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Quote from: JesusJuice on February 05, 2016, 02:55:01 AM
Gary / Mad Martian just joined the site.

http://bellgab.com/index.php/topic,9256.msg706636.html#msg706636

Here we go.

Quote from: Étouffée on February 05, 2016, 02:50:29 AM
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Yes, I shouldn't go too far. That's the base, but they needed new people mixed with the old, and an eye for the fact that it's not 1995 anymore in regards to the paranormal. More science is needed, but we got less than what we had in the 90's.

Quote from: Darth Sandra on February 05, 2016, 02:46:05 AM
That'd require Art to stop being a dramatic attention whore who is trying to create sympathy because he heard a fire cracker.

Would also require dropping the tired, ancient, stupid paranormal guests he was fucking around with night after night for months.

Quote from: ShayP on February 05, 2016, 02:46:24 AM
Art?

Yeah, like in July.

Quote from: trostol on February 05, 2016, 02:44:37 AM
what i tell you SciFi

You should have just blow darted me with sedatives at the beginning of the show.

Art should have been interviewing this guest instead of the stupid paranormal bullshit.

Richard gets his dream guest and then spends half the interview talking about himself.

Quote from: BellBoy on February 05, 2016, 02:33:24 AM
coke and bong-hits.

That's how I prep for listening to his show, so it makes sense, but he's got something else going on.

Hoagland sounds like he snorted coke as show prep.

Quote from: zeebo on February 05, 2016, 02:26:13 AM
From mysterious stars Burke doesn't know about to American politics ... Wtf is Hoagie doing?

Frantically babbling.

LOL Richard goes through all that and he gets "so what?"

Hoagland, shut up about the megastructures. He doesn't know about the story yet.

Quote from: trostol on February 05, 2016, 02:05:30 AM
awww they removed woodwrights shop from late night pbs

I said that when they pulled James Burke.

Fuck the democratic debate Richard, get to Burke and then just shut up and say nothing for two hours and let him just say whatever he wants.

Quote from: trostol on February 05, 2016, 01:58:29 AM
dunno..but i would be highly interested in that

Would need to be Paul Bettany and Russell Crowe voicing.

Quote from: norland2424 on February 05, 2016, 01:53:47 AM
early braaps here lol

Batfish Hootass is on in 4 minutes. Buurkes!

Quote from: K_Dubb on February 05, 2016, 01:46:32 AM
Cool!  My grandfather and great uncle Alf worked on building the Christian Radich at the shipyard in Sandefjord before the war.

Jeez, hi K, where have you been? Wandering the fjords?

Quote from: (Sandman) Logan-5 on February 05, 2016, 01:39:13 AM
FIFY   

LOL, the Batfish Hootass lurks in the data . . .

Quote from: pate on February 05, 2016, 01:36:54 AM
heh, Coca-Cola at the moment.  I am saving the Beam for James Burke later (want to start that one listening sober for sure, and drink accordingly as the potential Hoaxian meltdown dictates.)

I'm actually excited for James Burke. Been a while since I've been excited for a Hoagland show.

Quote from: Ciardelo on February 05, 2016, 01:18:16 AM
MV has been handing out pardons left and right lately. Maybe he should let him come back too.

It'll last all of two days. He'll just text wall the Hoagland threads and not answer anyone that says anything to him.

Quote from: pate on February 05, 2016, 01:25:20 AM
21 if you count the "unfinished" one that was published after O'Brian died (it essentially ends on a cliff-hanger like the 20 before, heh).

I have read the entire series at least 3 times.  They are engrossing, O'Brian did some serious research and captures the language of the era really well, in (correct my terms) exposition and dialogue. 

Yeah, I didn't count the unfinished last one. But I agree, they are truly engrossing novels. He gets all the little historical details about the ships right too.

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The movie was a sort of mash-up of 2-3 of the novels, still a good movie.  I wish they'd make a sequel.

It's #1 on my list for movies that I wish they would make a sequel for.

Quote from: GravitySucks on February 05, 2016, 01:12:50 AM
We have a pretty cool one berthed here in Galveston. The Elissa.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elissa_(ship)

Indeed. The sad ones are ones like this one, a historically important veteran of the battle of Trafalgar built in 1800 that survived until 1949, when they towed it out and blew it up.



Or the USS Hartford, Admiral Farragut's flagship from the civil war survived until 1956 when the southern democrats blocked restoration because they didn't want to save some "dayum yankee gunboat".

Quote from: trostol on February 05, 2016, 01:10:17 AM
might be part of why i like Master and Commander(need to read the book) and less part of why i like Black Sails...i would say Horatio Hornblower but he was off his ship..a lot

Master and Commander is a brilliant movie. Loved it. The books are great, there are like 20 in that series.

Quote from: pate on February 05, 2016, 01:05:42 AM
I was hoping it would be an age of sail ship.

I have some interest in ships that old. Currently all of the survivors up until 1860 are restored. There were some serious heartbreaking losses though in the 20th century.

Quote from: trostol on February 05, 2016, 01:00:57 AM
yeah...so we shall see...but i think this needs to be the shit or get off the pot moment

Yeah, considering it's been sitting there rusting for decades.

Quote from: trostol on February 05, 2016, 12:52:23 AM
yup..but there are some buts with it

It seems to just be an option, rather than a buy, while they do their feasibility studies. This has happened before, I think Norwegian bought it for that purpose years ago, but it wasn't feasible.

Oh wow, it was bought by a cruise line. They're bringing back into passenger service.

Quote from: MV on February 05, 2016, 12:39:46 AM
well, when you hear him talk about all of the obnoxious phone calls he's received over the years, it's not hard to understand why he might not take it as seriously as any of the rest of us would.

I agree, and if it sounded like a kid, well I think I'd probably dismiss it too.

Quote from: MV on February 05, 2016, 12:27:14 AM
haha, goddamnit.  i knew something was left out.

one question i wanted him to answer was about the "documenting" the phone call with the police rather than filing an actual report.  i kept forgetting to ask it.  just as it would come back to me, i'd get sidetracked.  oh well.

You sir are going to get a sternly worded complaint letter from Freyja over that one, no doubt.

Personally, I think he just wanted a record of it having happened. Seems to make sense, even if it's just a crank call as he said he suspects.

Quote from: MV on February 05, 2016, 12:11:45 AM
sorry man, didn't record that.

When you asked him if he liked the products he endorsed, I think you should have asked him about the Earth Handle or the human waste chili maker.