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Speaker 1: I thank you, Chris.

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Speaker 2: You literally didn't perfect you don't change it thing.

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Speaker 3: Happy Thanksgiving motherfuckers.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 2: That I'm like, I think we might not put this

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on YouTube, but I am recording to put it on YouTube.

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Who cares anymore? Welcome to the show. It's a game,

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that's asides. It's a podcast where we decide everything you

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should be thankful for, so you don't have to actually

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be thankful because you're an ungrateful bast dude. Uh yeah,

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We're gonna just to do a quick one, a very

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quick one, like verily an episode. Honestly, I'm gonna say

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I'm thankful for going to Disney. It was a good time,

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and I'm also thankful for the show and you guys

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carrying it last week. I appreciate it as always like

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you had an idea, you wanted to do a thing here,

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you had a I'm pretty good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Actually I like this.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's a stupid but fun one. Just because

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some reason. I think about this a lot, but just

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video games, I associate with November Mount Rushmore, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I there are You know November used to be the

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gaming month, right, It was the month where the biggest

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stuff would come out without fail until it failed. And

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now it's like a lot of Novembers come and go

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with like oh nothing really happened, you know, or mid

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sized big games just not the biggest games of the

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year necessarily. So yeah, there are a handful things I

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definitely associate with this time of year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, so I think it'd be fun to maybe

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narrow that one down if you're ready, sir.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm running a base. I'm basically ready. I'm gonna

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get a doc going here, But yeah, why don't you

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start us off while I get that going?

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I think a big one for me actually is

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Metroid Prime. That one I know came out like November something.

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a while. It's like November twenty first or something. They

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kept releasing stuff on that day, sometimes even consoles. But yeah,

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Metroid Prime was positioned as a big holiday game for

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them on the GameCube, and I remember picking it up

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right away, and there is It's funny because as creepy

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as Metroid Prime could be, there is also a cozy

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factor to it. I think think November is generally a

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very cozy month. The holidays are starting. Thanksgiving, of course,

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is maybe one of the coziest holidays. The weather's is

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crisp in a generally pleasant way. There's something November coded

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about Metroid Prime.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I definitely feel that way as well. You're that

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date of like looking forward to November because of Metroid

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and it was so huge. It's like, oh, now this

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chance to play it. So yeah, that's definitely one that

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we should put up there.

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Speaker 3: In fact, I am writing it down now and the

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dock that I have.

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Speaker 1: And even though like metro Fusion came out the same

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day and I love monted Vision, don't associate it with

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November as much.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it doesn't.

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think of when it starts getting cold outside.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've mentioned this one a bunch of times. A rare,

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rare game Donkey Kong Country, I just you know, it

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came out. I think it must have came out in November.

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we get to Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 3: Break, and I just played it non stop.

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Speaker 2: That Thanksgiving break after it came out, and even to

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the point where we had a huge family get together,

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like my family hosted Thanksgiving for the extended family, and

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come down and hang out, and the people are definitely

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hanging out, and like I was like, I would let

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playing Donkey Kong Country and loving it.

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Speaker 3: And you know, the warm.

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Speaker 2: Feeling of the house being filled with people and all

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the smells of all the cooking happening, and the sounds

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of football being somewhere and Donkey Kong Country happening. It's

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think of a lot of the Call of Duty games

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with November. A lot of them do get released in November,

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a lot of them get released on October also, But

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we were doing Call of Duty to split screen matches, right.

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cousin running around these maps that were far too big

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fun time with it. It was still, you know, one

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So it looked really crisp and really sharp, and I

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a lot of the calle of Duty game, but I'm

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getting that a lot with this new one with Black

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Ops six. Oh definitely, yes, gosh, probably, you know was

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our metaphor. It might be my most played game this

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Speaker 3: Which Call of Duty was it that you mentioned? Though,

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Speaker 1: The one I have the memories of, so we can

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say Call of Duty two, okay, definitely, with apologies to

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Speaker 2: A like okay, so when it comes to like November games,

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you're right there, Like there's a lot of dates that

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just stand out. This one might be the most November date,

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and that was eleven eleven, eleven eleven eleven actually for Skyrim.

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When Skyrim came out on November eleventh, twenty eleven, and

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you know, I think about that date. It's not quite

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a nine to nine to nine, but it's it's the

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next step day. It's pretty good still though, and to

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the point where you know, they had they had like

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the ten year anniversary and it was like, oh.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, now we're kind of doing eleven eleven eleven.

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Speaker 2: Or you know, it was eleven eleven in twenty twenty one.

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It's like, yeah, man, remember eleven eleven eleven. So yes, Skyrim,

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you're walking around and all the the you know, the

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snow is everywhere, and it's definitely stuff that just made

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me feel cozy and warm playing this cold game at

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one big snow level.

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Speaker 3: I love that.

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Speaker 1: You're right, though, I just like that release it alone

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because it is so iconic, right, everybody remembers that that

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alone is absolutely associated with November so heavily, Like you say, Skyrim,

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and one of the first like word bubble thoughts things

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is going to just beat that date, that.

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Speaker 2: Date, Yeah exactly. Yeah, it'll be like one of the

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bigger word bubbles. Yeah yeah, what else?

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Speaker 1: Uh, Halo Combat Evolve. First Halo game was a launch

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title for the first Xbox So it came out November

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fifteenth to thousand and one. So I remember, you know,

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of homes some bit of call of Duty too, It's like, well,

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look how futuristic this stuff is. It was a big

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got to show a lot of your family this, look

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at this hot, new, incredible video game, and everybody wants

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to play splitscreen multiplayer matches. So yeah, there's something about

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Halo that definitely makes me think about kind of like

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people being around, people being excited. And again, you know,

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one of nice things about Halo is that it wasn't

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just the all gray, you know, piss colored game. There

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was a lot of vibrant, outdoorsy areas that are surprisingly

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cozy and comfy. I think that's a big part of

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why Halo is fun to play. It never really feels

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oppressive or anything like that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and for like all these massive games, we're mentioning

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like the game Halo might be the one where I'm like,

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least because it was I don't know something about like

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big games came out in November, especially after that for

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a very long time, it felt like and to me

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in my mind, even though it maybe didn't start this way,

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in my mind, it started with Halo Combat Evolved.

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Speaker 3: So yep, for sure, and I did. I looked it up.

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Speaker 2: Donkey Kong Country also came out on November twenty first,

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that Nintendo date.

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Speaker 1: So they love that date. They love that date.

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Speaker 3: They love that date.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, obviously the probably it's probably like a

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certain day before Thanksgiving, right, is what they really liked.

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like definitely sticks in my mind. Uh Okerina of Time,

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a November game for sure.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And it was like, I'm come like, I'm pretty

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Speaker 1: It's such a good game to release, as like you're

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gonna get some long weekends from school and winter break

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Speaker 2: I mean I for a very long time I associated

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the four day weekend of Thanksgiving with just playing a

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have that Donkey Kung Country might have been the one

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that started that for me, but Ocrea of Time might

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but all releasing around the same time, all being just

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monumental games you just literally felt the industry change because

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of this is handful of releases happening, and Half Life

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one was so cinematic and just so neat and stood

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out from the kind of more the more, I don't

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want to say simple, but more like get the blue keyed,

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open the blue doors and just fight all the enemies

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and you know, don't worry about it too much. Kind

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of shooter that we had been getting up to this point.

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And this sounds stupid, but there are like a lot

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Speaker 3: That is stupid, But you're not wrong. I know what

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds dumb, but that's how I feel.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but beyond I think we probably have our four here.

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Are there a couple more you want to mention? Because

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Speaker 1: One more and it's just like Also, it's a GameCube

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launch game, so it's November, but Star Star Wars Rogue

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Squadron two, Rogue Leader, because there's so much nostalgia ty

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Christmas later on very nostalgic holidays. Yeah, yeah, Classic Star

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though like those Stars movies always came out in the summer,

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disc and I don't remember the game. I don't know

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it was like right there. I'm like just trying to

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remember my personal history with it. But yeah, I definitely

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Speaker 1: In fact, it was released a little bit before the

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GameCube launch. I remember it was like one of the

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games you could just buy them is actually out, which

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, look, I'm looking at a list now.

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Speaker 2: Super Smash Brothers Ultimate came out November, A Supermut two

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came out in November. You know, Half Life two and

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Duty for Modern Warfare. So again, wow, November was the month.

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no idea why. I may it's the found family thing

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of them aren't very cozy. Mass Effect one has some

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you're just walking around that city and there's some conflicts

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that show up now and then. But that's my favorite

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feels very comfortable.

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Speaker 3: R Theft Ought of City, Vice City November.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's some bet. Graft is also be a big

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Speaker 3: But did I mention World of Warcraft? Yeah, lots of stuff.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, we want to work out this any

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time game. But yeah, that definitely happened in November for sure.

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Speaker 1: I think we have the four here for sure.

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Speaker 3: I think we do, all right, let me make a

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little room for that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Chris just sent me a message he's upset didn't

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include rock band. Gosh, he's not wrong. Did your family

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to play rock band?

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Speaker 2: But that is something you would do, and I think

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Speaker 4: Yeah counts because n seven.

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Speaker 1: I mean, oh and seven day is also during November.

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Speaker 2: That's a good point that massfect might have a chance here,

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might have a chance of making.

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Speaker 1: It now, Sean just best to be saying, Chris is

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right to be upset with me about rock but look,

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Chris ruined rock band a little bit for me. He

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may be playing too much, all right, and he's stills

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to live with that. He should he should have thought

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about that before. Dare he want to play games with me?

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Speaker 3: With you? Get here, get back at your rock band hole.

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Speaker 1: Your brother, whole brother. What do you want to put

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up there?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean I I do want to put Donkey

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Kong Country up.

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Speaker 2: There because it really does just like super sing to

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me for when whenever Thanksgiving comes around. And so if

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this is our mount rushmore of November games, I I

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kind of have to put it up there. Yeah, I

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think it's the one I would feel that way about.

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on the rest. Well, he definitely won me over with

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Skyrim just that date. I yes, I agree with that,

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and it's like again, like then the game itself very

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much like hey, you're getting into the winter. This is

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a game all about that, so just everything about Skyrim

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Speaker 1: Then gosh, I was like I was feeling mass Effect

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in a weird way and then being reminded of end

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seven Day and again, it's not Mount rushmore of Thanksgiving days.

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and like, man, yeah, mass Effect. Oh that's very November,

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ye isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it'd be weird if we left it off. Yeah,

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because November comes around and the first thing that everyone

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Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I think Massie needs to get to

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Speaker 3: And you know what, I fucking love mass Effect. Yeah,

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mass Effect.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, I always looking like do I have time

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for the Legendary Edition in my life? I think about

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that once a week.

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Speaker 1: I was really enjoying my like playing three mass Effect

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one again on there. I just like bounced off because

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there's other things I had to do, but I kind

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of wish I could get back.

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Speaker 2: I think the Legendary Edition, if you listening to this,

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is probably still on sale for like five dollars. Oh,

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my gosh, So just go get that ship Man.

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Speaker 1: That's that's like one that if you know Nintendo switched

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to ports, that should be on there, like on launch day.

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I think, get the launchary edition on there. That'd be awesome.

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Speaker 2: You get that, get Elden Ring, a handful of other

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things and your That's a good launch for a system that,

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like you know, needs a need some games at that time. Yeah,

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all right, that means on one spot left, although of

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course we can always move things down if we need to.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I do like Metro Prime a lot harder. I

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think you're probably right about It's like the first game

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if you tell me to name a game that came

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in November. For some reason, Metro Prime is the first

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one that comes to my head, even before Skyrim. Uh. Yeah. Again,

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feels it's funny because it's like the opposite of like

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a rock band, where I could probably distinctly remember hiding

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away from my family to just beat in my room

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and played Metroid Prime instead of being social.

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Speaker 3: Yep, totally.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And there's something about I don't know that sounds

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like a November game to me. Again, because the game

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felt so important that that was the kind of game

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that would come out in November at that time. So yeah,

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are cutting hey Loo Combat Evolved. We're gonna get yelled

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at for that legend of Old Doctor any time. Yeah,

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we'll get yelled at for that and Half Life. We

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probably won't get yelled at as much for Star Wars Rope

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Speaker 1: It feels very thanksgiving Slash November e to me again,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, and then Call Duty two for sure.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So our Mount Rushmore November games are, Mike Minatti, Please.

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Speaker 1: It is fact I'm doing this, remember, because I'm not

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looking at this, but I think I could do this.

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I believe in myself. Donkey Kong Country, The Elder Scrolls five, Skyrim,

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Mass Effect, and Metroid Prime.

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Speaker 2: That is correct, and that is our Mount Rushmore of

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Speaker 3: I feel pretty good about that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was fun.

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Speaker 3: That was a good time. Yeah, anything you're thankful for, Mike.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's been a pretty wild year. Jeff. I'm thankful.

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I guess I'm suppsed to do that more than New Year.

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But I got to travel a bunch this year, right,

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I got to see a lot of friends and do

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a lot of interesting things. So uh, yeah, I guess

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I'm grateful that I get to do this with you.

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I get to have my dream job and it gets

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to continue to be a dream. So yeah, I got

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a lot to be thankful for.

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Speaker 2: Yeah you're here, Christian. I know you're not American, but

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are you are? Do you have thankfulness in your in

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your culture?

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Speaker 4: I'm thankful to all, still thankful, a little alone again now,

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I'm very thankful to all the workers on the industry

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that keeps this this Yeah, this hobby alive, the thing

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that love so much and I don't. It's just that,

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thank you guys, and you this are better.

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Speaker 1: Christian Argentina keeps coming up in my nineties dinosaur documentary.

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You know, so many dinosaur bones there.

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Speaker 4: My my uncle he found a fossil back in the day.

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Oh yeah, big, a big, like a huge armadillo. They

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have it on the on the you see them over there.

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It's pretty cool.

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Speaker 3: Sean. You want to hop in with anything you're thankful for.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, maybe a little cheesy, but I am thankful to

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you guys. I wouldn't have the career I have right

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now if it weren't for you guys and becoming friends

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with you and then working with you and now having

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the day job I have, And uh, do you want

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to say that I'm thankful to the audience that we

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have because I know things have looked different in the

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past know year or so of game mess, and I'm

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grateful that people stick around with.

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Speaker 3: What they will with the punches, right they really exactly.

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Speaker 5: We've all all of us here, everyone on the call

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has been busy with our various day jobs that we

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have and everything and things are shifting around, but the

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fact that everyone shows up still and baby comes in

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from news sources because it seems like we're even like

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growing a little, which is kind of cool. I'm just

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thankful that I get to have, like Mike allude to

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with his I'm thankful that I get to have my

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dream job now and get to do very cool stuff

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with you guys, and have an audience who gives a

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damn about what I think, what you guys think and everything.

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And in a more material sense, God, I'm thankful for

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his steam deck, because I've been so fucking busy this

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year that I'm just thankful that I get to play

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video games still wherever I may be.

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Speaker 3: Yep here here to that as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Chris Manati, what are you thankful for?

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Speaker 6: I would have been thankful for my brother Mike if

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he played rock with me. I'm pretty content now I've

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gotten over it.

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Speaker 1: That's fair. Poor Chris would do things we're growing up,

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like hey, who wants to play catch with me? I'd

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be like, go away, I'm playing a video game by myself.

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Speaker 6: But I would even ask for things like let's play

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Pokemon cards and no playing.

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Speaker 1: This Pokemon card video game? I guess computers.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, my life is a drama, as you can see, poor.

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Speaker 1: Cris being the most normally like social person family.

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Speaker 2: Yeah that sounds about right. Yeah, well yeah, thanks to

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all you guys. I appreciate it. Thanks to everybody who

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listens uh and supports us in any way, And that

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does just mean listening, tuning in, uh, interacting with us

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in any way on social media or in the comments

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or whatever. Just the fact you guys take time out

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of your lives to spend any of it interacting with

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us means a lot to me, so I really really

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appreciate it, and we're gonna keep doing this because it

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is somehow continues to be a ton of fun.

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Speaker 3: It really does. So look out for more of us from.

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Speaker 2: In the future, you know, going at twenty twenty five

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and beyond, and make sure you have a safe and

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happy holiday if you celebrate, if you're somewhere else in

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the world, appreciate that we're mostly going to be shutting

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up in America for a couple of days because we're

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all just going to be too busy doing other things.

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Speaker 3: So well, that's our gift to you.

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Speaker 1: Let's go.

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Speaker 3: And we'll be back next week. It will get busy

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again right after that very soon.

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Speaker 2: Here again a couple of weeks, we're going to be

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traveling for the Game Awards and Giant Bomb Game of

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the Year and all this stuff. But we're gonna have

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plenty of fun stuff for you, and Mike's right, we

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will figure out what our Game of the Years is

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going to look like for a game mess here and

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a little bit hit you over here. I got I

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got a better mic setup now, so maybe we'll fix

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that echo that has caused Christians so many headaches and

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past the past years where he had to edit that

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you guys got any fun plans for Black Friday? No,

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I'm just stay inside. Yeah, it's not what it once was.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm going out tomorrow and later Thanksgiving. Actually this

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I'll be having some fun. But Black Friday. I do

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a lot of my actual Christmas shopping online and Black Fridays.

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Oh yeah, same.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for listening, everybody, catch you next time. Take care

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of yourself. Goodbye.

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Speaker 1: God, I am an animal.

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Speaker 4: I don't know what it says, but it's cool.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you. Enjoy your gaming master Chief comes

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classic