About the Hosts

Chris started 132 Productions back in 2001 to “legitimize” the sale of self-produced high school marching band videos to said band members. Once that was over he started looking for other projects and with his friends tried to create a parody COPS show that went nowhere all evidence has mostly been destroyed, but may be somewhere still on the internet. On Black Friday 2006 he helped come up with the idea for an anime-focused podcast called Super Happy Anime Fun Time (or SHAFT for short) which went on for six years and then switched to video which ended up killing the show altogether. Chris later joined a group called GameChat from his friend and helped set up a site and recorded the weekly book club-like discussions on video games, which is where he met Jonathan and Franko and forced them to help out with Help Me Watch when GameChat ended.

As a retired IT guy, it’s hard to tell whether games came naturally because of his profession or if his profession came naturally because of his love for games. A gamer since Pong, Coleco Football, and Commodore 64, Frank was introduced to GameChat by one of the co-founders, Steph, and then coerced to be on Help Me Watch he’s been a(n) (un)willing participant since.

A video editor by day (and a freelance writer for Love Thy Nerd and storyteller all other times), Jonathan joined GameChat in order to break the vicious cycle of adding to his never ending library of unplayed games. He lives in Georgia, where he starts a new save file on a Pokemon game every few months and skeptically ponders the existence of Bigfoot.