WEBVTT - Coming to You Live from Ashtar Galactic Command: More Signal Interruptions

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<v Speaker 1>Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio.

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<v Speaker 2>Zarn Elizabeth, What up, Clyde?

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<v Speaker 3>How you doing?

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<v Speaker 2>I'm doing pretty well? All right, yeah, glad to be

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<v Speaker 2>back by your side. How you doing?

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<v Speaker 3>I am so good? Thank you, sir. I look all right,

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<v Speaker 3>you look great. Yeah. I just want to make sure

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<v Speaker 3>Dave you good today.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm good.

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<v Speaker 3>All right? Good. Listen, listen, fella. You know it's ridiculous.

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<v Speaker 2>I do, yes, I totally do. I Oh my god,

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<v Speaker 2>do I know? Okay, there was a drink called the American. Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>you ever heard of this?

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<v Speaker 3>I don't know.

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<v Speaker 2>It was a drink that was the favorite drink of

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<v Speaker 2>Andre the Giant.

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<v Speaker 3>Okay.

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<v Speaker 2>Carrie always once told uh Vanity Fair about this, and

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<v Speaker 2>he said the quote, the famed wrestler preferred something stiffer,

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<v Speaker 2>specifically the American. What is the American, you asked, Elizabeth.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm scared.

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<v Speaker 2>It was forty ounces of various liquors poured into a picture.

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<v Speaker 3>Forty ounces forty ounces to freedom ride.

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<v Speaker 2>There, Yes, and apparently he would just chug these, right,

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<v Speaker 2>But that's not all. He also was known to drink.

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<v Speaker 2>So all of his wrestling buddies, they all have drink

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<v Speaker 2>like these crazy stories that I'm drinking hard liquer, brown liquor.

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<v Speaker 2>Here's another one for you. Andre the Giant, right, he's

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<v Speaker 2>gonna go on a bus ride and in Japan he's

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<v Speaker 2>like on a wrestling tour. Now, Hulk Hogan tells this story.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh boy, I went down to this little.

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<v Speaker 4>Karaoke bar right down the street from the hotel, and

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<v Speaker 4>I bought a case of pooy Fuse wine, twelve bottles. Brother,

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<v Speaker 4>this very powerful, powerful, strong white French wine. All of

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<v Speaker 4>a sudden, we left the hotel about eight in the

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<v Speaker 4>morning for an eight hour bus ride. About three hours later,

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<v Speaker 4>he shakes the seat. He says, buss bus and he

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<v Speaker 4>pitched up. Three hours on the bus, he drank twelve

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<v Speaker 4>bottles of wine.

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<v Speaker 2>Twelve bottles Elizabeth.

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<v Speaker 3>Twelve bottles, brother, dude, do you know how much liquor that? Yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>but like, stop back up for a second. These big

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<v Speaker 3>wrestler men went and bought white wine.

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<v Speaker 2>Poyus wine. I like twelve POIFU say.

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<v Speaker 3>He's like givity buttery shard. No, I'll take the.

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<v Speaker 2>French stuff, brother. So he also at the Tampa Airport,

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<v Speaker 2>he apparently drank one hundred and eight twelve ounce beers

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<v Speaker 2>another Hulk Colgan.

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<v Speaker 3>No, that's not true.

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<v Speaker 2>Holgan said he sat down and watched him drink and

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<v Speaker 2>he counted them.

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<v Speaker 3>His do rags too tight, there's more than eight.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, there's way more. He wants drink. No gallungs, Elizabeth.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm telling you the the the numbers. Look up Andre

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<v Speaker 2>the giants drinking, and your eyes will fall exaggeration. Yes,

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<v Speaker 2>well there you go.

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<v Speaker 3>That's ridiculous, ridiculous. There's just no way. Do you want

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<v Speaker 3>to know what else is ridiculous? Signal jacking again? Yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>this is ridiculous crime A podcast about absurd and outrageous capers,

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<v Speaker 3>ice and cons. It's always ninety nine percent murder free

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<v Speaker 3>and one hundred percent ridiculous.

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<v Speaker 2>Damn.

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<v Speaker 3>Do you remember when I told you about the Max

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<v Speaker 3>Headroom broadcast interruption?

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, of course you remember that, Yeah, totally. I was here,

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<v Speaker 2>you were there.

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<v Speaker 3>What was your third favorite part?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh? Probably the impressions that you did.

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<v Speaker 3>Sure when I told you that story. I also told

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<v Speaker 3>you about Captain Midnight.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah you did.

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<v Speaker 3>And that's the guy that was protesting the HBO rate increase.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, yeah, he ran that.

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<v Speaker 3>I ran that satellite place in Central Florida.

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<v Speaker 2>Central Florida.

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<v Speaker 3>So I told you about the whole concept of broadcast interruption.

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<v Speaker 2>It's cool, it's cool, totally.

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<v Speaker 3>Legal, totally cool, totally illegal. When someone hijacks a broadcast signal,

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<v Speaker 3>radio television stations, cable TV, broadcast feeds, satellite.

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<v Speaker 2>Signals, signal piracy, one might call it.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's without permission, no license. And this goes from

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<v Speaker 3>like local TV and radio all the way up to

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<v Speaker 3>cable and national tip top zaren it goes all the

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<v Speaker 3>way to the top. So radio stations they get hit

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<v Speaker 3>more often than TV stations because it's easier to do.

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<v Speaker 3>And while it seems like it would be harder to

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<v Speaker 3>hijack a digital signal than like the old analog, there

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<v Speaker 3>is such a thing as cyber attacks. Zerin think of that.

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<v Speaker 2>I think I've heard about those.

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<v Speaker 3>No one is safe there and the hackers.

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<v Speaker 2>They're attacking Elizabeth, the cybers.

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<v Speaker 3>You know who might be safe for like streaming services, Yes,

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<v Speaker 3>but maybe you can hack that. Hackers can do anything.

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<v Speaker 2>And oh yeah, I believe in the hackers and the robots,

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<v Speaker 2>so do I.

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<v Speaker 3>The nanobots and the nanobot hackers in my bloodstream. It's

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<v Speaker 3>pretty much a victimless crime. This whole signal signal jacking,

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<v Speaker 3>but a crime, nonetheless, Flower nonetheless. Of course, Ginsburg would say,

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<v Speaker 3>I told you about two before. I got a bud

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<v Speaker 3>more for you. We're revisiting, going back to the well

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<v Speaker 3>and bring it all back there it is. Let's start

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<v Speaker 3>with some spicy stuff like spicy.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm like Doune over here.

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<v Speaker 3>I love the spice the Playboy channel.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, yeah, I'm starting out slice.

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<v Speaker 3>It was Sunday, September sixth, nineteen eighty seven. Ah, yes,

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<v Speaker 3>folks were sitting down to watch a movie called Three

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<v Speaker 3>Daughters airing on the Playboy channel. Lord, let me read

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<v Speaker 3>you this, SNOPSI.

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<v Speaker 2>Please, please, do you want me to read it to you?

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<v Speaker 3>Three sisters are budding sexually.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh my god, they got budding into the act quickly.

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<v Speaker 3>Michelle finds love with her fiance, Jennifer falls for her

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<v Speaker 3>piano instructor, and Heather invites her tennis instructor her best

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<v Speaker 3>friend over to explore lesbian love.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh I miss that angle? How could I miss that?

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<v Speaker 3>All This romance rekindles their parents' marriage.

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<v Speaker 2>I smell.

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<v Speaker 3>It was written and directed by a woman named Candida Royale.

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<v Speaker 2>That's a loveliness and.

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<v Speaker 3>According to IMDb. She was also known for her role

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<v Speaker 3>as protester in the film stud Hunters. This all sounds

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<v Speaker 3>so wholesome to you wrote for Playboy.

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<v Speaker 2>You know about this, I did write for I was

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<v Speaker 2>for years hired by the smut puddler. It were, I

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<v Speaker 2>was the smut peddler. I guess people.

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<v Speaker 3>They settled in to watch Three Daughters, and then suddenly

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<v Speaker 3>the screen went from my alma mater. The screen went

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<v Speaker 3>blank in the middle of Three Daughters. Wait, what's going

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<v Speaker 3>to happen with the teacher?

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<v Speaker 2>If the parents will really rekindle their.

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<v Speaker 3>Lives, she's going to explore lesbian love like it's like

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<v Speaker 3>a new country.

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<v Speaker 2>She's got her passport. Yes, let the girl in.

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<v Speaker 3>Then text appeared, Thus saith the Lord, thy God, remember

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<v Speaker 3>the Sabbath and keep it holy, repent. The Kingdom of

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<v Speaker 3>Heaven is at hand. You know we got it's a

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<v Speaker 3>little bit of the Exodus, a little bit of Matthew

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<v Speaker 3>a little after So that's one way to take the

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<v Speaker 3>wind out of the viewer's sale.

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<v Speaker 2>But the Old Testament really a sexy book. I mean

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<v Speaker 2>there's a lot of.

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<v Speaker 3>There's a lot there really is. I think this is hilarious.

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<v Speaker 3>Obviously I'm finding this hilarious. But the FCC did not.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh right, they thought they thought it was a cry.

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<v Speaker 3>I know. I just think about like some of the

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<v Speaker 3>people watching this would have some sort of like Christian

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<v Speaker 3>guilt for watching this smut.

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<v Speaker 2>I put a high percentage, and.

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<v Speaker 3>Like watching the marriage, gimmy kindled yes, and then I

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<v Speaker 3>have like a Bible message come up, just like, oh

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<v Speaker 3>my God, the complexes that were born. Okay, So anyway,

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<v Speaker 3>since the message was religious in nature, the FCC immediately

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<v Speaker 3>looked at religious broadcasters. Oh and that led them to

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<v Speaker 3>the Christian Broadcasting Network.

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<v Speaker 2>That was actually a good hunch on their part.

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<v Speaker 3>Uh huh. They had motive means opportunity. And it turns

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<v Speaker 3>out that jamming the signal left trace technical clues.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, of course those.

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<v Speaker 3>Clues showed up. It showed up is on the VHS

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<v Speaker 3>recording made at the Playboy channel's uplink during the broadcast.

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<v Speaker 3>So apparently they were like, three daughters, looks really good,

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<v Speaker 3>let's tape this while we're playing so they can take

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<v Speaker 3>it home.

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<v Speaker 2>Recording their own content.

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<v Speaker 3>The VCR is flashing twelve. They're just like, I'll see

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<v Speaker 3>this later. I want to know what happens with the

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<v Speaker 3>piano teacher. I love the work of Candida.

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<v Speaker 2>Royal, one of like my favorite, so a real.

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<v Speaker 3>Basically, it left a fingerprint on the video and then

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<v Speaker 3>there were fingerprints on the video case because this allowed

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<v Speaker 3>the investigators to I d the brand of transmitter and

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<v Speaker 3>the character generator video. Yes, yes, it was like the

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<v Speaker 3>metadatas we'd say. Now, so they had CBN dead to rights.

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<v Speaker 3>They're like, it's the Christians. And who was the uplink

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<v Speaker 3>engineer at the CBN offices in Virginia Beach, Virginia when

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<v Speaker 3>the hijacking went down. No fellow by the name of

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<v Speaker 3>Thomas Haney, Tommy Haney. So CBN said that there were

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<v Speaker 3>no witnesses and the evidence was flimsy at best. And

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<v Speaker 3>then they had this investigation and experts on each side

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<v Speaker 3>tried to recreate the incident with CBN's equipment.

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<v Speaker 2>It again.

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<v Speaker 3>They're like, put in three daughters, do it again. So

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<v Speaker 3>apparently neither side was successful in so they just had

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<v Speaker 3>to keep watching the movie over, try.

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<v Speaker 2>The text generator again, turn it on, turn it off.

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<v Speaker 3>But a CBN spokesman named Dino McCann, he said there

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<v Speaker 3>was just not enough power for Haney to jam Playboy's signal.

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<v Speaker 3>He is like, they are but large goliath, Playboy, and

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<v Speaker 3>we are David, a small mustard seed. And but then

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<v Speaker 3>like the expert witnesses, it went to trial, and the

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<v Speaker 3>expert witnesses were like, no, that's so not true. He's no,

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<v Speaker 3>they have the power more than just the power of

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<v Speaker 3>the Lord.

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<v Speaker 2>They can do this, They can push a signal.

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<v Speaker 3>And so, after initially being deadlocked not dreadlocked, the jury

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<v Speaker 3>found Hany guilty on two of six counts against him.

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<v Speaker 3>He was acquitted of similar charges against him for interfering

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<v Speaker 3>with American Ecstasy channel and that has three x'es e

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<v Speaker 3>x xtasy. It was like one of the real like

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<v Speaker 3>that's got to be some gnarly.

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<v Speaker 2>Past Playboy on the dial.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and it's got to be like the oh dear, yes, goodness,

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<v Speaker 3>he went after American Ecstasy and they were like, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>they were too powerful. Who knows whatever he gets acquitted

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<v Speaker 3>of those The recording of the hijacking for American Ecstasy

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<v Speaker 3>was so low that it couldn't be used in court.

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<v Speaker 2>The recording apparently they.

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<v Speaker 3>Were recording it too. They were playing six Daughters.

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<v Speaker 2>Anythink the same tape over and over again. Got so bad.

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<v Speaker 3>The quality of the tape was bad, and it probably

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<v Speaker 3>also refers to the subject matter. Oh yeah, I got so.

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<v Speaker 3>Haney got three years of probation, one thousand dollars fine,

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<v Speaker 3>and one hundred and fifty hours of community service. He

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<v Speaker 3>was the first person convicted under a new federal law

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<v Speaker 3>that made it satellite hacking a felony. Following the Captain

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<v Speaker 3>Midnight incidents changed set. There was more porno interruption the

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<v Speaker 3>next year, although this one was the reverse. Okay, so

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<v Speaker 3>it was October fifteenth, nineteen eighty eight, during the second

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<v Speaker 3>inning of Game one of the nineteen eighty eight World Series.

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<v Speaker 3>So you know the game, Yes, Oakland A's at Los

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<v Speaker 3>Angeles Dodgers. You know what happened. I dout my man

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<v Speaker 3>Dennis secretly, don't you dare? He's on the mound, and

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<v Speaker 3>that son of a piece Kirk Gibson can shit a

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<v Speaker 3>walk off home run won the game.

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<v Speaker 2>People's hero.

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<v Speaker 3>Just thinking about it makes me mad. I could be

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<v Speaker 3>pumping Mike Gibson was injured. Gibson was injured, or so

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<v Speaker 3>they'd have us believe, and somehow he managed to get

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<v Speaker 3>a hit offf ck which is like impossible.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, he's a classic for that, but he did

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<v Speaker 2>with the Tigers.

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<v Speaker 3>He hobbles around the bases. He's pumping his fists like

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<v Speaker 3>a legit.

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<v Speaker 2>I got to do it.

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<v Speaker 3>La crowd goes wild. I'm going wild, get it, I

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<v Speaker 3>get it. It was an amazing and then it felt

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<v Speaker 3>incredible if you're on that side. Kidding me, here's a

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<v Speaker 3>fun Kirk Gibson fact.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh yes.

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<v Speaker 3>He married his wife Joanne in nineteen eighty five, and

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<v Speaker 3>the film Three Sisters played at the reception in a

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<v Speaker 3>double ceremony where Tiger's pitcher Dave Rozima married Joanne's sister Sandy.

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<v Speaker 2>Are they twin sisters?

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<v Speaker 3>I don't know, but they had a baseball double weddings.

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<v Speaker 2>Family just wanted to save money. They're like, let's good,

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<v Speaker 2>get them together.

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<v Speaker 3>Well no, they marry them off to ball players.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, exactly. At the same time, they're like, okay.

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<v Speaker 3>Cool, pretty cool, pretty neat. So it's the first game

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<v Speaker 3>of the eighty eight World Series Dodgers and A's. The

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<v Speaker 3>pain has dulled for me about this a little bit

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<v Speaker 3>because now the A's are dead to me.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh that's right.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, you've been really freed you're moving to Vegas thing,

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<v Speaker 3>but first like going to a minor league park and

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<v Speaker 3>Sacramento if they even make it, the team disrespecting the

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<v Speaker 3>fans and baseball rit large has killed it for me.

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<v Speaker 2>With gap money too.

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<v Speaker 3>I feel like I could do a whole episode about

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<v Speaker 3>the criminal greed and ineptitude of A's owner John Fisher.

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<v Speaker 2>I think you could.

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<v Speaker 3>I won't. I'm not going to give him the oxygen.

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<v Speaker 3>I just give up anyway. Nineteen eighty eight, the NBC

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<v Speaker 3>affiliate WMGT in Macon, Georgia, broadcasting the game. Suddenly the

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<v Speaker 3>feed was replaced with a ten second clip of black

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<v Speaker 3>and white porn Ooh. People understandably were outraged, not as

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<v Speaker 3>outraged as when Gibson gimped around the bases, but outraged.

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<v Speaker 2>To be sure, wrong scoring, wrong scoring.

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<v Speaker 3>So the station's manager released the statement explaining that the

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<v Speaker 3>broadcast intrusion was an accident and in no way deliberate. Still,

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<v Speaker 3>he said the station was treating it as a serious matter.

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<v Speaker 2>Sure.

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<v Speaker 3>A three day investigation determined that the most likely cause

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<v Speaker 3>was that the technician accidentally flipped the wrong switch on

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<v Speaker 3>a master control panel.

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<v Speaker 2>So he's in there working and watching something else.

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<v Speaker 3>Well though, they said that the NBC broadcast got switched

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<v Speaker 3>from the KU band World series carrying signal over to

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<v Speaker 3>the C band X rated material carrying satellite signal. Sure,

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<v Speaker 3>he basically flipped the porn switch.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, do they have that in an NBC station a

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<v Speaker 2>large dial?

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<v Speaker 3>Why? There are other theories that like the technician was

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<v Speaker 3>watching porn on a tape and he accidentally switched the.

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<v Speaker 2>Broadcast hit the fader.

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<v Speaker 3>Basically, yeah, it could have been a prankster, or maybe

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<v Speaker 3>it was a pro porn organization responding to the attack

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<v Speaker 3>on Playo station. That's my theory. Yeah, the porn defenders

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<v Speaker 3>were like, you came at Playboy, watched this, the station

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<v Speaker 3>was like, no accidental signal switch. They stuck with that.

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<v Speaker 3>They fired the technician. Now some more porn for you

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<v Speaker 3>may second. Two thousand and seven, Comcast customers in linn Croft,

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<v Speaker 3>New Jersey, they had their feed hacked. Someone replaced the

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<v Speaker 3>show Handy Manny, which the porn that's on Playhouse Disney,

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<v Speaker 3>which like, you're like Playboy plan Playhouse Disney Handy Handy Manny,

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<v Speaker 3>which like, oh I'm sorry with hardcore porn, and which

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<v Speaker 3>was Mandy Handy Manny handy uh so. Comcast said that

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<v Speaker 3>it was investigating the event, it wouldn't announce the findings

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<v Speaker 3>to the public. But then they got hit again, this

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<v Speaker 3>time in Tucson, Arizona, home of the Sonora and hot Dog.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, so someone there also like dogs. He replaced

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<v Speaker 3>NBC affiliate kvoas signal with really graphic footage from a

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<v Speaker 3>pornographic movie, Wild Cherries five.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh wow, that's a classic Wild Cherry's five. Nobody thought

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<v Speaker 2>it has Wild Cherry's four. If may you do anything

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<v Speaker 2>else with the story? They're like, what else is there

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<v Speaker 2>to say?

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<v Speaker 3>It was rethinking the entire franchise, the whole idea of

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<v Speaker 3>sex now listen though it's not it's no three Daughters.

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<v Speaker 3>It was only twenty eight seconds worth, but it was

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<v Speaker 3>an important twenty eight seconds that a lot of people

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<v Speaker 3>were watching. Point because well know that the Wild Cherries

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<v Speaker 3>five twenty. But what was it interrupting, Elizabeth. It was

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<v Speaker 3>in the fourth quarter of Super Bowl forty three between

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<v Speaker 3>the Arizona Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Steeler.

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<v Speaker 2>Wow, good one over Bowl.

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<v Speaker 3>So so, and it's in Tucson, Arizona. So like the

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<v Speaker 3>Arizona Cardinals are in the Super Bowl twenty eight seconds

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<v Speaker 3>of porn. Comcast said quote, our initial investigation suggests this

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<v Speaker 3>was an isolated, malicious act. We are conducting a thorough

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<v Speaker 3>investigation to determine who is behind this. They launched an

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<v Speaker 3>investigation the station did. February fourth, twenty eleven. Two years later,

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<v Speaker 3>former Cox Cable employee Frank Tenori Gonzales he gets arrested

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<v Speaker 3>by the FBI and local police for that hijacking ooh.

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<v Speaker 3>That October, he pleaded guilty to two counts of computer tampering,

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<v Speaker 3>sentenced to three years of probation, as well as a

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<v Speaker 3>thousand dollars fine to the Arizona Attorney General's Anti Racketeering Fund.

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<v Speaker 5>What I know?

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<v Speaker 2>What did they ever say? Why he did it?

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<v Speaker 3>Porn is pro porn.

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<v Speaker 2>It's like that.

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<v Speaker 3>I feel like he'd, like, you know, would be really

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<v Speaker 3>funny and then here here in.

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<v Speaker 2>This Super Bowl, like, have we just put on some

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<v Speaker 2>bar core actions exactly?

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<v Speaker 5>You know.

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<v Speaker 3>Anyway, let's take a break and we come back. I

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<v Speaker 3>got more for you, oh Zaren, Oh, yes, Elizabeth, hijacking

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<v Speaker 3>of the airways.

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<v Speaker 2>I wasn't watching Cherry Blasters for just want to let

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<v Speaker 2>you know, closing my laptop for other reasons.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, I got another one for you. It's more porn.

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<v Speaker 5>No.

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<v Speaker 3>March sixteenth, twenty ten, the Time Warner cable transmissions of

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<v Speaker 3>both kids and kids preschool on demand. They go for

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<v Speaker 3>the kids in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina.

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<v Speaker 2>That's like Raleigh Golden Yeah, the Devil's Triangle.

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<v Speaker 3>They got replaced by Playboy TV and that went on

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<v Speaker 3>for two hours.

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<v Speaker 2>Wow.

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<v Speaker 3>Other Time Warner cable systems in the area outside of

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<v Speaker 3>the four counties affected, they just showed a black screen,

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<v Speaker 3>but their porn force field was strong in the black screens.

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<v Speaker 3>An executive from Time Warner said it was a technical

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<v Speaker 3>malfunction that caused the wrong previews to be shown two

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<v Speaker 3>hours of previous no on kids channels. Okay, anyway, they

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<v Speaker 3>were never able to catch anyone. Oh yeah, it's not

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<v Speaker 3>always porn though. In nineteen ninety five, Columbia University's radio

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<v Speaker 3>station w KCR in New York City, they got hit

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<v Speaker 3>late one night. There was a sudden, high pitched screeching noise,

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<v Speaker 3>and then a woman's voice started reading obituaries of various

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<v Speaker 3>people the mic, well, people like Frank Oppenheimer, j Robert

0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:53.440
<v Speaker 3>Oppenheimer's brother. This is horrible. But the victims of pan

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<v Speaker 3>Am flight one O three the locker Bobby, Yeah, they

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<v Speaker 3>got the flight got blown up over lockerby Scotland if

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<v Speaker 3>someone's reading their obituaries. There's a debate as to whether

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<v Speaker 3>the signal was actually hijacked or if it was a

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<v Speaker 3>college radio prank. Either way, total violation of FCC. It's

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<v Speaker 3>a big station, it's not some like little operation where

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<v Speaker 3>it'd be easy to play around and get away with it.

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<v Speaker 3>And it went on for a while. There's a recording

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<v Speaker 3>of it, often referred to as the old tape or

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<v Speaker 3>death tape that made the rounds on four chan a

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<v Speaker 3>decade ago.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh wow.

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<v Speaker 3>Not a lot is known about it, but at least

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<v Speaker 3>it's not poornt so.

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<v Speaker 2>It's like old Faces of Death VHS tape getting passed.

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<v Speaker 3>Around totally totally. Now, did you know on February eleventh,

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<v Speaker 3>twenty thirteen, Probably not, there was a zombie apocalypse.

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<v Speaker 2>Definitely, See I knew I know this.

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<v Speaker 3>I did not know that five different television stations ones

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<v Speaker 3>in Montana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and New Mexico they got hijacked.

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<v Speaker 3>First they hit Great Falls, Montana, not Great Falls. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>it was the afternoon during the Steve Wilcos Show OH

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<v Speaker 3>CBS affiliate station KRTV.

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<v Speaker 2>I've heard the name.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I don't even know who that is, but if

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<v Speaker 3>I were to watch TV, see it on the guide

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<v Speaker 3>on the cable thing. When it came in, it was

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<v Speaker 3>a voice message that said the following quote. Civil authorities

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<v Speaker 3>in your area have reported that the bodies of the

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<v Speaker 3>dead are rising from their graves and attacking the living.

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<v Speaker 3>Follow the messages on screen that will be updated as

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<v Speaker 3>information becomes available. Do not attempt to approach or apprehend

0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:23.359
<v Speaker 3>these bodies, as they are considered extremely dangerous. This morning

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<v Speaker 3>applies to all areas receiving this broadcast. Tune into nine

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<v Speaker 3>to twenty am to get updated information. In the event

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<v Speaker 3>that you are separated from your television or that the

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<v Speaker 3>electrical service is interrupted. Civil authorities in your area have

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<v Speaker 3>reported that the bodies of the dead are rising from

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<v Speaker 3>their graves and attacking the living. Follow the messages. It

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<v Speaker 3>repeats and repeats.

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<v Speaker 2>It's well written.

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<v Speaker 3>It sounds like and like imagine if you're double oh

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<v Speaker 3>no kids, run and later that day get you go back.

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<v Speaker 3>The CBS ABCPBS stations in Marquette, Michigan and Lacrosse, Wisconsin.

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<v Speaker 3>They had their emergency alert system hijacked with the same message.

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<v Speaker 3>Then a little while later, the PBS station in Portalis,

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<v Speaker 3>New Mexico got interrupt Oh wow, distant, it's all over

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<v Speaker 3>the place. The hacker was caught the next day. Oh yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>It was apparently a backdoor attack thanks to the fact

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<v Speaker 3>that the stations didn't change the default factory logins and

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<v Speaker 3>passwords on their emergency alert system equipment.

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<v Speaker 2>So they tried.

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<v Speaker 3>Admin and then they got right in and yeah, they

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<v Speaker 3>went around all there are more noble hijackings. In September

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<v Speaker 3>of nineteen eighty five, four Polish astronomers at the at

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<v Speaker 3>the University of Turun used a home computer, a synchronizing circuit,

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<v Speaker 3>and a transmitter to run messages in support of the

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<v Speaker 3>Solidarity labor movement over state run television broadcasts in Italy

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<v Speaker 3>No t r U N poland Oh okay, yeah, so

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<v Speaker 3>the messages read enough price increases, lies and repressions, Solidarity

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<v Speaker 3>touran I'm probably not saying, I never say, I probably

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<v Speaker 3>didn't and then quote it is our duty to boycott

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<v Speaker 3>the election.

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<v Speaker 2>So they were like bold, Yeah, they're using to protest.

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<v Speaker 6>I like it.

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<v Speaker 3>The astronomers got busted and they were charged with possession

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<v Speaker 3>of an unlicensed radio transmitter and publication of materials that

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<v Speaker 3>could cause public unrest. Yeah, and if they're sentencing, the

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<v Speaker 3>judge noted that these were like prize winning astronomers. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>they're like the core of the Polish scientific community. Good on,

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<v Speaker 3>So he gave them probation and a fine that was

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<v Speaker 3>the equivalent of like one hundred dollars each.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, to use your fame.

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<v Speaker 3>Let's stay over in the Soviet block. This sort of

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<v Speaker 3>thing happened a lot eighties. No Soviet born, I just wondering.

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<v Speaker 3>So borsch blasters vive. So sometimes they tried to like

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<v Speaker 3>hoax that the US had launched nukes. That was a

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<v Speaker 3>very common one. Sorry anyway, And like the hijacking there,

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<v Speaker 3>it wasn't just like one offs. There were frequent flyers,

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<v Speaker 3>like guys who were like they did it all the time,

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<v Speaker 3>and they had names like Cucumber, Radio Millimeter, Green Goat and.

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<v Speaker 2>Fortunes super early hackers.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and they'd take over the signal on radio relay

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<v Speaker 3>stations to either like override it or they'd slip in

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<v Speaker 3>during breaks in broadcasting. And they were referred to in

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<v Speaker 3>the state run press as quote radio hooligans broadcasting drivel, rudeness, vulgarity,

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<v Speaker 3>uncensored expressions, and trashy music.

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<v Speaker 2>Did they play like Chuck Berry?

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<v Speaker 3>Probably it's just like the worst two live crew tracks

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<v Speaker 3>the imagine. I'm going to guess that if they were,

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<v Speaker 3>if they were caught, it probably wasn't pretty. So while

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<v Speaker 3>radio hijacking may have been like noble anti totalitarian effort

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<v Speaker 3>in the Eastern Bloc, in the US, we just kept

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<v Speaker 3>it trashy. If they do buy trash. On Wednesday May seventeenth,

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<v Speaker 3>two thousand and six, the signal of Babylon New York

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<v Speaker 3>FM radio station WBAB was hijacked for ninety seconds. W

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<v Speaker 3>BABS hijackers overrode the programming to play the song N

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<v Speaker 3>word Hate in Me Yeah, by a sixties white supremacist

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<v Speaker 3>country singer called Johnny Rebel. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>The morning Who's your Grandfather? Turns out he's a sixties

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<v Speaker 2>white supremacist country singer.

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<v Speaker 3>I guess hit was nword hating me the morning drive

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<v Speaker 3>time host and that's with a hard R yeah. The

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<v Speaker 3>morning drive time host Roger Loose He said, quote, I've

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<v Speaker 3>never seen this in twenty two years on this radio station,

0:25:50.920 --> 0:25:56.560
<v Speaker 3>whatever that was. It was very racist. Thanks the story

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<v Speaker 3>that made it onto the front page of Newsday with

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<v Speaker 3>and the platters that matter. My readling on Newsday though

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<v Speaker 3>was Jacked FM. Oh yeah there was no porn guys.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>The station manager had only been there a week and

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<v Speaker 3>that really bummed him out, Like this is just and

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<v Speaker 3>it's a federal offense.

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<v Speaker 6>And all that.

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<v Speaker 3>The station was like, We're going to catch these purpse

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<v Speaker 3>no matter what we do. They offered ten grand in

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<v Speaker 3>a reward for information, you know, leading to the capture.

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<v Speaker 3>Management said quote, we condemned their actions and their harmful words.

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<v Speaker 3>Are asking for a full investigation into this matter by

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<v Speaker 3>the FCC and are contacting local authorities to assist us

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<v Speaker 3>into finding out who did this.

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<v Speaker 2>The old station manager.

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<v Speaker 3>They never found out who did this. It's probably the

0:26:36.680 --> 0:26:39.120
<v Speaker 3>old station manager. We just cracked the case. Done.

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<v Speaker 2>You're well done. Thanks.

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<v Speaker 3>Another anonymous and offensive song hijacking occurred across the Pond

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<v Speaker 3>in the UK in twenty seventeen. In June of July

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<v Speaker 3>that year, Mansfield one oh three point two FM in Mansfield, Nottingham, Shure, England.

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<v Speaker 2>Always what I listened to and I'm as.

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<v Speaker 3>Hijacked eight different times in one month. Yes, so the

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<v Speaker 3>hijacker would like talk and scream and then play one

0:27:06.000 --> 0:27:10.480
<v Speaker 3>particular song called the Winkers song by British comedian iv

0:27:10.600 --> 0:27:11.080
<v Speaker 3>Or BigGAN.

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<v Speaker 2>Are you kidding me?

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<v Speaker 3>Can I read you some of the lyrics?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh please?

0:27:15.840 --> 0:27:19.000
<v Speaker 3>My mother said that I never should play with the naughty,

0:27:19.080 --> 0:27:22.000
<v Speaker 3>rude girls in the wood. They're giggling talk I could

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<v Speaker 3>never understand. And that's why I fell in love with

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<v Speaker 3>my right hand. And that's why I'm a wanker. I'm

0:27:28.200 --> 0:27:29.800
<v Speaker 3>a wanker and it does me good?

0:27:29.960 --> 0:27:30.119
<v Speaker 5>Like it?

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<v Speaker 3>Bloodywell? Should it goes on?

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<v Speaker 2>And you know, when I was in high school, I

0:27:35.240 --> 0:27:37.879
<v Speaker 2>was on a rugby team. It was not related to

0:27:37.920 --> 0:27:39.840
<v Speaker 2>the high school, but it's a club team, right, And

0:27:40.000 --> 0:27:44.080
<v Speaker 2>our team name was the Davis Wankers, and we had

0:27:44.160 --> 0:27:46.680
<v Speaker 2>shirts that would say we either beat you on the

0:27:46.720 --> 0:27:50.280
<v Speaker 2>field or we will beat you off. Saron, I'm telling

0:27:50.320 --> 0:27:51.960
<v Speaker 2>you so, I think the British.

0:27:52.119 --> 0:27:54.440
<v Speaker 3>No adults step in and say inappropriate.

0:27:54.520 --> 0:27:56.240
<v Speaker 2>It was a British sport. We were just trying to

0:27:56.280 --> 0:27:58.840
<v Speaker 2>be in the sport of rugby. We didn't know, you know,

0:28:00.640 --> 0:28:02.199
<v Speaker 2>we're taking cues from this fellow.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, basically. So the UK's Communication regulator said it was

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<v Speaker 3>taking the incident extremely serious.

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<v Speaker 2>I hope they were eight times.

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<v Speaker 3>Engineers at the station, they're like working furiously to trace

0:28:15.119 --> 0:28:18.480
<v Speaker 3>the signal, identified it alone hijacker. They needed to put

0:28:18.480 --> 0:28:21.240
<v Speaker 3>a stop to it. But the managing director of Mansfield

0:28:21.280 --> 0:28:24.840
<v Speaker 3>one oh three point two said, quote, there is absolutely

0:28:25.000 --> 0:28:27.119
<v Speaker 3>nothing we could do about it, and we're trying very

0:28:27.200 --> 0:28:29.960
<v Speaker 3>hard to do something about it. We're told by Offcom,

0:28:30.000 --> 0:28:32.720
<v Speaker 3>who are investigating the matter, that you only need and

0:28:32.960 --> 0:28:35.600
<v Speaker 3>this is the frightening thing, a small transmitter and if

0:28:35.600 --> 0:28:38.360
<v Speaker 3>you can get near where there is an outside broadcast

0:28:38.720 --> 0:28:41.680
<v Speaker 3>or a signal, and you can overpower that signal, you're

0:28:41.760 --> 0:28:45.880
<v Speaker 3>on the airwaves. Boom there found Yeah, they got away

0:28:45.880 --> 0:28:49.480
<v Speaker 3>with eight times. So staying in England, we get to

0:28:49.560 --> 0:28:54.920
<v Speaker 3>a good one, a bigin so good. Southern Television covered

0:28:55.040 --> 0:28:56.440
<v Speaker 3>parts of southern England.

0:28:56.840 --> 0:28:59.520
<v Speaker 2>Right the southern too, Yeah, of course, and it had.

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<v Speaker 3>Broadcast transmitters in Dover, Bluebell Hill and Hannington of course.

0:29:04.640 --> 0:29:07.480
<v Speaker 3>And it was the official license holder for ITV. I

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<v Speaker 3>that Yeah, so you know that station, zaren close your oye.

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<v Speaker 3>I want you to picture it. It's Saturday November twenty sixth,

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<v Speaker 3>nineteen seventy seven. You are a lighting technician for Southern Television.

0:29:21.960 --> 0:29:26.440
<v Speaker 3>Your name is Nigel. You wear turtlenecks every day and loafers,

0:29:27.120 --> 0:29:29.920
<v Speaker 3>and you eat a sleeve of digestive biscuits every day.

0:29:31.000 --> 0:29:33.680
<v Speaker 3>It's five PM and the brief top of the news

0:29:33.720 --> 0:29:36.720
<v Speaker 3>read is starting beamed in from London. You're sitting off

0:29:36.720 --> 0:29:38.760
<v Speaker 3>to the side of the studio reading a magazine and

0:29:38.880 --> 0:29:40.960
<v Speaker 3>half watching the feet of the broadcast on a small

0:29:41.000 --> 0:29:44.440
<v Speaker 3>TV monitor. As soon as the news is over, Looney

0:29:44.520 --> 0:29:48.400
<v Speaker 3>Tunes starts, and then you'll pay attention. You love Looney Tunes,

0:29:48.520 --> 0:29:52.960
<v Speaker 3>huge tweedy fan. The ITV newscaster Andrew Gardner in Tones.

0:29:53.520 --> 0:29:59.000
<v Speaker 3>The Rhodesian nationalist leader, Bishop Abel Masuriwa has accepted mister

0:29:59.120 --> 0:30:03.400
<v Speaker 3>Smith's offered to negotiate an internal settlement based on one man,

0:30:03.600 --> 0:30:07.080
<v Speaker 3>one vote, but he says there are conditions. These include

0:30:07.160 --> 0:30:11.200
<v Speaker 3>stopping the executions of all captured prisoners of war. The

0:30:11.280 --> 0:30:14.920
<v Speaker 3>feed crackles away. Suddenly a voice takes over the feed,

0:30:15.480 --> 0:30:17.520
<v Speaker 3>booming through the speakers in the studio.

0:30:19.080 --> 0:30:31.600
<v Speaker 5>Before coming frost. You you have seen in semi scs.

0:30:35.240 --> 0:30:38.240
<v Speaker 5>You must be a protest and sisters.

0:30:41.440 --> 0:30:44.000
<v Speaker 3>You drop your magazine and head over to the control booth.

0:30:44.360 --> 0:30:48.840
<v Speaker 3>Are there aliens communicating with us? Engineers frantically work the

0:30:48.880 --> 0:30:52.160
<v Speaker 3>control table for five and a half minutes, the voice

0:30:52.200 --> 0:30:55.640
<v Speaker 3>booms on. You scream and run outside, searching the skies

0:30:55.680 --> 0:30:58.280
<v Speaker 3>for UFOs. One of the engineers comes out to get you.

0:30:58.440 --> 0:31:01.120
<v Speaker 3>She tells you that there are no alien involved. The

0:31:01.200 --> 0:31:04.080
<v Speaker 3>station feed has just been hijacked. They may have to

0:31:04.160 --> 0:31:06.479
<v Speaker 3>cut to studio content, so they need you back inside.

0:31:06.920 --> 0:31:08.680
<v Speaker 3>You head to your work area, and while the chaos

0:31:08.760 --> 0:31:11.600
<v Speaker 3>and the control booth continues, you see that the monitor

0:31:11.840 --> 0:31:16.480
<v Speaker 3>is showing Looney Tunes, just as expected, So you know

0:31:16.640 --> 0:31:20.160
<v Speaker 3>as it said, this is the voice of Vrillain, the

0:31:20.560 --> 0:31:24.520
<v Speaker 3>representative of the Ashtar Galactic Command, speaking to you. For

0:31:24.640 --> 0:31:27.000
<v Speaker 3>many years you have seen us as lights in the skies.

0:31:27.120 --> 0:31:29.360
<v Speaker 3>We speak to you now in peace and wisdom, as

0:31:29.400 --> 0:31:31.760
<v Speaker 3>we've done to your brothers and sisters all over this

0:31:31.920 --> 0:31:34.520
<v Speaker 3>your planet Earth. It's kind of hard to listen to anyway.

0:31:34.840 --> 0:31:38.920
<v Speaker 3>So what is Ashtar Galactic Command? It kind of starts

0:31:38.960 --> 0:31:43.360
<v Speaker 3>off with George Van Tassel, an American ufologist. He lived

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<v Speaker 3>out in the Mojave Desert. As you do a lot

0:31:45.240 --> 0:31:47.560
<v Speaker 3>of them do oh totally. So one day he met

0:31:47.680 --> 0:31:50.560
<v Speaker 3>Frank Kritzer, a weirdo who said he worked in a

0:31:50.680 --> 0:31:53.840
<v Speaker 3>mine somewhere near Giant Rock, which is a seven story

0:31:53.960 --> 0:31:56.720
<v Speaker 3>boulder near Landers, California, in the Mojave Desert.

0:31:57.200 --> 0:31:57.760
<v Speaker 2>I take your word.

0:31:57.880 --> 0:32:00.520
<v Speaker 3>This is in the nineteen thirties, and so Kritzer he

0:32:00.640 --> 0:32:04.400
<v Speaker 3>was under suspicion of being a German spy ah and

0:32:04.480 --> 0:32:07.000
<v Speaker 3>he took his own life with a dynamite explosion during

0:32:07.040 --> 0:32:09.400
<v Speaker 3>a police siege at the rock in nineteen forty two.

0:32:09.840 --> 0:32:11.240
<v Speaker 2>Little guilty, a little bit, so.

0:32:12.880 --> 0:32:15.960
<v Speaker 3>Tassel. He eventually moved away from the desert. He became

0:32:16.000 --> 0:32:19.720
<v Speaker 3>an aircraft mechanic and a flight inspector, and between nineteen

0:32:19.800 --> 0:32:25.040
<v Speaker 3>thirty and nineteen forty seven he worked for Douglas Aircraft, Hughes, Lockheed. Yeah.

0:32:25.200 --> 0:32:27.680
<v Speaker 3>Nineteen forty seven he moved back to the desert with

0:32:27.760 --> 0:32:30.640
<v Speaker 3>his family. And at first he and his family moved

0:32:30.680 --> 0:32:33.720
<v Speaker 3>into the rooms that Frank Kritzer had like dug out

0:32:33.920 --> 0:32:36.720
<v Speaker 3>under Giant Rock. They lived like mole people's errands.

0:32:36.800 --> 0:32:37.040
<v Speaker 5>Wow.

0:32:37.760 --> 0:32:41.760
<v Speaker 3>Then Van Tassel eventually built a house, a cafe, a

0:32:41.880 --> 0:32:44.840
<v Speaker 3>gas station, a store, an airstrip and a guest ranch.

0:32:45.000 --> 0:32:49.440
<v Speaker 3>Right next to the Rock. In nineteen fifty three, he

0:32:49.520 --> 0:32:53.160
<v Speaker 3>started hosting group meditation in a room underneath Giant Rock

0:32:53.840 --> 0:32:57.360
<v Speaker 3>and meditation. According to Van Tasse, around that same time,

0:32:58.040 --> 0:33:00.760
<v Speaker 3>an alien that arrived in the s ship from the

0:33:00.800 --> 0:33:03.600
<v Speaker 3>planet Venus woke him up one night. Oh of course, yeah,

0:33:03.640 --> 0:33:05.440
<v Speaker 3>there you go, the alien Ashtar.

0:33:05.720 --> 0:33:07.520
<v Speaker 2>He's like, can I get in on the meditation?

0:33:07.720 --> 0:33:10.520
<v Speaker 3>Yeah? He's like, well no, He's like, please, sir, come

0:33:10.560 --> 0:33:14.360
<v Speaker 3>with me, come aboard my UFO. Oh and he so.

0:33:14.560 --> 0:33:17.960
<v Speaker 3>And it was there that Ashtar, both verbally and telepathically,

0:33:18.160 --> 0:33:21.600
<v Speaker 3>gave him a technique for rejuvenating the human body.

0:33:22.040 --> 0:33:25.120
<v Speaker 2>You know as handy, always getting run down.

0:33:25.360 --> 0:33:28.680
<v Speaker 3>So nineteen fifty four Van Tassel and the others they

0:33:28.760 --> 0:33:33.120
<v Speaker 3>start building what they call the Integraton yea and perform

0:33:33.320 --> 0:33:34.200
<v Speaker 3>said rejuvenation.

0:33:34.520 --> 0:33:37.040
<v Speaker 2>Some numbers though, the Integraton five thousand, Yeah, exactly.

0:33:37.280 --> 0:33:37.320
<v Speaker 6>So.

0:33:37.360 --> 0:33:40.280
<v Speaker 3>According to Van Tassel, the Integraton was to be a

0:33:40.320 --> 0:33:45.120
<v Speaker 3>structure for scientific research into time, anti gravity, and extending

0:33:45.200 --> 0:33:45.680
<v Speaker 3>human life.

0:33:45.760 --> 0:33:46.800
<v Speaker 2>Some of my favorite interests.

0:33:47.040 --> 0:33:49.800
<v Speaker 3>It's all of your favorite interests. Van Tassel said that

0:33:49.920 --> 0:33:53.400
<v Speaker 3>by accessing the universal mind, he could receive messages not

0:33:53.600 --> 0:33:56.240
<v Speaker 3>just from Ashtar, his UFO buddy. Oh nice, but from

0:33:56.360 --> 0:33:59.800
<v Speaker 3>humans who died like Nikola Tesla. Oh so it's like

0:33:59.800 --> 0:34:03.720
<v Speaker 3>a any Yeah, and Tesla gave Van Tassel instructions to

0:34:03.800 --> 0:34:04.960
<v Speaker 3>build the integraton.

0:34:05.320 --> 0:34:07.440
<v Speaker 2>Oh hats handy. He's good with stuff.

0:34:07.680 --> 0:34:11.000
<v Speaker 3>He builds really good as stuff. So the Integraton was

0:34:11.040 --> 0:34:14.320
<v Speaker 3>a domed wood structure with a rotating metal thing on

0:34:14.400 --> 0:34:17.560
<v Speaker 3>the outside. He loves rotating things and metal and wood

0:34:18.000 --> 0:34:22.440
<v Speaker 3>and domes. This this thing was called an electrostatic diyrod,

0:34:23.320 --> 0:34:26.920
<v Speaker 3>the rotating metal thing. But go on, well, Van Tassel

0:34:27.160 --> 0:34:31.960
<v Speaker 3>said that it was made of non ferromagnetic materials would concrete, glass, fiberglass,

0:34:32.480 --> 0:34:35.800
<v Speaker 3>no metal, screws or nails. The project was the focus

0:34:36.000 --> 0:34:38.520
<v Speaker 3>of the quote Ministry of Universal Wisdom.

0:34:38.840 --> 0:34:40.480
<v Speaker 2>Ah, they're back at it. Yeah.

0:34:40.719 --> 0:34:43.840
<v Speaker 3>It was an organization that like investigated and encouraged the

0:34:43.920 --> 0:34:47.200
<v Speaker 3>heely arts, but they were mainly concerned with gathering information

0:34:47.239 --> 0:34:48.240
<v Speaker 3>about UFO sightings.

0:34:48.280 --> 0:34:49.320
<v Speaker 2>They wanted to talk to aliens.

0:34:49.440 --> 0:34:52.120
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so the Ministry of Universal Wisdom. They taught that

0:34:54.760 --> 0:34:57.920
<v Speaker 3>all humans have the power to tap into the universal

0:34:58.000 --> 0:35:02.600
<v Speaker 3>mind of God, of course, which llitates evolutionary progress such

0:35:02.640 --> 0:35:05.880
<v Speaker 3>as that exemplified by Jesus and Ashtar, and.

0:35:06.160 --> 0:35:10.640
<v Speaker 2>Apparently the universe loves committees groups exactly. It wants them

0:35:10.680 --> 0:35:13.600
<v Speaker 2>to be some kind of Robert rules of order exactly.

0:35:14.440 --> 0:35:17.279
<v Speaker 3>Let's take a break, Let's use our universal nights to

0:35:17.360 --> 0:35:19.360
<v Speaker 3>think about this, and when we come back, we're going

0:35:19.400 --> 0:35:22.160
<v Speaker 3>to find out more about Ashtar and the Southern Television

0:35:22.200 --> 0:35:22.640
<v Speaker 3>incident and.

0:35:22.640 --> 0:35:24.480
<v Speaker 2>Hopefully the Commission on Universal Justice.

0:35:45.760 --> 0:35:49.600
<v Speaker 3>So Southern Television, they're running an ITV news broadcast that

0:35:49.760 --> 0:35:55.799
<v Speaker 3>was interrupted by Villainy, representative of the Ashtar Galactic Command.

0:35:55.600 --> 0:35:56.960
<v Speaker 2>One of my favorite galactic commands.

0:35:57.280 --> 0:35:59.960
<v Speaker 3>Dude spoke for like five minutes. I'm not going to

0:36:00.040 --> 0:36:01.800
<v Speaker 3>read you the whole script, but here are some highlights.

0:36:02.400 --> 0:36:04.400
<v Speaker 3>We come to warn you of the destiny of your

0:36:04.480 --> 0:36:06.960
<v Speaker 3>race and your world, so that you may communicate to

0:36:07.040 --> 0:36:09.960
<v Speaker 3>your fellow beings the course you must take to avoid

0:36:10.000 --> 0:36:12.680
<v Speaker 3>the disaster which threatens your world and the beings on

0:36:13.080 --> 0:36:17.040
<v Speaker 3>our worlds around you. All your weapons of evil must

0:36:17.040 --> 0:36:18.960
<v Speaker 3>be removed. That's another good talking point.

0:36:19.200 --> 0:36:21.319
<v Speaker 2>Are your weapons? Are your base belonged to us?

0:36:21.480 --> 0:36:25.359
<v Speaker 3>Correct? Be aware that also that there are many false

0:36:25.400 --> 0:36:28.439
<v Speaker 3>prophets and guides at present operating in your world. Okay,

0:36:28.560 --> 0:36:31.680
<v Speaker 3>duly noted, you must learn to be sensitive to the

0:36:31.800 --> 0:36:34.160
<v Speaker 3>voice within that can tell you what is truth and

0:36:34.360 --> 0:36:37.120
<v Speaker 3>what is confusion, chaos and untruth. This is all just

0:36:37.200 --> 0:36:41.480
<v Speaker 3>good advice. We of the Ashtar Galactic Command thank you

0:36:41.600 --> 0:36:43.960
<v Speaker 3>for your attention. We are now leaving the planes of

0:36:44.000 --> 0:36:46.319
<v Speaker 3>your existence. May you be blessed by the supreme love

0:36:46.440 --> 0:36:47.760
<v Speaker 3>and the truth of the cosmos.

0:36:48.080 --> 0:36:48.319
<v Speaker 2>Nice.

0:36:48.400 --> 0:36:55.120
<v Speaker 3>Thank you so much, very gentle. Now here's the thing though,

0:36:55.840 --> 0:37:00.080
<v Speaker 3>researcher Marissa Discover of all Things Weird and Amazing on

0:37:00.120 --> 0:37:03.120
<v Speaker 3>to website Ashtar Command Crew dot net.

0:37:04.120 --> 0:37:04.839
<v Speaker 2>I can join the crew.

0:37:04.960 --> 0:37:07.520
<v Speaker 3>You know, if the u R l ends in dot net,

0:37:07.680 --> 0:37:09.920
<v Speaker 3>it's going to be good. Oh yeah, yeah uh. And

0:37:10.200 --> 0:37:12.320
<v Speaker 3>it's a straight up loone even over there, hold the

0:37:12.360 --> 0:37:16.480
<v Speaker 3>tweety uh. They they're all about like eclipse fears and

0:37:16.600 --> 0:37:21.319
<v Speaker 3>anti vax talk, murmurs of dark caballs yes, and get

0:37:21.520 --> 0:37:26.839
<v Speaker 3>encouragement to buy gold. Of course, it's like a theories, yeah,

0:37:27.360 --> 0:37:31.080
<v Speaker 3>chakra clearing with crystalline consciousness. There's a lot of talk

0:37:31.120 --> 0:37:35.200
<v Speaker 3>about crystalline beings upon the Earth. Four D and five

0:37:35.320 --> 0:37:36.640
<v Speaker 3>D ascension plans.

0:37:36.800 --> 0:37:38.760
<v Speaker 2>What you got the five plans?

0:37:38.840 --> 0:37:45.680
<v Speaker 3>They got the plans. You cannot stream three daughters, So

0:37:45.880 --> 0:37:48.800
<v Speaker 3>they're keeping the dream alive, but not really, because I

0:37:48.800 --> 0:37:51.680
<v Speaker 3>don't think that's what Van Tassel or the broadcast hijackers

0:37:51.760 --> 0:37:52.200
<v Speaker 3>had in mind.

0:37:52.280 --> 0:37:52.799
<v Speaker 2>I'm not thinking.

0:37:52.920 --> 0:37:55.879
<v Speaker 3>So back to the hijack, So you know, it takes

0:37:55.920 --> 0:37:59.080
<v Speaker 3>it over. Imagine you're just a person watching the news,

0:37:59.160 --> 0:38:00.719
<v Speaker 3>waiting for the Looney Tunes to come on.

0:38:00.960 --> 0:38:02.280
<v Speaker 2>Okay, so it's three in the afternoon.

0:38:02.360 --> 0:38:04.080
<v Speaker 3>If you get this, it's five and you get this

0:38:04.920 --> 0:38:08.840
<v Speaker 3>five minute dialogue from aliens. And again there are some

0:38:09.080 --> 0:38:11.440
<v Speaker 3>among us who are maybe a little more gullible, naive

0:38:11.600 --> 0:38:14.960
<v Speaker 3>or like, you know, like I'm looking at myself, I'm

0:38:15.000 --> 0:38:18.000
<v Speaker 3>holding a mirror, whould think, oh my god, the time

0:38:18.080 --> 0:38:18.520
<v Speaker 3>has come.

0:38:19.440 --> 0:38:22.759
<v Speaker 2>Right there running through my windows like war the worlds. Yeah,

0:38:23.080 --> 0:38:25.080
<v Speaker 2>it depends on how convincing, but I could be convinced.

0:38:25.080 --> 0:38:26.120
<v Speaker 2>I'm sure eventually.

0:38:26.760 --> 0:38:28.759
<v Speaker 3>According to A twenty well, the thing is is that

0:38:28.880 --> 0:38:31.840
<v Speaker 3>like it didn't break completely into the broadcast, that you

0:38:31.920 --> 0:38:34.160
<v Speaker 3>could kind of see some of the Looney Tunes behind it,

0:38:34.440 --> 0:38:35.120
<v Speaker 3>and like hear.

0:38:35.120 --> 0:38:38.600
<v Speaker 2>The talk coming through interrupting, and then you know, you.

0:38:38.640 --> 0:38:40.480
<v Speaker 3>Didn't have like the internet so you could go and

0:38:40.600 --> 0:38:42.080
<v Speaker 3>check and see what's going on. You'd have to call

0:38:42.200 --> 0:38:43.520
<v Speaker 3>people and be like, are you watching this.

0:38:43.719 --> 0:38:45.480
<v Speaker 2>Is this happening on your TV? Or do I need

0:38:45.520 --> 0:38:46.480
<v Speaker 2>to adjust my mess.

0:38:46.360 --> 0:38:48.760
<v Speaker 3>And you think, like, if it's just a small rural area,

0:38:48.840 --> 0:38:51.439
<v Speaker 3>they're not gonna like, you're not going to know someone

0:38:51.480 --> 0:38:53.880
<v Speaker 3>in London to call and ask. You're just gonna call

0:38:53.880 --> 0:38:55.640
<v Speaker 3>your neighbor and they're like, oh snap, I looked at

0:38:55.680 --> 0:38:58.799
<v Speaker 3>it too. You know they're all going to get us.

0:38:59.719 --> 0:39:00.720
<v Speaker 3>So back to the hijack.

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<v Speaker 2>Why a mean Nigel.

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<v Speaker 3>According to a twenty thirteen piece in Colonel magazine, like

0:39:07.040 --> 0:39:12.920
<v Speaker 3>like popcorn, not Colonel. None of the evening staff at

0:39:12.960 --> 0:39:15.640
<v Speaker 3>Southern Television were aware of the intrusion to their signal.

0:39:16.040 --> 0:39:20.080
<v Speaker 3>International Broadcasting Authority engineers in Croydon, Surrey did not hear

0:39:20.160 --> 0:39:22.560
<v Speaker 3>the rogue signal, nor was it detected at the main

0:39:22.680 --> 0:39:28.400
<v Speaker 3>transmitter site in Southampton, so just came in blindly silently. However,

0:39:28.560 --> 0:39:33.520
<v Speaker 3>immediately after the broadcast, panicky viewers flooded police telephones with calls,

0:39:33.560 --> 0:39:35.360
<v Speaker 3>and police said they had to send a patrol to

0:39:35.440 --> 0:39:40.240
<v Speaker 3>one elderly woman's home to calm her. They weren't menacing

0:39:40.360 --> 0:39:42.239
<v Speaker 3>and the thing, the thing is just like be good

0:39:42.280 --> 0:39:43.839
<v Speaker 3>to each other and we love you and we'll be back.

0:39:44.000 --> 0:39:48.120
<v Speaker 3>Oh my God, yeah, she's just like having like a

0:39:48.719 --> 0:39:52.279
<v Speaker 3>hyperventilating The police said, quote, all we could do was

0:39:52.360 --> 0:39:54.480
<v Speaker 3>reassure them it was a hoax, but like the calls

0:39:54.560 --> 0:40:02.000
<v Speaker 3>just kept coming in. Interesting Southern Broadcast apparently had to

0:40:02.080 --> 0:40:06.520
<v Speaker 3>broadcast reassuring messages to calm worried viewers. Engineers figured the

0:40:06.600 --> 0:40:11.480
<v Speaker 3>interruption must have originated at the very rural Hannington transmitter,

0:40:11.640 --> 0:40:15.600
<v Speaker 3>the Hannington One. Local police went to the Hannington transmitter,

0:40:16.000 --> 0:40:19.000
<v Speaker 3>but like you know, no one was there and there

0:40:19.080 --> 0:40:22.120
<v Speaker 3>was no equipment left behind. So some experts thought that

0:40:22.239 --> 0:40:23.920
<v Speaker 3>in order to do this at the time, you'd have

0:40:24.000 --> 0:40:29.759
<v Speaker 3>needed like really big heavy equipment, huge batteries to power this.

0:40:30.320 --> 0:40:32.360
<v Speaker 3>So the lack of all things, yeah, the lack of

0:40:32.400 --> 0:40:35.359
<v Speaker 3>appointed some to think that like maybe this was from

0:40:35.440 --> 0:40:38.480
<v Speaker 3>beyond and.

0:40:41.640 --> 0:40:42.640
<v Speaker 2>Must be from beyond.

0:40:42.680 --> 0:40:45.920
<v Speaker 3>The interruption made local and national news and it was

0:40:46.000 --> 0:40:49.320
<v Speaker 3>picked up by UPI, so it made over to US papers.

0:40:50.239 --> 0:40:58.080
<v Speaker 3>After the incident, Britain's Independent Broadcast Authority they launched an investigation. Quote,

0:40:58.200 --> 0:41:01.400
<v Speaker 3>the police, the Post Office, the Dependent Broadcast Authority and

0:41:01.480 --> 0:41:05.400
<v Speaker 3>even the Home Office were involved. So that's like you know, everybody.

0:41:06.320 --> 0:41:09.040
<v Speaker 3>They figured that even though the police didn't find anything

0:41:09.120 --> 0:41:13.320
<v Speaker 3>there it probably happened at the Hannington transmitter, and so

0:41:13.520 --> 0:41:16.800
<v Speaker 3>four days later, November thirtieth, nineteen seventy seven, it was

0:41:16.880 --> 0:41:19.640
<v Speaker 3>reported that the engineers had figured out how it happened,

0:41:20.560 --> 0:41:23.759
<v Speaker 3>but a spokesman told the press quote, we'd have a

0:41:23.880 --> 0:41:26.520
<v Speaker 3>fair idea of how it happened, but obviously we're not

0:41:26.600 --> 0:41:29.480
<v Speaker 3>going to release details for this might inspire another hoax.

0:41:29.840 --> 0:41:31.839
<v Speaker 3>But we're taking steps to ensure it will not happen

0:41:31.920 --> 0:41:34.000
<v Speaker 3>again and viewers are not frightened.

0:41:34.560 --> 0:41:36.959
<v Speaker 2>Very important. We don't want the trauma. See I'm learning.

0:41:37.360 --> 0:41:40.920
<v Speaker 3>So they later said, quote, a hoaxer jammed our transmitter

0:41:41.040 --> 0:41:44.480
<v Speaker 3>in the wilds of North Hampshire by taking another transmitter

0:41:44.719 --> 0:41:45.520
<v Speaker 3>very close.

0:41:45.320 --> 0:41:47.440
<v Speaker 2>To it, and so I love that that it's just

0:41:47.560 --> 0:41:49.840
<v Speaker 2>physical proximity and you can then just basically get the

0:41:49.840 --> 0:41:52.080
<v Speaker 2>antenna walk for you and you just go off.

0:41:52.960 --> 0:41:55.600
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, exactly. So they figured that, like the people who

0:41:55.680 --> 0:41:57.880
<v Speaker 3>did it, had to have a good amount of technical

0:41:58.000 --> 0:41:59.800
<v Speaker 3>knowledge in order to pull this off, more than my

0:41:59.840 --> 0:42:04.720
<v Speaker 3>So a spokesman for Southern Television said, quote, we can't

0:42:04.760 --> 0:42:07.359
<v Speaker 3>imagine how it was done, but it appears someone must

0:42:07.400 --> 0:42:10.200
<v Speaker 3>have managed to transmit a signal over ours. The equipment

0:42:10.320 --> 0:42:14.320
<v Speaker 3>used would need to be fairly sophisticated and expensive. So

0:42:14.480 --> 0:42:17.440
<v Speaker 3>that's when they start thinking like, this has to be

0:42:17.719 --> 0:42:20.200
<v Speaker 3>like someone in the industry to have this equipment, or

0:42:20.239 --> 0:42:22.200
<v Speaker 3>the military. So they said that if they were caught,

0:42:22.280 --> 0:42:25.279
<v Speaker 3>they were going to be fined two hundred pounds that's

0:42:25.360 --> 0:42:27.759
<v Speaker 3>like three hundred and sixty dollars at the time under

0:42:27.800 --> 0:42:30.840
<v Speaker 3>the Wireless Act. A lot of people figured it was

0:42:30.880 --> 0:42:32.839
<v Speaker 3>a student prank and that maybe they used a car

0:42:32.960 --> 0:42:36.160
<v Speaker 3>battery for power, or maybe it was a yeah. But

0:42:36.239 --> 0:42:38.839
<v Speaker 3>then people were saying this not enough. They figured wasn't

0:42:38.840 --> 0:42:43.879
<v Speaker 3>a disgruntled engineer Colonel mag later explained how they thought

0:42:43.880 --> 0:42:45.240
<v Speaker 3>the interruption hit What about.

0:42:45.000 --> 0:42:46.719
<v Speaker 2>A generator truck? Military has those?

0:42:46.880 --> 0:42:49.840
<v Speaker 3>Yeah? True? This is how the colonel came up with

0:42:49.920 --> 0:42:53.399
<v Speaker 3>the idea quote. The local television transmitter is the likely

0:42:53.520 --> 0:42:57.480
<v Speaker 3>source of the rogue transmission. Unusually for a transmitter serving

0:42:57.520 --> 0:43:00.960
<v Speaker 3>such a large area, the Hannington transmitter merely received and

0:43:01.080 --> 0:43:04.439
<v Speaker 3>rebroadcasted a signal sent from Rowbridge on the Isle of Wight.

0:43:05.080 --> 0:43:08.320
<v Speaker 3>With the sound being transmitted as an FM broadcast, it

0:43:08.440 --> 0:43:11.680
<v Speaker 3>was easy to take over the transmission. All they needed

0:43:11.719 --> 0:43:14.920
<v Speaker 3>to do was drive up the transmitter at Hannington and

0:43:15.160 --> 0:43:18.200
<v Speaker 3>broadcast on the same FM frequency as the transmission from

0:43:18.239 --> 0:43:21.719
<v Speaker 3>the Isle of Wight. The Hannington television transmitter sits in

0:43:21.760 --> 0:43:24.560
<v Speaker 3>the English countryside. Whoever took over the signal would have

0:43:24.560 --> 0:43:26.680
<v Speaker 3>had to travel along the small roads leading to the

0:43:26.760 --> 0:43:27.760
<v Speaker 3>hillside transmitter.

0:43:29.400 --> 0:43:29.600
<v Speaker 6>Yeah.

0:43:30.040 --> 0:43:33.040
<v Speaker 3>So even though you know, authorities said that it had

0:43:33.080 --> 0:43:37.960
<v Speaker 3>been hacked, the there's all these conspiracy theories around it,

0:43:38.480 --> 0:43:41.360
<v Speaker 3>and mainly centering around that, Yes, it really were. It

0:43:41.520 --> 0:43:47.520
<v Speaker 3>was extraterrestrials see Ashtar Command Crew, dot Net hot Rod crew. Yeah.

0:43:47.520 --> 0:43:49.799
<v Speaker 3>So the government they made it clear that they weren't

0:43:49.800 --> 0:43:52.800
<v Speaker 3>planning on pressing charges and no one ever publicly confessed

0:43:52.800 --> 0:43:56.480
<v Speaker 3>to the hack. However, in late twenty twenty two, a

0:43:56.600 --> 0:44:00.520
<v Speaker 3>limited run podcast called The Interruption came out the intent

0:44:00.680 --> 0:44:04.160
<v Speaker 3>of investigating the case. The host spent most of twenty

0:44:04.200 --> 0:44:06.640
<v Speaker 3>twenty two trying to get to the bottom of it. Eventually,

0:44:06.760 --> 0:44:09.680
<v Speaker 3>he heard about a radio pirate who called himself Roger Tate,

0:44:10.120 --> 0:44:13.360
<v Speaker 3>who had a regular show on London's pirate radio Invicta.

0:44:14.480 --> 0:44:17.400
<v Speaker 3>Roger Tate's real name was Bob Timalski and he was

0:44:17.480 --> 0:44:20.320
<v Speaker 3>a big part of London's pirate radio scene in the seventies.

0:44:21.800 --> 0:44:26.200
<v Speaker 3>Robert or Bob had in fact built in Victa's transmitter

0:44:26.480 --> 0:44:29.600
<v Speaker 3>which enabled quote ordinary radios to pick up the station,

0:44:30.200 --> 0:44:33.360
<v Speaker 3>and so he has this giant transmitter. His studio is

0:44:33.600 --> 0:44:36.440
<v Speaker 3>in his own home. He was later known as the

0:44:36.600 --> 0:44:40.279
<v Speaker 3>Gadget Guru or Inspector Gadget, reviewing tech gadgets for a

0:44:40.360 --> 0:44:42.920
<v Speaker 3>lot of different websites. He died in two thousand and one,

0:44:43.000 --> 0:44:45.200
<v Speaker 3>but according to his friends, he loved sci fi and

0:44:45.280 --> 0:44:48.759
<v Speaker 3>he loved pranks. And so the podcast talked to a

0:44:48.800 --> 0:44:52.120
<v Speaker 3>friend of Bob's, a guy named Laurie Hallett, who had

0:44:52.200 --> 0:44:55.480
<v Speaker 3>known Bob in his early pirate radio days, and doctor

0:44:55.560 --> 0:44:58.040
<v Speaker 3>Hallett now works as a senior lecturer in radio at

0:44:58.040 --> 0:45:02.279
<v Speaker 3>the University of Bedfordshire. So he spent He also spent

0:45:02.400 --> 0:45:07.440
<v Speaker 3>eight years at Offcom, the UK's communication regulating agency, and

0:45:07.600 --> 0:45:11.040
<v Speaker 3>that's where he quote developed and implemented policies around community

0:45:11.120 --> 0:45:16.120
<v Speaker 3>radio and digital audio broadcasting. So basically, his buddy policed

0:45:16.200 --> 0:45:20.719
<v Speaker 3>pirate radio. So the Buddy told the Interruption podcast that

0:45:20.840 --> 0:45:23.400
<v Speaker 3>Bob never actually confessed that he'd done the prank, but

0:45:23.480 --> 0:45:26.160
<v Speaker 3>that one time he just played the audio tape of it,

0:45:27.280 --> 0:45:29.520
<v Speaker 3>and then after what was supposed to be the very

0:45:29.600 --> 0:45:33.040
<v Speaker 3>last episode of the Interruption, the host gets contacted by

0:45:33.080 --> 0:45:36.600
<v Speaker 3>a man named Adam, who's another radio pirate, and he

0:45:36.640 --> 0:45:38.560
<v Speaker 3>said he'd also been a friend of Bob's and that

0:45:38.680 --> 0:45:41.440
<v Speaker 3>Bob had in fact confessed that he'd done the hijack.

0:45:41.600 --> 0:45:44.520
<v Speaker 3>Ah yeah, and he said he did it because quote,

0:45:44.560 --> 0:45:49.040
<v Speaker 3>you can yeah, you can do it. No ulterior motive.

0:45:49.920 --> 0:45:54.480
<v Speaker 3>According to Adam, Bob didn't believe in the alien message,

0:45:54.520 --> 0:45:56.920
<v Speaker 3>but he wanted it to sound plausible and kind of funny,

0:45:57.560 --> 0:45:59.919
<v Speaker 3>so he spent time crafting the message and the sound

0:46:00.120 --> 0:46:02.920
<v Speaker 3>that went with it. Adam said that Bob likely did

0:46:03.040 --> 0:46:05.760
<v Speaker 3>have cohorts in the prank, but no one has admitted

0:46:05.800 --> 0:46:08.800
<v Speaker 3>to it. And then Adam also said Bob never confessed

0:46:08.840 --> 0:46:11.680
<v Speaker 3>because his career had grown after his pirate radio days.

0:46:12.120 --> 0:46:15.239
<v Speaker 3>Didn't want to put it into jeopardy, So, Zarin.

0:46:15.160 --> 0:46:16.560
<v Speaker 2>That's not quite a deathbed confession.

0:46:16.640 --> 0:46:18.560
<v Speaker 3>No, not at all. What's your ridiculous takeaway?

0:46:18.840 --> 0:46:20.799
<v Speaker 2>Oh man, I didn't think there's gonna be much more

0:46:20.840 --> 0:46:22.280
<v Speaker 2>after like the Max Headroom.

0:46:22.320 --> 0:46:25.280
<v Speaker 3>But I mean that was spicy, It was super spicy.

0:46:25.480 --> 0:46:28.640
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, goodness. But I really like Bob at the end.

0:46:28.680 --> 0:46:29.320
<v Speaker 2>He was my favorite.

0:46:29.360 --> 0:46:31.040
<v Speaker 3>Bob's good I love I love that. Like we have

0:46:31.120 --> 0:46:35.719
<v Speaker 3>a little coda on that Onebeth.

0:46:33.920 --> 0:46:36.800
<v Speaker 2>What's your ridiculous takeaway one? See, I'm not going to

0:46:36.840 --> 0:46:38.600
<v Speaker 2>ask anymore. Don't do it, keep acting like that.

0:46:38.840 --> 0:46:40.640
<v Speaker 3>But you know what I do need. I don't need

0:46:40.680 --> 0:46:42.600
<v Speaker 3>a ridiculous takeaway. I need to talk back.

0:46:43.440 --> 0:46:45.160
<v Speaker 2>I'm going to take all the airwaves with this one.

0:46:47.440 --> 0:46:52.400
<v Speaker 2>Oh God, super.

0:46:54.120 --> 0:46:54.600
<v Speaker 3>I want.

0:46:58.280 --> 0:47:01.319
<v Speaker 6>Hey guys, my name's Eric from ten See. I really

0:47:01.360 --> 0:47:03.839
<v Speaker 6>appreciate your podcast. I think it's a load of fun.

0:47:04.360 --> 0:47:07.719
<v Speaker 6>I was listening to the Diploma Mills podcast and when

0:47:07.719 --> 0:47:10.360
<v Speaker 6>you told Zaren to picture this and started your description,

0:47:11.000 --> 0:47:13.759
<v Speaker 6>I knew exactly who you were talking about and thought,

0:47:13.880 --> 0:47:16.960
<v Speaker 6>holy crap, they're talking about Jim and Tammy Faye Baker.

0:47:17.640 --> 0:47:20.040
<v Speaker 6>My mom was knowed by those losers, and I hope

0:47:20.200 --> 0:47:21.120
<v Speaker 6>she's learned your lesson.

0:47:21.520 --> 0:47:22.200
<v Speaker 2>But we'll see.

0:47:22.640 --> 0:47:26.440
<v Speaker 6>Anyway, keep up the good work and I'll keep on enjoying.

0:47:29.120 --> 0:47:30.000
<v Speaker 3>Oh I love it.

0:47:30.080 --> 0:47:34.160
<v Speaker 2>It was poor moms, terrible people, but a great fashion

0:47:34.200 --> 0:47:36.880
<v Speaker 2>eicon Elizabeth Tammy Faye Baker. I mean, come on, I

0:47:36.960 --> 0:47:38.640
<v Speaker 2>guess jre just still talking about her.

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