The 90's while in college, pulling late nights working on homework listening to Art Bell was like an old friend telling you crazy stories and bringing in guests to tell even crazier stories. And every once in a while you'd think really? Is that true? Nah...couldn't be.
Art Bell Back in Time
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#62In addition to his professional radio career, Art Bell was also an amateur radio operator, call sign W6OBB.
https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/from-art-bell-w6obb...
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#63My dad loves going to sleep with the radio on. My mom isn't a fan, and is more of a night owl. She would roll into bed between 12 and 4 and hear the quiet voices on the radio discussing all manner of alien visits, conspiracy theories, etc. She would turn it off, go to sleep, and he would turn it back on if he woke up.
Lots of late nights in high school learning about Linux and basic networking things while listening to Art Bell in the background.
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#64I used to work obscenely late hours in my QA days at Bliizard and I would listen to Art Bell alone in my car late at night outside an undeveloped area of Irvine looking at the hills and the stars at 1am for my dinner break. I still listen to Coast to Coast for 30 minutes every night for the bumper music or more if the topic is interesting.
I worked a graveyard shift for a while and would listen to C2C on my "lunch" breaks at 2AM. It was a fun show to listen to at that weird time of night by yourself. It was far less fun any time George Noory was guest hosting. He just let guests run unchallenged. Art Bell was good at going on the guest's journey without letting them go too far off in the weeds.
The few times I’ve listened to Noory since he permanently took over, it seems like his guests almost always have something to sell. The funniest example I can remember (and this was > 5 years ago) was a guy whose spiel was, “the Pope is the Antichrist, one day soon the UFOs will appear above the balcony at the Vatican, the Pope will introduce the alien ambassador, that will be the beginning of the end times… and if you want to know more, buy my $29.95 book and DVD set!”
If it’s not like that, it’s healing crystals or some other weird alternative health stuff. In that way, Noory practically turned the show into SkyMall for the conspiracy subculture. Art’s guests just as often exhibited an earnest belief in whatever weirdness they were bringing.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I'm not sure where the option to make a choice can be found. People go where their will takes them.
If the impulse to commit a crime is strong enough, they'll commit a crime. If some internal voice of reason holds them back, then they'll hold back. But in both instances, their actions were guided be preexisting circumstances, not by any choice they made.
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#66I used to work obscenely late hours in my QA days at Bliizard and I would listen to Art Bell alone in my car late at night outside an undeveloped area of Irvine looking at the hills and the stars at 1am for my dinner break. I still listen to Coast to Coast for 30 minutes every night for the bumper music or more if the topic is interesting.
It's funny... pretty much the only time/place I ever want to listen to Coast to Coast AM is when I'm in my car, driving somewhere overnight, and it's 2:00 in the morning and I'm on the Interstate halfway between Bumfuck and Nowhereville. In that setting, there is something magical about it.
So many fond memories of listening to Art Bell. Your comment captures this.
The Area 51 call in shows were amazing. Mel’s Hole is another one.
Was a great time to appreciate radio. RIP Art Bell. You are missed.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Being a single mother or having relations outside of marriage can be a choice.
Shaming someone for choosing a religion different than their parents or shaming someone because they have picked a job you think lowly because they are not a protected class is not a good enough reason.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Life contributes to death. Do what you like and don't shame others for doing the same.
Sometimes shame is useful. Cigarettes are gross and unhealthy, not just for the user, but for the people around them. It is a costly habit, and most importantly, often leads to premature death. If anybody I care about smokes, you can bet your ass I'm shaming them. They shouldn't be doing it.
Only something like 10-15% of lifelong heavy smokers in the United States develop lung cancer. Something like 20-30% of all lung cancer comes from life-long non-smokers.
Shame doesn't work in the way you think it does. Especially when the target of the shaming knows the reasons why they're being shamed. More likely you're just going to be traumatizing and pushing away your loved ones.
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#69This is a scam. Period. I just said. In my phone three times in a row. Abel didn’t on the rights to most of the shows he did. Clear Channel did. They didn’t sell them to his wife or anyone else. Whoever is running the site is making money off art bell. Art probably wouldn’t of minded this at all by the way but I do. I happily gave money to Art when he was alive but when he checked out he checked out. There’s a better…
This particular one is being done by his family/estate.
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#70I 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 th…
i knew a kid in high school who had two rows of teeth, he seemed all right to me.