But to answer Marty's question, we are a landlocked island. So if it weren't for all the dikes that were built by the Dutch, we essentially during high flood season or high tide, I had a, he want pie and parازan or bigger you would get in balloon. Haha. Ooh not уж? This is better. Yeah. This is better. Not gonna get free flowers or dramatic photos or anything right now just some when you're not even in the office. Like I wrote like this in there's one thing I want to say, which is that it got like I really miss the affirmative umpires direction of adversity everyMANA goal to go from not to another side. I think it's kinda and'll a day. So quickly work going a little can't do it with the autoxide that's why you don't I have a straw that goes through the fish netting that I have over my head while I'm wearing a long sleeve and it's like even the no-see-ums can get through the little holes in there anyways and they're biting in. It's a whole thing when you have seven acres of lawn to cut. Wow, I think of a postage stamp, I have out front and I bitch complain like, ah, I gotta do it. Takes 10 minutes. How long does it take you to cut the lawn? Well, probably about three and a half hours. Now, luckily I have like, it's not a John Deere tractor, but it's a John Deere, they call it a lawn tractor. It's basically at the lowest end commercial size thing you'd see at like, not even a golf course level, but like, you know, a fairly high end landscape company or something might have one. So thank God she goes fast. And honestly, I can steer with one hand and I got one hand for the beer. And I do not cut the lawn without a pinball podcast. So I want to thank you for every podcast you ever did on pinball profile, because I've gone back through pinball I was watching some pinball shows on the podcast and I was listening to pinball shows on the podcast or listening to pinball shows on the podcast and I had to re-listen to them again and then I started listening to head-to-head, maybe about a year and a half, two years after it started and now I've got to go back and listen to every one of those episodes so to everyone here listening, if you ever have to cut seven acres of grass or maybe you drive long, go out there and listen to some pinball profile and head-to-head because all those podcasts still exist. Yeah, that is true. Sorry about that. Number one with landscapers. That's a badge we wear. Hey, we suck at the twippies but fucking when it comes to pinball, we suck at the twippies. When it comes to cutting lines, man, look out, alright? Hey, heads up, holla! So here's my last comment about Nova Scotia, because I've just now been looking at some photos of it. When I was looking at the map, I was thinking, oh, it's probably the Tasmania of Canada. Then when I was looking at photos, it is the Tasmania. Like, I think, what is it, Halifax or something? It's like Hobart. It is a beautiful seaside town with, I don't know, architecture and scenery just like Tasmania. So I know Tasmania quite well. So for those Australians listening, this looks like a beautiful place to be. You know what? It is absolutely gorgeous. Halifax is just beautiful. I mean, I'm not going to say it's nicer than Vancouver, but it's certainly smaller and slower. If you only had three days to travel and visit a city, you could do everything you probably wanted to do in Halifax in three days. And there is a couple great arcades there, including my favorite Propeller Arcade, which is in the basement of Propeller Brewing, which is one of the oldest craft breweries in Halifax. But the number one reason why I've been challenged here isn't the bugs, it isn't the goats, it isn't the lawn cutting, it's because there's not a lot of pinball machines in the wild. So during the Fungus 19 shutdowns, what they ended up doing was saying that I wasn't allowed to go up to New Brunswick, the province beside me, which only 45 minutes away from me has like Spin It Records, which has like 15 pins in it. And there's there's zeros and other pinball bar that just opened there that has lots of pinball machines in it. And there's quite a few places bowling alleys and such that have pins in the wild. But for me to play any pinball machines in Halifax, it's about a seven hour round trip because I live right at the border of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick. In short, the only pinball machine I could play during the entire pandemic was Ghostbusters in a town called Toureau an hour and a half from me. And Jeff, I know you're the same for Ghostbusters is real, but I think if you were put in my position where the only way you could play a Modern Stern, because I have no Modernsterns left in Orbeez Arcade, okay, if the only Modernstern you could possibly play in the entire world during like a six or nine month period was Ghostbusters, you would learn to love it like I learned to love it. I would find a new hobby. Stockholm Syndrome. I would find a new hobby. I would not be hitting that. I'm sorry. In fact, I've got some tournaments coming up. Oh, little sneak peek and I've told all the arcades, yeah, if you've got Ghostbusters, it's not being used that night. It's not happening. It's, I'm not traveling to A, B, C and D to play fricking Ghostbusters. For me, Ghostbusters is one of these interesting things. I hated it at first, particularly in tournaments because of how unfair it is with the flipper gap and it hopping over the rails. But over time, I really grew to like Ghostbusters in tournaments because this is the whole thing. And you know, talking about Ryan C, when Ryan C does his tournaments, he sets up his machines brutal, brutal, where it just absolutely saps all the fun out of it. They seemed easy for me. Yeah, whatever. But then you just got to realize, well, everybody else is in the same situation. So it's like with Ghostbusters. Yes, it's painful and yes, it's unfair, but it's unfair for everybody. But there's just something about it that I really like now. And even though pinball prices are still ridiculous, Jeff, just calling it out, no bubble has been burst yet, Ghostbusters goes for extraordinary money at the moment. I didn't say the bubble has burst. It will. But right now that's an example of how stupid people are. Listen, I'm getting two games next week. They were ordered months and months ago. One nine months ago. So that's just the way things are. So people need something now. Trust me. Anyway, Halifax, Nova Scotia, spectacular, gorgeous. In fact, you know, we're talking a lot about Tasmania, Nova Scotia, Canada, Australia. For our American friends, especially in the Pittsburgh area, your Sidney Crosby is from Halifax, Nova Scotia. And the reason I bring up Pittsburgh is because, Orby, you were at Pinburg. I think you were probably at the one that Marty was at, too. And there's a Pittsburgh native there. And he once asked me to do a pinball profile. And it's funny that this episode is airing on 420 on April 20th. And just a coincidence that you're on the show, Orby. I'm just saying. What are you talking about? I do not have a vaporizer in my hand right now. I have no idea what we're talking about. But the, I had somebody ask me to do a show with him about the benefits of smoking pot and playing pinball. And that's something I have never done. And I said, I don't know if I'm the right person for it. But sure enough, on Pinball Nerds, there you were with peaceman Nick. I love returned shows like possession J.H. He had to travel to Pinburg before and basically like couch surf and just I maybe even sleep outside for the night I don't know like he had to do whatever he did and he said I don't want you to do that so come stay at my house. He let me try about 15 different types of cereal he's a cereal connoisseur the way I'm kind of a craft beer connoisseur and of course in the states there they get all these different cereals but no that was great and the craziest part for me I the one part I do remember I do remember some things Jeff on the final day you ran into me and you're like so you qualified for A? I was like, yeah, and you're like, flew a little bit too close to the sun, huh? And I was like, yeah, because I got destroyed like on the second day in a like my first full day being in a division. Oh my god, I just got absolutely destroyed. And I think I finished third last in a and honestly, I probably should have gone to be but what I didn't want to do was, you know, what am I going to do? Like, I wasn't going to sandbag my first Pemberg for God's sake. I mean, I knew I wasn't going to a finals. But also I knew if I got to be finals, and I ran into Marty Robbins, I wasn't going to do very well either. Right. So I think you would have been safe against me. I don't know. I don't know. I saw you play against Joe Stanzik, one of the best players from our London League, and I'm pretty sure you beat him if I remember correctly. I guess that's probably true. Maybe. I don't know. I don't know. I don't remember. But Pimberg was the time of my life, and I really miss it. And it's strange because I bought this very special pair of shoes, and I said I will not wear these shoes. I'm more of a minimalistic guy than a shopping guy, but I had these really cool Canadian limited edition, a lot of people call them the old man shoes, they're new balance, but I had these special shoes and I said I will not, I told my wife, I will not wear these until Pemberg. They stayed for two years in a box and finally I got to do my very first pinball tournament last fall and I said, F it. You don't know how long you're going to be around. First of all, there's not going to be, probably not going to be Pemberg the way we knew it ever again. George Sarut, éléments Actually Guin Cubr preciso for debit I was like, how did you just, I honestly, on my show, if you listen to the Pinball Nerds podcast right before I went to Pemberg, I thought I would go to maybe, maybe, maybe the bottom end of B, but I thought, no, you're a C guy all day, but if you go to D, it's all good. In the last pinball tournament I just played, David Dennis beat me. You know what I mean? Like I got 16th of 23 players, including like five players who never played before. I had only won twice in like 150 tournaments. Like I didn't expect, you know, that I would get to go to A division, but just getting to be there and getting to see everybody was surreal. I mean, I was like, I was meeting all these pinball legends at once between someone, and I feel bad I should have gone over and said hi to Lyman Sheets, someone pointed him out but I was too nervous to go over and say hi. So I'll tell you right now, if you ever had a pinball explorer somewhere and you see someone who thinks they're one of your pinball heroes, you go over and say hi. And they'll probably just be really nice to you. Most likely. I mean, maybe not if they're in the middle of like, you know, winning a game on, you know, on stage or something. But that was probably one of my biggest pinball regrets, I didn't go say hi to him. But you know, I got to meet tons of different people and I got to interview, I think I did 67 interviews at Pinball, which was great. They're all just little two-minute ones, but I got to interview people that went on to be designers and then, you know, another gentleman that, you know, a couple other people that are smaller in pinball companies that have got bigger and just, it was the time of my life, except for I was doing probably my most important interview ever with Mr. Jack Danger about 40 feet away from the stage and Mr. Jeff Teolis started talking on the microphone. And Jack Danger was like, just keep talking. Just keep talking. He'll, he'll, he'll, we'll try to, and we tried to get, you can hear it in the, the, you know, so we, we cut it about five minutes short, but still, you know, obviously a division at Pemberg happening is finals is more important than my interview, but honestly, Pemberg was the time of my life and I want to go again. I should have jumped on the mic and said, uh, we're going to get to the finals here. Keith Elwin will win in just a moment here, but Albert's got to finish his interview that he decided to do right beside the main stage with Jack Ganger. Give us a cue Albert when you're done. Yeah. That bad on me for sure But hey it great that you get to go to Pinburg It great you got to see all those people People enjoy your podcast They enjoy your honesty That my favorite thing about you and I known you before we both started podcasting both from the London Ontario Pinball League both from playing And when I speak of your honesty I think everybody who knows you when you listen to the show really hears this person that like all of us has their own flaws but is honest with themselves and is really trying to make yourself better and not be It's no only an面 Languagebikeicient Sp pod correct involved and again원� helm bob C Bar), is just this great melting pot and big tournaments too. I'm sure Yagpin will be like that where you get to see people you haven't seen in a long time especially after the Ian Plague. It's just a wonderful crazy hobby that brings us all together. Karl Defangelo, Pinballinstructor at Spooky Pinball, Franchidisciplinaryartcode.com Yeah, I mean, I was just thinking about this today. It's a hobby that brings together both rich people and let's be honest, poor people or for the most part, people right in the middle, right? So I mean, I've been privileged enough to buy and sell 15 pinball machines. So I'm not going to sit here and say that I'm a poor person. I'm a pinball person, but at the same time, since we moved to Nova Scotia, we lost, like, because of the stupid fungus, we lost our six main cafes that were our kind of cash cows that allowed us to move out here. And it's been hard to replace them on the East Coast, even though we're working on it, we're working on it, we're getting there slowly. But what I wanted to do when I got into pinball podcasting was I kind of just wanted to take the piss out of everybody. So, I mean, I kind of, I wanted to be more like Michael Scott, but I think I ended up being more like Dwight. And you know how Dwight is kind of always like, you know, and I'm going to the office here, so if you haven't seen the office, I'm sorry, but I didn't want to be a person who was saying like five negative things and then the odd time throwing in a positive thing. I wanted to do more like in my previous career as a driving instructor and it was very important, especially when you had a bad driver or an unconfident driver or their first lesson. You had to really say two to three positives before you said a negative, even if the positives you were saying were complete bullshit. So I would say, oh, you're doing a great job with the gas and the brake. Wow, you're doing phenomenal, keeping your chin up and looking in the center of the lane. But when we go around that corner, the goal is to not actually drive over the curb with the back tire. You know, and that's how I wanted to be in pinball. Like, if I'm going to, you know, on one hand, maybe say to a company, you know, it would be really rad if you did this, you know, for instance, the one thing that bothers Ryan C and myself, the one thing that I would say we definitely have in common is if the noises in the game or the sounds in the game are distracting to the gameplay itself, then it takes away from me. If I'm in a big room with like 10 machines going, I don't care. I can get over it. Except if Aerosmith is playing. I can hear that sucker from anywhere. But that's neither here nor there. I think that the people in pinball are really what kind of make it more fun. But for me, as someone who used to lie a lot and was basically, you know, I would get caught all the time. That was a joke between me and my friends. I was kind of like, well, the Albert character from Big Fish who lied a lot. And, you know, I made the fish bigger than it was. It wasn't necessarily outright lying. I eventually watched a show called Lie to Me and decided hey I'd like to try to live by absolute truthism where I'm telling everybody the truth all the time. The problem is like the cashier at the checkout doesn't need to know how bad her hair looks right? Like you have to decide like which okay like if family or friends they've got a big piece of lettuce in their teeth that's where I'm gonna be like hey before you go on stage to accept this award you know or something like I'm gonna tell you about it but I think in my show what I thought was maybe missing from some of the other pinball podcasts was The next question is, how would you put yourself out there? I don't like to talk about news, I don't like to talk about maintaining games, I don't know anything about that. All I really have is my authenticity, all I really have is my honesty or my truth. That's probably the only thing about me that's even remotely charming. I'm virtually unemployable, I am somewhere on the range of being, at least according to several tests I've done, this is a self diagnosis, bipolar. I really am not good with authority. As far as you were talking about with the marijuana before and you never having tried it before you play pinball, I've never tried pinball sober. Today I got up at 450. Now today I didn't have any because I had to drive and I never ever ever would do that while I'm driving. I just I won't have any marijuana, I won't have any beer, I just I don't roll like that, I have kids and other people, it's just not a safe thing to do. But if I'm off to go play pinball, I almost all the time do it and the main reason for it is because I just simply enjoy pinball. J.F. You've just explained why you like Ghostbusters. J.F. No, I like Ghostbusters because the artwork and the colours are awesome. J.F. Bullshit. You're high as a kite. J.F. Yeah. J.F. So I guess the question I want to ask then is, do you find that it helps you play better and why would it help you play better? J.F. I think that it's very similar to beer. And this is the same thing with darts or playing billiards or probably almost anything. You have that range between like, I don't know, depending on how often you drink, three drinks to six drinks where you're like, wow, I think I'm a little more confident, you know, I'm a little bit more calm. It definitely calms me down. I can, if I'm at home playing and I have to go to work or something later, I will get mad at the machine and throw it and get angry and scream horrible things. If I've had a little bit of marijuana, I am calm as a peanut. I don't care. I just do little gentle nudges. I am more afraid of the ball going down because I don't want to get ashamed I don't even care. Like if I'm playing pinball, if I go play pinball first thing in the morning, it doesn't even, you know, I do think it helps you zone in a little bit. It does help you get inside your own head and, you know, kind of bubble out everything else. But it's the identical to people who probably, I typically only drink on the weekends and it's kind of the same thing, right? Like for other people, I know that they drink more often, but I played pinball sober and I enjoy it. I still think it's really fun. I just know tournament wise for me, all the times I've done very well, I've either I've never been in the range of, you know, three to five beers and a little bit of marijuana or just sometimes marijuana if I'm driving, of course. And I don't know, I just enjoy it better. I guess the problem is I just, I do it all the time. So why would I not do it while I'm playing pinball, right? No, I understand that. And I guess the parallel for me, obviously, gin related, probably the one of the most enjoyable tournaments where I did actually really well was the Australian Championship Series in Adelaide. And what I managed to do was Marty Papadiuk, Black Water, person's name or role at Stern Pinballedsiębior, person's name or title or abbreviation for Retro Atconomic Sam Durcelski Stop part of company bz I'm not pointingfingers at anywhere, but, you know, there are places around the world where pot is legal and has a lot of value. The country of Canada? Uh, hmm, I wonder if there's a coincidence to all the amazing players in Colorado. That's a state that's had that law for a while. But I'm just saying there might be something to it. Can I just say, I still remember, and you can narrow it down because there hasn't been that many, but there was a tournament that I went to, a very large tournament in California. And I was just really surprised. Obviously I come from a country where it's completely illegal. And I just remember walking around saying, isn't that marijuana? It was everywhere. Were you wearing your narc hat again, Marty? No, obviously I just went, this is a bit bizarre, but obviously it's legalized. But that's just very alien to me. Yeah. I mean, my main thing is I don't want people to mistake me. I think you need to wait until you're of legal age in the country that you're in or wait until you're I'm not going to say that's the only way you can play because I know there's a lot of people who, you know, they need their caffeine to play. They bring two or three pops or they bring up an extra large coffee or they're a teetotaler, right? Cole Levanduski Karl De alredes It's not like you can avoid it, come on, to be honest. So, are you going to get back to anything else other than Yegpin? I know you have a lot of fans all across Canada, definitely the States, probably outside as well. I mean, you've been doing the podcast for a long time. Thank you. I will say one of the things that really got me excited to continue to do it, Jeff, was that you, and if you want to take this out, I'm totally okay with that. I'm not a professional comedian. Yep. Yep. You know on the planet and here you are listening to me just wax poetic or at least I'm trying to from time to time and I Actually think of all the podcasts I've done. I've done like a good solid dozen that are like clean neat tidy I'm going to be a little bit more stoic and a little bit more calm and add in a little bit less day-to-day, a little bit more about pinball. I'm also just going to record whenever I want to. I was dealing with, unfortunately, my head cock, Larry, passed away. He was the only male left in our chicken flock and he unfortunately, he had a foot thing. It doesn't matter. I was a little bit nervous, but I was going to be back with a new show. I just said to Daniel, I said, anytime I don't feel like doing a show, I won't do a show. Now that being said, part of my plan, I don't want to use your show here to, you know, give you guys spill the tea per se, but I might as well because you've got a much bigger audience than me. At Show 500 I wanted to and still would like to, which is 8 away, I would like to switch over to doing video. Now that being said, I might even revert to doing some audio and still some video because I think a lot of what I do is actually way more entertaining. Like when I'm taking you guys quite often on the Pinball Nerds Podcast, I'll bring the phone with me and not even record through the snowball and you can hear me walking through the mud getting the maple sap or you can hear me You can hear all the bees around me or you can hear me with the goats and that stuff would look so good visually and it would stick around. I think it would have longer staying power on YouTube. Now, that being said, video content you have to edit. Video content you have to worry about way more things than with a podcast in many ways especially the way that I've podcast but that being said, I think I'm ready to take the jump. My son's done some video editing and I would like to give it a try but very worst case scenario. Thank you Elon Musk. We're going to get Starlink and I will be able to livestream pinball someday again. So in the next, I've said this before, but the next year I would really like to purchase my first new in box pinball machine. Don't know what it's going to be yet. Mind you, I will tell you that if for some reason it was Back to the Future, that would be really cool. Now, I could only ever afford a pro probably, but geez, I mean, now there's also the most beautiful machine ever made, Centaur. I don't know. They might be remaking this or something. I don't know, so there's, you know, there's options out there. There's options out there. My money is not locked into anywhere yet. I would buy a remake of Centaur in a heartbeat. I think that is an absolutely gorge machine. If they ever did a 2.0 code, which seems to be the hot thing. Just saying, Marty, I'm putting my vote in. I'm out of it. I don't know what you're talking about. Nope. Anyway, you got two sales right there. Just pass along, Damien, if that's ever in the books. But just to put things into perspective here, to do this podcast tonight, which we're doing across Skype, Albert had to email every single person in Nova Scotia and ask them to be offline for an hour just so this broadcast could happen. That's the dedication that he has to pinball podcasting. We do appreciate it. And you're humble about your podcasts, but 500, I mean, that's a big, big deal. And I do enjoy the variety. I enjoy the fact that how do you come up with 500 different topics as a solo host? You know, whatever I do on I've got somebody with me. It's not me by myself. You are, for most of them, by yourself. That's pretty incredible. Well, thank you so much, Jeff. I had absolutely no clue I would get to that many. It's, like I said, it started kind of as a joke. The only thing that keeps me going is getting feedback. You know, Tim the Lion Man, Lee, one of my fellow tribe members there in the Poor Men's Pinball tribe, Glenn the Skateboarder, those guys, sometimes they, I think they're going to give up on me. Sometimes they'll message me every day for a week and I won't, I won't be able to get them to come back. Ad京 isso I'll be honest, I only got about 150 to 250 listens, especially if I wasn't doing an interview. And that being said, you know, you're releasing several times a week, it's probably okay. But those people who did listen, they listened very intently. And I could look at my stats on the podcast app Anchor that I use, and it would show me that like, you know, some episodes when I started wandering off too far from pinball, yes, they would tag off, but quite often, people stuck it right out to the end. I haven't listened, I've maybe listened to about 20 of them and I'm not suggesting people go back and listen to any of them but that being said the 20 that I thought that were the most negative I deleted all in one fell swoop and got rid of them so I think like everything up to about episode wherever they are now is fine it's they're okay but my favorite thing to do is to do like what I got to do with you Jeff on pinball profile a couple years and chat like this or with any of the other you know my podcasting buddies or even if we're not recording on Just shoot the Shats with David Dennis at a pinball tournament or Tom McArthur, our awesome tournament director. My favorite thing about Yagpin is, again, some people say you can't go to a pinball tournament, play the tournament and enjoy your time there. Bull crap. You can go to a pinball tournament, play in the tournament, do well and have a great time catching up with people. It's more challenging of course if you're in like a whopper farm with like nine tournaments, but you can do it and I think Jeff you're a good example of that. You go to a lot of these tournaments and I hear you, you know, you get to catch up with a lot of these people when you go to the tournaments and I'm a little jealous. Probably Martin is too. He's sitting there going, geez, it'd be nice if we could, so hopefully I get to meet Marty at, I don't know, maybe TPF or Indus next year or something like that, wherever you go. And Jeff, you'll be at every pinball tournament I possibly ever come to. Everyone. Everyone. Single one. Orby, we will catch you on Pinball Nerds coming up to 500, maybe a video show. Don't let David Dennis beat you again. Come on, man. That's just a no-no. David Dennis, you will never beat me again. Good. Take that. I'm just kidding. I will say this. The line that I wanted to say, the only line I thought of saying tonight I didn't say at the start, and I should have, was that when you guys messaged me to be on the final round, I honestly was more surprised than if Christopher Franchi and Gary Stern pulled up right now in a DeLorean C Bar),pin, and gave me a Back to the Future LE one of one, Orbeez special, it's way out there. You know, like I'm telling you because I'm thinking of the caliber guests that you guys have on there and I just didn't think that in a million years you guys would, you know, want to have me on the show. So thank you so much. And you know, after I was on TPN before, so I wasn't 100% sure if I would be welcomed back. So, and I was and I really appreciate it. John Papadiuk, Black Water, Personnalist, and Interpreter, SpookyPinballTextile.com Come on. You guys rock. John Papadiuk, Black Water, Personnalist, and Interpreter, SpookyPinballTextile.com Hold on a second. Hey Marty, we're not cutting this out.