I mean, right off the bat, like once it started, everybody in like like I'll reference the pinball league. Um, especially in the in the beginning of it. Um, because everybody was playing out of people's houses like people would have like a private collection or whatever. Amazing games. Awesome. But like, you know, you can only invite a league full of like beer drinking people to come over to your house and like write off your bathroom so many times a year, you know what I mean? Um, and we would all go to like I remember, man, we went to the casino once to play pinball. [ __ ] wild feeling just like sitting in the corner of a casino playing an AC/DC pinball machine. Like that was one of the only places that had one then. And uh it's the most time I ever spent in a casino. Um, but once this popped off, like like there's a select few of people in the league, but everybody, the reality of it was it was everybody realized the opportunity that we got that we had been working for and everybody just kind of threw everything in my way like they could like an arsenal because they knew that I couldn't do all this uh immediately. So, everybody like so crazy important, man. Like so important. There was games that like are collector's dreams, like stuff that you never some people go to conventions to see and they don't even find them. And uh these people were just like giving them to me to turn a profit on to show that this thing was uh like people cared about it, but more so because they knew that these games had the draw that got them into it. So, they knew if these other if people came in off the street that had never seen a pinball machine or anything before, um they were going to play this game. Um good game specifically that I'm thinking about is Centaur. Um people would play it and people would get like, you know, like that crazy like five ball drop in Centaur, not really have any idea what they're doing, but they would get it. Like whatever the thing is that pulls you into it, it latched on to them and um the community just started to really grow. Whether you were part of the pinball league or whether you just became like a regular to come down there and and play games and shoot the [ __ ] and watch what whatever was on like a tiny TV behind the bar like it just aggressively started to expand more like way bigger than the room could offer. Um, and it was connected to this massive brewery, but it's hard to describe, but like in a video that you'll see of a walkthrough, you come down some concrete stairs and then you walk into the arcade and you kind of see the top bar. And it didn't even really look like that then. And then you'll see steps that go into the brewery. And that brewery was like, it was cut off. There's like a deck to the right of the entrance that wasn't there. That was just like a pit full of random garbage. Um, and man, that place was like it was packed when we opened. Um, you know, I always kind of I would always I always felt weird going back to the company and being like, "Hey, thanks for like taking this chance on me, but it'd be sick if we could make it bigger." Because it's like I like cringe every time I'm thinking about that because the last thing you want to do is just get ahead of yourself. Um, luckily it worked each time, but like yeah, the community response right off the bat, man. like couldn't it's it's yeah it it it I was so scared of everything happening because like I get so hyped up about something and then this thing happens where like the night before it's about to be released or unveiled whether it's a movie screening or whether it's uh I don't know opening an arcade it just kind of hits me and it's like I think I said this in the last interview as well it's like man what if no one gives is a [ __ ] You know what? If this is all in my head and it's really easy for people to to want to support you and be like, you should do this. Go ahead and do it. Do it. But it's like, you know, you're putting so much into it. And the biggest thing is I'm giving this company my word, you know, and I'm trying to come off like a professional even though I've never done this before. I just know that it's going to work because it makes sense. And then you just kind of doubt yourself. Luckily, yeah. the community like flipped that on its head. Like everybody came out and didn't stop coming out. We had like news stations showing up. I was not prepared for it at all. Sometimes I watch like those like news clips from like the first or second week. Like I'm so scared. I have no idea what's happening. I haven't eaten in like two weeks. And uh but yeah, man. The the community like continues to blow my mind. Um, and there's so it's so big now. Like I've met so many people that I will still like talk to on like a a like even on like a texting basis like people that are just my friends like friends for life now and stuff. I never would have met if this didn't happen. Um, and uh you know the company was very perceptive of that and uh they maintained you know we maintained a pretty healthy relationship. I think that's great. I mean, like the I think that's great. I mean, like the community is everything pretty much. No matter what you're doing, anything business related, like the community is is what you need to build for longevity. And that's so great that you still have the same people coming back almost seven years later playing the same games. Um, you know, I'm sure you've you've upgraded quite a bit since then. And like there there's so much to unpack from what you just said there, like the casino thing. I had never played pinball in a casino until a couple months ago when I went out to see the new Starcade, which is in Washington, PA. It's in the basement of a Hollywood casino. And I think there's like 150 games down there or something pretty soon here. And that I mean playing pinball down there was different. Like the casino wants to keep you there. I think I played pinball for like six or seven hours. Like it was it was a long day. It was a lot of fun. Wow. Wow. But I that's that's just But I that's that's just that's so cool that that's kind of like that's so cool that that's kind of like where it all started for you. And um like Centaur is a great game to have in there and it's totally reason for a draw and I just I think that's so cool all of this growth. You mentioned the bar. I see the VHS behind you. We talked about that a little bit last time. So let's talk a little bit about um first off your bar top because I think that's one thing that's like incredibly unique about your location. And then second off, like talk about what it's like screening movies because you're playing all these old like some are really niche, like hard to find movies and some are just like awesome action flicks from back in the day. So tell me kind of like what that process has been like. Oh man. Uh the bar top, I wasn't sure. Oh man. Uh the bar top, I wasn't sure. Yeah, I couldn't remember if that was part of the last interview or not, but yeah, now that I think about it, it was. So yeah, the bar top at the arcade is just uh like it's VHS covers. It's very easy for anyone to kind of like to do something like that and especially with like everything coming back and the word like nostalgia and retro get thrown around like it's nobody's business. And um sometimes you can tell when somebody does something that they think is like retro or nostalgic to kind of hit that mark, but they don't like you don't really understand it. You know what I mean? It's a bit more than like a neon grid. Like there's there's something that you can if it if it's done right, you can like you watch it impact somebody on the spot. It's like you're opening up a part of their mind that they forgot about and you're witnessing it and it's a wicked moment. That bar top for me isn't just like, you know, some people come in, they'll see it and say, "Oh my god, these like all these like shitty VHS, bad VHS." Like, yeah, some of the movies aren't that great. Specifically those movies, um I didn't use the actual covers. like I didn't cut them up or anything, but a lot of them came from this video store that I grew up in a kid called Max Video. And I I just I was obsessed with it. Like it that carved such a big piece of my childhood. I watched so many movies I shouldn't have been watching um at ages like six years old, seven years old. Um, and every time I would walk into that video store and I'd see like the wall, like any wall tape, there'd be a horror section, there'd be a sci-fi section, there'd be a family section. Anytime I'd see that, I remember just this like huge wave of just like almost being super overwhelmed and not knowing what I'm going to get and everything like that. And I was like, well, if that can happen when somebody's waiting for a drink at a bar and they accidentally look down and kind of get that feeling that it's like it's, you know, it's a little bit extra with whatever they're doing at the bar. That's what I see when I do it and that's what makes me feel grounded and welcomed and uh you know make remind me that this place is uh uniquely like my vision and there's there's no shortage of arcades now like you know um there's they pop up sometimes they disappear. Um, but the bar top was like a big thing to remind myself that um that this was something that I worked really hard on and it does have that impact on me still. Um, like what you had mentioned with going into movie screenings. Um, that was something that dawned on me. Um, I I can't remember at what point I want to say, yeah, pretty early on. Um, that the location used to be this theater uh in the late 80s and early 90s called Wormwoods Dog and Monkey Cinema. It was a repatory cinema uh very art house and it showed a lot of like like everything. There's a lot of controversial films that went down uh through there. Um uh a lot of queer films and stuff and uh it moved to a location after that and uh that was its that was the end of the line for it in the 90s. Um, but I kind of wanted to start doing screenings down there because before this anyway, I was doing screenings at uh random bars that my friends worked at as an excuse to watch movies with a bunch of people and have a beer or whatever. Um, and we did one the first one we did was Hobo the Shotgun uh because it was local, it involved some friends and it just seemed like a good idea. It seemed like the right one that popped off. Looking back on it in my mind, I was like, man, there was like hundreds and hundreds of people there. I think like the capacity was like 60 um which is crazy. Uh COVID comes and goes. Um that's all the time I want to give COVID on this, but like uh we started doing screenings again and it got bigger and then the brewery disappeared. Um, and I, you know, had a long talk with the company and was like, "What if we just started to slowly utilize this space to its full capacity?" You know, they have such bigger operations now and they're a way larger entity. Um, they've grown so well. Uh, and they they said, "Yeah." And then it was like, "Wow, now we got this full theater space to like, you know, to the arsenal." And I talked to a friend who owns a theater company and was like, "What can we do?" And he was like, "Let's just go absolute batshit with this." Like better sound systems, bigger screen. Um, the seating went up from like a from from I think we were doing like 70 60 70 people and then it went to 140 and uh the screenings just kept selling out. Like there'd be times we go to open the store and it be physical tickets only because I've always felt that like with that number of tickets if somebody's going to come down and get it they're committed to the cause. It's very easy for you to buy something on your phone like you do every day and then it just gets lost in that. But if you buy a physical ticket that is made by like you know an artist in Halifax for this film, it's like you got that and people collect that stuff. And um we go to open the store at like 11:59 and it opens at 12:00 and there'd be like a lineup down Goden Street in Halifax. And I'm not like like there was a time we open the door and there was like a hundred people in a line like tickets were gone. People were trying to get them. It's crazy response. So we keep doing that. Um now we do it so much because the response is just like going crazier and crazier. Uh, starting on Monday, we'll be doing this thing that I call the six-pack where we'll do we'll just turn the place into a movie theater for six days and six movies. Try to kind of jump around a little bit um on the genre train like put in a lot of deep cuts that people have that I know people haven't seen, but they're willing to take a chance because they like stuff I've shown before. And then also like put in that, you know, like really old reliable stuff like we're going to do Starship Troopers and um Escape from New York, but also to take instead of just showing those movies that are readily accessible. You can stream basically anything. Um I try to do twists on them that offer an experience that you're only going to get and you're kind of rewarded by like supporting like a really indie cinema. And in Halifax, we don't have an independent cinema. We just have a chain cinema and it sucks. And like that's not much of a variety. So when people come, I'll do stuff like um like we did Terminator 2 and I did a a scan of the original 35 millimeter print and you know when you get to talk to the audience about it and be like, you know, here's the difference. Like it just got released on 4K. Yeah, it looks great, but they've completely bled all the color from the film. It's a very blue and orange film. And so, you know, showing them like a 35 millimeter print, people see that and they get it and it's a whole different experience um for film to them and then they come back for something like that the next time, even if it's a movie that they've seen a hundred times or maybe it's something they've never even heard of and they just want to roll the dice on it. Um it's become such a big thing um that it's really altering the space again. Um, like I made this joke that if like if I could like try to describe the space in like a Dragon Ball Z universe, it's like when you just maybe not everyone's going to get this, but like as a kid, you just would watch like the Namek saga and it just never ended and then like the like Frieza would just like transform into a different version and keep going and you had no idea when this thing was going to end. And it's like every time I feel like it's in its final form, it's like, man, here we go. It just like turns into something else. And um without jumping the gun a little bit, I like I feel like that's just around the corner again. And it's like a whole it's like starting fresh all over again. I love that you have this opportunity to I love that you have this opportunity to bring something so unique and interesting to Halifax that no one else is doing. I I don't know anybody in the US that's doing what you're doing. So, I mean, I can think of maybe one or two arcades that might do a showing here and there. I think they're out in California, but like you don't see it regularly and you don't see, you know, deep cuts. You don't see weird movies that people haven't seen or haven't heard of. So, you you're you've cut out this So, you you're you've cut out this interesting niche for yourself where you're doing something that no one else is doing and you see the potential of like something else. Like, this could be cool. Let's roll the dice on this. This could be cool. let's roll the dice on that and you're not afraid of the failure of it because the community is behind you so you can at least give it a solid go. Um I think that's really really cool and it's one reason why I mean your arcade sticks out to me so much. Like I I just keep coming back to it. We we keep talking we've been talking the whole time since the last interview. Yeah. Yeah. Um and it it makes me think back to the Um and it it makes me think back to the last interview. just watched it before this one and I want to hear your take on it now. Why the arcade? Like why did you go that avenue when there were so many other things you could have done in the space? Like why did you choose to open an arcade?