The Standing Second

Send us Fan Mail A government radio station in the Black Rock Desert has one job: broadcast the second. Tick by tick, night after night, station KDT-9 tells ships, power grids, and one man in Ohio exactly when it is. Then, at fourteen minutes past two in the morning, the station's monitoring receiver picks up its own broadcast. The voice belongs to night engineer Mara Voss. The timestamp is forty-one days in the future. And appended to the announcement is a fault code for a failure that hasn't happened yet. A story about causal loops, standing waves, a service log from 1959, and information that has no author, only a keeper. The Midnight Frequency. It's later than you think. Support the show