This Week in Pinball

"People want to vote for Kaneda's Pinball Podcasts in the TWIPYs to win the seventh award."

Kaneda mentions people wanting to vote for his Kaneda's Pinball Podcast in the TWIPYs (This Week in Pinball awards) to win a seventh award

"And that's thanks to each and every one of you and to all the Kaneda haters out there. With zero TWIPYs, hardly any subscribers, you don't get to tell me what I do with the money I work hard for."

Kaneda dismisses his critics by pointing out they have zero TWIPY awards and hardly any subscribers, saying they can't tell him what to do with his money.

"The real question is, am I going to upload seven free shows to be eligible for TWIPY Victory number seven?"

Kaneda casually considers whether to pursue his seventh TWIPY victory

"And I don't do this show to win the TWIPYs. I win the TWIPYs because I have fun making the show."

Kaneda claims he doesn't make his show to win TWIPYs, but wins them as a byproduct of having fun

"Every time they do the popularity contest known as the TWIPYs, yours truly has held up the trophy, and that is to much chagrin of another content creator who has called it quits for good."

Kaneda dismissively calls the TWIPYs (This Week in Pinball awards) a 'popularity contest' while boasting about his wins

"Like you don't have to quit doing your podcast because you didn't win a TWIPY. I mean, it's just the popularity contest. It means nothing."

Kaneda dismisses the TWIPYs as meaningless popularity contests that aren't worth quitting over

"Let's start with the TWIPYs the TWIPYs were much much better this year I know they still have issues with the microphone and where to keep it because when you listen online It's like they're screaming at us sometimes But the show itself and being in the show itself in Texas was a blast They did a much better job the flow was really great. So Todd and Emoto and Will thank you for putting on such a great show"

Kaneda praises the TWIPY awards show as much improved with better flow, while noting ongoing audio issues

"If I win the TWIPY for favorite pinball podcast behind the paywall, this will be the greatest achievement in pinball podcasting history."

Kaneda says winning the TWIPY award would be the greatest achievement in pinball podcasting history

"I'm excited for the TWIPYs, even though I think the TWIPYs should cut the length of the show to just an hour this year. Like nobody wants to celebrate last year's games with all of this excitement going on."

Kaneda says the TWIPYs show should be shortened to just an hour because nobody wants to focus on last year's games.

"speaking of TWIPYs I don't think anyone cares about last year's games now that we've got so many new games I mean they should just rethink the entire TWIPYs and have an 11th hour voting about what's our favorite new game and have that as a new category"

Kaneda thinks the TWIPYs awards should be restructured because people don't care about last year's games anymore with all the new releases

"A controversy that was brought to light by no other than Kaneda's biggest fan and friend Christopher Franchi who put up a post about it and then quickly took the post down after This week in pinball proved him wrong that brazil actually has a very large pinball population"

Kaneda acknowledges that This Week in Pinball proved Christopher Franchi wrong about Brazil's pinball population during a vote-buying controversy

"Does anyone really think I mean just does anybody really think? That I I've had a cheat to win In the TWIPYs. Does anybody really think that?"

Kaneda defends himself against accusations of cheating to win the TWIPYs (This Week in Pinball awards)

"I think Foo Fighters is going to win best animations at next year's TWIPYs. And it's going to be probably one of the first time Jersey Jack pinball does not win best animations."

Kaneda predicts Foo Fighters will win best animations at the TWIPYs, breaking Jersey Jack's winning streak in that category

"Let's talk about how irrelevant the topics at the TWIPYs are going to be this year. Let's talk about that. Are we really going to sit in a room and celebrate Rush Bimbo?"

Kaneda criticizes the TWIPYs as having irrelevant topics this year, questioning whether Rush pinball deserves celebration

"I'll come on your show after the TWIPYs, but I can't take an hour of somebody telling me how they like the Foo Fighters."

Kaneda mentions he'll appear on Albert's show after the TWIPYs but criticizes long-form content about Foo Fighters

"And don't forget to vote for what shorts I wear at the TWIPYs. Right now, it's looking like the Brazilians are in the lead and the Brazilian shorts are not even cargo shorts. So that might be breaking the rule a little bit, but I think it would be hysterical to get up there and maybe win for the sixth year in a row after all of the controversy that my votes in Brazil that people say I paid for are the reason why Kaneda's Pinball Podcast podcast is number one."

Kaneda discusses attending the TWIPYs awards and references controversy about his Brazilian votes allegedly being paid for.

"Don's going to have to follow this up. Don, you're going to have to get a show out now. This is how you get the TWIPYs. You hit first and you hit hard. [...] We don't need 90 minute analysis of what we just saw with the 30 second clip."

Kaneda is challenging Don (from This Week in Pinball) to respond quickly to the Stern news and criticizing lengthy analysis formats.

"And we're going to win that six TWIPY for favorite pinball podcast or later."

Kaneda expresses confidence about winning a sixth TWIPY award for favorite pinball podcast

"How did you win five TWIPYs being so toxic?"

Kaneda references winning five TWIPY awards while acknowledging being called toxic

"I think we might even win a TWIPY from behind the paywall. And look, when that happens and I put those cargo shorts on, we're all going to be raising some champagne and toasting together because it's all because of you that we even have a chance."

Kaneda thinks his show might win a TWIPY award and celebrates the potential victory with his audience

"For TWIPY number six, we would be able to get up on stage and say we have 600 subscribers to the Kaneda Club. More subscribers than every single pinball podcaster's Patreon combined. That is what hashtag winning looks like."

Kaneda boasts about potentially having more subscribers than all other pinball podcasters combined when accepting a TWIPY award

"We're also going to be there to celebrate the TWIPYs. And hopefully Kaneda will have his cargo shorts on with favorite Pinball podcast. You know, because every award on my shelf, like we've earned it. And it's such a fun show to see what all the fans out there vote for and see everybody get up on stage and give their speeches. It's the only Pinball award show in town."

Kaneda expresses excitement for the TWIPYs event, calling it a fun show and the only pinball award show in town

"But first, I do want to quickly address this notion that somehow we are cheating to win the TWIPY for favorite pinball podcast. And this week, someone put up a post about how it looks suspicious that there are like, I don't know, something like four or five percent of the total TWIPY votes came from Brazil."

Kaneda directly addresses accusations of cheating in the TWIPY awards voting process

"Well, after being accused of buying votes from Brazil, if we do win the sixth TWIPY for favorite pinball podcast, we're gonna play this song."

Kaneda references being accused of buying TWIPY votes from Brazil for the favorite pinball podcast award

"Oh, welcome everybody to the world's legitimate TWIPY award-winning podcast for favorite pinball podcast over the last five years."

Kaneda emphasizes his show is the 'legitimate' TWIPY award winner, defending against cheating accusations

"Did you see this mistake by this week in Pinball with the TWIPYs? They left Fathom Pinball off of the ballot for the TWIPYs. I don't understand how you have a committee of people who is in this hobby. [...] The people on this committee, they should know better."

Kaneda criticizes This Week in Pinball for making a mistake by leaving Fathom Pinball off the TWIPY ballot and questions the competence of their committee.

"At what point are these guys going to realize maybe Kaneda should be on the committee and then we'll announce that he's ineligible for a TWIPY moving forward."

Kaneda suggests This Week in Pinball should put him on their committee and implies he could do a better job.

"I mean, the TWIPYs are going to be great. I think Amodo and Todd are going to do great."

Kaneda expresses positive expectations for the TWIPYs awards show and praises the hosts Amodo and Todd

"And I don't care about TWIPYs. I don't care about Patreon subscribers. Everybody needs to hear this because I'm tired of hearing all of the other media just celebrate all of these moves by all of these companies."

Kaneda dismisses caring about TWIPYs and criticizes other pinball media for celebrating company moves instead of being critical

"And this show's not free because I want your TWIPY vote, even though I have your TWIPY vote."

Kaneda claims he already has the TWIPY vote and isn't making this episode free to get votes

"And if you haven't voted yet in the TWIPYs for Favorite pinball Podcast, here's your chance. [...] if we win number six, I'm going to put those cargo shorts on and I'm going to march into TPF and I'm going to hoist that trophy up for each and every one of you who voted."

Kaneda asks for TWIPY votes and promises to celebrate dramatically if he wins his sixth award

"But what does Kaneda know he only has the TWIPYs on the shelf and he doesn't care about interviewing Keith Elwin."

Kaneda sarcastically references having TWIPYs while contrasting his approach to other media who do interviews

"Guys, we know you can have images on the dropdown menus. Please, next year, upload some images so we can see what we're voting on."

Kaneda asks the TWIPY organizers to add images to help voters make informed decisions

"This is the most ridiculous and lazy way to get people to vote. The only place they show you images is on the homebrew section. Why are you kidding me? You're giving the homebrew games more real estate and more love than the major games that we're voting on from each manufacturer."

Kaneda calls the TWIPY voting system ridiculous and lazy for only showing images in the homebrew section while neglecting major manufacturer games

"Will the TWIPY committee please wake up? Will they wake up a little bit and actually understand the consumer experience of voting? Why is it when I'm looking at best layout or best artwork or best mod, why are there no images on the TWIPY's website so I can see all the different art packages and all the different layouts and all the different toys?"

Kaneda criticizes the TWIPY committee for having a poor voting interface without images to help voters see what they're voting on

"They're never gonna get over 500 subscribers. They're never gonna get that TWIPY on the shelf"

Kaneda boasts that other shows will never achieve his success including winning a TWIPY award.

"I think TWIPY voting opens up next week. Get ready I mean there is like zero hype for these TWIPYs. Nobody's talking about it They're not even talking about it."

Kaneda criticizes the lack of excitement and promotion around the TWIPY awards.

"I'm going to say something right now, and this is why we're going to win the sixth TWIPY."

Kaneda confidently predicts his show will win the sixth TWIPY award based on his hot take about manufacturer practices.

"this thing is gonna come out right when eligibility happens for best game of the year this week in pinball, now this is gonna be interesting because TWIPY voting opens up in January"

Kaneda discusses the timing of Scooby-Doo's release coinciding with This Week in Pinball's game of the year voting eligibility

"we're gonna start campaigning for the 6th Twip, become January 1st. [...] So it starts now, Kaneda's campaign for a 6th TWIPY"

Kaneda announces he's campaigning for a 6th TWIPY award starting January 1st

"We're not just gonna win this 6th TWIPY. We are going to annihilate the competition, and we're gonna do it fair and square, and they can check every single vote, every single IP address"

Aggressive campaign declaration for 6th TWIPY award win

"And was I going to go to Texas Pinball Festival for the TWIPYs?"

Kaneda mentions considering attending Texas Pinball Festival for the TWIPY awards

"And that's why Canade is going to win the sixth TWIPY, because we can also do really fun positive shows."

Kaneda claims he's going to win the sixth TWIPY award because his show does fun positive content

"What's really hurt the show over the last few years, it doesn't feel like they rehearsed it and you just can't wing it. You really have to make sure you do run throughs and you really practice it and get all of it tight."

Kaneda criticizes the TWIPY awards show production quality, saying it lacks rehearsal and proper preparation

"we might even win a six TWIPY being behind the paywall. If we win a six TWIPY from behind the paywall, that will be the greatest achievement in the history of the TWIPYs."

Kaneda sees beating This Week in Pinball from behind a paywall as the ultimate victory and greatest achievement in TWIPY history

"This is how you put TWIPYs on the shelf."

Kaneda claims his exclusive scooping and leaking tactics are what defeats This Week in Pinball at awards competitions

"So look, whether you vote for me in the TWIPYs or not, I still think this business practice is disingenuous."

Kaneda mentions the TWIPYs while criticizing Haggis pinball's business practices.

"There is not a single award show that is pre-recorded... People are just gonna stop caring about the TWIPYs. People are not gonna travel to TPF for the TWIPYs."

The new TWIPI committee is ruining the awards by not live streaming

"Now they've got Kaneda, the world's number one supporter of the TWIPYs. The guy who hyped it every single year, telling all of my listeners and everybody, I still wanna win it. [...] But the show itself, I almost feel like boycotting because it's turning into an absolute joke."

Kaneda positions himself as the TWIPYs' biggest former supporter who is now considering boycotting due to quality decline.

"But the show itself, I almost feel like boycotting because it's turning into an absolute joke. They need to get Greg and Zach back and it's just that simple."

Kaneda threatens to boycott the TWIPYs, calling it 'an absolute joke' and demanding the return of the original producers.