Hey everybody's me it's Jeff and Brad is here as well. Hi. Hi. It's the end of the year. It is. We made it. We don't. I mean look at the time of this recording. It's almost the end of the year. Yes. And we have almost made almost to made it.

We just wanted to drop in here real quick and say hi and say thanks to everybody. You know our premium members out there.

I just want to thank you for supporting what we do. You know you make all this stuff possible like you know no sane business would let their people lock themselves in a room and record 25 hours of podcast deliberation.

That was like the better part of two weeks. Yeah. You know without like finding a much of ways to cram it a much of like ads for ships or something you know along the way ships are pretty good.

I like chips but I like chips in my own time. Yeah. You know chips and game of your podcasts maybe not the best mix. Yeah. But if you're at home and you want to enjoy chips while listening to the podcast I want you to enjoy whatever brand of chips you like.

That's right. Right up until the point where a chip sponsor comes through and then we'll have something to say about chips but no for real just you know we wouldn't be able to do what we do without your support and you know and it's we really don't forget that over here.

We really cherish that and I hope you I hope you feel good about your premium membership and all that sort of stuff because you're you're enabling us to do this weird thing that

that you know again with the way the web business works these days you we would not be able to do this without your support that's for sure. Yeah.

So yeah just just want to say thanks and I guess like if you're not a premium member and you're interested in becoming one you can go to giant bomb.com slash upgrade.

Ooh and and that's that's something you can you can get into if you're into that sort of thing and then you know that there's there's details on that on the internet. That's right.

Seven day free trial all that other stuff internet. It's where we do our thing. Yeah we do it on the internet where it's dark online online the darkest.

It's great there. Yeah. So yeah we'll be rolling out our game of the year stuff starting on Monday the 25th right I need to look at a calendar to make sure that's the actual day.

Yeah that's Christmas this proper Christmas. So yeah we've decided I saw some people around around this internet we talk about saying man these these podcasts are going to be pretty long.

I wish they would put them up earlier in the day because I've got family commitments later in the day. Hey I've I've wanted to do this my whole life go for it.

We've heard you. Yes we're listening. So we're going to put them up a couple hours earlier. Yeah it was originally going to be 10 a.m. Pacific 1 p.m. Eastern we're going to go with eight a.m. Pacific.

So you know you'll have a little bit of a head start because yeah these these things ended up pretty long. It went long. Yeah I think I saw that the shortest one this year is longer than the longest one last year.

Sure I'm pretty sure that sounds right. Yeah so that's that means that they'll go up ahead of the roll out of the game of the year homepage which is still set for 10 a.m. I'm not going to go bug the engineers and say hey can you change this thing even though you're all already out of the office on vacation.

So if you if you come to the site in those first two hours you'll see old website without you know the new units designed to point you to game of the year.

Yeah and the guest lists and our our own personal top 10s and all that sort of stuff that's still going to start hitting at 10 we're just going to move the deliberation videos and podcasts up.

Oh I guess there's a video change this year where because of the length of this stuff we didn't I you know it seemed like it would be weird to put up like these five hour videos and stuff like that and have people lose their place in them or you know have some break or whatever.

So we've decided to split the videos up into their individual categories. Yeah so I guess that benefits people that only want to listen to specific categories which I think is a weird way to you know I view it as kind of an all or nothing thing.

Yeah but you know hey that's a that's a side benefit maybe you want to take a piece meal maybe there's a game you haven't played right.

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