{"podcast":{"title":"The Besties","slug":"the-besties-745210","podcast_index_feed_id":745210,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/Urk3897_","website_url":"http://besties.fan/","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/c707e48c-0e5b-4dcd-a183-3a248de67b6e/7d2885c6-c8b8-4219-86b2-af9baf9846e9/3000x3000/uploads-2f1591280888546-ig2f96xefmo-c923c56fc6d3137dfa2f3f8b5ffc7a49-2fbesties-art-itunes.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"The Besties","episode_count":507,"summary":"It's Game of the Year meets King of the Hill as four of Earth's best friends – Griffin McElroy, Justin McElroy, Chris Plante, and Russ Frushtick – rank and review their favorite video games. Because shouldn't the world's best friends pick the world's best games?","last_synced_at":"2026-06-26T16:20:36.781414+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-besties-745210"},"episode":{"title":"Slay the Spire 2, a Big Hole, and a Resident Evil 9 Spoiler Chat!","slug":"slay-the-spire-2-a-big-hole-and-a-resident-evil-9-spoiler-chat","published_at":"2026-03-20T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-besties-745210/slay-the-spire-2-a-big-hole-and-a-resident-evil-9-spoiler-chat","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-besties-745210","url":"http://besties.fan/","audio_url":"https://afp-9384.calisto.simplecastaudio.com/c707e48c-0e5b-4dcd-a183-3a248de67b6e/episodes/fd82063c-b7a7-4e9b-aa31-cd27106a7b2d/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=c707e48c-0e5b-4dcd-a183-3a248de67b6e&awEpisodeId=fd82063c-b7a7-4e9b-aa31-cd27106a7b2d&feed=Urk3897_","summary":"Welcome to The Besties March grab bag. There are simply too many new games, so to cover as much as possible, we split up the workload. Griffin talks about the surprisingly complete Early Access release of Slay the Spire 2. Plante, of all people, explains how to get into Marathon. And Frushtick . . . well, he found a big hole. To avoid Resident Evil 9 spoilers, skip to ~20 minutes after the return from ad break.","meta_description":"Welcome to The Besties March grab bag. There are simply too many new games, so to cover as much as possible, we split up the workload. Griffin talks about…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3974,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-besties-745210/episodes/slay-the-spire-2-a-big-hole-and-a-resident-evil-9-spoiler-chat/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-besties-745210/slay-the-spire-2-a-big-hole-and-a-resident-evil-9-spoiler-chat.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}