Foosball Radio | On the Road | Dan Tyminski

[00:00:01] The following is a presentation of Foosball Radio. Foosball Radio, On the Road. Yep, we are here. It's the Hall of Fame Classic 2025. The World Foosball Tour is at it again. These guys are wailing on it here at the Westgate in Las Vegas. It's an astounding weekend. We're having just so much fun so far.

[00:00:30] And you never know who you're going to run into at a foosball tournament. You just never know. In fact, here's a gentleman that I've actually played foosball with once before in Expert Doubles at TKO a couple of years ago. And at the time, I thought I recognized his voice when I first met him. I'm sorry.

[00:00:59] Hmm, this guy sounds really familiar. Anyway, with a little bit of investigation, I find out he's the man, the myth, the legend, Dan Tyminski. Hello, Dan. Ah, that's quite an intro. Thank you so much, Tom. So, Dan, it's astounding that there are people you never expect to play foosball. How long have you been playing foosball?

[00:01:24] So, listen, foosball for me has been a lifelong love. I started playing as soon as I could see over the edge of the table. Okay. And I played my whole life growing up until, so I played from basically from 19, we're going to say about 1973 or 4. 73? That's when I started. And what do you, what do you, what do you start when you were 8? I started when I was 5 or 6. I was little when I started. Wow. No kidding. And I played until 1989. Okay.

[00:01:52] In 1989, I moved away from my, you know, foosball circuit in the Northeast and I moved to the South. And this was before, of course, before internet and a way to track foosball. Uh-huh. And as my life changed, it kind of fell away and I spent 32, 33, almost 33 years without touching the table. Wow. And discovered it again a couple years ago and the candle is relit, you know. I'm on fire with it. I love it.

[00:02:20] I got to say, you have a mean pull shot. It's a mean pull shot. You know, in the 80s, it wasn't bad. It's slowed down a little bit, you know, anymore. I don't have those young hands and eyes like I used to, but I still love the game and I still try to go at it pretty quick. Yeah, yeah. No, it was amazing to play with you, but also because I'm a huge fan of your music.

[00:02:44] And, of course, that all happened in between you, the time you played foosball back in the day and something happened. You became a star? Well, I wouldn't, I don't know about star. You know, I was very fortunate early on. I joined forces with Allison Krauss and Union Station and I spent about 30 years with Allison and Union Station and got to travel the world and do more with that band than I ever thought I would do in my career. So, it's, you know, I had such a full musical life.

[00:03:13] It, you know, it nipped away at the foosball. It kind of took that out of my life for a little bit. Okay. But, it turns out, you know, if you're diligent and you care about the game, you can find ways to do both. So, you know, I'm here. I have to say, since we met, I've been going back into some of the archives of Allison Krauss and Union Station and listening to your guitar playing. You are astounding. Oh, well, you're kind.

[00:03:36] I've had, you know, it's, I have the OCD and once guitar became my main obsession, you know, that's all my time went into that, you know. Now, of course, like foosball, to be really good at it, you've got to start young. How old were you when you first picked up a guitar? Same age. I was, I started playing when I was probably five or six years old. No kidding. Yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, to me, because I'm, I hate to say this, but I'm just now learning guitar at the age of 66.

[00:04:09] It's tough. Yeah, well, it can be tough. Well, foosball is tough. Guitar is tough. But foosball, listen, as my life was, when I was young, I literally wanted to be a pro foosball player. Like, it was my, it was my passion. Oh, yeah, it was in my mind that, of course, now when I was young, I knew I was a musician. Yep. But I didn't necessarily know that I was going to make my living playing music. Okay. When I was, you know, there was a point where I thought I wanted to play baseball a little bit. Oh, yeah. I hurt my shoulder when I was a young teenager. It kind of took baseball out. Well, but foosball was always there.

[00:04:39] And I remember when I started going to the first tournaments and competing, I, in my naive mind, I really thought, I can do this for a living. Absolutely. Yeah. I can do this. And then, you know, of course, you know, foosball, foosball is tough. And instead, I went to bluegrass music, maybe even tougher. How many people in the music industry that you know of actually play foosball? I have rarely come across anyone in my field of work that plays foosball.

[00:05:05] It's been maybe one or two people out of my, you know, I've been doing this for now 45, almost 50 years. And I rarely run across foosball players. It's so fun when I do. I've played shows where I have seen foosball players in the crowd, and that is the only time I can say I've ever truly been nervous on stage. No kidding. I played a few months ago, and I looked out on the stage, and Brandon Moreland was in the crowd. And when I saw Brandon, I immediately started shaking. It was crazy.

[00:05:32] You know, I've played for kings and presidents and you name it. He has that effect on people. But the foosball players, man, those are the people I admire. I mean, foosball still has such a special place in my heart. I love everything about it. In the Hall of Fame Classic, of course, being what it is, we're inducting Tony Sprademan and Billy Pampas. A couple of my heroes. Right? Those guys have done so much in their field. And Tony Sprademan actually makes a living at it.

[00:05:59] Yeah, he's in that very, very small group of people who just play foosball. And he is really one of the reasons I came back. You know, I discovered foosball again on YouTube. Gotcha. And I started watching Tony play. And it just, what an inspiring player. And then, of course, I've been a fan of Billy's and I saw Billy. This is, I'll tell you where it started for me. It dawns on me as we're talking. Okay. I was in a cigar shop watching a poker tournament on the television. I know where you're going.

[00:06:29] Right? And the announcer of the tournament says, and we have foosball player Billy Pappas. And when he said that, my eyes got like saucers big. I looked at the TV. I said, you've got to be kidding. And I stood up. And I watched the rest of the tournament. And, of course, Billy plays. I think he took fifth. Yes. He went super deep in the World Series of Poker. And it got me thinking. This is what got me thinking about foosball. Okay. Because now I'm a big poker player as well. I played poker for decades, three or four nights a week. Like it was a long. And exactly when do you sleep?

[00:06:58] I don't sleep. That's the trick. If you get rid of sleep, you can do a lot more with your life. Yeah. Yeah. No, I played a lot of cards. So that was just Billy. Immediately, I was like fascinated. And then I started looking on YouTube. And, of course, that's when I really discovered Tony. Yeah. And a host of the other players from Munoz. I mean, you can name. Everyone knows the long list of amazing, amazing foosball players. But it got me back into it. I started watching YouTube and said, I've got to go. Yeah. Yeah. Wow.

[00:07:28] That's a great story. And you know what? We need more of that. We need more inspiration, more moments where people go, I've got to do what that guy does. When you get to see it and you get this. Well, like anything, when you see the very top level of any sport. Yeah. It's amazing to realize what a human being can do on a foosball table, especially. It's such a difficult game. If anyone has played, that's why it's not any more popular, I think.

[00:07:53] It's just such a difficult game to play and to find equal competition. Yeah. You know, it's really the most fun when you have someone who's kind of around your skill level and you can really grind out back and forth, right? Right. So when you've got time, do you actually play in your local DYP, that kind of thing? Whenever I can. There is some foosball in Nashville. We play every Sunday at the Moxie. Mike Kelly runs a tournament over there and he's doing a great job and we get to throw down on Sundays anytime I can.

[00:08:23] Now, the bad side is I'm a musician. Sundays are typically, I'm out of town. I rarely get to make them. But I go to everyone that I'm home for. If I'm home on Sunday, I'm at the Moxie playing foosball. That's awesome. You know, I know that the Nationals are going to happen in Nashville this year. Yeah. You know, I think they did this to punish me. This is the one year they're going to bring it to Nashville right in my back door. And I'm going to be, I think, I'm in like Telluride or somewhere in Colorado. I'm somewhere out. Yeah. It's a bummer.

[00:08:51] You have like a superior schedule in music to foosball? I have to put a priority on what pays the bills. All right. When foosball starts paying the bills, you know, then we'll put the tournaments first. So, okay. I got to ask you this question. And again, this is just one of those, I'm a music nut. I spent 30 years as an air personality broadcasting. And so I listened to a lot of stuff. I used to host a show called Acoustic Sunrise way back when. Oh, great.

[00:09:20] And loved bluegrass. From the time I was very young, I think the first thing that inspired me about bluegrass was probably Vassar Clemmings. Oh, I loved Vassar. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. A legend. A true legend. Bolden in the way. A true legend. Yeah. And got a chance to meet David Grissman. Everyone loves the dog. Yeah. Absolutely. The dog. That's right. Oh, my God. And Jerry Douglas. Well, of course not. I've played music with Jerry.

[00:09:49] I've traveled on the road with Jerry for 20 years, and he is undoubtedly the king dog of the Dobro guitar. I mean, he is in one of those rare categories like Earl Scruggs. He changed the instrument. Yes. The entire world plays differently because of him. How many records has he actually played on? If it's, I mean, it's hundreds. I mean, honestly, it's probably thousands because Jerry was, he was the A-list session player in Nashville for decades and still, still is.

[00:10:20] Truly, it's uncountable. I don't think there's a way to truly, I mean, Jerry doesn't know. There's no way to keep up with how many records he's played. I mean, he's done three sessions a day for decades. How many records is that? That's crazy. Do you remember your first paid gig? Yes. Absolutely. Okay. What was that? I was young. I was young. I was like 12 years old, and I played with my brother. 12? We had a, we started a bluegrass band.

[00:10:45] Well, 12 or 13, we used to play, at first I played a little mandolin with him, and we would sing back and forth, and then we started a band where I was playing banjo. It was, you know, I grew up a banjo geek. Yes. Really wanted to play the banjo, but yeah, I think our first gig I made $50, and I felt like a king because I went up there, and I just kind of had fun, and I, you know, and now you've got to, you know, go way back. This is probably 19, you know, late 70s. Sure, sure, sure.

[00:11:11] Late 70s, and I'm folding 50 bucks, putting it in my little, you know, in my little. Hey, and money in those days, that's. That was a huge amount of money in the 70s. I mean, it was, I mean, it would have been like someone giving me, you know, three or four hundred bucks today, you know, to play. It was a lot of money, and man. What did you do with it? I played foosball. You think I'm kidding. I took that money, I literally, that money turned to quarters, and all my money growing up went in the foosball tables. No lie.

[00:11:41] It was. That's awesome. It was my passion, and it was 50 cents a game, man, so you had to have money in your pocket if you wanted to play. So, essentially, music became the way to finance your addiction. Is that what you're saying? You could probably put it like that, although that's probably not the way I want to publicize it. But, yeah, you know, well, music has somehow supported, you know, my, I raised a family playing music, and I'm still kind of bewildered by it. It's amazing, because music is not something, you know, you would steer young people towards to say, this is how you're going to make it.

[00:12:11] Okay. But if you don't, like, the real musicians out there, they know what they are, and they really don't have a choice. I never said, I'm going to choose music. Like, at a very young age, music chose me, and I stayed true to myself and my path, and was, I was just blessed with a really, you know, good career. So, when you mention family, when it comes to your family, do you have young ones? Yeah, well, my young ones now, yeah, I have grandbabies now. Grandbabies, yeah, yeah. I'm a pop-pop four times. Okay.

[00:12:41] And, yeah, I have my kids are my young, my baby's 27, 27, 29, and 31 are my kids. And, yeah. Any interest in foosball? You know, I wish I would have treated the game differently when they were, you know, super small, because they were, for a little while, there was a foosball table in the basement. Yep. And when they saw me play, I was hitting it so hard, you know, I was hitting it much harder than they could hit it at their young age, right? And they kind of thought, eh, just, I can't do that.

[00:13:10] So, they went a different direction. Both of my boys are golfers. Oh, really? They took to the golf course. And if they played foosball like they played golf, they would be in, they would be in, they would be masters. And as far as, did they inherit the gene of music? They all actually have music in their genes. They do. They have musical talent.

[00:13:36] They, unlike me, so my parents never played music, but they went and listened to a lot of music. So, I was around it every week. Gotcha. Now, my kids grew up with a dad who left every weekend to go play music and they were at home doing their thing. They didn't spend nearly the time around music that I did. Yeah. It's ironic that my parents didn't play and I saw it all and I did play and they didn't see any. Should we know your dad? No, you wouldn't. My parents, I grew up in Vermont, Pat and Stosh, Tominsky, and we just know they weren't players.

[00:14:06] They weren't, they were fans. I got you. They went, from the time I was five or six years old. I got you. I spent so much time in, now from, this is back when you could bring a five-year-old into a bar, right? We would go to country music bars and I would belly up to the pinball machine, right? While my parents would listen to music. So we went to square dances and fiddle contests and a lot of stuff. And what ultimately changed me was when we went to our first bluegrass festival. Yeah. And we camped out and we had, we had three days of camping out in bluegrass.

[00:14:36] And there was, what I found was in the bluegrass music world, there was a community that I could not, I could not get anywhere else. There was, it's just kind of like the foosball community. You know, you come here, it's like old home week when you come and you see all the people, all your friends and buddies that you, you know, you can't wait to see every week. It was like that for me growing up with bluegrass festivals. There was a community there that was so supportive and I, it, it, there was a draw from the very earliest age for me. I just, I, I couldn't do anything else. Man, it's, it's such an extraordinary thing.

[00:15:06] How many other famous people do you know that actually play foosball? Anybody in the, in the, I can't say that I know anyone else in my field that, that's, that is a foosball player. No, there's not, there's not a lot of foosball. I understand that Woody Harrelson is one. All right. Well, when I become buddies with Woody, man, we're going to throw down. That's it. Woody, I'm calling you out. If you hear this, me and you baby, we're going to play. And Paul Azinger. I know that Paul, you know, I've heard that for a long time because I'm a huge golf fan, right?

[00:15:35] So I've spent a lot of time playing the game and studying the game and, and a fan of the game. And yeah, when I found out Azinger, same thing, Paul, I'm calling you out, buddy. Let's go, man. Hey, singles, mano y mano. Right. Throw down. It's fun to find out when foosball players are involved. I heard Arnold Schwarzenegger is into foosball, right? He has a tournament in Columbus, Ohio. There's, he has the Arnie, you know, I've been to that. It's, it's funny when you, when you do hear, there are some people out there that play foosball. So. It's, it's not that unusual.

[00:16:05] There needs to be more. I'm, I'm on, I'm on the hunt now. I want to find the, I want to find the foosball players, man. We got you. We got you already. We're going to find more than me. All right. There's some others out there. I know it. So I understand you're playing tomorrow. You're working tomorrow. Yes. Tomorrow's a worky day. There's a, there's a city festival here in Las Vegas. We're going to have a bunch of, a bunch of live music. I'm going to play at five 30 and we're going to get out there in the hot sun. Oh man. And we're going to throw down, man. We're going to have a good time and play some music.

[00:16:33] If I can, if I can spare the time, I want to get there. Cause I love to see you play live. I would love for anyone who is, I mean, it's hard to pull anyone. Away from this food. It's such a busy time here this week. You know, I mean, here at the, here in Vegas, this foosball tournament is amazing and it's, and it's demanding it. You have to spend your time here, but Hey, anyone who is free is welcome, man. It's a free concert. The city's putting it on. It's, it's going to be big fun. How many, how many bands? I have, I don't know how many bands. I just know my slot.

[00:17:01] I, you know, this has been, I usually have a little more info going in this week has been set list. What we're doing. Oh my goodness. It's a, it's, it's, it's going to, it's going to come on, come up all at once tomorrow. I know, but it tells me you'll pull it off. I've been doing the music thing for a, for a little while. So I'm pretty comfortable with, with that side of it. Side question I got to ask you about, because recently I saw you post on Facebook, uh, some of your guitar collection.

[00:17:31] Yeah, I'm not a big collector, but the guitars that I do have are extremely special. If anyone knows me, um, I don't have a lot of things, but the things that I do have are very high quality and, uh, yeah, I'm very fond of my guitars. So, uh, are you familiar with Norman's rare guitars? I am. There was a great documentary recently about Norman and how he got started out in California. Sure, sure. Have you ever been in that store? I have not been in the store, but I know so many who have that's, you know, there's when you find those people who have the special stuff.

[00:18:00] Yeah, that's, that's big news. But, uh, what is, what is that one guitar that you would, would, uh, shall we say do anything you possibly could to get? What, what guitar would you like to? I own it already. You do? I have, so listen, I, my, my guitar that I, that I play, that I've made my whole career on one instrument, essentially. It's only of the past few years that I've ever played anything other than one instrument. I have a 1946 Martin D28 herringbone. It's my first guitar.

[00:18:29] I didn't grow up a guitar player, so I, I had to get my first guitar when I joined Allison Krauss in Union Station. And I went on the hunt and I found one of the, one of the best instruments on the planet. I, I have, it's, its codename is Poster Child, because it's just such a beautiful, um, photographable guitar. It just, it looks like it's meant for photographs. So it's, it's been codenamed Poster Child for the past 30 years. And it is my special one.

[00:18:56] Everything that I have ever recorded in my career, short of one song that I can think of now, everything that you've ever heard, if you've ever heard me play a guitar. Oh yeah. You've listened to that, that old Martin. That's my baby. Um, and of course I have to mention that in case you're just tuning into this and you don't know Dan Tominsky's voice, so you should by now, uh, if you've ever seen the movie Old Brother Where Art Thou? Old Brother Where Art Thou was the one that, that definitely put me on the map. Yeah, for sure.

[00:19:23] Man of Constant Starro is one of my all time favorite songs, hands down, whether it's bluegrass or rock or jazz, it's, it's, that's one of my favorite songs of all time. It's one of those songs that you, I, I never saw it coming. It was such a weird thing that the way that came about. And I remember they said, you know, they, they were doing a movie in Nashville and they were doing this movie, Old Brother Where Art Thou? And it was going to be like the, the Coen Brothers weird take on the Odyssey. And it was crazy. Well, we were big Coen Brothers fans being Allison and Union Station and we wanted to be a part of it.

[00:19:53] We went to audition to just play any music we could. Yes. And oddly, as we were walking out, our manager happened to look at T-Bone Burnett, who was the producer and said, Hey, have you cast George Clooney's voice yet? And T-Bone said, well, we haven't. And she said, well, Dan might be a candidate. And they looked at me and said, do you want to come back tomorrow and audition? And I thought it was a joke, right? It was, it was so, it was so surreal. It was so weird. I said, well, of course, you know, I'll come back and audition, but I had no expectations. So I go and record the song. This is actually a good story.

[00:20:23] I record the song and it's going to be in the movie and it's going to be, my voice is going to be coming out of George Clooney's mouth, right? So it's going to be so weird for me. Now we go, skip ahead. We're filming. We get to be in the movie. If you watch the movie, we're actually in the movie in the, you know, in the background, you can find us in there if you know how to look. And they said, while we were filming, T-Bone comes up and says, Hey, Clooney wants to sing this song. Would you go into the recording studio and record it with him? And now I thought, this is my big chance. Oh, baby. Oh yeah.

[00:20:52] Let's go. So I go into the studio on our day off and there's George Clooney. And this is the biggest moment of my life at this point. I'm getting to record music with George Clooney. With this dude. Right. So he sings it one time through and he messed it up a little bit and we had to start again and he stopped halfway through the next time. And then he said, start it one more time. And I started again. And whatever was going on in his mind, I don't know. Now he says he can't sing. I know George Clooney can sing. I am, was a witness. He could have done this if he wanted.

[00:21:23] Okay. But for whatever reason, when he, he stopped a couple of times and he took his headphones off, he walks out of the studio and he walked up to me and he says, Hey Dan, this is a day off. What am I doing in here? He says, I'm going to make you a deal. I'll act. And you sing. Wow. And he put his hand out and shook my hand. Now, when he did this, my world was crushed because, Oh, I went from my big moment to record music with George Clooney now to doing this weird thing where I'm just the voice and you don't seem like it was, it was strange.

[00:21:52] And you know, in hindsight, when I look back, had I recorded it with George Clooney, like I wanted to, if that would have happened, I would have made my $320 for my session fee. Okay. And I would have bragged to the world that I recorded with George Clooney and it would have been amazing. Right. Yep. But because George Clooney said, Dan, you sing, I got to, I got to buy houses and cars and put my kids through college.

[00:22:19] And I essentially raised a family on that song, man. Life sucks. It was the, the single biggest thing that could have ever happened to this bluegrass cat from Vermont. Um, that all of a sudden it just, you know, it, it, it, it rained down from heaven. It really was a life changing experience. And I had no, I was so naive at the time. I was, if you, I am serious. I was crushed when I found out that he wasn't going to do it.

[00:22:47] And I was, and I called home and I told my, my wife and I said, listen, he wants, he wants to act. Said, you sing. I said, I've just lost a gig. In my mind, I'm thinking I lost the gig. Yeah. And what in truth happened was it, it was, it was the biggest life changer a musician of, of like me could have ever had. That, I mean, how could that possibly happen again in one life? Right. That's just. It happened again with another song that was just as weird with Avicii. You know, I got a call say from, from my assistant saying this guy wants you to do a song on

[00:23:17] his record. And, and I, you know, I asked who it was and she said Avicii and I was not at that time familiar with who Avicii was. And she said he played EDM music and I said, I had to ask what that was. Yep. And she explained, you know, and I, this is what I did. I laughed and I said, oh my gosh. I said, that is funny. I said, no, thank you. And my assistant goes, would you like to hear the song before you give an official no thank you? And I thought, well, that's why send me the song and I'll give it a listen.

[00:23:47] So as she's sending it to me, I reach out to my daughter through text because she listened to a lot of music. And I said, Hey, have you ever heard of this guy Avicii? My daughter, she texts right back. She goes, well, he's a Swedish DJ. He's a genius. He's my favorite artist. Why? And I said, you know, I texted back. Heck, I think he wants me to do a song on his next record. Okay. And she texted me back instantly. One word that I don't know if I can say on this podcast. Go ahead. Oh, one word. Yeah. Bullshit.

[00:24:14] I was so like, I'm thinking, okay, what is going on? And now the phone rings and it's her calling me. Now she's willing to spend, you know, precious voice time with dear old dad, you know? So I know it's, oh, I know it's real now. Yeah. And she goes, dad, are you punking me? This is, this is too big. This makes no sense. Why would he want you? Right? This is so, and she goes, this is my daughter. She goes, listen, if this is real, if this is a real offer and you don't do it, I'm out. This is what she says. Now she was 19.

[00:24:44] I said, daughter, you're living on your own. You're 19. You pay all your own bills. I said, whether you know it or not, I said, you're already out. And she goes, she goes, no, just try me. She goes, just try me. And I knew she was so serious. Anyway, at this point in time, the song rings in. I got the song. So I tell her, listen, I just got the song. Let me let you go. I'm going to listen to the song. And she goes, I don't care what it is. Do it. This is what my daughter says. So she hangs up. I listened to the song. Now I just happened to really like the song.

[00:25:14] Okay. It helps. It was a song entitled Hey Brother. And it was so cool. When I heard it, it was just a guitar and a vocal. It was just a little demo. So I called my assistant back and said, hey, listen, my daughter is in love with this guy. It's like he is her favorite artist. I like the song. I said, let's do the song. And if no one ever hears it, this is what I say. So if no one ever hears it, what's the big deal? I said, you know, this is not, you know, it's not my thing. You know, no one will know I did this. Right. And a couple months later, you know, I do this song.

[00:25:43] And it was number one in 16 countries at the same time. And it was a Super Bowl commercial. And it had a billion with a B, a billion streams that first year and then the next year and then the next year. And this year, now we're looking back 14, 15 years, still a billion streams this year on Spotify. It is the most crazy global smash hit a person could ever be involved with. And again, just out of the just fell in from the I never saw it coming.

[00:26:08] Hey, brother, do you still believe in one of them? Lightning strikes twice. It can. I have been hit by lightning before, actually hit by lightning. So I hope it doesn't strike me again. It's, you know, it physically struck me once. That was plenty. Were you on stage? I was in a recording studio. It got four of us as we were recording through the headphones. Yeah. Really?

[00:26:37] Here's the, well, even, even weirder. I go home from the, from the session after being struck by lightning. I walked through the door and I tell my wife, I said, you're not going to believe what happened to me today. And she goes, I don't care what happened to you. She goes, listen to this. I got struck by lightning. This was the same day we were 20 miles apart. She got it through our kitchen stove. She was in the kitchen. And when the lightning struck, it got her through the stove. Wow.

[00:27:07] It got me the same day, 20 miles away through our headphones. And after she said, well, you're not going to believe what happened to me. I got struck by lightning. I'm standing there and I can't even tell her because she's never going to believe me. She's never going to believe me. I said, well, I said, okay, you're going to think this is a joke. I said, but that's what I wanted to tell you. I got struck by lightning today. Did you go out and buy a lottery ticket that day? I should. I should. I already hit the lottery twice, man. I'm not greedy. I'm so thankful for what I did.

[00:27:36] No, I did not run out and buy a lottery ticket. Maybe I should have. I don't know. Oh, my God. So, wait. You said lightning strikes twice. It did. It just got me and my wife. Right. Two different people. What are you going to do? That's extraordinary. Well, hey. It gave me, though, it gave me super foosball powers. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That lightning strike. I went right to the table and, man, my pull shot was ridiculous. We highly recommend getting struck by lightning as long as you survive. If you can survive it, man, you have new superpowers. Your game will be beyond belief.

[00:28:05] But, well, hey, I got to say, man, this is absolutely so cool for you to sit down. I really appreciate it. Hey, it's my pleasure. I'm such a foosball fan, and I love what you do. It's so great to have people out there pushing for the game. It means a lot to everyone who plays this game, and you're appreciated more than you know. Well, I appreciate that. But it's, you know what? We have to make it happen. We have to do something. You have to get involved. Yeah, you do. You have to do something. 100%.

[00:28:30] And kudos to Ryan Moore and Iveta Moore for their efforts this weekend. They're raising the game of foosball. They're elevating the game, and it's about time. It took a little dip, and I think there's room for it to grow, and you can see it happening right here in Vegas. Man, I'll tell you, I'm looking forward to not just this year, but the years to come. Lots more to come. 100%. I'm so excited for the future of foosball. Dan Tominsky is sitting here next to me. I'm just flabbergasted.

[00:28:59] A little starstruck. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. It is my pleasure completely and totally. Dan Tominsky, of course, a man of constant sorrow, and of course, a pretty nice foosball player, I've got to say. He's got a nice poor shot. But you've been listening to Foosball Radio on the Road live from the Westcott at the 2025 Hall of Fame Classic. And we're going to be bringing you a whole lot more this weekend, so stay tuned to Foosball Radio on the Road.

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