This is Steve Downes, the voice of Master Chief, and you're listening to Podcast Unlock,

the world's number one Xbox Podcast.

Now, finish this fight.

What's up everybody? Ryan McCaffrey with Podcast Unlock, the world's number one Xbox Podcast.

I'm in my street clothes, Sean Finnegan, get the hat and everything.

I'm not even supposed to be here today.

Episode 175, I had another episode that was going to be 175, our outtake show.

Right. Too much stuff just went down, and it happened to be in town, you're in town.

This is a little impromptu episode here.

This is a special Halo themed episode.

I know the cynics book, isn't every one of your episodes the Halo episode?

Slow news day, I guess.

No, no. Big news.

So yeah, we decided to convene because we both spent the weekend playing the early access of the Halo 5 multiplayer beta,

which will kick up for everybody that has the Master Chief Collection on December 29th.

But they just had it up for three days.

Of course, we live streamed on Friday. I hope a lot of you saw that.

And then the other big news that dropped.

So Friday was our last sort of official day of work.

And at 6.30, I think it was after I'd already gone home.

Yeah.

I guess I started getting tweets about ODST.

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