This Week in Pinball

"he's got the best fucking pinball news website he deserves to make fucking money on it and he doesn't have to explain himself"

Kaneda strongly advocates that Jeff deserves to monetize This Week in Pinball without justification

"if you've read this week in pinball from day one which I have this site is 100 percent objective it's objective Jeff barely if ever injects his own opinion"

Kaneda defends This Week in Pinball's objectivity and journalistic integrity

"I love Jeff at this week in pinball I think this week in pinball is an amazing amazing site I think Jeff gives us some of the best pinball news out there [...] Jeff my man your site is the best go to for pinball news"

Kaneda praises This Week in Pinball as amazing and the best source for pinball news

"Oh, I think I got another TWIPY vote. David, remember, TWIPY voting, Kaneda's Pinball Podcasts."

Kaneda mentions getting a TWIPY vote and references TWIPY voting for Kaneda's Pinball Podcasts

"I think I can count on you for a TWIPY vote this year"

Kaneda is asking for TWIPY votes from a listener

"This is not the way to win a third TWIPY. It's not going to happen. I'm going to lose. I'm going to lose. [...] Do I still have your TWIPY votes people? Get them ready. I'm going to start campaigning so early."

Kaneda is campaigning for his third TWIPY victory and expressing concern about losing this year's award

"It's going to be interesting this year to see you. Who actually asks you for TWIPY votes? It was like, last year was amazing. Nobody wanted to come out and say the TWIPY's mattered. And then, you know, I was campaigning early. I just never too early to campaign for a third TWIPY victory."

Kaneda comments on how last year nobody wanted to acknowledge the TWIPY awards mattered, while he was campaigning early

"I trust Jeff I trust this week in pinball I think he's he's if anyone's aware of what's going on everywhere it's him"

Kaneda expresses trust in Jeff and This Week in Pinball, saying Jeff is more aware than anyone about what's happening in the pinball industry

"there's a story on this week in pinball about pinquest and it's a really interesting concept of trying to make location play a little bit different for people and create miniature quest that people can do on machines on location"

Kaneda mentions This Week in Pinball covered pinquest and describes it as a really interesting concept

"The two-time TWIPY award-winning pinball podcaster Chris Kaneda calores"

Kaneda is being introduced as a two-time TWIPY award winner

"I really feel bad for guys like this week in pinball and Jeff and some of the other podcasts out there who like there's just not a lot to talk about."

Kaneda expresses sympathy for This Week in Pinball during a slow news period when there's not much pinball content to cover.

"I got an email from this week in pinball from Jeff. Jeff, thank you for listening to the show."

Kaneda acknowledges receiving an email from This Week in Pinball's Jeff and thanks him for listening to the podcast

"Your podcast is badass. You got two TWIPYs. You're going to get another one next year."

Kaneda reads another message praising his podcast and predicting he'll win another TWIPY award

"Brian said, congrats on your TWIPY. Love it that you say what you want and don't hold back."

Kaneda reads a message from Brian congratulating him on his TWIPY award and praising his unfiltered commentary style

"I think the guys, Jeff at this week in pinball, here's a guy that wondered if he's going to have enough news to fill something in a week. It could be this minute in pinball."

Kaneda reflects on how Jeff from This Week in Pinball once wondered if there would be enough pinball news to fill a weekly show, suggesting the industry has grown significantly.

"Me can over at Special When Lit, Zach and Greg, Jeff at this week in pinball. If you heard our conversations behind the scenes, we are genuinely, we are so excited about what you're gonna see today. And it's not fake."

Kaneda mentions Jeff at This Week in Pinball as part of a group genuinely excited about Willy Wonka pinball coverage.

"Why do you think that was? I'll tell you why it was because they didn't want people to see that Kaneda's Pinball Podcasts probably won by. A landslide that the show you love the show you love they didn't give you the satisfaction of of seeing how much we won."

Kaneda accuses TWIPY of deliberately hiding vote percentages to conceal that his podcast won by a landslide.

"They're probably they were worried that we would discourage other pinball podcasters from quitting, which is stupid, which is stupid. But look at that's a conspiracy."

Kaneda calls TWIPY's handling of vote percentages a conspiracy against his show.

"I've got good fashion since you saw me up there at the TWIPYs who who's throwing fashion stones at me right now"

Kaneda references his appearance at the TWIPYs while defending his fashion sense.

"All right. Did you see the percentages of votes that all the different TWIPY winners got right? Go look at that. Why do you think? Okay. Why do you think that that that we were told how much each game won by. But when they got to the categories of the right ends, they didn't tell us the percentage wins for the right end categories."

Kaneda questions why TWIPY showed vote percentages for game categories but not for other award categories.

"I guarantee you the traffic is higher and this is where we are with modern media. It's more important to go to where there's real influence than it is to go to just a broad site that covers way more stuff than just your focus."

Kaneda endorses This Week in Pinball as having more influence in the pinball community than mainstream gaming outlets.

"More people will get excited if you just go to pinball machines for sale on Facebook or you go to pinside or you reveal it on this week in pinball. Why not give Jeff who has a pinball website dedicated to pinball who I bet more people, more people will read this week in pinball who are into pinball than will read IGN who are into pinball."

Kaneda argues that This Week in Pinball is a better platform for pinball news than IGN because it reaches more actual pinball enthusiasts.

"more people will read this week in pinball who are into pinball than will read IGN who are into pinball. Okay, I guarantee you the traffic is higher and this is where we are with modern media."

Prediction: This Week in Pinball will have higher traffic among pinball enthusiasts than IGN will have among pinball enthusiasts.

"TWIPY Favorite pinball podcast two years in a row have a good day everyone"

Kaneda mentions that his show won TWIPY for favorite pinball podcast two years in a row

"I got so many so many emails after the TWIPY award [...] I wanted to say thank you to someone's podcast that I listened to who went over the TWIPYs and they had some nice stuff to say about me"

Kaneda thanks another podcaster who reviewed the TWIPYs and said nice things about him

"I'm still like trying to get over the fact that pirates won for best theme integration I mean what how is that even possible pirates winning for best theme integration with absolutely no assets"

Dismissive of Pirates of the Caribbean winning best theme integration at TWIPYs

"And I've been looking at the TWIPY thread and I want to say this. I want everybody to just do me a favor and let's put the negative aspect of that show behind us and move on."

Kaneda references the TWIPY thread while discussing moving past negative aspects of the awards show

"And now the campaign begins to win the third TWIPY to be the best pinball podcast of 2019. So let's not mess it up in our first show as the campaign begins for that."

Kaneda mentions campaigning to win a third TWIPY award for best pinball podcast in 2019

"I have to say Jeff and the people over there have been very, very good at keeping it close to the vest and not revealing who's winning."

Kaneda praises Jeff and This Week in Pinball for maintaining secrecy about the TWIPY awards winners.

"He also says take care and good luck on the TWIPY."

Kaneda acknowledges a listener's well-wishes for TWIPY (This Week in Pinball)

"TWIPY should be yours if the mainstream media has not judged it unworthy."

Kaneda reads a listener comment saying he should win the TWIPY award unless mainstream media judges his podcast unworthy

"so over at this week in pinball they interviewed a Zach Sharpe about the stern pin cider the pin cider club what are they called the stern insiders [...] I just thought some of the answers from Zach were funny I want to read them to you"

Kaneda references a This Week in Pinball interview with Zach Sharpe and finds the answers amusing enough to share with his audience

"by the way for the record I was born in the early 70s so I sit right in the middle of both bands I do like G and R but they are not a Zeppelin or Floyd wash your mouth out with soap young man on a plus side I voted for you at the TWIPYs keep up the good work stop talking about music your clueless"

Kaneda reads a listener email that mentions voting for him at the TWIPYs while criticizing his musical opinions

"aside from a zombie apocalypse pinball is going to be around for a long time stay awesome my friend hope you win the TWIPY Tim W conjurer on pinside"

Kaneda reads another listener email wishing him luck winning the TWIPY award

"dreaming of another TWIPY for best pinball podcast"

Kaneda expresses desire to win another TWIPY award for best pinball podcast

"if you look at the TWIPYs for 2018 best games I don't think a lot of stuff was like wow like holy crap you know I think 2019 actually is gonna shape up to have a much better selection of pins"

Kaneda references the TWIPYs (This Week in Pinball awards) while commenting that 2018's best games weren't that impressive

"I think a lot of people are working really hard on it and I think that that show they put up was very, very calculated. It was very calculated."

Kaneda accuses This Week in Pinball of being manipulative and calculated in their approach to the TWIPYs controversy

"I thought it was really unfair how that podcast recently has undermined all their hard work, shits on the whole thing and then later on tries to do a Miyakopa saying that they care, which one is it? I don't think they've ever been fully straight forward and direct with any of us."

Kaneda criticizes This Week in Pinball for undermining the TWIPYs then backtracking, calling them dishonest and not straightforward

"It'll be a fun show. I'm really excited to see Jeff and Zach and Greg put on a live award show. I think it's, you know, people are getting like too serious about the whole thing. I mean, it's really just a night to celebrate pinball and everything we love about it."

Kaneda expresses excitement about the TWIPYs live award show and defends it against critics who are taking it too seriously

"I did see the, this week in pinball, pinball blast this morning."

Kaneda mentions seeing a This Week in Pinball news blast about American Pinball's new registered titles

"I woke up this morning and I was listening to head to head pinball great great chat between Marty and Jeff"

Kaneda compliments a conversation between Marty and Jeff from This Week in Pinball

"I think it's been a lot easier since this week in pinball came out to do this podcast for me because I used to have to go through like the pinside threads and read everything and try to find everything going on"

Kaneda explains how This Week in Pinball has made his podcast production much easier by providing aggregated news

"I'm glad that this week in pinball exists because I don't think why would we all be doing different research for pinball news when there's a source to get all of the news in pinball Jeff does an amazing job aggregating everything going on the hobby"

Kaneda praises This Week in Pinball as an essential resource and compliments Jeff's aggregation work

"So Jeff, I love the site. I think you guys should donate to the site. I think it's a lot more time and energy and money than you realize it ta[kes]"

Kaneda expresses love for This Week in Pinball and encourages donations, acknowledging the work involved in running it.

"Jeff, you can't, like we work so hard to get that TWIPY. You can't just buy a TWIPY trophy for $100. I can't go buy an Academy Award with my name on it. I have the biggest problem with that being on there."

Kaneda criticizes This Week in Pinball for offering personalized TWIPY trophies as Patreon rewards, comparing it to buying an Academy Award.

"I mean, I think on some level, if you enjoy this week in pinball and it does cost Jeff time and money to make it, I look for $12 a year. You can get all your pinball news in a concise way. You get pinball rumors. You get stuff that no other site is giving you. Isn't is that not worth $12 a year? I mean, I think it is."

Kaneda defends This Week in Pinball's Patreon model, arguing $12/year is reasonable for their unique content and news coverage.

"I just I actually just donated a lot more than that to Jeff. Just just to say thanks because I hadn't donated before. I felt like a hypocrite. And it's like, okay, you've got you've been doing this. It's been a lot of hard work. Here you go."

Kaneda reveals he personally donated to This Week in Pinball to thank Jeff for his hard work.

"dialed in became the most award winning game at the TWIPYs last time around there's a reason why dialed in got so much accolades"

Kaneda references the TWIPYs as a credible awards show, noting Dialed In's success there

"I'm actually going down this week in pinball have you guys donated yet to this week in pinball the TWIPYs are up but you still should support Jeff"

Kaneda encourages listeners to donate to This Week in Pinball and support Jeff

"Nowadays, where the animations are great, even in the TWIPY, the best animations. I basically think that less is more."

Kaneda dismisses the TWIPY best animations award category, saying less is more when it comes to animations in pinball