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- Why DM needs to do better at PR
- Listener feedback
SUPPORT JON JUSTICE THRU KO-FI: https://ko-fi.com/jonjustice
OR YOU CAN SUPPORT JON JUSTICE BY PICKING UP YOUR COPY OF THE EMBARK, THE SCIENCE FICTION SERIES WRITTEN BY JON JUSTICE
An exciting mix of Fast and Furious, Star Wars, Ready Player One and the sci-fi adventures of the 70’s - 1990’s
EMBARK: Book 1 and EMBARK: Treasure in Darkness (Book 2) EMBARK: The Vanishing War (Book 3) Gahan Corbijn and the Asteroid of Misfortune, The Rocket Queen (Book 5) Fear the Dangerous Night (Book 6) are available now in ebook, paperback, audiobook and free on Kindle Unlimited!
EMBARK Battle Planet (Book 7) is now available!
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Hello, this is Martin Gold from Depeche Mode.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
All right, this is Diegone from Depeche Mode and you
are listening to my word Rod and it's depeche Mode
the Podcast with your host John Justice. Thank you so
much for checking out to this week's episode. As always,
he'd like to email me talkshow Nerd at gmail dot com,
(00:30):
or if you're enjoying this up on YouTube, you can
leave a comment there as well. We have some fantastic
emails this week that I'm looking forward to sharing with
you and commenting on that. That being said, there is
no new news coming out of the Depeche Mode camp,
and this is what I want to talk about this week. Now.
(00:51):
I may take a week off next week. I just
want to kind of let you know things have been busy.
If you've been following the news, there's been a lot
going on. So this may be a relatively short episode
again this week. But I'm also on vacation next week,
so I might end up doing a vacation episode. Certainly,
if anything pops up news related, I will definitely do
a podcast, but I might take next week off depending
(01:13):
how the week plays out. But as I do before
every episode, I know scour the internet to see if
the internet to see if there's anything anything new, and
especially with it being a few weeks removed now from
the premiere of Depeche Mode m hoping that there'll be
some promotional material or perhaps the dates of when the
(01:38):
film will be released for the rest of us to
see that didn't make it to New York City earlier
this month. But there's not anything right now. And this
brings me to a question. You know, does Depeche Mode
need a better pr Do they need better public relations now?
As I've mentioned on the show, my understanding and what
(01:58):
I've been told is that the four unreleased tracks from
a Mental Mory will come out around the time of
the film and probably attached to the physical release in
some form, certainly in the end which again I hope
you checked out not last week's episode, but the week prior.
There's no new versions of the song available. However, some
(02:21):
of the tribute bands have actually started to perform in
the end live which I thought was rather interesting. I
was watching one before the show started today, which wasn't
half bad, and reading the discussions surrounding that song, which
appeared in the end credits of the movie. There seems
to be a general consensus from everybody that it's a
(02:42):
really good song and probably should have ended up on
the album. That being said, I would have expected that
there would be some more promotion around the film. Now.
Maybe that will happen as we get closer to its
potential release date. But even when you go back to
the Tribeca Film Festival, the Q and a that was
(03:04):
done afterwards with Dave and Martin, I'm fairly certain that
the band has an issue anything officially relating to that release.
And from what I've been told of the movie, from
what I've seen of the movie myself, you know, this
has the opportunity to certainly be popular among the fans,
(03:26):
you know, of which there are obviously millions world worldwide,
And I wonder, like, how many fans are even aware?
You know, the casual fans are one thing, but the
more hardcore fans that maybe don't follow the podcast or
keep up on forums like Depeche dash Mode and the
home forum. And it's kind of been this way for
a while. The Depeche Mode camp goes really really dark,
(03:47):
and we don't hear anything forever until you know, we
until we do. And there was a discussion of this
going on at the home forum as well, And maybe
it's just the nature of where the band is at
in their career right now, where the labels are in
terms of how they want to go and spend their time.
But that being said, I would think that it would
(04:07):
take next to nothing to provide a trailer for the
film or follow up with snippets of the comments made
during the QNA coming from the band's official social media
accounts or the band's website. It feels like it's a
(04:29):
completely missed opportunity and it seems to be somewhat par
for the course relating to the latter part of their career.
And again it probably has to do with financial constraints,
but I mean, I could go and put together something
based off of the you know, HD quality footage from
the q and A after the film. So I hope
(04:52):
that the band and the label whoever is pushing this,
I mean, I hope that they're looking for some level
of success in this film because from what I've seen,
you know, this could be popular and certainly and absolutely
popular among among the fans of the band, But in
order to you know, tap into that popularity, they're gonna
need to let everybody know en mass about it. And
(05:14):
maybe I'm jumping the gun here on June twenty fifth,
when I'm recording this podcast complaining that they didn't do
any promotion, but I think they should have at least
done some promotion about around the Tribeca Film Festival, giving
us the date of when it's officially going to be
released and what else will come along come along with it.
I just find it very interesting that there seems to
(05:35):
be no pr around the band, and I really wish
that there that there was. I think we all agree
we want to see the band continue to be successful
and ultimately make more music. But in order for that
to happen, I just wonder, you know, how much inspiration
there needs to be to the band themselves, to Dave
(05:55):
and Martin to understand listen, the fans really really really
really want this. So again, I don't mean to be
overly negative about it, That's not my intent. As I
was heading into the podcast this week, like I said,
I was reading the forum and a lot of people
commenting looking back post on Memento Maury, an album that
(06:17):
I still absolutely love, and I maintain the thoughts that
I have when it was first released. I maintain those
thoughts now, and that is it is wholly on its own,
a very unique album while still being distinctly depeche Mode,
and I almost feel like something very similar is going
to happen with depeche Mode. M I just hope that
(06:38):
we end up getting, you know, some good promotion out
of it. And right now it just seems as if
whoever is in charge of PR, or if there is
somebody in charge of PR, they just seem to be
asleep at the wheel. And maybe that'll change here in
the next coming months as we get closer to its
release date. So any thoughts that you have, drop me
(06:58):
an email, Talk Show Nerd at gmail dot com or
leave a comment again up on YouTube. My apologies, my
sound effects weren't playing there. All right, Let's go to
a couple of your emails this week, and first off
(07:19):
we hear from a new friend of the show, JD
Schell from Paris Now. JD got his email in like
right after I did the podcast last week, so I
meant to get to his email last week, but it
came in late. But JD writes this too, talkshow Nerd
at gmail dot com. I am faithfully listening to your
(07:41):
podcast each week about your questions as to the artwork
influencing judgment. Of course, it does, no doubt the amazing
Brian Griffin cover of a Broken Frame does a lot
to help loving this underrated album, just to give an example,
and it's perfectly with the atmosphere of the album. On
(08:03):
the other end, my opinion is that the very poor
design of Sounds of the Universe and Spirit reflect unfortunately
the low quality of those albums and reinforce this feeling.
That's an interesting take on this. I also wanted to
share with you something totally unexpected. At the end of
(08:24):
twenty twenty four, I watched as many of your listeners,
I guess Martin Gore's video with his new Gretch signature guitar. Instantaneously,
I loved it. Martin is so cool, his music is
so atmospheric and peaceful. I also appreciated his acknowledgment of
Allan's contribution to enjoy the silence Time cures Everything. But
(08:49):
the most important thing to me is that this video
had an unbelievable effect on me. I'm fifty five. I've
been a synth purist ever since I heard Since I
heard music, so I was an absolute anti guitar guy,
even though I know it's a stupid stance, but I
still can't believe that this video had me start playing
(09:14):
the guitar. My wife bought me one for Christmas, a
kind of telecaster, to which I very quickly added a small,
affordable Gretch guitar. I'm not doing any advertising for Gretch here,
but it's the theme of Martin's video, which I instantly
literally fell in love with. It's, of course, not Martin's
(09:37):
signature guitar, but it's a very lovely twenty six to
fifty five streamliner. And I guess what it's and guess
what it's green. It's green as Martin's is. And he's
absolutely right. As a matter of fact, if he had
told me that it was the signature guitar, I would
have assumed that it was. Learning the guitar is not easy,
(09:57):
especially at my age, but I don't care. I know, oh,
I can play personal Jesus enjoyed the silence, strange love riffs,
among other things, and I love it. Oh and I
also wanted to render justice to an ever underrated song
from Ultra Free State. This is a quite simple but
nonetheless huge riff. I love that song and do not
(10:19):
understand the scorn that surrounds it. I don't scorn a
free state. It's just not a song that I ever
gravitated towards. But you know what, I'm gonna continue to
give it further listens to see if it finally sinks
in for me. All this to say that Martin changed
my life in quite an unexpected way. Well that's another
side of DM magic. Thanks for your dedication to DM,
(10:42):
and the best to you and your family. J D Schell.
I hope I said that right, Shell from Paris, Thank
you so much. JD. Thank you for the photographs as well.
It looks fantastic. You did something that I've often thought
about doing, not just learning to play guitar to learn
the riffs, but also to go and play piano or keyboard.
It's just something that I've never never done. All right,
(11:04):
Next up, we're here from friend of the show, Yahn,
who writes this, the album one oh one occupies a
special place in my DM history. Not only does it
remind me of my first DM concert, but it was
also the first original DM recording that I held in
my hands. Being a Depeche Mode fan in socialist Czechoslovakia
(11:27):
was unimaginable for people in western countries. We could not
buy any Depeche Mode records until late nineteen eighty nine,
when the Czech record label Superphone released music for the
masses under license. Most of the music we had was
shared by friends on consette tapes or bought on the
black market, and I remember that this was highlight of
(11:48):
this one of the storylines in the It was originally
called the Posters Came from the Walls, and then it
was renamed Our hobby is Depeche Mode. Slavic radio never
play Depeche Mode. There were only three radio stations at
the time, and one of which only played classical music,
so young people in the south of the country where
I lived had to listen to Hungarian radio shows or
(12:11):
watch Hungarian TV to catch glimpses of our heroes. Now
bear in mind that from eighty six to eighty nine,
Depeche Mode was probably the most popular musical group in
Eastern Europe, alongside heavy metal in general, with every young
person being either a metalist or a Depecheist. This relates
(12:31):
to the topic of DM symbols too, as fans used
to spray black celebration symbols designed by the late Brian
Griffin on walls, and we used to draw DM symbols
on our desks at school. Trust me, we did that
in the States too. I still draw DM symbols all
the time. A DM symbol can clearly show our musical taste.
(12:55):
In the spring of eighty nine, I traveled by bus
with my high school class to eastern Germany for a
month long work placement to experience life in a comrade
communist country. While we were stopped on the motorway to refuel,
I stumbled upon the one oh one LP in the shop.
What a touching moment. Even though I couldn't buy it,
(13:18):
I knew I would always remember it. Musically, I adored
the opening of Pimp behind the Wheel, the best concert
opening ever in my opinion. The rest of the album
is good, with Nothing being the standout track for me.
Martin's guitar work is amazing here. It's much more upbeat
than the album version, and it fits perfectly with the
(13:39):
film's visuals. In conclusion, one oh one is not my
daily bread, but it's important to me. Cheers, Yawn, John,
Thank you so much. For that to both of you
guys this week for writing into the show, I greatly
appreciate it. What a fantastic story I ended up. As
(14:00):
I mentioned last week, I ended up revisiting once again,
as I do every year, One oh one watched the
Watch the Blu Ray, probably the third time I've watched
the the Blu Ray in it's from the box set,
which is only dramatically different in the way that the
frame is cropped, because the Blu Ray actually gives you
(14:21):
the the proper format that the film was shot, wherein
the releases prior to that had kind of zoomed in
to give us more of a widescreen look. When you
watch the Blu Ray version, which is taken directly I
believe from the film masters and remastered, it actually is
in its proper format with the black bars on both
(14:42):
left and right, which again you know, typically I like
the rectangle of the letterbox, but for this I appreciate
it to be as close as it was to when
I actually saw it in the theater, and just once again,
just a fantastic watch and incredible. As I mentioned last week,
when you go and watch one oh one and the
(15:03):
concerts or listen to the or listen to the album
from the show, just how incredible and amazing it is
despite the fact that it's missing all of these classics
that came afterwards from Violator, songs of Faith and Devotion
and otherwise, and it still is just a fantastic time
capsule of ban of depeche Mode at the time that
(15:24):
instantly takes me back to being that fifteen almost a
sixteen year old on that hot June the eighteenth in
southern California going to that show. So listen. That wraps
up the episode for this week. As always, thank you
so much for listening, and if you enjoy reading science fiction,
(15:44):
and obviously you enjoy listening to depeche Mode, I hope
that you'll support what I do with the podcast and
check out my book series. It's a seven book series
called Embark As Earth Faces Its End. You'll follow Pilot's
tap Keitha and their crew on a journey of survival
across the galaxy as they fight for humanity's future. I
(16:06):
wrote this story in part because of my love of
Star Wars for the most part, but also inspired by
depeche Mode as well. Life in the so called space age,
the world we live in life. In general, depeche Mode
plays a large part in the themes of the story.
The main character himself is actually a massive depeche Mode
fan in twenty one seventy two, but I made the
(16:28):
music of the eighties through the two thousands nostalgic and
popular among the characters of the story, much like what
they did with the Eighties and a Ready Player one.
I was definitely inspired by that book. It does feature
references to depeche Mode, both direct and indirect, while telling
and exciting science fiction space opera saga. It's a fun,
fast pace and action packed epic science fiction adventure without
(16:51):
an agenda. So pick up in barkbook one today. If
you like your science fiction to be epic with some romance,
a lot of unique action sequenses, and interesting technology, Embark
is perfect for you. I wrote the series for adults,
but it's absolutely age appropriate for those eleven and older.
I hope you'll pick up in Bark book one today
(17:13):
on Amazon dot com in the ebook Kendall Unlimited, hardcover,
paperback and audiobook. Just search for John J. O Injustice
and Embark E M B A r K. Until the
next time that we talk, I hope. Wherever you are,
you're happy, you're healthy, you're safe. God bless devotees, and
I'll talk to you again real soon.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Back I.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Depeche Mode. The Podcast
Hello, this is Martin Gold from Depeche Mode.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
All right, this is Diegone from Depeche Mode and you
are listening to my word Rod and it's depeche Mode
the Podcast with your host John Justice. Thank you so
much for checking out to this week's episode. As always,
he'd like to email me talkshow Nerd at gmail dot com,
(00:30):
or if you're enjoying this up on YouTube, you can
leave a comment there as well. We have some fantastic
emails this week that I'm looking forward to sharing with
you and commenting on that. That being said, there is
no new news coming out of the Depeche Mode camp,
and this is what I want to talk about this week. Now.
(00:51):
I may take a week off next week. I just
want to kind of let you know things have been busy.
If you've been following the news, there's been a lot
going on. So this may be a relatively short episode
again this week. But I'm also on vacation next week,
so I might end up doing a vacation episode. Certainly,
if anything pops up news related, I will definitely do
a podcast, but I might take next week off depending
(01:13):
how the week plays out. But as I do before
every episode, I know scour the internet to see if
the internet to see if there's anything anything new, and
especially with it being a few weeks removed now from
the premiere of Depeche Mode m hoping that there'll be
some promotional material or perhaps the dates of when the
(01:38):
film will be released for the rest of us to
see that didn't make it to New York City earlier
this month. But there's not anything right now. And this
brings me to a question. You know, does Depeche Mode
need a better pr Do they need better public relations now?
As I've mentioned on the show, my understanding and what
(01:58):
I've been told is that the four unreleased tracks from
a Mental Mory will come out around the time of
the film and probably attached to the physical release in
some form, certainly in the end which again I hope
you checked out not last week's episode, but the week prior.
There's no new versions of the song available. However, some
(02:21):
of the tribute bands have actually started to perform in
the end live which I thought was rather interesting. I
was watching one before the show started today, which wasn't
half bad, and reading the discussions surrounding that song, which
appeared in the end credits of the movie. There seems
to be a general consensus from everybody that it's a
(02:42):
really good song and probably should have ended up on
the album. That being said, I would have expected that
there would be some more promotion around the film. Now.
Maybe that will happen as we get closer to its
potential release date. But even when you go back to
the Tribeca Film Festival, the Q and a that was
(03:04):
done afterwards with Dave and Martin, I'm fairly certain that
the band has an issue anything officially relating to that release.
And from what I've been told of the movie, from
what I've seen of the movie myself, you know, this
has the opportunity to certainly be popular among the fans,
(03:26):
you know, of which there are obviously millions world worldwide,
And I wonder, like, how many fans are even aware?
You know, the casual fans are one thing, but the
more hardcore fans that maybe don't follow the podcast or
keep up on forums like Depeche dash Mode and the
home forum. And it's kind of been this way for
a while. The Depeche Mode camp goes really really dark,
(03:47):
and we don't hear anything forever until you know, we
until we do. And there was a discussion of this
going on at the home forum as well, And maybe
it's just the nature of where the band is at
in their career right now, where the labels are in
terms of how they want to go and spend their time.
But that being said, I would think that it would
(04:07):
take next to nothing to provide a trailer for the
film or follow up with snippets of the comments made
during the QNA coming from the band's official social media
accounts or the band's website. It feels like it's a
(04:29):
completely missed opportunity and it seems to be somewhat par
for the course relating to the latter part of their career.
And again it probably has to do with financial constraints,
but I mean, I could go and put together something
based off of the you know, HD quality footage from
the q and A after the film. So I hope
(04:52):
that the band and the label whoever is pushing this,
I mean, I hope that they're looking for some level
of success in this film because from what I've seen,
you know, this could be popular and certainly and absolutely
popular among among the fans of the band, But in
order to you know, tap into that popularity, they're gonna
need to let everybody know en mass about it. And
(05:14):
maybe I'm jumping the gun here on June twenty fifth,
when I'm recording this podcast complaining that they didn't do
any promotion, but I think they should have at least
done some promotion about around the Tribeca Film Festival, giving
us the date of when it's officially going to be
released and what else will come along come along with it.
I just find it very interesting that there seems to
(05:35):
be no pr around the band, and I really wish
that there that there was. I think we all agree
we want to see the band continue to be successful
and ultimately make more music. But in order for that
to happen, I just wonder, you know, how much inspiration
there needs to be to the band themselves, to Dave
(05:55):
and Martin to understand listen, the fans really really really
really want this. So again, I don't mean to be
overly negative about it, That's not my intent. As I
was heading into the podcast this week, like I said,
I was reading the forum and a lot of people
commenting looking back post on Memento Maury, an album that
(06:17):
I still absolutely love, and I maintain the thoughts that
I have when it was first released. I maintain those
thoughts now, and that is it is wholly on its own,
a very unique album while still being distinctly depeche Mode,
and I almost feel like something very similar is going
to happen with depeche Mode. M I just hope that
(06:38):
we end up getting, you know, some good promotion out
of it. And right now it just seems as if
whoever is in charge of PR, or if there is
somebody in charge of PR, they just seem to be
asleep at the wheel. And maybe that'll change here in
the next coming months as we get closer to its
release date. So any thoughts that you have, drop me
(06:58):
an email, Talk Show Nerd at gmail dot com or
leave a comment again up on YouTube. My apologies, my
sound effects weren't playing there. All right, Let's go to
a couple of your emails this week, and first off
(07:19):
we hear from a new friend of the show, JD
Schell from Paris Now. JD got his email in like
right after I did the podcast last week, so I
meant to get to his email last week, but it
came in late. But JD writes this too, talkshow Nerd
at gmail dot com. I am faithfully listening to your
(07:41):
podcast each week about your questions as to the artwork
influencing judgment. Of course, it does, no doubt the amazing
Brian Griffin cover of a Broken Frame does a lot
to help loving this underrated album, just to give an example,
and it's perfectly with the atmosphere of the album. On
(08:03):
the other end, my opinion is that the very poor
design of Sounds of the Universe and Spirit reflect unfortunately
the low quality of those albums and reinforce this feeling.
That's an interesting take on this. I also wanted to
share with you something totally unexpected. At the end of
(08:24):
twenty twenty four, I watched as many of your listeners,
I guess Martin Gore's video with his new Gretch signature guitar. Instantaneously,
I loved it. Martin is so cool, his music is
so atmospheric and peaceful. I also appreciated his acknowledgment of
Allan's contribution to enjoy the silence Time cures Everything. But
(08:49):
the most important thing to me is that this video
had an unbelievable effect on me. I'm fifty five. I've
been a synth purist ever since I heard Since I
heard music, so I was an absolute anti guitar guy,
even though I know it's a stupid stance, but I
still can't believe that this video had me start playing
(09:14):
the guitar. My wife bought me one for Christmas, a
kind of telecaster, to which I very quickly added a small,
affordable Gretch guitar. I'm not doing any advertising for Gretch here,
but it's the theme of Martin's video, which I instantly
literally fell in love with. It's, of course, not Martin's
(09:37):
signature guitar, but it's a very lovely twenty six to
fifty five streamliner. And I guess what it's and guess
what it's green. It's green as Martin's is. And he's
absolutely right. As a matter of fact, if he had
told me that it was the signature guitar, I would
have assumed that it was. Learning the guitar is not easy,
(09:57):
especially at my age, but I don't care. I know, oh,
I can play personal Jesus enjoyed the silence, strange love riffs,
among other things, and I love it. Oh and I
also wanted to render justice to an ever underrated song
from Ultra Free State. This is a quite simple but
nonetheless huge riff. I love that song and do not
(10:19):
understand the scorn that surrounds it. I don't scorn a
free state. It's just not a song that I ever
gravitated towards. But you know what, I'm gonna continue to
give it further listens to see if it finally sinks
in for me. All this to say that Martin changed
my life in quite an unexpected way. Well that's another
side of DM magic. Thanks for your dedication to DM,
(10:42):
and the best to you and your family. J D Schell.
I hope I said that right, Shell from Paris, Thank
you so much. JD. Thank you for the photographs as well.
It looks fantastic. You did something that I've often thought
about doing, not just learning to play guitar to learn
the riffs, but also to go and play piano or keyboard.
It's just something that I've never never done. All right,
(11:04):
Next up, we're here from friend of the show, Yahn,
who writes this, the album one oh one occupies a
special place in my DM history. Not only does it
remind me of my first DM concert, but it was
also the first original DM recording that I held in
my hands. Being a Depeche Mode fan in socialist Czechoslovakia
(11:27):
was unimaginable for people in western countries. We could not
buy any Depeche Mode records until late nineteen eighty nine,
when the Czech record label Superphone released music for the
masses under license. Most of the music we had was
shared by friends on consette tapes or bought on the
black market, and I remember that this was highlight of
(11:48):
this one of the storylines in the It was originally
called the Posters Came from the Walls, and then it
was renamed Our hobby is Depeche Mode. Slavic radio never
play Depeche Mode. There were only three radio stations at
the time, and one of which only played classical music,
so young people in the south of the country where
I lived had to listen to Hungarian radio shows or
(12:11):
watch Hungarian TV to catch glimpses of our heroes. Now
bear in mind that from eighty six to eighty nine,
Depeche Mode was probably the most popular musical group in
Eastern Europe, alongside heavy metal in general, with every young
person being either a metalist or a Depecheist. This relates
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to the topic of DM symbols too, as fans used
to spray black celebration symbols designed by the late Brian
Griffin on walls, and we used to draw DM symbols
on our desks at school. Trust me, we did that
in the States too. I still draw DM symbols all
the time. A DM symbol can clearly show our musical taste.
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In the spring of eighty nine, I traveled by bus
with my high school class to eastern Germany for a
month long work placement to experience life in a comrade
communist country. While we were stopped on the motorway to refuel,
I stumbled upon the one oh one LP in the shop.
What a touching moment. Even though I couldn't buy it,
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I knew I would always remember it. Musically, I adored
the opening of Pimp behind the Wheel, the best concert
opening ever in my opinion. The rest of the album
is good, with Nothing being the standout track for me.
Martin's guitar work is amazing here. It's much more upbeat
than the album version, and it fits perfectly with the
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film's visuals. In conclusion, one oh one is not my
daily bread, but it's important to me. Cheers, Yawn, John,
Thank you so much. For that to both of you
guys this week for writing into the show, I greatly
appreciate it. What a fantastic story I ended up. As
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I mentioned last week, I ended up revisiting once again,
as I do every year, One oh one watched the
Watch the Blu Ray, probably the third time I've watched
the the Blu Ray in it's from the box set,
which is only dramatically different in the way that the
frame is cropped, because the Blu Ray actually gives you
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the the proper format that the film was shot, wherein
the releases prior to that had kind of zoomed in
to give us more of a widescreen look. When you
watch the Blu Ray version, which is taken directly I
believe from the film masters and remastered, it actually is
in its proper format with the black bars on both
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left and right, which again you know, typically I like
the rectangle of the letterbox, but for this I appreciate
it to be as close as it was to when
I actually saw it in the theater, and just once again,
just a fantastic watch and incredible. As I mentioned last week,
when you go and watch one oh one and the
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concerts or listen to the or listen to the album
from the show, just how incredible and amazing it is
despite the fact that it's missing all of these classics
that came afterwards from Violator, songs of Faith and Devotion
and otherwise, and it still is just a fantastic time
capsule of ban of depeche Mode at the time that
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instantly takes me back to being that fifteen almost a
sixteen year old on that hot June the eighteenth in
southern California going to that show. So listen. That wraps
up the episode for this week. As always, thank you
so much for listening, and if you enjoy reading science fiction,
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and obviously you enjoy listening to depeche Mode, I hope
that you'll support what I do with the podcast and
check out my book series. It's a seven book series
called Embark As Earth Faces Its End. You'll follow Pilot's
tap Keitha and their crew on a journey of survival
across the galaxy as they fight for humanity's future. I
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wrote this story in part because of my love of
Star Wars for the most part, but also inspired by
depeche Mode as well. Life in the so called space age,
the world we live in life. In general, depeche Mode
plays a large part in the themes of the story.
The main character himself is actually a massive depeche Mode
fan in twenty one seventy two, but I made the
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music of the eighties through the two thousands nostalgic and
popular among the characters of the story, much like what
they did with the Eighties and a Ready Player one.
I was definitely inspired by that book. It does feature
references to depeche Mode, both direct and indirect, while telling
and exciting science fiction space opera saga. It's a fun,
fast pace and action packed epic science fiction adventure without
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an agenda. So pick up in barkbook one today. If
you like your science fiction to be epic with some romance,
a lot of unique action sequenses, and interesting technology, Embark
is perfect for you. I wrote the series for adults,
but it's absolutely age appropriate for those eleven and older.
I hope you'll pick up in Bark book one today
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on Amazon dot com in the ebook Kendall Unlimited, hardcover,
paperback and audiobook. Just search for John J. O Injustice
and Embark E M B A r K. Until the
next time that we talk, I hope. Wherever you are,
you're happy, you're healthy, you're safe. God bless devotees, and
I'll talk to you again real soon.
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