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Ep 123: Macho TWIPYs with Will Oetting, Imoto Harney, and Lucas Pepke

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It's that time of year when the community gears up for voting via TWIPYs. Will, Imoto, and Lucas join us to talk about the new changes for 2023

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Highlights

  • This Week in Pinball is now rolled under Kineticist with Colin Patterson leading content creation
  • 2024 Twippies voting starts December 18th and covers Dec 1, 2022 to Dec 1, 2023 period
  • 16 eligible games are in the 2024 Twippies: the largest pool in seven years of awards
  • Lucas Pepke created the Macho Pinball character and generated 40,000-50,000 listens in a short period
  • Pre-voting for content creator categories (streamer, podcaster) is eliminated in 2024; single voting period replaces it
  • Pulp Fiction by Jersey Jack and Labyrinth by Barrels of Fun are still being verified for shipping eligibility
  • Lucas Pepke has 20+ years of liturgical/Gregorian chant vocal training and sang in a televised Catholic mass in Birmingham, Alabama for 16 years
  • Macho Pinball was created partly as market research to explore the boundaries of what the pinball community would accept
  • Josh Sharp (American Pinball) sits on the Twippies Committee as the 'ears on the Pulp Fiction side'
  • Games must have shipped within the eligibility period to qualify for Twippies: not just announced or revealed

Notable quotes

“This Week in Pinball is now rolled under Kineticist... If we can team up and pool our resources, I think we might have a little bit bigger shot at stuff.”
Will Oetting
“I will cry so hard in front of that audience.”
Lucas Pepke
“Macho had, I don't know, maybe 40,000, 50,000 listens in a really short period of time. And Puppet Pals had only like 400 total.”
Lucas Pepke
“Where else would you find like the main singer of Barenaked Ladies Genghis Khan having fun together with a voice actor that does Star Wars Episode One?”
Lucas Pepke
“Pinball is the great equalizer... it's like the island of misfit toys.”
Lucas Pepke and Josh Roop
“We're going four hours. We're going big. We know that everyone wants to be in that room with no deodorant and farting and smelling like cheese for four hours.”
Will Oetting / Josh Roop
“I needed to learn how to make a podcast... I was listening to pinball podcasts and they'll listen to anything. So which is true, which is anybody who's listening to this definitely has low standards.”
Lucas Pepke
“This is a musical. Let's not get this wrong, people. This is a musical.”
Will Oetting
“I'm just me, right? Like, I'm trying to do all these different things. But... I know this community better than most.”
Lucas Pepke
“It's really cool to actually spend time with you guys because I know we have talked and so again I'm sorry I got us off track, but like this podcast is making it feel really real for Lucas now.”
Lucas Pepke

Entities

  • American Pinball· company
  • Barrels of Fun· company
  • Flip N Out Pinball· company
  • Jersey Jack Pinball· company
  • Kineticist· company
  • Multimorphic· company
  • Spooky Pinball· company
  • Texas Pinball Festival· event
  • Twippies Awards· event
  • Loser Kid Pinball Podcast· organization
  • Macho Pinball· organization
  • Puppet Pals· organization
  • Skill Shot Baby· organization
  • This Week in Pinball· organization
  • Christopher Franchi· person
  • Colin Patterson· person
  • Imoto Harney· person
  • Jeff Patterson· person
  • Jeff Teolis· person
  • Josh Roop· person
  • Josh Sharp· person
  • Lucas Pepke· person
  • Matt Scott Larson· person
  • Nicole Minney· person
  • Will Oetting· person
  • Zach Sharpe· person

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