Episode 41: VODE

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## Episode Summary

Mr. President is the most powerful being on the planet, but how the hell do you get his ear? If you have a helicopter flying over your house all night what can you do? Mr. President in his office, how do you make your voice heard that too many teens are screaming jokes about how you dress? THE VODE SYSTEM

## Idea Details

* Idea: VODE
* Creator of idea: Josiah
* Purpose of idea: If you can't use laugh to change world, if you can't use laughs to talk to government, what can you do to change world for government? Uh and change - make your voice heard and change world? How do you change world, Drew? (Drew: "Well the way I change the world, I have a uh series of different charities that I give to, I'm a bit of a philanthropist, I give up to $40 a year.") And what - and that's - there's a paper trail of this or is this something you're just - (Drew: "No, just giving away - just doing like a random giveaways on the street, not even people asking for it, I'll just say - I'll drop $20 on the ground and say, 'Hey, did you drop that?' and they say, 'No, I didn't'.") So you're sort of a secret guardian angel. That's powerful, actually. (Drew: "Yeah. How do you change the world, Josiah?") Well, I mean I also usually give away about $41 every year, but um. How can we all change the world is that the thing about the world and the way that it's set up is that we all answer to one man, which is the leader of the world, which is the President and we need to respect whomever is the President, and I think in the future it's probably safe to say that you're gonna be the President of our world that we're building, and I'm willing to sort of hand that over to you, I just kind of know that you're not gonna take no for an answer, so - (Drew: "Well yeah, out of the two of us, I always saw uh myself as the one who was fit to lead uh lead us into the future and who was the person who was most responsible who wouldn't abuse the power, um the person with the strength and the courage and the charisma and the brain and the knowledge. But also the vision.") And then, I guess I was curious, I knew that it was gonna come to this but I was curious: what do you thought that I would offer? (Drew: "What you would offer?") What would be my role? (Drew: "I guess uh um I'm sure you would be uhh mayor of a - yeah, mayor of a small town, I think?") We'll figure it out. The point is that, you know, we have - we're not there yet, but when we get there, the person making the decish is the prez. And that's a little bit of political jargon that maybe if you're a bit of a head uh - (Drew: "You mean the press. The press. The media.") No. No, the prez. The prez. Prez. (Drew: "Prez who?") You! (Drew: "Perez Hilton?") Prez You! (Drew: "Prez Me?") Gesundheit. (Drew: "Elvis Prezme?") When you are prez, people will have to speak to prez to make prez change things, and if we want the world to change for good or bad, we have to realize that we can't do the change, we need to talk to the prez! And the problem right now is you don't have no way to talk to the prez because there's something in the way of the communication that is in the way. You can't just g- say, 'Oh, I want COVID to be gone,' and then go talk to the president and say, 'Hey, can you get rid of COVID?'. You have to communicate some other way, and right now there's no way to do that, and I - and that's because there's something in the way called government, and I think that's a word that we use a lot: government. We know what it is - we think we know what is but we don't, and we need to really get into the nitty gritty of what is government first of all. So let's start with that. Let's start with what is government, OK? (Drew: "Fuck you, you piece -") So yeah, you're right. I mean, it's confusing as hell! And how are we supposed to make our voices become heard if we are not able to have the - I mean, it's too confusing! It's way too confusing. You have to learn about all these people and then you don't know which one to talk to and it's way too confusing to figure out how to make a President change the world. (Drew: "OK. So you're proposing some sort of new uh I guess you're gonna reorganize the government into a more lean, mean machine? You're gonna cut down on red tape and bureaucracy um is that what you're saying?") I don't know what any of that means. What I'm trying to say to you is this: you're gonna be the President, you're gonna be the one voice that decides and makes the decis- you're the grand decision maker of the globe, OK? (Drew: "OK.") And the way that people will make their voices heard and change the world and hopefully change your cruel, bitter mind for the better is via a new system of tickets that will be handed out that people can fill out. It's called the Verified Organizational Decision Expression ticket, so it's ability to express a ticket - express your decision on the ticket uh this - in short, it's called the V-O-D-E, so the VODE So people will VODE on various issues and that's how it will be. (Drew: "No, it's the V-O-D-E-T, right?") No: V-O-D-E, the Verified Organizational Decision Expression, the VODE. So you'll VODE on various issues and you'll cast your VODE and people will be VODEing for various things and uh you'll get a sticker if you submit and it'll say, 'I VODEd'. Um and so that's how the - there's no more, you know, talking to whatever a Congressman is, you don't have to figure out who the MVP MLA whatever, you just cast a VODE and that's how you get the message to you, President of the Future and then you will decide what to do. So, you know, we can pick a hypothetical, figure out how the public gets to decide what to do it, this is called democracy, it's been around for a long time, look it up you fuckin' idiot, and this will - and ev- people will VODE! And that's what we'll do.
* Timetable: No timetable was given for implementation of the VODE system, other than the Catch-22 of Drew's ascendance to the office of President. Once Josiah and Drew decide that Drew becomes President, the VODE system will be officially enacted World Wide. This will likely be very soon.
* Idea details:
	+ VODE, or the Verified Organizational Decision Expression, is ability to express a decision on a ticket. People will be able to VODE on various issues. After someone VODEs, they will get a sticker that says, "I VODEd'.
	+ VODE is the Vertical Offline Division Enterprise. Everyone will get it once Drew is elected President, and Drew will have final decision over everyone's VODEs.
	+ VODE is a Catch-22 because Drew cannot become President without VODE but VODE will not exist until Drew becomes President, so eventually Josiah and Drew will simply decide that Drew is President and then he will enact VODE. That first decision to make Drew the President will be the last one that is not decided by VODEs, or the Voice Of Democratic Expression.
	+ Views On Defining Everything
	+ VODE, or Verified Organizational Division Enterprise, will be paper tickets that are distributed by having carrier planes flying overhead and making it rain down the democratic VODE tickets on the streets. While some cynics may see that as not enough to decide the fate of the world, eventually they'll get a bit bored of it and so a couple times a year the planes will also blast out $100 bills as an incentive to make sure you're out on the street for the VODE rain. You can VODE as many times as you want as long as you pick up enough VODE tickets out of the streets.
	+ Vertical Organize Democracy Expression
	+ The VODEs will be put in glass bottles, much like putting a signed Rubik's cube in a glass jar. They will be regular glass bottles with a cork that get distributed by Army trucks, though that depends on what Drew the President wants to do with the Army. Each day the Army trucks will drive through the city blaring their sirens and dropping off the empty glass bottles like a milkman who drops off empty bottles. There will not be signed Rubik's cubes in the glass VODE bottles.
	+ People will put their VODE in a glass bottle and then throw the bottle into the sea. The bottle will then float over to Tabulation Island, which is an island where a tribe of prisoners live. Their job is solely to tabulate the VODEs as part of their early release program, which is a bit of a sham. The tribe of prisoners living on Tabulation Island will be chained together. They will collect the VODE ticket bottles that have floated to Tabulation Island, pull the corks out with their teeth, spit the corks into a big pile, and then tabulate the VODEs and send the results to Drew the President.
		- Note: The tribe of prisoners who are chained together and living on Tabulation Island whose only job is to tabulate VODEs as part of their early release program sounds similar to the Printerns, who are a group of prisoners interning in a prisoner printing work program at the World Wide Train Adult Education Center, and whose internship focuses on assisting senior citizen students at the World Wide Train (verb) with printing counterfeit money at school.
	+ You will make your selection on the VODE ticket by punching your hand through the piece of paper in the indicated area.
	+ VODE tickets will have a different Yes/No multiple choice question for each day of the week. The questions are as follows:
		- Monday
			* Do you want to have a happy life?
		- Tuesday
			* Should we feed the hungry?
		- Wednesday
			* Are you horny?
				+ This question might seem inappropriate on its face, but sexuality is a part of life and Hump Day should be celebrated.
		- Thursday
			* War?
		- Friday
			* Schools? / Beers on me.
				+ Note: A final decision for which of the two above options for the question on Fridays was not made.
				+ Note: No distinction was made about whether the schools in question are World Wide High School or World Wide Train (verb), but since World Wide High School was vetoed by Drew, and since VODE tickets are being dropped out of carrier planes all over the world, it was considered a safer assumption that Josiah and Drew were referring to the World Wide Train (verb).
				+ Note: It is unclear how Drew the President would be able to buy a beer for everyone in the world on Friday if World Wide Beer is implemented, because you do not pay for the beer, but rather a rental cost for the cups to use when you dip your hand into the stagnant pool of beer sitting in everyone's basement. Additionally, with the implementation of World Wide Wipes, beer would no longer exist, but rather flavor packets that you put in your mouth before getting a sip of water from the neighborhood World Wide Hose that you then swish around in your mouth.
		- Saturday
			* Will I still become the President?
				+ If the weekly VODEs for this question ever came back tabulated to say that no, Drew should not still be the President, then Drew can just say that it was tabulated by criminals on a convict island. He can even add something like, "Who are you gonna believe, me or a guy that stole a TV set from Best Buy?"
		- Sunday
			* [ ]
				+ Note: Sunday's VODE ticket will be intentionally left blank, allowing everyone to fill out the VODE ticket with the question they would like to be asked. After filling it out and answering accordingly, the Sunday VODE ticket should be burned. Drew the President will read it sometime after that. The Army trucks driving through the streets blaring their sirens will not make stops to drop off empty glass bottles on Sunday.
	+ It will take approximately three and a half months from the time of throwing your VODE bottle into the ocean to the time the message is tabulated and delivered to Drew the President. That might seem like a while but it's a direct line to the President so it's better than nothing.
	+ The tribe of prisoners living on Tabulation Island will be the worst of the worst criminals. They will be all killers and people who are going to kill again. 100 of these people will be dropped on Tabulation Island and then armed, at which point they will fight to the death and the last person gets the prize: a signed Rubik's cube.
		- Note: Arming the tribe of prisoners living on Tabulation Island is similar to the idea discussed in Episode 10: World Wide Train to arm the Printerns in order to keep the balance of power at play between the shackled prisoner interns and the senior citizen students counterfeiting money.
	+ Verified Office Democracy Experience
	+ Signed Rubik's cubes will be stacked inside of square-shaped boxes instead of a jar, each inside of its own box. Then those boxes will form a crate made out of boxes with signed Rubik's cubes inside of them, all in their own individual box. When the crate gets to Tabulation Island, the tribe of prisoners living there will take their boxes out one-by-one. Eventually the crate sinks to the bottom so you get rid of the waste, and then they can just unpackage the Rubik's cubes on the island, so that they will then have their signed Rubik's cube.
	+ Verified Office Department of Excellence

## Devil Play

* Drew pushed back on having a tribe of prisoners living on Tabulation Island collecting and tabulating all the submitted VODEs because if the VODEs are asking, 'Do you want to be happy?' then everyone will say Yes, in which case you can just let the glass VODE bottles sink to the bottom of the ocean unchecked.
	+ Josiah sought to clarify that Drew was advocating for giving people merely the illusion of choice.
	+ Drew rejected that line of thinking outright, stating that people have a choice to say Yes or No on the VODE ticket. And he believed that the majority of people would VODE yes, making the tabulation of those VODEs an unnecessary exercise and a waste of time.
	+ Josiah responded that he saw it as unhealthy to only want to be happy; everyone needs to experience more emotions than just happiness.
	+ Drew agreed in part but suggested changing the VODE ticket question to instead read, 'Do you want to have a happy life? Yes or No'.
	+ Josiah noted this daily VODE of your desires for your macro view of your entire life are a distinct shift away from his original idea for VODEs to cover things like infrastructure to instead be a philosophical question. He expressed that actually liked the shift but asked to clarify how Drew will know how many speed bumps to do or whatever in order to make everyone happy.
	+ Drew replied to say that stuff would work itself out, as it has since mankind was created.
	+ Josiah again advocated for streamlining the process by utilizing the tribe of prisoners living on Tabulation Island, who are ready and waiting to tabulate VODEs because they love it and they're tired of all the other things they've been doing like Victoria's Secret sewing.

## Notable Events

* Josiah and Drew read some funny cowboy jokes while listening to *My Sad Old Heart* by The 126ers to warm up for the episode. The jokes are as follows:
	1. Why did the bowlegged cowboy get fired? Because he couldn't keep his calves together.
	2. Three cowboys of the world are sitting around the campfire talking about how tough they were and the tales kept getting bigger and bigger. The cowboy from Australia says, "I wrestled a 200-pound crocodile and may it cry like a baby." The cowboy from Brathil shakes his head and thayth, "I killed a 400-pound steer with my bare hands." The cowboy from Texas just smiled and kept stirring the campfire with his leg. XX there's a bunch of X's XXXX+++++.
	3. Back in the Old West, three Texas cowboys were about to be hung for cattle rustling. The lynch mob brought the three men to a tree right at the edge of the Rio Grande. The idea was that when each man had died, they'd cut the rope and he'd drop into the river and drift out of sight. They put the first cowboy in the noose but he was so sweaty and greasy, he slipped out, fell in the river, and swam to freedom. They tied the noose around the second cowboy's head. He, too, oozed out the rope, dropped into the river, and got away. As they dragged the third Texan to the scaffold, he resisted. "Please, would you tighten the noose a little bit? I can't swim!"
	4. Why can't the [unintelligible] cowboy complain? He has got no beef. ++++++++++
	5. Wow, you have a lot of flies buzzing around your horses and cows. Do you ever shoo them? Cowboy: "No, we just let them go barefoot."
	6. Cowboy Billy was telling his fellow cowboys back on the ranch about his first visit to a big city church. "When I got there, they had me park my old truck in the corral," Billy began. "You mean the parking lot?" interrupts Charlie, a more worldly fellow. "I walked up the trail to the door," Billy continued. "The sidewalk to the door?" Charlie corrected him. "Inside the door, I was [unintelligible] by this dude," Billy went on. "That would be the usher," Charlie explained. "Well the usher led me down the chute," Billy said. "You mean the aisle?" Charlie said. "Then he led me to a stall and told me to sit there," Billy continued. "Pew," Charlie retorted. "Yeah," recalled Billy, "That's what the praying lady said when I sat down beside her."
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "005 Cowboy Jokes" which involved Professor QB telling funny cowboy jokes in front of a live audience.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "VA SOL CE.6a National Government; Structure & Powers of Government" about how the Constitution of the United States defines the structure and powers of the national government, and legislative, executive, and judicial powers of the national government are distributed among three distinct and independent branches of government.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "VA SOL CE.6b National Government; The Executive Branch" about how the powers of the national government are separated among the three branches of the government to limit any one branch from abusing its power, and how the executive branch president checks Congress when the president proposes legislation, prepares an annual budget for Congress to approve, calls special sessions of Congress, and vetoes legislation Congress has passed, and how the executive branch president checks the courts when the president appoints judges/justices and grants pardons and reprieves.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "VA SOL CE. 6b National Government; Judicial Branch" about how the powers of the national government are separated among the three branches of the government to limit any one branch from abusing its power, and how the judicial branch courts check Congress when judges/justices declare act of Congress to be unconstitutional, and how the judicial branch courts check the president when judges/justices declare executive actions to be unconstitutional.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "VA SOL CE.6c National Government; National Lawmaking Process: Legislative Powers" about how legislative powers are either expressed powers, which are specifically listed in the Constitution of the United States, or implied powers, which are used to carry out expressed powers.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "VA SOL CE.6c National Government; National Lawmaking Process, The Lawmaking process in congress" about how the lawmaking process in Congress involves introducing a bill in either house, working in committees, debating the bill on the floor, voting on the bill, sending the bill to the other house, repeating the process in the other house, and sending the bill to the president.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "VA SOL VA CE.6d National Government ; Powers of the President; Policymaking" about how the executive branch plays a key role in the policymaking process, and how Presidential power has grown in the years since the Constitution was ratified, but there are limits on what the president can and cannot do, and how the ways the executive branch influences policymaking are delivering an annual speech to Congress (State of the Union address), proposing legislation, approving or vetoing legislation, appointing officials who help carry out the laws, issuing executive acts/orders, and appealing directly through the media and communications with citizens.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "Put a signed Rubiks Cube in a bottle - Kieron Johnson's ISOLATED" about how you can put a Rubik's cube in a glass jar.
* Drew revealed that his signature looks like a chicken foot stepped in some sand.
* Josiah stated that if anyone wants to send Drew a cracker covered in semen in the mail, he will give that person Drew's address.
* Josiah and Drew listened to *Democracy What's Up* by Natalis.

## Notable Quotes

### Josiah

* "We're not gonna jack off onto each other anymore."
* "[On the topic of why The JO Zone was discontinued] But that idea's over because we - there's no more jacking off until the world is fixed and that's what we decided. It's like how a football player does not nut before he does uh football."
* "If you can't use laugh to change world, if you can't use laughs to talk to government, what can you do to change world for government? Uh and change - make your voice heard and change world?"
* "How can we all change the world is that the thing about the world and the way that it's set up is that we all answer to one man, which is the leader of the world, which is the President and we need to respect whomever is the President, and I think in the future it's probably safe to say that you're gonna be the President of our world that we're building, and I'm willing to sort of hand that over to you, I just kind of know that you're not gonna take no for an answer, so -"
* "I say a lot of mean things to you, but I think you're probably the smartest person I've ever met in my life, and you don't understand this."
* "[On the topic of why there are nine Supreme Court Justices] Well it's the ice cream cones."
* "The greatest devil play is the self-devil play, and it takes a real powerful man to do that."
* "I want you to take a long look in the mirror and be devil yourself."
* "The one thing I haven't figured out yet is, you know, basically how do we boil down all of the issues: the future, the past, the present, the President, the press, precedent of the press, all these things, Perez - how do we figure out how to get all these things on one V-O-D-E VODE uh card or - or bal - ballet ballot ballot? The bal - the bal - how do we get it on the ball - the balt as well? So, I guess my question is what do you think it should say, should it be multiple choice, should it be a punch card, should it just have Yes or No on it? I mean, what - how do we figure out what - cause also it's - to save o- we can't be printing a new message every day. And is it gonna be one issue a day that we solve or - I mean, I guess I'm now realizing there's quite a few problems with the VODE system. Uh I don't know what number - maybe it's like at A&W, you press the happy face if you're happy with it, or the straight line if it's just kind of a neutral experience that left you feeling kind of dead inside? I don't know, what should we put on the V-O-D-E Vertical Organize Democracy Expression card?"
* "My point is, you put the message into the bottle, you throw it into the sea, and the message will float over to what I think we should call Tabulation Island. And it's an island where a tribe of prisoners live and their job is solely to tabulate the votes [sic], and it's part of their early release program that, you know, we all know that's a bit of a sham. But there's prisoners who are chained together who open the bottles and count the votes [sic], and then they tabulate the results and they send it to you."
* "Drew, for fuck's sake, they're not jars! They're not jars! They're bottles!"
* "No, prisoners are not allowed Rubik's cubes, it makes them too - they need to be dead inside."
* "Can you just forget the signed Rub- should I - I'll edit it out of the episode. We're - just forget that I mentioned the s- The signed Rubik's cube in a jar was just an example - it was just an example of what can be done - communicating a message in a bottle. I couldn't get the clearance of the Sting song. The VODE tickets will be submitted to Tabulation Island, where a t- where a tribe of prisoners will open the bottles, they'll pull the cork out of the bottle with their teeth, spit it out into a big pile, they'll pull it out and they'll say, I guess we've decided it's gonna be, 'Do you wanna be happy?', and then they'll tabulate all that and then they'll send it to the President. AKA Drew."
* "Sexuality is part of life, and I do think that if President would admit that and President might even find uh First Lady. President might even find First Lady."
* "[In response to Drew saying he doesn't want to talk about his fuckin love life] Yeah, well it ain't much of a 'fuckin' love life, if you know what I mean."
* "Who are you gonna believe: me or a guy that uh stole a TV set from Best Buy?"
* "Think of a Rubik's cube as population. All different colors or ways of life that can be controlled and separated and manipulated to fit your means. You are the President, your word is what stands. A signed Rubik's cube in a jar is a metaphor for the convict Tabulation Island where they will count the votes [sic] and decide whether or not you should be stay President."
* "[In response to Drew clarifying that Josiah was saying that Drew is doing the Rubik's cube] You are doing the Rubik's cube and we are nothing but squares for your manipulation. And one lucky square gets signed and that's gonna be me."
* "[In response to Drew saying Josiah is square] You're calling me a nerd. Drew is calling me a nerd. Fuckin ever since you became the President -"
* "Monica Lewinski."
* "So in this scenario where you're stacking Rubik's cubes inside of a box - and I mean, this is nothing to do with the VODE system and I'm a little bit pissed off but I will honour you and respond: are all of them - I would assume it's about three stacked in a box - are all of them signed in this scenario?"
* "[On the topic of democracy] The beacon of hope, like a Rubik's cube in a jar."

### Drew

* "[On the topic of Josiah and Drew jacking off onto each other] Well we were never going to do it onto each other. At the most, we would do it onto like a cracker or something."
* "What, you like bare feet?"
* "[On the topic of how he changes world] Well the way I change the world, I have a uh series of different charities that I give to, I'm a bit of a philanthropist, I give up to $40 a year."
* "Well yeah, out of the two of us, I always saw uh myself as the one who was fit to lead uh lead us into the future and who was the person who was most responsible who wouldn't abuse the power, um the person with the strength and the courage and the charisma and the brain and the knowledge. But also the vision."
* "[On the topic of the prez] You mean the press. The press. The media. Prez who? Perez Hilton? Prez Me? Elvis Prezme?"
* "You don't need to wear socks anywhere. Or shoes."
* "Does Congress have any relation to Donkey Kong?"
* "The fact that we're doing this podcast and that we're putting these ideas out into the world, we're essentially the architects of our future, um why shouldn't we get the major um stakes in, you know, how the world goes? And for that reason, I think that we should have control over the planet and I should be made President of the planet and given complete unilateral uh control, uh and I see no issues with your suggestion, Josiah. Thank you so much for this week's idea."
* "[In response to Josiah telling him to engage in self-devil play] Well yeah, I will be devil of myself and I'm also gonna be angel of myself, I'm gonna have devil and angel both present in this episode."
* "This does not bode well for your idea, Josiah. To be completely honest."
* "Well then why didn't you show me somebody putting a message in a bottle? Not somebody putting a signed Rubik's cube and then doing some shitty magic, Josiah. This does not bode well for your idea, which is not good for me because then I - I wanna be pres-"
* "Your idea is to put Rubik's cubes inside of jars!"
* "You're losin me. You're losin me, and this idea is me getting all the power in the world."
* "[In response to Josiah saying that if Drew the President would just admit that sexuality is an important part of life, then maybe President would find First Lady] Well, let's not talk about that. I really don't wanna talk about my fuckin love life right now, all right?"
* "[On the topic of the tribe of prisoners living on Tabulation Island] I think we should get the worst of the worst on this island, Josiah. I think it should be all killers, it should be all people who are um going to kill again and we put them on an island, we drop them on an island, 100 of them, Josiah. And we arm them and we let them fight to the death, and the last person to win - no, let me finish. The last person gets the prize: a signed Rubik's cube."
* "[On the topic of what his signature looks like] Actually, it looks like a chicken foot."
* "I bet when - if you were President, you'd probably be in a Rubik's cube shaped office. You'd call it The Cube."
* "Well I think, Josiah, I think you have a great idea, you have - you've got the germ of a great idea, but it needs uh some fine tuning. And I wonder if you would be willing to hear me out - you might not be happy about it, what I think we should be doing. I think if you're gonna use a Rubik's cubes, you should use a square uh you should just use a box, just a square-shaped box instead of a jar. Because you can just stack em on top of one another and it's gonna fit - you'll be able to fit more in that way, and that's just the way that it is."
* "You're not lettin me finish. You're not lettin me finish. And you have a very narrow mindset, so it's frustrating. But if you were to have a Rubik's cube put inside of a box - a single Rubik's cube put inside of a box - signed Rubik's cube inside of a box - you place the box inside of another box, and then you place more Rubik's cube box - No, you don't sign the outside one! You'd have to sign - I guess at the end of the day you'd have a crate made out of boxes with Rubik's cubes inside of them, all signed, all in their own individual box. And then when they get to the island, they take their boxes out one-by-one, eventually the crate sinks to the bottom so you get rid of the waste, and then they can just unpackage the Rubik's cubes on the island, uhh and there you go: you have your signed Rubik's cube and apparently that's a fuckin magic trick now. Does that make sense?"
* "[In response to Josiah saying he always gets verklempt when he listens to *Democracy What's Up* by Natalis] You really love democracy, don't ya?"
* "I'm excited because one thing - I've always wanted to learn to solve a Rubik's cube. And as President, I promise to solve a Rubik's cube."

## Trivia

* This is the first episode of Globe Hell Warning since Episode 39: WEATHER because Episode 40: The JO Zone was an episode of *The JO Zone*.
* This episode marks the second time that Globe Hell Warning has involved Drew stepping into the role of the President, after the January 2021 Monthly Cameo Thank You Message, in which Drew performed a Donald Trump impression for a majority of the associated Cameo videos.
* This is the second episode title/idea that involves multiple meanings for that abbreviation, after the Patreon episode J.O.S.I.A.H..
* This is the third idea of Josiah's that involves forced labor for people who get into trouble, with the tribe of prisoners who are chained together and living on Tabulation Island whose only job is to tabulate VODEs as part of their early release program following the Printerns who assist senior citizen students at the World Wide Train (verb) with printing counterfeit money, as well as the misbehaving children who have a weekend detention project to stitch together all of the dirty World Wide Wipes into large field-sized Wipe Quilts.