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 bring acho 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