Radiculous History is a production of I Heart Radio.

Welcome back to the show Radiculous Historians.

Thank you as always so much for tuning in. This is a fun one. This is a neat one. My name is Ben.

My name is Noel Ben. You know we only trade in fun. We don't do it. Well, that's not sure.

There have been the odd Nazi-related ones or horror stories.

For sterilization. Yeah. Yeah.

Somehow they're still managed. I mean, they are ridiculous. Maybe they go against the spirit of

the show. But today's episode is squarely within the spirit of the show because it's a really

innocuous thing that we all know. Some of us may be better at it than others. But I don't think

anyone has ever thought of a pinball machine as being like a tool of the devil.

Not in our modern day. No, that's true. Most of us these days, as soon as he

pinballed with kind of like a retro vibe. You know what I mean? The days of our Cades.

I've always been fascinated by them. I love them growing up a very eccentric neighbor,

family friend, collected pinball machines for some reason. Yeah, it's a cool,

flexi collector item there. Yeah. He had a barn like a pinball barn. He had a pinball barn.

Yeah, he had a pinball barn. And he had you know fixed it so that you didn't have to use quarters.

So to me, this guy was kind of a demigod. It did not take much to impress me.

Wait, did you get regular entry into the pinball barn then? Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah.

Regular like a child's dream come true. Do you know what a cool neighbor?

He was a cool guy. He was cool, very, very strange dude. But I guess that's a prerequisite

for getting a pinball barn in the first place. Secret murderer perhaps? Are their bodies buried

beneath the pinball barn? You know, I don't know, but I thought the guy was so cool that if I

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