Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: Zarn Elizabeth, What up, Clyde?
Speaker 3: How you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm doing pretty well? All right, yeah, glad to be
Speaker 2: back by your side. How you doing?
Speaker 3: I am so good? Thank you, sir. I look all right,
Speaker 3: you look great. Yeah. I just want to make sure
Speaker 3: Dave you good today.
Speaker 2: I'm good.
Speaker 3: All right? Good. Listen, listen, fella. You know it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: I do, yes, I totally do. I Oh my god,
Speaker 2: do I know? Okay, there was a drink called the American. Okay,
Speaker 2: you ever heard of this?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It was a drink that was the favorite drink of
Speaker 2: Andre the Giant.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: Carrie always once told uh Vanity Fair about this, and
Speaker 2: he said the quote, the famed wrestler preferred something stiffer,
Speaker 2: specifically the American. What is the American, you asked, Elizabeth.
Speaker 3: I'm scared.
Speaker 2: It was forty ounces of various liquors poured into a picture.
Speaker 3: Forty ounces forty ounces to freedom ride.
Speaker 2: There, Yes, and apparently he would just chug these, right,
Speaker 2: But that's not all. He also was known to drink.
Speaker 2: So all of his wrestling buddies, they all have drink
Speaker 2: like these crazy stories that I'm drinking hard liquer, brown liquor.
Speaker 2: Here's another one for you. Andre the Giant, right, he's
Speaker 2: gonna go on a bus ride and in Japan he's
Speaker 2: like on a wrestling tour. Now, Hulk Hogan tells this story.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, I went down to this little.
Speaker 4: Karaoke bar right down the street from the hotel, and
Speaker 4: I bought a case of pooy Fuse wine, twelve bottles. Brother,
Speaker 4: this very powerful, powerful, strong white French wine. All of
Speaker 4: a sudden, we left the hotel about eight in the
Speaker 4: morning for an eight hour bus ride. About three hours later,
Speaker 4: he shakes the seat. He says, buss bus and he
Speaker 4: pitched up. Three hours on the bus, he drank twelve
Speaker 4: bottles of wine.
Speaker 2: Twelve bottles Elizabeth.
Speaker 3: Twelve bottles, brother, dude, do you know how much liquor that? Yeah,
Speaker 3: but like, stop back up for a second. These big
Speaker 3: wrestler men went and bought white wine.
Speaker 2: Poyus wine. I like twelve POIFU say.
Speaker 3: He's like givity buttery shard. No, I'll take the.
Speaker 2: French stuff, brother. So he also at the Tampa Airport,
Speaker 2: he apparently drank one hundred and eight twelve ounce beers
Speaker 2: another Hulk Colgan.
Speaker 3: No, that's not true.
Speaker 2: Holgan said he sat down and watched him drink and
Speaker 2: he counted them.
Speaker 3: His do rags too tight, there's more than eight.
Speaker 2: Yes, there's way more. He wants drink. No gallungs, Elizabeth.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you the the the numbers. Look up Andre
Speaker 2: the giants drinking, and your eyes will fall exaggeration. Yes,
Speaker 2: well there you go.
Speaker 3: That's ridiculous, ridiculous. There's just no way. Do you want
Speaker 3: to know what else is ridiculous? Signal jacking again? Yeah,
Speaker 3: this is ridiculous crime A podcast about absurd and outrageous capers,
Speaker 3: ice and cons. It's always ninety nine percent murder free
Speaker 3: and one hundred percent ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Damn.
Speaker 3: Do you remember when I told you about the Max
Speaker 3: Headroom broadcast interruption?
Speaker 2: Yes, of course you remember that, Yeah, totally. I was here,
Speaker 2: you were there.
Speaker 3: What was your third favorite part?
Speaker 2: Oh? Probably the impressions that you did.
Speaker 3: Sure when I told you that story. I also told
Speaker 3: you about Captain Midnight.
Speaker 2: Yeah you did.
Speaker 3: And that's the guy that was protesting the HBO rate increase.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, he ran that.
Speaker 3: I ran that satellite place in Central Florida.
Speaker 2: Central Florida.
Speaker 3: So I told you about the whole concept of broadcast interruption.
Speaker 2: It's cool, it's cool, totally.
Speaker 3: Legal, totally cool, totally illegal. When someone hijacks a broadcast signal,
Speaker 3: radio television stations, cable TV, broadcast feeds, satellite.
Speaker 2: Signals, signal piracy, one might call it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's without permission, no license. And this goes from
Speaker 3: like local TV and radio all the way up to
Speaker 3: cable and national tip top zaren it goes all the
Speaker 3: way to the top. So radio stations they get hit
Speaker 3: more often than TV stations because it's easier to do.
Speaker 3: And while it seems like it would be harder to
Speaker 3: hijack a digital signal than like the old analog, there
Speaker 3: is such a thing as cyber attacks. Zerin think of that.
Speaker 2: I think I've heard about those.
Speaker 3: No one is safe there and the hackers.
Speaker 2: They're attacking Elizabeth, the cybers.
Speaker 3: You know who might be safe for like streaming services, Yes,
Speaker 3: but maybe you can hack that. Hackers can do anything.
Speaker 2: And oh yeah, I believe in the hackers and the robots,
Speaker 2: so do I.
Speaker 3: The nanobots and the nanobot hackers in my bloodstream. It's
Speaker 3: pretty much a victimless crime. This whole signal signal jacking,
Speaker 3: but a crime, nonetheless, Flower nonetheless. Of course, Ginsburg would say,
Speaker 3: I told you about two before. I got a bud
Speaker 3: more for you. We're revisiting, going back to the well
Speaker 3: and bring it all back there it is. Let's start
Speaker 3: with some spicy stuff like spicy.
Speaker 2: I'm like Doune over here.
Speaker 3: I love the spice the Playboy channel.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I'm starting out slice.
Speaker 3: It was Sunday, September sixth, nineteen eighty seven. Ah, yes,
Speaker 3: folks were sitting down to watch a movie called Three
Speaker 3: Daughters airing on the Playboy channel. Lord, let me read
Speaker 3: you this, SNOPSI.
Speaker 2: Please, please, do you want me to read it to you?
Speaker 3: Three sisters are budding sexually.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, they got budding into the act quickly.
Speaker 3: Michelle finds love with her fiance, Jennifer falls for her
Speaker 3: piano instructor, and Heather invites her tennis instructor her best
Speaker 3: friend over to explore lesbian love.
Speaker 2: Oh I miss that angle? How could I miss that?
Speaker 3: All This romance rekindles their parents' marriage.
Speaker 2: I smell.
Speaker 3: It was written and directed by a woman named Candida Royale.
Speaker 2: That's a loveliness and.
Speaker 3: According to IMDb. She was also known for her role
Speaker 3: as protester in the film stud Hunters. This all sounds
Speaker 3: so wholesome to you wrote for Playboy.
Speaker 2: You know about this, I did write for I was
Speaker 2: for years hired by the smut puddler. It were, I
Speaker 2: was the smut peddler. I guess people.
Speaker 3: They settled in to watch Three Daughters, and then suddenly
Speaker 3: the screen went from my alma mater. The screen went
Speaker 3: blank in the middle of Three Daughters. Wait, what's going
Speaker 3: to happen with the teacher?
Speaker 2: If the parents will really rekindle their.
Speaker 3: Lives, she's going to explore lesbian love like it's like
Speaker 3: a new country.
Speaker 2: She's got her passport. Yes, let the girl in.
Speaker 3: Then text appeared, Thus saith the Lord, thy God, remember
Speaker 3: the Sabbath and keep it holy, repent. The Kingdom of
Speaker 3: Heaven is at hand. You know we got it's a
Speaker 3: little bit of the Exodus, a little bit of Matthew
Speaker 3: a little after So that's one way to take the
Speaker 3: wind out of the viewer's sale.
Speaker 2: But the Old Testament really a sexy book. I mean
Speaker 2: there's a lot of.
Speaker 3: There's a lot there really is. I think this is hilarious.
Speaker 3: Obviously I'm finding this hilarious. But the FCC did not.
Speaker 3: Oh right, they thought they thought it was a cry.
Speaker 3: I know. I just think about like some of the
Speaker 3: people watching this would have some sort of like Christian
Speaker 3: guilt for watching this smut.
Speaker 2: I put a high percentage, and.
Speaker 3: Like watching the marriage, gimmy kindled yes, and then I
Speaker 3: have like a Bible message come up, just like, oh
Speaker 3: my God, the complexes that were born. Okay, So anyway,
Speaker 3: since the message was religious in nature, the FCC immediately
Speaker 3: looked at religious broadcasters. Oh and that led them to
Speaker 3: the Christian Broadcasting Network.
Speaker 2: That was actually a good hunch on their part.
Speaker 3: Uh huh. They had motive means opportunity. And it turns
Speaker 3: out that jamming the signal left trace technical clues.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, of course those.
Speaker 3: Clues showed up. It showed up is on the VHS
Speaker 3: recording made at the Playboy channel's uplink during the broadcast.
Speaker 3: So apparently they were like, three daughters, looks really good,
Speaker 3: let's tape this while we're playing so they can take
Speaker 3: it home.
Speaker 2: Recording their own content.
Speaker 3: The VCR is flashing twelve. They're just like, I'll see
Speaker 3: this later. I want to know what happens with the
Speaker 3: piano teacher. I love the work of Candida.
Speaker 2: Royal, one of like my favorite, so a real.
Speaker 3: Basically, it left a fingerprint on the video and then
Speaker 3: there were fingerprints on the video case because this allowed
Speaker 3: the investigators to I d the brand of transmitter and
Speaker 3: the character generator video. Yes, yes, it was like the
Speaker 3: metadatas we'd say. Now, so they had CBN dead to rights.
Speaker 3: They're like, it's the Christians. And who was the uplink
Speaker 3: engineer at the CBN offices in Virginia Beach, Virginia when
Speaker 3: the hijacking went down. No fellow by the name of
Speaker 3: Thomas Haney, Tommy Haney. So CBN said that there were
Speaker 3: no witnesses and the evidence was flimsy at best. And
Speaker 3: then they had this investigation and experts on each side
Speaker 3: tried to recreate the incident with CBN's equipment.
Speaker 2: It again.
Speaker 3: They're like, put in three daughters, do it again. So
Speaker 3: apparently neither side was successful in so they just had
Speaker 3: to keep watching the movie over, try.
Speaker 2: The text generator again, turn it on, turn it off.
Speaker 3: But a CBN spokesman named Dino McCann, he said there
Speaker 3: was just not enough power for Haney to jam Playboy's signal.
Speaker 3: He is like, they are but large goliath, Playboy, and
Speaker 3: we are David, a small mustard seed. And but then
Speaker 3: like the expert witnesses, it went to trial, and the
Speaker 3: expert witnesses were like, no, that's so not true. He's no,
Speaker 3: they have the power more than just the power of
Speaker 3: the Lord.
Speaker 2: They can do this, They can push a signal.
Speaker 3: And so, after initially being deadlocked not dreadlocked, the jury
Speaker 3: found Hany guilty on two of six counts against him.
Speaker 3: He was acquitted of similar charges against him for interfering
Speaker 3: with American Ecstasy channel and that has three x'es e
Speaker 3: x xtasy. It was like one of the real like
Speaker 3: that's got to be some gnarly.
Speaker 2: Past Playboy on the dial.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's got to be like the oh dear, yes, goodness,
Speaker 3: he went after American Ecstasy and they were like, you know,
Speaker 3: they were too powerful. Who knows whatever he gets acquitted
Speaker 3: of those The recording of the hijacking for American Ecstasy
Speaker 3: was so low that it couldn't be used in court.
Speaker 2: The recording apparently they.
Speaker 3: Were recording it too. They were playing six Daughters.
Speaker 2: Anythink the same tape over and over again. Got so bad.
Speaker 3: The quality of the tape was bad, and it probably
Speaker 3: also refers to the subject matter. Oh yeah, I got so.
Speaker 3: Haney got three years of probation, one thousand dollars fine,
Speaker 3: and one hundred and fifty hours of community service. He
Speaker 3: was the first person convicted under a new federal law
Speaker 3: that made it satellite hacking a felony. Following the Captain
Speaker 3: Midnight incidents changed set. There was more porno interruption the
Speaker 3: next year, although this one was the reverse. Okay, so
Speaker 3: it was October fifteenth, nineteen eighty eight, during the second
Speaker 3: inning of Game one of the nineteen eighty eight World Series.
Speaker 3: So you know the game, Yes, Oakland A's at Los
Speaker 3: Angeles Dodgers. You know what happened. I dout my man
Speaker 3: Dennis secretly, don't you dare? He's on the mound, and
Speaker 3: that son of a piece Kirk Gibson can shit a
Speaker 3: walk off home run won the game.
Speaker 2: People's hero.
Speaker 3: Just thinking about it makes me mad. I could be
Speaker 3: pumping Mike Gibson was injured. Gibson was injured, or so
Speaker 3: they'd have us believe, and somehow he managed to get
Speaker 3: a hit offf ck which is like impossible.
Speaker 2: You know, he's a classic for that, but he did
Speaker 2: with the Tigers.
Speaker 3: He hobbles around the bases. He's pumping his fists like
Speaker 3: a legit.
Speaker 2: I got to do it.
Speaker 3: La crowd goes wild. I'm going wild, get it, I
Speaker 3: get it. It was an amazing and then it felt
Speaker 3: incredible if you're on that side. Kidding me, here's a
Speaker 3: fun Kirk Gibson fact.
Speaker 2: Oh yes.
Speaker 3: He married his wife Joanne in nineteen eighty five, and
Speaker 3: the film Three Sisters played at the reception in a
Speaker 3: double ceremony where Tiger's pitcher Dave Rozima married Joanne's sister Sandy.
Speaker 2: Are they twin sisters?
Speaker 3: I don't know, but they had a baseball double weddings.
Speaker 2: Family just wanted to save money. They're like, let's good,
Speaker 2: get them together.
Speaker 3: Well no, they marry them off to ball players.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. At the same time, they're like, okay.
Speaker 3: Cool, pretty cool, pretty neat. So it's the first game
Speaker 3: of the eighty eight World Series Dodgers and A's. The
Speaker 3: pain has dulled for me about this a little bit
Speaker 3: because now the A's are dead to me.
Speaker 2: Oh that's right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you've been really freed you're moving to Vegas thing,
Speaker 3: but first like going to a minor league park and
Speaker 3: Sacramento if they even make it, the team disrespecting the
Speaker 3: fans and baseball rit large has killed it for me.
Speaker 2: With gap money too.
Speaker 3: I feel like I could do a whole episode about
Speaker 3: the criminal greed and ineptitude of A's owner John Fisher.
Speaker 2: I think you could.
Speaker 3: I won't. I'm not going to give him the oxygen.
Speaker 3: I just give up anyway. Nineteen eighty eight, the NBC
Speaker 3: affiliate WMGT in Macon, Georgia, broadcasting the game. Suddenly the
Speaker 3: feed was replaced with a ten second clip of black
Speaker 3: and white porn Ooh. People understandably were outraged, not as
Speaker 3: outraged as when Gibson gimped around the bases, but outraged.
Speaker 2: To be sure, wrong scoring, wrong scoring.
Speaker 3: So the station's manager released the statement explaining that the
Speaker 3: broadcast intrusion was an accident and in no way deliberate. Still,
Speaker 3: he said the station was treating it as a serious matter.
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 3: A three day investigation determined that the most likely cause
Speaker 3: was that the technician accidentally flipped the wrong switch on
Speaker 3: a master control panel.
Speaker 2: So he's in there working and watching something else.
Speaker 3: Well though, they said that the NBC broadcast got switched
Speaker 3: from the KU band World series carrying signal over to
Speaker 3: the C band X rated material carrying satellite signal. Sure,
Speaker 3: he basically flipped the porn switch.
Speaker 2: Okay, do they have that in an NBC station a
Speaker 2: large dial?
Speaker 3: Why? There are other theories that like the technician was
Speaker 3: watching porn on a tape and he accidentally switched the.
Speaker 2: Broadcast hit the fader.
Speaker 3: Basically, yeah, it could have been a prankster, or maybe
Speaker 3: it was a pro porn organization responding to the attack
Speaker 3: on Playo station. That's my theory. Yeah, the porn defenders
Speaker 3: were like, you came at Playboy, watched this, the station
Speaker 3: was like, no accidental signal switch. They stuck with that.
Speaker 3: They fired the technician. Now some more porn for you
Speaker 3: may second. Two thousand and seven, Comcast customers in linn Croft,
Speaker 3: New Jersey, they had their feed hacked. Someone replaced the
Speaker 3: show Handy Manny, which the porn that's on Playhouse Disney,
Speaker 3: which like, you're like Playboy plan Playhouse Disney Handy Handy Manny,
Speaker 3: which like, oh I'm sorry with hardcore porn, and which
Speaker 3: was Mandy Handy Manny handy uh so. Comcast said that
Speaker 3: it was investigating the event, it wouldn't announce the findings
Speaker 3: to the public. But then they got hit again, this
Speaker 3: time in Tucson, Arizona, home of the Sonora and hot Dog.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so someone there also like dogs. He replaced
Speaker 3: NBC affiliate kvoas signal with really graphic footage from a
Speaker 3: pornographic movie, Wild Cherries five.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's a classic Wild Cherry's five. Nobody thought
Speaker 2: it has Wild Cherry's four. If may you do anything
Speaker 2: else with the story? They're like, what else is there
Speaker 2: to say?
Speaker 3: It was rethinking the entire franchise, the whole idea of
Speaker 3: sex now listen though it's not it's no three Daughters.
Speaker 3: It was only twenty eight seconds worth, but it was
Speaker 3: an important twenty eight seconds that a lot of people
Speaker 3: were watching. Point because well know that the Wild Cherries
Speaker 3: five twenty. But what was it interrupting, Elizabeth. It was
Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter of Super Bowl forty three between
Speaker 3: the Arizona Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Steeler.
Speaker 2: Wow, good one over Bowl.
Speaker 3: So so, and it's in Tucson, Arizona. So like the
Speaker 3: Arizona Cardinals are in the Super Bowl twenty eight seconds
Speaker 3: of porn. Comcast said quote, our initial investigation suggests this
Speaker 3: was an isolated, malicious act. We are conducting a thorough
Speaker 3: investigation to determine who is behind this. They launched an
Speaker 3: investigation the station did. February fourth, twenty eleven. Two years later,
Speaker 3: former Cox Cable employee Frank Tenori Gonzales he gets arrested
Speaker 3: by the FBI and local police for that hijacking ooh.
Speaker 3: That October, he pleaded guilty to two counts of computer tampering,
Speaker 3: sentenced to three years of probation, as well as a
Speaker 3: thousand dollars fine to the Arizona Attorney General's Anti Racketeering Fund.
Speaker 5: What I know?
Speaker 2: What did they ever say? Why he did it?
Speaker 3: Porn is pro porn.
Speaker 2: It's like that.
Speaker 3: I feel like he'd, like, you know, would be really
Speaker 3: funny and then here here in.
Speaker 2: This Super Bowl, like, have we just put on some
Speaker 2: bar core actions exactly?
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: Anyway, let's take a break and we come back. I
Speaker 3: got more for you, oh Zaren, Oh, yes, Elizabeth, hijacking
Speaker 3: of the airways.
Speaker 2: I wasn't watching Cherry Blasters for just want to let
Speaker 2: you know, closing my laptop for other reasons.
Speaker 3: Well, I got another one for you. It's more porn.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 3: March sixteenth, twenty ten, the Time Warner cable transmissions of
Speaker 3: both kids and kids preschool on demand. They go for
Speaker 3: the kids in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina.
Speaker 2: That's like Raleigh Golden Yeah, the Devil's Triangle.
Speaker 3: They got replaced by Playboy TV and that went on
Speaker 3: for two hours.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: Other Time Warner cable systems in the area outside of
Speaker 3: the four counties affected, they just showed a black screen,
Speaker 3: but their porn force field was strong in the black screens.
Speaker 3: An executive from Time Warner said it was a technical
Speaker 3: malfunction that caused the wrong previews to be shown two
Speaker 3: hours of previous no on kids channels. Okay, anyway, they
Speaker 3: were never able to catch anyone. Oh yeah, it's not
Speaker 3: always porn though. In nineteen ninety five, Columbia University's radio
Speaker 3: station w KCR in New York City, they got hit
Speaker 3: late one night. There was a sudden, high pitched screeching noise,
Speaker 3: and then a woman's voice started reading obituaries of various
Speaker 3: people the mic, well, people like Frank Oppenheimer, j Robert
Speaker 3: Oppenheimer's brother. This is horrible. But the victims of pan
Speaker 3: Am flight one O three the locker Bobby, Yeah, they
Speaker 3: got the flight got blown up over lockerby Scotland if
Speaker 3: someone's reading their obituaries. There's a debate as to whether
Speaker 3: the signal was actually hijacked or if it was a
Speaker 3: college radio prank. Either way, total violation of FCC. It's
Speaker 3: a big station, it's not some like little operation where
Speaker 3: it'd be easy to play around and get away with it.
Speaker 3: And it went on for a while. There's a recording
Speaker 3: of it, often referred to as the old tape or
Speaker 3: death tape that made the rounds on four chan a
Speaker 3: decade ago.
Speaker 2: Oh wow.
Speaker 3: Not a lot is known about it, but at least
Speaker 3: it's not poornt so.
Speaker 2: It's like old Faces of Death VHS tape getting passed.
Speaker 3: Around totally totally. Now, did you know on February eleventh,
Speaker 3: twenty thirteen, Probably not, there was a zombie apocalypse.
Speaker 2: Definitely, See I knew I know this.
Speaker 3: I did not know that five different television stations ones
Speaker 3: in Montana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and New Mexico they got hijacked.
Speaker 3: First they hit Great Falls, Montana, not Great Falls. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it was the afternoon during the Steve Wilcos Show OH
Speaker 3: CBS affiliate station KRTV.
Speaker 2: I've heard the name.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't even know who that is, but if
Speaker 3: I were to watch TV, see it on the guide
Speaker 3: on the cable thing. When it came in, it was
Speaker 3: a voice message that said the following quote. Civil authorities
Speaker 3: in your area have reported that the bodies of the
Speaker 3: dead are rising from their graves and attacking the living.
Speaker 3: Follow the messages on screen that will be updated as
Speaker 3: information becomes available. Do not attempt to approach or apprehend
Speaker 3: these bodies, as they are considered extremely dangerous. This morning
Speaker 3: applies to all areas receiving this broadcast. Tune into nine
Speaker 3: to twenty am to get updated information. In the event
Speaker 3: that you are separated from your television or that the
Speaker 3: electrical service is interrupted. Civil authorities in your area have
Speaker 3: reported that the bodies of the dead are rising from
Speaker 3: their graves and attacking the living. Follow the messages. It
Speaker 3: repeats and repeats.
Speaker 2: It's well written.
Speaker 3: It sounds like and like imagine if you're double oh
Speaker 3: no kids, run and later that day get you go back.
Speaker 3: The CBS ABCPBS stations in Marquette, Michigan and Lacrosse, Wisconsin.
Speaker 3: They had their emergency alert system hijacked with the same message.
Speaker 3: Then a little while later, the PBS station in Portalis,
Speaker 3: New Mexico got interrupt Oh wow, distant, it's all over
Speaker 3: the place. The hacker was caught the next day. Oh yeah.
Speaker 3: It was apparently a backdoor attack thanks to the fact
Speaker 3: that the stations didn't change the default factory logins and
Speaker 3: passwords on their emergency alert system equipment.
Speaker 2: So they tried.
Speaker 3: Admin and then they got right in and yeah, they
Speaker 3: went around all there are more noble hijackings. In September
Speaker 3: of nineteen eighty five, four Polish astronomers at the at
Speaker 3: the University of Turun used a home computer, a synchronizing circuit,
Speaker 3: and a transmitter to run messages in support of the
Speaker 3: Solidarity labor movement over state run television broadcasts in Italy
Speaker 3: No t r U N poland Oh okay, yeah, so
Speaker 3: the messages read enough price increases, lies and repressions, Solidarity
Speaker 3: touran I'm probably not saying, I never say, I probably
Speaker 3: didn't and then quote it is our duty to boycott
Speaker 3: the election.
Speaker 2: So they were like bold, Yeah, they're using to protest.
Speaker 6: I like it.
Speaker 3: The astronomers got busted and they were charged with possession
Speaker 3: of an unlicensed radio transmitter and publication of materials that
Speaker 3: could cause public unrest. Yeah, and if they're sentencing, the
Speaker 3: judge noted that these were like prize winning astronomers. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they're like the core of the Polish scientific community. Good on,
Speaker 3: So he gave them probation and a fine that was
Speaker 3: the equivalent of like one hundred dollars each.
Speaker 2: Okay, to use your fame.
Speaker 3: Let's stay over in the Soviet block. This sort of
Speaker 3: thing happened a lot eighties. No Soviet born, I just wondering.
Speaker 3: So borsch blasters vive. So sometimes they tried to like
Speaker 3: hoax that the US had launched nukes. That was a
Speaker 3: very common one. Sorry anyway, And like the hijacking there,
Speaker 3: it wasn't just like one offs. There were frequent flyers,
Speaker 3: like guys who were like they did it all the time,
Speaker 3: and they had names like Cucumber, Radio Millimeter, Green Goat and.
Speaker 2: Fortunes super early hackers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they'd take over the signal on radio relay
Speaker 3: stations to either like override it or they'd slip in
Speaker 3: during breaks in broadcasting. And they were referred to in
Speaker 3: the state run press as quote radio hooligans broadcasting drivel, rudeness, vulgarity,
Speaker 3: uncensored expressions, and trashy music.
Speaker 2: Did they play like Chuck Berry?
Speaker 3: Probably it's just like the worst two live crew tracks
Speaker 3: the imagine. I'm going to guess that if they were,
Speaker 3: if they were caught, it probably wasn't pretty. So while
Speaker 3: radio hijacking may have been like noble anti totalitarian effort
Speaker 3: in the Eastern Bloc, in the US, we just kept
Speaker 3: it trashy. If they do buy trash. On Wednesday May seventeenth,
Speaker 3: two thousand and six, the signal of Babylon New York
Speaker 3: FM radio station WBAB was hijacked for ninety seconds. W
Speaker 3: BABS hijackers overrode the programming to play the song N
Speaker 3: word Hate in Me Yeah, by a sixties white supremacist
Speaker 3: country singer called Johnny Rebel. Yeah.
Speaker 2: The morning Who's your Grandfather? Turns out he's a sixties
Speaker 2: white supremacist country singer.
Speaker 3: I guess hit was nword hating me the morning drive
Speaker 3: time host and that's with a hard R yeah. The
Speaker 3: morning drive time host Roger Loose He said, quote, I've
Speaker 3: never seen this in twenty two years on this radio station,
Speaker 3: whatever that was. It was very racist. Thanks the story
Speaker 3: that made it onto the front page of Newsday with
Speaker 3: and the platters that matter. My readling on Newsday though
Speaker 3: was Jacked FM. Oh yeah there was no porn guys.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The station manager had only been there a week and
Speaker 3: that really bummed him out, Like this is just and
Speaker 3: it's a federal offense.
Speaker 6: And all that.
Speaker 3: The station was like, We're going to catch these purpse
Speaker 3: no matter what we do. They offered ten grand in
Speaker 3: a reward for information, you know, leading to the capture.
Speaker 3: Management said quote, we condemned their actions and their harmful words.
Speaker 3: Are asking for a full investigation into this matter by
Speaker 3: the FCC and are contacting local authorities to assist us
Speaker 3: into finding out who did this.
Speaker 2: The old station manager.
Speaker 3: They never found out who did this. It's probably the
Speaker 3: old station manager. We just cracked the case. Done.
Speaker 2: You're well done. Thanks.
Speaker 3: Another anonymous and offensive song hijacking occurred across the Pond
Speaker 3: in the UK in twenty seventeen. In June of July
Speaker 3: that year, Mansfield one oh three point two FM in Mansfield, Nottingham, Shure, England.
Speaker 2: Always what I listened to and I'm as.
Speaker 3: Hijacked eight different times in one month. Yes, so the
Speaker 3: hijacker would like talk and scream and then play one
Speaker 3: particular song called the Winkers song by British comedian iv
Speaker 3: Or BigGAN.
Speaker 2: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3: Can I read you some of the lyrics?
Speaker 2: Oh please?
Speaker 3: My mother said that I never should play with the naughty,
Speaker 3: rude girls in the wood. They're giggling talk I could
Speaker 3: never understand. And that's why I fell in love with
Speaker 3: my right hand. And that's why I'm a wanker. I'm
Speaker 3: a wanker and it does me good?
Speaker 5: Like it?
Speaker 3: Bloodywell? Should it goes on?
Speaker 2: And you know, when I was in high school, I
Speaker 2: was on a rugby team. It was not related to
Speaker 2: the high school, but it's a club team, right, And
Speaker 2: our team name was the Davis Wankers, and we had
Speaker 2: shirts that would say we either beat you on the
Speaker 2: field or we will beat you off. Saron, I'm telling
Speaker 2: you so, I think the British.
Speaker 3: No adults step in and say inappropriate.
Speaker 2: It was a British sport. We were just trying to
Speaker 2: be in the sport of rugby. We didn't know, you know,
Speaker 2: we're taking cues from this fellow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, basically. So the UK's Communication regulator said it was
Speaker 3: taking the incident extremely serious.
Speaker 2: I hope they were eight times.
Speaker 3: Engineers at the station, they're like working furiously to trace
Speaker 3: the signal, identified it alone hijacker. They needed to put
Speaker 3: a stop to it. But the managing director of Mansfield
Speaker 3: one oh three point two said, quote, there is absolutely
Speaker 3: nothing we could do about it, and we're trying very
Speaker 3: hard to do something about it. We're told by Offcom,
Speaker 3: who are investigating the matter, that you only need and
Speaker 3: this is the frightening thing, a small transmitter and if
Speaker 3: you can get near where there is an outside broadcast
Speaker 3: or a signal, and you can overpower that signal, you're
Speaker 3: on the airwaves. Boom there found Yeah, they got away
Speaker 3: with eight times. So staying in England, we get to
Speaker 3: a good one, a bigin so good. Southern Television covered
Speaker 3: parts of southern England.
Speaker 2: Right the southern too, Yeah, of course, and it had.
Speaker 3: Broadcast transmitters in Dover, Bluebell Hill and Hannington of course.
Speaker 3: And it was the official license holder for ITV. I
Speaker 3: that Yeah, so you know that station, zaren close your oye.
Speaker 3: I want you to picture it. It's Saturday November twenty sixth,
Speaker 3: nineteen seventy seven. You are a lighting technician for Southern Television.
Speaker 3: Your name is Nigel. You wear turtlenecks every day and loafers,
Speaker 3: and you eat a sleeve of digestive biscuits every day.
Speaker 3: It's five PM and the brief top of the news
Speaker 3: read is starting beamed in from London. You're sitting off
Speaker 3: to the side of the studio reading a magazine and
Speaker 3: half watching the feet of the broadcast on a small
Speaker 3: TV monitor. As soon as the news is over, Looney
Speaker 3: Tunes starts, and then you'll pay attention. You love Looney Tunes,
Speaker 3: huge tweedy fan. The ITV newscaster Andrew Gardner in Tones.
Speaker 3: The Rhodesian nationalist leader, Bishop Abel Masuriwa has accepted mister
Speaker 3: Smith's offered to negotiate an internal settlement based on one man,
Speaker 3: one vote, but he says there are conditions. These include
Speaker 3: stopping the executions of all captured prisoners of war. The
Speaker 3: feed crackles away. Suddenly a voice takes over the feed,
Speaker 3: booming through the speakers in the studio.
Speaker 5: Before coming frost. You you have seen in semi scs.
Speaker 5: You must be a protest and sisters.
Speaker 3: You drop your magazine and head over to the control booth.
Speaker 3: Are there aliens communicating with us? Engineers frantically work the
Speaker 3: control table for five and a half minutes, the voice
Speaker 3: booms on. You scream and run outside, searching the skies
Speaker 3: for UFOs. One of the engineers comes out to get you.
Speaker 3: She tells you that there are no alien involved. The
Speaker 3: station feed has just been hijacked. They may have to
Speaker 3: cut to studio content, so they need you back inside.
Speaker 3: You head to your work area, and while the chaos
Speaker 3: and the control booth continues, you see that the monitor
Speaker 3: is showing Looney Tunes, just as expected, So you know
Speaker 3: as it said, this is the voice of Vrillain, the
Speaker 3: representative of the Ashtar Galactic Command, speaking to you. For
Speaker 3: many years you have seen us as lights in the skies.
Speaker 3: We speak to you now in peace and wisdom, as
Speaker 3: we've done to your brothers and sisters all over this
Speaker 3: your planet Earth. It's kind of hard to listen to anyway.
Speaker 3: So what is Ashtar Galactic Command? It kind of starts
Speaker 3: off with George Van Tassel, an American ufologist. He lived
Speaker 3: out in the Mojave Desert. As you do a lot
Speaker 3: of them do oh totally. So one day he met
Speaker 3: Frank Kritzer, a weirdo who said he worked in a
Speaker 3: mine somewhere near Giant Rock, which is a seven story
Speaker 3: boulder near Landers, California, in the Mojave Desert.
Speaker 2: I take your word.
Speaker 3: This is in the nineteen thirties, and so Kritzer he
Speaker 3: was under suspicion of being a German spy ah and
Speaker 3: he took his own life with a dynamite explosion during
Speaker 3: a police siege at the rock in nineteen forty two.
Speaker 2: Little guilty, a little bit, so.
Speaker 3: Tassel. He eventually moved away from the desert. He became
Speaker 3: an aircraft mechanic and a flight inspector, and between nineteen
Speaker 3: thirty and nineteen forty seven he worked for Douglas Aircraft, Hughes, Lockheed. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Nineteen forty seven he moved back to the desert with
Speaker 3: his family. And at first he and his family moved
Speaker 3: into the rooms that Frank Kritzer had like dug out
Speaker 3: under Giant Rock. They lived like mole people's errands.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 3: Then Van Tassel eventually built a house, a cafe, a
Speaker 3: gas station, a store, an airstrip and a guest ranch.
Speaker 3: Right next to the Rock. In nineteen fifty three, he
Speaker 3: started hosting group meditation in a room underneath Giant Rock
Speaker 3: and meditation. According to Van Tasse, around that same time,
Speaker 3: an alien that arrived in the s ship from the
Speaker 3: planet Venus woke him up one night. Oh of course, yeah,
Speaker 3: there you go, the alien Ashtar.
Speaker 2: He's like, can I get in on the meditation?
Speaker 3: Yeah? He's like, well no, He's like, please, sir, come
Speaker 3: with me, come aboard my UFO. Oh and he so.
Speaker 3: And it was there that Ashtar, both verbally and telepathically,
Speaker 3: gave him a technique for rejuvenating the human body.
Speaker 2: You know as handy, always getting run down.
Speaker 3: So nineteen fifty four Van Tassel and the others they
Speaker 3: start building what they call the Integraton yea and perform
Speaker 3: said rejuvenation.
Speaker 2: Some numbers though, the Integraton five thousand, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6: So.
Speaker 3: According to Van Tassel, the Integraton was to be a
Speaker 3: structure for scientific research into time, anti gravity, and extending
Speaker 3: human life.
Speaker 2: Some of my favorite interests.
Speaker 3: It's all of your favorite interests. Van Tassel said that
Speaker 3: by accessing the universal mind, he could receive messages not
Speaker 3: just from Ashtar, his UFO buddy. Oh nice, but from
Speaker 3: humans who died like Nikola Tesla. Oh so it's like
Speaker 3: a any Yeah, and Tesla gave Van Tassel instructions to
Speaker 3: build the integraton.
Speaker 2: Oh hats handy. He's good with stuff.
Speaker 3: He builds really good as stuff. So the Integraton was
Speaker 3: a domed wood structure with a rotating metal thing on
Speaker 3: the outside. He loves rotating things and metal and wood
Speaker 3: and domes. This this thing was called an electrostatic diyrod,
Speaker 3: the rotating metal thing. But go on, well, Van Tassel
Speaker 3: said that it was made of non ferromagnetic materials would concrete, glass, fiberglass,
Speaker 3: no metal, screws or nails. The project was the focus
Speaker 3: of the quote Ministry of Universal Wisdom.
Speaker 2: Ah, they're back at it. Yeah.
Speaker 3: It was an organization that like investigated and encouraged the
Speaker 3: heely arts, but they were mainly concerned with gathering information
Speaker 3: about UFO sightings.
Speaker 2: They wanted to talk to aliens.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so the Ministry of Universal Wisdom. They taught that
Speaker 3: all humans have the power to tap into the universal
Speaker 3: mind of God, of course, which llitates evolutionary progress such
Speaker 3: as that exemplified by Jesus and Ashtar, and.
Speaker 2: Apparently the universe loves committees groups exactly. It wants them
Speaker 2: to be some kind of Robert rules of order exactly.
Speaker 3: Let's take a break, Let's use our universal nights to
Speaker 3: think about this, and when we come back, we're going
Speaker 3: to find out more about Ashtar and the Southern Television
Speaker 3: incident and.
Speaker 2: Hopefully the Commission on Universal Justice.
Speaker 3: So Southern Television, they're running an ITV news broadcast that
Speaker 3: was interrupted by Villainy, representative of the Ashtar Galactic Command.
Speaker 2: One of my favorite galactic commands.
Speaker 3: Dude spoke for like five minutes. I'm not going to
Speaker 3: read you the whole script, but here are some highlights.
Speaker 3: We come to warn you of the destiny of your
Speaker 3: race and your world, so that you may communicate to
Speaker 3: your fellow beings the course you must take to avoid
Speaker 3: the disaster which threatens your world and the beings on
Speaker 3: our worlds around you. All your weapons of evil must
Speaker 3: be removed. That's another good talking point.
Speaker 2: Are your weapons? Are your base belonged to us?
Speaker 3: Correct? Be aware that also that there are many false
Speaker 3: prophets and guides at present operating in your world. Okay,
Speaker 3: duly noted, you must learn to be sensitive to the
Speaker 3: voice within that can tell you what is truth and
Speaker 3: what is confusion, chaos and untruth. This is all just
Speaker 3: good advice. We of the Ashtar Galactic Command thank you
Speaker 3: for your attention. We are now leaving the planes of
Speaker 3: your existence. May you be blessed by the supreme love
Speaker 3: and the truth of the cosmos.
Speaker 2: Nice.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much, very gentle. Now here's the thing though,
Speaker 3: researcher Marissa Discover of all Things Weird and Amazing on
Speaker 3: to website Ashtar Command Crew dot net.
Speaker 2: I can join the crew.
Speaker 3: You know, if the u R l ends in dot net,
Speaker 3: it's going to be good. Oh yeah, yeah uh. And
Speaker 3: it's a straight up loone even over there, hold the
Speaker 3: tweety uh. They they're all about like eclipse fears and
Speaker 3: anti vax talk, murmurs of dark caballs yes, and get
Speaker 3: encouragement to buy gold. Of course, it's like a theories, yeah,
Speaker 3: chakra clearing with crystalline consciousness. There's a lot of talk
Speaker 3: about crystalline beings upon the Earth. Four D and five
Speaker 3: D ascension plans.
Speaker 2: What you got the five plans?
Speaker 3: They got the plans. You cannot stream three daughters, So
Speaker 3: they're keeping the dream alive, but not really, because I
Speaker 3: don't think that's what Van Tassel or the broadcast hijackers
Speaker 3: had in mind.
Speaker 2: I'm not thinking.
Speaker 3: So back to the hijack, So you know, it takes
Speaker 3: it over. Imagine you're just a person watching the news,
Speaker 3: waiting for the Looney Tunes to come on.
Speaker 2: Okay, so it's three in the afternoon.
Speaker 3: If you get this, it's five and you get this
Speaker 3: five minute dialogue from aliens. And again there are some
Speaker 3: among us who are maybe a little more gullible, naive
Speaker 3: or like, you know, like I'm looking at myself, I'm
Speaker 3: holding a mirror, whould think, oh my god, the time
Speaker 3: has come.
Speaker 2: Right there running through my windows like war the worlds. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it depends on how convincing, but I could be convinced.
Speaker 2: I'm sure eventually.
Speaker 3: According to A twenty well, the thing is is that
Speaker 3: like it didn't break completely into the broadcast, that you
Speaker 3: could kind of see some of the Looney Tunes behind it,
Speaker 3: and like hear.
Speaker 2: The talk coming through interrupting, and then you know, you.
Speaker 3: Didn't have like the internet so you could go and
Speaker 3: check and see what's going on. You'd have to call
Speaker 3: people and be like, are you watching this.
Speaker 2: Is this happening on your TV? Or do I need
Speaker 2: to adjust my mess.
Speaker 3: And you think, like, if it's just a small rural area,
Speaker 3: they're not gonna like, you're not going to know someone
Speaker 3: in London to call and ask. You're just gonna call
Speaker 3: your neighbor and they're like, oh snap, I looked at
Speaker 3: it too. You know they're all going to get us.
Speaker 3: So back to the hijack.
Speaker 2: Why a mean Nigel.
Speaker 3: According to a twenty thirteen piece in Colonel magazine, like
Speaker 3: like popcorn, not Colonel. None of the evening staff at
Speaker 3: Southern Television were aware of the intrusion to their signal.
Speaker 3: International Broadcasting Authority engineers in Croydon, Surrey did not hear
Speaker 3: the rogue signal, nor was it detected at the main
Speaker 3: transmitter site in Southampton, so just came in blindly silently. However,
Speaker 3: immediately after the broadcast, panicky viewers flooded police telephones with calls,
Speaker 3: and police said they had to send a patrol to
Speaker 3: one elderly woman's home to calm her. They weren't menacing
Speaker 3: and the thing, the thing is just like be good
Speaker 3: to each other and we love you and we'll be back.
Speaker 3: Oh my God, yeah, she's just like having like a
Speaker 3: hyperventilating The police said, quote, all we could do was
Speaker 3: reassure them it was a hoax, but like the calls
Speaker 3: just kept coming in. Interesting Southern Broadcast apparently had to
Speaker 3: broadcast reassuring messages to calm worried viewers. Engineers figured the
Speaker 3: interruption must have originated at the very rural Hannington transmitter,
Speaker 3: the Hannington One. Local police went to the Hannington transmitter,
Speaker 3: but like you know, no one was there and there
Speaker 3: was no equipment left behind. So some experts thought that
Speaker 3: in order to do this at the time, you'd have
Speaker 3: needed like really big heavy equipment, huge batteries to power this.
Speaker 3: So the lack of all things, yeah, the lack of
Speaker 3: appointed some to think that like maybe this was from
Speaker 3: beyond and.
Speaker 2: Must be from beyond.
Speaker 3: The interruption made local and national news and it was
Speaker 3: picked up by UPI, so it made over to US papers.
Speaker 3: After the incident, Britain's Independent Broadcast Authority they launched an investigation. Quote,
Speaker 3: the police, the Post Office, the Dependent Broadcast Authority and
Speaker 3: even the Home Office were involved. So that's like you know, everybody.
Speaker 3: They figured that even though the police didn't find anything
Speaker 3: there it probably happened at the Hannington transmitter, and so
Speaker 3: four days later, November thirtieth, nineteen seventy seven, it was
Speaker 3: reported that the engineers had figured out how it happened,
Speaker 3: but a spokesman told the press quote, we'd have a
Speaker 3: fair idea of how it happened, but obviously we're not
Speaker 3: going to release details for this might inspire another hoax.
Speaker 3: But we're taking steps to ensure it will not happen
Speaker 3: again and viewers are not frightened.
Speaker 2: Very important. We don't want the trauma. See I'm learning.
Speaker 3: So they later said, quote, a hoaxer jammed our transmitter
Speaker 3: in the wilds of North Hampshire by taking another transmitter
Speaker 3: very close.
Speaker 2: To it, and so I love that that it's just
Speaker 2: physical proximity and you can then just basically get the
Speaker 2: antenna walk for you and you just go off.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. So they figured that, like the people who
Speaker 3: did it, had to have a good amount of technical
Speaker 3: knowledge in order to pull this off, more than my
Speaker 3: So a spokesman for Southern Television said, quote, we can't
Speaker 3: imagine how it was done, but it appears someone must
Speaker 3: have managed to transmit a signal over ours. The equipment
Speaker 3: used would need to be fairly sophisticated and expensive. So
Speaker 3: that's when they start thinking like, this has to be
Speaker 3: like someone in the industry to have this equipment, or
Speaker 3: the military. So they said that if they were caught,
Speaker 3: they were going to be fined two hundred pounds that's
Speaker 3: like three hundred and sixty dollars at the time under
Speaker 3: the Wireless Act. A lot of people figured it was
Speaker 3: a student prank and that maybe they used a car
Speaker 3: battery for power, or maybe it was a yeah. But
Speaker 3: then people were saying this not enough. They figured wasn't
Speaker 3: a disgruntled engineer Colonel mag later explained how they thought
Speaker 3: the interruption hit What about.
Speaker 2: A generator truck? Military has those?
Speaker 3: Yeah? True? This is how the colonel came up with
Speaker 3: the idea quote. The local television transmitter is the likely
Speaker 3: source of the rogue transmission. Unusually for a transmitter serving
Speaker 3: such a large area, the Hannington transmitter merely received and
Speaker 3: rebroadcasted a signal sent from Rowbridge on the Isle of Wight.
Speaker 3: With the sound being transmitted as an FM broadcast, it
Speaker 3: was easy to take over the transmission. All they needed
Speaker 3: to do was drive up the transmitter at Hannington and
Speaker 3: broadcast on the same FM frequency as the transmission from
Speaker 3: the Isle of Wight. The Hannington television transmitter sits in
Speaker 3: the English countryside. Whoever took over the signal would have
Speaker 3: had to travel along the small roads leading to the
Speaker 3: hillside transmitter.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So even though you know, authorities said that it had
Speaker 3: been hacked, the there's all these conspiracy theories around it,
Speaker 3: and mainly centering around that, Yes, it really were. It
Speaker 3: was extraterrestrials see Ashtar Command Crew, dot Net hot Rod crew. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So the government they made it clear that they weren't
Speaker 3: planning on pressing charges and no one ever publicly confessed
Speaker 3: to the hack. However, in late twenty twenty two, a
Speaker 3: limited run podcast called The Interruption came out the intent
Speaker 3: of investigating the case. The host spent most of twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two trying to get to the bottom of it. Eventually,
Speaker 3: he heard about a radio pirate who called himself Roger Tate,
Speaker 3: who had a regular show on London's pirate radio Invicta.
Speaker 3: Roger Tate's real name was Bob Timalski and he was
Speaker 3: a big part of London's pirate radio scene in the seventies.
Speaker 3: Robert or Bob had in fact built in Victa's transmitter
Speaker 3: which enabled quote ordinary radios to pick up the station,
Speaker 3: and so he has this giant transmitter. His studio is
Speaker 3: in his own home. He was later known as the
Speaker 3: Gadget Guru or Inspector Gadget, reviewing tech gadgets for a
Speaker 3: lot of different websites. He died in two thousand and one,
Speaker 3: but according to his friends, he loved sci fi and
Speaker 3: he loved pranks. And so the podcast talked to a
Speaker 3: friend of Bob's, a guy named Laurie Hallett, who had
Speaker 3: known Bob in his early pirate radio days, and doctor
Speaker 3: Hallett now works as a senior lecturer in radio at
Speaker 3: the University of Bedfordshire. So he spent He also spent
Speaker 3: eight years at Offcom, the UK's communication regulating agency, and
Speaker 3: that's where he quote developed and implemented policies around community
Speaker 3: radio and digital audio broadcasting. So basically, his buddy policed
Speaker 3: pirate radio. So the Buddy told the Interruption podcast that
Speaker 3: Bob never actually confessed that he'd done the prank, but
Speaker 3: that one time he just played the audio tape of it,
Speaker 3: and then after what was supposed to be the very
Speaker 3: last episode of the Interruption, the host gets contacted by
Speaker 3: a man named Adam, who's another radio pirate, and he
Speaker 3: said he'd also been a friend of Bob's and that
Speaker 3: Bob had in fact confessed that he'd done the hijack.
Speaker 3: Ah yeah, and he said he did it because quote,
Speaker 3: you can yeah, you can do it. No ulterior motive.
Speaker 3: According to Adam, Bob didn't believe in the alien message,
Speaker 3: but he wanted it to sound plausible and kind of funny,
Speaker 3: so he spent time crafting the message and the sound
Speaker 3: that went with it. Adam said that Bob likely did
Speaker 3: have cohorts in the prank, but no one has admitted
Speaker 3: to it. And then Adam also said Bob never confessed
Speaker 3: because his career had grown after his pirate radio days.
Speaker 3: Didn't want to put it into jeopardy, So, Zarin.
Speaker 2: That's not quite a deathbed confession.
Speaker 3: No, not at all. What's your ridiculous takeaway?
Speaker 2: Oh man, I didn't think there's gonna be much more
Speaker 2: after like the Max Headroom.
Speaker 3: But I mean that was spicy, It was super spicy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, goodness. But I really like Bob at the end.
Speaker 2: He was my favorite.
Speaker 3: Bob's good I love I love that. Like we have
Speaker 3: a little coda on that Onebeth.
Speaker 2: What's your ridiculous takeaway one? See, I'm not going to
Speaker 2: ask anymore. Don't do it, keep acting like that.
Speaker 3: But you know what I do need. I don't need
Speaker 3: a ridiculous takeaway. I need to talk back.
Speaker 2: I'm going to take all the airwaves with this one.
Speaker 2: Oh God, super.
Speaker 3: I want.
Speaker 6: Hey guys, my name's Eric from ten See. I really
Speaker 6: appreciate your podcast. I think it's a load of fun.
Speaker 6: I was listening to the Diploma Mills podcast and when
Speaker 6: you told Zaren to picture this and started your description,
Speaker 6: I knew exactly who you were talking about and thought,
Speaker 6: holy crap, they're talking about Jim and Tammy Faye Baker.
Speaker 6: My mom was knowed by those losers, and I hope
Speaker 6: she's learned your lesson.
Speaker 2: But we'll see.
Speaker 6: Anyway, keep up the good work and I'll keep on enjoying.
Speaker 3: Oh I love it.
Speaker 2: It was poor moms, terrible people, but a great fashion
Speaker 2: eicon Elizabeth Tammy Faye Baker. I mean, come on, I
Speaker 2: guess jre just still talking about her.
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