What in the hell is that noise? Beavis and Butthead, what in the hell is wrong with you? Oh my god, you two little turds have got lice! Uh, huh? What? Bugs! You've got bugs in your hair! You mean like daddy long legs and worms and centipedes? No, idiot! I mean scalp biting, blood sucking, disease carrying parasites! Cool. Coming to you from beautiful upstate New York, this is the Slam Tilt Podcast, a show about all things pinball. I'm your host, Ron Hallett, here with my co-host, Bruce Nightingale. Howdy ho. Oh, where's the excitement? Yeah, it's been a rough couple of weeks. Oh. Well, this is episode 146. I know, go figure, huh? And we're back. Back and better than ever. Better than ever. So what's been going on with you, Bruce? Oh, a long, rough three weeks, right? Or two weeks. It's a blur. Yeah, two or three weeks. Rough two or three weeks. They all just kind of morphed together at this point. It was three weeks. From today, yes. Three weeks, yes. We had Zach and... Scott. Scott, sorry, brain farting. Sorry, Scott. We're on, and then the next day, my father did pass. So, pretty big shock. That's how you changed your Facebook picture there. Yep. He passed Sunday night. The 10th, so... It was like the same day. we recorded yes they just went really downhill with the COVID thing we were actually lucky to see him you know I was able to be there and by that 8 o'clock he was already gone so pretty shitty way of three weeks but uh dealing with it going through we're gonna talk pinball though that's my motto pinball pinball go for a run get me out of this mood Pinball. Congratulations to Raymond Davidson. Yes, Raymond, congratulations. We love seeing you moving to the Midwest. Is there some kind of thing now where any – I would say he was a regular guest. He is a regular guest. He was a regular guest. Anyone who is like a regular guest has gotten hired by a pinball company. Yeah, except for Scott and Zach. We got those two guys hired. Then we're good. Then we really have the knack of getting someone hired. I don't know. I picture Scott just telling people they're wrong and getting fired. Yeah, I think that too. What did he have? He used to have that shirt, Scott. It said, like, no, I will not fix your computer problem. Yes, he did have that shirt. Yeah. And I could see Zach. I don't think Zach would move. I don't think Zach would move. I see Zach more of a spooky. Yeah, I would at least have to say that too. Yeah. They just send him a game. He just works on it from home, that type of thing. I could see that. Yeah, definitely. I think you'd enjoy that a lot more than moving to Chicago. But hey, Raymond, you go from rain and crap to heat, snow, and wildness. With the tornadoes. Once in a blue moon, they can't out-scratch. So we got Steven Bowden, we got Tim Sexton, and now we got Raymond Davidson. Yep. The curse is inactive. So if you want to work at Stern or any other pinball company, you need to become a regular on our show. Exactly. And then you're guaranteed to be hired. So why didn't we get hired yet? Because we're not part of the industry, et cetera. We had a listener who said that's why he liked us. We tell it like it is, et cetera, et cetera. Well, that's the truth. We don't bias anybody. We just stay. I love your term, bias everybody. No, we don't because we don't bias everybody. It seems like some people do want to bias people and make it so it's poison. Bruce operates games. His only bias is this thing is broken or it's not making money. Money, exactly. I want to make money here. That's the number one thing. If it ain't making money, it ain't going in my bar. As I just sold two of them, the two worst games. First we talked about was Catacomb that got sold, and then Taxi did nothing at the bar. It was terrible. Really? Which, it's a great game, but people didn't hook up with it, and it didn't do well. It's pretty sad when Taxi gets beat out by Countdown. Wow. Okay. Yeah. Well, Countdown is awesome. Countdown is great. It's one of the few system ones I will say is right up there. Oh, okay. I've always said that, so you can go back. That's true. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Dennis Creasel is going back right now to find some podcast where he said it sucks. No, you won't be able to find that. No, I won't. We've always been on the countdown bandwagon. Oh, yes, definitely. I actually like Volley. Volley's good. Volley's an EM version of it, really. Volley's very good. I like Volley. Yep. On our monthly what was canceled list. Yeah, God. Allentown. Yeah, we knew that because we were talking with Scott. stating. Yeah, and basically they could have moved it again, but they just decided, no, it's gone. It's permanently, indefinitely delayed. Indefinitely delayed. So, that leads us to the next show. Well, the next show I was going to go to will probably also be cancelled. And that's Pinball Expo. Because they actually released a statement, a press release. And the deal is, in order for Expo to happen, they have to be like on the last phase of their reopening, which that can only happen if things like either there's a vaccine or there's like no new cases for a certain amount of time. Yeah. There's no way that's happening. So I would say that's dead. Me too. Which will probably mean Florida is also dead. Well, no, maybe not. Actually, Florida is. Florida is probably the best one because they're actually reopening Disney World. Well, Florida is also, yeah. Florida and Texas are kind of like, fuck it. We don't care. Yep. So that'll put me in a pickle. Yes, it will. I don't want to go. What do you do? If I'm going, I'd probably go solo. Oh, Dad listens. He'll be pissed. No. I know Dad will be pissed. Because he loves Florida. He looks just hanging. Because he'll just hang out by the pool, drinking beer, relaxing. I don't blame him. I would, too. You would? You would sit by the pool drinking beer? I don't see... Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah. It's underneath a canopy, so I don't burn like a crispy critter. Well, that's right. You're ginger. Very fair. I'm very fair. Yes. I was out at the driving range, and it looks like my arm is already tan. Wow. Must be nice. Jesus Christ. Well, it's called being Italian, but I have to pay for it with lots of body hair. So, do you want that? Oh, my. Do you want your beard to grow in like in a week? You know, so you take the good with the bad. You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both, and there you have Ron Terry. Ron Terry. So, yeah, you're right about that. They probably will have this show. That's where the IFPA was supposed to be, right? They moved something there. Yeah, this week. No, no, not – what was this week? This was the – I don't remember. It's – I don't know. It's going to be interesting. I think it's going to happen, though. You think there's going to be something there? I think there'll be something there. You think anyone's going to show up outside of this country? I don't know. You never know. It could be that people are just so antsy after how long now, nine, ten months? It's already happening in parts of the United States where people are saying, hey, I want my life back. Yeah, it's like, I don't care if I die. Yeah. Or if I get others killed. It's just like I just won't hang out with any old people. Yeah, exactly. Party man. But for going on, we are now in phase two of New York, which they changed the rules the day of in upstate New York. So you're part of phase two now, right? Oh, I am. Well, what are the phases? Explain the phases to me, Bruce, because I work from home, and I'm stuck in the house, and I'm like literally never going out. So I have no idea what's going on. Well, the problem is the New York State phases change all the time. Originally, they gave us a list where phase two would include outdoor dining, which now is up in the air. They didn't put it on the latest phase two things, but people are doing it, so I'm not going with that. Phase three is opening the restaurants and bars to a limited capacity. Phase four is opening up amusement centers like bowling alleys and baseball stadiums, football stadiums, that kind of stuff. So we do have phases. And every two weeks, we're supposed to reorganize and make sure our numbers are getting further and further down, which in New York State has been incredible. We're down to, I think, 60 deaths, which is still bad. Don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to highlight stating. But we were up to, what, 800 deaths a day. 60 sounds a whole lot better, and the health community is doing a great deal with it. But we'll see what happens. But the bar is reopening for to-go food this Friday, the 5th of June. We're going to be open Fridays and Saturdays for to-go food from 4 to 8. We brought back some employees. Today we're continuing cleaning. I've got to do a couple more repairs in the building. Yay. If I wanted to get one of these to-go orders, where would I go? You would actually call the bar. Just call directly to the bar, which is 585-310-7721. Between 4 and 8 each day, give us your order with your credit card, and you don't even have to get out of your car. I'll walk it right out to your car. If you want to come in, you can still order your food by walking in the bar also. Well, one more time. What was that number again? I don't think I quite got that number. That's 585-310-7721. And we'll be having a limited menu. The menu will be posted on Facebook, and we'll also have it right at the front of the bar also. So if you're going to walk it out to my car, what address do I need to go to to get this to happen? That would be 135 West Commercial Street in East Rochester, New York. See what I did there? I see that. Thank you. So we're going to try to get this going and then again, and then expand the days if it gets really popular. So the next day would be Thursday and Sunday. I don't see us going seven days until we can open. And then six days when we can open, because we were always closed Mondays. And then if we do open, get to phase three, we're going to open a bar. We can't open the games until phase four. So the game room will have to be blocked off, which is pretty barren right now. I've been renting out games. I have seven games rented out. Whoa. Including one to Zach. So what game would he want? I don't know. Maybe that should be like the question of the day. I know what he got. I know what he got too, but yeah. Yeah. Let's see. What would Zach – well, give me the games that were rented out. Okay. And you, the listener, you can send an email or post on our Facebook page. Our email, once again, is slamtillpodcast at gmail.com. Facebook, just search for Slam Till Podcast. and you can try to guess what game did Zach pick. So what are your rented out games? Whitewater, Lord of the Rings, Medieval Madness, Metallica, ACDC, and Star Trek LE. Those are the games. Well, we know one that he didn't pick. Yeah, we know one. He hates Lord of the Rings, so we know there's no way. I mean, he hates that. There's no way he picked that. I know. We'll eliminate that for you listeners. So it's one of the other six. Yes, it's six. Sorry, it was six. So that's helping for Money Wise. Thank God. It makes it a little easier. Yeah, I need to get the business started rolling. So the hard part is going to be working at Amazon and working at the bar again. Yeah, how's that going to work? Well, what happens now is... How the hell is that going to work? Is Bruce just, he's found out a way to survive without sleep? Exactly. It's mostly that way. Well, the Friday, I'll just wake up a little earlier. I won't wake up at four. I'll wake up at like a two or three and then go to the bar before like 3.30, get everything opened up, ready, four o'clock. I'll stay till 7.30. Luckily, Amazon is only 15 minutes away. so I can then go right to work and spend until 5 o'clock, then go take a nap at 5 in the morning, wake up around 2 and do the same thing for Saturday. Then Sunday I might have a day off. Might. Damn. Yeah. But it's a necessity. I want to get this business back up and starting and going again, and it needs to be, and we need to make some money if we're not going to be in business. So we need to be in business. And hopefully we'll get to stage three where we can actually open up a bar again. And then we have to do who knows what rules. Some of the rules are a little ridiculous in this state where it's funny how people can go to anywhere else except for these poor haircut people. These haircut people have to write down people's names and information so they can track in case somebody's sick. But I could be sick, walk into a Walmart, cough on everybody, and how are they going to know it's me if I pay cash? So the rules are not the same, and I've always said that's the problem that bothers me with all this stuff. If the rules were all the same, I'd have no problem at all with it. So you're 15 minutes from an Amazon warehouse. I'm like – Yeah. I'm probably a 15-minute walk from an Amazon warehouse. Oh, so I drive by your house? Yes, it's right. Well, it's the road that leads up to my house. Okay. It's the new one they're building. Yep. So I don't know when it's going to be done. I mean, it looks like it's still, the shell of it's all there, and they started building, like, the wall that goes around it, the perimeter. So if you were in the house there and you had a nice view of the field, now you have a nice view of a wall. Yay. Yay. They were quite pissed, as you can imagine. Oh, I can imagine. But they're building one in Albany, They're building a huge one in Syracuse, which is a fulfillment center where all the orders will be taking in. I think the one they're building in Albany is the one by me. Yeah. And then Buffalo just got a distribution center just opening in a week or two. So it's getting busy. Yeah. Because I think they said this on previous podcasts. The one by me is going to do furniture and larger items. Yeah. So maybe if I get a couch, it'll just go right from there to my house. There you go. So other than that, you know, just been working. Lots of work this week. Worked all week. And then working at the bar. Worked yesterday at the bar. I'm going to go meet my barber today. Even though I barely have any hair, I'm going to get my hair cut from my favorite barber, Bob, who is one of my regulars at the bar. And after that, go back to the bar and then drop off the last game of Minion Madness, which is ready to go and put in the guy's house. So that's the key. Anything else going on with Pinnie Ball? I drove past you a little bit. Yes, you drove past me. You waved. I did wave at Ronald. Well, why were you driving past me? I picked up a game. Oh, you picked up a game. Well, I traded a game. Oh, okay. See, so Ron didn't even know that. No. he always saves these things and just brings them on during the podcast it's the best thing I'm a dick ain't I but we do that already yeah the person I trade with who is known we've talked to him many times is a big stern nut in the northeast part of the country and he's trying to get every stern and one of the few sterns he does not have I had one and a half of Now I'm getting a little interesting. Ron's trying to figure this out, right? One and a half of? Mm-hmm. One and a half. What, the GammaTron? No. Okay. What other ones have I had one and a half? One and a half. It comes in blue and black. Oh, Cheetah. Yep. See? Don't Cheetah. He got my cabinet from Arkansas. He got the play field from the one I got in Michigan. and of course it has no head, and he knew that. But he wanted a good base start, which it is. It's the easiest part of the base start with the cabinet because you have the wide-body cabinet. You have the whole play field except for the drop targets, which you stole. I stole. You stole. You told me I could take them. That's not stealing. That's not stealing then. Now it's stole because he needs them. Where's this person located? In Connecticut. it. Okay. And so about three months ago, I told you I wanted a pinball and I was going to go out to Maine and get one. Well, he got the one in Maine and he and we traded and I grabbed now me a pinball, solid state pinball. Okay. What game? Pinball. I know it's a pinball game, but what's the name of the game? Electronic pinball. So, okay. It's an electronic pinball machine. What Why don't you not tell me what the game is? I know how I can tell you. Nobody's still got me in my alley, though. I'm very disappointed with them people. You guys got to kick it up a little bit. Okay. In the IPD base search, look up machine number 1792. Okay. I don't know why he won't just tell me. Oh, because I want to surprise you with it. All right. 1792. Pinball. Yep. Oh, I get it. Yeah. For those at home, I was doing a, like, who's on first type thing there. Yes. Killing me. Killing me, Smalls. So you got a pinball. I got a pinball. You got solid state. Yes, I got solid state. Not the EM version. No, not the EM. They're harder to find, a lot harder, because they made, I think, a third of them. But I got it. It's pretty rough. I got to work on it a little bit. I'm working on other people's games. I have a Paragon in the house that I'm working on. It didn't boot, and then I pulled the connector off and posted the picture of it. The connector for the power board for the transformer is smoked. The rectifier board. The rectifier board. And I've got to replace the rectifier board because it's all been hacked. It's a hack board. You'd think you'd remember the name of the board because it sounds like rectum. You'd think that would just make you remember. Yeah, exactly. You'd think you'd get that. No, not me. The rectum board. I wrecked him. I hardly knew her. Oh, man. And Bruce is back. Yes. So you got a pinball. Mm-hmm. So Paragon, is that going to go in the bar? No, no, no. It's just repair. Oh, just repair. Okay. It's just repair. I got to fix it up. Oh, so you're doing repairs. Yes, I am. So he brought it to me. It's in the garage right now. And I got to work on that part, then do the connectors. and then see if it boots. If it doesn't boot, then we'll go from there. There's a good amount of acid damage that was on the machine, and it was fixed once before, but that always scares me. If not, I'll get a Weebly board for it and pop that in, and then hopefully I've got to do some drop targets, some flipper rebuilds, and he's re-rubbered it, so it's good. So after that, I'll see what else is going on with it. But a local Syracuse guy carted it out to me last week. Mm-hmm. Let's see. What have I been doing? I've been streaming. Really? With that, what's the guy's name again? Stu McVicker. That's right. Stu McVicker has been streaming. He got a mention on the Pinball Players podcast. I heard about that. And they actually spelled his name right. Congrats. They're one of the first people to do that. Usually in chat, they spell it wrong constantly. So he becoming world famous in Poland He is world famous He been singing I have heard though he injured his voice in rehearsals for this week episode so there will be no singing Oh, no. But he will be on. Well, by the time this airs, the episode would have already aired, so I guess. It must be hard. He's the only person you allow into your house. Pretty much, yeah. Yeah. How did that happen? We had some tests, and we have very similar DNA or something. Really? And we can't give COVID to each other. Okay. It's a special science. Yeah. Wow. So I have a question then. Uh-huh. In the past, you've stated that Stu McVicker is the – what did he win? The 1978 Playboy Launch Party Champion. Okay. Okay. And how old was he when he was then? He was 10. Oh. Oh, okay. Okay. So subtracting back from 1978 to – that means he's from 1968 he was born. Would you agree? Yeah, yes. Okay, so that means he's older than me. And he's older than me. Wow. But he looks damn good for being that old. I mean you got to admit that. I got to admit that, but I'm just stating like, boy, you can't make fun of my age anymore. Why? I can make fun of your age. I make fun of Stu's age all the time. I've never heard that on the show. Well, there was some, like, when I was listening to the Pinball Players podcast, they were insinuating that I was Stu. I know. That's what I'm trying to help you out with here. I was wearing a wig, and that is definitely not true. I will state in an upcoming episode, me and Stu will be on camera at the same time, just to end all this. Okay, finally, yeah. Yeah. But at least I hope now soon you'll be starting to make fun of him and his age. He looks too good, though. I mean, he looks tremendous. I wish I had his hair. I wish I had his hair. His hair is incredible. Or any hair. I wish I had his voice and his talent. I mean, he beat my Iron Man score. Got almost like 200 million, like insane. He beat my Demoman score. He couldn't beat that Quicksilver score. He couldn't beat that Quicksilver score, which I don't think I said. I think that might have been somebody else. I don't know what happened on that score. That must have been one hell of a game. It probably was, of course. That was probably said during one of the stops, I'm guessing. I think it was. Yes, Stu. He will be back. Well, like I said, it would have aired already by the time this airs. But, yes, he will be back for his Monday slot. I don't know what he's playing yet. He hasn't told me. He'll be over. He was gone during the holidays. He was in Romania visiting family. Romania, wow. It must be hard getting flights there now. I don't know how he does it. I really don't know how he does it. He is one of a kind. He is one of a kind. That's why he's Stu McVicker. Stu McVicker. Yeah. And so what I did over the holiday, Memorial Day weekend, I tried out the new rig. I got all the parts for the new Slender mini rig, or basically the new version, Carl's new version, rig 2.0. Okay. It's much easier to move around. So what are you doing with number one? Exactly. I need to sell number one. Okay. Maybe you have a buyer here. Oh, you want number one? I want number one, number one. You want number one, number one. I mean, it's just, I mean, you're going to have to get cameras and stuff. I know that. It's literally, it's just, it's just, yeah. But I mean, you've seen it. Of course, I've seen the stand. That's why I'm not, you know, but we'll have to talk maybe, you know. All right. All right. Yeah. Yeah, because I'd rather. Maybe I need something to do here. Yeah. I don't have enough free time as it is, right? So what the hell? I mean, we know it works. It's just... I know it works. You have the one dead zone where you have the one part of your wall that comes out. Yeah, the jut. That juts out. And when we had the game, like, right behind it, it would occasionally lose signal. I think that's the only thing we had issue with. Yep. So if you had the receiver bar, if we had it over a little more, probably wouldn't have that issue. Or you have a receiver bar that's built into the wall, like, above in the middle. Wow. Or in the ceiling. Yes, that's what I was thinking. Wow. Wow, okay. And it's connected to building power so you don't have to keep charging it. You're just always on. You're got it. Always on. Wow. Now you're thinking. I'm always thinking, baby. This bar is wired for streaming. Yeah, that'd be cool. Okay. See? Yeah. That'd be a long way off, but at least I'm thinking along those lines. So, I heard they released a game. What company was that that released a game? because we don't go in the order of normal things like everyone lording it out. No, no, no. That was a couple weeks ago. That was more a couple weeks ago. Yeah. Was it something about reptiles, lizards? Godzilla? Was it Godzilla? Was it Godzilla? No, I don't think so. Was it 10 million BC plus one year? I don't even know what that means. um was it led zeppelin no no no it wasn't led zeppelin because you know we we have too many rock uh pinball machines beetles vault beetles vault vault super vault super vault even more expensive we have two spinning discs instead of one just for you there you go just to piss me the fuck off more we have the bruce version it comes in non-teal oh good thank god a bruce accepted color. No, what else? I heard it was... It's almost like a re-release of a game that they made in the past. Was it Back to the Future? Street Fighter. Street Fighter? Oh, no, that was Gottlieb. Oh, Waterworld 2. Waterworld 2? Electric Boogaloo. Lights, Camera, Action? That would be too good. No? I'd be excited about that. Hold on, let me go to This Week in Pinball. Yeah, they have everything. They have everything. They'll tell us what it is. Let's see. Wow. Okay. I never saw this coming. No? Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Oh, my God. Who would have known? Kids are going to go bonkers over this thing. And the answer is everybody. What would have known? Everybody would know about it. I was not disappointed. I'll say that. No, I think it looks really good. It looks absolutely incredible. they went for the see i never watched it neither did i so i only know of the basic stuff like they're named after artists and and the main bad guy shredder yep shredder and uh and and they like pizza yes that's about all i know and the girl's name's april april april o'neill who we played uh pinball with in California. The four star. Oh my. And she beat us. Yes she did. But we have the usual three versions. The pro, the premium, and the limited edition. And I'll tell you on this one the pro looks pretty damn packed. I mean it is not. It really does. It's not. I don't think it disappoints at all. It's not like I hate to say it. The stranger things where you have the main gimmick and it's not there in the Pro. What is the main thing that was removed? The diverter? Yeah, the diverter. The player-controlled diverter? Oops. It has a spinning disc, but on the Pro it only spins one way, but on the LE and Premium it spins both ways. Both ways. It still spins on the Pro. It would probably be easier on the Pro because you can expect a more, maybe a controllable spin, you know, who knows. So this is Borg. So we have combined elements of, I would say, Tron with the side ramp shot and the gem shot, pretty much similar places. So is the X on the ramp, that mean something? I don't know. I watched the stream only like 20, 30 minutes. I liked it, and then I had, unfortunately, a lot of things to go to work for. Yay. So it's based off of the cartoon. Yes, it is, which is that's what everyone wanted. Which everyone wanted. And the artwork is really good. Yeah, so everyone shut up. I don't want to hear a single thing about the artwork other than it's awesome. I mean, this is what you fucking wanted. This is classic 80s Turtles, so shut up. This isn't what Michael Bay did, the new ones. No. Which I've seen some of that. They looked hideous. And that was from Jeremy Zombietti. Yep, Jeremy Packer (Zombie Yeti), Zombietti, who kills it once again, which is not even – It's not a surprise, honestly. It's not a surprise. You expect it to be incredible. So if it's not, he set the bar too high for himself, really. I think he did. It's like if he has anything that's not totally awesome, I'm like, uh-huh. Well, you know, maybe next one will be better. Even at the bottom, if you look at the bottom, I just noticed this. It's got the toxic waste, like the vial breaking with the little baby turtles, you know, before they turn into the ninja turtles. I love it. And they're growing out of it, yes. And it's got a manhole cover for the center between the flippers. And I don't know if they did this on previous games, but you remember one of Ryan C's pet peeves was that the artwork would be awesome, but the cards would always be the same yellow they've been using for 20 years. Well, you got your wish. Ryan C, they are black. They are black cards that fit the color scheme of the apron. They do. They're listening to you, Ryan. They're listening. You have made a difference. So let's see, which cabinet do you like best? I didn't really get a great view of them right now. I'm going to go to thisweekinpinball.com. It's got the full blown-up pictures of all the cabinets. As usual, I kind of... Probably like the Pro. Yeah, I never really go for the LE when it comes to the cabinet. Because the Premium and the Pro both have the logo Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on it, and the LE doesn't. It kind of just, it has it in the front. I don't know. I'm leaning towards the Pro. I like the Pro better. Yeah, I'm leaning towards the Pro. I don't like the LE. The LE is the, eh. Yeah, it's kind of like, like I like the Pro Deadpool side art better. Yeah. Than the Premium, even though that's what I have. There's more characters on the back glass for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle LE. Oh, I didn't look at the back glass. Oh, let's see. Oh, yeah, you're right. Oh, they got, okay, so there's different back glasses. Yes, for each one. For each one. they're all pretty much action shots. Yeah, they are. Which I like. I hate when it's just static characters sitting there. They need to be doing something. But yeah, the play field looks really good. They went with the green trim on the LE. Yeah. They called it Sour Apple. So like a different, it's not the same green that was like on Ghostbusters. Yeah, it looks really close. I'm sorry. That's all right. I don't know. And then the LE comes with side art inside now. I love that. I like the side blades. I'm a big fan, especially when it's done by the same artist, which this is. So it's just a continuation of the existing art. Yeah, that I do agree with. I have that in my Deadpool. And more importantly, I watched the stream, and it looks like Flow City. It does. It does. It was really fast. It was really smooth. Whenever I think of Flow City, I just think of Bruce. Like, oh, he'd probably like this. Yeah, no, I really did. I thought the artwork was incredible. I think it's going to be a win-win for Stern. I'm hoping the code should be now more done since it's being released. They've had three extra months or two extra months with it. The ball lock was pretty cool with the little bus. Oh, yeah. It's got the – even the Pro has six balls. The Premium LE has eight. I know, eight. It looks like they staged them up in the van thing. Yeah. Kind of like they did with Indiana Jones, where they stage him. It fires him back up there. The funniest part of the stream, I was watching the stream, and there's a mode, there's a thing, you hit a shot, and then you have to eat pizza, so you have to hit the button. It's got the action button. So you've got to hit the action button like crazy to eat pizza. Yeah, I know. And they had Dwight Sullivan on, and he's there, I just want to let everyone know, that was Borg's idea, not mine. Good. Now we know who to blame. Because he knows that pisses people off for whatever reason. Oh, it's terrible. Oh, I love it. I love that. Terrible. Oh, come on. It's like TIE Fighters. It's great. You've got to eat the pizza while you don't drain. Why do people hate that? I don't understand. No. It's cool coordination. Kids are not going to know about some of these things in this play field, though, unfortunately. If you look, there's a ninja pizza parlor there with a TV for the start episode. and on top of the TV there is this thing that they used to call a video cassette recorder. Oh, a VCR? Yes. And there's tapes next to it with VCR tapes. Kids aren't going to know that. Well, we're educating them, you see. We're entertaining and educating. Ta-da! Yeah, I saw that. I was like, wow. I love it. They even have the turtles on the inlay and plastics. Yeah. So I think it's going to be a win-win. The display was really nicely done also. I thought there was a lot of animation that was no missing things, so it looked really good. You can get Borg done this game still. That's my favorite thing, yeah. All models have three flippers, three pop-upers, 1987 theme music, custom video scenes and events, speech call-outs from 17 different characters, hidden ninja training ball lock area. Yes, if you lift up the left upper flipper, you can hit a ball behind it, which looked pretty easy. Yeah, it did. It looked like it's not something that bounces out a lot. No, it looks like it'll be a win-win on that one. Yeah, I like some of the training modes. It's like hit this shot, but if you hit any other shot, you get dinged. Yep. You must hit the correct shot. Up post diverters at top lanes, foot clan spinner, which was not an opto spinner. I know, I saw that. That was weird. I don't know why. I'm not using it. 17 RGB LEDs, color changing, general illumination LED lighting. I love LED lighting yeah they came out with they have multiple promo videos for this with Zach Sharp playing the game yep I heard that guy's pretty good at playing ball it's got to be nice when you're marketing so you're in charge of doing the videos but you can just play the games yourself because you're probably the best person to do it yeah and you'd use that excuse of marketing here you go I wonder in some of the old you know those old Williams promo videos that they would do for distributors and operators and such. Yeah. In some of those videos, you can tell the player was at least pretty good. And I'm curious, who usually did the gameplay on those? I don't know. So if any Williams employees are listening, I'm just curious who did that. Yeah, I don't know. We'll have to find out. I never heard that question asked, though. No. The LE has a mirrored back glass, LE inner art blades, upgraded speaker system, anti-reflection glass shaker motor high gloss sour apple green powder coated armor wow that's a mouthful autographs by gary stern and jean borg limited to 500 so you got your order in for the le hey you know i'm thinking more and more if you if you're concerned about um being able to flip games for money le is always the way to go oh of course it is but i think the pro is the way to go for me if I was ever going to go buy one. They have co-op mode in this game. I know, I heard that. Thank you, Spooky. They created this... Actually, it's going to have co-op mode, which they showed, but it's also going to have team play, challenges, and supposedly some other stuff. Yeah. It's like, damn. So they're thinking outside the box, which is nice to see. There's eight different ways to play it, according to Dwight Sullivan. It's in no way that you play it It comes and it goes. Okay. So have we plugged in enough? Are we Win Schilling for Stern enough here? No, we're not Win Schilling for Stern. We're just stating what we see. And what I see looks pretty good. Now the next thing I'm going to say always is... Uh-oh, here we go. He's going to temper it. I need to flip it. Oh, well, there you go. That's all. You know, going by the last game before this, which was Stranger Things, and this one. Even though the themes both are not a oh my god for me, I'm more interested in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by far than I am in Stranger Things by the look of the gameplay. I'm not saying... Just watching the gameplay. Yeah, exactly. I'm like, ooh, I want to go find this. I want to play this. I want to try this. Now, this is the thing that's interesting. Will I get to play this this year? Probably not, unless it's really local, but The thing is, will they sell a lot of games with the market being as depressed as it is? Because are operators going to buy the machine if their locations, some locations, are not open? Like some are, of course, like the Pinball Portal is open in Atlanta. But even the places that are open are limited in their intake of people, maybe 50%, maybe 75%. So now you have to think of, will these operators and people buy it because will they make their money back? Even it takes longer for them to pay it off. So just a lot of uncertainties in the market coming up, and not many people have talked about that. Yeah, they have on other podcasts, but you don't listen to those. I don't. I see. It'll do good in home sales. Oh, I think it will do great in home sales. George Gomez alluded to that in a podcast he just had on his pinball profile. Mm-hmm. That they were still doing, because I think when the stimulus checks came in the first set, they got a flood of orders. They got a flood of orders. Yeah. So I think the home buyers will be getting this. But like you said, even you said, yeah, they're hurting. Yeah, they really are hurting because now all these machines that they have leased or bought and including myself, every month I have to pay some bills out to creditors to actually pay for some of my machines. So, same way. Every month I'm paying for a machine that's not bringing in one red cent. Still waiting for our governor to help us out like he said in March, but oh, I didn't say that, did I? Our governor is terrible. All he wants to be is on TV. You heard it here, folks. Oh, I'll tell you. I'll say it to everyone. You're not a Cuomo fan. No, I was a Cuomo fan. You were a Cuomo fan. Oh, no, he turned heel on you. No, it's not that. He just keeps on moving the fucking bar. It's like a goalpost. We went from a regular United States NFL football field to Canadian. We made it wider. Oh, no. We made it longer. We've made it Canadian. The worst thing possible. No. No. But it's just like, you know, these people say like, oh, we're going for the cure now. And I'm like, well, wait a sec. It was the curve, not the cure. Unfortunately, this thing's probably going to be around longer. It's probably the rest of our lives. I hate to say it because it's just going to be like the flu. You're going to have a flu season and you're going to have a COVID season. COVID season? You are. It's going to be. And unfortunately, they're both at the same time. So it's even going to be worse for it. this winter oh boy i'm not looking forward to it well you're in rochester so already you're not but i'm talking about as in you know sicknesses or anything i don't think it's going to be as easy as everyone thinks that's when they find out that covet actually can't survive below a certain temperature and it turns out everyone in rochester is now immune immune very immune and raymond davis will be immune now because he'll be in chicago Oh, he's going to be in Chicago. Oh, he's going to love that. Now, do you really want to be in the Illinois State Finals? That's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. You have poor Timmy who went there. He's probably at the low end of the totem pole now. I know. Everyone's going to Wisconsin to play some games or Indiana. Yeah, you're like the number one ranked player in the world, the greatest player of all time, the former Pinberg winner, and you have to play against all those people. Yeah. And you got the other Sharp. Oh, yeah. I was going to say that guy that's second a lot. You got him too. But, oh, my God. It's like, wow. But it's great, you know, that they're getting the talent and people are coming out and moving around and they're seeing that if you get a good player, you're going to get a good game. How do you think the Stern games have gotten better? They're bringing more input in. It's not just the stale, crusty guys from the 80s and 90s. No offense to those people, but... You mean John Borg, who just did this game? No, I'm not even saying that. I'm saying, like, for rules and everything, like Ronnie Lopp. You said Ronnie Lopp. Please don't use my name there. Let's try that again. I'm going to use the name Ronnie Lopp. So he's now Ronnie Lopp is his name. Yeah. Why do you hate poor Lonnie? Oh he just terrible I playing Iron Man one of his games It awesome With help from Oh God It always going to be Yes the ports that are awesome are obviously Lyman They are. Oh, God. You guys are just on the Lyman train to ridiculous degrees. No, the problem is... Yeah? Okay, was Stranger Things fun, the rules-wise? I've only played one game on it. Okay. I cannot tell you. I played it at InDisc, and I probably won't get to play it for another year. Okay. Everyone's comments about it are the same thing. They suck. The rules are not inventive. He has no originality. And he steals from other people. No offense. Okay. Done. I like my Iron Man. That's all I got to say. Yeah. You can't tell me Lyman did everything in the game. No, he didn't. I know. I know. Lonnie usually does the light shows, and they're awesome in Iron Man. I will agree with that. There you go. I got him to say a positive thing. I'm the good cop by the way if people don't know but Bruce is always going to be the bad cop I'm a dick and don't change you need to remain a dick it's our whole gimmick everything is ruined we had an April Fool's Day episode we should do a thing where I'm just a total dick and you're like totally positive like oh no no that's not the way to do it you need to be good that would be great That would be great. Unfortunately, we've got to wait another year for that now. Damn it. Oh, yeah. It's called the Mirror Universe episode of Star Trek or something. There you go. Mirror, Mirror. Mirror, Mirror. Oh, you even have the title. I like it. Yep. I've got to write that down in my notes. We've got to do that. That means you would have to do the intro. Oh, yes. Oh, my God. We'll have 50 takes with that. Ron does it live. That's the funny thing. Everyone's always amazed when they come on and they listen. Like, you're doing this live? Yeah, I thought you pre-taped that. because it sounds the same. Like, no, I do it that same way every time. Every time. So now imagine me trying to do it. Oh, it'd be great. Hi, fuckers. And welcome to fucking... Hi, fuckers. Okay. Yeah. All right, I have something fun. Having fun, Bruce? Oh, yeah. All right. Teenage Mutant Ninja... Anything else? Let's look at some more news here. See if there's anything else. Well, that Silver Bowl Chronicles podcast, you know, that other one I'm on, they released an episode on Python. Oh, I didn't hear it yet. I really, I've not heard it. I'm being too honest. Yeah. The only thing I think we missed, we did miss Popeye. Ah. And we got a few comments on that. We should have mentioned Popeye and his, if you ever read, Python had a whole back story for Popeye, which is just batshit crazy. It's actually at IPDB.org. If you look under Popeye, but this is why no one's read it because no one looks for Popeye. No one goes to that. Yeah, no one goes to that. When you go to IPDB, you're not going to look up Popeye. No, of course not. It's probably the least searched for game. But I implore you to go to IPDB.org and look up Popeye. Okay, we're going to go to IPDB.org. Luckily, I'm already on IPDB. And if you look, there is a PDF that says proposed game theme from Python Angel. And if you read this thing, let's just say we cannot do it justice. You have to read it. It's like Popeye is a tugboat captain. He's 50 years old. He watches Simpsons, reruns of the Flintstones. Oh, God. Oh, yeah. But, yep, that's our latest episode. Yep. There's going to be another podcast coming. Ooh, wow, you guys are like. No, no, no. I mean another podcast. As in Jersey Jack is going to have its own podcast. Oh, I saw that. Jesus Christ. And he's going to be innovative, I heard. Which Ken Cromwell, formerly of Special Inlet, and then briefly on the Pinball Network until he was plucked by Jersey Jack. So now he's going to be running a podcast for them. Yeah, I don't know. And he's going to be innovative, I heard. He put that teaser video out being innovative. I wonder if the shit he's going to take. Because when he was on Special Inlet, people were like, oh, you never tell it like it is. because you're too much friendly with all the manufacturers and all that. And then he gets hired by one. I know. So now you're going to have more. Well, you're never going to say anything bad about Jersey Jack because you've worked for Jersey Jack. Yep, I agree. That's the problem when you're doing one of these. You can't really bash. And even if you work in this, you're not going to bash another place. So what are you going to talk about? If we have Raymond Davidson on here, he's not going to say, oh, I don't really like Rick and Morty or something. No, he's going to. Or your Stranger Things could be better. You know, he's not going to say that. We're going to talk about a dildo freaking crane machine. Yeah, the dildo crane machine. See, that he could talk about. That's why, if you're an industry person, you want to be on our show because... We don't talk about the normal show. We don't talk about pinball here. We talk about everything else. Looks like Spooky's back open. Yes, he is, and so is Stern. So that means the chances of you getting a Rick and Morty are increasing. They are. I think they're up to number 70. We're at 250. They must have done some changes to that play field. The reason I say that is Carl, Carl D'Python Anghelo of IE Pinball, he had one of the first ones. It was the one that was at Ace Kogi. So it was one of the first maybe 10 or something that were made. And he had a whole thing. He had to make like six major modifications in the game to get it to play decent. like actually physically moving posts, putting new holes, all this stuff, and to make it play better. Play better. But then when I hop over to Deadflip and I watch Jack Danger play a much newer Rick and Morty, it already seemed like it was flowing fine. Yes, I agree. And I doubt if he made a zillion changes to it. So I think they have been making changes to that play field. I agree. To make it play a little better. Although it's so weird you would do that during the production run. Yeah, well, sometimes you have to. I think you would play that enough that you wouldn't be making physical play field changes. I think the complaints were coming too much. I really feel like they... Well, remember the first couple streams? It's like you have a loop shot that doesn't loop. No. A spinner that doesn't really spin. Yep. A left ramp that rejects half the time. Yep. And you're just watching it like, I know, and I don't expect it to be a flow fast. I'm not going to be one of these, you know, if the game doesn't have flow, it's shit. Yeah. But if you have a shot that looks like it's a loop shot, it should loop. Loop. If you have a left ramp, it should be hittable. Once. Maybe. Maybe. That's all. I know. And it does seem like it flows a lot better, so I'm hoping that. The more recent play footage I've seen of it, it looks great. And the software will just keep getting more insane, I'm sure. Yeah, they showed that. As they use more and more stuff, yeah. That'll just keep getting better. What was that he showed just now? It was the beta, the new beta? Oh, yeah. What, Megaseed Mode or something? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, the 30 years of Stern Pinball book. It's done. No, stop it. Yes. They let their Kickstarter backers know that it's finished. It just needs to get approval from Stern. Oh, boy. They'll go to Stern, and Stern will be like, what is this? You want what? What? It's like, oh, it's the book we were working on. Oh, I don't recall. When did this happen? The rights, you know, sorry. The rights expired. That would be fucking clever. The rights expire for you to release our books. Sorry, we gave you rights for two years. It's been four. Oh, that would be fucking classic. Because it's been four, folks. This was supposed to come out for the 30th anniversary in 2014. Or 2016, sorry. It's been four years. The 35th anniversary. It's like they kept on putting a line through 30 and writing 31, 32. 34. Yeah, they have like a... The picture has all their games in the 30 years. They'll have to keep just adding games. Like, oh, now Stranger Things is on there. Oh, wait a minute, now Turtles is on there. Oh, we have to keep... Can we get a picture of that Led Zeppelin? So by the time we do release it, it'll be modern. No problem. Just go into Timmy's apartment. Take the sheet off that prototype. I still say it's Godzilla. It's not Led Zeppelin. No one's going to tell me different. Godzilla. It's going to be Toho Godzilla. They need to license the Blue Oyster Cult song. Yeah, they do. Oh, no. God, that would be great. They say he's got to go. Call Godzilla. Woo! Woo! Woo! Oh, that would be so good. Multimorphic announces head-to-head pinball over the Internet. They're going to be doing that for their Cosmic Cart Racing. You can play Ryan or... Yeah, you can play him in Cosmic Cart Racing. Oh, boy. That's what they have. It's good. it's about time. I mean, when you think about things like one of our favorite games, Rush, I mean, they're linked games locally. It's like, well, why can't we do this on the internet? You can't actually. Even if you go back to, yeah, well, somebody had it where, but they had them in different areas of their house. Yes. So they weren't even in the same, they got them on their network. Yeah. Because you needed a hub. Yes. But yeah, it's about time, man. Hey, other manufacturers, get on this. As usual, Multimorphic is ahead of you with the innovation. Yep. The problem is the games themselves. They suck. Oh, hey, how can you say that? You haven't played the new one. The new one looks awesome. The heist looks pretty good. I want to play some heist. I've even heard from some people who own heist. I know two people own it. It's okay. They're saying it's better for anything else, but it's just like, okay, yeah. Look at that crane. It needs some tweaks. The crane is insane. That's like the greatest crane ever. I agree. They say that, but they're just saying it needs a couple tweaks. You're so negative. But they say when they do make the tweaks, it would be an awesome game. Okay. Just needs a couple tweaks, boys. I hope they don't settle. That's the key. I think I'm Raymond Davidson here. Yeah, Timmy recruited him. Oh, wow. Thanks, Tim. See how Tim's taking care of us? So Zach Sharp recruited Timmy. Now, Timmy recruited Raymond Davidson. Is Raymond Davidson going to recruit someone? Hi, Raymond. Oh, Jesus. Okay, what would you do at Stern, Bruce? Mechanical. Mechanical. Mechanical engineer. How about voices? Oh, my. We need an extremely loud announcer for this game. You broke the microphone, Bruce. I think Bruce could break a microphone. I can. And I don't mean by throwing it. Oh, damn it. let's see what else here they have been coming out with code stern's been cranking out the code during the uh covid it's the covid code season stranger things like iron man it's like what alvira which i want to the more i hear about some of the stuff lyman's doing there the more i want to play that game i do again yes because i know you're gonna like it because i guess one of the modes now is kind of like is it alien evasion thing where you have to keep locking more balls and he's doing something similar with that. Yes, he did. I'd like to see that, a good concept done with a much better play field. Wow. Yeah, what? Wow. Did you notice on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and maybe this is a Borg thing, he's kind of abandoned individual stand-up targets. He's just doing the large one target now that he did multiple times. Maybe for cost, too. It could be for cost. Well, yeah, it's probably for cost. But to make a positive out of a negative, the artwork is much like they could fit a really cool piece of art on it now instead of just a single target. As I was looking at them, the April on one side and then the who's the rat? Donatello? No, the rat. He's like their mentor. Yeah. What the hell's his name? It's funny. I know the bad guys. I know Shredder and Krang is like the brain dude. Someone's probably yelling at us right now. How do you not know this character? Splinter. Splinter. Yeah, Splinter. The rat. He's like the mentor. He's got his own... The art looks, like, really cool. It's just the art's so good, I gotta get off the screen here. I'll be putting an order in for a game I didn't play. Yes, you will. No. No. Yeah, I've done that before. We've both done that. I've never done that. You've never done that? I've never ordered... I've never bought a game that I've never played. So you have. What have you done that with? Well, Rick and Morty. Rick and Morty, family guy. No, I actually played Family Guy before I bought it, and I still made that mistake. I don't consider it a mistake because I like the game still. The software and the call-outs are the highlights. Yes, of course. And the mini play field. Yes. The rest of it is, like, if you take, working on that game, you take the mini play field off, you realize how the game has nothing on it. Oh, no, it's very barren. Oh, that's right. It's very barren. The coolest part of it is me. Yeah, we haven't heard you on for a while, Stewie. What's going on with you? Oh, that's right. I don't know. I'm busy, you know, COVID and all, and trying to keep my social distancing. I had to put my kill lowest plans on hold, or at least do long-distance kills, you know. Ah, I got it. So we'll have to get a guest on to talk to you, Stewie, I think in a couple weeks from now. Oh, is that true? I think so. I think we're going to have to get somebody to actually interview you or scold you. Oh, what kind of scolding? Might be something I like, might be something I don't like. Got to know. You'll have to wait and see, Stewie. You'll have to wait and see. Oh, it's a total surprise. Okay. It is going to be a surprise. You're going to be so surprised. Oh, so surprised. Speaking of surprised. Yes. The male ball bag got an email from a certain well-known musical artist, Pinhead. Yeah, I heard about this. Who was inquiring about a certain game involving a fast land mammal. Wow. So let's go. I guess we're only going to mail ball bag. Okay. We'll go to the mail ball bag. I'll leave the person's identity a secret, but you can probably figure out who it is. Yeah, you probably could. Let's see. What do we got here? Yes, the subject line for the email he sent was Fast Kitty. Fast Kitty. Oh, my. The funny thing is this musician, he knows Nick Schell, who we've had on our show a couple of times. Yes, we have. And he's the one who sold me the cheetah. Nick, to this day, keeps thinking that he sold you the cheetah. I know. All the time. He always does that. So he told this particular musician that. Nick tells me he sold you a cheetah. You must be tired of it by now. Would you like to sell it to me? And you commented back. Yeah, Nick sold it to me, Ron, but always remember selling it to Bruce. The fast kid he's purring has yet to get old. But if you're ever near Albany, New York, feel free to stop by for some feline action. Oh, bye. And the bar will have a cheetah, eventually, too. Oh! That's ready to rock. Cheetah. All done. The official game of the Slamto Podcast. It is. Is it? No. So if you were going to pick the official game of the Slamto Podcast, what exemplifies the Slamto Podcast? What game? What game? What game is like, you play like, yeah, that's Slamto Podcast. Stars. Just because it's brutal? I guess so. I'll go with that. It's popular, it's brutal, and people keep on coming back to it. Yeah, we're brutal and people keep coming back to us for some reason. You're right. Exactly. It's stars. It's stars. So there you heard it. Stars, the official game of the Slamtail Podcast. So now looking back at the Stars 2020 rule thing differences that the guy's been making on Pinside. Yeah, we mentioned. they look interesting but I don't know how you play the game long enough to do all the crap that's on there exactly it's just I don't understand I would change it honestly I like the original stars it made it super deep but you have to go through all these different things to get to the wizard mode and complete all these different objectives I'm like man unless you have the thing on 10 ball or if you have the games rate for 5 degrees where you can actually and put up or have the largest center post ever Thank you, or just put rubber bands over it. I mean, I want to see, let's put it this way. If someone puts this in their game, I want to see a stream of you getting to the wizard mode. Yep. Make me a believer. And let me rephrase that. Actually playing the game and getting to the wizard mode, not taking the glass off. Yeah, not taking the glass off, but playing. Remember back in February they made a video at my bar? Remember me talking about that? Is that the one I was interviewed for? No, no, no. The video for – no, not that one. They made a – That was even longer ago. I know. I asked her about it. She said they're in final editing, so hopefully we'll get that soon. But they made a rock video at my bar. They made a rock video at your bar. Yep. They had these people come in. Please tell me this is available. It's not yet. Damn it. This week it's coming out, so we'll be able to plug it and hopefully get some good press for the bar also. So by the time this is released, this video may be out. Yep. Oh, I got to see that. I know. Are you in the video, like, rocking out? No, I'm not. I'm not, but one of my bartenders is. She's actually serving. It's a music video. It's like a country music, but with rock in the back, you know, like a – Country music, Bruce? No, no. It's like country. She has like a country music look, but it's kind of like a rockish music. Like rock-ish music. Yeah, rock-ish. You know, not like country. It's almost like the newer, you know, they tell a story. And the story for this music video is everyone's always on their phones. So these people are at a bar and they're always looking at their phones instead of looking at, say, a date with each other. So it's kind of that kind of thing. Like this world is becoming phone. And so the song's about that. The video is at that. And they're at the Silverwall Saloon. doing that. Oh, I stayed out of the video. I completely made sure I was not in that at all. We're looking for a younger crowd, sir. So we need you out of the shot. You're just too fucking old. Too old. Too old to begin the training. Yes. Let's get back to that mail ball bag. Did you say the mail ball bag? There you go. Email from John Cosson. Oh, by the way, John Cosson, he sent some trivia game. I don't know if you heard it. They played a trivia game on the pinball show. It was weird rules, but hey, John, if you want to send us a similar trivia game, go for it. I would love to play some trivia because then I don't have to do work, and it's great. It says, thanks for the latest and all the other episodes, of course. Love a Thinking Man's podcast, other than the less factual podcasts out there. You can let Zach know his idea for a Wizard of Osthopper has already been created. Lior from the R of pinball created one that I have basically his idea was you should have for Wizard of Oz it should be like whirlwind should blow in your face when the tornado yes it basically it blows in your face oh my he wrote that oh my then the house spins during munchkin mode there you go so it exists it does exist ok so Daniel emails us fellas all these episodes spoiling us and i just realized i started to email you guys a week ago damn digging this dude stew hanging at ron's house i hope he keeps coming around does he have any guns and roses songs he may belt out oh you know for everything you want to say about axl rose they once did a they did a steady steady study of the lead singers with the most vocal range like high to low from like a scientific viewpoint like just how high can they go how low can they go he won like the most range that's pretty wild yeah because they had like you know when he's saying when everybody's trying to please me and he was low then he has the super high voice when he's just a little patient yeah it would be hard to sing like him just a little pain i'm walking in the street tonight. Exactly. Also, for some reason, my podcast, Haddock App, just restarted the show with only your first 25 episodes. RSS feed problem or your app busted? There was a change with the RSS feed, which may have caused that. Oh, I would know nothing about that. I would like to give a shout out to Tyler. Hi, Tyler. Hi, Tyler. You know Tyler. He noticed that our podcast was only showing the last 100 episodes in the RSS feed. If you go to the website, they're all there. But if you were just looking at the feed, it would just display the last 100, which when I read that, I'm immediately thinking that's a setting. That's got to be in WordPress somewhere. That has to be a setting. And literally, the second thing in WordPress I looked at, I found it. There you go. So I changed it to 1,000. Okay. So we're good. We'll never get to that. So I don't think we're getting to 1,000 podcasts. So now if you load the RSS feed, it has all the episodes. Nice I don know who would listen to us though and be like 140 and yeah let start from the beginning You never know You never can tell If it was like a 10 podcast I could see it That'd be cool. But, I mean, we were doing an hour and a half to two hours most of the time after a certain point. I don't see... That'd be insane. Crazy. Insane. I guess if you listen to it at like 5x speed. I want to do that one time. We should do the podcast like this, talk really fast like this, so then they try to put it fast on there, and they say, oh my God, this is going incredibly fast, I don't understand what's going on, why does this stuff happen? Because I know some people, they just have their podcast permanently like 1.5x or something, or 2x, or 2.5, so just start the podcast out, just talk fast, just to blow their minds. Is this thing broke? They put it down to one, it's still too fast? Yeah, that'd be fucking funny. I like that idea. I could do that, actually. No, that's to just speed it up. Like, you must listen to this podcast at .5, or yeah, 50% for it to sound normal. That'd be cool. That would be a good idea. That'd be another good April Fool's gag. Or backwards. I can talk backwards. See? There you go. People are going to be listening to that backwards now seeing if I said anything. I said smoke more marijuana or something. Wow. There's like, if you play another one, Bites the Dust by Queen backwards, it does sound like he says smoke marijuana or something like that. Making that song even cooler than it already was. Yes. All right, final email? No, I have more stuff on my side. Oh, you have more stuff on your side? Okay, well, this is the final thing in the ball bag. Oh, God, this is from Eric. I was just catching up on episode 144 with Ryan C. in the Stern Games Bracket. Very entertaining episode. I'm glad Metallica won on your show, but how did Simpsons even make the finals exactly? Don't get me wrong. Yeah, we made it because of Bruce. Don't get me wrong. Simpsons Pinball Party is a great game, but better than all these other modern Sterns? I don't know. Oh, easily. No, it's not. Easily. It proved it. Don't get me wrong. And it's doing the same on the other side for fucking... Oh, it is? Yes. So don't even go there. Fuck. There were some tough matchups, But I was a little surprised neither Jurassic Park or Iron Maiden made the Final Four, since they're everyone's darlings right now, along with Deadpool. I guess the main takeaway is that is a very strong top 16 game Stern has made in the last couple decades, and there are some very good games that weren't even in the brackets. Their designers and software developers are doing some great work. Yes, they are. Oh, God, now he's calling me out. However, at one point, 57 minutes and two seconds into the podcast, when talking about Lord of the Rings, Ron says a Gandalf quote and then immediately says something like, I never knew that Christopher Lee was in the movie because I never saw any of the movies. Fail. Christopher Lee was Saruman, the White Wizard. Ian McClellan was Gandalf. watch the damn movies Ron so you can stop making this being like this meme fail yes and it's a meme making fun of me well here's the thing if you ever notice my mind kind of jumps around at times if you've ever noticed no so I was doing just a random quote from the movie that I know because it's in the game and then it just popped in my head like oh I never knew Christopher Lee was in the movie I wasn't actually because Christopher Lee I do know is the to war. A new power is dawning to war. Because I saw that clip somewhere. Like, oh, that's him? I didn't know that. That's not Christopher Lee. To war is... No, that's him. No, it's not. Yes, it is. A new power is dawning to war. That is him. I saw the clip. He's like on top of a castle or something. There's a bunch of people below him and he says the line. Okay. I don't remember myself. I've seen the movie, but I'm not like, oh my god. My wife is oh my god about the movie. Well, you got a good pinball machine out of it. I love the pinball machine. Mm-hmm. Okay, so for me, on my side, we had a couple people on Facebook messaging us and me. We have Christopher Hopper, who picked up a blue cheetah. And he has the same problem that everyone else has. Your inlanes are broken. Yes, can someone make, like, Lexan inlane guides for that or something, please? Well, he did your idea. Yeah, he made his own. Yeah, he made his own with plastic. So he has fixed his machine. It's a blue. He's put it on three ball, hopefully, because he said his serial number was 1061, which I was going to go check on mine and see what my serial number is. I'll do that later on. And my plastics were a lot better than his, but he made inserts for his, and it looks like he said no more flipper hops, so that worked. So congratulations, Christopher. Nice job. Brian Benton sent me a link for a Star Wars pinball, like, almost looks like a Zizzle machine. Would we buy that? Would we buy that? Of course I would not buy that. And then Tim Peters told us about Allentown being canceled, and he said, you know, sorry about your dad. So that was very, very nice of Tim Peters. Thank you, Tim. And then Daniel Hoffhines asked about going over to Border and buying machines. I said it's this way. You can go over there. It was made in the United States. You don't have to pay taxes on it. But you can't go over to the border right now because the border is closed except for essential work. Pinball is essential. No, it's not. God damn it. Steve Flake asked about Kingpin that I ordered, which I did not order or have a chance to buy because I bought the Translight. Yeah. But nothing. I haven't heard anything on that. That's been DOA for at least two or three years. Yeah. I mean, they brought it to Texas or one of the shows. Yeah, they brought it to a couple shows. And then the next year they brought it again, but it looked pretty much the same as they did the previous year. I mean, they have regular jobs and stuff, so. Yeah, so it's not like they're getting full-time jobs. Yeah, it's going to take a while if it happens, so. Yeah. Yep. And so that's all for On My Side. That's a lot, actually. I know, so that was all two weeks. Yes. We have a very big internet presence, obviously. Yes, we do. My presence is very big. So, Bruce. Yes. The System 11 matchup. Yes. Who the hell won? Well, yours truly did win. Oh, fuck you. And only one person. I beat you by two. So it wasn't that, oh my God, you know. Why don't you explain it for someone who maybe didn't listen to the last episode? Oh, you fucking fail, people. But what we did is I posted, before we released the episode, the list of the five games we got to choose out of a baseball-style draft of System 11 games. And I posted all four groups of the five games that we each picked and said, who picked what game? and then I asked also which is the best picks and I got the most votes, Ron got second Zach got third and Scott got fourth and only one person picked the proper order of who picked what game and so that was your co-host on your new show Is it still new when we've upped episode 4? It's still new Yes, David Dennis, congrats Yes, and thank you, David, for your donation to the Silver Ball Saloon for your gift card. Thank you, sir. It helps out always. So what's the top five, then? What was your team? My team? Just do your team and my team, since you beat me. Let's see what's superior. Do mine first. What did I have? Taxi. Mousing Around. Earthshaker. Elvira and the Party Monsters. And Transporter to Rescue. How the hell do I lose? What's possibly better than that? Whirlwind. So let's go one for one. Whirlwind beats everything on your game list. No, Mousin, I'd rather play. No, Whirlwind. Okay. Radical beats everything on your list. Yeah, you're a radical, Mark. Except for Mousin Around. Space Station, which beats Earthshaker. I think Earthshaker is the second weakest game on your list. I think Elvira is your third strongest. I like Space Station. I'm surprised I got as much love as it did, honestly. I thought I was more of the minority on that one. Brad Lizard? Oh, come on. That game's great. No, it's not. You just hit it up top and hit drop targets forever. It's boring as fuck. It's not. Yes, it is. And honestly, Elvira and the Party Monsters, you lock the ball, lock the ball, lock the ball. No, actually, you just hit the ramp over and over and over. Exactly. So either way, you're going to, you know. But it's funnier. It's got good quotes and better light show. And then Black Knight 2000. The gameplay is the weakness on that one. Of course, but everything else is nice. Everything else is great. Yep. So that is the groups we had. So I lose again. You know, I think if you look over time, I've lost the majority of these things. Yeah, sorry about that, buddy, but we're better. I'm always second. I'm like the Josh Sharpe of this podcast. Yes. So last night, we had some problems in the town of Rochester. uh no pinball no pinball's on fire pinball we're on fire we had some looting and some after the peaceful demonstration they had some looting in rochester and area like that there is actually 47 businesses that were damaged or looted in rochester now not for nothing i understand it was a terrible thing trust me that guy dying was totally insensitive unnecessary stupid the cop is being punished now hopefully he'll go to jail for murder which he should have been not manslaughter and the people who are with them should be accessories to murder but don't freaking loot people's businesses i feel bad for these people you know like the person in minnesota who lost his bar because they raided and burned down his place is terrible there is 47 in buildings in Rochester. And what happens now when they don't open? It's just terrible. Like, there's a pawn shop. There's a clothes store. There's a his and her store. There's a gas station, CVS, liquor store. What the fuck are they rating a liquor store? Oh, I know why, because they're drunk. A key bank, Walmart. How many of these companies do you think are going to go, boy, let me go back and reopen? It's just a sad thing. It really is just I'm not being political here. I'm just being I understand it was a heinous crime. And I understand these people want to state their problems. And I agree with that. They should. And they were doing a peaceful protest. But then it seems like after the peacefulness goes and starts, it gets really wacky towards the end. And like they just get very frustrated. I understand the frustration because it is it is they feel like they're not being heard. And when you do a peaceful protest, you're really being heard. But then after a while, it just – I think it just becomes bad. Yeah, they did a protest here in Albany. Yeah, and that didn't go bad. Yeah, that was – yeah, that was fine. But 47 businesses and all the people they hurt now, and they hurt themselves because most of these businesses are in their area that they're living in. And I just – it's just sad. That's why you got rid of the fire pinball machine. Yeah. It would have been a bad omen. But, you know, I know where the bar is. I was actually last night worried. I kept on looking at the video screens and everything like that because now I have an outside camera. Luckily, we're one of the few towns in Monroe County that actually has our own police department. And luckily, the chief of police goes to my bar. Okay. But, no, they're very good. The police are very good in the town of East Rochester, and they were on high alert last night. But it's a shame. Like, even the armory was attacked. You know, what the hell? So would you say 2020 would be like the year of the turd? Oh, my fucking God. It's not even – we're only five months in, and it seems like the fucking toilet bowl cannot flush down this shit of the whole year. I think that's the official name, though. Year of the turd. Oh, God. We're circling the bowl. Well, maybe now people won't worry about COVID now. Now we're just going to worry about the race wars again, it seems like. That's what everyone keeps on joking about. And it's not a joke. It really isn't. It's serious. And it's been a problem in this country for a long time. But rioting is not the way to do it. What are your thoughts, Ron? Or you don't want to go there? Quicksilver. All right. I hear you have a Quicksilver. I do have a Quicksilver. And Ron got a play field with me also. Yeah, I ordered it during the podcast, and it came like three days later or two days later, which is ridiculous because it's from Europe. I don't even understand how that was possible. I get a text from Bruce because I hadn't even let him know. I kind of insinuated that a play field might be coming, but I didn't say, like, I ordered one. I was going to wait. I just get a text from Bruce, like, hey, a play field's here. Like, what the fuck? Okay. Cool. It was Wednesday, and I was actually in the garage. Luckily, I had the garage open door. Suddenly, FedEx truck pulls right up in front of my driveway, which is only now 15 feet from my house. I look up. Guy walks out. Same box as mine was. I look at the thing. I go, Quicksilver Playfield. Oh, okay. Ron must have ordered one because I didn't order two. Well, it should be with the Playfield plastic combo thing. Yeah, they're inside. Yeah, they're inside. So I didn't even open it, but I'm assuming they're inside like always. So it's going to be re-cleared, and then I'll get to try my first ever playfield swap. That's going to be fun. It's not that bad. Honestly, the only thing that's going to suck is running the, I always call it the power bus, but I guess rails. Is that another term? Yes. Yeah, all of the stifling it down and all that shit. You can leave it original like that, or you can use a wire instead. People are using now wire. Chuck did that just now. and so has the guy from that flipping podcast who did his Quicksilver. Not Quicksilver. He did Stargazer. He ran a wire instead of – So ran a wire. So just wires. Use like wire management like clips and just do that instead of doing the – I have to look and see exactly how they did it. They didn't show – that's Chuck. Chuck's redone – he just redid that – what was it? The Harlem Globetrotters conversion game. Yeah, he's converting and rolling. Yeah, Harlan Glo Trotters to some bizarre European thing. Like a version game that they made back in the 80s. So, and he used, unfortunately, he used a cabinet from, and the wiring harness from a, for you it's great, a $6 million man. Yeah. So one's less than the world. But he now has to make the harness work for the Switch Matrix and the lights. but he's doing it and i chuck is very smart and i think you and me would be able to do that also i know zach would definitely be able to well that's about it for me i'm gonna go drop off your play field today though that's my key he's actually coming to me awesome yes of course your one comment about your your driveway only 15 feet away yeah most people are not gonna know what that means. How long was your old driveway, Bruce? Oh, my old driveway was 304 feet. 304 feet. Yeah. All uphill too. All uphill. So if you want to get some exercise. That was the way to do it. When I used to walk down in a mailbox, it was a nice, it was going easy going down, paying the ass going up. You had that weird, I mean, it was, you think that'd be perfectly, oh, it slopes away from your house. So you will never have any water problems. Like, well, you should see behind the house. A house that was even steeper behind the house. Yeah, steeper, but going up. So basically your house was like right in the middle. Yeah. But I miss that house. I still miss that house. It was a nice house. It was a big basement. I miss the basement. Basement and a two and a half car garage. And I miss the stairs. Two sets of stairs going down to the basement. And the dumb waiter. And the dumb waiter. The elevator. I don't need one here. That's the good thing, though. It's all single level at the house I'm at now. So a true flat ranch. Well, Ron, it's been a pleasure working with you today. Give him the spiel. We are the Slam Tilt Podcast. Check us out at slamtiltpodcast.com. If you look in the upper right corner, you'll see all the links, our YouTube page, our Twitch page, our email address, which, by the way, is slamtiltpodcast at gmail.com. Be sure to tune in for the next Streaming with Stu, which by the time this airs would have already happened, But I'm trying to do it Mondays. That's when I can get Stu in here. So Mondays at 7.30 is when we do the show. Do the show. Yeah. He's recovering from vocal issues, so he's assured me, though, he will still be entertaining. He better be. God, or I'm just going to fucking turn it off. We had discussions, and he wants to play my drum kit. Oh, boy. So I need to get away to record that decently so we can do that during the stream. Okay. I have some parts coming, but I think due to COVID, among other things, some of them are delayed. So, unfortunately, it's going to be a little bit. I'll have to get a ventilator eventually. I know what I have to do. I have to get one of those hazmat suits, and then I can come over and play. There you go. I mean, the basement's big, man. Just wear a mask. You stay on one side of the basement. Be on the other side of the basement. You're all set. How do I play a game against you? Well, you can't really do that now. Exactly. See? So that's the problem. I'm sorry. It's all about beating me, I guess. It is, and I always do. Yeah, he does. He usually always beats me. Who won Pinberg, though? Let's see. Just saying. Who won Pentastic? That would be me. I beat you in Pentastic, though, when it was head-to-head. That's our Twitch picture. It's one of my favorite pictures, actually. I know it is. Exactly. If you want the picture that says our relationship the best, go to Twitch. I'll tell you right now. I'm going to do it right now because I love looking at it. twitch.tv slash slamtiltpodcast. Well, guess what? I will say one thing. We have over 500 likes now on Facebook. In this week alone, I've actually invited all my friends. We had 27 people like us and follow us on Facebook. Nice. Yeah, it's really good. So thanks to all our fellow podcasters, et cetera. I'm sick of naming you all because there's so many of them. Hi, Zach. Hi, Steve. Got to do that. Yes, our gimmick. We must keep – gimmicks are important to keep up. They are very important. I mean, what would happen if a show didn't end with, oh, my, my? Oh, my. I think people would actually complain. The riots. There would be riots. Wait a second. If that's what you do, you don't put it on this time, and the riots will stop. What? Why would the riots stop? Wouldn't it cause riots? Because they'll be shocked. No, they'll be shocked. They'll be shocked. You're right. They'll be so shocked they'll stop rioting. You're like, what? Hold on. Wait a second. It's not on there anymore. they'll question their very existence they will ah good yeah okay we're going off the rails here yes we are we are i think it's time it is time and bruce is ready right i am always ready you are always ready i'm just looking back at the pictures of uh in the slam tell podcast i posted like the place i picked up the cheetah in arkansas the junk store oh my god and just are pictures that the people edited back in the 40s from our show, from the pictures in the back boxes. Well, not in the 1940s, but episode 40, yeah. We've got to do one of those again. Yeah, the Future Spa one is one of my favorites. The Future Spa is the best one. Yes. Those are the pictures where I'm always the woman. Yes, you were. Yeah. Remember, don't be a hater, as Ryan C. says. Yes, don't be a hater. Say goodbye, Bruce. Goodbye, Dad. Oh my Oh my Oh my Oh my