job with four games and managing expectations with customer about completion scope

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    content_signal: Classic Pinball Podcast episode 115 (Pintastic coverage) was 2024's best-performing episode at 762% above average streaming; overall audience churn despite 62 new audience gains

    high · George cites Spotify year-in-review analytics; discusses audience retention challenges

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    market_signal: Constantino Mitchell LED products gaining slow grassroots adoption on Pinside community; brand awareness building through word-of-mouth among regional repair specialists and collectors

    medium · George notes discovering product through Pinside; limited fanfare from broader community but positive reception from localized repair networks

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    personnel_signal: David Humphrey (NNWC board designer) planning retirement from primary employment to pursue full-time board repair service business; actively seeking work partnerships with other repair specialists

    medium · George mentions Humphrey exploring board repair as new business direction and seeking work referrals from established repair people

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    historical_signal: Documentation of material and manufacturing differences between pinball manufacturers (Bally bushing vs Stern pot metal; chime box construction; aluminum types) affecting longevity and restoration challenges

    high · Dave and George discuss detailed material specifications for different era manufacturers; informed by years of restoration work

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    design_philosophy: System 80 Spider-Man game design flaw where flipper board circuit bypasses its dedicated fuse and blows main fuse instead; raises questions about circuit architecture and protection design

    high · George extensively troubleshoots and documents the electrical path causing unexpected main fuse failure

    • 3:27
    I never heard of dead chime bar. Usually it's the grommets. Usually it's, you know, they're over tightened so the things just clink. You know, people don't sit there and agonize over what it should sound like. It takes a little while. So you're saying this is a problem. This is the metal itself. The metal develops cracks you can't see, minute cracks that affect the tone of the bar. Right, so you're saying this is a problem not a feature. They're not selling this thing. They're saying this thing is a problem. This is a problem, but this was part of my deep dive. I've been all over the internet looking at products. I mean you were saying well, you know you can go buy these chimebox things. Yeah, the one doesn't have a box, but they overcompensate with
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    Oh 199992007 $UST 29 The one wonder both of the ones I saw were from overseas they were so like I said one didn't have a box but it had really you know punchy coils in it to get those plungers going right and the other one had a box but it was wood well then you have to go back in time stern chime boxes from the mid seventies were made of wood for different tonality to them The Gottlieb and Sturt, no Gottlieb and Bally had plastic boxes. Right. The middle chimes. The Williams ones had the same thing, had plastic but they had like, they were very rattly because they put like metal on metal clips holding it down so it sounded like a rattle box. But they all sounded different. I would say the Bally EMs of the world, their chimes are made of a different kind of aluminum The sound of the material didn't sound that good in the early 70s like with Captain Fantastic and Bow and Arrow, but as they got into the solid state chimes like Blackjack and Mata Hari, they changed their chime materials so they're a lot more melodic. Their chimes were better quality when they made solid state ballets. Agreed. Anyway, I did the deep dive. Enough on that. So we can migrate to targets. Now, question one for you. Are bally and stern solid state from the same era? Are those target banks similar?
    6:26
    They are similar but not swappable So you cannot take a part from stern and put it on a bally and vice versa? Yeah, not not really. No. Okay, so that brings me to Marco So here's the next question. Why does Marco only note to everyone that dida service they don't even sell the whole box the whole target bank they fell like affront attack decide the peace and why isn't there a company that makes valley wants union of the all participate and or watch it more pieces so where the salvation of the battle in the disturbed of the one that markets occur story verd For old Stern SS, right? For classic Stern. So you need the one with the slots in it, you know, where... Oh, I know why. Where the links ride up in and whatever. Yup, yup, I know why. Don't go with that. I'll tell you exactly why. Because Stern was using El Cheapo pot metal back in the day, metal on metal, which would all round out and get really loosey goosey and Bally used niliners for bushing material so they would last I think you're missing my point. I guess my point is why isn't there another manufacturer out there making those parts available for ballet games?
    7:52
    So that's I'm saying ballets didn't wear out as much. Ballets didn't wear like the Sterns did. I'll give you that but you went into the whole thing. We're not gonna go through the target bank You know with the with the playfield and all so I have another question. So when did ballet change enecaWhat does that look like?, his Which is an equation that is the closest to the called prediction to think about coordination in our debate? which looks слов. gss баг..' In a shall we call it that?, chief revealed in stuff which will bring back to the satellite To everyone
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    우리는 Several The following is a copy of the original original version of the original game. I'm not seeing obviously right guard one looks like a hook one looks like a fish hook and the other one is just straight with another little piece on the end looks like a nipple almost Okay, and oh I see how those get like slots in them from banging into the bottom. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, and the other ones don't seem to wear out as much the reason I'm asking there's a guy who makes those replacement parts This Week in Pinball, Franchiariest I found those. You're saying the lift bar. The lift bar lifts the targets up. Not the bar itself. The link underneath. The link on both sides of that bar that lifted up? No, in the middle that raised the targets up. Raised the targets up. You have the bar across. There's links, one for each target. There's some on the old games, they're straight. On the newer games or the inline targets, they have like a little hook. Oh my God. Believe you don't know what I'm talking about. No, I'm not. I'm trying to say, are you talking about the plastic target? Are you talking about the metal piece? They're thin. There's five of them on a five bank. There's three of them on a three bank. Oh, my God. I'm going to have to go get one. Oh, I know you're talking about. I know now. Yeah, you're talking about the part of the link.
    9:53
    Oh, is it called officially called a link? That's what it was called a link. OK, so target. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I know you're saying so it goes up in the back. They're not. Theyre' just. Yeah, theyre' just. There. Okay退 Cord Card, wutcha down a corner. There they are... Go ahead There they are, uh, those dandas are roasted Thai Vedanu normal Kungfu제낀 Uh, those ... Yeah You take a bite, put the chicken in, there you go You're banging the top of the slot all the time bang bang bang yeah and what I do with those for that reason I don't I don't know maybe but I know what I do is I'll actually take on either side of that drop target bank with a with the coil is like lifting it all up those same assembly the same little parts talk about the hook on them those are virgin they haven't been used at all I take those put them in with the other one right but what I'm telling you flip it around The 20 eyes, I think is the name of the company if you want to know it. What does he want a piece for him? three bucks Okay No, he's making money. But again, is that the stupid chat? You can hear him?
    11:21
    I know he's at the door saying let me in let me in. Okay, we're already going off the rails, but I have okay So so that's pretty much it with the targets. I found some target banks new Chechle Takiević, Tround, and Darryl ευ πκι Proteint sexually ευ suas Kitchen es 2022 Оhc vídeos εύ στηνkim And ευ moderator ευ Scale ευXi ευ Vault ευüd ευוף ευ ultrasound ευワρα enk
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    ευ המים ευ Maurice ευması Let's go with... What do you think? Should I do the Buck Rogers? Okay, we'll do the Buck Rogers. Since the BuckRogers is kind of relevant to the last show we had, I'll do the old circle back around and finish that one up. So, the BuckRogers we talked about last show, restored it, blah blah blah, we played a little bit and showed that whole thing. So I'm going to give you the rest of the story on that one. The client's name is Miriam. When her three boys were very young in Vermont, where they all lived, she picked up a working Buck Rogers, local owner, as there was nothing to do where they lived. The boys and their friends played it constantly. When the boys got older, they moved on to college. Miriam and her husband had a friend that wanted the game, so they gave it to him. Fast forward many years later, Miriam and her husband moved to Orleans, Cape Cod, where she opened up a dermatology office. Across the street, they noticed an Oddfellows club. She and her husband went to the Oddfellas to see about joining and they gave a tour. And she saw one of the members there playing a pinball machine in the corner and she said, hey I know that game. She went over to inspect it and saw the familiar markings on it that identified it as the exact game she owned many years before. Weird, right? Do you know the rest of the story about how it got there? I do. Yeah. Go ahead. She asked them where they got it. Come to find out it was donated to the Odd Fellows by the same friend that they gave it to years earlier as he came to believe that the back glass was too misogynistic for him to keep any longer. Which she thought was kind of weird. It's like, nothing wrong with that back glass. It's a celebration of a woman. It's like, yeah, that's what I say too. But he thought there was, you know, something wrong with it. So she told the Odd Fellows if they ever want to sell it, she'd buy it for them. The game is hers as she still wanted it. She had to come and get it. So she went into the creepy basement down the cobweb filled cement staircase in the dark and there it was calling out to her, save me. She told the fellow she didn't know how she was going to get it out of their basement and needed time to figure it out. On December 23rd of 2022, the same day she would eventually get it back in pristine condition from Maureen and I two years later, they said, it is now in our shed and needs to be picked up as soon as possible. She called us four days later on the 27th of that year and we happened to be in the Cape and told her we would be right over. We looked at the game, saw the count was nice, playfield was decent, but the back loss was very flake, lots of paint loss, and the main board suffered alkaline damage. Gave a restoration quote for it, load it up in the back of her SUV and go back to her shop. She couldn't believe you fit it in the SUV. I can't believe the game looks as good as it does. Yeah, thanks. You're considering it was in a basement. First of all, how many basements are in Orlean out in Cape Cod? Can't be many. I mean, was it like a usable basement or more like a hurricane cellar or something like that? Well, it was a creepy hurricane cellar. You know, an Oddfellas Club is probably old. It's sort of like a Masonic hall kind of thing, you know? So I don't know. It was down in the Cobwebfield basement, kind of creepy. St veut no instrew Wednesday de del acord darüber扉가 So fast forward to game delivery day. They were so excited to have the game set up as Miriam's husband has some health issues that playing the game may help with his issues, hand-eye coordination and all that stuff. And as well as she wanted to surprise her boys now that are grown when they come to visit as she's planning a special day to have her sons and their friends from college over. They all played it back way back when. That's a good mom. That's a real good mom. Isn't it? Isn't she? John Popadiuk, geenütgn 다니y génér technology and This week in the game, we will be talking about the game's history. It is quite a day of fun-filled memories all the way around. There you go. Alexa, be quiet. Oh, I don't have an Alexa. That's right. Okay. So, if you, I can briefly give you a quick little fireside theater hit, so to speak, just to get a little taste of what this stuff is. You've heard of fire scent theater before? Yes. I think we've talked about it before. But there's a quick little thing. I'm just going to play a little bit here and see what this sounds like here. You're going fabulous academy awards celebration. We will skip the renaissance of your tribe to the very citadel of power. The dogs you'll name will win the attractive crown. You'll introduce yourself to important people who may be able to help your tribe back home. You'll step backstage to snort cocaine with a well-known entertainment person. That's a seven. Well then, Skipper, you know what? You know what you're gonna do? No. You're gonna make a speech! Me? It's your chance to lift your people out of bondage as you brandish a real double-O-gauge shotgun by bang of Brentworth's. Skipper you address the glimmering crowd of stars like an equal That a gun And you hold the nation spellbound with these string words Eat flaming death fascist media pigs Yes sirree you hold all of Hollywood for ransom Skipper It's on. Fantastic.
    19:01
    Okay. How's that? Hey, uh, yeah, I did, yeah. He memorizes that, George. Pardon me? I had that memorized from way back when when I heard it years ago. I can recite that. Okay, an upcoming show, I'd like to hear that. Okay. Okay, you want another Dr. Dave for you? Sure. Okay. We're back on games. So with all that said earlier, I've been, I'm going to call it macular degeneration. Is that the right phrase? You know when your eyes start not working as well as they used to. Yeah, oh yeah. They used to be a lot brighter than they normally are. Yes. Maybe not, not, you know, stern bright, you know, so your eyeballs, you know, come out of your head. But I found this product. It's actually made in New Hampshire. It's called Mitchell Lighting. You heard of this? No. Uh-uh. This guy's an automotive lighting engineer. Okay. And he's developed a glass 4447 replacement that's LED that's the right color of valley or stern SS lighting. Okay. But instead of the light going up, he's got back to back LEDs and they go to the The So if you have a playfield on an old SS and it might not be so bright like my
    20:50
    Mata Hari tends to be dark These things are he makes them in three time in six times Power Dave I've never seen plastics light up so nice and there's no circle lines band ed corr incandescent or interest okay Brown gli
    21:38
    But it looks really, they look really good. I put it in, I put it in the Mata Hari. Yeah. Man, that thing looked great. And then I put, I bought a bunch of them. They didn't buy enough. I'm going to buy some more. Put them in Paragon. Those plastics look, that game never looked better. Huh. So is he on Pinside or how's he selling? How'd you find him? Yeah, Pinside. Look up Mitchell, like George Mitchell. Yeah. The Mitchell lighting okay is he getting a fanfare from all the inside people they all of them i never heard of it before i just stumbled across it on inside your big threat though must be a big threat on it no not really no some p.m. people some people in new hampshire that i know problem in their games so i think he's kinda doing a slow roll you know kinda feel it out and uh... i don't know i like them Tell you what, shoot me a couple pictures of what you're talking about in your games so I can kind of get an idea. Let's put it this way. I'm going to send you a picture of my paragon and my hotdog right next to each other. Okay. It's crazy the difference in the look and feel of the game. Okay. I'll try to get it all in one picture if I can, but if not, I'll take them both with the same lighting and you can take a look. So you're using it all for, of course, GI lighting, not for feature lamps because it doesn't make sense to, it's not flashing. Correct. Okay. Correct. It's going out. Okay. So that's one of my lighting things. So now you know what yopsicles are, right? Yes. You know those blades with the LED. So he's coming out with two new things. Okay. He's coming out with a yop pop. Okay. He's going to make a two-sided LED for pop bumpers up and down. I like that. With wires on it. This Week in Pinball, Franchi enthalparticiperson, John Papadiuk, Black Water, Knapparcade.
    23:41
    This Week in Pinball, FranchiTylerparticiperson, John Popadiuk, Tanyo Klyce, tilt bobexhales Well, the other way to do it is you change all the sockets out or you fix the sockets and put the bulbs in. If I'm going to do that, I'm going to do it with this and I'm never ever going to do it again.
    24:03
    So what this guy's website, if I was his website, what I would do to sell these, I'd have like ice cream truck music in the background when you click on it, like a yopsicle. Come get your yopsicle ice cream truck.
    24:15
    Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. He's got another product called a Yop Dot. Now I don't think I would ever use this but he was showing them in backboxes where he basically clips the old you know light socket out and puts these things in and I guess I guess it's easier than putting those stick things on there I don't know he didn't these are brand new it's like a week old I saw it out on pin side no pictures nothing else yet couple of pictures but nothing really great so Coming attractions, I guess. Now these obstacles, are they bright white daylight stuff? Or yeah, I bought a couple. I think I bought bootlegs though. I think I bought them from what's his name? Your one of your vendors pinball life. Oh, yeah, yeah, they're a buck a piece. I bought five of them. There's places I would use them. But this lighting guy, Mitchell, who's the automotive guy, he seems to have the This Week in Pinball, Franchi), Proudly, John Papadiuk, Black Water, Kaneda's Pinball Podcast, Twippies Awards, transliteelectronic franticl This Week in Pinball, Franchi), Proudly, John Popadiuk, Tanyo Klyce, tilt bob eyebr 38
    26:04
    38 The next show. Janice had some piece of equipment at the car wash pierce her rear view, her rear lighting, you know, next to the hatch. Yeah. You know, that's that light that goes all up the whole frickin' side and around. Oh, like on a Volvo, it goes up the side. Right, on her Volvo, on her Volvo, I'm sorry. You know she's got a Volvo, but the audience doesn't. Right, well, typically, Volvo started with that, the whole long thing on the left side. What do you think it's going to cost to get that repaired? So it's just the one side? Just the one side. One side. I'm going to say, so it broke the plastic there. Oh, it's done. I put some plastic over it so water wouldn't get in there. Well, I know the front headlight's in that car because they move with the steering wheel. It was around three grand for the front, a piece for the front headlights, something like that. So I'm saying the back is going to be, you know, 1200 bucks. I'll go double.
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    2500. No, it does not. With the with the labor and all that. Yeah, I started looking at it. And I'm like, OK, where are all the hardware for this? And it's all buried in all the roofing and side panels. Wow. This is going to be Chinese. Oh, you're not allowed to say that anyway. If you can hear trying to do it here. You're just all puzzle. I mean, it's going to be a nightmare. Anyway, I digress. So you have another story. Yeah, we can, let's see, we got eight minutes remaining on this thing here. So should I do that one? I got some text stories. Or I could do the other one there. All right, I'll do the tech stories. All right, so I've got a couple of tech stories here. I had a guy in Woburn, had four games to work on, and I said, well, usually it's one game per day, it takes me all day to work on a game. He says, oh, no, no, I work on my own games, so I just need a couple things here in these games, and so I talked to him and said, okay, well, just so you know, I'm not married to each one of these games, so I can't hit everything I want to hit on the games, just so you know. So he's totally cool with it, we agreed. No worries. So, I worked on a Bally Mystic with a switch matrix issue, fixed that, there was a wire that was off causing that problem. Stellar Wars system... Do you like that game? No, I liked it back in the day. I don't like it now. I actually owned one a couple years ago. I bought it from Canada years ago. Got it home and I don't know, there's too much occult crap in that game for me these days. You don't like the eyeball? I like the whole eyeball thing and the whole, all that stuff. It's kind of creepy. You're kind of creepy. Sorry Grant. It's creepy for me. Yeah. But I did like it back in the day when I was a kid I liked it. Stellar Wars System 6 Williams, coil fuse constantly blowing. I think, I forget what happened but basically he had a, I think blew a fuse, I think the diode went bad, he put a new coil in, he put the coil in backwards, it kept blowing a fuse, I had to put the coil in the right way and put a new diode in so that was all set. And then he had another game which I forget, some of the System MixedTix games. But I was like going through, I was like bang, bang. Some days I can hit things, get things fixed and it's like wow, I'm on fire, I can fix, fix, fix. Then what happened? One of those days. Then I came up to the godly System 80 Spider-Man and said well, since you got all that done, do you want to try the Spider-Man? It's like yeah, why not? I've had a good success this year, let's see if I can do the Spider-Man that doesn't have a Pascal on it, it has who knows what's in the game. Oh. So who knows so doing some weird things it turned on didn't quite work right it would go right to tilt all the time you turn it on so I looked at the I looked at all the tilt stuff in the game it was all normal um I looked at the boards all the boards were you know sort of modern boards I think there was a rotten dog power supply I think there was some other driver board that was modern and it had a knee wumpf board in a knee wumpf system 80 board in it so I said okay then I started looking up online while I was there and seeing about knee wumps, trying to troubleshoot it because it was giving me some kind of error code. I couldn't get rid of it. I was trying all those different stuff I was reading about to try to clear it. It wouldn't clear. I couldn't find any mechanical problem with it why I was doing it. So I was like, you know what? I think it was a Sunday. I think it was a Sunday at like around 6 o'clock at night. So let me just look up because I know David Humphrey, the guy. He's called Ace. He's the guy who made knee wump. And I know I've talked to him many times at the shows years ago. Knappar is also a friend of John Day, he knows him as well. So I said, I got his phone number, I'll call him up, see if he picks up the phone. And he did, he picked the phone up. He said, hey, go on your boards here. Oh, what's it doing, what's the error code? And I told him, I said, oh, okay, well that's, the board is saying it has some kind of, it needs reprogramming. So I tell you what, free of charge, send it to me, I'll reprogram it and send it back to you. It's like, wow, nice, I told the guy, well, you're all set, my buddy Dave here is going to send it to him. This Week in Pinball, Franchi),Finalist John Papadiuk, Black Water, Kaneda's Pinball Podcast, Twippies Awards, transliteelectronicartwork panel in backbox that is backlit during playelectronicarrenate.com.
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    I was in the game and I was playing with a power cord. It also blew the main fuse. I was like, okay, maybe something's shorted. So I placed the power cord, the brand new one, put a new fuse in there, boom, blew again. Then I said, okay, I've got to troubleshoot this thing. So I unplugged everything from the transformer, put a new fuse in, tried again, didn't blow. Then I started adding things in one by one to see what's going to blow this fuse again, the main fuse. And finally, what blew it was plugging in the flipper. There's a flipper board in the game. The power of flippers, I think 28 volt circuit I think, has a bridge rectifier on it and that was blowing main fuse. And the weird thing is on the flipper board has its own fuse, that didn't blow but it blows the main fuse which is like why have a fuse on the flipper board that if it fails it should blow that fuse. So it's really bizarre. So it bypassed the fuse that you would think would blow and went to the primary. The primary main fuse of the whole game. Right. Bizarre. That's weird. It's very weird. You know, I was a little bit, you know, I was a little bit confused. I mean, I was really confused. It was pretty weird. Was it under, was it overfused? Nope. You know, the regular fuse was in there. It was like a one amp slow blow. It was in there. So, I looked at it and I saw like a bunch of, you know, cracks, solder joints and I fixed all those. And then I tested the bridge and yep, one leg of the bridge was shorted. And again, it was one of these made in Mexico bridge rectifiers that I keep playing with. You're having a field day with that. With Mexican? You keep saying that. Like, every time we talk, it's like. The sound is too loud. What did you say? I said with Mexicans.
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    No, the bridge rectifiers are made in Mexico. So, come to find out all these games from the early eighties they got, everybody kept buying these bridges made in Mexico and they all are having problems now. So, System 80 games with them. They're shorting out, having problems. They're not working. Now Williams games, I'm having problems with them. So I looked at my stash of stuff I brought with me. It's like, I don't have an extra bridge rectifier. Where the heck is it? I finally found one last spot I looked in my tool bag. Wow, it was one extra bridge rectifier I stashed in there in case I remember. It was a Mexican one. No, it was not. It was a good old made in America one. Yeah, right. George. So uh... So I put that in there, wired it in there, powered it up, good to go. I did it, well I had a MacGyver because it had spade lugs instead of uh... regular uh... Oh you didn't put wires on it and connect it to the... No, no, no, no, I didn't do that hack. I was thinking of doing that hack but no I didn't do that. No I didn't want to do that, no that's too hacky. What I did do instead is I basically Left the wires going to the bridge rectifier on the top of the board, cut them off like that, soldered the lugs onto the extra external wires that were there, so now it's sitting up high, getting enough air underneath it, and it looks factory. And it's perfect. So they're all good to go. So enough of these craptastic bridge rectifiers from Mexico from 1980. Junk. They're going to be thrown out. Hey, the board people are having a hay day. The board people? Yeah, I'm sure they are. Well, yeah, boards are crapping out, you know, because of the bridge rectifiers. If you don't know what you're doing, you go out and buy a new board. Yeah, exactly, exactly. And it's like the... Or they call you, or they do both. Right. I guess, and Ace Dave Humphrey wants to get into board repair now because I think he either, he's gonna retire from his job, what he does, so now he's looking to do board repair. So he's trying to ask other repair people around, hey, you got any extra work? The I'm six months out or a year out of work, but I don't give any to you He says why do you want to share the wealth one day, you know, if they can't get it done. Give me something
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    So I can't get the the Mexican rectifier out of my mind and it made me think about well And so I made a smarmy comment tribes by�eren S Україricht, Ditifer Durovas, Dintheyu Dawkkakvel, The more the so can it is up there yet another story well is canadian's number two now they're number two what is number three world canadians must be really happy with uh... with true or a now he just found them a really good new meat source he does i think nine billion dollars in ontario canada for making a cricket farm You know about that? **cricket sounds** Cricket farm for me to eat the bugs. Eat the bugs. You'll like it. Okay.
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    Okay. I have something else as far as stats. Humor me for a minute. So this was our Spotify year in review We have 31 more followers which means they you know subscribe to Spotify Okay We have 62 new audience I don really like that statistic Well does that mean we lost some and gained some or do we just gained overall Yes. That means we churned. Well, you know what? We probably had, we had some sound issues a couple of podcasts ago and we fixed them. It is subject matter. I, you know, I can't, you know what? I'm done trying to figure the audience out. I'm back to I don't care anymore. Good. You know why? I think our show isn't just... The public? Yeah, but also... No, so good listeners. Look, no, let's separate out. Yeah, separate, right. We have very dedicated listeners. Loyal ones. Loyal listeners. They listen. They bump it every week. Every time we put out an episode, they're there. So you know who you are, but it's the other part of our audience that is in this constant churn. So I don't get it, but hey, Dave, the other Dave, Dave of Pintastic, Dave's. Number 115 was our best episode. It streamed 762% above average. Wow. What was it? Pintastic, number 115. Oh, oh his, okay. Ours, our episode, 115. Yeah, wow. That was our biggest episode of the year. Wow. Okay, our biggest growth in the age brackets, 55 plus. Oh, big surprise there. What is a classic pinball podcast all, you know, there you go. Now, now listen closely and then I want your reaction. The top three types of music our audience likes. Okay. Protopunk. I have no idea what that is. Okay. Pop. And brass band. Oh, God. So here's what I thought of when I heard that. According to who? Who says this? According to who? According to someone who says this. Who says this? I was- According to Spotify. How do they know? They know. Anyway, it made me think. I'm like, you know what? That's Iggy Pop fronting a brass band. That's what our audience likes. Iggy Pop fronting a brass- okay, sure, sure. When they say Pop, what do they mean? They mean like today's pop? Yeah, like Taylor Swift, you know- That crap? No. What about yesterday's pop? Jr entrepreneurs I do let me let me tell you it be quiet in the segment yeah couple coming up when I get to you'll know be quiet yeah you'll you'll know the part I'll address you and you can buy it so but feel free to chime in here and there on this section of it is what there it is okay I never mind I never mind just move on okay all right nothing to see here all right so uh Another customer human interest story, very interesting story here. So a new client in Middleborough, Massachusetts bought a game for his wife for Christmas. It was a 2011 Stern Rollingstones. He had it shipped from a quick flip refurb place in Florida. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, refurb, restored, sure. I won't mention who the place is so you know so we can you know not flush people out who they should be flushed. It's a little bit of a stretch, but anyway. Are there any identifying characteristics of this company? Besides misleading ads. Misleading ads. You know. Okay, that fits quite a few people. And expensive. Guess how much she paid for this 2011 Quip Fruit reflux. $5,700. You would be low, George. $8,700. You're still low, George. You've got to be kidding me. No, I'm not kidding you. That's like my buddy. I reconnected with a buddy from Grappler. I'm not kidding you. That's like my buddy. I reconnected with a buddy from Grappler. That's like my buddy. I reconnected with a buddy from grammar school and we went through high school together and we played a lot of pinball. And he said to me, you know, oh, I'm looking at a Paragon. I was looking at a Paragon a number of years ago. I go, Jeff, how much? $5,500. I go, Jeff, I'll be there next time. It better be restored. It's not restored either. But anyway, continue. So, um, $9,000. Nine grand. You're insane. Yeah. For MickOnAStick. MickOnAStick. He should have gotten two pinballs for that price. Yeah, I know. Or at least have a really nicely restored one, maybe. Maybe. With a colored DMD and stuff in it, you know, maybe. But this wasn't the case. So this client's home was built in 1873 and he had his sons move it up to the third floor blanket and shrink wrap wrapped it all not with the legs on. No, cuz this got this got shipped. This got actually I will say the shipping they did on it was well done. They did it like Stern does it they put the the four legs along each corner of the game with the game tilted Up, head folded down and well done with the blanket Wrap and the shrink wrap. They did a good job on that. I'll give them that. So going up these stairs, there's a winding staircase. This place is old, 1873. They had like, you know, rounded walls going up the curved staircase going up three flights of stairs like that. degradationcolm What are the benefits of pinball connectivity? Recently players can get free pinball milliseconds and one for a hundred dollars, or a few dollars. Winêtes Win完全 Win&win This week we have a special guest from the Spooky house lots of character. Come to find out it was a custom built home for a celebrity of the time back in 1870. Now to what I find, now here's what I found about the quote unquote refurb game. No stern headlocking tool included, no locking assembly for the back. What's that? That's a little like an allen wrench thing, a special allen wrench they have for stern games. So instead of like a little like a linkage flip for Williams games and links and clicks down or older games with the bolts, these Stern games from the early 2000s had a and even I think even not today but back and for a long time, 10, 20 years of Stern, they use a special Allen wrench in the back of the game, turn it and it like turns this cam and locks the head to the top of the game. So that wasn't included for whatever reason. I was surprised at that. Let's see, so one target in the game was stuck closed, another one was misaligned, left flipper pole very loose, right flipper pole misadjusted, getting hung up, not coming back to rest properly, cheap black rubber everywhere as well as bluish white LEDs everywhere including the feature lamps which are flickering badly when in attract mode. We set the game up and offered to upgrade it a bit while there and the client agreed, because I know we already spent a lot of money on it, plus the time for us to install it was brink Corporation ado It's um, the ballet one's way better. The ballet Rollingstones way better game. You know. And these, and this couple was a little bit older so they probably would have liked, I betcha, a real classic. And for that money they could have got a ballet Rolling Stones restored for nine grand. And had money left over. Maybe. Yeah. Um, so now George if you'll indulge me, I'd like to put on my Paul Harvey hat and give you the rest. Of the pinball story. When Charlie Stratton was born in 1838, he was a large baby, perfect in every way, but then he stopped growing. At age four, though a happy and mischievous child, he was just over two feet tall and weighed only 15 pounds, the exact same size he had been as a seven-month-old baby. As a preschooler, Charlie embraced his size, reveling in the attention he attracted in making friends all over town. His reputation landed him on the radar of a promoter with dollar signs in his eyes convinced Charlie's parents to bring the boy to New York City for a four-week display at his museum. From his first performance, Charlie's career took off, even performing for Queen Victoria several times and being the first media celebrity to ride the intercontinental railway circumnavigating the world. The world. A natural performer, Charlie became enormously popular and wealthy more so than any other performer before him although the promoter lied about Charlie's age to sell tickets. You may know Charlie by the stage name his promoter P.T. Barnum gave him Tom or better known for his full name General Tom Thumb. You know who he was? Yeah. Okay, so this is his house. His house, this is Tom Thumb's house. Let's try movie bullshit. habit. Into prison The backcountry I'm from dr. The He died in the bedroom they use today. He died in the bed there. Ooh, that's creepy drunk He drew he died of alcoholism which also heart failure, but that's what he was out You have to go to the fourth floor to get to his room. Did he?
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    No second floor, but the basement that's where the kitchen was in the basement and he had a two-foot hall two-foot tall Thumbs 완 invite The entrance stairway on the regular-sized stairs on the side of rooms that they would go up and down to make the bed or whatever. They had a dumbwaiter that would bring out the food in the dumbwaiter to the dining room. And he had a whole little thing going on there with a little thing. Get it? Hold on. You know? What is this? Oh, oh. It's painful, isn't it? No. So, uh... So, we got the Chinese, the Mexicans, and little people. We got them all today, Joey. We kind of insulted everybody. Yeah, you're hitting everyone. Good. Oh, there was a fire here in... And you wonder why we have 62% turnover in our shelves. Oh, well. We're getting all the better people coming in. That's all right. They can go somewhere else. They go to the Daily Wire. Never mind. Oh, thank God I know some of our audience or I'd really be concerned. Yeah, they love it George
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    Whatever reason yeah, they do so it started being built 1870 this house it had a fire halfway done They had a demolition start over again. So it's finished building 18 so little little fire. Oh I see you did it George. There's a big massive fire George. It's sorry. I was a little fire then it went big so So yeah, and the house is still You've got a little, pretty amazing inside there, but you got to take the stairs at two at a time. Cuz you can easily fall right down the stairs but really cool. That must be, if he had trouble navigating when he was loaded imagine if you were loaded and trying to navigate those steps. Well he had little feet so it was regular for him. Well little legs going up and down. Stop, stop with the little. No more little. No more little. No more. You ever Dr. Loveless from... The Wild Wild West. No. He was tall? Oh, okay. Come here to him. Oh, true. Okay, are we done with... If you ever see the dumb movie... You know what, I have to say this one. Are we done with Little House on the Prairie? Oh, George, Little House on the Prairie, I like it. That's exactly it. It was Little House on the Prairie. Actually, the big house with a little guy inside. Big house with a little prairie? Yeah. Little Big Man. No. That's something else, different story. I'm sorry. I think that's a different story. No more. Stop. Stop it. What else with that story? I think that's it. Oh, side note, he and P.T. Barnum became lifelong friends even after he left the circus at 18 years old. They were lifelong friends. And he traveled across the world. He traveled across the world. He went to Australia. Went to Australia. He was actually in Australia too. Imagine how long that took. A long time. He was the first one. Did they have steamships back then? No. Tim. Yeah. It is team ships. He took it from... He did it from California. So as he went to the transcontinental railroad, when it first got hooked up together, he went on that original maiden voyage or maiden train ride all the way through to San Francisco. And then from there, took a boat to I don't know, Japan, Australia somewhere, and then kept going to all these different countries. He went to China... China and performed. and that's why you can afford all these houses and uh... poor little guy still wasn't happy, drank himself a dish We're done. Stop. You have another story and can we kind of try to wrap this through? Do you have another story or are you all done? I'm done with that little story, George. We're gonna go to hell. This is a little start with big impact. How's that sound? I have a couple of things. Show and tell. Folks you can't see this but I'm gonna show Dave. I got this gizmo for Christmas. It's basically a glass holder. You put the glass in the freezer Fill it up. This thing acts like a thermos. I had a beer yesterday Harry Rasmussen, Okay, so let's skip one. Elevated craft, the hybrid pint glass. We'll toast at the end. Then I got these things. They're coasters. Coaster's nice. You know, they're all whatchamacallit. What's the machine they use? The plastic machine. Oh, wow. Yeah, 3D printer. 3D printer. This one I like. Shoot again. Shoot again, a couple of pop bumpers, and then the tilt one. So that was a gift too for Christmas. Kind of cool.
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    Name of the company, Art Two Cents. It's on Etsy somewhere. Whatever. Haven't used them yet. So I got some drinking paraphernalia for Christmas.
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    And I can what? I could run it. If you're going to show me the gift she got me. Okay. While she's getting that, can you see this holding in my hand? Yes, I can. Okay, so you see how that is one face? Yeah. Watch when I turn it. Two face. Right? And then look from the top. No face. Just a little bit, those little slivers. Right. This thing's awesome. Okay. I like it. You probably won't. Here. I'm sure I won't. No. I'll give it a shot. You don't like anything. That's the company. I don't like anything. and Grish Tiger, Using �� is first to move over slide in line We have some demos from the fam at tiktob in the trigger inbox as kanhai excluding mun into na Ko I got the big jobber I didn want I wanted light No no no The other one I have is heavy My son was over yesterday commenting about mine He like oh wow dad you got a really nice drill I'm like, yeah. This thing is more of a driver. I need more of a driver. So this does. So this is like an impact driver. So it's great for taking out stuck screws. It goes bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. You know, you get the same kind of thing. Understood. Mine does the same. This Week in Pinball, Franchi), Proudly, John Papadiuk, Black Water, Kaneda's Pinball Podcast, Twippies Awards, transliteelectronic Centaur, number 10. Allentown Pinfest, number 9, 104. At number 8, 32, Flash Gordon. Number 7, episode 6, Stargazer. Slot 6, episode 1, when we first did our first show. Really? Number 6, though. That's amazing. People are hanging in there. People like listening to it. The John Day Show, Black Hole, number 105 at the 5 slot. A lot. Who done it? That's the one I keep screwing up. That's number four, number 99. We're going to do another one of these. I got some ideas. Number 101, Pinball and Beer comes in at number three. Unseated from number one, number 30, Arlen Globetrotters, number two. And who do you think's at number one? You know. Fantastic? No. Keith Elwin. Keith Elwin. Yes, yes, yes. Keith Elwin. OK. That's a good call. Bring him on. Yeah, it was it's the gift that keeps on giving
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    Hey, did you know? That monster bash that you're gonna be doing That's a super high demand game. People really want that game. They want do they want the old game?
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    The original with the original Wow, okay Cool good But Scott's getting it and he's he's willing to he's willing to pay what needs to be done to make it nice and You know, that's what people want. People don't want the rebate. They're sick of waiting. Is that Chicago Gaminging that takes forever to make games? Yeah, they did a good job, Chicago Gaminging. I saw one, but they don't make anymore. Right, but it takes forever to get a game and people are really pissed off, so long story short, I mean, that's my interpretation of what it's worth. Yeah, that's all I got really. I just got dropped off from Western Mass Indiana Jones. They just dropped it off for restoration. Oh, so would that maybe be next month's game? That could be because it probably well, well, it's either here the choice for next month's game. It's going to be it could be Captain Fantastic because that's pretty close. It could be Indiana Jones. It would be Gore. We've already done that game. vyp lament that didn't exist, and yet here we go again inside the seasoning Oh, just taking a broom. Can you come get it? Sure. I'm going to go down memory lane. Who's the guy whose family or he did owned the sausage place on Route 1 in Saugus? That's Engle. Mike Engle? Was that his name? Yup. The Sausage King of Chicago. Okay. Joke there, George. Sausage King of Chicago? Ferris Bueller Day Off joke. Oh, never mind. Abe from an sausage in kushikai kushikai go anyway, I remember playing Hulk there. I might have even played it with your neighbor.
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    He had it in his place his sausage place or his house. Oh, yes. With the big hand. Yeah, the big hands on Yeah, you put those Yeah, I remember that. Yeah. Right. Anyway, how'd you do against a name who game? Did you kick his ass? Oh please. He is good. We might have a few yarns with him but he's a good player. You have people that do. Oh and I picked up that Ballynippet to restore. I have it here. I actually set it up because when I picked it up from Orlean, Here in pun, The Lo Movement Player Mine and Maxi Ne lever 나� traditions vs stankevaix-ências I think you paid 6K for it restored. 6K. Come on. Yeah. And he's going to pay me. That game can't be more than $3,000. You know why? He wanted it because he wanted to get the games that he's a big fan of Happy Days, the TV show. That game was first on the show when Fonzie first came on the show. The Even so, Dave, even with that provenance, how do you Customers don't know any better. A lot of these people get taken to the wolves. They go and find a game. They just have some money in the salad that it's out there. I want that. I guess he was looking for it for a while maybe and found it there. So it worked for maybe a week and then it didn't work. And now I played it while I was at his house and it kind of worked for me. Let me start on this puppy. I need a little starting fluid. So do we have a couple of minutes still?
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    Yeah, we want to, yeah, maybe like five because we want to start, we got to take off and go somewhere. Okay, so do you have... Actually, I'll tell you where we're going. We're going to my niece's birthday party at Edieville Railroad. My sister is going to do her first... Is it all decorated and stuff for Christmas? It's all decorated for Christmas. Of course, there's not really snow around here right now because it's kind of warmed up. David kaаний ankay notskötziаете Monica you nice opaque she had a big birthday party is for you yet saw she bought a bunch of the kids for successful so it's a big thing sold originally I was kinda had a little bit of a sightseeing started on-site okay get поют extra track and rocking short another and entertain so we're gonna go to evil rail road and we're gonna go whoza peter party there I remember going there as a kid. I think my sister, Jenny, my brother Billy, we all went down there as kids and my parents took us down there. I love trains as a kid. Had an H.O. train set. My father had a Lionel train set. So big into the trains. I think it also goes with a lot of people that collect pinball machines. It's like controlling a little world under glass kind of thing. Before, we had B Dak core Matt B and Bot,, and we didn't get a Satanistic but now we have Football Criticus and Obadows and� Then I opened it and look like Midnight Mike Lamb 거죠 uh... This is a really big loading 43 control so I do But that's been himself Thank you watch This Week in Pinball, Franchiexpensiveperfections, Financially at the end right and it kind of makes it doesn't kind of make it I think the idea is it's a thermos yes oh here's a cool beer you might like this actually um a laganita is born yesterday oh yeah the marketing is we pick the hops and we have them in the turn you know the kettle within 24 hours to blow so it's not a fresh I like that okay so So, Janice has been buying reasonable, good, decent, kind of, kind of westy, but not super westy. How does it compare to their regular Lagunitas IPA? Have you tried to compare them? I don't usually drink it, so, you know what, I'd have to put them side by side, but it's a decent beer. I find in general... For a commercial, well, this is probably, you know, specialty. Crafty. Yeah. But good. I find Lagunitas IPA in general a little on the sweet side for me. I'm going to call you a harpoon. Cheers. Happy New Year. Oh, that's good. That's really good. What's that? She said you're off the saw still next year. She said you're off the beer. Why no. She's happy new year. Hey, no kidding. Well, the reason being because you know, every time you get on the Cape, you know, it's party time, you know, I'm doing a lot of work down here. We delivered a Buck Rogers, we picked up a Nippit, we worked on a Droppercard1960zm and got that running and Dave spotted that puppy and what else did we work on? Was there one more? I thought there was four. Wasn't there four? Well someone else wanted us to go down. Well there was also the space time we could've worked on too, no time for that one. There was one more. Oh, setting up the Stern Rolling Stones, four. So we kind of, you know, a lot of work, a lot of play, a lot of ins, lots of outs, lots of drinking, lots of beering, burning the candle at both ends. And then so as of yesterday morning, leaving the last call the other night, I got a stuffed up nose and I was cold, I was wet out, I forgot my jacket and then went to a place and had a couple beers, which I shouldn't have done. If you're not feeling well, don't have any beers, your immune system is always saying, hey, cut the crap, treat me nice. I'm going to treat you badly. I didn't listen to it. So next morning I wake up, got a sinus headache and so I was like, okay, now I got to really be good. So I went through all my stuff, all my, you know, oregano oil potions, all my zinc, all my Maureen made a fresh batch of chicken soup for me, emergency, no beer, no nothing, lots of sleep. And then as of today, like a day and a half later, I'm feeling pretty normal now. I think I might have kicked it. I'm not a fan of the puns, but I gotta stay good to them. It's the season, fa la la la la. Exactly. So I'm going to try to keep this thing away from me as best I can. Well... Oh, and two, oh, by the way, since we're down the Cape... You better keep your distance then from the children today, or you're going to get the pass around. Yeah, oh boy. The pass around. You're right, yeah. I forgot about that. Yeah. Oh, you're going to be in the germ cart. I am going to be in the germ, yeah. You've got to get your mask. I'm definitely going to wear my blue face diaper. I definitely have those. I'll double mask. I'll do what Fauci said. I'm going to put on two of them. You're going to get the Eden funk. I'm going to burn the Fauci candle at both ends. Oh, so down the cape, I put on the shirt to go out to Eden. The Eden sneeze. Well, yes, the Eden sneeze. What's that? Edelville. Oh, Edelville sneeze. No, hopefully not. I put a shirt on and all of a sudden, hey, my back is itchy. What's going on? As for the I've never saw a bug. Never saw it. Don't know what the heck got me. I think it's going to be a, it can't be a mosquito. It's something else that's itchy and... You sound like my wife. Does she get buggy too? She gets all bitten? Yeah, like, oh, there's spiders, or there's this, or there's that. I'm like, I must be like, you know... They don't like you, George. No, I'm sour. I must be. Yeah, they like her. They like me. Or am I? Or is the question, am I? Sort of. I got a good idea. I see. Maureen said it's your pickled blood. Yeah. Okay, let's end this nonsense. All right. This is where we lose our audience. You think so? Does it turn off around here? Yeah, they turn it off. They say, oh, you guys are out of gas. Yeah. Hey, I promised the show, I delivered a show. I didn't say it was going to be a good show. I just said it was going to be the last show of 2024. But we had some nice human interest stories to have and a little some tech tips. I like the tom thumb story. I mean we're gonna we're gonna get letters from the little people coming up but you know why don't you give your uh why don't you give your uh email address right now.
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    I don't know George let's give you your email address. I didn't get an email again. Not even a Christmas email. What's wrong with you people? Yeah, Christmas emails. Anyway, say goodbye. I'll say goodbye. All right. Well, everyone have a more stories. You got to be entertaining right now. Hold on. Wait, I do have a train to catch, but let me see if I may look through my quick little Rolodex here. 부분이 practition Contents 33
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    Contents 34 Contents 35 Contents 38 The late 80s Williams and that has more of a Mad Max thing. I played one of the two of those when we were out in Ohio. Yeah, so that's what you played. It's like Mad Max with motorcycles on it. I don't remember. Okay. It was kind of cheesy but decent game. Roadshow is the two Red and Ted Roadshow talking things. Yeah, right, right. The animatronic things. Yeah. Dummies. Did a bunch of work on that and then, you know, I'm going to switch problems went back to switch and then then he called me said now the display is all garbled and some other crap's like what is going on with this game so but he's willing to he's not you know he's a nice customer is one to say oh no I know it's I know it's more work and you know you know he's gonna basically that the meter is still running so to speak which is great you know because there's more work to do in the game was so he bought it from some I don't know collector or flipper or something so it had all kinds of weird issues with it so So now we're just trying to figure them all out and get them all working. So it's, it's one of those multi-day day spas, which it comes down to what it is. So he's willing to, uh, he's willing to do what it takes to get it nice. So I'm going to go back to him in early January as well as trying to figure out the nail down all the nine ball. There's some ghosts in that before I give that off to Scott. So I'm trying to, uh, get almost that nailed down, but still, it's still a nine ball. So there's always some inherent ghosts from the software. No matter what I do to it, it's still one in a hundred games. I got to work on a Joker poker in Paxton coming up. I got a fiend. I got a police force coming in. A class of 1812. Gottlieb. Can't wait to work on that one. Sudbury. That's about it. I think that's what's coming up. That's for some more pinball stuff coming in. That's what it still close out 2024 like that and look forward to a Tanya, ifcan cis, Sherlock Mulan, requesting for introducing D. Position costingŚ, your So, Red and Ted Roadshow, nine ball issues trying to figure all those out. You said that. That's about it. Okay. That's it. Then say goodbye. All right. Well, wishing everybody a happy and healthy new year. Drive fast, take chances, and what's the last thing they got to do? And stay not lit and tilted. That's good too. But stay asymptomatic, George.
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    Okay. George, we've had it with you. Say no rodeo bro dad. Hasta la vista, baby.