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[00:02:12] Speaker C: Come on down. It's nailed. A song by song. Journey through the world of Year Zero. I'm Blake.
[00:02:19] Speaker B: I'm Jessica. And this is the beginning of the end. It's exciting times, truly.
[00:02:25] Speaker C: You've been waiting to say that.
[00:02:26] Speaker B: No.
[00:02:27] Speaker C: You seem excited.
[00:02:29] Speaker B: I'm just high on pain pills.
[00:02:31] Speaker C: No.
[00:02:31] Speaker B: Oh, no, actually, that's not true at all because I haven't taken any since this morning, so.
[00:02:37] Speaker C: Oh, okay.
[00:02:38] Speaker B: Sorry. I had some dental work, folks, so if I sound weird, don't sound too weird. Okay, good. But my mouth does hurt, so we're keeping this one short.
[00:02:48] Speaker C: My voice is more normal now than it was on the introduction episode where it was so deep I just listened back and edited. Man, it was deep.
[00:02:59] Speaker B: It was sexy. I got a little.
[00:03:01] Speaker C: It kind of was better than my regular voice, honestly.
[00:03:03] Speaker B: Might have left a little snail trail on a chair.
[00:03:06] Speaker C: Be gross. I'm cutting that.
[00:03:08] Speaker B: Excuse me. I got that from the Righteous Gemstones.
[00:03:12] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:03:12] Speaker B: It's not like I invented something that disgusting. Only Danny McBride could.
[00:03:18] Speaker C: So this is track two of year zero, the beginning of the end.
First real song. Song with lyrics, that is.
And we're going to get into it.
[00:03:31] Speaker B: But first.
[00:03:32] Speaker C: But first, some nine inch news.
[00:03:35] Speaker D: So everything is in the news today.
[00:03:39] Speaker C: Had to play that this Episode because it's super relevant. So what do we have? I'm not looking at the list.
[00:03:46] Speaker B: Oh, you're not looking at the list. Well, I guess we'll start.
[00:03:48] Speaker C: No, I am. I'm looking at the outline. Nevermind.
[00:03:49] Speaker B: I guess we'll just start with like the biggest news to have dropped in a very long time.
[00:03:54] Speaker C: Yeah, and it's gonna be updated by the time this gets to you.
[00:03:58] Speaker B: It will be outdated. Hopefully it won't be speculative anymore though, because that's all this is.
[00:04:02] Speaker C: Right now it's all speculation for a world tour.
[00:04:06] Speaker B: A world arena tour, which I thought we were done with after the Fragile era, but apparently not.
[00:04:13] Speaker C: I don't know if anybody was expecting this. Everybody. Well, everybody was expecting new music because they kept saying in interviews that new music was coming. Or at least that's what I think they said. But instead of an album announcement, we got a world tour leak.
[00:04:27] Speaker B: Well, you have theories, but basically what happened?
Theorizing here, maybe some sites that shouldn't have posted dates.
[00:04:38] Speaker C: Yeah, I think they were auto scheduled to post.
[00:04:41] Speaker B: And due to the current situation in la, this was something that Reznor did not want to announce yet with the.
[00:04:52] Speaker C: Fires, which may be not a thing anymore when you hear this.
[00:04:56] Speaker B: Hopefully not a thing. We said that last time, but I think LA is still on fire. Anyway, rumors of a possible arena world tour. No dates in Missouri were leaked. Of course not. Fucking hellhole. We live in here.
[00:05:10] Speaker C: Well, why would they? Why would they?
[00:05:12] Speaker B: We have some nice stadiums. Billy came here recently.
[00:05:15] Speaker C: We do have big, big venues.
[00:05:17] Speaker B: The T Mobiles arena was actually really nice. I thought where we saw Billy.
[00:05:22] Speaker C: The Kansas City Chiefs do play here in this state.
[00:05:25] Speaker B: I mean Taylor has to set foot in this hellhole every once in a while, so.
[00:05:31] Speaker C: Yeah, but we don't even know if what leaked is even the real list of dates.
[00:05:36] Speaker B: True.
And they could change.
[00:05:39] Speaker C: Yeah, everything is just speculation games now. When you hear this, it might be officially released. But all they said was yes, there's a world tour.
We didn't. We pushed it back because of the fires.
[00:05:52] Speaker B: Push the announcement back, not the tour.
[00:05:53] Speaker C: Yeah, push the announcement, not the tour.
Maybe the tour. We don't know yet.
But some stuff accidentally got leaked.
[00:06:02] Speaker B: Oscar's upset about the leaks.
[00:06:03] Speaker C: Yeah, from venues and ticket sellers. So do we want to talk theories?
[00:06:11] Speaker B: Yeah, you talk your theory. I don't have any theories. I know you.
[00:06:13] Speaker C: Okay, we won't spend too long on this, but. Oh, also it's called Peel it Back.
[00:06:21] Speaker B: Which made you think it was like a greatest Hits kind of tour.
[00:06:23] Speaker C: Well, yeah, but also people.
[00:06:25] Speaker B: Or a stripped down tour, which doesn't make sense for an arena, but whatever, we have no idea. Again, speculation.
[00:06:31] Speaker C: Also, it's a lyric from the downward spiral. A lot of people are saying downward spiral. 30th anniversary tour, 31st now. Yeah, which I think that could be very likely.
Another.
Another theory could be they meant to announce a new. Announce new music and new shows at the same time. And it was just the shows that got leaked because of the auto posting.
The scheduled posts that went up that weren't taken down anyway. Maybe peel it back as the name of a still type thing.
[00:07:09] Speaker B: Maybe.
[00:07:10] Speaker C: Or maybe it's an entirely new album and it's just a reused.
Some reused words which he's done many.
[00:07:18] Speaker B: Many times for album titles.
[00:07:20] Speaker C: I don't think he's done it for album titles. But there's a first time for everything.
[00:07:24] Speaker B: Look, I know the man is self referential and into world building, but I.
[00:07:28] Speaker C: Mean, what if it was the downward spiral too? We didn't talk about that.
[00:07:32] Speaker B: I mean, we all kind of went through our own downward spiral too the past five years or so.
[00:07:38] Speaker C: Or maybe three if you consider hesitation marks. Downward spiral. Two, which I don't.
So anyway, I guess we'll get back on here with more 9 inch news when we know more. But everything is just speculation at this point.
[00:07:51] Speaker B: But hopefully there will be a day and we can hang out with some of you guys again. Because that would be fun. A date that we can go to. I mean, not. I mean, I know there will be dates, but can we go to any of them? I don't fucking know.
[00:08:05] Speaker C: Too early to say.
[00:08:06] Speaker B: Right? Okay, next one.
[00:08:07] Speaker C: Another nine Inch news.
[00:08:09] Speaker B: I don't like to get too much into personal lives here, but recently someone noticed in our discord that Marroqueen had updated her Instagram to say that she's a mother of six. Was there a new Reznor baby? Maybe. Did they adopt a new dog? Maybe. I don't know.
[00:08:28] Speaker C: Could be. Maybe they're counting pets and that's why the number's so high.
[00:08:31] Speaker B: Maybe she's counting the tour.
That's her baby.
[00:08:36] Speaker C: Maybe it's a new album. Her baby.
[00:08:38] Speaker B: Her baby.
[00:08:38] Speaker C: And a new how to Destroy Angels album.
[00:08:41] Speaker B: Maybe. I don't know.
[00:08:42] Speaker C: I'm gonna choose to believe that.
[00:08:44] Speaker B: Honestly, stuff is crazy now.
[00:08:46] Speaker C: I think I like that better.
[00:08:48] Speaker B: Next. They won the Golden Globe.
[00:08:52] Speaker C: Reznor and Ross, the boys won a Globe.
[00:08:56] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:08:56] Speaker C: Four challengers, of course.
[00:09:00] Speaker B: Bangin score. Apparently. I read a man I'm so glad I'm off Instagram. I do remember whenever they won, I was scrolling through Instagram, which apparently I wasted hours every day doing and years of my life doing. But anyway, I digress. There was a Pitchfork post announcing their win and someone got on there and posted. Oh, yeah, like they really deserved it. I don't. Don't think I didn't notice that you used the song anachronistically, Mr. Reznor. I don't remember what it was. It was someone who was trying to be like a point out some mistake. And someone goes, someone else posted before I could, like in reply, like, dude, you need to learn the difference between a score and a soundtrack. Like they had nothing to do with the soundtrack.
[00:09:45] Speaker C: Yeah, like they chose the songs that went. That's so dumb. Oh, boy.
[00:09:50] Speaker B: Anywho, people learn the difference between scores and soundtracks. It's not that hard.
[00:09:54] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:09:54] Speaker B: Next one. Blake, I'm gonna let you take over this because I don't really know much about it.
[00:09:58] Speaker C: I don't have a lot to say, but. But this was a while ago when Spotify wrapped happened and one of those.
Got one of those emails. Well, I didn't.
[00:10:10] Speaker B: I did.
[00:10:11] Speaker C: Just did. Nine Inch Nails has something special for you.
Exclusive T shirt for only their 0.001 highest percent of listeners. Whatever the percentage was.
And it was a T shirt.
A T shirt that says the NIN logo. And now I'm. Nothing on the front, just black. On the back is a bunch of numbers and stuff.
It says. And they all have the same numbers. I'm assuming. It kind of looks like it's a text readout of your stats for Spotify, but I believe they all say the same thing.
And we're looking for codes within the numbers in the year zero mindset.
Some people online thinking maybe there's something hidden there.
[00:11:04] Speaker B: I wonder if it was a code to announce their tour. You should look closer into it.
[00:11:08] Speaker C: Yeah, that's. See, I was thinking that too. 2 3, 3, 4 5. 2 4, 33 5.
What's the. What's the difference There.
Now I'm going all.
Going all stringboard with Charlie.
990 anyway. I don't know what that means. 2024. 0.001% greater than or equal to 68,793 minutes.
1146.55 hours.
9 dot inch nails. And there's some smaller text like kind of ghosted out behind it in the background that I can't really make out in the picture, but may or may not Be important. I wonder if anyone got their shirt yet. Do you think they did?
[00:12:04] Speaker B: I don't know. Hey, if you got okay number and if you paid for one of these and got one, let us know. Yeah, send us a pic and decode it for us. If there is a code, break that code.
[00:12:14] Speaker C: $35. Well, at least it's not 50. But with shipping, it will be in tax.
[00:12:19] Speaker B: Yeah, probably around there.
[00:12:21] Speaker C: So I'm not that into it, but there is a little bit of fan debate over whether this is selling out, man, or not.
I don't care that much.
[00:12:31] Speaker B: I don't think anyone cares about selling out anymore.
[00:12:33] Speaker C: Well, yeah, I'm looking.
[00:12:35] Speaker B: This isn't the 90s.
[00:12:36] Speaker C: Look at their merchandise output of the last year.
If they. If they were going to sell out, they have already in that regard. And not to hate on it. I bought much of it and so did Miss. Miss Downward Spiral Boots over here.
[00:12:52] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, I forgot I was wearing these.
[00:12:55] Speaker C: But I'm not getting that shirt. Because they weren't. Because I wasn't a top listener. Because we didn't do much of this podcast last year.
[00:13:03] Speaker B: Not gonna lie. I thought about ordering it when I thought, ooh, maybe there is a code. But then I didn't. Because I want to save money. Because I want to move out of Missouri. That's all.
[00:13:13] Speaker C: Yeah. Anyway, not that big of a deal.
[00:13:15] Speaker B: No, but just put it out in there in case we have some code breakers out there who want to take a crack at it and see if it actually means anything. It might not, though.
[00:13:22] Speaker C: Somebody probably already cracked it and we're just not paying attention. Maybe that's all the nine inch news for now.
Move on with beginning of the end.
[00:13:33] Speaker B: Let's go.
I am so ready for the end after this week, let me tell you.
[00:13:47] Speaker C: I wish the end would hurry up and begin. You know what I'm saying?
[00:13:51] Speaker B: Oh, buddy, it. It's began.
So track two on year zero follows up Hyper power, leads us into survivalism. It's a banger. This is a certified Jessica banger. I need a sound effect for that. Like a.
[00:14:09] Speaker C: Like a bang sound effect. Certified Jess banger. And we need like a bonafide Blake Bop.
[00:14:16] Speaker B: Ooh, the triple B. I like that alliteration.
[00:14:19] Speaker C: Gotta remember that for later. Bonafide Blake Bop.
[00:14:23] Speaker B: It's hard to find alliteration with Jessica. Yeah, I've had problems with that all my life. Like in like Icebreakers, when they're like, think of a word that starts with the same letter as your first name that you would use. To describe yourself. And I'm always like, what the fuck?
[00:14:37] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:14:37] Speaker B: J Jumping Jack Jess.
I'm not jolly. Fuck that.
[00:14:43] Speaker C: Jolly Jess. Yep, that's it. Anyway, track two, year zero.
Our first lyrics on the album.
[00:14:52] Speaker B: Well, real lyrics.
[00:14:53] Speaker C: Well, yeah, other than crowd chanting at the beginning. Subliminal almost.
[00:14:59] Speaker B: Yeah. So I don't really have a lot to say, so I'm just going to get into.
I want to talk about how people maybe first heard this song. There was maybe a leak.
So do you know who Jed the Fish is?
[00:15:16] Speaker C: No, I can't say I do. Other than it sounds like a dumbass radio DJ name.
[00:15:22] Speaker B: Okay, well, it is a DJ name, but by the way, it's his real name. His name is Jed. Jed the Fish.
[00:15:28] Speaker C: No, his last name is the Fish.
[00:15:30] Speaker B: No, hold on. I do have it pulled up though.
His full name is Edwin Jed Fish Gould, but goes by Jed the Fish for that's his nom de radio.
[00:15:46] Speaker C: Yeah, that works.
[00:15:47] Speaker B: There we go. He is a. Or was a host for kroq. Do you know what KROQ is?
[00:15:54] Speaker C: K Rock.
[00:15:55] Speaker B: That's right. Legendary Los Angeles based radio station. And he is allegedly the first DJ to play Depeche Mode in the United States. So guess what? We love you, Jed the Fish.
[00:16:09] Speaker C: Hearts go out to you. We salute you, Fish.
[00:16:12] Speaker B: Yes. If you want to know what he looked like in the mid-90s, you can check out the COVID of Real Big Fish's album, Turn the Radio Off. Featuring the ska hit Sell Out. Don't know if anyone remembers this track.
[00:16:26] Speaker C: Is that where he gets his name? Was he a member of Real Big Fish?
[00:16:30] Speaker B: No, I already told you where he got his name. It's actually his name, but he.
[00:16:36] Speaker C: But what are the odds? Real Big Fish, Jed the Fish.
[00:16:41] Speaker B: My guess is that Real Big Fish just was like, let's take advantage of that.
[00:16:45] Speaker C: We need somebody with fish in their name.
[00:16:47] Speaker B: Maybe we can get this guy to play our song on the radio if we put him on our album cover.
And remember, the album is called Turn the Radio off and the album cover featured.
[00:16:56] Speaker C: Okay. A radio dj.
[00:16:57] Speaker B: A radio dj.
[00:16:58] Speaker C: That's cute.
[00:16:59] Speaker B: Who was being held up by gunpoint, by the way. It's not so cute.
[00:17:02] Speaker C: Oh my.
[00:17:02] Speaker B: But it's kind of funny. But I didn't know who that guy was, so I wouldn't have known that anyway.
So on March 2, 2007, he played beginning of the End as his catch of the day. Cute. Cute, Jed, cute.
And then after that, the song was.
After the song was played on kroq, a radio quality Version of the track began to circulate online.
[00:17:26] Speaker C: So I don't think I caught that leak. I don't remember hearing a radio rip, so to speak of that. I heard survivalism and then I think I heard. I swear there was like a full album leak the night before. Or maybe that was planned.
[00:17:42] Speaker B: There was also a. We haven't gotten into all the leaks yet. I think there were several, but there was also like listening parties and I believe that someone recorded the album at the listening parties, but it wasn't very good. Like it was literally recorded on a 2007 Nokia or something like would have.
[00:17:58] Speaker C: Been horrible but eight bit.
[00:18:02] Speaker B: Yeah, we'll talk about. We'll talk more about leaks later. You might want to know how this relates to the Ark, if at all.
So if you had visited the another version of the truth site, if you remember. I've never actually seen this because I did not visit that site. All I have are the pictures of it from Ninwiki.
[00:18:26] Speaker C: I do remember it. Is that the one where you use the mouse cursor to wipe away the pretty landscape and it turns into.
[00:18:34] Speaker B: Turns into a bleak burned out hellscape? That kind of is what parts of LA look like now. Yes, that's looks like a scorched earth, basically. So the original website has this beautiful propagandistic farm scenery with an American flag kind of, you know, back there against it and it says a new beginning. Zero tolerance, zero fear. But if you rub, if you move your cursor across it, right, it changes to that dystopian hellscape and it says the beginning of the end. Zero hope, zero chance. And it just. That beautiful farm scape was just set aflame, burned down, nothing left.
[00:19:13] Speaker C: You see your world on fire. Don't try to act surprised right now. It's literal.
[00:19:20] Speaker B: So that's kind of where you might have seen the phrase if you were following along with the arg. Also, I found this weird thing on Ninwiki. I don't think this is right or maybe it just needs to be clarified because I was kind of confused.
It says on Ninwiki. A group of West Texans found the website thebeginningofthen.org while researching oil prices in Midland, Texas.
[00:19:45] Speaker C: Yeah, so know what that means?
[00:19:49] Speaker B: I could not find mention of this site on like the listing of sites that Ninwiki has, nor could I find it. There's another site that I've been going to where they tried to. Whoever this person is, I don't.
[00:20:05] Speaker C: Midland, Texas Oil town, by the way.
[00:20:07] Speaker B: Oh, huge oil town. My uncle lives there.
And it's really expensive to live there, apparently. Even though I've heard it's really hot.
[00:20:15] Speaker C: West Texas, probably all inflated with those oil prices.
[00:20:19] Speaker B: Oil prices, yeah.
So there is. You can go to yearzero.netninja.com and they have tried to archive as much as they could from this project, and I could not find it on their listing of known sites either. So I'm not really sure what was trying to be conveyed there. So I don't know if it needs to be clarified or if I'm missing something completely. So someone from Nin Wiki, please help me. Yeah, I don't know what I stumbled across here, so I'm not going to get too much into the arm right now. That's going to be more, like I said, like, bonus episode stuff. But before we talk about similarities to other songs or get into Blake's Clips corner, do we just want to go ahead and play the track first?
[00:21:00] Speaker C: Let's play it.
[00:21:01] Speaker B: All right.
[00:21:05] Speaker C: Drums.
We're learning about the world right away.
Getting references we might not even understand about this world until we get a little deeper.
[00:21:36] Speaker B: Remember, just glimpses, just Polaroids. That's all he wanted.
[00:21:40] Speaker C: Yeah. It's really hard to flesh out every detail of a world and a story. It's much easier to do snapshots.
I like that. Droning synths, which I think I thought was a guitar. First single note that bins finally get a bass. Oh, tambourine.
[00:22:08] Speaker B: Love that tambourine.
[00:22:09] Speaker C: Trent's favorite instrument, the tambo, of course, is on this album a lot.
[00:22:21] Speaker B: The only people that make tambourine's cool. Stevie Nicks, Trent Reznor. No one else can do it like them.
[00:22:29] Speaker C: Trent needs more like streamers hanging off his tambourine.
[00:22:33] Speaker B: No.
[00:22:47] Speaker C: Lots of layering of guitar.
[00:22:53] Speaker B: You know they played this at Trump's inauguration yesterday.
[00:22:55] Speaker C: They did not.
[00:22:56] Speaker B: I know. I'm kidding.
[00:22:57] Speaker C: Sorry.
[00:22:58] Speaker B: Bad joke.
[00:22:59] Speaker C: Carrie Underwood played it.
[00:23:00] Speaker B: Actually, we'll cover that on Jessica's cover's corner.
[00:23:05] Speaker C: Better sound didn't work.
Guitar solo coming.
Noise solo.
Right away I was like, holy. Guitar is so up. First time I heard this.
I still think that we'll listen to it later, but pretty cool.
And that ends with the drums, too.
One thing we'll see.
Nearly every single song on this album opens with just drums.
It's weird, but pay attention. You'll find that it's true. Okay, a few exceptions.
Okay, so.
[00:24:06] Speaker B: So is it Clips Corner time?
[00:24:09] Speaker C: It is. Let's go to the clips corner. Speaking of those Drums.
I'm not really sure why I isolated these like that because they're isolated already on the album and you can hear them just fine. Yeah, but then the drums get louder later in the song and stuff like cymbals are added.
Oh, that doesn't have the cymbals yet. But the drums do get louder over time.
This one has cymbals, claps and tambourine.
Okay, that goes hard if you want just the tambourine by itself.
[00:25:08] Speaker B: Love that tambo, Trent.
[00:25:10] Speaker C: You can imagine Trent lovingly shaking it by hand.
No Ableton fake instruments here.
At least I don't think so. You know, it could be a sample, but it sounds organic. That's what's important.
Dirty ass guitar overdriven.
It's kind of just in the left until it's joined by.
By other layers and opens up there across the stereo image. Okay. This was called dope Synth dope, spelled D O E P, which I took to mean Dopfur, a company that makes modular synth.
Modular synth gear.
But it's that single note drone again. I.
I thought it was an ebo. Maybe just E boing the guitar.
[00:26:24] Speaker B: I would have thought it was a guitar. I wouldn't have known.
[00:26:26] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, well, always with him it's like, does it really matter?
The guitar could be a synth, the synth could be a guitar. And not knowing the difference is probably the point.
Another one labeled diesel guitar noise, which is difficult to track down what it was because it is a. I think I already said this, but Guitar amp brand. But it's not spelled that way.
I kind of highly doubt he's using amplifiers on this record though, now that I think of it, because he's never really liked him in general, first off. And second, this is an album recorded on like tour buses and stuff, mostly within Ableton.
They're doing all the effects they need on the guitar within Ableton.
So I don't. I don't know you. You'll have to tell me what D Diesel D I E Z A L is more diesel guitar noise.
I like a lot of droning in this song.
[00:28:12] Speaker B: But what's funny is it doesn't feel like it because when you think about drones, you think about, you know, boring. Not boring necessarily, but you don't think about bangers.
[00:28:22] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:28:23] Speaker B: You know, that drum beat really does a lot for.
[00:28:25] Speaker C: It is like a. Almost like a sing along rock song with.
With energy, some pep in its step, I almost want to say. But it's still very reznor fied in that noisy ass. Drones are overtaking the song.
[00:28:40] Speaker B: I would say it's got some power pop elements to it.
[00:28:43] Speaker C: And we'll talk about it with your pet theory you're crazy about.
This one's called Dope Fur Drone Harmony.
So some more synth, but this time softer.
This song is so built around single note stuff, but I dig it for that.
The bass guitar coming in halfway through the song, or whatever it is.
[00:29:19] Speaker B: Does it come in for the second verse?
[00:29:22] Speaker C: Yeah, I believe so. I believe that's when it comes in so farty and good.
Love how it goes low there.
You'll listen again.
Octave down here.
That tone sounds good when it goes low. A higher drone on the guitar.
And then this is labeled as Chaos Solo. K A O S S, which I took to mean. I think we've talked about it on the show before. The Korg Chaos Pad, A almost like a little synth toy. It's fun to play with, but also really powerful. I believe it.
Alessandro Cortini was using one for a solo in the Beside you In Time dvd.
So that's kind of taking the place of a traditional guitar solo, but becomes very almost computerized.
It might have started as some notes being played on a guitar, fed through the Chaos pad and fucked all to hell, but what it started as is almost irrelevant because it just becomes waveforms.
[00:31:18] Speaker B: Being smashed becomes chaos, y'all.
[00:31:21] Speaker C: Chaos with a K. I mean, that's why they call it that.
But that. I always love that.
Want some vocals?
This is what the people are horny for, not Chaos Pads.
[00:31:34] Speaker B: Um, I like both.
[00:31:37] Speaker D: Down on your knees you'll be left behind this is the beginning Watch what you think that can read your mind this is the beginning I got my mark, see it in my eyes this is the beginning My reflection I don't recognize this is the beginning we think we climb so high Reverb up all the backs we've condemned we face a consequence this is the beginning of the.
[00:32:22] Speaker C: End I think I hear slight vocal tuning in there, just on some of those chorus notes. I think the verse is too, like, talk singy to require that. And I don't think it would sound good again, not something I really notice in the context of the whole song at all.
[00:32:42] Speaker D: You wait your turn, you'll be last.
[00:32:44] Speaker C: In line this is good. A lot of anger and energy added to this verse.
[00:32:49] Speaker D: You wait your turn, you'll be last in line this is a beginning get out the way cause I'm getting mine this is a beginning, get out the ones that can help themselves this is our beginning maybe too late as far As I can tell, this is our beginning.
We think we've come so far on all our lives. We.
[00:33:25] Speaker C: Have a lot of distortion on the voice too. When he gets loud, when he reaches a certain threshold, it's like sounds like he's blowing out the mic.
And then in the chorus there, I like how when it gets to that, it starts, like, panning around.
[00:33:40] Speaker D: Facing a consequence this is the beginning of the end.
[00:33:48] Speaker C: Okay. He also makes some noises, some vocal noises in this song.
I made a loop out of this.
Jess is mouthing it, just breathing out real loud, that's all.
Okay. Then some heavy tuning on this falsetto part and also some grunts.
[00:34:12] Speaker D: We think we've come so far.
Oh, no. Our last ring.
Facing a consequence this is the beginning of the end.
[00:34:33] Speaker C: When he does, like, super high falsetto, super tuned, it's almost like it becomes a vocoder, which I think works well in the context of this song being like a rock song with computery elements on it.
[00:34:48] Speaker B: Can you play those little. The breathing sounds again, please?
[00:34:51] Speaker C: Which one?
[00:34:53] Speaker B: The beginning of what you just played, I think.
Pov, Trent making baby number six on you.
[00:35:00] Speaker C: Oh, God, stop.
[00:35:03] Speaker B: Sorry.
[00:35:04] Speaker C: Yeah, that breathing. Strained breathing is turned up a little too loud there. And then the final grunts.
I may have to censor this.
[00:35:22] Speaker B: Oh, that's the baby sound right there.
Yes, that is it.
[00:35:28] Speaker C: Oh, boy. Well, guess I'll end on that note.
[00:35:32] Speaker B: Whew.
That's it. That's all the clips corner.
[00:35:35] Speaker C: Yeah. I mean, there's not. There's not that much to the song. It's pretty simple.
[00:35:39] Speaker B: I know, but I feel like for survivalism, we had like, 9 million.
[00:35:41] Speaker C: Yeah, there were a lot more layers on that one.
[00:35:44] Speaker B: I feel like I do like how this builds, but it doesn't have as much.
[00:35:48] Speaker C: It's totally about building starts. Really simplistic.
[00:35:53] Speaker B: So let's talk about possible similarities to other songs before we talk about lyrics and.
[00:35:59] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:36:00] Speaker B: That kind of thing, I guess, is what I'm trying to say. Okay. People have compared this song to Marilyn Manson's Mr. Superstar from his album Antichrist Superstar.
[00:36:15] Speaker C: Should I play that one?
[00:36:17] Speaker B: Play a little bit of it and then play what they're comparing it to. Like, why there's similarities. Because if you think about it, you're just like, I don't think there's any similarities. But when you hear it, you're like, oh, okay.
[00:36:27] Speaker C: I don't like what this is gonna do to my Spotify algorithm, but I guess I'll go ahead and play.
I think that's. That's it basically.
[00:36:45] Speaker B: I guess.
[00:36:49] Speaker C: So it's based on two notes.
That's basically all you get for the verse.
Likewise in beginning of the end. Should I compare it to.
I'll just play it.
So the notes are not the same notes, different key, different tempo, different tone, but there's probably a billion, like, pop rock songs that do a similar thing. Honestly.
[00:37:23] Speaker B: Hey, look, as a tech writer, like I've said before, if it ain't broken, don't fix it. You can reuse shit all you want if you're the one who wrote it. In my opinion, there's no such thing as self plagiarism.
[00:37:34] Speaker C: Self plagiarism?
[00:37:36] Speaker B: Yeah. Have you never heard that term before?
[00:37:38] Speaker C: What's it like plagiarizing yourself?
[00:37:42] Speaker B: So basically it's just reusing your own work. And it can be. It's considered, like, academically dishonest. So, like, if you've written a paper for another class, Right. You want to reuse it for a different class, or if you're using ideas from, like, a previous thing that you've written, but you're writing something allegedly new, and you're just rehashing those ideas or whatever.
[00:38:08] Speaker C: Okay, so you're saying. Because Reznor produced that album, and I.
[00:38:13] Speaker B: Think he played the guitar on that song.
[00:38:15] Speaker C: Oh, I didn't realize that was him playing. If it is indeed him playing.
[00:38:20] Speaker B: I think it was.
[00:38:20] Speaker C: I'm gonna look at the credits written by Manson and Ramirez, which I think is the case on most of those produced by Reznor, Ogilvy, Dave Rave, and Manson.
[00:38:34] Speaker B: Are you on Spotify? Because I don't think that will tell you instruments or anything.
[00:38:37] Speaker C: No, it's not gonna tell me that.
[00:38:38] Speaker B: No.
Anyway. But I think the bigger thing we should compare this song to, and we're gonna have a brief interlude for one of my favorite songs of all time.
And if you've never heard this song, if it's new to you, I'm gonna keep her brief.
[00:38:52] Speaker C: You better believe.
[00:38:54] Speaker B: Listen, the song is My Sharona by the neck. And if you don't recognize that little drum beat at the beginning of the song and it doesn't remind you of My Sharona, I don't know what to say to you.
[00:39:04] Speaker C: Imagine it a bit sped up.
[00:39:07] Speaker B: Let's play some My Sharona.
[00:39:08] Speaker C: So how about. First I'll play that. I'll refresh your memory on the. Okay, do it on the beginning of the end. Drums.
Okay, Now I'll play My Sharona.
Okay.
[00:39:28] Speaker B: Both bangers. By the way, there's probably a reason I Fell in love with beginning of the end. That is mostly when I first heard it.
[00:39:34] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, your memory, your brain knew what it was.
Basically the same beat sped up a little more. You know, the drum tone is different, but, I mean, in the world of pop rock drum patterns, there aren't that many out there.
[00:39:54] Speaker B: No, but this one's a very famous one, I want to say.
[00:39:59] Speaker C: Right?
[00:39:59] Speaker B: And it has been.
Okay, here's my brief interlude for one of my favorite songs. And if you're new to the song, Little Zoomers, please don't cancel it. I love this song.
[00:40:10] Speaker C: Don't look this song up. Don't look up what it's about.
[00:40:13] Speaker B: Don't. Yeah, just listen to the song and ignore the lyric.
[00:40:17] Speaker C: Nope.
Don't even say it.
[00:40:20] Speaker B: I won't say it.
[00:40:20] Speaker C: I don't want us canceled.
[00:40:21] Speaker B: Look, it's a banger from the time I heard it when I was 11 years old on the Reality Bites soundtrack. I was in love. Still love this song.
[00:40:31] Speaker C: Even though that's the first time you heard it.
[00:40:33] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:40:33] Speaker C: I knew it because of my bologna.
[00:40:36] Speaker B: Oh, I see. I didn't have, like, a huge Weird Al phase. Like, I feel like most young children in the 80s. Young men, specifically.
[00:40:45] Speaker C: Nerd voice.
[00:40:46] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, I love Weird Al. Who doesn't love Amish paradise but never owned an album. Sorry, sorry, Mr. Weird. I did meet you once, and you were really nice.
But listen to it. It's a great, great power pop song. In fact, I think it's, like, one of the best power pop songs ever written.
[00:41:05] Speaker C: I'm gonna play just a little more of the intro.
[00:41:10] Speaker B: I mean, your hips just start moving. You can't help it. You're like such a great, danceable rock song, in my opinion.
[00:41:22] Speaker C: Beginning of the end based around two notes in the verse. This mostly based around one note that jumps an octave, except for the.
[00:41:34] Speaker B: Do you know people called My Sharona the song that killed disco and created.
[00:41:40] Speaker C: New wave or something?
[00:41:41] Speaker B: I guess so.
Did you know? I'm just gonna share some My Sharona facts. Cause I. How often do I get to talk about this song? Never. Never.
[00:41:49] Speaker C: Go ahead.
[00:41:50] Speaker B: Blake hates me right now.
[00:41:52] Speaker C: People are tuning out. No, I'm kidding.
[00:41:53] Speaker B: No, they're not. They're loving it. They're like, jessica, we need more knack content. And I'm here to give that to you.
[00:41:58] Speaker C: I'm here for the ride.
[00:41:59] Speaker B: Listen, allegedly, Quincy Jones told Michael Jackson to write a song like My Sharona. And Michael Jackson wrote Beat It.
[00:42:09] Speaker C: Okay, now I have to play that. I know that that song Also opens with just drums, but it's been a while since I listened.
[00:42:17] Speaker B: Does it.
[00:42:20] Speaker C: Okay. Just drums and giant.
Starts with a giant bell. Fake bell that I'm almost certain is a DX7 preset and the same tone that Taco Bell uses. Now we know for a fact that Taco Bell used a DX7 preset sound for their.
The thing. The sound the app makes whenever you put your order in.
[00:42:48] Speaker B: Wait, it does? I've never used DX7.
[00:42:50] Speaker C: Yeah, but also it's in their commercials. But here's that. Here's that bill and Beat it.
So combination of 808 and real people clapping.
So yeah, guitar and drum based.
[00:43:25] Speaker B: Look, I didn't say that. I just said that Q allegedly told MJ to write a song like my show.
[00:43:33] Speaker C: I see where that could be true.
[00:43:35] Speaker B: Yeah. Run DMC sampled it for. It's tricky, right? God, I love. It's tricky too, by the way. So good.
[00:43:43] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:43:43] Speaker B: You already mentioned my bologna, so you know you're a good song if Weird Al's parodied you. Right.
Also, the Dead Kennedys mocked it in Pull My Strings. You might remember a little jello by opera singing about my payola.
[00:43:57] Speaker C: Right. I do remember that.
[00:44:00] Speaker B: And now it inspired the beginning of the end, in my opinion. And that is some legend fucking shit. Good job. The knack. Please do not look into the history of the song or page and into the lyrics. Thank you.
[00:44:14] Speaker C: We can probably assume Reznor maybe liked the song. He probably liked it.
[00:44:20] Speaker B: He's a powerful boy.
[00:44:22] Speaker C: He was in new wave bands. He had to have liked it.
[00:44:24] Speaker B: Mm, definitely. I could talk for hours about My Sharona, but I won't.
[00:44:30] Speaker C: Oh, I almost forgot.
Because of the similarities of the drum beats in this song and My Sharona.
[00:44:36] Speaker B: Uh huh. We're gonna be talking about Michael Jackson again, is what you're gonna say.
[00:44:39] Speaker C: No, I had to mash them up. You wanted me to.
And I found that you have to pitch My Sharona way down, like five steps or so to be able to match the Trent's vocals and what key he's in. So it doesn't sound very good. But I did come up with a little snippet here if you want to hear that.
[00:45:02] Speaker B: I'm excited. Okay, do it.
[00:45:04] Speaker C: So yeah, it's going to sound super pitched. Down on the instrumentally.
[00:45:15] Speaker D: Down on your knees you'll be left behind this is the beginning Life can.
[00:45:21] Speaker B: Get better than this can read your.
[00:45:24] Speaker D: Mind this is the beginning I got my mark see it in my eyes this is the beginning My Reflection I don't recognize this is the beginning we think we can say up all the backs we've condemned we face a consequence.
[00:45:54] Speaker B: This is the beginning of the end oh, banger.
Perfect.
[00:46:00] Speaker C: Beautiful. It lines up really nicely at that end part there.
[00:46:03] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:46:04] Speaker B: My parapin.
Is that a good one? Should I write a.
[00:46:09] Speaker C: Not bad. Not bad. We need a. We need a parapin jingle theme song.
[00:46:13] Speaker B: Actually, I just thought of one.
[00:46:15] Speaker C: We need a commercial. Okay. Yeah, we're gonna get sued by the knack, but yeah, it's pretty good. Listen, my parapin, the emphasis on parapin is all fucked up in that, but still, it kind of works.
[00:46:29] Speaker B: Kind of works. We'll figure it out. Don't worry. We'll figure it out.
[00:46:31] Speaker C: We'll figure it out.
[00:46:31] Speaker B: We'll get there.
[00:46:32] Speaker C: We're working on commercials.
[00:46:37] Speaker B: Anyway. Anyway, what I was trying to say earlier was we'll probably talk about Michael Jackson again when we debate the great beat from Capital G. Oh, yeah, sorry. That's what I was trying to say.
[00:46:47] Speaker C: I forgot about that. People have made many a comparison on that one.
[00:46:51] Speaker B: But anyway, I just want to say if we didn't have My Sharona, we wouldn't have had Beat It. We wouldn't have had Its tricky. I mean, we might have had its tricky, but it would have been a little different.
And we wouldn't have had the beginning of the end.
[00:47:03] Speaker C: Right.
[00:47:03] Speaker B: That's all there is to it. Or jello by offer being kind of a jerk about this song. Like, Sorry, Sorry, Dead Kennedys didn't have a number one hit.
[00:47:14] Speaker C: And if we didn't have dystopian fiction, I don't think we would have beginning of the end either.
[00:47:18] Speaker B: It's true. Speaking of, do you want to talk about the song a little bit and the lyrics?
[00:47:23] Speaker C: I have to pull the lyrics back up.
[00:47:24] Speaker B: Great segue. Here we go.
[00:47:27] Speaker C: Something we almost never do. Got the lyrics in front of me.
You want to go through them? Shouldn't take that long. Really.
[00:47:34] Speaker B: Yeah, sure.
[00:47:35] Speaker C: Or do you have any general thoughts on.
[00:47:37] Speaker B: Well, my general thought is this is just an introduction to the world. And I don't really necessarily think this is necessarily a POV of a certain person, but maybe a group of people. Yeah, and it's just a really good intro. And I think it actually accurately describes the world that we're in now. And we were in then. We just maybe weren't as aware because we were young and stupid.
[00:48:02] Speaker C: You could probably map it on any. Because there's discontent at all, you know, all the time in every era. So you could probably map it onto anything or even to something like 1984, maybe.
But, yeah, I see it as one of the.
[00:48:21] Speaker B: There's some paranoia here. Definitely.
[00:48:23] Speaker C: Yeah. When we talked about Mr. Self Destruct as like an introductory or overture for Downward Spiral, and there's almost like a narrator.
It's from the perspective of a narrator, like, above the whole thing, not necessarily a character in it.
That's what I think. This is kind of just talking about people, the people in general living under oppression.
But also. It's also from the perspective of people who have fucked over each other to get somewhere.
[00:49:03] Speaker B: Yes. I think that the first.
It's a really strange perspective, actually. It's a very strange peer.
[00:49:09] Speaker C: Yeah, I think it kind of moves around.
[00:49:10] Speaker B: It really does.
So down on your knees, you'll be.
[00:49:14] Speaker C: Left behind This, I think it goes to the thesis of the whole song, which is kind of about, like, survival of the fittest and. And greed.
[00:49:26] Speaker B: Yes. I think, definitely.
[00:49:28] Speaker C: We know he's really into the. He likes to talk about the greed concept. Look at their first hit single that begins with the lyric, God, money. And that song's all about greed.
[00:49:39] Speaker B: Yeah. So down on your knees you'll be left behind Definitely. I think that we were kind of talking about this in a group chat about the rise of the irreligious. Right.
Do you kind of see that lyric? Thinking about that, when I see Left.
[00:49:54] Speaker C: Behind, I just think of the Kirk Cameron movie and book series, the Christian thing. But I don't really think he means it like that. But if you're.
It's like if you stumble and fall, you're fucked.
[00:50:11] Speaker B: You can look at it that way or you can look at it as, there's no point in praying Nothing's gonna save you. And there's. I don't know. I kind of took it a little bit too literally, maybe.
[00:50:22] Speaker C: Also, it's not a Nine Inch Nails album unless you begin the whole thing with someone down on their knees and their hands and their knees. It's obligatory at this point.
[00:50:33] Speaker B: Watch what you think. They can read your mind. Just paranoia there. Although now we constantly tracked everything we do, every app we open.
[00:50:41] Speaker C: Right.
[00:50:42] Speaker B: Everything. Can we follow you? Can we track? You ask app not to track. I get that pop up every time I open an app.
[00:50:48] Speaker C: I think in this, people were still thinking along the lines of, oh, the government's gonna surveil us with secret cameras, secret recordings. We didn't really predict that the surveillance would be voluntary. We let it all into our homes with our smart devices.
[00:51:07] Speaker B: Yes.
I got My mark. See it in my eyes that one's.
[00:51:11] Speaker C: A little more strange and possibly it.
[00:51:17] Speaker B: Might be more in depth in the world that we might not.
[00:51:21] Speaker C: Yeah, that's more of a detail.
I think it has to do with, like, if you look at the art, people have chips injected into their wrists and then the other. The other hand, it shows that it's been cut out and sewed back up.
Mark of the beast type thing. I think it might refer to that, maybe.
And see it in my eyes could also be talking about being under the influence of one of the several drugs.
[00:51:49] Speaker B: That are in the world of psycho.
[00:51:52] Speaker C: Hallucinogens, psychedelics, psychotropics, whatever.
[00:51:56] Speaker B: There you go. My reflection I don't recognize that's pretty general.
I mean, if you just.
[00:52:04] Speaker C: It changes people.
[00:52:08] Speaker B: Sorry.
[00:52:09] Speaker C: No, go ahead.
[00:52:09] Speaker B: No, I was just thinking about the. See it in my eyes My reflection I don't recognize have you ever.
Have you ever done, like, ecstasy or anything?
[00:52:19] Speaker C: No.
[00:52:19] Speaker B: Oh. But, yeah, it really fucks up your eyes.
[00:52:21] Speaker C: I know what it does. Yeah, right. They dilate and when you look in.
[00:52:25] Speaker B: The mirror, you're like, holy fuck. Anyway, sorry.
[00:52:29] Speaker C: So this could be someone under the influence of Parapin or Opal.
We think we've climbed so high up all the backs, we've condemned another thing that speaks to greed and fucking your fellow man over to get ahead and.
[00:52:49] Speaker B: Condemning them to suffering, death, poverty, disease.
[00:52:55] Speaker C: Yeah, it's. Has a religious flavor to it as well, with the word condemned. And we face a consequence.
This is the beginning of the end.
[00:53:05] Speaker B: What you mean like burning up everything, all our finite resources, ignoring scientists about climate change. Now we have to face our consequence.
[00:53:16] Speaker C: Climate consequence is a big part of year zero, but we're also going to get into it. Maybe possibly a more supernatural consequence that will come into play.
[00:53:26] Speaker B: All right, second verse. You wait your turn, you'll be last in line. Again, this is the. All about me. I am getting mine. It's a very American idea.
[00:53:38] Speaker C: Get out the way.
[00:53:39] Speaker B: No, community. I'm not helping you.
[00:53:42] Speaker C: Right? Got mine. Fuck. Got mine. Fuck yours. What's that line?
[00:53:48] Speaker B: What?
[00:53:49] Speaker C: Got. Got mine.
Forget yours or whatever. It's the American way of doing things. Like, I got my.
[00:53:57] Speaker B: Get out the way because I'm getting mine. The second. Yeah, yeah, okay.
[00:54:01] Speaker C: I'm getting mine. Got mine. Fuck you.
[00:54:04] Speaker B: Basically, yeah. God helps the ones that can help themselves. By the way, I looked this up because I was like, is that a biblical quote? I think a lot of people think it is. It's actually not. It's not in the Bible. Because I've always thought that was kind of weird and contradictory to what I've been taught, which is help people.
[00:54:22] Speaker C: Yeah, well, you are in a fringe church that actually teaches that. That is not.
[00:54:28] Speaker B: Yeah, they don't teach.
[00:54:29] Speaker C: Not a mainstream belief.
[00:54:31] Speaker B: No. Mormons were not part of the prosperity gospel movement, if that's what you're saying. But, yeah, I think that I did very little tiny bit of research. Just try to see what it came from in the Bible. But actually, the phrase, I believe originated in ancient Greece, and it's sometimes attributed to Benjamin Franklin, but he was not the person who originated that phrase.
[00:54:53] Speaker C: So people attribute everything to him.
[00:54:56] Speaker B: Democracy, Benjamin Franklin.
[00:54:59] Speaker C: Maybe too late.
[00:55:00] Speaker B: Electricity, Benjamin Franklin. Okay, wait, what?
[00:55:03] Speaker C: Maybe too late. As far as I can tell, hopelessness, a recurring theme in Nine Inch Nails.
[00:55:13] Speaker B: And in my life.
[00:55:16] Speaker C: Damn.
[00:55:17] Speaker B: We think we've come so far on all our lies. We depend. So I kind of want to talk about propaganda on both sides, because I think this is like a propagandistic line. Right. We think we've come so far on all our lies. We depend.
[00:55:35] Speaker C: Right.
[00:55:36] Speaker B: Does that feel like propagandistic to you? So there's the propaganda that the government feeds us about how God. I'm trying to think. There's so much I don't. Weapons of mass destruction.
[00:55:49] Speaker C: Yeah. Military propaganda is generally full of lies.
[00:55:53] Speaker B: Portraying.
[00:55:54] Speaker C: Look. Look at why we invaded Iraq.
[00:55:56] Speaker B: Exactly. Portraying minority groups who are not the problem as the problem. As in immigrants taking your jobs.
[00:56:05] Speaker C: Yeah. That's called the scapegoat.
[00:56:08] Speaker B: But I think it works on the other side, too. I think that we have to tell. People have to tell themselves lies to just survive in this world. Right.
I think I've talked about this before with you, Blake, but, for example, my. My boomer mom, when I was a kid, and the first time I ever saw an unhoused person. Now it's like an everyday occurrence, which is fucking heartbreaking. And I can't handle it. And I don't like to leave the house because I hate it. Anyway.
The first time I ever saw an unhoused person, it just blew my mind that someone didn't have shelter, didn't have a home, was holding a sign, and my mom said, I think most of those people are liars anyway. They just stand there to make money. And I think that's a lie that boomers have had to tell themselves about the governments they've put in power who have allowed the richest country in the world to become the cruelest country in the world. I'm sorry.
[00:56:56] Speaker C: Like, yeah, just A country that has almost a million people or whatever it is on the. On the street, probably more than that. Poverty.
[00:57:03] Speaker B: Yeah, people. Children who go to bed hungry every night. And we have enough homes for people to live in. They're sitting there empty.
I don't get it. I don't understand this world.
[00:57:15] Speaker C: It's so cruel that the mind really can't fathom it. And so people tell these lies so much that they believe them. That people are there because they either want to be there or they deserve to be there is a very popular lie in America.
[00:57:29] Speaker B: Or they're faking it to scam you.
[00:57:31] Speaker C: Yeah. Which is when you start to think about it is an insane.
Just an insane thing to believe.
[00:57:37] Speaker B: Yeah. I stood here all day and made five bucks and quarters. This is really worth it anyway.
[00:57:42] Speaker C: Do they have, like. Do they drive away in a Jaguar and go to their McMansion? Like, it makes no sense.
[00:57:47] Speaker B: It doesn't. It's just lies that I feel like people have to tell themselves to get by or else how would you get out of bed every day? Right.
[00:57:54] Speaker C: We will come up with any story to explain why this place is so cruel.
[00:58:01] Speaker B: Yeah. Like, we gotta have health insurance. No, we fucking don't have to have health insurance. We could just provide healthcare to people. Like, this is not a hard thing to do.
[00:58:11] Speaker C: Health insurance is. Yeah. A middleman. Money trap.
[00:58:15] Speaker B: Exactly.
[00:58:16] Speaker C: And yeah, this is where if we get political and go off topic to just talk about this shit.
[00:58:23] Speaker D: Tough shit.
[00:58:24] Speaker C: It's so weird to me to complain about something that's optional to listen to right now. This isn't state propaganda. We're not forcing you. We are not actually at gunpoint making anyone listen to the podcast.
[00:58:38] Speaker B: Thankfully, no, we're not. And if you don't agree with us, you don't have to. You can turn it off.
[00:58:42] Speaker C: Yeah, you don't have to.
[00:58:43] Speaker B: But also, you're wrong.
[00:58:45] Speaker C: It's all our opinions on this show. But also you're wrong. Our opinions are right.
[00:58:50] Speaker B: Our opinions are very right. If you're politics do not include taking care of other people. Your politics are. That's all I'm gonna say. Taking care of people in the environment. Anyway, we face our consequence. This is the beginning of the end. So.
[00:59:03] Speaker C: And that's it.
[00:59:05] Speaker B: All these things, this broken system, the lies we have told ourselves, the things we have let happen because we basically have no power or we think we don't. I mean, half of the country doesn't vote, so there's that.
[00:59:17] Speaker C: Right.
[00:59:18] Speaker B: This is what it's led to. We've allowed greed to run rampant across this country unchecked. Democrats have done it too, by the way. I'm not acting like it's all a conservative thing.
[00:59:31] Speaker C: Yeah, of course. I mean, yeah, greed is. There's no ceiling for greed under capitalism, and that's why it runs rampant like a cancer. And of course, we've always looked at that and said, that's bad. And Reznor was saying that's bad when he wrote Year Zero. But God, if you could only see the levels of obscene wealth now, you know it's over.
[00:59:56] Speaker B: You know it's over when the world's richest man literally hiles Hitler at a presidential inauguration. It's over, folks.
[01:00:03] Speaker C: Yeah, it is. It's Joever.
We're cooked. But.
And you know, he'll be a trillionaire in a few years or whatever, which is sickening. Is pornographic.
Okay, is that it for the song meaning discussion?
[01:00:19] Speaker B: Song meaning discussion over. We can talk about Live. It debuted March 8, 2007 in London. If you want, you can go on NI and Wiki. They have a link to a video of the performance.
It was played at almost every show during the Performance 2007 show. And according to Ni and Wiki, the beginning of the end didn't open a show until July 30, 2009. So it took a while for him to actually use this song to open a show. But on a personal note, Night two at Red Rocks, right? We saw it opened, opener, beginning of the end.
[01:00:49] Speaker C: I was a little surprised.
[01:00:50] Speaker B: I was like, whoa, how was that almost three years ago? I don't know.
[01:00:53] Speaker C: I don't fucking know.
[01:00:54] Speaker B: But I miss all my Red Rocks buddies. I love you.
[01:00:57] Speaker C: You need a. Need a reunion at Red Rocks. Preferably just.
[01:01:02] Speaker B: They should just do a whole week at Red Rocks.
[01:01:05] Speaker C: Yeah, but it should be in the fall.
[01:01:07] Speaker B: Yes, but anyway, that's all I have for right now.
I mean, I'm sure we'll discuss a lot of these concepts and themes. Again, enjoy your lesson on My Sharona. You're welcome. There's a lot more to it.
[01:01:21] Speaker C: More to that story. Do your own research on My Sharona. No, actually, don't research it.
[01:01:26] Speaker B: Don't. Don't research it. Just enjoy the song. Just groove to it. It's fun. It's a fun bop. But oh, one more fact, go to myshirona.com because Sharona is a real person, by the way, and she's a real estate agent in la. So if you're in the LA area, maybe you need a place to rent. Actually, don't actually, you should probably leave la.
[01:01:48] Speaker C: Yeah. I wonder how she's doing.
[01:01:50] Speaker B: I hope she's not one of those gougers like those people who are like, yeah, we'll rent this place to you person who just lost their home for 10,000amonth or whatever. Profiteer Sharona, please don't disappoint me. Please don't participate in disaster capitalism.
[01:02:04] Speaker C: Sharona's got to be good.
[01:02:05] Speaker B: I don't know. I don't have faith in anyone, so how can I have faith in Sharona?
[01:02:11] Speaker C: True. Don't put your faith in celebrities, folks. Not that Sharona is a celebrity. Maybe she is. Myshirona.com Myshirona.com this is sponsored by Myshirona.com we should probably get out of here.
[01:02:24] Speaker B: And myparapin.com go there too.
[01:02:27] Speaker C: Well, over an hour on one song should probably wrap it up so we can do other songs someday.
[01:02:32] Speaker B: That's right. Next. Survivalism.
[01:02:34] Speaker C: Yes, we're doing survivalism again.
We didn't really talk about the lyrics much. And we'll get anything else we missed.
[01:02:41] Speaker B: That's right. Maybe we'll add some our content. Who the fuck knows?
[01:02:44] Speaker C: Yeah, we should.
[01:02:45] Speaker B: We don't know what we're doing anymore.
[01:02:46] Speaker C: If you want to hear my clips, go back to Halo 23.
[01:02:49] Speaker B: That's right.
[01:02:50] Speaker C: Well, thank you for listening to us, everyone.
[01:02:53] Speaker B: We heart you.
[01:02:55] Speaker C: Okay, so shout out. Just two new ones. Shout out to Emily. Shout out to David.
[01:03:02] Speaker B: Hello.
[01:03:03] Speaker C: Thanks for joining. If you want to be like them and get twice the amount of episodes, all the stuff where we go beyond the Halos, Discord Access and more merch discounts. Patreon.com nailedpod Become part of the Nailed movement and play the Nailed arg. Anyway. All right, that's it for us.
[01:03:29] Speaker B: Thank you, everyone.
[01:03:31] Speaker C: Hey, what can we stop?
[01:03:35] Speaker D: Down on your knees you'll be left behind this is the beginning Watch what you think they can read your mind mind this is the beginning I got my mark See it in my eyes this is the beginning but my reflection I don't recognize this is the beginning we think we can so high up all the backs we've condensed we face a consequence this is the beginning of the end.
