Encore: To the Max (Headroom)

Endless Thread

WBUR

Reddit, Technology

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

On November 22nd, 1987, two TV stations in Chicago had their broadcast signals hijacked by someone wearing a Max Headroom mask. In the years since, Redditors have played an integral role in getting to the bottom of this case. Who dunnit? Why? How? We dig into the story.

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0:00.0	WBWR's last scene is back with surprising news stories about people, places, and things
0:06.1	that have gone missing, all told by tenacious public radio storytellers who refuse to let
0:11.5	mysteries go unsolved.
0:13.7	Don't miss season 3.
0:15.1	Out now.
0:16.1	Follow last scene wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:18.5	Ben, you know what we forgot to do last week?
0:23.1	Uh-oh.
0:24.1	What?
0:25.1	Give our New Year's resolutions for endless thread.
0:27.8	What's yours?
0:29.6	Oh God.
0:32.2	Um, I think mine is playing more music.
0:36.8	I like playing music, and I have all these synthesizers gathering dust.
0:40.6	I'm just surrounded by dusty synthesizers.
0:43.3	So I got to dust them off this year.
0:45.9	Okay.
0:46.9	So I think that's mine.
0:47.9	What's yours?
0:48.9	Well, I have two.
0:50.6	My first one is that I think we should come back next week with our first new episode
0:54.5	of 2022.
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