The Grinding Gear Podcast
Burnout-free video game coverage from podcast veterans. Join Garrett and Kyle every week as they get lost in games, pop culture, and everything they’re personally playing.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Episodes
- 290
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Cooking FFXIV with Jesse | The Grinding Gear Podcast #115
Jesse Cox returns to the show and we have a big deep dive on the upcoming 7.2 patch named “Seekers of Eternity”. An intense three months of content are lined up ahead of us, including the Occult Cres…
Mon 17 Mar 2025
Florida Snowman | The Grinding Gear Podcast #114
Wilds and Wyoming! Garrett and Kyle return from giving a lecture at the University of Wyoming and tell stories of their journey. Garrett got touched by snow, Kyle praises Steamdeck. Wilds Chapter 3 s…
Fri 07 Mar 2025
Hunting with Rurikhan | The Grinding Gear Podcast #113
Long time requested guest Rurikhan joins the episode for a massive Monster Hunter breakdown. New players Garrett and Kyle get a glimpse at the development history and evolution of the franchise as we…
Fri 21 Feb 2025
From World to Wilds | The Grinding Gear Podcast #112
Like the monsters hunt, this episode is sneaking up on ya. Garrett and Kyle spend the week diving DEEP into Monster Hunter World, even exploring the beta for Monster Hunter Wilds last night. In short…
Fri 14 Feb 2025
MMostly | The Grinding Gear Podcast #111
Victorious and offline. Garrett and Kyle have completed their savage journey for the moment with the downing of Wicked Thunder last night in FFXIV. Their month long journey comes to a close just in t…
Fri 07 Feb 2025
Ass of You and Me | The Grinding Gear Podcast #110
Games approach! Xbox Developer Direct, Switch 2, and games-that-feel-safe-from GTA. Garrett and Kyle also enter the news cycle of FF14 and find it full of assumptions. The odd thing is that all these…
Tue 28 Jan 2025
The Dead Game Olympics | The Grinding Gear Podcast #108
Garrett never left, Kyle returns! Garrett has been holding down the fort with the JRPG darling, Metaphor ReFantazio, but had his struggles. Kyle reports on his domestic adventure culminating in a Ste…
Mon 06 Jan 2025
The Grindys 2024 | The Grinding Gear Podcast #107
The Grindys, The Golden Gears, Best of 2024. This is the final official podcast record for the year 2024, and we have our own LEGALLY DISTINCT accolades to hand out. A wild and packed year of video g…
Mon 16 Dec 2024
FFXIV 7.1 Roundtable | The Grinding Gear Podcast #106
The MSQ Roundtable has assembled once more. Preach, Okaymage, and Jesse Cox have all returned to discuss the major story content that was released in the semi-recent “Crossroads” 7.1. The Story follo…
Mon 09 Dec 2024
Futures Rewritten (Ultimate) Roundtable! | The Grinding Gear Podcast #105
Following the swift completion of the recent Futures Rewritten Ultimate Race to World First, we have assembled a crack team of panalists to discuss the raid and the drama that followed. Mr Happy is f…
Mon 02 Dec 2024
Alien Abductions & Game Award Nominees | The Grinding Gear Podcast #104
We are approaching the Holiday Season, which means it’s also the Award Season. Garrett has returned and has opinions on the FFXIV Mobile announcement. Can DLCs be game of the year? Will we have a big…
Tue 26 Nov 2024
Mr. Happy Returns! | The Grinding Gear Podcast #103
Mr Happy returns to school the boys in Extreme Final Fantasy. After a full week of hardcore progging some midcore content, Garrett and Kyle have questions about boss design, 2 minute windows and more…
Mon 18 Nov 2024
Better Toes! | The Grinding Gear Podcast #102
Top news of the week, 7.1 is incoming for Final Fantasy 14, but that’s not all! The final Halloween is here. Garrett watched the big movie of the year and Kyle has played Silent Hill 2. There’s a lot…
Mon 11 Nov 2024
The Post-Dawntrail Roundtable | The Grinding Gear Podcast #101
As we look forward to 7.1, we also look back at the MSQ that was Dawntrail with our friends Preach, Okaymage, and Jesse Cox.
Mon 04 Nov 2024
Final Dragon Metaphor: The Gathering | The Grinding Gear Podcast #100
Can it be? 100 episodes of Grinding Gear! Has experienced 100th episodes makers we know whats best for this kind of event, a normal show. There are some big topics around the gaming space this week.…
Mon 28 Oct 2024
Rocked Like a Hurricane | The Grinding Gear Podcast #99
When last we left out intrepid Florida boys, they were hunkering down for Hurricane Milton on its way to Florida. We have come out the otherside safe but with many stories to tell. Two hosts, two dif…
Mon 14 Oct 2024
Heroes of the Actual Storm | The Grinding Gear Podcast #98
On the eve of Hurricane Milton, we are boarded up and locked in. Florida is bringing out all the stops for Kyle’s first season and Garrett is an experienced storm rider. Even with weather on the hori…
Tue 08 Oct 2024
GG Live 2024! | The Grinding Gear Podcast #97
We just had our first IRL GG Meet in Orlando, Florida! The podcast this week is the full live show we put on in front of a live crowd. Thanks again to everyone who came out to the show and all of you…
Fri 04 Oct 2024
GG Meet Week! | The Grinding Gear Podcast #96
It's a big week here at Grinding Gear! Our first non-conference meetup is this weekend! YouTube metrics are wild. Spooky season begins. And much more!
Mon 23 Sep 2024
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