Author: Jason Wilder

  • We Made It To Friday, Part 2

    We made it to Friday! Here’s some stuff I have been watching, reading, thinking about, etc.

    The Journey of NS-28!

    This is exciting to watch. If I could afford to do this, I would.

    Space News:

    Origin of Mars’s moons by disruptive partial capture of an asteroid.

    Vast Oceans of Water May Be Hiding Within Uranus and Neptune.

    The Geminid Meteor Shower will peak in a couple weeks.

    Sombrero Galaxy!

    Why India’s latest Sun mission finding is crucial for the world.

    I’m Not A Robot

    Podcast I’ve been binging:

    The Telepathy Tapes.

     “explores the profound abilities of non-speakers with autism—individuals who have long been misunderstood and underestimated. These silent communicators possess gifts that defy conventional understanding, from telepathy to otherworldly perceptions, challenging the limits of what we believe to be real. For years, their parents and teachers have quietly witnessed these remarkable abilities, knowing that the time to share their truth would eventually come. But now, as the evidence mounts, the time has come to reveal what has been hidden in plain sight.”

    We are lost as a species if we lose track of how amazing it is to be human. We are lost as a species if we lose track of how fascinating space is. Our potentials have taken a back seat to monetary, religious and social greed.

  • November 24, 2024 Playlist and Notes

    Dominik HauserBenson, ArizonaYou should watch the movie Dark Star.
    SpiritualizedElectric MainlineJason Spaceman, come on my show?
    The Moody BluesSun Is Still ShiningI, allegedly, fell asleep to the Moody Blues as a child.
    MorningfaceHeaven Don’t Feel Like ThisThe world needs more Morningface.
    Trees SpeekSpirit Oscillator
    Aliens Are HereJohn Lear and George KnappDo you believe John Leer?
    The Man From AtlantisWondering Star (Love in Outer Space)
    Circles Around The Sun, Mikaela DavisMoonbowMikaela Davis is from Rochester, NY. Mikaela, come on the show?
    The Brothers JohnsonRide-O-RocketBrothers Johnson was a Tik Tok find.
    UFO Over LapplandSeventh Sun of OrionListen to everything from this band, with headphones.
    Ann ColeNo Star Is LostBlind buy from the Bop Shop!
    The Stargazer LilliesWaves of SoundI meant to talk about plants that have been to space.
    PrismSpaceship Superstar
    MecoEncounters of Every Kind

  • We Made It To Friday, Part 1

    Movie recommendation for this weekend: Dark Star. Need a good laugh after living a week in which nothing has tickled your funny bone? Dark Star follows a crew of misfits on a mission to blow up unstable planets. Along the way, they adopt an alien that looks like a giant beach ball because they wanted a mascot and a bomb with an AI mind gets very sassy then has an existential crisis. All of this is happening while the crew manages each other as well as the characters in the Office. John Carpenter made this and the spaceship aesthetic is a low budget dream. There’s a whole bunch of other references and influences in this movie that would spoil the fun by me mentioning it before you watch it.

    Bandcamp song of the week: Morningface – Heaven Don’t Feel Like This

    Kate Hummel is Morningface. I wish she made more music. I’m a big fan. Her music is heavily inspired by Spacemen 3, Spiritualized, Pete Kember and the bands/artists who are in that orbit.

    Kate’s Outta Space album is still available on CD.

    What have I been thinking about? Games characters play in spaceships. In Dark Star, the character Boiler was playing some sort of solitaire with playing cards. In the Millennium Falcon, Chewbacca plays the game Dejarik against the R2-D2. Surely there has to be a list of games appearing in sci-fi movies. If there is, I cannot find it. Also, I want a Dejarik board game for myself.

    Speaking of space games, the Gunstar in the movie The Last Starfighter ranked third in Giant Freakin’ Robot’s Deadliest Space Fighters.

    UAPs UFOs USOs. Enough already. This is turning into quite a mess. We have people in Congress who cannot treat other humans respectfully but want disclosure (it’s only so they can get a piece of the pie, BTW). There’s Youtube and podcast bros spreading false information for clout. I’m all for humans on earth to be told what many of us already assume that we are not alone. Do you ever imagine what these morons will do once/if there is a mass sighting or visitation? It will be much worse than how we handled the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Record Store Day. Another RSD is coming up (next Friday!) and I will be trying to find the release Lights on a Satellite: Live at the Left Bank 1978 by Sun Ra.

    The cd insert looks pretty cool. You can preorder the CD now but you will have to find the vinyl on RSD.

    I plan on visiting Record Row here in Rochester. That’s the Bop Shop, Needledrop and the HiFi Lounge.

    Further reading and listening, without comment but best with an adult beverage. Dream hacking. Remmyo. Life on Venus? Otherworld.

    Here for the music? Tune into Fantastic Voyage Sundays at 4pm on wayofm.org.

  • November 17, 2024 Playlist

    Benny J WardFlight of the NavigatorBandcamp. Australian power pop.
    Alien PlanetscapesWho’s Talkin’ ‘Bout UFOs?Bandcamp. Originally DIY cassette tape.
    BorrachoIt Came From The SkyBandcamp. Heavy psych sludge.
    BongtowerMarsBandcamp. Heavy psych sludge.
    Fancy GapStarlight MotelBandcamp. Ephemeral americana.
    Jake SchrockA.51Bandcamp. Scifi synth master.
    CroixHowlBandcamp. Rochester, NY indie band. RIYL Liz Phair, Julianna Hatfield.
    Nada SurfTelescopeBandcamp. 90s flashback song from a relevant modern band.
    SpaceTango in SpaceWiki. French Cosmic Disco.
    SIANsphericThe Stars AboveBandcamp. Canadian Space Rock masters.

    Related / Further Reading:

    Immaculate Constellation. (pdf)
    Congressional Hearing. (YouTube)

  • Immaculate Constellation

    Today was a big day. It’s my birthday, 49 laps around the sun. Also, the UAP Congressional Hearing. I’ll be playing some clips this Sunday of my favorite and not so favorite moments as well as giving my opinion on a few things that happened during the hearing.

    Entered into evidence was a document detailing the existence of a Pentagon UFO retrieval program named Immaculate Constellation that the Pentagon denies ever existed.

    I cannot believe I exist in the timeline where the hearing like today actually happened, a name like Immaculate Constellation is a secret Pentagon program and not a death metal band, and what happened today isn’t even close to being the top news story.

  • Congressional UAP Hearing

    Another round of congressional hearings involving UAPs is coming on November 13th.

    The following witnesses will be testifying:
    Dr. Tim Gallaudet: Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy (RET.), Chief Executive Officer, Ocean STL Consulting, LLC
    Luis Elizondo: Former Department of Defense Official
    Michael Gold: Former National Aeronautics and Space Administration Associate Administrator
    Michael Shellenberger: Journalist

    This is pretty exciting just for the subject matter alone. I know many people in the UFO community are hopeful Trump will allow for “disclosure” to happen. I think the opposite will happen. With the amount of new information out there about USOs (unidentified submerged object) and secret government programs who allocate potential technologies to companies, I cannot see any president disclosing anything that isn’t so blatantly obvious for two reasons: global political supremacy and money. A mass sighting or event is the only way in which UAPs or USOs will be public knowledge.

    If you are not convinced about the existence of UFOs, UAPs, USOs, aliens, etc., I recommend watching these hearings. Do not lose your skepticism but allow yourself to ask “what if what I am hearing is true?”

    More information:

  • November 10, 2024 Playlist

    It’s been a little over a year since I started at WAYO. Been a good run, hope to extend it as long as possible. Had a few clips I wanted to play but I couldn’t get a connection of the laptop to the board. Next week!

    Zolar X – Rocket Roll
    Montrose – Space Station #5
    Von Lmo – Future Language
    Rocket Man – Rocket Man
    King Buffalo – Cosmonaut
    NASA – Apollo 8
    The Jesus and Mary Chain – Man On The Moon
    Galaxie 500 – Leave The Planet
    Rockets – Back To Your Planet
    Screeching Weasel – I Believe in UFOs
    Cassandra Jenkins – Betelgeuse
    Sean Ono Lennon – Spaceship
    Mekons – Fantastic Voyage
    T. Rex – Galaxy
    The Dickies – Eep Opp Ork (Uh Uh)
    Spacemen 3 – Starship