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Ep 86: The Big Reveal with Amanda Hamilton
PodcastAnalysis updated 2d ago1 hr 15 min listen
Amanda from Free Play joins us and the mystery of the puzzle pieces are finally revealed!
Highlights
- Josh's son was diagnosed with autism 18 months ago and has made significant developmental progress through Learning Solutions programming
- Eric Menier (Jersey Jack), Keith Elwin (designer), and Sam Stern have committed to attending the Pinball Expo charity stream
- The 12-hour stream will run October 20th from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Central Time during Pinball Expo vendor hall
- Multiple pinball manufacturers (Jersey Jack, American Pinball, Multimorphic, Stern) have agreed to donate product for auction
- Amanda Hamilton has been involved with Free Play Pinball Podcast for just over a year
- Amanda and her husband purchased a Pirates of the Caribbean Certified Edition from Jersey Jack that had fewer than 5 plays
- George Fisher (Don't Panic Flip) is providing production equipment and stream resources for the charity event
- Michael Bernard designed the event logo at no cost
- 20+ people are directly involved between companies and individual contributors to the charity event
- The autism puzzle piece symbol is the official logo of the autism spectrum, motivating the 'puzzle pieces' marketing approach
Notable quotes
“None of them have hesitated. They've all stepped up and said, what can we do to help?”
“100% of all monies raised goes back to this. It's nothing is coming to anybody else except for Learning Solutions”
“I thought pinball was just something you guys collected from the 50s and the 60s, a ding, ding, flip, flip.”
“We don't take any of the money. The money is coming in and we are giving it right to the organization.”
“He's like, it's just astounded them, the support that they're seeing so far.”
“My husband's very good at pinball. So I was really bored a lot waiting for him to finish.”
“I run Free Play Pinball Podcast with Bill Webb... we focus on the positivity of pinball. There's a lot of guys that do serious shows, but there's not a lot of women in pinball.”
“It's truly about the puzzle pieces and the colors. It's all the autism spectrum together.”
“Pinball is a very close-knit community and we band together.”
“I want to do this for you guys. You're helping me. You're doing life changing things for my family that I feel like I could never pay back.”
Entities
- American Pinball· company
- Flip N Out Pinball· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Multimorphic· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Pinball Expo· event
- Don't Panic Flip· organization
- Free Play Pinball Podcast· organization
- Learning Solutions· organization
- Pinball Network· organization
- Amanda Hamilton· person
- Bill Webb· person
- Dwight Sullivan· person
- Eric Menier· person
- George Fisher· person
- Jeremy Packer· person
- Jim Sullivan· person
- Josh (Loser Kid Podcast host)· person
- Keith Elwin· person
- Keith Meeks· person
- Ken Cromwell· person
- Matt Scott Larson· person
- Michael Bernard· person
- Tommy McNichols· person
- Zach Sharpe· person
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