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What's up everybody? Welcome to a very special kind of funny games cast for Tuesday, November 18th, 2025.

I'm one of your host, Greg Miller, alongside Christmas in November, Joey Noel.

So close to December.

It's so close. But do you like that or not like that? Like your name, when it's Christmas in April, I think that's really quaint. Christmas in December, like people don't get the reference anymore. Yeah, that's just... Maybe you stay off content during December. Yeah. Christmas one is supposed to be. It takes a pause during December. Next to you, it's Forbes 30 under 30, AKA New York Game Awards nominated, a.k.a. Leftover, Poppy. Blessing. Adioia, Jr. Good day, Greg. Hey, good day to you. Thank you. And next to Blessing, it's our esteemed guest, everybody. Let me break out the full title, all right? New York Times Games and Puzzle editor and published author of the New York Times Games Puzzle book. It's Joel Follyano. Hello, Joel. Yay. Thank you. Thank you for coming, Joel. This is a very big deal. We get a lot of cold emails. Hey, this person was a background extra in this movie. Do you want to talk to him? And I'm like, I don't even respond. I throw him away. This one came through like, hey, the New York Times games editor wrote a book

called Puzzlemania. Do you want it? And I was, that was an immediate one minute less. Hey, yes, we want it. Can we get Joel in the office? Like, I guess we could get him in the office. Thank you for coming through, Joel.

Yeah, it's awesome to be here.

We're going to get into all of this, the new book, everything going on.

Blessing's got bones to pick already about today's connections. Overcoming through, Joel. Yeah, it's awesome to be here. We're going to get into all of this, the new book, everything going on.

Blessings got bones to pick already about today's connections. These connections are messed up. Bring it on. But before that, I will remind you, of course, that this is the kind of funny games cast. Each and every weekday, we run you through the biggest topics in video games, whether they be reviews, previews, interviews, like our Aaron Paul interview

that will be the second half of this episode

of course dispatch our Aaron Paul interview

that will be the second half of this episode.

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