599: What we are playing, I am headed to the Destiny 2 event and more

Larry Hryb: Hey there, welcome to the show. My name's Larry Hryb, Xbox Live's Major Nelson, joined by Jeffrey Rubenstein, hello Jeffrey.
Jeff Rubenstein: Why, thank you for-
Larry Hryb: Jeff, Jeff, not Jeffrey, I'm sorry.
Jeff Rubenstein: Mom, is that you? Is it time for school?
Larry Hryb: I know, I know. Apparently I'm the only one that calls you Jeffrey [inaudible 00:00:37].
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah, just my mom, thank you.
Larry Hryb: Anyway, thanks for joining us, this is show 599 and we are currently, as we record this, Laura-less. She may join us, as we like to say in broadcasting, in progress.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yes, we're being stood up right now.
Larry Hryb: She's got some important stuff. She's working on a lot of cool projects and, unfortunately, she had some things she had to fix up that needed her immediate attention. So she may join us mid-stream, we'll see.
Jeff Rubenstein: We should have my mom in.
Larry Hryb: I have not met your mother. She's down there in, where is she again?
Jeff Rubenstein: She's in Fort Lauderdale area.
Larry Hryb: South Florida.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah. Right on the border of the Everglades.
Larry Hryb: Eyyzzzrrrr.
Jeff Rubenstein: You're just gonna bring up a Florida man story now, and I know exactly which one. No, we've never been to Sebring. Interesting story there.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: But she's a big fan of yours. I was down there a few weeks ago and, always, first thing-
Larry Hryb: Does she listen to the show?
Jeff Rubenstein: No, but she does follow you on Twitter. How's Captain Morgan doing?
Larry Hryb: That's right, [crosstalk 00:01:33]
Jeff Rubenstein: And she knows, she knows now.
Larry Hryb: She knows, she's just funning me.
Jeff Rubenstein: She's just teasing.
Larry Hryb: You're so funny. I've had my mother on this show. Maybe we should have your mother on this show?
Jeff Rubenstein: I think that ...
Larry Hryb: And then we should have Laura's mother, if we can even get Laura to ... You know what, Laura's mom you can come sit in because your daughter's never here anyway.
Jeff Rubenstein: We can have therapy, we can talk about how like she told me that I'll never get a job playing video games.
Larry Hryb: Right.
Jeff Rubenstein: And pretty much now my entire career path has been-
Larry Hryb: Video games.
Jeff Rubenstein: Fueled by spite.
Larry Hryb: Well I've done the same thing with my mom. It's like, "Hey mom, you were wrong."
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah. I'm playing right now Mom.
Larry Hryb: Anyway, you and I have been, I'll be the first to tell you. Me, I am incredibly lucky and fortunate.
Jeff Rubenstein: Oh yeah.
Larry Hryb: And Jeff I think you share the same sentiment I do. You know we worked hard and we worked with cool stuff. But now we get to work on cool gaming stuff here. And ...
Jeff Rubenstein: You should do what you love if you can.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, you know what, 'cause it doesn't feel like work. I have always been blessed when I've worked in radio. I've had jobs, you know the various jobs I've had, I've owned a hotdog wagon, I've washed dishes. I used to work in a retail store.
Jeff Rubenstein: We both done it. Yeah, yeah.
Larry Hryb: I've done all sorts of that stuff.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah, all that.
Larry Hryb: And that stuff is important because you learn, frankly how to be an employee. And what you need to do. So, oh boy. We just ...
Jeff Rubenstein: That's it. The more you know.
Larry Hryb: The more you know. What are you playing?
Jeff Rubenstein: What am I playing? We're playing, of course we are playing Overwatch. There is no need to dwell on it.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: It's still really good.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: But in between matches ...
Larry Hryb: But, but could we talk about this other interesting Overwatch development. Are you okay with that?
Jeff Rubenstein: Which one? Oh, yeah let's do that. If you want.
Larry Hryb: You are apparently, a couple weeks ago, I think it was just about two weeks ago. You're daughter showed interest in playing Overwatch. And how did that go?
Jeff Rubenstein: I've been sort of planning this for a long time. Started with the first first person game she ever played.
Larry Hryb: It's the long game.
Jeff Rubenstein: It was Minecraft.
Larry Hryb: Right.
Jeff Rubenstein: And first thing I ever did was before she ever picked up the controller was make sure it was inverted.
Larry Hryb: That's right.
Jeff Rubenstein: So that we could be consistent as a family. The last thing I want to do is pick up a controller in my own home and be an alien in my own home. And not have it be inverted. So all she knows, down is up.
Larry Hryb: She's younger. How old is she?
Jeff Rubenstein: She's seven.
Larry Hryb: She's seven, okay.
Jeff Rubenstein: And so you know, I figured nature versus nurture.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: I couldn't make her a left hander, like me. It's bad enough. But I can make her an inverter and there she is. But I figured there is a lot of like, we play a lot of the mini games where you are throwing the snowballs. The Minecraft mini games are so much fun, you should try it. The Elytra Racing. So she is just getting used to maneuvering in a 3D space. She's gotten quite good at it. So at one point I was like, okay we gotta get her into a shooter. And someone that used to work here, Josh Kerwin, his kid, his whole family as a group they wait and they play Overwatch.
Larry Hryb: And he's now a Blizzard.
Jeff Rubenstein: He now works at Blizzard. The role he was meant to have. And at some point she was watching me play. And she was wanted me to just sort through the player sorter. The player gallery. Where you can see everyone. And I was like, "Let's see who do you want to be, who do you want to be?" And she fell in love with Mercy.
Larry Hryb: Okay.
Jeff Rubenstein: Everyone needs a healer.
Larry Hryb: Yep.
Jeff Rubenstein: So we jumped into a bot game. And with the easy bots and her being Mercy. You know she's figuring out that whole thing. And then she started noticing the play of the game. And that ...
Larry Hryb: How do I get that down?
Jeff Rubenstein: How do I get that? How do I play the game?
Larry Hryb: What is that? Right.
Jeff Rubenstein: And I've been spending a lot of time with Soldier 76. We are getting real close these days. And so she was like, well let me try him. And so we put her into practice.
Larry Hryb: Uh ...
Jeff Rubenstein: First time she uses a sim she got play of the game.
Larry Hryb: What?
Jeff Rubenstein: This is against the bots. It's not exactly high level play. But she got a good series of kills. And that was it. And she was like, "Oh my god that was great!" And then she was like, "I want to use Diva now." So she used Diva and she got play of the game on a self destruct.
Larry Hryb: Right.
Jeff Rubenstein: And there is no going back. I am like, "Hey we could always use a healer." And she is like, "Nope." And so now the way it ends up working is I am Mercy.
Larry Hryb: Right.
Jeff Rubenstein: And it's my job to keep her alive.
Larry Hryb: Right.
Jeff Rubenstein: And so we're running. She's upstairs, I'm downstairs. And we're both running a lot of multi players.
Larry Hryb: Good.
Jeff Rubenstein: So hopefully she'll be, I feel like you start them at seven.
Larry Hryb: Right.
Jeff Rubenstein: You know she could go pro. She could get into some Overwatch leaguing career.
Larry Hryb: She could probably retire by 11.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah, that's what I aiming ...
Larry Hryb: Now what's interesting is that you were telling me this other story about how you went into, you were playing against the bots, or whatever the mode it is where there is humans versus bots.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah, yeah it's like training.
Larry Hryb: And somebody chose the character she wanted. And she got very upset.
Jeff Rubenstein: Very upset!
Larry Hryb: And she didn't understand that mechanic, did she?
Jeff Rubenstein: No it was the first time. So she has learned to get very fast at picking Diva. Did I tell you about the other thing where we had to ground her off of Overwatch?
Larry Hryb: Tell this story, it's a good story.
Jeff Rubenstein: I'd been traveling. I don't know if you saw the Microsoft Education event where we announced the Surface laptop. I was in New York.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: And so I was gone and you know you get there a few days early. So I missed the weekend, I was in New York. And my wife was telling me like, "Oh she is waking up at like 7 in the morning." And my wife sleeps in. And she comes down stairs and she's like, "How long have you been playing Overwatch?" And it's pry been a couple hours. And so this weekend, this past weekend, we are awoken by the sounds of controller movements. She is playing on mute but we can hear that the game is on. And God knows how long she has been on it. And so we try to regulated that at least a little bit. So we yell downstairs, "Hey, turn it off. Go do something." Go play with blocks, I don't know.
Larry Hryb: Go read.
Jeff Rubenstein: Read, yeah. And she said, "Okay." And then we still feel like we are hearing clicking sounds of the controller. So I walk downstairs. We are above her. And I guess she hears my footsteps cause I go down there and the TV is off and she is just sitting there staring at a blank TV But the controller is right next to her and the controller is still lit up.
Larry Hryb: That's called a smoking gun.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yes. And I am like, "Playing are you?" And she is like, "No." And I am like, "Okay, go do reading." So we go back up and I give it like five minutes. And then what I do is open up the Xbox app on my phone and I can see she is playing Overwatch.
Larry Hryb: Because she has different Gamer Tag than you.
Jeff Rubenstein: Exactly, yeah. So I am looking at her Gamer Tag and she is clearly playing.
Larry Hryb: Sure.
Jeff Rubenstein: So ...
Larry Hryb: You should have sent her a message, "I'm coming downstairs now."
Jeff Rubenstein: I really should have done that. That's a great idea. So I go to go again. And then this time, like very quickly, she scrambles and hits the receiver so it turns everything off.
Larry Hryb: Right.
Jeff Rubenstein: And I am like, "Were you playing?"
Larry Hryb: Uh oh. Teachable moment.
Jeff Rubenstein: And then I go, "Tell the truth here or it will be much worse." And she thinks about it and she goes, "No." And I hold up the phone and I go, "Yes, you were."
Larry Hryb: Busted!
Jeff Rubenstein: And now you are grounded off of Overwatch. I created a monster and now I've got to reign it in.
Larry Hryb: Now you've got to deal with it, yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: But she wants to be Diva for Halloween.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: She wants me to be Soldier 76.
Larry Hryb: [crosstalk 00:08:10]
Jeff Rubenstein: I'm a little old to start cosplaying. But Soldier is old.
Larry Hryb: I disagree.
Jeff Rubenstein: Well thank you.
Larry Hryb: I disagree.
Jeff Rubenstein: I am going to be Daddy 76.
Larry Hryb: Did you see the cosplay I had to do in the latest episode of This Week on Xbox?
Jeff Rubenstein: The last one I saw I think you were dressed as a farmer?
Larry Hryb: No, you will see this. The one that airs now, depending upon when you listen to the show, the latest one was a record this is a ...
Jeff Rubenstein: Why don't I just link to it?
Larry Hryb: No, no yeah. Just look for it on my Twitter. Don't worry about that. Or look for it on the YouTube channel.
Jeff Rubenstein: Oh no, we are going to find it.
Larry Hryb: Anyway, so anyway you are playing Overwatch.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah.
Larry Hryb: You are also playing a few other things.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah, so Forza Horizon 3, we talked about it I think on the last show two weeks ago. The Hot Wheels pack it is available now.
Larry Hryb: Now, I got to tell you. If you haven't played this, first of all, everybody loves Hot Wheels. I don't care who you are, what you are, but everybody loves Hot Wheels. You can not find anything wrong with this pack. It's just, it's awesome.
Jeff Rubenstein: This is not just a couple extra cars. This is not like a mode. This is a full map. Like in the vein of like Blizzard Mountain. Which is also fantastic. But it is like, I've never seen anything like this. It takes place as a couple of islands off the coast of Australia. And everything is like giant Hot Wheels tracks, bright orange with the blue junctions.
Larry Hryb: Right. Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: There is like spinny things that like sort of speed you up. It changes the mechanics in a way.
Larry Hryb: And of course, the loops.
Jeff Rubenstein: The loop to loop. I mean giant dinosaurs.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: It's just a joy to play.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: And it's challenging.
Larry Hryb: It will unlock that inner child in you. You and I were talking about this, we all had at least in my family, we all grew up with Hot Wheels. And running those orange tracks through the living room and under the couch and around the dog. And all that other stuff. So it was great.
Jeff Rubenstein: It's yeah. I feel like this has definitely captured something a lot of people, a lot of the folks that we talk to, YouTubers and such have been jumping on it. And it's a lot of fun. I know we linked to the trailer before. But if you ever played Hot wheels before, or toy cars, Matchbox even, whatever it might be.
Larry Hryb: Check it out.
Jeff Rubenstein: Check it out. This is probably for you.
Larry Hryb: So there you go.
Jeff Rubenstein: So yeah, so spending a lot of time with that. Also started playing Thimbleweed Park.
Larry Hryb: Oh yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: So, this came out on [email protected] of course.
Larry Hryb: About a month an a half ago.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah, something like that. Yeah, yeah, Ron was on the show. It just in the past week has also ... It's an Xbox Play Anywhere Title. And the Windows 10 version of that is now available. So if you bought it on Xbox One, if you go over to any Windows 10 computer, you'll launch the store and you look at your downloads. You are going to see hey, I can get Thimbleweed Park now. So I did that. And I am just playing not even on a gaming PC. Just on a Surface Book. And of course it plays great. That's a funny, funny game. I haven't played an adventure game like this since, I think it was Indiana Jones and the Temple of Atlantis or something like that.
Larry Hryb: Right.
Jeff Rubenstein: This is like 1991 or something when I was in middle school. And I remember playing with a friend and it was really fun. It's cool going back but it's a very funny game. It's very self aware. They are constantly referring to the fact that they are in a game, and how people play games. Like before I was talking to someone dangerous, like one of the dialogue options was, "Should I save now because I really don't want to lose my progress?" And it was going into a whole conversation about how they made the game play friendly. And the voice is fun. I definitely recommend checking that one out, Thimbleweed Park.
Larry Hryb: Like I say, if you bought it on Xbox you know when it came out a month and a half ago you've already go it on Windows 10.
Jeff Rubenstein: You've already got it.
Larry Hryb: Just go over to the store. Go to your, I think you go into your library and there it is.
Jeff Rubenstein: And your save game, everything. Achievements, it all carries over.
Larry Hryb: What are you waiting for?
Jeff Rubenstein: That's a great question, Larry.
Larry Hryb: It's waiting for you right there.
Jeff Rubenstein: I think we should do something where you get to choose your dialogue options.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: It's a funny game. We talked about Voodoo Vince a couple weeks ago. I beat that.
Larry Hryb: Yeah. Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: And I am still playing Mass Effect Andromeda.
Larry Hryb: I got to bring you over to meet Clayton. You haven't met Clayton yet, the original.
Jeff Rubenstein: Oh no, I've met him.
Larry Hryb: Oh you have?
Jeff Rubenstein: I met him at Pax East.
Larry Hryb: Oh yeah, he's great.
Jeff Rubenstein: Doing a demo it was the first time I got to go hands on and I knew right away that this was going to be something I was going to want [crosstalk 00:12:13]
Larry Hryb: Well there is also something about getting a demo from the game from the game developer, the writer, the creator.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah.
Larry Hryb: There is a certain je ne sais quoi about that.
Jeff Rubenstein: Oh, tres bonne.
Larry Hryb: Oui, oui.
Jeff Rubenstein: So I know what you've been playing besides Overwatch.
Larry Hryb: Yes.
Jeff Rubenstein: Tell us about Prey.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, I've been playing Prey. It's one of those games I got into and I thought I would like it. But boy do I like it. I am having a good time with it. There is a great Skill Tree. It feels good. You know, throw those head phones on and it's great.
Jeff Rubenstein: It's scary? Because it kind of looks a little scary to me.
Larry Hryb: It does have those moments. It's kind of weird because I am playing it and feels a little like Bio Shock because you are on an abandoned Space Station. So it's kind of like that. And then you got these creatures, so it's got this Mass Effect meets Dead Space. Well maybe more Dead Space than Mass Effect.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah.
Larry Hryb: So yeah there's just a lot of these elements, and I'm churning away having a great time with it.
Jeff Rubenstein: You beat the Aliens games.
Larry Hryb: Yeah I did beat the Aliens game that's right.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah.
Larry Hryb: There is interesting mechanic. And this really isn't a spoiler but each level is part of the ship. And you can either get through them by going to these doors and hitting it and you will load the next section. Or they've got this, it's not really fast travel because it's actually not fast at all, but you can open up these airlocks that go to the outside of the ship. You have to unlock them from the inside.
Jeff Rubenstein: Uh huh.
Larry Hryb: Unlock them and then you can go outside with your space suit and go to another part of the spaceship.
Jeff Rubenstein: So once you've unlocked it the first time, then you can go back.
Larry Hryb: Then you go outside.
Jeff Rubenstein: You can take the short or direct one.
Larry Hryb: Right, right. And there is things that happen outside that you have to deal with. So it's actually really kind of cool.
Jeff Rubenstein: It definitely sounds like a combination of Bio Space.
Larry Hryb: Bio Shock.
Jeff Rubenstein: Bio Shock and Dead Space. I guess Bio Space.
Larry Hryb: So I am playing that and that's a lot of fun. We talked about Forza Horizon 3. I'm playing a little bit of Gwent. You know that card game. You know, 'cause that's in Beta. So I am really enjoying that as always. I finished, since we last talked, I finished Little Nightmares.
Jeff Rubenstein: Another scary game, right?
Larry Hryb: Yeah, very scary but also very bite size. I think it took me four hours, maybe. I don't remember I kind of took my time on it. You should really play this Jeff. It kind of gives up the achievements pretty easy.
Jeff Rubenstein: That's good [crosstalk 00:14:21]
Larry Hryb: There is like, I think there's a 50 pointer for walking up and down a piano.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah, that sounds like ...
Larry Hryb: That sounds like right up your alley.
Jeff Rubenstein: You know me pretty well here. I've been putting up some good numbers on the achievements.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, you have.
Jeff Rubenstein: I want to catch you. I don't think I am going to. You are coming up really close on the century mark.
Larry Hryb: I am, I am. Yeah, so I am getting close. I play it to play it, I have fun.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah, well yeah. But it's also nice to get those achievements.
Larry Hryb: Well especially with, again I don't want to give too much spoilers, but there's certain achievements that would have been way easier had I known about them in Little Nightmares.
Jeff Rubenstein: Okay.
Larry Hryb: You know you can get them as you go through certain areas but then I had to go back and go through those areas again and get to them. And it was a little more challenging. But yeah, so Little Nightmares is just, oh boy, just play it.
Jeff Rubenstein: Okay.
Larry Hryb: Play it.
Jeff Rubenstein: Okay, I can do that.
Larry Hryb: It can be a little bit disturbing because there's nightmare material in here. There is nightmare fuel. You won't be surprised by that because of the title. But it's definitely a lot of fun. So check it-
Jeff Rubenstein: Well, you know the word little makes you think that's not so scary.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, so check that out. I am probably going to churn through Prey. One of the reasons I wanted to get us into the studio this week, even if I don't even know where Laura is, because next week I'll be headed down to Los Angeles. I will be going to the Destiny 2 event, Bungie slash Activision's Destiny 2 event. So I got to go down and that will be on Thursday so we won't be able to do a show next week. That's just a slight programming note.
Jeff Rubenstein: I am looking forward to that event.
Larry Hryb: Are you?
Jeff Rubenstein: Just to see what comes out of that. Destiny was my most played game in 20 ...
Larry Hryb: 14, 15
Jeff Rubenstein: 14 and 15 I want to say.
Larry Hryb: I don't remember.
Jeff Rubenstein: I know it's Overwatch this year. But I am very interested to see what they are going to be doing.
Larry Hryb: Why don't you come down with me? I know you're busy.
Jeff Rubenstein: I would love to.
Larry Hryb: I would love to.
Jeff Rubenstein: You talk to my boss?
Larry Hryb: I am actually, here is something interesting, I am actually coming ... I don't know if I can even talk about this but I will.
Jeff Rubenstein: This is going to be trouble. Alright do it!
Larry Hryb: I know, I know. I am going down to do the Destiny event and then I have to get on a plane early Friday morning. So what is that, Friday the 19th?
Jeff Rubenstein: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Larry Hryb: On Friday the 19th I am going to come back up here. We are going to do, I hope so I mean I shouldn't say this but I will. We are doing a live version of This Week on Xbox Friday afternoon.
Jeff Rubenstein: Really?
Larry Hryb: Pacific Time, yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: You are doing it live.
Larry Hryb: We are doing it live!
Jeff Rubenstein: Someone's got to do it live.
Larry Hryb: We are doing it live! So yeah, we are going to do that.
Jeff Rubenstein: Can you play us out Larry?
Larry Hryb: I don't even know what that means.
Jeff Rubenstein: Never not funny.
Larry Hryb: But yeah -
Jeff Rubenstein: I am looking for your Cosplay. Where is your Cosplay at?
Larry Hryb: It's going to be, okay listeners you are going to get a little inside scoop here because Jeff clearly hasn't figured out what's going on. We are recording the show on Thursday. The show goes, This Week on Xbox Live [crosstalk 00:17:01]
Jeff Rubenstein: I am like I always see these. How would I have missed this? Man, I am really bad friend.
Larry Hryb: So by the time this show goes live it will be available. I am doing some time travel on you, sorry.
Jeff Rubenstein: Oh that was a great cosplay. Well done, Larry.
Larry Hryb: So we are doing This Week on Xbox, if all goes well we are going to do a quickie live episode, like 30 minutes.
Jeff Rubenstein: 30 minutes, that's a long episode.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, it is. Do you want to come by?
Jeff Rubenstein: I would love to.
Larry Hryb: Friday afternoon?
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah.
Larry Hryb: So yeah, we're going to do that. We're working on some cool stuff. We're testing some cool tech up. You know what? I can't say any more Jeff.
Jeff Rubenstein: Alright, well I am excited.
Larry Hryb: I've said too much. I've said too much.
Jeff Rubenstein: Let's do it.
Larry Hryb: Anyway, let's go through some of the news headlines if you have them handy. And then we'll get cooking along here.
Jeff Rubenstein: This is a big week for basketball. Yes, the NBA playoffs are happening.
Larry Hryb: Remember whenever we go to E3, it's like the playoffs are right, assuming the Lakers are in.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah you don't need to worry about, certainly not the Lakers and you don't need to worry about the Clippers either. We're not going to have any issue. I know hockey, I don't think we have to worry about it either. E3 will be blissfully playoff issue free for the third year in a row. But a couple of basketball games. So one came out. So my favorite player of all time is Allen Iverson. We have the same birthday. And he's older.
Larry Hryb: I thought it was Jeffery Dean Camillionaire.
Jeff Rubenstein: Jeffery Dean Camillionaire I would say this generation's Allen Iverson. You know I lived in Philly and you know he sort of symbolizes the city; young, scrappy and ultimately unsuccessful. NBA Playgrounds, of which he is on the cover, is sort of like a classic NBA. Like in the vein of an NBA Jam, 2 on 2. So that is out and I know a lot of people have been having fun with that. But also NBA 2k18 is now available actually for pre-order Xbox One. But it's always a big deal when they announce who is going to be on the cover and it's going to be Shaq. And there's two versions, there's Shaq from the Miami Heat, Shaq from the LA Lakers.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: No Shaq from the Orlando Magic.
Larry Hryb: Those were big times down there. Weren't they?
Jeff Rubenstein: Oh yeah.
Larry Hryb: You were there when he was playing.
Jeff Rubenstein: I was in South Florida. But I never liked the Heat but I did like the Magic
Larry Hryb: You always had those, if I go back and watch those grainy VHS tapes, I see you sitting on the court side.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah, I'm there court side.
Larry Hryb: With your glasses on.
Jeff Rubenstein: [crosstalk 00:19:16] Yes, exactly, and a giant foam finger. But I did have that Orlando Magic Shaq jersey. That was a big deal, you know. He was larger than life. I don't know that we've had an athlete that has come into the NBA where like, before they're even drafted it's that big of a deal.
Larry Hryb: Right.
Jeff Rubenstein: Even Lavar Ball, well Shack did not have $500 sneakers. But that's a whole other story.
Larry Hryb: Right.
Jeff Rubenstein: So anyway that's been announced. You have NBA Playgrounds now, you have NBA 2K down the line. When that's going to be coming out in September. So plenty of basketball to keep you busy during the playoffs and into next season.
Larry Hryb: Basketball Jones ...
Jeff Rubenstein: What?
Larry Hryb: I don't know what's going on, I'm sorry.
Jeff Rubenstein: This is what happens when Laura's not here.
Larry Hryb: It's who we are. It's just ...
Jeff Rubenstein: So a game coming out that is an [email protected] game, that is something we had shown at GDC recently that I thought was really a cool game. So I am looking forward to getting into it again. In fact it will be out by the time, actually today. So by the time you hear this, it's called Human Fall Flat. And it's sort of like a [inaudible 00:20:25] space platformer.
Larry Hryb: What's it about?
Jeff Rubenstein: So you're like this 3D model of a human, it's completely featureless and whatever. And you do like a lot of physics based puzzles. Almost like, let's say like Bridge Constructor, but you're like bringing someone along.
Larry Hryb: Right.
Jeff Rubenstein: Sort of how the physics lead to some crazy, wonky things. And some of the rag doll stuff is just really funny. So the human does only what you have them do. And you sort of control their grip and stuff like that. I'll play it this weekend and I'll let you know. But it was something that I had a lot of fun with at GDC. Actually, year before last. So good to see that one come out.
Let's see we had just a couple of other games ... Oh my gosh!
Larry Hryb: Ladies and gentlemen, Laura, that door you hear opening and closing. Hi, Laura!
Laura Massey: Hello!
Larry Hryb: Jeffrey and I were just running terribly amok.
Laura Massey: What was happening?
Larry Hryb: We're not quite sure. You'll have to ask the listeners. And they can't respond so you are on your own. We don't know. We just ended up in a swamp in Miami.
Laura Massey: Oh no.
Jeff Rubenstein: We did, we talked about it.
Laura Massey: Were there alligators there?
Larry Hryb: Could be, we ended up in a very strange place. It's just been very strange.
Jeff Rubenstein: Boa Constrictors
Larry Hryb: Thank you, you're back and we will try to behave now.
Laura Massey: Okay, back on rails.
Larry Hryb: So welcome!
Laura Massey: Thank you!
Larry Hryb: I let the folks know that you were ...
Laura Massey: Running late.
Larry Hryb: Had some last minute stuff that needed your immediate attention.
Laura Massey: Yeah.
Larry Hryb: And of course the audience is incredibly understanding so they're like okay.
Laura Massey: Thank you, buddy.
Larry Hryb: Again, they can't really say anything.
Laura Massey: I appreciate [crosstalk 00:21:47]
Jeff Rubenstein: I think they mostly just turned off the podcast as soon as they heard that you were not here yet.
Larry Hryb: Click!
Laura Massey: Keep you on track.
Larry Hryb: Was that that clicking sound?
Jeff Rubenstein: We heard it and the dial tone, didn't we? Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. Anyway.
Larry Hryb: Anyway.
Jeff Rubenstein: Do phones still do that?
Larry Hryb: Do they?
Jeff Rubenstein: I haven't had a phone that plugged into the wall in ...
Larry Hryb: Do you have a home phone Laura?
Laura Massey: No, I haven't had one ...
Larry Hryb: Forever.
Laura Massey: Ten years maybe.
Larry Hryb: Right, since you moved up here, right?
Laura Massey: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Larry Hryb: We have one.
Laura Massey: I don't know.
Larry Hryb: I think they still make a dial tone.
Jeff Rubenstein: I don't know.
Larry Hryb: That's a good question.
Jeff Rubenstein: Shoot, someone look into this.
Laura Massey: I know. So the other day I was calling somewhere, I can't remember, but like a landline. And it was busy. What is that tone?
Jeff Rubenstein: How is that possible?
Larry Hryb: [crosstalk 00:22:20]
Jeff Rubenstein: What are you calling a radio station? You're not the 100th caller.
Larry Hryb: Click, sorry Laura. Wow! Yeah, that's interesting because I remember ... I was telling somebody about, I was explaining to somebody how Xbox Live is like the dial tone of gaming. A younger person and they looked at me like, "Dial tone?" They didn't know what it meant.
Laura Massey: Oh no!
Larry Hryb: Cause you're right. You don't hear dial tones on mobile phones.
Laura Massey: [crosstalk 00:22:45]
Jeff Rubenstein: And then you said, "In my day ..."
Larry Hryb: Back in my ...
Jeff Rubenstein: We picked up the phone and we didn't know who was calling.
Larry Hryb: We didn't
Jeff Rubenstein: And we just said, "Hello?"
Larry Hryb: It was relaxed.
Jeff Rubenstein: Every time.
Larry Hryb: "Hello?"
Jeff Rubenstein: And then it was like, "Oh it's grandma."
Larry Hryb: Thank you for calling the Hryb residence may I ask who is speaking, this is Larry.
Laura Massey: Right.
Larry Hryb: And remember your mom taught you how to answer the phone.
Laura Massey: Exactly! And your mom taught you how to, when you are calling somebody's house, how to ask for the person -
Larry Hryb: Did you have rules? Like you couldn't call your friend's house after a certain time of night.
Laura Massey: There's always the nice rules, after 8.
Larry Hryb: What were the rules? Oh, it was 8?
Laura Massey: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Larry Hryb: I think we ran 9.
Laura Massey: Okay.
Larry Hryb: Jeff?
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah it was probably about 9 o'clock. Depending on who it was.
Larry Hryb: Now it's texting. Laura and I were texting last night at like 11 o'clock. Right? It's just like ba, ba, ba, ba, ba
Laura Massey: Whatever.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, whatever, whenever.
Jeff Rubenstein: I feel like texting is the new calling. I am only going to text someone if I really need to talk to them. Like, a call is almost like having a presidential summit.
Larry Hryb: Summit! Because if someone calls your house, especially at night, something bad happened.
Jeff Rubenstein: Always.
Laura Massey: Not good.
Larry Hryb: God forbid, right?
Laura Massey: Not a good thing.
Larry Hryb: Like I always felt bad when I was down in Florida, Jeff, and I called you. Remember I called you?
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah.
Larry Hryb: Because I was on my way back and my dog had died.
Jeff Rubenstein: Well, that was a serious [crosstalk 00:23:53]
Larry Hryb: I don't remember why I called you. I was like ...
Jeff Rubenstein: You needed to talk to somebody. And I was there.
Larry Hryb: I did. I was in Florida and I didn't know where to go in Orlando.
Laura Massey: Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah.
Larry Hryb: You didn't help. So, no, no. Anyway so, yeah, calling is strange. I don't know how ... See this is what happens Laura, we just dragged you in. It's like quicksand.
Jeff Rubenstein: Actually what were we wondering? Oh, before we started recording we were listening to like R and B hits of the 90's.
Larry Hryb: Bell Biv DeVoe
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah, do you know that song Poison?
Laura Massey: Oh yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: We were debating whether or not you did.
Larry Hryb: She does!
Laura Massey: Yes, I do.
Larry Hryb: Wow!
Laura Massey: It was ...
Larry Hryb: Da, da, da, da ...
Laura Massey: Oh my gosh, that's my jam. Because that was one of the first songs in Dance Central. Back when we were testing out Kinect we were also testing out Dance Central.
Larry Hryb: Yes!
Laura Massey: And there was three or four songs.
Larry Hryb: But did you know it when you were growing up?
Laura Massey: Yes.
Larry Hryb: Okay, okay.
Laura Massey: Poison was the hardest one.
Larry Hryb: Right.
Laura Massey: Poker Face was the easiest one.
Larry Hryb: Right.
Laura Massey: And if you could make it to Poison then you were good.
Larry Hryb: Yes.
Laura Massey: And so we would have Poison dance offs in the office.
Larry Hryb: Yes.
Jeff Rubenstein: I failed Poker Face more than once.
Larry Hryb: Speak for yourself. Yeah, wow I guess ...
Jeff Rubenstein: We should have put stakes on it. [crosstalk 00:25:00]
Larry Hryb: We could have laid some money down on that one.
Laura Massey: What? Who would have bet against me?
Larry Hryb: Um ... I don't remember how that fell on either side.
Jeff Rubenstein: I think we were both just like, well we didn't know if that song was big in Texas.
Larry Hryb: That's what it was. Because we started talking and that's exactly what I said. I said, "Jeff and I both grew up in the east coast. Do you think Laura knows that?"
Laura Massey: Okay.
Larry Hryb: A lot of weird things happen in Texas. When you grow up in the East Coast, Texas is like a completely different country.
Laura Massey: What is so funny is that, speaking of music and being in Texas, I had cousins that lived in California and we went to visit them for the first time when I was in 9th grade. And they were shocked that I had heard of the Backstreet Boys.
Larry Hryb: Oh!
Laura Massey: They were like, "How did the Backstreet Boys make it to Texas?"
Larry Hryb: Yeah!
Laura Massey: And we're like, "It's another state just like yours. It's not any different."
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Laura Massey: There's not actually ...
Larry Hryb: I don't know how you ...
Jeff Rubenstein: The Backstreet Boys if they were going to get to California from Orlando they would have to go through Texas.
Larry Hryb: Maybe ...
Jeff Rubenstein: You probably knew first.
Larry Hryb: We just didn't know if you could hear them over all that gunfire.
Laura Massey: Oh come on.
Larry Hryb: So ...
Laura Massey: We still have high school dances and middle school dances where all these songs are played.
Larry Hryb: Well, [inaudible 00:26:08] when you were in high school and middle school.
Laura Massey: It's all the same.
Larry Hryb: So where you a Backstreet Boys fan?
Laura Massey: I was the perfect target demographic.
Larry Hryb: I know you were.
Jeff Rubenstein: Who was your favorite one?
Laura Massey: I don't remember their names.
Jeff Rubenstein: It was A.J. wasn't it?
Laura Massey: I don't know.
Jeff Rubenstein: I'm going to just say it.
Larry Hryb: Because some of them, we had a couple of them on campus recently.
Jeff Rubenstein: What?
Laura Massey: What?
Larry Hryb: You didn't know this story?
Jeff Rubenstein: No.
Larry Hryb: You didn't know this story? So one of our good friends who produces The Daily Show, Tina. She grew up in Orlando.
Jeff Rubenstein: That's right. Edgewater High School.
Larry Hryb: She knew some of the guys. It wasn't Howie. It was one of the other ones, was out here. They were on tour. And they came through Seattle. I think it was like last summer.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah, yeah. My wife went to that.
Larry Hryb: That's right.
Jeff Rubenstein: I did not.
Larry Hryb: And Tina happened to bring the Boys out here.
Laura Massey: Really?
Larry Hryb: And we had a great chat because I used to promote their records when I was working in radio in the 90's. Anyway, I didn't realize, I feel terrible I let ...
Laura Massey: You didn't tell me they were here.
Larry Hryb: I know.
Laura Massey: I could have given [crosstalk 00:26:59]
Larry Hryb: I know you probably had a really cool sequined jacket you could have worn or something. Or brought in your action figure.
Jeff Rubenstein: Signed your copy of Tiger Beat.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: No, right next to Jonathan Taylor Thomas.
Laura Massey: Oh my goodness.
Larry Hryb: I apologize listeners apparently Laura is not going to help us getting random. You are just going to exacerbate it.
Laura Massey: I'm sorry. It's just a very interesting conversation for me.
Larry Hryb: Yes, I know. Now I feel bad. So next time they are in town we'll talk to ...
Laura Massey: Yeah, I know.
Larry Hryb: I remember Tina called me and they called me like, "Hey do you want to come down to the Kia Arena? Do you want to come down and we'll put you backstage on the show." And I was so tired that I'm like, "No that's okay. I saw you guys in Lake Compounds in Bristol."
Laura Massey: I'm sure you saw them in their heyday.
Larry Hryb: Oh yeah. Lots of screaming. You were a screaming girl. I just realized it.
Laura Massey: No, I never went to any of their concerts or anything like that. I just knew of them. Yeah.
Larry Hryb: Radio.
Laura Massey: Radio.
Larry Hryb: And the videos.
Laura Massey: And the videos.
Jeff Rubenstein: It's never too late. We can, we'll have to get you on the next run.
Larry Hryb: Get you back, back, back.
Laura Massey: Oh goodness gracious. Wow! Wow! That one's to save for later.
Jeff Rubenstein: It's a shame you control the recording. Because now we can't take that and ...
Larry Hryb: We were in the middle of doing the news and I figured we stop if you have anything you want to share. Because we kind of went past the what we're playing part. I don't know if you had anything you wanted to share.
Laura Massey: Not too much. It's been a super busy two weeks for me.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, yeah.
Laura Massey: As you all know.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Laura Massey: I have just been playing the normal things.
Larry Hryb: You know Mini Metro came out with an update.
Laura Massey: It did?
Larry Hryb: Yeah, just FYI I saw that earlier.
Laura Massey: Download update now. Download update now.
Larry Hryb: Download update now.
Laura Massey: Yes, so I have just been playing the same things that you guys have always seen me play.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah, that's fine.
Larry Hryb: Oh, oh. That reminds me I have something for you.
Laura Massey: Ah! Really, what do you have?
Larry Hryb: Hold on, hold on.
Laura Massey: I am holding while I download the Mini Metro update.
Larry Hryb: Jeff keep talking.
Jeff Rubenstein: This is great radio by the way.
Laura Massey: I know it is.
Larry Hryb: Here. That is from a friend of mine at Blizzard sent that up for you. Why don't you describe what that is.
Laura Massey: No way!
Larry Hryb: Why don't you describe what that is.
Laura Massey: This is a keychain from Diablo 3.
Larry Hryb: Yes. It is.
Laura Massey: And it is of Diablo.
Larry Hryb: Yes, so there you go. I didn't know, it's just a little something.
Laura Massey: It's a Diablo key chain!
Jeff Rubenstein: It kind of looked like a Scorpion.
Laura Massey: It does.
Jeff Rubenstein: And so I thought it was some sort of Scorpio thing. But ...
Larry Hryb: No, flip it over.
Laura Massey: It's like mini caricature.
Larry Hryb: It's not that obvious, it says "Diablo 3" all over the back.
Jeff Rubenstein: Well now I can see. It's also not purple.
Laura Massey: Yeah, it's like a caricature. Because he's got really short legs and a really long tail.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah.
Laura Massey: But it's awesome! Thank you for this!
Larry Hryb: My pleasure, you know it's the least I could do.
Laura Massey: It's a very thoughtful gift.
Larry Hryb: For all that you do, it's the least I could do. Showing up late.
Laura Massey: Sorry, sorry.
Larry Hryb: Anyway, so you're playing the normal stuff. You're playing your Diablo.
Laura Massey: Yeah.
Larry Hryb: You know Jeffrey sent you an invite for Overwatch. You didn't join us.
Laura Massey: I didn't. I know. My schedule has been a bit weird lately.
Larry Hryb: That's not going to go unnoticed. That will go down in your permanent record.
Laura Massey: I know.
Larry Hryb: Just like running in the third grade.
Laura Massey: Running? What's wrong with running?
Larry Hryb: In class? You know, when you were in, you know-
Laura Massey: Running in the hallway?
Larry Hryb: Yeah, remember when the principal would go, "It's going to go on your permanent record!" I guess you never got yelled at. Jeff, I think you and I shared a similar life. Laura, she was a do be, we were a don't bes.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah, apparently you are not supposed to fire a fire extinguisher into the English class.
Laura Massey: What?
Jeff Rubenstein: I hung out with some of the wrong kids.
Laura Massey: Oh no.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah.
Laura Massey: A fire extinguisher? That's pretty serious.
Jeff Rubenstein: It wasn't a foam one, it was one that actually shot water.
Laura Massey: [crosstalk 00:30:07]
Jeff Rubenstein: I am pretty sure.
Larry Hryb: The kind you flip upside down?
Jeff Rubenstein: It was metal and huge. And it shot actual water.
Larry Hryb: Wow!
Jeff Rubenstein: And so we shot the water out.
Laura Massey: The three stooges, shooting water.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, that's ...
Jeff Rubenstein: It was not like seltzer thing.
Laura Massey: Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: But not actually that much different.
Larry Hryb: Hey, hey, hey!
Jeff Rubenstein: But now that you mention it not that much different. Yeah, like [crosstalk 00:30:23]
Larry Hryb: Krusty the Clown what are you doing? Hey, hey, hey!
Jeff Rubenstein: Any more Borscht Belt jokes you want to throw out there?
Larry Hryb: Oh boy.
Jeff Rubenstein: Anyway that happened.
Larry Hryb: Alright, so moving right along if Laura doesn't have anything to play why don't we just go and continue with the news Jeffrey.
Laura Massey: Continue with the news.
Larry Hryb: Continuing with the news. Over to the news desk.
Jeff Rubenstein: Oh boy, no. But that's actually kind of it. You know we have a recap of the Gears Pro Circuit, Paris action that was taking place. But the big news really is the Hot Wheels, the Forza Horizon 3 Hot Wheels expansion. That's your top story.
Laura Massey: Leading the way. I really want to try that out.
Larry Hryb: Did you play with Hot Wheels?
Laura Massey: I did not.
Larry Hryb: I think we talked about this last week.
Laura Massey: I really want to though.
Larry Hryb: No when you were young you did have Hot Wheels.
Laura Massey: [crosstalk 00:31:07]
Larry Hryb: Right, you did. Did they make like a tractor Hot Wheel?
Laura Massey: That would be the best.
Jeff Rubenstein: They had to have.
Laura Massey: That would be the best.
Larry Hryb: With the flames coming out the back.
Laura Massey: Yes! Oh my gosh I want that so bad now.
Jeff Rubenstein: I had a tractor Transformer. It was a Bone Crusher.
Laura Massey: They had 18 wheelers.
Larry Hryb: Did you have Matchbox too? Hot Wheels was always the souped up crazy fancy cars. And then Matchbox were always like the realistic cars.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah.
Laura Massey: We had both.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, I think we talked about this last time. I am sorry. We are re-doing ourselves. Jeffrey continue.
Jeff Rubenstein: No, that was it. Just play that. You should play that.
Laura Massey: Yeah. I really want to give it a try.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah, you should.
Laura Massey: I've heard really, really good things about it.
Jeff Rubenstein: And how's the cars? So they have the souped up cars also.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: So it's like bringing it up into real life. But you can race it against a Lambo or something like that. Which I think I went back through. I finally afforded the Centenario.
Larry Hryb: Centenario.
Jeff Rubenstein: Centenario and the Coca Lite.
Larry Hryb: I told you ... [crosstalk 00:32:04] Stop it! I had to take lessons on how to say, "Centenario" last year.
Jeff Rubenstein: You probably had to talk about it.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, when we were announcing it.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah.
Larry Hryb: You're making fun of me. My wife has been yelling at me. You are the only two people in my life that make fun of me when I do that.
Jeff Rubenstein: Well you call me Jeffrey and you get [crosstalk 00:32:19]
Laura Massey: Ahh ...
Larry Hryb: That's because I think I travel more with you than I do with my wife sometimes.
Jeff Rubenstein: That's true. You know what, I should go with you to L.A. Let's get back on the wagon.
Larry Hryb: Alright, now.
Laura Massey: That was really, really funny. Thank you for sharing that.
Jeff Rubenstein: Of course. Yes.
Laura Massey: That made my day.
Larry Hryb: Glad I could amuse you. Alright, that's pretty much the news. We talked to, Laura before you came in we are not going to have a show next week I am going out to L.A. for the Destiny 2 reveal.
Laura Massey: Awesome.
Larry Hryb: So I'll be down there and then I am coming back and we are going to do ... I didn't even tell you this. I haven't talked to you in forever. I just told everybody else. So if you missed it the first time listeners, which you didn't because you were listening. We are doing a live episode of This Week on Xbox net Friday. Like live in studio.
Laura Massey: No way.
Larry Hryb: We are going to do it live!
Laura Massey: Doing it live!
Larry Hryb: Yep, so we are going to do that and details on that next week.
Laura Massey: Exciting!
Larry Hryb: It may get canceled, I don't know. I probably shouldn't have said anything. Whoops.
Laura Massey: Whoops.
Jeff Rubenstein: Well now they can't. So well played.
Larry Hryb: Too late now, too late now. So yeah, that's what's going on. And then after that we probably have one more show because then we are in the shoot for E3.
Laura Massey: Yep.
Jeff Rubenstein: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Larry Hryb: We're excited about E3 happening this year as always. We got our event on Sunday. I'll be hosting a few live streams as always. I got a couple of cool surprises for the live stream. That's all I can say. That is all I can say.
Jeff Rubenstein: I don't even know. I'll save it.
Laura Massey: I don't know either. It must be pretty good.
Jeff Rubenstein: I am going in pretty blind. I am just going to enjoy the show.
Larry Hryb: I mean, certainly we will have all the stuff we'll talk about it with Project Scorpio. But I mean I'll have you know, some new wardrobe things and some other cool stuff that I am going to be rolling out.
Jeff Rubenstein: Oh!
Larry Hryb: Just keep it interesting.
Laura Massey: Yeah. Oh my goodness.
Jeff Rubenstein: Right.
Larry Hryb: I think I may take this thing with me, the streaming.
Laura Massey: Which one is that, the Amiibo?
Larry Hryb: This is the one that streams to periscope and what not.
Jeff Rubenstein: Or you could bring your Snapchat Spectacles.
Laura Massey: Yeah, I've seen ...
Larry Hryb: Did you see my videos? I sent them to you on Snapchat didn't I?
Laura Massey: Yeah.
Larry Hryb: And Twitter.
Jeff Rubenstein: The thing that is weird about is that if you move the phone they wobble.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: And then I spend the entire length of the chat, the snap, just doing that.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, so if you are interested to see I have Snapchat Spectacles. Which are pretty much exactly what they sound like. And you can find me on Snapchat and it's pretty easy. I think I am the real major nelson. I don't even know what it is over there. I am just the major nelson.
Laura Massey: The.
Larry Hryb: The Major Nelson, so you'll see that. Yeah, but I'll be Snapchatting from the ... In fact I'll do that next week. I should bring them to Destiny.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah.
Laura Massey: That'd be great.
Larry Hryb: I got enough to do, I got enough to work down there.
Laura Massey: You have a lot of things to stream, Amiibo, the spectacles.
Jeff Rubenstein: I think people will appreciate that though.
Larry Hryb: Amiibo and the spectacles. I got a couple other things. Anyway so yeah E3 is coming up, so next week no show. Maybe a show the week after. But we won't have much to talk about. Because we go quiet so we can save all the news for E3.
Laura Massey: Yeah, right up to E3.
Jeff Rubenstein: We haven't been quoted yet this year but I am sure there will be the opportunity for it.
Laura Massey: At some point.
Jeff Rubenstein: For some point for people to read into something that you say. It happens every year.
Larry Hryb: Well they do it on this show.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah, that's what I am talking about.
Larry Hryb: Right, yeah exactly. Big announcements! Anyway ...
Jeff Rubenstein: You're just asking for it.
Larry Hryb: I know.
Laura Massey: Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: You want to talk gadgets?
Larry Hryb: Yes, yes!
Laura Massey: Wait, before we move to that do you want to play Name the Game?
Larry Hryb: No we haven't done that. Oh, would you like to do that?
Laura Massey: I think it's time for a Name the Game.
Larry Hryb: Well you know what? If you're here.
Laura Massey: I am here.
Larry Hryb: The planets have lined up.
Laura Massey: The listeners are here.
Larry Hryb: And then ...
Laura Massey: So let's do Name the Game from last time.
So that was Name the Game from last time. And it was Little Nightmares.
Larry Hryb: Which we talked about earlier. You haven't played that yet have you?
Laura Massey: No.
Larry Hryb: Oh, you should.
Laura Massey: I've seen everybody talk about it on Twitter.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Laura Massey: It looks really good.
Larry Hryb: Yep.
Laura Massey: So the winner.
Larry Hryb: Who is it?
Laura Massey: Is Tom from Lincoln in the U.K.
Larry Hryb: Lincoln? There is a U.K. place named Lincoln?
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah.
Larry Hryb: I thought that was just Nebraska.
Jeff Rubenstein: Ah, no. Yeah, Lincoln City has a soccer team.
Larry Hryb: Does he have his Gamer Tag?
Laura Massey: Yeah his Gamer Tag is Phaser to Stun.
Larry Hryb: Phaser to Stun.
Jeff Rubenstein: I like that, cool. What did he win?
Laura Massey: Oh my goodness. There is so many things here.
Larry Hryb: I don't know where you find my stuff.
Laura Massey: I ransacked your office.
Larry Hryb: I know you do this all the time.
Laura Massey: Yes, I don't know if I am going to find more things, I have just taken so many things for Tom.
Larry Hryb: There is more of those. It's packed in there.
Laura Massey: It's like one of those magical offices where things just accumulate. And you don't know how it gets there.
Larry Hryb: Good stuff though!
Laura Massey: Yeah, great stuff!
Larry Hryb: It's like some people call ... it's like the candy room in Willy Wonka.
Laura Massey: Yes.
Larry Hryb: Because there is all cool stuff in there. Anyway go ahead.
Laura Massey: Maybe games grow from the wall.
Larry Hryb: No, I can't show you photos of it because there is stuff in there you can't even see.
Laura Massey: Wow!
Larry Hryb: Right? Okay, go on.
Laura Massey: Okay, so Tom you have won a copy of Human Fall Flat which is a new [email protected] Title. Narcosis, which is also an new [email protected] title. NBA Playgrounds, also an [email protected] title.
Larry Hryb: We were just talking about that.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah.
Laura Massey: Exactly. And that's not all, you also get a copy of Dark Siders: the Fury Collection.
Larry Hryb: Yes.
Laura Massey: War and Death, which is a bundle featuring Dark Siders One and Two.
Jeff Rubenstein: A lot of people talking about three.
Laura Massey: Pretty awesome.
Jeff Rubenstein: That's good timing.
Laura Massey: And that's not all.
Jeff Rubenstein: What?
Laura Massey: You also get a copy of Forzer Horizon 3 Ultimate Edition. And ...
Larry Hryb: Yes, we are going to throw it in aren't we?
Laura Massey: Throwing in the Hot Wheels add on.
Jeff Rubenstein: Woo!
Larry Hryb: Yes.
Laura Massey: There you go Tom, enjoy.
Larry Hryb: Congratulations. Now there's all sorts of cool prizes you can win whenever we do a show. We like to do shows as frequently as possible.
Laura Massey: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Larry Hryb: And it's really simple. Laura explain to people how they play.
Laura Massey: It's super easy. All you have to do is listen to the sound effects I am just about to play.
Larry Hryb: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Laura Massey: Think really hard and then guess what game those are from. And send us an email. That's all you have to do.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Laura Massey: So why don't you go ahead and roll the tape.
Larry Hryb: I guess the only thing left to do now is ...
Laura Massey: Roll the tape!
Alright, so if you think you know what game those sounds are from all you have to do is send us an email. [email protected] and cc [email protected]
Larry Hryb: Delightful!
Laura Massey: If you can hear our voice you can enter to win.
Larry Hryb: Woo hoo!
Laura Massey: Exactly. Super easy.
Larry Hryb: Alright.
Laura Massey: And for all the people who guess it right we are going to choose a random winner.
Larry Hryb: We'll take all the correct entries and put them into a virtual hat and then randomize, RND, parentheses, something, something, something.
Laura Massey: Something, something, winner.
Larry Hryb: Equals winner [inaudible 00:39:39]
Laura Massey: Exactly..
Larry Hryb: So good luck. Good luck to you lovely winner.
Laura Massey: Yes.
Larry Hryb: You're a winner right now you just don't know it.
Laura Massey: That's true.
Larry Hryb: Right? Right?
Laura Massey: All you have to do is send us an email.
Larry Hryb: Send us an email. Alright Jeffery, I'm sorry, we were talking about gadgets. You obviously have something ...
Jeff Rubenstein: No I jumped the gun. I am sorry.
Larry Hryb: No, you have something you wanted to share.
Jeff Rubenstein: Well yeah, I just want to ... I don't get that many things but I did get a new device that I am kind of enjoying.
Larry Hryb: Tell me.
Jeff Rubenstein: Which is the Fitbit Blaze.
Laura Massey: Ooooh! I haven't seen one of these.
Jeff Rubenstein: So I like to track. As somebody who is not in great shape but likes to track the few things I do so I can rationalize not actually working out consistently. I had 10,000 steps today time to go get some ice cream. The Fitbit Blaze, it checks all the boxes I was looking for. One, it does everything without you having to talk about it. Like specifically saying, if I go for a walk it just knows. If I go to sleep it tracks that sleep.
Laura Massey: Awesome.
Jeff Rubenstein: Which is really awful because ...
Larry Hryb: If you have ice cream it knows.
Jeff Rubenstein: It does, it's like your hand is moving towards your mouth. You know? It takes the temperature.
Larry Hryb: Tap, tap, tap.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah exactly. But I guess one of the best parts about it, in addition to like that functionality is that it pops out. This is the actual device. And you can replace these bands. It comes with what looks like reasonably functional wrist watch, like any sort of Timex or something would have. But you can swap it out for better looking bands. And they're actually pretty inexpensive for that type of thing.
Larry Hryb: That's been out for a while, hasn't it? The Blaze?
Jeff Rubenstein: There's a number of them. I think the newest one is smaller. And I had tried out the really thin one. The Alta and it just wasn't for me. It didn't do all the stuff I wanted it to do. The best part about this actually is that it's really good at syncing with your phone so that when I get texts, if I'm driving, they just pop up on here really nicely. So I don't have to reach for my phone when I see it. I use it as my alarm clock. It does like all of the ... It's funny, I haven't talked anything about exercise.
Larry Hryb: Does it play Snake?
Jeff Rubenstein: I wish it played Snake. It doesn't have a keypad.
Laura Massey: Does it tell you the time?
Jeff Rubenstein: Indeed it tells you the time. So yeah, I'm a pretty big fan of this. So it's the Fitbit Blaze.
Larry Hryb: Put a link to that.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah, I can do that.
Larry Hryb: I actually used to have Fitbits when they first came out. I basically gave up on them because I kept losing them.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah.
Laura Massey: Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: Well, yeah.
Larry Hryb: And I am convinced to this day, I'm actually convinced that that's part of their business model.
Laura Massey: Possibly. Or them going in the washing machine.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, that's there.
Laura Massey: That's what happened to mine.
Jeff Rubenstein: Well that's the other thing. The battery lasts about five days.
Laura Massey: Nice.
Jeff Rubenstein: Some of the other smart watches out there are like, you're lucky to get a full day.
Larry Hryb: That's right.
Jeff Rubenstein: While it's not quite as full functioned, not having to think about it is real nice.
Larry Hryb: That's great.
Jeff Rubenstein: Well I'm happy.
Larry Hryb: That's great.
Jeff Rubenstein: That's why I shared it.
Laura Massey: So how many steps have you done today?
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah, that's a good question. It looks like I have gone 3,506. I would have more but it was raining and I didn't walk here.
Larry Hryb: No ice cream for you.
Jeff Rubenstein: No I did not earn that.
Larry Hryb: Well then you know what we are going to have to do? Laura, you and I have never done this, he and I used to do this all the time. Through the Microsoft Campus we have a walking path.
Laura Massey: That's true.
Larry Hryb: That goes around and Jeff, you and I should go out and take that sometime. Because it actually goes right through by this office over towards the other. Basically all the offices we work in.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah, I mean normally I do walk around. You get some good steps. But Seattle being what it was, we had like five days of really nice weather.
Larry Hryb: Right.
Jeff Rubenstein: And now it's raining again in [crosstalk 00:42:54]
Larry Hryb: It was like raining sideways.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah.
Laura Massey: It's super windy.
Larry Hryb: I was like, this is not ... Anyway. It's going to come back. I've got an interesting gadget. It is a ... So Laura, I don't know if you know this, I think you do know this about me. I like to do different projects in my house.
Laura Massey: Yeah, I know this.
Larry Hryb: I like to, I mow my own lawn and do all those things because I like doing that stuff. It's fun.
Laura Massey: Sometimes you help out others, like me.
Larry Hryb: That's right, that's right.
Laura Massey: Install a Nest.
Larry Hryb: Or not, that didn't go well.
But I have two things. One of them is a battery powered lawn mower.
Jeff Rubenstein: Buh?
Larry Hryb: Exactly.
Jeff Rubenstein: How can a battery, like-
Laura Massey: Last that long?
Larry Hryb: It does. So I have what's called, it's called the Ego Power Mower, and you can get them at Home Depot or Amazon, and it's actually one of the top rated if not the top rated non-gasoline mowers on Consumer Reports.
Laura Massey: Even above the corded mowers?
Larry Hryb: That's what I recall, yeah.
Laura Massey: Wow.
Larry Hryb: This is, I mean it's ... I needed a new lawn mower. My lawn's not that large, but I needed a new lawn mower, and this one will go about 40 minutes.
Laura Massey: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Larry Hryb: Which is more than enough for what I need. But what's interesting is my favorite feature of this mower is the lawn mower, when you're all done, it folds down and then it can stand upright in my garage, which you can't do with a gasoline mower because it's all the liquids, the oils, and the gasoline inside. And it's great!
Laura Massey: So how compact does it get?
Larry Hryb: It gets, I'll show you. Here's a picture of it, I don't think I have a-
Laura Massey: 'Cause storage of a mower is a big deal.
Larry Hryb: It gets about that big.
Laura Massey: Oh wow.
Larry Hryb: Without this, and then it flips up on the side.
Laura Massey: So the handle completely flips down.
Larry Hryb: Yep.
Laura Massey: Turns more into a rectangle.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, and it's got a big huge battery in it that you can drop in, and obviously you have to charge it, but it keeps it going. And it's great.
Laura Massey: That's very cool.
Larry Hryb: So it's a lot of fun. Here's a bonus, you ready for this? 'Cause it's electric, it even has headlights.
Laura Massey: So you can mow in the dark.
Larry Hryb: I can mow in the dusk. To really irritate my neighbors.
Laura Massey: Yes.
Larry Hryb: But actually it's very quiet.
Laura Massey: Yeah, how loud is it?
Larry Hryb: It's not loud. I mean, it's loud. You don't hear the put, put, put, put, put. But you hear the blade whirring. I mean, it's not dead quiet but it's not as loud as a gasoline. So that makes, you know, so I've got an electric car. I have an electric mower.
Jeff Rubenstein: And an electric personality.
Larry Hryb: Aah, hello everybody! So anyway, it's one of the interesting projects. And then the other one is we're redoing one of our bathroom in our house, so I'm putting in a whole LED lighting sequence under the cabinets.
Laura Massey: Oh, nice.
Larry Hryb: So it's a whole series of hue lights that change color based on the time of day, when they sense somebody, what the weather's like outside. That's not done yet, that one's in progress.
Laura Massey: That sounds super cool. Do you control it with your phone like [crosstalk 00:45:35] lights?
Larry Hryb: You can. Yeah, I can do it right now.
Laura Massey: Wait. Right now, like when you're not on your home network?
Larry Hryb: Yeah. We'll see if it'll pop up here. I think it'll say like "out of home mode" or something.
Laura Massey: Wow. You can scare the people that might be in you're house.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, my wife would not like it. So yeah, see, it says "out of home connection" and I can just turn them on or, well I just turned the kitchen on. Okay, I'm going to get a call in a minute, turn them off.
Laura Massey: Why are you doing that?
Larry Hryb: Why are the lights going? My wife, I love my wife, she's very tolerant of my ridiculous, goofy smart home stuff. And she's like, "Make it stop." Like, I told you the Nest, you remember the Nest story right?
Laura Massey: Oh yes.
Jeff Rubenstein: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Laura Massey: With the fire alarm.
Larry Hryb: When they all started going off and she put them at the end of the driveway. Like, "Nope, we're done here. We're done here." We fixed that. Anyway, so that's my ... So, yeah, the electric lawnmower. It's ridiculously cool.
Laura Massey: That is [crosstalk 00:46:21]
Larry Hryb: And of course they make their whole line of stuff, so I can take the same battery and use it in a blower and a string trimmer and all the rest of that stuff.
Laura Massey: Do you have those things?
Larry Hryb: I don't, I don't. I've just started doing this, I was just so excited because it saves all that space in my garage, right? And it just flips right up.
Laura Massey: And all the maintenance.
Larry Hryb: So I have all my electric side with my battery, anyway. That's all. So if you have any questions on that let me know.
Jeff Rubenstein: Ego!
Larry Hryb: It's called the Ego.
Jeff Rubenstein: I'll look for that.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, look for that.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah, the home automation stuff. Like, eventually ... Like, certain parts of it are really cool. All I know is like to turn the lamp off in my living room I have to talk to it, and I have to say the exact right word otherwise it'll turn on the light in the bedroom. So if I'm up late playing games and I want to turn it off but if I say the wrong thing it's going to wake up my wife.
Laura Massey: Whoops. Dangerous.
Jeff Rubenstein: Which is not great.
Larry Hryb: Well, here's the problem Laura, I'm going to hand you my phone.
Laura Massey: Okay.
Larry Hryb: So there's two here. Those are all the apps that are required for my home automation. It's all these little islands of technology that may or may not talk to each other.
Laura Massey: That's true, there are-
Larry Hryb: I think I've got like 15 different apps. You know, I've got the Heal app, I've got my home automation Z Wave system, I've got the Zigbee system, I've got my Iro, I've got ... It's ridiculous. Oh, that's my Bed Jet.
Laura Massey: Yeah, what's that.
Larry Hryb: I never told you about the Bed Jet?
Laura Massey: No.
Larry Hryb: Oh, this is one of those weird things. I think you and I talked about this off the air.
Laura Massey: Did we? Is this ...
Larry Hryb: This is the electric blanket replacement.
Laura Massey: Oh.
Larry Hryb: This guy was on, the inventor of Bed Jet, you gotta put this in the notes, was on like Shark Tank or something. And he pitched it and he got denied but he ended up raising funding anyway, and apparently it's quite successful. This is a device that instead of an electric blanket, I'm always cold, you said you're always cold when you're sleeping. My wife's always hot. And so I got this thing called the Bed Jet which essentially is a blower and it blows hot air or cold air in your ... Jeff's looking at it like I'm crazy.
Jeff Rubenstein: No, 'cause, well here's the thing. Well, first, it's a nice piece of machinery. But like with that, like I think a lot of couple's vastly different temperature requirements.
Larry Hryb: Body temperature.
Jeff Rubenstein: I want to be cold when I'm sleeping, and she's fine in the middle of summer with a down blanket.
Larry Hryb: No, listen to me.
Jeff Rubenstein: All right.
Larry Hryb: Listen to me. I know it's going to sound like an ad, but they are not paying, I bought it.
Jeff Rubenstein: I think we should like, FTC, we are not getting paid for these.
Larry Hryb: Hashtag no ad. So this device, you can have one for you wife too and you can have one on each side of the bed, it can blow warm air or cool air.
Laura Massey: So it's an air conditioner and a heater.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Laura Massey: It's and air conditioner for you bed.
Larry Hryb: Well, it's not really an air conditioner because it doesn't cool the air, it just takes room temperature air.
Laura Massey: It looks like a vacuum cleaner.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, it does. And, anyway, it blows warm air, and anyway, so that app, so I've got the app on my phone.
Laura Massey: You can control it with an app.
Larry Hryb: More importantly you can do the biorhythms.
Laura Massey: Okay.
Larry Hryb: Because it knows, well it doesn't know, but the body as you go to sleep at ten or eleven o'clock at night or whatever, at a certain like two o'clock your body will get cold or maybe warm again, so you can set it up. Jeff is making fun of me now.
Jeff Rubenstein: I just, you ever watch Last Man on Earth? So Carol, who was like a very funny comedian, she's been in a lot of stuff, and they always make a big deal of how she sleeps with this giant apparatus to like prevent snoring, but anyway, I'm seeing this giant thing.
Larry Hryb: Well what's funny is I got it when my wife was out of town, and I put it under the bed. So it's got the hose coming up and the whole thing. She's never seen this thing under the bed. She knows something, she knows there's like a [inaudible 00:49:59], but if I were to bring it up she's like, "Get that out of the house 'cause it's kinda large." So now you know. Now you've embarrassed me Laura, you've brought up the Bed Jet.
Laura Massey: I thought it was really, I had to click on it.
Larry Hryb: It's cool isn't it.
Laura Massey: Yeah, it sounds pretty cool.
Jeff Rubenstein: If you just have the name Bed Jet, like your mind can go a lot of places.
Larry Hryb: I'm telling you Jeff, it would work for you and your wife.
Jeff Rubenstein: All right.
Larry Hryb: Laura, it would keep you warm.
Laura Massey: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Larry Hryb: I'm telling you, this thing. And it's great because if you're really warm and all of a sudden you get really hot, you hit the cold, ten seconds you're cooled down.
Jeff Rubenstein: Ooh, I do like the idea of that.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: See, back when I grew up I had a more primitive version of the Bed Jet. It was called a blanket.
Larry Hryb: Right.
Jeff Rubenstein: And when it was cold I got a heavier blanket, and when it was hot I took it off.
Laura Massey: And opened a window.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yes. But I will try the Bed Jet, because-
Larry Hryb: It's not cheap. But it solved a problem because we always had an electric blanket and I really don't like having electric wires over my body.
Jeff Rubenstein: It seems dangerous.
Larry Hryb: It just seems like, and then I had one that was underneath. And then they make this other thing, unrelated to the Bed Jet, which is like this mattress cover that has like liquid in it to cool and heat you up. But it just feel like liquid is, you know ...
Laura Massey: Yeah, liquid inside the house on a carpeted floor.
Larry Hryb: I mean, in your mattress, right? It just feels like that's ...
Jeff Rubenstein: I feel like we're like two glasses of wine away from like, Kathie Lee and Hoda, you know. We're just sitting there talking about stuff we don't really understand, passing judgment.
Larry Hryb: Anyway, so that's my-
Jeff Rubenstein: Time to get into the Chardonnay.
Larry Hryb: So the long and the short of this, Laura, now that we've been distracted, is that the home automation is, I think, ripe for a lot of development and consolidation. It's really just frustrating because I've got cameras on one system, cameras on another. Now to be clear, the Bed Jet is not, you notice it was in my home automation folder but it's just in my home folder. There's no automation ... That I'm aware of.
Jeff Rubenstein: I want to say, "Cortana, cool me down."
Larry Hryb: So I've got, then of course we've got Alexa, we've got the hue lights, I've got the Nest stuff, got the doorbell, I've got the front, the whole fricking this is just, it's crazy.
Laura Massey: I didn't know you had an Alexa.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Laura Massey: What do you use her for?
Larry Hryb: Do you want to know one of the best things I use her for? I'm serious. You can ask her weather all day long. Play the Jeopardy Skill. My wife and I play every night at dinner.
Laura Massey: What?
Jeff Rubenstein: What?
Larry Hryb: So what it is, it's an official Skill from Jeopardy, you know the TV show.
Jeff Rubenstein: You have to download that separately?
Larry Hryb: You download the Skill, it's free. And the writers apparently, because they have how many categories do they have? Six categories?
Jeff Rubenstein: Something like that.
Larry Hryb: I think yeah, in Jeopardy they have six categories. They take whatever extra question or two they have and they ask it in Jeopardy. So that day, they have that same category but it'll be basically related to that day, and you play it and you have to answer it and it has Alex Trebek. The only thing she-
Jeff Rubenstein: Wait, Alex Trebek reads it?
Larry Hryb: He doesn't read it. She reads it, but he intros it, "Very good, players, let's see how you did."
Jeff Rubenstein: All right.
Larry Hryb: The only problem with it is, they changed it recently so you say, "Hey, Alexa, let's play Jeopardy." And it's like, there's that moment of silence while she's thinking, and then it says, "Let's play!" It just screams at you. And my wife like shudders and jumps and it's he worst ... They don't like have a little musical, "Let's play Jeopardy!" They're like screaming at you.
Jeff Rubenstein: [inaudible 00:53:12] Gilbert would never have stood for that.
Larry Hryb: No, it is not ... Anyway, but other than that it's a great, do you have one?
Laura Massey: I do.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, so I'm serious. Add the Jeopardy Skill. And then at the end, depending on how you do, and to be honest with you my wife does way better than I do, it'll tell you like, "Hey congratulations, you got six out of six right, you did better than 20 percent of the people."
Laura Massey: Oh no way.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, so it kinda-
Laura Massey: A leaderboard.
Larry Hryb: And you can play it Monday through Friday, 'cause it's all related to the show. It's a lot of fun. So, play the Jeopardy. And then I also have it hooked up to the hue lights so I can say, "Alexa, please turn the kitchen lights on." Boom, they come on, "Turn them off," off. You know, the whole routine.
Laura Massey: You're very polite with your AI.
Larry Hryb: I am.
Laura Massey: Yes you are.
Larry Hryb: You wanna do something? Here, wanna do this? I'm serious, my wife found this one out. "Alexis, sing me a song."
Laura Massey: Does she sing Daisy?
Larry Hryb: No. She sings this country tune that you are gonna love. It is phenomenal, my wife loves that one.
Laura Massey: Alexa sing me a song, is it?
Larry Hryb: Yep.
Laura Massey: Okay. I'll have to give that one a try.
Jeff Rubenstein: It's Oasis. Just, you know, just a spoiler alert.
Yeah, no, in my house it's constantly, "Alexa, tell me a joke." Then it's followed by me having to explain the joke to a seven year old. So Alexa will just tell you endless amounts of pun based jokes.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, so we use that. Of course we have Cortana because that's Windows 10 stuff. So yeah, we're playing around with that stuff. But it's the home automation.
Jeff Rubenstein: We're in a golden age, Len.
Larry Hryb: I'm just, you know, I'm at the point now where I don't know what else I can ... I mean, I've got my garage automated. The garage doors are automated. The whole thing.
Laura Massey: That's right.
Larry Hryb: So when my car is on its way down the street the garage doors open.
Laura Massey: That's pretty cool.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Laura Massey: The car doesn't do that? That's your garage that does that?
Larry Hryb: It's a combination of the car talking to the house talking to the garage door, so it's at least two or three things happening, it's just complicated.
Laura Massey: Yeah.
Larry Hryb: I think I'm done with this project for now though, because I don't know what else I could possibly do.
Laura Massey: You have a doorbell.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, the doorbell.
Laura Massey: You have cameras.
Larry Hryb: Cameras. And then of course there's Sonos for days.
Laura Massey: Yes.
Larry Hryb: So I got that all going on. So yeah, there's all of that stuff. Currently right now, I'm trying to figure out how to code my Harmony remote when my wife turns the TV on to shut all the Sonoses off in the house. I can't figure that out.
Laura Massey: Mm-hmm (affirmative), that's a good one.
Larry Hryb: That's my current tech challenge.
Laura Massey: To turn it off.
Larry Hryb: Yeah. There's got to be a trigger I can-
Laura Massey: There must be a way to do it.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, so if you figure that out let me know. If anybody's done it let me know, hit me up at Major Nelson. All right, anything else now that I've completely brought you into my bedroom and given you a tour of my home? Do you have any home automation stuff Laura?
Laura Massey: The only automation I have is my Bluetooth smoker.
Larry Hryb: Oh, your smoker, right. For some reason I had this mental image of you sitting in a lounge in the back just puffing and dragging, and I was like what?
Jeff Rubenstein: Bluetooth Hookah.
Laura Massey: No, it's my smoker where I cook meats.
Larry Hryb: Which, has it yielded anything?
Laura Massey: Deliciousness.
Larry Hryb: I wouldn't know. Would you know Jeffrey?
Jeff Rubenstein: No.
Larry Hryb: We wouldn't know that.
Jeff Rubenstein: Is it working well?
Laura Massey: It's working very well.
Jeff Rubenstein: Okay, what's your specialty?
Laura Massey: Right now it's ribs.
Jeff Rubenstein: Okay.
Laura Massey: Baby back ribs.
Larry Hryb: Those are good to smoke.
Laura Massey: Yes, they're really good to smoke.
Jeff Rubenstein: Low and slow.
Larry Hryb: Poor baby.
Laura Massey: That's the way. Five hours, 225. I should have, ha ha ha, I should keep a barbecue journal but I don't. Of like, what I did, what worked well, what didn't work well.
Larry Hryb: You're already opening the app to do something. Can't you like tag it with a note or something?
Laura Massey: Yeah, that's a good point. I think there should be.
Larry Hryb: Okay.
Laura Massey: Find a way to do that.
Larry Hryb: I will say this though, I did get a few emails in the [email protected] email account asking if and when Nerd Trivia would ever come back, speaking of the ... 'Cause that to me is one of the best gadgets we had.
Laura Massey: Oh, thank you. Very kind. Thanks to listeners who were fans.
Larry Hryb: Yes, there's still fans. There's a lot of fans out there.
Laura Massey: [crosstalk 00:56:49] someday.
Larry Hryb: I know, I would love it to come back. What about you Jeffrey, other than your-
Jeff Rubenstein: I would also like Nerd Trivia to come back.
Larry Hryb: Would you? Do you have a smoker at your house?
Jeff Rubenstein: No, I've got a grill and I do some grilling. We just like kicked it back up. Because it's a pretty short grilling season here in Seattle. And so I bought more fuel and I feel like it's not getting as hot as it was.
Larry Hryb: Time for a new one.
Jeff Rubenstein: I don't want to, I'd like to be able to fix it.
Larry Hryb: What happens?
Jeff Rubenstein: I don't know, the flames are not going as high as they used to.
Larry Hryb: Do you want me to come over?
Jeff Rubenstein: If you want to, come on by. Make some burgers.
Larry Hryb: I'll come over with my tool belt.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah. Like I take the whole thing apart to clean it. I just, for whatever reason when I put it back together it's just not as hot.
Larry Hryb: Well the flames are shooting out sideways.
Jeff Rubenstein: That's what I want. Yeah, probably, yeah.
Larry Hryb: Oh, here's your problem Jeffrey!
Jeff Rubenstein: It's got my cat. It's real small because we live in the city and we don't have like a ton of room for one of these giant things with the side burner and all that stuff. But, you know, I fancy myself a grillman.
Larry Hryb: I think that was a southern accent I just heard. Side burner.
Laura Massey: It was almost one.
Jeff Rubenstein: There was a little bit of a twang. I can kick into that, it might have been intentional.
Larry Hryb: All right, we're going to wrap the show up here. Again, we're not going to be here, thank you for coming in Laura, I know you're busy with some deadlines. You had your other, you know, your real job kind of pulled into effect here. But I want to thank you for coming by for that. No show next week, I'll be down at the Destiny 2 premiere, you can follow me at Twitter Major Nelson for all the details and updates on that. It's coming to Xbox One. And of course Scorpio, right?
Laura Massey: That's right.
Larry Hryb: That's right. Jeffrey, any final words you want to say?
Jeff Rubenstein: No. I'm looking forward to smoking some meats with you soon.
Laura Massey: Yeah, definitely. Any time.
Larry Hryb: If you're up early in the morning, like on a Saturday or Sunday and you want to know what's going on in the international football scene, follow Jeffrey Rubenstein.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah. I try to restrict the soccer ones to not being too much, but sometimes I can't help myself.
Larry Hryb: I understand.
Jeff Rubenstein: Season's almost over Larry.
Larry Hryb: I feel the same way about my home automation stuff sometimes.
Jeff Rubenstein: There we go. Laura what about you? Follow you at Laura Lollipop?
Laura Massey: That's right, on Twitter.
Jeff Rubenstein: Why don't you throw in some photos of your barbecue, you know, yield?
Laura Massey: I can. I have before, but, you know. Some people complain about seeing food on Twitter.
Larry Hryb: Well E doesn't care.
Laura Massey: That's true.
Larry Hryb: I remember when he was always complaining about people, and he's like, "I don't understand why people are taking," remember he complained about Twitter because he didn't understand Twitter, and why people take pictures of food. Now he does them both, so, anyway.
We gotta get Ian, Ian Stepto actually. I talked to Stepto the other day, they want to come back on the show.
Laura Massey: Yeah, that's fun.
Larry Hryb: So, if you're around Jeffrey.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah.
Larry Hryb: Where were you last time? Oh, you were in Iceland.
Jeff Rubenstein: Was I?
Larry Hryb: I think so. Didn't you go to Iceland on a holiday?
Jeff Rubenstein: I did.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, I think that's where you were. Anyway. All right gang, we'll talk to you guys next week. Follow us on Twitter, say hello to us. You can follow me on Xbox, Major Nelson of course, and feel free to send a note over there hello. And make sure you enter to win cool prizes with Name the Game, 'cause we would love you to win. And we will talk to you guys in a couple of weeks, buh-bye everybody!
Laura Massey: Bye!