SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: The Max Headroom Incident
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Here is a classic episode that covers a single event that happened on one night in 1987 in the great city of Chicago, where someone wearing a Max Headroom mask took over a local TV station for several minutes. And when I put it like that it sounds pretty inconsequential, but it was such a big deal that the feds got involved, and even better, it's a mystery that's still not fully solved today. And it's weird.
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you should know. Josh Edroom. Thank you. Yeah, you've been I saw you over there with your earbuds today. You were working on this all day, weren't you?
I watched uh season one, episode one Oh really? In full of Max Headroom. I like the last ten minutes is still pending. Oh, okay. But it's crazy, like Max Headroom himself doesn't show up until like forty minutes into the first hour long episode. But when he does, you're it's dynamite. So what are we
talking about?
We're talking about Max Headroom.
That's right. Uh huge shout out at the beginning of this to Vice.com, specifically Motherboard. Specifically Alex Pasternak. Yeah, who wrote the article on Motherboard and we actually we used to blog a little bit for them back in the day, remember that? Yeah, I don't think they like to talk about that or acknowledge
You don't think? I don't think so. Oh, I think it was mutually beneficial. I'll bet you can't find those on motherboard anymore. I'm trying to remember. I think I read
one about driving a stick shift versus automatic or something weird. That's a big one.
Yeah. We started out with an old fashioned recipe, I think. Yeah, that was you. They were like, let's do better than this, guys. And we said no. And then they said, We got our own people. Yeah. We'll let somebody come in and ghost write for you.
Yeah, so that motherboard article was the basis. And from what I found, I mean we we used a lot of uh different sources on this, but This article entitled The Mystery of the Creepiest Television Hack is sort of the culmination like the coup de gra coup de gra of Max Headrim incident articles.
Yeah, it actually really good job.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–6:20
2
What was the Max Headroom broadcast intrusion and why is it significant?
6:20–15:07
3
How did the hosts set the stage and describe the cultural context of Max Headroom?
15:07–47:07
4
What actually happened on the night of November 22 1987 in Chicago?
47:07–58:25
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