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Kinda Funny Xcast: Xbox Podcast

Is The Deal Done? Xbox v FTC w/ Shannon Liao

Kinda Funny Xcast: Xbox Podcast

Kinda Funny

Leisure, Games, Entertainment News, Video Games, News

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The Xbox FTC trial is wrapping up and Mike and Gary are joined by Shannon Liao who's been reporting on it all! Follow Shannon's newsletter here: https://shannonliao.substack.com/ Time Stamps - 00:00:00 - Start 00:02:00 - Shannon Liao is Here! 00:11:12 - Housekeeping 00:12:04 - Breaking Down the Xbox FTC Trial w/ Shannon Liao 00:36:45 - Ads 00:37:49 - The Conclusion? 00:49:12 - Xbox and Bethesda at Gamescom 00:51:41 - Xbox Game Pass Update for July Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up everybody and welcome back to another episode of the kind of funny ex-cast

0:27.1

your home for all things Xbox here at kind of funny. I'm one of your host Snowbike

0:31.5

Mike and today I'm joined by just one of my gaming dads, Mr. Gary Whittah here

0:36.9

at the table. And of course we have a very special guest Gary. I brought on an

0:41.1

expert to help school you and I and the audience on the big Microsoft versus

0:45.8

FTC court case going on right now as the closing arguments are in. I thought

0:50.4

you know what? Let's get someone who knows their stuff. Let's get someone who's

0:54.7

not a Gibroni like you and I. The school is just a little bit. So I brought on

0:58.7

one incredible gal. She's a freelance journalist previously at the Washington

1:03.4

Post. She is written for the New York Times, CNN, The Verge, IGN, and so much more.

1:08.3

It's Shannon Liao. Shannon, how are you today? Oh, I'm doing well. How are you Mike?

1:14.2

It's so great to see you. I am wonderful. It was great to see you again. Of course,

1:18.1

I've been lucky enough as the rookie here at kind of funny to go to a number of

1:22.1

gaming events this spring and summer. And I've got to bump in and meet Shannon at all

1:26.9

these different events and everybody talks so highly of her. And she was so nice to

1:30.7

meet me and talk to video games with me. So I thought, you know what? Let's call her

1:34.2

up. She's the expert today. Oh, thank you. I'm actually very glad to have a proper

1:40.8

expert on this. When we were talking about this case on the show last week, yes, as the

1:45.0

words were coming out of my mouth, I've never been more aware of the fact that I had no

1:48.8

idea what I was talking about. So a proper expert is very welcome on the show this week.

1:54.7

We're really happy to have you, Shannon. And of course, we're going to talk all things

1:57.9

court case in just a little bit. But I want to talk a little bit about you because of

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