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This is Pessimists Archive. I'm Jason Pfeiffer. So here's a quick thought experiment. Try to remember the last time you saw a pinball machine

in a movie or TV show. Because pinballs are giant expensive props. They don't just

randomly show up on your movie set. You're putting it there for a reason. That's Seth Porges,

who we're going to hear a lot from this episode. He's a journalist and, well, I tried to call him a pinball

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