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All right, it's the B-Man broadcasting live from Jimmy Gin's Pub.
Happy St. Patrick's Day from WWTF.
This year, the 2014 St. Patrick's Day Festival is brought to you live by Taintco Incorporated.
People have brought you Sphinctinex.
That's right.
Sphinctinex smells like a fire, feels like heaven.
Thanks to Tanko for supplying the beer and the pizza.
I've also got free samples of the Sphinctinex out here for you to take home and enjoy.
Tinko has also been kind enough to provide what looks like dancing girls from a disadvantaged socioeconomic section of the city.
They'll be here trying to act as sexy as possible.
So come on down to Jimmy Gin's pub.
I'm the B-Man.
I'll be down here spinning some classic, classic rock.
Same classic rock that you've probably been listening to since the late 60s, early 70s.
Because you lack imagination and you don't like to try new things.
But that's why we're here at WWTF.
You know, I think we've been hijacked.
What the hell was that?
Eddie, are you drunk?
I think I might have hit the wrong button here.
Should I try to start the show again or?
Well, is it even really worth it?
I don't know, man.
By the way, this is a GabCast, everybody.
All right, are we live?
Yeah, we are.
It feels naked.
It feels wrong without music underneath us.
Hold on.
Hey, everybody.
Well, what's happening?
Welcome to the Gabcast.
Next year, you'll have to stream after the Gabcast, okay?
Yeah.
Welcome.
I'm Eddie Dean.
We've got Onan, Jasmunda, and B-Dub with us tonight.
If you'd like to be a part of the show tonight, the number to call is 623-242-2278.
That's 623-242-CAST.
Call or I'm coming to your house.
We will come to your house and drink all of your green beer.
What's up with that green beer?
How do they make green?
Green food coloring.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Which produces a dark poop the next day.
You know, I've had green poop before.
Well, that's salva.
It's quite disconcerting, actually.
Yeah.
The first time that happened, I was like, oh, my God, do I need to go to see a doctor?
But do you guys celebrate St. Patrick's Day in Australia, Jasmunda?
It is celebrated.
I'm not of Irish descent, so I'm not going to celebrate it, but it is celebrated here.
You guys do that every day, though, don't you?
Yeah, why not?
Drink until you pass out.
That's really all it is.
Got to get through the day.
That's really all it is, is just an excuse for Americans to go out and drink green beer, drink Irish whiskey, and get falling down drunk, and then drive home.
We call that self-medicating in Ohio.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think about the same thing here in Arizona, too.
Yep.
Do they still have the shamrock shake from McDonald's?
Because I think I prefer that.
Oh, just the green shake that they do on St. Patty's Day.
Yeah.
I don't know.
What flavor would that be?
That's grass.
Red five and yellow number seven and blue number three.
Nice.
I guess it could be that Lucky Charms taste, I guess.
Yeah.
So here's the real question.
Is there actually any dairy products inside of Shamrock Shake?
No, just that pink goo stuff that they put in.
I think if you go to Wendy's and you get a Frosty that actually has no dairy products in it, it's made from soybeans or something.
I don't know.
Yeah.
Well, I can't drink dairy anyway.
Soy milk is my preferred drink when I want to drink that kind of a thing.
Lactose intolerant.
Yeah, I don't know if it's classified as lactose intolerant, just sometimes it's kind of gassy when I drink milk.
And it's disgusting, man.
I just don't like that.
I just don't like the taste of milk anymore.
You suffer from the MV-ass fountain?
Yeah, not quite that bad.
Maybe like acid indigestion after I drink milk, but it doesn't happen every time, just occasionally.
So I just stay away from it.
Is this at all interesting to talk about my acid indigestion and lactose intolerance?
Welcome to the Guest Cats, everybody.
This way, Jazz doesn't have to tell a poop story later on.
Well, we've already mentioned poop, and it's only five or eight minutes past the hour.
So check.
Got that off our list.
Yeah, I think that's some sort of a record or something.
Well, we are sponsored by Sphinctenix.
Sphinctenix?
Yes, we are.
You know, I saw something that B-Dub posted about the SETI computer share program.
Oh, yeah.
And is that the SETI at home?
Yes.
That's exactly what it is.
And I think that's really cool.
I haven't tried that yet, but I wanted to ask you, Dub, on the air, what's your opinion on that?
Is it worth it?
Is it fun?
Is it exciting?
Is it I don't know if it's exciting.
It's kind of cool to be a part of that if you have any interest at all in that kind of research.
But the concept's actually pretty amazing because what it does, it takes us like when they started it back in like the late 90s, they had this massive backlog of data and they really didn't know how they were going to do it because if you were to say use a supercomputer or something like that to parse all this data, it would have cost millions of dollars and that's money they don't have and it would have been really difficult to find a computer that would have been capable of doing all that.
So what they do is they just took that data and they cut it up in a million little chunks and they send it off to all these little people out on the internet.
And then with this, what effectively what it is, is a screensaver that when you're not using computer, your screensaver comes on and it runs this algorithm that goes through the data and checks for alien signals.
It's a really brilliant idea.
And basically what they allowed them to do is like to process like 20 years of data in three years or maybe shorter.
They were kind of blown away by how successful they were.
So it only works when the screensaver is on?
Yeah, correct.
That's basically what it is.
It's a screensaver.
Huh.
Yeah.
So you use your computer when you're not using it.
I did it for a couple of years.
Yeah, so did I.
I went to bed every night hoping that I'd be the one to find the screen save.
Right.
And then I found out that they were actually sending out some packets that had dummy information in it just for verification for some reason.
And I was crushed.
Paul?
Really?
I was.
I was butthurt.
You should use Sphinctenex for that.
I think you got your free samples.
Yeah, I started using it regularly, and I got to say that it's an addiction.
So were we all a member of Team App Bell?
Yes.
Well, hell no, I hate it.
There is a Coast Gab team.
Team Coast Gab?
Yeah, I think Juan is the only one who's in on it.
Well, I'm in it now.
Oh, are you?
That's cool.
It's me and Juan against the world.
Yeah.
I want to be a part of these.
How do I download these software?
Just go to Team Study and you'll find it.
I was real company.
I thought it was really cool because I was running 3 Macs at the time and I thought, oh, man, I'm going to be crunching data like nobody's business.
Then I saw these people that had like 15 computers at their home and I was like, oh, I am so behind.
Yeah, really.
So are you able to actually look at the data that your computer crunched?
I don't remember.
It's been a while.
Do you see like a graphical representation of the analysis?
Like a giant three-dimensional bar graph.
And it's all it's analyzing is audio signals?
Yeah, it's like data from the Arecibo telescope or something.
And they have like, they've been like, they had like a different test they were running years and years ago.
And so because they've been able to process all this data, they just keep refining the tests and changing them up and looking for different things.
Do you think that an alien would use that technology, use audio signals or something similar to that to reach out to the universe?
I'm more inclined to think that it would be like a light signal or some sort of a fiber optic, you know, a laser kind of a signal.
Like a sequence of primary numbers?
Yeah, something like that.
Because doesn't light travel faster than a regular radio signal?
Or is it the same?
No, radio signals are speed of light.
Is it speed of light?
Yeah, but the power that we broadcast stuff out, you know, radio waves and all that, from what I've read, by the time those signals get to the edge of our solar system, they're so weak that anyone picking that, it would be really remote for anyone to pick it up.
So that's another dream that was really crashed by true science.
So thank you, true science.
But who knows?
If there is somebody else out there trying to communicate, it's kind of arrogant to think that our senses would be the same ones that are on some other planet.
I mean, evolution might have been different and who knows how they communicate.
In a different world, yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, maybe it's like Avatar where they all have their ponytails that, you know, connect with each other.
I don't know.
And they're eight feet tall.
Yeah.
You know, yeah, each world has its own gravity, has its own atmosphere.
So it is arrogant to think that if there is life out there someplace, that it's going to look humanoid.
Well, Star Trek or not.
What's that?
Is that arrogance or not?
To think that if there's something out there, it's going to look exactly like, not exactly like us, but it's going to have two arms, two legs, and a head and eyes and ears and all that.
Well, there's a couple of different theories on that.
The panspermia one would suggest that there might be other humanoids out there.
But if life was kind of individualized for each planet, then it would probably be really rare to find somebody that looked like us.
But I don't know.
Certainly easier when you go to a movie to see aliens that look like you.
Oh, yeah.
Than some floating glass blue.
How are we going to have six with a sexy alien if it's just a blob?
You'll find a way, Jazz.
I'm sure you will.
Yeah.
Nothing's going to stop Captain Kirk from getting his rocks off.
That's right.
So I take it by this short discussion that we've had that you guys don't believe in extraterrestrial life?
Life outside of our planet?
Intelligent life?
I want to believe.
Do you believe there's intelligent life on Earth?
Well, no, that's debatable.
I think maybe if we even, is there intelligent life on this podcast?
Well, definitely not.
Yeah, I agree with that.
Yeah.
WR250 says that the Vatican reptilians are the people that run Taintco.
Really?
Damn, how did he find out so quickly?
Well, hey, easy.
I don't want to lose our only sponsor, guys.
Come on.
Sorry.
Yeah, we love Taintco.
I do.
Their products are awesome.
And they work every single time.
That's right.
I'm a proud user of all TEDco products.
So, yeah, I mean, I definitely believe there's alien life.
Do you think that they've visited?
I do.
Do you think the visitations are being covered up?
Yes.
Okay.
By whom?
The United States government.
United States government.
Yeah.
I have a story.
To what ends?
To what ends?
I have a story.
I'll tell you a story.
And this happened in the 80s and probably 88.
I think it was pretty early in the school year.
I was in high school.
And one night watching the news, the local news, and I see this story from the channel.
I don't know, it's channel 2, channel 22, where the you ever turn on a news broadcast and you see that the news anchor is visibly upset about something and everything is where everything is usually very flat and unemotional.
And one day you turn it on and you can definitely tell that there's something wrong about them.
Yeah.
Well, this woman basically looked like she was in a state of disbelief.
And she's doing this story about how during rush hour one day in Dayton, Ohio, this was like the day of this broadcast, a large orange fireball flew over the city during rush hour traffic.
And basically what that meant was that everybody's car stopped.
And so you've got thousands of people on the interstate standing around watching this thing fly over the city.
Damn rubberneckers.
Yeah.
And I knew someone that was in traffic.
And that's how I knew that that's basically what was happening was that, you know, these cars stopped on the interstate as this thing flew over.
This guy was in traffic, this friend of mine that I was going to school with, and I heard the story the next day.
He's basically saying that, you know, this thing flew over the interstate.
People were just standing around talking to each other, like, what the hell is that?
And of course, the United States Air Force's story was that it was a satellite that was in a decaying orbit and the nuclear power cell that powered the satellite was exposed and that was causing an AMP that was disabling all the cars in the area.
Really?
So it had physical effects on the cars on the freeway.
Yeah, everybody stopped.
I mean, literally, it was like the interstate turninal parking lot.
Well, I thought when you said stopped, I thought everybody was physically.
Like their car stopped working.
Really?
Wow.
Right where they were at.
And it was just a giant yellow fireball, you said?
It was a big orange fireball that flew over the city.
And was this reported on the news, or are you saying that this was covered up on the news?
It was on the local news, but it never bubbled up to national news.
Was there any video?
No.
This is the late 80s.
So nobody had video cameras or very few did.
Yeah.
Nothing that wasn't the size of a bus.
Yeah.
Right.
With standard size VCR tapes or the Betamax tapes.
Yeah.
So, and you could, you could tell the expression on this woman's face, the newscaster, she was basically like, I can't believe this story.
And that explanation is definitely bullshit.
So that is weird.
I've never heard of that.
There were lots of stories out there like that.
That's one of the more annoying things about the so-called UFO researchers.
They just keep hammering on Roswell and Bent Waters and the same damn stories over and over again.
And there's all kinds of stories like this out there.
Yeah, there was that guy that was on the Dark Matter show with Art Bell, I think during the first week, and he was trying to discuss the, I don't know if it was an abduction case or just a UFO case in Utah.
I can't remember the name of the town.
Was that the guy that was eating a grilled cheese during his interview?
Yeah, I think so.
The guy that it wasn't, he was kind of jumping all over the place and wasn't a very good interview.
Yeah, I remember that.
That was like the first, was that the second night?
It was the first week.
I'm not sure exactly which night it was.
It might have been the second night.
Yeah, I remember being disappointed.
Yeah.
I had never heard of that event, that UFO event.
That's probably because it never happened.
You think a guy made it completely up?
Yeah.
I don't know.
My general impression from that story was that he took some very flimsied anecdotal information and extrapolated from that.
Part of me wonders if, you know, there's sometimes people just like to fuck with other people.
So they'll make up stories.
And I feel like a lot of that stuff that like Art did with the Native Americans in the 90s, where like, you know, they were talking about the prophecies from their Native American people.
Part of me wonders like if the Indians, the Native Americans were sitting there going, I wonder if these white people are so stupid they'll fucking believe this story.
And at the end of the show, they're like, I can't fucking believe no one called us out on that.
I bet that's true.
Like the Hopi prophecy and all that.
Yeah.
Like it was a Native American version of Mel's Hole without the hole.
Yeah, I don't know.
And, you know, it's easy to believe somebody telling a story about a UFO, especially, well, I guess if it's a first person, if they actually saw it.
But if somebody's saying, relating a story from somebody else, you don't know, you know, how the facts got twisted or like the game of telephone.
You tell one kid something and once it goes through, you know, 15 or 20 kids, it's a completely different phrase.
Yeah.
So unless you really do the research yourself, I think there's a lot of people that put a lot of things together that maybe not necessarily fit together.
There might not be data that supports it.
Listen to me sound like Richard C. Oglin.
It's the data.
Look at the data.
I just, I did a little bit of reading today on UFOs.
And, you know, there's something like 192 reports a day of somebody seeing something unexplainable.
And I wonder how many of those can be explained by something completely natural.
Probably 191 of them.
Yeah.
You know, literally, you're probably right.
Yeah.
You know, but I'm not going to try to make an argument that just because there's a lot of people saying something, it's got to be true.
But I do think it's enough to make you scratch your head and go, huh?
And, you know, if you go back and you look, and again, here I'm dredging up old stuff rather than looking at new stuff.
But if you go back and listen to a lot of the astronauts from the 70s, maybe even, excuse me, maybe even to the 60s, there was some weird stuff that was printed, you know, that they were saying, you know, there was one that said, I don't remember who it was, but they had a bogey at 10 o'clock high.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Is that the one where they were in orbit and they actually captured the video of that white object going down towards Earth and then all of a sudden spinning out at a different trajectory and a different speed?
That I don't know.
All I know is that, you know, it's a weird world.
My critical side says, well, if there really are aliens, how come they're not presenting themselves?
And I got no answer to that.
I have a theory.
What's that?
They don't want to start World War III.
Why do you think that would happen?
It doesn't take a whole lot to stir the pot here on planet Earth.
Humans tend to overreact just a tad bit sometimes.
We're excitable.
I think Arpell used to say that if an alien ship landed on the White House lawn and the doors opened up and a little green guy came out, that he would be full of lead within about 20 seconds of him stepping out of the vehicle.
That's possible.
I don't think that's true.
I think if somebody landed in the back woods of Kentucky, they'd probably be shot to pieces.
Ah, yes.
But I'm not so sure that would.
First of all, well, hell, what do I know?
It's still my skeptical reason for why I have a tough time believing there is any other life that's visited us, but I don't know.
I want to believe that there are UFOs or there is extraterrestrial life that has visited this planet, but the older I get and the more I understand about science and travel, the speed of light and how far, how much space there is in the universe.
Oh, but now you're constraining the rest of the universe to our bullshit physics.
I mean, 150 years ago, we didn't even know what bacteria were.
You know, we're not as smart as we like to think we are.
That's a good point.
People are always saying that, well, that's not possible because based on our understanding of physics, then it would take a gazillion years for them to get here.
Well, maybe they figured some shit out that we don't understand, like gravity.
Do we have a working theory of gravity?
I'm not sure.
You have to ask Agent Orange that.
Agent Orange.
Agent Orange, call in with an explanation of gravity.
Post haste.
But what I was going to say is if they are limited to our view of physics, then there's no way that they could be here just because of the distance.
But if you take into account, you know, they might be 150,000 years more advanced than we are or, you know, whatever the number is, they might have figured out a way to bend time and space and do the wormhole thing or be able to travel through space in a way that we don't know yet.
But then that begs the question, if someone is that much more advanced than we are, why would they want to come here anyway?
I mean, it would be like us landing on a planet to talk to a worm.
What would be the point?
No, it wouldn't.
You don't think?
No, just for the sheer cultural experience.
Like the same reason we go talk to people who tribes that we've never encountered before and document their belief systems and their language and just because it's fascinating, if for no other reason.
Okay, well, I'm going to shut down.
But we don't have to travel 350 million light years to go talk to a tribe in Africa.
Yeah, and really all we're trying to do there is just take their resources.
Right, really?
Well, you got a point.
We're your friends.
If you've ever been to Papua, I've never been to Papua New Guinea.
In fact, I probably can't pronounce it correctly.
But I'm sure if you were in Papua New Guinea, you would probably be feeling like you were on the far side of Jupiter or something.
I mean, you're pretty remote out there.
It's called Peap Buggini.
That's what we call it anyway.
Positively one of our closest neighbors, so I would appreciate if you respect.
Sorry, man.
Didn't mean to step on your skirt in there.
Is that the island with all the huge statues?
Oh, no, wait, I'm thinking of Easter Island.
Easter Island.
Easter Island.
Yeah.
You know, I want to believe.
Australia.
I want to believe.
And I was a huge believer in my 20s and 30s.
But it's, like I said, it's more and more difficult.
But it is really intriguing and interesting to think about what an advanced civilization how they would get here and the technology that they have developed and their culture and what they want.
So are you familiar with any stories that are pretty compelling?
And I guess when I ask that question, I'm kind of thinking of the Trumbull County UFOs.
They actually happened here in Ohio, like Trumbull County, Ohio.
I don't know if I'm familiar with the name, but can you was that the one where it's a whole lot of police on their radios sort of to and you know back and forth?
And you've got the one guy who's basically saying that the ship flew over his vehicle at like a low altitude and shut the vehicle down.
He saw it, you know.
Yeah, I remember that.
I know what you're talking about.
That case is probably extremely credible just because it is, you know, police talking to each other on their walkie-talkies or however they're police.
Yeah, yeah.
And they were basically following the thing, too.
Yeah.
From like multiple jurisdictions.
Yeah, yeah, different departments and sheriff's departments and stuff like that.
Yeah.
Did they all see the same thing?
Did they all describe the same ship?
Because I seem to remember that there were several different descriptions of the actual ship.
Or were there several different ships that they saw?
Or was it just the one?
It was mostly one ship.
And the descriptions are pretty consistent.
I'm just wondering, any of you have a story?
You saw something or thought you saw something?
You're on the air.
Hello.
Hello.
Hold on.
I can hear you.
Can you hear him?
I can't.
Oh, I got to push a button here.
Hold on.
There.
Now we should hear you.
Hello.
Oh, hello.
Hey, what's up?
Who is this?
Well, this is E-I-E-I-O.
What's up, man?
Hey, I haven't seen you around in a while.
Yeah, well, that's the way it goes, you know.
Well, let me see here.
Anybody ever tell you you don't have a George Norrie voice?
Oh.
A very deep, maybe a John B. Wells.
Oh, I don't know.
You know, I really don't know about that.
You know, I, you know, you know, well, actually, one of the things that I'm trying to find out is what my audio quality is over this cell phone.
I only used to call out on, but, well, you know, that's one thing.
It's actually pretty good.
We can hear you.
It's not all good mail quality, but it's good or quite a bit of a quality.
Well, you know, it's a $20 cell phone.
And I got, I think it's over 1,500 minutes, you know, that, you know, I got to use up by next year.
But, you know, one of the things is that MV's online, I think, isn't he?
You mean MV in the chat room?
Yeah.
I don't know if he's in the chat room at UFOship.com.
Oh, no, no, I mean on the air live.
No, this is the Gabcast.
This is Eddie Dean, Jasmunda.
Oh, and I'm going to go to the next one.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Well, then, then I misunderstood.
Well, one of the things I wanted to ask, which I guess I can't do now, but we might not have an answer for you, but you can ask.
Oh, well, basically, it was in relation to a microphone that somebody transplanted, you know, brand new electronics that they put into the microphone.
Yeah, that was MV.
That was Michael Van Deeven.
It was a MXL 990 microphone.
And what he did was he bought a modification kit that included a new circuit board and better quality components.
And I think there's also a new capsule, a bigger, probably, well, I don't know if it's a bigger capsule for the actual condenser microphone itself.
Right, right, right, right, right.
Yeah, exactly.
That's exactly what it is.
Well, you know, I have a lot of experience doing that kind of stuff.
I haven't been able to actually hear the microphone yet, but I hear that it's really terrific.
It's in line with one of the $3,000 microphones, the U87s, or the, I'm sorry.
What is it, U47?
Oh, well, you know, I don't know about that microphone in particular.
You know, instrumentation microphones are the ones that measures things scientifically.
But do you remember who it was that built that microphone?
That was MV.
That was MV.
Oh, yeah, okay.
Well, okay.
Well, that's all I had to ask.
I really got a question.
What do you know about UFOs?
UFOs.
Well, absolutely nothing.
To be quite crazy, do you believe in them?
Do you believe there is alien life out there?
Pardon me?
Something seems to be breaking up here.
Say that again, Jeff.
Do you think there's extraterrestrial life?
Do you think that there's life in other planets?
Well, as far as life on other planets, I mean, your audio level or the SPL level on my telephone is really dropped.
But as far as life on other planets and other solar systems, per se, I mean, I'm sure there is.
You know, well, most likely there is.
You know, I can't prove it, but, you know, develops to.
Statistically, you would be born out.
I agree with you.
Well, you know, nobody really knows that, at least at this point.
When has that stopped anybody on Bellgab from making a point?
Pardon me?
When has that stopped anyone on Bellgab from making a point?
Oh, well, you know, I only tried and, you know, I don't know if I'm going to do it anymore.
You know, this is, you know, I'm.
Yeah.
You're what?
Well, I might.
You know, I have to get my email working again and, you know, contact a few people that I've known over many, many years and, you know, get their opinions about things.
And, well, you know, I don't know.
You know, there's so much I don't know to, you know, I'm.
Yeah, well, that's all of us.
Hey, you got anything else you want to talk about, UFOs?
No, nothing more.
You want to write down.
All right, man.
Thanks for the call, buddy.
Thank you.
Call again.
You know, I haven't seen him post in quite some time.
Yep.
But I would suggest, EIEIO, if you're still listening, that call up the spec sheet with Michael Van Dieven and Curtis Thornton, and he can tell you all about your microphone or that microphone modification.
Where were we?
I don't remember.
I don't know.
I've got this circular circuit board picture in my head, and I can't shake it now.
I think we were talking about contact something about UFOs.
Contact Buzz.
Giving a contact buzz?
Yes, I believe so.
There was one thing that a common theme that was often brought up about UFOs and aliens visiting and government cover-ups was that was the government trying to get us ready for contact by movie, all the movies that we were they preparing us by all the interesting premise.
I don't know.
It's possible.
Like, beat up, you sort of believe that, you know, there's been a government cover-up.
Do you think we were being prepared for some type of contact in the future, or do you think that they're going to keep it to themselves?
I don't think the government is going to tell you anything about anything that doesn't do them, that doesn't serve their agenda.
For instance, have you heard anybody in the government tell you that, hey, sorry about all that bullshit about yellow cake uranium?
I mean, they don't even tell us the truth about why we go to war.
Why would they tell us the truth about aliens?
So, I mean, I think anything that will take power away from them, they would keep quiet.
Yeah.
There are lots of reasons why they never tell you.
It doesn't really serve them in any way, shape, or form.
So, and there's also the hysteria factor as well, you know, if that would actually happen.
I think the maybe the religious people would be a little more hysterical.
But I'm sure that the Vatican.
But that's another thing that the whole Brookings report.
Do you think there would be mass hysteria if it was announced on the news tomorrow that there is alien life?
Do you think we would fall to pieces as a civilization?
I think a certain aspect of us would.
Maybe the religious creationists would lose their shit.
Possibly.
Yeah, possibly.
But there's people losing their shit all the time about things.
So do you think we would fall down as a civilization that, you know, things would, you know, Wall Street would crash.
And no, I don't think so.
It depends.
It depends.
If, I mean, ultimately, like, if you have to get up and go to work the next day and make your mortgage payment, then I don't think anything's going to change.
As long as effectively, I mean, there's no massive invasion or something like that, then things are just going to continue.
Yeah, I'm talking about a regular run-of-the-mill contact, maybe even just long-distance contact where they say, you know, we've contacted this civilization, they're 10 years out, something like that.
Do you think we would, I don't think so.
I guess it depends on what the type of contact is.
You know, if it was similar to the movie contact where we got the signal and we realized that it was a blueprint for all of this, I think there would be a certain group of people that would flip the shit out.
But I think the basic society would be okay.
I'm sure there'd be a militia group that would, you know, we got to give all our guns in order.
Yeah.
We got to kill them aliens.
In the 50s, you think there would have been mass hysteria?
I don't know about that.
Possibly.
I think these days, the same people, you know, like I go to church and I'm effectively agnostic/slash atheist.
That's why I get it.
Go ahead, sorry.
I know a lot of people who are fundamentalists and they believe that the Bible is true word for word.
Those are the people that would have the most difficult time processing information like that, I think.
I would just sit back and snicker.
That would be the funniest damn thing for me to see.
You know, all they would really need to do is the Pope needs to come out the next day and say we believe in aliens and make some sort of a statement that revises the belief of the Christian church.
I think the Catholic Church has effectively said that.
Yeah, I remember that.
I think it's very reasonable for them to justify it and say that God created everything.
So he created aliens as well.
He still created us in his image, but we're the special ones.
That's effectively what they've done.
If anybody has a UFO story or would like to talk to us tonight, the number is 623-242-CAST.
Number again is 623-242-2278.
Well, while we're waiting for someone to call in, I've got a story of my own.
It was about 1995, and me and a buddy were driving our car down Route 4, which is just a little northwest, northeast of Dayton, Ohio.
And just out of the corner of my eye, I see this shiny, silvery thing just zipping across the top of the trees.
And I'm looking at this.
It was basically just a flat silver disc, and it was just shooting along right above the tree line.
And I thought to myself, I've never seen a plane that looked like that.
I've never seen a plane flying at that speed at that altitude.
And effectively, I was right next to Wright Pat.
We were five minutes from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
And I thought, that's got to be some kind of plane that I don't know.
And then all of a sudden, this plane or this vehicle, this flat disc, just shot straight up and was gone like that.
And I was just kind of dumbfounded there, trying to think like what that could have been.
And the guy driving the car was suddenly like, holy shit, did you see that?
Now, I can't say with certainty what I saw.
Because, again, we were like right by Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
It's not impossible that that wasn't some kind of experimental unmanned drone.
But this is 1995.
Yeah.
And every aircraft that I'm aware of, except for maybe a helicopter, has to go forward in order to go up because it has to generate lift.
So, and this didn't go forward.
It just made a right-angle turn, and it was going several hundred miles an hour, four or five hundred miles an hour, horizontally, and then vertically, just probably a thousand miles an hour because it was just gone.
So it shot straight up?
It went straight up, literally.
And then disappeared into the sky?
Or was it just straight up and was gone?
And it was so fast that it was like, you know, in Star Trek when you see the plane going, the ship going to warp and it stretches out.
Yeah.
It was a little bit like that.
Wow.
Yeah.
That was swamp gas.
Yeah.
So if it was an unmanned, some kind of experimental aircraft, unmanned drone that had some kind of experimental propulsion system in it, it's pretty damn reckless for them to be testing that out near a populated area.
During the day.
During the day.
Well, I mean, the thing about it, if the propulsion system malfunctioned and it crashed, a vehicle going that speed would have taken out a lot of houses, done a lot of property, and killed a lot of people.
Go ahead.
Were you close enough that you would have heard anything?
I mean, that much speed, I would imagine that the sound of thrust would have been.
Yeah, if you were that close to a jet, you definitely would have heard something.
There was no noise.
Did you ever think about the g-forces of the people inside?
Something that would make that abrupt of a turn and increase in speed that fast would probably kill a human.
Yeah, it would have liquefied them, basically.
So that's why I say it had to be unmanned because if there was someone on that vehicle, they would have been killed.
So how did the UFOologists explain some of these maneuvers that are purported to be UFOs?
Do they say that they're in a gravity bubble?
Is that what it is?
I mean, when they're making changes in altitude or direction at such a fast rate, I mean, it would kill somebody inside.
But is it the gravity bubble?
Is that what they're saying to get around that?
Is that a theory?
I mean, like, Jazz, what's the inertial dampeners?
Yeah, the search rack.
Inertial dampeners.
Because they're effectively manipulating gravity, right?
So if you can do all those things, then you can operate a machine like that and not be affected by the gravity around you.
You can manipulate the gravity field or whatever.
Again, we need a physicist here to really talk about this.
Yeah, we do.
You're on the air.
Hi, it's unscreened.
How are you?
Hey.
What's up, unscreen caller?
Excuse me?
Yep, on screen caller.
I don't have any screen.
Well, I thought it on.
Oh, it's kind of in.
Go ahead.
Go ahead.
Okay.
Hello.
I don't have a UFO story per se, but I did see a long time ago, because my campus, my college campus, had like a pretty wide vista.
And I saw something going across the horizon, very low to the horizon, very, very fast.
Now, I live near Kennedy Airport, so you possibly think first thing it's a plane, but it really, it wasn't a plane.
I thought maybe it was a space station, but it's, you know, or a satellite, but it really wasn't.
But it was a very strange thing.
It just went straight across the horizon, across the low horizon, very low horizon, and very, very, very fast.
Wasn't a meteorite.
I don't know what it was.
And, you know, I sit outside every summer.
I'm looking up at the sky, like, well, you know, well, I've never seen anything, never, never, never have seen anything.
Maybe because it was near Kennedy.
Yeah.
Was there a trail on it, a smoke trail?
There was no smoke trail.
It wasn't orange.
It was a light.
It wasn't a light light.
It was an object, light.
You know what I mean?
Not like some kind of light in the sky.
But it was an object that was going, I would say, horizontal, straight across and low, but very far out.
Very, very far out.
Now, I've seen a space station because I have that whole thing, the NASA, NASA, sorry, the NASA spotted space station.
And when you see it, it doesn't traverse the sky like that.
And you can hardly make it out even standing in the backyard.
It's very, very tiny.
This wasn't very tiny.
This was something very odd, I thought.
So what do you still do?
I don't know what it was.
Yeah.
I was just going to ask you, what do you think it was, but you said you didn't know?
I thought at the time it was a satellite, but I don't think so.
I don't think satellites are that low.
I thought it was a what?
She thought it was a satellite.
A satellite, okay.
Yeah, but I don't think so.
I don't think they fly there.
If that was a satellite, we would see satellites all the time.
And I've never seen anything like that again.
I don't really know what it was.
You know, the thing is when you have an experience like that, you can't really speak to certainty about what you did see.
You can kind of talk about what you don't think it is.
You can kind of say, well, I don't think it was a conventional aircraft for this reason.
And I don't think it was a helicopter for this reason.
I don't think it was.
But then you can't really, at the end of the day, you can't really say what it is.
It's kind of an odd situation being.
Yeah.
I could rule out what it wasn't because I'm familiar with the sound of military aircraft.
I know what they sound like.
It was no sound at all.
And you would, I would, after 9-11, you could hear S-18s up in the sky.
I don't know what they sound like, but you could not hear an airplane.
You couldn't hear anything coming from it.
And, you know, living near Kennedy, I'm really familiar with planes.
I see them all the time, way high up and low.
And this did not, this was going too fast to be an aircraft like that.
And too straight to be, you know, it had to be something on course.
It was too straight to be like something coming out of falling out of a trajectory.
It was too straight for that.
So I don't know.
Maybe it was a UFO.
I don't know what it was.
And that's my story.
That's your story.
You know what I want to know is you got that book that Agent Orange sent, right?
I do, and I will pass it on, yeah.
For everybody listening, we gave a book away to Agent Orange, and he offered to make it a communal book, I guess.
And we gave it to Unscreen Caller, and she just got it, what, a couple weeks ago?
I think last week I got it.
Yeah.
And he autographed it and signed it, right?
Yes, he did.
Yes, he did.
He agent-oranged it and put a little ghost in there.
And you're wearing gloves whilst reading it, correct?
Yeah, because the pages were stuck together, so I have to wear my rubber gloves when I read it.
And possibly a mask.
You might need to send the gloves on to the next person.
Oh, I'll be happy to send them on.
Yeah, okay.
Did it have any particular odor since it did come from Canada?
Did it smell like maybe maple syrup or any sort of Canadian strange smells?
Maple and bacon, and it was very polite, yes.
Canadian bacon, of course.
Canadian bacon, yes, of course.
Now, I don't know what New York added if I'll add to it, but I'll find something, I'm sure.
Yeah, I think this book really needs to cross an ocean.
Yeah, but you guys.
Go ahead, unscreen.
No, it's a good idea.
It should cross the ocean.
It should travel the world.
Yeah, exactly.
But nobody who is a part of the GabCast can win a contest.
So, Jazz, I'm sorry, we can't give the book to you.
That's true, but there are other oceans in this world.
Really?
Yeah.
I didn't know that.
Thank you.
We could send it over to Yorkshire or Yorkshire.
We could do that.
Is there another ocean on the other side?
Is there anybody that lives in Hawaii that's a Gabcaster?
George Norrie doesn't he building a studio there?
We'll send it to him.
Indeed.
Oh, God.
Well, the studio isn't built yet, is it?
That's still in the process of being built, so you really can't send it to Snorri.
That's a good question.
All right, anything else on screen caller?
That was it.
And I will be happy to pass the book on.
I'll send it to York if you want me to George if you'd like me to do that.
Yeah, we'll figure something out, but we appreciate the call.
Well, thank you.
Have a good night.
All right, you too.
Bye-bye.
You too.
So who is clicking?
Dub, are you doing an internet search right now?
All I hear is a click, click, click, click.
Yeah, so do I. At stop.
I think it's Dub, was that you?
Yeah, I think I was.
I think my microphone is dying.
Uh-oh.
Winding down.
The lines are open right now.
There were several people that tried to call in.
You're on the air?
Hey, what up, please?
What's up, man?
Aldous Burbank, everybody.
Aldous Burbank.
Hey, I wanted to keep it kind of collar during here so we can get a flow.
Right.
Hey, my UFO story.
All right, here we go.
They're plural, and so I won't bore you, but it was a different.
I spent a lot of time outdoors.
I got lucky, and I did.
And I still do.
And I look up a lot.
I got these bad habits like that.
So I think maybe for that reason, I tended to see a lot of weird things in the sky because I look up a lot.
And I am the kind of guy that tracks satellites that are visible in the evenings and in the early mornings.
So I've often watched the space shuttle, blah, blah, blah, ISS.
Me and my kids, we track these things.
So anyway, the unusual things I've seen, I can't verify were from somewhere else.
So it kind of almost bore me.
One of the things I saw was like a mainframe thing at a concert.
And this time was one of the few times I was by myself initially.
Saw this big thing on this hill that I knew very well, and I thought it was the mining trucks that back up the open pit during ship change.
I thought they were backed up, and I could see their running lights, you know, all in a row.
Then I knew the area so well, I thought, well, it's not shift change, and that's not where there's no open fit there.
This is like me.
And while I was trying to figure out what the hell I was seeing, I realized that it was really something weird, but I could see the connector tubes like at a concert on the light frames.
And it didn't look like it was from really somewhere else.
It looked like it was from here, but it had all these lights.
And here's the weird thing with these orange and then some white lights and all this junk.
Now, here's what blew my mind.
I pulled over.
I tried to look at this thing, like stopped while I wasn't driving because there was a dirt road that I knew very well.
I knew this area from hunting a lot.
I used to hunt a lot in this area.
So I jammed into this road.
There was nobody behind me at night.
I was the only one out there.
I look at the thing.
As soon as I stop and look at it out of my truck, it disappears.
Just completely silent.
And I can see the stars behind where it had been.
It was really quiet.
I stayed out there.
It was a little spooky.
I thought, well, okay, there's one of those things, whatever that is.
But it seemed like totally something that somebody put together with, you know, welders and trip.
Well, I drive home, and there's this young lady on the phone who knows me from a town eight miles away.
And my wife says, hey, Jill's on the phone.
She wants to talk to you.
So before I could tell my wife about kind of the weird thing I'd just seen, I literally just grabbed the phone, getting out of my truck.
And she goes, hey, hey, I want to tell you, we just saw something really weird.
My family and I were outside.
They live at the little town where there's the smelters, you know, for the copper mines.
So she said, we're out there, and between our house and the smelters comes this big old thing.
She starts describing.
She said it was like all these lights connected on this big frame and they were kind of orange.
And I was like, oh, well, and with white lights underneath, right?
Like, and she's like, yeah, yeah.
And she had to have seen the same.
We'd figure out the time.
It was about 20 minutes after I saw it because it took me about 20 minutes to get home from that spot.
And she's eight miles downriver.
So her whole family, she's got like six brothers and sisters, and her mom and dad were all outside.
They also, and when they saw it, there was a fighter jet, or I can't remember if it was one or two, but there was, I think, maybe two jets kind of tailing it.
And they got a size perspective because it flew between them and the smelters, and so did the jet.
So there was that, there's that thing that I'm pretty convinced.
I don't know.
Why would we be tailing our own craft?
I don't freaking know, but it looked like something that could easily be from here except for the fact that it disappeared on me when I pulled over.
But here's, okay, so here's what I want to tell you.
So I got a lot of these kind of stories of different kinds of things.
That's an unusual one because I actually saw structure to it instead of lights and streaks and this junk.
But what was weird about that is what really blew my mind and almost pissed me off was why the hell does that thing need lights, okay?
What I'm saying is anything that can do that junk and look fly around, float, be completely quiet, they don't need backup lights, man.
So my personal theory is that they only have those lights to blow your fucking mind, okay?
Just to blow the hippie's mind.
Exactly.
That's really a good observation because if they're indeed these craft that are from another planet, they're silent, they're fast, why would they have lights on to say, hey, they don't fucking need lights.
Well, maybe the lights are there.
They don't need lights.
Go ahead, Dub.
Maybe the lights are part of some kind of sensor device, and they're not really there to illuminate anything.
They're just incidental.
Some part of the equipment of the ship itself.
Yeah, they're like mapping the Earth's core, and it just happens to emit light in the visible spectrum.
I mean, we don't really know.
Or maybe they have a sense of aesthetics.
Maybe they've just closed.
If it's our craft, you've got to wonder why they would have lights that they would use in a situation that might be public, you know?
I guess if it's the aliens, there's less issue with it, well, we can't know how they think.
But even at our level, we think that cloaking technology is all that.
So why would not an advanced civilization have already figured out how to cloak beyond cloaking that we can even imagine?
That's all I'm saying.
Very true.
Well, maybe they're listening to house music and dropping Molly.
Well, you know, speaking of, you know, only a couple of times have I actually been tripping while I've seen the weird shit, okay?
Yeah, I was actually going to say, I don't think you're the most credible witness, considering your habits.
Well, I think I've only had one solo sighting, and that was the one I just described, really.
All the others were with other people who were tripping.
But in the 2% of the cases that I was tripping, my intuition, which is really important, I mean, I'm glad it went down for that reason.
My intuition at the time, and I was pretty young, by the way, was that there's such a variety of these potential visitors, if they are, that I know some of them have to be tweakers, man.
And I got this sense, you know, that probably, you know, a lot of freaking rednecks come around here.
So here we are thinking it's going to be a space brother.
It's more like a space deliverance scenario, possibly.
So like redneck UFO meth dealers.
Is that your theory?
That was my sense that in one particular occasion, I happened to be at the Grand Canyon, and they seemed like the bad tourists, right?
That I didn't really want to be in the same park as.
And we were out there camping, and there was definitely some weirdage, some weirdage out there in the sky.
Some weirdage, yeah.
I agree with that.
All right.
Well, you know, most of them are like that, but they're so trivial.
It's like I think I posted a little while ago on the chat.
Like, it's like telling somebody after you walk around the city, you come back to the apartment, you tell them what great sets of boobs you saw, you know?
It's like, shit.
Doesn't really do it for the other guy that's listening, you know?
And at the same time, if you already believe in boobs, I mean, whatever, you know, you're just, you know, just giving them a hard time at that point, and nobody wants to hear it.
That's kind of my general attitude about UFO stories.
Or if a guy's dying to see some boobs and you tell him about all the boobs you saw, that's even worse, right?
That's not cool.
So, anyway.
Because it feels like he's missing out.
Right.
You don't want to do that to your bros.
Yeah, I want some reverse engineered boobs.
All right, Jess, take it away.
Let's do the reverse engineered space available and tweaker boob thing.
Yeah, tweaker boobs.
There's a joke in there somewhere.
Tweaking boobs.
Yeah.
That's a good point because, I mean, I saw something that I really think it was an owl or some sort of a night predator bird.
But after I saw it, my brain flipped out.
I mean, I had increasing adrenaline and my mind was spinning.
And I kept asking myself, was that really, did I really just see that?
And I was trying to convince myself that I didn't.
And my brain, it was like a giant brain puzzle.
But I was not scared, but I was psyched.
I was kind of psyched out, you know?
That, my friend, is why the owl has the shamanic mojo in most traditions.
Is that what it is?
Because they do put the spook on you a little bit.
That's right.
And all this, do you know if there are giant owls that fly around the Lake Pleasant area?
Lake Pleasant.
Oh, wow.
Oh, I know the area, by the way, and there is some weirdage out there, too.
I don't know about the owls, but you know, that reminds me.
One Lake Pleasant thing, I have a lady friend that I trust a lot, and she three or four times went out there because her friends used to know a spot where they used to see these blue glowing orbs out there.
And that's where that Castle Hot Springs is, which is another power spot that people have tried to own and do something with, but it's always seemed to be one of those power spots that basically just sits there being powerful, which is pretty awesome.
Not a lot of people go out there.
That's an awesome area out there.
Hey, I miss all you guys.
I missed Jay on my way through, but Owen, what's up, dude?
I miss you.
Your name will get better, man.
Hey, Aldous, you recently were in Philadelphia and you met up with another bell gapper.
Oh, this is true.
How was that experience?
That was really fun.
Nice guy.
What's up, Ziz?
You out there?
It was pretty cool.
You met up with Ziznak.
Yeah, I did.
And, well, yeah, I think I might have mentioned it.
But it turns out he had that an appointment.
I hope he won't mind me saying he had a job interview right at the building I was seeing out my hotel window, as it turned out.
Wow.
So before or after the interview?
Right after.
He actually met me at my smoking spot, which had already been using because it is a designated smoking spot.
And I checked out of the hotel room, grabbed my bags, and went down there basically to have the smoke as he walked out of the building to have his smoke.
So it really worked out.
It was like easier than I would have been there anyway, basically.
It's kind of weird.
But if he would have walked by you, you wouldn't have recognized him if you hadn't known that he was going to be there.
I mean, I mean, no.
But by the way, I did kind of recognize him.
First of all, he described himself briefly, but I had already seen a couple of his Photoshop selfies.
Right.
And yeah, was he wearing George Nori duck head and stuff, but it was pretty much a guy.
It was great.
He's a nice, and again, I hope he doesn't mind me saying, but from what I hear, he did get that job.
So hopefully, you know, it was a really good deal.
So he wasn't wearing his George Norrie mask at the time for the interview.
No, but he also wasn't completely trying to conceal his cat.
So, you know, he's an out there.
He's an out there, brother.
Yeah, I noticed that in the picture.
He didn't have any arms.
And you also had massive hands.
He put him back on after the photo.
Okay.
We had a little, you know, we had a little meditation session just before the picture.
We might have looked a little different than we normally do.
Gotcha.
Wink wink.
Wins the wedding.
Wins the wedding.
I think the wedding was probably in the past life.
Okay.
No, but it was a good spirit.
Guy has a good spirit.
I got a good feeling from him.
So for the first official Gab crew mashup, it was fairly successful.
It wasn't like some axe murder situation.
You know, it's pretty good.
So are you going to travel around the entire United States and just meet every single bell gabber one by one?
Well, it depends where my family and business take me.
This time it was family, you know.
And mostly I'm going to be in Eddie Dean's territory.
So he's the most next to likely on my list, actually.
Yeah, man.
You got to let me know when you're in Phoenix and we'll meet up.
I was just there, brother man.
I just got back to the People's Republic of CA, but I just was in your neighborhood, thought of you too, saw some awesome sunsets you have down there.
Yeah, they're awesome.
Yep.
All right.
Anyway, guys, I don't want to take up more time, but it was fun chatting with you.
I miss you all somehow or another.
All right, man.
All right, man.
Thanks for the question, man.
See you on the dance floor.
Later.
Players.
Take it easy.
Cheers.
See you on the dance floor.
I'm a horrible dancer, so I'm not going to do that.
I used to teach ballroom dancing.
Really?
Really?
So you really do like the cock.
Well, who doesn't?
No, it's my when my wife and I were first getting together, she taught ballroom dancing.
And it was one of the ways we could spend some time together because I worked full-time day job and she didn't.
Anyway, it turned out it was a hell of a lot of fun.
Probably one of the funnest things I did over a year and a half at the time.
Did you enjoy it or were you just doing it?
At first, I was just doing it for her.
But it did become a lot of fun.
Well, yeah.
I mean, like you wouldn't.
No, I've done worse.
Yeah, I mean, you're romancing alien blobs.
Yeah, that's true.
No need to ballroom dance with those.
Yeah, that ballroom dancing sounds pretty fun.
I actually considered doing that at one time, but I never did.
If you walk in off the street and have to pay for it, it's expensive as hell.
Is it?
Yeah.
I mean, yeah.
It's like $100 an hour.
And that was, you know, 20 years ago.
I don't know what it is now.
Interesting.
I wanted to bring up the Bell Gab.
We haven't really talked about Bell Gab recently, and I wanted to ask your guys' opinion on what you think is going on.
I mean, we've noticed a slowdown, and people have actually commented on that a little bit.
But do you guys have any opinions on why that's happening?
Or if it's really even happening?
I don't think it's really happening.
I think we have an attrition factor, but I think more people are coming on than are leaving.
And that's always an adjustment because new personalities see things differently and the ebb and flow of politics.
Excuse me.
The ebb and flow of politics is always fun.
But this seems to be where most people are posting in the past, well, month, I guess.
Mostly information.
Statistics say we're more people are viewing the pages now than there were last year at this time.
Yeah, I was just looking at that.
If you go to the bottom of Bell Gab and you click in the stats area, you can open up a monthly rundown of different data, new topics, new posts, new members, most online, and page views.
And from what I understand, the most important stat is page views.
Is that correct?
Or is it posts?
I mean, where do you get your advertisement funds from?
Is it page views?
Do you know that?
You know about that?
I think it's page views and then how many times people click.
There's a number of people who are not going to be able to do that.
Are you talking about the revenue generated by the ads?
Yeah, I'm guessing that's what does the AdSense, what do they look at as far as how much they're going to be paying for?
You have to click on an ad and then go to the website.
Oh, that's right.
That's right.
You have to click on it and then it takes you to another website and that's what the people are paying for.
Okay.
So it doesn't have anything to do with how popular the site is or how many page views it has.
I don't know.
I think it is factored into some type of algorithm, but I think Google will keep exactly how it works close to their chest.
Well, that's more search engine ranking.
The AdSense is their advertising portion of it.
But even if someone doesn't click on it, a particular ad is displayed onto a page for X amount of people to view it.
Which is advertising in a sense.
Right.
It's a click-through rate.
That's what people are paying for.
Maybe I misspoke because I don't really know that world that well.
But the numbers that I was looking at, if you compare February of this year to February of last year, I mean, we have, let's see, 8,500 new posts this year.
And last year at the same time, it was almost 6,000.
I mean, you see it trending up almost in every single category.
Smackbang in the middle of those two dates, though, was a pretty big event in the Bell Gab history, though.
Between January and February?
Well, between last year and this year.
From September and whenever.
So last year, obviously, we didn't, you know, there was, I don't think that at this time of year, there was even speculation that he was returning.
There was just the usual speculation.
Right.
But we didn't know that he was going to return.
Then we had him return.
So we had a whole influx of people.
Right.
And we've had a whole lot of people leave, but we've still had those people that came.
They're still here.
So it's a bit more now.
Even with that anomaly, and I hate to even call it that, but even with that, we're still at a higher rate of viewers than we were last year at this time.
I think it's because of that anomaly.
So you think it hasn't got back to base values or normal values because of the six-month period of the craziness at Bell Gab?
Yeah.
I think we've got news because of that, yeah.
But if I'm understanding you correctly, you would start to see a trending downwards of the number of people that are joining, and we're still having an increase.
We still have more people joining.
Oh, is there still more joining?
Okay.
Yeah.
Obviously, Bell Gab's not dying.
It might be changing into something that most of us aren't familiar with.
I think that's always a possibility with a forum.
Yeah.
Fluid, you don't know where it's really going to go.
Right.
It's like the wind, man.
It is.
And, you know, some days I get on and I think, wow, what a bunch of bright, smart, funny people.
And other days, I'm like, it doesn't happen often.
But other days, it's like, Jesus, I can't stand half these rat fucks that are here.
You know, and I'm sure they think the same about me, but I don't know.
By and large, you know, I said this a long time ago: is that this is more entertaining than television.
Getting on the forum and reading people's thoughts and trying to respond is a much better way to spend time, in my opinion, than watching an hour and a half of sitcoms.
It's definitely cheaper than cable.
Yeah.
I agree with that too.
I would agree.
It's more entertaining for the most part.
You know, and I think what happened is we got accustomed to all the people.
And let me see if I go to the numbers here.
In 2013, we had 11,000 or 11 million page views.
In 2012, we had 5 million.
So we basically doubled because of that art bell bump that we got.
Yeah, and we had the live threads and all that.
Yeah, that's true.
And of course, the GabCast thread, too, that's been created since then.
That's slamming.
But there's that letdown.
So it's about a perspective.
Somebody that joined Bell Gab in October, say, or September, they're thinking that Bellgab is dead because they're used to all of that.
But somebody that's been around for a couple of years, they've seen the ebbs and flows.
And the Art Bell, when he started his new show and all the people joined Bellgab, it was kind of an anomaly.
Yeah.
Which I wish it would have kept going.
But if he starts another show, the same thing will happen again.
Yeah.
Yeah, definitely.
Yeah, I agree with that.
And then we'll be making tens of dollars.
I think at least $12 of dollars.
Yeah.
You know, if we get Art Bell back, we'll probably each make that much.
I'll be able to buy a burrito.
That's right.
Maybe, maybe, you know, one this month and one next.
With a beverage?
Yeah, I think so.
Oh, my goodness.
Not with a beverage.
Maybe a small beverage.
Water.
You know, I have this forum etiquette public service announcement.
You guys want to hear that?
Yeah.
Yeah, please.
Okay.
The United States Health and Human Services Department presents posting.
And you say hello to Little Billy.
Recently, Billy has been noticing some changes.
He's starting to have opinions.
He has questions he can't answer all by himself.
And he has the inexplicable urge to tell someone, oh my God, Steam Rocksoars, the big 1111.
Now, Little Billy knows the healthy place to express these feelings is in the Steam forums.
Woohoo!
Slow down there, Little Billy.
You're not ready to start a new thread just yet.
Looks like you've got some more learning to do first, you dumbass.
Before you go a clicking the new thread button, you should ask yourself several questions.
First, will the thread contribute to the forum?
If you have an opinion, back it up with reason.
If you have a question, provide enough information so others can help you.
And if you just have something to say, say it respectfully.
Second, has it been posted before?
One of the Steam Forum's best kept secrets is the search button.
This handy little fellow will allow you to find threads of days gone by.
Simply enter in some basic keywords and hit perform search.
It's really that easy.
And remember...
Another pro tip is to check the form's stickies.
The threads listed at the top of the forum next to the words read first.
You don't want all the kids laughing at you because you had a question that was answered in a sticky.
Now do you?
Ho ho ho ho!
No, you don't.
And third.
Am I in the right forum?
Read a description of each forum, and decide which one best suits your thread.
It looks like you're ready to start posting!
And you too.
I would agree.
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Brilliant.
You know, we needed that.
I think WR250 posted that in one of the general threads.
So thanks for posting that.
But we really needed that PSA a couple months ago when there was so many threads that were created that really didn't need to be.
So much butthurt.
So much butthurt.
It probably should pop up each time you go to Belgab.
I think when you register, you should have to watch it.
Yeah.
It's a requirement.
You have to watch it.
And not with one of those YouTube skip ads after five seconds deals either.
You know, I hate that they are putting advertisements.
Well, it's actually been there for a while, but the advertisements you have to deal with everywhere you go now.
Now it's on YouTube.
At least you can skip after you watch the first three seconds or five seconds, but some of them you have to sit through 30 seconds of some stupid ad.
Why do you hate America, Eddie?
I hate commercials.
That's all.
I'm scared of them.
Why do you hate capitalistic society so much?
It's just.
I don't know.
Why do you hate the children?
I hate it.
Now that's a very Belgab debate tactic, yeah.
Well, have you guys got your Sphinctinax samples yet?
I do.
Yes.
Yes.
I'm addicted.
Just be sure to keep the windows open when you're using that stuff because it does smell.
Smells like ass.
Just how I like it.
Feels like heaven.
Yes.
Tens of dollars, my friends.
Tens of dollars.
Oh, it's going to start rolling in here pretty soon.
I can't wait.
Define the word it.
What's going to start rolling in here?
Less buttons.
Tash, cash.
Tens of dollars.
Burritos.
We're going to be millionaires.
We are.
I don't know about that.
What was that thing on Simpsons where Homer won $10,000 and he says, I'm going to be a millionaire?
This has been the Gabcast.
It certainly has.
Thanks for listening, everybody, at UFOShift.com.
If you guys want to download the show, it will be available at that same website.
Thanks to Unscreen Caller, thanks to Aldous Purbank, thanks to my esteemed hosts, Onan B Dub, and Jazz Munda.
I'm in EIO.
Oh, sorry.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yo, who called in.
Thanks, everybody, and we will see you next week.
Good night.
Good night, everybody.
Happy St. Patty's Day.
Good night, America.
Fuck up the paper.
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