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Quote from: scentless on September 06, 2016, 04:12:53 AM
Yes, that’s right. A forum about a show that no longer exists that is now a forum about baking bread.

AND, such a nice recipe for a rich dough it is! I'm going to drag out the KA and make it too! while I'm listening to a show late in the evening. No, not THAT one.

Quote from: Daggit on September 12, 2016, 11:52:08 PM
I do sometimes wonder if Art has ever listened to a whole show of Midnight in the D with Heather Wade. It's just god awful. What a way to piss your legacy away.

MAYBE, in some twisted way- that's why. He wanted to go with that.

Quote from: Gassy Man on December 12, 2015, 03:42:05 PM
It's nice that she has friends here, but she really isn't very good.  She is bright and reasonably confident, but by itself, neither is enough to make listening to her for three hours palatable.  Her voice and delivery, to me, aren't professional, and the personality that comes through is too often sardonic or even a bit smarmy.  It's like having a celebrity's kid take over the show for a night -- they're kind of familiar with how to do it, but in the end, you know they got the job because of nepotism rather than talent.  All that said, there's no reason she couldn't develop her skills, though she's had months since the last time to try.  She's probably smart enough to read the criticism and see where she could improve.  But the place to do this is elsewhere, such as the local college station.

True, that, maybe she would be good listening served up with the morning cheerios.

Quote from: norland2424 on April 01, 2016, 11:46:16 PM
grab an apple

yeah I've see...  heard of that trick.

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on March 31, 2016, 04:02:21 AM
You know, it never struck me as odd back then but when I see them all strung together like that it kinda does. I guess he just had such long legs that it was easier for him just to do that. Ha! 

He's a Space Cowboy and his chair is a horse.

Quote from: doctor weird on March 24, 2016, 01:06:00 AM
I was cringing the entire show

Be careful, didn't your mama ever tell you if you did that long enough your face might stay stuck that way?

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on March 24, 2016, 04:49:36 AM
Ok, I know this next one will be controversial down South because of her activism work for PETA but God damn, this lesbian has to be one of the world's greatest singers, period.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv_AiKicHnM

Lang is wonderful, that's such a great song and her version of Hallelujah (though not country) done live is unforgettable.

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on March 24, 2016, 05:11:52 AM
Yes, ashtrays used to be heavy duty objects that you could actually kill someone with back in the day 

I bet this stuff will start being more collectible now. Mid-century is becoming quite a thing now 

Could be. They looked great on large floor speakers with some kind of doily over the top. One is solid red glass, another sort of beer color/topaz and one kind of an avocado green. They're about 5 inches tall and 5 wide. Had an orange one but it broke. I also have an etched glass rectangular one which is over 1/2 beverage coaster and the rest of it is for cigs- I believe its from the 40s. I also have a thick square one that looks pre 60s typical bar ashtray and a thicker glass than any I've seen and obviously pre-plastic.

Quote from: Paper*Boy on March 23, 2016, 12:22:35 AM
Lately it's as if he just says whatever seems expedient at the time.  People don't like her, so Art decided to say she's getting better every day.  It doesn't mean anything.

About the 'COPD', anyone else think it odd he'd continue to use the photo of himself smoking as an avitar?

Not really. I stopped smoking around 2000 and still have ashtrays from the 70s and other ashtrays purchased or given to me up to the time I quit. I finally have all but one ashtray out of my sight now. Should  sell them - they are large moon shaped thick glass.  One gets attached to the old ashtrays- and I kept and use my unicorn cover for Bic lighter too. I guess it's like keeping outgrown clothes.

Quote from: AvDaBr on January 04, 2016, 12:09:28 AM
George said on Friday that his contract was good for another five years I thought.  We should have men on Mars by then I'm assuming.

As for Connie, that's pretty standard.  She's way too chatty.

The first show C2C show I'd listened to in ever so long- Connie was on. I thought she was related to Heather, but Connie regularly has a twang . After that whew a breath of fresh air, George Knapp was hosting. Now, the problem with ousting George is- WHO is fit and young enough, to take his place? However for now, first things first. Lets not spoil the fun.

Quote from: PKaiser on February 25, 2016, 10:54:59 AM
Thanks GS!  How cool you were the first to welcome me here!

I do have a question for all of you though: why is it that nobody has ever mentioned (as far as I can tell) that Art bell is a GEMINI, and that could be the reason he goes off half-cocked and cuts his nose off to spite his face time after time like he does?  CLASSIC Gemini reactions he has, imho.

I lived with a Gemini (June 13) for four years when I was 18-22 and swore I would never even date one again and I didn't until I was 47, and I married her!  Lol!  NO OFFENSE GEMINIS! 

Just curious what you all think because I've read all kinds of reasons/excuses for his snap decisions here for the past four months but not the astrological one.

Welp, it's as good a reason as any- I've given it consideration myself. Having been married to one for awhile, had a Gemini dad , and if that weren't torture enough, despite my vows to NEVER get involved with one again , saw a man for nearly 10 years who was a Gemini (he'd never commit). No Geminis in my life now, except, come think of it. Art Bell, radio persona, who is NOT on the radio, who is as Gemini as can be. hmm- anyone into astrology done a chart on him- or will do one for us here? 

Quote from: DarKPenguiN on February 22, 2016, 08:01:15 PM
There could be a ton of reasons but I can only speculate.

Art had planned on doing this from a couple years back, right? perhaps he hadnt a  clue about the COPD at the time. The network itself and its success was totally contingent on the Art bell name and without Art there was little to no chance to break into terrestrial imho and expand.

-In this scenario Art was helping to get the network going and was going to use his legacy to break into mainstream radio while staring to promote other hosts and shows while having a slow exit strategy to acclimate the stations to the slow change. Something happened (the big ?) that changed things and hastened the exit.

All we have is speculation but honestly this answers alot of the questions I have and explains alot of the shit. I can even...Kinda...Understand the stalker story in this instance but i'm not going to go into the reasons why it could have been an advantageous way to exit.

personally, I think we very close to the truth right now. Not that my opinion means anything except to me but I hold my own opinion in great esteem so thats my story and i'm sticking with it.

I don't know. I just don't know. I've seen copd take 2 people- but they definitely had a clue, long fair warning. Perhaps it would have been best if Art had just started a school for budding talk show hosts, instead of 1. taking on Sirius and 2. doing MITD with all the hype. But sure! He could have started MITD with a variety show of different hosts easily - I think that would have done well - all with paranormal interest of course. Had that been his plan at any point , it'd have been on its way by now, instead of pushing his legacy off this way. Well, just a dream, right? It was all just a dream.

Quote from: paladin1991 on January 26, 2016, 01:31:45 AM
Bro!  If I down 4-6 tabs of melatonin and half a bottle of red wine....Dreams!  Vivid.  Clear.  Sometimes too fucking real.  Helps with my writers block. 

(Take note SciFiGuy)

How much in each tablet? Have you tried the sublingual tablets? l I may try it- without the wine.

Quote from: Robert on December 12, 2015, 02:20:30 PM
Her delivery's not outstanding, but that's only 1 part of the job.  Apparently she was her own producer for this installment.  Working the board & taking unscreened phone calls is not trivial.  Possibly they can hire someone else as the "talent", but she's not very lacking in that quality as I judge it from just that installment.

An example of someone whose show I liked even though the on-mike guy was awful was Steve Mahlzberg.  I couldn't stand the guy, but his producer must've been a genius to get such interesting guests, often when they'd be in high demand because of a news hook.  Similarly I liked C2C for years while Noory slid because they had interesting guests, but that's rarely true either now.  People have complained that the quality of guests on MITD hasn't been so good.  It may be that the subject matter's been nearly completely plumbed, & there's not that much good left out there -- or maybe not enough to support both MITD & C2C.  I've found most of the MITD guests at least somewhat interesting.

All the MORE true then, that the host him/herself must be as charismatic as possible,  if the subject matter has been plumbed as you say, and the host must know some of a wide variety of subject matter in order to be able to discuss (IMO) .

Quote from: ItsOver on December 15, 2015, 10:23:48 AM
I'm in.  I'm not cancelling.  $5.00 a month isn't going to break me, Heather is better than Noory, and Art's going to be back, as long as Keith and DMDN can hold it together in the interim, so I figure he can use every dollar.

~I decided on $10.00 max donation to stay subscribed to the time slot long enough to see if Art comes around enough to make it worth it. - And I think too much "come in unannounced" as he has said he might do will go over like a thud. We haven't seen him since that first time though have we.... I think Heather could do well on morning traffic A.M. radio perhaps, if she wanted to.

Quote from: henge0stone on December 19, 2015, 10:22:11 PM
You really think 50 terrestrial radio affiliates in 5 months (and btw it was technically a podcast) is anything to scoff at? Most internet radio shows aren't on any terrestrial radio stations. How do you explain that they were in the middle of negotiations to get even more stations? And was it even 5 months? I remember the message Art left on spreading the word wasn't right at the start of the show so it might even be less than 5 months.

I have no idea where everyone gets this idea that art is this big lair who fabricates stories left and right and leaves false police reports.

~I do wonder at why so many haters on Art have waited and loved for his shows and his straightforward questioning approach to subjects, and reality yet - I agree with you- seem to have to believe that he spends an awful LOT of time making stuff up first in his head, and then to his listeners. I guess some guys- have all the "luck" but if this terrible "creative bashing" such as I saw on his own website is from listener "friends" and show afficionados I have to cringe even more at what the enemies can do.

Quote from: Echo on December 15, 2015, 09:50:49 PM
I would listen to John B Wells over listening to Heather do another TIMEHICK interview.

The thing is, JB is almost entirely political- and Right wing politics at that (thinly disguised as open minded, for certain guests)... with rants that betray his real believes at the start of his show. He does shows on nutrition and religion as well. He disdains and voices it often- his dislike of "WOO WOO" shows, so I doubt those liking what is on DMDN (Heather)  would find JB a replacement. An addition perhaps but the shows are entirely different. JB does subdued Alex Jones type "discourse".

Quote from: Skunk Ape on October 19, 2015, 02:56:36 PM
I listened to the show (maybe there's been more than one) with RCH.
It just doesn't have the energy that he was able to have on C2C.
One of the more memorable shows from JBW's stint at C2C was when he interviewed Robert Plumlee about his involvement in the Iranâ€"Contra affair.

It was the Christian preachy stuff that put me off of him in general though.

~ Agreed.

Quote from: Royal_Tenenbaum on December 19, 2015, 01:08:35 AM
Other than 2 good trolls, complete shit.

It seemed a very contrived show.

Quote from: Royal_Tenenbaum on December 19, 2015, 01:14:30 AM
I want to strangle this fuck that insulted truckers and "good old boys". What a hypocrite. This is 3 hours of well wishes not radio. I might as well go spend three hours at a Hallmark store reading "good job" cards, praying for something to happen.

~I feel for you. It was farewell Art, Heather is wonderful and such a brave girl and OH Art will pop in maybe, when he's not playing in his studio doing oh so many other things, hang on listener, cuz you never know when THAT will happen so listen every night and pay your fiver every month just for the possibility. I hear blatantly both heart tugging and chain yanking of the listeners going on.

Quote from: Darth Sandra on December 19, 2015, 01:20:42 AM
The odd thing is that people didn't suck up to Art this much during his open lines.

That is because his show didn't depend on callers "sucking up".

Quote from: The King of Kings on December 19, 2015, 01:47:38 AM

Art bailed when he realized this network, his show, and it's business practice wasn't going anywhere.

Why would Art bail on the show that was keeping the network AFLOAT almost on its own? After all, Keith did the Network to have a place FOR Art (and this got Art BACK on AM radio) - and RCH too! Those 2 shows made it a winner. You know, I have to wonder if Keith and Art will even be talking to each other when all is said and done.

Quote from: bateman on December 19, 2015, 01:52:14 AM
Has every one of these callers had a fucking frontal lobotomy?

"When you're telling these little stories, here's a good idea. Have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener."

~But! It takes that lobotomy (and perhaps another drink of courage) to be able to sit and wait 2 hrs to get in on Open Lines.