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I'm your host today, Alex Van Aiken, and I am joined by Brian Shay, how doing I'm doing so good I you appear to be sleepy I think I am finally back to my my normal self because there was a there was a stretch there at the end of summer game

fest into like yesterday that I was just a shell of my my being but now I think I'm

back I'm still a shell, but you know we rally we rise above rise against

We give it all. Yeah, yeah

Rounding out the show today, we're joined by Charles Hart. But, but, I'm doing Charles.

I'm doing good.

I got home late Tuesday night and then I slept for 10 hours and so I'm I'm back I'm back in business I'm that's all

Boss baby back in business I think that's a show yeah boss baby too maybe I think so I think so I think so there's also a like boss baby Netflix show but I don't think that's what it's called but I don't know it probably not cannon

right yeah that's in the boss baby multiverse. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the Boss Babies CU, the BBC you. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Well, welcome listeners. We're going to be talking about all of our time at

Somber Gavefest. Oh my God, I got to stop yawning. Let me take a sip of water, hold. Okay, that's going to keep me awake. We went to Summer Game Fest in Los Angeles this past weekend and we played a lot of games we watched a lot of games and

we met a lot of the people behind those games and we're going to talk about it

today we're going to talk about it today. We're going to go through our hands-on

impressions of several games. Some of them are still embargoed, but the ones that

aren't will be discussing on the show. My wife is calling me mid-show I'm just texting her hey I'm on a

podcast love you a great start here by the way yeah and we're also going to be talking about some highlights. If we want to go through, you know, highlights from Xbox game showcase,

you'd be soft, all that. It'll be a fun show. but what do you guys want to start with what do you think should we go through

highlights of the showcases do we want to just dive into how about we just talk about what it's like going to Summer Game Fest play days because I think a lot of people don't necessarily know they see like on social media like you know the the personalities and journalists and creators they follow,

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