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Five, four, three, two, live, Michelle.

What's up, everybody?

Welcome to episode 953 of the Video Game Outsiders podcast and one of your host, Michelle Madison.

And I, of course, am your John Jacobs and Michelle.

What is happening on this special episode? Well, John, it's just us tonight. We are going to go over some of the controversies

taking place. What's with this music in gaming this week? Like AI and what's going on with NTE?

That's right. E. Sarkisian and the Slave Aspire 2 drama,, Mix tape and the tens and the kind of discussion like what is a game? What is race debating? He's kind of in trouble. Some news about that. So, yeah, we don't have a Canadian tonight. Ryan is in Japan. Thank the fuck. You heard he's trapped there. He can't get home. but we'll see if we'll be back in a couple weeks. We'll be talking to CC next week.

But yeah, John, just us tonight.

But there is a lot of news a lot of topics a lot of

things have been happening we all played an ai game we i know you played mixtape people have

been asking what did john think of it we're going to find that out so of course though right

now turn that shitty music off what is that what do you mean i you mean? I'm engaged. I can't wait to hear what happens on this episode. We're live right now on Twitch.com. We do it every Tuesday from 9 to 11 p.m. Eastern. If you miss it, you can listen to anywhere podcasts are. You can get weekly bonus shows from us, the 20-year-back catalog, and listen to your player of choice. If you go to video game outsiders.com and you hit that red button, you can support the show and get weekly bonus shows, the 20-year-back catalog. John, we're also sponsored by Loaded.com. We're giving away the new Lego Batman game and the new Bond game this month. So head up down to our Discord on videogame outsiders.com and check out Loaded.com if you want to save money, get some keys for Steam, PlayStation, whatever. But yes, John, tonight is a very, very large show, even though it's just us. It is. We're covering... We have topics. Heavy, heavy stuff. This is the things have happened. This is the big hitting news.

We have no Canadian with us tonight. Well, that's not a requirement. Okay. I kind of feel a lost. I know our permit does require that, though. Do we have a license? The only reason we're still on the air is because we always require to be like accompanied by a Canadian. Yeah, we're getting funny from the Canadian government. and we have been since the beginning,

but we have to have one Canadian host. The Canadians like us.

Yes.

Exactly.

So. by a Canadian. Yeah, we're getting funny from the Canadian government. We have been since the beginning, but we have to have one Canadian host.

The Canadians like us.

Yes.

Exactly.

They're there as like the voice of prison.

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