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Rachel and Cale of The Electric Bat Cast Podcast - Episode 25
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Send us Fan Mail Episode 25 – Rachel and Cale of The Electric Bat Cast Podcast. They sat down virtually with Jamie and Donovan and for our 25th podcast! They discuss multiple subjects from the...
Highlights
- Electric Bat Arcade has 62 pinball machines and operates the largest single-location pinball league in the world with 100-120 players per Tuesday night
- Rachel and Cale met while working at Marco Specialties and started Electric Bat about 5.5 years ago
- Electric Bat's Tuesday league runs 5 rounds of group match play from 6:30 PM to 9 PM with a 6-week series leading to top-24 finals
- Arizona has grown to support pinball leagues every night of the week with multiple competing leagues on the same nights
- Electric Bat Flagstaff location has about a dozen pinball machines and operates as location pinball in a bar
- Rachel designed the iconic Electric Bat logo in one evening without extensive planning
- Ray Davis visited during a league night after asking how many people would show up
- Cale co-founded ZapCon pinball and arcade show in Arizona, which helped grow the local scene
- Phoenix experiences extreme summer heat (110+ degrees) making outdoor activity dangerous, with March and October as peak tourism/event months
- Electric Bat Cast Podcast started when Cale convinced Rachel to do one episode on his birthday after Jason took a break from Pinball Party podcast
Notable quotes
“I believe we are the largest single-location pinball league in the entire world.”
“If you want to open an arcade, you have to be an enthusiast. I think we've all seen those arcades where it's just some rich guy who bought a bunch of LEs and they play like shit because he's not an enthusiast.”
“I think there was just a lot of things coming together at once. I think we certainly played a part in it. One thing that I know that I did kind of by accident is after I started Electric Bat, there was a lot of guys around town that just, you know, word got back to us that they're like, well, if Rachel can do it, then we can do it.”
“Living out of a van... is super fun when you're 18 years old. Wouldn't want to do it now.”
“When the sun is not out 110 out here is totally fine and pleasant but 83 degrees in intense sun out here like you are starting to get like it hurts it physically hurts”
“There's paintings that I spent like a thousand hours on...but you know again this this logo that i kind of like just drew without even thinking about it there's like dozens of people that have it tattooed on them”
“I love social media. I love interacting with people. I love, I want to make people laugh. I want to entertain people.”
“So many people reached out and said they were really sick and tired of pinball news, pinball opinions, and pinball rumors. and we were giving them the real nuts and bolts.”
“I walked out, and I opened the door. This is the middle of the day. There's only like two or three people playing in the arcade. And I look in there, and I'm like, I close the door. I walk back in. I was like, Rachel, Ray Day is in there playing Rick and Morty.”
“The first one we received just didn't work. It was, it was just, it was terrible.”
Entities
- Electric Bat Arcade· company
- Marco Specialties· company
- Wormhole Arcade· company
- Houston Arcade Expo· event
- ZapCon· event
- Colorado River· location
- Electric Bat Cast Podcast· media
- Pinball Party podcast· media
- Arizona Pinball Players League· organization
- Cale· person
- Chewy· person
- Donovan Wade· person
- Emoto· person
- Jamie Birchall· person
- John Schoppel· person
- Mark· person
- Nancy and Mark Mandeltort· person
- Paul Mandeltort· person
- Rachel· person
- Ray Davis· person
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