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F@%k It Friday has Returned

Poor Man's Pinball Podcast·podcast_episode·held·Nov 26, 2021
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TL;DR

Poor Man's Pinball reflects on 109 episodes, community impact, and future plans.

Summary

Poor Man’s A Pinball Podcast "F@%k It Friday" episode features hosts Ian and Drew reminiscing about the show's 109-episode history, discussing early interviews (Dan Lucen, Eric Priepke, Neil from PinQuest), their growth from episodes 1-30, community feedback at Expo and MGC, and upcoming plans including a Facebook Live "Poor Man's Happy Hour" and studio setup improvements. The hosts reflect on their favorite moments, community building, and Ian's recent departure from Facebook due to social media fatigue.

Key Claims

  • The Dan Lucen interview was their worst interview by far, where they drank extensively and it became awkwardly bad, with Ian editing out most of the original ending

    high confidence · Ian and Drew discussing the Dan Lucen/MGC interview from episode ~20-25

  • Episodes 1-30 showed their early progression figuring out the format, with episode 30 being around when they 'hit their stride'

    high confidence · Drew and Ian discussing their early episode progression and technical improvements

  • They walked into MGC and Expo with strong reputation and confidence, with Ian noting people reached out wanting to be on the show

    high confidence · Ian discussing his ability to call people and get them on the show after Expo/MGC appearances

  • Ian has a new job that started this year and is adjusting to balancing the podcast with his career

    high confidence · Ian mentioning new job multiple times, people at work asking about the podcast, and Drew noting the basement has clutter from his new responsibilities

  • Poor Man's Pinball Podcast Tribe and Fan page have growing daily engagement with consistent commenters

    high confidence · Ian noting the pages are 'lit up every single day' with regular commenters on 90% of posts

Notable Quotes

  • “Talking pinball is great, but what we do best is talking shit.”

    Ian @ early in episode — Defines the podcast's core identity and appeal

  • “We are trailblazers. Trailblazers, baby.”

    Ian (with Drew agreement) @ mid-episode — Self-aware humor about the edible underwear episode being unique in podcast history

  • “You don't call out a no-hitter. You don't do it.”

    Ian @ later segment — Ian's analogy for why they shouldn't keep mentioning Paul Rudd doesn't age, referencing baseball superstition

  • “I can't tell you enough about expo and how fucking great that was.”

    Ian @ late episode — Reflects the transformative impact of attending Pinball Expo on the podcast and hosts

  • “It's the little tribe that we created that is so much fun. It's growing.”

    Drew @ final segment — Expresses pride in community building despite not necessarily growing in numbers

Entities

IanpersonDrewpersonPoor Man's Pinball Podcastorganization[name withheld pending review]personEric PriepkepersonNeilpersonJason SchmidtpersonPriscillaperson

Signals

  • ?

    content_signal: Poor Man's Pinball conducting deep retrospective of 109 episodes, analyzing growth trajectory and community impact

    high · Ian and Drew discussing episode progression from 1-30, reviewing intro changes, reflecting on interviews

  • ?

    community_signal: Strong organic community growth with daily engagement on Tribe and Fan pages; strangers recognizing hosts at Expo/MGC wearing merchandise

    high · Ian noting pages 'lit up every single day', people wearing Poor Man's shirts/hats at events, consistent commenters

  • ?

    personnel_signal: Ian's recent job change affecting podcast production capacity; basement studio needs cleanup and upgrades; Drew managing more technical tasks

    high · Ian mentioning new job started this year, basement clutter from restoration projects, Drew taking over editing duties

  • ?

    event_signal: Pinball Expo and MGC had major positive impact on podcast visibility and community connections; hosts making industry contacts and gaining fan recognition

    high · Ian repeatedly praising Expo, meeting Schmitty/Priscilla, industry figures approaching for interviews, people wearing merch

  • ?

    content_signal: Dan Lucen interview became cautionary tale about drinking during interviews; Eric Pripke interview more successful; Neil from PinQuest noted as most gracious guest

    high · Ian calling Dan Lucen 'worst interview by far', discussing editing out awkward endings, praising Neil's generosity

Transcript

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0:00
All right, welcome to fucking Friday ain't got shit to do today. It's Friday Let's get crazy after after Turkey Day to after Turkey Day. Well, how's everyone doing? Is everyone safe and sound after Turkey Day? I hope so man. I really do This is Ian and with me as always is Drew Drew, you know, I mean I started this show years ago and I just decided I was gonna bring Drew along because You know, we got to poke fun of somebody on the show. Oh, is that what happened?
0:35
It's really my brainchild. Talking pinball is great, but what we do best is talking shit. So I drank three glasses of this honey jack, and you know what?
0:50
This was a full bottle when I started. It's half gone. Holy fuck. You know what? We're killing it. I'm ready to kill it, man. We are. Let's do it. Let's get crazy. And I have some great things.
1:01
I ate pizza rolls for dinner. Can I talk? Yeah, go ahead. Let me just go crazy. Go ahead. So my wife and my daughter have been at my in-laws for the last two nights. Ian's a bachelor. I've been a bachelor for two nights. And what does that entail? Eating terribly, number one.
1:22
And watching bad TV. Like, my TV, like, all I watch is Fortune Fire. I just watch people make knives all day or all night. And then I, like, I stopped it. I was like, I can't watch another episode. I watched, like, six of these episodes. I got to stop. And then I – cool show, by the way. Literally, it's a time competition on knife making. Fucking cool. Anyway, it's on Netflix. Anyway, so I – Is this the segment? What did you watch this week? I stopped. I stopped, and I was trying to find a movie. like a rated r movie i'm like oh no three-year-old around i'm going crazy i'm gonna watch a horror movie something crazy i'm surfing for like an hour oh you did that how long you know what i watch isn't that crazy you know what i ended up watching what's that fortune fire i i checked for an hour and this is what i this is my life so i've been just eating terribly like look tonight i ate at four o'clock my dinner because i got home early and i was hungry i was like i'm just gonna make some pizza rolls and i i i judged for a family of three and i i ate for a family of two yeah and i was like why did i make so many pizza rolls i felt so sick and drew uh i texted you earlier today i was like hey man dude that's podcast fuck it that was the best text i got all month by the way and and he was like yeah all right dude so he's like i'll text you a time so i'm like it's four o'clock i make all these damn pizza rolls i maul them it's like we're coming in at five o'clock here i'm starting to get passed out on the couch i am falling asleep andrew calls me or texts me hey does six o'clock seem all right it's fucking five o'clock let me set the scene for you guys the bar is a disaster did you ever have that moment in your life where you had a party the night before a house party or whatever, and you woke up and you went downstairs or went into your living room and you saw the aftermath? Well, I came down here and I was like, it was three years of poor man's football podcasting aftermath. It was so bad, dude. I'm picking up edible underwear off the ground.
Ryan Kuiperperson
Jeff Pattersonperson
Mike Williamsperson
Jason Fowlerperson
Pinball Expoevent
MGCevent
Ghostbusters: Afterlifeproduct
Paul Ruddperson
Keanu Reevesperson
Harold Ramisperson
Dan Aykroydperson
Bill Murrayperson
Ernie Hudsonperson
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product_strategy: Podcast transitioning from interview-heavy format to multiple content types: shorter one-off opinion pieces, Facebook Live 'Poor Man's Happy Hour', studio setup improvements

high · Ian discussing solo episodes, guest spots, shorter format content, Facebook Live plans, basement studio upgrades

  • ~

    sentiment_shift: Ian leaving Facebook due to social media toxicity and negative interactions; preferring direct community engagement; broader anti-Facebook sentiment expressed

    high · Ian leaving Facebook, describing it as 'caustic' and eating at his soul, noting negative responses to benign opinions

  • ?

    community_signal: Multiple people reaching out wanting to be co-hosts or regular contributors; Ian preferring guest appearances and selective partnership over immediate replacement

    high · Ian mentioning multiple people wanting to be co-hosts, joking about selection process, preferring guest spots with right chemistry

    • 3:36
    I'm picking up fucking beaver nuggets I'm finding. I found... Did I tell you the edible underwear story? Not yet. Sorry. Okay, go ahead. Not yet. Go ahead. I'll put it down there. I'm sweeping up shit we did two years ago. Like, what happened down here? Like, it was a disaster in the best way. So many memories came flooding back. I, like, I tripped over a, goddammit, like, the fake Christmas light Oktoberfest, remember, that guy sent in? This basement harbors so many great memories for both of us. there was like chewed up coasters and I'm like, I'm sitting here like, what happened that night? You know, like what is going on? The floor is sticky, no doubt. Well then, yeah, beer exploded, so I had to mop. So I'm mopping down here and I'm just moving things around. There's so many bottle caps.
    4:31
    A bottle was stuck to the goddamn wood on our table. I think I took off the veneer or whatever, the clear coat on this table. Oh, this table, I took everything off this table to wipe it down. Yeah. all the stuff that I was like, oh my God, it's disgusting. I, I wiped it down. Nothing came up.
    4:51
    So this is the look of this table. We should auction this table off. Yes. You can hang this on your wall. Like a burn marks. There's, there's, there's just gouges. There's, there's, there's coaster ring. Oh my God. If this table could talk, man, Jesus. So, so yeah, I, I did a lot. And then, uh, yeah, Drew showed up. I'm sweating balls. and i'm like he's like oh yeah basement looks good dude i'm like hopefully like yeah it's there's still like clutter oh that's so bad it's clean no because ian usually does a really good job keeping this thing but with his new job and stuff like there's just shit and you know he he restored that creature so that like just parts everywhere shit everywhere still got a lot of creature parts i found shit here that i was like oh i never put that on the yes yes i gotta work on a lot of stuff yet creature's not done apparently i i found a whole nother box of creature shit so oh my god um but it's working still by the way update creature still works just as good as when i finished restoring it which i can't say the same for the laser war so uh creature we'll talk about your deadpool but uh that pool's not going anywhere okay that's cool unless you got money but the laser war will yeah get that out okay i'll get laser war out i'll get her working for you but welcome to fucking friday fucking friday but i gotta tell you the quick story then about edible underwear edible underwear tell me baby so when i was at expo yes um you know schmitty jason schmidt yeah uh zach's best friend yeah like childhood friend yeah and i got to meet him in person great dude right he's real he's real reserved and quiet just a really nice guy i I didn't quit this podcast because we were eating edible underwear, by the way. And I met his wife, Priscilla. She's so sweet, so cute. Priscilla, shout out. Shout out. So she said, oh, you're one of the poor men. And I said, yep, that's me, kind of cautiously, right? And she goes, I said, have you listened? She goes, no, I haven't. I said, okay. And then we were drinking. This was, I think, Saturday night at Expo. And we're all pretty drunk. We're in the lobby of the hotel. There's a bunch of people. We're just having a good time. and she said well she goes people tell me I gotta listen and I said yeah you do but I cautioned her I said listen I said here's the deal and I reminded her like five times because I've been thinking because actually like people at my new job and stuff they ask me about it you know I'm of course I want to tell them and I do I'm like you know I'm excited about it exactly that's the word we're super proud of it but I say here's the deal if you only listen to one episode first off it can't be just the edible underwear episode and here's why i said i said it's a great episode it's one of my favorite episodes ever it was one of our last episodes it's great but you need context so so here i am telling this beautiful sweet woman priscilla i'm like here's the deal i'm like yes i want you to watch the edible underwear episode it's great like once again it's fantastic but understand how yes yes i said i said you need to at least watch or listen to we get any feedback on that i never even looked oh there's a ton yeah do they like it or is it oh no it's it's well received but here's the problem if so so i started this new job this year right and if somebody like watches the edible underwear episode they're gonna be like drew's a fucking psychopath and this this ian guy i have no fucking idea what he's all about so i said here's the deal you have to at least give it like three episodes right because if you go back a couple episodes you start getting some context for what's happening if you just watch us eating edible underwear in front of a camera with people like and and and it's not even it's not even us what we're doing it's the comments because then you're watching the chat and all you see is dildo butthole dildo butthole that's if you're watching the stream yeah whatever exactly you're listening if you're listening okay but even then it's like you need to go back a few episodes so you understand we built up to this yes well we're eating edible yes we didn't just say hey let's do an episode about you know edible under all the podcasts in all the world how many you think have edible underwear reviews oh probably none yeah you know of the millions and millions of podcasts We are trailblazers. Trailblazers, baby. So, yeah, she's laughing. It's great. No, I said she's... They're super sweet people. I love them. We should have a review of our podcast today. How so? Just reminisce. Oh, yes. Kind of out. Yeah, talk about our favorite episodes. Yes. Oh, wow. Edible Underwear. Some stories. Yes. Some behind-the-scenes shit. You guys want to hear that? I don't know if we have a lot of behind-the-scenes because we're pretty transparent. Yeah, I was going to say. there's not a lot behind the scenes well we can talk about yeah about all that shit you know same thing like you know when i saw dan lucen you know he like he always remembers me but not quite what i mean so i thought it'd be the other way around so so dan lucen the proprietor of mgc you know if you guys don't know we did an interview with him early on this was like episode 20 maybe 25 i don't know i don't know so we're on episode 109 that we just finished and if you go back and you see that the dan lucen episode he came in ian's basement there's a lot of editing yes he was so generous he comes here and ian and i are i mean we're drunk not like normal drunk we were hammered we got plastered we all right so a little bit more context maybe a little bit more context so we had ryan kuiper started to join the show on a regular basis i thought maybe we found our third amigo right so we had ryan kuiper and uh 7 buffalo pinball yeah things were going really well you know we really loved having ryan on the show and then um you know drew and i are still kind of rambunctious you know so we get dan we were really into getting interviews at that time we were trying to get interviews because we wanted to like legitimize what we were doing yeah i guess we wanted people to understand like hey listen we full of shit but we still want to be you know part of the pinball community yeah very important to us at the time and so we uh no longer now i don't care uh we met all you fools we know we know what this is about uh carrie hardy i'm looking at you i love you carrie uh so yeah i check it out because i don't want to play him and judge dread again he mentioned that by the way did he really yeah i love him uh so uh where i was like oh dan lucen so we get dan lucen uh the i don't know how we got him i don't know why we got uh i think right right i knew him no i reached out to him okay i think it was one of those random hail mary passes sure sure and he said yeah you do it and which shocked us this was 2019 so here Here's the thing. A little bit more backstory on this one, why the interview went sideways. One is I actually did some homework. I tried to be professional about it, and I actually listened to – I found a podcast that he had done from a different podcaster years back, and I listened to the entire episode, and he was telling all these stories about how it used to be called Jagfest, and it was about Jaguar, and he was telling all these stories. Jaguar. Yes, and I was dead set, and this probably was the wrong this is definitely the wrong approach by the way if you're starting a podcast um i was god set on getting new material i was like okay i was like in my head i was like we were young boys with big dreams yeah in my head i was like okay you already did a podcast you said all these stories i want to see something new right so when we got dan on here my intention was to get some more information like tell me more about certain things about mgc so you know i I came in with good intentions, right? As we always do. And he shows up with the championship belt, by the way. Yeah, this is like an MGC actual wrestling belt. WWF MGC belt. And we're getting jacked up. He's just, we're having a great time with him. He's not drinking, by the way. Apparently he's not a drinker. Nope. Not a drinker at all, which is fine. Yeah, that's fine. And Ryan's not a drinker, which is fine. We love everybody. And so when we got seated, Drew and I are so. Spoiler alert, Ian and I are drinkers. Yes, and spoiler.
    13:24
    Long story short, we were so jacked up to have both Ryan and Dan here, because we love them so much and we respect them so much, both of them, that we were like, let's get crazy. And we didn't even need to communicate that with each other. We just saw it in each other's eyes that we're going to finish every bottle of booze in the basement.
    13:46
    And that's what we did. And that turned out to be an awful interview because at the end of it, I couldn't even fucking promote anything he said. It was bad. I edited a lot of it out. I wish I would have kept some of those, like the original ending of that, because it was so awkwardly bad. Yes. But, you know, that's one of those things that you learn from, right? You learn those experiences.
    14:10
    So, but yeah, Dan Lewison, our worst interview by far, by far. and also one of our best in a weird way uh drew what do you like give me some good memories of the poor man's well our interviews were well they might not have been great but they were fun right that's the thing eric pripke kind of the same thing i was thinking about him like we got pretty drunk down here well got him down here once and then we did a skype i think right yeah i think so yeah but same thing like you know he's not much of a drinker he comes down here and you know it's it starts off really really strong and then it just kind of like it trails off yeah but he gave us a lot of good information he did he did that was and we got on twip for the first time and i was like dude we did it we got it and then we didn't and then we had to get dan lucen on but yeah but eric pripke was one of my favorite interviews just because he's such a cool dude yep but we're fun drunks and i found that out because i mean i always kind of knew that but when i went to pinball expo yeah everyone was so kind and generous you know uh neil from pin quest yeah we had him on also and you know he he treated me to lunch with jeff patterson will you know from silver ball swag and just i will yeah i'll say this about our neil interview and i i think we've said this before but he was probably the most generous and gracious of all of our interviews because we lost it via you know um oh audacity crash scott from Penn Stadium. Yeah, what did I say? I don't know. That was Scott from Penn Stadium. Was it? Yeah. Oh, man. Yeah, we were doing a Skype interview. Who were you talking about? Well, Eric Pripke started that conversation. And then Neil from PinQuest. PinQuest. It wasn't Neil? It was Scott from Penn Stadium. Edit, edit, edit. No editing on fucking Friday.
    16:02
    I fucked up. But no, we had some great moments. Speaking, yeah, I'm working on one, too. Speaking you know which yeah so uh because we haven't been around in so long ian and i together um i just wanted to share this real quick so we my wife and my son and i went to go see the new ghostbusters movie it's out cool oh super cool is it yeah you're gonna want to see it oh nice nice i'll just say this i was excited about it my wife never cries we both teared up at the end that's how good it was no it was one of those like this good job yeah super good nostalgia like you know about harold ramis i won't spoil it but yeah super good anyway god yep egon spangler but the best part about that movie was the um the teenage girl lead she told bad jokes throughout the whole thing that was like this kind of theme right right so the first joke she told and i'm probably gonna fuck this up so i'm gonna try to remember from memory it was you know why can you never trust an atom why because they make up everything so from the moment she said that i'm like i'm in love with this movie yeah i love this because she told like probably 10 or 12 of these like bad like they were all science related jokes yeah and i i'm not gonna even uh butcher them because I don't remember the rest. Hey, Drew. Yeah. How much does it cost for a pirate to pierce his ear? I don't know. A buccaneer.
    17:34
    And dead jokes are back, just like that. So I just wanted to share that. Seal of approval. What's that? Ghostbusters. Yeah. Oh, totally. Yeah. Totally. Yeah, if you guys haven't seen it, Ghostbusters Afterlife, fantastic movie, great cameos. They didn't pander. like you know it was its own story yeah you know they didn't really they didn't they didn't lean on the old characters to do it they leaned on a lot of the old stuff and there was a lot of cool nostalgia in there yeah and then like i said they peppered in the cameos just perfectly oh that's beautiful yes because they didn't so hard yes it is it's a tricky bell and paul rudd is so great like who doesn't like paul rudd yeah sexiest man sexiest man alive i know this year i don't see personally there there was a i'm far more sexier than paul rudd totally with a lot less money that's the thing that's why he's the sexiest man in the world paul rudd's never coming on this show oh paul rudd you don't listen fuck you dude you're a beautiful man yeah he is um there was a great interview too uh like i think it was i was watching this video the other day It was CBS this morning. They did an interview with Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Bill Murray, Paul Rudd, and then the girl. I can't remember her name. But they sat him down. They had this interview. And they asked him about the sexiest man alive. And they were making jokes. And it was funny. And then they were in the old firehouse of Ghostbusters. And then Paul Rudd said, no, no, no. He goes, I'm not. He goes, look at that guy over there. There's this young fireman. He comes over. He's this good-looking dude. Comes walking over. And they had this little exchange. It was cute. But, yeah. But just check out Ghostbusters Afterlife. You know, you guys got to chill out on that whole Paul Rudd doesn't age thing. Because for years, people said Keanu doesn't age. And then he fucking aged. Yeah.
    19:39
    He's gotten older. For sure. Yeah, dude. The second you fuckers said he was a vampire, he got old quick, guys. You got to stop that shit. And Paul Rudd's going to be the next one. Because Paul Rudd's got like 50. You leave that man out of it. He's beautiful. And just don't say he doesn't age. The second you bring attention, you don't call out a no-hitter. You don't do it. True enough. So just leave the fucking guy alone. True enough.
    20:02
    This is what they're going to say about us. That's why you don't say it. Like, Drew, what is he, like 20? Nobody's ever going to say that about us. I got gray hair, big beard. You got what you got going on. I'm sexy as fuck. Yeah. I've never been so sexy.
    20:18
    We need to be back on Twitch. So what else is going on, Ian? Well, I want to talk more about our podcast. Yep. Let's do it. I want to talk about when you played all of our intros. Yes. In that one episode. Okay. And you edited everything together. Yep. I was in on it until you just decided to play all the horror stuff when we were shelling. you know all of our all of our uh so you you were going into our intros yeah and then you started including all of our podcast uh um you're flipping out all of our sponsors and stuff instead of cutting into where our intro started yeah it was it was hard because i was i was going through our whole catalog first of all our catalog's long which is impressive no because like when i when i started that i'm like oh this is only gonna take me a little while well that took me a whole week yeah i believe it so like i i started because what i wanted what i wanted to portray and no it didn't like you know you lost us until you you started introducing that stuff but if you want to just fast forward a little bit but there's so many a couple of yeah a couple of things first of all you know as as we've said before it wasn't a joke ian always did the editing. So I was brand new to this editing. I've done one or two.
    21:44
    I'm learning as I'm going. So I get through there and I'm trying to some of the stuff was just flat out mistakes because I tried deleting it. Whatever. It was a whole thing. But what I wanted to portray was our early episodes and some of the theme music and the things we did and then we got Martin listening at number 15 My wife was doing a bunch of shit Yeah we had your wife on there doing all that stuff so you know i thought i thought it was 90 great and then 10 of it was a little shady a little weird because i couldn't i couldn't do it quite the way i wanted it so i brought it up because this is why i brought it up not to give you shit about your editing but i brought it up because i thought it was super interesting the progression that we made that was the that was what i was episode one to about i remember she'd say 30 yeah 30 was when we hit our stride but like the first 10 to 20 was super interesting how we tried to figure it out as we were going no you know which i had a lot of fun doing that which it was so interesting to me like i was oh fuck that's how we sounded but also i thought about like it also made me more jealous of special wet lick because they sounded so professional right out of the gate they did they were perfect right out of the gate and it drove me nuts thinking about it as i was driving listening to our intros like it took us fucking 30 weeks to figure out but everyone should listen to that especially if you haven't listened to a lot because that it does show our progression which was like that that was the that was the whole we were always the same guys however the technical parts of it like we got better as far as the technical stuff that to give you the listener a better experience so i always thought like listening to it i was like oh shit we came a long fucking way oh yeah no it's so cool to listen i mean the first one it's like hello i'm drew from the poor man's pinball podcast and i'm ian you know my name is ian this is what we won't do we won't we won't do interviews well that was a lie we won't do this we're gonna swear which we that's true we did swear uh but yeah it was it was cool to listen to all that yeah no like i said the whole idea was just to kind of show where we've been where we're going and uh yeah yeah it was like it was it was super so i had a lot of fun with that it was cool man i have a lot of people reaching out they're gonna help me with some video production and some you know some audio stuff but we we have a lot of stuff in the works that's exciting you know my basement's getting done so you know hopefully in a couple of weeks here you know before the end of the year i should have like this kind of studio setup set up yeah so that we can uh we can do some more of that because right now don't buy any equipment you can take some i'm taking all this shit oh you're taking all my shit all your shit we're never gonna podcast out here that'd be sad i gotta keep something yeah we'll figure out why i don't need like the mics and stuff we'll figure it out all right but um you can take that laptop today okay cool laptop's got all of our old shit everything that's what we need yeah all of our music everything so merry christmas um but yeah so there's some exciting stuff you know i'm uh i can tell you guys what we're doing we're doing a it's called poor man's happy hour so we're gonna do like facebook live oh cool that's the idea are Are you getting a legit co-host eventually? I haven't decided yet. Right now, we're part. Who's we? You keep saying we. It's a habit. We. Because the poor man. Here's why. Because you know how I feel about the community, right? So no matter. Even if it's just me talking, which I'm getting better at, and I'm enjoying that as well. I'm going to do some one-offs. Like, here, these are my opinions. and i got some pin side babies that i want to fucking talk about nice which we'll get we'll get into that today well we can i don't care but um um no i'm i'm i'm digging that i enjoy it i'm gonna do those are like shorter obviously which is fine too just do some shorter is better yeah do some short little like this is what i'm thinking um kind of things and lots of people have reached out once again they want to be co-hosts they want to be part of it so right now it's just guest spots got it because you gotta find the right yeah yeah i'm not gonna just pick somebody and say okay you're you're the new ian put on some glasses let me see your dick you know that kind of thing it's just not it's not let me drink the booze yeah can i out of your dick like a straw can i see your seven inch dick and then you know it just it just doesn't work so this get weird i was just gonna pause for the weirdness of it i'm not weirded out at all um so this is normal but yeah the short answer is no i'm not getting like a co-host i'm getting multiple people and like i said i you know i don't want to brag but i can call up just about anybody now and say hey fucking guy this guy over here do you want to be on the show the head is getting large i'm sure i'm sure they'll say yes you know so we're uh no we walked into mgc with a fucking capon he's he's he's a little high up there i walked into expo with a cape yeah you were feeling yourself i know it i can't guys i cannot tell you enough about expo and how fucking great that was i said it a million times a fucking a uh so what is your favorite part about our show what what did you what did you get the most out of it well like i said it's besides the personal growth because we both grew into this role but it's it's the feedback yeah you love the community yeah the community and and the friends i've made you know legitimate people that i talk to you know all the time and and like i said just people reaching out to me yeah you know they're like hey drew you know this thing happened or pinball this or whatever and uh it's just it's so cool yeah no yeah it's it's that's that's that's always a great thing like i love our community so much and it's the little tribe that we created that is so much fun It's growing, and I don't even mean more people. I mean, it's just like that page is lit up every single day still. Which page? The Tribe page. The Poor Man's Fan page is also lit up every day. There's people on there now that I notice they like or comment on 90% of everything that goes on. That's good, man. That's good. It means we're ahead of our time. That's what it was. Sadly, I don't know who some of these people are. I've got to reach out to them. Yeah, it's great. Is it great? And like I said, for me, this might be selfish, but being at Expo and MGC, when strangers came up to me and told me they loved the show. That's awesome. It's so cool. And a couple people with shirts. Yeah. You know, like that's cool. When we hung out with Mike Williams and he had our hat on, I was like, oh, that's cool. Yeah. No, it's just a nice touch. Yeah, it's just a neat thing. I'll say I miss it so much.
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    You know, when I left, it was a good time for me to leave. absolutely i don't regret leaving um but i still want to be a part of it but it's hard my life is just taking on a whole nother like it's just taking on its own i get it man i'm more adjusting to everything um i didn't go crazy if anyone so many people wonder about my mental health well like my mom called me hey dude you crazy yet i'm like no dude it's fine well but you I understand. That's, you know, that's mostly because you left Facebook. I left Facebook for a lot of reasons. No, no, I know that. But I'm saying, like, if you would have, like, just, like, said, hey, I'm done. And you're still, like, Jason Fowler is a good example, right? Yeah. You know, Jason Fowler, like, you know, stopped doing his podcast. But I think he stayed on Facebook. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, people could say, hey, how's it going? Because, once again, so many people reached out and said, what is Ian doing? Is Ian okay? um you know i'm okay did you kill ian you know whatever should i go back on facebook now and maybe maybe because i'll go back on facebook i just was getting out of it like i'm trying to get out of that social media no everyone should it's caustic it's it's it's it's it it ate at my soul everyone once or twice at the pinball site no it's once or twice a month everyone should just like get off facebook for a day or two yeah because you know the thing is like i use it for my job and stuff like that and it's whatever but some days it's just like you look at it and you're like i just i just shouldn't look at it today you know well i would like post an opinion on my own page and it wouldn't be like a very radical opinion it wouldn't be politically based it was like i like the door of the explorer movie yeah thought it was cool yeah then i get like four people saying what are you fucking stupid i'm like yeah no that's that's exactly it no i get the problem like i i everything i tried to do on there i got i don't know i just got i got turned off by there's a certain specific individual we don't need to go into just because drew and i know him and it's not pinball related it's not tribe related it was it's a friend of ours and i'm just like he's just he rubbed me the wrong way and i was like you know what i don't need this what am I doing I totally get it I don't I have so I started doing like a lot of our Twitter stuff and I started posting a lot of memes and started posting a bunch of random shit that I was thinking and we only had like 5 followers and it doesn't matter to me but it helped me step away from Facebook just cause the shit's so evil it's just so nasty people are so gross true story keyboard commandos all day long man i'm fucking over them like i would love to i would love to hear that opinion to my face at that point you know like tell me to my face your opinion no about dora the explorer i will knock you out bro that's a good movie that's the thing you know that's a better movie than what harrison ford pulled out in the last but what you said is exactly all this bullshit yeah that's exactly it though people exactly people in person wouldn't say whatever so so what what have you been doing man what have you been watching what's what's going on oh what's new with ian yeah ian watch i'm wearing socks still uh i stepped away from the pinball podcasting i haven't listened to a lot of stuff so uh it's been good i did a lot of audiobooks i was just listening to books trying to get caught up on my on my on my literature as it were and uh things that i wanted to fucking learn and shit so i've been doing that been working a lot but no honestly spending a lot of time with my wife and my daughter um vera just got potty trained yeah she got potty trained over the weekend over expo so when i was uh working and i came home uh on friday and uh you know laura and i were my wife laura and we were just like talking to vera like, hey, we're going to try this body training thing again. What do you think? And Vera's like, three going on 13. Dude, she's like, you know when they say women are, you know, like, mature faster than dudes? Like she more mature than me She like remembers my grocery list when I take her to the grocery store She three dog it crazy so i sitting there i like well we gonna try this potty training thing you you up for it and she like yeah and then from that point on we slapped some panties on her and she was just just like pissing in the toilet like she was just like all right i'm game she's just ready yeah she was like let's do it and she was totally cool with it and to this day she's had like four accidents like she's like been amazing since expo four accidents are you kidding me awesome now number two is a little tricky i think that's a that's just the nature of the thing the other day raise your hand if you haven't shit your pants yeah the other the other day though the other day was great um um so laura went out with her friends she went out drinking with her friends and she had a great time and uh whenever she said hey can i go out with my friends i'm always like get the fuck out of the house like you just need to go out because she's so ingrained in in our house and our home and and she's so she's on top of everything and i've tried to relieve her but it's just her personality she needs to take over everything and i appreciate it but i'm also like when there's time for her to like unwind i'm like get the fuck out of here do a tequila shot i want you to take a bunch of edibles get crazy i don't want to see your ass until midnight at the earliest and uh so she left and i'm here with vera and i'm we're playing and we're having a great time, you know, Daddy Daughter Day. She loves me so much, and I love her, and we have so much fun. And she's sitting there, and she's, we're watching, God, what were we watching? Maybe a SpongeBob movie, or she's starting to get into SpongeBob, you know. And, which I appreciate, because the guys who made SpongeBob SquarePants did Ren and Stimpy back in the day. Oh, yes. When they got kicked off of the first, like, for those of you who don't know, Ren and Stimpy, like the original creators, is the first season. Oh, very adult-oriented. Yeah, they did the first season on Nickelodeon, and the execs were like, dude, you've got to get out of here. You're too PG-13. We need more G. And they kicked them out, and then season two through four was a whole different crew, and it was nowhere near as good as that first season.
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    So they went off, and eventually they did the SpongeBob stuff. So I appreciate some SpongeBob humor. So I'm watching it with her, and we're having a great time. And she's like, daddy, daddy, daddy, look, look, look. And I look, and she's got, like, her shirt, like, down on her waist. Like, she took her arms out, and she pushed the, like, the little head part, and then she pushed it down to her waist. And, like, she's, like, she's got, like, this, you know, now it looks like a dress. And she's got no top. And she's like, what do you think, daddy? What do you think? I'm laughing. I'm like, you're crazy, you know. And she's laughing. And I'm like, you're so funny. and then she she closed her eyes close your eyes i'm like all right all right so i closed my eyes and then she's doing stuff i hear her moving around and then she jumps back on the couch she's like hey look at you look at me look at me i'm like looking at her i'm like she's she's butt naked now on the couch right and i'm like and she's just laughing she thinks it's the funniest thing i'm laughing at her i'm like oh god you're a ridiculous girl and then she's like close your eyes i'm like all right close my eyes she freaking like jumps on me right totally naked jumps on me i'm laying down and i'm trying my arms tucked in i don't know what i'm touching i'm tucking my arms and i don't know how creepy this gets right so i'm laying there i'm like all right and she's like hey hey open your eyes i was like open my eyes she's sitting there and she's trying to like sit on me like with her bare ass like she's rubbing her bare ass on my cheeks and she's like laughing her ass off and i'm like i can't help but just i'm like my daughter is teabagging me right now the way she's bouncing up my head this might be too much for you people out there don't worry it's totally it is it i love her so much and she's jumping on me and then she's like this is why i tell the story she's like oh hey daddy i was like yeah i was like she's like i gotta go and she runs through a little potty which is actually in that same room it's like three feet from where we were where we were playing quote unquote and all of a sudden i don't hear p like we're watching spongebob i'm hearing like she's dropping a deuce in the worst way like four good solid deuces and if you're a parent you know it's good to have that solid deuce because you know she drinks a lot of milk she gets constipated really badly so like usually it's one big fucking hard ball of a turd you know but this is like she is shitting like a human i'm like i'm listening to it i'm like girl you're doing it she's like daddy daddy i just pooped on the toilet i'm like girl you're killing it you know it was a proud dad moment man i've never been more proud of her and oh that's great you know we'd love each oh dude yeah i haven't seen her in two days now we're losing it we're losing it like she wants to go home in the worst way i want see her in the woods yeah i i made a mistake calling over there and seeing how she's doing and uh for those of you who didn't listen to her episode uh they're at my in-laws for thanksgiving and i am at home with the dogs so i had to work but uh i'll see her tomorrow but yeah she's i called over there too she's balling she's missed me too much so moral of the story is man things are good yeah uh other than uh shitting in baby toilets man no things have been pretty chill are you shitting in baby toilets ah not so much man my uh my bowel movements are solid though they're good they're good i'm old now so i gotta tell you about these things yeah i'm doing good we're also gonna get this with the poor man's pinball podcast fucking friday episode let's see what else is new with me uh let's see besides potty training my daughter dude no nothing i uh uh just i have my riding lawnmower which is my second love now like i have all these decals on i put a bunch of like world war ii bomber stickers on it i smoke a stogie and drink a beer and i mow my lawn like brett farve like four times a day this is where we have ended up this this is 40 folks yeah this is 40 uh what else have i been doing we went from we went from uh drunk interviews with dan lucen Really? Yeah, I'm just trying to spend time with my family and trying to spend time with you and Eric as much as I can. Yeah, no, that's good. Except for Sunday. We invited Ian out, and he said no. I watched 10 minutes of that game. Oh, really? Yeah, I didn't watch the game.
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    You didn't miss much. Yeah, I watched the first few minutes. You've got to tell when your football team doesn't have it that week. Yeah. You watch that first 10 minutes, and you're like, oh, shit. True enough. I don't have the emotion to deal with this. I don't have the stability in my life to do it. But, no, that's, man, life's been good. That's good, man. I love it. Well, for those of you that are worried, you don't have to worry. No. Things are great. My job sucks, but that's to be expected. You can email us, poormanspinball at gmail.com. I'll send those messages and well wishes to Ian. So, fucking Fridays. We're stretching it, man. What else do you want to talk about, dude? I don't know, man. We've been recording for over two hours. I know. it's crazy uh let's see uh i'll say my favorite poor man's moment yeah all right favorite poor man's moment i would say god we've had a lot but i think my favorite was when we started doing the love letters with eric oh my god i had to leave the room and i edited it all out and that was a mistake rookie mistake dude when you have a podcast and you guys are laughing uncontrollably and you're crying and you can't leave it leave it all in it's gold that's gold i edited it out that was my mistake I left because I was like I was I thought I was going to puke I was laughing so hard but when Eric was so he was so god damn dirty with love letters which is still my favorite segment by the way love letter support please email farmhandspimball at gmail.com it's going away forever tell them to bring back love letters I will say one of my favorite like just episodes that I can remember was the round table with me Ian you love that uh josh secret and ryan kuiper he disappeared i missed josh we were talking about he should have been a tribe member this is we were talking about jurassic park before it like came out you know we just saw pictures of it and we were all uh we were drinking eagle rare whiskey yeah go back and check that one out but uh yeah we're all giving our opinions on it ian starts talking about dino adventure land we're fucking losing it we're drunk we're having a good time it was because there's four of us down here with mics just just having a having a great time talking about pinball so that that was a good one yeah no there's a lot of good ones uh yeah there's oh god too many behind the scenes shit you needed uh there was an episode that we recorded that we deleted completely yes it was so bad once or twice but yeah yeah it happened one time where we just we're not feeling and we recorded for like 30 minutes and then we both kind of looked at each other and we're like it's just not working yeah it wasn't jiving i don't know if it was just like if you were in a bad mood or i was in a bad mood i can't remember it but everybody has that moment where you're looking into the other guy going what are we doing right now this isn't working yeah it that's exactly it yeah dude that's exactly it i i i appreciated that though that was different It was different. It was a weird night, but it was a good night. No, no. We've done good. We've done a lot of good things, a lot of good content. But we're going to wrap this up. All right. Two hours of recording. We've got some good stuff for you guys. I'm going to send this off to Drew, and he gets to edit this shit. I'm going to edit it. I want it to be five hours long. I want him to edit the shit out of this. Well, if it's five hours, it's definitely just getting published. Yeah, publish it. Listen to five hours. How is Tim Lee and everyone doing? Oh, they're doing great. Yeah? Yeah. Tim Lee. All right. I'll go back on Facebook tonight. Yeah, just do it, man.
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    I'll do it for the tribe. There's too much good stuff. You've got to do it for the tribe. When people disappear, it's hard, but I get it. I know. Yeah, do it for the tribe. And by the way, guys, I know this is fucking Friday, but I'll talk about it again. We are going to be inducting at least two more tribe members this year. So we've got a couple people lined up. One of them might be related to another tribe member, which is fantastic, because that doesn't happen very often. Tim Lee's wife, I'm going to get that. We don't know yet. Okay. She is. I just threw that out there randomly. I think I guessed it. There's some good people in the works, though.
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    Thank you for listening, guys. Once again, sponsored by Flippin' Out Pinball, pinballprices.com. And we will see you very soon. Love you. Fuck it.
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    Dude, that was fucking awesome. It could have went on longer. I was having so much fun. We got done after like two hours.