"He's an adult man who looks like a teenager because his species ages differently"...Huh. The rare male version of that trope....

@Feasco

2 жыл бұрын

@@af-pv7vm I don't remember Tim Allen ever looking like a teenager

@Champiness

2 жыл бұрын

…hey wait, how much older is his sister if she can convincingly portray a Sexy Sexual Singer of Sex

@FionavanDahl

2 жыл бұрын

in Invincible (the show, haven't read the comic) the dad's highly advanced alien species basically stop aging as adults

@billyweed835

2 жыл бұрын

@@FionavanDahl I'm more specifically talking "character who looks like an actual child/teenager, but is actually 1000 years old and probably a dragon". It's usually a Japanese trope, admittedly.

@CynnamonSpyder

2 жыл бұрын

@@billyweed835 Husbandos are now tainted by Scientology!

Last Year Todd: "Hey look, Liz Phair saying penis colada, how funny is that?" This Year Todd: "So. Scientology."

@randallcraft4071

2 жыл бұрын

2020 took a hell of a toll on us all...

@andrewtennant1889

2 жыл бұрын

Ahem, it's pronounced "Peñis colada"

@shoey6123

2 жыл бұрын

The fact that Penis Colada makes sense compared to whatever the hell L. Ron was writing for either the songs or books is somewhat disconcerting

@JennaLeigh

2 жыл бұрын

#personalgrowth

@caprinespectre

2 ай бұрын

​@@JennaLeigh #peñisgrowth

Holy shit I didn’t think Hubbard was a good writer but I didn’t realize he was that bad. “It was so sexyyyyy, it reminded me of sexxxx”

@theunwelcome

4 ай бұрын

L. Ron Hubbard, typical redditor

@nilus2k

14 күн бұрын

He wasn’t super bad when he started out but by the 80s, when he was rich and powerful within the church. He kinda just wrote whatever the hell he wanted and no one close to him was willing to tell their messiah he was shit.

Too weird to sell but too generic to be interesting: my favorite panic! At the disco album.

@Annafyz

2 жыл бұрын

This is literally Pretty Odd lmao

@Betta66

2 жыл бұрын

@@Annafyz How dare you, that album is fantastic

@fonkedonke

2 жыл бұрын

@@Betta66 Pretty Odd deserved way more than it got. Most Panic fans I see don't listen to it much, but the one's who do love it

@greablood1072

Жыл бұрын

I thought they were all called that?

@aaronpierce4443

Жыл бұрын

I would say that for most of Brendon Urie's pop attempts

My dad was an insatiable consumer of pulp fantasy and sci fi, he would read and reread books until they literally fell apart. There is a full set of Mission: Earth in my basement that looks almost brand new because he read them once and never touched them again. Given my dad’s high tolerance for crap writing that’s a damning indictment.

@ChristianStewart007

2 жыл бұрын

I used to take the audiobooks out of the library and my friends and I would put them on to listen to as we got high in the basement. They are hilariously bad.

@12Tecpatl

2 жыл бұрын

your dad sounds like a fun guy

@AJ-cu4zj

2 жыл бұрын

Well done, Matrim's dad. A literary indictment that scathing is the kinda legacy I want to leave behind

@lovenotegestapo

2 жыл бұрын

Your dad sounds rad AF

@JennaLeigh

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChristianStewart007 that sounds like the best use of them. I can see y'all stoned as all hell eating Cheetos and laughing your asses off.

What kind of world do I live in where I feel like THE CARPENTERS made a more fitting interstellar ballad than literal Scientologists? WTF??

@Kylora2112

2 жыл бұрын

Gamma Ray (power metal) and Hypocrisy (death/melodic death metal) also make amazing songs about aliens and space and stuff :)

@ImpendingRiot83

2 жыл бұрын

Sometimes it really just takes having a soul and a good heart to make good music, I know it sounds lame and hokey but I swear it’s true. Karen Carpenter had both. She absolutely sold the hell out of ‘Calling Occupants’ as a genuine, heartfelt welcome and a plea for peaceful coexistence with extraterrestrial life.

@jasonblalock4429

2 жыл бұрын

On the theme, I'd also recommend "Space Metal" by Star One, which is one of Arjen Anthony Lucassen's many spinoff projects. Every song on the album is inspired by a sci-fi novel or movie. If you like anthemic euro-prog-metal it's a lot of fun.

@Kylora2112

2 жыл бұрын

@@jasonblalock4429 Everything AAL touches is gold.

@shawnfields2369

2 жыл бұрын

@@ImpendingRiot83 You could tell me Karen Carpenter was the sweetest lady on earth, and I'd definitely, 1000% believe you, and I wasn't even born at the time. I was born in 1993. But if you told me tomorrow, that she was the sweetest woman to have ever lived, yep, I'd totally believe you, 10,000,000% agree with you on that. Just saying.

Kind of a note to be aware of: Scientology can not really sue people for slander or libel because they would have to prove in court what they do behind closed doors. They might send people to harass or attack you or defame you, but they will not sue you for defamation or libel. I know its about a year later after this video, but worth stating.

@cpsbBXCX

Жыл бұрын

someone tell Danny Masterson

@driverjayne

Жыл бұрын

​@@cpsbBXCXconvicted rapist Danny Masterson?

@n1thmusic229

11 ай бұрын

who?@@cpsbBXCX

@PhoenixFireZero

9 ай бұрын

I think it's called gang-stalking.

@reginaldcampos5762

9 ай бұрын

They can also kill you

I'm mesmerized by the fact that somehow L Ron Hubbard and Edgar Winter collaborating turned into an album consisting entirely of theme songs for scientology based family sitcoms.

@tomebasic2843

Жыл бұрын

I think this is the best description for the shit I've just listened to.

@Scribbled_Death

Жыл бұрын

LMAO

@robwalsh9843

Жыл бұрын

LOL well said. Totally sounds like the opening credits music for the TGIF lineup.

@baaron7

8 ай бұрын

My immediate thoughts when hearing the songs. Not a single one of them fits a scifi setting, even an 80s one 😂

@grahamkristensen9301

7 ай бұрын

If you want a good laugh, look up the song "Thank You For Listening". It's a song Hubby sang himself that he ordered to be played at his funeral. It's basically him going "Fuck you I'm right" from beyond the grave over an 80's sitcom track.

I love the idea that Edgar Winter read that description of a super sexy and funny performance and was like "right, I'm gonna need a gospel choir."

@royalfrost1

2 жыл бұрын

LOL, the Scientology sex song needed Jesus 😂

@Jekyllstein_Gray

Жыл бұрын

Glorious.

L. Ron Hubbard notoriously used to knock out his novels while tripping on speed. Many of his peers have said this, and have also admitted that that was not unusual in the early Science Fiction/Fantasy/Pulp scene. Need to make rent on Monday? Down a fistful of uppers and get to work on Tuesday, knock out a novel by Thursday, Sell it to a publisher Friday, sleep it off on the weekend, pay your rent in cash Monday, then repeat.

@leonidtimofeev1178

9 ай бұрын

Stephen King says he doesn't remember how he wrote several of his books for this exact reasons lol.

@OmicronX-1999

8 ай бұрын

Cujo and the Tommyknockers specifically IIRC. There was a period in the 80's where Stephen King was doing just about anything he could get his hands on. @@leonidtimofeev1178

@MichaelEMJAYARE

8 ай бұрын

If I had unlimited AMPHETAMIIIIIINES id do the same. Only I can hope Id write better :(

@seanmcloughlin5983

5 ай бұрын

Glad KZread video essayists are still keeping the tradition alive

@nilus2k

14 күн бұрын

@@leonidtimofeev1178The movie Maximum Overdrive was co-directed by a sentient pile of cocaine

Lo-fi jazz: It's not the notes you play, it's the notes the microphone doesn't pick up

@bass7842

2 ай бұрын

Going to quote the hell out of this.

I asked my mother if she knew that Edgar Winter had done an album for the Scientology guy. Her response: "No, but considering acid did Edgar Winter during the eighties, I'm not that surprised".

For a book series that purports to be pro-environment, Mission Earth sure did waste a lot of paper

@JayG666

2 жыл бұрын

🤔😛😝

@kjmusic99

2 жыл бұрын

at least you can recycle that paper now while you got the chance xD

@evilredflame

2 жыл бұрын

🏆

@stephenbianchi7141

2 жыл бұрын

It's also like 4 floppy disks

@JayG666

2 жыл бұрын

@@stephenbianchi71414 x 1.44 MB? Bullshit. A modern CD can't hold it all.

Seeing Todd outside in the real world is like seeing a mall Santa outside the mall

@ROZWBRAZEL

Жыл бұрын

Or when you see your cool teacher outside having an actual life besides their job Fitting since he was a substitute teacher

@rickifriki

Жыл бұрын

​@@ROZWBRAZEL Super strange.

@muticere

3 ай бұрын

You should look up Suburban Knights...

A friend of mine was looking into Scientology. He even tried dragging me along, but when I said no, he decided he didn't want to do it alone and decided against the whole thing entirely. I like to think L Ron Hubbard shook his fist in anger at me that day.

@sunsetman22

2 жыл бұрын

you might've done your friend a solid there. dodged a bullet and then some

@nerdbot37

2 жыл бұрын

No "might've" about it. Whether he realizes it or not, your friend owes you.

@Thobeian

2 жыл бұрын

L. Ron snarls with his weird gravestone teeth at all critics of Scientology, because he can’t zap them out of existence with his Space Powers from beyond the grave.

@angrytheclown801

2 жыл бұрын

@@Thobeian Yet Jesus walked out of his tomb after three days. Modern Space Popes fail us every day.

@galleryofrogues

2 жыл бұрын

Lol that reminds me of this old Adam Sandler skit called Joining the Cult: kzread.info/dash/bejne/fIZnsqVxhqfVqps.html

Can we just give props to Todd for actually going to the building and doing the Eric Andre “LET ME IINNNNNN” bit 🤣🤣🤣

@heymistercarter.

2 жыл бұрын

Now I'm wondering if that place still has the CCTV files of Todd doing that right outside. They're probably watching it wondering what in whatever strange planets they conjure up is going on.

@Waaagh40KRed

2 жыл бұрын

Him stumbling to the door makes it funnier.

@brendanb2982

Жыл бұрын

" WHO DO WE WANT?! " *" XENU! "* " WHEN DO WE WANT 'EM?! " *" TEN TRILLION YEARS! "*

@antagonizingprotagonist8721

Жыл бұрын

40:52

@alfonsalenius2482

Жыл бұрын

​@@brendanb2982 THERE IS NO HELL!

First off: herculean effort, for which we are all grateful. Second, I had to look up how his book did in the 1987 Hugo awards when I saw it was against Count Zero, Orson Scott Card and Vernor Vinge. And I wasn't disappointed: out of 5 books in the running, Hubbard placed ~sixth~, behind a 'No Award' vote meaning people intentionally voted to make sure his book didn't even place.

@EngineerLume

2 жыл бұрын

The "No Award" is mostly used by voter's when they look at the entire block and go "You know what? Fuck this!" and decide none of the nominee's deserve a reward. So it's not that they deliberately voted "No Award" to spite Hubbard, it's more that votes for Hubbard were greatly outweighed by the number of votes for *Literally Nothing!*

@gamepopper101

2 жыл бұрын

If George R. R. Martin is to be believed, the audience at the Hugo Awards booed out when L. Ron Hubbard's name was called out among the list of nominees.

@chungbertflabbergast5995

2 жыл бұрын

I hope Count Zero won, that book is fantastic.

@batheticbones

2 жыл бұрын

@@EngineerLume it’s a ranked vote, so you can easily rank the deserving works above no award, then no award, and finally rank the works that you think shouldn’t be on the ballot. Targeting specific works is definitely common when people suspect vote manipulation has taken place, but it’s not particularly common to see people throw out the whole ballot, especially in best novel, and further especially considering how legitimately popular Gibson was at the time.

@nate567987

2 жыл бұрын

@@chungbertflabbergast5995 card did for speaker

6:40 And remember kids, if your local record store has their Edgar Winter records between Mötley Crüe and Tom Petty then something seriously wrong has happened to their alphabetised filing system.

@ImpendingRiot83

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I’d… kinda be giving the Rock eyebrow to whoever’s behind the counter if that’s the kind of organizing they’re up to… lol

@frizzlefriar4417

2 жыл бұрын

"I went to a record store that specialized in hard-to-find records. Nothing was alphabetized!" Mitch Hedberg

@becauseimafan

2 жыл бұрын

@@frizzlefriar4417 😆

@timothy4097

2 жыл бұрын

Probably some customer looked at the album and placed it somewhere it didn't belong.

I just realized this is somehow the second album covered on trainrecords with an upbeat party song about heroin addiction.

@sugarbugx3564

Жыл бұрын

If I had a nickel every time a trainrecords album had an up beat song about heroin I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's still weird that it happened twice.

@mitzo4526

Жыл бұрын

What was the other?

@peterfinnfilms

Жыл бұрын

@@mitzo4526 Cyberpunk by Billy Idol

@irisaferg2524

4 ай бұрын

And now, with no fixed addressed, there's three!!

@SawdustMusic-rd8mj

4 ай бұрын

@@irisaferg2524that one was actually about cocanie

Todd In The Shadows made another Trainwreckords video and it was SEXY!

@howdypardner6278

2 жыл бұрын

But it had comedy in it

@littlekingtrashmouth9219

2 жыл бұрын

I love this

@ryanb6503

Жыл бұрын

His narration was a throaty, sexy lure.

@warlockboy3864

Жыл бұрын

He taught us!

@Exclufii

Жыл бұрын

@@warlockboy3864 And he kept it up for a whole 43 MINUTES!

Well, I don't usually leave comments but as a former Scientologist, this one hits different. I have very distinct memories of being forced to listen to this album (along with the rest of the Scientology albums - fun fact, there's like 10 more albums of music either produced by or based on poems by L Ron). Watching this one was a real trip. Thanks man.

@davehandelman2832

2 жыл бұрын

Forced?? That's FUCKIN awful. Sooooo glad you're out, Bee!!

@edgarbraintree4370

2 жыл бұрын

Chick Correa- “Power of Source”

@PowerfulSkeleton

2 жыл бұрын

Hope you've recovered from your life in the cult.

@anthonydeadman

2 жыл бұрын

...You were forced? Damn man I'm so sorry to hear that.

@WolfsDE

2 жыл бұрын

Sending hugs. Cuz I am sure like many former Scientology members you have some serious stories to tell. I had a run in with them as a kid, but they said I was beyond help because they couldn't get a reading on me. Of which, I was glad. The people I talked to, they creeped me out. But, I was lucky on that day...my notoriously cheep ex adoptive dad (abusive bastard) saw that price tag of their help and was like Nope, nope, nope. Lol. One of the few times I was ever grateful for him being around. So I can only imagine if my one time run in with them as a kid was bad, how it must be for someone who spent years involved in it must have felt and the crazy things that happened. So my heart goes out to all of you who have left.

It takes a true musical genius to turn a sleazy lounge song into a christian rock power ballad.

@nustde00

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking about that... imagine the gear works and mechanics of the mind to read that part of the book and produce that song? talk about running that through a few filters lol

@DerekPower

2 жыл бұрын

Cartman learned only from the best.

@heymistercarter.

2 жыл бұрын

I commented myself, it's like starting with All That Jazz from Chicago and ending up with something by Richard Marx or Bryan Adams.

@the_sky_is_blue_and_so_am_I

Жыл бұрын

@@heymistercarter. yes

I love how "Do not murder" is apparently number 8 on the list of things that'll bring you happiness.

@lucasoheyze4597

Жыл бұрын

Even in the Ten commandments "Thou shalt not kill" is way down the list.

@onbearfeet

Жыл бұрын

​@@lucasoheyze4597Kind of interesting that even with four initial commandments specifically about how to treat the deity, "Thou shalt not kill" makes the sixth slot on the original list. And here ... well ...

@calmbbaer

10 ай бұрын

I don't think the ancients had a Buzzfeed understanding of what things ordered in a list meant. Instead they were more topical, first about things having to do with your relationship with God, followed by things having to do with your relationship with others. Murder is only #2 on the relationship with others, and I suspect that's because the first is about parents, making for a good authority-figure segue. I don't know about Scientology's ordering, though.

@Reioa

9 ай бұрын

This made me laugh out loud

@Jekyllstein_Gray

5 ай бұрын

@@calmbbaer As you alluded to in your final sentence, we do have a sort of "Buzzfeed understanding" of what a list ordering means in the modern day. So it's weird for Scientology to do it.

Side note: Paul Simon wasn't even the first major Western artist to do African polyrhythms. That title might go to Remain in Light by Talking Heads.

@andrei11dr

Жыл бұрын

This is late, but westerners using African polyrhythms goes way back to the early 70s in the Krautrock scene with bands like Embryo and Amon Duul II Also Miles Davis would incorporate African music in some of music from the fusion era , most notably On The Corner

@jcameronferguson

Жыл бұрын

Ginger Baker was playing and recording with Fela Kuti as early as 1974.

@kyrla

Жыл бұрын

Steve Reich - Drumming (1970-1) incorporates a lot of african polyrhythm inspiration

@jcameronferguson

Жыл бұрын

@@andrei11dr some of Duke Ellington's late-period work, notably his album Afro-Eurasian Eclipse, would begin to introduce North and West African elements to "popular" Western music in the 1950's.

@robwalsh9843

Жыл бұрын

Rush and Peter Gabriel also flirted with African rhythms

Nothing better when in the middle of a Trainwreckord Todd proclaims one song on the album to be absolutely incredible.

@cangrejopendejo4909

2 жыл бұрын

Automatic man!

@SamAronow

2 жыл бұрын

"Fairweather Johnson."

@aidanhickey9845

2 жыл бұрын

'My Big Mouth'.

@davispo7550

2 жыл бұрын

"Calling all Occupants"

@cremetangerine82

2 жыл бұрын

“This is England” off of “Cut the Crap” didn’t make my ears bleed!

Seeing L. Ron Hubbard’s name on anything but a book cover creates a visceral feeling of *_oh no_* in me

@dark_fire_ice

2 жыл бұрын

See that name on anything but an official investigation report, is an oh no, what other horrible thing did he do, for me

@KnivingDispodia

2 жыл бұрын

@@dark_fire_ice Surprisingly he never once had any allegation of sexual abuse. I don’t believe he never sexually abused anyone but nobody has ever come forward. Absolutely a strange man.

@meowtherainbowx4163

2 жыл бұрын

Hell, even the book covers look off. I don’t want to buy anything that could fund his estate, and knowing that he was also promoting his cult through his work poisons it further.

@JaeLCR13

2 жыл бұрын

Seeing it on a book cover elicits that same feeling

@dw89music73

2 жыл бұрын

I heard that he started Scientology just so he could get more money from his books. Just proves how money-hungry L. Ron was.

The biggest give away for the quality of these books are the names of the characters. "Jettero", "Bang Bang", "Mary Schmeck"....

@liamannegarner8083

5 ай бұрын

How about Miss Pinch And Miss Candy or frozen mob hit man Torpedo Fiaccola? It's like Ayn Rand naming villains Cuffy and Balph.

@asuperheronamedtony

5 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

To date, there has been only one OHW shorter than the song it's covering (In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida) and only one Trainwreckord longer than the album it's covering (Mission Earth).

@amazingandrew4328

10 ай бұрын

For standalone videos, you’re right. But, “Juju on that Beat” had a OHW segment during the worst of 2016 video

@danieldemaras3099

9 ай бұрын

Tubular bells now

@strongxhands

8 ай бұрын

What a weird, neat stat

@donnerthereindeer366

7 ай бұрын

What about Mardi Gras, It’s shorter than a half an hour for Pete’s sake Update: So close, The video is shorter than Mardi Gras by 6 minutes 😢

I think this album only proves Edgar Winter as a musical genius because I can't imagine anyone else making those horrible lyrics sound listenable in the least.

@danieltobin4498

Жыл бұрын

Shit you right. Additionally his singing voice isn’t great but it’s not the worst and is at the very least memorable

@derkommissar785

Жыл бұрын

what is it with Scientology and keyboard players? Winter, Mike Garson, Chick Corea, Nicky Hopkins

@Demiglitch

Жыл бұрын

@@derkommissar785 They're more likely to be into geeky tech like synths, so the sci fi shit might appeal to them.

My father was a science fiction specialist and wrote a SF dictionary when I was about 5. In it, there was of course a Ron Hubbard entry where he made a very sarcastic critic of the quality of the work... including the fact that Hubbard was apparently still writing and publishing after having died which made him a better Sci-Fi subject than author. Scientology people started threatening us, showing up at our flat and calling at all times of the night. It ended after my father, a very very quiet and calm man, completely lost his shit at them screaming he would bludgeon them to death if they ever came again. Looking back, I think we were really lucky we weren't living in the US, so the scientology community wasn't as powerful and interested in us as they could have been over there... Time has passed since then, so hopefully there will be no problem after this video. ^^'

@BungleJoogie68

2 жыл бұрын

They are fucking nuts here in California. They made a whole movie about Leah Remini being a bad person because she left.

@Eyecyou64

2 жыл бұрын

Scientology is less a sue happy religion and a more of a special interest group that doesn't pay taxes. Y'know, the church of Hollywood

@frogfireFantasy

2 жыл бұрын

You didnt get any other threats after that, did you?

@cyberdragon4249

2 жыл бұрын

Is there a way to get my hands on this book, i really want to read it

@Indy_Bendy

Жыл бұрын

Sureeeee

"An album about lord of the rings" like almost the entire discography and inspiration for Led Zeppelin

@Yikkoofficial

2 жыл бұрын

This 💯

@robwalsh9843

Жыл бұрын

Only a few Zeppelin songs have LOTR references. Cirith Ungol is the true Tolkien house band.

@Metlhd313

11 ай бұрын

@@robwalsh9843 What about Blind Guardian? They actually wrote a whole album based off of the Simarillion.

I read the series in high school in the 90s (knowing nothing about LRH or Scientology) and rooted for Soltan Gris the entire way through thinking that's how it was supposed to be read. Jet Heller (even his name, jeez) was too much of a football jock/pretty boy/Flash Gordon that was always too perfect to like. Gris was the underdog working man literally just doing his job. Was very disappointed in the end.

@iwakeupandboomimarat

2 жыл бұрын

justice for soltan gris 😔

@KrisRN23935

Жыл бұрын

The way he's described, he reminds me of Squidward.

The community college that I went to in the early 2000s had a giant Mission Earth display, complete with cardboard cut-outs and supplemental material. I think they were donated to the library by Scientology shortly after the books came out. One day, I picked up a random book and started flipping through. I immediately realized that I was first person to actually open the damn thing. I then started looking at the other books. One had some wear and tear, but easily could be considered near-mint. Two definitely had a few people pick it up (though less than one). The rest? Pristine. Let me say that again: a book series was on display at a college library for FIFTEEN YEARS and never touched. That should tell you something.

@kenlieck7756

2 жыл бұрын

Was it the electoral college?

@bartholen

2 жыл бұрын

I'm more curious about how this display stayed in place for so long. You'd think a community college might have better use for that space.

@noesunyoutuber7680

2 жыл бұрын

@@bartholen My guess is they didn't have a lot of funding for the library and nobody had the time to get rid of it.

@santiagobauza4257

2 жыл бұрын

This reads like a Community bit where the Dean mistakenly gets involved with the Church of Scientology in an attempt to cut costs or to make Greendale more credible.

@TexMexGenX

2 жыл бұрын

Says alot.

"Cry Out" sounds like the theme to a eco-friendly Ducktales spinoff.

@MrSkerpentine

2 жыл бұрын

Where in the Slowly Dying Ecosystem is Carmen Sandiego?

@TwighlightLugia

2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad I'm not the only one who could ONLY think "This sounds like the DuckTales theme from a worse universe" because I was absolutely flabbergasted

@kaelibw34

2 жыл бұрын

Oh god! Now I hear it! I knew something about that bloody song was nudging the back of my mind now I know!

@asuperheronamedtony

2 жыл бұрын

lol! 💀💀💀

My husband introduced this review to me back in November while we were on our honeymoon in northern Michigan and we actually spent some time looking more into the album and giggling and some of the goofiness we found. So to me, Mission Earth brings back lovely memories of my honeymoon with my dorky and amazing husband 😂😂

@Galvatronover

9 ай бұрын

Still married ?

@SitaraAleu

9 ай бұрын

@@Galvatronover Yup! About to celebrate our first anniversary next month! Why would you ask that??

@janjanbinks1710

8 ай бұрын

Aww that's so cute and fun I hope you guys are doing well and still watching this review together

@SitaraAleu

8 ай бұрын

@@janjanbinks1710 Thanks so much! We’re doing great and planning an overnight trip for our first anniversary. We’re going to listen to the review again on the way there 😂❤️

@gregdeandrea1450

6 ай бұрын

Awwww

Some of your finest work, Todd. A full-blown 45 minute documentary about an unbelievably strange cultural artifact. No one does what you do. Cheers!

@skyDN1974

2 жыл бұрын

Fully agree, this was an awesome one!!

@garyhundsrucker7771

2 жыл бұрын

Badada da Badada doo I about died laughin' How about you!?!😆

@ninjabluefyre3815

Жыл бұрын

And somehow not as weird as Top 10 90's Buses.

@muscleandhate

Жыл бұрын

Jenny Nicholson is quite similar in that sense

@jonnybarnard8578

Жыл бұрын

Cultural? Or cult-ural?

Todd confessing to liking Joy City is the most Todd thing ever.

@againstthepods4316

2 жыл бұрын

Please don’t stereotype Asian people. Thanks.

@cloudstrife4534

2 жыл бұрын

@@againstthepods4316 How on earth are they stereotyping all Asian people by saying it’s unsurprising that Todd in particular likes Joy City? Haslett is just commenting on Todd’s personal taste, which is known to everyone who’s a long time watcher of him.

@againstthepods4316

2 жыл бұрын

@@cloudstrife4534 Todd is Asian. Such a fan ANd you didn’t know that

@cloudstrife4534

2 жыл бұрын

@@againstthepods4316 I know he’s Asian. But acknowledging that him liking Joy City is very in line with his taste is not stereotyping all Asian people, or even just him as an Asian person. Joy City is good either way, but am I supposed to avoid it as a part Southeast Asian person because it would be “making a stereotype of myself”? You’re showing that you’re not much of a fan of Todd at all if you think saying it’s not surprising that he likes Joy City means anything other than it not being surprising that he likes Joy City. You’re honestly coming off more like a troll in trying to turn innocuous comments from long-time fans of Todd into accusations of racial stereotyping. You definitely don’t come off as an fan. But if you are, maybe don’t be so rude to other fans who aren’t doing anything wrong. I’m sure there are some fans who are, so go bother them. Either way Todd is Asian, but he’s also an Internet personality that is very candid about the things he likes. Not just on KZread, he’s constantly putting out tweets that give a clear view into his personal tastes and opinions on everything. His takes aren’t just his about his musical taste and the tons of adorable pictures of Amydog. You should know that if you follow him like most fans do, because his Twitter is just as much of a joy as his videos. You’re missing out if you don’t follow him there.

@RowanWarren78

2 жыл бұрын

I really want to believe Todd is just trolling us. This is the worst song on the album, and he knows it. HE KNOWS IT!

I'm surprised Todd was willing to film himself yelling outside of a Scientology center. Well played.

@needfortweed8734

2 жыл бұрын

yes! There was no shadows there! So we got Todd out of the Shadows.

@4ofdubs

2 жыл бұрын

When does it show up? What time exactly?

@AussieDragoon

2 жыл бұрын

@@4ofdubs 40:50

@BeatleScorpion1

2 жыл бұрын

Doing an Eric Andre meme, no less

@Liliputian07

2 жыл бұрын

holy fuck i lost my shit

*THIS IS WHAT TODD ACTUALLY BELIEVES.*

"Joy City" sounds like something Huey Lewis would write for Phil Collins.

I adore how Todd's careful dancing around Scientology subjects becomes more impatient and blunt as the video goes on.

@becauseimafan

2 жыл бұрын

Yes this, I noticed this too! 😂

@Talisguy

2 жыл бұрын

Especially since I get the impression he's so hard on Mission Earth partly because he's (probably) not going to get sued for shitting on those books and is tired of walking on eggshells. (I believe him about the books being unreadable. A ten book series that was never edited, ever, sounds like a nightmare. I just mean I think Todd was very glad to have a target he could just hit with a sledgehammer as often as he felt like after everything he had to tiptoe around.)

@Jurgan6

2 жыл бұрын

@@Talisguy a ten book series with no edits? The only comparable thing I can think of is Left Behind. So, dangerous cult texts are just like that, I guess.

@kingboobs20

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe he's hoping no one from the church will watch the whole video but I dunno, they probably have whole teams of people whose job is to look up anything bad anyone on the internet has to say about their religion, they're thorough motherfuckers.

@mikerivera373

2 жыл бұрын

@@Jurgan6 I remember reading all 12 of the Left Behind books in middle school. There are a lot of negative things I can say about that series, but I don’t remember it being unedited or incoherent.

I don't think I deserve Todd for how much effort he puts in this. this is probably his most fascinating video

@jefersondelossantos2462

2 жыл бұрын

His masterpiece indeed

@blakecasimir

2 жыл бұрын

Glad to see I'm not the only one that thought this. Bravo, Todd. This was thoroughly interesting throughout.

@judgesaturn507

2 жыл бұрын

It's funny, I say that one video is the best video he'll ever make and then he does THIS

@scottr291

2 жыл бұрын

I like to think Todd moved to LA just to convert to Scientology as “research” for this episode

@judgesaturn507

2 жыл бұрын

Although, I will say that I still probably prefer Am I The Only One as this one isn't quite as rewatchable

Something I didn't realise until I read about it was that metallica's master of puppets was about drugs. The entire song made sense. The fast tempo being a heartbeat caused by the crack. The line about self destruction being about how while the drug is destroying the users health, its the user whos administering the drug voluntarily. The bridge being an angry come down from the high as the user briefly realises the effects of the drug and how its supposedly improving their life but really its killing them slowly and the lack of help from anyone in the users life being equivalent to someone getting amusement out of their misery. What I'm trying to say is, there's a way to make a drug addiction song good and fitting for the subject matter, This album does not do that

@swampnutz5201

2 жыл бұрын

What about the line 'chop up your breakfast on the mirror'

@joaquinlezcano2372

Жыл бұрын

Also hotel California

@browncoat697

Жыл бұрын

I'm fairly sure Master of Puppets is about powder cocaine rather than crack, given the line "chop your breakfast on a mirror." You don't chop crack because it's in the form of rocks, you just put a rock in your pipe and smoke it. You chop powder coke with a razor or other sharp and flat instrument (credit card is also common) on a flat surface (which is why mirrors are good for it). My dad told me it was about drugs when I was a kid, maybe 12 years old? He was an old school fan. He smokes a lot of weed but doesn't like alcohol or any other drugs. Anyway, it's not surprising that there are good songs about addiction that also happen to be fast and loud (in contrast with the Velvet Underground writing a slow and sad song about addiction with "Heroin"). Hetfield himself is well known for struggling with alcohol addiction.

@nickrustyson8124

10 ай бұрын

You know, I never knew that, I assumed it was about Military and how the soldiers are the puppets, and the general is the master, granted I assume that from the album art rather than the lyrics given they ain't Megadeth, they're not gonna make it easy to hear

@TotoDG

9 ай бұрын

@@nickrustyson8124. Funnily enough, that's what "Disposable Heroes" on the same album is about.

Todd, I am a longtime fan and a professional historian, and I just want to say this is an excellent piece! This may be my favorite video of yours to date. The historical and cultural scholarship you've engaged in here is really exceptional. Keep up the good work!

Over the course of Trainwreckords, we've seen records fail because the artist didn't understand their strengths (Jewel, The Human League) or because they just had a career-endingly bad idea for an album (Styx, Billy Idol). Having a career end because of Scientology's influence, however--that's just sad. It's genuinely a little upsetting to see how many desperate celebrities fell (and continue to fall) under the sway of Scientology.

@tobiebrown3756

2 жыл бұрын

And then there's the sum of no playing to strengths, terrible ideas, and downright insanity that was Funstyle.

@Bluecho4

2 жыл бұрын

To be fair, Edgar Winter's career was kind of on the back burner anyway, so it's not like the album could really ruin it. If he'd released it at the height of his popularity, it probably would have killed that career dead.

@drakkenmensch

2 жыл бұрын

Don't forget artists destroying themselves after starting to believe their own hype as an infallible creative force, a la Oasis. Also, cocaine. *so much cocaine.*

@mistersoupmannovember2263

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bluecho4 so your saying that it's more like an album like Passage where the musician's career was dying anyway

@TheZooropaBaby

2 жыл бұрын

Chick Corea's career didnt even die after participating in Space Jazz so...you know?

"LET ME IN!" is my favorite bit since the existential montage from "Took a Pill in Ibiza".

@millie8943

2 жыл бұрын

And the montage showing the agonies having Body Like a Backroad stuck in your head

@MrSkerpentine

2 жыл бұрын

Also the apocalypse joke from the Funkytown OHW “Do do do do, I wish that food still existed...”

this is the first time i have legit loved a Trainwrecks album cover. props to the artist whoever they are

@eamonndeane587

2 жыл бұрын

Their talents were wasted on this...

@giovanamonteiro7390

2 жыл бұрын

​@@eamonndeane587 imagine your most known accomplishment being the cover to the edgar winter/l ron hubbard album... F

@troodon1096

2 жыл бұрын

It's a cover that deserves to be on a better album than this, that's for sure.

@Demiglitch

Жыл бұрын

@@giovanamonteiro7390 As long as you say the second part quiet it sounds impressive.

@applemask

Жыл бұрын

Dick Zimmerman and Gerry Grace for what it's worth.

Edgar Winter's voice expands over 4 and a half octaves,and he is famous for it,why he is singing like that in this record is beyond me.

@user-us6yp9mk3p

Ай бұрын

Between my low-medium baritone and my surprising falsetto I can reach 4 octaves on a bad day... The problem is that I sing well in one of them, if that.

@MichalisMatthaiou

Ай бұрын

@@user-us6yp9mk3p difference is Edgar sings perfectly in all of them.

"Todd in the Shadows risking a lawsuit to make a 45-minute video on a mediocre rock album which was only made because one of the most legendary music industry lifers of all time didn't want to let down the founder of Scientology" is literally one of the most excellent possible combinations of words in the English language.

@dmitryshchevnikov

2 жыл бұрын

Oh look who is here

@Bass_Goat53

2 жыл бұрын

Seanny Test

@judgesaturn507

2 жыл бұрын

absolutely

@twistedwizard9100

2 жыл бұрын

hi sean

@dsnodgrass4843

2 жыл бұрын

Brilliantly summarized.

This album really makes us appreciate the half-baked monstrosity that was Styx's "Killroy was Here"

@warlordofbritannia

2 жыл бұрын

For every “Mr. Roboto” there’s five more crappy religious songs by rich nutters

@javiers5599

2 жыл бұрын

At least Styx weren't promoting a cult

@davidyurch4446

2 жыл бұрын

Elron Was Here

@nickrustyson8124

2 жыл бұрын

@@warlordofbritannia Joy City is pretty good though

@drakkenmensch

2 жыл бұрын

"Heavy Metal Poisoning" is still a fantastic song to this day!

In my very early 20's when "Battlefield Earth" came out, I fell in love with that book (I was, and remain, a fan of Pulp Fiction as a genre), and to this day, it is the only thing by Hubbard that I actually finished. Because, based on my love for that book, I ran right out and bought the hardcover release of "Mission Earth" Volume One "The Invaders Plan" ... and I couldn't believe it was written by the same author. I tried getting into it several times, but just couldn't. Simply put, it was awful. I can't even recall now anything about it. That book killed any interest I had in acquiring any of his older writings. This was before I knew anything about his involvement in Scientology, as I was pretty naive. A few years later, a girlfriend started gushing to me about a book she was reading called "Dianetics". What she was saying about it sounded vaguely interesting, but highly unusual, and a bit suspect. She then dropped the author's name, and I said, "Wait. Who?!?" To this day, I still have trouble believing that the author of one of my favorite pulp sci-fi books could write such horrible dreck and be such a bad person to boot.

There's the South Park episode where Chef joins Scientology, and they explain it in brief. Even though they flashed "THIS IS WHAT SCIENTOLOGISTS ACTUALLY BELIEVE" across the screen, I thought there was no way. They must be messing with us, right? I'm still a bit baffled that something like this exists.

@user-qn8xf4ct8d

Жыл бұрын

Do you know from what season and episode it is?

@freakfoxvevo7915

Жыл бұрын

@@user-qn8xf4ct8d Season 9's "Trapped in the Closet" OP got it confused with "Return of Chef", which was a few episodes later

@Xarfax321

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I remembered that episode and was like "oh haha, South Park is making fun of them..." well I was surprised when I googled it!

@jackcoleman1784

Жыл бұрын

Everything they said about what Scientology believes is true. You only find out what their creation myth is and most of the crazy alien shit when you reach OT or Operating Thetan level III. By that point you have to have been in the church for years and have to have spent literally hundreds of thousands of dollars on auditing. So sunk cost fallacy keeps most people from leaving at that point. They tell people that learning the truth before you are prepared with years of "proper" auditing can actually give you pneumonia and/or kill you. When you learn about Xenu they lock you in a room and then bring in a locked briefcase which has a photocopy of Hubbard's actual handwritten notes on Xenu and Teegeyak. They basically leave you in the room to figure it out. But to be honest South Park wasn't lying at all. You can read the source materials for yourself they were leaked onto the internet in the early nineties if memory serves. Even the part about spaceships looking like DC8s is in there.

@brendanb2982

Жыл бұрын

Wait, isn't Chef voiced by Isaac Hayes? ...well, at least that man had a sense of humor, I guess.

Hi! Masochist here! I read all ten volumes of this mess in the late 80s (I was in my early teens and was still hadn’t quite figured out what “good” science fiction was yet). At the time the sex and violence was really over the top (and as a dumb kid, that’s probably what enticed me to read it through to the end). I hadn’t known what the deal was with Scientology at the time and figured it was just some kind of self-help thing. Years later, when I learned more about the “religion”, the subtext in Mission: Earth (including the anti-Psych stuff) stood out like a neon sign. I also owned a cassette copy of the album (which I bought in 1989, if that helps in the “Did it come out in 1986 or 1989” argument), so a lot of these songs are indelibly etched into my grey matter. The album seems closer to Douglas Adams than L Ron Hubbard though, in that they’re “Mostly Harmless.”

@themadmattster9647

2 жыл бұрын

Robert Vaughn Young wrote much of Mission Earth under duress

@Malkmusianful

2 жыл бұрын

@@themadmattster9647 i wonder if Mr. Young's self-insert happens to go by the name Soltan Gris

@TECH097

2 жыл бұрын

Did the story ever linger in your mind enough to recall it nowadays? If so were there any insane tidbits Todd left out?

@ldillin9698

Жыл бұрын

@Brian Geers …Well the etching in your gray matter didn’t seem to destroy your better sensibilities or sense of humor! 😂 Great story!

That "And now... our feature presentation" slide hits right in the nostalgia bone.

@warlordofbritannia

2 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of how my sister watched our VHS copy of Ernest Saves Christmas so much she wound up not only breaking the tape but also the player while trying to “fix it”…ah, good times

@thearcheriskind

2 жыл бұрын

Yes

@flametitan100

2 жыл бұрын

I felt extremely called out by it

@teddyfurstman1997

2 жыл бұрын

Same.

@UnfortunatelyTheHunger

2 жыл бұрын

THE OUTSIDERS: Ponyboy Dallas Johnny Cherry Sodapop Darrell Two-Bit Steve Bob Six Pack Dad E.T. Bumblebee Tuna Clamshell Inspector Gadget Payless Shoes Death Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 Kid Cuisine & Johnny, played by Johnny Cash

Man, it was a treat to hear Linkara reading out lines from the book. Love that guy!

@Demiglitch

Жыл бұрын

Knew it sounded familiar.

The reading of the quotes from Soltan Gris made me picture him as Squidward, and now I kind of want to read the books so I can laugh my way through them with that mental image.

@applebonker141

2 жыл бұрын

Mission Bikini Bottom

@jordanforbes149

Жыл бұрын

Lol yeah that’s just how linkara sounds

@ninjabluefyre3815

Жыл бұрын

I'll never watch Atop the Fourth Wall the same way.

@TheAlexSchmidt

Жыл бұрын

Yeah it's just how Linkara sounds although I think "can't you just go away and let someone be quietly miserable?" sounds like something Squidward would say.

@myettechase

Жыл бұрын

[squidward voice] And it was SEXY!

Me: "Hey, we haven't heard from Todd in a while, I hope everything is okay..." Me looking at the length of this video: "Oh, okay, that explains it."

@BrotherAlpha

2 жыл бұрын

If he was okay before making this video, doing the research for this video probably hurt a lot.

@mcmlxxxviimcmxcvi8641

2 жыл бұрын

If I'm not mistaken, he was right on schedule... One video every 4 weeks. His last Trainwreckords was 4 weeks ago, so...

@rubywest5166

2 жыл бұрын

Some say he was so deep in his work producing his magnum opus "TRAINWRECKORDS: Edgar Winter and L. Ron Hubbard's "Mission Earth"" that there were rumours that he had died. Now, your more cynical observers have disagreed with this version of events, saying that he had actually disappeared because he was in hiding from various world governments for various crimes, that he was tightly in control of his twitter account, and that he had never even liked 80's music and only returned to it because he wanted some of that youtube ad revenue

@EpicB

2 жыл бұрын

He also took September off I think.

@anthonydeadman

2 жыл бұрын

@@EpicB I guss you could say he *woke up when September ended*

"Joy City" sounds like an 80s TV intro to a series about a family running a dilapidated theme park with quirky accidents, ramshackle attractions and questionable morals. I think, I should write a series of 10 books about that (and maybe found a religion on its basis).

@barbarakirk3064

2 жыл бұрын

'With hilarious consequences!' Coming soon to Comedy Central.

@heymistercarter.

2 жыл бұрын

So in other words, a song about Action Park in New Jersey? Although that place had constant real-life accidents and even deaths that happened there?

@4ofdubs

2 жыл бұрын

Go for it.

@Panicagq2

2 жыл бұрын

Shut up and take my money!

@uiscepreston

2 жыл бұрын

What happens when Danny Zuko and Danny Masterton inherit a spooky old sci-fi theme park?! Oh those summer nights....of sexual assault and hook-ups with your male pilot buddies under the watchful eye of the groundskeeper who just might be Xenu. Only on Fox.

I once heard that during the recording of Power of Source, The Apollo Stars had to pay L. Ron Hubbard a dollar for every mistake they made. Power of Source is a jazz record. Fucking stonks.

@Malkmusianful

2 жыл бұрын

that's a lot of billion-year contracts

@einootspork

2 жыл бұрын

Nah, they could get out of it by just making the same mistake again and then it's not a mistake anymore, it's on purpose

@synchronizedelbow5702

7 ай бұрын

Heard about that too from the "This Exists" series. Also talks about a Kidz Bop version of "Teach Me" with children vocals. Sounds after school special-esque, but now knowing of the lyrics origins, is just jarring.

16:20 I love the way Edgar sings the word "pot".

@rhubarbdude3347

Жыл бұрын

*_paaht_*

Okay, y’all really need to watch this before the Scientologists either take the video down or make Todd disappear

@shalonanwar6882

2 жыл бұрын

Relax. Todd’s probably going to be fine. Last time Scientology went after non scientologists online they took a major L and never really recovered.

@SynGirl32

2 жыл бұрын

We'll sue you! Yeah, we'll sue you!

@freeparking301

2 жыл бұрын

Here comes the Squirrel Busters!!!!

@SuperJNG18

2 жыл бұрын

I had a vision of him listing all the Patrons as "John Smith" like the South Park episode

@nejdalej

2 жыл бұрын

My BF has downloaded the episode just in case x

Is this the first Trainwreckords episode that’s actually longer than the album it’s covering?

@heymistercarter.

2 жыл бұрын

I think so, kind of in the same way that his One-Hit Wonderland video on In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida is shorter than THAT song (the full version, anyway). Then again, there's so much to say on the history of this album and on all the songs, I guess it could justify being this long.

@merchantfan

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I was really surprised by the length when he went over all the songs. Something's that sold as a rock opera type theme album I would expect to be longer

@heymistercarter.

2 жыл бұрын

@@merchantfan Right? Especially considering this is supposed to be some kind of album adaptation of these books, and a lot of these songs are about things that might as well be outtakes! Though I have to wonder if that's on account of a lot more of the actual books' content being way more leaning towards Scientology, and Winter wanted to make this album accessible to everyone as well or something? Who knows.

I'm glad someone addressed the threat of bawdy song on our culture

This shows how impressive it is that bands like Coheed and Cambria are as comprehensible as they are with their storytelling

@spumbucket6845

Жыл бұрын

Parius' - The signal heard throughout space, definitely should not slap as hard as it does.

It's certainly no "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft".

@codasylphanthi2187

2 жыл бұрын

This comment deserves more likes.

@julieporter7805

24 күн бұрын

No turns out that was a good song. Well I do think the title song "Mission Earth" is okay. I'm not sure about the others.

One thing Todd forgot to mention about the 2nd heroin song is that Edgar's brother was hopelessly addicted to heroin for most of his life. I feel like that might've had some more influence from Edgar than elron

I love the idea of Todd just low grumbling a sentence but making sure 'dirty bass horn' is an audible grumble.

It's worth mentioning there is an outstanding site that picks apart every detail of the Mission Earth books, chapter by chapter, entitled: "Mission Spork." It's vastly more entertaining than the books themselves. (P.S.: Thank you for the mention! I saw it after writing this comment.)

@Galvatronover

9 ай бұрын

Link ?

@castironchaos

9 ай бұрын

I posted a link last night, but KZread doesn’t seem to allow posted links. Best I could say is to simply Google for that term “mission spork.”

@leaffinite2001

5 ай бұрын

​@Galvatronover dont think you can link on youtube comments anymore

Todd recreating the "Let Me In" skit from Eric Andre has made my entire week.

@sunnysurfer101MA

2 жыл бұрын

The fact it's a scientology building makes it even funnier

For a guy who wrote well enough to start a cult, Ron really couldn’t think of any synonyms for sexy?

@godozo

2 жыл бұрын

We're talking about a guy who was able to pump out a novel within 24 hours. You don't do that with a backlog of synonyms and antonyms. (yes, I wish I was joking...)

@FusionFullForce

2 жыл бұрын

@@godozo What the fuck was he on Speed or some shit? How do you do that? And how bad was it?

@dsnodgrass4843

2 жыл бұрын

@@FusionFullForce He would've gotten away with it ok in say, 1954, but for anything beyond 1976 it was very, very, hopelessly bad.

@theoriginalsache

2 жыл бұрын

@@FusionFullForce In that era, pretty much everyone writing sci-fi at that time was subsisting off of a fun combination of speed, acid, and cocaine.

@Jordan-Ramses

2 жыл бұрын

@@FusionFullForce - words cannot describe how bad his writing was. Or maybe it was brilliant. Don't think of it as a story, because there isn't any story. His writing is what depression feels like. If you are depressed and someone in your life doesn't understand what that is like have them read Battlefield Earth. They will understand. And possibly commit suicide. I think in complete honesty that L Ron Hubbard's writing was attempted murder. He was trying to murder his readers with psychotic boredom.

I came across “Teach Me” years ago, thought it was actually decent even for its strange origins. What I didn’t know was that Edgar Winter took a song that was supposed to be a raunchy burlesque tune in the novel, and instead turned it into a sentimental power-pop ballad.

Funny you mention Edgar not being much of a singer because I saw him play with Ringo Starr's All Star Band in 2019 where he sang "Rock n Roll Hoochie Coo" and it absolutely RIPPED. The dude can belt when he wants to.

“You guessed it, Frank Stallone.” Wasn’t expecting a Norm reference, made my day. Nice little tribute.

@connorshelton9535

2 жыл бұрын

So glad I'm not the only one who noticed that

@F40PH-2CAT

2 жыл бұрын

@@connorshelton9535 or so the Germans would have us believe...

@JonathanLit

2 жыл бұрын

Came here to say the same exact thing.

@NaanProphet

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, really smooth little nod that caught me off guard and made me both smile and feel sad.

@eternalreturnal

2 жыл бұрын

I wonder where Todd gets his ideas from

I suspect the reason Edgar Winter is so reluctant to pin himself down re his position within the Church is because they (officially don't) have a policy of "Disconnection," where if you badmouth them, everyone in the Church has to completely shun you, regardless of whether they're a friend, relative, spouse or whatever. Plus they have a tendency to use information disclosed in auditing sessions against former members.

@donaldpaluga

2 жыл бұрын

They officially DO-Leah Remini

@hoodiegod6115

2 жыл бұрын

And that is why im not religious

@TotoDG

2 жыл бұрын

Of _all the places_ I would find one of your comments...

@notmyrealname453

2 жыл бұрын

This just makes me realize that Scientology has more in common with the Jehovah’s Witnesses than I first thought. Now I hate both groups equally.

@itsthatsebguy93

2 жыл бұрын

Fancy seeing Jago commenting on a Scientology video.

I just discovered Train Wreckords and spent a stormy weekend smoking weed and binge-watching your show. Please, please make more!!! I know there are hundreds of monster pieces yet to cover!!! Thank you for this little gem.

@demoleramera

Жыл бұрын

Good sir, I believe you made quite a substantial typo within your comment. It's clearly called "foggy pot", not weed

I cannot get over the production on this. It's every tv theme song from that era I ever heard growing up. Nothing but soft rounded edges.

God hearing Linkara reading lines from L. Ron Hubbard is the funniest thing I’ve heard in a minute.

@jakeklutts864

3 ай бұрын

I had to confirm that’s who I was hearing lol

LRH charged The Apollo Stars a dollar for every “wrong” note. On a JAZZ album.

@MannOfMen

2 жыл бұрын

Now I'm wondering how much he got. $4.62?

It’s kind of interesting concept for a story. Having it from a disgruntled Weasely character’s perspective is fairly original. If it was heavily edited and rewritten, id be interested.

Nice Oktoberfest stock footage at 39:55. Incidentally, the idea of a planet where it's always Oktoberfest is absolutely terrifying.

The reason Hubbard's books such as Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health and Battlefield Earth are on the best sellers list, is because apparently the Church of Scientology buys back their own books. Therefore the book stores have to keep re-ordering Scientology books and they're kept artificially on the best sellers list. I was talking to an employee of a very large book store in Toronto. He told me that every Saturday two people from the local Church of Scientology would come in to the store and buy every single copy in stock of Scientology books. This is just one way that Scientology manipulates the public. The Church of Scientology is a money making cult disguised as a church and religion. L. Ron Hubbard committed one of the biggest scams of all time.

@dw89music73

2 жыл бұрын

That Simpsons episode "The Joy of Sect" taught me everything about that so-called "religion".

@theunknowngamer5477

2 жыл бұрын

NO....Hubbard did NOT commit any kind of scam. He created a new form of mental illness.

@noesunyoutuber7680

2 жыл бұрын

@@theunknowngamer5477 "You don't make the big bucks writing science fiction. You make the big bucks starting a religion." - L. Ron Hubbard. The man might have been majorly fucked in the head, but he definitely knew what he was doing.

@notworthyourtime9799

2 жыл бұрын

This is a common practice to get political books on the NYT best sellers list as well. For example, there were thousands and thousands of copies of Donald Trump Jr.'s book purchased using PAC political donation money to artificially boost him to the top. At least $300,000 dollars spent by the RNC went to Jr.'s company in exchange for a ton of copies of his book, which were then sent to donors, and not necessarily because the donors wanted his book. It's a mostly legal form of corruption.

@theunknowngamer5477

2 жыл бұрын

@@noesunyoutuber7680 What about Parsons and the Babylon Work against all of Western politics/God clubs? A timeline of the growing thing is good, not trying to BS you.

Greatest sentence ever written. "It was sexy".

@Hakajin

2 жыл бұрын

L. Ron Hubbard certainly seemed to think so.

@PatTheBatmanFan

2 жыл бұрын

“It was SEXY!”

@EnsignRicky011

2 жыл бұрын

Linkara’s read of that line needs to be a meme.

@kenlieck7756

2 жыл бұрын

But it had comedy in it, don’t forget!

@nejdalej

2 жыл бұрын

It was so good, he wrote it another like 10 times in that paragraph alone.

Todd for future reference - if you have an audio interface and 1/4" cable, and if your vinyl player has an "output" jack (or an outlet for headphones), then digitizing vinyl is pretty straightforward. idk what all you use to make your videos happen but that's what I would do.

@toomanyaccounts

2 жыл бұрын

there are a number of turntables that can output the audio through usb to a computer.

@Unsilence409

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidhague3270 he literally said in this video at around the 12 minute mark that he "doesn't know how to digitize vinyl"

I love that this trainwreckord is longer than the album itself

Thanks to Todd's warnings on Twitter, this has been the fastest I've ever clicked on a Trainwreckords video.

I grew up with this album! We weren't Scientologists; my father was just an Edgar Winter fan.

@wulfbak

2 жыл бұрын

I am so sorry!

Scientology's war on psychiatry has not aged well. They definitely did not win that battle.

@Demiglitch

Жыл бұрын

Witchcraft destroyed their mind and reaped their soul, unfortunately. A bit of therapy would have done them good.

@noesunyoutuber7680

9 ай бұрын

It makes sense when you think about it, though. Scientology's core assumptions about human life and why you "need" them are fundamentally opposed to the basics of psychiatry. Psychiatrists are competition, because their basic idea is "you don't need therapy to treat your unhappiness, you need to be a scientologist."

@Skallva

7 ай бұрын

​@@noesunyoutuber7680 That's how cults work in general. Cut off any possible support system and make the followers dependant on and vulnerable to the figurehead's beliefs and leadership. Mental healthcare is the most institutionally organised support system there is, it'd be weird if scientology didn't actively fight against it.

@josei1624

Ай бұрын

I think its even easier then that, they present themselves as science not a Religion. Other groups like theirs who present themselves as decidedly religious on nature make it a point that, the non believers, but also the wrong believers are the bad guys. Scientology is not that, they take in people who have a religion, and so the people spreading the "lies" to their "truth" have to be sciency "too".

Admitting one’s love for “Joy City” is one hell of a self-incrimination.

@LifesNeverHumDrum

8 ай бұрын

It’s so ridiculous I can’t not love it

I love how that "foggy pot" line somehow baffled Todd more than "I'll swang me another girl yessiree"

@Brillemeister

2 жыл бұрын

Gotta get some jam to go with my foggy pot

@DrZuluGaming

2 жыл бұрын

@@Brillemeister Don't forget your soy latte and get it double shot-ay. It will go to your body and you know you're satisfied.

@EpicB

2 жыл бұрын

@@DrZuluGaming But it would give you a mind full of decavities.

@VinchVolt

2 жыл бұрын

"I'll swang me another girl, yessiree" at least makes sense in spite of its bafflingly awful wording; it's an open-faced hookup metaphor. "Foggy pot" meanwhile is completely out of place and indecipherable.

@YouCantDeleteDenzelL

2 жыл бұрын

@@VinchVolt I'd believe that if the line that followed wasn't "Swaaaaaang, new city dancing yeah"

39:15 = You know, I've been enjoying Todd's videos for a while now. Watched a bunch. And for the life of me, I still can't figure out his taste in music. Music I'm certain he'd like he ends up despising, and music I think he (or anyone) would hate, he loves. I routinely fail to predict how he'll respond...like here. I'm glad this song sparks joy in Todd, but good God Almighty that is the cheesiest of cheeseball songs...it's like saying you can't stop rocking out to the opening theme of Growing Pains.

@PeriwinklePangolin24

2 жыл бұрын

Legit, I was surprised too. Not even judging, it's cheery and I'm sure it's fun to listen to if you're into it, but I also was left wondering if it's just cuz I was born in the latter half of the 90s and that sound was dated to me even as a kid, if I just couldn't appreciate good music cuz I'm a filthy gen Z. I'm relieved that I'm not the only one who is like, "....Yeah, Todd?"

@mollyj6286

2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad someone else heard the TV theme song aspect to it...it didn't make me feel nostalgic at all. Just slightly queasy.

@avosmash2121

2 жыл бұрын

I am Todd's age and....I kinda...sorta get it?? But I wouldn't die on a cross for it. I would call it 'pleasant', not 'revolutionary', I think thats along the lines of what he means here too...? There is just a warm nostalgic feeling to it. The cheese sound and lyrics kinda makes it have that. It has a bland but just upbeat dated enough feel, like, a long forgotten late night diner or hotel chain tv ad from your childhood that you haven't seen in years. Or like something you hear every time you go in a CVS or grocery store akin to Toto's "Rains in Africa", or other such cozy light jazz/Soft Rock trash. It isn't something you're gonna likely put on your Spotify list by conscious choice. But if it comes on while you shop, you might be able to smile a bit and hum a few bars.

@PeriwinklePangolin24

2 жыл бұрын

@@avosmash2121 Yeah that's what I'm assuming I missed here. Lord knows I, a 25-year-old woman, am still endeared to songs from Disney channel originals from the 2000s, and the Bratz Rock Angelz soundtrack, but couldn't defend that to anyone who wasn't a kid in that specific time range. Sure there were 80s reruns in there, but I think I just can't get into the mindset. You definitely do a good job of explaining it though.

@dajolaw

2 жыл бұрын

Todd's tastes seem to lean more towards pop music with slick production. He's definitely a lot more lenient towards the echo-chambered, auto-tuned numbers that dominate modern pop and hip-hop. He and I often agree on which songs are bad, but it's a crapshoot when I go through his "10 best" lists as to whether I'll agree with him. It's probably also a generational thing, I'm older than Todd by a good amount and have more of a rock background.

Do “Calling All Stations” by Genesis on the next Trainwreckords episode. That album really is a Trainwreckord. Critically, commercially and artistically.

@Punttipate62

Жыл бұрын

Agreed

@realDonald-trump

Жыл бұрын

Send it to Richard Hammond

@jenniferbaumgarden9293

9 ай бұрын

It's got some good moments on there. The Dividing Line, the second part of Alien Afternoon, and Congo are all pretty solid.

OMG, I have that set of L. Ron Hubbard books, the ones that claim he was a pioneer in everything ever. They sent them to a library where I worked, and they didn't want to add them to the collection, so I ended up with them. Comedy. Gold.

Todd doing a “You Guessed it, Frank Stallone” joke is the perfect way to subtlety honor Norm. Hell yeah dude.

I’m so proud of beck for leaving Scientology

@zombiedodge1426

2 жыл бұрын

Quite a few Scientology celebs have left in recent years. Leah Remini is probably the highest-profile defector, but Jason Lee and Laura Prepon are also out. So is former Church spokesman Tommy Davis, son of Anne Archer and probably best known for his screaming match with the BBC’s John Sweeney.

@jbwarner8626

2 жыл бұрын

(Todd mentions Beck in a list of Scientologists) "WHAT?!" (Five seconds later: "Beck has left") "Oh thank god."

@zombiedodge1426

2 жыл бұрын

@@jbwarner8626 I think Beck was raised in Scientology.

@meowtherainbowx4163

2 жыл бұрын

I tried looking it up, and I think Beck’s position in the group has always been ambiguous. He doesn’t seem to be aware of how dangerous it is, even in a 2019 interview, but at least it doesn’t seem like it swallowed him up. Apparently, his father was into it, and he grew up thinking it was normal. He read some of Hubbard’s books and liked them, so maybe it was more like an audience cult for him and the millions who bought Dianetics and never ventured further into it. I wonder if some celebrities, like Edgar Winter, have these ambiguous positions because they’re afraid of being sued and slandered. Some cults like Scientology and Jehovah’s Witnesses seem to have a much bigger problem with people speaking out against them than just quietly leaving, even if they’ll try to prevent both of them from happening. Scientology infamously has the “Fair Game” policy where they set up attack sites against their critics and try to sue them for anything they can. This might just be celebrities trying to get the hell away from them, even in court. EDIT: They also make people give them all their secrets in their “auditing” sessions, which they can then use as blackmail. I forgot about that somehow.

@runningcommentary2125

2 жыл бұрын

Part of becoming a Scientologist also involves letting them know any potentially harmful secrets you might have, so they always have something to threaten you with.

I have this personality quirk that makes it very difficult for me to stop reading a story once I've started it, no matter how bad it is. I had no such difficulty with Mission Earth. Just awful.

@bubblegumbitch2191

Жыл бұрын

That sounds like a titan level punishment

I've watched this video many times, and it only just now occurred to me (after reading a little more about what Mission Earth is about) that calling earth "seizure-inclined" is probably a way of saying that these people are wanting to conquer ("seize") the Earth

@BillAbendroth

6 ай бұрын

Oh my word. That does make sense.... But your comment reminds me of a hilarious Mark Twain bit, where he critiques James Fenmore Cooper's writing style... Citing one sentence, saying that HERE, the meaning of the sentence is clear--but that's to the reader's credit, not Cooper: while the sentence itself makes sense, it's not what Cooper is actually trying to say.... So, yes: "seizure-inclined" certainly COULD mean "lots of species want to seize this planet," but that's not a natural reading of that phrase... Certainly not a way that native speakers would read that phrase......

@constantlycomic1290

6 ай бұрын

@@BillAbendroth Oh yeah, it's absolutely not a phrasing that Native English speakers would interpret that way; it's just the only interpretation I can think of that makes sense in context

I’d say the dislikes were from Scientologists, but they’re not allowed to consume media that criticizes the church so🤷‍♀️

@septology

2 жыл бұрын

The singular dislike?

@mathewfinch

2 жыл бұрын

They wouldn't need to watch it, they could just come and downvote it.

@Jame5man

2 жыл бұрын

Church leaders don’t need to follow those rules. It was probably them

@SiRenfield

2 жыл бұрын

I mean it wouldn’t be impossible if a few people on their social media team tried an unsuccessful downvote campaign, they had an information war with Wikipedia that got them IP banned

A few days now since this was posted, I went to listen to that "Space Jazz" album. My takeaway from listening to that: Space Jazz shows that you don't have to be Kate Bush or Peter Gabriel to use a Fairlight CMI, but it most certainly helps. Also, a good deal of it sounds like its music from a lesser forgotten JRPG game.

@andresacosta4832

2 жыл бұрын

Space Jazz sounds a lot like a bunch of Hans Zimmer-style mockups intended to be dubbed over/replaced with real instruments. Except they forgot to dub them over with real instruments.

@rosecrow1545

2 жыл бұрын

Nice, could it be used for vaporwave? I have to find it now

@optiquemusic6204

2 жыл бұрын

It's somewhat ironic that this insignificant Synth-Jazz Fusion is on Spotify, while Edgar Winters' collaborative Magnum Opus is not.

@eamonndeane587

2 жыл бұрын

If you want great Space Jazz, just listen to some of Yoko Kanno's immaculate work for Cowboy Bebop.

@FernieCanto

2 жыл бұрын

Also, it's amazing that Hubbard was the *first* one to write a "literary soundtrack" 10 years after Camel recorded "The Snow Goose". And 100 years after Richard Strauss composed "Also sprach Zarathustra".

40:38 I will say that was a very interesting vocal run and fully demonstrates Winters' grasp on melodic synergy. Even though the album sounds like pastiche trash it is impressive that an unhinged below average writer basically gave story notes to a songwriter and he made a functioning album.

I love how this almost sold more copies than Paula.