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Pastor Buddy's Kook Shortwave

Saturday, June 24, 2006, 1540, 12160. Kook shortwave! The speaker says the earth is hollow, UFOs come from "polar openings," "we're not alone in this earth or on this earth," Hitler and his Third Reich was in a conspiracy with the "inner earth beings" in World War II which explains the "flying discs" that harrassed Allied planes, etc. And all the evidince is in the Scripture!

WWCR's schedule says that this is "The Pat Boone Show," but I doubt that because no one by that name was mentioned. The speaker, "Pastor Buddy" from Tennessee, referred to a number of other "brothers" and "pastors" and perhaps a Sunday evening broadcast. He also mentioned a web site but gave no address. I suppose this is typical of someone who believes that according to the Mayan calander, we're in the 11th cycle of manifested time and in two more cycles the earth will stand still and time will start to reverse. This conspiracy theory reminds me of The Day The Earth Stood Still, and I expect that Pastor Buddy would view that movie as real and proclaim Klaatu and Gort as beings from the "inner world" who are allied with Satan.

Pastor Buddy says you can write him at PO Box 2284, New Tazewell, TN 37824. He was also hawking a kook book called "A Hollow Earth."

Here is an audio sample of Pastor Buddy's rantings.

At 1600 Glenn Hauser's World of Radio 1319 aired, a voice of sanity when we started to think shortwave was lost to the kooks and paranoids. However, when WOR ended, WWCR played a commercial that sounded like a cruel joke about "passing gas" until it was revealed that it was an anti-smoking PSA for dontpassgas.com. Then, the incomprehensible foaming and frothing of The Full Gospel Hour followed. Poor Glenn, sandwiched between kooks and insanely screaming preachers.

Pastor John Lewis Video!

Our favorite shortwave preacher has an associate who's posted videos of some of his prime messages, and other videos of good ol' street preachin' and chillun singin', at knowitallvideo. Classic John preachin' is here and here.

A free registration is required to get into knowitall video; the WMV links above are direct-swiped off the web page.

It's very interesting to finally associate a face with all those sound bytes and hundreds of hours of airchecks we've collected over the years.

Technically Pastor John's not on shortwave any more, but he's on Saturday and Sunday at 7PM eastern time live on the 'net via truthradio.com.

Who would have thought?

"Bob" speaks Esperanto. Jen Via Tuta Vivo!

Pastor John archives!

For some reason our pre-scheduled recording of Pastor John Lewis off truthradio's webcast failed, and we got nothing but an empty directory and no rants for the holiday weekend. However, while poking around the truth radio web site, I discovered that there are now online archives of Pastor John's broadcasts! Hooray.

There are also archives of other shows carried on the truth radio webcast. I haven't had a chance to check these out to see if they provide any material as interesting as what comes from the ol' farm in Indiana.

Pastor John had the flu this past weekend, and his shows were covered by his son Nathan and some other "brothers" from Campbellsburg. Of these, "Brother Willie" provides right fine far 'n' brimstone preachin'.

Pastor John Lewis confirmed

Thanks to my trusty automated webcast snarfing app, I am happy to confirm that Pastor John Lewis has made the move to Saturdays and Sundays at 7PM eastern time on Truth Radio's webcast. John's show is always very entertaining and well worth the listen.

Pastor John is moving

One of the most entertaining webcasts there is, Pastor John Lewis and the Black Brigade broadcast, has been thrilling us now for many months. Pastor John's a long time shortwave minister who's been stuck on this little outfit called Truth Radio (warning! ugly and annoying web site!) Thursday and Friday evenings at 7PM eastern time. We are sure to listen to and record his pontifications for posterity every week.

Last night he announced that the broadcast will be moving. The last Thursday/Friday broadcasts will be on December 1 and 2, and effective December 10 and 11 he will move to 7PM eastern time on Saturday and Sunday.

Pat Robertson's descent into babbling lunacy continues

Noted comedian Pat Robertson is at it again. Of all the press generated by Pat's latest attempt to outdo Leno and Letterman, I think the following bit from Conspiracy Planet says it best.

Faux Christian/Terrorist Pat Robertson Makes Threat
by URI DOWBENKO

Faux Christian and false prophet Pat Robertson, in a very unChristian move (actually I think they call it 'black magic') cursed the residents of Dover, Pennsylvana by announcing that "disaster" may strike their town because they "voted God out" of their city by getting rid of school board memebers who favored the so-called theory of "intelligent design" over the discredited theory of "evolution.'

Robertson, False Prophet in Chief of the so-called "Christian Broadcasting Network" 700 Club, said. "I'd like to say to the good citizens of Dover: If there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God. You just rejected him from your city."

(Robertson's god AKA Satan evidently does not like rejection. And neither does Robertson, who pretends to be a "Christian.")

"Eight families had sued the district, claiming the policy violates the constitutional separation of church and state. The federal trial concluded days before Tuesday's election, but no ruling has been issued," reported AP (Associated Propaganda).

Also, The Swift Report tells us that "God denies links to Pat Robertson:"

God denied having any links to conservative Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson yesterday after He received reports that Mr. Robertson told residents of Dover, P.A., that they had rejected God by voting their school board out of office for supporting "intelligent design" and warned them of His wrath. Sources close to the Higher Being say that He is "tired" of Mr. Robertson and wants him to stop using His name.

WWRB frequency shift?

WWRB is on 11915 here at 1800 Sunday, November 6, instead of published 11920. I normally wouldn't have noticed but "The Full Gospel Hour" that's on now is screaming forth far 'n brimstone with a very nice signal here in Maryland.

Hal Turner Kooks Off (again)

Sorry ol' bastard Hal Turner is back on his paranoid conspiracy rants again. Out of curiosity I'm listening to his June 28 webcast rip from his recently renewed web shite. He's spent the past thirty minutes ranting and raving about how he's being spied upon by the guvvmint because the first hop from his cable modem to the 'net is going through IP address 10.89.0.1. PMLOL! Apparently Hal's exhaustive research reveals that the government owns network 10 and that all traffic on network 10 is served by a name server routed to a host with 'blackhole' in it's name. For crying out loud, I've been using network 10 for various purposes in business for the last twenty years. And I certainly would not waste the time to spy on the cable modem owned by a self-proclaimed pimple on the ass of humanity such as Hal 'Friggin' Turner.

Anyone with any trivial knowledge of the internet knows that network 10.0.0.0 is one of several used for private nets, i.e. those behind a firewall or router and hidden from the 'net. The reason DNS "black holes" network 10 is in case some poor schmuck connects a network 10 host to the 'net by mistake.

It's hard to determine if Hal's rant is simply schtick or just utter stupidity. The more things change, the more they seem the same. At least there are some mighty fine sound bytes to be had from listening to Hal rant and rave.

New World Order Conspiracy Kook Ministry

Thursday, February 9, 2005, 0000-0030, 5050. Heard a wild show called "Pandora's Box," featuring a speaker from Texas who said his show is only on once a week, Sundays at 9PM eastern time on 5050. He attempts to connects all kinds of world events to a massive satanic conspiracy using every imaginable piece of crap "evidence" that's been thoroughly debunked over the past several hundred years.

Hoo boy. Here is only a bit of what this poor, misguided loony spoke of.

We have the six Aryan root races, five of which have been destroyed by God.

The Lemurians! The third aryan root race, a race of semi-giants. Evidence of their existance is the giant stone statues on Easter Island.

The story of the ring tailed lemur, "similar to a monkey," and how a tatoo of said lemur ended up on ancient freeze dried humans found in Siberia when the lemur is native to Madagascar.

Atlanteans, the 4th race.

The fifth aryan root race was Nazi Germany. We have KOOKSIGN!

The sixth aryan root race is, of course, the New World Order. The US is gonna invade Iran, and then Syria. The sixth aryan root race is gonna be destroyed in a conflagration somethin' awful!

The host said he was a poor worker whose job was outsourced to a third world country, and gave contact info for contributions as PO Box 13, Como Texas 75431, 903-885-8040. For thirty dollars you get a packet of information!

Lots of dead air followed at 0030. After a commercial, the glass breaking Yashua!!! song and Brother Ben in the hills of West Virginia started at 0032.

Prime time shortwave entertainment: this week, WWRB

On occasion, I will visit the website run by shortwave broadcaster WWRB, "world wide religious broadcasting," run by Dave Franz and others in Tennessee, to see what's new. This station has been known by several other call letters in the past, including WWFV ("world wide freedom voice" or something like that) and WGTG ("with glory to God"). I believe WWRB used to stand for "world wide radio broadcasting" in an attempt to broaden the station's scope. It doesn't matter, however; there is a lot of entertaining, crazy, and just plain offensive programming on WWRB that is not in any way religious. More on this thought shortly.

WWRB operates several shortwave services with ever changing names. One recalls World Harvest's various numbered "Angel" transmitters. I find the service naming awfully confusing, especially since WWRB always lists a couple of services that are either under development, are backup units, or are "reserved for use by the guvvmint" or something to that effect. To get through this somewhat confusing situation, let's summarize WWRB's transmitters as of this writing.

• North America Service #1 runs daily from 0000 to 0600 UTC on 5085.
• North America Service #2 runs daily from 0000 to 0600 UTC on 3185. This oddball frequency has been in use for several months now, replacing 6890, as the winter propagation is favoring lower frequencies.
• North America Service #3 runs daily from 0000 to 0600 UTC on 5745. Note that this frequency was swiped from WHRI after that station moved several services to those of the former WSHB.
• South and Central American and the Caribbean Service runs daily from 0000 to 0600 UTC on 5050.
• Middle-East/Africa/European Service runs daily from 1700 to 2400 UTC on 12172.
• There also exists "Southeast Asia" and "Australia/New Zealand/Western Pacific Islands" services, but there is no programming on any of these now. They're planned to operate from 1000 to "TBA" UTC if and wherever they're started.

All of the operational shortwave services on WWRB can be received reliably here in Maryland, but as HF radio goes, your mileage may vary. The latest HFCC data shows WWRB is authorized to run up to 100 KW on 5745 and 65 KW on the remaining services. The HFCC data shows 6890 instead of 3185 and there is an additional authorization for 9320, a presently unused daytime frequency. They're officially authorized for 12170, but as long as I can recall, they've been running this daytime service a couple of kilohertz upwards of that to escape interference from WWCR's flamethrower on 12160.

Now that we've addressed the technical stuff, let's move on to the programming. This station's evolved a bit over the past few years, beginning with its humble beginnings as WGTG, to abandoning some of it's quasi-religious programming, to embracing it once again. Mr. Franz himself would sometimes get on the air and rant for a while in the classic shortwave kook style about whatever was on his mind. Usually this would be a rant about a deadbeat programmer or some diatribe on "pay-triots" or something similar. Now the most we usually hear is Mr. Franz giving top-of-the-hour IDs using an old mic that sounds like it was new when Dick Nixon was using it to record stuff on his dictaphone.

Here's a sampling of some of the offerings on WWRB.

• The Full Gospel Hour: Monday at 0000 on 5085, Sunday at 0030 on 5745, Thursday at 0300 on 5050, Saturday at 0400 on 5050, and Sunday at 1800 on 12172. If you've ever heard this program, you will never forget it. The speaker delivers true fire-and-brimstones-style preaching in a very loud, shreiking and incomprehensible voice, separated by long immeasurable pauses. For the longest time, Allan and crew would fire up WBCQ's 17495 service on Saturday afternoon just to air an hour from this programmer (and perhaps a World of Radio too). The Full Gospel Hour remains on Saturday on WBCQ, but is unfortunately running on 9330 at the same time as the Lumpy Gravy Radio Show (2300 UTC) so I am otherwise occupied and unable to listen at this time.

  As an aside, on January 15, WBCQ dropped Lumpy Gravy's internet feed for a few seconds in the middle of a Captain Beefheart song, and while I was listening to WBCQ's webcast recording of this event, I heard the distinctive sounds of the Full Gospel Hour bleeding through the wires in the background of the dead air. You've got to take notice of a programmer who can project straight through the electronics at the station like that.

• The Divided Kingdom: Tuesday through Saturday at 0400 on 5085 and Saturday at 0300 on 5085. Elizabeth Border, this show's host, has assumed the highest levels of shortwave kookery with her paranoid conspiracy rantings about the New World Order. Especially entertaining is her sock puppet skit featuring dialog between a falsetto-voiced "Barbie" and a low-voiced "Fatherland Security" accompanied by downright scary solemn music. This is clearly the most entertaining program on WWRB, and there's something in it for conspiracy theorists as well as kookologists.

• American Dissident Voices: Saturday at 2300 on 5085 and Sunday at 0400 on 5085. Ah, yes, the white supremacists. Also known as the Nazis. These poor old hatemongers hate everyone. Yes, "world wide religious broadcasting" takes on a whole different meaning after hearing a few minutes of the dreck shoveled out by these tiny-brained racist scumbags.

• Herald of Truth: Saturday at 2330 on 5085 and Sunday at 0430 on 5085. Well, these guys aren't quite as overt as American Dissident Voices, but be forewarned: their religious themes are thinly veiled promotions of the so-called Christian Identity movement, also known as the Nazis. How clever that WWRB packages these two programs back to back for their special Racist Hour.

• Mike Gibson Blue Grass Music: Sunday at 0300 on 5085, and,
  
• Mike Gibson Gospel Music: Saturday at 0200 on 5050. Mr. Gibson provides some relief to all of the seemingly non-stop demagoguery on WWRB. His bluegrass music show provides a good cross-section of gospel-oriented country music, and is well worth a listen if conditions are favorable.

• Faith Holiness Church: Saturday at 0000 UTC on 5745, Thursday at 0300 on 5050, and Saturday at 0400 on 5050. Pastor Larry Cain provides us with a religious message that starts out slow and collected, but gradually builds steam until boiling over in full froth as the broadcast goes on. This program is also heard Monday at 2330 on WBCQ 7415.

• Amos and Andy/Uncle Ed's Musical Memories: Tuesday through Saturday at 0230 on 3185. Ah yes, Uncle Ed's masterful re-creations of the lost episodes of Amos and Andy, meticulously re-created from the original scripts in Ed's own voice. An outside observer may be immediately tempted to ponder the racist and stereotypical overtones of Amos and Andy, but we're not going to get into that here. This is a very entertaining show. You can also catch Amos and Andy Monday through Saturday at 0500 on WBCQ 7415. Uncle Ed's Musical Memories is a well produced music show that showcases popular music from the thirties and forties. This show is also heard on WBCQ 7415 Thursdays at 2330.

• A Voice Crying In The Wilderness: Sunday at 0200 on 5050. We had the pleasure of leading in to Brother Joe's show on 7415 when we were in the Saturday 2100 time slot. Brother Joe's still there on 7415 Saturdays at 2200, "heading on the highway, the highway of Lord Jesus." Interestingly enough, his show is not "crying" on WBCQ. We'll have to check it out in greater detail on WWRB and see what's up with that.
  

Now, taking a look at the rest of WWRB's schedule, we note that there is an awful lot of programming slots marked as "available time slot for your program." Sometimes we will hear simulcasts from one of the other frequencies, the spoken King James Bible, and other fill programming. Recent reports indicate that Dave Franz himself hosted a classical music show in one of the available time slots (On Thursday 1/13/05 at 0000 on 3185, per Daniel L. Srebnick in DXLD 5013. WWRB also mentions that they run "tithe programming" in some of these slots, so there may be a chance to hear random weirdness on the station. With four frequencies running simultaneously every evening here in North America, the chance of hearing random kookiness are great.

Now, please don't get me wrong. If Mr. Franz and company want to offer a low cost programming outlet to the masses via shortwave, I certainly applaud their efforts and wish them the best. However I take great offense at the overtly "religious" tilt of the station and their ownership, in light of the repugnant programming such as that which is offered by the Nazis and hatemongers. And whereas one can certainly be entertained to the point of tears by the wackiness of Elizabeth Border and her paranoid sock puppets, this type of programming can hardly be called "religious." WWRB and it's "evangelist" ownership and staff would increase their credibility greatly, at least in my eyes, if they dropped the religious angle completely and admitted that they are simply a business who will put enyone on the air if they've got the 60 bucks an hour. Of course, it goes without saying that the station's owner must agree with your programming or else you won't have a chance of ever hearing your show on WWRB. Concluding thus, it is obvious, regardless of their better programs, that WWRB's owners and management are a bunch of paranoid conspiracy racist hatemongers hiding under the comfy blanket of "evangelism" and "religious" broadcasting in order to attract a revenue stream to their business.

He's a sick Republican sleazeball with the face of a horse's ass

Thanks to the Pab Subgenius Project and RNI's rebroadcast of Pab's most recent show, I came across a cute little ditty attributed to WNNX in Atlanta. The song is entitled "I'm A Nazi" and is sung by none other than Rush Limbaugh himself.

It's better to burn out, than to fade away

Hal Turner has faded away (or should that be burned out?) his online presence, radio network, and web sites, due to a lack of financial support from the various extremist kooks and hatemongers who had supported him in the past. Thanks to Google's cache, I have saved for posterity the announcement from the now offline turnerradionetwork.com home page.

The cache of the halturnershow.com home page reminds us of the reason for this collapse...

There are currently, 39 guest(s) and 0 member(s) that are online.

[From Google's cache]

THE TURNER RADIO NETWORK WILL CEASE ALL OPERATIONS ON MONDAY, MAY 31, 2004.

All programs presently airing on TRN were advised last week that they must find other broadcasting alternatives.

All web sites being hosted by my hosting service "PrivateWebHosting.org" were advised last week they need to find other hosting services. This web site will go offline as well.

I have to take these steps because of several occurrences that have made the future of this endeavor untenable.

Last month, the program "YAHWEH's TRUTH with Pastor James Wickstrom" ended its broadcasts for lack of listener support. Another program, "Think Tank with Paul Gellar" also ended over financial issues facing that show.

The loss of those two shows was, thankfully, made up by the addition of a new show, "FREE AMERICAN with Clay Douglas." Revenue from that show replaced the revenue lost from the other two shows departing. Sadly, Clay Douglas was involved in a terrible motorcycle crash two weeks ago, and it became clear that he would be out of commission for at least a year as a result. The loss of this show sealed the fate of TRN.

Only about 50 people ever subscribed to the $0.50 cent a day subscription feed, which was far below the 255 subscribers I had when I implemented a subscription system 18 months ago. So, like before, my ability to rely on listeners to sustain this effort proved to be useless because the majority of free audio feed listeners choose to parasite rather than participate.

A number of pro-white groups said they were going to advertise on TRN, but not one of them ever made good on their promise.

Solicitation of other shows to be broadcast of TRN was not successful because the majority of those shows already had very bad experience with internet broadcasting. Each and every one of them told me that "most internet listeners are the cheapest, most self-centered slobs who could not be relied upon to buy products offered for sale on the net!" One host went so far as to tell me that "internet listeners seem to feel that because the internet is mostly free, that they somehow have a right to listen and not do anything in return!"

I will not ask for donations to sustain this endeavor and I certainly will not waste more of my personal funds to keep this going.

I have ordered the disconnect of the telephone lines serving this network. Those lines will be turned off on June 1.

I have resigned my membership in all organizations related to this endeavor.

As of May 31, 2004, I will once again become a private citizen and will no longer be a "public figure."

I thank all of you who helped this effort over the last four years. I am grateful to all the broadcasters who used my service and to all the web sites that used my site hosting services. I wish all of you a fond farewell

-- Hal Turner

Hal Turner Implodes

Well, I suppose we should have seen it coming. I always suspected that Hal Turner was disturbed, but I had no idea how unbalanced he truly is. Now after a prime time kook out, he is gone from the airwaves.

Listening to tonight's rant, I assumed Hal was simply pulling another stunt in order to get some sustaining funds for his efforts from his green-toothed redneck racist followers. But the longer I listened, the more it became clear - he doesn't care about his listening audience. He doesn't care about the station he's broadcasting on. He is probably mentally disturbed, and would be pitiable if not for his all-consuming hate towards anybody not subscribing to his extreme viewpoints.

I thought he wouldn't be so stupid as to burn bridges with WBCQ, which has admirably stood up to all kinds of criticism over it's free speech stance over the time Turner's program has been carried over it's international shortwave broadcast facilities.

Then I noticed this excrement on his web site around 830PM ET on Monday, March 22, 2004:

I WENT TO SEE "THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST" ON SATURDAY NIGHT THE MOVIE WAS UNLIKE ANYTHING I EVER WITNESSED BEFORE. GO SEE THIS MOVIE!

The evil of the jew was so clear as to remove any question about them as a people worthy of death! Not only did they outright LIE to justify charging Y'Shua (Jesus) with crimes he did not commit, but even after Y'Shua was brutally scourged, to the point of having scars on every inch of his body from whipping, the evil jews still were not satisfied. They screamed "Crucify Him."

After seeing this movie I am fully content to say ADOLF HITLER WAS RIGHT in the way he allegedly treated the jews. They DESERVED whatever Hitler allegedly did and they DESERVE far worse!

Let me state it plainly: Jews are evil. Throw rocks at them. Beat them. Burn them. Bomb them. Kill them. If you're walking down the street and you see a jew, stick an ice pick in its face. Smash a glass bottle and thurst the jagged broken glass in its face. Slit their throats. Bash their head with a baseball bat. Shoot them. Stab them. Chain shut the doors of their synagogues and set fire to them with the jews inside. Nothing you do to a filthy, rat, Christ-killing, jew will ever come close to what they did to Y'Shua. They are truly the children of satan. There is nothing good about them. They aren't even human. Show them no mercy for you will be shown none if they have their way. Jews are the shit of planet earth; lower even than the negro.

But this was gone an hour later, replaced by

I HAVE CANCELLED MY SHORTWAVE RADIO SHOW ON WBCQ AFTER SEEING "THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST" THERE IS NO WAY I CAN CONTINUE TO DO BUSINESS WITH A JEW

WBCQ is owned by a jew. As for the fate of the internet show, that is still up in the air. Support from listeners isn't coming in and so the Hal Turner internet show is probably going to go under for lack of funds. I will continue to air the other shows for as long as they pay their own way.

Those of you who want the Hal Turner internet show to continue should act now to support it, lest it be gone by the end of the month. Click Here to Donate (unless you're a cheap fuck)

This guy is truly unbalanced. And he is an idiot. After all the support Allan Weiner and crew have given this asshole he decides to kook out over a piece of film.

His actions have clearly shown that his persona is as sickening and disgusting as his misguided and unenlightened viewpoints.

I am a staunch supporter of free speech, but there comes a point where I say enough. I don't want to hear any more from this asshole.

Good riddance, Hal.

Pastor John Lewis in fine form

Poor Pastor John. He's coming in loud and clear on the webcast via truthradio.com, and is asking people to check out the shortwave broadcast on 7490. Lo and behold, after months of claiming to be on the air and leaving no perceptible signal, WJIE 7490 is audible here tonight with a fine signal. Unfortunately for Pastor John, he's not on 7490 at this time. Some boring program is in his place. And this is a shame. Pastor John deserves to be on the airwaves.

Worse still, at 7:40, truthradio interrupted Pastor John in mid-broadcast with a couple of commercials over top of his message! This is truly awful.

Merry Christmas, Hal Turner

This gem came across my radar screen lately.

Well, Hal, seeing as how my partner and I are paying for your internet feed, and providing this service as a service to our listeners, out of our own pocket, I invite you to listen to future programming on WBCQ's internet feed.

I hope you and your listeners will will be enlightened and entertained with WBCQ's internet feed in the future, especially Monday evenings at 8PM Eastern US time. And I will do it as often as I damn well please.

Merry Christmas!

Holiday greetings from Pastor John Lewis

Here's a holiday song from Pastor John Lewis, as ripped from his webcast on Thursday, December 10, 2003.

Pastor John acknowledges rfma.net's contributions to his legacy

I am truly honored! Tonight Pastor John read a transcript of our very own Pastor John Lewis Drinking Game on tonight's broadcast on truthradio.com. I was very fortunate to have SoundForge chugging away, and as a result I can share this event with you!

He also mentioned in passing that truthradio has been "experimenting" with 7490 for the past week or so to see what reception is like. It looks like truthradio is losing it's satellite feed since the Galaxy 9 satelitte they use exclusively is being decommissioned at the end of the year. Conditions are really poor and nothing but noise was heard here on 7490 this evening (Saturday December 6 from 0005 UTC on).

Incidentally, Pastor John presented a most excellent show this evening! I daresay I heard him use the "S" word at 0039; "Rudolph the red nosed faggot deer" at 0045; followed by an extended rant about overweight people, "she was so fat, when she jumped up in the air she stuck;" and, finally, a brief mention of the drinking game again at 0050.

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"

Pastor John reappears

Thanks to a tip off on this very blog, we are pleased to be listening to Pastor John Lewis again. This time he's broadcasting on the internet via Truth Radio. We're listening now via their web stream. The schedule says Pastor John's online on Thursday and Friday evenings at 7PM ET (2300 UTC) and he says he'll be on for two hours this evening.

We're listening to a nice clean 21Kbps real audio stream with a discussion of the Liberty Bell and the foundations on which the framers of the Constitution based the United States Government. This dissertation was interrupted by stupid commercials at 20 minutes past the hour, including one for a long distance company advertising a kickback to truthradio.com for subscribers.

The second stupid commercial break at 40 minutes past the hour was terribly annoying, as Pastor John just kept preaching right over top of them.

Extended commercial break at 50 minutes past the hour. This is good as it gives us a chance to save the stream rip to file. Back at 2353 criticizing sodomites. Then a fascinating diversion into the religious and legal background of why it's wrong to file your "damnable" income taxes and why lesbians are "reprobate perverts."

Repeated memes in this broadcast:

• Whoopin' the woman's behind
• Pastor John sings

Steve Anderson gets 15 years

Steve Anderson, a shortwave nut profiled here, appears to have beaten the attempted murder and illegal radio transmitting raps, and has been sentenced to fifteen years on weapons charges. This was reported in the AP and other press sources, and archived meticulously in DX Listening Digest 3-164 and 3-166.

Pastor John's inactive

James Lloyd tells me that Pastor John Lewis' Black Brigade broadcasts via the Christian Media Network are no more, and that John's dropped shortwave broadcasting. Bummer! At least we know where we can get tapes. Hopefully he'll return to the airwaves again, as he's done many times before. We'll just have to keep scanning the dial.

Pastor John missing from the airwaves this week

But at least we have a diversion, assuming we have archived copies of prior broadcasts.

The Pastor John Lewis Drinking Game

Inspired by I. P. Yurin in this message

The host should provide a sufficient quantity of the players' favorite alcoholic beverages sufficient to last for at least a good party.

Just prior to the start of a "Black Brigade" broadcast, each player picks, in coin toss order, a phrase from the following list until all phrases or words are picked.

- cock-eyed reprobate
- you're goin' to hell
- sodomite
- little bushie
- maggot
- hog fat
- mother-in-law
- baby murderer
- faggot
- raghead
- civil magistrate

If a player hears his or her phrase spoken by Pastor John or one of his rarely appearing Billy Bob fellow pastors, the player is entitled to a drink.

If any of the following occurs:

- Pastor John says "if you don't like it, lump it"
- Pastor John sings
- Pastor John mentions Jeremiah

everyone drinks.

This game is almost as fun as trying to figure out where in the hell Pastor John happens to be broadcast from at any particular time or day. He changes shortwave frequencies at the same rate infants need diaper changes. Most recently heard via Christian Media Network on 15725 and 5100 and the internet feed, but now he's dropped Monticello and is reportedly to be on WJIE 7490//13595 and an earlier broadcast on 15725. WJIE? WTF? I cannot determine if this station is even on the air and transmitting a carrier, let alone try and listen to Pastor John. CMN's web streams are frequently dull and unreliable, relaying nothing but endless commercials for expensive crap of dubious value, like colloidal silver.

Yet another frequency and time change for Pastor John

Pastor John was absent from the airwaves this afternoon at 5PM ET, and a check of Christian Media Network's broadcast schedule shows that he's changed frequencies and times once again. If CMN's schedule is to be believed, Pastor John is now occupying the 7-8PM ET slot Mondays through Wednesdays on WJIE 7490/13595 via CMN studio C. Also according to the CMN schedule, Pastor John is also on WRMI 15725 (studio B) on Tuesdays at 2PM ET.

WJIE? Are they kidding? Yesterday's DX Listening Digest contained a bit of wisdom from Glenn Hauser, who monitors WJIE when it's supposed to be carrying his World of Radio program:

It's highly likely that Pastor John will be moving frequencies again if WJIE's recent performance continues.

On Thursday, August 21, I noticed that WJIE has web streams available for both their 7490 and 13595 services. Other affiliated web streams are also listed on their Listen Live page.

Pastor John is on WBCQ, you cockeyed reprobates

Yes, it's true. Pastor John Lewis and his Black Brigade broadcast has found it's way to WBCQ 5100. I noted him tonight on 5100 at 2340 UTC // CMN studio "c". Last evening he started at 2300 but was apparently having technical difficulties and after a couple of minutes his broadcast was replaced by a boring Christian Media Network show.

However, Pastor John was in prime form this evening and booming on both shortwave and the internet! Tonight's choice quotes include the revelation that Budweiser beer supports sodomites, as related to us by Billy Bob; and that the Statue of Liberty is the "New York Whore," as thus spoken by Pastor John.

Pastor John's current schedule on shortwave and internet is as follows:

• Monday and Tuesday 5PM ET: Christian Media Network on WRMI 15725, webcast on Christian Media Network studio "b"

• Monday 9PM ET: WINB 12160

• Tuesday and Wednesday 7PM ET: Christian Media Network on WBCQ 5100, webcast on Christian Media Network studio "c"

Write Pastor John Lewis at PO Box 104, Campbellsburg, Indiana 47108.

He ended his broadcast this evening with "and may God use you to be a blessing in somebody's life, is our prayer."

Pastor John Lewis

Monday July 28, 2003, 2100, 15725 // CMN "studio B". Gool ol Pastor John is now on the Christian Media Network. At 2100, 9330 and 15725 were running the same feed, but a minute later they split into two, with a new feed appearing on WRMI 15725. A quick check of the web feeds and we found America's favorite fundamentalist on the 'net and the air waves once again. Pastor John mentioned 15725, 12160 and 5100, so we'll be monitoring later this week to see if he appears on WBCQ's new fourth transmitter.

At 0102, Pastor John signed on on WINB 12160, signal poor with loud crashes, 222. It sounds weak and undermodulated, or perhaps the signal is skipping over us, as the audio faded out completely by 0111. Too bad, because he quickly got into a rant drawing historical comparisons between "sodomites" and dogs.

Black Brigade on CMN?

Just by chance during bandscanning recently, I came across James Lloyd talking about Christian Media Network programming, especially on WBCQ's new 5100 service, in between his typical pontificating rant. He indicates that 5100 is mostly parallel 9330 but the feeds are not necessarily the same. CMN has three studios and sometimes different programming will be heard on 5100, including.. Pastor John Lewis and the Black Brigade! I did't catch exact times and days, but he seemed to imply the we should be on the watch for Wednesday and Thursday at 5PM (pacific, 8PM ET) on 5100. This would be great news as Pastor John's entertaining messages are in desperate need of a stable broadcast outlet.

Christian Media Network's web site is not much help, as it has all sorts of conflicting information and is poorly maintained and designed. The crappy Java menu is especially annoying, and they still haven't completely figured out that WBCQ changed from 9335 to 9330 months ago. They do appear to have web streams for each studio:

studio a
studio b
studio c

A story of a program...

Jeremiah 33:3 kicked off the air

Kook Day Observations

Did you know that proof of the new world order conspiracy so satanically managed by the Masons and Jews is provided in the character from the Star Wars movies called Yoda? Take a close look at this: Yoda is spelled Y-O-D-A. 'Yod' means "Lucifer is God". They just use the 'A' to disguise it.

Bwahahahahahaaa! This information was lucidly provided by Jeremiah 33:3 on this morning's broadcast. We also heard numerology, history lessons based on dubious facts, blatant racism, and paranoia. The speaker attempted to tie together all this nonsense with the King James Bible.

One only needs to listen to this show once to get the message the speaker's trying to convey. Numerology, dubious history lessions, racism, paranoia and the KJV are in every broadcast. Once in a while a new hilarious example, like "Y-O-D-A" above, is used, strangely compelling me to listen again for the entertainment value.

This broadcast provided a fine celebration of Kook Day!

Happy Kook Day

In honor of Kook Day we're firing up the rig and putting her on the 'net so we can share the finest kook shortwave entertainment with our friends. At 10AM eastern time, WBCQ will be presenting Jeremiah 33:3 on it's 9330 service, as it does every weekday. You really only need to listen to this guy once or twice -- every broadcast is maddeningly self-similar in it's approach and delivery.

Here is the link to our kook feed.

9330 monitoring

As an experiment and to listen to an honest-to-goodness kook on the radio, I set up a web stream to hear Jeremiah 33:3's broadcast at noon eastern time on 9330. Good receiver at home + crappy reception at work + cool software + internet = problem solved. After mediocre results on Tuesday tuned to 9330, I zeroed on 9329.75 in lower sideband mode with much better results today (WBCQ is running this transmitter carrier plus lower sideband). The Jeremiah dude was his normal effervescent self at noon, and although the station was off by mid afternoon, Radio Caroline was listenable between 4 and 5PM. Tonight at 10:48PM ET (0248 UTC) a Bible beater with the Christian Media Network is coming through reasonably well in under depressed conditions (best again in LSB mode).

Jeremiah 33:3 on 9330

Monday, May 12, 2003, 12:00 noon ET (1600 UTC), 9330. After a tip-off from Allan Weiner on his show last Friday evening, we caught Jeremiah 33:3's bizarre kookrant live for the first time in several months. He's moved over to 9330, presumably, to overcome the fact the 17495 does the long skip in the summer months. (In fact, I have not been able to copy a single transmission on 17495 from our Maryland listening post in at least two months).

Conditions are really poor in my workplace, with all the concrete, metal, and computers around. The signal on 9330 there ranged from unlistenable to just barely audible with a fair to strong signal and heavy interference.

Regardless, I managed to hear the same old kookrant on a new day, including a discussion about Albert Pike, Yod, Masons, and other New World Order conspiracy theories carefully wrapped up in the speaker's own twisted take on the King James Bible.

Pastor John Lewis

Monday May 5, 2003, 0100 UTC. Pastor John is now broadcasting only one day a week at this time on WHRI 5745, from Noblesville, Indiana. A much better quality broadcast is available in Real Audio format from World Harvest Radio's web site.

May 18 is the last Black Brigade broadcast on 5745 because of the cost of the airtime. Also try Monday 9-10PM ET 9320 50KW, and also Wednesday 7-8PM ET 7490 50KW, which according to Pastor John is more cost effective than 5745 at 100KW.

9320 is WINB from Red Lion, Pennsylvania, and their schedule has the Black Brigade on Monday night at 9PM. 7490 is WJIE from Kentucky (warning - WJIE's website is plagued by foul Java code). WJIE has an internet stream for 7490 available online. Alas, WINB does not appear to have a web stream.

Weekly World Edmo #7

Presenting the latest and greatest seventh issue of Weekly World Edmo, a periodic parody of Usenet kooks and crackpots. This time the many frivolous lawsuit threats of Edmond Wollmann, a freakishly bizarre new-age crackpot astrologer, are profiled. Also, we commemorate an honest-to-goodness kook lawsuit brought by another crackpot astrologer named Pete Stapleton, which was recently dismissed.

To fill space, we couldn't help taking a jab at the despicable ghoul and self-described "prophet" Dr. Louis Turi, a failed scam artist who bought his PhD at a diploma mill for $350, and whose predictions never seem to come true.

Kook watch update

Ah, the paranoid conspiracy theories of kooks and crackpots. The cold weather appears to have resulted in a marked increase in kook activity. As the temperature tops out at 15 degrees with strong winds here at home, we present our top kook list for January.

1. Jeremiah 33:3 Ministries: M-F 1800 on 17495 WBCQ, Tu-Sa 0200 on 5050 WWRB. Shortwave kook extrordinaire, whose rantings we are using to brush up on out Bible studies (specifically as an example of how not to interpret the King James Version). This kook illucidly rants about David Rockefeller, "the little fella," who traces his lineage back to George Washington the Luciferian worshiper, who was ordained as the ruler of the United Nations, the Illuminati, Tri-lateral Commission, antichrist, five letters in David, five pointed star, Pentagon, Baphomet, Masonic Jewish conspiracy, Albert Pike, New World Order, (ad nauseum).

2. Edmond Wollmann: Now posting daily to Usenet. He recently failed miserably when he tried to create a moderated newsgroup, which turned out to be neither moderated or propagated. Once again his consistently incoherent postings of bizarre astrological pseudo-new age screed is the subject of universal ridicule, and yet he still manages to threaten fake law suits and complain to ISPs and news admins who killfiled him long ago. He and his sock puppets are now debating weird and meaningless astro-kookery in his new dead newsgroup alt.astrology.moderated.metapsych.

3. Dr. Turi: A self-proclaimed prophet who recently appeared on Usenet after a long absence. His trick is to make lots of puffed up vague predictions about common events, such as celebrity deaths, earthquakes, horrific crimes and war, and claim that he predicted such events after they happen, in order to sell penny paperbacks and fake "counseling" services to weak minded and stupid persons. This dirtbag claims to have predicted September 11 and the Washington DC sniper attacks, and in both cases he should be reviled as the fraud he is.

4. Pastor John Lewis: Usually three days a week on the "Black Brigade" radio show on WHRA 5745, Tu-Sa 0130-0200 (You best chance to catch him is early in the week. If conditions are poor you can catch the "angel two" real audio feed from World Harvest Radio). Pastor John is the ultimate far right redneck "independent baptist preacher" who travels around in a bus sporting huge revilingly graphic anti-abortion posters, and who's mastered the art of street preaching. He is in your face, and he dosen't care if you like it or not. Too bad he's so consumed by hate that, combined with his good ol' boy euphamisms, makes him appear stupid and misinformed, when he obviously possesses above average intelligence.

Pastor John on WHRA tonight; WHRI 5745 is down

Tuesday January 20, 2003, 0130, 7580: Pastor John Lewis.

Since Hal Turner proved very boring this evening, I was scanning the band and happened across our favorite extremist hate preacher tonight on WHRA for a change. As Pastor John explained, "Angel Two," one of World Harvest Radio's transmitters in Noblesville, Indiana, has been down for more than a week. So tonight he's booming forth on the 100KW WHRA from Maine. (However, my previously saved link to the 5745 real audio stream worked fine).

Pastor John's still ranting about abortion, and still hawking huge banners one can purchase and display. These banners are designed to alert people to the "sin of abortion" by putting disgusting and revolting images of so-called abortions out for all to see.

There was a lot of classic Pastor John to be had tonight; he ranted about "the sodomite-dictate legislators," "cock-eyed baby murders," and "sodomites who consciously make their decision to fornicate against nature."

Pastor John had a few choice words about Dave Franz (of WGTG/WWFV/WWRB), who the Pastor said kicked him off the air without notice and stole 400 bucks from him. If I recall, this happened sometime last year in the summer or early fall.

Signal strong and clear on 7580 at 0130, a bit better than typical results from 5745 here. Nothing but static on 5745.

Pastor John's program runs Tuesday through Saturday at 0130. He said this week he'll be back on Wednesday and Thursday; one of the other "Black Brigade" regulars will take over on Friday, and an Indiana "street preacher" will broadcast Saturday evening. As entertaining as Pastor John is, some of his good ol' boy buddies are just as hilarious.

Weekly World Edmo #6

I missed adding this to the archive. The latest Weekly World Edmo, from December 27, 2002, is now available for your amusement. Note that this parody won't make much sense to you unless you regularly visit the Usenet forums alt.astrology, alt.alien.visitors, and alt.usenet.kooks.

The complete archive of Weekly World Edmo is available here, and at Ed Wollmann's personal pages, thanks to our postings on alt.binaries.kooks.

Someday I'll get around to analyzing the situation on the Usenet kook groups for you here, and explaining the Weekly World Edmo.

Shortwave Kook Watch Update

Here is some updated info on a couple of shortwave kooks we're monitoring.

Pastor John Lewis is doing a half hour rant weeknights on 5745 (WHRI) at 0130 UTC (8:30PM ET). He's been confirmed on Monday, Tuesday and Friday evenings; the other nights another fellow far right preacher's filling in the "Black Brigade." 5745's signal at this time is usually strong but noisy. However this show is also available via WHR's clean 9K RealAudio web stream. Pastor John is currently on the road, traversing the heart of America in a bus with a huge distasteful anti-abortion picture on the side. Tonight he's snowed in somewhere in the midwest. Too bad he's only on for a half hour; it takes him that long to get warmed up for a real rant.

We've verified Jeremiah 33:3's bizarre conspiracy theory rants weekdays at 1800 UTC (1 PM ET) on 17495 (WBCQ). He's also on at 0200 UTC Tuesday through Saturday (9 PM ET Monday through Friday) on 5050 (WWRB). Both broadcasts are strong and clear here in Maryland. You need to listen to this guy at least once. I hear that Michael's running an off-air feed from Pittsburgh of 17495 in the daytime hours, but I haven't verified this.

If time permits over the holiday, I'll bring some annotated audio snippets from our favorite kooks this way real soon.

Jeremiah 33:3 - bizarre shortwave kook alert

Monday 12/16/2, 1800 UTC, 17495: Just when I'd thought I'd heard it all, along comes another kook spewing all kinds of nonsense to the world via the wonderous shortwave bands. After a tip-off in rec.radio.shortwave and issue 2192 of Glenn Hauser's outstanding DX Listening Digest, I had to check out what one listener calls "kook shortwave at it's very best".

I remembered today to carry my portable to work with me, as the target kook's show is broadcast weekdays from 1800 to 1900 UTC (1 to 2 PM ET) on WBCQ's third transmitter at 17495 KHz. The show's called "Jeremiah 33:3".

In an office building packed full of computer equipment, flourescent lights, and hundreds of other noise sources befitting my workplace's seventies-ugly style architecture and construction, shortwave reception is hit-or-miss, and almost always miss. However today 17495 came in surprisingly clean and strong, as long as the receiver was sitting right next to a window. I planned lunch for 1 PM to be ready for some prime entertainment.

First I thought I was out of luck. The right-winger on 17495 at 12:50 PM was telling listeners to get ready for another hour's worth of programming after a short break. Then, as WBCQ is prone to do, his program was cut unceremoniously in mid-sentence to a station ID, and then, on came our kook.

I was not to be disappointed. The show started and ended with a strange song shreiked by a female, most probably tone deaf, who has absolutely no musical talent. The speaker got right into it immediately. He seems to be obsessed with several themes, all intertwined with bizarre prophecies of doom. According to this guy, George Bush and David Rockefeller are part of a massive Masonic conspiracy to implement a New World Order foreshadowing Lucifer's return, the emergence of David Rockefeller the Anti-Christ, and the resulting Apocalypse. He's heavily into the numerology thing, where the letters in certain names can be counted up, added to or subtracted from 911, resulting in "Ronald Wilson Reagan", reduced quaintly to 666...oh, woe is us! The Number of the Beast!

He also claimed that the Masons control Israel. Now that's something I did not know. This is also the first time I've ever heard someone preaching like a minister from a pulpit say multiple times, "Brothers and sisters, what in the hell is going on?"

The tip-off was right on. This is something everyone needs to hear, even if it's only once. This guy is totally whacked.

Besides the entertainment value, it was well worth it to have my coworker Mikey come in to my office, and with bugged out eyes, wonder what in the hell I was listening to, and also wondering if I'd popped my cork by listening to a preacher on the radio. He suggested I might listen to Rush Limbaugh instead. No way. Rush annoys me greatly. Jeremiah 33:3 is very entertaining.

Allan Weiner, WBCQ's station mangager, said on his show last Friday evening that Michael Ketter will eventually be putting up another internet stream for WBCQ's two secondary transmitters. Today we have a web feed of 7415's signal off-air from Michael's receiver in Pittsburgh, as well as Doc Becker's console feed via wbcq.com. A new second stream will give us a web feed of 17495 and 9335 as well, so everyone can catch the bizarre world of kook shortwave from their desks at work.

Paranoid conspiracy theory kook shortwave

Sunday 12/15/2, 0100 UTC, 5070: "Power Of Prophecy" with Texe Marrs on WWCR. What caught my ear was this guy's ranting about DARPA's Information Awareness Office, whose ridiculously buzzword-driven mission statement we profiled here in our own rant last month.

This guy is a loony. He claims that the IAO and their "Total Information Awareness" program is evidence of a massive Government conspiracy to extend Nazi-like Big Brother complete and total surveillance over all civilian activities.

Did you know that the IAO is headed by Admiral John Poindexter, the convicted felon who lied to Congress abut his involvement in the Iran-Contra affair during the Reagan years? Mr. Marrs also thinks this points to a massive Government conspiracy.

His credibility is further reduced by extensively quoting the dubious Moonie newspaper The Washington Times.

The evidence Mr. Marrs presents of this conspiracy include proof that the IAO's logo includes a pyramid with the all seeing eye logo, therefore "they're watching the whole world". The eye on the logo is looking down directly on the United States. The Latin inscription on the logo translates to "knowledge is power". The CIA operates overseas, according to a dubious source presented by one of Mr. Marrs' conspiracy theory kooks, using the secretive motto "secret knowledge equals power". Do you notice the similarity?

Mr. Marrs would also like you to buy all kinds of junk. He presented a long and somewhat incoherent commecial selling videos and books and other crap exposing "the inner doings of the illuminati", the homeland security organization (which has existed for many years now), "Project Lucid", "who really were the snipers - Muhammad and Malvo?", ad nauseum. To further entice listeners to buy this junk he presents a lot of self-poofery from other sources.

Here is another of Mr. Marrs' typical rants: They're going to be putting a video camera in your bedroom, so in case you plan terroristic activites in bed, they will know about it and come and take you away to an internment camp.

Mr. Marrs wraps this whole farce into the Lord Jesus Christ, thereby attempting to legitimitize his kookery by appealing to paranoid religious people. It's bad enough he's broadcasting on a radio station that has the nerve to call itself "world wide christian radio".

Give me a fucking break.

Pastor John Lewis is back

We used to be regularly entertained by the rantings and ravings of Pastor John Lewis on WGTG. Lewis' "Black Brigade" show ran on weekday evenings for some time, then he disappeared from the airwaves.

Pastor John is a so-called independent Baptist preacher whose firey and energetic rantings are directed at the US Government, homosexuals, immigrants, Yankees, city slickers, yuppies, etc., basically anyone who's not a good ol' boy like him.

Pastor John's outspoken radio presence and his involvement with the God Hates Fags people attracted the attention of James Latham from Radio For Peace International and the Southern Poverty Law Center. Latham at one time had Pastor John at the top of his list of most hate-filled broadcasters, an honor that's also been bestowed on other shortwave nuts like Hal Turner.

Just by chance, we discovered that Pastor John, aka Brother John, and his "Black Brigade" radio show, is back, courtesy of World Harvest Radio. WHR's schedule chart shows the Black Brigade show from 0100 to 0200 UTC Tuesday through Sunday (8 to 9 PM ET Monday through Saturday) on 7315, and from 0130 to 0200 UTC Tuesday through Saturday (830 to 9 PM ET Monday through Friday) on 5745. We have confirmed only the 5745 broadcasts. He's not on every night, but in his place are other good ol' boy ministers, including a redneck from Louisiana called Allen Russell who spent the whole half hour last night ranting about "ol Santie Claus the Devil Claus".

Pastor John is almost always highly entertaining. For your amusement, here is a snippet from a recent Pastor John rant on WHRI.

And from his days on WGTG, here's what Pastor John has to say about Homeland Security. As he likes to say, "If you don't like it, lump it!"

Weekly World Edmo now online

The first three issues and new fourth issue of Weekly World Edmo, a periodical devoted to Edmond Wollmann, Usenet Kook, are now archived here for your amusement.

Updated December 14, 2002 11:30PM with the fifth issue. Dan Kettler confesses, Hidden fantasies of Flagship1 of the Paranormal, and Ed Wollmann goes insane.

Hal Turner goes off

Apparently some people are so upset at Hal Turner's racist, hate filled vitriol on his radio broadcasts, that they've taken to protesting outside his house. Tonight we witnessed a classic kook rant on the air as a result.

This sound bite's from WBCQ's studio feed. Thanks to the web streaming delay we were able to record this shortly after hearing it on the air.

Steve Anderson arrested

"Colonel" Steve Anderson, a man on the run since shooting up a deputy's cruiser last fall, was finally captured on Friday, according to multiple press reports.

Anderson, a militia/KKK/consiracy theory/anti-government nut, ran a pirate shortwave operation on 6900 and other frequencies in the 3MHz band much of last year, right up to October 15, when he went nuts on the deputy after allegedly being pulled over because of a broken tail light on his pickup truck. The ATF had posted a reward for information leading to his capture, and the reward was bumped up to $20,000 after Anderson was profiled on America's Most Wanted earlier this year.

Anderson's pirate broadcasts had gotten progressively weirder after the terrorist attacks. We last logged him here on October 3 and October 11, 2001, and just a few days later, Glenn Hauser announced that he'd flipped out.

Steve Anderson also inspired a unique, though short-lived, sub-genre in the shortwave pirate world. Stations like United Patriot Militia Bingo humorously and mercilessly parodied Anderson, and continued for some time after he became a fugitive. Our personal favorite Anderson parody is Anderson On The Run:

One of these days I'm going to digitize the first Anderson profile aired on America's Most Wanted. There are a lot of entertaining and chilling snippets from his pirate broadcasts in that short feature. We won't see such an saga on the airwaves anytime soon again.