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#1
Well thanks a bunch dude/dudette -- how about a little substance to your critique so that I may stand properly corrected ??!
#2

Shortly after his passing I wrote up this very sketchy biography of Art, and by the time it occurred to me that I could have submitted it to BellGab, the site seemed to have disappeared.  That was months ago.  Now that it has reemerged I'd like you to have a look at it, not so much for the ego-satisfaction but instead to have readers fact-check it for me. All data included here was gleaned by me strictly from listening to Mr. Bell's program thru the years, plus maybe bits and pieces from BellGab.  No further research was done from any other sources.

Thanks,  Ren


     Arthur William Bell, III died on Friday.

     He was 71 or thereabouts.  His was born June 17th, two days after my birth day.

     He served as an Air Force medic in East Asia, Okinawa I believe, and "got so tired of eating Sushi".  A longtime Ham radio aficionado, Art was making his living doing commercial radio when Premier Radio (or its predecessor) put him behind their mic as a call-in talk host and told him "go with it".   The rest is history, but I don't expect many of you to be too familiar with that history . . .

     His very first night on the air turned to the topic of unidentified flying objects, in today's parlance expanded to unidentified submersible objects, unidentified aerial phenomenon, Dr. Alan Hynek's suggestion of "daylight disks" which didn't seem to go anywhere, and on and on.  Top level management hit the roof, and put it squarely in his face almost immediately -- UFO's and weird stuff in 1993 were still strictly off limits, at least as founding subject matter on this Coast to Coast AM maiden voyage.

     What amounted to being fired-and-hired in one day drew the shit back into the fan as Art's newly forming fan base delivered enthusiastic kudos for this upstart offering of nationwide fare of what had for some time been popular culture and urban mythology.  Quickly the discussion broadened into the paranormal-at-large, including government and Black-Ops conspiracies, Sasquatch (Bigfoot), ghosts and apparitions, Near-Death Experiences (NDE's), Out-of-Body experiences (OBE's) eventually an array of there-to-fore unknown observations and research into startling new areas of the darker side of life.

     Altho I was aware of his celebrity, my first evening with the Master of the strange happened by accident after turning in for the night, and tuning into Art Bell on the dial.  The entire evening was dedicated to listeners phoning in their own personal ghost stories, and they kept me up until 2am.  I found myself lamenting that I had failed to avail myself of this exciting past-time up to that point, yet quickly I discovered that this arena of common interest was already showing signs of unraveling; even before that initial night of ghost stories it made national news that Art Bell suddenly resigned, apparently due to a serious family problem when his 16-year-old son was kidnapped by a school teacher and taken across state lines in violation of the federal Mann Act.  As it turned out, Art returned to the console a month later.  At roughly the same time a major scandal brought his moral fiber into question when what turned out to be a bogus report attributed a highly racist news article in a Filipino paper as Art's own doing, relegating the people of those islands to subhuman status.  Interestingly, Art had resided in that country for a time and married a Filipino woman.  This sick episode again resulted in a brief retirement from Coast to Coast AM.  He put Mike Siegel in to replace him, a DJ who never really caught on with Art's original crowd.  In what was becoming an expected turn of events, Mr. Bell retook the reigns of control one year later.

     VERY shortly after his lauded and much anticipated return to the airwaves, Mr. Bell was suddenly afflicted with paralyzing back problems, speaking to his listeners lying on his back on the floor of his house studio in Pahrump, Nevada -- front yard to of all places, Area 51 at Groom Lake, the mysterious Naval Station -- unable to incline from that position for the rest of the show; this brought in a plethora of guest hosts, including George Noory, severely pockmarking his appearances.  Recuperation from his ailment was taking a painfully long time, until he was forced from his permanent seat and replaced by Noory.  Around that time his dear and longtime wife Ramona died from a fatal asthma attack.

     Expressing bitter regret for ever having Mr. Noory take over for him (in good company from throngs of listeners many of who didn't like him at all, including this writer), Bell attempted a comeback on Sirius Internet radio, which folded before too long.  Finally, he simply launched his own digital radio network with a growing allotment of same-genre programs filling the 24 hour schedule, in competition with Premier Radio.  About half a year passed when out of the blue death threats came over his personal number, followed by some deranged(?) gunman who opened fire into his home, endangering his life and those of his new wife and baby daughter.  Having no hope of continuing this labour of love, Art quit this venue of broadcast, eventually still making noises about returning soon.

     Bell had personally witnessed UFO's including the not-so-illusive "floating Triangle" appearing across the Western U.S. and staying airborne and hovering in complete silence.  Also he was fond of retelling the one OBE he had while vacationing in Paris, zipping over the rooftops.

     Art Bell served not only as great entertainment, he inspired me to landing my own programs on Free Radio.

     Ren Tawil
#3
I kinda like her.  I miss her kitty-kat stories.  Her politics suck and sometimes she gets over-emotional about the wrong things.  Imagine how she feels after the big move so much closer to Art and then have the bottom fall out from under her.  Hail Doroth- . . . I mean Heather !! :'(
#4
Radio and Podcasts / Re: "The Great Area 51 Raid"
May 25, 2018, 03:03:55 PM
I for one AM holding my breath   :-[
#5
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Who Killed Art Bell?
April 15, 2018, 04:22:22 PM
Maybe this whole thing is an extended April Fools' joke . . .
#6
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Area 51 Raid Cancelled?
April 15, 2018, 04:08:35 PM
Clearly Heather is torn up about Art's passing, having lost a mentor, advisor and friend, yet I don't see her letting this thing fail before it starts.  It've been naive of her to count on expecting Art to throw her bail without a plan B, given the thousands of A51 Warriors who will be there.

She WILL do it in HONOR of Art's legacy, not to mention Jim Mars, Roger Lear, Stanton and all the rest, instead of holing up next to his grave-site/ashes dump and bemoaning our loss.

Heather Wade may want to take a few days off to regroup her intentions and buck up, but even that I wouldn't count on.
#7
Radio and Podcasts / Re: annual check-in
March 08, 2017, 12:51:18 AM
Quote from: karameh1 on March 06, 2017, 07:06:20 PM
Annual check-in re Noory -

Sorry folks, this is two months late for being an annual review.  Can you ever forgive me ?

George Noory is still a toxic personality, tho he's gotten better about covering it up by lightening up his on-air persona.  Not quite as dimwitted and uninspiring.  Fourteen months ago I complained about how "dismalifying" (love that word which I had just made up!) how slowly, if at all, he wises up to his shortcomings -- he has made a brave attempt to making it look like he really cares.  Maintains his bad habit of "stepping on" guests and callers right when they're just about to finish a sentence and make the all important conclusive observation, and alas, his "perfected" (contrived and artificial sounding) laugh is embarrassingly ever-present.  Still a bit of the "Yes" man, rarely venturing away from the stale brown-nosing reply to his guests of, "Yeah I agree too" or "Oh yes I think so tooooooooooo..."

"His serious failings flaunt themselves when he refuses -- to any degree -- to provide a balanced view on current issues in the first minutes if the program, nor when he dedicates a whole two hour segment to gun-loving John Locke, or Quayle or the other Steve or that self-indulging, Islam-hating asshole Howard Bloom who sees enemies of Israel under every carpet" . . .  This remains a problem in spite of his persistent insistence that he IS fair and balanced, and yet religiously features his personal favs among right wing pundits and "experts" in the opening minutes of "news" (I will grant that Bloom is now more of a delight to listen to now that he has laid off of Islam -- as far as I know.  I'm not a faithful addict of C2C, I get my real fix off of Heather W).  Thus far he has refused to let go of (or mature out from under) his fixation with evil, as tho it is a fundamental scientific principal.  Lastly, his hollow, and lacking of all intellectual capacity snippets of his take on the most elementary phenomena, ghostly apparitions, the latest mischief from North Korea, etc, etc. places him squarely in the middle of the middle school radio club.

What worries me now is, is his improved radio face and voice destined to convince new listeners that he is really "normal" ?? :P
#8
Radio and Podcasts / Re: annual check-in
March 06, 2017, 07:06:20 PM
Annual check-in re Noory -

Sorry folks, this is two months late for being an annual review.  Can you ever forgive me ?

George Noory is still a toxic personality, tho he's gotten better about covering it up by lightening up his on-air persona.  Not quite as dimwitted and uninspiring.  Fourteen months ago I complained about how "dismalifying" (love that word which I had just made up!) how slowly, if at all, he wises up to his shortcomings -- he has made a brave attempt to making it look like he really cares.  Still a bit of the "Yes" man, rarely venturing away from the stale brown-nosing reply to his guests of, "Yeah I agree too" or "Oh yes I think so tooooooooooo..."

"His serious failings flaunt themselves when he refuses -- to any degree -- to provide a balanced view on current issues in the first minutes if the program, nor when he dedicates a whole two hour segment to gun-loving John Locke, or Quayle or the other Steve or that self-indulging, Islam-hating asshole Howard Bloom who sees enemies of Israel under every carpet" . . .  This remains a problem in spite of his persistent insistence that he IS fair and balanced, and yet religiously features his personal favs among right wing pundits and "experts" in the opening minutes of "news" (I will grant that Bloom is now more of a delight to listen to now that he has laid off of Islam -- as far as I know.  I'm not a faithful addict of C2C, I get my real fix off of Heather W).

What worries me now is, is his improved radio face and voice destined to convince new listeners that he is really "normal" ??
#9
Sarah you're an angel (not necessarily a reflection of my survey answer one way or another).  Wonderful, positive and refreshing to see that someone out there is digging for the root of evil instead of just striking at the branches. Hopefully, some good will come out of this . . .
#10
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Noory improving?
April 07, 2016, 11:07:36 PM
I dunno about all that, his "stock" idiosyncrasies still bug me, if not drive me outa my mind -- rudely or at least thoughtlessly stepping on the guests'/callers' words and responses, as if deliberately competing with them for vocal airtime; speaking of vocalizations, his putrid "yucchhh!"'s and "oooww!"s and other barfing noises he feels obliged to insert, as though radioland anxiously awaits his judgment on everything, or instructions on how we are supposed to feel; and of course his broken record faithful reports on the latest atrocities committed by ISIS et al.  Hell, Mexican drug cartel grunts categorically cut off more heads than militant Muslims and have been for years now, whereas the Middle Eastern phenomenon is relatively new (if one doesn't count Saudi state executions). ::)
#11
Radio and Podcasts / Australia? oh, that's in Europe
March 22, 2016, 07:09:31 PM
Last night ol' Georgie reported that Olivia Newton-John's former boyfriend has turned up alive and well in Mexico, supposedly given up for lost after eleven years.  First he says he had taken up with an Australian woman down there, then in a slightly dismissive tone he reiterated this news item by -- what, clarifying?, that this dude was now accompanied by a "European" girlfriend.  Perhaps GN was waxing intellectual by speaking in terms of ethnic heritage, pointing out the origins of the Down Under majority population of today, but I don't think so; in my half-asleep stupor I may have conceivably misheard him when he really said "Austrian" which of course IS in Europe, but again I doubt that too.  Is this what Art Bell was talking about when he was quoted in Time two years ago saying that GN had gotten "lazy", as in failing to consistently un-severe the tie twixt brain and tongue ??
#12
Oxford online dictionary:

"Manichaeism (also Manicheism)
noun

"1. A dualistic religious system with Christian, Gnostic, and pagan elements, founded in Persia in the 3rd century by Manes (circa 216-circa 276). The system was based on a supposed primeval conflict between light and darkness. It spread widely in the Roman Empire and in Asia, and survived in eastern Turkestan (Xinjiang) until the 13th century.

"1.1Religious or philosophical dualism."

Well at least I know how to label him now.  Although I see little difference between Manichaeism and what Cherish1123 is talkin about.
#13
It's bad enough that Noory feels free to toss around monikers like "thugs" and "animals" when referring to the patent enemies of civilization, secure in the belief that no right-minded listener will blame him for that.  The countless times that he pursues confirmation from his guests and callers of the existence of evil -- rather than concentrate on the existence of goodness and life -- worries me that his next leap of faith will be to declare ISIS, Al Qaeda et al to be the anti-Christ, if he hasn't already.  Hard to argue with that, one might say, until one takes into consideration the dreaded slippery slope into racism which might taint all Arabs or all Muslims or who knows who . . .  at any rate, why must he persist in receiving validation of this "phenomenon"?  He never is satisfied by answers to the affirmative, and it seems more of a crusade on his part to constantly remind everyone of his obsession and that we all should be vigilant of its descent upon us. :o

What say ye of this ghastly habit of his ?
#14
Radio and Podcasts / He deleted me
March 07, 2016, 01:56:56 AM
A couple months ago I managed to slip in a comment on Noory's Facebook page, using the more-or-less unmarked "secret compartment" at the top by clicking it.  That comment appears here in this forum on January 21st under my post "annual check-in".  On the FB page it lasted a few weeks, and has since disappeared, not even available in the archive of previous comments.  Either this is typical of his trademark fear of controversial confrontation or it's yet another example of Zionist infiltration and censoring of anything sounding even remotely anti-Semitic (which it is absolutely not) -- you decide . . .   >:(

"Most egregiously disturbing to me is how GN really believes that he cares about the 'plight of the Palestinians', that SOMETHING should be done to placate them -- and then he becomes a cheerleader for ethnic cleansing by suggesting that they be 'moved' to some place other than Palestine, like the Sinai desert fr'instance . . . playing right into the Zionist agenda.  Of course, the only real solution to this two-thirds-of-a-century problem has to include letting them alone, letting them remain in their own ancestral homeland instead of arguing over who is more deserving of their rights to it, and acting as if there's not enough room for both 'races'." :-\
#15
Radio and Podcasts / Re: annual check-in
January 21, 2016, 08:31:13 PM
Couldn't figure out how to edit my post (after several days), so am re-submitting with amendments in Italics (stuff I forget the first time, and with no substantial deletions from the original).


annual check-in

« on: January 18, 2016, 01:57:14 AM »

Been just over a year since I registered with the Compendium, tho it seems ever more the same as THE Art Bell Fan Forum.  Hope I'm not messing up my reg. details between the two.

Rather than go to the site every time some single thing occurs to me about how GN gets my dander up, may as well simply list my current brainful of sour observations . . .  upon first exposure to this toxic personality it didn't take much time before instantaneous comparisons to Art kicked in -- George is dimwitted and usually uninspired.  I didn't care for the direction he was taking the new program into in terms of his politics and gun-running . . .  that was over eleven years ago. Since then he has expressed the incredible audacity to claim that his show is not about politics, saying that there's enough of that on radio the rest of the time -- and then constantly brings in his personal favorite commentators, pundits and shills with virtually no opposing viewpoints allowed.  Overall, it is dismalifying how slowly, if at all, he wises up to his shortcomings, and uninspiring in cases when he clearly hangs up on a caller, who may in fact be a cursing drunkard who's voice George recognizes, OR may be a responsible critic of the show that he just doesn't want to deal with, on air or online; I once lodged my complaints on his Facebook page and, sure-as-shootin', I couldn't find it next time I logged in.  I really can do without his repeated auto-regalings of how he stood up to the school bully, and walked away from his animal-hating date in the middle of it.  And, he really has become quite the "Yes" man, rarely venturing away from the stale brown-nosing reply to his guests of, "Yeah I agree too" or "Oh yes I think so tooooooooooo..."   AAArrrrggggg !!! Has he no original opinions or reflections to throw into the mix instead of latching onto his guests' shirttails ?


These are mere nuisances, but his serious failings flaunt themselves when he refuses -- to any degree -- to provide a balanced view on current issues in the first minutes of the program, nor when after yet another school shooting hits the headlines or some rumblings are made in the direction of restricting access to firearms by irresponsible (sicko) people, he dedicates a whole two hour segment to gun-loving John Locke, or Quayle or the other Steve or that self-indulging, Islam-hating asshole Howard Bloom who sees enemies of Israel under every carpet -- again, all without debating a knowledgeable opponent.  Most egregiously disturbing to me is how GN really believes that he cares about the "plight of the Palestinians", that SOMETHING should be done to placate them -- and then he becomes a cheerleader for ethnic cleansing by suggesting that they be "moved" to some place other than Palestine, like the Sinai desert fr'instance.  INCREDIBLY stupid and thoughtless, playing right into the Zionist agenda.  He just doesn't get it (AND he is of Lebanese extraction himself).  He brags that he has studied the Middle East and Arabs extensively, and THIS is the best he can come up with??!  Of course, the only real solution to this two-thirds-of-a-century problem has to include letting them alone, letting them remain in their own ancestral homeland instead of arguing over who is more deserving of their rights to it, and acting as if there's not enough room for both "races".   :-\
#16
Radio and Podcasts / annual check-in
January 18, 2016, 03:57:14 AM
Been just over a year since I registered with the Compendium, tho it seems ever more the same as THE Art Bell Fan Forum.  Hope I'm not messing up my reg. details between the two.

Rather than go to the site every time some single thing occurs to me about how GN gets my dander up, may as well simply list my current brainful of sour observations . . .  upon first exposure to this toxic personality it didn't take much time before instantaneous comparisons to Art kicked in -- George is dimwitted and usually uninspired.  I didn't care for the direction he was taking the new program into in terms of his politics and gun-running . . .  that was over eleven years ago.  Overall, it is dismalifying how slowly, if at all, he wises up to his shortcomings, and uninspiring in cases when he clearly hangs up on a caller, who may in fact be a cursing drunkard who's voice George recognizes, OR may be a responsible critic of the show that he just doesn't want to deal with, on air or online; I once lodged my complaints on his Facebook page and, sure-as-shootin', I couldn't find it next time I logged in.  I really can do without his repeated auto-regalings of how he stood up to the school bully, and walked away from his animal-hating date in the middle of it.  And, he really has become quite the "Yes" man, rarely venturing away from the stale brown-nosing reply to his guests of, "Yeah I agree too" or "Oh yes I think so tooooooooooo..."   AAArrrrggggg !!!

These are mere nuisances, but his serious failings flaunt themselves when he refuses -- to any degree -- to provide a balanced view on current issues in the first minutes if the program, nor when he dedicates a whole two hour segment to gun-loving John Locke, or Quayle or the other Steve or that self-indulging, Islam-hating asshole Howard Bloom who sees enemies of Israel under every carpet.  Most egregiously disturbing to me is how GN really believes that he cares about the "plight of the Palestinians", that SOMETHING should be done to placate them -- and then he becomes a cheerleader for ethnic cleansing by suggesting that they be "moved" to some place other than Palestine, like the Sinai desert fr'instance.  INCREDIBLY stupid and thoughtless, playing right into the Zionist agenda.  Of course, the only real solution to this two-thirds-of-a-century problem has to include letting them alone, letting them remain in their own ancestral homeland instead of arguing over who is more deserving of their rights to it, and acting as if there's not enough room for both "races".   :-\
#17
Last summer towards the end of the Gaza war Noory pronounced that Palestinians "can't stay there (in Gaza) any more" as the solution to the invasion by Israel - yeah, like 1.7 million Arabs are gonna just up and leave land that has been theirs for centuries.  He crosses the line by going into total agreement with ethnic cleansing.  Brilliant, George.

(I 'took my time' making this entry because I only discovered the original "George Noory Sucks" Twitter feed(?) a few weeks ago, and after making the same comment there it seemed to have disappeared.  Now I find a completely different format, or maybe I just forked off into another site -- I think I like this one better!)
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