Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf and Travis Murie We are back to our normal recording set up and decided to jump right into the action. King Kong is here and we have so many thoughts about it. Joel has spent a lot of time recently with Lord of the Rings so we decide to have a fun game comparing the masterpiece that is Lord of the Rings to a few of …

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 63 - UNFILTERED Conversations with Stern Pinball! Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf and Travis Murie The three of us united at Stern’s Media Day to experience King Kong for the first time. What we did not expect was the opportunity to interview Keith Elwin, Chuck Ernst, Jeremy Packer, Matthew Geyer, Gary Stern an…

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 62 - TPF On Location! Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf and Travis Murie We recorded together LIVE here at Texas Pinball Festival. It’s Friday night and we’ve all had a chance to play some of the latest games available. Tune in to hear our thoughts on Portal, Evil Dead, Cactus Canyon Remake (with Lyman code), Mer…

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 61 - TPF Prep 2025 Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf and Travis Murie The stars have aligned and Tom is BACK! Buckle up because today we were riding the Struggle Bus as we tried to record another episode. Luckily we kept it together and worked through our Texas Pinball Festival Prep episode. We discussed each man…

Hosts: Joel Engelberth and Travis Murie We are back… kind of. Unfortunately Tom is super busy and wasn’t able to record with us but Travis and Joel sat down and talked some pinball. Travis shared his experience of Pinball at the beach as well as some initial gameplay on Spooky Pinball’s Evil Dead. Joel and Travis deep dive on their overall thoughts…

Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, Travis Murie and Ralph Ronzio Happy New Year! We were invited to Stern to check out their latest pinball machine Dungeons & Dragons: The Tyrant’s Eye. Ralph was also in attendance at the Media Day so we asked him to join so we could discuss our thoughts on the game. Buckle up for another episode of Tom being great,…

Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf & Travis Murie Thanksgiving has come and gone, Christmas is just around the corner, and with that comes Travis and a stupid hat. Tonight we had a fun conversation about Metallica, Evil Dead, the WPPR Copper, and some of our overall thoughts on pinball modes and code. But the real question is… WHERE IS THE PINBALL CU…

Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf & Travis Murie We are back from Chicago Pinball Expo and we had a BLAST. In this episode we recapped all the stuff we played at Expo as well as some of the people we met. Travis, Tom and Joel all rip on different pinball machines which will essentially kill all future sales of them. Honesty it is just 2+ hours of us…

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 56: Alice, Avatar, X-Men, Expo, LET’S GO Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, Travis Murie Here we go again back with another episode before Chicago Pinball Expo. As much as we tried to stick with 4 main topics we ended up swerving all over the road discussing a bunch of different pinball topics. We did hone in on …

Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, & Travis Murie Back and better than ever. Today we chatted about X-Men’s reveal and stream as well Avatar’s reveal and stream. Joel had the opportunity to travel to JJP’s Media Day so Travis and Tom grilled him with some questions about it. We dove deep into Avatar’s code and gameplay as well as had a fun conversat…

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 54: CJ is PISSED Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, Travis Murie, & CJ WE ARE BACK… AGAIN. Once again we are very sorry for the delay, but we were waiting on a reveal that didn’t happen, as well as enough news to justify anyone wanting to hear the three of us chat it up. We discussed Haggis, the JAWS: The Revenge…

riple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 53: Black, White & Travis Is Late Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, & Travis Murie WE ARE BACK! Sorry for the delay but life gets busy and pinball news was sloooooooow. Enjoy the conversation as we share our thoughts on Godzilla 70th, John Wick’s code and Black Knight Sword of Rage. Tom is awesome, Joel talks and…

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 52: Wiping Buns Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf & Travis Murie Stern sent out the invite and we accepted! We’ve got a shorter episode than usual but still a fun one. We discussed our visit to the Stern factory as well as our experiences playing all three models of John Wick. That took us into a discussion about…

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 51: John Wick Reveal & Travis’ TED Talk! Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf and Travis Murie John Wick is finally here! We discuss our initial impressions of the game and what we like about it. We also discuss the overall reveal of the game and some of the surprises along the way. Joel shares his experience of str…

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 50: TPF, MGC, & Travis Is Old Now? Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, & Travis Murie Texas Pinball Festival was awesome! Travis and Joel recap all the games they played and their overall experience. Tom went to MGC where he also had a chance to play all the new stuff. Fun times all around. We did a quick first th…

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 49: TPF Prep 2024! Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf & Travis Murie Texas Pinball Festival is here and we break down all the things we are looking forward to seeing and playing later this week. We also discuss our latest experiences with both Pulp Fiction and JAWS! We sprinkled in some tournament talk as well as …

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast: PAPA’s Got Some News… Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, Travis Murie, Andy Bagwell & Penni Epstein. We’ve got some exciting news to share! Andy and Penni joined the show to share that PAPA 21 World Pinball Championships is happening. Tune in to hear all the details of how this came to be and what makes this tournament …

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 48: We Played JAWS And It Blue Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf & Travis Murie Here we go! Thanks for all the people that read the summary last time. You are appreciated In this episode we discuss how Travis almost pooped his pants as well as how Tom did in State. We shared some of the feedback from our last epi…

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 47: Why No Balls in Mouth?! Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf & Travis Murie 2024 is here and we are back! In this episode we discuss our thoughts on both the JAWS and Looney Tunes streams, as well as our overall opinion on negativity in the hobby. Tom and Travis talked about INDISC and some of the other tourname…

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 46: 2023 CrossOver With LoserKids Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, Travis Murie, Scott Larson, & Josh Roop Well this was fun! We decided to have a massive crossover episode with Josh and Scott from the Loserkid Pinball Podcast. We had some TWIPY conversation, as well as what we consider each of our most surpris…

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 45: Keith Is Here & We Fell Apart Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, Travis Murie and Keith Elwin Well we finally landed Keith on the podcast and in typical Triple Drain fashion, things went south quick. Travis’ audio and video blew up and broke everything. With that said, Tom, Keith and Joel still had a great co…

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 44: Expo 2023 Recap Fun! Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, and Travis Murie We made it back from Chicago Pinball Expo! On today’s episode we discussed all the new games we played including Labyrinth, Elton John, Venom, GTF, Elements, Ninja Eclipse, Pulp Fiction, and some of the Homebrews. We also caught up on D8…

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 43: Our Top 5 Games & Expo Prep! Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, and Travis Murie Tonight we covered a lot of ground. We started by discussing our current thoughts on Venom’s code and its “complexity”. We then rolled into the Kineticist’s request of each of our Top 5 favorite pinball machines. We also chatted …

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 42: Knull Has Nothing On Us Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, & Travis Murie Tonight we catch up after not recording for almost a month. We discuss our views on a few of the games we’ve put time on recently, including Rick and Morty and Venom. We actually go pretty deep into Venom with what we like and don’t lik…

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 41: Too Much Stacking!!! Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, and Travis Murie Tonight we cover a TON of different topics. Joel shares his current thoughts on Godfather as well as his recent experience with Stern’s Spiderman Vault. We have some interesting tournament talk and answer a bunch of user submitted questi…

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 40 – Going deep on VENOM! Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, and Travis Murie Tonight we stayed focused. We talked VENOM almost the entire episode. We gave our thoughts of the game before it was streamed and shared how how perception changed after it was streamed. We discussed everything from its art, animations,…

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 39: 5 Minutes Of Endless Ball Save Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, and Travis Murie Tom is back baby and ready to catch us up on all his European tournament fun. We discussed how Travis and Tom did in Worlds and how it feels playing against a machine. We then caught up on our current pinball collections/though…

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 38: Entering the Bone Zone Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Greg Bone, & Travis Murie Tom is still in Europe, so we try our best to record without him. Luckily we got the next best thing being Greg Bone! The three of us discuss pretty much every current manufacturer and what they are producing. We share our thoughts on t…

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 37: Holy Crap, Harry Potter! Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, & Travis Murie Well, Harry Potter was just announced… kind of. The three of us dive into that and share our overall thoughts and how we think those few sentences can affect the entire industry. We talk about our new merch as well as the European and …

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 36: Josh Hates Tom Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, Travis Murie and Josh Sharpe Tonight we asked Josh Sharpe to join us and explain why he personally hates Tom! Tournament talk fills roughly the first 50ish minutes if you guys don’t care about WPPR’s and math, but I personally found the conversation really int…

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 35: Spicy Tom Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, & Travis Murie Tonight’s episode was something. To be honest we kind of bounced all over the place and covered a ton. We shared our thoughts on everything from owning Foo Fighters, Bond 60th and Godfather, to testing a new Pinwoofer product. We talked game design a…

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 34 – TPF 2023 Recap with Colin MacAlpine Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, Travis Murie & Colin MacAlpine TPF has come and gone and what a great show it was! On this episode we asked Colin to join us so that we could dive deep into the TPF tournament and what it was like directing it. Travis and Tom share how th…

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 33: TPF Prep 2023 Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, and Travis Murie Special Guest: Karl DeAngelo TPF is just around the corner and there are a TON of new games to play. Luckily we’ve already played most of them and decided to break down our experiences with the new games so far. We were able to get Karl on the …

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 32: Who Is Driving This Bus?! Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf & Travis Murie (Editor’s note: We recorded this Friday morning before the different game teasers were released so we were just speculating at that point. Great timing…) In this episode we try our best to stay focused, buuuuuuuuut we end up going all …

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 31: Only Pinball Talk And Lots Of It Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, & Travis Murie This episode we try our best to stay on target! We discuss everything from our recent award winnings to Scooby Doo thoughts, as well as Cactus Canyon Remake hands-on impressions. We talk about ‘innovation’ in pinball and our th…

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 30: Neil McRae In The USA Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, & Travis Murie Special Guest: Neil McRae This episode we have Neil McRae as our Extra Ball! We discuss pinball in the UK, as well as some overall tournament talk from the last few weeks. At roughly 50 minutes we finish up our tournament conversation and…

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 29.5: INDISC 2023 Recap Hosts: Joel Engelberth & Travis Murie This is a “mini” episode with just Joel and Travis as they recap INDISC 2023. It was an amazing tournament to watch and experience so they decided to discuss some of the really cool moments that came out of it. If you are a tournament player you will …

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Ep 29: Elwin’s Bond 60th Anniversary Is FINALLY Here! Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, & Travis Murie In this episode we discuss our thoughts on everything involved in Stern Pinball’s latest release, James Bond 007 60th Anniversary Edition, designed by Keith Elwin. We not only break down our thoughts about the actual g…

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Ep 28: Let’s Unmask The Scooby Doo Reveal Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, & Travis Murie In this episode we discuss our thoughts on the Scooby Doo reveal and the gameplay footage that is currently online. We also talk about Joel’s first experience streaming Bond, as well as what he enjoyed at Pincinnati. Tom and Travi…

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 27: Travis Is All Over Bond! Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, & Travis Murie In this episode we catch up on Free Play Florida, as well as some of the newer games that have been added to our collections. We dive deep into some Godzilla strategies… well “deep” for some of us. Travis shares his first-hand experien…

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Ep 26: We Upgraded! Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, & Travis Murie? Special Guest: Karl DeAngelo In this episode we discuss once again our thoughts of mechs in pinball, as well as some of the games we have played recently. Joel finally got his Godzilla Premium and he gushes over that for a while. We also sprinkle in s…

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 25: Maybe We Are Making This Too Complex Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, & Travis Murie In this episode we discuss what all happened at Super Series, as well as some of Travis and Tom’s first impressions of the games they played at Expo. We talk about mods that might make your game easier and whether or not th…

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Ep 24: We Are ALL IN On Galatic Tank Force Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, & Travis Murie In this episode we discuss how ClePin ended and where we all finished. Then we discuss the official James Bond 007 reveal, as well as some of the video floating around the internet. We follow that rollercoaster and discuss how EX…

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 23: LIVE From ClePin Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, & Travis Murie Warning! This episode was recored LIVE and in person using only one mic in a hotel room, so our audio is not nearly as good as it normally is. We had a great time discussing the tournament at ClePin and what qualifying feels like. We also disc…

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 22: Travis Is Seeing Things He Shouldn’t Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, & Travis Murie Here in Episode 22 we discuss TNA’s 2nd release, our final thoughts on Toy Story 4, Tom and Travis travel to New York, and why Travis uses flash cards to learn pinball. We know news is scarce but we try our best to keep it …

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 21: Triple Combo Is Back, Baby! Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, & Travis Murie Here in Episode 21 Travis comes bearing gifts! We discuss Joel’s recent stream and experience with Toy Story 4 as well as what we like to see in code and why games stay in our collection because of it. All three of us contribute to …

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 20: Elgato No Signal Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, & Travis Murie Twenty episodes in and Travis still can’t figure out how to do this correctly. We answer some of our Facebook submitted questions, talk about a new flipper mech on the market, Toy Story and Godzilla ownership, some Stern rumors, and different …

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 19: Big Woody Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, & Travis Murie Buckle up as we discuss our final thoughts on owning GNR, as well as doing an in-depth breakdown of JJP’s latest release Toy Story 4! One of us happened to have already bought the game and has achieved the final wizard mode multiple times. Come liste…

Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 18: Blue Balls Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, & Travis Murie Come join us on this episode where we catch up on our last few weeks, Joel’s initial impressions of GNR, Gomez sharing some cool stuff, some Tournament Talk, as well as answering some user submitted questions. All this while Travis looks like garbag…

Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, & Travis Murie Come join us on this episode where we catch up with Tom and discuss lots of things including swapping RUSH for G&R, our thoughts on Toy Story and JJP’s lighting, we crap on Travis’ clothing choices, speculate on pinball prices, go over some tournament lingo, and laugh along the way. Facebook: https:/…