SPEAKER_1: And this is Salt Cravings, a podcast where we solve cravings, sometimes yours, but mostly ours.
SPEAKER_1: How are you today, Brianna?
SPEAKER_2: Pretty good, feeling pretty me-me to be honest.
SPEAKER_1: I really just had to say your name once, unless you want me calling you Fire in the whole time.
SPEAKER_2: No, no, no, no, my name is Brianna, but I am, in fact, Fire in my laser.
SPEAKER_2: God, all memes have immediately left my mind.
SPEAKER_2: They're all out.
SPEAKER_1: There are no memes in this episode.
SPEAKER_1: This episode is a meme, and as we know, memes cannot contain memes.
SPEAKER_1: This is the law of memes.
SPEAKER_1: It's entirely not true.
SPEAKER_2: Unless it's meme-ception.
SPEAKER_2: Yo, dog, I heard you like memes, so I put memes inside your memes.
SPEAKER_1: So the reason we're doing a meme episode is because I think almost a year ago at this point, we were like, hey, send us a theme if you want.
SPEAKER_1: And then people did, and by people, I mean person.
SPEAKER_1: So we have one themed episode, but also I guess this is a reminder.
SPEAKER_1: Hey, if you want us to do a themed episode, you can ask that.
SPEAKER_1: Without further ado, meme me up.
SPEAKER_2: I don't know about that as phrasing, but I will.
SPEAKER_1: Give me a meme Craven.
SPEAKER_2: Damn, we're already in it.
SPEAKER_2: I am trying to, I am trying to show my meme, which is of course a YouTube poop.
SPEAKER_2: What do you know about YouTube poops?
SPEAKER_1: I literally don't know.
SPEAKER_1: If I started describing what came to my mind when you said YouTube poops, we would have to cancel the podcast.
SPEAKER_2: So we're not gonna do that.
SPEAKER_1: I know it's not literally someone taking a dump.
SPEAKER_2: It is not someone literally taking a dump.
SPEAKER_2: It is sort of, the content is the dump.
SPEAKER_2: So a YouTube poop is an old internet meme.
SPEAKER_2: I don't think it's been a thing for some time.
SPEAKER_2: As some people probably still do it, there are some people still do it.
SPEAKER_2: Once upon a time, there was this era in which people make YouTube poops.
SPEAKER_2: And I'm going to the Wikipedia page for YouTube poop.
SPEAKER_2: A YouTube poop, often abbreviated as YTP, is a type of video mashup created by editing preexisting media sources for humorous, profane, annoying, confusing, shocking or dramatic purposes.
SPEAKER_2: YouTube poops are traditionally uploaded to the video sharing site, yeah, website YouTube, hence the name.
SPEAKER_2: So basically, a YouTube poop is when you take a thing and then you edit it to sound stupid and funny and shocking and weird.
SPEAKER_2: And often they were very bad.
SPEAKER_1: Do jump scares count as YouTube poops?
SPEAKER_1: Cause I hated those.
SPEAKER_2: No, this is a specific tradition of editing pieces of media to make them silly and stupid and editing the words and stuff.
SPEAKER_2: I have an example, if you want to watch a little bit of it to get a feel for what I'm talking about, which is, this is my favorite YouTube poop.
SPEAKER_2: It is from The Things, it is from 2012.
SPEAKER_2: And it is YTP-The Phantom of the Opera.
SPEAKER_2: I will link it in the description.
SPEAKER_2: It is The Phantom of the Opera YouTube poop.
SPEAKER_2: It is 10 minutes long, you don't have to watch all 10 minutes, obviously, but it will give you an idea of what I mean when I say YouTube poop.
SPEAKER_1: YTP is just too close to OTP.
SPEAKER_1: Oh, we're just in it.
SPEAKER_2: Oh yeah, that's a YouTube poop.
SPEAKER_1: Oh good, they just have the first bar of music repeating.
SPEAKER_1: Oh yeah, okay, I see what.
SPEAKER_2: This is what I mean.
SPEAKER_1: Okay, yeah, I get the image.
SPEAKER_1: All right, cool.
SPEAKER_1: Wow, that's nonsense.
SPEAKER_1: That's visual garbage.
SPEAKER_2: It's visual garbage.
SPEAKER_3: And also auditory garbage.
SPEAKER_2: It's visual and auditory garbage, but also made you laugh, didn't it?
SPEAKER_1: It did, yes.
SPEAKER_2: So that's the thing about YouTube poops.
SPEAKER_2: They're called YouTube poops because they're intentionally the stupidest things ever.
SPEAKER_2: That one goes into like a whole thing about, the description of that video is, Sistine Dai was overwhelmed when the Vinlet Conta-dush barged in on a rehearsal.
SPEAKER_2: Now the Phantom seeks to fill their lives with sauce.
SPEAKER_2: There were a lot of YouTube poops that were just like, ha ha, offensive shit, ha ha, offensive joke, which sucked.
SPEAKER_2: But this one is, except for I think one bad joke in it, is overwhelmingly pretty good.
SPEAKER_2: They're just stupid, funny, nonsense things.
SPEAKER_2: It's a fun meme that I want to come back.
SPEAKER_2: Cause it has been things since like 2012.
SPEAKER_1: I almost feel like that's not true.
SPEAKER_1: I feel like it's just evolved.
SPEAKER_1: Like it feels like TikTok kind of has a lot of poops on it.
SPEAKER_2: TikTok is I think the modern day YouTube poop.
SPEAKER_2: I think like the-
SPEAKER_1: Would that be like a TTP?
SPEAKER_2: I think so.
SPEAKER_2: I guess a TikTok poop.
SPEAKER_2: There are definitely specific TikTok memes that I think have very much the energy of a YouTube poop.
SPEAKER_2: I think that one where it's just you saying things, but your voice is auto-tuned in a specific way has the energy of a YouTube poop in a lot of ways.
SPEAKER_2: I think the TikToks have kind of taken over that purview and vines before it.
SPEAKER_2: The whole thing of a YouTube poop is it's a bunch of silly, stupid jokes just kind of linked together.
SPEAKER_2: And so a vine is just kind of a singular one or two of those.
SPEAKER_2: I think YouTube poops-
SPEAKER_1: Vine is just a singular poop.
SPEAKER_2: Yeah, it's just a poop.
SPEAKER_2: It's just a little six-second poop.
SPEAKER_2: God, a six-second poop.
SPEAKER_3: Oh no.
SPEAKER_3: Oh man, hate that.
SPEAKER_1: Can we, okay, all right.
SPEAKER_1: How are we solving this craving?
SPEAKER_1: Cause we are still a cravings podcast first and foremost.
SPEAKER_2: We are.
SPEAKER_2: My original idea was like, what's the Salt Cravings YouTube poop?
SPEAKER_2: But you don't really know the tradition of a YouTube poop, which would make it harder to make a Salt Cravings YouTube poop.
SPEAKER_1: I could just edit a bunch of our words together in a string and then just sort of give the listener like a 10-second auditory experience of nonsense.
SPEAKER_2: Like I cannot stress enough that there is a humor element to it, typically.
SPEAKER_2: It's a lot of stupid humor.
SPEAKER_2: It often references memes within it.
SPEAKER_2: There's a good bit where it edits Christine to have her say, this is my companion cube, and then it has a companion cube show up in the video.
SPEAKER_2: It's stupid shit like that.
SPEAKER_2: I'm trying to think of like how to make a Salt Cravings YouTube poop, or I think it would be a lot of cutting off of words and maybe something like, my craving today is yeep, and I, hey, I think I could do it.
SPEAKER_1: I think using only the sounds, at the beginning of this episode, I can create a YouTube poop, like now, like for the listener to listen to.
SPEAKER_1: We're not going to get to experience it until later, but-
SPEAKER_2: Are you, okay, all right.
SPEAKER_1: I'll try it.
SPEAKER_1: Look, all right, if I have succeeded, you're gonna be listening to it now.
SPEAKER_3: This is a mood poop.
SPEAKER_2: Get real into that poop.
SPEAKER_1: Pave the poop.
SPEAKER_1: The tiny little Salt Cravings poop.
SPEAKER_2: TikTok poop.
SPEAKER_2: Thank dad.
SPEAKER_2: Some YouTube poop.
SPEAKER_1: Funny doodoo poop.
SPEAKER_2: There's the poop.
SPEAKER_2: Obviously, that was great.
SPEAKER_1: Who knows if that worked?
SPEAKER_2: Who knows?
SPEAKER_2: It's impossible for us to know, cause that was a future thing.
SPEAKER_1: That's time travel, baby.
SPEAKER_2: I'm also interested in just kind of bringing it back.
SPEAKER_2: Let's just bring back YouTube poops.
SPEAKER_1: What's a modern poop look like?
SPEAKER_2: Probably less offensive, in general.
SPEAKER_1: Okay, cool.
SPEAKER_2: Internet in 2012 was a different time.
SPEAKER_2: So it's probably less offensive.
SPEAKER_2: It is probably, are we so inundated with random nonsense?
SPEAKER_2: What's the term?
SPEAKER_2: Deodist, like meme types?
SPEAKER_2: Daddy-ism.
SPEAKER_2: It's like the thing where it's just like lots of random non-sequiturs and nonsense.
SPEAKER_2: And I feel like that's kind of just humor at this point.
SPEAKER_2: Right?
SPEAKER_2: It feels like shitposting.
SPEAKER_2: It's kind of moved, I think, from YouTube poops to shitposting.
SPEAKER_2: Shitposting is a lot easier.
SPEAKER_1: I still feel like visual garbage is very popular.
SPEAKER_2: Visual garbage is very popular.
SPEAKER_1: Memes that you have to understand for different memes in order to like even begin to think is funny.
SPEAKER_2: That's absolutely a modern day YouTube poop.
SPEAKER_2: God, there are definitely YouTube poop is vibes to a lot of humor.
SPEAKER_2: Have you ever seen that one video that that guy from Star Trek who's just asking a whole bunch of questions?
SPEAKER_2: No.
SPEAKER_2: No, you haven't?
SPEAKER_2: Okay, that has some YouTube poop energy, but it's just him being like, I've forgotten mountain biking.
SPEAKER_2: How much money would you have to be paid to do this thing?
SPEAKER_2: Clearly from some sort of show, but it's all just cut together in such a way that it seems like he's just asking a bunch of random questions.
SPEAKER_2: That has the energy of YouTube poop.
SPEAKER_2: I like a lot of nonsense memes, and I think a lot of nonsense memes are a part of the modern YouTube poop.
SPEAKER_2: Also just voice editing, you know?
SPEAKER_2: Voice editing is always fun.
SPEAKER_2: That's like a crucial part of the YouTube poop is making people sound like they're saying different things than what they're saying.
SPEAKER_2: Either by leaping things, by cutting words together.
SPEAKER_1: So did you ever watch the autotune channel where it was this person who would make songs from everything, the Yoda stick one?
SPEAKER_1: Yoda Seagull video is one of them.
SPEAKER_2: Oh, yeah, the bad lip reading.
SPEAKER_1: Bad lip reading.
SPEAKER_1: That's like a YouTube poop, isn't it?
SPEAKER_2: That is, yeah, that has some big YouTube poop energy, to be honest.
SPEAKER_2: Bad lip reading is, I think, one variation on a YouTube poop when sort of more structured, also like real-time fan dubs is also probably YouTube poop style stuff.
SPEAKER_2: Though these are less with editing and more with general humor.
SPEAKER_2: I think that YouTube poops have diffused.
SPEAKER_2: They're sort of pooped at everything.
SPEAKER_2: It's all kind of poopy, in shitposts, in bad lip reading, in dubs, in all sorts of different things.
SPEAKER_2: It's all kind of poopy.
SPEAKER_2: I think the person who made The Phantom of the Opera YouTube poop is still making YouTube poops, by the way.
SPEAKER_2: So that might be a good repository for your YouTube poop research as you try to cut together our words into YouTube poop.
SPEAKER_1: A good research suppository, you could say.
SPEAKER_2: A good research suppository of poop.
SPEAKER_1: Oh, God.
SPEAKER_2: Yeah, it's hard to figure out how to do jokes about a thing when you don't know what the thing is.
SPEAKER_2: I just sort of assumed everyone knew YouTube poops.
SPEAKER_1: I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_1: I don't poop.
SPEAKER_2: You're not an Internet last like me.
SPEAKER_2: You're not.
SPEAKER_1: No one will get that.
SPEAKER_1: No one's going to understand that.
SPEAKER_2: OK, so here's the joke.
SPEAKER_3: No, shut up.
SPEAKER_3: No one gets to understand the joke.
SPEAKER_3: We're moving on.
SPEAKER_3: No, I'm just going to keep talking so nobody can hear you.
SPEAKER_3: Because I'm talking at the same time, so it's just nonsense at this point.
SPEAKER_1: And no one's going to...
SPEAKER_3: That probably sounded like poop.
SPEAKER_1: It's not on YouTube.
SPEAKER_1: Should I post it on YouTube and then re-download it just so I can call it a YouTube?
SPEAKER_2: Okay, I think this is another crucial thing.
SPEAKER_2: I don't think the modern day YouTube poop has to be on YouTube.
SPEAKER_2: I think it can be.
SPEAKER_2: I think that's an option.
SPEAKER_2: But I think TikTok poops, Vine 2 poops, Vine 3, the Internet 2 poops.
SPEAKER_1: Which social media poops?
SPEAKER_2: Shitposts, right?
SPEAKER_1: Yes.
SPEAKER_1: Twitter poops.
SPEAKER_1: That can't be the origin.
SPEAKER_2: Of what?
SPEAKER_1: Are they tied?
SPEAKER_1: Does a poop mean a shit?
SPEAKER_2: I mean, does a poop mean a shit?
SPEAKER_2: Yes, absolutely.
SPEAKER_2: I think that you're tied if only in, like, recognizing that you're doing stupid, like the lowest possible form of humor and referring to that as poop or shit.
SPEAKER_1: You mean, like, every joke in the first part of this podcast?
SPEAKER_2: Yeah.
SPEAKER_2: There are people who are really good at imitating YouTube poops.
SPEAKER_2: Shadow2SnapCube, who regularly does, is able to imitate YouTube poops really well.
SPEAKER_2: Hey, here's my solution.
SPEAKER_2: There are listeners out there who know what the fuck YouTube poops are and have favorites.
SPEAKER_2: Send them to me.
SPEAKER_2: I love YouTube poops.
SPEAKER_2: They make me lose my shit.
SPEAKER_2: I've watched this Banjo the Opera one probably like ten times, and it still makes me laugh sometimes.
SPEAKER_1: It's very appropriate to lose your shit while watching a poop.
SPEAKER_2: Yeah, I always poop when I poop.
SPEAKER_1: Can we leave these fucking jokes behind, please?
SPEAKER_2: Now, I'll just keep putting them in the podcast.
SPEAKER_2: I'll just occasionally go YouTube poop on it.
SPEAKER_2: Let's move on from my first shot at memes, which is apparently not a meme that people know.
SPEAKER_2: Do you have a meme that everyone knows?
SPEAKER_2: Tell me about a meme, and if I don't know what it is, then we have failed as a podcast.
SPEAKER_2: So, no pressure.
SPEAKER_1: Have you heard of pizza?
SPEAKER_1: It's round, you put a tomato on it.
SPEAKER_1: Generally made with yeast.
SPEAKER_1: Make it rise up.
SPEAKER_2: Yeah, in the tomato, right?
SPEAKER_1: Eat the tomato.
SPEAKER_1: What if I told you that you could put pineapples on pizza?
SPEAKER_1: We're not doing this.
SPEAKER_1: Because my craving is pineapples on pizza.
SPEAKER_2: No, I hate this because we are perfectly...
SPEAKER_2: We have moved from a craving, which just completely fell flat, into one where we are perfectly on opposite sides of the pineapple on pizza debate.
SPEAKER_2: Well, there's no debate.
SPEAKER_1: Pineapple is good on pizza.
SPEAKER_1: Have you ever eaten a pizza?
SPEAKER_1: Look, when I was a kid, when I ate meat, Hawaiian pizza was the shit.
SPEAKER_1: Have you ever eaten a pizza?
SPEAKER_1: Have you ever eaten a pizza with pineapple?
SPEAKER_1: Because then you will become a believer.
SPEAKER_1: Just pineapple is so good.
SPEAKER_1: If you don't like pineapple, your opinion doesn't matter.
SPEAKER_2: I don't like pineapple.
SPEAKER_1: Okay, well then, get better taste buds.
SPEAKER_1: Do you like cilantro?
SPEAKER_2: Yeah.
SPEAKER_2: I'm not a weirdo.
SPEAKER_2: I just don't like pineapple.
SPEAKER_1: Just thought, you know.
SPEAKER_2: Okay, A, I don't like pineapple.
SPEAKER_2: B, I actually don't have that much of a problem with people enjoying pineapple on pizza.
SPEAKER_2: I am such a picky eater that I am in no place to judge whether people like or don't like food.
SPEAKER_2: My brain is broken in such a way that I only like certain foods.
SPEAKER_2: And so I'm not here to judge people if they like pineapple on pizza.
SPEAKER_2: I can understand at least the theory behind pineapple on pizza, which is that the sweet, it combines with the savory and bounces out, especially with the ham, which is salty, right?
SPEAKER_2: And I think that the theory makes sense.
SPEAKER_2: It doesn't work for me.
SPEAKER_2: I have a question, Brianna.
SPEAKER_1: If you were presented with two pieces of pizza, one of them had pineapples on it, and one of them had onions on it.
SPEAKER_2: Pineapple, obviously.
SPEAKER_2: Oh, no, wait, wait, wait, wait.
SPEAKER_2: What type of onions?
SPEAKER_2: Is this green onions?
SPEAKER_2: Is this red onions?
SPEAKER_2: Is this white onions?
SPEAKER_1: It's clearly not green onions.
SPEAKER_2: Okay, because I like green onions, all right.
SPEAKER_2: Like, I would choose the green onion option, absolutely.
SPEAKER_2: Oh, green onions on a pizza could work, honestly.
SPEAKER_1: Green onions with like a white sauce?
SPEAKER_1: Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_2: Yeah, I'm down with that.
SPEAKER_2: But if we're talking red onions, it's a bit of a toss up.
SPEAKER_2: I think I'm going with the pineapple.
SPEAKER_2: The other thing that I am assuming is true here is that I'm not allowed to pick it off.
SPEAKER_2: Because if I can pick it off, then...
SPEAKER_1: You just have both slices and then pick both off?
SPEAKER_2: Yeah, but it's probably easier to pick the pineapple off, so I'll probably go with the pineapple.
SPEAKER_2: But if I have to eat it, I'll go with the pineapple option.
SPEAKER_1: So it sounds like the answer is pineapple.
SPEAKER_2: Yeah, almost certainly.
SPEAKER_2: If it's white onion, the answer is definitely pineapple.
SPEAKER_1: Okay, so it sounds like pineapple is one over onion.
SPEAKER_1: Unanimously, thank you to all of our voters.
SPEAKER_2: No, no.
SPEAKER_2: What you're doing is twisting data.
SPEAKER_2: What you're doing is A, twisting data, and B, lying about data, which as a person in the tech industry, is pretty far from the course for you.
SPEAKER_1: It's very on brand.
SPEAKER_2: It's very on brand.
SPEAKER_2: It's perfect.
SPEAKER_2: But no, I think pineapple and pizza, I can understand the theory behind it, even if I don't like it.
SPEAKER_2: I am interested in exploring the possibility of what one might call sweetses.
SPEAKER_2: Sweet pizzas.
SPEAKER_2: Pieces with sweet things on them, like pineapple.
SPEAKER_2: What's the scale?
SPEAKER_1: What is the scale, right?
SPEAKER_1: Like how sweet are we going?
SPEAKER_1: Are we going like this pizza is just a cake?
SPEAKER_1: Because you can order, I'm pretty sure.
SPEAKER_1: Yeah, and also you can order icing from a lot of pizza places as dip.
SPEAKER_1: I don't know if you've ever seen that, but like, I don't know.
SPEAKER_2: I've never seen this, but I don't doubt it.
SPEAKER_1: Yeah, you can just order like a little tub of icing, and I'm always like, huh, yeah, you can just do that.
SPEAKER_2: We could go into just straight up like a weird territory of like, oh, chocolate sauce on a pizza.
SPEAKER_1: Apparently not weird, as you've just told me.
SPEAKER_2: When I say there are chocolate pizzas, I mean it's a pizza crust with like chocolate toppings instead of sauce.
SPEAKER_2: But I mean, what I'm referring to now is a pizza, just a normal cheese pizza with chocolate sauce on it, which is worse.
SPEAKER_1: That's not a sweet, sir.
SPEAKER_1: That's an abomination.
SPEAKER_2: My question is, are there other fruits that could work on a pizza?
SPEAKER_1: I mean, heck.
SPEAKER_2: Yes.
SPEAKER_1: Oh, go on.
SPEAKER_2: My immediate thought was apples.
SPEAKER_2: I think apples...
SPEAKER_2: I wait for strawberries.
SPEAKER_2: Okay, interesting.
SPEAKER_2: I think an apple pizza for me is more like a flatbread, because I think you're going with a cool cheese.
SPEAKER_2: You got the apples on there.
SPEAKER_1: Yeah, Bri and apple and cilantro, just to isolate 50% of the people listening.
SPEAKER_1: Statistically.
SPEAKER_2: Or with pear.
SPEAKER_2: Apple or pear, right?
SPEAKER_2: Both of those work pretty well with that.
SPEAKER_1: They pair well together.
SPEAKER_2: Yeah, they pair well together.
SPEAKER_2: Tell me about the strawberry pizza.
SPEAKER_1: Well, I was thinking, what if you put chocolate into the crust?
SPEAKER_1: Like, you baked a chocolate crust, and then you put, like, strawberries and, like, I don't know, walnuts and then maple syrup on it.
SPEAKER_2: And it's just a normal pizza otherwise?
SPEAKER_1: Okay, what do you mean, normal pizza?
SPEAKER_2: Does it have tomato sauce?
SPEAKER_1: The maple syrup is the sauce.
SPEAKER_2: Well, this doesn't feel fair.
SPEAKER_1: Okay, all right.
SPEAKER_1: What is a sweet sauce?
SPEAKER_1: Does it have to have tomato sauce on it still?
SPEAKER_1: Because I've had pizzas that don't have tomato sauce on them.
SPEAKER_2: Wait, because what we're discussing is not just a sweet sauce.
SPEAKER_2: A sweet sauce is a broad thing.
SPEAKER_2: It can be used to describe different things.
SPEAKER_2: We were talking about pizza with pineapple on it.
SPEAKER_2: And one of the crucial things to the pineapple and pizza debate is pineapple on...
SPEAKER_2: Like, it's ham and pineapple pizza, right?
SPEAKER_2: Which is tomato sauce, cheese, ham, pineapple.
SPEAKER_2: But my question is, is like, could you do a different topping combo than ham and pineapple on a normal pizza and have one of those toppings involve fruit and have it work?
SPEAKER_2: And I think like apple and a brie or a goat or a blue cheese works really well.
SPEAKER_1: I mean, honestly, yeah, you did to answer the craving.
SPEAKER_1: So, apple and pineapple pizza...
SPEAKER_2: Do apple and pineapple even go together?
SPEAKER_1: They're both fruits, so probably.
SPEAKER_2: I don't think that that's true of all fruits.
SPEAKER_2: I think you can definitely have some fruits that don't go together.
SPEAKER_1: Name two fruits that don't go together.
SPEAKER_2: What about, like...
SPEAKER_2: I know that there are fruits that do not go together.
SPEAKER_2: I know this in my mind.
SPEAKER_2: I'm just trying to figure out what they are.
SPEAKER_2: You're just trying to present facts, right?
SPEAKER_1: Well, I'm excluding tomato, because that kind of is already on the pizza.
SPEAKER_2: You're right, a lot of fruits do go together.
SPEAKER_2: I feel like there's some stuff that kiwi doesn't go with.
SPEAKER_2: I'm like forgetting the existence of half of all fruits right now.
SPEAKER_1: Fruits really aren't that important right now.
SPEAKER_1: What is important is the pineapple.
SPEAKER_2: I don't see why we need it.
SPEAKER_2: What does it add to the pineapple and apple pizza?
SPEAKER_1: Were you there for when I did the no sauce left pineapple?
SPEAKER_2: No.
SPEAKER_1: But I've told you about that story, right?
SPEAKER_1: What?
SPEAKER_2: Can you?
SPEAKER_2: No.
SPEAKER_1: Yeah, okay, cool.
SPEAKER_2: There's a story we haven't told each other?
SPEAKER_1: I feel like you're going to remember it halfway through.
SPEAKER_1: One time I was at a party, and I ordered three pizzas for everyone as sort of like a gift.
SPEAKER_1: But as sort of a meme, I put pineapple on all of them.
SPEAKER_1: Except there was one pizza that I didn't give to everybody.
SPEAKER_1: I special ordered it.
SPEAKER_1: I took off the sauce.
SPEAKER_1: I took off everything.
SPEAKER_1: It was just bread.
SPEAKER_1: And then I put pineapple on only the left side.
SPEAKER_1: And then I opened it.
SPEAKER_1: And everyone audibly gasped and like started telling me death threats.
SPEAKER_1: Not really, but like it was that energy.
SPEAKER_1: So there was none.
SPEAKER_2: You have never told me this story before.
SPEAKER_1: I've never told you that.
SPEAKER_2: You've never told me this.
SPEAKER_2: And that is very funny.
SPEAKER_2: That's extremely funny.
SPEAKER_2: None.
SPEAKER_2: None pizza with left pineapple.
SPEAKER_1: Yeah, I was doing none pizza left pineapple.
SPEAKER_1: A perfect artistic recreation.
SPEAKER_2: A perfect vegetarian recreation of none pizza left beef.
SPEAKER_2: Wow, that's pretty exceptional.
SPEAKER_2: I'm proud of you for doing such a thing.
SPEAKER_2: Do you love pineapple now?
SPEAKER_1: Can you appreciate my art?
SPEAKER_2: No.
SPEAKER_2: You're not going to make me like pineapple.
SPEAKER_1: Did you know if you eat enough pineapple, your tongue will become sore?
SPEAKER_2: I am aware of this.
SPEAKER_2: Yeah, it's not a thing that you should do.
SPEAKER_1: Which is why you should put it on pizza to dilute the peanut, the pineapple.
SPEAKER_2: Which is short for penis apple.
SPEAKER_2: That's why it's longer.
SPEAKER_2: That's why it's longer and spiny, as all penises are.
SPEAKER_3: Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_2: Yeah.
SPEAKER_3: So, yeah.
SPEAKER_2: You want to keep talking about pineapple now?
SPEAKER_2: Sorry, pineapple.
SPEAKER_2: I've ruined it.
SPEAKER_1: Yeah, I'm gonna keep my pineapple to myself, you know.
SPEAKER_1: Pineapple and pizza is good, and you can't change my mind.
SPEAKER_1: I can't change my mind.
SPEAKER_1: At you.
SPEAKER_1: Specifically you, Brianna.
SPEAKER_1: You can't change my mind.
SPEAKER_2: Based on anything ever.
SPEAKER_2: I cannot ever change your mind on anything.
SPEAKER_1: Yeah, we've never had discussions where we have walked away with the new perspectives.
SPEAKER_2: Yeah, we have never ever in our lives ever done that.
SPEAKER_2: I've never ever had a conversation with you and thought after, huh, I should rethink this or think about this or whatever.
SPEAKER_2: This never happened in all the years of us being friends.
SPEAKER_1: Uh-huh, yeah.
SPEAKER_1: Please, meme-ther, can I have another meme?
SPEAKER_2: Yes, of course.
SPEAKER_2: I come down from the mountain.
SPEAKER_2: I walk down this long, long road down the way to you, and then I stand in front of you, and I say, yes, you can have a meme.
SPEAKER_2: And then I start flossing.
SPEAKER_3: What?
SPEAKER_2: Because my second meme craving is ha-ha funny dance.
SPEAKER_2: So, you know how dances become memes sometimes?
SPEAKER_1: I like the...
SPEAKER_1: God, I'm blanking on the popular child's game.
SPEAKER_2: Fortnite?
SPEAKER_1: Thank you.
SPEAKER_1: Yeah, the Fortnite dance.
SPEAKER_2: And this is related.
SPEAKER_2: This is related, because my craving is not just ha-ha funny dance.
SPEAKER_2: Because, listen, I love the funny dance.
SPEAKER_2: I love to floss.
SPEAKER_2: I'm very good at it.
SPEAKER_1: Sorry, floss?
SPEAKER_1: You mean like with dental floss, where you're just gonna floss at me?
SPEAKER_1: Like, okay, I just want to be clear.
SPEAKER_1: When you said you come down the mountain and then you floss at me, I just imagine you taking out a piece of floss.
SPEAKER_2: Do you not know the floss?
SPEAKER_1: Do you not know flossing?
SPEAKER_1: Apparently, I don't know anything.
SPEAKER_2: How are we doing a meme episode when you don't know what flossing is?
SPEAKER_2: Flossing, also known as the backpack kid dance.
SPEAKER_2: I am finding a something of it.
SPEAKER_2: Oh, good.
SPEAKER_2: How to do the backpack kid dance, the floss.
SPEAKER_2: Here's a gif.
SPEAKER_1: Oh, oh, it hasn't even loaded and I know what it is.
SPEAKER_1: Yeah, is that not the fortnight dance?
SPEAKER_1: I thought that was also the fortnight dance.
SPEAKER_2: No, that's no, that is it is in fortnight.
SPEAKER_2: OK, this is what I'm OK.
SPEAKER_2: So flossing is one of the dances that is in fortnight.
SPEAKER_2: Here's the thing about fortnight.
SPEAKER_2: Fortnight steals dances.
SPEAKER_2: Fortnight steals dances from people.
SPEAKER_2: It is like that's its thing.
SPEAKER_2: It takes people's intellectual copyright of dances, usually like black creators.
SPEAKER_2: So backpack kid is not black, but a lot of other dances, popular, things like that are taken from black creators by fortnight who give them no compensation.
SPEAKER_2: And also are stolen on TikTok, and also are stolen blah, blah, blah, and people don't tend to get a lot of credit or stuff for creating them.
SPEAKER_1: The story of how IP works.
SPEAKER_2: And it's especially bad for dances, because if you look into like copywriting dances, it's so much worse than copywriting literally any other type of intellectual property.
SPEAKER_2: It is like basically impossible to copyright a dance, and so people will come along and just steal it.
SPEAKER_1: It's kind of hard to like copyright somebody's movement.
SPEAKER_2: It absolutely is.
SPEAKER_2: But this means that there is like this kind of epidemic of people creating dances that become memes, whether that's like dabbing or flossing or any dances in Fortnite.
SPEAKER_2: And again, disproportionately, this happens to black creators.
SPEAKER_2: So my craving is not just for haha funny dance.
SPEAKER_2: My craving is for people to make haha funny dances and really great meme dances to get credit and compensation.
SPEAKER_2: So, Clair, how are we going to do that?
SPEAKER_2: How are we just going to fix the whole system?
SPEAKER_1: If you do a copyrighted dance, then you legally cannot stop.
SPEAKER_1: So you become an example.
SPEAKER_1: If you start flossing, you are flossing your whole life from that point on.
SPEAKER_1: If you try to sleep, your arms just go back and forth.
SPEAKER_1: They just jiggle back and forth.
SPEAKER_1: Good luck.
SPEAKER_2: Is this like legally enforced or magically enforced?
SPEAKER_1: I like magically enforced.
SPEAKER_2: This is like a weird witch thing.
SPEAKER_2: This is like the witch from the Beauty and the Beast type level of like, oh, you did a bad thing, so now you're a beast forever.
SPEAKER_1: I forgot that was a witch in Beauty and the Beast.
SPEAKER_1: I thought it was just like an eight.
SPEAKER_1: I don't know.
SPEAKER_1: I don't know why he was a beast.
SPEAKER_2: It just happened one day.
SPEAKER_2: You're like, this is what a 10 year old was like, huh, I feel really hairy.
SPEAKER_2: And his parents were like, oh, yeah, that's just puberty.
SPEAKER_3: Isn't that how it always starts?
SPEAKER_2: Yeah.
SPEAKER_2: That's just puberty.
SPEAKER_2: And then he started turning into a beast and they were like, oh, this is not puberty.
SPEAKER_1: And they have someone come and save me, I guess.
SPEAKER_1: I don't know.
SPEAKER_1: What was the moral of that story that if you neg someone enough, they'll change for you?
SPEAKER_2: We could get into Beauty and the Beast debate on whether or not Beauty and the Beast sets a good moral example.
SPEAKER_1: I feel like the answer is no.
SPEAKER_1: But anyways, what would you rather?
SPEAKER_1: Would you rather, hey, this is a fun game, would you rather debate the moral implications of Beauty and the Beast or would you like to solve this craving?
SPEAKER_2: I would love to solve this craving, actually, rather than getting to the woodwork of the morality of Beauty and the Beast.
SPEAKER_1: So you had an idea it sounded like.
SPEAKER_2: So there's the magically enforced thing.
SPEAKER_1: Magically delicious.
SPEAKER_1: That's what came to mind.
SPEAKER_1: So everyone gets a bowl of cereal.
SPEAKER_2: And then they have to floss in it.
SPEAKER_1: Well, no, see, it's magical cereal where if you eat it, you have to do a certain dance.
SPEAKER_1: So there's like floss cereal, there's floss cereal, you know.
SPEAKER_2: Okay, how is this?
SPEAKER_2: What does this do to solve the craving of people getting credit for their work?
SPEAKER_2: Well, it sounds like more people kind of like making money off of someone's original idea.
SPEAKER_1: The cereal is named after the person who invented it.
SPEAKER_1: So you'll never forget because you'll be like, I ate that cereal that I ate that, you know, name of creator cereal, and dang, now I'm just flossing.
SPEAKER_1: Now I ate the backpack boy cereal, and now I'm just flossing forever.
SPEAKER_2: Does the person get paid?
SPEAKER_1: Sure.
SPEAKER_2: And there's like legal stuff to enforce this?
SPEAKER_1: Yeah, that sounds sooo-per normal and sooo-per okay.
SPEAKER_2: I mean, someone getting credit and money for their work is a super normal and super okay thing, as far as capitalism can be concerned.
SPEAKER_1: Yes, within those confines of the reasoning, you have to dance for profit, I suppose.
SPEAKER_2: That's also not great.
SPEAKER_1: Well, how else are they going to pay the creator?
SPEAKER_1: This is why I didn't want to go down that route.
SPEAKER_1: You're dancing forever, and the proceeds go-
SPEAKER_1: oh, I got it.
SPEAKER_1: No, it's just not forever.
SPEAKER_1: You got to do a charity dance.
SPEAKER_1: The thing is, so you eat the cereal, and you know how to do the dance, and you can't stop doing the dance, and it's like a 48-hour thing, and it's like, all right, you're going to go to this fundraiser now, and you're going to go dance for these children because it's a fun dance that everyone loves, and at the end, you're going to tell them who it was who made this dance, and then the proceeds of that event are going to go to the creator.
SPEAKER_1: I perfectly solved this.
SPEAKER_2: Now, I am interested in exploring options in which corporations, at the very least, have to give some sort of compensation.
SPEAKER_2: What you're describing is let's criminalize more people, individuals, for doing a dance that someone else started, which feels like it would actually just make it harder for a dance to get popular.
SPEAKER_2: I think, A, there should probably be something that says, oh, you have to give credit.
SPEAKER_2: And I think corporations who use it should definitely have to pay people.
SPEAKER_2: So I guess what I'm saying is how are we going after Fortnite?
SPEAKER_1: So we're going to bring cereal into Fortnite.
SPEAKER_2: Okay, you're really on the cereal thing.
SPEAKER_2: No, no, no, that's fine.
SPEAKER_1: We can just rename all the dances in Fortnite.
SPEAKER_2: They have done all of that.
SPEAKER_2: Oh, you mean rename them back to what their actual names are?
SPEAKER_2: Because Fortnite has taken all these dances and then renamed them to get out of having to give anyone money.
SPEAKER_1: I'm not surprised.
SPEAKER_2: Yeah, we could totally name them and then also make Epic pay people.
SPEAKER_1: Yeah, sure.
SPEAKER_2: That just seems like a thing that should happen.
SPEAKER_1: Probably, yeah.
SPEAKER_1: That seems like the answer.
SPEAKER_2: It is.
SPEAKER_2: It's not very funny, but it is.
SPEAKER_2: Let's go back to the serial idea.
SPEAKER_1: I don't know.
SPEAKER_2: I feel like I'm ruining this episode.
SPEAKER_1: No, you just want people to get paid for their intellectual dances.
SPEAKER_2: I think that people should get some sort of compensation for making the thing.
SPEAKER_1: Yeah, it's hard, right?
SPEAKER_1: On one hand, it's how strict you want copyright laws to be versus how free do you want people to be able to do things?
SPEAKER_1: And the answer is businesses get to decide that, apparently.
SPEAKER_2: The answer is it all comes down to whatever business has a lot of money, which is the core of the problem.
SPEAKER_2: So maybe what the actual solution is is just to dismantle capitalism and create a dancing utopia.
SPEAKER_1: Okay, you pay by dancing.
SPEAKER_2: No, you must understand, Clair.
SPEAKER_2: I said dismantling capitalism.
SPEAKER_2: There's no payment.
SPEAKER_2: Everyone just dances.
SPEAKER_1: Okay, I see, I see.
SPEAKER_2: It's just like the thing, instead of people doing...
SPEAKER_1: If you stop dancing, you are doing a crime.
SPEAKER_2: No, that's not...
SPEAKER_2: I just...
SPEAKER_2: there does not need to be criminalization involved.
SPEAKER_1: A criminal crime.
SPEAKER_2: Okay, great.
SPEAKER_1: Non-movement is a crime.
SPEAKER_1: If you go to sleep, you better be migrating.
SPEAKER_2: I have some concerns with that as a disabled person.
SPEAKER_1: Don't worry, there are dances.
SPEAKER_1: There are cane dances.
SPEAKER_1: There's a whole genre of cane dances that do count.
SPEAKER_2: It feels like you're sidestepping the core issue.
SPEAKER_1: Oh, you mean like how capitalism sidesteps the intellectual property discussion?
SPEAKER_2: It sort of does, and this is why I've suggested the dancing utopia in which everyone dances.
SPEAKER_1: Who is the dancing queen of this dancing utopia?
SPEAKER_2: Um, who is the dancing?
SPEAKER_2: Okay, so we have to have the world's largest dance-off to find the dancing queen.
SPEAKER_2: It is all about creating the most interesting original dance, and you're just having this worldwide dance-off.
SPEAKER_2: Everyone submits something.
SPEAKER_2: They don't have to, but everyone has the opportunity to submit something.
SPEAKER_2: And slowly, we go up in the ranks, and it's judged by an AI, of course, to keep it impartial.
SPEAKER_1: Oh, God, we're so on brand today.
SPEAKER_2: Just appear behind the curtain.
SPEAKER_2: I have thought, hmm, I'm ruining this episode.
SPEAKER_2: I should bring it back to our brand.
SPEAKER_1: Just talk about robots long enough.
SPEAKER_2: Just talk about robots long enough, and it becomes a good Salt Cravings episode.
SPEAKER_2: And so what I'm thinking is it's this big old dance-off with AI.
SPEAKER_2: What if we made the AI dance?
SPEAKER_2: What?
SPEAKER_1: What if we made AI that could dance?
SPEAKER_2: That'd be super cool.
SPEAKER_1: That sounds like Fortnite.
SPEAKER_2: That does sound like Fortnite.
SPEAKER_2: That is Fortnite.
SPEAKER_1: We've recreated Fortnite.
SPEAKER_2: My question to you, Clair, is what are you submitting to the dance-off?
SPEAKER_1: Mine's called The Beaver.
SPEAKER_2: Okay, tell me about The Beaver?
SPEAKER_1: I mean, I can just show you.
SPEAKER_2: Describe it to me.
SPEAKER_2: You need to describe it to the listener who doesn't have video.
SPEAKER_1: Damn, you're foiling my plot.
SPEAKER_1: So you just sort of have to, like, gnash your teeth together while, like, pelvic thrusting, like, back and forth a couple times and side to side.
SPEAKER_1: And your arms are sort of, like, going, like, I can't really do this.
SPEAKER_1: They're, like, you're mimicking your teeth in front of you.
SPEAKER_2: Yeah, they're doing kind of claw movements.
SPEAKER_1: Yeah, playing the piano with claws in front of your mouth as you gnash your teeth.
SPEAKER_2: I like that.
SPEAKER_3: That's a good dance.
SPEAKER_2: You're doing it for me now.
SPEAKER_2: And it's great.
SPEAKER_2: It's exceptional.
SPEAKER_2: It's a great dance.
SPEAKER_2: I love it.
SPEAKER_2: It's great.
SPEAKER_2: What's your dance?
SPEAKER_2: My dance is...
SPEAKER_2: is the, oh, God, you're being chased by a horrible water monster dance.
SPEAKER_2: It's a swimming dance, right?
SPEAKER_2: You're doing the, like, you know, is if you're doing the backstroke, or, no, the backstroke, the frontstroke, is if you're doing a frontstroke, and you're constantly sort of looking behind you on beat, and you have to start doing it faster and faster, and more panicked and more, you know, kind of flailing, until eventually you flail, and then the beat drops, and you get eaten.
SPEAKER_2: Well, you're miming getting eaten, so you're just sort of flailing and like, oh, God, help me.
SPEAKER_2: But in a dance, and then that's the dance.
SPEAKER_1: Okay, so this dance has, like, sort of a lifespan, you could say.
SPEAKER_2: Yeah, it sort of has a lifespan.
SPEAKER_2: There's only so long you can do this dance for, and it kind of tells a story, which I really like.
SPEAKER_2: It's an interpretive dance.
SPEAKER_2: Yeah, it's sort of an interpretive dance, if the meaning is, oh, God, oh, God, I'm getting chased by a terrible water monster.
SPEAKER_1: It sounds like there's probably an interpretive dance out there about that.
SPEAKER_2: Oh, probably, but it's probably like a metaphor for like love or something.
SPEAKER_2: This is not a metaphor.
SPEAKER_2: The water monster is just your ex.
SPEAKER_1: This is just your ex chasing after you in water.
SPEAKER_2: If you want to do this as a double dance, your partner has to be the water monster that is chasing you, and it's just doing like a Pac-Man thing with their hands on the beach.
SPEAKER_1: What does the eating you look like?
SPEAKER_1: Two people.
SPEAKER_2: You lay on the ground, and they start pulling you in kind of to them while doing the chomping motion.
SPEAKER_1: Great.
SPEAKER_2: There is no metaphor here.
SPEAKER_2: There is no like deep, like, oh man, this really says something.
SPEAKER_2: Like, no, it is just you are getting eaten by a water monster at the dance.
SPEAKER_1: This really speaks to my desire to get eaten by a water monster.
SPEAKER_3: Chomp, chomp.
SPEAKER_1: Chomp me, daddy.
SPEAKER_2: I didn't want to say it.
SPEAKER_2: So I'm glad you did.
SPEAKER_3: Thanks, Clair.
SPEAKER_1: One per episode.
SPEAKER_2: I think those are some pretty good dances.
SPEAKER_2: I think, oh God, oh God, I'm getting chomped by a water monster.
SPEAKER_2: The dance will probably make it to the finals, at least.
SPEAKER_1: Well, the thing is, it's called the Salt Cravings dance, ain't it?
SPEAKER_2: No, no, no.
SPEAKER_2: It's called the, oh God, oh God, I'm getting eaten by a water monster.
SPEAKER_2: We could make the Salt Cravings.
SPEAKER_2: Tell me what the Salt Cravings dance is.
SPEAKER_1: It's, you know, salt shaker, pepper shaker, salt shaker, pepper shaker.
SPEAKER_2: And you have to try really hard not to make it seem like you're jacking someone off.
SPEAKER_1: I mean, if you do, then, I mean, bonus points, I guess.
SPEAKER_2: You're just like...
SPEAKER_1: Look, it fits within the confines of salty ending.
SPEAKER_2: Is the last part of the Salt Cravings dance eating the food that you've just salted?
SPEAKER_3: Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_2: It's just a big bowl of spaghetti.
SPEAKER_2: And does it look like the other type of salty surprise?
SPEAKER_3: So that's the Salt Cravings dance.
SPEAKER_2: Yeah, Salt Cravings dance.
SPEAKER_2: You do a salt shaker, you eat the food.
SPEAKER_2: That feels like it's satisfying your cravings, and everyone will get credit for their dances in the dance-off in Dance Utopia.
SPEAKER_1: Dance Dance Utopia.
SPEAKER_2: Dance Dance Utopia, baby.
SPEAKER_1: It's the new game.
SPEAKER_2: Dance Dance Utopia.
SPEAKER_2: You'll love to see it.
SPEAKER_2: Clair.
SPEAKER_3: Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_1: How can I help you?
SPEAKER_2: Save us from my terrible cravings.
SPEAKER_1: Save me from the craving from inside.
SPEAKER_1: My last craving is...
SPEAKER_1: I feel like the world needs more of these.
SPEAKER_1: It is...
SPEAKER_1: I've been craving wholesome memes a lot.
SPEAKER_2: Yeah.
SPEAKER_1: Because, hey, good, funny memes.
SPEAKER_1: Good, great.
SPEAKER_1: Sometimes I just like a meme that, you know, makes you feel nice.
SPEAKER_1: Sometimes a meme just makes you feel good.
SPEAKER_2: I think we should all aspire to be wholesome in our memery.
SPEAKER_1: That's the whole meme.
SPEAKER_1: I just want big, nice potlucks, you know?
SPEAKER_1: There's that like frog meme with the potluck.
SPEAKER_1: That's like the one that comes to mind, but there are so many.
SPEAKER_2: The frog meme with the potluck?
SPEAKER_1: You know, where the frogs...
SPEAKER_1: Everyone's like, ah, I brought chairs, I brought turnips, and the frog's like, I didn't bring anything.
SPEAKER_1: And everyone is like, that's okay, there's enough for everyone.
SPEAKER_1: And that's like the whole meme.
SPEAKER_2: That's good.
SPEAKER_2: That's good and cute.
SPEAKER_2: I love that.
SPEAKER_2: It's been a lot of wholesome Animal Crossing memes lately, which have been good.
SPEAKER_2: Ugh.
SPEAKER_2: I think just in general.
SPEAKER_1: The solution.
SPEAKER_2: Okay.
SPEAKER_1: It's the wholesome fire.
SPEAKER_1: So you stick any meme into the wholesome fire, and it makes it wholesome.
SPEAKER_3: You know that YouTube poop?
SPEAKER_1: Yeah.
SPEAKER_1: Well, guess what?
SPEAKER_2: It's wholesome now.
SPEAKER_3: It's a YouTube.
SPEAKER_2: It's a YouTube friend.
SPEAKER_1: It's a YouTube friend.
SPEAKER_3: A poop becomes a friend.
SPEAKER_2: Great.
SPEAKER_2: I love it.
SPEAKER_2: How does the wholesome fire work?
SPEAKER_1: The wholesome fire?
SPEAKER_2: What did you say it was?
SPEAKER_1: I said wholesome fire.
SPEAKER_1: But also wholesome fire.
SPEAKER_2: How it works is you take something.
SPEAKER_2: You take a meme.
SPEAKER_2: Okay, here's step one.
SPEAKER_2: You take a meme.
SPEAKER_2: You wrap it in tin foil.
SPEAKER_2: You throw it into the wholesome fire, and then you grab it back.
SPEAKER_2: You use it as a safe way to do it.
SPEAKER_2: And then you take it out and let it cool.
SPEAKER_2: And now it's wholesome.
SPEAKER_1: How does this affect memes that have fire in them?
SPEAKER_1: Like the everything is okay meme, or the rebuttal to that meme, everything is not okay meme.
SPEAKER_1: They have fire in them.
SPEAKER_1: Are they fire immune?
SPEAKER_1: Does the fire just get extinguished by fire?
SPEAKER_1: It's just a dog sitting there for three panels.
SPEAKER_2: It's just a dog sitting, yeah, it's perfect.
SPEAKER_2: Drinking coffee.
SPEAKER_2: It's just a dog sitting there being like, everything's fine.
SPEAKER_2: What is a meme that has fire in it that would not be improved if the fire was removed?
SPEAKER_1: You know the meme of Troy from Community walking in with the pizzas and the apartment is on fire.
SPEAKER_1: What if it was just like, Troy is standing there with pizzas and there's kittens everywhere, and he's just shocked that there's like kittens everywhere.
SPEAKER_2: And then one of them says like, oh, Troy, you're back with the pizza.
SPEAKER_2: Some friends came by and they had a bunch of kittens.
SPEAKER_2: And Troy's like, oh, awesome.
SPEAKER_2: This is so exciting.
SPEAKER_1: What a wholesome meme.
SPEAKER_1: I have pizzas now.
SPEAKER_1: We have kittens and pizzas now.
SPEAKER_1: And these pizzas have pineapple on them.
SPEAKER_2: Clair, I have a really important question.
SPEAKER_1: Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_2: If you put a Salt Cravings episode through the fire, the wholesome fire, tell me...
SPEAKER_1: There's nothing left.
SPEAKER_1: It's a blank audio file.
SPEAKER_1: It's just silence for an hour.
SPEAKER_2: The wholesome fire can add things.
SPEAKER_2: Fuck you!
SPEAKER_2: We have wholesome moments.
SPEAKER_2: I feel like it turns into us talking about friendship and how it's just me being like, wow, Clair, I'm so glad that we're friends and I love being friends with you.
SPEAKER_1: Wow, that makes my heart fill up with joy at the sound of that friendship.
SPEAKER_1: I love friendship.
SPEAKER_1: Friendship?
SPEAKER_3: Can I say friendship enough?
SPEAKER_2: I don't need anything more than this.
SPEAKER_2: I don't crave anything because I have everything I need in this wholesome way with friendship.
SPEAKER_1: That sounds like a dystopia.
SPEAKER_2: I really quickly do need to acknowledge the other type of wholesome meme, which is a meme that is intended to be wholesome but actually just reveals how fucked things are, which is like, this group of people pooled their money together to get this person a car who clearly needed a car but didn't make enough money to buy a car.
SPEAKER_2: This is a wholesome type of meme that exists, this is a type of quote unquote wholesome meme that exists where it's just like, hey, look at this, their bosses didn't care about them but the employees cared about each other and therefore they were able to pool their sick leave so that one of the people could get treatment for their cancer without having to go back to work, which is intended to be wholesome, but actually it's just kind of reinforcing how fucked things are.
SPEAKER_1: Terrifying, yeah.
SPEAKER_2: And I feel like the thing about wholesome memes is you can't put every meme through the wholesome fire because once everything's wholesome, nothing's wholesome.
SPEAKER_1: So we need the demon fire.
SPEAKER_2: Sorry?
SPEAKER_1: We need the demon fire that adds fire into everything.
SPEAKER_1: It's just Salt Cravings, but we're on fire.
SPEAKER_2: You throw one of these quote-unquote wholesome memes into it, and it actually just has the Communist Manifesto written out, where it just is showing all of the problems with why this meme is not actually wholesome.
SPEAKER_2: And it just reinserts the fire, and it's just like, actually, everything is not fine.
SPEAKER_1: Can you run a meme back and forth through these?
SPEAKER_1: Sort of like how you can run a sentence through Google Translate back and forth until it just is nonsense.
SPEAKER_2: That feels completely unrecognizable.
SPEAKER_1: Can you generate YouTube poops with these two basically emulsifiers?
SPEAKER_2: We've done it.
SPEAKER_2: We found the way to create YouTube poops, which is you just throw them through the demon fire and the wholesome fire enough times, and then they come out completely unrecognizable, except for the vague reference to the things that they were before.
SPEAKER_1: Is this a butterfly meme, but it's just a picture of a butterfly with the word butterfly in bold text?
SPEAKER_2: And it's just a person.
SPEAKER_2: Instead of a person, it's just a blob of slime, but they're still pointing.
SPEAKER_1: It's just a hand on the left, and it has the word hand, and then it's a butterfly on the right, and it says butterfly, so it reads hand butterfly, but that's the whole meme.
SPEAKER_3: It's just a picture of a palm and a butterfly.
SPEAKER_2: Clair, we have stumbled into shitpost memes.
SPEAKER_2: We have stumbled into it.
SPEAKER_1: The minimalist meme.
SPEAKER_1: You take a meme and you reduce it to its basic parts.
SPEAKER_1: Hand butterfly.
SPEAKER_2: This is what happened.
SPEAKER_2: There was too much of people posting, ah, memes, stupid, silly, bad meme.
SPEAKER_2: And then people posting, ah, wholesome meme.
SPEAKER_2: And it just got so mushed up together that you just ended up with complete shitpost memes.
SPEAKER_2: And that's YouTube poop, baby.
SPEAKER_1: Ah, well, good to know where the poop comes from.
SPEAKER_2: Poop is stored in the memes.
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SPEAKER_1: Oh, so random.
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SPEAKER_1: Hey Brianna, I think you stumbled upon something the other day, because everyone, don't forget to keep on cravin.
SPEAKER_1: 35.
SPEAKER_2: 35?
SPEAKER_3: Yeah.
SPEAKER_1: 40.
SPEAKER_1: 45.
SPEAKER_2: 50.
SPEAKER_3: Okay, okay, that's probably good.
SPEAKER_2: That's probably good.
SPEAKER_2: All of those sounded fine.
SPEAKER_1: Oh, really?
SPEAKER_1: None of them sounded good.
SPEAKER_2: They sounded good, but okay.
SPEAKER_2: All right.
SPEAKER_1: That's how it is.
SPEAKER_2: We did our best.
SPEAKER_2: Yeah.
SPEAKER_1: I'm stopping the recording.
SPEAKER_2: Yeah.