The Spinner Is Lit - Episode 57 Summer 2023

“I'm going to be a grandpa. My daughter and son-in-law are expecting their first child, and our family couldn't be happier.”

“It's the prelude to pinball. I was just going to say that. Push the thing along, balls pop, we're happening, man. And then eventually they go, oh, I got to get something bigger with flippers.”

“They're open pretty much nonstop, but I've never seen a place open at 8 a.m. Usually a bar opens, you know, 4, 5 p.m., and then it's late until closing. This thing is open at 8 a.m.”

“I had a chance to go over and check out his collection and play that before I went to Pinpoint. So that was cool. He had Godzilla with the topper. So I had a chance to go right into the wizard mode and play King of Monsters which I have to say is an awesome wizard mode.”

“Rick Demel, the master of pinball. Just hangs up a casual five-billion-point game on his way out the door. That is insane. I love Rick, and I love pinball people.”

“And the next thing, I had whitewater scattered all over the garage. It was just, it was just a disaster area... I tore it down and I don't take pictures... When I shop games, generally, I can figure out where things go.”

“I had to replace a coil that the manual called for. The manual calls for a 629 on the upper play field, and it's actually supposed to be a 630. Well, I soldered it back in what I thought was forward, but you have to rotate the coil to get it back into the game, and it turned out that I had swapped two of the lugs, and so I blew up a board.”

“Eric Neff, friend of the show, Eric Neff, Cheddar, I posted about it on our local league board. And he goes, hey, bring it by. I'll fix it for you.”

“My wife came out, played one ball and broke it... She it turned out that what had happened was there was a little gate inside of the trough to keep the balls from rattling back. And that gate gave up the ghost on her first ball.”

“So I started off, you know, everything got cleaned up really, really, really hard... And on the inside of a week or just over a week, just the outside of a week, I had the machine reassembled.”