Nudgecast: The Official Podcast of Nudge Magazine

BIG BIG BIG Episode today! Whether you are heading to Chicago for Expo in a couple weeks or not, it's a must listen.

First we have Mr. Rob Berk, who founded Chicago Pinball Expo in 1985, and is now celebrating its 42nd year. Oh, he also owns 1200 pinball machines (The Guinness World Record). Rob breaks down the history of Expo, what's happening this year, and of course tells some amazing stories.

Then we have the "nicest guy in pinball" Aaron Davis, CEO of Fast Pinball, who's products are a huge part of the Home Brew side of pinball, which is one of the coolest and most interesting parts of Expo. Aaron breaks down what we can expect of the more than 50 (!!!!) home brew games expected at this years Expo.

Need tickets for the show?? head to http://pinballexpo.com and we will see you there!

Nudge has a booth with free Nudgecast stickers, and ALL FIVE issues of the magazine available. Come say hi!

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Comedian Matt O'Brien joins the show! You've probably seen him pop up in your algorithm on Instagram.... we did too, so we invited him on to talk about his new found love of pinball. His "silly" videos were so compelling, Stern even sent a machine to his house!

In addition, we talk about the latest and greatest in pinball, except NOT Fallout because at the time of taping, we hadn't seen it yet! That will be on the next episode, and yeah, it looks pretty dang cool.

More than meets the ... guy? lies? static Optimus Primes?

In this episode of NudgeCast, Ian and Shane discuss the game which Shane recently played at the Stern Pinball media day last week. Is it any good? Should you buy it? Listen and find out.

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LIVE FROM LAS VEGAS we got a good episode for you! Actor and COMEDIAN Rich Sommer joins the show to talk about his love for pinball, VHS tapes and board games, and why it's okay to call a pinball machine a "table".... or is it??

Also - Ian and Shane recount their epic story of being ejected from the Pinball Hall of Fame

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As we all know, some people in pinball have BIG personalities. But NO ONE is this larger than life, even in death, than Python Anghelo. Pinball Degenerate himself Joe Ciaravino (also Canadian!) joins the show to discuss the great article he wrote for Nudge issue 6 (GO BUY IT!).

Also, Shane discusses all the new games, and his overall thoughts on this years Texas Pinball Festival. Beetlejuice? Winchester? Yukon Yeti? Houdini 100!!?? Yes, we discuss them all.

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