This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

There's a new movie out called Pinball, the man who saved the game.

It's a fun and extremely meta biopic

telling the story of Roger Sharp,

who, with one perfect shot,

helped legalize pinball in New York.

If I pull it back just enough and the ball should go right down the center.

Absolutely enough.

Absolutely enough. That's right, right, pinball was banned in many states up until the 1970s. We told

that story and interviewed the real Roger about 400 episodes or so ago.

So if you haven't gone that far back in the catalog, we wanted to give you this free replay.

After that we got a new segment with Keith Ellen, a tournament champion who made the move into designing

pinball machines.

But first, let's go all the way back to episode number 135, for amusement only.

Item 4 is actions on special orders of the day that typically proceeds with your council member announcements.

What you're hearing is an Oakland California City Council meeting that took place in July of 2014.

There's a whole bunch of different issues on the agenda, everything from allegations of funds being misused.

We know that there was a lot of manipulation of funds,

okay?

And there's been a big rip-off with those funds.

To announcements of neighborhood parties.

Basketball, pickup, field games, face painting,

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