Federation of Magic Pop UFOS

    The Internet supposedly remembers everything. That's adorable. Somewhere in the digital rubble sits OIDAR Radio — “Radio Backwards” : an obscure program whose surviving footprint now resembles the contents of a desk drawer after an eviction. A Facebook presence remains. Old references point toward “OIDAR RADIO BACKWARDS EPISODE 1.” Search results produce fragments, dead ends and the occasional unrelated Android application also called OIDAR wandering through the crime scene. Nobody had to burn the tapes. The algorithm brought a pillow. And that's what makes OIDAR interesting to FMPU. This isn't presently a censorship story. There is no evidence somebody ordered the program erased, suppressed its hosts or dispatched the Men in Black to repossess a podcast server. Something arguably more ordinary—and therefore more unsettling—appears to have happened. Digital entropy. Feeds die. Domains expire. Hosting companies disappear. Facebook posts sink beneath fif...

Before the internet convinced everybody that information had been invented in 1995, there were people sitting alone at night with shortwave receivers, notebooks, cigarettes, coffee, bad eyesight and absolutely no intention of going to bed. They were listening to the planet. Now 107 issues of Review of International Broadcasting , spanning roughly 1978 through 1997, have been gathered into the Internet Archive’s radio collections. Edited by Glenn Hauser, the publication tracked international stations, pirates, strange signals, schedule changes, political broadcasts and whatever else happened to wander across the bands. In other words: a pre-digital intelligence network run by hobbyists in spare bedrooms. Nobody called them analysts. Nobody gave them clearances. Nobody issued laminated badges and just wrote down what they heard. And that may turn out to be more valuable than anybody realized. Because radio disappears beautifully. A station changes frequency. A govern...

 That's right, FMPU will be calling in to EXPAT Radio for a "quick" 45 minutes on Friday, December 7 at 3pm Pacific Time!  I'll be interviewed by one of my favorite online writers, Bill Friday.  Writer, Pop Culture watcher, and Blogger of the Unexplained, Expats Post founding member, Samuel, joins host Bill Friday to talk about the funniest, and most serious, parts of the phenomenon that is “2012”.   Among the “Topics on Display for the End of Days” are... <> Who is behind the 2012 Industrial Complex? <> What happened to Y2K? <> When does your Mayan Calendar need a Leap Year? <> Where are the Funniest 2012 Bits of 2012? <> Why there may be no Panic Room in the Inn?   So listen, join in the live chat (powered by Facebook), and CALL the show at (646) 200-4691. Sounds like fun... Tune in!  Find out why this doesn't happen every day! (and other off-humor comments...)

File Under: They're back (sorta) after leaving Out There Radio 4 years ago. Even if you missed all 50 previous episodes, listen to episode 51 of Out There Radio as it will catch you up and inspire you to work your way back. No Joe McFall, but, true to old form Raymond Wiley is not selling you that stupid ghost buster shit. (Sorry if you like shitty ghost hunting shows.) Pearl Jam. Sucks. And that is what might throw this particular episode into a category of its own. People, Pearl Jam has always sucked - and I do have support for this which I may get to one day - Nicholas Pell , one of the show's new sequencers (as I call them), is an L.A. Weekly writer.  In this episode we learn about some of Nick's background. Next, my best wishes came true when Raymond and his new co-host (former sequencer), Austin Gandy , lit up the Colorado Shooter "conspiracy." Raymond and Austin journey into the dangers conspiracy sites present (via wild speculation) in their e...