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Ep 123: Macho TWIPYs with Will Oetting, Imoto Harney, and Lucas Pepke
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It's that time of year when the community gears up for voting via TWIPYs. Will, Imoto, and Lucas join us to talk about the new changes for 2023
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Transcript
Introduction and Episode Kickoff
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Thanks for tuning in to the Loser Kid Pinball Podcast.
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We are on episode 123123.
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I am Josh Roop.
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With me, my co-host slash captain, as always.
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Scott Larson.
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And Scott.
Pinball Market Insights
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There's it's kind of slow in the pinball net news, but I think we've got something big tonight.
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Well, we do.
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But before that, if you want to get a great deal on a pinball machine, go ahead and check out Zach and Nicole, many at flipping out pinball.
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They have a lot of screaming deals right now.
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I mean, pinball price, it's it is a buyer's market.
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So if you are looking for something even new in box, there are some deals out there that you have not seen before.
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Especially if you have a grail pin that you're really looking forward forward to and haven't been able to find it, go ahead and contact Zach and he can usually work some magic there.
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So flipping out pinball.
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Zach and Nicole are definitely the best.
Guest Introductions
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Speaking of the best, we've got some amazing guests on tonight, starting with Moto Harney.
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She's done Skill Shot Baby.
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She does a lot of tech live stuff.
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And honestly, she's just kind of all over the place whenever you're looking at like conferences and expos.
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She's the person to go to in the Marco booth.
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We've got Lucas Pepke.
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If you don't know him by name, you know him by voice.
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I promise you do.
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Between Moppy and Steve and Macho and all those names, he revealed himself like six months ago on Special One Lit.
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It was an awesome episode.
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If you haven't checked it out, go check it out.
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And finally, the grandmaster of all of this, Will Outing.
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And he's here to talk to us about the exciting news with This Week in Pinball.
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How are you all doing tonight?
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Awesome.
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Thank you for having us.
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Great.
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Fantastic.
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Still living in Houston Arcade Expo land.
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The party never stops.
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The actual show's over, but, you know, I'm just still relishing and
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basking the energy that they left at this hotel if you're on youtube with us as the party you can see behind omoto in her room it's just is non-stop party she has a fog machine somewhere too yeah it's charging so will you you've asked to come on and discuss some news that you've got going on what's what's happening my dude
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Well, yeah.
TWIP and Kineticist Merger Announcement
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One of the big things that came out today, that would be Monday, is that TWIP is now rolled under Kinet Assist.
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So Colin Alzheimer is kind of taking the lead.
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He will be doing the content and helping us out.
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And I'm still there helping him as an advocate and advisor for whatever he needs.
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Now, this is a pretty big move considering that
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TWIPI stands for This Week in Pinball.
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So what prompted the merger?
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What?
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So a lot of it is that, so I asked Colin to come on and help do content for, for this week in pinball probably mid this year, mid 2023.
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So he's been doing the weekly posts.
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I mean, it's really his content out there every week.
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So, you know, after him coming on and doing that content, I kind of saw his passion for it.
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It's something that he, you know, was able to really jump into and, and,
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and just give more time to than I can.
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So it's really been helping out this week in pinball.
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So I felt like it was a good merger.
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You know, Kineticis has been doing some great stuff over there.
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And if we can team up and, you know, pool our resources, I think we might have, you know, a little bit bigger shot at stuff.
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So that's awesome.
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Okay, so Will, along with you, you have two people who are celebrities in the pinball influencer talking about whatever we are, the pinball media.
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We all know Emoto.
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And why don't you tell us why Emoto and Lucas, by the way, Lucas is the secret star of pinball.
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And by the way, if you haven't heard him sing, pretty amazing.
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Kind of hate him for it, really.
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I hope he strains vocal cord because he's just so much better than everybody else.
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How dare you?
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Don't whip that on him.
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It's not fair.
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It's not fair.
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No, no, no, no.
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No, he has like vocal cords from the gods.
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He stole half of whatever Jeff Teal was left.
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It's very kind.
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Do it.
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Do it.
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Yeah, that's true.
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Okay.
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Can we have Jeff Teolis and Lucas sing Endless Love at the next pinball convention?
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I will.
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Can we can we work that into what we discussed?
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We should.
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Thank you.
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Only if I can be Diana Ross, though.
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That's true.
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I'm not going to be no Lionel Richie.
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No Lionel Richie.
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Yeah, it's true.
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I have recorded endless... Okay, wait, wait.
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That was a joke.
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He's already ready for it.
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Wow, wow.
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Where's the popcorn?
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I have recorded endless love as Steve and Moppy before.
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I have hidden banks of content that I've never put out in the world.
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And that's one of those where I'm like, you know what?
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Maybe I crossed the line here.
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Maybe I went too far.
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Did you publish that?
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No.
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I shared it with, oh, I shared it with Emoto.
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I was like, I remember it.
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Emoto got so much extra content that no one ever got because I was like, this is too weird and too far and too stupid.
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Thank God I'm doing this anonymously because what are people going to think of this person?
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What are they going to think?
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Now it's time for them to start thinking.
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Yeah.
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Putting you on stage, baby.
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Okay, so yes, Will, introduce why we have Lucas
Twippies Hosting Announcement
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Nomoto on.
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Yes, yes.
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So, Nomoto and Lucas are going to be our co-hosts for the 2023 Twippies.
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So, they'll be at TPF in March, and I think you can obviously see why we went with Lucas and how...
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We expect to have a lot of singing.
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So it's musical twippy.
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It is a full musical.
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Let's not get this wrong, people.
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This is a musical.
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Musicals are two and a half hours long.
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Is that how long the twippy is going to be?
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We're going four hours.
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We're going big.
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We know that everyone wants to be in that room with no deodorant and farting and smelling like cheese for four hours.
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And that is your night at Texas Pinball Festival.
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It's not that bad.
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I know I'm joking.
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It's going to be like, for real, it's going to be a ton of fun.
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There might be some music.
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Look, we, we know this audience.
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We know this pinball crowd.
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I have tested the waters with how far you can take a musical in this.
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So I get it.
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Like, it's not going to be a full musical, but we might have some fun with it.
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Okay.
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Will wants to announce the new sponsorship of Axe Body Spray.
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And the Twippies just spraying them swells, you know.
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Yeah.
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Twippies, Mottu by Axe and Fireball.
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Well, and I don't know if anyone knows this, but Lucas, you talked about at one point in time, before anyone knew you were macho except for maybe Emoto, you were trying to get into the Twippies and do some kind of bit for the Twippies.
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So is this why you're now co-hosting?
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Like they're finally like, well, he did reveal himself, but we'll still do some macho there.
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Was that a covert addition?
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do you do you want to do a macho bit yeah yeah do it so wait what was the question again i'll try to work on my answer the question was live originally you were supposed to do macho at a twippy like you were supposed to do undercover and and no one know who you were at the twippies so like is that how you like became the co-host okay they wanted you to do this and you're just like i'm doing it like
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How about this?
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This will be fun.
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This is unscripted.
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Let me see if I can do a live macho episode on that history.
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So it'll be about three minutes long.
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Okay.
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Hey, we got time.
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So you asked, what was I planning?
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What was I going to do?
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Yeah.
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Right.
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Okay.
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All right.
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I got it.
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Wait, wait, wait.
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This episode of the Macho Pinball Podcast.
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Pinball Podcast Vlog Show is brought to you by the Loser Kid Pinball Podcast.
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All the way out there where those dinosaur bones are in Utah.
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Those two boys are so beautiful and I love their content.
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I gotta say, Macho Bravo on a great show.
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123 episodes strong.
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That's a big old Macho Bravo.
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I didn't think you were going to get past four.
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Okay, here we go.
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Hey.
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Ladies and gentlemen, Macho Pinball!
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That's right, I'm back, baby.
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Working out a little bit of issues on my board because it's my first time doing it, but you didn't know.
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That's the secret sauce.
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Don't tell them what you're doing.
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You got your hand behind your back, but it doesn't matter.
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Hey, I got some news for you.
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I'm back.
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Here's what was happening.
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I was in a battle, a heated battle with Jeff Patterson.
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Yeah, you remember him.
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whip now he's no good he's no good people and i came at him and i said jeff why don't you put a real host on that stage why don't you man up why don't you get some balls and get macho on stage because you know that i am taking over the airwaves i am the cream of the crump and i'm the tip of the top and like having your blue bell ice cream shop blue bell homemade ice cream where was that okay i'm back all right so jeff
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And I said, no.
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And he said, Macho, I invented COVID and I'm going to put COVID all over the world.
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So we're not even going to have a live show.
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So you can't even come to my show.
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And that just deflated me so much that I stepped out of the podcasting game.
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Answer your question.
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Perfectly.
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Like 100%.
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So COVID killed macho pinball, right?
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Jeff Patterson invented COVID so macho couldn't take the stage.
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We can cut all that.
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That's fine to cut.
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Oh, it's all staying in every last bit of it.
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You don't have to put any of that into this world.
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That's why I did it anonymously.
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It's not even that great of a macho man impression.
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It's just kind of what...
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I envisioned as this guy.
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What's hilarious though is you did this macho man impression and then for some odd reason it like rippled through the community and all of a sudden all the podcasters had to prove that they weren't macho.
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So we were all doing macho voices on the podcast and somehow
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franchi became like macho like everyone was saying like seriously him versus me and i'll chris franchi props to you man your your macho man impressions better than mine like hands down it's a really good one like go find an episode and unearth it because it's really good it really is for being macho pinball several times i can't remember that actually like using a voice synthesizer or something
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You know, that whole show, class of 2020
Macho Pinball Project Discussion
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pinball podcast, right?
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Let's rewind here to the classics of classic 2020 class of pinball podcast.
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It was kind of, there was a lot of back and forth and a lot of just derision.
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And I don't know, like the tensions were high.
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And I was like, you know what?
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Somebody needs like a punching bag to come in where it's like a...
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I joked around as like the arbiter of pinball podcast because it was a pinball podcast about pinball podcasts.
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And the only reason truthfully that I made it was I needed to learn how to make a podcast.
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I was working on another project with some friends and I was like, I don't know, but I've been listening to pinball podcast and they'll listen to anything.
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Which is true.
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Which is true.
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Anybody who's listening to this definitely has low standards.
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I'm a marketer by day.
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Know your market.
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And I said, okay, I'll get some listens.
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I'll get some feedback and I'll start to learn how to make a podcast.
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And I was like, well, maybe if I make it funny.
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Anyway, it all came as a dumb idea.
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And truthfully, like, you know, that was a weird time for me in that point of my life.
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And so I was kind of vulnerable and I was like, well, I just need to put it out there anonymously.
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Were you vulnerable because you were wearing those itty bitty tank tops that they all wear?
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Yes, that's exactly why.
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He got into costume before recording every time.
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You know, I researched costumes because truthfully, Jeff and I were talking about this because it was like it was starting to get traction really fast and be like, oh, like, hey, people are actually listening to this and having fun with the character.
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And I started to play around with like the mystery of it.
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And I threw out like I had a whole decoder device, y'all.
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I made that.
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I do remember that.
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Yep.
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Yeah.
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I made a decoder device and I wanted it to be.
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I wanted it to be this kind of like weird journey where it's like if there's somebody that actually wanted to get that decoder device,
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and decode the messages like it was going to go somewhere.
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I had a whole like weird arc of a show for it, but I just I just ran out of steam.
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And then, you know, the pandemic hit.
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And then I was like, oh, let me make this.
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What's stupider than what I already made?
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What like this is this is seriously my thought process because I don't want people to.
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I know what I've made.
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Right.
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And there were reasons.
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And I think you can see like a progression in the character.
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Like you listen to the early things and then you see where the character got because it gave me an opportunity to do.
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Just explore that.
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And that's why I was like, OK, I want to make the Puppet Pals.
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That's really dumb.
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Will pinball people listen to a musical?
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I don't know.
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It was kind of like a market research thing of like, where as a marketer can I see the segmentation of my market?
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And what are they interested?
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Like, where's that Venn diagram of weird that they will accept?
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And like, what can I learn?
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How can I iterate on the creative process and say, I want to create something.
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I've had all these ideas for all these years and I used to be in theater and I sang, you know, at the time I was still mid stride.
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So there's a global Catholic television network in Birmingham, Alabama, where I live.
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And I sang there for 16 years, like literally every single day of my life was going to a live televised mass and singing.
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And, you know, before that, I used to work in the theater.
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So I have this really weird mix of like, I love musicals more than I love pinball.
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And, you know, then I've got a whole
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literally like 20 year plus liturgical, like high liturgical Grykorian chant
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classical training to my voice so it's really i don't fit anywhere and i'm trying to like reconcile through that and i've found a lot of friendships in pinball like it's it's so crazy like josh scott we know each other because like we chat on facebook right and will we chat on facebook and emoto like we chat and like
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It's been such a great community, and I'm so happy to celebrate that.
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Like, truly.
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Like, I'm going to meet friends.
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I'll get emotional.
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Like, y'all, I will cry.
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I've accepted that now in my 40s.
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And it's like, if Lucas starts crying, it's going to happen.
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Because, like, I'll do it with him.
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Like, I have a fantastic boss at work, and, like, sometimes I'll just be like...
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And it's, I don't know, like it's, I'm trying to just accept that's me.
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I might cry because I get really passionate about stuff.
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So we accept you and we're glad you're part of our community.
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Thanks for choosing us.
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I mean, it's, it's like literally pinball has been great.
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And I like, I've played Tommy, I've done that show.
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And at the time when I was doing it in college, like, I don't know, it was, it's a fun show.
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Like it's a rock opera.
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It's epic.
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And, um,
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I wish I had at the time, well, yeah, at the time in 2000 something, I wish I would have bought a game because I probably could have bought it for like a thousand bucks, right?
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back then but i would do wish i had a tommy i'm tangenting all over the place so i'm sorry what was the question where are we so i think what we've all determined is we need to somehow get lucas to win something at the twippies so we can get him to cry live on national streaming television on worldwide i will cry so hard in front of that audience we can make this so you cry at the end of the show because it's over
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And then he's going to cry as Macho.
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Hey, Lucas, I do have a question for Lucas, though.
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As a marketer, what were your number comparisons between Macho Pinball and Puppet Pals as far as viewership?
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Oh, it was nowhere near close.
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Macho had, I don't know, maybe 40, 50,000 listens in a really short period of time.
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Wow.
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And Puppet Pals...
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I don't know, maybe like 400 total.
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Zach and Dennis would have those numbers, but I don't.
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Gotcha.
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Gotcha.
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Okay.
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So we'll, let's pivot back.
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We've went off the rails.
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Back to the Twippies.
Twippies Changes and Eligibility
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So, so we got our two new awesome co-hosts, or we got our new hosts for the Twippies.
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Is there any changes going into this next year with the Twippies?
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Yes.
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Yeah, there definitely is.
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The big change is we are not doing pre-voting this year.
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So in the past, we had a period where we had write-ins essentially for multiple content creator categories, like streamer and podcaster.
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That is gone.
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So now we are only doing one voting period.
00:18:37
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It's actually going to start December 18th.
00:18:39
Speaker
So it's going to
00:18:40
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start earlier than the previous years.
00:18:45
Speaker
And it'll cover everything.
00:18:47
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We'll still have streamer, podcaster, YouTube channel, all those in there, but they'll all be prefilled from our Twippy database, or the Twip databases that we've got, the promoters and the mods and the toppers.
00:19:00
Speaker
So will there also be different requirements as well with you not doing pre-voting?
00:19:04
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I know this is pretty far stretched, but Colin talked about a positivity
00:19:10
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implementation, I know something talking about that.
00:19:12
Speaker
How are you going to decide who you're going to put in the voting bracket, I guess?
00:19:18
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So, yeah, so we did talk through with the committee.
00:19:22
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We did talk through about having a good standing requirement.
00:19:27
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The committee voted that down.
00:19:29
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We're actually allowing people to, you know, we'll have everybody that's eligible in the dropdown and be available.
00:19:38
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So,
00:19:39
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Part of the reason for that is that we felt like it was disrespectful to our voters if we took somebody out that they wanted to vote for, that they felt they wanted to show appreciation to.
00:19:52
Speaker
So everybody's in.
00:19:54
Speaker
There are some eligibility requirements.
00:19:56
Speaker
You can go to twippies.com and see what the eligibility requirements are for each category.
00:20:03
Speaker
But it's really more about how many
00:20:06
Speaker
shows or podcasts you have in that period of time from 12-1 of the previous year to 12-1 of 2023.
00:20:14
Speaker
So that's really the eligibility.
00:20:16
Speaker
And this is one thing we were talking about Expo.
00:20:17
Speaker
There is a misconception that these shows have to all be public, right?
00:20:22
Speaker
Because I think if I remember correctly, it's like seven shows in a calendar year or something like that.
00:20:26
Speaker
That's at least for podcasts.
00:20:28
Speaker
Well, that's for the media stuff.
00:20:29
Speaker
Yeah.
00:20:30
Speaker
Yeah.
00:20:31
Speaker
Yeah.
00:20:31
Speaker
So there, yeah.
00:20:32
Speaker
Five shows within that period and there's, you know, that's all there is.
00:20:36
Speaker
There's no, if it's behind a paywall, if it's public viewable, it's just, they have to have five pieces of content out there for that period of time.
00:20:46
Speaker
Okay.
00:20:47
Speaker
So let's run down some of the categories and let's talk about the different things.
00:20:52
Speaker
So first off, we want to know about the big categories.
00:20:56
Speaker
So let's talk about
00:20:58
Speaker
what makes something eligible for a machine?
00:21:00
Speaker
Does it have to be manufactured?
00:21:02
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Does it have to be announced?
00:21:03
Speaker
Does it have to come from a company that is not getting investigated by the SEC?
00:21:11
Speaker
Yeah, so the game categories, it has to be shipping within that period of time.
00:21:18
Speaker
So 12-1 to 12-1.
00:21:19
Speaker
So if it's been announced- 12-1 or 12-31?
00:21:24
Speaker
It's 12 one, okay.
00:21:25
Speaker
December to November, basically.
00:21:30
Speaker
Correct.
00:21:30
Speaker
Yeah.
00:21:30
Speaker
December, November.
00:21:32
Speaker
Yeah.
00:21:32
Speaker
Cause you can say last year we started our voting, you know, in November for the pre vote stuff.
00:21:39
Speaker
And then on the 1st of January for the final vote.
00:21:43
Speaker
So we give that month lag, um, so that we can prepare for the voting period.
00:21:48
Speaker
So 12, one of 2022 to 12, one of 2023, and it has to have shipped.
00:21:54
Speaker
So not just announcement, you know, not just reveal has to have shipped.
00:21:58
Speaker
Okay, so can you, I'm not anticipating a game being announced in the next two weeks, but we'll leave that out there.
00:22:08
Speaker
What are the games?
00:22:09
Speaker
Sorry, it brings up an interesting question because I don't know if Pulp Fiction has shipped yet.
00:22:16
Speaker
I mean, they've had a handful out there, but I don't know if they've officially shipped.
00:22:19
Speaker
I don't think it's Labyrinth.
00:22:20
Speaker
Yeah, and Labyrinth, I mean, they've made 10 or 12 of them.
00:22:23
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They haven't officially started shipping them.
00:22:26
Speaker
Yeah, there's a couple we have on our list that are kind of we're waiting and seeing.
00:22:31
Speaker
Yeah, you're kind of watching them and we'll have to reach out to the manufacturer as we get closer.
00:22:37
Speaker
So Josh Sharp is actually on the TWIPI committee, so he's kind of our ears on the Pulp Fiction side.
00:22:44
Speaker
But some of the others we are in discussion on.
00:22:48
Speaker
Nice.
00:22:50
Speaker
But so it is, it's actually pretty amazing.
00:22:53
Speaker
You know, as of right now, I think we have like 16 possible eligible games, which is the biggest we've ever seen in the seven years we've been doing it at least.
00:23:04
Speaker
And how many of them are from first-time manufacturers?
00:23:06
Speaker
I mean, that is probably an amazing thing right there.
00:23:09
Speaker
Yeah, because we have Punny Factory from Pinball Adventures.
00:23:15
Speaker
I'm really assuming Labyrinth will be in the mix there.
00:23:19
Speaker
I think it will as well.
00:23:20
Speaker
Yeah.
00:23:22
Speaker
This is, well, that's not first time, but this is spinal tap will be this year.
00:23:25
Speaker
Yeah.
00:23:26
Speaker
Um, I can, that's a pinball machine for non pinball people.
00:23:33
Speaker
Hey, don't try to influence the votes, Josh.
00:23:36
Speaker
Okay.
00:23:38
Speaker
But let me, I can just run through the rest.
00:23:39
Speaker
Yeah.
00:23:40
Speaker
Yeah.
00:23:40
Speaker
Go ahead.
00:23:40
Speaker
Give us the list.
00:23:41
Speaker
Cause I'm curious to see what's on there right now.
00:23:43
Speaker
Yeah.
00:23:43
Speaker
Yeah.
00:23:44
Speaker
So Queen by Pinball Brothers, Drained by For Amusement Only Games.
00:23:50
Speaker
That's the P3 module.
00:23:52
Speaker
And actually, it's full game for full artwork and animation.
00:23:55
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So that's full game.
00:23:57
Speaker
Scooby-Doo by Spooky.
00:24:00
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James Bond 007 60th Anniversary Edition.
00:24:04
Speaker
Foo Fighters by Stern.
00:24:07
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Final Resistance by Multimorphic.
00:24:09
Speaker
The Godfather by JJP.
00:24:12
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Like we talked about, Pulp Fiction is kind of still impending, but it's there.
00:24:18
Speaker
Galactic Tank Force by American Pinball.
00:24:21
Speaker
World Wind Total Chaos by Pedretti.
00:24:24
Speaker
And that's only in several categories, like art, rules, animation.
00:24:29
Speaker
Because it's not a full game.
00:24:32
Speaker
It's the remake of World Wind.
00:24:34
Speaker
Punny Factory, as we talked about last time.
00:24:38
Speaker
Venom by Stern.
00:24:40
Speaker
Jurassic Park 30th by Stern.
00:24:42
Speaker
And that is only in art.
00:24:45
Speaker
Dungeon Door Defender.
00:24:48
Speaker
That was a game Michael Ocean made for P3 for the heist module.
00:24:53
Speaker
So that's in audio, animation, and rules.
00:24:57
Speaker
Labyrinth by Barrels of Fun.
00:25:01
Speaker
We do have the Alien, the Ellen Ripley versions kind of still on the edge.
00:25:06
Speaker
I don't know if that's shipping yet or not, but we'll have to talk about it.
00:25:10
Speaker
Elvira's House of Horror, the Bloodwreth Kiss Edition.
00:25:14
Speaker
That'll be in for art.
00:25:15
Speaker
And then Elton John is the other one that is still pending, but I'm assuming it'll make it out by the first as well.
00:25:23
Speaker
That is a lot of... Isn't that an insane list?
00:25:26
Speaker
Like...
00:25:27
Speaker
The one year where we had Godzilla and you looked at the list, it was kind of like, man, it was going to win a lot.
00:25:34
Speaker
It was hard to not assume that.
00:25:36
Speaker
But now with that list, it's just like every award is anyone's game.
00:25:41
Speaker
I don't know.
00:25:43
Speaker
Yeah, we talked about this the other night.
00:25:45
Speaker
We had a little team call and it really was like that.
00:25:49
Speaker
I think we read out to us, Will, and Emoto, you and I had the same exact reaction.
00:25:54
Speaker
It's like, that's a really strong list of variety and artistry.
00:26:00
Speaker
It's a great year to celebrate.
00:26:03
Speaker
I think that's my point there is it's not just one game that kind of came out and crushed it all.
00:26:10
Speaker
at a really weird time, right?
00:26:12
Speaker
Like this past year for pinball has been gangbusters.
00:26:17
Speaker
So it's really neat to see.
00:26:20
Speaker
I guess the other question too is, I mean, how are you going to do intros then?
00:26:24
Speaker
Because I know usually
00:26:26
Speaker
Last year, it was like you kind of did all the games, and then per category, you kind of just showed a blip.
00:26:32
Speaker
Is that what you're going to do for this one?
00:26:33
Speaker
Because 16 games, that's a lot of games.
00:26:36
Speaker
Yeah, I'm sure.
00:26:36
Speaker
Last year, we did do all games in the very beginning.
00:26:41
Speaker
We just showed them, and then only showed the top three for each of the game categories.
00:26:45
Speaker
I assume that's what we're going to do again.
00:26:47
Speaker
It's going to be in musical format, though, for the intro of all the 16th.
00:26:52
Speaker
So Lucas is going to sing everything for it.
00:26:54
Speaker
Oh my God.
00:26:56
Speaker
No.
00:26:57
Speaker
I'll bring your cough drops.
00:27:01
Speaker
I don't want that for my audience, OK?
00:27:03
Speaker
We're going to create something that's fun and celebrates pinball.
00:27:07
Speaker
And that's it.
00:27:08
Speaker
Oh, wait.
00:27:09
Speaker
Hold on.
00:27:10
Speaker
Can we run by the committee, Will, to add another voting thing saying, do you want the Twippies to be a musical this year, yes or no?
00:27:18
Speaker
And if we get a no vote, it's like, done.
00:27:22
Speaker
They want it.
00:27:23
Speaker
Hard no.
00:27:23
Speaker
Hard no.
00:27:23
Speaker
OK.
00:27:26
Speaker
If you're listening, I know after we'll talk about numbers in a little bit or a little later.
Community Experiences and Gratitude
00:27:31
Speaker
But if there is anyone that listens to the show that is like into making puppets, it Lucas, if they make you a Steve and Moppy like puppet, would you do a full musical intro for the Twippies?
00:27:43
Speaker
Look, y'all, I know I came across Manic earlier because I'm just honestly, I'm really nervous because I know this community.
00:27:50
Speaker
I know that the underbelly of this community better than most.
00:27:55
Speaker
And I just, I know that Meek, you know, it was the fear that I already always had was who is like, I'm just me, right?
00:28:05
Speaker
Like I'm trying to do all these different things, but no, I was nervous before.
00:28:12
Speaker
And now, like, seriously, like, I'm so nervous, y'all.
00:28:15
Speaker
Like, it's a it's really cool.
00:28:17
Speaker
And I have to acknowledge that, like, it's really cool to actually spend time with you guys, because I know we've talked.
00:28:23
Speaker
And so again, I'm sorry, I got us off track.
00:28:26
Speaker
But like,
00:28:27
Speaker
This podcast is making it feel really real for Lucas now that he's part of the Twippies.
00:28:33
Speaker
Yeah.
00:28:34
Speaker
Now it's sinking in.
00:28:35
Speaker
I said yes like months ago, but all of a sudden it's sinking in.
00:28:38
Speaker
Crap, this is happening.
00:28:39
Speaker
We're recording now.
00:28:40
Speaker
Okay, I'm going to give you a hint, Lucas.
00:28:43
Speaker
The reason why you don't have to worry about it is because pinball is such an eclectic community that we really are come as you are.
00:28:51
Speaker
We don't like this is not.
00:28:53
Speaker
OK, I'm sorry.
00:28:54
Speaker
This isn't the cool kids club in high school.
00:28:56
Speaker
OK, we have left the high school cafeteria long ago.
00:29:00
Speaker
We are a collection of of jocks, comedians, show choir people, people who work singing mass every day on TV, people who sell pinball apparel and stuff.
00:29:15
Speaker
electrical engineers and yeah.
00:29:17
Speaker
And we have people who keep us warm and cold and then I just put people to sleep.
00:29:21
Speaker
So seriously, it is absolutely a collection.
00:29:25
Speaker
It's okay.
00:29:26
Speaker
I say this lovingly, but I feel a little bit like the pinball community is the island of misfit toys.
00:29:33
Speaker
Yes.
00:29:35
Speaker
Which is a hundred percent awesome.
00:29:36
Speaker
It's like, it's, it's like inside out with all those, those strange characters.
00:29:42
Speaker
And that's what makes pinball beautiful is because it is a uniting force of very different people who can find something that they can bond over.
00:29:53
Speaker
And so bring what you have and add to it.
00:29:57
Speaker
Well, seriously, like let's, let's just write it down for a split second.
00:30:00
Speaker
Like where else would you find that?
00:30:03
Speaker
like the main singer, bare naked ladies hanging out with a voice actor that does star Wars episode one and Bob, the builder.
00:30:14
Speaker
Yeah.
00:30:15
Speaker
And then you've also got like Christopher Franchi.
00:30:18
Speaker
That's an artist.
00:30:19
Speaker
That's kind of like off the deep end.
00:30:21
Speaker
And then me that does eating an air conditioning for a living, like technical work.
00:30:25
Speaker
It's just, it's really, I think Mark Silk put it the best is like pinball is the great equalizer for some odd reason.
00:30:31
Speaker
Like it's,
00:30:33
Speaker
like, well, sneak peek, we have a special guest coming up that's been on TV and coming up here in the next couple of weeks.
00:30:41
Speaker
Where else would I be like, I message a dude and I'm like, hey, by the way, we want to talk to this guy.
00:30:47
Speaker
Do you know how to get ahold of him?
00:30:48
Speaker
He's like, yeah, here's his number.
00:30:49
Speaker
And it's like, oh, cool.
00:30:51
Speaker
Like you kind of have the same thing.
00:30:53
Speaker
Like you wanted to make Skillshare baby and you got Rupert from Survivor helping out and you've got Todd Tucky that's got one of the best, most successful arcade YouTubes with like millions of views.
00:31:04
Speaker
You know what I'm saying?
00:31:04
Speaker
Like, yeah.
00:31:06
Speaker
Well, it brings people together for sure.
00:31:09
Speaker
I guess that was where I said I was kind of in a rough spot of just not believing in myself.
00:31:15
Speaker
And so it was easier to put it out there anonymously.
00:31:17
Speaker
And I'm trying to start to believe in myself, as dumb as that sounds.
00:31:23
Speaker
But Scott, to get back to your original question, because I have circled back and I do do this often.
00:31:28
Speaker
So this is just me coming as me, just maybe a little more manic because I am nervous, but we're going to have fun.
00:31:36
Speaker
Would I let someone help me build puppets?
00:31:41
Speaker
Yeah.
00:31:42
Speaker
And I guess that's part of one of the reasons that I'm excited about this and I'm excited about some of the other projects that I'm working on is that I just want to collaborate and create cool stuff with people.
00:31:54
Speaker
And you limit yourself in that creative scope when you don't tell people what you do.
00:32:02
Speaker
If you tell people what you do, you start to open those doors and those opportunities to just say, let me try it.
00:32:09
Speaker
Like, I may not be the best and that's OK, but I'm going to try because I'm passionate about it.
00:32:14
Speaker
And, you know, I just that's that's kind of my theme of 2024 that I want to go into is just like, look, I'm
00:32:21
Speaker
I've got a great job by day, but like this is kind of my passion by night and I've rediscovering it and music and singing and characters are fun again and trying to not be scary.
00:32:33
Speaker
Like I've spent a lot of time in a little like three foot by five foot closet over the past year trying to just get better.
00:32:43
Speaker
and learn and be comfortable with me again because I lost a lot of that.
00:32:48
Speaker
And so, you know, I truthfully, like, I really do appreciate anyone that listened to the stuff that I did put out there.
00:32:56
Speaker
It had moments of cringe.
00:32:58
Speaker
It had maybe moments of brilliance.
00:33:00
Speaker
I don't know.
00:33:01
Speaker
That's up to whoever listens.
00:33:05
Speaker
But like, it truly is.
00:33:06
Speaker
It's an honor to be considered amongst those creative people that I look up to.
00:33:13
Speaker
Definitely.
00:33:14
Speaker
Well, it picked a good co-host.
00:33:15
Speaker
Well, Oh yeah.
00:33:16
Speaker
This is dry.
00:33:17
Speaker
I think so too.
00:33:18
Speaker
Well, but then like, anyway, you can cut all this, but it's like, I just, I'm like, what's it?
00:33:24
Speaker
Am I being like way over the top and like, just breathe.
00:33:29
Speaker
It's okay.
00:33:30
Speaker
These people aren't going to hurt you, Lucas.
00:33:32
Speaker
Well, and not to shortchange Will either because he's created Silver Ball Swag.
00:33:35
Speaker
Shout out to Silver Ball Swag.
00:33:37
Speaker
I don't know any other community that has a store that is collaborative with the whole community.
00:33:44
Speaker
And if you have an idea, you kick it over to him.
00:33:48
Speaker
He is the easiest person to work with.
00:33:50
Speaker
I don't know what you're doing wrong.
00:33:52
Speaker
I'm sorry.
00:33:54
Speaker
I will 1000% attest to that.
00:33:56
Speaker
So like, I don't want to keep talking about myself because again, it feels cringy.
00:34:00
Speaker
But like when I when I started Macho, I reached out to Will because I was like, Oh, be cool to have some apparel.
00:34:08
Speaker
And, you know, like, so I just sent him or I think, Will, you may have even reached out to me.
00:34:12
Speaker
Yeah, I don't I don't remember.
00:34:16
Speaker
I think you actually, you were like, hey, I'm starting this up.
00:34:19
Speaker
Do you want like your logo on something?
00:34:21
Speaker
And I was like, yeah, dude, that's freaking cool.
00:34:25
Speaker
Well, hey, I don't want to make any money off of it because I'm trying to just do this on the side.
00:34:31
Speaker
And so, I mean, it wasn't like it was not a ton of money.
00:34:34
Speaker
We sold some macho merch early on and you can still go buy it, right?
00:34:38
Speaker
Will it still up?
00:34:39
Speaker
Yeah, we sold some at Expo.
00:34:41
Speaker
I'm not going to lie.
00:34:42
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:43
Speaker
I'm not going to put myself up against that loser kid hat, which is very nice.
00:34:48
Speaker
It's pretty sweet.
00:34:49
Speaker
It's legendary.
00:34:50
Speaker
But Macho's got that sweet logo.
00:34:55
Speaker
Not to brag, we ended up bringing over 50 hats to Expo.
00:35:00
Speaker
Oh!
00:35:00
Speaker
Holy crap.
00:35:01
Speaker
To Scott and Josh, thank you.
00:35:04
Speaker
You did offer me a beanie at one point, and I turned it down.
00:35:08
Speaker
No, I'm not cool.
00:35:09
Speaker
That's what you said.
00:35:11
Speaker
I'm way too cool to rep Loser Kids.
00:35:13
Speaker
No, I was like, if I tell them where to ship it, then they'll know who I am.
00:35:18
Speaker
I've already talked to you.
00:35:19
Speaker
Yeah, I know.
00:35:20
Speaker
But...
00:35:21
Speaker
But Will, what we we donate all the macho and you can continue to do so.
00:35:25
Speaker
This is a way that I was like, I can't give anything really at this point in my life.
00:35:30
Speaker
But any of the proceeds from the sales of macho swag continues to go to Project Pinball.
00:35:40
Speaker
So it's not been a lot of money, but just know that any time that you do support will support any kind of macho merch, it goes straight to the kids.
00:35:51
Speaker
Nice.
00:35:52
Speaker
Wait, I can get pink macho joggers?
00:35:54
Speaker
Yeah, isn't that dope?
00:35:56
Speaker
And blue.
00:35:58
Speaker
I want pink.
00:35:59
Speaker
That's fair.
00:36:00
Speaker
So yeah, go buy some stuff from Will, and it'll go support Project Pinball right away.
00:36:06
Speaker
Nice.
00:36:09
Speaker
So Will, how are we going to be seeing a change going forward with TWIP and Kinesis?
TWIP and Kineticist Future Plans
00:36:15
Speaker
I know we keep bouncing back and forth.
00:36:17
Speaker
This is a wonderful conversation.
00:36:18
Speaker
It really doesn't bother me at all, but...
00:36:21
Speaker
Yes.
00:36:22
Speaker
I mean, so TWIP and Kine... So I think early on, you're not going to see a whole lot change.
00:36:28
Speaker
I know Colin has some ideas that he is bouncing around and working on.
00:36:33
Speaker
I think his focus is probably going to be TWIP is going to be like the newsletter feature for Kinectisys.
00:36:40
Speaker
And it'll have that weekly content continuing on just like it is today.
00:36:43
Speaker
And hopefully, and I'm pretty sure if you ask Colin, that the focus will still be promoting content creators, promoting you guys, promoting those who are doing all this amazing work to spread the hobby.
00:36:57
Speaker
So I think it's going to be great because he's going to push it to, he's a marketing guru as well.
00:37:04
Speaker
So he'll definitely push it so that more and more people get to see it.
00:37:08
Speaker
I've enjoyed his stuff and his branding is really on point.
00:37:13
Speaker
So I've not met or talked to Colin before, but I've admired his work.
00:37:19
Speaker
Was it killing you not to tell us at Expo?
00:37:22
Speaker
Well, we actually hadn't started talking to it about it until Expo.
00:37:26
Speaker
Oh, wow.
00:37:27
Speaker
Okay.
00:37:27
Speaker
Nice.
00:37:28
Speaker
That's when the baby was made.
00:37:30
Speaker
That's when it happened.
00:37:31
Speaker
That's when the magic happened.
00:37:34
Speaker
With his baby there.
00:37:36
Speaker
That's when I knew Colin was the real deal.
00:37:41
Speaker
Here's a question for you.
00:37:42
Speaker
Now I'm putting you guys in the voter category.
00:37:46
Speaker
Which games are you most intrigued to see how they're received?
00:37:54
Speaker
I'm most intrigued to see...
00:37:57
Speaker
how godfather does just because out of all the themes that came out this year we kind of have a lot of like campy and fun themes and then godfather is just this like serious mafia theme that is just so different than what we've seen before in a while um
00:38:20
Speaker
That's a good point.
00:38:21
Speaker
And that, what do they call the super gilded, like gaudy?
00:38:25
Speaker
It's horrible and beautiful at the same time.
00:38:27
Speaker
Like it's straight from 1975.
00:38:29
Speaker
Yeah, the gold lion.
00:38:31
Speaker
Like that thing is pimped.
00:38:33
Speaker
It is so in style, but like who's... We have the best cabinet, best pinball legs category.
00:38:40
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:38:41
Speaker
That's a beautiful gaudy.
00:38:42
Speaker
We'll move up to 50 categories.
00:38:45
Speaker
It's looked like someone like dragged, dragged out of the Venetian or something.
00:38:49
Speaker
Yeah.
00:38:50
Speaker
Yes.
00:38:51
Speaker
It definitely seems like a play.
00:38:55
Speaker
It comes from a place that is so decorated that you don't want to put anything down because you're going to displace like the plants and the cats and the whatever, just everything around that house.
00:39:09
Speaker
It's like Martha Stewart went crazy.
00:39:12
Speaker
The butler has to come by and be like, toast, Costas.
00:39:15
Speaker
Okay.
00:39:15
Speaker
You know, those like hippie eclectic, like, I don't know.
00:39:20
Speaker
It's like, it's like a Hallmark movie where you go in and you buy all these little tchotchkes and it's like, you can barely move because there's so much stuff in the store.
00:39:30
Speaker
It's like a thrift store in Europe.
00:39:32
Speaker
That's kind of what it feels like.
00:39:33
Speaker
There's everything possible on that collector's edition.
00:39:40
Speaker
Amazing.
00:39:42
Speaker
It's like, yeah, when you go to one of the nicer casinos and like you get the phone and the toilet, you know, like the toilet separated and you have a phone still landline for whatever reason, everything is over the top.
00:39:56
Speaker
Sometimes you have to order room service while you're sitting down.
00:40:00
Speaker
I joke that the people at those casinos are so old that you might have to like you break a hip on the toilet and they're going to call 911 right from the toilet.
00:40:07
Speaker
Oh, that's what it's for.
00:40:09
Speaker
Totally.
00:40:10
Speaker
Yeah.
00:40:11
Speaker
100%.
00:40:11
Speaker
Okay.
00:40:15
Speaker
I'll go next.
00:40:16
Speaker
I'm actually very curious to see how labyrinth is received because labyrinth is, is a, it's not fair to say it's their first experiment in pinball because they actually have a lot of people who have worked in pinball, but this is the first iteration of that.
00:40:35
Speaker
And it's,
00:40:38
Speaker
It's a theme that I'm on record saying that it doesn't connect with me.
00:40:41
Speaker
However, it looks really well executed.
00:40:44
Speaker
It doesn't look like it was halfway done.
00:40:47
Speaker
And they even got David Bowie, which is shocking to me that they were able to get that.
00:40:53
Speaker
So the fact that they were able to do kind of a thematically authentic version of the game.
00:41:01
Speaker
And from what I've heard, people who played it said, yeah, it feels very solid.
00:41:05
Speaker
It doesn't feel like a glorified homebrew.
00:41:09
Speaker
So I'm really curious to see how that's going to stack up against the people who have been making machines for years.
00:41:16
Speaker
Yep.
00:41:17
Speaker
And that game looks super cool.
00:41:19
Speaker
Like, I'm just glad that to see the Henson properties seep in because like as a child of the 80s and like all the wonderful movie musicals that made me probably weirdly who I am with like Little Shop of Horrors and.
00:41:37
Speaker
You know, the Muppet movies, like all of them follow that bird.
00:41:41
Speaker
If you watch follow that bird lately from Sesame Street.
00:41:43
Speaker
OK, lately, no, when I was five, yes.
00:41:46
Speaker
Okay.
00:41:47
Speaker
Well, Scott, you clearly have your priorities out of sync, but oh my gosh.
00:41:53
Speaker
Yes.
00:41:53
Speaker
Henson properties in pen ball.
00:41:55
Speaker
I've, I just hope that it paves the road for more of like fraggle rocks, a lower one, but I'm, I'm hoping Mark silk.
00:42:05
Speaker
I do look up to Mark so much and like, we've talked a lot and he's helped me a lot.
00:42:09
Speaker
Just kind of like talk about voices.
00:42:11
Speaker
I've taken workshops with him.
00:42:13
Speaker
Super cool guy, but I, uh,
00:42:15
Speaker
I hope that with his involvement too, because I feel like he's kind of spurred, I don't know.
00:42:20
Speaker
It probably didn't hurt having him have worked on properties like that to get the ball rolling with licensors and stuff.
00:42:26
Speaker
So, and this sounds really good when, when you, when you know Mark's voice, you can listen to it.
00:42:31
Speaker
It was like, oh yeah, now I pick it out.
00:42:33
Speaker
But he sounds, it's a really great David Bowie impression.
00:42:38
Speaker
Oh yeah.
00:42:40
Speaker
Okay, here's a fun fact.
00:42:42
Speaker
Hallmark released a sorting hat ornament that you hit the button and the sorting hat talks.
00:42:48
Speaker
That's Mark Silk.
00:42:49
Speaker
Yes.
00:42:53
Speaker
Yeah.
00:42:54
Speaker
So I actually just ordered it.
00:42:56
Speaker
It's going to be delivered tomorrow.
00:42:57
Speaker
That's awesome.
00:42:59
Speaker
With Labyrinth, though, if they get in for this year's voting...
00:43:05
Speaker
it will be extra interesting because not a whole lot of people got to play it yet or will be able to play it when voting starts right you know expo houston arcade expo this past weekend and a few places on location where they were testing the games but if it didn't make it into this year and they carried over to next year then i think all the other oems would really have a
00:43:30
Speaker
a run for their money for awards, too, because they would have a full year of people playing it on location and everything like that.
00:43:38
Speaker
And it really is a spectacular game.
00:43:41
Speaker
I was very impressed the time I got to spend with it.
00:43:46
Speaker
And we definitely know release time makes a big difference in voting because James Bond 007 was last year and now it's starting to get some really good respect.
00:43:56
Speaker
So it's, you know, it almost anything coming out that, that late, like that December or that November timeframe does, does hurt you.
00:44:05
Speaker
Makes it harder.
00:44:05
Speaker
Yeah.
00:44:07
Speaker
Now I'll go ahead, Josh.
00:44:09
Speaker
I was going to say a question I hear brought up a lot is,
00:44:12
Speaker
or not a question, a statement, and I want you guys to weigh in on it, is that Stern wins a lot because it's out in the wild more.
00:44:23
Speaker
You can find it more on Operation and whatnot.
00:44:26
Speaker
I want to see where your guys' thoughts are, but I want to preface it with,
00:44:31
Speaker
I'm looking back at previous years, and yeah, 2022, 2021, it is a lot of stern.
00:44:37
Speaker
Granted, 2021, Godzilla was a monster, literally just destroyed everything.
00:44:43
Speaker
But if you look at the 2020 results, just 2020, it was pretty much Guns N' Roses and Rick and Morty.
00:44:51
Speaker
So I feel like this is kind of...
00:44:55
Speaker
I don't feel like there's a truth to it, but I wanted to see what your guys' thoughts are that Stern wins because there is a lot more readily available versus Jersey Jack and Spooky and stuff like that.
00:45:07
Speaker
Well, who wants to go first?
00:45:08
Speaker
I'll go.
00:45:10
Speaker
I actually do give bonus points.
00:45:12
Speaker
I give bonus points for them to be able to make a game and to get it out in the wild on location.
00:45:18
Speaker
So if there's a tie, then we're going for game of the year.
00:45:23
Speaker
Now, this is not my game of the year, like which one I like the most.
00:45:27
Speaker
What I'm thinking is which one brought...
00:45:31
Speaker
the biggest impact to the game.
00:45:34
Speaker
Now I, I actually did vote for, I believe that year I voted for guns and roses because it was such an immersive experience in pinball.
00:45:41
Speaker
I've always said that that is the, that is the best connection of any, uh, uh, of any license that a pinball machine has been able to do.
00:45:51
Speaker
Now it certainly helps when you have one of the band members who wants to make sure you have everything.
00:45:58
Speaker
And so that helps, but,
00:46:00
Speaker
There are questions sometimes when you have a game that's an excellent game and then a niche game out there that makes a hundred, then I am going to wonder about that.
00:46:10
Speaker
Now that doesn't necessarily mean it's going to win every time, but it certainly can have the biggest impact.
00:46:19
Speaker
But you could argue that Wizard of Oz had the biggest impact in the last 15 years because it was a pivot point in the industry.
00:46:26
Speaker
And there's not a lot of those in the wild.
00:46:28
Speaker
Most of them are in home collections.
00:46:30
Speaker
So that's my take.
00:46:31
Speaker
Next.
00:46:33
Speaker
I'm interested to see what the response on Venom is.
00:46:37
Speaker
I'm just really interested, you know, just because it kind of in the converse way, just because it's the biggest of the big, you know, is the reception going to be good for a game?
00:46:50
Speaker
I'm just interested.
00:46:51
Speaker
I have played it.
00:46:52
Speaker
I haven't played it in a quiet setting, but I've played it.
00:46:56
Speaker
I played it at Southern Fried Games, both the pro and the premium.
00:47:00
Speaker
And where else did I play it?
00:47:02
Speaker
At Emoto's Arcade.
00:47:04
Speaker
Ooh.
00:47:05
Speaker
Yes, which is awesome.
00:47:06
Speaker
If y'all look, I'm going to Emoto, you're going to plug yourself, but I'm going to plug you.
00:47:10
Speaker
Only if it's in Macho's voice, please.
00:47:12
Speaker
I don't want to do it.
00:47:13
Speaker
I would love to.
00:47:15
Speaker
Just send me an invoice.
00:47:17
Speaker
Wait, can I?
00:47:19
Speaker
Here, I'll do it this way.
00:47:20
Speaker
You ready?
00:47:20
Speaker
And just cut this if it's too much because it's for Emoto.
00:47:26
Speaker
This episode of the Macho Pinball Podcast, Pinball Podcast Vlog Show is brought to you by the beautiful, shiny, spanking new arcade down in Foley, Alabama.
00:47:38
Speaker
That's right, you said Foley, Alabama.
00:47:40
Speaker
They got pinball in Foley, Alabama.
00:47:42
Speaker
Let me tell you about the beautiful Emerald Coast, the Gulf Coast of Alabama, beautiful scenes, beautiful
00:47:50
Speaker
Beautiful everything and now a brand new arcade.
00:47:53
Speaker
Captain Crazy's Paradise.
00:47:55
Speaker
That's right.
00:47:56
Speaker
Let's go where all the kiddies go in the summertime.
00:47:59
Speaker
But not just the summertime.
00:48:00
Speaker
We could go in the wintertime too because it's enclosed indoors.
00:48:05
Speaker
Both heated and cooled.
00:48:07
Speaker
Not only that, Captain Crazy's Pinball.
00:48:11
Speaker
Paradise Extravaganza.
00:48:13
Speaker
You also have a beautiful row of both old and new pinball games.
00:48:19
Speaker
That's right.
00:48:20
Speaker
You've got old stuff like the belly stuff for all you old farts.
00:48:24
Speaker
And then you've got the new shiny toys.
00:48:27
Speaker
And when I was there, they even brought the kiddies out and supported Project Pinball.
00:48:32
Speaker
It was a beautiful event.
00:48:33
Speaker
I've got to tell you, what else they got in Captain Crazy Super Cool Pinball Paradise Podcast?
00:48:42
Speaker
Golf simulator.
00:48:44
Speaker
That's right.
00:48:44
Speaker
So when you get done with your dance dance revolution or you're shooting your aliens or you're blasting your blastoises, you can go over and you can play simulated golf.
00:48:56
Speaker
It looked like a lot of fun.
00:48:57
Speaker
I didn't have time because I was back in the back.
00:49:02
Speaker
Wait, hold on.
00:49:02
Speaker
I've got to start that track over.
00:49:05
Speaker
See, you've got to see when I was in the back, they had a punching bag.
00:49:09
Speaker
And I said, hmm.
00:49:11
Speaker
This is for all those pinball trolls.
00:49:14
Speaker
All those trolls coming out in droves to take me down.
00:49:19
Speaker
All those followers of Canada.
00:49:22
Speaker
That's right.
00:49:22
Speaker
I'm still watching you, boy.
00:49:25
Speaker
I'm still the arbiter.
00:49:26
Speaker
But listen, they had this punching, so I get back on topic here.
00:49:29
Speaker
Macho.
00:49:30
Speaker
They have at Machos, Emotos, Arcade Paradise, in Foley, beautiful Foley, Alabama.
00:49:38
Speaker
They got this punching bag in the back, and I said,
00:49:44
Speaker
I walked out with my head held high.
00:49:46
Speaker
Not really, I lost.
00:49:47
Speaker
There was this big black guy who clobbered it.
00:49:50
Speaker
And I said, Macho Gravon, you destroyed it, sir.
00:49:54
Speaker
And then I left and I went and got Taco Bell and I went back to the bay.
00:49:59
Speaker
And it was a beautiful time in Foley, Alabama.
00:50:02
Speaker
And now Emoto, I'll let you talk about your own arcade, okay?
00:50:08
Speaker
Awesome.
00:50:08
Speaker
Thank you.
00:50:09
Speaker
It's a free play arcade.
00:50:10
Speaker
We got 16 games, 16 pinball machines, 65 vids, some Japanese imported games, and then the classics.
00:50:19
Speaker
Yeah, four golf-based simulators, a bar in the back where we serve beer and wine and some snackies.
00:50:26
Speaker
Come on and play.
00:50:27
Speaker
OK, you know, seriously, as me like my brother, I have a I have a family.
00:50:32
Speaker
I am from Alabama and my family has a history in that part of the region, like the Alabama Gulf Coast.
00:50:39
Speaker
Look, Greg Bone goes there.
00:50:42
Speaker
and vacations like down there.
00:50:45
Speaker
Sleepy.
00:50:45
Speaker
It is a beautiful hidden gem.
00:50:48
Speaker
And this podcast, y'all can go back to the state of Alabama tourism bureau and, uh, now promote this because you've got some chops behind you, but all that to say,
00:50:58
Speaker
fantastic arcade and it was much needed in that area because there were a lot of family entertainment centers and water parks so like now year round in that area there's a pocket of pinball support and like and emoto you can talk about it but like i've been there i've seen it it's awesome and i think it it
00:51:20
Speaker
It's an Emoto experience.
00:51:22
Speaker
You go and from the moment you walk in the doors, it's got all this beautiful Japanese-inspired art.
00:51:31
Speaker
I mean, it's not just...
00:51:34
Speaker
it's an art experience.
00:51:36
Speaker
And I think Emoto, you and I talked about this because we have mad respect for Meow Wolf.
00:51:40
Speaker
If you haven't been to Meow Wolf, any Meow Wolf art installation across the country, go.
00:51:45
Speaker
The one in Las Vegas is fantastic, but like you want it to kind of be that, right?
00:51:51
Speaker
Like it's a total experience.
00:51:53
Speaker
And then tell them, I don't want to dictate this, but like I'm invoking this out of you.
00:51:58
Speaker
Tell them about your bride of Pinbot.
00:52:03
Speaker
I think that's a fantastic story.
00:52:04
Speaker
It's awesome.
00:52:06
Speaker
Yeah, we do have the one and only life-size Bride of Pinball, the Bride of Pinball installation.
00:52:14
Speaker
Awesome pinball enthusiast Neil Cox made it.
00:52:17
Speaker
And it's like that mannequin that I used to take around to shows and put Stern Store merch on and put at the booth.
00:52:24
Speaker
Well, he saw it and he's like, hey, can I take that home for a little bit?
00:52:27
Speaker
And he brought it back and it's like just this fully decked out Brida Pimbot.
00:52:32
Speaker
Like she lights up and everything.
00:52:35
Speaker
It's absolutely gorgeous.
00:52:37
Speaker
So it's going to be a new like historical marker.
00:52:40
Speaker
Definitely.
00:52:44
Speaker
There's pictures on it online, but beautiful.
00:52:47
Speaker
Is it on your website?
00:52:48
Speaker
Because I'm on your website.
00:52:50
Speaker
You know, it's on our Facebook page.
00:52:53
Speaker
Okay.
00:52:53
Speaker
All right.
00:52:55
Speaker
I have another question for you, Moto.
00:52:57
Speaker
Yeah.
00:52:58
Speaker
This is going to be your fifth year hosting Twippy's.
Reflections on Twippies Hosting
00:53:03
Speaker
Is it really?
00:53:04
Speaker
Yeah, you had Carrie Hardy.
00:53:07
Speaker
You've had Jack Danger twice.
00:53:09
Speaker
Todd Tucky is co-host.
00:53:11
Speaker
Now you got Lucas.
00:53:12
Speaker
What have you learned over the last, because I don't think you're just the host.
00:53:15
Speaker
You do some of the slideshows and stuff too, right?
00:53:19
Speaker
Like this is not just you standing up there.
00:53:21
Speaker
You put a lot of blood, sweat and tears.
00:53:23
Speaker
What have you learned from the beginning to this point?
00:53:26
Speaker
That I've learned that I really am passionate about pinball and that everyone in this week of pinball that has worked on the Twippies are also very passionate for pinball.
00:53:40
Speaker
We love it so much that it's a lot of work, but everyone just...
00:53:46
Speaker
pulls it all together you know and it's all just out of the kindness of our hearts and passion because it's not no one's getting paid for this it takes up a lot of time but we just want to celebrate pinball with everyone and celebrate people that are working really hard and creating stuff for us to enjoy and make memories around but now that you said it's been five years i wonder like after this year i should probably retire
00:54:16
Speaker
As a host, right?
00:54:17
Speaker
I was like, no, no, no, you're going to walk away.
00:54:19
Speaker
No, no, no.
00:54:19
Speaker
Is that like too long?
00:54:20
Speaker
Like half a decade?
00:54:23
Speaker
No, and I say this every year, but without Emoto, I don't know how this gets done.
00:54:29
Speaker
It just doesn't happen without her.
00:54:31
Speaker
So you can't, there's no, you're not allowed.
00:54:34
Speaker
Okay, fair.
00:54:35
Speaker
It's so much fun though, y'all.
00:54:37
Speaker
And like, literally, we just spend the time like
00:54:40
Speaker
with the committee and then with Will and, you know, working with Jeff a lot too, when he was around, it's, that's all I can say.
00:54:50
Speaker
It's celebrating everything that's happening in pinball that year.
00:54:53
Speaker
So it's just always a feel good time from our pre-production to the voting period and creating the content and slides and marketing promotions that go out with it all the way up to being on the stage and,
00:55:07
Speaker
There's all those nerves like build up every year to that moment.
00:55:11
Speaker
But then like as soon as it happens and we're all in there together and there's 300 plus people smashed into this room for two hours and we all feel exactly the same way, you know, about pinball.
00:55:24
Speaker
It's just it's really a magical experience.
00:55:27
Speaker
And I'm so happy to be a part of it.
00:55:31
Speaker
Now, for those who don't know what your full time job is, Emoto, can you tell us?
00:55:36
Speaker
Oh, yeah, sure.
00:55:37
Speaker
So I am Marco Specialties, Marco Pinball's Director of Marketing.
00:55:42
Speaker
And I've been working with them for about five years now, too, just near the end of 2018 to now and forever.
00:55:52
Speaker
I love working with them.
00:55:54
Speaker
their whole mission in life is to help keep pinball out of the landfills.
00:55:58
Speaker
So as long as that's a thing, I'm committed to be with them on that journey.
00:56:04
Speaker
And I do a lot of other work with Stern Pinball.
00:56:07
Speaker
They're, you know, very close partners with Marco and it's fun doing side things with them as well.
00:56:14
Speaker
And kind of the main part of my position as director of marketing is like
00:56:20
Speaker
80% of our marketing budget goes to exhibiting at pinball shows all across the country.
00:56:26
Speaker
So really, we have a giant booth.
00:56:29
Speaker
Right.
00:56:30
Speaker
We have a giant booth that we partner with Stern and the local dealers to bring as many Stern pinball machines and new ones for people to play.
00:56:40
Speaker
And my focus is, you know, creating that display, the booth display, the environment that everyone will interact with in all weekend long.
00:56:51
Speaker
And it's great.
00:56:54
Speaker
It's fun.
00:56:55
Speaker
Like,
00:56:55
Speaker
it's an experience and again i go back to like it's an emoto experience and when you go to one of these shows like i finally got to see one of your booths in person with venom and like i don't know i don't even know who you who you got to build this giant venom but it is epic it's an experience like walking into that marco booth and as a
00:57:17
Speaker
like previous arcade hobbyist, like it's no fun being in a hobby where you can't get parts, whether it's old cars or old anything.
00:57:25
Speaker
So it's, it is comforting to know that we're going to have a partner as we all get old and the crap it with our pinball machine.
00:57:32
Speaker
And then Emoto, we call Emoto.
00:57:36
Speaker
Hey Emoto, you got one of them transistors numbers.
00:57:40
Speaker
Number five here on Western.
00:57:43
Speaker
Oh, thank you.
00:57:46
Speaker
Yes, PayPal's still around.
00:57:47
Speaker
I can put you that way.
00:57:49
Speaker
Okay.
00:57:50
Speaker
Well, the team at Marco is amazing.
00:57:52
Speaker
Everyone is just dedicated, especially like our NPI and Procurements Department to find all these parts and source them.
00:57:59
Speaker
If they don't exist anymore, find ways to refabricate them or rebuild them.
00:58:09
Speaker
you know, just to keep these games running.
00:58:11
Speaker
So that's awesome.
00:58:12
Speaker
Okay.
00:58:13
Speaker
Sorry.
00:58:14
Speaker
Lucas was talking right there.
00:58:15
Speaker
And now I'm like, he's got to do an Adam Sandler pinball machine with that voice.
00:58:19
Speaker
Okay.
00:58:19
Speaker
But okay.
00:58:20
Speaker
But the voice he did was like, it was like macho calling from assisted living.
00:58:25
Speaker
That's what it sounded like.
00:58:27
Speaker
I thought it sounded more like him trying to be Billy Madison.
00:58:30
Speaker
Like the, Oh, I don't know.
00:58:31
Speaker
Yeah.
00:58:33
Speaker
I don't know what came out.
00:58:34
Speaker
So again, feel free to snip, snip, snip here.
00:58:37
Speaker
I feel very bad for Josh and me in this episode.
00:58:42
Speaker
And it's probably the hell that I never wanted to face by having a real podcast.
00:58:48
Speaker
Josh is just going to send it to you to edit.
00:58:50
Speaker
Yeah, exactly.
00:58:51
Speaker
Josh doesn't have to edit this one.
00:58:52
Speaker
What are you talking about?
00:58:54
Speaker
I've only got two edit marks and that's the four minute and the 14 minute.
00:58:57
Speaker
And so we're going to just slide.
00:58:59
Speaker
And then you know what's funny though?
00:59:00
Speaker
It's funny.
00:59:01
Speaker
Okay.
00:59:01
Speaker
So we just, I just did that huge interview with Larry DeMar, right.
00:59:05
Speaker
And it was two hours long and I just let him go.
00:59:09
Speaker
Like, I just like, you asked like five questions.
00:59:11
Speaker
Yeah.
00:59:12
Speaker
Yeah.
00:59:12
Speaker
I really just let him go.
00:59:13
Speaker
And it's funny because like I turn off the mic and he's like, no one wants to hear half that crap I just said.
00:59:19
Speaker
I'm like,
00:59:20
Speaker
I guarantee you are.
00:59:21
Speaker
It has to be the biggest response we've ever had to an interview.
00:59:26
Speaker
It's been insane.
00:59:26
Speaker
And people are still messaging to this.
00:59:28
Speaker
I mean, it's been not even a month.
00:59:30
Speaker
I get messages daily about that interview of just how people love it.
00:59:36
Speaker
It's funny because people love all just the little bits.
00:59:39
Speaker
And so I just leave it all in because if people don't want to hear it, they can always.
00:59:42
Speaker
Mm-hmm.
00:59:44
Speaker
Skip it 30 seconds.
00:59:45
Speaker
Lose listeners?
00:59:46
Speaker
No, but I'm going to get trended down on the pinball show, Zach and Dan.
00:59:49
Speaker
Trending down this week.
00:59:52
Speaker
Okay, so Will, I do want to know the timeline.
00:59:56
Speaker
So walk us through the timeline for the Twippies.
Twippies Voting Timeline
01:00:01
Speaker
How do we vote?
01:00:02
Speaker
When does voting start?
01:00:04
Speaker
When does voting close?
01:00:06
Speaker
How many categories are there?
01:00:08
Speaker
And when is the reward show?
01:00:10
Speaker
Good, good.
01:00:11
Speaker
Yeah.
01:00:12
Speaker
Voting starts December 18th.
01:00:14
Speaker
It'll be the full voting period.
01:00:17
Speaker
So every category, both the game categories and the non-game categories will be involved in that.
01:00:24
Speaker
And that will go through January 15th, I believe.
01:00:28
Speaker
So it'll be one full month of voting.
01:00:32
Speaker
for all of those categories and then after that i take all that stats i tabulate it the committee then goes through it we get rid of the duplicates we get you know get rid of all the bad stuff and then we will have our live show it'll be streamed live at texas tpf again on the saturday night and that's when you can enjoy and hear all the winners
01:00:58
Speaker
Nice.
01:00:58
Speaker
The other thing I haven't mentioned is we actually are adding a couple new or three new categories.
01:01:04
Speaker
We're looking at doing favorite new pinball streamer, favorite new pinball podcast and favorite new YouTube channel.
01:01:11
Speaker
So the difference in that will be, you know, yeah.
01:01:14
Speaker
If they started within that year.
01:01:16
Speaker
Yeah.
01:01:18
Speaker
Nice.
01:01:19
Speaker
Wait, four categories, right?
01:01:20
Speaker
Cause this year was the year we were going to add a favorite pinball dog.
01:01:26
Speaker
Yes.
01:01:27
Speaker
Who's the, oh man, that dog.
01:01:30
Speaker
They've come down between Franchi's dog that loves the cheeseburgers.
01:01:34
Speaker
Barlow.
01:01:35
Speaker
Barlow.
01:01:36
Speaker
I thought it was pet.
01:01:37
Speaker
Jake Dant's dog.
01:01:38
Speaker
Yeah, Jesse.
01:01:39
Speaker
Yeah, I guess he'll be inclusive with all the animals.
01:01:44
Speaker
Can we do pinball cats?
01:01:45
Speaker
Because I did lose my dog this summer.
01:01:47
Speaker
He's a very good boy.
01:01:49
Speaker
But I'm down to cats, so I wouldn't want to be excluded.
01:01:53
Speaker
What about the pinball pig?
01:01:54
Speaker
I'd consider him a dog.
01:02:01
Speaker
Yeah, he feels dog-like, but yeah, my favorite pinball podcast, or not, just let me cut that.
01:02:10
Speaker
My favorite, are we starting now to do cuts?
01:02:13
Speaker
No, let's get real.
01:02:15
Speaker
My favorite pinball content is cats on pinballs.
01:02:20
Speaker
My favorite can't top it.
01:02:23
Speaker
Okay, definitely my cats know when I actually have a great game.
01:02:27
Speaker
Because that's when they come and hop on my game and show me their butt.
01:02:31
Speaker
That's what they do.
01:02:33
Speaker
Because they want to look at the pretty lights and try to look at things.
01:02:38
Speaker
And I'm just like, what are you doing?
01:02:40
Speaker
And so I'm trying to trap up without gently moving them across.
01:02:45
Speaker
But yeah, cats have no pinball respect.
01:02:47
Speaker
I don't get it.
01:02:48
Speaker
Yeah, I have one.
01:02:49
Speaker
She'll just lay down at the top.
01:02:50
Speaker
And then she goes...
01:02:53
Speaker
It's one way to clean it.
01:03:01
Speaker
But that is awesome about the new categories.
01:03:03
Speaker
I know a couple of new guys that will be excited to hear that.
01:03:07
Speaker
And that's going to be great to hear those.
01:03:09
Speaker
So is there anything else Twippy wise that we haven't covered?
01:03:16
Speaker
Or This Week in Pinball with Kineticist that we haven't covered.
01:03:19
Speaker
I mean, that's some pretty huge news.
01:03:21
Speaker
Yeah, that's exciting.
01:03:25
Speaker
I got to tell you, I know that we've talked about this in the past, but I still didn't feel legit until the time that This Week in Pinball put, I think it was episode eight, in their news article of like, go check out Loserkid.
01:03:41
Speaker
And I can't remember if it's because we had Elwin on.
01:03:44
Speaker
Eric was our first celebrity.
01:03:46
Speaker
Eric was our first one.
01:03:47
Speaker
That was probably one that I finally, like, I guess we got to put them in.
01:03:51
Speaker
They're covering JJP.
01:03:54
Speaker
But I didn't feel legit until this week in pinballs.
01:03:57
Speaker
Like, you know what?
01:03:57
Speaker
Go check out Loser Kid.
01:03:58
Speaker
I still feel amateurish, but that's okay.
01:04:01
Speaker
And the pinball promoters database is such an amazing resource for everyone.
01:04:06
Speaker
It helps promote all of our content just by existing, you know?
01:04:10
Speaker
Yeah.
01:04:12
Speaker
That's cool.
01:04:12
Speaker
I appreciate you guys saying that.
01:04:14
Speaker
That's, you know, that's, that was definitely from the beginning.
01:04:19
Speaker
you know, Jeff's kind of focus was get out those pinball content creators because they are, you know, they're, they're not in the regular news and on the regular news websites and they're definitely promoting what we love about pinball.
01:04:35
Speaker
So it's good to hear.
01:04:38
Speaker
Well, before we shut this down, I'm going to ask one favor of all of you.
01:04:42
Speaker
I know we've heard Lucas all night do his macho, but I want to hear everyone else do their own macho.
01:04:47
Speaker
I want,
01:04:48
Speaker
I want to hear the machos because this was obviously the mystery when we all got our decoder rings out and we were trying to figure out who Macho was.
01:04:58
Speaker
So, Will, will you do the honors and give us your best macho first?
01:05:01
Speaker
Can you tell us what to say at least, though?
01:05:03
Speaker
Give us a line of dialogue.
01:05:06
Speaker
Ooh, let's do Welcome to the Twippies 2023.
01:05:10
Speaker
How about that?
01:05:12
Speaker
I am your host, Macho.
01:05:14
Speaker
There, how about that?
01:05:15
Speaker
I think we need to get Lucas to give a little sound.
01:05:19
Speaker
Lucas has to be last because he's going to make us look bad.
01:05:24
Speaker
What are we saying?
01:05:25
Speaker
So welcome to the 2023 Twippies.
01:05:28
Speaker
I am your host, Macho.
01:05:29
Speaker
I didn't even watch Macho as a kid.
01:05:32
Speaker
You can even throw a little dialogue, like the little macho-isms in there if you want, like the cream of the crop or, you know what.
01:05:39
Speaker
I've never even listened to this podcast.
01:05:40
Speaker
Who is Macho now?
01:05:45
Speaker
Oh my goodness.
01:05:46
Speaker
This is going to be awful.
01:05:48
Speaker
It's going to make for great content though.
01:05:51
Speaker
I don't know about that.
01:05:56
Speaker
I don't even remember what you told me to say.
01:05:59
Speaker
Freestyle it.
01:06:01
Speaker
Oh goodness.
01:06:04
Speaker
You got this.
01:06:05
Speaker
I believe in you.
01:06:07
Speaker
There's no way.
01:06:09
Speaker
I'm going to coach you through this.
01:06:12
Speaker
This is a one-on-one voiceless.
01:06:14
Speaker
You've got to reach down, reach into your inner core.
01:06:17
Speaker
You feel it?
01:06:18
Speaker
You feel that inner core?
01:06:19
Speaker
You've got it in your hand.
01:06:21
Speaker
I want you to feel it pulsating.
01:06:23
Speaker
Yeah, I saw that mighty arm.
01:06:26
Speaker
That's right.
01:06:27
Speaker
You straighten up your shoulders.
01:06:29
Speaker
You look them square in the eye.
01:06:31
Speaker
You get that mighty core in your hand.
01:06:34
Speaker
Let it pulse through your veins.
01:06:36
Speaker
Let it rise up through your neck.
01:06:40
Speaker
And then you gotta go.
01:06:44
Speaker
Come.
01:06:45
Speaker
You take it from there, okay?
01:06:46
Speaker
I'm not going to spoil it yet.
01:06:47
Speaker
You go.
01:06:48
Speaker
Get the core.
01:06:49
Speaker
Get the core.
01:06:50
Speaker
All right.
01:06:51
Speaker
All right.
01:06:53
Speaker
Ladies and gentlemen, this is Macho Pinball.
01:06:58
Speaker
That's right.
01:06:59
Speaker
That's right.
01:07:00
Speaker
There you go.
01:07:01
Speaker
Oh, my God.
01:07:02
Speaker
That was so bad.
01:07:04
Speaker
See, this is why we have... How did Macho turn into Kermit the Frog?
01:07:09
Speaker
Yes, it did.
01:07:12
Speaker
Wow.
01:07:13
Speaker
You make fun, Scott, but you're up next, Maddie.
01:07:15
Speaker
It's your turn.
01:07:16
Speaker
Let's hear this, Scott.
01:07:17
Speaker
You ready?
01:07:17
Speaker
It's my turn.
01:07:18
Speaker
It's your turn.
01:07:19
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
01:07:20
Speaker
This is Macho Pinball.
01:07:22
Speaker
We are not welcoming to the Twippy.
01:07:24
Speaker
We are welcoming to the jungle because we got labyrinths.
01:07:28
Speaker
We got all the games here.
01:07:30
Speaker
And, yes, you are going down that rabbit hole with David Bowie, who steals the random child for no apparent reason, and Jennifer Godley, who goes and dances with giant-sized Muppets.
01:07:44
Speaker
Who's going to win Pinball Machine of the Year?
01:07:47
Speaker
You know what?
01:07:47
Speaker
We're bringing back the Royal Rumble.
01:07:49
Speaker
This is Macho Pinball!
01:07:58
Speaker
What is up with that storyline, though?
01:08:00
Speaker
For real.
01:08:01
Speaker
Okay, the waveform just like went redlined the whole time.
01:08:04
Speaker
Look, here's the thing.
01:08:06
Speaker
We can all be macho.
01:08:13
Speaker
We're all macho.
01:08:14
Speaker
We're all macho deep down.
01:08:16
Speaker
You just got to find the juicy core and squeeze it.
01:08:19
Speaker
Okay, you ready to reach down, grab that juicy core Emoto?
01:08:25
Speaker
Yeah, okay.
01:08:26
Speaker
Okay, let's hear this.
01:08:30
Speaker
Welcome to the 2023 Plippies.
01:08:33
Speaker
This is macho pinball.
01:08:34
Speaker
We're going to all eat so many Slim Jims in Texas Pinball Festival.
01:08:39
Speaker
Let's go.
01:08:41
Speaker
Where did Lucas go?
01:08:42
Speaker
He's like, oh, there he is.
01:08:44
Speaker
Lucas is like, rage quit.
01:08:45
Speaker
Lucas is like, wow.
01:08:47
Speaker
I'm out.
01:08:48
Speaker
He's like, my throat.
01:08:49
Speaker
My throat hurts.
01:08:50
Speaker
How do you do that?
01:08:52
Speaker
No, my throat still hurts.
01:08:53
Speaker
Literally, all I heard was Slim Jim.
01:08:56
Speaker
I'm so sad.
01:08:57
Speaker
I look forward to hearing.
01:08:58
Speaker
Like, literally.
01:09:00
Speaker
That was an episode.
01:09:02
Speaker
Yeah, I cut out.
01:09:02
Speaker
I'm very sorry.
01:09:03
Speaker
All I heard was Slim Jim and I can't wait to hear it because it can be a little strenuous.
01:09:08
Speaker
You've got to pace yourself with it.
01:09:10
Speaker
That's why the episodes were only three minutes long, folks.
01:09:15
Speaker
Yes, definitely.
01:09:16
Speaker
All right, Josh.
01:09:18
Speaker
All right.
01:09:19
Speaker
I guess I got to go last.
01:09:20
Speaker
Well, not last.
01:09:21
Speaker
We're going to make Lucas go again, right?
01:09:23
Speaker
So he can all show us up.
01:09:27
Speaker
Welcome to the 2023 twippies.
01:09:28
Speaker
I don't know.
01:09:32
Speaker
It's to the tip of the top of the top of the rise and the stern's going to come in and it's going to come down on the JJP.
01:09:39
Speaker
Give him the people's elbow.
01:09:40
Speaker
That's the rock though.
01:09:41
Speaker
So I don't know my, my WWF very well.
01:09:44
Speaker
So.
01:09:45
Speaker
Thank you.
01:09:47
Speaker
I got to get more into it.
01:09:49
Speaker
I can do it with my kid.
01:09:51
Speaker
It's just a... I don't think you touched your juicy core all the way.
01:09:55
Speaker
You got to really engage.
01:09:57
Speaker
I'm the cream of the crop.
01:09:59
Speaker
We go to the top.
01:10:00
Speaker
People are going to be like, okay.
01:10:04
Speaker
No, no, no.
01:10:04
Speaker
Lucas, you do macho as Moppy.
01:10:09
Speaker
Moppy from Puppet Pals doing macho.
01:10:12
Speaker
Oh my goodness.
01:10:13
Speaker
Yes.
01:10:15
Speaker
Emoto, there's only like one person in the world that would ever ask for that, and it's you.
01:10:20
Speaker
So thank you.
01:10:21
Speaker
I really appreciate that.
01:10:22
Speaker
I'm asking for it too.
01:10:23
Speaker
I want to hear this.
01:10:26
Speaker
Do you want a sponsor?
01:10:28
Speaker
Do you want another?
01:10:30
Speaker
Let's just come into it.
01:10:31
Speaker
Let's go.
01:10:34
Speaker
No.
01:10:35
Speaker
Sorry.
01:10:35
Speaker
Wait, wait, wait.
01:10:36
Speaker
Cut.
01:10:36
Speaker
I've got to get my audio bank.
01:10:38
Speaker
We're not cutting this.
01:10:39
Speaker
Just like literally integrated this tonight.
01:10:41
Speaker
I'm like, where was this three years ago?
01:10:43
Speaker
Okay.
01:10:44
Speaker
Okay.
01:10:50
Speaker
Ladies and gentlemen, Macho Pinball!
01:10:56
Speaker
That's right.
01:10:58
Speaker
I'm back.
01:10:59
Speaker
And here we are.
01:11:00
Speaker
Here we are today.
01:11:01
Speaker
It's the trippies.
01:11:02
Speaker
It's the 2023 trippies.
01:11:05
Speaker
And I'm really excited.
01:11:06
Speaker
It's kind of hard to go back and forth between the announcer and macho.
01:11:12
Speaker
And macho is a highly new practice doing macho like that.
01:11:27
Speaker
Oh my goodness.
01:11:29
Speaker
Oh, my cheeks.
01:11:30
Speaker
It's not as high as I would want him.
01:11:33
Speaker
But my voice is I've been talking all day.
01:11:35
Speaker
So I see that.
01:11:41
Speaker
Bravo.
01:11:42
Speaker
Bravo.
01:11:45
Speaker
Oh my goodness.
01:11:46
Speaker
Okay.
01:11:46
Speaker
We're going to, we're going to, we're going to wrap this up.
01:11:50
Speaker
I do appreciate you guys coming on.
01:11:53
Speaker
Will, thanks for, for hitting us up to talk about these, these changes for Twippies and the changes for Twip.
01:11:58
Speaker
Also, Emota, it's always great.
01:12:00
Speaker
I've been meaning to get you on.
01:12:01
Speaker
I've been meaning to get loose on.
01:12:02
Speaker
This is, this is perfect.
01:12:03
Speaker
I was so excited when Will hit us up and was like, Emota's coming on and a ghost guest host.
01:12:09
Speaker
And I was like, Whoa.
01:12:10
Speaker
And then when he told me today was Lucas, I hurry and,
01:12:12
Speaker
It's like, dude, you're coming on.
01:12:14
Speaker
And he's like, yeah, I think I'll be there.
01:12:16
Speaker
Whatever.
01:12:17
Speaker
No, I did not say that.
01:12:19
Speaker
He's like, well, what's going to be in my dressing room?
01:12:22
Speaker
Because I have a very specific M&Ms, but you have to take out all the brown and yellow ones.
01:12:29
Speaker
Yes.
01:12:29
Speaker
And they got to be presented in a football helmet.
01:12:32
Speaker
Yes.
01:12:33
Speaker
Okay.
01:12:34
Speaker
I don't know if you know this, but I used to book concerts and...
01:12:37
Speaker
When you book a band, they have what's called a writer.
01:12:39
Speaker
And that writer is a list, pretty much a list of demands.
01:12:42
Speaker
And the funny part is I didn't know this until I had booked a couple of bands.
01:12:45
Speaker
But some of them forget what's on the list.
01:12:47
Speaker
But it's stuff like a 12-pack of men's crew socks.
01:12:51
Speaker
Because I joked with them.
01:12:52
Speaker
I'm like, I couldn't find you guys socks.
01:12:54
Speaker
And they're like, what?
01:12:55
Speaker
They all took off their shoes.
01:12:56
Speaker
None of them were wearing socks.
01:12:58
Speaker
And they were like, we were depending on those socks.
01:12:59
Speaker
And then they messed with me.
01:13:00
Speaker
They're like, no, we never wear socks.
01:13:01
Speaker
So it just part of, we're like, what can we get into our writer that we can make these people do that just be ridiculous.
01:13:07
Speaker
What of them was all green M&Ms in a football helmet.
01:13:09
Speaker
So, okay.
01:13:11
Speaker
Actually, there is a very, there is a very practical reason for those writers.
01:13:15
Speaker
Yes.
01:13:17
Speaker
Because if you show up and you have, if you ask for something very weird, like green M&Ms in a football helmet, and you see that, you know, they read the writer.
01:13:27
Speaker
Yes.
01:13:28
Speaker
But if you go in and you don't see whatever weird.
01:13:31
Speaker
So that's one reason why bands do put those really strange requests in there is so they can know if if the venue is ready for them.
01:13:41
Speaker
Well, not only that, but it is also so like some of these bands that don't make a ton as openers or or like the lower spot on the lineup.
01:13:49
Speaker
That's their dinner.
01:13:50
Speaker
Well, not only that, but like, because they were telling me you can actually scratch that off so you don't want to do the green M&Ms with the helmet.
01:13:55
Speaker
You can scratch that off and then offer them a cash payout essentially on that item.
01:14:02
Speaker
So you can go through the whole writer and scratch it out and say, I'll give you $300 to not make me do this list.
01:14:08
Speaker
And so, anywho.
01:14:09
Speaker
There's some making the sausage behind the scenes for when you're booking concerts and stuff like that.
01:14:14
Speaker
I love that.
01:14:14
Speaker
That's fantastic.
01:14:15
Speaker
I've never thought about that.
01:14:18
Speaker
And I just do like the inside scoop on little entertainment, things like that.
01:14:25
Speaker
I wanted to talk about just, just two things, loser kid, before we leave me, it's just one thing I can't remember.
01:14:29
Speaker
Any, Oh yes, two things.
01:14:31
Speaker
So the first thing, the Jersey Jack giveaway for the Elton John, that is not this episode.
01:14:36
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We will do it next episode just because we recorded with Jack and released it on Friday and today's Monday.
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And so we've had a massive response.
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We've already had about 30 entries.
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And, and so
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I just want to give a little bit more time to that.
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So let's give it another week or two.
01:14:52
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Second thing is I did post this on Facebook, but we really haven't talked about it on the show yet.
01:14:58
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I don't know how I wasn't taking in all the marketing numbers and it's great.
01:15:00
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We have a marketing person on with us, Lucas.
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our numbers more than doubled since I figured out that between SoundCloud and Apple and Spotify, and thanks to Neil McRae for pointing out, he's like, are you sure they're not just like the same numbers through another website?
01:15:17
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No, these numbers are entirely different.
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Like our top tens are different.
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Like I have a hard time believing that they're the same.
01:15:25
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You know what I'm
Triple Drain Host Achievement
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saying?
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Like it's just reporting double.
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And we have a new king in our guest realm that we've got around.
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And Keith Owen is passing on the crown, but he's going to have to make it into three because Triple Drain, Joel Engelberth, Travis Murry, and Tom Graff are now our kings over our guests with...
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over 7,500 listens from their episode.
01:15:51
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Okay, you know that that's Joel just listening nonstop.
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It is.
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That's amazing though.
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Yeah, it's pretty amazing.
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We're really excited.
Audience Appreciation and Celebrations
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We've had over half a million listens in the five years we've been here.
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It is absolutely insane.
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We lost Lucas.
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Lucas is phasing in and out
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Will you stop touching, what is it, the time diverter thing, the multiverse?
01:16:22
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Yeah.
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But I just want to give a big thank you to those that listen to us.
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I know there are, I mean, obviously there's some of them.
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This is constipated Lucas, apparently.
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Obviously, there's some people that listen to us.
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And I want to thank you.
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This is so hard to take this seriously here at the end.
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But I want to thank everyone for reaching out, for listening to us.
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I'm sorry.
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If you're not watching the YouTube, come join us for the last five minutes.
01:16:55
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I think we've all learned that we're grateful that Emoto is going to be in charge.
01:16:59
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Yes, yes.
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We're glad that
Humorous Banter and Patreon Ideas
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you're like Luke Duke because Bo never let him drive.
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Did you ever notice that?
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It was always Bo.
01:17:09
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So it's a moto and you guys are from the South.
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So you know what I'm talking about with the Dukes of Hazzard.
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Just some good old boys.
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Never leaning no harm.
01:17:17
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Yeah.
01:17:19
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I always joked if we did do a Patreon, our top tier level would have to be like $1,000.
01:17:24
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But if you actually paid for it, we would fly you to Salt Lake and do like a weekend with the Loser Kids and like do pinball and the museum.
01:17:33
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And we have so many art installations and we have – I mean there is so much culture that is in Utah.
01:17:38
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It's ridiculous.
01:17:39
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But yeah, it's –
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Yeah, if you want to pay us $1,000, we'll fly you to Salt Lake.
01:17:45
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If you're in the States.
01:17:46
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Yeah, exactly.
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If you're outside the States, we'll work something
Contact Information
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out.
01:17:51
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Lucas is signing up as we speak.
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He's like, and Sam.
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All right.
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I'm shutting this down.
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This has actually been wonderful.
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I'm not going to lie.
01:18:02
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This has been great.
01:18:03
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So if people want to get a hold of you, Emoto, where do they find you?
01:18:09
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Oh, you can find me on Facebook, either, you know, Marco Pinball's Facebook or Emoto Arcade.
01:18:18
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That's where I just drop my everything else pinball content or stop by my arcade in Foley, Alabama, Captain Crazy's Paradise.
01:18:29
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And Will, if they want to get a hold of you and the new shenanigans with This Week in Pinball.
01:18:35
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Sure.
01:18:35
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Yeah, you can get me at Will at thisweekinpinball.com.
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And I'll still be there and I'll still be helping out as much as I can.
01:18:44
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Awesome.
01:18:46
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And if you want to get a hold of us, we are LoserKidPinballPodcast at gmail.com.
01:18:50
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On the socials, we are at LoserkidPinball.
01:18:52
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That is X Facebook, Twitter, Twitch, Twitter.
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YouTube.
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We're all at, if you type in at loser kid pinball, you're going to find us.
01:19:02
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So
Closing Remarks and Upcoming Events
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I think that does it for us, Scott.
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I guess we'll be jamming out another two weeks.
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That's it.
01:19:08
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Yeah.
01:19:09
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And definitely go visit kineticist and go visit this week in pinball and get ready to vote for that month of voting.
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We'll try to remind everybody when it comes closer.
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Also remind those Canadians, the real Thanksgiving is happening next week.
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And we hope you have a happy Thanksgiving.
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Thank you.