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Even if Art Bell comes back, I'm done.  I love coming back to visit you BellGabbers, though.  You're much more entertaining and dependable.

Quote from: Sarcastic Plastic on May 03, 2016, 09:53:41 AM
Well then maybe I'm the one who has better things to do than hang out on an anonymous internet forum. But I should find some of his posts and see what he has to say. I'm assuming they can be found under a creative username like "Art Bell"?

He was a household word at one time, maybe he doesn't want to let that go. Sort of like Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard. Celebrity is a cruel mistress.

Hi, Art.  How's tricks?

Quote from: Sarcastic Plastic on April 24, 2016, 02:54:16 PM
He probably has better things to do than read other people's posts on an anonymous internet forum. I don't know the man nor have I heard of any proclivity toward mental defect but if i had to pick one over the other it wouldn't be sociopath, he's too organized and disciplined. People are free to express ideas whether it meets with your approval or not Sparky.

Where ya been, Curly?  Art reads and posts on this forum fairly regularly.  I vote narcissistic drama queen.   

Quote from: Barfly on April 23, 2016, 12:57:31 AM
Hello strange people, been gone for a while.
Went to Seattle to the Lan Syndicate Lan party last weekend, was a blast!
I see Hoagie maybe leaving, that leaves Sandra the Queen of nothing (even though she didn't even start the thread) so i see nothing has changed.
One thing i miss and the real reason i come to this site is for the podcasts, in reality they are MUCH more entertaining than the shows on Dark Matter, unfortunately they seem to be dying out quickly, i cant blame the content creators since this so called "network" has been dead since day one.
I would hope that Jazz, MV, Curtis and others would continue just pod casting, it doesn't have to be about the show, the show has been dead for years, when i say years i actually mean YEARS..when Art came back the magic ended fast, he knew it, so did the die hard fans..its simple..its ALL BEEN SAID BEFORE, why rehash old shit that 100's of other pod casters are saying with the same guests, the magic days have been over for a long time.

Art did the correct thing retiring, he should have never come back, it  demeans his legacy, people are fickle, they want the same old Art and he IS the same Art, but even he knows you can only rehash the same shit for so many years.

99% of the guests on all these shows are rehashed BS, they want to sell ya a book or are just bat shit crazy like Hoagie and his Wife, while that is entertaining for a bit it gets old fast, anybody with brain cells more than a Paramecium knows its all ridiculous chatter, but Art made it entertaining..now 100's are doing the same thing with that same guests that go from one show to the next, Art back in the day had the same weird fuckers as well as REAL science people,we knew the difference but listened anyway to the bull shit stuff cus it entertained us, ART KNEW that , he ALWAYS knew that, and Art will say to this day that many of his repeat guests he knew where bat shit crazy.

Anyway im outta here for now, If you like great podcasts there are so many others to listen to that makes the cranium active a bit more than all this BS paranormal crap, its always been fun and some GREAT people here that i would
always consider friends if i met them in person...cept for ..well you know who you are.

Also i bought a 8 acre plot in Kentucky with a sweet farmhouse 3 weeks ago, retirement here i come!
And yes, it has good internet..so im told.
Going to build a 30X50 building restoring old Harley's, maybe some Indians also.
I take possession May 17th, will move permanently around October or Nov of this year.
I wish you all well, i will stop in every now and them perhaps.

Good post, Barfly.  I'm right with you on this.  Good luck in KY and come back and see us sometime.

Quote from: norland2424 on April 20, 2016, 07:53:06 PM
say what you will about hoagie, but he is a convincing con artist lol.

And he's still more entertaining than Heather in a slow-motion train wreck sort of way.

Quote from: MV on April 14, 2016, 10:59:25 PM
Keith said it to me in an email. "Enjoy your cesspool of shit."

Oh, for crying out loud, I'm so tired of the whole Art Bell bunch.  I love the BellGabbers, though (vaguely).  I come here and read all of the BellGab drama and listen to anything that's not MITD.  So I guess I'm up to my neck in the cesspool.  I'd love to see Art's reaction if he came to the forum one day and the name of the forum and all the threads had been changed and no longer included his name.  It would be quite a drop from his pedestal.   

Hey, Heather, I don't hate you, either.  You just need to get some dignity and stop doing this to yourself.

I haven't listened to Heather since about two weeks after she started doing the show.  I've got a hot newsflash for Art...she is not getting better.  It's too painful...I have to say goodnight.  Reruns of The Odd Couple totally beat the hell out of this.  Night all.

Quote from: K_Dubb on March 25, 2016, 02:05:27 PM
Great!  Let's get some professional internet diagnoses in here!

I diagnose garden-variety insecurity, where a bad guest or bad show is a threat to her position, to which she responds by publicly stating those things she repeats pre-show in front of the mirror -- remember brass balls?

I only wish the threat was a real one, and that a replacement was waiting in the wings, but I fear that her failure would just bring our ride to an end.

The ride has already ended and I'm mystified that so few people get that.  All you have to do is listen to classic Art Bell...the excitement and enthusiasm in his voice at the beginning of his show...the smoooooth talker who could take any crap guest or caller and turn them into something interesting (or hilarious).  Art has morphed into a Kardashian and poor delusional Heather is just part of the fallout.  None of this is about a radio show anymore.  At least not the one I cared so much about. 

Quote from: PKaiser on February 28, 2016, 09:34:54 AM
Judging from your Sammy Terry avatar you must be from central Indiana, no?

Funny you mention your dad, as my dad used to talk to Art on ham 25+ years ago. Dad said he was a complete jerk to him because my dad wasn't a ham, he was a CBer who had illegally boosted his CB's power so he could talk all over the world. Art didn't dig it, and was quite vocal about it over the air. But my dad loved Art's radio show because it was wonderful "theater of the mind."

They were talking about wrestling here yesterday, do you remember watching Dick the Bruiser, Baron Von Rashke, Bo Bo Brazil, Pretty Boy Bobby Heenan and the bunch right before Sammy Terry? Wonderful times!

I'm originally from Indy, but I haven't been back for about 40 years.  My dad may have talked to Art, too.  When he wasn't at work, he was in front of those radios.  When I was a little girl, my grandpa was friends with Dick the Bruiser.  We used to see him all the time at the A&P.  Do you remember Sammy Terry's daytime show "Coffee with Carter"?  Now that was a while ago. 

Quote from: Art Bell on February 27, 2016, 10:54:01 PM
...  The more he posts on here and FB, the more distance he's putting between himself and the ordinary people who use to listen ... I'm sick of Art's drama...

Yup, I'am sick of it myself, the guy should get a life!

You know, Art, just a few months ago, I would have been thrilled if you responded to a post of mine.  And I don't blame you for making light of an awful lot of the stuff that's posted here.  I'm not an Art Bell worshipper, but a real fan of the work you did for all those years.  And there was something about you that reminded me of my dad...the radio connection, being a ham, the great conversational style of your interviews.  It's your personal drama that's running me off as a fan.  As far as you coming back and doing the show again, like my dad use to say, shit or get off the pot.

Quote from: PKaiser on February 26, 2016, 06:01:44 PM
Art, I too cancelled just last week because I wanted to hear you, not anyone else, sorry. This is now the second time I have had to cancel a subscription because you bailed. Your politics have nothing to do with it.

I kept my subscription to MITD for one month after Art left.  No offense to Heather, but I don't have a bit of interest in listening to the show without Art.  Art kind of presented Heather to us like we had no choice.  Well, I get to make my own choice about who I listen to on the radio and who I vote for in the election.  I'm still a fan of Art's classic shows and I listen to at least one of those nearly every day.  But, frankly, I think Art's past it now.  The more he posts on here and FB, the more distance he's putting between himself and the ordinary people who use to listen (maybe not the weird Art groupies who post on FB and give me the creeps).  I'm sick of Art's drama.  But I never get tired of you Bellgabbers.

Oh crap! Howard Hughes mentioned the GabCast with Art Bell on his latest podcast.  He talked about the offer Art made him.

Quote from: sydtron on February 08, 2016, 10:03:56 PM
Nice Sammy Terry avatar. Are you a fellow Hoosier?

Originally from Indy, but I've been in Florida my whole adult life.

Quote from: cosmic hobo on February 08, 2016, 10:01:37 PM
That's funny I had a card that had "Vote Quimby is a pussy and won't call in" in every square.

Bingo bitch!

See...this is exactly what I was talking about.

I listen to all the podcasts and I don't think these guys know how good they all are.

Quote from: littlechris on February 08, 2016, 09:48:32 PM
Hi delanee!!!

Great call!!!

I'm a fan now!!!   

Yeah, well...tomorrow when I listen to myself I'll probably move to Tibet and hide in a cave.

Quote from: TigerLily on February 08, 2016, 09:29:51 PM
Pussy "critics" i.e. trolls too chickenshit to call in. Like the two or three people using your name

Most times trolls are just trolls and don't want to come out into the open where we can get a good look at em.

Quote from: Paper*Boy on February 07, 2016, 06:56:53 AM
Things have died down at least a couple of times, only for Art Bell to stir it all up again

Remember "Nothing is as it seems" and "Mysterious and Reassuring"?  Art's been doing this for years to keep us all hanging on. 

Quote from: SredniVashtar on February 06, 2016, 10:18:51 AM
From reading the comments yesterday, it sounded like this show was going to be one huge disappointment. Although a lot of questions went unanswered, I think it was a bit more revealing than many people realised. First of all, it would have been uncomfortable and unfair to do any sort of interview that didn't give Art all the respect in the world for being such a great broadcaster. I have been listening to a few old Art shows recently, and he was peerless at what he did. They also, however, show that there crept in a certain lack of enthusiasam once he 'retired' back in the '90s, and I don't think he every really recaptured the glory days. Turning the GabCast into some sort of adversarial showdown would have done the man a disservice, because it's just a radio show, and it would have been out of place. But this was still an opportunity for Art to clear a few things up for his listeners.

When it came to the 'stalker' question I think you needed to read between the lines. Now that we have had the chance to hear him recount it, event by event, I don't think it's hard to see that he is using it as an excuse to stay off the air. The first 'event' could have been anything. If those shots were meant to be aimed at the house the 'stalker' must have the worst aim in the world. If they were meant to intimdate then they ought to have been seen by Art, which they weren't. It makes no sense, and the most obvious conclusion is that his neighbour got confused. It sounds like there was a lot of stuff going on that night, and she could have got caught up in the general hysteria along with Art. The second 'event' seems more credible until you remember that this was the man who also considered shooting a 'shadow person' in his home a few months before. Finally, the third 'event' has become a bit garbled with the telling. Art has forgotten that he told us that he heard a voice from the darkness telling him 'you were...', but that sounds like it has been dropped from the story now. Again, it could have been anything. It's a handy story because it's open-ended and doesn't have to rely on evidence. At the same time there is nothing whatsoever to back up his claim. If you think you have been shot at then you don't equivocate and say it might have been a firecracker. It was ironic that he later said that his reason for believing Bob Lazar was because his story never changed. You can believe Art's story, if you want; but I hope that the short bus has comfortable seating, because you are going to be riding it for a long time.

Art said he thinks he knows who it is, but didn't want to take out a restraining order. His reasoning was that it 'could make things worse'. How could it be worse when he has been driven from the airwaves because he fears for the safety of himself and his family? He later went on to say that the 'stalker' must be 'crazy'. So he refuses to do anything to prevent an insane person who is threatening the lives of his family, because it might make things worse? The reason that there has never been another incident is clearly because there doesn't need to be. There's no reason to believe that staying off the air is connected with his safety at all. All you need to do is look at Art's behaviour â€" not listen to his words â€" to see how seriously he is taking this 'stalker'. I don't think MV needed to bang the table over this, it was enough to leave the more intelligent listeners to figure it out for themselves.

I was disappointed in the whole Heather discussion (if you can call it that) but not surprised. I don't think you need to start by saying how wonderful you think she is, even if you believe it to be true (which I hope he doesn't). I wish someone would tell me why there is a code of silence around her (or 'Sister Heather of the Perpetual Meltdown', as she is known in the convent). The way some people talk about her I expect her to start turning water into wine pretty soon. I never found out how a total novice can be Art's 'first choice'. Art knows what it takes to succeed in broadcasting but he hands the show off to a total amateur. What. The. Fuck? I wish MV had asked why someone so inexperienced is also saddled with running the board and being her own producer. Couldn't Art dig into his jeans and get her some support if he's that keen for her to succeed? I thought Art's aside that 'she's done some good shows' was quite revealing. She's been doing this for two months, and the best he can say is that she's done 'some' good shows? How many, and which ones? The only way people talk about St Heather is polite euphemism. 'She's doing a great job under the circumstances' means that she's rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. 'Heather's getting better' sounds like the sort of thing you say about a child in a remedial class. I took MV's comment that she could get a job on lots of radio stations to mean that 'there are lots of shitty broadcasters out there, and she isn't the worst'.   

Art said he wanted fellow BellGabbers to give Heather advice. Perhaps Bateman? I might suggest something along the lines of 'you are in the wrong job'. Putting Heather behind a mic long enough does not automatically turn her into a tolerable broadcaster, any more than attaching wheels and pedals to my grandmother transforms her into a bicycle. The fact is, even when she did the GabCast she wasn't very memorable, but it wasn't worth pointing out. When you regularly do a show with someone like b_dubb (who seemed to make it a point of professional pride to fuck a goat every single show) then anyone is going to look good in comparison. You could stick Terri Schiavo in there under those circumstances and she'd look like Rush Limbaugh. Yet, Art never had any doubts that this woman â€" totally inexperienced â€" could take over a show in an area of broadcasting that is notoriously difficult to make interesting these days. Preferred above someone like Howard Hughes, who has been doing that sort of show off and on for nearly two decades. If you can't get Art to answer those questions then you failed to do a proper job. You never know, he may have made a good stab at telling us what we are missing. Instead, all we got was that 'despite what you may have heard, she's doing a great job'. In other words, 'the audience doesn't like her, but I do. So there!'

I think the overall tone of the show was that Art's over it but he doesn't want to say it in so many words. There's no point criticising the man, but I wish he'd be a little straighter with the listeners and stop treating us like babies. He was also being disingenous about the show - saying that she should make it her own - if Heather needs all the bumper music to be pre-approved. The only reason that most people are continuing their subscriptions is simple inertia at the moment. If Art categorically stated that he was done with the show then we would see a sharp drop. He knows this, but is being duplicitous. This isn't adult behaviour. Neither is it smart to claim that Heather is 'carrying the network' in a dig at Hoagland. If Art announced tomorrow that he was quitting for good we'd soon see how capable Heather is of carrying anything. Art sounded lucid but he has also shown some deplorable judgement over the last months. Having the lunatic Leo Ashcraft fouling the airwaves with his news segment shows us that Art's sense of what is good on the air is defective these days, to say the least. His fussiness over basically irrelevant details like sub-optimal audio quality is another example of the way that his priorities have become skewed over the years. He was always a bit of an audio nut but this has developed into a neurosis.

So, we learned that Art's reason for staying off the air is, at best, thin. But we never found out why a total amateur is good enough to follow a broadcast legend. If he'd been challenged on this then he might have been able to put up a good case. But he wasn't, so we are none the wiser. As it is, I don't think many people would have been encouraged to retain their subscriptions, let along bring in new ones. It's not mean-spirited to ask these question, and it doesn't have to come across in a bad way, so it was an opportunity lost.

Amen, Brother.

Quote from: zeebo on February 03, 2016, 03:09:56 PM
I remember those hazy days, brimming with excitement for the new show's potential when Art would show up in gabcast chats, and the non-compete contract was expiring, and a flurry of hopes and ideas were swirling around.  I never would have missed an Art appearance during that time.  Now I just kinda feel like, whatever.

It's called being jerked around...be nice if we all learned from it. 

Quote from: morgana213 on February 03, 2016, 07:43:14 PM
Hey Delanee.  Glad you posted.  Is your avatar Sammy Terry...THE Sammy Terry?  Love it!

Sammy Terry was my first love.  I was ten when I chased his convertible down Washington St during a parade.  My mother was really mad when I decorated my bedroom like his set. 

None of you will know who I am because I rarely post.  But I love to come here and read.  I'm an old lady (according to my sons who are also vaguely lovable) and I've been an Art Bell fan since the 90s.  I've been thrilled every time Art came back and bummed every time he left.  But the world keeps spinning and we all have stuff to do and bills to pay.  And the trolls are out there (you know who you are).  The people who really creep me out are the ones who are going to continue to worship at Art's feet no matter what.  He could record one long juicy fart and play it on MITD for three hours every night and they would tune in just to find out if he's coming back.  Oh, wait a minute.  They already have one of those on Coast.  Anyway, all is not lost.  I found out about BellGab from Art's show.  And, yes, he loves you all while you're worshipping and not so much when you're not.  There are some intelligent, creative, special people on this forum.  Some of you are already doing podcasts and I'm listening.  Trolls, you guys should go out and create...write books or something.  Make something special in your lives and bring it to the forum.  Art's not going to be around forever.  Will I be listening to the GabCast with Art?  You bet.  Of course I will.  And I'm a little psychic.  If there's bullshit, I'll be able to smell it from here. And I'll definitely be reading as long as your guys are posting.     

Quote from: starrmtn001 on January 23, 2016, 08:59:50 PM
Well, aren't you an arrogant, narcissistic, somovabitch.

And tired, too, with all that swirling around and pointing at himself in the mirror.  The point could have been made in 25 words or less. 

Quote from: GravitySucks on January 06, 2016, 09:16:48 AM
Bateman's shows are really good. He is reworking his website, and promises a new series of podcasts soon.

What's the name of Bateman's website?

Quote from: HMC on November 21, 2013, 06:29:59 PM
BTW, I don't know if you will, but I hope you continue with the idea of a Art Bell streaming network. I know you can't host right now, but I'd totally support any shows on it.

What a great idea.  I'm in.

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