Video Game Town Hall Podcast
Video Game Town Hall Podcast is a weekly show hosted by Jared Russo and Grant Brunner. The hosts share hot takes on video games, ask each other surprisingly tricky trivia questions, and offer regular insights from the Video Game Town community. It is a casual, conversational podcast for listeners who enjoy gaming discussion and friendly debate.
Episodes
Video Game Town Hall Episode #067: The Inevitable Kirby Dating Sim
Grant and Jared talk about the ugly Link in the new "Ocarina of Time," how "Gotham Knights" is actually good, and "Doom" clones.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #066: The Trailer That Made A Crowd Weep
Grant and Jared talk about the best game trailers and demos of all time.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #065: Hideo Kojima's Worst Decision
Grant and Jared get together to discuss noteworthy video game deaths, Batman, and the one and only Regis Philbin.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #064: Is Piano Man In Foxhound?
Grant and Jared talk spin-offs, funny "Metal Gear" characters, and begin a long autumn of Batman chats.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #063: Queen's Blood Oath
Jared is loving the "Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth" experience, Grant makes a frown-y face at "Lego Batman," and we all come to terms with being elderly.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #062: The Major Problem With Widow's Bay
Grant and Jared are back together again to discuss why nobody should be giving Microsoft money, why Granblue Fantasy rules, and the core issue with Widow's Bay.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #061: Sports Peaked On The Gamecube With Matthew Roberson
Jared is joined by Matthew Roberson to discuss the intersection of sports and video games. As it turns out, nothing past 2005 is worth even considering.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #060: Final Fantasy 17's Destiny With James Rigby
Grant is joined by James Rigby to discuss what we should really be expecting with the next mainline entry into the Final Fantasy series.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #059: Active Time Boring
Jared and Grant suffer through the heat to talk about Jared's conversion to the church of Final Fantasy.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #058: World Cinema With Siddhant Adlakha
Siddhant Adlakha joins Jared to talk about where budding cinephiles should start when they're ready to move beyond the Hollywood machine.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #057: No Homework Needed With Preeti Chhibber
Preeti Chhibber joins Jared to discuss Spider-Man, Zelda, and the best (and worst) of television.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #056: Turn That Cat Into An Anime Lady
Jared and Grant talk through the AI hellscape that is the video game industry right now.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #055: EVO Scoops with jmcrofts
Huge thanks to jmcrofts for swinging by to talk to Jared about EVO and the FGC.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #054: Bronx Style With Kahlief Adams
Many thanks to Kahlief Adams. Be sure to listen to his podcast and follow him on social media.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #053: 'Kingdom Hearts IV' Clown Makeup
It's lists on lists on lists this week! Jared and Grant discuss their top games so far in 2026, and which games they hope to play before the year is out.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #052: Lego Batsuit Nipples
Jared and Grant wildly speculate on not-E3, chat about Disco-likes, dabble in nostalgia with "Retro Rewind," and then get bricked up with "Lego Batman."
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #051: Throw Copilot In The River
Jared and Grant get heated about the death of physical media, Grant played "Tides of Tomorrow" and "Life is Strange," and Jared watched "The Boys."
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #050: Star Fox Is Ruining Everything
Jared is really mad about "Star Fox," Grant has complicated feelings about "Mixtape," nobody can tell Pokémon from pharmaceuticals anymore, and we're slightly losing our minds.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #049: HDR Sucks, Don't @ Me
Jared and Grant join together to chat about under-discussed gaming stories, "Life is Strange: Reunion," "Saros," Aphelion," and more.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #048: Peacock
Jared is joined by both Katy and his sister Tamara to discuss "Project Hail Mary," werewolf games, generic Hollywood men, and TSwift.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #047: 'Star Wars' Featuring 'Night Trap'
Jared and Grant head to the moon to talk about "Pragmata," sail the sea to chat about "Tides of Tomorrow," and fly to a galaxy far, far away to get "Star Wars" trivia wrong.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #046: Weed Games
Grant and Jared are back in business, and ready to celebrate 4/20 with VIDEO GAMES.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #045: Read The Fanfic
Jared and Katy talk "Dispatch" before going in on their second-gen Pokémon draft. Watch the video version here.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #044: Needs More Spice
Jacob Linden joins Jared to talk "Pokémon," Soulslikes, and the demand for an "Annihilation" sequel.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #043: Something You Only Feel In An Intangible Way (ft. Jake Steinberg)
Jake Steinberg joins Jared to discuss "Pokémon," game prices, college baseball, and more.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #042: The Cleveland Browns Of Video Games
Anthony Franklin joins Jared to discuss sports, games, and sports games.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #041: This Podcast Looks Like A Million Bucks
Jared has a lot to say about "RE 9," "Metal Gear Solid 1" has a high-res mode now, and Grant wants to win one million rupees.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #040: Seaking Is Speaking To Me
Jared is joined by Katy Herman to talk Oscars, draft Gen 1 Pokémon, and chew bubblegum. Wait... I'm getting a report about some sort of bubblegum shortage. Ah, well, nevertheless.
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Video Game Town Hall Extra: Jenna Stoeber Talks Resident Evil
On this special edition version of the Video Game Town Hall Podcast, we have the amazing and talented horror expert and "RE" fan Jenna Stoeber!
You can check out her work here, but on this episode, it's all about the "Resident Evil" franchise, "Requiem" with NO SPOILERS, and some speculation about the upcoming film by Zach Cregger.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #039: Doommaxing Video Games
Jared and Grant discuss the collapse of the video game industry, praise "Mewgenics," dunk on "God of War: Sons of Sparta," and play a rousing game of "What If Zelda Was A Girl."
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #038: Anime Goonerbait
Put your dukes up! Jared is joined by Cedric Pabriga to discuss fighting games, Jared's extreme distaste for story in video game, and the near future of gaming.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #037: The 6-7 Of Video Games
Jared is joined by Mahin Kesore to discuss Marvel games, wishcast Nintendo's Switch 2 lineup, and *checks notes* chat about "Cory in the House?"
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #036: Shuttlecock
Grant and Jared relive their favorite childhood video game memories and prepare themselves Olympic madness.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #035: Too Many Yachts
Jared and Grant are forced by the internet gods to predict what will happen in 2026. It's gonna be a bad time!
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #034: P.T. Is Just Like Mario (ft. Jenna Stoeber)
The delightful Jenna Stoeber joins us to discuss weird games! In spite of some mild technical difficulties, we have a wonderful time finding out why everything from Italian plumbers to looping hallways are just plain strange.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #033: Free Us From PS3 Jail
Grant and Jared discuss how every video game is a remake, the games they play to zen out, and how that "Spongebob" game needs the Ice Spice song.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #032: Where To Set The Next 'Fallout'
Grant and Jared explain why certain cities just make sense for "Fallout 5," they get deep into "Pluribus" season one, and dip into how "Final Fantasy X" couldn't be made today.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #031: The Year Of Luigi Part II
Grant is watching "Pluribus," Jared joins the "Dogpile," and 2026 has too damn many games on the schedule.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #030: What If Howard Dean Did A GOTY Podcast?
As December comes to a close, Grant and Jared are forced by internet law to discuss their ten favorite games of the year.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #029: An Award That Randy Pitchford Actually Deserves
Welcome to the first annual Townies! In this episode, Grant and Jared chat through the winners of our awards, but we won't get to our Game of the Year picks until next week.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #028: Just One More 'Andor.' Trust Me, Bro
Jared and Grant discuss "The Berlin Apartment," "Kirby Air Riders," "Absolum," "Dispatch," "Taskmaster," and "Star Trek: The Next Generation."
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #027: A Criminal Piece Of Ass
Jared and Katy spend their Thanksgiving chatting about the most loathsome characters in "The White Lotus."
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #026: 'Ello Guv'na
Grant and Jared give thanks for the good things in gaming. Plus, Grant makes Jared think a lot about "Final Fantasy" and Delaware.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #025: An Aardvark Or Something
Grant and Jared work through our end-of-year GOTY categories, talk through some recent releases, and play a lively game about rejected baseball commentary.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #024: Put A Red Ring On It
Grant and Jared discuss some of the worst moments in all of console gaming. Plus, Grant's mind gets blown by "Counter-Strike" skins.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #023: Milkman
Are you ready to get spoopy? Jared and Grant talk scary games and rank Halloween candy.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #022: Two-Clap Jared
Grant and Jared talk about the genres that have never resonated with them, more about video game butts, and a quiz that'll really make you think.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #021: Moist
Katy joins Jared to discuss the very best Disney songs of all time. Plus, there's a wild international Pokémon quiz right at the end.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #020: Smash Effect
Jared and Grant talk through the best performances in all of games, chat about the butts in "Ghost of Yotei," and then finish things up with a wildly embarrassing round of "Smash Effect."
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #019: The Commonwealth
Grant and Jared discuss some of the biggest surprises in the world of video games, "Hades 2" is finally out, and we see how little Jared cares about 2D "Zelda."
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #018
Grant and Jared talk "Silent Hill 2," "Death Stranding," and "Highway Blossoms."
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #017
Jared is joined by CEO Jack Miller to discuss "Gen V" and "Borderlands 4."
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #016
Jared is joined by Darron Lewis to discuss PAX, "Hollow Knight," and Jared's irrational hatred of 2003 classic "Kirby Air Ride."
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #015
Jared has play two Ninja games, Grant is eating snakes, and our two intrepid heroes see what's left in 2025. To wrap things up, Grant has to figure out the difference between comic book characters and adult actors.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #014
How disappointing! Jared and Grant discuss their most disappointing games of all time, and we end up stealing a bit from Blank Check. Then we play a rousing game of "First Thing's First."
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #013
This week, Grant and Jared are joined by none other than merritt k of internet fame. You can read "Vampirocene," her new horror novella, at Itch.io.
We talk about the most emotionally resonant moments in video games, fall down a Nintendo Wii rabbit hole, and end up learning more than a little about "Animal Crossing: Wild World."
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #012
This week, Jared is joined by Poké fanatic and Star Wars diehard James Rigby to discuss the state of both franchises.
But most important, the two J-names get down to brass tacks about Fantasy Critic.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #011
Jared and Katy sitting in a tree... P-O-D-C-A-S-T-I-N-G.
Hope you like TV because Jared and Katy spend most of the episode chatting about the 2025 Emmys before dipping their toes into some Pokémon.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #010
In this episode, Jared and Grant pick out the best video game sound tracks of all time. Is picking a Nintendo soundtrack an unfair advantage?
Plus, we briefly enter the Wu-Tang before playing one hell of a guessing game.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #009
"Donkey Kong Bananza," "Tony Hawk," and "Assassin's Creed Shadows" are on the docket this week for Video Game Town Hall.
Plus, video game twenty questions is harder than you'd think.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #008
Jared returns to talk "Donkey Kong Bananza," "Keep Driving," "Word Play," "Death Stranding 2," and more.
Plus, can you tell the difference between a Pokémon and an anti-psychotic drug? We find out in real time!
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #007
Jared is in the wilds of Montana, so Grant is joined by Molly Bradley. July is Disability Pride Month, so let’s talk about some important orgs like Able Gamers and Can I Play That.
We also play a rousing game of "Code Name And Shame."
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #006
In this very special episode, Jared is joined by Darron Lewis to discuss the world of fighting games as we approach EVO 2025 — the biggest event in the fighting game community.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #005
We're at the half-year point, so Grant and Jared talk about what their GOTY list is looking like thus far. They also discuss "Death Stranding 2," tackle upcoming releases, and try to find which games do not feature Troy Baker.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #004
In this episode, we chat about our coverage for Pride month, Jared's opinions about that "Lies of P" DLC, and try to figure out which console games ended up with portable versions.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #003
Join Jared and Grant as the reminisce about E3s and console launches of yore, make some predictions about the second half of the year, and play an electric game of "License to Shill."
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #002
Jared and Grant discuss the ripping and/or tearing in "Doom: The Dark Ages," ponder the GOTY-contender status of "Clair Obscur: Expedition 33," and play a game that drives Jared to the brink.
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Video Game Town Hall Episode #001
In this introductory episode, you'll learn about our hosts, Jared Russo and Grant Brunner. What are their video games bona fides? What are their favorite games? Jump in, and become a citizen of Video Game Town.
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