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03 February, 2015

03 February, 2015 ---------- Art Bell and George Noory directly address one another on BellGab. A childhood dream comes true.

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The Gabcast, a podcast about Bellgab.com.
Visit ufoshift.com for live streaming and chat.
Hey, what's up?
How's it going?
Time protected.
Nothing.
So this is the Gabcast.
Hi, everybody listening out there.
If you want to be on the show, the number to call is 623-242-CAST.
That is 623-242-2278.
If you'd like to be on the show tonight.
Do we still have any listeners in the chat room?
Oh, hey, we do.
How about that?
They all laughed.
Yeah, I was going to say, I can't believe they stuck around it.
It just takes us as time goes by, it's getting increasingly more difficult for us to get every show started.
I don't know why.
It's always something different.
Yeah.
I'm the biggest problem.
Yeah, it turned out that all these issues that we've had with Mumble every time we've tried to do a show, it turns out it's Curtis after all.
That's really comforting to know.
I even went out and bought a new CPU for the server that we use for all of this, thinking that my server was too slow.
So I thought I'd upgrade the CPU.
And it turned out it's like insult to injury.
Not only did the CPU not work when I got it here, it turns out that Curtis is the problem anyway.
So I didn't even need to order it.
So thank you, everybody.
It's been wonderful.
Thank you.
This is a stellar episode and it hasn't even started yet.
Yeah.
So again, that number to call 623-242-CAST, 623-242-2278.
Someone's got your Windows sounds going there, by the way.
I don't know who that is, but we're hearing it.
No way.
It's probably you, Curtis, isn't it?
It is me.
So you got yourself out of I'm hosting podcasts mode and started allowing all your Windows sounds to come back.
And, you know, you thought you were never going to do any podcasting again.
I'm not.
I don't really consider this podcasting.
I really don't either.
I consider this thing boy.
Dare you?
The only person here who cares at all about this show, its quality, its delivery, or the fact that anybody listens is redacted.
Otherwise, no one here cares whatsoever.
Wait, this thing on?
Yes, it is.
Oh, okay.
And again, you know, listen to the stream server's maxed out.
I'm going to have to upgrade that.
50 slots is just not enough.
See, I just need a bigger boat.
I just never do it because I think, well, you know, this is just a phase and everything's going to calm down again.
But then every show we do, we're coming in here.
This thing's maxed out.
I can't keep having that happen.
That's another amazing story.
Oh, my God.
Curtis, are you doing the George Norrie soundboard now?
Have you taken over that job?
Ah, yes.
Oh, shit.
I hate the George Norrie soundboard.
The George Norrie soundboard eats my ass.
Does that put sandpaper up your ass?
Yeah.
If anything has ever eaten my ass, it's the George Norrie soundboard.
I just want to put that out there for our listeners.
That's still happening.
That's still happening.
Okay, Curtis.
I'm done.
I'm going to warm the pickup truck.
I really am.
I'm done for a few minutes.
And then beat her.
You were actually, Curtis, before the show, you were playing around with the George Nori soundboard and you were like making him say funny things.
Try that again.
Let's see if you can successfully string anything together.
Well, you deserve it.
How are you?
Here's what's happening.
It's another amazing story.
It has to have started somehow.
Little Evil Elves.
And then beat her.
I'm Chris Hansen with David.
No, see, this is a fail.
Judges fail.
Fail.
You know, you want to dip your toe in the George Norrie soundboard waters, Curtis, but you're really not ready to just dive in.
Oh, I agree.
For me, it's more of a, in the moment, I just do this.
Ah, yes.
Right.
It's all about the context and the timing.
Right.
You know, I've got to say, you people listening, you all really suck.
I mean, every show we do, we're sitting here with about 50 people listening live, at least 50, because, I mean, there could be more than one person listening as a result of one connection.
It is possible that somewhere there's a football stadium that has decided for halftime just to bump the show into the stadium.
You can't know.
I thought you had strict rules about rebroadcasting.
We could have tens of thousands of listeners right now.
I don't know, but no one ever calls.
You guys just sit there and even when Art Bell's in the chat room and you can ask him questions on the show.
Well, I guess in that case, it didn't really matter because they could just type the questions in the chat room.
They didn't need us, did they?
You needed us as the vessel through which you speak to Lord Otbel.
What do you guys think now being several days away from having him in the chat room?
Is there a burning question you missed that you wished you'd asked?
Who was it that told me there was something I should have asked?
And I thought, ah, damn it.
I should have asked that.
Yeah, I really saw that.
It was in the, wasn't it in the Gabcast thread he said?
What was the question?
I can't remember.
That I was supposed to have asked.
Damn it.
Oh, well.
Why does your forum hate George Norrie so much?
I think was the first question.
Well, we've got a lot more credibility than we used to now, at least.
I mean, since we're not GeorgeNorrySucks.com anymore, which I think really sucked a lot of our credibility just straight out of the room.
But now that we have a harmless name like Bell Gab, you know, suddenly we have more credibility.
There's everything we say seems more learned and from a place of wisdom and experience as opposed to before.
Yeah.
Oh, hey, here's a call.
Let's see what this person wants to talk about.
Hi there, you're on the air.
Hello.
Hey, it's Zatar again.
Oh, hey, man.
What are you up to?
Hey, I had a question for you and Curtis.
I know this isn't the tech, the spec sheet.
Yeah.
But I'm having some networking problems that are really fucking weird.
What's going on?
And I wanted to get your opinion on it.
So Comcast just came in and changed out our Xfinity, you know, phone, internet, cable, all that jazz.
That router or modem or appliance or whatever you want to call it.
Modem.
Okay.
And he didn't really seem too impressed by your contribution there, Redacted.
But anyway, continue, Vittorio.
Anyway, so every device in the house is, you know, steaming along, except for the computer that I built, which was working like three days earlier before they changed out the modem.
How do you connect?
Hardwire or wireless?
No, I connect wireless.
Is it the only device?
Is that computer the only device that connects wireless?
Yes.
No, no.
There's many devices that connect wireless.
I mean, I'm, I, you know, I work in the IT field too, but this one has me like crazy.
This one has me stumped.
Just as a random test.
Well, I guess to back up, do you have your DNS?
Does it point to the router?
Or do you use it?
I tried using Google's no dice.
Same issue.
I've tried running.
Yep, I've tried release renew flush DNS.
I did a trace route to UFOship.com.
Well, we'd rather you not do that.
Okay.
Anyway, it jumps and skips a step after the router or after the modem.
So it'll jump to the modem, which is the first jump.
And then the second jump, the request will time out, and it'll then hit my local Comcast server, and then it'll run down to Boston, to New York, to another New York server, and then it goes into the pile, into the Ether.
And then it eventually runs down to you guys 17 hops away.
So you said right before it gets to the local Comcast node, it times out.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's really weird.
It only times out once.
It's not like it goes down like five and then it hops over to another server.
Then you can get on the phone with Comcast, have them reset your modem.
Because my guess is it's got a bad route table in it.
Okay.
But is it a separate modem and router?
No.
No, it's all one box.
Oh, well, that sucks.
That's mistake number one.
Yeah, I know.
Well, you know, I mean, this is my parents' stuff.
It's not mine.
Yeah.
My guess is there's a bad IP routing table in the modem, which is also a router.
For it to stop right there and not after it hits there means it's local to your segment of the network.
If that doesn't get it and you notice, like you said, other devices don't seem to have the problem, but my guess is your PC that you built is probably the one that taxes the network the most, so that's why you're not noticing on the other systems.
Well, I mean, like, I can type in ufo ship.com.
I get nothing.
It just sits there and spins.
On any of the system, any of your computers?
No.
I'm listening to the podcast right now on my tablet because my computer's not working.
Right.
Okay, that's what I'm getting at though.
But your tablet doesn't really tax the network the same way your desktop does.
That shouldn't matter.
Well, you don't really notice if a web page loads slower, you're not going to notice it as much on a tablet as you would on the desktop because you're used to you're more acclimated to the speeds of a desktop.
I'm talking about I can't load the page like it times out.
Yeah, he's just got no internet connection.
Yeah.
Is there something on the network?
No, it'll occasionally work.
Like every once in a while, the internet god will come down and slap the computer and it'll start to work.
Yeah, it's a rare about on the IP.
Because the other thing you can do is give yourself, define yourself a different IP address.
It's probably Mac-based.
I did.
I set mine.
It's 10.0.0.6 right now.
You know what I'll bet?
I'll set it to 10.0.0.13 because I figured I would be lucky.
I'll bet you you've got a I'll bet you if you replaced the wireless adapter in that computer, it would work fine.
Oh, yeah, because it would give it a different route.
Well, it would give it a different MAC address, which then wouldn't be.
I mean, I tried switching my PCI slot and everything.
You know, I just went through this problem and I switched out the Ethernet card and it fixed it.
Curtis, is there any way to like flash a new MAC address onto a network adapter?
I've heard of people doing it, but it's complicated and could cause you lots of issues.
I mean, it's easy to do for devices that are made to have multiple, but they try to hard code it because you have to go basically into the ROM to change it.
Vittor, I think you should just make your life easier.
Run to Walmart, grab yourself a $30 wireless adapter, plug it in, and be done.
Hang on, I'm grabbing a wireless adapter from my sister's computer.
That's just a band.
We're doing it live.
Fuck it.
We'll do it live.
Well, yeah, but we're not going to sit here and listen to you installing wireless drivers.
Do you already have it?
All right, whoa, whoa, whoa.
What better things do you have to do?
Well, we have there was a mud wrestling competition between Art Bell and George Norrie on Bellgab, I think.
I'm going to assume other than interpretation that something happened.
Yes.
With questions that deep, I don't know why anybody's longing for the return of Art Bell.
No.
Okay, so Vittor, do you already have the wireless adapter drivers installed?
Is this going to just work when you plug it in?
No.
Okay, well, we're not going to sit here and wait for you to do that.
You're going to have to redo your network connection.
Well, I hope it's okay.
I understand.
I was excited for that.
Were you, Curtis?
Maybe a little bit.
I guarantee you, you just put in a new wireless adapter.
Everything's probably.
I mean, just remember that that's a band-aid, the problem.
Because the other, if he takes that wireless or the wireless card that's in there now and moves it to another PC, it's probably going to have the same issue.
He's human beings.
Isn't this more like a lung transplant?
Yeah.
It's a lung transplant, but the problem is you're still smoking through a hole in your neck.
So, Curtis, what do you recommend as a long-term fix for this?
You need to get the router reset, which you might be able to do from the router's, the router slash modem.
You need to hire a hitman to take out your parents so that they won't have an internet connection anymore.
But in the past.
No, they neutered the, I don't know why, but Comcast neutered the interface that you can go into.
You can't actually get to any of the deeper settings within the router now.
Yeah, Charter.
You want a MAC address filter?
Oh, okay.
You can have that.
But if you want to do anything deep, like, you know, I don't know, actually assign static IPs, you can't even do that, which I think is asinine.
Yeah, I mean, that's a basic function of a router.
You need a separate router and modem.
Just get on the chat with Comcast and tell them you want them to reset your modem.
And when they say, well, that's going to disconnect, they say, I don't care.
Reset my modem.
Curtis in Indiana says to.
That's right.
BW, I hate you too.
Is B Dub talking shit in the chat room?
Uh-huh.
Yep.
He's a shit talker right there.
He is shit talking.
Okay.
Well, Vittor, good luck.
We wish you well.
We hope everything goes as you anticipate it will.
Thank you, guys.
I appreciate it.
I don't really know what you're anticipating to happen, so I can't necessarily say that that would be a good thing, but good luck with your problems there.
I really hate those all-in-one router modem combo units because when something screws up, it's so much harder to make a determination as to what the problem is.
And also, they're not very configurable, as he mentioned.
Even Charter, which I think is probably one of the better cable companies in this country as far as how they treat their customers and the services they provide.
Even they have started pushing out these all-in-one boxes that only they can control.
So if you just literally, if you just want to forward a port on your local network, you have to call them up and have some girl on the other end of the phone do it for you.
I mean, isn't that just...
Is that $9.99 an hour?
I'll pay that.
I don't think you have to pay for it, but I think they just do this so that they think that it's going to decrease their call volume, I guess.
They think that you're going to be less likely to screw your stuff up.
This is the same thing that DSL modem or DSL providers did two years ago.
Before it was the Wild West, you got DSL, you had complete access to the modem.
And then after a while, they started to lock them down, make them pieces of crap.
That's too bad.
Well, this is the Gabcast.
It's a podcast about Bellgab.com.
We would like to do the spec sheet, but unfortunately, Curtis quit that show and betrayed me, betrayed all the people who were listening to and enjoying and following that show, all the people who were loyal to it.
He just walked away.
That's it.
So long after four or five years of wonderful broadcasting.
So we can't turn this into the spec sheet.
We would have to actually do the spec sheet.
Join me in July when I talk about what really happened behind the scenes.
My non-compete is over.
Curtis, are you saying that you're going to return to the spec sheet potentially in July?
In July.
You know, Curtis went out and repurchased a whole bunch of audio equipment that he just finished selling because he was out of podcasting.
I made a profit, though, even after buying new equipment.
Well, my point is that I think people could expect that they're going to be hearing more of you.
Is that what this comes down to?
Better for the investment I just put into it.
What did you spend?
Do you care to say?
Oh, I don't care.
I spent $350.
Total?
Total.
That's for the DBX 286S microphone processor and the Scarlet 2i2.
Oh, no, you didn't get a 2i2.
I got the solo, which is $50 cheaper.
I wonder if I should have gotten that.
It's simple.
I mean, it does what I need.
It sounds great.
Yeah, so far it's working well.
I know.
Well, anyway, this is a podcast about Bellgab.com.
And so I guess that's what we'll do is talk about the forum.
And one of the more interesting things that's been happening on the forum, at least, well, you heard the last show, everybody.
And so that was interesting enough.
Talking to one another about the imminent return of Art Bell in July, as he has announced.
And Art was in the chat room hanging out with us during the last show.
That was a lot of fun.
Yeah, no big deal.
It's just Art Bell in the chat room talking to us.
No big deal.
You know, it's starting to feel that way.
It's like, ah, another post from Art Bell.
Anyway, I'm going to go brush my wife's kid.
I'm going to get a cat when a Cat Smile posts on the forum.
Kind of interested in what he said, but I'll move on.
What did you say?
It's kind of like when Cat Smile posts in the forum.
You see it, then you're like, oh, hey, look, Catsmile posted.
I'll look at that, but maybe later.
Because that's how arts become.
It's such a regular thing.
That's your reaction when Cat Smile posts, huh?
No, he's my favorite poster.
Is he?
I don't know.
I can't figure Cat Smile out.
Sometimes he seems mean, and then other times I'm like, fuck yeah.
Love the Cat Smile.
Hate the drink.
We need more Cat Smile.
I don't know.
It's hard to figure people out in just text form.
That's why I like it when people call because you can hear their voice and add more context to what it is you see them submitting in the form of the written word.
And it's always interesting to hear what people sound like.
But anyway, so Art Bell was in the chat room last week during the show, and there's been a lot of activity on the forum.
You wouldn't believe the money that forum made yesterday.
Oh, my God.
It was just ridiculous.
Tens of dollars, right?
No, I mean, it was a lot of money.
I mean, if it made that money every day, wow.
I'd be sitting on Easy Street, wouldn't I?
Come on, people.
I swear, I mean, if only people knew, well.
I would really love to tell people.
Is there any reason why I shouldn't tell people what the forum makes?
I can't think of any.
I think everybody is already, what's the word I'm looking for, obsessed with the forum that maybe that piece of information might drive them over the edge of saying, look at Michael up there in his high castle making all this money off of me browsing his site, commenting about a guy who hosts a show in his ivory tower.
You might end up being on the same level as Nori if you tell them the tens of dollars you make off of it.
I just want everybody to know I am filthy rich because of your posts.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Go to michaelvandevensucks.com.
Thank every one of you.
VanDeeven Enterprises, thanks you.
All of us, thank you.
Oh, gosh, what is it?
So does Falky Enterprises, too.
Don't forget they're an offshoot.
Well, that's designed to make him money.
So we knew that that was going to happen.
But for the record, I just like to put out there, this happened on Saturday night, and I am still freaking out over Art Bell being in the chat room.
I'm not over that.
That will never be just a commonplace thing to me.
Every time he posts, I'm going to freak out.
I'm going to respond.
Every time he shows up here, if he calls, I'm going to fall out of the chair.
I'm a fan.
What can I say?
You really are a fangirl, aren't you?
Oh, my God.
I've been listening to Art Bell since the internet came out.
I don't know, a long time.
And yeah, I always wanted to sort of be on the radio and just to have that much contact with him.
It's a big deal.
It's a big deal to me.
And I was tickled.
And I just thought that was so great that he was in the chat room and he got all a little irritated that he had to prove it was him.
You know, Art Bell, it could be announced that Art Bell has been walking up and down the Vegas strip, just randomly slapping babies in the face.
And you would say, you know, he's just a great, he does a great radio show, though, guys.
He really does a great show.
I'd have to get out there and slap some babies with him.
Are you kidding?
I'm not going to let him out do that by himself.
You'd be the one slapping for him.
He points to the baby and says, slap it.
Yes.
Wasn't that a discussion on Velgab?
Would you slap a baby for a billion dollars?
Or was it punch a baby?
Was it punch or slap?
I can't remember.
I think it was punch a baby for a billion.
Punch a baby for a billion.
Curtis, I mean, we're like, really, I mean, you literally are going to receive a billion dollars.
Are you going to punch the baby?
Okay, so I think billion maybe would be the number that I would say yes to, but anything less than that, no.
So you would double up your fist and you would reach back and build up all that potential energy and transfer it into kinetic energy into that baby's face.
With the understanding that I'm splitting half of it with the baby because of the lawsuit that's going to come from it afterwards.
Yeah, but you're still profiting as a result of what you did.
Yeah.
You didn't receive a punch.
Why should you get half of that money?
You're saying the baby should get the money?
Yeah, the baby should get every dollar of the billion.
See, that's the thing that holds you back.
That's the structure of society is our legal system.
So if I'm not going to get anything from it, then no, I'm not going to.
Does society say it's okay to punch a baby for a billion?
Is there a law addressing this?
No, what I'm saying is that the reason why you don't go punch the baby if you're intelligent in any way is that as soon as you punch the baby and they hand you the check for a billion dollars, that baby's family is suing you for that money.
So you really got no net benefit out of doing it.
Other than that you're a bastard on TV.
But what will they realistically be entitled to, though?
Because let's say the court doesn't know that you received the billion directly as a result of punching the baby.
Maybe that was a secret agreement between you and your benefactor.
Oh, they'll know.
It'll get help.
We know you got this billion because you punched the baby.
Just admit it, Mr. Thornton.
Well, remember, you know what?
I did that.
I would do it again.
Redacted, are you going to punch the baby for a billion?
Yes.
Billion dollars.
Yes.
You're going to, you're just going to reach back and boom right in the face.
Right in the, it's not, this is a real punch.
I mean, this is like if you were punching a grown man in the face.
Well, but I'm also going to give the baby some of my billion for the therapy that the baby's going to need.
How much?
I don't know, 5 million.
Really?
Oh, my God.
You're such a chiseler.
I need the rest, though.
It's got to last me, you know.
It's got to last me.
You're $595 million.
This has got to last.
But what would you do with a billion dollars if you actually, if you had it?
Say you won the lottery or you had Bill Gates was your long-lost uncle and left it to you?
Buy a radio station?
That's a good plan.
Would you really?
Yeah.
Just flush it down the toilet, huh?
That's an easy way to become a millionaire.
Right down the toilet on a radio station, and I would be the happiest person on earth as a wannabe broadcaster.
And then they could, you know, make a website redact.
It sucks.
Well, I think I would establish some sort of an anti-baby punching charity, sort of to atone for my sins.
Could you call your radio station K-Punch?
Hey, there you go.
Now we're talking.
I think that makes light of the situation, Curtis.
Well, somebody needs to.
Well, I, for the record, am not going to punch the baby.
I'm the only person here, I guess.
I literally would, I literally would not punch the baby.
What if it was your own baby and you knew what you've watched your baby fall off the couch and fall as they're trying to learn to walk?
So you know what your baby can take in terms of a punch because you've watched their brother or sister or their friends punch them in the face.
Well, now you've made it much tougher for me to decide, and I will have an answer for you, ladies and gentlemen, next week, right here on the Gabcast as to whether I would, in fact, punch my own daughter for a billion dollars.
And then beat her.
Wait a minute.
See, now that's a deciding factor right there.
Is it a little girl baby or a little boy baby?
You really think it makes a difference?
I guess not.
It kind of baby.
It's got to be a boy.
Because you're going to punch me when I'm in a diaphragm.
You don't get to choose what baby you're going to punch.
The guy with the billion dollars is going to come up to you and say, hey, there's the baby.
Go punch it.
Why am I hanging out with creeps that have a billion dollars that are going to give me that for punching a baby?
Because he's got a billion dollars.
Why are you going to participate in some creeps' little baby punching scheme?
Is your name Tommy?
I don't like the direction this conversation's taking.
Give me my money.
Anyway.
Okay, so Art Bell and George Norrie, it's an historic event because Art Bell and George Nori directly communicated with one another on Bell Cab the other day.
I feel like this is Tupac and Biggie Smalls, you know, going back and forth on your forum.
Isn't that just, I mean, I think I'm pretty sure I've said this before, but it's just funny.
You buy this domain name.
You don't know what to do with it.
Somebody suggests that you start a forum with it.
Okay, why not?
That sounds good.
Fast forward seven or eight years, George Norrie and Art Bell are connecting to that same server and launching salvos at one another.
Is that just surreal?
This whole time, I've been wondering what your thoughts were, kind of being in the middle of the situation as you are.
I'm not in the middle of anything.
Well, the forum, your domain name is in the middle.
You're the middle man.
Okay, there's a script that I happened to install on a server that I happen to pay for every month, but through a domain name that I bought.
But other than that, I'm sorry, I'm burping while I'm speaking.
That sucks.
I hate it when that happens.
Such a professional.
I'm not going to feel like I'm in the middle of anything.
I just can't believe there's not been a lawsuit yet that you've been called into to say, Mr. Van Deven, please tell us on this day, at this time, when this person posted, why didn't you delete it?
It was negative to George Norrie.
I reserve the right to invoke my Fifth Amendment privileges.
That's my answer to that question.
I don't answer to anybody.
I'm Michael Van Deven.
And this is your podcast.
I'm Michael Van Devin of Van Devon Enterprises.
I noticed that.
I noticed that on the forum there.
Well, if you search Van Devon Enterprises, you'll see that we're involved in a lot of areas.
We're involved in helping engineer the recording of saga albums.
A lot of complicated things.
Yeah, we've got our tentacles all over the place.
It literally says the words Van Devon Enterprises literally appear on the artwork for the latest saga album.
Can you believe that?
That's awesome.
That's a universe that I want to live in right there.
One in which that happens.
It has to have started somehow.
I don't know.
See, Curtis, I see what you're going for there, but it's just not quite working.
I don't know.
I don't hate you.
I just don't think that you're necessarily quite as cut out for the George Norrie soundboard as Eddie.
Well, no, because he did it like pro style.
Very clearly, I'm amateurish and dumb when I do it.
And by the way, Eddie quit the show.
I've forgotten to make any mention of that the last two shows we've done.
Eddie quit the show.
So for anybody wondering, where's Eddie?
There's the answer.
He quit the show.
Officially.
Yeah, he did.
Speaking of, where's Jasmunda?
He's doing something with his, I don't know.
Wait.
Wait.
Don't tell me he's having family time.
He's doing something in like real life, whatever that is.
He's out masquerading as if it's important that he participate in the development of his children and their well-being.
You know, it's just bullshit.
I tell you.
But anyway.
So Art Bell Plays.
There's a question from the chat room.
Pat or Pate, sorry, said, how can anyone run a George Nori soundboard worse than the real Snoron?
And I'm kind of scared to find out that maybe I've done it worse than the real man.
You know, that's actually something to consider.
You could have actually...
At least, though, with the soundboard, you're going to hear interesting things.
They're going to be injected in places that the real George Norrie never would.
So yes, I think that's- How did he happen?
Because see, Curtis, it's just.
It's the timing, isn't it?
Well, it's the timing and it's the overall button selection.
You're just...
Well, I need to get, like, more because I only have a few choices currently, but trust me, I'm not letting this one die.
You're just you're drawing blanks there.
Shooting blanks.
Shooting blanks.
That's nothing new.
Okay, so Art Bell posted on the forum the other night.
He says, I'm by nature a competitor, but it has to be a near-even playing field.
I was in a situation where in order for people to listen to my show, they had to pony up about $180 a year to buy a special receiver when I was on SiriusXM.
Combine that with a streaming service that had dropout problems.
And, well, it was not even close to an even field.
That is not to say that satellite radio is less in any way.
As a service to deliver to cars and trucks, it's great.
Now comes July.
We will provide a free stream at a decent bit rate for Reverend Dirt.
That's not really interesting.
That was actually, that's, well, no, that wasn't the July announcement post.
This was something he posted after that.
Yeah, you need to read the post that he put basically talking about where he says.
To Tommy, Lisa.
Yeah.
Okay, I'm posting this here because I know you read here by the hour.
I like that.
Yeah, I do too.
Good.
You may, really quick, before you go any farther on this, can you imagine in real life art?
I mean, he's so passive-aggressive, I'm guessing, in everything.
This is the message you get when you bring him his coffee wrong.
You get this email.
You're saying if I were serving coffee to Art and I did so incorrectly, I would receive this email.
In that tone.
And I like it.
Well, I'm going to read this and you just imagine Art's voice reading this.
You may have noticed that when I made my announcement on Facebook, I did not in any way mention George or even Premiere.
That's because I was hoping that I could put all my efforts into preparing for the show I'm going to do.
It's not in your interest to make this a war because as the 500-pound gorilla in the room, any conflict does not work out in your favor at all.
ouch he basically said um look you're really just a imagine a piece of dried flaky cat shit on the sidewalk as you walk past it That's you.
I'm the guy walking past.
And so view everything through that prism from here going forward.
However, taking Jimmy and Keith away, Jimmy away from Keith was kind of lowbrow.
Having George get on the air and pretend to help me by talking about my return and then playing my now very old show where I was told to say George gets it.
Well, it just does not seem like a good start.
Let's start fresh.
I will not go after you guys and you don't go after me.
Let's both do what we do and see how it comes out in the end.
I'm more than happy to have a smaller, higher quality show if that's how it plays out.
I will not hit, but I will hit back.
And then there's George's big long response.
That's a well, before you read that, that message, what I like about it is he says he doesn't care what basically you back him into a corner and he doesn't care what the end result is.
He's going to do what he's going to do.
And that fills me with a lot more hope than any other message before.
He mentioned having a smaller audience isn't going to deter him.
I like that.
Me too.
Why can't?
Did he specifically say that?
That having a smaller audience is not going to deter him?
Yeah.
Go back and Like maybe two or three sentences before the end.
I forget exactly what he said.
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, I'm more than happy to have a smaller, higher quality show.
Yeah.
With a lot more Jazz Munda.
Oh, I'm sure Jazz Munda is going to be on with him every night.
Did you hear, did you see where Jazz Munda posted that when Art was doing Dark Matter and Jazz Munda called in on Skype, that Art just left him on Skype and he listened to the show that way and he was able to hear Art talking to the producer and stuff during the break.
Yeah.
Oh, really?
That's great.
I wonder if he recorded that by any chance.
Like if maybe we could hear Art yelling at Asia because she's spilling spaghetti all over his ham radio.
There's got to be something interesting to listen to there.
What I don't understand is it seems obvious to me that George and Premiere Radio are trolling art.
And they did it the last go-around when Dark Matter Ieration 1 was coming to fruition.
And they're doing it again now.
The last time around, what did they do?
They had David John Oates on, who'd been banned from Coast to Coast AM for a long time as a result of the things that he said about art that were arguably defamatory.
And I think what Oates did, and correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't he reverse some of Art's speech and he used the audio of that to draw the conclusion that Art was a child molester or something?
Isn't that what Oates did?
That's how I understood it.
Well, I think part of it was he misread the news.
There was an article about art.
He read it, misinterpreted what he read, and then he went back and did reverse speech and defamed on a radio show or either on a ham radio show or two guys talking on ham radio or a real radio show.
I can't remember.
I think that was a shortwave station.
Shortwave.
Some bullshit Christian shortwave station in Tennessee.
Really?
It was?
I thought it was live on the air on coast to coast.
No, no.
Oh, okay.
I misunderstand that.
No, I think he thought that Art was in jail already and that there was no worry of repercussions or what he was saying is my guess.
Really?
Oh my God, this guy is an incredible shit.
If that wasn't the case, why did the guy say it?
Because where else is he going to go sell this stuff without a national audience?
If it's not with Art at the time.
Well, I'm saying he thought Art was in jail.
Well, no, I'm trying to remember where I read this.
It might have been in the Wikipedia about it or maybe in someone's blog post.
But I thought the series of events were he read it somewhere that Art was in legal trouble and misinterpreted what he read and then went and had this conversation publicly and also dug it even deeper by bringing in reverse speech.
And then, of course, Art wasn't in trouble and the whole situation was completely different than the way it was portrayed.
And so he sued him.
Okay, this is from David Oates' website, looking at the bottom of this explanation he has on there.
On June the 12th, I finally detailed my side of the story in a dramatic radio broadcast from Western Montana.
He says he filed a countersuit for $140 million.
He says Bell has offered to file, offered to settle the suit with him, but he's refused.
These are David Oates' words.
I wonder when this was posted.
There's no date.
This is a very GeoCities.
You know, this is like your typical Coast to Coast AM guest website.
We need to start a service selling those kind of websites to people who have paranormal.
Well, all you have to do is run your website through the GeoCities Iser or whatever it's called, where you'll have the spinning, rotating GIFs and everything you ever wanted.
Yeah, so anyway, they bring on David Oates after he had been banned for the show for his alleged defamation of Art Bell.
I don't really know the full story there.
That's why I say alleged.
I don't really know what he did or didn't do.
And then what else did they do?
They poached a few of Art's guests.
They threatened a couple guests that they couldn't come on Coast if they went on Art's show.
What else?
There were some other things they did to troll Art the last time around when he started his show.
Help me remember.
What am I forgetting?
Did you mention the psychic twins?
Those were the Ghostbuster gals or whatever?
Yeah.
Yeah, there was the thing with telling guests they couldn't be.
That was after the show had been on.
That wasn't before.
But, I mean.
Well, anyway, the point is that clearly, clearly these people are trolling art.
And then this time, oh, and there were the little, you know, one minute art's names being mentioned, then the next minute it's not.
There was a lot of that.
And then, you know, they did pop up on channel 104 right after Art left.
Yep, they did that.
And so what's the scorecard this time around that they've done so far?
They've started playing reruns of old shows where Art Bell says George Nori gets it.
Which I'm kind of surprised to learn that Art was asked to say that.
By the way, that was your question that you couldn't remember earlier in the show that you blew it by you didn't ask.
That was your question.
What was in Art's mind when he said that?
And then we got the explanation that they had asked him to say that on the air.
And I remember him going over that on a later program on the air.
I don't recall if it was dark matter or if it was later days.
It must have been dark matter because he wouldn't have been able to talk about that on the air on Coast to Coast.
But he did discuss that on the air at one point.
I don't remember that, him addressing that.
But I am surprised that Art wouldn't, I don't know.
I mean, on the one hand, Art's kind of a rebel in certain ways, but in other ways, he's kind of a company man.
You know, it's like he's not going to do anything too crazy and just left field.
Unless it's in his personal life, but like professionally, he's not going to do anything like, you know, Art's not going to host his final appearance on Coast and saying one more thing before I leave.
And then, you know, he's just not going to do that.
He's not that kind of guy.
And so I guess you could say that that could be the perspective from which Art agreed to say, hey, George gets it.
But.
Well, before Art left Coast, weren't there a few episodes when he talked about doing real, live, true, open lines?
Which was a knock at George?
I think so.
I remember some sort of an attitudinal approach to discussing open lines, which did seem to suggest, hey, you know, I'm aware of how neutered this show is now.
The thing, too, about this, especially with the message that Art put up, it looks like he's willing to allow George to coexist with him, which is a big leap, I think, on his part to say, it's okay.
You do your thing on my old show.
Just stay out of my way.
So it's basically elevating George.
Why, with all the, you know, the great minds, I'm putting air quotes that George has, why don't they accept that offer and use it for what it's worth?
Because they're mean people.
Have you seen the people that George is surrounded by?
Lisa Lyon comes off as such a bitch.
Anytime I have seen an email response from her that somebody's received and that they've chosen to publicly post for other people to see, she always comes off as just such a mean person.
So does Tom Danheiser.
He comes off as just a mean, mean guy.
And so that's the type of person that George is surrounded by.
I suspect that George is probably about 25% as he has probably 25% as much malice in his heart as people think he does.
It's probably the people that he's surrounded by who largely are responsible for the decisions that get made that make George look like such an asshole.
That's just my, that's just what I suspect.
Well, it looks like when he's called in and talked to us the one time in the past and then also through private messages and the forum stuff, he always seems nice and respectful to me.
I mean, the guy, if my only interaction, well, not interaction, but the only experience I had of George Norrie were those few pieces, I'd have to think he's a good guy.
His story he gave on air with us was very believable, I thought, and rooted in a reality where arts didn't seem to be.
So I felt like there was something missing.
And I didn't necessarily want to know what it was, but just tell me there's something missing.
So, I mean, I think you're probably right that what we see as him is more the projection of the people around him.
And I know nothing about those people.
Well, you know, they're talking him up all the time and telling George, you know, oh, you're just a great broadcaster.
You're so awesome.
You know, they're inflating his ego daily.
And these people, you know, they work at premiere radio, so they're all better than us, you know?
And that's, I think, the mentality that they walk around with.
They're just better than everybody else.
Or it's just that being competitive for the sake of competitiveness.
You know, just attack everyone who's not us.
Why?
That's just what we do.
Never mind who it is.
But if you're going to do that, you have to be able to take the punch when someone fights back on that.
Well, not only that, but you actually need to be delivering a superior product.
And George can be as nice of a guy as he wants to be in real life off the radio, which I suspect he probably is a great guy off the radio.
But I just think that he has no business hosting a nationally syndicated radio show.
That's all.
I feel like he ruined a show that I, for a long time, occupied my time listening.
It was a primary form of entertainment for me.
And I feel like the show got ruined.
How am I not going to notice that?
Why should I not have anything to say about that?
Why should I be devoid of any commentary on that issue?
Well, something you said there just sparked the thought in my mind about how did George get to where he's at?
Is it a series of fortunate events that got him there?
Or did he, did his talent get him picked up by somebody bigger?
You know, like, you know, Jimmy Church was saying that he's the next Art Bell when he was on Dark Matter.
Was he handpicked by somebody at Premiere because of something he had shown?
Or was it just he was a company man?
What do you think the reason is that George ended up where he is, which is he's silly, putty.
He can be molded into whatever they want him to be.
Let me play a little something for you.
I don't know how many of you have ever seen the television.
It's like a sitcom thing that was on HBO back in the 90s called Mr. Show.
Let me fast forward here to the scene in question.
Here we go.
Partner, this is John Hamlinson, managing assistants.
This guy's coming in to get a job at a law firm.
He's a new guy.
Hello.
Sit down.
Sit down.
Thanks.
Trust your flight was all right?
Yes, sir.
It was great.
Daniel, you were one of the top in your class at Harvard.
The top of my class, sir.
That's why you're here.
Dan, we like to think of this firm as a big family.
We'd like you to be part of our family.
Well, thank you, sir.
Thank you.
Our offer.
I think you'll find that it far exceeds any of your other offers.
Then, as a member of this firm, you'll be one of the elite.
Life of privilege will be yours.
Dan, we would like you to give us a blowjob.
We would be very proud to have you give us a blowjob.
You are a blowjob?
You'll have a very bright future.
Country club membership, a house in Glen Ross Estates just across the way from me.
A brand new Mercedes.
You pick the color.
I'm sorry, a blowjob?
Dan, look out that window.
90 lawyers work at this firm.
Most of them come to work, never make more than $45,000 in a year.
You would be in the top 2% in the country.
And that's just in the first year.
I'm sorry, Kenneth.
Continue.
I'm sorry.
It's okay.
It's the blowjob.
I'm a lawyer, and we're one of the largest law firms in the country.
Yeah, so.
Dan, you would have a beautiful house in a growing community.
Okay, please.
Sir, I feel very privileged to be meeting with you, but I don't know.
All right, hold on, Dan.
Gentlemen, if I could.
Dan, I went to school with your father.
Okay, well, maybe we're hitting you with a lot of things here.
Let me try to explain.
We want a really good blowjob.
One worthy of your caliber.
But talk to your wife.
Take some time to think about it.
Not too long.
Not too long.
I was the first in my class.
Uh-huh.
In law.
I was the first in my class in law.
Well, it should be a very good blowjob then.
We will await your answer.
Well, you don't have to wait because the answer is no.
Okay, see, so you can keep your homes and your country clubs and your blowjobs because I'm going to be the best damn lawyer in this country.
And I'm going to go to court and I'm going to argue every case I can against you and your fat cat clients and I'm going to win.
Oh my.
What?
What?
Do you really believe that court cases are decided by juries making decisions based on evidence and lawyers' arguments?
Oh, Danny, how could you be so naive?
Dan, court cases are decided by a series of blowjobs.
In fact, our entire civilization is built on blowjobs.
And then it goes into the next segment.
But when I hear people talking about George's rise within Premiere Radio as the host of Coast to Coast AM, this skit always just pops into my brain.
I can't.
So now I've shared that with all of you.
A little window in.
Now that's in our brain.
Now you get a little window as to what's happening inside my head.
The young lawyer who's just out of school, is that the guy who was on.
Okay, yeah, he was on arrested development.
Yeah, and the lawyer, the lawyer that primarily was talking to him is Bob Odenkirk.
Okay.
The guy from Breaking Bad.
I'll always think of these guys as being from Mr. Show, no matter what they go on to.
That was my first exposure to them.
I was addicted to that show.
Anyone who hasn't seen it, go get it.
Mr. Show with Bob and David.
As I was hearing his voice, I kept thinking of Arrested Development.
My favorite scene is when he joins a blue man group and he paints himself all blue and he says, I blew myself.
Did you see the resurrection of Arrested Development?
I watched two episodes of it and then told myself I'd come back to it at some point and I haven't.
That's exactly what I did.
I watched two episodes and I said, I'll get around to it.
And I just never did.
Yeah.
It was really not, I mean, it wasn't the same show at all.
Who's the main character?
Yeah, it's a...
What's his name?
Well, Jason Bateman.
Yeah, Jason Bateman.
What's his character's name?
George Michael.
I can't remember, but in the original show, he was the only voice of reason among a crowd of totally insane idiots.
And in the new iteration of the show, they took his character and kind of turned him into a buffoon, just like all the people that he's surrounded by.
I didn't like that.
That really changed the dynamic of the show.
Also, the actors, they weren't able to all be there at the same time to film.
So they would have one episode that just had this set of actors.
The next episode had that set of actors.
But I don't think they all appear together once in the entire season.
Well, whenever you watch it, if you ever do, you'll see that.
I just didn't bother.
And really, I always thought the original show was a little bit overrated anyway.
I just, I don't know.
Toward the end, the story was just so tangential and just fractured.
It seemed like the writers were in some sort of a frenzied panic toward the end.
They were constantly being told they were going to go off the air.
So they wanted to wrap up as much as they could.
That makes sense.
And they kept getting picked up a little bit farther.
Yeah, the last season before the resurrection of it was just nowhere near as good.
The first two seasons of that were great.
Yeah, I just get a little annoyed listening to people.
Oh, arrested development.
Oh, my God.
Greatest thing.
Well, yeah, it was all right.
I'd rather watch MASH, honestly.
What a boring sack of shit I am.
I'd rather watch MASH.
MASH is a great show.
It is great.
I agree.
Yeah, but it does qualify you for being a boring sack of shit.
Really?
I mean, the greatest sitcom ever on TV, stacked right up there with Seinfeld.
I would say Seinfeld stacked right up there with MASH.
You'd have to.
I'm not disagreeing.
It was a great show.
But you do.
Like, you think, you know, it makes me, what, 20% less fuckable?
Easily 25%.
Wow.
Those words hurt protected.
So then if you take that 25% plus my comic book collection and my action figure collection, I'm done.
You're adding up here.
Sunny Boy Sunset.
My dad watches MASH.
Wow.
We'll make that 30% less fuckable.
How about that?
So my only way is to go back to school, get a law degree, and try to become a lawyer.
And give great blowjobs.
Yeah.
You might get somewhere in this world.
Yeah.
Here's my plan.
Wait, let me write this down.
All right.
I got it.
So in your mind, Envy, when George is given the proposition to give the blowjob and rise to the top, does he give the blowjob?
Well, he's got the job, doesn't he?
I don't know what you're asking me.
Was there some ambiguity here that we're suffering through?
No, I just wanted to hear you say it out loud.
You're just trying to get me sued for defamation or something, which I don't think you can say.
Well, same thing.
Similar effect.
You can't get sued for defamation anymore for accusing somebody of being gay, can you?
I don't know.
I really don't know.
But I figured you would have been sued already.
I mean, it's GeorgeNorisucks.com.
We got this long 2,000-page thread.
George Norrie sucks, the definitive compendium, and you haven't been sued yet, so I don't think it's going to happen.
Well, that's an opinion, though.
Nobody can sue you for an opinion.
It's my opinion that George sucks.
Okay.
Now, if I said sucks penis, is that legally actionable?
I don't know.
I'd like somebody to call in and say.
Yes, someone please do call in.
Call into the show.
I want to know, is it?
I mean, does defamation in 2015 extend to alluding to someone's supposed homosexuality?
I wonder if there's some provision in hate crime laws.
Well, if he's not really gay, though, those wouldn't apply to him.
Good point.
Well, you should be a lawyer.
I bet you have all the experience you need.
I already do.
Because I know who can and can't be called gay.
I'll hang my entire legal hat on that.
I'll walk right in there to take the bar.
Yeah, I know who can be called gay and who can't.
Give me that paper.
Geez.
What do you want to do?
I actually have to fill in these little circles.
Okay, I'll do it.
What do I have to blow to get this one done?
I thought with my little gay spiel that I gave you when I walked in, you wouldn't even make me take the test.
Okay.
Let's do it.
On Bill Gab, George says, he's talking to Art.
He says, we all wish you well in your return, and you can count on us not launching a first strike.
How is that to be said?
I mean, again, we just listed multiple examples of what could be credibly referred to as first strikes.
First, second, third, fourth strikes.
That's the California way, Envy.
You tell someone to their face, oh no, I like you.
We're completely friends.
And you're, you know, stabbing them in the back.
Meanwhile, that's how we do things out here.
I always thought Californians were all extracted from the flower child hippie movement of the 60s and that they were all nice and just looking out for you.
No?
No, I think something happened and all the hippies have moved somewhere.
They're hiding.
That hippie mentality, I wish, I wish it's just not around anymore.
George says, my announcement of your return was just that you created Coast to Coast and I felt I owed it to you to make the announcement.
I wouldn't do it for anyone else.
If you don't want me to engage in promoting your return, please say the word so all can see that it's not me doing it.
I think I saw in the chat room somebody mentioned that he's not saying Art's name anymore.
Is that correct?
Well, I think Art probably cares a whole lot less about that than he does the fact that they're playing his shows.
But you know what?
I always felt I always felt like Art should be really thankful that they're playing his shows because most people, when they quit doing a radio show, not only is their name never mentioned again, but it's as if they've died.
I mean, their name is scrubbed from the website.
Their name doesn't touch anything.
And it's as if they never existed.
I mean, how many times have you been listening to your favorite radio show?
One of the hosts isn't there the next day, and it's just not even mentioned.
It's not even, that's how it usually happens.
This is probably the only instance in which a guy has hosted a radio show.
He left that show and they continued actually playing repeats of his old shows, even though he didn't even leave on good terms.
I mean, to me, that's great promotion.
I would be so thankful to know that I'm getting all that free advertising.
People are going to hear those old shows.
In many cases, people are going to hear them and maybe not even know that they're old shows.
They're going to think that's on the radio right now.
They're going to go searching for Art Bell on the internet and they're going to find his new broadcasting endeavor through Dark Matter Radio.
The other part of that on the premiere side, when you know you had a superior product and it no longer matches what it used to, why would you play old episodes to remind people how good it used to be and use that as your lead in to an inferior show?
I've kind of always wondered that.
Maybe they make a lot of money playing those shows.
Yeah, but it just calls out what you're about to listen to.
Well, but that's sort of a that's sort of a long-term consideration.
In the immediacy, it's, hey, we've got these old Art Bell shows.
People really like listening to these.
We get as good.
The numbers are as good or even better when we play these.
So let's play these and make some money.
Why not make that, though, part of the, what do they call your subscription service?
Streamlink?
Streamlink.
Make it part of Streamlink that they're all available to you, but don't put them on the public airwaves.
Yeah, well, they're already on Streamlink too.
So I don't know.
It seems to me that the Streamlink would be the people that you would definitely not want to hear it because those are the people that are actively listening, the people that are consciously aware of the product.
And for them to hear that, that really drives home just, you know, what a what an unimpressive, lukewarm product it is today, coast to coast.
Lukewarm.
Good word.
Thank you.
You know, I sat down before the show.
I like to just, what adjectives might I use during the show tonight?
That was 43 on the list.
George says, I'd like to address your feelings that we were poaching your guests during your serious show.
Never, he says.
They were all told that if that they could do any show they wanted, and that included Richard C. Hoagland and the psychic twins.
Whereas, yeah, isn't Hoagland blacklisted from the show now?
How did that work out for him?
But then again, you know, what do you expect?
Hoagland goes on Dark Matter with Art Bell, and doesn't he call Norrie a limp noodle or something?
Oh, yes.
Best quote ever.
And didn't he say he was George was actually texting him while he was on Dark Matter live on the air?
Yeah.
Well, I mean, if you go on and you call George a limp noodle, how is it that you expect to be greeted back to the show with open arms?
I mean, only a sociopath would expect that from somebody.
Which I think Hoagland kind of is a sociopath.
Listening to one.
I would kind of put him and George in the same category on that one.
I would think they both have such inflated heads that they wouldn't even five minutes after that incident happened.
They both forgot it happened.
He says, I do believe the twins did not understand Tommy's discussion with them.
Does everybody really call this guy Tommy?
I thought that was a name in jest, like mocking him.
But apparently not.
That's what everybody really calls this 48-year-old fat man.
They call him Tommy.
Yeah, I think they really do.
I've heard that on the air.
Refer to him as Tommy, and he answers.
I don't know.
I feel like as a grown man, you shouldn't have a name that ends with the E sound.
I agree.
As for popping up on SiriusXM after you left, as you know, we were on XM before you were hired on for years.
The channel was discontinued, canceling many shows, and we immediately started negotiations to get back on a different channel and would have ended up on the indie channel, the one you were on, after your show aired.
Once you left, they quickly wrapped up negotiations.
The Somewhere in Time shows are selected by one of our producers who simply picks shows based on what we have in the vault.
Frankly, he should have run the George Gets It show years ago.
LOL.
He really did type LOL.
And he said he wasn't going to do a first strike.
I mean, in the same post that he said, no first strikes.
I mean, that was a pretty deep blow, I think, there.
Well, I mean, it is one of their shows.
They own the shows.
Well, yeah, I mean, it's his right to do it, but to say you're going to keep this all on the level and then you take a swipe right there like that.
And lastly, you asked on your Facebook page to have bell gabbers to call into my show.
Rest assured, we don't play that game.
We sincerely wish you well and trust your family as well.
And Art responded, yes, but that was for a positive comment on Jimmy, who had said he was doing a one-time thing and was going on to promote and was going to promote Dark Matter Radio Network.
I've never even for one moment asked people to harass or bother George when he was on the air in any way.
He said his show.
I'm not sure what Art means by that.
I'd love to have Jimmy call in.
And I mean, I know this isn't going to happen, but I'd like to hear what he thinks of all this and where he thinks he fits in.
That guy isn't going to give you an honest response to anything.
That's what I'd love to hear.
Jimmy Church is probably right now in his own mind.
He's sort of the ringo of AM radio broadcasting right now.
He's just so happy to be there.
And he's not going to say anything that's going to upset the wrong people or endanger that.
No chance.
Art says, I guess I'll have to work from the bottom up.
I defy you to show me where at any point on my Facebook page or any other place I've ever asked anybody to call your show.
Second, for a guy who does not believe in coincidence, you seem to have an endless number of them when it comes to me.
From Oats Forward, simply too many to recite here.
Third, with regard to poaching, it has nothing to do with my feelings and more to do with actual history.
Fourth, as for your popping up on 104, I don't care.
It was a shrewd business move, and I would have done the same thing had the situation been reversed.
I made my bed with that situation, and I have to live with it.
My choice today would be the same for the same reasons.
Fifth, I hope that your promise not to launch a first strike begins now after the second strike has already landed.
I also hope it includes the others you say.
You will say launched it when it inevitably comes.
Sixth word, meaning no thank you.
Please do not promote in any way my return in July.
I, along with a few close friends, will carry that water.
If whoever keeps making you mention my name at the end of the show will allow you to stop, please do.
Seventh, Jimmy Church was Keith Rowland's guy, and I guess it is just another darn coincidence that iHeartRadio, owned by Clear Channel, snapped him up a week before he did his show on Coast.
All that said, let us both do the best radio we know how to do, and barring any coincidental launches, this should end our discourse.
So how about that?
All posted on Bellgab.
How about that?
You know, you just go from this innocent little forum script to this.
How about that?
What's the path that got you there?
What is that?
It's really something.
I think it's really cool of Art to just address all of these things one by one.
Bam, bam, bam.
He's addressing every issue.
He's not hiding from any of the issues.
He's just, hey, this is my explanation.
And what now, man?
It's like he's in the schoolyard saying, yeah, okay, so what next?
Yeah, see, I wish he would always be like that.
That's how he was on his shows back in the day.
That, you know, it makes you, like, right now, we're the viewers of this, and it makes for great forum reading, just like it would be great radio, too.
And, you know, there's times in the past when, like when he left SiriusXM, that he didn't go point by point like that.
It was way more convoluted.
You know, when Art came back on SiriusXM on his first show, I was surprised at how neutered his statements about premiere radio were.
I really expected him to say a whole lot more on that first show than he actually did.
I remember him saying very little about the troubles that he experienced with that company and that are ongoing in whatever ways.
Do you remember that?
I mean, didn't you guys kind of have that impression like, wow, he really didn't say a whole lot about that?
Well, he's a classy guy, and he didn't want to waste good airtime on such a subject.
Yeah, I kind of felt like he promoted it and then realized that maybe he shouldn't go too deep into this.
And again, I can understand there's going to be times when we're not going to hear the whole story and I'm fine with that.
Just say, hey, you know, make it clear so there's no wiggle room in it.
This is as much as I'm giving you and there's nothing else to be said.
Well, that's it.
I've got people standing outside my office door waiting for me to get done here.
I guess you should have worked today.
Yeah.
Well, no, they're real people, Curtis, not customers.
That's the attitude I take to work with me every day.
These people are not real people.
These are just customers.
Right.
They're numbers.
You're going to go places with that attitude.
No, it's why I'm so wealthy.
I don't know how to count all this money.
Anyway, you guys, it's been fun.
Thanks to everybody listening in the chat room.
It's really nice to do this show and take a look at the server and see that it's just maxed out the whole show.
The whole show just maxed out.
How about that?
That's one thing.
That happens when art's hanging around.
Oh, it's not because of us then.
Oh, okay.
No.
No, no, no, nothing to do with us.
Okay.
See you guys.
Have a good night.
Thanks, everybody.
See ya.
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