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Creature Kitchen Is an Alternative to Expensive Gaming

4/3/20261 hr 5 min

This week, the Besties chat about two relatively low-priced games that have won over huge audiences: Creature Kitchen and Scritchy Scratchy. In the back half, we talk through the recent PlayStation price hikes and consider what alternatives gamers have as the hobby gets more and more expensive.

Get the full list of games (and other stuff) discussed at www.besties.fan. Want more episodes? Join us at patreon.com/thebesties for three bonus episodes each month!

Clips

Highest-Rated Game On Steam
Teaching Kids Not To Fear
Cozy Without The Cutesy
Slot Apps And Pretend Gambling
PS5 Price Hike Shock
Resetting Inscryption Expectations
Could Fake Scratchers Curb Real Ones?
Infinite Pantry, Zero Fuss
The Mr. Big Hallway Misfire

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Chris Plante· Host0:00

    Can we bring back, uh, movie quoting?

  2. Griffin McElroy· Host0:02

    Um, I don't know. Chris, let me ask my wife.

  3. Chris Plante· Host0:06

    Oh. [laughs] I, uh... I, I love my wife, but you know, you know what I love even more than my wife?

  4. Griffin McElroy· Host0:14

    What's... Who? Who? That's crazy.

  5. Chris Plante· Host0:16

    I, I love lamp.

  6. Griffin McElroy· Host0:17

    [laughs] Oh, my God.

  7. Justin McElroy· Host0:18

    You love lamp? Oh, dude.

  8. Griffin McElroy· Host0:20

    Oh, fucking yeah, dude. Fucking yeah, dude.

  9. Russ Frushtick· Host0:22

    I thought, Chris Plant, I thought you were gonna bring back, like, Un Chien Andalou fucking quoting, where it's like, "Let's cut that sheep eye."

  10. Chris Plante· Host0:29

    Everything sounds- Fucking news ... like this big pretentious dude over here, but you know what?

  11. Griffin McElroy· Host0:33

    Yeah.

  12. Justin McElroy· Host0:34

    Shake and bake.

  13. Griffin McElroy· Host0:35

    Yeah, he likes the slop to... Like, Chris- Okay ... will slop down with the hogs. A lot of people- Now, I- He doesn't ta- Maybe you don't air that side out here on Besties enough.

  14. Chris Plante· Host0:44

    No.

  15. Griffin McElroy· Host0:45

    But, like, in, in a... Between, tucked between every Criterion edition DVD, Blu-ray that you have on your shelf, you'll sneak a fucking Encino Man in there. Like, you'll put some- Mm ... s- real genuine stinkers in there too, man.

  16. Justin McElroy· Host0:58

    I feel like, I feel like Talladega Nights and Step Brothers fell into this weird, like, hole where kids are still into it. Like, I'll see, I'll see kids wearing a Step Brothers T-shirt, and it's like- Yeah ... "Oh, really? It, it peaked there for you, huh?"

  17. Griffin McElroy· Host1:11

    Yeah.

  18. Justin McElroy· Host1:11

    Step Brothers.

  19. Griffin McElroy· Host1:12

    [laughs] It got way down.

  20. Justin McElroy· Host1:13

    I'll be damned.

  21. Chris Plante· Host1:13

    [laughs] Oh, I think actually what you're supposed to say is wa, wa, we, wa.

  22. Griffin McElroy· Host1:17

    Yeah. We, you are s- Oh. You, I have to say that.

  23. Chris Plante· Host1:20

    You know, I'm realizing the problem with movie quotes is, uh, th- they don't have a lot of substance, so you kinda run out of material pretty fast. Uh...

  24. Griffin McElroy· Host1:28

    Yeah.

  25. Justin McElroy· Host1:28

    Yeah.

  26. Russ Frushtick· Host1:28

    Yeah.

  27. Griffin McElroy· Host1:28

    This also isn't

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