Hi, it's Larry Herbexbox, his major Nelson. Welcome to the Xbox podcast. This is the only

official podcast you can get directly from Xbox at Microsoft. Some of the studios have

something, but this is the one we've been on the air for, oh, whoa, almost 20 years.

And I've had plenty of folks come through here as guests, as co-hosts, as friends, as

whatever you want to call them. But I'm excited because this week, got a couple of, well, one

new face over on the left and a returning face over on the right. Malik, good to see you.

Good to see you too. Larry and Joe, we were just talking off camera. We're on the same team,

but we haven't really interacted too much. So just really excited to chat with Joe and hear

about all things Xbox wire. I got to say to the audience at home, I am drinking a coffee

that I asked for two extra shots in, so a total of five. And my ice mocha, so my heart

is beating. And so I'm going to try and keep myself composed. We'll get to be with you

all today. I don't really need to do an intro then. You kind of intro Joe. Anyway, Joe over

on the left hand side there, your screen, Joe. Nice to see you. You can say hello. Hello,

yeah, I was trying to keep up, keep up podcast manners there. I kind of forget this isn't

just audio only. So right, you can see me just awkwardly looking well. Looking, but anyway,

Joe is Joe is new to the show, but he's not new to the team. He's been with Xbox three or four

months, four or five months now, right, Joe? I started end of November. So Joe, just so you don't

know, if you don't know, Joe is the editor in chief, the head of Xbox wire. Let's say editor

in chief. I like it. Yeah, that's, which is news.xbox.com. So Joe, you've probably seen his name

on the byline cropping up recently and some of the some of the stories. But Joe, I want to,

before we get going, we've talked to Malik and his journey over to in the games industry,

but I want to see if you could tell us a little bit about yours because they may recognize

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