PREVIEW - #657 - Epic Crap Battles
Michael and Us
Luke Savage and Will Sloan
4.5 • 696 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This was the era of epic bacon humor where, you know, we had, it felt like five straight years of like |
| 0:07.2 | bad luck, Brian, scumbag, Steve, the epic success win baby or whatever. If you don't know what |
| 0:14.4 | epic bacon is, according to know your meme, it's an internet slang phrase that originally was meant |
| 0:19.2 | by some to mean something was cool or excellent, |
| 0:21.8 | but its usage became synonymous with cringe meme culture and is today used as a way of saying |
| 0:26.0 | something is annoying and overexposed. It combines epic and bacon, both outdated internet fats. |
| 0:32.4 | And we'll sometimes include le, le, le, le, le, le, le, le, excuse, le, le what does that mean that means like uh le success win uh le epic sauce you know of course you're |
| 0:43.1 | right by people satirizing irritating topics inexperienced internet users or people out of touch |
| 0:48.7 | with current internet culture i mean it's funny because that is what it means to me but i don't |
| 0:53.5 | know someone should |
| 0:54.1 | send the message to Elon Musk, because I feel like his sense of humor is still rooted in this exact time. Just to finish the thought, I mean, you know, people, everyone listening, depending on your age, I think, most of all, will have a different memory of this period. You know, you may, if you're a younger listener, not really have been too immersed in the internet at all at this time. |
| 1:14.4 | I mean, for... memory of this period. You know, you may, if you're a younger listener, not really have been too |
| 1:11.8 | immersed in the internet at all at this time. I mean, for well in my part, I guess we were both |
| 1:16.5 | in our early 20s. We were undergraduates at university. And I remember George Takai, who had, you know, |
| 1:23.6 | a really popular Facebook account for a while. He was just sort of recycling memes, right? |
| 1:28.8 | Like he was doing bad luck Brian and, oh, Rick Perry is Voldemort or, you know, whatever the |
| 1:34.9 | fuck. Lots of things with stormtroopers, but they were soy, that kind of thing. And let me tell you, |
| 1:41.4 | all of us thought this was very funny, very wholesome. |
| 1:45.2 | There was something that seemed kind of irreverent about it. |
| 1:48.4 | I went off George Takai pretty quickly, but I guess just to make a bit of a concession, |
| 1:52.8 | if only in the interest of the false balance you were talking about, Will, |
| 1:56.5 | a bit of a concession to the epic rap battle form. |
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