Ep 14: MASKED

“A lot of people have been affected, and let's say you've got machines on location or you're running a tournament. Well, you can take those machines off site and come back in six months, 12 months' time. The problem with running a business like a bar or a pub is that you've got fixed costs that you need to cover every day, every week, every month.”

“I honestly think it is, so far in the future, that moment. That moment where it's normalised. And I'm predicting it's going to be 12 months. 12 months until it's back to the capacity of what it could have been.”

“if I didn't do it, then I'd have my machines sitting at an empty pub with an unknown open date. It's guaranteed money, too, where you kind of roll the dice at an arcade”

“I don't need that many pinball machines. And now you can build that red room of pain that you always wanted...I can just have a couple of machines and my other machines can be out...I don't need to have that many machines myself unless I want to run, I don't know, the pinball profile world tour at my house.”

“me and Marty cannot leave, cannot go more than five kilometres from our house. Really? That's part of it? Yeah, can't go more than five kilometres from our house. Can't leave the house after 8pm at all, the curfew.”

“There's a bunch of competition guys that have been on like a monthly basis of just getting in new machines. So I get to see them even just for 10 or 20 minutes at a time.”

“I've had my machines out on location, yeah, you've got to do a split. You've got to do a split with the location. And sometimes you have good months. Sometimes you have bad months. Sometimes people spear beer on your pinball machine and don't look after it.”

“I miss the community, I miss the people, I miss tournaments but the part I miss about tournaments is just hanging out with everyone and having a laugh and having some fun.”