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#15 Boston Chronicle TV visits Dr. Dave, the pinball doctor - The Classic Pinball Podcast

PodcastAnalysis updated 2d ago43 min listenBy George
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In this episode Dave is visited by the tv show Boston Chronicle. Dave is interviewed on a variety of areas including his restoration business, collection and podcast. George and Dave interview the...

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Highlights

  • There are four under-20-year-olds in the top 20 IFPA rankings, including one 12-year-old player
  • Eric Stone, a friend of Dave's, is ranked number 14 in the world in pinball competition
  • The Classic Pinball Podcast has listeners in eight different countries: Spain, Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand, Panama, the Canary Islands, and more
  • Dave has been collecting pinball machines for about 20 years
  • A good pinball podcast typically draws 2,000-3,000 listeners, which is a very small segment of the podcasting universe
  • The Classic Pinball Podcast is approximately five months old with about 15 episodes and records irregularly without scripts
  • Game On is a recurring TV segment on Boston Chronicle that has featured e-sports, professional women's hockey, and now pinball (Level 3)
  • Dave met George through Rick Games Pinball classifieds about 20 years ago looking for local collector support

Notable quotes

“When you play against really good players, you should always try to play with people better than you are. Then you pick up things. We call it the pinball toolbox.”
Dave
“It's really fun to see some people get excited because they really don't live in the world that we live in. We see it all the time, but to somebody who's unfamiliar with the pinball hobby, especially the collector hobby, I think they were dumbfounded.”
Dave
“When I was playing pinball I'd go in this old bar or whatever, the dilapidated game, the flippers didn't work, nothing worked on it, that kind of thing, it was just trash. Then I come in here and look at your stuff and how old it is and how pristine it all is.”
Raman Cromwell
“We're brand new to this. We like it that way. We're breaking the mold, so to speak. There are no notes. We shoot from the hip, and we shoot often.”
George
“The repetitiveness is uncanny. That's why Dave doesn't listen: he gets the abbreviated version from me.”
George
“I thought I'd get a little kind of stage fright on it, but I said, I'm just going to be me. I know this stuff in the back. If I just relax, it'll just flow out.”
Dave
“You're thinking back 30 years ago where the bar was stashed or the pinball was stashed in the back of the bar, never to see the light of day, kind of the seediness of it, where you look at how it's now a feature and out in the open.”
George
“It's refreshing to see somebody get really excited because they were looking back at their youth, and I think Rahman said that he was familiar with Fun and Games.”
Dave

Entities

  • Arcade Expo Houston· event
  • Pintastic· event
  • Centaur· game
  • Mystical Man· game
  • Star Wars· game
  • Boston Chronicle· organization
  • IFPA· organization
  • The Classic Pinball Podcast· organization
  • Dr. Dave (Dave O'Neill)· person
  • Eric Stone· person
  • George· person
  • Gino· person
  • Jeff· person
  • Jeremy· person
  • Maureen· person
  • Raman Cromwell· person
  • Game On· product
  • Rick Games Pinball· product
  • Fun and Games· venue

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