Episode 12: World Wide Anthem Featuring Mr. Worldwide Nate Ruess.

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## Episode Summary

Josiah and Drew are back with special guest Nate Ruess to write an anthem to bring all people together again.

## Idea Details

* Idea: World Wide Anthem
* Creator of idea: Josiah
* Purpose of idea: We need a World Wide Anthem. A song that the whole world mandatory to learn and sing every day. A song the world can sing. So Nate, we have you here to help us craft a World Wide Anthem that the entire world can sing in unison, will unite them, it will be a little bit propaganda and a little bit rock 'n' roll is kinda my thought. It's a World Wide Anthem that the whole world can sing. It will be something to meditate on, it will help heal the wounds of agony. It's a really divisive time right now, and there's a lot of opposing viewpoints right now, and we're all sort of being torn in different directions. It feels like everyone's playing devil. Somebody's saying playing devil to me this morning saying "You know, you need to be putting on a mask", and I'm saying "Well that's an interesting opinion and I appreciate it, but don't you think this is actually a good idea, you're just playing devil?" And it's been difficult. So to have an anthem that could bring us all together, we all sing it in one voice: English. Canadian English. With Canadian spelling.
* Timetable: World Wide Anthem must be fully written and recorded before the end of this episode.
* Idea details:
	+ Nate Ruess will help Josiah and Drew finish World Wide Anthem which will unite the world. The original plan was to have the song fully written and recorded before the end of this episode.
	+ Drew wrote a backing track before the episode started in the key of C.
	+ Nate Ruess suggested that they start to write the song with lyrics because he's been really good at that lately when working with other people.
	+ Some topics they would like World Wide Anthem to touch on include ending ageism for Josiah, getting a girlfriend or ending racism for Drew, World Wide Train (noun), people who don't know how to take a joke and PC culture run amok and people are too sensitive these days for Nate Ruess, taking shots at the party for Josiah.
	+ Some planned lyric ideas for World Wide Anthem include "this could be the last night of our lives, so what do you say we live like it's today?", "today, me and you, hand in hand, hand in hand, forever", "now's the time, to live our truth, live our truth, together", "it's the World Wide Anthem, just the World Wide Anthem, it's the World Wide Anthem, oh yeah", "we're not gonna cancel anyone anymore, not you, not me, any of us".
	+ The first take lyrics for World Wide Anthem, as performed by Nate Ruess:
		- > This could be the last night of our lives
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		- > So what do you say we live like it's our last night
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		- > Today me and you, hand in hand, hand in hand, forever
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		- > Now's the time
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	+ The second take lyrics for World Wide Anthem, as performed by Nate Ruess:
		- > Today, me and you hand in hand
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		- > Hand in hand forever
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		- > Now, now's the time to live our truth
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		- > To live our life, our truth together
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		- > It's the World Wide Anthem
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		- > Just the World Wide Anthem
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		- > It's the World Wide Anthem
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		- > Oh yeah
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		- > It's the World Wide Anthem
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		- > Just the World Wide Anthem
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		- > It's the World Wide Anthem
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		- > Oh yeah
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	+ After hearing how good Nate Ruess's vocals were in the hook, he and Josiah decided to make World Wide Anthem a for-profit song instead of a song for the public domain. They also agreed to drop Drew from the writing process because his production and songwriting skills were not good enough. The final version of the song would only include the hook featured in the second take. It would also include more upbeat drums as well as trumpets.
	+ The final lyrics for the for-profit World Wide Anthem, as performed by Nate Ruess and Josiah:
		- > It's the World Wide Anthem
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		- > Just the World Wide Anthem
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		- > It's the World Wide Anthem
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		- > Oh yeah
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## Notable Events

* This episode introduced a new catchphrase, which is something along the lines of: "Fuck being polite, we're being polite-ical."
* Go Bald Warning
* World Wide Fireplace
	+ This was a suggestion by Nate Ruess that was immediately shot down by Josiah and Drew because it was too similar to something they already had planned. Nate Ruess countered that this would be a gilded fireplace that would relate to the golden child, the World Wide Landlord.
* This episode's breathing exercise was created by Nate Ruess and involved Josiah and Drew closing their eyes and imagining a very calming blue light that starts at their toes and moves up like water through their foot, up through their ankle, up through their shins, up through their calf, up through their knee, up through their quad, up through their hips, up through their tummy, up through their chest, up through their shoulders, then down through their fingertips, up through their neck, up through their chin, up through their lips, then all the way up to the top of their head. With a last deep breath, they will exhale the blue light and let the energy fill the entire room.
	+ Note: The weekly breathing exercise would later be named Seg-Mind in Episode 14: World Wife.
* Nate Ruess suggested becoming the sports correspondent of Globe Hell Warning but Josiah and Drew blew past that.
* It was revealed that Nate Ruess has been sending Drew money and food.
	+ Note: This ended during the course of the episode after Nate Ruess offered Drew a job offer to write the background music for his guided meditation instead of for World Wide Anthem.
* World Wide Country
* World Wide Grammar Guide
* Josiah and Drew revealed Globe Hell Warning is signed to either the Hamburger or Humdinger Network on a very lucrative contract.
* Nate Ruess revealed he pronounces P!nk incorrectly, saying "pink" instead of the correct pronunciation "pexclamationmarknk".

## Notable Quotes

### Josiah

* "Are you [Nate Ruess] trying to make Drew cum right now?"
* "What would it take for an anthem to unite the whole world and bring world peace and help people to stop criticizing our ideas and to respect us as leaders?"
* "Drew's too busy trying to end a jizm with that blue light right now."
* "[Speaking to Drew about the job offer from Nate Ruess to only write the background music for his guided meditation instead of for World Wide Anthem] Drew honestly, can I have a little sidebar, Drew? You should take that offer. Cause it's not gonna get any better for you, bud."
* "You're being cranky. And if someone who has lost six Grammys but was nominated nonetheless tells you that your production sucks a dog's dick off, then you gotta listen to them. It's not very often that you can have somebody so much drastically better off than both of us put together come into your home and tell you that something you worked hard on is a piece of shit. You take that. You take those lumps."

### Drew

* "[Nate and I] are almost always talking about you [Josiah], and it's almost it's almost usually almost usually uh nice almost."
* "Do you think [*Uptown Funk*] will unite the entire planet?"
* "What are the words that will bring the planet together, Nate? What are the words that will end racism? That will end world hunger?"
* "[On the prospect of ending worldwide ageism] It's not a priority for me."
* "Vampire Freaks?"
* "Nate's an 8chan guy."
* "Yeah, I do wanna get Tantric in my apartment."
* "Shut up idiot."
* "You sounded like shit, Josiah."

### Nate Ruess

* "My dentist doesn't get alt humor."
* "I've read you say one F-bomb a whole bunch of times in the group chat, Drew."
* "I've got The World Wide Boy in the room."
* "I don't wanna play devil to you guys's relationship, so let's just talk about the song."
* "That's how my song *We Are Young* starts, so let's just start talking music baby. Get me going. Get me fired up."
* "I like dubstep."
* "[Answering Josiah's question about whether he copies other people's songs usually] Sometimes. I've copied a few songs. I've been sued for songs that I didn't copy."
* "Is 8chan the uncool one?"
* "[After Josiah and Drew modified a couple of Nate Ruess's lyrics during a lyrics brainstorm] OK cool. How many hit songs have you guys written? Between the two of you?"
* "Boys, we got our hook. *It's the World Wide Anthem*. The production sucks."
* "Disregard all the production and just hear like eight of my vocals."
* "[Hearing Drew's song] What is this, like an *Uncut Gems* demo or something? I mean, if this were my song, I would cut out all of this."
* "We gotta start on 3. Drew, you finish to 4 and then cut out, and Josiah and I will finish singing it."

## Trivia

* This is the second episode to feature a guest, who was Mr. Worldwide himself: Nate Ruess.
* This is the first episode to include the guest's name in the episode title (see Episode 1: World Wide Train, which featured James Wilt).
* This is the first episode title to end in a period.