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Tribe Multiball with Rachel and Tim: Episode 5, Ruh Roh it's Turbo Kid

Poor Man's Pinball Podcast·podcast_episode·analyzed·Apr 21, 2021
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TL;DR

Tribe Multiball ep5: Rachel & Tim discuss league/tournaments; interview Pete Quint on location play, virtual pinball, and charitable band work.

Summary

Tim Dan Lee and Rachel Logie host episode 5 of Tribe Multiball, a segment of the Poor Man's Pinball Podcast focusing on community members. They discuss personal pinball activities (Rachel's Guns N' Roses Cliffy installation and District 82 league play; Tim's tournament results at the Great Lakes Open), then interview Pete Quint (tribe member #14), a recreational player from Columbus, Ohio who plays on location and maintains a virtual pinball setup. The episode includes discussion of Pete's band, the Nacho Street Band, which raises money for Nationwide Children's Hospital and the Ronald McDonald House, including fundraising for a future pinball machine donation.

Key Claims

  • District 82 has over 105 games and hosts major tournaments including the Great Lakes Open

    high confidence · Tim describes visiting District 82 for 15+ hours, notes 105+ games, discusses dual tournaments (Classic style and target match play)

  • Rachel achieved 29 out of 30 target league points at District 82, placing 21st out of 50 players

    high confidence · Rachel states: 'I got 29' points, placing her 21 out of 50 players in league

  • Tim placed 48th out of 87 in the Classics tournament and 24th out of 74 in the target match play at the Great Lakes Open

    high confidence · Tim: 'I took my goal was to be in the top 50 and I took 48th and it was 87 people' and 'I got 21. So I was super stoked about that. That put me in 24 out of 74 players'

  • Columbus, Ohio has 8-10 barcades with significant pinball presence, including three gigantic venues

    high confidence · Pete Quint: 'We have a glut of barcades maybe a dozen not quite not quite a dozen eight to ten barcades three of them are gigantic'

  • Pins Mechanical locations in Columbus include one with ~40 tables, one in Dublin with ~30, and one in Easton

    high confidence · Pete describes Level One/Pins Mechanical: 'The original one has, I want to say, like 40 tables, and its second location in Dublin, Ohio, has at least 30'

  • The Nacho Street Band has raised money to place an AC/DC Premium Vault Edition machine in the Ronald McDonald House

    high confidence · Pete: 'In 2020 our goal in 2020 was to raise enough money to put a pinball machine in the Ronald McDonald House. And by God, we did it' and mentions partnering with Project Pinball for an AC/DC machine

  • Taxi pinball machines have increased in price from ~$1,500 two years ago to ~$3,000 currently

    medium confidence · Pete states: 'Like two years ago you could get it for like $1,500. Now it's probably around $3,000'

  • Pete learned pinball in the early 1990s at a vacation resort arcade near Lake Erie, playing games like Taxi, Whirlwind, and Addams Family

Notable Quotes

  • “I installed a Cliffy...I wanted to dip my head in acid afterwards because I had to take the entire upper playfield off of Guns N' Roses, install the Cliffy, and put it back.”

    Rachel Logie @ ~2:30 — Describes a frustrating restoration/upgrade experience with playfield alignment issues

  • “I took first on Giant and Stingray. I had a walk-off, actually, on Stingray. And my big fail for the week, my big flop, I guess, was on The Walking Dead.”

    Tim Dan Lee @ ~4:00 — Tournament performance summary showing competitive play across different machine types

  • “There's over 105 games there. I was there for 15 hours yesterday and I did not play all the games...it's really amazing”

    Rachel Logie @ ~6:30 — Emphasizes the scale and quality of District 82 as a major venue

  • “How I play pinball, it's a very easy question to answer, and that is bad. And I don't care.”

    Pete Quint @ ~16:00 — Defines Pete's self-aware, recreational approach to pinball without competitive pressure

  • “I have a virtual machine downstairs. It has the potential to play any number of games as long as I can find tables and ROMs...I've got like 300 tables downstairs just waiting to be played and I've got one or two working the way I want them to.”

    Pete Quint @ ~22:00 — Describes Pete's virtual pinball setup and the learning curve involved in customization

  • “My wife told me that unless it drives you to work, you cannot own a pinball machine.”

    Pete Quint @ ~20:00 — Humorous family constraint explaining Pete's focus on virtual and location-based play

  • “In 2020 our goal in 2020 was to raise enough money to put a pinball machine in the Ronald McDonald House. And by God, we did it.”

    Pete Quint @ ~38:00 — Highlights the band's charitable achievement in fundraising

  • “I'm going to sell to buy, right? I'm not going to, you know, just buy games without selling something anymore because the prices have people scratching their head.”

Entities

Tim Dan LeepersonRachel LogiepersonPete QuintpersonDrewpersonDistrict 82venueEric Thorneperson

Signals

  • ?

    community_signal: District 82 is described as a high-quality, well-organized tournament venue with 105+ machines, professional operations, and attractive secondary attractions (food, venue quality). It appears to be a regional hub drawing players from 7 states.

    high · Rachel: 'There's over 105 games there...it's really amazing' and Tim describing the venue's professionalism and Eric Thorne's operational excellence

  • $

    market_signal: Taxi (classic pinball machine) has experienced significant price inflation: ~$1,500 two years ago to ~$3,000 currently, representing a 100% increase in secondary market value.

    medium · Pete: 'Like two years ago you could get it for like $1,500. Now it's probably around $3,000'

  • $

    market_signal: Collectors are adopting 'sell to buy' strategies due to perceived inflated new machine prices ($7,000-$15,000+). Rachel explicitly states limiting collection to 6 machines and only replacing through sales.

    high · Rachel: 'I'm going to sell to buy, right? I'm not going to, you know, just buy games without selling something anymore because the prices have people scratching their head'

  • ?

    technology_signal: Virtual pinball is gaining adoption among budget-conscious players as an alternative to owning physical machines. Setup ranges from basic (single screen, minimal customization) to advanced (dual screens, LEDs, solenoids, video integration).

    high · Pete's extensive discussion of VP setup options, from 'rudimentary' to advanced with 300 tables available for play

  • ?

    venue_signal: Columbus, Ohio is identified as having 8-10 barcades with significant pinball presence, including three major venues (Pins Mechanical locations) with 40+, 30+, and smaller high-quality machine counts respectively.

Transcript

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0:00
Hello everyone and welcome to Tribe Multiball with Rachel and Tim. I am Tim Lee and I'm here with my co-host Rachel Logie and we're here to bring you another exciting episode of the show. Tribe Multiball is a segment in the Poor Man's Pinball podcast universe in which we focus on the tribe members of the Poor Man and how they're playing pinball and just some of the awesome stuff they're doing in life. How are you today, Rachel? I'm doing pretty good, Tim. How are you? I'm doing fine, thank you. It's been a long week, but here we are for episode number five. We made it through five episodes. I can't believe it. Yep, we've gotten some really good feedback, and I appreciate everyone sending us that feedback. So what did you do this week, Rachel? Well, do you want to talk about personal pinball news? Yeah, well, let's talk about mine first. I'll be rude like that. I'm just kidding. But I didn't really do a whole lot, and I know you did a lot. I essentially did two things this week. I installed a Cliffy. I wanted to dip my head in acid afterwards because I had to take the entire upper play field off of Guns N' Roses, install the Cliffy, and put it back. And of course, nothing lined up when I put it all back together. So it took me all Saturday night. And the only other thing I really did was I installed a set of pin stadium lights, played a few games, and that was it. But I know that you had a really exciting week. So let's talk about your personal pinball news. well first of all having something that you install go haywire does not sound like fun at all but were you able to eventually correct it yes what game was it on it was on guns and roses and i had the upper playfield about a half a centimeter off so the the lock post would not go up and down which is a key part of the game so i messed with it forever and i messed with it while I talked to Drew, so it was not fun at all. But he was in the car driving, so we chatted a little bit. But I eventually got it. It took a while. It took some persistence, but it's working perfectly. Yep. I'm glad to hear that. I had a pretty big pinball week. This past Tuesday I played league at District 82. It was the front half of April League. It's usually two Tuesday nights per month. The goal each league night is to get 30 points. Do you want to guess how many that I got this past week? Um, 17. Gee, Tim, I got 29. Oh, wow, that's awesome. So my goal is 30, but I got 29 points. That put me, I think, 21 out of 50 players. So I feel pretty good about that. Sometimes it's good and bad thinking about where I'm sitting when I go play the back half, but I think when I do the strategy, if I want X amount of points at each league, that makes me feel better. Last year it was 28 at each league, so I upped it a little bit to make me a little bit more eager. Anyways, I had a really great, I took first on Giant Mnemonic and Stingray. I had a walk-off, actually, on Stingray. And my big fail for the week, my big fourth fail, flop, I guess, was on The Walking Dead. And I struggled with that game. But let's see, other than league stuff, I guess there's much more interesting things to talk about. At District 82 yesterday, there was the Great Lakes Open. It was two different tournaments. It was a classic style in the morning and then a target match play in the afternoon. Drew of the Poor Men's Pinball Podcast, because we're the podcast and they're the podcast, he came up to play that day and he had an interesting day that I'm sure that we'll all hear about. You're also welcome to check out the match play to see how he did. So could I ask you, does Drew suck at pinball? No, who does not suck at pinball? and the reason why I say he doesn't suck at pinball is because the first time anybody steps foot into district 82 I think that it's pretty overwhelming there's over 105 games there I was there for 15 hours yesterday and I did not play all the games I think that there's so much just not the games to look at but the play fields and back boxes and stuff that's on the walls it's really amazing um I can't yeah I can't say enough about that that place and the classics I did okay I took my goal was to be in the top 50 and I took 48th and it was 87 people. It was amazing that Eric Thorne, the guy who owns District 82, he actually won the Classics tournament after he went around the entire and directed the tournament, ran around and fixed games. It was pretty crazy. The afternoon in the target match play, it's a style where you are trying to be the first person to obtain 30 points. My goal was to get 15 points and I got 21. So I was super stoked about that. That put me in 24 out of 74 players. It was a lot of pinball in one day. It's definitely an endurance type of day where, you know, I pack my own snacks and just take it for what it is. One game at a time, sit down. I went outside in between our dinner break last night and stretched in the grass because my back's starting to get upset. I've been walking around in concrete for the last 13 hours. But it was really a fun day. Raymond Davidson actually won, I believe, on Silver Ball Mania. It was the last game of the evening. And that wrapped up, I'm going to say, about 11 o'clock p.m. Central Standard Time. And then they had a playoff, I think, for fifth place. It was really an unbelievable day concerning the amount of people that were there, people that everyone that wore a mask which was fantastic well they're great about that yep and just the it was such a stacked day having keith ellen and raymond davidson and colin mcalpine and luke nahorniak and several other really great players anna neal some other folks that came up from chicago i believe was seven different states that came and attended that tournament the tournaments yesterday any questions about that and you had drew and i had drew you know And Drew, actually, I was so excited to see him. He looks great. He had a big smile on his face. He is such a fun person to be around. Even though he didn't play as well as I think he wanted to, I think that he still had a fun time being there and experiencing that. Every time that I would bump into him throughout the Classics tournament, he always had a smile on his face. And we talked about what went right or wrong on our games. And he's just an awesome guy. Thanks, Drew, for coming up to District 82. and if there's any listeners that come up there to play a tournament and you've never been there before please definitely look to see if i'm on the list reach out i'm happy to show you about the place show you any skill shot on the game you don't know i love that place so that's it that's my personal pinball news for the week that was a lot yeah awesome it sounds like a much better saturday than i had i apologize because i got the points thing mixed up you said you're going for 15 and that's why I guessed 17, but I guess I had the tournament and league points mixed up, and I don't understand all that stuff. So hopefully I did not insult you with the 17. Oh, no, no, no. It was just funny. Yeah, so my league is different. So league is a four-player match play. So you get 7531 scoring. So if I get 30 points in one evening, that's a pretty good night after playing seven rounds. Does that make sense? That makes perfect sense. Yeah. Awesome. Now, I did hear you doing some commentating. Did you? Yeah, just a little bit. I think I jumped on. I think it was during the morning. It was such a long, crazy day. It kind of all blurs together. It was fantastic. It was a fantastic day. I did do just a tiny bit of commentating on Fox City's pinball. Tom is such a gracious guy. That's really anybody who wants to jump on the stream and chit-chat about pinball. It was a fun time. We're here at Episode 5 today, and we have a guest, as usual, from the tribe. I guess that who I really like and probably one of the first tribe members I started to talk to outside of the tribe, and that is Pete Quint. Pete, how are you?

high confidence · Pete's origin story: 'That's when I started to learn pinball was back in like 1990. I played Taxi there. I played Whirlwind, Earth Shaker, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Demon...Addams Family'

  • The Nacho Street Band is a 40+ member volunteer group that has been fundraising for Nationwide Children's Hospital for 7-8 years

    high confidence · Pete: 'The band is 100% voluntary. We have over 40 members...we've started earning money...we started it seven, eight years ago'

  • The band's 2021 fundraising goal is to help renovate the siblings room at Nationwide Children's Hospital

    high confidence · Pete: '2021 is going to go towards the siblings room in the hospital...Everything we make in 2021 is going to help renovate the siblings room at Children's Hospital'

    • Rachel Logie @ ~30:00 — Reflects market-driven collecting strategy due to rising machine prices

  • “You always hear the Lego Toy stories and, and God, hope. If someone could do Scooby-Doo, please do Scooby-Doo...that would be such a good property. Anyway. Yes. Scooby-Doo and Lego Toy Story would both be great for a children's hospital.”

    Pete Quint / Rachel Logie @ ~42:00 — Discussion of desired future pinball themes for charity donations, revealing licensing speculation

  • “We play a lot of New Orleans jazz...we'll take pop songs and make them brass arrangements...Think of Chicago and Bill Chase and Tower of Power. Think about that kind of stuff. and then dumb it down a lot because we're not that good.”

    Pete Quint @ ~51:00 — Describes the Nacho Street Band's musical style and self-deprecating humor

    • Great Lakes Open
    event
    Raymond Davidsonperson
    Tishperson
    Pins Mechanicalvenue
    Nacho Street Bandorganization
    Nationwide Children's Hospitalvenue
    Ronald McDonald House of Central Ohiovenue
    Project Pinballorganization
    Poor Man's Pinball Podcastorganization
    Keith Ellenperson
    Colin McAlpineperson
    Luke Nahorniakperson
    Anna Nealperson
    Johnperson

    high · Pete: 'We have a glut of barcades maybe a dozen not quite not quite a dozen eight to ten barcades three of them are gigantic' and detailed description of Pins Mechanical locations

  • ?

    community_signal: Strong recreational player subculture exists outside of competitive tournament scene. Pete represents this segment: plays on location, avoids tournaments due to personal preference, prefers casual $5 games with friends, self-identifies as 'bad' but having fun.

    high · Pete: 'I'm a recreational. I'm an enthusiast, I suppose...I don't really care for tournaments much unless it's dollar games with my friends...I get a little riled up in a tournament setting and usually it's towards myself'

  • ?

    business_signal: Pinball machines are being successfully placed in charitable institutions (Ronald McDonald House) through organized fundraising by community organizations (Nacho Street Band). Indicates demand for family-friendly themes like Spider-Man and interest in properties like Scooby-Doo for children's venues.

    high · Pete: 'In 2020 our goal in 2020 was to raise enough money to put a pinball machine in the Ronald McDonald House. And by God, we did it' with AC/DC machine; discussion of Spider-Man and Scooby-Doo as preferred future themes

  • ?

    rumor_hype: Community is speculating about unreleased pinball themes including Star Wars The Mandalorian, James Bond 007, Back to the Future, Godzilla, Lego Toy Story, and Scooby-Doo. Scooby-Doo and Lego are viewed as particularly desirable for children's venues.

    medium · Pete: 'you hear rumors about what is coming up...Star Wars The Mandalorian, 007, James Bond...Back to the Future...Godzilla...Scooby-Doo...Lego Toy stories' with caveat 'I don't know nothing'

  • ?

    event_signal: The Great Lakes Open at District 82 attracted 87 Classics entrants and 74 match play entrants from 7 different states, including notable competitive players. Shows regional tournament draw and competitive depth.

    high · Tim: 'It was a lot of pinball in one day...seven different states that came and attended that tournament' with specific player names listed

  • ?

    restoration_signal: Playfield protective installations (Cliffys) require significant disassembly work, including removing upper playfields. Installation can cause alignment issues requiring substantial troubleshooting time.

    high · Rachel: 'I had to take the entire upper playfield off of Guns N' Roses, install the Cliffy, and put it back...the lock post would not go up and down which is a key part of the game...It took a while'

  • ?

    personnel_signal: Tribe members (Poor Man's Pinball community) are actively building relationships and creating in-person connections. Pete and Tim describe initial misunderstanding resolved into friendship; planning in-person visits and multiplayer sessions.

    high · Tim: 'our first conversation we ever had via Facebook Messenger, I actually thought you hated me' and Pete: 'we have made up and talked a thousand times since then' with plans for future Columbus visits

    • 8:32
    How you doing, Tim? Rachel! Oh my gosh, I'm so happy to be on your podcast. This is so much fun. Welcome, welcome. Yeah, we are glad to have you, Pete. I have to say right away, Pete, you and I, we've chit-chatted off and on for about the last year. And to be honest, our first conversation we've ever had via Facebook Messenger, I actually thought you hated me.
    9:01
    You picked fun of – you made fun of me on the tribe, which is awesome. And then we went back and forth, and I thought, oh, crap, I made this guy mad. No, not at all.
    9:11
    It's weird when you get in with a new group of people. you're trying to feel them out in a in a non-weird way well maybe a little weird uh and yeah i for whatever reason you took something i said the wrong way and it wasn't meant that way and we made up yep yep we have made up and talked a thousand times since then so tim lee were you trolling him no no no i don't even remember the conversation i just remember thinking man did i make this Yeah, I don't remember. It probably has something to do with my trumpet playing, and that's always questionable for sure.
    9:52
    I know. I like the trumpet playing, and we'll get into that a little later. So, Pete, the purpose of this show is to just talk about the tribe, but we always start out with kind of how you play pinball, what you're doing in pinball. Modern day pinball, how do you play? Where do you play? What are you doing? Well, the question you ask, how I play pinball, it's a very easy question to answer, and that is bad.
    10:23
    And I don't care. I just have a very good time. I'm a recreational. I'm an enthusiast, I suppose. I'm not a collector. I don't have the room or money to own any machines. So I just play on location, and I don't really care for tournaments much. unless it's dollar games with my friends in the corner just having a good old time. I get a little riled up in a tournament setting and usually it's towards myself, and that's never any fun for anyone. So I like to stay away from tournaments, even leagues I'm not a big fan of, and I see where there's a lot of fun to be had in a league. So don't get me wrong. I'm not saying leagues are a bad thing. Just like it's not for me. So there it is. Can we get together and play a $5 game or something? You're damn right we can.
    11:20
    Rachel, if what you told me earlier is going to happen, then you and I are going to be playing some pinball together. And I cannot wait. Spoiler.
    11:29
    Spoiler. Right. Sorry. You're good. So, yeah, I'm here in Columbus, Ohio. we have a glut of barcades maybe a dozen not quite not quite a dozen eight to ten barcades three of them are gigantic and then there are a couple that are very pinball heavy and we just we have a great old time tish is here in town i've known her for oh my goodness a long time and we get together maybe not through covid but we get together on a fairly regular basis and uh we we we do some flipping together so it's a good time yeah tish is another tribe member for those unaware who i believe will be on soon i i would hope so that oh man i cannot wait to hear her podcast because she's got some stories that's what everybody says and i can't wait to meet her in person too uh she seems like a pretty awesome gal completely awesome i i fully endorse tish and all of her craziness love it so so pete what's your tribe number 14 14 i got in pretty early okay yep uh as a matter of fact i got in and i didn't even know i was in i just got this invite to something called the tribe and i went hey what's this so uh yeah i accepted the invite i suppose and yeah yeah it's just been downhill from here very downhill a very fast slope downhill talk about a snowball i just it's just into into the gutter every single week so it's a good time all right so do you have a particular location you favor the most my favorite location in town is level one it's one of the uh it's one of the locations that tish helps manage there are three venues called pins mechanical and they have an obscene amount of pinball. The original one has, I want to say, like 40 tables, and its second location in Dublin, Ohio, has at least 30. The new one in Easton, which is out on the east side of Columbus, shocking, it doesn't have quite as many pins, but the quality is high. So they've got Alden Stearns and an Alice Cooper and a Simpsons pinball party. First time I seen that one on location in Columbus But yeah level one is my favorite Not only is it the closest to my house but yeah it got quality the right price and it's always great to support the local folks.
    14:16
    Absolutely. I like playing on location in little places like that too. It's a good site. Yeah, we have a lot of locations. It's not hard to find pinball in Columbus. That's why I like to travel there. Yeah. I really do. And I'm lucky to have family that lives there. It's a thriving scene, and there's always, in the past, pre-COVID, there's always something that was going on in terms of pinball. For sure, yeah. Columbus is not short for things to do. I mean, it's kind of in the middle of nowhere. It's not exceptionally beautiful, but we have a lot of stuff going on in town. The conservatory is gorgeous that's there. The Franklin Conservatory or the – Yes. Yeah, that's a nice one. If you like those kind of gardens, my wife and I were just at something called Inniswood Parks. It's a huge swath of land that was donated 100 years ago from a couple of gals to the city of Columbus in Westerville. It's just gorgeous. I highly recommend it. I'll have to check that out. Yeah, if you do come to town and you just want to take in some really pretty stuff, let me know and I'll show you some cool things. Thanks, man. All right. Well, Pete, you also play virtual pinball. Is that true? That's where we're going. Yes, for sure.
    15:37
    Was there a tangent there? I don't know. Clearly, I lost track of what I was talking about. So, yes, since I don't have money nor do I have space, I am a true poor man because I just don't have the money for it. As a matter of fact, my wife told me that unless it drives you to work, You cannot own a pinball machine.
    16:03
    I have a virtual machine downstairs. It has the potential to play any number of games as long as I can find tables and ROMs. It is not easy to set up. Well, okay, I take it back. Let's rewind a little bit. Virtual pinball is not hard to set up at a base level. it takes a computer with a decent graphics card no less you can you can do it with one screen for sure on a desktop mode it's always better with no less than two screens so you get that back glass and play field going on but uh setting that up isn't terribly difficult as long as you have a little bit of computer savvy but when you get on to the youtubes and watch some of these guys with their rigs. Holy, holy moly. I don't even know where to begin with some of this stuff. And there are a couple of very good install guides in like VP Universe and VP Forums. Nailbusters is also a good one to go to. They have some very good install guides and videos, but it can only get you so far. And then you kind of got to figure it out yourself. And that's where I am right now. I've installed it. I've got some really cool things working right now, but there is a block right now where I just need to jump that fence and figure out the next part of it. And this is just the software. You can hook up knockers and solenoids and flashers, LEDs. You can do all sorts of crazy-ass shit with these machines to simulate what it is in a real environment. Now, none of this is real, and we realize that, but you enhance the not-so-real with some things that can't be done in real life, like video. You can play Tron on a virtual pinball machine and have actual video clips being played in the background, it's really, really cool if you can get it working at a high level. And it's not easy to get it there. So I say to anyone that is looking, testing the waters, it's not difficult to set up a rudimentary game. If you want to play taxi with a back glass and a play field and flippers, it's not terribly hard. but if you want video and you want other sounds and you want the machine to if you want to be able to nudge and have an actual plunger that's where we're we're stepping up several levels there of difficulty and hardware so it's it's a thing and it's it's a lot of fun and it's really frustrating at times that sounds so fascinating i have not played a virtual pinball machine yet or virtual pin i don't know what to call it there but it sounds very technical but i think you gave it a really good description of how you can get immersed into that environment i think having added the capability i never thought that you could actually add like led flashers to it in order to make it really pop yeah yeah it's it's it's like any hobby you dip your foot in the water and then all of a sudden it gets deep like or quite a way like like i right right like i brew beer at home and i start out brewing beer in a two and a half gallon uh stock pot on my stove and now i have a brewing rig downstairs and i can get to the next level and i know how to do it but there's time and money and space that I need to spend. And I'm not sure if I want to do that. So you can set up your virtual pinball machine as simple or as complicated as you want to. And if you're that kind of person, man, go for the crazy stuff. I've like I said I've reached a level where I'm like I really got to do some some extra learning to get it working well I hope that you're able to get it accomplished as far as I want to yeah me too I've got like I've got like 300 tables downstairs just waiting to be played and I've got one or two working the way I want them to and okay well let's get the next 300 working that's funny that's it's a hobby it takes time yep so do you have a particular whether it's on location you know real pinball virtual pinball do you have a particular type of game you like what's your favorite style game oh boy that's a good question yeah oh man so when i started playing pinball was oh i was still in high school now i grew up in a real small community and the closest arcade to me was 40 minutes away uh so i certainly could not reach that without my my folks driving me there and then even when i started driving that was in the early 90s so that's when video hit home consoles real hard so going to the arcade i i'm in a i'm in a weird demographic where if i was a little bit younger and had been dropped off at the mall by the folks i would have totally been into the vids and the pins but to get to the to get to the arcades i couldn't get there until i was old enough to own my own nintendo 8-bit so i i unfortunately missed a lot of that but when we vacationed up next to Lake Erie, there was the resort that we were staying at. I say resort, it was a fancy tent camp.
    22:11
    That's a resort. They had a marina so we could park the boat there, which was pretty cool for the week. But they had a rec center, a recreational center that had a pretty decent arcade with your Ms. Pac-Man's, your Mr. Do's, your Black Tigers, your bad dudes and gauntlets, TMNT, you know, four player, but they always had three to four pinballs, pinball tables there. And that's when I started to learn pinball was back in like 1990. I played taxi there. I played whirlwind, earth shaker, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Demoman gosh what else was there Adam's Family so I learned and then one of my uncles was a hippie from the 60's and taught me how to catch a ball that's where like oh this is more than just a video game this is a game of skill from there I played as much pinball as I could when we were on vacation because we just didn't go to the arcades heading to college at Ohio State I wasn't interested in going to arcades at that point there were more interesting things to pursue at that point in time mostly alcohol and women not mostly, just entirely so I didn't go to the arcades in college at all so I picked it up maybe 10 years ago when I found out that there was a league starting up here in Columbus. So that's my abbreviated history of pinball. So that's a pretty cool story. Speaking of, there's a campground nearby here locally, and they had a Wizard of Oz that's on a timer. Like after five minutes, it shuts off. I never heard of such a thing. What? Yeah, it's on a timer. Do you still get three balls? if you can play them in that time. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yep, yep. If you get three balls or if you hit the time limit, it's crazy. Your story made me think of that, yeah.
    24:24
    So that's a good family vacation story. You know, that's where you kind of get the bug, and then we all go to college, and I stopped playing in college as well, and eventually you pick it back up. Yeah, I'm so fortunate to be here in Columbus, where there just happens to be a glut of machines. Man, you name it. I can't say that because there's no taxi here in town, and that breaks my heart.
    24:53
    I haven't played one of those yet either. Oh, that's so good. And I've got that set up downstairs. If you're comfortable, Rachel, if you've ever come to Columbus, we can go play it in the basement. All right. We'll talk. Thank you. Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen Taxi on location I have some friends who own it And I've played it at their house But I've never seen it on location either That's my jam That's my go-to I love my taxi That's one that I would try very hard To convince my wife to Get here in the house Yeah, and you can still get that one At an affordable price Wrong, you cannot Not comparatively Like two years ago You could get it for like $1,500 Now it's probably around $3,000. Yeah, that's why I'm, man, I cannot abide by the prices of pinball machines today, which is why I focused on virtual pinball because it's just ridiculous. I'm even scratching my head at prices and thinking this is crazy. I keep thinking about that Star Trek Premium or LE that I want to purchase. I'm like, man, for the same cost, I could buy myself a second car.
    26:02
    How about it? Yes. Right? Yes. If it can drive you to work, you can have it. Right. I've actually went back to six games myself. I have six games, but I was telling my wife the prices have gotten crazy, and I just don't want to go beyond that. And from this point forward, I told her I'm going to sell to buy, right? Yeah. So I'm not going to, you know, just buy games without selling something anymore because the prices have people scratching their head. All right, Pete, so you mentioned the trumpet. and this is one of the things that i really wanted to talk about me too you're in a band what's the name so the tribe knows about the band because i was on the poor man's a year ago or something like that yeah it was almost a year ago that i was on that drew and had me on i'm in a band called the nacho street band uh nacho is in when we started the band NACCHO was an acronym for Nationwide Children's Hospital Orchestra.
    27:04
    Cool. I work at Nationwide Children's Hospital in IT, and our band does nothing but raise money for Nationwide Children's Hospital and the Ronald McDonald House of Central Ohio. And that has been our goal since we started it seven, eight years ago. And the last two and a half years, we've actually started earning money. And when I say earning money is, I mean, we're raising money and we're giving it back to the hospital. That's awesome. It's very exciting. The band is 100% voluntary. We have over 40 members, and we're always looking for more. We never want to – 40 members. That's great. Yeah, and they're just rotating in and out. We've got 12 people that almost always show up. But if we count down everyone that's played in the last year, we've got well over 40 people. It's, oh man, the band is so much fun. We've got the YouTube channel. We've got the Facebook channel. I think somebody set up a TikTok and I don know how that works But yeah in 2020 our goal in 2020 was to raise enough money to put a pinball machine in the Ronald McDonald House And by God, we did it. Awesome. That's awesome. Congratulations. During COVID and with the help of the tribe, thank you tribe, we raised enough money to partner with Project Pinball. and we will be putting a machine in the Ronald McDonald House when they allow people to come back into the Ronald McDonald House. So we've kind of put that on pause. So we're thinking about, okay, what do we want to do? Do we want to do something new? Do we want to do something classic like a Spider-Man?
    28:55
    Anything like, I don't know if a Willy Wonka is a good idea? Well, going into a children's hospital, you know i think you want it to be a game that's a playable game by kids right and and content that that's going to be interesting to them i think spider-man's always a i think that's always a great that's that's one we're we're gravitating to and of course i you hear rumors about what is coming up and that's not a subject for this podcast but you know we're we're not gonna pull the trigger one until uh ronald mcdonald house allows us to come in there and two you know we might hold back for some of the things that we've all been hearing off offline about what might be coming down the pike. So Mandalorian 007, James Bond. I don't think James Bond is a good idea. Back to the future. I'm not. What else did I hear today? Godzilla. Okay. Yeah. Always Godzilla, but no, not Godzilla. Yes. Mandalorian. Yeah. You know, you always hear the toy stories and, and God, hope. If someone could do Scooby-Doo, please do Scooby-Doo. I hear the property.
    30:07
    What? No, I don't know nothing. I don't. I honestly don't. So that would be a – oh, man, that would be such a good property. Anyway. Yes. Scooby-Doo and Toy Story would both be great for a children's hospital. 100,000%. And that's kind of what I'm holding out for, holding out hope that one of those two properties comes out because that just transcends generations.
    30:38
    And boys and girls love all those, maybe even The Mandalorian to a degree, love that property. yeah and well pete i have to say it's certainly amazing that you and your fellow band members are doing that for the hospital and that all the all the profits go towards the hospital that's really commendable yeah 2001 is going to go towards the siblings room in the hospital and there there's a big renovation they're gutting a portion of the hospital so that uh the siblings have a room to go to when parents are taking care of things and their siblings are taking care of things. And there's a place for them to go to get their minds off of what's happening to their families. So that's our 2021 goal. Everything we make in 2021 is going to help renovate the siblings room at Children's Hospital. That's amazing work that you're doing, you and your band. Is there a way, if our listeners would like to contribute towards that, how could they do that? Go to Nacho Street Band on Facebook. Check us out on NachoStreet.org. We are officially a government or what am I saying here?
    32:03
    What am I saying here? You're government employees! No, no, no. Non-profit? We have our 503B or whatever that is, non-profit status. So all of your contributions to the Natural Street Band are tax deductible. You can go to naturalstreet.org. You can go to the Facebook page. There is a donate button on the Facebook page as well. We broadcast all of our performances on the Facebook page. So make sure you go to the Facebook page. like us and listen to the terrible music that we produce and know that know that we're bringing smiles to children's faces uh we have two gigantic gigs coming up that we need all the help we can get to raise all the money we can this coming saturday tim this is coming out this week i assume right i will make it come out yeah so the 24th we are going to a pinball bar called j and d's uh they're they're more of a biker bar but they've got gosh eight machines in there and a pool table he's uh john who owns the the j and d's bar is he's such a good guy and they have a beautiful patio and God help us please, please make it be dry. I don't care how cold it is. Just don't let it rain on Saturday.
    33:33
    No rain. If anybody can do a dance to make it not rain, for heaven's sakes, I would appreciate your help. I'll cross everything. Please, please cross all the stuff. The eyes and the teeth, the legs and the eyes. Please do all that fun stuff.
    33:49
    So, inside We will be playing Saturday. The three-hour performance will be broadcast on Facebook. So please, please go. And one of my goals on Saturday is to see how far you are. Please check in with where you are from. From what location are you listening? So I've got friends in Japan and Hawaii and Australia. And I would love to hear who out there is listening. so if you can just log in and if you don't want to listen to us which I don't blame you if you can just log in and say hey look we're tuning in from Germany or Colorado or Wisconsin it'd be awesome just to get some sort of banter up there it'd be a hoot yeah I will check it out are you going to play Rawhide since it's a cowboy bar no that's a cowboy bar We don't play both of those kinds of music, you know, country and western. We play a lot of New Orleans jazz. We play a lot of – we have arrangers in the band, so they'll take pop songs and make them brass arrangements, which is what we don't have vocalists. It's all high-energy, horn-driven music. So think of Chicago and Bill Chase and Tower of Power. Think about that kind of stuff. and then dumb it down a lot because we're not that good.
    35:20
    I have listened, Pete, and you guys are pretty good. Yeah, I thought it was good too. We have a good time. And that's, man, I've been in a lot of bands in my life, and no band has been this much fun.
    35:34
    I genuinely just love playing with these guys, and we don't have any auditions. So, again, if anyone's listening, please join the band. We would love to have you. So, Pete, we had Scoots on a couple of episodes ago, and he's naming a sandwich after me. Can I get you to name a song after me?
    35:56
    Yes. I'm going to have to think about what's in the repertoire to La Vida Lee. Like instead of La Vida Loca, La Vida Lee maybe.
    36:08
    Whatever. You can pick the song. What rhymes with Tim Lee sucks? Ah. Tim Lee. Go for it. I'll figure it out. Go for it.
    36:22
    Tim Lee, I got a question here because, you know, you're getting a sandwich and you're getting a song. I think I'm just going to bide my time until I get a pinball table named after me or something like that. Yeah, you're going to go big. I'm getting all the small things. Yeah, that's fine, you know. Or if I could just do, like, a call-out on a pinball machine, that would be super rad rachel i will i will send a call out to you during the performance but i won't for tim oh that's fine yeah yeah is that good yes fantastic thank you so pete you had a second gig and i cut you off there did you have a second oh yeah oh you didn't cut me off uh the second gig is on may the 8th and this is kind of a this is an experiment so we're hitting four different places around town so 270 is the outer belt of Columbus Ohio it's the highway that uh circumnavigates the the city and we've chosen four different venues to play at all day long so we're going to start at 10 a.m at a coffee shop in on the west side called in Hilliard, Ohio, called Coffee Connections. And then we're going to head south to Grove City to one of our band members' backyards. They have a huge backyard with a giant neighborhood. So we're going to go play there. And then we're going to go to a bar on the east side called Crafted Culture, which is the first African-American owned brewery in Ohio. Their owners are African-Americans. Fan-flippantastic. And then we're going to end the day up at level one with Therese, and they are having a kids' tournament all day long, and we're hoping that everything works out, that the tournament will be ending by the time we stumble in and play our 30-minute set. So that's going to be a lot of fun. That's on May the 8th. Again, it will be broadcast on Facebook on the Nacho Street Band. Facebook page. So please go over there, like us, listen to us, tell us we suck. I don't care because we kind of do, and we have a good old time. Sounds fantastic, Pete. I love all that passion that's going on there.
    38:44
    It's so much fun. We have so much fun, and I hope that if you do watch it, even if we hit a bad note every once in a while, I hope you will see that we are having such a good time that it just don't matter. it already comes through in your enthusiasm talking about it so i'm excited to watch it yeah and i'm gonna come down to columbus yes and i'm gonna catch one of your shows oh oh okay we'll have to talk then yeah no no no no i mean like like we'll we have we are booked through august now like we will play we have gigs almost every weekend through august as of this point so if If you want to book us, get a hold of us on the Facebook page. That's Peach Keen. But it might be hard to get us because we're already booked.
    39:34
    Cool. Well, I'm going to come see a show, and then we'll play some pinball afterwards. Yes. We will arrange something. How long have you been playing trumpet? Well, like a lot of folks who attended elementary school, I started playing in the 5th or 6th grade Played through high school of course I was in the Ohio State University Marching Band And if you don't know anything about that band Eh, good for you If you'd like to know more about it Just look up the Nintendo Show on YouTube And prepare for your jaw to hit the ground I played in college I went to a Rose Bowl For those of you who know what that is and I put the horn down for a good 10 years, picked it back up, started playing with the Ohio State Alumni Band. I've been on several Buckeye crews for cancers. So we raise money, the marching band or the marching band alumni, I should say, raises money for cancer research. And every year there is a cruise. And yeah, it's Ohio State Buckeye centric. But anybody who is an advocate for eradicating cancer can either donate or join us on this cruise, which it is nothing but a gigantic Caribbean booze cruise, for God's sakes. Oh, man. The nights I don't remember are plentiful.
    41:05
    So, yeah, I started doing that. And then I played in an Elvis band for a while. I played in a Blues Brothers band for a while. and then I found this nacho band at the oh yeah I've got pictures and all that shit send us some pictures oh yeah but yeah so that's yeah I've I've I picked it up I picked up my horn probably in 2007 and I've been playing ever since so I've I've been very happy that's great well thank you I was just curious I'd never asked you that question I'm just curious how long you've played is the ohio state band better than the penn state well that's a very good question because the penn state blue band does a lot of things very well they have one of the better jazz uh colleges in the big 10 uh and they have some incredible musicians now they march very very differently than the ohio state marching band does uh but i have a great deal of respect for the penn state Blue Band They do a lot of things very very well So I not going to say we better I certainly not going to say we worse But they are a very very good band I'm not a big Penn State fan, but I used to live there and work there, and I used to go watch the band. Yeah, I used to go just to watch the band. They are very good bands. Go Badgers.
    42:38
    Wisconsin? I might have some problems with Wisconsin. No, no, no, I'm kidding. their style of marching is it's a little ridiculous i don't know i don't pay enough attention to that they do what they do very very well so i cannot say that they are a bad band they are experts in what they do there you go is that good enough i don't care you know all right so next subject and this is what i'm excited to talk about yeah you're also a podcaster correct yeah i i dabble yeah and i i listen to your podcast um quite often especially your award-winning episode on um the movie turbo kid so tell us a little bit about your podcast I'm not sure who's delving out these awards but they should probably be put behind bars award winning I do the good beer bad movie night podcast those ridiculous set of words there's a reason I used to host a bad movie night at my house in the basement and it was always called good beer bad movie night and then I decided that hey, let's make a podcast. And so we did. Some of the regulars are our hosts, Kathleen, Troy, Dave, myself. And that's what we do. We drink good beer. We talk about bad movies. And it's usually a shitstorm. One or all of us always gets way too drunk to be podcasting at that point. But, yeah, we've been doing it for about four years. We do it for kicks. We don't get any money for it. We put it out into the ether. We hope to get some feedback here and there. And we do every once in a while. And for sure, Tim, you are one of our leading fans, which is kind of, I don't know, sad.
    44:48
    I don't know if that's a rip on me or a rip on your show. I'll bring it back on myself. It's on the show. Both. So Rachel was probably confused there because I didn't tell her about how I pretty much sent Pete a message after every episode, Rachel. And I said, can you please watch the movie Turbo Kid? And the next episode would come up and I would say, Pete, great episode. Would you please watch the movie Turbo Kid? And he finally did it back in January or February. And I was just – I was stoked. I was so happy.
    45:27
    Honestly, Tim, before you even sent that first message to me, that was on the short list. And I just – we have half the years taken up by themed podcasts. So we do – like in December, we do a Hallmark – oh, God. We do a Hallmark or Lifetime – God bless America – A Christmas movie or holiday movie. And then we're getting ready to do a Cinco de Mayo episode. We usually do a luchador film for that. Or some sort of a Mexican monster movie, which is always a hoot.
    46:06
    For July, we do an independent movie for Independence Day. So it's usually somebody that, you know, it's not a mainstream movie, but it's a passion project from somebody. and we've got a couple of everybody's got a birthday month so the other three podcasters have the month that they're having their birthday they get to pick whatever the hell they want to sometimes it's a bad movie sometimes it's a good movie sometimes it's both and then yeah so it's kind of tough to wiggle in a request but we do that and we're going to do that we're going to start doing that a lot more as long as we start getting requests for them and I think Tim, you were the first one that we were like, let's just start this shit. So, boom. TurboKid. And we had a ball. My God, that movie is so much fun. I had seen that years ago, and I forgot how much fun that was. It was. And Kathleen's reaction was priceless. So I enjoyed it. I'm like, it's everything I hoped she would think of the movie. She thought of the movie. So Troy and Dave are on my team. They're like, yes, bad movies. We love them. Or we hate them. Or a little bit of both. but Kathleen's like all these movies suck ass so she's the dissenting opinion on most of these films and every once in a while we'll get her liking one of them and it's few and far between but I cannot wait where we all agree that this was a bitchin movie and it's kind of something off topic and weird now it wasn't the previous episode Rachel I'm going to tie this into your pinball week they have reviewed Johnny Mnemonic which is a fantastic pinball machine but a terrible movie I have not seen the movie and I really like that game after playing five and a half hours of classics yesterday and I only stuck to playing classics in between rounds that was the first game I went and played and I blew it up it felt like I was washing my hands after playing classics forever but yeah anyways I love Johnny Mnemonic but I've never seen the movie but most people say it's a pretty crappy movie. I've not seen Demolition Man either.
    48:20
    But that might be a talk about another podcast for another time. Demo Man's a decent film, and the pinball machine's bitchin'. Giant and Amomic, don't bother with the film. Just enjoy the machine.
    48:36
    I'm making a wonderful phone call. I mean, the call-out's on there. I just want to watch it for the call-outs. Oh, God, don't.
    48:45
    uh you're in for it rachel i i don't i hope i have the right movie but i think it's johnny mnemonic or it could be another movie where the stern executives went to the preview or it might have been i don't know if that's a williams machine but whoever was making the machine i think this is the movie somebody our fans can correct me if i'm wrong but they flew out to the preview and after the movie they called stern and they asked i think it was gary stern to get out of the contract because the movie was so bad i'm pretty sure that's the pinball machine that's a true story i just think i got the right i'll have to dig into that yeah yeah look that one up and somebody can fact check me on that one so pete just throw out four or five movies that you've reviewed uh okay some of my favorites uh seven golden vampires with peter cushing and the shaw brothers if anyone's familiar with the chinese kung fu uh movie producers uh this was a uh a collaboration with hammer studios hammer was a or is a uh english uh great britain movie studio that does a whole bunch of horror movies with christopher lee and peter cushing and all those fun people uh they did a they did a vampire kung fu mashup and it was uh it was a whole lot of shit um we did that one uh we just did grizzly grizzly is jaws on land so all the scary stuff about Jaws, how it's like they're coming underneath you, it's going to grab you from behind, it's going to grab you from underneath. They tried to do On Land with an 18-foot grizzly and it didn't translate very well.
    50:43
    We did Howard the Duck, which was a terrible movie, but we had so much fun reviewing that one. There was just a lot of fodder to talk about.
    50:57
    And I think one of the ones that we all enjoyed that just we had a rip-roar in time with was Hudson Hawk with Bruce Willis. I remember enjoying that one, but after watching it and then talking about it with the cast, that one just, boy, oh boy, that was so much fun talking about and watching. It was clearly a bad movie. It was clearly Bruce Willis was like, I'm Bruce Willis. I want to make this movie. I want to do this. Here we go. And he just was force-feeding Hollywood the script that he wrote or something.
    51:36
    And, you know, on a level, it worked. It was a ball. But people go to see it and like, this isn't Die Hard. Of course it's not Die Hard. It's not supposed to be Die Hard. It's supposed to be some stupid cat burglar movie. And I thoroughly – the ridiculousness of it was awesome. And what was it?
    52:00
    Okay, I'm losing my brain here. Not David Duchovny. Who is the redhead from NCSI Miami? The redheaded dude. Okay. He's in Hudson Hawk as a super – I can't think of his name either. But, yeah, he's in that as a super weirdo. like he he's the master of disguise and dresses up as others um and he's got a couple of really good like he almost doesn't say a word in the whole thing he just sort of pantomimes in the background loved his character and i i'm embarrassed to say i don't remember his name um yeah that's really interesting and probably movies that you wouldn't some people would never hear of otherwise yeah one of the one of the things we got was one of the the feedback we got was, hey, I've never seen any of these movies. Why would I listen to you guys? We're doing you a favor, people.
    52:51
    This is a public service. We're watching these movies so you don't have to. Alright, Rachel. Well, I'll let you ask the important question. Oh, it's the most challenging question of all, right? Oh, no. I'm so scared. Well, don't freak out. Well, you need a pop when you can do it. I have to go all the way to the refrigerator. It's fine. It's too far. No, just stay cozy. It's all good.
    53:19
    We're just curious. This is what we like to ask all the tribe members that come on our podcast is, how did you get into the Poor Man's Pinball tribe? Well, there was, you know, if you follow the steps, share, like, interact, that all works but I'm pretty sure I got into the podcast or the tribe I should say by sending Ian a whole bunch of dick pics oh lord oh my goodness you know you put little googly eyes and maybe a top hat a mustache I think the mustache really worked that one I got a big lol from that one and shortly after that I was in the trend. I do not believe that is the fifth pillar, but we'll accept that answer.
    54:13
    Oh, my God. How else did you get in? I mean, how did you guys get in? Rachel, how did you get in? I mean.
    54:23
    I think that Ian and Drew and I just connected when we met in person. Okay. And I think that's what it was. And I just, you know, showed up, showed up to Twitch on their Monday night stuff. and shared it with other friends and talked about it within my league that there's other fans. That kind of thing, I think, is what it was. But I cannot tell you what the secret fifth pillar is. Sorry.
    54:50
    I only shared, like, one thing they posted on Facebook, and I'm still not sure how I got in. Actually, I started talking to Drew, and I don't know if Ian wanted me in. I think the jury was out. you know Ian likes me now but I think Drew got me in so I started talking to Drew and we went back and forth for a while and they were desperate early on Pete you're 14 I'm 12 so they were letting anyone in at that time yeah they actually had criteria after about you know 15 maybe we should make some criteria so I owe you beer Tim when we get together right and Rachel owes us both beer when we get together I guess I do In other news, we did receive some feedback in the past week that Tim Lee really stinks at closing out our show.
    55:38
    That is an absolute true statement. So here I am. I'm going to try to do, like, you know, some kind of, like, little thing here with a big um in the beginning of it because that's what true podcasters do, right? Mm-hmm. Tim Lee sucks at podcasting. Yeah. Thanks for listening to Tribe Multiball with Tim and Rachel. Thank you to our guest Pete Quint For giving us laughs And an insight into your pinball world I found it really fascinating If you have any questions or concerns Or raves or rants But you can keep your negative feedback to yourself You can reach us at Poormanspinball at gmail.com That's it Thanks friends Thank you Rachel Thank you Pete We appreciate you coming on Thanks for having me Take care Alright Bye
    56:24
    Thank you.