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Quote from: K_Dubb on June 02, 2018, 10:27:07 PM
As a moralist,

Whoa, hang on, I never said I was a moralist: I said I was a moral absolutist.

What's the difference?  A "moralist" is defined as:

QuoteA person who teaches or promotes morality.

I don't have anything to teach; can't think of anything I'd care to promote, either.  I used the term "moral absolutist" because that was the only phrase I could think of to define the way I live: by choosing a set of values and not doing deals with myself as to why I am going to ignore them "just this one time" because I am faced with a boss, business deal, or other proposition that comes into conflict with them.

That is all.  I am not here to sell anything and I'm certainly not here to try and steer around someone else's life; steering my own around is quite enough to satisfy me.

Quote from: K_Dubb on June 02, 2018, 10:27:07 PM
perhaps you can help figure out what the moral is, or at least where it is going. 

I know this is going to sound perfectly frightful, but that seems to me a perfect exercise in futility.  Not only has this affair not played out yet, but because there is a member of the Gaga Brigade involved, I have no way whatever of hoping to be able to second-guess them.  I can manage is to be half-gaga, sometimes (I'm writing this post, aren't I?) but only for a limited period.

I think we can agree that, with the way things have unfolded up to this point, half-gaga simply is not good enough to cope with any of this.

In a nutshell, I think this is going to end in a way none of us can foresee.  So while you are free to do as you wish, I don't feel the need to make the effort because I am at the point where my Sympathy Gland is completely exhausted and I don't particularly care how it turns out. *shrugs*

Quote from: K_Dubb on June 02, 2018, 10:27:07 PM
It has to be some variation of "be careful what you wish for", since the granting of her long-standing wish to be on the radio and close to Art is the single most remarkable thing about her. 

In your view.  In mine, the most remarkable thing about H. Wade is her breathtaking lack of character.  For someone who seems to have adopted the shtick of "bravely fighting through the tears," I can't say I have found her act the least convincing.

I understand fully that Art was the center of her universe.  At the same time, I have to wonder just what it was she spent the 2.5 weeks before she got fired doing.  Did she lay curled up in a corner fouling herself for the whole time?  It doesn't sound like it.  We can deduce from the fact that her cats are still alive that she fed them.  We also know she wasn't so racked with grief that she was incapable of thinking about her job.  Her now-notorious, "bash the hell out of that guest host" post:



...demonstrates that she was fully capable of thinking about both her job and her future.

Funny that.

Heather recently informed us on-air that "90 percent of everything is showing up."  Why someone who clearly enjoys being the center of attention (and, indeed, insists upon it) neglected to show up to immediately take advantage of a prime opportunity like the death of her mentor is a mystery to me. 

Perhaps I am not as well-endowed in the empathy department as I thought I was.

Quote from: K_Dubb on June 02, 2018, 10:27:07 PM
But I think as far as she can see, she's doing it right, showing up, talking about herself, rubbing shoulders with strange people like Art did, and it's mostly haters who've turned against her. 

If, by "hater," you mean someone who has tried very hard to like Heather, only for her to make it an utterly impossible task, then yes: I am a Heater Hater.

Quote from: K_Dubb on June 02, 2018, 10:27:07 PM
Does a moral have to be understood?  Cuz I don't think she's capable.

Beats me.  All I can say for certain is that I am no longer capable of rationalising spending any further time on this mess. 

Quote from: K_Dubb on June 02, 2018, 10:27:07 PM
BTW I listened to Rollye up through PBS's call, and I guess shows where regular callers talk about how their week went and their health complaints and their pets must be a thing. 

It's true that there was some emotional show-and-tell in Rollye's programme.  However, I encourage you to listen to the entire show because it can take some time for the listener to develop an appreciation of how Rollye is not dependent on the how-was-your-week exchanges to make her show work.

Heather is not only dependent on such exchanges to fill in the time, but the type of people who call into Heather's show are such colourless drabs that I found it quite impossible to care how their week went because, frankly, their lives seem to be entirely devoid of interest.  Just how many, "Want to know how cute my cat is?  I bet you can't guess!"- type stories can you hear before your ears start to bleed?

I was curious to see if Heather was going to do anything different in this latest incarnation of her irrepressibly dull and awful show.  Well, it turns out that her idea of "different" is to add a Fat Man with a Box Fanâ,,¢impression to her unconvincing Art Bell impression and call it a podcast. 

For some people that is enough.  We all have to take our pleasure where we can find it and I cannot count myself among those who take pleasure in what has quickly deteriorated into Cat Chat in the Desertâ,,¢.  It's not that I don't enjoy a rousing game of Kick the Unpleasant Half-Wit whenever one presents itself, only that my kicking leg needs a rest.

Best of luck to everyone who is sticking around to watch the bomb bay doors open on Heather's latest effort. *waves*

Quote from: spookcat on June 01, 2018, 11:43:40 PM
Does anyone know what happened to the girl that used to call into HW? Sunshine? Sunny? Something like that?

Ah, Sunshine!  Yes.  Dour bastard though I am, I feel no shame whatever in admitting to being an unabashed Sunshine partisan.  It was always a delight to hear from her. 

(I think I can say I wouldn't be entirely inconsolable if she ever found herself taking Heather's place.) 

The last time I heard her call into Heather's show, she said she planned on getting married to her boyfriend soon (I dimly recall they had been together for some years).  With any luck, she has done exactly that, thereby excluding herself from Heather Wade's Self-Pity Emporium and Lonely Hearts Club.

Many thanks for mentioning her name; I smiled when I read it.  It's hard to believe now, but at one time even Heather's show had its good points.

Quote from: K_Dubb on June 01, 2018, 10:29:39 PM
To whatever extent it's an illusion, it's at least a pay-as-you-go one,

There's no denying it: As far as scams go, this one is about as low rent as they come.  As you rightly pointed out earlier, if Heather tries her luck at the local pawn shop with her ill-gotten dreck, she's not likely to get much.

You have probably guessed by now that I am a moral absolutist who believes strongly that a departure in principle in one instance makes subsequent departures both easier and more likely.  As such, I can't quite bring myself to condone even relatively harmless scams.  Obviously that sort of all-or-nothing thinking consigns me to a permanent place on the Awkward Squad, but there you are.

Quote from: K_Dubb on June 01, 2018, 10:29:39 PM
except for that poor sap who prepaid for five years or whatever.  :

Tom From Maryland.  Yes.  600 smackers.  I was surprised he didn't offer to mail Heather his testicles as well when he phoned into J. Methhead's programme, to be honest.

Quote from: K_Dubb on June 01, 2018, 10:29:39 PM
I guess that, now that we have a reliable alternative, I can't stay mad at her for taking up the spot. 

Much like the hapless Debbie Boone, Heather knows only one song and she's gotta eat, man.  Even I can't blame her for wanting to do that, gormless, misguided, and generally unpleasant though she is.

Quote from: K_Dubb on June 01, 2018, 10:29:39 PM
Now it's just morbid curiosity to see how this particular morality play works itself out, for which I'm a little ashamed.

I suspect you might not be alone in experiencing that sensation.  If it's any help, I can't say I'm exactly bursting with pride myself when I look back at what I've written over the past few weeks and consider the time it took to write it.  Perhaps a couple of lines from Horace might console us both:

QuoteMingle a little folly with your wisdom;
a little nonsense now and then is pleasant

I'm sure the site owner will thank me to compare his website to something else, but I view spending time on BellGab as the equivalent of reading trashy novels.  It's harmless enough every once in a while, but there are other books to read, too, and each of us is given only so much time. 

Please do not feel bad about wanting to see the dénouement of this sordid little play.  Moral absolutist though I am, I realised long ago that attempting to completely smother one's bad side with one's good side can be just as unhealthy as living life the other way round.  Do too much of the former and you can fully expect to one day wake up in a cheap hotel room filled with whipped cream and midgets. 

Even BellGab is better than that.

Quote from: Aquarius on June 01, 2018, 10:25:14 PM
She's talking about the "bickering" and aftermath and how ugly it was, and she is saying people may want to call to ask her who did what, etc. But all she cares about is being on the air and being happy to do that, though her heart is so broken.

I thought it was great the way she tried to make all the trouble she has caused sound so abstract, as though none of it had anything to do with her.  It was all "other people," you understand; H. Wade was merely an innocent bystander who just happened to be in the area.  :  : :

Quote from: Aquarius on June 01, 2018, 10:25:14 PM
She's not going to cheapen this program by answering who did what, who said what, etc.

Heather believes it is somehow possible for her to cheapen her cloying, dull-witted, bottom-drawer programme?  Really?  Fascinating.

Quote from: Aquarius on June 01, 2018, 10:25:14 PM
She only wants to honor her friend, Art.

Art seems to have been rather fond of creating trainwrecks, then nipping round to the shops "for a pack of smokes." When you look at it that way, I'd say Heather really is honouring Art with all her nonsense. 

God help you if you happen to be in the immediate vicinity when she suddenly decides it's Drama Time (just like Art).

Quote from: Aquarius on June 01, 2018, 10:25:14 PM
I really can't stand the wildly artificial syrupy chirpy way she's rattling on. So much for open lines.

I confess I was fine for 90-odd minutes, then simply couldn't stand it any longer.  Being an H. Wade production, I knew going into this that things were going to be bad, but that was execrable.

Got a friend suffering from an excess of joie de vivre?  Last night's unholy offering will cure them in no time.

Here are the potential callers everyone mentioned; let's see how many call in:

Paul and Ella

Tom From Maryland

Fapping Guy (?)

Dale from Austin

Bear

Mike From Montana,

Smog (Smaug?)

Wolfman

Paul The Black-Eyed Kids Guy

Steve from California

Mark From Switzerland (long shot)

Last night's caller from Memphis???

Quote from: K_Dubb on June 01, 2018, 09:05:41 PM
The actual thing being exchanged here is attention and sympathy, and I'd venture to guess that, unlike prostitution, both parties feel elevated thereby. 

Isn't an exchange only fair if both parties are getting what they think they are getting?  If, for example, I pay a prostitute with counterfeit money that she thinks she can use to feed her kids (only to discover it's worthless when she goes to spend it) was that a fair transaction?

What you say is true as far as it goes: both Heather and her callers come away feeling elevated.  However, I don't consider it a fair transaction because while their sympathy and gifts are (more or less) real, she is giving them crocodile tears in return.

It is true that, "where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise."  And while what you say is true, but it only holds true for as long as they believe the feelings expressed by Heather were genuine.  Once they discover they were false, they will be exactly like the prostitute in the aforementioned example.

(I'm reminded of the scene in the 1934 version of Of Human Bondage when (Spoilers!  Spoilers Ahead!  Stop reading here to avoid spoilers!) Leslie Howard's character finds out that Mildred hated him all along.  If you've never seen that movie, it's worth it for just that one scene.  The point being: when you finally find out someone was shedding crocodile tears to fool you, it hurts twice as much than if they had been honest with you all along.)

On the other hand, these cretins might be exactly the group of people Abe Lincoln was referring to when he talked about being able to fool, "some of the people all of the time."  :

Quote from: K_Dubb on June 01, 2018, 09:05:41 PM
All considered, it's quite a step up for her.

In relative terms, yes, but that isn't saying much, is it?  She's still being disingenuous and lying her head off.  Even if it is in, "a good cause," a lie is still a lie.

Quote from: K_Dubb on June 01, 2018, 09:05:41 PM
She's assessed (correctly) that, since nobody paid her any attention before Art, her connection to Art is all she's got.  She lacks the intelligence, curiosity or charisma to attract more than her lonely hearts club.  The smart thing to do, however distasteful, is to ride it for as long as people are paying attention.

I'll admit it: all week long I have been trying to come up with the perfect simile for Heather and now, thanks to your post, I've got it:

QuoteShe's the Debbie Boone of the chat show circuit.

Quote from: Jocko Johnson on June 01, 2018, 07:22:02 PM
Remember the guy who always called from Sweden or Switzerland? Used to call every nite sometimes twice...he hasn't called in a long time...unless I missed him, haven't listened that much. Had a very distinctive voice.

That was Mark From Switzerland.  Chocolate coated jackboot made two recordings of him that I know of:

Girl Noory always winter in Antarctica

and

Redacted in the desert triggered by Swiss guy

I liked him, too; Heather just couldn't tolerate someone who was far smarter than her.

Quote from: K_Dubb on June 01, 2018, 07:21:29 PM
The gifts are offerings and she is an image, a sort of witchy Madonna/Lady in the Tower. 

*sigh* Yes, that probably is how her audience sees her. 

Quote from: K_Dubb on June 01, 2018, 07:21:29 PM
Notice how many callers have complaints of their own which they are allowed to mention in exchange for a bit of sympathy -- it's a transaction, and both parties seem to be satisfied. 

Prostitution works the same way, doesn't it?  Two parties get together, etc.

Quote from: K_Dubb on June 01, 2018, 07:21:29 PM
It's only our knowledge of the backstory that creates the dissonance, but it's kind of like pointing out the figure in the grotto is poorly cast cement.

I don't object at all to the business aspect of this.  Rather, it is the maudlin overtones that Heather tries to inject into the proceedings that get on my tits.  The "transaction" you mention is, in my view, like going with a prostitute and having her try to sell you a Precious Moments figurine of the two of you together as you're trying to leave.

Art is not only dead, he's been dead for six weeks, now.  Yes, I understand that Heather and 300 other people considered him their surrogate dad, but the rest of the world moved on long ago.  I found out about his death from another website where, to be honest, it wasn't much more than a footnote.

Heather is trying to milk Art's death long after its sell-by date and it's revolting; the fact that she's willing to throw a few crocodile tears into the bargain simply doesn't cut any ice with me.  From where I'm standing, the males (they're certainly not men) who call in with their emotional show-and-tell are only enabling her behaviour.

The main lesson death teaches us is: Life Goes On.  Heather needs to stop being A Dead Guy's Legacy if she ever wants to be taken seriously.  It's Time To Move On and until she puts her Big Girl Pants on and does that, I won't have any respect for her.

All this rubbish is simply an excuse for Heather not to grow up.  Enough already.

Quote from: SredniVashtar on June 01, 2018, 05:41:20 PM
I'm not sure whether Dick Emery's aunt and a Chuckle Brother really counts, but have it your way.

When you're on a nodding acquaintance with someone who once played Richard Burton's stunt codpiece, it's the sort of thing you can't help sharing.

Quote from: K_Dubb on June 01, 2018, 05:11:25 PM
While there is something archetypal about the middle-aged woman driven indoors by the cruel hand of time, seeking solace in feline companionship and hours on the phone talking about herself, I am astonished by the number of men presenting themselves as remote cavaliers to listen, and that these should be content to sit idly by murmuring appropriate noises as she opens gifts from another admirer.  It is so quaint and innocent as to make me feel unwholesome for trying to pry below the surface.   [emphasis added]

Are you sure you are on the right website?  Sounds like you're letting the side down to me

Quote from: K_Dubb on June 01, 2018, 05:11:25 PM
Chivalry is not dead in the American heartland.

All joking aside, I like to think chivalry isn't completely dead myself.  However, perhaps there is a perfectly sound reason America's Heartland is known by another name: Flyover Country.  That is, the values that are found there might now be considered irrelevant to the so-called "centers of progress" found on the coasts.

One of my complaints about the Internet is that it has made everyone too wordly-wise for their own good.  At the same time, I don't have much respect for people who allow themselves to be made fools of and I am convinced that's all Heater is doing.  I half-expect her to make a loop of, "Awwww, isn't that sweet!" so she can simply hit the button when she's doing her Fat Man with a Box Fanâ,,¢ impression.  Why waste the breath?

Chivalry only counts for something with me if it is directed at someone who is worthwhile (i.e. someone who isn't merely saying "Isn't that sweet!" in the expectation of future gifts).  I would say that there there is a fine line between being chivalrous and being gullible: Her desperate-for-female-companionship callers are, in my eyes, well across that line.

Quote from: teknoslag on June 01, 2018, 01:49:30 PM
Oh my.

Is it even worth the effort at this point?    Between the "is this mic on?" gaffes, website mishandling, and wholly counterproductive PR, the wheels seem to be coming off this clown car already and she hasn't even done a week's worth of podcasts.

Having said that, does anyone feel like knocking together a Wade-O: The LNM Edition board?  The 15 people who call in time and again can used as squares.  I can start us off with 2.5 names:

Paul and Ella (obviously!)

Tom "Cuck Me Thrice" From Maryland

And

That One Guy From Memphis who...well, I don't know what he was, exactly, but I found myself shaking my head at the utter pathos.

Regardless of whether or not we have a Wade-o board, it might be of interest to post the names of last night's callers anyway.  We are practically guaranteed to hear from the exact same ones again when Heather tries to take the Hindenburg in for another landing with the ground crew busily lighting cigarettes, torches, bonfires, and anything else to which you can apply a match.

Quote from: Father Jack on May 31, 2018, 01:07:24 PM
I notice on Heather's new website design that there is no picture of her. Is she so gruesome looking that a picture of her would scare little children? Or does she need to be incognito to avoid being mobbed by millions of rabid fans?

Asking for no one at all

A few years ago, when Heather was newly freed from the odious clutches of BellGab (Booooo! Hisssss!), a lot of her old BG posts were reposted.  From what I could gather, Heather has spent most of her adult life living as a near-recluse (if not an actual one).  In addition, she made it quite clear that cameras were anathema to her, going so far as to refuse to purchase a laptop until she could find one without a built-in webcam.

I believe that Art actually paid for her to have a session with a professional photographer.  However, if I remember correctly, Heather was dissatisfied with the pictures he took.  Instead, she ended up using one that Aldous took in an informal setting and has used only that one since.

While I can somewhat understand her preference to live like a recluse (it's nice work if you can get it in today's hyperconnected world, I suppose), I cannot reconcile her frantic desire to be a celebrity of some sort with her apparent reluctance to have her picture taken. 

I've known a minor celebrity or two in my time and it's an either/or proposition: if you want to remain unknown, you needn't have your picture taken.  However, a few photographs are de rigueur even for an f-list celebrity.  Heather, it seems, wants to have her cake and eat it, too.

I tried running this by a chum who is a far keener student of human nature than I am.  After fixing me with a look (no, not that look, the other look) she said:

QuoteThis [expletive expunged] sounds like any other woman, only more so.

So there's that.

Quote from: Aquarius on May 31, 2018, 09:07:45 PM
I suspect you're right, and I am sad to say i also suspect that if so, she is remarkably stupid,

Let me ask you this: If you were in business, and knew what you were doing was losing money, you'd probably try doing something different, wouldn't you?

Heather's ex-boss (K. Rowland) is on record as saying that DMDN lost subscriptions every month Heather was on the air.  And while I do not believe Heather's story that Rowland slagged her off while she was on the air, I do believe that Rowland told her, as nicely as possible but in no uncertain terms, that the subscriptions were dwindling for the simple reason that, when you are in business and you're losing money, you either face the facts or go under.

There is a post containing a now-notorious sound clip (courtesy of Chocolate coated jackboot; the post itself is from a different member) from November of last year with Heather wondering, out loud and on the air, how much longer she was going to host the show because the money was drying up.  Really.  In fact, you will actually hear Heather say, "...I think our days here are numbered."  Sound incredible?  Here is the post so you can listen and make up your own mind:

http://bellgab.com/index.php?topic=9159.msg1219357#msg1219357

Six months have passed, it is now June of 2018 and Heather is on a whole new network...doing the exact same thing she was doing before.  If following such a course of action is not remarkably stupid, then, frankly, I don't know what is.

Having said that, I do think it is very generous-minded of you to give Heather the benefit of the doubt at this late date; I am a firm believer in giving people the benefit of the doubt, too. However, there comes a point with some people where you can no longer afford to do so.  While I do not believe in speaking for other members, I don't think I am talking out of turn when I say that, for the majority of the folks on this board, Heather has passed that point for them.
 

Quote from: Kolchak on May 31, 2018, 04:27:03 PM
And lastly, Heather is finally getting some fan art to battle Bart Ell's Bartists head-to-head.

I am familiar with the phrase "artistic licence," but that is ludicrous.  :

Quote from: SredniVashtar on May 31, 2018, 04:08:16 PM
And I'm earnest, but only in the country, Algy.

Well, it's not important.

Quote from: Kolchak on May 31, 2018, 03:42:47 PM
I wouldn't be surprised if, when the archives are finally up and running, there will be options to download from the web page but no actual RSS feed.

That might actually be a bonus, given what her show is like.

Quote from: SredniVashtar on May 31, 2018, 01:21:45 PM
He gets you more fucked up than Ambien. Ten minutes of that tedious old fossil and I'm out like a light.

Well, I was going to ask, "Surely not that Peter Davenport?"  Good God.

It's already come to this?  She's not been podcasting for a week and already Heater Horsie Heather appears to be scraping the bottom of the guest barrel.  Well, actually, I suppose one could reasonably claim she reached that with Adair and has kept burrowing ever since.

(Anyone willing to start up a John Tator Teetor Titor website to see if she'll take the bait?)

Quote from: K_Dubb on May 30, 2018, 12:36:28 PM
Leaving an unmistakable fingerprint in the dust on the drawer front (we heard about this last night),

Give it another week and Heather will have Art in a fistfight with the Franchesscan monk over that cigarette.

Quote from: 21st Century Man on May 30, 2018, 02:59:29 PM
Karen at KNYE sure despises Heather and the only reason I can think of that would cause her to feel that way is she suspected an illicit relationship was going on between Heather and Art.

Alternately, Karen might resent Heather simply because no one gave Karen anything while Heather was given every advantage.

If I remember the EoD interview correctly, Karen said she had to learn how to run a radio station the hard way: through trial and error and reading TFM.  Eventually, Art sold (not gave) Karen the station.

Then, Heather breezes in, Art gives her everything in the way of help and guidance, then goes on to lie his head off constantly assure Heather she's doing great while almost all the afilliates flee and DMDN loses subscribers every month for the next 2.5 years.

Perhaps I have an overactive imagination, but from where I'm standing, Karen may have disliked Heather for the simple reason she spotted her as talentless from the start, then watched her being given an excellent opportunity to make good, only for everything to come to naught.  When you've had to claw your own way up, I expect seeing someone Blow It like that is bound to breed resentment.

(Just a guess.)

Quote from: timebandit on May 30, 2018, 03:07:59 PM
thanks.. interesting. She didn't carry her even when art was alive..ok

No, no: She did, for a time, then stopped.

I believe she stopped in either January of 2017 or January of 2018, but Art was still alive when Karen gave Heather the chop.

Quote from: Pizzapunch on May 30, 2018, 01:49:45 PM
Do you think Paul and Ella have a joint facebook account due to marriage infidelities?

After seeing that creepy-as-hell "princess of the night" post from Paul, when it comes to their domestic arrangements, I Don't Want to Know.

Quote from: timebandit on May 30, 2018, 01:45:40 PM
she said the same thing pre Art's passing.

Ah, did she?  Well, I'll believe it when it comes to pass, not before. 

No offence, but after seeing that "just treat each other kindly" screenshot* (a remark that stands in sharp contrast to her actual behaviour), I'm not inclined to take her word for much of anything.






*Can someone kindly re-post this?  It truly must be seen to be believed.

Quote from: NICKtheRAT on May 30, 2018, 01:37:46 PM
best way to listen is live and intoxicated ... its the only way i can listen!

Hang on: Were you the chap who called in twice last night? 

Quote from: Bobs Your Uncle on May 30, 2018, 11:53:20 AM
Are you going to the Area 51 party?

Speaking of which: Am I the only one who heard Heater offer her fans a photo op with her at the (alleged) upcoming event?

I, for one, am looking forward to seeing a picture of Paul embracing his "princess of the night" (his words, not mine) while Ella looks on approvingly.





(Or perhaps not so approvingly.)

Quote from: Kolchak on May 30, 2018, 11:25:45 AM
That would be the ArtBellLegacy.com source code. I think it's actually somehow worse than before. Completely generic and bland. At least the old site had that header with the desert on it.

Is there a pool going on whether Heather will suffer a third outbreak of Hoagland's Syndrome and refer to Andrew D. Basiago as her "good, good friend"?

Quote from: 21st Century Man on May 30, 2018, 01:50:05 AM
Joshua Pee is every hosts go-to-guy when they need to line up a guest at the last minute.
He's such a media whore and desperate for attention.

I expect that's why he gets on so well with Heather. 

Quote from: Aquarius on May 29, 2018, 11:39:20 PM
More alarmingly, she is cheerfully announcing that if she gets shot, don't worry, she'll be on the air the next night because the show must go on the air. Not totally connected to reality [emphasis added]

Or even tenuously.  Getting shot isn't the sort of hobby you take up when your knitting has gone missing.

In any case, I'm hoping that the actual plan is to deposit J. Pee Warren into Area-51 via trebuchet.  Call it wishful thinking, but after that 4-hour-long infomercial I'd say it's the least she could do.

Many thanks to everyone who replied to my question.  If Heather is insouciant about the prospect of being shot in order to get some attention there isn't much else to say. *shrugs*

Quote from: weeberwubber on May 29, 2018, 06:33:33 PM
When I looked at this link about 20 minutes into Heather's show it said 870 current listeners. I would imagine a much lower number tonight. http://69.162.103.66:8003/

Thank you for posting that.  I meant to look at the Icecast server during the Monday/Tuesday broadcast, but was so irritained (irritated + entertained = irritained) by the worthless content that I forgot completely.

For some reason I don't understand at all, Heather actually managed to pull in a slightly higher number of listeners last night: she peaked at 906.  She seemed to have roughly 800-odd listeners to start, then the numbers went up slightly when she started on the Area-51 business.

(I'm afraid clicking on the Icecast server link to see if she'd ever break 1,000 listeners was about the only entertainment I got out of her latest show.) 

Quote from: Jinger Rat Snapps on May 29, 2018, 11:38:56 PM
Mainly they ask if you were ever convicted of a felony.

Is trespassing on Area-51 considered a felony offence?  I can't see the federal authorities simply laughing it off after they've taken the trouble to post all those, "Stay out!  This Means You!  (Yes, really)" signs. 

Quote from: Pizzapunch on May 29, 2018, 10:44:02 PM
Maybe Area 51 was Art's plan to get rid of Heather. He didn't wanna leave Parumph. So his usual going to the store for a pack of smokes trick wouldn't work, therefore he was going to send her to Area 51 so she would be gotten rid of!

Serious question: Can someone who lives in America confirm or contradict something, please?  The limited information I have on this subject comes strictly second-hand, may be entirely wrong...and this isn't the sort of thing anyone who wants to be gainfully employed in the US can afford to get wrong.

I am saying this as an outsider looking in, but:  My understanding is that having an arrest record is a complete and utter no-no if you ever to plan to apply for a "serious" job in the US (by "serious," I mean a job that is not concerned with washing dishes or dumping garbage).  I was led to believe "have you ever been arrested" is a bog-standard question that all American employers ask and, should you answer in the affirmative, you are treated a lot differently (and not in a good way) than if you are able to answer in the negative.

(Apart from which, many, if not most, US employers will run a background check on you to confirm for themselves whether or not you have ever been arrested in an effort to keep their potential exposure to liability to a minimum.)

What I'm getting at here is: I don't think Heather fully understands what having an arrest record might mean to her future.  I do know that, in her own mind, she's going to host a podcast forever, but things do not always work out the way we thing they are going to and, frankly, I don't think she has thought this one through.

(I'm not sure she's thought about it at all, actually.)

On the other hand, I might have the wrong end of the stick, and that's okay (it would be a positive relief, in fact).  It's just that, while I enjoy poking fun at Heather, I have an uneasy feeling she is making an irretrievable mistake with this Area-51 thing in her frantic quest to "stay relevant."  The kind of mistake you look back upon years later and find yourself saying, "I wish I hadn't done that."

Is there a Yank or two who is willing to set me straight on this?