I used to wonder "who in god's name is listening to Chris' ridiculous and awful podcast?"

Well, turns out the answer is "everybody here."

You people are easily entertained!

Miss American Pie works too!

He's been begging me to do his show for years, using his charming, relentless, and admittedly effective flattery/neg routine. But I refuse to debase myself!

I'm gonna start up a Patreon. I'll go on his show for 1000 bucks. I'll debase myself for 1000 bucks.

I will be donating the entirety of it to my favorite charity: me.

Let's make this happen people!

I really preferred this movie on TV, as it was absolutely hilarious.

"This town like a great big chicken, jus waitin' to get plucked!"

I kinda laugh whenever I see the "grown men" card played around here. Even if I've probably played it.

I mean...everyone here collects and plays pinball games, and many spend a significant amount of their time comparing and buying plastic dolls. I don't think we should have any expectations that anybody here has embraced being a grown man.

"EVEN IF I'VE PROBABLY PLAYED IT."

Nice work detective. How's that job with 60 Minutes coming along?

Is Odin about to ban himself for the 15th Time?!

Don’t do it man! You have too much wisdom to spread here!

So he's just interviewing random Daves now?

Man the barrel-scraping for guests is getting sad.

That's total bullshit!

It was NOT "my" competition I was part of a dedicated team which put on the greatest tournament ever.

The rest is true more or less.

Here's what the guy is about:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/a-strongly-worded-message-for-kaneda

Honestly, I'm so sick of this asshole.

I've never done ANYTHING to that prick except try to get along with him. I've laughed at his dumb jokes. I've let him buy me drinks because that's pretty much his only social skill. Invited him to my place a DOZEN times and he had no interest in coming, because why does he want to hang out with a bunch of people on a Friday night drinking and playing pinball? Not his thing, as he really has no interest in playing pinball and hanging out with people. I've shot the shit with him on Facebook, I always thought we were on friendly terms.

After he shit all over an event I and others spent close to a year organizing, he sent me a phony apology which I accepted. That was just more bullshit - I don't listen to his shit show, but apparently he trashes me every episode?

So fuck him. He's a dipshit. All of the people who encourage him are dipshits. He really has nothing to offer anybody with half a brain and if he amuses you I guarantee that you are a moron. Literally everybody in the NYC pinball community hates his guts, which is why you'll never see him in person at any of the many pinball events that happen in the Big Apple weekly. He is completely unwelcome in his own city and nobody here cares about his dumb show, which is like kryptonite to him. Why do you think he flies to Texas for attention? He doesn't get any here, in the biggest city in the country.

That being said, NYCPC is looking for sponsors! If he wants to step up with several thousand bucks I'm sure we can work something out. He's still not allowed to come though.

Oh well that's different then!

He's a swell guy who's really funny and if you worship him you most certainly aren't a dumber than a rock.

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And thank you for confirming my theory

Cute. Surely that's what you meant.

Hey you realize your hero Chris is a New Yawker right?

I don't get this obsession with people using "new york" as their go-to insult, I really don't. I get into bitchfests with people here all the time and I've never thought to use their geographic location as my "going nuclear" option, but then I think I have a little more to offer in the wit department than that.

I've been to many states in our wonderful country and met lots of great people. I've been to Huntington, West Virginia about 8 times and found it be a charming little burg. I'd never insult the people there just for living there, even though there's plenty of cheap shots people can and do take about people who live in rural areas and the South.

Especially when they have such a nice little amusement park, Camden! The Big Dipper is great!

Good thing nobody has any dumb stereotypes about the jersey shore.

But hey I spent a delightful weekend in Wildwood last summer! It ruled.

The funny thing about tourists is everybody hates them. Until they stop showing up. I remember post 9/11 when everybody here who hates tourists suddenly realized how much we depend on them!
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Top Cast is great.

Few remember TopCast was a reaction to the original pinball podcast troll, Gary. That dude invented the pinball troll playbook, and then one day, POOF, he was gone! It was a strange time. The Top Cast archive is the best thing to come out of it.

I thought it was funny when new Gary came around and nobody seemed to remember we'd seen it all before. Not sure if Gary's RGP Radio podcasts still exist anywhere but if you can dig 'em people here would absolutely love 'em.

It was pretty much the exact same template people seem to love today.

Lots of shittalk about RGPers (the pinsiders of the previous decade), lots of polarizing opinions, and interviews with not only RGPers but plenty of industry folks who were dumb enough to do his show.

The only thing different is he wasn't very prolific...maybe once a month? But there was also only one pinball company at the time so it seemed to work for him.

For all his faults - and there were many, he was a genuinely awful guy in many respects - you have to give ol' Gary Cubeta credit. He was absolutely the first pinball podcaster and launched a genre that at times overfills a much-needed void. For better or worse he proved there was an audience for it.

They ran out of people to interview and called it a day.

Doesn’t stop people from continuing their shows well past their welcome these days, unfortunately.