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My puppy ran away (What if raindrops turned into jelly beans)

This is part two of our Area 51 voyage, presented live on Area 51, WBCQ 5.110 MHz, at 0000 UTC on Friday, August 29, 2008. A strange mix of audio from the deepest depths of our radio show, and the off the wall impromptu madness inspired by Area 51, can be found here. This is not a show for the uninitiated, but somehow, it serves as a show for the first time listener. We love Area 51.

240 Fr 8.29.08 0000 5110 My puppy ran away

• Troutwaxer 1
• Carole King - So Far Away
• Horrific Child - Argoissie (with Arnie "Solving Problems" and "Torture Chamber")
• George Carlin - The Seven Words
• The Blob
• Billie Holiday - Crazy He Calls Me - October 1951 Brad rip
• Al Caiola - Secret Agent Man
• Al Caiola - Theme the The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
• 13th Floor Elevators - She Lives (In a Time of Her Own)
• Flaming Sideburns - Submarine Sensation - Sky Pilot
• The Deviants - Playtime
• The Beatles - Only A Northern Song - Anthology 2
• 9th Wave - Spy Lounge
• The Pretty Things - L.S.D.
• Ren and Stimpy, Happy Happy Joy Joy
• The Carter Family - Keep On The Sunny Side
• Robots At The Factory - Halloween 3 soundtrack

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What Is It

This madness went out over Area 51, WBCQ 5.110 MHz, at 2300 UTC on Thursday, August 28, 2008, at 2300 UTC. This rates as one of our most bizarre and entertainingly lively shows, and we didn't even plan it that way.

239 Th 8.28.2008 2300 5110 What Is It

• Steinski & Mass Media - The Motorcade Sped On
• Michael Ketter - Stairway To Heaven (Uncle Ed Version)
• Frank Zappa - Ship Ahoy
• Velvet Underground - Candy Says - Boston Tea Party 1969
• Elephant's Memory - Madness - Apple 1854
• Black Magic Marker
• Horrific Child - HIA (with "Everybody has feelings")
• Madness - Our House
• Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band - Party of Special Things To Do - Bluejeans and Moonebeams
• The Weirdos - We Got The Neutron Bomb
• Horrific Child (with "Fat Woman Quagmire" and "Spaced Out Disco")
• John Lennon - Cold Turkey
• Hopper Borther and Connie - Songs We Used To Know (with "Call of the Freaks")
• Harlen Lattimore - Reefer Man

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Pedro screws up

Sunday, February 3, 2008, 2049, 6800-6910. A very wide band squeal, appearing with carriers every 1.5 KHz or so, obliterated the band. At about 2100, the commie numbers station V2 started on every carrier. This mess was noted simultaneously across the country by various listeners, as noted in #pirateradio. The SDR scan is courtesy www.blackcatsystems.com.

FERD

Easy, Leonard. Go easy, man.

From "An Outline of Abnormal Psychology," Gardner Murphy, ed. (The Modern Library, New York, 1929), "Mental Deficiency," Tredgold, Dr. A. F.

E.J., female, aged 32 years. A pronounced history of insanity and epilepsy on the maternal side, and alcoholism on the paternal side. Has been in the asylum since seven years of age. A repulsive-looking woamn, with a muddy, freckled face, coarse red hair, and numerous stigmata ; crainial circumference, 21 inches. She can walk, but spends the day sitting in a chair turning her head from side to side, rocking to and fro, and biting her hands. She is of unclean habits and is unable of doing anything by herself. She is quite deaf in the right ear, but listens attentively to the ticking of a watch held close to her left one. She seems to have no knowledge of time or place, and apparently no understanding of anything said to her. But when the piano is played, she at once ceases her rhythmic movements and listens attentively. She cannot speak, but will hum the tunes she has heard so well that they are readily recognized. As a rule she is harmless, but upon any attempt at examination she makes violent resistance and tries to bite, and she is at times spiteful and interferes with the other patients.

Did you catch that bit in the middle?

"But when the piano is played, she at once ceases her rhythmic movements and listens attentively. She cannot speak, but will hum the tunes she has heard so well that they are readily recognized."

That is the definition of the Lumpy Gravy Radio Show every time we play Steely Dan.

Oh Lord, I have an enormous problem

Sunday, November 2, 2007, 0409, 6915 am. WYFR Family radio has invaded the pirate band with a completely incomprehensible, all fucked up transmission. The echo on their feed renders the transmission incomprehensible, humorous and scary all at the same time. At 0416, this is starting to sound like the Voice of Satan. s30 and still fucked up at 0454. Argh! At 0524 check, the echo is gone, but a boring staid scripture reading remains with an overwhelming signal.

Here's an off-air recording for your amusement.

Slack

Our 175th episode was performed live on WBCQ 7.415 MHz at 0300 UTC on Monday, October 8, 2007, at Master Control in Monticello on 7.415 MHz. This show was hosted by Captain Cosmik and Lieutenant Goodthighs, who flew in from space just to commandeer an international shortwave broadcast station for a short while. This may qualify as our weirdest show ever.

• Kulpsville Interval Signal
• WBCQ Jingle Michael Mix
• Rev. Norelpref - Ape News 05
• NOTLD - Good Shot!
• Baboons News Reel
• Mr. F. LeMur - Believe It Or Kill Me #0027
• Allan Weiner - I want to marry my cat
• Slack Conspiracy I told you so
• Rev. Norelpref - Yo ass is doomed
• South Park Drugs are bad
• Pink Boyz Put your hands on the radio

• Theme to Captain America
  
• Mr. F. LeMur - PR Gnus #1371
  
• King of the Hill Boomhauer Seinfeld
  
• Jay I had a cat...no pets
  
• Rev. Norelpref - Ape news minute plus
  
• Screwy Squirrel - Isn't he a darling yaaaaaah
  
• Slack I smell a conspiracy
  
• Tarzan01 What Cheetah Saying
  
• Conet Project d2t15 Sexy Lady
  
• Jay That's a little strange for me
  
• Dieter Touch my monkey
  
• Rev. Norelpref - TZone 2-W

• South Park Drugs are good
  
• South Park Kyle's mom is a bitch
  
• Tarzan Chimp & Yell
  
• Jimmy Olsen
  
• Screwy Squirrel I had a little friend once
  
• Mr. F. LeMur - Believe It Or Kill Me #0028
  
• Monty Python's Flying Circus - Not Noel Coward Isn't it awfully nice to have a penis
  
• Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Euphoria

• Courtney Love bitches at her audience
  
• Rev. Ivan Stang - Hellbound Train
  
• Justin 91.9 Kiowa Grumpy little snakes
  
• Mr. F. LeMur - This is PRrrrr 021
  
• Rev. Norelpref - Mock the monkey
  
• Bradgate House
  
• South Park Underpants gnome song

• Jay I'm for gay rights
  
• Jimmy the Weasal goes off
  
• Captain Beefheart - Orange Claw Hammer acoustic version
  
• Jay Nonsense
  
• Screwy Squirrel You done a bad thing George
  
• Mr. F. LeMur - The Longer Again 14
  
• What the hell am I looking at?
  
• Ren & Stimpy It's all clear to me now
  
• Victory at Sea Bob
  
• Two Nice Girls - Speed Racer

• Jay There's stuff that's worse than profanity
  
• Andy Griffith - Aunt Bee
  
• Jay I've never had a wife of a same sex partner
  
• South Park Dawg song
  
• Mr. F. LeMur - This is PRrrr 22
  
• King of the Hill Boomhauer Dang ol' Internet
  
• Screwy Squirrel B pictures
  
• Weird song from Ray Ray
  

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Strange things on shortwave

Sunday, January 28, 2007, 2337, 6840 usb. E10 mixing with a spanish or portuguese language telephone system relay. Very strange.

At 2345, Van Morrison's Brown Eyed Girl, followed by Van Halen's Hot For Teacher in FM mode on 6925.

2355, 6925 usb. Various fone messages with an occasional whistle.

0000, 6925.5 usb. Very strong "pescadorie" 2-way comms.

0004, 6925 FM. Van Halen again.

Fookin' ICQ

From October 22, 2006, with the names redacted to protect the innocent guilty.

robin (11:20 PM) : holy sheepshit batman! the joker just dropped 4 pounds of peruvian hash! I have captured the package with my batwhip. we must head to the batcave immediately and examine it.

batman (11:20 PM) : yes robin we must

batman (11:21 PM) : go get the bat-bong

robin (11:21 PM) : there may be Trouble

batman (11:21 PM) : only if we toast it all at once

robin (11:21 PM) : summons alfred so that he might make us brownies!

batman (11:22 PM) : we should have him bring some to commishiner gordon and

robin (11:22 PM) : for some reason I can see that as a premise for a cover story for Strange Adventures

batman (11:22 PM) : oh who was thatr irish guy ?

robin (11:24 PM) : inspector detector?

batman (11:24 PM) : lol

File properties

When I receive or retrieve a Microsoft Office document, I often take a look at the document's "Properties." Microsoft allows one to add all types of metadata to a document to facilitate searching and organization, but I would guess that 99% of the people who use these products have no idea this data is here or make any effort to take advantage of it.

This is an example of "data hiding," and in some cases it is revealing; for example, a document's original author can sometimes be left inside the "properties." By default the "author" and "company" fields are the same as what the creator entered when he or she installed the computer or software package. This explains why I see so many documents that have generic entries in these fields like "Outsourced company user" and "outsourcing company" (I am using generic names here so as not to disparage IT outsourcing firms).

In the case of Microsoft Word, the "title" field usually defaults to the first line or so of the original document's text. I came across a rather staid business document recently that had the most bizarre title block:

THE SECTION DIVIDER IS TWENTY PLAIN TIMES TRACKED OUT TWENTY PERCENT

Can anyone tell me what this means? It has no correlation with the original document at all.

Religious Spy Mix

Saturday, December 30, 2006, 2111, 6850. WYFR has signed on with it's ubuquitous religious broadcast and with a speaker that sounds a bit like Rod Hembree. However, a Spanish-speaking female robot voice is churning out numbers in blocks of five over top of the poor scripture teacher. The Cuban's putting out stronger audio than WYFR, the stations are perfectly co-channel, and the resulting mix is truly surreal.

E10

Tuesday, July 19, 2005, 2340, 6840. Just by chance I came upon a numbers transmission from E10 with the familiar female-spoken phonetic alphabet message. At 2345,

end of message end of message
message message
group six zero group six zero
text text
whiskey charlie mike november november
foxtrot sierra romeo november hotel
...

At 2354 I heard

message two message two
group seven five group seven five
text text
...

I understand this to mean that a message will follow consisting of 75 five-character blocks. However the transmission ended suddenly at 2355. Overall signal 323 with lots of thunderstorm static.

Numbers stations on IRR

This past weekend the International Radio Report on CKUT featured the recent BBC report on shortwave numbers stations. This is a very interesting program and worth a listen. I run IRR on the WBCQ webcast weekdays at 12:30pm (1630 UTC), and I'll keep this particular show in the queue for a couple of weeks.

You can also get the aircheck on demand from CKUT's archive page: choose Sunday, May 15, from 10:30 to 11:00.

The strangely recurring ICQ message

For some reason this message keeps repeating to one of my ICQ friends, but I only sent it once.

Must be the gremlins.

A nearby spy

Thursday, April 1, 2004, 0425, 9323. A spy, or some kind of intelligence service, is spewing over-modulated five digit number groups on this frequency and completely overwhelming everything nearby. This broadcast is equally strong and nasty on both sidebands. In fact we are getting spew from this broadcaster from 9310 up to 9335. Typical five digit number groups, e.g. "alpha lima bravo papa tango," but so badly over-modulated as to render the number groups nearly untillegible. Very strong signal, s20+, must be near by. Creepy.

By the way, it's wiping out any trace of WBCQ on 9330. Which is no big deal because "Christian Media Network" on at this time almost always has nothing of interest to listen to.

They ended the audio at 0441, but they still ran an nasty, hummy open carrier until 0443. Only then was I able to grab a signal on WBCQ on 9329.90 LSB.

Notes from the Situation

Con game Aunt Mary mental institution throwin' up 24 hours a day. Stack of videos 'til four in the morning. The whole family drinks, blue bird all the time. Grandmother says "when you gonna git outa my granddaughter's house". Morning sickness. Throwin' her money away on that stuff. He's gettin' himself in a bad Situation. She's quite the sport, picks up a man in the bar, gone through men like you wouldn't believe. Family oriented, family's a bunch of drunks. Her family are race car nascar people, loves the slots. Spent the night with this shit-ass. He's a Plumber.

Who the hell wants a seven month pregnant woman back? He's a Plumber. Mom Mom's sister's son, one of his cousin's ex-wives. Pensacola lawyer from Alabama, marriage on the rocks, SO ANYWAY YOU KNOW, Davey in the Acme ol' fashioned South Carolina Georgia Pacific Duck Neck Campground 544 the last trailer.

This was originally transcribed on or about March 31, 2003.

Aunt Mary has an Indian boyfriend with a small moustache from Canada

She was a price. Price-this and price-that. Tryin' to grow a hedge, that dog was tangled up in my new shrubery. Why'd they put that damn dog on our side? Swindlin' it out of somebody. Even the younger prices were just as bad as the older ones 'cause they taught 'em. Price price price. Ain't got no class. Slave drivers. Got friendly with those two ol' ladies at the Still Pond store. I don't clean up after no gunners who threw up the night before. The Kentmore Park-Betterton connection is revealed. Then, a discussion about plumbers from Alabama.

Vodka giblets. Martinis and 'spensive stuff. At Great Oaks they ordered gimblets. Escargot for dinner. Rich boaters with a lot of money. Ordered delicacy for dinner. Vodka gimlets. Entertainment. Band plays. 12 people to a table. I lived in that trailer in Still Pond. It was cheap rent, man, It was CHEAP! I made a hundred dollars a night in tips. Spent it on rent, clothes, and entertainment. Night of the Living Dead. Heat bumps or somethin'. She's a state trooper. It's an international company. Sophisticated man. Aunt Mary has an Indian boyfriend with a small moustache from Canada. Cheap advice, almost socked her in the mouth.

A bunch of bullshit. We bypass people, nobody knows where we are. Molly, Dolly or Solly? My legs are hurtin'. I'm gonna have to lay up on the legs for a while. Epson salts softens up the muscles. An' it works! Voodoo dolls have pins in 'em. Down in New Orleans they got shops and they sell 'em down there. And the Witch doctor. An' it's true! They ain't got no funding so how can they do anything? We'll get 'em eventually.

Pastor John Lewis

Friday, November 28, 2003, 0050 UTC. Pastor John Lewis is preaching the Biblical story of "The Three Men in the Fiery Furnace" from Daniel 3 on the truthradio.com audio stream this evening. This is the tale of King Nebuchadnezzar and the three men named Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, e.g.

For some reason Pastor John repeatedly bowdlerizes Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego as

Shadrach, Meshach, and "a bad negro"

When we bring to de world dis order

Tonight during Rabbi Spivak's show on WBCQ, a caller was extorting all of the "good things" Adolph Hitler did, in response to an earlier discussion about allegtions of Arnold Swartzenegger's admiration of said dictator. Suddenly the audio stream shifted to a snippet from Spike Jones and the City Slickers' immortal "Der Fuehrer's Face."

If this was an intentional act by the Rabbi to squelch the caller's words, it was performed masterfully. As you can tell by the audio track, Rabbi Spivak never lost a beat, and even thanked the caller, who had obviously gone beyond credibility with his discussion. You can tell after the caller had parted that Rabbi Spivak was barely containing his laughter. This is talk radio at it's best.

Pancho Villa 2003, and a few words from Jay

Thanks to Captain Ganja, here is the complete and unedited pre-air recording of the Pancho Villa episode from the SWLFest in Kulpsville that concluded last Saturday, March 8, 2003.

And, here are some choice clips from Jay Smilkstein:

• "Oh, I made doody before I left the house,"

• "Sometimes the underwear has a brown, little brown, half inch stain on it,"

• "Where smoking is permitted, they should allow people to smoke pot," and, lastly

• "Some people come to the winterfest to find someone else to play with their weiner."

An omen, or potential source of unlimited revenue?

It it's sunny outside, an apparition appears daily in a window screen visible from my office at work. managuaboy2000 and I first noticed this apparition early last week, and everyone thought we were completely uncorked until we were able to take some snapshots of the mysterious apparition using a nice digicam.

Yes, the owl is looking at the apparition in this photo. Don't ask about the owl. Trust me, you do not want to know about the owl.

Here is a snapshot of what we call "the face of God." We are now debating the merits of starting a cult. If Brother Stair, Dr Gene Scott, and L Ron Hubbard can do it, why not us?

Oops! there comes a smile

Once in a while, I will come across something in a local used record store so delightfully strange I can't resist checking it out. For several weeks, the LP "Oops! there comes a smile," "Songs & stories by Jim & Tammy & their friends" had been sitting in the oddball bin at Joe's Record Paradise in Rockville.

This is, indeed, the infamous Jim and Tammy Bakker. It appears that in 1975, when this album was released, one of their evangelical pursuits was targeted to children. We see on the LP's front cover a little Petunia Pig-like sock puppet and a stuffed toy dragon kind of creature, who you can invision when listening to songs like God's Not Dead.

Side one is Tammy doing her best sock puppet voice in various songs, including the traditional "Do Lord". Thankfully the songs are all of short duration. All are solo Tammy except for "I Wonder" and "Parise The Lord" which has a boy voice. "Heaven Is A Wonderful Place" has banjo accompaniment.

Side two contains a couple of Bible stories, "The Pearl of Great Price" and "Noah's Ark."

This is amazing stuff. It stretches the imagination to hear Tammy Faye sing

Oops! There Comes A Smile
Songs & Stories by Jim & Tammy & Their Friends

1 The Joy Of The Lord 1:14
2 What A Wonderful Day That Will Be 1:18
3 Oops! There Comes A Smile 1:22
4 Happiness Is The Lord 1:10
5 God Is Watching You 1:04
6 Do Lord 1:38
7 I Wonder 1:17
8 Heaven Is A Wonderful Place 0:48
9 Praise The Lord 1:11
10 God's Not Dead 0:42

1 Story (The Pearl Of Great Price) 5:25
2 Story (Noah's Ark) 8:57

Singcord Recordings of the Zondervan Corporation
Grand Rapids, Michigan 49506

© 1975 By Singcord A Division of The Zonderman Corporation