608: Cup Head, FM7 and more

Larry Hryb: Hello.
Laura Massey: Hi, Larry.
Larry Hryb: We're just coming off of the, uh, the intro music, kind of chill right now.
Laura Massey: Yeah.
Larry Hryb: I was trying to, I was experimenting with a new intro there, that was one that we used at, uh, PAX.
Jeff Rubenstein: Oh, can you dance to it?
Larry Hryb: Um, you can, you can. I wouldn't.
Jeff Rubenstein: (Laughs)
Laura Massey: Larry ...
Larry Hryb: La- Laura can, I can't.
Laura Massey: Larry wouldn't.
Larry Hryb: As, uh ...
Laura Massey: We've already discussed this.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, so this is the ...
Jeff Rubenstein: Waltzes only for this gentlemen.
Larry Hryb: Welcome ...
Laura Massey: (Laughs) no ...
Jeff Rubenstein: Wearing a suit.
Larry Hryb: No, no ... Not at all, it's just that, just that I ...
Jeff Rubenstein: You're wearing a suit.
Laura Massey: Waltz are the best, don't dis waltzes.
Larry Hryb: I'm not dissing waltzes, I'm just saying dancing is not, as, as has been, um, proven, and on a public stage, that is not my thing, I'm not best at it.
Laura Massey: You know, I would say, yeah, dancing by yourself, super difficult.
Larry Hryb: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Laura Massey: But partner dancing is actually really fun ...
Larry Hryb: It is fun.
Laura Massey: Not nearly as intimidating.
Larry Hryb: Show number 608 here talking about dancing, it's the dancing edition.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: The dancing with no stars edition.
Laura Massey: Finally, a dancing podcast.
Larry Hryb: (Laughs)
Laura Massey: I've found my calling.
Jeff Rubenstein: Just Dance, 20-
Larry Hryb: You know, I, um ...
Jeff Rubenstein: 2018. I'm sure it's all ...
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: It's, it's, it's interesting because, um, have you ever, have you ever gone square dancing?
Laura Massey: Maybe.
Jeff Rubenstein: Is this the, the spin your partner round and round?
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: Is that really a thing, by the way, or is that just ...
Larry Hryb: Well, all I know is I remember when I was in Connecticut I was, I was, uh, this, uh, person that I was, uh, dating, she, her dad was a, uh, a big time caller.
Laura Massey: That's right.
Larry Hryb: Right?
Jeff Rubenstein: A caller?
Larry Hryb: Yeah, he was a big time caller, because that's the, because that's the term. They're callers.
Laura Massey: Yes.
Jeff Rubenstein: Just Dance 2018 is, is coming out.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, there's a demo coming out for Just Dance 2018.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: That's the segue, gang, in case you're listening to this going, "What are they talking about?"
Jeff Rubenstein: Hashtag spawn, uh, yeah.
Larry Hryb: Yes. Anyway, so, uh ...
Jeff Rubenstein: October 24th.
Larry Hryb: Do we have any photos of you doing the square dancing, Laura?
Laura Massey: I don't think so.
Larry Hryb: In a pinafore or something?
Laura Massey: No, I don't think there's any photos that exist. Unfortunately.
Larry Hryb: You, you know, you, you were right at the end of the digital era ...
Laura Massey: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Larry Hryb: Where there were, people were taking pictures, like, obviously I have a daughter now, and Jeff has a daughter, and, you know, taking pictures were, you were doing it on your phone ...
Laura Massey: Constantly, yeah.
Larry Hryb: Like I got, I got 50 pictures today, alone, of my daughter. So, it's ... (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: I, I feel like being a square dance caller is like one of those things you would have loved to do. There's game show host, there's auctioneer ...
Laura Massey: Yes.
Jeff Rubenstein: And I think that anything where you use that voice and you're talking really fast and then ... Yes, Larry. Is. The. Guy.
Larry Hryb: No, I, I ... I just, you know, and I, I never went to see, you know ... I've never experienced the square dancing thing, but the game show thing, that's, that's my jam.
Laura Massey: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Larry Hryb: So, I've got the microphone ...
Laura Massey: True that.
Larry Hryb: And I'm really bummed, because, you know, I do, went back to, was down in L.A. this week, last week, and did, uh, the, the Cuphead and the Force thing, I could have brought my, my microphone.
Laura Massey: You could have, yes.
Larry Hryb: And I, I completely forgot, I'm just an ...
Laura Massey: What were you thinking?
Larry Hryb: I'm an idiot, I'm an idiot.
Jeff Rubenstein: You need doors that you have to open. You could have revealed a car, that would be a great microphone for revealing a car.
Larry Hryb: It's a new car!
Jeff Rubenstein: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: All right, we're here talking about what we're playing. Uh, we've got a lot going on this week. It's, um, we're, we're marching towards the release of Xbox OneX next month, November.
Jeff Rubenstein: And we're in the middle of like all these games ...
Larry Hryb: It's October, which ...
Laura Massey: It's a good place.
Jeff Rubenstein: It's a good time, this is a good place.
Larry Hryb: Which is a, which is a big month. I know Laura, you're a big, uh, Halloween fan?
Laura Massey: I am, (Laughs) I know you're not, but I am.
Larry Hryb: I app-
Laura Massey: I make up for ... (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: I appreciate your passion. We balance each other.
Laura Massey: We average out.
Jeff Rubenstein: You're going to be. You're going to be a Halloween fan.
Larry Hryb: No.
Jeff Rubenstein: Because you gotta dress up that little grub that you have at home.
Laura Massey: (Laughs) Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: Perhaps like a ...
Laura Massey: Cute Halloween costumes.
Jeff Rubenstein: Gears of War grub I, I would recommend.
Larry Hryb: I will, I will, I will explain off the air what, how I've solved that problem.
Jeff Rubenstein: Okay.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: So ... (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: All right, fair enough. Now I'm interested.
Larry Hryb: Anyway, Halloween's here ...
Laura Massey: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Larry Hryb: It's or, on its way. Um, surprise, it's October.
Laura Massey: I know.
Larry Hryb: Right, Laura?
Jeff Rubenstein: It doesn't feel like it.
Laura Massey: When did it become October?
Larry Hryb: Uh, after September?
Jeff Rubenstein: (Laughs)
Laura Massey: Oh, that's right.
Jeff Rubenstein: Oh, they really shuffle that one around.
Larry Hryb: (Laughs)
Laura Massey: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Larry Hryb: Oh, boy. So anyway, we've got Xbox OneX going on in about a month.
Laura Massey: Yes.
Larry Hryb: I was down in L.A., we launched Cuphead.
Laura Massey: Which is awesome.
Larry Hryb: Which is, this game is, it's, these guys did such a great job with it. I was, I was doing the live stream with, uh, the two boys, with the two, the two brothers from ...
Jeff Rubenstein: The Moldenhauers.
Larry Hryb: The Moldenhauers ...
Laura Massey: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Larry Hryb: And, um, I don't know, did you watch the stream on Friday night? Because I was, I was ... Also joining us was special guest star, Clint Eastwood's son, Scott Eastwood.
Laura Massey: Really?
Larry Hryb: Yeah, so, if, if ... Did you see any ... I sent you some of the photos, didn't I?
Laura Massey: No, I didn't see a single photo.
Larry Hryb: Oh, boy. I posted a couple on Twitter, but yeah, I mean ...
Jeff Rubenstein: What's he up to?
Larry Hryb: He's, he's actually, he's in some of the Fast and the Furious films, he is ... Here you go, Laura. Look, take, take a look.
Laura Massey: Is he a big gamer?
Jeff Rubenstein: So we'll see him in 2020.
Larry Hryb: I mean, if you look at him, he looks like, he looks like Clint Eastwood. "Get off my lawn."
Laura Massey: Oh, my gosh, he does.
Larry Hryb: And go to the, if you scroll to the, I think one way or the other you'll see more.
Laura Massey: Yeah.
Larry Hryb: So ...
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: So anyway, we had a great time ...
Laura Massey: He does.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, and it was great because he, you know, he's, he's in, um, uh ... Oh, what ...
Jeff Rubenstein: I thought that was you, I thought you meant you ... He really does look like him.
Larry Hryb: I'm just, I'm blanking out.
Laura Massey: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Larry Hryb: What's, what's, the, uh, what's the big robot movie? Pacific Rim.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yes.
Laura Massey: Okay.
Larry Hryb: So he's in, he's in Pacific Rim, and he was doing re-shoots for that. It comes out next year, so we were, he wanted to come down and play the game. And he's a hardcore gamer, he's telling me stories on the air and a little bit off the air about, um, how his dad has a bunch of cabinets, you know, arcade cabinets ...
Jeff Rubenstein: Mm-hmm (affirmative) Oh ...
Larry Hryb: That he's collected in all his different houses, so I was like, well ...
Laura Massey: Cool.
Jeff Rubenstein: Have us over, Clint.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, right?
Laura Massey: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Larry Hryb: Well, that's Scott, so ...
Jeff Rubenstein: Well, I know, but if his dad has them ... I mean, Scott seems nice, but I'm going to go where the arcade cabinets are.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: A, a fair point. So anyway, we played, we played a lot of Cuphead, that was Friday night. We did it at Meltdown Comics, which is this ... Jeff and I've done an event at Meltdown ...
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah, we've been there. We did, uh, Ori, actually I think we had the launch there ...
Larry Hryb: We did Ori and the Blind Forest, uh, which is right on Sunset.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah.
Larry Hryb: Right on Sun ...
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah, that's a great store.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, it's a great store.
Jeff Rubenstein: That was, I didn't tell you, when we were there ... So I was, I, we, we ... I mean, we're going back a couple years. But I, uh, I was talking with Hank Baskett, former Philadelphia Eagle ...
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: And he does a lot, he's a huge gamer ...
Larry Hryb: Yeah, I know Hank.
Jeff Rubenstein: And he does some stuff with like these games cases, he's up here, uh, he's, he's married to, uh, a former Playmate, um, not Holly, the other one.
Laura Massey: I don't know.
Jeff Rubenstein: From, from ...
Larry Hryb: Not Holly, they only have two names, Holly and the other one. Crystal? (Laughs) Bambi?
Jeff Rubenstein: Oh, my wife's going to kill me.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: My wife's going to kill me. Anyway, at one point I, I ... We don't do a lot of things at Meltdown Comics ...
Larry Hryb: Right.
Jeff Rubenstein: And so I was just going into the back to get like, another sticker for Ori or something, and I walk into the wrong door, and I walked into them just like, look, talk, having a conversation in the back. And I just got a look, and it was like my one experience with, uh, The Girls Next Door, it was like, "Why are you in our, our greenroom?" And I was just ...
Larry Hryb: Oh, that little greenroom in the back, there?
Jeff Rubenstein: I thought that ... Yeah. So, you, you're familiar with the greenroom. Now I gotta look this up.
Larry Hryb: So, Laura, that was a fantastic example of a story not really paying off.
Jeff Rubenstein: Didn't really pay off.
Larry Hryb: (Laughs)
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: Yeah he ... It just, it just was like you couldn't remember the name, facts weren't quite ...
Jeff Rubenstein: Kendra! It was Kendra.
Laura Massey: Okay.
Jeff Rubenstein: Just edit it out.
Larry Hryb: No.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: Just edit it right on out.
Larry Hryb: Gotta leave it in, gotta leave it in.
Jeff Rubenstein: Look, I got to meet Hank Baskett that day, and we talked about the, the Eagles, you know, chances under Chip Kelly, and we saw how that worked out.
Larry Hryb: Speaking of the Eagles, uh ...
Jeff Rubenstein: My family was impressed.
Larry Hryb: Jeff, Jeff and I have a, uh, we're gonna get to what we're playing ... We had a three ...
Jeff Rubenstein: Eww.
Laura Massey: God.
Larry Hryb: (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: See, I was just ...
Larry Hryb: That was the segue ...
Jeff Rubenstein: I forgot about that.
Larry Hryb: That we had at, we played our annual Madden tournament ...
Laura Massey: Yes.
Larry Hryb: Which is, in this case was the best of three. New England versus Eagles.
Laura Massey: Patriots versus Eagles.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, so we played, it was, uh, we played ...
Jeff Rubenstein: Oh, all right, so first game ...
Larry Hryb: First game at Gillette Stadium.
Jeff Rubenstein: Gillette Stadium, we, so we play every year.
Laura Massey: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Jeff Rubenstein: We shouldn't have played like one match. (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: Right. (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: And, and Larry usually wins. So, so first game ...
Larry Hryb: Yup.
Jeff Rubenstein: Uh, Tom Brady, awful game, throws four interceptions ...
Laura Massey: What?
Jeff Rubenstein: Just the, the Gillette crowd was booing him.
Larry Hryb: Yes, it was rough.
Jeff Rubenstein: They won 28 to nothing.
Larry Hryb: (Laughs)
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: Exactly.
Jeff Rubenstein: (Laughs) So then I was like, "All right ..."
Larry Hryb: Then we, then we took it to, not the vet, we took it to ...
Jeff Rubenstein: We took it to the Linc.
Larry Hryb: The Linc in, uh, in ...
Jeff Rubenstein: Lincoln Financial Field ...
Larry Hryb: In Philadelphia.
Jeff Rubenstein: And, and I won that one, I want to say 17 to seven ...
Larry Hryb: Yeah, it was completely ...
Jeff Rubenstein: Uh, yeah, so fewer points in that one.
Larry Hryb: And then ...
Jeff Rubenstein: And then ...
Larry Hryb: And then we went to a neutral place. We decided to go to the newest stadium in the league, which is ...
Jeff Rubenstein: Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta.
Laura Massey: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Jeff Rubenstein: The Benz, they don't call it.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: Um, probably. And this one ...
Larry Hryb: Oh, it was a, it was a nail biter.
Jeff Rubenstein: We were at the top of our game and ...
Larry Hryb: It was a nail biter.
Jeff Rubenstein: It was a, it was a baseball score.
Larry Hryb: (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: Uh, I won on a, a game winning field goal 10 to nine, the Eagles ...
Larry Hryb: Yeah, it was close.
Jeff Rubenstein: Over the Patriots.
Larry Hryb: It was close.
Jeff Rubenstein: We, we, I really think we got worse game after game.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: I think on average there was about seven turnovers per game.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, each of us was just ...
Jeff Rubenstein: With, with four minute quarters.
Larry Hryb: Our games were decaying.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: We had a lot of fun though.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, we did. We had a lot of fun.
Jeff Rubenstein: A ton of fun.
Larry Hryb: Madden is definitely a different look this year.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah, I, I will give you that. And I will say one thing I really enjoyed was, uh, they clearly were, were putting in new commentary. So when I kicked that field goal, that, that massive, uh, 23-yard field goal that I kicked, they, they referenced Jake Elliot, who is on the Eagles, who kicked a 61-yard, game winning field goal like two weeks ago ...
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Laura Massey: Are they like real time ...
Jeff Rubenstein: And they like, referenced that in, and they were talking all about it ...
Laura Massey: Really?
Larry Hryb: Yeah, yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: And it was really cool to ...
Laura Massey: Wow.
Larry Hryb: Yeah it was. Well not real time, but it was very contemporary.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yes, so ...
Laura Massey: Oh my goodness. How do they get that voice acting in there?
Larry Hryb: Well, they, you're down, you down ... Well, Jeff and I were talking about it, you download rosters ...
Laura Massey: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Larry Hryb: So they must have just, it was part, it must have been part of the roster payload.
Laura Massey: That's great.
Jeff Rubenstein: Mm-hmm (affirmative) But it happened real fast, and, and I was like, "Oh, I wonder if that means they're adding new commentary in?" And indeed, context sensitive, so well done, well done to good folks that ...
Larry Hryb: To the Madden team, our friends up, up in, your, your neck of the woods, your former neck of the woods.
Jeff Rubenstein: I, I was just there.
Larry Hryb: I know you were, you were down in Orlando, you went down to Miami.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah, I was, I was definitely freaking out, being away from Xbox when all these games came out. And good thing ...
Larry Hryb: Right.
Jeff Rubenstein: I brought my, I brought my laptop, my gaming laptop.
Larry Hryb: And I had ...
Jeff Rubenstein: And I had Cuphead.
Larry Hryb: You had Cuphead.
Jeff Rubenstein: And I had Forza 7.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: And I had a few other things.
Larry Hryb: Bunch of other things. You had Ori.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah. Uh, I had Ori and the, Ori and the Blind Forest Definitive Edition.
Laura Massey: Awesome.
Larry Hryb: Anyway, so we played our Madden. Uh, been playing ... So, I really haven't had a lot of chance, of course, been playing Cuphead. Have you had a chance to play Cuphead, Laura?
Laura Massey: Not yet.
Larry Hryb: Laura ...
Laura Massey: I know.
Larry Hryb: Well you, I, I don't recall this, are you an animated cartoon fan?
Laura Massey: I do like animation. It's fantastic.
Larry Hryb: Like old school animation?
Laura Massey: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Larry Hryb: Okay, so, like, I, I'm a huge, I think we've talked about this, my ...
Jeff Rubenstein: You're a Tex Avery man.
Larry Hryb: Tex A, absolutely. We, my sisters and I grew up on Bugs Bunny, and we to this day, we still quote Bugs Bunny.
Laura Massey: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Larry Hryb: It's still part of our normal lexicon.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: Um, so they, this, this, the, the Cuphead, I'm sure you've seen the videos, a lot of people have been raving about it. It's, it is, it is pitch perfect, I believe is the best way to describe it.
Jeff Rubenstein: Hm.
Laura Massey: Wow. That's high marks.
Larry Hryb: The game, the game itself, the gameplay is, is unforgiving.
Laura Massey: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Larry Hryb: But the neat part about it is, again, it's an Xbox Play Anywhere title ... The, the mad-, the, the, the levels are like 90 seconds, two minutes long, Jeff?
Jeff Rubenstein: If, yeah, it's one of those things. You're never going to, unlikely you're going to beat something on its first attempt, so you can put in hours and hours and hours, and, and we all did. Except for you, Laura.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: And, um, but then when you actually have like a good run and you actually beat a, a boss, a lot of times it's under two minutes.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: Um, and you're graded on, on your, your skill, your parries, how many hit points you have left and your time.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, so anyways, so check it out. Cuphead, you'll see all the videos, it's as good as people think it is. You've gotta play it, Laura.
Laura Massey: Oh, yes. Fantastic art. Just absolutely mind blowing.
Larry Hryb: I've gotta get some artwork done. I changed my computer profile picture. I've gotta change it back to my, uh, clips one. The one with the Xbox logo ...
Laura Massey: Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: Are you Cuphead or Mugman? Which one are you?
Larry Hryb: I'm both, I'm both.
Jeff Rubenstein: Okay, that's, that's fair.
Larry Hryb: I'm Cuphead and Mugman, so ...
Jeff Rubenstein: That's, uh, I kind of expected ...
Larry Hryb: Right down the middle, right down the middle.
Laura Massey: Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: That's good.
Larry Hryb: What else am I playing? Ah, of course Forza Motorsport 7 is out ...
Laura Massey: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Larry Hryb: That is just beautiful, I play ... Oh, man, um, I'm playing it on, I got a chance to play it on Xbox OneX and it looks just phenomenal, doesn't it?
Laura Massey: Oh, awesome.
Jeff Rubenstein: Oh, yeah.
Larry Hryb: The rain is unbelievable. I think our ...
Jeff Rubenstein: I'm actually playing in dash. I never play in dash, because it's a little harder to play in dash.
Laura Massey: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Jeff Rubenstein: But it looks so good.
Larry Hryb: First person. Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yes, you know there's a couple different like, sort of, there's the hood view and then there's like the chase cam and then the wider chase cam. But the one where you actually see your ... Because you can customize your drivers now for the first time. And so I want to see the driving gloves that I, you know, that, and the outfit that I picked out. The, just like the ...
Larry Hryb: What do you, what are you, what are you wearing if I may?
Jeff Rubenstein: Uh, I switch like every other race. So I think I was wearing something very like, southwestern themed I think it, it was ...
Larry Hryb: Like cowboy boots?
Jeff Rubenstein: Like a cactus almost thing.
Laura Massey: Really?
Jeff Rubenstein: And then I was running one like, uh, Forza Horizon 3 skin for a while. I'm, I'm constantly swapping them out. Like it, when you level up, um, there's a couple different sort of like level meters. One is like how good your, your car collection is, and then another one is uh, uh, on just like, you know, how much, you know from your racing prowess. But, like every time you get a choice of like, you get to choose either money, uh, a, a car, or the outfit, I'm almost always going for the outfit.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, I've got, I got a chance to do this, we did it at the, um, we did the, the stream from the Peterson Car Museum.
Jeff Rubenstein: The museum, yeah.
Larry Hryb: Which you've been to.
Jeff Rubenstein: I, I've only driven by it.
Larry Hryb: Oh, okay.
Jeff Rubenstein: It's part of the ... It looks amazing.
Larry Hryb: Oh, it's, it's phenomenal. Laura, you haven't been there.
Laura Massey: Where is that?
Larry Hryb: It's in L.A.
Laura Massey: Okay, then I ...
Larry Hryb: It is, it is an unbelievable car museum. Got a chance to speak with those guys I was there with. Tanner Faust, who I've worked with ...
Jeff Rubenstein: Oh, I've worked with him, too.
Laura Massey: Really?
Larry Hryb: You remember Tanner.
Laura Massey: He ...
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah, he's a, a drift king of ...
Larry Hryb: Yeah, he is.
Laura Massey: He was on American Top Gear.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, he ...
Laura Massey: He's probably the, the best driver that's probably been on American Top Gear. (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: Yeah he was, he was busting my chops about ... Because, remember, I don't know, were you here? I think you joined us, Jeff. Remember when I had the, the jumpsuit?
Laura Massey: Yes.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yes.
Larry Hryb: You, okay ...
Laura Massey: I remember the jumpsuit.
Jeff Rubenstein: Oh ... (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: (Laughs) I know you can't ... Sorry.
Laura Massey: Did he remember the jumpsuit?
Larry Hryb: Yes, oh, he did.
Laura Massey: Oh no. (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah.
Larry Hryb: Oh he did. So Tanner was there, and also Josef Newgarden who, uh, won the Indy, Indy 500.
Jeff Rubenstein: Hmm.
Laura Massey: Hmm.
Larry Hryb: He was a huge gamer, in fact he started, apparently he started getting into racing from Forza, like back in the day.
Laura Massey: Really? That's cool.
Jeff Rubenstein: That's amazing, yeah.
Larry Hryb: So he was real-, and he was really good. So I got to race with those guys, and I, I promptly lost. Um, which is expected.
Jeff Rubenstein: That ... If, you know, if you had won I'd worry.
Laura Massey: And curious ...
Larry Hryb: Yeah, so they, they, it was great to be with those guys. Anyway, Forza Motorsport 7 out. And again, Xbox Play Anywhere title, play it on your, if you got a PC that's powerful enough, it looks stunning. Uh, this is an Xbox OneX Enhanced title, so if you buy the title now, when you, and you wanna, and you purchase an Xbox OneX, there's going to be more stuff to make it look better. (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: It's gonna look amazing. It's running 4K, 60 ...
Larry Hryb: That's my official marketing term: More stuff to make it look better.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yes. Let's put that on the box.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: And so ... (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: Like, maybe with you winking ala Cuphead?
Larry Hryb: More stuff make it look better.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: Anyways, so that's what I'm playing now. What are you playing, Laura.
Laura Massey: So I'm still stuck in Destiny. I've been going back to that.
Larry Hryb: Stuck?
Jeff Rubenstein: Oh ...
Laura Massey: Well, like, I haven't had a chance to play all the new, the new things, yet.
Jeff Rubenstein: You still play it? Yeah.
Laura Massey: Because I'm still working my way through Destiny.
Larry Hryb: How do you, why do you not play with us? Why won't you play with Jeff and I?
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah, what's your light level?
Laura Massey: I think, I seem ... Uh, but I'm level eight at the moment, so not a massive ...
Jeff Rubenstein: Oh, so you have to finish the story.
Laura Massey: I do. I still have to finish the story.
Larry Hryb: I'll, I'll power level you.
Laura Massey: I'm not 20 yet. (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: Okay, come on.
Laura Massey: It seems that we play at different times, because when I play it's earlier on in the evenings and you guys seem to log in a lot later. But that's okay. Maybe we can coordinate something one of these days.
Larry Hryb: If we, if you, if you tell me, I can rearrange my schedule as best I can.
Jeff Rubenstein: We can, we can run you through the campaign and, uh ...
Larry Hryb: Assuming we're not throwing hail Mary's and ... (Laughs)
Laura Massey: I know, right? (Laughs) [inaudible 00:13:59]
Jeff Rubenstein: I don't know, I kind of wouldn't mind going back.
Larry Hryb: I know.
Laura Massey: What? Are you filming in Madden football ...
Larry Hryb: It is, well, I was just ... What?
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: I was just saying, I'm just saying, if we're, if we're not playing ... Yeah, I would love to play with you Laura. I would love to ... Where, what, and you, you're rolling as Titan or Warlock?
Laura Massey: Warlock.
Larry Hryb: Warlock, right.
Laura Massey: Awoken Warlock, yes. And it's probably an obvious choice for me, but I'm actually really enjoying it, it's really great.
Larry Hryb: There's nothing obvious about you at all.
Laura Massey: I know.
Larry Hryb: (Laughs)
Laura Massey: And then I am also trying to finish my Season 11 challenges in Diablo 3.
Larry Hryb: Right, right. You're chipping away at that.
Laura Massey: Chipping away. Still trying to get through. I'm having trouble with the very last one for Chapter Four.
Larry Hryb: Okay.
Laura Massey: Which is to get through a level 20 rift on your own.
Larry Hryb: Oh.
Laura Massey: I know.
Larry Hryb: I was going to say, let's, let's get to the community to help you out, but nope, can't do that.
Laura Massey: No, can't do it. So I'm playing a Demon Hunter and they are usually a support character.
Larry Hryb: Right.
Laura Massey: One that hangs out in the back and just takes out everybody.
Larry Hryb: So, yeah you, but you, you have no one to hang out in the back of.
Laura Massey: Well, what do you, you know, I know.
Larry Hryb: You're front lines.
Laura Massey: So I have to somehow work my way through getting better gear to be able to get through this rift on my own. So, I, that's my last one before I get all of the awesome gifts.
Larry Hryb: Yes.
Laura Massey: For completing ...
Larry Hryb: Yes.
Laura Massey: The Season 11 challenges.
Larry Hryb: Keep us updated.
Laura Massey: I know.
Larry Hryb: Keep us updated.
Laura Massey: Can't wait to finish it.
Larry Hryb: Well you have, you have to hurry up and finish it, because you have ...
Laura Massey: I know.
Larry Hryb: You have a new Middle Earth coming out.
Laura Massey: Oh, I know.
Larry Hryb: Right, Jeffrey?
Laura Massey: I know.
Jeff Rubenstein: Oh, so soon.
Laura Massey: I got just to play that at PAX. I gotta play it at PAX ...
Jeff Rubenstein: Five days.
Laura Massey: It's going to be so much fun.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: Five days left.
Laura Massey: Oh ...
Larry Hryb: In fact, I think I'm supposed to go ... I just remembered my ...
Jeff Rubenstein: They're right down the street.
Larry Hryb: I'm supposed to go over there and do a stream.
Laura Massey: Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: Why don't we go over there and pick up our copies? Right? Yeah ...
Larry Hryb: I was supposed to go over there and do a stream when those guys ...
Laura Massey: Can I, uh, join you on that one?
Larry Hryb: Oh, oh now you want to join us?
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: Actually, I think I'm ...
Larry Hryb: Now you want to join us. Anyway, uh, yeah so we got that coming out, and I know Jeff's excited about that, right?
Laura Massey: Yes.
Jeff Rubenstein: Oh yeah. And, the previous one, Shadow of Mordor was definitely my favorite game of 2014.
Laura Massey: It was mine as well.
Jeff Rubenstein: We had so much fun with that game.
Laura Massey: It sure was.
Jeff Rubenstein: Avenging each other and everything. And from what I've seen of the game, yeah, oh yeah, there is a stream on Monday that we're part of, I think. At least I'm part of it. Are you going to be joining me?
Larry Hryb: Uh, I ... Is it at Monolith?
Jeff Rubenstein: No, it's, it's from here on, ah, the Xbox, um, Mixer channel.
Larry Hryb: Oh, yeah.
Laura Massey: Awesome.
Larry Hryb: If I'm here I'll do it.
Jeff Rubenstein: All right, well we'll, uh, I'll ...
Larry Hryb: Wanna come, you wanna come join us Laura, for you ...
Laura Massey: Yeah, send me the invite.
Larry Hryb: Oh, come on, really.
Laura Massey: Forward me the invite.
Larry Hryb: Okay, all right. All right. Well, I, and of course, you, dear listener, you're welcome to join us as well. Just, uh ...
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah.
Larry Hryb: Go over to Mixer.com/xbox.
Jeff Rubenstein: Xbox, Monday afternoon.
Larry Hryb: You can join us as well and see what happens there.
Jeff Rubenstein: Well, that's going to be fun.
Larry Hryb: It could be fun. Monday afternoon I'm shooting, shooting a couple things, but anyway. So, anyway, so that's what you're playing.
Laura Massey: Yeah, that's pretty much it.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Laura Massey: Looking forward to getting ahold of all the awesome games that are coming out, like Cuphead ...
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Laura Massey: Forza 7 and Shadow of Mordor.
Larry Hryb: Talking about Jeff's playing Destiny, what else you playing?
Jeff Rubenstein: Oh, a ton of Destiny ...
Larry Hryb: Destiny.
Jeff Rubenstein: Got my light level up like 20 points in the last day. It's like, it's my favorite ...
Laura Massey: What is your light level?
Jeff Rubenstein: It's conference call season. Two, it's only like 264?
Larry Hryb: Yeah, I'm at two ...
Laura Massey: I'm not too far behind, now.
Jeff Rubenstein: No, well ...
Laura Massey: We're only around like 110 or something like that.
Jeff Rubenstein: Oh, okay.
Larry Hryb: 240, 250 I think is where I am.
Jeff Rubenstein: All right, yeah.
Laura Massey: Not too behind.
Jeff Rubenstein: So I'm ready to run a Nightfall, we'll do that pretty soon. We should do that.
Laura Massey: Awesome.
Jeff Rubenstein: Um, so I'm playing a stylistic shooter. Some people are saying it's a little bit too difficult. It's an indy game, it's too ...
Larry Hryb: Who's saying that? Who?
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: Two dimensional, ah, really fast-paced, tough bosses. I'm of course talking about, um, Ruiner ...
Larry Hryb: Wha?
Jeff Rubenstein: Hm? Record scratch. Ah ...
Larry Hryb: Yeah, exactly. (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah, man, Cuphead's not that hard.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: So, uh, so Ruiner is from Devolver Digital's uh, uh, a, an, Xbox Play Anywhere game, and while I was traveling, uh, this came out. Ah, and it is a, it's a really cool game. It has a, sort of like a Blade Runner aesthetic. And you have a helmet with messages on it. You, I'm assuming you're some futuristic Daft Punk, uh, cast off. Ah, pretty interesting. One, a game that I totally had to put the difficulty down from normal, was like too crazy. But, uh, it's sort of a, if you, uh, there's a little bit of Hotline: Miami in this, there's a little bit of, like, Dead Nation, if you ever played that game, which is a cool, uh, sort of, kind of like a twin stick shooter, but not really.
Uh, definitely worth checking out, look at some of the videos. Um, and that's available uh, again, both on Xbox One, and on Windows 10, so ...
Larry Hryb: Kind of, kind of seguing into some of the new stuff ...
Jeff Rubenstein: You can't beat that.
Larry Hryb: Of what Jeff's got some of the headlines.
Jeff Rubenstein: Well, of, of course I do. Ah, but yeah, there's been actually just really a lot of Xbox Play Anywhere games in the last couple weeks. So there, there was Ruiner, there was Cuphead.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: There was, uh, Forza ...
Larry Hryb: Forza.
Jeff Rubenstein: Uh, Hor-, Forza Motorsport 7.
Larry Hryb: Motorsport, mm-hmm (affirmative) ...
Jeff Rubenstein: Uh, and there was, uh, two or three other indy games that were, were available, um, yeah all around the same time. And also, actually, Gwent ...
Larry Hryb: Oh.
Jeff Rubenstein: The Windows 10 version of Gwent.
Larry Hryb: It's, it's in game preview.
Jeff Rubenstein: Is in game preview ...
Laura Massey: Cool.
Jeff Rubenstein: It's a free download and it syncs up with your Xbox version, so go ahead and just ...
Larry Hryb: I just, I, I so worry about going back to that game. Because once I ...
Jeff Rubenstein: And we're going to have to do it.
Larry Hryb: Once I enter the Witcher universe, you just are gone.
Laura Massey: Mmm.
Jeff Rubenstein: Do, so you beat The Witcher, though, right?
Larry Hryb: Uh, well, I finished all of the main line.
Jeff Rubenstein: Okay, so you did beat the ...
Larry Hryb: Um, I haven't done the DLC yet.
Jeff Rubenstein: Oh, see I'm saving the DLCs for the Xbox One Enhanced Edition.
Larry Hryb: Oh, the DLCs, it is, I'm, I'm only about halfway through one, I, I finished the first DLC ...
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah.
Larry Hryb: And, I, I'm a little bit through the second, so ...
Jeff Rubenstein: That may be the first thing I jump back into.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: Because I cannot wait for that.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: And I heard they're just so good. So yes. Uh, anyway so one, that was one of the news bits is that Gwent is available. Do we want to segue, are we doing the full thing?
Larry Hryb: Yeah, let's, let's ...
Jeff Rubenstein: Did you play the stinger? You know, whatever?
Larry Hryb: Jeffery to the news desk.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: Oh, all right, yeah, yeah, now I feel better. So, uh, you mentioned Halloween's coming up ...
Larry Hryb: I did.
Jeff Rubenstein: And, uh, well, it wouldn't be Halloween without the Overwatch Halloween Terror 2017, and it is coming, uh, very soon. October 10th, we're only a few days away.
Laura Massey: Mmm.
Jeff Rubenstein: So, um, new skins. I, I, I feel like they, everyone jumps back into Overwatch every time there's a big, uh ... I mean, God, Summer Games, it, it was insane how many people were playing, so, um ...
Larry Hryb: Yeah, I remember playing with you and you're like, "Okay, I got my skin. Done."
Jeff Rubenstein: No, I ended up playing a ton over the summer.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: No, you did, you did.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah.
Larry Hryb: But I remember it ...
Jeff Rubenstein: Well, yeah, but it took ... Ah, God, I must have spent $100 on loot boxes. I need to not to do that again, probably. Um, so I'm sure there, there's going to be new skins, I'm sure there going to bring back, uh, Dr. Junkenstein's Revenge. What changes may come, I don't know, but, uh, I jumped back in recently to try out the new D'Va sort of loadout with the misses and, and, um, Mercy with her completely revamped look, she's actually ...
Larry Hryb: I, I love my Mercy you know that.
Jeff Rubenstein: New Mercy is really good. They're going to nerf her slightly, I think because she's too good. But, um, battle Mercy is like, I'm, I'm all about it. Anyway, so, uh, Overwatch Halloween, new skins, can't wait to see what they look like.
Larry Hryb: Yes.
Jeff Rubenstein: All right. A lot of people talking about Battle Royale games. Of course, we've got PUBG we've been talking about, um ...
Laura Massey: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Jeff Rubenstein: Um, the Battle Royale version of Fortnite ...
Larry Hryb: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Jeff Rubenstein: Uh, which has been very popular, uh, and is now available on Xbox One. Um, The Culling ... So that was the first Battle Royale on console that I can think of.
Laura Massey: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Jeff Rubenstein: Uh, that came out last spring, it's sort of, it's more melee focused.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, I think it sounds about right, yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: Uh, and that was part of Game Preview, and now they've gone 1.0 so, achievements and all the like, uh, are ready to go. So, um, if you wanna scratch that Battle Royale itch, maybe could have picked a better analogy, uh, this is a good time to do it.
Larry Hryb: Yes.
Jeff Rubenstein: Uh, couple other games out, now, by the way. Uh, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, this is game that there's just dozens and dozens of hours. It came out in the 360 era, uh, and now it's sort of a, a remastered version.
Larry Hryb: That was a good era, I like that era.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah, it was a good era.
Larry Hryb: (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: And through the magic of backwards compatibility you can still live in it.
Larry Hryb: That's right.
Laura Massey: That's true, that's great.
Larry Hryb: That's right, you can always go back.
Jeff Rubenstein: Uh, so Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, that would be a game that you potentially my want to ... Definitely like, I'd say something about cult hit, but like, so much gameplay for this. Um, Batman The Enemy Within: Episode Two. This is the Telltale story ...
Laura Massey: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Jeff Rubenstein: Uh, uh, so Episode Two is now available on Xbox One. Uh, an indy game that I've heard a lot of good things about, N++, you may have played N+ ...
Laura Massey: Yeah.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: On, uh, on 360.
Laura Massey: We did.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: Uh, so N++ is now available on Xbox One.
Laura Massey: Awesome.
Larry Hryb: People were excited about that. They were like, "Wait a minute, I thought I was going to have to wait." Yeah, I saw some noise on, uh, some Twitter people were like very excited about that.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yes.
Larry Hryb: N++.
Jeff Rubenstein: Um, and another indy game that, um ... This is not my scene, but then again golf is not my scene and I love playing golf games. Uh, this look, this game looks really good, I've seen people play it. And that is: The Hunter Call of the Wild.
Larry Hryb: Not a golf game.
Jeff Rubenstein: Not a golf game ...
Larry Hryb: (Laughs)
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: But it's, I'm not a hunter, I, I don't, I don't, you know, I don't own ...
Larry Hryb: You are ...
Jeff Rubenstein: I don't go into Bass Pro Shops that often.
Larry Hryb: I, actually I disagree.
Jeff Rubenstein: Really?
Larry Hryb: You're a different type of hunter. I've seen you, when we go to Germany, you're hunting for those sneakers.
Jeff Rubenstein: Oh, well that's true.
Larry Hryb: (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: It's kind of the same thing, you have to go and you have to find like rare NMDs and, and Yeezys and stuff ...
Larry Hryb: Right.
Jeff Rubenstein: Oh, no, you have to shoot deer in the neck, but hey, it looks really cool.
Laura Massey: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Jeff Rubenstein: So, um, if you're a fan of hunting games, this one looks, uh, the graphics are just phenomenal. And really, it's better to kill like, fake animals than real ones, probably.
Larry Hryb: Yep.
Jeff Rubenstein: I, I mean, maybe, I don't know. I hear there's a lot of deer out there. I'm not the person to ask. Uh, and then finally ... Well, like if you took out the predators, you know, and there's not wolves to take off the ...
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: Everything gets out of whack. Kill the fake animals, please.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: And finally a new Xbox One S, the Assassin's Creed Origins Bundle has been announced.
Larry Hryb: Yes it is. Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Jeff Rubenstein: Beautiful box.
Laura Massey: Oh, cool.
Jeff Rubenstein: The key art for Assassin's Creed Origins is phenomenal. Uh, and that launches October 27th, along with the game. So, uh ...
Larry Hryb: Can we talk about it for a second?
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah, let's do it?
Larry Hryb: Here's a little tip ...
Jeff Rubenstein: Oh ...
Larry Hryb: I don't think anybody's told, I don't think this is public yet ...
Jeff Rubenstein: Shh, let's keep this one ...
Larry Hryb: I will be in New York on the evening of the 26th at the New York Microsoft store on beautiful 5th Avenue.
Jeff Rubenstein: Oh, that's just wonderful.
Larry Hryb: Ah, on the evening of the 26th, so if you're in the area I'll have more details on that probably next week or the week after. But there's just, block your calendars off, I'm coming to New York.
Jeff Rubenstein: So a little bit about this bundle. It's, ah, it's not, you would think, "Oh, it's just going to be an Xbox One S, with, or with Assassin's in ..." Of course ...
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: But, uh, two different versions. There's a one terabyte or a 500 gig, uh, hard drive. Has Assassin's Creed Origins download code of course, but also Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, which, enjoying a very long life. Uh, a month of Xbox Game Pass subscription.
Larry Hryb: Right.
Jeff Rubenstein: And, uh, Xbox Live Gold, a 14-day trial experience if, if somehow you're listening to this show and don't have Gold, then, uh, well, that's one way to do it.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: It's going to be available for $349.00 USD, and, uh, you know, other, other values as well depending on your region and, and the size of the, the hard drive that you're looking for.
Larry Hryb: Uh, so there's a lot of selections and choices.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah. Oh, actually in the story it does mention it has the details on, uh, the, the launch event in New York, so ...
Larry Hryb: Oh it does?
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah.
Larry Hryb: Oh, okay, I didn't if we were ...
Jeff Rubenstein: Your name's not ... Oh, your name's on it.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: All right, I'll just link out to it, how about that?
Larry Hryb: What? Why, why was it disa-, did I disappoint you?
Jeff Rubenstein: No, I thought that they had left you out of it. You're the ...
Larry Hryb: Oh, no, no.
Jeff Rubenstein: You're the real draw.
Larry Hryb: Ah, no, Assassin's Creed is the draw, I am merely just a vessel to deliver it. Or something like that.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: Yes. Larry, he's a real vessel.
Larry Hryb: Ah. All right, what else you got there for news, Jeffrey?
Jeff Rubenstein: I think that's more than enough, don't we also ...
Larry Hryb: Really?
Jeff Rubenstein: Did I leave something out?
Larry Hryb: Is it? You know we're, what are we? Five or six weeks away from Xbox OneX launch? I'll be sharing ...
Jeff Rubenstein: Four, four weeks.
Larry Hryb: Four weeks.
Jeff Rubenstein: Nah, well a month. We'll just say a month.
Larry Hryb: I'll be, I'll be the, I'll be sharing details of where I'm going to be for launch for that. Laura? Let's do that probably in the next couple weeks.
Jeff Rubenstein: I don't know where I'm going to be.
Larry Hryb: You're going to be with me, right?
Jeff Rubenstein: I hope so.
Larry Hryb: Laura, you can come with us. Well can't say where it is yet, so ...
Laura Massey: Yeah, oh. Secret location.
Larry Hryb: It's not here. It's not here.
Laura Massey: Okay.
Larry Hryb: You will have to get on an air-o-plane to visit it.
Laura Massey: Ooh.
Jeff Rubenstein: Mmm, fancy.
Larry Hryb: That's, that's all I can say.
Jeff Rubenstein: Fly the friendly skies.
Laura Massey: Hope there's hints coming ...
Larry Hryb: All right, gang ...
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: Yes, so, we're going to, moving along here, I want to talk about, uh, after, we're going to do Name the Game now, if you're okay with ...
Laura Massey: Oh, okay, so time for Name the Game?
Larry Hryb: Yeah, time for Name the Game.
Laura Massey: Sure.
Larry Hryb: After that I'm going to tell you about, uh, I got a chance to see a preview of a movie that's out this weekend.
Jeff Rubenstein: What?
Larry Hryb: Blade Runner.
Laura Massey: Did you see Blade Runner?
Larry Hryb: I saw Blade ...
Laura Massey: You saw Blade Runner?
Larry Hryb: Yes.
Laura Massey: Awesome, can't wait to hear about it.
Larry Hryb: So, we'll talk about that in a second. All right, you ready?
Laura Massey: Yes, let's do Name the Game from last time ...
So that was Name the Game from last time, and the game was Maize.
Larry Hryb: Yes. I've been playing that.
Laura Massey: Spelled like co-, the corn maize ...
Larry Hryb: Right, right.
Laura Massey: Not the puzzle ...
Larry Hryb: M-A-Z-E, not M-A-Z-E.
Laura Massey: Correct.
Larry Hryb: Although it is, there is some puzzles in here.
Laura Massey: There is sort of a ...
Larry Hryb: There is a corn maze in Maize.
Laura Massey: Wow, that's great. But it is a good, uh ...
Jeff Rubenstein: That's gonna freak me out though.
Laura Massey: (Laughs). Exactly it's a good seasonal pick.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah, that's true.
Laura Massey: With Halloween coming up.
Larry Hryb: It's thematic.
Jeff Rubenstein: A lot of corn mazes up here.
Laura Massey: Great game. There are, aren't there?
Jeff Rubenstein: We like the corn mazes.
Laura Massey: So, who was the winner?
Larry Hryb: Who was the winner? I'm asking you? Don't ask me.
Laura Massey: The winner was Grant from Cleveland, Ohio.
Larry Hryb: Cleveland ...
Laura Massey: Congratulations, Grant. His Gamertag is Sarcastic Junk. So, way to go ...
Larry Hryb: Yes ...
Laura Massey: Good job getting the answer correct.
Larry Hryb: What did, what did Grant win?
Laura Massey: Oh, my goodness, so ...
Jeff Rubenstein: A new Gamertag?
Laura Massey: (Laughs) No, not that. He got a lot of awesome stuff here. I got a big list. He got a copy of N++, which you chatted about before. He also got a copy of Inverse Deluxe, which is an ID Xbox game. A copy of Zombie Party, also a good seasonal pick, ID Xbox game. That's not all, he got a copy of Cuphead, a copy of FIFA 18 ...
Larry Hryb: Wow.
Laura Massey: The Ronaldo Edition.
Larry Hryb: That's Jeff's favorite.
Jeff Rubenstein: Oh ...
Laura Massey: Jeff's favorite.
Jeff Rubenstein: He's a good looking man.
Laura Massey: And you also, Grant, you also get a copy of Forza Motor, Motorsport 7, Ultimate Edition.
Larry Hryb: All right.
Laura Massey: Fantastic. Grant you also get a copy of an Xbox Live Prepaid one month EA Access membership, and ...
Larry Hryb: Wow, this is games, this is so many games.
Laura Massey: And, that's not all, you also get a copy of an Xbox Game Pass for three months.
Larry Hryb: Wow, so not ...
Laura Massey: So ...
Larry Hryb: So 100 games in there, plus all the rest of the games, this is ...
Laura Massey: So many games.
Larry Hryb: Grant, my Lord.
Laura Massey: You get so many games.
Larry Hryb: Busy, you are gonna be busy in Cleveland, my friend.
Laura Massey: That's right.
Larry Hryb: You are going to be busy in Cleveland.
Laura Massey: So many awesome games are on the list.
Jeff Rubenstein: I mean, when your Browns are O and four, you know, why don't you turn your attention to games?
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: Aw ...
Jeff Rubenstein: Games are good.
Larry Hryb: What about the Indians?
Jeff Rubenstein: The Indians are good.
Larry Hryb: The Indians are ...
Jeff Rubenstein: I know, I haven't played attention to the playoffs, are they doing all right? Let's just hope, let's hope so.
Laura Massey: All right, well ...
Larry Hryb: Thank you, Laura. (Laughs)
Laura Massey: Should we do another Name the Game?
Larry Hryb: Yes, to get out of this silly sports talk, yes.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: Dancing or sports, you've had your choice.
Laura Massey: Oh, goodness. So if you, listener, would like to win those fabulous prizes, so many games, it's really easy: All you have to do is listen to these sound effects that I'm about to play, and then guess what game that is. So let's roll the sound effects ...
So that was Name the Game for this time. Again, you too could win fabulous prizes.
Larry Hryb: Fabulous.
Laura Massey: Super easy, all you have to do is send me an email ...
Larry Hryb: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Laura Massey: [email protected], and CC [email protected], and let us know what game that's from.
Larry Hryb: And what do they have to do when they email us? Because why don't you go through that a little ...
Laura Massey: Very easy; subject line: Name the Game, in the body of the email, what game that, those sounds are from. If you want to you can include your name and include your Gamertag, but all you have to do, just send us an email. Really simple. And if you can hear our voice ...
Larry Hryb: Yes.
Laura Massey: You can enter this contest.
Larry Hryb: That's it.
Jeff Rubenstein: I also apologize if you can hear our voice ...
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: It's ... You, you've made some decisions that you may not be happy with.
Laura Massey: You, you have, they've made some commitments ...
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah.
Laura Massey: But hey, they could win prizes for listening.
Jeff Rubenstein: That's true. That makes it worth more.
Larry Hryb: And to, and to quote Blake from Glengarry Glen Ross: "It's just waiting for you. Go pick up these prizes." He, it was the Alec Baldwin character.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: Oh, I only remember the, the, uh, the part about coffee being for closers.
Larry Hryb: Well it's the, it's in the same speech.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah, yes.
Larry Hryb: And of course, you know ... Anyway, so, the, the prizes are waiting for you. Send us an email. All right, Laura?
Laura Massey: That's it.
Jeff Rubenstein: How about coffee? We should send coffee next time.
Laura Massey: I don't know if our listeners would enjoy coffee with their games.
Jeff Rubenstein: You gotta stay up late and grind out that light level, maybe a little bit more coffee and you'd be running a Nightfall with us tonight.
Laura Massey: Yeah, maybe. Maybe ...
Jeff Rubenstein: See? See? I can rationalize anything.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: I had too much coffee, I think.
Larry Hryb: What, whatever you need ... Yeah, trust me, he has, he's on his ...
Laura Massey: Is his coffee right here? I can smell it.
Larry Hryb: Yes.
Jeff Rubenstein: yeah.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: That's, that's coffee right there. I mean, I thought I drank a lot, you, you're just a ...
Jeff Rubenstein: It's good for you.
Larry Hryb: You're just an animal.
Jeff Rubenstein: That's what they ...
Laura Massey: I don't know if it is good for you ...
Jeff Rubenstein: They keep coming out, it's, it's ... All right, well, we'll find out eventually.
Laura Massey: I suppose we will.
Larry Hryb: So a couple things, ah, I teased this at the top of the show; I had a chance to see a screening ... By the time this airs, uh, it'll be out, is, uh, I saw, uh, Blade Runner, the new Blade Runner. 2047?
Laura Massey: That's super awesome.
Jeff Rubenstein: 2040 ...
Laura Massey: 2049.
Larry Hryb: 2049.
Jeff Rubenstein: Nine.
Larry Hryb: Right, I'm sorry about that. I don't know where 47 came from. Uh, so that's a lot of fun. I was thinking that this is the ... I've done, I've done a lot of press screenings. I've been, I've been doing movie press screenings for 25 years ...
Laura Massey: Awesome.
Larry Hryb: Just a long time.
Jeff Rubenstein: Back when they called them Talkies.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: That's ... Can't, you can't see me, dear listeners, but I'm flipping Jeff off. (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: (Laughs) He is. He, he is.
Larry Hryb: Um, but I, I remember, this is the first screening I've ever been to where some, the representative from the marketing, or the studio came out and basically said, "If you talk about the film we'd like you not to include any plot details, or basically tell ... " Basically we can just say that we saw the film, that's it.
Laura Massey: Oh, really?
Larry Hryb: Yeah, it was very strange because there's a lot of ...
Laura Massey: It's not even under embargo.
Larry Hryb: I will say the, the film's beautiful and it's, it feels 80s sci-fi that's, okay, I've said enough.
Laura Massey: Awesome.
Jeff Rubenstein: I, you've sold me.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: Uh, the less I know the better ...
Laura Massey: I agree.
Larry Hryb: I will say this, though, Laura, when I, you know, one of the questions, because I've been doing this so long, I always ask, "So, how long is the film?" This film's two hours and 40 minutes.
Laura Massey: Woo.
Jeff Rubenstein: So, uh, you may wanna make a pit stop right before you head on in ...
Larry Hryb: Yeah, and so ... And hit, hit, hit ..
Jeff Rubenstein: And don't get the big soda.
Laura Massey: Yeah, nope.
Larry Hryb: Hit the little, you're gonna wanna hit the little developer's room on the way in there ...
Laura Massey: (Laughs) Oh, my God.
Larry Hryb: Because it, it is (Laughs) it is, it is, uh, woo, it's a long one. So, make sure you, uh, plan appropriately.
Laura Massey: Thanks for the tip.
Larry Hryb: You're gonna see that next week.
Laura Massey: Yes.
Larry Hryb: Ah, what else? You know what else I'm watching, is, um, is, I've been watching, uh, the Ken Burns Vietnam series.
Laura Massey: Oh, really?
Larry Hryb: Have you watched this on PBS?
Laura Massey: No, Mm-mm (negative).
Larry Hryb: Phenomenal. On the United States Public Broadcasting System. It is, I think I'm six or seven episodes in, and I don't know about you, Laura, or you Jeff, but, there's a lot I learned from this that kind of wasn't mentioned in my high school history classes, to be honest with you.
Laura Massey: Oh, really?
Larry Hryb: Yeah, there's, I was like, "Oh, really? Uh, what?"
Laura Massey: Do they just have the dope, or ...
Larry Hryb: Yeah, a lot, a lot of high level stuff was left over this, this, so if you get a chance to watch Ken Burns' Vietnam, I highly recommend it. Did you see it, Jeff?
Jeff Rubenstein: No, I'm going to rent Blade Runner. It's only on the Windows 10 like Movies and TV store it's $4.00, I'm just going to go ahead and rent it and I'm going to watch it.
Laura Massey: Yeah, it's a good precursor.
Jeff Rubenstein: I need to, I need to catch up.
Laura Massey: To remind yourself ...
Jeff Rubenstein: You got me excited for it. Ah, no, but I did watch that documentary on Netflix.
Larry Hryb: Oh, the one I, we were talking about, that right I, I tweeted that out ...
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah, called The Longshot.
Larry Hryb: Longshot, have you seen this one, Laura?
Laura Massey: No.
Larry Hryb: This is a fascinating documentary. It's only about 40 minutes long, right Jeff?
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah, yeah.
Larry Hryb: 40, 45 minutes long and it's a ... Go ahead.
Jeff Rubenstein: I feel like the less, all right ... Involved Larry David from ...
Larry Hryb: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Laura Massey: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Jeff Rubenstein: Curb Your Enthusiasm, and someone wrongly accused of murder.
Larry Hryb: That's all you need to know.
Jeff Rubenstein: That's all you need to ... And Dodger's Stadium.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: That's all you need to know.
Jeff Rubenstein: You don't need to know anything else.
Larry Hryb: And, and go watch it, because it, it's on Netflix ...
Jeff Rubenstein: It ... yeah.
Larry Hryb: It's on Netflix.
Jeff Rubenstein: It was, it was really good.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: And maybe a little moving.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: So ...
Larry Hryb: It was, it was ... You know, I really don't want to say anything more than that.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah.
Laura Massey: Okay.
Larry Hryb: But go watch, 45 minutes.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah.
Laura Massey: Eh, that's not too bad.
Larry Hryb: Okay? Okay? In fact that, there's your homework, folks. Go watch the Vietnam on PBS, go watch, um, Longshot on ... I did a lot of stuff while I was traveling, I guess.
Laura Massey: That's because you had lots of time to watch ...
Larry Hryb: Well yeah, yeah in the airplane and the ...
Laura Massey: Watching movies and things.
Larry Hryb: Of course the plane was delayed and all the rest of that stuff.
Jeff Rubenstein: The usual, for Larry.
Laura Massey: So Larry has, so ...
Larry Hryb: Well it's funny because I work, somebody I work with, Ryan ...
Laura Massey: Yes.
Larry Hryb: Who's our, one of our video editors, when I arrived in Seattle on Sunday, I was, he ... Because I knew he was all, "Hey, are you going somewhere?" He was, he was headed down to San Francisco for the virtual reality event ...
Laura Massey: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Larry Hryb: Uh, that we had earlier in the week.
Laura Massey: Right.
Larry Hryb: And he said, "Oh, yeah, I'm, I'm at, at, I think I'm at gate 810." And I said, "Oh, that's my plane. I'm, you know, you're gonna take my plane down to San Francisco." So, I have a, we, it's well documented I have terrible travel karma.
Laura Massey: You do.
Jeff Rubenstein: The worst.
Larry Hryb: You never want to see me getting on your airplane, because that means there's gonna be a problem. Sure enough, uh, Ryan texts me like an hour later. They were stuck at the gate for like an hour and a half or so, because there was a problem. So, I was, even when I'm not on the plane, my karma stink stays there.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah, that one time we flew together.
Larry Hryb: Right?
Jeff Rubenstein: I got sick. That was ...
Larry Hryb: So ...
Jeff Rubenstein: That was not about, at first I thought it was about me, because I normally assumed ...
Larry Hryb: Which, which, when was this?
Jeff Rubenstein: When we went to PAX East ...
Larry Hryb: Oh, no.
Jeff Rubenstein: That was about making your flight miserable.
Larry Hryb: No, but then there was the ...
Jeff Rubenstein: You had the middle chair and I was gonna vomit on you for five hours.
Larry Hryb: That's, that's right. Well that was when we were playing Switch and you were getting angry at me. (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: Yes, oh my God, I don't want to think about that.
Laura Massey: That reminds me ...
Larry Hryb: Yes.
Laura Massey: I finally got a Switch and I've been playing Zelda.
Larry Hryb: Oh.
Jeff Rubenstein: That's a good one.
Laura Massey: I just, just started. It's so good.
Larry Hryb: Now you know why we were talking about it at PAX, right?
Laura Massey: Yes, exactly. It's fantastic. Huge world, so much to do, and like I think what you were saying about it, like if you have an idea of what you could do, you could do it.
Larry Hryb: It, it's the game that says, "Yes."
Laura Massey: (Laughs) The game that says, "Yes." But, yes ...
Jeff Rubenstein: That's a good way of putting it.
Larry Hryb: It's the game that always just says, "Yep, you wanna do that? Yes you can. You wanna go over there? Yes you can. You wanna die like that? Yes you can." (Laughs)
Laura Massey: Yeah, yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: (Laughs) Can and will.
Larry Hryb: I think, I think actually have some, I don't know if I have them on here ... I had some Zelda sounds ...
Laura Massey: Yes, the sounds are iconic.
Larry Hryb: So how ... Yeah, well, well some of them are just, I mean, the sound design in that particular game is just, is just phenomenal anyway.
Laura Massey: Oh, it is.
Larry Hryb: Do I have any in here.
Laura Massey: And you can probably guess what I started doing immediately.
Larry Hryb: What, fishing?
Laura Massey: Collecting things and cooking them.
Larry Hryb: Oh, yeah.
Laura Massey: Farming.
Larry Hryb: Oh, oh, yes.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: So you need to learn how to cook things properly ...
Laura Massey: Yes.
Larry Hryb: Because there's a lot of, uh ...
Laura Massey: Huge recipes ...
Larry Hryb: There's a lot of ...
Laura Massey: I've been experimenting.
Larry Hryb: There's a lot of recipes you could, you could do really well with, so ...
Laura Massey: Yeah, I'd love to get that list, because I've just been guessing and checking.
Larry Hryb: No, no, there's, there's some good stuff there. Because there, you get, have you gotten the bonus yet? Where it kind of goes ...
Laura Massey: Yes. And then you, and then you get five ...
Larry Hryb: And Link gets really excited.
Laura Massey: Yes, and you get a five ...
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Laura Massey: Hearts instead of just the two that you were expecting.
Larry Hryb: Yeah. Anyway, so we don't want to talk too much about that, because you're gonna have fun with that.
Laura Massey: Yes.
Larry Hryb: Because you're never gonna, you're never gonna finish your other games, because that, that game, that game sucked me in for like two months.
Jeff Rubenstein: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Laura Massey: That game is ...
Jeff Rubenstein: I still never made it.
Laura Massey: Huge.
Jeff Rubenstein: I feel terrible about that.
Larry Hryb: Anyway, what, what I was talking about is we've been on more planes, what about the time we went to Alamogordo?
Jeff Rubenstein: That was a, I mean, that, we, we were on time, but then we had to go to the remote terminal ...
Larry Hryb: That was a bizarre one. That's where we actually had to walk out on the tarmac at LAX.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yes.
Larry Hryb: Remember that?
Jeff Rubenstein: And ...
Larry Hryb: (Laughs)
Laura Massey: Oh, my goodness.
Jeff Rubenstein: It was probably ...
Larry Hryb: It was like 90 degrees.
Jeff Rubenstein: Maybe the bumpiest flight I've ever had ...
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: The one going into El Paso.
Larry Hryb: Right.
Jeff Rubenstein: Um, but then we ...
Laura Massey: When you went to ...
Larry Hryb: Alamogordo ...
Jeff Rubenstein: The ET Dig.
Laura Massey: Yes.
Larry Hryb: The ET Dig.
Laura Massey: The, the ET thing. The dump where you were digging up trash.
Larry Hryb: Yes, oh, God.
Jeff Rubenstein: And then we went to a fast food restaurant in El Paso and they immediately recognized you.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: It happens.
Jeff Rubenstein: And, and didn't hook it up.
Laura Massey: Oh, my goodness, that's amazing.
Larry Hryb: Yes, yes, I'm that guy.
Jeff Rubenstein: The tea had never been sweeter.
Larry Hryb: You ... (Laughs)
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: Anyway, it was ... Did we, didn't we get stopped? Remember there was that weird ...
Jeff Rubenstein: Oh, we did, yeah.
Larry Hryb: That weird border control, which is nowhere near the border.
Jeff Rubenstein: Like in the middle of nowhere, yeah.
Larry Hryb: In the middle of nowhere there's a border control place.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah.
Laura Massey: Oh.
Larry Hryb: That you have to pull over.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yep.
Larry Hryb: And we got waved through.
Jeff Rubenstein: That we did.
Laura Massey: Good.
Larry Hryb: "Where you boys going?" (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: A landfill, sir. (Laughs)
Laura Massey: Going to the dump. (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: All right.
Larry Hryb: "What you doing?" Digging up cartridges.
Laura Massey: Okay ...
Larry Hryb: Have a nice day. (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: (Laughs)
Laura Massey: Off you go.
Larry Hryb: Anyways, so, uh, I want to hear more about your Link experience.
Laura Massey: Yes.
Larry Hryb: Um, did you, did you, did you send me your Friend's Code?
Laura Massey: No.
Larry Hryb: I'll send you my Friend's Code.
Laura Massey: Okay.
Larry Hryb: Because it's ...
Laura Massey: Is there any kind of multiplayer?
Larry Hryb: Not, not with that game, but at least I can ...
Laura Massey: Okay.
Larry Hryb: You can, I can creep on you and see how long, how many hours you play.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: I can't, there's not rich presents, but I can see that you played the game ...
Laura Massey: I see ..
Larry Hryb: And how many hours you play, that's it.
Laura Massey: That's all you can see? That part?
Larry Hryb: Yeah, so ... Are you ...
Laura Massey: How many hours have you put into it?
Larry Hryb: Ooh, well north of 120.
Laura Massey: Goodness gracious.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, well north of that.
Laura Massey: How long does it take?
Jeff Rubenstein: He's a traveling man.
Laura Massey: Yes, how long does (Laughs) ... That's true. How long did take to finish the story?
Larry Hryb: I, so here's the thing, and I, I don't know if I've mentioned this, uh, I have not finished the story.
Laura Massey: 100 hours, and not finished.
Larry Hryb: Because I know ...
Jeff Rubenstein: Also you can basically after like the first hour, if you wanted to, and were amazing, you could just run straight towards Ganon and kill him.
Laura Massey: Oh.
Larry Hryb: So there's, there's a ... Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: I wouldn't recommend it.
Laura Massey: No.
Larry Hryb: There, I know that there's a castle in the center of the map, but I know that I have to go there to finish it, and I keep, I'm like, "Yeah, okay. I'm okay ..."
Jeff Rubenstein: I'm not ready, yeah.
Larry Hryb: I'm going to go over here, and I'm going to do this thing, and I'm going to go over here and do this thing, and I'm gonna ... I just, I just, I'm having so much fun in the world.
Laura Massey: Yes.
Larry Hryb: So I'm like I'm kind of, I'm kind of putting off the inevitable. So ...
Laura Massey: I see.
Larry Hryb: Anyway, uh, I look forward to hearing what you say about that, so ...
Laura Massey: Cool.
Larry Hryb: Uh, what else can I tell you? Um, gee whiz. Hey, you know what I loading on my phone, Laura? Take a look at this, I was showing, showing Jeffery this at lunch. That you can now, you can now get ... Down here. You can now get the Edge browser ...
Laura Massey: Edge.
Larry Hryb: On your, on your IOS device, and your Android device.
Laura Massey: Yes. Awesome.
Jeff Rubenstein: And I think the best part about that, I believe there's like a functionality where if you're looking at something on your desktop, or your laptop, then you can pick it right up there on your phone.
Larry Hryb: And vice versa.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah.
Laura Massey: Oh, that's a fantastic feature.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yes.
Larry Hryb: Right?
Laura Massey: Pick up where you left off.
Larry Hryb: Right.
Jeff Rubenstein: Exactly.
Larry Hryb: I think I, I think all I end up doing is I think I either, whatever I, whatever I'm reading, and I want to remember to go look at it later, I think I text it to one of you guys.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: Hey, did you see this? Why is he sending me that? That's so I can look at it later.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: So, you're, you're my living book, uh, bookmarks gang.
Jeff Rubenstein: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: Somewhat. Anyway, what else do we have to discuss, Jeffrey?
Jeff Rubenstein: No, nothing, I think I'm good.
Laura Massey: So I little bit of news.
Larry Hryb: Oh.
Jeff Rubenstein: Wha?
Larry Hryb: Oh, news.
Jeff Rubenstein: This is a surprise. Unrehearsed.
Larry Hryb: This is.
Laura Massey: Yep. And rehearsed. You guys know or remember me talking about an application that we built for Holland called Onsite?
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah.
Larry Hryb: The Mars ...
Laura Massey: Yeah, that's the tool that we worked with JPL to allow their scientists to better explore Mars.
Larry Hryb: Right.
Laura Massey: That was nominated for a Unity Award. Unity is the engine that we built that experience in.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, a lot of games are built using Unity.
Laura Massey: A lot of games and, um, mixed reality and VR games are built in Unity.
Larry Hryb: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Laura Massey: That was up for an award.
Larry Hryb: Oh.
Laura Massey: Mixed reality, best augmented reality or mixed reality experience.
Larry Hryb: Who, do you remember who else was in that category.
Laura Massey: There was some other games. A mural drawer, I can't remember the others. I didn't really look through ...
Larry Hryb: They didn't send you to Mars, though.
Laura Massey: Yes ...
Larry Hryb: None of them sent, only yours sent you to Mars.
Laura Massey: Exactly. So I was really excited to be even nominated.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Laura Massey: To be considered as part of one of the best mixed reality experiences that have been made on Unity.
Larry Hryb: That was one of my very first, uh, holo lens experiences.
Laura Massey: That's right. And I, and I think I worked with you then.
Larry Hryb: You did.
Laura Massey: Yep.
Larry Hryb: Because, remember I was like crawling all over the place.
Laura Massey: You, you were. (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: I was like an animal.
Laura Massey: Yes.
Jeff Rubenstein: That seems like something you would do.
Larry Hryb: I remember Laura standing on the desk saying, "What the fudge is he doing?"
Jeff Rubenstein: (Laughs)
Laura Massey: Yeah, and I think I told you afterwards like you were the most mobile person ...
Larry Hryb: (Laughs) Right.
Laura Massey: That I had taken through that demo.
Larry Hryb: Right, I was, I was trying to break it. (Laughs)
Laura Massey: Yeah. (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: Well, and we actually forgot a news bit that you just jogged my memory ... We had a big mixed reality moment in San Francisco this week, where, Samsung unveiled their ...
Larry Hryb: We'll get back to Laura, hold on.
Jeff Rubenstein: Their mixed reality headset.
Larry Hryb: Jeff's just T-boning your conversation.
Laura Massey: Right?
Jeff Rubenstein: No, I thought we wrapped up. Congratulations ... No, I'll back off.
Larry Hryb: Did she, did she say she won.
Jeff Rubenstein: No.
Larry Hryb: She was building up to that ... (Laughs)
Laura Massey: (Laughs) I was ...
Jeff Rubenstein: You won, yeah of course you won.
Laura Massey: Yeah, Onsite won.
Larry Hryb: Yay.
Laura Massey: Yay, we are now an award-winning application.
Larry Hryb: Yes. Good for you.
Laura Massey: Which is awesome.
Larry Hryb: Now, how do people if they, if they, how do they, can they experience this now?
Laura Massey: No, it's only, you have to be a scientist working at JPL?
Larry Hryb: But, but is it still down at NASA?
Laura Massey: Mm-mm (negative)
Larry Hryb: It's, they pulled out of Florida?
Laura Massey: There was a version of it that was ...
Larry Hryb: Right.
Laura Massey: Created at, at a story-telling experience that you could go to Kennedy Space Center in Florida ...
Larry Hryb: Right.
Laura Massey: Called Destination Mars ...
Larry Hryb: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Laura Massey: And be able to walk around Mars and ...
Larry Hryb: Yup.
Laura Massey: See the same version of Mars that the scientists see. But that was much more of a, an entertainment and, and story telling experience because Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon ...
Larry Hryb: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Laura Massey: Narrated you through it, and you saw a hologram of him just, uh, captured in, in true life, you get to see him ...
Larry Hryb: I remember, I remember when they were shooting that.
Laura Massey: You do.
Larry Hryb: With, with Buzz, yeah.
Laura Massey: Yeah.
Larry Hryb: I remember when they were shooting that.
Laura Massey: Did you get to meet him then?
Larry Hryb: I was, I was in awe. I was, I was complete, I was ... Very few people will stop me dead in my tracks, he was one of them.
Laura Massey: Oh, yes.
Larry Hryb: Anyway.
Laura Massey: So much charisma.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Laura Massey: Like, just amazing. Oh, yeah, so there was an experience that you could have gone to see, but I think that's closed now.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Laura Massey: It closed in January, I think of this year.
Larry Hryb: Sad face.
Laura Massey: Yeah.
Larry Hryb: Sad face.
Laura Massey: But, good news is that JPL is still using the application.
Larry Hryb: Yep.
Laura Massey: And now it's an award-winning one ...
Jeff Rubenstein: Yay, well congratulations to you, Laura, that's ...
Larry Hryb: Congratulations.
Laura Massey: Thank you.
Larry Hryb: Yes Jeffrey, now would you like to talk about ... (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah there's some other mixed reality stuff that's cool.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: No, no, go through it a little bit.
Jeff Rubenstein: Well, uh, sorry about that.
Laura Massey: That's all right, continue.
Jeff Rubenstein: Um, she said mixed reality, I was like, "Oh, my God, how did I forget that?"
Laura Massey: Yeah, we had the October 3rd event.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah.
Laura Massey: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Jeff Rubenstein: Um, and you made the mistake of taking an inhalation of breath to continue your story and I was like, "She's done."
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: Um, so yes, Samsung, so a number of our partners like Acer and, and Dell and Asus, and ... Have, have, have announced, um, uh, over the, the course of, of several months, uh, a number of different headsets, and now Samsung has joined with the HMD Odyssey, which is cool. Look, it has these, uh, built-in headphones, uh ...
Laura Massey: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Jeff Rubenstein: Or earphones, rather, which looks really cool. Uh, we've, uh, AltspaceVR has joined Microsoft, which is cool.
Laura Massey: Yep.
Jeff Rubenstein: In terms of like uh, a community building.
Laura Massey: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Jeff Rubenstein: Uh, and, and I found that having an avatar, you know, on Xbox is cool, and we all know each other's avatars and we can see who's online and things like that. But when you're in VR, having that, that avatar really like, brings home that you're talking to another person, and it really adds like a really awesome extra.
Larry Hryb: Unless, unless you've seen my Xbox Live avatars.
Jeff Rubenstein: Well, when you've used the clown ...
Laura Massey: Um, you, you've had some creepy ones.
Larry Hryb: Or the care, or the carrot.
Laura Massey: I remember the carrot.
Larry Hryb: Or the butter covered clown. (Laughs)
Laura Massey: Oh ...
Larry Hryb: Change it back to ...
Laura Massey: Yeah, you had the gold clown that was butter covered.
Larry Hryb: (Laughs)
Laura Massey: I will steer clear of your avatar.
Larry Hryb: Woo.
Laura Massey: It's a little scary.
Larry Hryb: I just find the most disturbing things and try to put them out there.
Laura Massey: Have you dressed as a clown? Because I know you were scared of clowns, just like many other people, like ...
Larry Hryb: Well, I'm ... Could you, could you be a little more specific in your question, your line of questioning, your honor? (Laughs)
Laura Massey: Has your avatar (Laughs) dressed as a clown?
Larry Hryb: Yes, once.
Laura Massey: How did that make you feel?
Larry Hryb: It, it, it kept me up at night.
Laura Massey: Yeah. (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: I'll be honest with you, it kept me up at night. No I do not like clowns.
Laura Massey: Nope.
Larry Hryb: I haven't seen, what's the clown movie? It?
Laura Massey: It? Oh, goodness gracious, no. I saw lots of pictures of people who were at the early screenings of It and they'd walk into the theater ...
Larry Hryb: Right.
Laura Massey: The first person in, completely dark, you know, previews haven't started rolling ...
Larry Hryb: Right.
Laura Massey: And there's a clown with a red balloon ...
Larry Hryb: Yeah, yeah.
Laura Massey: And he's sitting in the back.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Laura Massey: I would have just turned around and walked out.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, that's it, I'm done.
Laura Massey: No thanks.
Larry Hryb: Jeff, I know you love clowns.
Jeff Rubenstein: They don't bother me the way they bother you, but I'm just not a fan.
Larry Hryb: Oh, they will. They will. You'll grow into it.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: Is it something that happens, like a late life phobia?
Larry Hryb: Yeah, exactly ... (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: Like developing a, an allergy to sunlight or something? It happens.
Larry Hryb: Yes.
Jeff Rubenstein: Um, yeah. And then the last thing is like, so what are you going to play? What are you going to do on the, on these mixed reality headsets?
Laura Massey: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Jeff Rubenstein: Well, quite a few things. So a number of things over the, and other apps of course, but you know, we're, this is Xbox, so ... Um, games like Space Pirate Trainer, which I'm a huge fan of. Superhot, uh, Arizona Sunshine ...
Laura Massey: Which, Superhot won for the best VR game on Unity Awards.
Jeff Rubenstein: It's so good, it's so ... I mean it was a great game on ID at Xbox, in VR it's phenomenal, too.
Larry Hryb: Oh, yeah, it's the one where you're moving around and your shooting, right ...
Laura Massey: It's intense like ...
Jeff Rubenstein: And, and nothing moves unless you move, yeah.
Larry Hryb: Right, right, right, right. That's cool.
Jeff Rubenstein: Um, ah, and then, like big announcement was that, um, Halo Recruit, like an introduction into the world of Halo, uh, in, in mixed reality, that got announced and people got to try it out. And I didn't get to try it out, yet. Did you get to try it out, yet?
Larry Hryb: I have not, um, I actually was in a meeting about a month ago, they were talking about it, I was like, "I need to try that."
Jeff Rubenstein: You need to, why don't we prioritize that? We should do that.
Larry Hryb: You want I should get us a demo?
Jeff Rubenstein: I, I wouldn't say no.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: Okay. Laura do you know anybody who can give us a demo?
Laura Massey: I think I do.
Larry Hryb: Oh, see.
Jeff Rubenstein: Hmm.
Larry Hryb: She was being quiet until asked.
Laura Massey: I know, I might be able to find a way.
Larry Hryb: All right.
Jeff Rubenstein: So anyway these uh, these headsets, the Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo and Samsung, all available now for pre-order. And, um, also I believe shipping this holiday, including like, this month. So, uh, there's a lot of MR and VR things, so I'll just link out to that in the notes. It's an exciting time to be alive, Larry.
Laura Massey: It sure is. Lots of awesome things happening.
Larry Hryb: But you can't go to Mars.
Jeff Rubenstein: Not yet.
Laura Massey: Unless you're a scientist at JPL.
Larry Hryb: Unless you're a scientist at JPL.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: All right then ...
Laura Massey: Maybe soon though.
Larry Hryb: I think ...
Laura Massey: I hear Elon Musk is really hot on it.
Larry Hryb: Is he? Is he?
Laura Massey: Yes, yes.
Larry Hryb: He's, he's got his hands full.
Jeff Rubenstein: He's a busy guy.
Larry Hryb: He's got his hands full right now.
Laura Massey: Yeah.
Jeff Rubenstein: Give me my three first ...
Larry Hryb: He needs to learn how to, (Laughs) he needs how to learn how to say no.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yeah.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: Right. He needs to learn how to say, "No, I think we're gonna focus on this thing right now." But good for Elon.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: I think he listens to, I wonder if he listens to the show. I know, I know, I'm pretty sure he plays Xbox. Somebody told me he plays Xbox, yeah.
Laura Massey: Really?
Jeff Rubenstein: Really? Does he follow you? Can you DM him?
Larry Hryb: Uh, I don't recall if he does, I'll go check. Yeah.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: I should know that.
Jeff Rubenstein: Maybe you follow him ...
Larry Hryb: If he does, I, I'm pretty sure he doesn't because otherwise I'd be sending him feature requests for my Model X.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: Ah.
Larry Hryb: Because I've already got about two pages of feature requests, so ...
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: There you go with that. All right, Laura, we're gonna wrap things up here.
Laura Massey: Okay.
Larry Hryb: We'll be, we'll be back next ... Unless you have anything else. Do you have any other awards you want to talk about?
Laura Massey: No. (Laughs) no.
Jeff Rubenstein: I'll cut you off.
Larry Hryb: All right.
Jeff Rubenstein: I'll do it.
Larry Hryb: Yeah.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: It's like (Laughs) don't, don't tempt him.
Laura Massey: That is a fantastic offer-
Larry Hryb: So this is the, uh, this is the show that is the award-winning ... We talk about awards ... (Laughs)
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Jeff Rubenstein: Do we? Did we win an award? The Streamies?
Larry Hryb: You know you can find us on, you know you can find us on Spotify.
Jeff Rubenstein: Yes.
Laura Massey: Oh? That's awesome.
Larry Hryb: This, this show is now on Spotify, so if you're a Spotify subscriber just go over there, look up podcasts, search on Major Nelson, bam! Be right there. So it's pretty straight forward, so we'd love to, uh ...
Jeff Rubenstein: Like and subscribe.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: Like ... No, I don't do that thing. I, but I will say this is, uh, you know I have my playlist over on, uh, Spotify, Jeff, you that.
Jeff Rubenstein: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Laura Massey: Which playlist?
Larry Hryb: The, my, my gaming playlist.
Laura Massey: I didn't know you published a playlist.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, I did it last month.
Laura Massey: Oh.
Larry Hryb: You don't listen to me. You don't listen to me Laura.
Laura Massey: You didn't tweet it out.
Larry Hryb: Oh, I did. (Laughs)
Laura Massey: Maybe when, not in the hours I'm awake.
Larry Hryb: Yeah, exactly, and maybe you were too busy doing something else.
Jeff Rubenstein: Were you the one telling me about the Cuphead soundtrack?
Larry Hryb: Mm-mm (negative), is that ...
Jeff Rubenstein: Apparently this Cuphead soundtrack is charted on like the Billboard jazz records.
Larry Hryb: God bless them.
Laura Massey: That's awesome.
Jeff Rubenstein: It's a great soundtrack, it's so good.
Larry Hryb: It's on vinyl but anyway, uh, my, I refreshed my playlist on there as well.
Jeff Rubenstein: Well that should be on there, put some Cuphead tracks ...
Larry Hryb: I have a lot of good stuff on there. I think it is. It's, it's gaming themed and ... Go ahead, look for it, Laura.
Laura Massey: I will look for it.
Larry Hryb: Go ahead and look for it while we wrap things up.
Laura Massey: (Laughs)
Larry Hryb: All right Jeff, any final words before we, uh, we, we, um fade to ...
Jeff Rubenstein: I said more than enough.
Larry Hryb: Fade to black.
Jeff Rubenstein: Too much, one would say. Edit me out.
Larry Hryb: Laura?
Laura Massey: Thanks for listening.
Larry Hryb: Gang, we'll see you guys next time. We don't know when or where that will be, but we'll see you there. Thanks for listening. Have a great time, and we'll see you on Xbox live. Bye, bye everybody.
Laura Massey: Bye.
Jeff Rubenstein: Bye.