{"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":"Uh Oh! We're Drowning in Games Again","slug":"uh-oh-we-re-drowning-in-games-again","published_at":"2026-06-19T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-besties-745210/uh-oh-we-re-drowning-in-games-again","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/49f93eb8-b8f9-48f2-bb42-70be2125106c/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=c707e48c-0e5b-4dcd-a183-3a248de67b6e&awEpisodeId=49f93eb8-b8f9-48f2-bb42-70be2125106c&feed=Urk3897_","summary":"This week, we throw our own summer festival of video games by opening the grab bag! There was so much stuff to play, it took all three Besties working on different piles to separate the “Yes!” from the “Yuck!” Want a meta Sherlock Holmes mystery? How about overlooked DLC to a Besties favorite? Or maybe you want to hear about Steam running on Android emulators? Friends, we have something for everyone!","meta_description":"This week, we throw our own summer festival of video games by opening the grab bag! There was so much stuff to play, it took all three Besties working on…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3614,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-besties-745210/episodes/uh-oh-we-re-drowning-in-games-again/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/uh-oh-we-re-drowning-in-games-again.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}