Oct 30, 2026 · 2 hr 11 min · 14 segments
What is this which stands before us? A long shadow spreading its magic o’er scores of artists all bearing its seal, certainly. But if we go Back to the Beginning, we can still unearth lots to learn…
Here's one of a thousand things that I love about Black Sabbath is I know a lot of times we have said early in the episode, I don't know what we're going to say about this.
It seems so obvious to the point of stupidity to have a conversation celebrating black Sabbath on a music podcast, but it's either just like gluttonous or useless or both.
But one of the things I love about black Sabbath is I thought it would be hard to find things and it wasn't, it just wasn't.
And I think one of the things that made it easy very quickly was so many of these conversations recently have been for us, for me making eye contact with you, Cliff, two friends on the journey of discovery, going wider and deeper together.
I never have anybody outside of that in mind for these conversations, but I have two very specific conversations.
people, not first name, last name, human, but like two archetypes of person in my mind, as we go through this, that like, I am hopeful this will find them and be available for them cosmically when they need it.
13 14 15 16 who hasn't been afforded the older sibling moment of like putting the cassette in the tape deck putting the needle down on the record and scaring the shit out of you with this thing but also blow in your mind like for instance mark lanning i saw a video of on the 50th anniversary of this record of musicians talking about it mark lanigan said
there was a kid in my high school who had his own apartment he was from another town like had to leave and so this It was odd that this kid lived on his own, but he played War Pigs for me, and I made him play it for five hours straight.
It just blew my mind.
There's a lot out there about why Black Sabbath is great, and hopefully it's all self-evident.
But if you need a guide, if you need two people that know that you need a guide, we're here for you.
who have absorbed Black Sabbath as part of their vernacular a long time ago, and they're like, I just like it, or I'm whatever on it, or I accept it as part of the ecosystem of music.
I want to plant your feet in the earth, pun fully intended, of this simple... beautiful farm to table fucking shit kicking good time this is a good ass record everybody knows it's a good record so if you're a person who's never appreciated it or a person who has appreciated it too much i invite everyone to return to center and just be like wow tight
Returning to center feels especially redemptive because of how comically hated this record was the moment it dropped, which I think is cool to go ahead and mention, not just because it's funny when people are wrong, like every everyone's wrong us most of all exactly exactly
yeah yes i dream of a day one day when a future format of podcast is two people sitting around going listen to these people and what they have to say about some of my favorite bands and music and just dig up our shit
Chad GPT, pull me together greatest hits of Cliff and Kyle saying stupid shit.
Actually, for anyone who's listening and might be interested, we use a service to record that once pulled together a horrifying greatest hits of all the times we laughed in our recordings.
Here's one of a thousand things that I love about Black Sabbath is I know a lot of times we have said early in the episode, I don't know what we're going to say about this.
It seems so obvious to the point of stupidity to have a conversation celebrating black Sabbath on a music podcast, but it's either just like gluttonous or useless or both.
But one of the things I love about black Sabbath is I thought it would be hard to find things and it wasn't, it just wasn't.
And I think one of the things that made it easy very quickly was so many of these conversations recently have been for us, for me making eye contact with you, Cliff, two friends on the journey of discovery, going wider and deeper together.
I never have anybody outside of that in mind for these conversations, but I have two very specific conversations.
people, not first name, last name, human, but like two archetypes of person in my mind, as we go through this, that like, I am hopeful this will find them and be available for them cosmically when they need it.
13 14 15 16 who hasn't been afforded the older sibling moment of like putting the cassette in the tape deck putting the needle down on the record and scaring the shit out of you with this thing but also blow in your mind like for instance mark lanning i saw a video of on the 50th anniversary of this record of musicians talking about it mark lanigan said
there was a kid in my high school who had his own apartment he was from another town like had to leave and so this It was odd that this kid lived on his own, but he played War Pigs for me, and I made him play it for five hours straight.
It just blew my mind.
There's a lot out there about why Black Sabbath is great, and hopefully it's all self-evident.
But if you need a guide, if you need two people that know that you need a guide, we're here for you.
who have absorbed Black Sabbath as part of their vernacular a long time ago, and they're like, I just like it, or I'm whatever on it, or I accept it as part of the ecosystem of music.
I want to plant your feet in the earth, pun fully intended, of this simple... beautiful farm to table fucking shit kicking good time this is a good ass record everybody knows it's a good record so if you're a person who's never appreciated it or a person who has appreciated it too much i invite everyone to return to center and just be like wow tight
Returning to center feels especially redemptive because of how comically hated this record was the moment it dropped, which I think is cool to go ahead and mention, not just because it's funny when people are wrong, like every everyone's wrong us most of all exactly exactly
yeah yes i dream of a day one day when a future format of podcast is two people sitting around going listen to these people and what they have to say about some of my favorite bands and music and just dig up our shit
Chad GPT, pull me together greatest hits of Cliff and Kyle saying stupid shit.
Actually, for anyone who's listening and might be interested, we use a service to record that once pulled together a horrifying greatest hits of all the times we laughed in our recordings.
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