Random screaming farm animals make it unlistenable. Would be good otherwise.

This particular podcast was just a huge waste of time. The guy comes across as a know it all, game flipper, and has very little perspective to add on the hobby overall.

Literally one of the most fun and entertaining podcasts in everdom! Hilarious, informative and the music is on another level! LOVE!!!

I enjoy listening to The Pinball Show on TPN. Please turn down the screaming eagle though as it's 500% louder than the rest of the audio!

I my opinion, zero value podcast about pinball. Every other word is a swear word. This show is definitely not for kids or people that want a good show about pinball. I would have given this show zero stars if possible.

If you like pinball this is the pod for you! Zach and Dennis give great takes on the state of the hobby, and its future! Always brash, funny and entertaining! Buy! Buy! Buy!

Skip 20 minutes ahead each episode and you may find on topic content.

TPS is trending up. They’ve shown the resistance of a cockroach after a nuclear fallout and can’t be stopped. Like a roach, the hosts are large brownish figures and one is rumored to be using his wings to fly inside his domicile at night.

Some of these shows are intensely boring or cringy. Triple drain and Zach/Dennis are great but please, quality over quantity.

TPN puts out the highest quality Pinball content around. Great variety with the different shows, and always entertaining. Thanks so much to Zach and all the podcasters.

….will the talk of the Intro’s ever end.

Unless you know all of Zach’s friends and inside jokes, FF 8-10 minutes in until you get to the correspondence portion of the show. The first 10 minutes is typically content that is not pinball related, full of inside jokes that the casual listener looking for pinball content would not understand or care about, and mentioning friends of his that most listeners don’t even know. About 50% of show has good pinball machine and pinball industry content, the rest is scattered with silly, immature “that’s what she said” kind of cringeworthy humor, off topic content, and promotional material to boost sales for the host’s pinball distribution business. If this half of the show could be spared, the show would be the proper length and more enjoyable. But the other half that is on topic with pinball is quite good.

Too many shows, not enough variety. I’m always deleting filler episodes. If they cut it down to Silverball Chronicals, TPS, and Jessie Jay, it’d be a higher quality. Eclectic Gamers and BDYETP are better pods overall so you could just avoid this network entirely, but if you are pin addicted then here’s more content than you’ll ask for. Zach is becoming a bit of a Stern sell out so expect a lot of eye rolls. Luckily Dennis keeps everything grounded.

The Pinball Show: • I’ve listened to all 40+ shows. I was a SDTM fan and checked it out. Clearly liked it and kept listening. • Enjoy pinball news segments, market-trends, new game speculation with older game perspective, context from a distributor, with some entertaining conversation. • I really appreciate Zach’s enthusiasm for the hobby and respect Dennis’s knowledge and as a lover pinball as a geometric game of skill (and somewhat of a historian). • Overall - Kept waiting for the over-reaching dreamer style (Zach) and technical fact-only engineering approach of Dennis to find a groove (and entertaining discourse). It did not happen. Dennis’s apparent dislike of all segments, Zach’s ideas, excess jokes, and his seeming dislike of being on the show moved from the occasional funny or cringe-worthy moments, to no longer wanting to listen. A classic case of, ‘if you [Dennis] doesn’t want to be here, why am I here?’ • The episode with Greg B. as a guest was the best episode in weeks (given slightly long), but it was entertaining and interesting. I decided to keep listening. (Zach – kill/reduce laugh tracks & singing should be a rare joke. Don’t need to kill it, but reel it in). • I assume they are gradually finding a replacement co-host, which is the right thing to do. Leave it on friendly terms. It didn’t work, but it was pretty good while it lasted. Afterwards, I hope Dennis will appear occasionally in the future as a guest. • I greatly enjoy TPN. This review is specific to the Pinball Show...

Awesome podcast! Love the pinball talk and commentary.

I love to hear from Zach Meny. I’ve purchased 2 machines from him. Great guy. Entertaining to listen to. On the other hand, his co-host Dennis is a whiny wet blanket that provides zero value to this show. I reluctantly listen to this hoping it will get better but it has hit its ceiling as long as Dennis is on it.

Great show authentic love Dennis and Zach.Ritchie silver ball is a must hear.Love pinball these shows are awesome to listen to......Dennis is a good guy even if he doesn’t know what a fan layout is....lol jk

Really enjoy the Silverball chronicles. Like the history of the hobby and hearing about designers and artists from the years past. Pinball show is ok...I like the news updates and the discussion on new tables and layouts. But.....Zach......calm down buddy. There’s no need for the screaming and getting all worked up. And maybe work on the volume levels of the little sound bites.

Zack and Dennis are a fantastic duo to start my week of driving to work. I look forward to Zacks antics and Denise’s curmudgeon style of reining him in, but I especially like the pinball market trends mixed in with some solos sung by Zack himself keep up the good work guys and remember always practice safe pinball and trend up!! ~Zane

Dennis Kriesel & Zach Meny produce a consistently humorous and informative podcast, that has become my weekly favorite. Keep up the great work and ignore the trolls of the world. You guys are the best!

Dennis and Zach have a great back-n-forth in bringing the certified fresh pinball news each week. More Pinbaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall Market Trends!

This is an incredible group of people working on tons of content. Love all the work being put in.

Zach and Dennis have a really great show. There is a ton of great info with a lot of humor. One of the best pinball podcasts!!

A great listen with two knowledgeable hosts feeding you the latest industry info so you don’t have to waste time wading through forums and sites. If you like toppers this is your show.

Some of the shows are pretty forgettable. But, pinball chronicles, final round, Jesse Jays and the pinball show are the stand outs for me. To hell with the puppet crap tho.

This pod cast is a light hearted and very entertaining pod cast to listen to. The play between Zac’s full of energy and gusto and Dennis’s grounding and bluntness plays well off of each other. The goat is very loud and can be obnoxious at times but I think that is the purpose. Love the pinball market trends even though sometimes they sound a little self serving.

Zach and Dennis do a good job keeping you informed on pinball happenings. It’s an entertaining show as long as there is no singing or Zach doesn’t get too worked up about what other podcasters or streamers are doing.

It’s a great show and the guys have chemistry. Their passion for the hobby is fantastic and it shows. Even if your not into pinball it’s still a very entertaining show.

A collaborative effort amongst several podcasters, all with the love of pinball. Two thumbs up.

The Pinball Network covers pinball from so many different angles! It has offered latest pin news, that I love, to enjoyable skits (still pinball centered) that even my non-pinhead wife enjoys listening to. Zach and Dennis covering the pin news has got a very nicely balanced feel to the show. Zach is over the top excited (which I enjoy hearing the enthusiasm) while Dennis is more reserved and offers a counterpoint to many of the opinion based comments by Zach. Very enjoyable and well balanced show. The history based segments are so much more than just guys reading facts off a sheet. They weave together the complex past of these businesses into a wonderful story time that I can’t get enough of. Thank you all at TPN for the hard work and amazing entertainment you brought into pinball! Bud

Final Round is great!

Learn how your audience consumes content! I don’t want to delete all the stuff I’m not interested in. This feed contains multiple podcasts. Not worth subscribing to all seven or so just to hear the one you want.

I love Pinball, but I don’t know a lot of “pinball people”. And despite having a few machines, I’m newish to the hobby and don’t know a lot of the history. All of the shows on the TPN are good, fun, and worth a listen. Every personality or show may not be for your taste, but I’m always able to find something to listen to. Props to the entire team for continuing to provide great content during a time where news and in-person interaction are both greatly limited. I look forward to what’s coming next!

Like most networks, TPN is a mixed bag of entertaining shows (The Pinball Show, Silverball Chronicles) and some not so much,(I defy anyone to sit through episode 1 of Silverball Stories featuring CFTBL.) The Pinball Show benefits from the chemistry between Zach Meny and Dennis Kreisel. Zach is the goofy puppy dog begging for love while Dennis is the aloof cat that couldn’t care less whether you like him or not. Both are funny, intelligent and play off each other well. Zach gets a lot of blowback (some justified) for being a distributor while rarely saying anything remotely negative about Stern, but the guy’s in a tough spot and should get a pass. I notice that when he’s not excited about a Stern title, he barely mentions it (Heavy Metal). If he shouted BUY BUY BUY for this overpriced dud, I’d tune out permanently. :)

Silverball Stories and The Pinball Show are great podcasts! Thanks so much for producing these!!

I primarily listen to The Pinball Show and Final Round podcast and they’re both excellent. Yes Zach can be overly positive but that’s because of his enthusiasm for pinball more so than some tin foil hat nefarious scheme to trick you into buying a machine from him. Dennis does a great job of keeping him in check. As for the people hating on singing/segments/sound effects, those are the same boring folks that read directly from their overly complicated clip art PowerPoint slide on “Thermodynamics of Frog Farts in a Simulated Zero G environment”. Like all good presenters/entertainers he uses those effects to draw you back to the conversation. Bottom line, including this podcast we should enjoy all aspects of pinball as much as possible until mother calls us up from the basement for dinner.

I love pinball and Zach and company bring great entertainment every show! They don’t take it too seriously, fun conversations about life and pinball Thanks

Ever wonder why other Podcast Networks don’t force all of their shows into your feed? Other than obtaining Zach and Den Den to recreate their old show, these may be the worst collection of podcasts on the Internet. A curated mess of amateur ramblings and soul-sucking personalities. It’s like every show is structured like a video game level, the hosts are the bosses you have to confront, and the difficulty is so high that they’ve never allowed me to reach the end of a single episode. But at least it has a highly produced, self important ‘Pinball Network’ intro that will embarrass anyone who listens to it.

Great variety of shows for different tastes. Love the midweek show and the plumb is great!

There is a lot of passion behind this project and it comes through. I enjoy getting to hear all of the different takes on the hobby. Well done everyone! Looking forward to seeing how the network evolves over the next few years.

Awesome job guys. Enjoyed the content. Even Dennis is doing a nice job.

Great to hear din din and Zack again! As a bonus Ken is here too! Awesome Sauce!

It’s like any other Network you tune in for the show you like and then are served up a bunch of other content you didn’t ask for. I like Ken C. and some of the other hosts but all I want is current news and rumors. I was capable of subscribing to individual shows but now I’m being force fed a bunch of content I don’t care about. Seems like a step backwards, networks are dying for a reason(YouTube).

Nobody beats this collection of podcasters uniting to elevate Pinball to other galaxies!!