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Oh, yes, podcast unlocked. We're back. What's up, guys? I'm really chipper this morning. Wow. Wow. I know this is the earliest we've ever recorded. It is. It's a 10, 19, eight.

And which is basically dawn. I'm Ryan McCaffrey from IGNX box joined as always by Mitch Dyer, Destin Lagary. Hey, hi. Joining us later in the show, I'm very, very excited.

I have a feeling an intuition, if you will, that my interview with Ron Gilbert's going to go really, really well. All right. Okay. It's because I already recorded it.

The magic of editing. Yeah. No, Ron Gilbert came by and we had a really long epic conversation. He was, I hope you guys like it. I mean, it was sort of a childhood dream of mine.

I know he might feel a little weird about about hearing that. But I mean, I played, I told him, though, to after after we got done recording, it's like, and I played Monkey Island 1 with my best friend. We played it together when we were like 12 and played all your games since.

For those who don't know what, what it's his roster, his roster.

It's a more and I haven't. Well, he, yeah. Ron Gilbert was, of course, one of the main guys, one of the, one of the legends from the LucasArts point and click adventure days back in the late 80s, early 90s.

Yeah. So Ron Gilbert, Maniac Mansion, just a classic adventure game. That's Ron Gilbert's game. Yeah. And of course, the big one, Monkey Island, Monkey Island 1 and 2 or the Ron Gilbert games and, of course, he famously, he left LucasArts after that. They made actually two more monkey islands without him.

And they made it tonnical, right? That was after him.

He was, I think he was still sort of around for the, but that, okay, that was Tim Schafer's game. Yeah. Then he made Legend of Zelda. Right. Correct.

If, no, forget it. It's not how it went down. But no, he kind of, then he kind of went away from hardcore games for a while and did some, did kids games of all things and, but eventually came back. And if you've played Deaths Bank, that was Ron Gilbert.

And then now, this week, his game, which that's what he's here to promote this week. So we're talking about is the cave, his new adventure game, which I reviewed. You can read my review on IGN.

Was Deaths Bank, violent?

Kind of.

It was totally comic. Yeah. It was cartoonish. You'd bash chickens and unicorns.

Oh, okay. Yeah. I was like going from kids games to murdering things from kids games. That's not how Ron works. Yeah. No, I know.

It was like Saturday morning cartoon mentality. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, so, yeah, stay tuned for the Ron Gilbert interview that I hope you like it. And I'm warning you in advance. It is an hour and 15 minutes.

So you'll leave. You'll probably they're really like that or be like, oh, my God. And maybe want to fast forward to the whole thing. But that's the beauty of a podcast. You can just fast forward. However you want. If you don't want to hear something, it's almost like you have the choice.

Because if we empower you, the power of your your playback device, but Spartanops is back Halo 4. I haven't played it yet. You should. I'm going to this weekend.

You can watch Mitch and I's commentary video that's on the site now. I watched the one you guys did at 343. Oh, yes. Yes, yes.

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