Giant Bomb Presents

The whole gang is here to answer all of your burning questions on the current happenings and other misc goings on behind and in front of the scenes over at GBHQ! 

After hearing Dan talk about this movie for years we finally sit down with some brews to watch! Dan, Grubb, Mike, and Jerf witness the brilliance of Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky!!! VERY IMPORTANT NOTE! WE ARE WATCHING THE ENGLISH DUB OF THE MOVIE! Get your video player ready at the 0:13 mark and then Dan will start the countdown at the 7:51 mark on the podcast recording! 

Let's check in with everyone in the community and answer some of your questions! We chat about hockey, saying "I love you" to dump truck callers, dream collector's items, and a STING HAPPENING WITH THE 3D PRINTED DRAGONS!

It's been a minute and we're here to answer your burning questions about everyone's sanity and our ideal Taco Bell orders.

Despite Discord trying to stop us we're gonna Townhall! We answer your questions about making sure Shawn gets paid, future merch ,and perhaps another long stream in the future?

(00:00:00) Jason Fanelli, Celia Bee, Emmet Nahil, Nikky Armstrong, Son M (00:26:07) Kate Sanchez, Phil Salvador, Chandana Ekanayake, Jill Grodt, and Jason Schrier (01:02:47) Segment 3 - Kelsey Lewin, Janet Garcia, Jacob Geller, Marcus Stewart, and Alex Van Aken (01:30:57) Segment 4 - Johnny Galvatron, Dean Woodward, Cessia Castillo, Kristy Norindr, and Mark Essen (02:10:56) Segment 5 - Jeff Gerstmann, Dan Ryckert, Mark MacDonald, Jordan Middler, Greg Miller, and Danny O'Dwyer (03:13:12) Segment 6 - Mike Minotti, Dan Ryckert, HBomberguy, Jeff Bakalar, Jan Ochoa, and Niki Grayson We found a couch in Los Angeles and we're getting our friends from all around the industry to hang out at the Warframe Villa! Thanks to our friends at Annapurna Interactive for presenting this stream!Thanks to Young Horses for their support of Giant Bomb @ Nite! Bugsnax VR is out now, go play it!Sign up for the Young Horses newsletter here: http://eepurl.com/g5DUzTAnd check out their Steam page! https://store.steampowered.com/developer/younghorses/00:00 - Opening00:04 - Nite 2 - Segment 1 - Jason Fanelli, Celia Bee, Emmet Nahil, Nikky Armstrong, Son M26:07 - Nite 2 - Segment 2 - Kate Sanchez, Phil Salvador, Chandana Ekanayake, Jill Grodt, and Jason Schrier01:02:47 - Nite 2 - Segment 3 - Kelsey Lewin, Janet Garcia, Jacob Geller, Marcus Stewart, and Alex Van Aken01:41:25 - Nite 2 - Segment 4 - Johnny Galvatron, Dean Woodward, Cessia Castillo, Kristy Norindr, and Mark Essen02:10:56 - Nite 2 - Segment 5 - Jeff Gerstmann, Dan Ryckert, Mark MacDonald, Jordan Middler, Greg Miller, and Danny O'Dwyer03:13:12 - Nite 2 - Segment 6 - Mike Minotti, Dan Ryckert, HBomberguy, Jeff Bakalar, Jan Ochoa, and Niki Grayson

We found a couch in Los Angeles and we're getting our friends from all around the industry to hang out at the Warframe Villa! Thanks to our friends at Annapurna Interactive for presenting this stream!Thanks to Young Horses for their support of Giant Bomb @ Nite! Bugsnax VR is out now, go play it! Sign up for the Young Horses newsletter here: http://eepurl.com/g5DUzTAnd check out their Steam page! https://store.steampowered.com/developer/younghorses/00:00 - Opening00:07 - Nite 1 - Segment 1 - Jesse Vitelli and John Carson19:02 - Nite 1 - Segment 2 - Imran Khan, Bailey Meyers, Tyler Gardner, Mike Vayatta, and Adam Cole44:41 - Nite 1 - Segment 3 - Ben Starr, Jen English, and Gavin Verhey01:06:57 - Nite 1 - Segment 4 - Rashad Redic, Bryna Dabby Smith, Riana Manuel-Peña, and Danny Peña01:28:29 - Nite 1 - Segment 5 - Alanah Pearce, Wout Van Halderen, Whyatt Bushnell, Mike Salyh, and Billy Shibley01:57:23 - Nite 1 - Segment 6 - Andrea Rene, Niki Grayson, Charles Harte, Guillermo Leoz, Michael Fitch, and Peter Hunt Szyptek02:42:01 - Nite 1 - Segment 7 - Russ Frushtick, Brad Shoemaker, Niki Grayson, Abby Russell, and Jeff Bakalar

The fist Discord Town Hall since we've gone independant! Listen along as we share news about the website, the wiki, and other future plans down the line!

Jan, Dan, Grubb, Mike, and Niki have once again assembled to talk with y'all about everything WWE, AEW, and 90's SNL.

It's time for the road to Wrestlemania so we jump into the podcast car to chat about the Royal Rumble!

We have provided donuts and coffee for this Townhall so you feel comfortable asking all of your hard hitting questions about the inner workings of the website.

Dan Ryckert and Mike Minotti continue their jetsetting journies and have gone from Gamescome to London to watch AEW's All In! Listen as they give their impressions in a random AirBnb in the middle of no where!

The Blight Boys went to SummerSlam in Ohio and recount their tales to Jan as we recap SummerSlam 2024's whole card and chat about how excited we are about the current state of wrestling!

Jeff Grubb has brought the GB at Nite couch again to sunny Los Angeles, but this time we put it on a stage in front of a live audience! We've assembled some surprises, fun, and some heavy hitters for these segments on the couch!Segment 1: Brad Shoemaker, Mary Kish, Jason Schreier, John Drake, Patrick Klepek, Matt RorieSegment 2: Parris Lilly, Elyse WIllems, Ify Nwadiwe, Alanah PearceSegment 3: Tom Caswell, Lucy James, Tamoor Hussain, Emma Fyffe, Mike Minotti, Niki Grayson, Bailey Meyers, Jan Ochoa

Jeff Grubb and the whole Giant Bomb crew have brought a couch to Los Angeles for Summer Game Fest! Let’s fill it with friends and shenanigans in and around the industry.Segment 1: Simon Dasan, Seth Rosen, Sam WinklerSegment 2: Jake Steinberg, Jason Fanelli, Mark Medina, Taylor Cocke, Geuillermo LeozSegment 3: Dash Oshry, Casper Van Dien, Celia Bee, David Kim, Ash Thukral, Trey PowellSegment 4: THE NASTY BOYS - Charlie Wacholz, Jesse Vitelli, Alex Van Aken, Eric Van Allen, Moises Taveras, Kenneth Shepard, Michael Higham, John Carson, Ryan TatumSegment 5: Louise Blain, Crista Castro, Bryan Singh, Jurge Cruz-Alvarez, John Warren, Rayme VinsonSegment 6: Greg Miller, Tim Gettys, Blessing Adeoye Jr., SnowbikeMike, Andy Cortez, Dan Ryckert, Mike Minotti

WE'VE LOADED UP THE COUCH WITH NOTHING BUT SUPERSTARS TO HELP CELEBRATE GEOFF KEIGHLEY'S SUMMER BIRTHDAY OF GAMES!Segment 1: and Mike Minotti, Lucy James, Tamoor Hussain | BACK ROW: Niki Grayson, Dan RyckertSegment 2: Tom Caswell, Jake Dekker, Lexi Luddy | BACK ROW: Jill Grodt, Kurt IndovinaSegment 3: Emma Fyffe, Wout van Halderen, Tom Ohle | BACK ROW: Del Walker, Ronell CrawfordSegment 4: Ash Parrish, Alex, Joey Ferris | BACK ROW: Peter Hunt Szpytek, Diego Arguello

We've got our dear friends Alex Boniello and Mike Minotti joining the podcast today to chat about our general feelings on wrestling right now, a bit of AEW Dynasty, where Mania might be next year, and somehow talk about Disney Lorcana as well.

The wrestling is actively being contained! Dan, Jan, and Grubb go over Wrestlemania XL one more time, chat about the current state of WWE and AEW, the security cam footage of CM Punk and Jack Perry, and also go over AEW Dynasty's card!

Jeff and Jan (and eventually TurboShawn and Grubb!) sat down with the fine folks at the Giant Bomb Discord to answer your questions about any and everything!

Dan and Jan have finished the story and have finished wrestling! There's no more after this! Recording conditions were a bit funky but they improve at around the 48 minute mark! 

Dan and Jan have descended on Philadelphia to finish the story! We go over the cards for night 1 and 2 and dgive our predictions of who will take home the gold and prove victorious!

It feels like a whole different world since the last time we talked proper about wrestling on the website!

Bakalar, Jan, Grubb, Mike, and later Shawn pop in to hang out with the Giant Bomb Discord to answer various questions about the website and more!

Jan, Dan, Jeff, Mike, and Niki team up to talk about wrestling! We chat about CM Punk woes, Jade Cargill jumping ship, and recap the PPVs/PLEs!

EVERYONE'S BEEN ASKING AND HERE IT IS: ANNETTE!

Dan and Grubb pour 40s directly into RoboMitch as they all watch the masterpiece that is RoboCop. (Movie starts at ~5:00ish)

Bakalar and Jan hang out in the discord and answer YOUR questions about the state of the site and even what's happening with pinball!

Bakalar, Jan, Grubb, and eventually Dan hung out with the fine folks on the Giant Bomb Discord to answer ALL of your questions!

Dan, Grubb, and Jan cozy up and share their impressions on the Super Mario Bros. Movie! Be warned there are light spoilers so listen with caution!

Grubb, Jan, and Dan got together in person to talk about WRESTLEMANIA! They discuss both nights, talk about the business developments at WWE, and more!

The boys have been thrown over the top rope and are joined by our dear friends Mike Minotti and John Blud to talk about the Royal Rumble and the road to Wrestlemania!

Rorie, Bakalar, and Jan are here to answer questions from our lovely community.

Hello sweet cenobites and cinnamon rolls! The crew has gotten together to watch the original Hellraiser (1987)!

PAIN DON'T HURT. We promised we'd do it and here it is! A big thank you to everyone that hung out and got us to the goal of talking over Roadhouse after the Giant Bombathon.

If you thought that the state of wrestling couldn't get any odder in 2022 here we are! We're joined by Mike Minotti and Jordan Olds of Albummer to talk about the fallout of this wrestling packed weekend.

What better way to finally watch a piece of cinematic history than with 4 other belligerent people screaming about the movie the whole time? Join us as Jeff Bakalar watches The Terminator for the first time! We watched this on Amazon Prime Video, but it

Turns out it is an exciting time to be a wrestling fan again! We go through the big shakes ups in the industry, Summerslam reactions, and more!

The forbidden podcast door has SWUNG OPEN! Super Eyepatch Wolf and Mike Minotti join us to chat about Money in the Bank, AEW's Forbidden Door, and where we're at with good ol' wrasslin'.

Rorie and Bakalar host our first Premium Discord Q&A with special guests Dan Ryckert and Jeff Grubb. This replay is free for all to listen.

Our daughter is sleepwalking and having visions! It's only right to drink a 40oz and watch a movie to help the problem!

Matt and Jan are BACK with special guest Stephen Fu to talk about fears, fish, and our favorite rangers!

Rorie and Bakalar dip into the Giant Bomb Discord to chat with the fine folks over there to answer their burning questions, again again!

Rorie and Bakalar dip into the Giant Bomb Discord to chat with the fine folks over there to answer their burning questions, again!

Before he was dying hard, Bruce Willis had a little more hair and an album!

On this week’s show we’re covering one of the mainstay pillars of the internet, porn, and why it’s so infuriatingly difficult for legitimate sex workers to reliabily make a living through platforms like OnlyFans. And given the nature of this week's

Rorie and Bakalar dip into the Giant Bomb Discord to chat with the fine folks over there to answer their burning questions!

In the debut episode of Bak 2 Skool, Dan and Jeff travel through history to understand how electricity became a thing, why batteries are cool and what the hell is behind static shocks.

In the debut episode of Armed and Rangerous, Matt Shipman and Jan embark on the most morphetudiness journey that is the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers!

Filipino-American History Month may be in October but Jan and Michael Higham from GameSpot are BACK to continue celebrating FAHM (on Filipino time)! This round we're joined by Lizzie Killian of FIFTYcc, Belinda Garcia of Ubisoft, Jem from Private Division

Jan Ochoa and the homie Michael Higham from GameSpot have put together a short series of podcasts to celebrate Filipino-American History Month! Today we collected folks in GAMES MEDIA to talk about and share our experiences as Fil-Ams in games and in life