This Week in Pinball

"the other question I was like where did where did Jeff get this from who at highway gave this information [...] it is still not legal to share stuff like this whenever you put together a pitch deck of ideas there is a non disclosure agreement that is still binding"

Kaneda questions the legality of This Week in Pinball publishing the Heighway pitch deck due to likely NDA violations

"Thanks to this week in pinball. I just saw something ridiculous."

Kaneda credits This Week in Pinball as his source for seeing something ridiculous in pinball news

"I love that this is my favorite part of the this week in pinball article so at the very bottom of after all the pictures it just says it was declined very interesting to see though"

Kaneda expresses appreciation for This Week in Pinball's article presentation, particularly enjoying the simple note that the Angry Birds pitch was declined

"If you go to This Week in Pinball, you can see a game that Andrew Heighway was pitching [...] And what's really cool about this is somehow Jeff got possession of Heighway Pinball's pitch to the manufacturers of Angry Birds."

Kaneda discusses how This Week in Pinball obtained and published Heighway Pinball's Angry Birds pitch deck

"I love that one this week in pinball. They're like, Suncoast pinball, hi, yes. That's not what I'm here and happened."

Kaneda mocks This Week in Pinball's coverage of the Dirty Donny/Suncoast pinball story, suggesting they got it wrong

"It's kind of a shame that Monsters can't be voted on for this year's TWIPY's because it came out just like a few weeks after the fact, because I think it would have taken the TWIPY this year."

Kaneda criticizes the TWIPY eligibility timing that prevents Monsters from being nominated this year.

"And I think Jeff and Zach have done a great job at creating a platform in which the people who love this hobby can,"

Kaneda praises Jeff and Zach for creating the TWIPY platform for hobby recognition.

"And I'm not gonna do what other podcasts do and say the TWIPY's don't mean shit. And I'm honestly saying that it does mean a lot to me and the recognition does mean a lot."

Kaneda defends the importance of the TWIPYs against other podcasters who dismiss them.

"Now, if you haven't, if you haven't voted for Kaneda's Pinball Podcast Podcast, please do go to this week in pinball and fill out all your favorite game designers or work-in layouts."

Kaneda directs listeners to This Week in Pinball to vote for his podcast in the TWIPYs.

"And he said to me, the only way you win TWIPYs is if you do good shows leading up to the TWIPY show itself."

Kaneda shares advice he received that winning TWIPYs requires doing good shows before the TWIPY awards.

"do you know where it got competitive you know who who fire the first shot that made it not fun when there was a thread on Pinside a couple months ago"

Kaneda suggests This Week in Pinball fired the first shot in making TWIPY competition unfriendly

"Jeff Greg and Zach put on an amazing show last year and what about the TWIPY's was not celebrating pinball you know and I don't get it"

Kaneda defends This Week in Pinball's TWIPY awards against criticism that they don't celebrate pinball

"behind the scenes Marty and Ryan are saying they get like 4,000 people to listen to every show [...] but then it started to make no sense that in that thread the podcast that people kept saying over and over and over again that they listen to is this one"

Kaneda questions This Week in Pinball's claimed listener numbers versus actual fan engagement

"if you haven't voted for me in your TWIPYs now's the time go to This Week in Pinball dot com favorite pinball podcast Kaneda"

Kaneda asks listeners to vote for him in This Week in Pinball's TWIPY awards

"they have a completely different format of show. It's a it's two to three hours show with an interview every time you know what you're gonna get on this show"

Kaneda acknowledges This Week in Pinball's different format while contrasting it with his own show

"in my opinion, an award show should do the pre-qualifications to thin down the selection a little bit. I don't understand writing votes at all in any kind of niche market"

The TWIPYs award process should have pre-qualifications instead of write-in votes

"Again, I just think that people who actually vote for the TWIPYs are well aware of what podcast exists. So I don't think most of those things like stumped people."

Kaneda defends the TWIPY voting process, arguing voters already know what podcasts exist.

"If asking people to write in their TWIPY votes is the biggest issue, but look, I'll say..."

Kaneda dismisses criticism about the TWIPY voting process write-in system.

"Like, this is the one thing that I think that Jeff at this weekend, pinball, and that we are striving for is to bring that positivity no matter what, no matter what you feel about a certain company, you feel about anything to get in there and just have fun and celebrate everybody and to let all that bullshit go and just have a good freaking night in there and award people that deserve it."

Kaneda praises This Week in Pinball for striving to bring positivity and celebrate everyone at their awards show regardless of industry drama.

"I think statements like that undermine your vote and your opinion. It's not a popularity contest. [...] I think that matters. I don't know. It doesn't matter to them. So maybe you know, if they don't care, I'll happily take the TWIPY votes."

Kaneda argues that dismissing TWIPYs undermines voter opinions and says he'll take the votes if others don't want them

"Ryan says, please vote for whoever you want as the award means nothing to me. [...] The TWIPYs are an internet popularity contest that is no bearing on quality and happiness of the hobby to me. [...] And I'm here to tell you on this episode with my new microphone that the TWIPYs do mean a lot."

Kaneda counters another podcaster's dismissal of TWIPYs, defending their importance against claims they're just a popularity contest

"And for those of you who have been living under a rock, we know what the TWIPYs are. It's this week in pinball. It's their annual award. And so I just want to go on the record for saying, I do think the TWIPYs matter."

Kaneda states he thinks the TWIPYs (This Week in Pinball awards) are important and matter

"I do think that the TWIPYs are important. And they are important to me and this show. [...] And winning a TWIPY matters to me. It does mean a lot that we get recognized as being the best pinball podcast"

Kaneda expresses that winning a TWIPY award matters to him personally and for his show

"Here's the only problem with all this stuff there are no deeproot machines we don't know what they are is at the price point 5,000 to 10,000 like what machines like and haven't we heard this before from John Popadiuk the whole notion of like we'll fly to your house and set the machine up for you"

Kaneda questions This Week in Pinball's giveaway promotion involving deeproot machines, expressing skepticism about the offer

"And Robert chimed in and said you know I'm just trying to help Jeff out that's great Robert I would love why can't you give Kaneda free pinball machine if Kaneda wins the TWIPY someone who voted for him will get a free deeproot machine"

Kaneda jokingly suggests he should get a free pinball machine if he wins the TWIPY, referencing This Week in Pinball's giveaway

"I go back and forth in it because because this week in pinball is not it's not like a new site that takes an editorial slant like I am like I give you opinions [...] So you're probably not going to get this week in pinball to ever say something negative about deeproot if deeproot is given a machines because nobody is lobbying to be on Kaneda's pinball podcast nobody gets special favors here"

Kaneda suggests This Week in Pinball may have editorial bias due to manufacturer relationships, contrasting it with his own independence

"And here's the thing and I also when I was reading this week in pinball's predictions for 2019 Read them go to this week in pinball and read the predictions It is really hard for people to give an honest prediction about what they think is going to happen in the pinball world"

Kaneda recommends reading This Week in Pinball's 2019 predictions while discussing the difficulty of making honest pinball predictions

"But what this requires is two things the first thing it requires is for you to go on to this week in pinball and vote for me for best pinball podcast"

Kaneda asks listeners to vote for him for best pinball podcast on This Week in Pinball's TWIPY awards

"But I have an issue with this one because they don't allow you to vote for monster bash remake in This selection and I know the TWIPY committee debated this and they said it has to be a new game But I think that's bullshit"

Kaneda criticizes the TWIPY committee's decision to exclude Monster Bash remake from the best toys and gimmicks category

"Please go to thisweekandpinball.com and vote for Kaneda's Pinball Podcast as your favorite pinball podcast in the TWIPYs. [...] But I think winning a TWIPY and I think being voted for by you guys who love the show, I do think it's important because I think it validates for all the other people out there in the pinball world that would rather silence this show that this show matters."

Kaneda is asking listeners to vote for his show in This Week in Pinball's TWIPY awards to validate his show's importance against those who would silence it.

"It won the most TWIPYs in 2017. At the end of 2017 everybody praised dialed in."

Kaneda notes that Dialed In won the most TWIPY awards in 2017 and was widely praised.

"unless i win the TWIPY award i'm not coming back i'm gonna do that you know"

Kaneda mentions the TWIPY award as a condition for continuing his show

"I know that I have a lot of passionate followers and I hope that you guys vote for this show during the TWIPYs. If we win great, if we don't great, it doesn't really matter."

Kaneda asks his listeners to vote for his show at the TWIPYs while claiming the outcome doesn't matter to him

"Look we have a little award show coming up in a few months. The TWIPYs is going to be a live show at Texas pinball Festival. Where you the listener and the fans of pinball actually get to vote on what their favorite pinball Podcast is."

Kaneda mentions the TWIPYs award show as a venue where listeners vote on their favorite pinball podcast

"And my final takeaways, I think Robert is playing a game, I think he's playing a game with me, with podcasts, with this week in pinball, I do"

Kaneda believes Robert Mueller from deeproot is playing games with podcasts and This Week in Pinball

"We can't we can't get towards the two hour mark or else that will be just like everybody else. And try will win the twirpy not the TWIPY. We won the TWIPY last year. We want to go two for two."

Kaneda mentions winning the TWIPY award last year and wanting to win again this year

"I hope you guys vote for this show for the TWIPYs this year when ever they're gonna happen. Got news when that's gonna happen. What's the deal guys? Reveal it? Come on. I gotta get my votes in line."

Kaneda asks his audience to vote for his show for the TWIPYs and playfully pressures This Week in Pinball to announce when voting will happen

"So let's you got the Google Doc open I like that they made it so easy for us to do it this way because we can just like it has like a drop down window and everything. So it's going to be super simple for us to do this you know as I say that I just click something and now I've lost it hold on one second. Well you know kudos to Marty and Ryan for you know doing a spin on what Jeff it this week in pinball is doing"

Kaneda praises Marty and Ryan for doing a spin on what This Week in Pinball is doing with their survey format

"I feel like when you run out of like stuff to talk about you just fall back on like listicles like that's what every like internet site uses for like clickbait and I couldn't help but laugh on like this week in pinball you know the like how many top 10 list can we get right [...] come on Jeff we we you've given us so much now that we've actually passed over to the point where we can get the top 10 list of this week in pinball's top 10 list right"

Kaneda is criticizing This Week in Pinball for overusing top 10 lists as clickbait content when running out of things to discuss

"All of this comes from this week in pinball when Jeff went over there. And Deeprut was talking about how they were trying to make a game that had like sparks and a smoke trail."

Kaneda references This Week in Pinball as the source for information about deeproot discussing a new game with sparks and smoke trails

"If you read PINSIDE every day or read, you know, this week in pinball every week, there's enough institutional knowledge that would never land you with Oktoberfest."

Kaneda suggests that This Week in Pinball provides valuable institutional knowledge that would help companies avoid poor theme choices like Oktoberfest.

"It was this week in pinball did a survey. [...] And I reported on it. And you know, I, and I listened to it and I was like, you know, like one that I've always thought would be coolest future Ramo."

Kaneda mentions This Week in Pinball did a survey about pinball themes by demographics that he reported on and listened to.

"As you know, Jeff is the wonderful man who provides us with this week in pinball, which without Jeff's site, more and more of us would be forced to go on Pinside and find our news out there. [...] I think Jeff has done the greatest service to the hobby because he allows us to get our news without having crazy levy and ice man punching us in the face as we're trying to find the news."

Kaneda praises This Week in Pinball as providing the greatest service to the hobby by offering news without the toxic atmosphere of Pinside.

"I'm scared of the Font that's being used on this week in pinball's website. I I'm scared they need to change that font. I don't think you could find another website on planet earth that uses like Comic Sans font on a website throughout so I'm scared about that Jeff. Come on change the font. Make it more mobile friendly, all right"

Kaneda criticizes This Week in Pinball's website font (calling it Comic Sans) and mobile friendliness

"Jeff, you know, I love you brother, but you should not it so Jeff Jeff and I had a little like spat a few weeks ago and I'll tell you why. Because he texted me asking if I would feel bad that Something happened to a pinball artist because I leaked images of that artist's work"

Kaneda describes having a 'spat' with Jeff from This Week in Pinball over leaked pinball artist images

"I want to invite Zach Meny on to the show from straight down the middle. And I know he does a weekly podcast with this week in pinball."

Kaneda acknowledges Zach's weekly podcast with This Week in Pinball while inviting him on his show

"everyone who does this the amount of time we put into these shows whether it's me whether it's Ryan and Marty whether it's like Special When Lit you know whether it's um you know straight down the middle guys whether it's Jeff at at this week in pinball a lot of our time goes into this"

Kaneda acknowledges Jeff at This Week in Pinball puts a lot of time into his show, grouping him with other pinball podcasters who deserve support.

"And hey, we're coming up to the point where like the TWIPYs are upon us this fall. And I heard from somebody that pinball podcasts, they don't matter when it comes to TWIPY winning until November. [...] And that only if you do good shows in November, will you win a TWIPY?"

Kaneda sarcastically comments on the TWIPY awards timing, suggesting he heard that only November shows matter for winning.

"I think this week in pinball is a great source for just catching up on the latest news."

Kaneda recommends This Week in Pinball as a great source for catching up on the latest news.

"I think there might be some money that people donate to this week in pinball, but I don't do this for the money."

Kaneda mentions that This Week in Pinball receives donations while discussing podcast monetization