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

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

Analysis

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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 Pinballcompany LionsgatecompanyUniversal ParkscompanyKansas City ChiefsorganizationThe Pinball ShoworganizationVanguardcompany

Signals

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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'
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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'
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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
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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
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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

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 projective and uh 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 to take outside at the pool and uh 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 uh 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 suit 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 i uh 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 you and then you hang it have you hung a projector no no I don 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 so i had to do a bracket around the heating and air ducts then mount it and then cut the cut the uh 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 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, 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 i don't know if i'll use it that much so let's just you know the wish.com let's just let's 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 to to tighten up the so uh so i mounted 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 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 uh we we broken in last night watching a a children's film it wasn't crude's too but it was a it was a nice film and i don't know what we're gonna watch tonight but i yeah i i got the the whole 4k it it turned out pretty damn nice and at the end of it because nicole went shopping uh with with my mother and the girls that went shopping yesterday And I finished it all up set the ambiance didn 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.

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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 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 it so it so cold loud and no it's it's pricey it's loud it's have you've 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 i don't 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 uh big executive lionsgate and 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 uh who listened to us is and you know they listened to the show uh real big uh 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 his 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 the 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