Larry: Welcome to show number 614. My name's Larry Herback Xbox Live's Major Nelson. We're rolling here with the end of January, beginning of February 2018. Thank you for joining us. We've got Laura with us. Larry: Hello, how are you doing? Larry: Let me give you a little volume over there. Larry: I was playing around with your volume a little bit. Laura: Crank me up. Larry: Well, I don't want to do that. You don't want to blow everyone out. Then across from you, the man I have to turn down all the time, Mr. Jeff: I was just going to say that. Jeff: Hi, from mute land. Larry: This is an awkward show. Laura: Why is that? Larry: Well, it's a couple things. We're recording this at the end of the week, and in just a few days is the Superb Owl. Jeff: Yes, you've never seen an Owl like this. Laura: Oh, the Superb Owl. Larry: Which is the Eagles versus the Patriots, and for those of you in the United States, you know it's the Super Bowl, big deal. Jeff is a huge Eagles fan. Jeff: I don't know if you know but there is an indicator that is just very reliable on who's going to win the Super Bowl, and that is Cherry Picked, the Xbox live session that they do where they pick one player from one team versus one player from the other team in Madden on Xbox One. Larry: Yeah, this has been going on for years. Jeff: Right, oh my God, since the first Super Bowl in the 60s. Larry: I think the first one was Lombardi, right? Jeff: Yeah, I think it was... This happened this week, and I will link out and you can watch LeGarrette Blount, the running back who came over from the Patriots, wised up and came down to Philly, and is playing for the NFC Champion Eagles, and against some guy who's going by Gronk? Larry: Yes, I don't know, good old Rob Gronkowski. Larry: He and I have done some stuff together. Laura: You went to one of these before, I remember. Larry: We did an event, Rob and I did a couple of events. One of them was a Halo event, where I flew out to Gillette Stadium, which is right down the street from where my sister lives, so that was a tough one. Rob's a great guy. We just had a grand time. We had fun, that's all I'll say. Jeff: If you don't know who won, I won't spoil it, but I will link out to it in the show notes. You should watch that. Laura: Do you have a history of how accurate this predictor has been? Jeff: No, I have no idea. I was just making this up because the Eagles have to win, that's it. Larry: Laura's going with hard data, as any good analytical scientist. She's like, give me the data. Laura: I want to see. Jeff: I like the art of making stuff up, and if Laura selective data sets, and you actually want to know the facts. Larry: Well, that's why you show up in a clown suit and she's in a lab coat. Jeff: This is a tee shirt, one of my better tee shirts. Larry: Well, anyway, we're here. We're having a good time. It's great to be back. Were we here last week? Larry: No, we weren't. Jeff: There was no show. Larry: By the way, a lot of emails have been asking us, also folks asking on Twitter, working on the next video show. Larry: Yeah, we don't have a date yet, or else I would have told you guys, but I know that that is a request. I'm headed out to Rare next week to talk Sea of Thieves, which I've been playing. Laura, you've been playing that a little bit. We'll talk about it later.... Larry: Sure, why don't... Laura: We've already dove right in. We've already walked the plank on this one. Larry: Why don't you... Laura: It was the other night- Larry: Yes. I finally had time to play. Larry: Yes you're busy. Laura: I was really excited to play Sea of Thieves and guess who was online? Larry: It was me. Laura: Larry was playing Sea of Thieves. Jeff: Did you two play together? Jeff: I'm representing the fans. The listeners who want you two to play together. Larry: It actually gets better. I finally responded to her like 10 or 15 minutes later. Larry: I felt terrible because we were full. Laura: It was late. Larry: So you went out on the high seas kind of alone. Larry: You're a strong, young woman. Laura: Try out my sea legs on my own and so just hit the random button and then joined a random team. Larry: So I go into match making frequently. I know you've done it. So you did it this time. So tell us what happened. So the first crew I joined was three guys who had lost their fourth. I don't know how, but I randomly showed up in their game. Larry: They have no idea- Laura: Super surprised. How lucky they were that you show up. They have no idea. Who's this lollipop person? Larry: You had your headset on. They all had their headsets. You guys are rolling full voice. Jeff: That's the way to play. They were trying to, they had already started a mission. So you came in mid mission. Laura: I came in mid mission and they had just landed on an island and they had their clues and they had found out the first clue, they were still working on the second clue. Larry: As you solve the first one, the second one will reveal itself on the scroll in a very dramatic fashion. So, I pulled out the clue. We should, we have to find this cave with an overhang and then it said raise a torch. We all have lanterns. We can try raising our lanterns up and jumping around and seeing if that will reveal it. Larry: They have no idea how lucky these guys were. They have no idea. Do you remember their gamer tags? You should go look on recent players. Laura: I should look on recent players and say who they were. They were really kind. Laura: Where did the ship go? It was right over there. Larry: To the beach. Laura: To the beach. Sure enough, no ship. Laura: We don't know. Larry: There's a couple things that could have happened. Jeff: This has happened to me a few times. You're wandering on the island and someone just comes in there and lights it up. Laura: Swoops in and off they go. Larry: They can basically hijack your ship and they can either sink it or sail it away. Laura: Unfortunately they let me on, the really bad news about that, they had already made three missions completed and they had three chests in that ship. Larry: So you got jacked. Laura: They were gone. Larry: Jeff is right. We learn that a long time ago. You gotta leave one person on the ship so you can ring the alarm bell. Laura: If attackers come. Larry: If attackers come. Laura: I figured out. I tweeted this as well. We didn't know what to do. We have no ship. We're just stranded on this island. What do we do? Larry: Options and then scuttle ship. You can actually go to the menu? Laura: I didn't know that. Apparently there is a mermaid that starts swimming to show you where you are. Larry: Right, when you lose your ship. Laura: When you're too far away from your ship. Larry: Believe it's a merman. Jeff: I think it's a merperson. Larry: It's tough to say. Jeff: Not really sure. I don't know that there is binary there. Larry: Usually you don't have a lot to check them out because you're trying to swim to get out of the water because usually there's a shark on your backside. Jeff: There's siren song. Larry: Siren song, thank y
