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The Besties

The Hundred Million Jokes of High on Life

The Besties

The Besties

Leisure, Video Games

4.95K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week, we're joined by GameSpot's Lucy James as we discuss Squanch Games' joke-packed first-person shooter High on Life. How many full-belly chuckles did we experience during our time alien bounty hunting? Also, can J.B. Smoove do voices in every game? Also discussed: Disco Elysium, 100 Ft. Robot Golf, Towerfall, Overcooked, Portal 2, The Stanley Parable, Prey, Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, The Past Within, Outpath: First Journey, Dragon Quest IX

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, Russ here. The day after we recorded this episode and just hours before it went live,

0:04.9

NBC News reported that Justin Reuiland, the head of high-on-life developer Squatch Games,

0:10.0

is facing charges of domestic battery and false imprisonment. After a lot of debate,

0:15.0

we decided to still publish the episode as is because we thought it wouldn't be fair to the other

0:20.0

people at Squatch Games, to our guests of this episode Lucy James, and to our listeners,

0:25.2

if we were to never publish the episode. When our discussion doesn't mention this alleged

0:29.5

abhorrent behavior, we wanted you to understand why. If you or someone you love is experiencing

0:34.9

domestic abuse, help is available through the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233.

0:44.5

Thank you very much. Lucy, where are you at geographically speaking?

0:50.0

So I'm in San Francisco, but I am- Oh my god, it's so early and so-

0:54.6

No, it's already apologize. No, it's okay, I do morning mess with Grub on Wednesdays, so Wednesday is

1:01.1

my up-early already good up and get out of day, so honestly, don't worry about it, but-

1:08.3

I'm gonna continue to worry about it for at least a week, so thank you. Sorry.

1:13.6

I thought I had this, you know what, I had hoped when I heard your accent, I was hoping you were

1:19.2

in the UK, because this is a real chill afternoon session. That was what I felt really good about.

1:24.2

I can pretend that if you want, but oh, it's raining outside. I don't know why I changed my accent.

1:30.4

My accent is gonna go- Yeah, went northern.

1:33.9

I'm gonna say that you just have different, different riddles.

1:37.1

Well, the thing is, is that this isn't actually my real accent.

1:40.7

Okay, I love that. What's your real accent?

1:43.9

So if I was gonna talk normally, it would be actually really northern, because I am from the

1:47.7

northeast of England, I'm a Jordy, but then when I moved to London, the first job I had, they were like,

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