Hey Xbox, Are You Okay?
Remap Radio
Remap Radio
4.9 • 964 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Last Friday, news broke that much of the senior leadership that’s been steering Xbox for the past decade and more have departed the company. Phil Spencer? Retired. Sarah Bond? Gone. Instead, one of the members of that group, Matt Booty, has ascended alongside a new Xbox CEO that comes from Microsoft’s—wait for it—AI division. Rob and Patrick spent a few minutes (okay, an hour!) trying to untangle what this all means.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to a very rare remap radio emergency news podcast. |
| 0:14.9 | Hold on. |
| 0:16.0 | Is it an emergency pod if the podcast is published three to four? |
| 0:21.9 | No, by our standards, it is sort of an emergency spot. |
| 0:24.9 | Somewhat urgent. |
| 0:29.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:30.1 | Well, you know, there's a lot going on this week. |
| 0:32.2 | Remap react. |
| 0:33.9 | Remap. |
| 0:34.9 | To rematch. |
| 0:36.8 | Fantastic. |
| 0:38.3 | Yes. And that can be an incredible YouTube series for us as well. |
| 0:43.3 | But yeah, so we were caught flat-footed. |
| 0:47.3 | It is funny because we have had conversations this year about recording early Wednesday morning, we are missing a lot of like industry news that's really relevant for that week. |
| 1:01.2 | Like routinely we finish recording the podcast. |
| 1:03.7 | And within eight hours, something major comes out. |
| 1:07.0 | It's like, well, if we just recorded a day later, you know, we would have, we would gotten that news. And then as if to show us the, maybe the futility of this quest, uh, the gang |
| 1:16.0 | was streaming yap yap when it was announced that Phil Spencer was retiring from Xbox, |
| 1:25.6 | uh, his sort of top, his, lieutenant, Sarah Bond was also departing the company. |
| 1:35.7 | And someone from Microsoft's AI efforts, Asha Sharma, yeah, yeah, was taking over Xbox. |
| 1:45.1 | Now, at that moment, as I said, the gang was streaming Yap Yap. |
| 1:49.6 | I was, well, the, we recorded the podcast, then we committed to, hey, we're going to try and shift starting next, you know, this company, the week that you're listening to this. |
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