Mike & Ginger React to NIGHTWISH - The Greatest Show On Earth

[@frenkwd1]

The Nightwish Army would like to congratulate you on your 47 years. Hope you have a nice day in this time of covid. Wish you a lot of health. And finally the big moment the best show on earth. Enjoy it.

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you! ❤️ - G

[@AndreasKanon]

The reason Floor was extra emotional was that her parents were in the audience

[@jamesschwarz007]

Here's some nice pre- and after-show footage of this concert. Short interviews with Floor, her parents and Tuomas and Marko. Most of it is in Dutch, but there are subtitles. It's from a Dutch tv program called " De Reunie" (The Reunion), where old school classes reunite. This episode is with a class from the Dutch Rock Academy, where Floor studied. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGSxepmrZdapqsk

[@petrkvapil4139]

And her sister Irene

[@lujalainen1]

also first time nightwish performance back to finland with her new singer floor. very emotional situation whole band.

[@jaskau2462]

@@lujalainen1 Very first time when Floor performed in Finland as a lead vocalist for Nightwish was already in November 2012( Hartwall Areena 10.11.- 12) when they came here in FIN for the world premier of the movie "Imaginaerum"...Guess it was gig #14 with them for Floor J.

[@jeannettesimpson9778]

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of star stuff”. - Carl Sagan

[@ChrisPage68]

"We come from nothing, we go back to nothing. What have we lost? Nothing! Cheer up, you old bugger..." Eric Idle

[@jeannettesimpson9778]

@@ChrisPage68 😆

[@EyesOfGehenna]

Dust with a meaning, precious and rare - Nightwish (Endlessness)

[@onearthonelegion]

"A cookie has no soul, it's just a cookie. But before it was milk and eggs. And in eggs there's the potential for life." Jean-Claude van Damme

[@pantlessreactions]

@@ChrisPage68 always look on the bright side of life

[@fjnw]

This is a true masterpiece and also ingeniously put together. Have you noticed the use of the "enters ..." to get into the next stages of our evolution? Floor: enter LUCA Floor: enter Life Marco: enter Ionia Floor: enter history Floor: enter ratkind Emppu: Enter Sandman

[@MikeandGinger]

Very cool- G

[@mariiiioh]

And in the next album, enter music.

[@donder91]

Damn I never noticed before

[@rocklobster532]

And our end also.

[@chrisdavis408]

So well put. Many don't even get emppu doing the sandman riff. Guess if u know, u know. 😏

[@stevekanakanui7033]

GINGER !!! FROM THE NIGHTWISH ARMY ...HAPPY BIRTHDAY ...WHAT A WONDERFUL WAY TO CELEBRATE !!!

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you! 🥰 - G

[@607j1mmy]

The most epic song ever written.

[@johnvansplinter3874]

They are all so incredibly talented yet so humble. Actually gives me hope for mankind

[@dirk2267]

Congratulations Ginger. A beautiful choice, excellent. Having fun. Wonder-full smile; always adorable to see you two.

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you 🙏🏻- G

[@davidgrace2951]

Brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it.

[@darkiee69]

Happy birthday G. Before starting Nightwish Tuomas studied biology, it was during studies in the US his host family brought him to a Metallica concert and Tuomas life changed. And Floor wanted to be a biologist when she was a kid. Troy is playing an Irish low whistle in the beginning, in the Wembley version he plays electric guitar with an E-bow. LUCA = Last universal common ancestor. The writing in the garden = DNA, its just 4 letters: A,C,G and T. We were here! It goes both for us as a specie, and for us as individuals. The odds of you being born as you is1:400.000.000.000. The text Dawkins reads at the end is from Darwin.

[@oo.llpee.7457]

400 000 000 000 000

[@jpdemer5]

@@oo.llpee.7457 Actually, it's 4 (AGCT) raised to the power of 3 billion (bases in the genome.) Stupefying odds indeed.

[@mattgraham2835]

what a very cool love letter to nature and earth and hopefully more folks that can give back and yes it is a absolutely epic song everything about it i love how her outfits blue and white double helix design

[@Mistrabbit]

Happy birthday, and thank you for sharing this present with us! On a side note: In the Dawkins monologue at the end, I always imagine him saying, "Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton, singers greater than Floor . . . wait, sorry, scratch that last one . . .that ain't happening."

[@StergiosMekras]

...bands greater than N...evermind

[@ChrisPage68]

@@StergiosMekras....composers greater than Hol - NOTHING TO SEE HERE!

[@MikeandGinger]

Lolz - G

[@Rancid-Jane]

It was sweet to see your tears Ginger. Nightwish has wrung more tears from my eyes than all other musicians and bands I have listened to, combined.

[@Idefixu]

Happy birthday Ginger! You are such a character!!! Tuomas had a Christian upbringing, his grandpa was a priest, the leader of the local evangelic lutherian congrigation in Kitee, a small town of 10 000 people, where Tuomas, Emppu, Jukka and Tarja are originally from. And there were many priests in the family before him. Tuomas grandpa had seven daughters, but no son. That was the end of long line of priests in the family. Tuomas, by the way, is a mean pipe organ player. A short 2 minute clip on YT proves that. He also used to play the clarinet and the saxophone. In an interview in 2007 the interviewer was teasing/provoking Tuomas by saying Nightwish is a religion. "Whenever you write a new song your followers read the lyrics like they were a holy scripture." Tuomas: "I like the way you put it. May I quote you on that? My gradpa is smiling in his grave." Based on an interview I have the understanding that Tuomas' wife Johanna Kurkela, a well know vocalist herself, the new album of Auri, with Tuomas and Troy, was just completed a couple of days ago, has some kind of religious conviction or belief in a supernatural power, God or whatever you call it. Since we are talking about convictions, I can tell I am an atheist. In Finland the state church, though the politicians decided not to call it that anymore, still has preferencial treatment by the state of Finland, and I would like to see a change in that. I would like the church to do it's own job, without the help of the state. The Church can still force it's beliefs in schools. 68%, (the number is going down steadily at the rate of about 1 percentage point a year), of Finns are, STILL!, members of the state church, many because of tradition only. If you ask the members how ofter they go to a church service, the most common answers are not at all or once a year. The awerage is one time per member per one year! Members in name only! In Helsinki 50 % of people are members of the church, it's going to go under 50% soon. Ten years ago 40 000 people left the church in one month, as a protest against how the church treats homosexuals. Normally around 50 000 per year. There is this internet site where you can resign from the membership. It started in 2003 and as of today 750 000 members have used the service. 3,8M members are left today. The population of Finland is 5,5M. Less and less children are being baptized. Younger generations are quite secular. Some already suggested Nightwish "Weak Fantasy". The song is about religion, religious oppression, letting fear dictate your life. I prefer the Tampere version over Wembley Hi again from Helsinki.

[@darkiee69]

The guttural noises are Troy, Marko and Floor together. And when they played Wembley Dawkins came out on stage and read the last part live, in front of 12.500 metalheads.

[@MikeandGinger]

Very cool 😎- G

[@teardrop-in-a-fishbowl]

For me as metal head the "Cambrian explosion" was very well implemented musically. Love it, it was a biological big bang on earth.

[@darkiee69]

@@teardrop-in-a-fishbowl The slowest explosion ever... 20.000.000 years. But it's really fast on a geological scale.

[@teardrop-in-a-fishbowl]

@@darkiee69 I know, both is true.

[@darkiee69]

@@teardrop-in-a-fishbowl But that's the part that creationists seems to missunderstand. They think that it means that everything came to be at a moments notice, like a real explosion. Not that it took twenty million years. But then again, they think the earth is 6-8.000 years old.

[@edwardonion5331]

Mike a lucky man , ginger will be young forever ,,and Mike will contole a starship traveling the Cosmo's, immortals ❤️

[@Slick-ng5kf]

As a biology nerd myself this song always makes me smile thinking about how crazy it is that we are here. I loved that you commented and understand the biology and science behind the lyrics but also on how the music followed this...the calm and then the chaos. I personally always thought too that the fact that they throw in a brief evolution of music was really great. I like too that the “Homo Sapien” section was really short compared to the opening piano, etc as it shows too that we are a speck on the timeline of this planet. The opening lyrics and the way sung by Floor always gets me a little as I picture somehow being there to see the first sunrise and how incredible that would have been. The first two verses after that might be some of if not my favorite lyrics not only of Nightwish but any song...again science guy here. Happy Birthday and cheers 🥂

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you 😊 - G

[@PhilH919]

Thanks guy's. Enjoyed your reaction. Just had my 75th birthday and spent the evening listen to Nightwish on youtube. I have been a Nightwish fan for a long time and this performance, (which I have seen many tines) introduced me to Richard Dawkins. I have read "The selfish Gene", "The god delusion" and am reading "The greatest show on earth". It opens up a whole new world.

[@MikeandGinger]

Happy 75th, Phil. I'm glad you enjoyed it. ❤ -G

[@tuga9999]

Happy Birthday Ginger, wish you one amazing day with Mike.

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you, Carlos! It was fabulous 🥰 - G

[@iamdinkel]

Happy birthday Ginger and thank you both for being honest and so fun! Dawkins rocks!

[@evorock]

Happy birthday Ginger! As a paleoevolutionary biologist myself, this song really pushes all of my nerd buttons, and when you add this to the fact that I'm also a classical musician this is quite possibly one of my favourite songs of all time. The instrumentation is phenomenal, the key changes fantastic, and the fact they have fireworks interlinked with the E major chords at the beginning which symbolises the formation of the earth and possibly the formation of the moon after the impact from Thea, is just mind blowing. And when you put Prof. Richard Dawkins into the mix, narrating from his book, the song for me is just perfect! Opus perfectum, indeed.

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you! - G

[@mychms]

Greatest Show On Earth + Firecrackers for your birthday G !! Happy Birthday !!

[@MikeandGinger]

Right?! Amazing! Thank you - G

[@johnmiett6032]

I love your genuine smile Ginger and Mike's restrained exuberance. Great song and reaction. You two get it. Thank you both. I'm in your age group, I'm 50 and Floor makes me cry. Whether you believe in evolution or God, when you hear Floor I'll go with God, she was sent from Heaven.

[@ChrisPage68]

If "god" was possible, I would like her to be like Floor - but she's got a lot to live up to. 😜

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you ☺️ - G

[@marcmulder9893]

You look sweet and happy on your birthday Ginger. what a nice celebration to react to The Greatest Show On Earth. Congratulations!

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you, Marc! I absolutely loved it! - G

[@gapajomi]

Happy Birthday ! This is the most beautiful party ! Celebrating life and science with Nightwish music. Greetings from Transylvania !

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you! We definitely enjoyed it 😊 -G

[@samuelengle3773]

Tuomas is gifted where most are. Tuomas is also the mastermind behinds 90+% of Nightwish's music. Including this. Also you guys will love the Human. :II: Nature. album...when you're ready for it.

[@mariogansbeke]

Happy Birthday Ginger!!! From one Libra to another. Now you had fireworks on your birthday. Happy ?? :-) Hug and kisses from Belgium!!

[@MikeandGinger]

Loved it! Thank you, and happy birthday, back! - G

[@MustaLaatta]

As I wrote to another reactors wall: and 23000+ humans wondered next morning where their voice had disappeared Floor shouting: "AS LOUD AS YOU CAN - We Were Here!!"" She also said that this should be shown to all students in scools - Luca, Devionian Sea, Lucy - this would make kids to dig in Earths history 🙂🙂

[@w.b.t.127]

Happy birthday Ginger. What a great way to spend you day. Many more, be safe.

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you ❤️ - G

[@eddiecreutzburg7375]

Happy birthday Ginger. Love the dress, matches your hair. What a way to celebrate your birthday with the Magnum Opus of Metal Mozart of Music. Nightwish was killing it, everyone was magnificent. The Valkyrie Goddess of Metal and her Brother ,the Viking Lord.... those harmonies.... out of this world. Hail Nightwish

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you, Eddie! It was fabulous 🥰 - G

[@wimpeeters7880]

Happy birthday Ginger, best birthday present to here , to dream, to enjoy and there is still more.

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you ☺️- G

[@Matt-rn7ub]

Happy Birthday Ginger. You picked the perfect song to celebrate. This song is truly a masterpiece. Of course all of Nightwishs songs are, but this one in particular. Someone once said, on a scale of one to ten, this is a 50. And I totally agree. Have a great day. 😁👍🎂

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you 😊- G

[@liesjedegie1001]

Congrats Ginger 🎉🎁💐🎈🎊 ! I love how you Guys think and talk about believing, our planet, our world🥰 It's such a interesting and beautifull topic to think and talk about.

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you, Liesje! I couldn’t agree more- G

[@music2seeconcertphotograph457]

When taking your drink just before the first pyro I thought to myself: Bad timing. Please don‘t choke“ 😎

[@herby4911]

‘73!! ... Great build year!! 😁👍🏻 Happy birthday! 🥳 Greetings from the Netherlands.

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you 😊- G

[@BrindleChase]

Happy birthday Ginger! This performance is the most aptly named song ever... the greatest show on earth!

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you ❤️ - G

[@zenithquasar9623]

Happy birthday Ginger! Celebration of life on your birthday with fireworks!

[@MikeandGinger]

Indeed! Thank you 😊- G

[@overdosedmiawallace]

Last time I was this early all of this was the Devonian Sea

[@damienmaynard8892]

Coelacanth?.... and I thought I was a fossil! LOL!

[@MrHws5mp]

Underrated comment... :-)

[@joop558]

You deliverd one of the best and still happy (birthday) analysises for this wonder of music. Very well done. Did you paid attention to the dress Floor was wearing, the dna helixes, what an attention to detail. This is a monumental piece. I enjoyed your show even when I have seen and heard this piece of music many many times before. And cheers also for your birthday, so well and adequate selected beautiful music that celebrates live.

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you! ❤️ I did notice her dress. Very cool - G

[@jessicakoster2543]

Also, the dress is in the Finnish colours, blue and white.

[@zoltansilling3755]

Happy Birthday to you Ginger! 😉😁😘😘

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you! - G

[@smileystevens3060]

Happy belated birthday Ginger I hope your day went well....

[@dolla3975]

Now when seen the "after show", yeah Tuomas has "always said" that music doesn't matter at all, its what the music does to you, feelings, thoughts and all that, that matters, so spot on! nice reaction again Thank you!

[@chrish9840]

Hi from the UK. Very belated Happy Birthday! Just another day at the Nightwish office! Floor is Dutch and is classically trained. She is a 2m powerhouse and can really "sell" a story with emotion, expression and her vocal gymnastics. Nightwish instrumentalists...there are no words. Always epic performances, sometimes inclusive with audience participation and brilliant compositions, which take you on a journey! Great reactions and analysis. Best wishes and stay safe.

[@sarabanas1447]

As much as I love The Poet and the Pendulum and what it does represent, I STILL think for me it’s this song that can ALWAYS make me ball like a baby no matter how many times I hear it or see it, it’s just so magical!!! And then actually SEEING IT LIKE THIS, ohhh my this is the most moving performance I’ve ever seen from Nightwish or from ANY group ever in my life!!! 👌👌😀😀

[@tonycardone990]

Happy birthday. Looking beautiful as always.

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you, Tony 😘 - G

[@atlantis315]

happy birthday Ginger, you beautiful soul.

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you, Lovely! 🥰 - G

[@rockape1954]

This is my current favourite Nightwish Song...

[@elaa.k.juutilainen5450]

Amazing birthday gift! Happy birthday Ginger and many more years to come. Deep, awesome reaction, thank you both! Greetings from Tampere. Stay safe both of you!

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you 😊 - G

[@penaarja]

The greatest show ever. 🥰🥰❤️🥰🥰

[@warhammer5690]

Love this song.

[@Luke-eg6yk]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GINGER..have a nice day,from Italy...Stay safe

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you ❤️ - G

[@lnsmanning]

Well done. You both did this justice. Bravo.

[@Neonbob]

Happy Birthday 🎂 💐 Epic. Thanks for the reaction 🌠🔥👋👋👋😊 We Are All Made Of Dying Stars. Give thanks to GAIA

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you ! - G

[@klausbak5182]

Happy birthday - great reaction. I have watched it 100x and still get full Body chills...greetings from Denmark.

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you ☺️- G

[@42nazgul]

Happy birthday Ginger you guys pickt and epic song for Ginger´s birthdag. Nice Greetings from Denmark

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you! - G

[@TheNismo777]

Happy B-day!

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you 😊- G

[@khaerulumam7279]

Happy birthday lovely woman🥰🥰🥳🥳

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you! - G

[@crashq8784]

Happy Birthday!! May all your Nightwishes come true!

[@MikeandGinger]

All of them?! 😜 Thank you 🙏🏻- G

[@TheSylispher]

Happy existance day ❤🙏 thanks for sharing your reaction.

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you 😅 - G

[@kristiansavov6528]

The Greatest Band on Earth presents "The Greatest Show on Earth"! Nice reaction again! I saw a few Floorgasms during the song... I like you both! Best (night)wishes from Bulgaria-Europe!

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you! I've actually been to Bulgaria, a long time ago! Nice countryside - G

[@kristiansavov6528]

@@MikeandGinger Really?! Oh, most people in America doesn't know anything about my country... Thanks again and be healthy!

[@terrykelley2872]

Excellent reaction. You gave us a present on your birthday.

[@bevohw]

as a so cald often in the world a very direct blunt Dutchman I loved your faces during the reaction Wel done and Greetings

[@LugeSabena]

Hi Ginger. 21. Oct. is my 52. birthday. So, congratulations to you too :-) I am a Nightwish fan since almost 20 years now and enjoy your reactions since the beginning. Please carry on. Greetings from Germany, Luge

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you Luge! And Happy Birthday to you, as well! - G

[@tahhah3449]

Happy birthday to You! I like yours reaction. Ans that its best song ever.

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you 😊- G

[@normahopwood8295]

Happy birthday, Ginger. Great song to choose for your special day. I believe Marko has commented that he can sing as loud as he wants to, as Floor will always be over the top of him. Really great reaction. ❤️🤘🇦🇺

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you 😊- G

[@n5iln]

You wanted epic, you got epic. Happy birthday, Ginger, and thank you for your participation in the greatest show on Earth!

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you ☺️- G

[@daft4343]

Happy Birthday Ginger, on your special day! ☮🎇🎆✨🎉🎊🎃

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you!! - G

[@42earthling]

Happy Birthday. :)

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you ❤️ - G

[@horrorshow3000]

Happy Birthday Ginger, Awesome choice from Nightwish, This tune always puts me on another planet. Cheers \m/

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you ❤️ -G

[@paulkasiola4041]

Happy birthday. I think it was a great epic song for you birthday. When they get to We We’re Here part it is so emotional on many levels. Thanks for the great reaction and enjoy your birthday.

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you, Paul! - G

[@jessicakoster2543]

Wow, this is going to be my third comment, but there is so much to talk about. Elizabeth Zahroff, aka The Charismatic Voice, feels the same way about science and evolution as you, and has a t-shirt you are going to love, Science is magic, but real. She wears it on her reaction of The Greatest Show On Earth. It's worth checking out, not only does she know what she's talking about, she's an accomplished opera singer herself.

[@MikeandGinger]

Very cool! I shall give her a boo - G

[@flatr8t]

Two complete strangers spreading warmth and wit while enjoying a remarkable piece of art, certainly is a much appreciated gift to many, who are desperately seeking a reason to smile in pandemic times. Thank You!

[@MikeandGinger]

That’s a lovely thing to say! Thank you. And you’re right. They don’t come much stranger than us 😜 - G

[@brianalmeida1964]

Happy Birthday Ginger.🎂🍹. Great reaction guys. We were here!🤘

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you 😊- G

[@CarlaJacobs63]

Happy birthday Ginger! Weak Fantasy would be the perfect next Nightwish song.

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you- G

[@reesezpeecez08]

yes, great song, great lyrics.

[@bulgariandiscoking]

happy birthday Ginger, hope you have a great day.

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you! - G

[@salfordlad4557]

Your appreciation of the lyrics and performance are amazing. Thank you so much for an amazing reaction

[@jimmybyrne]

Happy birthday Ginger, loved the reaction ❤❤ WE WERE HERE 🤘🤘

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you 😊- G

[@eiwity13]

Happy Birthday G, 👍👍🤟🤟🇳🇱, keep up the good work!

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you ❤️ - G

[@christhiancastillo1607]

Damn you cracked me up with the fish with legs comment lol, love your reactions guys.

[@CanadianOrth]

Heh, Tiktaalik is specifically mentioned on this album. AND I love the nod to Oilers, Ruotsalainen, Siltanen, Kurri, Hagman, Tikannen

[@bobgoranson2206]

Thanks to you both for the great recap of the meaning behind this great performance. And happy birthday, Ginger!! Mine is tomorrow!

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you! And Happy Birthday to you! - G

[@somedude5414]

Floor's joyous facial expressions make you want to cheer them on like a football team!!

[@balticstain7150]

Happy Birthday Ginger hope you had a fantastic day !!!!!!! I find it interesting but I was brought up to think quite differently about the origins of mankind !!!!

[@MikeandGinger]

It was fantastic! Thank you 😊 - G

[@Skraeling1000]

Happy birthday Ginger! Another great reaction, and I like how you went through it twice so that you could add your reactions at perfect moments later instead of randomly stopping and messing up the flow of the music, full marks! You two seem so like me and my wife - several years ago she had started to get interested in nuclear physics from someone she knew who had sailed on a nuclear submarine. I'll never forget her reaction when she asked me how a nuclear power station created electricity (I used to work in the labs at a nuclear plant). She was gobsmacked to learn that all it essentially did was boil water. She' d thought the electricity was somehow transferred in an exciting, possibly quantum way directly from the radiation somehow. And now we regularly have discussions about string theory, gravitational lensing, quantum computers, entanglement etc. It is good, imo, to have an enquiring mind, to keep that aspect of childhood with you as you grow up, so that you can still see wonder and beauty around you, that there are always new questions to ask, new avenues to explore. If you grow up in a situation where you are told that we know everything, so don't ask questions, you stagnate. /endrant You might also like "Exist" by Avenged Sevenfold. It has Neil DeGrasse Tyson in it. [edit] About the "any sufficiently advanced.." was Arthur Clark.

[@MikeandGinger]

Couldn’t agree more! My mother thinks it’s weird, the kind of conversations we have together. But I can’t imagine a more boring life, than to just babble on about nothing important 🤷‍♀️ These things around us really are like magic. It’s fascinating. Appreciate having you around 🙏🏻 - G

[@EsoxLucius21]

I will watch anything nightwish related. Happy bday btw.

[@petrihartikainen4645]

Thank you to make my day. Best way to spend 40 mins after stressful hours at work. 🥰

[@MikeandGinger]

🙏🏻❤️ - G

[@Charon152]

Happy birthday for Ginger! This is without a doubt one of the best (if not THE best) reaction video of TGSoE that I've seen so far. And I've seen plenty of them. Very thorough and deep analysis, with not-so-often-noticed details like "LUCA" or the general understanding of Universe/Earth/human evolution in this masterpiece. Thank you very much, keep up the good work!

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you, JJ! I’m so glad it’s resonating so well. It’s hard to find other people to have these conversations with. But we always enjoy them so much 🥰 - G

[@spellbinder101]

Hope you had a wonderful birthday.

[@MikeandGinger]

It was perfect! Thank you- G

[@paulwakefield]

There's a line in another Nightwish song called Last Ride of the Day. What is god if not the spark that started life. Great song to check out, its their concert closer at Wacken 2013

[@Jimbridge74]

Happy Birthday Ginger .. I just had my 46th Birthday last weekend :) so glad you guys reacted to this song... I love how Floor sounds and looks part Scorceress and part seraphim! *sigh* The only woman I ever loved (apart from my wife, Dr Alice Roberts, Nigella Lawson and Gillian Anderson) 😃😃

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you, James! I love her, too 😁 - G

[@widxx235]

happy bday Ginger all the best from NZ

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you 😊- G

[@robquince3076]

For me she is above all her voice is phenomenal 👏👏👏x

[@PeeVee1979]

It doesn't get much more epic than that. Wembley version has Richard Dawkins but in this one they performed in front their home crowd. It adds a bit more emotion which I think shows at the end.

[@kalbenus1564]

Happy Birthday G. Loved the reaction. You and Mike, please feel free to talk theory with us anytime :) Till next time.....

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you 🥰 - G

[@gunterreihnhol6507]

Alles Gute zum Geburtstag.. Wunderbare song, danke and bless.

[@ralfmeyer9086]

Hallo, kann mich dir nur anschließen..

[@warhammer5690]

Happy 25th!!!!! Love your work guys, please stay real. Keep up the good work

[@Luumus]

This was a 10/10 reaction to this song - which was worthy of an amazing birthday present for sure (and belated Happy Birthday Ginger!). It's wonderful to see a reaction to this song from people who love Science, who are knowledgeable about the Universe and understand all the little brilliant references in the song, who appreciate the genius of the music, who do all their pauses in the right time and who have such interesting things to say. One of the top 3 best reactions to The Greatest Show on Earth that I've seen. On a more personal note, I'm an atheist and a scientist and I live in wonder, I wake up everyday grateful and excited to be alive, it's such an amazing feeling to look everywhere and see such awesome things - in the truest sense of the word - and to try to learn about them and how they came to be. As Carl Sagan once said "We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself", what grander view of life is there? This song really expresses all of that in such a wonderful, exciting way. And you guys _get it_ and it was a joy to see this video. You've gained a new sub and I can't wait to see other reactions from you.

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you! It was a wonderful experience for us, too! - G

[@voyeurlove]

Great choice Ginger! Happy birthday! 🎉🎊🎈🎁🎂

[@MikeandGinger]

Thank you 🙏🏻-G

[@Plastikdoom]

For me, this one, and “The phantom of the opera” with Tarja and Marco, are the most epic performances they have done. I love their other songs, but those are best to me, and “last ride of the day” is a close second to the first two.

[@airjocky]

Stopped the video and made my own margaritas. Happy Birthday!!

[@MikeandGinger]

Well done! And thank you 😊- G