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This week I am so excited to be bringing to you.

It is rare that I get to go in my car and go to a place and play a game and interview a person who made that game.

Usually it's on some sort of video call or I gotta get in an airplane.

Instead, do you want to go near O'Hare Airport

and go play the new John Wick pinball game

from Stern pinball and talk to some of the people who made it?

I said, yes, that sounds fantastic.

Also, most of my relationship or understanding of modern pinball is going to

barcades in which I'm often seeing machines that I can't tell if they're new or

if they're old. When I think about pinball, I think about people playing it on an

iPad or another device playing like digital versions of these physical objects. But pinball, it's not as it was, but to say that pinball physical machines built by people, to say that it's dead is just like apparently it's

good it's absolutely not true. It is alive and well at places like Stern

Pinball and so I was able to go to the Stern Pinball offices which are not far from me out in the suburbs of Chicago

I was able to walk through a factory see people hand crafting these really elaborate, beautiful, expensive machines,

and talk to various people who have been involved in the creation.

So I went there really to see the new John Wick video game, or sorry,

pinball game.

Well, we get into, in the conversation you're about to hear,

there's a lot of conversation about how video game design is overlapping with Timball design so I will excuse myself from from tripping up there but I went there to play their new John Wick game which seems cool. I don't play a ton of pinball game so it's hard for me to speak beyond it seemed great in the same way that I enjoy playing pinball and the occasional times that I find myself able to play pinball.

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