WEBVTT - Thinking Sideways: Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:04.720 Hey, I'll Today's sponsor for Thinking Sideways is Audible dot com. 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:08.680 Audible as a leading provider spoken audio information and entertainment. 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:11.840 Listen to audiobooks, whatever and wherever you want. Get a 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:13.640 free audio book of your choice on the thirty day 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:18.439 free trial at audible podcast dot com. Slash Thinking Sideways, 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:35.600 Thinking Sideways, I don't just stories of things we simply 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:41.000 don't know the answer to. Welcome again to another episode 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:45.559 of Thinking Sideways. As always, I am Steve, and of 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:50.360 course I'm joined by Devin and Joe, and once again, 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:52.680 believe it or not, I know it's hard to believe. 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:56.000 We've got a strange case. Believe it or not, I 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:59.400 know it's hard to believe, believe, believe a huge mystery. 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:05.039 Today episode is brought to you by I Believe. Well, 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:08.520 what we're going to talk about is today is the 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:16.560 Max Headroom broadcast interruption. Everybody remembers the eighties, right, not really? Well? Yeah? 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:20.479 Maybe not? Yeah? Well you know, if if you don't, 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:24.679 you're missing out on a lot of iconic TV shows 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:30.680 and characters, specifically the character named Max Headroom. Yeah, I 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:33.160 actually liked that show a lot. I did too, I 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:35.760 did too, Max headroum. He was the first quote unquote 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:41.160 digital character on TV and uh though really there wasn't 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:46.120 anything digital about him. Now he was Matt Matt Frewer, Yes, 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:51.040 who's been in a ton of stuff through the through 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:54.440 the years and since then. It's you know, it's actually funny, 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:57.760 is every time I see Frewer in a TV show, 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:01.200 I expect him a little bit somewhere in the back 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:04.040 of my head to do that weird Max Headroom stutter. 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:08.240 Why well, why didn't he do it? That's not his voice? 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:10.880 What's going on? You know? You guys asked that every 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:16.079 time you meet somebody in public like fan probably I'm sure, Well, 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.560 but you know what, this isn't an episode about eighties 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:21.840 TV or my favorite eighties TV shows, which there are 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:24.680 a lot of them. Uh so, it's because it's my 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:29.080 childhood was. Actually, if you're not don't enough to remember 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:30.959 what TV was like back in the seventies and the 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:33.680 eighties and stuff, it's like TV it's a lot better today. 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:36.600 You young whiper snappers should really appreciate what you've got. 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:43.720 It sucks, Yeah, that's what I hear. Yeah, Oh well, 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:45.839 what we're gonna talk about is we're going to talk 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:50.239 about the Max Headroom character being used or the face 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:53.959 of the character being used, and what is sometimes referred 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:59.400 to as the best hack of all time of broadcast television. 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.000 Technically it's not really a hack so much as an 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:08.680 intrusion whatever. Tomato tomato depends on your perspective. I guess now, 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:11.960 before we get too far into this, I do want 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:15.240 to thank our listener. Yah see. I believe it's how 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:18.560 you pronounce the name. I'm not exactly positive, so if 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:20.840 I angled that. Sorry. Hey, by the way, if you're 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:22.440 if you're a listener and you want to send us 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:24.799 at a suggestion and you have a strange or sort 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:27.839 of unusual name, maybe tell us how to pronounce it. Yeah, 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:31.000 if it's a hard to pronounced name, a normal Joe 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:36.080 Ben Bob Devon named the normal white person name. Yeah, yeah, 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:40.600 because we're dumb, Yeah, that would be helpful. But um, 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:45.240 we got this request first through One Avenue and then 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:47.680 next thing, you know, a bunch of requests for it 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:51.240 came through Souper Popularity. It was a super popular one. 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:53.440 I think we got two or three on Twitter alone. 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:55.760 So we had to do it. I knew I had 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:57.840 to take it, so I stole it out from underneath. 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:00.800 Devon was planning on it, and we're going to run 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:03.560 with it from here. So if this is a terrible episode, 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:06.000 you can blame me and just think funnily. But it 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:10.600 would be like if had done it. Yeah, it's terrible episodes. 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:18.760 You can blame the eighties. Al Right, Well, let's get 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:26.039 into the story. On November twenty second seven. Sorry, yeah, 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:31.320 why are you laughing? I was five months old. I 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:35.560 remember this. This was awesome. Yeah, a TV in your 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.080 nurse ory and you could watch this. No, I don't 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:40.280 think I was watching TV at nine pm. You didn't 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:42.119 have a flat screen TV right there in your crib. 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:44.520 I don't you know. I don't remember a lot from 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:48.040 that time period, but I definitely don't remember flat screen TVs. 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:52.360 It was kind of a primitive time, wasn't Yeah. They 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:55.119 all had dials on them still, right. You know people 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:58.640 wrote things in chalk on walls instead of with markers. 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:03.960 You know, it was such a primitive time. His remote 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:05.840 was one of those clicker remotes. You ever seen those? 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:09.200 All the actual clicker, Yeah, the the noise actually to 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:12.880 change the channel. Yeah, sorry, I'm sorry, we're getting to 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:16.239 rub it in Okay, let's let's start this over. Okay, Sorry, 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:22.400 I don't laugh this time. Okay. On November twenty seven, 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:27.360 during the nine o'clock News is Sports Report on Channel nine, 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:31.000 which the call sign is w g n TV. Yeah, 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:33.520 w G in America, everybody knows because that's the channel 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.640 that plays America's funniest from videos. That pretty much all 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:38.880 they play. These is all they play. By the way, 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:44.160 this is in Chicago. The news viewers were watching as 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:47.520 the anchor at the time, his name was Dan Rone, 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:52.560 was cut off literally in mid sentence, and he was 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.839 replaced with a black screen so that the screen just 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:58.920 went black. It had some funny little numbers on the bottom, 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:03.600 and that sat there for about ten seconds, and suddenly 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:06.239 the screen was filled with what looks like a piece 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:12.120 of corrugated metal rotating back and forth. And if you've 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:16.280 never seen Max Headroom, take a moment, pause this episode 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:20.960 and pull up anything from the Max Headroom Show. And 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:24.800 he's always got these weird streaming lines and rotating stuff 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.839 in the background, and that's what this is reflective of. 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:32.760 That actually was like corrugated tin. It was it looks yeah, 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:35.920 it looks like corrugated roofing. Is exactly what it looks like, 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:39.400 but it's rotating back and forth, and there's a person 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:44.800 wearing a Max Headroom mask standing in front of it, uh, 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:48.200 kind of bobbing up and down and back and forth 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:52.800 for about ten seconds, and then suddenly the screen goes 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:57.000 black again and it returns to Dan Rone staring into 0:06:57.040 --> 0:07:00.480 the camera. So this whole thing is lasted not a 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:04.800 very long time. Uh, there was absolutely no audio. There 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:07.800 was a weird well, there was no verbal audio. There's 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:11.440 a weird tone. I couldn't I could never figure anything 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:13.880 out from it. Nobody else seems to have really cared 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:17.080 what it was, so I'm guessing it was just interference 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:22.000 of some kind. But that's all there was. And to 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:25.440 his credit, dan Rone did a fantastic job and had 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:28.840 a sense of humor because he looks into the camera 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:32.240 and I kid you not, says, well, if you're wondering, 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:37.320 what's just happened? So am I said something like, thanks 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:41.720 Max for that great report. Now, well you know it's 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:44.040 It's funny is that Rome did obviously have a sense 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:47.920 of humor about this, because the next week he pretended 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:52.160 to get interrupted again by the Max Hidroom. But that 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:55.280 was totally stage. So he was obviously willing to have 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:58.080 a little bit of fun with it. But if if 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:00.800 that had been all that happened, and if that was 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:05.160 all that occurred, nobody really would have cared and this 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:08.800 story would have just disappeared. They would have just gone 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:12.920 off and be no more. But best Max Headman went 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:17.880 too far. Max Headroom continued interrupted. He interrupted an episode 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:21.040 of Doctor Who. He did and Doctor Who that's rioted 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:25.480 nearly burned the s into the ground. That was not 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:32.440 what Doctor Who fans. Yeah, now what happens is we 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:36.600 now move over to Channel eleven, which is stationed w 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:40.920 t t W. As Joe said, they were airing a 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:44.920 episode of Doctor Who and it was specifically it was 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:49.720 the Horror of fan Rock episode season four, season four, 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:53.720 which for doctor good Ta Yeah, our Doctor Who nerd 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:58.480 fans toms my absolute favorite old doctor. Yeah, he's one 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:00.440 of the best. Yeah. No, he has the best old 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:04.840 doctor for sure. Yeah, and I somebody email me about this. 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:07.000 We'll talk about it. Well, do we want to talk 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:11.439 about his scarf or should we just leave that because 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:17.760 we'll talk like ten minutes about Dore fromode on the 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:22.040 Doctor Who's scarf At some point we really should Okay. 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:26.960 At eleven fifteen, again, this is right in the middle 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:31.520 of dialogue of this episode of Doctor Who, the screen 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:36.120 gets kind of staticky, and if you've ever watched old television, 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:38.560 when the vertical and the horizontal is kind of off, 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:43.720 it kind of twisted and bended from vertical to horizontal 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:45.960 a little bit, and then all of a sudden flips 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:53.120 and suddenly presumably the same person wearing the Max headro 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:56.880 mask standing in front of a piece of cord get metal. 0:09:57.280 --> 0:09:59.679 From here on out, I'm just gonna refer to this 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:03.360 person it is Max because it's simpler because we really 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:06.560 don't know who that person is, and that's one of 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:09.319 the key things in this mystery. From here for it, 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:13.000 we're going to talk about Max. Unlike the first interruption, 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:17.480 there was audio that came through, and it did have 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:21.199 it was spoken audio. It was a little distorted. It 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:25.240 was distorted. It's actually one of the like creepier things 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:27.240 for me, Like this is another one of those mysteries 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:30.920 that you hear about and you watch the video late 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:33.599 at night because you're dumb, and on some of some 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:39.640 Reddit thread that's said, what's the creepiest unexplained broadcast and 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:42.760 you're you know, laying in bed thinking, oh, they can't 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:45.960 be that creepy, and they aren't that creepy. But for 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:49.040 whatever reason, there's like one little thing about it, and 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:52.160 it's for me, it was the pitch of this like audio. Yeah, 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:55.880 this audio is very high pitch. It's and it's it's 0:10:56.080 --> 0:11:00.640 really difficult to understand. And that's think about it is 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.319 too as the guy is just his antics and his 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:05.760 talking and everything, it's just like a little off his rocker. 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:10.199 It's like it reminds me of a more frenetic version 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:12.839 of The Joker when he busted it on television in 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:19.240 Gotham City. Yeah, yeah, it's it's wild. There's hand flailing, 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:21.320 and we're going to get into some of this. But 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:24.280 I do want to just give a big thank you 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:26.760 to whoever took the time to try and clean up 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:30.760 that audio and then transcribe it, because if I had 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:34.280 to try and do that, it just wouldn't have happened. 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:36.480 I'd given up on like the second play because it 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:39.240 is it's kind of tough to hear. And that's one 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:43.000 of the reasons that we're not actually going to to 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:46.960 put that audio into this episode, is that it is 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:52.520 very difficult to understand, and it's not pleasant to listen to. First. 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:55.520 It's a minute a half long. Frankly, it doesn't make 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:58.240 a hell of a lot of sense. Yeah, it's easy 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:00.400 to find watch the video. You can watch the video 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:03.120 if you want. But let's let me just walk through 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:07.120 and kind of describe what happens. So again we've got 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:13.040 Max in front of the same rotating background, which it's 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:16.600 very brightly lit, it's reflective, it's hard to look at 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:20.760 talking into the camera. After a couple of lines, Max 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:24.680 bends over, picks up a Pepsi can and says the 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:28.640 line catch the wave, which, if you don't remember, if 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:32.760 you're not from that era, is from a coke ad 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:36.480 that was running at the top, not just new coke. 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:41.720 You're right. Max flails around a pepsi can, which is 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:45.120 kind of weird because it's coke pepsi can, but anyway, 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:49.200 flings it forward, it hits the ground, bends over, grabs it, 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:53.520 tosses it away again. Uh flips the bird at the 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:58.199 camera wearing a rubber finger. And this is one of 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:02.360 those weird interpretation spots in US story. I've heard that 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:08.440 it isn't a rubber finger, but instead is a rubber fallus. 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:13.880 It's probably the nicest way to say it. I don't 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:18.240 know for sure, I have I honestly, it looks like 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:20.640 a rubber finger to me, but people say it's something. 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:26.800 That video is pretty blurrious. It's uh, it's continuing on 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:30.840 from there. Um, Max says a few more lines, starts 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:34.480 to then hum the tune to a TV show from 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:38.720 the nineties sixties, which was a cartoon called Clutch Cargo. 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:43.520 And this whole time, it's this funny voice that Max 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:47.160 is talking. In the background is again still moving back 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:51.280 and forth. Suddenly Max bends over and picks up a 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:54.880 glove and puts it on, or tries to put it 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:58.839 on before throwing it away, continues to gyrate around a 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:04.240 little more, and then suddenly the scene cuts and the 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:09.360 scene cuts to the rubber mask being held up off 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:12.840 of the left side of the screen, with the rubber 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:17.160 finger or fallus, whichever it is, sticking out of the mouth, 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:22.040 and there's some dude with his bare butts sticking out 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:26.400 of his pants holding the mask next to it, continuing 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:29.560 to talk in that weird voice, and there's a woman 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:36.640 on the right side of the frame. Somebody dresses because 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:38.960 it's it's really you just see kind of you know, 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:44.360 mid torso to maybe thugb top of the thigh. That's it. 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:48.280 And this person has a fly swatter and begins to 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:52.720 smack presumably the same person which would do Max on 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:56.920 the bottom as Max continues to talk, and then it 0:14:57.040 --> 0:15:01.760 goes black and it cuts right back into the episode 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.720 of Doctor Who that was playing. And this is my 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:08.000 favorite part. It just happened to the cut in as 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:11.080 the doctor looks at the camera and says, as far 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:14.880 as I can tell, a massive electric shock, you must 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:21.800 have died instantly. God, I love that. It's perfect. Yeah, 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:23.920 So it looks to me like there are only two 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:27.040 people involved in making the video because you know after 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:29.920 the cut that the background is stopped rotating, which means 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:32.240 the person that was rotating that the first half had 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:35.760 to stop doing that. We'll we'll get into that. We'll 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:38.120 get into that when we're talking into theories, because you're 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:40.200 a little bit ahead on there. But that's no, that's 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:42.000 a good observation because we want to talk about what 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:47.760 he said, right, because what he said it's weird. He's weird. 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:52.000 It is so it is so strange. So this isn't 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:55.440 an exact transcript. Some of this stuff I pulled out. 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:58.640 Some of it I capped, But I'm just gonna kind 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:02.080 of run through what we have that we know that 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:06.640 people have figured out that Max said during this second 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:10.120 broadcast interruption, the one that was a minute seconds or 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:14.200 so long during dr who it says he's a freaking nerd. 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:18.960 I think I'm better than Chuck Swirsky freaking liberal, which 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:23.720 according to the research, is referring to a sportscast announcer 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:28.560 for w g N Radio at the time. Then we 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:31.040 again catch the way which is the new Coke slogan 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:35.200 we talked about. Your love is fading is shouted right 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:40.320 before he throws the finger slash fallus onto the floor. Uh, 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:45.160 let's see, I still see the X. This is a 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:48.160 reference to remember I said that Max was humming a 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:53.000 tune from that TV show Clutch Cargo. That is evidently 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:57.360 the title of the last episode of Clutch Cargo from 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:02.080 the nineteen sixties. Yeah, that's a really, really far back reference. 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:06.200 Let's see, I just made a giant masterpiece for all 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:11.680 the world's greatest newspaper nerds. Again, this is evidently another 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:17.280 Chicago centric dig and it's at Chicago's TV stations. The 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:20.679 call sign, which we talked about earlier, w g N. 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:27.360 It's an abbreviation for World's Greatest Newspaper, which the Tribune 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:32.440 who the Chicago Tribune who owned w g N. That 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:35.440 was what they used to call themselves in the early days, 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:38.359 and that's how w g M came about. So again 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:42.120 we're there's a lot of weird little riffs. Uh. I 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:45.040 said that Max picked up a glove and he says, 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:48.480 my brother is wearing the other one. It's dirty. It's 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:52.800 like you got bloodstains on it, which I don't even get. 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:56.800 That's why I said, is like the ramblings of an 0:17:56.800 --> 0:18:00.240 adult mind. It kind of is. We're almost done though. Um. 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:04.719 When the mask and the exposed bottom are shown on 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:08.120 the screen, we hear Max say they're coming to get me, 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:12.159 Come get me, bitch, at which point the fly swater 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:17.280 begins to go into action and indicative of the Max 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:21.840 Headroom character, there's a lot of stuttering of words. But 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:24.800 it's weird because instead of so much Max Headroom used 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:27.040 to do a lot of stutters, as if you would 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:30.560 have a digital audio file or a record that was skipping. 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:33.240 That's kind of the way it was made to sound 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:36.720 like his like his audio file was scrambled, and this 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:39.680 person sounds like they're trying to mimic that. But really 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:44.040 what it turns out into is more of moans and 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:48.560 drawn out words, and there's some screaming and gyrations, and 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:53.320 there's a there's like a it's like a break and 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:56.200 it's like the bridge of the whole artistic piece where 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:59.639 he just like screams and moans and like laughs for 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:05.960 like five seconds or something, and that that, honestly is 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:08.639 the creepiest part for me, when he's doing that. The 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:12.480 first time I watched it, I didn't totally understand the 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:16.920 heads I was not in the unsolved mystery like world yet, 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:20.560 so I obviously not a child of the eighties times, 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:24.840 so I wasn't in the headspace of the weird, crazy 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:27.600 people of the world, and I just kept thinking, that 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:30.120 person is in so much pain, what's going on? Why 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:34.400 are they still hurt? Well, no, it's before that, it's 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:36.960 when he's still in the chair, So I you know, 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:39.680 that's the creepiest part for me, is just the scream 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:43.200 moans that happened every once in a while. Yeah, it's weird. 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:49.040 If you google Max Headroom broadcast interruption, you will find this. 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:52.040 Watch it, watch the video the video, and I'll give 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:55.399 everybody a hint. If you find a video that is 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:58.800 thirty seconds or so, that is the initial interruption that 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:03.200 basically has no too except for Dan Rone talking. If 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:06.000 you see anything that's a minute and a half plus, 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:09.520 that's going to be the second interruption. If you can 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:12.679 find one that has subtitles, i'd recommend that because that 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:15.679 really helps you understand what's going on. Maybe we can 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:17.840 find one and posted on the website. Yeah, we've I've 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:20.840 got I've got one bookmark that's got the well have 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:22.439 to put that up. But if people want to just 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:25.160 track it down, I would recommend looking for one that's 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:28.239 got the subtitles. Yeah, because you really can't understand what 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:30.959 he's saying. It's it's very difficult. I know. We watched 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:32.840 it one more time when we started tonight and I 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:36.199 started understanding it. But it must have been the dozen 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:40.400 time that I had watched that thing, so we finally 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:43.640 started making watch it again. If you've seen it before 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:47.000 but not recently watched it again, I always forget about 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:49.399 that second half. I don't know why. I just always 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:51.719 do the fwater. Yeah, I always forget about that. Your 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:55.320 probably that probably Yeah, it's probably a good thing. Yeah, 0:20:56.720 --> 0:21:01.560 remember the good thing? Five month old months you were 0:21:01.560 --> 0:21:06.320 already watching Doctor? Are you kidding? Of course I was. 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:10.480 As I said before, this whole thing. The second interruption 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:14.600 lasted about a minute and a half. That was twenty 0:21:14.800 --> 0:21:20.360 over years ago, and to this day, we don't know 0:21:20.720 --> 0:21:26.840 positively who did it, who pulled it off, the the 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:31.200 authorities tried to figure it out, they didn't ever get 0:21:31.240 --> 0:21:35.080 to the bottom of it. And the theories are kind 0:21:35.119 --> 0:21:38.800 of sparse. There's not a whole lot of theories really, 0:21:38.840 --> 0:21:43.720 I've only got three so far. But before we get 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:47.240 into the theories, I want to help everybody kind of 0:21:47.359 --> 0:21:53.080 understand how this could have been done, because hacking TV 0:21:53.240 --> 0:21:58.560 today is very, very difficult because it's a digital signal. 0:21:59.440 --> 0:22:02.960 If you don't know how digital signal works, don't try 0:22:03.040 --> 0:22:07.600 because it's really really complex, and your chances of getting 0:22:07.600 --> 0:22:10.000 in there are somewhere between slim and none. Now you're 0:22:10.000 --> 0:22:12.520 better off actually just invading the TV station and tying 0:22:12.600 --> 0:22:14.960 up everybody at gunpoint and then just put your stuff on. 0:22:15.000 --> 0:22:18.359 That's the easier than actually trying to hack the signal. 0:22:18.480 --> 0:22:22.080 I wouldn't do that. Recommend not recommending that. I'm just 0:22:22.160 --> 0:22:26.960 saying we're not even like mildly suggestive word like saying, 0:22:27.040 --> 0:22:31.840 don't do that. This is in a simplified version, as 0:22:31.880 --> 0:22:38.520 with most very very simplified the science of thinking. I 0:22:38.560 --> 0:22:41.520 will start with the fact that, without a doubt, what 0:22:41.640 --> 0:22:46.080 was done, according to the government, was against the law 0:22:46.680 --> 0:22:53.600 broadcast interruption. According to this name is terrible. Eighteen US 0:22:53.760 --> 0:22:58.880 Code one three six seven, which was enacted in six 0:22:59.720 --> 0:23:03.240 had put an addition in that said that satellite jamming 0:23:03.359 --> 0:23:06.760 was a crime. Technically this is satellite jamming. So this 0:23:06.880 --> 0:23:10.440 was definitely a crime according to the government, but they 0:23:10.560 --> 0:23:13.320 could never track down who did it. The FCC had 0:23:13.320 --> 0:23:15.280 looked into it and they're kind of it seems like 0:23:15.320 --> 0:23:18.520 the ones who deal with this, but that's why it 0:23:18.560 --> 0:23:22.280 was a crime. But this is how you do it. 0:23:22.359 --> 0:23:25.880 So we're just gonna go ahead and say disclaimer. We're 0:23:25.920 --> 0:23:28.840 saying it's a crime. It's still a crime. We're gonna 0:23:28.840 --> 0:23:30.720 tell you how to do it, but we're not saying 0:23:30.800 --> 0:23:33.880 do it. You can't do it anymore. That's the thing. 0:23:34.280 --> 0:23:38.560 Everybody uses a digital signal that is saying, and this 0:23:38.640 --> 0:23:43.200 is how somebody would hack an analog television signal. So 0:23:43.560 --> 0:23:45.360 if you had you know, you had the big metal 0:23:45.440 --> 0:23:47.800 antenna on top of your house, and that's how you 0:23:47.840 --> 0:23:51.760 got TV forever until about five years ago. Okay, well 0:23:51.880 --> 0:23:54.560 that's it was an analog signal and they stopped analog. 0:23:54.640 --> 0:23:58.639 So you can't do this method anymore. So disclaimer, but 0:23:58.800 --> 0:24:00.560 don't try it anyway. Can't do it. You can't do 0:24:01.280 --> 0:24:03.800 which actually we're gonna like slip disinformation and we're gonna 0:24:03.800 --> 0:24:09.399 be kind of vague about the whole thing. Oh no, 0:24:09.480 --> 0:24:14.920 science is terrible and inaccurate and half of it's made up. Okay, 0:24:14.960 --> 0:24:18.800 To spread their signals across the city, what a local 0:24:18.840 --> 0:24:22.280 TV network would do is they would first relay their 0:24:22.320 --> 0:24:28.040 signal from the studio to a high powered transmitter that 0:24:28.160 --> 0:24:31.120 was on top of a tall building or a skyscraper. 0:24:31.680 --> 0:24:35.639 And that connection between those two places, between the TV 0:24:35.960 --> 0:24:41.159 station and the transmitter is actually where the weak spot 0:24:41.320 --> 0:24:44.240 is at. So that's the weak link in the process, 0:24:44.320 --> 0:24:46.359 which is what somebody who was going to do a 0:24:46.440 --> 0:24:51.160 broadcast interruption would That's what they would capitalize on. That's 0:24:51.160 --> 0:24:56.439 where they would strike to interrupt the signal. It was 0:24:56.520 --> 0:25:01.600 really really simple. All you had to do was you 0:25:01.680 --> 0:25:06.359 had to have transmission equipment of your own, and you 0:25:06.440 --> 0:25:10.520 had to be vertically at a high enough location. And 0:25:10.680 --> 0:25:12.359 people say that this would be on the roof of 0:25:12.359 --> 0:25:15.000 a building or some kind of high rise or something 0:25:15.040 --> 0:25:22.560 like that in between the studio and the transmitter. Were 0:25:22.560 --> 0:25:25.240 they not typically on top of the studio, like, was 0:25:25.280 --> 0:25:28.440 that not? No, they were, They were not always in 0:25:28.480 --> 0:25:31.280 the same location. So the studio is in one place, 0:25:31.320 --> 0:25:33.600 but the transmitter was on top of a big tall 0:25:33.640 --> 0:25:37.440 building with lots of strong equipment to spread it around. 0:25:37.840 --> 0:25:42.280 So that's so. Yes, it is too different places, so 0:25:42.359 --> 0:25:46.840 you get in between the two. And according to the research, 0:25:47.440 --> 0:25:51.040 people think that in this particular instance, that means that 0:25:51.119 --> 0:25:55.960 it was somewhere between north or the northwest sides of Chicago, 0:25:56.440 --> 0:25:59.840