It's been a year! A full year of this! Whatever this is! Thanks for being here. We may not have figured out what pinball is just yet, but, honestly, who has?

In this episode, we discuss Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, dentists, and whether or not this is the very last episode of Is This Pinball?

Is it? Is it the end? Listen and find out, fronds! 

This week we talk about the most pinball thing of all time (yes? yes.): Theatre!

Our special guest Justin Keim recently directed one of Dylan's plays for radio, and we're here to discuss theater in the era of closed stages, Millennials, the transcendent nature of brisket, and the Sisyphean task of audio production.

Find Savannah at https://lanescovenpresents.buzzsprout.com, or search any podcast platform for Lanes Coven Presents. We could not recommend it more highly.

This week, we're talking about the best movies of the decade. But we're not talking about the best movies of the past decade, but the best movies of the next decade.

We have our eyes firmly locked on our movie-prediction crystal ball and, believe it or not, saw a Na'vi multipurpose psychic cloaca staring back. What else do we see? ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT, BABY.

Willie said he had a topic for us this week, and that topic is "places." What does that mean? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN, WILLIE? WHAT DOES IT MEAN?????

Turns out, it's mostly a chance to talk about New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, places we have opinions about (unfounded, particular, *hot takes*) and also the glory of the Denver airport.

Also, we finally settle who a New Yorker is. We solved it. We solved that riddle and there is nothing wrong with our reasoning.

Our brains are broken. Dylan is wondering if anyone should have opinions about anything, Willie is out here practicing the Way of Nonchalance, and Amy tried to watch Zack Snyder's "Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole" and has lots of questions about why owls need to wear armor.

Join us, won't you?

Two things:

1. #SnyderCut #SnyderCut #SnyderCut
2. Dylan has an opinion and we are all SURPRISED by what it is

What's with out current cultural superhero zeitgeist? Is WandaVision worth it? Will Amy be able to explain what Mob Psycho 100 is ("No. I won't"- Amy)? Why is there so much dust? How pinball is it all? TUNE IN AND FIND OUT, FRONDS.

After being (let's be honest) ASTOUNDINGLY on-topic re: video games and pinball the past couple of weeks, we return to the freewheeling conversation you know (yes) and love (maybe?). 

This week, we talk about the following: the perfect pinball, how Dylan hits his vowels, Linger Longer with Langer, Being Human, "egg," Ernest Hemingway & his masculinity and way with words, the short stories of Lydia Davis and Joy Williams, On-Gaku: Our Sound, and Willie's adventures with country music.

ANYWAY, THERE'S A LOT OF STUFF. LISTEN IN, YA DOOFS.

This week, your hosts tackle that eternal series of making little animals fight each other for your amusement & edification. That's right: we're talking Pokémon!

Tune in to hear us talk about our histories with the game, unnecessarily deep Pokémon lore, getting the opportunity to punch a Pokémon, which Pokémon make good eatin', and the horrible implications of ghost type Pokémon. 

Can it be? TWO actual pinball-related episodes in a row?? I can't believe it. You can't believe it. WE can't believe it.

This week, we dive further in to what makes pinball pinball, centered around a game called "Whoa Nellie! Big Juicy Melons." 

Though, to be fair, we also discuss tort law, bean cars, Robert Downey Jr.'s weird facial hair, how we can NEVER KNOW what James Taylor looks like, Hannibal, and our very own ideas of what would make fun pinball cabinets. (Dylan and Willie make really fun suggestions! Amy is also there!)

HEYA PINBALL HEADS. As our divine contract with the pinball gods demands, we're literally talking about pinball this week!

Tune in to hear guest host Shaina Wagner grill Amy, Willie, and Dylan about pinball history, slang, and ramps. We also have a whole interlude about whether or not Humpty Dumpty is actually an egg, so tune in for that too, I suppose!