Hello everyone and welcome to podcast unlocked episode 27. I am one of your hosts Ryan

Clements and it is an important show today because we are introducing a brand new member

of the IGN family. But before we do, before you get to speak, let's introduce Casey Lynch,

the one and only beard and chief of IGN.com. Hello sir. Hello Ryan how are you? I'm doing well,

how are you? I'm good thanks. I was you know I'm a little I was a little down and out this morning

but I'm feeling okay as soon as as as soon as we hit those mics on I was back in business.

It's good to hear how do you feel about that. I feel great because you know if you are down and out

then that's a sign of bad times in the world because you are the perpetually happy person.

I think honestly I'm either just still fighting off a bit of a cold or maybe I'm getting the

plague that everybody seems to be circulating around right now. Yeah they're literally physical.

There's 12 people out of the office today. It's ridiculous. Yes.

Absolutely insane. And you just recently got back from Tokyo. Yeah and I'm also

concerned how many house flies are buzzing around the IGN's podcast right now. It's almost like

one of the classic moments in film where you have the small orphan children running around in

the alley and there's about a zillion flies around them to indicate their extreme level of

poverty. That's what the IGN podcast room is like right now. There's even little stink lines coming

up above my head. That's what's happening. There's steam coming from the sewers. There's rolling

into piles of garbage everywhere. We're in smaller right now. So in this in this immense squalor

let's introduce. No I kid I kid it is an exciting day today. I'm sorry Monday officially was the

first day of IGN's newest executive editor of the 360 channel. Steven Hopper. Hello everyone.

What's happening? Steven Hopper. Hi. How's it going? And this is your first episode and not

well not only a first episode of Unlocked but your first IGN podcast. Absolutely. Yes.

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