Just announced on twitch.tv/pax, live from PAX East. The reaction was so negative to what happened with Giant Bomb that Fandom sold to Jeff Grubb and Jeff Bakalar. It sounds like this deal closed yesterday. Along with those two, Dan Ryckert and Jan Ochoa are now co-owners. Mike Minotti was informed of this deal this morning, and he will be the fifth co-owner when he comes back from Disney World. Blight Club and Grubb’s morning news show sound like they are returning this coming week. This PAX panel is officially episode #889 of the Giant Bombcast.
I don’t know these people. Should I?
I knew the old crew. Still watch Jeff on YouTube.
I see Dan is there. He’s too uneducated and incurious American for my tastes. Bro doesn’t know shit about anything but wrestling. It’s play up for laughs but it’s just cringe to me.
Wow, there is someone else out there that feels the same as I do about Dan!
I wasn’t sure how others felt about him before either, kinda validated haha.
Bakalar joined GB East 10 years ago. Jan’s been at GB for 7+ years, but as a producer so you wouldn’t have seen his face as much until the big shift when Jeff, Brad, Vinny and Alex left. Grubb only joined in 2022.
A good catch up, but I meant more like: are these people worth following? Because yeah I didn’t stick around once the east/west split happened to know these people.
Grubb’s got an excellent morning news show that he’ll be back to doing this coming week if you wanted to poke your head in and check it out. They’ve also got a number of shows that are a good laugh, like Blight Club, where they take turns playing awful video games all the way to credits.
I can only take so much of Dan, but I like the rest of them. Grubb is great, Jan is a sweetheart.
Alright, I’ll give the new to me crew a go. Thanks for the follow ups!