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The Salutations, everybody, it is Maddie here today.

And welcome back to Defining Duke and Xbox podcast. This is episode

278. And today I am joined by the man who could do the thing I can't, which is podcast

and travel at the same time. And that's Lord Cognito Cog. It's been a few weeks. How are you

doing? I miss you. I missed you. I missed you. I missed you. I missed you. I missed you. I missed you too, bro. This is, this is, I felt so weird. I had so much free time. I was like, what you know what to do it yourself? Yeah, I was like, what's going on? It's so funny because I was like, yo, the week you come back, I was worried, I missed this one. Yeah. I was like, okay, travel, obviously, I'm here for things that I can't discusses yet. But, yeah, man, I'm excited. I'm excited. But more importantly, like, it was good to kind of catch up. And obviously, you know, us finally linking together. Obviously, we appreciate everyone that held the Dukes down and the Xbox 2 and he bontes, you know what I'm saying?

But yeah, it's good to get back to the dynamic door back again.

I'll actually die to get your thoughts on so many things.

Yeah, it's so funny.

I go when we were scheduling this vacation, I'll talk about it extensively in a moment here.

When I was scheduling this vacation, Lately and I were like looking at the calendar. And this is how we have to do things for those who are wondering. I have to look at the game release calendars, right? And I'm like, okay, what's coming out? What am I probably covering? And then because we're fortunate to be the positions we're in, usually that release date, you can kind of move up a little bit because you might get review access. And you're like, okay. So if I start getting hit with code, like, it's a week in advance, two weeks, like, what does that look like? You never know for sure, but you're like, okay. So trying to find the right pocket for a vacation, where you're not going to miss too much, especially in today's industry is really difficult. Now, Xbox did not give a shit about my thing. They did not care. It's so funny. I came back. I literally said lately, like, when we got all the money, I was like, I can't wait. I'm fired up. I'm ready. There's so much to talk about. They're going to keep shit. It's crickets, bro. There's been fucking nothing since I got back.

I'm like, really?

You guys just dumped it all that while I was gone.

And you empty the tank and I'm back and you're like, yeah, we're just,

Oshare just gets quiet now.

No leaks, no rumors.

We got Tom Warren tweeting about Xbox now using Xbox and the emails instead of Microsoft

gaming.

Like, that's the news we're working with right now.

I know. So. Look, yeah, the bombshells were just going off, bro. I was like, I, it's cut to the point. Look, I couldn't keep up. It was like, something happened Monday, Tuesday. And it's like, oh, that's old news now. This is what happened now. And I'm like, damn. So yeah, it was crazy, bro.

It was crazy.

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