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Quote from: monica on June 11, 2018, 12:33:28 AMDoes this guy look like Damon?

Lindelof?  No, but I know them both.  Haven't seen either in yrs., though.  I knew Neil when he was Neal.

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Quote from: damon on June 11, 2018, 04:06:54 PMHeather Wade is taking a page from Mr Noory by repeating the same guests over and over again. WTF

That was good when C2C was doing it in the 1st hr. w brief segments from among their stable of experts on a few subjects in response to a news hook: Kelly Sweeny for things nautic, Hoagie for things astronomic, the seismologist, a health expert, 1 or 2 others.  And for long segments, there really are a few w so much material it justifies repeat visits: Paulides, LMH.  But for others in long segments, that's just lazy & gutless.

Quote from: GravitySucks on June 10, 2018, 05:08:22 PMA stitch in time saves nine.

Sew what?

At least you're extending the thread.

Quote from: Dyna-X on June 10, 2018, 03:26:14 PM
Dave likes random.

UPS driver fails to set brake, gets out, and his truck rolls backwards and eventually down this bank to land as we see.  As he tells his story to police, someone dressed for some occasion sees an opp'ty to pose in the foreground of the bizarre scene.  His friend with a camera had been carrying a compact sewing machine to mend the rented clothing his friend had, and has him hold the sewing machine while he takes pictures.

Alternatively, he got that sewing machine from where he lived nearby, and posed holding it as a gag to say, "Something broken here?  I can fix it!"

Quote from: anunnaki on June 09, 2018, 06:56:16 PMI was hoping for an interesting interview, but Kelly Carlin's annoying habit of constantly repeating "You Know" was such a distraction that I emailed her the following-Radio interview on Coast-to Coast

I listened to your interview by Ian Punnett and have a suggestion.

Please consider two things-

1. Listen to a playback of that interview with a pad and pen and note how many times you said "You Know".

It was very annoying/distracting and did not add anything positive to what you were saying. It was totally unnecessary.

In that case I don't feel so bad about having slept thru the entire Carlin segment.

Quote from: PB the Deplorable on June 09, 2018, 07:23:26 PMIn any argument, the first person to mention Hitler wins

Huh.  I didn't think he had such influence these days.  Could dropping his name help you get a better seat at a show?

Did the data ride on the video blanking interval of TV broadcasts like the French version?

ISTR there were too many other things the VBI was being used for by then by stations in N. Amer. for the Teletex to work as in France.  You used to be able to adjust the vertical hold to scroll up the frame bar and it'd be still with just a little test space in the middle to calibrate on, but later a profusion of dancing snow appeared on it.

...at the vape shop.  He was asking for a vape that wouldn't disturb his sleep so much.

"Whew, that was some night!  Woke up covered in dirt.  No idea what I was doing, and the dreams...they were just ridiculous.  And you're hearing this from someone who made a living for years listening to people tell the most outrageous stories.  And then Airyn treated me like I had bad breath, so the vape must be doing that too.  Maybe I should put the vape pen before the filter on my CPAP.

"Anyway, got to get to my lawyer's after this.  Somebody making unauthorized use of my name again."

Quote from: Hog on June 08, 2018, 10:17:01 AMWas RF or Cryo Ablation ever discussed in your case Robert?

No.  I hardly think the total amount I've been afflicted by atrial fib or flutter would justify that kind of intervention.  Not even amiodarone.

Before this time -- and the provocation this time was severe between the parainfluenza B and the tx for it -- I last had A fib months earlier, for about an hour.  I might've had a brief episode of A fib some other time since my cardioversion (from A flutter) in the spring of 2017, hard to remember.

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on June 05, 2018, 03:48:47 PMIt's a decent name, legacy-wise.

For a while when I heard Mr. Bell using it, I thought he was saying, "the kingdom of nigh."  As if to say, as near as your radio.  Aww.

What planet is he from?

"I am litigating further...in cyberspace."

Quote from: Juan on June 06, 2018, 01:10:53 PM
Hater

I thought we'd agreed to limit the misspelling to "Heater".

Quote from: DaveSchrader on June 06, 2018, 12:05:40 PMIf you like train wreck radio you have a place to go for it, if you want some one to treat the topics with respect, prepared and able to move a 3 hour conversation without the need to cry, seek pity or blather on about cats

Oooo, now you've got me curious!  She wasn't that bad before, but if she's now someone who provides more unintentional fodder for mirth than Mr. Noory, I might have to listen again.  I thought most of the funniest episodes of 7 Second Delay were the ones stn. mgr. Ken characterized as "a train wreck".

Quote from: DaveSchrader on June 06, 2018, 12:05:40 PMInteresting to read what people want or expect from a show or it's host.

Amazingly, you & your help are giving me just about exactly what I wanted.  Better than I recall from when you hosted C2C.

You approach topics & ask questions the way I would -- if my thoughts were well enough organized, which would take prep on my part.  Plus, the topics are interesting to me -- on avg., slightly better than when Mr. Bell or Ms. Wade emceed.  Only Mssrs. Knapp & Punnett might draw me away from you, but they rarely come on a weeknight.

I understand some listeners will criticize you for talking too much.  That would be a fault if many other emcees were doing it, but with someone like you (or, say, Barry Farber or a few others I could name) with your knowledge & experience, it's a pleasure because of what you have to contribute.  Sometimes, like last night, if I have no place to be in the morning, I'll stay up & listen rather than just randomly waking up to catch snatches when my monstrous prostate "calls".  But I'm still too much of a cheapskate to subscribe & time shift.

Really, you should be on earlier.  What kind of network has its flagship program be the overnight?  This is a fluke because of Art Bell.  It's time DMDN broke out of that legacy mold.

Quoteit is 11pm to 2am when I broadcast, from my home studio, all alone, with one single bulb illuminating my night.

Heh...reminds me of when Mr. Bell did it at local midday from Manila w blackout curtains to give him the old feel of "in the middle of the night...when we do our best thinking."

Quote from: K_Dubb on June 04, 2018, 11:46:03 PMOn Russians:  "General, colonel, whatever -- they have screwed-up ranks over there."  Haha this guy is great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DxClgfEhsU

"I am litigating further."

Quote from: trostol on June 04, 2018, 10:40:09 PMHeather Wade
57 mins ·
Ok I have given all this some thought. Time for a lawyer

Show name!

Yay, Dave!  As my funny friend Bob Falk said in a stereotypic Senator Claghorn voice, "I patronize that fine phone company, Dixie...Cup."

Quote from: Rally Squirrel on June 03, 2018, 08:31:20 AMHe turned down $250 for a stuffed animal because the thought of parting with it made him almost cry.

Oh, Wolfie...wanna make some $?

Quote from: Robert on June 02, 2018, 12:07:19 PMHere in Andover, NJ, after a weekend of thunderstorms had been forecast for days, we got away w just a few overnight, most of which seemed to pass S of here.  Sunny now, forecast for cloudy but dry Sun.

But my friend in Newton, just a few mi. N of here, experienced a brief loud T-storm shortly after noon today, & I didn't notice a thing.

Nobel Prize winners.  Charles Cantor was one of my profs & my undergrad advisor.  Later I met Paul Berg in a small group.  Probably several others I forgot about.

Book authors.  (Not counting just a meeting at a book signing, like Kaz Prapuolenis, who wouldn't cartoon my likeness; "You get the junkie, like everyone else.")  Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, both of shom I stayed friendly w up to their deaths.  (I met Timothy Leary thru Wilson, but that was in a crowd & I didn't say anything to Leary, so probably shouldn't count.)  J. Neil Schulman, but he spelled it Neal then.  Actually plenty other writers too -- journalists, etc.

Jean P. Shepherd.

Damon Lindelof, starting when he was a young teen.

Radio emcees whose programs I've been on: Barry Farber, Jay Diamond, Brian Lehrer.

Politicians it's so easy to meet, they shouldn't even count -- that's their job.  Also people like Linda Twigg, famous for being famous.

I didn't push it, so I didn't get close to Howard A. Stern, though I could've been.

Quote from: GravitySucks on June 01, 2018, 09:02:50 PM

QuoteHeh...DMDN just aired a Military X Files promo that ends saying it comes on "just before Midnight in the Desert...with Heather Wade."

It does. Just not on the same network.

Not a network that carries Military X Files, though.  It's a promo they've used for a while, just haven't updated, I guess.

Here in Andover, NJ, after a weekend of thunderstorms had been forecast for days, we got away w just a few overnight, most of which seemed to pass S of here.  Sunny now, forecast for cloudy but dry Sun.

Heh...DMDN just aired a Military X Files promo that ends saying it comes on "just before Midnight in the Desert...with Heather Wade."

Quote from: Jackstar on June 01, 2018, 08:36:06 AMBut wait. Audiences loved Lost. What they didn't love, was being too ignorant to have the experience of "figuring it out," even after it was explained to them.

They expected the concluding episode to be fully explicit, like showing things unmistakably so there'd be no interpret'n needed.  Even I & at least one other mutual friend of Damon expected it.  When it concluded w/o such a denouement, we thought they'd chickened out or some such.  It was almost 2 years before I got back on the trail, and then only because I'd fortuitously read "The Lost Special".

Some people in the audience loved Lost regardless of its mysteries or main plot.  That was mostly chicks.  They were interested in the suspense of who was going to wind up paired off w whom.  That's kind of like people who watch Shyamalan's The Village and then still care much whether the injured character was going to recover & get married.  Or, the other way around, people who looked at the other Village (in The Prisoner) & tried to figure out where it was, or why he resigned!

I still suspect there's footage in the can from Lost that constitutes a denouement.  Maybe it's being saved for a feature film.  But it might not exist.  Even if it doesn't, it wouldn't be too hard to get a cast member or two & shoot the kind of denouement Alfred Hitchcock Presents would've had.  (Like where we're shown that one character was making a tape recording all along to catch the corrupt authorities.)  The genius of it is that you could even use actors who'd never been cast for Lost but who have enough resemblance to cast members that they could be presented as characters who were to become doubles after plastic surgery.  (That's why Ilana/Elana was shown w her head covered in bandages.)

Quote from: Jackstar on May 31, 2018, 09:53:23 PMI feel like asking the audience, "which of these characters is meant to be a foil of which other?" is a totally valid question, for a lecture hall, but not really one to expect the network television viewing audience en masse to bring themselves up to.

And yet, audiences don't seem to mind that sort of thing if the series is explicitly a detective show.  For example, in Monk there was the series-long mystery of who killed his wife.  I think Andy Breckman wanted us to guess it was Monk himself, but that would've been too obvious, and it wasn't.  It turned out not to be solvable by the audience, because it wasn't a character we'd been seeing.  But there've been other mystery or cloak-&-dagger series in which it was eventually revealed that a certain regular character was a plant or spy as a foil for one or more other characters, or where the audience was led to suspect that was the case.

Quote from: Jackstar on May 31, 2018, 05:37:48 PMI don't know that everyone watching considered there to be a singular "it" to the show to figure out.

Oh, there were plenty of other things to figure out!  Lost made a habit of making things appear the opposite of what they were.  (Damon did this because I told him I liked it so much on Smallville.)  So, for instance, Aaron really was born to Kate, not Claire; the appearance of having Claire give birth to him was sleight of hand.  So they made it appear as if Kate was pretending to be Aaron's mother, when in fact she was actually his mother!  Similarly, Sawyer was the one who swindled the Ford family, and took the name James Ford, rather than vice versa.

Or just see reply #10 upthread.

QuoteFor example, "what about Paolo and Nicki?"

You'll have to form the question more specifically than that.  What about them?

I can tell you why Nicki had that name: She's supposed to be an echo of Kate.  Evangeline Nicole Lillie, who played Kate, was known to her family as "Nicky".

Quote from: GravitySucks on May 31, 2018, 02:27:30 AMNoone has ever observed electrons coming out of a wire as far as I can tell.

Uh, cathode rays?