Just a quick heads up, as she'll mention in the episode, Katie needed to use her backup audio system for this.

It still sounds great. That's why we put the episode out and you're hearing it. And if you're an audio

file, if your ears or headphones or speakers are amazing, hopefully all three, then you might hear a slight difference.

But that's what's going on. It's not you. It's us. And thanks. Enjoy the episode.

Inball machines. Known for being pins. Famous for being balls. Machines. Nobody thinks much

about them. So let's have some fun. Let's find out why pinball machines are secretly

incredibly fascinating.

Hey there, folks. Welcome to a whole new podcast episode. A podcast all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is. My name is Alex Schmidt and I'm not alone because I'm joined by

my co-host Katie Golden. Katie. Yes. What is your relationship to or opinion of pinball machines?

Well, if it sounds like my voice is slightly different this time, it is because I am recording with a pinball machine and ancient technology used in podcasting.

No, I was having, I'm having some technical gifakulties. So, which, which,

which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which,

morticia. Always morticia. That's correct. That's the right way to do it. That was a trick question.

I brought up Gomez as a red herring. Never talking to Gomez. I love pinball machines.

I used to play, there was like this pinball program on early Macintosh computers that I used to play.

Gosh, what was it called? Anyways, it was really fun, one of my favorite games. I think that also like,

Windows also had like sort of a native pinball machine game that came with the computers that I would play.

And sometimes it would just say, like, tilt on the game.

And I had no idea what that means because, like, I didn't, it was a is a computer what do you mean I'm tilting it

it's flat on a computer and then I I realized that real pinball machines are physical machines

that you have an actual ball and that was incredible for me to learn that there was an analog

version of pinball. Anyhow, I've played it before.

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