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Dwight Silverman – “Retired” Reporter and Pinball Enthusiast- Episode 28

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Send us Fan Mail Episode 28 – Dwight Silverman – “Retired” Reporter and Pinball Enthusiast. He sits down live and is joined by Jamie and Christine Hood. They discuss Dwight’s reporting career and...

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Highlights

  • Dwight was the first person to write that Bob Dylan had become a born-again Christian, breaking the story before his album 'Slow Train Coming' release
  • A Compaq computer company executive told Dwight that his writing about the Internet probably got more people online in Houston during that era than anything else
  • The new Stern John Wick game will introduce Stern's new AI combat system that responds to player behavior and controls playfield lights
  • Dan Ferguson co-founded the Texas Pinball Festival
  • The Lone Star Pinball Museum building in Healy, Texas still stands with a phone number in the window, but the family of deceased owner Dan Ferguson does not want it reopened or accessed by collectors
  • Tim and Christine Hood appear to have the largest pinball collection among collectors in Texas based on Dwight's data analysis
  • There is a robust, self-sustaining pinball community in Houston that most residents are unaware of
  • Keith Pritchard, operator/collector, is about to open another arcade in the Houston area

Notable quotes

“Don't tell me where we've been. Show me where we're going.”
Dwight Silverman
“What needs to happen is that AI needs to be in the background... if anybody can do it so that you don't know it's AI, it's happening, but it's just kind of like magic, then that's great.”
Dwight Silverman
“I'm a journalist. I'm suspicious. It's like somewhere I'm going to open a door and there are the bodies in the basement. People are too nice.”
Dwight Silverman
“I'll just ask. And so I went to the Chronicle didn't want to do something else on it and I didn't want to do the same story.”
Dwight Silverman
“Every time I talked to somebody new, it opened up another rabbit hole.”
Dwight Silverman
“The building had to be the focus... the building was its own character.”
Dwight Silverman

Entities

  • Beaumont Enterprise· company
  • Houston Chronicle· company
  • San Antonio Current· company
  • San Antonio Light· company
  • Stern Pinball· company
  • Texas Monthly· company
  • Texas Pinball Festival· event
  • John Wick· game
  • University of Texas at Austin· organization
  • Christine Hood· person
  • Dan Ferguson· person
  • Dwight Silverman· person
  • Keith Pritchard· person
  • Phil Grimaldi· person
  • Tim Hood· person
  • Lone Star Pinball Museum· venue
  • Wormhole Pinball· venue

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