Brenda

"And she's also like not keen to do any of this, but we're going to make it so that Brenda gets a bunch of Bahama Mamas"

Kaneda mentions Brenda isn't keen on participating in the streaming promotion

"And the promotion is going to be this. Brenda's Bahama Mama spectacular. All of your stars contributions are going to go to getting Brenda a Bahama Mama drink. And we want to get as many Bahama Mamas into Brenda as we can. So she will find me attractive again."

Kaneda jokes about needing to get Brenda drunk on Bahama Mamas so she'll find him attractive again

"I'm always getting in this debate with Brenda. She's like, you never wanna do what you don't wanna do."

Kaneda describes ongoing arguments with Brenda about his reluctance to do things he doesn't want to do

"Now Brenda and I just watched the Godfather this weekend. We saw all three hours of the movie or three hours and 20 minutes. [...] But after I finished watching the movie, I did say to Brenda, I don't understand how you watch this movie and then try to turn it into a pinball machine."

Kaneda tells Brenda his opinion that The Godfather doesn't translate well to pinball after they watched the movie together

"And I was dating two other irish girls who were american at the time [...] Sassy girl though. I mean you get a few whiskies and brenda forget it like I always tell her That she was like undatable and she's gorgeous and she's smart and she's beautiful and she's sexy everything"

Kaneda reveals he was dating two other Irish-American girls when he met Brenda, describes her as sassy when drinking, and says he tells her she was undatable despite being gorgeous and smart

"I don't mean too big physically because she's got a very great slender physique. Um, but she She left ireland because she wanted more out of life. Unfortunately. She met me on tinder"

Kaneda compliments Brenda's physique and jokes that unfortunately meeting him on Tinder was part of her seeking more out of life

"I saw her and in her photos Where someone I work with is a crazy romantic way to me like I was looking at her photo and I was like, I know this dude [...] And he was like, yeah, I know brenda. She's sassy like you guys should Go get a drink and we went and had 12 whiskies and the rest was history"

Kaneda tells the story of how he actually met Brenda through a coworker who knew her, describing their first date involving 12 whiskies

"I use these stars as franchies says it makes fun of me to buy brenda sushi. Um, she's been through a lot this woman. [...] This incredible woman Has been through so much And every day she wakes up [...] I mean put waking up next to me is enough"

Kaneda talks about buying Brenda sushi with viewer donations and jokes about how hard it is for her to wake up next to him

"It's amazing watching a powerful woman Just just do her thing. She got she got let go from meta [...] But brenda is like an irish Like wave like you just can't stop her like she was too big for gallway. She left"

Kaneda praises Brenda's resilience after being laid off from Meta, describing her as an unstoppable Irish force who left Ireland for bigger opportunities

"when my wife got let go, I was like, you know, how did this happen, right? How did Facebook and Metta, right? They renamed the company Metta, and they invested all of this money in the Metaverse, $15 billion."

Kaneda reflects on how Meta's poor business decisions led to his wife's layoff

"my beautiful wife, Brenda, woke up to an email that Metta was laying her off along with 11,000 people"

Brenda was laid off from Meta along with thousands of others

"Kim Mitchell and Donald Howard, you guys gave the most generous gifts when Brenda lost her job and I'm never going to forget it."

Kaneda thanks listeners who gave generous support after Brenda's job loss

"I was hanging out last night with Benjamin from France, a Kaneda Club member who's in New York City on his way to Chicago for Pinball Expo. And we hung out last night with his co-worker Pat from Ireland who actually grew up across the street from Brenda's house. He went to the school that's across from where my wife lived as a child."

Kaneda shares that someone from Ireland grew up across the street from Brenda's childhood home

"It's Brenda's birthday next week and absolutely I would have rather have had that money to spoil my baby girl than to lose on pinball machines. I'm not even going to take possession of. Now that being said, I'm a great husband and of course I'm going to spoil my baby girl. Brenda, I've got a great, great day planned for us if you're listening to the show."

Kaneda discusses losing $4,000 on pinball deposits and how he'd rather use that money for Brenda's upcoming birthday.

"So I have a work ethic issue and my wife will tell you that I work long hours and I'm very, very dedicated to my employers."

Steven references his wife's perspective on his demanding work schedule and dedication

"I'm literally like, kind of like, okay, like I'm text like, practically texting my wife on the side saying like, this is crazy. This is not going to work out."

Steven was texting his wife during a work meeting about red flags at the company

"I thank you so much, Brenda thanks you, Cillian thanks you, me and Brenda sit on the couch, and we get so excited every time a new club member joins, and she's a club member now, so she's getting emails every time a new show goes up."

Kaneda describes how he and Brenda sit together and get excited about new club members joining the podcast.

"And the last one I'm going to say thank you to right now is Brenda. My wife has finally joined the Kaneda Club. I was like, baby, if you had a club, I would join it."

Kaneda thanks his wife Brenda for joining his podcast club and mentions telling her he'd join her club if she had one

"i mean it's been probably how long has facebook been around brenda like 15 years it's probably been 15 17 years of using facebook"

Kaneda asks Brenda how long Facebook has been around while discussing his social media cleanse

"Brenda got me the most amazing gift. This new mic should sound incredible."

Brenda gave Kaneda a new microphone as a Christmas gift

"4,485 pushups and sit-ups i think i can do that is that too many brenda am i maybe i might need january and february [...] brenda what is it brenda is telling me that is over 100 a day of course it's over 100 a day"

Kaneda discusses his fitness goals with Brenda, asking for her input on doing pushups and situps

"But I think they're wrong because if you made a Madonna Pinball machine every single person out there is probably a fan of her music. I am, Brenda is."

Brenda and Kaneda are both Madonna fans

"I just started watching Evil Dead with Brenda and she got scared within like 25 minutes so we turned it off. Somehow you go into the woods and the woods sexually assaults you was too much for the wife."

Brenda got scared watching Evil Dead and they had to turn it off after 25 minutes

"The Mandalorian is something that families love your wife loves it Brenda loves the Mandalorian [...] so this is the kind of theme where you don't have to get permission from your wife."

Kaneda claims Brenda loves The Mandalorian TV show and it's a theme that doesn't require spousal approval for buying a pinball machine

"your wife doesn't want Elvira in the house you know that your kids don't care about Elvira"

Kaneda suggests wives don't want Elvira pinball machines in their homes

"The Mandalorian is something that families love your wife loves it Brenda loves the Mandalorian"

Kaneda states that Brenda loves The Mandalorian TV show

"I'm used the money to take Brenda out and have a nice meal or spoil my beautiful wife who puts up with this show. [...] And it's all gonna go to spoiling Brenda."

Kaneda says he uses podcast donation money to take Brenda out for nice meals and spoil his wife who puts up with the show.

"are you really gonna be able to like tell the wife that you're spending 20 grand during a global pandemic on pinball machines because you have to have both"

Kaneda discusses the challenge of justifying spending $20,000 on pinball machines to one's wife during the pandemic

"And then today she said, I want to play some Rick and Morty and we jumped on the game and she got all the way to the end sequence of Pickle Rick, which is a three-part mode, which I'm like, how is my wife, who really never shows much interest in playing pinball?"

Kaneda marvels at Brenda's unexpected pinball skills, completing a difficult three-part mode despite rarely playing

"And she's like, no, the game's really easy. I know what to do and it makes total sense like I hit the ramp and then I hit the scoop to start an adventure. And then when I'm in the adventure, like it's so clear what to shoot at."

Kaneda shares Brenda's detailed explanation of why she finds Rick and Morty pinball intuitive and enjoyable to play

"But watching Brendan run through the game like this today, I was like, well, it's not that hard. My wife who doesn't play much pinball just got through the three stages of pickle Rick."

Kaneda uses Brenda's success at completing difficult pinball modes as evidence the game isn't as hard as he thought

"And all of a sudden I hear Brenda go into the bedroom, turn on, Rick and Morty, and start playing. [...] my beautiful wife has never felt the urge to just go into the room and play a pinball machine. And so it was music to my ears to hear Brenda playing the game."

Kaneda expresses joy that Brenda spontaneously started playing Rick and Morty pinball for the first time ever

"I'm just so happy to play the game, to play the game with Brenda and I talk to her about it. I'm like, why are you liking this game so much? And I asked her like, how do you compare this game to Batman? And she's like, I like this game so much more."

Kaneda discusses Brenda's preference for Rick and Morty over Batman pinball and her reasons for liking it

"I didn't think Brenda would get into it and I just didn't think I would click with this game."

Kaneda admits he didn't expect Brenda to enjoy the Rick and Morty pinball machine

"I want to thank John at Jack Bar for opening up Jack Bar for me early in the morning to play with Brenda."

Kaneda thanks John for opening the bar early so he and Brenda could play pinball together.

"I was there. Bren and I for a good amount of time, correct? [...] You and Brenda both played, I played maybe four or five games. So you guys got probably a good 20 games in each."

Kaneda and Brenda went to Jack Bar together and played pinball for about 20 games each.

"Do you think Brendan marries me? Ben, if I take her to McDonald's, do you think she marries this guy?"

Kaneda jokes about whether Brenda would have married him if he took her to McDonald's

"Like when Brendan was watching it. It's a little different. It's a little different what you're snuggling."

Kaneda mentions cuddling/snuggling with Brenda while watching Stranger Things

"Brenda was typing into your calculator. I'm like, small little company, Benton Wisconsin. Let's just do 750 games times $8,000. Brenda, what's coming up on the calculator? $6 million bucks."

Brenda helped calculate that Spooky Pinball made $6 million in Rick and Morty sales

"I was gonna say rub his Brenda that he loves sometimes when it went, you know, when it's an intimate night."

Kaneda makes sexual reference about rubbing Brenda on intimate nights

"I think Brenda is happy. I know she is."

Kaneda confirms Brenda is happy when listener asked him to keep her happy

"And my lovely wife Brenda is right next to me with her eye mask on, sitting like inches from yours truly as I record this episode."

Kaneda describes Brenda lying in bed next to him with an eye mask while he records

"Oh, it's my face. No, I'm not listening. I'm going to sleep. I'm trying to go to sleep. This is our bed. This is my good night time. [...] Okay, so I just put the mic to her face. She she swung up and she hit it, which was more movement than is in the stranger things game."

Brenda gets annoyed when Kaneda puts the mic in her face while trying to sleep, swats at it

"My parents just arrived in today and God bless. They brought their votes from Ireland."

Brenda mentions her parents arriving from Ireland with their votes

"I've got another car that Brenda has that carves up the twisties."

Kaneda mentions Brenda has a car that handles curves well.

"She understands this hobby and how much I love it. And she is so understanding when I wake up in the morning and I put on this headset and microphone and I kick her out of the bedroom while she's trying to get ready. And even though she rolls her eyes at times when she sees me spend exorbitance amounts of money on these games, she's so supportive."

Kaneda describes how Brenda is understanding of his pinball hobby despite him kicking her out of the bedroom for recording and her eye-rolling at his spending.

"Brenda loves the theme and Brenda said she really wants to try and play it again so if Brenda loves this game we're going to get a Willy Wonka because happy wife happy life [...] I think the reason why Brenda really liked Willy Wonka it's really easy to things it's easy to understand and jump into the game."

Kaneda will buy Willy Wonka because Brenda loves the theme and wants to play it, citing 'happy wife happy life' philosophy.

"I'm probably going to get killed by Brenda a little bit because I said I'm only going to watch for 30 minutes and it was like three hours later I'm still you know engage with with this audience and this community"

Kaneda expects Brenda to be upset because he watched pinball streams for three hours instead of the 30 minutes he promised.

"And I will say the final reason why I don't get burnt out. The final reason why I love doing this show is for all of you out there who listen. Every week and Brenda will tell you this. I get really excited when I put up an episode."

Kaneda says Brenda can confirm how excited he gets about releasing podcast episodes

"Here's the best part. Brenda loves it. Bubba loves it. Cobra Kai is such an amazing TV show."

Kaneda mentions that Brenda loves Cobra Kai TV show