Jeff Grubb
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204 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard May 2025
Jeff Grubb’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's right. Well, I'm here. Let's make it happen. I am one of the co-owners of Giant Bomb.
God, there's like 50. It's crazy. There's too many. We've got to do something about that. Yeah, we made this happen. Fandom really helped us make it happen. We are now independent. And yeah, we signed an agreement to make it all happen, basically. It's in the works. But yeah, no, you're looking at us. We have everything. It's all in our hands now. And that means we're going to be...
Out in front of people making stuff and asking for support once again. So I don't know. I'm just really, I have a ton of energy. I'm ready to get to work.
To be fair, that's Donato's. That's Ohio grown. That's actually not bad pizza.
Yeah, I mean, I was there for all of it, and I don't really know. It was such a blur. You know, the possibility of this was something that was floated around the time that I was leaving fandom, but, you know, the exact details of how it go down, we can't talk about a lot of the specifics, but the general sort of timeline there was, I think we realized on both sides we had the same...
about the way to solve our various problems with like, okay, giant bomb, how do we make this work? Or how do we make sure that the people who love this site and the people on there are happy? Because that is what everyone seemed to want. And it would never have been possible had everyone on each side not identified that as a common issue.
important theme of, hey, let's do what's right for this audience. So with that in mind, and sort of with that PAX panel looming as a real timeline, a marker of being like, hey, if we announce there, this will be best for everybody. It really forced us to get a deal done very fast. So I was in meetings all day, every day for the entirety of last week, even in
Boston, flew into Boston for PAX, and I spent most of that time in a hotel room talking to other people. But it was worth it. We got it done. And it was quite amazing to be able to go into that room and tell people that, hey, just like, you know, 24 hours earlier, we made this happen.
Yeah, I think I said this during the PAX panel, but it's true. I lived it. Their instinct for what should we do when we are faced with a situation like this, what is it that we should do? And their instinct was to turn toward, well, what is the most fan-supporting solution? And this is what they spotted. This is a possibility. They asked us. We said, let's see if we can make this happen.
And now here we are. So, yeah, I agree. Fandom should get credit. I've heard from some other friends who have been in similar situations. I saw publicly Andy Robinson talking about how CVG got shut down. They asked for a similar scenario, and they were denied that from, I think, a future that owned them.
So, yeah, these people have been through this a number of times before, and they don't get the opportunity to do this. So, yes, you're right. A shout out to Fandom for making that possible.
Yeah, I think if people watch that PAX panel, you might be able to see it on my face. I really have no idea. But I had been sort of in this situation of locking away feelings and emotion over here so I could just do the work. And it had been like that for, you know, more than a week, 10 days. And like, you know, people do that all the time. You go, you want to like,
it wasn't something that people aren't familiar with but i was doing this in a very hard way for a very long time and what felt like a long time to me so in this moment when it was like this catharsis of actually getting to say it and it happening it was like difficult to like go into the moment and it like i was actually working on that throughout the entire panel just like look into the audience like actually look at the people's faces instead of like sort of
Being like, oh, if I look in their faces, their emotions will reflect my emotions, and I'll have to deal with that. Like, well, now's the time I actually should and get to deal with that. So it was a process. Like, I was actually struggling with that a little bit. And it's still a process of just being like, oh, can I sit here and think, oh, we did something.
And yes, it has begun to happen in a very basic way. But of course, now it's Monday. We are having meetings. It's time to get to work. And I think... When I go to do a show, we did a game this morning, and it was great to be back. And just seeing the chat there, that's the part where it's like, oh, yeah, there's the familiar faces.
Those are the names of people that, you know, I know watch the show. Here's a ton of new people. But the vibes are there, and I can latch onto that and be like, this is the ground I get to stand on. And now let's build something even bigger here. I'm ready to do that.
Giantbomb.com slash join. You get all the information there, please. Giantbomb.com slash join.
Yep. Yeah. And it's like I said, it's it's a very North Star thing to have to be able to turn to them, be like, all right, when I say something dumb and I wouldn't be crazy if we did that. And then 50 or 50 of you are shouting back. Don't just say that. Go make it. It's like, well, now now's the time. And I'm very ready to do that.
Yeah. Yeah. Well, we do a bomb cast on Tuesday. So Monday and then Wednesday through Friday, but yes, that's right.
We had a sponsor. It's an evil corporation called Kind of Funny Games. Came in as our very first sponsor. I wouldn't have it any other way, Greg. Thank you so much, man.
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