So the quote here, this one about these suicidal nihilists, these people at the top of the digital reality, comes from a San Francisco cyberpunk zine that was run by a very serious group of drug addicts. They started the magazine, they called it High Frontiers, then changed the name to Reality Hackers, finally setting on the name Mondo 2000 in 1989. Why would that be the one you settle on, guys? Because reality hackers, they found that they couldn't get distribution because people thought that they were, like, cutting people up or some sort of... Their imagery on the covers and stuff was a little bit extreme and shit like that. So the name Reality Hackers, everyone thought it was kind of like... Oh, so they thought they were hacking up... They thought it was like a gore magazine or something like that. Fantastic. And so in 1989, this guy who ran it, his name is Gnome de Plume, was R.U. Serious. Fun. He was watching TV. No, I get it. He was watching TV. I'm going to subtract five points for that. I didn't say that. I didn't make that up. I know, but you pointed it out. Fuck you. So he came out. He was watching TV, and he's like, everything is 2,000 now. All of these weird names of products are all 2,000. And so Queen Moo, the other person involved. Another negative five points. I wasn't there. I didn't do this. Queen Moo? How's she doing? She's great. I don't know. Is she alright? I don't know. She refuses to give interviews to this day. Good for her. Good call, lady. She came up with Mondo as the beginning to 2000, and there we go. They were off to the races with the name. It seems like it should be harder than that. She had a large inheritance that she had gotten, and that was what was running the magazine, so it was kind of her baby to say that sort of thing. So her inheritance was Mondo. Yeah, exactly. So regarding the nature of the zine... I'm going to give myself minus five points for that as well. I appreciate that. You are correct. Regarding the nature of the zine... All about fairness. Quote, in issue number five in 1992, Nagel, who was one of the editors, accidentally transposed the names of avant-garde musicians Glenn Bracca and Elliot Sharp on the cover, rendering them Glenn Sharp and Elliot Branca. Since Sharp and Branca weren't household names, few readers noticed. But Mondo obviously... the piece mark dearie an explanation rather than yeah that'd be like getting oats and haul backwards rather than apologize mondo proclaimed the snafu uh intentional gracie and zarkov composed an essay about post post modernism and deliberate art damage or rather they scribbled notes on a napkin while out having drinks the outline was passed around the staff and the concept ended up as a collaborative two-piece manifesto on art damage called what do you say after popomo half of the time we were trying to baffle people into thinking we were deep says hulk trans uh and having uh having it be a pop pop fluff rag at the same time it was paradise That sounds like paradise. That was their game. Their game was, okay, we got these two names wrong. Nah. Instead of saying we got these two names wrong... Let's devise an entire philosophy around why getting these two names wrong was the exact correct thing to do. Done! I love them! Mondo 2000 for 20,000 more years! While being fucking high as shit on designer drugs and weird experimental chemical compounds and shit like that, they had no serious pretense.