Special thanks to: Michele Hilmes, Pete Hammer, Rich Flores, Mara Mills, Jonathan Sterne, Claudia Mewes. Invaluable reporting and production assistance was provided by Eli Cohen. Mixtape is reported, produced, scored and sound designed by Simon Adler with original music throughout by Simon Adler. Today, the story of how Bing Crosby and some stolen Nazi technology won his audience back, changed media forever and accidentally broke reality along the way.

Bing however, was not going down without a fight. His ratings were plummeting and his fans were fleeing. He was the movie star, the pop star and his radio show was reaching a third of American living rooms each week. In 1946 Bing Crosby was the king of media. And to Erik Villard for all his help pulling those tapes and voices for us. And to Mathew Campbell for introducing me to the Wandering Soul tape to begin with. Special thanks to: Allison Boccia, Jared Tracy and Herb Friedman. Original reporting was contributed by Trung Dung Vo and Nguyễn Vân Hà. This episode was produced by Annie McEwen, with original music by Annie. Indispensable reporting and production assistance was provided by Eli Cohen. Mixtape is reported, produced, scored and sound designed by Simon Adler with original music throughout by Simon. Today, the story of these efforts and their ghosts that still haunt us today. And so, armed with tape recorders and microphones, the military set out to win the war by bringing this ghost story to life.

It was an old Vietnamese folktale involving a ghost, eternal damnation and fear - a tailor made weaponizable myth. Support Radiolab by becoming a member today at /donate.Īs the Vietnam war dragged on, the US military began desperately searching for any vulnerability in their North Vietnamese enemy. And to Micah Loewinger to tipping me off to these software radio broadcasts. And Simon Goodwin for making us that secret code. And to Arash Aziz for helping us every step of the way with our story about Khomeini. Special thanks to: Alex Sayf Cummings, Martin Maly, Piotr Gawrysiak, Joe Tozer, James Gleick, Jason Rezaian, Gholam Khiabany and Mo Jazi.

Top tier reporting and production assistance was provided by Eli Cohen. In tape four of Mixtape, we examine how these early internet came about, and how the societal and cultural impacts of these analog information networks can still be felt today. They copied and moved information like never before, upended power structures and created a poisonous social network that brought down a regime. Would it be possible to broadcast computer software over the radio? If so, could listeners record it off the air and onto a cassette tape? This experiment and dozens of others in the early 80s created a series of cassette fueled, analog internets. In 1983, Simon Goodwin had a strange thought.

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