WEBVTT 00:00:25.615 --> 00:00:31.035 Welcome back to Salt Cravings, your number one news for salt tasting podcast. 00:00:31.355 --> 00:00:33.455 Today, we're tasting strawberry salt. 00:00:33.475 --> 00:00:34.515 My name is Clair. 00:00:34.735 --> 00:00:36.095 And my name's Brianna. 00:00:36.115 --> 00:00:39.655 Brianna, do you wanna taste this here strawberry salt for me? 00:00:39.675 --> 00:00:40.775 Sure, I'd love to. 00:00:40.795 --> 00:00:59.335 I just wanna first give a little background history on the strawberry salt that was developed in the strawberry salt mines of Nicaragua, where there were strawberry frees that then got into the ground and combined with the salt to make strawberry salt. 00:00:59.395 --> 00:01:02.215 And I'm really, really excited to try this. 00:01:02.415 --> 00:01:03.195 Great, yeah. 00:01:04.855 --> 00:01:10.715 Great, can you, without using the word strawberry, please describe the flavor of the salt? 00:01:11.235 --> 00:01:17.175 Sure, it's this sweet and salty combination, of course. 00:01:17.495 --> 00:01:19.755 It's got that nice tang. 00:01:19.995 --> 00:01:23.555 So that's what I would say the strawberry salt tastes like. 00:01:23.715 --> 00:01:24.195 Great. 00:01:24.215 --> 00:01:28.315 Do you wanna taste some salt or do we wanna do our podcast? 00:01:28.795 --> 00:01:31.015 Mm, I mean, I do like salt. 00:01:32.035 --> 00:01:35.075 Why don't we just, yeah, I think this is it, right? 00:01:35.095 --> 00:01:37.155 We are just now about salt. 00:01:37.295 --> 00:01:39.535 I think we've always been about salt. 00:01:39.555 --> 00:01:43.135 Right, we've always been about salt and we're gonna continue being about salt. 00:01:43.155 --> 00:01:44.755 We are about the eternal salt. 00:01:44.955 --> 00:01:47.515 Do you wanna give me salty craving? 00:01:47.855 --> 00:01:52.635 So the thing is, it is kind of a salty craving that I have today. 00:01:52.655 --> 00:01:52.855 Great. 00:01:52.955 --> 00:01:58.295 Which is to say, it's been a while since we've done food cravings on this podcast. 00:01:58.295 --> 00:02:05.395 Some people may have ended up feeling like you can't even crave food, but I'm here to remind you that you can. 00:02:05.915 --> 00:02:09.875 Wow, if we don't tell them, they just will not. 00:02:10.075 --> 00:02:12.715 Yeah, they won't know that you can crave food. 00:02:12.975 --> 00:02:15.495 It's really good that we're the inventors of cravings. 00:02:16.115 --> 00:02:17.795 We're the inventors of cravings. 00:02:17.815 --> 00:02:21.415 Where would cravings come from if not from this podcast? 00:02:22.015 --> 00:02:24.015 You have to just pull them out of the air. 00:02:24.015 --> 00:02:25.955 We dictate what the cravings are. 00:02:25.975 --> 00:02:28.275 Yeah, these are manufactured. 00:02:28.435 --> 00:02:30.875 These come from a craving factory. 00:02:30.995 --> 00:02:32.735 We don't just come up with these. 00:02:32.895 --> 00:02:34.595 We are hand-delivered them. 00:02:34.655 --> 00:02:41.735 Yeah, we have all our staff developing new cravings every day, delivering it straight to us so that we can report it to you. 00:02:41.955 --> 00:02:50.195 And so my craving today is, so, salad is a good thing in general, but a lot of salad... 00:02:50.215 --> 00:02:51.955 What kind of salad? 00:02:51.975 --> 00:02:53.355 There's so many salads. 00:02:53.535 --> 00:02:54.895 Just in general. 00:02:55.335 --> 00:02:59.835 In general, I mean, it's not any one particular salad. 00:02:59.855 --> 00:03:01.355 That's not the important thing here. 00:03:01.375 --> 00:03:05.375 I'm just saying salad exists and is good. 00:03:05.435 --> 00:03:09.875 I just want to remind all of you out there that salad exists. 00:03:10.015 --> 00:03:13.835 Salad exists and it is good for you, and that's good. 00:03:13.935 --> 00:03:16.735 But what if I have a salad of Skittle flavors? 00:03:17.115 --> 00:03:20.215 Then, I mean, that's your own fucking fault. 00:03:20.235 --> 00:03:20.995 That's on you. 00:03:21.055 --> 00:03:26.495 But the thing about salad is that it doesn't always taste good. 00:03:26.515 --> 00:03:36.795 To me, at least, I really need a good salad dressing to make a salad come together and be enjoyable. 00:03:36.855 --> 00:03:38.795 You know, there's good salad dressings out there. 00:03:38.815 --> 00:03:39.695 There's stuff that I like. 00:03:39.715 --> 00:03:42.255 There's some balsamics that I'm into. 00:03:42.355 --> 00:03:44.615 I'm good with a Caesar every once in a while. 00:03:44.695 --> 00:03:49.935 But I really need more good and unique salad dressings. 00:03:50.255 --> 00:04:10.355 So to give an example of what I mean, at one point, I was the leader at a queer camp, and at that camp, there was a really good salad dressing, a maple balsamic, which in addition to tasting excellent is also a salad dressing type that I have not seen since. 00:04:10.575 --> 00:04:15.035 And so I really, really want some more good and unique salad dressings. 00:04:15.355 --> 00:04:18.455 Clair, do you have any ideas for new salad dressings? 00:04:19.555 --> 00:04:21.035 Strawberry salty shake. 00:04:21.515 --> 00:04:22.335 Okay, well... 00:04:22.355 --> 00:04:23.515 It's just a milkshake. 00:04:23.535 --> 00:04:28.295 It's a strawberry milkshake, but you put the strawberry salt in it and then you pour it on your salad. 00:04:30.015 --> 00:04:35.635 I mean, milkshakes, as we know, are just a milkier salad dressings. 00:04:35.635 --> 00:04:36.175 True. 00:04:36.455 --> 00:04:41.115 So it really is just, you know, the two are linked pretty clearly. 00:04:41.135 --> 00:04:50.675 I find often if you do just put a scoop of ice cream on your salad, it does taste a little better. 00:04:51.915 --> 00:04:57.375 Yeah, when I think of, oh yeah, I want kind of a healthy snack, like a salad of some kind. 00:04:57.395 --> 00:05:01.555 I just want a small side salad and a scoop of vanilla on top. 00:05:03.175 --> 00:05:07.695 Just a few pieces of lettuce and a big hunk of ice cream. 00:05:09.575 --> 00:05:15.175 All right, so we've got this, so we've developed this new salad, but we're unsure about the dressing. 00:05:15.595 --> 00:05:18.995 Hey, you know there's an ice cream factory across the street? 00:05:21.415 --> 00:05:24.575 Oh, yeah, and I like that it has the strawberry salt in it, right? 00:05:24.595 --> 00:05:25.275 Yeah, it's thematic. 00:05:25.815 --> 00:05:29.875 It has to fit the theme, because there are, you know, there are like strawberry balsamics. 00:05:30.295 --> 00:05:30.915 For sure. 00:05:31.015 --> 00:05:33.475 And there's also strawberries in salads. 00:05:33.655 --> 00:05:35.355 There's also strawberries in salads. 00:05:35.375 --> 00:05:37.315 There's great salads that have strawberries in them. 00:05:37.335 --> 00:05:40.135 Like an olive pickle on strawberry salad. 00:05:41.835 --> 00:05:44.915 No lettuce, no spinach, no nothing. 00:05:45.195 --> 00:05:46.715 Just olives. 00:05:46.735 --> 00:05:48.595 What do you think the pickles are for? 00:05:52.015 --> 00:05:52.655 Exactly. 00:05:52.955 --> 00:05:55.475 No, I really need your green from somewhere. 00:05:56.735 --> 00:05:58.415 Oh, have you been eating your greens? 00:05:58.555 --> 00:05:58.895 Yep. 00:05:58.915 --> 00:06:00.275 I've been eating my greens. 00:06:00.455 --> 00:06:05.295 Pickles, pickles with the salty milkshake salad. 00:06:05.315 --> 00:06:10.795 I think salt is a good avenue to kind of go down for salad dressings. 00:06:10.895 --> 00:06:15.055 Also, it doesn't like a salad dressing is all about that flavor. 00:06:15.075 --> 00:06:19.935 So what if we invent a salad seasoning where it is just different seasoning salts? 00:06:20.535 --> 00:06:33.575 And then if you want a dry salad, if you want your mouth to feel like it has just been scraped up all by those chunky little pieces, there's no lubrication with the oils or the creamies. 00:06:36.015 --> 00:06:38.555 The creamies, as they call them. 00:06:39.955 --> 00:06:44.175 Okay, so we have a large array of salad dressings. 00:06:47.275 --> 00:06:48.195 The oil-based. 00:06:48.215 --> 00:06:51.735 We have some oil-based, some oilies. 00:06:52.155 --> 00:06:55.715 And then we have some cream-based ones, some creamies. 00:06:57.215 --> 00:06:58.735 Yeah, that's great. 00:06:58.755 --> 00:06:59.795 That's exactly what it is. 00:06:59.815 --> 00:07:00.615 That was my intention. 00:07:00.755 --> 00:07:06.115 So I think if you do want a dry mouth feel, you just throw on that salt. 00:07:06.135 --> 00:07:09.255 Like just think garlic salt salad. 00:07:09.275 --> 00:07:17.095 Yeah, garlic salt salad, or with a seasoning salt, like you could do barbecue seasoning salt if you really want a barbecue salad. 00:07:17.135 --> 00:07:17.715 Yeah. 00:07:17.815 --> 00:07:19.615 Or like, you know, curry. 00:07:19.675 --> 00:07:21.615 Just seaweed ground down. 00:07:21.635 --> 00:07:24.215 Oh yeah, well, you know, seaweed salad. 00:07:24.275 --> 00:07:25.555 Or lettuce salt. 00:07:25.795 --> 00:07:26.815 Lettuce salt. 00:07:26.875 --> 00:07:29.075 I mean, we have celery salt, so why not lettuce salt? 00:07:29.095 --> 00:07:30.775 They're basically the same thing. 00:07:31.055 --> 00:07:34.115 Now, I want to take this a step further. 00:07:34.475 --> 00:07:35.315 Of course you do. 00:07:37.375 --> 00:07:50.915 What if instead of lettuce, we just put the lettuce salt in, and instead of celery, we just put the celery salt in, and we just sort of make a salt out of every component, and then we put it all in a bowl, and then we have salt salad. 00:07:50.935 --> 00:07:54.455 Yeah, absolutely. 00:07:54.595 --> 00:07:57.595 And it's just like, it's just salad salt. 00:07:57.615 --> 00:08:01.955 See, this is great, because then you have a whole spectrum of dryness to your salad. 00:08:02.175 --> 00:08:14.515 You can go like wet, where you have just pureed your salad and added the creemies, and then you have the other side of the spectrum, where it is just a bowl full of differently flavored salts. 00:08:15.475 --> 00:08:22.395 When people think about salad, the main question that they have is how wet versus dry do I want this experience to be? 00:08:22.735 --> 00:08:28.635 And so this really helps with that, where you can puree, or you can just have it all in salt. 00:08:28.895 --> 00:08:38.455 I like also the salad salt idea, because then you can put the salad salt on whatever you want and be like, yeah, I'm eating salad, put salad salt on a hamburger. 00:08:40.155 --> 00:08:42.755 My salad burger, it's a garden burger. 00:08:42.775 --> 00:08:44.275 There's a whole salad in there. 00:08:44.355 --> 00:08:45.995 I bet you wouldn't believe it. 00:08:47.555 --> 00:08:51.015 Yeah, I'm sure that would also be really good for your sodium intake. 00:08:51.675 --> 00:08:57.695 I would like to also suggest another type of salad dressing, the cheese salad dressing. 00:08:59.235 --> 00:09:00.955 Which is different from cheese? 00:09:01.695 --> 00:09:05.115 Yes, in that it is processed. 00:09:05.135 --> 00:09:06.595 It's sort of like Cheez Whiz. 00:09:06.915 --> 00:09:07.775 Ah, great. 00:09:07.795 --> 00:09:13.735 That was what came to my mind, was Cheez Whiz, my absolute favorite thing. 00:09:14.035 --> 00:09:15.155 Yeah, mine too. 00:09:15.175 --> 00:09:16.515 Of course, it's everyone's favorite thing. 00:09:16.535 --> 00:09:19.355 Everyone just wants that processed cheese flavor. 00:09:19.375 --> 00:09:21.255 And now you can have it on a salad. 00:09:21.355 --> 00:09:23.755 I love that it is not processed cheese. 00:09:23.995 --> 00:09:26.755 It's just the flavor of processed cheese. 00:09:27.015 --> 00:09:30.915 You do have some of that metallic tang in there from the factory. 00:09:30.935 --> 00:09:31.775 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:09:31.795 --> 00:09:34.835 Or American cheese, as they call it, for some reason. 00:09:35.095 --> 00:09:39.315 Maybe because it's a godless thing that only Americans can come up with. 00:09:39.335 --> 00:09:45.595 It's because cheese looked at it and went, yeah, that's what a cheese would be if it wasn't American. 00:09:46.915 --> 00:09:47.815 Yeah, pretty much. 00:09:47.935 --> 00:09:54.275 The thing about the cheese salad dressing is you can combine it with all sorts of traditional salad dressing flavors. 00:09:54.295 --> 00:09:55.955 You have your cheddar balsamic, you know? 00:09:56.035 --> 00:09:57.735 But it's not actual cheddar, of course. 00:09:58.095 --> 00:10:00.495 So is that just oil and cheese? 00:10:00.575 --> 00:10:01.655 Like, wouldn't that get... 00:10:01.675 --> 00:10:03.015 No, it's the vinegar in there. 00:10:03.535 --> 00:10:04.555 Great, great. 00:10:05.535 --> 00:10:10.875 I'm just worried about how the separation, you know, how they don't mix. 00:10:10.895 --> 00:10:12.855 No, that's part of the fun. 00:10:12.935 --> 00:10:14.715 That's part of what's positive about it. 00:10:14.735 --> 00:10:16.475 So it's sort of just like two different salads. 00:10:17.095 --> 00:10:18.255 It is, exactly. 00:10:19.455 --> 00:10:22.955 You see often very, very fancy chefs. 00:10:22.975 --> 00:10:26.535 They really want each bite to be a different experience. 00:10:27.455 --> 00:10:38.435 And much like they meticulously like put together meals and food items to be, you know, a different experience every bite, we're doing the same thing here. 00:10:38.455 --> 00:10:46.595 This is why every good chef, this is why the best chefs do just deconstruct their food and do just lay it out on a plate. 00:10:46.775 --> 00:10:52.895 So when you are eating your salad, you do just have two pieces of lettuce next to a pile of cheese with a bowl of oil. 00:10:53.175 --> 00:10:56.935 And then you can just sort of make your own salad. 00:10:56.955 --> 00:10:57.755 It is. 00:10:57.775 --> 00:11:03.475 You do take a piece of lettuce, wrap a piece of cheese inside of it, and then dip it in oil and shove it in your gullet. 00:11:03.655 --> 00:11:04.575 Yeah, yeah. 00:11:04.735 --> 00:11:10.035 And you know, one could choose to only put some of it in, but then you're A, wasting. 00:11:10.055 --> 00:11:14.975 If you do, you are thrown out and also arrested because it's illegal. 00:11:14.995 --> 00:11:19.695 It's illegal to not have all the components of the salad together. 00:11:20.095 --> 00:11:21.675 Yeah, for sure, for sure. 00:11:21.695 --> 00:11:23.115 I think that that's that's accurate. 00:11:23.115 --> 00:11:23.715 I think, yeah. 00:11:23.735 --> 00:11:25.055 You've committed a food crime. 00:11:25.075 --> 00:11:31.795 You've committed a food crime, which this is the thing that we're talking about is definitely not food crimes. 00:11:31.995 --> 00:11:34.655 The things we're making are definitely not food crimes. 00:11:34.675 --> 00:11:36.015 They're good and positive. 00:11:36.035 --> 00:11:37.895 They're food crimes against humanity. 00:11:39.015 --> 00:11:40.915 Food crimes against humanity. 00:11:41.115 --> 00:11:42.315 That's what we're all about here. 00:11:42.335 --> 00:11:43.455 It's the new board game. 00:11:45.695 --> 00:11:50.855 As you go around the board, you have to eat different awful like food combinations. 00:11:50.875 --> 00:11:54.395 It's like Monopoly, but instead of collecting property, you just eat the board. 00:11:56.195 --> 00:11:57.615 It's still made out of cardboard. 00:11:59.195 --> 00:12:01.415 It's just slightly differently flavored cardboard. 00:12:01.435 --> 00:12:04.315 Yeah, just slightly, you know, flavored cardboard, as they say. 00:12:05.635 --> 00:12:06.695 Oh, my God. 00:12:06.835 --> 00:12:16.215 The possibilities are endless with unique salad dressings, and we could really go on and on, but I am wondering if you have any cravings upon this day. 00:12:16.415 --> 00:12:20.055 I do have one more flavor for a salad dressing. 00:12:20.075 --> 00:12:22.895 Please give me the one more flavor for the salad dressing. 00:12:23.395 --> 00:12:24.495 Cardboard Creamies. 00:12:24.715 --> 00:12:26.315 Okay, that's been Salt Cravings, everyone. 00:12:26.335 --> 00:12:29.015 We're done here, we're done with the show. 00:12:29.255 --> 00:12:33.755 Okay, so is it like, okay, I need to know, is the cardboard wet? 00:12:34.435 --> 00:12:38.575 Well, no, you see, it's one of your creamies, but it's cardboard flavor. 00:12:38.595 --> 00:12:44.155 You know, like when you eat a Monopoly board, but it's not the flavored edition. 00:12:44.215 --> 00:12:58.195 When you go to eat that food board game Monopoly, and you forget that it's actually just normal Monopoly, and you take a bite out of your board, and it is just cardboard, and you immediately regret your decision. 00:12:58.555 --> 00:13:00.795 Yeah, that does sound about right. 00:13:00.835 --> 00:13:03.535 So there's no actual cardboard in the salad. 00:13:03.555 --> 00:13:05.135 It's cardboard flavoring. 00:13:05.155 --> 00:13:06.115 Right, it's just cardboard flavoring. 00:13:06.135 --> 00:13:07.555 No one really knows what that is. 00:13:09.095 --> 00:13:10.315 It's a secret recipe. 00:13:10.355 --> 00:13:16.135 I mean, I would say that there is the alternative of you could just have like, instead of the lettuce, have cardboard. 00:13:16.315 --> 00:13:17.895 Mmm, crunchy. 00:13:19.015 --> 00:13:25.755 This is very much forbidden snacks territory of just like, alright, so instead of lettuce, you have cardboard. 00:13:26.135 --> 00:13:30.235 Instead of strawberries, you have... 00:13:30.455 --> 00:13:30.955 Marbles. 00:13:30.975 --> 00:13:32.155 You have marbles. 00:13:32.835 --> 00:13:35.275 Instead of goat cheese, you have glue. 00:13:37.835 --> 00:13:42.435 Gloves of glue, and as a salad dressing, you have gasoline. 00:13:42.575 --> 00:13:43.195 Great. 00:13:43.295 --> 00:13:47.555 Can you save us and give us a different craving that isn't this cursed? 00:13:47.615 --> 00:13:48.515 Yeah, sure. 00:13:49.775 --> 00:13:54.275 I actually wanted to try something a little different at this time. 00:13:54.395 --> 00:14:03.915 Yeah, so I'm thinking I want to do Omega Craving where I'm just gonna take both of my cravings, and now this is my craving. 00:14:04.035 --> 00:14:04.255 Oh, okay. 00:14:04.435 --> 00:14:04.935 Okay. 00:14:05.915 --> 00:14:10.115 So wait, this is like a mech, kind of a Voltron style. 00:14:10.115 --> 00:14:15.515 It's like if Voltron was enjoyable, and then also a podcast. 00:14:15.815 --> 00:14:17.095 And also about cravings. 00:14:17.115 --> 00:14:18.255 And also about cravings. 00:14:18.275 --> 00:14:21.355 Okay, so give me this Voltron of a craving. 00:14:21.475 --> 00:14:21.775 Right. 00:14:22.115 --> 00:14:26.415 So I do have a class, Creative Writing for Young Adults and Children. 00:14:26.895 --> 00:14:28.795 Creative Writing, who would study that? 00:14:29.115 --> 00:14:30.115 Fucking losers. 00:14:30.595 --> 00:14:43.075 Yeah, so I thought because this is your specialty, Brianna, I thought there was no better thing to do than I have an assignment for the first chapter of a novel. 00:14:43.235 --> 00:14:48.615 And I've done a quick rough draft, and there's two parts of the scene of the first chapter. 00:14:48.935 --> 00:14:53.635 I want to quickly read the first scene, and then I want us to come up with the world. 00:14:55.075 --> 00:14:57.055 Because I thought maybe you'd be into that. 00:14:57.075 --> 00:14:58.055 I am into this. 00:14:58.355 --> 00:14:59.335 You're terrified? 00:14:59.355 --> 00:15:00.175 You're terrified? 00:15:00.295 --> 00:15:00.875 Okay, great. 00:15:01.335 --> 00:15:06.055 I'm going to give you zero background, because this is the first scene of the opening chapter. 00:15:06.075 --> 00:15:07.475 It has to stand on its own. 00:15:07.535 --> 00:15:07.815 Yeah. 00:15:07.955 --> 00:15:11.815 And now I will warn you, and also everyone listening, it's a rough draft. 00:15:11.935 --> 00:15:12.755 That's okay. 00:15:12.875 --> 00:15:14.035 Everything's a rough draft. 00:15:14.875 --> 00:15:16.555 I don't think so, but thank you. 00:15:16.575 --> 00:15:17.235 You're welcome. 00:15:17.675 --> 00:15:18.315 Please go. 00:15:18.515 --> 00:15:20.275 Otto loved finishing a job with a bang. 00:15:20.675 --> 00:15:22.155 But fire was acceptable too. 00:15:22.655 --> 00:15:23.695 Smile, will ya? 00:15:23.775 --> 00:15:25.855 They said, trying to get an image of their target. 00:15:26.075 --> 00:15:30.675 You know, you organics always get embarrassed over the littlest things, the most useless things, really. 00:15:30.935 --> 00:15:32.295 They put their communicator away. 00:15:32.415 --> 00:15:33.895 I'll tell you a little secret though. 00:15:33.915 --> 00:15:34.935 I've been embarrassed too. 00:15:34.955 --> 00:15:35.995 Oh, yes siree. 00:15:36.075 --> 00:15:39.955 I was wrought with embarrassment when I shot the old federation leader, Admiral Raylia. 00:15:40.255 --> 00:15:41.815 I don't know if you were around then. 00:15:41.835 --> 00:15:44.295 You seem a little green, but that's who Admiral Jacques replaced. 00:15:44.315 --> 00:15:46.035 Regardless, I shot and I missed. 00:15:46.135 --> 00:15:46.975 I mean, I didn't miss. 00:15:46.995 --> 00:15:47.555 I never missed. 00:15:47.575 --> 00:15:56.535 I meant to get her in the heart, you know, quick and painless, but I got cocky, didn't calculate the probability of her standing up, and of course, Croatian biology means I had her right smack in the middle of her forearm. 00:15:56.655 --> 00:15:59.335 Oh, the noise was terrible, so loud, let me tell you. 00:15:59.515 --> 00:16:05.735 It took me a whole 16 milliseconds to get to the next round off, but by then the alarm had already started and I was behind schedule. 00:16:05.775 --> 00:16:08.275 You see, I keep a very tight schedule on missions. 00:16:08.475 --> 00:16:09.855 Less room for variables. 00:16:10.075 --> 00:16:10.615 Ding! 00:16:10.975 --> 00:16:11.655 Otto paused. 00:16:11.815 --> 00:16:12.735 Bounty received. 00:16:12.875 --> 00:16:16.675 They glanced back at the wide eye to drop at a Federation soldier tied up across the table. 00:16:16.935 --> 00:16:18.475 Anyways, I don't mean to keep you. 00:16:18.855 --> 00:16:25.095 Otto downed the rest of the organic soldier's drink, shot the soldier in the head, stood up and headed towards the exit of the currently burning bar. 00:16:25.475 --> 00:16:28.515 You are now behind schedule by 50.64 seconds. 00:16:28.875 --> 00:16:30.475 Otto's sub-process chimed in. 00:16:30.555 --> 00:16:36.015 It would appear that telling a dead man that you keep a very tight schedule has, in fact, not made it true. 00:16:36.155 --> 00:16:37.415 Otto headed towards their ship. 00:16:37.435 --> 00:16:43.775 Listen, I could come up with new calculations faster than any of those backwater organics would even think to send a distress signal back to their CO. 00:16:43.895 --> 00:16:46.835 Fortunately for us, the distress was sent when you arrived. 00:16:46.895 --> 00:16:49.735 Otto immediately recognized the gurgling voice they detest. 00:16:49.995 --> 00:16:50.875 I'm going to try that again. 00:16:50.895 --> 00:16:51.675 That was gurgly enough. 00:16:51.695 --> 00:16:52.795 I need you to gurgle. 00:16:53.715 --> 00:16:57.235 Fortunately for us, the distress was sent when you arrived. 00:16:57.535 --> 00:17:02.015 Otto immediately recognized the gurgling voice they detested, almost as much as they loved their own voice. 00:17:02.715 --> 00:17:06.115 Admiral Jux, I'm so happy you've joined the party. 00:17:06.135 --> 00:17:08.175 I actually have a gift I've been meaning to give you. 00:17:08.215 --> 00:17:15.675 Otto went to raise the arm they had just finished installing their new scavenger into, a micro cannon from the bar's armed fence droid, but found they were unable to move at all. 00:17:15.775 --> 00:17:20.615 Now is not the time for gifts, it would appear, as Jux said with a grin that split his face. 00:17:21.235 --> 00:17:25.155 I do hope you know how very long I have waited for this moment. 00:17:25.655 --> 00:17:28.855 Immediately Otto felt every one of their process threads dying. 00:17:29.115 --> 00:17:31.655 Someone was beginning their fourth shutdown sequence. 00:17:32.615 --> 00:17:36.075 And that's the first scene of the first chapter of my novel. 00:17:36.095 --> 00:17:36.935 Hell yeah. 00:17:36.955 --> 00:17:39.035 That is only ever going to have one chapter. 00:17:39.055 --> 00:17:39.515 Of course. 00:17:39.575 --> 00:17:41.755 But I want your thoughts. 00:17:41.935 --> 00:17:42.435 Tell me. 00:17:42.555 --> 00:17:47.775 Alright, so it's clear to me that the main character is a robot. 00:17:48.055 --> 00:17:49.315 I'm glad I made that clear. 00:17:49.635 --> 00:17:50.575 That's pretty clear. 00:17:51.195 --> 00:17:57.535 It's also clear to me that there is a Federation, and that there are organics and people gurgle. 00:18:00.055 --> 00:18:02.375 Those are some of the things that I've picked up. 00:18:02.415 --> 00:18:03.175 I assume... 00:18:03.195 --> 00:18:04.075 People gurgle. 00:18:04.075 --> 00:18:06.715 That's a real key point in this whole story. 00:18:06.735 --> 00:18:12.915 It's actually a story of how the gurgling victims take over the universe. 00:18:13.175 --> 00:18:15.415 Yeah, I mean, it's the gurgle. 00:18:15.435 --> 00:18:18.115 I know that you have a whole name for the Federation. 00:18:18.115 --> 00:18:19.515 Yeah, the Andromeda Federation. 00:18:19.535 --> 00:18:22.315 The Andromeda Federation, but it's really a federation of gurglers. 00:18:22.335 --> 00:18:24.715 A federation of gurglers, yes. 00:18:24.815 --> 00:18:30.695 And I think the Andromeda Federation is probably a bunch of dicks. 00:18:30.895 --> 00:18:32.435 Just a bunch of dicks. 00:18:32.775 --> 00:18:34.435 They suck. 00:18:34.595 --> 00:18:37.755 I've decided for literally no reason. 00:18:37.775 --> 00:18:42.755 Because Otto is, as a character, seems like an asshole. 00:18:42.895 --> 00:18:45.395 But I've decided that I like them. 00:18:45.655 --> 00:18:50.915 I'm really happy, I just want to say I'm super duper happy that you said Otto is an asshole. 00:18:50.935 --> 00:18:55.815 Because when I was making this character, the first line that I wrote down was, is an asshole. 00:18:55.875 --> 00:19:01.455 Yeah, but I like to believe that they're an asshole who's fighting for a good cause, even though I'm certain that they aren't. 00:19:02.815 --> 00:19:11.615 Or at least that they are performing mercenary work on behalf of a good cause, which is of course the rebellion resistance of rebellion. 00:19:11.915 --> 00:19:16.555 And they are trying to destroy the Andromeda Federation because of the gurgling. 00:19:16.995 --> 00:19:19.355 Do you want me to tell you what I have come up with? 00:19:19.535 --> 00:19:20.835 It's actually pronounced Ato. 00:19:20.855 --> 00:19:23.035 I've been pronouncing my character's name wrong. 00:19:23.055 --> 00:19:26.255 It's not Ato, it's A-T-O, not A-U-T-O. 00:19:26.275 --> 00:19:28.415 But it's Ato, and I'm just bad at pronouncing. 00:19:28.435 --> 00:19:31.595 Also, pronouncing it as Ato is kind of great in its own way. 00:19:31.615 --> 00:19:33.495 Yeah, I left room for error. 00:19:33.775 --> 00:19:34.855 Error is also good. 00:19:35.095 --> 00:19:37.535 Ato also leaves room for error, clearly. 00:19:37.735 --> 00:19:39.395 Clearly, they're behind schedule. 00:19:39.735 --> 00:19:41.755 By 50.64 seconds. 00:19:41.775 --> 00:19:47.035 Yeah, I want to hear what you actually have, because I'm curious about how on the money I was. 00:19:47.395 --> 00:19:55.795 So prior this chapter, the background, the history, Ato is a droid or robot, whatever term. 00:19:55.855 --> 00:19:56.695 They do have a body. 00:19:56.915 --> 00:20:00.195 They were invented by someone. 00:20:00.215 --> 00:20:01.535 I don't exactly know who. 00:20:01.855 --> 00:20:04.315 And that someone was murdered by the Andromeda Federation. 00:20:05.055 --> 00:20:05.635 Gasp! 00:20:06.095 --> 00:20:14.115 Yeah, they were murdered by the Andromeda Federation because Ato is a very dangerous machine and it was illegal to make Ato. 00:20:15.155 --> 00:20:17.655 Therefore, Ato is responsible. 00:20:17.915 --> 00:20:18.975 Illegal bot! 00:20:19.235 --> 00:20:20.115 Yeah, basically. 00:20:20.335 --> 00:20:33.975 So, Ato's whole existence is bad under the Andromeda Federation, and the Andromeda Federation has existed for a few thousand years, and Ato has existed for a few hundred years. 00:20:34.575 --> 00:20:41.035 Ato has killed the previous federation leader, which was mentioned in the beginning of the story. 00:20:41.135 --> 00:20:49.255 And Admiral Jux was Admiral Raylia's replacement, who has it out for Ato, because, you know, Ato has murdered a bunch of... 00:20:49.275 --> 00:20:54.695 This is not the first federation leader Ato has murdered. 00:20:55.315 --> 00:21:04.495 I like to imagine that every time a new federation leader gets installed, their first thing is like, Ato's just like, all right, time to go. 00:21:04.935 --> 00:21:06.875 It's just like, that's the biggest threat. 00:21:06.895 --> 00:21:08.195 It's just this one robot. 00:21:08.275 --> 00:21:15.875 Yeah, and also, I like to think that the only people who really want to be federation leaders anymore are the people who have been hurt by Ato. 00:21:16.675 --> 00:21:18.815 So they really have it out for each other. 00:21:18.835 --> 00:21:23.995 There is this very endless cyclical combat that keeps renewing itself. 00:21:24.135 --> 00:21:29.455 Yeah, which is interesting because you can kill federation leaders and then they'll get replaced. 00:21:29.615 --> 00:21:30.715 There's only one Ato. 00:21:30.735 --> 00:21:34.055 There is only one Ato, but Ato is also really good. 00:21:34.115 --> 00:21:37.555 And maybe the opening of this chapter doesn't elaborate on that. 00:21:37.935 --> 00:21:44.955 However, the ending of this chapter, and I haven't figured out how, Ato is going to fall into a black hole. 00:21:45.435 --> 00:21:45.895 Excellent. 00:21:46.095 --> 00:21:47.675 Ato wakes up. 00:21:48.055 --> 00:21:50.955 And I originally thought Ato wakes up in a room. 00:21:51.455 --> 00:21:53.115 It's a very sterile room. 00:21:53.215 --> 00:21:55.935 Ato breaks out and all it is is a box. 00:21:56.355 --> 00:22:00.815 And Ato is now drifting towards a black hole, and this box is drifting away from them. 00:22:00.955 --> 00:22:02.835 But Ato doesn't die. 00:22:02.975 --> 00:22:03.415 Of course. 00:22:03.675 --> 00:22:05.695 Or Ato does, and something happens. 00:22:06.035 --> 00:22:07.415 I haven't come up with it yet. 00:22:07.435 --> 00:22:09.595 So this is the first part of my craving. 00:22:09.615 --> 00:22:13.615 How does Ato get sucked into the black hole? 00:22:13.635 --> 00:22:16.755 What is the inevitable you will never escape? 00:22:16.755 --> 00:22:21.475 Jux has set up this trap and given Ato hope, but there is no hope. 00:22:21.575 --> 00:22:23.495 And then at the end of the chapter, the black hole happens. 00:22:23.755 --> 00:22:28.015 I'm curious, because this is going to influence the chapter, what happens also? 00:22:28.215 --> 00:22:29.795 Does Ato actually die? 00:22:29.855 --> 00:22:31.515 Is there something on the other side of the black hole? 00:22:31.535 --> 00:22:32.515 This is sci-fi. 00:22:32.535 --> 00:22:38.455 It doesn't have to be Ato gets crushed, but Ato could also be crushed, and then something else could happen. 00:22:38.475 --> 00:22:39.555 Do you want my ideas? 00:22:39.575 --> 00:22:40.395 Yeah, I do. 00:22:40.875 --> 00:22:41.515 All of them. 00:22:41.715 --> 00:22:51.375 My first thought is, so you know how in the Avengers, they have the containment thing for Loki that was originally supposed to be for the Hulk? 00:22:51.535 --> 00:22:57.735 Because they can't directly kill him, but they can trap him in there and drop him out of the sky. 00:22:58.055 --> 00:23:01.835 Ooh, and then we get some face-to-face time with Admiral Jux. 00:23:01.955 --> 00:23:02.635 Exactly. 00:23:02.655 --> 00:23:12.375 You have the whole thing of Atto is in this box and is going to be dropped towards the black hole because Admiral Jux to position. 00:23:12.395 --> 00:23:13.515 It's Z-H-U-X. 00:23:13.795 --> 00:23:15.275 Okay, Jux to position. 00:23:16.135 --> 00:23:17.375 Admiral Jux to position. 00:23:17.395 --> 00:23:21.435 God, I think I have to change the name now. 00:23:22.075 --> 00:23:22.795 No, it's perfect. 00:23:22.815 --> 00:23:23.435 Keep it as is. 00:23:23.755 --> 00:23:30.775 He is of the belief that if they just kill Atto, Atto will have a backup somewhere, right? 00:23:30.795 --> 00:23:32.575 Because that's a thing that robots can do. 00:23:32.815 --> 00:23:34.875 They can just have a backup of the brain. 00:23:34.895 --> 00:23:36.395 That's a good idea. 00:23:36.415 --> 00:23:37.615 I didn't even think about that. 00:23:37.635 --> 00:23:40.895 I almost thought maybe Atto's a little too proud. 00:23:41.275 --> 00:23:44.515 But I think it doesn't even matter if they do have that. 00:23:44.635 --> 00:23:55.375 I think the point is that they believe, and okay, I have the other bit, which is that the Admiral believes that because there's no way that just one robot... 00:23:55.395 --> 00:23:57.115 Is making so much trouble. 00:23:57.135 --> 00:23:58.255 Is making so much trouble. 00:23:58.275 --> 00:23:59.355 There must be... 00:23:59.375 --> 00:24:00.615 And Atto plays it up. 00:24:00.655 --> 00:24:04.735 I totally have that all the while, the sub-process, which no one else can hear, by the way. 00:24:04.755 --> 00:24:10.735 Atto does talk to themself a lot, which I really love the image of because it's relatable. 00:24:10.935 --> 00:24:21.155 Atto is just talking to the sub-process while Jux is talking to them, and Jux is starting to get a little mad because Jux realizes Atto is talking to themself but cannot hear the other side of the conversation. 00:24:21.475 --> 00:24:21.835 Yeah. 00:24:22.495 --> 00:24:30.155 So I love this idea that Atto would never ever make a backup but starts to pretend and the sub-process is like, you don't. 00:24:30.595 --> 00:24:35.455 Oh, the cage blocks all signals except for voice. 00:24:35.755 --> 00:24:41.335 Yeah, and he wants to see Atto suffer in the cage where he can't transmit anything out. 00:24:41.515 --> 00:24:43.535 I mean, of course Atto doesn't die, right? 00:24:43.555 --> 00:24:47.295 Atto doesn't die in the black hole because that's too simple. 00:24:47.435 --> 00:24:48.775 Yeah, also it's chapter one. 00:24:48.895 --> 00:24:51.435 Also chapter one, super protagonist. 00:24:51.455 --> 00:24:57.655 Yeah, I was thinking Atto could die and then comes back as something else, which is why I kind of liked the backup idea. 00:24:57.955 --> 00:25:01.395 But what if it's a backup that Atto never created? 00:25:03.095 --> 00:25:05.035 What if someone else made this backup? 00:25:05.915 --> 00:25:07.315 Oh, and here's the thing. 00:25:07.535 --> 00:25:23.195 Here's the other thing about it, because I still love my idea of the rebellion resistance of rebellion, is that they created a backup in case Atto ever died, so that Atto could help them destroy the federation. 00:25:23.755 --> 00:25:27.895 And Atto's like, yeah, I was already doing that, I don't need your help. 00:25:27.895 --> 00:25:30.795 Atto's like, I don't need your help when they're asking for Atto's help. 00:25:32.455 --> 00:25:37.275 Oh, I mean, you just have to have all the comedy of Atto trying to adjust to the new body. 00:25:37.995 --> 00:25:39.255 Oh, that's very good. 00:25:39.615 --> 00:25:39.955 Right? 00:25:39.975 --> 00:25:41.355 Because Atto's also a bounty hunter, hence the bounty. 00:25:45.015 --> 00:25:50.135 Atto steals tech and upgrades themself and has survived hundreds of years that way. 00:25:50.155 --> 00:25:52.695 This new body sucks, doesn't it? 00:25:52.715 --> 00:25:53.655 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:25:53.675 --> 00:25:55.695 What are some of the parts on this new body? 00:25:55.995 --> 00:26:00.715 Okay, so it's got to be like a reconstructed protocol droid of some kind. 00:26:01.255 --> 00:26:03.755 Like a C-3PO style. 00:26:03.895 --> 00:26:05.095 Oh, that's so bad. 00:26:05.115 --> 00:26:07.295 Like shit that they tried to turn into. 00:26:07.315 --> 00:26:17.415 Because they know how to recreate a droid, but they wouldn't know how to create Atto from scratch because no one knows how to create Atto from scratch, except for their original creator who died. 00:26:18.315 --> 00:26:22.735 So it's like a protocol droid, and they just have an awful voice that they hate. 00:26:23.435 --> 00:26:24.375 Oh, ooh. 00:26:25.795 --> 00:26:27.875 Not to get trans on it, but an awful voice. 00:26:27.895 --> 00:26:28.855 That's really good. 00:26:28.875 --> 00:26:29.595 I like that. 00:26:29.695 --> 00:26:32.855 Yeah, body parts that are not made for fluid movement. 00:26:33.195 --> 00:26:37.035 I'll have you know points. 00:26:37.155 --> 00:26:39.475 Goes to raise arm can't. 00:26:39.555 --> 00:26:43.175 Yeah, basically can't raise arms above their head. 00:26:43.515 --> 00:26:44.595 Oh, my goodness. 00:26:44.835 --> 00:26:46.595 Oh, and here's the fun thing. 00:26:46.875 --> 00:26:51.935 That's the reason why Addo ends up staying with the Rebellion, because they're like, fine. 00:26:51.955 --> 00:26:54.375 At first, they're like, oh, I got this. 00:26:54.395 --> 00:26:58.715 And then they try to open a door, and they just miss the button because their hand-eye coordination is off. 00:26:58.975 --> 00:27:04.135 And they're like, it looks like they're leaning against the wall, and they just go, where's my room? 00:27:04.575 --> 00:27:09.195 Yeah, and their whole thing is like, all right, I'll help you, but you need to build me a better body. 00:27:09.255 --> 00:27:12.515 Yeah, and so the only person who can is their old creator. 00:27:12.515 --> 00:27:17.955 So they have to find the old lab of the creator who did have a hidden lab. 00:27:18.195 --> 00:27:18.815 Of course. 00:27:19.195 --> 00:27:26.935 I mean, that's where the actual mechanics of Ado were in the schematics, so Ado can make a new body for themself. 00:27:27.135 --> 00:27:28.295 Yes, I love this. 00:27:28.295 --> 00:27:32.095 And that would be the novel, and then taking down the Federation. 00:27:32.375 --> 00:27:37.275 Yeah, because you have the, in the traditional hero's journey, even though this is the anti-hero's journey, right? 00:27:37.295 --> 00:27:41.875 There's the point where the hero is back, basically. 00:27:41.955 --> 00:27:43.115 Of course, yeah. 00:27:43.135 --> 00:27:47.315 Of course, there's always that point where the hero is like, all right, I'm the hero now. 00:27:47.335 --> 00:27:50.575 And that's the point where Ado gets to build back their original body. 00:27:50.615 --> 00:27:53.955 It's the typical, like, hero starts on top of the world. 00:27:53.975 --> 00:27:56.335 Hero is struck down and starts from nothing. 00:27:56.335 --> 00:27:59.775 Exactly, which is always fun and good and positive. 00:28:01.415 --> 00:28:08.115 I also love this because, like, probably the Rebellion has good reasons why they want to take down the Federation, but Ado doesn't give a shit. 00:28:08.135 --> 00:28:12.775 I also want to say the Federation, for the most part, is a really good place. 00:28:12.855 --> 00:28:19.075 They, you know, make sure everyone under the Federation's watch can eat, has a place to stay. 00:28:19.095 --> 00:28:24.175 There are probably a hundred or so planets under the Federation's, like, protection. 00:28:24.655 --> 00:28:29.715 So there's also that, and Ado super doesn't care, but I think the Rebellion does. 00:28:29.735 --> 00:28:30.955 I think the Rebellion does. 00:28:31.995 --> 00:28:33.575 You know, it could be anything, right? 00:28:33.595 --> 00:28:37.755 There's always ways to make a utopia be dystopic for other people, right? 00:28:37.795 --> 00:28:41.155 To be like, if you're not in the Federation, you're fucked. 00:28:41.515 --> 00:28:47.275 Or just to have it be like, oh yeah, you get food and this and this and this and this, but you can't do this. 00:28:47.295 --> 00:28:48.255 You can't criticize. 00:28:48.275 --> 00:28:49.035 You can't whatever. 00:28:49.055 --> 00:28:53.075 I actually, so for the second... 00:28:53.435 --> 00:28:55.735 Yeah, give me the second part of your craving. 00:28:55.755 --> 00:29:01.515 So for the second part of the craving, I want to come up with why does the Rebellion want to take down the Federation? 00:29:01.835 --> 00:29:07.255 Because for all intents and purposes, I want the Federation to be 99% good. 00:29:07.355 --> 00:29:15.235 I want it to be like a civilization that does open its arms to new planets, and will of course help you. 00:29:15.675 --> 00:29:16.675 Maybe not as... 00:29:16.695 --> 00:29:17.715 It's some Star Trek. 00:29:17.815 --> 00:29:19.715 Like it's a Star Trek Federation. 00:29:19.715 --> 00:29:21.495 It's a real good place. 00:29:21.835 --> 00:29:32.115 It's just the fact that you can't create weapons of mass destruction, and under the classification, Atto was a weapon of mass destruction. 00:29:32.135 --> 00:29:33.255 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:29:33.275 --> 00:29:36.035 And then they murdered, I think almost maybe... 00:29:36.055 --> 00:29:37.735 I can't decide if it's an accident or not. 00:29:37.735 --> 00:29:39.135 I think the creator dies. 00:29:39.155 --> 00:29:44.575 I'm either in hiding or dies, but Atto thinks he's dead. 00:29:45.215 --> 00:29:47.275 That's the underlying thing, is Atto thinks they're dead. 00:29:47.475 --> 00:29:50.755 And because of that reason, has started murdering them for hundreds of years. 00:29:51.375 --> 00:29:55.495 And now the Federation of course has very good reason to come after Atto. 00:29:55.975 --> 00:29:57.575 So why is there a rebellion? 00:29:57.955 --> 00:30:00.715 What has the Federation done that there's a rebellion? 00:30:00.995 --> 00:30:02.695 There's all sorts of options, right? 00:30:02.715 --> 00:30:05.235 There's petty reasons, right? 00:30:05.355 --> 00:30:10.655 You fucking like executed my father or stuff like that. 00:30:10.895 --> 00:30:15.995 I think, but then there's also reasons of like, sorry, let me just back up on you executed my father. 00:30:16.015 --> 00:30:20.755 There's absolutely a relative of Atto's creator. 00:30:21.155 --> 00:30:22.095 Oh, no. 00:30:22.135 --> 00:30:27.535 And Atto just sort of meets this person, and probably this person is who helped build the backup body. 00:30:28.135 --> 00:30:29.615 Oh, that's really good. 00:30:29.655 --> 00:30:36.055 And like they meet and they're like, hey, you're like kind of my dad's son. 00:30:37.955 --> 00:30:39.775 We're kind of siblings. 00:30:39.915 --> 00:30:41.435 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:30:41.455 --> 00:30:44.035 Oh, that's really good for sibling dynamics. 00:30:44.035 --> 00:30:45.535 Of course it is, right? 00:30:46.415 --> 00:30:48.135 One's organic and one's robotic. 00:30:48.155 --> 00:30:51.675 I do also love the idea of the sub process getting jealous. 00:30:53.335 --> 00:30:55.815 That's so good. 00:30:55.815 --> 00:31:01.315 When Otto eventually at some point during the story starts to warm up towards the sibling. 00:31:01.555 --> 00:31:02.015 You know what? 00:31:02.035 --> 00:31:05.415 Actually, I think Otto would care about the sibling because Otto cares about the creator. 00:31:05.435 --> 00:31:07.615 So therefore, Otto cares about this person. 00:31:08.215 --> 00:31:09.775 Unless. 00:31:10.035 --> 00:31:12.955 Unless they're like, you're nothing like he was. 00:31:13.655 --> 00:31:14.975 So I could definitely see this. 00:31:14.995 --> 00:31:18.375 Like, Otto doesn't trust this person at first, but then they like prove themselves. 00:31:19.455 --> 00:31:25.455 And then there's the brotherly, I mean, I don't think either of them are brothers, but they're sibling loves. 00:31:25.475 --> 00:31:26.515 They're sibling loves. 00:31:26.535 --> 00:31:30.095 And then, of course, the sub processor, which is also Otto, I should say. 00:31:30.175 --> 00:31:30.695 Of course. 00:31:30.735 --> 00:31:32.875 Every version of Otto is Otto. 00:31:33.795 --> 00:31:34.375 Gets jealous. 00:31:34.755 --> 00:31:36.055 Of course, and I love that. 00:31:36.075 --> 00:31:37.815 Because Otto usually talks to themself. 00:31:37.955 --> 00:31:38.935 It's very good. 00:31:39.275 --> 00:31:41.235 This is all very excellent. 00:31:41.555 --> 00:31:45.475 Disgruntling petty reasons of like, you did this specifically to my family. 00:31:45.575 --> 00:31:50.775 What are reasons in general that Rebellion could want to take down this, like, good place? 00:31:51.235 --> 00:32:05.395 I was thinking, what if the Federation, by putting so much of its resources into trying to eliminate Otto, who for hundreds of years has been causing these problems, has started to fail the people? 00:32:05.415 --> 00:32:06.135 Yeah, I think... 00:32:06.155 --> 00:32:14.235 And like, it started like, the Federation as a result, some of the quote, less important planets have started to have their resources pulled. 00:32:14.515 --> 00:32:16.995 There's something to be said about stagnation. 00:32:17.195 --> 00:32:21.755 Something that I've seen talk about is like, how do you have a state that never changes? 00:32:21.775 --> 00:32:24.135 And call that utopia, right? 00:32:24.155 --> 00:32:26.395 Because the needs are always going to change. 00:32:26.415 --> 00:32:35.015 And probably at first, the Federation was very good at like, adapting, but now it has gotten so interested in tradition. 00:32:35.055 --> 00:32:42.175 And it's also because they've been fighting the same bot for hundreds of years, they've begun to stagnate. 00:32:42.235 --> 00:32:48.595 And the needs of the people and the beliefs of the people have changed and come forward, and the Federation has not gone with them. 00:32:48.655 --> 00:32:49.575 I do love that. 00:32:50.775 --> 00:32:51.295 Thank you. 00:32:51.315 --> 00:32:52.855 I think it might be a combination. 00:32:52.875 --> 00:32:53.655 I think it might be... 00:32:53.675 --> 00:32:54.375 I think it's both. 00:32:54.395 --> 00:32:55.275 Yeah, I think it is both. 00:32:55.295 --> 00:32:56.035 It's got to be, right? 00:32:56.055 --> 00:32:59.435 Like you have less resources because they're diverting them too. 00:32:59.455 --> 00:32:59.815 Yeah. 00:32:59.995 --> 00:33:02.475 Well, and they still look after the people, sure. 00:33:02.495 --> 00:33:09.935 But it is like, there's a lot more of a realm of like, we need to preserve tradition, we need to preserve the way that we've done things. 00:33:09.935 --> 00:33:12.235 And I think Jux is the pinnacle of this. 00:33:12.255 --> 00:33:14.715 I think Jux was, we are... 00:33:14.735 --> 00:33:15.415 Lawful neutrality. 00:33:15.555 --> 00:33:17.835 I almost want to say like, lawful evil. 00:33:18.215 --> 00:33:21.035 Lawful evil versus chaotic neutral. 00:33:21.035 --> 00:33:23.235 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:33:23.235 --> 00:33:34.035 That's a pretty good reason for Belling to be like, once upon a time, this place was pretty sick, but also like, we're being supplied with the same food that we were supplied with hundreds of years ago. 00:33:34.095 --> 00:33:42.455 And like, no one wants to make anything new and invent anything new, which also plays in well to the theme of Atto trying to go back to their old body. 00:33:43.455 --> 00:33:44.855 Or to build a new body. 00:33:45.055 --> 00:33:54.875 Atto finds the schematics and then tosses them aside, even though they've journeyed so far, and just looks at everything around them and is like, you know, I can do better. 00:33:54.895 --> 00:33:56.635 Yeah, exactly, exactly. 00:33:56.655 --> 00:34:00.535 And then you have, of course, the Iron Man style montage of Atto. 00:34:00.555 --> 00:34:05.175 My favorite book thing, the Iron Man style montage is a great read. 00:34:05.215 --> 00:34:06.475 Oh, right, this is a book. 00:34:08.435 --> 00:34:11.175 Listen, I got really into the aesthetics of this, okay? 00:34:11.555 --> 00:34:22.155 You know, here, and that's a good, that's good, because, and maybe this is a little extra of me, but the video game that I want to create does take place in the Milky Way Galaxy. 00:34:22.475 --> 00:34:26.695 The story takes place in the Andromeda Galaxy, and they are the same universe. 00:34:26.975 --> 00:34:33.555 Listen, Clair, I need you to understand that as me being me, I love that. 00:34:33.775 --> 00:34:54.735 I think that that is amazing, because I am also a person who has found a way to link my modern-day werewolf story to two different timelines, one that's an apocalyptic timeline, and another that is a sci-fi, like, future timeline, and the linkage is the way magic appears. 00:34:54.935 --> 00:34:57.815 And this is the ideal thing to do. 00:34:57.835 --> 00:35:04.795 I was thinking about it this morning, and I am just going to have an Andromeda Federation soldier in my game at one point. 00:35:05.115 --> 00:35:13.575 Not obvious, just be like, hmm, I missed the fleet back in the Andromeda galaxy, or just some offhand, and then I eventually want to make a sequel that is this story. 00:35:13.915 --> 00:35:20.435 So my point was, all these beautiful visuals that you're thinking up, it's great, because I do want to eventually turn them into a game. 00:35:20.595 --> 00:35:21.375 This is perfect. 00:35:21.415 --> 00:35:24.515 Also, the sibling helps Otto create their new body. 00:35:24.535 --> 00:35:28.035 I thought I didn't know if I wanted to make that clear. 00:35:28.055 --> 00:35:32.675 I think Otto's sibling probably does the same thing that the father did. 00:35:32.875 --> 00:35:34.235 But not to the same degree. 00:35:34.255 --> 00:35:36.075 I'm thinking, does ship work? 00:35:36.095 --> 00:35:37.055 Probably, yeah. 00:35:37.075 --> 00:35:41.695 As a ship engineer versus Otto's creator or father, I guess we're just saying it. 00:35:41.715 --> 00:35:42.835 That's fine. 00:35:43.075 --> 00:35:44.115 Otto has a daddy. 00:35:46.775 --> 00:35:47.775 We've got Otto. 00:35:47.915 --> 00:35:48.875 Otto's daddy. 00:35:48.895 --> 00:35:51.455 Yeah, this was good. 00:35:51.495 --> 00:35:52.955 This is very, very cool. 00:35:53.055 --> 00:35:53.735 I'm glad. 00:35:53.875 --> 00:35:55.595 I'm glad that we flushed this out. 00:35:55.615 --> 00:35:59.835 This is definitely, I know how this first chapter is going to go now. 00:35:59.835 --> 00:36:03.255 You've solved my craving of not knowing how to write this chapter. 00:36:03.275 --> 00:36:05.275 This is the ideal. 00:36:05.295 --> 00:36:07.695 We've done collaborative storytelling is what we've done here, Clair. 00:36:07.715 --> 00:36:08.415 This is really good. 00:36:08.435 --> 00:36:12.155 This is what my thesis is about. 00:36:12.175 --> 00:36:14.055 Do you want to give me a thesis craving? 00:36:14.995 --> 00:36:18.935 I don't have a thesis craving, and before I get into my craving... 00:36:18.955 --> 00:36:20.935 You're going to write a thesis on it? 00:36:21.535 --> 00:36:23.255 No, though I could. 00:36:24.855 --> 00:36:28.635 I would like to do a fan craving. 00:36:30.175 --> 00:36:31.035 A craving? 00:36:31.215 --> 00:36:32.015 A craving. 00:36:32.035 --> 00:36:39.615 We had a craving submission from someone who listens to the show, and I'd like for us to hear what the craving is. 00:36:40.595 --> 00:36:42.355 Can we say who the craving was from? 00:36:42.515 --> 00:36:45.015 They have a way that they've signed it. 00:36:45.155 --> 00:36:45.675 Oh, great. 00:36:45.695 --> 00:36:46.135 All right. 00:36:46.155 --> 00:36:47.015 Go ahead and read it. 00:36:47.035 --> 00:36:47.915 I'm all ears. 00:36:48.555 --> 00:36:49.695 So here's the submission. 00:36:49.755 --> 00:36:51.575 Hello, Brianna and Clair, big fan of the podcast. 00:36:52.155 --> 00:36:52.675 Thank you. 00:36:53.355 --> 00:36:56.255 I was wondering if you ladies would be interested in solving my craving. 00:36:56.515 --> 00:36:56.915 Orcs. 00:36:57.495 --> 00:36:58.615 Oh, no. 00:36:58.935 --> 00:37:01.615 It's so hard to find smart orc content. 00:37:01.835 --> 00:37:05.715 They often get typecasted as beefy bimbos, and they are so much more than that. 00:37:05.835 --> 00:37:06.495 What do? 00:37:06.635 --> 00:37:08.875 Sincerely thirsty for an orc GF. 00:37:09.675 --> 00:37:13.055 Okay, so I just I know, I know exactly where you're going to go with this. 00:37:13.055 --> 00:37:15.135 I know exactly where you're going to go with this. 00:37:15.655 --> 00:37:17.775 I mean, there's a lot of places to go with it. 00:37:19.095 --> 00:37:19.555 Lem. 00:37:19.935 --> 00:37:22.035 I mean, yeah, lem, obviously. 00:37:22.495 --> 00:37:26.915 Friends at the Table, the thing that comes up on this podcast probably every episode. 00:37:27.035 --> 00:37:31.235 Yeah, I mean, I'm generally pro the way that Friends at the Table has done orcs. 00:37:31.415 --> 00:37:36.875 Like, it's the way that the world is, is that orcs are archivists and like nerds. 00:37:37.155 --> 00:37:38.635 They're nerdy archivists. 00:37:38.655 --> 00:37:42.475 They're the big buff nerdy boyfriend that you always thought you need. 00:37:42.835 --> 00:37:43.375 Exactly. 00:37:43.395 --> 00:37:46.375 And that's a super duper good way to take them. 00:37:46.455 --> 00:37:49.795 So Thirsty for an Orc GF needs us to come up with some orc stuff. 00:37:49.815 --> 00:37:51.235 And so we've got that example, right? 00:37:51.255 --> 00:37:52.095 We've got that example. 00:37:52.295 --> 00:37:56.815 There's other examples, I'm sure, of people doing orcs well, but they are few and far between. 00:37:57.095 --> 00:38:01.395 So, Clair, what's the, how can we make orcs get what they deserve? 00:38:01.555 --> 00:38:06.655 So I'm just going to go on a limb here and say we have to keep them beefy. 00:38:07.175 --> 00:38:08.235 Of course. 00:38:08.475 --> 00:38:11.335 If you, what's a, you can't have an orc twink. 00:38:13.355 --> 00:38:14.615 Wait, wait. 00:38:14.695 --> 00:38:15.715 But you could. 00:38:15.735 --> 00:38:16.895 But you could have an orc twink. 00:38:18.175 --> 00:38:19.995 Thinking about it, you could have some twinkie orcs. 00:38:20.015 --> 00:38:22.955 Thinking about it again, I kind of like the idea of an orc twink. 00:38:23.275 --> 00:38:24.795 I mean, I'm a fan of orc twinks. 00:38:24.815 --> 00:38:28.495 They're very, like, they're very sleek and slender orcs. 00:38:28.515 --> 00:38:33.395 And what if they're like water-based, like, mission people? 00:38:33.595 --> 00:38:37.215 Like, they can swim real good because they're so twinkie. 00:38:37.215 --> 00:38:39.055 Clair, Clair, Clair, Clair, Clair, Clair, Clair. 00:38:39.075 --> 00:38:40.935 Pirate orcs, pirate orcs, pirate orcs. 00:38:41.575 --> 00:38:44.455 Someone brought up that you bring up pirates a lot. 00:38:45.075 --> 00:38:48.075 Someone did bring up that I bring up pirates a lot, so maybe we don't need to go. 00:38:48.295 --> 00:38:49.635 I mean, you could just have mermaid orcs. 00:38:49.815 --> 00:38:50.335 Mmm. 00:38:50.615 --> 00:38:51.395 You have, you have... 00:38:51.575 --> 00:38:53.695 I feel like we gotta, we gotta keep orcs, orcs. 00:38:53.735 --> 00:38:54.815 We do gotta keep orcs, orcs. 00:38:54.835 --> 00:38:56.555 We can't just combine orcs with other... 00:38:56.615 --> 00:38:57.195 True... 00:38:57.195 --> 00:38:57.195 . 00:38:57.195 --> 00:38:57.775 creatures. 00:38:57.835 --> 00:39:00.075 I like the idea that orcs are just really good at swimming. 00:39:00.095 --> 00:39:02.195 There are for sure mermaid orcs, that's for sure. 00:39:02.215 --> 00:39:04.035 Those exist, 100%. 00:39:04.135 --> 00:39:05.535 But I wanna talk about orcs. 00:39:05.815 --> 00:39:08.975 I think, I think orcs, probably these orcs at the very least. 00:39:08.995 --> 00:39:10.375 And I don't think they're all twinkie, right? 00:39:10.395 --> 00:39:12.575 There's some that are, there's some that's beefy. 00:39:12.635 --> 00:39:15.675 It's, you know, a variation, just like humans have. 00:39:15.815 --> 00:39:16.195 Wild. 00:39:16.595 --> 00:39:17.035 Wild. 00:39:17.055 --> 00:39:18.895 A fantasy race is getting to have... 00:39:19.455 --> 00:39:20.235 Variation? 00:39:20.255 --> 00:39:21.495 Variations, wow. 00:39:21.515 --> 00:39:21.835 Weird. 00:39:22.495 --> 00:39:29.955 But I think they probably live and are on like an island-like area that has probably mountainous, right? 00:39:29.975 --> 00:39:32.935 Because orcs being in the mountains is always fun to me. 00:39:33.195 --> 00:39:34.035 I think they're very boat. 00:39:34.055 --> 00:39:36.275 I think they're near water and they do a lot of boat stuff. 00:39:36.935 --> 00:39:37.895 And they fish a lot. 00:39:38.175 --> 00:39:40.835 Yeah, they're probably like an island group, right? 00:39:41.055 --> 00:39:41.615 Yeah. 00:39:41.635 --> 00:39:42.315 Island orcs. 00:39:42.375 --> 00:39:43.235 Beach orcs. 00:39:44.895 --> 00:39:47.515 Oh yeah, because you have fisher orcs. 00:39:47.835 --> 00:39:48.775 Party orcs. 00:39:48.775 --> 00:39:49.595 Party orcs. 00:39:49.655 --> 00:39:50.615 Oh, that's good. 00:39:50.615 --> 00:39:53.315 Party orcs having like bonfires on the beach. 00:39:53.435 --> 00:39:54.055 Yeah. 00:39:54.215 --> 00:39:56.055 And you know you have your frat bro orc. 00:39:56.275 --> 00:39:57.015 Oh, you definitely do. 00:39:57.035 --> 00:40:01.695 That's your traditional orc who does cause mayhem and destruction is your frat bro orc. 00:40:01.935 --> 00:40:03.235 And it's not because they are an orc. 00:40:03.255 --> 00:40:04.475 It's because they are drunk. 00:40:05.295 --> 00:40:05.595 Yeah. 00:40:05.615 --> 00:40:09.635 And then they wake up the next day and they're like, Oh, I am so sorry. 00:40:09.655 --> 00:40:12.335 I am so embarrassed of my actions. 00:40:12.575 --> 00:40:15.335 I caused mayhem on this nice beach. 00:40:15.855 --> 00:40:16.975 I was so drunk. 00:40:17.195 --> 00:40:23.475 And there's probably a very like, there's a big thing about responsibility because like this is all we've got, right? 00:40:23.495 --> 00:40:27.475 Like, yeah, you can't just go around causing mayhem because someone has to clean that up. 00:40:27.495 --> 00:40:31.595 We don't have the wide open expanse to just go start a new somewhere else. 00:40:31.675 --> 00:40:33.755 We got to respect the place that we're from. 00:40:33.875 --> 00:40:36.535 But at the same time, there are parties. 00:40:36.795 --> 00:40:40.115 If I may, I think you have some nerd orcs, right? 00:40:40.135 --> 00:40:40.735 Because like... 00:40:41.055 --> 00:40:43.335 Can I throw an idea out there? 00:40:43.355 --> 00:40:44.715 Yeah, throw me an idea. 00:40:44.795 --> 00:40:50.695 What if the orcs have a game called Tusks and Dragons? 00:40:53.435 --> 00:40:56.295 And it is a dice based game, and they do play it. 00:40:57.795 --> 00:40:59.895 And they play as humans. 00:41:01.915 --> 00:41:03.875 And humans only have one body type. 00:41:05.335 --> 00:41:08.915 And it is large, and there is no variation. 00:41:09.435 --> 00:41:12.115 And they all wage war. 00:41:12.555 --> 00:41:14.055 Yeah, absolutely. 00:41:14.055 --> 00:41:18.275 It's just a species of war wagers who don't think through their actions. 00:41:18.895 --> 00:41:22.575 And orcs are just like, wow, I'm really glad that doesn't exist in real life. 00:41:23.095 --> 00:41:28.415 Yeah, and of course, I think this is probably a universe where there's other fantasy races. 00:41:28.435 --> 00:41:29.635 Probably no humans, though. 00:41:29.735 --> 00:41:31.875 Elves, elves, I'm just going to say this. 00:41:32.155 --> 00:41:35.095 They make airplanes and they do fly around in the air a lot. 00:41:35.155 --> 00:41:36.075 Oh, probably. 00:41:36.135 --> 00:41:42.555 And like, because one of the things about orcs that is unfortunate is the way that they are always viewed as like corrupted elves. 00:41:43.295 --> 00:41:43.575 Oh. 00:41:44.015 --> 00:41:55.455 The two traditional ways that orcs tend to get made in fantasy, one is they're elves who fell to like corruption, to demons, to some sort of thing and became orcs. 00:41:56.075 --> 00:42:02.495 The other ways that they are manufactured in like a forge by someone or something. 00:42:03.235 --> 00:42:08.375 Now, I kind of like the first idea, and now hear me out. 00:42:08.635 --> 00:42:14.615 Orcs are descended from elves, and they teamed up with some demons, for sure. 00:42:14.795 --> 00:42:16.655 Demons aren't bad. 00:42:16.775 --> 00:42:20.055 Demons help out in orc society. 00:42:20.175 --> 00:42:23.975 In fact, like some orcs have demon daddies. 00:42:30.615 --> 00:42:33.295 And that's probably pretty established in orc society. 00:42:33.315 --> 00:42:41.955 It's just like we have this sort of culture, we have these sorts of people around, and I think that orcs and elves have a pretty cordial relationship. 00:42:42.035 --> 00:42:47.335 Yeah, I think the elves come in with their airplanes and unload and bring in new resources. 00:42:47.395 --> 00:42:48.735 They have a good training. 00:42:48.755 --> 00:42:54.515 When the inevitable frat bro party destruction happens, the elves are there to help out. 00:42:54.535 --> 00:42:56.355 They're helping, they're given. 00:42:56.635 --> 00:43:06.035 I think it's similar to the way that in our world, England and France used to be sworn enemies, and now they're chill with one another for some reason. 00:43:06.595 --> 00:43:08.075 The reason is history. 00:43:08.375 --> 00:43:10.915 That's my favorite citation, history. 00:43:10.935 --> 00:43:16.355 And orcs go and help out with the elves, too. 00:43:16.435 --> 00:43:18.895 They've got their whole own things going on. 00:43:19.495 --> 00:43:22.735 But I think the orcs have a pretty good island society. 00:43:22.915 --> 00:43:29.755 I think the other thing that is great about this is that you get orcs in Hawaiian shirts, which is perfect, with like swim shorts. 00:43:30.175 --> 00:43:32.175 Beach volleyball orcs. 00:43:32.195 --> 00:43:33.535 Beach volleyball orcs! 00:43:33.555 --> 00:43:39.395 There you go, you have your beach volleyball orc girlfriend ready to beat the competition for you. 00:43:39.575 --> 00:43:40.235 Exactly. 00:43:40.255 --> 00:43:42.475 I hope that satisfies your craving. 00:43:42.495 --> 00:43:46.535 Yeah, we've done our best to bring you some good orcs. 00:43:46.715 --> 00:43:50.575 Yeah, do you want to give me with a non-orc craving, maybe an... 00:43:51.595 --> 00:43:52.495 an orc craving? 00:43:52.515 --> 00:43:53.955 An orc craving, sure. 00:43:54.055 --> 00:43:56.375 So, of furniture pieces. 00:43:56.915 --> 00:43:59.335 In that, okay, let me... 00:43:59.815 --> 00:44:00.315 let me... 00:44:01.295 --> 00:44:02.235 let me finish. 00:44:02.295 --> 00:44:03.555 I'm not saying anything. 00:44:04.195 --> 00:44:10.475 There's a lot of furniture pieces that are necessary, and then there's furniture pieces that aren't so much necessary as cool. 00:44:11.075 --> 00:44:12.775 And stuff that I want to have. 00:44:13.015 --> 00:44:20.475 One of the things that I've said that like, if I were to ever get myself like, a furniture piece that is superfluous in some way... 00:44:20.495 --> 00:44:21.335 Sorry, I just... 00:44:21.395 --> 00:44:25.475 I have to ask, can you define furniture piece? 00:44:25.535 --> 00:44:26.055 Sure. 00:44:26.235 --> 00:44:31.115 It's like a sit furniture piece, like a chair, couch. 00:44:31.995 --> 00:44:36.875 And then there's a storage furniture piece, like a bookshelf. 00:44:37.575 --> 00:44:42.675 And then there's a table furniture piece, or cupboard furniture piece. 00:44:43.255 --> 00:44:44.855 And then there's bed furniture piece. 00:44:44.875 --> 00:44:48.075 You're just putting furniture piece at the end of boards. 00:44:48.335 --> 00:44:49.095 What do you want? 00:44:49.115 --> 00:44:51.255 What other definition of furniture piece do you want? 00:44:51.275 --> 00:44:52.995 It's a thing that goes in your house that you use. 00:44:53.015 --> 00:44:53.855 Okay, great. 00:44:53.875 --> 00:44:55.015 That was a very good definition. 00:44:55.035 --> 00:44:58.775 A big thing that goes in your house that you use for purposes. 00:44:58.795 --> 00:44:59.715 Okay, great. 00:45:00.455 --> 00:45:07.335 And one such furniture piece that I want, that I absolutely do not need, but that I super want is to have a vanity. 00:45:08.075 --> 00:45:09.135 Oh, okay. 00:45:09.155 --> 00:45:15.475 Doing makeup is hard when you're disabled and mirrors standing up not a good time. 00:45:16.015 --> 00:45:18.115 Vanities would solve this issue, right? 00:45:18.135 --> 00:45:19.995 You don't have to lean anywhere. 00:45:19.995 --> 00:45:20.675 You don't have to... 00:45:20.695 --> 00:45:22.535 You can sit down and do all that. 00:45:22.575 --> 00:45:25.915 And I want to know, what are some of the features of the ideal vanity? 00:45:26.015 --> 00:45:30.155 I think we have to have like the plug-in port, right? 00:45:30.355 --> 00:45:30.915 Yes! 00:45:30.935 --> 00:45:31.655 It's modern. 00:45:31.955 --> 00:45:32.675 It's modern. 00:45:32.695 --> 00:45:33.195 You have to have... 00:45:33.215 --> 00:45:34.695 You have to have a phone charger. 00:45:34.715 --> 00:45:38.715 You have to have a phone charger because like you need to have the phone playing music. 00:45:39.115 --> 00:45:40.835 And also the mirror is a touchscreen. 00:45:41.015 --> 00:45:42.115 The mirror is a touch... 00:45:42.135 --> 00:45:43.095 Okay, well hang on. 00:45:44.675 --> 00:45:45.075 Yes. 00:45:45.555 --> 00:45:46.195 And why? 00:45:46.855 --> 00:45:49.455 What purpose does having it be a touchscreen serve? 00:45:49.475 --> 00:45:50.575 What can the mirror do? 00:45:50.695 --> 00:45:55.835 It also has speakers and bass that can play music as you do your makeup. 00:45:55.895 --> 00:45:58.635 And so you control the music with the touchscreen. 00:45:59.535 --> 00:46:01.335 And it's connected to Spotify, you know. 00:46:01.355 --> 00:46:02.475 Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. 00:46:02.495 --> 00:46:03.455 Or connected to your phone. 00:46:03.575 --> 00:46:04.775 Or your favorite podcast. 00:46:04.975 --> 00:46:06.895 Or your favorite podcast, Salt Cravings. 00:46:06.995 --> 00:46:08.415 Which you can, yeah, you can play Salt Cravings. 00:46:08.435 --> 00:46:09.875 You can play Salt Cravings on your vanity. 00:46:09.895 --> 00:46:10.675 Yeah, exactly. 00:46:10.695 --> 00:46:14.835 I think that's an excellent feature. 00:46:14.855 --> 00:46:18.315 I think just like perfect drawers, right? 00:46:18.335 --> 00:46:21.015 Just perfect drawers for all of the different makeup things. 00:46:21.095 --> 00:46:23.635 And you have it all organized perfectly, right? 00:46:23.635 --> 00:46:25.935 So that you can, you know, just sort of reach. 00:46:25.935 --> 00:46:27.715 And this sounds like a craving I would have. 00:46:27.855 --> 00:46:36.335 And so I am going to say, you know an attic door where if you're in the attic, you can sort of pull it up and like open it. 00:46:36.675 --> 00:46:42.175 What if you had something like that on top of the vanity and you pulled it open and sort of, it was like a pop-up book. 00:46:42.315 --> 00:46:47.315 But instead of a pop-up thing, you open it and there's like trays for your makeup. 00:46:47.335 --> 00:46:48.955 And then you can just close that again. 00:46:49.515 --> 00:46:50.715 And it all goes away. 00:46:50.735 --> 00:46:53.595 Yeah, I really, that's super cool. 00:46:53.695 --> 00:46:55.615 And I am so into that. 00:46:55.655 --> 00:47:00.095 You have to have obviously good lighting, but oh, here's the thing about the lighting. 00:47:00.275 --> 00:47:10.455 You can change the lighting using the touch screen for different levels of light, depending on the situation you're going into. 00:47:11.895 --> 00:47:13.055 Are you going to a ball dance? 00:47:13.075 --> 00:47:14.395 Ball dance is a good phrase. 00:47:14.595 --> 00:47:16.335 Yeah, are you going to a ball dance? 00:47:16.395 --> 00:47:20.895 You can probably set defaults of like, here's the work setting, right? 00:47:20.915 --> 00:47:23.155 Here's the club setting, I don't know. 00:47:23.995 --> 00:47:27.635 Maybe this is a little too, maybe some people will like this, but I like this. 00:47:27.795 --> 00:47:35.755 What if you could sync your calendar to it, and then if you have the event with the location, it can start to predict the light setting for the time. 00:47:37.055 --> 00:47:47.215 This is just my tech thing being like, oh, we could just easily predict your location based on your phone and what's in your calendar the time that you're going out. 00:47:47.275 --> 00:47:48.395 Yeah, absolutely. 00:47:49.355 --> 00:47:50.415 It's not funny. 00:47:50.775 --> 00:47:52.075 It's just useful. 00:47:52.095 --> 00:47:55.975 It's just a useful thing that some people would really enjoy, including you. 00:47:56.015 --> 00:47:56.955 Including me. 00:47:57.015 --> 00:47:58.575 I think you have to have a good chair. 00:47:59.295 --> 00:48:01.615 Is the chair a part of the vanity? 00:48:01.635 --> 00:48:05.315 I think it could probably be connected to it. 00:48:05.615 --> 00:48:06.155 How so? 00:48:06.155 --> 00:48:06.855 How does it connect? 00:48:06.875 --> 00:48:08.115 Does it fold away easy? 00:48:08.135 --> 00:48:08.995 Or what's up? 00:48:09.155 --> 00:48:11.315 Yeah, maybe it's something like that where it just folds away. 00:48:11.335 --> 00:48:12.395 I mean, it has to be comfortable. 00:48:12.415 --> 00:48:13.075 That's important. 00:48:13.115 --> 00:48:17.455 It has to be comfortable and have a full back, which is important. 00:48:17.475 --> 00:48:18.535 You don't want a stool? 00:48:19.175 --> 00:48:20.015 No, I'm good. 00:48:20.035 --> 00:48:23.115 You don't just want a stool with no arm or back support? 00:48:23.215 --> 00:48:23.815 Yeah. 00:48:23.835 --> 00:48:24.915 And it's a hard stool. 00:48:24.935 --> 00:48:26.555 There's no cushioning whatsoever. 00:48:26.875 --> 00:48:28.035 That's exactly what I want. 00:48:28.035 --> 00:48:32.315 I think it could probably be moved in terms of how close you want it. 00:48:32.335 --> 00:48:33.555 It can probably adjust. 00:48:33.775 --> 00:48:34.235 I don't know. 00:48:34.375 --> 00:48:36.275 Maybe it doesn't need to be connected to the vanity. 00:48:36.335 --> 00:48:37.315 Is this excessive? 00:48:38.635 --> 00:48:41.595 So, yeah, and probably it folds away, right? 00:48:41.615 --> 00:48:52.095 Because, you know, you can probably, oh, oh, and to keep with the tech things, you got a button, the button for make the chair come out, and make the chair fold back in. 00:48:53.055 --> 00:48:56.335 Then you don't have to, like, you know, go through the whole thing. 00:48:56.395 --> 00:48:58.855 Of moving the chair yourself with your arm. 00:48:58.875 --> 00:49:03.135 Yeah, I think it folds into the vanity, right? 00:49:03.135 --> 00:49:03.475 Okay. 00:49:03.495 --> 00:49:07.175 So you have that space available for existing, I guess. 00:49:07.195 --> 00:49:07.495 Uh-huh. 00:49:07.695 --> 00:49:20.775 I was thinking you press the back of the chair, like, it's a solid front, and then in the middle, there's a square, and you push that in like a button or a click in, and it pops out, and the back increases up, so you have a full back. 00:49:20.995 --> 00:49:21.995 I like that too. 00:49:22.295 --> 00:49:22.915 I'm into that too. 00:49:22.935 --> 00:49:25.895 I mean, we can have all sorts of, we could probably have all sorts of different designs. 00:49:25.915 --> 00:49:28.475 We can have all sorts of very good vanity designs. 00:49:28.555 --> 00:49:29.755 Very good vanity designs. 00:49:29.775 --> 00:49:33.275 Some probably maybe don't even have the chair as a part of it, right? 00:49:33.415 --> 00:49:34.735 It's just bring your own chair. 00:49:35.835 --> 00:49:36.735 Bring your own chair. 00:49:36.875 --> 00:49:37.975 Now, that's a party. 00:49:38.135 --> 00:49:39.475 Now, that's a party. 00:49:39.475 --> 00:49:42.235 All the orcs have BYOC parties. 00:49:42.255 --> 00:49:43.615 Here's one last question. 00:49:43.675 --> 00:49:49.495 When you look into the mirror, do you want it to like show you different makeup options? 00:49:49.775 --> 00:49:50.155 Yes. 00:49:50.375 --> 00:49:51.415 Yes, yes. 00:49:51.435 --> 00:49:56.135 Yes, this is exactly the thing that I want, because there's apps that do that on a phone. 00:49:56.155 --> 00:50:00.995 And then the vanity just highlights your drawers that contains the makeup of the look. 00:50:02.615 --> 00:50:06.075 Yeah, I, fuck, yeah, yeah, absolutely. 00:50:06.095 --> 00:50:07.515 I think that that's for sure. 00:50:07.515 --> 00:50:11.035 This is the vanity of the future, and it's the vanity we all deserve. 00:50:11.115 --> 00:50:11.855 What's it called? 00:50:12.275 --> 00:50:13.375 Vana 2.0. 00:50:13.515 --> 00:50:13.895 What? 00:50:13.995 --> 00:50:15.275 Like vanity 2.0. 00:50:15.435 --> 00:50:16.015 Yeah. 00:50:16.095 --> 00:50:16.815 Vana 2. 00:50:16.995 --> 00:50:25.555 So you know how vain is the feeling that the vanity is named after, and vain is also a thing in your body. 00:50:25.915 --> 00:50:27.715 What if we called it the capillary? 00:50:27.955 --> 00:50:30.455 Well, we can't come up with anything better than that. 00:50:32.275 --> 00:50:33.575 The high tech capillary. 00:50:33.935 --> 00:50:36.215 The high tech capillary of the future. 00:50:36.235 --> 00:50:37.315 It's like caterpillar. 00:50:37.475 --> 00:50:38.735 There's a caterpillar color. 00:50:39.295 --> 00:50:40.655 Oh, that's adorable. 00:50:40.735 --> 00:50:43.515 Obviously, there's lots of different colors, so you can customize it. 00:50:43.535 --> 00:50:45.115 What's your favorite caterpillar style? 00:50:45.135 --> 00:50:46.675 What's your favorite caterpillar style? 00:50:46.695 --> 00:50:47.575 It's all customizable. 00:50:47.595 --> 00:50:49.175 It's all customizable. 00:50:49.295 --> 00:50:54.775 Well, with your capillary under your arm, as you're carrying it out the door. 00:50:54.795 --> 00:50:56.355 Yeah, this giant vanity. 00:50:56.375 --> 00:50:59.835 It folds down into an inch by inch cube. 00:51:01.355 --> 00:51:02.035 It's perfect. 00:51:02.135 --> 00:51:03.835 It is perfect. 00:51:05.595 --> 00:51:07.035 This has been Salt Cravings. 00:51:07.055 --> 00:51:08.895 This has been Salt Cravings. 00:51:09.055 --> 00:51:16.255 If you want to find us on the social medias, you can find us at Salt Cravings on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. 00:51:16.275 --> 00:51:26.615 And hey, if you want to hear your orc fantasies or maybe your other fantasies that are also Cravings, you can email us at contact at saltcravings.com. 00:51:26.755 --> 00:51:28.875 And yeah, and we will check it. 00:51:29.055 --> 00:51:31.195 And we will satisfy your cravings. 00:51:31.215 --> 00:51:32.775 We will satisfy your cravings. 00:51:32.795 --> 00:51:34.415 One way or another. 00:51:34.435 --> 00:51:36.075 We're going to find you. 00:51:36.095 --> 00:51:38.415 We're going to get you, get you, get you, get you. 00:51:38.975 --> 00:51:43.795 If you want to do something nice for us, leave us a review or rating. 00:51:44.075 --> 00:51:45.595 I'm pretty sure that's the same thing. 00:51:45.835 --> 00:51:47.255 On iTunes at least. 00:51:47.275 --> 00:51:48.115 Go to iTunes. 00:51:48.135 --> 00:51:49.275 Can you do that on Google Play? 00:51:49.535 --> 00:51:51.455 You could probably do that on Google Play. 00:51:51.515 --> 00:51:52.635 You know what, I have an idea. 00:51:52.655 --> 00:51:56.095 Listener, go to Google Play, open it up and try to leave a review. 00:51:56.115 --> 00:51:58.195 Then you'll know for sure. 00:51:58.195 --> 00:51:59.015 Yeah, yeah. 00:51:59.115 --> 00:52:01.695 Or just do it on iTunes, where you definitely can do it. 00:52:02.435 --> 00:52:03.035 Or both. 00:52:03.235 --> 00:52:07.215 Or hey, you know, all of the other podcast apps. 00:52:07.435 --> 00:52:08.055 Yeah. 00:52:09.035 --> 00:52:12.675 So yeah, do that wherever you listen to podcasts. 00:52:13.215 --> 00:52:20.575 If it goes in your ears, make sure to frack it down, and then, you know, force it to tell you where are the reviews. 00:52:20.615 --> 00:52:21.595 Where are the ratings? 00:52:21.615 --> 00:52:22.215 Where do I go? 00:52:22.235 --> 00:52:23.575 What door is the ratings? 00:52:23.595 --> 00:52:26.355 If you don't tell me, I will find you, and I will... 00:52:27.935 --> 00:52:29.815 And I will send Otto after you. 00:52:29.855 --> 00:52:31.495 I will send Otto after you. 00:52:32.395 --> 00:52:34.415 I am actually Otto's sibling. 00:52:34.975 --> 00:52:35.575 Wow. 00:52:35.775 --> 00:52:37.075 This is a plot twist. 00:52:37.135 --> 00:52:40.295 It was my father who invented Otto. 00:52:40.815 --> 00:52:41.415 Yes. 00:52:41.675 --> 00:52:44.055 What a cliffhanger to leave this episode on. 00:52:44.275 --> 00:52:46.195 And also, there's a black hole.