Bio

Rich is currently a producer for Massachusetts-based MMO-developer 38 Studios, having left his successful and popular position as Features Producer at GameSpot in order to return to the East Coast with his fiancée.

During his tenure at GameSpot, Rich produced several successful regular shows. Notable among them are GameSpotting; Button Mashing - a round-based game show where two competitors compete and eventually have a face off with a GameSpot staffer, On the Spot - a weekly live show created and hosted by Rich (Alongside Ryan MacDonald and later Jeff Gerstmann); and The HotSpot, a podcast covering "all the hot topics from the world of video games" (Meaning major news items in the games industry).

Rich began his tenure at GameSpot as a GameSpot Live intern, impressing the team enough to land a staff job later. Prior to this, he worked as a QA Tester for THQ.

Whilst attending Middlebury College, Rich - along with friend and classmate Ben Coello - created, wrote and starred in The Ben and Rich Comedy Show, a loosely plot-based sketch show the pair submitted as their independent study project. Rich also created "<<" or "Rewind", a short film which reached the final in Nintendo's Eternal Darkness Films competition.

Rich currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts, but often visits his family in New Hampshire, his home state.

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Fun Facts

• He claims to be a descendant of Lord William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824-1907), who is widely known for developing the Kelvin scale of absolute temperature measurement.
• He has an unhealthy addiction to Fluff and (according to his profile page at 38 Studios) spends his spare time trying to make the fluffernutter (a sandwich consisting of Fluff and peanut butter) the official sandwich of Massachusetts.
• He has a scar on his left eyebrow. The scar developed during puberty when, as Gallup explains, his body thought a mole had developed and tried to bleach it out. However there was no mole, leaving a bleached patch of skin. The more widely accepted version is that a ghost went through him and left a mark.
• He coined the term ish-dition to describe installments of the Hotspot after being unable to reconcile his desire to use both the words "issue" and "edition" to label the weekly episodes of the popular podcast.
• Culled from his experience in college radio, Gallup hosted most episodes of the HotSpot while standing up. According to him, it keeps a lively flow and energy in leading an audio conversation show's various discussions.
• He has a fear of needles and zombies.
• Has an extreme aversion to ketchup.
• He is also claustrophobic, and once almost punched through a door when locked in a small room by college friend and classmate Ben Coello.
• He has nicknamed his home state "New Hampshizzle."
• He is against cell phones and texting and does not own one still.
• He makes instant Macaroni & Cheese with ice cream instead of milk.
• Also, has his own special Mac & Cheese recipe that uses Tabasco sauce and garlic powder.
• He thinks this page is "creepy," but strongly encourages users to keep making it even creepier.
• Alternative proposed origins for the white patch on Rich's eyebrow have been 1) he was struck by lightning (resulting in the nickname "Lightning Face"), 2) he was punched by a ghost (causing him to shriek, and his eyebrow to turn white). and 3) he is secretly rogue from the X-Men (a cruel prank by former Gamespot co -workers Bob Colayco (a PR representative from Blizzard Entertainment) and Carrie Gouskos (a producer for EA Mythic).
• His mom watches this page and tells him whenever something new is added.
• He has incredible urges to give nipple twists whenever he hears someone curse.
  

  Cyborg Gallup in self-destruct mode
• Was co-captain of the 1997 state champion Granite State Challenge team.  His team won every episode.
  
• Once attended a taping of  "Jeopardy" to see his high school friend and Granite State Challenge teammate Ryan Friedman compete.  In the QA session before the show, he'd asked show host Alex Trebek if he had any advice for aspiring game show hosts.  Trebek promptly discouraged the idea of even having such aspirations.  Unbeknownst to Mr. Trebek, Gallup was host of his own internet game show "Button Mashing" at the time.  Ryan won that episode of Jeopardy, though, sadly, Gallup was unable to see the actual day-two taping of the show.
• Believes "Jose Chung'sFrom Outer Space" (season 3,episode 20) is "the best episode of X-Files ever."
  
• Thinks Jim Jeannotte is the "greatest game show host of all time."
• Once saw one of the guys from "Office Space."
• He still kept his pimp-suit from Button Mashing in his closet and occasionally wears it when he's home alone.
• He gave the Giant Bombcast PAX08 Edition three stars. According to Rich it was alright but he expected more.
• His middle name begins with a K
• He attended Middlebury College, which instilled in him a love of Liberal Arts educations. It also made him unbearable.
• As explained at PAX08 - Rich's staunch 'No cursing' policy on his podcast stems from his College days where he learned that not cursing lent instant credibility.
• He played "Rich Gallup, Grizzled Police Chief" in the award winning and mega-popular animated pilot internet-isode of "Time Trotters: The Animated Series."
• He is much beloved as one of the finest media hosts in the history of the internet (which explains the detail of this page).
• He prefers cats to dogs.
• He is also half-cyborg-half wizard as revealed in his epic battle against his wizard friend Ben Coello