Speaker 1: New World World Order. Right.
Speaker 2: Oh, hey, oh, you gotta press the button.
Speaker 3: Tolturns Green He specifically, yeah, I know, I remember it
Speaker 3: just now and then I said it. Hi everyone. So
Speaker 3: you might have seen on the schedule that this was
Speaker 3: listed as a blight Club panel, which is great.
Speaker 2: Blight Club is great, but.
Speaker 3: Some plans changed and for those there might be people
Speaker 3: here who just saw like, oh, they're going to play
Speaker 3: a bad game and showed up and don't know all
Speaker 3: the internal goings on of the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: What happened. Yeah, what's up?
Speaker 1: There's like five podcasts about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, there's a few there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Minati went nuts on a stream. So if you
Speaker 3: came here to see a bad game, you're not going
Speaker 3: to see that. We've got some stuff to talk about,
Speaker 3: and I will toss to mister Jeff Grubb for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: As most of you know, I no longer work at Fandom.
Speaker 4: What you probably don't know is neither does this guy.
Speaker 1: He just heard the news the first time. Yeah, yea,
Speaker 1: we're doing the catch up now. Yeah, okay, now what
Speaker 1: we discussed. You're scaring my son.
Speaker 2: Boo this child. Here's the thing though, when it happened.
Speaker 4: Me and Backlar got into a room with the people
Speaker 4: from Fandom, and what happened is they had a really
Speaker 4: what we think is a pretty good idea. So for
Speaker 4: the last week about eight days, god feels like a
Speaker 4: million Yes, me and Backlar have been working on some
Speaker 4: stuff and really it came from a place of Fandom
Speaker 4: saying they wanted to do What's Here's what really happened.
Speaker 4: You all came out and when things happened, you all
Speaker 4: got loud and you said how you feel, and they're like,
Speaker 4: this is we say that we're about these people, and
Speaker 4: they realized they're about you, and so they had some
Speaker 4: good ideas about how to capture that and what to
Speaker 4: do with that. I think Fantom actually they had the
Speaker 4: motto of fans first, and when they were in this situation,
Speaker 4: I think their instinct was to look to that to
Speaker 4: figure out what they.
Speaker 2: Sho should do to solve this.
Speaker 4: And what that created was an opportunity for me and
Speaker 4: Backlar to get in the room with them and we
Speaker 4: talked about and agreed.
Speaker 2: About the future of what we're doing.
Speaker 5: Here right like, what was going to be next for
Speaker 5: this thing? What is fundamentally the right thing to do.
Speaker 4: And it's because like corporate games media, I mean, god,
Speaker 4: we all know, right at this point it is a
Speaker 4: complicated thing and and no one's been able to figure
Speaker 4: it out, Like we have not been able to figure
Speaker 4: it out. So at a certain point, why are we
Speaker 4: expecting anyone on the other side to be able to
Speaker 4: figure it out either. So when we looked at the
Speaker 4: history of this site, Giant Bomb, and the many owners
Speaker 4: it's had, whether it's you know, Whiskey Media, I need
Speaker 4: two hands, CBS, Red Ventures, we could do a mount
Speaker 4: rushmore of owners actually, oh boy. And then and then fandom.
Speaker 4: There's there's been a lot there. And here's the thing.
Speaker 4: Giant Bomb now has new owners and you're looking at him.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, kay, yes, h m.
Speaker 2: Hm h.
Speaker 3: Yeah, h.
Speaker 5: M h.
Speaker 2: I believe. I believe that's uh. I think we.
Speaker 4: Should say, real quick, they sold to me in bacular
Speaker 4: but we're gonna share.
Speaker 2: Thank you, okay, he thank you? Oh cool? So yes,
Speaker 2: that's a shoot. That was a shoot. That was a
Speaker 2: pop right, Oh that was what that was? Real quick.
Speaker 1: Dan was planning that pop all week, even before we
Speaker 1: knew this was gonna happen.
Speaker 4: So the fact that you popped that hard. It's going
Speaker 4: to go to his head. Thanks a lot, guys.
Speaker 3: Good job, thank you, thank you everyone. Good job, Thanks y'all,
Speaker 3: Thank you to you guys. Yes, thank you so Yes.
Speaker 3: As Grub said, we have four owners co owners of
Speaker 3: Giant Bomb right now. But if you've been watching Giant
Speaker 3: Bomb stuff for the last couple of years, you may
Speaker 3: be asking yourself, what about Mike Manatti.
Speaker 1: I'm not doing that. No, I'm not doing that at all.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about?
Speaker 3: No one said this, well, many people were saying it,
Speaker 3: where is he Mike Manatti has been at Disney last
Speaker 3: forty days. Yeah, he's been every day. We're getting pictures
Speaker 3: of him smiling in front of a fountain or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, we know it's a on around. So uh.
Speaker 3: He was completely in the dark about all of this
Speaker 3: because we like dropped him from the group chat bye bye.
Speaker 3: He wanted this because he wanted to be in Disney mode.
Speaker 1: He wanted to enjoy Disney, and we oblige of course.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So and all of the h a lot of stuff
Speaker 3: goes into something like this, and a lot of talks
Speaker 3: and everything, and Mike Manaughty was just on a Mister
Speaker 3: Toad's wild rideing and a corn dog or whatever.
Speaker 2: He does the cool, the cool, the cool stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so this morning we gave him a call to
Speaker 3: inform him of something.
Speaker 2: And ask him a question, and uh, let me just
Speaker 2: go ahead and throw it to the clip.
Speaker 1: That's pretty Disney. Can we get the video and there
Speaker 1: it is?
Speaker 2: Yep? Okay, yeah, thanks you for time muted. Oh oops,
Speaker 2: it's my first podcast grub. Do you want to explain? Yeah, Mike,
Speaker 2: we bought giant Bomb. Who's we us four? And hey,
Speaker 2: do you want to own giant bomb with us? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I would like that. I would like that a lot.
Speaker 3: You want to be the fifth owner of giant bomb
Speaker 3: dot com?
Speaker 2: But really, it's going on really yeah? Yeah, this is
Speaker 2: a shoot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, we're going to business together.
Speaker 3: That's five owners.
Speaker 2: Uh, this is a shot, right? Am I still allowed
Speaker 2: to say that? I don't know? Okay? Uh? Yeah, what
Speaker 2: what's they sold it to you? We can tell you.
Speaker 3: Well, we'll talk about the full story off discord, But yes,
Speaker 3: we own Giant Bomb.
Speaker 2: I took the job, jump on that. Yeah, pulled off
Speaker 2: something great. I mean I did most of the work
Speaker 2: part of it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 2: That's you realize.
Speaker 1: I stated that I was never gonna contribute to Johnny
Speaker 1: Thrum again.
Speaker 2: I made a whole showing protest of it and everything.
Speaker 2: I'm a wire.
Speaker 3: I said I would never appear on Giant Bomb again.
Speaker 3: But things have changed. Yeah, okay, a card subject to change.
Speaker 3: So I still have to play my next Black Club game.
Speaker 2: Maybe Wednesday is the plan.
Speaker 1: So yes, yeah, all right, I'm gonna maybe get some
Speaker 1: contact negotiations on that.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's amazing.
Speaker 3: What well, here, we'll stop the recording here and we'll
Speaker 3: be able to talk just us here.
Speaker 2: All right, Yes, all right, that's okay. Well, then that's it.
Speaker 2: He should That's what his cameo is, is just reacting
Speaker 2: to get used.
Speaker 4: What sucks is he said a bunch of slurs, so
Speaker 4: we couldn't show when the monoail came by.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, that's her. That's your fifth owner of Giant
Speaker 3: Bomb right now.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, and.
Speaker 4: We're uh, we're gonna get into the details about what
Speaker 4: all this means as much as we can. This really
Speaker 4: did come together, like yesterday, it was when it really
Speaker 4: came together, and uh yeah, so we're gonna get all
Speaker 4: the details here in a little bit.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think I think so what it was?
Speaker 3: Episode eight eight eight was technically last week because it's Friday, right.
Speaker 2: And let's not miss a week.
Speaker 3: We didn't miss a week, so we'll just do eight
Speaker 3: eight nine right now, Yeah, let's do eight.
Speaker 2: Hit the music?
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, three, are.
Speaker 2: You guys recording? Okay?
Speaker 7: Wow, Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, May ten, twenty five.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Giant BombCast, live from Packs East. I
Speaker 1: am your host, jan Ochoa, joined me as always co
Speaker 1: Captain of the Ship and co owner of the ship
Speaker 1: Jeff Grubb.
Speaker 2: I'm doing good, co owner. How you doing? I'm doing
Speaker 2: pretty good.
Speaker 1: I'm doing pretty good because you know we have we
Speaker 1: what was your title again?
Speaker 2: I got it?
Speaker 1: I just tole triple ages. We got the triple H
Speaker 1: of the JEEF officer. We've got the chief content officer
Speaker 1: of the team.
Speaker 2: Dam Riker.
Speaker 3: You didn't take co owner. Wait he didn't take co owner?
Speaker 3: Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait you.
Speaker 2: Didn't say co owner. Can you just say it co owner?
Speaker 2: Dane record? Okay, now there we go. Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Michael Manatti is away on assignment, but we all know that.
Speaker 1: He is the be boy of games media. But joining
Speaker 1: us we have the evilest presence because there is a
Speaker 1: void inside of him, an eternal darkness of sorts. Co
Speaker 1: owner of Giant bomba Ru.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's really nice to be here.
Speaker 2: This is my first BombCast in a really long time.
Speaker 1: Well, you've been very busy in meetings. Yeah, yeah, that
Speaker 1: is true. I've wanted to say this for quite a while.
Speaker 1: And I apologize for the wrestling right off thet So, uh,
Speaker 1: what do you guys want to talk about?
Speaker 2: Oh, all right, I don't think people got the reference.
Speaker 2: Well it's okay, yeah, twelve podcast points.
Speaker 4: So we're gonna we're gonna put this out on the feed.
Speaker 4: We should explain what's going on. We should tell people
Speaker 4: what's happening.
Speaker 3: But it's also it's it's coming so hot that it's uh,
Speaker 3: there's definitely gonna be a period of just like kind
Speaker 3: of feeling it out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's just explain like where we're at, like what
Speaker 4: we do, know, what we can talk about. Let's not
Speaker 4: play the music again. Felt first podcast. Okay, So it
Speaker 4: really has been a busy week. It's been a lot.
Speaker 4: It has been me and back are are we're actually dead?
Speaker 4: I don't know. We died a couple of days ago.
Speaker 4: It was a lot, but it's here now and now
Speaker 4: it's like, really, we're gonna have to figure it out
Speaker 4: with all of you.
Speaker 2: What it looks like. We have some ideas, but there's
Speaker 2: a lot.
Speaker 4: Of stuff that like we're still getting the keys back
Speaker 4: to things like that.
Speaker 2: To make it clear, fandom has been very helpful.
Speaker 4: They want they wanted this to happen because again, it
Speaker 4: was important to the people that are there because they
Speaker 4: believe in this, and now it's up to us to
Speaker 4: make it happen.
Speaker 2: So what does it look like?
Speaker 3: So there are some things we can say for sure
Speaker 3: now where it's like, yeah, the BombCast continuing tuesdays, that
Speaker 3: just that train keeps rolling the news show. Yeah, you're
Speaker 3: gonna keep doing that. I might do it, I might
Speaker 3: do it Monday. Yeah let's go sure.
Speaker 1: All right, Jeff Grub, It's see you Monday for Game
Speaker 1: Mess Mornings.
Speaker 2: Game Mess Mornings. Yes morning. Uh.
Speaker 3: And the timing worked out really beautifully on this because
Speaker 3: it's about time for Mike Manatti to suit up for
Speaker 3: his Blake Club game. He's gonna look so oh you
Speaker 3: folks don't know what he's where. Wait the picture you
Speaker 3: showed me that one. He's gonna be so cool. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 3: he has all of the game ready to go. He's
Speaker 3: got the game. So Wednesday, New Blake Club season starts.
Speaker 3: And I think something we're really excited about too is
Speaker 3: like just removed from you know, meetings and in stricter
Speaker 3: scheduling and things like that. I think we're just gonna
Speaker 3: be able to easily just be like, Hey, this new
Speaker 3: game cann do you want to hop in? We'll stream
Speaker 3: it for an hour or six hours or just the
Speaker 3: flexibility we're gonna have to just be able to pop
Speaker 3: in and stream stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: In the limited time we've had to talk about this,
Speaker 4: it really has come back to like things have changed
Speaker 4: since Giant Bomb introduced the idea of a premium subscription,
Speaker 4: And I think what a lot like we talked to
Speaker 4: a lot of our friends when we could, like when
Speaker 4: things were changing, before we knew this was possible, and
Speaker 4: a lot of the ideas we got back where people
Speaker 4: want to see you do your bullshit, They want to
Speaker 4: see you just go into the stuff you care about
Speaker 4: because the reason they're watching is they care about that too.
Speaker 4: So that's gonna be the idea behind all of this.
Speaker 4: We're gonna do what we want to make and then
Speaker 4: you let us know if you're into it, and when
Speaker 4: we want to, like, if we come up a bad idea,
Speaker 4: we're gonna do it like and see how bad it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like yeah, well, because in the past, you know,
Speaker 3: if you're serving a corporation or you're serving an algorithm,
Speaker 3: that kind of limits what you can do creatively. And
Speaker 3: now we literally are going to be serving the audience.
Speaker 3: Like that's right, you are all our boss now, Like,
Speaker 3: that's all we have to worry about is making the
Speaker 3: audience happy exactly.
Speaker 4: So we are going to lean into subscriptions. The that's
Speaker 4: the model here. We're going to go back to, hey,
Speaker 4: join the Giant Bomb membership, and that is we're going
Speaker 4: to go right now it's five dollars, We're going up
Speaker 4: to ten dollars because that money is going to go
Speaker 4: to us. Now, I think it makes sense, and you
Speaker 4: go to giant bomb dot com slash join right now
Speaker 4: you can get into that. And everything that happens from
Speaker 4: this moment forward is supporting this team and doing what
Speaker 4: it wants to do. And the more support we get,
Speaker 4: the more we can do.
Speaker 3: And also it's important to us that the vast majority
Speaker 3: of the content now is going to be free.
Speaker 2: You know, when we were leaned into premium.
Speaker 3: Before, it was tricky because, like, you know, we would
Speaker 3: do series that we were really proud of where it's like,
Speaker 3: you know, I would do like a steal my Sunshine
Speaker 3: or middle of your scaling, and it's like I would
Speaker 3: want to tweet out, like check out this great episode.
Speaker 3: But if it's behind a paywall, you can't really just
Speaker 3: kind of put it out there and expect people to
Speaker 3: see it. So we do want people to be able
Speaker 3: to access this, whether they support us monetarily or not.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it is going to be largely supporting us
Speaker 3: and keeping this thing going.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we talked about doing voicemail dumb truck.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course you're so backed up? What's that You're
Speaker 2: so backed up? Buddy?
Speaker 4: I can't wait for the let's catch up Jeff back
Speaker 4: or what's happened recently?
Speaker 5: Except I know exactly what happened. And you know, last
Speaker 5: night we had a Jeff Jeff's Bizarre Adventure panel and
Speaker 5: I think we had a blast with super broad Patch
Speaker 5: well Tomorrow's Saying and Lucy James, and it was.
Speaker 2: Such good idea.
Speaker 5: Yeah, uh, and you know, we didn't know how this
Speaker 5: plane was gonna land, and you know, things didn't really
Speaker 5: materialize until the eleventh hour. And you know that podcast
Speaker 5: is absolutely gonna gonna continue.
Speaker 2: Probably as an independent project.
Speaker 5: And I just I just personally how much I love
Speaker 5: doing that show with that with that crew.
Speaker 4: And who was at the panel yesterday for Jeff Ches's
Speaker 4: Bizarre Adventure?
Speaker 2: Yeah right? How good was that because I learned a
Speaker 2: lot about anime. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: You also I got to talk to super Eye patch
Speaker 3: Ball last night at the bar about how ja no EPO?
Speaker 2: And I'm really really into that show. Wow.
Speaker 3: Did did not expect so much fit to be about
Speaker 3: how big a Dick is? But it's still really good.
Speaker 3: What it plays an elephant sound effect every time his
Speaker 3: Dick shows.
Speaker 1: Up, I'm watching the wrong show. Yeah, well it's like Rocky,
Speaker 1: but he's got you.
Speaker 4: He talks about Dix. I want to do something more
Speaker 4: sincere tam Lucy, thank you so much. Yeah I mean him.
Speaker 4: When I say you mean the world to us, I
Speaker 4: le's not the right word. I aspire to the to
Speaker 4: the to the people that you are And so just
Speaker 4: thank you for being like so cool when we worked
Speaker 4: with you. I can't wait to find a way to
Speaker 4: work with you guys again.
Speaker 5: I'm absolutely it can't be understated how much a part
Speaker 5: of the DNA you both are to this brand.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's never gonna change. We love you, guys, Yeah,
Speaker 2: we love you. Wow.
Speaker 1: Uh on that note back alarm. Yeah, thank you man.
Speaker 4: I In this last week, I've realized so much what
Speaker 4: you've done to protect us, so much, what you've done
Speaker 4: to make this make sense. The arg you did with
Speaker 4: Chuck Towski helped, like stuff you didn't even tell us about.
Speaker 4: I didn't realize it, man I, And I'm sorry and
Speaker 4: thank you.
Speaker 1: I mean it, like, let's do this together. Let's get
Speaker 1: to work, man, kiss Yeah, thank you? Yeah, man absolutely
Speaker 1: all right. So what are we getting fired?
Speaker 2: Man? What are we gonna do next? I mean we're
Speaker 2: starting right away.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, new show Monday podcast returns on Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Yep, dump truck. Yeah.
Speaker 3: See why we don't do all this stuff, Like we're
Speaker 3: gonna have to have a lot of meetings too, about
Speaker 3: just like there's a lot of things to iron out.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, Like I want to do Summer Game Fest,
Speaker 4: I want to do GB at night.
Speaker 2: But it's a lot of work. Guys, We're gonna try it.
Speaker 2: We're gonna do our best. We're gonna try to figure
Speaker 2: it out. It's in like thirty minutes, I think. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and doing it ourselves too.
Speaker 3: Where it's like, we did get a lot of support
Speaker 3: for summer games, a lot of other hands and people
Speaker 3: helping us and things like that. We do have a
Speaker 3: lot of friends that have reached out and to help us.
Speaker 3: But like, we got to put this together. We're gonna
Speaker 3: be scrappy. It's it's gonna be scrappy. We're gonna do
Speaker 3: our best to make it look cool. It's not gonna
Speaker 3: look good, but it's gonna look cool. Hey, hey, hey,
Speaker 3: we're gonna do our best. Cool is good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's where I'm at. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have a couch that used to live in
Speaker 1: a basement.
Speaker 2: Yeah, can you get a U haul?
Speaker 1: I can drive a truck down to Los Angeles if
Speaker 1: we want that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I like I like I like catches.
Speaker 3: Okay, oh yeah, yeah, there's a lot of games to
Speaker 3: talk about that we haven't Uh, we've had a little break.
Speaker 2: It's weird taking a break.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I was traveling a lot, and you know,
Speaker 3: the stuff going on in the last couple of weeks
Speaker 3: and yeah, feeling it's getting backed up in like the
Speaker 3: switch to like we are a few weeks away from that.
Speaker 4: It just feels like there's like so much happening, and
Speaker 4: it's like we got to like set up a business,
Speaker 4: do all this stuff. Like we're gonna get to work
Speaker 4: right away, but it's gonna be a lot to figure out,
Speaker 4: so we're gonna yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just think, like, you know, there's some time
Speaker 5: that has to pass before it all starts to materialize.
Speaker 2: Yeah, or even feel real.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I just don't want to understate just how
Speaker 5: up to the last moment all of this really like
Speaker 5: I'm not even yeah, it was exaggerating, Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean yeah, I have the photo from when I
Speaker 4: signed and it's of you, like you just kind of
Speaker 4: doing something else, and I'm like, this moment, I'm not
Speaker 4: gonna forget this.
Speaker 2: It was pretty wild. Yeah, yeah, didn't.
Speaker 3: Wasn't it like a day or two ago that didn't
Speaker 3: Stacy ask you, like, are you going to die?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: She was like, you know, I just need to know,
Speaker 5: you know, if that's gonna happen, I mean eventually your wife.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, so no.
Speaker 5: For sure, Like obviously a lot of stuff is coming
Speaker 5: together last minute, So I think just a little bit
Speaker 5: of patience for some stuff will go a long way
Speaker 5: for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then I think, like it all kind of
Speaker 4: comes back to this is like co owners employee owned.
Speaker 4: We are in this together, We're gonna have to figure
Speaker 4: things out. So I don't know, like, how does that
Speaker 4: change things for you guys? Like, how are you feeling
Speaker 4: about that?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: I've been feeling like I want to throw up for
Speaker 1: the past two years.
Speaker 5: You know what though, all all kidding a side, like yeah, same, right,
Speaker 5: but but you never do her.
Speaker 2: You just sort of like last time you threw up?
Speaker 1: Yeah, ooh, I think maybe like two months ago?
Speaker 2: Okay, what like on purpose or like is it ever
Speaker 2: on purple?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 5: Like was it because you had fun or because maybe
Speaker 5: I had too much fun?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: The last time I both threw up and had diarrhea
Speaker 3: was at Kajima Productions two weeks ago.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the last time I threw up was in
Speaker 2: your your house? Oh yeah, yeah house.
Speaker 3: Yes, it was just food poisoning. It wasn't even like
Speaker 3: a fun.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 4: All right, So listen, we're gonna, Like I said, we're
Speaker 4: gonna get to work. We're gonna figure this stuff out.
Speaker 4: But in the meantime, man, what do we talk about?
Speaker 4: Like what do we tell people?
Speaker 1: Maybe, Hey, a couple of new shirts heading to store
Speaker 1: dot giant bomb dot com.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like yeah, that's the thing.
Speaker 4: We got everything, like all all the stuff, like the
Speaker 4: store everything is ours.
Speaker 2: So yeah, you to the store right now, backlog all
Speaker 2: the accounts everything.
Speaker 4: It's not just like the name, it's yeah, oh yeah, archives, yes, yeah,
Speaker 4: that is like that's one thing where it's like, man,
Speaker 4: we could do stuff with that. I think one of
Speaker 4: the things we're planning to do is take some time,
Speaker 4: but maybe take like what like you have been doing
Speaker 4: Dan taking select old shows from the archive on YouTube.
Speaker 3: There's a Donkey Kong game coming out too, And I
Speaker 3: want to have all a burgle my bananas yes and
Speaker 3: yeah yeah, let me ask so Mike Minatti for I
Speaker 3: feel like since the day I met him, has been
Speaker 3: pushing for and I think it's just because he likes
Speaker 3: the alliteration. And I want to get honest, gauge, don't
Speaker 3: just pop because you feel like you're supposed to hear
Speaker 3: level of enthusiasm he wants to do something called Monday
Speaker 3: Mornings Missed with Mitch.
Speaker 2: Is that good? Most people are dead silent.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's just it's just Chuckdowski and ABC over there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the chats being weird right now. I don't know
Speaker 1: what you would I like miss.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I'm afraid we would both like missed a lot. I mean,
Speaker 1: is it like blueprints?
Speaker 2: I think it might be. Yeah, because I have no idea.
Speaker 2: Yeah wait wait, hang on hand. Should we do a
Speaker 2: missed feature? Yeah?
Speaker 1: We should not invite him. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2: No one tell Mike's idea. Okay, we're gonna have meetings.
Speaker 2: We have to tell him.
Speaker 3: So yeah, just freedom to do whatever the hell we want.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and yeah, I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 4: It's like, you know, we did get a lot of
Speaker 4: benefits from working within a bigger business that like provided
Speaker 4: a lot of safety nets. Now we are we are
Speaker 4: operating without a net now, and that's scary. But it
Speaker 4: does enable us to like a lot more freedom to
Speaker 4: try a lot more stuff.
Speaker 3: There is there is more flexibility in terms of like
Speaker 3: we could act quicker with things where it's like when
Speaker 3: you are dealing with a larger corporate structure. It's not
Speaker 3: just a matter of like, oh, we'd like to do this,
Speaker 3: let's do it. It has to go through different channels
Speaker 3: and different groups and stuff like that. Now it's just
Speaker 3: kind of like we talked to the five of us.
Speaker 3: It's like should we do this, and now we'll do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Dan, that's the point. Yeah, yeah, an agreement. Yeah, okay, cool,
Speaker 2: Yeah for sure, Okay, cool business right there, that's business. Wow, excellent.
Speaker 3: So yeah, probably first week go a little little standard,
Speaker 3: just as we you know, kind of get our feet
Speaker 3: wet with the new thing. But the we'll start branching
Speaker 3: out and hopefully being able to add things, tweak things,
Speaker 3: improve things over time. But the audience will have a
Speaker 3: direct line to us.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so exactly, and we'll be like setting up exactly
Speaker 4: what all that looks like. But if you are like
Speaker 4: joining right now, like there's the discord, there might be
Speaker 4: some issues with that, so have to give the URL
Speaker 4: out again. Yeah yeah, giant bomb dot com slash join.
Speaker 4: You'll be supporting what we're doing, and we're really looking
Speaker 4: forward to like getting this started right now, getting to.
Speaker 3: Work right and you say right now, and like literally
Speaker 3: from this moment anything that comes into Giant Bomb is
Speaker 3: directly to us. So yeah, anything store anything premium yep.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and with you know, with the with the patient
Speaker 5: stuff I talked about earlier. You know that also is
Speaker 5: related to like how people can.
Speaker 9: Get in touch with us if they just want to
Speaker 9: ask us a question. We don't have a direct mechanism
Speaker 9: over that just yet. Yeah, we're waiting on a couple
Speaker 9: of emails to open up again. But uh yeah, just
Speaker 9: you know, whether it's on the discord or hitting us
Speaker 9: up on social, we can answer and speak to anything.
Speaker 4: So when do you guys think this is gonna start
Speaker 4: to feel real to you? Like where like where you're
Speaker 4: at right now in terms of like like mental I.
Speaker 3: Can't imagine how you two feel because the last two
Speaker 3: weeks of constantly just you know, waiting for like the
Speaker 3: next update and stuff like that has just felt like
Speaker 3: an absolute blur to me. And I'm sure Jan and
Speaker 3: like we aren't the ones that were like in these
Speaker 3: calls for god knows how many hours a day. So yeah,
Speaker 3: it does feel like the last couple of weeks or
Speaker 3: what no, no, I.
Speaker 5: Was gonna say, well, no, soon yeah we'll know how
Speaker 5: many hours?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, it's it's gonna be it's gonna be
Speaker 2: a bit of Yeah. How about you, Jan like, is
Speaker 2: it even begun to feel real? No? Yeah?
Speaker 7: Not?
Speaker 2: You're a right, jan though, right what you're okay? Barely Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's fine, barely. We hang it and clanging, baby all
Speaker 2: guess no breaks with it?
Speaker 3: Ya I mean no, no, ye mean YadA means what
Speaker 3: they say.
Speaker 1: He likes it when we say it. Yeah, yeah, he
Speaker 1: likes how white it is what we say. No word, Jane,
Speaker 1: It'll be smooth.
Speaker 3: You're just you just have to handle all of the
Speaker 3: production for all of giant bomb dot com. What I
Speaker 3: could use ovs and that's about it. Yeah, audacity, I
Speaker 3: got that.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah, you have to edit, but I'll send
Speaker 2: you the file.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, I'm just I'm just playing. But uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I've been holding back a lot of
Speaker 1: feelings in the last couple week, two weeks, and I
Speaker 1: mean it where there's been multiple opportunities to jump ship.
Speaker 1: But the one thing, two things that have kept me
Speaker 1: here this whole time are the people that I work with,
Speaker 1: and these three chuckle heads some of the best, some
Speaker 1: of the best I've ever worked with. There's a bunch
Speaker 1: of chuckleheads in the audience that I've also worked with
Speaker 1: that I love from the bottom of my heart. That
Speaker 1: I cherish every single moment I got to spend with
Speaker 1: them hunting for pants in downtown LA. And yeah, the
Speaker 1: second ass back to that is all of y'all sitting here,
Speaker 1: sitting at home. It's been y'all and this fantastic community
Speaker 1: that we've built that have kept me here and everything
Speaker 1: and wanting to stay here because a fox with y'all.
Speaker 2: Yep, I mean, who can follow that? No one? Absolutely? Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, It's just it's been a very strange trip for
Speaker 5: me personally to see, you know, where this is all
Speaker 5: gone in the last five years. And it's just very
Speaker 5: surreal right now. H was not on my Bengal card, no,
Speaker 5: And uh yeah, I'm just you know, thrilled to just
Speaker 5: be a part of it and see it evolve and
Speaker 5: where it's gone.
Speaker 2: And I can't wait to share that with everyone. So yeah,
Speaker 2: hell yeah.
Speaker 4: Like since Giant Bombs started, like so many people have
Speaker 4: gone independent. Like one of the things I'm looking forward
Speaker 4: to is finding ways to work with everybody again. I'm
Speaker 4: looking forward to like just kind of realizing we're in
Speaker 4: the same space and just trying to like work together.
Speaker 4: One of the things I've learned is like we're not
Speaker 4: competing in any way. Like the community wants to support
Speaker 4: everybody and make this all happen. They want as much
Speaker 4: of this crazy bullshit as possible. And I think that, like, yeah,
Speaker 4: finding ways to make that happen more frequently, because like
Speaker 4: the incentive has changed for us. Previously, it's like we
Speaker 4: do a lot of work and all that, all those
Speaker 4: efforts pay off to someone else, and now it's like
Speaker 4: completely flipped and it's like, wait, yeah, there's nothing holding
Speaker 4: us back now to doing a ton of that and
Speaker 4: work with people that we love.
Speaker 2: So looking forward to a lot of that as well.
Speaker 1: Please, for the love of God, like and comment on
Speaker 1: every single subscribe to the podcast. What else do they say?
Speaker 1: Tell friends, give us money? All these things? Ring the bell?
Speaker 1: What's the bell? The what is that on YouTube? I'm
Speaker 1: oh man, I'm oh man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we gotta do YouTube too, dude, that's big. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Oh really yeah we should do that.
Speaker 2: Oh shoot.
Speaker 1: Uh but yeah, I mean any like any wild ideas
Speaker 1: y'all have at the top of your head. Well, I
Speaker 1: was thinking about this earlier today, and I was thinking, huh,
Speaker 1: I kind of want to just send Dan somewhere again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm game, yes, absolutely honestly, like made his flight
Speaker 3: home from SGF.
Speaker 2: Shouldn't go home.
Speaker 4: Wait, I don't go home for step No, it sends
Speaker 4: you to like another city without you know.
Speaker 2: What if we hide your switch to in a different city.
Speaker 3: It is getting mailed to Minnesota and you are not
Speaker 3: touching it. Okay, although, Greb, you're getting her sent to La. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's gonna be a nicky sass. Yeah, we can at
Speaker 3: least like play summer. We'll dose some multiplay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll play some Mario Kart sure, yeah, absolutely, honestly,
Speaker 4: we'll probably just stream Mario Kark from LA.
Speaker 2: Yeah. That was great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, from wherever we are exactly Again, it's thrifty, so
Speaker 3: we're gonna be all like you know, on bunk beds.
Speaker 2: And the AIRBNBA.
Speaker 4: That has been the most amazing transformation. So Dan reichert
Speaker 4: notoriously thrifty, not so much with other companies money. And
Speaker 4: then the second some certain things got turned off when
Speaker 4: he would normally pay in other ways and now it
Speaker 4: was his money just immediately turning into qpon Paul Reikert mode.
Speaker 2: Look, it was astounding. It's tell the contail start. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Literally in my DNA, I think it was last night
Speaker 3: because technically my last day was yesterday and they canceled
Speaker 3: my corporate card. We went to a bar or something
Speaker 3: and I looked and it normally been like, ooh that
Speaker 3: cocktail sounds great.
Speaker 2: It's twenty dollars. My god.
Speaker 3: Okay, the beers are nine. That's still quite a bit,
Speaker 3: but I'll go with the nine dollars beers. I gotta
Speaker 3: start thinking about that stuff now.
Speaker 1: And now we're like, hey, friend with corporate card, you
Speaker 1: want to go to dinner? Like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: My partner didn't know anything until yesterday.
Speaker 2: Oh nothing, and.
Speaker 1: Then I just dropped everything on her.
Speaker 2: Yeah how to go?
Speaker 1: Well, you know, I'm looking up how to get your
Speaker 1: dog to be Instagram famous? Now sure? Yeah yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: She took it while incredibly supportive. Hello, yeah yeah she's
Speaker 1: not hot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I will say also to bank, Bunk was amazingly supportive.
Speaker 3: And she's watching us well, Bunk razor gizmo boss.
Speaker 2: Hello, yeah.
Speaker 4: That was one of the most helpful things. Is like
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, I don't have a job anymore. This
Speaker 4: is super scary and it's like like, oh I messed up.
Speaker 2: I did. Like what's next?
Speaker 4: And Steph was very helpful and reminded me of like
Speaker 4: like I was there when you were getting two hundred
Speaker 4: dollars a month from Combo dot com with a K
Speaker 4: and it's like you've come so far, Like I believe
Speaker 4: in you and I don't even believe in myself. That's
Speaker 4: incredible to hear. So, yeah, that was really nice. That
Speaker 4: was really helpful.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what's crazy is, uh, I had always planned this
Speaker 5: trip with Staceyan did to come and I.
Speaker 2: Don't think did knew any of this until this moment.
Speaker 3: Well, shaking his head, dip, are you understanding it now?
Speaker 3: Sort of Okay, it's good. It's a good it's a
Speaker 3: good thing.
Speaker 2: It's good. Yes, it's good.
Speaker 5: And uh, you know, uh, Stacy's just being so supportive
Speaker 5: and just uh.
Speaker 2: That was a real interesting day. Let's just say.
Speaker 5: And uh, you know you just saying like, uh that
Speaker 5: you know that you were just so happy for however
Speaker 5: the shakes out and just having that support means so much.
Speaker 2: So that's working out. Yeah, yeah, for sure, Happy Mother's Day. Tomorrow, y'all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, shouts out to all the single mothers.
Speaker 2: Also, for no particular reason.
Speaker 3: Beckler, I feel like if you still had hair, just
Speaker 3: over the last like three days of dealing with me,
Speaker 3: I would have watched it in real time, either gray
Speaker 3: or fall Out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true, Dan, thanks for.
Speaker 1: There are several times where Dan's loud voice is just
Speaker 1: saying stuff that we've all agreed not to say. As
Speaker 1: he was was not into a microphone, fine, yeah, but
Speaker 1: into a crowd like random people at.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: Dan and I were at a bar the other night
Speaker 1: and we're talking about stuff and just like really panicking
Speaker 1: and confiding in each other, and next to us was
Speaker 1: like a very like nondescript gentleman. And then he turns
Speaker 1: around your guys into podcasts, yours a great gaming podcast,
Speaker 1: and then like he proceeded to add us on LinkedIn.
Speaker 3: Oh cool, Yeah, he couldn't find me, so I think
Speaker 3: that's just you and him now.
Speaker 1: Oh well, yeah, we're like this, we're like dming every data.
Speaker 3: And then we just shut up because we're in the
Speaker 3: middle of like all right, we need to go just
Speaker 3: kind of put our heads together at the bar and
Speaker 3: like as soon as that guy started talking, it's like, well,
Speaker 3: it's not happening now.
Speaker 2: Not that loud. No, it's loud.
Speaker 5: No, like uh, you know some people have that voice
Speaker 5: that just sort of carries you know, when like someone
Speaker 5: will leave a room and you're like, why can I
Speaker 5: still hear that?
Speaker 2: No? My hearing's bad too? About you hearing? Oh? Okay, no, no, no, relate.
Speaker 1: We need to talk about Dan and I'm sorry, but Dan,
Speaker 1: is it okay if I share your discovery oh from
Speaker 1: this trip?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, which discuss I.
Speaker 1: Feel like there's been several but yeah, show of hands.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pull the chat real quick, show of hands
Speaker 1: in the chat. If you were aware that on your
Speaker 1: cellular phone you can link two separate calls to make
Speaker 1: a three way call.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, obviously.
Speaker 3: Now hang on, okay, down, hand down and doing another one.
Speaker 3: How many of you have used this feature?
Speaker 2: What that was most of the room.
Speaker 5: More people use the feature than multiple people on a
Speaker 5: phone call.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's yeah, seven calls. Wait I thought it was three.
Speaker 2: Well we only had so many people there. But that's
Speaker 2: what like discords for it. But some people, now when
Speaker 2: you're talking to lawyers, discord.
Speaker 3: No, that was like, so all those calls you're doing
Speaker 3: was like most people on the number of times I
Speaker 3: heard Backlar this week be like hang on, let me
Speaker 3: get them, like it.
Speaker 2: Was like fifty times. Yeah. Wow.
Speaker 3: I just don't understand the context that you would do.
Speaker 3: I don't like talking to one person on.
Speaker 5: The yeah sure, yeah, but like you said on discord,
Speaker 5: you have many people at once. Well what if you
Speaker 5: just did that on your phone with a phone call.
Speaker 1: And that's been around for a while, like men, I
Speaker 1: didn't the first time in like the nineties, quite a
Speaker 1: while years.
Speaker 2: I just can't think of a single scenario I would
Speaker 2: do that, and not even cell phones, man like land
Speaker 2: I guess, just how do you do that on a
Speaker 2: land line? I don't know.
Speaker 1: There was like a star number like started seventy nine,
Speaker 1: like it's been a thing forever, Like haven't you ever
Speaker 1: seen any boardroom in any movie ever?
Speaker 3: But yeah, but then you get a little thing on
Speaker 3: the table and everyone talks into that.
Speaker 2: Oh stop, am I wrong?
Speaker 1: Yes, Dan was at breakfast and he wanted to test this.
Speaker 1: So he's he calls back our who's right across from us,
Speaker 1: and then his eyes just widen and then he's like oh,
Speaker 1: the ad feature.
Speaker 3: And it's like there's only six buttons and one of
Speaker 3: them is just AD and I've never seen That's it.
Speaker 2: It's simple. I'm proud of you, though, Dan, thank you.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't i'll ever use it, but I'm
Speaker 2: glad I know it.
Speaker 5: I guess yeah, growth, Yeah, tremendous.
Speaker 2: So that's your practice. I guess at some point I'll
Speaker 2: see it. Yeah, you know, maybe tomorrow. I don't know.
Speaker 2: We have not played games, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: It's been Yeah, the game of capitalism maybe that's about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, have you played games at home during all this? No? No,
Speaker 2: you dude, no, Like, let's I want I want you
Speaker 2: to understand. H I have not enjoyed anything. No, yes,
Speaker 2: like I turned off that part of myself. I'm not joking.
Speaker 5: What about hockey, bo, It's the best time for hockey,
Speaker 5: and I have not been able to enjoy. Right, I
Speaker 5: was telling, well, the devil's lost, so okay, okay.
Speaker 2: At least we're in the playoffs. Fuh god, I know,
Speaker 2: help me right in the gut. Yeah, that's I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: now I get it.
Speaker 5: Uh so, Uh yeah, I couldn't enjoy I told tam
Speaker 5: Lucy and John that last night during the panel was
Speaker 5: the first time I could.
Speaker 2: Relax on stage.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like I mean like I so we signed and
Speaker 4: I signed during the JGBA panel last night.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah.
Speaker 4: And then I can feel my body begin to scream
Speaker 4: as the adrenaline that I had been holding in my
Speaker 4: stomach all week began to like feel like, oh, it's okay.
Speaker 2: To release now. And I'm like, whoa, No, it's not. No,
Speaker 2: definitely not.
Speaker 4: And then me and Dan are like, let's go to
Speaker 4: the Twitch party, which I don't know if you have
Speaker 4: you've ever been to the Twitch party. It's not for
Speaker 4: forty two year old men.
Speaker 2: You guys aren't the demographic room.
Speaker 4: It's like there are multiple rooms with DJs. It's not
Speaker 4: just what there's multiple rooms with DJs.
Speaker 1: There's no room where there's not a DJ, like Dubstep,
Speaker 1: Sonic the Hedgehog. Yeah yeah yeah, and just blast in
Speaker 1: her face and like, I'm like, it took all. I
Speaker 1: didn't want to be creepy, so I held everything within
Speaker 1: myself not to turn to Dan and say, Dan, I
Speaker 1: need you to hug me before I explode.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm going to die here.
Speaker 4: So yeah that I just that's what's happened to me,
Speaker 4: where like my body's like ready to just blow a
Speaker 4: bart in every direction.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, I didn't enjoy it.
Speaker 3: No, you guys should play the Expedition thirty three. It's
Speaker 3: really good. Mary's flipping us off. Thank you for incting
Speaker 3: it's married. Has a great time, Mary, Mary, Remember you're
Speaker 3: my she ro. Yes, there we go, got a little pop.
Speaker 2: I have a question for did what did you think
Speaker 2: was happening with all of this? Especially get them on
Speaker 2: a mic here? Yeah, come on, come on? Can we
Speaker 2: u mute that one? Yeah? Are you gonna so you
Speaker 2: have to talk to the hill right? Coming back? Are everybody? So?
Speaker 2: What did? What did you think was going on this
Speaker 2: whole week when daddy was very busy? A lot of
Speaker 2: stuff and busyness and busyness. I mean that's that's another
Speaker 2: way to say business. I think it must rule to
Speaker 2: be ten. What the heck? Yo? This kid knows how
Speaker 2: to tap me up? Yeah? Yeah, uh and yes that's
Speaker 2: I want you to see it. Yeah, whoa, we're almost there?
Speaker 2: And uh and what do you really think of Dan
Speaker 2: Reichert sucks? Yeah, it's pretty much.
Speaker 5: Okay, it's a child all right, I love you.
Speaker 4: Buddy, thanks for coming asking for his autograph.
Speaker 2: Yeah all right.
Speaker 5: Oh, we either we either gave him the best weekend
Speaker 5: of his life or guaranteed therapy.
Speaker 2: Wait, I'm not the one who was farting on his bed.
Speaker 2: That was me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, all week it's been great.
Speaker 3: That's been like the business couch just just pulled out
Speaker 3: bed and you're just ripping it.
Speaker 4: Like He's like, that's my bet, and I'm like, well,
Speaker 4: I've been farting on it, deal with it. Oh man,
Speaker 4: all right, so new era Giant bomb, What the hell?
Speaker 4: What do we do next?
Speaker 2: Yeah, just get back and get to work.
Speaker 3: I mean, like the packs has been weird here because
Speaker 3: like normally I'd be walking the floor a lot more,
Speaker 3: playing more games things like that. I didn't get a
Speaker 3: great sense of like I did a couple of laps
Speaker 3: on the floor, But I mean I.
Speaker 2: Like, here, I've seen a lot of dice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, concerning amount of dice, Yeah, almost too much dice.
Speaker 2: That's this is a dice show.
Speaker 4: It does feel like like you look at the show
Speaker 4: floor and you're like you get the vibes of like, oh,
Speaker 4: gaming's in a weird place right now, and like it'll
Speaker 4: figure itself out. It will because people care about it,
Speaker 4: But it does feel like it's representative of something going
Speaker 4: on underneath a challenging like I don't. I think a
Speaker 4: big part of it is a lot of developers from
Speaker 4: around the world aren't necessarily feeling great about traveling to
Speaker 4: the United States right now, and I'm like, I get that,
Speaker 4: And then you know, it's like gaming just in general.
Speaker 4: It's like, is spending money on coming to a place
Speaker 4: like this something that makes sense right now? And I
Speaker 4: don't blame them for saying in this moment no, So yeah,
Speaker 4: it's a little strange.
Speaker 3: I think it's been weird both for you know, publishing
Speaker 3: and development and also games media for many many years now,
Speaker 3: and it's something that keeps coming up because it keeps
Speaker 3: getting worse. And like the timing was crazy last week
Speaker 3: because like we had all of our stuff going on
Speaker 3: and then the Poly news and everything, so it was
Speaker 3: just like, boy, I've really spent the last like week
Speaker 3: or two. Games media is this thing I have grown
Speaker 3: up with and really attached myself to as a fan
Speaker 3: and as a worker, And boy is it in a
Speaker 3: weird spot right now. And it really feels like a transition.
Speaker 3: You know, we saw the transition from magazines to websites,
Speaker 3: and from websites to podcasts, and then podcasts and streams
Speaker 3: together and everything, and then you know, the big websites
Speaker 3: to patreons and things like that, and like we're doing
Speaker 3: like a kind of different version of that by you know,
Speaker 3: kind of doing our own. It's not paid time, but
Speaker 3: it's definitely crowdfunded.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's play.
Speaker 3: It's much closer to that than it is traditional big
Speaker 3: corporate games media. So it's just like I've spent so
Speaker 3: much time thinking about it, and it's it's really bad
Speaker 3: in a way that like if you were trying to
Speaker 3: break in now and get a full time job doing this,
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 2: It was always really hard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I never wanted just to discourage anyone, But
Speaker 1: at this moment, it's like, yeah, if you're looking around
Speaker 1: and you think it's grim, you're you're probably right.
Speaker 2: It's weird.
Speaker 3: There was a time like when I worked a game
Speaker 3: Informer and people would, you know, like howd you get
Speaker 3: your job? I would always write back and I would
Speaker 3: always give it. I would read articles and stuff and
Speaker 3: give something, and like I would give very earnest well
Speaker 3: meaning like try this, try this, you know, submit the
Speaker 3: portfolio like this. And then it got to a certain
Speaker 3: point where I couldn't honestly be like, yeah, give it
Speaker 3: a shot, just keep writing and keep writing and you know,
Speaker 3: get get experience, and like it's just like it's not
Speaker 3: a viable thing. And then it's like what's the alternative
Speaker 3: now where it's like do you just go on Twitch
Speaker 3: and try to be a solo creator? And it's then
Speaker 3: it's just like how do you stand out? How do
Speaker 3: you possibly get that traction right?
Speaker 4: And and in that situation, how does the rest of
Speaker 4: this stuff make sense? Where it's like Summer game Fest,
Speaker 4: Like a Twitch creator doesn't need to go to Summer
Speaker 4: game Fest, like right, So it's like you kind of
Speaker 4: look in the situation like that's like, wait, okay, do
Speaker 4: these big.
Speaker 1: Events even make sense anymore? So it's yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I really like them.
Speaker 4: I think, like I said, I think they will figure
Speaker 4: things out.
Speaker 2: But it's just in a weird place right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And a lot of the Patreons and stuff that
Speaker 3: you see being very successful and that I really admire
Speaker 3: the work they do, like you know, kind of funny
Speaker 3: min Max next Lander.
Speaker 2: Like they do great work.
Speaker 3: But also there was the privilege of like you came
Speaker 3: from traditional games meeting, Yeah, you got your following there,
Speaker 3: and we also, I guess now can fit into that category.
Speaker 3: So it's like, yeah, you can't just be twenty one
Speaker 3: years old, twenty two out of college and start a Patreon,
Speaker 3: you know. So it's like, what does that look like
Speaker 3: if you're breaking in Like sure we have that privilege, Yes,
Speaker 3: what is someone coming out of college?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 4: One of the things that I've always been like the
Speaker 4: Morning Show has been about this for a very long time,
Speaker 4: like this idea of just like putting the ladder down,
Speaker 4: Like just hey, I'm up here on this ship, Like
Speaker 4: put the ladder down a little bit, try to climb
Speaker 4: up it.
Speaker 2: That's the best I can do. I can't do much
Speaker 2: more than that.
Speaker 4: I would love to give money to everybody, but it's
Speaker 4: like even that, it's like, I mean, I don't know
Speaker 4: where we're climbing to anymore.
Speaker 1: I mean, not to glaze you grub, but I feel
Speaker 1: like you've done a pretty fantastic job about having a
Speaker 1: multitude of different guests on Game as Mornings, game breaking news,
Speaker 1: and really shining a light like finding really dope people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks man, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: I I can't tell you grab how many times I've
Speaker 3: like reached out to you afterwards. I did not know
Speaker 3: this person before I saw them one, Like, wow, I
Speaker 3: gotta follow them, like you know what a great mind
Speaker 3: you know, like and a lot of them are very
Speaker 3: young and breaking in and everything. Right, So and I
Speaker 3: think that is you know, you're gonna keep doing the
Speaker 3: news show.
Speaker 4: Yes, we'll keep doing that, and like that. It's helpful
Speaker 4: because there are so many cool people. It makes it
Speaker 4: very easy on my side to just to be like, yeah,
Speaker 4: come on the show. But yeah, I wish there was
Speaker 4: more ground for them to go to.
Speaker 2: But I don't know.
Speaker 4: Like I said, I think things will sort itself out.
Speaker 4: We're just in a bad place right now. I think
Speaker 4: it rebounds in some way. It's not gonna look the same,
Speaker 4: but maybe it changes. We figure some things out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, should we make a Christmas album?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: So that like that's the fun stuff now, because like
Speaker 4: we've talked about stuff like that for so long and
Speaker 4: it's like, well, we start talking for an hour about
Speaker 4: that and it's like, well, you know, other people are
Speaker 4: just gonna get that money and so then we give up,
Speaker 4: and now it's like, wait, we should totally do the
Speaker 4: dumbest ideas.
Speaker 2: We have all of the merch yes, yeah, no approval.
Speaker 3: I guess we're gonna have like a majority rule system
Speaker 3: is at the plan we have five, we have an
Speaker 3: odd number.
Speaker 2: Let's just let back of our say yes and no.
Speaker 2: We have like a contingency.
Speaker 3: It's like me, you and Minatti will be a contingency
Speaker 3: and overrule anything.
Speaker 1: Yeah cool, but Danza but Janza.
Speaker 3: Yeah, really, there's no puns you can do with Mike
Speaker 3: Manatti's name.
Speaker 4: Menah No, no, nothing works with that. Yeah, what do
Speaker 4: you what do you think he's thinking right now?
Speaker 2: He's not watching I think is it fireworks time? It doesn't.
Speaker 3: No, he's on the planes, he's on the plane home.
Speaker 3: He think he's thinking about Disney fireworks.
Speaker 5: No, I think I think he's thinking. I wonder when
Speaker 5: the next time I'm going back.
Speaker 2: To Yeah it is. That has been so funny to me.
Speaker 1: The last week, before we even started any conversation on
Speaker 1: the phone call, he goes, hey, guys, there's going to
Speaker 1: be a monorail that pops.
Speaker 2: Up there and it was pretty impressive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it went by right, away passed by twice during
Speaker 3: our call, and both times he raised his eyebrows when.
Speaker 2: But what but what? None of us like he obviously
Speaker 2: had that in the shop.
Speaker 3: That was intentional. He is accidentally from the Disney Mono.
Speaker 2: Rail that he loves, like you know, he must have
Speaker 2: gone through it three times. I'm so glad you guys
Speaker 2: said that because it's so true. Like you said, it
Speaker 2: was like perfect amount of headroom above his head.
Speaker 3: Here's a great thing about Manati too, because like you know,
Speaker 3: we got five of us, we're all gonna have to
Speaker 3: you know, we're all going to be on stuff and everything,
Speaker 3: but we'll also have kind of more specialized things.
Speaker 2: Mini.
Speaker 3: What does that mean? Pinball's back on pinball? We'll see,
Speaker 3: We'll see, look we will. We'll have breaks in programming
Speaker 3: that you can do.
Speaker 5: Ye think it to the eleven people super about pinball?
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, hell yeah, completely forgot my train of thought.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like Manati, he's like different from us or something
Speaker 4: like that.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Could we get the laptop on the screen real quick.
Speaker 1: I made a little photoshop at dinner. If you can
Speaker 1: do it, I mean, it's it's our it's our percial
Speaker 1: breast photo. We said this the AP News.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, they were like, are you sure this is
Speaker 5: what you want?
Speaker 2: The press really look like, what do you mean we're sure?
Speaker 3: Photographer credit to Mary Cash Chrish.
Speaker 2: Was our photographer. Yeah, also a great chob.
Speaker 4: There was so much ship in the grass that we
Speaker 4: were standing on like we were like all just trying
Speaker 4: to avoid it.
Speaker 2: It was crazy. Yo, bunnies are just in the wild.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, wait yes, wait wait wait wait hang on,
Speaker 1: hang on.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, well let's we'll go back to the bunnies.
Speaker 3: But he's been doing some real Dan questions here where
Speaker 3: we were walking to dinner tonight and he's just looking
Speaker 3: at a building, a brick building, and he's like, guys,
Speaker 3: do they like do they have to like switch the
Speaker 3: bricks out?
Speaker 1: Does that not make sense? Do bricks lest forever? Why
Speaker 1: did we stop using them? I don't think we stop.
Speaker 2: They're popular, just like diamonds. Bricks are forever, Yes, exactly.
Speaker 2: And and it's it's the O G brick, the OG brick.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yo.
Speaker 3: They probably like powerwa washed it or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe clean them up every now and then. Dang,
Speaker 2: I know, oh I get shipped about three way calls.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh buddy, the one time ever. But and then
Speaker 5: you you found out that like there's little bunny rabbits
Speaker 5: in the wild.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like lost my ship because I saw a
Speaker 1: little bunny rabbit and I'm like, yo, can I take
Speaker 1: this grub?
Speaker 2: Hey? You know what if you can grab it? Sure?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you're gonna get ticks, but yeah you can
Speaker 1: have it, dude.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, what wildlife?
Speaker 1: Do you have an saf like foxes sea lions? Uh?
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, shouts out to the area. Can you three
Speaker 1: give me another?
Speaker 2: YadA?
Speaker 10: I mean y mean, YadA mean, Jeff got, I mean
Speaker 10: sound authentic? Yeah yeah, yeah, proud of you guys. Yeah,
Speaker 10: thanks Jan Look at the growth. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Should we just go through the deets one more time?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Probably? All right.
Speaker 4: So Giant Bomb is independent, it's employee owned.
Speaker 1: Yep, in case you forgot in case yeah, should wait
Speaker 1: wait wait wait, I want to spring this now. It's
Speaker 1: sorry for coming it hot. Should we vote for an
Speaker 1: employee of the month?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: No, because you motherbuckers are going to make it a
Speaker 3: joke where I never win it.
Speaker 2: If yes, if you.
Speaker 1: Know, they can do the first vote, they can do
Speaker 1: the first vote.
Speaker 2: If you think Dan should be Employed the Month. Cheer
Speaker 2: if you there were some cheers, no the booze, actually
Speaker 2: take the cheer. Yeah, counter rappets. Those are the minuses.
Speaker 3: It's like a scene a thing. I would say it
Speaker 3: was like fifty to fifty. Sure, I'm the John Cena,
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Mike Manatti.
Speaker 1: He can't co own a company and win Employee of
Speaker 1: the Month in the same day.
Speaker 3: He hasn't had anything to do with the last week
Speaker 3: of conversation.
Speaker 2: Being the same. Janet choa thirty podcast points for all
Speaker 2: of you.
Speaker 1: Thirty that's Jeff Grubb boo, Jeff Backlar. Yeah, congratulations, Jeff
Speaker 1: Backlar not first employee.
Speaker 2: Of the month. I got a plaque on the wall.
Speaker 1: Now, you don't get shut out that that was just
Speaker 1: applause because they wanted your.
Speaker 2: Kid to feel good. So, yeah, we're back.
Speaker 1: Giant bomb dot COM's last join memberships are going to
Speaker 1: support us.
Speaker 4: We're gonna get to work on a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 4: We're gonna try to do SGF. We're gonna be back
Speaker 4: with content this week. We're gonna do a bunch of
Speaker 4: new stuff as well. It's going to be awesome. If
Speaker 4: you make a game and when I advertise with us.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, what is it?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we're big on Raid Shadow Legends all of
Speaker 3: a sudden.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love vps. It's just the best. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: bills whatever, whatever.
Speaker 5: I also just want to I think we should all
Speaker 5: take a second to obviously recognize all the fine people
Speaker 5: at Packs and people who you put on this show
Speaker 5: and they h this is this is only my second
Speaker 5: time out of pas uh, and it's just you know,
Speaker 5: for all the accommodations and everything, and everyone's been so
Speaker 5: you know, helpful, and we just really thank you so
Speaker 5: much Packs for having us, and obviously Pierce and all
Speaker 5: of our people there who represent the show, thank you
Speaker 5: so much.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, And you're doing these Yeah that'd be fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah that is something like in the last week
Speaker 4: it's like, oh, I'm too old to do anything else.
Speaker 2: We got to figure it out, figure this out right away. Yeah.
Speaker 2: None of these skills are transferremed No.
Speaker 3: And if any if any of our friends can expense
Speaker 3: meals and when I have dinners while that's great.
Speaker 2: Or at our homes that's fine. Yeah, mortgage.
Speaker 1: If anyone knows the safest way to walk to the airport,
Speaker 1: let me know.
Speaker 2: A train. But yeah.
Speaker 1: Once again, like we are able to be here because
Speaker 1: of y'all. So any amount of support, whatever it is,
Speaker 1: ringing a bell, I guess I've heard today or whatever.
Speaker 2: We we we would love it and we love you.
Speaker 1: I've heard the acronym before, FUBU.
Speaker 2: For by us. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what it is. Yeah, Okay, cool. God,
Speaker 2: I'm not the I'm not the oldest one here. Now
Speaker 2: he's aging in front of our eyes.
Speaker 3: I think that is part of why, like we are
Speaker 3: confident enough to try to this is because you know,
Speaker 3: we've worked at a lot of different game sites. We've
Speaker 3: seen a lot of comment sections and things like that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and that has always been. There are a lot of
Speaker 3: things that make Giant Bomb special and have historically. But
Speaker 3: I would say the most important thing, and I'm not
Speaker 3: just blowing smoke up anyone's ass, is that the community.
Speaker 2: Has been so passionate.
Speaker 3: I remember like being on the outside when I was
Speaker 3: a game and farmer, and I would see the stuff
Speaker 3: that's happened like Gersman and Davis and those guys, and
Speaker 3: it's like, man, there's like fan art of these games
Speaker 3: podcast personalities like that's wild, Like that never happened at
Speaker 3: other places I saw, and then like I came in
Speaker 3: and just like, oh boy, they have opinions about the site,
Speaker 3: and they have their favorites, and they have their fan
Speaker 3: art and it's just an incredible community. And I think
Speaker 3: if it was not that strong, I would not have
Speaker 3: jumped into this as readily. So honestly a huge thanks
Speaker 3: to the Giant Bomb audience. We would not be doing
Speaker 3: this without.
Speaker 4: You, yeah, I think, And like kind of seeing them
Speaker 4: out there representing this week and doing the Hey remember
Speaker 4: when this happened, and being like I am so sad
Speaker 4: it feels like it's going away, it made it feel
Speaker 4: like it's worth figuring this out. It's worth saving its
Speaker 4: Giant Bomb should go on, and so we're gonna do it.
Speaker 4: We are gonna just it's gonna keep going here. We
Speaker 4: are We're not going anywhere.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and if it dies, and if it dies, the
Speaker 3: blood is on all of your hands.
Speaker 2: Thing, okay, heard me? Well all right, Jen? What did
Speaker 2: we learn? Yeah? Well, what did we learn today?
Speaker 1: We learned that the four of us plus Mike Manatti,
Speaker 1: who is in an airplane somewhere, is the now co
Speaker 1: owner's Giant Bomb.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Giant Bomb is now independent giant bomb dot com slash
Speaker 1: join please you know think about it. And also yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I don't know what came over. And also
Speaker 1: it is far too late to get a Mother's Day
Speaker 1: gift tomorrow, so you messed up? Yeah, by your mom
Speaker 1: a subscription to Giant Bar probably, Yeah, that's.
Speaker 2: What every mom wants. Yeah, look like what yeah?
Speaker 1: Four three four middle aged men and then like the
Speaker 1: hot one?
Speaker 2: Yeah cool? Mike Manatti, Right, ladies love Mike Manatti. Baby.
Speaker 2: A lot of people like Mike Vanatti. Yeah. So anything else? Yo?
Speaker 4: Or should I hit the music? Just one last thing?
Speaker 4: I see it? I still love game Spot. Everyone should
Speaker 4: still go in game Spot. They're doing great work over there.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna keep going there. I'm gonna keep referencing them
Speaker 4: on the news show. I can't wait to see what
Speaker 4: they do. So let's all just work together and make
Speaker 4: cool stuff for everybody.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh, we'd be remiss if we miss this, but we're
Speaker 1: going to try our hardest to get Nikki and Sean
Speaker 1: uh back in the door with us.
Speaker 2: But thanks to them for everything.
Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, Like I would not have felt comfortable
Speaker 8: taking any kind of day off if it wasn't for
Speaker 8: Sean Yeah, and Nicky has been absolutely essential to the
Speaker 8: last Yes, hell yeah, uh.
Speaker 2: Should we hit the music now? Let's yeah, let's hit it.
Speaker 5: Thanks everybodybody coming on everyone.
Speaker 2: Throw him up, Thank you for watching. Everybody.
Speaker 3: Wee I've been Jan, he's been Jeff, he's been Jeff,
Speaker 3: he's been Dan.
Speaker 2: You've been wonderful.
Speaker 1: We'll see you next week for another episode of.
Speaker 2: The Time podcast.
Speaker 1: Good b