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Episode 222 – Play Angry

Slam Tilt Podcast·podcast_episode·1h 33m·analyzed·Jan 16, 2024
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TL;DR

Slam Tilt covers Jaws reveal, Princess Bridge P3 confirmation, Pinberg return, and Stern LE policy changes.

Summary

Ron and Bruce discuss recent pinball announcements and industry news, including detailed reactions to the newly revealed Jaws pinball machine from Stern (pricing $6,999-$12,999), confirmation of Princess Bridge pinball in development as a P3 homebrew, updates on Pinberg returning with reduced capacity (120 vs 1,000 spots), and Stern's announcement to end multiple limited edition variants of the same game. They also share personal updates and tangential discussions about music remastering and action films.

Key Claims

  • Jaws pinball pricing: Pro $6,999, Premium $9,999, LE $12,999

    high confidence · Ron reads official press release and pricing from Stern announcement

  • Jaws shark was originally designed to eat the ball but was cut due to inconsistency and requiring the shark to be partially under the playfield

    high confidence · Ron cites Stern Insider Podcast interview with Jaws team describing design decision

  • Shark fin target was originally designed to have a mick (flipper) but caused massive air balls, so the design was changed

    high confidence · Ron references Stern team explanation about target design iterations

  • Stern announced they will no longer produce multiple LE variants of the same game

    high confidence · Ron reports on Stern distributor conference call with President Seth Davis

  • Princess Bridge pinball is a P3 homebrew game but NOT made by Multimorphic

    medium confidence · Ron cites inside sources; website theprincessbridepinball.com exists with leaked playfield image

  • Pinberg is returning with 120 spots (down from original 1,000) requiring approximately 40 games minimum

    high confidence · Ron references official announcement and Doug Polko interview on Pinball Profile; Ron performs calculation

  • Pinberg tickets go on sale February 5th with one ticket per person limit

    high confidence · Ron reads official ticket policy details

Notable Quotes

  • “When I say it, it usually happens... Bruce is the man.”

    Ron Hallett @ ~0:10:00 — Self-referential joke about Ron's prediction accuracy; he correctly predicted Jaws reveal timing and Papa announcement date

  • “I am an operator. I want it to be non-broken... stop on the stop on the stern insider podcast, they had the jaws team on there and they said the first thing they did was make the shark mack that eats the ball. Yeah. And it sucked. It was inconsistent.”

    Bruce Nightingale / Ron Hallett @ ~0:50:00 — Explains operator vs collector design priorities; reveals specific mechanical design decisions made by Stern

  • “The only thing I thought was a little cheesy was, what, the Pro and the LE have the same back glass looking-wise, but of course, LE is back glass. Well, that was the only, like, little, like, little douchey, little lazy.”

    Ron Hallett @ ~1:15:00 — Criticism of Stern's lazy design choices on Jaws (Pro backbox vs LE backglass differentiation)

  • “There will be no more extra LE bullshit... They saw the cash grab. They had the Elvira Red Edition, the Elvira whatever, the couch edition.”

    Ron Hallett @ ~1:50:00 — Major policy announcement: Stern ending practice of multiple LE variants of same game

  • “Jaws pinball... it's just like, stop. Stop. Stop. Spock. Stop. Spock. I'm in love, Jim.”

    Ron Hallett @ ~1:55:00 — Comedic but critical take on Stern's multi-variant strategy

  • “From what I've heard from my inside sources... This is a P3 game, but it's not made by Multimorphic.”

    Ron Hallett @ ~2:30:00 — Key intel on Princess Bridge pinball; clarifies it's P3 platform but homebrew, not Multimorphic official

Entities

Stern PinballcompanyRon HallettpersonBruce NightingalepersonJawsgameGeorge GomezpersonPrincess BridgegamePinbergeventMultimorphiccompany

Signals

  • ?

    business_signal: Stern announced end of multiple LE variants for same game after distributor pressure and cash grab criticism (Elvira Red, Elvis variations, Jurassic Park LE repeats)

    high · Seth Davis conference call announcement; mentioned Godzilla 70th Anniversary Edition will not be limited like previous Toho/US variants

  • ?

    competitive_signal: Jaws premium edition positioning as superior to LE based on playfield and visual presentation; Pro edition chosen for RPC location over LE despite price difference

    medium · Bruce: 'The LE looks too slow... Pro always is faster'... Ron notes Premium looks better than Pro/LE differentiation

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Stern Jaws design cut shark ball-eating mech despite initial concept due to inconsistency and visibility issues; reveals iterative design process and operator reliability prioritization over theme authenticity

    high · Ron cites Stern Insider Podcast team commentary on mechanical iterations and final design decisions

  • ?

    event_signal: Pinberg returning with significantly reduced capacity (120 vs 1,000), same organizers, confirmed for early 2025 with tickets Feb 5 release

    high · Official announcement with Doug Polko interview on Pinball Profile; Ron calculates ~40+ games needed for format

  • ?

    leak_detection: Princess Bridge pinball existence confirmed via website and leaked playfield image sent to Don's Pinball Podcast; P3 platform but not Multimorphic-developed

    medium · Ron reports theprincessbridepinball.com website and leaked playfield photo with inside source confirmation

Transcript

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0:00
Well, Beavis, I think we have to, like, resort to communalism. What's that? It's like in that movie, Alive. We have to, like, start eating ourselves. Really? I don't want to eat myself. No, it's like we got to eat each other's legs and stuff. So I'm going to eat your leg first, because I'm hungrier.
0:25
Okay. But before I eat your leg, I'm going to have to kill you. Okay, but I get to kill you next because I'm hungry too.
0:36
Okay. Dumbass. Coming to you from beautiful upstate New York, this is the Slam Tilt Podcast. A show about all things pinball. I'm your host, Ron Hallett. Here with the other host, Bruce Nightingale. Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. Christmas is over, Bruce. No, but it's snowing outside. We're finally getting a good accumulation. Well, you're in Rochester. Yes. Accumulation. Actually, we had snow. We got three inches. We had snow here last weekend. Ooh. But I wasn't around for it. Yeah, you were in California. This is episode 222. Good hitters count. And we're a week late, I guess? Yes, we are, because of your trip, and we'll have another one coming up. We'll be either a week early or a week late. We'll have to decide on that. Oh, what trip is that?
1:38
What did we just talk about before we got on live, on location? Yeah, but states are next week. That wouldn't affect us in any way. Cruise. Oh, you're going on a cruise, Bruce? Blues cruise. I'm going on a blues cruise. So when are you going on a cruise, Bruce? I'm not going to state that, but I'm going on a cruise. Oh, you're going on a cruise. Yes. You don't want to give out that information where people are going, hey, hey.
Seth Davis
person
Doug Polkoperson
Rochester Pinball Collectiveorganization
Jersey Jack Pinballcompany
Universal Pictures / Amblin Entertainmentcompany
Jeff Teolisperson
Elton Johnperson
  • $

    market_signal: Jaws debut at CES Las Vegas garnered strong booth attraction with memorabilia from Orange County Pinball Club collector; positive initial market reception despite distributor cancellations from early leaked photos

    medium · Ron reports booth success and anecdote about distributors canceling then re-requesting LE orders after seeing final product

  • ?

    community_signal: George Gomez now primary marketing/selling point for Stern games; mentioned in context of Jaws promotional strategy

    medium · Ron notes: 'It's just interesting that the designer is literally the plug now' and cites people who buy anything Gomez designs regardless of price

  • $

    market_signal: Discussion of Jaws pricing ($12,999 LE) in context of inflation mismatch; Ron argues pinball prices have not kept pace with value proposition

    medium · Ron states: 'the price of pinball machine-wise has not matched inflation... it's worse... it's the opposite way'

    • 2:02
    It's stealing time. Oh, so they're going to break into your house. Yes. Which is located at. So when we last left you. Yes. With the episode that Bruce made me do. Yes, because everyone loved it. Yes. And people like the 1982 Twippies. Really? I got multiple compliments. So good job, Zach. Our Zach. It was his idea. Our Zach, yes. So we'll have to do that again at the next Twippies. Oh, jeez Louise. Pick another year. That was a good year, too, because a lot of the games really sucked. Yes, they did. We could have, like, 1990 or 91 with the Gottlieb age. Oh, just Gottliebs only? No, well, no, Gottliebs versus Bally Williams, you know, or like 87, 88. Okay. 87 would be good, or 88, because you have like TX Sector versus, you know, a couple others. So, yeah, we can. Our last episode, we mentioned, we thought the Jaws reveal was going to be in January. No, no, no, excuse me. I nailed it right out of the fucking park, buddy. Oh, you did? If you go back, yes, if you go back and listen, I actually said the day it was coming out, that's when they put the teaser out.
    3:12
    Nailed it again. Bow down. Fucking drop the fucking bat. Fucking drop the mic. Fuck you guys. The bat and the mic. Okay. You were talking 2-2-2 for the good batting, you know. That's not a good batting average, 2-22. No, but it's good hitting when you're hitting. You know, it's two balls, two strikes. It's still in the bat. Two balls, two strikes, and two outs? Yep. It's a pressure. Oh, okay.
    3:37
    And now I'm just – what else were we saying? I don't know what the fuck you were saying. There was something else that came. Oh, yeah, the December 28th announcement. Well, we said it was probably going to be December 28th for Papa, and we were correct. It was December 28th, so we had that right, too. Wow. It's like almost we have insider information sometimes. Come to hear for the real news, if you will. Yes, not the, oh, I think it's coming out this week. Oh, maybe it's next week, or maybe it's next week. Guess what? When I say it, it usually happens. Yes, Bruce is the man. Try to be. So how was your New Year's?
    4:15
    Uneventful. playfield is flipped over now. Now we're on the top side of the peonies. Oh, your quicksilver. Your quicksilver playfield swap. Yes. New wood. Oh my.
    4:28
    Unfortunately, I had to get new drop targets. This king came with disaster drop targets that didn't even move or were half broken. Didn't even get a set. Even my old used ones, I couldn't make a proper set. So I had to get targets. Now the only thing good about this pinball machine is, you're not hitting drop targets straight on on this game. So, you know, it's always the glance shots. You mean the bank directly in front of you? Yeah, it's not a hit shot. You're glancing. You're actually never hitting straight on. Most bricks happen when you hit a drop target right in front and drop it. You're hitting the sides of these. You are. Okay. Sounds good. Yeah, good answer. Good answer. Most of my pricking is the three bank on the right. And obviously, I think that's more the angle than anything else. And those are new targets on yours. Yeah, they are. I didn't put them in either.
    5:24
    Those came that way. Yeah. So you're going to ask me what I did? No. Oh. You were freaking California. Wow. No, not last week, but the weekend before it wasn't. Yes. Okay, what did you do for New Year's, Ron? Did you play at the local and win another pinball tournament again? No, no, no.
    5:51
    Actually, I would just like to say it was December 31st was the birthday of one of my favorite action stars. Claude Van Damme? No, no, no.
    6:02
    Yukari Ashima, who you will have no idea who that is. Female action star. Probably one of the greatest female action stars of all time. I highly recommend you listeners out there seek her out I think I brought this movie up before Iron Angels which I like way too much how about Iron Eagle? I like Iron Eagle Iron Angels, check it out it's on YouTube but it's a shitty print Vimeo has a much better version of it she plays the bad guy she's also in Ricky O the story of Ricky, another movie that everyone needs to see but she plays a dude in that one that's how versatile she is She was a martial artist, a gymnast, and stuntwoman.
    6:46
    Oh, Ricky, you're so fine. You're so fine. You blow my mind. Hey, Ricky. I did two references to two different things for Ricky. Very good. But yes. Because I did the music in the background. Boom, boom, boom. But Iron Angels and also Outlaw Brothers and other highly, highly recommended. So happy birthday, Yukari.
    7:13
    So what did you do? The other thing I did is the whole Elton John pinball machine kind of got me in the Elton John kick. So you went to his house and stalked him? No, no. Oh, because that's what they did on, you know, Guardians of the Galaxy Christmas special. I wanted to upgrade my Elton John discography.
    7:34
    Or library. Yeah, that's a better one. Yeah, library. I have the CD – I have the – what is it? The first Greatest Hits album. I have all four. From 74, where he's got the white hat on and he's in front of the piano.
    7:48
    I have – the Bitches Back ain't on that one. That's later. That's the second one. But I have the Steve Huffman remaster version, so I'm all set there with a lot of the early stuff. But it only goes to 74, so I need – there's more stuff after that. so i start uh perusing my usual sources and man they don't know how to make music anymore they just ruin they ruin everything anytime you see something that's remastered oh it's terrible it's going to make it absolute shit no i will i'm gonna now i'm gonna disagree with you a little bit and it's not always not no no no no there's an album called 80 symphonics they put uh the london orchestra on there and they do 80s hits. And it's fucking awesome. Highly recommend it. And it's all 80s songs. Like you have Take On Me. You have some Barner on there. Take on me. And they slow it down a little bit, but it's still, you know, symphonies in the background. It's fucking awesome. So I highly recommend that. But most remixes, blow chunks. I don't even mean remixes. I mean, for example, So I have evidence.
    9:05
    Okay, are you familiar with the Elton John song Philadelphia Freedom? Philadelphia Freedom. Sounds on me. It's in the game. So this is pinball related. It is in the game. Which one did the game use? What do you mean, which one? Did they use the remastered or remixed? I don't know. I have to listen to it again. Okay. But here's the deal. So when you think of that song, what's the hook of the song?
    9:32
    To me, it's the course. It's dit-dit, dit-dit, dit-dit. I mean, it starts with the hook, the string section, and then it builds to the hook again, and it builds to the hook again. So at least when I think of that song. Body blow, body blow, body blow. Punch out. Yes. Lock him out. You're an up-and-coming boxer. Yes. I'm sorry.
    9:54
    So to make use of my awesome new clips, you know, I'm going to play for you a non-remastered version and then I'm going to play for you the version that's in the latest Elton John, I think it's called the Diamonds Collection, so this would be the all-encompassing career you know, this whole career, all remastered well he's had like 10 different great sets on, but this is the latest one, the cash grab so the first one I'm going to play to you, this is from 1990, a 1990 90 Greatest Hits album. This is Philadelphia Freedom, okay? Okay, here we go. And it's only a 20-second clip. I'm not playing the whole song. Okay. But here we go. Philadelphia Freedom I love her Yes, I do That's the best part. Yeah. Okay.
    11:00
    All right. And that's from 1990. Yes. Sounds fine. Yep. Sounds great. That sounds like every... That sounds like it should sound. Yes. Okay. This next one is from the Diamonds Collection. Now, forgiving the fact that it's compressed to all hell, so I had to adjust the volume a bit so it's close to the other one. Tell me what you don't hear, or at least don't hear as clearly... Prevalent. Oh, big word. Okay, here we go. Yes. I'm a big boy now. Yes.
    11:55
    I called it before even doing the thing, the gimmick. Where the fuck are the strings? Where's the woodwind? Where is it? It's there, but it's so low in the mix. Whoever makes that should be fired. If someone told them to do it that way, they should be fired. And if it's Elton John, he should lose all of his money. He should lose all of his money. If he actually listened and said, yeah, that's good. That's good. My opinion is he never heard it at all. But that's what I was doing over that weekend was trying to find better versions of the stuff, which was surprisingly difficult. Holy fuck. As you can tell, Ron has no life. Yes. For 68 cents a day, United States currency, you can get Ron a life.
    12:44
    $14.99 a month. When Ron gets started on something, Ron doesn't stop, unfortunately, no matter what. and that was, I couldn't believe that. It's like, wow, that sounds like complete ass. Yeah, it does sound like ass. If you put the shit in Audacity, you can see it's bricked. It's just like, just all the waveform goes all the way to the edge, all the way, there's no dynamics at all. It sounds like ass.
    13:07
    Oh, so bad. Yeah. Okay, let's move on. Jaws. I picked it, I picked it, I picked it. Dun, dun, dun. We had the teaser trailer. Yes, we did. And then soon after that, we had the full – well, we had leaks galore after the teaser. We had the video – pictures of the video came out, were leaked. Parts of the video itself were leaked. Yeah, I know. I think they did it on purpose. Really? I do. Yeah, I really think they do because – Really? How does it – If you're that inept, if you're a company that's that inept – Is it them, though, or is it whoever – it could be whoever does the videos for them? Or hosting. Guess what? That's still your ineptness. It still is. It always still falls on the customer who's giving – you're hiring these people. You put your contract. If this is leaked and we find that it's you leaked, we're going to sue you. Because I've heard – But guess what? They're not leaking it. Stern is leaking it. Yeah, but the things – I know distributors were – they have people on for LE orders. They saw the first photos, the leaked photos. Oh, and it fucking canceled their order. Yep. And then when they saw the real thing, they called back again and said, can I get it back? Can I get back in line, please?
    14:29
    So I don't know how it helps them if you think they're leaking it on purpose. Well, I think they leaked it hoping that it would just make more. Ooh, ah, and maybe this was horrifically bad. The pictures look like something you take with a cell phone 20 years ago. We've seen that all along. We've seen that with a ton of games. Some of them were like pictures of the video on someone's monitor. Yes, I know. Like so bad. I don't know how that helps anything. They're trying to bring up hype, and hype train is the king.
    15:01
    You know that. You know how it goes. I'll have to respectfully disagree on that one. Agree to disagree. And if they find out whoever's leaking it, they should be fired. Exactly.
    15:14
    Exactly. So, what did you think, Bruce? I assume you actually saw it. I did see it. It's all both. The LE looks too slow. Oh, first, when is the LE coming to the world-famous Rochester Pinball Collective? It is not. Oh, my God. It is not yet. It is the pro time. The pro time.
    15:35
    Our own famous, world-famous Zach is ordering a pro. Yes. I'm assuming it's coming to the RPC for your pleasures. The only Stearns he gets are Elwes. Yes. You notice that? Yeah. So it's going to be at the world-famous Rochester Pinball Club. Where is that, Bruce? Somewhere in Rochester.
    15:56
    You tell me, because it seems like I'm always the plant. No, I say it all the time, 349 West Commercial Street. I just don't know the suite number. East Rochester. 2965.
    16:06
    2965. There you go. I'll do another plug. I get two plugs today. Well, it's better when we had Zach on, and he didn't know the address. Oh, that's fucking awesome. He's the owner of the place. His name's on the lease. Yeah, and he doesn't know. I don't know where it is.
    16:20
    But we do have another plug. Ooh. Yes, we do. Uh-huh. What's the plug, Bruce? My wife is now a travel agent also, besides her regular job. Mm-hmm. So we now have a travel agency. Nightingale and, oh, Nighthawk Travel. No, Nightingale Travel Agency.
    16:38
    A cruise agency. A cruise travel agency. NTA. Yeah. If you're a friend of me on Facebook, you can see I've been posting stuff on that. I'll post it on Slam Tilt this week, just helping us out. We go on a lot of cruises. We know what we're talking about. We'll get you the right trip for you.
    16:58
    I'm even helping out, Kathy, with some of the logistic stuff and doing bookkeeping. I'm a bookkeeper now. Bruce knows all about cruising. Yes. Because I go on them enough. That's true. I got four planned. for playing. Wow. Yeah. Did you know Stern Pinball Incorporated announces their newest pinball game featuring... Wait a minute. Is this a misprint? This is... I'm at NAP Arcade. Hi, NAP Arcade. I'm reading the press release. Stern Pinball announces their newest pinball games featuring Jaws. I guess that's right. One of the most iconic motion picture thrillers of all time. The first summer blockbuster, I believe. Universal Pictures. in Amblin Entertainment. Players will experience all four blockbuster Jaws films. Yes, Jaws 3D, like never before, with brand new mechanical features inspired by the iconic movie moments and state-of-the-art technology.
    17:54
    I'm trying to remember if I ever saw three or four. Oh, three was bad. Three was 3D. Yeah, I saw the scene they always play where he goes through the glass barrier. I've seen that clip. I don't think I've ever seen. It was Jaws 4, The Revenge. Yeah, it was really bad. And Brody's wife has some kind of psychic connection to the shorts. Yeah, which is weird.
    18:17
    Very douche-chilly. Douche-chilly? Douche-chills. So you think the LE plays, well, the LE Premium plays too slow? No, I'm not saying that. I said it looks slower than the Pro. Pro always is. Seems like it's the faster way to go. Okay. What do you think of the fact that it doesn't eat a ball? I don't give a flying fuck two shits i want it to be i am an operator i want it to be non-broken and i think that would be look at how good your ball catching ability was on stranger things enough fucking said guess what if it could be done they would have done it well they couldn't do it yes so guess what stop on the stop on the stern insider podcast they had the jaws team on there and they said like The first thing they did was make the shark mack that eats the ball. Yeah. And it sucked. It sucked. I believe that was their... It was inconsistent. It was not working to everyone's liking. The other issue was when you have them eat the ball, he has to be at playfield level, which means most of the shark is under the playfield and you don't see him. You got to eat the rich. Boy, I'm just like fucking knew him. Clothes out the ass. They also... There's a shark fin target on there. and it's it's like a it's not shaped like a shark fin it's got a shark fin without a fucking mick on it that's what it is admit it but they said it didn't they didn't make it the shape of well they tried to make it the shape of a shark but it made massive air balls like unbelievable proportions like you hit the target and the ball goes airborne onto the upper play field type yeah like insane air ball it's a drop target mick on a stick uh it's actually different they said it's actually made the target itself is like carbon fiber it's the same stuff they made that that plane that plane in japan that caught fire that they said the reason everyone survived is because it was made out of that carbon fiber yeah that's what it's made out of they got it from like the aerospace industry leftovers so they got it cheap they maybe they took some of that plane and it wouldn't have burned as fast everyone everyone survived in that plane not the other one yes i know but uh no price changes good everything's the same price big bonus bonus they uh they made their debut at the consumer electronics show yes ces in las vegas las vegas had a great uh great booth looking wise people were attracted to it well the funny thing is that the booth had all this jaws memorabilia in it yes and all the memorabilia was from the guy that was in the Special Win Lit movie. Yes. If you watch Special Win Lit movie, there's a whole section on the Orange County Pinball Club. You get to see, you know, Keeler, the Rock Fantasy, all that. Yeah, yeah.
    21:12
    But they had this guy that was majorly into Jaws, and I guess he doesn't live in Orange County anymore, but he had all this Jaws shit. He got out. They actually, he got out. He escaped.
    21:24
    So mean. They actually used his stuff for the display. Yes, they did. Do you know what the shark was named?
    21:30
    Bruce? Yes. See? It was named Bruce. Bruce is the original shark. Yes, it is. So what do you think of the artwork, the art packages? Not bad. I actually like the artwork. I didn't see anything bad about the game. I actually like it. I got my hands on it. Oh, my God. I actually got my hands on it. I like the LE. They went a little further now. they put the expression lighting in the speakers. Yeah. The only thing I thought was a little cheesy was, what, the Pro and the LE have the same back glass looking-wise, but of course, LE is back glass. Well, that was the only, like, little, like, little douchey, little lazy.
    22:13
    Yeah, one's a back glass, the other one's a trans light. Yeah. Plus, the premium one looks really nice. Really good, yes. I agree with that, too. It's like an action shot of Jaws. I liked it. I don't see anything like really bad with the game. I just want to get my hands on and play it now. Am I buying one? God, no. Well, you don't buy anything. I don't buy anything. You don't buy anything new. No. You only buy old shit. Old shit. That's why they listen to us because I'm old. Yes. And I buy shit.
    22:44
    Yeah, the Pro Edition, retail, whatever, $69.99. $65.99. $96.99. and the limited edition $1299.99. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I know. $13,000. Yeah. Oof. Yeah. Oof. Pretty expensive. I'm getting nutty. Then they did a gameplay video with Mr. Elwin. Yes. Like at the end of that week? Yes, they did. We were at Indus when it debuted, actually. It might have been Friday or Saturday. Yeah, it was Friday night, I think it was. Yeah which was weird because Keith was there and there he is on video like he in two places at once How he do it How he do it He amazing The only thing I do like the fact that they doing the videos that way as opposed to the stream where anything could happen type deal I would have liked it if they did it more like Jersey Jack did with Elton John where they had graphics and stuff and arrows and, you know, we're going to shoot here and do this and all that. Yeah, but hey, you know, this is Stern.
    23:52
    Wow. Hey, this is Stern. It's like when you go to a pinball tournament and they go, this is a rock fantasy game. You just deal with it and go, okay, whatever.
    24:03
    Doesn't need a ball, though. Pinside was very upset. Oh, my God. These people have no fucking lives. Sorry, Joe. Joe, sorry. Oh, Joe C. Oh, God. I love Joe C. but after the 12th post, he's really not happy. He's really fucking not happy. I'm like, Jesus. He's not happy that Brody's not on there. Well, guess what? Maybe they couldn't get him. Yeah. Right. But sorry, that's in all the movie clips, but he's not in the, the art. The thing I don't get is the whole Jersey Jack, Jack Guarneri himself. Like we, we wouldn't do jaws because we only got the shark. Well, Stern got more than the shark. Yeah. They probably paid more too. They got two out of the three main actors, the shark, the music, four movies.
    24:51
    One thing I'm wondering, I don't see anywhere in the play field where they have the electrified cable that he bites into.
    24:59
    I guess the final wizard mode is called like the smile you son of a bitch, but they couldn't have an insert that said that on the play field. Oh, just as wizard mode, right? Wizard mode. I do like the horizontal spinner things. They look pretty cool. They do look pretty cool, the reels. He made the upper playfield tiny so it can't stay up there long.
    25:25
    Yeah, the Mick on a stick or the shark on a stick. The chum line. I like the lighting in front of it. I do too, yes. It's kind of like the lighting in front of the missed multi-ball thing, the miss that no one notices that there's an actual light effect there. Yes, there is a light effect there. But there is. so it's probably similar I'm guessing under the playfield in that section they're colored LEDs and they change to red when the enough chum is in the water I love when my chum goes red I got a chummer and it's red oh man they call it the dog I got the dog shot look at me go and there went everyone off the freaking podcast Yes, that's disgusting.
    26:14
    Red Rover, Red Rover. But the other, so, okay. We done with Jaws? No, not yet, no. What did you think of it? You haven't really said much. I say my opinion and you just go, okay, next. I never say anything, you know. Until I play it. I got to play it. Well, what do you think of the looks? You never said the looks. You never said anything. I didn't see anything on it that made me think, ooh. Yeah, no, me neither. I don't know about this one. Yeah, no, I actually thought it was very – looks like it was very well done.
    26:46
    So I'm excited. I do – it is interesting how they had the teaser video, then they had the trailer video, but then they had a second longer video with Gomez himself in it. Yeah. And they're plugging, you know, the Elwynn team. It's like the selling point now. Oh, of course it is. Yeah, the Elwynn team is on this. The people that brought you Jurassic Park and Godzilla. Yes, I would plug that, wouldn't you? Yes. It's just interesting that the designer is literally the plug now. I know people that they will buy, well, except if it's $20,000, they will buy anything he makes. I think he's a great designer. I just think it's just getting the price of pinball machine-wise has not matched inflation. I'm sorry. Has not matched. So you mean it needs to go even higher? Yeah. No, it's worse. It's the opposite way you pose. Okay.
    27:41
    The way you worded it, it just, you know. Okay. Stern also announced, well, they had a conference call with the distributors. They did. With, what's his name? Seth Davis, the actual president. Yeah. I am president. I am presidente. That's right. He said. I am the great Cornholio.
    28:02
    I need TP for my bunghole. There will be no more extra LE bullshit. Yes, good. So no more. They saw the cash grab. They had the Elvira Red Edition, the Elvira whatever, the couch edition. Yes, the fucking, how many times can we fucking milk this fucking bitch? Yes, yes. What other ones did they have? They had, what was it, Jurassic Park. Jurassic Park, another LE. So they're not going to do that. But that doesn't mean they're not going to do vault editions. or special editions. They just won't be limited. So basically, if they have a Godzilla 70th Anniversary Edition, it won't be limited. It'll just be different artists. Think of Lucy. Remember Lucy? ACDC's? Yes. Basically more of that shit if they're going to do it. Just stop. Make your original run. If it was a great game like Godzilla, guess what? You leave it. You don't make another Toho Edition and US Edition. Guess what? This is your run. Take advantage of it. If it's sold, congratulations. You made lots of money. I disagree. You can do another run with better art or different art and you'll get more sales. And they're in the business of selling stuff. They are in the business of selling stuff, but you're also pissing off your clientele when you do this also. Well, think if you had an alien how you would feel. Yeah. We have the new Ripley edition that costs less than the original edition did and the LV edition and looks better than either of them. I know. Holy fuck.
    29:34
    That's funny. I know, but it's just like, stop. Stop. Spock. Stop. Spock. I'm in love, Jim. Did you see? Okay, so that's enough of Jaws there. We got to play it, et cetera. Actually, let me look. Were there any more details about Jaws I wanted to bring up? I don't think so. I don't think so either. I like the blue. Blue is my favorite color. Well. And it's water, so you figure you have to have lots of blue in it. Blue. River. No, that's Moon River. No, we're saying Blue River this time. Well, you could have just said Blue Bayou and you would have been fine. Oh, Blue Bayou. Yes. I'm coming back someday. Come what may to Blue Bayou. Okay. Princess Bride Pinball Machine. Hear about that? I did. There's a website that appeared, theprincessbridepinball.com, but then there was actually a picture that went out. It went to, actually it was sent to Don's Pinball Podcast specifically, but it's just a little picture of the part of the play field. From what I've heard from my inside sources, My inside sources. This is a P3 game, but it's not made by Multimorphic. Okay. So there you go. There you go. I have no other information. Don't know when it'll be out. It is a thing. It is a thing that exists. Do the thing. A thing that exists. Did you hear the latest head-to-head, the one-year head-to-head that they do? Yes. And they think we're vulgar. Oh, we are. Yeah, but I mean, holy shit. I feel like I shouldn't censor you at all now after listening to that. I mean, if that gets out, blowjobs and pinball, oh my. Blowjobs and pinball, oh my. What's wrong with that?
    31:38
    Wow. Okay, so. How do you think people are moving up in this world? Oh, man. so yeah there was also an uh the episode of the um super awesome pinball show yes there was which i have not listened to yet but they interviewed multiple people they got they got me on there baby that's right the american gene of american pinball day fifth he's interviewed on there baby so we'll be listening to that check that out what else we got here um pinberg's returning Yes, it is. It went from 1,000 to 120.
    32:20
    And I was thinking, the original, so they announced this. In the material, it said something like, we'll have dozens and dozens of games. Now, I'm calculating this. Yes, you have to. And they had Doug Polko. It's all the same people who ran the original one. Which is good. That's the best thing about it. And Doug was on Pinball Profile. Hi, Jeff Teolis. where he said it's going to be the same deal, four games per round,
    32:46
    and you're going to have three different groups on there. Yes. And I calculated this. It's still going to take at least 40 games to do this. Yes, it is. When I hear dozens and dozens, to me that means 24. No, I hear dozens and dozens, maybe 36. So I'm right around the 40 area. Yeah, they still need more than that. I know. So that's going to be interesting. The tickets go on sale February 5th. They will sell out probably within a second or two. Yes, I'm assuming. Are you going to try for one, Bruce? Actually, no. It'll be the first Pinnberg I ever miss, but I'm not going to be around that weekend. I already have plans. I'm sorry. I don't have enough days off to take off another Thursday, Friday with all my stuff going on this year.
    33:28
    I just got a smile, grin, and wish everyone a happy time. Can you try to get a ticket for my dad? We can talk about it. Yeah, I'm serious because they're doing the thing. They used to do it where you could get multiple tickets up to, what, four or whatever the hell it was, five.
    33:45
    But with only 120 spots, it's one ticket per person. Yes, it is. If I'm sitting here with two different machines trying to do that or trying to make sure I'm on two different IPs when I do it to make sure it works, yeah, I'm going to be fucked. I'm not going to be able to get in for either of them. Yes, I agree with that. We'll see what happens. But, yeah, it's not in Pittsburgh either. It's outside Pittsburgh. It's supposedly five minutes, five, ten minutes from the original Papa facility, the warehouse.
    34:16
    That's kind of cool. Yeah, that would be cool. I just want to drive by there to see what it looks like. I want to see that building torn down that was next to it. Yeah, the... The old warehouse thing or whatever the hell it was that they couldn't tear down because of all the asbestos. But then they tear it down anyway. They did tear it down eventually anyway.
    34:34
    All right. Did you see the new Scooby Topper? Yeah. Wow, you sound really excited, Bruce. I'm not into toppers. But this was a fucking cool topper. Yeah. Fully interactive topper with a moving bookcase, just like in the credit scene. Yeah, I know. With another screen behind it. Yeah, I know. It looked badass. Yeah, okay. So you got to buy your Scooby now? No.
    35:00
    Why not? It's only $969 plus $70 for shipping. Oh, my fucking God. That's the fucking coronary fucking maker right there. Actually, that's cheaper for – I know, but that's – wait a sec. Now, imagine what you just said and say it like, and that's cheaper. Why are we saying that's a good thing?
    35:21
    It looked cool. It looks great. But first, $970. Second, and now broke his whole thing where toppers were included, which he still does the cheap topper. Well, the topper was included, just not this topper. Not this topper. So now you've just uncharted yourself into a bad situation later on. Because now everyone knows, well, who gives a shit about the topper you just gave me? Because I'm going to be buying another one. So I just shouldn't count that as a plus anymore. I should count that really as a negative.
    35:54
    So I shouldn't give you the free topper because I'm going to have one for you to buy later anyway. You got it. Okay.
    36:01
    All right. My sense does work. Your spidey sense, yes. Yes, it does. All right. Well, they also, Spooky and Bug had a Looney Tunes stream.
    36:17
    Did you see that at all? Not at all. I didn't. You asked me before, and you're like, why didn't you do your fucking job? Yeah, and I'm going to ask you right now on air, why didn't you do your job? Because it's a spooky fucking game.
    36:32
    It's terrible. It's very orange. It's very bad. How is it bad? You haven't even played it. I just don't like it. I don't like spooky. Oh, you're so mean. It looked cool to me. I can say it was hard to hear all of the call-outs because Bug was, like, talking over a lot of it. But I was able to tell that it looks like they did the same thing they did with Scooby, which is they removed all the original audio and they redubbed it with the voice actor that they have for this game his Daffy Duck at least that's the one I heard clearly his Daffy Duck was spot on I'll say that and it looked cool it looked fun way more than Texas Chainsaw Massacre I don't get the whole horror pinball thing I know but I like horror movies. I like Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I don't want to play it in a pinball machine. I agree. To me, it can't be ultra serious. It's got to be some kind of evil. Like Evil Dead. That I could see in a pinball machine. I couldn't see that too. Not that. I agree. I'm right with you. I can't do it. Looney Tunes, on the other hand, it made me smile seeing all the characters. All the Looney Tunes characters. I guarantee you they're selling more of those than they are Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Oh, I guarantee you. Totally. 100%. Probably 2 to 1. I think it's probably 3 to 1. Whoa. I guarantee it, because everyone knows Looney Tunes. Guess what? You really got to be a fan of this movie to say, I'm going to spend $10,000 on this fucking game.
    38:15
    Like, Jaws is a nationwide phenomena from the 70s. Worldwide, but more nationwide, because it was like, oh, look, little town here, they have this shark problem. What are you going to do about this shark problem? And it's just like, yeah.
    38:34
    Yes. I liked it. It looked cool. It looks like it shoots better than the typical spooky game. I'll say that.
    38:45
    Yeah. That's all I'm going to say about that. Yeah. That's the ticket. All right. End disc.
    38:55
    Yeah. Who the fuck would go to that thing? Or also known as The Open. Says me. They had some guy on there, you know, they had a lot of famous people on this show. Like, Jeff Teolis was freaking doing the advertising again like he used to do with Papa. It was great. He changed shirts up. He was awesome. Okay. Did you notice that? No. Every time he got on, it was like a couple different shirts he wore. Oh. It was like, oh, hey. Oh, hey! I know. Carl got sick. He was gone after the first day. Oh, that sucks. Did not know that. The Fliptronic crew actually ran everything.
    39:36
    Well, thank you. That's a big plus. Yep. It's good to have other streamers there so when you go down, you can take over. Yeah. Yes, he was down for the count. Sorry. You probably, you know, it's under a lot of stress plus a lot of work, and it just, you know, it's hard. It's hard. It's hard making pinball. so for those who don't know and indus stands for it never drains in southern california it's a tournament that is never drains in southern california and it is a major major major as ifpa affiliation the open i think it's a name although i've never heard anyone call it at this point it's the open so they have a bunch of different terms they have the classic target match play They have classics, high stakes, the open, the women's, they got a juniors one, they got a Sunday strikes tournament, they got a volunteer gauntlet.
    40:35
    And I have all the information here this time, Bruce. I am prepared. Wow. About time. I am. So the classics target match play, that's the thing that I finished second in last year. Yes. And they added a finals component because poppers. Yes. woporitis oh i'm sorry sorry lost you for two seconds oh you hurt me you hurt my ears i thought that's just normally when i talk oh that's true so yeah this year they had the playoff component so what they did is um they just they were going after ron hallett they didn't want him to be too good this year so they made so you play You play in four-person groups. It's like Pinberg scoring, 3-2-1-0. The first person, as soon as you get to 25, you're done. Yes. The first 24 players who get to 25 go to the finals, right? Yes.
    41:34
    I finished third, Bruce. I know. I showed I was not a flash in the pan. You're just a pan in the flash. Yeah. So then we had the finals, which I got. Was there a bye? I think there was. Yeah, there was a buy. So I got a buy, and I got to pick all my games. Nice. And how did you do picking? Did you pick a winner? I was going to pick. First, I said nine ball, and they're like, oh, no, that broke. Like, oh, man.
    42:06
    It's against you. Everyone's against you in the world. Because not only did I kick ass at nine ball, hardly anyone knows how to play that game for some reason. To this day, no one knows how to play nine ball. Well, it usually breaks, and then they don't know how to play it. Yeah, that's true. That's true. And they fixed it. They fixed it. It was up later. That upset me. So I picked Cheetah. Okay, that's a good thing. You probably crushed that. Hocus Pocus, which I turned over during the tournament.
    42:31
    Confidence was high. And I killed it at Sanctum, too. And Meteor, which I also almost turned over. No, I might have turned over. Yeah, I did. I think I got over a million. So, yes, my confidence was high. Confidence was high for this gentleman. Yes. Played big ball. Third, last, and third.
    42:50
    Total of two points. Total shit. Yeah. Bum, bum, ba-dum, bam. Ron has been eliminated. $1,200, though.
    43:04
    Yay. But, yeah. Not good. And the winner of that. Who actually knew how to play pinball. Yeah, with the IFP president himself. defending America, I believe. I believe he was playing against Sweden and two Canadians. USA. Yeah, that's right. The whole time. That probably wouldn't have went over well. But USA.
    43:25
    Josh Sharp defends the United States of America by winning the Classics target match play. America. Fuck yeah. Yeah.
    43:38
    So then we had the Classics playoffs. Or not the Classics. The classics, instead of doing one a day like they've done in previous years, they did two days of one classics.
    43:52
    Fuck yeah! No. And it went from four games to five games. Yes. And it was just so hard to try to make this. When I made it last year on Friday, I remember there was 189 people in it. You know how many people played in it this year?
    44:10
    Don't know. 281. holy fuck i think they have they need more games uh they had a ton of games it doesn't matter people will pick the five or six games that are more controllable and everyone will queue for those they had the same issue at papa back in the day where they had even more games but there'll be lines for the four or five that people could control like no one is standing in line to play like doodle blog had very short queues target pool had very short queues what you need to do is make it so you can only play each game on the, you know, say you can only do a max of five games each.
    44:47
    You can't just keep on paying and going in, going in and gigging at cash cow. No, that would work. That would work. But it's not a pump and up to begin with, though. Exactly, but that's the thing. You have to have it all in the same. I probably should really should explain some of the rules, but. But it's a ticket. It's a ticket. Yeah, if you're listening to us, you already know. Yeah, but it's a ticket. It's a ticket. So you have to get your best five games on the same ticket. Yep. But wait a sec. If you limit that so you can only pick that game five times max. Okay, but I only played like six times. I know, but some other people probably didn't. Yeah, they'd have to void after the first one over and over and over. And guess what? That void would screw you all up. It would probably make more money because you would say, hey, let me get a weird game out of the way first. If I got good at that, then I'll use my four. Or you do it that way. So it's not just everyone plays the same fucking five games. And then when it comes to finals, everyone's picking the same four or five games.
    45:46
    So I had one entry where I had the shot. After four games, if I had a good game on the game five, I would have been in. And? And it was on Paragon, which this was like the fairest playing Paragon ever, I have to say. That's good. And that good game did not happen.
    46:07
    This happens a lot with me. At tournaments, it's a 50-50 shot. Sometimes I get in, sometimes I don't. Sometimes you feel like a nut. Yeah, sometimes you don't.
    46:21
    Donald can't do some games, some games. Too bad it wasn't Stargazer like last time. That would have been nice. Woulda, coulda, shoulda, but it wasn't. No, so I didn't get in. Eric Stone was the top qualifier. He didn't win and then post on Facebook on how he sucks again. Yes, he did. He's got to stop doing that. This is just his normal MO Yeah I love you Eric I known you for many years Post after the tournament after the whole tournament Yes after the whole tournament Yes You saying I suck I suck is just a mental way of you saying I have to take my mental energy bar down and do better.
    47:02
    I swear to God. And the winner of Classics was Bowen Cairns. Yes, Bowen did win. Congratulations, Bowen. So again, USA. You see a theme developing here. Yes, I'm starting to. So let's see. Because it is in California. Yes. What does that have to do with anything? It's USA.
    47:24
    We're defending the motherland. So the women's was won by Jane Verways. She's in Chicago. So I'm pretty sure.
    47:35
    USA. Yeah. All right. Now we're losing all of our Canadian listeners right now. All three of them are very upset with us right now. We lost Joe in the beginning. Oh, yeah, yeah. He's got a poor Joe C's case there.
    47:52
    You know, he's got more game than Coleco. Don't know that reference at all? No? No Kid Rock reference there? Okay. No, God, no. Okay, Sunday strikes, which was on Sunday. I was kind of pissed I got eliminated from this way too early, in my opinion. I didn't think I was going to win but winner according to this was Dustin Goldbarg congratulations and that was for money only because they couldn't do points because you know you couldn't have a tournament while it's a tournament you can't have a tournament while it's a tournament because the people are already in finals they can't play in this one so that's not fair to them I know that is the worst rule whiny bitches it's called a consolation tournament yeah it's consolation for the people who weren't as good as you. Exactly. They're still complaining. We still want the points. Fuck you. You people, they wonder why they hate tournament elites. I know. I kind of have to agree with that one. That was the bitchy, bitchy one. Bitchy, bitchy wine. You could just give them something there, you know. Give them a little bottle and a nipple.
    48:57
    A little, little, little. The crazy thing is, I played in the open, the main tournament, because it came with a package. Like, you get two open. So those are the only two entries I played. I got more points from that than anything I could ever get locally. Well, did you see there was somebody who did a stat? If you won the Open and you never played an IFPA before, never, you would be 275th in the world.
    49:24
    That's fucking broken. I got 20 points for just absolute shit. I was in the middle of the, yeah. Yeah, shit, shit, shit. Oh, hey, I got points. Woo! Yes. magical mystical points are coming your way the magical mystery points where did i finish in classics anyway let's see where where was i i didn't even look at the actual place here i am 53rd in classics wow you suck uh 53rd out of 281 so you were the top 20 about 28th 29th percentile. Yeah. Take that, bitch. So you still suck. You still suck. Oh, bite me. Because you know why? They weren't there Thursday. That's why you got the easy second and third again, you know. But, you know.
    50:19
    Whatever. It just didn't work. Okay. The B division winner. Yes, we'll do B. I'm doing all this because it's all easily accessible on the Neverdry site. It is very accessible. It's very easy to look this up. Galvin Morgan, congratulations. Congratulations. I don't know if you're from the USA.
    50:35
    Let's see. And then the winner of the Open, the big one, was Zach McCarthy from Colorado in the USA. The second major he's won. How many majors has the IFPA president won? None. Okay.
    50:52
    But in the top four was Tim Sexton. I know, our own little Timmy, who's retired. Who also retired. See, retirement does work, doesn't it, baby? He made a whole announcement on his retirement. I don't know why, but he made an announcement. He did. When he was there, I was like, wait a minute, aren't you retired? See? It works. Retirement's the way to go. If I had retired, I probably would have made classics. You would have made classics, but you didn't because you want to still be a professional pinball player. No, I'm not a professional pinball player. There is no such thing. It says Papa. Yeah, okay. Sure.
    51:29
    And then the winner of the high stakes. Ooh. was a Dalton Ely one. Yes, yes, Dalton from Atlanta. $15,000.
    51:43
    That's a lot of money. A lot of fucking money. Yeah, those people were insane playing in that. The games they had in that were just like, oh. That's why they do that, because there's no fun games. It's just, guess what? You're going to get this shit, and you're going to like it, and guess what?
    52:00
    You're going to like it. You're going to fucking like it, bitch. Yeah, what did they have in there? That's one thing I do love about those guys. They do like to modify and put the shittiest games ever into the big player tournaments. Black Knight Sword of Rage. Yes. Diamond Lady. Yes. F-14. Okay, we got a normal one in there. And a lot of people went to that F-14 all the time. Harley Davidson. Yes, I know. The Bally one. Was it Ride to Live? Live to Ride. Harley Davidson. Lady Luck. Yes.
    52:30
    Lucky Hand. Mm-hmm. Robocop, okay And Wheel of Fortune They didn't sell any of those in Europe Europeans don't know what that means They don't know Wheel of Fortune So that was InDisc Fun time was had by all It was So Bruce Yes. Are you ready for the ball bag? I guess so, because we have an announcement later on that's very important. Is it about a certain tournament? It is. A certain future tournament. Yes, I got that. I got it on the list. I just have to tease it a little bit. You've got to tease it. All right. So here we go. I got the ball bag ready. The ball bag's – yes. Okay.
    53:24
    Okay. Got to have the sounds, too. You've got to have the sounds. It's the beginning of the new year. New year. Yes, very important to have the sounds. So this is from Greg. Hello, Greg. It says, hey, guys, just finished listening to Sweet Emissions.
    53:38
    Oh, that was the episode title. And nearly drove off the road when I heard Bruce's goodbye. Oh, you said goodbye to him. Ah, see? I love this. Everyone, that is every, I love the reaction to get from everybody when you say their name. Because guess what? You're a fan of us. That's where it comes from. I love it. Spilt a beer and thought I hit an animal, but thankfully it was just a cyclist. Just kidding. Made my day, though. Love your work and keep it coming. Cheers, cunts. Thank you. Yes! Okay.
    54:12
    We got called the C word. I feel amazing. Honored. Fucking honored. All right. Let's see. Wait a second. Bruce barely ever says the C word, so that's good. That's true. This one's from Mike. Hi, Mike. It says, hi, Bruce and Ron. Thanks for the unexpected Christmas episode. Woo-hoo. It was like Hanukkah, Christmas, and all the other holidays, Festivus, all wrapped into one. Perfect timing for me on Boxing Day here in New Zealand. Ooh, yes, I love Boxing Day. I'm trying to get it in my work. I was on a big, long walk while the family were at the mall for the Boxing Day sales. Love the 1982 Twippy Awards. Brilliant. You need to do this again sometime. All the best for 2024. Cheers, Mike. Thank you, Mike. And thank you, Zach, for the idea. Yes, again. See, he has some good ideas every once in a while.
    55:06
    Yeah. This is from Kevin. What's up, gents? It's been a few months since I sent this, and I fell silent after you read it. Well, you know how life gets in the way sometimes. Anyways, it's finally done in entirety. I just posted all the before, during, and after pics to Facebook Pinball Enthusiast. Check it out. Uh-oh. I haven't checked it out.
    55:29
    That's the problem. A lot of times we just read these on the air before we actually, like we don't read these before. Yeah, I don't sit there every day like, ooh, we got three emails today. What do we got? I don't listen. I actually, I just told Ron before this, I never read the email unless somebody says, I sent you something, Bruce. Why even respond it? And then I'll look at it. Check it out and let me know your thoughts.
    55:50
    Well, go to Pinball Enthusiast and see if you can find it, Bruce. I'm really happy with how my first ground-up restoration went. Just out of curiosity, I would be interested to know your guys' take on the overall value. I know the market is currently all mucked up, but I would have no idea what to value it given the super limited rarity and restored condition, not that I'm ever planning to sell it. Love you guys and the show. Keep up the great work, and here's to 2024. Cheers. Okay, let me see if I can find it. So I'm going to go to Google. So Bruce will try to find it while I keep on going. Keep on going. You got to keep on going. I don't know how much would a champagne edition. Fire? Yeah. It's not the most desirable game. It's not the most desirable game, but it is a cool light show. It is a cool light show. I hate the side art. The side art is fucking hideous. The side art? Yeah. Isn't it just like a wood cabinet? Yeah, it's like a wood cabinet, which is hideous. With a detail on it. Yeah. it's just like ugh my buddy Chris who I went to uh Indisc with that's like his favorite game he loves fire fire but the first fire he ever played was the one at Fun Spot which was the champagne edition so now to him that's how it should look like if it doesn't have the fire animation in the back box it's just like not it's not right nah it's not right I'm still looking I can't find shit and Pinball Enthusiast is really he should have fucking sent us a link oh thank you listener as bruce insults you no i'm just saying i can't fuck you know how many people posted since christmas a lot holy fuck this next uh email is from uh robert it's as a longtime fan of the show and a competitive player always has to play against bruce oh he's local and ron when he's at the rpc shout out to all of the other players from the show who i play against sack steph but bruce made me play my last ball on whitewater it was a silly three strikes event and i knew i was taking my last strike i did a silly behind the back plunge and already told my competitors i was conceding the game after the first ball but bruce said he wouldn't i said get your fucking play but bruce said he would have been let down if i didn't try to play my last ball it was shit but my entire pinball playing career was put into perspective when he made sure i didn't give up and also thanks to bruce for bringing so many people into this wild hobby i learned my style from him oh oh play angry and quit playing competitively yes i gave the game double middle fingers and smiled all the way home happy new year hey rob thank you fuck that game i love that game well the problem was the first ball he did he plunged it i think it went hard it went all the way around and went right down the middle oh that happens you can't plunge hard yeah so that was his first ball and then my first ball because i was player two i got like up to 430 million he's like fuck all right you know i have to say compared to every podcast i listen to we must have the most emails either that they just don't read any of the one here yeah i like that we i think everyone else likes that they read it because guess we read them out because then they realize we're recognizing our fans. We love you people. Our fans. This is from Cole.
    59:06
    Cole says, Hello, gentlemen. Oh, who am I kidding? What's up, Cornholios? Yeah. Wanted to say thank you for doing the Christmas episode. Always look forward to a new episode. And you couldn't let the energy vampire close out the year. The energy vampire. Oh, God, Zach. The energy vampire.
    59:26
    To answer Bruce's question of where I take the fist in tournaments, Yeah. It's a great pinball-only place called Lens Arcade in Seaside, California. Nice. And they have streams all the time, too. They do. They have 41 machines ranging from EM to new games. The people that own it and work there are great, and it's a fun place to play. Nice. While listening and thinking about Bruce's tournament wins since his retirement, I think I have it figured out. When he shows up to play, people are just blinded by his aura of assomeness.
    59:58
    Assomeness? Assomeness. It doesn't say awesomeness. It says acidness. Acidness. That's a new fucking word. I love it. Like a Dwight Sullivan light show and can't see the ball to play. How dare Bruce criticize Dwight and use his tactics at the same time. Fuck yeah. While in previous emails I have agreed with one or the other about whether a game is a turd or not, I figured it would be fair, and I would make myself the target on this one. In my Modus 5 game collection, there is Spider-Man, because it has a soul. Very good. Iron Maiden Pro. Okay. Guardians of the Galaxy Pro.
    60:31
    Godzilla Pro. Good. Which you won for Project Pinball. And lastly, wait for it, Ghostbusters. Pro. Let the beatings commence. Okay, we'll be nice. It's better than the premium. Yes. While I know it has flaws.
    60:50
    Flaws? Holy fuck. I like the game. I wouldn't want the premium LE as I like how the pro plays better. Me too. It just goes to show that everyone has different tastes in what they like. Yep. Different strokes rule the world. Yes, it will. Yep. Different strokes rule the world. Some opinions are right. Some are wrong. And mine is right. Yes. Anyone can have an opinion on games, but opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one. Yeah, baby. Some just stink more than others. Yep. Oh, my. I love it. You don't have to read this if you don't want. Uh-oh. We always read it. Oh, sure. It doesn't say not to read it. But listening to you guys talk about Chrissy the Podcaster. Oh, no.
    61:27
    I figured I would look into it a little since I don't listen to him because it's not my kind of show. While looking at his Facebook page and seeing some of his stupid responses, I figured out his choice of hairstyle. It's so he can clean his colon while his head is up his ass. Ta-da! Hope you had a good New Year's and looking forward to more Assum episodes. Thanks, Cole. Assum is always here. Assum, yes. Yes, Assum is always here. I fucking love that. That is a winner right there. You're awesome, Bruce. I am awesome. Awesome. All right, here we go.
    62:03
    This one. Okay, this next one's from Glenn. Oh, he says cue the intro music. It's for Turd or Treasure. So here we go. We'll play the Turd or Treasure intro.
    62:25
    I didn't know there was a Turd and Treasure theme song. Yes, that's Glenn's theme song for Turd and Treasure. It says, Ron and Bruce, time to ramp this up. Maybe we need to put a beloved game from the show in the crosshairs of commodes and chests. Yeah, the return of the venerable series Turd or Treasure. The search for clarity requires our diligence. Ignorance is a choice, so let's choose action. get your pinside account verified and review the classic gottlieb countdown this poor machine what the fuck on pinsiders top 100 that's not on the top one that's fucked up holy the fuck a la rue so yes immediately you need to get immediately get on pinside and vote for countdown holy fuck a la rue and while you're at it pharaoh and robo war still need one vote Oh, fuck me. Come on. Give them the votes.
    63:19
    Don't make me threaten show code or listener ethics, Glenn. But the fucking thing is, the problem I have with this is, Countdown is one of the top three system ones.
    63:33
    Let's see. System ones, we have Countdown, probably Sinbad, Joker, Poker. Those are your three. Done. Oh, yeah. That's probably it. Ignore every fucking other one. Yeah, you probably could. Yeah. Being totally honest, yes.
    63:49
    Yeah, I'd go with that. I can't think of any other system ones that are at the level of those three. Nope. Is Genie a system one? Yes. Okay, I'd go for it. Or Genie. Oh, wow. You're going to put Genie. Oh, man. I like Genie. You've been infected by Zach with the Genie thing. I have been, because the Genie bug, it's actually a pretty good game.
    64:09
    Well, how are you loving my countdown? Countdown rules. See? Awesome. if you fix everything on it and made it all perfect Iranisms that you like yeah except for the breaking targets I don't know I don't get it that's from PBR you know I don't get it okay this next one's from Greg says hi guys I did a quick search on the URL for the princess bride oh the princess bride pinball machine site which is the princess bride pinball dot com based off of this I was wondering if it may be a company started by throster Hoss Colson. God bless you. Yes. Because that's right. It's in Iceland. It's registered in someone in Iceland.
    64:52
    Not that I want to spread rumors, but interesting nonetheless. Thanks for the podcast. Totally enjoying it. Even that bonus Christmas episode. For the record, I didn't ask for it. However, I didn't know I needed it. Happy New Year. See? So, yeah, maybe he's the guy that's making the kit. Who knows?
    65:13
    But I heard it is for the P3. It's just not done by Multimorphic. Gotcha. Okay, this one just came in yesterday. It's from the bastard son of Pinbot again.
    65:26
    Pinbot stranded. Greetings, Ronald the Second and Bruce the First. That's not right.
    65:35
    Why is it not right? I'm not the first. You're the second? I'm the second. You're the second, too. Actually, I'm technically not a second because I'm not a junior. I am a junior. But Bruce is a junior. It's so weird. Reverse that. Yes.
    65:49
    First off, maybe it's supposed to be pinball. Let's see. First off, I am still impatiently waiting the response to Stu over a friendly game of Doodle. I think even he hates Doodle Buck. As it seems like this is not a game to his liking, I will extend to offer to any game at the FFF, the local, that is fun, funner, funnest. they did change the name and i am not making that up i look this up he's not making that up oh my god they changed it because it was like family friends and whatever the hell it was before now it's fun now it's fun it's the local fff which stands for fun funner funnest how about fuck you fucking freak there's a there's a y in there bruce that doesn't fuck you is one word Oh, fuck you is one word. Yeah, it is in this one. Okay.
    66:41
    Also, a few episodes back, you were discussing Slam Tilt Chronicles fans being called Slam Tilt Chronicles. Oh, yes. Not Slam Tilt fans. No, no. Silver. You mean Silver Ball Chronicles? Silver Ball Chronicles. Cronies. My other show that I'm on with David Dennis, where we talk about pinball history, as can be heard on the Pinball Network. Okay, everyone, get your douche chills seats and suits on. the cronies is the fucking worst word ever I thought cronies and you said it and you have said it I thought cronies would be better because it's spelled like cronies but you're a crony but no he said cronies he's a douche chilling so what does the pinbot think of it the bastard pinbot yeah bastard son of pinbot continues I would like to create a name for the slam tilt fans can we call ourselves slam tilt devotees or STD for short.
    67:42
    How about slam tilt dickheads? I like that too. No, devotees is better. No, dickheads. I like better dickheads. Because it doesn't have a swear in it, but then if you use the initials, it's bad. I like that better.
    67:56
    What do you vote, people? Dickheads? Devotees. Okay, slam tilt devotees or slam dilt. Yeah, dilt. slam tilt dickheads or something else that begins with slam tilt douches uh no we don't want to be fucking awesome yeah you're so please write us at slam tilt podcast at gmail.com that's slam tilt podcast at gmail.com and you know we're going to read it out and we're going to read out so what d would you like slam tilt what because it has who wants the d it has to be stds it has i got it i got it nope i have the new one uh slam tilt diabetes no you gotta say it like diabetes she wanted the d and i gave her the diabetes god so did you find kevin's um champagne edition no not at all i went back five days it is like 500 posts in send us some pictures yes yes post them post in the slam to podcast on facebook Or just send us a link and we'll look at them in the next episode. Yes. We'll be back in a couple weeks, I think. Won't we? I think so. Yeah, I think so. Unless I have a heart attack or something. Why do you even say something like that? It happens. You might just have really bad hemorrhoids and you can't sit down that day. I stand when I'm talking. I'm standing right now. Oh. Okay. Maybe I have hemorrhoids.
    69:22
    All right. Let's see. What else do I got here? That was the ball bag. Oh. Okay, Bruce. It's all empty. Mm. You got a towel. Oh, God.
    69:36
    Okay, Bruce, if you want to talk about that big event that's coming up. The big event. That's not coming up until May. Save the date. Well, you have to save the date for this. Do you mean the date that you put in the thing wrong? Yes, and then I fixed it. Joe C. Thank you, Joe C.
    69:51
    May 16th through the 19th. It is a Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Four days. Four days of tournaments at Rochester Pinball Collective. Specifically what tournament?
    70:05
    It is Stomp West 6. The search for undiscovered whoppers That was good I fucking thought that was awesome Unfortunately we going to run out of the Star Trek movies eventually No we still have Generations and all the other shit. But yes, the original movies, this is it. But Undiscovered Whoppers, I thought of that in like two seconds like, that's a fucking awesome name because we are fucking we're now using the Undiscovered Whoppers. So it's going to be a four-day tournament. So let me pull up my email from Zach because Zach is actually the TD of this. Oh, our Zach. So you know it's going to be fun. Yes. Yeah. How is this going to work? It is not fully verified yet because we haven't put anything through our FPA yet. And we haven't figured out the full cost yet, but it will be a good thing. But I don't know if I can make it Thursday, Bruce. You don't have to. It's all different. One price pays all. You will cover everything. One price so I can pay the price for the thing I won't be able to get to? Yes, if you cannot. But if you can make it, you get a bonus. So Thursday at 6 p.m. will be a three-strike Stern Army bonus tournament. That's the bonus. Bonus tournament. Yep. It gives you free entry to the RPC for all four days. This tournament will also. Friday from 545 to 1030 will be a Classics Frenzy. 15 games, two hours. And then after that, it will be 20 games total for 2.5 hours of the Frenzy. and in the top 12 finals, 2.5 hours. We're thinking for classics. What kind of finals format? I don't know yet. Zach didn't put that in the thing. Okay. So to be determined. Yep. Saturday, the newest thing for a stomp tournament. Okay. So this is the official stomp tournament is Saturday. It's the official. But before 1030, it's the first ever women's tournament for a stomp. so we're going to have qualifying for women from 10 30 to 1 15 so in the morning yep in the morning and then after that from 2 to 11 is main qualifying just like we do for normally for every stomp no finals that day so saturday will be a non-finals day oh the finals will be sunday sunday so uh sunday main finals then we'll have that'll be early that'll be at 9 30 we'll do main finals then a lunch break then second two rounds will be the final finals then after that we'll have the women's finals and then after that oh no we're gonna have a six strike head-to-head holy shit yes one price pays all it's gonna be you're gonna discover some undiscoverable Whoppers up in upstate New York. So basically you're doing the District 82 thing, but at RBC. Yes, we are. That's literally what that is. It is. And thank you, Eric, for your ideas and being there and everything like that. We love it. It's going to be limited. We are going to limit this to 64 people max. So we'll get the 48 double. We'll get the Whopper bonuses for the 48 plus people. I don't think you're going to have issues with that number. I don't think so either. No. Four days. We're still figuring out the price. We're talking about the breakdowns and everything right now. It's, you know, we're actually, literally, this was given to me from Zach last night at 937. So what's going to happen is, it's going to be, I know when we figure out the pricing, it's going to be pay one price, you get your money back the first 30 days. If you can't make it, you change your mind, that kind of stuff. After that, we're going to do sanctum rules, which is going to be after 30 days, 25% you lose of your money. 30 days, you know, like 60 days to go, you only get half your money back. 90 days you get after the you know before 30 days are up you get nothing back sorry i just can't deal with you know so many people and that kind of stuff i'll give you you know if you're in and you can't make it first 30 days you can jump out after that you're going to take a hit it's a lot easier a lot simpler for all of us and it might even make a bigger pot for everyone else but you No, we're trying to get 64 people up here. Good thing is, here's the big bonus. Unlike last year, there is nothing going on in Rochester that weekend. There's no golf tournament. There's no Lilac Festival. Lilac Festival is a big festival in the beginning. It's two weeks after Allentown. It's one week before the amazing race out in Ohio. Come see us, hopefully. So what's the dates again? It is May 16th through the 19th. We're going to hopefully, I'm talking this week to two hotels locally to get hopefully a block of rooms for cheaper. And we have lots of food options around us, too. That's the good thing. If you do want to go get something to eat and that kind of stuff. There's a Taco Bell right in front. Taco Bell. We have Wendy's. We have two pizza places within walking distance. All kinds of horribly bad for you food. Yes. Three pizza places within walking distance. And we have a new deli. Well, it's a Burn Dairy. And they have ice cream and they have everything right down the road, and it's open 24-7. So even if we go late, you want something to eat afterwards, you can go get a garbage plate or you can go get the burned dairy pizza.
    75:21
    So we have a lot of options. But this is something we've been planning on for a while. Once we found a good date that most of us can do, not all of us at the RPC, we're now pushing for this. So save the date. I'm going to announce it, like, hopefully in a week or two with pricing. Next week after that or a week after, we will figure out what the day is to actually do the tickets. And it's going to be first come, first serve.
    75:48
    And I hope everyone can come up because it will be the biggest one. And I will guarantee one more thing with this. The winner will get a belt for the main. Yes. So there will be a belt. what picture will we have on it? It's all up to you guys. We'll figure this all out.
    76:10
    Maybe the old picture. Are you playing in it? I do not know yet. See, I will not be. Okay. Ron's going to be not playing in it. Why not? Yes, I will not be playing. Why not? Because I will not. Are you going to be there? I will be there. Okay. Yes. Okay, that's a good thing. I probably will not be playing in it, especially if we get 64 people. I feel like I would rather devote it to my friends and family. The stream, bro. Just run the stream. That's what I'm going to do. I think that would be the easiest way. And then we can always be playing and that kind of stuff and having a good time. And fixing games. And fixing games and doing everything else.
    76:49
    So for me, it's up in the air if I'm playing. I might play in one or two of them. Like I might play in the Thursday strikes. So what you're saying is this is going to be the premier upstate New York event. No, it's not. Oh. It's not because we have the beast. Oh, okay. Jeff and Jeff is a friend of mine, and I'm bringing games to that, of course. Okay. We have the second premier. Yes. Because there's no limit on his. There's a limit on ours. We have 64 people. Max, it will be. And we want everyone to have a great time. So once we figure out the pricing, we'll post it on the Facebook page. There is an event already up. So if you want to follow that, we have an event on the Slamtail podcast. So follow that. Get your information. Tell your friends. Tell your family. Hey, more people drive out. Guess what? Come on out. Airport. We have an international airport right in Rochester. So we are. Is it international as Albany is? No. We actually have a flight that goes international. Oh, okay. Yeah, because we don't. We don't. Yes, you have a regional. It says international. Albany International Airport because they went to Toronto once, but they don't anymore. But they still kept the international, which is complete bullshit. Yeah. We have a flight that goes to Toronto every day. So although I went to Indisc and I was able to actually fly, not a direct flight, but I was actually able to fly from Albany and get to Ontario, California. So I didn't have to do LAX. I didn't have to rent a car. God, it was so much better. It saved so much money.
    78:20
    Well, you probably didn't save much money because the flight was probably more. No. It wasn't? No. It was around the same as going to LAX. Wow. That's pretty good. American has added some flights. Oh, okay. Like there is a direct flight now from Albany to DFW, Dallas. So when I go to the Texas Pinball Festival, for the first time ever, I can get a direct flight. I've never been able to do that. Nicey, nicey. Yes. So everyone, I hope you do come out. I hope we have a great time. It's going to be a big undertaking for us. It's going to be our first big, big tournament. We had 40 people there once or twice. 64 will be better. We're going to actually open up, I think, the back room where our repair area is, move the games out of there, and just have like a seating area so people can sit and have more seats. Ah, good idea. Good idea. But just more seats there, more. So we'll tell people if you want to bring a seat, that kind of stuff. We have only like 15 or 20 seats in the room. It's going to be a great time. I've always wanted to do a big tournament.
    79:19
    I've been in, you know, I've done it with Jeff at the Beast. I'm going to be doing it this year with Jeff at the Beast. Just, you know, Jeff has the premier upstate tournament right now. I want to make it so we get to that level eventually. Hopefully, with after expansion, we'll be able to go up and do something even bigger, Mr. Sharp. Wink, wink, hint, hint. Because I've had a talk. I've had a talk with him. Oh, okay. Oh, yeah. Because he likes that we have a lot of different games.
    79:46
    No, you definitely have that. You've got some weird shit there. We have some weird shit. Plus, we have also in our basements, we have enough to make even weirder. Like, right now at the RPC, we brought new games in. Ah.
    80:02
    Doodlebug. Ugh. Okay. Do you bring any good new games in? Cosmos. Oh, oh. Okay, I like Cosmos. I love Cosmos. Zipper Flipper, Bally, awesome game. What else have we brought in the past couple of weeks?
    80:19
    Forget what else. There's one other one we brought in. Ron, do your favorite Crypt Keeper. Oh, Tales from the Crypt? Yes. Really? Yes. Oh, I have a bow to pick with you. Yep.
    80:33
    Yes, nice. Yep, so we're getting some different things in. You don't see many on location. The last one I actually played. I like Tales from the Crypt. So did I. The last one I used to play was at Papa. The last one I played was at District 82. Yeah, exactly. Oh, District 82 also. So, yeah, so you see we have a lot of games to pull from. Like if I had to go into my basement right now or from Ron's house because I have my countdown there.
    80:59
    I didn't forget that, Ron. We have split second. I can pull out. I can pull out big game. I can pull out Stargazer. We already have one at the RPC. You pull out a lot. I do. Freefall, Ali. I can pull out The Fist.
    81:14
    And I can even bring out, if I have permission from somebody, a beautiful Solar Fire. and that's you know some of my games in the basement that i can pull out and zach's got a ton and so does one of our other members and hopefully by then we might have a little bit of alien star action yeah oh gotta love me some alien star we love some alien star so that's the big announcement yeah as i said follow the facebook page really tightly and also follow our event for that because I'll be posting towards that. Oh, and one more thing I want to say. It's anything subject to change until fully posted. Oh, yeah. Conditioned subject to change until fully posted. There you go. Yes.
    81:58
    If you want to see both of us, we always say this every time we're together in an event, you have a chance this Saturday. Yes.
    82:08
    Well, you can't see us because they're only allowing the 24 people in. Oh, never mind. Okay. but we will be together at the actually three of us all three of us will be together oh even the third host sack yes or the co-host sack i should say co-host sack um yes we will be at the new york state finals championship state championships yeah the state champ whatever the fuck it's called and it's going to be uh two days one is for uh men on the saturday no no one One is open, and the other one is women's. Yes, sorry. People will get on your case big time. It will be at Skill Shot in Syracuse. Yes.
    82:47
    And, yeah, state finals. Yep, a lot of good people are there. The retired Bruce got in. Yep, for retirement. Yeah. Who do you play? You don't know who you play yet, first round. Yeah, because I think I have a bye. Yes, first top eight have a bye. Yeah, I have a bye. Yep. I get to play Alberto San. Oh, God. You're done. No, I'm not. No, I get to play first all the time because he'll just pick second all the time. Well, yeah, you're right. You'll get to pick all the games. Yes, exactly. Because he always defers. He always defers until he's behind. Yes. When he's behind, then he'll pick. Then he'll actually pick a game. Otherwise, he picks last over and over and over. Over and over and over again. So, yes. So, I'll be able to pick first, even though I'm the lower seed. I know this for a fact.
    83:32
    Looking forward to that. Hopefully I can get past one round. Hopefully I can too, because you only make $6 after the first round, because you've got to pay $25 to get in.
    83:42
    And then it's $31 for – which I feel like the money's down this year. Oh, the – Yeah, because we had two big tournaments with the Beast and with New York. We're no Washington, that's for sure. Oh, or some other states. We were like one of the top five or six. Now we're like – I think we're ninth or tenth. Yeah, no one's close to Washington. They're like nine grand. I know. It's like ridiculous. Redonky donk. Redonkulous. All right. I think that's all I got here. You think that's all in the money bag and everything else? Yeah, I got nothing else. You got nothing else. So where can they find us? They can find us at www.slamtiltpodcast.com. Check out our website. All our episodes are there. All our links are there in the upper right-hand corner. If you want to send us correspondence to the ball bag, you can send it to slamtillpodcast at gmail.com. That's slamtillpodcast at gmail.com. You got anything else you want to plug? Oh, do we have any repairs? We usually do repairs. Well, we have a couple of repairs that came into the building from customers. Ah. And the first one I have for myself, actually, is the Stern Hi-Hand. I have an SB-100 card that if I power the game up, it just locks up the CPU because something's wrong with the SB-100 sound card. You disconnect the cables. Guess what boots my game? This thing was a roach I picked up. Not a bad game, but not a great game. But I do have an NOS playfield for it, so I might actually be stupid and to put that in the playfield swap area. Hmm, hmm.
    85:30
    But I'm almost done with Quicksilver. Next after that will be a Stargazer for part of my game, and we'll go from there. But the game we have that came in is a Dracula.
    85:43
    The Stern one. No. Oh, BSD. Okay, Bram Stoker. Yeah, this thing is just a roach because the guy said, when I got it, it was all apart, and I didn't know how to put it back together. 13 billion.
    86:00
    Well, it's already got, when we found out yesterday, we got it in, we put it, set it up. One coil's locked on. Ooh. The main rail, where it holds the balls for lock, and it, you know, kicks out and kicks them up and down. That coil's locked on and frozen. The missed motor is completely dead. Well, not completely dead. It goes like...
    86:21
    Your puny efforts amuse me. Yeah. A couple optos are bad on it. We fixed the flippers yesterday. It was a stupid thing. But, yeah, that's going to be a fun challenge the next couple weeks. And you know what we get next week to work on? What? Are you going to see it, Ron? What? Possibly if you came out?
    86:40
    Shaq. Oh, Shaq attack. Yeah. The Gottlieb classic. The Gottlieb System 3 classic. Yeah, so that should be fun. He's got a lot of issues with that. He's emailed me. I said, I'm not going to be there the 20th when you drop it off. He's like, not a problem. We'll call. You can call me afterwards. So he's going to drop it off, and we'll go from there. Mm-hmm. Shack attack. Was he the one who didn't get paid? No, that was Frank Thomas. Yes, Frank Thomas. Yeah, when they went bankrupt or whatever. Yeah, they still owed him money for his game. Yes, they did. Yeah. Thanks, guys. Thanks for fucking me. He lost so much money, he had to get testosterone replacement therapy. Yes. and then have to show everyone that, you know, I have this problem, but I use this. Oh, look, it's Frank Thomas. He looks so good these days.
    87:30
    He does. It's so scary how they do that stuff. So, yes, save the date. Come on up. You come visit the beautiful Rochester Pinball Collective and meet all three hosts of the Slam Tilt Podcast. Okay. Including Glenn. Glenn, get your ass up here.
    87:52
    Nap Arcade, get your ass up here. All these people, get your ass up here. Get your ass up here. All you people in California, get your ass over here. Let's go. Come on. If we get one out of Stater that's that far away, guess what? I'll be very happy. I mean. We might get something for Chicago. I was at Indisc. Yeah. And that's last weekend. So now this weekend, there's the big tournament in the Delaware Pinball Collection. where they had all the whatever, the previous winners and all that. And I'm watching it, and it's like, wow, half these people I just saw in California. It's like, they'd just go anywhere for tournament action. I want to say congratulations to Greg Pavarelli, who did not go to IndyS, but won in a bigger way. Oh, what did he win? He won a lot of money in a Texas Hold'em tournament.
    88:42
    So congratulations, Greg. Yeah, he's a good poker player. He really enjoys it. And guess what? He was a poker player. He was like a top-ranked – what was it? What's that? The thing I don't understand how to play. Magic the Gathering or whatever with the cards and all that? He was like a pro-level player there. He's good with his hands. What does that even mean? Isn't it more of your brain, Bruce?
    89:04
    No. No? He's flipping the card down. He's flipping the card – okay. He's flipping the card down in – he's flipping in the pinball machine. He's flipping all the way. Okay. oh and i just want to say at indisc i want to i want to thank penny she gave me some more lyman stickers and some more pins oh that's cool i wore it during my announcing i got to announce the classics it was like the opposite of last time where we had the cheetah game that went forever yeah they picked all these crazy games they were all fast and we were done like boom like that nice Nice. Yeah, but I had my Lyman pin on. Nice. And my Slam Tilt sweater. Nice. Yes. Free advertising for the 10,000 people that are watching, Bruce. I'm sure our ratings will just skyrocket this next episode. Skyrocket! Did they put you as like Ron Hallett and then it says underneath, podcaster? It said Slam Tilt podcast underneath. Nice. Not that other podcast.
    90:01
    Yes, yes. I told Mr. Teolis, well, he put that under there and I confirmed that with him because I knew you would be upset. Yes, I would. If it didn't say Slam Tilt and if it said Silver Ball Chronicles, you'd be pissed. I would have fucking just banned you right then and there. I actually thought it would have been funny if it put not Stu McVicker underneath me. That would have been funnier. That would have been funnier, but no one would have known what that meant. Yes. So, yes. Yes. Okay.
    90:28
    Well, Ron, Happy New Year. We're ready for the new exciting year of pinball. Yes. Looking forward to all the new games and being just super positive. Positive, because that's what we're all about here. I wasn't negative today, was I? Not too negative, no. No, so that's positive. Yeah. You didn't yawn at all either, which is weird. Well, it is 1130 in the afternoon. I know. Kind of late. I expected some yawns. No, no, no. I slept only until six today. Ah, okay. Only six. Only six you got up. Wow. Well, normally it's three. Yeah, exactly. Wow. Three more hours of sleep. You must be just full of energy. Yeah, I've got to work tomorrow, too. Oh. No, it's two and a half times pay. Oh, because it's a holiday. It's a holiday.
    91:14
    Thank you, Bee Gees. Yes. Oh, sorry. Okay. Hey. I think that's it. Is it? Bye to everyone. Hi, everyone in the Clusterfuck. Yes, hi, guys. Fun with Bonus. Pinball Princess. Hi, Zach. Dr. and Mrs. Penn, Dr. Penn. Yes. I got to listen to you in that latest Super Awesome Pinball episode. Mrs. Penn jumped on as soon as she saw her picture from the shirt, from the Slam Tilt podcast shirt. She jumped on and said, I know that shirt. The one I posted. Oh, you mean your Beavis and Butthead Slam Tilt shirt. Yes. You have one, too. I have the Gene Simmons shirt. No, the George Takei shirt. Yes. Oh, my.
    91:57
    Okay. Bruce, you got the name? I have the name. Oh, you got the name. All right. Well, thanks, everybody. This has been Episode 222 of the Slam Tilt Podcast. Until next time, say goodbye, Bruce. Goodbye, Chad Conwin.
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    Hold my mind. Can you boogie? Can you slide? Hold my mind. You can boogie. If you try, hold my mind, hold my mind It's guaranteed to keep you alive Meteor! Level Zero! Clusterfuck! Joystickai! Jim Balls! Bruce Isms! Tournament Talk! Carholer! Cheetah! Xanadu! Cash Grab, ELO, Ball Bank, What You Buy It, Game You Love, Game You Hate, Turnitalk, Pinball Princess, Sir! Oh my!
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    Oh my! Boom, boom, chika, chika, chika