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The Trumpiest Years of Their Lives

from Origin Story by NCN

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The entire program that this track is from runs over 5 hours and is available for streaming or download (it does not cost anything to do so) at the National Cynical Network Bandcamp site here:

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The full program that this track is from also exists as a playlist on SoundCloud. All tracks are streamable and downloadable (in lossless .flac format) for FREE and is available here:

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This piece starts off seemingly being about bullying and Donald Trump's career in military school as a young man, and IS in part about both of those things. In fact, the song upon which this piece is based called 'The Happiest Years of Our Lives' from Pink Floyd's seminal 1979 rock opera double-album, 'The Wall', IA about bullying, SPECIFICALLY about school teachers bullying their own pupils. Our version is too SPECIFICALLY about JUST THIS THING, but not in the way that the listener expects. It soon unexpectedly takes a surprising 180-degree turn, the nature of which I won't spoil, but will be an enlightening, revelatory, moving and fascinating experience for most listeners. Enjoy!

Trivia: For Pink Floyd fans, there is an uncredited musical, almost subliminal, 'easter egg' at the very end of this track, the biographical and 'Floydian' significance of which every true Pink Floyd fan will recognize.

The program that this track is a part of, 'THE APOCALYPSE OF DONALD J. TRUMP (Vol. 1): The Origin Story', was made in the early part of the summer of 2021 and was worked on over a number of months and streamed in developing form over NCN's live bi-weekly webcast.

For more info on our webcast stream and how to listen, see:

nationalcynical.com/webcast

The title's use of 'Origin Story' is a riff on a term given to film vehicles which are essentially prequels, often applied to cinematic villains (such as Darth Vader or The Joker) showing the audience 'how they got that way'. Since Donald J. Trump is literally almost a larger-than-life cinematic 'villain' (almost an amalgam of 'the main bad guy' in every Steven Segal movie ever made) we thought we would give him his own real-life 'origin story' told in our own psychedelic and artistic sound collage media mix form.

This mix might very well be eye-opening to those of you who think you 'know Trump' and most listeners are bound to learn most likely more than a little more about the 'making of this monster' by listening to this program.

Disclaimer: This program is not for sale and is not meant for sale and never will be for sale. It is meant to be listened to, and taken, as a whole work. All derived material used herein is accredited (as best we can), transformed and used fairly, NOT for the purpose of profit, but rather for self-expression, creative therapy, and the cultural enrichment and education of the public at large.

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from Origin Story, released January 1, 2022
PBS Frontline Special: The Choice 2020; Pink Floyd ('The Happiest Days of Our Lives' from 'The Wall' including remixed and live versions of this song);

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The National Cynical Network (NCN) is a long-running, SF Bay Area alternate programming media remix project. It originally consisted of a trio of SF Bay-Area based radio collage artists: Phineas Narco, Ronald Redball and Alexander T. Newport. NCN seeks to play *with* music , using sound, and video media samples in the process of media collage or 'mediage'. ... more

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