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Griffin McElroy is an American podcaster, actor, writer, composer, and former video game journalist, born on the 17th of April, 1987. He co-founded the video game journalism website Polygon and co-hosts podcasts including My Brother, My Brother and Me and The Adventure Zone.
Griffin McElroy was born on the 17th of April, 1987, to Clint McElroy, a former co-host of WTCR-FM's morning radio show in Huntington, West Virginia, and his wife Leslie.
Griffin McElroy is best known for My Brother, My Brother and Me, a comedy advice podcast he co-hosts with his brothers Justin and Travis, and The Adventure Zone, a tabletop role-playing game podcast the three brothers launched in 2014. He also co-hosts Wonderful! with his wife Rachel.
Griffin McElroy began his journalism career in 2007 as the weekend editor for Joystiq. In 2012, he left Joystiq to co-found the video game journalism website Polygon with his brother Justin McElroy and Christopher Grant.
In The Adventure Zone, Griffin McElroy served as Dungeon Master and voiced numerous non-player characters across the first 69 episodes of the Balance campaign. He later took the Keeper role in Amnesty, played Sir Fitzroy Maplecourt in Graduation, returned as Dungeon Master for Ethersea, and plays Montrose Pretty in Steeplechase, while also composing much of the show's original soundtrack.
A newly discovered species of millipede, Nannaria mcelroyorum, was named in 2021 in recognition of the McElroy family's podcasts, which entertained the scientists who discovered it during their fieldwork. The millipede is found in West Virginia and the wider Appalachian region.