Halo 24 - Year Zero - HYPERPOWER!

[00:00:01] Speaker A: Join the Bureau of Podcasts. Oppress your neighbors. You know the BOP as the tyrannical force bringing sweeping change to the world of podcasts and so much more. But did you know that we're hiring? Do you have impeccable taste in podcasts? Do you like imposing your iron will on the masses? Do you just look really good in jackboots? Join the Bureau. We need able young bodies to impose the laws of podcasting on the American populace. If you can swing a baton, you can be an agent of the Bureau, generous benefits package included, as well as a really sharp windbreaker. For more information, inquire at the Bureau of Podcasts office nearest you. To purchase official BoP merchandise, visit tinyurl.com podblessamerica the Bureau of Podcasts, One Nation Under. Come on down. It's nailed. A song by song, journey through the world of Year Zero. I'm Blake. [00:01:38] Speaker B: I'm Jessica. [00:01:40] Speaker A: And we're here to talk Year Zero, Song one, Hyper Power. Exclamation point, all caps, stylized in all caps. [00:01:51] Speaker B: So say it like that. [00:01:53] Speaker A: Hyper Power. I'm gonna add a bunch of delay. [00:01:58] Speaker B: Okay, that sounds like it'd be good. Yeah. Track one, Year Zero, starting off, introduces us to the album, the concept and its mood setting. [00:02:11] Speaker A: And it's table setting. [00:02:12] Speaker B: Totally a vibe. Totally a vibe. [00:02:13] Speaker A: It is a vibey piece. And it's. Guess what? It's instrumental, so it sets the scene. Without lyrics. [00:02:21] Speaker B: Yes. [00:02:22] Speaker A: Mostly. Mostly. We'll get to that. We'll get to that. [00:02:25] Speaker B: The first full length to start with an instrumental. [00:02:29] Speaker A: You're right, because so far it's just that ep. Good point. [00:02:35] Speaker B: Very different instrumentals, too. [00:02:38] Speaker A: Only one. [00:02:39] Speaker B: Gradually. [00:02:40] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:02:41] Speaker B: Gets louder. Starts out so soft. [00:02:44] Speaker A: Well, this starts out loud and distorted, but, like, keeps getting louder and louder until it absolutely blows your speakers. [00:02:53] Speaker B: Yes. [00:02:54] Speaker A: And blasts your eardrums off. [00:02:56] Speaker B: It's like a collective scream. It's insane. [00:02:58] Speaker A: There are many, many human screams in it. [00:03:00] Speaker B: Yes, there definitely are. [00:03:02] Speaker A: So what can you tell me about Hyper Power, Jess, that I don't already know? [00:03:07] Speaker B: That you don't already know? I think we should just start. [00:03:09] Speaker A: Just assume I know nothing. [00:03:11] Speaker B: Okay. There we go. That's better. So it's not very long. It's under two minutes. Perfect. I like a short intro there. [00:03:18] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:03:19] Speaker B: Mm. Moves right along. I believe it was a Reznor Ross production for this one. [00:03:27] Speaker A: Atticus Ross making an entrance. [00:03:29] Speaker B: But we do have a special guest on this track. [00:03:32] Speaker A: Yeah. A studio drummer by the name of Josh Freese. Freesy. I think it's Freese Freeze. Josh Freeze. Drummer extraordinaire. Well, we saw him on the With Teeth tour DVD that we talked about. He killed the drums on that. And he's back to do live drums for a change on a Nine Inch Nails record. [00:03:59] Speaker B: So the name of the song, Hyper Power, when I first, like, looked at this and saw that and the way it was styled, not knowing very much about the album or the world. Well, I knew a little bit about, like, the concept. I guess I thought it was referring to, like, drugs that the. Because of the. Sounds like when you listen to it. Right. I thought it was referring to, like, a super soldier drug or something like that the government is giving. Because it sounds like soldiers are coming. And. [00:04:35] Speaker A: Yeah, it all kind of like. [00:04:36] Speaker B: Yeah, it all kind of, like, tied together in my head. Right. And I believe there are, like, you know, the super soldier pills that are mainly given to soldier. Look, I'm getting a little into the world of Year Zero. [00:04:49] Speaker A: That's what people want us to get a little bit. [00:04:51] Speaker B: Don't want to get too deep. Because when I get a little deep in that world, I turn into Charlie on It's Always Sunny with my little conspiracy string board. [00:05:00] Speaker A: We have a Year Zero board right behind us with strings between everything. [00:05:05] Speaker B: Don't lie to them, because they will want to see it. [00:05:08] Speaker A: So we'll take a picture later. [00:05:11] Speaker B: Okay. We gotta make one now. But I really do if I dive too far in there. But I did think that that's what it was referring to. And I did not know until I started researching this song what a hyperpower is. And I felt really dumb. [00:05:28] Speaker A: It's okay, because no one really uses this term anymore or that often. I kind of. I think I thought it was about. And this is what it sounds like about some kind of movement coming to power and taking power. [00:05:42] Speaker B: I got you. [00:05:43] Speaker A: And the movement is bad, possibly fascist. [00:05:46] Speaker B: Yes. [00:05:47] Speaker A: The sound of jackboots marching lends to that. [00:05:50] Speaker B: So you thought that's what hyper power meant? Was a power coming in to take. [00:05:53] Speaker A: Over not just some power, but lots and lots of power. [00:05:57] Speaker B: Where I was thinking of, like, super soldier strength drugs. [00:06:00] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:06:01] Speaker B: Which minister to soldiers. [00:06:03] Speaker A: That's not totally off base because that is part of the world, as you said, but yes. So what's hyper power mean? For reals? [00:06:12] Speaker B: What a hyperpower really means is it's referring to a term for one globally dominant superpower. So it's basically a nation with a position of unparalleled power and ability to exert influence on a global scale due to vastly greater economic, political and military power. I Combined. Bunch of definitions. [00:06:31] Speaker A: You took them all and made one super mashup definition. [00:06:35] Speaker B: That's right. [00:06:36] Speaker A: Hyper power, I take it to mean. Well, we have the, you know, we call certain countries superpowers. They needed one step above that. They needed a more powerful word. So they went one step up from that. [00:06:50] Speaker B: It's actually a pretty recent term. By recent, I mean it was developed in our lifetimes when. So I looked up the etymology of it because I think it's interesting. And I found a site that said the earliest appearance of the term might be in 1991 in an article called the Bush Doctrine in the Sunday Telegraph. [00:07:08] Speaker A: Around the end of the Soviet empire. [00:07:11] Speaker B: Yeah. It says the US Is the one country in the world that has the ability to fight a large scale, high technology war. This is a gap that can only increase as President Gorbachev struggles with growing economic collapse and political disintegration at home. There are now no longer two superpowers. There was one hyperpower with all the rest far behind. [00:07:31] Speaker A: Well, that didn't last long. So they're saying. This is saying the US is the only hyperpower of the Earth. [00:07:41] Speaker B: Well, at least in 1991. [00:07:43] Speaker A: Okay. I don't know where China was at this time. [00:07:46] Speaker B: China already had their moment. That reminds me, we have a game to play. [00:07:49] Speaker A: Okay. Because I said the word China. That's the magic word. [00:07:53] Speaker B: That's the magic word. Everyone screaming, do you want to play a game? So the totally non problematic scholar and writer Amy Chua wrote a book called Day of Empire and identified seven hyperpowers. [00:08:06] Speaker A: What do you mean, non problematic? [00:08:08] Speaker B: Tiger Mom. [00:08:09] Speaker A: What about it? What was that a book? [00:08:12] Speaker B: You don't remember? Weren't you working at Barnes from Tiger mom came out. [00:08:14] Speaker A: Is that a book? [00:08:15] Speaker B: Yes. [00:08:17] Speaker A: I don't remember. [00:08:17] Speaker B: It's kind of controversial, but it was about a very strict and disciplined way of raising children, basically. And she's also like a. I think was a mentor to like, JD Vance or some shit. [00:08:31] Speaker A: Anyway, ew. [00:08:33] Speaker B: This. This made sense. I think that was during his, like, liberal phase. Cause he's not like. [00:08:38] Speaker A: He's kind of gone back and forth. [00:08:39] Speaker B: Yeah, he's kind of wishy washy. Whoever gives him money and pays attention to him, he's like, all right, we're friends. Cool. I want you to identify the seven hyper powers. [00:08:49] Speaker A: Seven? [00:08:50] Speaker B: Mm. [00:08:51] Speaker A: Can't believe there's fucking seven. I bet I can. [00:08:53] Speaker B: Throughout all of time. [00:08:54] Speaker A: All of time. [00:08:55] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:08:56] Speaker A: So we can say stuff that hasn't that no longer exists. The Roman Empire. [00:09:04] Speaker B: That's one. [00:09:05] Speaker A: Go. Sorry. My Buzzer was acting up. China. [00:09:16] Speaker B: Okay. [00:09:17] Speaker A: United States. That's three. India. [00:09:24] Speaker B: No. [00:09:27] Speaker A: British Empire. [00:09:28] Speaker B: Yes. [00:09:34] Speaker A: The Ottoman Empire. [00:09:38] Speaker B: Is that Persia? [00:09:40] Speaker A: That's not Persia. It's close. [00:09:43] Speaker B: Turkey. Right? Turk. [00:09:44] Speaker A: Yeah, Somewhere in there. Persia. [00:09:46] Speaker B: Yeah. I just gave you one. You're welcome. That feels stupid. [00:09:52] Speaker A: Australia. [00:09:53] Speaker B: No. Although I wish. [00:09:56] Speaker A: Okay, just tell me the rest. [00:09:59] Speaker B: The Mongols. [00:10:01] Speaker A: Okay. [00:10:03] Speaker B: The Dutch. Did you say the Dutch? [00:10:05] Speaker A: No, I didn't say that because I don't believe that. That can't be real. [00:10:12] Speaker B: They had a lot of, like. They were, like, really seafaring. [00:10:16] Speaker A: So was this, like, in Viking times? Is that what they're. [00:10:19] Speaker B: I don't know. And also, these are also, like, empires. They're not necessarily nations. Anyway, it seems kind of obvious. [00:10:29] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't know if I agree with her rankings or where she pulled this out of. [00:10:34] Speaker B: I don't know, I just thought it'd be a fun game and it turned into a whole thing. So you don't think the United States is still a hyperpower or at that point was a hyperpower? [00:10:43] Speaker A: Of course it was. And it is. [00:10:44] Speaker B: Yeah. It still is. [00:10:46] Speaker A: Only rivaled by China currently. So anyway, hyper powers. [00:10:51] Speaker B: Dutch would come back to power. Please don't give me universal health care. Oh, no, not free education. [00:11:02] Speaker A: No. I don't know what they export. [00:11:05] Speaker B: I don't. Socialism. Are they socialist? [00:11:10] Speaker A: Probably. I'm gonna assume so. [00:11:12] Speaker B: Seems pretty based. So I'm gonna assume that. Anyway, that's a brief history and discussion of hyper powers. [00:11:23] Speaker A: Thank you for that. Now we have more real world context because as we know, the world of year zero is based on real events and situations. So which hyperpower is this song referring to? [00:11:39] Speaker B: Oh, I think it's about China. [00:11:44] Speaker A: I think that might be in there somewhere, but I guess that was stupid of me to ask. It's about us. By us, I mean usa. Sorry, listeners outside the us we're number one. [00:11:56] Speaker B: We're number one. [00:11:58] Speaker A: Oh, boy. [00:11:59] Speaker B: Hyper power. It makes it seem like it's good and exciting. Like I said, it's kind of propagandistic with that little, like, exclamation point. [00:12:09] Speaker A: I took it as kind of scary. Well, once you hear the song. Mm, fairly obviously scary. With the shrieks of the damned in there. [00:12:17] Speaker B: I just meant if you were just looking at the word. [00:12:19] Speaker A: Yeah, if you were just looking at the word. I still. [00:12:21] Speaker B: If you listen to the song. [00:12:22] Speaker A: I know, I know. I still took it as a little bit menacing, maybe, but it's my memories. [00:12:28] Speaker B: I just don't see exclamation points ever as menacing. So if you stick an exclamation point at the end of something. It just makes me giggle. [00:12:36] Speaker A: Yeah, okay. It was a little bit giggle worthy, but also I was like, ooh, an exclamation point, I guess. Count me interested. [00:12:47] Speaker B: Okay, so it's in the song now. [00:12:49] Speaker A: All right, let's listen. The only live drums on the album, by the way. On an album, very much electronic. Starts with live drums. Interesting. I like how it's based around like one note. The song is mostly this one note. There's the chanting, marching as well. Now that's menacing menace. Menacing, sinister. A sinister note. And there's the tritone as well. Hitting that Trent's favorite interval, the tritone. It sounds a bit glitchy, that guitar. There's an effect on it. That's metal. That's more sound effect than song at this point too. Oh, God. Ah, the humanity. [00:14:33] Speaker B: I do have to kind of brace myself for it as you get there because, you know, as it crescendos, I guess is the word. Right? [00:14:40] Speaker A: Yeah. I turned it down slightly on here because I'm wearing headphones. Didn't want to bust my eardrums, but pretty cool. I think it's great. [00:14:52] Speaker B: Oh, I love it. [00:14:53] Speaker A: For a song that's based around one note, it kind of whips ass. [00:14:56] Speaker B: It really does. Does. [00:14:58] Speaker A: I mean, it's. It's about as metal as you need. [00:15:02] Speaker B: Love the drums. [00:15:04] Speaker A: Right. [00:15:04] Speaker B: The get go. I'm like, I'm into this. [00:15:06] Speaker A: It's a really cool, interesting beat. It's not like a straightforward drum beat. I mean, it is. And it's a 4, 4 thing, but it's got this interesting, like, snare roll almost to it. Yep, Freese is doing something interesting there. It's just good. It's like something new, but it's also classic Nen in a way, you know, Definitely. [00:15:27] Speaker B: So the chanting. So I don't know. I was randomly on like a Reddit thread and people were talking about this chanting and trying to figure out what. [00:15:41] Speaker A: My post is probably in there. The one that you saw. [00:15:45] Speaker B: Oh, I don't know if I scrolled that far or not. How recently did you post? [00:15:48] Speaker A: I came in like a few years after that thread was made and I was like, excuse me. I think I figured out what they're saying. [00:15:56] Speaker B: I thought this was a more recent one. So maybe someone started another thread. [00:16:00] Speaker A: Maybe. What did it say? [00:16:01] Speaker B: I don't really remember, but they were asking if anyone knew, like, what exactly was being said. And I was like, yeah, it's probably my thought was maybe it was just noise made to kinda sound like something is. You know, it's kinda like at the end of survivalism when the noise kinda makes it sound like he's saying something. [00:16:22] Speaker A: When he's not doing anything. Well, it's really delayed, but yeah. [00:16:24] Speaker B: Yeah, I thought maybe there's some kind of effect. I had no idea. [00:16:27] Speaker A: Oh, it's definitely effect. [00:16:30] Speaker B: You know what I mean? Anyway, and then I was like on NI and Wiki and they had a little thing that was like, even though there are multitracks, no one knows what is being chanted. So that's when I asked you, like, hey, and the multitracks, are there no chance or can you not hear them well enough to hear if anything is being said? [00:16:49] Speaker A: They're there. [00:16:50] Speaker B: Sent them to me and I was. [00:16:51] Speaker A: Like, they're there loud and clear. [00:16:52] Speaker B: I was like, okay. I don't know why no one isn't hearing this. If the multitracks are available. Yeah, like, you can definitely hear what is. Well, what we think is being said. And I'm sure you have that. [00:17:04] Speaker A: I do have. Do you want me to play it first? [00:17:06] Speaker B: Yeah, play that one first. [00:17:07] Speaker A: Okay. So I have my clips and they're always in a certain order, but I'm gonna play this one first by itself. And what it is is Trent whispering or it sounds like he's whispering. Well, I'm pretty sure he is into some kind of effect in Ableton. I assume that makes it sound like his single voice is a crowd. And it does it fairly effectively. And it's labeled as Morph Morph crowd. There are some, like, plugins. [00:17:45] Speaker B: So this is all him? This is him. [00:17:47] Speaker A: It kind of. It's. I know that whisper anywhere. [00:17:49] Speaker B: You know what I mean? I meant like, he doesn't have anything else in there. There's not like a sample or something that he's drawn at all? [00:17:56] Speaker A: I don't think so after this part. Let me just. [00:17:59] Speaker B: Okay. [00:17:59] Speaker A: Let me just play. Okay, I see. I see what you mean now. Yeah. There is some, like, random crowd hooting and hollering. [00:18:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:18] Speaker A: Laid on top of the Trent voice. [00:18:20] Speaker B: Yeah. Do you know where that comes from? [00:18:23] Speaker A: No. Do you? [00:18:24] Speaker B: No. [00:18:25] Speaker A: And I'll play that one more time. It could be a few instances of like, Trent whispering and maybe even someone else, but to me, it sounds like him. It does get louder. So I'm gonna play that. This is how it appears in, like, the garageband multitracks. [00:18:45] Speaker B: By the way, before you go, can we say what we think is being said? [00:18:48] Speaker A: Yes. [00:18:49] Speaker B: So people can match it up. Cause it took me a Second, to match it up correctly. So we think the chant is, we won't be ignored, no more faith in the law. [00:18:58] Speaker A: We won't be ignored, no more faith in the law. Sounds lame when I do it that way, but I believe that's what's being said. Should I play the louder part? [00:19:24] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:19:24] Speaker A: It's. I know that the last four words are plain as day, faith in the law, but, yeah, that one is way more clear. [00:19:35] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:19:35] Speaker A: And it makes sense in the context of the story of the world, too. [00:19:41] Speaker B: And in the story of our world. [00:19:43] Speaker A: Yes, as always. [00:19:45] Speaker B: I mean, what is the Supreme Court like? Everyone's like, we fucking hate them. I think they have the lowest approval rating. [00:19:52] Speaker A: Right. Like, who has. Who has faith in the law and is a serious person. [00:19:57] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:19:57] Speaker A: Like, and especially when. When it seems like the world is crumbling around you, as is the case in the story of this world and in story of this real world. So, yeah, faith in law at all time low. That's the headline. [00:20:14] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:20:15] Speaker A: But write in if you think I'm wrong, if you think it says something else. I'd like to hear and if you know the name of this plugin that may be called Morph something or other. Maybe native to Ableton, maybe not. [00:20:33] Speaker B: Oh, what I meant to say when you were also playing the Whispers was I got like, heavy happiness and slavery vibes. [00:20:38] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. That's probably where I recognize it. [00:20:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:20:51] Speaker A: Should I start from the top with my clips? [00:20:53] Speaker B: Yes, please. Blake's clips corner. Here we go. [00:20:56] Speaker A: Some drums early on, and then this is what the drums sound like later. This is interesting because, like, marching snares start to fade in and be mixed with the Josh Freese drums. Maybe. I don't know if it's like marching snares played by Freese or what. You tell me. This is like drumline with Nick Cannon up in here. [00:21:57] Speaker B: I forgot that movie existed. Good job, Blake. [00:21:59] Speaker A: It may be like rock snares and not marching snares. I'm just. It just sounds like it's played in that style. You know what I mean? [00:22:06] Speaker B: Like a military style or marching band. [00:22:09] Speaker A: Meant to be militaristic, played with a march. And we'll get to the marching feet. The bass, that dirty single note on the bass. Pretty sick bass tone there. [00:22:28] Speaker B: It's dope. [00:22:29] Speaker A: This was labeled Ableton guitar. Also playing the. The note B, I'm guessing it was labeled Ableton guitar because it's filtered and affected all to hell. Within that. Within that daw super rad, like, digital ass guitar. And this is called Lead resolve guitar kind of sounds like there's maybe a glitch effect in there, kind of pulling the notes up or down almost randomly, which I always thought was cool. Okay, some more of that lead guitar at the end. That's where it gets very metal and, like, that's it for instruments. But here's all the sound effects. The first one we hear, I think, is the army marching. Yeah, it's called Army. I wish I knew where this voice came from saying, left, right, left, right. It's. It's so bizarre. But it's just right for the song. Of course. I played you the Morph crowd. Oh, this is. I didn't play this yet. The. The crowd sound at the end. [00:24:43] Speaker B: Oh, God. Okay. [00:24:44] Speaker A: Or one of that. That abrupt ending and then you hear a reverb ring out is when the song suddenly cuts off and you just hear a ring. This one's labeled fx. There's several layers of. Of noise. Wacky sounds in this one. [00:25:25] Speaker B: That's fun. [00:25:27] Speaker A: So we have, like, space invader noises on acid and, like, broken alarms. [00:25:33] Speaker B: Yeah. We've already talked about why it might have this sound. Like, why there is this sound collage. [00:25:42] Speaker A: Right. [00:25:42] Speaker B: Like that with. Can you. Can you play it again? Just a little bit of it. Like radio sounds coming in. [00:25:57] Speaker A: Just all sorts of. Yeah, like, you can't. Most of this you cannot tell is there in the finished song. So it's. It's almost like extras for us. People who download the multi tracks and mess around with them little Easter eggs. I only have a couple more. Okay. The final multi track is just labeled Misery. Birds tweeting Sounds like Misery. Oh, chainsaw. This is the weirdest one. More birds. Yeah, that hurt our. We were wincing in pain. Hurt our ears a bit because we had it up really loud. I think I heard Bob Flanagan being tortured in there. There were screams of agony. There were definitely explosions. [00:27:35] Speaker B: Earthquake sounds, shooting sounds, laser shooting sounds. [00:27:39] Speaker A: Flamethrower type sounds, and the screams of agony. Misery. So, yeah, and it's just weird. That starts with all this, like, bird chirping stuff. But it's like a. [00:27:50] Speaker B: Maybe it just goes to show how your world can be idyllic one day and then just 20 minutes later turn to total shit. Whenever your country is taken over by, I don't know. Christophascist. By the Tech Tyrants or by Tech Tyrants. [00:28:10] Speaker A: Yes. In this case, it would be more on the Christofascist kind of thing. [00:28:16] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:28:17] Speaker A: Because this song is so heavy on the bizarre sound effects. I made a little mix of to give you a sample of what the song would sound like. Just guitars and drums without all that stuff. [00:28:29] Speaker B: Okay. [00:29:16] Speaker A: Just a more straightforward little rock song there. Did you like it? [00:29:22] Speaker B: I missed it, kind of. I missed those crazy sounds. [00:29:25] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:29:26] Speaker B: Really adds a lot to it, even if it makes me wince every time. [00:29:31] Speaker A: Gets to the end as it climaxes. It adds tons of flavor to it. Tons of. More context, I want to say. More mood, more texture. Texture, yes. [00:29:47] Speaker B: Context. Mood. Just kind of thinking about the pretty bird sounds juxtaposed with as. Like, that screams of horror. Yeah. As that Misery track progresses and has all these weird sounds, I was thinking, like. And it gets worse and worse. Right. And you start hearing, like, people screaming in pain. And what if it was to kind of symbolize, like, in the world of year zero and all, like, the dirty bombs were going off in various. I guess it was like. Was it two cities, Louisiana And Anaheim, maybe? [00:30:20] Speaker A: Yes. [00:30:21] Speaker B: That were first bombed and then later there were other terrorist attacks on different cities. Right. In this world. [00:30:26] Speaker A: And that's part of what kicks off all the events. Yes, the series of events. [00:30:31] Speaker B: Yeah. So what if it was supposed to kind of. If you don't know, really, the story. Right. It's setting the vibe. It is. Also, you can't really hear it, but you can feel when you're listening to the song that something is. [00:30:42] Speaker A: It's almost telling us the story without even using actual words. [00:30:47] Speaker B: Exactly. [00:30:48] Speaker A: We can kind of hear that a horrible event is in progress. [00:30:55] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:55] Speaker A: And that's kicking something off. And it may involve fascism. [00:31:03] Speaker B: And it may involve Christo. Fascism. [00:31:06] Speaker A: Yeah. So it's all there. It's all there. [00:31:09] Speaker B: Anyway, I guess the last thing is talking about the chant again. Sorry. Some people thought maybe just the kind of the way it was recorded and the sound of the chant in the music, it was kind of an homage to a part in the trial from the Wall. Pink Floyd's the Wall. [00:31:31] Speaker A: Mm. So it is kind of like that. [00:31:34] Speaker B: Do you want to play? Do you have the clips ready? [00:31:46] Speaker A: God knows Trent loves the Wall. He's a musical theater nerd. He played Judas or whatever. He. He. His musicals, his concept albums. So it's not totally unlike that. Are they chanting, like, tear down the wall? [00:32:05] Speaker B: I think so. [00:32:06] Speaker A: Interesting. So, yeah. I also found this happened in Nin music not all that long ago in our chronology. So I have a Nin example. This is not the first time he did chants, if you'll recall a little song called Pilgrimage and the Buddha Boys. Honestly, that's really similar sounding. [00:32:42] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:32:42] Speaker A: I mean, rhythmic chants are going to be similar no matter what, I guess. But he didn't have the Buddha Boys this time. He was on the go. Kind of hard to round them up, not even in New Orleans. So he did what he could with his own voice and synthesized the Buddha Boys, you could say. That's all I got for clips though. [00:33:05] Speaker B: That's it for Blake's clips corner. [00:33:07] Speaker A: That's right. [00:33:07] Speaker B: Okay, sorry. I feel like this episode is a messy bitch. Okay. [00:33:13] Speaker A: Just like the track. [00:33:14] Speaker B: It is just like this. Host. Co host. Sorry. [00:33:19] Speaker A: Track's a whole lot of mess. [00:33:22] Speaker B: Okay, so we usually talk about live and if a song has been played live. So guess what? It has been. It made its debut on May 7, 2007, which was the first day of the Australian leg of the Performance 2007 tour. I bet our friend Tom was there. [00:33:40] Speaker A: I hope so. [00:33:41] Speaker B: Better have been there Tom. [00:33:43] Speaker A: I'm glad it was. Should be played more often as like an opener. Makes it makes a killer opener, I think. [00:33:50] Speaker B: Yeah, I think it opened several shows on the rest of the tour, but sometimes a pre recorded version would play instead cheap and according to NI and Wiki has not been performed since 2007. Although Saul Williams performed Gunshots by Computer, which was his remix of Hyper Power, which we'll get to to in like a million episodes from now several times during his 2008 tour. [00:34:16] Speaker A: Interesting. It's a shame it hasn't been played since then, but they got a lot of songs. [00:34:23] Speaker B: Dang. It is a really good intro, especially coming into the track that follows it, the Beginning of the End, which is what our next episode is about. [00:34:32] Speaker A: Another song about beginnings and it's a banger. Oh yeah, Speaking of spoiler alert. Speaking of rock songs banger, they put the two, the only two rock songs on this electronic album up front to I guess give us a false sense of what the album is going to be like. But yeah, excited to do that and hope you're liking the song by song format. [00:35:02] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm still getting used to it because it's kind of weird. [00:35:05] Speaker A: It's how we do it in the in this alternate universe of year zero. It's not forever. Calm down. [00:35:13] Speaker B: Yeah. Chill out. [00:35:14] Speaker A: It will be weekly for a change and hopefully. And yes, that does mean 16 plus weeks for the album, but not unheard of. As slow as we go. So here goes nothing, I guess. [00:35:31] Speaker B: Think of all that ARG content behind the paywall that I still am trying to figure out how to do. Yay. [00:35:40] Speaker A: Well, you've already done some of it. [00:35:42] Speaker B: I know. Breaking it up little chunks. [00:35:44] Speaker A: If you want to hear about the ARG and other alternate reality games, that's on the Patreon. [00:35:51] Speaker B: And I think the next bonus episode we're doing is just strictly on the making of the year 0arg. So we'll talk about that Creative collaboration between Reznor and Rob Sheridan and the team at 42 Entertainment who created the ARG. [00:36:09] Speaker A: That's right. [00:36:10] Speaker B: Also, I'm 42 years old. Coincidence? [00:36:13] Speaker A: I don't think so. [00:36:14] Speaker B: No. [00:36:17] Speaker A: I think it's. I think that's a clue. [00:36:19] Speaker B: Honestly, it might be. [00:36:20] Speaker A: Anytime you see a number, that's a clue. Sorry. I'm trying to find the Patreon because we've come to the end of the episode. Is it time to read out new patrons? [00:36:31] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:36:32] Speaker A: And some of these might be old patrons, but I'm going to read out the few most recent names of people who joined our Patreon. Thank you. Just two this time I want to thank Gabriel and Brittany for joining up. [00:36:49] Speaker B: I can't believe Peter Gabriel and Britney Spears. [00:36:52] Speaker A: Oh my God. Finally the collabo I've been dreaming about. If you want to be like them and get twice as much nailed, go to patreon.com nailedpod for bonus episodes and other fringe benefits, including the Discord, where we are very active with our friends and listeners talking about all sorts of stuff, including Nine Inch Nails. [00:37:21] Speaker B: Even if it's cringy, we're in there. Cringe. Posting. [00:37:23] Speaker A: We're very cringe. So get in there. So thanks everybody. Anything else? [00:37:28] Speaker B: Thanks so much. Hi buddy. Oscar Wilde. [00:37:33] Speaker A: Oscar wants attention. So we're gonna. [00:37:35] Speaker B: We're gonna have to wrap this up. But yeah, just thank you for your patience as we're working on this new format and getting used to it. [00:37:40] Speaker A: Hope you like it. [00:37:42] Speaker B: And if you don't like it, whatever. We still love you. [00:37:47] Speaker A: I thought I was gonna think of something cool to say to end these. [00:37:50] Speaker B: But I wish Oscar would say something. Oscar, what do you. What do you have to say? Wow, Perfect. [00:37:55] Speaker A: He talked on cue there. [00:37:57] Speaker B: Uh huh. Well, you heard it here first, Oscar. [00:38:01] Speaker A: Not gonna cooperate now. [00:38:02] Speaker B: Come on, buddy. Damn it. Just repeat. Just use your editing skills and just move that over there. There you go. [00:38:12] Speaker A: We'll see you on the next episode of Year Zero for beginning of the end. And hey, what? Can we stop hyper power? [00:38:42] Speaker B: Okay, just don't let. Don't wake Oscar up. He's finally quiet. [00:38:45] Speaker A: Oh, well, if that didn't wake him, then I don't know what will. [00:38:50] Speaker B: Okay, Yikes.