Hi, it's Larry Herbexbox, it's major Nelson. Welcome to the show. Welcome to the podcast. We've been off a couple weeks, but we have the gang back Jeffrey over there on the left. We're back into the right. Me in the middle. I gang.

Hello. Hi, it's good to be back. Hello, it's been, you know, it's funny. The end of the summer is is it is kind of this funny time at least here in the United States. You know, we're kind of schools going back in session for those of you, those of you with kids and everyone's trying to get the last drops of summer out like Rebecca in New York and Jeff and I appear in Seattle where you know it's Jeff. I don't know about you, but did you notice how the sun just left? Oh, it's done. It was very quick. Rebecca, is it me or your latency just like super low?

Like I feel like you're just like you're closer. Well, maybe how did you know? Yeah, I'm actually coming to you live from the Microsoft campus in a very empty meeting room in a very empty building and a very empty campus right now.

So what do you mean? So for those of you that keep up with us, Rebecca's been out in New York. Are you back here permanently? Are you going to go back or what's going on? Oh, no, I just really missed my parents in Pumba and I was tired of the sunshine and having fun in New York. So I wanted to come back and be cold. So here I am.

You should not bring a thick enough jacket for sure. Who needs all that great pizza and the subway and all of the rest of that stuff there. No, yeah, that's who needs anyway. Well, well, I'm what we're going to do. But you're only here for a little while. Is that your first time back in the office since COVID?

Yeah, this is my first time in the office all year. And then as soon as I got here 10 minutes later, there was a fire alarm. So that's how it works. Right.

That's exactly what we were doing and you were scheduled. You get an interview. Each one of us has an interview this week. But we're having one for you. And now you were like texting me like, uh, there's a fire alarm like really? What's going on there? I don't understand that. But anyway, it's fine when I was there. So if it had just been the flashes, I could have ignored that. But there was also the, you know, emergency immaculate evacuate. Yeah, it's well, you need you need to do that. So I thank you for respecting the fire alarm process. So thanks for that.

But it's been, it's been, it's been a couple of weeks. As I said at the top of the show, I don't know what you all have been playing. But I figure we'll go through that. We've got some great interviews. We've got some news. We're back. Let's start with you since you've, uh, you've been traveling. I don't know if you had a chance to play. What do you think?

Yeah, I started playing psycho knots. Um, like a week and a half ago. And it's, it's really good. I'm really enjoying it so far. I will say though it actually did give me nightmares.

It did. What? Well, yeah, Jeff finished it. And I finished it. Yeah. What? So I, so I haven't finished it yet. Um, like I, I started it. And it's in the, you know, like the mouth. I'm not giving any spoilers there. Like when you start the game, you're in this like mouth dentist nightmare scenario.

And then surprise I actually had a nightmare about that. Did you have, did you have any of your dreams anyway? Was it a nightmare? You were in someone's mouth. Someone was in your mouth. You were the dentist.

I don't think I want to know the answer to this line. I'm just trying to. Yeah, it was, it was basically just me in the game. It, I mean, it's, it's kind of a lot of different scenarios, right?

Like you're in like an office space and then all of a sudden, then you're in a mouth and you're jumping on molars and things like that. So it was a little bit of all of those things. Um, and I woke up and I just felt kind of gross. But I still kept playing the game anyway. Now I just know I need to not play right before I go to bed.

Oh, this has happened before I told you I had a nightmare after we played aliens fire team too. That's right. That's right. Yeah.

That happened to me. That used to happen to me when I was, when I was younger where I would happen. It was Halo. Halo gave me, um, elite and grunt nightmares for some reason. I don't know why.

That was a long time ago. A long time ago. Were they, were they exploding? Yeah. Yeah. That was, it was, it was, it was Joe state because Joe state does a lot of voices.

This is used to do a lot of voices for the, for the grunts. He used to do grunty voices. But yeah, it was in all the rest of that. I'll get you human or whatever. So.

Yeah. Well, for you, I will just say second knots only gets tripier from there. So, uh, expect more psycho knots dreams.

All right. I'm there. I think I need to carve out playing time during the day then. Yeah. There, there's one, there's one whole section. And Jeff, I don't know if this will be a spoiler or anybody who's a spoiler, supposedly played it.

It's the psychedelic section. And that one is, it's, yeah, it's, it is, it is. First of all, I love the music in that section. It was so chill and relax. It was like a festival. But the whole thing. I mean, it is just a, I got like I tweeted out over the weekend when I finished it.

It is, it is like a little trapped, like the little trap doors in the game. It's a little trap door into Tim Schafer's mind. It's fascinating.

It's exceptional. So, and you just have to tell me when you do the game show level, both of you. I want to hear your idea. I remember you told me, I remember you told me about it, Jack. It was a lot of, I was like, this is, it was fun. I really enjoyed it. It's so good. It's so good. It's so funny. It's really a very funny game.

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