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Quote from: comaphobe on May 10, 2018, 08:14:03 PM
When I lived in Kentucky, I used to piss off of my fire escape. It was fun.

Wha'd your poor fire escape ever do to you, that you had to piss it off, huh?

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on May 10, 2018, 12:05:58 PMSo, similarlly, you can only see advanced as perfect. God complex much? :

We even got Apollo 13 back safely.  How badly would they have to fuck up?  Or are their resources so expendable they don't give a shit who or what they lose?

Quote from: DaveSchrader on May 10, 2018, 10:32:11 AMI have had Basagio on my show over the years, I find him enjoyable and weirdly fun.

Me too.  Remember, we like playing the "legit, charlatan, deluded, or crazy" game.

Quote from: zeebo on May 10, 2018, 12:06:17 AMYeah I'm no JP Dub fan, and yet I'm sticking around.  Is it possible a good host is tipping the scales?

Probably.  Last night before bed I had JPW mixed up w the story-telling guy, then I woke up & MITD had JPW on.  What I think they're doing here is going w a very conservative play to wedge the ball off their own goal line, which is where they're starting this week.

Quote from: zeebo on May 09, 2018, 04:08:45 PMThis is exactly the kind of topic I never really thought about, but now I need to know about.

Most aren't enough of a subject in themselves, but can easily be compiled the way Joshua P. Warren compiles stories.  (He's the story teller, right?)  Lots of them in electronics & communications.  Some in medicine still plausible for revival.

Quote from: DaveSchrader on May 09, 2018, 02:13:29 PMBecause from past experiences, just mentioning Trumps name I get hate from people wanting NOTHING to do with politics. On and from BOTH sides, even his name being mentioned makes everyone paranoid I will be for or against. SO, I avoid it as much as I can.

I'd enjoy hearing about politics, if they were obscure & strange politics I'd be unlikely to have heard about elsewhere.  That pretty much rules out most of what people consider curent affairs.  I'd love to hear about weird goings-on in other parts of the world, past or present, that are unlikely to ever get out & therefore would be considered irrelevant by most.

John Bachelor's been pretty good at digging up authors about such topics from the past, but I'm sure he's far from having fished out those waters.  Stuff like the Republic of W. Fla., the Russian-American Telegraph, etc.

I love to hear about turns technology had started to take but were unluckily superseded by better.

Quote from: DaveSchrader on May 09, 2018, 03:35:40 PMNo...I prep about 90 mins per hour of show time....sometimes....sometimes 9 mins, depending on which personality is piloting the ship that is the USS Schrader

Could you please tell us a bit about the contributions of others to the conduct of the show?  I enjoy going behind the scenes, learning how stuff's done.

Quote from: Morgus on May 09, 2018, 03:36:16 PMI find it strange that they keep the show title "Midnight in the Desert" when Dave isn't even close to being in the desert.

Madison Sq. Garden.
Liquid Ivory Snow.
The best candies on Earth come from Mars.
You can pick your friend's nose, but not make him drink thru it.

Quote from: Battleborn on May 09, 2018, 02:15:38 PMI remember when Art quit the show originally a lot of people, including I think Art, asserted that nobody with experience or other options would have been interested in taking over MITD. That was one of the reasons given for putting Heather in the host chair. Yet here we are over two years later, with the show presumably in a much weaker position, and Keith was able to quickly attract an experienced and busy host like Dave. I wonder if those initial assertions were never true and were just a justification for giving the show to someone without any credentials, or if only now with enough water under the bridge somebody with Dave's qualifications was willing to consider the role.

Possibilities:
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Art lied.
Art's judgment was off.
Some factor we're in the dark about.

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Quote from: Roswells, Art on May 09, 2018, 10:17:32 AMI'll say seven months then she'll take maternity leave.

Knocked up by an alien from Area 51?  "Uh, yeah, that's what we come here for.  Your Mr. Bell arranged for it when he sent you.  Yeah, I know I look just like one of your kind, good get-up, huh?  And if you've got any of those Earth-kind smokes for afterward, I'd appreciate it.  No, no sense trying to follow me, I'll be going far away."

Quote from: ponyboysunset on May 08, 2018, 12:54:01 PMDamn how does your wife look so young?

Ivory soap?  At least that's how it is in the ads.

Quote from: DaveSchrader on May 08, 2018, 12:45:46 PMI WILL be doing open lines when the systems are installed and running and I will not screen my calls as a tip of the hat to Art.

Music will change as time goes by.  The opening and closing themes are staying put, we will build our bumper library and add new, old and favorites plus custom.

Thanks.

I enjoy looking under the hood, so when you get a chance I'd appreciate learning who does what in the production cycle for the show.

Quote from: DaveSchrader on May 08, 2018, 09:54:53 AMI wont do politics. There is enough of that on other stations everywhere.  Unless the politician wants to talk Aliens, Ghosts, Conspiracy or Snorting Condoms and Tide Pod Challenges.

Celebrities...oh we will...we will

Who's your prod'n team, & what are their responsibilities?

Quote from: DaveSchrader on May 08, 2018, 09:46:24 AMMy pace and meter will change, when you host a show and spend a whole hour talking, by yourself, I had to keep the energy up, talking a bit faster and higher is about transferring energy to an audience.  If I just spoke for an hour in a never changing monotone, slowly, you would have tuned out in [hordes]. Talking faster and with energy I was hoping to cover a lot, give some insights and keep the mood lighter and moving.

This is why I think an "in one" format is so terribly difficult in audio.

QuoteAnd one last favor, ease up on Heather. Death is a difficult blow and we all react differently to it. Just because you may handle a situation one way, there is no need to believe that is a universal truth.  Lets leave the disdain for Heather behind and instead focus it where it belongs, on Alex Trebek.

The more you talk about her and let the hate fester like a cancer the more she continues to get your attention and no one should be the focus of continuing rage.

She didn't mind it when she was dishing it out here to Geo. Noory.

Empirically what you write seems completely at odds w experience.  This whole Web site was built on ragging on Noory.

But you're right in that it shouldn't be rage. I wish Ms. Wade well in her future endeavors.  Heck, I've been saying for a long time that Mr. Noory should get a career that showcases his interests more.  These are not bad people.

Will you be reporting on Ms. Wade's foray into Area 51?

Quote from: Dyna-X on May 08, 2018, 07:05:52 AMAs for Bellgab, its like we had a stain on us when (minus some trolls), we are all just restless for good late night Art style radio. Maybe a turning point?

Dave Schrader hosting MITD & Ian Punnett back on C2C?  How much better does it get?

Now if we could just get Geo. Noory a more appropriate career....

Quote from: cweb on May 08, 2018, 06:55:17 AMOh, I'm with ya. Having worked in a little bit of media myself, I fully realize why they're called "bumpers." I talked to an engineer who was surprised that Art-era MITD was still using those other little audible signals to go/return from breaks.

I agree that in this application, it's more important that they match the mood or theme (and fill time) than be something you recognize.

They're not something you need to have recognized previously, but they become something you recognize via repetition on the show.

Reminds me of when someone was guesting for Lionel (Michael LeBron on WABC), & they were inserting the usual bumper pieces in their usu. order of breaks.  The m.c. questioned one near program's end that implied he was going to go out & get plastered: "What is this, some kind of tradition around here?"

Quote from: ItsTelly on May 07, 2018, 09:43:54 PMFor the record let me state the absolute best case scenario is none other than ART BELL!

He faked his own death!  And is back...from an undisclosed location just outside Pahrump.

I am litigatinglevitating further?

Mr. Rowland, I think you you should apologize for those remarks you made briefly around the time of Mr. Bell's death that made it look like news of his family was your property.  You didn't go nuts the way Ms. Wade did, but there was a brief indiscretion there that looks bad.

Even Ms. Wade I'd forgive if she even halfway apologized, just because it seems par for the course for "talent" to become prima-donna-ish.  Lots of very nice people in show biz, but jerks seem to come w the territory, & they can eventually settle down & play nice again.  The reason we were able to forgive it in Art Bell was, well, he was Art Bell!  Same would go for Jean Shepherd & many others.  If we had to do w them directly as individuals ourselves, how many celebs could we even stand?

Other than that, I appreciate your entrepreneurship in bldg. your brand.  When your assets are nearly all virtual, that's a tough & risky biz.  I mean, what do you have besides a schedule, potentially competing vs. every other schedule, or non-schedule, out there?  So the fact you're able to do it says a lot.

Quote from: cweb on May 08, 2018, 06:20:06 AMI don't mind the lack of licensed bumpers. Save the money for the host. That's one thing I felt Art (and Heather) didn't get. People come for the host and the content- not the music. If you want to play licensed music, do a music show.

I'm telling you, there's plenty for cheap via Creative Commons.

Bumpers aren't about the music as listening-music.  They're more like sound effects.  That's why bed music, talkover music, theme music, mood music, bumpers, etc. are used both on talk & music shows, & in movies.  We're not listening to the music, we're listening for it.  It's a coded means of communication.

Quote from: cweb on May 08, 2018, 06:20:06 AM(Heard so much crying, I almost called her Heather.)

That's top right material right there.  Or at least a rim shot.

Quote from: brig on May 08, 2018, 05:34:57 AMFell asleep after first hour even tho I tried my best to stay awake.

Same here, par for the course.  The expected outcome for overnight.  But I'm behind on my sleep with my current illness (parainfluenza bronchiolitis, and atrial fibrillation secondary to that makes me tired during the day too).

I'd really been hoping for the suspense of hearing someone new being broken in than someone who'd been familiar via C2C.  Quality vs. novelty.  Mr. Schrader is clearly better than Ms. Wade was, but that's as expected.  Something of a waste having him on overnights.

Quote from: dsz on May 07, 2018, 03:02:57 PMJBW is the only host I've heard be able to pull off original music well (he is also a musician). Everyone else's just sounds like a trainwreck... with means custom music should suit the Heather Wade Experience just fine.

Plenty of stuff out there affordably via Creative Commons licensing.

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on May 07, 2018, 02:15:42 PM
Microaggression reported.

I'd hope they'd be bigger than micro, but little ones are nice too.

Quote from: morgana213 on May 07, 2018, 02:05:10 PMHeh!  For some reason this reminded me of time I was dancing to a band at a night club. I was right in front of them just dancing away when I noticed they were all looking at me. I thought "wow, I must be dancing really good."  I just kept at it until I looked down and realized my top had rolled down (it was a tube top) and they were staring at my boobs. OMG! What could I do, but pull it up and continue dancing.   

Never you mind.  Breasts are pretty.

Quote from: chefist on April 26, 2018, 08:50:59 AMOr, they simply change their identities and start a new life...which happens often.

I've wondered whether Dashiel Hammett was on to something about that.

Quote from: bellNwhistle on May 07, 2018, 07:20:02 AM


Why would she come back (other than to pitch a fit at haters)?  BellGab is more or less about Art & Assorted.. but if you renamed it WadeGab, it might lure her back... if anyone really wanted her to return.  Do they? 

You actually have to ask?!  Look around here over at least the past 3 yrs.

Quote from: Dyna-X on May 07, 2018, 02:11:31 AMWell we don't know the host, but here is the guest/topic:
http://midnightinthedesert.com/kerry-trent-haggard/
Mon May 7 â€" Kerry Trent Haggard â€" 1897 Aurora Texas Alien Crash

Oh, well, not bad for comic relief.  Of all the interesting cases that could be picked from the airship wave, it's the wackiest that gets the publicity.

Those airship sightings were mostly real, & they really were airships, built by human beings.  It insults our human heritage to lay those things to extraterrestrial or paranormal causes.

Quote from: Jocko Johnson on May 07, 2018, 03:59:05 AM#6 A  little known guy who does segments on the Mack Maloney military X-Files show with, Mack, Juan-Juan, and Commander Cobra who id my favorite podcast for a while now. But the guy they have that does the paranormal, ufo, etc, etc updates  is a guy called "Switchblade" Steve Ward. He's excellent, funny,  knowledge and always very well prepared.

I'll 2nd that.  Don't know if he could sustain the length, but I'd like to find out.

Quote from: Lord Grantham on May 07, 2018, 06:58:16 AMWe press forward into a new thread. This one will become the "General Musings of a former radio show host" thread

GabGab

Quote from: bellNwhistle on May 07, 2018, 05:53:55 AM
Only if you promise to name it HeatherGab or WadeGab

Mrs. Peel...you're needed...not.  But still welcome, I'm sure.