The tv we had growing up, if you had the channel info box up, it would lock the scramble scroll in place, so you had a pretty decent picture. My adulthood insomnia is to blame for those late night sessions of creeping around the house in search of titillation.

Legit. Seasoning is just creating a polymer on the iron to prevent rust. No different than the cast iron pans with ceramic coatings.

https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/144/

Found it

One of my favorite scam stories from Dark Net Diaries is in one of the preambles and talks about an investment “advisor”.

You get a call from them about a stock tip about a stock going up, and they are like, you dont have to beleive me, just watch it. It goes up.

They call back the next week with a new stock tip talking about how they were right and made so much money. Again, they dont ask for an investment, just that you watch the stock. It goes up again.

They call back the next week with the ask.

Turns out, they were calling 1000 people, 500 going up, 500 going down. They called everyone that they had a right prediction for the second week. Same process 250 up, 250 down. They again call everyone that they had it right for.

Such a cool scam.