Episode 54: World Wide Safeword

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## Episode Summary

What if there was a word that you could get out if you're getting bdsm beat up too much? There is: its called a Safe Word. But what if that safe word could be applied to all life? What if reality itself could be bent to the will of the word...

## Idea Details

* Idea: World Wide Safeword, reality shifting
* Creator of idea: Drew
* Purpose of idea: (Josiah: "OK so you're doing some sort of porno thing this week?") No - (Josiah: "What, you wanna fuck cartoons?") It has nothing - (Josiah: "Something to do with you wanna jack off onto cartoons?") No, this has nothing - this has nothing - this has nothing to do - (Josiah: "So it's some sort of - finally - Drew has finally just taken his turn to do a nasty porno week.") No. No, no. That's not what this is about. This has nothing to do with sex. But it's an example of how a safeword can be used. In this case - (Josiah: "Well she did say - to be fair, she said, 'safety word' so the clip you've chosen doesn't even have the term in it. So I feel like you've just - again, loo- probably looking for any excuse to show the cartoons about to freak onto each other.") Well, the name of the clip is 'safeword'. That's how I found it. And I didn't watch it before uh before the str- or uh the episode podcast. So uh do not get mad at me. This has nothing to do with sex. But in this clip, Lois gives Peter the safeword 'banana'. (Josiah: "Well she said it's the safety word and I think it was 'bananas.' ") Well, you know what, Josiah? You don't need to - you don't need - you don't need to get - (Josiah: "It was 'bananas' not 'banana,' but OK.") All right. OK. 'Bananas, all right'? That is, before things get - (Josiah: "That shit is bananas.") B- I can't spell it. Um, that is - that word is for if Lois is going too hard on Peter, if she's - (Josiah: "On his cock and balls.") Yeah, if she's hitting his balls too hard. And torturing him. (Josiah: "She's hurting his perineum too much.") She's suspended him from the roof by his scrotum, and he's b- and he thinks, 'Oh, it's - this is too much,' he can say, 'Bananas,' at which point Lois will remove him from the roof or whatever, and, you know - (Josiah: "The roof or the ceiling?") The ceiling. (Josiah: "Because I feel like i- cause if it was the roof, then that means they've gone outside. And that's already -") Right. Probably the ceiling. Probably suspended from the ceiling. Although if - it - depending on what - you know, some people are into being humiliated, and if Peter's into being humiliated, then he could - (Josiah: "Yeah, 'some people.' I wonder what people are into that.") I don't know. Maybe Peter Griffin. (Josiah: "I wonder if it's a... Yeah, I would just wonder why you brought that up, even.") Well because you brought it up. Because you talked about the roof. (Josiah: "You talked about the roof, but OK.") OK. Well I'm just saying - (Josiah: "Fine, yeah, sure. OK, so you wanna fuck the cartoons.") No, what I'm saying is instead of having, you know, safewords just for this situation, we have World Wide Safewords.
* Timetable: No timetable was given for World Wide Safeword, though it only depends on the implementation of World Wide Web so everyone can say their World Wide Safeword into a can-and-string every morning, and since reality shifting is already real, it should be available very soon.
* Idea details:
	+ World Wide Safewords are words that people can say in any situation to defuse things and help ground us.
	+ If someone uses a World Wide Safeword on a robber, they will short out, as if their body is too overwhelmed to do anything.
		- Note: It is unclear if this will happen to anyone who a World Wide Safeword is used on, or just robbers.
	+ Everyone must reset their World Wide Safeword at the start of each day. They will remain in effect for 24 hours.
	+ World Wide Safewords must be words, not phrases, though they can contain special characters just like with passwords.
	+ Care should be taken to choose a World Wide Safeword that will not end up being confusing for the daily activities that day. For example, your World Wide Safeword should not be 'bill' on a day where you're going to a bank or restaurant.
	+ Josiah revealed that the World Wide Safeword was actually just Drew's first step in building a sort of *50 Shades of Gray*-type BDSM-integrated society.
	+ Anyone who does not want to consent to Drew's new BDSM utopia will have to be found, just like criminals are today. Then they would need to go through some sort of BDSM camp where they learned about BDSM and about safewords and how important they are.
	+ Each day, everyone will wake up and say their new World Wide Safeword into one of their home's can-and-strings and then somebody will hear it, successfully resetting their World Wide Safeword for the day.
		- Note: It is unclear if this will be a new can-on-string set aside exclusively for resetting your World Wide Safeword, or if it can be any of the can-on-strings that are already in place.
	+ A chip will be implanted in everyone's hands so that when you shake hands with someone, the chips will be scanned and then you will get an augmented reality read-out on your Google Glass or on your eye implant that will show you that person's World Wide Safeword for the day in the top-left corner of your right eye.
	+ You wouldn't want to use your own name as your World Wide Safeword.
	+ Reality shifting can be used to shift into a different reality by saying your World Wide Safeword so you can spend a little time in that reality instead.
	+ If two people hold hands and say their World Wide Safeword at the same time, they will reality shift together and end up in the same bed. It will be Drew's bed.
		- Note: This is remarkably similar to how shared lucid dreaming works, as detailed in Episode 28: The Dream Scientists, though without the requirement of documenting your dreams in a dream journal for 100 nights in a row.

## Devil Play

* Josiah played devil by pointing out that a real robber is not going to be on board with World Wide Safeword because what they love to do is break rules, since robbing is actually not even legal. He went on to suggest, though, that they could replace all of the robbers with *Westworld*-style perfect-looking human cyborgs that would literally short out if they heard the World Wide Safeword, which could be uploaded to them at the start of each day.
	+ Drew asked why they couldn't make that happen with a regular robber.
	+ Josiah reiterated that it is in robbers' DNA to be rule-breakers. He posited that the only way to successfully do that with a real robber would be to tell them to keep robbing, so that they would do the opposite.
	+ Drew revealed that there is a twist to his idea coming.
	+ Josiah stopped him before he moved on to the twist in the interest of understanding the main idea better first.
* Josiah played devil by asking if everyone has the same World Wide Safeword every day.
	+ Drew disagreed, saying they would need to create a new World Wide Safeword every day.
	+ Josiah, incredulous, clarified that this would be for each person.
	+ Drew agreed.
	+ Josiah asked how they would know what each person's World Wide Safeword is.
	+ Drew said it would probably be obvious. He gave the example of you robbing someone who suddenly says 'bananas' instead of 'Oh my God!' in which case you would know that 'bananas' was their World Wide Safeword.
	+ Josiah asked what if someone's World Wide Safeword was 'Please don't rob me!'
	+ Drew responded that the World Wide Safeword can only be one word.
	+ Josiah clarified that a plural word is still only one word.
	+ Drew allowed that World Wide Safeword could be a grounding phrase, he supposed.
	+ Josiah endeavored to pin him down on whether it is a word or a phrase.
	+ Drew said they would stick with Safe-Word for now.
	+ Josiah asked, then, that if anyone says a single word then you should just assume that's their World Wide Safeword for the day.
	+ Drew said to use context.
	+ Josiah clarified his question to ask that if anyone says something that is completely random and unrelated to the context, then you should assume that's their World Wide Safeword for the day.
	+ Drew agreed, though noted that he saw one issue which is if someone is random af and the robber wouldn't necessarily know whether they're saying their World Wide Safeword or just being random.
	+ Josiah conceded that the whole robbery example may be moot because no one probably wants to be robbed.
	+ Drew brought up a situation where you go to a restaurant and then want your check and you're afraid of an awkward conversation around the tip or not wanting dessert or coffee after the meal, so you could just say your World Wide Safeword to avoid it altogether and they would have to bring you the bill.
	+ Josiah understood, though brought up that a World Wide Safeword of 'bananas' would actually be quite confusing in a food context.
	+ Drew agreed and noted that in that context you would want something else to be your World Wide Safeword.
	+ Josiah noted that the World Wide Safeword system reminded him of using and resetting passwords, where eventually you will have to start adding unique characters.
	+ Drew agreed and said it would be like a password eventually. He noted that in the restaurant context, your World Wide Safeword could simply be something like 'bill'. And then if you needed to add characters, you could instead say 'bill\_51!'
* Josiah pointed out that the World Wide Safeword system sounds formal and he wanted to know where this gets planned out and noted that you would need to plan out your whole day when you set your World Wide Safeword for the day so you don't accidentally use a World Wide Safeword that will be confusing in context.
	+ Drew described a situation where you're robbing someone and they say 'bill', in which case it will be obvious in context that it is their World Wide Safeword because why else would they say 'bill' in that context.
	+ Josiah noted that Bill is a name so the person might have confused you with someone else named Bill.
	+ Drew said they're talking about a bill, not Bill.
	+ Josiah asked then if the World Wide Safeword is case-sensitive too.
	+ Drew asked if Josiah had ever been to a restaurant and when he asks for the bill, they bring out somebody named Bill.
	+ Josiah said he had and it was Bill Murray and he paid his tab and said he was never gonna believe this. He went on to clarify that they were talking about the robber situation with the word bill, not the restaurant situation.
	+ Drew agreed and asked what the robber would think in that context.
	+ Josiah asked if the idea is to confuse the robber.
	+ Drew disagreed, though concurred that the robber probably would be confused until they made the connection that 'bill' is their World Wide Safeword.
	+ Josiah brought up a possible situation in which a waiter had some sort of breakdown and points a gun at your head and then you said 'bill' but they thought you were asking for the bill instead of saying your World Wide Safeword. He expressed his worry that you would come across as flippant.

## Notable Events

* Josiah and Drew recorded this episode earlier in the morning than they usually do; they usually record in the late morning, but this episode was recorded in the mid-morning. This helps explain why Drew was so low energy this episode.
* Globe Hell Morning
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "Vocal Fry Tutorial - Improve Your Sound" about a tip that has really improved someone's voice so much and it is just so simple. Josiah and Drew sang and fried along.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "Ep. 46 "What's The Vocal Fry" - Vocal Fry Trilogy Part 1 - Voice Lessons To The World" about how Vocal Fry is one of the most misunderstood concepts in singing and in speech and yet, if used properly, it has the capability transform both your technique and style for the better. Josiah and Drew sang and fried along.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "Voice Lessons: Vocal Fry Scream" about a lesson on the false chord scream. Josiah and Drew grunted and fried and screamed along.
* Josiah and Drew discussed their eventual goal of doing an entire episode in vocal fry.
* Drew discussed what *Family Guy* is. Josiah listened to vocal fry screams while Drew spoke.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "Family Guy Safety Word" about Peter and Lois donning various bondage gear.
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "is reality shifting real?" about explaining what reality shifting is and showing if it was real or fake!!!
* Josiah and Drew watched a video called "safe words? + will i get stuck?" about a video on safe words and the fear many of you have on getting stuck :)

## Notable Quotes

### Josiah

* "What do you usually do in the morning? You uh jack off? Drink your own cum?"
* "All your favorite Brooklyn podcasters are doing the vocal fry when they talk."
* "I thought diaphragm was a sex thing."
* "I breathe with my lungs."
* "Well that's the thing: warming up is a pain in the ass! I mean, the - uh - including global war- uh warming. Pain in the - pain in the ice! Pain in the ice! Caps."
* [Doing a vocal fry scream] "Ahhhhh! Welcooome! Welcoooooome! Ahhhhh!"
* [Doing a vocal fry scream] "Welcooooome to Globe Hell!"
* "All right, so I was thinking we could combine these two styles of vocal fry to become the ultimate leftist podcast - do an intro with the two kinds of vocal fry, and I think if you wanna do y- you can pick if you wanna do the vocal fry scream or the lower one."
* [Doing a vocal fry scream] "A leftist podcaaaast! Wahhhhhhhhhh!"
* "I mean at this point, we're almost 20 minutes in. I think we should probably start saying things other than 'welcome.' Or we could just do a whole episode that's welcoming people, I guess."
* "Sorry, can you just - for those - I think we should not assume that everyone knows what this - what *Family Guy* is or who these characters are that you're talking about."
* "OK so you're doing some sort of porno thing this week? What, you wanna fuck cartoons? Something to do with you wanna jack off onto cartoons? So it's some sort of - finally - Drew has finally just taken his turn to do a nasty porno week."
* "So I feel like you've just - again, loo- probably looking for any excuse to show the cartoons about to freak onto each other."
* [On the topic of Lois torturing Peter] "On his cock and balls."
* [On the topic of Lois torturing Peter] "She's hurting his perineum too much."
* [In response to Drew saying some people are into being humiliated] "Yeah, 'some people.' I wonder what people are into that. I wonder if it's a... Yeah, I would just wonder why you brought that up, even."
* "Fine, yeah, sure. OK, so you wanna fuck the cartoons."
* "So you're saying that you'd like for real life to have a little bit more leather-play and bondage."
* "Don't des- do us all a favor and don't describe the full pictures that you have in your head because they're gonna be too nasty."
* [In response to Drew asking what he would do if a robber tried to rob him] "So since I'm already wearing a full leather bondage outfit, I'd probably whip them."
* [In response to Drew asking if he knows how Peter Griffin usually dresses] "Well he looks like he's wearing uh - he's wearing a spiked collar - a spiked dog collar."
* "Like, I wanna hear your idea, but I feel like there would be less crime if we were all dressed like scary bondage men to begin with."
* "If you saw these people walking down the street, would you rob them?"
* [In response to Drew asking him what he would do if a robber pulled out a gun and asked for his money] "I w- uh well, first I would say, 'Are you fully vaccinated? Because I don't - I would appreciate some space, if not.' I think - and I think any - if the robber's vaccinated, then we'll move on, but if not, then I think that's a - that's sort of a nice reminder that we need to be maintaining distance. I mean, let's - we can do that - we c- that was the old normal, but this is the new normal."
* [In response to Drew asking him what he would do if a partially vaccinated robber pulled out a gun and asked for his money] "I say, 'Sorry, I don't have any change.' Cause I don't usually carry cash on me!"
* "If you don't stand for anything - if you stand for nothing then you'll fall for anything, is what I say to that."
* [In response to Drew saying his World Wide Safeword is 'bananas'] "So you have the same Safeword as Peter and Lois when they're fucking onto each other."
* "Can I play devil for a second? You know, the robbers might not - a real robber's not gonna be on board with this, because that's what they love to do; they love to break rules. I mean, you're not actually - being a ro- like, robbing is actually not even legal. To - it's not legal to rob, uh to burglarize, so these things are illegal. And so if we make it the law that the Safeword - and h- I do have more questions about the Safeword, but if we make that the law that the Safeword is that you have to stop robbing, I don't think the robbers are gonna listen to that. But I do have an idea of how we could make this work, and, kind of, it would help form the basis for the entire implementation of this program, is that what if we replaced all of the robbers with kind of *Westworld*-style uh human - perfect-looking human cyborgs, and then they actually literally would short out if they heard the Safeword. And you could upload the day's Safeword to them um and then they would short out. So then that way, we know - then by example, we're seeing: 'Oh, the robbers are not listening to - Drew just said, "bananas" and then the robber started kind of sputtering smoke and sparking and walking around -"
* [In response to Drew saying it'll be obvious what someone's World Wide Safeword is if you rob them and they say 'bananas' instead of 'Oh my God!'] "But what if the Safeword was, 'Please don't rob me!' "
* "I mean, I guess the robbery example is kind of a moot point because uh no one wants to be robbed, I don't think. Or are there people who wanna be ro- so no matter what, you probably whatever you say probably is saying, 'Please don't rob me.' "
* [On the topic of asking for the check at a restaurant] "Sometimes I say, 'Uh you actually didn't bring me my refill fast enough, and I would love for you to minus uh one entrée from the bill, please?' "
* [In response to Drew saying he puts $20 of loonies on the table and removes some of them when the waiter makes a mistake] So it's not a $20 bill. I do that with a bill and then I just have an X-Acto knife and sever little slivers of the bill."
* [On the topic of waiters using psychology to get you to buy dessert after a meal] "Ohhh they're just - oh OK, yeah, I see. Just pieces of shit. Just scum of the Earth. Fuckin trash people. Makes me sick."
* [On the topic of having a World Wide Safeword of 'bill' and using it at a restaurant]"To avoid this situation where you say 'bill' to a waiter, which is very confusing, if you're - unless you're asking for the bill, in which case you're just having a very uh word-economical conversation by just saying 'bill' to a waiter. That's not really a Safeword, that's just you asking for the bill rudely. Tersely."
* "So when you're planning a Safeword, you almost need to plan out your whole day and weigh the possibilities: 'Am I likely to have a gun pointed at my head today by a robber?' Um, 'Am I likely to be in a situation where the waiter is forcing dessert 'pon me?' "
* "So here's the thing, is that I know that what you're doing is you are try- and you're gonna deny it, you're gonna pretend that it's not true; I know for a fact, 100% with all of my being, I know for certain that this is the first step for you building a sort of *50 Shades of Gray*-type BDSM-integrated society. (Drew: \*silence\*) Yeah, that's what I thought. And so for BDSM to work, I think that all parties need to be equally on board with everything. And so you still have not explained to me - and I've suggested we incorporate a *Westworld*-style scenario, but you didn't seem to take to that, so what are we supposed to do about all the bad guys who don't want to consent to your new BDSM utopia?"
* "Now, what if you're in a bank and you say something about a 'safe word' and then they think you're talking about the safe and that you're actually trying to rob them? I mean, if you say 'bill' and - Safeword 'bill', they're gonna think that maybe you're asking for them to give you bills from the safe. Uh and then you might be mistaken for a robber."
* [On the topic of having chips implanted into our hands] "When I have chips in my hands, they don't last very long cause I just love to uh munch on em."
* "K, now hang on. What if there was a situation with the waiter where the waiter maybe had some sort of breakdown and was pointing a gun at your head and was gonna shoot you, and then you said, 'Bill,' and then they thought you were asking for the bill. I mean, that could be kind of an issue because you wanna make sure that they know you're saying, 'Please don't shoot me in the head,' not, 'Hey-' - You don't wanna come across as flippant, I guess is what I'm saying, cause when a waiter is pushed to his breaking point, he does not wanna be asked to bring the b- 'Oh, can I get a refill? Can you bring me the bill? My food is touching the other food on the plate, can you send it back?' You know, those kind of things, that's gonna cause them to pull the trigger, if nothing else."
* "Can you not talk over her, please?"
* "What does it mea- is it not reality shifting to just go from one room to another, or even to just go from one minute to another? Think of all the beautiful newborn babes and dead old people that occur every minute."
* [On the topic of what reality shifting is] So it's just kind of using your imagination."
* [On the topic of reality shifting] How does this relate to what we're talking about this week?"
* "You would probably - if we were hanging out and we got robbed, you would sell me out so fast."
* "If we were together and if we both held hands and said the Safeword at the same time, would we transport together into the same bed? And whose bed would it be?"
	+ Note: This is remarkably similar to how shared lucid dreaming works, as detailed in Episode 28: The Dream Scientists, though without the requirement of documenting your dreams in a dream journal for 100 nights in a row.

### Drew

* "So it's when you have - when you're like - have like a - when you have like a speech impediment. 'Scwewy wabbit.' Is that vocal fry?"
* [On the topic of how there's a ton of great articles out there] Yeah, I was reading an article just the other day, uh about some of the different *Star Wars* books that are gonna be coming out."
* "He looks like he's an angel! He sounds like an angel."
* [Doing a low vocal fry] "Welcome to Globe Hell Warning."
* "I think I could do the entire episode in vocal steam. \*Doing vocal steam\* Welcooome!"
* "Well shut the fuck up! Shut the -"
* "No. No, no. That's not what this is about. This has nothing to do with sex."
* [On the topic of the word 'bananas'] "That word is for if Lois is going too hard on Peter, if she's - yeah, if she's hitting his balls too hard. And torturing him. She's suspended him from the roof by his scrotum, and he's b- and he thinks, 'Oh, it's - this is too much,' he can say, 'Bananas,' at which point Lois will remove him from the roof or whatever."
* "I'm not going to! I - you know what, Josiah? You know what, Josiah? I don't need to put up with this! I'm trying to explain my idea, and you're derailing it with this sex talk, and I have no idea - I'm trying to talk about safewords - I used this example - "
* [In response to Josiah saying Peter Griffin usually wears a spiked dog collar] "No, that's not his - that's his bondage! That's his bondage! I'm gonna send you a picture of Peter Griffin in the Discord. For fuck's sake."
* [In response to Josiah saying leather bondage outfits will deter crime because they are scary] "Well, number one, it's not scary, it's romantic. OK? Number two, it gets very hot."
* [In response to Josiah asking if his robber is vaccinated or not] "OK, so the robber's not fully vaccinated; they have one dose, so they back up six feet, but they still have their pistol trained upon your head. They say, 'Give me all of your money.' What are you gonna do?"
* [In response to Josiah saying he would tell his robber he doesn't have any change] "OK, they just pulled the trigger, you're dead. They just blew your brains out, OK? Now, I'm walking down the street. Robber pulls gun out, puts it to my head. I don't ask them about their vaccination because that's a personal choice and I'm not going to be a Karen."
* [In response to Josiah asking what would happen with the robber after Drew says his World Wide Safeword] "I don't know what would happen, I guess they would probably just short out or something. I don't know what happens. They would just back off, I guess."
* "Safewords can be used for a whole lot more than just getting out of robberies, Josiah."
* [In response to Josiah asking how they will know what everyone's World Wide Safeword is if it gets changed for every person every day] "Well, I think it'll probably obvious. If you're getting robbed and somebody just says 'bananas.' If you're robbing somebody and the person you're robbing is, you know, instead of being like, 'Oh my God!' or whatever."
* "I guess the only big issue I see is, if somebody is uh random af, and just says stuff like - like if you're robbing them and they just said, 'Spoooon!' And you think that's their Safeword but they're just random."
* [On the topic of tipping the waiter at a restaurant] "Yeah, well usually what I'll say is, 'I, you know, I have $20 on the table right now; this represents your tip. If you make any mistakes, I'm gonna remove some of the money, and what's left is what you'll have as your tip.' (Josiah: "So it's not a $20 bill.") No, it's a bunch of loonies."
* [In response to Josiah saying Bill is a name] "Yeah, but we're talking about a bill, not a - not Bill. A bill, not Bill."
* "Josiah, have you ever been at a restaurant and they say - you ask for the bill and they bring out somebody named Bill??"
* [On the topic of what they do with all the bad guys who don't want to consent to Drew's new BDSM utopia] Well, I think those people will have to um be found, and, I mean, just like criminals are today. And I guess they would need to go through some sort of BDSM uh camp where they learned about it, and they learned about safewords and how important they are."
* [In response to Josiah saying it would have to be post-COVID to have a chip implanted in our hands to trigger augmented reality that shows us what that person's World Wide Safeword for the day is] "Well, we are post-COVID."
* "I mean, presumably, you're gonna shake your hand - or, shake hands with the waiter at the start of the uh dinner."
* "Well, Josiah, one other thing I wanted to talk about is the uh possibility of shifting through realities, and the way that Safewords can be used in that context. So do you know much about reality-shifting, Josiah?"
* "But what about this: you shift reality, right? You can shift reality at will. So you get robbed, you shift reality into your bed, sleep for an hour or two, just in the - it's in the middle of the day, you're probably getting robbed or whatever, so, you know, get a couple hours sleep, wake up, say your Safeword, you're now back where you were where you were getting robbed, but it's a couple hours later, the robber is now gone. They're not gonna stand there for a couple hours. They're gonna be long gone. You just continue on with your day, you're refreshed, you had a good sleep."
* "I'm imagining if you and me were hanging out and we got robbed, I would shift behind the robber and then you'd just push them and they'd fall."
* [In response to Josiah's question about what size bed he has] "Well, it's not - it's not a bed. It's, you know, a bunch of sheets that I have on the ground. I have like uh 15 different sheets, so it's pretty comfortable. No pillows. Um just use a - a - yeah, just u- you can - I have some towels that you can uh put under your head or something if you wanted to."

## Trivia

* This was the last episode released before the Patreon-exclusive video tier was released, whereby all subsequent episodes would be released in both audio and video formats.
* This is the second idea of Drew's to involve traveling to far-off or imagined worlds with your mind, with this episode's reality shifting following Episode 28: The Dream Scientists's lucid dreaming.