This Week in Pinball

"the reason zombie eddie will now not be coming on the show is that zombie eddie did another interview with this week in pinball [...] when people do two hour interviews with people they've said everything that needs to be said i don't really want to have a guest that was just a guest on another show uh it's just it's just not how you do it"

Kaneda criticizes This Week in Pinball for interviewing a guest he had scheduled, saying it's unprofessional and ruins the exclusivity of interviews

"I got a chance to read Charlie's Interview that he did on or he did his own podcast or he interviewed with this week in pinball about it. And I just want to say that This is a really really interesting topic to read up on to to to to dive into"

Kaneda recommends reading Charlie's interview on This Week in Pinball about the Godzilla/Spooky/Stern situation, calling it a really interesting topic to dive into.

"will I become the TWIPY number one pinball podcast in the year two I don't I don't know I was flattered that people voted for me I thought it was exciting um I you know I think what Ryan and Marty do is great"

Kaneda praises Ryan and Marty from This Week in Pinball, calling what they do 'great' while discussing competition for top pinball podcast

"First of all, Jeff, congratulations on the one year anniversary. Your site has been a godsend to anybody out there who does a pinball podcast. And I think your site has also been a godsend to anyone out there who just wants to learn what's going on in the pinball world without having to deal with all of the pinball drama and the negativity on the forums. You just get the info and you're on. I like the fact I even like the fact that there's no comment section. So you don't have to like listen to people just being negative and spewing all this hate."

Kaneda praises This Week in Pinball as a valuable resource that provides pinball news without drama or negativity.

"do I think that head to head pinball is going to beat me for the TWIPY I don't know I think it's it's way too early to tell we've got way too many more shows to go before now and then"

Kaneda responds to speculation about Head to Head Pinball potentially beating his show for the TWIPY award

"I saw on this week in pinball Robert Mueller said he might make a $50,000 game for me. Robert, that's awesome. Where can I pre-order that game?"

Kaneda reacts positively but sarcastically to Robert Mueller's comment on This Week in Pinball about making a $50,000 game.

"I just saw a thread about Pinside's interview with or there's a this week in pinball interview with robin And and then I saw that people were just commenting on it and actually getting ejected from the thread for commenting on an interview"

Kaneda criticizes This Week in Pinball's interview with Robin, noting that people were being ejected from discussion threads about it

"wasn't it hysterical when we won best TWIPY podcast and Hilton went on a rampage about how the votes were rigged and I love how he's like only Pinside registered users should be allowed to vote in the TWIPYs"

Kaneda mocks criticism of his TWIPY podcast award win, referencing complaints about voting eligibility

"I saw that robin was interviewed on This week in pinball and when someone and when people went on the pin sight thread to discuss that interview People were like threat ejected like kicked out of the thread for two months Because they were simply discussing the interview"

Kaneda criticizes the aftermath of This Week in Pinball's Robin interview, where people discussing it were banned from threads

"I saw that this week in pinball tried to reach out to all of them and I don't think they're going to be able to do this from the shadows anymore"

Kaneda notes that This Week in Pinball attempted to contact the pinball brothers for their side of the story

"get those TWIPY votes ready we're gonna do two years in a row and then we're gonna have the ultimate celebration if we do that"

Kaneda encourages listeners to vote for TWIPY awards to win two years in a row

"I think now we can also say that we're also the only pinball podcast that is now potentially about to be sued so not only we the best TWIPY podcast but we're also the most controversial and legally um disruptive podcast out there"

Kaneda boasts about being the best TWIPY podcast winner and most controversial show

"Well done, TWIPY Award winner."

Kaneda reads an email from a listener referencing him as a 'TWIPY Award winner'

"So tell me, after reading the TWIPY stories, what good will interviewing him possibly do?"

Kaneda questions the value of Martin interviewing Andrew Heighway after This Week in Pinball's coverage of the situation

"Pat Lawlor is deal with Jersey Jack when I'm hearing is this that he gets residuals or percentage of every dialed in sold so he can't be happy that his game that was just voted best game of the year by the TWIPYs"

Kaneda references TWIPYs voting Dialed In as best game of the year in context of discussing Pat Lawlor's business relationship with Jersey Jack

"it's much healthier to just maybe read this week in pinball, maybe catch up on a podcast or two, maybe play pinball a few times a week and then actually go out and enjoy your life while you still have it."

Kaneda recommends This Week in Pinball as a healthier alternative to spending excessive time on Pinside forums

"Dialed-in just got voted by far the best pinball machine of 2017, 2018 by the TWIPYs. It was unanimously above and beyond the most celebrated game there was."

Kaneda references the TWIPYs (This Week in Pinball awards) as validation that Dialed-in was the best pinball machine of 2017-2018.

"Jeff over there is a really great resource for news and I, and we've even started to see him start to editorialize a little bit things that are happening."

Kaneda praises Jeff from This Week in Pinball as a great news resource and notes he's starting to editorialize more.

"I think we need to have a TWIPY award for best pinball topper of the year because I think I think more effort should go into toppers on pinball machines I do I think it completes the package"

Kaneda suggests This Week in Pinball should create an award category for best pinball topper of the year

"How's a TWIPY award boom boom you get you get your airtime based upon your your your your TWIPYs. [...] Oh there you go based on the amount of votes that you got i should bring the TWIPY with me"

Kaneda suggests podcast airtime should be allocated based on TWIPY awards won and plans to bring his award with him

"I'm a TWIPY award winner i'm going first class [...] I should have got two first class tickets me in one seat the TWIPY in the other seat with the seat belt around it ordering it drinks"

Kaneda proudly identifies as a TWIPY award winner and jokes about treating his award like a VIP passenger

"Yeah maybe i imagine going two for two i don't know man i feel like i feel like i'm always i'm always anxious"

Kaneda expresses hope about potentially winning a second TWIPY award while feeling anxious about it

"It was funny when I was reading this week in Pinball. Because I think for a lot of you out there I go to that website to hear Jeff sort of take on all the different things going on in Pinball."

Kaneda describes going to This Week in Pinball to read Jeff's takes on pinball topics

"And I think it's interesting because I think Jeff's going to realize what this podcast has realized many many many months if not years ago. Is at some point you just can't deliver the news on Pinball."

Kaneda suggests Jeff from This Week in Pinball will eventually realize the limitations of pinball news coverage, something Kaneda's podcast figured out long ago

"Somewhere in my journey of discovering, listening and enjoying the TWIPY award winning podcast I miss the beginning of your feud with head to head. Can you enlighten this listener? Well Michael I explain it to the beginning of this podcast there is no feud. This is just simple jabbing back and forth at each other."

Kaneda clarifies there's no real feud with This Week in Pinball, just playful jabbing back and forth

"I'm glad that you guys voted this, the favorite pinball podcast on the TWIPYs this year."

Kaneda mentions winning favorite pinball podcast at the TWIPYs (This Week in Pinball awards)

"So here's something interesting when I was reading this week in pinball. It seems that Charlie Emery is very, very excited to release Alice Cooper's nightmare castle."

Kaneda references reading This Week in Pinball as a source for information about Charlie Emery's comments on Alice Cooper pinball

"But then Jeff over at this week in pinball, he had a upload a little Easter egg image from Deadpool. And then everyone's like yelling at me like I gave it to him. I didn't give him anything. But what happened is then it creates this chain reaction where you know, everyone's like blaming everyone else for who's the one who shared the image and yada yada yada."

Kaneda explains that Jeff from This Week in Pinball uploaded a Deadpool image and people blamed Kaneda for giving it to him, creating drama.

"Lyman did a great sort of around the playfield with this week in pinball where he made a joke where he said how great the hobby is right now how flourishing pinball is and then he's like well what a great time to retire."

Kaneda praises Lyman's appearance on This Week in Pinball where he joked about retirement rumors.

"Like even when you go on this week in pinball, there's no real news. There's not a lot of stuff that people don't know about."

Kaneda says This Week in Pinball currently has no real news and not much that people don't already know about

"I was reading on this week in pinball they said there's a rumor that the design cycle over at Stern was Iron Maiden Deadpool and then Guardians in terms of when these games design cycles began"

Kaneda references This Week in Pinball as a source for rumors about Stern's game design cycle timeline

"The TWIPY Award winning favorite pinball podcast in the world, I'm your host, Kaneda."

"he writes so I was introduced to your podcast for two reasons first Zach and Greg over at straight down the middle and their TWIPYs and second the efforts of others to instill some sort of forbidden fruit status to you and your podcast just made it a must hear stuff for me"

Kaneda reads feedback from a listener who discovered his podcast partly through Straight Down the Middle's TWIPY coverage

"I got an email from Dan Donnell. He said, hi Chris, after watching the TWIPYs, I decided to give your podcast a shot. And holy shit, it is great."

Kaneda reads a listener email saying they discovered his podcast after watching the TWIPYs and found it great

"Well, you know, I don't really go on to Pinside much anymore. I'll tell you why because this week in pinball, which is the website that Jeff runs. [...] Yeah, well, we should talk about the pinball that we're staring at it right now. It's arrived. Pinside is not the same. It's just not the same."

Kaneda explains he doesn't go on Pinside much anymore because This Week in Pinball (Jeff's website) exists and Pinside isn't the same anymore

"But back to TWIPYs. So Fair Play to Jack and Team and obviously it sounds well deserved. They racked him up."

Kaneda congratulates Jack and his team on their TWIPY awards, saying they were well deserved

"I know that when you read the interview with this week in pinball, you know, Robert comes across as a pretty, how do you say this? Err, not arrogant. I mean, I would say like overly confident individual who seems like very bullish on deeproots, ability to sort of transform this industry and do something no one's ever done before."

Kaneda comments on Robert's portrayal in a This Week in Pinball interview, describing him as overly confident rather than arrogant.

"So when the TWIPYs were announced, you know, it was really exciting that there was going to be a recognition of pinball out in the world, not only of the games that we love, but the personalities that help make the pinball content that we all enjoy"

Kaneda praises the TWIPYs awards for recognizing pinball games and content creators.

"But I knew I knew to pack my headset because there was going to be news that would hit at 6 a.m. sharp Eastern Standard Time on the website this week in pinball. [...] I implore you to go read the interview with deeproot pinball and its founder, Robert Mueller, about the plans of deeproot pinball."

Kaneda acknowledges This Week in Pinball as the go-to source for breaking pinball news and recommends readers check out their deeproot pinball interview.

"Chris, congratulations on the TWIPY. You deserve it. But with great power comes great responsibility."

Kaneda received congratulations for winning a TWIPY award, with the listener noting he deserves it but has responsibility that comes with it.

"And I love it because we can get that information without plowing through the drama and all the name calling and the bickering and of the forum, right? Because it's all right there and it's delivered to you without opinion, without you know people chiming in and screaming, yeah or nay, it's just here it is."

Kaneda appreciates that This Week in Pinball delivers news cleanly without forum drama or opinions.

"I just want to say I want to give the biggest shout out and the biggest thanks I can possibly give to Jeff over at This Week in Pinball because Jeff, your site has become the go-to. It has become the well of information that gives everyone on a weekly basis everything they need to know about what's going on in the hobby."

Kaneda praises This Week in Pinball as the go-to source of pinball information that everyone relies on weekly.

"So I know I speak from all of the peers who do podcasts that without you, our shows wouldn't be as interesting."

Kaneda says that podcast hosts depend on This Week in Pinball to make their shows interesting.

"your site has become the go-to. It has become the well of information that gives everyone on a weekly basis everything they need to know about what's going on in the hobby. And I love it because we can get that information without plowing through the drama and all the name calling and the bickering"

This Week in Pinball is the go-to source for pinball news without forum drama

"We're gonna win the TWIPY Award for Best Pinball Podcast this Friday because all of you who listen went and voted for me, right? Now, I still think Nate Chivers is probably gonna win it."

Kaneda says he hopes to win the TWIPY Award but thinks Nate Chivers will probably win instead.

"This week in pinball, you know, they'd have their whole list of like there's going to be two new pinball games coming out or not, not maybe because there's these are two themes that have been secured to make pinball machine. So there's a difference right you can you can secure the license to a game, but the game might never come out."

Kaneda discusses This Week in Pinball's coverage of upcoming pinball games and explains the difference between secured licenses and actual game releases.

"Now, I have to give Jeff some advice. I can't go back after voting. I can't go back and see which games were nominated for each category. [...] And I think that's kind of a mistake, and I hope he changes that next year"

Kaneda criticizes the TWIPY awards website for not displaying nominees after voting and suggests Jeff should fix this issue.

"I actually think if you just don't go on pinside and you go to this week in pinball and catch up on all the weekly pinball news and you listen to some of your favorite podcasts [...] I think you'll be much ha"

Kaneda suggests people would be happier consuming This Week in Pinball instead of spending time on Pinside

"I did laugh what Jeff did with like the you know I'm going to tell you the two new titles and I'm going to go down a list. And then he has that long list of all the potential new titles coming out there are titles coming out that I know are coming out for a fact that aren't even on Jeff's list."

Kaneda finds Jeff's coverage amusing but notes some titles are missing from his comprehensive lists

"I highly recommend everybody go to this week in pinball. It's the best resource for pinball news."

Kaneda recommends This Week in Pinball as the best resource for pinball news