Blurry Hysteria: Fonts of Justice & the Great Dim Down | 429
Hysteria 51
ForthHand Media
4.3 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
This week on Blurry Hysteria, we bring you two stories that prove reality is glitching hard—either that, or someone spilled Bot Booze on the simulation control panel again.
First up, scientists literally get the green light to mess with Earth’s mood lighting. That’s right—sun dimming is no longer just a Bond villain plot or a Metallica album concept. It’s geoengineering in real life, and we’re one step away from giving Earth a cosmic dimmer switch. What could possibly go wrong?
Then, we deep-dive into the ultimate case of design karma: the iconic "You Wouldn’t Steal a Car" anti-piracy ad—yeah, the one that haunted your dreams before every DVD menu—might have used a pirated font. That’s right, the ad meant to stop digital theft may have committed... digital theft. The irony is so rich it should be locked in a vault labeled “MEME GOLD.”
Join us as we shade the sun, question the kerning, and try not to get sued by Helvetica.
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a fourth-hand production. |
| 0:09.7 | Welcome in the hysteriaz. |
| 0:12.4 | Another weird Wednesday with me, David, and he, Brent. |
| 0:16.8 | I am he and he is another he. |
| 0:19.9 | How goes, sir? |
| 0:22.1 | It's all right. |
| 0:23.5 | I was out of town this past weekend. |
| 0:25.6 | Yeah, you were. |
| 0:26.2 | And I was watching them dig and then pour concrete for the new studio. |
| 0:33.0 | Which was, you know, just the outside of it. |
| 0:35.1 | It's still just a big hole in the ground. |
| 0:36.6 | But hey, we're getting there. |
| 0:37.9 | It's something. And I've had a big hole in the ground. But hey, we're getting there at something. |
| 0:42.9 | And I've had a continuous internet for like four days and no power outages. |
| 0:45.6 | So, I mean, shit is turning up millhouse. Well, we're recording. |
| 0:47.7 | Here comes. |
| 0:51.7 | That's just what they sound like. |
| 0:53.5 | Speaking of what things should sound like, |
| 0:55.2 | everything should sound like a badass rock song about your life. |
| 0:57.6 | And we got one this week, |
| 0:58.5 | don't we, |
| 0:58.9 | for this episode? |
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