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057: Pinball Draft & A Stinky Dog

Punk Rock Pinball Podcast·podcast_episode·35m 16s·analyzed·Jul 22, 2026
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TL;DR

Punk Rock Pinball hosts draft games for their lineup and announce online sales & repair services.

Summary

Stephanie and Mike host episode 57 of Punk Rock Pinball Podcast from their HQ in Bloomington, Illinois, discussing their monthly tournament (36 players, 47% women) and conducting a pinball draft across categories like Modern Stern, 90s Bally/Williams, 1980s solid states, Jersey Jack, Spooky, tournament games, crowd pleasers, and rare/expensive machines. They also announce plans to list used games for sale on their website and offer Jeff's pinball repair services for hire in the central Illinois region.

Key Claims

  • 47% of players at their monthly tournament were women (17 of 36)

    high confidence · Stephanie and Mike discussing tournament results

  • Shelly Sharp is responsible for nurturing the women's pinball scene in central Illinois through the Bells and Chimes chapter

    high confidence · Mike giving credit to Shelly Sharp for women's participation growth

  • They had 36 people at their monthly tournament, their second-largest turnout (first was 49)

    high confidence · Stephanie and Mike discussing tournament attendance

  • Fall of the Empire is currently their #1 played game at HQ

    high confidence · Mike stating gameplay statistics from their first full week

  • They plan to list multiple games for sale including JAWS (Premium/LE), Foo Fighters (Pro), John Wick (Pro), and others

    high confidence · Mike and Stephanie discussing inventory for punkrockpinball.com

  • They're planning to offer Jeff's pinball repair services for hire through their website

    high confidence · Mike announcing new repair page coming soon to website

  • Dialed In!! is undervalued and Shelly Sharp's customized version has board modifications that improve flipper performance

    medium confidence · Mike discussing Jersey Jack machines and mentioning Tony's modifications to Shelly's machine

  • King Kong is Mike's #1 most wanted pinball machine at the moment

    high confidence · Mike stating personal preference during draft

  • They're planning to add custom winner pins for non-HQ tournament locations

    high confidence · Mike discussing championship pins and merchandise

  • Pokémon (Premium/LE) would be played more than Fall of the Empire if they acquired it

Notable Quotes

  • “47 percent of the players at our monthly tournament were women. Yeah. It's kind of awesome.”

    Stephanie @ ~7:30 — Highlights exceptional women's participation in their tournament, reflective of strong women's pinball community building in central Illinois

  • “I think around Illinois, I think for women's pinball scenes, we might have one of the best in Illinois down here. I think we have the best.”

    Mike @ ~8:45 — Asserts their region has the strongest women's pinball community in Illinois

  • “King Kong is my number one most wanted pinball machine of the moment right now.”

    Mike @ ~21:00 — Reveals current collecting priority and potential future acquisition target

  • “1990s, mid-90s, Williams are my second least favorite type of games to EMs.”

    Mike @ ~23:00 — Expresses design philosophy preference against toy-heavy 90s era games

  • “I'd rather be brutalized by firepower.”

    Mike @ ~26:30 — Articulates preference for early solid state design over complex 90s mechanics

  • “TNA, I think, is one of the best multiplayer games to exist. It's so fun.”

    Mike @ ~35:00 — Endorsement of Total Nuclear Annihilation as exemplary multiplayer experience

  • “If the code was better, it would be like a Pokémon (Premium/LE) all day.”

    Stephanie @ ~49:00 — Suggests Pokemon's code quality is a limiting factor in its appeal despite strong theming

  • “We're not trimming down the lineup. We're just trying to mix it up... keep it fresh.”

    Mike @ ~60:00 — Explains business model of constant game rotation for learning and experience variety

  • “He loves problem solving on Pinball machines.”

    Stephanie — Characterizes Jeff's motivation for repair work and custom modifications

Entities

Punk Rock PinballorganizationStephaniepersonMikepersonShelly SharppersonJeffpersonGreg BonepersonTom EatonpersonJawsgame

Signals

  • ?

    community_signal: 47% female participation in monthly tournament (17 of 36 players), approaching 50%, attributed to Shelly Sharp's Bells and Chimes chapter expansion in central Illinois

    high · Tournament stats and explicit credit to Shelly Sharp's organizing efforts over multiple years

  • ?

    venue_signal: Punk Rock Pinball HQ expanding floor space with layout reorganization, adding games to secondary room to increase capacity and player distribution

    medium · Discussion of moving crowds to newly renovated side room, Pokemon placement strategy to attract players to secondary space

  • ?

    business_signal: Punk Rock Pinball launching pinball repair service offering Jeff's expertise for hire in central Illinois region at hourly rate

    high · Website page under development, Jeff confirmed excited about offering, positioned as regional service within couple hours of Bloomington

  • ?

    product_strategy: Punk Rock Pinball operating rotating game acquisition model: sell games on website to fund new acquisitions, maintaining constant lineup refresh for learning and competitive depth

    high · Explicit statement about not trimming lineup but mixing it up, every sale dollar reinvested in new games, multiple machines listed for trade or sale

  • ?

    collector_signal: Pokemon LE experiencing secondary market depreciation after strong launch hype; value perception declining but demand still present at venue level

    medium · Stephanie mentioning Pokemon LE value drop as reason to consider acquiring despite code concerns, suggesting crowd appeal remains despite financial depreciation

Transcript

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0:00
Hello. Dog didn't care about the snaps. We have Marshall here with us today for the Punk Rock Pinball Podcast episode 57. I don't know if he's going to come visit the camera. He's not sure. He's just walking around like a shark. Yeah. Wondering around. Well, welcome. I'm Stephanie. I'm Mike. We're the hosts of the show. This is our pinball podcast. Where we talk about pinball and pinball stuff. Pinball and pinball accessories. Sometimes a little bit of music stuff. Sometimes we ramble on a little bit, but you know what? That's okay. It's our show. We're recording this from our Punk Rock Pinball HQ in Bloomington, Illinois. You can see some of it behind us a little bit. It's really a training center and showroom. It's a pinball training facility and showroom. We do have, we're going to be, or we have already listed a couple of the games in here for sale right on punkrockpinball.com, the website. In the main navigation, it says like use pinball machines. You can click that. There are two right now, but I'm going to add more. Really? What two do you have up there? Right now we have the Bally Strange Science. That's fun. Pinball machine for sale. That is Jeff's game. He would like to sell it. And we have the Gottlieb Rescue 911, a cute game. The helicopter works. It's fun. You don't find those with the working helicopter very often. I like those Gottliebs and their pointy flipper tips. The flipper angles too are so steep. Yeah, I love them. Because it can be rolling down the in lane and you just hold the flipper and stops the ball like a wall. And you got it. Uh huh. Yeah, it's cool. Real fun game. Um, those are both on the website right now coming soon. Uh, the Data East Jurassic Park will be on there. I'm going to list, um, Rocky and Bullwinkle. You are? Yep. I'm going to be listing the Stern Pirates of the Caribbean. Okay. I'm going to be listing the Beatles Gold. Really? Right? Okay. I'm going to be listing the Foo Fighters Pro. With the signed art blades by Jack Danger? Yeah, art blades signed by Jack Danger. I would love to list Judge Dredd if Greg is amenable to that. I'm not sure. He loves it. I'm going to list... I need to talk to Joe about the status of our John Wick trade because he brought James Bond here to HQ and Wick was supposed to go to their house but it's still sitting at our house because they're under construction. Yeah.
3:06
And I know they want to bring Bond back to their house. It's a favorite. So if Bond, like if that's not a trade trade, then I will be listing a John Wick pro. Maybe Mandalorian. Maybe The Getaway, if Dean doesn't want it. Dean gets first dibs. Dean gets first dibs. Dean gets dibs. What else do we have? Which one was the lowest played? Well, we'll go through all of... Oh, that's going to be next month. We'll save that. Yeah, we'll save that. But I can tell you this first full week, I think this was the first full week of it, the FALL OF THE EMPIRE number one played game. Still number one. With half, I think, a little bit more than half as many plays, James Bond. James Bond was the bottom. Bottom. Last. And in a healthy top five spot is Zeppelin. Yeah, Led Zeppelin was number three. Several people came in just to play Led Zeppelin this week. Yeah, Tom Eaton, thank you, came in on Thursday, didn't play a league, he just came to put some reps on Zeppelin so it could stay. Yeah, he did. And then the little gate where the ball shoots out of the shooter lane, that broke, but I fixed it.

medium confidence · Stephanie speculating about Pokémon (Premium/LE) placement and play frequency

@ ~65:00

  • “You can rent a Jeff via our website soon.”

    Mike @ ~63:30 — Announces new service offering to make experienced repair technician available to regional customers

    • King Kong
    game
    Theatre of Magicgame
    White Watergame
    Firepowergame
    Jungle Lordgame
    Dialed In!game
    Elton Johngame
    Evil Deadgame
    TNAgame
    Beetlejuicegame
    Dollygame
    Pokemongame
    Sonic the Hedgehoggame
    Flight 2000game
    Winchester Mystery Housegame
    Fall of the Empiregame
    Marshallperson
  • ?

    design_philosophy: Mike expresses strong preference for early solid state design (1980s) over complex toy-heavy 1990s Bally/Williams era, valuing playfield interaction over mechanical gimmicks

    high · Explicit statements contrasting Firepower brutality with 90s toy focus, preference for Jungle Lord simplicity, criticism of games where 'it's all about this toy'

  • ?

    gameplay_signal: TNA (Total Nuclear Annihilation) positioned as exemplary multiplayer game for competitive and casual play at venue; used strategically over more valuable Beetlejuice for multiplayer appeal

    high · Mike's deliberate selection of TNA over Beetlejuice for multiplayer competitive context despite acknowledging Beetlejuice's superiority and higher value

  • ?

    product_concern: Pokemon LE code quality cited as limiting factor preventing full crowd-pleaser status despite strong theme and licensing; suggests incomplete or problematic software implementation

    medium · Stephanie's statement 'If the code was better, it would be like a Pokemon LE all day' indicating software as constraint on game's potential

  • $

    market_signal: King Kong Premium identified as most-wanted modern Stern acquisition for venue; Sonic CE positioned as fresh-game crowd attraction for established venue operators

    high · Mike explicitly stating King Kong as #1 priority; both hosts selecting Sonic as crowd pleaser for newest-game novelty factor

  • ?

    content_signal: Punk Rock Pinball expanding merchandise offerings across apparel and novelties; launching championship pins for tournament winners with venue-specific variants for other tournament directors

    high · Sales happening at anxiousandangry.com, requesting community input on merchandise designs, creating special pins for qualifying winners

  • ?

    operational_signal: Monthly tournament at HQ reaching 36 players (second-largest in venue history), with plans to adjust main entrance during tournament nights to manage crowd flow and game distribution

    high · Tournament results, discussion of entry point changes to break player habits and direct traffic to secondary room

  • ?

    personnel_signal: Jeff positioned as critical specialized repair technician in central Illinois region; professionalization of maintenance role through commercial hire service

    high · Multiple mentions of Jeff's indispensability, excitement about service offering, focus on his problem-solving passion, both machines listed for sale are Jeff's personal games

    • 4:32
    What else might we sell? Oh, geez, I don't know. I'd sell the Close Encounters. I would. We might put the Close Encounters for sale. Firepower stays. Yeah. Fall of the Empire stays.
    4:48
    But anyway, there's going to be games for sale at punkrockpinball.com. And we did have our monthly tournament last night. It was really fun. We had 36 people show up. Is that our second biggest? Maybe. I don't know. Second largest.
    5:03
    Our first one had 49. Okay, yeah. That was largest. That was a big in. But I don't think we've been over mid-30s since that one. No, I mean, I think it's pretty impressive, 36 in July. I feel like people have lots of, there's lots of travel schedules there and there were a number of people who are usually here that didn't make it for just, you know, schedules are tough. Yeah, Chris Gullitzer is usually here, CJ and his wife, Jen, Rob Carroll's family was ill, I hope they feel better soon. So we could have hit 40 easy yesterday. Oh yeah. Could have hit 40, real close. So that was fun. And what was interesting about the field? Oh, this is so interesting. So 36 people, 17 of those 36 women. Almost half the field. 47 percent. 47 percent of the players at our monthly tournament were women. Yeah. It's kind of awesome. And we were missing a few women that regularly attend, so we could have cracked 50 percent women. And you don't find that every day at pinball tournaments. You don't. I'm going to give a shout out to Shelly Sharp for that. Yes. Because she is the reason why there are so many lady players in central Illinois, because she has really nurtured over a number of years the Bells and Chimes chapter in Peoria, which is now extending out to Bloomington and Champaign, Illinois. So it's kind of central Illinois, and she's really grown and nurtured that over the last few years, and that's why. It's a big part of why, but you also were responsible for some of those ladies, our champagne lady friends that came. Well, that's true. You made that connection. And then we have Sarah and Kayla, who are just real hardcore regulars here. And Rosie. Totally. But Shelly kind of created this space and now we're expanding it. Yeah. It's a group effort. But I think around Illinois, I think for women's pinball scenes, we might have one of the best in Illinois down here. I think we have the best. And we have Jenny from Champaign. She wasn't there. So we could have easily cracked 50% women. Or more. And we had a woman in the Final Four, Stephanie. Me. Third place finisher. Congratulations. Thank you. You know, last night as I was in like the finals, playing all of the finals, you know when I play really well is when I just want to go home. And you're sick of it? Kind of like, can this just be over? But like, I'm not going to just give it up. But when I just don't care, I do better. I can see that. Because like, then you're just playing probably just calm. Yeah, I was just tired. I was worried about Marshall being by himself all day and I'm like, I just want to get home and let my dog out. But I couldn't, like, I had to do my best and I did. The crazy thing is Marshall's here right now. Our friend Jeff is here down there working on some games Marshall doesn't even know. So at some point he may discover that Jeff is here and he might have speak out about that. He's panting and crying. Yeah, he's acting a little stressed out. He's acting a little stressed out. We gave him a calming thing. I think he needs to go to the bathroom. Yeah he is dropping some real stinky farts Yeah So I don know if we need to pause this and you take him out or I take him out or Where the leash The leash is down there on the table. Should we pause? Marshall... Or should we push through for like 20 more minutes? Marshall, can you hold it for 20?
    9:03
    He said yeah. It's a new place for him. Because we were going to do a quick thing. We'll make this quick so we can get Marshall attended to. Yeah, and... I did take him out before this, but he wouldn't do anything. I mean, his farts are foul. It's pretty bad. But we were going to do a fun little punk rock pinball draft, where I'll name a type of machine, for instance, like Modern Stern, and then Steph will draft one and I'll draft one. Okay. And then we'll create these lineups. And maybe you could also apply this. We're going to talk about what if we had to kind of blow up the lineup here and just swap everything out. Mm-hmm. So when thinking about your draft pick, this is a draft for games that would exist here. Okay. Okay? Okay. So we'll start. Wait, so games that would exist here for like tournaments and training? For everything. Yeah, for everything that happens here. Okay. But they would be for placement in our pinball club or maybe if you had a pinball club, there'd be suggestions for your pinball club or lineup or whatever. Okay. What's the first category? First category, Modern Stern. What is my pick for Modern Stern? Yeah, you take today. Jaws Premium. Seth's picking Jaws Premium. I know it's a really long tournament play, but I don't care. It's not as long as James Bond. Well. So there's that. I'm picking Jaws. I'm picking King Kong Premium. Okay. I know, you're like on a King Kong kick. King Kong Premium is my number one most wanted pinball machine of the moment right now. Okay. So, Step has a Jaws, I have a King Kong. I should probably have got a notepad. Well. And I'm not going to type it in. Okay, let's go with a 90s Bally Williams. I'm not like super familiar with all of them, so I may be wrong when I say this. And we have not, we didn't talk about this beforehand, so it's not like I did some research and I know what my 90s Williams is going to be. Mm-hmm.
    11:18
    Do you know what yours is? I have no idea. Okay. I'm thinking about it. I mean, that's like the Funhaus era. Yeah, is Funhaus 80s? Funhaus is 80s. I think it's 90s. Is it? It might be 1990. Yeah, I think it is. I'm not super well versed, and I'm going to say this. 1990s, mid-90s, Valley Williams are my second least favorite type of games to EMs. Funhaus is 1990s, so it's sort of on the cusp. So... Like that could fit the next category Funhaus could fit. Because if we're talking 90s games, you're thinking games with a DMD. Oh. Okay. Okay. DMD games. Yeah. So basically like... Except for Ripley's. Except for what? Ripley's. That's a Stern. Oh. So like The Getaway. I like that one a lot. That's a DMD. But yeah, 90s Valley Williams. What are you taking? What are you going to bring in here? Well, what are you going to bring in? I don't like a lot of these games. I don't like most of the 90s games. Sorry. I'm going to bring in Theater of Magic. I was just going to say that. You can say the same. No, I'm not going to because I had fun playing that at the Pinball Capital. Yeah. One that I haven't played like a whole ton, but I do enjoy it. I think it's a Nordman is Whitewater. Oh, yeah. That's a good one. Yeah. So there are a few good ones. Whitewater is really good. There's a lot of good ones. A lot of them I don't like at all. Well. But Whitewater is good. Theater of Magic is good. Good choice. Now we're going to a category that I like better than the 90s games, which is the 1980s, like the early solid states, older solid states. So anything, any solid state game would fit this. Jungle Lord. Jungle Lord. That's what I'm taking, Jungle Lord. I want this game so bad. There's one for sale. And I don't know if it's a good deal or not, but I love this game. I feel like it's if Black Knight and Firepower had a baby. It is Jungle Lord. Jungle Lord is cool. That one. I'm going to stick with the...we own this game. It's here and I'm going to keep it here. It's Firepower. Great game. Keeping it. But what if you could take Black Knight, which is great, and Firepower, mesh it together and have one Jungle Lord. One Jungle Lord. I'm just saying. I'm going to keep the Firepower, but I wouldn't mind a Jungle Lord. It's pretty great. I don't know why I like these solid states better than most of the 90s ones. Because the thing is, I'm not really, and I know a lot of these modern collector types, they all are all about the toys and gimmicks and all that. And like the 90s, Bally Williams are kind of second to none with toys and gimmicks and like... He's not safe. He's not gonna... that'll be fine. Okay. I don't really give a crap about the toys and the gimmicks. In a lot of the 90's games it's like all about this toy or mech and like that's the game and don't care. I'd rather be brutalized by firepower. Yeah, well, I like them both. Let's go with... I got a King Kong, I got a Theater of Magic, I got a firepower. You have a Jaws, a Whitewater, and a Jungle Lord. Let's go with Jersey Jack.
    14:58
    Dialed in. Good choice. Unpopular opinion probably. Either Dialed In or Elton John. I haven't played Sonic so I can't have an opinion on that. I haven't even watched, still have not watched any videos. Cause I wanted, um, what's the one guy at Stern who was like, this is the first time I get to experience this? Oh yeah. I want to be like him. Yeah. What's his name? Steve Bowden. I don't really want to know anything before I go and play that. So I have no opinion on Sonic, so I'm picking Dialed In. Elton John would also be cool. I'm picking Elton John. There we go. We have a Richie Rowe right here. It's going to go right there. So far to date, my favorite Jersey Jack to play, my number two would have been Dialed In. But I want a Dialed In like Shelly's Dialed In, which is Dialed In. Yeah, a real nice one. Yeah. With the, um, kind of the board modification to make the flippers more powerful. Yeah, that Tony did? Yeah. Mm-hmm. Theirs just shoot so nice. Put bigger capacitors on the board or something. Tony just, like, really did some cool stuff on that. Okay, let's go with, um, we'll stay modern and we'll go with Spooky. You gotta bring a Spooky game into here. Well, for that I might say Evil Dead. I hate to stick with ones that we have. It is not the best spooky game. I probably, in order to please the people, I think Evil Dead is a great choice. I will also say Evil Dead, but... We can't have two Evil Deads. So I have to pick a different one? Yeah. Well, if we have Evil Dead, then maybe I'll bring in the Beetlejuice, but I feel like Total Nuclear Annihilation should stay. TNA, I think, is one of the best multiplayer games to exist. It's so fun. Super simple. I'm keeping TNA. Alright. I know Beetlejuice is better and it's hot shit and it's way more valuable. I'm not talking value here, it's just for enjoyment to play and we do a lot of competitive stuff here and TNA is super awesome. Multiplayer experience. So, Evil Dead, TNA. Let go with this is sort of a wild card We have to bring in you have to draft a game that is specifically to be a killer tournament game So this could be any game any era it needs to be a really good competition game I guess I could have saved TNA for that You could have, but you didn't. I didn't. It's too late. That ship was set up because I could have brought the Beetlejuice and I could have taken TNA here. A good tournament game. What are you picking? I don't know, but I'm mad I messed up the last category. That's okay.
    18:10
    Because I had two more opportunities to get TNA in. I'm not picking Godzilla. Not Godzilla, not James Bond. No.
    18:20
    Good tournament game. I mean, I would, I feel like, like, um, a Williams System 11 is a good tournament game. A lot of them are. The, um, oh, that Bobby Orr one.
    18:37
    Bobby Orr's Power Play? Yeah. It's a good game. I'd bring that in. The ones I'm most familiar with, we have them, I'm trying to think of one that we don't have here. I could go for like a modern, well we have that game too. Have you played that Grand Lizard? I've not played Grand Lizard. It's pretty cool. Because like I think the best modern Stern for tournaments is Black Knight Sword of Rage and we have it. You know? Yeah, that's a great game. So I'm trying to find one we don't have, because I'm over here picking all these games we have already. I didn't have one queued up here. Great tournament game. I thought this would be easy. I'm gonna say... Dolly? Oh, yeah. Dolly Parton is great for tournaments. It's great. It's a great game. And it's a lovely game. So, Seth picked for me Dolly. I needed help. I am here. I needed help. I could have saved TNA for that and we would have Beal Juice and TNA. I failed. Sorry, everybody. And the Evil Dead. Yep. I screwed everybody. I screwed all of the HQ. Crowd Pleaser. So this is a wild, it doesn't have to be good in tournaments. This is a game you're going to put in here to attract people, to make people happy, to make your members happy, maybe to get new members. You're going to put in what game? I mean, like, the Beetlejuice would be one. That's not my choice. I feel like I know of one person if we had a Godzilla would be coming here all the time. Yeah. So that's in the mix. Mm-hmm. But I feel like if you pick whatever is the latest, newest game, which is Sonic, which we have not played. Right. That's what I would put in. You'd get all kinds of people coming in for Sonic. So that's taking Sonic for a crowd pleaser. And it's a Richie. You probably can't go wrong. I don't know because I haven't seen it. Yeah, if we had a Sonic and an Elton John, we'd have that whole wall full. We'd have people lined up waiting to get in. We'd have a whole wall full of Steve Ritchie. That's a good one. And I think my earlier choice of like a King Kong Premium, that's going to be a crowd pleaser. I think, man, if the code was better, it would be like a Pokemon LE all day. And I think it would still be a huge crowd pleaser here at Pokemon. Yeah. Aside from that, that might be my choice. I mean, I would love to, it would be played more, if we had that here, it would be played more than FALL of the Empire, without a doubt. It would be the most played game here. Mm-hmm. Still the waffling I'm bringing it here because the value has fallen significantly, so it's not, you ding it up a little bit, it's fine. Yeah, maybe we should. Jeff always tries to talk me out of it when I mention it. It's just a pinball machine. It's a pinball machine. It's already got 700 plays on it, so it's not going to be like a low plays.
    21:51
    It'll have a thousand plays within a few weeks here, within a couple weeks, probably a thousand plays. So it's not going to be one that you see flipping out advertised like low plays. I get this and I played 10 games on it. Like we're going to have a thousand on it. It's going to come over here. It's going to get to 5,000. Pretty quick. In a heartbeat, but like who, maybe who cares? Where do you put this one?
    22:15
    Somewhere good. I maybe put it over here because we've rearranged this room. We still have more players in the main room because you, in the original room because that's where you come in.
    22:28
    So I still want more people over on this. This side's nicer. Mm-hmm. Significantly nicer. Mm-hmm. And a lot of people were in here last night. If Pokemon's in here, that's going to bring more. Maybe we should start, I know we talked about this, but on tournament nights, maybe we should use the main entrance. Yeah, it's just so many people are just regular, used to coming in, so we're going to have to break some habits. Yeah. But we'll address that. We've taken an aside here. I'm going with Pokemon LE. Alright, I like that idea. And your Carle Pleaser was which? Sonic that I haven't played? Sonic the Hedgehog, Collector's Edition. Sure. Yeah, the best one. Yeah. With the fancy topper. Of course. We'll put them side by side. And see what gets played the most. That would be fun. And put it by the Evil Dead. Those three.
    23:23
    Man, if we could have the Evil Dead and the Sonic CE and then Pokemon LE, boom, bang, boom. That'd be cool. People would freak out. Lose their minds. Mm-hmm.
    23:33
    I like that. I like that category. And then here we have our final topic is like a weird wild card. So it could be a game that is just weird. I know it. Okay. Class of 1812. Oh, that's a good one. It's so good. It's a good one. Like that's on my list. It's so weird. It's super fucking weird. Super fucking weird. I'm gonna add another category after this. Alright. Because there's a game I didn't get in there that I wanted to get in. Okay. I haven't had a chance. And I feel like the game I'm gonna pick for the weird wild card is not super weird, but you don't see them every day. It's not really, I'd say, a really weird game, but it's a super wide body. Future Spot? It's a classic Stern. Future Spot? Flight 2000. They had it up at ORD, a beautiful one. In fact, I had messaged Aaron Reddick like about who owns that one because I would like to have that one. Oh, really? Yeah. It's amazing. Okay. And it is goopy. It has this weird ball lock thing where you hit up this left and it's got these lanes that go up and down. Ooh. So it goes up around. Oh, yeah. I played that. And then it'll sit on a thing and then when you hit another ball in there, it fires it up. Yeah. Super cool. I don't know if that classifies as weird. No, but there's that other one. I think it's called Spectrum. Yeah. That was at Chicago Water and Fire. Mm-hmm. Where it like... Oh, that was weird. You launch it with launches up out of the middle? Yeah. That was a weird one. Or off the sides. I don't know. It was very weird, but I like that one too. Or another weird one. I'm sticking with Flight 2000, but is it like the Terrific Lake or whatever the hell that... I don't like that one. It's too scary. It's very scary. It's like a haunted pinball machine. It's weird. I feel like if there is a haunted pinball machine, it's that one. Uh huh. I can't remember what I picked from my tournament game, but I want to revise it to Gorgar, even though we have it. I've already forgotten what I picked for that. For what? The tournament game, competition game, Gorgar. That's what you want? Yeah. Oh, you picked Dolly. Oh, no, we'll keep Dolly. Okay. We'll keep Dolly. Okay. Is that the one you wanted to make a new category so you could put Go or Korg guy? No, the new category is wildly expensive pinball machine. Just like a rare expensive one that you put on a list we not ever probably going to have it But we would like it Yeah like the Pipe Dream category Alright what yours Winchester Mystery House. Oh yeah, that's a good one. Yeah, that's a good one. Based on the current value and thinking it's probably not going anywhere in value, we will not ever own that game. No, but we will be able to play it. We can play it. So that's fun. We have access to one, which is lovely. But yeah, I'm going Winchester. Okay, that's good. That's a good one. This could be super expensive or super rare or very hard to find. Either or. It could be a game that's not that expensive, but you can't find them. Like Frontier? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Seth's taking Frontier. Mm-hmm.
    27:16
    I think those are good lists. Yeah. I'd recap, but I have a bad memory. I can't even remember everything I listed. Maybe I'll listen to it and I'll put little pictures of them down below. Technology. I don't know. We'll see. We'll see how it... It's going to add time to your editing. I know. What time is it right now? It takes me time to... It's only 2.43 p.m. I don't even know what time we started. I mean, I'm just saying because usually we do these later in the evening and then you're too tired to add fancy bits on your editing.
    27:49
    But it's earlier in the day than normal. It is earlier in the day. That's true. We're like 27 minutes into the show, which I think is probably a good spot. Marshall has chilled though. Yeah, he's like just laying there. Also, Jeff has not walked in. So Jeff will be the person when he walks in and Marshall loses it. But maybe he won't lose it because I gave him a calming thing. Right. I'm curious to take him down and let him see Jeff and see what happens. Yeah, you should. Let's see what he does. Jeff doesn't have long hair or a big beard, so he should be fine. Yeah, and Jeff is just cool and chill. And he's not like 6'5". No. Yeah, Jeff is here. He's working on the Pinbot, Jackbot. Which we found out is a prototype. Mm-hmm. Didn't know it was a prototype. That's cool. It is cool. Another thing we're going to be adding to the punkrockpinball.com, we've added the used games for sale. Yeah. We're going to add another page about pinball repair.
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    Oh, like how to do things? No, about our guy Jeff, if you live within a reasonable distance of central Illinois, well, you can book him to come and fix your machines. Rent a Jeff? You can rent a Jeff via our website soon. I'm going to build that page. That's cool. So I know people listen to this from all over the place. It doesn't apply to all of you. But if you're within a couple hours or so of like Bloomington, you can hire Jeff to come. You got a pinball machine that needs some work. You can hire Jeff to come and work on it. That's cool. He's very good at it. He is very good at it. He fixes everything I have here. I do my best to try to fix the things that I can. But he's like a hundred times more capable than I am if I can't figure out what the problem is or if it's like a board. Yeah, we can't do this without Jeff. No. So soon you could rent a Jeff for a day. The Jeff. For an hourly rate. Our Jeff. You could rent our Jeff. Pending schedule. For a fee. That'll all be on there. Okay. Should be within a week. I'll have that page. That's cool. Is he excited about it? He is. That's awesome. That's cool. I know he loves- And if you rent Jeff, you'll book it through me and then just get him to your house and show him the machine and leave him alone. Just let him do his thing.
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    Yeah. He loves problem solving on Pinball machines. Uh huh. And he's done it a lot. Yeah. Yeah, that's cool. And in fact, the two machines that are currently listed on the website are Jeff's. They're Jeff's. Mm-hmm. They're Jeff's games. Mm-hmm. And the Jurassic Park I'm about to list is Jeff's. Are you gonna put some of ours up there? Yeah, I list, I told you a bunch. I know, but like... I gotta take some pictures while we're here today. Oh, you are? Yeah. Okay. So you're serious. I'm serious. I'm gonna probably list some of them that I don't really want to sell. Like, I might list The Walking Dead Remastered. I just did really good on that last night. It's time to go. Walking Dead Remastered, I'd rather trade than sell. And everything I list on the website will take trades because we're not selling these, I forgot to say earlier, like, oh, why are you selling games? We're not trimming down the lineup. We're just trying to mix it up. Yeah, we've got to keep it fresh. So basically every dollar and then some that we get in the sales of these games is going to go towards buying new other pinball machines that will eventually then be for sale again on the website. Because we just want to keep this lineup churning so that we can learn how to play a ton of different games. Yep. So I will list The Walking Dead. I might list it just for trade. Okay. Because I'm not going to, I don't want to sell it. Kevin's also interested in maybe getting rid of his Metallica Premium. Metallica Remastered Premium. Remastered. But I don't know if he knows what he would want for that. He wants to buy a Sonic. Oh.
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    So I think he wants to sell it so that we'd have money towards a Sonic. That makes sense. Or if for some reason in the near future you buy a Sonic and you get it and you hate it immediately. And you love Metallica. Kevin will give you a Metallica remastered for it.
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    That's cool. Yeah. That's cool. Mm-hmm. All right, Marshall's squeaking again. He's squeaking again. I think he has to poop. Gotta poop, you know. I won't do it. Marshall, you gotta go poop. He wouldn't do it for me.
    32:42
    He's backing up. Back up the truck, Marshall. He said, did someone say poop? Uh-huh. Okay, we'll wrap it up. He's not as stressed as he was before. No, he's chilled out a bit. But he's squeaking. So thank you as usual for listening and watching and all the things. Yeah, thank you. Also, thank you. Some folks have been buying some merch at anxiousandangry.com. Oh yeah, we've been selling a lot of merch on anxiousandangry.com. Thanks for ordering merch. Oh, one other thing. We've got the yellow PRP pins that you can win for placing number one in qualifying at tournaments at our location. And I know some other tournament directors are interested and they want to do this too, so we're going to have some special ones created for non-HQ. Okay, so we're reserving the gold yellow for here, but we'll make a special exclusive winner's championship pin for others. Who are others? Qualifying. Winners of qualifying. Although I think it's up to the local scene how they want to award it. That's true. You want to award to the winner of qualifying or the winner of the finals? You choose. You choose what the winner is. Your scene, your choice. That's how we do it. All right. But anyways, just know that that's coming. Also, if you would comment and make a note in the comments below, if there's any specific merch you would like to see, I would love to hear what you might be interested in because we're going to place some orders here to get ahead of our expo. Yeah. So if you've seen some cool things out there that you're like, oh, you know, I would like a punk rock pinball golf shirt, let me know. Fanny pack. Let me know. Socks. I don't know. Key chain. Yeah. Somebody recently said key chain. Yeah, let us know because I'm going to start ordering that stuff. And if you've seen something cool, send us a picture or put a comment below. Mm-hmm. Or if you've got t-shirt ideas. Yeah, let us know in the comments below. If there's like somebody else, you know, we've ripped off of Pokemon, we ripped off Jaws. If there's any other major brands you'd like us to rip off Anna Design, let us know about that. We'd gladly break some licensing rules. And we have to get this dog outside. Yeah, he stinks so bad. Yeah. It's gotta happen. Let's do it. Toodaloo. Bye.