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The Besties

The Besties 70 - The avuncular episode

The Besties

The Besties

Leisure, Video Games

4.95.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2013

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Frushtick is an uncle! Yes, the man of a thousand roles has a new one: the grown-up responsible for introducing a child to video games. Congratulations to Russ and the Frushtick clan. We return after a holiday hiatus to discuss everything from a life-affirming platformer to a bowel-purging horror simulator. We apologize upfront for any and all bathroom humor. How did you spend your final days of summer? What did you eat? I ate southern fried food for five consecutive days and my internal organs are now at war with one another. Whoever wins, I lose! 3:23 - Best dose of untarnished joy (the music levels in Rayman Legends) 12:40 - Best virtual colonic (Outlast) 21:24 - Halftime! 26:22 - Best Gauntlet reboot (Hammerwatch) 31:12 - Best tie-in surprise (Splinter Cell: Spider-Bot) 38:15 - The winner is... Theme song by Ian Dorsch Get the show: Download MP3" Subscribe to the podcast (RSS) Subscribe on iTunes

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0:00.0

I always made fun of Gryffind and Justin for growing up in West Virginia.

0:04.0

I don't think I realized that level of difference between

0:10.0

rural West Virginia, you know, West Virginia, and then like straight up

0:14.5

middle of nowhere rural. I was in West Virginia, were you?

0:18.1

No, I was in South Dakota, but there's still no actual frame of reference.

0:22.3

For all intents and purposes, there were farms and trees and not a whole lot else.

0:27.2

You know that like Justin and I didn't have like any, Justin and I aren't like

0:31.0

fucking full blown bumpkins. No, I know that.

0:34.0

To this day, I don't know what tractors actually do. I just assume that they were like

0:39.1

very inefficient means for farmers to like, tool around their blocks. They're

0:43.1

really fun. Yeah, right. Just like, what do I do? Do they till? Are they

0:47.6

telling machines? They're doing this. Sort. Do they sort things?

0:52.2

Is it a harvesting? I think that's a combined sort of things. Anyway,

0:56.1

I was in the middle of nowhere in South Dakota. I had a lovely time, except for the

1:00.9

fact that every single day on my vacation at 7am, the following thing happened.

1:13.2

Times a billion in terms of loudness for about five minutes every morning at 7am.

1:18.4

Cal's trying to fuck. The town, the local town, has an alarm to wake everyone up.

1:23.8

That's awesome. Sounds like there's a bomb going off every day at 7am.

1:27.5

That's so fucking cool. Does everybody like do like a zombie like

1:32.0

shuffle to like the central church? Well, no, because everyone's sleeping.

1:36.4

Because no one gets up at 7am, you're crazy. Do they perform rituals as some sort of pagan potato

1:43.2

god? Hmm. I think they have corn out there, actually.

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