DLUTI 021 - The Max Headroom Hijacking

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Max Headroom. Thank you.

Does anyone Do you guys remember Max Headroom at all?

A little bit, too, considering happened in like the late 80s. And a year before I was born. Or no, it was at 70 it was a yeah was a few years. It was a few years before I was born.

So no, I don't remember. But I like I remember the AI fucking

like, oh, the British show that from

Yeah, well, my family is super fucking British.

Well, yeah, you guys are a bunch of rich colonists.

Well, I rich not so much anymore. But I'm colonists. colonizers now my family is so fucking British. So my, my uncle would show me Yeah, and he would show me like videos of Max Headroom and like I thought it was pretty cool when I was younger. Like it was it was a neat idea. Plus, he was a spokesperson for like Coca Cola and shit like that. So like yeah, like

a Coca Cola brand. I think it will. Yeah,

like it's like just look like the original Max Headroom.

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Yeah, let's let's fucking get into Max Headroom. So.

So what Max Headroom,

what was

so prior to the the Max Headroom hijackings, as we'll call it, you know, he was actually a real fictional character. He was a British fictional AI like robot.

Real fictional characters. Yeah. Well, I'm also God's cruel, cruel

game. No, nothing is real. God does simulation. Yeah. But he was introduced in 1985. And he basically hosted like a mini mini music video program. He was like, it was kind of just like, you know, was it was he?

It wasn't it was kind of like an MTV s.

Yeah, pretty much. And yeah, he was played by a guy named Matt frewer, who basically was just a American Canadian actor, so I don't really know him from anything else, but

I don't really think he did much else. He might have written a book. Sure. I vaguely seen that. He wrote a book. He could have also been a cook. book, the book cook.

He cooks books, but yeah, Max Headroom kind of became an instant hit with you know, yeah, the British programme and it aired for a little while. But other than that, I mean, that's really that's really all you need to know about the actual character. If you look up a picture of them you're gonna see like, right away he's got this big like, it looks like a caricature head looks

like a plastic a young plastic surgery version of Donald Trump. Donald Trump's made him like 25 and made him into a Kindle.

See, I have a theory. I don't think Donald Trump was ever 25

is born 78

I think he was just like 35 is where he started. Like, that's just he was went downhill from there. And it wasn't like I don't think it was born. I'm pretty sure like, discarded body parts just found each other. And that's what a rose from this massive medical waste was just

like goop that kind of like, yeah, together and avenues. Yeah. That was like kind of what I was imagining. Yeah. Anyway, but uh, but what we're actually here to talk about is the TV hijackings that basically showcased Max Headroom to America to America. Yeah, but obviously, someone was playing him not the actual actor but

or was like the so some, some people might not get the reference. Yeah, what was what what was Max Headroom? Like Who was that?

Like?

You're talking about like not the hijacking. I'm talking about like the fucking the character that the hijacking is based on we already we just talked about that. Yeah.

He's no no no, no pause this You coward. Don't cut this off. I explained that in the 80s. He was like a music so I got caught off guard watching waveforms and now

if I'm being honest, so started watching

the way to sum it up Max Headroom in the late 80s are kind of Max Headroom in the 80s was like he came on TV mute. Yes. Whoa, skeels. tv, essentially, the British version of Mt. Right MTV TRL you know, I watched a couple Max Headroom videos it would fit perfectly on like late night Adult Swim now.

Oh yeah,

I think all air him and Eric. Eric Andre. Like, like comedy and and yeah and scenes and bits. You kind of get that from Max Headroom. So maybe inspiration.

Yeah. And if I'm being honest, his aesthetic represents our aesthetic.

Oh yeah. correctly the weird like glitchy bad shit. Yeah,

yeah, yeah, it's

definitely it definitely falls in line with what we're what we're about Absolutely. But like I said what we're actually here to talk about is the TV hijackings that took place on November 22. of 1987

Goodyear cocaine was existed existed brought in by the government.

Tootsie Rolls invented

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earlier episode to keep this thing with you?

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get right someday.

Yeah, you know, an incorrect clocks, right twice a day anyway.

So you guys want to hear about this or?

No, let's talk about clocks. No, yet. Let's

so Gargamel Yeah.

No, no, no. Let's go. Alright, so the first, the first TV hijacking was on WG TV, and it was the first of two that took place. This one took place during a nine o'clock news segment where the viewers TVs went black for about 15 seconds, and then started to play this bizarre footage. This one got I think it lasted evolved like almost 30 seconds. It was like 22 or 27 or something around there. 28 give or take. But the engineers for WGS, were actually able to rebroadcast on a new wavelength.

Oh, yeah, they change frequencies and

Yep. Yep, they cut it off like real quick. But on the same night on wt t w in Chicago, at about 11:20pm the signal to a local PBS station airing doctor who was cut into people were pissed.

So yeah, they were super, I was really caught like comments on and there's people like, I didn't find it funny at all. Now I have to edit my tapes that I was recording the show on Yeah, like a crime on a justice ruined. Doctor Who Cried about it. No one cares about doctor who

now especially not the 1987 version of David Tennant. Yeah. I mean, it'd be fair, that was the most popular show, like on earth for a while. But I digress. If we just say that because we have the new Doctor Who and other very good shows like love calf country,

which got canceled for season two. I know. I saw

I

couldn't get into it. They left it whenever we did more talk for

So besides all the doctor who fans being just outrageously pissed. This time when they got caught into you actually see Max Headroom speaking in like a garbled voice. Why don't we just play the clip for everyone?

Yeah, well let kind of ever want to wave. Yes,

yes, this dick boy,

let's catch the wave.

Well, wasn't that just a Yeah, Jarboe the good

shit is what that was

you make any of that out?

Catch. So I've watched that video a handful of times and there is one that actually has subtitles with it that tells you what they're saying.

So for all you audio listeners, we did have the video with subtitles on it. So we kind of

know what they said. You can very very clearly hear him say catch the wave. Oh, as he's saying that he's holding up a Pepsi can because that was a coke slogan back in the 80s was couched as

being all

edgy. Yes, super too edgy. 453 edgy five me.

That thing that Mike just said is one of the things I was going to go over because I have a breakdown of the whole video for you guys. We didn't play the whole audio. Because honestly, it kind of just keeps going like that. And then you might hear some like, little spanking noises but that's about it. So he makes some references to Chuck swirsky who is an American Canadian sports caster. Not sure what the relevance to that is quite exactly. But he says that

Actually, it's because Chuck's swirsky was on the original what's what's the word? I'm looking for I could the original broadcast. There we go. That he did Chuck swirsky was the sports commentator at the time. When when they cut back to him Chuck was like, Well, if y'all don't know what that was do the do if it was part of someone's stupid Oh, yeah,

that's right. Okay. Yeah. So that was Chuck swirsky. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. So one of the things that Yeah, Mike was saying was that Max Headroom was a coke sponsor. So he was holding up the Pepsi and said, we're playing catch the wave, rebellious. And then you can't see this in our podcast, but he has a middle finger that he's like wearing a play. Doh. Yeah, that is just like swinging around. Yep.

It's funny because one of the things that I looked at all said it was a prosthetic finger. elongator are something

like no, I've seen a dildo once or twice.

Trying to be PC about it. But the audio that we didn't play for you is literally he like literally takes his ass out. Hand someone a flyswatter. And then they just start like spanking start beating him.

He calls him bitch a lot. Yeah.

Literally all of this took place within a 92nd time span the whole thing. He's very efficient. Yeah. And gets in and gets out and flips

you all mentioned Pepsi gets spanked and then shows you dildo all in 90 seconds. It's a masterpiece. It's

truly a piece of art. But yeah, like I said, the first one, the engineers were able to cut it off. But this time on wt Tw. They didn't have any engineers like working at the hour. And it was like all from the Sears Tower so they just couldn't do anything about it.

fucked for 90 seconds. Yeah,

pretty much figured out what to do. And then and then yeah, that's that's the two hijackings. That's pretty much what happened. And, man I wish I could have saw that like, like,

oh, that'd be the three of us would have had the biggest boner is

terrifying. That happened at like 1130 at night. Yeah, imagine watching Doctor Who and this fuck comes under TV. Like

the thing is if I was my age, in 1987, like I would have absolutely

I lost my shit.

I would have I would have loved it but I would also be freaked the fuck out because like, that shoots crazy. Like the fact that somebody can hack into a, like, a national broadcast system and just say like, look at my dildo. Here's my ass. That's amazing.

Yeah, it is kind of fucking it's very wacky. I would have like if I would have saw that now. I would have probably been like damn doctor who's taking a really weird turn.

Is that a TARDIS? And it's just the building.

Yes, it's the new TARDIS tar dick I'm not so after. Sorry. After this. This the doctor who interruption happened the FCC was contacted didn't happen after the first one. Then for the second time they're like okay, this is clearly somebody who knows what the tough

they're doing daddy government to step in? Yeah. Oh, government sama. Give me your FCC Chan now. Okay.

So the Federal Communications Commission was called an investigation into this hijacking was launched as you fuckin do. A spokeswoman by the name of Maureen parrot Kino made it clear down the hill to Reno. Yes, dom dom toretto leave he basically said that family is more important than TV. Maureen made it clear that they were taking the incident very seriously and stay the perpetrator was facing not only a possible fine of $10,000 but also up to a year in federal prison. If not both.

That's super cereal.

It's super fucking I don't have 10 G's. She also said that the investigation would be joined by the FBI. Because I mean this is fucking serious like you can if the he showed

but if she said bitch a lot on live tell it's very very in it. That's intense for the 80s

That's too much. Yeah. To show an angle.

Yeah, that's that's all you do.

But so basically what what happened was the FBI joined and they wanted to ensure that this method of hijacking couldn't be like utilized by other groups, especially terrorist groups, because that'd be fucked if you know, the 1980s we just kept getting terrorist propaganda Russian propaganda. Yeah, it'd be weird if that

it kinda was.

But it is a very serious matter because illegal interference of a broadcast signal is a violation of federal law so this is a felony

suck the but that Max Headroom showed on TV Yeah, like

honestly what was done it's like yeah, total he showed his ass he got spanked a bit and he called fucking Chuck source he Oh, call the fucking FBI on this dangerous criminal. Yeah, but unfortunately the FCC investigation into this matter did not yield any fun you say

unfortunately or fortunately fortunately. Fuck Yeah, yeah, he's our white knight.

Why the fuck like why wouldn't you? Yeah, this kind of shit. I love this stuff. Especially for something is fucking stupid. Is this like yeah, show it as you look like Max Headroom. Flip us off. There's a bill though. Like that's the whole fucking that Yeah, there you go. Now

you're watching criminal.

You do you man. But yeah, that's, that is the entire FCC investigation into this. Like, what? What the fuck are you gonna do? Like, well, it's a it's broadcast from the Sears Tower. What are you gonna fucking scan every frequency that goes in there? And then pinpoint it back in the 1980s you could not do that.

Especially on air for again. They caught him off after 99 Yeah, man and a half.

That's it. Everyone knows it takes two minute to you know, trash

service. Yeah, if cops has showed me anything, it's that.

That Yeah, that's the fucking best the whole investigation from our Federal Communications Commission.

I bet you're all wondering though. Nope. Who is Max Headroom? Or who was

Max? Like the hijack Who?

The guy who was the guy Israel who was Batman who was but but flyswatter who was button dildo.

That's that's called a bug plug.

There were a couple suspects. A solid seven that I found.

Okay. The I swear to god if you say Roseanne Barr.

Connors Anyway, I'm sorry. No, for a while there a couple years. There is a Reddit post by this guy. He's like, I know fucking did it. And everyone's like, Oh, fuck tell us it's been fun in like, 40 years,

blue balls for

years. And he's like, yeah, I knew these kids don't say their names, but I'll call them j and I'll call the other 1k. Like the men in black. Yep.

Jake Hill.

JK, lol. He's like, yeah, I knew these kids in the late 80s in the early 90s. And they're part of like the Chicago like, hacker community. He's like, they they kept telling me at this party like a something's gonna happen on this night on w gn like something big is gonna happen. But that those spikes kind of fell out, like fell off because everyone just decided they're excluded. They're not suspects anymore. Like there. That was a lie. Oh, yeah. So crazy how people on Reddit lie

Sir, am I

someone the frequency is exactly exact. Someone who may be recently fired. Who knows? Maybe it was Chuck sworsky. himself. Oh, who was on the the the he was on the TV station the first time. But maybe this was him trying to you know, get a fucking name for himself. And he planned this to get no notoriety because big TV wouldn't keep giving him spots. So he did this talk with him. Okay, cuz he was just the suburban radio guy. He wasn't the radio guy.

What if it was somebody from Corbin Kentucky,

fuck them.

mean Yeah, fuck those people. But

we also have Oh, go ahead.

That'd be think about just think about that for a second. Yeah. Shitting all over Corbin Kentucky.

I think at that point we would end up and the show would be

like, hey, by the way, one of us did it. You guys are assholes, like, right. So

he's done and that's it done a

loser. 15 minutes of fame. Yes, we can't. So

some people think that it's Chicago land hackers. Like I said before, apparently in the late 80s, early 90s there was a slew of hackers in Chicago. It was like a little Oh, yeah, Society of these losers.

There still is actually isn't there? Wasn't there a movie based off that? I think it was just called hackers.

Yeah. Are you talking the the Angelina Jolie and I think so. Hugh Jackman

maybe not Schubert? Either way, I feel like they wouldn't be made out of this.

I'm pretty damn sure that's what you're thinking. I

think I think we're on the same page.

I'm Matt freer, the creator of Max Headroom, maybe he did it himself to give the the character a little bit more puns as because at this point, Max Headroom was kind of falling off the radar he wasn't as publicly known. Turns out if your whole shtick is just being some random CGI music station hosts that kind of goes away pretty quick, pretty

quick.

So no one really cared about Max Headroom at this time, so maybe he's just trying to get the flare back.

That's all very possible

other people think it was Eric foreign for near foreigner. I don't know how to pronounce his last Eric the foreigner Eric before he Cray he was the creator of a fictional model, who was disfigured in a car accident and recreated her body from mannequin parts. I guess it was like a book. I think,

like a dollmaker.

Kinda. Yeah, sounds fun. But apparently, both Eric and Max shared very, very similar artistic ideas and similarities and whatnot. So people were like, maybe it was him. Eric did die in like 2010. I think it was. Oh, Bose can like his friend was like, that wasn't Eric, but he would think it was hilarious if he was allowed to that you think is hilarious that people think it's him? And I'm like, What about that? What about that? And for the last and

But that 130 years is the near future.

The far off future of the year 2002 Welcome, tomorrow. Yeah, that's all I got for suspects, but quite a few of them. So nothing. Honestly, I in my opinion, was probably just fucking disgruntled employee who knew how to work everything and was like fucking have a Max Headroom mass was fucking fuck with them. Fuck.

It could be that I honestly I would say it's somebody who's just fucking bored. Yeah, flex reading it. They

did mention that you do need you didn't need heavy equipment. But you did need some relatively expensive equipment to be able pull this off. Oh, yeah. So you if it's just a guy dicking around? Is this what you do? spending your time like you spent all that money just to dick around with Max Headroom for 90 seconds.

I mean, look at what we do for an hour and a half.

Yeah, that's different.

If anybody listening out there if you guys have any theories on who this might have been, head, yeah, we would fucking love to hear it because I don't know enough about like, hackers in the 80s to like, put together any kind of suspect list. So if anybody has a PSA, you say the magic word. If you guys have any inside information, or like any insight into where this might have come from, we would fucking love to hear it.

Tweet us Facebook. Yes. text us call us. You have that phone number. We'll say it again later tonight.

Absolutely.

Is that it for Max?

Similar to Oh, Kiku No, not quite. There's one last thing that I would love to go over. I did look up a bunch of like similar broadcast interruptions. And there's actually in terms of Captain midnight, as it turns out, it is super easy to hack into a broadcast station and display whatever the fuck you want on live television. Oh, crazy. So let's keep that in mind when we add a video element to our podcast. So But no, there's a there's been a bunch of them. Yeah, so Captain midnight is

It's an ashtari Star Trek.

I don't know this is a family. We've heard this before. We don't don't want to say to garb. Allison's Wrath of Khan, then okay. But no, it's from the ashtar galactic command. It was broadcast during an ITN news bulletin on Southern television in the United Kingdom. The intrusion did not entirely affect the video signal, but it replaced the program audio with a six minute speech about the destiny of the human race and disaster to affect to the effect of your world and its beings on

This say go?

Yeah, it's, it's all very This one was super vague and didn't really fucking go anywhere. It just freaked a few people out and then just kind of disappeared. And it turned out it was just one of the fucking employees at Southern television. I think he was a student at the time and he was blown basically a giant prank on the station with a regular Orson Welles over here. Yeah. aspiring, aspiring Orwellian. The other one, like Mike said, was Captain midnight, and this

hours night on Disney plus.

Yes, you know what? The 1987 sorry, 19 Winter Soldier, Falcon and the snowman is based. Holy fuck, Falcon and the snowman is almost the same shit.

Yeah. Now you get my joke. Good job.

I'm getting there with you. But now this one, it lasted four to five minutes. It was seeing all along the east coast and man during the interruption threatened to hijack the signals of Showtime in the movie channel as well. And he was later caught and invited as john McDonnell.

They owe

Google and he lives in Florida. And he was prosecuted shortly after. And that was kind of the end of that one. But I mean, there's there's been so fucking many of these. There's been some in Russia. I'm going to refrain from going back there because we have given so much attention. Yeah, they owe us money.

What are your listeners we have in Russia because of all that,

probably a decent amount, like for fi at least if not five? I'm Dave.

Let's not touch on that one.

Yeah, we're gonna stay away from that we're

gonna stay. Say I couldn't see.

More recently, though, in 2017. This is more on a radio station in Nottinghamshire, England, which is the most fucking British town name I've ever heard in my entire Mansfield,

Nottinghamshire,

Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England in the United Kingdom

golf not

get over yourself. This is a literally it was somebody just hijacking a signal and playing a fucking song who that's popular that was popular in

Britain at the time, was it Benny in the Jets knows the winker expected this from you, Benny, the Jets?

Benny and the Jets but I mean, there's been a fucking there's been dozens of these like, you can find them everywhere. And it's, again, everybody do with this information what you will but it is not hard to hack into national broadcast television.

It used to be easy. The switch from analog to digital kind of hard. Yeah,

but encryption is a thing. But yeah, when it was analog, it was super fucking easy to just play whatever you wanted. I'm on frequency now. Yeah. Hi, mom. All your frequency belong to us. And

then you get a $10,000 fine in the mail.

I'm pretty sure all you have to do is just slam every key on the keyboard really, really quickly.

No, you're in? You don't know. That's I said that's actually a myth. The core taught me that all you have to do is take an empty gum wrapper and blow it into a phone. And that unlocks everything. Oh, you guys remember that movie at all? No, you don't remember, like, they hired a hacker on to like, maintain the computer systems for this fucking thing that was digging to the center of the earth. And he literally like he's, he's wanted for all these fucking things. And they're

Oh, no, yeah, no, that's that's a thing in the cache, I want to say it was like the 70s or maybe it was the early 80s. There was a whistle that came in a box of I think it was Captain Crunch or some shit like that, and it emitted a frequency because on old phones how they worked was back in the day they use certain frequencies as like like if you worked for the company your phone was on a different frequency than like the the public because then you

your holy shit. Are you being serious? Yeah, it

was just a whistle. You gotten a box of cereal? I forgot what it was. But

yeah, that was a fucking when that like when that whistle came out.

Like I said it was like, I want to say 70s maybe early 80s

I'm gonna have to look into that. Because if that's a piece of trivia from the core movie, that's actually super interesting. That's fucking awesome. I

have to look this up now keep talking.

Like that's That's it? That's pretty much there was no conclusion. There was no nothing. I'd say we could do the real or fake thing. But it was broadcast live television. So

this really happened. Yeah, just dicking around. john john Draper

john Goodman, also known as captain crunch, crunch or crunch man. What is an American computer programmer legendary former phone freak which is like hacker freak spelled with a pH he is widely known for he is a widely known figure within the computer programming world in the hacker and security community in general is a nomadic lifestyle that he used a suit in early hacker use a cereal box whistle to take over phone lines. Yeah, he just fucking you just blow into it. And there you go.

The fact that he like figured that out, you know to do what he did is does batshit insane to me.

Makes no sense to me. None

whatsoever.

Well, ladies and gentlemen, I hope you enjoyed Max Headroom, because I'll tell you right now, I'm not much headroom. And I will say

we do have some headroom for for something.

We do have some headroom for plugging our shit and before we

do that, though, I do there's I really I need to dive into this mic. I've been thinking about this a lot. How exactly do Smurfs turn into gold after Gargamel kills them?

I think it's like an anatomy thing. Like it like alchemy.

Yeah, like the body just knows it's dead. And it's like

yeah, instead of decomposing it turns into gold

to turn into like gold bars.

Yeah, turn into like gold ingots

they don't keep their form No, so they shape shift and become gold.

Yeah. Are you meaning to tell me that this cartoon from the 60s I think or 70s doesn't make sense.

Yeah. What the fuck sad about

then they're all boys one girl Smurf so like,

What? How many bad dynamics how

many how many fucking Smurfs are in horny jail?

She was the village bicycle.

I don't know. Honestly, I think it again correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's been proven that Smurfs don't have Jenna tail.

Oh, no, it absolutely has. Yeah, like toads are just run ups. They've got like smooth like fucking like I can no Yeah, exactly. What do you think Doug about all this? This is important.

I'm legit. Looking up. What if Smurf has ever died on air?

gardena fucking

expect you to be on board? skips usually you're like, Go fuck yourselves. I'm tuning this out until you're done.

I'm gonna go back to watching the TV monitor with the funnel waveforms. Yeah. While he's looking that up. Link tree comm slash duty pod. Go there. Please. And thank you got everything. And honestly,

like, I don't know why we haven't talked about this more. It's got our RSS feed in there. Which means if you click that, you can find a link that you can just copy paste into your favorite podcast player, and you will instantly have access to all of our fucking episodes.

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no Smurfs. ever die. They get very close and then they somehow get revived. The only people that have legit died in an episode of The Smurfs are humans

that didn't know humans besides Gargamel were a thing.

Yeah, his brother. His brother. Brothers, Greg. Yes, sir. garga Mills. Cousin Argus.

Greg, Greg Gargamel. drag them out. And

once you get knifed by as you try to turn one into gold and just they've been

forming prison Shanks just in case Gargamel is up their ass.

You don't have fucked up a family come stepping around their neighborhood.

You'll never return me to gold cake.

Just sharpening a toothbrush. Keep this on you lady Smurf Jesus.

Well, I think at this point we're literally just bullshitting. Yeah. Oh,

give you real quick look up the Google phone number again. Ladies and gentlemen, we do have that Google phone number leave us a text if I mean, leave us a voicemail I've been

I'm actually pretty upset with you guys. Yeah, we don't have much I haven't got mean.

Okay, I'm

not too upset but I would like to communicate with you guys more. Leave us a tweet. Leave us a twatter leave us a Facebook. Leave us a gram. Leave us your gram

as Leave us your gram. Yeah.

I want to have tea with her. Because I'm into green tea now. So we can we can talk and have a good time. Both of you guys are looking shut up on your phone so it's apparently just the fucking Michael show. I

see nothing about summers turning to gold when they die.

No, no, fuck off. You're wrong.

Look up. The Smurfs fandom wiki.

Okay, well, those are dumb fans. Look up. Do Smurfs. Do Smurfs. Turn to gold? Turn to gold.

To gold,

do you do you still want that

number? Yes, I do. Alright, are you ready? His main goal unless it's sort of Smurfs term and the goal is right fucking there. God knows Wikipedia. He's

trying to turn them into gold. Half the things I read about when the Smurfs dies, they turn into a lump of blue clay. Oh,

and then you need to make gold 666

months of blue clay after all three

potions are left. After all three potions are applied, brainy tells Gargamel then order to make gold. He'll need six Smurfs. Well,

that's dumb. So back to what I was looking up.

Yes, please

tell us if you would like to call us leave us a message text us anything like, talk to us about some Gargamel like I keep getting shut down on that shit. But I would love to talk some Gargamel with you.

I let it slide this time.

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once that number again,

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say it again.

No one more time. No don't do later. sixthreezero something that he said something else something I think a six? Yeah, there There we go. Everybody. There it is. Well, thank you for hanging out on then. Stay tuned this oh the others.

So again with the number if you text us on Tuesdays at around what? I'd say nine o'clock? central? Yeah, nine o'clock central time. We will. Are you okay? That's no go by. Nine o'clock central time. If you text us on Tuesdays, we will be mid recording. If we see it. You might get a shout out in the episode for it. Oh, yeah. If it's you know if it's worthy. Yeah, but

I mean, it's always worthy. You guys are always worthy. Everything you do is worthy.

We are still waiting on the the Battle of the knuckles though.

No, they are both lovely.

They are both I want to see their arguments still.

Well, you know what one has a baby. a toddler and that has to do with anything. I mean, she's got that mom strength. That's fair. So better watch out. She'll fuck shit up. She will fuck your shit. Anyway, everybody have a blessed day. May the Lord and Christ Jesus Christ to be with you. And may He follow along in your footsteps with you to your path of righteousness. Doug,

do you have anything to follow that up with

supernote they told you much brain I have zero thoughts going on up here right now.

No, yeah, that's right. Doug's kind of coasting this week. He's been super fucking busy with

Yeah, really adding to the quality dog.

On that note, I will tell you guys in light of TV broadcast hijackings. Just stay in your guard. I'm Walter Cronkite. Watch out for Walter Cronkite. But

he will masturbate in your bedroom.

Well, if that's not a reason to stay fucking paranoid. I don't know what is. Well, let's think about that. Walter Cronkite masturbating in my bedroom. Is that soothing or terrifying?

14 year old Walter Cronkite soothing are terrified. This is my penis.

I hope he says said that. was just

washed long is that here's my thing is tonight, my deck Goodbye, everybody.