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The Salutations, everybody. It is Maddie here today. Welcome to episode 248 of Defining Duke at Xbox podcast.

Today, we're joined by the man who will not upcharge you on everything,

who's taking care of business out in Japan, the global ninja himself, Lord Cognito.

Back for some breaking news. How are you, good sir? Doing well, doing well. Good to be back in the realm of the Duke's land of the rising sun. It is 5 a.m. in the morning, as I forgot. I forgot how early it is for you. You had so much energy when we were talking. I forgot how early it is for you. Yeah, it's fine. Yeah, I'm hanging in, man. But I couldn't miss two round with the dukes. You know what? Who could be here for two dukes? It's the man who has cursed Xbox himself with his own two hands. Every episode he's on, shit's popping off. It's the one,

the only, Sir Bradley Ellis. Brad, how are you today, sir? I'm great. I saw the news today and I said,

oh boy, this is going to be a fun episode today. I have this running joke that you all

probably heard, but if you're new here, anytime Brad has joined me for an episode, like Cog's not here or hey Brad, like honestly, even we're just like tag Brad in. We want the third chair. Something's happening. And it's never great news. It's a console price hikes. It's game pass.'s studio closure. It's like, yeah.

It's bad for the Xbox brand, but good for the LSM content. Yeah. Definitely. Swiss Army

knife. That's my name. Yes,

absolutely. Gentlemen,

this is going to be a fun one, no doubt.

Really, I'm just curious what words we can

find this week after running back what feels like the same fever dream. Really, I'm just curious what words we can find this week after running back

what feels like the same fever dream multiple times in the last about year and change.

But we'll get to that. I mean, obviously, people who are watching, you know, we're going to talk

about the Game Pass price increase. We're going to talk about the Rog ally pre-orders,

which were probably going to originally be the headline of the show.

We got a couple other smaller bits here, but I call this one when I, when I did the script, I call this a highlights only duke. Like this is, you know, sometimes we get the low lights in, you know, like, what's this indie gym doing? What are the sales over here? I know our audience. Y'all don't give a shit this week. So we're just going to get really as quickly into it as we can.

We want to warm ourselves up first.

Want to talk with the audience.

If you want to write in Patreon.com slash last stand media.

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