Quoted from Russell:I will try it.
Actually, I think what I’m really asking for is exactly what C2C used to do. I’m shocked that nobody has tried to fill the void that Nate left behind.
Yes, Nate got a little too close to Stern there for a while, then got a little too tournament-focused, then got busy selling guitars or something. But, for a couple of years, his podcast was close to perfect.
KPP is excellent, but really only focused on new games, manufacturer drama, etc. IMHO, his is easily the best out there right now, but he’s only interested in a very narrow slice of the hobby.
Someone should step up and create the next C2C...just clone it! Nate has shown you the way!
One of the beauties of early C2C was that it was the perspective of a player/collector. An infatuation with discovering games and enjoying pinball for pinball. Spoke about the excitement of installing mods and buying new lights... wasn’t afraid to share a learning process about the history of pinball... and seemed interested in the magic of pinball.
There was a certain innocence.
In a lot of ways it echoed the beauty of the silverball podcast.
That changed some as tournament play became more of a topic, along with growing influence of more new games - which is all fine and good. But that ending really gave birth to podcasters really attacking the news/reporting side of things, not to mention mind numbing discussions about specific details having to do with tournament play.
I sure wish a pure collectors podcast would emerge. That’s the void that’s missing, IMO.
And Pinside should totally allow Chris’s show to be discussed. It has moments of being stellar. Kind of ironic that the guy gets lashed for crapping on people, yet there are Pinsiders that turn around and do the exact same thing to the same level of maturity and there’s zero repricussion.
