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The Salutations, everybody, it is Maddie here today. Welcome to episode 280 of Defining Duke at Xbox podcast. Today, I'm joined by everyone's

favorite Xbox fan. He loves it so much. Everything's green today. Lockboard. Welcome to the show.

First time, 280 episodes and you're making the appearance. How are you? Finally, but it took,

exactly. It took 280 episodes. Thank you so much, Maddie. It's so funny to see you in this context because we've podcasted a lot, of course, but never on Duke. So this is awesome to be. We've done, for those who don't know, retro rewind. So we've done our movie stuff. Yeah. We've done some and sign a ton of times together. So we like to talk games. And then you and I talk all the time in general. We've never sat down to do a new show. No. It's just an incredibly different approach here. Now with that, a lot of people are probably wondering at where's COG? What's going on there? Sure. I don't, just to respect his privacy, I don't know how much he wants to share,

but something personal did come up. And so I just send him some best wishes. I know Cog himself, like physically is doing okay, but it's a pretty tough spot. So I told him, hey, like immediately when he told me what was going on, I said, hey, like, I'll find someone. now Brad almost crawled his way into the show on a more funny note here

Brad oh on. I said, hey, like, I'll find someone. Now, Brad almost crawled his way into the show on a more

funny note here. Brad almost stepped in, right? That was my first thought, because Brad's the super

sub, right? Anytime we need a little help on Duke, Brad's there. Of course. However, as we talked about

last week, I said, I really want to test Brad's curse after the Xbox showcase, right?

Like Xbox, no doubt, has momentum right now.

People are cheering on Twitter.

Okay, let's see what happens after the showcase when they blow their load.

They got nothing left.

Let's see if Brad can ruin things.

Because anytime he shows up, things go south.

Now, as someone addressed in one of our writings, we'll get to,

just a mere mentioning of Brad's name has brought about some tomfoolery at Xbox, particularly

one of their premier studios in Playground. So we'll talk about that as well. So perhaps it was good

that Brad dodged the show and that I found Lockmore here. I never really got to ask Brad, but I was, again, I was trying to, I must believe in the curse somewhat because I really, I really was about to message Brad. I was like, I can't. I was like, if I do this, I could ruin everything. He could ruin everything. I was like, I got to bring in locks a lot.

You could be a good luck charm. You might bring Xbox. Maybe next week we learn about exclusives.

Exactly. Next week, exclusives are back. We did it, boys. We did it. They're back.

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