Bass

**Video:**
1:04:11

**Video:**
bass.mp4

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## Episode Summary

Is there any instrument more romantic and beautiful than the bass guitar? Some people think so, but most people don't. But what makes it the best instrument to listen to? Is it still bass if you're beat boxing from your mouth? Find out in this episode all about that BASS ;)

## Notable Events

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* Josiah and Drew revealed that before they got obsessed with changing the world, they had been bassists. That is what they had bonded over in Calgary.
* Drew played a Music Man StingRay, one of the great basses of punk. Josiah played a Squire Jazz Bass.
* Josiah and Drew played some tasteful bass riffs and bass licks and bass fills.
* Josiah and Drew spent this episode playing bass together, talking about bass, and watching videos of bassists. This follows up on some recent discussion about bass on the show, as well as several videos of homemade jug bass guitars in the previous episode, Episode 71: World Wide Watercooler. They watched the following videos:
	+ "(9yrs) AronTheBassist plays GOSPEL MUSIC🎶❤️ Smokie Norful - I’ve Been Delivered (bass cover)" about Drew's favorite classical musician and composer, Debassy, who did a Robert De Niro impression.
	+ "Things cocky bassists say" about a king with an SG bass.
	+ "U2 in SL Live Concert in Second Life (2008.3.29)" about a live performance U2 played in *Second Life* of their famous hit song, *With Or Without You*. Josiah and Drew played along and Drew sang along with the song. Josiah did a facial Bono impression.
	+ "FRANK ITT - INFINITE GROOVE BASS JAM" about Frank Itt, one of the go-to guys.
	+ "IMMORTAL 🇮🇳 | Indian Evil Bass Prodigy" about one of the young bass prodigies throughout the world.
	+ "American Football - But the Regrets are Killing Me | BASS Guitar Cover (Rocksmith CDLC 100%)" about a more traditional type of bass guitar player trying to learn a song with Rocksmith.
	+ "The Dancer Bassist" about a very visual video of a bassist dancing.
	+ "OneRepublic - Counting Stars - Bass Cover" about a bass cover of one of Nate Ruess's friend's songs.
	+ "How To Make A Bottle Bass Guitar" about a homemade DIY bass made out of a water jug.
	+ "Bass Fail" about a bassist failing.
	+ "DIY fretless acoustic bass from a broken washing machine drum" about someone who made a bass as a DIY project.
	+ "How to Make a Bass Using Fishing Line" about someone who made a bass as a DIY project.
	+ "Roots Radical bass cover - Rancid" about real bass.
	+ "UPTOWN FUNK But It's A Slap Bass Solo" about a bass cover of *Uptown Funk* by Mark Ronson, though Josiah and Drew did not watch the cover itself.
	+ "DR FUNK | Get Lucky (Daft Punk Cover)" about a busker bassist being cool and cheating by using a loop pedal.
	+ "I Built a Bass Guitar Out of CARDBOARD" about someone who made a bass as a DIY project.
	+ "MR. BASSFACE - INCREDIBLE SLAP BASS !!" about the future of radio pop music.
	+ "He got sick playing my dirty toilet seat bass guitar! You can almost smell it!" about a toilet bass.
	+ "Party Rock (Bass Cover)" about a six-string bassist which sucks. Josiah and Drew sang and rapped and played along.
	+ "Velvet Jones Crazy B itch" about a live band.
	+ "Fun - We are Young - Bass Cover" about a bass cover of a song that Nate Ruess wrote the bass part for. Drew sang along.
	+ "Bass For Beginners We Are Young by Fun" about a bass cover of a song that Nate Ruess wrote the bass part for. Josiah and Drew decided they would learn to play this bass part so Nate Ruess would be proud of them. Drew tuned before starting. Josiah and Drew sang and played along.
* Drew revealed he used to always play bass with his fingers but since he doesn't play quite as much these days, he has switched to playing with a pick. However, today, he could not find a pick.
* Josiah and Drew revealed that they would be releasing *The Full History Of Something Awful* next week, their first meme websplainer. They said that they had heard they have a lot of inside jokes so they wanted to make them accessible for everyone, as long as you are male.
* Josiah and Drew discussed that Drew would release a stand-up special on the Globe Hell Patreon called *It's All D*.

## Notable Quotes

### Josiah

* "Every time you talk, it's stool coming out of your --"
* [On the topic of one of the young bass prodigies throughout the world being a beatboxer and not a bassist] "It's all music, though."
* "As long as you are a male, uh you will be welcomed into our jokes."
* "I wonder if Nate's friends with OneRepublic."
* "This is what happens if you get *too* into bass when you're too young, you start becoming a boyish elderly man. He's kind of looks like he has both ends of the Benjamin Button spectrum."
* "It'd be cool if, like, Flea started using a water jug bass."
* [In response to someone in a video saying the word 'nut'] "Nut."
* [In response to someone in a video saying they would be punching holes] "You're not gonna be going into any holes anytime soon, uh, my friend."
* "This is the best episode we've ever done!"
* "The tone starts with his mouth and goes all the way down to his fingies."
* "Honestly, I bet you he's incredible at fingering girls."
* "Has anyone ever built a bass out of a toilet?"
* "I think I found a toilet bass."
* "Fuck six-string basses."
* "Do you think Nate's friends with the guys from LMFAO? They're probably too cool for him."
* [On the topic of Nate Ruess and LMFAO] "He probably badly wishes he was friends with them."
* [On the topic of the man playing a bass cover of *We Are Young* by fun.] "They should have let this guy play in fun.! Maybe they wouldn't have broken up! Sort of a fatherly presence."
* [In response to a bass teacher teaching them how to play *We Are Young* by fun. in a video] "Now let's hear you sing it! Let's hear you sing it, piece of shit."
* "You *should* make a stand-up special for our Patreon. We can just release it in full."

### Drew

* "This kid is much better than me."
* "He's sitting on a child's stool. You can see it."
* "It's a chair, dumb-- no, *you* called it a stool! I agreed that he was sitting on *something*. I wouldn't go so -- as far as saying 'stool'."
* "Well, stop saying 'stool', you fucking feces pervert."
* "I hate this bass that looks like an SG, by the way."
* "I'm not in tune."
* "Yeah, *Second Life* is uh cool."
* "Man, he's gotta -- he needs to get some beard dye, because that is so fucked-looking, dude."
* [In response to someone in a video saying the word 'nut'] "Nut."
* [In response to someone in a video saying the word 'nut'] "Nut. That's disgusting, Josiah."
* [Doing an impression of Captain Picard] " 'Mister Data, meet me on the bridge.' I'm playing Captain Picard. 'Mister Data.' "
* [Doing an impression of Bane] " 'Mister Data. Gotham evolved.' "
* [In response to someone in a video saying they would be punching holes] "Something I'd like to punch? Oh, Josiah Hughes?"
* "Hey, this guy understood the assignment."
* [In response to Josiah saying the tone starts with Mr. Bassface's mouth and goes all the way down to his fingies] "Goes out his dick."
* "Mmm. It's like he smelled a nasty toilet."
* [On the topic of a six-string bass] "No, that's just a regular guitar."
* [In response to a bass teacher teaching them how to play *We Are Young* by fun. in a video] "No shit, Sherlock."
* [In response to a bass teacher teaching them how to play *We Are Young* by fun. in a video] "Yeah, dipshit. Could you sing it? Could you write it?"
* "That's what I'm gonna name my uh first stand-up special for Netflix: *It's All D*."
* [In response to Josiah if they should just stop recording now] "Yeah, this sucks. This video sucks."

## Trivia

* This episode has two notably different episode titles between its audio and video formats. The audio version is titled "Bass Audio", while the video version is titled "Bass Video".
	+ Note: The title used for this Globe Hell Warning Wiki page was chosen for its greater degree of clarity.