WEBVTT 00:00:36.070 --> 00:00:39.650 You may call me Brianna, Knight of the Salt. 00:00:40.330 --> 00:00:43.450 And I am the Grand Wizard, Clair. 00:00:44.090 --> 00:00:59.070 And we are here today to take this mighty castle of cravings and to take its craving cures from its terrible, terrible dungeons and distribute them to the people, like any good knight should. 00:00:59.730 --> 00:01:03.130 We will loot your craving bounties in your dark dungeons. 00:01:03.150 --> 00:01:06.010 So lay down your swords, lest ye be slayed. 00:01:06.470 --> 00:01:11.410 Oh, I think they will not lay down, oh, they're laying down their swords. 00:01:11.430 --> 00:01:13.110 Oh, okay, this will be easy then. 00:01:13.430 --> 00:01:16.930 Oh yeah, this is, well, I'm sure you're going to want to fight. 00:01:16.930 --> 00:01:18.790 Oh no, they're actually, they're cheering. 00:01:19.550 --> 00:01:20.710 I thought they loved their king. 00:01:21.010 --> 00:01:22.930 Oh no, that's the king's head on a spike. 00:01:22.950 --> 00:01:25.490 Oh wow, we're really not needed here. 00:01:25.690 --> 00:01:30.110 You know, next time maybe we should like try and check and see if our info's up to date. 00:01:30.130 --> 00:01:32.330 I mean, a letter did take a while. 00:01:32.810 --> 00:01:34.390 Send a pigeon ahead of time. 00:01:34.410 --> 00:01:36.770 Yeah, we need to start sending more pigeons. 00:01:37.570 --> 00:01:41.890 But oh, we still shall solve such cravings today. 00:01:41.910 --> 00:01:47.870 We will participate in this town's rousing affairs as they institute a new government. 00:01:48.410 --> 00:01:53.150 We shall participate by sharing cravings and then solving them. 00:01:53.510 --> 00:01:58.090 Oh, ho, that is our work as a knight and a wizard. 00:01:59.170 --> 00:01:59.830 Huzzah. 00:02:03.130 --> 00:02:05.490 This is the Knights of the Cravings Table. 00:02:05.750 --> 00:02:07.790 Hello, and welcome to Salt Cravings. 00:02:07.890 --> 00:02:10.050 We share our cravings, then we solve them. 00:02:10.070 --> 00:02:11.190 That's the podcast. 00:02:11.310 --> 00:02:12.190 Wanna get into it? 00:02:12.210 --> 00:02:13.110 That's the whole thing. 00:02:13.130 --> 00:02:14.370 Yeah, let's get into it, Clair. 00:02:16.490 --> 00:02:21.650 Loyal wizard, Clair, won't you tell me of a craving? 00:02:22.230 --> 00:02:25.990 I have two wonderfully easy cravings this time. 00:02:26.010 --> 00:02:27.130 Okay, great. 00:02:27.170 --> 00:02:35.630 I'm not too sure which one to do first, so I'm just gonna put a craving in each hand, and I'd like you to pick left or right. 00:02:36.070 --> 00:02:36.490 Left. 00:02:36.770 --> 00:02:39.250 All right, so the first craving that I'm doing... 00:02:39.270 --> 00:02:41.010 Sorry, can I see it in your hand? 00:02:42.210 --> 00:02:45.190 You held up two fists to me, and I just want to see. 00:02:45.210 --> 00:02:45.690 Right, right. 00:02:45.810 --> 00:02:46.750 I'm sorry, let me just... 00:02:46.770 --> 00:02:48.370 Yeah, uh-huh, yeah, here you go. 00:02:48.390 --> 00:02:50.350 Okay, I see, I see. 00:02:50.710 --> 00:02:56.190 This one, as you can clearly see, it's an actual leftist political party. 00:02:56.210 --> 00:02:58.790 Oh, I see, I get it, left. 00:02:59.090 --> 00:03:23.750 I feel like after the US election and also watching some other countries, and also our own country, sort of squander everything governmental, I would love an actual party consisting of leftists with a viable political chance, because I feel like the leftist movement is growing as the internet, you know, exists longer. 00:03:24.030 --> 00:03:26.310 I think that's accurate, I hope it's accurate at the very least. 00:03:26.570 --> 00:03:39.510 It's so strange because we here in Canada do have more of a leftist party than they do down there, but like the NDP are not, like listen, I voted for them and I will vote for them again, almost certainly. 00:03:39.670 --> 00:03:55.670 But like they are in power provincially currently and they have not really been extremely, you know, it's really, I've seen it put this way, which is like the BC liberals, which the liberals in this province are actually conservatives. 00:03:56.170 --> 00:04:01.930 And not just in the way that all liberals are conservatives, but like genuinely they are the, there's no conservative party here. 00:04:02.050 --> 00:04:06.710 The liberals here will like actively kill you while the NDP will just let you die. 00:04:07.090 --> 00:04:12.050 But don't forget, there are also conservatives that are just more conservative. 00:04:12.410 --> 00:04:14.770 Oh yeah, no, they're the extreme right. 00:04:17.010 --> 00:04:24.370 Yeah, there is a BC conservative party that's like a fringe party no one votes for because they are extremely radical right wing. 00:04:25.070 --> 00:04:33.450 And I forget if it's the federal provincial upcoming election where there is like a literal Trump-alike individual running. 00:04:33.470 --> 00:04:35.750 Oh, you're talking about nationally, yes. 00:04:36.270 --> 00:04:37.390 Nationally, yes. 00:04:37.410 --> 00:04:39.390 The federal election, I believe. 00:04:39.490 --> 00:04:41.070 That is a genuine threat. 00:04:41.910 --> 00:04:45.430 So that's coming up and has been kind of on my mind. 00:04:45.450 --> 00:04:51.250 So I would truly, truly, truly love to want to vote for somebody. 00:04:52.210 --> 00:04:56.010 You know, like not just vote because it's the thing to do. 00:04:56.310 --> 00:04:57.630 Okay, so here's the thing. 00:04:57.830 --> 00:04:59.710 There are leftist political parties. 00:04:59.710 --> 00:05:00.630 I think here's okay. 00:05:00.650 --> 00:05:01.570 Here's my concern. 00:05:01.590 --> 00:05:07.970 So the first biggest problem in trying to start a leftist party. 00:05:08.890 --> 00:05:10.630 Leftists don't agree on anything. 00:05:12.990 --> 00:05:25.070 Well, we agree on a lot, but like trying to make it, you know, there's a reason there is in fact a communist party here, and they are certainly not the only party here that is a far left party. 00:05:25.090 --> 00:05:29.710 There are, I would suspect, probably like a dozen or so. 00:05:29.770 --> 00:05:38.630 So we're going to have to have us coalesce around something coherent that a large group of leftists and especially new leftists can agree upon. 00:05:39.190 --> 00:05:46.330 Or we could just take all the existing parties and sort of like glue them together and form a bigger party. 00:05:46.350 --> 00:05:54.590 Because really all we need is like, the party doesn't need to internally agree, you know, look at any political party, and that is also true of them. 00:05:54.950 --> 00:05:57.870 But we just need bigger, you know, bigger than before. 00:05:58.110 --> 00:06:01.030 We need the political party of bigger than before. 00:06:01.050 --> 00:06:12.630 Yeah, you know, I'm sure that we can get anarchists and Marxist-Leninists and Maoists to all agree enough to form a political party together. 00:06:12.650 --> 00:06:15.930 Yeah, that seems like a thing we can do, for sure. 00:06:17.730 --> 00:06:21.370 Have we considered just talking to them and telling them that they need to agree? 00:06:21.390 --> 00:06:22.070 Just do it. 00:06:22.210 --> 00:06:30.170 Yeah, have we considered just going around to every type of leftist that exists and just being like, hey, we're all going to form a political party together. 00:06:30.350 --> 00:06:32.290 And they'll be like, well, I don't want to do that because I don't like them. 00:06:32.310 --> 00:06:34.130 It's like, have you considered that you should? 00:06:34.390 --> 00:06:36.890 And then they'll all be like, oh, yeah, you know, that's a good point. 00:06:37.190 --> 00:06:38.370 We're all in this together. 00:06:38.390 --> 00:06:43.170 And then we'll all sing the High School Musical song and then leftist unity. 00:06:43.190 --> 00:06:43.670 I've done it. 00:06:43.690 --> 00:06:44.190 I've solved it. 00:06:44.410 --> 00:06:46.430 That does sound better than my answer. 00:06:46.970 --> 00:06:48.010 What was your answer? 00:06:48.370 --> 00:06:53.730 I mean, I'm kind of into the party of musicals, the leftist musical party. 00:06:53.750 --> 00:06:54.470 You know what? 00:06:54.490 --> 00:06:56.750 Because I think we can all get around show tunes. 00:06:56.830 --> 00:06:59.470 I think that's maybe the unifying factor. 00:06:59.890 --> 00:07:01.410 I have a brilliant plan. 00:07:01.430 --> 00:07:02.690 We're going to pull the Trojan Horse. 00:07:02.790 --> 00:07:08.910 OK, we're going to pretend with the absurdity, because everyone loves absurdity, right? 00:07:08.930 --> 00:07:10.150 Everyone loves absurdity. 00:07:10.550 --> 00:07:12.350 Everyone loves ridiculousness, right? 00:07:12.370 --> 00:07:16.970 We're going to pretend that we're this absurdist, kind of like almost parody, satirical party. 00:07:16.990 --> 00:07:19.070 Oh, right, right. 00:07:19.090 --> 00:07:26.830 That like is all about musicals and, you know, show tunes and like joking like we're the gay party and like all of this stuff. 00:07:27.190 --> 00:07:31.190 And then people are going to be like, haha, I wonder what their like silly policies are. 00:07:31.210 --> 00:07:32.870 And then they're all really good policies. 00:07:33.770 --> 00:07:37.630 They're all just like pillar fucking A plus policies. 00:07:37.650 --> 00:07:40.670 And they're going to be like, oh, huh. 00:07:41.210 --> 00:07:50.050 Yeah, imagine going to like a community theater show run by your local politicians, but it's actually great and informative. 00:07:50.310 --> 00:07:57.790 It tells you a lot about your local standings and how you can act to like better have your voice heard by government. 00:07:57.850 --> 00:07:58.810 We don't show up to debate. 00:07:58.830 --> 00:08:00.070 And also it has good music. 00:08:00.090 --> 00:08:00.930 That's important. 00:08:00.950 --> 00:08:02.110 We don't show up to debates. 00:08:02.430 --> 00:08:06.690 We run musicals, you know, where we play all of the candidates. 00:08:08.730 --> 00:08:18.110 See, my thing was like, we just need to like have internally, like we need to just constantly have debates because I feel like that would just happen regardless. 00:08:18.130 --> 00:08:19.590 But we need to like do that. 00:08:19.830 --> 00:08:22.750 However, what if the musicals were debates? 00:08:23.270 --> 00:08:25.470 Ooh, I like that. 00:08:25.710 --> 00:08:27.250 You know, debates are boring. 00:08:27.450 --> 00:08:28.470 Anyone will agree. 00:08:28.490 --> 00:08:31.750 Literally anybody will agree that debates are boring. 00:08:31.870 --> 00:08:34.110 And what they really need is some oomph. 00:08:34.330 --> 00:08:37.370 And so I think we can add musical debates. 00:08:37.390 --> 00:08:43.450 I think if you add, if you make the debater have to sing their point, that instantly makes it better. 00:08:44.210 --> 00:08:55.270 We should go ahead and tax the rich at a higher percentage than we have in the past. 00:08:56.910 --> 00:08:57.730 I'm not going to sing. 00:08:57.750 --> 00:08:59.250 But yeah, exactly. 00:08:59.270 --> 00:09:00.710 Thank you for proving the point. 00:09:02.930 --> 00:09:04.290 I think it would work. 00:09:04.430 --> 00:09:05.510 I think it would work. 00:09:05.530 --> 00:09:08.570 We just make ourselves very showy. 00:09:08.590 --> 00:09:13.230 And everyone loves to feel like, oh yeah, this party is not like the other parties. 00:09:13.250 --> 00:09:16.230 They're different and cool. 00:09:16.270 --> 00:09:17.950 And they understand what it's like. 00:09:18.590 --> 00:09:20.710 And that's how we bring them in. 00:09:20.990 --> 00:09:24.570 But the things that we're singing, everyone's like, yeah, that's a good idea. 00:09:24.590 --> 00:09:25.310 We should do that. 00:09:26.150 --> 00:09:28.510 I definitely feel myself getting swept up in songs. 00:09:28.530 --> 00:09:29.310 Like, yeah. 00:09:29.450 --> 00:09:33.930 Oh yeah, okay, I see what they're saying in their song that I definitely understand the words to. 00:09:34.050 --> 00:09:39.250 Yeah, and eventually, right, people, it'll just become so normalized that people will just start breaking out in a song. 00:09:39.270 --> 00:09:39.970 They don't have to. 00:09:40.010 --> 00:09:45.890 You know, we're not making them, but like they just naturally will, because the culture, musicals will become huge. 00:09:46.210 --> 00:09:51.490 Imagine going to a party and the playlist includes the political songs. 00:09:51.730 --> 00:09:52.990 And it's just a bop. 00:09:53.170 --> 00:09:54.990 And you have the remix versions. 00:09:55.210 --> 00:09:55.870 It's a new movement. 00:09:56.630 --> 00:09:59.450 It's the musical movement. 00:09:59.890 --> 00:10:06.870 And the thing that's so exciting about this, of course, is that arts funding, it funds itself, you know? 00:10:06.890 --> 00:10:14.190 At this point, when we say, oh, we want more arts, we're going to fund the arts more, no one's going to have a problem with it, because they're going to be like, hell yeah, you are. 00:10:15.810 --> 00:10:16.570 We love it. 00:10:16.590 --> 00:10:18.110 We love musicals. 00:10:18.130 --> 00:10:20.090 We're having the best time. 00:10:20.130 --> 00:10:21.530 That was so easy. 00:10:21.550 --> 00:10:23.750 I don't know why no one's done this before. 00:10:23.770 --> 00:10:43.950 This is clearly the best way to get a political party started, to just get all the people together, prove that the power of song is the thing that will save the world, and then make sure it shows up on every radio and party and song until, you know, everyone's just internalized it. 00:10:44.190 --> 00:10:52.350 It just occurred to me that I think our political platform is just going to be like a list of the songs, a list of the like the OST. 00:10:52.370 --> 00:10:53.050 A playlist? 00:10:53.130 --> 00:11:06.210 It's just like, yeah, like the titles are all just our policies, like Tax the Rich, Land Back, like fucking, like it's just going to be a list of all of our, you know, like queer and trans rights and all of that. 00:11:06.230 --> 00:11:11.150 It's just all going to be the titles and they're just going to be bops and people are going to love it. 00:11:11.170 --> 00:11:15.090 So watch The Musical Party of Canada coming to you soon. 00:11:15.110 --> 00:11:18.790 My favorite bonus track is Abolish For Profit Housing. 00:11:20.090 --> 00:11:21.490 That's a good bonus track. 00:11:21.530 --> 00:11:23.690 That's a good, that's a good bonus track. 00:11:24.230 --> 00:11:25.350 Part one and two. 00:11:26.230 --> 00:11:29.390 Part one and two. 00:11:29.410 --> 00:11:29.710 Right. 00:11:29.890 --> 00:11:37.990 The part one and two reprise, reprises are really good where it's just like, yeah, uh huh. 00:11:40.370 --> 00:11:44.150 COVID vaccination schedule, COVID vaccination schedule reprise. 00:11:45.550 --> 00:11:48.750 Um, the first song, Vaccines Don't Cause Autism. 00:11:48.770 --> 00:11:52.750 And then the reprise, even if they did, that's not bad, you asshole. 00:11:56.150 --> 00:11:57.210 This is a great idea. 00:11:57.430 --> 00:12:04.770 So I feel like we've very quickly and effectively created Canada's new political leftist party. 00:12:04.910 --> 00:12:07.550 Brianna, do you want to give me a craving? 00:12:08.630 --> 00:12:11.290 There's just like one thing that I want to know. 00:12:11.310 --> 00:12:12.930 It's just like literally one thing. 00:12:12.930 --> 00:12:14.090 It's not even a big... 00:12:14.190 --> 00:12:14.830 Just one. 00:12:15.490 --> 00:12:21.670 I just want to know the absolute answers to fiercely debated historical topics. 00:12:22.250 --> 00:12:27.470 And just in general, the actual clear truth about history. 00:12:27.850 --> 00:12:34.350 I want to know what actually happened without any of the debate at all on any historical thing. 00:12:34.370 --> 00:12:37.650 I just want to know what's true, what's real. 00:12:37.870 --> 00:12:40.650 Know what's true, dig deep into who and what and why and when. 00:12:40.990 --> 00:12:45.270 So a thing that I've been interested in recently is thinking about... 00:12:45.290 --> 00:12:57.730 I mean, obviously, I've been interested in like medievalism for a while, but I'm seeing some folks talk about medieval era and how like we tend to think of medieval era in a really particular way that like isn't necessarily accurate. 00:12:58.070 --> 00:12:59.970 The concept of it as being the Dark Ages, right? 00:12:59.990 --> 00:13:02.490 That surfs or like peasants... 00:13:03.310 --> 00:13:09.750 Yeah, peasants in medieval England had more time off than we do, like on average, like significantly more. 00:13:09.770 --> 00:13:11.870 They had up to like a third of the year off. 00:13:11.890 --> 00:13:13.470 Is that myth or fact? 00:13:13.690 --> 00:13:21.310 That's one of the things that is debated, but in general is accepted by most that that is the case, that in fact, they did have more time off than we do today. 00:13:21.590 --> 00:13:26.890 You know, that time off was also filled with the fact that they couldn't do as much as quickly, right? 00:13:26.910 --> 00:13:31.610 Like laundry wasn't a thing you'd go down to the river and do all that and whatever. 00:13:31.830 --> 00:13:42.130 But like a lot of things that we think about as like being just true about history and our perceptions of history, like, you know, the concept of the Medieval Ages, like the Dark Ages, is kind of bullshit. 00:13:42.550 --> 00:13:50.710 But there's still, but when it gets down to the specifics, there's a lot of like fierce debate about like, is this thing true or is this thing true, right? 00:13:50.730 --> 00:13:57.750 It's like, is it the case that there was no scientific discovery in England and Europe? 00:13:58.030 --> 00:14:08.250 Because there have been some medications that have been discovered as having come from the Medieval Era that still work today, including antibiotics were recently discovered from Medieval recipes that work. 00:14:08.870 --> 00:14:09.530 Oh, wow. 00:14:09.550 --> 00:14:11.130 Yeah, it's that shit like that. 00:14:11.150 --> 00:14:15.050 But then there's other things where it's like, well, yeah, but they also thought, you know, this about this. 00:14:15.090 --> 00:14:17.350 And so I just would like to know. 00:14:17.370 --> 00:14:20.850 I would just like to know everything about history, absolutely. 00:14:20.850 --> 00:14:24.990 And without like having to debate or question or be like, well, is this thing true? 00:14:25.010 --> 00:14:25.770 Is this thing true? 00:14:26.230 --> 00:14:27.890 I would just like to know it. 00:14:27.910 --> 00:14:30.290 I would just like to know all of it for sure. 00:14:30.810 --> 00:14:32.530 I don't think that's too much to ask. 00:14:32.650 --> 00:14:32.970 No. 00:14:33.230 --> 00:14:40.050 So one of the ideas I had is, you know, this isn't this isn't as simple as a time machine or whatnot. 00:14:40.110 --> 00:14:43.710 But I think you can get closer to the truth with the scales of truth. 00:14:43.990 --> 00:14:44.370 OK. 00:14:44.570 --> 00:14:46.930 I guess we could have like a bathroom scale too. 00:14:47.850 --> 00:14:49.130 But that doesn't really work. 00:14:49.890 --> 00:14:54.910 So really what you do is you take one thing that is true and you take another thing. 00:14:55.050 --> 00:14:58.430 And then whichever one is more true will weigh down. 00:14:58.630 --> 00:15:01.190 So you can kind of see, are they equal truth? 00:15:01.290 --> 00:15:02.510 Which one's more true? 00:15:02.690 --> 00:15:04.390 And you can kind of narrow it down. 00:15:04.710 --> 00:15:06.090 So it's not an exact science. 00:15:06.130 --> 00:15:10.290 Of course, the scales of truth are an approximation tool. 00:15:10.610 --> 00:15:16.430 That is my kind of concern with them, because as we know, things either are true or are false. 00:15:16.610 --> 00:15:20.810 It's a complete binary and there's no, you know, space in the middle. 00:15:20.850 --> 00:15:22.050 There's no levels of truth. 00:15:22.450 --> 00:15:23.870 Yeah, there's no levels of truth. 00:15:23.890 --> 00:15:25.450 There only is and isn't, right? 00:15:25.470 --> 00:15:31.330 And so all interpretations that we could possibly have, you know, they're either going to be completely true or completely false. 00:15:31.390 --> 00:15:37.810 How can I trust the scale if it says that two things are kind of equal in terms of the truth and false? 00:15:38.030 --> 00:15:41.270 Are the scales of truth objective? 00:15:41.710 --> 00:15:46.750 To figure that out, you'd probably have to take the scales of truth and then put it on another scales of truth. 00:15:47.290 --> 00:15:47.630 Right. 00:15:47.650 --> 00:15:54.090 So that's again, we're getting into the difficulty of like, how do you determine that it has no biases? 00:15:54.730 --> 00:15:58.530 Like any measuring tool, you know, there is a margin of error, right? 00:15:58.630 --> 00:16:02.530 What does the sig figs of the margin of truth look like? 00:16:03.090 --> 00:16:05.050 I guess that is the question, right? 00:16:05.050 --> 00:16:07.590 How do you measure the error of truth? 00:16:07.950 --> 00:16:11.030 It's like an error of comedies, but better. 00:16:11.270 --> 00:16:13.110 Well, okay, that would be a comedy of errors. 00:16:13.290 --> 00:16:19.730 It's the error of comedies where you make a mistake in your comedy act, like calling it the error of comedies. 00:16:21.150 --> 00:16:24.250 The error of comedies is the existence of comedies. 00:16:25.250 --> 00:16:27.250 Damn, we have to shut down the podcast now. 00:16:27.850 --> 00:16:29.870 Rip, rip Salt Cravings. 00:16:30.170 --> 00:16:31.810 We just need to make a time machine. 00:16:31.830 --> 00:16:32.470 There it is. 00:16:32.790 --> 00:16:33.510 Well, hang on. 00:16:33.590 --> 00:16:35.470 How do we know if it's a real time machine? 00:16:35.490 --> 00:16:36.990 Do we have to put it on the scales of truth? 00:16:37.310 --> 00:16:37.750 I think. 00:16:38.710 --> 00:16:40.130 How big are the scales of truth? 00:16:40.290 --> 00:16:41.050 Here's a question. 00:16:41.070 --> 00:16:42.370 How big are the scales of truth? 00:16:43.650 --> 00:16:46.230 So do you know how cats can fit their container? 00:16:46.630 --> 00:16:50.590 I think the scales of truth are a container that fits the cat sort of thing. 00:16:52.510 --> 00:16:52.970 I see. 00:16:53.150 --> 00:16:55.570 How big is the objective truth? 00:16:55.950 --> 00:16:56.710 It's huge. 00:16:56.770 --> 00:16:58.450 It's as big as anything could be. 00:16:58.470 --> 00:17:00.010 You got your answer. 00:17:00.190 --> 00:17:02.730 So we can totally put the time machine on the scale of truth? 00:17:02.770 --> 00:17:04.070 It scales up and down. 00:17:04.090 --> 00:17:05.590 Ba-dum-tsss. 00:17:06.370 --> 00:17:08.830 Here's another idea. 00:17:10.510 --> 00:17:21.190 What if we just took all of the things that we found from olden times and just looked at them really hard until the ghosts started telling us things? 00:17:21.490 --> 00:17:22.710 The ghosts, you say? 00:17:22.730 --> 00:17:26.470 Yeah, you know, the ghosts that live inside every historical artifact. 00:17:28.870 --> 00:17:29.110 Uh-huh. 00:17:29.610 --> 00:17:30.310 Yeah. 00:17:30.610 --> 00:17:32.210 The objective truth ghosts. 00:17:32.730 --> 00:17:33.270 Great. 00:17:33.290 --> 00:17:34.750 That's how academics do it. 00:17:35.050 --> 00:17:37.490 How do the ghosts survive in these artifacts? 00:17:37.870 --> 00:17:42.290 Old things carry more energy, inherently, obviously. 00:17:42.650 --> 00:17:43.730 Time energy, yeah. 00:17:43.750 --> 00:17:44.510 Time energy. 00:17:45.330 --> 00:17:46.210 It sustains them. 00:17:46.730 --> 00:17:47.590 Do they eat it? 00:17:47.970 --> 00:17:49.210 And that's why they rust? 00:17:49.690 --> 00:17:50.070 Yes. 00:17:50.390 --> 00:17:59.970 That is why artifacts rust and change over time and scraps come off and all of that is because of the ghosts eating the time energy that's supposed to preserve them. 00:18:00.150 --> 00:18:01.290 There's ghosts in everything. 00:18:01.310 --> 00:18:05.070 It's just that our recent creations, the ghosts are very weak. 00:18:05.770 --> 00:18:08.130 They don't have as much of an ability to eat them. 00:18:08.490 --> 00:18:12.950 And also sometimes we like touch them and use them and the ghosts get all like about it. 00:18:12.970 --> 00:18:15.930 And so that's why you can like maintain and take care of things. 00:18:16.110 --> 00:18:23.390 But if something's unmaintained, not taken care of for a long enough period of time, the ghosts will simply start eating the time energy off of it. 00:18:23.570 --> 00:18:28.510 So we just have to find a way to contact the ghosts really clearly. 00:18:28.910 --> 00:18:31.110 You said they get startled when you touch it. 00:18:31.230 --> 00:18:31.630 Yes. 00:18:32.010 --> 00:18:33.230 Can you just shake them out? 00:18:33.650 --> 00:18:36.330 Well, you don't want them to fly away, is the thing. 00:18:36.470 --> 00:18:39.570 So you would need like a net to catch the ghosts. 00:18:40.310 --> 00:18:41.150 A ghost net? 00:18:41.170 --> 00:18:42.610 Yeah, you would need a ghost net. 00:18:42.810 --> 00:18:45.770 But it does have to be like magically and empowered. 00:18:45.790 --> 00:18:47.290 Maybe some ectoplasm or something. 00:18:47.670 --> 00:18:49.330 How do we get the ectoplasm? 00:18:49.610 --> 00:18:49.930 Right. 00:18:49.950 --> 00:18:52.730 That's, you know what, maybe that's the thing that we need to figure out. 00:18:53.050 --> 00:18:54.410 I mean, it makes perfect sense. 00:18:54.430 --> 00:19:00.710 You need the ectoplasm to make the net to catch the ghosts that come out of artifacts that eat the time energy off of the artifacts. 00:19:01.370 --> 00:19:06.510 And they can tell you objective truths about history and the world in order to know those objective truths and history about the world. 00:19:06.850 --> 00:19:09.570 It's really just like A to B, you know? 00:19:09.910 --> 00:19:11.370 So, ectoplasm. 00:19:11.410 --> 00:19:15.650 We just need to know the objective truth on how to gather ectoplasm. 00:19:16.110 --> 00:19:18.770 Hey, let's talk to the scale of truth about this. 00:19:18.790 --> 00:19:21.770 Because again, you know, we may as well not waste it, you know? 00:19:21.990 --> 00:19:27.390 Scale of truth, is ectoplasm found in the human body? 00:19:27.970 --> 00:19:29.450 Oh, I sure hope not. 00:19:30.090 --> 00:19:30.730 Oh, no. 00:19:30.910 --> 00:19:32.730 Oh, that's definitely looking... 00:19:38.990 --> 00:19:41.770 Well, hang on, you can't just ask the questions in that way. 00:19:41.790 --> 00:19:43.450 I was asking you. 00:19:44.730 --> 00:19:46.710 Well, let me ask it in the correct way. 00:19:46.970 --> 00:19:50.470 Is the ectoplasm the blood? 00:19:52.970 --> 00:19:56.310 Is the ectoplasm snot? 00:19:56.390 --> 00:19:57.330 That's also a no. 00:19:58.330 --> 00:20:00.830 Is the ectoplasm smagma? 00:20:01.890 --> 00:20:02.350 Oh, no. 00:20:03.390 --> 00:20:04.070 Oh, that's a... 00:20:05.050 --> 00:20:05.510 Oh, no. 00:20:06.850 --> 00:20:07.530 Skill truth. 00:20:07.550 --> 00:20:07.950 Oh, no. 00:20:08.210 --> 00:20:08.570 Don't... 00:20:11.850 --> 00:20:14.530 Maybe I don't need to know the objective truths about history. 00:20:16.450 --> 00:20:18.770 I think we have a clear path now. 00:20:19.150 --> 00:20:36.250 I think maybe it's okay for there to be debate and discussion about what was actually true, and also for us to be questioning our perceptions and what we've been taught and told about history at various points, and also pushing to be treated better than peasants. 00:20:37.290 --> 00:20:41.630 I came here to debate and find out the truth, and I'm all out of smagma. 00:20:45.890 --> 00:20:46.790 It sucks. 00:20:48.250 --> 00:20:49.930 It sucks so bad. 00:20:52.910 --> 00:20:54.190 Why does it suck so bad? 00:20:54.670 --> 00:20:56.670 Well, that's how you get the smagma. 00:20:56.690 --> 00:20:58.690 Okay, fine. 00:20:58.710 --> 00:20:59.590 We're moving on. 00:20:59.770 --> 00:21:02.150 I am throwing that craving out. 00:21:02.170 --> 00:21:04.650 That one's just, we are throwing that out. 00:21:04.950 --> 00:21:07.310 Clair, you want to give me a craving? 00:21:07.590 --> 00:21:16.030 One of the things that I've been thinking about recently is how to distribute funds, which is on some levels quite easy. 00:21:16.050 --> 00:21:18.390 There are a lot of people who need money right now. 00:21:18.530 --> 00:21:19.510 That's not great. 00:21:19.590 --> 00:21:21.270 It makes it easy. 00:21:21.510 --> 00:21:28.370 But also, is there a more effective way to get money into the hands of people who need it? 00:21:28.650 --> 00:21:30.050 And what does that mean? 00:21:30.270 --> 00:21:32.370 What does effective mean in that context? 00:21:32.610 --> 00:21:37.510 My craving has been those of us who can give money is kind of just pool our money. 00:21:37.530 --> 00:21:50.070 And those of us who need money, just kind of take from the pool anonymously without recreating the gatekeeping that the government does and without having bad actors. 00:21:50.090 --> 00:21:57.090 And bad actors, I'm using the cyber security term of someone who acts with ill intent. 00:21:57.490 --> 00:22:03.110 We need to have some sort of digital mutual aid. 00:22:03.310 --> 00:22:04.370 Maybe digital. 00:22:04.390 --> 00:22:07.230 We could just do like a dragon pile loot. 00:22:07.350 --> 00:22:14.370 We just get a dragon and put, you know, everyone just puts their money in the pile and we get the dragon to just guard the pile. 00:22:15.310 --> 00:22:17.430 This is also a thing that I want. 00:22:17.450 --> 00:22:21.070 Not necessarily a dragon, but I would also love to know how to best redistribute funds. 00:22:21.570 --> 00:22:23.730 It is a thing that is on my mind often as well. 00:22:24.490 --> 00:22:25.830 I'll take the dragon. 00:22:26.010 --> 00:22:26.910 I will have the dragon. 00:22:26.930 --> 00:22:28.170 Well, here's my idea. 00:22:28.510 --> 00:22:35.990 You know how the whole like shorthand in old movies for rich people, like the Scrooge McDuck, swimming in a bunch of money? 00:22:36.570 --> 00:22:39.910 What if we had like a pool full of money like that? 00:22:40.330 --> 00:22:47.930 But instead of people swimming in it, well, maybe they can swim in it, but people mostly are just kind of taking from it and putting into it and stuff. 00:22:48.510 --> 00:22:53.510 Now, here's the sort of concern with that is like, how do you stop bad actors? 00:22:54.830 --> 00:22:56.610 This is where the dragon comes in. 00:22:56.830 --> 00:22:57.150 Right. 00:22:57.710 --> 00:22:59.830 Tell me about how the dragon helps with this. 00:23:00.090 --> 00:23:11.790 See, you get the dragon when it's young, and you introduce it to like everyone who can take from the pile, the dragon pile, and when it grows up, it chars everybody else. 00:23:12.310 --> 00:23:14.710 So, okay, so I have some concerns. 00:23:15.210 --> 00:23:16.470 Is it about the charring? 00:23:16.870 --> 00:23:17.410 I mean, yes. 00:23:18.990 --> 00:23:19.930 That's one of them. 00:23:20.150 --> 00:23:32.130 One of them is, I don't know that we should kill people who we have not previously told the dragon to look out for. 00:23:32.450 --> 00:23:36.910 That's kind of my first concern, because there's lots of people who need money who we don't know. 00:23:37.310 --> 00:23:40.410 So my second concern is circumstances change. 00:23:40.650 --> 00:23:43.390 There may be people who, when the dragon is young, don't need the money. 00:23:43.530 --> 00:23:44.790 But when they're older, they need the money. 00:23:45.090 --> 00:23:46.890 So the dragon can't char everyone. 00:23:47.210 --> 00:23:54.110 Those are a couple of my concerns with the dragon guarding a hoard of money method. 00:23:54.630 --> 00:23:57.130 The other problem, though, is that it's really sick. 00:23:57.190 --> 00:23:58.290 It's really sick and cool. 00:23:58.530 --> 00:24:04.310 I have the solution, is we simply get another dragon every time we need to change the configuration. 00:24:05.070 --> 00:24:05.650 I see. 00:24:05.670 --> 00:24:13.610 Because then that dragon will just fight the other dragon long enough for them to go in, get the money, and get out. 00:24:14.670 --> 00:24:18.110 Otherwise, we just have two dragons teaming up, and that's even better. 00:24:18.130 --> 00:24:24.190 How many dragons are we going to get, and how do we get these dragons, and are we paying money for these dragons? 00:24:24.450 --> 00:24:29.010 We only need as many dragons every time we need to change the configuration. 00:24:29.030 --> 00:24:30.370 Don't worry about it. 00:24:30.590 --> 00:24:31.770 Don't worry about it. 00:24:32.390 --> 00:24:34.290 Sounds like a lot of, don't worry about it. 00:24:34.310 --> 00:24:45.150 Also sounds like a lot of bureaucracy it might take, because changing configuration, you know, people might need money like now, and we'd have to go in and change the configuration and raise a new dragon and all of that. 00:24:45.150 --> 00:24:53.150 And, you know, we don't want to necessarily be changing the dragons all the time, because people might need money now. 00:24:53.170 --> 00:24:57.130 So like, that's sort of my concerns with that. 00:24:57.450 --> 00:24:59.970 But the problem is that the dragons are cool. 00:24:59.990 --> 00:25:09.730 You know, like, sure, you know, there's ways to do community funds on GoFundMe, and there's ways to do other sorts of just like keeping an eye out and looking into stuff and all of that. 00:25:10.070 --> 00:25:17.790 So what we need is an ant eater, except instead of eating ants, it eats the smell of needing money. 00:25:17.830 --> 00:25:29.190 And so it tracks that down, and we just tie a little money to the ant eater, and they just take, they take it off the ant eater, and it goes away because they don't need money anymore. 00:25:29.810 --> 00:25:36.330 One of my concerns is like, can this ant eater actually eat the smell of needing money? 00:25:38.430 --> 00:25:42.790 Would it eat people who need money? 00:25:44.430 --> 00:25:45.270 No, what? 00:25:45.550 --> 00:25:46.890 Well, maybe. 00:25:47.490 --> 00:25:52.650 Right, that's sort of, I think getting animals involved in mutual aid in this way. 00:25:52.670 --> 00:25:54.750 They just kind of lick with the little tongue. 00:25:57.850 --> 00:26:00.610 I don't know that we need to subject people to that, you know? 00:26:00.630 --> 00:26:04.950 I think we're giving them life experiences and money. 00:26:05.570 --> 00:26:19.270 I'm glad that we are setting up all of these different ways to really just, we as people giving money to this fund are in fact, are making sure to push certain experiences on people in need. 00:26:20.050 --> 00:26:21.710 That is, this is a good way to do it. 00:26:21.890 --> 00:26:26.430 So again, you want it to not be a government is sort of what you originally said. 00:26:26.450 --> 00:26:31.110 And this just seems like government with mythical animals and extra steps. 00:26:31.130 --> 00:26:33.790 My specific thing was no gatekeeping like the government. 00:26:33.810 --> 00:26:35.530