Thinking Sideways: Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion

Shattered Souls

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🗓️ 29 January 2015

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

On November 22, 1987 someone overpowered two different TV stations transmissions broadcasting a nearly unintelligible message using the guise of Max Headroom. Who it was, what it meant, and why they did it no one knows for sure.

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0:17.5	Thinking Sideways.
0:31.0	The story is of things we simply don't know the answer to.
0:37.0	Welcome again to another episode of Thinking Sideways.
0:43.0	As always I am Steve and of course I'm joined by Devon and Joe and once again believe it or not.
0:51.5	I know it's hard to believe we've got a strange case.
0:55.0	Believe it or not I know it's hard to believe.
0:57.0	Believe believe believe.
0:58.0	A huge mystery.
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1:05.0	What we're going to talk about today is the Max Headroom broadcast interruption.
1:13.0	Everybody remembers the 80s right?
1:15.0	Not really.
1:16.0	Well yeah maybe not.
1:18.0	Well if you don't then you're missing out on a lot of iconic TV shows and characters specifically the character.
1:27.0	Yeah I like actually like that show a lot.
1:32.0	I did too.
1:33.0	I did too.
1:34.0	Max Headroom he was the first quote unquote digital character on TV and though really there wasn't anything digital about him.
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