We Are Pinball #23 "The Kaneda Episode"

Don and Genghis detail their troubled history with Kaneda/Chris, criticizing manipulative behavior and drama-driven content creation.

Synopsis

In this WAP episode, Don and Genghis address ongoing community drama involving Kaneda (Chris Kooluris), a prolific pinball podcaster. Both hosts recount detailed personal conflicts with Kaneda, including disrespectful behavior toward their spouses, manipulative friendship dynamics, public attacks, and attempts at reconciliation followed by renewed hostility. They discuss Kaneda's bans from pinball expos and his pattern of creating conflict with other content creators while maintaining a profitable Patreon presence, ultimately concluding they prefer distance despite his recent unban attempts.

Entities

• Jersey Jack Pinball· company
• Spooky Pinball· company
• DPX· event
• Pinball Expo· event
• Alice in Wonderland· game
• Avatar· game
• John Wick· game
• Flip N Out Pinball· organization
• Kaneda's Pinball Podcast· organization
• We Are Pinball· organization
• Cale Hernandez· person
• Cary Hardy· person
• Don· person
• Dutch· person
• Enzo· person
• Genghis· person
• Greg Bone· person
• Kaneda· person
• Rachel· person
• Zach· person