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Speaker 1: New World World Order. Right.

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Speaker 2: Oh, hey, oh, you gotta press the button.

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Speaker 3: Tolturns Green He specifically, yeah, I know, I remember it

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just now and then I said it. Hi everyone. So

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you might have seen on the schedule that this was

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listed as a blight Club panel, which is great.

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Speaker 2: Blight Club is great, but.

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Speaker 3: Some plans changed and for those there might be people

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here who just saw like, oh, they're going to play

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a bad game and showed up and don't know all

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the internal goings on of the last couple of weeks.

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Speaker 2: What happened. Yeah, what's up?

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Speaker 1: There's like five podcasts about it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, there's a few there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Minati went nuts on a stream. So if you

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came here to see a bad game, you're not going

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to see that. We've got some stuff to talk about,

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and I will toss to mister Jeff Grubb for that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: As most of you know, I no longer work at Fandom.

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What you probably don't know is neither does this guy.

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Speaker 1: He just heard the news the first time. Yeah, yea,

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we're doing the catch up now. Yeah, okay, now what

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we discussed. You're scaring my son.

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Speaker 2: Boo this child. Here's the thing though, when it happened.

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Speaker 4: Me and Backlar got into a room with the people

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from Fandom, and what happened is they had a really

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what we think is a pretty good idea. So for

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the last week about eight days, god feels like a

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million Yes, me and Backlar have been working on some

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stuff and really it came from a place of Fandom

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saying they wanted to do What's Here's what really happened.

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You all came out and when things happened, you all

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got loud and you said how you feel, and they're like,

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this is we say that we're about these people, and

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they realized they're about you, and so they had some

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good ideas about how to capture that and what to

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do with that. I think Fantom actually they had the

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motto of fans first, and when they were in this situation,

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I think their instinct was to look to that to

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figure out what they.

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Speaker 2: Sho should do to solve this.

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Speaker 4: And what that created was an opportunity for me and

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Backlar to get in the room with them and we

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talked about and agreed.

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Speaker 2: About the future of what we're doing.

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Speaker 5: Here right like, what was going to be next for

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this thing? What is fundamentally the right thing to do.

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Speaker 4: And it's because like corporate games media, I mean, god,

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we all know, right at this point it is a

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complicated thing and and no one's been able to figure

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it out, Like we have not been able to figure

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it out. So at a certain point, why are we

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expecting anyone on the other side to be able to

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figure it out either. So when we looked at the

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history of this site, Giant Bomb, and the many owners

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it's had, whether it's you know, Whiskey Media, I need

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two hands, CBS, Red Ventures, we could do a mount

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rushmore of owners actually, oh boy. And then and then fandom.

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There's there's been a lot there. And here's the thing.

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Giant Bomb now has new owners and you're looking at him.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, kay, yes, h m.

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Speaker 2: Hm h.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, h.

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Speaker 5: M h.

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Speaker 2: I believe. I believe that's uh. I think we.

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Speaker 4: Should say, real quick, they sold to me in bacular

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but we're gonna share.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, okay, he thank you? Oh cool? So yes,

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that's a shoot. That was a shoot. That was a

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pop right, Oh that was what that was? Real quick.

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Speaker 1: Dan was planning that pop all week, even before we

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knew this was gonna happen.

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Speaker 4: So the fact that you popped that hard. It's going

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to go to his head. Thanks a lot, guys.

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Speaker 3: Good job, thank you, thank you everyone. Good job, Thanks y'all,

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Thank you to you guys. Yes, thank you so Yes.

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Giant Bomb right now. But if you've been watching Giant

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Bomb stuff for the last couple of years, you may

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be asking yourself, what about Mike Manatti.

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Speaker 1: I'm not doing that. No, I'm not doing that at all.

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What are you talking about?

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Speaker 3: No one said this, well, many people were saying it,

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where is he Mike Manatti has been at Disney last

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forty days. Yeah, he's been every day. We're getting pictures

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of him smiling in front of a fountain or something.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, we know it's a on around. So uh.

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Speaker 3: He was completely in the dark about all of this

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because we like dropped him from the group chat bye bye.

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He wanted this because he wanted to be in Disney mode.

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Speaker 1: He wanted to enjoy Disney, and we oblige of course.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So and all of the h a lot of stuff

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goes into something like this, and a lot of talks

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and everything, and Mike Manaughty was just on a Mister

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Toad's wild rideing and a corn dog or whatever.

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Speaker 2: He does the cool, the cool, the cool stuff.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so this morning we gave him a call to

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Speaker 2: And ask him a question, and uh, let me just

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go ahead and throw it to the clip.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty Disney. Can we get the video and there

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it is?

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Speaker 2: Yep? Okay, yeah, thanks you for time muted. Oh oops,

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it's my first podcast grub. Do you want to explain? Yeah, Mike,

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we bought giant Bomb. Who's we us four? And hey,

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do you want to own giant bomb with us? Yeah?

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I would like that. I would like that a lot.

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Speaker 3: You want to be the fifth owner of giant bomb

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dot com?

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Speaker 2: But really, it's going on really yeah? Yeah, this is

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a shoot.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, we're going to business together.

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Speaker 3: That's five owners.

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Speaker 2: Uh, this is a shot, right? Am I still allowed

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to say that? I don't know? Okay? Uh? Yeah, what

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what's they sold it to you? We can tell you.

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Speaker 3: Well, we'll talk about the full story off discord, But yes,

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we own Giant Bomb.

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Speaker 2: I took the job, jump on that. Yeah, pulled off

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something great. I mean I did most of the work

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Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, that's amazing.

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Speaker 2: That's you realize.

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Speaker 1: I stated that I was never gonna contribute to Johnny

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Speaker 2: I made a whole showing protest of it and everything.

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I'm a wire.

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Speaker 3: I said I would never appear on Giant Bomb again.

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But things have changed. Yeah, okay, a card subject to change.

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So I still have to play my next Black Club game.

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Speaker 2: Maybe Wednesday is the plan.

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Speaker 1: So yes, yeah, all right, I'm gonna maybe get some

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contact negotiations on that.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's amazing.

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Speaker 3: What well, here, we'll stop the recording here and we'll

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be able to talk just us here.

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Speaker 2: All right, Yes, all right, that's okay. Well, then that's it.

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He should That's what his cameo is, is just reacting

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Speaker 4: What sucks is he said a bunch of slurs, so

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we couldn't show when the monoail came by.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, man, that's her. That's your fifth owner of Giant

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, and.

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Speaker 4: We're uh, we're gonna get into the details about what

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all this means as much as we can. This really

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did come together, like yesterday, it was when it really

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I think I think so what it was?

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Speaker 3: Episode eight eight eight was technically last week because it's Friday, right.

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Speaker 2: And let's not miss a week.

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Speaker 3: We didn't miss a week, so we'll just do eight

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eight nine right now, Yeah, let's do eight.

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Speaker 2: Hit the music?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, three, are.

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Speaker 2: You guys recording? Okay?

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Speaker 7: Wow, Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, May ten, twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Giant BombCast, live from Packs East. I

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am your host, jan Ochoa, joined me as always co

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Captain of the Ship and co owner of the ship

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Jeff Grubb.

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Speaker 2: I'm doing good, co owner. How you doing? I'm doing

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pretty good.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing pretty good because you know we have we

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what was your title again?

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Speaker 2: I got it?

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Speaker 1: I just tole triple ages. We got the triple H

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of the JEEF officer. We've got the chief content officer

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of the team.

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Speaker 2: Dam Riker.

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Speaker 3: You didn't take co owner. Wait he didn't take co owner?

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Speaker 2: Didn't say co owner. Can you just say it co owner?

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Speaker 2: Michael Manatti is away on assignment, but we all know that.

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Speaker 1: He is the be boy of games media. But joining

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us we have the evilest presence because there is a

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void inside of him, an eternal darkness of sorts. Co

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's really nice to be here.

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Speaker 2: This is my first BombCast in a really long time.

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Speaker 1: Well, you've been very busy in meetings. Yeah, yeah, that

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what do you guys want to talk about?

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Speaker 2: Oh, all right, I don't think people got the reference.

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Speaker 4: So we're gonna we're gonna put this out on the feed.

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We should explain what's going on. We should tell people

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Speaker 3: But it's also it's it's coming so hot that it's uh,

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there's definitely gonna be a period of just like kind

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Speaker 4: Yeah, let's just explain like where we're at, like what

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play the music again. Felt first podcast. Okay, So it

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really has been a busy week. It's been a lot.

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it's like, really, we're gonna have to figure it out

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with all of you.

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Speaker 2: What it looks like. We have some ideas, but there's

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Speaker 4: Of stuff that like we're still getting the keys back

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Speaker 2: To make it clear, fandom has been very helpful.

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Speaker 4: They want they wanted this to happen because again, it

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was important to the people that are there because they

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believe in this, and now it's up to us to

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Speaker 2: So what does it look like?

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Speaker 3: So there are some things we can say for sure

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now where it's like, yeah, the BombCast continuing tuesdays, that

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just that train keeps rolling the news show. Yeah, you're

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gonna keep doing that. I might do it, I might

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do it Monday. Yeah let's go sure.

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Speaker 1: All right, Jeff Grub, It's see you Monday for Game

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Mess Mornings.

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Speaker 2: Game Mess Mornings. Yes morning. Uh.

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Speaker 3: And the timing worked out really beautifully on this because

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it's about time for Mike Manatti to suit up for

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his Blake Club game. He's gonna look so oh you

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folks don't know what he's where. Wait the picture you

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showed me that one. He's gonna be so cool. Yes, yeah,

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he has all of the game ready to go. He's

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got the game. So Wednesday, New Blake Club season starts.

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scheduling and things like that. I think we're just gonna

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game cann do you want to hop in? We'll stream

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it for an hour or six hours or just the

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flexibility we're gonna have to just be able to pop

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Speaker 4: In the limited time we've had to talk about this,

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it really has come back to like things have changed

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since Giant Bomb introduced the idea of a premium subscription,

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a lot of our friends when we could, like when

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things were changing, before we knew this was possible, and

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a lot of the ideas we got back where people

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want to see you do your bullshit, They want to

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see you just go into the stuff you care about

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because the reason they're watching is they care about that too.

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So that's gonna be the idea behind all of this.

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We're gonna do what we want to make and then

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you let us know if you're into it, and when

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we want to, like, if we come up a bad idea,

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we're gonna do it like and see how bad it is.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Like yeah, well, because in the past, you know,

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if you're serving a corporation or you're serving an algorithm,

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that kind of limits what you can do creatively. And

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now we literally are going to be serving the audience.

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Like that's right, you are all our boss now, Like,

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that's all we have to worry about is making the

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audience happy exactly.

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Speaker 4: So we are going to lean into subscriptions. The that's

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the model here. We're going to go back to, hey,

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join the Giant Bomb membership, and that is we're going

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to go right now it's five dollars, We're going up

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to ten dollars because that money is going to go

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to us. Now, I think it makes sense, and you

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go to giant bomb dot com slash join right now

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you can get into that. And everything that happens from

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this moment forward is supporting this team and doing what

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it wants to do. And the more support we get,

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the more we can do.

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Speaker 3: And also it's important to us that the vast majority

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of the content now is going to be free.

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Speaker 2: You know, when we were leaned into premium.

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Speaker 3: Before, it was tricky because, like, you know, we would

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do series that we were really proud of where it's like,

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or middle of your scaling, and it's like I would

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want to tweet out, like check out this great episode.

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kind of put it out there and expect people to

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see it. So we do want people to be able

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to access this, whether they support us monetarily or not.

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So yeah, it is going to be largely supporting us

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and keeping this thing going.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we talked about doing voicemail dumb truck.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, of course you're so backed up? What's that You're

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so backed up? Buddy?

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Speaker 4: I can't wait for the let's catch up Jeff back

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or what's happened recently?

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Speaker 5: Except I know exactly what happened. And you know, last

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night we had a Jeff Jeff's Bizarre Adventure panel and

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I think we had a blast with super broad Patch

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well Tomorrow's Saying and Lucy James, and it was.

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Speaker 2: Such good idea.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, uh, and you know, we didn't know how this

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plane was gonna land, and you know, things didn't really

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materialize until the eleventh hour. And you know that podcast

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is absolutely gonna gonna continue.

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Speaker 2: Probably as an independent project.

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Speaker 5: And I just I just personally how much I love

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doing that show with that with that crew.

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Speaker 4: And who was at the panel yesterday for Jeff Ches's

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Bizarre Adventure?

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Speaker 2: Yeah right? How good was that because I learned a

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lot about anime. Yeah yeah.

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Speaker 3: You also I got to talk to super Eye patch

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Ball last night at the bar about how ja no EPO?

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Speaker 2: And I'm really really into that show. Wow.

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Speaker 3: Did did not expect so much fit to be about

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how big a Dick is? But it's still really good.

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What it plays an elephant sound effect every time his

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Dick shows.

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Speaker 1: Up, I'm watching the wrong show. Yeah, well it's like Rocky,

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but he's got you.

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Speaker 4: He talks about Dix. I want to do something more

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sincere tam Lucy, thank you so much. Yeah I mean him.

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When I say you mean the world to us, I

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le's not the right word. I aspire to the to

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the to the people that you are And so just

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thank you for being like so cool when we worked

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with you. I can't wait to find a way to

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work with you guys again.

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Speaker 5: I'm absolutely it can't be understated how much a part

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of the DNA you both are to this brand.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's never gonna change. We love you, guys, Yeah,

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we love you. Wow.

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Speaker 1: Uh on that note back alarm. Yeah, thank you man.

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Speaker 4: I In this last week, I've realized so much what

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you've done to protect us, so much, what you've done

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to make this make sense. The arg you did with

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Chuck Towski helped, like stuff you didn't even tell us about.

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I didn't realize it, man I, And I'm sorry and

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thank you.

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Speaker 1: I mean it, like, let's do this together. Let's get

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to work, man, kiss Yeah, thank you? Yeah, man absolutely

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all right. So what are we getting fired?

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Speaker 2: Man? What are we gonna do next? I mean we're

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starting right away.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, new show Monday podcast returns on Tuesday.

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Speaker 2: Yep, dump truck. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: See why we don't do all this stuff, Like we're

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gonna have to have a lot of meetings too, about

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just like there's a lot of things to iron out.

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Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, Like I want to do Summer Game Fest,

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I want to do GB at night.

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Speaker 2: But it's a lot of work. Guys, We're gonna try it.

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We're gonna do our best. We're gonna try to figure

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it out. It's in like thirty minutes, I think. Yeah,

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and doing it ourselves too.

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Speaker 3: Where it's like, we did get a lot of support

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for summer games, a lot of other hands and people

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helping us and things like that. We do have a

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lot of friends that have reached out and to help us.

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But like, we got to put this together. We're gonna

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be scrappy. It's it's gonna be scrappy. We're gonna do

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our best to make it look cool. It's not gonna

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look good, but it's gonna look cool. Hey, hey, hey,

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we're gonna do our best. Cool is good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's where I'm at. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I have a couch that used to live in

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a basement.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, can you get a U haul?

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Speaker 1: I can drive a truck down to Los Angeles if

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we want that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I like I like I like catches.

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Speaker 3: Okay, oh yeah, yeah, there's a lot of games to

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talk about that we haven't Uh, we've had a little break.

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Speaker 2: It's weird taking a break.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I was traveling a lot, and you know,

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the stuff going on in the last couple of weeks

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and yeah, feeling it's getting backed up in like the

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switch to like we are a few weeks away from that.

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Speaker 4: It just feels like there's like so much happening, and

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it's like we got to like set up a business,

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do all this stuff. Like we're gonna get to work

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right away, but it's gonna be a lot to figure out,

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so we're gonna yeah.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I just think, like, you know, there's some time

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that has to pass before it all starts to materialize.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, or even feel real.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I just don't want to understate just how

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up to the last moment all of this really like

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I'm not even yeah, it was exaggerating, Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I mean yeah, I have the photo from when I

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signed and it's of you, like you just kind of

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doing something else, and I'm like, this moment, I'm not

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gonna forget this.

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Speaker 2: It was pretty wild. Yeah, yeah, didn't.

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Speaker 3: Wasn't it like a day or two ago that didn't

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Stacy ask you, like, are you going to die?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: She was like, you know, I just need to know,

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you know, if that's gonna happen, I mean eventually your wife.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, so no.

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Speaker 5: For sure, Like obviously a lot of stuff is coming

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together last minute, So I think just a little bit

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of patience for some stuff will go a long way

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for sure.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and then I think, like it all kind of

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comes back to this is like co owners employee owned.

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We are in this together, We're gonna have to figure

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things out. So I don't know, like, how does that

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change things for you guys? Like, how are you feeling

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about that?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 1: I've been feeling like I want to throw up for

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the past two years.

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Speaker 5: You know what though, all all kidding a side, like yeah, same, right,

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but but you never do her.

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Speaker 2: You just sort of like last time you threw up?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, ooh, I think maybe like two months ago?

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Speaker 2: Okay, what like on purpose or like is it ever

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on purple?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean yeah, okay, okay.

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Speaker 5: Like was it because you had fun or because maybe

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I had too much fun?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: The last time I both threw up and had diarrhea

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was at Kajima Productions two weeks ago.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the last time I threw up was in

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your your house? Oh yeah, yeah house.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it was just food poisoning. It wasn't even like

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a fun.

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Speaker 2: Yep.

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Speaker 4: All right, So listen, we're gonna, Like I said, we're

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gonna get to work. We're gonna figure this stuff out.

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But in the meantime, man, what do we talk about?

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Like what do we tell people?

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Speaker 1: Maybe, Hey, a couple of new shirts heading to store

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dot giant bomb dot com.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like yeah, that's the thing.

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Speaker 4: We got everything, like all all the stuff, like the

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store everything is ours.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, you to the store right now, backlog all

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the accounts everything.

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Speaker 4: It's not just like the name, it's yeah, oh yeah, archives, yes, yeah,

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that is like that's one thing where it's like, man,

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we could do stuff with that. I think one of

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the things we're planning to do is take some time,

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but maybe take like what like you have been doing

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Dan taking select old shows from the archive on YouTube.

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Speaker 3: There's a Donkey Kong game coming out too, And I

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want to have all a burgle my bananas yes and

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yeah yeah, let me ask so Mike Minatti for I

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feel like since the day I met him, has been

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pushing for and I think it's just because he likes

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the alliteration. And I want to get honest, gauge, don't

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just pop because you feel like you're supposed to hear

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level of enthusiasm he wants to do something called Monday

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Mornings Missed with Mitch.

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Speaker 2: Is that good? Most people are dead silent.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's just it's just Chuckdowski and ABC over there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the chats being weird right now. I don't know

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what you would I like miss.

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Speaker 2: Here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: I'm afraid we would both like missed a lot. I mean,

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is it like blueprints?

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Speaker 2: I think it might be. Yeah, because I have no idea.

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Yeah wait wait, hang on hand. Should we do a

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missed feature? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: We should not invite him. Yeah, that's it.

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Speaker 2: No one tell Mike's idea. Okay, we're gonna have meetings.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, just freedom to do whatever the hell we want.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and yeah, I'm looking forward to it.

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Speaker 4: It's like, you know, we did get a lot of

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benefits from working within a bigger business that like provided

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a lot of safety nets. Now we are we are

475
00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:24,119
operating without a net now, and that's scary. But it

476
00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:26,079
does enable us to like a lot more freedom to

477
00:24:26,079 --> 00:24:26,960
try a lot more stuff.

478
00:24:27,079 --> 00:24:29,160
Speaker 3: There is there is more flexibility in terms of like

479
00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:31,640
we could act quicker with things where it's like when

480
00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:34,480
you are dealing with a larger corporate structure. It's not

481
00:24:34,519 --> 00:24:35,799
just a matter of like, oh, we'd like to do this,

482
00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:37,640
let's do it. It has to go through different channels

483
00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:39,599
and different groups and stuff like that. Now it's just

484
00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:41,160
kind of like we talked to the five of us.

485
00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:43,200
It's like should we do this, and now we'll do it.

486
00:24:43,279 --> 00:24:46,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, Dan, that's the point. Yeah, yeah, an agreement. Yeah, okay, cool,

487
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:54,119
Yeah for sure, Okay, cool business right there, that's business. Wow, excellent.

488
00:24:54,559 --> 00:24:57,119
Speaker 3: So yeah, probably first week go a little little standard,

489
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just as we you know, kind of get our feet

490
00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:00,720
wet with the new thing. But the we'll start branching

491
00:25:00,759 --> 00:25:02,920
out and hopefully being able to add things, tweak things,

492
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,559
improve things over time. But the audience will have a

493
00:25:05,599 --> 00:25:06,720
direct line to us.

494
00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:10,079
Speaker 4: Yeah, so exactly, and we'll be like setting up exactly

495
00:25:10,079 --> 00:25:12,240
what all that looks like. But if you are like

496
00:25:12,319 --> 00:25:15,319
joining right now, like there's the discord, there might be

497
00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:18,279
some issues with that, so have to give the URL

498
00:25:18,319 --> 00:25:20,880
out again. Yeah yeah, giant bomb dot com slash join.

499
00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:23,759
You'll be supporting what we're doing, and we're really looking

500
00:25:23,759 --> 00:25:26,440
forward to like getting this started right now, getting to.

501
00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:28,240
Speaker 3: Work right and you say right now, and like literally

502
00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:32,359
from this moment anything that comes into Giant Bomb is

503
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:36,960
directly to us. So yeah, anything store anything premium yep.

504
00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:38,799
Speaker 5: Yeah, and with you know, with the with the patient

505
00:25:38,839 --> 00:25:42,079
stuff I talked about earlier. You know that also is

506
00:25:42,839 --> 00:25:44,119
related to like how people can.

507
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Speaker 9: Get in touch with us if they just want to

508
00:25:45,319 --> 00:25:48,200
ask us a question. We don't have a direct mechanism

509
00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:50,440
over that just yet. Yeah, we're waiting on a couple

510
00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:53,200
of emails to open up again. But uh yeah, just

511
00:25:53,519 --> 00:25:55,880
you know, whether it's on the discord or hitting us

512
00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:59,319
up on social, we can answer and speak to anything.

513
00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:02,279
Speaker 4: So when do you guys think this is gonna start

514
00:26:02,319 --> 00:26:04,519
to feel real to you? Like where like where you're

515
00:26:04,519 --> 00:26:06,960
at right now in terms of like like mental I.

516
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:09,559
Speaker 3: Can't imagine how you two feel because the last two

517
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:11,720
weeks of constantly just you know, waiting for like the

518
00:26:11,759 --> 00:26:13,920
next update and stuff like that has just felt like

519
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:16,839
an absolute blur to me. And I'm sure Jan and

520
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:18,960
like we aren't the ones that were like in these

521
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:22,480
calls for god knows how many hours a day. So yeah,

522
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:24,480
it does feel like the last couple of weeks or

523
00:26:24,559 --> 00:26:25,400
what no, no, I.

524
00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:28,400
Speaker 5: Was gonna say, well, no, soon yeah we'll know how

525
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:28,920
many hours?

526
00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:32,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, it's it's gonna be it's gonna be

527
00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:34,839
a bit of Yeah. How about you, Jan like, is

528
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:38,759
it even begun to feel real? No? Yeah?

529
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:39,039
Speaker 7: Not?

530
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Speaker 2: You're a right, jan though, right what you're okay? Barely Yeah,

531
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:46,160
it's fine, barely. We hang it and clanging, baby all

532
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:47,039
guess no breaks with it?

533
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:52,519
Speaker 3: Ya I mean no, no, ye mean YadA means what

534
00:26:52,559 --> 00:26:52,920
they say.

535
00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:54,799
Speaker 1: He likes it when we say it. Yeah, yeah, he

536
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:58,119
likes how white it is what we say. No word, Jane,

537
00:26:58,160 --> 00:26:58,799
It'll be smooth.

538
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:00,400
Speaker 3: You're just you just have to handle all of the

539
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:07,160
production for all of giant bomb dot com. What I

540
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:12,279
could use ovs and that's about it. Yeah, audacity, I

541
00:27:12,319 --> 00:27:12,599
got that.

542
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:14,599
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah, you have to edit, but I'll send

543
00:27:14,599 --> 00:27:15,039
you the file.

544
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:21,519
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, I'm just I'm just playing. But uh yeah,

545
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:23,720
I don't know. I've been holding back a lot of

546
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:29,160
feelings in the last couple week, two weeks, and I

547
00:27:29,279 --> 00:27:34,920
mean it where there's been multiple opportunities to jump ship.

548
00:27:35,319 --> 00:27:37,559
But the one thing, two things that have kept me

549
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,880
here this whole time are the people that I work with,

550
00:27:41,279 --> 00:27:45,839
and these three chuckle heads some of the best, some

551
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:47,559
of the best I've ever worked with. There's a bunch

552
00:27:47,559 --> 00:27:49,440
of chuckleheads in the audience that I've also worked with

553
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:52,359
that I love from the bottom of my heart. That

554
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:54,480
I cherish every single moment I got to spend with

555
00:27:54,519 --> 00:27:59,519
them hunting for pants in downtown LA. And yeah, the

556
00:27:59,519 --> 00:28:02,799
second ass back to that is all of y'all sitting here,

557
00:28:03,039 --> 00:28:07,559
sitting at home. It's been y'all and this fantastic community

558
00:28:07,559 --> 00:28:11,039
that we've built that have kept me here and everything

559
00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:14,359
and wanting to stay here because a fox with y'all.

560
00:28:15,599 --> 00:28:24,480
Speaker 2: Yep, I mean, who can follow that? No one? Absolutely? Yeah.

561
00:28:24,559 --> 00:28:27,799
Speaker 5: Yeah, It's just it's been a very strange trip for

562
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:31,039
me personally to see, you know, where this is all

563
00:28:31,079 --> 00:28:34,440
gone in the last five years. And it's just very

564
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:38,559
surreal right now. H was not on my Bengal card, no,

565
00:28:39,319 --> 00:28:42,839
And uh yeah, I'm just you know, thrilled to just

566
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:45,599
be a part of it and see it evolve and

567
00:28:45,599 --> 00:28:46,240
where it's gone.

568
00:28:46,279 --> 00:28:49,079
Speaker 2: And I can't wait to share that with everyone. So yeah,

569
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:51,359
hell yeah.

570
00:28:51,559 --> 00:28:55,039
Speaker 4: Like since Giant Bombs started, like so many people have

571
00:28:55,119 --> 00:28:57,519
gone independent. Like one of the things I'm looking forward

572
00:28:57,519 --> 00:29:00,200
to is finding ways to work with everybody again. I'm

573
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:02,680
looking forward to like just kind of realizing we're in

574
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:04,880
the same space and just trying to like work together.

575
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:06,559
One of the things I've learned is like we're not

576
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:10,160
competing in any way. Like the community wants to support

577
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:12,440
everybody and make this all happen. They want as much

578
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:16,680
of this crazy bullshit as possible. And I think that, like, yeah,

579
00:29:16,799 --> 00:29:19,079
finding ways to make that happen more frequently, because like

580
00:29:19,119 --> 00:29:22,079
the incentive has changed for us. Previously, it's like we

581
00:29:22,119 --> 00:29:24,359
do a lot of work and all that, all those

582
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:27,359
efforts pay off to someone else, and now it's like

583
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:31,279
completely flipped and it's like, wait, yeah, there's nothing holding

584
00:29:31,319 --> 00:29:33,240
us back now to doing a ton of that and

585
00:29:33,279 --> 00:29:34,359
work with people that we love.

586
00:29:34,759 --> 00:29:36,559
Speaker 2: So looking forward to a lot of that as well.

587
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,519
Speaker 1: Please, for the love of God, like and comment on

588
00:29:39,599 --> 00:29:43,839
every single subscribe to the podcast. What else do they say?

589
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:48,079
Tell friends, give us money? All these things? Ring the bell?

590
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:53,559
What's the bell? The what is that on YouTube? I'm

591
00:29:53,599 --> 00:29:57,640
oh man, I'm oh man.

592
00:29:57,839 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, we gotta do YouTube too, dude, that's big. Yeah,

593
00:30:00,039 --> 00:30:01,599
Oh really yeah we should do that.

594
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 2: Oh shoot.

595
00:30:08,119 --> 00:30:11,960
Speaker 1: Uh but yeah, I mean any like any wild ideas

596
00:30:12,039 --> 00:30:14,119
y'all have at the top of your head. Well, I

597
00:30:15,359 --> 00:30:18,640
was thinking about this earlier today, and I was thinking, huh,

598
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,079
I kind of want to just send Dan somewhere again.

599
00:30:21,319 --> 00:30:27,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm game, yes, absolutely honestly, like made his flight

600
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:28,720
home from SGF.

601
00:30:28,759 --> 00:30:29,599
Speaker 2: Shouldn't go home.

602
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,680
Speaker 4: Wait, I don't go home for step No, it sends

603
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:36,279
you to like another city without you know.

604
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:40,519
Speaker 2: What if we hide your switch to in a different city.

605
00:30:42,519 --> 00:30:44,960
Speaker 3: It is getting mailed to Minnesota and you are not

606
00:30:45,079 --> 00:30:49,880
touching it. Okay, although, Greb, you're getting her sent to La. Yeah,

607
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:51,680
it's gonna be a nicky sass. Yeah, we can at

608
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:53,240
least like play summer. We'll dose some multiplay.

609
00:30:53,319 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll play some Mario Kart sure, yeah, absolutely, honestly,

610
00:30:56,039 --> 00:30:57,960
we'll probably just stream Mario Kark from LA.

611
00:30:58,119 --> 00:30:58,720
Speaker 2: Yeah. That was great.

612
00:30:58,839 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, from wherever we are exactly Again, it's thrifty, so

613
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:04,200
we're gonna be all like you know, on bunk beds.

614
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:04,599
Speaker 2: And the AIRBNBA.

615
00:31:05,519 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 4: That has been the most amazing transformation. So Dan reichert

616
00:31:10,599 --> 00:31:15,920
notoriously thrifty, not so much with other companies money. And

617
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,680
then the second some certain things got turned off when

618
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:21,400
he would normally pay in other ways and now it

619
00:31:21,519 --> 00:31:25,880
was his money just immediately turning into qpon Paul Reikert mode.

620
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:30,119
Speaker 2: Look, it was astounding. It's tell the contail start. Yeah.

621
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 3: Literally in my DNA, I think it was last night

622
00:31:32,279 --> 00:31:36,519
because technically my last day was yesterday and they canceled

623
00:31:36,559 --> 00:31:40,119
my corporate card. We went to a bar or something

624
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:41,640
and I looked and it normally been like, ooh that

625
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:42,519
cocktail sounds great.

626
00:31:42,559 --> 00:31:45,279
Speaker 2: It's twenty dollars. My god.

627
00:31:45,359 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 3: Okay, the beers are nine. That's still quite a bit,

628
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:50,000
but I'll go with the nine dollars beers. I gotta

629
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:51,680
start thinking about that stuff now.

630
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 1: And now we're like, hey, friend with corporate card, you

631
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:57,680
want to go to dinner? Like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

632
00:31:57,759 --> 00:31:59,599
My partner didn't know anything until yesterday.

633
00:31:59,839 --> 00:32:01,640
Speaker 2: Oh nothing, and.

634
00:32:01,599 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 1: Then I just dropped everything on her.

635
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 2: Yeah how to go?

636
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:07,960
Speaker 1: Well, you know, I'm looking up how to get your

637
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:12,839
dog to be Instagram famous? Now sure? Yeah yeah yeah yeah.

638
00:32:12,839 --> 00:32:17,440
She took it while incredibly supportive. Hello, yeah yeah she's

639
00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:19,079
not hot.

640
00:32:19,279 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, I will say also to bank, Bunk was amazingly supportive.

641
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:26,079
And she's watching us well, Bunk razor gizmo boss.

642
00:32:26,119 --> 00:32:27,799
Speaker 2: Hello, yeah.

643
00:32:27,839 --> 00:32:29,799
Speaker 4: That was one of the most helpful things. Is like

644
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:32,240
I'm like, oh, I don't have a job anymore. This

645
00:32:32,319 --> 00:32:35,039
is super scary and it's like like, oh I messed up.

646
00:32:35,039 --> 00:32:36,200
Speaker 2: I did. Like what's next?

647
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,680
Speaker 4: And Steph was very helpful and reminded me of like

648
00:32:39,079 --> 00:32:40,839
like I was there when you were getting two hundred

649
00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:43,000
dollars a month from Combo dot com with a K

650
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:46,359
and it's like you've come so far, Like I believe

651
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:48,359
in you and I don't even believe in myself. That's

652
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:50,440
incredible to hear. So, yeah, that was really nice. That

653
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:51,200
was really helpful.

654
00:32:51,519 --> 00:32:54,839
Speaker 5: Yeah, what's crazy is, uh, I had always planned this

655
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:58,839
trip with Staceyan did to come and I.

656
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 2: Don't think did knew any of this until this moment.

657
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:06,319
Speaker 3: Well, shaking his head, dip, are you understanding it now?

658
00:33:09,519 --> 00:33:12,559
Sort of Okay, it's good. It's a good it's a

659
00:33:12,599 --> 00:33:12,960
good thing.

660
00:33:13,039 --> 00:33:14,319
Speaker 2: It's good. Yes, it's good.

661
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,720
Speaker 5: And uh, you know, uh, Stacy's just being so supportive

662
00:33:17,759 --> 00:33:18,640
and just uh.

663
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,480
Speaker 2: That was a real interesting day. Let's just say.

664
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 5: And uh, you know you just saying like, uh that

665
00:33:28,799 --> 00:33:31,839
you know that you were just so happy for however

666
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:34,240
the shakes out and just having that support means so much.

667
00:33:34,319 --> 00:33:39,759
Speaker 2: So that's working out. Yeah, yeah, for sure, Happy Mother's Day. Tomorrow, y'all.

668
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, shouts out to all the single mothers.

669
00:33:45,599 --> 00:33:48,759
Speaker 2: Also, for no particular reason.

670
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 3: Beckler, I feel like if you still had hair, just

671
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:53,279
over the last like three days of dealing with me,

672
00:33:53,319 --> 00:33:55,359
I would have watched it in real time, either gray

673
00:33:55,599 --> 00:33:56,240
or fall Out.

674
00:33:57,319 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true, Dan, thanks for.

675
00:33:59,319 --> 00:34:04,440
Speaker 1: There are several times where Dan's loud voice is just

676
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:07,039
saying stuff that we've all agreed not to say. As

677
00:34:07,039 --> 00:34:10,119
he was was not into a microphone, fine, yeah, but

678
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:13,559
into a crowd like random people at.

679
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:14,639
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no.

680
00:34:15,159 --> 00:34:17,679
Speaker 1: Dan and I were at a bar the other night

681
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:21,199
and we're talking about stuff and just like really panicking

682
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:23,800
and confiding in each other, and next to us was

683
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:26,880
like a very like nondescript gentleman. And then he turns

684
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:36,360
around your guys into podcasts, yours a great gaming podcast,

685
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:39,519
and then like he proceeded to add us on LinkedIn.

686
00:34:40,159 --> 00:34:44,119
Speaker 3: Oh cool, Yeah, he couldn't find me, so I think

687
00:34:44,119 --> 00:34:45,000
that's just you and him now.

688
00:34:45,039 --> 00:34:47,840
Speaker 1: Oh well, yeah, we're like this, we're like dming every data.

689
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:49,039
Speaker 3: And then we just shut up because we're in the

690
00:34:49,039 --> 00:34:50,360
middle of like all right, we need to go just

691
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:51,840
kind of put our heads together at the bar and

692
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:53,760
like as soon as that guy started talking, it's like, well,

693
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:54,880
it's not happening now.

694
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:58,360
Speaker 2: Not that loud. No, it's loud.

695
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:01,159
Speaker 5: No, like uh, you know some people have that voice

696
00:35:01,159 --> 00:35:02,599
that just sort of carries you know, when like someone

697
00:35:02,639 --> 00:35:04,320
will leave a room and you're like, why can I

698
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:05,039
still hear that?

699
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:10,639
Speaker 2: No? My hearing's bad too? About you hearing? Oh? Okay, no, no, no, relate.

700
00:35:11,159 --> 00:35:16,280
Speaker 1: We need to talk about Dan and I'm sorry, but Dan,

701
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:19,239
is it okay if I share your discovery oh from

702
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:19,760
this trip?

703
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:21,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, which discuss I.

704
00:35:21,679 --> 00:35:24,880
Speaker 1: Feel like there's been several but yeah, show of hands.

705
00:35:25,199 --> 00:35:27,880
I'm gonna pull the chat real quick, show of hands

706
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:31,199
in the chat. If you were aware that on your

707
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:37,039
cellular phone you can link two separate calls to make

708
00:35:37,119 --> 00:35:38,199
a three way call.

709
00:35:39,559 --> 00:35:41,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, obviously.

710
00:35:40,679 --> 00:35:43,519
Speaker 3: Now hang on, okay, down, hand down and doing another one.

711
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:45,599
How many of you have used this feature?

712
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:49,719
Speaker 2: What that was most of the room.

713
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:53,119
Speaker 5: More people use the feature than multiple people on a

714
00:35:53,159 --> 00:35:53,679
phone call.

715
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:59,039
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's yeah, seven calls. Wait I thought it was three.

716
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:03,760
Well we only had so many people there. But that's

717
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:07,039
what like discords for it. But some people, now when

718
00:36:07,039 --> 00:36:10,119
you're talking to lawyers, discord.

719
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:12,280
Speaker 3: No, that was like, so all those calls you're doing

720
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:15,599
was like most people on the number of times I

721
00:36:15,639 --> 00:36:17,440
heard Backlar this week be like hang on, let me

722
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:18,320
get them, like it.

723
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:20,639
Speaker 2: Was like fifty times. Yeah. Wow.

724
00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:22,519
Speaker 3: I just don't understand the context that you would do.

725
00:36:22,599 --> 00:36:24,079
I don't like talking to one person on.

726
00:36:24,159 --> 00:36:27,760
Speaker 5: The yeah sure, yeah, but like you said on discord,

727
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:29,320
you have many people at once. Well what if you

728
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:31,159
just did that on your phone with a phone call.

729
00:36:31,039 --> 00:36:32,719
Speaker 1: And that's been around for a while, like men, I

730
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,599
didn't the first time in like the nineties, quite a

731
00:36:35,639 --> 00:36:36,239
while years.

732
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:38,679
Speaker 2: I just can't think of a single scenario I would

733
00:36:38,679 --> 00:36:41,360
do that, and not even cell phones, man like land

734
00:36:41,679 --> 00:36:43,719
I guess, just how do you do that on a

735
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:44,960
land line? I don't know.

736
00:36:45,599 --> 00:36:48,039
Speaker 1: There was like a star number like started seventy nine,

737
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:50,599
like it's been a thing forever, Like haven't you ever

738
00:36:50,639 --> 00:36:52,960
seen any boardroom in any movie ever?

739
00:36:53,159 --> 00:36:54,760
Speaker 3: But yeah, but then you get a little thing on

740
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:56,360
the table and everyone talks into that.

741
00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:58,760
Speaker 2: Oh stop, am I wrong?

742
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:03,440
Speaker 1: Yes, Dan was at breakfast and he wanted to test this.

743
00:37:04,079 --> 00:37:07,480
So he's he calls back our who's right across from us,

744
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:12,679
and then his eyes just widen and then he's like oh,

745
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:14,079
the ad feature.

746
00:37:14,679 --> 00:37:16,840
Speaker 3: And it's like there's only six buttons and one of

747
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:20,800
them is just AD and I've never seen That's it.

748
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 2: It's simple. I'm proud of you, though, Dan, thank you.

749
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:24,320
I mean, I don't i'll ever use it, but I'm

750
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:24,880
glad I know it.

751
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:28,360
Speaker 5: I guess yeah, growth, Yeah, tremendous.

752
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 2: So that's your practice. I guess at some point I'll

753
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:35,920
see it. Yeah, you know, maybe tomorrow. I don't know.

754
00:37:36,519 --> 00:37:40,079
We have not played games, no, no, no, no, no.

755
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:43,320
Speaker 1: It's been Yeah, the game of capitalism maybe that's about it.

756
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, have you played games at home during all this? No? No,

757
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:47,760
you dude, no, Like, let's I want I want you

758
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:52,079
to understand. H I have not enjoyed anything. No, yes,

759
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:54,679
like I turned off that part of myself. I'm not joking.

760
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:58,639
Speaker 5: What about hockey, bo, It's the best time for hockey,

761
00:37:58,679 --> 00:38:00,960
and I have not been able to enjoy. Right, I

762
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:06,880
was telling, well, the devil's lost, so okay, okay.

763
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:10,039
Speaker 2: At least we're in the playoffs. Fuh god, I know,

764
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:15,360
help me right in the gut. Yeah, that's I'm sorry,

765
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:16,000
now I get it.

766
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 5: Uh so, Uh yeah, I couldn't enjoy I told tam

767
00:38:21,079 --> 00:38:23,840
Lucy and John that last night during the panel was

768
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:24,840
the first time I could.

769
00:38:24,679 --> 00:38:26,559
Speaker 2: Relax on stage.

770
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like I mean like I so we signed and

771
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:35,559
I signed during the JGBA panel last night.

772
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:36,960
Speaker 2: Hell yeah.

773
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:42,400
Speaker 4: And then I can feel my body begin to scream

774
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:45,199
as the adrenaline that I had been holding in my

775
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:48,840
stomach all week began to like feel like, oh, it's okay.

776
00:38:48,639 --> 00:38:50,519
Speaker 2: To release now. And I'm like, whoa, No, it's not. No,

777
00:38:50,639 --> 00:38:51,159
definitely not.

778
00:38:51,559 --> 00:38:54,039
Speaker 4: And then me and Dan are like, let's go to

779
00:38:54,079 --> 00:38:57,400
the Twitch party, which I don't know if you have

780
00:38:57,480 --> 00:38:59,440
you've ever been to the Twitch party. It's not for

781
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:00,639
forty two year old men.

782
00:39:02,199 --> 00:39:03,599
Speaker 2: You guys aren't the demographic room.

783
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:07,280
Speaker 4: It's like there are multiple rooms with DJs. It's not

784
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:09,960
just what there's multiple rooms with DJs.

785
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:13,079
Speaker 1: There's no room where there's not a DJ, like Dubstep,

786
00:39:13,159 --> 00:39:16,280
Sonic the Hedgehog. Yeah yeah yeah, and just blast in

787
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:19,519
her face and like, I'm like, it took all. I

788
00:39:19,519 --> 00:39:21,800
didn't want to be creepy, so I held everything within

789
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:24,760
myself not to turn to Dan and say, Dan, I

790
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:28,039
need you to hug me before I explode.

791
00:39:28,199 --> 00:39:29,760
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm going to die here.

792
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:31,559
Speaker 4: So yeah that I just that's what's happened to me,

793
00:39:31,599 --> 00:39:33,400
where like my body's like ready to just blow a

794
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:34,320
bart in every direction.

795
00:39:34,519 --> 00:39:36,800
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, I didn't enjoy it.

796
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:39,840
Speaker 3: No, you guys should play the Expedition thirty three. It's

797
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:43,800
really good. Mary's flipping us off. Thank you for incting

798
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:47,760
it's married. Has a great time, Mary, Mary, Remember you're

799
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:51,840
my she ro. Yes, there we go, got a little pop.

800
00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:56,079
Speaker 2: I have a question for did what did you think

801
00:39:56,199 --> 00:39:59,360
was happening with all of this? Especially get them on

802
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:01,960
a mic here? Yeah, come on, come on? Can we

803
00:40:02,039 --> 00:40:09,599
u mute that one? Yeah? Are you gonna so you

804
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:17,840
have to talk to the hill right? Coming back? Are everybody? So?

805
00:40:18,639 --> 00:40:20,440
What did? What did you think was going on this

806
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:23,199
whole week when daddy was very busy? A lot of

807
00:40:23,199 --> 00:40:27,960
stuff and busyness and busyness. I mean that's that's another

808
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:30,320
way to say business. I think it must rule to

809
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:34,400
be ten. What the heck? Yo? This kid knows how

810
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:39,880
to tap me up? Yeah? Yeah, uh and yes that's

811
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:44,559
I want you to see it. Yeah, whoa, we're almost there?

812
00:40:46,079 --> 00:40:48,039
And uh and what do you really think of Dan

813
00:40:48,119 --> 00:40:55,880
Reichert sucks? Yeah, it's pretty much.

814
00:40:58,079 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 5: Okay, it's a child all right, I love you.

815
00:41:07,039 --> 00:41:12,559
Speaker 4: Buddy, thanks for coming asking for his autograph.

816
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:13,760
Speaker 2: Yeah all right.

817
00:41:16,119 --> 00:41:19,239
Speaker 5: Oh, we either we either gave him the best weekend

818
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:21,000
of his life or guaranteed therapy.

819
00:41:21,599 --> 00:41:24,719
Speaker 2: Wait, I'm not the one who was farting on his bed.

820
00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:25,239
That was me.

821
00:41:25,519 --> 00:41:28,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, all week it's been great.

822
00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:31,920
Speaker 3: That's been like the business couch just just pulled out

823
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:32,760
bed and you're just ripping it.

824
00:41:33,559 --> 00:41:34,920
Speaker 4: Like He's like, that's my bet, and I'm like, well,

825
00:41:35,159 --> 00:41:40,840
I've been farting on it, deal with it. Oh man,

826
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:44,119
all right, so new era Giant bomb, What the hell?

827
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:45,280
What do we do next?

828
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:48,079
Speaker 2: Yeah, just get back and get to work.

829
00:41:48,079 --> 00:41:49,880
Speaker 3: I mean, like the packs has been weird here because

830
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:52,280
like normally I'd be walking the floor a lot more,

831
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:55,920
playing more games things like that. I didn't get a

832
00:41:56,079 --> 00:41:57,880
great sense of like I did a couple of laps

833
00:41:57,920 --> 00:41:59,320
on the floor, But I mean I.

834
00:41:59,880 --> 00:42:02,000
Speaker 2: Like, here, I've seen a lot of dice.

835
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:05,639
Speaker 3: Yeah, concerning amount of dice, Yeah, almost too much dice.

836
00:42:05,639 --> 00:42:06,880
Speaker 2: That's this is a dice show.

837
00:42:07,159 --> 00:42:09,639
Speaker 4: It does feel like like you look at the show

838
00:42:09,639 --> 00:42:12,159
floor and you're like you get the vibes of like, oh,

839
00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:16,199
gaming's in a weird place right now, and like it'll

840
00:42:16,199 --> 00:42:18,800
figure itself out. It will because people care about it,

841
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:21,639
But it does feel like it's representative of something going

842
00:42:21,639 --> 00:42:24,800
on underneath a challenging like I don't. I think a

843
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:26,840
big part of it is a lot of developers from

844
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:29,559
around the world aren't necessarily feeling great about traveling to

845
00:42:29,599 --> 00:42:32,280
the United States right now, and I'm like, I get that,

846
00:42:33,199 --> 00:42:35,280
And then you know, it's like gaming just in general.

847
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:38,119
It's like, is spending money on coming to a place

848
00:42:38,159 --> 00:42:40,360
like this something that makes sense right now? And I

849
00:42:40,559 --> 00:42:43,440
don't blame them for saying in this moment no, So yeah,

850
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:44,559
it's a little strange.

851
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:47,679
Speaker 3: I think it's been weird both for you know, publishing

852
00:42:47,679 --> 00:42:51,119
and development and also games media for many many years now,

853
00:42:51,119 --> 00:42:53,599
and it's something that keeps coming up because it keeps

854
00:42:53,599 --> 00:42:57,000
getting worse. And like the timing was crazy last week

855
00:42:57,039 --> 00:42:59,199
because like we had all of our stuff going on

856
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:01,440
and then the Poly news and everything, so it was

857
00:43:01,559 --> 00:43:04,079
just like, boy, I've really spent the last like week

858
00:43:04,159 --> 00:43:06,480
or two. Games media is this thing I have grown

859
00:43:06,559 --> 00:43:08,880
up with and really attached myself to as a fan

860
00:43:09,079 --> 00:43:12,199
and as a worker, And boy is it in a

861
00:43:12,199 --> 00:43:14,320
weird spot right now. And it really feels like a transition.

862
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:17,400
You know, we saw the transition from magazines to websites,

863
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:19,880
and from websites to podcasts, and then podcasts and streams

864
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:22,360
together and everything, and then you know, the big websites

865
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:24,920
to patreons and things like that, and like we're doing

866
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:27,280
like a kind of different version of that by you know,

867
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:29,000
kind of doing our own. It's not paid time, but

868
00:43:29,039 --> 00:43:30,079
it's definitely crowdfunded.

869
00:43:30,119 --> 00:43:30,639
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's play.

870
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:33,400
Speaker 3: It's much closer to that than it is traditional big

871
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:35,599
corporate games media. So it's just like I've spent so

872
00:43:35,679 --> 00:43:39,440
much time thinking about it, and it's it's really bad

873
00:43:39,639 --> 00:43:41,480
in a way that like if you were trying to

874
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:43,440
break in now and get a full time job doing this,

875
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:44,199
I don't.

876
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:45,840
Speaker 2: It was always really hard.

877
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:49,039
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I never wanted just to discourage anyone, But

878
00:43:49,079 --> 00:43:51,039
at this moment, it's like, yeah, if you're looking around

879
00:43:51,039 --> 00:43:53,079
and you think it's grim, you're you're probably right.

880
00:43:53,159 --> 00:43:53,679
Speaker 2: It's weird.

881
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:55,360
Speaker 3: There was a time like when I worked a game

882
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:57,159
Informer and people would, you know, like howd you get

883
00:43:57,199 --> 00:43:59,280
your job? I would always write back and I would

884
00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:01,599
always give it. I would read articles and stuff and

885
00:44:01,679 --> 00:44:04,599
give something, and like I would give very earnest well

886
00:44:04,639 --> 00:44:06,320
meaning like try this, try this, you know, submit the

887
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:08,719
portfolio like this. And then it got to a certain

888
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:11,719
point where I couldn't honestly be like, yeah, give it

889
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:13,400
a shot, just keep writing and keep writing and you know,

890
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:15,760
get get experience, and like it's just like it's not

891
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:17,840
a viable thing. And then it's like what's the alternative

892
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:19,639
now where it's like do you just go on Twitch

893
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:22,760
and try to be a solo creator? And it's then

894
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:25,000
it's just like how do you stand out? How do

895
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:26,480
you possibly get that traction right?

896
00:44:26,519 --> 00:44:29,079
Speaker 4: And and in that situation, how does the rest of

897
00:44:29,119 --> 00:44:31,320
this stuff make sense? Where it's like Summer game Fest,

898
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:33,119
Like a Twitch creator doesn't need to go to Summer

899
00:44:33,119 --> 00:44:35,199
game Fest, like right, So it's like you kind of

900
00:44:35,199 --> 00:44:37,840
look in the situation like that's like, wait, okay, do

901
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:38,599
these big.

902
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:41,639
Speaker 1: Events even make sense anymore? So it's yeah, I don't know.

903
00:44:41,719 --> 00:44:42,519
I really like them.

904
00:44:42,559 --> 00:44:44,719
Speaker 4: I think, like I said, I think they will figure

905
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:45,719
things out.

906
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:47,320
Speaker 2: But it's just in a weird place right now.

907
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:49,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, And a lot of the Patreons and stuff that

908
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:51,679
you see being very successful and that I really admire

909
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:53,199
the work they do, like you know, kind of funny

910
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:54,679
min Max next Lander.

911
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:56,559
Speaker 2: Like they do great work.

912
00:44:56,599 --> 00:44:58,880
Speaker 3: But also there was the privilege of like you came

913
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:01,159
from traditional games meeting, Yeah, you got your following there,

914
00:45:01,159 --> 00:45:03,679
and we also, I guess now can fit into that category.

915
00:45:04,039 --> 00:45:06,760
So it's like, yeah, you can't just be twenty one

916
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:09,400
years old, twenty two out of college and start a Patreon,

917
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:10,960
you know. So it's like, what does that look like

918
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:13,880
if you're breaking in Like sure we have that privilege, Yes,

919
00:45:14,239 --> 00:45:15,559
what is someone coming out of college?

920
00:45:15,639 --> 00:45:15,800
Speaker 2: Right?

921
00:45:16,199 --> 00:45:17,719
Speaker 4: One of the things that I've always been like the

922
00:45:18,079 --> 00:45:20,400
Morning Show has been about this for a very long time,

923
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:22,880
like this idea of just like putting the ladder down,

924
00:45:23,119 --> 00:45:24,960
Like just hey, I'm up here on this ship, Like

925
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:26,800
put the ladder down a little bit, try to climb

926
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:27,039
up it.

927
00:45:27,199 --> 00:45:29,519
Speaker 2: That's the best I can do. I can't do much

928
00:45:29,559 --> 00:45:30,039
more than that.

929
00:45:30,039 --> 00:45:31,960
Speaker 4: I would love to give money to everybody, but it's

930
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:34,039
like even that, it's like, I mean, I don't know

931
00:45:34,039 --> 00:45:35,320
where we're climbing to anymore.

932
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:38,079
Speaker 1: I mean, not to glaze you grub, but I feel

933
00:45:38,079 --> 00:45:41,800
like you've done a pretty fantastic job about having a

934
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:45,519
multitude of different guests on Game as Mornings, game breaking news,

935
00:45:46,159 --> 00:45:50,119
and really shining a light like finding really dope people.

936
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:51,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks man, I appreciate it.

937
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:55,639
Speaker 3: I I can't tell you grab how many times I've

938
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:57,440
like reached out to you afterwards. I did not know

939
00:45:57,480 --> 00:45:58,960
this person before I saw them one, Like, wow, I

940
00:45:59,119 --> 00:46:01,039
gotta follow them, like you know what a great mind

941
00:46:01,079 --> 00:46:02,519
you know, like and a lot of them are very

942
00:46:02,559 --> 00:46:05,440
young and breaking in and everything. Right, So and I

943
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:07,159
think that is you know, you're gonna keep doing the

944
00:46:07,199 --> 00:46:07,559
news show.

945
00:46:07,599 --> 00:46:09,880
Speaker 4: Yes, we'll keep doing that, and like that. It's helpful

946
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:11,800
because there are so many cool people. It makes it

947
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:13,800
very easy on my side to just to be like, yeah,

948
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:16,679
come on the show. But yeah, I wish there was

949
00:46:16,719 --> 00:46:18,039
more ground for them to go to.

950
00:46:18,119 --> 00:46:18,760
Speaker 2: But I don't know.

951
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:21,079
Speaker 4: Like I said, I think things will sort itself out.

952
00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:23,239
We're just in a bad place right now. I think

953
00:46:23,239 --> 00:46:25,880
it rebounds in some way. It's not gonna look the same,

954
00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:28,679
but maybe it changes. We figure some things out.

955
00:46:29,079 --> 00:46:33,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, should we make a Christmas album?

956
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:34,519
Speaker 2: Yeah?

957
00:46:34,559 --> 00:46:36,760
Speaker 4: So that like that's the fun stuff now, because like

958
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:39,440
we've talked about stuff like that for so long and

959
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:42,079
it's like, well, we start talking for an hour about

960
00:46:42,079 --> 00:46:44,920
that and it's like, well, you know, other people are

961
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:47,199
just gonna get that money and so then we give up,

962
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:50,159
and now it's like, wait, we should totally do the

963
00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:51,159
dumbest ideas.

964
00:46:51,199 --> 00:46:54,760
Speaker 2: We have all of the merch yes, yeah, no approval.

965
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:56,679
Speaker 3: I guess we're gonna have like a majority rule system

966
00:46:56,760 --> 00:46:57,920
is at the plan we have five, we have an

967
00:46:57,960 --> 00:46:58,440
odd number.

968
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:00,880
Speaker 2: Let's just let back of our say yes and no.

969
00:47:01,039 --> 00:47:02,039
We have like a contingency.

970
00:47:02,079 --> 00:47:03,920
Speaker 3: It's like me, you and Minatti will be a contingency

971
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:05,199
and overrule anything.

972
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:08,280
Speaker 1: Yeah cool, but Danza but Janza.

973
00:47:10,039 --> 00:47:11,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, really, there's no puns you can do with Mike

974
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:12,599
Manatti's name.

975
00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:16,880
Speaker 4: Menah No, no, nothing works with that. Yeah, what do

976
00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:19,400
you what do you think he's thinking right now?

977
00:47:20,119 --> 00:47:23,079
Speaker 2: He's not watching I think is it fireworks time? It doesn't.

978
00:47:23,119 --> 00:47:25,320
Speaker 3: No, he's on the planes, he's on the plane home.

979
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:27,360
He think he's thinking about Disney fireworks.

980
00:47:28,119 --> 00:47:30,000
Speaker 5: No, I think I think he's thinking. I wonder when

981
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:31,280
the next time I'm going back.

982
00:47:31,119 --> 00:47:34,440
Speaker 2: To Yeah it is. That has been so funny to me.

983
00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:38,280
Speaker 1: The last week, before we even started any conversation on

984
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:40,199
the phone call, he goes, hey, guys, there's going to

985
00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:41,400
be a monorail that pops.

986
00:47:41,159 --> 00:47:46,880
Speaker 2: Up there and it was pretty impressive.

987
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:49,559
Speaker 3: Yeah, it went by right, away passed by twice during

988
00:47:49,599 --> 00:47:52,360
our call, and both times he raised his eyebrows when.

989
00:47:54,559 --> 00:47:57,679
Speaker 2: But what but what? None of us like he obviously

990
00:47:57,760 --> 00:47:58,800
had that in the shop.

991
00:47:59,079 --> 00:48:03,119
Speaker 3: That was intentional. He is accidentally from the Disney Mono.

992
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:05,400
Speaker 2: Rail that he loves, like you know, he must have

993
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:07,639
gone through it three times. I'm so glad you guys

994
00:48:07,639 --> 00:48:10,400
said that because it's so true. Like you said, it

995
00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:13,039
was like perfect amount of headroom above his head.

996
00:48:13,039 --> 00:48:14,920
Speaker 3: Here's a great thing about Manati too, because like you know,

997
00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:16,440
we got five of us, we're all gonna have to

998
00:48:16,559 --> 00:48:18,079
you know, we're all going to be on stuff and everything,

999
00:48:18,119 --> 00:48:20,039
but we'll also have kind of more specialized things.

1000
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:20,920
Speaker 2: Mini.

1001
00:48:22,039 --> 00:48:26,960
Speaker 3: What does that mean? Pinball's back on pinball? We'll see,

1002
00:48:27,039 --> 00:48:29,639
We'll see, look we will. We'll have breaks in programming

1003
00:48:29,679 --> 00:48:30,199
that you can do.

1004
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:34,920
Speaker 5: Ye think it to the eleven people super about pinball?

1005
00:48:35,159 --> 00:48:38,679
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, hell yeah, completely forgot my train of thought.

1006
00:48:41,119 --> 00:48:43,239
Speaker 4: Yeah, like Manati, he's like different from us or something

1007
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:43,519
like that.

1008
00:48:43,559 --> 00:48:43,960
Speaker 2: I don't know.

1009
00:48:44,639 --> 00:48:47,719
Speaker 1: Could we get the laptop on the screen real quick.

1010
00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:50,559
I made a little photoshop at dinner. If you can

1011
00:48:50,599 --> 00:48:55,320
do it, I mean, it's it's our it's our percial

1012
00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:58,519
breast photo. We said this the AP News.

1013
00:48:58,679 --> 00:49:02,800
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, they were like, are you sure this is

1014
00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:03,320
what you want?

1015
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:05,679
Speaker 2: The press really look like, what do you mean we're sure?

1016
00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:09,519
Speaker 3: Photographer credit to Mary Cash Chrish.

1017
00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:14,159
Speaker 2: Was our photographer. Yeah, also a great chob.

1018
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:17,320
Speaker 4: There was so much ship in the grass that we

1019
00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:19,599
were standing on like we were like all just trying

1020
00:49:19,599 --> 00:49:20,159
to avoid it.

1021
00:49:20,159 --> 00:49:23,519
Speaker 2: It was crazy. Yo, bunnies are just in the wild.

1022
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:27,079
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, wait yes, wait wait wait wait hang on,

1023
00:49:27,199 --> 00:49:27,519
hang on.

1024
00:49:27,599 --> 00:49:30,760
Speaker 2: Oh okay, well let's we'll go back to the bunnies.

1025
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:33,559
Speaker 3: But he's been doing some real Dan questions here where

1026
00:49:33,599 --> 00:49:36,639
we were walking to dinner tonight and he's just looking

1027
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:40,239
at a building, a brick building, and he's like, guys,

1028
00:49:40,239 --> 00:49:42,360
do they like do they have to like switch the

1029
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:42,960
bricks out?

1030
00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:48,519
Speaker 1: Does that not make sense? Do bricks lest forever? Why

1031
00:49:48,519 --> 00:49:51,199
did we stop using them? I don't think we stop.

1032
00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:59,920
Speaker 2: They're popular, just like diamonds. Bricks are forever, Yes, exactly.

1033
00:50:00,199 --> 00:50:03,280
And and it's it's the O G brick, the OG brick.

1034
00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:04,760
Yeah yeah, yo.

1035
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:06,719
Speaker 3: They probably like powerwa washed it or something.

1036
00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:09,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe clean them up every now and then. Dang,

1037
00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:13,079
I know, oh I get shipped about three way calls.

1038
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:17,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh buddy, the one time ever. But and then

1039
00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:20,199
you you found out that like there's little bunny rabbits

1040
00:50:20,199 --> 00:50:20,639
in the wild.

1041
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:23,559
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like lost my ship because I saw a

1042
00:50:23,559 --> 00:50:26,960
little bunny rabbit and I'm like, yo, can I take

1043
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:27,559
this grub?

1044
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:30,800
Speaker 2: Hey? You know what if you can grab it? Sure?

1045
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:33,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you're gonna get ticks, but yeah you can

1046
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:33,880
have it, dude.

1047
00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:37,800
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, what wildlife?

1048
00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:44,039
Speaker 1: Do you have an saf like foxes sea lions? Uh?

1049
00:50:44,079 --> 00:50:48,320
Hell yeah, shouts out to the area. Can you three

1050
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:48,920
give me another?

1051
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:49,239
Speaker 2: YadA?

1052
00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:56,440
Speaker 10: I mean y mean, YadA mean, Jeff got, I mean

1053
00:50:59,719 --> 00:51:04,000
sound authentic? Yeah yeah, yeah, proud of you guys. Yeah,

1054
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:06,559
thanks Jan Look at the growth. Yeah.

1055
00:51:06,559 --> 00:51:09,119
Speaker 2: Should we just go through the deets one more time?

1056
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:09,679
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1057
00:51:09,719 --> 00:51:10,599
Speaker 2: Probably? All right.

1058
00:51:10,639 --> 00:51:14,639
Speaker 4: So Giant Bomb is independent, it's employee owned.

1059
00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:23,760
Speaker 1: Yep, in case you forgot in case yeah, should wait

1060
00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:26,880
wait wait wait, I want to spring this now. It's

1061
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:29,039
sorry for coming it hot. Should we vote for an

1062
00:51:29,079 --> 00:51:29,840
employee of the month?

1063
00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:33,599
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah.

1064
00:51:33,079 --> 00:51:34,920
Speaker 3: No, because you motherbuckers are going to make it a

1065
00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:36,199
joke where I never win it.

1066
00:51:36,239 --> 00:51:38,239
Speaker 2: If yes, if you.

1067
00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:39,480
Speaker 1: Know, they can do the first vote, they can do

1068
00:51:39,519 --> 00:51:40,199
the first vote.

1069
00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:42,679
Speaker 2: If you think Dan should be Employed the Month. Cheer

1070
00:51:47,119 --> 00:51:49,480
if you there were some cheers, no the booze, actually

1071
00:51:49,559 --> 00:51:52,639
take the cheer. Yeah, counter rappets. Those are the minuses.

1072
00:51:52,679 --> 00:51:54,079
Speaker 3: It's like a scene a thing. I would say it

1073
00:51:54,119 --> 00:51:57,159
was like fifty to fifty. Sure, I'm the John Cena,

1074
00:51:57,159 --> 00:51:57,840
That's what I'm saying.

1075
00:51:58,159 --> 00:51:58,960
Speaker 2: Mike Manatti.

1076
00:52:01,679 --> 00:52:05,440
Speaker 1: He can't co own a company and win Employee of

1077
00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:06,440
the Month in the same day.

1078
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:09,000
Speaker 3: He hasn't had anything to do with the last week

1079
00:52:09,079 --> 00:52:10,400
of conversation.

1080
00:52:10,199 --> 00:52:21,199
Speaker 2: Being the same. Janet choa thirty podcast points for all

1081
00:52:21,239 --> 00:52:21,440
of you.

1082
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:37,880
Speaker 1: Thirty that's Jeff Grubb boo, Jeff Backlar. Yeah, congratulations, Jeff

1083
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:39,960
Backlar not first employee.

1084
00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:40,920
Speaker 2: Of the month. I got a plaque on the wall.

1085
00:52:41,079 --> 00:52:43,199
Speaker 1: Now, you don't get shut out that that was just

1086
00:52:43,239 --> 00:52:44,400
applause because they wanted your.

1087
00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:49,719
Speaker 2: Kid to feel good. So, yeah, we're back.

1088
00:52:50,159 --> 00:52:52,719
Speaker 1: Giant bomb dot COM's last join memberships are going to

1089
00:52:52,719 --> 00:52:53,159
support us.

1090
00:52:53,199 --> 00:52:54,719
Speaker 4: We're gonna get to work on a bunch of stuff.

1091
00:52:54,719 --> 00:52:57,039
We're gonna try to do SGF. We're gonna be back

1092
00:52:57,079 --> 00:52:59,599
with content this week. We're gonna do a bunch of

1093
00:52:59,599 --> 00:53:02,840
new stuff as well. It's going to be awesome. If

1094
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:04,760
you make a game and when I advertise with us.

1095
00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:08,440
Speaker 2: Absolutely, what is it?

1096
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:11,079
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we're big on Raid Shadow Legends all of

1097
00:53:11,079 --> 00:53:11,400
a sudden.

1098
00:53:11,920 --> 00:53:15,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love vps. It's just the best. Yeah, I

1099
00:53:16,079 --> 00:53:18,679
bills whatever, whatever.

1100
00:53:20,719 --> 00:53:22,639
Speaker 5: I also just want to I think we should all

1101
00:53:22,719 --> 00:53:25,159
take a second to obviously recognize all the fine people

1102
00:53:25,159 --> 00:53:27,760
at Packs and people who you put on this show

1103
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:34,559
and they h this is this is only my second

1104
00:53:34,559 --> 00:53:37,199
time out of pas uh, and it's just you know,

1105
00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:40,039
for all the accommodations and everything, and everyone's been so

1106
00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:42,679
you know, helpful, and we just really thank you so

1107
00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:44,840
much Packs for having us, and obviously Pierce and all

1108
00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:47,679
of our people there who represent the show, thank you

1109
00:53:47,719 --> 00:53:48,079
so much.

1110
00:53:48,159 --> 00:53:57,079
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, And you're doing these Yeah that'd be fun.

1111
00:53:57,159 --> 00:53:59,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah that is something like in the last week

1112
00:53:59,840 --> 00:54:01,800
it's like, oh, I'm too old to do anything else.

1113
00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:04,719
Speaker 2: We got to figure it out, figure this out right away. Yeah.

1114
00:54:05,159 --> 00:54:06,679
None of these skills are transferremed No.

1115
00:54:07,199 --> 00:54:09,960
Speaker 3: And if any if any of our friends can expense

1116
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:12,960
meals and when I have dinners while that's great.

1117
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:15,480
Speaker 2: Or at our homes that's fine. Yeah, mortgage.

1118
00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:18,880
Speaker 1: If anyone knows the safest way to walk to the airport,

1119
00:54:18,960 --> 00:54:19,519
let me know.

1120
00:54:23,239 --> 00:54:26,639
Speaker 2: A train. But yeah.

1121
00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:30,400
Speaker 1: Once again, like we are able to be here because

1122
00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:34,519
of y'all. So any amount of support, whatever it is,

1123
00:54:35,760 --> 00:54:39,440
ringing a bell, I guess I've heard today or whatever.

1124
00:54:39,239 --> 00:54:42,760
Speaker 2: We we we would love it and we love you.

1125
00:54:43,559 --> 00:54:47,920
Speaker 1: I've heard the acronym before, FUBU.

1126
00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:51,480
Speaker 2: For by us. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what it is. Yeah, Okay, cool. God,

1127
00:54:51,559 --> 00:54:53,400
I'm not the I'm not the oldest one here. Now

1128
00:54:54,039 --> 00:54:55,599
he's aging in front of our eyes.

1129
00:54:56,440 --> 00:54:57,920
Speaker 3: I think that is part of why, like we are

1130
00:54:58,519 --> 00:55:01,159
confident enough to try to this is because you know,

1131
00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:03,280
we've worked at a lot of different game sites. We've

1132
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:05,559
seen a lot of comment sections and things like that. Yeah,

1133
00:55:05,599 --> 00:55:07,800
and that has always been. There are a lot of

1134
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:10,719
things that make Giant Bomb special and have historically. But

1135
00:55:10,880 --> 00:55:12,639
I would say the most important thing, and I'm not

1136
00:55:12,679 --> 00:55:15,599
just blowing smoke up anyone's ass, is that the community.

1137
00:55:15,159 --> 00:55:16,719
Speaker 2: Has been so passionate.

1138
00:55:16,760 --> 00:55:18,159
Speaker 3: I remember like being on the outside when I was

1139
00:55:18,199 --> 00:55:19,960
a game and farmer, and I would see the stuff

1140
00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:21,840
that's happened like Gersman and Davis and those guys, and

1141
00:55:21,840 --> 00:55:24,400
it's like, man, there's like fan art of these games

1142
00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:28,079
podcast personalities like that's wild, Like that never happened at

1143
00:55:28,119 --> 00:55:30,400
other places I saw, and then like I came in

1144
00:55:30,519 --> 00:55:33,719
and just like, oh boy, they have opinions about the site,

1145
00:55:33,800 --> 00:55:35,840
and they have their favorites, and they have their fan

1146
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:38,960
art and it's just an incredible community. And I think

1147
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:42,239
if it was not that strong, I would not have

1148
00:55:42,360 --> 00:55:45,440
jumped into this as readily. So honestly a huge thanks

1149
00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:47,360
to the Giant Bomb audience. We would not be doing

1150
00:55:47,360 --> 00:55:48,039
this without.

1151
00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:51,280
Speaker 4: You, yeah, I think, And like kind of seeing them

1152
00:55:51,280 --> 00:55:55,280
out there representing this week and doing the Hey remember

1153
00:55:55,320 --> 00:55:57,239
when this happened, and being like I am so sad

1154
00:55:57,320 --> 00:55:59,639
it feels like it's going away, it made it feel

1155
00:55:59,639 --> 00:56:03,519
like it's worth figuring this out. It's worth saving its

1156
00:56:03,760 --> 00:56:07,199
Giant Bomb should go on, and so we're gonna do it.

1157
00:56:07,400 --> 00:56:09,639
We are gonna just it's gonna keep going here. We

1158
00:56:09,679 --> 00:56:10,760
are We're not going anywhere.

1159
00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:17,639
Speaker 3: Yeah, and if it dies, and if it dies, the

1160
00:56:17,679 --> 00:56:19,599
blood is on all of your hands.

1161
00:56:22,320 --> 00:56:29,199
Speaker 2: Thing, okay, heard me? Well all right, Jen? What did

1162
00:56:29,199 --> 00:56:32,239
we learn? Yeah? Well, what did we learn today?

1163
00:56:32,280 --> 00:56:36,000
Speaker 1: We learned that the four of us plus Mike Manatti,

1164
00:56:36,039 --> 00:56:39,280
who is in an airplane somewhere, is the now co

1165
00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:40,400
owner's Giant Bomb.

1166
00:56:40,920 --> 00:56:45,320
Speaker 2: Uh.

1167
00:56:45,960 --> 00:56:49,440
Speaker 1: Giant Bomb is now independent giant bomb dot com slash

1168
00:56:49,639 --> 00:56:58,239
join please you know think about it. And also yes, yeah,

1169
00:56:58,320 --> 00:57:02,360
I'm sorry, I don't know what came over. And also

1170
00:57:02,480 --> 00:57:04,480
it is far too late to get a Mother's Day

1171
00:57:04,480 --> 00:57:08,079
gift tomorrow, so you messed up? Yeah, by your mom

1172
00:57:08,280 --> 00:57:12,440
a subscription to Giant Bar probably, Yeah, that's.

1173
00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:16,119
Speaker 2: What every mom wants. Yeah, look like what yeah?

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Speaker 1: Four three four middle aged men and then like the

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00:57:20,360 --> 00:57:20,800
hot one?

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00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:28,159
Speaker 2: Yeah cool? Mike Manatti, Right, ladies love Mike Manatti. Baby.

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00:57:28,719 --> 00:57:33,119
A lot of people like Mike Vanatti. Yeah. So anything else? Yo?

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Speaker 4: Or should I hit the music? Just one last thing?

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00:57:36,599 --> 00:57:39,920
I see it? I still love game Spot. Everyone should

1180
00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:42,039
still go in game Spot. They're doing great work over there.

1181
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:46,840
I'm gonna keep going there. I'm gonna keep referencing them

1182
00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:48,480
on the news show. I can't wait to see what

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00:57:48,519 --> 00:57:51,000
they do. So let's all just work together and make

1184
00:57:51,039 --> 00:57:52,159
cool stuff for everybody.

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00:57:52,559 --> 00:57:52,960
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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00:57:53,119 --> 00:57:55,960
Speaker 1: Oh, we'd be remiss if we miss this, but we're

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00:57:56,039 --> 00:58:00,480
going to try our hardest to get Nikki and Sean

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00:58:01,039 --> 00:58:02,440
uh back in the door with us.

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Speaker 2: But thanks to them for everything.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, Like I would not have felt comfortable

1191
00:58:09,119 --> 00:58:11,360
taking any kind of day off if it wasn't for

1192
00:58:11,440 --> 00:58:15,079
Sean Yeah, and Nicky has been absolutely essential to the

1193
00:58:15,159 --> 00:58:18,039
last Yes, hell yeah, uh.

1194
00:58:19,880 --> 00:58:22,000
Speaker 2: Should we hit the music now? Let's yeah, let's hit it.

1195
00:58:22,280 --> 00:58:38,159
Speaker 5: Thanks everybodybody coming on everyone.

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Speaker 2: Throw him up, Thank you for watching. Everybody.

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Speaker 3: Wee I've been Jan, he's been Jeff, he's been Jeff,

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he's been Dan.

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Speaker 2: You've been wonderful.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you next week for another episode of.

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Speaker 2: The Time podcast.

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Speaker 1: Good b