Brenda

"I could be reading books I could be watching documentaries I could be hanging out with Brenda but you know I think I think I love talking about pinball on a weekly basis"

Kaneda acknowledges he could be spending more time with Brenda instead of doing the podcast

"I have to give a shout out to Brenda. She listened to the the Allentown podcast with Ted and she's like, you know, you gave a shout out to all these people, but you didn't give a shout out to Brenda and I want to say Brenda, thank you. I love you. I love that you got in the car with me and we drove through some stormy weather to get to Allentown fairground to play some pinball."

Brenda listened to his podcast and called him out for not giving her a shoutout after driving through storms to Allentown with him.

"She's a trooper. She really is a trooper and it's very rare that you find someone who can share in a passion like pinball with you. Even if Brenda doesn't love it, she's such a good sport about coming along, playing the games and telling me her honest opinion about stuff"

Kaneda praises Brenda as a trooper who supports his pinball passion even though she doesn't love it herself.

"I've got a great, a great new girl now. She's awesome. She's been living with me for a while, Brenda. She's from Ireland. She's got a more, the Irish, they're pretty sensible, you know, they, they, they understand pinball and the, or else I pretend that she does"

Kaneda describes Brenda as his awesome Irish girlfriend who has been living with him and supposedly understands pinball.

"So Ted Brenda and myself we played a three player game of dialed in"

Kaneda mentions Brenda joining him and Ted to play a three-player game of Dialed In at Allentown.

"we went out drinking Brendan and I came home and I may have put a few bids on that magic girl [...] I go to bed being like well I might just have another magical"

Kaneda admits to drunkenly bidding on an expensive pinball machine after drinking with Brenda.

"I need to go other places with Brenda. We've got weddings to go do. But mainly we're doing a kitchen renovation right now. And it's going to be pretty expensive to the point where I could get many, many a few super LEDs for the price of this kitchen Renault."

Kaneda discusses balancing travel with Brenda and their expensive kitchen renovation that costs as much as multiple pinball machines.

"No, you're breaking the cardinal rule though, but Brenda's cool with that. Yeah, like she's actually, she's looking forward to one thing. [...] She's looking forward to a real bed. We still want to pull out couch with every foam."

Brenda is looking forward to getting a real bed instead of their current pull-out couch with foam topper during renovation

"Well, and if I could go back and I even tell this to Brenda as it'll look, she saw me struggle for six months with the whole magic of fiasco."

Brenda witnessed Kaneda struggle for six months with a pinball machine purchase issue

"People were dying laughing at that. I saw women like cracking up Brenda loved it"

Brenda loved the selfie mode feature on the pinball machine

"I was telling Brenda whenever they would say that to a question it's like I'm we're pleading the fifth. We're not gonna say it. That's a zidware question"

Kaneda explained to Brenda how American Pinball was deflecting questions

"I just wanted to just like fall backwards fall on the ground and just pretend to be dead and have Brenda push me out of the room"

Kaneda wanted Brenda to help him dramatically exit when hearing about legal issues

"It was actually great to have people say that in front of Brenda because she's always a little bit skeptical about why I do this and say Brenda you know it really does entertain and give people enjoyment out there"

Brenda is skeptical about why Kaneda does the podcast

"In fact, Brenda Olyse looks at me and is like, stop talking about pinball. Stop discussing it. I don't want to talk about it."

Brenda tells Kaneda to stop talking about pinball and doesn't want to discuss it

"She has hard time with even Tales of the Arabian Nights just trapping the ball, you know, she does this thing where whenever the ball's rolling, she often like tries to trap and it rolls over the edge."

Kaneda describes Brenda's specific pinball technique struggles with ball trapping.

"Is Brenda likes Tales of the Arabian Nights and we have fun games playing together? I think she would hate Ghostbusters because of how frustrating it is. I think she would just walk away because I can't see her getting a new machine that would drain that often."

Kaneda explains Brenda enjoys Tales of the Arabian Nights but would hate Ghostbusters pinball due to its frustrating difficulty.

"as long as I always tell Brendan this, as long as there's rich, old white men who are bored"

Kaneda mentions telling Brenda his theory about who drives the pinball market demographics.

"after going from Ghostbusters to the Addams Family, I swear to God, me and Brenda were like, man, this just feels so dated and old and boring compared to Ghostbusters."

Kaneda shares that he and Brenda both felt The Addams Family pinball machine felt dated compared to the new Ghostbusters machine.

"I know Brenda is probably going to strangle me if we don't get out there and try and find some non-deria binnier soon."

Kaneda mentions Brenda will be upset if they don't go explore New Orleans soon

"I got to get to a brunch in the city, and I'm trying to do this before that, and Brenda will come leave if I'm not there by 12.30."

Kaneda has to finish recording because Brenda will leave for brunch without him

"And right now we're sort of redesigning the living room, and we'll do the kitchen in the bathroom. But Brenda's moving in, so it's been a busy weekend."

They're redesigning their apartment together as Brenda moves in

"Brenda, against her better judgment, is actually moving into the apartment. It's now going to be our apartment. And I have to say, I have never met a cooler woman in my entire life. I mean, she's actually going to let me keep the arcade."

Kaneda praises Brenda for moving in with him and letting him keep his arcade

"Brenda sat down on a chair at restoration hardware it was one chair with an ottoman the chair is $6,000 and the ottoman was $2,200 okay eight thousand two dollars for chair an ottoman of course we did not buy it"

Brenda found an expensive chair at Restoration Hardware that they didn't buy