WEBVTT 00:00:25.666 --> 00:00:33.746 I can't decide whether I should do a bad binary joke, or if that's bad, and I just shouldn't. 00:00:34.046 --> 00:00:35.086 I think you're fine. 00:00:35.106 --> 00:00:36.326 We can do two takes, we can do two takes. 00:00:36.346 --> 00:00:37.166 Okay, we're doing two takes. 00:00:37.586 --> 00:00:39.646 I think this has become the intro. 00:00:40.046 --> 00:00:41.446 It is what they were doing in the two takes. 00:00:41.466 --> 00:00:42.266 No, no, no, no, no. 00:00:42.786 --> 00:00:44.866 Fuck, this wasn't my intro, shit. 00:00:44.886 --> 00:00:46.706 Do your fucking intro, we're doing two takes. 00:00:46.726 --> 00:00:48.946 No, no, no, this is the intro now, this is the fucking intro. 00:00:48.966 --> 00:00:51.086 Okay, well, this is, okay, this is the second take. 00:00:51.106 --> 00:00:51.686 All right, fuck. 00:00:53.586 --> 00:00:56.186 Good evening, nope, that's just fucking vampire. 00:00:56.186 --> 00:01:01.966 Why am I incapable of just saying good evening like a normal fucking human being? 00:01:01.986 --> 00:01:03.426 Good evening, everyone. 00:01:05.146 --> 00:01:05.426 Yes. 00:01:07.126 --> 00:01:11.406 That's not, wait, is that what you qualify as a normal human voice? 00:01:11.426 --> 00:01:19.886 Yeah, I mean, I also live in Republic City in Legend of Korra, so. 00:01:19.906 --> 00:01:25.186 Trans-bending, gender-bending, gender-bending. 00:01:25.206 --> 00:01:26.406 My favorite sport. 00:01:26.426 --> 00:01:28.586 Okay, now you have to do your intro. 00:01:28.606 --> 00:01:30.246 No, I think that was the intro. 00:01:30.266 --> 00:01:32.786 No, no, I think you have to do what you're gonna do. 00:01:32.806 --> 00:01:37.286 You have to give the people, people are gonna be coming for us. 00:01:37.306 --> 00:01:41.126 They're gonna be knocking down our doors desperate to know what your planned intro was. 00:01:41.746 --> 00:01:44.306 I mean, people, I mean me, I'm gonna come to your house. 00:01:46.326 --> 00:01:49.286 If you come to my house, I have to kick you out because there's a pandemic going on. 00:01:49.306 --> 00:01:52.446 I will just stand outside of your door and keep knocking. 00:01:54.986 --> 00:02:02.246 It's like the thing in that horror movie that just always walks at you, except it's just you at my door just knock, knock, knock. 00:02:02.306 --> 00:02:03.446 Yeah, I'm following. 00:02:03.466 --> 00:02:03.706 Knock. 00:02:04.386 --> 00:02:05.246 You're following. 00:02:05.486 --> 00:02:08.846 It's social media, it follows, but it's just anyways. 00:02:08.886 --> 00:02:10.046 Okay, should I do the intro? 00:02:10.106 --> 00:02:11.466 Is this the intro or should I do the intro? 00:02:11.486 --> 00:02:13.206 This is the intro and then you're gonna do the intro. 00:02:14.166 --> 00:02:17.406 Wait, sorry, is this the intro or am I doing the intro? 00:02:17.786 --> 00:02:18.426 Who's on third? 00:02:18.446 --> 00:02:20.226 Doing the intro is part of the intro. 00:02:21.826 --> 00:02:22.266 Yes? 00:02:23.186 --> 00:02:24.346 Fuck, I think we're in it. 00:02:24.366 --> 00:02:26.246 This is Salt Cravings, my name's Clair. 00:02:30.106 --> 00:02:40.146 I'm Brianna and I'm offended, flabbergasted, amazed at Claire's inability to do a joke. 00:02:42.646 --> 00:02:44.166 Really setting the stage here. 00:02:44.226 --> 00:02:46.306 This is gonna be the whole episode. 00:02:46.326 --> 00:02:49.686 No jokes here, just failed jokes and retakes. 00:02:49.886 --> 00:02:51.426 Brianna, how have you been? 00:02:51.446 --> 00:02:54.446 I've been living and surviving. 00:02:55.646 --> 00:02:56.646 Woo, living. 00:02:57.246 --> 00:02:58.486 Love that, that's my favorite activity. 00:02:59.586 --> 00:03:04.946 You know how, hey, yeah, you know, can't complain, forget about it. 00:03:06.126 --> 00:03:07.966 You know, I'm changing my mind about that intro. 00:03:07.986 --> 00:03:08.666 I think maybe. 00:03:09.666 --> 00:03:10.886 Give me the intro. 00:03:11.806 --> 00:03:12.126 No. 00:03:12.386 --> 00:03:13.166 How are you doing? 00:03:13.326 --> 00:03:16.446 Absolutely not, I'm okay. 00:03:17.086 --> 00:03:20.646 We are in it, my very good friends. 00:03:21.046 --> 00:03:23.546 That's my gender neutral thing is good friends. 00:03:24.326 --> 00:03:24.946 Good friends. 00:03:24.966 --> 00:03:29.266 We're all our friends, don't look up what a parasocial relationship is. 00:03:30.606 --> 00:03:31.926 Wasn't that last episode? 00:03:31.946 --> 00:03:38.346 Are we just, if you queued last episode and you go straight into this episode, it's just like, goodbye, friends. 00:03:38.366 --> 00:03:39.526 And then it's like, hello, my friends. 00:03:39.546 --> 00:03:42.006 I believe that was the episode before last, don't worry. 00:03:42.906 --> 00:03:46.846 Well, just nobody listens to that specific episode. 00:03:47.086 --> 00:03:48.506 It doesn't exist anymore. 00:03:49.006 --> 00:03:51.266 It's all about parasocial relationships. 00:03:51.586 --> 00:03:57.566 That's what we do on this here podcast because you can't have relationships in real life anymore. 00:03:57.586 --> 00:03:59.646 It's all digital relationships. 00:03:59.666 --> 00:04:04.366 You know, if you think about it, really all relationships right now are pod social relationships. 00:04:11.512 --> 00:04:16.132 I hope you could hear the three times I processed that. 00:04:16.212 --> 00:04:18.092 And finally arrived at the joke. 00:04:18.192 --> 00:04:21.632 This is a podcast where we talk about and solve our cravings. 00:04:21.872 --> 00:04:24.972 We're really on it tonight, so maybe we should just get into it. 00:04:24.992 --> 00:04:28.432 Brianna, do you want to give us this evening's first craving? 00:04:28.552 --> 00:04:29.632 I would love to. 00:04:29.932 --> 00:04:38.192 Let me tell you, we are beepin and we are boopin, and we are makin music, and we are using no real instruments. 00:04:40.452 --> 00:04:50.072 Because I have really been getting into music that is like hyperpop, or it's just like all synths all the time, no real instruments. 00:04:50.432 --> 00:04:58.092 This is my new favorite genre, it's like weird, cool music with lots of distortion and synthetic effects. 00:04:58.352 --> 00:05:16.212 And, you know, this is the, of course, the classically trans girl genre of music, where the space in which like Sophie, Rest In Peace, pioneered a lot, but that goes back to like Wendy Carlos in terms of associations with trans women. 00:05:16.572 --> 00:05:22.832 And now is like, I think a space that's like, you know, obviously the most popular one in this space at this point is 100 Gecs. 00:05:23.072 --> 00:05:24.272 They are one of the most popular. 00:05:24.412 --> 00:05:25.132 I'm sorry, what? 00:05:25.152 --> 00:05:25.772 100 Gecs. 00:05:27.132 --> 00:05:28.732 Okay, so I've seen that on Twitter. 00:05:28.752 --> 00:05:32.552 I thought that was like 20 to 30 hogs sort of joke. 00:05:32.572 --> 00:05:34.712 No, 100 Gecs is a band. 00:05:35.192 --> 00:05:35.712 And you know what? 00:05:36.052 --> 00:05:38.572 Let me play you a song right now. 00:05:39.072 --> 00:05:39.472 Let's go. 00:06:19.491 --> 00:06:27.071 That is the remix of the 100 gecs song Ringtone, which features Charli XCX, Rico Nasty, and Kero Kero Bonito. 00:06:27.351 --> 00:06:29.711 Those are some big names. 00:06:29.731 --> 00:06:30.071 Yeah. 00:06:30.091 --> 00:06:32.251 These are all folks who like to play around with this space. 00:06:32.271 --> 00:06:34.651 And in general, this is a really fun space. 00:06:35.011 --> 00:06:43.171 A lot of what I guess can at this point only be described as bimbo core shit is in this area. 00:06:43.351 --> 00:06:48.131 And there's some very good like playlists with a lot of this stuff that are based in that. 00:06:48.511 --> 00:06:50.791 Anyway, I just really like this type of music. 00:06:50.811 --> 00:06:58.251 I just really like when it's really kind of overwhelming, but fun, you know, when it's like poppy, but it's like going a little too far. 00:06:58.271 --> 00:07:00.071 I mean, it's a little bit too much, you know? 00:07:00.091 --> 00:07:03.631 And just in general, I think we need more synths in the world. 00:07:03.631 --> 00:07:06.651 This is a craving I've had since before Sophie passed. 00:07:07.071 --> 00:07:18.311 But speaking specifically on Sophie, one of the things that I believe is true about her is that she would, every time that she made a new song, she would use something else as like an instrument. 00:07:18.331 --> 00:07:22.551 Like she would create a new type of sound, you know? 00:07:22.851 --> 00:07:32.931 She would create sounds with like rushing water or hitting a drumstick on a like computer tower or like weird stim toys. 00:07:33.071 --> 00:07:35.471 So like, what are some things? 00:07:35.531 --> 00:07:37.091 How are we gonna make some new synths? 00:07:37.531 --> 00:07:38.871 Also like, what do you think about? 00:07:39.131 --> 00:07:40.871 Is this anything for you? 00:07:40.931 --> 00:07:42.531 Or is this just like, eh? 00:07:42.911 --> 00:07:45.731 No, I fucking vibe with this music. 00:07:45.751 --> 00:07:46.491 There was a while. 00:07:47.611 --> 00:07:52.571 Where I was just listening to Charli XCX for like a full month. 00:07:52.751 --> 00:07:54.651 I don't know how other people listen to music. 00:07:54.731 --> 00:08:08.511 I have learned that my music listening styles are incredibly weird, where I will pick an artist, listen to their entire discography and then only listen to their entire discography and nothing else. 00:08:08.551 --> 00:08:12.171 So Charli XCX was like two to three weeks maybe of my life. 00:08:12.431 --> 00:08:15.451 And obviously Sophie was another month or two. 00:08:15.471 --> 00:08:20.771 I actually only learned about her music like from her passing, clearly. 00:08:20.791 --> 00:08:22.311 I didn't know about this 100 Gecs. 00:08:22.471 --> 00:08:26.451 I don't actually know of the other name you mentioned, Wendy, what was the last name? 00:08:26.471 --> 00:08:27.011 Wendy Carlos. 00:08:27.031 --> 00:08:30.231 Carlos, gonna look her up afterwards. 00:08:30.671 --> 00:08:31.951 And that's gonna be my next month. 00:08:31.971 --> 00:08:33.811 Wendy Carlos is definitely different. 00:08:33.831 --> 00:08:42.611 She's like, she's still around but doesn't do much in public anymore, but she's like, she made a lot of soundtracks in the like, I think 70s. 00:08:43.351 --> 00:08:49.011 And she also was sort of the person to bring synths into the mainstream with her. 00:08:49.031 --> 00:08:56.791 Like she made a, I think of when a Grammy, an album of Bach music that was all made by synthetics. 00:08:56.911 --> 00:08:58.251 Ah, that sounds great. 00:08:58.531 --> 00:09:00.231 Music in like the 70s. 00:09:01.371 --> 00:09:03.191 And people lost their fucking minds. 00:09:03.211 --> 00:09:04.411 Yeah, of course they did. 00:09:04.911 --> 00:09:05.931 People lost it. 00:09:05.951 --> 00:09:07.751 They said this was the end of music. 00:09:08.051 --> 00:09:11.031 They said it was the best achievement of humanity. 00:09:11.051 --> 00:09:13.291 Like people lost their fucking minds. 00:09:13.631 --> 00:09:17.551 And she made like soundtracks for like A Clockwork Orange and other films. 00:09:17.951 --> 00:09:19.371 And then like, yeah. 00:09:19.391 --> 00:09:24.891 And then eventually Somewhere Along the Way came out as trance and like still made synth music. 00:09:24.911 --> 00:09:28.291 But she hasn't made music for a while at this point. 00:09:28.331 --> 00:09:34.771 But the synth started with us, and now a lot of trans gals like to use it. 00:09:34.911 --> 00:09:44.251 Charli XCX is a fun example of like a cis girl who just seems to almost exclusively or at least very often collaborate with trans women. 00:09:44.271 --> 00:09:50.011 And like is one of those cis girls, you know, the specific type of cis girls that just happen to be friends with a lot of trans. 00:09:58.851 --> 00:10:08.491 But to answer your original question, yeah, I vibe with this music and I absolutely like, I would love like, what are we doing to make new sounds? 00:10:08.831 --> 00:10:16.571 And my first thought was we're just gonna make a, we're just gonna take a microphone and we're just gonna find ways we can drop it. 00:10:16.671 --> 00:10:19.811 And I just think like, what if we dropped it on a trampoline, right? 00:10:19.851 --> 00:10:22.591 You're just bouncing on a trampoline with a microphone. 00:10:22.611 --> 00:10:37.051 I think that would be, you know, if we were in a pandemic and I had unlimited money, I would just buy a trampoline right now, assemble it outside of my apartment, go jump on it, record that audio and then put it into this podcast, but I'm not gonna do that. 00:10:37.071 --> 00:10:37.611 What's up? 00:10:37.631 --> 00:10:41.911 I can think of like five different ways to make new sounds with a trampoline. 00:10:43.291 --> 00:10:45.311 Yes, name the trampoline noises. 00:10:45.871 --> 00:10:48.911 Mic drop, which is where you drop the mic on the trampoline. 00:10:48.951 --> 00:10:52.871 Another is where you just hold the mic as you bounce and it bounces up and down. 00:10:53.331 --> 00:10:58.491 You can use the springs of the trampoline for sure to make some specific noises. 00:10:58.511 --> 00:10:59.891 Oh yeah, oh, that's good. 00:10:59.911 --> 00:11:01.811 You know, play something on them. 00:11:01.951 --> 00:11:06.291 If you have a net, you can make some net noises. 00:11:06.671 --> 00:11:16.251 If you don't have a net, then you can make the noise of someone falling off the trampoline, like an old childhood friend of mine did and where he broke his arm. 00:11:16.611 --> 00:11:18.931 Wait, no, sorry, that wasn't an old childhood friend. 00:11:19.031 --> 00:11:19.831 That happened to me. 00:11:20.051 --> 00:11:22.071 I didn't break my arm, but I did mostly sprain it. 00:11:22.271 --> 00:11:30.491 I forget what has happened to me and what happened to my childhood friends who are boys because I don't consider old me to be me anymore. 00:11:30.511 --> 00:11:31.651 Jesus, holy shit. 00:11:31.731 --> 00:11:32.231 I love it. 00:11:32.251 --> 00:11:34.591 So that happened to me, not a friend of mine. 00:11:35.411 --> 00:11:41.691 But I would be happy to sample that sound if we could go back and grab that or make that happen to someone else. 00:11:41.851 --> 00:11:46.871 Love to be disassociated from my body so much that memories of other people are actually memories of myself. 00:11:47.031 --> 00:11:58.111 So obviously the title of this is Bounce and or the title of the songs are like Mic Drop and like Springs because we are music producers and we know how to name things. 00:11:58.451 --> 00:12:04.571 The concept of an entire concept album made on trampoline kicks so much ass. 00:12:04.591 --> 00:12:05.351 That rules. 00:12:05.391 --> 00:12:06.331 Oh, absolutely. 00:12:06.351 --> 00:12:10.931 Because you could bounce other things on the trampoline while you're bouncing. 00:12:10.951 --> 00:12:12.211 This absolutely rules. 00:12:12.231 --> 00:12:14.371 Please someone steal this idea and do it. 00:12:14.671 --> 00:12:19.351 I know we got people listening who make music or who know people what makes music. 00:12:19.411 --> 00:12:21.171 Make a trampoline concept album. 00:12:21.191 --> 00:12:22.831 All you need is a trampoline. 00:12:22.851 --> 00:12:24.151 I don't know where you're gonna find a trampoline. 00:12:24.171 --> 00:12:25.431 Yeah, I was gonna say. 00:12:25.991 --> 00:12:28.951 Everyone get your record label to give it to you. 00:12:29.751 --> 00:12:32.611 Me writing off a trampoline as a business expense. 00:12:32.671 --> 00:12:34.151 Yeah, I needed this. 00:12:36.291 --> 00:12:43.811 I bet you could just go into a forest and just like record like a billion sounds. 00:12:44.191 --> 00:12:44.871 Oh, probably. 00:12:44.891 --> 00:12:46.151 I'm sure people do that. 00:12:46.171 --> 00:12:51.931 It'd be like cottagecore, but we're gonna steal that word and we're gonna have a have a new and wholesome meeting. 00:12:52.391 --> 00:12:52.711 Here. 00:12:52.731 --> 00:12:53.131 Hang on. 00:12:53.191 --> 00:12:56.871 I know I so since it's like synthetic, but it's also cottagecore. 00:12:56.891 --> 00:13:02.191 I think it's just it's so it's it's cottagecore, but written with like leet. 00:13:04.011 --> 00:13:05.891 So it's C0TT4G3C0R3. 00:13:11.471 --> 00:13:16.891 I'm just going to make that cottagecore I think that's the title just so people can fucking read it. 00:13:17.151 --> 00:13:22.091 And cottagecore also like encompasses camping too, I think, right? 00:13:22.111 --> 00:13:29.071 Like you go camping, you bring your trampling camping, you got to get that good mix of springs and birds. 00:13:29.511 --> 00:13:29.911 Okay. 00:13:29.931 --> 00:13:38.571 But like camping, I mean, like a campfire, a tent, a tarp, oh, tarp noises, can't even talk about tarp noises. 00:13:38.591 --> 00:13:47.491 Okay, you said tent and my immediate thought was, ah, the noises of people saying fuck as they try to set up a tent, because that's what I do when I try to set up a tent. 00:13:47.931 --> 00:13:56.211 A really distorted, like really distorted noise of someone failing to hammer in a spike of a tent and then fuck. 00:13:57.851 --> 00:13:59.931 I think this would be great music. 00:13:59.971 --> 00:14:02.871 It's a real shame that neither of us are music producers. 00:14:02.931 --> 00:14:09.111 And so really, the content of this is listening to us talk about great noises and making none of them. 00:14:09.351 --> 00:14:10.451 But what if we did? 00:14:10.471 --> 00:14:11.391 Wouldn't that be cool? 00:14:11.391 --> 00:14:12.111 Oh my god. 00:14:12.131 --> 00:14:12.851 Sponsor. 00:14:12.871 --> 00:14:18.531 Yeah, go to the Patreon, give us $1,000 a month, we'll make a we'll make a fucking album, I guess. 00:14:19.051 --> 00:14:21.891 Look, I'll make an album for $1,000 a month. 00:14:22.051 --> 00:14:22.851 Oh my god. 00:14:23.491 --> 00:14:24.191 Absolutely. 00:14:24.271 --> 00:14:26.451 I don't promise it'll be good, but fuck. 00:14:26.831 --> 00:14:32.871 I'll use that money for a fucking trampoline and then I'll go camping and I'll record everything and there you go. 00:14:34.031 --> 00:14:34.891 More sound effects. 00:14:34.911 --> 00:14:41.731 More just like taking foldy work from movies and make it into just take those sound files and use them for music instead. 00:14:41.791 --> 00:14:49.791 We need to use the Wilhelm scream, but in as a synth, all the ways you can distort that one scream, you know the scream that I'm talking about, right? 00:14:49.931 --> 00:14:51.871 I know the scream, the like, ahhh. 00:14:52.571 --> 00:14:53.351 Yeah, nail that. 00:14:53.371 --> 00:14:53.731 Perfect. 00:14:53.911 --> 00:15:00.051 God, a Wilhelm scream as like, that's definitely the intro to some hyperpop song. 00:15:00.071 --> 00:15:01.151 Probably not a very good one. 00:15:01.351 --> 00:15:04.491 I'm gonna keep it real with you, but I bet it is somewhere. 00:15:04.871 --> 00:15:08.151 Nerd, who thinks it's cool, the Wilhelm scream is still like, funny. 00:15:08.391 --> 00:15:14.611 Unlike our cool cottagecore trampoline album, which is super cool and amazing. 00:15:14.631 --> 00:15:16.471 Yeah, I think it kicks ass. 00:15:16.571 --> 00:15:22.271 I think, no, I think it kicks ass because none of those have been overused like fucking Wilhelm scream. 00:15:23.131 --> 00:15:25.431 And also because we're heavily distorting cottagecore. 00:15:26.571 --> 00:15:34.671 I feel like cottagecore has a sound already and it's like low-fi indie with some birds over top of it. 00:15:35.011 --> 00:15:41.871 Or the like one that has in general been adopted I think by a lot of cottagecore people is like Mitsuki. 00:15:41.991 --> 00:15:43.531 Cottagecore people love Mitsuki. 00:15:43.551 --> 00:15:47.931 It's the meme and it just says, cottagecore people love Mitsuki. 00:15:48.571 --> 00:15:55.671 One of my friends who I've been hanging out a lot with and playing Elder Scrolls has been making the joke and it's just in my brain now. 00:15:55.691 --> 00:16:02.611 White people love to be named blank and just white people love to be named cottagecore Mitsuki is just repeating in my brain now. 00:16:06.971 --> 00:16:08.311 I just... 00:16:09.551 --> 00:16:11.771 My child is named cottagecore Mitsuki. 00:16:12.431 --> 00:16:13.611 Oh, we can't get into this. 00:16:15.831 --> 00:16:23.771 Maybe don't take a woman of color's music for your weird colonialist fantasy, is my take. 00:16:24.511 --> 00:16:25.871 Is that what Mitsuki is doing? 00:16:25.891 --> 00:16:28.971 No, that's what people love to just like... 00:16:28.991 --> 00:16:29.511 Right, sorry. 00:16:29.551 --> 00:16:34.971 I completely blanked on what cottagecore was for a second because our cottagecore is better. 00:16:35.211 --> 00:16:36.271 Our cottagecore is like... 00:16:36.291 --> 00:16:38.691 And I was thinking about my child named cottagecore Mitsuki. 00:16:38.711 --> 00:16:40.951 You know, switched on cottagecore. 00:16:42.151 --> 00:16:43.691 Switched on cottagecore? 00:16:43.951 --> 00:16:45.951 Switched on Bok was the Bok one. 00:16:45.971 --> 00:16:46.871 Oh, is that what it's called? 00:16:46.891 --> 00:16:48.951 Carlos, somebody switched on cottagecore now. 00:16:48.971 --> 00:16:50.071 Switched on cottagecore. 00:16:50.551 --> 00:17:00.111 So now that I'm going to be listening to Switched-On Cottagecore by the Cravings of Salt Band, which is the name of our band. 00:17:00.571 --> 00:17:03.151 We could just call it the Salt Cravings Band, but... 00:17:03.191 --> 00:17:05.191 Oh, it's like the Dave Matthews Band, but... 00:17:07.771 --> 00:17:11.111 But if Dave Matthews was named Salt Cravings, yes. 00:17:11.131 --> 00:17:13.231 White people love to be called Salt Cravings. 00:17:16.771 --> 00:17:18.011 That's true, we do. 00:17:18.031 --> 00:17:18.851 That's what, yes. 00:17:19.211 --> 00:17:19.831 It's us. 00:17:20.911 --> 00:17:21.511 Should we move on? 00:17:24.191 --> 00:17:28.391 Do you want to hit me with your next craving, though not too hard? 00:17:28.931 --> 00:17:34.251 Gently whacking Brianna with my next craving, like one of those floppy pool toys. 00:17:34.271 --> 00:17:37.471 I think I'm way cooler than a floppy pool toy. 00:17:37.531 --> 00:17:38.811 No, I'm whacking you with one. 00:17:38.911 --> 00:17:40.971 I'm the floppy pool toy. 00:17:40.991 --> 00:17:42.431 Jesus, I can almost not say that. 00:17:42.451 --> 00:17:50.931 But if you're the floppy pool toy and I'm the floppy pool toy, then who's driving the podcast? 00:17:51.991 --> 00:17:57.691 So my next craving, which would affect... 00:17:57.711 --> 00:18:03.971 I'm going to send you this website, because Brianna, I just need to download more RAM. 00:18:03.991 --> 00:18:08.451 I really need more RAM in my computer. 00:18:08.471 --> 00:18:10.771 And generally, I need a new computer. 00:18:11.031 --> 00:18:12.931 But really, what my computer needs is RAM. 00:18:13.151 --> 00:18:18.871 If I use Discord to call you and use Chrome at the same time, it fucks up my audio. 00:18:18.991 --> 00:18:23.451 If I play a video like you sent me earlier, it just destroys my framerate. 00:18:24.031 --> 00:18:25.571 I need to download more RAM. 00:18:25.971 --> 00:18:27.251 I need to find RAM. 00:18:27.251 --> 00:18:28.671 I need to go pillaging for RAM. 00:18:28.691 --> 00:18:31.971 I was going to say harvesting and I said pillaging. 00:18:32.111 --> 00:18:39.171 So I guess electronics are not done ethically, but so I'm going to go. 00:18:40.071 --> 00:18:42.191 We're going to do ethically sourced RAM. 00:18:42.211 --> 00:18:43.851 How do I ethically source my RAM? 00:18:44.331 --> 00:18:44.911 Oh, I see. 00:18:44.931 --> 00:18:46.511 You want to just ethically source your RAM. 00:18:46.531 --> 00:18:50.271 Yeah, I want organic farm raised RAM. 00:18:50.551 --> 00:18:52.651 You don't want to have Bitcoin RAM. 00:18:52.731 --> 00:18:56.391 You don't want a RAM NFT or whatever. 00:18:56.411 --> 00:19:00.551 I'm going to take a digital image. 00:19:00.571 --> 00:19:01.111 Is that what it is? 00:19:01.611 --> 00:19:01.931 NFT. 00:19:01.951 --> 00:19:03.311 Yeah, it's an NFT. 00:19:03.331 --> 00:19:08.151 I'm going to sell you this picture of Spongebob eating RAM for $1,000. 00:19:10.271 --> 00:19:24.331 Obviously, the easiest way, and this is kind of, you know, I think this episode, really what we're discovering is that you can blend the farming cottagecore lifestyle with the high tech lifestyle. 00:19:24.911 --> 00:19:28.471 And I know that you can do this because of course, RAM chickens. 00:19:30.271 --> 00:19:31.011 Sorry, what? 00:19:31.291 --> 00:19:33.851 So a RAM chicken, we all love chickens. 00:19:34.191 --> 00:19:37.211 And we're all like, we're all sad when a chicken dies. 00:19:37.231 --> 00:19:48.071 What if you didn't have to use what if you couldn't even eat the chicken and so there was no chance it would die and instead, you are only taking its eggs, which are RAM, the eggs are RAM. 00:19:48.431 --> 00:19:52.811 So RAM chickens are sort of cyborg chickens. 00:19:52.811 --> 00:19:54.631 That sounds painful. 00:19:57.051 --> 00:20:01.471 Holy, I feel like producing an egg is already painful enough. 00:20:01.691 --> 00:20:07.891 Just the face a chicken would make as it like shits out a stick of RAM is like- 00:20:07.951 --> 00:20:09.951 No, it's not shitting out a stick of RAM. 00:20:10.031 --> 00:20:13.271 It's shitting out an egg which has a stick of RAM in it. 00:20:13.531 --> 00:20:15.391 Is it like a really oblong egg? 00:20:15.411 --> 00:20:17.891 You gotta let me tell you more about it. 00:20:17.911 --> 00:20:19.471 Sorry, please tell me about the RAM chicken. 00:20:19.491 --> 00:20:20.671 No, don't worry. 00:20:20.731 --> 00:20:21.251 Don't worry. 00:20:21.751 --> 00:20:28.191 The egg at first only contains one RAM, one singular RAM. 00:20:28.771 --> 00:20:32.591 So it's not especially oblong. 00:20:32.611 --> 00:20:33.871 We put it in all the classrooms. 00:20:33.891 --> 00:20:42.951 Everyone loves incubating the RAM eggs and then eventually, gradually the RAM will. 00:20:48.731 --> 00:20:51.651 Grow into a full big stick of RAM. 00:20:52.271 --> 00:20:54.791 Now, there was one part that worried me. 00:20:54.911 --> 00:21:04.851 It was the incubation phase because as far as we understand, egg farming is the most ethically sourced you can get food in this country. 00:21:05.491 --> 00:21:14.591 Listen, my family, growing up, one of my mom's co-workers used to raise chickens and she'd give us their eggs and- 00:21:14.731 --> 00:21:19.851 You always have the fastest computers from your mother's friends' chickens. 00:21:20.211 --> 00:21:21.431 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:21:21.751 --> 00:21:24.931 That's why we just need to raise the chickens ourselves. 00:21:24.951 --> 00:21:33.591 Because there are ethical ways to farm eggs or at least more ethical ways that involve caring for the chickens. 00:21:33.631 --> 00:21:35.871 And again, you're not killing the chickens, right? 00:21:36.171 --> 00:21:40.691 You know, let's be clear here, the ram can grow if we want to. 00:21:40.791 --> 00:21:44.531 You can hatch some eggs and get new ram chickens. 00:21:45.091 --> 00:21:49.811 Now, Brianna, can I play Cyberpunk 2077 on a ram chicken? 00:21:53.851 --> 00:21:56.931 You might need a couple ram chicken eggs for that, you know? 00:21:56.951 --> 00:22:00.031 Yeah, and you can't, I mean, you can't play anything on them. 00:22:00.051 --> 00:22:01.431 Well, you could probably play Doom on them. 00:22:05.031 --> 00:22:11.311 The only, the only real way, you're not a real Doom player if you're not playing Doom on a ram chicken. 00:22:11.331 --> 00:22:13.991 Yeah, that is the best way to play Doom. 00:22:14.011 --> 00:22:15.571 That's how the developers intended it. 00:22:15.791 --> 00:22:19.771 They raised chickens and that's how they were able to do the incredible things they did at the time. 00:22:19.791 --> 00:22:28.231 It's a little known fact that Doom was actually programmed on a farm and they actually did all their testing on ram chickens and that's why it runs so smoothly. 00:22:28.251 --> 00:22:35.251 Yeah, all of the developers on Doom lived and worked on a farm. 00:22:35.311 --> 00:22:44.691 I have been, I'm sorry, I've been trying to figure out how to say chicken with a T at the start so that I can say non-free-range chicken and have it be NFT. 00:22:44.711 --> 00:22:47.971 I just, the T is silent. 00:22:50.551 --> 00:22:54.371 Non-free-range chicken. 00:22:54.391 --> 00:22:57.691 Chicken, it's like the way a child would say it. 00:22:58.331 --> 00:23:00.491 Non-free-range chicken. 00:23:00.511 --> 00:23:03.351 And that's what an NFT is. 00:23:03.931 --> 00:23:15.411 I'm really excited to get my chicken loaded, I mean my chicken ram loaded up and talk to you in a normal voice that doesn't garble to hell. 00:23:15.711 --> 00:23:21.911 But in the meantime, it's time to burn that craving. 00:23:21.991 --> 00:23:23.931 So I came up with a new way to do this. 00:23:24.571 --> 00:23:26.291 Tell me about, tell me about it. 00:23:26.291 --> 00:23:27.911 I think three was a good number. 00:23:28.291 --> 00:23:34.511 You know, in Duet of Steel, we would each pick a card and we'd sort of play them against each other. 00:23:34.531 --> 00:23:36.651 What we need to do is there's three categories. 00:23:37.231 --> 00:23:41.291 There's most flammable, least flammable and wild card. 00:23:41.831 --> 00:23:51.591 And so we each need to pick a craving and say it, and then we need to figure out which one is more flammable, and then we do the least flammable, then we do the wild card, and we just figure it out from there. 00:23:51.611 --> 00:23:52.411 How do you think of that? 00:23:52.731 --> 00:23:54.691 Yeah, that makes total sense. 00:23:54.871 --> 00:24:03.411 So quickly, while you're choosing, if you didn't listen to the last episode, Burn That Craving is a segment about burning old cravings that we're never going to get to because the podcast is ending. 00:24:03.511 --> 00:24:07.731 We're going to consider the flammability of the craving, whatever that means. 00:24:08.751 --> 00:24:10.911 All right, so first round is most flammable? 00:24:10.931 --> 00:24:12.271 First round is most flammable. 00:24:12.271 --> 00:24:12.831 You ready? 00:24:12.911 --> 00:24:14.491 I can go first, you can go first. 00:24:14.511 --> 00:24:15.111 Let's go. 00:24:15.231 --> 00:24:21.131 So first up, my contender, my contestant, my challenger is Bud. 00:24:22.011 --> 00:24:22.731 If you know what I mean. 00:24:22.751 --> 00:24:23.751 Malfunctioning robots. 00:24:24.451 --> 00:24:25.931 Malfunctioning robots. 00:24:26.431 --> 00:24:29.711 Can the malfunctioning robots smoke Bud? 00:24:30.231 --> 00:24:33.251 And if so, which one is more flammable? 00:24:33.751 --> 00:24:36.771 I mean, here's the thing, malfunctioning robots are often already on fire. 00:24:36.991 --> 00:24:38.611 That's my sort of argument. 00:24:38.891 --> 00:24:42.691 Why malfunctioning robots are flammable since they're on fire. 00:24:42.931 --> 00:24:45.011 But Bud is so easy to light. 00:24:45.331 --> 00:24:49.451 That's until it isn't until you're out in the rain. 00:24:49.491 --> 00:24:51.811 That's also true of malfunctioning robots. 00:24:52.291 --> 00:24:56.631 It's just, you know, it's really hard to get your malfunctioning robots to smoke when you want them to. 00:24:56.651 --> 00:25:00.351 I don't have a resolution to how we're supposed to do this. 00:25:00.411 --> 00:25:01.851 I just came up with the categories. 00:25:01.911 --> 00:25:06.511 I want to I want to give it to I'm going to give it to Bud. 00:25:06.531 --> 00:25:09.251 Bud is really flammable really, really easily. 00:25:09.991 --> 00:25:12.191 Malfunctioning robots aren't always flammable. 00:25:12.551 --> 00:25:13.051 All right. 00:25:13.451 --> 00:25:16.011 Next up, least flammable. 00:25:16.191 --> 00:25:17.991 We don't want us to be flammable. 00:25:18.351 --> 00:25:19.091 Who's your fighter? 00:25:19.731 --> 00:25:21.771 The ability to smell when milk is off. 00:25:25.971 --> 00:25:26.891 Mine is peanut butter. 00:25:30.971 --> 00:25:38.511 So I think if we really narrowed it down, mine would probably be like spoiled milk, basically. 00:25:38.591 --> 00:25:42.051 No, yours is the ability to smell when milk is off. 00:25:42.071 --> 00:25:45.391 And I just I think I think you've got this one. 00:25:45.391 --> 00:25:48.431 I feel like I can visualize setting peanut butter on fire. 00:25:48.431 --> 00:25:50.351 I don't think it would work very well. 00:25:50.851 --> 00:25:58.131 But I don't know if I can visualize thinking about milk being on fire. 00:25:58.151 --> 00:25:59.851 All right, now the wild wild card. 00:25:59.871 --> 00:26:02.551 All right, mine is makeup. 00:26:03.471 --> 00:26:04.631 Mine is world building. 00:26:09.811 --> 00:26:13.951 The problem with burn that craving for me is my cravings at this point. 00:26:13.971 --> 00:26:16.671 The ones I have left are so conceptual. 00:26:16.691 --> 00:26:17.271 Same. 00:26:17.651 --> 00:26:18.951 Mine are so specific. 00:26:19.831 --> 00:26:23.371 The problem is, is that we're just like you crave things. 00:26:24.031 --> 00:26:26.151 I crave the vague shape of a thing. 00:26:26.951 --> 00:26:32.551 Anyway, I think makeup is more flammable than world building, though some worlds are on fire. 00:26:33.091 --> 00:26:39.051 Let's say that world building is like a map, then world building is way more flammable because that's paper. 00:26:39.611 --> 00:26:46.191 Yeah, I feel like I don't do a lot of my world building on paper anymore, but I'm going to leave that up to interpretation from the audience. 00:26:46.771 --> 00:26:50.731 Who do you think won that tweet at us or send us a message? 00:26:50.751 --> 00:26:52.251 Who you think won that wild card? 00:26:52.771 --> 00:26:53.711 Well, that was fun. 00:26:53.991 --> 00:26:54.831 That was a good time. 00:26:55.211 --> 00:26:57.791 And that has been Burn That Craving. 00:26:57.811 --> 00:27:06.331 Brianna, do you want to take us out of the burning zone, the flammability zone, drive away from the fire? 00:27:06.351 --> 00:27:07.751 Yeah, absolutely. 00:27:07.991 --> 00:27:12.531 So my next craving includes some spoilers. 00:27:13.571 --> 00:27:14.591 I've been pre-warned. 00:27:15.031 --> 00:27:19.571 But in order for me to say the craving, I have to first spoiler warn people. 00:27:20.191 --> 00:27:21.831 And then I'll save the craving. 00:27:21.931 --> 00:27:25.291 And I will probably in the description just mark it as spoilers. 00:27:25.651 --> 00:27:28.831 Because saying the craving is a spoiler for at least two things. 00:27:29.371 --> 00:27:36.951 So the two things that this is a spoiler for are She-Ra and the second Young Avengers series. 00:27:37.491 --> 00:27:39.151 The one by Kieran Gillan. 00:27:39.371 --> 00:27:41.251 Yeah, that comic series. 00:27:41.751 --> 00:27:42.291 Oh, you know what? 00:27:42.311 --> 00:27:43.851 There might be one more spoiler in here. 00:27:44.131 --> 00:27:47.711 I'm also going to say it's a spoiler for... 00:27:48.051 --> 00:27:50.291 We're probably also going to talk about Heaven Will Be Mine. 00:27:50.691 --> 00:27:51.371 Oh, shit. 00:27:52.231 --> 00:27:55.211 It's not like directly a spoiler, I guess. 00:27:55.251 --> 00:27:56.771 But we're also probably going to talk about that. 00:27:56.791 --> 00:27:58.331 So if you want to know nothing about that game. 00:27:58.751 --> 00:28:00.871 There'll be a timestamp in the description. 00:28:01.111 --> 00:28:10.651 So a thing that I love about gay people is that we love to make our love save the world. 00:28:11.991 --> 00:28:23.531 Specifically, I adore when there's a gay kiss that saves all of reality or the world or, you know, people that are important to us or whatever. 00:28:24.371 --> 00:28:27.571 The power of a magic gay kiss. 00:28:28.071 --> 00:28:31.971 And, you know, this is one of those things that I'm like, surely this can't be that common. 00:28:32.071 --> 00:28:38.731 But it happens in She-Ra, it happens in Young Avengers, and it happens in Heaven Will Be Mine. 00:28:39.391 --> 00:28:41.411 Though, maybe not as directly in that one. 00:28:42.091 --> 00:28:43.071 I just adore it. 00:28:43.131 --> 00:28:43.991 I think it's great. 00:28:44.011 --> 00:28:46.291 I think there should be more gay kisses that save the world. 00:28:46.671 --> 00:28:54.271 The reason why the gay kiss that saves the world usually works is because it's between very powerful people. 00:28:54.771 --> 00:28:59.931 So, like, in She-Ra, it's between She-Ra and the Cat Girl. 00:29:00.651 --> 00:29:03.591 The most powerful entity known to man. 00:29:03.611 --> 00:29:06.971 The most powerful entity in Young Avengers. 00:29:07.251 --> 00:29:16.371 It's between a reality, like, shaping wizard warlock type and a big guy who can change forms. 00:29:16.511 --> 00:29:17.171 Big man. 00:29:18.071 --> 00:29:29.411 And in Heaven Will Be Mine, it's three mech pilot gals with the most powerful mechs known to man. 00:29:29.531 --> 00:29:31.591 But that is a trope that I love. 00:29:31.871 --> 00:29:34.951 And so, Clair, can you think of some gay kisses that can save our world? 00:29:35.671 --> 00:29:36.971 Can we just figure that out? 00:29:37.611 --> 00:29:40.271 I feel like every gay kiss I have saves my world. 00:29:40.271 --> 00:29:43.011 So I don't know about you, but my job here is done. 00:29:43.031 --> 00:29:44.211 Bye, I'm signing off. 00:29:45.651 --> 00:29:47.011 You know what? 00:29:47.031 --> 00:29:47.591 Me too. 00:29:48.291 --> 00:30:01.071 And for what it's worth, I think that, like, the thing that I love about this trope is that in addition to it being kind of a, like, way to say, you can't fucking take this out, like, you cannot remove this. 00:30:01.991 --> 00:30:06.931 Right, we've tied the intimacy to the world changing. 00:30:07.771 --> 00:30:08.471 Right, right. 00:30:08.651 --> 00:30:15.591 It is, on the one hand, it is us saying, it is people who create things saying, you fucking cannot take it out of here. 00:30:15.851 --> 00:30:17.851 You cannot remove it, you cannot just cut it. 00:30:18.611 --> 00:30:28.251 And it's also asserting that gay love is the most important force in the universe of that world, which rules to me. 00:30:28.611 --> 00:30:33.551 And also, if I'm gonna be on my own shit for a second, it does so in our world, too. 00:30:33.571 --> 00:30:37.191 I think every gay kiss saves the world, over and over and over again. 00:30:37.211 --> 00:30:45.831 I think queer love is, like, unapologetic queer love does so much in the real world. 00:30:45.851 --> 00:30:58.411 I mean, I even remember, like, and this is, you know, obviously on a lesser level and in a restless way, but like, I remember when the period of, like, TV where you could have gay characters on screen that you could kiss. 00:30:58.471 --> 00:30:58.831 Right? 00:30:58.851 --> 00:31:10.691 There's, like, noted liberal shit show, Modern Family, did not have the two gay husbands kiss on screen until, like, at least they don't in season one. 00:31:10.711 --> 00:31:12.831 I think it's more, like, season three. 00:31:12.851 --> 00:31:14.791 I think it's, like, season three where they actually kiss. 00:31:15.011 --> 00:31:20.591 And that's, like, and that is just, like, you know, that is, that was the state of media in queer rep. 00:31:21.071 --> 00:31:22.431 It does save the world in a way. 00:31:22.431 --> 00:31:24.271 And it's obviously not all saving the world. 00:31:24.531 --> 00:31:26.031 You know, it's not the whole thing. 00:31:26.371 --> 00:31:27.711 But I don't know, it's good. 00:31:27.711 --> 00:31:30.371 I like in, I like in stories when that happens. 00:31:30.451 --> 00:31:33.691 Make your stories have a world saving gay kiss. 00:31:34.031 --> 00:31:39.471 How could we have, like, gay kisses that could just, like, eliminate Nazis? 00:31:40.431 --> 00:31:45.971 And, like, are there gay kisses that can stop climate change and destroy capitalism? 00:31:47.671 --> 00:31:52.011 How would we make it, how do you make a gay kiss so powerful it ends capitalism? 00:31:53.191 --> 00:32:04.611 I can't think of one other than, like, immediately going weird superpower realm where it's like, if these two women kiss, an EMP shock will go out wherever they are. 00:32:04.691 --> 00:32:10.571 And this is how you just, like, you, it's like, babe, please, I need a kiss. 00:32:10.591 --> 00:32:12.171 We need to get past the guards. 00:32:14.131 --> 00:32:25.411 God, I thought you were going to be like an EMP blast that, like, knocks out all, like, technology and electronic shit, like, all over the world, which would be a nightmare. 00:32:25.631 --> 00:32:27.731 And we just end up with primitivism. 00:32:27.971 --> 00:32:38.551 What if two girls kiss in the middle of the stock market and it just, if this was a piece of media, that's where the supercomputer is that makes capitalism happen. 00:32:38.851 --> 00:32:43.331 And so they kiss and the supercomputer is destroyed and there's no more capitalism. 00:32:43.931 --> 00:32:50.791 So I just completed a series called The Broken Earth Trilogy by NK. 00:32:50.811 --> 00:32:51.471 Jemisin. 00:32:51.991 --> 00:32:58.611 And basically it has what are essentially like Earth slash magic benders. 00:32:59.091 --> 00:33:06.031 And I just like the concept of like gay bending kiss makes the Avatar state. 00:33:06.411 --> 00:33:10.011 In order to get into the Avatar state, Korra has to kiss Asami. 00:33:10.011 --> 00:33:11.151 I've made Korra better. 00:33:11.171 --> 00:33:13.151 You're welcome. 00:33:13.171 --> 00:33:16.631 Can you fucking imagine if that's what we got? 00:33:16.991 --> 00:33:27.311 Imagine if taking down Kuvira in season four took fucking Korra kissing Asami at a perfect moment and activating the Avatar state. 00:33:27.351 --> 00:33:27.871 Shit. 00:33:28.351 --> 00:33:30.091 That would have been so much better. 00:33:30.111 --> 00:33:32.291 I'm mad now. 00:33:32.331 --> 00:33:34.051 I'm mad because we could have had it. 00:33:34.411 --> 00:33:41.071 If Korra had come out 10 years later, we could have had a lot of other problems also fixed. 00:33:41.091 --> 00:33:43.431 But specifically that one problem also. 00:33:43.931 --> 00:33:45.331 Clair, what I would not get... 00:33:45.351 --> 00:33:48.271 Do you know how much I would give to see Korra be good? 00:33:48.551 --> 00:33:58.071 Do you know how much I would give to have all of Korra's villains not be just like three various types of leftists and then a fucking fascist? 00:33:58.551 --> 00:34:01.971 Like, and the fascist be more sympathetically portrayed? 00:34:04.091 --> 00:34:05.391 There's so much I want to fix. 00:34:06.911 --> 00:34:13.451 Remember when in season three the Anarchists killed the fucking evil ass Earth Queen and it's framed as a bad thing? 00:34:13.471 --> 00:34:15.091 I was so excited. 00:34:15.291 --> 00:34:20.011 So when I rewatched that episode, I was like, fuck yeah, they rule, hell yeah. 00:34:20.031 --> 00:34:24.611 And the very next episode, they like torture some villagers or some shit. 00:34:24.631 --> 00:34:27.511 Or like they just do something that is inexplicably evil. 00:34:27.531 --> 00:34:29.631 And it's like, why? 00:34:30.151 --> 00:34:33.011 They went out of their way not to kill anyone in the... 00:34:33.531 --> 00:34:37.571 It's not like they like went Fire Nation style and like rammed the front door. 00:34:37.591 --> 00:34:38.191 No, no, no, no. 00:34:38.671 --> 00:34:41.751 They didn't kill anybody but the Queen. 00:34:41.791 --> 00:34:43.191 They went out of their way. 00:34:43.211 --> 00:34:45.991 Anyways, yeah, we're not a Korra podcast. 00:34:46.131 --> 00:34:50.791 But I just think Korrasami Kiss to Save the World was a missed opportunity. 00:34:51.071 --> 00:34:51.991 Absolutely. 00:34:52.011 --> 00:34:56.751 Other series I would want to see a gay kiss to save the world is Star Wars. 00:34:56.751 --> 00:35:03.471 Thank you, please give me gay kiss in Star Wars that's between two named characters. 00:35:03.751 --> 00:35:05.851 But make it also, I don't know, save the world. 00:35:05.871 --> 00:35:06.411 That'd be cool. 00:35:06.431 --> 00:35:10.771 Really the only weakness of the Death Star was kissing on top of it. 00:35:11.211 --> 00:35:12.191 Then it explodes. 00:35:12.291 --> 00:35:14.271 Here's the thing, Luke still could have done that. 00:35:14.631 --> 00:35:18.011 Luke and Han kiss on top of the Death Star and it explodes. 00:35:18.031 --> 00:35:19.431 I need it. 00:35:19.511 --> 00:35:21.731 Where's my Luke Hanfic from 1980? 00:35:21.751 --> 00:35:22.751 Let's fucking do it. 00:35:23.451 --> 00:35:28.611 I mean, I'm only like half a season into Clone Wars, but they should give Ahsoka a girlfriend. 00:35:28.891 --> 00:35:31.711 I'm not going to say anything because you're correct. 00:35:35.031 --> 00:35:36.811 I can't. 00:35:37.271 --> 00:35:38.551 Yes, they should. 00:35:38.611 --> 00:35:39.791 They fucking should. 00:35:39.911 --> 00:35:40.711 They really shouldn't. 00:35:40.731 --> 00:35:47.291 I know exactly what the fucking names are of the girls who should be Ahsoka's girlfriends. 00:35:47.511 --> 00:35:48.171 Multiple. 00:35:48.271 --> 00:35:49.571 I'm talking multiple. 00:35:50.031 --> 00:35:52.551 Also, if you're in a podcast. 00:35:52.571 --> 00:35:52.871 Sorry. 00:35:53.191 --> 00:35:53.971 Tabletop. 00:35:54.131 --> 00:35:54.491 Sorry. 00:35:54.591 --> 00:35:59.511 I was going to say the thing you're going to say, which is if you're in any Tabletop, you can do that. 00:35:59.531 --> 00:36:00.611 You can have that happen. 00:36:00.631 --> 00:36:01.851 You can just do what I have. 00:36:01.871 --> 00:36:06.311 But what I also said is if you're on a podcast, save the world by having a podcast. 00:36:06.331 --> 00:36:07.631 Make the podcast kiss. 00:36:08.171 --> 00:36:12.711 Okay, two Tabletop podcast kiss and it saves the world. 00:36:12.791 --> 00:36:17.391 The Ship of Critical Role and the Adventure Zone, everyone's favorite couple. 00:36:19.551 --> 00:36:21.711 I'm going to kill you. 00:36:22.171 --> 00:36:23.491 Now, that's a power couple. 00:36:23.751 --> 00:36:25.731 The Critical Zone. 00:36:26.231 --> 00:36:28.951 I live in the Critical Zone and it's of those things. 00:36:28.971 --> 00:36:32.491 I bet the Critical Zone is also the name of a Tabletop podcast. 00:36:32.511 --> 00:36:34.571 Like, that's a fucking D&D podcast. 00:36:35.471 --> 00:36:39.771 Sorry, I just had the thought of like Super Hoolock for Tabletop podcasts. 00:36:40.191 --> 00:36:44.851 And I just needed to share the worst thought. 00:36:44.871 --> 00:36:45.651 What are the three? 00:36:45.711 --> 00:36:52.231 It would be like, what, if we're talking Super Hoolock, then that's Critical Role, The Adventure Zone. 00:36:53.051 --> 00:36:58.631 I don't know what the third biggest Tabletop podcast is. 00:36:59.091 --> 00:37:02.331 I wish it was Friends of the Table, but also I don't wish it was Friends of the Table. 00:37:02.351 --> 00:37:03.091 But it's definitely not. 00:37:03.791 --> 00:37:05.091 That's definitely not. 00:37:05.411 --> 00:37:12.351 No, there's like 15 D&D podcasts out there before you get to one non-D&D podcast. 00:37:12.371 --> 00:37:13.251 Right, good. 00:37:13.551 --> 00:37:15.991 Make D&D kiss any other Tabletop game. 00:37:16.711 --> 00:37:21.251 And watch it say, actually, it's two Tabletop games. 00:37:21.271 --> 00:37:25.971 Make two D&D games kiss and destroy D&D. 00:37:26.411 --> 00:37:27.411 That's how it goes. 00:37:27.751 --> 00:37:29.511 Do you want my craving? 00:37:30.711 --> 00:37:32.731 Well, yeah, of course I do. 00:37:32.751 --> 00:37:34.511 You know how it works here. 00:37:34.531 --> 00:37:36.411 We got four cravings. 00:37:36.531 --> 00:37:36.971 Why? 00:37:37.351 --> 00:37:38.571 I didn't get a chance to do my Mr. 00:37:38.611 --> 00:37:39.431 Colt voice today. 00:37:41.311 --> 00:37:44.891 Do you want to introduce my next craving in the Mr. 00:37:44.911 --> 00:37:45.651 Colt voice? 00:37:47.491 --> 00:37:51.251 Hey, Clair, what are you craving over there? 00:37:51.271 --> 00:37:54.831 I feel like you kind of broke Brooklyn for a second. 00:37:55.711 --> 00:37:58.051 I did break a little Brooklyn, but it's all right. 00:37:58.191 --> 00:38:00.331 We're living with it. 00:38:00.351 --> 00:38:13.291 My next craving, the last craving in the podcast, is that I've been playing an ongoing cyberpunk game for a while now set in a game of the sprawl run by a lovely friend of mine. 00:38:13.471 --> 00:38:16.671 And so we have been playing in this for a few sessions. 00:38:16.891 --> 00:38:22.311 And cyberpunk as a genre is kind of and I've talked about this with them. 00:38:22.331 --> 00:38:31.451 It kind of sucks because cyberpunk was really a look at current culture in the 80s or 70s. 00:38:31.471 --> 00:38:34.591 I forget when really it was like a big thing. 00:38:34.971 --> 00:38:41.911 And it was like, ah, here's the logical conclusion of like the systems that are in place now. 00:38:42.631 --> 00:38:44.671 And this is sort of what we're hurdling towards. 00:38:44.971 --> 00:38:53.251 And then fast forward four years and I look at cyberpunk and I'm like, that's actually better than what we have now. 00:38:53.471 --> 00:38:55.771 Oh, people have access to mods. 00:38:56.351 --> 00:39:00.271 Normal people are able to get entire body modifications. 00:39:00.651 --> 00:39:01.731 That's awesome. 00:39:02.371 --> 00:39:03.731 People are able to afford that. 00:39:03.971 --> 00:39:04.451 Awesome. 00:39:04.471 --> 00:39:06.351 That's fantastic. 00:39:06.631 --> 00:39:09.791 Instead, we are now worse than cyberpunk. 00:39:09.811 --> 00:39:12.431 We live in a reality that is worse than cyberpunk. 00:39:12.451 --> 00:39:23.231 This is why we have to make a game called Cyberpunk 2077, which is not cyberpunk to be clear, but also we are living in cyberpunk 2020. 00:39:23.591 --> 00:39:28.091 Anyways, my craving, that's not even the craving, my craving is solarpunk. 00:39:28.571 --> 00:39:30.211 Okay, let's talk about solarpunk. 00:39:30.291 --> 00:39:35.731 If you go to the Wikipedia, so the dictionary definition of solarpunk is basically empty. 00:39:36.231 --> 00:39:41.911 The Wikipedia page is non-existent almost because it's just it's not an explored space as much as it should be. 00:39:41.911 --> 00:39:42.931 It's definitely explored. 00:39:42.951 --> 00:39:44.031 Don't get me wrong. 00:39:44.271 --> 00:39:48.091 But like there isn't as much media about it as I would love. 00:39:48.151 --> 00:40:01.191 And so solarpunk is an art movement that envisions how the future might look if humanity succeeded in solving major contemporary challenges with an emphasis on sustainability problems such as climate change and pollution. 00:40:01.451 --> 00:40:04.011 This is like the opposite of cyberpunk. 00:40:04.031 --> 00:40:05.551 This is like we did it. 00:40:05.611 --> 00:40:06.611 We succeeded. 00:40:06.631 --> 00:40:07.851 It's optimistic. 00:40:07.971 --> 00:40:15.271 And the reason that I want more of this is because culture influences media, which influences culture. 00:40:15.451 --> 00:40:26.831 And if we started producing media that did this, and maybe this is maybe this is a little too optimistic of me, I feel like it would influence a lot of good ideas. 00:40:26.911 --> 00:40:30.651 We have touchscreens now because of like things like Star Trek. 00:40:30.971 --> 00:40:34.851 Media has influenced our culture, has influenced our innovations. 00:40:35.331 --> 00:40:36.631 So I want more solar punk. 00:40:36.891 --> 00:40:40.811 Dune apparently is one of the most known examples of solar punk. 00:40:41.311 --> 00:40:46.231 There's also solar punk, ecological and fantastical stories in a sustainable world. 00:40:46.531 --> 00:40:49.571 And Sun Vault, stories of solar punk and eco speculation. 00:40:50.251 --> 00:40:53.471 But this is the thing, two of those titles were so wordy. 00:40:53.691 --> 00:40:59.591 We clearly need more solar punk if those are the three most known solar punk books. 00:40:59.931 --> 00:41:10.051 I mean, this is, I think, a thing that most sci-fi is engaging with is what does a future look like that doesn't involve us destroying ourselves from climate change. 00:41:10.611 --> 00:41:23.811 I think when I tend to envision sci-fi worlds and I have some worlds that I've created, the kind of core facet and feeling and thing that I think about is the truly horrifying idea. 00:41:24.351 --> 00:41:30.891 What if we found a way to survive climate change and it didn't disrupt capitalism? 00:41:31.271 --> 00:41:37.151 What if we found a way that capitalism would survive, but we addressed climate change? 00:41:37.531 --> 00:41:40.691 You mean like the train show? 00:41:41.251 --> 00:41:43.071 Not Polar Express, Jesus. 00:41:43.331 --> 00:41:48.271 You know the one where everybody lives on a train because the world is just a frozen ball at this point? 00:41:48.511 --> 00:41:50.531 That's not Polar Express. 00:41:50.551 --> 00:41:55.591 I know it's not Polar Express, but I was trying to think of that movie and my brain just kept going Polar Express. 00:41:55.611 --> 00:41:56.131 Snowpiercer. 00:41:56.151 --> 00:41:57.251 Thank you, it's Snowpiercer. 00:41:57.271 --> 00:41:58.611 Yes, that's the one I was thinking. 00:41:58.631 --> 00:42:00.511 Snowpiercer is an example. 00:42:00.531 --> 00:42:12.991 Yeah, my pet world that is that is the one that I probably, I don't know if I've ever mentioned it here before, but it's one where it's like a bunch of we went out and we solved it and then we went out into space and corporations started colonizing space. 00:42:13.011 --> 00:42:16.651 So like Cowboy Bebop is like an example. 00:42:16.671 --> 00:42:23.011 Cowboy Bebop and then magic is discovered and it's a whole new kind of technological paradigm. 00:42:23.431 --> 00:42:34.291 It's like an imagination of how colonialism continues to exist under like new environments, either like fantasy or sci-fi, etc. 00:42:35.151 --> 00:42:44.651 We would be remiss, I think, to not mention the like the large scale metro plan that is being drawn up now and taken somewhat seriously. 00:42:44.671 --> 00:42:51.131 The high speed rail across the US plan that got popularized by Gen Z on TikTok. 00:42:51.491 --> 00:42:53.051 Oh, I haven't heard of this. 00:42:53.291 --> 00:42:58.451 Basically, the idea and this has been a conversation in certain leftist spaces for a while. 00:42:58.631 --> 00:43:05.111 What if we had high speed rail that went between all the major cities in the US? 00:43:05.131 --> 00:43:08.191 The discussion there was like, oh, that would be great for the environment. 00:43:08.411 --> 00:43:12.011 And then it was people going, hang on, not our land. 00:43:12.111 --> 00:43:13.451 We can't make those calls. 00:43:13.991 --> 00:43:24.291 And we're seeing kind of that play out now is like, you know, at the very least, the kind of Biden government has drawn up a proposed map of if they did it, here's what it would look like. 00:43:24.311 --> 00:43:25.931 And it goes through five reservations. 00:43:25.991 --> 00:43:26.911 My god. 00:43:27.291 --> 00:43:28.491 That is the fucking thing. 00:43:29.251 --> 00:43:33.031 That is, to me, these are like bad solar punk, I guess. 00:43:33.031 --> 00:43:36.411 I've immediately made dystopian solar punk. 00:43:36.691 --> 00:43:45.871 Also, like another thing with train systems, and I don't want this to become a train podcast, but it does center urban living versus rural living. 00:43:46.111 --> 00:43:47.651 I think I saw one of the maps. 00:43:47.671 --> 00:43:48.991 I had no context for it. 00:43:49.011 --> 00:43:51.951 But now that I have context, I think I know what the map was. 00:43:52.211 --> 00:43:54.051 It was just skipping one of the whole states. 00:43:54.071 --> 00:43:59.971 Like there was just a state on the map that just like did not have a line running through it, which I'm assuming was a train line. 00:43:59.991 --> 00:44:02.071 What about the people who live there? 00:44:02.351 --> 00:44:07.851 And I get that the answer is like, ha ha ha, they're the five people and 20 sheep that live there. 00:44:07.871 --> 00:44:19.531 But it's like, OK, so they don't get access to infrastructure, access to infrastructure centers, cities, which cities are are a like byproduct of colonial capitalism. 00:44:19.651 --> 00:44:24.891 I mean, even just knowing European history, I think like specifically, I know English history. 00:44:24.991 --> 00:44:29.451 London has been a city for hundreds and hundreds of years. 00:44:30.071 --> 00:44:33.691 And in basically any era, it looks different from the last era. 00:44:33.691 --> 00:44:34.091 Right. 00:44:34.111 --> 00:44:35.771 Sorry, I should say modern cities. 00:44:36.351 --> 00:44:41.811 But my point is, is like, you're always going to have, I suspect this is the case. 00:44:42.011 --> 00:44:50.771 As long as there are people, as we know of people at this point, you will probably always have a mix of urban and rural spaces. 00:44:50.851 --> 00:44:57.651 And you need infrastructure and ways of being and livelihoods that take into account both. 00:44:57.971 --> 00:45:02.491 If we're talking about Earth and we're talking about our specific land, none of this is stuff for us to determine. 00:45:03.011 --> 00:45:08.731 You know, as far as I am aware, there have always been higher density and lower density areas. 00:45:08.751 --> 00:45:11.131 They didn't always look like cities, especially not on this continent. 00:45:11.691 --> 00:45:25.571 If you're thinking about solar punk, you know, I think my thing that immediately comes to mind for me is like, you can't just think of the like shining, beautiful city scape with no pollution and all electric vehicles. 00:45:25.591 --> 00:45:28.511 Grass growing on the buildings and whatnot. 00:45:28.711 --> 00:45:29.351 Right. 00:45:29.551 --> 00:45:32.871 And you can't think about exclusively that. 00:45:32.891 --> 00:45:41.911 And you also can't think about the exclusively like we live in a small community run only by like wind farms. 00:45:42.171 --> 00:45:48.231 And it's a commune and maybe a cult, but it's give me the story about the wind farm cult. 00:45:48.531 --> 00:45:49.411 I want that. 00:45:49.651 --> 00:45:50.691 That sounds great. 00:45:50.791 --> 00:45:53.431 Oh, man, that sounds fantastic. 00:45:54.011 --> 00:45:57.191 Solar punk is a really interesting space to explore. 00:45:57.251 --> 00:46:12.231 If anyone has any like recommendations for pieces of fiction that fall into like indigenous led solar punk or something adjacent to that, that is about like what indigenous futures can look like. 00:46:12.411 --> 00:46:14.091 I've definitely seen some alternate universes. 00:46:14.111 --> 00:46:19.011 There was a like a game that just finished on Kickstarter. 00:46:19.031 --> 00:46:34.931 It made a lot of money called Coyote and Crow about like an alternate universe in which the you know, this land was ever colonized and instead indigenous people were experienced these weird like this weird thing called the gift. 00:46:35.251 --> 00:46:39.511 And then later on discovered that they gave them special powers and stuff like that. 00:46:39.971 --> 00:46:44.591 Wow, this got a million dollars on an $18,000 pledge. 00:46:44.811 --> 00:46:45.171 Yeah. 00:46:45.451 --> 00:46:46.491 This looks super good. 00:46:46.511 --> 00:46:50.871 Because it looks like because the concept is killer and it looks great. 00:46:51.071 --> 00:46:52.651 I'm excited for that to come out. 00:46:52.671 --> 00:47:05.971 But if we're talking about like how do we get from here to a better future in which climate change is addressed and some of the like modern issues are addressed, it needs to be obviously indigenous led. 00:47:06.531 --> 00:47:06.811 Yeah. 00:47:07.171 --> 00:47:12.691 I would love to know if there are folks, particularly indigenous folks who are writing in that space. 00:47:13.051 --> 00:47:16.391 Or anyone who knows of indigenous folks who are writing in that space. 00:47:16.851 --> 00:47:18.131 I guess that's what you're asking. 00:47:19.511 --> 00:47:21.971 You're only addressing the indigenous listeners. 00:47:22.291 --> 00:47:26.191 You're the only people who are currently writing a solar punk book. 00:47:26.491 --> 00:47:33.451 In order to answer us, you must be writing a solar punk book and you must be indigenous to the land you are currently living on. 00:47:34.031 --> 00:47:35.371 This has been Salt Cravings. 00:47:35.371 --> 00:47:38.071 And do we just have to be sloppy on our outro? 00:47:38.251 --> 00:47:39.771 I feel like we've just sort of mirrored. 00:47:40.331 --> 00:47:45.311 I think on our outro, you need to tell me what your intro was going to be. 00:47:45.331 --> 00:47:47.051 I was just going to use it next time. 00:47:48.071 --> 00:47:48.591 Really? 00:47:49.131 --> 00:47:49.651 Really? 00:47:50.251 --> 00:47:51.631 Clair, we have... 00:47:51.751 --> 00:47:52.631 I have one more. 00:47:52.651 --> 00:47:53.571 I have one more. 00:47:53.591 --> 00:47:54.791 You've got one more. 00:47:54.791 --> 00:47:55.771 You've got one more. 00:47:55.791 --> 00:47:57.431 You're going to use the same fucking intro? 00:47:57.451 --> 00:48:00.711 It's not the same intro. 00:48:00.731 --> 00:48:03.211 It's a clean take on the good intro. 00:48:04.771 --> 00:48:05.251 All right. 00:48:05.251 --> 00:48:08.751 Listen, I can't tell you what intro today. 00:48:09.371 --> 00:48:10.531 This has been Salt Cravings. 00:48:10.551 --> 00:48:11.331 Thanks for listening. 00:48:12.671 --> 00:48:17.531 Fuck, we never say this, but in the last few episodes, I guess, my name is Clair. 00:48:17.551 --> 00:48:20.771 You can follow me at ClaireSkiesAhead on Twitter. 00:48:21.411 --> 00:48:29.251 Hi, and my name is Brianna, and you can follow me at PriceOfBri on Twitter, where I'm currently taking a break, but we'll be back probably. 00:48:29.551 --> 00:48:30.611 Don't come back. 00:48:30.811 --> 00:48:31.651 It's okay. 00:48:31.671 --> 00:48:32.691 It's actually better if you don't. 00:48:32.711 --> 00:48:33.851 I'm probably going to come back. 00:48:33.951 --> 00:48:34.671 Okay, that's fair. 00:48:35.571 --> 00:48:37.211 I got too many good tweets. 00:48:38.371 --> 00:48:40.271 Too much good content to give the world. 00:48:40.731 --> 00:48:42.291 You don't know what my drafts look like. 00:48:42.311 --> 00:48:42.891 They're killer. 00:48:43.271 --> 00:48:50.131 You can go find us at saltcravings.com or at Salt Cravings on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook. 00:48:50.831 --> 00:48:56.591 If you want to get your Cravings in before the bell, which is episode 69, that is the bell. 00:48:56.611 --> 00:48:57.391 That's the end. 00:48:57.991 --> 00:49:01.331 You can send those over to submissions at Salt Cravings. 00:49:01.851 --> 00:49:10.531 Or save them up for our live stream, which is going to be the weekend of this is going to go from July 1st to the 4th. 00:49:10.931 --> 00:49:11.751 That's the weekend. 00:49:11.771 --> 00:49:12.531 And that's our weekend. 00:49:12.911 --> 00:49:13.711 I'm really excited. 00:49:14.231 --> 00:49:29.271 If you want to sign up to stream or do tech or do moderation or get involved with the stream behind the scenes, you can find a link to the sign up sheet in the description. 00:49:29.591 --> 00:49:32.831 Or you can go to any of our social media at Salt Cravings. 00:49:32.851 --> 00:49:34.251 We're really excited about doing that. 00:49:34.931 --> 00:49:37.771 Let us know if you want to participate in what games you would want to stream. 00:49:38.231 --> 00:49:41.151 The stream is also, to be clear, it's going to be a donation stream. 00:49:41.751 --> 00:49:51.571 But in the meantime, if you need to, I guess want to, if you're rearing to donate, there will be some links in the description where you can send some good, good money to. 00:49:51.591 --> 00:49:52.891 I guess. 00:49:52.951 --> 00:49:54.251 Good evening. 00:49:54.311 --> 00:49:55.091 Good night. 00:49:55.991 --> 00:49:59.231 Good night, evenings and gentle babes. 00:49:59.851 --> 00:50:01.371 I'm just doing bad takes. 00:50:01.811 --> 00:50:03.831 It's the bad take out throw. 00:50:04.231 --> 00:50:06.931 We're doing, okay, bad take out throw everyone. 00:50:06.951 --> 00:50:09.531 All right, the 80s and 50s. 00:51:28.060 --> 00:51:29.860 The fuck, what does 10 years look like? 00:51:30.360 --> 00:51:32.460 What is 10 years to an empire? 00:51:38.460 --> 00:51:45.460 Sometimes 10 years is nothing to an empire, sometimes it is very important to that empire. 00:51:46.780 --> 00:51:53.280 Look, we're just starting the third perfect millennium of our glorious empire. 00:51:53.300 --> 00:51:57.800 We're only 20 years into it. 00:51:58.660 --> 00:52:02.620 I can't, we're not partisan cravings, we can't be. 00:52:04.580 --> 00:52:07.560 Brianna, I have some bad news about the rest of the show we've done. 00:52:07.580 --> 00:52:10.460 The salt principality. 00:52:15.540 --> 00:52:19.080 We could have made them look like anything, but we made them look like trans.