All get around, he's on the rebound, hear the sound of our buddy, oh lordy, it's Orby, pinball now to rejoice, he's tugging pinball, craft beer and coffee, mixed with syrup and honey, he wants to laugh with his family in a random tangent, stories of his boys, he's on the poor man's pod network, we're gonna get more listeners, for the Pinball Nerds Podcast. Coming to you from beautiful River Hibbert, Nova Scotia. Welcome back to Pinball Nerds, episode 468 of your fifth favorite pinball podcast. My name is Orbital Albert, and on today's show, well, let's first of all, let's talk about the elephant in the room, the big, gigantic elephant in the room. did Orby get an invite and I can answer the question you're all wanting to know I did get an invite but I'm going to talk about that in a second don't worry I'm not going to didn't just make you wait to the end for this one I'm going to talk about it but first of all I want to say sorry I am very sorry even to the long time listeners in fact uh probably perhaps the only gentleman that I think may have listened to every single episode of this pinball podcast basically told me, are you doing okay, Albert? Are you all right? Is everything okay? I'm here to tell you yes and no. So like everything is okay. I am fine. I have said this many times before on the show. This is more like a prank show. This isn't a typical pinball podcast. I don't come here and just tell you everything on Nap Arcade, which, wow, Jason Knapp's been on fire recently. He's been shooting us out news left, right, and center. Boo, boo, boo, boo, boo. Oh my gosh. this guy's got more hot takes than Kerry Hardy has guns see no I've gone off track already I guess what I'm saying is that look was the last pinball podcast when I may have lost my temper uh just a little just a little I got a little heated there I'll say that when I lost my temper was it legit okay so I guess first of all I'll be honest and be like I'm a theater kid uh even my final year going to Pierce Williams Christian drama camp yes I did go to a Christian camp back in the day before they found out I was a Satanist and worship Satan. And then they banned me, just like Stern. You're not allowed. You're uninvited. My show is a joke show. Look, when I'm reviewing a brand new pin, I'll be for the most part, you know, you might hear maybe a little tongue in cheek, but I am being, okay, Luna, Tuna, Ello, and Agar, go ahead, sit down. Go ahead. I've made some, there she is. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. I do go off topic a lot. I do have a really, really, really bad fucking temper. I do. I just do. I'm not going to lie to y'all. I do have a bad temper. I probably am self-diagnosed and honestly working on talking to my doctor about possibly getting some medication and or help because certainly at this point in my life, you know, being 43 years old and still losing your temper that bad is a little bit embarrassing. That being said, did I layer on a little bit thick? Yes. Five minutes after the pinball podcast, did I mellow out? Yes. was my wonderful wife drop target Danielle even though I warned her I was gonna go off the deep end uh she's never even heard me go quite that deep down into the ocean of anger and I will say this it's not a good idea to allow yourself to ever get that angry and certainly not over not getting invited to anything I mean if you were invited to like one of your close family members or friends funerals weddings you know 50th uh wedding anniversary something like that if you weren't invited. Okay. I'm not invited. Sorry about that, Alanis. Sorry about, oh my God, I knew this was going to happen. I knew it. I knew it. That's how professional this show is. I knew that someone would call right now. All right. I know who that is and that's actually a good sign that I just got a call. That was Zach Sharp of Stern's Marketing Department letting me know that they are, not only are they 100% okay with me going today, obviously, I'm here in Chicago in the hotel, but they are going to let me, believe it or not, actually live stream. So if you haven't liked Pimble Nerds Podcast on Facebook, make sure you go ahead and do that right now. And I'm telling you right now, if you're newer here and you're like new to the show, obviously, you know, there's probably going to be some listeners. I'm not going to lie, I usually get five or six hundred listens within like the first two weeks. This bad boy had eight hundred listens within two days. So or OK, three days, three days was a three days ago. We're getting damn close, getting damn close anyways. But the point is, is that it's probably the most listens I've gotten a long time. It's certainly the most people who have reached out. And I want everyone to let everyone know I'm OK, I'm fine. I was trying to think about this, like in the top five things that have ever annoyed me in pinball. This isn't up there. This isn't even in the top five. It's just not. But it's close. Like, it's very close. It's probably the most annoyed or pissed off I've been in like the last two years. Did I allow myself to get that worked up and upset right before I recorded for like three hours? Yes. Did I have any clue what I was going to say? Kind of. Did I write anything down? Did I have a prompter? Absolutely not. I do want to walk back one thing that I said, or two, or two, at least two. But the one thing that will walk back that I did say is I mentioned nepotism, and I do humbly apologize for that. A, I have no proof of that. B, who cares if that even happened originally in the first place. That is honestly irrelevant to any missteps made by the marketing department at Stern. I will say this. I guess part of the reason why I was so upset is because I feel like I've been called a Stern fanboy, like in a negative connotation. The real truth is I'm just a fanboy of every freaking pinball company out there, other than maybe Home Pin and Pinball Adventures. But pretty much everyone other than them, I'm a big simp for. So when you're listening to the show and you hear me go off and say how much I love a pinball machine or I talk about what makes it cool, even though overall, like even Barry O's Barbecue, if you listen to my top five rad and one bad on Barry O's Barbecue, I somehow, someway found five awesome things about even that pin that it appears like I'm the only pinball podcaster on planet Earth. even Don of Don's Pinball Podcast didn't buy Barry O's Barbecue. So it's like, and this man loves food. If you listen to him talking about his Buc-ee's and his Moose Knuckles and his, I think his love is like roller coasters, Buc-ee's, all awesome things, food, and then like pinballs down there somewhere. Pinball tournaments are at the very, very, very bottom. Come on, Don, you got to play a pinball tournament, bro. I'm going to get to see Don today, of course, at Stern. I'm going to get to see like this is why I wanted to be invited to this okay because I wanted to see Don I've never got to meet Don before of course he's part of Triple Buck there with uh Ryan Barry a Phantom Tilt Pinball podcast uh go over and check out Don's Pinball podcast and listen to it there because I have an upload here because I'm working on a theme song y'all and when that comes out you might have to hear it over here on the Poor Man's Pinball Network as well um don't worry though it will just be like you know I'll have it under whenever you see PNP over here on the Poor Men's Pinball Network, it means Pinball Nerds Podcast. It's the short form, so I can still put in my episode, which soon it's going to be four digits when I hit a thousand, come on. No, I had a great time, believe it or not, doing that podcast. I found it very, very, very therapeutic, and many of you know that I kind of cheat. I'm half Dutch and half broke, so I don't have enough money to pay $80 an hour to some freaking person who got a degree at a school to tell me what's wrong with me. I know what's wrong with me. I have bipolar 2. I have, I'm off the charts ADHD. I have a really, really, really bad temper. I've taken a car at 50 kilometers an hour. Wait, the Americans won't understand that. I've taken a car at 33.33, I don't know if that's exact, probably close, 35 miles an hour and driven it straight into a telephone pole on purpose. Now, Thankfully, this was on private property. There was no one else in the car. Okay. I was responsible for any said damages. Okay. This was a long time ago. I was like 19 or 20. My girlfriend had cheated on me. I freaking lost my shit. Now, do I actually ever lose my temper as bad as you heard on that particular show? Like, I looked down at my watch after. My blood pressure was like 92 over 137. I can run 5 kilometers. Damn it, you Americans with your balls! I can run 3.1 miles and not have my heart rate, oh, my heart rate was like 140. My heart rate, I can keep my heart rate around 130 while I'm even, you know, if I'm pushing it the last kilometer, I'm running up a hill, Kilo Mantra. So anyways, I love talking about pinball. I don't like losing my shit. In 600 episodes, I've had, I would say five, in almost 600 episodes, I would say I'd have five or six where I really lost my shit. And I've deleted three of them. And the one time, speaking of losing my shit, the last time I did it was a couple months ago, I said some negative and rude stuff about my good buddy, artist extraordinaire, perhaps the best pinball artist the world has ever seen, Mr. Christopher Franchi himself. Okay, and Christopher Franchi was kind enough and nice enough to send me these incredible signed cards and these limited edition cards in this like silver, I don't know how limited they are. maybe Franchi made 10 billion of them but I don't think so as far as I know they're the only ones I've ever seen in the world that are like of this style especially with the awesome hot silver neon neon noir marker that Franchi used on them he had sent me them and on the day that I got them oh oh switch switch it back in reverse at Orby take her out of four-wheel drive let's just go back into regular mode uh the day basically that the day basically that I put up the pinball podcast being rude and mean about one of Franchi's shows when he was interviewing, I believe, Spooky, which I was really mean and rude. And I deleted that show. I believe, I'm pretty sure, I'm 99% sure I deleted that show. I hope I deleted it, but I felt so bad since then. I was like, I will never lose my temper again on the show, no matter what, no matter how. Well, Jesus H. Perchister's stern, not only, I guess what I'm saying is, it's like the straw that killed the camel's back. Is that what it is? it was like the final piece of the puzzle I don't know like I was already like mad at Stern a little bit a little bit even though I don't buy LEs I feel like it just got so much it's taken up so much time in the content world talking about how all the rich people which I'm sorry rich people you kind of are if you can spend 13,000 US which is like 18,500 Canadian and probably 20k by the time it gets to uh you know Australia or even Europe if you can spend that much on a pin you're rich you rich bud you rich that's just how it is if you can spend half of like the average salary of someone who lives in my county on a toy in any one given year you're rich now if you are making room and saving your pinching pennies and you know maybe you're just middle class and you have three or four stern pros and a couple old ems and solid states and you slowly organically built up your collection doesn't mean you rich you know you're probably probably still rich in the like in the percentage of the whole world but if you can so I already had this like background anger about Stern continually raising their prices and not dropping them after COVID and not adjusting to the market prices and then over on top of that I was really annoyed that King of Kongs I'm sorry I forget what it is it's something about King Kong or Ding Dong there's it's a YouTube channel oh geez he just put up another thing talking about how he spent three thousand dollars on shooter rods and accessories at Stern um the guy one of the two guys who did the over shoulder shaky videos for Stern's John Wick. Again, I like both of those guys and I actually enjoy their content, especially their content when they're not videoing pinball machines for the first time when it's live! Okay, Jesus, bring it down. Bring it down a notch, Orby. Let's not get upset. But the point is here, I absolutely am appreciative that Stern went outside of the pinball pool, so to speak, but you gotta stay in the pool! You know why? because your fucking pool stern, your pool that you need to swim in is pinball players. You're not home pin looking for it. Come on. So if you're going to go and give this exclusive material that's going to get them so many more eyes on their content for free to non pinball people, you also need to give it to pinball people. And this is what I probably was not able to present in a calm, clear and concise fashion on my last show. And that is not just the nepotism remark. that was a little bit rude. It was, I mean, a couple of things I said were a bit rude. Also, I was a bit rude to Jason from Pinball Party at the very end. What I was trying to convey, and I wasn't able to do because I was so upset, is that like, I love Jason. I've listened to every episode of Pinball Party. Go listen to Pinball Party, subscribe, join his Patreon, help the guy out. I love Pinball Party. I don't, I don't agree with many of his takes, many of his takes. In fact, he was just on Sengez's show and basically said like, oh yeah, yeah like I lost my temper a little but this guy went off the deep end well Jason part of the reason I did is because I listened to your show and I could tell you were holding back with every ounce of your energy you wanted to just scream from the rooftops F you stern so I did it for you Jason so I'm on your side bud you said I was trying to roast you believe me so I was trying to roast you I could have talked about a lot of other things if I was trying to roast you I would have mentioned number one thing first things first um you are the top person who has purposefully lost the most amount of money in pinball, and yet you complain about losing money in pinball, like, you bought a Jaws premium without playing it, even though you could have played one an hour from your house, as you said, like, I would have to drive a seven-hour round trip to go drive, to play a Jaws right now, I'd have to get to Halifax, go through Dartmouth, take the ferry, go swim over a freaking channel, go underneath a bridge, can't go over it, might as well go around it, anyways, I do go off topic here a lot, for sure, I know that that's challenging for the listener. I try to build this as a blog or a vlog where I talk about pinball. But Jason, I could hear you holding back my guy. Jason gets way more listens than me Jason has done way more for the pinball community than me including writing that howt howt howt song for Flippin Out to help him sell so many flip flip flip flip flip and I flipping out my goat You know, and he's written all these other cool songs. And if I had to do a mini, and many of you know who have been around here for a long time, I like to do a little mini top five, since I am the top five. You know, that's kind of what I'm known for in the pinball industry. Not just for flipping my lid or losing my bird or chucking my turd, okay? it's also for doing top five so if i had to do a top five jason you are at the top of this you are number one by far hands down i don't care what bruce and ron tell you at slam tilt they are wrong you are the best singer in all pinball podcasting hell i'll go above that and say all content creation um i don't know if you had to go against john borg then we might have a little talk but oh wait wait wait wait wait wait whoa whoa whoa actually glenn the skateboarder he is kind of in pinball content. I mean, you would have heard him at the start of this song. Thank you, Glenn, for doing that. Oh, Jesus. Actually, I might have to give a tie to him and Glenn. Second best would probably be Ron, depending on the day. Then, yes, Bruce. Come on. Yeah, y'all are in the top five, but you're not number one. I'm sorry. It's either Glenn the Skateboarder, who did the awesome song that you hear at the end of, obviously, Slamtail Pinball Podcast, or that you've heard him on so many other things. Go check out Glenn's work. You would have also probably heard it, including original music that he did in the home pin of saw so but you can also go check him out at pinball for y'all so it's pinball for and then y'all y-a-l-l y'all you know that now i'm not gonna lie going back to what i was saying uh jason i love you bro but he did admit that he bought a jaws premium he played it four times and decided to sell it he lost over a thousand dollars on the sales so it cost them 250 are you a trillionaire like i literally know multiple like people who have tens of millions of dollars who would not pay 250 to play one game so next time jason and all you listeners listening listen to what i've been saying for eight years okay i've been saying this back since episode probably two or three play a pin before you buy it it's not that complex less than one percent of pinball machines that have ever came out in history will actually gain value in the first six months to a year. So therefore, don't try to predict the market and be the 1%, 1 in 100 or less that can choose exactly which pin, where, when, and how might make a couple bucks. If you want to go work the stock market, go do mutual funds, go start buying like, you know, sports cards. That's a much easier and much more liquid and especially with them being graded, much easier to figure out an exact cost for. Pinball machines are too hard to do that for. So anyways, love you, Jason. but if I wanted to roast you, I would talk about how you spent $250. Like, keep the machine for a month. I don't even know if I like a pinball machine until I put like 50 or 60 plays on it. You know what I mean? But Jason, I don't want to roast you. Quite the opposite. I want to give you a big hug. I'm sorry you didn't get invited. I hope you get invited next time. And Jason, I am very, very glad that Stern reached out to you and apologized. Now, let me check here. Oh, wait. I was lying because this is kind of a prank show, and I'm kind of joking around. I did not get invited by Stern. As all of you may have guessed, because I was talking to Luna Tuna Elowen, and I answered my home phone with a distinct home phone ring, and you can tell that I'm, you probably can't tell I'm here on a snowball, because it barely sounds better than talking into a flip phone from the 90s. However, I can let you know that I did not get invited, nor to this moment have I got any type of email or correspondence from Stern. That wasn't me just crying, sorry. I have allergies so I was trying to sniffle up hold on hold on hold on let me have a little sip of this angry alpaca all organic flavorful coffee okay so I guess what I'm saying is that look was that what if you really wanted to be honest if I was going to be honest about I would say that the last podcast I didn't even put a number on it because it wasn't even really an episode I was supposed to talk for like three to five minutes and just say I was disappointed and try to like get Stern to maybe give me an invite. But the main reason I wanted to go is because I wanted to fanboy out at Stern. I've never got to go to Stern. I don't have a lot of money. I don't have access to a lot of money. I don't make a lot of money. And you know what? I mean, to be fair, if you can buy and sell even a Stern Pro, you can probably afford to get to Chicago. Like, I get that. And I did drive through Chicago coming back from District 82 at Pinmasters and Nationals. However, I've lost track again. I've lost track again of what I was saying. I will say there was hints of truth in almost everything I said during the podcast. I was angry like a 6 or a 7 out of 10, but I purposely let myself get angry to a 10 out of 10 and basically did a bit of performance. Now, I don't want to show you too much sausage behind the thing. Like, yeah, sometimes I do fake anger. Like, sometimes, like, well, even with my wife, like, on Saturdays, we like to race for that last cup of coffee. And if she drinks the last cup of coffee before me, I'm like, what the fuck? I wanted the last goddamn cup of coffee. You son of a bitch. No, I'm just kidding. I don't say the son of a bitch part, but like, I, I like to joke around about being angry. Our coffee company is called angry alpaca. I lose my shit all the time. If you've ever seen a comedian, if you've ever watched mad television where they get mad, they're not really mad. They're not really mad. It's a joke. If you've ever seen Saturday Night Live, my favorite TV show of all time, Jackass, that's all they do is pranks. So are you really that shocked when I pull a bit of a prank? I will honestly tell you though, part of it was, part of this was at the back of my head. Normally I would record, I've recorded lots of podcasts like that. I just never upload them. In fact, my two probably craziest podcasts, I definitely have never uploaded, nor will I ever. I know where the one is. I don't know where the other one is. The point is, I'm telling you right now that someone reached out and said it's the greatest pinball podcast of all time um I had eight nine ten different pinball well at least 12 different either pinball podcasters content creators reached out to me thanked me said it was incredible and I'm not gonna get the other pinball podcasters probably well they are they are at Stern right now, so I don't even want to say their name, but they told me it was a freaking masterpiece, quote, end quote. Another gentleman emailed me, and again, I don't want to out these people, but another, it's the most emails I've got, it's the most Facebook messages I've got, I went through, I tried to get through everybody, and like, anyone who messaged me in like the first 12 hours, I was like, no, I'm okay, like, I'm joking, it's a joke, when I say I'm your fifth favorite pinball podcast, I'm joking, I know I'm no one's fifth favorite pinball podcast, It's just a tiny little blog here. Yes, did I get 150,000 listens? Yes, that is true. Am I mildly annoyed that I feel like I don't get included in tons of pinball shit? Of course. Of course I am. Right? Wait, we should go back to this. Who's the fourth best singer? Probably, I mean, probably Zach Many. Probably, I would say. And Lord knows, Zach and I are frenemies, so I don't usually give him bumps on this show very often, but there you go. And probably Greg. I remember Zach and Greg used to sing quite often on This Week in Pinball. In fact, on This Week in Pinball when Zach was the host, I remember I was painting the back sunroom, and I listened to the podcast twice in a row. That's how much I liked it, because what they had to do is Zach and Greg ahead of time had to A, practice singing songs, B, pick out songs, and the song had to be related to a pinball machine. So it was like you were doing trivia while listening to them sing. And frankly, I'm no Dennis Creasel, okay? Dennis Creasel does not like it when Zach sings on the show. Greg was the opposite. He's like, yeah, let's both sing together. And they're both fantastic singers. I will never be that level of singer. I'm probably the worst singer on planet Earth as far as pinball content creation goes. There's probably like one person with a worse voice than me. Like, I'm trying to think an all pinball podcast and who'd be a worse singer. Would it be Ryan Barry? Maybe. Maybe. He's got a very deep baritone voice. I don't know if he sings that often. I've got to assume Kimba's got a beautiful voice. So she's got a nice timba. timba to the kimba in the voice, right? So, and then Dawn, Dawn's probably an excellent singer. Listen to that, those raspy tones, right? I want to hear him sing. One time, once Dawn hears your challenge, sing a little bit of Insane Clown Posse on there. I want to hear all the juggalos get off on you, getting on to a little bit of the old juggalos. I ain't got nobody, nobody, nobody. Oh, and I was talking about this before. Other things that pissed me off a lot more than this, and I'm sorry, Zach, I just gave you a little shout-out, but Zach and my boy, I love you too, Jack Danger. I love you. I'm in love with you. I love everything that you do. I can't wait to see your next pin. You're my guy. Firing you off some love over there. But they got in a big fight. They got in a big fight, which kind of took some of the positive press away from the day that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, or as they would say on Phantom Tilt, turts. The day that turts came out, there was some big beef, and you know what they're probably both partially to blame I think even Nicole got in all into it from flipping out but the point is is that that that that that didn't anger me quite as much as this one thing that did anger me more was when Zach Benny said that he thought Stern should make all tournament pinball machines completely blank and have no artwork on them I'm like these things are a piece of art you want every single bar every single arcade every single solitary place that ever is going to have a pinball tournament to just have blank white machines what now thankfully I think he's backed that up a little and he doesn't bring it up very often but that definitely pissed me off more what else does Zach do that pissed me off more Zach had dealt 34 dealt 54 dealt 69 or whoever the his name was some oh my god he made he made Kaneda look like a positive poly for fuck's sakes this guy was like the most Eeyore of the Eeyores ever this dealt guy and for years I have been hinting to Zach please let me one time this so for people who don't know they haven't been listening to the pinball show for four or five years Zach used to do one show with Dennis Creasel then he would do a show with a random other person it would go back and forth all the time he even let the likes of David Dennis on there come on uh that oh my god I'm saying I love Dennis Creasel as well but the last David Dennis and Dennis Creasel talking about COVID for two fucking hours are you kidding me I kept clicking uh fast forward 30 seconds and when I got to 30 minutes, I gave up on it, and like a week later, I tried to go back, and I gave, it is the worst pinball podcast ever, I thought that I should be embarrassed about me losing my temper on the last episode, nah, nah, nah, nah, Dennis and Dave, sorry, brah, that is the worst pinball podcast that's ever been released, and I love both those dudes, like, I even have to see David Dennis, I don't have to, I get to see David Dennis, Dave, as I call him, at my local pinball league once in a while, so, you know love you Dave uh never gonna listen to two hours of you guys talking about COVID ever again on a pinball podcast almost as crazy as what Kerry Hardy did by pulling out guns on a pinball podcast almost as crazy but I'll still say that COVID one was worse now I don't want to just uh throw shade at Dennis Creasel here because he kind of did save the day for me Dennis Creasel of Eclectic Gamers Pinball Podcast and of course of the pinball show he actually saved the day for me because when I was listening to him and Zach talk about all the nonsense with the pinball craters what I really really appreciated was he said well for all for what it's worth basically like I you know this is not an exact quote of course many of you listening right now are hardcore pinball nerds which means you probably already listened to that shit yesterday but if you haven't listened fast forward two minutes I'm just going to tell you basically he said that Dennis Creasel one of the nicest guys if not the nicest guy the most least shilliest most clear concise if you've ever listened to the eclectic gamers pinball podcast this man takes no shit from nobody from anybody you don't want to be a double negative nancy on here but he also just like shoots straight from the hip tells it like it is doesn't sugarcoat it that's what i love so much about dennis dennis other than maybe craig bobby's little segment dennis is by far my favorite part of the pinball show and many people know that and dennis when you when i found out that you my pinball fucking hero, didn't get a goddamn invite to Stern either? I went, well, I don't give a fuck. Who am I? I'm nothing. This man's been making content for like a decade with EGP, you know, gets, according to Zach anyways, gets the most number of listens on the pinball show, almost as many as I got when I was on Kaneda's, right? So like, those guys are doing well over there. But the thing is, the market trends part, I'm going to fast forward that a little bit, listen to it like I believe, I believe, Ryan over at Phantom Tilt when he was talking about Stern's marketing department, not just using a grain of salt, but a big salt lick. When you're listening to Pinball Market Trends, if you're going to force yourself to listen to that, not only should you put in Q-tips first so your ears don't bleed from the screaming goats, and as a goat master, or be the goat master as I used to be known, I have owned goats, I love goats. The ones that I had were Prairie Hill La Manchas. They're the ones that scream like humans, like, like that. See, oh my God, look at that. Both dogs just jumped. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, but I just hurt your ears. Like our ears get hurt. So I don't like that part of the show, but then you can take them out and then just make sure you have a big giant salt lick while you're listening to that because it's the shilliest part of any shill show of the shilliest, silliest, shilliest shitter ever. And, but we all know that. And that's what we kind of like, you know, if you can listen to it, the production updates is why we all really listen. Let's be honest. But why doesn't Stern do their own production updates? Is that also another fail on the Stern marketing department that you're going to give all the listens to Zach? Come on! Anyways, couldn't we at least one other pinball podcaster get these updates so at least it could be like an even level playing field for all of us? Anyways, again here today, I'm trying to come in soft. I'm trying to come in gentle. I'm trying to be a cuddly little bear orbee. I'm not trying to be a big bull in a china shop and wreck your day. I love pinball with all my heart and all my soul. But when I found out that Stern did not invite me I wanted to quit producing content because I feel like For the better part of a decade I'm typically the very first person to have content out and most of the time it's very positive Content so yes maybe once every hundred episodes I might lose my shit and say some dumb stuff But I think to be fair we all most of us on here men women everybody has lost their temper at some point and have been embarrassed about it the difference is you don have the khanas, oh wait, no, see, no, that's, that's rude, you don't have the kaputska, no, no, no, you don't have the, um, uh, flair, you don't have the, uh, I'm trying to think about it, you basically, you don't have the tenacity, that's maybe the word I'm looking for, you don't have the tenacity to actually, after recording it, hit upload. Even Drop Target Danielle was like, you're not going to upload that one, right? And look, it is a little bit embarrassing. It's embarrassing for my wife if we're out somewhere and like someone cuts me off in the car and I honk the horn and flip them the bird. It's embarrassing to her if we're out grocery shopping somewhere and like someone nails into me and I turn to them and scowl at them instead of going, oh, that's okay. Like I'm just not a typical Canadian like that. I'm, I basically, like, I long to be everything Dennis Creasel is. I wish I could just tell everybody the truth about everything instead of sugarcoating shit all the time. But from now on, Stern, your sugarcoating is gone. You better call Kellogg's and get some of that glistening frickin' stuff they throw in, and General, wait, Kellogg's is, like, dead. Didn't they go bankrupt? You better call General Meals and get some of that sugarcoating they put on the Frosted Lucky Chums, the Magically Delicious. You better call them up and get some of that high fructose corn syrup, because I am not going to be sugarcoating my content for Stern anymore. Game over. Game over, Stern! Alright, I was channeling a little bit, a little tiny bit of my Macho Pimbo podcast there. Now listen, I will be honest. Kerry Hardy loses his shit, pulls out guns, yells, screams, talks about politics, gets the most views like I've seen him get in months if not years. And then over on top of that, within the next week, he gets several interviews like Pedretti, Brian Allen, Pinball Brothers. Wait, one of those was someone else? There's so many interviews in the last week. So much content. As a pinball nerd, I freaking love it because I can't get enough of it. And I love Kerry Hardy. I am also a Cary Hardy fan. For those of you who didn't listen to my take on the whole Cary Hardy situation, if you want to get deeper into it. I mean, if anything, that episode was harder to listen to than me even losing my temper. But you can go back, and I did five rad and one bad on John Wick, and I also talked about the Cary Hardy situation. But my point is, I saw Cary Hardy lose his frickin' shit and basically be rewarded by getting talked about. You know, that whole bad, no publicity is bad publicity, yadda yadda yadda, all that BS. Arguably, he probably did lose some fans, but I would say overall he maybe gained more fans because he walked it back just on time. Just in time, he was able to, like, you know, I would say hold his head high, you know? He's maybe going to be, he's maybe going to have one or two, like, hardcore lefties, like, say something to him one time here or there in the chat. Like, get over yourselves, guys. You know what it is? It's the people far, far, far. It's like the top 1% of the people far on the left and the right kind of, like, ruin it for everybody. They're like the negative Nancy Debbie Downers you bring politics into everything can we not just have some things that are sacred that we don't have politics in I used to love talking about politics but not on a pinball podcast you know what I mean so says the guy who goes off topic all the time I will say this I did go way over the top and I was way too much of a braggart about myself during the show I do feel bad for that um I was trying to like I was trying to like harness every possible sliver of a negative thought that's ever came into my head and like regurgitate it all at once and you know I there was some shrapnel in there I one person said to me like one good friend of mine said are you afraid you've burned bridges in the future with stern and it's like yeah a little bit but at the same time I have gone out of my way to be a fucking simp for them in the chat on twitch every every single stern pro circuit I am in probably in chat more than anyone else and I have the receipts to show it I am putting up links to stern i'm putting up links to ifpa i'm putting up link like i'm trying to further pinball to the pinball map i'm talking to any newbies that have a newbie question on any live stream of a new pinball machine getting live stream on anyone's live stream i try to be the first to reply to give them a sensible logical you know uncomplicated easy to understand for newbie nerds response and i feel like i've been very leveled most of the time and done a really great job promoting pinball especially for stern and if the if if you're gonna bite the hand that feeds well fuck you i'm gonna burn you at the fucking stake so from here on out i am a simp for every pinball company well okay except for home pin but pinball adventures but i'm a simp for every pinball company except Stern and the reason is is because Stern has done it they this was the most egotistical least humble launch of any pinball machine ever first you go get two people who've never presented any pinball content previously don't know how to record it don't know how to get that capture the audio capture the video have no clue like how to play they don't know what a post pass is or I mean none of that matters it's great that we had some of those but fail number one, not putting guns in a machine where guns are everywhere in the movie. They just are. Fail number one. Don't take a license about guns if you can't have guns in any of the artwork, okay? Fail number, at least one of the models, one of the fucking models you put guns in. One of them. Jesus, crepes, okay? Jesus, crepes, as they say in Quebec. Get me my crepe in my cigarette. Uh, anyways, second fail was only getting king of kongs and the other ding dongs and not getting actual any pinball content creators the third mistake was coming out and saying that you didn't know that people would be up in arms you live in america if you do if you have anything without guns if you say anything second amendment you're gonna get chopped out to the bit because they the only two things that I know for sure that Americans believe in, okay, the only two things they believe in staunchly, and us, me as being a non-American, that we hear all around the world is guns and religion. They love guns and religion more than their family, more than their friends. They would literally, there's people out there who would end their lives to stand up for the Second Amendment. Like, they would literally, basically commit suicide to stand up for their right to own a gun and not just a gun because we can own guns here in Canada okay but to own like an AK-47 because when the guy beside you gets a bigger gun then you need a bigger faster gun then you need a bigger then you need a bazooka then you need a nuclear like where does it end but anyways see now I've gone off topic I'm talking about politics and that's why this this is it this is it I'm ending it on this show I'm not talking about the guns I'm not talking about the politics I'm not even going to talk about stern marketing fails for a while because I'm sick of it and I started this podcast in a good mood and now I'm getting grumpy because Stern sucks so bad but here's the thing Stern doesn't suck I love Stern I love John Borg okay and everything almost ever I almost everything's ever done the code on well on Munsters I guess that's more Dwight but I even love most things Dwight has ever done most most listening to Dwight for 45 minutes talk and do a big preamble at the start of any live stream that he did the codes for that's probably not my favorite part about Dwight but everything else he does is awesome okay and like i love raymond davidson i love tim sexton um gary stern if i ever got to meet gary stern that would be one of the coolest moments of my life like we all get that roger sharp is the man who saved pinball but gary stern is the man who saved pinball after it almost died in around the year 2000 right if it wasn't for him still pushing pushing pedal to the metal and saying that's it we've got to have this you know we he basically stayed with pinball when every other manufacturer died out switched to making slots or gave up on pinball Gary Stern was like a horse a workhorse like a Clydesdale with like those blinders on he just said I don't care pinball arcades don't exist anymore we'll keep pumping them out so thank you Gary and he's also super entertaining seems like a fun dude um don't agree with everything he says and does of course and how could I and how would I but that would have been one of the best moments of my life to just see the cafeteria at Stern with the 420, I believe it is, 420 microwaves and that one big wall. I'm sure you guys have seen the picture. I think it's 420 and they might have had to amp it up to the new factory. They have 450 microwaves altogether. Like, just to see that because they'll have to run off the line and make their food really quickly and then run back to the line because you can't run one part of an assembly line without the other part, so on and such forth. But that would have been the best moment of my life and I would have provided more pinball content than probably everybody other than Don. Don's probably doing a freaking live stream from the stern bathroom. He's probably, he's not, Don's not like an upper decker guy like me. I like to do upper deckers and people piss me off. He's more of an upper pisser. So he'll take a piss in the top part of the toilet. And then the next time someone goes in there to flush in their beautiful office, it'll all just come raining down yellow. Now the thing is, no, I'm just kidding. Don does not do that. Don does not. I'm totally, totally kidding guys. This is a joking, fun pinball podcast. From time to time, I'm going to give you my honest, unfiltered reviews of a pinball machine. yes from time to time are you gonna have to put up with me going off topic of course from time to time i'm gonna use too many filler words like when i keep saying time to time and um and yeah and all that kind of shit because i've got like 30 concussions i'm a stoner hipster dude who lives in the middle of the country who drinks way too much caffeine before he does a show and basically i enjoy losing my shit it sounds dumb but i kind of like getting all amped up and riled up it's like it's like when you used to play a sport back when you were younger, you know what I mean, like you get all, I don't know, like to me, this is my sport, I can't skateboard anymore, and in fact, the reason why I started this pinball podcast almost 600 episodes ago, was because I snapped my arm in multiple locations, and was told, not only could I no longer skateboard anymore, but I shouldn't be doing any aggressive activities, well, screw you doctor, I kept doing disc golf, I still go to a skateboard park once in a while, fully geared out in my wife's roller derby gear um I haven't talked much about pinball this this this this show which I should have done I wanted to let everybody know that most mostly I'm okay I mean am I bipolar do I probably need to be uh medicated yes even Kaneda Kaneda who for the last six months forgot I was pinball nerds podcast on poor man's pinball network even though he sent me notes on several shows about things I said he didn't like he he still didn't know where I was for like six months freaking doofus uh freaking hipster doofus there you remind me of like uh no he's probably more like Jerry than he's probably more like Jerry than uh Kramer I'm probably more the hipster doofus but anyways uh he did Kaneda's was actually pretty funny even if you're anti-Kaneda kind of like I am he's definitely another frenemy I don't know it's something I don't know who I dislike more Zack or Kaneda it's kind of like it depends on the day right depends on recently it's probably been I've liked Zach a hell of a lot more than Kaneda, but then at the same time, like, I actually think if I saw Zach at a show, I could go up and be cordial and, like, try to shake his hand and say hello, how's it going, nice to see you, good to finally meet you, thanks, thanks for the millions of hours of content you provided between straight down the middle, flipping out, yada, yada, yada, I think he kind of, like, finally discovered Joel, and that's a pretty damn good diamond to find over there, even if David Dennis doesn't like Joel from Triple Drain, I do, I kind of do think of my Pinball Podcast as being an insider's podcast, most of the people that are listening to this would be absolutely confused if this was their first pinball podcast ever but why would you start here with a pinball blog that's meant to be for hard freaking core pinball nerds but if that's you a hardcore pinball nerd and you're listening to the first time remember to like remember to subscribe and if you're ever on the poor man's pinball podcast channel and you type that into google and you click on the top link when you get over there if you want to make sure that you're listening to because drew and ian do an awesome show on here uh foghorn leghorn and craft beer Sally do some fun shows on here as well. I don't, I'm not gonna lie, I don't listen to the We Suck one very often because it's mostly about Nintendo Wii games from 20 years ago, but if I'm bored and the mood strikes me right, I might listen to it because you will hear some cool music in there, but I do listen to the Drunk Jor whenever I can catch up, so make sure you check that out on Poor Man's as well, and make sure that you like Poor Man's Pinball Podcast over there on YouTube, so the next time they do a live stream, go back and watch that live stream. It hasn't got enough views. Those guys, these guys are like, they even helped choose to bring me over here. They're probably hoping I don't do too many shows, like quite as hot as that last one. Cause it was a little crazy. It was a little cray cray, not going to lie. Uh, but now I want to let everybody know. Also, if you're someone who does struggle with mental health and you actually legitimately get as angry as I got on my last podcast and like, you don't know how to calm yourself down and you're not doing it just to rile yourself up for a pinball podcast to be entertaining and to be funny. I heard from I heard from one person it's the funniest pinball podcast they've ever heard and they they knew for sure I was joking you know who you are you you are one of two people on this very well listen to pinball podcast another gentleman who was there today I'm not gonna give away my secrets but he told me that when he heard me grab the microphone and go up like this sorry I probably hurt your ears again he said that when I grabbed the microphone and I went up like that he said he knew for sure without a doubt that I was joking like I don't know who could listen to that and not know I was fucking around, like, honestly, like, the, the most angry I've been in the last decade was when my Oma passed away, because I didn't get to go back to her funeral and say a final goodbye, and I didn't get to see her in her last six, six months of life while she was at the, um, um, palliative care center, and I wasn't even that mad for that, or maybe I was close to that mad, but only briefly, right, because I was, I was, and, and I'll be honest, like, a lot of times, especially with males, I'm sure there's some females who do it as well, but I find especially with males, and this is at least what I've been taught when I had to go to an anger management program, that's right, you're like, whoa, you completed anger management, you're still this hangry, maybe I should have eaten, maybe, you know what, maybe I should just blame my whole last shitty podcast on, I didn't have my Chipotle, well, they don't have Chipotle here, but I didn't have my Canadian maple taco, you know, no, no, no, I'm not going to blame it on anybody, I knew what I was doing, I mean, I didn't know I was going to go quite that far off the rails I think I even surprised myself my voice was so hoarse I couldn't talk for like 24 hours even at this point I can do one of my other favorite hobbies even though I horrible at it which is singing okay so I absolutely want to be a positive for some pinball podcasting most of the time and I will be a positive unfiltered uh somewhat balanced pinball podcaster whenever I can possibly do so but in this particular case when Stern had basically punched me in the face after me French kissing Stern for like eight years basically like spreading their butt cheeks and going to every person at stern i get fucking told that and again this is another pinball podcast where i spoke to one of the people on that show they have less than two dozen pinball podcasts ever their average show gets like a quarter of the listens of what my typical shows get and yet they were still invited all expenses paid all the way across the country both people on the thing you know like rolling out the red carpet and it's Like, I don't care that Stern wouldn't spend the 80 bucks. They were too cheap to spend the 80 bucks. What I care about is I didn't get to go meet all those people. Josh and Scott from the Loser Kid Pinball Podcast. You know how bad I would love to meet them? Like, I've listened to every one of their shows. I've spent, sent literally thousands of pinball people over there, like, heard about Loser Kid from me. Like, I was one of the first people telling people show after show after show, like, their first 10 episodes, you guys got to get over there and listen to them. I was also one of the first person to tell people to go listen to, well, not the poor man's. The poor man's, I thought they swore too much. Holy crap. Now, at the end of the show, now that we're nearing the end, I'm going to tell you the real reason why I actually, not why I recorded that, and not why even I was so angry. It wasn't just because I was going to miss out on not getting to meet Josh and Scott, okay, and Kale and Rachel from Electric Batpod, and Don from Don's Pinball Podcast. I wasn't going to meet Colin from the Kineticist. I wasn't, I want to meet Jason Knapp so bad. I was supposed to do an interview with him last year and I effed up on it. I ended up getting too busy and I screwed up on the timing. And Jason, I'd love to have you on the show in the future at some point. But my point is, I want to be a primarily positive force. There's no negative Nancy's or Debbie Downers here, except for on the last two shows, and I'm sorry. But I'm going to try to move on out to be constructive criticism for Stern. And I will say this, the constructive criticism I should have given to Stern was that Stern at the very least if you're only going to invite said number of pinball podcasters send it go on to the kineticist or this week in pinball on the promoter list or whatever right go on to the promoter list and just send a quick email Facebook message Instagram DM TikTok MySpace how whatever media they have send them a quick message and say hey we didn't forget about you we're sorry we didn't invite you to this one we'll try to include you in a future one but what we want to do for all the pinball podcasters and content creators who work so hard for us and do such a great job what we want to do is at least invite you to be part of the live zoom it would take all of 30 seconds you jack danger the world's best pinball live streamer i said it he works for you i bet you it would take jack danger on the high end on the high end five minutes to set up a simple camera just viewing the room and maybe one other camera to be handheld to show off the game or whatever it is you're telling all the other pinball podcasters and you could even have a moderator either tim sexton raymond davidson whoever whoever you have there whoever has time has energy who understands how to use twitch or zoom or whatever or or youtube um you you or however you're going to be presenting it probably better with zoom so you could have a private channel right but if you had a moderator there who just asked the questions in chat that made sense so that all the other pinball and that would have cost you nothing would have took 10 minutes of time from someone at stern and it would have been like they must have known oh if we leave all the guns out of a movie that's all about guns people are going to be mad they must have known and if they didn't know they should have known and then over and above that if they should have known everyone's going to be pissed about it they would have said you know what john wick's not it's like a b or a c level tier anyways let's not get a b or c tier level game about basically a shooter who shoots people for a living if we can't get guns on it and then over and above that they should have had the tenacity to say hey this this launch is not going correct they should have got out in front of it and said just to let y'all know i know some people are going to be disappointed there's no guns on the artwork that had nothing to do with us if george gomez it came out or whomever it came out and said all of that before the launch no fucking problem. Not a single solitary Karen or Nancy or whatever you want to call them would have been upset about this. But because you made us guess and fill in the gaps, and Kerry already hadn't had his Chipotle yet, and he happened to have a loaded freaking M16 on him. No, I don't know enough about guns to know what type of gun that was. And hopefully it wasn't loaded. It was locked, thankfully. That's kind of a neat lock there. But I don't know much about guns. I'm not a huge fan of guns, even though I'm not anti-gun, I'm definitely for guns, especially if you're a farmer, especially if you're a hunter, especially if you own, you know, a slaughterhouse, and believe me, every single person out there who eats meat one time once, you should be forced into, at the very least, if not going to a farm and watching the same animals that you eat be slaughtered, you should at the very least have to watch it happen on YouTube to have more respect for the people who bring the food i.e put the bacon on the platen put the steak in on the kitchen table and i don't know that was that they can't all be winners guys it can't all be winners but then over and above that stern should have had the foresight to know like hey anyone who's been in the game for a couple years anyone who like you know especially people okay were they going to go to canada and enroll the of course not literally the programmer on the game has violently had a a drink of like I don't know probably alcohol I'm assuming by how drunk he was I have seen the video I'm one of the rare people has seen the video of Kaneda like throwing the drink at okay he more so kind of poured it very hard or threw it up or I don't know I have seen the video it's been a couple years but I've seen the video of Kaneda actually hitting Tim Sexton in the face with like a giant drink at the women's tournament the New York City pinball tournament I think that's a real reason why Kaneda hates pinball tournaments is because basically it's the only place where he was told off and since then he's been soured about it well I mean that and he's not very good at pinball but sorry, Canada, it's just the truth. But my point is, I want to stress that the Stern Marketing Department, not everybody at Stern, whoever in Stern Marketing made all of these decisions, and it was probably multiple people, whoever made all these multiple decisions that got worse and worse and worse and worse, that person is who should be apologizing to me. But not just me, because I am one of the small pinball content creators that will stand up for myself. And I will say when something is morally and ethically wrong in this industry and in this hobby, and most other small pinball content creators just won't do that. They won't stand up to Stern. They'll keep just basically kissing their ass, A, because they're friends or family members with the distro, B, because they get a cut of the money or they get their Sterns for less money because they give Flip N Out Pinball or, you know, Player One or whoever, one of these other distros a shout out, right and also because they want to be invited to the stern stuff in the future and because they don't want to be embarrassed when they see them at an expo and i don't fear any of those fucking things okay the people who know me the best the people have actually spent time with me in real life know that that's not me i play a character called orbital elbert on this show in real life i don't really get that upset about stuff also in real life the way that i'm talking to you now basically yelling like if I was like if I was going to intro my podcast in like just me being me okay welcome back pinball nerds uh my name is Albert Agar and this is called the pinball nerds podcast uh here we're today we're going to chat about John Wick pinball some things I liked about it some other things I didn't like about it and yeah that marketing department you know I don't I think they could have done a little better I think they made a couple minor mistakes that's just not me okay I mean that's like me if I'm like dealing with my kids or like dealing with someone at like I don't know if I got to go to the MTO or whatever the hell they call it here in Canada I can't even remember like the ministry in Nova Scotia it's like the ministry of wizards you're a wizard Harry anyways I've gone off topic too many times I will now that we've got to the end of the show be open and honest part of the reason why not I recorded that show but part of the reason why I felt okay just hitting the upload is because nothing I could say in that show I mean the worst thing I said in that show anyways was like, I would take an upper decker at Stern and that would never happen. I would never do that at any pinball company other than pinball adventures or home pin. Y'all know that. Um, I am the biggest simp. I would be taking the most pictures. I would be doing the most interviews. I would be fanboying out. I would be asking for a selfie from pretty much every person who works at Stern. Uh, other than maybe, well, who knows? Maybe, maybe all just the hard workers on the line. And please, please, please. I was at no point. I was at no point trying to offend just like people who work at Stern or work for Stern or work with Stern or make the other parts for Stern or are Howard Stern fans I wasn't trying to offend anybody I was just trying to openly and honestly convey how mother effing pissed off that myself Jason from pinball party and multiple other people I don't want to mention out loud who I've heard scene that our big, huge, giant content creators did not even so much as get like a letter like, hey, we're not going to invite you this time. Don't worry, we haven't forgot about you. We're going to have you in a live stream. You know, we want to leave this channel open. We want to work with you in the future. You know, you don't have to bullshit and say, oh, I love your podcast. Who loves my, I don't love my podcast. I've never listened to a single fucking episode. I definitely, I can't listen to that podcast from two days ago. I listened to about 10 seconds. was like, oh my god, this is cringe. So at the same time, my last pinball podcast was a little bit cringe, a lot of it cringe, and it was like somehow gold, Jerry. It's gold. I don't know. I do not know. I don't know which it was. I'll let you decide. Some people loved it. Some people hated it. I'm probably halfway between. It's a little bit embarrassing. I'm sure it will be thrown back in my face at some point, probably, which is totally fine, and honestly, probably do. I'm okay with getting roasted. I get fucking roasted so hard by all of my buddies all the time, which of course I do, right? But I get roasted so hard all the time by so many of my buddies, it would only make sense. That the pinball, I mean, I make myself the butt of the joke on like 99% of my shows. I'm not roasting Jason from Pinball Party. I'm roasting myself most of the time. But from now on, Stern, I'm roasting you! See, I can pretend to be angry. Did you think I was really angry there? Hopefully not. Anyways, I'll try not to lose my shats as often on future shows. I actually am an ordained dudas priest that's not even a joke I have over a decade now in practicing as an ordained dudas priest including tons of other shit I'm not going to talk about on this show but let me tell you this an ordained dudas priest would not lose his shit that I mean like something really really like I would have to get like I don't know like a an asteroid would have to fall out of the sky and like I don't know take out Chicago and all the pinball nerds that live there and all the awesome pinball factories and everything awesome that gets done there. Like, or to have to take out London, Ontario, my hometown, or like Toronto where I have like 20 friends, you know? Like, it would have to like, something really bad would have to happen for me to actually get that angry. And I'll be honest, a lot of the time, especially for men, I've tried to mention this before, but when we're sad, and I was mostly sad for a couple days, and I let it turn into anger. And I shouldn't have done that. I should have just said like, dude, really? It is not cool that you're not getting invited. It is not cool that you're not going to get to go meet so many awesome people in pinball that work there and other content creators and check out Chicago proper I've never got off the highway in Chicago right and like it would have been life-changing for me I know a lot of those other pinball content creators have been to Chicago they've been to Expo they've been to Stern this is not life-changing for them this for some of them it might even feel like it's work for me it wouldn't have been work it would have been my pleasure to go there and support Stern and be a Stern simp and basically go there and have a great time and try to be open and honest and tell you what I didn't like about John Wick but also like pump up everything I love about it. I would love nothing else to do that. Now, here's the real truth. Part of, part of the reason why, part of the reason why I basically was okay with uploading the episode was because I heard Jenga's lose his shit and say, no one on planet Earth should have a gun ever. Guns are the worst. So he went off the deep end one way and said stupid shit. And then I heard Kaneda say the F word 17 times and lose his shit for two hours straight. His blood pressure must have been through the roof his cortisol much must have been really high and i hear all of these things happen and what i tell myself is they both got more views from it then jason loses his shit and does that on his podcast and he gets talked about and more views invited with by sangas onto there and then me i lose my shit and i get the most listens i've ever got before and then i get told that there's a very important person from a big pinball company wants to come on my show so it's like wow all i have to do is lose my shit one time once to actually make people pay attention and listen. But I don't want to do that again because that's very embarrassing. From now on, if I'm going to embarrass myself, I'm going to do it by singing. Until next time, pinball nerds, remember to eat, sleep, and breathe. Pinball. Just not John Wick pinball. Now I am stuck between my anger and the blame that I can't face Memories or something, even smoking weed is not replacing I am terrified of Carl Weathers, cause I see you when it rains Talk told me to travel, but there's COVID on the planes And I love Vermont, but it's the season of the sticks And I saw your mom, she forgot that I existed And it's half my fault, but just like to play the victim I'll drink alcohol till my friends come home for Christmas and I'll dream each night of some version of you and I might not have but I did not lose now you'll tie your tracks in one pair of shoes and I'll split in half but that'll have to do I love you pinball nerds sorry for last show didn't mean to scare everybody have a rad day and go listen to Noah Khan's stick season