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The Welcome to next eight four play podcast, your first, only last desperate hope for talk about Japan and games and Japanese games.

I am your host, Mark Kimis-McDakownald.

With me, we have a, well, a special, I'll say a special guest, but somebody that you will definitely be familiar with.

Filling in for one Mr. John Ricciardi, shoot, I didn't get a nickname for him.

We'll think of a nickname during the show, and he should get a bad one since he's not here.

But he is, I think we talked about he's moving.

And we just launched a website more about that later.

Super deluxe SDX Games at SDX.

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But filling in those shoes, God knows we all be more of him in our timeline.

That is one Mr. Roy Blakely.

Howdy.

In a world, in a world, like the one that we have, Roy.

Your Twitter feed, which I check before the show to get people's nicknames.

Every show is a ray of hope.

Is a beacon of fun, I would say.

Not that you're avoiding the issues.

Yeah.

You tackle the tough issues, but you do it in a fun way that the whole family can enjoy.

I try to go for a holistic approach, you know?

Try to really cultivate it so there's a little bit of everything.

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