The Spinner Is Lit - Episode 53 The Fallout Shelter

“It's important to me because my history with pinball tournaments is I played in a tournament at California Extreme, was the first pinball tournament I ever played in. And I don't know, I literally knew nobody. But I also didn't really know what I was doing. And I didn't feel like anybody wanted to tell me. I was like, okay, I really felt like I was out on an island.”

“I think it's important for people to hear the rules, understand the rules, and know that, like in life, there are no dumb questions. If you don't know what you're doing, I want you to raise your hand and get a clear answer.”

“Where I think a lot of people go wrong is they put that points as the first priority. And I think if points are your first priority, you're probably not going to succeed long term.”

“You guys deserve kudos, Jim, you really do. Your group, Press Start, not only, like Dan said, the variety of pins you have, but the fact that every pin there at the time was clean, working, well lit.”

“That game never works right on location. And so kudos to you, you know, and your team for all you do, because there's nothing worse than when you talk to somebody and they go on location, they play a pinball game and, you know, nothing's working.”

“People are coming back and that is kind of a good problem to have, but it's like we always are hitting 40 because the people are not turned away and they have the opportunity to continue and get better.”

“Jim went down to cheer us on. He didn't even play in the tournament, because he is sacrificing his time and his leadership”

“I'm kind of, I feel like I'm kind of the father of this Northern Nevada pinball tournament stuff, so I wanted to go down there and support my guys and I wanted to see how it was run.”

“It's really exciting because, you know, again, you look at a guy like, like Jeff Klebaugh, he came in and just, you know, became the star of the show because, you know, everybody wanted to see somebody go, you know, run the Royal Rumble from 1st to 30th, right?”

“Every time you turn around, he's picked up some other cool, weird game. But yeah, it was a really fun, you know, a really fun format.”