Hello, fellow gamers, and welcome to the video gamers podcast.

Why do you love video games?

Is it the incredible stories told?

Is it the fantastic lands and larger than life characters?

Is it escaping into an incredible fantasy world for a few hours?

Or the shared experiences with friends?

For everyone, it might be something a little different,

and yet we all love them for many of the same reasons.

On today's episode, we're diving into the magic of gaming and why it resonates with so many people.

But first, some introductions are in order.

I am your host, Josh, and joining me, me he loves gaming but he also loves bowling and motorcycles

and ice hockey and MMA and golf and smoking meats and paintball and you get the idea it's Ryan I want to say that that's like

the most accurate intro you've ever done for me far and away that was yeah you absolutely

could have kept going because I was I was at bowling league this morning and then I've I'm smoking a

Chuck roast right now so like there's there's a lot going on I have a lot of hobbies

and there's a lot of things I like to do but video games is up there near the top I'll tell you

that much yeah yeah it's a good thing you do a gaming podcast,

right? Right. All right. So it works to do that. Yeah. And I might have promised this,

you know, there was a little bit of this next intro where for a second I felt a little guilty

about this intro, but then, you know, he kind of asked for this in the pre-show, too. So,

and joining us. He loves gaming too and anime

and little caesars and crispy cream oh no and duncan donuts and bojangles chicken and bagel bites

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