Numbers by the Zillions

How'd you like that Nepalese station? Pretty good stuff, huh? Makes one want to get better at yoga and high altitude living.

Today we're gonna do a weird one with no particular national boundaries. Better pull out your tin-foil hat and your best conspiracy theory (we know you've got one)! 

Ever hear of numbers stations? That's OK, Ellen hadn't either. This crazy dude told Pinky about them at a Volkswagen show years ago. This guy was also obsessed with chemtrails and stuff, so Pinky ended the conversation pretty quickly. Pinky had completely forgotten about them until one changed numbers a few days ago and a science fiction blog he reads went wild. (PS: Nerd Alert!)

You've got to listen between the numbers.

OK, so number stations are these creepy repetitive shortwave broadcasts of people reading numbers or of weird music notes or Morse code. No one quite knows what their intentions are, but they're generally assumed to be coded messages sent out by intelligence agencies to their spies, though no government has acknowledged that posit. Though they're kind of considered a relic of the cold war, apparently their activity has slightly increased since the fall of the Soviet Union. Bizarre.

Thanks to "Math for Liberal Arts" we know what this is!

We have a feeling that there probably isn't enough material here to last a whole work day and it's gonna be hard to listen to a full day of this gibberish anyway. We suggest going back to visit one of our previous radio stations. Namibia, anyone? That Libyan one deserves another go 'round, too.

If you're committed to listening to number stations all day - and we won't judge you if you are, nerd - utilize a search engine and you're sure to find tons of recordings and a few live streams out there of these stations.

Makes us want to shoot a polar bear with a hand gun.

Anyway, dig out a filling and slip a cyanide capsule in the crevice, click the play button at the top of that little playlist, and let's get a taste of some of the broadcasts out there.

The Conet Project

PS: the Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations is available in a 4 disc set - we def suggest checking it out!

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