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Pinball Junk Drawer Episode 92 - Pinball Events, Pinball Articles and General Pinball Whatnot

Poor Man's Pinball Podcast·podcast_episode·39m 2s·analyzed·Feb 26, 2026
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TL;DR

Pinball Junk Drawer covers media events, venue updates, and 1980s pinball ordinances.

Summary

Foghorn Leghorn and Craft Brew Sally discuss pinball events, media appearances at Stern Pokemon preview, venue expansions at Glow in the Park, and historical pinball ordinances from the 1980s. They reflect on positive experiences at recent tournaments and media events, touch on game reviews (Star Wars, Winchester, Pokemon, Rush), and announce local venue activities and expansions.

Key Claims

  • Stern held a media event for Pokemon pinball machine before public release

    high confidence · Hosts attended and played Pokemon at Stern media event, comparing it to other recent game previews

  • Pokemon Limited Edition machines will be in high demand and command significant aftermarket prices

    medium confidence · Foghorn speculates that influencers with money attending the event will buy machines, LEs will be gone and command big money

  • Lumberjack Johnny's locations will receive Pokemon and Beetlejuice pinball machines; Winchester coming soon

    high confidence · Hosts confirm both Lumberjack locations getting Pokemon and Beetlejuice, note Winchester ordering in progress

  • Glow in the Park is expanding to a second floor with 10 additional pinball machines and seating area

    high confidence · Craft Brew Sally attended Ladies Flip Galentine's event at Glow in the Park and was told about expansion

  • 1980 newspaper articles show pinball machines were still heavily regulated and controversial in American towns

    high confidence · Foghorn found articles from newspapers.com from 1980 discussing Madeira City Council and Oyster Bay ordinances restricting pinball

  • Roger Sharpe's famous 'trouble with a capital T' phrase may have originated from a 1980 newspaper article

    medium confidence · Foghorn found the same phrase in a 1980 Madeira article by Tom Wall, notes it appeared in Roger Sharpe movie and book

Notable Quotes

  • “It's fun, and I love that universe, you know. People say, oh, the dumb swirly thing. Don't care. It's fun. It's all fun.”

    Foghorn Leghorn @ ~18:00 — Defends enjoyment of Star Wars pinball despite community criticism

  • “I love that game. I want to get to play that again. Like, I want to play that again right now. I didn't want to leave that game.”

    Foghorn Leghorn @ ~22:00 — Enthusiastic endorsement of Pokemon pinball after playing at media event

  • “Sometimes it's okay just to play a pinball machine and have fun. Score be damned.”

    Craft Brew Sally @ ~24:00 — Philosophical statement about casual vs. competitive pinball play

  • “They still wrestling with the horrors of pinball at this point in our life. 1980. And they're still talking about like they don't want children having them.”

    Foghorn Leghorn @ ~38:00 — Reflects on regulatory resistance to pinball persisting into the 1980s

  • “Fox Valley is blowing up pinball-wise, man. We're climbing the ladder. Pretty righteous up here.”

    Craft Brew Sally @ ~76:00 — Celebrates local pinball venue growth in Fox Valley area

Entities

Stern PinballcompanyPokemon (pinball game)gameGlow in the ParkorganizationLumberjack Johnny'sorganizationWinchester Mystery House (pinball)gameStar Wars (Stern pinball)gameRoger SharpepersonZach SharppersonCraft Brew Sallyperson

Signals

  • ?

    code_update: John Wick pinball code has received updates/improvements that enhanced community perception of game

    medium · Foghorn notes 'the code has come around on that game' referring to John Wick, suggesting post-release improvements improved playability

  • ?

    community_signal: Stern's media preview events function as goodwill outreach and strategic press/influencer engagement beyond major trade shows

    high · Foghorn explicitly discusses Stern's strategic choice to host separate media event rather than rely solely on TPF, notes this is discretionary expenditure showing commitment to coverage

  • ?

    event_signal: Ladies Flip tournament series continues with success; next event planned at Nikki's Magic Kingdom; established as regular community gathering

    high · Craft Brew Sally reports attending Ladies Flip Galentine's event, played multiple machines, finished mid-range, event expanding to new venue

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Star Wars pinball receives mixed reception: defenders appreciate gameplay fun despite mechanical/design flaws; critics focus on 'swirly' mechanic and other issues

    medium · Foghorn defends game as fun despite community criticism about 'dumb swirly thing'; both hosts acknowledge game has flaws but remain positive

  • ?

    historical_signal: Pinball regulation and municipal resistance persisted through 1980s despite video game industry growth; narrative of pinball as 'dens of horror' continued from earlier prohibition era

    high · Foghorn documents 1980 newspaper articles from Madeira City Council and Oyster Bay discussing pinball restrictions, licensing requirements, and youth protection ordinances

Transcript

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0:00
Now who's responsible, I say, who's responsible for this unwarranted attack on my person? I say, I say, I say, pay attention now, boy. This is, of course, Foghorn Leghorn presents the Pinball Junk Drawer. You all asked for it, I say, you all asked for it now, you're gonna get it. Boy, oh boy, are you gonna get it. Go, I say, go away, boy, you bother me. And it's time for the one, the only, the only pinball podcast that has more signage and banners in boxes than they do on the walls. I'm talking about everyone's favorite pinball junk drawer. My name's Foghorn Leghorn. With me, as always, Craft Brew Sally. And all that spells trouble with a capital T. And that rhymes with P, which makes it stand for pinball. And that's come up more in my life than you'd think. And I'll come on that later. Okay. anyway be that as it may and I doubt if it was what do we got going on this week crap you Sally oh this has been a week already and it's only Wednesday so this is show 92 for those of you keeping track at home right I did want to make a public service announcement right off the bat okay we are trying to get a little bit more engagement as it were so So, first of all, Crack Roozali has a, what is that thing called? A page? Facebook page. No, the other thing that everyone does now. Instagram. That one. We have an Instagram that you can follow. Yes. The Pinball Junk Drawer, I'm assuming. We also have a Facebook page that you can follow. Oh, sure. Everyone loves Facebook. But also, we wanted to have a bit more, if you have questions or if you have topics that you'd like us to talk about or if you just want to say hi, or if you want a free sticker, no strings attached just send us shoot us an email at pinballjd at gmail.com yes now wait a minute while you go get a pen or get a dull nail to scratch into your forearm or you can see it in the show notes yeah there's that too you just click a link when I was lazy folks I would be all like look at me I'm clicking a link right so it's pinballjd at gmail.com and we're you know we have some stuff coming up in the near, not future, yeah, I guess near future, at some point, where we hope to have some emails that we're going to kind of get out there in a different format. More on that at some other time. But why not practice and say, hey, Foghorn, what do you think about this? Or, hey, Crafter Sally, what do you think about that? Or the other thing. Or how many signs do you actually have in boxes? Or how many banners did you just discover you had? or how many trans lights did you just find out that you had about Star Wars? Anyway, more than you'd think and more than I even remembered, and that's scary. I was like, Crafter Sally got me that one that I talked about on air, that awesome, you know, that Zach Sharp sent us. And I was like, oh, Zach, you're awesome, and thank you, Crafter Sally. And I'm digging through, like, air quotes, artwork, but I have a gigantic box full of all rolled up, and I'm, what the hell is this? Mandalorian Translight. Yeah, I have a Mandalorian Translight. And then I'm racking my brain for the life of me. I couldn't remember. Turns out I won it from flipping out pinball. Was it a Christmas giveaway maybe? Oh, I don't know. Anyway, yeah, I just found it. And I was like, oh, we have two Star Wars Translights that we need to buy those little light frames for. Boy, are those expensive. I was like, grr. First one, then the other. unless it's on shipping I was going to say shipping I might write them and say are you guys by any chance going to be at Expo if so I can wait until Expo and let's cut the shipping let's do a deal bring two of them I'll pay you and just give me them and that way we can have two brand new Star Wars trans lights all shiny and bright and like wow I can put them right next to all the boxes and boxes of other light up signs all about pinball that have no home whatsoever in our house. If only we had walls.
Foghorn Leghorn
person
Jack Dangerperson
Keith (Kyle)person
District 82organization
Texas Pinball Festival (TPF)event
Rush (pinball)game
John Wick (pinball)game
Venom (pinball)game
Avengers Infinity Quest (pinball)game
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (pinball)game
Beetlejuice (pinball)game
Rachelperson
Daveperson
Nikki's Magic Kingdomorganization
  • ?

    historical_signal: Potential discovery of original source material for Roger Sharpe's famous 'trouble with capital T' phrase in 1980 newspaper archives

    low · Foghorn found identical phrase in 1980 Madeira article by Tom Wall, speculates whether Sharpe quoted the article in his book or if Wall quoted Sharpe/movie; unclear which is original

  • $

    market_signal: Fox Valley region experiencing significant pinball venue growth and concentration (multiple locations with regular events)

    high · Hosts note Fox Valley has Lumberjack Johnny's (2 locations), District 82, Glow in the Park, plus their own basement; describe as 'blowing up pinball-wise'

  • $

    market_signal: Pokemon LE edition expected to be in very high demand with significant aftermarket appreciation

    medium · Foghorn speculates influencers attending media event will purchase machines, predicts LEs will sell out and command premium prices on secondary market

  • ?

    announcement: Pokemon pinball machine officially previewed at Stern media event; available for play and confirmed to arrive at multiple locations (Lumberjack Johnny's, Glow in the Park, others)

    high · Hosts attended Stern media event, played Pokemon extensively, confirm machines arriving at two Lumberjack Johnny's locations and Glow in the Park

  • ?

    product_strategy: Winchester Mystery House pinball confirmed in production for delivery to Lumberjack Johnny's locations; high community demand

    high · Hosts confirm Winchester ordering in progress for both Lumberjack locations; Craft Brew Sally expresses strong enthusiasm based on previous plays

  • ?

    venue_signal: Glow in the Park expanding to second floor with 10 additional pinball machines and expanded seating

    high · Craft Brew Sally reports direct information from venue staff about expansion plans including games and seating area

  • ?

    venue_signal: Lumberjack Johnny's hosting regular themed events including speed dating (Saturday) and Friday night themes; frequent pinball tournaments

    high · Hosts confirm speed dating event at Lumberjack Johnny's Saturday 6pm, mention regular Friday theme events and frequent tournaments

    • 4:20
    We're going to start a pinball juncture. Go fund me. Let's fund some walls to hang up. Help Foghorn, Leghorn, and Craft Bruce Alley get some walls. Not only do we have many banners, like 20-ish, we also have many signs. We got that infinity sign, and we got a spooky sign, and we got those big pop bumpers for Godzilla, and now we have some translights. I have lowbrow art. About $400 million worth of lowbrow art framed. The art's worth about $20. The framing, that's the $400 million. I need walls for all that crap. We should see if we can get those small versions of the lady and the man that are at Lumberjack Johnny's. Yeah, see? Oh, that would be so awesome. I'm thinking instead of doing like actual walls let's just put like two by fours and I'll just literally nail them every couple of feet and I'll just hang crap on them it doesn't matter check it out our walls will be covered with crap and then you won't see that there isn't actually walls there it'll be just glorious I'm saying no oh Captain Bringdown over here look at me I'm all fancy I want walls up to code and things oh the tyranny I live under daily Oh, my goodness. Can't be expressed in words. People are like, why are you speeding? And how come you're doing that? And what's that smell? It always comes back to me.
    5:48
    What's that smell? Ooh, that smell. The smell of Foghorn Langhorne and pinball around you. My goodness. Wow. Yeah. So anyway, on to less nonsensical things. That's what this show is all about. I shouldn't promise, but we'll try. Stay on track. We've got to stay on track. is important pinball stuff we're talking about. It's this week three of I wish I had a Pokemon. I'll tell you that much. Yes. Wow.
    6:16
    Now, we went to the media, Pokemon media event. And that's always, we always reflect on the fun, you know, because it is, these trips have kind of become almost some of my favorite things in the world. We spend time together. We just hang out and you're kind of carefree of playing pinball and Stern, when you go to Stern, it's kind of like a, it really is kind of euphoric to me. You know what I mean? It's like when we would go to Disney. Yeah. That was like my, oh. You just like walk through the gates and you're like, oh. Surrounded by stuff I love. Yeah. Kind of cares leave for a few hours, you know. And you can just enjoy stuff. And I will, that also, I've noticed that when you play a game, when you go to a media event and you play or like i always think of that metallica where i had a really good game there yeah it's almost we weren't there for the media event in my brain i've converted something to that but that that's not true we went to the media event at expo where we stood in line for 48 hours because because three jerks up front were like get me i'm gonna play for 45 minutes and uh awesome that was cool and then only only the house ball three in a row and be like well that was about four hours i could never get back thanks thanks whoever decided it was time to gc a game at an event right yeah whatever so i'm not bitter about it no but like you you do walk away like they they could like i don't say like you just like you look at it and you're like so kind of whipped up yeah you know the game because you've been thinking about it for like two weeks before you get there. Because that's usually how long... Ten days, one might say.
    8:02
    Ten days before. Because I'm always a scooch short on that two weeks they want for my work. But I'm like, maybe I can let it slide. They're understanding. Mine too. But it's like, you get ten days. And you're so excited to go. And you're like, oh, what's it going to look like? What's it going to do? I do stand by the... I like the Star Wars a lot. Yes. I know some don't care for it.
    8:30
    And me saying I like something doesn't mean it has no flaws. Right. Everything has flaws if you poke at it enough, you know. I really like playing that Star Wars game. I do, too. It's fun, and I love that universe, you know. I had a really good game at the, what do you call it? Oh, at the... Ladies Flip Galantix. That's for later. That's for later, yeah, Ladies Flip. And it's just, I enjoy it. Yeah. And people say, oh, the dumb swirly thing. Don't care. It's fun. It's all fun.
    9:00
    Then when we played Pokemon, which I don't know anything very, I don't know very much about the Pokemon world. No. I love that game. I want to get to play that again. Like, I want to play that again right now. Like, that was, I didn't want to leave that game. Right. You know. I felt the same way. we are very fortunate that Lumberjack Johnnies will be getting one both locations will be getting one and also Glow in the Park nice I gotta collect them all I know I'm gonna push you down for them that's so sad we just do two player and then I know Lumberjacks is gonna get beetlejuice yep and they supposed to be getting winchester oh i cannot wait i only had that one game at expo in winchester now you had a you had a second game i did at glow in the park glow in the park for galentine yep before your uh event now how was it as good as the first time because yes my brain barely remembers playing it other than I liked it. I know. Because you were standing in line and then there was people all around you. So this time I got to play it and it was before an event so there weren't a whole bunch of people there and it was quiet.
    10:25
    It's kind of eerie. That's perfect. That's what you want. You want to be kind of a little scared. Yeah, a little bit. Now did you see the ghost pepper effect thing? Did you launch that at all? No. I didn't have a great game on it, but I did play it. Fun and great game are two separate things often. Sometimes that Venn diagram overlaps, and you're like, that was a great game, and I love that game. But yeah, sometimes you're just having fun, and eh, score be damned.
    10:58
    I'll let people that care only about score take a minute and then calm down and get back under the chair after I just said that. But sometimes it's okay just to play a pinball machine and have fun.
    11:08
    So I cannot wait to spend more time on that game. I really, that's one I wish we could have, but I understand, like, in that setting, man, that Expo line was around the tent, and it never wasn't around the tent. Right. You know? Yep. I don't feel the same way about Predator, but that's not saying it's a bad game. I don't, like, we played Predator, and I was like, oh, this is a pretty fun game. Yeah. Like, it's a fun game. And who's that? Is that Dutch? Dutch.
    11:36
    No, maybe it's not Petretti. No. I should know this. Sorry, folks. Anyway, I'll look this up and crap Drew Sally will correct us after our next break. I can't remember who does it. But that was a fun game. And then, but this, like, that Winchester's kind of, like, different. Like, I really, really had fun playing that. I really want to play that again. Yeah. But nothing pales in comparison to, it all pales in comparison to Pokemon. on yeah i i i love that game it's so fun at that gym cat cat catico catio cat face man i don't know sure meow three meow four all the meow meow two meow meow meow nine meow 12 all all the meows i want to i want to fight them all and uh you know it just is like so it's shot so nice yeah But those media events are so fun to go to. You get to see the game. You get like 20, 25 minutes alone with the game. Yeah. But you also get to see all these people that, you know. You kind of get to know them a little bit. Right. Like we got to see Zach. We got to see Jack. We got to see Joel. And Keith. Kyle. Keith. My best friend Keith. who I invite to all my softball games and volleyball games because he's very tall.
    13:02
    And if you don't know who it is, neither does he because I don't have his name right. I never get it right. This is Kyle, right? Kyle. His name is Kyle. I should remember that because Kyle, you know, the Terminator, you know. Kyle Reese. Get to the chopper, Kyle. But, you know, these are people that you, like, hope to one day see from across a room. And now you're like, you know it's it's very odd for me it's fun but it is yeah yeah it was just it was and you know i always kind of like think about the event because that is an outlaying of time and money from stern that they don't have to do right and and like i'm not it's not completely like the goodness of their heart or anything like that i don't mean it that way i'm not naive but it's also like this is an expenditure that they're like putting out there and kind of going okay let's try and get some of the media to have time with this so they can talk about it in a more, I don't want to say correct way, but like with some of more of the facts presented to them from the company that's doing it. But it's also just like a nice thing. It's a goodwill thing. They could have easily just said, we're waiting for the, what's the Houston event? Texas Pinball Festival. That TPF. We're waiting for that. and then they're not paying anything extra other than shipping stuff there and they would have had just as much or more coverage but it's like they do that little bit extra and that's kind of a good thing so applaud them I think that means a lot to the people that are there you know what I mean like and their viewers and their listeners now I don't pretend that we have a gigantic audience it's fine I guarantee some of those people that are doing those YouTube channels and some of those, like, maybe those Pokemon influencers, you might be talking, like, a lot of viewers. And now they know, wait, there's a pinball machine. And some of them probably have established themselves. They have money.
    15:10
    I'm buying that pinball machine. Now they're not going to get an LE because those are gone. and those are going to command big money in the aftermarket the black market get your bitcoin out and go to the dark web for a pokemon machine none of that's true don't go to any of those places just go play pokemon this is pretty righteous I always look back on those and think through this one was a quick turn I would have loved to play more pinball there but I always will say that. Even when Crabby Sally drags me out of a place as they're closing, the guy's like, we're going, and he's flicking the lights, and I'm like reaching for one more game. I still go, I could have played one more game. I wouldn't have stopped to tie my shoe or if I would have pushed that kid down. I could have got that one machine, one faster. Right before the exit there.
    16:06
    This is a true story, folks. I didn't push a kid over that anyone saw. or there's no recorded video of you pushing any kids down to get to a pinball machine. No, no. We used to live in Florida, as you all know. But there was a place at Disney called Disney Quest, which was, I want to say, three floors, four floors of video games, pinball machines. That was a wild place. Oh, my God. All kinds of stuff, like the snowmobiles that you sit on. Yeah. All kinds of stuff. And they had that one thing that you do your own roller coaster. Oh, my goodness. Oh, my God. That was glorious. I used to go over that, and I'd do one, and I'd go right back and do a second one. I fell for that once.
    16:53
    See, the trick with that is if you really want to make someone want to throw up, everyone goes, I'm going to go super fast and do loop and loop and loop. No, no, no. I go as slow as possible and then do 12 loops in a row. And the thing goes, are you sure? And I go, yup. and barrel flip flip but you're going just ask everyone that's ever gone on one of those with me like I said I fell for it once that was it but they had a lot of games and video games open to close 9am to 1am or something like that it was some insane thing I think one time you even had like you had an incident in at the house that same weekend and you may have had broken ribs and you couldn't breathe. Oh, that's right. You're like, I'm not leaving here. I broke my own ribs and I still went. That's how dumb I am. But anyway, I survived. I didn't go on the roller coaster that time. Who knows? But I think we were there the whole time now. Time two. Oh, goodness. Good times, folks. Anyway, back to pinball. One of the other things I wanted to cover was some more articles I found. I'm back on the... We always have been, but I pulled the computer out to a more accessible place and I've been going on the newspapers.com again. I don't know if anyone listened for a long time. I was going on newspapers.com and that has millions and millions of newspapers scanned from way back. They have one of the earliest ones. I can't, I'm not going to say it because it's like the 1400s are some crazy thing. So what I did was I started searching the term pinball from like the 1800s. And I was doing it by century up until like the late 1800s. Then I'd get a hit, but it was like pinballs were talking about people making for church. They'd make the balls that hold pins. And I was like, well, that's not right. And I kind of kept going and fast forward until it hit like the 30s. And I started getting actual articles about what we now know as pinball.
    19:08
    So then I went by decade. And then as it flared up, I went by year. And I just kind of have been reading articles and reading about things and just all this other stuff. So now I got to the 80s. So I have a couple articles this week from 1980 exactly and they talking about like these places like Madeira City Council is talking about ordinance on pinball machines and NASA is talking about, this is February of 1980 and it's a New York edition of NASA. It's talking about the town of Oyster Bay and it's proposing this ordinance about like, They're still wrestling with the horrors of pinball at this point in our life. 1980.
    19:59
    And they're still talking about like they don't want children having them. And you can only have one or two machines if you own a bar. And then you have to card people. I don't remember any of this crap. Do you remember this? Like the Slate Bowl in Pennsylvania wasn't carding anybody. You could get cigarettes out of those machines. they would have sold you liquor if they had any to sell you like yeah but it was like one of those things where you're like they're still talking about like you know like one guy was trying to start a pinball place but he had the machines in place but they didn't give him the thing and they're like well now you can't have it because you assumed you'd have it and there's they keep talking about how like this that they're dens of horror and and you know all these dope smoking kids are gonna spend their like lunch money you're like what the hell are you talking about like I've never seen a kid go hungry because he had to go play pinball where did this narrative come from this is the beginning of video games because one of the articles was talking I was talking about their pinball was still people still loved it but it was starting to transition to video games in these arcades that were permitted by whomever you know it was just and you start like i keep kind of thinking like where did that even come from it was it must be the leftover from like when it was illegal from the mob or something in the 40s and 50s but you're like the 80s we're talking about pinball ordinances in the 80s but there we are you know well isn't at that time wasn't like pac-man out and well 81 was Space Invaders. I think you're right. You know what I mean? Yeah, 78, 80. That was like the heyday of it. Right. So they're still yapping about, like, what are you, huh? Yeah. The ice rink is going to crack down on the problems with the pinball area. Because they're mad because people are going there to play pinball, not roller skate. And you're like, well, one of those is going to break your knee when you fall. One of them ain't. Shouldn't be if you're playing right. But it was just like they're so, I guess I didn't expect to be reading that. In the 80s. Because how much, like the Pac-Man games, they took all the kids' quarters. All of them. Yeah. Pac-Man actually came around and shook you up. He held you upside down and shook you to make sure there was nothing left in your pockets. And then those ghosts came out and punched you in the kidney. And they're like, get out of here until you get more quarters, kid. And then they would kick you down the road and go waka, waka, waka. And then they'd go back behind the machine, at least once I saw that, I think. But, you know, it was just one of those weird, weird things.
    22:44
    And I don't know my second thing that I found on the article. Yeah, well, then the other one made me laugh because this was something that was in the Roger Sharp movie, and I started the show with it.
    22:58
    This Madeira tilts with ordinances on pinball, and Mr. Tom Wall of 1980 wrote, when the Madeira City Council meets tonight, it will try to spare the city trouble with a capital T, and that rhymes with P, and it stands for pinball. Now, that was something I laughed at because that very funny guy from the Roger Sharp movie said that. He picked up the phone when Roger Sharp was very despondent and angry or upset about something, or he got hollered at because he didn't know the back issues. And he said that. And then I read it in Roger Sharpe's book. And then this popped up in this article. And I was like, was this like an actual phrase? Or did Roger Sharpe write that in the book, but then they did it in the movie, but this guy read the book? Like maybe Tom Wall read Roger Sharpe's book and liked it and quoted that? I don't know. I had never heard that phrase before, and it struck me as something. I have to make that into a poster somehow. And I'll just hang this on the imaginary walls that we don't have down here. And I'll just have that guy's face that played that funny guy from that movie. And no one's going to get the reference but me. But I'll giggle each time.
    24:13
    Yes. And on to more important things. What do you got going on? This Saturday at 6 p.m., Lumberjack Johnny's is going to be having a speed dating event. Wow. Yeah. You're not going on. I am not. Okay, good. It sounds interesting, though. Yeah. it'd be fun to like sit there and riff on it like riff tracks or like mystery science theater you're like hey look at this clown just say things and then he'd come over and hit you so that probably wouldn't be very fun but making fun of them would be fun but anyway you should go not me but you the listeners and I was being mean I was just joking about the mystery science theater yeah so that's cool they have like stuff every week don't they yeah I think They do like theme Fridays. Friday nights. I don't think they're doing anything in March, though, because I think there's a bunch of events going on, like MGC is going on. I think there's – is TPF coming in March? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so. So they're going to be on the road and rolling. Yeah. So that'll be fun, though, still. Yeah. Make sure you're popping in every Friday. And just for fun, dress from the one before it. Like so if it's punk week, dress like it's a date, speed dating and start trying to ask people out. I don't think the speed dating is every week and this is Saturday, not Friday. And then for the next one, dress as a punk and then you get the joke. Ah, fun times. No. Yeah. We went, we did, we were over at a Lumberjack Johnny's like last week, was it? Yeah. I think it was last week. Got to play some. You saw Rachel. I saw Rachel and Dave. Dave, yeah. Hang on. I'm talking to Dave. That was cool. Yes. It always is. Yes. All right. Go support Lumberjack Johnny's either in Green Bay or in Appleton.
    26:09
    Both are happening places. The Whopper Chopper is coming up, too. Ooh, Whopper Chopper. You could win an actual pinball machine. Yes. At MGC, they're going to sell tickets. Yeah, and that comes with a swag bag, too. Yeah. You get some free goodies. I don't know what it is. Yeah. I don't know if it's goodies or a goody, but yeah. Nobody's going to quote me on anything, I don't think. If they do, shame on them, really.
    26:41
    Foghorn said I get a swag back. They're like, uh-huh. What else did he say that episode? Let's listen.
    26:51
    We've been fact-checking you. 0.03% of the things you say have any meaning or have any factual basis whatsoever. we laugh because we can so you also had an event you went to I did two weeks ago I don't know I think it was two weeks ago because last weekend was a lost weekend it was warm and then it got very cold and we just pretended like there wasn't an outside for a weekend and that was okay too I didn't mind it I went to the ladies flip galentine's event at Glow in the Park in Oshkosh. Nice. Yeah. It was really fun. I really liked that, going there. Yeah. Well, you always have fun at those. I do. The ladies flip. I do. Next one is going to be at Nikki's house. I'm so excited. Oh, my God. Nikki's Magic Kingdom. That's going to be the best thing ever. I'm trying to think what I'm going to wear. Maybe my Disneyland sweatshirt. I don't know. Right. You should dress up full on like a princess. I should. And then whenever you win, just tap everyone else with your wand. And be like, first place, first place, first place. So no one would ever get dinged. And then do a pirouette and then flutter away.
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    And be like, don't ever invite her there again. So that would be fun. Did you place or anything? I was about mid-range, like usual.
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    Played some fun games. I actually had so I got there and I played Winchester but then I was like Rush was there and I hate Rush I hate that game so much not the band no the game I want to like the game I think I should spend more time on it so I walk up to it and I'm like okay I really hate you but I'm going to play you that's how you start a transaction with a pinball machine because this is what's going to happen I'm going to have to play you today Yes. That's, guess what game I had to play first round? Ah, yeah. Rush. And guess what? Modern Day Warrior. First place. Mean, mean child. Today's Tom Sawyer. I took first place in that one. Nice, see? Yeah. That was from the chat, the game before. It was. So no I actually had my two best games ever on that game Nice So yeah Got a bunch of poopy Yeah that more important than winning really So I played Rush and then Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles That game's hard. It is. It's so hard. So hard. That's one of the hardest spin-mo machines I've ever stepped up to. I mean, I'm sure there's people that are very good at it. I am very not good at it. I'm like, oh. No. I don't know. Something about it. There is. then I played John Wick Venom Avengers Infinity Quest and then how did you do on Avengers? I think I was third I'm not so good at that game I like it but I don't think I'm playing it right there's a lot of decisions you have to make and I know I'm not using the right guy for scores I kind of just watched what the people in front of me were doing and then picked the same person so you know but then I played Star Wars follow the empire and going into i was i played third and there were only three of us on this one and i was like i had the worst game going after my second ball i had 10 million and i was like i've never had 10 million on this before ever yeah and then so i played ball three and i got to 112. Triumphant recovery. But not first place because it was 120. No.
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    If you have a good ball, you can light that game up. Yeah. I did. I've always kind of liked Wick. I know people don't like Wick as much. I liked Wick. I like John Wick a lot. I think that's a fun game that's kind of underappreciated. Venom. Venom's hit or miss with me. I don't hate the game. No. It is Rant Mania running wild on you. I'm like, okay.
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    It's a fine game. I just don't play it very much. But I do usually play John Wick at least once when we go to Lumberjack Challenge because I kind of think it's a fun game. I don't know. A lot of people don't like it. I like it. I think there's a lot going on. And the code has come around on that game. That's one that the code has kind of came around. So you had fun. I did. And you're looking forward to the next one, and you got to play Winchester, so I'm jealous. I know. But they have some great stuff going on there, too.
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    They are expanding, and they're going to have a second floor. Wow. So they're going to be able to have 10 more machines upstairs. Oh, that's cool. And a seating area and stuff, which I think they're going to need because this was at, like, I think registration started at 12, and then the tournament started at 1. Yeah. But they were backed up for tee times for the miniature golf. Yeah. Well, Glow in the Park was, we were there a couple times, and they have a lot of pinball machines there. They do. Yeah. So they're going to put more, and they're going to do a second floor. That's awesome. So, I mean, they were, I think, when I was up front playing one of the rounds, they had, like, a three-hour wait for tee times for the miniature golf. So it'll be nice, because they don't have very much of a waiting area downstairs. So upstairs is going to have tables and stuff and then 10 more games. Probably sell some food. Probably sell a little bit of food. Make some money. I don't know about food, but. Vending machines, man. You never know. Cool. All right. But they're getting some other kind of games in there like those coin pushers and some other stuff for kids, you know. Kids don't. Yeah. Yep. Pokemon will get kids playing pinball. Yeah. Don't worry about that. There's going to be plenty of kids playing pinball in the very near future. Yeah. So Fox Valley is blowing up pinball-wise, man. We're climbing the ladder. Pretty righteous up here. You got Lumberjacks 1 and 2. You got District 82, which is slamming. You got Glow in the Park. You got our basement. What more do you want? Right. All right. I think it's time for everybody. You got anything else we could? We gave a shout-out. Make sure you're going to Silver Ball Swag and buying some of our awesome shirts. Yes. Because, I don't know, I like that when people buy that. because I go, hey, somebody bought a shirt.
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    But whatever. And make sure you write us. And here's the drop-in for everyone's favorite thing. Craft Brew Sally Gonna have to put your journal down Craft Brew Sally time You've been to all the breweries around You've been rolling all over the town Tell me what to drink until I fall on the ground Yeah That's right, baby.
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    Alright, so now we're going to talk about beer. Because beer and pinball go together. So I'm going to talk about Puffer Vest brewed by Lion's Tail. Okay. It's a cold IPA. So this is the first time I've had a cold IPA. And what does that mean? That means that it is fermented with lager yeast at traditionally ale temperatures.
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    Huh. Yeah. It sounds like somebody just messed up and the guy was like, oh man, I used the wrong yeast and I put it at the wrong temperature. They're like, yeah, let's see where this goes. Right, and it was pretty good. I discovered cold IPA. What's that? I'm not throwing this away, so please buy this cold IPA. Yeah.
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    Was the flavor any different than the usual IPA? No, I didn't think so, but it's, you know. IPAs all kind of taste the same to me. I know that's a dumb statement because they're not the same. There's a wide variety of them, but every time I drink one, I'm like, this tastes a little bit like grapefruit, and okay, where's my beer? They don't all taste like grapefruit. No, of course not. No. I think the ones that you make me drink all taste like grapefruit for some reason. I'm like, eh. There's some really neat hops out there that make them taste like all kinds of stuff, like watermelon. And there's not even watermelon in it, but it tastes like watermelon. This one tastes like early spring grapefruit. This one tastes like midsummer grapefruit. And this one tastes like Mediterranean grapefruit. This is from grapefruit from later in the fall. Oh, my God. But also, if you are in the area, you can check out their... They have two breweries. Oh, did you ever check out the tap that you bought? I have not. Yeah. Well, I haven't actually bought it yet, so... Oh, okay. Well, I guess we can just cinch that up. In fact, Rosalia got a tap from them, and... I just remembered that. Did you forget that? Yeah, I forgot. Yeah. Oh, they threw that in the garbage line. So Lion's Tale is in Nina and Wauwatosa.
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    Wauwatosa. I think they go by Tosa. Okay. I think so. If you're ever in those two areas. Hit them up. Go check out Lion's Tale. I know the one in Nina is really cool. It's an old bank. Oh, it is. It's so neat. It's an old, old bank building. It's so cool. Yeah. What is it with breweries and banks? There's a second one. There's another one. Yeah, that other one is 202 Vault. Sure. No, Vault 202. 202, downtown, College Ave. They have really good beer. Yeah, they do. And they still have seating in the old vault, which is really neat because it still has the safe deposit boxes in there. That's very cool. Yeah. I might have a problem with breweries. Yeah, or banks, one or the other. All right. So you got anything else going on? Are we good? Are we done? Oh, no. What do you call it started? Oh, my God. Love Across America started with Project Pinball. So if you follow them on Facebook or Instagram, I think, you can follow their journey. Yeah. This is that one that Dan kind of like, well, the whole crew kind of goes across and like hits up a bunch of different ones. Yeah. Dedicating more. I'm not sure how many they're dedicating. I just know it started this week. So I think he's just in the driving process probably. Yeah. Probably heading to Texas to TPF. I think they go there. Very cool. I'll have more details for that next week. We did not win the Pokemon raffle. We always go in for the raffles.
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    Gosh, I have a bad streak with that. I haven't won nothing. Oh, well. That's why we don't. We donate a lot of money to Project Pinball. We do. That's okay. That's okay, too. And you can, too. Yes, you can too. Go to projectpinball.org. You'll be glad you did. But also, again, go to our Facebook page. Follow us.
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