Episode 11: The World Wide Boy

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## Episode Summary

The Globe Hell Podcast new mascot Tavis the World Wide Boy 17 Year Old Dude Ranch Hand

## Idea Details

* Idea: The World Wide Boy
* Creator of idea: Drew
* Purpose of idea: The idea I want to propose is the idea of The World Wide Boy or The World Wide Kid or The World Wide Child. I think this is something that could take a number of different turns. A couple weeks ago we had talked about the World Wide Landlord. I had proposed the idea of the World Wide Landlord being something of a mascot for the World Wide Train (noun) - all the different projects that we're trying to do here at Globe Hell Warning, and I think that's sort of misguided. I think it's wrong to have our lord and savior in the commercials and doing stupid things. This Boy, this Child, is going to serve as the mascot for the Globe Hell podcast rather than the World Wide Landlord. I'm picturing this Boy in my head, and he's 17 years old, he's a cowboy, he lives on a dude ranch, and each week different city-slickers come to the dude ranch and he has to teach them how to rope cattle and all that sort of stuff.
* Timetable: Mason Ramsey, the yodeling singer child, was 13 years old at the time of this episode's release, so for him to play The World Wide Boy, it would have to start very soon. He will need his prosthetics to be aged up to 17 as soon as possible.
* Idea details:
	+ The World Wide Boy is a character and he will be cast in his role.
	+ The World Wide Landlord will only lose his status as the Globe Hell mascot, he will keep his other responsibilities on the first of every month.
	+ The World Wide Boy does not necessarily have to be a boy. It could be a girl World Wide Boy / World Wide Child / World Wide Kid / World Wide Son.
	+ The World Wide Boy will be a mascot not only for the World Wide Train (noun), but also for the World Wide Train (verb) and for any other ideas.
	+ He will be an income generator by appearing in advertisements.
	+ He will be very small, which is why everyone loves him.
	+ The yodeling singer child, Mason Ramsey, will play him; he is not 17 so he will be given prosthetics to age him up. These will include a few small wrinkles and a few gray hairs (not too many).
	+ In general, it is fine for the actor portraying The World Wide Boy to be younger than 17, as long as they are not older than 17. This is because it is a hell of a lot harder to do the de-aging than the up-aging.
	+ The World Wide Boy will be named Tavis The World Wide Boy.
		- Another option considered was Tyler.
	+ The World Wide Boy will have to refer to Drew as "Papa".
	+ Tavis The World Wide Boy's dude ranch will only be a set - it will not be a real location. The city-slickers he teaches will be actors within the world of the advertisements.
	+ The World Wide Boy will be kept under lock-and-key near the movie set where his advertisements are filmed.
	+ The dude ranch could be located in Los Angeles, or it could be located somewhere that Josiah and Drew could take advantage of a tax write-off like Atlanta. Alberta is not giving tax write-offs anymore so it cannot be filmed there.
	+ The World Wide Boy will be signed into a contract - he will not be forced to work.
	+ The tagline for The World Wide Boy's commercials will involve him addressing the camera saying something like "Hello I'm your Boy, Tavis, and this is my dude ranch."
		- This tagline will be translated into every language.
	+ After Mason Ramsey ages out of the role of Tavis The World Wide Boy, it will be recast. The next actor to play the role could be anyone, including someone who is only 5 years old right now.

## Devil Play

* No one officially played devil in this episode, although Josiah argued with Drew about almost every one of the handful of aspects of The World Wide Boy. However, he loved the idea by the end of the episode.

## Notable Events

* This episode introduced a new start-of-episode routine whereby Josiah and Drew breathe in credible thoughts and then breathe out uncredible thoughts. This will help to get the ideas flowing for the episode discussion each week. It was noted that the "credible" vs "uncredible" terminology may change each week to reflect a new mantra for each episode.
	+ Note: The weekly breathing exercise would later be named Seg-Mind in Episode 14: World Wife.
* Drew revealed that he does not like to blink due to a valid fear that he passes out when his eyes are closed.
* Josiah had suggested changing the name of this idea from The World Wide Kid to The World Wide Boy.
* World Wide Spy
* World Wide Women's Room
* Josiah and Drew compared the box office hauls of City Slickers and Cowboys & Aliens.
* Josiah and Drew watched some videos about the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York City.

## Notable Quotes

### Josiah

* "There's an inside joke from my other show about dude ranch but I don't want to get into that cause it's nasty and we're talking about a World Wide Boy and it's Drew who wants to try to steer it in that direction. And now there is a cowboy joke: we can say 'steer' in that direction."
* "I feel like you're just describing a 17 year old who has a petting zoo type area where people can come and go as they please, if they want. And in your mind, he's some sort of a mascot figure, but he's kind of serves no other - I mean, it's almost one of those things that it's like why are you even bringing it up, other than if it's some sort of intrusive thought that you have that there's this ageless 17 year old who doesn't age that people can come visit and watch him stroke a rope."
* "Breathe in cum, breathe out cum."
* "Some people are 50 and call themselves The Child while engaging in all kinds of illicit activities."
* "You look like you're chasin' a 'bate, man."

### Drew

* "So we're breathing in cum."
* "Some people don't look young. Some people look like they're in their mid-to-late 40's and they act like they're a child but they are in fact in their mid-to-late 40's."

## Trivia

* This is the first episode with the world "The" in front of the word "World" in the episode title.
* Drew referenced Josiah's other podcast Blink-155.