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Quote from: Stardust Ancestor on December 20, 2015, 10:23:40 PM
Snoory dates a shit ton. He gets free access to paranormaldate and conspiracydate sites.

Snoory sure treats his fans better.

Quote from: Azzerae on December 20, 2015, 05:19:47 PM
My sentiments exactly.

Think about it, when they met, Art was retired.

Although Art says she's supportive, I don't believe this is the case.

I mean, he also said George gets it. It seems Art is either a poor judge of character or is just not very discerning (in some ways).

I think it comes as such a shock to some when this occurs - and folks dawn on it - because of the simple reason he's so good at what he does as a talk show host.

We are mesmerized, and that magical blanket of wonder he casts over us all with his words - the very thing that makes a rational person entertain extraterrestrial existence and other anomalies - and we forget he is a human being with flaws and issues and hang ups, just like any of his fans.

Art has not cancelled his show for good, but right now, it is for the best.

Airyn Bell, the Yoko Ono of paranormal radio.

And that's my cue to turn off what used to be Midnight in the Desert.

Quote from: (Not) George Noory on December 12, 2015, 12:34:33 AM
Well, it looks like it's back to listening to Jorch butcher the English language and human thought-process.

At least Snoory stays the course.

Quote from: PathoJen on December 12, 2015, 12:28:02 AM
maybe he is, maybe he isn't. Who knows what's going on.

Asia is in the fetal position in her room as we speak. Airyn must be pissed that Art is doing this.

Quote from: kingotnw on December 12, 2015, 12:25:09 AM
I seriously don't understand why we aren't talking to Art.

I seriously don't understand why Art is hosting the show. He's putting his family at risk.

"The Islam." Nope, won't be able to listen to her.

Quote from: kingotnw on December 12, 2015, 12:19:13 AM
Art offered to take calls and we are wasting time on this idiot. No offense intended. Usually I suspend disbelief, but Art offered to take calls and instead we are listening to a fake time traveler who isn't even good at telling his fake story!!! Blowing that off is pissing me if to the tenth degree.

Yeah, this sucks.

This is just too damned strange right now.

Quote from: kingotnw on December 12, 2015, 12:06:31 AM
He's hosting right now. He even just offered to go to his studio. This is so weird. I don't know what to make of it.

As for this guy.... She has Art on. Take calls. Please. Can we be done with the guest and just have our last hour with Art...

For a guy who is scared to be on the radio nowadays, he sure doesn't seem to be scared on the radio now. Isn't he putting his family at risk right now??

Quote from: JamesMcDonald on December 12, 2015, 12:00:22 AM
Yeah, like I said, he was shot at.  What would you do if you were shot at (twice) and some weirdo was threatening your family?

I guess I'd cancel my radio show.

Quote from: JamesMcDonald on December 11, 2015, 11:57:10 PM
I know about the "pattern", asshole.  But I believe Art was shot at.  Now why don't you go fuck off?  k?

That's kind of you.

Quote from: JamesMcDonald on December 11, 2015, 11:51:18 PM
Well, the point is, if you really are a fan then you wouldn't think he would sink so low that he would do the things you're saying he may have done.

Figure it out, Sparky.

Well, Sparky, Art has a pattern of this type of behavior. It's not like this is the first time. Maybe in your world being a fan equals blind loyalty, but that is not the case in mine. Sparky.

Quote from: Zetaspeak on December 11, 2015, 11:44:31 PM
That is something that I think hasn't been talked enough. The affiliates who took a chance on an independent like  Art Bell against the long lasting C2C who has a big giant syndicated media giant behind it. I think we all want non-corporate radio and radio hosts out there, and here it was and it all went downhill pretty fast. It didn't just ruin Art's reputation but any of these stations taking a chance on somebody who doesn't have the corporate machine behind them 

Excellent point...Art's really queered himself this time. First with Sirius, now with WABC (not exactly a tiny station) and the Dallas affiliate that had him for what, two nights or so?

Quote from: JamesMcDonald on December 11, 2015, 11:39:49 PM
What I find fascinating is all you rejects calling yourselves "fans" of Art Bell yet at the same time you proclaim him devious and unethical enough to use his own young daughter as an excuse to quit his radio show.  Get a grip.

I am a fan. At the same time, I have a right to be angry if I feel that Art has an on-going habit of treating his fans like crap by means of his capricious behavior. He does not have carte blanche to treat his fans line this, nor should his most loyal of fans be expected to tolerate said treatment no matter what. Respect has to be earned and maintained and I'm not in the habit of giving mine away for free.

Quote from: kingotnw on December 11, 2015, 11:37:32 PM
Thank god Heather had a studio ready to go at her place.

If this story is true then I'm sorry for him, but I seriously doubt it. This is just all too convenient. The news that was just read upset me. Unite as Time Travelers (paying customers) and stand up together against the terrorists threatening both the country and Art Bell. Seriously?? Can we maybe not try to sell me something tonight? Can we maybe not use the fear and anger over terrorism all over the world as a vehicle to hold subscribers???

WABC must be out of their mind pissed off right now.

Well said, all of it.

Quote from: Virginia Gentleman on December 11, 2015, 11:32:10 PM
She said at the beginning of tonight's show that this was something she's always dreamed of doing.

Aha, so SHE is the one who's been shooting at Art! Her plan has worked!

Add me to the list of skeptics. Although I am an Art Bell fan/listener, I am by no means a proponent of conspiracy theories. However, in this case, I'll make an exception. In my way of thinking, the conspiracy is that Art got tried of the show and needed a good and dramatic excuse to end things.

However, not just ANY excuse would do. It would have to be dramatic, as I said, as well as sympathy grabbing. Making his family the target of repeated threats, to the point where his young daughter is reduced to cowering in her bedroom, was pretty much the best way he could go. How could any of us be so cold and selfish as to not sympathize with him? How could we not support him in this decision? After all...HIS FAMILY IS AT RISK OF BEING MURDERED!

Perhaps that first, fateful night there were some shots fired close to his property. Maybe the shots were not aimed at his property but still sounded close. Maybe shots were indeed fired at his studio. Who knows for sure? Assuming this actually happened the first night, does it seem at all plausible that, once a week or so, someone out there has been making repeated excursion to the vicinity of Art's property in a repeated (and repeatedly failing) attempt to assassinate him? Of course it's not plausible. And, why would anyone want to kill him so desperately in the first place? Because he has an internet radio show that talks about "hubrids," witchcraft with a chick named Tish and pot vendors from Colorado? Why not target Noory, instead? He talks about much of the same subject matter and has a larger audience. If some government operatives were really scared of "the truth getting out," isn't Noory the more logical target?

And back to Noory. Some have posited that Noory may, in one way or another, be behind these ongoing attempts against Art's life. Really? Or that that nobody Ashcraft, whom Art fired, is so disgruntled that his former boss and family must die. Again, really? This stuff is harder to believe than anything Madman Markham ever said, and that guy has a major screw loose. (He's so phony that I never found him very entertaining, by the way. But I digress.)

Speaking of loose screws, I think it simply comes down to this: Art is old, he doesn't have the energy he thought he had and he's done. Simple as that. As well, I figure he was getting frustrated with the quality of his guests. I mean, how many times a week does that "hubrid" guy Dr. Jacobs have to be on? After all, a lot of the guests he's had on lately have been pretty below par. I assume that the frustration of having not-so-great guests mixed with the fact that, at 70, he's just not the man he used to be and, well, it was time to pull the plug on this one, too. It must have been the easier, more logical thing for him to do instead of try to improve the show. Instead, just give up. Again.

Not only is Art "the guy with the bad back," but he's also the guy with the bad record. Art will deny it up and down, but he is a serial retirer and he is a drama queen. His inconsistent (or consistent, as the case may be) coming-and-going ever since giving C2C over to Noory over a decade ago is a pattern. It's pattern of him not being able to make up his mind on what he wants to do with his life and we the fans have suffered due to his capriciousness all the while.

Now, I am not an Art Bell hater. I am an Art Bell lover. I am heartbroken over this. But that is precisely why I am angry, as well. I feel like I love Art much more than he loves me, or any of his fans. I really do feel that he thinks he can toy with us like this and get away with it. And why not...we always tell him we support his decisions and we always come back for more, should he temporarily come back at any given time. In pulling these kinds of stunts - and yes, I do feel this is merely a stunt, as I stated above - he demonstrates a rather callous indifference to his exceedingly loyal fan base and, well, I feel we deserve much better and have deserved much better for a really, really long time.

I hope Art stays off the air for good. It would be utterly ridiculous at this point for him to attempt any type of a comeback after this. It would be too little too late and just YET ANOTHER set up to let down his fans again. Enough is enough. Art, if you have ANY substantive respect for your fans, I really hope that this is the final hooray. We don't deserve any more of this.

What is the origin of "Jorch?"

I have been meaning to ask this: What does "pounding package" mean?

Anyone else as incredulous as me?

Quote from: Barfly on September 28, 2015, 11:45:58 PM
Cheesehead Packer fan, i hate her already

Inarticulate callers like this are painful to listen to.

Semen increase?

No reverse ejaculation, Charlie?

Quote from: Robert on September 21, 2015, 06:49:20 PM
Yeah: me.  What changed that makes MITD available on "the same radio"?  Has there been some technical change?  The last I heard was as above, that the sticking point was total time for ad insertions.  If we're supposed to phone stations to ask them to carry the program, what are we supposed to tell them that they didn't know previously?

Exactly. I'm not clear as to what is different now. Yes, I get there is a satellite element now, but it does seem that stations already could have carried the show if they wanted to.

Quote from: kingotnw on September 21, 2015, 06:47:23 PM
4000 affiliates right out of the gate is INSANE!! I can't believe anyone thinks this is anything less than amazing news!

It's not that. It has the potential to go to that many. But this is what I'd like to know...are there stations already on board.

Quote from: trostol on September 21, 2015, 06:42:43 PM
i havent had a radio in years lol gonna have to scout about to see who would be willing to carry it here

I'll still listen on my CC WiFi radio at home, but it would be nice if a station here in San Diego picks him up so I can listen in my car when I drive at night.

Quote from: Art Bell on September 21, 2015, 06:36:51 PM
No there will not be more Commercials, the stream and Time Traveler's will remain as is.

Art

Thank you, Art. This is good news.

73s from KG6KLG!

Quote from: trostol on September 21, 2015, 06:34:34 PM
think this may shed a lil light

http://nexusbroadcast.com/affiliate-terms-and-sign-up/

i am just wondering if when Oct 1 rolls around does the ability to listen via DMRN and TuneIn go away or not

Some light is indeed shed. Looks like he's not willing to have more commercials. I wonder how viable that will be to traditional stations...

Is anyone else a little unclear as to what all of this means?

1. I'm not sure what the satellite aspect of this means. It seems to me that if radio stations wanted to pick up the show before, that the could. And some did. Now the show is open to 4000 stations? I suppose it wasn't before?

2. Now that the show is apparently easier to be carried on literally thousands of stations, does that mean there will be more commercials? Art said he would not change the show around to fit the needs of commercial radio stations. Does this mean he has changed his mind? I'm suspecting that, if this is the case, Art is sacrificing the current format in order to get the show heard by more ears. This suggests to me that he is not satisfied by the relatively small pool of listeners who call the show with some frequency.

3. I know that Art wants us to call our local stations to ask them to carry the show, but are there any stations already lined up at the present time to start carrying the show next month? In other words, is this satellite thing (which I do not understand) a compete shot in the dark or what?

Any insight on this...either from Art or anyone in the know...would be appreciated.