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
- 291
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Hot Chat, Cold Names | The Grinding Gear Podcast #77
Beau Schwartz returns to the Podcast. Now having long completed his Diablo 4 quest for statue fandom, we play a little game we like to call Hot TAKES with the help of the live chat. We also discuss F…
Tue 05 Mar 2024
Final FOMO | The Grinding Gear Podcast #76
Garrett and Kyle both return from a Florida Disney weekend, no relation, with a pile of hot Monday news. After a thorough park review lacking of expert opinion, Garrett feels a great pull towards the…
Mon 26 Feb 2024
Queueing for Hell | The Grinding Gear Podcast #75
The Ministry of Truth has declared, Helldivers 2 is good y'all. You may have heard about the newest internet darling. Garrett and Kyle share the sentiment even if it did rain on their parade. And rai…
Mon 19 Feb 2024
The Final Grill with Jesse Cox | The Grinding Gear Podcast #74
Jesse Cox returns for the final grilling before the end of Endwalker. The test is stacked, the questions are hard and our memories are shit. Better than most? Maybe. Are there dragons in the Crystal …
Mon 12 Feb 2024
Obviously with Taliesin | The Grinding Gear Podcast #73
We’re cross-aisle, breaking down barriers, and having a lovely time doing it. On this week’s episode, Taliesin, half of Taliesin and Evitel, joins the show to discuss content creation, Final Fantasy …
Tue 06 Feb 2024
Hyper-Growth | The Grinding Gear Podcast #72
2024 is feeling a whole lot like 2023 with layoffs continuing in the games industry. We take some time to talk about how the continuing cascade of lost jobs have now reached Riot and Blizzard, the Po…
Mon 29 Jan 2024
Pal Woes | The Grinding Gear Podcast #71
On this Monday episode of Grinding Gear, the new time btw: Palworld has taken the steam by storm, but is plagiarism afoot? Is Ai the villain in this tale? Is it really hard not to call them Pokemon. …
Mon 22 Jan 2024
GG in the House! | The Grinding Gear Podcast #70
Kyle and Garrett are in the house! Together! Join us for our first post-move podcast from Garrett’s redesigned studio space. Hear all about what happened during our break as Kyle moved and Garrett mo…
Thu 18 Jan 2024
The Grindys 2023 | The Grinding Gear Podcast #69
The Grindys, The Golden Gears, Best of 2023. This is the final official podcast record for the year 2023, and we have our own LEGALLY DISTINCT accolades to hand out. An absolute banger of a year for …
Thu 21 Dec 2023
Call of Jury Duty | The Grinding Gear Podcast #68
Technically the podcast never left but we're back! Kyle has returned from his Jury Duty exile. The internet has continued to do what it does and Garrett’s got all the goods lined up. Twitch has set n…
Thu 14 Dec 2023
Wrap It Up | The Grinding Gear Podcast #67
What a week! The bromance content has been upended due to jury duty. But we’re not going to let that stop us from getting up very early (EXTREMELY early for Kyle) and having a chat about this year’s …
Fri 08 Dec 2023
The Walton Dead | The Grinding Gear Podcast #66
The Holidays are incoming. Garrett and Kyle return from Thanksgiving festivities to bring you all the important happenings from the dinner table! Bungie is messing it up again, but we don’t have time…
Thu 30 Nov 2023
A GG Thanksgiving | The Grinding Gear Podcast #65
It’s a Grinding Gear Thanksgiving! The podcast records early this week as we’ll both be out the rest of the week for the holiday! Join us as we give a Bromance Studio update, talk Scott Pilgrim, WoW …
Wed 22 Nov 2023
MMO Roundtable: BlizzCon 2023 | The Grinding Gear Podcast #64
We have gathered an ELITE team of current, former, and cautious World of Warcraft content creators for our post-BlizzCon round-table. Previous GG guests Preach, Okaymage and Jesse Cox all make a triu…
Thu 16 Nov 2023
Oscar Isaac Ganondorf | The Grinding Gear Podcast #63
A packed week means a packed show. A Zelda Movie? Grand Theft Auto 6? Transparent MMO Design? What do all these things have in common? They all happened this week. Garrett is back in the World of War…
Thu 09 Nov 2023
Live Not from BlizzCon | The Grinding Gear Podcast #62
Immediately following the BlizzCon Opening ceremony live watch, Garrett and Kyle take a seat to talk about the hits, misfires and mysteries. It should be no secret that you won't be hearing much abou…
Fri 03 Nov 2023
Ground Beef Cultist | The Grinding Gear Podcast #61
We may be cross-country again, but we are ever so close to our goals! This is the Grinding Gear Podcast. Travel meant movie time for Kyle and he was delighted by a certain reference in Mutant Mayhem.…
Thu 26 Oct 2023
No More Long Distance | The Grinding Gear Podcast #60
What a week! We have announced The Bromance Studio. The big drive is underway. Podcast will soon be recorded TOGETHER and oh so much more. In this episode you will learn all about the Studio plans, h…
Fri 20 Oct 2023
The One with Okaymage | The Grinding Gear Podcast #59
Okaymage, WoW caster and FF14 streamer, joins the episode! Okaymage has been on quite the content creation trajectory and is here to tell her story. With no RPG experience, coming straight from Leagu…
Thu 12 Oct 2023
Hot, Cold and Spooky with Kristen and Jon | The Grinding Gear Podcast #58
A guest filled episode of Halloween gaming and Hot Takes! Grinding Gears own moderator, Dirty 30’s Reviewer (more incoming) and CEO of the House Kristen Ashton joins the episode, along side the MSQur…
Sat 07 Oct 2023
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