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Kaneda Pinball Podcasts YouTube Lives·video·1h 41m·analyzed·Mar 9, 2025

Analysis

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TL;DR

Kaneda predicts Harry Potter and King Kong will dominate; Barrels game reveal imminent via NDA embargo.

Summary

Kaneda discusses upcoming pinball releases over the next 8 weeks, emphasizing Harry Potter and King Kong as must-buy games for collectors. He details an upcoming Barrels of Fun game reveal (likely Dune) through embargoed media coverage, critiques Jersey Jack's design philosophy and lighting approach, and addresses market saturation concerns. He also comments on Stern's Pokemon announcement and reflects on his content strategy.

Key Claims

David Thiel returned to Jersey Jack Pinball to work on Harry Potter
high confidence · Direct statement about Thiel's return and his role in composing music and sound design for the game
Harry Potter game will be based on the first three movies only
high confidence · Kaneda states explicitly: 'it's going to be based on the first three movies. That is what Harry Potter will be based on.'
Barrels of Fun can produce six machines per day when fully running (30 per week, ~120 per month)
high confidence · David Van Ness told Kaneda directly about production capacity
Seven new games will be revealed over the next eight weeks
high confidence · Kaneda references '7 new games being revealed over the next 8 weeks' multiple times
Only King Kong LE and Harry Potter CE need to be purchased immediately to avoid paying more on secondary market
medium confidence · Kaneda's personal prediction/advice based on market analysis
90% of games purchased at release lose 30% of value in the first year
medium confidence · Kaneda's observation: 'anyone who's watched the pinball market over the last three years has witnessed that 90% of games bought right away have lost 30% of value in the first year'
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has only two unsold units with no waiting list
medium confidence · Kaneda states there are 'two spots for sale that haven't... they're just sitting there for sale, which means there's not even two people on the wait list'
Pokemon is bigger than Star Wars by 3-4x in IP value
low confidence · Kaneda's assessment: 'Pokemon will get them younger. It's the number one IP in the world. It's much bigger than Star Wars. It's, I think, three or four times bigger than Star Wars.'

Notable Quotes

“Jersey Jack is going to nail the lighting in the game. Wait, no—wait, I want to take that back. I think they might fail.”
Kaneda @ ~3:30 — Expresses skepticism about JJP's lighting design philosophy, contrasting themed restraint vs. over-the-top 'rainbow puke' approach
“My overall feeling with the Jersey Jack games is they lack soul, and it's something that is really sometimes hard to describe.”
Kaneda @ ~6:45 — Core critique of JJP's game design philosophy; suggests games are overbaked and sterile
“I just don't get the sense like they know they've got a banger and this is a theme that everyone's going to want and they can't wait to bring it to market.”
Kaneda @ ~15:20 — Expresses concern about Barrels of Fun's confidence in their upcoming game; suggests theme may be divisive like Labyrinth
“The only two games you're going to need to buy right away if you don't want to pay more is King Kong LE and Harry Potter CE.”
Kaneda @ ~25:45 — Investment advice predicting scarcity and secondary market premiums for these two titles
“I just buy a Harry Potter CE, even if you don't want it. Just buy it. If you don't want it, then sell it for more than you bought it for.”
Kaneda @ ~26:00 — Explicit recommendation to flip Harry Potter CE for profit; suggests strong demand and value appreciation
“Jack Danger is as good a designer as Keith Elwin, and I would also say I think Jack Danger sort of takes more risks than Keith Elwin does.”
Kaneda @ ~9:30 — Positions Jack Danger as peer-level designer to Stern's benchmark designer
“X-Men...is the most creative layout I've ever seen Stern do. Name me a Stern layout that took more of a risk than X-Men.”
Kaneda @ ~10:15 — High praise for X-Men's design risk-taking despite market reception disappointment
“Pokemon is the perfect pin for the family... my kids can get into Pokemon when they're young, and then there's a pinball machine in the house that's perfect for them to enjoy.”

Entities

David Thielperson Jersey Jack Pinballcompany Harry Pottergame King Konggame Barrels of Funcompany David Van Nessperson

Signals

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community_signal: Pinball content creator (Kaneda) emphasizes editorial independence and critical analysis approach as differentiation; contrasts with sales-focused industry coverage trend
medium · Kaneda discusses: 'I don't shill for any company... there's not a lot of like counterpoint happening. It's almost like people are extensions of these pinball companies' sales and marketing teams'
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competitive_signal: King Kong positioned as likely winner of 7-game comparison; Kaneda predicts it will be Keith Elwin's best work to date
medium · Kaneda ranks King Kong first: 'I know King Kong is going to be amazing... I think King Kong is going to be Keith Elwin's best'
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design_philosophy: Harry Potter facing potential design shortcomings: muted video clips, lack of magical toys/theme integration, insufficient mechanical novelty compared to Pirates of the Caribbean model
medium · Kaneda worries: 'this game is going to have muted clips... more Godfather-like and not like Pirates of the Caribbean... demands magic'
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design_philosophy: Jersey Jack Pinball games characterized as 'overbaked', 'sterile', and lacking soul; lighting approach criticized as excessive 'rainbow puke' rather than theme-dictated mood
medium · Kaneda: 'My overall feeling with the Jersey Jack games is they lack soul... they're very complex. They don't come at you as immediate as a Stern machine'
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licensing_signal: Pokemon confirmed as upcoming Stern Pinball title; Kaneda frames as blockbuster IP with 3-4x larger value than Star Wars

Topics

Harry Potter game design and featuresprimaryUpcoming pinball game releases (7 games over 8 weeks)primaryBarrels of Fun manufacturing and product reveal strategyprimaryMarket saturation and collector purchasing decisionsprimaryJersey Jack Pinball design philosophy criticismprimarySecondary market pricing and investment valuesecondaryStern Pinball Pokemon announcementsecondaryPinball content creator ethics and industry relationshipssecondary

Sentiment

mixed(0.45)— Kaneda expresses optimism about specific titles (King Kong, Pokemon) and Harry Potter's market potential, but pessimism about JJP's design approach, Barrels of Fun's confidence, and broader market saturation. Critical but not hostile tone; analytical skepticism rather than negative dismissal.

Transcript

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and it feels so right when I Fade Into the Night see me hit you you fall down all right we're going to do a great Saturday morning spectacular today I'm feeling it let's do this let's share our screen let know let's share this link copy it let's drop it off in the patreon we live Saturday morning spectacular I mean everyone knows to just hang out see oh man s I'm gonna just call it SMS March 8th and we get going everybody live children all right I don't know why it always does this why it wants to do it like a day earlier it's weird let's do it let's backstamp it I don't even know if that's the right way to do it how's everybody doing we got anybody in the house here well we got people people are slowly trickling and we got Barcelona in the house we've got everybody waiting to see what caned is going to say that's not true that's not true that is not true SMS live now all right ah was gonna you know thinking about doing both Facebook and and YouTube at the same time but we're just going to we're going to keep it here how's everybody doing happy freaking Saturday morning it is going to be a fun show today we're going to talk about what's happening in pinball this week I got some news I've got some stuff to talk about I've got some uh updates from our friends over at barrels of fun a lot of fun in those barrels let's get everybody here we live ohh man man oh man chevit man manevitz Jeremy what's up Lord Olaf I'm gonna have to get prescription versions of these glasses I don't even know if that's possible but um you know my eyesight I need like reading glasses now it's crazy it's crazy I love I I love 2001 Axel when he came back I mean when this is like he had been gone for sh five six years man no one even saw him it wasn't even like he was at the grocery store you got got your avatar CE and it's amazing I you know look look I hope I hope you enjoy your $19,000 Avatar CE man that's the point of it that's the point of it that is the point of it like the whole point the whole point is to buy a game you enjoy uh you know I don't see the uh the appeal of Avatar at these prices I find the game to be beautiful I just I don't click with the like the the story and the the energy of the game I don't know like you know what I'm saying like I've seen the Avatar movies here's the thing that I really just can't get over the whole point of Avatar is 3D this the whole point the thing was 3D IMAX Masterpiece that is the whole point the story sucks you know what I'm saying you got to go watch some people did a there was like a review Once of the Avatar movies in 2D in a reg theater and you know just like just reviewing the movie based on the storyline itself and it's it's not good and so you know the whole thing was 3D and then you've got this game where there's not even a moment where the the game is in 3D and I am shocked that there's no 3D mode at all in the pinball machine I mean Jaws beat them to the punch Jaws comes with the glasses and then you get Avatar no 3D again how do you in a boardroom at Jersey Jack pinball how do you decide not to have any 3D elements to Avatar I I don't get it I don't get it morning what's up guys get to the chopper we're gonna talk a lot about Predator we're gonna talk about what's going on in the pinball World maybe we should throw this up on Facebook at the same time tell everybody to come over you know we'll get people over the Link's live I love it I love it you know what I'm you know Canada is just gonna do what he wants to do I love I don't have any rules let's do live let's do SMS I'm just going to do SMS from now on I don't even care there we go let's try doing both at the same time see what happens here all right this gonna be funky this GNA be funky Saturday morning we got we got we got both things going we got double vision of canadi how's everybody doing I love this like this is I I should have four screens going I should get I should get me on the TV there laptop cell phone everything Saturday morning spectacular what's up Robert how you guys doing the more the merrier even if those punks don't play ah man you know look I I think I think it's gonna get real real crazy in pinball real soon I mean everybody knows we've got a lot of games coming out we've got people uh wondering where do I put my money and I I've been talking to people and everybody is recognizing right now we're at the Comm before the storm and I've got updates on barrels of fun pinball Brothers is clearly you know they're starting their teaser for predator we're going to talk about that we're going to talk about Stern Pinball we're gonna talk about DND D we're gonna talk about King Kong we're gonna talk about pop fiction we're going to talk about what else is going on Avatar CE owners we got people on Facebook we got on YouTube how's everybody doing this is funny to me this is funny to me we've got I I think you Facebook guys should just come over to the uh the Youtube but we could do both like this I really don't care I really don't care I mean it it doesn't really matter to me you don't sound in so much pain now well here's the thing here's the thing hernia surgery is a pain in the buut and I'm just happy that it's over a week ago it was extraordinarily painful I couldn't even move I was like kind of lying down like just trying to shuffle my legs and now I'm feeling much better there's a little discomfort it just you know a little bit of a a sort of just a moderate sort of stinging sensation if you will uh but you know a week a week following the doctor's orders resting up I've been working all week I've been working all week so it's um it's pretty good it's pretty good all right everybody let's uh I don't know should we keep the Facebook going I don't know there's only six people watching on Facebook where is everybody this this Saturday morning I mean I mean maybe maybe everyone's um maybe everyone's playing Avatar CE all right so here's um here's the thing let's start in order of the news of the week and I think that's the best way we do it so the news of the week first and foremost is predator and you know this is a title that's been in the rumor mill for a long time we've heard Predator floating around for man maybe six months uh and so what I gave to the patreon subscribers this week is um additional details which I haven't really heard many people talk about we are on YouTube Eric and we're on Facebook uh it's in both you can join on YouTube you can join on Facebook wherever you want to join this week I'm I'm going everywhere so like I could unite the audiences or you can stay on Facebook it doesn't matter I'm reading both comments it's uh we got dual screen going here so it's gonna be a widebody pin and that that is interesting do you want Predator to be widebody or not what do you guys think I think if if you ask me I don't care I I really don't care I I just want a great pin I I want a pin that is uh really load it with some fun stuff I I want a pin that has the assets and translates the Predator movie Perfectly I think the craziest part about Predator coming out right now is the main thing you need to do is the UV lighting and so now we've got two movies Avatar and Predator where UV lighting the game and getting that bioluminescent effect and you know the the Predator blood to Glow in the game it's going to be really funny if this game also attempts to do some sort of UV Lighting in the game so here's the thing about Predator as a theme it's phenomenal anyone who disagrees you don't get it you don't get it they're gonna sell all thousand of these things if the game isn't a total Dog Okay so we've got that going now the other thing is this widebody by pinball Brothers now the pinball Brothers have released a few games that are absolute dogs dogs Queen pinball sorry Dave Sanders e Queen pinball when it came out it looked dated right it came out and it looked like it came out 10 years prior ABBA is is like unquestionably is that even a word unquestionably is undoubtedly yeah that's better grenade come on get the grammar going Abba undoubtedly unequivocally I don't even know what I'm trying to say ABBA is atrocious everybody who plays Abba walks away with a negative opinion about the game and so when you get a dream theme for a lot of people like Predator just it's just an awesome cool badass movie right you get a great theme like that and then you hand it to the pinball brothers and that's got a lot of people anxious it's not who anyone would pick as their choice of company to make the game I think there are five companies in front of them that you would rather have make Predator uh Stern Jersey Jack spooky pinball cgc right who else who else am I missing here uh Dutch pinball right you could add even a few more probably pinball Brothers like is is really not even on one hand of who you would want to make Predator so I just think that this game this game is a is a moment for pinball Brothers right I I firmly believe in people's ability to do a 180 to show us what they can really do and this game to me is the make or break game for pinball brothers because if they nail it and they surprise and Delight us with an awesome Predator machine that's done right that has good flipper feel that has great translation of the theme and the assets are awesome and Arnold is featured throughout it and the art is cool if they do it justice and this game comes out and wins us over I think pinball Brothers is gonna start a new chapter in that company's history but if the game comes out and it's got floaty weak flippers in a widebody right away it's going to be unsatisfying if the artwork is bad like Abba uh you know you're going to get disappointed you know because you look at a game like Guns and Roses like it's beautiful game came out four or five years ago there's no reason why a modern pinball machine shouldn't have phenomenal artwork shouldn't look you know incredible and you know that's it like like people play these pinball Brother games and they just feel like sophomoric attempts or juv JV attempts sophomore I'm all over the place with my metaphors today people sorry I I'm still recovering so me some slack today it's it's been a painful week and uh I didn't even know I'd be feeling up for this show here's here's what I want to ask everybody right here and I want you guys to get involved with this what do you think the mechs should be in a predator pinball machine I was thinking about this now now it's funny right because the first Mech has to be the chopper and they put a chopper into Queen but I think you got to have that army military chopper as a you know a place to load the balls and get Dutch and his crew in in the chopper to to you know I I think in the chopper to enter into battle with the predator in the jungle but but also think about it get to the choa needs to be maybe the end two of the game where you have to escape because that's the whole thing you got to get out of that jungle now I don't know we'll see I also think they need a Topper not a chopper a Topper that has the Predators laser pointer you know on his shoulder with the you know those three little signals or sign what are they like symbols that he uses to sort of track on to his prey the one that goes up Carl Carl Weathers his arm and Dylan's arm Dylan you son of a Canada and blows his arm off I think you need that all right so I'm reading some of your stuff thermal Vision mode yes so they definitely need some sort of thermal vision mode I'm not sure how you do that but that could be cool on the screen projector that shines three lights onto the Playfield okay I guess that means like the Predator's like uh his laser pointer we are online telling the companies what to do let them figure it out I'm I'm paying them they're not paying me uh okay so that's a a troll Derby went to Disney I look man are you seriously you you can't have fun thinking about what should be in a game man I mean you're in the wrong place if you don't want to have a good time imagining and dreaming up what mix could be in the game uh I look I think a chopper I think you need the Gatling gun you know that that Gatling gun the one that Jesse The Body has is amazing I also think R guys let's think about the movie okay let's think about the movie I think it might have does it have maybe an like an underwater lower Playfield that's not terrible I I feel like a predator you know the scene where he goes over the waterfall and then he gets covered in mud so will there be a a water fall or an upper play field that gives that sensation of you know jumping from the Predator chasing you into the muddy area to cover yourself to to survive also remember Arnold like kind of chops up the jungle and creates that swinging log that hits the Predator I think that could be an interesting Mech to think about like how would you create your sort of Fort to battle the Predator will that be an area of the Playfield no John just said it should be Predator one and two John you know put the crackpipe down it's got to be just Predator one what if you were the predator in the game Chad no that doesn't make any sense why would you want to play as the Predator that you you couldn't use the movie clips if you were playing as the Predator all the action all the momentum in the movie are the are Dutch and his crew uh so I think that is uh I can't wait though I can't I can't wait to see how they handle this game because the good news is this everybody has probably seen Predator that's in this demographic so you're G to get a opinions from everybody and when those opinions are out there and those expectations are out there this game's gonna get a reaction it's gonna get a reaction it's not going to be one of these games like Queen and Abba that just came out and nobody cared right it was only like bezel boob was the only guy talking about Queen on pinside and nobody else cared I mean go to the queen owners thread and see how many people are active in that thread like nobody it's kind of like the John Wick thread these days have you been in the John Wick thread uh this week it's funny these guys are paying $1,500 for this stupid topper and I mean it's stupid because like these guys actually are trying to convince themselves that plastic is more expensive because it's thicker news flash gang it's just plastic I mean I don't care if it's a quarter of an inch but it's ju the guys out there showing his unboxing like measuring the thickness of the plastic being like all right you know I I did just spend $1,500 on this thing oh but look how thick the plastic is and then it's got this hourglass that rotates have you seen this thing and then it uh it it never stops level with the topper it's always a little crooked it's so annoying and all it does all it does is rotate up and down it it's not synced up with anything in the game so think about that you've got this hourglass that could be utilized in a mode but it's not because the topper has no idea of knowing where the sand is in The Hourglass so for $1,500 and then the the most comical thing is the is the shooter knob that is $200 gang it's $200 and it's a piece of plastic like that to me okay if you want to talk about the one item at Stern Pinball where they are making the most money on it is the shooter knob for John Wick that thing plastic sculpt it once you make one sculpt of it you're just pouring it into a mold that thing probably cost Stern Pinball to make that in China less than $5 five I mean that less than $5 and they're selling it for $200 $200 half the price of an Xbox I I mean when I see stuff like that and look it's Stern God bless you Stern God bless you Stern you found a community that absolutely has no expectations of getting what they're paying for and you can't blame Stern for charging $1,500 for flat plastic Toppers because people bought bought them people bought them and it's just kind of comical I think we're kind of over the whole topper thing I know there's a new topper coming out for pul fiction and and I mean look at Alice's Adventures in Wonderland we're going to talk about that in a little bit they just released the apron photos you know that topper comes with the game and a little motor I mean that whole topper the bomb on that topper let's let's be honest gang the bomb on that topper at most is a 100 bucks at at most I I would say the bomb on that topper is like $50 to $75 gang I mean it's plastic plastic sitting on top of a metal plate with a little motor how much is a motor five bucks a little motor 10 at most some brackets screws and LED lights are $5 at most 1,500 1500 Electric Playground Toppers are free yes they are so gang we're also on YouTube right now we got we got 62 people on YouTube and 29 here which is like almost we're almost at like our 100 I should throw everybody over to YouTube I like YouTube It's kind of wider you know you can see the the whole thing you know the vertical here yeah you know but I want to give people options today I want to give people options uh okay so Predator what do you guys think you think it's going to be good or bad like just write good or bad don't write anything else I don't want I don't want to hear paragraphs do you think Predator is going to be good or bad the pinball Brothers is going to watch this do you think Predator is going to be good or bad okay I just just go everybody come on 80 people just write it write it I don't care if you're driving pull over to the side of the road don't crash your car good or bad on Predator all right we got bad bad good uh where else good good we got bad over here me someone can't follow directions not good YouTube sounds a lot better of course YouTube sounds a lot better because on YouTube you're hearing me through a $600 microphone so if you want to get better quality come to YouTube that's the way it is that's the way it goes uh let me tell you what I think I I think Predator is going to be a dog I'm tell I'm buying it I think it's going to be a dog because I love dogs but I think it's going to be a dog I think it's going to be a stinker I do I I absolutely I don't know how you can think that the pinball Brothers uh with their internal design team and what they've put into the market how how are you coming to the conclusion it's going to be good I don't think theme is going to save it gang Led Zeppelin right Star Wars right I mean Star Wars is not a good pen Star Wars is a dog in my honest opinion I think it's going to be a dog I think it's going to be a dog I think it's going to be uh floaty I think it's going to be a little empty I think it's going to be clunky and I think the Art's going to be bad and and then I think it's going to be uh yeah I think it's I think that's it I I just think it's going to be bad now let me follow that up by saying I want it to be good I don't want it to be good I want it to be great I want it to be awesome I I love this theme more than almost anything that's come out in the last 5 years I mean we could talk for hours about how crappy the themes have been in pinball for the last few years and I don't think people would disagree I think everybody's kind of over stuff like Godfather stuff like Elton John stuff like Venom stuff like John Wick stuff like Avatar stuff like Toy Story 4 I think people want more I don't think this is what people come to pinball for I think Evil Dead is a great pen if you're an evil dead fan but most people don't really want Evil Dead like they're almost sold out of evil dead but still not I mean look how amazing that pin is Gang it's March they released that game in December it's it's gorgeous it's loaded it's got everything you can want and it's still not sold out they sold out a Rick and Morty 750 in in one day one day it's not a strong theme they're putting a lot of effort they will get all 800 and something sold G they're bringing 11 to tpf those 11 you could buy off the show off the floor and put in your truck and bring it home so like everyone who's waiting now 6 months to get their Evil Dead they could have just bought one of those tpf games I think you get a little bit of a discount and you'd have the game you could cut the line you know it happens every time I mean spooky smart they they basically use their unsold inventory uh to to become show games to then sell on the spot which is smart because there's a lot of grown adults who aren't manchildren like us who don't go to pinside don't follow Facebook and YouTube and content creators in pinball and they just walk into a pinball show and they play some games and they didn't even know these games were out and they like what they're playing and they buy one on the spot that is how it goes sometimes reminds me of my dad you know my dad once went to a car show my dad was the man in the 90s the dude was a senior Vice president m&a for uh for major pharmaceutical companies the man my dad was the man he's still alive I don't know why I'm talking like he still is the man but my dad went to the New York Auto Show and it was 1990 I want to say it was 1991 and he sees a cherry red Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo and he walks up and he says I want I want this car and and the guy's like okay great you he's like I want this one and he buys the car on the spot in fall uh right off the showroom right off the auto show floor and they kept it there and then they you know then they delivered it to him after the show still loved it when I was a little kid when my dad pulled up in that 300 ZX twin turbo in red that was one of the coolest cars back then I mean there's a new found appreciation for stuff from the 90s and all these 90s cars um but you know it's interesting with pinball because when you look at pinball between 90s and now really you know the lighting is better the code is better but the the actual imagination in the creativity was much better back then there I don't think anybody would argue with you on that right I don't think anybody would argue that the creativity underglass was far superior in the 90s than it is today does anyone disagree with that statement are look at it came like John Wick man like it it is like look at Avatar man like I like I look let's talk about Avatar for a minute because I know everyone's getting their CES and you guys spent 15,000 on them and look I'm happy you guys are happy with your games the games are gorgeous I still don't un like I I still when I hear people describe the game i i people still can't articulate what exactly is so mesmerizing about what they're playing you know it I get that it's got It's got the lights it's got the artwork it's got you know the the overall sort of Aura of the game but what like I guess the thing I want to know is what mode what modes or moments I think that's a better thing what moments in Avatar are making you feel like these moments are magical and and is it just the overall constant light show and sort of just appearance of the game like is it just winning you over on Beauty on the music like what what about it is just so incredible I'm just curious because when I played it and I spent a couple hours on it I I saw you know the lights and this and that I just felt like I just felt like a disconnect with what's happening in the game and on the screen and on the Playfield I just it just didn't pull me in with like energy and excitement and and I don't know like are when you play Avatar I'm just curious are you like it does it get you your your blood boiling in a good way does it get you like I can't wake one more game like and are you really really excited to progress through the code in that game that's that's just my question for people um let's see and guys don't attack Lord Olaf he's a huge Avatar fan uh Lord Olaf says it's all about the shots and the flow okay so like this is my thing gang $15,000 and shots are the new toys is is where I have an issue it's it's like come on really because Avatar doesn't shoot better than Elton John and if I had a pick between Avatar and Elton John I would pick Elton John every time over Avatar because Elton John shoots I think the shots are cooler I think the flow is better and I also think Elton John has a lot more energy I mean maybe they compliment each other but I just don't see I I don't understand there's no there's not a single toy in Avatar so you want me to spend 12 to $15,000 and there's not a single toy in the game that interacts with the ball for $15,000 and there's no sculpts in the game that really bring the Pandora world to life at all and when I you know again what they've put in front of us is aesthetically very beautiful but I find it to be sterile and lacking in depth I I find it to be uh here's here's the thing the world of Pandora is very organic it it has this sort of Nature and you can you can see the tree you can almost feel the wood when you see it you the the leaves the branches the when you're soaring through the air on those creatures the hallelu mountains I mean just think about the Hallelujah mountains and Jersey pinball makes an avatar game where some of the most iconic stuff happens up in the air and there's not even an upper play field there's not even a sensation that you're flying through the air anywhere in the game there's not even a sensation like you're going under the ocean I I just don't get what some of you who love the property how you're feeling like they nailed it um okay so look and and thing is this the thing is this Avatar is going to be another game that doesn't sell very well they they they're they've sold more CES and Le's that that's a that's that's not good for them business-wise and the value of them is g to go down because I think Potter is going to embarrass it let's talk about Harry Potter we're going to go around the horn in no particular order we got another hour doing this this guns and& roses concert over my shoulder here uh you guys can see here let me let me turn it here Axel this is Axel House of Blues when he came back in 2001 he took the stage at two in the morning in Las Vegas amazing buckee head on stage Buckethead is insane Buckethead runs circles around slash I love you slash you wrote all this stuff but Buckethead man bucketheads Night Train outro is the greatest live moment of Guns and Roses I've ever seen um okay so like Alice is where it's at we're GNA talk Alice later but let's talk about Potter so the latest I have on Harry Potter is Harry Potter is not going to come out until May and they're going to build all the Avatar CES and then that's it right there's no more demand for Avatar there's no there's Ellie sitting in boxes at dros all over the world so Potter's going to be a game let's let me ask you guys first do you think that jjp I I want two words all right don't write sentences I don't care about what you did on the weekend I want one word or another word do you think they are going to nail Harry Potter or do you think it's going to be a big fail so I want you to write if you think Eric Minor and the team at jjp is gonna fail or nail so write one of those words and I'm going to read out and see what we get here all right let's see fail fail fa fail come on Scotty smash fail course nail Lord Lord Olaf says nail because he buys every jjp pin and so does uh Dave Sanders fail nail fail whale fail fail everyone's saying fail see look I'm not leading you to say this has to be nail there's no choice well yeah I mean Dave of course like they they if they if they fumble Harry Potter okay so let me tell you what I think is g to happen with Potter um Let Me Tell let me let me just collect my thoughts here and I think the little man's coming up behind my shoulder what's up buddy want to say hi come here say hi okay hi pinball pass good yeah good pinball yeah good pinball go pinball okay go pinball go pinball is right I don't think I got his tppy vote that's how I lost if I had my kids vote I would have won so close Point 0.1% by the way kale and I have been chatting ever since the tppy uh electric bat guys check him out they do a podcast about uh even kale was like dude he's like I don't even know how I won you got almost 100 more votes than me like I'm like kale nobody knows how the scoring went because you know what you know what Colin Never released uh he never released how many second and third place votes people got so interesting they didn't release that think about that for a minute so you had you had multiple categories where the where the thing that got the most first place votes didn't win really easy to put your finger on the scale there Colin right release the numbers why wouldn't you release them if you have them release them that's all I'm saying people transparency if you're going to do an award show transparency ah fail fail um all right so here's the thing here's my thoughts and yeah honestly we're all past it I don't really care um the uh I think Jersey Jack uh Harry Potter I think it's going to be a fail and I I want to give all the different reasons why I think it's going to be a fail I I think first and foremost for well here here let me let me do it this way I think there's going to be elements of the game they nail because look it's nothing's like just all bad I think there's going to be a lot of elements of this game they nail and I think there's going to be some elements they fail at executing you know the best way but here's what they're here's what they're goingon to nail let me start with what they're going to nail the theme is is they're going to nail with the theme and and I know that's like a weird thing to say or how I'm saying it but but they're just going to sell a gazillion of these things because of the theme so they nailed it on securing a good theme the second thing this game is going to nail is the music and the sound and the atmosphere they're going to nail it like it it is going to be insane and I'm here to confirm for you for everybody here that David Thiel has returned to Jersey Jack pinball to work on Harry Potter so if you've ever played a David theel game the man is the greatest musical composer for pinball and and you have to understand what David theel brings to a game it's not just music right because this is going to have the licensed music from the Harry Potter movies what he does is he creates all the he takes all that and then he adds and Builds an entire pinball orchestration uh to go along with it he also does all the sound effects and everything you hear from an audio standpoint is going to be David so he is going to absolutely crush it his work on PIR to the Caribbean his work on alien has like like set the standard for the what a pinball machine can sound like so they're going to nail that uh Jersey Jack is going to nail the lighting in the game wait no wait I I want to take that back I I think they might fail I think they if they put the rainbow puke all over Harry Potter I if and and rainbow rainbow light shows like Guns and Roses it works Elton John it works but Godfather looks stupid if Harry Potter needs to be very warm sort of candle lit if you hear screaming downstairs it's because Irish Rugby Six Nations is happening right now and Ireland's playing France uh if if someone can give me a score update that'd be great I I think they're gonna nail like I think they're gonna fail because I I think they're gonna just keep putting all these rainbow puke lights and modes and for some reason Jersey Jack acts like they need to light up every game like a Christmas tree to get people's attention and I think they should let the theme dictate the the mood of the lighting in the game okay so I think they're gonna fail at the lighting I think the artwork they're going to nail I do even though franie is not doing it I think they're going to work with the studio and Harry Potter has so much great art out in the world I don't think they're I think they're going to nail it I think the game is going to be beautiful I think they're going to nail the topper and the the overall like aesthetic of the CE is going to be absolutely stunning they're going to have a you know Harry's wand is going to be the shooter Rod knob I think that's gonna be cool okay here's where I think they're gonna fail I think they're gonna fail on toys I think they're gonna fail on theme integration I really am worried that this game is going to have muted clips and that is going to be terrible for fans of Harry Potter I'm also worried that the game is going to be more Godfather like and not be like Pirates of the Caribbean and when you think about Harry Potter it's a game that just demands magic and look at what that kid did with that home brew game knowing that this is not a widebody knowing that it's a standard body knowing that there's going to be not as much room to put a lot of magical stuff I do here's what I think they're gonna I think they're gonna put this in the game I I think Richie he's been over there since Eric's been working on this I I really think this game needs something along the lines of the hyperdrive from Star Wars something along those lines as when you're playing quittage and you're flying through the air I really think they need to have something cool like that and be really fast and give that sensation of Harry on the you know on the broomstick sort of flying around I I really do think that would be a super cool thing to have in the game it definitely needs to have magnets and using you know all the Spells you cast it's going to be based on the first three movies that is what Harry Potter will be based on so that's good news is is not too much content and those are those are the best ones anyway the Charming of those first three movies is is perfect for this um so but my overall feeling with the Jersey Jack games is they they lack soul and it's something that is really sometimes hard to describe and it's also something very personal for each and every one of us I I just feel like their games sometime are overbaked and over produced to a point where they become a little sterile and confusing and but there's good news on this game it's not gonna be Keith P. Johnson with Joe Katz leading the design code team on this and Joe Katz's games are shaping up to be probably the better coded games at jjp Willie Wonka probably Wonka's probably the best coded game at Jersey Jack well the problem with Wonka is they just made it too hard I think they regret doing that when they did the major code update they made the game easier but Wonka had all this really fun stuff in it and then you couldn't get to it and remember people forget this Wonka was out for like a good year year and a half before they adjusted the code to make it more approachable and and to allow players to experience it because what good is it gang to let's use a metaphor to have a restaurant and your best five dishes nobody can get to in order right there you you only serve them upstairs but there's no there's no staircase there's no elevator there you you keep hearing about all this cool stuff and they just make it too far to get to uh so I think that's you know Jersey Jack games have been a lot like that for people there's uh they're they're very complex they're they don't come at you as immediate as a Stern machine and so but here's I I say the same thing about Predator as I do about Jersey Jack my expectations are that both companies will disappoint with these games but my dream is that they don't my dream is that they make an amazing game I I really am hoping that they make masterpieces on both of these games I hope I'm wrong I hope all of us that said fail are wrong I hope Predator is amazing I hope Potter is amazing I know King Kong is going to be amazing King Kong is going to be great great King Kong is going to I I think King Kong is going to be l1's best I really do I think it's going to be his best and I I love that Stern Pinball is basically Keith Elwin and everybody else I actually you know I'm gonna say this I actually think Jack danger is as good as good of a designer as Keith eln and I would also say I think Jack danger sort of takes more risks than Keith Elwin does but they're both insanely good designers right this isn't like one like is really better than the other I I think we've only we've only seen Jack getting started I I think that Foo Fighters is a better design than Iron Maiden so think about that for a minute game if Foo Fighters is a better design than iron maiden and Foo Fighters is jack's first pin all right jack I think Jack's inaugural pin is actually better than Keith ens and I just think he got a raw deal on X-Men I think from a design design standpoint if X-Men had the if it had the time it need it and didn't have weisson on code gosh I just can't you know whatever it is what it is that layout is is awesome it's awesome it it is one of the most it is the most excuse me need my coffee it is the most creative layout I've ever seen Stern do name me a Stern layout that took more of a risk than X-Men that is more creative from a layout standpoint the fact that Stern Pinball let him do something completely different you know and now what sucks is now Sterns like see this is why we don't do stuff differently but it is the most rad layout I've seen Stern do I mean if it were up to me you know I mean I like I just like all the guys over at Stern you know I I was talking with Seth and George or about stuff you know they're they're good guys they really are good guys and it's um it's a it's a privilege for me to uh to be able to speak freely about that company to at times rant and Rave about their products and it's a privilege to be able to speak my mind and to be welcomed into that organization with open arms by the senior leadership of that organization and George Gomez picking me up in his Porsche and giving me a private VIP tour of Stern Pinball right I mean he's a great guy George he a great guy you know who loves George Gomez George kores my father my dad always says I really like that George Gomez and maybe it's just from one George to another like you have to like people with your same name but my dad's a really good judge of character and whenever I would interview George Gomez my dad would always say that now that man has a good head on his shoulders and you know my dad did m&a so he would always look to see who was leading a company whenever he would purchase them for his his company you know and and when you do m&a and you you're looking for a potential merger understanding the leadership and people's you know are they the real deal or are they just like smoking mirrors or are they just uh you know are they gonna fizzle out or are they going to deliver uh and and you know so George my my papa George loves Papa George over at uh Stern Pinball that being said Ireland's getting slaughtered oh man um I just think um I think I want to talk now about barrels of fun and I had a really good phone call with another awesome dude in pinball you might know him as Mr David Van Es founder a co-owner uh of a company called barrels of fun a company whose name we made fun of that we've all now grown to accept but David called me uh and he said Chris this is news for everybody so if you're uh first of all we only have 210 Stars come on guys where's the Stars where's the Stars uh we he said Chris we are very very close and we definitely want to have you come down the plan is to have media and content creators and Distributors and dealers travel to barrels of fund under NDA for that one day so here's how it it it's going to go they will have shot all their release videos and their trailers and everything and they want us to come in on a day see everything you know meet the people play the game in the right environment and they want to give all of us a day to write our stories to do our podcasts to interview the team that worked on the game like get everything done in a day go out to dinner and then the next day they will reveal the game and everyone's coverage can hit at the same time it's called embargoed coverage it's very normal it's it's how you professionally do stuff in in normal Industries it hasn't really been done in pinball much and so I'm looking forward to uh to possibly making that Journey down there hopefully it's on a Friday I told him a Friday would be ideal and I I think he should invite everybody who makes good pinball content I I even said heck I even said to him you should do naps arcade right straight down the middle you should get the the folks over there Joel and team over there Zack and Greg um you know I said uh pinball podcast loser kid pinball podcast uh Carrie Hardy Todd Tucky would be fun now I don't know if they're gonna pay for all of us to go the way Jersey Jack did last time Stern invited people it was people had to pay um so it's it's um it's it's a smart way to do it it all I I have to say though you know and talking to David and he won't give me the theme I I still am I I'm still worried that they're you know with all the Goonies stuff lying around the office and it might not be Goonies it might be Dune or gi. Joe or whatever I think it might just be something completely I think it's gonna be Dune I I mean if if I had to like if you put a gun to my head and all right Chris like you've been saying all these things but what do you like what do you just on a practical level what do you think it's going to be I think it's going to be Dune just because the sources and from the people I've heard I I that's the one that keeps getting mentioned the most and if it is Dune I think it's going to be the David Lynch Dune movie and that's what it's gonna be now I the the thing with David and my friends at barrels is every time I talk to them I never get this sense like they are so excited to get this game out I I mean that like I I don't know I read and maybe they're just sandbagging it on purpose and maybe that's their strategy but I just don't get the sense like this they know they've got a banger and this is a theme that everyone's going to want and they can't wait to bring it to Market I I think it might be another divisive theme like Labyrinth was hold on a second my video is paused hold on what's the score 1 32 what 32 to 13 it's embarrassing I married you for your rugby now we oh can I say by the way like thank you to everybody that has um has has reminded me that Brenda is amazing and they're like you know Chris like your wife is incredible like she's the only one with common sense like talking sense into you I'm glad that people got to see like just 10 minutes of how amazing Brenda is I get to live with her for 10 years and she is a diamond she is an Irish Rose she is amazing uh and she's hot I love it I I love just having such a beautiful wife but I also say I also think she's hot so sh she might hear me she get excited um can you hear me I think so uh oh uh oh it changed everything when you have a when you have such a beautiful smart wife it's like I don't need pinball machines to feel satisfied on any level um so look I I just I don't know I'm excited I I'm gonna go down there I I hopefully I'll be able to go down there and I want to see what they got here's what's going to be interesting is this this game's coming out the he said it could be just a matter of days he was like Chris can you come down next week I'm like whoa whoa slow down there um some other good news about this game is they're not revealing this game until they already have them in boxes much just like Labyrinth David vess's strategy is I never want to release a game that isn't going to customers the same day love that love that he said they can do six a day when they're up and running and that's what they're going to be doing when the game is is being produced so that's not bad 30 uh 30 a week right so 120 a month you know make you know you make it through like a thousand in a year perfect perfect um so I I'm excited and it's going to be in front of everything else about to hit see this is where like David o knows you know David's like I don't want to release it until it's ready to like okay I was like bro but I also think David knows he needs to get this game out he needs to get out in front of Kong and Potter and Predator he he needs to especially if it's Dune and it's not a banger like Goonies he knows he needs to get orders on this game I think a lot of people on here are going to have to make some tough decisions and I I think there's going to be I think there's tough decisions of here here's what everyone's because we're not all Billy B Billy Brandon what's up brother you know we can't we don't have the cash flow like Bill or Neil McCrae I think a lot of um people are gonna have to make a decision how do I how do I free up room in my game room because even bill has like room issues how do I free up space what game do I want to like go and do I want to lose how much money do I want to lose on this game now now for a lot of people out there you're not going to lose on most of your collection because most of your collection you bought when prices were good and you're not getting less than what you used to buy those games for in in a way the the insane prices now have sort of solidified the value of those older games because those games were half the price almost and then you gotta you know you got to decide do I buy one of these new games right away and if you're a smart person you're wait it out because anyone who's watched the pinball Market over the last three years has witnessed that 90% of games bought right away have lost 30% of value in the first year and additional to that none of them other than a Keith elwin game have been difficult to get there's only 500 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and there are two spots for sale that haven't they're just sitting there for sale which means there's not even two people on the wait list to get one think about that there's not even two more people in the world who want one right now that's not good you always want to make one less than the demand and have a little demand waiting so I think that a lot of people are going to be excited that there's seven new games being revealed over the next eight weeks I also think a lot of people are going to be uh some the smart people are going to wait and see I think the I think fools will Rush In And I think some people who financially shouldn't be you know there's people gang in this Hobby and look you can do what you want with your money but there's people in this hobby who buy pinball machines using credit cards like they they buy a pen on a credit card and pay interest on pinball payments every um I mean you look if you buy it because you want the points that's one thing but I mean there's people that they have they have credit card debt and they put a pinball machine on top of that debt and they don't make enough every month to to pay off their credit card bill every month I have a credit card every month I pay it off completely I just do it for the miles and for the points so I think seven games right it's like how does this hobby absorb so many titles the here's where I think is here's what's funny is elwin's at the end of that those seven games see I I'd be um I would just wait for the lwin one before you make any any decision Potter is going to sell out a lot of people you know Canada you're being a hypocrite you say wait and see but I I I'll say it and I'll say it again the only two games you're going to need to buy right away if you don't want to pay more is King Kong Le and Harry Potter CE okay so you understand when I say wait and see it doesn't apply to every single game it it applies to 90% of the games so that is and and for those who take my advice I I keep telling people just buy a Harry Potter CE even if you don't want it just buy it if you don't want it and then sell it for more than you bought it for I I'm telling you right now that flipping a game for profit is not dead it's just dead on 90% of games now I don't think you're going to be able to flip King Kong for a lot more I think Harry Potter is going to bring in more people now Pokemon is after King Kong so that's going to stabilize the prices on Potter and Kong because I'm telling you right now Pokemon is coming out after King Kong and if I'm wrong I won't lose any subscri subscribers over it everybody I want to thank you guys for for being members of Canadas pinball podcast you know end of the month we've lost a little we've dipped a little bit below 700 subscribers let's look at the latest numbers right now uh I think it was like 688 let's see where we at here 68 88 yep we lost about uh I think the height in my show when there was more news and we were doing more interviews and everything it was like 740 so it's okay I'm happy because you know what you know what number matters more than the 688 uh the number that matters more is how much money is Canada making every month and it's good I'm I'm happy with the money I make uh it is uh it's not making me Rich it I think it's the right amount for the effort I put in should I make a little bit more probably but you know some people get mad this guy I called him out on my last show he he's like you need to stop you need to stop asking people to raise their donation amount from $5 to more and in a in and and it was because of my post about Galactic tank force where I was like these these dudes who are friends of mine who only you know who give $5 a month who don't take my advice these dudes just lost $7,500 that my friends who bought Galactic tank force signature edition and it's just it's just funny to me because it's like you you never once you know raised your amount and the guy who's been giving you advice would have saved you $7500 I mean I was all I was I was dogging on gtf when it came out what's up flip Stevens um but no I mean when you have a show and it's your it's your content you can do what you want I'm not forcing anybody to sign up I I there's no gun to anybody's head if you want to listen to what I believe is the most entertaining weekly pinball podcast that covers off on everything that's happened in the pinball world uh a pinball podcaster that doesn't copy anybody a pinball podcaster that has original thoughts that are not fake I I don't shill for any company I don't tell you how I feel about a game on my show and then private message people how I really feel about the game I don't get kickbacks from distributors or dealers I don't pretend to buy a game that I didn't pay full price for and and then pretend like you know I'm saying like I just give you the authentic opinions of me like I and they're just opinions right my opinions carry no more weight than anybody else's this is a everything about this hobby subjective but I do think um when you look at the current state of of pinball content it's uh it skews very salesy and and that's fine it's fine right it's like because a lot of the content it's it's at a on a production level and a personality level the pinball content that's out there now is better than it's ever been but and the butd is just there's not a lot of like Counterpoint happening and there's just a lot of it's almost like people are the like extensions of these pinball companies sales and marketing teams and I get it you got to decide do you want your friends to be the manufacturers and the people that work there or do you want your friends to be the community and you look you can have both absolutely most people have both I just decided long ago that I didn't want my relationships with manufacturers to prohibit me from sharing how I really feel and look do we all use words that are prob way too negative and hyperbolic and strident of course like no no pinball machine is is terrible that's not true Bario's barbecue challenge Abba see you know it's like but we live in a world now where you know you you can't say something sucks I you can't hate something and hate is a strong word and maybe you shouldn't use hate but there is a a um there there's like this weird push that you're not allowed to just be negative why not if you if you're feeling negative about something why not air it out now look giving constructive feedback is what you need to do because if you're just like a jerk and an a-hole you won't be very interesting to listen to and I think what I love about how people come at my show and and my opinions about pinball is uh is is simply this a lot of people don't listen to my show so when they say he only talks like about like he they don't listen they don't listen John oh my God this again oh John who's keeping you here nobody nobody John you know I just want to say something John like it's the people who who come hang out here and then complain if I want to just talk about what I want to talk about or talk about John you know I never understand you here's what I don't do I don't go hang out on anyone's pages and be like oh here we go again he's talking about life or he's he's giving advice to go to the gym and you know he he mentioned that you know the Democrat should have clapped for a kid with cancer oh here we go again just stick to pinball Canada be the pinball puppet we want you to be you you're not allowed to just deviate from the script John John just hoping just hoping to listen to something freshh and new well this is fresh and new John because other people don't talk like this in this hobby that's why we have the most subscribers more subscribers and everybody combined in the pinball content space but we're going South it's it's good we're losing subscribers it's okay we we'll let some people go the numbers are still good the monetary amount hasn't changed if you're done with those things then I'll leave John just leave now John I'm going to stop just go now all right I'm done with those things go go leave now John I'm not going to talk about any more pinball for the next 24 minutes I am but like let's see if John will really leave like it's really strange for a grown man to get on someone's Facebook Channel I'm I'm gonna leave now if you're done John John brother what do you want to talk about John he's still here he's still here he's still here um here's what here's what I think is going to win in these seven games over eight weeks here's what I think it's not and by the way guys it's not John from jackar by the way it's not it's John Tomberlin I think Tomberlin John what's up brother um here's the thing I think it's gonna go here's my order if I had to pick all these games what's gonna be best what's gonna be this this I think King Kong is going to be the best game um all right my son is d laughing at you John here's you know what John you know what it's funny now oh Johnny you're this all right John ah Kong is going to win then I think I'm trying to think about the game I think it's going to go Kong Potter I you know like it's gonna it's gonna Potter is gonna be you know it's gonna go Kong Potter um and then predator in terms of like the new games right because there's like you know because those four games right there but it's going to go Kong Potter barrels predator and then we've got Alice is Adventures in Wonderland I don't know if you saw the uh I don't know if you saw the that just made me laugh John was the tppy vote difference um I don't know I didn't get his son's vote his son's laughing at me oh no man someone's son's laughing um the uh the thing is like Alice is almost ready to go out the door will Stern do Pokemon and what are yes I Nick where are you guys been Stern's doing Pokemon uh I think Pokemon is the biggest IP in the world from an entertainment standpoint because it is I I don't mind Pokemon I mean I love Japanese culture I love Japanese like cartoons and Anime I think Pokemon could be really fun and I think we need a game like Pokemon here's what excites me about Pokemon is I feel like Pokemon is like the perfect game for a guy like me because I love all Japanese stuff like that and I I I'm not like into Pokemon into it into it but I could get into it and probably really enjoy it also like with two little boys to me it's like that's a dream theme because my kids can get into Pokemon when they're young and then there's a pinball machine in the house that's perfect for them to enjoy you know like they're not going to feel that way about Guns and Roses or jaw or evil dead or you know not even Harry Potter because Pokemon will get them younger so I think Pokemon is a perfect pin for the family I think it's going to sell more than Star Wars maybe maybe not probably not um it'll sell really well so yeah I mean it's the number one IP in the world it's it's much bigger than Star Wars it's it's I think it's three or four times bigger than Star Wars so if you were to ask me what do I think yeah I think it's a home run for a Stern I think Stern knows they have it I think Stern will absorb these John Wick losses and these uh you know X-Men losses and I think they know they're going to make so much money on Pokemon and they're and not only that they know they're going to sell Pokemon for years so I think it's a great I think it's a great get for Stern Pinball so absolutely John are you still with us do we lose you did we lose you oh man you know I'll say it here I'll say it here and I said it on my show but I just want to let you guys know because we live in a world too where like you can't say anything like you know me I'm very moderate I'm a moderate guy I'm fiscally conservative socially liberal but my social liberalism liberalism it it also you know I don't I don't the far left to me is crazy just it's crazy like they they basically torpedoed their ability to win elections but my whole point was is it is possible not to like Donald Trump and still stand up and clap for an eight-year-old boy that survived brain cancer and you know I I talked about this on my show because I did I noticed something in that moment that made me really disappointed in everybody in in politics because I don't like politicians at all but I noticed something about culture that is really crazy to me we all need to have a point by which Humanity takes over and decency takes over and you can't and and it shouldn't be a political decision it should be a human decision like it should be like a carnal decision to make when a child because because you have no heart if you can't put politics aside to appreciate a young boy and suffering he's gone through to and the challenges he's overcome to be in that room with you there today and once you make a move like that and this is just me talking as a marketer when you make a move like that they are going to regret that moment for years to come as a party and again I I happily you know enjoyed the Clinton Administration the Obama administra it's not politics I I just think you've got to find a way if you're on that side of that room to to re-evaluate and and I have a lot of friends that are di hard Democrats I have a lot of friends that are Republican everybody right we're all just people we're all but that's the thing it's like we're all just people and it's funny too because when you talk like this people you're not allowed to talk like this because this is a thing about pinball what I I I'm sorry but the world is going on right and and when you think about what's going on in the world it's impossible not to talk about what's happening politically and connected to pinball because there's one word that should make everybody worried tariffs and if you've seen the threads everyone's got like a different understanding of what tariffs are it's kind of funny to me how can something that's so like cut and dry um how can something so cut and dry be so uh have so many different interpretations but like the thing is if they start to put tariffs on products coming from other countries and parts coming from other countries I love this buckee head's like doing like nunchucks in the middle of a Guns and Roses show and like robot dancing it what's that going to do to pinball and I think like I think like the consequences of of this could be crazy now look everyone in Europe is like why are you complaining America this is what we always deal with right they're right everyone in Australia is like why are you complaining this is what we always put up with same thing with Canada um I'm just saying you know Americans are we're interesting group of people like we want our gas to be $2 a gallon we want to pay nothing for everything uh and you know we don't care what the rest of the world has to pay so I think what is going to happen is the tariffs and the taxes on these games it's it's weird I don't think the companies can really raise prices I I think they raise prices so much and we've been getting hosed for the last three years that they know like they know like if like if a manufacturer wants to take prices further north after what they're at now you're going to just see a lot more of us just stop buying and it's because it's not just pinball gang it's everything it's everything cars gas a dozen eggs it's going out to eat it's you you step out in the world today and you know inflation is high and things cost a lot of money right so then you just have to decide I actually love the way the world is kind of going right now I do I'm very optimistic about it because I I love the way the world is going because the world is g to make everybody it doesn't matter who you are rich or poor this it's gonna make everybody rep prioritize what's important in life and it's not a political party thing it's just this is the world now okay doesn't matter what you think you're entitled to it doesn't matter what country you're born into it doesn't matter what your nation like you need to figure out what's important to you what do you need to be happy is it a pinball machine is it 10 pinball machines is it buying every new and box game you know where does your happiness Li see for and for each of us it's all personal it's hyper personal and I think a lot of people that were used to flying around all the time going on vacations all the time eating out all the time buying this buying this you know 80% of your clothes you haven't worn in a year like a lot of us are going to hit the breakes and basically say all right I'm done so there is UV coding on my windows kid chriso you know what that is it's a film that you put on a window so the Sun's UV rays 99% of the UV is blocked from going through that window so there is not going to be art fade on this Guns and Roses ever okay also the rad Cals I feel like would fade much less too because they're they're so it's like plastic um no I think it's going to be crazy right I think I think people but I I love that everyone's sort of like waking up a little bit right everybody's w w up to it people are waking up to the reality of of how harmful cell phones and social media have been the trends I'm seeing now with Gen Z and Jen Alpha you know what they want they want to digitally detox see all of us here today all of us here today we all grew up with one foot in and one foot out of the internet of social media of a world in which nobody now can really pay attention they every 's distracted constantly with uh with so much going on imagine going to work I think about this all the time my dad used to go to work and there was no email there was no internet half of his career and it's right it's like how did anybody get anything done and guess what they did do they did get it done the best of times were those times the 80s early 90s all before like really we used any internet 70s and 80s like coming out of like you know that period of oil crisis and into like one of the greatest probably the greatest decade in the history of America 1989 is the greatest year in the history of the world greatest year in the history of the world 1989 because there was no other time in the history of humanity where we had optimism optimism we saw the fall of the Soviet Empire the Berlin Wall came down we had gorbachov and Reagan signing you know peace deal the the Cold War was over MTV had made its way into the you know past the Iron Curtain it it was like the optimism of the world it it was incredible and then the 90s were great they were great but then we got destroyed by devices and technology and social media has like destroyed a generation's happiness remember when we were on Facebook G remember when we used to just go on Facebook and actually like be excited to find our friends and we talk like we just chatted and now look at Facebook it's I I keep thinking about this too we we've been gas LIT All These Years remember when Facebook was just you your friends and where you were vacationing and what you were eating and what your new car was look at your feed now on Facebook look at the feed it is 98% of it isn't anything that you signed up for you're just getting bombarded with so much and imagine being a kid and you're a kid and and that's coming at you every day and we used to go to a concert I'm looking at this G&R concert my my first concert one of one of my first I think it was my second but madis and Square Garden 1991 Guns and Roses there was no cell phones nobody knew what time they were going on stage nobody like you just went there and and you know it was great I was a little 13-year-old boy and there was a two and a half hour gap between sound garden and guns and roses and you know what was happening during those two and a half hours they would they would they would move the camera around the crowd and and hot women can I say hot chicks hot women would flash the camera you know Flash the camera I'm a 13-year-old boy who who knows what he's seeing and and they would cheer you know know every the but the women like would love it and they wanted to get on the big screen by flashing the camera and there was no cell phones there was no you know capturing that sharing that with her company the next day getting her fired there was no shame that this is going to end up somewhere else everyone was just there and in this like energy just growing and growing in that arena for two and a half hours you know everyone's just like drinking and smoking weed not me I was 13 and so it was like the pressure of when is Axel going to take the stage and then all of a sudden the lights go down and it's like and I'll never forget how he came out he didn't come out with Welcome to the Jungle he came out wearing red spandex no shirt a red blazer red bandana and he comes out to Perfect Crime he's like mother it's a perfect crime God damnn it it's a perfect crime it's perf and he's just like he's just running around like a madman the volume is through the roof and you're just like it's like this Powder Keg went off and Axle and Slash and Duff it was just like unreal and that is why I own guns and roses because those memories are forged inside me and I I feel bad for kids today you know there's this there was this uh picture of Lala pal I think it was la la paloa or uh no it was like what's that um what's that uh what's that Festival in Europe somewhere on a beach or something anyway like they had a picture of it when it first launched and everyone was just there hands up enjoying the show and then they showed a picture of the crowded in and it's everyone just holding a cell phone up like this everybody nobody's nobody's in it nobody's just like just in that moment I I don't know I we're all filled with these moments right and it's like it's beautiful and and I I love that I'm seeing a trend Now by these kids now want to turn off they they we we all failed them I mean this Society culture governments that we all failed them we we didn't regulate something that was so very harmful to all of them and we just handed them phones we handed them screens we handed them content we handed them you know deplorable stuff to see we we and we didn't think through the conse quences I know this is a little off topic people but I just love talking like we didn't think through the consequences what are we going to do to a generation of people if we put this in their pocket every day what's going to happen to a generation of people if this is what they think intimacy looks like what's going to happen you know you're going to you're going to you're you're going to have a generation that's lonely that's isolated and messed up here cuz they're living in their heads they're not living out in that world so you know what I love about pinball to bring it back and I love you know what this Hobby's brought all of us is is we're a generation built for community and we thrive on that and we're used to that and even though we connect Now using the technology I I think most of you this is and and to me I agree like this to me is a normal way to healthily in a healthy way Health healthily in a healthy way connect with people it it is there's no ads popping up there's no other stuff there's it's just we're just talking about a topic we talk about some other stuff um but I think it's normal like because if to me this is just like radio or like video vlogging like this this was like this is all we needed we didn't need everything else you needed a camera a phone call and you know the ability to see each other did my glasses just change color that was cool how did that work um but yeah I think it's going to swing back and I am very optimistic about the world I am as much as people want to say the world's burning I think the media just wants to make money off of that I do um I will say I did love that I did I did love that Trump cut the funding for Colombia I I you want $400 million from the federal government well maybe maybe don't you know maybe don't say you hate the country and just support students who are burning us flags and supporting Terror groups that are trying to kill us right there's like and I do agree that there's like there's like common sense and I don't necess and I don't like I think everybody should have common sense but common sense like if you want my money you want me to give you money while you Aid and support people that want to destroy me okay I'm not going to give you the money it's so simple and everyone's going to fall in line everyone's going to fall in line that's what I love it's like yeah okay now what are you GNA do it's like it's like when a parent cuts off their kid from their allowance and the kids never work the job in their life guess what happens to that kid they fall in line or they run away and become homeless I love this I love it everybody how you doing we got a few more minutes H you see you can you can have a discourse about this stuff without getting Ang and screen like no like I'll I'll talk to anybody I'm very open-minded I I liked I think talking stuff out too is very healthy I I think we've we've become a culture you know it's kind of like when I see Collins posts about pinball positivity I I just it's weird to me to to go on these Crusades to just ask people to be nice because because you know it's like if you're getting it there are a-holes in this hobby like true a-holes that say trollish stuff you don't know who they are you know it's fake accounts you're never going to stop it but you're never going to stop it the the only thing you can work on is this you can well it is changing my color you can work on you if you have self-esteem and you have thick skin then why would it bother you so much look it does suck look when people come at you with like threats and and you you have the kind of face I want to punch and all you know violent it's not it's not fun I mean I would hate to be a celebrity like this stuff coming at you all day long death threats left and right like I I don't know how you sleep but man like you just gotta let stuff roll a little bit I mean I learned this with the tppy you know I mean I don't think I even I did not have a meltdown though it's just that's what's weird to me is you guys have seen me meltdown I did not have a meltdown I was just a little bit surprised that's all I know my meltdowns and that was not a can meltdown um remember it it was not is a mini meltdown yeah I I'll take that if it was a mini meltdown I like the real life talk with the splash of pimbo on Saturdays yeah no dude aoll man I mean this is free this is free I you know I I want to hear from you guys on more than just pinball I think we should know people on more than just pinball and and no one should cancel anybody because of their beliefs you know I mean you know many times people come to me like oh that that podcaster is liberal and he like so do you want to live in a world in which everybody thinks the way you think no you need liberals and you need conservatives you need balance the yin and yang of the universe people like positive and negative charges and gang let's not pretend like oh now this party is like gang both parties have had moments where they were right and they shine and it's it's the constant pendulum swings back and forth it is and Crooks are going to be Crooks and evil people will do evil things and the jungle out there is a wild place and we live in the jungle you know we don't live in a zoo what we well what we've done life has life like Suburban life or city living that's a zoo like it's a manufactured space that's not natural and so yeah like we we've constructed zoos but the world is still a jungle you know we have a great slide in my marketing deck where we tell clients you we you we can build ideas to two ways for you we can build ideas for the zoo or we can build ideas for the jungle I wish you could see me pitch and present to clients and how we talk about the world I think you'd be fascinated by it I think you would find it very interesting and entertaining and if we build ideas for the zoo they could work right you know we could put a line in a cage and say like that's an idea and people can come and observe it and then leave for the day or or we could build ideas for The Jungle which is built to survive the chaos of the internet the trolls that are out there it's built to break through all of the stuff that's out there in the world uh and win because it's awesome because it's it's a strong idea will survive in the jungle only weak ideas will survive in the zoo so you know it's like um yeah how you guys doing otherwise we're we're almost at time don't worry this this uh this soap box will be over soon seven games in eight weeks people it's about to get real it's about to get real if you're not a member of the can Club it's a good time to resubscribe it's a good time to invite a friend you know you can give it as a gift now if you got any um friends who are into pinball be like hey I bought you a Canada for a month or for a year did you cover Alice uh okay so Alice the the apron is got some magnetic things stuck to it um and Alice should be out in the next couple of weeks the first ones are going to go to Europe I know they're worried about the tariffs Dutch is very worried about the tariffs because they don't know what to do see here's here's the Quagmire is what happens if you sold people a game for 125 and then there's like a 30% tax on top of that everyone's you know people are going to cancel their orders and walk away from their deposits you know because the the Tariff will be more money than your deposit was so you'll walk away I mean bim's about to go through some crazy times I'm glad I don't have any money committed to anything right now no money committed to anything I'm glad I sold my apartment when I did I'm glad I knocked 50% off my mortgage you know against the principle of my mortgage I'm I'm happy like I'm I'm working hard I'm on new accounts I'm loving life other than this hernia pain and I'm I'm very happy I'm very content I'm I feel blessed I do feel like heaven is a place on Earth I love my family Killian and Cassian are incredible Brenda is the rock of my world the foundation of my world and I'm glad that I get to hang out with you guys every week and you know to be serious the the subscription and the $5 a month gain it's it's for all of this it's just to say hey man like we appreciate what you're doing we want you to keep doing it and and even when you don't feel like doing it we know you're going to do it because I I do feel an obligation to my subscribers to make content every week even when I'm not in the mood I will make it because because I want to deliver what I promised you which is two to three shows a week that cover what's happening in pinball you see the crying it was weird to me that people were like his baby's crying upstairs when he's crying about losing the tropy yeah like like gang if you have a nine-month old baby every once in a while they wake up throughout the night um what's going on all right Don Ellie Chris you're always in the mood don't don't Ellie um I'm always in the mood that's funny um no look and and I I don't watch any of the people trying to make fun of me and a lot of people have over the last week and a half two weeks I I think it's funny it just it just helps me the more people make fun of me and say what a terrible person I am the more people get curious and want to check it out and look gang everyone's uh will say this and and Kell and I joke about this my 10-minute mini meltdown is the only thing people are talking about from the tppy it's the only thing it nobody's talking about anything else it's the only thing that drove conversation the fact that I could go on Facebook live and for 10 minutes have a little minor meltdown little hissy fit for myself right little Primadonna Chris crying about a tppy that's the only thing that was talked about after the trippies all the work they put into the show all the other winners all the other categories the only thing now it and think about it like this if I had just won and just said hey guys thanks for the award nobody would have talked about the show at all like at all they're kind of Lucky Now people might tune in next year for the Canada meltdown 2.0 or what is it like 9.0 at this point I also love the fact that people record me they you know what I'm saying they they didn't download the they are recording me live they're they're waiting for me to do something that I always do that is the definition of living rentree I I mean I I don't it's funny to me because I'm not I would never waste my time following a guy around like me if if I thought he was all the Terrible things they say why would you so cool I've got you I've got you watching I've got you recording I've got you thank you I'm doing something right because in the world of art or content or entertainment if people don't have an opinion about you that's when you're failing so thank you for hating me uh I I it it doesn't change anything that is going on in my world and I just Kale's in the house can we give kale a a congratulations um kale electric bat you guys over there oh kale why am I like I'm having a brain fart with my kale kale is it it's Rachel right your wife your better half I'm I'm right it's Rachel right they um we kale and I have been laughing our asses off like behind the scenes it's funny it don't it almost feels like we orchestrated the whole thing like a WWE skit uh and I and I think people actually don't understand uh how quickly how quickly you can have a little moment and then you're past it but what's great about the people that can't can't let it go is yes Rachel's amazing uh what's great about the people who can't let it go it's like they think about it every time your name is mentioned they they go back to a negative they go back to a negative they go back to a negative and I'm I'm busy at a Japanese jazz bar having some whiskey I'm busy having like Beautiful Moments with my family I'm busy like working on some of the world's most iconic Brands I'm busy like you know picking up the fall leaves or the winter leaves like I'm busy like waxing my neotokyo drifting gr86 I'm busy ordering tires for the Dodge you know it's like everything life's going on busy calling my parents telling them how much I love them like and these people like Oh Canada Canada he's he's this he's this he's it they don't know anything they don't know anything all I know is this this has been a great episode Saturday morning guys thank you so much I really appreciate the support this is fun we go off on tangents that's the show if you want just pinball talk lot of good content creators out there that don't deviate um but you guys are the best again respect everybody treat people how you want to be treated okay it's real simple you want to be happy in life give people the respect you want don't be hateful listen to people you know that's my one advice for my real far-left friends don't get mad just listen cross over with an open mind why did you not vote for Kamala haris you and and when people talk get like just hear them out you know the Derek's the Dereks of the world who just Rage Quit people that's sad to me how can how can you how can you blanket a person because of one thing and then you forget years of a friendship it's weird to me I mean he lost my friendship and I lost his but he decided that he just couldn't and you know what those people are in for a really rough four years we're not look and most of my Democratic friends they they're like whatever it's same old same old stuff another day another dollar like like I no one's surprised by any of this we've seen it all before right it's like I've seen this movie everybody be good have a great Saturday and um you know treat your wives to a nice dinner tonight on me I'm just not going to pay for that dinner but treat them to a nice dinner and say that can wanted me to take you out he wanted me to do as many push-ups and pull-ups as I do pinside posts and he said if Iceman and crazy Levy and all the hyper users on pinside if all those guys with their 35,000 posts on pinside if they did a push-up or a pullup or a sit up for every one of those posts the pinball Community would be the most ripped community in the entire world so you know me for every time you do a post do a push-up that should be the rule on pinside is that toxic Colin I don't think so later all right let's end that ending the live broadcast we're still live on YouTube Axel's still playing family's downstairs I love guns rses they're so cool they're just like the coolest band let me show you guys what I mean by that um look at this this is like and this photo is just like um uh sorry gang just want to pull this up I think it's one of the coolest shots ever of a band ever this band would never survive today they'd be canceled right away but look at that like I 13 when this photo came out you don't think as a little young boy you want to be like hanging with these guys Guns and Roses is here tonight you wanted the best well they couldn't make it so here's what you get canes pinball podcast later guys