Steve Warner's Dark City

[The Neverender]

History: NAZI atomic bomb program, operation paper clip, Soviet purges, soviet/ NATO spying during Cold War, any of the spying or counter intelligence that was used against the Axis nations, crusades and how that affects today's perceptions, US support of mujahideen in the 80s, Vietnam and agent orange or Phoenix program or Air America, rise and fall of KKK and Jim Crow,

Conspiracies: anything Kennedy, NBC/scientific testing on US citizens, Hitler surviving the war, alternative energies being restricted from coming to market,

Crime: Jack the Ripper, the author of Devil in the White City  :

Cults, , hacking, deep web, Russia projecting power like it did during the Cold War and will that start WWIII ?


These are just a few things that come to mind that would likely fit the tone of the show

[bateman]

Your drug dealer interview has become one of my favorites. There's a wealth of topics involving incarceration, paid prisons, CIA drug running...you don't have to get all woo woo if you don't want to.

Thanks, that's one of my favorites too. I have another one like that planned. A Mexican prison escape.

[bateman]

I do agree with you that the same topics have been beaten to death and are over used with nothing new really developing.

Do shows about what you want to do them about. You have to make yourself happy!

Yeah, Bigfoot for example, I just can't get myself interested for more than an hour or 2. I don't know how other shows do weekly Bigfoot reports.

[bateman]

Go with whatever interests you. Though sometimes it is best to hesitate and wait, a bit, or find a new angle on it? Everyone is talking politics, Islam, terrorism, etc? Not that it isn't important, or even interesting with decent research and perspectives and historical data, but also everyone is doing it? In any event, some news shows soon? Getting some shaking hands from withdrawls 

Getting shaking hands here from not doing a show. And you're right, no reason to do something without a new angle. Otherwise it's just cable news BS.

[bateman]

Hi bateman, I'm going through the soundcloud posts and I don't see the second half of the Dr. Jacobs interview. Am I just overlooking it? It ends rather abruptly.

Sorry, just seeing this. Part 2 is lost to history I think. I'll see if I can dig it up on a hard drive somewhere, I can't even remember what happened to it.

[bateman]

History: NAZI atomic bomb program, operation paper clip, Soviet purges, soviet/ NATO spying during Cold War, any of the spying or counter intelligence that was used against the Axis nations, crusades and how that affects today's perceptions, US support of mujahideen in the 80s, Vietnam and agent orange or Phoenix program or Air America, rise and fall of KKK and Jim Crow,

Conspiracies: anything Kennedy, NBC/scientific testing on US citizens, Hitler surviving the war, alternative energies being restricted from coming to market,

Crime: Jack the Ripper, the author of Devil in the White City  :

Cults, , hacking, deep web, Russia projecting power like it did during the Cold War and will that start WWIII ?


These are just a few things that come to mind that would likely fit the tone of the show

These are some really solid ideas. The idea is VICE meets X-Files. Sometimes it'll veer into one direction more than the other, but I think that's what I'm going with for the foreseeable future.

[bateman]

Maybe take a break from paranormal e.g. with science/art/economics/history/etc?  Or if you want to do something political, it doesn't necessarily have to be the typical spastic current events / moral outrage format we get all day - e.g. maybe dive deeper into the basis of various conflicts, or ideologies, or political/religious/social systems, etc.  You're a fine interviewer so no need to limit yourself, imho.  Just a thought.

I'm with the squirrel in the smoking jacket! It's usually the intense personal aspect that draws people into a paranormal story, anyway. You can also get that from stories about history, culture, experiences of immigrants/refugees, etc. There's a lot of stuff that people don't know much about but think they do until they realize they don't, and that's the dark city, too.

Thanks fellas, wheels are turning.

I leave you with some music you may hear on the show in the near future: http://cutsmusic.co.uk/audiovisual

[akwilly]

I would love to hear you interview a professional gambler. They always have some good storys.

[bateman]

I would love to hear you interview a professional gambler. They always have some good storys.

Or maybe this: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/514313.Bringing_Down_the_House

[Ciardelo]

Sorry, just seeing this. Part 2 is lost to history I think. I'll see if I can dig it up on a hard drive somewhere, I can't even remember what happened to it.

Not a problem at all. If it turns up, fine, if not, fine. 

[cweb]

I gotta say I agree on the paranormal stuff. I've been listening to a lot of different shows lately and I need a little break. Art's recent show on cave diving was an awesome vacation from it.

Any thoughts on doing shows on cyber-crime? The trick would be keeping it technical enough to enjoy the details, but simple enough for the less technical listeners to enjoy. If that makes sense.

Or some more on dirty politics from years past. I'm FINALLY digging deeper into Roger Stone's book on LBJ's involvement in the JFK plot- what an entertaining read! Stone just wrote a book on Hillary that looks interesting- but maybe that's because I've never been a fan of her.   

[zeebo]

I always love science/tech stuff.  Great potential for general futurism topics - virtual reality, nanotech, physics/astronomy, materials science, energy, space exploration, genetics, evolution, etc.  Usually in the mainstream we just get a headline e.g. "Pluto Flyby!" or "Battery Breakthrough!", etc. 

But there's so much research going on all the time, with cool projects and/or findings that are under-reported.  And even what hear about, is usually at a superficial level. 

For instance I saw a prof. give a talk on his new A.I. book the other day, and he drilled down into the five main strategies they use - I had no idea about those, quite interesting (if somewhat nerdy).  How many A.I. shows have I listened to where at the end I'm like "But, I still don't know what it is ..."

[serenity]

So whats the show tonight? You going live?

[Spinner]

In all seriousness, paranormal topics have seemed trite to me in the last couple of weeks. I don't want to do political commentary, but that's where my mind has been, as well as focused on the ongoing ISIS mess.

I've got it! To get your mind away from dark thoughts, How about something to spark your curiosity?

Watch this:
Circuits in our Sky:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t2glWNeVyg

And maybe this too:
Thunderbolts of the Gods:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AUA7XS0TvA


I'd love to hear you interview Dr. Donald E. Scott. He focuses on the electric nature of the Sun, and wrote "The Electric Sky."

[Ciardelo]

I used to enjoy this show when it was on. Now that Dark City has switched to a Dan Carlin-esque schedule does anybody know when a new episode is coming?

[Spinner]

. . . does anybody know when a new episode is coming?

It's a mystery, but always well worth the wait.

[bateman]

Alright, I know I shouldn't announce an announcement, but there's one coming.

[zeebo]

Alright, I know I shouldn't announce an announcement, but there's one coming.

ok so either a new show's on the way or bateman's running for president.

[bateman]

ok so either a new show's on the way or bateman's running for president.

Someone's gotta run against the Noory/Ventura ticket.



Hope y'all had a good Thanksgiving. Goodnight!

[nooryisawesome]

Alright, I know I shouldn't announce an announcement, but there's one coming.

i told you not to sleep with Charlie Sheen.

[Ciardelo]

Alright, I know I shouldn't announce an announcement, but there's one coming.

Done in true Trump style. Thank you Mr. Future POTUS.

[nooryisawesome]

Alright, I know I shouldn't announce an announcement, but there's one coming.

Deep talk radio?

[bateman]

Deep talk radio?

Already on there. 

[Richard Groyper]

Alright, I know I shouldn't announce an announcement, but there's one coming.

NaKeD CiTY?

[jazmunda]

Alright, I know I shouldn't announce an announcement, but there's one coming.

Does it have anything to do with your previous avatar?

[Lilith]

bateman, I would like to hear some people talk about some possible real cleanup solutions to things like energy disasters (fukushima, oil pipelines and rigs) etc,  and as for food, well, I worry that my grandchildren may never know what a real ear of corn tastes like.  And another topic i would like to hear addressed is Prepping in a "high rise" ageing, less employed world.  All the preppers I hear on most talk shows are talking to people with land, health and wealth, who aren't up on the 18th floor with no storage, no place for generators, and only two elevators, and two stairwells for hundreds of people.  The firemen and police  in my area are still telling tennants in high rises, that in case of a disaster, to stay in their apartments with three days of food and water.

[GravitySucks]

Alright, I know I shouldn't announce an announcement, but there's one coming.

Don't you go pullin my FRIKKIN chain all over again Bateman. Spit it out. Quit all this "I wanna be like Art Bell when I grow up so I am Gonna do some drama" shit.

I'll bet this whole rumor of an announcement of an announcement is that police have persons of interest identified in the obfuscation and accostation of a certain iPhone.  On said iPhone, certain comprising photos were located. Seems like ar least one of the images resemble a certain suspected Incorrigible Bitch. Further image analysis has been concentrated in trying to depixelate at least two pyramids. Parents are being advised throughout the Metropolitan areas to not let there children grow up to be Cowboys.

Source:
Studebaker Hawk is a friend of mine and he tells me stuff. He really can write the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin.

Film at 11.

[popple]

I like Brig's idea about high rise city preppers 

[albrecht]

bateman, I would like to hear some people talk about some possible real cleanup solutions to things like energy disasters (fukushima, oil pipelines and rigs) etc,  and as for food, well, I worry that my grandchildren may never know what a real ear of corn tastes like.  And another topic i would like to hear addressed is Prepping in a "high rise" ageing, less employed world.  All the preppers I hear on most talk shows are talking to people with land, health and wealth, who aren't up on the 18th floor with no storage, no place for generators, and only two elevators, and two stairwells for hundreds of people.  The firemen and police  in my area are still telling tennants in high rises, that in case of a disaster, to stay in their apartments with three days of food and water.

Some good ideas, I especially "urban survival" and prepping in case of storms, EMP, riots, etc in urban environments, high-rises, apartments, etc. Places to go in urban areas that would be more safe and so on...

[bateman]

Some good ideas, I especially "urban survival" and prepping in case of storms, EMP, riots, etc in urban environments, high-rises, apartments, etc. Places to go in urban areas that would be more safe and so on...

I like this idea too. Noted.