All get around, he's on the rebound Hear the sound of our buddy, oh lordy, it's Orby Pinball now to rejoice He's tugging pinball, craft beer and coffee Miffed with syrup and honey Almost a laugh with his family in a random tangent Stories of his boys He's on the poor man's pod network We're gonna get more listeners for the Pinball Nerds Podcast. Coming to you from beautiful River Hibbert, Nova Scotia. Welcome back, Pinball Nerds, to episode 643 of your fifth favorite pinball podcast. And now, welcome to the microphone sent to him all the way from Retro Ralph. Orbit Over. What's up, pinball nerds? My name's Orby, and although I have a little bit of a cold lingering, I am here to report on the news, because finally there was some. I do apologize. I have been getting messages the last few days like, I need another Orby show, and well, I'm here to say, last night I got to be privy to some news, long before a lot of other people did get to be privy to it. You know, I think the WAP Patreon has 88 members, and I just couldn't believe it because I am that 88th member. That's right. Many of you wouldn't have thought. I'd be supporting Don Garrison of Don's Pinball Podcast and the retro jangler himself, Jengas. That's right. I am supporting both of them because Don told me, Albert, there's some information you're going to want to hear about on here. And he was right because that's right. Mr. Donald Garrison himself is the new assistant to the janitorial manager. That's right. He's going to be. It doesn't matter if it's cleaning up after a wild night of bugging Luke partying and, you know, making a mess in that bathroom. It doesn't matter if it's going from microwave to microwave. Listen, the spooky microwave wall, not as impressive as Stern's. But still, it takes a lot of time and energy to clean them all out. So just to get, you know, in the through the door, he's going to be starting doing everything from sweeping to mopping and just helping around there. And from time to time, he's hoping eventually he'll work his way up to become Launch Lady Don. No, I'm just kidding. All right. So here's the thing. Uh, that, that is his joke. And I assume if I know Don as well as I think I don't, then I believe that Don's going to be doing, they don't really have a title per se for Don. Uh, the way that Bug explained it last night on the scream and stream, the stream and scream. Is it scream and steam or steam? No, no, it's not a, no, it's not a Portland steamer. All right. The way that Bug explained it best could be that he has looked at all three of their next pinball machines. I can't believe they have all three like past Whitewood and like ready to go. And according to Don on WAP, they are like very like they're in a playable state at this point. I'm assuming like all the mechs aren't complete. You know, I'm assuming they haven't gotten maybe all the artwork done so far. I'm sure for the next pin, whatever that could Beetle use, Beetle use B. that's probably coming out in a couple days. What else are we going to talk about on the show, though? So I want to talk about Don. Congratulations, Don. I don't think he's doing any janitorial cleaning, even though I think Don is actually so humble. He probably would if they asked him to. But no, I think he's going to be helping with design elements. I think he's going to be helping maybe perhaps with playtesting. I'm going to talk about that in a second, but I just want to give you a little glimpse. Okay, we're three minutes in. I want to cut through the BS and get right down to brass tacks. All right. We're going to be talking about. That's right. We're going to be talking about my kink is karma. And we're also going to be talking about. That's right. I got some news. I've got some news. I'm going to kind of go around the pinball world. We're going to talk about some news and stuff that's going on. It's been almost two weeks since I recorded. Did you miss me? No, probably not. But if you did, you could have gone over to Patreon and listened to me there because that's right. In just 24 to 48 hours from you listening from Orbeez Lips to yours own ears, you're going to be able to hear my wife, Drop Target Danielle, and I do a WTF, no holes barred. That's right. We're going to have a little – a couple – she might have a couple cocktails, a little bit of cider and cider. You know what I mean? I'm probably going to be having a couple crafty, nafty beers. I want to wait till my cold is like 100% gone. I feel like it's 90% gone. Still got a little bit of a lingering tickle in my throat. Okay, a little bit of like sinus congestion. So if I do have to at all sneeze or cough or do any of that stuff, I humbly apologize. Honey, can you come here for like two seconds? Okay, guys, I'm bringing her over here right now. I know I didn't tell you I was going to do this. Don't feel obligated. Get nice and close to the mic. tell everybody how excited you are to do the first ever WTF Happened Last Month on our Patreon. I am so excited to do this. When are we doing it? I don't know. Probably like two or three days once my cold's gone. Okay. We can have a couple drinks. I need some time to like prepare and make notes and get my head on. You know what? I did make notes today. In fact, if you're in the kitchen and you find a third yellow note, because I have post-it notes. That's part of the reason why I called you here. But the main reason is I really think that people are going to enjoy. I don't want you to do much prep. I kind of want you to go in just like and just give me your general feedback on everything. Okay. Because I'm the one who's watched all the pinball tournaments. I'm the one who's, you know, listening to a lot of the other pinball podcasts. And I just want your straight up feedback. Plus, obviously, I want you there to be entertaining and funny. All right. I will try my best. I trust you. All right. Get the heck out of here. And if you happen to find a yellow post-it note, some people brag. Okay. Some people brag about not having notes for the show. Nah, I need, people have heard me. I'm a rambling man. I need notes. So I wrote them on Post-it notes. But right before the show started, I went for a little walk around, grabbed myself a little diet Sprite. I'm not like Jamie. I'm not a Diet Coke guy. I'm actually more of a Diet 7-Up. That's my favorite, but I'll take a diet Sprite if I have to, okay? Yo, that's my girl. okay dolphin dolphin dive high five there we go all right guys she found it thank you okay so i was kind of lost if you guys couldn't tell there i didn't know what was on note number one but she's got it okay so karma is a biatch no no no no no no no no no no no no no rewind that was going to be what my middle segment's going to be called but i'm just going to say my kink is karma OK, and this is not this is not in any this is completely platonic kink. OK, can I say that just to make sure I don't want anyone to get the wrong impression? All right. So my kink is karma. Oh, my God. And what sweet, sweet karma it is. We're going to talk about that in the middle segment. And then at the end, I'm going to be talking about Jeff of Dirty Pool Pimbo. We got to talk about Enzo from Gonzo's Flipperama. We got to talk about Joel and Jared. I got to talk about Tom from Fox Cities Pinball. Oh, my gosh. We got to talk about Josh and Scott from Loser Kid. And don't worry, not going to be a negative Nancy or Debbie Downer. I have only, I mean, mostly good things to say about them because they had mostly good things to say about me. And I could not believe that. And look, we don't got to kiss each other's butts. and oh, you know, but it is nice from time to time to give each other a little shout out. All right. I should never be singing and especially not when my voice sounds like this. I'm sorry. And then I got to talk about my Patreon. I had nine new Patreon members. I'm not going to go on and on and on about it. I'll even give the Franchi bell at the end of the day like ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. So I know Franchi just clocks out once I talk about anything personal. Is that so? Don's going to be freaking. Wait. Will Don be co-workers with Franchi? Or will Don, if Don's becoming a pinball designer now, would that hypothetically make Don Franchi's boss? I have questions. I need to have Don on the show. I need Franchi on the show. I need Bug and Luke and Spooky. And let's get Fred and Velma. And let's just hop in that Spooky. They have the full-size Spooky van. Can we use that Spooky van for what it's supposed to be used for? Come on. Come on. Can we do that? Can we just like roll up at Expo and the doors open and just Franchi and Don and Orby roll out and just the smoke billows? Okay, I've gone too far. All right. I'm going to be talking about all that, but I want to go back to talking about Don for just a second. So him and I had, you know, we've had some minor fluctuations over the time. I am a very, very strong personality and very strong-willed. I'm so sorry, guys. I'm so sorry. Okay. Boom. I slapped myself in the face. No more blowing your nose. Sorry. it was about to dribble, dribble. And I can't take any cold meds because my stupid tonight is, especially with a big pinball tournament tomorrow in Moncton hub city, flip out three, please make sure that you go. It is at zeros arcade. If you are listening anywhere in the East coast of Canada, I get, if you're in Toronto, you're not going to hop on the red eye and pop up. I get it. If you're in, you know, I mean, if you were like in Boston or like Maine or something like that, you could probably see, that's the thing. If you had the tenacity of Don, Don doesn't like playing tournaments very much, but I suspect that might change. He might decide to get a little more in the tournament scene. But Don and I, you know, have had a couple minor beefs over the years, as I have with almost every other pinball podcaster. And so let's be honest, it's probably not Don. It's probably me. I definitely can come off strong-willed, strong-personality, something like that, overcritical. and actually that's something I am going to be talking about on a future show behind the Patreon wall. It's just simply titled, What the Hell is Actually Really Wrong with Orby? Because I've been on this crazy exploratory journey. It's really interesting because I don't have official diagnosis on anything. It's not something I really want to talk out here about. I feel much safer behind the paywall knowing only 25 pinball nerds are listening. And I don't want to say only because to all of you awesome Patreons, 25 is incredible. I'm up to $150 Canadian a month for me. And I know for most people, this wouldn't be, but for me, this is legitimate life-changing money. Now let's get back to the, and I don't know how the, I don't know how he's getting paid. I don't know if it's part-time, very part-time, you know, weekly, hourly, monthly. I know Don has like five other jobs he does, you know, between making, well, he buys a lot of Stern Pros and makes them look like premiums. Or does he buy premiums and make them look like LEs? Or does he buy LEs and make them look like super LEs? Wow. Oh, there you go, Don. Challenge accepted, I hope. Now, Don did challenge me to record, but Don, to video record. He thought it'd be really cool if I did a video recording of me doing this podcast or doing a live stream. Don, I'm in my comfy cozies. The only thing more embarrassing would be Travis Murie in his Snuggie recording, okay? No, I'm just kidding. Shout out to the Snuggie, especially if you've got a cold like me. But my nose is dripping, my hair is uncombed, my beard is untrimmed, And I just don't want to be on any type of video space right now with snot running down my face. Okay, it's not quite that bad, but you know what I'm saying? So, Don, I did not accept that challenge. But I will at some time in the future. It's going to get there. You know me. I'm slow but steady. Slow but steady wins the race. Make sure you guys go listen to Foghorn, Leghorn, and Craft Beer Sally on the Pinball Junk Drawer. Rate her on the Poor Men's Pinball Network. Have a listen to theirs. Of course, for any new people coming over to the show, since I got so many incredible kind shout outs recently, I do suspect there are some new people listening. And if you are listening, what I can tell you is from time to time, my shows are OK and other times they're not. And today I'll let you decide. But I am really hyper. I am really excited. The more hyper I am, the more I tend to go off topic. I am. I got to keep looking at my notes here, though. Let's go back to Don. So this is what I actually think Don will be doing there or what I personally think Don could be good at. And if Bug and Luke and the Spooky team are smart, they'll implement Don where he's most useful. Now, do I actually think he's going to be doing janitorial type stuff? No, but I actually think Spooky is so small that it's possible that like I'll just do it. Topic time. Top five. So here's a mini top five for today's show. This is the stuff where I think Don could be helping out. Of course, as he's already mentioned, he wants to like help implement ideas on new designs. So I wouldn't call him a designer per se, even though I'm sure certain people, at least one certain person, the fact of them having to know this spooky shill, having to know that Don Garrison is his new title of pinball designer at Spooky. That would just really bug him. It wouldn't bug me because I'm happy for the guy. Am I jealous of freaking course? Who wouldn't love to work at a pinball company? I literally would be the janitor. If Stern contacted me and they said, we'll pay you minimum wage, whatever Chicago stuff is, I would go there and I would scrape the Stern floors. I would go into Gary Stern private bathroom and I would scrape it hand to toe with just baking soda and a toothbrush a la Platoon style. No, that's not Platoon. What is that movie? Well, Forrest Gump, they do it as well. But anyways, straight metal jacket, metal straight jacket, straight metal jacket, I think. Anyways, something about a metal jacket. What a scene that is. Okay, I've gone off topic. Don would be really, really, really good, I think, at yes, helping with the designs and saying, hey, guys, like if Don was there, would Don have said yes, Halloween's a good design? Let's be honest. And ironically, and I told Don this, and it's the only time I didn't get a response from him yesterday, I'm not kidding, and I told him, I said, my show for tomorrow is already called, like, PNP. Whenever you see PNP, you know it's Pinball Nerds Podcast. Come on. If you're over here on the channel, I wanted to let you guys know, says pinball junk drawer we've got a couple different rad podcasts we used to have four or five of us podcasters uh the godfathers of the poor man's pinball network ian and drew of course shout out and to all the tribes member going to expo shout out to you as well because that's going to be a killer crazy time i will tell all of you right now the same thing that i've told uh retro ralph and even don and multiple other people have been saying uh you know you've got to get there you've got to get to expo and retro ralph was so kind he even sent me some nice uh voice messages just being like, dude, like it would be kind of be cool if you went, man. So it would be cool. And here's the thing. I know in past years, I've teased and been like, oh, I'm going to go. And then I haven't gone or I really want to go or you could donate money and I will go. I don't want to say any of those things. I want to tell you guys 80 to 90 percent chance. It's not that I literally I'm trying to explain this in rich guy version because I know there's a lot of rich men and women who are into pinball and may or may not be listening or they're not rich per se, but in a different tax bracket than I am per se. I can go. There's physically enough money. I could borrow money from our, basically from my mortgage or second mortgage. I could borrow money from that and go. There is physically enough money for me to go. It's not like I can't go. The problem is I would be on such a shoestring budget. When I get to travel to a new place like that, I'm such a fricking foodie. I know I joke around about loving McDonald's, Happy Meals and such. Please don't eat those. This is me like half joking around. I know I did attempt to eat only McDonald's food for 30 days. You'll have to watch the video to see if I succeeded. Boy, that was not healthy for me. But that was really dumb. I've done some healthy food challenges and some really unhealthy food challenges. That was one of the unhealthier ones. But at the end of the show, I'm also going to be talking just briefly about running backwards across the Terry Fox Bridge, sorry, across the Confederation Bridge, which was for the Terry Fox Run for cancer research and kind of why I did that because it is a very weird and strange thing to do. Let's go back. Let's back this up a little bit, though, and go to Don for a second. So Don, I think, will be a good fit. I think he will be able to tell them, like, hey, this isn't maybe necessarily the best design. I don't know if this mech kind of fits or if it's impressive enough or if it's going to have, you know, longevity and it's going to work for a long time. And if it's going to be good for arcade play, because we know in arcades the games get, like, 10, 20, 30 times as many plays per day and they're turned on for many many many more hours uh some arcades even like electric bat there i think they said they close at like 2 or 3 a.m and like the pins are turned back on at like 6 or 7 a.m so they're only off for three or four hours so and for many years the big issue with a lot of spookies were they just weren't super reliable they had code issues and so oh i was telling you this earlier what i was going to name tomorrow's show in fact was the top five reasons I'm not a spooky shill yet. So I probably won't upload that tomorrow, but maybe, but probably won't. Maybe it's possible if I'm if I wake up tomorrow morning and I'm feeling great. I know my wonderful wife, Danielle and Owen are going to St. John for the University of New Brunswick Open House. Owen is hoping to become a teacher someday. So he's got to do his six years to get his Bachelor of Education diploma. his bed anyways so they're going to be gone doing that so I will be around tomorrow morning and I will have nothing to do Saturday morning is there anything really that happens is there anything good pinball Saturday morning I don't think so I don't think there's much to do or watch or see so yeah I'll probably just may I might put that out tomorrow and don't worry it's not a hit piece on spooky per se but it's me kind of saying I guess I don't get I get why there's stern apologists and shills and so on and such forth, stern fanboys as you would, fanmen. I get it, okay? I get why they call it you know JJP like hardcore like insufferable like Avatar is the best pinball machine ever created Who doesn want to scram hashtag alive to me Right So I I I get it I do think that Jersey Jack makes some of the most, if not the most beautiful pinball machines on planet earth quite often. I mean, other than the big Lebowski, but you know, okay, no, no, no, no. The big Lebowski art could have been done better, but, uh, I do want to sincerely, honestly talk about some things that I would like to see changed with Spooky going forward. And just me personally, I've never been a Spooky shill. I'm probably one of the only pinball podcasters left who's not. I've never even considered buying a single solitary Spooky pinball machine my entire life. And that's mostly because I couldn't stand all of the themes until recently. They did Alice Cooper's, and I'm sorry, I don't like Alice Cooper. I was a punk rocker. We kind of had a thing against, like, especially rocker metal or hair metal. we were buddies too it's not like I wouldn't, I'd rather listen to Alice Cooper than any country song on planet earth but I'd rather listen to Beethoven than Alex Cooper, I can tell you that I'd rather listen to the Beatles I'd rather listen to the Beatles than almost any other band on planet earth recently, the older I get, the more excuse me, the more like mellow, I'm looking around for my there's my diet 7up, the older I get the more I listen to more like mellow indie rock and like more pop type stuff like for sure, even Billie Eilish, I've been like honestly like in love with her music the like the last year or so. There wasn't as many good bands this year as there was last year, but I will be going and just, again, it's not going to be a witch hunt. I'm going to be at my best shows are always critical, critical, but kind. And when I'm talking about what I'd like to see, some things change with spooky. The one thing I was really, really happy to hear bugs say when I did interview him on the last one interview in brackets, I asked him a single question, which was one of the few questions he actually answered in that live stream that he was doing. And so I was very, very, very appreciative of that. And I basically asked him, I said, you know, previous spooky pinball machines basically, you know, have had some problems with especially, you know, being able to be – sorry, sorry. Can you just finish that in there? I'm really sorry. It's okay. It's really loud. Sorry. I get I'm I guys I'm probably the most distracted person on planet earth and Danielle was doing something very distracting a couple inches from me but we worked it all out we will be fine uh going back to it Don congratulations I'm really really really excited I hope that it is true that your machines moving forward are going to be more reliable that was a term um and he did say not only is evil dead far more reliable than any of our past machines we think that our future machines will be even more and more reliable past that so i was very very very excited to hear that and it makes me more excited to see if beetlejuice is going to be nearly as rad as evil dead now i want to put the brakes on something some people are saying evil dead's like a top 10 pinball machine of all time guys come on now i haven't played it yet and i always say play before you pay this is the way but you don't need to play it to look at it and go Well, I'm sorry. It's probably just not a top. I'm sorry. It's probably just not. That's my personal opinion. I could play it and change my mind. Hell, that's from a guy that loves Jurassic Park, right? And Jurassic Park, is it even in the top ten anymore? I don't know. Barely, if it is, right? It's not considered nearly as good as Godzilla, and I like Jurassic Park a hell of a lot better than that. Oh, and speaking of who agrees with me, I've been saying this on this pinball podcast now for seven years. seven years today I shared the memory of me breaking my left arm in multiple spots and not being able to play pinball for three months and I thought well if I can't play pinball for 12 weeks I might as well podcast about it and who knows by the end of 12 weeks maybe I will have made a podcast like that I'm proud enough about that I would share with people and sure as shats five or six weeks later when I had done maybe 12 or 13 podcasts I I didn't know this but I was the last person to like the slam till pinball podcast and bruce nightingale at the end of the show always gives a shout out to whomever on facebook liked them last so bruce nightingale said and and ron's i forget how ron signs off shout out to bruce and ron though but ron was like and anything else bruce and bruce was like and see you later albert agar and then like two days later i was at the london ontario pinball league and bruce and uh jeff deolos comes up he goes albert i heard you got a shout out on slam tilt and i said what how do they even like how do they know he's like what do you mean i said well they like how would they even know that i have a pinball podcast he said you have a pinball podcast and i said well i'm not really it's just like a blog and i just like i'm just like talking into my phone but yeah like i called it pinball nerds podcast but it's like jesus it's not a podcast jeff like you're on a radio show and i'm just like this basically this hippie like skateboarder uh snowboarder like uh you know pancake munch and maple syrup drinking craft beer swigging uh cheeseburger eating dork hipster hipster doofus basically like the the version of uh the canadian version of kramer essentially from seinfeld come on and uh he was like what no they just gave you a shout out at the end of the show for liking their facebook page and I was like, oh, damn. And then the cat was out of the bag. And then Jeff's like, oh, yeah, send me a link later or something like that. And I was like, oh, God, I don't want him to hear it. Because Jeff's show has always been so crisp. How do you like your coffee in Canada? Crisp, right? So his mic's always been great. His content's been great. He does phenomenal editing. And I know he just interviewed Jonathan Joosten, I think, of Pinball News Magazine. I saw that Colin on This Week in Pinball just gave them a shout out to that. So go check that out. And congratulations to Colin. He actually hit all of his fundraising goals for the month, so that's really cool. And let's just put a little bow or a big freaking red congratulatory bow on this thing with Don. Let me have a little sip. All right. So I said I was going to do a top five. Let's try to get back into that right quick. So number five is definitely he's going to be helping with design, design issues, that type of thing. I would imagine, especially after he's been there a while and been trained by Bugger Luke, he would be one of the people who would maybe be doing playtesting. I could see him doing that. Don maybe isn't the best pinball player, okay? He doesn't dead bounce as much as I would recommend and that sort of thing, but he hasn't been playing competitive pinball for like a decade now. So, like, you know, come on. I'm saying he's very accurate, and he's certainly gotten much, much better over the past few years. And I'll tell you this, he's more than good enough to at least playtest the machines. The next thing I think Don would help with is marketing ideas, advertising ideas, okay, that type of stuff, social media ideas, actually him actually doing some of the marketing, going to some of the expos and possibly, now I know he's very busy for this upcoming expo. He's going to be wearing like five hats. He's going to be there as Don's Pinball Podcast. He's probably going to be the pin turn for WAP. He's also going to be the on-the-ground news reporter for the homebrew section and the homebrew topper contest. shout out as well to Don for that because he's he is a hustler and no matter what you say about Don you like him or not I know some people say oh I can't listen to WAP or I don't really listen to Don anymore and whatever maybe they maybe they don't like air horns okay maybe when they were a child they almost got hit by a freaking train or something and so they have PTSD against air on that okay that's the only thing I don't like about Don shows the air horns he even got rid of the AI music for the last show so I shout out to Don but here's the thing he works harder than any other content creator in the last two years and could i think of someone more deserving than him to go work for a pinball company of course i could and he's got two thumbs and is sitting right here in river hibbert but there's no pinball companies close to me and i'm not getting up and moving to madison wisconsin benson wisconsin benson that little factory in benson wisconsin i think people always say it like that like it's such a little charming town like they're talking about Gobbler's Knob in Groundhog Day, right? You know what I mean? Or Poxatony Phil or Scranton PA in the office. So what else? We're going to go back to the office in just a second. Don't worry. So the next thing I think Don would be really, really good at helping with is just being like the go-to guy, if that makes sense. So if you need someone to like, you know, drive whatever, like components this or there, he would probably do that for you because Don's always driving around everywhere he's basically a delivery service as yet as it is he would all don would also be pretty good at doing like um darn and darn tootin what's his name uh he'd probably be good at doing like some of the tech help i would assume by now don's very good at like you know he's he's got pretty good at tech stuff i don't know if he would be like the best person there for it but i'm sure he would be in the you know in the top five or ten that is there already at this point and then with you know working there for a bit longer and again i don't know you know he's Don is a doctor, I believe, even though he always says he's just the manager of Burger King. I think if we read between the lines, we might see that. And the other cool thing is that I was going to announce is that Don and I may even be making some content together. No, it's probably not going to be with Ryan Barry, unfortunately. But part of Don's new job over the next year, which he's already announced, so this isn't breaking news. This is just regular news, but he's going to be working up here in Maine right across from a place that's only four or five hours from here. So from time to time, he might drive across the border and meet me in Fredericton and go to Zero's Arcade. Happy birthday to Dylan, by the way, of Zero's Arcade. He might want to cross the border and I'll meet up with him up there and we'll go get some French poutin because it's very, very, very French. Don's going to be in an area that has even more French people than me. And like an hour from me is Moncton and it's like 40% French there, 60% English. So he's going to be in an area where tabernacle. These guys are French. I remember going to the Tim Hortons there and I was just trying to get a knife for my bagel and I was doing the knife motion and the lady was like, pardon? I was like, oh, God. She I see. I didn't swear. I almost swear. All right. So the fifth and final thing that I think that Don will actually really help with is like big picture stuff. So figuring out pricing in the market, figuring out, you know, like, is this a good theme for us? Like, I really think that Don, in a nice, kind way, is able to be fairly critical. And, you know, now the things that Don won't be able to do, I'm doing five rad, I got to do one bad, you know me. I don't know if Don's going to get a lot of invites to go to Stern anymore. And I know that was something he was kind of concerned with for a while, or JJP. I just don't know. I just, I would have to assume, and I don't know, I could be completely wrong. I mean, if he's still running the other two podcasts, certainly he may still get invites, and I hope he does. be nice to see that but wow i think don might we might hear a new don it's the don of a new era because i think don's going to be just more open and honest for some reason about stern and i think he's going to be more open and honest about jjp and i think he's going to be much more honest about predator pinball predator pinball is like i listen i want to play ray day's masterpiece John Borg's masterpiece. Okay, I'm kind of just joking, but I want to play the new Star Wars game far, far, far more than I want to play Predator. But I also do want to attempt to try to play Predator. Now, let's talk about my kink is karma. Some people listening to this might have assumed when I was talking about this that the reason I got so freaking amped up, the reason I got so excited was because a particular other content creator who is not fond of Don, and who's been really rude to Don for like years, probably is not very happy, even though they may pretend or mask their unhappiness, that Don got hired by Spooky. And I'll tell you what, it might be my favorite part. It really could be my favorite part because, wow, I don't know how long it's going to take, but the first time said content creator gets drunk and goes on a rant about this person, it's going to be gold. And I'm going to be there for it. I'm not going to be talking in the chat. Oh, no. Oh, no. I became a full lurker if that. I don't listen to any other paywall pinball podcast other than Joe Chervino of the Pinball Degenerates. And you should, too, because there's lots of good content there. I'm going to be doing a full report once I have caught up. I think he has six or seven or eight shows there now, so lots of content there. Go check it out. The best part is it's only $2 a month. Joe, you've undercut me. Oh, wait. No, I came out next. Now, Joe has six, seven, or eight. I only have two, but I can tell you the two that I have there are bangers. And my kink being karma has actually nothing to do with that pinball podcaster because when I finished talking about them, people literally to this day are still saying that it is the most savage undressing of any pinball content creator ever, one to another. But go listen for yourself because as I already mentioned, every single solitary pinball nerd will be named in order. That's right. Don't you want to be part of the choo-choo? Get on the Orbi train. Join the Patreon. But let's not talk about that too much for now. Let's talk about how pumped and how amped I am for this karma. That's right. Rachel Risto, our own Rachel Risto, formerly of The Ray Ray Show with Raymond Davidson here on the Poor Man's Pinball Network. Rachel Risto herself has won. And shout out to Cassidy Milonowski. I hope I said your last name right. I think I was close. They she went with her and I think maybe her boyfriend or partner or dad. I don't know someone. There was some other gentleman that was there that went to help go pick up her machine from CGC. She has a brand new Cactus Canyon. She did a really nice thank you video like a just a minute and 10 second. Thank you video video. I believe she put that up on pinball enthusiast. It had a couple hundred likes loves. Congratulations this morning. And that's the thing she says in her video. Like she thinks some of all of her good, her good pinball vibes she's put out for years and years and years have finally came back to thank her. And damn, like Rach, you deserve it. So congratulations to you. I don't care that you put up your little video and you, you know, you could tell her eyes were a little bit swollen. Like she may have been tearing up. If I won, if I won a Zizzle pinball machine for $200, I would probably cry at this point. Okay. Seriously, that's incredible. Sometimes someone wins and you go, oh, that guy owns 20 pins already. He doesn't need another one. But it's fair to everybody. And still the guy with 20 pins, I'm sure he's still stoked that he won one. But for Rachel to have either one, two, or zero at her house currently, I know she used to have an older EM or solid state. And I think she babysat an Iron Maiden a couple years ago or something. And Rachel, if I'm forgetting your pin selection, I'm sorry. I'm going to have to have Rachel back here on the show and just congratulate her myself. But congratulations to her. And the other thing I wanted to also just say, like, this is so cool. Now, she did this after winning, but Jamie, Jamie Burchill of the JBS show on YouTube, make sure you go watch this. This is such an important topic. Her and Jamie actually do talk for quite a while about anxiety and playing pinball and how to deal with it. And that's something I don't, I wouldn't say that I get like, I do, I do get anxious. I don't have anxiety per se. I would say I'm more so get nervous. I don't really know what the difference is. I might have to ask chat about that. Check out the old GPT and see what's going on. But I more so get nervous, nervous excitement. I have nervous excitement for my tournament in Moncton tomorrow. Warmups are at 12. Make sure you do some warming up. The tournament starts at one. Please bring your friends, bring your neighbors, go on the street with signs, bring as many people as we can. We need lots of players. last time I think there was only like 12 but it was kind of in the middle of the summer for me to get enough whoppers to move up enough so I don't have to play an incredibly good player in the New Brunswick Provincials in a few months I need I think I'm seventh right now but I'd like to move up to like if I can and again this is there's lots of good players in the bottom 12 as well but if I can move up to like or 16 I guess I should say if I can move up to like sixth or fifth even ideally I would have to play a player that you know isn't nearly as good like there's a lot of really, really, really good players kind of stuck right in the middle there. And I would not necessarily even consider myself one of them, but myself, kind of like Don, I'm just there all the time. You know, I'm like that boogie that's just a little bit too high up for your finger to reach, and it's just kind of stuck there. I just won't go away. Or as Franchi would say, after my 600th episode, I said, would you like to give an official statement? And he said, yeah, thanks for making me endure 600 episodes, Albert. and I said hey I do it for Barlow he kind of likes my intonation he finds it easy to fall asleep to shout out to Mike Dimas as well I remember he always would say that I was his favorite pinball podcast to fall asleep to because he said for some reason or another my ranting and raving like a freaking lunatic basically I don't think he used the term lunatic my my ranting and raving like someone with severe ADHD or AUDHD may be, you know, possibly someone who, you know, their brain is so frantic that it makes everyone else's brain feel like they're calm, I guess. I guess that could be one way to say it. So, but Jamie and Rachel did a really, really good job just talking about how to cope with it, how to deal with it, why it happens. And these are good things. Like the fact that we have, this is built in through evolution. You have to remember being anxious and nervous is a good thing when you're walking across like that bridge like the confederation bridge when i was 240 feet in the air what is that 20 stories in the air 24 stories in the air i don't know like when you're 20 stories in the air you damn well better be nervous and anxious about falling off because if not you're gonna fall off you're gonna be like oh hey you want to play a game of football up here on the rooftop okay go long whoa right so it's not good or if it's water you go curse plunge so you want to make sure it is good you want to be nervous if you're walking through like a scary neighborhood late at night you know what i mean like you want to be able to be aware and be alert and be but when you're going to play a pinball tournament what is the worst that can happen you get last place right so anyways i going to be talking about some ways that i coped and some supplements that I taken that have helped with that and that sort of thing in a future episode But I really hope we keep this conversation going It just so important that we can just be open and honest and have conversations about mental health or dealing with stress or dealing with anxiety We, you know, again, I've mentioned this before, but here in Canada, we have a I don't like the company Bell Canada. I think they're very close to a monopoly, if not a very strong oligopoly. however what i do like about them is that they have this one day a year that's called half of us and literally half of people here in canada and these are just the people brave enough and courageous enough to admit it will have a severe struggle with either depression anxiety or another like like i'm not just talking like oh it's a rainy day oh i'm a little bit you're a negative nancy debbie downer today i'm talking about no like a severe like like again not just maybe if a friend or family member passes away or they get fired from their job. But like for other exterior reasons, they end up having like a really, really tough time for a little bit in their life. And lots of people recover from it and some people just don't. And some of the diseases or disorders that people deal with are uncurable. You just have to find coping mechanisms. And so I really think it's interesting. And the great part is, is that tons of people who don't have any of those diseases or disorders still deal with being anxious, still can have a panic attack and not even be anywhere on any of those spectrums. So it was really cool. It was really refreshing. I'm sure it wasn't the easiest thing for Jamie to talk about. You know, Rachel Risto would probably rather come in and talk about like her place in women's pinball and streaming and all that kind of stuff. And they certainly did. So shout out to them for that. So but go over there and listen to that if you haven't. And the worst thing you could do is shame somebody. If you can see someone that's having a really hard time, they're really anxious or going through anxiety, they're not sure why they're more nervous than usual for a tournament they they're maybe they they have social you know issues uh being around people even me when i go to dylan's uh flippin's arcade in fredericton and there's 40 or 50 people excuse me in between the games i have to almost go outside because it's just quieter for a bit and it's just so there's like 50 games and arcade games in a small little area it gets very loud you know there's a lot of people talking and i just need like a little bit of like a little breather in between the rounds at some point i can't do seven or eight hours straight of that loud of music. Also, the tinnitus bugs me. So let's look at this little tiny post-it note here. There we go. All right. Guys, we're only halfway done the first post-it note, and I have three, so I better go quickly. All right. So Dirty Pool, Jeff of Dirty Pool Pimbo was on Enzo, was not on Enzo's show. He was talking to Enzo, of course, over there on Gonzo's flipperama. and Enzo brought up the fact that him and I have been chatting quite a bit recently about, honestly, we just like more so recently, I think we've been friends for a while, but more so recently have been chatting about how, and me particularly, I need to see some more comedy in pinball. The best pinball machines of all time, especially pre like 10 years ago, seven years ago when I got into pinball podcasting, those particular shows, sorry, those particular pinball machines all had comedy. If we think back to Attack from Mars, that is just hilarious. The call-outs are hilarious. Every part of it's funny. When you think to Medieval Madness, that thing, the best, think about if Attack from Mars and Medieval Madness didn't have the funny call-outs, didn't have the funny scenes, if they weren't all built around, if they took themselves as seriously as some of these modern games take themselves, oh my gosh. It just wouldn't be enjoyable or fun. and so for anyone thinking like oh there's not enough action or adventure in it give me a break what are you talking about you know what i mean i i personally don't think that it has to be like like look at predator are you telling me predator with all that action and adventure even if they got arnold you think that that would be a better license than the office or seinfeld or even cheers k cheers is a bit dated but the office or seinfeld or curb your enthusiasm or parks and rec right Like it would be incredible. It would be incredible. And even lots of shows like Stranger Things and stuff, like my favorite parts of them is the comedy in between the intense parts. Of course there's intense parts, but there's more parts that just – it's more of a comedy show to me. Most episodes are more so funny and tongue-in-cheek than they are necessarily. And guys, what about Belky Bartokomus? Who doesn't want a perfect Stranger's Machine? Okay, wait. That's only me because I'm also from Meepos. But let's not talk about that right now. All right. So shout out to Jeff and Enzo. That was an interesting conversation. And what I really liked is a lot of – I think Jeff had actually been on there before talking about his impressions of Harry Potter. But this time, you really got like a more Jeff Teelis pinball profile-esque interview. And so that was really rad. I also have to give another shout-out to Jeff because for some reason, he sent me up – well, I think I maybe know why, and I'll talk about that in a second. But he fired me off a sub not to Patreon, but that's okay. You don't owe me anything, Jeff. And in fact, I have no clue why he even did this in the first place for the most part, but he actually gifted me a subscription to Dirty Pool Pinball on Twitch. So guys, go watch him. I haven't seen him in a couple days. I am subbed up and I'm excited to see it happen next, but I either have been busy when the notifications came in or maybe he hasn't been streaming so much because he's been on other people's shows. I'm not really sure. But I'm excited to see and, of course, see what he does next. Jeff is another example of someone who came into pinball as a podcaster, content creator, and got snatched up and hired even quicker than Don. But he's over there helping with sound engineering and soundscapes and sound editing and music editing and how the sound and music work together and incorporate into the modes and all that kind of stuff. He's over there doing the God's work because I'll tell you what, if the sound isn't just perfect, I notice. And here's the thing with sound. If it's good, sometimes you don't notice. but when it's bad you notice right that's like somebody who has like their shirt half untucked if it's full untucked okay whatever it's tucked in it's a golf shirt whatever fine okay whatever whatever you know but if it's like half untucked i'm like that's just lazy you got to choose i want to just run over to that person and finish untucking it for them i want to i have this need and desire to do it and sometimes i do do it i do do no i don't do do i don't do do well jeff thanks for that sub that's so cool and oh here's what i was going to say i suspect maybe because it was right around the time that this happened i was in the chat well tom got the exact same thing tom had a really really good interesting interview uh with jeff on dirty pool and one of the questions that he actually asked i was asking a lot of really cool questions in chat and jeff was reading quite a few of them and i felt like that was really it's really nice when you if you ask a good solid question jeff will make sure to answer it if you're asking like silly stuff he'll probably like you know he may or may not say he likes silly stuff you know this guy when you sub up to him you should go sub up just to see the bath time meme because it's hilarious or i don't know if it's a meme when it's moving like that but anyways bath time i'm not going to sing it i really want to but i'm not going to sing it uh but tom was really saying like the main thing that you shouldn't do when someone is live streaming is pop your head in and be like, oh my God, there's Tom and be like, wave or say hello because he's very, very busy. And that's why he's in the Fox cities booth. But I have been such a huge, massive fan of Fox cities pinball for so, so long. And I just wanted to see the streaming rig for like two seconds. So when I was at, when, thanks to all the awesome people who helped send me there, including Aaron Davis, by the way, who, uh, uh, him and fast pinball donated $250 towards the cause to get me out there to pin nationals sorry to get me out to nationals and pin pin masters as i confuse the two um and i just wanted to see the streaming rig so bad i remember as i walked by i like peeked my head in around the corner like peekaboo just like saying hello like just looking my head in and i don't even think they noticed but i thought oh maybe wait i'm on like five different cameras right now either he noticed later or maybe he did see me out the corner of his eye i don't know and they're sitting there talking about this so i said half jokingly thinking they might not read it in the chat uh tell tom i'm really sorry about that time i peeked my head in and pin masters i was just so curious to see the setup and uh jeff read that out loud and then i was kind of embarrassed and then tom goes don't worry don't worry albert i forgive you and and and he did say don't worry and he even he even brought up the fact that he got to live stream me on all nine holes at pin master i was like tom's not gonna remember that come on he doesn't he live streams like every day of the week like i don't know if he sees more teeth or live streams but this man is the dentist with the mostest and at the same time the pinball live streamer that like does 14 hour days while still playing him at the same time talk about pinball anxiety that would be hard so then i end up getting the shout out there and i was like wow and tom was like just basically like gave me the head nod and said dude it's fine like i i think what he really doesn't want is people like tapping him on the shoulder being like hi can i get a picture or like talking to him well he's you know obviously just even me peeking him wasn't super rad but it also probably wasn't the end of the world and i felt guilty and bad about it for a year and a half because that's the type of person i am that i worry about stupid stuff i shouldn't worry about there you go all right so what else do we have here um joel and jared so joel and jared were uh doing the flipping out live stream flipping out with friends on wednesday night of course and uh basically someone in chat when i was talking someone was like oh my god joel you've got to hear orbital albert's uh stern freak out he has it now behind the paywall on patreon or something like that and i forget who it was i'm sorry i should have wrote this down it was very late night i was lying in bed and right away joel goes and he'd already answered questions from me angry alpaca which is my coffee company name which is how i'm normally on youtube under I do have an Albert Agar one but it's only signed in for my work computer which I'm talking to you on now so long story short if I'm just chilling or something I'm usually under my coffee name and if I'm doing pinball related stuff sometimes but anyways I end up watching it so so Joel goes poor Joel he goes yeah uh I don't listen to any pinball podcasters that do rants fair enough Joel you're allowed to say that and then someone goes yeah but he's here right now and then Joel was like or jared or someone was like basically like oh uh someone someone mentioned that i was here right now or something or someone in the chat and he was like oh well no offense or anything like and i'm like dude i don't i haven't watched do you think i've watched every single wednesday night like joel and jared no if it's a new pinball machine i try to go there if i'm bored or just chilling i try to go there but like i wasn't there i actually know i did pop in a chat very quickly on wednesday but the point is joel joel and all other pinball content creators you never have to apologize for not listening to every show who could even endure 600 shows of this okay probably nobody I certainly can't I'll tell you that here's the thing if I'm talking about something that's mildly interesting to you you might pop in for part of a show and that's fine that's all it needs to be but the more important part of this conversation was I ended up saying how much I would love to interview and I don't know how it happened but I would love to interview Jared and I think Joel was kind of like yeah right and I'm like no I would love I I'm I would get so nervous if i had to interview jack danger or i had to even interview raymond davidson i for three or four days would have the the hot the hot sweats son of a bitch give me a drink what it was that uh night sweats is that what it is okay so i got a laugh from drop target danielle that doesn't always happen over there i got i got a test test earlier about the ice cream eating sounds but it's very the sound of the spoon in the bowl is distracting to me anyways it's all good but I pulled it back with a laugh. It still might work out tonight, guys. We'll see. So anyways, I just wanted to say, Jared, you're more than welcome to come on the show. And Jared, it's not that I wouldn't be nervous to interview you. I would be a little bit nervous because I want to make sure the sound was good. But I wouldn't be as – even if I had to have like Tom or any of these other people, even Don, I would get – Don is now a freaking pinball designer. Like I would be very nervous to interview him, right? Or maybe not so much Don because I actually do talk to him a lot. and to put the little nightcap on the end of the Don Sitch, I'm so glad that him and I made up and we're talking a bit more now because like that would be super awkward if someone I was beefing with went to go work for a pinball company. Oh wait, that's happened before. No, not really actually, not really to be honest but anyways, I am so excited. Let's go on to post-it note number two. Holy cow, I want to give a big shout out to Josh and Scott over there on Loser Kid. I did watch not all of and I've already admitted this just recently, just now, I did watch most of, but not all of, the Loser Kid thing about Star Wars. I think when there was like five or ten minutes left, I either fell asleep or zoned out, or my bathtub was done, or something like that. My walk with the dogs was done, and I knew there was just like five minutes left, and I said to myself, oh yeah, you should try to listen to that later, and I just forgot to. Well, thanks to Drew Sedolia, who actually just was going through, I won't mention what it was, even though it was on Facebook, just for the people who aren't his Facebook friends. But he went through a very, very minor operation. And here's to hoping everything went well and the results are good. So shout out to Drew. And what was that bucket for? No, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. All right. But Drew let me know. He goes, dude, you got a really nice shout out over there from Josh and Scott on Loser Kid. And I said, really? What show? Like the one that just dropped that I hadn't listened to? I think it was the interview with Rob Burke. And he said, no, no, the Star Wars one. And I was like, but I listened to that. So I went back and I just listened to it. He goes, no, no, it's near the end. So what they've been doing, and I really, really applaud Loser Kid for doing this. Loser Kid has been doing like a small content creator of the month at the end. And I really appreciate that because I'm sure, A, there's people who listen to Loser Kid who have no clue who the frick I am. And that's totally fine. They have like 10 times the audience of me, maybe 15. And they have all this goodwill. So if people like Josh and Scott are saying, hey, Orby's not that bad anymore, and honestly, probably Josh would, I'm assuming if he's giving me that shout out, he's more than likely listening to some of my shows. And people like Josh and Scott might be more apt to listen to my shows now that I try very hard, very, very hard to never criticize other pinball content creators and essentially only be kind criticism towards the pinball machines and manufacturers. And over the top, I also don't swear on this show hardly anymore. I almost did today. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Even one of my favorite shows from the 80s, They Swear Once in a While, the, what's it called? The show where they have one, get one swear word per show with the girl from Reno 911 about the 80s. We'll think of the name of it. But anyways, I just wanted to thank, oh, the Goldbergs. There you go. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks, Drop Target Danielle. This is, she's like my live in-house producer, editor, best friend, personal masseuse, trivial pursuit expert. She destroys me in Jeopardy unless we play that other one, the – yeah, the Pulp Culture Jeopardy. I did beat her the other day. I got like 8,400 and she only got 6,000. So she went all in on the final Jeopardy and lost, but I bet nothing. But, hey, once in a while she'll let me win. If it's regular Jeopardy, no shot. unless the categories were like cheeseburgers pinball all right i've gone off topic but go over there and support loser kid because they supported me and i think now that my show is a lot more mellow down to earth i don't know if i call this show mellow or measured but you know what i'm saying in comparison to me going off the rails before so if you are back and you're used to listen to my shows and now you're back welcome back that being said i'm at 53 minutes I'm going to put her in a four-wheel drive. We're going to finish this up fast, okay? This is going to be like a Tesla on speed. All right. I got to thank some Patreon fans here, and then I'm going to talk a little bit about what I've been up to for the last 10 days. So ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. There's the Franchi Bell. I'm basically done talking about pinball. But don't leave yet because I got a couple Patreons to thank, including One Way Ticket. One Way Ticket, I don't know who you are, and I don't care. your four dollars spends here on patreon that's right within 72 hours you're going to get a brand new show talking about everything and a little bit of behind the scenes what happened in the month of september and boy there was a lot of stuff for us to chew up and marinate over and talk about it's going to be fun it's definitely going to be paywalled because i may not swear on the main show but once you get to too hot for television i'm gonna do it all right so i wanted to think one-way ticket as well as enzo oh my god enzo did the top tier it did turn out to be 21 canadian because of shipping to australia i'm sorry enzo uh and at the same time we have a can of post-strike so thankfully there's only three people at that top tier hopefully by the time the two months is done can't like honestly there's no shot the can of post won't be back to work within like november by christmas season so if it is a week or two late i am only disappointing three people and i'm gonna throw in some extra collectibles some extra coffee some extra pinball nerds podcast trading cards just for those three people especially enzo because wow dude that's so kind that's so incredible i didn't know if an australian got the highest level i know the lowest levels, like $7 equivalent Canadian, which works out to be a little bit over a dollar a week. That's right, a dollar a week for you Americans, who like 75% of my Patreons are, but I think I have two Aussies. You know, I don't have a Canadian yet. Is that wild? No, I do. Matthew McGoffin, my best friend. Okay, there we go. Matt, he snoozed and he lost. He's not going to Maple Pinball. That's right, ladies and gentlemen. I unfortunately can't afford the thousands of it would cost to go to Expo, but I could afford the $138 round trip. That's right. For what I make on Patreon per month in just one hot month, I can fly all the way to Southwestern Ontario to Kitchener-Waterloo and back. That's incredible. So I'm going to be there for November 28th, November 29th, November 30th, all the way to December 3rd. So yeah, yeah, I'm flying in on the 26th. I'm leaving on the 3rd. So if you're in and around the area like Joe Chervino, I think I'm going to see you. like if I'm already going to see you at, if I'm already going to see you at maple pinball, like screw you, I've already going to see you enough, but I'm not, if you not going to maple pinball please hit me up I going to try to head out to forked river uh craft brewing company in london ontario and play pinball there um i gonna have time with my family time with my friends time with my pinball buds that aren't going to be at maple and if you haven't thought about going to maple and you live in ontario or something what are you doing it's the second largest tournament in all canada basically it'd be number seven on the list if stern allowed seven pro circuits instead of six basically the ontario open would essentially be number seven all right I totally made that up. Totally made that up. What else? I just recently had some, I think Cliff Albert wants to come on the show to like, to razz me and come at me. Chris. Oh, wait. Oh, wait, wait. Freudian slip. I would, not Chris, Cliff. Cliff, I would love to have you on the show. I mean, I don't want to spend too much time or energy talking about some negative previous things that I've talked about. but honestly can you think of anyone else to be better behind the paywall cliff albert couldn't do an hour-long podcast without swearing if he tried i wouldn't want him to because then he'd be being fake but back behind that paywall if we want to talk about sex drugs rock and roll swear words we can do it all and we're going to so i would say i would like to have cliff albert on for my wtf happened in this month of october and we're gonna have so much to talk about with expo and everything else. So Cliff Albert is super entertaining. And to any of you that have suggested that I am super woke, I'm not super woke. I'm half awake. I got one eye open. That's how I sleep. All right. And if I were super woke, would I be having Cliff Albert on? I don't think so. All right. So anyways, doesn't matter. Woke or not woke. Everybody's welcome to the show. Conservative, liberal, Democrat, Cheeto. Everybody get in the house. It's the pinball party inside of the hot tub that's right shout out uh tribe number 26 here let's go buttholes i'm so excited for expo i'm going to be doing a show about the top five things that i would be doing at expo if i get to go and the reason i said i'm 80 20 is because i'm working with chat right now i'm using the most powerful ai on planet earth to find the absolute cheapest way to get there and remember within about three to four days before expo plane tickets could go down for toronto all the way down to as low as $99. If I can get to GTA for $99, that means I can easily borrow a car from a family member or friend and drive to Chi-town, Chicago from London, Ontario in like seven hours. That's nothing. As a driving instructor, I used to sit in a car 14 to 16 hours a day, like seven days a week sometimes in the summer and at Christmas break, right? So I could definitely do half that by myself. You ever driven with a new driver? Gas brake, gas brake. It's like, whoa, yo, I had way too many crap beers last night. Your driving instructor Orby's going to puke. Maybe you could just like ease up on that break a little. You know what I'm saying? Imagine if you got me as your driving instructor. I am sorry to all 385 people who got me as your driving instructor. I was entertaining, but probably a little too much. However, I did have the second highest pass fail ratio in the city. So if you were serious about getting your license, you came to me. That other guy had been in the field for like 40 years. He's incredible. He was like one of the top guys in Ontario, but we don't talk about him. I think I had an 87.5 pass-fail ratio, and the top guy in the city had 89. That was out of like 70 driving instructors in a town of half a million people. So anyways, I do kind of miss that job. I might go back to that job in the future. We'll see. I want to give a big shout out to David N., Rob R., Rusty, just Rusty. I like that. You didn't add your last name, Rusty. Well, Rusty, welcome to the the wait the pinball nerds podcast welcome to the pinball nerds podcast patreon buddy all right so and then i love this name because i kept saying wouldn't you buy this for a dollar it's a dollar a week to get all these awesome shows back there you're about to have three within two weeks from now you're gonna have four before you know it you're gonna have ten all right so uh this person's name and i guess you can just pick your name on patreon but their name is i'd buy that for a dollar so i'd buy that for a dollar thank you i'd buy that for a dollar too all right so uh who else we got here we're almost closing it up everybody i can see i hit the one hour marker the lights are going off the dog franchi's gonna wake up any second i i don't mean the the pinball artist i mean my dog and then he's gonna need lots of loving and lots of licking and goober and all over my face so it's very hard to record while that's happening but i want to thank shane t and that brings us all the way back to my man tim lee tim the lion man lee he was the last person i think so i think we went from like 15 to 25 just in like the week and a half i wasn't here so thank you thank you thank you um please please stay on board every single person i'm trying to work out if it's going to be at three months or six months and i have not talked to uh foghorn leghorn or craft beer sally yet but they made these really really rad coins for the poor man's pinball tribe and And they are maybe – I mean the coolest thing about the tribe is how like together everybody is. And the coolest thing about the tribe is how much fun they have at all these shows. I'm probably most jealous about that. Even though I'd love to do the flip out tournament, the largest pinball tournament in the world I believe. Even though I would love to go there and meet Don and go see the spooky people and go talk to my stern friends, people who work there. And I'd love to go try all these new pinball machines I haven't tried. The main thing I'm going to miss is watching the live stream of Hangout the Tribe 10. There's so many people from the Poor Men's Pinball Tribe that I'd like to meet. And the one thing that I love about them is, and I thankfully just found my coin just a few weeks ago when I was cleaning up in my bedroom. And I love this coin. I'm Poor Men's Tribe number 26. And a lot of the tribe members, they take pictures with their coins. They bring their coins everywhere. If they win a tournament, they've got their coin in their hand, you know, and they're posting pictures from the Grand Canyon with it. Or wherever they're traveling, they've got their coin. And I think that's so cool. So with the permission of Foghorn, Leghorn, and Graf Beer Sally, I don't know. What I do love is they can drop ship from the States and I can just pay for it. I don't know what the cost would be, but if you stick with me on the Pinball Nerds Podcast Patreon, I'm going to make sure that you get one of these cool rad coins. They make them in-house. They look really awesome. Again, I mean, if Droneon think that, like, I'm copying them or that's not cool, I mean, they don't even do pinball podcasts anymore, so I don't think they would care. But if they reached out and said, hey, we kind of would prefer just to keep the tribe of the coins cool, I will think of something rad. I don't know if it's going to be beer coasters. I don't know if it's going to be like – I don't know what it will be. Maybe it will be something really cool. Key chains, I don't know. Okay, that's not really cool. I'm going to think of some way to send something in the mail to every single person, even people not at the top level because I have 22 awesome people at the $1 a week level and I love it. And by the way, if you want to make sure it stays at the $1 a week level, and it's always a dollar a week, especially if you're in the United States, it's like $1.75 a week if you're in Canada, I'm sorry, or $1.85 a week if you're in Australia. I don't make the rules. But if you want to make sure that you stay there, oh my gosh, I completely lost what I was saying. That's okay. Let's talk really quickly about running backwards and why I did it, even though I'm going to probably talk about this more at the very end of the WTF monthly. but I a long time ago one of my favorite comedians of all time was Tom Green he did the backwards man can you run backwards as fast as I can or can you walk backwards as fast as I can I'm the backwards man can you walk as fast as I can anyways love Tom Green still love Tom Green you know I've got to party with him before I even got to be the next person he interviewed the day after he interviewed Steve Carell which I thought was just incredible when I went to sign the waiver at the end of the interview for his podcast, his producer. I was like, I don't know. I was really drunk in this, and I said some embarrassing stuff. And he goes, no, it's gold. It's gold. And I said, yeah, I know. But, like, you know, I have a beer soap company. We're the world leader, you know, beer soap in the world. We make beer soap for over 30 breweries across Ontario. And, you know, I think I was just a little bit – I was hammered. and they interviewed me after I may or may not have done some very legal outdoor activities with Tom Green and his producer and one other friend. It was literally just the four of us there. It wasn't a big group of like hundreds of us hanging out. It was just the four of us hanging out. And the producer turned to me and said, Albert, have you ever seen the show The Office? And I said, The Office, my favorite show on earth? He said, this gold pen right here, this 24-karat gold pen was last used by Steve Carell, was the last person that popped the bop on this to sign the okay to go and i literally looked it up and found that he had been on the podcast like the night before whatever like there was some type of information maybe i didn't look it up i don't remember i was very drunk it was very late and i was very dark but as soon as he told me that i said well now that's a story and i took the pen and signed it and then i even paid for the dumb podcast to see if my segment ever got on and either never got on. I was too drunk. It wasn't funny enough. The lighting wasn't good. I don't know. But he did this video podcast for a little bit before he moved back to Canada. And I almost was part of it like 10 years ago. But I don't know. Maybe it's out there. Who knows? There's probably people laughing at me to this day. I should probably go back and listen. And I probably listened to the very first show after that. Maybe they used it two, three, four shows later. Who knows? So I was maybe on the Tom Green podcast. Nobody cares. What they do care about is the fact that I, well, maybe they probably don't, decided just because it would be an extra challenge to me to run it backwards. So for a lot of people that don't know, I have the good spina bifida, not the bad one. So basically my tailbone does not attach at the bottom of my spine. So I have some major back issues. I can't lay on my back for very long. I have to lay on my sides. I have to have a side pillow. Yes, it's really boring, but like I have some issues with my back. Even sitting here talking to you this long right now, I'm going to have to get up and do some mad yoga stretches after this to even just get my fascia feeling better down there. So when I walk backwards, it helps my neck, it helps my shoulder, but mostly it helps my lower back and I'll typically get a crack from it. And so I'm not going to tell you guys to just, like, you know, if you're someone who has issues walking forwards, walking backwards probably is not, you're not ready for it. But if you're someone who is very able-bodied and you can walk forward, no problem. Don't do this in a busy town with cars beside you. Don't do it on a bridge like I did. My bridge was closed down to traffic. You know, don't do it where you could fall into the water and get eaten by an alligator. But if you can find a safe, flat spot without cracks in the sidewalk, okay, or maybe on grass ideally, especially if you can have someone who walks forward in front of you and you're walking backwards, right, or if you can hold someone's hand, or if you can use trekking poles, or if you're someone like Glenn the Skateboarder who can just like freaking skate pools everywhere. Don sent me a video of him skateboarding in the new skateboard park yesterday. That was so cool. But like, if you're like a skateboarder, you could probably walk backwards, no problem. And if you have lower back problems, I challenge you just to do like 25 steps, 50 steps, 100 steps, right around 88 steps. Every time I'm walking backwards, first time of the day, I get a mad crack in my back. Now, again, I am not a doctor. I am not a physiotherapist. I am not a chiropractor. I don't even like chiropractors, okay? But I'm sure some of them are good. A lot of them are quacks, so I'm sorry. A lot of them are. And for the most part, even chat says that most chiropractory is not really, doesn't really have a lot of sound research. But I will say what does have sound research is walking backwards. Walking backwards puts less pressure on your knees, less pressure on your ankles, less pressure on your lower back. It also stretches and moves tons of muscles that you don't normally use. right now the top ironman triathlete she just went to kona and did spectacularly but she is the top middle distance and for those of you who don't know they used to call it the top half ironman but then they thought that wasn't very nice probably because they're a little bit overwoke but that's okay uh we now just call it a 70.3 so a 70.3 is a half ironman so instead of swimming five kilometers biking 180 kilometers and running a marathon of 42 and a half kilometers what you do is half that so you swim two and a half kilometers you bike 90 kilometers and you run a half marathon 21.3 or 21. whatever 25 whatever it is 26 so convert those to miles if you will just know it's a long freaking way well the top girl in the world actually does four to five drills a week with backwards running from backwards sprinting to backwards walking because it if it makes sense It uses the – not everybody has done the – not everybody is a certified personal trainer and nor am I even though I did take the CAMFIT Pro program here in Canada. But basically the antagonistic – I'm saying it wrong but like the opposite muscle. You get to work out the opposite muscle and 99% of us walk forward all the time. We never walk sideways. We never walk backwards. We never use any of those muscles. and I'm not telling you you have to, but if you have back problems, if you have knee problems, if you have ankle problems, you might want to try it. It may help you. And again, go talk to your doctor first. I'm not a doctor, but I decided A, because my mom and I both love Tom Green. B, because I like doing weird, fun, interesting challenges. C, because I honestly thought I could maybe beat my wife, even though she destroyed me by 21 minutes. I thought maybe, maybe, maybe. We did stay together for the first 3K or so. And I also just thought it would be funny. Do you know that I honestly, I didn't cry because I couldn't do that because you just can't do that with 10,000 people around. It makes them feel more weird than you. But when I see children with cancer that have their head shaved and they see me running backwards and it puts a smile on their face and they ask their mom or dad like, well, what's that strange guy doing? And I don't know, but it's kind of funny. And they would wave to me and everything. And then most of them were not doing the full 14 kilometers. They were just doing the two and a half K up and two and a half K down. So I would pass them once and then they would be going this way and they would see me this way and vice versa. And a lot of those people just made them feel good about themselves because a lot of these people even walking slowly, I had to walk almost uphill most of the time. So I wasn't passing that many people. And then I'd be jogging for a little bit. And it was just funny. I got so many comments. I got so many people catching up, people slowing down just to talk to me. Hey, why are you doing that? You're not. That was the number one question. You're not doing that the whole way, are you? And I said, well, I'm going to try. And then if I was walking, they would say, you're not walking the whole way backwards, are you? And I would say, no, I'm running part of it backwards too. And then if I was running backwards, they say, you're not running the whole thing backwards. And I would say, of course, no, I'm walking some of it backwards too. The only times that I went straight for those almost three hours, I think it took me two hours and 35 minutes or something. The only time that I went straight was literally to go into the port-a-potty because like walking backwards in the port-a-potty, that's dangerous. I'd rather fall 240 feet into the coldest water around at zero degrees. Like, by the way, the Confederation Bridge is not just Canada's longest bridge, but it is the longest bridge in the world over frozen water, over ice-covered water. So, like, there's other bridges that are slightly longer, but they're not designed and built to have big, giant, like, we actually do down in this area get icebergs, big icebergs coming down from Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. No, not from there. We have these awesome icebergs coming down from Iceland and Greenland more so. And I don't think they get there, but we do have big chunks of frozen ice that go there. So you have to build a bridge significantly different when you have 1,000-pound things of ice and rock that are traveling through and across the sea there. So anyways, I've gone on way too long. Go back to your day. And remember, I always say this. If you say, oh, an hour and 10 minutes, it's too long for a podcast, that's fine. break it up into three 20-minute pods you know i'm not doing podcasts as often as i used to just do a little in here in canada we call it little timbits or in the stage you call it tidbits whatever tidbits timbits titbits any bits you want get those biddies and and make them pretty you know what i'm saying so anyone everyone i love you i'm in love with you thanks for listening you get a gold star for getting to the end to see francie doesn't ever get a gold star because as As soon as I start talking about backwards walking, he's like, he's out of here. He's gone. And that's fine. That's okay. You don't have to stay and listen at the end. But maybe in some weird, wild way, you know what? And if you're not going to backwards walk, just get out there and do more steps. More steps per day is better. Sure, I like to do like 10% to 20% of my steps for the day backwards just because it helps my back. Also, just because most of the time I'm walking here on my own property. and it's a little hilly, but I make sure when it's the really hilly parts, I walk forward and 90% of it's flat and I'm walking a dog anyways. And I will say the one big thing I notice with backwards walking is it really helps your neck. So if you're someone like me, even right now, I'm sitting on the edge of my couch here in Orbeez Arcade, 100 feet under the ground in River Hibbert, Nova Scotia. And the backwards walking, you constantly have to be doing a blind spot left check or a blind spot right check like you would be doing with driving. There's a little driving instructor for you. Mirror, signal, blind spot, guys. Mirror, signal, blind spot. Come on. What are you doing? Don't be signaling as you're crossing and going to my blind spot. But no, what it does is a lot of us are looking down at our phones a lot. A lot of us are looking down at laptops. A lot of us are even driving and kind of hunched over and looking down over the wheel. Well, that's really bad for your neck. So you can either sit there like a dork and stretch your neck and look straight up for hours a day, or, I mean, you do kind of look like a dork running backwards too, I'm not going to lie. But it was fun. It was all for charity, so it was fun. I wouldn't go do like an actual race where you're time chipped and like, no, I would do backwards running in the lead up to doing like I want to do. Hopefully, I'm going to do the Scotia Bank half marathon in Toronto next year. I would like to do the waterfront marathon as well in Halifax next year as well. So I'm very excited to do both of those. Those I will do forwards. For a charity run, sure, I might go backwards. But it doesn't matter if you go backwards or forwards. Get out there. Be more active. Get lots of walking in. Remember, as they say in Game of Thrones, winter is coming. So before winter gets here, go be healthy. Go have fun. Support all of your local cancer charities because in any way, shape, or form, backwards, forwards, get out there. Support locally where and when you can. And until next time, pinball nerds, remember to eat, sleep, and breathe. Congratulations Don on your spooky pinball designer role brah