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The Dog Walk

Wednesday 7/27/22 - Pinball King Gary Stern

The Dog Walk

Barstool Sports

Society & Culture

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Gary Stern from Stern Pinball joins the show to talk about his career in the pinball industry. We get into how Chicago is the pinball capital of the world, the intricacies to building a full machine, the biggest celebrities he's worked with, and more.


You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/thedogwalk

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey dog walk listeners, you can find every episode on Apple podcasts, Spotify or YouTube.

0:06.4

Prime members can listen to Ed free on Amazon music.

0:09.4

All right, Biming.

0:10.4

Today is Wednesday, July 27th.

0:12.2

Welcome to the dog walk presented by Barstool Sports.

0:15.8

We are on the road today.

0:16.8

We're doing another job interview and it just so happens I'm sitting across from Gary

0:21.5

Stern, who is the owner of Stern Pinball and Elk Grove Village, Illinois.

0:27.2

Gary, I was told not to call you Mr. Stern.

0:30.7

That's right.

0:31.7

Gary's fine.

0:32.7

Okay, but you see why you don't call me Mr. Stern.

0:38.7

Okay.

0:39.7

There's two reasons.

0:40.7

One is Mr. Stern was Sam Stern, my father, who never got to see this company, Bo Teke was

0:46.7

Williams.

0:47.7

He started as a game operator, then a game distributor ultimately owned Williams.

0:52.3

I could tell you that story in a minute.

0:55.0

When I was a kid, we had a schnauzer and the dog's name was Mr. So Mr. Stern's the dog.

1:02.4

Okay.

1:03.4

So Gary, be just fine.

1:04.8

Thank you.

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