Welcome To The New Home of the Legendary Future Quake Radio Show!

Dear “Old Guard” Futurians, as well as new friends who are just discovering this motherload of early Christian alternative online media, I welcome you to the new, modern embodiment of this library of interviews and discourse featuring yours truly in his “Doctor Future” early identity, along with co-hosts Tom Bionic and Emmitt!

For those of you not witting or “in the know,” Future Quake was one of the earliest forays in alternative Christian independent media, entertaining discussions of frontier and thought-provoking topics not considered “proper talk” within church circles, but of keen interest to the public at large, and provided a home for such “inquiring minds” both nationally and around the globe, centered on topics of a timely and fascinating subject matter in an intelligent, open minded and, most importantly, “fun” manner – discussing serious subjects by those who didn’t take themselves too seriously!

The Future Quake show began when a new opportunity appeared to myself as I was concluding my engineering scientist career in aerospace fire and explosion technology development and entrepreneurial ventures, and my recent arrival in Nashville, TN, by providentially noting a small classified ad in the local Tennessean newspaper in late 2004 about the impending formation of the region’s first low-power FM radio station, to be a true community radio station operated by volunteer programmer-citizens, as opposed to the prevailing corporate owned media. What transpired was the approval of a proposal by yours truly to fulfill his own long-suppressed dream of being a radio talk show host, focused on little-discussed topics and issues that would impact our way of life in the future. The new Future Quake radio show, on (then at the time) 98.9 FM WRFN (a station comprising a small room attached to a trailer up on a hill in the outskirts of town, powered by a 75 foot, human-raised antenna) produced and hosted by the hastily-named “Doctor Future” and his lovable cohost Emmitt, aired their first broadcast on April 5, 2005 – about 48 hours after the station first signed on the air – and began a voyage of self-discovery and inquiry that ultimately acquired roughly 70,000 fellow Futurian listeners (about half on their latter radio station and half heard online) from around the world in their journey for truth and enlightenment (and fun!). The show contents began with a general inquiry in developments in science, technology and social movements that were inadequately discussed in corporate media, but after seminal experiences such as the 2005 Ancient of Days conference, and provocative and controversial guests that challenged the paradigms of the hosts, the show began to take a focus on the spiritual implications of little-known incidents and perspectives that made the voyage much more unique, and interesting.

While a number of famous guests from a wide spectrum of opinions dropped by as guests, such as futurist Alvin Toffler, gruff Sheriff Joe Arpaio, American Indian separatists and others on the fringe of technology, the emerging spiritual focus of the show possibly made it less of a fit for the broad audience of the community station, and by April 2008 I felt my mission (and “itch”) might have been completed. However, some random inquiries (and door slams) into other local radio options for two unknowns with no budget, led to a miraculous association with local (but with multi-state signal) WENO, AM 760 – a station known for broadcasting Christian nationalist programming of a hard right bent – a bubble we burst and debunked every day! We were provided a slot right before daily signal shutdown – and right during rush hour – every week day for 30 minutes. Thus began what some considered a “golden age” of the Future Quake show, with a much larger reach and rapidly growing regional audience, more prestigious guests and a surer footing from the somewhat more experienced hosts. Not long before this transition, the co-host position transitioned to a cocky, wacky but deep thinking younger man who provided a wonderful contrast to myself – the beloved “Tom Bionic.” These shows were produced (and remote interviews conducted) using home-made, pre-podcast equipment from the Bennett bedroom, and took the frontiers of Christian inquiry to a new level. Doc and Tom hit the road to speak at a number of newly-blossoming alternative Christian conventions, oftentimes in the groovy and brash “FutureMobile,” and conducted experiments like remote broadcasts from the outer gate of the Bohemian Grove secret society compound.

All good things come to an end, and when WENO was sold to new owners with a different format at the end of 2010, Future Quake soldiered on for a last phase, solely servicing the online community (finding seekers who sought it out, as podcast forums were not popular yet at the time). During that time and until its voluntary conclusion in February 2012 with its 300th original show, I became more focused on the disturbing “anti-sharia mania” here in Middle Tennessee, and what the vitriol by the locals and broader Christian community (and the well-paid provocateurs flown in to fan the flames) said about what broader historical religious-fueled “holy wars” revealed about the spiritual state of the dominant Christian communities then, and today. I also began to feel the itch to exclusively “tell my own story” rather than listen to that of invited guests, leading me to hang up the mic and focus on what has become to date a 13-volume magnum opus (hopefully soon to be published) Holy War Chronicles book series, as well as the first published book in a trilogy, Two Masters and Two Gospels, Vol. 1: the Teaching of Jesus Vs. the “Leaven of the Pharisees” in Talk Radio and Cable News. During this long time away from the public eye, I also started the Two Spies Report blog in 2015 to comment on the rapidly-changing societal texture in the Trump era, and returned to WRFN for a full year of 50 one-hour broadcast shows called “The Two Spies Report,” which are archived at the Spotify and Apple podcast sites.

I want to thank Futurian and friend Kirk for heroically constructing the Future Quake.com website to house all 291 preserved episodes of Future Quake, as well as new announcements and background photos and such since 2005, and now having its 20th anniversary, and having had untold numbers of people download .mp3s of the shows (for free) over the decades, as I had no knowledge then of how to assemble such a website, and only had the raw material to populate it. However, its unique software structure, while perfectly adequate at the time, proved dated over the years and difficult to update and be compatible with newly-standardized templates, but it served as a godsend for researchers and those willing to seek it out and mine its depths. However, in addition the servicing costs of this unique site and become prohibitively expensive to maintain in this old, undisturbed arrangement, and necessitated a new, modernized solution more compatible with the modern public.

As a result, here in the summer of 2025 I have bit the bullet and am announcing the retirement of the old Futurequake.com website, although the URL will stay alive and redirected to this portal. Before anyone wails and tears their clothes in mourning, although the archives may take on a number of forms and groupings, and will take considerable time to complete, it will produce two significant improvements, in addition to preserving these shows and interviews hopefully for years to come: (a) they will be redirected to a number of specialized podcast sites such as Spotify and Apple to introduce them to a much bigger, modern audience in an easier-to-access format, and (b) modern bandwidth permits their replacement with never before heard high-fidelity audio files from the original broadcasts I have preserved for twenty years, rather than the greatly degraded quality versions that were required in the early low-bandwidth and memory website days that people have dealt with in getting their Future Quake addiction! I hope these long-term actions will better preserve and popularize these influential shows and their use to researchers, and be a more enjoyable listening experience!

Be prepared to have these shows sorted into a number of segregated “eras” in a number of spinoff podcast variants, including a “best of” variant from both the WRFN, and WENO-and-beyond eras, and special assortments of the most controversial and politically-incorrect versions that haven’t aged as well!

Keep an eye on this website and its links to find a range of new ways to reminisce, and even learn some new things, from these classic Future Quake episodes, which will roll out slowly over time, and as always, you can always start at www.futurequake.com to venture to this portal and see what new opportunities have transpired!

Doctor Future still wishes his fellow Futurians – “may your future always be bright!”