Episode's summary
The evening news from Aster opens with a dispatcher in Texas. The Glass Hall has learned that someone on the Quiet World answered the drift, and Lord Kael wants the vote moved up. Meanwhile, in Calder Flats, the Route 9 bridge does exactly what Aster said it would. At 3:21 a.m., someone knocks on the dispatch door. Watch it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/tSvMsfDkT80 Keep 1690 on the air: become a Listener on 1690 ($2.99/month, your name in the end credits) https://buy.stripe.com/4gM14m1IDgLdgLB3q9dAk00 or leave a tip https://buy.stripe.com/6oU3cufzt3Yr2ULd0JdAk01 Fiction. Voices are AI-generated.
The evening news from Aster opens with a dispatcher in Texas. The Glass Hall has learned that someone on the Quiet World answered the drift, and Lord Kael wants the vote moved up. Meanwhile, in Calder Flats, the Route 9 bridge does exactly what Aster said it would. At 3:21 a.m., someone knocks on the dispatch door. Watch it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/tSvMsfDkT80 Keep 1690 on the air: become a Listener on 1690 ($2.99/month, your name in the end credits) https://buy.stripe.com/4gM14m1IDgLdgLB3q9dAk00 or leave a tip https://buy.stripe.com/6oU3cufzt3Yr2ULd0JdAk01 Fiction. Voices are AI-generated.
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The Concord Hour 2: Someone Answered
ListenedThe evening news from Aster opens with a dispatcher in Texas. The Glass Hall has learned that someone on the Quiet World answered the drift, and Lord Kael wants the vote moved up. Meanwhile, in Calder Flats, the Route 9 bridge does exactly what Aster said it would. At 3:21 a.m., someone knocks on the dispatch door. Watch it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/tSvMsfDkT80 Keep 1690 on the air: become a Listener on 1690 ($2.99/month, your name in the end credits) https://buy.stripe.com/4gM14m1IDgLdgLB3q9dAk00 or leave a tip https://buy.stripe.com/6oU3cufzt3Yr2ULd0JdAk01 Fiction. Voices are AI-generated.
Drift 1: "105 and Rising"
ListenedAt 3:09 a.m. the radio plays helicopters, rockets, and a 21-year-old Marine radioman on a Saigon rooftop on April 29, 1975, calling a Texas station. Then he hears the dispatcher answer. The characters are fiction; the evacuation signal is real history. Watch it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1oWiNEcAEh8 Keep 1690 on the air: become a Listener on 1690 ($2.99/month, your name in the end credits) https://buy.stripe.com/4gM14m1IDgLdgLB3q9dAk00 or leave a tip https://buy.stripe.com/6oU3cufzt3Yr2ULd0JdAk01 Fiction. Voices are AI-generated.
The Concord Hour 1: News From Another World
ListenedThe dead station on 1690 picks up the evening news from Aster: a galactic council debating the Quiet World, 40,000 refugees at a closed border, an election with a candidate who isn't a person. And at the end, a message for us. Watch it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/nXBqF9sGhps Keep 1690 on the air: become a Listener on 1690 ($2.99/month, your name in the end credits) https://buy.stripe.com/4gM14m1IDgLdgLB3q9dAk00 or leave a tip https://buy.stripe.com/6oU3cufzt3Yr2ULd0JdAk01 Fiction. Voices are AI-generated.
Episode 1: "1690"
ListenedEvery night at 3:09 a.m., a radio station that went silent in 1987 broadcasts nine minutes of tomorrow's news. Tonight, a 911 dispatcher hears it, and it says her name. Watch it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/CTbfZtOFKcc Keep 1690 on the air: become a Listener on 1690 ($2.99/month, your name in the end credits) https://buy.stripe.com/4gM14m1IDgLdgLB3q9dAk00 or leave a tip https://buy.stripe.com/6oU3cufzt3Yr2ULd0JdAk01 Fiction. Voices are AI-generated.