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Special guest co-host, Larry Larsen, chatted it up with Paul Mestemaker in the studio this week.  This makes it another installment of Boys without Foys.  Check out all of the stories and more on this week's episode of Ping: Bing Fund Maccabees Kinect Video Bing Maps releases 215TB of birds eye imagery MSNBC.com will become NBCNews.com As always, you can follow Paul on Twitter or subscribe to Paul on Facebook.  Larry is fun too: @LarryLa.

This week we had the pleasure of being visited by Larry "The Lightbulb" Larsen.Check out all the goodness... Ballmer defends the last decade    [01:48] New Direction for the Halo Movie     [04:45] Kinect Playfit   [07:33] Xbox LIVE to blame???   [10:13]

What an incredible week for Microsoft!  Laura and Paul muse on the hottest stories Microsofties are pinging each other about... and the stories aren't any hotter than on our first two: Microsoft Surface Windows Phone 8 Platform Revealed Xbox SmartGlass SDK Bing Image Search Refresh ... for those of you looking to waste 48 seconds of your life... you can explore Paul's Sad Trombone site, he claims to have launched a hidden feature.

Laura and Paul cover these topics and more on their 144th (12^2) episode: Xbox SmartGlass on{X} Frugral Dad on Windows 8 ESPN on Xbox This is the type of stuff that Paul builds in his free time: SuperSadTrombone.com.  If there were ever a need for a sad trombone sound, it would be now after making a statement like that .  In his defense, he claims it was an experiment to build something using HTML5 and JavaScript.

Some people wonder if Paul and Laura actually get along when they aren't arguing over the news stories on Ping and the answer is...well, watch this episode and find out. So.cl is here [02:18] Imagine Cup Finalists announced  [09:11] Too fast for mere mortals...  [12:18] Refund for Minecraft players  [14:42]  

"The Lightbulb", Larry Larson, stopped by again to share his unique and always entertaining thoughts on these stories and more: Siri love  [03:18] Xbox is winning the living room  [13:15] What's E3 up to?  [06:58] Microsoft goes to the races  [10:40]

Paul and Laura sit down, chat, reflect on the past, wax poetic, dig deep and roll with the punches while they discuss all this and more: The new Bing!  [06:14] Disney Kinect titles & Make a Wish [02:25] Microsoft Soundwave  [11:40] 360's for cheap  [16:00]

Laura was out this week but Paul didn't skip a beat and he was joined by our Hyper -V expert himself, Eric Bahna. Here's what went down: Hyper-V PowerShell on Technet Radio [01:50] Wordament is Alive on Xbox LIVE [07:19] Nook joint venture with Microsoft  [12:30] Microsoft cleans up Windows Phone Marketplace and Windows Live Branding  [17:30]

Paul and Laura bring you all the hottest stories that Microsofties are talking about: System Center Advisor at MMS 2012 Real life Phaser Skydrive is the way to go DigiGirlz gets girls into Tech  

This week we had the pleasure of being joined by the most diabolical mind on Channel 9, Larry Larsen. Actually I just looked up "diabolical" and it means "having to do with the devil". Larry doesn't have anything to do with the devil, he's just from Florida. Either way it was great to have him! Larry shared his thoughts on these stories and more: Halo 4 launch date! [02:30] Second generation Surface [04:30] Microsoft store draws HUGE line   [09:40] Best. Resignation. Letter. Ever.  [07:30]

We got a new set! Well, sorta. We virtually got a new set. We definitely got a new VIRTUAL set Regardless, we are fans...let us know what you think! Here are the top stories this week: Kintext: be what's next [12:43] Illusionist or Augmented Reality?  [02:22] Farewell XP [08:13] Get your Lumia!  [16:10]

This week we are joined by the evil mastermind, Clint Rutkas, to share his insights on all the hot stories. Samplings include: Windows Phone SDK update [02:46] 24M$ App Development Program [08:23] Paul Allen Identity Theft  [04:32]   Microsoft is hip, duh. [11:06]    

Another week of Microsofties making news, seems like the fun just never ends Here are some of the tid bits Laura and Paul talk about this week: The Micro-Stang!  [05:22] Lifebrowser for Landmarks in your life   [12:32] Windows Phone launches in China  [09:54] Hunger Games site in IE9   [17:16]

Tune in and find out what all the people at Microsoft are talking about. Here's a taste of this weeks flavors: Cooperating, flying robots!  [04:14] Windows Phone leader makes some noise  [10:00] Microsoft Flight for FREE   [14:01] Windows 8 breaks 1 MILLION downloads   [16:10]

Laura and Paul are together again and they haven't missed a beat. Here's the hottest stories from the land of Microsoft: Googlighting [02:14] Lumia bundle hits stores  [09:22] Facebook adds Bing tie in  [05:28] Visual Studio 11 Beta   [12:32]