Striketober with Alex Press

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1:02:27

**Video:**
striketober.mp4

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## Episode Summary

We had Alex Press back on the show to discuss labor striketober, why doesn't it rhyme and Australian Actor Chris Hemsworth.

## Notable Events

* Josiah and Drew interviewed world renowned journalist Alex Press for the second time, following her previous Patreon episode Journalist Roundtable with Alex Press.
* Josiah, Alex Press, and Drew discussed Locktober, which is a month of chastity where you are locked up in a cage that goes on the penis like a cup.
* Josiah, Alex Press, and Drew discussed some alternate names for Striketober that would make for a better portmanteau while still being on the topic of the labor shortage and the supply chain.
* Josiah, Alex Press, and Drew discussed that Canadian Thanksgiving occurs in October.
* Josiah, Alex Press, and Drew discussed how Alex Press wears Apple-brand headphones, rents an apartment and pays a landlord, and is a millionaire.
* Josiah, Alex Press, and Drew discussed Alex Press's feelings towards Chipotle.
* Josiah, Alex Press, and Drew discussed whether Alex Press is anti-union.
* Alex Press and Drew discussed their relationship with celebrity Nate Ruess, wherein they give and they give but they get nothing back.
* Josiah, Alex Press, and Drew watched a series of videos that Josiah and Drew put together about some of their favorite videos from Striketober about striking. They watched the following videos:
	+ "How to Strike from ANYWHERE! | The Sarah Klassen Channel" about how you can strike from anywhere.
	+ "Basement Bowling Strike Compilation" about how you can strike anywhere, even in a basement.
	+ "Elf Bowling 1 & 2 SPEEDRUN WORLD RECORD (All% 9 MINUTES)" about what some bosses are doing to break up strikes, like throwing bowling balls at elves or curling with elves.
	+ "Galaxy Bowling rant" about how strikers rant because they're upset.
	+ "Pink Panther And The Bowling Strike | 35 Minute Compilation | Pink Panther and Pals" about another example of a strike.
	+ "Jason Belmonte Tries to Bowl as Many Strikes as He Can in 90 Seconds" about the guy that Striketober needs, Jason Belmonte.
	+ "Chris Hemsworth Tribute (E.T. - Katy Perry)" which is the music video for *E.T.* by Katy Perry.
	+ "The Bowling Alley Screen When You Get A Strike" about a new Pixar movie starring a bowling pin whose family was killed.
	+ "Those Weird Bowling Animations When You Bowl" about live footage of Striketober in Iowa.
	+ "MLB | Umpire Enjoy The Strikeout" about a different kind of strike other than standing outside.
* At one point in the episode, Alex Press hung up on Josiah and Drew, repeating her actions from her previous episode, Journalist Roundtable with Alex Press. While Josiah and Drew waited for her to decide to return to the episode, they watched a video called "Chipotle vs NYC w/ Alex Press" about a show Alex Press two-timed Josiah and Drew into doing after hanging up on them.
* Josiah, Alex Press, and Drew discussed *Robin Hood: Men in Tights* and how Drew has seen it probably 50 times.

## Notable Quotes

### Josiah

* "It's Globe Hell Warning, we're here with a uh female guest."
* "The supply chain is down!"
* "So, Alex, I was curious before we get into the episode, you know, you hate uh brands and you hate uh business owners and business people, and yet I notice you're wearing uh Apple-brand uh headphones here to uh. Care to explain?"
* "Drew gets up at 6 in the morning, his time, and finds about 15 things to make sure we've all seen, people talking about drinking their own cum, first thing in the morning."
* [On the topic of coffee] "Which is a drug."
* "So Striketober is a terrible rhyme; what is it?"
* "Is it like the Shocker Bowling thing cause you do the shocker hand signal into the bowling ball? That's kinda cool."
* [In response to Alex Press saying he doesn't really complain about men] "You don't really hear of male Karens."
* [On the topic of Alex Press hanging up on them] "This is so typical of these leftists."
* [On the topic of Alex Press having a disrespectfully bad internet connection] "When Michael Moore invites you on, do you do this shit, too?"
* [On the topic of Alex Press having a disrespectfully bad internet connection] "You know, our friend, the toilet boy, he drove all the way to the library to use free Wi-Fi to do the --"
* "Alex, you'll never be a toilet man."
* "This is probably one of the best episodes we've ever done."
* "Cause Drew's a huge Dave Chapelle fan. Including, like, the most recent stuff."
* "Wait, is Santa jacking off?"
* "You know what, Alex? You're i-- you're in -- you're on our show and you're in our home right now, and you don't speak to Drew like that!"
* [On the topic of Amazon owning the internet] "You're the one who's using the internet right now. You ever think of that?"
* [On the topic of Wi-Fi] "And Drew's hoping to get a uh 'wife'-y. A 'wifey'!"
* [On the topic of Drew's uncle's death] "He took his own life. Yeah. The day that Drew announced he was doing Globe Hell Warning, his uncle..."
* "Yeah, you have a podcast about Amazon Prime. And yet you have an Amazon wishlist in your bio. Care to explain?"
* "How much money would you need to switch teams to become uh rightist? Best offer? Bes-- highest bidder."
* "Well, you know, it's cause we were all excited to have you on the show and we thought maybe it'd be a real get for us and you've been hanging up on us the whole time and you're not really offering much insight about Striketober. What's Striketober? Why doesn't it rhyme?"
* "It's giving Malick."
* "This is like a David Lynch NFT."
* "Do you think there'll ever be leftist NFTs?"
* [In response to Drew saying they did an episode about NFTs] "I don't think we did an episode about it. Yeah. We did? I don't think so. We did the meme stocks or whatever. Read the Wiki."
* [On the topic of Alex Press freaking out when Josiah said Noam Chomsky's name] "You had a Karen meltdown. Trying to report us to the boss of Globe Hell."
* [On the topic of Alex Press's unresponsiveness as a guest] "It was almost easier when she had hung up on us, to be honest."
* "So Drew doesn't wanna have female guests cause he's afraid that he'll charm them too much. Uh, they'll all fall in love with him. And I think that did happen today! And it's making me quite uncomfortable."
* [In response to Alex Press saying some people are just charismatic] "And in your case, some people are 'Karen'-matic."
* "We love our female guest."

### Drew

* "Hey, I need you to come in. I think you should leave. Oh my God, he admit it!"
* "Fuck off! Piece of shit."
* "My uncle uh -- no. Very funny guy, very funny guy. Always uh told a lot of jokes, and he had this great bowling joke. He used to say, 'Why are the football players not allowed in the bowling alleys? After getting a strike, they spike the ball!' Mhm. He used to tell a lot of bowling jokes. He used to say, 'What kind of a cat likes to go bowling? An alley cat!' Mhm."
* [To Alex Press] "Fuck you."
* [To Alex Press] "Yes! Don't interrupt me!"
* [On the topic of Alex Press hanging up on them] "This is just fuckin' typical!"
* [On the topic of Alex Press hanging up on them] "This might be our lowest point."
* "One of my good friends... has betrayed me. Alex Press."
* "Right. You hate when women talk."
* [On the topic of Alex Press having a disrespectfully bad internet connection] "Fuck's sakes. For fuck's sake."
* "I love Sam Seder. One of the funniest stand-ups around."
* [On the topic of criticizing men versus women] "I mean, it's different for guys."
* "Think about it from the boss's perspective, Alex."
* [To Alex Press] "Yeah, fuck you."
* [In response to Alex Press not wanting to be shamed for still thinking about Matt Groening's feet since her previous appearance] "People shame me all the time, I'm gonna shame you."
* "My uncle used to say, 'Last night I did stand-up in a bowling alley parking lot,' and I would go, 'Oh, really? How did that go?' And he'd say, 'Well, some of my jokes struck out! The audience was split!' "
* "Shut up, man!"
* [On the topic of how Nate Ruess looked on SNL] "Yeah, short and kinda old."
* [In response to Alex Press asking if they can explain what an NFT is] "No. We did an episode about it but I don't remember."
* [On the topic of the kinds of shows Alex Press goes on] "Don't you always do, like, racist shows? I can't remember."
* "Hey, Josiah? Remember 'CLOWN NFT DT'?"
* [In response to hearing some lo-fi beats to study and chill to] "This is my favorite type of music."
* [On the topic of Noam Chomsky] "Don't worry; he doesn't watch this."

### Alex Press

* "No. Not doing that. I'm not saying a slur. I can't do that."
* [On the topic of being the second female guest on Globe Hell Warning] "Was I also the first? Wow. That's scary!"
* "I think men first, on this show."
* "Actually and I'm inside an apartment that I rent from a landlord."
* "Chipotle's not very punk."
* "But uh I don't hate Chipotle, for the record."
* "Chipotle seems uh -- I don't know, it was always a good deal. A lot of food."
* [Said to Josiah in an accusatory tone] "You don't have a job, do you?"
* [On the topic of whether she is anti-union] "I'm not gonna say anything that people are gonna get mad at me about."
* "This is why women don't go on your show."
* [On the topic of doing the shocker hand signal into a bowling ball] "That's kinda nasty!"
* "This would be cool! To bowl on the picket line."
* [On the topic of why a college student would make a fake video of herself getting a bunch of strikes at bowling] "I think she's just doing it for clout!"
* [In response to Josiah telling a story about a certain woman journalist who fakes an interest in strikes for clout] "It's interesting how she's a woman in this story. You don't really complain about men, do you?"
* [On the topic of Alex Press having a disrespectfully bad internet connection] "What am I supposed to do? I'm in Pittsburgh!"
* [On the topic of Drew being a huge Dave Chapelle fan, including the most recent stuff] "Wow. That's cool, I haven't seen the new Dave Chapelle stuff. Is it good, Drew?"
* [On the topic of whether a boss could break a strike with a bowling ball] "I don't know how to break it to you that actually a striker was killed on the picket line today, so it's... Not by a bowling ball, to be clear. By a car."
* "You guys are very angry people. Both of you."
* [To Drew] "That's nasty."
* "I don't know if you guys saw Nate on SNL but he looked *really* short."
* "Can you explain what an NFT is?"
* "You're really - you're sellin' yourself short, Drew, if you think Noam Chomsky doesn't watch these."
* "I've never criticized Chipotle."
* [In response to Josiah saying she freaked out when he said Noam Chomsky's name] "OK, I've never freaked out in my life."
* "Oh my God. OK. Right, this is -- you know what? This is the last female guest you're ever getting on the show, to be clear. Just gonna put money on that."

## Trivia

* This episode marks the second time that Globe Hell Warning has had a guest who is not a man, at 182 days since Alex Press's previous episode, Journalist Roundtable with Alex Press, though she is the non-male guest in both episodes.
	+ Note: Only men have been the guests on main episodes of the show as of this point.
* Alex Press is the second person named Alex to be a guest on the show, after Alex from *It's a Beautiful Day in the Gulch*, who has appeared in three previous episodes of the Patreon-exclusive series, The Toilet Tapes. She is thus also the second person named Alex to be a repeat guest on the show.
	+ Note: It took Alex from *It's a Beautiful Day in the Gulch* 53 days to become a repeat guest on the show, whereas it took Alex Press 182 days to accomplish the same feat.
* This is the second episode to have a notably different Episode Description on Twitter since Episode 49: Leftist Hypebeast. On Twitter, the Episode Description was modified slightly to refer to Alex Press instead as 'Alex "Karen" Press'.
	+ Note: Referring to Alex Press as a Karen likely explains why she was given blonde hair in the episode art for this episode, though that is only speculation.
* At 17:15 into the video version of the episode, Alex Press put up a .jpg of herself and left the room so that Josiah and Drew would not notice she was gone. It took Josiah approximately 30 seconds to realize she was gone. At 18:53 into the video version, after Alex Press had already abandoned the episode, Drew also left, leaving Josiah by himself. He promptly attempted to redial both his co-host and their guest, which inadvertently revealed a portion of the group chat between the three of them at 18:57, as well as Josiah's green screen located behind him during recording sessions, at 19:01. Drew rejoined the call at 19:05 and revealed he had hung up on Josiah. Josiah admonished him for this, pointing out that they're recording live. At 20:06, Josiah revealed that Alex Press told him "Oh, Discord's fucking up for me," which both he and Drew also admonished. At 21:02, Josiah and Drew watched a YouTube video featuring Alex Press, only to discover that it is the video she left their call to go record, which means she two-timed them. At 22:46, Josiah decided to capture video of Alex Press from the YouTube video they were watching so as to put that in the corner of the screen while they continued watching bowling episodes until she returned, thereby giving the illusion that she had not actually left them. At 23:23, Josiah accidentally overlaid an image of his search results in YouTube over the entirety of the screen, rather than the video of Alex Press, as he had previously said he intended to do. At 24:12, after some editing, Josiah got the capture video of Alex Press ready, precisely as the real Alex Press rejoined the call, though in audio form only, saying she didn't think it would work for long. While Josiah was explaining the new situation to Alex Press, whereby she would try to sync her real-time audio with her old video recording of herself, she hung up and rejoined again as of 24:24. At 26:25, Josiah announced that Alex Press's video was back. He put both her live video and her old video on screen at the same time as of 26:51. At 29:26, Josiah removed the previous video of Alex Press talking, leaving only her live video self.
	+ Note: Alex Press also left the recording in her previous episode, Journalist Roundtable with Alex Press.
* This episode has two notably different episode titles between its audio and video formats. The audio version is titled "Striketober with Alex Press (audio)", while the video version is titled "Striketober with Alex Press".
	+ Note: The title used for this Globe Hell Warning Wiki page was chosen for its greater degree of clarity.