Highway Hi-Fi Podcast Conspira-Season's Greetings! (Episode 64)
The holidays are a time of peace, joy, and love. They are also the best time to look around, take a breath, and stop a minute to enjoy all the madness that constantly swirls amongst us. Here at Highway Hi-Fi, our Christmas episode is the show we allow ourselves to talk about some of our favorite stories that are too small for a Turntable Talk, but too good to not share. All of which have nothing to do with Yuletide Festivities. And the theme this year is our favorite music conspiracies and myths.
Sure, there are your garden variety conspiracies, like “Paul is Dead”, “Elvis is Alive”, and “Jay-Z is an Illuminati, Lizard Person, and/or Time-Traveling Vampire”. Or we could even go into the typical sort of master of puppet situations like “The Laurel Canyon hippy movement was a government-sponsored action to make war protesters seem like druggy ding dongs” or that “Private prison profiteers conspired with Record Execs to make Gangsta Rap the Nation’s most popular genre”. Heck, we could even bore you with mash-ups like “Darkside of the Rainbow” or that “ABBA became the Residents” or “Stephen King killed Lennon”.
And those are well and good. But here, we like to go a little deeper. A little wackier for our highly discerning audience. So, we rolled up our sleeves and hit the dark webs and sub-sub-sub-Reddits to bring you some juicy bonkers-ness. Websites where every picture is grainy and plastered with Microsoft paint embellishments. Websites where no obsolete detail is too minute. Websites where research is a dirty word and where no news is fake.
Settle in. Take off your Santa Cap, and put on your tinfoil cap. Dump out the eggnog, and start drinking the Koolaid. And quit gazing at the twinkling tree lights, in favor of those unexplained glowing orbs circling the room. Bookmark all 39 of your copies of Catcher in the Rye. Crank up the podcast, you sheeple. Today, we present our Conspiracy Christmas spectacular.
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