WEBVTT 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:03.359 You are now listening to Cryptid Cocktail Party. 00:00:40.299 --> 00:00:42.460 Welcome back to another episode of Crypto Cocktail 00:00:42.460 --> 00:00:44.039 Party, a show where we have a few drinks, share 00:00:44.039 --> 00:00:46.119 a few laughs, take a dive into the unknown. I'm 00:00:46.119 --> 00:00:48.960 your very sick host, Dave, and I'm joined as 00:00:48.960 --> 00:00:50.500 always by my wonderful co -host, Sarge. But we 00:00:50.500 --> 00:00:53.799 also have another guest today, Nash Hoover, returning 00:00:53.799 --> 00:00:56.560 guest. He's the host of Chasing Legends. Sorry, 00:00:56.679 --> 00:01:00.960 my throat's fucked up. What's going on, man? 00:01:01.000 --> 00:01:02.759 How's it going? Good, guys. Thanks for having 00:01:02.759 --> 00:01:05.980 me back on. I'm excited to... Excited to be back 00:01:05.980 --> 00:01:07.900 talking with you fools. Hopefully you can stump 00:01:07.900 --> 00:01:11.219 me this time. Yeah, I don't think that's going 00:01:11.219 --> 00:01:13.560 to happen, but it's nice. Dare to dream, guys. 00:01:14.900 --> 00:01:16.840 Yeah, it's nice of you to pretend. What's funny 00:01:16.840 --> 00:01:19.120 is that when I was putting the clips together 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:21.459 for this, you're the only guest I think that 00:01:21.459 --> 00:01:23.260 we have on where I actually have guests like 00:01:23.260 --> 00:01:25.040 clips prepared for some reason. I don't know 00:01:25.040 --> 00:01:28.480 why, but the McKellie and Bembe sounds were still 00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:31.980 in my mixer and I had to just now replace them. 00:01:35.069 --> 00:01:36.310 Well, yeah. I mean, what's going on? Anything, 00:01:36.310 --> 00:01:39.430 anything new, exciting, anything? No, nothing 00:01:39.430 --> 00:01:42.689 really at the moment. It's just kind of, you 00:01:42.689 --> 00:01:46.390 know, it's taking her day by day here in the 00:01:46.390 --> 00:01:53.049 frozen tundra of Minnesota. Ooh. Yeah. That's 00:01:53.049 --> 00:01:55.769 well, among other dangers currently. Yeah. Yeah. 00:01:57.020 --> 00:02:00.519 Yeah. Anyways, Sarge, how are you? I'm magnificent. 00:02:00.859 --> 00:02:04.040 I'm still riding high from our in -person meeting. 00:02:04.180 --> 00:02:06.099 Yeah, it was a lot of fun. That was a good time. 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:08.580 So I got sick that weekend, but you didn't get 00:02:08.580 --> 00:02:13.460 sick? No. No. You suck. I'm still fine. I hate 00:02:13.460 --> 00:02:17.219 that. He's clearly stronger than you. Very much 00:02:17.219 --> 00:02:22.139 so. He goes to the gym. I do this. I have to 00:02:22.139 --> 00:02:24.759 go to the gym so I can haul this giant head around 00:02:24.759 --> 00:02:28.680 and not look weird. All right. So I'm really 00:02:28.680 --> 00:02:30.979 just building muscle to take some of the focus 00:02:30.979 --> 00:02:35.460 off of my massive head. Just only doing neck 00:02:35.460 --> 00:02:37.800 workouts? Basically, yeah. You look like Alex 00:02:37.800 --> 00:02:42.460 Jones, just neck. Just a thick -necked man. All 00:02:42.460 --> 00:02:45.199 right. So I got an episode for you guys today. 00:02:46.740 --> 00:02:49.719 I don't think it's not a cryptid. It's more of 00:02:49.719 --> 00:02:51.219 a mystery, I guess. It's something that I've 00:02:51.219 --> 00:02:53.300 been fascinated with. So I guess before we get 00:02:53.300 --> 00:02:55.819 into anything, I want to set the scene for this 00:02:55.819 --> 00:02:57.900 week's episode real quick. So picture this, guys. 00:02:58.199 --> 00:03:00.719 It's late at night. You can't sleep. You're bored, 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:02.400 or maybe you're just doom -scrolling your own 00:03:02.400 --> 00:03:04.599 thoughts in your head. So you do what any normal 00:03:04.599 --> 00:03:07.520 person would do living in the modern era of technology 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:09.939 that we are currently in. Watch porn. No, that's 00:03:09.939 --> 00:03:12.639 you turn on your old AM -FM radio, and you're 00:03:12.639 --> 00:03:14.300 scanning through the stations trying to find 00:03:14.300 --> 00:03:18.939 something, anything. listen to you know maybe 00:03:18.939 --> 00:03:20.840 you're hoping to land on loveline or coast to 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:22.960 coast am or some other weird late night shit 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:26.379 but then instead of hearing music or a dr drew 00:03:26.379 --> 00:03:33.960 you hear this fuck you oh i'm so fucking excited 00:03:36.849 --> 00:03:40.550 I fucking love number stations. Well, I guess 00:03:40.550 --> 00:03:44.729 I'm banned from ever coming back. But that's 00:03:44.729 --> 00:03:46.090 it. That's all you hear. You just hear that. 00:03:46.169 --> 00:03:49.270 There's no introduction, no explanation, nothing. 00:03:49.370 --> 00:03:51.949 Just that repeating over and over and over. So 00:03:51.949 --> 00:03:54.530 what was it? Who was it? And why was it? Well, 00:03:54.629 --> 00:03:56.090 that's what we're going to try and figure out 00:03:56.090 --> 00:04:01.669 today. Because this week, as Nash guests, we're 00:04:01.669 --> 00:04:05.169 going to be covering number stations. what are 00:04:05.169 --> 00:04:07.509 number stations well i'm assuming nash is very 00:04:07.509 --> 00:04:09.509 familiar with them sarge do you are you familiar 00:04:09.509 --> 00:04:11.590 with number stations at all oh fuck yeah yeah 00:04:11.590 --> 00:04:13.969 what do you so oh yeah this is a thing man i 00:04:13.969 --> 00:04:17.009 love this i discovered this a long time ago uh 00:04:17.009 --> 00:04:21.870 and i forget what i was on i was on some website 00:04:21.870 --> 00:04:24.410 or something where they it was like a long form 00:04:24.410 --> 00:04:29.120 article about it and then anytime Like a decent 00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:31.600 YouTuber puts up a video on number stations. 00:04:31.819 --> 00:04:35.439 I'm just glued to it. Yeah. And Nash, what's 00:04:35.439 --> 00:04:38.519 your background with number stations? Yeah, I 00:04:38.519 --> 00:04:44.040 mean, they kind of came across my radar years 00:04:44.040 --> 00:04:48.100 ago. I think a friend of mine actually kind of 00:04:48.100 --> 00:04:50.360 brought them to my attention because he had found 00:04:50.360 --> 00:04:52.180 some website that kind of had like an archive 00:04:52.180 --> 00:04:54.740 of kind of the more famous ones and he was able 00:04:54.740 --> 00:04:56.220 to kind of go through it and listen to all of 00:04:56.220 --> 00:04:59.889 them. But yeah, just like Sarge said, you know, 00:04:59.930 --> 00:05:01.310 it's kind of one of those things where, you know, 00:05:01.310 --> 00:05:03.810 anytime someone come across some, something of 00:05:03.810 --> 00:05:05.310 somebody talking about one, you got to kind of, 00:05:05.310 --> 00:05:08.329 you know, no pun intended tune in and hear what 00:05:08.329 --> 00:05:09.750 they have to say about it. Cause it's, yeah, 00:05:09.790 --> 00:05:11.509 it's interesting. It's, it's a pretty wild phenomenon. 00:05:11.509 --> 00:05:15.089 It's not something that's super common anymore, 00:05:15.310 --> 00:05:21.019 but yeah, years ago back in the heyday of. the 00:05:21.019 --> 00:05:23.939 you know standard radio yeah it was kind of more 00:05:23.939 --> 00:05:27.040 you know it was in the cold war like espionage 00:05:27.040 --> 00:05:29.920 yeah yeah we'll get into that i'm sure fun fact 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:33.399 all of them are available on spotify you can 00:05:33.399 --> 00:05:37.180 just listen to them it's amazing yeah this is 00:05:37.180 --> 00:05:39.319 called the conet project you can just go on you 00:05:39.319 --> 00:05:42.019 can listen there's hundreds of them all on one 00:05:42.019 --> 00:05:45.439 station so oh so yeah so for anyone out there 00:05:45.439 --> 00:05:48.329 who doesn't know Number stations at their core, 00:05:48.470 --> 00:05:50.610 their anonymous radio broadcast, usually heard 00:05:50.610 --> 00:05:53.110 on shortwave radio that consists of voices reading 00:05:53.110 --> 00:05:55.949 a sequence of numbers or letters or both. Sometimes 00:05:55.949 --> 00:05:58.129 they'll start with some sort of tone or a short 00:05:58.129 --> 00:06:01.089 piece of music. Other times it just cuts straight 00:06:01.089 --> 00:06:04.350 to the message. almost all of them follow kind 00:06:04.350 --> 00:06:07.670 of like the same like rigid structure the transmissions 00:06:07.670 --> 00:06:09.449 will always start with at like a specific time 00:06:09.449 --> 00:06:12.050 usually right on the hour or the half hour a 00:06:12.050 --> 00:06:14.269 voice will begin reading groups of numbers or 00:06:14.269 --> 00:06:16.449 letters or a combination of the two usually in 00:06:16.449 --> 00:06:19.170 sets of like four or five and each group is read 00:06:19.170 --> 00:06:21.829 slowly and clearly and the messages will then 00:06:21.829 --> 00:06:24.050 be repeated multiple times and it just ends there's 00:06:24.050 --> 00:06:27.149 no sign off or explanation it's just radio silence 00:06:27.149 --> 00:06:29.670 after that now To someone who just happens to 00:06:29.670 --> 00:06:31.870 stumble across one of these messages, it just 00:06:31.870 --> 00:06:34.529 sounds like nothing, just noise. But that's because 00:06:34.529 --> 00:06:37.310 it really wasn't meant to make sense to everyone. 00:06:37.550 --> 00:06:39.529 And what really makes these stations truly stand 00:06:39.529 --> 00:06:42.370 out is how consistent they are. Most of them 00:06:42.370 --> 00:06:44.149 have been following the same schedule for years, 00:06:44.329 --> 00:06:47.029 sometimes decades. They'll use the same voice, 00:06:47.129 --> 00:06:49.509 the same intro sounds, the same formats over 00:06:49.509 --> 00:06:52.790 and over and over again. Not unlike this show. 00:06:53.069 --> 00:06:56.930 What's weird is that they are almost never interfered 00:06:56.930 --> 00:07:00.439 with. No public agency has ever claimed responsibility 00:07:00.439 --> 00:07:03.579 for them, but they also aren't treated like pirate 00:07:03.579 --> 00:07:05.560 radio, if you know what I mean. They're just 00:07:05.560 --> 00:07:10.220 kind of allowed to exist, which is weird. But 00:07:10.220 --> 00:07:12.980 yeah, so that's kind of what number stations 00:07:12.980 --> 00:07:16.199 are. So do you guys want to hear some? Fuck yeah. 00:07:17.060 --> 00:07:20.279 All right. Yes. Yeah, don't tease us, bud. So 00:07:20.279 --> 00:07:24.379 first up, they call this the NATO phonetic alphabet. 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:38.860 Yankee. Houghton. Foxtrot. Yankee. Houghton. 00:07:39.180 --> 00:07:50.500 Foxtrot. Group. One. Zero. Group. One. Zero. 00:07:51.019 --> 00:08:09.610 Text. Text. November. Lima. Sierra. That was 00:08:09.610 --> 00:08:10.709 my favorite because I just like the way they 00:08:10.709 --> 00:08:14.970 say November. Yeah. It's crazy because it's kind 00:08:14.970 --> 00:08:17.870 of hard to pick out the accent. Yeah. So, Nash, 00:08:17.990 --> 00:08:20.209 you got hotel way before I did. I was like, what 00:08:20.209 --> 00:08:22.129 the fuck is she saying? Yeah, it's Yankee Hotel 00:08:22.129 --> 00:08:24.509 Foxtrot. It's not spelling anything specific. 00:08:24.670 --> 00:08:27.329 It's just random. Yeah. It's the same letter 00:08:27.329 --> 00:08:29.930 sequence over and over again, but it's... I wonder 00:08:29.930 --> 00:08:31.730 if it's like a code to a cipher or something. 00:08:31.850 --> 00:08:33.230 It could be. And then, yeah, because then there 00:08:33.230 --> 00:08:37.049 was the group one zero. Yeah. Yeah. So this one 00:08:37.049 --> 00:08:39.889 was active from the 1970s and it went silent 00:08:39.889 --> 00:08:43.470 or sometime around like 2011. It transmitted 00:08:43.470 --> 00:08:46.730 multiple times a day on like a super strict schedule. 00:08:47.129 --> 00:08:50.090 And shortwave hobbyists were actually able to 00:08:50.090 --> 00:08:52.230 track where this one was being broadcast from 00:08:52.230 --> 00:08:55.429 and trace the source to Israel. So that's cool. 00:08:56.120 --> 00:08:57.779 Oh, geez. Nice. Well, we're getting canceled. 00:08:58.740 --> 00:09:05.379 It was somewhere in the Tel Aviv, central Israel 00:09:05.379 --> 00:09:09.580 area. Same building as the DHS Twitter account. 00:09:11.820 --> 00:09:16.740 Before you go on, do you know if the message 00:09:16.740 --> 00:09:20.080 ever changed? No, they're always... Yeah, no, 00:09:20.139 --> 00:09:24.429 the messages are always the same thing. from 00:09:24.429 --> 00:09:28.629 to from 1970 up until 2011 that's the message 00:09:28.629 --> 00:09:31.029 has never changed there's only one that we'll 00:09:31.029 --> 00:09:34.549 get to that kind of intermittently has changes 00:09:34.549 --> 00:09:37.389 but it's more so like the location than what 00:09:37.389 --> 00:09:39.629 is being transmitted location is where it was 00:09:39.629 --> 00:09:42.850 broadcasted from or yeah um all right so this 00:09:42.850 --> 00:09:45.649 next one is called the swedish rhapsody and it 00:09:45.649 --> 00:10:05.580 is a nightmare and i hate it I think I've heard 00:10:05.580 --> 00:10:07.220 this one before. I don't like it. I don't like 00:10:07.220 --> 00:10:14.019 it. Fuck it. This is music you hear before a 00:10:14.019 --> 00:10:17.019 Victorian child disembowels you. It's not good. 00:10:18.580 --> 00:10:29.139 Like you hear this while a guy in a plague doctor 00:10:29.139 --> 00:10:32.100 mask is winding a thing that's slowly pulling 00:10:32.100 --> 00:10:35.570 out your intestines. The ice cream truck full 00:10:35.570 --> 00:10:43.929 of corpses. And then just a German child reading 00:10:43.929 --> 00:10:59.980 numbers. Yeah, that one sucks. Meanwhile, people 00:10:59.980 --> 00:11:02.600 all over the world are running through their 00:11:02.600 --> 00:11:06.840 door to catch up to the ice cream truck. So this 00:11:06.840 --> 00:11:10.340 one was first logged in the 1950s and was active 00:11:10.340 --> 00:11:14.019 all the way up until 1998. So this one is actually 00:11:14.019 --> 00:11:16.320 one of the very few number stations that has 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:18.970 been kind of like solved. It originated from 00:11:18.970 --> 00:11:21.850 Poland, and we know this thanks to declassified 00:11:21.850 --> 00:11:24.450 records from Polish intelligence, and it was 00:11:24.450 --> 00:11:26.750 declassified in around like 2014. So this one 00:11:26.750 --> 00:11:29.669 we know where it came from and what it was used 00:11:29.669 --> 00:11:32.330 for, which I'm sure you can figure out what it 00:11:32.330 --> 00:11:34.809 was used for, but we'll get into it later. And 00:11:34.809 --> 00:11:36.929 then next up we have, this is probably the most 00:11:36.929 --> 00:11:40.090 well -known number station to ever exist. It's 00:11:40.090 --> 00:11:42.309 called the Lincolnshire Poacher because of the 00:11:42.309 --> 00:11:44.669 song that plays in the beginning. Yeah, there's 00:11:44.669 --> 00:11:52.669 another creepy song, sorry. I feel like everyone 00:11:52.669 --> 00:11:58.750 knows this one. Yep. This is just a guy who's 00:11:58.750 --> 00:12:12.669 really proud of his Casio keyboard. 3, 9, 7, 00:12:12.750 --> 00:12:35.820 1, 5. 3, 9, 7, 1, 5. So it's just that, and then 00:12:35.820 --> 00:12:37.379 it just repeats the creepy -ass song over and 00:12:37.379 --> 00:12:44.100 over again. So this one was first detected in 00:12:44.100 --> 00:12:46.759 the early 70s, like most of them, and eventually 00:12:46.759 --> 00:12:50.039 went silent in 2008. So this one broadcasted 00:12:50.039 --> 00:12:53.460 daily. but sometimes on multiple frequencies 00:12:53.460 --> 00:12:55.879 at once, which strongly suggests that this was 00:12:55.879 --> 00:12:57.980 like a state -level kind of operation and not 00:12:57.980 --> 00:13:00.279 some hobbyist doing it. And wouldn't you know, 00:13:00.440 --> 00:13:03.019 when the signal was tracked, it was tracked back 00:13:03.019 --> 00:13:07.320 to a Royal Air Force base in Cyprus. So it was 00:13:07.320 --> 00:13:09.899 British. Oh. I was going to say, the voice sounds 00:13:09.899 --> 00:13:12.299 British. Yeah. Well, I also picked that up from 00:13:12.299 --> 00:13:18.090 the song. The name of the song. Yeah, it's very 00:13:18.090 --> 00:13:20.929 British. And then finally, there's a million 00:13:20.929 --> 00:13:22.230 of these, but the last one I have for you is 00:13:22.230 --> 00:13:26.570 called UVB -76, a .k .a. The Buzzer. So this 00:13:26.570 --> 00:13:29.649 one is just a consistent buzzing sound, but rarely 00:13:29.649 --> 00:13:32.250 every once in a while there will be a voice message, 00:13:32.389 --> 00:13:36.509 and this one does change from time to time. I'm 00:13:36.509 --> 00:13:38.129 sure you can guess right away almost where this 00:13:38.129 --> 00:14:07.029 one comes from. of course we are located in America 00:14:07.029 --> 00:14:13.820 we are Americans it's so Russian yeah So that 00:14:13.820 --> 00:14:16.259 one's just that, and then it ends in just a bunch 00:14:16.259 --> 00:14:18.419 of buzzing sounds. So this one was detected also 00:14:18.419 --> 00:14:22.360 in the late 70s, and this one is still currently 00:14:22.360 --> 00:14:25.779 active, and it runs 24 hours a day, seven days 00:14:25.779 --> 00:14:28.840 a week. Originally, the broadcast was traced 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:31.299 to somewhere just outside of Moscow, but moved 00:14:31.299 --> 00:14:34.580 to now be broadcast somewhere near St. Petersburg. 00:14:35.100 --> 00:14:37.940 So some of these ran for decades, some shut down 00:14:37.940 --> 00:14:40.419 quietly, some are still going on, which brings 00:14:40.419 --> 00:14:43.659 us to the obvious question. Why? Let's dive into 00:14:43.659 --> 00:14:45.720 some theory, starting with the obvious and most 00:14:45.720 --> 00:14:49.740 mostly proven one, which is espionage. Right. 00:14:49.820 --> 00:14:52.659 Yeah. These broadcasts are easily one of the 00:14:52.659 --> 00:14:55.179 best ways to send instructions to people who 00:14:55.179 --> 00:14:57.879 are operating covertly without ever identifying 00:14:57.879 --> 00:15:00.740 who the message was for or where it's going or 00:15:00.740 --> 00:15:03.059 even really where it's coming from. Instead of 00:15:03.059 --> 00:15:05.419 direct messages, the information is turned into 00:15:05.419 --> 00:15:07.919 numbers or letters or tones and broadcast openly. 00:15:08.120 --> 00:15:10.580 So any asshole with the radio can hear it, but 00:15:10.580 --> 00:15:13.429 only the intended recipient. knows what to do 00:15:13.429 --> 00:15:16.529 with it if that makes sense yeah uh that's why 00:15:16.529 --> 00:15:18.250 the messages sound like a mishmash of nonsense 00:15:18.250 --> 00:15:20.529 like they're supposed to the listener already 00:15:20.529 --> 00:15:22.950 knows when to tune in what frequency to listen 00:15:22.950 --> 00:15:25.509 to and how to interpret what they hear so there's 00:15:25.509 --> 00:15:28.149 no back and forth no confirmation no response 00:15:28.149 --> 00:15:32.129 they just listen write it down decode it that's 00:15:32.129 --> 00:15:34.110 it and from an intelligence perspective this 00:15:34.110 --> 00:15:37.379 is fucking perfect like There's no digital trail. 00:15:37.460 --> 00:15:39.259 There's no phone records. There's no internet 00:15:39.259 --> 00:15:41.299 traffic to intercept. They're using antiquated 00:15:41.299 --> 00:15:43.960 technology that anyone can use, which makes it 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:46.360 harder to trace. And because it's a broadcast, 00:15:46.500 --> 00:15:48.379 there's no way to tell who actually received 00:15:48.379 --> 00:15:52.419 the message. You can't trace it back to any specific 00:15:52.419 --> 00:15:55.399 person because it's broadcast to everyone and 00:15:55.399 --> 00:15:58.639 in no specific place. It also explains why these 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:01.990 stations ran for so long, like unchanged. If 00:16:01.990 --> 00:16:03.649 something works and doesn't get compromised, 00:16:03.809 --> 00:16:05.590 just don't fuck with it. Just keep using the 00:16:05.590 --> 00:16:07.909 same voices, same format, same schedule year 00:16:07.909 --> 00:16:10.129 after year. And it also explains why governments 00:16:10.129 --> 00:16:12.809 never officially acknowledge them or try to shut 00:16:12.809 --> 00:16:16.110 them down because admitting they exist would 00:16:16.110 --> 00:16:18.570 mean admitting what they're used for. You can't 00:16:18.570 --> 00:16:22.009 do that. That's just why would you? It's interesting 00:16:22.009 --> 00:16:25.509 to me, though, that most of them like the message 00:16:25.509 --> 00:16:29.409 doesn't change over like a 30, 40, 50 year period. 00:16:29.879 --> 00:16:31.960 It almost makes you think that there's something 00:16:31.960 --> 00:16:36.320 else in the transmission that they're supposed 00:16:36.320 --> 00:16:39.919 to be listening for that's maybe mildly different. 00:16:40.519 --> 00:16:42.419 Well, that's kind of what I was thinking. I was 00:16:42.419 --> 00:16:46.120 wondering if the message is actually in what's 00:16:46.120 --> 00:16:50.000 not being said. Maybe it's in slight variations 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:54.279 in the time between them saying things. that 00:16:54.279 --> 00:16:56.340 could be that could be what you're actually supposed 00:16:56.340 --> 00:16:58.220 to look for kind of like a reverse morris code 00:16:58.220 --> 00:17:00.600 almost like the silence is because the few yeah 00:17:00.600 --> 00:17:02.299 because the few word just literally repeats the 00:17:02.299 --> 00:17:03.799 same thing over and over again and then there's 00:17:03.799 --> 00:17:06.380 like the the bit of gaps in between and it starts 00:17:06.380 --> 00:17:08.660 again and there's gaps in between yeah it almost 00:17:08.660 --> 00:17:12.119 kind of maybe that's what they're that's like 00:17:12.119 --> 00:17:15.500 the decipher is the your your code is the time 00:17:15.500 --> 00:17:19.069 between Yeah, the silence are kind of like the 00:17:19.069 --> 00:17:21.930 dots and dashes of a Morse code rather than the 00:17:21.930 --> 00:17:24.829 actual numbers having to be deciphered. That 00:17:24.829 --> 00:17:27.089 makes sense. But then the other thing that I 00:17:27.089 --> 00:17:30.650 was thinking of too is that these are all playing 00:17:30.650 --> 00:17:33.809 and they haven't changed. But when you think 00:17:33.809 --> 00:17:36.130 about the countries that are involved, they're 00:17:36.130 --> 00:17:40.009 countries that are still relatively stable nations 00:17:40.009 --> 00:17:44.250 right now. So I'm wondering if those codes would 00:17:44.250 --> 00:17:46.720 change if there was a nuclear attack. Right. 00:17:46.799 --> 00:17:49.279 Or if there was like an invasion. Well, it's 00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:50.640 funny. It's funny to me that that Russian one 00:17:50.640 --> 00:17:56.400 is still. Yeah. Sarge, you kind of picked up 00:17:56.400 --> 00:17:59.119 on something there. So these stations, they just 00:17:59.119 --> 00:18:01.140 quietly operate in the background and quietly 00:18:01.140 --> 00:18:02.759 disappear when they're no longer useful. But 00:18:02.759 --> 00:18:06.859 what if Sarge and Nash, these number of stations 00:18:06.859 --> 00:18:08.819 aren't just mundane bureaucratic tools? What 00:18:08.819 --> 00:18:11.980 if it's something more, more doomsday scenario? 00:18:13.329 --> 00:18:15.890 This theory, which is my favorite, is known as 00:18:15.890 --> 00:18:18.690 the doomsday signal slash dead hand theory. And 00:18:18.690 --> 00:18:21.650 this is where the number stations go from being 00:18:21.650 --> 00:18:24.250 just haunted lullabies meant for 007 and become 00:18:24.250 --> 00:18:27.609 a little bit more existential. So the idea behind 00:18:27.609 --> 00:18:29.990 this theory is that some of these broadcasts, 00:18:29.990 --> 00:18:31.789 especially the ones that continuously transmit, 00:18:32.109 --> 00:18:34.170 aren't meant to send instructions at all. They're 00:18:34.170 --> 00:18:36.619 meant to signal that everything is normal. And 00:18:36.619 --> 00:18:38.900 the message isn't what's being broadcast. It's 00:18:38.900 --> 00:18:41.059 the fact that the broadcast is still happening. 00:18:41.140 --> 00:18:43.599 Take, for example, the Russian buzzing signal 00:18:43.599 --> 00:18:46.140 we listened to earlier. That one runs for 24 00:18:46.140 --> 00:18:48.819 hours a day, seven days a week. As long as that 00:18:48.819 --> 00:18:51.900 signal continues, everything is fine. If it were 00:18:51.900 --> 00:18:55.400 ever to stop permanently, that would mean something 00:18:55.400 --> 00:18:57.519 catastrophic has happened, say, for instance, 00:18:57.720 --> 00:19:00.619 a nuclear strike. According to this theory, the 00:19:00.619 --> 00:19:02.859 signal acts essentially like a heartbeat. As 00:19:02.859 --> 00:19:05.380 long as it's there, the command structures are 00:19:05.380 --> 00:19:07.960 still intact. If it goes silent, it could trigger 00:19:07.960 --> 00:19:11.019 an automatic response, a .k .a. retaliation without 00:19:11.019 --> 00:19:13.960 human input. It's like a dead man's switch. A 00:19:13.960 --> 00:19:16.259 system designed to ensure that even if leadership 00:19:16.259 --> 00:19:19.819 is wiped out, they can still fuck you up. And 00:19:19.819 --> 00:19:23.859 there is some validity to this theory. Because 00:19:23.859 --> 00:19:27.299 during the Cold War, the idea of an automated 00:19:27.299 --> 00:19:30.140 system like this absolutely existed. Both sides 00:19:30.140 --> 00:19:32.279 were terrified of what's known as a decapitation 00:19:32.279 --> 00:19:34.819 strike, which is the idea that leadership could 00:19:34.819 --> 00:19:36.980 be wiped out before they could give any orders. 00:19:37.200 --> 00:19:40.039 So systems were designed to make sure that someone 00:19:40.039 --> 00:19:44.099 or something would respond no matter what. Well, 00:19:44.119 --> 00:19:45.779 yeah, because didn't Russia have almost a dead 00:19:45.779 --> 00:19:47.880 hand thing where even if it detected a nuclear 00:19:47.880 --> 00:19:49.900 strike, it just would launch all of its arsenal 00:19:49.900 --> 00:19:53.589 at all of its enemies? And then it's theorized 00:19:53.589 --> 00:19:55.250 that it's still active, even though they were 00:19:55.250 --> 00:19:57.329 like, oh yeah, we turned it off. Yeah, it's pretty 00:19:57.329 --> 00:19:58.670 much that. Which is funny because like so many 00:19:58.670 --> 00:20:01.569 times they have almost irradiated the entire 00:20:01.569 --> 00:20:04.170 planet by accident. Yeah, what was that one time 00:20:04.170 --> 00:20:06.609 where they detected something, it was like a 00:20:06.609 --> 00:20:08.609 system glitch and they thought a missile was 00:20:08.609 --> 00:20:10.769 coming, but luckily the guy that was like on 00:20:10.769 --> 00:20:14.329 the radar station or whatever was like called 00:20:14.329 --> 00:20:16.569 and was like, hey, is this legit? Instead of 00:20:16.569 --> 00:20:20.049 like pushing the button. Well, I think that's 00:20:20.049 --> 00:20:25.329 also the premise of the song 99 Red Balloons. 00:20:25.589 --> 00:20:29.170 Is it really? Yeah. Somebody apparently had released 00:20:29.170 --> 00:20:32.710 a bunch of balloons and the radar picked it up. 00:20:33.029 --> 00:20:34.990 It's a nuclear strike and it's just a bunch of 00:20:34.990 --> 00:20:36.970 fucking balloons. Could you imagine if that's 00:20:36.970 --> 00:20:38.589 how we all went out? This is like a bad birthday 00:20:38.589 --> 00:20:42.529 party gone wrong. It's a boy. Just turned into 00:20:42.529 --> 00:20:46.240 a fucking fallout. Yeah. It's a bad gender reveal 00:20:46.240 --> 00:20:49.059 party. It just turns into a fucking nuclear holocaust. 00:20:49.200 --> 00:20:50.579 What are we going to do with all these balloons? 00:20:50.799 --> 00:20:52.940 Just set them loose. Some guy's running. No! 00:20:54.339 --> 00:20:58.240 And it's Fallout. But the thing about this theory, 00:20:58.400 --> 00:21:00.799 where it kind of falls short, is that some of 00:21:00.799 --> 00:21:03.279 these ongoing stations have gone silent before. 00:21:03.720 --> 00:21:06.160 There have been outages, maintenance gaps, even 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:08.140 weird moments where other audio came through 00:21:08.140 --> 00:21:10.859 the frequency, and none of those moments ended. 00:21:11.319 --> 00:21:13.740 with the world descending into chaos. Now, that's 00:21:13.740 --> 00:21:15.900 not to say that they can toggle that on and off 00:21:15.900 --> 00:21:18.940 as needed for whatever reason, like for repairs 00:21:18.940 --> 00:21:21.660 or something like that. I'm just saying it's 00:21:21.660 --> 00:21:25.099 happened and we're still all alive. Or maybe 00:21:25.099 --> 00:21:27.779 it's possible that some of these number stations 00:21:27.779 --> 00:21:30.660 do operate in that capacity and others are strictly 00:21:30.660 --> 00:21:33.000 for passing information along. I mean, it could 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:35.920 be a combination of the two. Yeah, and there 00:21:35.920 --> 00:21:38.079 could be backup stations that we don't know about. 00:21:38.180 --> 00:21:40.579 Like if that one goes offline, they know to switch 00:21:40.579 --> 00:21:44.160 over this frequency to make sure. And that could 00:21:44.160 --> 00:21:46.720 be why the Russian one switches between two different 00:21:46.720 --> 00:21:50.099 points. Yeah, and why the British one is in Cyprus. 00:21:50.420 --> 00:21:52.099 Yeah, well, the British one's not running anymore. 00:21:52.220 --> 00:21:55.980 That one's... Yeah. Now, once you step away from 00:21:55.980 --> 00:21:58.460 spies and nukes, the next leap people take is 00:21:58.460 --> 00:22:01.400 usually pretty obvious. What if these broadcasts 00:22:01.400 --> 00:22:08.579 aren't meant for humans at all? So the argument 00:22:08.579 --> 00:22:12.079 for we're trying to contact aliens starts with 00:22:12.079 --> 00:22:14.400 the numbers themselves. Math is one of the few 00:22:14.400 --> 00:22:16.720 things we as humans assume would be universally 00:22:16.720 --> 00:22:20.140 understandable. Why we assume that extraterrestrials 00:22:20.140 --> 00:22:22.410 would have adopted. Arabic numerals, I have no 00:22:22.410 --> 00:22:28.329 idea. Or the military phonetics. Yeah. But if 00:22:28.329 --> 00:22:30.329 you're trying to communicate with non -human 00:22:30.329 --> 00:22:33.109 intelligence or whatever, numbers kind of make 00:22:33.109 --> 00:22:35.769 more sense than words, I guess. People who buy 00:22:35.769 --> 00:22:37.690 into this theory make it a point to talk about 00:22:37.690 --> 00:22:40.309 how bland and emotionless the broadcasts are. 00:22:40.509 --> 00:22:43.400 The voices are flat. The pacing is robotic from 00:22:43.400 --> 00:22:45.660 Russia. I can understand. Yeah. Yeah. There's 00:22:45.660 --> 00:22:47.559 no inflection. There's no urgency. There's no 00:22:47.559 --> 00:22:49.880 attempt to sound remotely human or friendly. 00:22:50.160 --> 00:22:52.519 It's just information. They also like to point 00:22:52.519 --> 00:22:54.200 to the nature of the broadcast. Like they're 00:22:54.200 --> 00:22:56.319 not targeted. They aren't sent from point A to 00:22:56.319 --> 00:22:59.019 point B. They're just blasted out into the void, 00:22:59.079 --> 00:23:02.279 which they say feels more like a beacon than 00:23:02.279 --> 00:23:05.299 an actual broadcast. Now there's another version 00:23:05.299 --> 00:23:07.990 of the theory that flips it. and suggests that 00:23:07.990 --> 00:23:10.369 the stations are actually relays and they're 00:23:10.369 --> 00:23:12.589 rebroadcasting messages that come from somewhere 00:23:12.589 --> 00:23:15.869 else using a format that we can generate, but 00:23:15.869 --> 00:23:19.009 we just have no idea what the fuck they're saying. 00:23:19.430 --> 00:23:22.650 Now, obviously, there's zero evidence for any 00:23:22.650 --> 00:23:26.609 of this, obviously, but people like it. Yeah. 00:23:27.450 --> 00:23:29.970 Weird. There's no evidence, but people still 00:23:29.970 --> 00:23:34.089 believe it. It's almost like all conspiracies, 00:23:34.089 --> 00:23:37.279 most conspiracies are bullshit. I almost said 00:23:37.279 --> 00:23:39.240 all there and I apologize. I can see how they 00:23:39.240 --> 00:23:40.980 might come to the conclusion. Like the broadcasts, 00:23:41.000 --> 00:23:44.660 they don't behave like normal human communication. 00:23:45.279 --> 00:23:47.839 And the ones that have been going on forever, 00:23:48.019 --> 00:23:49.779 like they don't adapt, they don't respond, and 00:23:49.779 --> 00:23:52.359 they don't care who or if anyone at all is listening. 00:23:52.420 --> 00:23:55.740 They just kind of exist in our world. And there 00:23:55.740 --> 00:23:58.940 are a million more theories about what they might 00:23:58.940 --> 00:24:00.599 be, but we don't have time to cover all of them. 00:24:00.799 --> 00:24:02.960 So let's talk about what we do know about these 00:24:02.960 --> 00:24:06.210 stations. well first we know the broadcasts are 00:24:06.210 --> 00:24:08.509 real they've been logged recorded and monitored 00:24:08.509 --> 00:24:11.190 for decades by people all around the world we 00:24:11.190 --> 00:24:12.890 know they're deliberate they follow schedules 00:24:12.890 --> 00:24:15.130 they use consistent formats many of them ran 00:24:15.130 --> 00:24:16.990 for years sometimes decades without changing 00:24:16.990 --> 00:24:19.509 up anything we also know that some of them were 00:24:19.509 --> 00:24:21.829 traced to real physical locations like military 00:24:21.829 --> 00:24:24.509 bases and government facilities in a few rare 00:24:24.509 --> 00:24:27.250 cases official records confirmed what they were 00:24:27.250 --> 00:24:30.319 and what they were being used for And we know 00:24:30.319 --> 00:24:32.099 they didn't all stop when the Cold War ended. 00:24:32.200 --> 00:24:34.359 Some went quiet in the 90s, some lasted into 00:24:34.359 --> 00:24:36.460 the 2000s. And like we heard, there's still one 00:24:36.460 --> 00:24:39.660 going on today in Russia. What we don't know 00:24:39.660 --> 00:24:42.660 is how many of these stations ever existed, how 00:24:42.660 --> 00:24:44.700 many were actually used for meaningful communication, 00:24:44.980 --> 00:24:47.559 or how many are active right now. We don't know 00:24:47.559 --> 00:24:49.920 who was listening, how often the messages that 00:24:49.920 --> 00:24:53.420 people received were acted on, or what, if any, 00:24:53.519 --> 00:24:56.559 of the broadcasts ever actually meant. Sorry 00:24:56.559 --> 00:24:59.779 to interrupt you. Do we know... like when the 00:24:59.779 --> 00:25:03.059 first one was ever like heard like do we know 00:25:03.059 --> 00:25:05.279 when these kind of started well i think dave 00:25:05.279 --> 00:25:07.640 didn't you say 1950s i think that's well that 00:25:07.640 --> 00:25:09.500 was like one of the ones that like ran until 00:25:09.500 --> 00:25:11.460 the 50s but i was wondering if maybe there was 00:25:11.460 --> 00:25:14.460 maybe they started longer or earlier than that 00:25:14.460 --> 00:25:17.500 i think with what i read is that one of the first 00:25:17.500 --> 00:25:20.779 ones to ever was like i think honestly like world 00:25:20.779 --> 00:25:24.059 war one like they really they didn't last long 00:25:24.059 --> 00:25:26.200 i think it was just during the war they were 00:25:26.200 --> 00:25:29.279 going on It wasn't like the Cold War where it 00:25:29.279 --> 00:25:32.660 started in the 50s and then ended in the 2000s. 00:25:32.700 --> 00:25:34.920 These were shorter ones. That was the first time 00:25:34.920 --> 00:25:37.619 number stations were used was during World War 00:25:37.619 --> 00:25:41.680 I, World War II era. But yeah, the first one 00:25:41.680 --> 00:25:44.079 to be discovered and last as long as it did was 00:25:44.079 --> 00:25:48.259 the one in the 50s, the Swedish Rhapsody one. 00:25:48.460 --> 00:25:50.500 That must be what I read and I just misunderstood 00:25:50.500 --> 00:25:52.119 what they were saying because I thought they 00:25:52.119 --> 00:25:54.829 said... number stations started to appear in 00:25:54.829 --> 00:25:57.269 the fifties, but that's crazy. World war one. 00:25:57.269 --> 00:25:58.809 Yeah. They weren't. Yeah. I don't know if they 00:25:58.809 --> 00:26:00.609 were considered number stations. Cause like I 00:26:00.609 --> 00:26:02.470 said, they weren't, they didn't last as long 00:26:02.470 --> 00:26:04.190 as like, I don't think it'd be, I don't think 00:26:04.190 --> 00:26:06.210 they could be categorized as like the cold war 00:26:06.210 --> 00:26:08.450 number stations that we know today. Right. That 00:26:08.450 --> 00:26:10.390 was just one of the first examples was they used 00:26:10.390 --> 00:26:13.589 them back in like the early world wars. Sorry. 00:26:13.829 --> 00:26:15.950 I ran out of breath. Okay. Sorry. We're boring 00:26:15.950 --> 00:26:19.990 you. No, no, I can't. My, my chest and face are. 00:26:20.519 --> 00:26:23.059 So congested. I'm on a bunch of Dayquil right 00:26:23.059 --> 00:26:27.440 now. Yeah. But anyways, it's that uncertainty 00:26:27.440 --> 00:26:29.599 and mystery is why I'm completely fascinated 00:26:29.599 --> 00:26:32.039 with number stations. They sit in this weird, 00:26:32.140 --> 00:26:34.839 uncomfortable space between some mundane bullshit 00:26:34.839 --> 00:26:38.160 and like existential dread. On one hand, they're 00:26:38.160 --> 00:26:40.380 literally just radios and numbers and schedules, 00:26:40.680 --> 00:26:43.000 boring shit. But on the other hand, they represent 00:26:43.000 --> 00:26:45.359 systems operating quietly in the background of 00:26:45.359 --> 00:26:47.460 our world, transmitting things that we were never 00:26:47.460 --> 00:26:50.539 meant to truly ever understand. There you have 00:26:50.539 --> 00:26:52.920 it, guys. That's number stations. That's all 00:26:52.920 --> 00:26:54.880 I have for you. A little bit of a shorter episode 00:26:54.880 --> 00:26:57.160 this week, but Nash, starting with you, how are 00:26:57.160 --> 00:26:58.380 we feeling about it? Do you have any theories 00:26:58.380 --> 00:27:01.720 of your own? Do you have anything? Wasn't there 00:27:01.720 --> 00:27:04.460 like a John Cusack movie about this in like 2010? 00:27:05.299 --> 00:27:10.819 Probably. I feel like that was back when he was 00:27:10.819 --> 00:27:14.289 making Doomsday movies. He made a lot of those 00:27:14.289 --> 00:27:18.210 doomsday movies, I feel like. He did. Yeah. One 00:27:18.210 --> 00:27:21.829 could argue, what was it, Room 237? Oh, yeah, 00:27:22.150 --> 00:27:23.690 I know what you're talking about. 2013, look 00:27:23.690 --> 00:27:30.289 at me. Yep, Cusack. What's it called? The Number 00:27:30.289 --> 00:27:32.630 Station. It's called The Number Station? Yeah. 00:27:32.710 --> 00:27:34.369 I got to watch that. I didn't even know it existed. 00:27:35.300 --> 00:27:36.960 All right. Put that on my fucking letterbox. 00:27:37.720 --> 00:27:40.279 It's got a 5 .6 out of 10 on IMDb. Oh, hell yeah. 00:27:40.420 --> 00:27:42.740 So you know it's good. All right. 31 % on Rotten 00:27:42.740 --> 00:27:46.420 Tomatoes. Oh. Uh -oh. That's less good. Hell 00:27:46.420 --> 00:27:49.960 yeah. All right. But yeah. Sorry. Sorry. Nash, 00:27:50.079 --> 00:27:52.140 how you feeling? You good? But you got anything 00:27:52.140 --> 00:27:54.519 you want to add to this? Anything you got? Yeah. 00:27:54.579 --> 00:27:57.519 I mean, I feel like this is kind of one of those 00:27:57.519 --> 00:28:01.299 things where there's just so many theories and 00:28:01.299 --> 00:28:05.630 never any real answers. because I want to say 00:28:05.630 --> 00:28:07.430 I read somewhere once that it was theorized that 00:28:07.430 --> 00:28:09.789 a lot of the ones that were kind of being picked 00:28:09.789 --> 00:28:13.789 up were not like legit government and it was 00:28:13.789 --> 00:28:17.490 just people fucking around basically. Yeah. But 00:28:17.490 --> 00:28:19.269 that was obviously after they had kind of gotten 00:28:19.269 --> 00:28:22.470 popular. I think a lot of the ones from, you 00:28:22.470 --> 00:28:25.349 know, World War I through the Cold War were definitely 00:28:25.349 --> 00:28:32.009 real government use situations. I think a lot 00:28:32.009 --> 00:28:33.369 of, I mean, like I said, you don't really hear 00:28:33.369 --> 00:28:37.869 about them really much anymore. I feel like like 00:28:37.869 --> 00:28:40.470 10, 15 years ago, it was just, we kind of came 00:28:40.470 --> 00:28:42.430 like almost like a creepypasta type thing. Yeah. 00:28:43.190 --> 00:28:45.029 That's when I, that's really when I started to 00:28:45.029 --> 00:28:47.529 hear about it was like 10 years ago. Yeah. And 00:28:47.529 --> 00:28:50.069 Sarge, how are you feeling? I fucking love it. 00:28:50.789 --> 00:28:53.009 It's so cool. I don't, I don't know what it is. 00:28:53.390 --> 00:28:55.569 I desperately want to know what it is, but at 00:28:55.569 --> 00:28:58.309 the same time, I feel like it's been built up 00:28:58.309 --> 00:29:01.670 so much of my mind at this point. That anything 00:29:01.670 --> 00:29:04.309 that I find out is just going to be a fucking 00:29:04.309 --> 00:29:07.730 disappointment. Yeah, maybe. And I also love 00:29:07.730 --> 00:29:10.130 the variety in the number stations. We listened 00:29:10.130 --> 00:29:13.589 to a couple today, but I remember hearing one 00:29:13.589 --> 00:29:17.289 recording where there was a guy reading a poem. 00:29:17.630 --> 00:29:20.650 Yeah, there's some ones out there that are really 00:29:20.650 --> 00:29:26.230 in -depth that just have some pretty crazy messages 00:29:26.230 --> 00:29:28.740 kind of being said in them. that obviously means 00:29:28.740 --> 00:29:30.759 nothing, but it's, it's always gibberish. It's 00:29:30.759 --> 00:29:33.400 always nonsense. Yeah. Whatever. And I remember 00:29:33.400 --> 00:29:35.480 there being one where you could hear a kid talking 00:29:35.480 --> 00:29:37.660 in the background. I think I know what you're 00:29:37.660 --> 00:29:40.680 talking about. Yeah. And so it's like, this guy's 00:29:40.680 --> 00:29:42.519 probably just doing this, running this number 00:29:42.519 --> 00:29:45.880 station. Kids in the back playing the shut up. 00:29:45.880 --> 00:29:49.420 I'm trying to shut up. I'm preventing nuclear. 00:29:49.480 --> 00:29:51.839 Trying to activate the sleeper agents. There 00:29:51.839 --> 00:29:54.500 was a, there was one that actually was coming 00:29:54.500 --> 00:29:58.089 out of. New Mexico, I think. It went silent pretty 00:29:58.089 --> 00:30:00.589 recently, but it started out with a short data 00:30:00.589 --> 00:30:02.450 burst, because sometimes they'll burst out these 00:30:02.450 --> 00:30:04.130 little compressed things of data real quick. 00:30:04.309 --> 00:30:08.869 And then it was Yosemite Sam. Oh, yes! That one 00:30:08.869 --> 00:30:10.930 creeped me out a lot, actually. That was good. 00:30:14.170 --> 00:30:17.470 There's a ton of theories about them. There's 00:30:17.470 --> 00:30:20.730 one theory, the sleeper agent one, it's just 00:30:20.730 --> 00:30:24.170 awakening winter soldiers everywhere, but not 00:30:24.170 --> 00:30:27.890 in a cool way. It was just like a way to tell 00:30:27.890 --> 00:30:31.230 teams that they're good to go do whatever it 00:30:31.230 --> 00:30:33.329 is they're doing, not like fucking Manchurian 00:30:33.329 --> 00:30:36.250 candidate shit. Right. And then there's other 00:30:36.250 --> 00:30:38.569 theories that they just were, it was like psychological 00:30:38.569 --> 00:30:40.930 warfare. Like we, like they started playing them 00:30:40.930 --> 00:30:43.309 and we would just waste all of our time trying 00:30:43.309 --> 00:30:45.609 to decipher them instead of like actually like 00:30:45.609 --> 00:30:50.309 the governments don't do psyops. Yeah, that never 00:30:50.309 --> 00:30:52.289 happens. Yeah, so that was another one. But yeah, 00:30:52.349 --> 00:30:54.130 I fucking love the number of stations. I've been 00:30:54.130 --> 00:30:56.730 obsessed with them for a while now. Me too. Probably 00:30:56.730 --> 00:30:58.349 around the same time. Yeah, like 10 years ago, 00:30:58.509 --> 00:31:00.450 15 years ago, something like that. But it was 00:31:00.450 --> 00:31:02.789 good. But yeah, that's all I got. Hopefully you 00:31:02.789 --> 00:31:04.150 guys enjoyed it. Hopefully everyone listening 00:31:04.150 --> 00:31:05.609 enjoyed it. I loved it. That was incredible. 00:31:06.130 --> 00:31:08.890 Yeah. It made me so happy. I didn't want it to 00:31:08.890 --> 00:31:10.890 end. I fucking, I could talk about number stations 00:31:10.890 --> 00:31:14.150 for hours. I wish I had more energy. No, I get 00:31:14.150 --> 00:31:17.309 it. That's okay. I'm going to go Google them 00:31:17.309 --> 00:31:20.380 now and just. fall down a YouTube rabbit hole. 00:31:20.440 --> 00:31:22.680 Like I said, if you go on fucking Spotify, just 00:31:22.680 --> 00:31:25.319 look up the Kona projects and literally every 00:31:25.319 --> 00:31:27.380 single one, you can just listen to them, make 00:31:27.380 --> 00:31:31.390 a playlist. I got to say, my poor kids. I have 00:31:31.390 --> 00:31:34.650 them for the next two days. And I'm just going 00:31:34.650 --> 00:31:37.349 to force this down their throats. I think what 00:31:37.349 --> 00:31:39.109 I'm going to do starting today is I'm just going 00:31:39.109 --> 00:31:41.329 to have it on repeat. So that way my fucking 00:31:41.329 --> 00:31:44.670 Spotify to rap for 2026 is just... Just number 00:31:44.670 --> 00:31:50.089 station. You listen to 370 hours of number station. 00:31:50.089 --> 00:31:53.009 I wonder if you could start your own number station 00:31:53.009 --> 00:31:57.720 and then track who drives by your house. Maybe 00:31:57.720 --> 00:32:01.859 the government's like, aha. All right. With that 00:32:01.859 --> 00:32:03.579 out of the way, Nash, you got anything you want 00:32:03.579 --> 00:32:05.160 to plug? Anything you want to promote? Where 00:32:05.160 --> 00:32:07.119 can people find you? All that good stuff? Chasing 00:32:07.119 --> 00:32:14.160 Legends on YouTube and Paraflix. Yeah. Hopefully 00:32:14.160 --> 00:32:16.700 some new stuff coming out this year or being 00:32:16.700 --> 00:32:22.900 at least filmed this year. Might be doing two 00:32:22.900 --> 00:32:25.960 shows potentially for Paraflix. Hell yeah. Awesome. 00:32:26.430 --> 00:32:29.549 We'll see. All right. And I'll put links on where 00:32:29.549 --> 00:32:31.349 to find you and all that stuff in the episode 00:32:31.349 --> 00:32:33.250 description. Sarge, you got anything going on? 00:32:34.049 --> 00:32:38.369 I've got nothing, but my friends in the Haunted 00:32:38.369 --> 00:32:42.170 By podcast are doing a live show in good old 00:32:42.170 --> 00:32:44.750 Quincy, Massachusetts. So if you happen to be 00:32:44.750 --> 00:32:48.170 in the worst part of Massachusetts, you can go 00:32:48.170 --> 00:32:50.109 to the second worst part of Massachusetts, which 00:32:50.109 --> 00:32:52.970 is Quincy. You're not really selling this live 00:32:52.970 --> 00:32:54.190 show for years. The worst part, at least in my 00:32:54.190 --> 00:32:56.210 experience, is Brockton. Look, it's worth the 00:32:56.210 --> 00:32:58.549 trip. It's worth the trip. It's in Marina Bay. 00:32:59.430 --> 00:33:03.670 It's at a very cool brewery called Break Rock 00:33:03.670 --> 00:33:07.230 Brewery. It's only $11. It's worth it. I'm going 00:33:07.230 --> 00:33:10.250 to be there bringing some friends, so it should 00:33:10.250 --> 00:33:13.170 be a good time. Hell yeah. Where was I? What 00:33:13.170 --> 00:33:14.970 were we talking about? Oh, we were plugging stuff. 00:33:15.250 --> 00:33:17.630 Number stations. We were plugging stuff. Got 00:33:17.630 --> 00:33:22.420 it. Yeah, so... Follow Sarge on all his socials. 00:33:22.420 --> 00:33:23.660 You can find him at the link on our Instagram, 00:33:23.819 --> 00:33:25.640 which is at Cryptic Cocktail. Follow us on TikTok, 00:33:25.819 --> 00:33:27.960 Cryptic Cocktail Party. Leave us a five -star 00:33:27.960 --> 00:33:29.660 rating review wherever you can. It really helps. 00:33:30.599 --> 00:33:33.180 I think that's all I got. And with that out of 00:33:33.180 --> 00:33:35.420 the way, Nash, normally Sarge says goodbye and 00:33:35.420 --> 00:33:36.839 I love you to the audience, but do you want to 00:33:36.839 --> 00:33:43.700 do the honors? Sure. Goodbye, audience. I love 00:33:43.700 --> 00:33:43.799 you.