If you play with the sound to reduce the noise, you get it down to what definitely sounds like a young person's voice, probably a teen, not likely more than mid-20s unless they had some (develop)mental issue. Was he mocking WGN, or his home city in general? Sounds angst-y. Cola Wars.) I think the girl was also wearing one of those festival outfits like you see in the parade in Ferris Bueller.

(Except the glove, likely a ref to Michael Jackson, cf. One consistent thing about the incident was that ALL Max's references were from Chicago pop culture. TV signals are protected now in ways that render this all but impossible, but this incident is such an encapsulation of that scary and kind of thrilling idea. Cable TV piracy was a real thing (as was the truly bizarre Wild West of public access television, where any nutbar with a soapbox could and would put themselves out there for the world to see), and - as David Cronenberg has remarked, when discussing the inspirations for Videodrome - there seemed a real possibility that an unwary viewer might stumble across something forbidden, something they weren't really meant to see. It's also a real and valuable glimpse into a now-long-gone era when television, as a medium, actually felt as though it could potentially be dangerous, that it could be (and, here, was) harnessed for culturally subversive means. (The statute of limitations for any legal repercussions elapsed back in 1992, so there's really no reason for anyone with any knowledge not to come forward save for the fact that it's just more interesting if they don't.) This is honestly the best kind of unsolved mystery, something legitimately weird and silly and a little bit creepy in which nobody got hurt and anybody who knows anything - and, surely, there must be somebody out there who does - also knows well enough to keep their trap shut. R/television's favorite shows of all time (2022 edition)

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