

All of that and more on the podcast that's never been hacked (unless you count the robot co-host) - Hysteria 51. Plus Conspiracy Bot goes all Outer Limits on us, then C-Bot decides to go hack someone else's podcast with Kyle's help, and Moxie LaBouche of the Your Brain on Facts podcast goes slummin' and joins this dumpster fire to help sort out the insanity. So grab you New Coke, pop in a blank VHS and hit record as we cover the The Max Headroom Signal Hijacking this week. The strangest thing? The case has never been solved. The strange broadcast interruption was a weird blend of anti-establishment rant and absurdist comedy (with some spanking thrown in for good measure). And while the content wasn't sinister - it certainly did cause an uproar. The Max Headroom Signal Hijacking took place here in the lower 4th (Chicago) on two separate stations (WGN / WTTW) on the same November night in 1987. Well, we long for those simpler times and on this week's episode we're covering one of the most famous in history (hijacking broadcast signals…not naughty pictures). What was broadcast was exceedingly mysterious, a touch scary, and has never been resolved. The first interruption was during the news, the second was during a showing of Dr. Remember the good old days when hacking didn't mean election tampering? It just meant pirating a broadcast signal or putting a less than appropriate picture on the front page of someone's website. The Max Headroom Incident: In 1987 someone interrupted the broadcast of a television station in Chicago.

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