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SDTM Episode 78: LIVE This Or That/TWIP & SDTM Expo Seminar/NEW SDTM Segment

Straight Down the Middle·video·48m 59s·analyzed·Nov 8, 2018
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TL;DR

SDTM hosts discuss show history, interview TWIP founder, and conduct live audience pinball preference polls.

Summary

SDTM Episode 78 features co-hosts discussing the origins and format of Straight Down the Middle, an in-depth interview with This Week in Pinball founder Jeff Patterson about TWIP's mission and the Twippies awards, and a live audience "This or That" segment where hosts and attendees choose between pairs of pinball machines. The episode showcases community engagement through audience participation and prize giveaways.

Key Claims

  • Straight Down the Middle started when Zach Sharp suggested they compile their frequent pinball phone conversations into content.

    high confidence · Jon describes meeting Zach Sharp on Craigslist when shopping for pinball machines, eventually leading to weekly conversations that Sharp suggested should become a show.

  • SDTM produces machine reviews, top ten lists, exclusives, interviews, and a new 'Face-Off' segment where hosts play pinball with consequences.

    high confidence · Jon and Greg systematically describe their content format including Face-Off segment where loser receives physical consequence.

  • This Week in Pinball started when Jeff Patterson compiled highlights from pinball content across multiple platforms into a single newsletter.

    high confidence · Jeff Patterson explains the genesis: 'I was getting on an airplane...and had 15 podcasts, a bunch of posts on Pinside, YouTube videos...and I thought it would be really nice if somebody compiled all the highlights.'

  • The Twippies awards will have a formal committee including Collin McAlpine and others to improve objectivity and verification.

    high confidence · Jeff states: 'we got a Twiggy Committee, and we've got some of the like well-respected people in the industry' and mentions Collin McAlpine as part of the committee.

  • Last year's Twippies awards included categories for Best Theme (Star Wars), Theme Integration (Dialed In), Best Artwork (Aerosmith), Best Code/Rules (Dialed In), Toys (Medieval Madness), and Playfield Layout/Gameplay (Dialed In).

    high confidence · Jeff presents detailed results from last year's Twippies ceremony with specific game winners listed.

Notable Quotes

  • “My wife makes fun of me a little bit and says that Zach Sharp is my internet boyfriend because I've met him on Craigslist.”

    Jon@ 1:21 — Humorous introduction of how co-hosts met and began their friendship.

  • “The stuff that we're talking about, it's kind of funny and it's kind of good. There's no reason that we shouldn't be getting this content together and putting it out there.”

    Zach Sharp@ 2:41 — Zach Sharp's pitch that led to creation of SDTM show.

  • “I was getting on an airplane to go start catching up on pinball stuff and had 15 podcasts, a bunch of posts on Pinside, YouTube videos...I thought it would be really nice if somebody compiled all the highlights.”

    Jeff Patterson@ 12:31 — Explains the direct inspiration for creating This Week in Pinball newsletter.

  • “It slowly grew, and it kind of became competitive. By the time voting took place, and we had a great turnout on Twitch. And I think that it's snowballed very quickly into something that people actually became proud of to get an award.”

    Jon@ 22:02 — Demonstrates how the Twippies awards gained legitimacy and community investment over time.

  • “Straight Down The Middle: a pinball show does not condone domestic violence, but smacking a friend was really, really—we do condone that.”

    Greg Bone@ 10:23 — Humorous disclaimer about the Face-Off segment's physical consequence rules.

Entities

Straight Down the MiddleorganizationThis Week in PinballorganizationZach SharppersonJeff PattersonpersonGreg BonepersonTwippieseventFlip N Out Pinballcompany

Signals

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    business_signal: SDTM show funded through merchandise sales and audience donations, enabling equipment upgrades and production quality improvements.

    high · Jon: 'most of that's thanks to...our fans who have bought shirts and supported us with donations...given us the ability...to finally buy better equipment.'

  • ?

    community_signal: Live audience participation in This or That segment with t-shirt prizes, showing SDTM's direct community interaction model.

    high · Multiple instances of audience members standing to explain choices and receiving SDTM merchandise prizes.

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    sentiment_shift: Audience strongly divided on Houdini vs. The Hobbit This or That, with both games receiving substantial support despite or because of mixed historical reception.

    medium · Hosts note both machines 'get a bad rap' but also 'people love both of these machines,' audience vote shows significant hands for both options.

  • ?

    community_signal: Multiple pinball media outlets (SDTM, TWIP, others) collaborating and cross-promoting, indicating healthy ecosystem.

    high · SDTM and TWIP hosts discussing joint initiatives, Jeff mentioning manufacturers are taking Twippies seriously now.

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Hosts identify specific gameplay issues with Deadpool: katana ramp not registering reliable shots, right orbit getting stuck, loop shot mechanics concerns.

    high · Greg: 'if I nail them that they don't register' and 'right orbit sometimes gets caught up and comes back in the shoe' for Deadpool; contrasts with Houdini's reliable inside orbit.

Topics

SDTM show format and content typesprimaryThis Week in Pinball newsletter and podcastprimaryTwippies awards 2025 planning and committeeprimaryLive audience This or That machine comparison pollsprimaryFace-Off competitive segment and consequencessecondaryPinball content creator ecosystem and media landscapesecondaryMachine reviews and rating rubricssecondaryManufacturer-media relationships and exclusive accessmentioned

Sentiment

positive(0.85)— Episode demonstrates enthusiasm for pinball community, positive relationships between media figures, and constructive engagement with audience. Tone is friendly, celebratory of community contributions, and collaborative. Minor self-deprecating humor but no significant criticism or negativity.

Transcript

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on there and I just gotten in the pinball so I was still really I'm still there god I can't say that I was leery things I'm still leery of anything I've I've but so I was kicking the tires on the game called him to probably two or three times and you know he knew I wasn't gonna buy the game and he ended up coming at me said hey man you know what he's like I'm kind of new to pinball if you ever want to talk about some pins stuff give me a call sometime and so I was just like oh this guy's kind of weird and talked about pinball so month or so later he had a demo man and I saw that on Craigslist and I was like that's the same guy and so we end up talking and we started talking about a couple other games and then one of us would go on a pin run and we've talked about how shitty a pin was but we went to see your how grades will be kids in the audience yes sir yeah cursor and see if Mia Mark if we have you know anything and we just we slowly evolved and started talking about pinball on a weekly basis then it sort of turned into like a daily basis and Zach was like hey man you know what he's like the stuff that we're talking about it's kind of funny and it's kind of good he's like there's no reason that we shouldn't be getting this content together and putting it out there kind of you know exposing the world to for better or worse and at the time everything was kind of serious it was the start the show with more of a serious note and then our personalities kind of took over well we knew we wouldn't be able to be as serious as the good guys like pop our Buffalo pinball all right yeah no we gave up quickly yeah we're also players so we just we literally had evolved into how we were on the phone and our our true personalities took over and it was kind of the birth of straight down the middle and we got together yes sir oh can we can we still that this is another t-shirt yeah so that's basically the birth of straight down the middle I mean that's how we got started we just and we've become really good friends and we got started based on our true personalities you kicking the tires on every damn pinball machine on Craigslist and then me loving to talk to any and everybody that loves pinball and giving my opinion on everything pinball so that wasn't wanted that's how we start so then we started the show the first ones if you guys aren't familiar it's a YouTube show it's on you can type in SD T and pinball you'll find all of our videos the first ones were a little rough so excuse us on what 1 through 2030 yeah it's we our age really showed which we're still young guys but we fell on me out of the loop because most of our difficulties were technology getting the sound right lighting and everything and acoustics we're in the garage yeah coats so here literally in the last month out of two years we've probably started to solidify the sound and lighting and camera work and stuff a little better but most that's thanks to you know all of our fans have bought shirts and it supported us with donations and stuff that's given us the ability to do things like come here and to finally buy better equipment to bring a lot better because one of the things about Greg that many of you know some of you might not is that he is a thrifty little guy and he does not like spending money if he doesn't so when we started this he said cuz I was like okay I'm gonna buy this I'm gonna buy this studio thing I'm gonna buy this and he was like no absolutely not if we're gonna do this we're doing it on a low budget because you're gonna spend too much money I'm gonna feel bad for not spending any money cuz I won't so we had to do it on a shoestring budget and then we started getting t-shirts you guys have been wonderful I see a beautiful SDTM t-shirt right there thank you uh thank you so that kind of stuff helped us upgrade equipment and we continued to try to grow and improve that don't we yeah and they me even with editing everything I mean we've grown a lot as a show just with Zach's editing and everything else just again to try to bring the best pinball content that we can within the reviews top tens interviews you know we try to bring a plethora of stuff to the pinball world you guys might my formatting was so good on this PowerPoint I promise you look like this that's okay all right so what what the straight down the middle do the videos themselves are composed of different types of discussion points so some of our videos will be machine reviews where we try to review the newest machines that come out from Stern Jersey Jack spooky etc so we'll do those we even dive down into the 90s right because I pick up usually whatever I pick up will review those we review based on a number of different categories you know art toys and mags animation sound all different types of things we give them a letter grade so a rubric if you will from a plus all the way down to an F we haven't been given an F for anything no no I don't think so we'll do that and then we compose a cumulative score at the very end and then that score is taken and it's compared with all the other pinball machines for reference points so that's our machine reviews wheel mine is Indiana Jones pinball adventure that was a 4.0 for me I think Indies mine too yeah I don't know if it's a four but you it's not about here's my top so that was there we do hope you guys agree with us so it's not a perfect system but it's fun top ten list we do those as well where we come up with maybe something like top ten ramps and then we list out what our favorite top ten ramps are we'll do things like top ten code top ten back laps just you guys can think of the number of things that you can rank top tens for and pinball the good thing about that is objective it's just our subjective response and ideas about what makes pinball what it is and put it in the top ten list but the nice thing is that everybody collaborates all ever all of you viewers we talk on Facebook we talk on Pinza we talk on YouTube so it starts a nice discussion as to what other people's favorite top 10s are and it's it's nice little sub form that we have in YouTube and on pin side so that's fun exclusives we try to do as much exclusive stuff as we can and as much as manufacturers will allow us to do we just did the Oktoberfest a nice deep dive into the mechanics and Josh Kubler was nice enough to meet with us before that reveals so we could edit a video for you guys so if you want to check that out check out Oktoberfest pinball on tap the inside and out of that we also do first impressions these are you know Deadpool comes out then in Greg and I hop in front of the camera and we give you our first impressions on what we think about things like the art everything that we can't play yet cuz whenever they announce things we can't play we do interviews interviews with local coin op people collectors a lot of you guys or if you're like me I like to hear what other collectors like and what their machines are and what their collections look like and why they like Lethal Weapon 3 better than medieval madness different things like that so we wouldn't the last one you've done you went to wreck bar didn't you yeah a local 60-63 six more than that now maybe 67 68 machines on route they're pretty nice place so we like interviewing people like you that's our favorite we do a face-off that's our new segment where everybody kept saying we want to see you guys actually play pinball and you talk about it way too much so are these guys and you get a playing pinball so our first segment of face-off was on Houdini a couple weeks ago wasn't it yeah so the premise of it best of three series we play and then the loser gets a nasty little consequence Greg tell them what that consequence was it was a nice smack to the face it was and who received that one great it was me well I thought I had it in the bag I pulled out a six million points and out of nowhere that comes in with ten million that's ten million I don't think there's anybody in this room that wouldn't think that it's six million dollars or six million good that you're said that you don't have anything to worry about you're the one doing the smacking not receiving the smack but I was wrong how'd the smack feel pretty good you would think a friend would take it easy a pretty hard enough he did people had to feel the slap right you can't just slap your friend does anybody else slap their friend hand around behind of applause around who who has slapped a friend before right so you don't get to do that too often so oh we don't straight down the middle does not condone and domestic violence but smacking a friend was really really we do condoning that so that was that was a lot of fun you guys you see that in slow motion as well as a repetitive replay where if we do it over and over again depending always it's called face off so the face gets slow but we might give me a crate if I don't know and then we do a segment that fan favorites called this or that where we throw up two pins usually submitted from you guys the audience on would you I'm thinking about getting rid of my meat medieval madness and I'm thinking about get a monster bash with this or that what would you guys take medieval madness or monster bash so we'll decide that they've become really unique and clever the way that people present some of those so they'll say well I've got four dead at East would you do that or would you take the brand new jersey jack Pirates of the Caribbean because they're you know similar money-wise so we'll pick things like that then it's got even more creative where people ask us boxers or briefs you guys what would you do there we start getting really weird questions and we really yeah it's kind of hot but we're like well let's go with it my role with this that's right and we're gonna see that segment later on and you guys will be able to win some prizes if you if you participate in that so that is basically what straight down the middle is and now this wonderful man gets to talk about his uh his pinball likely be something about Harry Potter yes this weekend pinball started I was getting an airplane to go start catching up on pinball stuff and had 15 you know podcast a bunch of posts on pin side YouTube videos you know twitch streams to watch Facebook Twitter yeah I was watching your stuff perfect and I thought it would be really nice if somebody compiled all the highlights include just something was easy to read something easy to read and it's kind of how this weekend pinball of the board show of hands does anybody read this week in pinball look at Jeff that's gotta make you feel great there yeah it was always great when Jeff got started because we didn't really know Jeff but Jeff probably lived about an hour me and Zach loved about an hour and a half apart and Jeff lives about an hour and a half in the other direction from each of us and I think Zach and Jeff had traded some machines at one point once or twice so we knew of him but we didn't know him and he was one of the first people to write us about our show when it started and then out of nowhere Jeff comes up with this weekend pinball which became another major player in in pinball and content the new stuff what is a twit I actually when I first launched it I got some private messages people saying you know you you ripped this off this weekend baseball is on if you google twitch is twip it's like this week on photography this weekend assuming there's a guy this week in everything goals of this weekend pinball for me like I said to have fun I want to help a lot of people has helped me out in this hobby is my can I slowly get back in that way I've made some mistakes with the site that's gonna happen but hopefully you know it's having an overall positive impact look all right let's see what else we got for him you say like a dentist oh no don't worry about the baby oh this is what I'm excited about yeah this weekend football podcast so at least when I started this weekend people I always wanted to do a podcast but at that point I thought I'd be spending about two or three hours on this we can have all week and it's spiraled from there can you get the people just an estimation of you guys are familiar with this Monday post right there so big the 90 splits in Monday and Tuesday about how long does it take you to compile all the news write it up and put it in a website for Monday and Tuesday Twitter just so they can understand a little bit every day sorry not tell them about the beautiful podcast yeah that's right so we started a podcast I've been talking to Zach about it for quite a while then I want to start a podcast and we started we did I think two episodes and I said then you're quit I don't have enough time to do this what's sad just podcast so then I finally because I wanted to to be a weekly podcast it's literally called this weekend and also I learned it to be weekly this by wiggling boom-boom would work yes anyway so he telling me to find some hosts talk back into taking over being the main host and reluctantly that's right but he's done an awesome job with it we got some some of our different segments here hmm demo market trends can fan-favorite right you should probably know it the way that you okay everybody pen by market trans the sin of the seminar does he might listen to this week and pinball podcast okay very nice see by like pinball market trends about how it goes yeah it's a running joke yeah I actually had a guy trying to sell a game and I got actually threw that up there in my face last week okay well Star Wars according to pinball market trends is training up yes we it's trending down so I really close we also do confessions right at the end of the episode where the guest host and myself tell everybody about a confession that they have it could be a dirty dark little secret personally or about pinball pinball related I'm running out of confessions man I have nothing no nothing I'm gonna do this subconscious that's another one yeah as well as show me yours and I'll show you mine Jeffrey that one is so basically we hear a lot of things right and on that segment I give like a little tidbit of upcoming pinball stuff that I know that the public does not know and the co-host tries to come up with the same but a bigger boom if you will or a bigger reveal or you know I talked about something on lobster bash le that was coming out we saw that yeah so we just go this is I love this the Twiggy Awards how many of you have heard of it for the awards oh that makes me feel good there yeah so these started last year and they are their end-of-the-year pinball awards and we will start them up while we've been working on them already yep the voting will start in December and what we'll do is we'll do a live show like Twiggy award show in January and that was a what am I and make might have been my favorite part of doing the website last year was the the Twiggy of Ellen so fun it was it was a blast let me up just some of the results from last year best theme went to Star Wars no theme integration dial in sound and call outs total nuclear annihilation no clear and we're uh next year we're gonna separate out the best sound and call outs best artwork went to Aerosmith I voted for guardians of the galaxy best code of rules with the dial-in light show what's a bad yeah Star Wars was so good toys it was great yeah I was up there mm-hmm - toys and gimmicks dialing yeah play field layout in game play also died of a displaying animations dial dial dial then took that home last year in the year dialed in and it was a close with TNA so let me go back to this here that's a great question so this year were we've got a twit committee and we've got some of the like well-respected people in the industry and we're gonna talk to them about that about which should be which games should be included and shouldn't be included and just get their advice on a lot of things they're gonna go through and verify the votes at the end next people are saying oh you could have skewed the votes and yeah that was a pin sighted by the way is it sound like a pencil but but you know what was great about the twiggy's when JEB the first announced it Zack had called me music you know we should we should stream these live we should make this and it was gonna be a website thing yeah and Zack pitched it hard and continue to pitch it to Jeff and again Jack Jeff was very reluctant to work with us he's very reluctant with me in general yeah but and it was kind of funny because you know I think it started off as a joke to a lot of people but and a lot of manufacturers that nobody really wouldn't take it serious and I don't know how serious that that me and Zack took it I don't know about Jeff it was his baby so I'm sure he was taking it very seriously but then as time went on it seemed like that people started kind of pushing themselves and their games on people you know people start taking a serious you started seeing other podcasters and everybody kind of hey you vote for me yeah and it's slowly grew and it kind of became competitive by the time voting took place and we had a great turnout on Twitch a lot of throats yeah lots of votes and I think that it's snowballed very quickly into something that people actually became proud of to get an award last year and I think this year's gonna be ten times that got the niece's house and they were gonna have a Twitter party yeah like an awesome party you're gonna stream after that yeah Mr dangers are gonna award we're gonna have some more categories next year like I said we're gonna separate out of this one sound and call outs thats the pinball show it's gonna be one that's got up for discussion no it's already started make sure you guys like I said some better ideas well we solidified the committee well I'll wait to announce that until what yeah these people are willing to sit here and listen to this yeah okay tge on pin side and Collin Colin MacAlpine is the other woman all right and then we've got a guy that because they will heading and he is he helps me with some website stuff and he's gonna help us with kind of getting the boat set up on the website in the best way that way there's other people that are overseeing we want to make this as objective as possible we want to be able to give you the pinball award show each and every year so to do that we needed a little bit more help objectivity there yeah and sponsors right hopefully we can get some sponsors this year had a hopefully there so I think it at this point does anybody have any suggestions or what they would like to see on the Twiggs whether it's this year or subsequent years anything that as you guys watch the twiki's last year or think about pinball awards in general anything you'd like to see go ahead so best on location pinball that's interesting that is interesting anything else we did that deem good really if you guys have any suggestions you can always email jeff here at this weekend pinball at gmail.com yes yeah terrific thank you thank you for that suggestion marco specialties same-day shipping accessible website exceptional customer service and with over 50,000 different pinball parts in stock marco specialties is a must for every pinball enthusiast operator reach your pinball machine right by visiting Marco speck calm now crewman brass at black nickel at King dick Roman powder-coated the possibilities are endless at pinball play to calm your pinball machine deserves the best at comet pinball you'll find the best variety of LED products with the best quality LEDs and most importantly at the best price your collection is begging for an upgrade order yours now at comet Inbal calm and in great SDTM fashion zack forgot our memory card so we couldn't record it for YouTube but this happens every time we record we forget something something messes that so let's play some this or that does anybody up for some this or that okay that's a good fairy all right so oh okay so here's here's how it goes Greg this or that you're gonna go for the new monster bash remake or American pinball's Oktoberfest ooh tricky one there so we've got the tried and true the classic and Monster Bash remake will call that let's see what's we don't know what Oktoberfest is gonna run money-wise Dewey I'll say it's similar to is that right thank you okay so if it's around 7,000 you're close to a monster bash Ellie likely I don't know what the pricing is on that but so we'll say it's an Ellie I like the topper on monster bash I love the expanded display I love what they did with the lighting but I think that I would are you about to go October but I think I'd have to go Oktoberfest I've played played a lot of monster bash I want to try something new and I'm super intrigued by the corkscrew everyday show of hands anybody played Oktoberfest yet okay it's gonna I think it's gonna be out there all weekend right I think so I'm gonna go oh man now we're live this is not like that where you can just set there I'm gonna go Oktoberfest because and here's why it may not be the better game here guys Monster Bash it's a classic for a reason maybe even I think it's hard to say that Oktoberfest is gonna be a better objective game than - right but I want to play something new and right now new is Oktoberfest so as a show of hands this or that everybody who's gonna pick Monster Bash remake le okay okay and who's going with Oktoberfest by American pinball what's it you could get both yeah well we can't go both we tried to go both one time and we got about too much back one they fix us go both everybody it looks like I'm thinking visually monster bash on that one right I think all right and then where's our okay for a t-shirt would anybody be willing to stand up and explain their reasoning of why they would go one or the other free t-shirt go ahead you know what's your name thank you nice to meet you so which one which one you go you will send monster bad they did supposed to work supposed to work on this one okay fair enough fair enough what size shirt are you buddy okay any any arguments there what size what size shirt are you okay and if you guys are you can come afterwards if you want to you don't you know say your size I'd be fair here this or that everybody oh so here's the deal on this one last this or that that we had we we had Houdini or Hobbit Greg and I are fans of both pretty big fans of both yes and we couldn't pick we said we did the day fix thing we said both and first well you never know that oh boy did we get some kickback for that we got some heat for it people said all right guys come on you were the one who said that in our in our comics I bet you that's right you got private emails on that one yeah you're compromising the segment by picking both okay so we've got a pic we've got a pic actually you know what hold up oh yeah this is that poor Jeff what are we doing here Jeff I'm also okay the Monster Mash all the rebates the displays about it okay nice so Greg let's figure this out but which one you go yeah I recently got a Houdini in the house and after Zach had always told me we always loved the game from the start and Zach you know just but Zach was head over heels about it like he has anything we got up on it in stadium lights you know he goes all in so I'm pretty solid on Houdini at this point it's got some speed okay everything is time okay this is gonna get hatred but it's only two machines that's kind of get a bad rap to kind of get a bad rap a lot of people hate both these machines I'll let people love both of these machines so you're going to Dini I do Dini I think I'm gonna go Hobbit here Hobbit because it's Jean I can't say stamp actor Dinis jam-packed it's beautiful I can't say that sure Dean is beautiful this this I'm gonna go Hobbit because it's just a beast and it's a monster and it's the prettiest thing in the room ever everything for live like you said they're both they're both and there's thirty one mode yeah how about that two of the most beautiful pins you can have in your home honestly okay sure let's get with you first before show of hands here Hobbit or Houdini imagine the messages we got right these are nice people in front of you I mean there's no perfect machine I love the journey of it new code nuclear back again yeah right so I love you Jean YouTube I would go without it so by show of hands we mixed it in here and those who are going Hobbit of zag fans out there I think that's when I saw some two handers out there oh oh the independent vote okay so with it with a hand who to tell us oh yeah let's go up your your call I'm not gonna get in I think here's we'll do both up yeah well do both you guys okay how great is that nice let's go we'll go with you yeah that's a good point very good point but you can make them tight by final all right okay okay oh how dare you just sit down ridiculous it's a really good point JP Ford to win right yeah okay yeah I can agree with all those very nice Ramos all right moving on okay let's make this a little quick one cuz I got a new little blister that segment I'm throwing you haven't done you do get the money so this one is Deadpool Pro and because it is cheaper substantially than Houdini you're gonna get Deadpool Pro crust some cash we'll see what's Deadpool so you get about Oh thousand fifteen hundred bucks in cash plus Deadpool pro or Houdini Gregory from the start I was never a big fan of Deadpool even though I did play one that was set up a little better I played the I finally got to play a premium here I guess it was the premium guest premium belly and it actually did it played and flowed a lot better than the both the pros that I played but I still just not a big fan of it I know it's still sore some of the early code I know that they are expanding that code and expanding some modes and stuff on it but and normally I am that you're about to go that night one and I'm normally the one that if I get a little cash on top or I get two machines for one I go that route but I'm still gonna have to go Wow Wow okay I'll make it short and sweet I'm gonna go Houdini dare I say that Houdini actually shoots better than Deadpool tomatoes yeah right does anybody agree that the Houdini shoots better than Deadpool I'm gonna get a couple I've got one but he didn't want it but he didn't wanna be seen they're scared what's that No now I could I can hit the inside orbit of Houdini a heck of a lot easier than that katana Rancho I got just hang in I agree I have a feeling the audience won't so it'll be okay yeah I'm not beautiful beautiful there's a lot I like about it I like animation animation music scream I it's a pet peeve of mine when there are shots that if I nail them that they don't register or don't because I'm not good enough of a player to actually make the shot I was trying to make it not have it complete the shot mm-hmm then both of these pins are gonna yes I say because you kind of get into uh yeah not the key link with Deadpool there's a few more the long reign of the one that I played the right orbit sometimes gets caught up and comes back in the shoe Irwin yeah and then the little loop shot which I like the idea that shot the one and I'm I think that one may have been a set up issue because I've heard a lot of people say that that works for the one that they're playing show of hands everybody Deadpool Pro Plus 1500 cash Oh surprisingly lower than I thought okay oh yeah absolutely yeah we both of them one may be a pinball machines are especially the cabinet really really built well yeah yep yep that's I told Joe balsa I'm not yeah I don't like that give me my father's very good point very good point okay we're gonna skip through a couple of these we've got a new part a new little segment you've never heard of this one okay so this was submitted and then real quick I wanted to thank Travis Lancaster he's the one who submitted Deadpool Pro Plus cash or Houdini on our youtube so Thank You Travis all right so this is from a boy goes by a yellow bird on pin side he goes by troublemakers sweet super sexy Dave from the Mod couple I think he's out there right look there he is so did he give you this idea he gave me this idea his first word started with an F but it didn't end in lean so I made it a little more PC and we're gonna call this fling marry or kill so out of these three you've got a big one just for little Oh playing this one overnight right you get to pick one this year Oh bolted to the floor and you get a pick one that you get to Todd tucky off the building kill it so great this was Mary or kill me okay Star Wars is even though I actually just put mine up for sale I haven't sold it yet so I'm thinking about pulling that but it would be my Mary pin man I've been really enjoying a lot of aspects of that pant even I was hard on it and circus Voltaire is just not deep enough for me so circus Voltaire's my kill see Dave knows us very well because I am in love with all three of these machines totally in love I'm gonna go for time purposes but they all found out about each other you get to choose I can't kill Voltaire but I guess I'm gonna kill killing Voltaire until they remarry Star Wars Star Wars okay okay so there's that there's that okay all right I know which one I'm gonna kill all right this one's tough I'm killing Deadpool love you Deadpool our home ago me love Jorge Gomez but we're gonna kill Deadpool fling and marry we are going to we're gonna marry TNA that's what we're gonna marry you know why cuz I'm never gonna get to reactor 9 it's never gonna happen and then we'll fling around on creature we really we're gonna get tired of the rules and then we're gonna sell I agree with kill Deadpool that was the easiest the next two were a little tougher for me and I think I'd have to change it up on years a little bit I think I'd have a fling with with total okay because again I just even though it's fast it's fun I'm never gonna get to reactor 9 again I plateau on games I'll get to reactor 5 or something and that's probably where I'm gonna be stunned yet with the game and not anything to do with it but it's beautiful and it's it's fantastic so that's more than that thank you very much she deserves more she does a round of applause ta deserve to be married now we're gonna go we're gonna skip this one because this one is way too hard for me Dave that one was that's not nice at all nothing we're not doing that right we'll end it with this one coca-cola or Pepsi thank you hey Darcy Darcy oh here we go that's all we buy double Cola great which one you go in there you don't even drink so much do you know only when I'm going to your house okay which one you going Pepsi thank you Pepsi I'm addicted to Pepsi s why probably why did I put that in there I drink way too minutes because of Margate mortgages okay look they're shears around this week what's that like you know I go through about as many Pepsi's as you do beer I would say that's fair you'll throw a lot of beer show of hands let's go coca-cola here oh I knew it let's go the people that actually know Cola Pepsi okay so we gets marketing just for the fun of it RC RC there's my brother's cheapy over here hey there all right everybody that's any quick questions I know we're running close on time we do appreciate you guys all coming up here also if you guys want to buy a t-shirt catch us in the vendor hole we're gonna be a Penn Stadium booth will be a flipping out pinball booth a little bit of everywhere Greg's the t-shirt guy so get ahold of him he will get you that t-shirts for sale or a little different than the ones we gave out there we go they're the ones we are with the favorite sayings on the back of the show any questions any questions well not really a design it's the logo but I just haven't had time to print them off and soon that's right you see in two 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