Episode 56: Our Haunted Planet

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## Episode Summary

The Earth has been subject to possibly 100 years of destruction and mayhem of humanities evil...Okay now consider a bowl or rice and you're screaming at it and a second bowl of rice you're loving on. Which bowl is going to be tastier?

## Idea Details

* Idea: Trauma-memorializing haunted houses and haunted attractions
* Creator of idea: Drew
* Purpose of idea: Well, Josiah, I want you to um just tell me 5 things that you're thinking about. (Josiah: "5 things that I'm thinking about right now?") Mhm. 5 things. 5 things 5 things. (Josiah: "I'm thinking about Ray, I'm thinking about uh John Little, I'm thinking about Emily, I'm thinking about Miranda, and I'm thinking about what if Drew also was in the - what if Drew was in there. What would he - what would his character be if he was part of it?") That would be great! That would be fun! Well, I want you to think about something else now, Josiah. I want you to think about a little science experiment. Uh and that might be hard to think about because um you're not that scientifically literate. (Josiah: "Yeah, I'm more of a, sort of a poet, I think. More of an emotional poetry kind of type of guy.") Yeah. Nothing wrong with that. But I think there's - I've got a couple videos that I think - (Josiah: "To be or not to be. Kind of.") Yeah. Shakespeare. (Josiah: "The roses uh are red.") Yeah. Anyways, I wanted to show you these and I wanted to - I think these are a good sort of segue to um what I'm gonna be talking about. They've taken the water, and just through their thoughts, they changed the chemical composition of water. And that's - I want you - that's like - I want you to think about the effect that humans have on their environment. I want you to think about the fact that - well shut the fuck up, Josiah, and just please let me get my point across. OK? I want you to think about the fact that these kids looked at this water and gave it good thoughts, and guess what? A beautiful crystal formed out of it. So there you go. (Josiah: "And someone went thirsty.") But what I'm trying to get at, Josiah, is that the Earth is itself something that, you know, vibes to us and understands uh sort of how we're feeling, it understands when we're being positive, when we're being negative, and it takes on trauma! And it can take - (Josiah: "The rice?") Well ri- yeah, well, rice can, right? Like in this case. (Josiah: "Well it's kinda being cooked. I mean, does rice want - does rice - what does ri- in order to apply this uh value system onto rice, we have to determine: what does rice want and what does - what is self-actualized rice? Is the final form of rice to become cooked and placed inside of - and some people don't like to put rice inside of a burrito, but should we not be - so sh-") Well we don't - well we don't - Josiah, these were just examples, Josiah, the rice is - we're not necessarily just talking about rice, we're talking about the planet itself! This is not, you know, uh - (Josiah: "So in your metaphor, is the planet rice? The planet is made of rice.") Yes. The planet is made of rice and we, human beings, through negative thoughts, negative vibes, awful acts of murder and destruction and chaos and wars and famines throughout history, all the negative uh things that - (Josiah: "Well if anything, one of the - you know, one of the worst things people are always complaining about is global warming, but that would actually be good to cook the rice.") Yeah, well we're not talking about - forget about the rice, Josiah. (Josiah: "Well you just said that the rice is the Earth.") Yeah, but the rice is getting in the way of your understanding of the concept that I'm trying to present. (Josiah: "Yeah, I think I'm just a little bit confused cause you've got rice that has labels on it, and the rice appears - the rice seems to have been able to read the label.") But the point is is that the Earth takes on all of the suffering that happens on Earth, all the negative things, all the uh war, you know, um all these terrible things that happens to the Earth, it now has to shake it off. But I have a very different sort of take on this. I don't think that the Earth shakes its trauma off, I think that the trauma is manifested by things that happen on the Earth. So I think, for this gentleman, he's saying, 'OK the trauma is being shaken off,' and in that sense, you know, like stuff like earthquakes and tsunamis, but for me, I think the trauma manifests itself in a different way, and I think that's through um ghosts and cryptids and having these sort of uh creatures and these sort of living - almost living - living - not living, cause they're ghosts - but almost living dead - living dead memorials to the terrible events that have happened on the Earth. That's why ghosts are always surrounding such like traumatic events, that explains that. (Josiah: "So are you saying kind of how like horror movies is every horror movie you see, you know, like name a - you know, you see a horror movie like *Final Destination* is actually about uh depwession and divowce and huwt feewings.") Well, no, it's not quite like that, but I think that's part of it. But I'm saying that traumatic stuff, you know, like places where ghosts haunt - they often haunt castles because they were soldiers who got their heads cut off, or they were spies who were tortured to death, right? This kind of stuff creates - (Josiah: "So hang - OK, I think I'm - so wait wait wait. So you're saying that kind of monsters are symptomatic of trauma. They're - and that makes me think - that actually makes a lot of sense because there's that song *Mons-Trauma-Sh*. *Mons-Trauma-Sh*. It has 'trauma' right there in the middle of it. It's been hiding right in plain sight! *Mons-Trauma-Sh*. *Mons-Trauma-Sh*.") Well, I mean, that's - I mean, that's a great point. 'Mons-Trauma'. (Josiah: "Sh.") 'Mons-Trauma'. (Josiah: "Sh.") Well, no, I think, yeah - (Josiah: "He did the mash. The mons-trauma-sh.") I did the mas-trauma-sh. No, so I think that ghosts are basically manifestations of the Earth's trauma. Does that make sense to you? Cause we kinda have to establish that. (Josiah: "So what are you proposing?") Well I'm just saying, does that make sense to you? (Josiah: "Lady Ghostbusters? Is that your idea? An all-female version of the Ghostbusters?") No! That's not my idea. I'm just saying, does that make - I mean - (Josiah: "Yeah, you're saying that because - you're basically saying that we, as human beings, went into space and, on a piece of masking tape, wrote 'Heavy Metal Music' and slapped it onto the Earth and then now we're have all become rotted like rice. And the rot is monsters.") The rot is monsters, the rot is ghosts. So what do you do when you have a planet that's covered in monsters and ghosts, Josiah? (Josiah: "Uhhhhhhh are you asking me? What to do?") I'm asking - yeah. (Josiah: "I mean, how the fuck should I know? I don't even - I'm barely keeping up with you this week, so...") Well, you investigate it. (Josiah: "So can I just ask a que- are you saying that we should be making more haunted houses or wh- or that the Earth...? What are you trying to say? What are you trying to say here about rice and water and *Mons-Trauma-Sh*?") We should at least take advantage - what I'm trying to say here - what I'm trying to say, Josiah, I don't think it's that hard to figure out: our world is haunted, right? We can all agree with that. (Josiah: "Mhm.") There are monsters, there are ghosts. (Josiah: "K.") So why don't we uh build more haunted houses?
* Timetable: No timetable was given but since Earth is already haunted by ghosts and monsters, we can build trauma-memorializing haunted houses and haunted attractions all over the Earth at any time.
* Idea details:
	+ If you think positive thoughts about water, it will form a crystal.
	+ If you say nice things to rice, it will stay fresh, whereas if you say mean things to rice, it will rot.
	+ The trauma of the Earth, from murder to war to famine, has given the Earth trauma. This has manifested in the form of monsters and ghosts on Earth, similar to how rice becomes rotten from its trauma.
	+ A haunted house or some kind of haunted attraction will be built to memorialize each trauma that has occurred on the Earth.
	+ Someone riding on the World Wide Train (noun) will look out at the world and since death/trauma has happened everywhere, it will be like riding in a little car at the Haunted Castle Dark Ride at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, for example.
	+ By recognizing that the Earth is a haunted house or haunted attraction ride, we will have a lot more fun.
	+ Reality shifting can be applied to haunted houses.
		- Note: This is the second idea of Drew's in a row to involve reality shifting, after Episode 54: World Wide Safeword.

## Devil Play

* Josiah played devil on the water experiment in Drew's intro to declare that water is a limited resource and people shouldn't be wrecking it to prove a point in a water experiment. He emphasized that it could instead be used to wash a car or drink a glass.
	+ Drew told him not to worry about wasting water and told him to shut the fuck up and ignored his point to say that the results of the experiment suggest that humans have an effect on the environment.
	+ Josiah maintained his stance and expressed his belief that someone went thirsty as a result of that experiment.
	+ Drew pushed back, saying they didn't know what they did with the water afterwards; the researchers could have given it to somebody who needed it.
* Josiah played devil on the rice experiment in Drew's intro to declare that the labeled rice is probably reading the label on the jar of rice opposite to it, not the label on the jar of rice that it is inside of, because that label will appear inside out and backwards.
	+ Drew expressed his skepticism that the rice would somehow decide to think that the opposite jar's label would refer to it.
	+ Josiah asked if the rice would be able to connect its situation to *The Shining* and thus know to read the words backwards.
	+ Drew maintained that the rice's degradation is vibe-based and not necessarily reading-based.

## Notable Events

* Josiah and Drew tested the sound to introduce the show at the beginning of the episode.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "English Conversation 20" about an English conversation.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "English Conversation 65" about an English conversation.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "English Conversation 81" about an English conversation starring Dr. Ray. Josiah and Drew revealed they would revisit the characters in this video in future.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "Masaru Emoto's Experiment in Gratitude" about how Masaru Emoto's experiment in Gratitude shows us what happens when you #BlessTheWater.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "Interesting Experiment With Cooked Rice | Incredible Power Of Words Experiment By Grant Thompson" about how if you’re wondering if words affect the human body and affect our universe...then check out this awesome rice water experiment from TKOR.
* Josiah revealed that one of his future ideas will involve everyone who likes heavy metal metal music being round up and shot because we need to get rid of those people.
	+ Note: With the implementation of a World Wide Playlist, there will will only be one world-central hub of music broadcasting system. The scary music will be used at Guantanamo Bay or at wartime or fight time or battle. The nice music will be when we need to heal, because you can't heal the world without making a few wars in the world. Presumably, Josiah's future idea he alluded to in this episode will involve people who like the music at Guantanamo Bay, though this line of speculation would be better left until he officially unveils the idea.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "The coming Trauma Release of The Earth Mother, Mother Earth" about the coming Trauma Release of The EarthMother, Mother Earth, TRE, trauma release excercise, consciousness, expand, personal development, yoga, vibrational, healing, self love, kambo, ayahuasca, mapacho, abundance, natures way of life, completion process, jp sears, self worth, self healing, heal the planet, heal yourself, spacecraft, loving, compassion, etheric, abundant, self sufficieny, joy, gratitude, meditation, creation, create your reality, create abundance, crypto, cryptocurrency, heart center, heart centeredm.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "INVESTIGATING HAUNTED MANOR WITH CHILD PSYCHIC! | Hill View Manor" about how TFIL investigated the well known haunted Hill View Manor and was joined by @PyshicKidsKendyll where she showed them the many hidden secrets of the building.
* Josiah and Drew read about Hill View Manor, which is a retirement center with many amenities for the elderly people who reside there.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "Overnight in Axe Murderer's House (Lizzie Borden Hauntings)" about how Sam and Colby took a psychic medium to the infamous Lizzie Borden Axe Murderer House and tried to solve the mystery overnight through paranormal investigation.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "Lizzo and Average Andy Go Through a Haunted House" about how Ellen’s Executive Producer Andy took a DNA test, and it turns out he was 100% scared out of his mind as he walked with Lizzo through the “Pandora’s Cabinet of Curiosity” house at Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "Andy Lassner Breaks Silence On Ellen Controversy" about how "Ellen" producer Andy Lassner admits "it's been a couple of rough months" following reports of "toxic" workplace claims at "The Ellen DeGeneres Show".
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "How to Get Rid of Rice Weevils (4 Easy Steps)" about how to identify and get rid of rice weevils on your property.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "[4K] Haunted Castle Dark Ride at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk" about one of the Coolest Haunted Castle Dark Ride at Santa Cruz Boardwalk.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "23 januari 2018" about reality shifting.

## Notable Quotes

### Josiah

* [In response to Drew saying the word 'bill'] "That's uh safeword. That's my safeword!"
* "Globe Hell Warning, leftist podcast, here to change the world, and we're gonna here to - here the change - to change the here uh world. Globe Hell Warning. Podcast."
* "Sam. That's my Sam."
* [In response to someone named John saying he owns a Baroque table in the video they were watching] " 'A baroque table'? Maybe you should fix it, John!"
* [In response to Drew saying he is not that scientifically literate] "Yeah, I'm more of a, sort of a poet, I think. More of an emotional poetry kind of type of guy. To be or not to be. Kind of. The roses uh are red. I can't think of another poem to... Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair."
* "Well water is just kind of like a finite resource and I don't think people should be doing experiments on it and wrecking it. And if - I mean that could have been used to wash a car or uh drink a glass and I feel like they shouldn't be doing experiments on it to see what they can do if they do a little, turning it into a crystal; it's kind of irresponsible."
* "Yeah, wasting resources to prove a point is not good."
* "What kind of thoughts do you have to think to make a Swarovski crystal?"
* "I've always thought of you as being the king of random."
* "So when he said, 'I will kill you,' to the water, a little man formed inside of it?"
* "People who like heavy metal music should be round up and shot, and that's one of my ideas for the future. We just need to get rid of em. Those people."
* "So if people say, 'I will kill you,' to you, you might have a little man growing inside of you."
* "K, can I play devil really quick? The rice, if its labeled on the outside, then the rice is probably - the rice is probably reading the opposite-facing jar to it, so it's not gonna r- well it's not gonna r- you think it's reading it inside out and backwards?"
* [In response to Drew being incredulous at the suggestion that the rice would be reading the opposite jars label instead of the jar the rice is inside of] "Well it's would be backwards inside. Cause if it - cause the one that says, 'I HATE you.', it really to the rice, it says: 'ouy ETAHI'. 'ouy ETAHI'!"
* [On the topic of rice being able to figure out it needs to read its jar's label inside out and backwards] "Oh, so you think the rice will be like, 'Oh, this is like in *The Shining* when it says uh, 'Murder' or whatever? I think the rice is probably reading the opposite one, and if anything the positive power probably made it turn brown! Cause it's a snowflake!"
* "I didn't know that rice could read, honestly, first of all. I always thought of it as more of a food rather than a -"
* "I mean, does rice want - does rice - what does ri- in order to apply this uh value system onto rice, we have to determine: what does rice want and what does - what is self-actualized rice? Is the final form of rice to become cooked and placed inside of - and some people don't like to put rice inside of a burrito, but should we not be - so sh-"
* "So in your metaphor, is the planet rice? The planet is made of rice."
* "Well if anything, one of the - you know, one of the worst things people are always complaining about is global warming, but that would actually be good to cook the rice."
* "Yeah, I think I'm just a little bit confused cause you've got rice that has labels on it, and the rice appears - the rice seems to have been able to read the label."
* "What did you say earlier about a lion and a wife?"
* [On the topic of how only lions are afraid of their wives] "You're 'lyin'! 'Lyin'! I'm afraid of 'lyin' to my wife."
* "It all comes back to rice, really."
* "So are you saying kind of how like horror movies is every horror movie you see, you know, like name a - you know, you see a horror movie like *Final Destination* is actually about uh depwession and divowce and huwt feewings."
* "So hang - OK, I think I'm - so wait wait wait. So you're saying that kind of monsters are symptomatic of trauma. They're - and that makes me think - that actually makes a lot of sense because there's that song *Mons-Trauma-Sh*. *Mons-Trauma-Sh*. It has 'trauma' right there in the middle of it. It's been hiding right in plain sight! *Mons-Trauma-Sh*. *Mons-Trauma-Sh*."
* "He did the mash. The mons-trauma-sh."
* "So what are you proposing? Lady Ghostbusters? Is that your idea? An all-female version of the Ghostbusters?"
* "Yeah, you're saying that because - you're basically saying that we, as human beings, went into space and, on a piece of masking tape, wrote 'Heavy Metal Music' and slapped it onto the Earth and then now we're have all become rotted like rice. And the rot is monsters."
* [In response to Drew asking what you do when you have a planet that's covered in monsters and ghosts] "Uhhhhhhh are you asking me? What to do? I mean, how the fuck should I know? I don't even - I'm barely keeping up with you this week, so..."
* "You're saying you wanna be hanging out with a nine year-old? At night?"
* "Now, already they just called themselves a bitch, and I'm wondering if that's good for their inner rice."
* "Here's what I'm taking from this: we all have inner rice and what you do with your inner rice is what you do to your outer rice and we need to uh be more careful with our rice."
	+ Note: The concept of having inner rice is reminiscent of Drew's previous idea of having inner gold hidden talents, as discussed in Episode 42: GOLD!.
* "What if you took the nasty rice and mixed in the thankfulness crystal? Would it go back to normal?"
* [In response to Drew saying the thankfulness crystal would be taken over by the nasty rice] "So it's too late. Once you say, 'Fuck you,' to some rice, there's no turning back."
* "So can I just ask a que- are you saying that we should be making more haunted houses or wh- or that the Earth...? What are you trying to say? What are you trying to say here about rice and water and *Mons-Trauma-Sh*?"
* [On the topic of Ellen's toxic workplace] "Toxic workplace. The rice is all off!"
* "Your thing this week is that we're all made of rice. That was your idea. So everything's made of rice, according to you."
* [In response to Drew saying rice weevils won't eat you, only your rice] "You remember, we established I'm a poet? And I'm using metaphor to say the rice weevils are the monsters that are eating away at our Earth's rice, which is the Earth. So you're saying we need to build a honey pot monument to trauma, uh we need to celebrate trauma, and celebrate all of the people who've caused trauma."

### Drew

* "We're here to change the world one day at a time, taking it one step forward, two steps back, then a big leap forward, then one step back, then a few steps forward, one step back, one step back, then a big leap -"
* " 'That's what she said.' Michael Scott. One of the best. Michael Scott from *The Office*. Have you ever watched *The Office*? Have we talked about *The Office*?"
* "I come from Calgary."
* [In response to someone being a therapist in the video they were watching] "Oh, he -! Is he a therapist?? Ohh! Oh no, is he going to do some Motivational Interviewing?"
* "Do you wanna hear something brave - or not brave, uh but really cool that I heard the other day? Um a lion? The only thing a lion is afraid of is a female lion. So if you're afraid of your wife, that means you're a lion."
* "Well, Josiah, I want you to um just tell me 5 things that you're thinking about."
* "5 things. 5 things 5 things."
* "Well, I want you to think about something else now, Josiah. I want you to think about a little science experiment. Uh and that might be hard to think about because um you're not that scientifically literate."
* [In response to Josiah reciting the poem, 'Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair'] "Well, pay attention."
* "Well, not all water's good for drinking, this may have been like distilled water that's no good for drinking, you just pour it out usually."
* [In response to Josiah saying that wasting resources is not good] "No, I want you to think about the fact that - well shut the fuck up, Josiah, and just please let me get my point across. OK?"
* "This is from The King Of Random, by the way. I think that's a little presumptuous."
* [In response to Josiah saying the rice in one jar is actually reading the label on the jar opposite it, rather than the label on the jar it is inside of] "Well that's not true! It could be reading - it's gonna know - you think - you think - do you think the - you think that the rice is gonna read the label on another jar of rice and say, 'That refers to me'??"
* [In response to Josiah ] "Yeah, but it recognizes the fact that it's backwards. It would say, 'What is this? It makes no - this is gibberish. Oh, it's backwards!' "
* "It's almost like our vibe is ruining it, right? Cause it's like if you're - you send out positive vibes, you get good rice. But if you send out negative vibes or if you listen to heavy metal music, you're gonna get nasty rice or you're gonna get a -"
* "But what I'm trying to get at, Josiah, is that the Earth is itself something that, you know, vibes to us and understands uh sort of how we're feeling, it understands when we're being positive, when we're being negative, and it takes on trauma!"
* "Josiah, these were just examples, Josiah, the rice is - we're not necessarily just talking about rice, we're talking about the planet itself!"
* [In response to Josiah asking whether the planet is rice] "Yes. The planet is made of rice and we, human beings, through negative thoughts, negative vibes, awful acts of murder and destruction and chaos and wars and famines throughout history, all the negative uh things that -"
* [In response to Josiah saying global warming would cook the rice which is the Earth] "Yeah, well we're not talking about - forget about the rice, Josiah."
* "The only thing a lion is afraid of is its wife. So if you're afraid of your wife, you're a lion."
* "But the point is is that the Earth takes on all of the suffering that happens on Earth, all the negative things, all the uh war, you know, um all these terrible things that happens to the Earth, it now has to shake it off. But I have a very different sort of take on this. I don't think that the Earth shakes its trauma off, I think that the trauma is manifested by things that happen on the Earth. So I think, for this gentleman, he's saying, 'OK the trauma is being shaken off,' and in that sense, you know, like stuff like earthquakes and tsunamis, but for me, I think the trauma manifests itself in a different way, and I think that's through um ghosts and cryptids and having these sort of uh creatures and these sort of living - almost living - living - not living, cause they're ghosts - but almost living dead - living dead memorials to the terrible events that have happened on the Earth. That's why ghosts are always surrounding such like traumatic events, that explains that."
* "I did the mas-trauma-sh. No, so I think that ghosts are basically manifestations of the Earth's trauma. Does that make sense to you? Cause we kinda have to establish that."
* "The rot is monsters, the rot is ghosts. So what do you do when you have a planet that's covered in monsters and ghosts, Josiah?"
* "Well, look, they call- he - or she said she's a bad bitch or whatever. What did she say?"
* "Ahhh fuck fuck fuck, I'm so scared!"
* [In response to Josiah asking if your inner rice can be saved] "No. I mean that's not what this is about. This is about ghosts."
* [In response to Josiah saying ] "Well no. No, I'm not saying that. I'm saying that we should have - we should have - we should have more haunted houses. And what I'm trying to - I'm trying to - I'm trying to explain, and I'm - I know I'm not doing it well, is - no, well, imagine all - imagine almost a landscape of different haunted houses. Cause that's essentially what the planet is, I mean it's - death has happened everywhere, it's all haunted houses. So in a way, the World Wide Train going along the Earth, going ac- going along the Equator, you look from a World Wide Train, and you may as well be on the Haunted Castle Dark Ride at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk."
* "Just like the way at the Haunted Castle here, you get on a little car and go through and get scared, that's how the planet is, Josiah. And if we recognize that, we could have a whole lot more fun. Does that make sense to you?"
* "I mean, if we can apply this sort of thinking to like a haunted house sort of scenario....... are you listening?"

## Trivia

* This episode involved much discussion about inner rice, which, while Drew specified was exclusively to be understood as a metaphor for the rot of the Earth that causes monsters and ghosts, does actually create a seeming similarity to the ideas previously discussed in Episode 42: GOLD!, which dealt with having inner gold hidden talents as well as the opening of a corner store that has Freddy Krueger as a mascot.
* This is the second idea of Drew's to revolve around the idea of balancing out the trauma and evils committed on the Earth with an opposite force, after Episode 50: The Fervorists.
* This episode technically kicked off the The Art of Conversation series of episodes, though it would not see its official start until The Art of Conversation with DB and JF.
* When the video version of this episode was first released, the episode title of the video version was "our haunted planet". It was later renamed "Episode 56: Our Haunted Planet".