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"Isn't it sad what the TWIPYs have become? Really is. It's like so sad because like I also think TPF has become like I just I. Having the TWIPYs at TPF was always like the Saturday night thing. It was so much fun. Like the line was around the line to get into the TWIPYs was the longest line at all of TPF. What does that tell you?"

Kaneda expresses sadness about what the TWIPYs (This Week in Pinball awards) have become, lamenting how they used to be the main attraction at TPF.

"nobody is voting in the TWIPYs the TWIPYs are dead and i'm happy to hear it that clown took over and destroyed it"

Kaneda celebrates that the TWIPYs (This Week in Pinball awards) are dead, claiming someone took over and destroyed them

"By the way, everybody do me a favor. Just don't vote in the TWIPYs. I'm not voting. It's like Colin destroyed what was once the most fun end of the year celebration of everything in pinball. Because he is a vindictive, spiteful, annoying person in the hobby."

Kaneda tells listeners not to vote in the TWIPYs and calls Colin vindictive and spiteful for destroying what was once a fun celebration.

"And he was he did everything in his power to eliminate my recognition in this hobby. At its crazy how far like my stock is risen and his stock is just at the lowest ever. And this is what he does for a living. [...] Yeah. Now he's made the whole thing irrelevant."

Kaneda accuses Colin of trying to eliminate his recognition while claiming his own status has risen and Colin's has fallen, making the TWIPYs irrelevant.

"TWIPY's dead. TWIPY's dead. Okay."

Kaneda reiterates that the TWIPYs are dead

"This doesn't, this was never a TWIPY category. Marketing doesn't matter to most pinball companies."

Kaneda criticizes the TWIPYs for not having a marketing category and suggests pinball companies don't care about marketing

"And I know that TWIPY Award is named after Lyman Sheats Jr.. And Lyman is still the greatest coder of all time because Lyman knew that you could make a game approachable, understandable, and deep at the same time without being complex."

Kaneda acknowledges the TWIPY Award naming while praising Lyman Sheats Jr. as the greatest coder

"But the reason I this this is a new category. You know, you're not going to see this category at the TWIPYs. And I don't know what Jamie's doing over at the round table with those award shows."

Kaneda suggests his awards have categories the TWIPYs don't and expresses confusion about Jamie's involvement with award shows

"no, this is not the TWIPYs. The TWIPYs, by the way, I think voting starts on Monday, 8-8, nobody cares. All right, the TWIPYs are dead. They're dead. They're dead. There's like four categories, by the way."

Kaneda dismisses the TWIPYs as dead with only four categories and claims nobody cares about them

"Is he eligible for a TWIPY? They cancel. They cancel the eligibility."

Kaneda again references that TWIPY canceled eligibility/categories for their awards

"A TWIPY Award winner. You know you're not eligible. They canceled all the content categories."

Kaneda mentions that TWIPY (This Week in Pinball) canceled all content categories for their awards

"Did he notice that trend like a month ago be like let's say how bad Kaneda is behind the paywall [...] He's horrible behind the paywall learn more about learn more about why this man is terrible this father of two"

Kaneda sarcastically criticizes This Week in Pinball for putting negative coverage of him behind their paywall subscription

"Does anyone here? I mean this does anyone here subscribe to the Kineticist or this week in pinball like I every time I asked is like nobody nobody admits to it. Does anybody here? Subscribe to this week in pinball or the Kineticist anybody [...] I'm surprised like hiding hiding hit pieces about Kaneda behind the paywall hasn't really worked out well for people"

Kaneda mocks that nobody admits to subscribing to This Week in Pinball/Kineticist and criticizes them for hiding hit pieces about him behind a paywall

"TWIPY battle"

"What is a TWIPY? I don't know. I don't even know anymore"

Kaneda expresses confusion and dismissiveness about This Week in Pinball's TWIPY awards category.

"I mean, if books are written years from now, it's not going to be that Kaneda won six TWIPYs."

Kaneda mentions winning six TWIPY awards as a significant achievement in pinball history

"you're never going to win the TWIPY is there are no TWIPY's man. TWIPY's a done I got six collecting dust."

Kaneda states that the TWIPY awards are finished/done and mentions having six of them collecting dust

"I think he's as woke as they come and when he started posting about like that you know trying to bring in the trans debate into the Harry Potter pinball like he literally tried to drag our hobby in our community he tried to drag it there for clicks once I saw that that's when I'm like I'm done"

Kaneda criticizes This Week in Pinball for bringing transgender/political debates into Harry Potter pinball coverage

"the only well look there's only one thing that I've told people to unsubscribe from and that is the was is the the Kineticist or this week in pinball newsletter unsubscribe to that like I I don't know why call and we we were cool and then we weren't and then he he doubled down I don't I just again I just don't think he likes me at all"

Kaneda tells people to unsubscribe from This Week in Pinball newsletter and says the creator doesn't like him

"I still can't wait to see how he tries to reboot the TWIPY's just to prove Kaneda wrong. I love it. I'm going to send him on a mission to do all this hard work in the show still going to be terrible. It's over. The TWIPY's are dead."

Kaneda declares the TWIPYs are dead and mocks Colin's attempts to reboot them to prove him wrong.

"I was, I was, you know, I felt blindsided by that loss. [...] People didn't show up. People didn't care about the TWIPYs."

Kaneda expresses disappointment about losing the TWIPYs and suggests people didn't care about the awards.

"Well, it was stolen from you, but no repeat of that. Yes, got you know, the silver lining of the TWIPY loss and my my hissy fit."

Kaneda acknowledges his 'hissy fit' over losing the TWIPY awards but found a silver lining in the experience.

"the only pinball podcaster to win 6 TWIPYs in a row, then be ineligible and then lose to my new best friend in pinball, Kale over at the electric bat baby"

Kaneda mentions winning 6 TWIPYs (This Week in Pinball awards) in a row before becoming ineligible and then losing to Kale from Electric Bat

"Brazil right the TWIPY capital of the world"

Kaneda refers to Brazil as the 'TWIPY capital of the world'

"Six TWIPYs."

Kaneda makes a dismissive comment about This Week in Pinball.

"Game of the Year is voted on. By the pinball public, right? Same thing, TWIPYs. And you can get a hundred more first place votes and lose the weighted system. I love it."

Kaneda criticizes TWIPYs voting system, sarcastically noting how someone can get more first place votes but still lose due to the weighted system.

"Also, you're never going to win that seventh TWIPY Award if you keep talking like this."

Kaneda makes a self-aware joke about not winning TWIPY Awards if he keeps being critical.

"All that was put in place years ago wasn't this year But all of it was put in place to To take down Kaneda's Pinball Podcasts"

Kaneda alleges that TWIPY voting systems were deliberately designed to disadvantage Kaneda's Pinball Podcasts

"The reason I'm I'm not Supporting the TWIPYs anymore nor do I care to like be a part of it nor why promote it? It is I just don't like I Don't like the direction they took it. I don't trust the leadership over there I don't trust the results even I mean that like they didn't reveal the second and third place votes"

Kaneda is withdrawing support from the TWIPYs due to distrust of leadership, direction, and voting transparency issues

"But I'm also going to declare right now, this is why I want nothing to do with the TWIPYs moving forward. He's the head of it. I want nothing to do with these people. They're all fakes in my mind. I'm serious. They're all fakes. They're all hiding behind an agenda and it's crystal clear what that agenda is and I want nothing to do with it."

Kaneda declares he wants nothing to do with the TWIPYs because the head of it and the people involved are all fakes hiding behind an agenda.

"Like I've literally what the net net is like I'll just I just won't care nor support the TWIPY's ever again. Just because it's done now to me at the whole thing is just a it was a terrible show to begin with and done like not even going to tune in next year."

Kaneda says he won't support the TWIPYs anymore, calling it a terrible show that he's done with.

"Nobody cares about the TWIPYs anymore that's all that says like when they say this was the most voted on TWIPYs ever that's a flat out lie lie."

Kaneda claims nobody cares about the TWIPYs anymore and accuses them of lying about vote totals.

"Colin's got his finger on that scale. Do you notice how he never released the second and third place tallies? [...] Colin is hiding the info. Finger on the scale."

Kaneda accuses Kyle of manipulating the TWIPY awards by hiding voting data and rigging the results.

"I come over your house. I take your glass out. You smash it over my head because he's a crying baby that didn't win a TWIPY."

Kaneda refers to himself as 'a crying baby that didn't win a TWIPY' in a self-deprecating joke

"I won't be promoting the TWIPYs anymore. I've, I've come to peace with it [...] I won't be supporting the shows."

Kaneda declares he will no longer promote or support the TWIPYs

"And that's your award show for a $200 million industry."

Kaneda criticizes the TWIPYs as being inadequate for representing a major industry

"I think they got exactly what they wanted. And the show has been a technical disaster. Not even about who wins or loses. The show has been a technical disaster for years."

Kaneda criticizes the TWIPYs as being a technical disaster for years

"I bet they're a little bit like bummed out that the show production was so bad and also, you know, bummed out that they're weighted scoring, I think, is just going to make everybody not care."

Kaneda says TWIPY organizers are likely upset about poor show production and weighted scoring system that makes people not care

"You know what Kale never released. He never released how many second and third place votes people got so [...] you had multiple categories where the where the thing that got the most first place votes didn't win."

Kaneda criticizes the TWIPY voting transparency, suggesting the scoring system was flawed since winners with most first-place votes didn't always win.

"I don't think I got his TWIPY vote that's how I lost if I had my kids vote I would have won so close point point 1% yeah."

Kaneda jokes that he lost the TWIPY award by a narrow margin because he didn't get his kid's vote.

"I mean, I learn this with the TWIPYs, you know. I mean, I don't think I even, I did not have a meltdown. No, it's just, that's what's weird to me is you guys have seen me meltdown. I did not have a meltdown."

Kaneda defends his reaction to losing the TWIPY award, insisting he didn't have a meltdown despite criticism.

"My 10 minute mini meltdown is the only thing people are talking about from the TWIPYs. It's the only thing [...] All the work they put into the show, all the other winners, all the other categories, the only thing."

Kaneda claims his reaction was the only memorable thing from the TWIPY awards show, overshadowing all other content and winners.

"Now, and think about it like this, if I had just won and just said, hey guys, thanks for the word, nobody would have talked about the show at all. Like at all, they're kind of lucky."

Kaneda suggests the TWIPY show was lucky his controversial reaction generated buzz, implying the show would have been forgettable otherwise.

"To put this in context, in 2022, the last time I won the TWIPY, we got over 600 votes for first place. It's interesting, because you could say, oh well, people just don't care about the TWIPYs, but it looks like they got more votes overall."

Kaneda analyzes the voting patterns for the TWIPY awards and suggests people still care about them despite lower vote counts in his category.

"I think to me, it was kind of like, this is a good way to end it. It's a good way to end the emphasis on this thing. It doesn't matter."

Kaneda views losing as a good way to end his emphasis on the TWIPYs, saying it doesn't matter

"Moving forward, I think I'm going to completely de-emphasize the TWIPYs in my life and in my world. It's just, it is what it is. I won't even talk about the show or its complications and everything."

Kaneda says he will de-emphasize the TWIPYs and won't talk about the show or its complications anymore

"We know the organizers don't necessarily want Kaneda to win, but if anybody else wins, I will congratulate them."

Kaneda suggests the TWIPY organizers don't want him to win but says he'll be gracious if someone else does.

"I think what I might do is be on Facebook live watching the TWIPYs with each and every one of you. I'm going to watch it via YouTube. [...] It's going to be me and Brenda watching the TWIPYs drinking sake because that's our date night and we're going to order some food and maybe we can all hang out together and see if I'm still able to say I'm the world's favorite pinball podcast."

Kaneda plans to watch the TWIPY awards live with his audience to see if he can still claim to be the world's favorite pinball podcast.

"I know when I say I'm not going to TPF, I miss the TWIPYs being live at TPF, that was one of the main reasons I would go."

Kaneda says he misses the TWIPYs (This Week in Pinball awards) being live at TPF and that was a main reason he attended

"Would I go to the TWIPYs down in Houston and my friends over at Worm Hall? Maybe, you know, maybe."

Kaneda considers going to the TWIPYs event and refers to the Worm Hall team as friends