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Welcome and... Welcome everyone to Kotaku Split Screen, the podcast where we tackle video games one extremely specific element out of a time.

This week, we're going to be talking about hype.

The trains leaving the station, the hype train.

Choo-choo, motherfuckers.

Here we go.

We have a number of segments lined up talking about hype and the things surrounding hype,

which has absolutely nothing to do with any video game that might or might not,

actually, might not, I don't know, be coming out in the next couple weeks.

And to talk about hype, I've got my two, I'm just going to call them my emotional support coworkers, because that's the thing. I mean, they call me Junior Cod Reporter all the time, so God damn it, they get to have their own nicknames, too.

Yeah, I think that's fine.

No, that makes sense.

We've got emotional support, co-worker number one, Nathan, Grayson. Say hello, Nathan.

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