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Episode 311: Fliptronic’s Rebecca & Jordan

PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago36 min listen
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Live from Austin, Texas, it's Fliptronic! Rebecca Salam and Jordan Burgar discuss their love of pinball, streaming, other games & hobbies, cats and more. Plus here about how they were in the right...

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Highlights

  • Rebecca and Jordan have been streaming on Twitch for just over a year
  • Rebecca acquired her holy grail machine Bad Cats through community connections after driving 3,000 total miles across two trips from Denver to Austin
  • Rebecca beat Colin McAlpine's Grand Champion score on Game of Thrones after five months of play
  • Jordan's first pinball machine was Spring Break, purchased for $500, which he restored and sold at Texas Pinball Festival 2019
  • The Retro Atomic Zombie Adventureland reveal stream at What's Brewing drove hundreds of viewers despite Fliptronic being relatively unknown at the time
  • Rebecca created a spreadsheet documenting female and gender non-conforming pinball content creators across Twitch, Instagram, OnlyFans, YouTube, and blogs
  • Rebecca owns embroidery machines and makes custom patches; Jeff is purchasing the same Brother embroidery model (~$600) after watching her streams
  • Austin started its own Bells and Chimes League approximately 3-4 months before the pandemic hit

Notable quotes

“Twitch is a great platform for sharing all the stuff that we do with a bunch of people on the Internet... we don't have to be sticking to our schedule 100% all the time, and people understand that.”
Rebecca Salem
“The whole concept of community... someone, Paul, who hangs out with Don't Panic Flip, messaged me on Discord... 'hey, there's a Bad Cats for sale in Colorado.' And I call Jordan... Please, please, please, will you make this happen?”
Rebecca Salem
“It's the only code that we've ever played because we're newbies, but it's a really great set of code to learn how to learn rules. Game of Thrones was like the first pinball machine that taught me how to learn rules on a pinball machine.”
Rebecca Salem
“I think it's not particularly the person that makes the reveal stream. It's just, I think, just the community in general... People like new toys. They like to see the reveals, no question about it.”
Jordan Berger
“I think everybody should be able to have the opportunity to see people like them and people who share our lifestyles in our hobby.”
Rebecca Salem
“I only have one claim to fame... I beat Steve Bowden in a flip frenzy tournament on Genie because he tilted.”
Rebecca Salem

Entities

  • Space City Pinball· event
  • Texas Pinball Festival· event
  • Bad Cats· game
  • Game of Thrones· game
  • Retro Atomic Zombie Adventureland· game
  • Spring Break· game
  • Bells and Chimes League· organization
  • Buffalo Billiards· organization
  • Cidercade· organization
  • Deep Root· organization
  • Fliptronic· organization
  • Path of Play· organization
  • What's Brewing· organization
  • Emily (Unruly Quilter)· person
  • Jeff Teolis· person
  • Jordan Berger· person
  • Manu Smith· person
  • Norma Jennings· person
  • Rebecca Salem· person

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