All get around, he's on the rebound, Hear the sound of our buddy Elodie Torby, Pinball Nouts rejoice, He's tugging pinball, craft beer and coffee, Miff the syrup and honey, Homestead life with his family and the random tangents, Stories of his boys, He's on the poor man's pod network, We're gonna get more listeners, Pinball Nerds Podcast Coming to you from beautiful River Hibbert, Nova Scotia Welcome back Pinball Nerds to episode 538 of your fifth favorite pinball podcast. My name is Orbital Albert and on today's show we are going to be talking about, well, a huge variety of things because it's been a while since I've got to chat with you. We are going to be talking a little bit about Pokemon Pinball, the rumor that won't quit, and possibly Jack Danger's involvement in that. We're also going to be talking about the Poor Men's Pinball Podcast. Ian and Drew, where are you? And what is their future? And what's going to happen with them? And what's going to happen with me? And what's going to happen with the network? And that sort of stuff. We're also going to be talking a little bit about some hot gahs. www.willywonka.com www.pimballadventures.com Tom Green? I hope so. I hope it is. And if it's not going to be, could it be possibly? I hope so. And the last thing I'm going to tease you for at the end of the show is I am going to talk about, I am going to talk about, I talked about the last show, one of my celebrity, minor celebrity encounters possibly. This time we're going to talk about me partying and this will be not safe for work. So I will just say that by especially the last couple minutes of the episode. Not going to be safe for work but it's going to be talking about not just meeting and talking to but actually not even just hanging out with but partying with Tom Green. I might have mentioned in a previous show but that was probably a couple hundred episodes ago and frankly I don't know if I ever did. So here we go. And oh the last thing we're going to talk about today is 70 hours. The new Guinness World Record for the most number of hours played pinball consecutively with the asterisk of you do get a 5 minute break per hour was just broken recently so we're going to talk all about that coming up at the end of the show. But to start it off here I do have to say happy birthday to a couple awesome people in pinball. Of course Mike Dimas of Pinball Shenanigans over there very recently just a couple days ago. He's over there in Newfoundland. That comes all the way to the East Coast. My good buddy there, my pinball mentor so to speak, comes all the way to the East Coast and doesn't stop by Nova Scotia, arguably the most beautiful province on the East Coast of Canada. I get it though Mike, it's like 16 hours for you to get here from there. Newfoundland is kind of like, well, you know, they're half an hour off by time. They're kind of further away from all of us. I will be going to Fredericton tomorrow morning to the Capital City Sports Card Show. Depending on the Carl Weathers, it looks like the gusts are only going to be about 40 tomorrow morning, so I should be able to drive through that. Coming home a little trickier with gusts of up to 50 or 60. Of course, Saturday night, Hurricane Lee will be bearing down on us. Hopefully by then, fingers crossed, knocking on wood over here, hoping, hoping to God that it downturns. The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., Mirco Playfields, Tim Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi.aves Facebook bands that love to use Dolph Leitenberger's spotlight. And this is a time in which, you know, basically Hayden will already be home, Owen will already be home, my boys will already be home, we're going to be around, you know, no one has, we do have places to go because I actually am going to be at the Moncton Toy and Card Show on Sunday as well. But what I was saying is that like no one's going to miss out on work and if the power's gone and I miss out on a card show, it's not the end of the world or if we get bigger reigns than we thought or something like that. Tim Tim Kitzrow facebook.com At the end of the day The Loser Kid Pinball Podcast Josh and Scott over there at Loser Kid got a lot of great listens because they most recently had Scott Danesi talking about the soft relaunch, the soft, I'll call it, relaunch of Final Resistance over there at P3 Multimorphic. They had on Mr. Ocean, I believe. It wasn't Frank Ocean because he's like a singer, but I forget what his name is, but the programmer over there and that was interesting to hear his point of view because we've all heard Scott talk a little bit about it, but it was neat to hear it from the programming side as well. And he's got an interesting history in pinball. So go over there and listen to that Loser Kid interview if you haven't. And then of course after that, directly after that, Don, Don, I'd like to say he got his start here. You know, I don't want to pat myself on the back too much, but I discovered Don very early on. I've joined many of his live streams. I had the pleasure of talking to him much. And I was able to have him right here on the Poor Men's Pinball Network. Of course you can go back and listen to that. I haven't first Loser Kid, you know, you might get Elwin every other week, but I got Don first, just remember that. Five, ten years from now when Don is like the number one listened to pinball podcast, y'all are gonna, no I'm just kidding. I don't know if Don's going to number one, but I can tell you this, I'll be straight up, I've listened to like, not all Don's shows, I'm not gonna lie, but I've listened to a good chunk of them. And, uh, straight up I can tell you that like, I think he's a better podcaster than me. www.willywonka.com Also another friend of the show here who's been on there, Eskoozy. Okay, I had one too many coffees before I started the show. Probably need to do a little walk around first. Got a little bit of indigestion. Pep to Bismol, he's your friend. Okay, so, uh, anyways, go over there and listen to Don if you haven't. I think he's doing great things. We are going to talk about him and the beef. We're going to talk about the beef. Arby's, we have the beef. We're going to talk about that a little bit later. Let's start by talking about Final Resistance, the soft relaunch, and why I think from a marketing standpoint, from an advertising standpoint, from a sales standpoint, and from just honestly like Scott Danesi and the whole team I'm sure over there put so much fricking hard work into Final Resistance and it was almost like an all for naught. It was almost like, you know, when you have Foo Fighters coming out from Stern, you know, Jack Danger's arguably his rookie card. You know, I kind of think of his other one as his pre-rookie card, you know, his home pin that he made, the Jurassic Park one, right? I kind of think of that as his pre-rookie card, and I think of Foo Fighters really will go down as his first cornerstone, like first full-fledged, full-featured machine. And boy, it's gone down well. Speaking of Foo Fighters, this week we also got to see from Stern, The Making Of. And actually a couple years ago, I don't know if I've ever mentioned this, I probably have, but you know when you do 500 episodes you start to forget maybe some from three or four years ago or three or four hundred episodes ago, right? So but back whenever I went to Pemburg last five, six years ago, was it 2018? Are we getting on to close to six years since Pemburg? Ooh, I miss you Pemburg. Can we do a moment of silence for Pemburg? All right, that's long enough. I love you Pemburg, but while I was at Pemburg I went to go have lunch. And I was in line behind friend of the show, Julie Dorsers, and she said, oh, have you ever met Robert Gagnon? He was like two in front of us. Of course, one of the top players in Canada still to this day, was ranked number one in Canada for several years. Incredible docu-series or documentary called Wizard Mode was about him, which I believe is free now even on YouTube. Go watch it if you haven't, but it talks about Robert dealing with being autistic as well Find us at thego.'" I'm not sure if you're familiar with the author of the movie, but he's a gentleman who works for Stern and does these cool little mini videos that talks about the making of, and I believe it's the same gentleman they've had for some time. I could be wrong, I didn't look up the author, but those videos are done very well. It was really interesting to hear Jack talk about the making of Foo Fighters. It was really interesting for me to get to meet the gentleman from Stern who kind of did that and hear a little bit about the, you know, a little bit. He didn't give me any trade secrets, but we certainly sat there for longer than we had to, and he actually, I think he sat there while I did the interview. MeetLoinshearLynx at adfast. Sm wheelxt cytok I've gone off topic, what else would you expect here? Let's get into it. I've got a hurricane coming here. I've got a lot of stuff to get done. You have your day to get on with. Let's keep moving through it. The soft relaunch of Final Resistance. I think it's the smartest thing that they could do. I honestly truly believe that if American Pinball, David Fix, are you listening? If American Pinball and Steven Bowden, I think he works with the marketing as well, if you If you guys are listening, it would be super rad and probably really smart and cost you very, very little money to do a little, tiny, soft relaunch. And I get maybe that's kind of what was happening when we heard them all on Slam Tilt, but that wasn't enough. If you look at what Final Resistance did, Bowen Kerins was just on the Kinetasist and he was interviewed by them and he was talking all about the game there. I don't know if you guys just heard that, but Elwin was just scratching behind her ear there and she's about a foot and a half from the mic, so you might have heard that. Sorry, Luna. Sorry. No, I can't pet you right now. No, I'm on the... Okay, quick pets. There we go. Okay, I gave her little pets. Just for you listeners. I gave Elwin a little pet pet. Okay, so I think that it was very smart for them to do that. You heard, of course, you know, they... Where else were they? They were all over the place. It's like between Scott Danesi and I think did they do a Buffalo Pinball? Did they do another live stream where they were speaking to the coder gentleman as well, I think? Yeah, I believe so. So they did this soft relaunch that had video, it had news reports, it had audio for podcasts. It was very smart. They hit on all ends and I think that it would be extremely smart and they could make it kind of funny because it's coming up to Christmas and you know what? As much as I came down pretty hard I guess on GTF, I actually do think that Galactic Tank Force is a beautiful machine. They can work out the coding. It seems like it would be a fun, quirky machine, but I think if I were to just do my little mini top five from a guy who has an honors degree in marketing from the first semester. No, a guy who has a degree in marketing, I can tell you straight up, here's my mini top five. I worked at American Pinball or I was consulting there as a you know in the marketing department I would say here's the five things you should do during your soft relaunching and just be open and honest and say it's a soft relaunch we came out at a time that there was like five other pinball machines all released you could even be straight up and see hey we saw what awesome stuff Scott Danesi and P3 did with the soft relaunch and how that helped I guarantee you at the very least they've sold 10 maybe 15 percent more final resistances than they had in the previous months in just a week of doing a And that's it. Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this video. If you did, please subscribe to my channel and hit the bell icon so you don't miss any of my new videos. I'll see you next time. Bye! Bye! Bye! Bye! Bye! Bye! Bye! Bye! Bye! Bye! Bye! Bye! Bye! Bye! Bye! Bye! Bye! Bye! Bye! Bye! Bye! Bye! Bye! Bye! There's Lenographic or I normally would know the term for that, but it's basically when you turn it back and forth and it shows different models. That particular is probably the nicest translate I've ever seen in my life. So great job Franchi, especially just with the fact that it can turn back and forth. I don't know if it's the nicest. I'm going overboard. One of the nicest we've seen in a long time and I like the idea that they're doing that sort of thing again. Lenticular, that's what it is, Lenographic. Nice job, Warby. I think that if they were to say let's say they're taught their highest this is just off the top of my head I'm guessing they're low-end model they maybe make a thousand profit or fifteen hundred profit their medium model there that they did they probably get like fifteen hundred to two thousand profit and their top model I'd be shocked if they're not able to throw in at least twenty five hundred to three thousand profit so for their top tier let's say they dropped it of ten percent of their profit they dropped The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., Mirco Playfields, Tim Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. The Top 5 Things They Could Do in My Mini Top 5 for Today 2. They Need To Get In Some News Stories They need to go on one podcast, but they absolutely need to get in some news stories. They need to figure out a way to get on either with the Kinetasys or with the magazine. Is it Tilt Magazine? Anyways, they need to figure out some way to get in the zeitgeist. They need to figure out some way or form to actually like get people talking about them again. Then this is going to be imperative. They need to start live streaming more often. Look what Bug is doing. This is a great example as well. Bug from Spooky Pinball. They're live streaming once a week. They know that the fountain of just never ending sales and selling out is gone. So they are in there every week live streaming. Well, I've said this tons of times before. Steven Bowden is hands down, in my mind, if not the top 5, at least the top 10, perhaps even higher than that. I don't even know, I've never ranked them, but to me, listening to commentary, he is one of the best pinball commentary people on the planet. And he's doing this live for several tournaments per year. Why is American Pinball not using Steven Bowden to do a weekly livestream like Bug does? Like, Bug owns a frickin' company and he can manage to do it, right? Or at least his dad does, or he owns part of it, I don't know how it works. But what I'm saying is they have Steven Bowden there. I can't imagine that Steven Bowden is so busy and I don't know what he does there maybe is but I can't imagine he's so busy he couldn't do a one or one and a half hour live stream on Galactic Tank Force and maybe once every couple weeks they switch it up and he does like maybe he doesn't obviously they're primarily trying to sell GTF right now so it would be primarily that but you can you imagine if each week they just said okay now we're gonna work on trying to get the steal the cows from the ice cream they did a fun live stream and even maybe had a couple drinks and Personality of in a At the end of the day, the game is about to begin, so let's not get our panties in too early. If you're telling us right now that GTF's at 1.0 code, and that's all you're getting, baby, that's it. From what I've heard from people playing it, you're probably not gonna sell a lot more. Now if you're saying, okay, it's at .8, .9, we're getting close, but don't worry, there's still some things we need to add. We still have a mini wizard mode, we still have one or two multiballs to add, we're still gonna correct this. And at least you're giving the consumer an idea of what they're buying. The more information you give the consumer... Can you imagine if you went to a... People love car agreements and pinball. Can you imagine if I went to Toyota next week and y'all and I are considering, considering because our Toyota's, our Corolla's getting close to 300,000 clicks. I don't know how... I think it's 200,000 miles in the States is kind of the, you know, once it gets past that you start thinking you should sell it. Well, in Canada anyways, once you get over 300,000 clicks, and probably in most parts of Europe and Australia and such that use kilometers, you know, us regular folk, come on, when you get to 300,000 clicks, your car depreciates significantly. So you usually try to sell it. Well, we're considering trading in our car. If I went in to go buy an electric vehicle and I said, well, could you tell me approximately, like, how many kilometers, now that we have our solar up and going, by the way, I don't know if I mentioned that, our solar is finally 100% going. Oh my god, we've made like $170 since the start of the month off it. Mind you, it costs $100 to pay for the differential of what we owe on the system, so we're hypothetically in two weeks up $70. Wow, wowzy! Hey, that's enough for me to pay 70 awesome games of pinball on location. Unless you're at Propellercade in Halifax and you play the $2 Godzilla. It's still 35 games of Godzilla for free, so I'm not going to complain about that. I did notice we are using significantly more power, energy, hydro, whatever you call it, since we got Guardians of the Galaxy. I've been enjoying playing that a lot, but... What I was saying... Oh my god, I completely lost what I was talking about. I'm such an idiot. With American Pinball, if they were to drop the price, that would be one of the good things they could do. The second thing they need to do is Steven Bowden needs to be out there doing live streams. Needs to be. The third thing they need to do is they need to be getting in, you know, more social media. We were almost hearing from David Fix too much for like a year it feels like and now we don't hear from him at all. David Fix, where are you? Come on the Pinball Nerds Podcast. I'd love to chat with you. That's on me too. David Fix did agree to come on the show a couple months ago and I messaged him a couple times and it wasn't, the time wasn't working out. This quite often happens in podcasting, not just pinball podcasting, but the time doesn't really work out between the two of you. And honestly, I'm sort of a weird dude. I'm not ready to record a podcast all the time. I do apologize, it's been a couple weeks since I've been here. I did actually have a passing in the family. My Uncle John, God rest in peace. My Uncle John, who I was pretty close with and actually lived with on and off for about two years in my early 20s because he owned a house in downtown London. He lived in the outskirts and he would actually come into town on the weekends to go take pictures at jazz clubs and photograph that sort of thing. The Blues, he loved The Blues. He was the radio show host of The Blues Never Die. If you live in southwestern Ontario and you ever went to the London Blues Fest, he helped organize that and take pictures of that and knew the guy who ran it. And also he was on the air on, I believe, Wednesday nights for at least the last 20 years until just a few short years ago he was the host of The Blues Never Die. So shout out to Uncle John. I did take a little bit of extra time to process that. Plus, to be honest, just a couple times I went to record and just I wasn't in a good place. I didn't feel like recording and since I made my return to pinball podcasting I've told myself, hey, if you don't feel like talking pinball today, just don't do it. Like, you know, I that's part of the reason why I didn't do patreon. It's also because I've had so many generous people support the show and buy coffee so I haven't felt like I don't I feel like I'm people are more than generous with buying coffee and honestly just even listening to the I'm going to have to go to the show with how often I forget what I was talking about. I do want to thank Lord of the Rings Breath. Thank you so much for your order. That was sent out last week. On the same day, Steven Haberman, I know a lot of people, I think he's Habermania or Habermania on Twitch. You probably would know him. He was very active on the Pinball Nerds Podcast. I don't know if about very active, but I remember seeing him in the Twitch channel back when I did live streaming. They both ordered some coffee and tea for me. Thank you so much for that. I might, I never ever ever actually talk about which coffee and tea we actually have in stock. I might actually do that at the end of the show just because I feel like I'm not doing a great job kind of like advertising for my company. But you know, we're not going to do that right now. Right now let's get back to the number four thing that American Pinball could do in their mini soft launch. The number four thing they could do is really, really, honestly, genuinely just communicate with us more often what's going on. Communicate things like how, like do more live streams from, you know, maybe once a week even if it's not a live stream like a once a week video about, hey, these are getting shipped out, hey, this is happening, just more honesty, more truthfulness, more, you You know, like for instance when David Fix said that they had sold like 2000 GTFs the first day, it would seem to be that that probably wasn't true, even including every single distro they could have sold to. It would seem to me that that was a bit of a stretch, if not a lot of a stretch. And I love David Fix. I know he did a great job helping run that tournament, The Beast, there in Buffalo with Jeff Teolis, which I really want to do. I think that David is a very like well very funny dude very eccentric like good for the pinball industry I don know if he great for American pinball or the right person to be doing that because of course you know he kind of went from being everywhere to us not hearing from him recently So I think that they need to be a lot more honest. And the next thing, the biggest thing they need to do, and I've said this several times with many other companies, they drastically need to limit it. The We're capping this at $300 and we're only going to sell 50 more. Or whatever it is. If they've only sold 250, don't say, oh yeah, we're capping it at $500. It's going to take you 10 fricking years to sell the other 250. So cap it so the people who have already bought a GTF feel special. Cap it and you don't have to go back and number every single pin going back and you don't have to number every one going forward even though that would probably help. But if you say hey we're not going to build any GTFs more than this number and we want to get this done in the next six months Then it puts you know a fire under people's asses and especially the one can the one I wouldn't I would never order GTF for my house even if they brought the price down by a thousand bucks You brought it down by about two thousand for the lowest end and I won the lottery and I had a bar I would consider it, but if you own a pinball bar like The Bat Cave, Ace Goji, or Go-Gee, or whatever it is, that cool Korean barbecue place that has pinball that sometimes they get the first live streams of the first pins. If you own a pinball-centric bar, I would get GTF because it's going to do decent enough that you'll probably earn your money back, especially if you have a good tech to work on any issues because it seems like a good percentage of them have issues outside the box. I still think that GTF is a way better pin, let me repeat this, a way better pin than anything that came out from any boutiques in the last year other than Scooby Doo. Everything. I think that GTF blows away, and again, I haven't played many of these pins, okay? I live out in the booties, I live an hour away from anywhere that has pinball, and even in my own province, I live an hour and a half and a mountain range away from me going out to play crappy old... I love you John Borg, I'm loving my Guardians of the Galaxy, but wow. Okay, so those are the five things that GTF has to do. I've spent way too long on talking about the, you know, basically I think that done right, if they soft relaunch, my guess is they could sell 10, 15 to 20% more. Especially if, you know, there is no American pinball, like think about Dawn of Dawn's Pinball Don himself has done more live streams in the last month than we've seen of American Pinball in the last decade. Do you know what I mean? Like, if they have so many people working there that they're paying so much money to, why is no one doing social media? Why is no one doing advertising? Why do you only hear them on, like, I think one pinball podcast in the last six months? Do you know what I mean? There's people from every other company who have been on several pinball podcasts and I've been on YouTube channels and been in magazines like we gotta hear more from American Pinball. I am saying all this because I want American Pinball to succeed. Houdini is still to this day my favorite pinball machine from any boutique pinball company ever. And that's saying a lot because TNA is very close to being up there and I haven't played Rick and Morty but my assumption is Rick and Morty would be very close to being up there as well. So I love American Pinball. I want you to do well. I'm not trying to be a negative Nancy or Debbie Downer. What I'm trying to do is just give you some constructive criticism so that you guys can start selling some more pins. Because let's be honest, we don't want it to be just Stern and JJP. We want to see small companies do well and there to be more competition. And the more competition there is with more companies, the better it is for us pinball nerds, the more the companies fight over price, the less close it is to a monopoly or an oligopoly, the better. This is true among cell phone companies, among televisions, among every different type of industry, especially with technology. The further away from a monopoly or oligopoly you are, the better it is. The better it is for that particular industry. So I want everyone to do well. Now, let's talk very briefly about Pokemon Pinball. I keep hearing rumors about this. I just want to say that this is going to be a juggernaut. Do I think that Pokemon could be as big as Harry Potter? Probably not, but damn close. This is still hard to believe, but here in Canada on the Google Play Store, Pokemon Go, that's right, Pokemon Go, Pokemon whatever you want to call it, the frickin' Char-Zards or whatever, right? The Char-Lizards, whatever you want to say about it, however much you think this is a I'm not even talking like 18, 19, I'm talking like in their 20s or 30s. A lot of them are in their 30s or 40s, just like me, okay? So there is a lot of older people who are still into Pokemon. And then you think about people my brother, my brother Marcus's age, okay? He's in his mid 30s, but he grew up and he's, you know, eight years younger than me, nine So he grew up in that age where Pokemon, not only was it in the zeitgeist of everyone had cards at every single recess, every single lunch, of every single school across all North America, Japan, some places even in Europe and Australia as well, people went frickin' nuts for it. And the TV show was on nonstop. I remember YTV here in Canada, it was like, it became the Pokemon network. It was like Pokemon's on from 5 till 6, then from 7 till 8, then from 9 till 10, and again on at midnight, and then replays from, you know, so people were Pokemon crazy. So now you've got the nostalgic factor with the people who are starting to get in their mid-30s, they're starting to look for, have a little bit of extra income and have, you know, a better chance of actually doing it. Then you've got the nerds like me who, you know, I was never into collecting the cards when I was a kid. My sons watched the show, I didn't watch the show much. I have actually gone back and watched the first few episodes on Netflix and I really do enjoy it. I mean, it's, you know, it is meant, the show especially is meant for kids. I would argue that the Pokemon game is not. But here in Canada, Pokemon Go is number one under top grossing. It's not number one under like most number of downloads or anything. But if you click on top charts on Google Play and you click, and I guarantee you it'd be in the top three if not top five in the United States currently. And that's probably the same in Australia. Several of the content creators that I watch with Pokemon Go are huge in Australia. So I know that it's still big there. And again, I think that even in comparison to every band pin ever that's ever sold, every band pin, every band pin, including Metallica, ACDC, Aerosmith, Pokemon is a bigger theme than that. Not only is it the top grossing, but get this. PSA, the largest sports card grading company in the world by far. Last month they did just over 1 million graded cards. And you're probably thinking, oh yeah, baseball was the most, hockey was the most, no not hockey, maybe here in Canada, but no, baseball was the most, basketball was the most, football's back, go Eagles, Jalen Hurts won again yesterday, My boy! Let's go Eagles! Football's back. I love it. Yes, I do have a fantasy football thing. Just a free one going on NFL.com. I'm trying to learn fantasy football a little bit because... And then I did... This year I'm gonna watch every like... like the start of the new week you can watch, if you just type into YouTube, all touchdowns from like week one. And I watched that and that was just really neat just because I don't want to watch a 10 minute highlight reel of every single team that played, but I will watch a 10 minute highlight reel of every single touchdown that was scored the week before. So anyways, I've gone off topic. What else would you expect? Let's go back to Pokemon. It will be a juggernaut of a brand. If you are a pinball arcade, it will get more plays than anything but Harry Potter. I truly believe that. And then there's this intrinsic value for it doesn't matter if it's Stern or JJP or whomever comes out with this pin. As long as they do a good job with Pokemon, it will guaranteed be... It will guaranteed do incredible on location with the younger people and the younger people if that is their entryway, their gateway drug into being a pinball nerd, right? Then that particular company, The Valley Company, not even just that company, but pinball moving forward, there will be this intrinsic value because when you bring in a new customer as opposed to a repeat customer, it costs less to obtain, but they were already in your customer base. So if they're in your customer base and you've already bought tons of pinball machines from Stern or JJP or whomever and they come out with Pokemon pinball, you're 100% all in if you love Pokemon. And remember, there is a small amount of built-in people like me who really played a shit ton of Pokemon pinball back in the day. Pokemon Spinball, they had it for Game Boy, they had it for Game Boy Color, they had it for whatever the 64 had it I believe as well. I played a couple of them and they're really fun. They are the best digital pinball out there. They're the most fun pinball video games you can find. Maybe not better than like pinball arcade but I'm saying of like the made up pinball stuff they are by far my favorite is the Pokemon pinball games and when you bring in a hardcore Pokemon people and they are hardcore and these people will spend thou- I just saw even a PSA 3 just holo Charizard first edition holo Charizard just sold yesterday for over $3,000 Canadian on Slab Sharks Canada it's like what it's a PSA 3 like I have tons of first edition I I don't have a first edition hollow Charizard, but I have tons of first edition which I'm getting graded right now and they're still worth hundreds of dollars and it's just this little piece of paper from like the mid 90s to 1999 that was the first edition of that particular anyways it doesn't matter what I'm saying is if someone will spend three or four grand on a beat-up crappy old card from 1999 they'll have no problem spending ten grand on a pinball machine so you're gonna have a lot of crossover and then I think there's also intrinsic I'm going to go ahead and start off with a little bit of a recap of what I think is the most important thing about having a pinball machine. I think that's where Pika Pika, Pika, I'm Pikachu! That's where Pika's from! That's where Charizard's from! That's where Bulbasaur's from! Yes, I sound like a superhero, but I'm not. I'm a Pikachu! I'm a Pikachu! I'm a Pikachu! I'm Pikachu! That's where Pika's from! That's where Charizard's from! That's where Bulbasaur's from! Yes, I sound like a super nerd, but I am. So that's okay. When I was a kid, when my sons were kids, I used to kind of like get not angry or mad, but like frustrated because they'd be like, oh, what would you like for your birthday? Do you want to go to like Canada's Wonderland with your friends? Or did you want to go to like Sky Zone or go to a trampoline park? Or did you? And it would always be the same thing. Oh, I need the Mega Charizard DX box. The New Pikachu Celebrations Mega Blaster Box They always wanted Pokemon. I'd be like, guys, you can have whatever you want for Christmas. I gotta hook up with Santa. I'll talk to him and everything else. But Santa said the one thing the elves can't make this year is Pokemon cards. So you can ask for everything but Pokemon. I was such a jerk as a dad sometimes. Hey, we all mess up. We all fall short of the glory of Chuck Norris. We can't all be perfect like him, okay? So anyways, I made fun of Pokemon. I should have made fun of Pokemon. Steven Bowden, speaking of Steven Bowden with American Pinball, hi Steve. He's also on my Pokemon Go friends list and we've actually had the opportunity to do a couple raids and stuff together. So I know that it's not just me because Steve is about my age, if not even maybe possibly a little older, and Steve even fricking loves Pokemon. And then Jack Danger, I've seen him in his live streams, I would be shocked. I've seen Jack Danger quite a few, like, you have to remember, I've spent thousands of hours with the guy, not even hundreds, probably thousands of hours watching his live streams over a period of like the last eight years, and I would say it seemed like for a period of about a year, at least once a week if not several times a week, he was mentioning Pokemon or Pokemon Pinball or how it would be huge or how big the community is or people in chat So, I would be utterly shocked, I would be freaking floored if Jack Danger hasn't been in with, I don't know, someone at Stern and said, guys, not only is Pokemon gonna be way bigger than you think it is, but I'm the right guy to do it. And if Jack Danger, I'm just saying right now, if Jack Danger, if Jack Danger does Pokemon pinball, that will be to me the one thing that I'd be like, alright, I'm moving to the states, I'm selling a kidney, no, liver, no, what do they, they give you money in the states for like blood, blood and sperm and what's that other thing that's in your blood, the plasma? Plasma? Up here they only give you money for plasma. Like you basically, you give them sperm in a cup, you get nothing. Go down to good old America, they give you money for it apparently. See, they would pay you for blood I heard. I don't know, probably don't pay you much but I would do whatever I could to try to get that pin. The only thing, there's only two things that would make me more excited. Is if I heard that like Keith Elwin or maybe I'm still pushing for a sports theme at some point. I think it's been far too long. I'm talking to you boutique companies. I want to see an American pinball. Spooky might not be the right people because they're all about the horror stuff even though you know Scooby Doo wasn't necessarily that direction. TNA, I don't know, kind of futuristic side. I don't know. But I don't know if they're the right one to do sports, but I'd love to see either American Pinball or possibly Haggis or even, I don't know if P3 is the right people, but I want to see a sports game. It's been way, way, way too long since we've seen a sports game. Let's keep moving on. We've gone way too long. Oh my God, I'm at 40 minutes. I'm not even halfway down my page. Okay, let's talk about the future of the Poor Men's Pinball Podcast. All right. So I'm not going to lie. Like, yes, I'm here on the www.sternpinspinballpodcast.com There was kind of... Drew, go back and listen to it if you haven't. Pause my show here, go back and listen to it. You gotta listen to it. But what I'm saying is that Drew was saying that he doesn't really know where the future's gonna lie. Now, I think that the Poor Man's Pinball Podcast, or at least the Poor Man's Network, will be around for quite some time, because I know the Ray Ray Show just recently released the speedrun version of talking about all the different tournaments, which was great. As I stretch my legs out here, I kind of trapped myself in the corner of this couch on the in the the the orbital Albert's Pinball Nerds recording studio here. It was great to hear the RayRay show back. I don't think they're going anywhere. It was so good to hear Tribe Multiball back. That was so... I remember like I was maybe gonna be in that live stream and then I it didn't end up happening and I just thought no no I'm already on there too much you guys go do your thing. www.willywonka.com The Old Soft in the Old Eyes, but I can tell you that episode did it for me. So, I don't know if we're gonna hear Drew doing much podcasting in the future, even though the one positive thing I heard in there that really made me think we might hear at least some more this year is that he had mentioned about the the Twippies and how you got to do X number of shows to even be qualified for that. So, Drew, I love you. Ian, I love you too. If you guys record more in the future, great. If you don't, that's okay too. Matt Kastner I'm not sure. I know I want to keep doing podcasts. I know I would like to get to like episode 1000 someday, maybe if I don't get sick of it or bored of it or I don't die before that or Hurricane Lee doesn't take me out or something. I would like to keep going. Whether or not it's going to be here on the Poor Man's Pinball Podcast, I don't, or Poor Man's Pinball Network, I'm not sure. I hope so. I know Foghorn Leghorn over there. You know, he's been doing a great job with Craft and David David Van Es marquee a party published their Hill lunch barking five �ά Make sure you visit www.InfiniteBall Thanksgiving & poster.com Yang. Ron Howlett, Silver Ball Chronicles, I'm going to have a little time to come back and I kind of false started with the podcast. Now I'm more in regular rotation and I do hope Ian and Drew come back but at the very least if whatever they do, they do, right? But David Dennis and Ron Howlett did John Borg II, the continuation, you know, the bro of flow so to speak I think they called it. What an awesome episode. I will say this, Silver Ball Chronicles is the only pinball podcast I ever listened to I'm going to make you listen to just a short, and I have to tell them, just a short little part of this pinball podcast. We listen to them talk about Guardians of the Galaxy. And Drop Target Danielle, my wonderful wife, she also agreed. David Dennis said the thing about Guardians that he doesn't love is that it shoots very hard. Both of those ramps are tricky. Those are two of the hardest ramps. I would say it's probably one of the hardest shooters other than Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Houdini. But of course, for longevity of how long you're going to enjoy a game, the harder the shots All of these are the deeper the code the longer it's gonna last in your collection and the more enjoyment you're going to get out of it. I can tell you this that I have enjoyed, even if I were to sell Guardians of the Galaxy tomorrow for five hundred dollars less for I got it for $9,500, if I were to sell it for $9,000 tomorrow, it was well worth it for the last month and a half. To get my whole family, usually at the end of the night between 8 and 9 p.m. at some point, I say, hey guys can we all play one game of pinball together? Even though we won't all be standing around the pinball machine watching it, someone will be off like, I don't know, whatever, getting their stuff ready for tomorrow or making lunch for the next day or, you know, just get whatever, brushing their teeth, getting ready for bed, doing whatever you do as you're getting ready for bed, you know, we'll call the person in the house, okay, it's your turn. Even though there is two tough, the Rocky Raccoon shot's tough, the far left fuel shot, Garden of the Galaxy is fairly similar to Metallica, I will say that. And I love Metallica. Metallica is a great shooter. Oh, and since I got to chat with you all last, just a couple days after I recorded the podcast, or it might have been right in around the same time, not only have I got to Cherry Bomb now seven or eight times, but I got to MLLization, the mini wizard mode, when you have to have got all eight of the modes up to halfway, and that was so fun, and I still haven't got to the wizard mode, I don't know if I ever will. I did go back and watch Jack Danger getting like six billion on it. When I got to the mini wizard mode I got to one billion and fifty thousand and like I think I was talking to my good buddy Melvis Megaphone there and he said oh yeah I want you to crack the billion club like you've got your hands on it. Now is there much more for me to learn in the code? Probably not. Tons. So I'm not going to say I'm getting sick of it but like David Dennis mentioned on the The shots are really tight and drop target Danielle is not like loving the fact that she can't really hit the ramps or the raccoon shot. She's not even great. The left orbit's honestly even very tight for an orbit shot. Groot's obviously ridiculously easy from either flipper. The orb shot is pretty difficult and not only is the shot... when the stand-up target is in front of the orb shot it's moderately easy, but when the ball goes deep inside there it's really hard because it will go up there and not register. Thank you for watching! I don't care if you're in Prince Edward Island, I don't care if you're down in the Hallie, you're in good old Hallie, like we call it Hallie, Hallie Facts, okay, in the good old Scosche. I don't care if you're in New Brunswick, I don't care if you're up there in Moncton with Rod and Denny, shout out. I don't care if you're down there with Patrick in St. John, shout out. Please try to make it to the Bowlerama, it's the bowling alley in St. John. www.internationalflipperpinballassociation.com, ifba.com for short, and take a look at it. It is coming up on September 24th, which is a Sunday. They have got a whole bunch of new pins. So it would be great to show the bowling alley how awesome our pinball community is and get as many people out there. Not only does that get the whoppers up, but of course the more coin drop that happens and the more people they see there enjoying themselves and the more money that's spent The more likely the bowling alley is to bring in new pins Oh they have like I think they were the first place in the East Coast to have Stranger Things I think they have three or four modern I think they also have a CGC remake of not Cactus Canyon which those are coming out of course Medieval Madness I think, I think they have that. No, no, no, no, they have Monster Bash. Anyways, that's coming up on September 24th. Join hopefully perhaps David Dennis. I'm planning on going, Danielle's going, Hayden and Owen are going, so the four of us will be there. It will be the first one back after a summer break and it'd be great to see everybody, so try to come out if you can go. And yes, Mike Dimas, if you're still in Newfoundland, I don't even care if it's 16 hours. Take that ferry over and come play with us on your way back to Ontario, buddy. All right, now up to the hot gauze. We are getting close to an hour in and oh my god, Luna Elowen Agar is sitting at the front door in the sun and she, If she starts piling at the door, I'm going to have to go lettering guys, but she's chilling there for now. So I did really quickly want to talk about the hot guys. I'm hoping to keep this under an hour. So for those of you who aren't in the know, you can really just skip this part. You can jump ahead like two minutes. I'm going to try to make it under two minutes. Kaneda, Chris, I've called him in the past, too cool for school-ious. Like he, you know, he's been strident is maybe the word he would use. I would say he's been a negative Nancy, a Debbie Downer. Also like he's got drunk several times and said really rude, really mean, super aggro stuff. He also has called out other pinball content creators way, way, way too often over the years and unfortunately he's done it again. We just said some really rude... I'm not even going to get into it because I'm drama free since episode 493. I just want to be here to say I think that Don was obviously more on the right of Don's Pinball Podcast. In fact, I don't even think Don did anything wrong from what I understand, even though I don't... I really haven't... I'm trying not to get too much in the weeds about it. But the good news is, the good news is it looks like for now maybe the beef is kind of like at least squelched or half squelched. Knaeda took a two-week mini cancellation tour which he's done several times. I absolutely love Don from Don's Pinball Podcast and as far as I'm concerned he can almost do no wrong even though Don did admit maybe one or two of the things he said in retaliation was you know could have been maybe a bit kinder but when you're dealing with someone like Knaeda, Chris you make it real challenging to be kind to you dude. You make it really oh you make it really ugh. And then he was saying stuff about, he was kind of going to town yesterday, kind of like making fun of Christopher Franchi. Franchi's post was kind of funny. Franchi posted this long like all caps yelling thing like, stop messaging me and calling me and DMing me and faxing me and sending me carrier pigeons about selling out my translights and not selling any. We all know Franchi hates shipping. Franchi ain't going to ship it to you. If he can bring it to Expo and sell it to you, he's going to do that. He doesn't like sitting there and shipping. I can tell you as someone who does coffee, my least, I love selling the coffee, I like blending the coffee, I love naming them, I love doing the taste testing to make sure that everything tastes like incredible and that we're hitting our blends and I like doing quality control when we get a new batch from Laughing Whale. What I don't like doing is sitting there and shipping it all. Now I will do it and I did add some Pinball Nerds Podcast, the Pinball Degenerates, you You know the sticker that I got done with the pinball degenerate with Orby being degeneratized or whatever it was right that really cool thing I did send that off to Steven Haberman as well as Lord of the Ring breath I sent that off to them so congratulations you guys got those I am still working the pinball nerds podcast trading cards believe it or not we've had now about four iterations I know it's taking a long time I do apologize we get crazy insanely busy in the summer and that just makes pinball podcasting tricky. Rival Shows in reservoir photos paid at Fanning, Zilla Millased Cloud, combien gross cajora , primeat Show,B clouds at periodically, 2dête yellow, 그러니 그 비용은 immidiately not Sped Workkomioriy figurata or it was Knaeda did do, like, to just, you know, double advocate here a little, Chris did do, I would say, I'll give him a C plus or a B minus on his apology. He did say he does things wrong, but he kept saying, like, I do things wrong, but like, don't you like it better when I get drunk and do things wrong? Yes, Chris, we like you being entertaining and vulgar and rude and dismissive and over critical to pinball companies, but I think I can speak for all the pinball content creators, We don't like it when you speak negatively or rude about other pinball content creators. So maybe just stop doing that, Kris. And I even said, you know, like, I think most of, I guess this is how, I like Don as a person. I love Don as a person. I love Don's pinball podcast. I think he's really good for the community, even though maybe he could be a bit more critical. He could use a little bit of Kaneda, but Kaneda could use a lot of Don because Don is like Like, humble, funny, kind, charming, nice, well still, you know, if you listen to his Punny Factory commentary, he was pretty honest about how lame that game is and that he doesn't want one and wouldn't buy one. He was pretty honest about it. It took him some time to come around on it, of course, but he was honest about it, and I do appreciate that, and I think that Don's still finding his way. He's in his first year here. Maybe Don will slowly become a little bit more jaded and critical, but do we want all of All of our pinball content creators being that jaded and critical that early in their career, give me a break. You know, like we need a little bit of sunshine and rainbows for a bit. Can we have a little... it's supposed to be a fun hobby about a toy with games. Can we not just enjoy it a little bit, right? So I will say I don't want to take sides. Kris, I respect you as a pinball podcaster, but I don't like you sometimes. I really don't like you sometimes. And we got the impression from the last Saturday Morning Spectacular that Kris really doesn't os patren nice mandragua And then I also put Chris in the penalty box. When he did that thing with Don, I didn't participate in anything for a couple weeks. I didn't respond to any of his comments or DMs or messages. And I do...ahhh...look, do I think that Chris has paid his dues and the penalty box for long enough? Probably not. Do I think that Chris is going to continue to say and do negative shit about the pinball community including the content creators? Yes. Am I going to support him by doing Patreon? Probably not. No, I've done it in the past. He made it in the past two months. I said this Saturday, Chris, if you go two months, and I try, I like to try to dangle the carrot, you know, I don't mind supporting him with five bucks a freaking month. I'm pretty freaking broke. I'm probably the brokest of all the poor men on the poor man's pinball network, but I'm not so broke I can't handle five bucks a month to Chris. But I will not support you with five dollars a month, even if I don't mind listening to your show. I'm not going to support you if you're being that negative and rude to other pinball content You done a handful of these guys. Tell me what you think about it. I get where he's coming from because Zach at least is a distro who makes a living off of it. So when you make a living off of pinball, you put yourself in the crosshairs a little bit for being judged. I mean, I think again, Chris is way too harsh on everybody in the pinball community and I'd rather him stick to just making fun of like or like being critical. I do agree with most of his critical analysis on the pinball companies and the lack of their like decent marketing, advertising, that sort of thing, coming up with good things. I'm not going to talk about it anymore. I'm going to move forward from this. I'm going to try to stay drama free. Chris, keep doing your thing, but please, for the love of God, stop going to task at Pinball Creators and stay at what you're good at. You're good at, you know, when talking about when like a pinball company screws up. Stick to that. I think that I speak for most of the fans of watching the Saturday Morning Spectacular. The best shows are not when you spend half the show talking about pinball creators. The best shows are where you stick mostly to, you know, critical analysis of pinball companies, their marketing, their advertising, their social media, their live streams, their production schedule, their choice for themes. That's what we all want to hear. That's when I enjoy being part of that community. I don't like it when it's toxic and I don't want to be part of it when it's like that. So moving forward, Kaneda got his wrist slapped a little. I hope he's learned his lesson. Don's also learned his lesson a little that you have to be, you have to be like, ain't no chance in hell I'm giving Kaneda my home cell phone number. I don't want this guy texting me when he's drunk one night. You know what I mean? Like Don, you're going to have to be a little careful. That being said, I do hope someday I get to chat with Don again. I don't know if that's going to be on my podcast or on his. I can't wait to talk to him. What else do we got here? I did want to talk about this 70 hour live stream. Was his name Neil? I feel bad. I had written it down and now I don't know where that sheet is, but I think it was on, was it on the Batcave on Twitch? Anyways, by now it's, you guys have either, if you're hardcore into pinball and you're interested in the story, you've probably already heard of it. It was about a week and a half, or was it last weekend? I did go onto I'm going to go to the Twitch stream and chime in around the 50 hour mark he was saying he was hoping to make it to 60 hours. I cannot believe he made it to 70 hours. I, the other day for fun, decided to try to play until two hours of pinball was done because I am thinking about live streaming again. I'm a little bit older than I was before. There's no way I can be doing 8 to 12 hour streams. No, there's no way. There's no way, I mean even with taking like, I don't know, like arthritis medicine or like curcumin or turmeric capsules or like, you know, taking baby Advil, I don't know, doing something, there's no frickin' way that I could actually livestream that long. My hands, wrists, because you're playing straight. Now I know what you're thinking, but wait Albert, or Orby I guess, you said you wanted to do the 24 hour at the Sanctum, but the 24 hour at the Sanctum, you're only playing one in four. So 75% of the time your arms and wrists and hands are getting a break. Try to play for two hours straight. Like short of like, okay, give yourself five minutes an hour. Try to play for two hours straight. I did it. My left wrist was fricked up. My back was starting to hurt. My shoulders from bending over. My guy who did this in the, he had the How to Train Your Dragon, Piro or whatever his name is, Pyro, he was dressed up as him. It was so funny. I think he had Pikachu ears on when I looked around the 40 mark for a bit. But my guy, you are a legend. He wasn't the best pinball player, but he was pretty good. Like I would say he was, I don't know, after 50 hours he appeared to be playing like still better than me or about the same as me. Shockingly, I couldn't even stand for 24 hours. In fact, and I do want to say this as an apology. A couple times in the past, I was a little bit of an ageist and I would say, oh yeah, the Munsters, that's my grandpa's grandpa's grandpa's theme or something. You know, that was a little bit rude and now that I'm in my 40s and life is catching up and I have sore wrists and sore knees and sore hips and sore knees and sore ankles and I can't even stand up and play pinball for two hours straight, I'm sorry for all the times in the past that I was a bit of an ageist and I was judgmental and I was a jerk and I was rude to older people because I'm one of them now and that really wasn't cool and now I get it. I get why you complained. Like I know even a buddy of mine who's a couple years older than me complained about standing I was sitting at Pinburgh for 12 hours and was like, wow, like I cannot stand anymore from 8 a.m. until like midnight. Like I have to try to sit down in between. I get it now. 35-year-old Albert's like, oh, I could stand all day. 43-year-old Albert's like, holy shit, I'm gonna sit down between the games. And like, yeah, my wrist was hurting. So if I do get into the 24-hour of the Sanctum, which I think I will because I'm like 17th now, if I do get into the 24-hour of the Sanctum, I 100% cannot afford and honestly just don't have like permission or at least in good faith can't go to Pinball Expo and the Sanctum. I think I would have more fun at Expo. I know I would have more fun seeing all the tribe people. I know I would. I even went over after talking to Glenn the Skateboarder yesterday on the phone. Glenn, thanks for talking me through this or that. He was talking to me, you know, he's been to Pinball Expo, he's done the Pinball Olympics. I think he even won a medal there for one of them which is pretty cool. And he actually talked to me on the phone all the way to work, which was really kind the other morning, kind of like talking me through because I'm still trying to decide. Well, I've always said if I got into the Sanctum, I would have to do that because it's a Stern Pro Circuit event and it's drivable and I'd only need a hotel for one night. It probably cost me $300 to $500. If I go to Pinball Expo, even on the cheap, even if I tried to sleep on someone's couch or in their bathtub or on the floor, even if I tried to like buy my own beer and bringacho Mapuolskaya, K estudiante icat общi Letty K teen o pe ki Mois, psycho r ich it All things said and done, it doesn't look like Expo is going to happen. I 100% want to go, but it looks like I'm probably going to go to the Sanctum. That being said, never say never. That's how I am. Stranger things have happened. I don't know if by chance I somehow like sell this pinball machine before then, which again, I'm not looking to sell it anytime soon, but I think I've figured out the code. I've definitely figured out the shots. I mean, I can hit the ramps back to back if I'm having a good day and things are going I'm doing well, I can hit like maybe like six to eight ramps in a row. The rocket shot I'm hitting almost 50% of the time now. The left orbit I'm hitting like 80% of the time. The far shot on the far far left just on the tip of your right flipper with the fuel I'm hitting like I don't know 70, 80%. Like I figured out the pinball machine and that's the thing is with only having one pin that's why you want to have several pins in your collection so you don't burn out any one pin too fast but I'm trying to only now play it like a couple games every few days For like when we have a, it's great having pinball tournaments here at home, shout out to the Hey Dude himself who won the other night, I think I had 170 million and he had like 120 million going into ball three and he ended up getting like 250 million with like 100 million group multiballs, so congratulations Hayden who's now consistently smoking me at Guardians of the Galaxy whenever we play, including having the second highest score at 900 million now. Owen's still working on his first cherry bomb, but he's got very close. And Danielle is kind of frustrated with it, not loving playing Guardians. That's the only part of the reason why I'd maybe want to sell it. I did want to just basically talk about Road Trip, though. Tilt Bob, not Amusements, but Tilt Bob, where are they? I'm on the website here. Tilt Bob Pinball. By the way, the Tilt Bob Pinball website makes like, it looks kind of amateurish. I'm not gonna lie, not that you have to have a beautiful website, but maybe a little more info and a little more stuff than this would probably not hurt. But I did compliment Elf and I believe I did even vote for Elf in the Twippies. I voted for Elf as the best homebrew. Sorry Jake Danzig, I did like the... Yee-haw, the Duke boys! We're here with the... what is that show? Oh, the Dukes of Hazard! Yee-haw! We're good, let's go, boy! Uh, no, I did like the Dukes of Hazard, but I thought Elf was slightly better. And I thought it looked like it might have shot a little bit better, of course, and there was more... it had more changes than his Paragon, I believe, just slightly, but the Dukes of Hazard was... you know... The Duke boys can't always be first! Sometimes they're gonna be second! I'm going to be second? Okay, I've gone too long. I'm starting to go into goblin mode here. Anyways, they were getting... I don't know if it was... I don't know if I read something. It was probably, I'm guessing, like on Knapp Arcade. Cheers to Jason Knapp there at Knapp Arcade. Just killing it. Easily taken over as the top site for doing news. So cheers to that. Thank you very much, Jason Knapp, for all you do. Oh, there was another story I wanted to talk there about with Knapp, but I'll try to leave this for a second. When I first heard that Road Trip was coming out, it was either late at night, I might have had a crafty beer or two, a vape or two, an edible, a gummy, I don't know, I might have been out there in orbit a little early, orby and orby, you know what I'm saying? And I read about it, and I spent like the next like hour fantasizing about how Tom Green would be in Road Trip, and I was like, look, I think it's a weird choice to do a movie pin of Road Trip, because it wasn't even critically acclaimed like ten years ago. It's got a bit of a cult following now, but it was definitely, definitely, pretty sure Siskel and Ebert gave it two thumbs down, two fingers down, negative 47 cheese slices, you know what I'm saying? Like they gave it none. But it's not even that. It's not even that. As bad as that would be, and I love you Tom Green, I love you Tom Green, but Freddy Got Fingered was possibly the only movie worse than Road Trip that he was in, and that also has a cult classic, And that actually still has some, Daddy would you like some sausage? Daddy would you like some sausages? Daddy would you like some... And man, do they talk about cheese slices in that. I wonder if that's where Drew and Ian got the cheese slices rating was actually from Freddy Got Fingered, where, if you remember Tom Green's epic character, he worked in a cheese slice factory and he said, I don't want to just work in a cheese slice factory, Dad. I want to go make my cartoons. Anyways, okay, we've gone off topic, but wow. The only thing worse than a road trip pinball machine theme is a road trip pinball machine theme that is not even about the movie! Give me a break! What are we doing here? And did you see the art on that? You could literally go to any AI art program and type, like, going on a road trip, hand drawn pinball art, And it would give you like 20 options and probably from the AI art programs I've used, probably in about 30 seconds to 45 seconds, you would have 6 or 7 way better options for art than that. The art is bad. Just don't even say, oh we're going to do some changes to the art. No, no, no, no, no, no. Tilt Bob, you start from scratch. You throw it in the garbage and you start from scratch. And you get a hell of a... I don't even... I don't know if you contacted someone off Fiverr to do that or if you tried to do it in-house. Just don't. Look, there's too many awesome pinball artists out there. Maybe you can't afford the likes of a Zombie Yeti because you're... you're a new startup. I get it. You can't get a... you can't get a, you know, zombie. You can't get probably a Franchi, probably outside of your pay range. I get it. Totally cool. But like, there's... there's so many awesome like pinball and If you're a pinball adjacent artist out there, even if you go to like Pintastic or one of these awesome pinball shows, you're going to see all these artists out there who do pinball stuff and hire one of them. You know, like, but the art needs, first things first, if you're actually, if you want anyone to even take you close to, like the pinball adventures, the Punny Factory art looks better than the road trip art by quite a bit. And that's saying something because Punny Factory wasn't no Van Gogh in itself. You know what I'm saying? What else did I want to talk about here? Oh, so this was off of Knapp Arcade which I was just mentioning. Knapp Arcade, here's our little segue. Hop on your machine and look like a super nerd. Here we go, segue over. Okay, we're over here to Pinball Adventures begins taking non-refundable deposits for their next game. Elements. The Canadian pinball manufacturer Pinball Adventures recently began taking non-refundable deposits on its second game. The company's follow-up to its initial offering, Punny Factory. First of all, let me just say this. Ain't nobody in their right mind said, wow, I can't wait to go work at the factory. So first of all, if you think of us like honestly, like the only theme I could think of that would be worse would be like sweatshop. Oh, come on into the sweatshop and you can get some young kids to make you some cheap Nike shoes. Let's go. Woohoo! It's gonna be fun! How hard can you work those young kids? They only want to work 14 hours? Too bad! They're working 18 in the wizard mode where we get the kids to work. No! Punny Factory is the worst theme ever for a pinball machine that's ever been made. And that's saying something because Road Trip was made, right? Am I right? I mean, it makes GTF look like a frickin' masterpiece, okay? But Elements... Elements is maybe worse. Now, the artwork on Elements is okay. It's like what I would expect. Like the artwork looks okay, but Don who got to interview Andrew from Pinball Adventures even admitted straight up like straight up even after interviewing him and everything else and trying to give him the benefit of the doubt and trying to be like not being a negative Nancy or Debbie Downer trying to be totally positive give them some constructive criticism was like no I could never buy this game and I watched most of the hour-long stream he did there on location which where one of the main mechs the very target wasn't even working and And I don't know, it's just like, it doesn't look like that much of a fun game. It just doesn't. I think he did one punny and he's like a pretty decent player as well. He did one punny in the whole one hour, maybe two. Like it just, the theme is horrible. The callouts are disgusting. The callouts make me want to listen to Hot Wheels all day long, okay? Put me back in the factory and listen to some more air tune noises or something. Like the fake Don Knotts, I love Pinball Adventures. It's so so fun in a punny factory! Oh, let's go get... It's not... it's not punny, it's not funny, it's not enjoyable to shoot, it doesn't have good code, it doesn't have good sound, it has mediocre artwork at best, and the pricing, the pricing is probably the best part of the whole thing, but then for that pricing, every single person who's ever got a punny factory so far has had issues with it that I've heard. Anyways, everyone who... the one guy who unboxed like the the highest model had so many issues with it he was told to send it back and they're gonna send him one later maybe. It's like the quality control is... it seems to be almost zero there or very close to zero. The pricing is the best part. Yes, maybe they're made on Canadian maple, which is hard as a rock, but like besides... besides that is that, you know, that the print quality is apparently not very good, the mech quality is not very good, like just overall you're gonna wait a long time. It's... it's... It's not going to get very many, you know, anyways, I've gone on too far. Please, please, please, for the love of God, take all the money that you were going to give as a non-refundable thing to Elements. If you were considering doing this, I promise you, I promise you, take that money, put 90% of it away for like a fun trip with your family or friends or going to Pinball Expo or going How tovid Chapter One helping you tovid I promise you on my life with all of my love for pinball, I'll sell you my Guardians of the Galaxy for half price if I'm wrong. I probably won't be here by then. But elements will never go more than it is right now It will never be worth more than you would have to pay on your non deposit It will always cost far less than that to buy it used or even buy it Join me live stream at Pimp petitsmokers This is all presumptuous. This is not for sure. I don't have any proof of any of this. This is to the best of my knowledge, alright? But I promise you, take 90% of that money and spend it on going on a real pinball adventure. And that pinball adventure is going to be one of the awesome, fun, exciting shows. And even if you wanted to come up here and hang out with me at Yagpin next year, save it and go to the Beast, go to Pintastic, go to a pinball tournament. Pinball Tournament Save it and go out and buy yourself an EM and take that last 10% and spend it on angry alpaca, coffee or tea. There you go. I worked that in somehow some way there. What else do we got for today? There's not really much left on here. I know that I did get an email and because I did mention Knapp's Arcade, I did want to mention our other news site briefly, even though we don't get as many updates from this week in pinball as we used to. http://www. partiskiesteryonoverview.com Well let's all be honest I am not a five star let's all be honest I am not gonna be offended, go give me five go give me three I will be offended if you give me five, no I am just kidding if you think I am five cool whatever but go there and give me one and while you are over there check out this brand I'm not going to read the whole thing to you because this is mostly for the pinball promoters to send out, but Twip has a brand new mods and toppers database where you can go there and you can leave an honest review for your favorite mod or your favorite topper. Now, I'm not huge into mods, even though I do love the couple mods I have on Guardians I'm not a huge topper fan, but I also am not like anti-topper. If a pinball machine comes with a free topper, I'm all for the toppers. If a topper is incredible or enhances the game features and it's at a reasonable price, eh, okay, whatever. I still think it's cool to go rate them, right? Especially if you've got the opportunity to see them or interact with them. So go check that out. That is actually pretty cool. And speaking of This Week in Pinball, that reminds me of the Twippies. I've never ever ever asked you guys for your vote. So before I ask for your money to buy some coffee or tea, can I please just ask you, and I haven't even told the Tom Green story yet, so I'm going to try to sneak that in here at the end, but could I just ask you if I'm your fourth favorite pinball... but Don tells me from Don's Pinball Podcast that he goes, hey, you're not my fifth, you're my third. He said that in a live stream out in front of everybody. I was like, whoa, Don, whoa, back it up, back it up, come on, I'm not that good. We got the likes of so many other awesome pinball podcasts out here, YouTube channels that are basically doing podcasting. I did want to mention Kerry Hardy did a, what I think was a very fair review of Whirlwind 2.0. Go check that out. He's obviously a pinball content creator that I highly respect and I think that he does very fair reviews and he did say that he thought it was decent value for the money. He doesn't know if he loves it or not, but go watch his review. I wanted to give a quick update on that. I do think that I want to end the show because we're near the end here. Let's just go ahead and I will tell you right here. Let's see here. Okay, so I did want to tell you about a couple of the teas and coffees in there. You've already listened to me. You've come this far, my friends. We're almost at the end. Let's first talk about what teas we have in stock. So we have Be Excellent to Each Other. So the Be Excellent to Each Other has really rad art from an East Coast artist here and it is a raspberry Earl Grey. Absolutely love that. That will be discontinued very shortly so get out there and enjoy that. We also have some Fog Off. This is our newest best seller that's been doing very well. This we had to come up with. It's a cream of Earl Grey black tea and that one basically a lot of people who just want a typical Earl Grey tea that it has more flavor than a typical Earl Grey but like that's kind of like your grandma's tea. That's our version of it. It has a beautiful picture of a mermaid on there, not a merman, sorry Haggis, but that is a beautiful picture that Drop Target Danielle came up with the artwork for so that's really cool. 100ish Elvin Swiss trend of Tees разных Authority company ej it has many desires Android What type of tea is it? It's caffeine free. It is a lemon and ginger flavored rooibos. Okay. I don't know if you all heard that, but it's a lemon and ginger flavored rooibos. Really good. It's like, you know, just like it would suggest an Island Zinger. Really good as a nice tea. Thanks hun. She's over there watering all of our plants. We had to bring in a whole bunch of plants that we keep outside here at the homestead. And she's kind of watering all of them. Now they've been inside the last few days just getting ready for the hurricane. And Orbeez Pinball Potion is finally back! This is the one with the pinball degenerates picture on the front with the pop bumper going through my head and I've got like you know flippers like going into my shoulders. That one, this one is really really really neat. This is brand new. We just finished this one this week. My arms are sore from actually picking off the leaves by hand after they were fully dry from all the peppermint and spearmint. But this is a mixture of spearmint, all organic, 100% grown or homestead, 100% spearmint, peppermint, pineapple mint, mojito mint, candula, no, candula, I can't pronounce it, but it's these yellow flowers that grow in our homestead, a small amount of those, and then dried apple pieces. So 100% organic, all the apple tree is, some apples came from inside our food garden, probably 90% came from our crab apple tree as they would call it, even though I've used them for cider, it's not very bitter, it's a lot much more of a sweet, like almost like a Macintosh we would have in Ontario. But we chopped those up and sent them through the food dehydrator, took like 12 hours. But so there's those little apple bits in there, you don't get too much flavor from the apple. You're getting a lot of it from the spearmint, from the peppermint, and you get a hint of the pineapple in there and just a touch of lime actually from the mojito mint. So it's really interesting. It's 100% grown here. It's only seven bucks. This one is probably one of our only teas. I wouldn't steep twice. So you're most likely only going to get maybe 10 to 12 teas out of this bad boy. But wow, it's healthy. There's no caffeine in it. Careless Pinky and Cool songs投 L administration of the Holmestion Promotion Center Review Barry Kan две 나만 라 브�ículo Subtitle in English Transcript of the P und S And not before you're operating heavy equipment or anything like that, because it really will make you sleepy. It's not going to knock you out like, uh, I don't know, some type of sleeping pill that you would take, but damn, it will do the job. The last tee I want to tell you about is called the Sugar Shack. It's got awesome art from my buddy Steve Miracle in London, Ontario. It's got a picture of Gore Downey at his final concert wearing his epic hat, and of course, the most Canadian singer of all time is Gore Downey of the Tragical Hip, who we tragically lost a couple years ago. And finally, the most Canadian tea of all time, the maple tea. So the sugar shack is there and it is a very good seller once we get into the winter months as we are getting colder here again. I don't like it iced, even though some people do. I don't really like iced, I love it as a hot tea. Especially as a hot after dinner kind of dessert tea. If you are trying to lose some weight but you still want to have something kind of yummy, You can put as little as like there's so much actual like natural maple flavor in there you can put as little as like a quarter teaspoon of like sugar or stevia or some type of sweetener in it and it it's like you're having a dessert for god's sake so the sugar shack there you go all right I'm gonna run through the coffees real fast remember most shows I don't do this I only mention it really quickly in passing and I actually have tried some shows to not mention it at all but I wanted to let you know about the half cap our most newest coffee it's half caffeinated this is really good formatic, Me. I. chocolate mac and cream, refractions, Gobierno delệ marmelade, thyroid common, herbal natural bites,ised shame, market after light, gluten form, cartilage implantation, alcohol for the body, natural fat leveling,уч洲 peinexplourger, natural superfood, For those who want to know about this amazing ball company, I really hope you do too, because it's the first� I have to go back and finish listening to the end of it. I listened to it in the spring, but I hadn't listened to it since it was released to the public. But City Lights is by far the best for espresso. They're the lightest bean of them all. Really good if you're going to do espresso, really good if you're going to do cappuccino, Americano, really good if you're going to do a pour over. Incredible as pour over, okay? That's the one that you want. Now, the exact opposite of that is our dark roast, which is called Some Good East Coast Dark Roast. Danielle made the labels on all of these, but by far my favorite one is the Some Good. It's got a beautiful, beautiful maritime East Coast ocean view with a lighthouse right in the center. Gorgeous artwork, incredible dark roast. I'm not going to say it's the best dark roast I've ever had in my life, but I'm a crazy I'm a fancy coffee nerd who orders from the top places across Canada very often and whenever I'm in the states and have an opportunity there to try some good ones I do that as well. And so I know good coffees but I would have to argue it is probably the best dark roast you can get on all the entire east coast. Now that being said there is a couple small coffee roasteries in Newfoundland that I haven't tried but by far it's my go-to, my favorite, some good east coast dark roast. Now we have our two competing and we only have the force in in large bags I don't think oh we do have it okay so it depends if you like a straight-up medium roast that one is called bean me up it looks really cool it's got an alien and a UFO sucking up a coffee bean Danielle did the label for that one as well it looks incredible bean me up is like straight up our we call it our Timmy's killer I guess you'd call it your Starbucks killer if you just like a generic medium roast but like a higher-end A Coming up Next... Baby Yoda on a homestead in the winter and we call it the force and it's a medium roast on the dark side. So if you can't choose between the medium roast and the dark roast, you get the force. Oh my gosh. Uh, no. Geez, my computer tried to comp out. Oh my gosh, I'm about to lose power. I should probably get going guys. What else can I tell you about? Drop back to Hello My Name is Pinball Nerd which is a light to medium roast and there is small packs on the website for $7, there's large packs on the website for $22. Hold on, oh my gosh, honey, could you bring me down the plug-in for the large laptop? Thank you. Oh my god, sorry guys for yelling in your ear. A pop-up just came up saying that we're about to lose power here and I could lose this entire So let's quickly now, oh, and I've told you all the awesome coffee that we have, but how do you go to the website to see that ours is better than the Tilpob website? And just to check out all these awesome labels that my wife works so hard on. The tea labels, some of them are from artists, but most of them are now done by Danielle in-house, and all of the coffee are done in-house by her, except for the Force, which is a pitcher that we got. ChiCia한 Pshowr.. It was just good not to bother to say goodbye to these women ice cream king christians. They did a great job and you can judge what I mean. When I was eyebrow-tohing free out of my traveled little disease I was saying goodbye to you Zoe he he he. I was crying as this wasept ro upon my than glass bar, like your real and you to leave The Year Before This Tom Green's award-winning beer, which was a milk stout, and for those of you who are massive Tom Green nerds know that Tom Green did a whole skit on his show where he was, it was, it's illegal to drink raw milk here in Canada, like it has to be pasteurized, which is also a dumb rule, but too bad, I drank raw goat's milk when we had goats, too bad for that, sorry police. Anyways, Tom Green did a whole schtick where when it was a big deal here, a lot of farmers were protesting in Toronto and going to Ottawa and protesting that you couldn't have raw milk. So what Tom Green did is he took a cow with him and he actually went to downtown Ottawa or downtown Toronto, I can't remember where, and he said, oh, it's illegal to drink right from the cow's udder. I don't know why Tom Green got Irish all of a sudden, but he became a leprechaun and he started drinking right from the cow's udder in front of a police officer. And he's like, oh, is this illegal? And he's sucking right out of the udder. It's hilarious. Go look at it. You literally can just type cow and YouTube Tom Green and you'll come up with it. It's hilarious. But the point is he got in trouble and I don't know, I don't remember if he got arrested or what. So one of my favorite craft breweries in Ottawa called Bows, Bows decided, it's spelled like B-E-A-U-S, they decided to do like a milk stout in tradition of that. And the milk stout won the best beer of the year. And I believe it was a craft beer show by Sada City or something. So anyways, it won. And if you win, you come back the next year, that brewery comes back and that brewery basically begged Tom Green at the time he was still living in LA doing I think the show from his house by then, he was not on MTV anymore. But they begged him to come back here and actually do the, you know, like to, you know, be part of the presentation, to accept your award for best beer of the show, voted in by the people, yada yada yada. And because it was Tom Green, they said if you could just say a couple words that would be great. And Tom Green was pretty drunk and he went up there and he talked for like 15 minutes to the point of they were basically saying like, okay, thank you, we've got to move on, Tom, okay, and they were kind of almost like, I'm sorry, Tom, for saying this, but they basically pulled him down off there and then Tom Green was in the SADA City booth. So you had to wait and wait and wait and for two hours he would pour you a beer and you could get a quick selfie. So when we got up there, Tom Green was making everybody, he was no longer like in the mood to give you like a regular selfie. So when I got up there, I was like, I know you're not like doing, but he would always make you say like, he would make guys get down and do like five pushups or girls had to say like, woohoo, Tom Green's the best or like they had to do like just something. Well, when I got up there, he said, all right, fine, you can get a picture with me Albert. But you know, of course he didn't know my name, but he was talking to me. You can tell I was pretty inebriated and having fun and he said, oh you were that guy being loud out and I guess like I was telling a story like I often do while he was up on stage and I guess he said I was distracting him. I wasn't in the front row, I was maybe four or five rows back and I was being loud and talking to other people and chugging beers and we're all kind of being like, dude, stop talking, just like get off stage, like you know, you accepted your beer, like let's move on, there's other stuff to do. Anyways, so he was like, if you want a selfie with me, you're going to have to let me pour an entire pint of beer from about 10 feet up in the air, dropping into your mouth and you have to go down on your knees and try to catch it. And I'm going to use it. Oh, he had this show on this really shitty channel. He had an online show at the time that was direct from his house. He said, and you have to sign the thing to let me use it for a bit, my thing.uous約갣ified但是, Colleen생제옵 싫다ocurate nasovexatiouso, andbetdnaseakiac polished audiomaking, but not even внешних с Tools. I had this beautiful new shirt I just got from Mill Street Brewing which was like a custom shirt just for that event and at the time we made the beer soap for Mill Street Brewing and so it ended up getting everywhere and I still have a picture to this day and I said well now I want my selfie. So you'll see this picture to this day where Tom Green doesn't look very impressed and he's like alright he did it, just here get your dumb picture and I look hammered out of my mind. It is on my Facebook, you guys can add me, Albert Agar if you don't have me. I do plan on doing a live stream instead of doing it to Pinball Nerds, which I do some live streams to by the way, but I am going to do a live stream just through Albert Agar because so many more people will see it. And I think I might do a trial live stream because I do want to get back into live streaming pinball probably next week or the week after I have to finish getting Orbeez Arcade back from being angry alpaca like storage facility slash blending room slash where we keep all the labels. And now that we're done most of our summer markets and we're transitioning into winter, there's a lot less shows for that sort of stuff so we can clean up that room a bit more. I can take back my arcade. I can get my pinball machine out of the lobby or the mezzanine or the mudroom, whatever you want to call it. I can get it back into Orbeez Arcade and I want to try to start live streaming. I know that it's been so many years since I live stream it might take a couple times. I think I'm gonna use the Orbital Albert on Twitch I'm a fan of the Pinball Nerds, so I'm not a fan of them. Anyways, I've gone overboard after all of that happened, and I was signing the release form. I was like, well, that was a bunch of garbage, like none of it went in my mouth, and I was kind of pissed off. And the way that the gentleman who was like his manager or whoever, the guy who was with him, the way that he got me to sign it was he goes, well, I know it was kind of lame and it was kind of stupid, and he was a bit of a jerk about it, but listen, there's a The Good Chance You'll Get On TV and... You know who the person who used this pen was last night before we flew here? I said, who? He goes, Steve Carell. I said, what? He said, yeah, Steve Carell was on the show. And I looked it up. Steve Carell was really... I think he zoomed in or something. Like he wasn't like... He didn't actually fly there to like be in person and hang out at Tom Green's house or whatever. But he was on the show the night before. This is when you had to pay for... was it a satellite radio station or a satellite channel or something? I don't know. You had to... I wasn't able to go on there to see if my clip ever made it on there. And hopefully it did, but no one ever messaged me, so I have no clue if my clip ever made it. Probably not, because I assume one person somewhere would have seen it and messaged me like, Hey Albert, I saw you chugging this crazy like Melkster in the Bose booth, you know. Anyways, so I took the pen which was last used by Steve Carell and I signed the freaking thing just so I could tell you this story right now because I was pretty pissed at him. And as if this manager had enough nerve, about an hour later we were outside and I was enjoying a devil's tobacco cigarette. and the manager was like, oh that smells really good, I know Tom had been asking me to kind of, you know, he was just having a smoke, he said, and Tom's been asking if there's someone who could like, you know, maybe we could do one with or something like that, is there any way you could just even roll a small one for him and we could come do it with you later? And I said, yeah, but why don't I just roll it and keep it with me and you guys can let me know when you want to do it. He goes, oh, well Tom might need to go for a break from the booth at any time, and I don't want to have to come find you, and I said, okay, but I'll do this, I'll do the honor. I'm in honor of rolling spinning one up for old Tommy Green there but you know Tommy Green better let me know when he's gonna smoke that green because I want to get in on it you know what I mean and they never came and found me later he said thank you so much Tom really appreciates it I think even saw him like two hours later I was like hey did you guys go he's like oh yeah I was great thanks Albert but like yeah so I never got to get high with Tom Green I always wanted to but I did get to you know he got to have some Orbeez homegrown was that's kind of pretty cool and I did get to get that Facebook picture with him you You know, it's all about the, it's all about the, the getting the fun, the FOMO going. Anyways, Tom Green, hopefully I get to hang out with you again someday. I know he is doing local comedy. He lives outside of Ottawa now. He does have his own YouTube channel. It's kind of entertaining. It's not super entertaining. It's kind of entertaining. I'd love to go see Tom Green again someday. I know that he was semi-cancelled a long time ago, but I think he's kind of made a semi-comeback. He's had his wrist slapped a couple times and he's back to stay now. Listen pinball nerds, thank you for getting to the end of the show, I appreciate it so much. Depending on how long the, when we had Hurricane Dorian, I believe we were out of power for nine days, then Fiona I believe we were out of power for six or seven days, and then there was the one post-tropical storm where we were out of power like two years ago for like three days. So there's, I would say because all the leaves are still on the trees, and we are supposed to, in my area, get gusts of between 60 to 80 kilometers an hour All of these things are going to be going through Saturday night into Sunday morning. There's a very good chance I will be without power for a week or two. I am trying to do more regular shows. Sorry it's been every couple of weeks throughout the summer I've been crazy busy. Things are slowing down on the homestead. We just cropped out all of our hops last week, all of our spearmint, all of our mint. That's one of the busiest times. We have very few tomatoes left on the line. We have no apples left. We have no raspberries left, no blueberries left, no strawberries left. I'm basically done for the year. I've cropped out of pretty much everything I could and you know things are going to slow down and I'll have more time and energy to do more pinball podcasting and I'm excited to do that. So until next time pinball nerds remember to eat, sleep and breathe Pokemon Pinball.