Magnitudes of Touch
in which a panel (BCF) talks location pinball in NYC (and nearby surrounding areas). This week...Ball 1: Local competition results including Pinball NYC's semifinalsBall 2: BCF's bullet journalBall...
Highlights
- Benjamin Furiga is playing in the lower finals of Pinball NYC at Scrappleland on Monday night
- Jonah Schlaes won Red Hook May Match Play on May 8th, earning 13.53 Whoppers
- Matt Grady won Stern Army's May RWI at Rulo's on Sunday, earning 6.22 Whoppers
- NYC PinPod ran 138 regular episodes from 2017 until location pinball shut down during the pandemic
- Benjamin Furiga started playing pinball in the 1990s in central Pennsylvania
- It took Benjamin Furiga roughly two years from discovering a pinball machine at Bar 706 to joining a competitive league
- Eric will not be a weekly contributor to NYC PinPod in the fall; Benjamin intends to step back to work on other projects
- Buttermilk Bar recently changed pinball collections from Max's games to Kate's games
Notable quotes
“There's a difference between the way that Benjamin slides Max's old games around at Buttermilk and the way that Benjamin lightly taps on Peter's machines at Scrappleland. It's a very big difference between those two magnitudes of touch.”
“I wanted to do it on Thursday night... I had a frustrating start and did not feel like I was playing good pinball and didn't feel like I was going to have fun playing pinball if I didn't start playing better pinball. But I turned it around, not necessarily the pinball bit, but I turned around the mental bit, the mental health bit of it.”
“I started it in 2017 and it was literally just my voice on most of the episodes doing first competition results in ball one. Second, I always did a venue review of some venue in the city. And then ball three as it is now was freeform editorial.”
“I tried to put out an episode every single week for those three years. And if you do the math, you can realize I came pretty close.”
“I went looking for podcasts about pinball... I found all kinds of pinball podcasts, but most of them talked about being a hobbyist, being someone who owned your pinball machines and fixed your pinball machines. And none of it talked about the things that I was missing, the individual competition elements.”
“I truly hope that there are more chapters of NYC Pinpod's history that someone else can tell you about later.”
Entities
- Balls of Steel· organization
- Bar 706· organization
- Barcade Brooklyn· organization
- Buttermilk Bar· organization
- Lion Persons· organization
- Pinball NYC· organization
- Red Hook Pinball Museum· organization
- Rulo's· organization
- Scrapple Land· organization
- Scrapple League· organization
- South Slope Pinball League (SSPL)· organization
- We Colliders· organization
- Ben H.· person
- Benjamin Furiga· person
- Chad· person
- Eric Swedeland· person
- Gabe C.· person
- Greg Pavarelli· person
- Howard Levine· person
- Jess Warren· person
- Jonah Schlaes· person
- Matt Grady· person
- Peter Larson· person
- Robert· person
- Sean Grant· person
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