最佳Eurogamer播客 (2024)

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Newscast: Eurogamer News Quiz of the Year 2024 39:49

5h ago39:49

39:49

Ho-ho-hello! And welcome to our annual quiz for the festive season: Eurogamer's big News Quiz of the Year 2024. From lawsuits to layoffs to Switch 2 leaks, it has been another non-stop year. We've published nearly 4000 news stories since January began. But now, we've boiled it all down to this: 24 questions covering 2024. It's time to find out how …

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Newscast: Is Sony buying FromSoftware's parent company the next big games industry acquisition? 35:25

27d ago35:25

35:25

Earlier this week, news broke that Sony was in talks to buy FromSoftware parent company Kadokawa. A day later, Kadokawa acknowledged that takeover interest. Should it be accepted, this would likely be the biggest video game acquisition since Microsoft bought Activision Blizzard and Sony itself bought Destiny-maker Bungie. Eurogamer's news team disc…

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Newscast: Nintendo has announced new hardware, but it's not Switch 2 29:10

2M ago29:10

29:10

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss Nintendo's big new hardware announcement - and no, it's not Switch 2. Despite months of frenzied rumour that Nintendo was ready to reveal its next-generation Switch, the company instead revealed... Alarmo, a new interactive alarm clock. It costs £90/$100, and is currently only available to Nintendo Sw…

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Newscast: When it costs £700, who exactly is the PS5 Pro for? 39:10

3M ago39:10

39:10

Yesterday Sony finally announced the long-rumoured PS5 Pro in a technical presentation hosted by Mark Cerny. The console is a more advanced version of the PlayStation 5 that boosts its graphics capabilities, and even improves backwards compatibility with some PS4 games. Yet the biggest catch of all is its £700 price tag. What's more, with this bein…

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Newscast: PlayStation's Astro Bot success and PS5 Pro tease can't distract from Concord's failure 20:04

4M ago20:04

20:04

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss the most dramatic few days for PlayStation in recent times. Sony's stunning decision to kill off live-service shooter flop Concord after less than two weeks sent shockwaves around the industry, setting a new precedent for how swiftly a troubled title from a major publisher could be given the axe. Afte…

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Eurogamer 25th anniversary special: The former editors return 1:35:45

4M ago1:35:45

1:35:45

How long have you been a Eurogamer reader for? Let me put that another way: how many different Eurogamer editors do you remember? The site has been around for a long time now - 25 years this week - so there have been a few different sets of hands at the tiller. I ask because, well, I've gathered those editors together again for a very special anniv…

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From the archive: Behind Eurogamer's strapline pun tradition 44:27

4M ago44:27

44:27

Originally recorded for Eurogamer's 20th anniversary, five years ago, this podcast explores where the site's obsession with puns comes from. The podcast is hosted by Matt Reynolds and features Emma Kent, Wesley Yin-Poole and Christian Donlan - all of whom have since gone on to work elsewhere or as freelance. We'll be sporadically posting more podca…

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Newscast: PlayStation live-service Concord won't sell you a battle pass - but would it be more successful if it did? 31:26

5M ago31:26

31:26

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss the downsides and upsides of the video game battle pass. In a week where PlayStation live-service hopeful Concord trumpeted the fact it won't sell you a battle pass as a marketing beat, and Apex Legends dialled back (some of) its battle pass changes following fan fury, we consider the options availabl…

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Newscast: Does the loss of day one launches make Xbox Game Pass pointless? 27:53

6M ago27:53

27:53

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss Microsoft's big changes to Xbox Game Pass. Xbox Game Pass for console is gone, unless you subscribe already. In its place: Xbox Game Pass Standard, which will no longer include new day one games from Microsoft, Activision, Blizzard and Bethesda. Oh, and everything's going up in price. Do these changes…

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Newscast: With the death of Keystone, will Xbox give up its streaming console plans forever? 26:42

6M ago26:42

26:42

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss the cancelled Xbox project Keystone: Microsoft's plans to launch a relatively cheap streaming console. Keystone popped up yesterday in an old patent which detailed the prospective hardware in fresh detail, though we have of course seen it in the wild before - on Xbox boss Phil Spencer's shelf. Spencer…

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Newscast: For Xbox, could this year finally be the one where it all pays off? 39:12

7M ago39:12

39:12

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss everything shown at the Xbox Showcase last night: one of the best summer preview events in recent years, and one of Microsoft's best ever. On the one hand, perhaps the trove of upcoming titles should be expected. After all, this is what you should get when you spend nearly $100bn buying up swathes of …

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Newscast: PlayStation upsets VR fans as it kicks off this year's not-E3 hype cycle 37:37

7M ago37:37

37:37

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we look back on the start of this year's June hype cycle, the period formerly known as E3, and now a potpourri of other events and announcement livestreams. PlayStation got the ball rolling last night with a look ahead at its rather meagre first-party plans for the remainder of 2024: a moderately buffed-up port …

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Newscast: Is the closure of Hi-Fi Rush and Redfall's studios a sign the Xbox Game Pass publishing model is failing? 23:26

8M ago23:26

23:26

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss the future of Xbox after the announcement Microsoft is shutting a swathe of Bethesda game studios. Hi-Fi Rush and Redfall once seemed primed to benefit from being available via Xbox Game Pass, Microsoft's much-touted subscription service often seen as the best reason to own the company's console. Now,…

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Newscast: Where do superhero games go next, after their live-service stumbles? 34:11

8M ago34:11

34:11

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, following the announcement of a new Batman Arkham game for Meta Quest VR headsets, we talk about the future of superheroes in video games. At a time when superhero films feel at risk of real burnout, could similar happen in the video game space as well? And are we already seeing that, with repeated flops such as…

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Newscast: Video game TV and movie adaptations that need to happen next 33:51

8M ago33:51

33:51

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, after the success of Amazon's Fallout TV series, we discuss the TV and movie adapatations of video games we'd love to see next. Not every video game series fits an adaptation, and even the ones which do might need some work. You need to adapt the game's story well - such as in HBO's The Last of Us - or find spac…

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Newscast: Will we buy PlayStation 5 Pro? 28:48

9M ago28:48

28:48

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss the unannounced but widely-expected PlayStation 5 Pro, which looks set to launch later this year. With the PS5 Pro technical specs now out in the wild, there's been plenty of discussion around what these might mean for PlayStation games running on Sony's cutting-edge hardware. But even with improvemen…

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Newscast: If Larian's not making Baldur's Gate 4, which developer might? 31:06

9M ago31:06

31:06

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss who might pick up the baton and develop a potential Baldur's Gate 4 - now that BG3 studio Larian has confirmed it is leaving the franchise behind. The rights to Baldur's Gate of course belong to Wizards of the Coast, who are free to enlist another studio to make further games in the Dungeons and Drago…

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Newscast: Behind the headlines of GDC, a cautious sense of hope 40:22

9M ago40:22

40:22

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we digest the last seven days of headlines from GDC 2024 - a conference that was unsurprisingly coloured by the past 18 months of industry turmoil. Eurogamer's Chris Tapsell was there, and joins us today to report back on what was being said on the ground. From this side of the pond, we saw the widespread anger …

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Newscast: Where does Nintendo go next for the Super Mario Bros. Movie 2? 27:45

9M ago27:45

27:45

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we talk about where Nintendo can take its moustachioed mascot next when he returns for the Super Mario Bros. Movie sequel. We heard confirmation of a second Mario film this week, though notably it was not confirmed this would be "The Super Mario Bros. Movie 2". Mario and friends will return, of course (the first…

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Newscast: Will Pokémon Legends: Z-A be a Switch 2 launch title? 34:07

10M ago34:07

34:07

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss the shocking news that the next big Pokémon game is mysteriously set to arrive in 2025. Hey, that sounds a lot like the intro to last week's episode, when we were discussing Switch 2! Say, could Pokémon Legends: Z-A also be set to arrive on Nintendo's next console? It's been a long time since Nintendo…

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Who is qualified to make a world? In search of the magic of maps 57:46

10M ago57:46

57:46

Which is your favourite game map? Is there one that comes to mind straight away? Maps hold a curious kind of magic, but what is it? For this month's super-feature, our Bertie Purchese tries to find out. He speaks map-makers, game-makers, and people at the British Library, as he tries to pin-point what it is about maps that appeals to us. He also ma…

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Newscast: Why will Nintendo Switch 2 now launch in 2025? 34:47

10M ago34:47

34:47

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss the reports that Nintendo Switch 2 will now launch in 2025, later than its previously-expected arrival towards the end of this year. Nintendo itself is yet to say anything certain about its inevitable Switch successor, but its steady path towards launch has been tracked by numerous reports. Now, we di…

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Newscast: What did we think of Microsoft's multiplatform Xbox soft launch? 36:34

10M ago36:34

36:34

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss Microsoft's business update that brought us confirmation Xbox will launch four console exclusives - for now - on PlayStation and Nintendo Switch. But why did Microsoft choose not to name those four games (even though Hi-Fi Rush, Pentiment, Grounded and Sea of Thieves were immediately reported to be th…

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Newscast: Why is Microsoft set to launch Xbox games on PlayStation? 34:20

11M ago34:20

34:20

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss the bombshell news that some of Xbox's biggest exclusives are being mulled by Microsoft for release on PlaySation. Blockbuster games such as Starfield and the upcoming Indiana Jones title could no longer be Xbox exclusives, reports now claim, following whispers that smaller titles such as Hi-Fi Rush w…

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Newscast: Was Kojima the saviour of PlayStation's State of Play? 37:33

11M ago37:33

37:33

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss January's PlayStation State of Play and the latest game announcements. Sony showed off what's to come this year, including looks at Stellar Blade, Judas, and Silent Hill, plus reveals of Sonic x Shadow Generations, Until Dawn and Metro Awakening. Perhaps most exciting is the return of Hideo Kojima wit…

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Newscast: Will Pokémon take Palworld down? 32:54

11M ago32:54

32:54

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss today's statement from The Pokémon Company that confirms it will investigate Palworld for possible intellectual property infringement. It's an unprecedented move by Pokémon to publicly call out Palworld as a game worthy of inspection - after 25 years of rip-offs and clones that have been quietly nuked…

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Newscast: Xbox Developer Direct 2024 reaction and analysis 36:05

11M ago36:05

36:05

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss Microsoft's Xbox Developer Direct 2024, our first look ahead at the year to come from one of the big three console makers. The big draw was Indiana Jones and The Great Circle from Wolfenstein maker MachineGames, a blockbuster action adventure clearly set up to be Microsoft's answer to Uncharted. But t…

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Newscast: Eurogamer News Quiz of the Year 2022! 54:17

1y ago54:17

54:17

Ho ho hello! Christmas may already seem a distant memory, but we have gathered in our finest festive gear for one final treat - the Eurogamer Newscast News Quiz of the Year 2023. A now annual tradition, the news quiz sees us look back at some of the year's more oddball news headlines and argue over who deserves the most points for remembering them.…

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One-to-One: The rise of A Plague Tale's Charlotte McBurney 1:04:38

1y ago1:04:38

1:04:38

You know her best as Amicia from the Plague Tale series. Charlotte McBurney was just 16 years old when she was cast in the first game, and everything about the recording experience was new. She would run home from college so she could fit a few hours of recording in. Jump forwards a few years to the sequel A Plague Tale: Requiem, though, and French…

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Newscast: What we think of the big GTA 6 reveal 29:51

1y ago29:51

29:51

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss the first ever trailer for GTA 6 which was finally released following a tease from Rockstar, after the trailer leaked online ahead of schedule. That means we've got a look at the game's two protagonists, its modern day Vice City setting, and the general vibe of the game's story. We also know it's set …

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Newscast: Are there too many video game remakes? 33:06

1y ago33:06

33:06

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss this year's various video game remakes and remasters, including the recently-announced The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered, which is headed to PlayStation 5 in January. While TLOU2 was launched on PS4, it's still just three years on from that game's arrival. How do we feel about there already being a "Re…

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Newscast: Who should star in The Legend of Zelda: The Movie? 31:11

1y ago31:11

31:11

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we share our hopes and fears for Nintendo's now-officially confirmed The Legend of Zelda live-action movie. The internet has leapt upon the announcement to suggest various names for Link, but who can you really see in the role - and can it not be Tom Holland, please? And definitely not Mark Wahlberg as an aged L…

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Newscast: What we want in Mario Kart 9 30:58

1y ago30:58

30:58

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we share our warp pipe dreams for Mario Kart 9, as the final wave of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC gets its release date. Nintendo has elongated the lifespan of its Wii U Mario Kart creation to last the entirety of the Switch era - and now we've reached the point where pretty much every track from the series worth pla…

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Newscast: Xbox Partner Preview showcase discussed 37:59

1y ago37:59

37:59

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss this week's Xbox Partner Preview showcase, which featured around a dozen intriguing titles coming to Microsoft's console in the near-ish future. Tomorrow's Alan Wake 2 got a final airing and it looks just as creepy as we'd have hoped. Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth has an Animal Crossing mode, and Liv…

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Newscast: Will Microsoft bring back Guitar Hero and Tony Hawk? 34:56

1y ago34:56

34:56

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss what's next for Microsoft and Activision Blizzard now they have finally tied the knot. This week, Xbox boss Phil Spencer sounded a note of caution over how quickly we'd see the fruits of Microsoft's $68.7bn Activision Blizzard acquisition for ourselves. There will be no immediate drop of Activision cl…

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Inside Nintendo in the 1990s: Star Fox, late nights and making the N64 1:13:54

1y ago1:13:54

1:13:54

Giles Goddard is one of the few westerners who've worked inside Nintendo HQ in Japan. He went there as a young adult in the early 1990s, to help make Star Fox and the SuperFX chip that powered it, and he stayed ever since. Goddard worked at Nintendo for more than decade, and was instrumental not only in SNES games like Star Fox and Stunt Race FX, b…

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Newscast: Should you buy the PlayStation 5 Slim? 32:56

1y ago32:56

32:56

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss Sony's newly-announced PlayStation 5 "Slim", which is set to launch in the US next month. Repeatedly leaked, the PS5 Slim's existence was not too much of a surprise, though word that its digital version would cost more in the US and that you now need to splash out £25 to stand the console upright stil…

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How video games have helped us with our mental health 1:06:49

1y ago1:06:49

1:06:49

Today is World Mental Health Day. This annual event is all about raising mental health awareness, with the aim to drive positive change for everyone's mental wellbeing. And, not that there ever needs to be an excuse to talk about mental health at any time of the year, but it is also a good opportunity for us to do just that. So please, join me, Vic…

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Newscast: Why are there so many games industry layoffs? 22:26

1y ago22:26

22:26

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss the topic of video game industry layoffs, something that seems to be rarely out of the headlines over the past few weeks and months. Layoffs are nothing new, of course, but this year in particular feels like a particularly tough time, at companies big and small. From tech giants such as Microsoft and …

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Newscast: Farewell to Sony's Jim Ryan, and the shock cancellation of Sega's Hyenas 41:55

1y ago41:55

41:55

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we bid farewell to PlayStation boss Jim Ryan, who has announced his departure from the company after almost three decades of service. We look back at Ryan's tenure at the top of Sony's console business, which included the launch of PlayStation 5 and the acquisition of Bungie. Sony has seen huge sales successes, …

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Newscast: The biggest Xbox leak in history 33:54

1+ y ago33:54

33:54

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we're discussing what feels like the biggest leak of Xbox gaming news in history, which has left Microsoft's plans to launch new hardware in 2024 and a new console generation in 2028 exposed. Next year's redesigned Xbox Series X is digital only, according to documents from 2022 that Microsoft presented to the FT…

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Newscast: Nintendo Switch 2 tech demos and potential launch titles discussed 36:20

1+ y ago36:20

36:20

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss today's report by Eurogamer that Nintendo is showing Switch 2 tech demos to developers, including at Gamescom last month. The new hardware from the Big N now feels closer than ever - but when exactly will it arrive? More importantly, perhaps - for any Nintendo console - is what Nintendo game will it l…

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Newscast: The hidden gems of Gamescom 2023 33:29

1+ y ago33:29

33:29

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we're back from Gamescom and scurrying around trying to let you know everything we saw. We chatted to Phil Spencer, we saw Starfield, we played Sonic and much more. But what else caught our eye? We sat down this week to chat about what we saw and ended up honing in on some of our personal favourites - games whic…

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Newscast: Our most anticipated games for the rest of 2023 33:08

1+ y ago33:08

33:08

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we look ahead to the rest of 2023, and everything on the horizon we can't wait to play. Turns out, there's a lot to get excited about! Can you think of the top three games you're looking forward to over the rest of the year? It's a question three of us try and answer while juggling this autumn's bulging release …

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Newscast: Is Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition now a done deal? 31:34

1+ y ago31:34

31:34

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Newscast: This week's biggest headlines from the FTC vs Microsoft 35:09

1+ y ago35:09

35:09

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we look back at a week of headlines from Microsoft's time in court arguing its case to buy Activision Blizzard with the FTC. In the video game industry, courtroom drama does not get much bigger than this. Microsoft's Phil Spencer and Satya Nadella, Sony's Jim Ryan and Activision boss Bobby Kotick have all given …

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Newscast: Nintendo makes clear there's life in Switch yet 27:55

1+ y ago27:55

27:55

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we discuss yesterday's Mario-packed Nintendo Direct and Microsoft's suprise price rises. For Nintendo, yesterday's online extravaganza acted like a shot of adrenaline to the Switch's aging heart. There had been questions around how much Nintendo might still have for Switch, post Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Now …

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Newscast: The best of Xbox, Ubisoft and Summer Games Fest 39:55

1+ y ago39:55

39:55

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we're back to wrap up the end of a tiring but intriguing week of Summer Game Fest and not-E3 announcements, which offered us the usual mixed bag of presentations, CG trailers, and the occaisonal musical interlude. What were our favourites? There was a real variety of things on offer, from Dont Nod's Jusant and C…

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Newscast: Summer Game Fest: Sonic, Sephiroth and zero women 35:35

1+ y ago35:35

35:35

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we react to last night's Summer Game Fest opening livestream, which offered us a first look at new Sonic and Prince of Persia games, plus a mouth-watering glimpse at Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth. What didn't we see? A little oddly, Square Enix decided not to showcase Final Fantasy 16 - the one which actually goes on…

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One-to-One: Where Darkest Dungeon came from, and where it goes now 1:12:13

1+ y ago1:12:13

1:12:13

Darkest Dungeon as a series grew out of one central and refreshing idea: "Being an adventurer is a shit line of work." What if all those horrors and killing your adventurers saw took its toll on them? What if they became stressed out and developed afflictions - both mental and physical - because of it? In this episode of One-to-One, we hear from Da…

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