Art Bell

[Dr. MD MD]

I used to listen more often, but now can only listen to Jones in small doses, he’s kind of the gateway drug to the more substantive shows in the genre.  That raspy voice and constant hyperactivity, and the fact that when he has guests on he might as well be interviewing himself since he constantly interrupts.  Like others have said, Rense is better, though also is hard to listen to sometimes if for no other reason than how unrelentingly dark the tone of his show is.

What Art had that most if not all of today’s popular radio shows are missing is an open mind.  These days it seems like all radio hosts want to spoon feed you what you are supposed to believe.

I actually agree with everything you're saying. Too many reductionistic thinkers these days who feel the need to separate everything and everyone into polar opposites. Almost daily I face challenges from people here who seem to think that the videos I post must perfectly represent my political thinking and who I am as a person. :

I think even a lot of AJ's fans will admit he interupts too much. Fortunately, his guests seem to either know this about him or are prepped before they shoot the show not to get upset about it because I don't think I've ever seen anyone get angry or frustrated by it. The most I've seen a couple times is a guest saying Alex, just let me finish this point and to his credit he's always relented when that happens. Still, it can be annoying. Even I'll yell at the screen once in awhile because of it. Rense can be interesting too though. There's no shortage of voices out there on the internet these days. Other than a bit of news I really don't watch commercial television at all anymore.

[ge30542]

 Let's fondly recall our favorite Art-isms.

Just 2 weeks ago, in 2 different shows, directing listeners to his web page to look at new pics, ( a cat and a ghost pic), he laughed and said "yes, a picture really does say a thousand words"

[Humilia Lepus Foramen]

I actually agree with everything you're saying. Too many reductionistic thinkers these days who feel the need to separate everything and everyone into polar opposites. Almost daily I face challenges from people here who seem to think that the videos I post must perfectly represent my political thinking and who I am as a person. :

I think even a lot of AJ's fans will admit he interupts too much. Fortunately, his guests seem to either know this about him or are prepped before they shoot the show not to get upset about it because I don't think I've ever seen anyone get angry or frustrated by it. The most I've seen a couple times is a guest saying Alex, just let me finish this point and to his credit he's always relented when that happens. Still, it can be annoying. Even I'll yell at the screen once in awhile because of it. Rense can be interesting too though. There's no shortage of voices out there on the internet these days. Other than a bit of news I really don't watch commercial television at all anymore.

Same here, TV is gathering dust.  Used to watch maybe once a week, now not even that.  Radio is much preferred.  I still remember the feels a good AB show gave me that nothing on TV has ever been able to match.  He definitely will be missed

Does McAdoo have her own show on AJ’s network yet?  I’d totally watch that!

[Dr. MD MD]

Same here, TV is gathering dust.  Used to watch maybe once a week, now not even that.  Radio is much preferred.  I still remember the feels a good AB show gave me that nothing on TV has ever been able to match.  He definitely will be missed

Does McAdoo have her own show on AJ’s network yet?  I’d totally watch that!

Yeah, she's a beautiful woman.

Unfortunately, she took time off to help a sick or dying grandmother or something like that. It's certainly admirable of her.

[DanTSX]

Yeah, she's a beautiful woman.

Unfortunately, she took time off to help a sick or dying grandmother or something like that. It's certainly admirable of her.

McaBoobs

Hah she probably took time off to avoid getting from getting gutted like a fish while Alex was going through his messy divorce.   I just recently found AJ’s wife’s tweeter and holy shit she’s without irony, starting down the loony path as him.  Except that Alex isn’t loony, he’s just trying to stay in character while going through a messy public divorce with serious assets and chirren on the line.  It’s not going well for her, but Texas law isn’t doing her any favors.  It’s funny to hear her try to claim that jones is his character in the radio though. 

[DanTSX]

I know the tone in this thread has been more on the lighthearted side, but man, this still hurts.  As soon as Art left MITD, I knew and came to terms with the fact that we'd never hear him broadcast live again; but knowing that voice on the other side of the radio all of those nights is no longer on this earth really sucks.  Unfortunately it wasn't a huge surprise when the news of his passing broke, but after years(and years, and years) of entertaining us- I really wish he could've enjoyed a final retirement and flown his drones around Pahrump a little longer.


http://youtu.be/XTNHKrntb8k

Yeah I figured we would get another half a decade of Art enjoying retirement and occasionally sharing some aspects of his well earned personal life via FB or twitter postings, or Occasional drop ins here.  But I was not surprised that he had expired.

[Dr. MD MD]

McaBoobs

Hah she probably took time off to avoid getting from getting gutted like a fish while Alex was going through his messy divorce.   I just recently found AJ’s wife’s tweeter and holy shit she’s without irony, starting down the loony path as him.  Except that Alex isn’t loony, he’s just trying to stay in character while going through a messy public divorce with serious assets and chirren on the line.  It’s not going well for her, but Texas law isn’t doing her any favors.  It’s funny to hear her try to claim that jones is his character in the radio though.

Maybe but as far as I know his divorce is already settled so I'm not sure what kind of damage she can do. You think Anderson Cooper isn't playing a character? The CIA probably hires as many actors these days as agents.

[DanTSX]

I'm not saying it is good but I sorta hope it was a last drag, and this time, on something like an unfiltered Camel. Kids, don't smoke but I hope he got one last fast-blast, considering his likes.

Recreational MJ is finally legal in NV.  Maybe Art’s last drag was from some elaborate glassware  hookah or bong while listening to Phaedra as he went into tunnel vision and faded out

[DanTSX]

Maybe but as far as I know his divorce is already settled so I'm not sure what kind of damage she can do. You think Anderson Cooper isn't playing a character? The CIA probably hires as many actors these days as agents.

They are never really fully settled when kids and lots of assets (Jones’s media empire and his personal wealth are BIG).  But I was speaking more about the period when the divorce was wrapping up.  I haven’t listened to jones much since the summer, to be fair.


Pooper definitely is “in character” as are all of the other scripted talking heads.  I know the game.


https://youtu.be/d4aJMDot6I4

[DanTSX]

Noone wants the RV that Ramona died in?

I think Heather is living in it

[DanTSX]

Somewhere here I posted. Last I heard there were rumors of him being car-jacked and kidnapped and not heard from. Also rumors that someone was "using his identity" to post to various forums and his website "Africancrisis.com" went dark. Apparently besides the C2C Hollow Earth stuff and gospel stuff he was involved with how-shall-we-say "racial issues" in Africa and was going in that direction. There are crumbs around the internet and racist shows where he apparently called in. So I don't know what went/is going on with him. But, I guess, he IS alive?

http://www.otizvora.com/files2014/prosvetni/Jan_Lamprecht%20-%20Hollow%20Planets.pdf
https://www.amazon.com/Jan-H.-Lamprecht/e/B06W57TGRG
https://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2002/01/31
http://historyreviewed.com/index.php/shop/

Neat thanks.

There was speculation that the ANC was trying to silence him.  There was little doubt that this type of activity took place when a few years later, a blog, zasucks.com, started to air out all sorts of dirty laundry with primary sources exposing the info.  ANC took that down along with some documented (if I remember correctly) targeted harassment.


Regardless, in my opinion, it was Rense who was sounding the whistle about what was to come (and still come) for The majority of the whot minority of ZA.  He continues to push this as much as he can.  Most recently with guests proposing a more autonomous, and racially balanced western cape.  My own thought from half a world away is that you’ll never get enough of the afrikaaners and Bowers to come down off the belts and make the trek back to the cape.  My own worthless opinion from half a world away is that they should stay put, and get more wypipo to move there while taking a hard line politically and economically to ensure their voice and right to safely prosper is ensured.

[aldousburbank]

My bestest friend lives on a farm in ZA. We talk everyday.  It's definitely getting weird over there.

[paladin1991]

My bestest friend lives on a farm in ZA. We talk everyday.  It's definitely getting weird over there.

What's the quality of the smoke over there?

[aldousburbank]

What's the quality of the smoke over there?

Well thanks to me, better. But the quality of the jails is pretty shitty.

[creepygreenlight]

As soon as Art left MITD, I knew and came to terms with the fact that we'd never hear him broadcast live again; but knowing that voice on the other side of the radio all of those nights is no longer on this earth really sucks.  Unfortunately it wasn't a huge surprise when the news of his passing broke, but after years(and years, and years) of entertaining us- I really wish he could've enjoyed a final retirement and flown his drones around Pahrump a little longer.

(finally, someone here who might get the origins of my username)

While everyone on bellgab was hitting Art as hard as they could for the shady "stalker" story I personally felt that Art had left MITD because he simply could no longer do the show himself due to his health issues (COPD).  Imagine trying to talk for hours at a time when you're having trouble breathing.  I remember the last interview Art did with Terrence McKenna before he passed, where Terrence essentially said that "the way you die can define the way you had lived".

Given that concept it's certainly possible that Art knew his health was fucked beyond his control and therefore figured out a way to gracefully "bow out" one last time without giving any details about his health issues.  It wasn't long after he quit that he posted about his struggles with COPD, as I recall.  He was a 72 year old ex-hardcore-smoker who as far as I know never exercised and bragged for years about his love of "hambugers"... it's sad to say, but I also wasn't surprised by his passing.  For the last few months I had a nagging feeling that I'd wake up one day and read about it on Drudge, and that's exactly what happened.

Life is short, folks.  I had a friend die at 17 from Leukemia.  We are lucky to have had Art for his time on this Earth, and we are extra super lucky to have very good recordings of his past shows.  Many many radio shows end up in the void black hole of history because nobody had the technology or motivation to record and compile them.

[paladin1991]

Well thanks to me, better. But the quality of the jails is pretty shitty.

You are quite the humanitarian

[Uncle Duke]

(finally, someone here who might get the origins of my username)

While everyone on bellgab was hitting Art as hard as they could for the shady "stalker" story I personally felt that Art had left MITD because he simply could no longer do the show himself due to his health issues (COPD).  Imagine trying to talk for hours at a time when you're having trouble breathing.  I remember the last interview Art did with Terrence McKenna before he passed, where Terrence essentially said that "the way you die can define the way you had lived".

Given that concept it's certainly possible that Art knew his health was fucked beyond his control and therefore figured out a way to gracefully "bow out" one last time without giving any details about his health issues.  It wasn't long after he quit that he posted about his struggles with COPD, as I recall.  He was a 72 year old ex-hardcore-smoker who as far as I know never exercised and bragged for years about his love of "hambugers"... it's sad to say, but I also wasn't surprised by his passing.  For the last few months I had a nagging feeling that I'd wake up one day and read about it on Drudge, and that's exactly what happened.

Life is short, folks.  I had a friend die at 17 from Leukemia.  We are lucky to have had Art for his time on this Earth, and we are extra super lucky to have very good recordings of his past shows.  Many many radio shows end up in the void black hole of history because nobody had the technology or motivation to record and compile them.

Gracefully?

[Up All Night]

Recreational MJ is finally legal in NV.  Maybe Art’s last drag was from some elaborate glassware  hookah or bong while listening to Phaedra as he went into tunnel vision and faded out

It would be sweeter if Art went out getting a big topless MJ shotgun blast.

Perhaps from Le Ann McAdoo. 

[aldousburbank]

You are quite the humanitarian

I dues what I canz.

[creepygreenlight]

Gracefully?

Compared to being remembered as slowly dying on the air? Perhaps.

My my, hey hey
Rock and roll is here to stay
It's better to burn out than to fade away
My my, hey hey

Out of the blue and into the black
They give you this, but you pay for that
And once you're gone you can never come back
When you're out of the blue and into the black

The king is gone, but he's not forgotten
This is the story of a Johnny Rotten
It's better to burn out than it is to rust
The king is gone, but he's not forgotten

Hey hey, my my
Rock and roll can never die
There's more to the picture than meets the eye
Hey hey, my my

[Roswells, Art]

i hadn't noticed that, but you're right.  he said nothing.  that is disappointing, but there's a lot going on in politics and rush probably just got carried away with talking about it all.

More likely Rush was excited about teaming up with Wade and that is why mentioning Art slipped his mind.



(thanks to Chefist for posting the original Facebook image)

[ItsOver]

(finally, someone here who might get the origins of my username)

While everyone on bellgab was hitting Art as hard as they could for the shady "stalker" story I personally felt that Art had left MITD because he simply could no longer do the show himself due to his health issues (COPD)...

That could very well be the case.  Definitely an interesting character.  Why not just come out on a broadcast and say that due to his health, especially with COPD, he could no longer do MITD to his level of satisfaction?  He'd been talking about being diagnosed with COPD and most folks would have understood.  No drama. Not everything has to be a radio show.  I guess that just wasn't Art Bell.  Everything had to have some kind of drama associated with whatever he was up to.  He must have been a circus to be married to. 

[ItsOver]

More likely Rush was excited about teaming up with Wade and that is why mentioning Art slipped his mind.



(thanks to Chefist for posting the original Facebook image)

Ha, ha, ha!  The opportunity for Rush to be doing fill-in broadcasts for Wade from Pahrump must have been overwhelming.

[ponyboysunset]

Ha, ha, ha!  The opportunity for Rush to be doing fill-in broadcasts for Wade from Pahrump must have been overwhelming.

Well according to her facebook page, the only person who could possibly fill in for her is now gone so no shows for us.

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

[Kolchak]

I guess that just wasn't Art Bell.

In hindsight, that episode where he left the studio to investigate the gunshots live was pretty gripping radio. Even if the eventual quitting was disappointing.

[ItsOver]

Well according to her facebook page, the only person who could possibly fill in for her is now gone so no shows for us.

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

As Jorch would say, "geesh!"  Can't she just drag in one of these guys from the backyard.

[WOTR]

Almost daily I face challenges from people here who seem to think that the videos I post must perfectly represent my political thinking and who I am as a person. :

You should start a facebook support group with Heather, Rosegirl and Jorch for people who have been misunderstood on Bellgab.     

[creepygreenlight]

Why not just come out on a broadcast and say that due to his health, especially with COPD, he could no longer do MITD to his level of satisfaction?

I agree, it would have been better to do it that way.  Obviously none of us here know the truth on this and probably never will.  Maybe he thought the stalker story would allow him to quietly quit while drumming up some dramatic marketing for MITD?  A lot of folks are still angry that he handed over the show to an inexperienced loser with the talent of a wet rag, if he had been honest about his health then maybe people wouldn't have been so angry about it.

[Dr. MD MD]

You should start a facebook support group with Heather, Rosegirl and Jorch for people who have been misunderstood on Bellgab.     

You know it's true because you're one of the simpletons I'm talking about.

[Chocolate coated jackboot]

that would be me. and no its not accessible anymore.

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