"Tone Death", Way to Die #937, is the second death featured in "If You're Dead – Leave a Message and We'll Get Back to You", which aired on January 5, 2011.
Plot[]
Clyde sells drugs to many people. He doesn't sell crack (otherwise known as cocaine or benzoylmethylecgonine), and he doesn't sell heroin (otherwise known as diamorphine or diacetylmorphine). No, he sells digital drugs using audio files called i-Dose (aka Binaural Beat Therapy). He makes good money off of i-Dose files, and later gets his hands on some military subsonic equipment and uses it to try to amplify the hallucinogenic effects of his music for a new i-Dose file called "Satan's Jackhammer" by bringing the audio frequency down to below 20 Hz. He ends up suffering from the sonoporation caused by the sonic pressure from the low sound frequency that destroys his eardrums, and his organs are damaged. Clyde vomits blood and wets and soils his own pants and dies from shock and total organ failure.
Transcript[]
(Begins with two stereo subwoofers shaking and emitting high pitched frequencies)
Narrator: Can you hear that?
(Shows audio program volume bars being manipulated)
Narrator: Does it get you....high?
(It then shows Clyde at his laptop, audio mixing equipment all around his desk as he's headbanging to the sounds)
Narrator: Welcome to the drug lab of the future. And Clyde, was the drug pusher of the future. He didn't sell crack or heroin.
(Clyde opens his front door to see a teenaged customer)
Narrator: He sold digital drugs: Audio files called I-Dose.
Customer: Thanks.
Clyde: Alright, man.
Chase Holtman: I-Dosing, is also known as Binaural Beat Therapy. It's a process by which two different frequencies, which are similar, are played into opposite ears, simultaneously using stereo headphones. And what your brain does, is it synthesizes a third frequency. You'll actually start to enter a different state of mind.
Narrator: I-Dosers claim the specialized audio files produce different highs: anything from orgasmic to a full-on mind-blowing LSD trip. Clyde's customers were a combination of super nerds and junkies, and he wanted to keep them hooked. He got his hands on some experimental military infrasound equipment. This stuff was lethal.
Phil Warren: Low frequency infrasonic weapons typically operate between 0 and 20 hertz. It's tough to dial in these weapons, so something that's less than lethal at 100 feet may be more than lethal at ten. This type of equipment is certainly not readily available to the consumers. It could, however, be purchased through some digging on the internet.
(Clyde is messing with the military equipment's sound levels)
Narrator: Clyde created a new audio file made up of subsonic frequencies below 20 hertz. He called it; "Satan's Jackhammer." The military had been experimenting with audio weapons for crowd control. The ultra-low frequencies produced can produce involuntary pants soiling, loss of balance, and even heart attacks.
(The frequencies cause Clyde to wet himself, groan in excruciating pain, and break a lightbulb in his room.)
Narrator: Clyde was looking for the ultimate high, but he was in way over his head.
(Shows the CGI recreation of the frequencies not only popping eardrums, but also popping cells in the major organs, causing blood to come out of the mouth and the internal organs to liquify)
Phil Warren: At extreme sound pressures, in addition to damage to the eardrums, cellular cavitation will occur, which is, in effect, vaporizing the liquid within the cells, in almost every organ, which will create a catastrophic failure.
(Recap, Bittersweet Ending is playing)
Narrator: Clyde learned a hard lesson: Hertz... hurts.
Interviewees[]
- Jasper Rengy - Clyde (Lead: Intended victim)
- Caleb Pearson - I-Dose Customer
- Phil Warren - Himself (Audio Engineer)
- Chase Holtman - Himself (Recreational I-Doser)
Trivia[]
- On Spike.com (now defunct), if you tried to view this episode, they accidentally put up Hertz So Good.
- Caleb Pearson, who portrayed the I-Dose Customer, also played Mickey in Pained Gun.
Segment Nickname[]
- Over-I-Dose (Spike TV)
- Happy Overdose Day
- Dosed With The Music
- Music Made Out Of Blood
Foreign Names[]
- Muerte a Tono (Death on Tone) - Latin American Spanish dub
- Taladrado (Drilled) - European Spanish dub
- Hertz-Schmerz (Hertz Attack) - German dub
- Som Doído (Sore Sound) - Brazilian Portuguese dub
- Tono sakiyat Makusabang (Tone gets the Killing) - Lazoran dub
- Głuchota Martwota (Deafness Deadness) - Polish dub
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