Ep 66: The Biggest Lava Lamp with Tim Purcell

“I think that it's really the question when you ask anybody, why did you spend so much time, hundreds of hours literally restoring something? ...with a collection as large as I have, you get the privilege of being able to understand what you really, really like.”

“The gameplay was significantly different on those older Valleys. And if anything, more challenging, simpler, quieter for sure. You know, no ramps, so to speak. But it always I kept pushing the button to play it again, play it again, play it again.”

“I discovered it's a lonely process. I know that's probably an odd thing to say. Nobody else really cares too much about your pile of rusty parts or your beat up play field or the cabinet you've now got sanded down to bare wood.”

“The coin door, that area of the game, if you're a restorer, you know what I'm talking about. Holy cow. You have a decision to make. You're going to clean that up like you did the rest of the game or not. That decision is 12 to 15 hours worth of work.”

“I violated my number one rule, which is take your time, think about it. Right? Easy to violate. I'm impatient. Right? The first thing I want to do is act.”

“if you live a normal life, you're not even going to get it done in months. So I worked on this over the course of a couple of years...hundreds of hours for sure.”

“The start button is the actual voice receiver in the movie where you push. And he's like, sorry, I cannot come down because I'm afraid I'll fall down the stairs and hurt myself and have less days at school than I already have.”

“I wish they'd get in the pinball-making business. I mean, Matt Hardy's expedition of a goal that she did for her husband is fantastic.”

“I made the luckiest mistake, Scott, that you could make, which is it was on the flipper. and when I hit the button for the left flipper, the game was saying, hey, dummy, you did something wrong.”

“You're not going to have too many spectators in this kind of a sport...It helps to listen to podcasts. It helps to crank up the music, your favorite tunes, but be prepared to be in it for the long haul.”