Welcome to NBC IGN's Nintendo podcast. I am your host, Casey DeFreetis and today I'm joined

by Mackin, who has never been on before. Mackin, give us a little introduction. Hi, I'm

Mackin. I'm IGN's reporter and I love Nintendo games. There you have it. And we're also joined

by Tom Marx and Brian Altono. I'm the only one that didn't wear the headphones. I didn't

know that's the way this one put one on right now. It's too late now. I have to double

them. No, it's fine. We don't all have to hear ourselves echoing in our heads. It's

really just my job. So it's okay. So today on NBC, we're going to be talking about a lot of

things. We're able to talk about the first, but three dungeons of Link's Awakening. Yes.

Yes. The first three dungeons of Link's Awakening. We're going to talk about that weird hula hoop

thing that you probably know about now because this is coming out after that. But we'll put in a

little, you know, we'll splice in some news in the middle of this episode and then we'll know what

we're talking about right now. It's Wednesday. We don't. And we're also going to be talking about

Amila releases a new headset that works really well and ton of other stuff. So first off,

let's start off with what the hell is that hula hoop thing? And why did Nintendo decide to

put that out right after we published our show last week? They have a fascinating history of doing

that. See, the issue is that podcasts happen once a week and news is nonstop. So there's

Roe is Roe is running. I mean, we have to have this happen on podcasts beyond all the time too.

We'll record the show right afterwards. They'll be like, oh, here's the first photo of PlayStation 5.

But this was fascinating because I want to talk real quick about the timing of this.

And for those of you who don't know the uninitiated out there, Nintendo about a week ago

released kind of arbitrarily in the middle of the afternoon here, a trailer for a new peripheral

that is a loop hula hoop ring shaped device that you put your joy kind into that can be squeezed

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