The reason I started listening to Poor Man's Pinball podcast was I had seen Steven Bowden share their first episode. And that sort of stuck in my mind to some degree, but I didn't listen. And then I started hearing a lot of buzz about this really great new podcast. And I'd listened to an episode of Head to Head, Martin Robbins interviewing these two guys from this new podcast and talking about how great their podcast was, and how polished it was and well edited, encouraging them to continue to move forward with their podcast. And their podcast had this weird name that I couldn't really remember. It really didn't stick out in my head. And then I was watching MGC and got the Wonka reveal. And these two dopey looking guys walk up to the machine with their poor man's pinball podcast shirts on and proceed to play six balls in about 30 seconds. I'm not sure they even touched the ball. It's given a credit. That's that show that everyone's been saying is so great. And it's so polished. And I went and I downloaded it and I listened to it and I'm like, there's no way in hell this is the podcast everyone's been talking about as being so great and so polished and of course that podcast was loser kid um everyone talking about loser with these two guys wearing these shirt um but what i liked about it was that it was very authentic like that they were they were really authentic they were really real um and it was entertaining and so i started to stop Oh my gosh. I love that. Now it's finally here. The time has come for the sloppiest show on the internet. This week's episode of Four Mads Pinball Podcast. Starring Drew and Ian. That's it, man. Game over, man. Game over. Game over. I'm gonna need someone to help me. I'm gonna need somebody's help. Son of a bitch, give me a drink. One of a night, I just can't fit me. Son of a bitch, if I can't get clean, I'm gonna drink my way. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the Poor Man's Pinball Podcast. This is episode 130. Let's open the bar today. what's on tap we need to follow up on some past episodes what's on tap that's very meta we got pinball on a budget question mark staring are you listening personal pinball news from drew and a center post cafe twippy voting has begun let's get started it's great to be back guys here behind the mic it's been a few weeks uh poor man's pinball network has been busy though We have quite a few new episodes up, so don't forget to listen to Tribe Multiball with Rachel and Tim. This week they had Steve Johnson on. It was a great, great, great episode. Check that out. Tim Lee released one of his awesome life lessons with Tim Lee. That was another great episode. We have the brand-new Ray Ray Show, which features our very own Rachel Risto and none other than Raymond Davidson. They did their second episode. That was really cool, too, so check that one out. And, of course, Pinball Nerds Podcast, episode 505. 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Go to PinballPrices.com. Anytime you are shopping for pinball, whether you're buying or selling, you need to go to PinballPrices.com. He logs all the sales from all the different websites so you know if you're getting a great deal on that pinball machine. PinballPrices.com. Go there now. Hit the donate button. Buy Doc a beer. So it occurred to me the last few weeks that, or last few episodes, you know, I do my what's on tap, and then I wouldn't check anything off, and then I get done with the episode, and I'm like, oh, man, I got to go back and fix some of this stuff. So the big omission from the last episode was I teased, hey, I'm going to talk about a podcast that's been around a while, but I've never really listened to it, and I got a chance. And that's none other than Slam Tilt with Ron and Bruce. I know they've been around a while, but I just listened to them recently for the very first time, and I have to say I didn't realize they were our people. I also didn't realize they were at Expo. I wish I would have done this before Expo because then I would have sought them out. Actually, I think only one was there, and I can't remember if it was Ron or Bruce. But anyway, it's just a big shout-out, Slam Tilt Podcast. Once again, I know I'm late to the party, but there's so many podcasts out there. Obviously, I'm not going to listen to any. And I knew they were more about tournaments and different things, so that's probably why I stayed away. But I've just got to say, you guys are hilarious, super entertaining. I'm now going to be an avid listener. So great job, guys. Appreciate all the hard work that you put in. I think you guys have been doing this, what, five years, eight years, ten years. So Slam Tilt Podcast, if you've been living under a rock like Drew, just go check them out, okay? So there's my omission for the week. What's on tap today I'm going through, and I'm going to check them off so I don't miss anything. So here we go. So is it possible to participate in this hobby anymore on a budget? I think a lot of people will say no, but the prices have been going up, and I think it's been a focus of this show for years. And I think it's kind of been on everyone's mind, and people who have been in the hobby a long time or they're just starting out, we obviously all know how expensive this can be. And the last couple episodes we kind of talked with when I had John Hall on, We were talking about some budget games. I just bought a couple of budget games, Skateball and Big Guns. I think I talked about those on Episode 129. But I thought it would be cool, and I asked you guys to submit, you know, top five. And, of course, nobody submitted anything. Maybe you did. I didn't check the email today. But anyways, I made my own little list here for top five in no particular order. I just kind of picked five games, not necessarily like my favorites or this or that, but these are five games that are roughly under $3,000. Now, I don't want any hate mail of like, oh, I paid $3,300 for this game. Because my whole point is I think, you know, if you can scrape together $3,000 or $4,000, you should be able to get, you know, a fun machine. Because there's still a lot of, you know, values out there, I think. And no, you're not going to get a new modern game, and you're probably not going to get a Bally Williams DMD game. But after Skateball and Big Guns, which, by the way, I paid a grand total of less than $4,000 for, so that was basically two for the price of one in today's world, if you will. There's some fun finds out there. And I didn't put those games on the list purposely because even though they are fun, I enjoy them. I just thought, well, you guys know I like them, so let's move on to some other ones. but here we go once again no particular order we're going to start off with earthshaker a game that i had it's a system 11 um you know i bought it for less than 3 000 i sold it for less than 3 000 and that was actually within the last year so um you know this was during the the peak of the pinball prices and you can still find an earthshaker once again someone might be asking 32 or 33 but Earthshaker has a lot in it and great System 11 game. Underrated in my opinion. I think it probably should be valued at more, but it's not. So go check it out. So if you're looking for... And there's a ton of them out there. So if you're looking for a budget game, that would be a way to go. Number two, Space Shuttle. One of William's best from back in the day, the early 80s. Fantastic game. cool little multiball, cool ramp just a fun players game, once again you can probably once again go to pinballprices.com shameless plug for Doc but you can check out what they've been selling for but typically you can get a good space shuttle for somewhere between 2 and 3 grand and then you can do a hard top on it maybe spend another 6-700 bucks but you're still right around that 3,000 mark Paragon, Paragon's one I talk about it all the time. I still want one if anyone has a nice Paragon. You know, Paragon is one of those games, it's incredibly popular from that era. And you know you can get them from all the way up to but you know depending on condition But generally speaking they in that to range Once again maybe a touch more but you get a lot of game No pun intended. It's a big old wide body. But I don't think you can go wrong with Paragon. The next one is a game that, once again, I think everybody has owned at some point. So talk about a value. F14. um you know f14s when i got into the hobby were 1200 bucks um then i bought one a few years later i think i paid 15 or 1600 for it then i sold it like a year after that for i think 1700 and i think even today if you get a nice f14 you know you got this ass kicker of a game for you know 25 2800 bucks once again some people are probably pricing them a little over three I think that's a little overpriced. If you can find somebody local, you know, if they've had it for many years, they probably only paid $800 or $1,000 for it. So, you know, they might be willing to unload it for $2,000 or $2,500, depending on condition. Usually those things are beat up. I think they have a hard top for it now, so that's an option. But just, you know, it's a Steve Ritchie classic. It's fast. It's furious. It's a great game. So check it out. So no more whining about value pins because we got them. And then fifth on the list here, another one I've had in my collection a couple years back is Firepower. This kind of follows the same pricing trend as F14. So once again, there's a whole lot of them out there. I think I bought mine for like $600 and it had a couple small issues that I fixed. I did a hard top on mine, and you can routinely find these now for $2,500, $2,800. If somebody did the hard top and maybe redid it nice, you might be paying closer to $4,000. But generally speaking, most of these are going to be in the $2,000 to $2,500 range. So that's five. Earthshaker, Space Shuttle, Paragon, F-14, Firepower. And then on top of that, I said, you know what, this is my show, so I'm going to keep going. I got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 honorable mentions. So we'll kind of run through these here. Big Guns and Skateball, I've already talked about those. Got an early ballet game in Skateball. Cool shots, cool layout. I'll talk a little bit more about that in my pinball personal news. Big Guns, you know, a System 11 game. It's a simple game, but it's got cool art. It's got some fun mechs, and it's just really, really neat. Then we've got a handful of others I'll run through pretty quickly here. I've had a few. I hadn't had a few. I might not want a few. But, once again, these are all value pins. So if they spark your interest, they are all less than $3,000. You have LaserQ. LaserQ is the sister to Alien Poker. Very cool game, very cool layout, fun rules. a friend of mine just bought one for i think uh twenty two hundred dollars so those are definitely under three thousand and you really should never pay more than twenty five hundred bucks for that uh harlem globetrotters a little more on the popular side i want one of these once again depending on condition you could go up to four grand but typically speaking they're going to be in the 2000 to $2,800 range. Electra and Xenon, kind of the same era there. Some Valley pins. Both of those, $2,200, $2,300. Definitely won't break the bank. And you got another System 11. Some people love it, some people hate it. Fire. Cool world under glass. Does theme integration really well. It's got the cool ramps. And that's one. they made a bunch of them i think they have a hard top of that as well um so you could get that one 2500 let's say jungle lord jungle lord has that cool upper play field it's got a lot going on uh you have one two three four flippers i believe um from the top of my head but uh my buddy uh new tribe member uh 46 daryl has one just it's just a fun game from that 80s era so it might not be for everyone, but a lot of those, those eighties Valley pins that just have Williams pins, um, have those cool upper playfields, lower playfields. Um, just, just a great, great value road Kings. Ian and I have talked about this one, fun game, cool ramps. Um, you know, part of, once again, part of that early solid state with the weird kind of themes, you know, it's just a motorcycle road kings kind of thing but uh but the game's fun so um you know you got a different challenge of all these games but once again all of these games can be had and you know i just wanted to throw that out there because once again i'm kind of gravitating towards some more of this stuff now because i love mixing up the games i love getting them in and out of my house but i just you know the prices just keep going up so it's like you know what do we do well if I want to keep participating, this is what I'm going to do, and I'm going to enjoy it, because I can actually literally get more bang for my buck. I'll get more games. You know, I could take $10,000 now, you know, the price of a Jersey Jack, and I could literally buy three of these games. It sucks that I have to say that out loud, but, you know, now you can ask yourself, you know, do I want this game? Sure, if it's a theme I want, maybe, but I could just go out, buy three games, fill up my basement, have some fun. You know, if I'm looking to learn how to restore or do a play field swap and that kind of thing. So, um, just another option for you guys. Um, you know, I, I just want to make sure that people know, have this information and, and I think it's interesting to talk about. So once again, call me, text me, email me, poor man's pinball at gmail.com. Let me know what your value picks are. Let me know if I screwed something up on this list. Let me know if I should have added something, taking something off but i think this is a pretty comprehensive list once again earth shaker space shuttle paragon f-14 firepower laser q harlem globetrotters uh electra xenon fire jungle lord road kings big guns and skateball so we got five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen actually fourteen value pins i'm sure there's some others send me yours um maybe we'll increase this to 4,000 or 4,500 bucks because we could still probably call those budget pins in today's world and maybe we'll do a 3,000 to 5,000 one on a future episode so just send me your emails anyway say hi guys I appreciate all the listens and by the way poor man's pinball network has reached a new milestone of 100,000 listens so I just really want to thank everyone I want to thank all of our content creators. Um, I want to thank, you know, Tim Lee and Rachel and, uh, tribe member number two, Martin, uh, Orby pinball nerds podcast, everyone who has, uh, Glenn Glenn Waechter, who has done some stuff for Tim and Rachel and has done a lot for the poor man's pinball podcast. Um, Ian, of course. So thank you guys for all your contributions and thank you for listening. So, um, we, we're not quite as big yet as some of these other networks and some of these others, But I'm not embarrassed to share it that we have reached over 100,000 views, 100,000 listens. And so see, Kaneda, I'm not afraid to share my numbers. I just, once again, bottom of my heart, thank you guys. It's so great. We are ramping up. We're getting more listens every single week, especially with all these new contents. You know, Raven Davidson is now doing that show with Rachel. So thanks again, guys. And we really, really appreciate it. So Stern, are you listening? You know, we talked to, I talked to lots of people, you know, we share ideas, we have fun in the pinball hobby. And something that came up recently was I was talking to some people about AIQ. and while everyone thinks it's another Keith Elwin masterpiece as far as shots and layout go because the thing it shoots like a dream right um the theme's okay if you're into marvel it's you know it's a little generic that's fine it wasn't his choice um he did a great job with the layout but one of the big complaints is always with the code not that the code isn't good the code's actually great but the code is very complex like some would say almost too complex we've talked about it. Other people have talked about it, but I think it is time for Stern to revisit some of these codes, especially on these games. I mean, technically they're still making that game. I don't know if they're going to have a ton more runs on it, but there's games sitting in boxes at distributors. They probably will do at least another run or two of AIQ. And I just think that they should spend a little time and resources on, you know, maybe having two different code sets. So Stern, are you listening? I know it's, it's kind of been broached before, but, uh, I just think that it's, it's time. Um, you know, we have this, you know, someone who I was talking to, they said, yeah, my kids like the theme, but they never play the game because they don't understand it. And, you know, that could actually help Stern get some more sales if, you know, because maybe someone buys that game. Maybe it's their only game. They're like, oh, we love the Avengers, and then they can't figure it out. And then, you know, they're not pinball nerds like I am and like a lot of us are. So maybe they say, you know what, we're just not going to buy this again, you know, and we're not going to buy another game because it's too complicated. So, you know, I don't know. I mean, I might be going out on a, you know, stretching on a limb there, but just a thought. But Stern you know maybe you could do a separate code set you could just have an easy and a normal You know nothing crazy but the easy code set would be just that so like as far as avenger goes you could hold in the flipper button and say okay we're going to easy mode and um you know obviously the layout's the same but now maybe you're just collecting the characters you know so you say okay you know we're going to collect thor and we're going to collect this and then you know if you collect you know i know that's part of the code anyways but i'm saying like that could be like the whole thing you know you you collect six or eight characters and then you get to fight somebody at that point you know something you know you can be creative as you want but um but take out a lot of the gem stuff and the you know the different where do you put it and how do you work this so um you know just a thought and then there's other games that could you know uh maybe star wars they could go back and do just kind of more of a linear progression like it's been talked about or it's just like you're gonna you're gonna pick a character and instead of like choosing modes you're gonna just start modes and then you're just gonna go through the story um you know without the multipliers or something i don't know so once again you know i don't have all the answers but i just stern are you listening. And what about Drew's personal pinball news center post cafe has been busy. Um, I am, I have, I should say, I've ordered all the parts for my skate ball, uh, play field swap. So I'm really looking forward to that. Um, I'm going to tear it down. I'm going to rebuild it. I'm going to make it better than new. I'm really looking forward to this. It's going to be a fun project. I had a ton of fun with Sorcerer, so I thought, hey, let's do this madness again. So I'm just waiting on my play field, waiting on some more parts, and then we're going to get going with that. So that's exciting. Then yesterday, I got this story about Sorcerer, right? My pop bumpers have been a little sluggish. It's working fine, has been working fine. I swapped that one, I think it's been over a year now. So a little sluggish. So I'm like, all right, I'm going to, you know, I'm going to adjust these switches on the pop bumpers, you know, the switch gap as it were. And anyways, I get, I lift up the play field. And once again, remember everything's been working. There's been really no issues, couple of small adjustments, but everything's been bulletproof fine. And I take my switch adjustment tool, which I've done literally a million times before, not literally, I don't know why I said that, but anyways, so like a million times before and I touched the switch like I've done a million times before and the pop bumper locks on. Okay. So, um, you know, I realized right away, so I turn it off, you know, I didn't burn up the coil or anything. Then I said, okay, I kind of looked at the switch, looked at the gap Everything looks fine. Like I said, I didn't even really move anything. I just touched it. And then I turn it on, and it locks on again. I'm like, what the hell? So I turn it off again, and I'm looking around, and now this is time two. So okay. And those switches, for you guys who don't know, if you guys don't work on the machines, They have, um, that switch stack has a resistor and a capacitor, um, on there. So, you know, that, that's typically the first thing if, if the resistor or the capacitor, you know, something happened to it. Um, but once again, I didn't do anything. I lifted up the play field and I touched it. That was it. Um, so I mess with it. I, you know, I, I check the connection in, in the backbox, um, pull off the connector, turn it on. it still locks on, which means it's not a problem with the board, which is good, which means it's basically the switch. So, you know, I, I on solder the capacitor and solder the resistor. I solder it back on, you know, and just kind of that, turn it on, nothing. So I think I just need to replace those, which I'm going to do tonight. But, um, it was just so frustrating because I literally did nothing to it. Um, you know, usually I, you know, if you like take the whole thing apart and then you put it together and it doesn't work, you know, that, that can make sense. But I barely brushed it with this tool, you know, and just, just touch the switch. Like I said, like you, you know, you do a thousand times, you just adjust the leaf. Um, just, just craziness. So that's my sorcerer gremlin story. Um, warning for people who want to work on machines, especially as older ones, they are, they can be so finicky. And like I said, just, you know, barely move it, touch it, breathe on it um just kind of you know a little annoying but you know that's that's pinball baby as they say then we got a little more pinball news in the tribe uh tribe member eric who has had a willy wonka le for several years now as his only game he was really excited the other day he came over and he told me that he is getting a stranger things pro so big shout out to eric Congratulations to him and his beautiful wife. So happy for them because they're both really excited about this. It's a great game. He found a home use only, like 200 plays. So super, super excited for Eric and his wife. So as a matter of fact, in about an hour or so after I pick up my son, I'm going to go there and help him set it up because it's literally in transit now from Chicago. So it should be there shortly. and I will help him move it into his basement and set it up. So really, really looking forward to that, playing some games on Stranger Things because I'm not buying one because they are stupid expensive. Also in the Center Post Cafe, I've been talking to, once again, new tribe member Daryl, number 46. Welcome again, Daryl. Congratulations on being the newest tribe member of the Poor Man's Pinball Tribe. If you want to know how to be part of that, please contact me at poormanspinball at gmail.com I will tell you how difficult it is and what you can do to get in but anyways so I was talking to Daryl who runs tournaments here and while my basement isn't incredibly large especially with all the games it still is suitable I can't have quite as many people as some of these other people who run tournaments in the area however I'm looking into the possibility of doing some 12 or 16, maybe even 20. Uh, in the summer I can host more people because we can be outside and stuff, you know, in between rounds. So, um, in the summer I can probably do like a 20, 24 people or something, but, uh, really looking forward to that. So Daryl's going to help me out, uh, get me started with that. And, uh, I'm looking forward to having some people over and, you know, in the short term, we'll just, you know, we'll do some informal tournaments, not IFPA, but, And if we can get sanctioned by the IFPA to do a couple here, I'm thinking like, I don't know, every other month or every third month or something, a couple times a year, I think it would be well worth it because we have a lot of local players here that I think we can get here to have some fun on a different collection. So that's the Center Post Cafe and still working on some video stuff that I'm hoping to be releasing more down there, a new video series. I know I keep saying all this stuff and, you know, I'm slowly getting there. 2022 is almost over. I'm going to have, you know, the rest of this year I got, you know, some real estate stuff going on. But for the most part, I'm going to have some time, which honestly, my whole adult life, I've never had this kind of time. So I'm really, really excited about that just in general for my well-being and my sanity that, you know, my wife and I are very grateful. We had an amazing year. and I'm helping out more around the house. And like I said, I have the luxury of time. I don't want to make anyone else feel bad, but I'm going to shout it from the rooftops because once again, since I was 18 years old, I was working 70, 80 hours a week and now I'm not. And I actually get to enjoy vacation and time with my family and I'm playing more pinball than ever, which reminds me, by the way, I was at a tournament. This is more exciting than any of the stuff I've been rambling about. Last week, I went to Jim Radovich's house. He's a local guy here, a very good pinball player, has an amazing collection, super nice guy. He has monthly tournaments at his house. I've talked about him in the past. I think he has, let's just call it 30 games. Really great collection, mostly Sterns, Stern LEs, Stern Premiums, an amazing, amazing collection. Anyways, so there was 24 people there, I think. and some high-level players. We had Sheldon Olsen and David DeLuga and Jim Radovich, who are three pretty high-level players. I took third, right behind Sheldon and David DeLuga. So I'm really excited about that. Tim Lee sucks at pinball. Drew does not. It was great. It was good fun. I had some amazing games. I only had one or two stinkers. It was a 10-round. I shit the bed on round one. which really kind of set the tone. But I bounced back and had a handful of first place, and I played Sheldon in six of the ten rounds. And for you guys who don't know, I mean, Sheldon is just methodical, and we were calling him the pinball assassin. He just destroys every modern game he gets in front of. But he makes me a better player because he also teaches me. So like you know he he watch me And then when I done he tell me Hey you should have done this or what about this And um I really really appreciate that about Sheldon Sheldon like this super great guy and really really enjoy hanging out with him and just just playing pinball and learning from him So uh I going to continue to do that And uh yeah Drew took uh well I tied for third place and then we had a playoff and I lost. So I guess technically I took fourth. Um, but if you look at the rankings, uh, I was tied for third as far as the points go. So, uh, very exciting stuff. And, uh, so it's Sorry, hats off to Nick Warner because Nick Warner and I did the playoff on Haunted House, which coincidentally was the game I played in round one that I shit the bed on, and I hate it. I like the game, but I hate playing it in tournaments because you can't move it. You can't shake it. There's two sets of flipper buttons on both sides. I just don't like it for a tournament game. But, you know, it's another layer of challenge and something I've got to get through. But then later in the evening, I pulled Spider-Man, and I always perform well on Spider-Man. That's like the one game that I can say that I almost always do well on, and this was no exception. I think I got to almost $70 million on Ball 1. I got to $170 million on Ball 2. and then I was the fourth player so I didn't even have to play ball three because I just freaking destroyed it really really proud of that yeah Spider-Man I just always always perform well on so it was it was a good good good draw for that round and I was really really excited so so that's my pinball news for the day a little lengthy as usual but like I said been playing a lot of pinball participate in a lot of pinball breaking pinballs fixing pinballs pinball life is good. Not the company, but life. Well, the company's good too, but you know, life, the life of pinball is great. So having fun and, uh, hope to hope to continue that streak. So what else we're getting done, getting down to the nitty gritty of Drew's rambling for today's episode, episode one 30, we are having a great time talking pinball, uh, Twippy voting, And Twippy Voting's here again. I want to encourage everyone to go to Twippies, twippies.com, and do the pre-voting. I do want, Twippies, are you listening? What? I know. I know there were issues and you guys have these new rules and you guys started this pre-voting. I don't remember if it was last year or the year before. I just don't like it. I just think it's too much it's fine I participate in it I hope all you guys vote I want you guys to vote for our favorite podcast I'm glad to be on the drop down menu all that stuff what is with this pre-voting and then we're going to vote just have the vote I just think we're how do I word I don't want to shit on anybody because I think the Twippies is fun. I've seen it live now. I've watched it. We still don't know who the hosts are, I don't think, yet because we have until March. So that's fine. And I do think Zach and Greg should do it because, obviously, everyone's asking for it. They did it the first year or second year, and it was just fun. Everyone enjoyed it. So that's my vote for that. But yeah, there's pre-voting and then we do the voting. Just have one vote. Do it. I know Texas Pinball Festival is until March, so either wait until January to just do the vote and then just tally it up and then bring it to TPF or do it in December and then just have a twippy show somewhere else in January. I don't know. so those are my suggestions I know no one's going to take them to heart but uh that's just that's just me and you know I don't have any like very specific things obviously I'm kind of rambling off several things but I just think that the way you guys are doing the voting isn't perfect and I know nothing is but like I said just just simplify it because I I think it's it's gotten too convoluted too complex and it and it also seems to me that the twippies has become more about the content creators than the games themselves and i don't know if that's because there's not that many games that are released in a given year especially like this year with you know people catching up from covid and different things so you know the the amount of games that were released this year because Stern skipped a whole cornerstone release, and there's just not as much coming out in the marketplace. But it seems like the only people who talk about this are the content creators. And yes, we're the journalists, we're the news source, I guess that kind of makes sense. But if you really think about it, it's kind of weird, because here we are, I'm not the news source, but let's say the Pinball Show or Collected Gamers or, you know, Canada, let's say they're the news source, right? Well, the news source doesn't usually participate in what they're discussing. So it's just kind of a weird dynamic. It would be like if the real news is like, you know, oh, we're talking about Emmys and we're nominated for an Emmy. You know, I don't know. It's just kind of a weird thing. So once again, I'm thankful and proud to be part of it and um you know i'm so thankful for all the listeners and but there's probably a way to simplify it i know it was just a long ramble about different things but i've been kind of thinking about it and just wanted to give my two cents and you know that's it i'm i'm allowed to have my opinion that is my opinion so you know but once again uh always happy to watch the twippies and and uh like you know the the winners and you know most of the games that win are well deserving in the last couple of years has been the Keith Alwyn show. Um, and I don't know if that's going to continue, but we'll see. Um, I guess it depends if, so if he releases the 60th anniversary this year of, um, James Bond, is that just going to win? There's something to think about. Obviously a lot of people aren't going to see it or play it. I mean, they'll see it, but they won't see it in person and they won't be able to play it. So it'll kind of be an odd, uh, odd entry. So anyways, after all that, just, just go vote, just go vote. Um, thanks again, guys. Uh, we were running about 30, 35 minutes here. Um, thanks for joining me for episode one 30. I can't believe we've done 130 of these things. Um, I, I'm really enjoying just continuing bringing content for you guys. If you have any suggestions, uh, poor man's pinball, gmail.com 414-828-3739 uh we always get some pretty positive feedback so thank you for that thank you to all the tribe members and uh a special shout out to ari charles jones he made the beacon mod for um for godzilla so uh kind of going back to the twippy voting don't forget to vote for the Godzilla Beacon mod from Shocker Mods, which is Ari Jones' mod. Great, cool mod. Put it in my game a week or two ago and really enjoying it. And some other cool things coming out in pinball and just looking forward to what's going to happen here in the future. We'll talk more about prices and stuff as stuff progresses here towards the end of the year. Going to get some more guest hosts as well, some more tribe members. We still got, what, five, six weeks of this year left, so there's still plenty to come and cannot wait. So thank you for listening. Episode 130. See you next time. One more thing, folks. Don't forget to do yourself a favor and listen to the last Try Multiball because Tim Lee several times does the worst Sean Connery impression you could ever imagine. It is so bad, it's good. it's hilarious he talks about talking sexy to his wife amy lee and i could not stop laughing because he kept trying to do this sean connery impression and it is god awful now i can't do one so i'm not going to even try but oh my god he probably tried five or six times during this episode and every time was funnier than the time before so once again try multiball with tim and Rachel, the one with Steve Johnson. 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