Hello everyone! Before we get into the episode today, I just wanted to let you guys know that our podcast is actually in the nominations for the 15th annual podcast awards.

We are both in the games and hobbies section and the People's Choice section, but in order to get into the next round, we need you guys to vote for us and we need you to vote for us today.

Nominations closed, July 31st, 9 p.m.

Eastern Standard Time. Go to podcast awards.com and then go to the little thing that says

click me to nominate my favorite podcasts. If it's a thing you'd like to do, that's awesome. If not,

that's also cool. Enjoy the show. Hello everyone. Welcome to another episode. Play Watch, listen. I'm

Alana. I'm joined by Austin Winchreyfaker and Mike Bithel. All of us work in video games in some

capacity. And I wanted to start the show up today by talking about the Xbox showcase. Have you

seen this? Have you heard about this? I did see the Emmy nominations. We did.

Fuck Austin.

He said he'd do it and he did.

He really did.

You bastard you.

Well, just how else are we going to talk about Star Wars since Mandalorian Clean House?

It happened.

Look, we will get back to that, I promise, because I am interested in what you have to say about it.

But I would like to start up talking about Xbox.

We have to because presumably that's what you're calling the YouTube video, right?

We have to start.

I would like to.

I always have a title in mind when I start to show out, and then sometimes I'm like,

I didn't fucking work out.

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