Seg-Mind

**Seg-Mind** is the name of the breathing exercises performed at the beginning of some episodes of Globe Hell Warning. The practice started in Episode 11: The World Wide Boy, but it was not officially named until Episode 14: World Wife, over Drew's protestations. It has a theme song which was revealed in that episode as well.

The intent of Seg-Mind is to prepare Josiah's and Drew's minds for the discussions about to take place in the episode that week. It can also provide a mantra for the episode.

Drew mockingly suggested the breathing exercise should have a theme song in Episode 14: World Wife. He would later come around to the idea and embrace it, creating the melody for the theme song on the spot.

Seg-Mind was discontinued as a recurring segment in Episode 24: Ideas! after several episodes of disuse because "no one likes it".

## List of Seg-Minds

* Episode 11: The World Wide Boy
	+ Seg-Mind was introduced in this episode as 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.

* Episode 12: World Wide Anthem Featuring Mr. Worldwide Nate Ruess.
	+ 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.
	+ This is the first episode to have a Seg-Mind created by a guest.

* Episode 13: World Wide Watch
	+ This episode's breathing exercise was a blinking exercise led by Drew. This despite the fact that he had previously stated he does not like to blink due to a valid fear that he passes out when his eyes are closed, as revealed in Episode 11: The World Wide Boy. Interestingly, that was also the episode that introduced the breathing exercise as a start-of-show ritual. During this week's blinking exercise, you are not allowed to breathe. Josiah and Drew also stated their desire that all listeners follow along with the exercise each week, and that they also follow the Globe Hell Warning Patreon. The exercise involved blinking once, then blinking once again, then blinking twice rapidly, then blinking seven times rapidly, then blinking once and keeping eyes closed. It was then revealed that Drew made this blinking exercise up as he went along, whereas Josiah went on a spiritual journey to come up with his "last time". This despite the fact that Nate Ruess came up with the breathing exercise in Episode 12: World Wide Anthem Featuring Mr. Worldwide Nate Ruess.. It was at this point that Josiah stated his discomfort with the blinking exercise and told Drew they were instead doing a breathing exercise while blinking really fast while they did it. The breathing exercise was to blow out until fully out of breath, then say "I love you", then breathe in deep until fully breathed in, then say "I hate you". This was repeated multiple times over a 10-hour video of crying babies. Drew then stated his discomfort with the crying babies, but still persisted in finishing the breathing exercise. In the end, he agreed that the exercise did help.

* Episode 14: World Wife
	+ This episode's Seg-Mind involved Drew closing his eyes, then telling Josiah his biggest fear (spiders), then describing how he plans to overcome that fear (he doesn't), then slowly exhaling everything out, then saying "I'm a baby", then breathing in really deep, then saying "I'm a man" in a deep voice. Josiah joined in on the breathing exercise portion of Seg-Mind but did not state his biggest fear or describe how he plans to overcome it. This was repeated multiple times.
	+ The breathing exercise was officially named Seg-Mind in this episode.

* Episode 15: World Wide Beer with special guest Tom
	+ This episode's Seg-Mind involved breathing in while saying "Yoda", then breathing out while saying "C-3PO". This was repeated multiple times over music from the *Star Wars* soundtrack.
	+ This is the second Seg-Mind to feature a guest.

* Episode 16: World Wide Walk
	+ This episode's Seg-Mind involved inhaling as deep as you can, then holding your breath, then listening to as much of *Alberta Bound* by Paul Brandt as possible while still holding your breath. Drew ended up holding his breath for about four minutes.

* Episode 17: World Wide Email Forwarding Registration Service
	+ This episode's Seg-Mind involved breathing in, then saying "Borat", then breathing out, then saying "Borat 2". This was repeated a few times but Josiah stopped doing the breathing portion of the Seg-Mind partway through the exercise and instead focused on playing videos while saying "Borat" and "Borat 2". They then got distracted and watched several videos while talking over them, much like in the Patreon episode IMPORTANT INFORMATION.

* Bus
	+ This episode's Seg-Mind involved breathing in while saying "Harry Potter" (not after or before), then breathing out while saying "no longer" (not after or before). This was repeated several times while Drew's seat on the bus was getting kicked from behind and music played in the background. Then Drew's bus started honking its horn, drowning out the sound of Drew's voice entirely.

* Episode 19: World Wide Rock Festival
	+ This episode's Seg-Mind involved closing your eyes, then keeping them closed while pretending you're laying on your back, then picturing the sky opening up above you, then inhaling slowly while imagining in the sky opening up above you that there is a giant ass slowly pushing out an enormous turd into your mouth. Josiah revealed that this was a fake Seg-Mind he designed in order to trick Drew. The real Seg-Mind of this episode involved thinking about whatever you want and calming down. Drew's calming thoughts involved imagining a giant ass pushing out a turd into his mouth. Josiah's calming thoughts involved imagining Drew thinking about all that stuff.

## Trivia

* Some early brainstorming ideas for Seg-Mind include:
	+ World Wide Relax Baby
	+ What's Mind Is Yours
	+ Drew suggested it should just be a natural untitled segment, or simply referred to as breathing exercise