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Everybody ready? Yeah

All right, so the way this goes is

What's up everybody welcome to IGN games. I'm your statement hat field joining me this week is Justin Davis

Cool and Sam Clayboy everybody. Oh, yeah, I should provide room for a pause thunderous applause for everybody

We're also joined by a hundred ish super fans here in the IGN cafeteria. Give yourselves around

Thank you so much for coming out help us celebrate the 500th episode

Thank you for having us, Damon of this real dumb show that I started doing

12 years ago right after I first started at IGN and moved out here from Chicago

Did someone tell you to do it? No, I wanted to do it

But it's something I talked about with like David Adams and our news team at the time

Did you have to explain the word podcast to anybody? No, I IGN had done one-off podcasts before but they net

They did not have a regular podcast were they like four and a half minutes long? No, they like

There were too long because they tried to put like ten people on the podcast and they're passing around a stick mic around the room

Do you remember you didn't host the very very first one? I think there's only one episode that I never hosted

I think it was the very first one

Maybe Matt Jones who's a super fan right over here from Indiana one of the longest running gamescube super fans that I'm aware of

drove around with the license plate that said scoop from many years amazing

Yes, maybe he can correct that maybe we should have ten people on this podcast. Yeah, I think so too

Well, we are gonna have a bunch of more people joining us up here on the stage in just a few moments

Uh, but first

Just want to give a huge shout out and thanks to the people that are helping us put on this show today

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