Robert Mueller

"He basically took money from these investors. They did not know, by the way, that they were investing in a pinball venture. They thought they were investing in his life insurance scam thing he was going to do. Now look, he took the money and he bought engagement rings for his wife. He paid for cruises for his family."

Robert Mueller is a fraud who stole $61 million from investors for personal expenses

"Nobody in the right mind who's trying to build a successful pinball company would say that that is a problem we need to solve. And it just goes to show what a jackass Robert Mueller was. He absolutely innovated in all the wrong areas. That thing was stupid. The pinbar was stupid. The pin pod was stupid. The floating backboxes stupid."

Robert Mueller was a fool who innovated in all the wrong areas at deeproot

"Robert to me came across immediately as being a loyalty guy. Like, hey, you're, you know, you're my employee. I've bought you. You're my loyal. You are to be loyal to me"

Robert Mueller had a Napoleon complex and demanded loyalty from employees

"this whole thing's financed by dead people. Robert's legal business. They make money when people die. They short people on their life insurance"

deeproot was financed by dead people through life insurance settlements

"Bobby Mueller was the biggest fool ever to think he could create a pinball manufacturing company... this thing was built with stolen money"

Bobby Mueller was completely incompetent at running a pinball company and deeproot was built with stolen investor money

"I have to assume yes. I just because it seems like from the little I know about pinball, like I said, I was not an industry person ahead of time. But what I've gathered now is that other places that do this just are very small at the beginning and make a machine and see how it goes, you know, like spooky. And so yes, I think he must have been, I don't know, fooling himself and trying to fool everybody into thinking that he was going to be the head of this giant pinball company, I guess."

Robert Mueller was delusional in thinking he could start as a giant pinball company instead of small like Spooky Pinball

"one of the things that I just really, really respect him and admire him for, and one of the things that makes it such a great, a great blessing to be here is, is that he will not quit"

Robert Mueller's persistence and determination is admirable

"when it comes to Robert Mueller, the guy's a crook. And I think now it's over. Like I don't even want to talk about this guy anymore."

Calling Robert Mueller a crook and dismissing deeproot entirely

"Robert Mueller was the biggest ass clown in Pinball. He did not make a Pinball manufacturing company. He made a design studio that spent millions of dollars as these jerk wads were sitting in chairs and doing nothing to get Pinball machines made... $61 million and not one single working game."

Robert Mueller was the biggest failure in pinball history - $61 million spent with zero working games

"his basic idea was he wanted to buy spooky pinball for zero dollars basically we would just become his employees sweat equity that old bullshit and then he was going to move spooky into a 40,000 square foot facility immediately even though there were no games to build"

Robert Mueller attempted hostile takeover of Spooky Pinball for zero dollars

"he got mad at me and stopped talking to me because I told people about the pricing of his games like that was some big mystery"

Kaneda was blacklisted by Robert Mueller for sharing pricing information about deeproot games

"How are you laughing at me? You told your customers back in December that anyone who ordered a rasa would have their game in four to six weeks... that was six to eight months ago... The entire pinball community is laughing at you. It is now June of 2021. You have shipped zero games to customers. You only sold a hundred and thirty roses."

Extended rant attacking Robert Mueller and deeproot Pinball over Rosa shipping delays and broken promises

"But Robert Mueller chimed in and he responded because it was save Steve Bowden. He wrote from Kaneda. Okay, I don't know why Steve Bowden needs to be saved from Kaneda. I'm not doing anything to Steve Bowden. Steve Bowden is your employee."

Robert Mueller's response to 'Save Steve Bowden' meme

"I do applaud Robert for doing that. If you lost money with John Popadiuk he gave people an opportunity to get a check. I think it was for around $4,000 or something."

Robert Mueller at deeproot did the right thing by giving Zidware customers money back

"So I love Robert. I love this arrogance. You have to say that this is a crazy arrogance statement that facts by anyone other than Robert are not facts."

Disputes Robert Mueller's claim that only facts from him are legitimate

"I challenge you to show me. That you have fixed something on John pop-a-dooks game. That wasn't working. When it shipped from American pinball"

Challenges Robert Mueller to show one working fix on Magic Girl

"Look, I've asked Robert Mueller to come on the show to talk about deeproot Pinball. It's OK. I get that he didn't want to come on Kaneda's Pinball Podcast. I still, you know, the invitation is open."

Kaneda responds to Robert Mueller's interview where Mueller called the podcast a 'megaphone' creating 'nightmares'

"I know there's another side to Robert that is, it's very, very ego driven. And I was like wondering if he would do something that would expose that side of him because I've said it to him before. It is the ego that will get him in the trouble because as we know in this hobby, it's a very small community."

Robert Mueller's ego will hurt deeproot Pinball

"Robert Mulear over at deeproot, basically taking credit for Elvira 3. He's like, if you want, you know, you can thank me for that because I mentioned it to Dennis that he should make Elvira 3. And it's just like, really, that's what you're going to chime in on, on Pinside, under the deeproot handle, you're going to take credit for Elvira 3."

Taking credit for Elvira 3 is ridiculous arrogance

"I don't think Robert Mueller wants to come on this show and actually have a two-way conversation around deeproot and working with John Popadiuk. I think he's only comfortable talking to someone like Jeff who will basically have a one-way medium"

Robert Mueller from deeproot avoiding tough questions by choosing softball interviews