Midnight In The Desert

[norland2424]

Well, you know, it's all the producers fault.

has she fired Art yet?

[dan7800]

Good guest tonight?

[Walks_At_Night]

Good guest tonight?

Jeez Louise......  I forgot she even still did a show.

[Nobody]

She's on what, number 4 now?

I believe she is on her 3rd producer at this point:

1. Martin Willis (who, I was told, received an on-air chewing out from HW).

2. Jason Drake Malfoy

3. Michelle Freed Bulgatz (Current)


(I like your handle by the way.)

[Nobody]

Good guest tonight?

Never mind the guest, what about the cranky lady from Southern California who called in earlier and berated Heather for cutting her off* when she was telling her story last night?  That was a brilliant call.

Heather tried offering excuses and that lady was having none of it. Then Heather offered to have the lady co-host the show with her and the lady laughed.

(I think I'm in love.  Well done, miss.) [doffs hat]






*Juan Cena: if you ever wanted to yell at Heather for cutting you off, trust me, this lady did it for you.

[Jackstar]

Nobody listens to Midnight In The Desert With Heather Wade.

[Epaphroditus]

Never mind the guest, what about the cranky lady from Southern California who called in earlier and berated Heather for cutting her off* when she was telling her story last night?  That was a brilliant call.

Heather tried offering excuses and that lady was having none of it. Then Heather offered to have the lady co-host the show with her and the lady laughed.

(I think I'm in love.  Well done, miss.) [doffs hat]

That ignorant bitch never gets to her point which is why she gets cut off .






*Juan Cena: if you ever wanted to yell at Heather for cutting you off, trust me, this lady did it for you.

That ignorant bitch never gets to her point which is why she gets cut off .

[PaulAtreides]

has she fired Art yet?

No, Art has an iron clad 5 year contract.

[Lilith]

Nobody listens to Midnight In The Desert With Heather Wade.

I do too, once in a while.

[dan7800]

Nobody listens to Midnight In The Desert With Heather Wade.

I listen fairly regularly. Some guests are boring, others are ok. Heather is not great by any means, but I still don't get all the hate for her.

Oh what could have been....

[Dr. MD MD]

I listen fairly regularly. Some guests are boring, others are ok. Heather is not great by any means, but I still don't get all the hate for her.

Oh what could have been....

I gave her a fair shot but ultimately couldn't hold out. She's terrible.

[Jackstar]

She's a perfectly adequate host, and on a personal level, I'm more fond of her than not.

However, her relentless shilling for the Sandy Hoax debacle leaves a sour taste in my mouth. It makes it impossible for me to listen to her fumble through learning her craft--where once, I would have been happy to give her the benefit of the doubt... well, well, well, since she's such a FUCKING EXPERT on what's REAL AND WHAT ISN'T, she can just learn to be a quality radio host, rather than a merely adequate one.

Since she knows so much about things. It takes away a lot of the mystery.

[Ciardelo]

I gave her a fair shot but ultimately couldn't hold out. She's terrible.

I too fought off the knee-jerk fucknozzles that were bashing her at first. But at-the-end-of-the-night they were proved right. She can't hold her own. So I had to admit defeat and quit listening for the most part. She just isn't "getting better."

But dammit, she still stepped up and took a shot! And she's still out there swinging. I said it before and I'll say it again; I hope she makes it to nationwide terrestrial radio someday.

[Epaphroditus]

I too fought off the knee-jerk fucknozzles that were bashing her at first. But at-the-end-of-the-night they were proved right. She can't hold her own. So I had to admit defeat and quit listening for the most part. She just isn't "getting better."

But dammit, she still stepped up and took a shot! And she's still out there swinging. I said it before and I'll say it again; I hope she makes it to nationwide terrestrial radio someday.

Please stop thinking 1993 , every internet streamer out there with a paid subscriber base is making more money than terrestrial radio and its 24 hr jesus , sports , politics .

[The King of Kings]

I listen fairly regularly. Some guests are boring, others are ok. Heather is not great by any means, but I still don't get all the hate for her.

Oh what could have been....

The hate isn't really about Heather at all.  It's about Art and the situation he caused, and Heather's just in front of the firing line.

[dan7800]

The hate isn't really about Heather at all.  It's about Art and the situation he caused, and Heather's just in front of the firing line.

+1 to this

[SnapT]

Is Bill Birnes eating something on the air?

Influenced by Falkie?

[Nobody]

That ignorant bitch never gets to her point which is why she gets cut off .

I can't speak to her intellectual capacity, but she seemed to get to her point quickly enough last night. 

[Nobody]

Is Bill Birnes eating something on the air?

Bill Birnes appears to be an articulate, intelligent man with a coherent story to tell.  That sound you're hearing is simply the sound of him chewing up the host of the programme.

[GravitySucks]

Bill Birnes appears to be an articulate, intelligent man with a coherent story to tell.  That sound you're hearing is simply the sound of him chewing up the host of the programme.

He takes a few liberties, I think, to try and make the story interesting. For example, Tesla's tower was not at Montauk Point. It was at Shoreham.

[GravitySucks]

Here is a version of the Lucille Ball story the caller mentioned about morse code in teeth fillings.

http://altereddimensions.net/2014/lucille-ball-picks-up-morse-code-radio-through-dental-work-fillings

[Nobody]

He takes a few liberties, I think, to try and make the story interesting. For example, Tesla's tower was not at Montauk Point. It was at Shoreham.

As a history buff, I noticed he gets some of his timeframes wrong as well (e.g. the American motion picture industry wasn't in its infancy in the 1920's, but had been around for two decades by then).

(However, I am not clear on whether these mistakes are deliberate or if they are the sort of mistakes that invariably crop up whenever people talk off the cuff for an extended period of time.)

I'm fascinated with the whole premise of Edison taking talking to the dead seriously because my own understanding is that the whole "spirit phone" business came about as the result of a journalist  from The American Magazine wanting to interview Edison when Edison had little to say; Edison told him about the Spirit Phone as a practical joke.

There's a claim that a "rare version" of of Edison's diary was discovered recently:

In 2015 the French journalist Philippe Baudouin found a rare version of Edison’s diary in a thrift store in France.

This version includes a chapter that was not printed in the widely known 1948 English edition, called the Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison. This missing chapter was dedicated to his theory of the spirit world, and how it might be possible to contact it. Baudouin re-published the French edition as Le Royaume de l’au-delà.

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dial-a-ghost-on-thomas-edisons-least-successful-invention-the-spirit-phone

...and I am guessing Bill Birnes' book is based largely upon that.  I have not found any mention of who has authenticated this "missing chapter," though. 

Presumably, Birnes' book will tell his readers who authenticated this latest discovery (and when) to allay any concerns that they might be reading a work based on the 21st century equivalent of the Hitler diaries.

[GravitySucks]

As a history buff, I noticed he gets some of his timeframes wrong as well (e.g. the American motion picture industry wasn't in its infancy in the 1920's, but had been around for two decades by then).

(However, I am not clear on whether these mistakes are deliberate or if they the sort of mistakes that invariably crop up whenever people talk off the cuff for an extended period of time oversights.)

I'm fascinated with the whole premise of Edison taking talking to the dead seriously because my own understanding is that the whole "spirit phone" business came about as the result of a journalist  from The American Magazine wanting to interview Edison when Edison had little to say; Edison told him about the Spirit Phone as a practical joke.

There's a claim that a "rare version" of of Edison's diary was discovered recently:

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dial-a-ghost-on-thomas-edisons-least-successful-invention-the-spirit-phone

...and I am guessing Bill Birnes' book is based largely upon that.  I have not found any mention of who has authenticated this "missing chapter," though. 

Presumably, Birnes' book will tell his readers who authenticated this latest discovery (and when) to allay any concerns that they might be reading a work based on the 21st century equivalent of the Hitler diaries.

Last time He was on I challenged his cliams about Dr Feelgood giving Marilyn Monroe amphetimines the night she sang Happy Birthday. He said that is why her speech was slow and slurred. If he dosed her it had to be with downers. She wasn't speeding. She was on some kind of downer, maybe mixed with alcohol. I unkowningly tried to replicate the effect for several years before I heard his claims.

[Dr. MD MD]

Last time He was on I challenged his cliams about Dr Feelgood giving Marilyn Monroe amphetimines the night she sang Happy Birthday. He said that is why her speech was slow and slurred. If he dosed her it had to be with downers. She wasn't speeding. She was on some kind of downer, maybe mixed with alcohol. I unkowningly tried to replicate the effect for several years before I heard his claims.

It was Kennedy who was receiving regular shots of amphetamines. Marilyn was taking tranquilizers. Everyone was drinking back then. 

[Nobody]

Last time He was on I challenged his cliams about Dr Feelgood giving Marilyn Monroe amphetimines the night she sang Happy Birthday. He said that is why her speech was slow and slurred. If he dosed her it had to be with downers. She wasn't speeding. She was on some kind of downer, maybe mixed with alcohol. I unkowningly tried to replicate the effect for several years before I heard his claims.

Just before the programme ended, he claimed that the Japanese had launched balloons containing biological weapons against the US in WWII.  To the best of my knowledge, that claim is only half right: the Japanese did launch balloons against the US, but they contained incendiary devices, not biological weapons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_balloon

The Japanese had planned to use biological weapons against the US, but these were to be delivered using submarine-based aircraft, and the war ended before the plans could be carried out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cherry_Blossoms_at_Night

So whilst my original post still stands as far as it goes, at this point, it looks like it ought to be amended to:

Bill Birnes appears to be articulate, intelligent, and coherent, but not necessarily accurate, depending.

Oh well.

[Jackstar]

I challenged his cliams about Dr Feelgood giving Marilyn Monroe amphetimines the night she sang Happy Birthday. He said that is why her speech was slow and slurred. If he dosed her it had to be with downers. She wasn't speeding. She was on some kind of downer, maybe mixed with alcohol. I unkowningly tried to replicate the effect for several years before I heard his claims.

I can't tell if you're trying to be funny and failing miserably, or are actually this ignorant.

Oh, right. "Space" program.

[Lilith]

Is Bill Birnes eating something on the air?

Influenced by Falkie?

The Flakie influence idea almost makes me wish I had been awake to listen, but not quite.

[Lilith]

Last time He was on I challenged his cliams about Dr Feelgood giving Marilyn Monroe amphetimines the night she sang Happy Birthday. He said that is why her speech was slow and slurred. If he dosed her it had to be with downers. She wasn't speeding. She was on some kind of downer, maybe mixed with alcohol. I unkowningly tried to replicate the effect for several years before I heard his claims.

If I had known you were going to be here Gravity, I would have set my alarm clock.

[Chocolate coated jackboot]

no mention of Edison's public electrocution of cats/dogs to discredit Tesla's AC?

Is anybody going to try to win the $295 wishing machine Heather's giving away? I think if I won I'd donate it to Falkie

[Lilith]

no mention of Edison's public electrocution of cats/dogs to discredit Tesla's AC?

Is anybody going to try to win the $295 wishing machine Heather's giving away? I think if I won I'd donate it to Falkie

You could always try making your own wishing machine for free. That's what I did.  MV says I have it facing the wrong direction in in the picture, but I have since turned it around, and it works great.