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I have to say, it does add a new level of guilty pleasure entertainment seeing how much Art will allow a caller to try to rectify the situation before he throws his hands up. Add on callers who decide they heard Art talking about sterile people and despite being corrected continue on their topic in awkward detail and you've got yourself a show. Listening with earbuds though is almost playing Russian roulette with callers and their ever changing volume.

Quote from: Evil Twin Of Zen on July 30, 2015, 03:04:21 PM
why do you think that skype and callers are an issue?

Of course this isn't a blanket statement but I'd say at least 50% of the calls seem to annoy him either over the quality of the actual Skype call or the actual caller. I understand that people freeze up and get scatterbrained on the air but add in unpredictable call quality and the whole turn off your device song and dance, it seems that portion of the show is getting to him. I would be curious as to see the numbers regarding how much show time is used explaining to people how to use their devices. Maybe Skype isn't the answer here.

I was just curious to hear from people who have followed him for a while as to if you think he's preparing for another satellite radio incident.

I am fairly new to the Art Bell scene. I picked up the show while having my Satellite radio subscription. Part of my question could be perceived as a little insulting to some but I can't think of any other way to word it after giving it a decent amount of thought.

In all of your opinion, how much longer do you think Art will actually keep doing this. I may be reading into things a bit much but since I've started listening, there seems to be a bit of irritation in his voice. I don't know much on the history of his style of broadcast but just going by all of the Facebook posts and the dramatic roller coaster leading to this, I just wonder how much longer he will do this. I don't mean to insult anyone reading this but I feel if anything, Skype and the callers are going to drive him out of broadcasting.

What are your thoughts on this?

I've emailed Keith, gave him all of the info to do this but he doesn't seem too keen on it. Here's how I handle it via iPhone:
I use the App PhoneDrive's browser to navigate to the downloads page
From there I copy the old school "right click to save" link by pressing the link and holding until copy pops up
After that I open the phone drive browser's downloads link and manually add the link to download the file to the apps storage.
Then I close the browser and open phone drive's downloads folder
I swipe to edit the file and change the extension on the end of the file to .mp3
Once the file shows as MP3, I select the file, perform an "open in" and open with RSS Radio
From there you can assign it to a podcast folder and play on your phone


It's a horrible inconvenience and takes trial and error but it works