"Low chance of rain" as we see the WSQK tower. This made me think of water and it reminded me of another similar structure present in Hawkins High...
....the water tower in S4.
Is that what we see Jonathan and Steve or whoever it was actually climb? In tales from 85, I think Lumax were at the top. Just thinking, a water shortage is usually associated with power outage. Is that why the upside down does not have water...because there is no power to pump it? No power, no light....dark. Maybe...
Next...
"Keep off the grass" suggests "don't smoke weed" to me a necessary/usual sign in a school full of teenagers/young adults.
"I plan to smoke it". Students would always rebel and do it anyway. What happens when you smoke weed? You get high..... Hawkins "High".
She also says it's an "exciting" day as we can see what is written on the poster. Weed heightens sensory experiences.
Extra: I suggested that Nancy was the Radio host in S5 here and here. I found another connection.
In S4, Fred asked about Jonathan and the state of their relationship and it annoyed Nancy. She says...
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This includes Byler and Bobgate and is a bit long....
Guys! I believe I have found more proof that S5 is in Mike's mind. I believe the station represents the party's AV club and the tower represents Cerebro. WSQK mirrored is KQSW which is an actual radio station in Wyoming, US.
The KQSW radio station
I find it interesting that in the first episode of S5, we see four people - Robin, Nancy, Steve and Jonathan working together in the WSQK station when usually it would have been Robin and Steve then Nancy and Jonathan separately. I think they represent the party - Mike, Will, Lucas and Dustin.
Read here.
Unlike WSQK, KQSW has a frequency of 96.5MHz. It seems suspiciously close to me. The station is owned by Big Thicket Broadcasting. The company's abbreviation is BTB which reminded me of the person Mike said founded Hawkins AV club - Bob The Brain.
Some things I noticed...
•The Horse (Finn Wolfhard said to wait for the horse).
•Southwest in the logo. The minute and hour hands of a clock overlap 22 times a day. At approximately 8:43, the hands overlap not just in the west but in the Southwest. So, blue meets yellow in the Southwest.
•More on KRKK later.
•Q 96. I believe this means Quarry '96 suggesting that something happened at the quarry in 1996 or 1969. 96 and 69 are strobogrammatic numbers - numbers that look the same upside down. Also, 96 mirrored is 69. Other numbers include 88, 1001, 1961 (maybe this year will also be significant). Why do I think it hints at the quarry? KQSW station is located in Rock Springs, Wyoming. A quarry is an open excavation site with rocks and a body of water. Spring water is groundwater that percolates from rock and soil to form a water reservoir. These are observable in the show. So, Rock Springs equals The Quarry.
Take a look at this...
Its Effective Radiated Power is 100 000 watts while that of WSQK is 50 000 so half of it. Watt is the unit of measurement of power. If we were to assume that it needs the other half of it to be complete and that the station represents Mike/Bob then we would need a source of power that we believe would complete it and I can think of two....
#byler #bobgate
Look at this...
Media West = Mike Wheeler
Dennis Hill = Dustin Henderson?
Dustin did sort of "relaunch" the AV club in S3 with Cerebro which was in 1985, a year after what you see in the image.
I have always found it weird that in S2, Mike says that Bob founded the AV club only after he died. Why weren't we or the other characters informed about this earlier on? Why was Mike the only one aware of the fact if they were all members of the club. After S2 schedule-wise, we then have the First Shadow play where Bob is indeed the founder of the AV club. Michael....what are you hiding?
Big Thicket Broadcasting is a company that owns radio stations so in the timeline we have seen, Bob founded the concept of a "radio station/AV club" but Mike is the first "owner" of the one they launched in S1 as he is the club president. WSQK.
Onto the next....
It broadcasts from a tower on Aspen Mountain..
The WSQK broadcasts from the Cerebro tower.
Aspen Mountain is a mountain surrounded by Quake Aspen trees. This is very similar to Weathertop in S3 as it is a hill surrounded by trees where Dustin and the party built Cerebro.
Aspen Mountain = Weathertop
Located south of the Quarry?
"...can be heard.... in parts of Northern Utah". Salt Lake City is in Northern Utah... SUZIE!
This would explain why they needed Dustin to fix it when it was faulty in S5 E1... because he was the one that created it.
KRKK radio station
This one, I believe is related to First Shadow and bobgate more... Read here.
• AM: Amplitude Modulation. "AM broadcasters tend to specialise in spoken word formats such as talk radio, all-news radio and sports radio while music formats are primarily for FM (KQSW) and digital stations"
In the first shadow, this is what Bob usually did. He usually spoke. While in S5, music was played a lot.
• Yellowstone Road: Yellow "stone" road = Yellow "Brick" Road which was mentioned in S5 by Max in the finale when she was in Henry's memories. She said and I paraphrase.."this is like Oz but there's no yellow brick road".
So there needs to be a "yellow brick road" (Henry) for information (feelings) to be broadcasted from the station (Bob) in order to reach the destination- Emerald City (love/the audience).
• Unforgettable Memories: Memories of love, hurt etc. No matter how hard we try to hide or repress memories, you never truly forget them. We need to remember the good and the bad... to remember the hurt because it means we are out of the cave just like Hopper's letter said in S3 finale.
• Oldies: "Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the late 1960s, as well as for a radio format playing this music" This has Bob written all over it.
• The first air date is 1938, 88 years from 2026. 88 is a strobogrammatic number. Remember in back to the future, the DeLorean accelerated to 88MPH in order to time travel so maybe this is something.
A translator was added to this broadcast on the frequency you see above. The frequency is the same as the one Bob uses in the First Shadow play.
"BOB: What? That's not accurate! It's not hopeless. (to Henry) Bob “The Brain” Newby, founder of the Hawkins High AV Club. Oh, and make sure you tune that little puppy to 103.5 WBOB and –" INSANE!
What is a translator? "a broadcast transmitter which repeats (or transponds) the signal of a radio or television station to an area not covered by the originating station" Here
What is a transponder?...
Do you pick up what I am putting down?
"....the area not covered by the originating station" is the general audience. A lot of CG truthers are bobgate/byler truthers because of the clues placed in the show and play. Thanks to @cara-ti-amo
They will release the First Shadow play soon but this time, it will show a different perspective of the play and the show in favour of bobgate and probably byler as well when they confirm CG.
This solidifies to me that season 5 and the First Shadow play are distorted memories and that Henry and Bob may have connected with each other more than we have seen. This is a long post but I hope it is an entertaining read.
Extra: The state of Wyoming was admitted to the Union on July 10, 1890. So, cokegate is real #I believe.
It's unusual that we see Robin working in the radio station when she has no history of public speaking but you know who should have it....a journalist....Nancy.
Nancy is a reporter, a journalist. Not just a reporter but an investigative one as we have seen throughout the seasons but a reporter nonetheless.
Roles of a journalist/reporter...
"A reporter is a type of journalist who researches, writes and reports on information in order to present using sources. This may entail conducting interviews, information-gathering and/or writing article" Wikipedia
".....sources".
"....broadcasts"
It's very interesting to me that her brother is the president of the AV club and his close friend, Dustin invented the Cerebro tower that can broadcast to distant locations. I made a post about the WSQK being the AV club and the tower representing Cerebro in S5 here.
The Wheeler House
Nancy and Jonathan hurried out of the house after breakfast. Why? It wasn't necessary if they were just going to the station to hang out with Steve and Robin. Well, what if they did so because they had jobs/school just like in S3 & S4. In S5, all of them hurried out of their houses just like in S4...
There is also something I noticed...
Jonathan (Mike) said they overslept. Read here to understand why I think this is Mike, not Jonathan.
To oversleep means to accidentally sleep longer than you intended.
This means they were late for school but we see them eat breakfast with everyone. That doesn't make sense. If they overslept, it could mean that they missed their means of transportation which would be the Wheeler car. This would explain why Mike, Will and Holly used bikes to go to school instead of a faster means of transport-the Wheeler car we see Nancy drive.
I propose that Nancy and Jonathan went out earlier than them and started the broadcast, that's why we see Steve and Robin in the station after Jancy drove out.
I think this proves it...
Warning!: "The Duffer Brothers" is written here (please laugh)
They were the last to leave the house.
One thing I noticed in this episode is that Holly was really eager and excited to listen to the Morning Squawk. She remembered the time because she said "we're gonna miss it" ..perhaps it was because her sister was the host/speaker.
After the broadcast started, the first person we see is Nancy...
In my other posts about this theory, I noticed that the surroundings indicate the first letter of the name of the actual character in a scene. Read here and here.
The WSQK station
Well, the first time, we see Robin, she adjusts her mic to make this...
We can see this letter clearly formed when she says "me". N for Nancy.
In her broadcast, she says "...fifty five degrees, low chance of rain"
This sounds like what a reporter, a weather reporter to be exact would say. Then she goes on to talk about the events of S4 finale which is a controversial topic in the town reminding me of when she furthered the case of the rats in S3 despite being met with disapproval in her workplace which led to her occupational leave.
Nancy was also seen in S4 at the basketball game, observing it and noting down the events of the game. As a reporter, she must have read a lot of articles and newspapers about Hawkins to know about a lot of things ranging from the weather to new constructions/developments like the MAC-Z and the military involvement and may share her opinions on those things.
I'm not sure but I think that Steve here could be Jonathan or someone else working with Nancy but I may be wrong.
Extra: When there was technical difficulties in the squawk, Steve contacts Dustin complaining to him. Dustin tells him the actual cause of the problem being the remote radio head but Steve doesn't understand. It's almost as if Dustin had to be there for the problem to be fixed.
Dustin says......
"...be there" as in be present. Why would Steve want Dustin to go all the way to where we see the squawk? It's because it's actually in the school so Dustin could've easily gone to fix it but he chose not to.
Extra(2): In S4, Nancy was working in her senior year for her school's newspaper, The Weekly Streak.
The Weekly Streak = WSQK The Squawk
The first letters were just rearranged.
Summary
Nancy and Jonathan went on time to school with the car we see Nancy driving. They may be working together just like in S3. Mike and Will overslept for some reason, maybe they were up late watching movies or something just like we see with Holly and her friend in Holly's memories in Camazotz. They use their bikes instead because Nancy and Jonathan had already left with the car leaving that to be their available means of transport. When there was electrical problems in WSQK, they had to call Dustin to come to the AV club because they were close, in school.
I believe WSQK and the tower is simply the AV club/school broadcast w/o Cerebro.
I also believe we are going to have way more scenes at the school. I'm intrigued.
I believe this was actually Nancy's broadcast for Hawkins High or for the whole school in general. Check here, here and here if you interested in why.
Let's get into it.
• "....can match our very impressive military to civilian ratio" applies to the whole town and also the school specifically because we see that the military are really present in the school. An impressive military to student ratio.
•".....and those free mandatory medical checkups" This is because of the spores from the upside down. This could easily be conducted in school through the infirmary. You have a huge number of students at the same place at the same time. It would save time and effort. I also wonder if this alludes to the intake of harmful substances that was/is rife in high schools.
•"Metal band aid"....medical checkups... infirmary.
•"Study for that test..."
•"Go on that date"....prom date?.... The Snowball?
•Again, the use of the word "kids" hinting at it being a school broadcast. "Don't go sledding, you're going to hurt yourselves" Why would she need to broadcast that from that far away unless she's actually at the school.
We see that Robin finally pissed them off...the military personnel we see at the school in the image above.
"Reiterating their goddamn rules encouraging compliance" Military rules or school rules? Encouraging compliance of the students...hmm
Just a thought, I find it really interesting that Robin is obsessed with the military all of a sudden when the person we expect to be is Nancy. Robin even called them "men with guns" and says "do you see a navy seal looking back at you" in the field scene in S5 E4...maybe it's just because of her encounter with the Russian military in S3 but I don't think so. What a coincidence that we know a woman who is also good with a gun and if she chose to, would eventually qualify to be a navy seal. Hmmm...we also see Nancy facing the military in the finale.
