Grind My Metal Gears
@grindmymetalgears.bsky.social
A podcast where Metal Gear Expert Danny leads Metal Gear Novice Austin through the story and lore of the Metal Gear Solid series.
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmymetalgears
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmymetalgears
❗️New Episode❗️
With DS2 behind us now, it's finally time to crack open Hideo Kojima's The Creative Gene. Join us as we learn the secret origins of The Boss, appreciate BlaRun, and speculate on Kojima's gaming habits.
open.spotify.com/episode/6tVPqZtc…
With DS2 behind us now, it's finally time to crack open Hideo Kojima's The Creative Gene. Join us as we learn the secret origins of The Boss, appreciate BlaRun, and speculate on Kojima's gaming habits.
open.spotify.com/episode/6tVPqZtc…
December 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
❗️New Episode❗️
With DS2 behind us now, it's finally time to crack open Hideo Kojima's The Creative Gene. Join us as we learn the secret origins of The Boss, appreciate BlaRun, and speculate on Kojima's gaming habits.
open.spotify.com/episode/6tVPqZtc…
With DS2 behind us now, it's finally time to crack open Hideo Kojima's The Creative Gene. Join us as we learn the secret origins of The Boss, appreciate BlaRun, and speculate on Kojima's gaming habits.
open.spotify.com/episode/6tVPqZtc…
❗️New Episode❗️
Our journey through Death Stranding 2 finally comes to it's conclusion, and boy what a conclusion it was. In the interest of not spoiling anything, I'll let the episode speak for itself, but I will say one thing: Tomorrow is in your hands
open.spotify.com/episode/32lMab9e…
Our journey through Death Stranding 2 finally comes to it's conclusion, and boy what a conclusion it was. In the interest of not spoiling anything, I'll let the episode speak for itself, but I will say one thing: Tomorrow is in your hands
open.spotify.com/episode/32lMab9e…
November 19, 2025 at 10:09 PM
❗️New Episode❗️
Our journey through Death Stranding 2 finally comes to it's conclusion, and boy what a conclusion it was. In the interest of not spoiling anything, I'll let the episode speak for itself, but I will say one thing: Tomorrow is in your hands
open.spotify.com/episode/32lMab9e…
Our journey through Death Stranding 2 finally comes to it's conclusion, and boy what a conclusion it was. In the interest of not spoiling anything, I'll let the episode speak for itself, but I will say one thing: Tomorrow is in your hands
open.spotify.com/episode/32lMab9e…
❗️New Episode❗️
We're nearing the end of DS2 which means things are really starting to pop off as we finish our journey to connect Australia to the Chiral Network. Oh, and the girls still rock
open.spotify.com/episode/0qHeTkzO…
We're nearing the end of DS2 which means things are really starting to pop off as we finish our journey to connect Australia to the Chiral Network. Oh, and the girls still rock
open.spotify.com/episode/0qHeTkzO…
November 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
❗️New Episode❗️
We're nearing the end of DS2 which means things are really starting to pop off as we finish our journey to connect Australia to the Chiral Network. Oh, and the girls still rock
open.spotify.com/episode/0qHeTkzO…
We're nearing the end of DS2 which means things are really starting to pop off as we finish our journey to connect Australia to the Chiral Network. Oh, and the girls still rock
open.spotify.com/episode/0qHeTkzO…
❗️New Episode❗️
Things are really poppin' off in DS2. Mamoru Oshii is out here teaching us pizza karate, Usada Pekora is here being Usada Pekora, and Hideo Kojima and Co. deliver one of the coolest cutscenes we've ever seen
open.spotify.com/episode/3RE6xApg…
Things are really poppin' off in DS2. Mamoru Oshii is out here teaching us pizza karate, Usada Pekora is here being Usada Pekora, and Hideo Kojima and Co. deliver one of the coolest cutscenes we've ever seen
open.spotify.com/episode/3RE6xApg…
October 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
❗️New Episode❗️
Things are really poppin' off in DS2. Mamoru Oshii is out here teaching us pizza karate, Usada Pekora is here being Usada Pekora, and Hideo Kojima and Co. deliver one of the coolest cutscenes we've ever seen
open.spotify.com/episode/3RE6xApg…
Things are really poppin' off in DS2. Mamoru Oshii is out here teaching us pizza karate, Usada Pekora is here being Usada Pekora, and Hideo Kojima and Co. deliver one of the coolest cutscenes we've ever seen
open.spotify.com/episode/3RE6xApg…
❗️New Episode❗️
Women are thriving as we continue on in Death Stranding 2. Time to meet the mysterious new member of the Magellan crew, Tomorrow.
open.spotify.com/episode/2kANoJtX…
Women are thriving as we continue on in Death Stranding 2. Time to meet the mysterious new member of the Magellan crew, Tomorrow.
open.spotify.com/episode/2kANoJtX…
October 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
❗️New Episode❗️
Women are thriving as we continue on in Death Stranding 2. Time to meet the mysterious new member of the Magellan crew, Tomorrow.
open.spotify.com/episode/2kANoJtX…
Women are thriving as we continue on in Death Stranding 2. Time to meet the mysterious new member of the Magellan crew, Tomorrow.
open.spotify.com/episode/2kANoJtX…
❗️New Episode❗️
Crikey! We're continuing DS2 as we venture forth into Australia where we reunite with everyone's favorite smooth talkin' bad guy from the last game, and have a strange encounter with a guy who is definitely not Solid Snake
open.spotify.com/episode/47GY67k2…
Crikey! We're continuing DS2 as we venture forth into Australia where we reunite with everyone's favorite smooth talkin' bad guy from the last game, and have a strange encounter with a guy who is definitely not Solid Snake
open.spotify.com/episode/47GY67k2…
September 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
❗️New Episode❗️
Crikey! We're continuing DS2 as we venture forth into Australia where we reunite with everyone's favorite smooth talkin' bad guy from the last game, and have a strange encounter with a guy who is definitely not Solid Snake
open.spotify.com/episode/47GY67k2…
Crikey! We're continuing DS2 as we venture forth into Australia where we reunite with everyone's favorite smooth talkin' bad guy from the last game, and have a strange encounter with a guy who is definitely not Solid Snake
open.spotify.com/episode/47GY67k2…
❗️New Episode❗️
It's finally time for us to start Death Stranding 2! Let's find out what Sam and Lou have been up to in the time between games. Surely nothing bad is going to happen to either of them in the opening hours of the game, right?
open.spotify.com/episode/4sKtR8E7…
It's finally time for us to start Death Stranding 2! Let's find out what Sam and Lou have been up to in the time between games. Surely nothing bad is going to happen to either of them in the opening hours of the game, right?
open.spotify.com/episode/4sKtR8E7…
September 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
❗️New Episode❗️
It's finally time for us to start Death Stranding 2! Let's find out what Sam and Lou have been up to in the time between games. Surely nothing bad is going to happen to either of them in the opening hours of the game, right?
open.spotify.com/episode/4sKtR8E7…
It's finally time for us to start Death Stranding 2! Let's find out what Sam and Lou have been up to in the time between games. Surely nothing bad is going to happen to either of them in the opening hours of the game, right?
open.spotify.com/episode/4sKtR8E7…
❗️New Episode❗️
Enjoy this extra long episode as we talk through the rest of Death Stranding! So much to unpack as we complete Sam's journey to build the UCA, discover the truth about Amelie, and save the world (for the time being).
And next time: DS2!
open.spotify.com/episode/3BZNz4GL…
Enjoy this extra long episode as we talk through the rest of Death Stranding! So much to unpack as we complete Sam's journey to build the UCA, discover the truth about Amelie, and save the world (for the time being).
And next time: DS2!
open.spotify.com/episode/3BZNz4GL…
August 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
❗️New Episode❗️
Enjoy this extra long episode as we talk through the rest of Death Stranding! So much to unpack as we complete Sam's journey to build the UCA, discover the truth about Amelie, and save the world (for the time being).
And next time: DS2!
open.spotify.com/episode/3BZNz4GL…
Enjoy this extra long episode as we talk through the rest of Death Stranding! So much to unpack as we complete Sam's journey to build the UCA, discover the truth about Amelie, and save the world (for the time being).
And next time: DS2!
open.spotify.com/episode/3BZNz4GL…
❗️New Episode❗️
Join us for our (believe it or not) penultimate episode on Death Stranding! It's for us to finally learn what Mama's whole deal is, but more importantly, it's time to hop in the shower with Deadman for some private time with our boy
open.spotify.com/episode/7qm0uSuh…
Join us for our (believe it or not) penultimate episode on Death Stranding! It's for us to finally learn what Mama's whole deal is, but more importantly, it's time to hop in the shower with Deadman for some private time with our boy
open.spotify.com/episode/7qm0uSuh…
August 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
❗️New Episode❗️
Join us for our (believe it or not) penultimate episode on Death Stranding! It's for us to finally learn what Mama's whole deal is, but more importantly, it's time to hop in the shower with Deadman for some private time with our boy
open.spotify.com/episode/7qm0uSuh…
Join us for our (believe it or not) penultimate episode on Death Stranding! It's for us to finally learn what Mama's whole deal is, but more importantly, it's time to hop in the shower with Deadman for some private time with our boy
open.spotify.com/episode/7qm0uSuh…
❗️New episode❗️
As we venture on in Death Stranding, it's time to learn a whole lot more about our girl Fragile. Also Daddy Mads makes his grand (non-flashback) appearance 🤤
open.spotify.com/episode/4Y6GPM7T…
As we venture on in Death Stranding, it's time to learn a whole lot more about our girl Fragile. Also Daddy Mads makes his grand (non-flashback) appearance 🤤
open.spotify.com/episode/4Y6GPM7T…
July 30, 2025 at 11:35 PM
❗️New episode❗️
As we venture on in Death Stranding, it's time to learn a whole lot more about our girl Fragile. Also Daddy Mads makes his grand (non-flashback) appearance 🤤
open.spotify.com/episode/4Y6GPM7T…
As we venture on in Death Stranding, it's time to learn a whole lot more about our girl Fragile. Also Daddy Mads makes his grand (non-flashback) appearance 🤤
open.spotify.com/episode/4Y6GPM7T…
❗️New episode❗️
Death Stranding continues! It's time to grab our Q-pids and head out as we work to connect everyone to the internet, uh I mean, Chiral Network, including a certain fan of Ludens
open.spotify.com/episode/3X7SCeos…
Death Stranding continues! It's time to grab our Q-pids and head out as we work to connect everyone to the internet, uh I mean, Chiral Network, including a certain fan of Ludens
open.spotify.com/episode/3X7SCeos…
July 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
❗️New episode❗️
Death Stranding continues! It's time to grab our Q-pids and head out as we work to connect everyone to the internet, uh I mean, Chiral Network, including a certain fan of Ludens
open.spotify.com/episode/3X7SCeos…
Death Stranding continues! It's time to grab our Q-pids and head out as we work to connect everyone to the internet, uh I mean, Chiral Network, including a certain fan of Ludens
open.spotify.com/episode/3X7SCeos…
❗️New episode❗️
I hope y'all are as excited as we are because it's finally time for us to cover Death Stranding! Of course we're just in time to have to dodge spoilers for DS2, but we'll hopefully we'll be too busy processing this first game to notice.
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…
I hope y'all are as excited as we are because it's finally time for us to cover Death Stranding! Of course we're just in time to have to dodge spoilers for DS2, but we'll hopefully we'll be too busy processing this first game to notice.
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…
July 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
❗️New episode❗️
I hope y'all are as excited as we are because it's finally time for us to cover Death Stranding! Of course we're just in time to have to dodge spoilers for DS2, but we'll hopefully we'll be too busy processing this first game to notice.
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…
I hope y'all are as excited as we are because it's finally time for us to cover Death Stranding! Of course we're just in time to have to dodge spoilers for DS2, but we'll hopefully we'll be too busy processing this first game to notice.
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…
❗️New episode❗️
All good things must come to an end as we wrap up the Ac!d games. Konami, you really gotta make a third one of these.
open.spotify.com/episode/5AgSby2F…
All good things must come to an end as we wrap up the Ac!d games. Konami, you really gotta make a third one of these.
open.spotify.com/episode/5AgSby2F…
June 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
❗️New episode❗️
All good things must come to an end as we wrap up the Ac!d games. Konami, you really gotta make a third one of these.
open.spotify.com/episode/5AgSby2F…
All good things must come to an end as we wrap up the Ac!d games. Konami, you really gotta make a third one of these.
open.spotify.com/episode/5AgSby2F…
❗️New episode❗️
We started Metal Gear Ac!d 2, and wouldn't you know it: it's a lot like the first game, but with a bunch of gameplay improvements! We also take a long overdue look into the GMMG Mailbag
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/grin…
We started Metal Gear Ac!d 2, and wouldn't you know it: it's a lot like the first game, but with a bunch of gameplay improvements! We also take a long overdue look into the GMMG Mailbag
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/grin…
June 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
❗️New episode❗️
We started Metal Gear Ac!d 2, and wouldn't you know it: it's a lot like the first game, but with a bunch of gameplay improvements! We also take a long overdue look into the GMMG Mailbag
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/grin…
We started Metal Gear Ac!d 2, and wouldn't you know it: it's a lot like the first game, but with a bunch of gameplay improvements! We also take a long overdue look into the GMMG Mailbag
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/grin…
❗️New episode❗️
We're back! And we're wrapping up Metal Gear Ac!d. Time for a big climatic Metal Gear fight, and a whole bunch of new lore which will certainly be important in Ac!d 2, right...
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/grin…
We're back! And we're wrapping up Metal Gear Ac!d. Time for a big climatic Metal Gear fight, and a whole bunch of new lore which will certainly be important in Ac!d 2, right...
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/grin…
May 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM
❗️New episode❗️
We're back! And we're wrapping up Metal Gear Ac!d. Time for a big climatic Metal Gear fight, and a whole bunch of new lore which will certainly be important in Ac!d 2, right...
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/grin…
We're back! And we're wrapping up Metal Gear Ac!d. Time for a big climatic Metal Gear fight, and a whole bunch of new lore which will certainly be important in Ac!d 2, right...
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/grin…
Sorry folks, no new episode today as Danny is in Japan (may he be so lucky to get scanned by Kojima while there).
We'll be back in two weeks with our final episode on Metal Gear Ac!d!
We'll be back in two weeks with our final episode on Metal Gear Ac!d!
May 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Sorry folks, no new episode today as Danny is in Japan (may he be so lucky to get scanned by Kojima while there).
We'll be back in two weeks with our final episode on Metal Gear Ac!d!
We'll be back in two weeks with our final episode on Metal Gear Ac!d!
❗️New episode❗️
Hope you like clowns, board games, and doppelgangers because things are getting wacky and weird as we continue to make our way through Metal Gear Ac!d
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…
Hope you like clowns, board games, and doppelgangers because things are getting wacky and weird as we continue to make our way through Metal Gear Ac!d
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…
April 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
❗️New episode❗️
Hope you like clowns, board games, and doppelgangers because things are getting wacky and weird as we continue to make our way through Metal Gear Ac!d
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…
Hope you like clowns, board games, and doppelgangers because things are getting wacky and weird as we continue to make our way through Metal Gear Ac!d
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…
❗️New episode❗️
As we progress further into Ac!d we find ourselves with a whole lot of questions about the plot and not a lot of answers yet. Questions like: what's up with this Hans Davis guy?
podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…
As we progress further into Ac!d we find ourselves with a whole lot of questions about the plot and not a lot of answers yet. Questions like: what's up with this Hans Davis guy?
podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…
April 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM
❗️New episode❗️
As we progress further into Ac!d we find ourselves with a whole lot of questions about the plot and not a lot of answers yet. Questions like: what's up with this Hans Davis guy?
podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…
As we progress further into Ac!d we find ourselves with a whole lot of questions about the plot and not a lot of answers yet. Questions like: what's up with this Hans Davis guy?
podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…
❗️New episode❗️
We're returning to the playstation portable to check out the extremely non-canonical Metal Gear Ac!d. In this first episode we get our bearings as we feel out what it means to be a deck-building game a decade before the genre solidified.
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…
We're returning to the playstation portable to check out the extremely non-canonical Metal Gear Ac!d. In this first episode we get our bearings as we feel out what it means to be a deck-building game a decade before the genre solidified.
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…
March 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
❗️New episode❗️
We're returning to the playstation portable to check out the extremely non-canonical Metal Gear Ac!d. In this first episode we get our bearings as we feel out what it means to be a deck-building game a decade before the genre solidified.
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…
We're returning to the playstation portable to check out the extremely non-canonical Metal Gear Ac!d. In this first episode we get our bearings as we feel out what it means to be a deck-building game a decade before the genre solidified.
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…
❗️New Episode❗️
It's time for the much improved sequel to the original Metal Gear, Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. Metal Gear already featured a lot of the elements of the later games, but this one introduces a key ingredient to the mix: melodrama!
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…
It's time for the much improved sequel to the original Metal Gear, Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. Metal Gear already featured a lot of the elements of the later games, but this one introduces a key ingredient to the mix: melodrama!
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…
March 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
❗️New Episode❗️
It's time for the much improved sequel to the original Metal Gear, Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. Metal Gear already featured a lot of the elements of the later games, but this one introduces a key ingredient to the mix: melodrama!
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…
It's time for the much improved sequel to the original Metal Gear, Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. Metal Gear already featured a lot of the elements of the later games, but this one introduces a key ingredient to the mix: melodrama!
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…
❗️New Episode❗️
We're going back to 1987 to play the game that started it all, Metal Gear for the MSX! A game whose DNA lives in all the later MGS titles, but also a game that's very funny to think about in relation to the big reveal in MGSV.
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…
We're going back to 1987 to play the game that started it all, Metal Gear for the MSX! A game whose DNA lives in all the later MGS titles, but also a game that's very funny to think about in relation to the big reveal in MGSV.
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…
February 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
❗️New Episode❗️
We're going back to 1987 to play the game that started it all, Metal Gear for the MSX! A game whose DNA lives in all the later MGS titles, but also a game that's very funny to think about in relation to the big reveal in MGSV.
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…
We're going back to 1987 to play the game that started it all, Metal Gear for the MSX! A game whose DNA lives in all the later MGS titles, but also a game that's very funny to think about in relation to the big reveal in MGSV.
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…
❗️New Episode❗️
We're finishing off our unit on the MGS novelizations with Project Itoh's Guns of the Patriots, a novelization that's got way more going on than you'd expect out of one of these.
open.spotify.com/episode/3u1zxuhS…
We're finishing off our unit on the MGS novelizations with Project Itoh's Guns of the Patriots, a novelization that's got way more going on than you'd expect out of one of these.
open.spotify.com/episode/3u1zxuhS…
February 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
❗️New Episode❗️
We're finishing off our unit on the MGS novelizations with Project Itoh's Guns of the Patriots, a novelization that's got way more going on than you'd expect out of one of these.
open.spotify.com/episode/3u1zxuhS…
We're finishing off our unit on the MGS novelizations with Project Itoh's Guns of the Patriots, a novelization that's got way more going on than you'd expect out of one of these.
open.spotify.com/episode/3u1zxuhS…
❗️New Episode❗️
We're continuing our literary journey through the MGS novels with Raymond Benson's Metal Gear Solid 2 novelization. This one is even more faithful to the game which is fine because it let's us talk about all of the cool stuff in MGS2!
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…
We're continuing our literary journey through the MGS novels with Raymond Benson's Metal Gear Solid 2 novelization. This one is even more faithful to the game which is fine because it let's us talk about all of the cool stuff in MGS2!
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…
January 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
❗️New Episode❗️
We're continuing our literary journey through the MGS novels with Raymond Benson's Metal Gear Solid 2 novelization. This one is even more faithful to the game which is fine because it let's us talk about all of the cool stuff in MGS2!
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…
We're continuing our literary journey through the MGS novels with Raymond Benson's Metal Gear Solid 2 novelization. This one is even more faithful to the game which is fine because it let's us talk about all of the cool stuff in MGS2!
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…
❗️New Episode❗️
As we continue our journey through the wider world of Metal gear, it's time to crack open some books and begin our coverage of the Metal Gear novelizations, starting with Raymond Benson's novelization of Metal Gear Solid!
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…
As we continue our journey through the wider world of Metal gear, it's time to crack open some books and begin our coverage of the Metal Gear novelizations, starting with Raymond Benson's novelization of Metal Gear Solid!
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…
January 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
❗️New Episode❗️
As we continue our journey through the wider world of Metal gear, it's time to crack open some books and begin our coverage of the Metal Gear novelizations, starting with Raymond Benson's novelization of Metal Gear Solid!
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…
As we continue our journey through the wider world of Metal gear, it's time to crack open some books and begin our coverage of the Metal Gear novelizations, starting with Raymond Benson's novelization of Metal Gear Solid!
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…
❗️New Episode❗️
We watched John Carpenter's classic film Escape from New York! Partly because of all the obvious influences this movie had on Metal Gear, but mostly just because it's a really great film
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…
We watched John Carpenter's classic film Escape from New York! Partly because of all the obvious influences this movie had on Metal Gear, but mostly just because it's a really great film
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…
January 2, 2025 at 2:05 AM
❗️New Episode❗️
We watched John Carpenter's classic film Escape from New York! Partly because of all the obvious influences this movie had on Metal Gear, but mostly just because it's a really great film
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…
We watched John Carpenter's classic film Escape from New York! Partly because of all the obvious influences this movie had on Metal Gear, but mostly just because it's a really great film
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…