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The Pinball Show Ep 44: In The Air Tonight

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The Pinball Show Episode 44: In The Air Tonight Host: Zach MenySpecial Guest Host: Ken Cromwell, Jersey Jack Pinball Communication Specialist  - Ken Cromwell Returns - The Holiday Season - From A...

Highlights

  • The Pinball Network has achieved a quarter million listens in 11 months since conception
  • Ken Cromwell and Bill Webb created Special When Lit podcast in July 2018, missing only one week in 89 episodes
  • TPN was started as a passion project without profit motive or business model
  • Deep Root's Raza sales numbers show suspicious pattern where recent order numbers are all divisible by three
  • Project Pinball Charity 24-hour stream raised over $50,000 for children's hospitals with a dollar-for-dollar match from Adam Schwartz
  • An unnamed prominent pinball figure created false narratives about TPN's intentions during its launch
  • TPN receives no advertising revenue from its podcasts
  • Joe Katz from JJP's software team acquired a PlayStation 5 and was impressed by the controller's haptic feedback

Notable quotes

TPN is doing quite well, and the group here is having fun, and I think they've built friendships out of TPN because of it. So mission success.
Zach Minney
We weren't planning on running it as a business. This was something that we were doing because we were having fun and we thought that we could also help people and we would work together with people that we might not have been able to do so in the past.
Ken Cromwell
It seems to me that it would take less effort, okay, for this person to be the supportive person that he claims to be versus working so hard behind the scenes to essentially create roadblocks when somebody starts to get recognition for their efforts.
Zach Minney
I've never done anything just to try to cause harm. I don't care. I always tell people that I wouldn't do shit like that to my worst enemy in life. It's not humane. It's not a cool thing to do.
Zach Minney
I never received an apology, whether it be personal or public, for an attempt at a character assassination from all of us. And that's why, ultimately, I just kind of... it's like I'm not motivated to work with that individual ever again.
Ken Cromwell
For sure it did. You know that it did. I know that it did. Your prior guests with Greg Bone and Jason Fowler expressed a lot of the same sentiments... I don't know that I've ever felt so disappointed and stressed out over some false narratives that were being created at the time.
Ken Cromwell
This ring makes me feel horrible because when I wake up in the morning and I check my app, basically it says, You slept ridiculously bad last night. You should probably not try to move today so that you can recover. And it just gets me demotivated right off the bat.
Zach Minney

Entities

  • Deep Root Pinball· company
  • Flippin' Out Pinball· company
  • Jersey Jack Pinball (JJP)· company
  • Special When Lit Pinball Podcast· media
  • Straight Down The Middle (SDTM)· media
  • Project Pinball Charity· organization
  • The Pinball Network (TPN)· organization
  • Adam Schwartz· person
  • Bill Webb· person
  • Chris Chandler· person
  • Craig Bobby· person
  • Dennis Creasel· person
  • Greg Bone· person
  • Jason Fowler· person
  • Joe Katz· person
  • Ken Cromwell· person
  • Zach Minney· person

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