Episode 87: Books VS Phones

**Video:**
1:00:08

**Video:**
books vs phones.mp4

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## Episode Summary

Ever since the Bible people have been reading and writing books...that is until the internet came along and they started making posts. So which one is better? One is paper and the other is wires. Okay, so lets choose one.

## Notable Events

* Drew revealed that he was forced to get four roommates in his one-room apartment because the podcasting economy is so tough. They all sleep in one big bed but they don't sleep head-to-head, they sleep feet-to-head, which Drew admitted is probably worse. To be clear, there are only four roommates, plus the others who come and go. Drew did not yet add them to the lease because they're keeping it on the down low. There is also a small section of the apartment that is set up just for gunfire. Drew keeps his apartment unlocked, though he isn't sure why; he thought he would be safe. Drew feeds everyone, but mostly with horse hay. Despite the fact that some of them pay rent, Drew still pays the same rent as before they moved in. Drew's roommates clean up after themselves.
* Drew's four roommates (plus the others who come and go) are:
	+ Al, an impressionist of De Niro, Pesci, and Pacino doing *The Irishman* in quarantine. He also does Joe Rogan. He was loudly recording an impressions video very close to Drew during the recording of this episode. He also does *Home Alone*. Al found Drew after watching Globehell Hype House and got in contact with him to try to do a similar thing and get a few content creators together in one living space. He is a TikTok guy. He also does Donald Trump. He is Irish and not Italian. He also does Brock Lesnar. Drew has not heard his regular voice yet because he's always in character. He also does Mike Tyson, Eddie Murphy, and Mark Wahlberg. He also does some Irish impressions of people we don't even know. He also does The Rock.
	+ Doug, a musician in an all-white synthesizer mariachi band and the leader of the group. The band is all from Calgary and they really only play there.
	+ A musician in an all-white racist synthesizer mariachi band whose name Drew did not yet know.
	+ A musician in an all-white racist synthesizer mariachi band whose name Drew did not yet know.
	+ A horse who comes and goes. This is Drew's fuck buddy. Al's impressions have been known to upset the horse. The horse died during the recording of this episode because it got caught in the crossfire.
	+ The others who come and go to use the gun range. They are men and women who come in with masks and military fatigues on and speak an Eastern European language. Drew doesn't really know much more about them because they don't interact with him much. They also spend the night and Drew feeds them.
	+ James Bond, the Secret Service agent. He looks exactly like George Lazenby.
		- Note: It is unclear why he doesn't look like Dennis Bateman.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "Wesley Chapman and J V Crum III: 'For-Purpose' Branding to Drive Growth" about how Wesley shares his journey as a successful entrepreneur and provides an inside view on how you can make money by making a difference and become a Conscious Millionaire. Drew revealed that if Globe Hell Patreon subscribers go into the Discord and click on the Amazon link for the Conscious Millionaire's book, Globe Hell Warning gets a portion of the money. Josiah and Drew remarked at the difficulty they were having in hearing the video over Drew's roommate Al performing impressions of *Home Alone* in the background, as well as his other roommates practicing in their mariachi band.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "Daniel Ruke and J V Crum III: Turn Entrepreneur Vision into Big Profits!" about how Ruke shares his journey as a successful entrepreneur and provides an inside view on how you can make money by making a difference and become a Conscious Millionaire. Josiah and Drew discussed Drew's roommates further, especially Doug and his synthesizer mariachi band from Calgary.
* Josiah and Drew tried to watch a video called "Pilar Ortiz and J V Crum III: Utilizing Media to Up Your Game" but the Watch2Gether was not loading it properly for some reason, so they briefly switched to a video called "Wes Schaeffer and J V Crum III: Sales Automation for Entrepreneurs". After that video loaded correctly, they switched back to "Pilar Ortiz and J V Crum III: Utilizing Media to Up Your Game". Josiah and Drew discussed "the others who come and go" in more detail, particularly Drew's horse fuck buddy and the gun range, as well as the fact that Doug's synthesizer mariachi band is all-white and racist.
* Drew displayed his cat Duck to the camera and asked if he had any problems with Al's impressions or Doug's all-white racist synthesizer mariachi band or Drew's horse fuck buddy or the gun range at 18:40.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "Podcast: Books vs Internet" about the old debate between books and internet that has existed since Web 2.0. They could not really hear the video over the shooting at the gun range and the chainsaw cutting open the dead horse.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "Cell Phone Addiction | Tanner Welton | TEDxLangleyED" about how Tanner has a comedic and uncanny way of noticing everyday events. The others who come and go stopped shooting their guns for this video because they wanted to hear the boy.
* Josiah and Drew watched a short video called "Internet vs Books !" about a part of "Asdf movie 4" by TomSka. They rewatched the video because it was a good one.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "Internet vs. Books" about a response to Doris Lessing's opinion of the cultural importance of books vs. the Internet. The others who come and go started shooting their guns again and Al started his impressions again, so Josiah and Drew couldn't hear the video at all over the noise.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "good effects of the internet Vs. books" about a race to find who was the first President of the United States.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "Library vs Internet Research". James Bond, the Secret Service agent, showed up during this video. Josiah and Drew couldn't really hear what she was saying in the video.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "Topic books vs internet" about Books vs google. Josiah thought the video was in English.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "Books vs Internet" about how never before have we been able to access knowledge like we can today through the power of the Internet. Drew woke up Al during this video and he resumed his impressions. Then he fell asleep again and started loudly snoring. Unfortunately, he talks in his sleep, so his impressions continued.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "Books vs Phones" about why aren't people reading?
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "Which is better - books or the internet?" about how Aranya answers another of your questions... Josiah and Drew discussed Al's impressions and the shooting range in more detail.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "books vs phones" about how phone, me, on the train which is book and this is while studying.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called ""The truth about mobile phone and wireless radiation" -- Dr Devra Davis" about what are the health effects of mobile phones and wireless radiation? Josiah said he would mix this episode in post so that when Drew is not talking, his audio is muted. Drew announced that the alarm went off during this video, which meant they would be in trouble. The other let off a bomb during this video.
	+ Note: It is unclear why it was a bomb and not a scorp.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "70-year-old man read more than 5,000 books within 8 years" about how a 70-year-old man gave up drinking to read books instead, roughly 5,000 of them. Drew silenced his roommates and the others so they could listen to the 70-year-old man.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "Why Are You So Addicted To Your Smartphone?" about what makes you so addicted to your smartphone? Al started doing his impressions and the others started shooting their guns again during the video.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "How a Kindle changed my Life | Why you should get a Kindle (Kindle Paperwhite)" about the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite and how it changed my life recently in 2022. Josiah discussed how you used to have a phone-book to look up anybody, but then it became phone vs. book, but now there's a new thing called the book-phone: an Amazon Kindle, where you can get any book on your phone and change your habits and Always Be Reading (ABC). Josiah proposed that everybody should get a book-phone now so they can read books.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "Kindle Touch: Getting Games​​​ | H2TechVideos" about how this is a video tutorial on how to get games on the kindle touch and also how a few of the games look too. Josiah discussed that the secret thing about the book-phone is that you can also get games on it so you don't have to read if you don't want to. More bombs dropped during this video. Josiah and Drew discussed their final thoughts on books vs. phones, as well as on book-phones. Drew thought they needed both, and so a Kindle is a perfect combination of the two because it's a book-phone. Josiah and Drew discussed how Drew would bring a girl back to his place with all of the noise from his roommates and the others, with Drew saying he would get a motel. Drew stated that he thought Josiah's idea of a phone-book was a great idea. Josiah got angry because this episode wasn't about an idea, it was about a debate.
	+ Note: It is unclear why they were bombs and not scorps.

## Notable Quotes

### Josiah

* [On the topic of Drew's apartment possibly being a bachelor pad] "I mean, no matter where *you* live is gonna be a bachelor pad."
* [On the topic of Drew's mariachi roommates] "It's like a... MIDI mariachi band living with you?"
* "Did you invite these roommates here to get revenge on me for cutting my hair last week? Is that what this is?"
* "People have stopped reading books. And they've stopped learning. And, really, intelligence is on the decline; people have got a real, kind of, phone-brain now."
* [On the topic of getting a phone detox for phone addiction] "Yeah, you need to detox your phone with a Lysol wipe."
* "What does the real James Bond actually look like?"
	+ Note: It is unclear why Josiah asked this question, as this was extensively detailed in Episode 44: The Marxist 007.
* "Can you ask James Bond to keep it down? I mean, he seems respectful."
* "Kinda reminds me of World Wide Train - the shooting range."
* [On the topic of how phones damage bone marrow while in someone's pocket] "So if you had a book in your pocket, probably your bone marrow would be *better* from osmosis from the books, but osmosis doesn't work with the phone."
* "If you use cell phone heavily, then you'll have less sperm coming out of your..."
* "I actually find Al the most annoying of your roommates."
* "I mean, how are you ever gonna invite a girl back to your place like this?"
* [In response to Drew saying he would like to see some *Angry Birds* on the book-phone] "Yeah, yeah, uh, your uh -- your future wife!"
* [In response to Drew saying Globe Hell is gonna put a phone-book in everybody's hand] "No, it's a book-phone, Drew. You're not hearing me: book-phone. The phone-book is the old thing; now we're doing a book-phone."
* "I mean, this has been a great episode. So thanks, everyone."

### Drew

* [On the topic of how Drew found his new roommate Al] "He found me! He found me. He saw the Hype House episode, uh and he got in contact with me. He thought, 'Why don't we do, sort of, our own thing, get some content creators in here?' So we've got, like, uh, obviously Al, I've got some musicians staying in the house, um just different -- all different types."
* [On the topic of Drew's mariachi roommates] "No, it's not MIDI! It's synthesizers! But yeah, they are a synthesizer mariachi band. I don't know! So, Josiah, what do you want me to do - do you want me to go out into my car and record this??"
* [In response to Josiah's question about how Drew manages to get any sleep with his roommates making so much noise] "I don't! I barely sleep anymore."
* "I have a horse in my house."
* "We have a small section of the uh apartment set up uh just for uh gunfire. Mhm. It's definitely not safe."
* "It's not a shooting range! It's just a small area that we have carved out -- partitioned for shooting."
* "Well, look, you're not on Web3, you're not makin' moneyyyy."
* "You're not gonna have to worry about the horse anymore. You're not gonna have to worry about the horse anymore. Got in the crossfire."
* "Al!! For fuck's sake, man!"
* [On the topic of having roommates] "It's hell! It's hell!!"
* "You have millions of sperm. I mean, I waste it every day. I shoot it out. I shoot it out."
* "I'm not gonna *kill* Al!"
* "Well, Amazon do a lot of great things. And, of course, if you click our affiliate links, you get a little bit of that -- you get a little taste of that. So use our affiliate links, uh use our uh -- use our -- J V Crum -- check out J V Crum."
* "Globe Hell: we change the world every week; we're gonna put a phone-book in everybody's hand."

## Trivia

* This is the ninth main episode to not propose a new Globe Hell idea, after Bus, Episode 27: Why Do I Have Blue Eyes?, Episode 30: The Stock Market Explained, Episode 40: The JO Zone, Episode 51: What If He Stays, True Crime Podcast, Episode 72: WWideas, and Episode 79: Quiet Reflections.
* This episode has two notably different episode titles between its audio and video formats. The audio version is titled "Episode 87: Books VS Phones", while the video version is titled "Books vs. Phones", and while the in-episode title refers to it as "Books vs. “Smart” PhOnEs", and while the episode art refers to it as "Books vs. “Smart” phones".
	+ Note: The title used for this Globe Hell Warning Wiki page was chosen for its greater degree of clarity.
	+ Note: There is some precedence for excluding the episode number from the episode title, as detailed below:
		- World Wide High School
		- Episode 9: World Wide Landlord was originally titled simply "World Wide Landlord" but was renamed to include the episode number.
		- Bus
		- Episode 19: World Wide Rock Festival was originally titled simply "World Wide Rock Festival" but was renamed to include the episode number.
		- Episode 55: World Wide T'rain, which excluded the episode number from the episode title of the video version.
		- Episode 57: Faster Fashion, which excluded the episode number from the episode title of the video version.
		- Episode 59: Globe Hell Family Podcast Network, which excluded the episode number and included the word '(video)' in the episode title of the video version.
		- Episode 61: Food Baby, which excluded the episode number from the episode title of the video version.
		- The
		- True Crime Podcast, which excluded the episode number from both versions of its episode title and also included the word '(video)' in the episode title of the video version.
		- Episode 66: World Wide Mutual Aid DIY Delivery Service, which excluded the episode number from the episode title of the video version.
		- Episode 67: Free University Degree World Wide No Tuition Diploma, which excluded the episode number from the episode title of the video version.
		- Episode 71: World Wide Watercooler, which excluded the episode number and was all lowercase in the episode title of the video version.