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Re: Art Bell Back in Time

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Post by otterley »

ipaddr wrote: post #47
mensetmanusman wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Obesity as currently practiced is 10x worse, shame doesn’t seem effective.

Shaming single mothers or having a baby out of wedlock or shaming someone for being gay are great examples why you shouldn't shame people and why the practice should shamed out of existance.

I'm not going to speak to those particular examples, but shaming someone for a voluntary act, such as committing a crime, is very different from shaming someone for something they are and cannot control, like their race or their gender. Those why the latter are considered "protected classes" for the purpose of anti-discrimination laws.

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Post by api »

wombatpm wrote: post #41

I loved Art Bell. My wife and I would stay up late rehabbing our first house listening to Art. I’m convinced all of the talk about the wall on the southern border was a smokescreen to hide the extent of the Chupacabra problem in Texas and New Mexico

Maybe when they say it’s about keeping out aliens they mean actual aliens. Also why we need a space force!

Re: Art Bell Back in Time

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Post by varelse »

api wrote: post #50
varelse wrote: post #36

What was a wonderful pre-apocalyptic buzz guilty pleasure back in the 90s is now the sad precursor to MAGA. Why are people so utterly stupid? But, for real, I was in the theater next to Art Bell when he watched Contact. And you know how much he loved that movie. That said, the night the satellite feed was cut after the supposed Area 51 worker called in and said everything about the aliens was real was to die for.

That was back before the fringe was, like everything else in our culture, politically weaponized. It was largely apolitical back then, or if there were politics it was 90s libertarianism of a sort that seems shockingly sane today. Much of the audience and I think Bell himself were pretty skeptical too. It was about having fun and exploring wild possibilities, like a radio version of the old Amazing Stories pulp seria…

No he hated Bill Clinton and he said so many times. It wasn't the beat you to death with a hammer if you disagree with me because you hate America kind of politics but it was always there if you asked him and I actually did to his face because, you know, sitting next to him in the theater and all that.

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Post by 0xabe »

hallway_monitor wrote: post #20
qbasic_forever wrote: post #13

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Unfortunately his voice came from a lifetime of smoking cigarettes that eventually contributed to his death.

Life contributes to death. Do what you like and don't shame others for doing the same.

Life is a death sentence

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Post by digitalsushi »

I have been trying to find the episode where he talks about monsters that are almost human, but have two rows of teeth.

I took all the mp3s I collected of the show, dumped them through dictation, and grepped like a madman. I have a real appreciation for people that are good at this.

We listened to it in the late 90s as teens turning 20 and we would be absolutely petrified by the combination of being that age, from that time, and up that late. It was great.

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Post by yonaguska »

pwned1 wrote: post #35
rsync wrote: post #24

If you are an Art Bell fan you owe it to yourself to listen to the Phil Hendrie parodies of the show that he did back in early 00's ... "North of the rockies ... South of the rockies ..."

Man, what ever happened to Phil Hendrie? I loved his episode where he had the preacher on who was making the case that god hated trailer parks because they were impermanent homes, and he gave the Israelites a permanent home, therefore that's why tornadoes always hit trailer parks.

He still has his podcast. Actually on the anniversary of Art Bell's death, Phil played some of the episodes that he did in collaboration with Art Bell.

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Post by function_seven »

pwned1 wrote: post #35
rsync wrote: post #24

If you are an Art Bell fan you owe it to yourself to listen to the Phil Hendrie parodies of the show that he did back in early 00's ... "North of the rockies ... South of the rockies ..."

Man, what ever happened to Phil Hendrie? I loved his episode where he had the preacher on who was making the case that god hated trailer parks because they were impermanent homes, and he gave the Israelites a permanent home, therefore that's why tornadoes always hit trailer parks.

He’s got a podcast now. I subscribe but it’s just not the same as it was in the KFI days. No callers and no 4-act structure.

Also, the characters’ voices all sound suspiciously similar in a way that they didn’t over shitty AM radio…

Phil was amazing back then. I have a “Best Of” CD somewhere; I should rip it.

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Post by bonestamp2 »

adolph wrote: post #32
mmcgaha wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Back in the 90s, my girlfriend and I would go out drinking and end the night in the back of her van listening to Art Bell and sobering up. The show I remember most was when a guy called saying he was flying into area 51 and Art was trying to talk him out of it.

That’s weird, this guy flew by taking pics without issue. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32919/pilot-takes-amaz...

You can fly by, but you can't fly in.

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Post by Stratoscope »

adolph wrote: post #32
mmcgaha wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Back in the 90s, my girlfriend and I would go out drinking and end the night in the back of her van listening to Art Bell and sobering up. The show I remember most was when a guy called saying he was flying into area 51 and Art was trying to talk him out of it.

That’s weird, this guy flew by taking pics without issue. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32919/pilot-takes-amaz...

If you're flying in airspace where you have legal permission to fly, and communicating with Air Traffic Control where required, then you can take pictures of anything you can see.

Also note the difference between flying into restricted airspace and flying by it.

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Post by atdrummond »

AdvancedSimian wrote: post #25
atdrummond wrote: post #18

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My understanding is Airyn and his children have been enabling this and the vault.

Do they actually own the rights to these old broadcasts? I'd be surprised. Coast to Coast's website has an "Art Bell Vault" with old episodes. I bet they're the rights-holder, rather than whoever is behind this podcast. Edit: the matter of ownership doesn't necessarily matter to me, but I am curious as to who is behind this.

Art owned the name and other branding for at least a period of time, but it’s entirely possible Premiere (part of iHeartMedia now I believe) eventually acquired it. The actual shows are probably Premiere’s.

Unless I have been misinformed, the vault has been done with the estate’s approval and his widow and kids support the Patreon based on the C2C FB groups; who is directly managing it has never been made publicly clear that I can find.

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