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The Pinball Show Ep 159 BONUS 2: Home Theaters & Football

Pinball Show Patreon Feed·podcast_episode·10m 26s·analyzed·Sep 7, 2024
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TL;DR

Host shares home theater DIY project; discusses NFL football season and potential industry listener connections.

Summary

In this bonus Pinball Show Club episode, the host discusses a personal weekend project installing a home theater system in his basement after his son moved out, detailing the DIY challenges of mounting a projector around HVAC ducts and hanging speakers. The conversation then shifts to NFL football season, with discussion of the Kansas City Chiefs' championship prospects, game attendance, and tangential mentions of potential industry connections through listeners (Lionsgate licensing executive, Universal ride engineer).

Key Claims

  • Host recently lost $60,000 with Haggis Pinball

    high confidence · Host directly states: 'You know if you know this, but I did just lose $60,000 with Haggis Pinball. This is post-Haggis fate.'

  • Professional cinema room installation would cost minimum $30,000

    medium confidence · Host estimates to his wife: 'I told her, I'm like, look, that's a $30,000 job. Minimum.'

  • A Lionsgate licensing executive reached out after consuming the show and discussed a pinball deal

    medium confidence · Host states: 'I had somebody from was it from lionsgate uh big executive lionsgate and licensing and stuff reach out um he consumed our show um... he was talking about some kind of pinball deal and stuff like that'

  • A Universal ride engineer for Epic Universe reached out about pinball and was a show listener

    medium confidence · Host mentions: 'I did get somebody reach out and they're an actual ride engineer of the new park they are engineering the ride and they are a consumer of pinball'

  • Kansas City Chiefs did not have most star players participate in preseason games

    high confidence · Host confirms: 'pretty much no they're still trying as of the last game there were still players that hadn't had any preseason game time'

  • The odds of the Chiefs three-peating are very low due to NFL system design

    medium confidence · Host states: 'The odds of us three-peating are very low. I don't know. The system is designed that way.'

Notable Quotes

  • “I did just lose $60,000 with Haggis Pinball. This is post-Haggis fate.”

    Host (Zach Sharpe) @ Not specified — Significant financial loss for the host related to a pinball venture; provides context for his decision to DIY rather than contract work

  • “That's a $30,000 job. Minimum. Like, it's just, that's how much it would be to have a company come in and really make you a cinema room”

    Host (Zach Sharpe) @ Not specified — Cost estimates for professional installation; justifies DIY approach given recent financial loss

  • “For a woman that's not big on compliments, she's more of an action type of person. She'll show me love rather than tell me that I'm worthy or worthwhile. She was like, you know what? This actually looks really good.”

    Host (Zach Sharpe) @ Not specified — Personal anecdote showing wife's approval of DIY home theater project

  • “I had somebody from was it from lionsgate uh big executive lionsgate and licensing and stuff reach out um he consumed our show um... he was talking about some kind of pinball deal”

    Host (Zach Sharpe) @ Not specified — Indication of industry interest in the podcast and potential licensing opportunities for pinball

  • “I did get somebody reach out and they're an actual ride engineer of the new park they are engineering the ride and they are a consumer of pinball”

    Host (Zach Sharpe) @ Not specified — Evidence of cross-industry interest in pinball from theme park sector (Universal Epic Universe)

Entities

Zach SharpepersonNicolepersonHaggis PinballcompanyLionsgatecompanyUniversal ParkscompanyKansas City ChiefsorganizationThe Pinball ShoworganizationVanguardcompany

Signals

  • ?

    business_signal: Host disclosed a $60,000 loss from Haggis Pinball venture, indicating business challenges in pinball sector

    high · Direct statement: 'I did just lose $60,000 with Haggis Pinball'

  • ?

    licensing_signal: Lionsgate licensing executive reached out after consuming The Pinball Show podcast to discuss potential pinball licensing deal

    medium · Host states: 'I had somebody from was it from lionsgate uh big executive lionsgate and licensing and stuff reach out um he consumed our show... he was talking about some kind of pinball deal'

  • ?

    content_signal: Pinball Show podcast attracting listeners from major entertainment companies and specialized industries (theme parks, financial services)

    high · Multiple accounts of high-level listeners from Lionsgate, Universal Parks, and Vanguard reaching out to host

  • ?

    industry_signal: Evidence of theme park industry (Universal Epic Universe) showing interest in pinball content and potential collaboration

    medium · Ride engineer from Epic Universe reached out as show listener; listener network suggesting potential Universal/pinball opportunity

  • ~

    sentiment_shift: Host's recent financial loss affecting discretionary spending decisions (DIY vs. contractor for home theater)

    high · Host explicitly connects $60k loss to decision to DIY home theater project rather than spend $30k+ on professional installation

Topics

Home theater DIY installationprimaryPinball Show listener outreach and industry connectionsprimaryHaggis Pinball financial lossprimaryNFL football season and Kansas City ChiefssecondaryEntertainment/licensing industry interest in pinballsecondaryFamily life and personal projectssecondaryCross-industry collaboration opportunitiesmentioned

Sentiment

mixed(0.55)— Positive sentiment regarding home theater project completion and wife's approval; mixed regarding financial loss from Haggis Pinball and uncertainty about industry connections. Overall tone is humorous and conversational despite setbacks.

Transcript

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Warning, the following episode contains adult language and screaming goats. Listener discretion is advised. Thanks again for the ongoing support as a Pinball Show Club member. Enjoy this exclusive TPS content and make sure to visit the Pinball Show Club Discord to chat about the bonus material. You know what I did do this weekend? What did you do? Over the last two days, my back is hurting, my thighs, everything is hurting on me. You old! Yeah, that too. I had sex. That's all I did. Now everything's broken. Now I—the last two days I've spent probably 20 plus hours creating a home theater area in my basement. So I had a projector, a nice like Sony projector, and I had like a Yamaha—you know, not super nice, but a new Yamaha surround sound—but I've had it sitting there for probably a year and a half, two years, and just never got a mount for the projector. And you know, so they're just like a little pile. I've had it just in a pot, a little pile of that. A couple of times I've taken it outside at the pool and do like movies out there on a big tarp thing. But like, like you do in Indiana, film absolutely—you're sitting in the pool drinking beer and eating barbecue and watching a big old movie. Hell yeah. But um, the tough shed film festival—that's actually, that could catch on. It's not a bad idea. Um, so yeah, I've had it in a pile, and my son moved out last weekend. We took him back to Purdue, got him into an apartment. Um, and I was like, I'm gonna take this space now because he had—we had his overflow bedroom suite and stuff down in the basement. But I'm like, look, he's gone. He's got his own apartment now. He can stay through the summers if he wants to, but if not, like, I saw this last hold of sleep on the couch most of the time and not his bed anyway over the summer while he was here. So we're putting it in storage. Like, I need my basement back. I want a theater room. And quite honestly, like, I'm way too emotional and seeing his bedroom stuff just sit there vacant—it's a trigger for me. Like, I get sad. And I don't want—so yeah, I ended up pulling it all out. Um, I still have to get some more stuff out. But went and I bought a mount for the projector. But then you hang it. Have you hung a projector? No, no. I don't have any sheds. So I have the drop ceiling—real classy—and the ceiling tile's right in the center of where I wanted to mount it. I pull up the ceiling tile. I was hoping for like a floor joist or a stud or something. No, no. It's just heating and air ducts right there. I'm like, shit. So I had to do a bracket around the heating and air ducts, then mount it, and then cut the drop ceiling so that it would—and Nicole the whole time is frustrated because she's like, this is just gonna look ghetto. Like, you're making—like, I know how you work, this is not going to match with her live laugh love signs. Like, she's like, this is—you're not an expert at this. So you, I'm surprised you were doing this yourself. This seems like the sort of thing you would contract. I mean, you contract epoxy floors. Why would you not contract this? Well, yeah, I don't know. Are pinball sales that down? I don't know if you know this, but I did just lose $60,000 with Haggis Pinball. This is post-Haggis fate. You're going to be inflating your above ground pool now. Zach on a budget here. So I was like, I told her, I'm like, look, that's a $30,000 job minimum. Like, it's just—that's how much it would be to have a company come in and really make you a cinema room. And I don't—I don't know if I'll use it that much. So let's just, you know, the wish.com, let's just tough shed this thing. And if we use it for a year, then okay, full Indiana, we'll get another L1 release out, and maybe we can afford to tighten up the—so, uh, so I mounted it all myself, me and my father-in-law, and he's getting up in age, so that's always a treat. And then the next day, I got one of the screens. So you have to put the screen together with the black velvet border and everything, you put that together, hang that, and then the joy of mounting all the speakers onto the ceiling, and then you've got to run all the wiring and the HDMI cords through all this. Oh, it was a pain in the ass. But is it done? It is done. Nice. It is done. We broken in last night watching a children's film. It wasn't Cru D's too, but it was a nice film. And I don't know what we're gonna watch tonight, but yeah, I got the whole 4K. It turned out pretty damn nice. And at the end of it, because Nicole went shopping with my mother and the girls that went shopping yesterday, and I finished it all up, set the ambiance—didn't do any candles or anything, but I really set it there. And I wanted to, you know, kind of gloat, like, I'll show you my budget abilities. And she came in, and Dennis, you know what? For a woman that's not big on compliments, she's more of an action type of person. She'll show me love rather than tell me that I'm worthy or worthwhile. She was like, you know what? This actually looks really good. Oh, my God, melted my little cinematic heart. And 2.85 to one anamorphic widescreen. So where do you watch movies? Do you watch movies at home? In my living room. Is it? How big of a one? You have like a 55, 70 inch? Yes. I don't know how big it is. That's what she said. It's an 80 inch. You went and got one of those big? No, I don't—I don't think it's that because, you know, at a certain point there's too large for how close you sit to it. So I tried to balance based off of where the chairs and couch are. I think it's somewhere in the neighborhood of 60, but I'm not okay—I'm not positive. I'm—we're definitely too close to my screen now, Nick. She was sweet enough not to say anything, but I knew as her eyes were scanning—I'm like, okay, yeah, yeah. If you're having to move your head to see all the parts of the scene, I would love that actually. There actually is a proportion. You can't just say I want the biggest thing that'll fit in the room, and that's what I did. I filled up the whole wall, but it looks fantastic. I can't wait for football. Football starting, Dennis? I know, I know, getting out of—I don't watch preseason. So we're finally getting out of that. Well, because none of the stars on the Chiefs even probably played during preseason? No, well, yeah, pretty much. No, they're still trying. As of the last game, there were still players that hadn't had any preseason game time. It was getting—I mean, it's like, how are you supposed to find out if you make the cut if you don't even get to catch a ball? Exactly. In Kansas City, there was an emerging running back for you guys, wasn't there? Yes. The odds of us three-peating are very low. I don't know. The system is designed that way. A lot of the best players, after getting a ring, other teams can throw a lot of money at them saying, we want you to get us a ring. We'll see. I don't think it'll be a bad season. This is going to be weird for me though, because half the games aren't even on Sunday because we're getting all these prime spots. I think we play every single day except Wednesday this year. You ever ever thought about going to a game? Why not go to a game? Yeah, it's—so it's so cold, loud, and no—it's pricey. It's loud. Have you been though? No. Oh, Dennis, I've never in person attended an NFL game anywhere. Oh wow. Only baseball. I got soccer once. But we need to fix that this year. Well, you know, I keep waiting for the Hunt family to invite me to the booth. Hey, Tay-Tay might invite us. You never know. Yeah, well, you know, we could talk. They might listen to our show. You never know. You know, I'm not—I don't think the Kelsey brothers ever mention us on their show, so I don't think we are high on their playlist. I had somebody from—was it from Lionsgate? Big executive, Lionsgate licensing and stuff, reach out. Um, he consumed our show. Um, I don't know if he's playing, but consumes our show, and he was talking about some kind of pinball deal and stuff like that. But um, I asked him, I was like, holy crap, but um, did you ever come on the show for license—like to discuss licensing stuff? So maybe that's a thing in the future. We do. The uh, one of the nicest non-pinball things I ever had someone who listened to us—and you know, they listened to the show, real big at Vanguard, and they thanked me once for what I had said about index funds on one of them. I think it was on EGP. I was like, yeah, that's right. Yeah, I know a little bit about taking care of my retirement. The index funds compliment from EGP. Yes, praise those index funds. You know, a big Vanguard staple is the index fund. Oh my God, that's fantastic. So yeah, I still haven't got that in for Epic Universe though. Yeah. Haven't drawn that in. I did get somebody reach out, and they were—they're an actual ride engineer of the new park. They are engineering the ride, and they are a consumer of pinball. So they were asking about the deal and stuff like that, and one of our listeners' family to them said, hey, you gotta check out Zach. He'll help you out with the game, but he might be able to hook you up if you hook him up. But that person does not yet have the authority. They don't have like the details on what they're gonna get, any perks or something like that. But um, well, I don't know. Maybe I'm still wanting to go. Who would you go to? Would you—does your dad watch football? Your mom like, who watches? Yeah, yeah, they all do. I didn't know if they were all big followers of the football. If you would go with your—my dad follows pretty, pretty you and your dad would go to the game then? Sure. Oh, nice.