Hi, it's Larry Herbexboxes, Major Nelson. Welcome to the official Xbox podcast. You're here. You're having fun. We're going to talk about games, give you some news for a hold on a minute here.

Oh, I thought you were stopping. Last week, it was Rebecca and I in the studio. This week, it's you and I back in our homes and Rebecca's not here. So she unfortunately, yes, we did. Me and Rebecca are just not on speaking terms right now. We cannot both be on the show at the same time. It's just completely unacceptable.

No, unfortunately, I did get we did get a message from her this morning. She's feeling a little bit under the weather. So I said, don't worry about it. You know, we don't want to we don't if we can't bring our best selves to the show.

We can't we don't show it all. There is no show of the last week. I have to talk to you a little bit because a lot of folks they, you know, in the thumbnail, I was holding. If you notice the thumbnail, I was holding you up in last week's show because I wanted you to be part of the show.

And everyone was, you know, you were drinking to look like Topo Chico in the desert. Can you tell us where you were and what you were doing.

Yeah, I went to where the Topo Chico comes from. Not exactly, but I was in Mexico. As you know, we've got a game coming out today.

Forza Horizon 4, which takes place five, five forza Horizon 5, which takes place in the beautiful country of Mexico. And I was in a very interesting part.

This is the picture I was showing last week.

Yes. And it was interesting because it was like it looked deserty, but those mountains were covered in trees. And so I think the almost the the breadth of biomes that you will see in forza Horizon 5. It's real. It's great.

So we've been doing a series of in support of our big games that are hitting Xbox Game Pass, like Back for Blood and Age of Empires 4 and Forza and Halo.

We're doing these cool like PC builds with creators in this case, Austin Evans.

He's a good friend of the show, a good friend of Xbox.

Yeah, he was the first person to really, you know, hold the Xbox series X and sort of do that tear down back.

You know, like, oh, my God, early early twenty twenty.

If I remember correctly, Jeff, isn't he the one that finally revealed to everybody, even though we you and I knew it, that the top wasn't lit.

Like, remember, everybody thought with the green in it that it was the Xbox series X that was like light and it wasn't it was just kind of a design in there.

Yeah, he had that first look, you know, with with all the different parts and everything back in March, I want to say of 2020.

So anyway, I was out there with him because putting sort of the finishing touches on a really cool gaming PC for forza.

Of course, forza Horizon 5 is day and date on console and on PC and both through Xbox Game Pass.

And he outdid himself him and his team with a really cool build.

And so we were just doing the finishing touches there.

And so I was out there for a couple of days had a heck of a time getting home because, you know, travel.

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