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What's up everybody?

Welcome to the Kind of Funny games cast for Thursday, January 22nd, 2026. I'm one of your host, Greg Miller, alongside Forbes 30 under 30, AKA New York Game Awards nominated, AKA.

Xbox Poppy. Blessing Eddie O. Yee, Jr. Good day, Greg. Why are you calling me Xbox Poppy? Well, you know, because there was an Xbox show. Blessing. Eddie Oye, Jr. Good day, Greg.

Why are you calling me Xbox Poppy?

Well, you know, because there's an Xbox show we're doing right now. It's a next to that. Yeah, okay. No problem. Of course, next to you, one of the former hosts of the kind of funny X-cast, the best voice in the business. Paris, Lily. I'm going to Japan. Yeah, I'm sure I think we're all known there.

I'm more excited to go to Albion,

but we'll talk about that in a second. Next to him, the master of hype snow bike Mike. Hi, Greg. Good afternoon. Fun time. Fun time. I can't wait for you in Paris to start posting those pictures from Japan when Microsoft sends you out there and fucking leaves me at home.

We're having a great time.

Mike's other gaming dad, the Rogue One, at Gary Whittah. Hello, sir. Thanks for having me today. Thanks for having me today. Thanks for coming up, Gary. I mean, obviously, it's good to be back with my Xbox for us here. Sure, sure, sure. Everybody in person, this is huge. And of course, he's a Hispanic heartthrop, Texas Street, Latino heat,

clicking heads and ripping him to shreds.

The globe chotin, head shot, and three point shooting, rootin, Tootin, Nitro rifle from Twitch.com. Andy Cortez. Go Spurs. Go Spurs. Are those, uh, Gary Spurs? The, we can say both. Sure. I can also say go Spurs. Just different Spurs. uh if you are catching this later maybe not live because we are live on YouTube.com slash kind of funny games, Twitch.tv.tvish.tvon TV slash kind of funny games. We just watched and live reacted to the Xbox Developer Direct for January 22. Now it's time to dive into each one of these four games. Talk about what we liked, what we loved, what we didn't like. and of course, rate the overall experience. If you are live, YouTube.com slash kind of funny games, you can super chat to be part of the show. Give me your thoughts on what you saw, what you liked, what you didn't like. What about dates? Of course, if you are listening or watching later, we will be doing your hot takes about Xbox tomorrow. So Roger will be putting up social media posts everywhere.

You can comment on those and say, hey, this is what I thought. We'll pull in the show tomorrow and have a great time. Maybe you go to Patreon where I'll put up a free quip though, and you could do it there. You know what I mean? I like the quips. I'm quipping like right over on Patreon. Get a free membership. come over, be part of the Kind of Feudy surveys,

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