19 years old John Titor will be sad tonight in his alternate universe.
The man rumored to be John Titor is currently in jail for drugging and raping at least four women: http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/10/post_37...
Radio host Art Bell has died
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#32He was still doing weekends when I discovered Coast to Coast AM. As others have said, his ability to hold two opposing points of view in mind (i. this guy I'm talking to is crazy, ii. let's get weird) was wonderful. I enjoyed the way he played his interviews. On the west coast, it's a 10 pm show. To this day, I still like to put Coast to Coast AM on 1-hour sleep timer when I go to bed. Fun to hear all the crazy perspectives. Art Bell, you lived well.
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#33What a sad coincidence - just yesterday I was watching a video about the "Area 51" caller he got on his radio show. Rest in peace.
The band Tool used part of this clip on its 2008 album 10,000 Days, IIRC right before or after "Faaip De Oiad" ... it was intense.
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#34I grew up in the High Desert of California (around Apple Valley, Victorville, Hesperia, Barstow). I can't count how many times I was driving alone down the desert highways at night, not a single other car on the road, and Art Bell was the only thing on the radio. And he'd be interviewing people or talking about UFOs, aliens, ghosts, government conspiracies, or whatever else he thought would be great to spook people w…
I never heard Art Bell before, but this post makes me feel like, in a small way, I got a little slice of it. The imagery of your comment really invokes the imagination and feelings. Thanks for sharing this experience!
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#35I grew up in the High Desert of California (around Apple Valley, Victorville, Hesperia, Barstow). I can't count how many times I was driving alone down the desert highways at night, not a single other car on the road, and Art Bell was the only thing on the radio. And he'd be interviewing people or talking about UFOs, aliens, ghosts, government conspiracies, or whatever else he thought would be great to spook people w…
Art Bell is a completely difference experience when you are driving through the middle of the Nevada or California desert. Its hard to explain to people who have never done it, but somehow on those long desolate drives, his radio show just made sense somehow.
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#36Art Bell was a great interviewer. He entertained a number of guests on his show that he clearly did not believe fully. Instead of calling them crazy or brushing them aside, he drew out what he could. He entered their world and suspended his own and his listeners disbelief as a form of empathy and childlike wonder. If more people could hold a meaningful conversation with people they think are crazy, like he could, peo…
Counter-point: He took clearly incredible people and introduced them to his audience, and in doing so, granted them a shred of legitimacy when they deserved none. His show caused vulnerable people to become entrenched in nonsensical conspiracy theories that even the hosts realized were crazy.
A simple rule for this is that if the claims are incredible, the proof needs to be incredible too.
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#37I remember reading about his large ham radio antenna setup in the desert. I heard him a few times on the bands over the years as well. Sad to hear he's a SK, have fond memories of staying up to listen to coast to coast as a kid.
He talked ham radio in this interview with QSO Today. I thought it was pretty impressive that he was logging QSOs with California from Okinawa using bamboo poles wrapped in tinfoil.
https://www.qsotoday.com/podcasts/w6obb
There's some fascinating info about his home antennas here:
http://overunity.com/11449/free-energy-from-antenna/#.WtKViZ...
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#38As a kid, I remember listening to him regularly after bedtime hours. I don't remember the content too well, but I really enjoyed listening to him talk and interact with guests. I also remember thinking how cool it was that we'd pick up the signal at night, when (iirc) they boosted the power on the am frequency.
Some stations could boost; others had to cut power. This was IIRC an industry solution to the problem of there being only so much band available, and under such great propagation conditions in the evening you'd have multiple stations sitting on each 10 kHz step and interfering with one another.
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#39I’d listen to him Friday and Saturday nights, lights out, with a 6-pack. Also biking into work at 4 AM on a quiet road.
I think the best episode was the one with Bob Lazar talking about Area 51, reversing engineering UFOs, and element 151.
What ever happened to Art’s Parts? He supposedly had materials of extraterrestrial origin.
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#40I grew up in the High Desert of California (around Apple Valley, Victorville, Hesperia, Barstow). I can't count how many times I was driving alone down the desert highways at night, not a single other car on the road, and Art Bell was the only thing on the radio. And he'd be interviewing people or talking about UFOs, aliens, ghosts, government conspiracies, or whatever else he thought would be great to spook people w…
>I grew up in the High Desert of California (around Apple Valley, Victorville, Hesperia, Barstow).
I used to live in Hesperia. I'm glad you escaped, too.
If some sub-culture doesn't do you in, the contaminated well water will. (a literal skin-head nazi race riot broke out in my High School during my time there -- I didn't even realize that h.s. riots existed until I found myself in the middle of one -- I felt I needed to qualify the sub-culture comment before it was taken offensively.)
With that said : You're absolutely right that the atmosphere/ambience of the High Desert is conducive to making Coast to Coast that much more believable -- and it simultaneously answers why no aliens have stuck around; i'd have turned around too if I landed somewhere in the middle of the Mojave.