All get around, he's on the rebound, hear the sound of our buddy, oh lordy, it's Orby, pinball now to rejoice, he's tugging pinball, craft beer and coffee, mixed with syrup and honey, he wants to laugh with his family in a random tangent, stories of his boys, he's on the poor man's fun network, we're gonna get more listeners, for the Pinball Nerds Podcast. Coming to you from beautiful River Hibbert, Nova Scotia. I love you. talking about all the good things that happened at IFPA 19. The World Championships just concluded yesterday. In fact, pretty late at night here in Nova Scotia, I'm not going to lie. But it was mostly all good. It was really good, but there was some issues and those two issues are the two issues I personally want to take my airtime to talk about on today's show. Although I'm going to be congratulating and thanking all those who did a rad job. As per usual, everything that Carl D'Python Anghelo does with IE Pinball ends up being rad AF. But there is, of course, we can always, you know, maybe make some minor improvements. Two of the improvements are, the two main improvements I want to talk about are specifically for broadcasting the tournament, not so much for actually being there in person. But I'm going to talk about that in a second. I'm also going to be giving you guys an update on my only eating McDonald's for 30 days. Y'all have got, oh, just kidding, I may or may not have pulled out the plug-in for my laptop because I forgot it was plugged in right now. But I usually leave shout-outs to the end. But today I'm going to do it right at the very start because I'm so stoked. Buying me five Happy Meals, that's right, 25 bucks, coming all the way from Kyle. Geez, I'm already in trouble. I'm sorry, Debra. What did I do to piss off the 45th best female pinball player, woman's pinball player on planet Earth. Orby put his shoe in his mouth again. What did I do? I'm going to save that for the end. I'm also going to give you guys an update on McDonald's. But right now, I'm going to thank Kyle Ditbenner. I'm sorry, Ditbenner. If I didn't say Ditbenner right, Dietbenner. Kyler, Kyler Ditbenner. Thank you, Kyler. Okay, I got the first name right at least. And Kyler said, cheers, Albert. thanks for all the laughs. Yes, thank you, Kyler. You figured out this is a comedy podcast. I'm joking 99% of the time. There's some seriousness from time to time, but I don't like to lay into that too much. There's enough serious out there in the world. Y'all come here to get your little oasis with Orby, your little five minutes of heaven away from the BS that's happening out there to let me take you away and just chillax here in pinball heaven. All right, Who else do I have to thank? Well, I have two thank yous, but they're both going to the same person. I could not believe this. Within moments of each other, that's right, I have a huge thank you for, I'm going to do really good with pronouncing all the information on here because this is very easy, Woon-Yi. Thank you so much, Woon-Yi. I really, really, really appreciate that. They got a whole smattering of different stuff. They got the Borealis tea, which is incredible. They got the Funnier Chai, which is an incredible herbal tea, which is a chai. They got Fog Off. Fog Off is probably our best-selling in Nova Scotia tea. The Fog Off, of course, it has a really cool East Coast picture on it. but more importantly that my awesome wife, Drop Target Danielle, did. She had her first art-specific show at the East Coast Comic Con this weekend. For those of you who have Albert Agar on Facebook, you can go over there and watch the five-minute video of me walking around. Sorry I did not bring a gimbal. I need to make sure I start doing that when I'm going to a show. It was last on my list. But the Fog Off is one of the ones that we actually got the posters of, the four that we like the art so much we got the poster for. But that one is, and don't quote me on it, is, what is, I should know this, it's my own company, what is, in Robert Englunds they all have it, I forget, I will find out, but Sentient Beast, that is a really cool label as well, that is, are of course, as you might assume, no, it has no relation to the Beast, Jeff Teolis' tournament that's sold out, so I can't go to it, Jeff Teolis, put me on the friggin' wait list, let me know if I can get into the Beast, I'll give you lots of media for it, I might even have a public rant and have to get a yellow card right on the live stream and double your viewers. No, I won't do that. I don't actually rant that much in pinball tournaments typically, usually. So I sulk a little. I sulk more than I rant in pinball tournaments. I turn into a sulky sultan. But no, Sentient Beast is our caffeine-free award-winning, by the way, caffeine-free. So if you love the flavor of yummy organic delicious yummy coffees, but you don't want all that caffeine or you like to have a nice coffee for dessert at nighttime. That way you can have like zero to, well, depending on how much sugar and cream and everything put in, zero calories up to whatever. But you can have a nice, delicious dessert without any caffeine. If you're like me, if it's past 420, 420 is like legit my cutoff. When other people say 420, they get excited and they do other things. Not me. I stay toasted all day. But when I see 410, I go, oh my God, we got to put on a pot of coffee. It takes about 10 minutes to brew a whole pot of coffee. I'm not brewing these one little one at a time. Anyone who chugs coffee like me, like, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. You've got to have a lot of coffee ready to go, and I always do. But thank you so much to Woon Yee for your big purchase. And what else did you get there? You got some Fog Off, some Some Good, The Force, a large bag of The Force. So you've got a little bit of everything here. You've got a medium roast, which is decaffeinated. Then you've got The Force, which is our award-winning again. The awards are, I'll say, in asterisks, depending on who or which. I don't know how high up in the rankings you need to be as a tea or coffee blogger to say award-winning, but they're their favorites. Many of them, it's their favorite. So The Force is our medium roast, which has no medium roast coffee beans in it. It's got two light roasts combined with two dark roasts. It is a medium roast on the dark side, hence The Force, with a beautiful little picture of Grogu on the front. that is the only one on here that my wife didn't do the art for that's from a photographer I believe they're from Maine but we of course put our own labeling on front of that after paying Canva for it Disney don't come at me actually do if Disney ever came at us with a seasoned assist it would be like the best PR we ever got for anger alpaca coffee and tea but speaking of I have talked too much about the coffee and tea I did want to thank everybody I know I saved the thank yous normally for the end and I get people like that but this time it was just too important it had been a while and then moments after that, oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. This is my money going to Carl D'Python Anghelo for Twitch. I clicked on the wrong one there. I didn't send a lot of money to Twitch for Carl D'Python Anghelo, but y'all should help out if you can. So Woon Yee also sent me $65.57. That's probably like, I don't know, $50 US. That's enough for me to do like 10 Happy Meals. Wow. And then right here it says, Woon-Yee says, for beer and for Happy Meals. Yes, my guy. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Right now, the Happy Meals are, the Happy Meals are, in Canada anyways, are Playmobil. And like, when you were a little kid, like from when you were in like, I don't know, like kindergarten until like maybe grade two, grade three, if your friends weren't around, they wouldn't catch you. You know, they made those little elephants and the giraffes and the zebras and they moved around and they're really cool. And anyways, wow. I know that it's plastic and it's bad for the environment, but they look so cool and they come for free when you get a Happy Meal. And a Happy Meal is like calorically, if you're going to have to have disgusting, gross, bad for you McDonald's fries, you want them in like a small little amount so you're not getting too much salt, sodium, yada, yada, yada. And honestly, there's not much nutrition in a McDonald's fry. So that being said, the healthiest thing you can get, which I'm going to be having today, I'm fasting all the way until about 5 o'clock today. Going to eat dinner with the fam. They're going to eat a much healthier dinner than me. No, my sons are not allowed to get McDonald's every single day like me. But I'm getting the only, one of the only things, if you get the chicken and you don't get it deep fried in that cottonseed oil and whatever else they throw in there, it doesn't taste as good. But if you get the grilled chicken and you get it in the avocado wrap, okay, there's still lots of carbohydrates in the wrap, I'm not going to lie. And for those of you celiacs out there, gluten intolerance, You know, this is not going to be your jive because there's still lots in there. They don't make the wrap out of like, it's not a cauliflower wrap or something like that for us. You know, people trying to go low carb and lose a little bit of your belly for the summer. For the summer. I was out there today. It's a beautiful day here in sunny, well, as you heard the Glen, the skateboarder say at the start, beautiful Nova Scotia. Just came back from a walk with the dogs. Now, y'all probably think I'm being vain, especially any of you locals that listen and like to listen to the show. and you see me driving by and I have my shirt off and you think, oh, look at that guy. Oh, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But first of all, if I was vain, I wouldn't be walking around with my, you know, I've been teasing my name's Fat Albert. I try not to use the F word anymore. So I'll just say, can I just say Chunker Albert or Chunky or hey, you guys, I don't know. Like I basically, I got my winter belly, my winter beer belly, my winter burger beer belly is still there. I'm working it off, but I like to get as much vitamin D as possible because it's healthy. But That's not why I have my shirt off when I go walk. Luna, Tuna, Elowen, Agar, and Mr. Christopher. No, I don't call him Christopher. Draco Franchi over there. Draco Franchi, the newest addition. Our Sheepadoodle to go with our Goldendoodle. And if they did have babies, which we're not going to do because we don't want to be back here, you know. I mean, they'd be worth like three to five grand each. We would not do it. if our two dogs made beautiful love and had little dog puppies they would be so rare you can't even find go try i've tried you cannot even find a video of them on youtube they would make golden sheepadoodles they are known to be very stubborn not very smart very hard to train they like they're they're just they're i don't know how it is but like they sort of get the i don't want to make fun of sheepdogs don't come at me now i don't like the band the sheepdogs from Canada, so I guess it's okay, but sheepdogs are, they are, they are highly intelligent, because they can round up sheeps, but they're also a little bit like, I don't, I don't know how to say it nicely, they're also like a little bit, they don't really pay attention often, they're a little, you know, they get easily distracted, they're kind of like me, they're like me, that's Orby, there's me, so I don't like that saying, so I shouldn't do that, but what else am I talking about on today's show, we're also going to count down the top five DC pin themes. So we have seen way, way, way too many Marvel. And I love Marvel. I collect probably 80% Marvel, 20% DC. I'm a huge comic book nerd. But let me tell you, I'm sort of getting sick of it. We've seen lots of X-Men. There's been like three Avengers pins. There's been two X-Men pins. You know, we've had it all. We've had Iron Man. You know, we've had a lot of it. let's bring back some DC already right am I right am I right or am I right or am I right that one's for you Tim the Lion Manly all right so let's get into it number five on this list is Aquaman so Aquaman is still very uh fairly relevant fairly relevant I think Amber Heard what did she what did Johnny Depp say she took a dookie in my bed I forget what he said but she took a deuce in the bed that was the funniest part of that whole trial um I think Franchi and me are probably the only two pinball content creators that couldn't stop watching that, but oh my god, I used to have a big crush on Amber Heard, uh, not so much, not so much, I mean, after seeing an Aquaman, yes, uh, after, uh, uh, listening to that trial, not so much, I mean, I, you think I'm unstable, like, I, I probably am a little bit ADHD and histrionic, but, like, Amber Heard, she made me look like the most calm down-to-earth, she basically made me look like Tom, okay, uh, and speaking of Tom. Tom, of course, of Triple Drain, Tom Graff, Fox Cities Pinball Extraordinaire as well. He was there at IFPA 19 helping out, and I honestly think that Carl, that was so smart to, I don't know if Carl asked Tom to help or if Tom offered, but that was so smart because Carl, you knocked it over the park, but having Tom there obviously helped. Tom was moving the rigs. Tom was helping out in commentary whenever he could. He was just basically there, like sometimes you wouldn't hear him talk in the commentary for like an hour and it would be just making sure the whole thing was going but I'm sure that Carl D'Python Anghelo was very very very happy and the other thing if I were Carl wow take a bow I looked at the numbers on Twitch recently um the Saturday feed I think it had 55,000 views one of them 55,000 another one was like 40 some odd thousand another one was 33,000 so we're talking about already 150,000 views between these and then you know I don't even understand how that works if that's consecutive or in a row or whatever at one point i know uh uh ron from slam tilt pinball podcast just listen to their show they put out great job by the way fellas um they they said that there was like 11 000 people at one point that must have been when they were on the front page uh also huge shout out to pluto who's working hard to make sure that pinball stays relevant uh it really feels like it was doing great uh shout out to all the people doing commentary Steven Bowden as i said many times does a great job love hearing Dalton in there um but my favorite my favorite rack was actually uh Zoe and I not going to try to pronounce her last name because I looked at it and I have no clue how to pronounce it but she I did in in researching her a little Zoe is currently ranked number 20 in the world and she uh used to be when I was googling her there was a video from like 2020 where she at one point was the number one a women's player in the world. So Zoe and Debra Tallman, Tallman? Tallman? Oh no, I messed up her last name now too. But Debra Tallman and Zoe were in there and they were doing such an awesome job with the commentary. Now I had already heard them do commentary in the past at a lot of things. I know Debra's been doing commentary for years and years. I've heard her at other IFPAs I believe or in disc before and a few other things. She's extremely knowledgeable about pinball. I think she's ranked 45th and Zoe's extremely knowledgeable about rules, but maybe more important than that, especially Debra, I found was being really funny, doing great comedy. They're both being funny, but especially Debra was being really funny, doing awesome color commentary. And it's different because like I had heard her do commentary before, but then I got to meet her on my trip out at Lumberjack Johnny's. She was there, of course, which was kind of like the after party. I won't call it an after tournament. I'll call it the after party after D82 is all pretty, you know, pretty straight and serious. Now, maybe on a Friday night when it's not Nationals and you're not there for pin masters, it's a little bit more laced down. But anyways, I got to meet Debra and I really connected with her. I remember we played on the very final game of the night. I think I got an X and I think Debra kicked me out of the tournament. She gave me my final X, I believe. I could be wrong, but I remember after that, not only did I get to play with her, but I got chatting with her for a while. And then we, I think we hung out for a little bit after that and even watched some of the pinball on the big screen happening at the Nationals. had a really nice time chatting with her and catching up with her, or really, you know, meeting her for the first time. I found she had a very similar, she's kind of like my twin, she has a very similar nudging style and playing style to me. She's more accurate than I am, but she's a really, really, really good nudger, and so I'm not trying to say I'm as good as her, I just feel like we play in a similar style. And anyways, I feel so bad because she was doing a great job doing the commentary, I believe, on the Saturday morning, or was it the Friday morning? I think it was a Saturday morning. Anyways, go back and watch all of them on IE Pinball because they're incredible. But she was doing commentary with Zoe, and I couldn't remember how to spell her name. And I hate misspelling people's names. So I was like, Deb-er-ah, or Deb-bra. Is it like a bra, like B-R-A, like a bra, like a woman would wear? Or is it like, you know, and I couldn't, I didn't know how to spell it, so I just put Deb, and I just, I was running around trying to do, we were doing our, I think we were doing like our Saturday morning, no, was I at ECC? I don't remember what happened. But I wrote in the chat, hey Deb, it was really rad to meet you at Lumberjack Johnny's. And she said it was good to meet you too, Albert. But then she explained that she prefers to not be called Deb. She prefers to be called Debra. And I felt like such a donk because it's like, obviously, I've only met her once. She's called herself Debra right at the start of the podcast, or right at the start of the commentary stream, which I had watched the stream the day before, which she was also on. and anyways the point is she did correct me and thank you for letting me know I'm sorry for being a dog um and for years and I really get where she's coming everyone's like oh it's just a nickname no no no like call people what they want to be called it's that simple I know that when a certain pinball podcaster calls me orbiter orbiter well my name is orbital like anything that else is orbital like when you shoot an orbit it's orbital shot right and orbit al like albert because my name is Albert so Al like Albert a whole bunch of people in high school and especially I hated this in grade seven grade eight I started going to a new school and everyone's calling me Al hey Al what's going on Al do your friends call you Al or Albert well if you say oh my name's Albert then they're like they think of a 75 year old man like who's the second youngest Albert on planet earth he just had his 101st birthday right uh no I think there's there's like one other Albert on planet earth that's like under 50 years old but anyways they used to call me al well if you remember what was big in like when i was in grade six that would have been i don't know we're early early 90s uh i think yeah yeah yeah 12 years old something like that 1992 i would have been 12 i don't know somewhere around there married with children was like this big tv show and i i did watch it i watched it because my dad watched it i kind of got some of the jokes but i also found it really gross and weird and like he came home and stuck his hand down his pants in front of his whole family, I was like, uh, well, that part's, you know, that part's a little strange, I don't know, whatever, he's making space there or something, hopefully, but it's still weird, the point is that I hated when Peggy said, oh, Al, oh, Al, so for years, when people called me Al, I'd be like, please, you can call me Bert, you can call me, my cousin Brandon always called me Alcha, you can call me Alcha, I think that Jack Danger always called me Albie, I thought that was awesome. I love Albie. Nowadays, you can call me Al. Ain't nobody remember Married for Children. I do have Married for Children 1 and 2, the photo variants, including the hot one with Kelly on the front. Comic books from a long time ago. Nobody cares. But anyways, sorry, Debra. That was my bad. She did say, like, you could call her Debo if you knew her better. I don't know her that well, Debbie. Oh, see, I'm in trouble again. I said Debbie. And this is the problem. I short form everybody's name. I just do that. Okay, it's a bad habit I have to stop doing. Deborah, I'm sorry. Now I don't just, oh yeah, beer the next time I see you. I'll tell you this, Deborah, if you, wait, I think I saw you are going to Yagpin. Derek, if you're listening, somehow get me into Yagpin. I don't know if there's a wait list or not. I noticed it was sold out. I did find four cheap flights so I could actually go to Yagpin in a week and a half and I even got the okay from my rad wife who was like, you know what, you got that money back from the other thing. If you want to go, as long as you do it on the cheap and split a hotel room with someone, go fill your boots. So if somehow, someway, y'all, I make it to Yagpin, don't be shocked. But if I don't make it, also don't be shocked because I saw the two main things are sold out. I'm not going there just to like high five people and cheer. It is nice as it would be to see people and like buy, wait, I think that you are a celiac or gluten intolerant. So I'm probably not buying you beer. I'll buy you a cider. I'll buy you whatever you drink. Maybe you don't drink alcohol. I'll get you a tea, a coffee, whatever you like, but if I don't make it to Yagpin, Deborah, the next time you make it out to, because I'm sure you come here all the time, the East Coast of Canada, I will take you out for a drink, and if you don't drink, I'll take you out for a breakfast or brunch or something like that, and we can go play pinball at Zero's and Spin It Records, and you can check out the rad East Coast, and if you don't have any plans to come out here, come out here and visit, and I'm talking not just to Deborah, I'm talking to everybody out there. Why is no one coming to visit or be on the East Coast? even, I gotta call you out, I'm sorry Mike Dynas of Pinball Shenanigans he even let me take over the camera and videotape with Jeff Teolis at Maple Pinball in the last tournament, but what wasn't cool was that he came all the way to Newfoundland, you came to Newfoundland, you were like had to fly over Nova Scotia and you didn't visit me, even Joe Salvaggi has visited me out here you know, but I hope more pinball people come visit me, because I get bored in the summertime here I mean, okay, every Saturday I'm busy the market, but if y'all are coming out to the East Coast, I will hire some local teenager or get one of my son's friends or something to take over my booth. Sure, they can't upsell like a boss like me, and they're probably not as efficient, but you know what? I will take that hit in my bottom line and my pay just to hang out with you. Come on out to the East Coast. Let me show you all the cool places, all the awesome beaches, the awesome oceanfront places we have here. Let me show you Halifax, Moncton, St. John, and maybe Fredericton. Fredericton's pretty far. I mean, they do have David Dennis, which is great, or Dave as I call him, but you know, anyways. And I apologize, Dave. I did see you reached out to me after my little stern freak out. I'm sorry I didn't write back. I got burnt out of writing back to people and explaining everything. This is a comedy show. This is the SNL of pinball podcasts. I'm not just the pinball podcaster with the best hairline and the worst temper, but I also like to think I got a funny bone, funny bone. Okay, it's not funny when you just make sounds, though. You actually have to, I'm not as funny as Martin Robbins and Jeff Teoles. Come on, no final round here, guys. I'm working on it. I'm working on it. All right, let's get into this top five list. I've apologized. I've done everything I can say. I will say this. Let's do the top five, because I know some people aren't tournament players. Let's do the top five list, and then I'm going to talk about IFPA 19. I'm going to do IFPA 19 in five minutes or less, so it's like your IFPA recap, and then the two things I want to see be different. Okay, number five on this list, like I said, for out of DC, is Aquaman, and I think I started this. I think I started going over this, and I somehow went off the rails. What would you expect here on the Pinball Nerds podcast? So Aquaman, I think, is still enough in the zeitgeist, is still cool enough. Someone said I look like that dude once. No, no, not that guy. The guy who plays Wolverine. Yeah, that guy. That guy with the big, like, lamb chop... What do you call those things? Lamb chops, play along. Stay a while and play along. What are those? Mutton chops. Sideburns, sideburns. The guy with the big sideburns. The guy who plays... Someone said I look like him once when I had hair like that. A long time. One person once. Wow. Okay, let's move on from Aquaman. Now, I know y'all are thinking, when you're saying what women should be included in this list, a lot of people, including probably my boy Christopher Franchi there, would say Wonder Woman, because he has awesome Wonder Woman art. And I agree, but there was already a custom Wonder Woman pin done by my friend Julie Dorsers. That one is absolutely beautiful and incredible. Could it be made better? Maybe. I don't feel like Wonder Woman's really in the zeitgeist of society anymore. What would Don say? The inner dysphoria or something like that? I don't know. Those words are too big. I am, alas, not as smart as Don. the manager of the local Burger King there. I am not quite that intelligent. But, and my word vocab is not as big. However, I'm sorry, it ain't Wonder Woman. And no, Hal Berry, I love you girl, but it ain't Catwoman either. Meow. And y'all know how much, meow, I love Catwoman because she's sexy, she's fun, she's got nails, she's got bite, you don't want to piss her off. She's my type of strong, strong, kind of sexy, you know, black haired woman. I love her. I love everything about her. She's awesome. She's great. She's probably could even kick Batman's ass most days, depending on if you got that suit on yet or not. Right. But that's not who I'm picking. My pick right now for number four of the top five DC pinball themes that we need to see yesterday is Poison Ivy. Now, it's not just because I have a little bit of a thing for redheads it's not just because i love all the new artwork if you just google poison ivy comic book and type like 2023 or 2024 and click google images oh my god i forget the artist's name it's not sarzoa i can't pronounce it but the uh the new person that's doing the covers for poison ivy has been legitimately insane so i've been collecting like like almost every edition of every Poison Ivy cover for like the last year and a half. The storyline is incredible. The book is incredible. Poison Ivy hasn't had her day. Catwoman's already came out. I think that movie came out in 2004. Wonder Woman was already in the zeitgeist for decades, but it's Poison Ivy's time. And I don't even want to guess at who we could get to play Poison Ivy. No, I'm not going to. Back in the day, I would have said like Jennifer Lawrence. Yes, I know she'd have to dye hair red. Didn't you have red hair for one movie already? Anyways, the point is, let's see a Poison Ivy. I think that's the future of where DC's going, and I don't know who it is. Like, Stern is, like, already locked in with Marvel, so I don't know if it would need to be a Jersey Jack or even maybe a Spooky that could latch on to DC, but once you have one good working relationship with DC, you can kind of just do one after the other of these. Like, every few years, not, like, every single year like Stern, sorry. You know, you want to go a couple years in between. That being said, there is lots of rumors about X-Men 97, and I have watched the first three episodes of X-Men 97. Wow, Saturday morning cartoon vibes galore. The nostalgia's through the roof. I don't care who you are, man, woman, or child, you will probably enjoy watching X-Men 97. It's over there on Disney. Go watch it. It's great. I don't have Disney right now. I always take a couple months off. Like, we usually only have try to have I am cheap I do live on a homestead we're trying to be sustainable here okay uh but I do only have um I think we have crave right now and Netflix and we try to only have two at a time because she gets pricey speaking of pricey I pay another $20 a month right now just during the Stanley Cup playoffs to watch the Edmonton Oilers lose again last night dry side of what the F I'm trying not to swear on today's episode I don't want to have a rant over the top but conor mcdavid you get paid more money than sydney crosby now get out there and go get it you get paid more per year than wayne gretzky got per five years maybe not including inflation but you get a lot of money mcdavid get out there and get a mcgoal already or i'm gonna have to eat another freaking mchappy meal you son of a mc jerk no i'm just kidding mcdavid's trying hard i know he's trying and dry sidled getting that stupid penalty okay this is not a sport or hockey podcast Let's get back to it. The comic books is like the opposite of sports, which is funny. It's funny how I see a lot of pinball people that are like, I don't like sports. And I'm like, come on, come on. Most people at least like one or two sports. Or maybe you have a family friend or member who likes sports. Come on, why can't we like sports and comic books and pinball? You can be, you just have to be an uber nerd like Orby. All right, let's get into it. Next on this list is... Now, if it was Black Cat, if we were talking about Marvel, Black Cat would be at the top of that list. I actually just recently got the first appearance of Black Cat. I believe in its spectacular Spider-Man 181. No, no, it's not. What am I thinking of Anyways I got the first Black Cat recently Can wait to get that graded I brought it home from London Ontario Bought it from a friend of mine He used to do the covers for one of our teas shout out to Stephen let get back into it though so next on this list is Superman now did you know that every single episode of Seinfeld had at least one shout out in some way, shape, or form to Superman, or the universe of Superman, interesting, look for it, look it up, or you at least see something in the background every single episode. It's awesome. Check it out. Maybe not like the first pilot or something, but pretty much everyone pass in. And just remember, like we learned from Seinfeld, do not buy a pinball machine unless they are the two things that you need from Terry Hatcher. They must be real and they must be spectacular. So people taking money for a pinball machine, you're going to get years or maybe even not get years in advance. They're not real. And spectacular means you don't go, yeah, it's fun. I like it. It's got some cool. No, it better be spectacular because at these prices nowadays the only way to guarantee that you're not going to lose any money on pinball or lose the least is by holding on to that pin for two three four even five years pinball machines have typically typically since the 1980s anyways beat inflation at least slightly so if you bought a 500 pinball machine in 1980 it would now be worth more than the differential of that in inflation that being said it would have to be in a comparable condition, which most pinball machines from 1980 aren't, of course. So that being said, if you bought a pinball machine, say, from the early 2010s, say you had like a Guardians of the Galaxy, I guess that'd be more mid to late. If you had a Game of Thrones pin, okay, if you had a Game of Thrones or even say a Metallica or an Akadaka, an ACDC, and you had it still new in box, I guarantee you, even if you took it out of the box and you put a couple plays on it, it would be worth more than the differential of that in inflation. So that being said, if you're buying a pinball machine and you're only going to put four or five plays on it, you're probably going to lose money on it. If you're going to buy a pinball machine and you absolutely love it, you know you want to have it in your house because you've already, like my new motto says, play before you pay. This is the way. So if you play it ahead of time and you know you love the shots, you think you like the code and the code's just getting better and better, even if you want to buy it new in box, go ahead and treat yourself. Buy it new in box, but make sure you've played it first and make sure you've shot it and be willing to keep it for a few years. If you're willing to keep it for three to five years, you're probably not going to lose any money. In fact, you might make money on it, right? So that's, I guess that would be my biggest piece of advice. And maybe stay clear from LEs for right now until either Stern or the other pinball companies have kind of figured out the pricing of the market a bit better because it seems like those are the ones that you're losing the most money on anyway. So I've gone off topic. Let me put on my cape and let me go faster than a speeding bullet. Here we go. Flying in with another cape going from Spider-Man to Batman. I'm Batman. So Batman, why Batman over Superman? Traditionally, Superman was better than Batman. Obviously, a lot of people do like Superman better than Batman. Batman has actually had more pinball machines than Superman because Superman had that one wide body that I played that sort of sucked. I used to work at Collective Earth Brewing in Hamilton. That was so rad. And at our staff parties, I would like sneak into there under the guise of needing to go get more beer for everybody at the party. And I'd play a quick game or two and maybe run out for a vape and then play and then usually they'd be like hey were you supposed to go get beer for everybody albert and i was like yeah i just i this pinball machine was sitting here and had credits on it i may have put the credits on myself because i had the key for it but you know uh so no shout out to collective arts they had superman uh um batman though batman batman we've had like three pinball machines up we have had the dark knight um they're all kind of like the one with the really big the really big bat ramp right in the middle that one no that's a turdling uh the other one's okay the one with the joker and that though there's a lot of mechs in it but those shots are kind of funky and the code's weird and but we need a more relevant new batman that's better we need a modern batman we haven't had a batman in like two decades it's time yo now i know what you're thinking wait you already had aquaman you already had superman you already have batman what's number one on your list orby what could it be? None other than my girl. She's coming up. It's going to be played by Lady Gaga. Yes, Queen. That's right. Harley Quinn herself. Now, I know it was played by Marco Robbie and some people didn't love her doing that. I thought that that was fine. She certainly was crazy. She makes me look like a sane. Oh my God, it's 1135. I should have turned off the phone so it wouldn't be going in the background, and I know that my wife goes for her lunch walk every time around this time, so of course I should have expected a phone call. But alas, I'm Orby, and I don't think these things out ahead of time. And now the phone call has woken up Luna Elowen, and now Luna Elowen is walking over to Draco Franchi's... Why are you talking? Don't talk in the answering machine! anyways uh yes i will call her back soon but harley quinn first of all harley quinn's about to get big harley quinn's gonna be even bigger in the next one she's gonna be lady played by lady gaga confirmed not confirmed by comic-con come here toons oh my red old doggy got woken up by the phone call i'm sorry tuna i'm sorry oh what do we do okay sorry no dog dog no dog let's go back to Harley Quinn but like I really think Harley Quinn's gonna end up being bigger than Wonder Woman bigger than Catwoman bigger than Aquaman and maybe possibly and wait wait wait wait Superman's supposed to be coming back next year one of the dudes from SNL is supposed to play like the big dumb jock guy on I've heard there's some speculation that might be good but if that Superman movie is not big I really do think Harley Quinn could go down from this moment forth, like say 2020 on, as being even bigger than, I'm going to get skewed for this, than Superman. Now, will Harley Quinn ever be bigger than Batman? Probably not. Will she be bigger than the Joker? I think she already is. I think she already is. Is the Joker already bigger than Batman? Arguably. Do you know what I mean? So anyways, there's your top five DC themes. I would like to see a DC theme. I mean, Looney, okay, Looney Tunes, spooky, I love you. I loved Looney Tunes growing up. There was even a Sega game, a Tasmania Sega game that I got really good at, and there was, anyways, yeah, I love Looney Tunes, I don't watch it anymore, I just don't, I don't, but I still watch lots of DC stuff, and I still read lots of DC comic books, and DC is still out in movie theaters, you're not going to see, I guess Space Jam, Space Jam is the most relevant that Looney Tunes has been at all in the last, when was that with LeBron James, like 10 years ago, 5 years ago, 8 years ago, something like that. Anyways, I don't feel like Looney Tunes, Looney Tunes is still somewhat relevant, don't get me wrong, I said, I said, I said, yeah, and I can't wait to play it, I still haven't played Looney Tunes, but I think it'd be great if Spooky or JJP or, you know, I don't want Pinball Adventures or Home Pin to get it, but it would be great if one of these companies started picking up the slack, and we saw some DC ones, we've seen lots of Marvel, I love Marvel, but let's see some DC ones. And who knows? Maybe even Stern could do Marvel and DC. I just don't know if that would be good business sense. I don't know if, you know, Marvel would be upset or they just wouldn't care. They probably just wouldn't care, but it's most likely smarter for just Stern the big boy to stay with Marvel the big boy in comics. That seems to kind of make sense. So what else do we have to talk about today? Well, I did want to update you guys on how my little eating thing is going. I am actually doing fine still. I am fasting most days till at least like 3 or 4 p.m. I am making a movie about it or really not a movie, a really short doc. It's only going to be maybe 10 to 15 max, hopefully 20 minutes. Says the guy who does hour-long podcasts out of nowhere. I am going to be taking a little bit of time off for the next 7 to 10 days. I said that before and then I came back. What else is happening in pinball? We've heard about Alice in Wonderland and you know I haven't talked about it because I don't care. Think about it right now. Think about it just a year ago. If we got in a time machine, you, me, Doc, and Marty hopped in a time machine. We got up to 88 miles an hour, which is exactly 1, 2, 3 kilometers per hour, and we went back a year ago, and I said, there's going to be a really cool pinball machine coming out. It's all about barbecue, and you're barbecuing ribs, and it's funny. It's got humor. It's got silly videos. It's got hand-drawn artwork. or you're going to have a pinball machine about a nursery rhyme Alice in Wonderland about a little girl named Alice and she goes for a walk. Now I get she's like she's smoking the ganja and she's eating the mushrooms. She's micro dosing with black tar heroin or whatever else she does over there. I know she's doing some weird wild wonky stuff but I am like the target market. I'm a stoner hippie dude who was like born and raised in around the 80s and I don't even think it's cool. I don't even think it's 1% cool. I would, Galactic Tank Force is a funnier story about weird aliens coming to your planet to steal the best ice cream on planet Earth. It's obviously Rocky Road, let's not even argue about that. But that's not the point. The point is, honestly, as a theme, does anybody, does anybody, and I am sure, I can hear little Jerry out there crowing very loudly, hopefully there's not a fox. And the very next day, the fox came back. I don't know. I can't, I'd rather see, like, I was trying to think of, like, what anime, I'd rather see, like, The Fox and the Hound. I'd rather see 101 Dalmatians. I'd rather see My Little Mermaid. I'd rather see Andadasi, Andadasi, Come Hang With Me, or Beyondadasi. No, I'd rather see Aladdin. Like, I'd rather, there's so many I would rather see. That is just, oh, it was just a woman walking her baby down the street. That's what Little Jerry, Little Jerry, if you come on Homestead, Eddie a property. We have seven acres here. If you come on our property at all, little Jerry will give you the yelling treatment. That's what he does. And if not, Draco Franchi or Luna Elowen will give you the licking treatment because they love absolutely everybody. They might bark a little bit at first, but once they get to know you, they'll be fine. Anyways, I've gone overboard. Hopefully y'all have a happy Monday. Wait, I forgot to talk about what this whole episode's about. I got to tell you about how my McDonald's treatment's going. No, I don't. No, I don't. I already updated you on that. I got to tell you about IFPA 19. Okay, so first of all, first of all, I want to say huge congratulations to Carl D'Python Anghelo and the entire team, all the volunteers, everybody who qualified for IFPA 19. You guys know I tried. I went to D82. I tried to qualify for nationals. I tried to be that guy, but I did not do it. I tried my hardest. But I want to say congratulations to Jason Zoller, who won it. Also, congratulations to Arvid. That final match, you could not have written it better. spoiler alert I guess who doesn't know this you'd have to have not gone on Facebook for like three days and if you're listening to a pinball podcast you might expect I might update you on some pinball happenings Jason Zoller killed it I expected him to win he is number one in the world but Arvid was playing out of his mind and he had some unreal comebacks against the number one player in the world and I guess I always root for the underdog and also at the same time Arvid had a hype man he had came from overseas he was here from Europe he's a bit younger I find I always go, I mean, not that Jason Zahler is old, but like Arvid's 16. I think Jason Zahler's like, I don't know, like 20 or something like that. So he's only a couple years older, but so I was kind of going for Arvid, you know, and, and, and not that there's any, again, nothing wrong with Jason Zahler. The only thing I will say, the two issues I had with the whole thing that I watched, the two issues that I found frustrating, and someone did mention this in chat once, they did say, and the commentators did a great job addressing it, and I know sometimes you can't really fix it. but someone in chat said, I've been here 15 minutes and I've seen 36 seconds of pinball. Now, at this particular junction, it wasn't because Jason Zahler and the likes of many of him, it wasn't just Jason, even though Jason was probably the biggest repeat offender, a lot of people were taking two, three, it seemed like four, maybe even five minutes, in between each ball. Now, arguably, each ball by these really good players is three, four, five minutes, but sometimes on older machines, it'd only be like a two-minute ball, no one would nudge, and they're still waiting for five. It's like, what is happening? Is anyone watching this? It's got to be ridiculously frustrating for everybody in the stream. It's got to be ridiculously frustrating for those in the booth. And I get it. Believe me, as a guy who walked up and played a ball really quickly, Escher Lefkoff came out. You can see me on, if you actually, Fox Cities. Cheers again to Fox Cities and Tom. Thank you for everything you do. Fox Cities just put it up on YouTube a couple weeks ago. If you type up on YouTube, Pinmasters day one, Pinmasters day one, you'll see me playing a group with Andrew Foster and the other awesome Andrew from Ohio. I believe he won Ohio. And the, who else am I playing with? Adam Becker, okay? So you'll see me in there playing with them. And you'll see me when I'm playing on Flight 2000. I plunge the ball, and while it's in the pops, I get a tilt. And I had not touched the machine. My fingers were not, my hands, I wasn't even resting it on, my hands aren't even resting on it, so, anyways, and you can see I'm frustrated, I look over at Zach Sharp, or Josh Sharpe for a ruling, and I'm like, what the hell's going on here, and they're both basically like, and then Escher runs over after, he actually takes his headphones off in the booth, runs over, and he takes time and energy to talk, and he's like, dude, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, we get you didn't nudge, but someone played very heavily on the ball before this, and you ran, and there's no earmuffs, ear, ear, what do you call them, I think earmuffs, you call them to dampen the tilt bob afterwards so you can go up and play a lot quicker, which that would be great. That's a solution. That's a third solution to the same two issues. So the two issues I had were that quite often between every ball, especially with Jason Zoller, but with a lot of people, it wasn't just Jason, even Arvid was waiting a good minute or two between each ball. Now, if someone nudges the crap out of the machine and the machine moves halfway across the room, if you have a Eric Stone type freak out after the ball's going down and you slam tilt the machine, okay, even if you don't get yellow carded, or you do, your competitor, it not only smart for them but they should wait and they should actually because in your mind when you all hyped up you think you waited two minutes you waited like 25 seconds so it is actually smart and this would have helped me a lot this is like a pot calling the kettle black here I should have been doing this at nationals I should have been doing this at penmasters I should have actually pulled out a clock press start and watched on my phone to see when the time was up because I felt like I thought I waited 20 or 30 seconds but I probably just walked right up and started playing and pulled it down and those tilts were set so tight and there wasn't any earmuffs on them earplugs earmuffs there was no earplugs on they're called earplugs not earmuffs but there was nothing on them to dampen them and let them slow down afterwards and I don't know why we've stopped doing that maybe maybe maybe they stopped doing that because you can get away with a little bit more nudges with them on there I get that or you can get away with one big nudge and then therefore the stream takes longer but I think we can all agree that we what's what's the negative the negative the earmuffs is or the earplugs is that someone can walk up like 20 seconds later and almost be guaranteed not to have a tilt through and not to have a tilt or a danger or or like I did a tilt from just plunging so the pause and again everything I've ever done on this pinball podcast and everything I've done in pinball would have been better I probably wouldn't have freaked out and lost my shots against the certain marketing department had I just said what would Escher do everything in life you just say what would Escher do if you just did whatever Escher would do, you'd probably be better off, you'd be living a more calm, chill, mellow, enjoyable, fun lifestyle, I don't know if you'd ever be able to play pinball as well as that guy, but anyways, love you Escher, Escher is still like my hero, it's like Elowen Escher, Elowen Escher, who's your, I don't know, I don't know, they're both my two biggest pinball heroes, and love them both, so they both did very well, I'll say Elowen made it as the furthest old dude in there, okay, the first guy, the first guy like not over, the last person not over 25 was Elowen, so good for you, Elowen, I know the rods and cones in our eyes are slowly going, our reflexes are slowing down slightly, and when your brain's this full with 40 years of stuff, how could you squish in there all these new rule sets, and that's partially on you, Elowen, so you know, he has no one to blame but himself for some of those, but no, overall Indus was great, I would like to see a rule that if it is a tilt or a nudge at the end, and I know this would be hard to referee. I know the TDs are already busy enough. I don't know if maybe the people in the stream, they could do this for the big ones, but if they started a clock, if there was a hard nudge, you have two minutes max. I'm sorry. No tilt, Bob, is still going two minutes later, and if it is, it's barely going. But if there was no tilt, you have 30 seconds. 30 seconds, that's it. Not even one minute. I'm sorry, Jason Zoller. I'm sorry. You have 30 seconds. There's no going outside and going to do an upper decker somewhere. No, there's no picking your nose. There's no scratching your butt, getting rid of your wedgie. There's no going for a little snack time. Like you're not grabbing those Timbits. Okay. Speaking of Timbits, we kind of got to talk about Timballs. I'm going to save that for the next episode. I want to do a little bit of a deep dive on Timballs video about tournament pinball. I want to do a little bit of a deep dive. I'm going to bring in someone who knows tournaments better than me probably for that convo. So if you know tournaments better than me, I don't care who you are, if you know tournaments better than me, please, please, please let me know. I'm looking for someone I want to talk to who's very, maybe a Greg Pavarelli, maybe even like a Zoe or a Debra Tallman. If you'd like to be on the show and talk to me about tournaments, explain to me what you agreed with on Tim Sexton's, because he had a lot of complaints. They were funny. I hit the funny. It was funny. Just like Cary Hardy's video about Jenga. That was hilarious. That was funny. I'm sorry. Funny's funny. Like, funny's funny, guys. Come on. Even my podcast, he didn't like Mr. Marketing Department. But we swimming in a giant pool of gold. Who wouldn't want gold coins? Funny's funny. If it's funny, it's funny. And that, I'm sorry, that was funny. I thought it was funny. So anyways, all the commentators did a great job. They all knew the rule sets. They made sure there was someone kind of doing like color commentary, being like the funny, the butt of the joke. It wasn't all too serious, serious, which is good. You had someone that made sure they were always talking about what was happening to the machine. If But 19 overall was great, but the other problem, and the problem that Debra and Zoe had to deal with was the machine went down on them, and they were trying to fix it for about 20 minutes. So here's my other, that was the other problem, was every time a machine went down, it would sometimes be down for a very long time, and honestly, you'd watch the numbers. Sometimes we were on the front page of Twitch, and you'd see it go down like by 10%, 20%. in the 20 minutes that people were fixing the machine and they were being very entertaining the commentators were doing everything they could to be entertaining and to be funny and to laugh and keep people entertained they were doing their best but imagine this imagine if it doesn't even have to happen next year carl d'Python Anghelo or tom or anyone else who does pinball streaming but imagine if two three four even five years down the road from now i know this would be more work but imagine if you had two streaming rigs and the very first time within seconds of that pinball machine going down and breaking as soon as we had an update that they're going to need to wait for a tech you switch to the other pinball machine and the commentators just had to update the viewers on who's on this machine now and maybe just do like a 20 second rule update oh geez battery's running low we're about to lose the battery scotty beam me up all right so imagine if there was two different streams and you could just switch to the other one now i understand that's a lot of work and that's a lot to ask but in an ideal world I don't think the pinball will ever be the next soccer the next hockey the next it's not even going to be the next badminton like we're not going to see it in the olympics I'm sorry but could we get even more and more viewers and when we get those viewers do we want to try to keep them for longer on twitch of course we do because there were some people that were turned off if it was your very first time seeing live streamed pinball and you came over and you only watched 5 10 even 15 minutes you're really getting into it this is great the commentary is awesome the view looks cool I like seeing the entertaining players I like watching how the different players flip and some people do more dead bounces and other people do more shots and other people you know you're seeing all the different styles of play and all the different eras of machines and the different speeds of play and everything else and it's great and then all of a sudden for 15 or 20 minutes as entertaining as the commentators are they cannot keep you interested in today's world of TikTok and YouTube shorts and everything else it's nearly impossible to keep anyone's attention you've probably stopped listening to me rant and rave about this by now but please moving forward if the biggest tournaments did manage to do that we've got millions of dollars going into pinball if even one percent if all the big pinball companies out there said you know what all these companies streaming not not on different to what I was saying with when they released John Wick and they should have reached out to all of the content creators. If they reached out when there was a big tournament and Stern and all the pinball companies even gave 1%, not of their revenue, not of their revenue, of their profits, 1% of their profits to go back to people like Carl D'Python Anghelo to help make better streaming rigs, we could get Pluto to help us get on the front page of Twitch even more often, and then therefore we could have pinball grow at an even exponential rate to what it's growing right now. it's already growing fast like think about it guys i've only been in competitive pinball for eight years in eight years when i signed up i was around 42 000th in the world right now we're up to 120 000 people have signed up and played in the last three years on fba so well not 120 000 played the last whatever years but what i'm saying is is that we've exponentially grown in eight years the amount of people playing tournament pinball has tripled tournament pinball is rad you don't need to be a millionaire to pay Turnip Pinball. You don't need to be able to afford 10 pinball machines in your house, although it's nice to have a couple, of course. You know what I mean? So, Turnip Pinball is growing. Let's keep it growing. Let's be positive. I'm being overall positive. I think it was great what IE Pinball did, but the two things that could have made it better, because the commentary was lights out. The lighting was lights out. You know, there was no shade on any of the machines. There was, I think someone even closed one of the windows to make sure there was no glare one time so that was great so no everything was great the sound was great everything was perfect the two things i would change is a we've got to do something in the major especially if it's going to be streamed in the major championships 30 seconds or your plunge is pulled by a td or your competitor i'm sorry 30 seconds like from if people knew that they'd be watching like a hawk and they'd hop up there now if someone slam tilts it and and all of a sudden boom two minute two minute timer goes up you know what i mean if so if someone nudges it hard near the end within the last 30 seconds of their ball or anything like that, fine, two minutes. If not 30 seconds, I'm sorry, they do it with chess. Imagine how boring chess would be to watch if there was five minutes between every single move. Well, that's what it felt like sometimes, and I loved watching it go to seven. It was so cool that Arvid came back from, Arvid was down three nothing. If you're going to watch nothing ever in your life, if you've never watched tournament pinball, go to the point where Jason Zoller's up three nothing and watch Arvid play those next three games where he scrapes and claws and he he gets a couple of these digs I swear to god the ball was already down in the trough and starting to go up in the shooter lane he reached those flippers so far down into the depths of hell to bring that ball back it was incredible oh my god I've gone to 51 minutes I'm such a jerk I've talked too long I'm so sorry I'm sorry to Debra uh hopefully I can meet you again in the future it was really nice to hang out with you I would say that you were I don't want to give any hints away to the listeners but I would definitely say you were in the top five most rad people I met on my trip to Nationals and D82 out there in the cheese state of Wisconsin. So I probably will be contacting you to chat with me in the future as I did. So far I've done three of the top five. Can you guess who the fifth would be? You probably have because you're right here on the Poor Man's Pinball Network. Anyways, until next time pinball nerds, I'm going to leave you with a little conspiracy theory. I'm going to remind you as well if you'd like to donate to me after hearing today's show you could certainly do that at angry alpaca tea like a tea you would drink tea angry alpaca tea at gmail.com that is our paypal uh you can just donate there i get 100 of that money paypal takes very very very little it's like 0.3 it's almost nothing uh but i then if you want to keep hearing fun funny common uh uh commentary like this on the pinball industry and what's going on in pinball and pinball tournaments and more interviews. Remember, I brought you more interviews than anyone else in pinball other than maybe Jeff Teal's pinball profile. So if you want to keep hearing those as well, please buy some coffee. Just type Angry Alpaca Coffee and Tea into Google. Click on the Purchase Now button if you're going from our Facebook page or just go right to our Shopify Squarespace page and you can just shop right from there. I always forget which one it is. It's one of the two. But here's the last thing I want to leave you with. Eminem recently just would have been, what, four days ago? Five days ago, Eminem released his new single, Houdini, which you might recognize as also a pinball machine by American Pinball. American Pinball had a really cool backlash for Houdini. And the new single, if you look at the image for Houdini and Eminem, looks suspiciously close to a pinball background. In fact, it looks kind of suspiciously close, using the same colors and the same font as Houdini by American Pinball. It's not identical by any means, shape, and form. I'm not suggesting Eminem would be in trouble or copyright court. Hold your horses, David Fix. Grab onto that mustache. Hold onto your hat. Don't start suing Eminem yet. No, I don't think he replicated it. But I would be shocked if, A, he didn't get the name, possibly, perhaps, from pinball. Because we know he loves pinball. He's mentioned it multiple times. Why haven't we seen an Eminem or Snoop Dogg pinball machine? Let's see it. hip-hop needs some pinball, and pinball needs some hippity-hoppity. All right, so I'm going to play a little bit of Houdini. The other thing is, he also talks about abracadabra. You know, abracadabra, I'm gonna reach out and grab ya. But I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't do that. That's the lyrics, guys. I wouldn't do that. Don't worry. I will always get consult. Consult, oh my god. I will Always get consent before I touch your elbow. Don't worry. But anyways, here is Eminem singing to the... Is that the Eagles or something? I don't know. I don't like the Eagles. I'm an ordained Judas Priest. I do not love the Eagles. But here is Eminem doing Houdini. And you can hear some of that cool early 80s, late 70s song float into it. Go check out the image. Let me know. You can email me at pimmelnerds at gmail.com. And if you're Stern Marketing Department, or you're the person who emailed Jason from Pinball Party to apologize to him for him not getting invited, I've almost done 600 episodes where I've shouted out Stern Pinball on almost every single show. So if you want to send me a little quick tiny baby apology, I would love to read it on air and give you all a little bitty of flowers. So there you go. All right, until next time, pinball nerds, remember to eat, sleep, and breathe. And go over and support I.E. Pinball. Go like, subscribe. I got more bitties to even give him than I did already. this time. Yes. Oh, and thank you, Dennis Creasel of Eclectic Gamers. You gave me the shout-out for joining your Patreon. I did join five Patreons. That episode's now gone, because I said I was a little bit of a negative Nancy and a Debbie Downer. I don't want to be known as that guy in pinball. I want to go back to being the guy that's so freaking positive I got rainbows flying on my arse, as they said after I was on Canada's Pinball Podcast. That's the Orby that I want to be, the positive guy who helps tournament pinball and puts people on the map. Until next time, let's listen to a little bit of Eminem's new hit single, Houdini. Cadabra, Cadabra. I'm about to reach in my bag, bruh. Cadabra, Cadabra, Cadabra. I'm about to reach in my bag, bruh. Just like that, I'm gonna grab ya. Until next time, Pitbull Nerds, remember, pay, play before you pay. That is the way.