Hello and welcome to Citation Needed.

The podcast where we choose a subject, read a single article about it on Wikipedia,

and pretend we're experts.

Because this is the internet?

And that's how it works now.

I'm Eli Bosnick, and I'll be calling the board this evening, but I'll need the cues to my blues.

First up, the bars and tones to my 10 count, Noah and Heath.

All right.

If anything, I'm the tone.

Heath is obviously the bars.

All right.

I'm going with the bars.

But just in general, waking up on the couch to that long beep and the color bars,

that made our generation what it is.

It was terrifying.

Middle of the night and it's just...

Yes.

And of course, there's a man who always knows you're talking to him when you say Q talent.

Cecil, something Italian.

Yeah, I know it's my time to hold the Q card straight at that point.

Yeah, right.

Before we begin tonight, I'd like to take a moment to thank our patrons. Patrons, without your money, we'd be lost and adrift among the podcast signal, but your dollars guide us back like a lighthouse in the storm. And if you'd like to learn how to join their ranks, be sure to stick around until the end of the show. And with that out of the way, tell us, Noah, what person, place, thing, concept, phenomenon, or event will we be talking about today? We're finally going to get some fucking use out of concept. We've said that the whole time. I don't think we've ever done a concept before. It's like four of them. Yeah. You know, television broadcast signal intrusions. Oh. And Cecil, you read the rundown.

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