Selects: What is a Numbers Station?
Stuff You Should Know
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 82.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
If you think secretly coded messages sent via short wave radio is Cold War relic, think again. In this classic episode, Chuck and Josh are here to dispel that myth, along with many others relating to numbers stations, including why they might still be operational.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.0 | Hey, happy Saturday, everybody. Chuck here. |
| 0:08.5 | I hope you're enjoying your weekend. |
| 0:09.9 | I hope you're enjoying your year, your month. |
| 0:13.3 | I hope you're enjoying the very hour in which you are coming across this. |
| 0:16.9 | It is the select episode for the week. |
| 0:19.8 | And I'm picking this one because I honestly don't remember much about it, and I got to listen to it. |
| 0:24.2 | So maybe I'll learn it all over again. |
| 0:26.1 | It's about number stations, and it's called What is a Number Station? |
| 0:33.8 | Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:43.1 | Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark with Charles W. Chuck Bryant. |
| 0:48.2 | And this is, oh, Jerry. |
| 0:49.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:50.2 | And this is Stuff You Should Know. |
| 0:51.6 | 7.4, 2, 5, 8. |
| 0:54.4 | Can you say it in German? |
| 0:57.6 | You speak German. Don't even jog me. |
| 1:00.7 | 2.3.5. Ach 7. |
| 1:04.1 | Now, can you do that in a little girl voice? |
| 1:08.1 | You're just toying with me. |
| 1:09.1 | Come on, do it. |
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