Here’s a fun thing that happened this morning: at 0750 right before Like a Version, triple j transmitters failed and we went off-air around the country.

The Preatures, Ben and Liam kept carrying on as normal (REMEMBER YOUR TRAINING!) and they managed to bust out a truly excellent Like a Version — which you can watch here— but for about 40 minutes triple j was down. And, of course, this was during our biggest show of the week. As Liam remembers it:

“Australia was freaking out via text, the producers were freaking out. My mum even texted me, she was freaking out. Somehow we managed to remain calm, The Preatures were chilled out too. There was nothing we could really do, so we just kept on doing the show as per usual on the off chance that someone somewhere was getting it.”

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We can now confirm that something called the ‘Vadis’ failed in the triple j control room ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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We can also confirm that the silence heard round the world was responsible for a steady stream of panic coming in hot on the textline. You had the conspiracy theorists:

☏It's happened, this was North Korea's diabolical plan all along, ruining the Friday morning of Australians everywhere by making us miss like a version with the preachers... youve won this one Kim

☏Triple J getting raided by the AFP?? Skex.

☏is it a coincidence that there original is called "mess it up" = maybe the curse and why it got messed up

Then you had the caps lock fiends:

☏WHY CAN'T I HEAR THE RADIO????

☏GUYS DON'T DO THIS TO ME :'(

☏HAVE YOU TRIED TURNING IT OFF AND ON AGAIN? – Doug

☏Listen out the window all Australia charging up RRRAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

☏WHERE ARE MY BOOOOOYS??? Anna in Melbourne.

You had people asking The Big Questions™:

☏jjj dead?

☏What the frick are u guys doing???? Didn't u pay the bill???

☏You guys have disappeared off the radio..... come back.... just static....please? Limbo

☏Oi! Where's the tunes?

☏Let's set up a huge conference call for like a version? Joey

☏Where is my morning news? We could be at war! We could have cured cancer! Donald trump could have lost his toupe! -Sam

☏You drunk triple j?

And an overwhelming amount of kind boys and girls:

☏All good boys?

☏Triple J emergency playlist is dope.

☏I still refuse to change channels, just fix it Barndog

☏Gents! Relax, shit happens! Technical issues happen in this business. Just glad to hear your all ok! Nathan from Sydney

☏Yeah nah it s kind of annoying though.. still not changing stations, loyalty is royalty

So, you know, maybe the real station outage was the friends we made along the way.