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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Oh, You got to play your Switch enough, all right? I mean, just be a real gamer.
Yeah, so, look, we are definitely still fucked on a lot of this stuff. I think we're about to get the shelves being empty for a lot of products here in the next couple of weeks. So we're fucked in a lot of ways. When it comes to the Switch 2 and Nintendo's concerns...
things continue to change fast and the the uncertainty certainly is one of the major problems for a company like nintendo as they try to plan for a launch of a console and try to like uh create messaging to consumers so they can feel good about selling a product at a certain price and they know how they need to frame that and all that stuff it's impossible to do when when things aren't certain and things have changed again so uh i think was announced earlier today
that uh china and the united states are pausing uh the the tariffs now that doesn't mean they're going all the way down to zero or anything like that uh in fact really this is wild because the markets are like thrilled about this they're very excited and yet the tariffs on china for the next 90 days are going to be 30 which is kind of around the number we were talking about when like the campaign was ending it's like well he's going to do tariffs it could be as much as 30 that's about
you know, it really cuts into the profit margin for a company like Nintendo still. So they will still have to deal with that, but 30% is way better than 145%. 1,000%, right?
We've been worked into this a little bit for sure. Yeah, but still, that's where we're at where this is something that feels at least workable. Like a company can work with that. Now, the problem is it's still only a 90-day pause. This dude loves tariffs. So he's going to come back to them if he gets bored with something else. But in the moment, it does feel like
It does feel like the market reaction and a lot of the fears that happen, I won't go into it with like, you know, the U.S. dollar being, you know, deprecated by a lot of organizations around the world and how that's a very scary thing for a federal government in the United States.
But that does feel like he had that explained to him, and at least he found out that that stove he touched that everyone told him was hot actually is hot. He's not going to remember it for very long, but maybe that buys us some time.
Yeah, I mean, the Nintendo Switch 1 didn't go down in price, and the reality of that market is very different than this one. And none of those realities have changed, really. The component costs, people lining up to get those components for a variety of different consumer products, keeping those prices high for a very long time, challenging labor markets around the world, whatever.
All those reasons are still there. And then this is on top of that. And then on top of that being tariffs, and then on top of the tariffs, the certainty is out the window. So it's just so hard to be in this situation. I agree.
I feel really bad for anyone trying to launch a product, especially something as high profile as the Switch 2, which everyone's going to have an opinion on and not everyone's going to understand all the nuance, nor should they have to, of course. So yeah, people are mad about the high price. I get it. But boy, I feel bad for everyone involved.
You know, it's tough because media has changed in terms of how you consume TV so much over time. And it's like, I think at one point, I would have been like, man, you should try to get to seven every time. A good show should be like, if it can, go to seven seasons. But that's definitely not been the case recently. I think... a bunch of really good episodes over five to six seasons.
I think five, honestly, is where I would be. So you don't have to drag things on. You don't have to try to, you know, I hate the use of the term filler for TV show. Everything matters to these characters. All of it is character development. It all fills in something in the end. But you don't want to try to elongate when you don't have something else to actually back that up.
So if they have enough for five to six seasons, I think they should just go to five and really just pack it in there and make it as good as possible.
Yeah, you're right. There's so much lore to pull from and so many fun things. I mean, just the vault experiments themselves. They've done a lot with that already, but that is kind of an endless well at a certain point for a TV show. So yeah, I really hope they get a chance to lock onto the ones that they think are the best for telling their story and then do the most with those as possible.
What did you think of the first season?
i really enjoyed the first season it was uh it's definitely something where i was um i had relatively high expectations actually because i i think i was as i was watching the trailers i was looking at it like this looks like it should actually work yeah finding a tone but that like my high expectations for tv these days is is pretty low overall so it's like you
As long as you're just entertaining, we're going to be good. And then I think it did enough to get me to be like, oh, no, these are characters you're actually going to care about, which is if you get there, I'll watch your TV show. That's all I really need is characters I can care about. And they did that. They really nailed that.
Or they say JK. When I was talking about art, I don't mean anime, of course. Come on, everybody. No, no. Listen, watch that Jeff Jeffs Bizarre Adventure panel from PAX as well that Jeff Bacalar and the crew over there did. And then come back to me and defend anime.
Give me Tim Getty so that I can talk to a real gamer. Come on, let's go. Tim! Tony Hawk's Pro Skater has been like, I think when I first played the first Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, I'm like, oh, this is what a video game should be. And I don't think my opinion has changed ever since. Wow. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, 3. These are like perfect video games to me.
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