Don't Look Under the Internet
Don't Look Under the Internet
DLUTI 164 - The Homer Signal...?
You're scrolling through the channels on your short-wave radio. With your other hand, you eat a potato chip. Suddenly, Homer Simpson begins asking you why you're reading books! This could happen to you. Hi, we are Mike, Jason, Doug and Matt from your local Don't Look Under the Internet, and we want YOU to help us understand why Homer has taken over so many radio frequencies. Please have a full report on our desk by Monday. Or you're fired.
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Speaker 4:Can you pull up on your phone then?
Speaker 5:I mean, I have it pulled up right here.
Speaker 4:Yeah, only one is popping up for me. Anyway, should we start this ballgame.
Speaker 7:I guess so Hello.
Speaker 4:Okay, welcome. What is all over? My fingies now Hello and welcome to Don't Look Under the Internet, a NPR broadcast. This is starring Jason. Hello, we also have why are we doing this? We have a.
Speaker 3:Doug hey and a Matt also Welcome to Fresh Air with Terry Gross and we're and we're canceled.
Speaker 4:We're a podcast where we cover internet comedy horrors.
Speaker 7:All the words were there. They don't have to be in the right order.
Speaker 5:It's the enthusiasm.
Speaker 4:Exactly, and I'm also Mike.
Speaker 8:New year.
Speaker 4:New me, you are Mike, I did it, I did, I miked.
Speaker 5:Most casual intro ever. Dude Least unhinged intro ever.
Speaker 4:Maybe we're going to have a day today. It's going to be an interesting day, and here's why I'm going to start off with a good old-fashioned diluting Clap above your head. You like that.
Speaker 3:That was that made me uncomfortable if I'm being honest, mike worked out once and he's a whole new.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, so today's right, that's right housekeeping where I'm gonna go over some shit. So, yeah, I started, I want to be a little healthier. I got some some news on monday that, um, I, I wanted to go into being healthier. Got some news on monday that was like I really need to get healthier. Not nothing like bad for, I guess, me, but like it just put things in perspective. You know what I mean, where it's like, yeah, I gotta my, my heart's bad, probably. I don't fucking know, I should probably work out. So my heart's not bad, okay, my, no, my heart's not bad. But like I'm just saying like shit happens, realize this make.
Speaker 3:This is like the most unbelievably ominous sounding explanation.
Speaker 7:This really, really is, shit happens.
Speaker 5:Well, when you get older, it's like he's like let me explain this thing that I really can't talk about.
Speaker 4:When you get older, you realize you needed to be more healthy as a child. Yeah, you need to be more healthy as a younger adult. When you're an older adult, you realize that is what I guess matt looks like. You are literally teaching him about but so I told, I told, I told them all this and, like matt's, like you should go running. So I downloaded this app so matt can track my progress because he's my coach I gave you kudos yeah, he gave me kudos and I ran yesterday.
Speaker 4:Today is apparently my break day, my rest day, because the schedule thing you sent me, said to rest.
Speaker 3:I grabbed a random couch to 5K plan off the internet and sent it to you and now.
Speaker 4:This is your whole life, yeah, and I'm glad I did it, because my ankles are Bad In pain. Yeah, I don't think my feet have ever hurt this bad in my life. Bad in pain yeah, I don't think my feet have ever hurt this bad in my life and I just ran a mile, not even a mile, it was like 28, six miles yeah, I can't even imagine trying to run a mile.
Speaker 5:What would the president say?
Speaker 4:oh, not a lot child left behind.
Speaker 5:Um, I have some housekeeping that is from last week actually that we need to address with Jason what.
Speaker 7:Oh yeah.
Speaker 5:Jason, I need you to tell me who Roberto Esquivel Cabrera is.
Speaker 3:And why?
Speaker 5:you thought his massive?
Speaker 3:foreskin was relevant.
Speaker 7:Oh my God, that's when I was searching for the first, first, first post of the Captain Coochie thing. That's what we're talking about, right? Apparently, there was an ad for Captain Coochie's key lime pie on that website like a banner ad, and that text that you read of the screenshot, that was the text that was in between the two.
Speaker 3:Okay, because when you look at your notes for the episode all it is is. It's the outline, and then suddenly there's just a screenshot of an article about a man with a 19-inch penis.
Speaker 7:That's mostly foreskin that's mostly foreskin I'm really happy that there was no context. We like we're like what is what?
Speaker 5:like what should we be covering for jason?
Speaker 3:and then we're like I was like is this what jason's normally looking at in his notes for the episodes?
Speaker 7:honestly, it's not far off. I just get random bursts of like, oh, I should talk about this, let's just put it in there somewhere speaking of a bunch of foreskins.
Speaker 4:We have some members to talk about. Yes, um doug, you have the list for me today.
Speaker 5:I do so. All right, you guys ready to play? Douglas bad name, or probably still bad. A bad name, yeah all right, you guys ready to? Play Bad Name, or probably still a bad name. Yeah, all right, cool. The first one is a Patreon that their name is S, the letter S S. Today's episode is brought to you by the letter S For shit name, get a new one.
Speaker 7:Nailed it S is for shit name Bad.
Speaker 5:I'm going to dox you. Here's their email, please send them Very mean, just kidding.
Speaker 7:Welcome them to the family.
Speaker 5:Yes, welcome.
Speaker 7:All right.
Speaker 5:So our next one is meet bald bitches. Wait, no wait. Meet bald bitchless balls. I don't even know what that means. Oh, I said meat because that's what the email said, but it's just bald bitchless balls. Bald bitchless balls. No, no meat, no meat, no meat, just bald bitchless balls I love it, I like it, I like it.
Speaker 3:That's like a nine out of ten usually usually wait a minute alliteration fucking jug of hot cheese is still around.
Speaker 4:They heard us talk about them him on one of the other episodes.
Speaker 3:Are we going to?
Speaker 5:bring him up every single time. Yes, I think we may have just shouted out the same person twice because they both have the same email.
Speaker 3:That would explain why Mike only sees one and you see two.
Speaker 7:Yeah, oh, okay.
Speaker 4:Well, fuck you, I'm taking mine back. Your name just dropped from a nine to an eight.
Speaker 3:All right. Well, they were like wait, I need a better name Let me resubstitute.
Speaker 4:They're really going to cook me for this. S name Cool, glad we got that out of the way. I have noted also another thing that I wanted to mention, since we're still kind of in housekeeping we talked about a little bit ago I do think maybe like a uh, like ketchup episode might be we were just talking about that fucking um bond skinny ketchup like two words uh, uh cats up referred. Uh like messaged us yeah again. Uh, the skinny bob people did we had someone that was part of uh who joined the discord.
Speaker 4:It was someone that was part of uh who joined the Discord. It was someone that was part of, oh, the most recent one, the. Tootsie.
Speaker 5:Not to be confused with Goatsie.
Speaker 4:Yeah, we had someone from the. Field Studies Institute reach out In the span of one week. We've had a decent amount of creators. Just be like what up, dude. So we might want to do a little bounce back to a couple of these.
Speaker 5:I think that's a very good idea. Not those topics specifically this year has been good for just catching up on things and actually having stuff get solved. Hell yeah.
Speaker 7:There's a lot of that.
Speaker 4:And continuations of stuff too.
Speaker 7:You guys want to do that at the end of the year, then I don't know. Okay, there's a lot of that and continuations of stuff too. Do you guys want to do that at the end of the year? Then Okay.
Speaker 3:Matt's like yeah, I'm here, when am I?
Speaker 4:Yeah, I have a strong.
Speaker 5:And there's also a couple bigger topics we covered that actually have more for us to cover now.
Speaker 4:Gotta go back. We got a lot of Ash Vlogs Part 5. I think started back up. Have more for us to cover now, so gotta go back. We got a lot of. We got a lot of part five.
Speaker 3:Yeah, studies, I think started back up another part, but yeah, except it's like there's another part and then like an entire, two more entire chapters yes, we're gonna give that a little bit. That's probably just gonna be like a summary episode yeah, yeah, we're gonna give that one a break.
Speaker 4:They already had three episodes dedicated to them.
Speaker 3:Also like 30 people watched the third part, so yeah, hell, yeah yeah.
Speaker 5:Multiple parters definitely don't hit as strong as Y'all ask us for long-ass episodes and then don't fucking watch them.
Speaker 7:Well they probably get to like the last half of the last part and are like God damn, wrap it up, got it.
Speaker 5:Shut the fuck up. God damn it Fucking got it.
Speaker 7:Jesus, yeah, get out of my speakers, yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 7:But speaking of talking way too fucking much, what are we talking about today, everybody?
Speaker 8:Oh radio.
Speaker 4:That concludes Housekeeper.
Speaker 3:Here we go, here we go. So, Shortwave radio yeah.
Speaker 4:Here we go, here we go. Shortwave radio.
Speaker 7:yeah, here we go, here we go shortwave radio, y'all get hit with the. That was a decent like sweep noise.
Speaker 4:Thank you uh, yeah, we're talking about an interesting little thing um has to do with ham has to do with ham why, didn't you?
Speaker 5:why, didn't you do the?
Speaker 4:why would I have done that?
Speaker 5:Oh, when you said interesting, you're supposed to.
Speaker 3:I think it's interesting. I think it's an interesting topic in general, which is interesting because Doug's always fucking complaining about us, not talking about number stations. He's always like oh, let's talk about number stations.
Speaker 4:I do.
Speaker 3:And now we're doing something number stations adjacent. He's like this topic sucks.
Speaker 4:I have never in my life, ever even said the word number stations so, if you haven't figured it out yet, we're talking about a number station specifically. We could talk about that. Can we reserve a little bit of time? We'll have plenty of time. So we're talking about the Homer. Homer is what it's been. The homer, the homer homie, homie, homie I need egg for bartomer. Um, so it's called the homer and it is a station that tripped a couple people up on the internet for a couple stations.
Speaker 4:It's a couple stations that trick people up, it's many, it's many frequencies now it's a couple couples, it's like hundreds yeah, um, I in general, like I thought this was very interesting. There's not like a huge, huge amount of information to this um, but I I thought it would be an interesting like step into number station stuff if we ever wanted to get there, because, if I'm being honest, a lot of number station conspiracies and mysteries is just on March 18th 2022, if you went to station 456 Delta, you heard numbers. That's how they all are.
Speaker 8:It's just that so this one at least is a little of a spin this is not numbers, it's not just words.
Speaker 5:It is a little of a spin. This is not numbers, it's not just it's words one, two one two.
Speaker 4:It's a bit of a different thing, uh, which I enjoy, uh, but all right, where do we start with homer if not the beginning, season one, episode one?
Speaker 5:we got to talk about the first season, though, on the tracy ullman show that's true, or just the first signal?
Speaker 4:I guess? New year, new me.
Speaker 7:We could do the first signal. I actually have a copy of the first signal Just hanging out, if you want to hear what it is. This is what we're going to be talking about. This is a signal that was picked up. According to this, it is on station 8051.5, it's USB and it was posted on streamed, I guess on January 6 2013 broadcast broadcast.
Speaker 3:That's the word. I'm looking for you gamer. Oh my god.
Speaker 7:I am a fucking gamer at 4.53pm, if you care, but this is what was broadcast on this and many other channels, for reasons unknown, I think what the hell are you reading books?
Speaker 8:for what the hell are you eating books? For what the hell are you?
Speaker 7:eating books. For what the hell are you eating books? For you get the idea.
Speaker 1:What the hell are you eating books for what the hell are you eating books for?
Speaker 7:Yeah, I read that little thread on that and I have a few words to say about that man thread on that and I have a few words to say about that man. Um, yeah, it seems to be just on repeat homer simpson going what the hell are you reading books for? Just over and over again it definitely.
Speaker 4:When I first heard it, I, I, I feel like you could hear some sort of code coming from it. Only because, like, if you notice, as that, the signal goes on. He says what the hell are you reading books for? And the second time he goes to do it, the first time he'll stop at what, yeah, and the next time I'll go what the hell you're reading books for?
Speaker 7:and I say what the stop, and it's like what the hell, or like what the hell are you? Yeah it'll stop at different parts of the phrase, and then there's a long pause, and then it restarts so I'm like oh, there's, that's a code.
Speaker 4:I found a code.
Speaker 5:I found a code in the radio with the Simpson you would think so.
Speaker 7:Um, I will say, people were. They were very, very weirded out by this, like what the fuck is Homer Simpson doing on this? Um, they, oh fuck, I have to go look at this, don't I?
Speaker 3:they figured out what episode it was from season 5, episode 12 oh fuck, I have to go. Look at this, don't I? They figured out what episode it was from Season 5.
Speaker 7:Season 5. Episode 19? Episode 12. 12. It aired in 1994. February something 1994.
Speaker 4:It's a good episode. It's when Bart gets a catchphrase and he gets famous and he goes on the Conan O'Brien show.
Speaker 7:And he needs to read books To be intelligent. To be intelligent. Yes, yes, but overall it's a fantastic episode I just watched not too long ago. Yeah, I recommend. So that's where this clip comes from.
Speaker 4:However, it doesn't explain why the fuck we're hearing it on a channel, 8051.1 megahertz. I'm glad you got the channel numbers and everything because I didn't.
Speaker 3:There's so many that shit does not I spent so much time googling and looking through spreadsheets of ham radio frequencies and what they've been identified as oh, that's yourtism guys, it is now.
Speaker 7:It is now.
Speaker 3:I knew nothing about any of this prior to looking this up and just spent way too long downloading random PDFs from different websites.
Speaker 5:I will say going through this definitely made made me want to like get some device to just like sit there and turn a knob and like listen to random radio stations I was like yeah, all right what am I gonna hear?
Speaker 4:a fart. Yeah, when this was first heard, too, people were stupid and they're like oh, he's saying like what the hell are you eating bush for?
Speaker 7:that was one of them, because somebody, yeah, somebody on the forum that I found, which is it specializes in these weird frequencies, and they it's this whole discussion radio referencecom yes thank you so much, radio referencecom um, shout out to token, that's the guy who got you.
Speaker 4:Okay, I was like he's the guy that documented all this got you okay.
Speaker 7:Um, so there's this huge discussion where they that's where they figured out what episode it was from, who was saying it, because when you first hear it it doesn't exactly sound like homer simpson, but as soon as you know it's homer simpson, like it's. Oh, you're like, oh, that's fucking obvious. Um, so people talked about why this was being played, what was happening here, and then another signal came out. Um, and this is what that one sounded like.
Speaker 8:What the hell are you reading books? For what the hell are you reading books? For what the hell are you? What the hell?
Speaker 7:are you? What the hell are you? What the hell are you? Same thing, but a little more clear. Clear Is that a shit?
Speaker 8:It was a shit. It was just a shit. Was that a fucking shit?
Speaker 7:This one was on 13570 kilohertz at the station, again, usb mode. This was the day after, on January 7th 2013. And it was 6 pm or no, it was right around 4 pm. I'm sorry. Yeah, it was right around 4 pm, which is right around the same time. The last one was uploaded. But again, this is get another station a day apart, same exact message. Well, I mean not exact same message, but it's the same words. It's just the pauses that are a bit different and that words, it's just the pauses that are a bit different. And that's the thing that a lot of people on uh, on well, read it on, um, what was it? Radio reference, um, just anywhere you can find discussion about this. People were just kind of tripped up by the, the different intervals of, like the stopping points, um, and, to be honest, I was. That is all I could focus on. It's like why the fuck are these like cut differently, like why?
Speaker 3:why are there different lengths Obsessing over the most minor detail and insignificant like oh yeah?
Speaker 7:Meaningless. I was like this and I was literally like this this has to fucking mean something Like there's a reason this is happening. I need to know what it is, and so I spent a solid hour just trying to figure out. Like, could you convert this? And a lot of people on the forums they thought that it was Morse code. If you translate the different stopping points as like the dots, they're the like the dashes and the dots the dots, and it would just. If that were the case, it would take fucking forever to figure out the like, the actual message that was being played. But I didn't really see if anyone actually followed that rabbit hole to the end. Um, but yeah, that's the. So that is the, the first glimpse at what this signal that we're talking about is.
Speaker 8:It's homer simpson saying what the hell are you reading books for?
Speaker 4:it's all this dough merch, merch. Uh, yeah, I mean. So there's a couple different signals that come from this. Jason, can I actually borrow your phone, since you're hooked up to the Bluetooth? Oh yeah. I'm going to queue up another sound chunk from the YouTube here, Is it in your dock. Huh, is it in your dock? No, I forgot to put that one in my dock, cool.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 4:But I know where it is on YouTube, okay, so cool, yes, but I know where it is on youtube, okay. So we're gonna do that. Where is your youtube? I'm an old man, show me how to get to your youtube there. It is fantastic. So the next one that comes up, there's not a whole lot of information, that is um built around it. I guess you could say um is it the same signal?
Speaker 3:my understanding is that the only correlation between this signal and the original signal are the fact that they both contain Simpsons references.
Speaker 4:Yes.
Speaker 3:That is the only linking event here in my understanding.
Speaker 4:So that's actually my next signal, after the one I'm going to talk about. The JF Kennedy locals.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so there is a signal that Don't gotta play that right now. Okay, it's got to queued up. So the signal, the next one that people are like, does this have something to do with it or does it not? Happened on May 2012, where a signal went out and it played multiple voices, including the Homer phrase, but it also had other people's voices in it in it, like um, tom jones, for example, was built into it. There are bits from other songs that are built into it as well. Um, people made the uh, the guesstimate. I guess you could say this uh, may not have been part of it because, um, this was broadcast on an am frequency rather than a usb frequency, but the fact that it played the same clips and it played, other clips.
Speaker 3:Did it play the same clips though?
Speaker 4:So we have to take it by word, because this one wasn't recorded. Yes, so we kind of have to take it by there it is yeah, we got to take it by word here, but apparently this one that played a whole bunch of other clips played the Homer phrase, the what the hell are you reading books for? What the hell?
Speaker 7:are books, reading books for what the hell are?
Speaker 4:you eating books for. But it also played the same clips from other signals that we're going to talk about in a little bit now, it could just be, you know, a fucking pirate hijacking these frequencies and just digging around playing random shit from something I mean he might have heard.
Speaker 4:This frequency was like I'll throw that in here because it's gonna throw people off who the fuck knows. Again, people speculate. It didn't have much to do with it because it was on a whole different frequency, but the fact that it had all the same phrases in it, yeah, kind of keep that one in the realm of possibility. The next one, however, did pop up on um uh, it popped up earlier than all these, but it wasn't really discovered to be related until after the fact. So this one actually popped up earlier than all these, but it wasn't really discovered to be related until after the fact. So this one actually popped up in March 6, 2010.
Speaker 4:I'm going to say that this is the fourth signal when, technically, you could say chronologically, it would be like the first because, this is the first one to be like recorded in 2010 gotcha, but no one put piece it together with these other frequencies until after they discovered what the hell you're reading books for.
Speaker 7:So so that first signal is just kind of like a is like the the glue that ties a lot of these together.
Speaker 4:Okay got people to find more like it gotcha um. But on march 6, 2010, there was a uh signal with multiple simpsons characters, uh being used um. A station, a radio station in newfoundland, actually was able to pick these up even too wow. So not only are these being picked up in the us, they're being picked up in other countries as well, like um. A lot of the hot spots, I believe, in the us that were picking up these frequencies was like portland and like florida was getting hit with them. I think parts of California were getting these frequencies?
Speaker 4:and then you get fucking Newfoundland getting, getting these frequencies wasn't like a handful of them, like naval bases yeah, yeah, that's, that's a running thing that we're gonna find out, but it's just odd that here's one fucking the Swedes are at it or something. So the voices and jace is going to play the clip in a second, but the voices include like ralph, uh, flanders revel, reverend lovejoy, apu, um, it appeared over like hundreds of frequencies, um. And then it basically kept playing this bit throughout the night until the next morning when it just vanished. So if you want to go ahead and play it real quick, just a snippet, because it's part of another channel. Okay, copyright strict. Okay, keep going, I'll let you know when to stop.
Speaker 2:That's impossible. Oh my God, going, keep going, I'll. I'll let you know when to stop.
Speaker 7:There you go so that's a lot more voices than just homer I know right um, so it's.
Speaker 4:It's just interesting that this one like I said was seems like it is the original, but it was hidden all this time. Uh, people have not really figured out, uh, at this point of time, what the fuck any of this means, because at first it was like, oh, we gotta crack. What the hell are you reading books for? We might be able to figure that out. But now you're throwing all this into the fucking mix and then you throw on some tom jones as well. I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 5:What's new pussycat? Sounds like a good fucking night, if you ask me it's not unusual.
Speaker 4:It's not unusual uh, but there we still have. Uh, another signal. Uh, that is out there as well.
Speaker 7:If muthalamule, muthalamule, jay simpson the thing you call him simpsons did it yeah.
Speaker 3:So there's another frequency or there's another uh broadcast that comes into play after this. That is also just like tangentially connected to all of this, and this one repeats some phrases that don't have anything to do with the Simpsons at all, and these phrases are she had your dark suit in greasy wash water all year. Don't ask me to carry an oily rag like that. They use an aggressive policeman to flag thoughtless motorists. And these phrases were logged multiple times over the next few years, so they would pop up randomly on different frequencies in different places of the globe, and it was always these same phrases.
Speaker 4:Sounds a little threatening.
Speaker 3:Don't ask me to carry an oily rag like that yeah, I don't want to take away from doug's part, so there's a. There's a bit of an explanation for what these phrases are. Um and doug can go into that later, but um, should I go into like what the leading theory of why all of this is together? I?
Speaker 4:want you to, and I hope you were able to explain it because I still don't know what it means see.
Speaker 3:Yeah, see, that's the thing. So so all of these broadcasts are tied together, as far as best as I can understand, by just happenstance. So, like we have some transmissions that are tied together by the fact that they're both, they're all broadcasting Simpsons references we have some broadcasts that are tied together by the fact that they've been broadcast on the same frequency. But the thing is, I mean, say, one transmission source is broadcasting on a certain frequency and then it moves, and then something else comes in. It can broadcast on the same frequency. So I'm not entirely convinced that the fact that these two things were broadcasting on the same frequency at different times are entirely correlates them.
Speaker 7:But doesn't just mean that two different people had the, had the, like the frequency number, like they knew what it was like.
Speaker 3:That's all it means, right it just means that two people set their equipment to broadcast on the same frequency.
Speaker 3:Okay, so if you look this up, you're going to find one YouTube video that basically goes over everything that we just went over, and you're also going to find the forums that we mentioned earlier forumsradioreferencecom. And then you're going to find another website called Numbers and Oddities, which I had never heard of before, which is super interesting, which releases a periodic newsletter about different transmissions that have been picked up on ham radio frequencies. A lot of them are number stations related, and this seems to be the website that people are using as like the source of truth for what this is. And they have tied all of these broadcasts together under one unit known as ev02, and their explanation is that these are just navy ships or bases broadcasting these like speaking loops over and over again to just calibrate equipment, essentially, um, but in the digging that I did, I was not actually able to figure out how they came to this conclusion yeah that's where I got confused too.
Speaker 3:It does that also just doesn't really fucking track to me well yeah, so, like the, the last post in the forum thread that we talked about basically can like says that this is the reason, but it's just conjecture as far as I can tell, and I can't tell if this forum post is what was used to make the determination that this is the reason why these are all this, like this naval broadcast. So so, like some of the reasoning, obviously, as to why these things are tied to this and it's assumed that they're all naval broadcasts, is because some of them are broadcast on frequencies that are known to be military broadcasts. But, like I said, all of these things are connected together through just kind of coincidence, like, say, there's a military broadcast and it broadcasts a Simpsons reference.
Speaker 7:Right.
Speaker 3:But then there's another broadcast over here that happens to broadcast this same Simpsons reference or a different Simpsons reference, but people are just assuming that they're connected because of that. It doesn't necessarily mean that all of these broadcasts are military transmissions. That's where this theory falls apart to me. Well yeah, and it's the only theory I've actually seen yeah, I was.
Speaker 5:I was gonna mention this. One has a very open-ended kind of just thought process to it all, like whatever you look at online. But, um, maybe if I just explain what some of these things are, we can go into like a what we're actually thinking kind of mode.
Speaker 4:I want to go into this.
Speaker 7:I think we're all hovering around that right now. Yeah so.
Speaker 5:So I'm gonna go over two different things. Um, the first thing is called so. With these frequency comes, I guess I'm not actually sure what the right terminology is, but, um, the way that these stations are playing these loops are categorized into two different sentences. We've got Harvard sentences, which is going to be an example of kind of like. So, when we were hearing the like, will you hold this oily rag and like that stuff. These are actually well-known sample phrases. There's the Harvard sentences. I'm just going to read this verbatim. It's basically uh. Harvard sentences or harvard lines is a collection of 720 sample phrases divided into uh lists of 10 used for standardized testing of voice over ip, cellular and telephone systems. Um, they're phonetically bound sentences that use specific uh phonemes at the same frequency as they appear in english. Um, it's a recommended practice for speech. Quality measurements set out uh 72 lists of 10 phrases, each described as the 1965 revised list of blah blah. It's just uh, it's just a thing that telecommunications use to.
Speaker 3:It's essentially like vocal warm-ups these aren't harvard sentences, though these are part of a different set of things that are used for a sim, for a similar reason right.
Speaker 5:I don't know if this is above my pay grade. I fucking don't know.
Speaker 3:If you look at the harvard sentences. These are not in that set. These are actually part of something.
Speaker 5:I think I saw the the rag one in the list, though I thought I don't know, it doesn't really matter, but it's basically doing the same thing. Um, they're, I mean, we can only assume they're doing the same thing, I guess. But uh, yeah, so this, like this first set, like I said, with the, the simpsons voices or actually, I'm sorry, the, the last ones that matt was talking about, I guess would be locked into that yeah, aggressive cop policeman um would be lumped into what that is.
Speaker 5:And then there's another one called a timmet uh sentence uh, which is basically, I don't even know. Is that what you're talking about, matt?
Speaker 3:yeah, that's what these are part of. These aren't harvard sentences. Harvard sentences are sentences that are used in telecommunications to calibrate the voice over ip systems. The timet sentences are used in speech recognition as a data set used to train or evaluate the accuracy of speech recognition yeah.
Speaker 5:So basically what they were doing is they were like they'd have like a big long sentence and then they'd like switch someone out mid-sentence or they'd change it from like male to female. Um, I don't know what these uh like companies are, but like a bunch of big companies were using this and like even texas instruments was like a part of it and calculators, yeah, basically um, yeah, I had them switched around, um, but either way, fucking.
Speaker 5:Uh, it was just kind of interesting because they were basically going about this in a sense where, like, I'm not sure exactly what the use is for them. But uh, yeah, just switching out the dialect, switching out the, the, like I said, male, female, stuff like that, just like they'd have one speaker start talking and then like immediately cut off and be a new speaker, whoever it was male, female, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3:Um, but yeah, you had to like the idea is in like voice recognition systems or like speech recognition, you can train a system to understand a certain speaker speaking certain words very, very well. But if you train it to one person's voice too well and then it changes to and then you try to run it on someone else's voice, it doesn't work at all because you've over trained it on one person.
Speaker 4:So is it essentially just keeping this algorithm on its toes, I assume? Whatever point, just keep it on.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I assume it's comfortable it's a standard.
Speaker 3:It's a standard testing data set, so like. So if you have a speech recognition system and you want to have, you want to be able to test it on some well-constructed set of data so that you can accurately determine how well it's doing versus another speech recognition system. So they build these standard data sets that can be used to test various systems so that you can assess the accuracy of one system versus another. And so this Temet data set is a list of sentences that you would use to test your your system, and so what you would do is you would basically take recordings or record these sentences with multiple people's different voices, run it through the voice recognition system and then score how well it, how well its output, matches the input so are these just tests like the one where they use like multiple simpsons characters?
Speaker 4:was that? Is it literally just a test to check.
Speaker 5:Well, those ones would fall under the harvard sentences, which was slightly different than the timmet wouldn't that be the timmet one, because there's multiple different speakers and accents see, that's what I think. That's what I think. I got confused on that because I thought it was switched around. I thought the Timmet ones were the last ones we talked about and then the other way around.
Speaker 3:So that's the weird thing, and I think that's why the one YouTube video on this talks about the Harvard sentences, because the use case that's being used here is the original use case that the harvard sentences were built for. The harvard sentences were built during world war ii so that you could calibrate so you could speak these sentences that were known to be interval signal well, they were there, I.
Speaker 3:I think the original intent was like you spoke these sentences or broadcast these sentences, because they were known to be sentences that if you had a really shitty signal they'd be difficult to make out.
Speaker 7:Okay.
Speaker 3:So if you calibrated your transmission system on these sentences, you should be able to assume with some reasonable certainty that it's going to be legible for general speaking purposes. It was basically a testing system for early broadcast systems and that's why they think that these sentences were being used. But these sentences that are being used are actually part of that timid data set, not the original Harvard system.
Speaker 4:What would that have to do with the first one, though? Or what the hell are you reading books for?
Speaker 7:Because the whole point is assuming this is all connected to and like under the same see.
Speaker 3:See, that's why I'm saying this this entire connection falls apart for me is because I don't fully understand why the connection has been drawn between these broadcasts these broadcasts when really the only. Thing they have in common is that they are looping dialogue, sometimes broadcast on the same frequency and occasionally referencing the Simpsons maybe they're just a super fan.
Speaker 5:When I was reading, like about Harvard and Timotsen's, I was like I'm not sure I know which one is which, like as far as the the different signals we're talking about, and I think I think that just I mean this is above my pay grade as far as like what I know about fucking you don't know radio frequencies but like when I was looking it up and they're like this was recorded on frequency 1 0.852.
Speaker 4:I'm like that. I'm not even gonna unpack that. I have no fucking clue what you just said at least three more numbers than more on my radio.
Speaker 5:Well, what got me is? They were like, yeah, this is 0.2. I don't yeah, I was like I was reading through and they're like, yeah, it was commissioned by darpa and corpus design, a joint effort between the institute of technology, sri, and I'm like I don't like I don't care anymore.
Speaker 4:Instruments involved, like my fucking ti-84 calculator was sending out frequencies to russia this whole time I was trying to do my calculus test they were tracking you, man.
Speaker 5:They were like this kid sucks at fucking calculus.
Speaker 4:I did not take calculus, because I could do. Uh, I didn't either. What was it? I couldn't do? Trigonometry, yeah. Trig sucks, yeah, um. So what do you guys think that this thing was?
Speaker 5:then I feel like this was just some like nerdy person, or well, I don't want to say person, but maybe, like originally, was just some nerdy person, like putting out this frequency, using it for something. Random people caught on to it and then, I don't know, other people were using it too. I, I have no idea. I truly have no fucking idea I, yeah, I'm.
Speaker 7:I'm a little confused, like I. I don't. I don't know why I I don't know why anybody would put this on a shortwave radio. I don't know why anyone would would do this, unless there's a like. The only purpose I can think of is like something called an interval signal, which this has to do with number stations and it basically makes. It tells you that you're at the right place. If you're looking for something, this will, like, reinforce that you found it. So if you're looking for a station where somebody's saying what the hell are you reading books for, well then you know you found the. So if you're looking for a station where somebody's saying what the hell are you reading books for? Well then you know you found the correct station and then whatever plays after that is like whatever is supposed to be on.
Speaker 5:Man, what the fuck? What did we cover? That had the weird radio station, but only when you were like in a certain proximity, Do you know?
Speaker 7:what I'm talking about. Yeah.
Speaker 4:I have no clue what you're talking about personally.
Speaker 3:Say that again.
Speaker 5:I feel like maybe I'm making this fucking up. I don't even know. I feel like we covered something where a part of the mystery was that this weird radio station was showing up in cars, but only in weird spots. Yeah, yes I know I it just like hit me. I was like what the fuck? I think that was one of our reddit ones.
Speaker 7:It was definitely a multi-topic episode, it just wasn't whatever, that's all.
Speaker 5:I do know what you're talking about. I remember that now are you?
Speaker 3:sure you're not talking about the, the tiktok series, where all the people disappeared. Where's everyone? It could, yeah, it could have been I truly no it wasn't from that, it was from one of our friends.
Speaker 4:What? Are we doing? Because that was mine? I fucking remember that, that was mine.
Speaker 5:I just remember seeing a picture of a super old school car radio and they're like, yeah, I was on 91.2, and it was playing some weird they were picking up interference from.
Speaker 4:It was like the fucking Kohl's next door or something. It was like their announcement, notifications or something that was uh, uh, it was like their, their like announcement they were notifications or something they're like picking up a rate like from, like a coles or something you know, when they're like a couple months ago, my guitar amp started playing. You know like they're, they're like inventory, like radio frequencies or something from them.
Speaker 5:I I know what you're talking about, but okay, yeah, it was very was, it was very mundane, I just remembered it.
Speaker 4:That has nothing to do with this, I guess?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I remember that very fondly A couple months ago my guitar amp started picking up Christian radio. I was playing guitar and all of a sudden my amp started preaching to me and I freaked the fuck out.
Speaker 4:Maybe that was God himself.
Speaker 3:That was a sign, bro, you need to turn some shit around.
Speaker 5:You should have started jamming with the Lord.
Speaker 4:Yeah, Jesus, just wanted to belt one out with you. Homie. Speaking of mats, though. What do you think this whole thing is Speaking?
Speaker 5:of Jesus.
Speaker 4:Christ.
Speaker 3:It makes sense to me that this is somebody broadcasting something to test a system of some sort and make sure that somebody could receive it. Military makes sense to me yeah like a. So part of the original transmission is that, or part of the deal with the original transmission is that the the first instance of this was heard in canada and then later it was heard in the mojave desert, which makes navy ship make sense to me.
Speaker 3:Yeah, like it was off the coast of Canada, doug mentioned this prior, but a lot of these were picked up from coasts, coasts and naval bases yeah, so weird.
Speaker 4:Spoilers yeah, I mean so so.
Speaker 3:So I went on a long rant to say why I didn't think that the prevailing theory here made any sense, just to end up back in it makes sense, yeah it makes sense.
Speaker 4:I think it makes sense, but what keeps it as a?
Speaker 7:mystery to me is why the Simpsons? Have we said anything at all?
Speaker 4:Yes, I think that's what kind of gets me going is, why would they choose it to be the Simpsons if it was just testing stuff?
Speaker 3:Because they like the simpsons if it was just testing stuff, because because they like what made it funny. They had laying around man well who just hey a lot of clippable media, who just has simpsons shit laying around?
Speaker 4:who decided on that specific phrase? Oh, and all these specific phrases? Because some of them are cut up, like the one that has multiple uh uh voices. That was edited. That's not just push play on a youtube video of the simpson, of a simpsons episode.
Speaker 3:Like that was multiple different parts of different episodes chopped together maybe they have some, some new guy to be like and they were like hey, they were like hey, get us an audio clip we can play that has multiple different people saying different phrases and instead of it was just like, all right, sure, whatever. What do we have laying around the base?
Speaker 4:We have Simpsons season one through five on DVD.
Speaker 7:That is entirely possible but I don't know what do you think it is then? That's enough of how you don't think any of this works.
Speaker 4:How do you think it works Realistically? It is probably the fucking Navy base thing. How, how? You don't think it's any of this works. We are what. How do you think it works realistically?
Speaker 4:it is probably the fucking navy base thing but in my brain, in my brain, I think, it might have just been some, like doug said, some kid maybe just fucking uh uh sending out frequencies just to troll with people. Pirate, yeah, just yeah, just to troll around. I don't think it's like a code thing, because typically with like um, with like uh uh, number station codes or something, it's multiple different uh uh phrases or numbers.
Speaker 7:It's not the same phrase this over and over and over. It usually is, and that's simply because that the phrases on number stations are the interval signals I don't know, what that means interval signal lets you know, you're on the right station
Speaker 7:if you're looking for it and you know the phrase. Okay. So if you were receiving signals from your government and you're in the military and you're behind enemy lines or something, because these were around like World War II, if you were to tune into a frequency and you knew which one to look for, that means you could look for these nonsense things, yeah, but there's usually something else to it, right like if and if it's a strain of numbers, usually it's not the same one, two, three, four.
Speaker 5:one, two, three, four and maybe one, two, three, four, maybe one, two, three four, five, eight, seven, two, eight, nine well I think typically those are telling you a set of commands and then, once you hear a deviation, you know to do whatever it is they're telling you to do.
Speaker 8:I think that's the difference I think what jason is saying is that this is there is a code here a locating signal behind its meaning, uh, which would I guess make some sense of because numbers they're testing because it's shortwave.
Speaker 4:But number station. Shit makes no fucking sense to me at all none of everything. I actually understand them out of everything and anything we'll ever cover. If we cover radio stations like in depth, I am not going to be helpful because I don't understand that shit at.
Speaker 7:Fuck it all I think I get that it's a code, but that's all my brain can comprehend yeah, it's, it's like it's, it's, it's a way to use a radio when we didn't have, you know, gps or satellites, because like tom tom, yeah, yeah, nothing like that. It was a way to, it was a way to make sure you were still connected to the information you needed to be connected to. That makes a lot of sense to me. I don't know why it applies to this context, though.
Speaker 4:Like at all Because the Simpsons Bart. But I ain't a Simp son, you know what I'm saying. I thought it would be fun if we all kind of found If this isn't fun, I'm gonna kill you.
Speaker 4:If we all found oh god, the pressure's really on If we all found other radio stations or other examples that we might have been able to find for each other to kind of play, that are not necessarily Simpsons themed but just radio station mysteries and stuff. I found one. May I play mine, yeah, if you want? Okay, I sent my outline. Can you open up my outline bit?
Speaker 5:Yeah, let me exit this.
Speaker 4:Now, this one is scary for a big reason, and I'll show you what. What the fuck am I looking at at here you?
Speaker 7:don't keep your outlines in the drive anymore yeah, I do.
Speaker 4:It's right here, mike homer.
Speaker 5:Oh, it's in the docks it's in docks there, you found it okay all the way down is the last.
Speaker 4:This is going great.
Speaker 7:This is doing all right, you guys enjoying all this. This is behind the scenes before. I just want you to listen to it, you could just play the
Speaker 4:whole video. Well, not the whole video, but play the video out. This is doing it, right? You guys enjoying all this. This is behind the scenes, so before I just want you to listen to it, you can just play the whole video. Well, not the whole video, but play the video out. And. I'll explain what it is.
Speaker 4:Okay so that's just a small clip of it. The whole thing is about two and a half minutes long. Now take into consideration what you just heard and let me give you a little bit of backstory on it. Now this isn't necessarily a short wave, like someone just heard this over, like the radio coming from a tower or anything. No, what this was was there were two guys in the 1960s I believe it was may of 1960 and they were hanging out listening to radio frequencies and they picked up on this frequency, deciphering it. They found out it was a Russian woman and she was saying in that frequency. They noticed she was distressed and they were able to translate some of it into things like it is hot. Here I can see flames. I'm breaking up. Why are you not responding? Where is my transmission?
Speaker 5:It's getting very hot Ghosting their GF or something.
Speaker 4:Well, no, what this is is. This is audio of a document called the Lost Cosmonaut. This is really upsetting.
Speaker 7:Mike, it is very upsetting.
Speaker 4:This is the recording of a cosmonaut woman in the 1960s who was basically the Russian center-up.
Speaker 3:Oh no, I don't like this Russian center-up.
Speaker 4:This is bad it was hidden from the public. No one knew about this. The only reason people found out was because these two guys caught this audio and this is a woman of her, uh, her ship coming back in resurfacing and basically exploding while entering the atmosphere, and they just like fit said fuck it, we're not helping you anymore, which is why russia gave up on this woman, and that's why she's saying things like it's getting hot, I see flames.
Speaker 5:She mentions where are you?
Speaker 4:re-entering. She mentions where are you, where are my transmissions? And in that as well, um, they're able to, um, they I I couldn't hear it in that frequency, but they were they were giving like transcripts of like what they were saying back to her a little bit. Um, maybe they were using context clues or something, but you do hear like um, uh, her saying something, whole fucking thing yeah, you hear her saying things like um, is this going to hurt, is this painful?
Speaker 4:and they're just like, yep, it's not gonna be fun. And she died and no one knew about it. Um, the records for this was found again. It was like like May, I believe, of 1960. And like I want to say, two or three days after this was found and documented, the Russians put out a document saying that a quote-unquote unmanned satellite burned up in the atmosphere and that satellite was the size of a bus. And basically that was a fucking lie. It was not unmanned. There was a woman in there, there was a cosmonaut in there who fucking burnt up in the atmosphere and died. And these are essentially her last words, pleading for help from the Russian military.
Speaker 7:A man named Julius Epstein wrote about it.
Speaker 4:That's a little too close to my comfort.
Speaker 5:Just saying Are all of these going to end up being Russian related? It's entirely possible. A lot of them come out to be Russian, that's where a vast majority of these come from.
Speaker 3:Yeah, a hundred percent Again, that wasn't necessarily coming from a radio tower.
Speaker 4:But I thought that that was the fact that some guys were just able to pick that up on their fucking ham radios.
Speaker 7:That's fucked. Is what that is? It turned out being this it's literally listening to some lady dying as she reenters the atmosphere Terrifying to me.
Speaker 4:What? Do you got Jason.
Speaker 7:Do you guys know what the Lincolnshire Poacher is? Wow. No, go ahead, matt, do you have? Something that's closely related.
Speaker 3:No no fuck off.
Speaker 7:no, I just said wow.
Speaker 7:So the Lincolnshire Poacher is a numbers station, and we've mentioned numbers. Prove it, you bitch. We've mentioned number stations multiple, multiple times. I figured why not just let people hear what the fuck this sounds like? Uh, so this is a well-known numbers station, um broadcast channel, known as the Lincolnshire Poacher, and the reason we know it's the Lincolnshire Poacher is because it comes complete with an interval signal telling you as such, because it uses a few bars, like random bars from a song. I forget what the song is. Oh, the Lincolnshire Poacher is the name of the English folk song. Here it is 0-2-5-8-8.
Speaker 4:There it is. Did the fucking ice cream man come through?
Speaker 7:I fucking hope so it's the ding ding man I was going to do the creepy space flight sounds on the outside of the space plane. One yeah.
Speaker 4:I do want people to look that up.
Speaker 5:That's a good one too. You're talking about that newest thing. Yeah, this was like last week or something. They determined it, though.
Speaker 4:Allegedly, allegedly.
Speaker 7:Look it up because it's creepy. Just like they promised that there's no aliens, Some fucking ISS dudes were just like uh, hey, we're hearing some weird sounds.
Speaker 4:Can you hear it? Uh command. At first they're like no they're like no, and they're like okay, hang on a second. And they like get it closer.
Speaker 5:And just you're like yeah it's like heartbeat, yeah like sonar almost yeah, and they're like it sounds like sonar and they're like and then everyone's just like uh, it's probably your equipment being.
Speaker 7:We'll let you know, but it sounded like the dude at mission control was literally just going like yeah, okay.
Speaker 4:And he's just like doing that jerk-off motion. It definitely sounded like a sonar heartbeat.
Speaker 7:It was like yeah, that was a creepy one, but after years I decided to go with a much happier one.
Speaker 3:Somebody with their lights on and open the door.
Speaker 5:Doug, what you? Uh actually I need you to look this up, but uh, I'll explain it. So this is called the buzzer um, this one's, like this one's pretty, pretty well known, um, but this noise, uh is actually transmitted, uh, on a radio station since the 1970s, um, and it's still going today. Um, literally, this station records a sound, um of a buzz, like literally all day and all night, and then, like once or twice a week, it gets interrupted by, like, some random man oh, and that didn't start happening until the 90s.
Speaker 4:Right, that's the freakiest part it was. I looked into this one too. I was about to do this one, but from like the 70s to the 90s it was just this buzzing noise and then, randomly, some people just heard it and it was just like a fucking russian voice. And that's how they were just like, oh shit, it's the russians, because they had no idea who was producing it before yeah, this clip too should be the buzzing and the actual voice message.
Speaker 5:Um, so, before we play it though, I just just wanted to finish just kind of explaining it. People really don't know what this is akin to number stations. They think it's probably a Russian military thing. They call it a monolith format message, which is like a five-digit group of numbers followed by code words to basically reach out to a call sign of someone. I I don't know enough about it to explain more than that, but that's what people think this is. I just thought it was interesting because, like, seriously, like uh, the same radio frequency has been playing the same thing since 1970. I think it's still going to. Oh, there's a live youtube channel that just plays it all day.
Speaker 5:Yeah, so you can actually go and like. It's called the buzzer uvb-76, that's like what it's called, so that the last, the lincolnshire poacher, the one that I just played.
Speaker 7:That one was uh, it started, uh world war ii and it stopped playing it started.
Speaker 5:It started World War II, oh shit, it started broadcasting.
Speaker 7:It killed our Stukford I know that was World War I, but no. So it persisted through the Cold War and then it finally stopped broadcasting 20 years after the end of the Cold War. Wild, but it started before World War II. So, like, for whatever reason, these fucking signals stay on the air. Would you like me to play? Yeah?
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 7:Let's take a peek. This is what Doug's talking about.
Speaker 4:I don't understand any of that. Yeah, I mean I looked into this one pretty fairly so that didn't show the buzzing sounds. But the buzzing sounds don't play as regular. They play on like They'll go for two minutes, pause for two minutes, go for two minutes, pause for two minutes. But there's a couple of fascinating things about the buzzer one. First off, the buzzing itself. People don't think that that's part of like a code. They think it might be part of like how you're saying. It's what you look for on a signal to get the code, the interval signal.
Speaker 8:The interval.
Speaker 4:People think that's an interval signal. Don't think it has anything to do with the code at all signal. I don't think it has anything to do with the code at all. Secondly, um, because of the way that in in the early two thousands I think it was um there was a day where it went silent for full 24 hours and then it booted back up and it switched Uh, there's a voice change as well. So people were able to confirm that this radio station isn't just broadcasting like signals. Radio station isn't just broadcasting like signals. It's coming from like a um, a stereo being played into a microphone. So there's a live microphone playing this signal and shooting it out so they can make changes on the fly.
Speaker 3:It's literally, it's said, it's like an abandoned, fucking uh radio station in saint petersburg, russia yeah, but the freaky thing is it that isn't the theory, that a lot of this shit was set up during the soviet union and when it went like during the collapse of the soviet union, a lot of this shit just got abandoned and they just left it.
Speaker 4:Fucking right, yeah, but it's just sitting there continuing to do a big theory with that one because of the fact that it is uh, I don't know if it has anything to do with it, but I just thought it was interesting that, like, there's just a live microphone that is what's broadcasting all this um, the. The other freaky thing that people think this is is they think it's kind of like a um. What's the word? I'm looking for first and foremost the, the um, the russian in it is the call, the call sign call sign.
Speaker 7:The interval signal is the beginning in the 90s.
Speaker 4:They heard the name of it, that's what they started calling it, and then, um, a couple years later, or whatever it did, a new call sign. So that was the new name of the frequency gotcha um but people think that this was like an old soviet thing, kind of like a um fuck, what's the word I'm looking for like a fail safe where, if some shit goes down, this frequency can trigger a nuclear launch somehow. Oh.
Speaker 4:God. Yeah, it's something with the frequency and how far it's extended, or something. People think that this could be some form of a failsafe last resort.
Speaker 3:Shoot a missile at someone thing it's connected to Vladimir Putin's heartbeat.
Speaker 5:Oh, oh god, that's what you're hearing. It's that's the kill.
Speaker 4:So he doesn't have a beat, it's a buzz um, but I I looked up a relative decent amount into that one, which is funny that you bring up the buzzer, because I thought it was a fun one um, I've heard of that one before and I was like fuck it, let's go, why not?
Speaker 3:you got one for us uh, mine's a lot simpler, so this um, I'm gonna just drop it in the chat. This recording comes from a number station called e10 um, which ran from sometime in the 60s or 70s until about 2011, and it comes from like it's broadcasting from somewhere in tel aviv and people think it's connected to the israeli special ops, like spec ops folk, and the reason why this particular broadcast stood out to me is it's in the format of most of the other messages that come from this station, which is just a automated, like woman's voice speaking the phonetic alphabet. So she'll be like tango, echo, whatever, but at the very end of this one there's just the windows xp shutdown is you're like?
Speaker 7:going to play it. All right, here we go, sure.
Speaker 3:We don't have to listen.
Speaker 7:This is pretty much what it is.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you can skip to like the last five seconds.
Speaker 4:All right here, oh oh you missed it, damn it she's just like all right. Uh, it's five o'clock, all right, shut it down.
Speaker 7:I did my job.
Speaker 4:That's pretty great yeah, there's, there's a. There's a lot of number stations out there. The reason that, like, I don't really find number stations all that interesting is because most of the theories for every number station it's the exact same fucking thing. It's always used by government for spars, which makes sense. But where's the fun in that?
Speaker 4:also doesn't tell me anything now a fun one, or I guess an interesting one is probably like apparently it's like the most well-known and like dangerous uh signal. It's called like hm oh 101, or the cuban lady is what it's called, and apparently cuban is a big part of like a bunch of geopolitical problems. The Havana signal no, not Havana signal, but it's called the Cuba lady. Cuban lady, yes, because it's literally just a lady with a Cuban accent just doing numbers.
Speaker 5:Just doing a little numbers.
Speaker 4:I don't know the whole story behind it, but apparently around the time that that was found, couple days later, like all this like government, like chaos started going with like multiple different agencies and like different countries. So people think that this spawned a lot of government problems. I don't know much about it because I was just like it's another fucking spy number station thing, but I guess it's like the big one because if you look up number station and top five creepy number stations, most of them have this cuban lady.
Speaker 5:Yeah radio havana accidentally exposes itself that it runs the cuban lady number station well, that was a quick mystery.
Speaker 7:You're welcome Next.
Speaker 4:Wow, we're really good at this Fucking solved.
Speaker 7:That's a job well done for the day. I think this is the first thing we've solved.
Speaker 5:So I saw the name of that, and then I just clicked on it and the first comment on the whole post was man, they run a sloppy operation over there.
Speaker 4:Can we just have an episode where we get like a hundred topics and we just Google and this is the mystery?
Speaker 8:solved.
Speaker 4:Next and.
Speaker 7:Quick mystery.
Speaker 5:This is how many we can get through in 60 minutes. A hundred stories in an hour Speed dating internet mysteries. We just read the title of it and then we go fake and real. His brother did it yeah, it was just a quick how it happened, yeah well, on that note, um, I think we covered this relatively good.
Speaker 4:Uh, if people want us, let us know. If you want to hear number stations, I I mean I'll do it we're going to do it.
Speaker 7:I'm a slut.
Speaker 4:You say you're gonna do it like you have a choice yeah, I'll do it if people want, but don't make me um, uh jason, I don't know.
Speaker 3:I know that there's probably some just like really boring reason behind most of them, but they're still. They still creep me out yeah, I still think they're scary. I don't like listening I have they may.
Speaker 7:They nerve the shit out of me.
Speaker 4:I have a memory and I can't tell if I'm making this memory up because all the shit that we talk about, but I have a memory of me coming across a number station briefly, but again, it could just be me making things up in my brain.
Speaker 7:False memory. No, the VHS with Raffi teaching you to count is not a number station.
Speaker 4:Oh Ben, all right, it was just the count Gotcha One, two. The guy was dressed like Dracula. Of course, it's all real.
Speaker 3:That's exactly Anybody listening to this. If you're going to start up a number station for any reason, just use the count.
Speaker 5:One, two 17.
Speaker 4:The number of the day.
Speaker 5:Also, if you want us to cover number stations and you have fun topics on that that you want us to look into- post it in the comments.
Speaker 4:I'm going to go ahead and just say visit us on all of our places. You can find all of our links to all of our socials and whatnot in the Linktree, linktreecom, slash, dilutypod. Also our website's dilutycom, just Google, dil and whatnot in the link tree, link treecom slash deludipod also our website's deludipodcom um just google deludie. Just google. In our places. We're literally whatever app you are on, we're in the red robin. Search, yeah, search to ludy, or don't look under the internet, we'll pop right up we're even on threads.
Speaker 4:No one's on threads and we're on threads, so that's why no one's on, I went on threads and people are just like oh, what's a fork? And I'm like I got to get out of here, I can't do this Just a combination of the dumbest people you've ever seen.
Speaker 4:People are like is this puppet real? And I'm like what? Yes, was Pinocchio based off a true story? Yes, is this bullet going to go in my face now? So all I'll have to say is look us up everywhere. We're everywhere. If you want to send us a voicemail, send it to our google phone number. It's 630-909-9366. You have to let me say it once 630 figure it out.
Speaker 4:I guess they won't let me do it so leave us a voicemail, we'll play at the end of the show. Text us, we'll text you back. It's fun inquiries. Notice I used the right word there. You did ludypod at gmailcom. Uh, also something else to send to that email hometown horrors, yes, um. So for the entire month of september and into some of october most of october what we want you to do. It's this easy, this easy, don't forget. Is this easy um? Go to our email wdpod at gmailcom. Send us an email.
Speaker 5:Make sure the subject line is hometown horrors 2024 and then put, because we already got one that didn't have that in the title, so put your name.
Speaker 4:I guess your name isn't even needed, but just put hometown horrors 2024. That way we can search all these emails and find everything simply and we can read it off on the show. If you don't do that and you're shocked that we might find, it but. But if we don't, if you don't do that and you're shocked, you don't hear it on the show that's on you, mike.
Speaker 7:Mike did it on principle alone. Yep, but make sure you do that again.
Speaker 4:Fuck you. Send it to our email Subject line Hometown Horrors 2024. Thank you very much. I would also like to say you should go ahead, and if you hear number station, it's probably me giving you a code to tell you to go kiss your dad. You should do it.
Speaker 7:You don't have to listen.
Speaker 4:No, but you want to listen because the code is going to be a bunch of different accented we can't say that. Um, that's all. I got jason um, stay paranoid.
Speaker 7:These I. There's a lot of frequencies out there. Who knows who's saying what on any of them. If you need a hobby, just go buy a shortwave radio and just start scrolling through the channels. Hang out on radio, radio reference. It's a lot of very dedicated individuals over there. But mainly, don't ever listen to the radio ever again.
Speaker 4:Turn the radio off at forever. Stick to youtube and pornhub there's some pollen tomorrow, sorry there's some pollen tomorrow calm down.
Speaker 7:Add we're almost done. I'm so sorry doesn't notify to no pollen.
Speaker 5:Um fucking, I don't know. I guess if you can figure out a way to like choreograph, slapping beans and beans to number stations, do it great and what? Does that I don't don't send us those videos at all, so I don't want to know wow, goodbye.
Speaker 3:Wow, matt, this has just been such a pleasure. I'm such a lucky boy. I can't wait to go home.
Speaker 4:Was that?
Speaker 5:your timid sentence. Yes, yes, it was A timid haiku.
Speaker 3:Someone just got activated Fraying your speech recognition system on that.
Speaker 4:Yeah, someone just got activated by that phrase.
Speaker 7:Matt just said Nailing just walks out of the room. Kill John Lennon.
Speaker 4:Yeah, love everybody. Nailie just walks out of the room, kill John Lennon. Yeah, love everybody. Bye everybody, have a day. Bye, have a beautiful night 5, 12, 19 Pork.
