Hello everyone, it's Kirk Hamilton here in December of 2021 recording a little extra opening

for this episode.

What you are about to listen to is a special bonus beans cast that we released on September

26th of this year.

It was our September monthly beans cast and as you probably know from listening to this

show, we release those every month for members of Maximum Fun.

It's a little bonus for folks who support us making this show.

So we're off this week for the holidays and we thought that instead of that, we would

just drop this as a little surprise for everybody in the feed.

So you can now get to listen, even if you aren't a member.

If you'd like to become a member, of course, you can go to MaximumFun.org slash join.

We really, really appreciate all of our members.

It makes us possible for us to do this show.

So yeah, that's what this episode is.

This is going to be full bean spilling or full spoilers on Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2 episodes

1 and 2 and also Half-Life Alex.

So we kind of get into the current state of the Half-Life universe and where things might

go.

This was a really fun episode to make and of course was the result of me tying with Jason

on our predictions bet last year.

So we played through Half-Life 2, which you heard as a regular episode, but just in case

you missed that one, there is also just a regular triple play of Half-Life 2 in the regular

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