Zach Meny

"They do the best pinball reviews in the market. They do. They absolutely do. Now you can't deny the fact that they're also selling you product, right?"

Zach and Greg do the best pinball reviews despite conflict of interest

"And I actually had the best conversation and it cheered me up more than anybody else that day. And I had a conversation with Zach Meny. And Zach was saying, you know, Chris, I really fully support this. I support what you're doing because nobody else out there really understands the amount of time and the amount of effort people like us put into our content."

Reconciliation conversation with Zach Meny about content monetization

"I'm not hiding anywhere, Zach Meny. And I'm just going to be real brother. The only one who's hiding is you, man. You won't come on my show. You've been hiding for three, four years."

Callout of Zach Meny for saying he's hiding behind paywall

"But what I don't get is how you can do a podcast and I mean this Zach you do a podcast in which you say That this isn't really news You're kind of making a little bit light of it"

Kaneda calls out Zach Sharpee for downplaying Jersey Jack's playfield issues and claiming JJP never said the problem was fixed

"I was called a bully this week on the midweek show of the pinball show by the pinball network... By the way, someone needs to tell the pinball network that the middle of the week is Wednesday. If you do a show on Monday, how is your midweek show a Saturday thing? They can't even get the days of the week right."

Called a bully by Pinball Network's midweek show for topper comments

"You could stop making that serious face on the videos. You could stop taking pinball so damn seriously and you could actually have some fun"

Attacking Zach Sharpe for being too serious and threatening legal action against fan sites

"So apparently we got this huge thing wrong that medieval managed royal editions aren't shipping yet. Uh oh, only the standard editions are shipping. Cancel the show guys. You can't listen to this anymore. I'm not doing my journalistic integrity."

Kaneda mocks Zach Sharpee for fact-checking rumors about pinball games

"I think he thinks he's like, he can outsmart me. I'm here to tell him he's half the marketer. Kaneda is? He's half the marketer. You give me those games. I'll do more fun stuff than just it's always the same stuff... Same people stream and it's same like media outlets. Same everything."

Zach Sharpee is half the marketer Kaneda is - Stern's marketing approach is boring and predictable

"Well Zach Meny, the dodge demon is much more than $80,000 and I don't want to do this podcast anymore... Because he just wants you to buy every single thing that Stern pinball puts out"

Direct confrontation with Zach Sharpee over industry criticism

"Do you think a distributor who distributes a game would ever tell you this game sucks? Would, do you think they would ever tell you that? Or this game is ugly? Or this game is like shoots like crap, right?"

Challenges distributors like Zach Meny on whether they would ever give negative reviews to games they distribute

"Zach also was like, you know what, I don't think people should pause buying new inbox games right now and people are saying, well, Zach's a distributor so if he says that, isn't that a conflict of interest"

Disagreement with Zach about whether people should pause buying new games due to playfield issues

"Yes, he is saying Charlie Emery is now up there in the class of people like John Borg and Joe Balcer and everyone else who's like the A-list designers and I don't know. I don't know if I agree with that."

Disagreement with Zach Sharpee's assessment that Charlie Emery is now among A-list pinball designers

"And it's got to be hard to for these guys because now that Zach is a distributor it's got to be hard for him I mean the conflict is there it's hard if you're a distributor and your pinball reviewer because your livelihood is moving pinball machine so you do want everyone to buy every new pin."

Calling out the conflict of interest when distributors review games they also sell

"how can you say that the price of a pinball machine is irrelevant if it's fun and this to me is where we are with pinball this notion that costs should just be forgotten"

Stern's 'fun equals value regardless of price' mentality is wrong

"Nobody can beat Zach Meny in a pinball debate. And I said to him, look, you name the time and let's make it happen."

Challenging Zach Meny to a pinball debate after Manny criticized his last podcast

"Oh no, Zach Meny just sent me a note saying that my last podcast, if I keep podcasting like that, he said I'm going to be handing the TWIPY to somebody else this year."

Kaneda mentions Zach Meny from This Week in Pinball criticizing his podcast and threatening his TWIPY chances

"I think the pinball network is a fucking colossal failure And I'm gonna tell you directly and I don't mean this to make more drama And the reason why I think it's a failure is we didn't need it"

Pinball Network was unnecessary and exclusionary

"You are the most passive-aggressive mother fucker in this entire hobby and you're the most passive-aggressive Fucking personality I've ever met"

Zach Meny is passive-aggressive and manipulative

"You think Houdini is a great game. That is why you could never beat Kaneda in a pinball debate."

Houdini is not a great game, used as evidence against Zach Meny's pinball judgment