Giant Bombcast 939: Meat Shaped State

Giant Bombcast

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Video Games, Comedy, Leisure, Technology

4.7 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2026

⏱️ 196 minutes

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Summary

This week we've got our friends from Beta Hat (Stan and Matthew Rorie) to share how YOU can get paid to chat about your opinitons and knowledge about games!

Head to giantbomb.com/betahat and make sure to tell them that Giant Bomb sent you!

We also get into more thoughts on Saros, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 2 still holding up, and if Forbidden Solitaire is another deep card game like Balatro and Inscryption. We also get into today's headlines like GameStop trying to buy eBay, GTA 6 already trying to temper expectations, all of your emails, mystery ads with Grubb, and more!

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Timestamps (note, timestamps on this free version may vary greatly depending on how many ads you receive):
0:00:00 Intro
0:01:46 [SPONSORED] Talking about Beta Hat with Stan Kwon and Matt Rorie
0:25:14 Intro Part II
0:51:54 Saros
1:00:44 Forza Horizon 6
1:03:09 Tamashika
1:09:06 Forbidden Solitaire
1:13:21 Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader
1:21:26 Is Dib old enough to play Uncharted?
1:26:00 007 First Light
1:33:06 News
1:33:30 GameStop makes a wild $56 billion bid for eBay
1:44:06 GTA 6 expectation management is becoming the story
1:51:27 Xbox hardware and services decline again in Microsoft earnings
1:53:27 Call of Duty finally appears to be done with PS4
1:55:22 Valve says Steam Deck 2 is still in development, but shortages are a problem
1:57:57 Denuvo/2K reportedly adds 14-day online checks after new piracy claims
1:59:49 Fortnite gets a huge Star Wars UGC/platform push
2:02:22 007 First Light on Switch 2 is still coming, but needs more time
2:04:16 Madden NFL 27 appears headed to Switch 2
2:06:33 Taking temperature on Star Fox/Ocarina of Time rumors
2:14:15 EMAILS!
2:44:48 Grubb Guesser
2:52:03 YouTube Super Chats
3:12:47 Outro

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey! Hey, everybody, it's Tuesday, May 5th. Welcome to the giant bomb cast, episode 939. I'm your host, Jan
0:34.2	Ocho, joining me, as always, co-gaptain of the ship, Jeff Grub. Thanks for having me, Jan. That's right. I'm your host, Jan Ochoa, joining me as always co-gaptain of the ship. Jeff Grubb. Thanks for having me, Jan. That's right. I'm only having you and one more Jeff on this podcast, and that other Jeff is. Everyone wait for it. Who's it going to be? It's Jeff Bacalar. Hey, Janie. Always a pleasure seeing you, pal. Hope you are good, fine, and well.
0:55.5	I am doing so.
0:57.6	Thank you, Jeffie.
1:00.2	We need to balance the scales of all this positivity and good vibes by bringing the
1:04.7	bird boy of games media, Mike Menotti.
1:08.9	Oh, I'm mad at the world, and I think that not enough people are like me, and also I think I'm bad, too.
1:19.8	So, no, no, no.
1:21.9	Are you doing your best baccalaar?
1:24.4	Is that what you're doing?
1:25.5	No, I'm just, look, I was just playing the part of a miserable person if you see yourself in that what am i supposed to do that's a self-report and we've got i got i got a lot to think about maybe i should introduce mike first sometimes because he always introduces the most impossible pivot to get out of.
1:46.0	But I'd also like to introduce our dear special friends, our partners over at Beta Hat.
1:52.2	And for folks in the know, you'll may recognize some of these faces, some of these names.
1:57.0	We've got managing director of Beta Hat and ex-general manager of Giant Bomb Stan Kwan.
2:03.1	Hey, nice to meet everyone.
2:04.8	This is actually my first time on the Bombcast,
2:08.7	even though I have a long history with Giant Bomb.
2:13.7	Yeah.
2:14.0	Crew, really nice to meet all of you.
2:16.6	And thank you for having us on. Yeah, you and I were two ships in the night passing, Stan. Yeah. Crew, really nice to meet all of you. And thank you for having us on.
2:18.3	Yeah, you and I were two ships in the night passing, Stan.
2:21.3	I think your time with GB ended around 2017 and then mine ended at the tail end.
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