816: REVENGEANCE

Hey, everybody, welcome the Giant BombCast a Vengeance. It's holiday week here
at gb HQ, so we got Thanksgiving off, Thursday, Friday off this
week. If you're not in the States, I hope you're having a lovely
Thursday and Friday. But I thought it'd be neat to go around the horn
and ask the crew what they were thankful for this year. Since I'm editing
it, I'll start, Yeah, I am thankful for my partner, folks,
homies, I mean you, big Dog, and of course thankful for
the Little Dog's count. But I am especially thankful for this team, y'all,
for Jeff Backlar, Dan Reiker, Jeff Grubb, two more Hussein,
Lucy James, and the whole extended fan of Mike Minatti, Nicki Grayson,
Sean Turbo, Shan McDowell, Bailey Myers, Emma Fife. You know what
shouts out to you, too, big big dog, Carlos Yo, this
team lots of ups and downs, dramatic ups and just as dramatic downs.
But yo, yo, yo, yo yo. You got to have those
peaks in valleys to define the landscape of us. Have I used that before?
Yes, But I'm fine to use it now. Not to toot our
own horn, but yo, I'm honest to God, honest to God's favorite
podcast. I think we're doing a bang up job. But I am also
super duper duper duper thankful for you listening at home. I've shared this sentiment
multiple times, but I am thankful for you listening, in watching, whether
it's the podcasts, the streams, videos, whatever we're putting out, I
am thankful for you at home. Whether you're an OG fan from the Game
Spot days to the Air Pointing Down days, the Pedaluma days, the office
Whiskey Media, or whether you're a new listener. I love you, gang.
Now let's hear from everyone. Take it away, person I've put next.
You know, it's this time of year that you've really kind of stop
and reflect on the people that impacted you and kind of showed you the way
when you thought kind of lost. And I just remember I was playing Sonic
the Hedgehog two thousand and six, and it was like a jungle level and
I didn't know where I was going. I was turned all around. I
wasn't sure, and I thought like, oh, silly me, I'll go
in this direction over here, this this seems right, and someone we're very
close with here a Giant Bomb, Mike Manaughty. You know, I'm thankful
for him for saying, no, no, Dan, don't go that way.
That's not where you need to go. You should turn around and go
back this way. It's clearly the critical path. And look, he was
wrong and he sent me back to the to the beginning of the level.
But hey, you know what the intent was there. He had good intentions
and everything. So I mean, he was completely wrong and wasted a lot
of time and it was very frustrating everything. So yeah, I guess I'm
not when I say it that way, I guess I'm not that thankful for
it. So yeah, I guess not. Hello, everybody, it's Mike
Manatty. I just want to wish everybody who's celebrating a very happy thanks Giving.
I really want to thank everybody a part of Giant Bomb in the community
for being so welcoming to me over the last year, being so nice to
me. It really has just been one of the one, honestly one of
the best years of my life, being able to be a part of all
this so much, being able to enjoy things like songs and art and all
that stuff I never thought I would get to experience. It really has been
amazing. Thank you so much to Gosh, the staff of Giant Bomb,
Jeff, Jeff Dann, Jim tam Lucy, Sean, Nikki DMan Bailey for
also just you know, letting me pal around and be myself, be my
impish, childish but endearing and charming Mitchie self on all that Giant Bomb content.
Also shout out to my crew over at games Beat, Rachel, Jordan
and Dean for always doing such amazing work over there. Uh yeah, that's
that's it everyone. Hope you all have a great holiday. If you're not
having a holiday, hope you just have a great rest of the week.
I will be seeing you around. Take care this Thanksgiving. I'm really thankful
for, you know, the train blog. I'm really thankful for that training
blog. It was something that we were very excited to do, and you
know, I'm so glad that it's available for everyone to watch. Jan.
I appreciate that you put in all the effort, Jan to make it go
up when you said you would. Jan, I'm sure there's hundreds of thousands
of people out there that are very very much enjoying our long dal journey that
we cataloged using our phones and various other devices on this very unique experience Jan.
So yeah, I'm very thankful for the content that Jan worked hard on
to put up this year. I'm also very thankful for all of my friends
at Giant Palm and being able to sit down with them and shoot the ship
and play games with them. I checked with Lucy as she said, I'm
very thankful for vacations, which is very fair and warranted. So yeah,
bye, Okay, what up, homies, I'm on vacation right now.
I'm in Amsterdam. I am thankful for the exchange rate being pretty decent right
now, to be honest, the abundance of wine over here. Not so
the fact that I can take a vacation because it's been a long time and
I'm with my friends and I'm having a lovely time. But I love you
all to miss you. Goodbye everyone. It's your friendly neighborhood social media guys,
Sean, or as you might know me, Bet Turbo Sean introducing myself
because I just realized this is an audio podcast and a lot of you all
probably don't know my voice super well yot, So there you go. I
wanted to say that I'm thankful for games being good, just like across the
board nowadays. I don't need to explain to you all that twenty twenty three
is an incredible year of gaming, especially if you listen to the BombCast.
You know that already, but just the fact that you can fire up a
game that you might be excited for, it's just a good time. It
didn't always used to be that way. Like while as a kid, you
can fire up a game and it might suck, and we don't really have
anymore. Also, I have a few duds that inevitably end up on Blake
Club relayed shows. So I just wanted to say, hey, games are
cool, and shouts to all the doves make them. Really you don't get
enough love. And if any of you are listening to this, just hey,
no, you appreciate it, because this has been one hell of a
year for game creation as well, and you all definitely deserve more kudos for
that. And I just want to say thank you to everyone at Giant Bomb,
the crew, the community, everyone involved. You've all been really great
to me over the past six ish months that I've been doing stuff around here.
And whether I'm making a silly little TikTok or helping out with TNT or
other on camera stuff. It's always awesome being able to wake up and make
cool stuff with cool people. So thank you all for that. I really
appreciate it and hope that you all are having a great weekend and a great
holiday if you celebrate. Thanks y'all. Okay, let's let's see what am
I thankful for. Jan you asked me to record something where I talk about
just the holidays, what I'm thankful for, Thanksgiving and all that. I'm
thankful that I get to work alongside so many talented people, so many people
that just give a shit. You know. I think that's a very hard
trait to come by at this point. Just finding people who care. That's
important. Caring is important. It's something I tell my kid all the time.
Just give a shit, right, that's all. Try your best,
give a shit. So I'm thankful for getting to share my work time with
not just talented people, people I can rely on, people who are thoughtful
and kind, but also people who I consider my close friends and not my
you know, idiot nor me friends, my other friends, my cool friends.
Yeah, I'm thankful for getting to spend as much time with my son
and as as someone who grew up with a father who you know, worked
nothing insane, but certainly for the time, probably like I guess the average
right of someone who's commuting into Manhattan every day. You know, only really
got to see my dad during the week for about maybe twenty minutes thirty minutes
a night. And you know, a lot of times I compare that relationship
that I had with him to what I have with with little dib here,
and it's just night and day. Get to see him so much. Maybe
too much. No, I'm kidding, it's just crazy. It's just the
difference between the generations is wild and super super thankful for that. I'm thankful
that certain I'm thankful that certain labor empowerments have occurred this year and my wife
can get back to work that she has so desperately wanted to do. That
is awesome. I wish more of that was spreading throughout American labor, but
you know, through organizing, one step at a time, we will slowly
chip away. Yeah. I'm thankful for a lot of stuff. Thankful for
everyone who takes the time to interact with our content, engage with our content.
I know it means a lot to a lot of people, and that
just means the world to us. So I think, I know I don't
have to say it and speak for the rest of us, but super thankful
and grateful for all of that. And you, the person who is listening
to this right now, Yeah, I'm talking to you. I'm thankful for
you, Thankful that you made it your business to hit play on this podcast,
and it just means a lot. I think. I know we say
it a lot, but we say it a lot because we mean it.
Thank you for helping us continue to do what we do. If it brings
you joy, if it brings you comfort, if it allows you to escape
to a better place, whatever the reason, it doesn't matter. At the
end of the day, we are just thankful for you. Have a great
holiday everyone, See you in la Hey, y'all, it's Nikki. Hope
you are having a day or week full of love and gratitude for you and
your friends and your family and the folks around you. Or if this is
a year or a time that you need to take space for yourself, I
hope that you are taking that space and creating an environment that is comfortable and
one that you feel able to love yourself in Jan asked us to do little
little things talking about the things that we are grateful for this year, and
it's been for me personally a very weird year. I have not felt particularly
settled kind of at all. But something that has been really helpful to me
and something that I've absolutely been grateful for is the warmth of others and the
reciprococity is that the word is that a word does anybody fucking know of the
people around me? And just grateful for the care and the thought that other
people have when they think about me. And that's something that I have been
very bad at recognizing and appreciating, and I've tried to make intentional decisions about
that this year. So feeling extra grateful for that, extra grateful for Jan
and back Alart and Grub for thinking about me when they were looking for someone
to help Sean out on socials. It was a blast to hang out at
Summer Games Fest earlier this year, and to be kicking around with y'all here
at Giant Bomb has been an incredible thing for me and my health and my
mind to make me still feel like I have a place in this business.
So I'm appreciative of all of that, and thank you listeners for welcoming me
and Barley with open arm as much appreciated. Have a great holiday, or
if it's just Thursday to you, have a great Thursday, or if it's
Friday. I don't know when Jan's putting this out. Jan, please save
me, help Jam help. Happy Thanksgiving everyone. This is Jeff Greb live
from the Columbos Recording Studio, taking a little break to wish you happy holidays
and to say yeah, I'm thankful for all of you. Thanks to Jan
for putting this together. I don't want to take up too much of your
time. I know you're ready to get back to Turkey and the holidays,
but if you're listening to this, I wanted to give you some useful information.
Here are my ten movies that you can watch with the family on Thanksgiving
weekend. These are not necessarily about Thanksgiving, but I think they're good movies
to watch on Thanksgiving. I'll give you the reasons why. Obviously. Number
one is Planes, Trains and Automobiles, a great Thanksgiving movie about trying to
get home. It's got that good melancholy of of how you might feel if
you are separated from your family and the people you want to be around and
traveling and all that stuff, and it's very funny. I like that movie
a ton, watch it every year. Rocky has the most awkward Thanksgiving date
scene you've ever seen. It's a must watch. You know. If you
can't handle that, just put on Rocky four and you'll be good. Paul
Blart Mall Cop two is a good one to sit down and just like marvel
at how it was made, and then you can go listen to God until
death do us Blart the McElroy's podcast that they do every year on Thanksgiving where
they rewatch this movie and have to talk about it, and that's a good
time. Adams Family Values That has a great Thanksgiving scene where the Native Americans
get a little bit of revenge on the Pilgrims. It's a classic. Those
at nineties Adams Family movies were really, really good good. This is the
second one. You don't have to watch the first one. You can just
hop right into this, but both are really good movies. The Apple This
is a musical. It's like Rocky Horror Picture Show meets The Room. This
is also a real riot to watch with people just kind of get everyone around
and be like, hey, you want to see some real shit. Let's
let's get into the shit. That's a good one. It's there's a one
where this guy's landlady said, you know what, you just need to watch
it. It's incredible over on Netflix if you only have if you're like I
got Netflix, Jeff go to Go to the Mystery Signed Theater three thousand episodes,
the ones they made for Netflix, and Go to Avalanche. Not about
Thanksgimming, but I found that this one's a real crowd pleaser. Me and
my wife have watched this one a whole my life. I know you just
said that, didn't you. Me and my family have watched this a bunch
of times and we never get sick of it. It's a real good one.
It's like one of those seventies disaster films and it's just a real trash
and I have a good time with that one. Obviously. Knives Out is
a really good vibe movie. I think for that time of year. It's
got a lot of good oranges and browns and I don't know, I just
love the feel of this and it's one I think I did watch last Thanksgiving.
I'm like I might make a tradition out of that, because I really
like that movie, Garfield's Thanksgiving. I've never seen this, but I'm not
one to be above a meme, So maybe we can watch that this year
together, everybody. And then finally, crazy Stupid Love with the best romantic
comedy ever made. It is. It is a true classic movie. Steve
Carrell, the Handsome Guy, a few other people that kid from that movie.
Let's I'm bad at this. That's why I write about video games.
I'm not good at that either. All Right, happy Thanksgiving me everybody,
travel safe, you know, be nice to your family, ignore your uncle,
and we'll see you guys back next week. Hey, everybody, it's
Bailey. I just want to say I'm so thankful that I've been able to
participate in all the giant bomb shenanigans that I've been able to join in on
this year. I look back at my journey in this industry and having started
doing stuff I really really hated, just really boring market the press releases I
wrote, and looking at where I am now, where my job is just
play video game, make joke about video game, talk to cool people that
I like about video game, and make fun of them for not playing video
game the way I think they should be playing video game, and I just
could not be more grateful. I am particularly thankful to the community for being
as open and welcoming as they've been. Hopefully I can continue to heckle all
your faves for many eons to come, because if I don't, who will.
Happy Thanksgiving? Yo? And that's it. I hope you're having a
RESTful break if you have one, but if not, we'll see you soon.
Buddy. M