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. Highway
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