George Knapp

[karios8]

I'm actually having the same problem.

[PrairieGhost]

I want to hear more from this lady.

[polarissucks01]

I dont think Knapp is really annoyed, I think he is annoyed with the state that the guests are. The last lady that called in was great. He was polite and carried through. The bullshit callers that want to make for a boring program, he wants to have nothing to do with. He wants people to be to the point and interesting.

[ItsOver]

Haha. Fish in a urinal phenomenon!?

Wow...that was weird.  Seeing things that no doubt aren't really there.  Was that Hoagland doing a different voice?

[eddie dean]

The fish in the urinal sound like a prank fish printed on rice paper that dissolves after a while.
That callers friends are probably laughing that he fell for it!
Or it was a portal fish.

[SaucyRossy]

This is an episode worth listening too. Nick Redfern knows his stuff and is a good guy and George Knapp is a really good host, figures he would only be on twice a month.

[Étouffée]

Eddie, it doesn't matter if it was a prank or legit...it was so off the wall and preposterous it was funny!

THAT'S entertainment!

I guess Knapp is kind of cranky tonight; Art would have had a field day with "Fish in a Urinal" guy!

[WhosURmama]

I really like George Knapp.  Love to see him jump on board regularly with Art. Maybe 2 - 3 nights a week.  He is wonderful.

[WhosURmama]

I Also love his playlists!

[zeebo]

I really like George Knapp.  Love to see him jump on board regularly with Art. Maybe 2 - 3 nights a week.  He is wonderful.

That intro tonite was well-prepared, spoken articulately, and packed with good info which piqued my interest.  It's kind of startling to hear such a professional approach when you're more used to another host's babbling mess of unprepared utterances. 

[WhosURmama]

I love Knapp's interrogation style too.  Good for him!

[WhosURmama]

That intro tonite was well-prepared, spoken articulately, and packed with good info which piqued my interest.  It's kind of startling to hear such a professional approach when you're more used to another host's babbling mess of unprepared utterances.

Too true. 

[Mind Flayer Monk]

I want to hear more from this lady.

She has called before. She could have been on with Noory like 1 year ago. I recognize the lady. Maybe with Wells also-one of the shows about WW2 veterans or hidden information about Vietnam.

[WhosURmama]

She has called before. She could have been on with Noory like 1 year ago. I recognize the lady. Maybe with Wells also-one of the shows about WW2 veterans or hidden information about Vietnam.

Yes I remember her.  She is very informative.  I liked listening to her.

[HorrorReporter]

I, too, am fascinated by this newfound problem of 'fish' in urinals.. Although I pondered for a bit after hearing it: Maybe this guy is discovering cameras in urinals and bathrooms.. something I am sure if taking place.
Or maybe it was fish.

[FightTheFuture]

Great show by GK.

I always like the classic UFO conspiracy stuff. And whom better to discuss it with than NR? 

[Falkie2013]

The fish in the urinal sound like a prank fish printed on rice paper that dissolves after a while.
That callers friends are probably laughing that he fell for it!
Or it was a portal fish.

Some Chinese restaurant was storing their goldfish in their urinal apparently.


A Chinese restaurant has been criticised â€"

for keeping ornamental fish in a urinal,

ANANOVA reports May 25th,

2008.



The restaurant in Changchun city has around 20 fancy carp in the four-metre long trough in the gents’ bathroom.

The Eastern Asian Economic and Trade Daily says experts have condemned the move as harmful to the fish and “disrespectful to China’s fish culture”.

A spokesman for the restaurant insisted the urinal contained a mixture of urine and water which was not harmful to the fish.

“The water is running, and each day we change the water at least twice and add oxygen into the water. It’s not much different to a fish tank,” he said.

The owner added that the fish were intended as an attraction for diners and were not used in dishes.

Guests seemed surprised to find fish swimming in the trough which has sign saying “Please urinate here” above it.

“If they didn’t have the sign here I would have thought it was a new fish tank,” said one diner, Mr Wang.

“It’s really interesting,”

added another, Mr Sun, who said he was planning to use the bathroom again, just to repeat the experience.


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[Falkie2013]

And in that same vein there is ...


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[UnscreenedCaller]

I, too, am fascinated by this newfound problem of 'fish' in urinals.. Although I pondered for a bit after hearing it: Maybe this guy is discovering cameras in urinals and bathrooms.. something I am sure if taking place.
Or maybe it was fish.

Do you think it was .... angelfish? Oh wait, wrong thread.

[ItsOver]

Eddie, it doesn't matter if it was a prank or legit...it was so off the wall and preposterous it was funny!

THAT'S entertainment!

I guess Knapp is kind of cranky tonight; Art would have had a field day with "Fish in a Urinal" guy!

It's just not Knapp's style.  I'm sure his prank alarm went off and he decided to move on.  You're right, though, about Art.  He might have had some fun with it.  I can't imagine what the lame Nooron might have done, though.  "Are they mean fish in the urinal?"  :

[Falkie2013]

       No letter writing required for the VDG 8 track dream, I'm currently in the midst of transferring Godbluff on to an 8 track. Quadrophonically. It's magical.

        Skylark? That could be an order too tall. Does a Chevy Vega float your boat?

How do you transfer stuff to an 8 track tape ? I didn't know one could get blank tapes.

If you're going to go completely retro, why not go to reel to reel or even further back with a wire recorder ?

Apparently some music and interviews are exist on wire recorders but archives have almost an impossible time of finding a way to play them, though a few are on sale on Ebay, no one remembers who to use them. There are historical figures who gave interviews which were recorded to them.

http://recording-history.org/HTML/wire1.php

The Wire Recorder

The wire recorder was a short-lived but important form of consumer sound recording device. Technically, it has a history that goes back to the 19th century, but the vast majority of wire recorders ever produced were made in the period from the late 1940s to the early 1950s.

Unfortunately, not much reliable historical information about these machines is out there. It's a common assumption, for example, that wire recorders "evolved" into tape recorders.
The following pages outline the history of the wire recorder, and trace its rise and rapid decline.


see above link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_recording

Wire recording is a type of analog audio storage in which a magnetic recording is made on thin steel or stainless steel wire.

The wire is pulled rapidly across a recording head which magnetizes each point along the wire in accordance with the intensity and polarity of the electrical audio signal being supplied to the recording head at that instant. By later drawing the wire across the same or a similar head while the head is not being supplied with an electrical signal, the varying magnetic field presented by the passing wire induces a similarly varying electric current in the head, recreating the original signal at a reduced level.

Magnetic wire recording was replaced by magnetic tape recording, but devices employing one or the other of these media had been more or less simultaneously under development for many years before either came into widespread use. The principles and electronics involved are nearly identical. Wire recording initially had the advantage that the recording medium itself was already fully developed, while tape recording was held back by the need to improve the materials and methods used to manufacture the tape.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereo-Pak

The Muntz Stereo-Pak, commonly known as the 4-track cartridge, is a magnetic tape sound recording cartridge technology. The in-car tape player that played the Stereo-Pak cartridges was called the Autostereo, but it was generally marketed under the common Stereo-Pak trade name.

The Stereo-Pak cartridge was inspired by the Fidelipac 3-track tape cartridge system invented by George Eash in 1954 and used by radio broadcasters for commercials and jingles beginning in 1959. The Stereo-Pak was adapted from the basic Fidelipac cartridge design by Earl "Madman" Muntz in 1962, as a way to play prerecorded tapes in cars.

The tape is arranged in an infinite loop which traverses a central hub and crosses a tape head, usually over a pressure pad to assure proper tape contact. The tape moves at 3¾ inches per second, pulled by tension, but this tension is dampened by a lubricant, usually graphite, on the back of the tape to prevent a tape's tension from damaging the tape and/or player. The tape ends in a Stereo-Pak are not connected by a splice made of a conductive material â€" as are the later "automatic" switching 8-track cartridges. 4-track cartridge players had to be switched manually between programs 1 & 2 by a lever on the machine. Due to the method by which the tape is moved, it is impossible to rewind and often risky to fast forward a 4-track tape.

The splices in a 4-track tape can break due to age, handling, or poor manufacturing quality. This problem also affects other endless loop tapes, such as 8-tracks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-track_tape

Stereo 8, commonly known as the eight-track cartridge, eight-track tape, or simply eight-track, is a magnetic tape sound recording technology. It was popular in the United States from the mid-1960s through to the early 1980s, but was relatively unknown in many European countries. Stereo 8 was created in 1964 by a consortium led by Bill Lear of Lear Jet Corporation, along with Ampex, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Motorola, and RCA Victor Records (RCA). It was a further development of the similar Stereo-Pak four-track cartridge created by Earl "Madman" Muntz. A later quadraphonic version of the format was announced by RCA in April 1970 and first known as Quad-8, then later changed to just Q8.

I remember the local CBS radio station using a huge stack of carts in 1968 and in going through stuff to recycle I found a magazine from 1968 where you could rent a car in Vegas for $ 1.00 a day plus mileage.

" Rent a car in Vegas.

  New Deluxe models.

  $ 1 for Volkswagens.
 
  $ 2 for Compacts

  $ 5 for Impalas

  $ 8 for Cadillacs

  Per 24 hours plus mileage

  Brooks Rent A Car across from the Stardust "

They now charge $ 13 a day to rent a car. The minimum wage back then was $ 1.60 and a recent study said that the minimum wage is worth $ 2.00 less than what it was in 1968.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/18/minimum-wage-worth-less-than-1968_n_3461568.html

1968 prices from yahoo answers:

examples are
4 pack toilet paper .69cents
10 lb potatoes 69 cents
chicken whole $1 to 2
hamburger 59 cent lb
steak/fish 1.99 lb
pork chops 1.99 ;b
to sum it up i could take $20. a week and buy food for 2 to eat breakfast and dinner for the whole week and buy supplies, tp. laundry soap, cleaning supplies another $5.00 and cigs were $4.00 a carton oh how i wish the prices would roll back to back then

I do recall my high school selling cinnamon rolls back then for 15 cents. I think a buffet cost 75 cents but I never paid for meals because I knew someone at the casinos. I was 16 and loved living in Vegas and regretted that I moved back to San Francisco. It was a different town back then & you seemed to know everyone.


Average cost of items in 1968:

Gasoline - $.33 a gallon
Loaf of Bread - $.22
Coffee - .$69 a pound
New Home - $24,700
Movie Ticket - $1.31
Baseball Game - $3.50
Chevy Corvette - $4,663
Ford Mustang -$2,602
McDonald's - Fries $.15, burger $.18, cheeseburger $.25
Gallon of Milk - $1.07
Dow Jones High point - 985
Average Income - $6,344
Dozen Eggs - $.53
First Class Stamp - $.06

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[Falkie2013]

I, too, am fascinated by this newfound problem of 'fish' in urinals.. Although I pondered for a bit after hearing it: Maybe this guy is discovering cameras in urinals and bathrooms.. something I am sure if taking place.
Or maybe it was fish.

Below is the picture of what the fish looked like in the urinal and then there's this story from Canada where someone objected to these urinals as well.

Restaurant inspections lagging but mouth-shaped urinals removed

Posted: June 3rd, 2010 - 8:17am by Doug Powell

The public health department in Hamilton, Ontario (that’s in Canada) is failing to properly monitor Hamilton's restaurants.

But a Hamilton restaurant with mouth-shaped urinals in the men’s room is attracting attention (OK, not from public health inspectors).

The Hamilton Spectator reports that an audit presented to city council yesterday shows the city isn't meeting provincial standards for food safety inspections.

It should have performed 4,700 routine inspections last year, but missed that target by 1,200.

The audit also found restaurants and food services with repeat problems weren't consistently penalized. Out of 450 establishments with multiple infractions, only six were ticketed in 2009.

Ann Pekaruk, the city's director of audit services, said her department couldn't find an adequate reason why the inspections weren't completed.

But there is one Hamilton restaurant that has attracted attention.

After eight months of refusing to give in to pressure from women’s rights groups, politicians and threats of boycotts, the National Post reports a Hamilton restaurant has agreed to take down the controversial mouth-shaped urinals in its men’s restroom.

The Honest Lawyer in Hamilton bought the urinals, which have big, glossy red lips, in Europe and installed them in the restroom three years ago, said Renee Roth, the restaurant’s operations manager and partner, but it didn’t get any negative attention until recently.

“The people started saying it was misogynist, sexist and hurtful. That’s not what we meant for it,” Ms. Roth says. “I saw it as a simple novelty. A decoration in my bathroom. But we didn’t want to confuse people to think we support the things the activists were accusing us of.”


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[Foodlion]

Yeah, I wish Knapp would of swam with the fish story.

Yeah, that caller gave me the spooks actually.
At first I thought it was a pranker, but heck after a while he started sounding like he was living a horror movie.


It was a great show tonite. One of the best in a long time.

[WhosURmama]

I find Knapp to be fabulous.  And I find Art just absolutely fabulous!

[PB the Deplorable]

....  I can't imagine what the lame Nooron might have done, though.  "Are they mean fish in the urinal?"  :

'We don't use that word on our show'

[ItsOver]

'We don't use that word on our show'

Oh, yeah.  "Was it a mean fish in the male liquid waste receptacle?" :

[midnight]

George Knapp should have his own show.  He's that good.

[zeebo]

George Knapp should have his own show.  He's that good.

My dream setup:  Art anchoring during the week, George K. on weekends, Ian dropping in a couple times a month, and Noory broadcasting nightly from his bathtub on his pretend microphone.

[ziznak]

I listened to the replay after reading through this thread... I think he was really annoyed at the phone issues they were having as well as some of the callers.  The fish in the urinal call was a total waste of time.  I think it was supposed to be a joke.  It just wasn't funny.  That witness protection lady sounded really interesting!! I think that's who you guys were talking about.  Older lady whose husband was in WWII and her son was in Nam?  She ended up on witness protection due to him being some black ops assassin or something.  She'd be a great guest.  The area 51 rant was cool too.  Can't blame knapp for being a bit annoyed at that ya know?  He's been doing stories on the place his whole damn life and he has to see these media douchebags use this recent "announcement" for a silly fluff piece... media douchebag joke fodder... eh I got the chills.

Can't wait to see the Art interview...

[PB the Deplorable]

... Ian dropping in a couple times a month...

I agree.  From a helicopter and with no parachute.