Episode 24: Ideas!

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## Episode Summary

On today's episode Josiah and Drew discuss ideas, how they are made and how they are created. How do you know if an idea is good? Is there an oracle?

## Idea Details

* Idea: Ideas!, aka the master idea, which involves auguring a hole into everyone's frontal lobe of their brain to install a light bulb that lights up with an intensity directly related to how good that idea is. This idea was not given a specific identifying name.
* Creator of idea: Josiah
* Purpose of idea: What does a light bulb represent? Let's go deeper with it and let's think about, 'what can a light bulb mean in more of a mentaphorical sense'. A light bulb can represent an idea. The spark of an idea can be represented with a bulb of light that one pictures above the head when an idea pops off. So the light bulb - and what is an idea? An idea itself is kind of, I mean it's everything. It's the air we breathe started as an idea, the food we eat, the clothing we wear or choose not to wear, the seat we sit on, the things we do and don't do, I mean ideas are powerful. The power of ideas is everything and so I wanted to also just kind of - now that we've lubricated ourselves, thought about what it means to have ideas, I was thinking we could kind of dig into the power of ideas, what do ideas mean? What does it mean to have an idea? (Josiah and Drew watch a few videos about ideas) So Drew, we understand an idea is the framework of humanity. (Drew: "Like the D-phone.") An idea has the power to change the world. The D-phone is a great example of an idea - maybe not a good idea, but still an idea nonetheless. But the problem is, Drew: how do we know which ideas are good and which are bad? How do we know whose ideas to listen to and whose to avoid? How do we avoid listening to ideas from the same set of people and sort of democratize the free market of ideas so that all can have the power to change the world through ideas? (Drew: "I guess like a committee?") Okay a committee, sure, sure. These things exist, these things already exist but they're not working, Drew. Because you need to have access to the committee, you need to have access to humanity. (Drew: "What about like an oracle?") Okay an oracle. I agree, perhaps there could be someone deciding whose ideas are good or not, but what about the people who don't have access to the boardroom? What about the people who don't have access to the stodgy academic world of ideas? (Drew: "Well I seriously doubt that the oracle is gonna be in a boardroom. I think the oracle is gonna be somewhere that you have to journey somewhere very dangerous up in the mountains. You're gonna have to travel a rickety old bridge.") Let me bring you back to - remember when I was telling you jokes earlier about the humble light bulb? And it was a great time and we had some laughs and it felt good, we were bonding over humor? But there was a reason why I told you that joke earlier, Drew. And the reason was I wanted you to think about the light bulb and what the light bulb represents regarding ideas. Now, historically, throughout time, a light bulb illuminating over one's head has meant that they have come up with an idea! And I'm proposing that we take this light bulb method and we use it to democratize the world's marketplace of ideas to ensure that everyone's good ideas are listened to immediately upon their conception.
* Timetable: A timetable was not given, though the technology to connect an idea through a metal thing into lighting up a light bulb needs to be finalized. The prototype for the device already exists. The algorithm that determines how good an idea is needs to be finalized. Then everyone in the world who is able to form a sentence needs to have surgery to augur a hole into their frontal lobe to install the light bulb device. This process will be COVID-compliant and should be available relatively soon.
* Idea details:
	+ A light bulb will illuminate over the head of any person who has an idea. Everyone around that person will then plainly see that person had a good idea, which will spur them to ask that person about their idea because ideas have the power to change the world.
	+ The light bulb will light up for both good and bad ideas, but the brightness of the bulb will be dependent on how good the idea is.
	+ The light bulb is one of those modern bulbs that you don't have to change very often.
	+ Everyone on Earth is required to undergo the process of having the light bulb installed on top of their heads, where it will remain from now on. The light bulb will not be floating in the air, it will be attached physically to each person's head by auguring a small hole through the skull to reach the frontal lobe in their brain, which is where ideas are formed. There will be a metal thing sticking out of the head from where the brain was augured, which would have a similar texture to a birthday sparkler on a cake. The light bulb will be attached on the end and with the development of the necessary technology, the light bulb will then light up with an intensity directly related to how good the ideas are.
	+ There is nothing magic about the process by which the light bulbs will illuminate; it is strictly rooted in reality.
	+ There will be an oracle who speaks to the people whose bulbs burn the brightest. The oracle can only be reached by going on a quest.
	+ This light bulb installation will disrupt tech, city planning, business, entertainment, arts, culture, food, and poetry. Traditional headwear as we know it is gonna be done with.
	+ The size of the light bulb on each person's head will be the same, regardless of the person's age. This is to ensure the proper democratization of ideas so that ideas are assessed solely based on how good they are, without skewing to favor the ideas of older people over younger people.
	+ The surgery to augur a hole into everyone in the world's frontal lobe will be scheduled as soon as they are able to form their first sentence. This will be seen as a rite of passage.
	+ An initial study suggested that light bulbs should be installed for only men, in an effort to avoid harming anyone other than men. This was brought up on the committee developing the light bulb plans, though by someone other than Josiah, who simply presented that as a possible option.
	+ The bulb will burn to a degree of brightness based on a complex algorithm that takes into account how original the idea is, how feasible it is, how disruptive and groundbreaking it is, how marketable it is, and how straight up cool it is.
	+ If a person's ideas are good enough that their light bulb burns with a certain high degree of brightness, they will be required to go on a pilgrimage to see the oracle. If a person does not want to see the oracle, they will be forced to do so.
	+ The oracle will be born with a certain aura around them. They will always stay the size of a baby and they will be very wise and they will be able to speak telepathically and their light bulb will always be going off all the time.
		- Note: This glowing baby is distinct from World Wide Landlord, aka God, who is merely a golden child created through the fertilization of an egg with the golden sperm.
	+ A light will shine in the sky signifying the location of the oracle, and indicating where your pilgrimage will take you if your ideas are good enough. This light will be known as Baby's Bright Light.
	+ When someone has an idea deemed good enough by the algorithm to merit input from the oracle, they will receive a jolt through their body and they will hear an in-ear voice saying "Your idea has been selected. You must now sojourn to the oracle." This will be like jury duty, and the process will be COVID-compliant.
	+ After someone successfully completes their pilgrimage by following the light to the oracle's den, they will then engage in debate with the oracle, who is very wise and is known as the ultimate devil.
	+ The oracle is a he.
	+ The oracle is often furrowed, though you must determine whether it is a thoughtful furrow or an angry furrow upon engaging in debate with the oracle.
	+ It can take months to debate the oracle because he will play devil so much.
	+ The debate with the oracle will take place on a bridge on top of a large volcanic mountain, introducing the element of needing to balance your ideas with the oracle and also balance your feet while you debate the oracle who will be hovering and flying around you while painfully tapping on your light bulb.
	+ The oracle will whip fireballs at you during the debate. This will give the debate the feeling of being the final boss after your pilgrimage.
	+ Whether you kill the oracle after besting him in debate is up to you and your conviction in the power of your idea.
		- Note: There is some debate whether the oracle will tell you that you passed or failed the test based on your decision to kill him. Also the oracle baby might be a hologram to mitigate any risk of killing the actual oracle.
	+ Traditional light sources will not be needed as much anymore because of everyone's brain light bulbs, and since those light bulbs run off of brain energy rather than traditional energy sources, this will be doubly good for the environment.
	+ After receiving your summons to make the pilgrimage to see the oracle, you have 48 hours to report that idea to an authority or you will die.
	+ The oracle's den may simply be a boardroom.

## Devil Play

* Drew played devil in response to hearing about the complex algorithm that determines how brightly a light bulb will burn in response to a new idea by asking what the point of having the oracle is. He suggested that all light bulbs should light up the same amount and then the people with ideas have to go to the oracle to be told whether the idea is good or not.
	+ Josiah replied that this would simply be too much effort on the part of the oracle. He also surmised that Drew was obviously trying to make himself be the oracle.
	+ Drew stated adamantly that we should have to search for the oracle. This could be a couple hundred year project, since they would first have to find the oracle who might not even be born yet.
	+ Josiah restated his position that your light bulb should at least burn above a certain level of brightness in order for the oracle to even consider you. He asserted that some people might not even want to go see the oracle, but if their light burns with a certain brightness then they have to go on the pilgrimage.

## Notable Events

* Drew revealed that he had previously been a runaway bride, though he would not reveal who he had been planning to marry. Only a few details surfaced, including that this person has been in two bands, the first of which was less financially lucrative though more artistic, and that they have since married someone else.
	+ Note: This mystery person is widely believed to be previous guest Nate Ruess.
* Drew revealed that he adopted a World Wide Pet kitten and he is now very badly bruised at the injection point. He shared that this was an early experimental trial of World Wide Pet, so the specific injection point that will be used in the future World Wide Rollout has not yet been determined. Drew's injection, though, was in his urethra.
* Josiah and Drew revealed they were discontinuing the recurring Seg-Mind segment because "no one likes it".
* Josiah and Drew discussed a specific joke format at the start of the episode for the purposes of humor and to socially lubricate the brain ready for penetration with knowledge. The joke format discussed in this episode was the light bulb joke.
	+ The light bulb joke is any joke of the form "How many X does it take to change a light bulb?" followed by a witty riposte, usually incorporating a stereotype of X.
	+ Josiah and Drew watched a video of someone telling several light bulb jokes. The joke topics included NASCAR drivers, politicians, surrealists, and psychiatrists.
	+ Josiah and Drew watched another video of someone telling several light bulb jokes. The joke topics included kids with ADD, therapists, hipsters, mystery writers, and alcoholics.
	+ Josiah and Drew watched another video of someone telling several light bulb jokes. The joke topics included elected officials, staffers, liberals, conservatives, socialists, consultants, and lobbyists.
* Josiah and Drew revealed that the ongoing Calgary Awareness Month has a new nickname, which will be revealed in a forthcoming episode of Calgary Awareness Month, available on Patreon.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video about what an idea can mean.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video about ideas.
* Josiah and Drew accidentally watched a joke video about innovative ideas.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video about trepanning, which is the process by which light bulbs will be physically attached to everyone in the world's head.
	+ Trepanning, also known as trepanation, trephination, trephining or making a burr hole (the verb trepan derives from Old French via Medieval Latin from the Greek noun of trypanon, literally "borer, auger") is a surgical intervention in which a hole is drilled or scraped into the human skull, exposing the dura mater to treat health problems related to intracranial diseases. It may also refer to any burr hole created through other body surfaces, including nail beds. It is often used to relieve pressure beneath a surface. A trephine is an instrument used for cutting out a round piece of skull bone. In ancient times, holes were drilled into a person who was behaving in what was considered an abnormal way to let out what they believes were evil spirits.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video that defined the word trepanation.
	+ Trepanation (noun)
		- 1. The practice of drilling a hole in the skull as a physical, mental, or spiritual treatment.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video explaining how electrodes can be physically installed inside of the brain to prevent seizures.
* Drew revealed that he is not ambidextrous.
* Drew introduced his new idea, the D-phone, which will be faster than an iPhone or an Android Google phone, it will connect your calls faster, and it will be much cheaper, costing around $200 WWD, it will have full video, it will get FLAC files, it will play full audio quality, and it will come pre-loaded with all of Neil Young's discography because it is his new project after the Pono. It is a joint project between Drew and Neil Young.
	+ Note: Drew would not be willing to die or to kill a baby for this idea.
* Josiah and Drew watched a brain video of Josh Brolin and Marilyn Monroe to show how powerful ideas can be.

## Notable Quotes

### Josiah

* "How many feet long are your uh feet? In sizes? In uh American men's foot size."
* "But urethra, my rethra, we're all the same in the end."
* "Some cities just seem like Calgary, even if they're not."
* "We've been using ideas to power - to be co-authors of the memespace, to tell great stories, to enliven the imagination, to stretch our brains beyond the cognitive cansvas."
* "It's a system where there are bulbs above everyone's heads, everyone on Earth is required to undergo the process to have the bulb and uh that's how we'll know if they have a good idea or not. And there's nothing magic about it, this is rooted in reality, there will be a bulb attached to everyone's head uh in order to be able to have this done."
* "So every human being on Earth will have a small hole augured through their skull. Sort of into the part of the brain that forms ideas."
* "[On the topic of forcibly auguring a hole in the brain of every newborn in the world immediately after their birth to install a light bulb on top of their heads] Well I guess we have to figure out, at what point does the skull stop growing cause if you - if the skull grows and the hole has been burrowed in, is that gonna be an issue? Or will it just kind of grow around it like a tree root?"
* "Cause like you said, everyone does have ideas sometimes but most people's ideas is just like 'I'm gonna go jack off' like whatever your ideas are usually. Probably - probably something like that."
* "[Giving examples of some of Drew's ideas] 'Why don't I go jack off with the other hand and see if I can pretend it's someone nasty doing it, not myself?'"
* "If you really believed in an idea truly, so much so that your light burned brighter than everyone else's and you were selected from the pack with the best idea, if you believed in that idea truly, I hate to say it, would you be willing to kill a baby for it? Cause that's how you know it's a good idea. That sort of moral quandary is how you know."
* "[On the topic of killing the oracle baby] I'm thinking it's like a test, and maybe this whole thing is just like hologram-based in case we don't find a real oracle baby, but it's a test and when you're willing to kill the baby and you sort of squeeze the last bit of life out of it, or you think, it looks up at you and says in sort of a deep British voice 'You've passed the test.'"
* "So you don't think any idea is good enough for an atrocity? What if the idea is to save everyone uh from - immortality for everyone?"
* "And then the Marilyn Monroe side is kind of the - we all have it in our home, the framed - where it's maybe on a canvas, but printed on a canvas, a black-and-white image of Marilyn Monroe where just her lips are red, everything else is black-and-white, and it's on a canvas and it's in all of our living rooms. But if you're not careful, you're gonna start seeing J-Brol when you look at it."
* "The power of the brain and the power of ideas has the power to change the world and we wanna change the world one change at a time, every change is one idea that could change the world and we need to make sure we know ideas and whose ideas are the best and so we need to have mandatory brain augur drills where there is a light bulb attached to it that lights up based on whose idea has the best, as determined by an algorithm, we can do Drew's - once again Drew's addition to the idea involves child labor and we'll decide if we wanna do that or not, but my idea's the brain."

### Drew

* "[On the topic of Justin Trudeau] I say Tru-don't take my money. With all those taxes."
* "I'm a runaway bride."
* "You reall- Josiah. Hang - hang on for a second. Hang on for a second. A medical professional - Josiah, hang on for a second. A medical professional, you really think a doctor is gonna mistake my face for my urethra?"
* "Calgary is more than just a city."
* "So if you have an idea, you can create - so if I could - I could create uh my own phone, I could call it a D-phone, the D stands for Drew."
* "I was just thinking how heartbreaking it would be to have a newborn baby with its light bulb going off, the light bulb is so bright it's blinding to the doctors but they can't understand, they don't understa- they're not able to communicate with the baby, but the - it's getting so hot, the light bulb, it's starting to burn."
* "I think women should be allowed to have bulbs because women have ideas."
* "[In response to Josiah's accusation that his ideas are usually about jacking off or something like that] My ideas are usually like 'Why don't I go write a song or why don't I go write a poem or why don't I go write a book?'"
* "What if you take too much fire damage from the baby? Does it ruin your armor?"
* "So the Josh Brolin side of the brain is where *Sicario* and *Sicario 2* and *Deadpool 2*, that's where they all come from."
* "And that's why you need to get a hole drilled in your head."
* "[In response to accusations that his addition to the idea involves child labor in the form of a glowing oracle baby] I think you can make a special case for this. An argument for it. It's an oracle and it's floating around, shooting fireballs."
* "Let's not worry about what it does for the environment, I think they're powered through just our brains, so it'll probably just make us a little bit stupider."

## Trivia

* The glowing oracle baby is another example of Drew's involvement with babies or small children, following God, Tavis, Barry, and Johnny Lips.