THE SCENE & BE SEEN MONKEY
PIRATE CAT RADIO BY: STEFAN ARONSEN
Daniel Roberts rigged up the first iteration of Pirate Cat Radio in his Los Gatos bedroom when he was 13. Several years later, he started illegally broadcasting Pirate Cat’s eclectic mix of music and news on 87.9 FM in San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood. San Franciscans know Roberts, as “Monkey,” which is shorthand for Affenmensch. Affenmensch is German for “monkey man.” The name has a lot to do with what a hellion Roberts was as a kid In April 2003, when Roberts began broadcasting in San Francisco, he didn’t hide from the authorities. Instead, he argued that his station was operating legally, based on a provision in the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations that allows unlicensed broadcasting in times of war—and the War on Terror qualifies, does it not? You can’t hear Pirate Cat on the radio anymore, but you can visit them for a bacon late and listen in their location on 21st and Florida, or tune in at: www.piratecatradio.com
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