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Hey, good morning, Patricia Murphy here. It's Saturday. This is Seattle now. Today we're bringing you the best from another KUOW podcast. Meet Me Here. Meet Me Here's Dyer Oxley is a pinball fan, but don't call him a pinhead. A pinball

renaissance is happening across the northwest, thanks to a fervent community that frequently gathers, holds tournaments, and keeps these machines flipping.

Seattle ranks second in the nation for a number of pinball machines and the number of establishments

that offer pinball. Today, Dyer's going to show his co-hosts, Jeannie Yandel and Katie Campbell,

the art of pinballing, and then we'll hear from a couple of PNW pinball pros.

Here's Pinball Wizard Dyer.

I convinced my co-host, Jeannie Yandel and Katie Campbell, to join me over at the Icebox Arcade,

which is in that Freelard area in Seattle.

If you know what I mean, it's kind of that Fremont, but it's also kind of Ballard area.

Yes, I'm understanding.

She's learning.

We played a couple games, and then I explained to them why pinball

has become increasingly popular in the Seattle area over about the last 10 years or so.

When I told you about pinball in a meeting, you had given me this kind of like perplexed look.

And it's not unique because it's the look I get from everybody when I say that pinball is a thing.

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