03 March, 2015
03 March, 2015
03 March, 2015
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| This is the Gabcast, a podcast about Bellgab.com. | |
| Call the show now at 623-242-CAST. | |
| That's 623-242-2278. | |
| Now, shut up, sit down, and listen to the damn show. | |
| Skin the pee-bup! | |
| Okay. | |
| Hi, everybody. | |
| This is the Gabcast. | |
| What's up, peeps? | |
| It's a podcast about BellGab.com. | |
| And if you'd like to be on the show tonight, the number is 623-242-CAST. | |
| That is 623-242-2278. | |
| You know what's funny is yesterday I noticed that the stream wasn't working and I couldn't figure it out, couldn't figure it out, pounding my head against the wall. | |
| And then I realized, oh yeah, I didn't pay the bill. | |
| And then I, before the show today, thought I'd just go ahead and try calling in on our caller line again, which is 623-242-CAST. | |
| Call didn't go through, and then I realized, oh, yeah, I didn't pay the bill. | |
| You know, it's really, it's a lot of fun being so responsible for so many things here. | |
| Tell me more about you. | |
| Very, very inexpensive. | |
| You could help me with that, Onin. | |
| Onin's with us tonight. | |
| This is, this is just, I'm feeling a little tingly. | |
| I'm just going to put that out there. | |
| It's a reunion show. | |
| Yeah, I mean, it's been so long since Onin sat in. | |
| I'm touching you in that special spot. | |
| Well, you might not be, but we're not far from the technological innovation required to make that happen. | |
| I'm sure. | |
| If you both had Apple Watches, you could be doing that. | |
| You know something? | |
| I saw the other day. | |
| There's this product you can buy. | |
| It's a USB connected device that you wear, or you don't wear it. | |
| Well, you will be later on, but what you do is you plug it into your computer and your significant other, if you want to call that person that also plugs their respective device based on whether they happen to be a male or female into their computer. | |
| And then you are remotely able to pleasure one another. | |
| I mean, that's where technology is. | |
| Finally. | |
| I mean, why does it have to be your partner? | |
| Well, I mean, why does it have to be another person? | |
| Can't I just plug something in and go? | |
| Well, if you're doing that with somebody, if the word partner doesn't apply, what does? | |
| Well, I don't want to. | |
| The thing is, I don't want to use hands, but I have needs. | |
| Why are you asking the tough questions? | |
| There are no hands involved in this invention. | |
| It's just... | |
| That's what I'm saying. | |
| I want to hit like a playlist of my greatest hits and then just go. | |
| I think the first song should be called Missionary. | |
| Well, yeah. | |
| Oh, it's tried and tested. | |
| Yeah. | |
| So that's the GabCast. | |
| Everybody, have a great night. | |
| Thank you for listening, and we really appreciate your patronage. | |
| And that's 623-242-CAST-623-242Cast. | |
| And I have to tell the audience, I normally, I don't think I have ever consumed alcohol during a broadcast ever. | |
| Not by design. | |
| I didn't specifically ever decide. | |
| I just never, I don't know. | |
| I never have. | |
| And I have the alcohol tolerance of a Mayfly. | |
| So really, you have my apologies in advance. | |
| I don't know what else to tell you. | |
| I have to be able to let loose. | |
| I have to unwind. | |
| Do you understand this? | |
| Anyway. | |
| Are you letting the dragon loose from Game of Thrones? | |
| Curtis, I thought we banned animal references on this show. | |
| I don't know. | |
| Is Pony Boy going to be able to call in and talk about the tiger tattoo she got if we banned animals? | |
| I want Pony Boy just to call in and for 30 minutes talk to us about her black lipstick. | |
| I want to know what it's like to wear black lipstick. | |
| I've always wondered that. | |
| How do things change for you as you go out in public? | |
| I would think it's kind of like Eddie Murphy dressing up as a white guy and he goes out into the world and realizes that white people just give every give one another things for free and there's this whole subculture that he was completely unapprised of. | |
| I think you would have a similar awakening if you went out in black lipstick. | |
| Just the things you would discover. | |
| The new worlds that would open to you. | |
| People stare at you. | |
| That conversation went nowhere. | |
| All right. | |
| I noticed about, I don't know, 10 years ago that women were tattooing a black line around their lips to give it more definition. | |
| Does anybody else show this line? | |
| Yeah. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Okay. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I've seen is that sort of akin to just like putting on too much lipstick so that it looks like your lips are fuller and fatter than they really are when in reality you're almost going up to your nostril. | |
| I don't know. | |
| I'm not sure I want to know. | |
| What's the point of lipstick anyway, other than to leave evidence that you've cheated on your significant other? | |
| Good point. | |
| Poppel says my friend once went for a job interview wearing red eyeliner and black lipstick. | |
| Didn't get the job. | |
| I wonder why. | |
| I can't figure it out. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I've thought about tattooing the word F on my forehead and just letting it all hang out. | |
| You know, why not? | |
| Just dive in. | |
| Have a good day. | |
| If you're going to do that, you need a tattoo on your forehead that's backwards that says 9-11 was an inside job. | |
| Equally credible. | |
| I think that would get you places. | |
| Equally credible. | |
| That's an opener. | |
| That's an opener. | |
| Go ahead. | |
| I want a tattoo on my pubis that says nanothermite. | |
| Just right there on my pubis. | |
| I don't want anything sharp and pointy near my pubes. | |
| I'm sorry. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I don't understand that. | |
| When someone goes down there and they just see just such a left, it's so non-sequitur, nanothermite, right? | |
| I mean, just tell me more about nanothermite, please. | |
| Hey, if somebody's going down there to read, you're with the wrong person. | |
| That's true. | |
| Unless they have black lipstick. | |
| How about if we take a call? | |
| What do you think about that? | |
| Yeah. | |
| Is this from K9? | |
| This is White Crow. | |
| No? | |
| Hello. | |
| Hi. | |
| Who is this? | |
| How are you? | |
| It's PBS. | |
| What's going on, guys? | |
| What's up, PBS? | |
| You've been doing them fundraisers and stuff? | |
| Oh, yeah, absolutely. | |
| Showing all the good programming while you're asking for money and then shit when no one cares any longer. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| I'm sending you that really crappy tote bag. | |
| You never sent me a copy of your book. | |
| I need a private email. | |
| I'm not going to post it with forum. | |
| It's michaelvanDeeven at gmail.com. | |
| Oh, I thought it was a little email. | |
| I thought it was nanothermite at my member.com. | |
| Send me the copy of the book. | |
| I'll send you pictures of my nanothermite tattoo. | |
| That should get the skids greased. | |
| Anyway, so what's going on? | |
| Well, you were soliciting me. | |
| You wanted to know about wearing black lipstick. | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| I guess I did technically solicit you, didn't I? | |
| I mean, what kind of reaction are you getting from people walking around with black lipstick on? | |
| Well, you know, I only wear black lipstick when I go to the club. | |
| It's not my everyday apparel. | |
| What kind of club do you go to? | |
| A Wiccan Coven Picnic. | |
| Yes, absolutely. | |
| I know. | |
| I usually go to Industrial Goth Night. | |
| Is it a lesbian club? | |
| No, I wish. | |
| There are no lesbian clubs where you live? | |
| So do I. | |
| Well, here's the thing. | |
| And I think we've discussed this before. | |
| No, never. | |
| But go ahead. | |
| I haven't heard this. | |
| I don't like the ladies that look like Justin Bieber. | |
| So that tends to be his frequent lesbian bars, at least where I live. | |
| That's funny because guys and girls don't like people who look like Justin Bieber. | |
| It's just not a good look. | |
| I don't know. | |
| I often ask my wife to dress like him. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Her. | |
| Well, that goes without saying. | |
| Come on. | |
| Okay. | |
| Okay, so there are no lesbian clubs where you live, or there are and you choose not to go to them. | |
| I don't understand. | |
| You being a lesbian, I don't know why you wouldn't go to lesbian clubs. | |
| I would have a folding mattress in one of those places if I were a lesbian. | |
| Oh, yeah, no. | |
| Ew, that sounds disgusting. | |
| Well, yeah, if you didn't remove it when you're gone, I would think that could be a disgusting situation. | |
| Are you the guy who shows up at the club with a sleeping bag attached to your back? | |
| I'll only need it for a few minutes. | |
| Yeah, that's usually when you look like you're headed toward a campsite as you enter a club. | |
| Usually the poon floweth, let's say. | |
| I believe it. | |
| So redacted, what are you calling about? | |
| She got redacted. | |
| PBS. | |
| I'm sorry. | |
| One woman or another. | |
| They're all the same to me. | |
| I was just saying, we're all the same. | |
| We're all interchangeable. | |
| Female voice. | |
| What do you want, female voice? | |
| What do I want, female voice? | |
| I just want to tell you that I'm promoting your show, well, in several different places. | |
| And I don't know. | |
| I thought you'd want to know that. | |
| I'm not going to do shameless promotion of my own stuff. | |
| You're probably promoting us on places like what's that white supremacist forum? | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| So white supremacist lesbian network. | |
| They're the best. | |
| I would expect white supremacist women, white supremacist lesbians to be extremely feminine. | |
| Not really. | |
| That was sarcasm. | |
| Oh, God, I can't wait to see the episode picture. | |
| But the white supremacist lesbians wear black lipstick, and I'll take my answer off the air. | |
| At this point, maybe I think you should. | |
| I'm ready to end the show. | |
| I don't know about the 17 of you. | |
| We have five people hosting this show. | |
| Hey, every time someone says the or a drink, Michael. | |
| Okay, PBS, what do you got? | |
| Hit us with what brings you to the show this evening? | |
| Drink. | |
| I just was calling in to discuss lipstick. | |
| That's really all I had. | |
| You guys can go about what you were doing. | |
| Where are you plugging the show? | |
| Where am I plugging the show? | |
| Yes. | |
| Well, with my stuff, obviously. | |
| She has a podcast. | |
| I do. | |
| Except I haven't done it in a while, so I'm worth, eventually I'll get back to it. | |
| But on the Raleigh James's fan page on Facebook, and they were posting all these old updates about Art Bell. | |
| And I'm like, you guys really need to go over here and see what's really going on. | |
| That's right. | |
| On Bellgab? | |
| Yeah, I'm really hoping that you guys get more hits, and you might not. | |
| I don't know how many people are in that group. | |
| You know, since Art plugged the forum, we have 65 new members, and those are real people, like not spam bots, not, you know, just people gaming the system, like actual human beings, about 65 new ones in the course of just a few days. | |
| How many of those? | |
| I've banned two-thirds of them, but it was a pleasure seeing those come across the screen. | |
| Yeah, and I Raleigh and I talked about it on Friday a little bit, but we didn't talk about the sites because she was talking to me about art. | |
| So, has Raleigh placed a restraining order on you yet? | |
| I just really have to. | |
| How would I know? | |
| Well, I guess you would know. | |
| You'd find out the hard way. | |
| Well, I have to avoid that. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Where does she live? | |
| It's out west, right? | |
| I think Raleigh lives in Arizona. | |
| I can remember if it was Arizona or Colorado or. | |
| Yeah, I just want to know. | |
| Like, you might need to check public records out there just to be safe. | |
| Make sure your name's not showing up in the local newspaper. | |
| The day that Raleigh woke up and looked out the window blinds and saw Pony Boy Sunset mowing the lawn uninvited. | |
| She was just, okay, this has gone too far. | |
| You mean painting a mural of her as a vampire? | |
| We're just kidding, Pony Boy Sunset. | |
| Don't take it so hard. | |
| We're just messing with you. | |
| We know you're a Raleigh James fan, and she didn't even, she's the hugest Raleigh James fan ever. | |
| She didn't even know about Raleigh James' existence until she was on the Train Wreck show with us. | |
| And that was a great episode. | |
| So if PBS becomes a stalker and ends up harming Raleigh in some way, it will indirectly be our fault. | |
| I don't like that type of responsibility. | |
| I don't know why that's being dumped in my lap. | |
| Think about how many offshoots of terror you have caused in your podcast career. | |
| Nefguen, I don't know. | |
| Maybe it's the alcohol that strikes me as funny. | |
| Nefguen says, mood lipstick. | |
| I don't know why. | |
| I find that humorous. | |
| Okay. | |
| So the number to call 623-242-CAST, 623-242-CAST. | |
| I think it's really awesome seeing Art posting in the Art Bell thread on Bellgab, talking about things other than the plan come July, other than serious act. | |
| You know, just it's nice just seeing him talk to people about things like time travel, art belly subjects, you know? | |
| Well, do you think that was an effort to get the talk away from the plans? | |
| You know, I don't know what the effort was, really, but I mean, it's kind of like watching Art Bell open lines in text form. | |
| Yeah, it was fantastic. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I have a question. | |
| Go ahead. | |
| I don't want to look too much into ulterior motives as to why Art's posting. | |
| I'm glad that he is. | |
| I do have some thoughts about it, but more than anything, I think that it's nice to see him doing this. | |
| I think it's going to give energy to his show. | |
| And that's really what I'm looking forward to. | |
| So, yeah, I didn't have anything more to say than that. | |
| Onin's like, I think it's great that he's posting and all, but I think he is secretly attempting to infect the form with malware. | |
| Just want to put that out there. | |
| Yeah, well, that's, I think we were all aware of that. | |
| I just think it's really cool. | |
| I mean, it's sort of like, I don't know, maybe the realization of a childhood dream really was seeing George and Dart acknowledge one another directly on the forum. | |
| That is just well, how cool is it that art hasn't just you know, I mean, yeah, they interact with each other, but art right now is interacting with the forum as if any other member would. | |
| I mean, he knows the inside jokes, he's playing along, brings them up on his own. | |
| The fact that he just almost reflexively, by muscle memory, now refers to George Nori as Dave. | |
| Yes. | |
| That is comforting and wonderful to see. | |
| I just think back to the old days, and I know I've said this before, but when you do this show, you have to repeat stuff. | |
| You got to fill time. | |
| I don't know. | |
| But I remember the old days of all of us sitting around asking ourselves, do you think Art Bell knows about this site? | |
| Do you think he's... | |
| And we go from that to Art practically announcing he's going to close his Facebook page and only use BellGab. | |
| That's just... | |
| Wow. | |
| From point A to Z, all of the things that happened in between. | |
| Wow. | |
| I have an Art Bell question. | |
| Go ahead. | |
| Go ahead. | |
| No, I was going to say, I was going to say, what do you think about art? | |
| And I won't ask Michael this because I know he'll be biased, but what do you think about art exclusively using Belgab and not using other forms of social media where he might grow his audience, get a bigger reach? | |
| Yeah. | |
| What do you think about that? | |
| Because I know, Michael, you'll be a bit biased about this because obviously art posting on Belgab directly impacts you. | |
| But I'm thinking he should be trying to reach a bigger audience. | |
| I have diapers to buy. | |
| Yes. | |
| Well, you do know he sold the forum like nine months ago, right? | |
| Did you know? | |
| Did you know I don't even own the forum and I have not owned it since May of last year? | |
| I probably shouldn't have mentioned that, should I? | |
| Probably not. | |
| But now that the cat's out of the bag. | |
| Yeah. | |
| No, that's not true. | |
| That is not true, ladies and gentlemen. | |
| Mir Radio Networks does not own Belgab. | |
| But I swear to God, and I've said it before, I would sell every one of you out in just two seconds flat. | |
| I had a nightmare that Falky owned it. | |
| That's the direction I would have gone with that. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I sometimes do have dreams about Belgab. | |
| I don't think that's healthy. | |
| But do your dreams involve Falki? | |
| All I know is I wake up from the dream feeling like, okay, I remember staring at a screen with black text and light blue stuff everywhere. | |
| And that's all I remember. | |
| It's just a, it's a jumble. | |
| It's just a jumble. | |
| Let's take a call and see what's happening here. | |
| Hi, you're on the air. | |
| Hello. | |
| Who's this? | |
| Hey, guys, it's Citron. | |
| Hi there. | |
| How are you? | |
| Hey. | |
| How's it going? | |
| Fantastic. | |
| How's it going with you guys? | |
| I'm about a 7, 0.2. | |
| All right. | |
| On the Ricky scale, right? | |
| Well, on the Vandiver scale. | |
| That's right. | |
| Which is much bigger. | |
| No, smaller and unimpressive. | |
| More like thermonanide. | |
| Incessantly flaccid. | |
| Go ahead. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I know a lot of stuff on the old shows and whatnot, like Dr. Jonathan Reed has been debated. | |
| And a lot of people think it's bullshit. | |
| But how do you guys tend to listen to the old shows? | |
| Do you just suspend disbelief and enjoy the ride? | |
| Or are you, I mean, like, stuff like Zachariah's session obviously is bullshit, but like, how can you like, I don't know, how do you guys listen? | |
| Do you suspend disbelief and just go along with it and just Kind of tune out for a while from what do you what are your thoughts on that? | |
| I don't know. | |
| I just kind of like, uh, I just pretend I'm sitting around with a bunch of guys just like smoking a duty and just going, hey, what if this happened? | |
| And like, then carries on conversation for like the rest of the night. | |
| I mean, I could sit back and listen to Art Bell's show once to send disbelief and just be like, yeah, that's awesome. | |
| I sort of view it more as theater of the mind. | |
| I, I never, well, I don't know. | |
| I was going to go around and let everybody give an answer to you. | |
| You go first, Michael. | |
| Well, I was just going to say that like back in the 90s when people were all a little more naive than they are today as a result of, you know, information being far more ubiquitous and accessible now than it was 15, 20 years ago. | |
| There were a lot of things you would hear on the show, and you would think that you are hearing the gospel. | |
| You know, wow, whoa, we've got FEMA, you know, whatever. | |
| I just, whatever it was that you heard people talking about on there, you just thought, well, it's on the radio. | |
| I guess it must be true. | |
| And so there was that naivete there that perhaps no longer exists. | |
| But I mean, I guess I just view it as like theater of the mind. | |
| And there is information to be gleaned from it. | |
| There is valuable information in the genre. | |
| I do believe in certain paranormal things. | |
| And I think there's some value in discussing them. | |
| But I also am fully aware that some of what guests say is entirely and completely bullshit. | |
| But I'm okay with that because I also feel like there's a certain expected level of entertainment value that comes along with listening to a show like Art Bell's show. | |
| And if I hear a guest like Jonathan Reed that I am entirely and explicitly certain is not telling the truth, I don't really care because I know I'm confident enough to know that I can sort it out on the other side. | |
| And so that being the case, I'm just going to sit back and enjoy the entertainment. | |
| What do you guys think? | |
| How about Jasmundo? | |
| What's your opinion? | |
| Yeah, like I'll use the Dr. Jonathan Reed as an example. | |
| When I first heard him in back in the 90s, and I was, like Michael said, naive. | |
| I fully believed the story. | |
| I was riveted by the story. | |
| And I don't, and just the way that art helped nurse and bring out that story, I found it totally believable. | |
| Now, years later, with a lot more sort of experience under my belt and the ability to actually search around the internet, I know that it's total bullshit. | |
| Can I now listen to that show ever again with the same naivety? | |
| Probably not. | |
| But if the tale is told, well, I can still listen to it. | |
| Doesn't mean I'll believe it anymore. | |
| But yeah, I enjoy listening to all the old shows. | |
| And, you know, I now can weed out for myself what's bullshit and what's not. | |
| Even if you know it's bullshit, it's still art. | |
| And his delivery, his approach to having that conversation, that was the reason to tune in, not the genre. | |
| As I've said a zillion times, I never cared about enough about the genre to go listen to, you know, someone else trying to be the next star. | |
| I've never cared at all about that. | |
| It's just art himself, his approach to having a conversation with somebody, his approach to being a radio guy as a radio guy who's worked in actual terrestrial radio. | |
| I see a guy like Art Bell and I just think, man, that guy, he is the dude that you see in radio that you have nothing but respect for because you know whatever radio experiences you've had, he's had them tenfold and there's a lot you could learn from somebody like him. | |
| But just beyond all of that, he just knows how to have a conversation about these subjects in a way that you find compelling. | |
| And someone else could have been having these same conversations with all of these guests back in the 90s, but it just wouldn't have been the same. | |
| It was just, there's something intangible that you can't quite quantify about art that was there that made you want to hear those shows. | |
| I'm sorry. | |
| I'm drunk. | |
| That redacted. | |
| What's your opinion? | |
| Well, Michael just touched on it. | |
| I mean, the intangible thing that you're trying to get to there is the magic. | |
| There is a certain magic about the show. | |
| And it was the way I wound down my day. | |
| You know, after everybody's gone, the work is done and the day is over. | |
| You know, I get to go into my little closet and listen to Art Bell. | |
| And I just knew it was going to be a good time. | |
| That's how I went into it. | |
| This is going to be a great time. | |
| Art's going to have something cool for us tonight. | |
| Let's just chill out and hang out with about 11 million friends and Art Bell and see what he has to talk about. | |
| It's always going to be something good. | |
| Curtis, I'm probably the one outlier on this to where I didn't listen to art live. | |
| Everything I heard was the past episodes that were streamed out on the internet. | |
| So I had the, I guess, advantage of hearing a lot of things that had a lot of hosts. | |
| God, gosh, I can't talk tonight. | |
| Oh, my God. | |
| A lot of guests. | |
| I know. | |
| A lot of guests who'd already been kind of proven to be flops in their predictions. | |
| But that didn't take away at all from the experience because like you all said, art's delivery of a story is what made it great. | |
| So I don't care if it was Ed Dames talking about a kill shot that would be happening any minute, but then I'm listening to it five years or longer after the fact. | |
| It was still fun to listen to, just like I'll still watch an old episode of The X-Files, even though I've seen it before and I know pretty much how things are going to flow through it. | |
| I still enjoy it because it was a story told well, and a story told well can be told over and over again. | |
| So that's how I approach everything Art Bell related. | |
| And when he went to Sirius XM, it took him a few episodes to get into the groove of how he was on coast to coast. | |
| But once he found that moment and you could just feel it, that like all of a sudden this was a comfortable seat again for him. | |
| He was back into great storytelling, regardless of how bad a guest was. | |
| He could get something whether if he had to go to open lines, that was fine. | |
| Sometimes it was even better that way. | |
| But even with the guest who was clearly selling you a line of crap, he would find a way to make it interesting always. | |
| Yeah, I think the bottom line is up, Belle. | |
| Like I wouldn't listen to Jonathan Reid with another host and I wouldn't watch The X-Files with Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez. | |
| Exactly. | |
| So and now the Gabcast brings you a segment entitled, Let's Give Art Bell Back Advice. | |
| Yeah, we need to hear from the dude. | |
| This is a segment where we all sit down and come up with our armchair surgeon slash back specialist ideas as to how Art Bell should best go about relieving his back pain. | |
| I'm going to start off the little exercise here by suggesting he get a bathtub full of used peanut shells, lay them all flat down there in the bathtub, no water for this little exercise, ladies and gents. | |
| He just lays down there and just sort of shimmies back and forth like a fish that's laying on a sandy beach in the middle of the sunshine, drying out. | |
| He'd rather be anywhere but there. | |
| But he just does that for about 20 minutes. | |
| And boy, I tell you what, he's going to be as good as new. | |
| Curtis, what's your idea? | |
| Well, I think he needs an inversion table. | |
| Just do everything upside down from this point forward. | |
| Didn't you just love how even once Art came on and said, like, please, I don't want any more advice, people were still getting on there. | |
| I know what's wrong with people. | |
| The man understands. | |
| There are things that sometimes can be done about back pain. | |
| Let's start, let's go back to time travel. | |
| Can we? | |
| God, imagine the first night of Art's new show starting in July. | |
| Everyone's just calling up, giving back advice. | |
| Hey, wait, wait. | |
| You're talking about the guy who every person who called in on a cordless phone, he told them over and over again to get on the landline and also would complain. | |
| Or understandably, I mean, this is all legitimate, but he had to say it over and over again about turning down your radio. | |
| So after all the years he broadcast, if his listeners didn't get that, why are we going to start listening to him about giving him advice? | |
| We are his audience. | |
| Love it or leave it. | |
| And we all know that the typical Art Bell listener is an entirely normal person. | |
| Yeah, all of them. | |
| And should be a member of Bellgab.com if they are a two art bell fan. | |
| I forgot to answer your question earlier about art posting on Bellgab. | |
| Jesmunda, you asked about him posting on Bellgab disproportionately versus social media. | |
| Like, what was the, I don't even remember what the question was. | |
| No, it wasn't a question. | |
| It was a question of like, should he, shouldn't he be using social media in order to grow his audience? | |
| Obviously, Bellgab's going to have a limited, limited reach with social media. | |
| And I said, no offense to you. | |
| I love your site. | |
| I love you. | |
| Do you? | |
| Saints. | |
| But, you know, if he wants to grow his audience, he should be using social media. | |
| Well, people retweeting, people sharing. | |
| Yeah, that's I'm not getting paid. | |
| And I'm going to do that anyway. | |
| I think it's a more immersive experience, though, on a forum. | |
| Like you have a better ability to, I don't know, like include certain forms of media in your posts. | |
| The people on Bellgab are more rabid Art Bell fans than are the people on Facebook. | |
| Because to be a Bellgab user, you have to actually go to a different website that you wouldn't normally go to, i.e. something that's not Facebook. | |
| You have to create an account and then you have to post there. | |
| And, you know, on Facebook, all you have to do is hit this like button. | |
| And okay, now you're following him. | |
| There's very little effort. | |
| I mean, it's kind of like this. | |
| When I have when I pass out, when I in 10 minutes. | |
| I don't use, I don't use business cards in my business. | |
| I only use refrigerator magnets. | |
| And the reason is because I know that I've probably never held on to a single business card that anybody has ever given me. | |
| I instead print out refrigerator magnets because I know even if people don't give a shit about my business, there still probably is a good chance that they're going to take it home and put it on the refrigerator. | |
| And not only are they going to see it, other people that come to their house are going to see it. | |
| And it's going to be a great thing. | |
| I kind of hope they put it on a hard drive. | |
| I was going to say. | |
| And I guess I'm not really sure what my point was there. | |
| Sorry, I didn't mean to derail you. | |
| You were such a lush. | |
| What was the point there? | |
| I guess my point is just simply that I think the people on Bellgab. | |
| Oh, here's what I was going to say. | |
| When I print those magnets out, I do not put my business email address on there. | |
| And the reason I don't is because any customer who contacts me by email is a very unmotivated customer. | |
| And almost every time they make me sit here answering their questions, hammering out paragraphs via my keyboard. | |
| And then I never hear another word from them. | |
| And I got so fed up with that that I decided I was no longer going to include the email address on any of the literature that I send out about my business. | |
| And that's been a great decision because those people are not motivated. | |
| And I guess my point is there that I think that the users on Bellgab are far more motivated as fans of Art Bell than are the people on Facebook because everybody's already going to Facebook. | |
| Everybody's already checking their Facebook several times a day. | |
| You don't have to go this extra step of going to another website, yet another website. | |
| So, and you would only do that if you were really a big fan. | |
| I think maybe that's the attraction is that. | |
| Isn't that preaching to the choir, though? | |
| Like, we're all in anyway. | |
| We're going to be there regardless. | |
| Here's my point of view on it. | |
| Social media is a great way to push out a message, but the message has to be formulated already and you're just distributing it to a wide channel. | |
| And he's not ready for that yet. | |
| He doesn't have anything to send them to. | |
| There's no payoff for the push yet. | |
| So that's what he's going to need us for. | |
| No, but isn't it growing an audience, though? | |
| Like getting all the people following him so that they're aware of him again. | |
| And like, I share something that Art sends out. | |
| And then someone I'm friends with said, oh, Art Bell. | |
| And then they start following him and so on and so forth. | |
| Now, if he would do more of like when he promoted the forum on Facebook, if he would go and link to like posts of his on Twitter and Facebook, then yeah, I would agree. | |
| I think you've led the charge the most, Jasmunda, in terms of him using social media. | |
| And honestly, I don't think he would have if you hadn't said it so clearly. | |
| I think he would have just let it fall to the wayside. | |
| But when you're right, you're right. | |
| When you're not, you're not. | |
| What? | |
| No, when you're not, you're incorrect. | |
| It's different. | |
| So I think he's using the forum right now just to feel things out, see where he's going to end up at and develop his message and just be Art Bell for a little while. | |
| And then he's going to need social media to push out a message. | |
| Yeah, there's things he could do better. | |
| Like he could reference posts of his, but the problem with a major social media push right now is what's the payoff other than to get Michael more hits on the website currently. | |
| I mean, there's really nothing else they can get from him. | |
| Well, but Art does know that most of these people using Bellgab also have Facebook pages, and these people are going to be quite persistent in going back to those Facebook pages to promote his brand. | |
| Oh, I don't disagree at all. | |
| How about if we take a call? | |
| We've had this person on hold for quite some time here. | |
| Hi, you're on the air. | |
| Hello. | |
| Who's this? | |
| Hey, it's Vittar. | |
| What's going on, man? | |
| Nothing much. | |
| Just wanted to chime in. | |
| Okay. | |
| Have a good evening. | |
| Thank you. | |
| I wanted to offer a differing point of view. | |
| No, we really don't like that, but okay. | |
| I know, I know, I know. | |
| Just hear me out. | |
| Just hear me out. | |
| Then you can hang up on me. | |
| But no, I think maybe Art Bell is actually having fun posting on the board. | |
| I mean, you know, just throwing that out there. | |
| You know something that differs about Bell Gab versus any other forum that's ever existed around the Art Bell universe is that there's a lot of profanity and people are, by and large, allowed to just post whatever they want. | |
| I mean, there are, of course, like the Michio Kaku Bukaki photo. | |
| I had to take that down. | |
| Yeah. | |
| You know, I mean, yeah, there are things where it's like, okay, you're just being crude for the sake of being crude and it's not even funny and it has really no redeeming qualities. | |
| But if you're crude and it's funny, there's something that you can extract from it. | |
| Well, that's different. | |
| And I think most, like if you go to the Fantastic Forum back in the years, way back when Art used to post there from time to time, I'm sure that the moderators were right on the trigger, you know, really hard and heavy watching what anybody said whenever they thought Art was looking at that forum. | |
| And I think there's probably something that makes it a little more interesting for Art in that he's kind of seeing a more unfiltered view of just, you know, the random thoughts that are going through people's heads. | |
| I don't know. | |
| I don't know if that makes sense. | |
| You know, we are his base. | |
| Like, we're the hardcore ones that kept talking about him while he was, you know, off with no real agenda, you know, while he was just enjoying his retirement. | |
| You know, we kept talking about him because we were interested. | |
| And I think that, you know, he's coming in here and he's kind of feeling out what we're like and like what we respond well to, you know, building off what you guys said. | |
| And I think that, you know, having that unfiltered view is probably a great thing for him too, you know, because if I was in his position, I would want to know exactly what the people that made my show successful thought. | |
| And I guarantee you for every one of us, there's 10 other people out there that don't use the forum, but love Art Bell just as much and love what he's using and all of his work. | |
| Do you think that Art Bell probably has the opinion that he is what made things so great and that the listeners were just using the product he delivered? | |
| I don't understand that question. | |
| Yeah, I get it. | |
| I mean, you're talking like, do you think Art Bell is the one that thinks that, you know, we used him as like a service, like we were just there and he was what was on? | |
| No, I got what you were saying. | |
| I think you're right. | |
| I'm just asking for contrarian's sake to think about, so does from Art's point of view, where he's already in the radio hall of fame and has been successful and he knows how to do the thing that he does the best. | |
| I mean, he's done it and been successful at it. | |
| So do you think he's on the forum? | |
| Do you think he cares about all the feedback that everybody's giving him and the admiration or in terms of like what you're saying that it makes the show better and he wants that unfiltered feedback? | |
| Or does he think I've already, I know what I need to do is just you guys got to be there for me when I do it? | |
| Well, I mean, he's made statements like be ready for the blitz. | |
| And he definitely wants us as fans to get the word out on social media and stuff like that. | |
| But I don't think that he's here just to use us as a service to promote his new venture. | |
| I mean, like you said, he's in the Radio Hall of Fame. | |
| Like, does he really need to come back? | |
| No, he does it because he loves it. | |
| And, you know, I mean, he now hopefully with the platform that he chooses, he'll be able to do what he wants, how he wants it, you know, and not be bound by any network restrictions or any creative controls or anything like that. | |
| So he can just say, hey, what are the people that enjoy my show, that enjoy the content that I put out like? | |
| And then try to, you know, say, hey, all right, this is what, this is what I do. | |
| This is what I like. | |
| This is what these people like. | |
| You know, like, I don't know, maybe having more scientifically focused guests versus, you know, the Richard C. Hoaglands or the, you know, more other out there people. | |
| Onan, go ahead. | |
| Well, your point was a little earlier that Art has just started coming here because he enjoys it. | |
| And I think that's probably somewhat true. | |
| But then my question is, well, then why is it all of a sudden he's shown up now? | |
| Why wasn't he here a year ago? | |
| I mean, okay, he was a year ago for a short while, but you get my point, is that there's been large periods of times where he's not been anywhere to be seen. | |
| So I think this has to be somewhat, there's going to be some motivation in there besides just I'm having a good time. | |
| And I'm okay with that. | |
| But I think to think, I think if you're saying that he's only here because he wants to have fun, I don't think that's accurate. | |
| No, no, I'm not saying that at all. | |
| And I actually agree with you. | |
| I think that he came here for the specific purpose of promoting his show. | |
| And I think that while here, he's actually started having fun posting on the forums. | |
| But you can kind of read it in the posts as I lurk a lot. | |
| I don't post a whole lot other than the crap on Steve Hoagland. | |
| But it's kind of interesting to see how it evolves from everybody like riling up the bass and getting everybody beating the drums to kind of commenting on what's going on. | |
| It's not like he's starting some things, starting some lines of questioning, and then he's answering other people's lines of questioning and other people's ideas and building up on them. | |
| I think that if he was just here to rattle the sabers and get everything ready for his launch, he wouldn't be doing that. | |
| He'd just be like, yeah, you know, Norrie, we're going to rule. | |
| So I mean, I agree with you on some point. | |
| Like, I think he came here out of the commercial kind of let's get the bass going. | |
| I think what's readily apparent is that it's his natural conversational style bleeds through. | |
| And so I do see that as he's able to develop rapport quickly with a lot of posters, and that must be fun. | |
| So I certainly see that. | |
| Yeah, I think the first, he did come here for promotional purposes initially, but now I think in the last few days, you can really say he's having fun here. | |
| I agree. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Let's go ahead and take another call. | |
| Hi, you're on the air. | |
| Hello. | |
| Hey, it's White Crow. | |
| This is White Crow. | |
| This is White Crow. | |
| That's Bateman. | |
| What's up? | |
| How's it going? | |
| Were you doing an actual impression of White Crow or were you doing an impression of my impression? | |
| That's very meta. | |
| I don't know. | |
| Because I always do impressions of impression. | |
| Yeah, Anthony Kumia, who does Larry King. | |
| Everybody does the Anthony Coomia impression of Larry King. | |
| Yeah, there are a couple impressions that if I do, I'm doing an impression of Anthony Coomi's impression. | |
| Right. | |
| Because it's, I mean, really, when you sit down and you think to yourself, okay, I'm going to do an impression of a particular celebrity. | |
| There's a certain etheral something about how you wrap your mind around going about that. | |
| I mean, it's really hard to capture the essence of how someone sounds on your own without just ripping off somebody else's impression. | |
| Anyway, I'm sorry. | |
| Go ahead. | |
| Right. | |
| No, anytime I see Larry King, I just immediately think of his impression of Larry King when he was talking about how important is the board. | |
| Yeah, how important is the skateboard to what you do? | |
| There is no host in this world that would be dumb enough to ask a skateboarder. | |
| So tell me, how important is the board? | |
| That makes no sense. | |
| So Bateman, what brings you to the show? | |
| He's proud of the fact that he doesn't do any show prep either. | |
| Like Norrie pretends that he does eight hours of show prep. | |
| Larry King is proud of the fact that he doesn't do any prep. | |
| Someone asked me earlier what we're going to be talking about tonight. | |
| And I was honest. | |
| I said, I have no clue whatsoever. | |
| Next, please. | |
| You don't spend the seven days in between shows prepping for the next show. | |
| I have to argue with Nori and show prep, putting in that hair coloring to keep it a nice black color up there. | |
| That's prep, man. | |
| That takes a lot of work. | |
| You should not be a 67-year-old man with hair as dark as George Norrie's. | |
| It's just like that Paul McCartney effect where it's like, okay, listen, I know you are not 43. | |
| So what's happening here? | |
| Well, that's not Paul McCartney, so that's part of the issue. | |
| Paul McCartney's dead. | |
| Yeah, that's fall. | |
| That's right. | |
| He was replaced by a Canadian policeman man. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I have to say, I'm still completely overwhelmed with the post that Bateman did on the Falky thread where you linked to that Reddit article about the brother trolling the other brother. | |
| Oh, yeah, that was good. | |
| That was good. | |
| You changed my life with that post because I looked at Faunky and even though he came back and refuted it, but that was like, wow. | |
| And by the way, Bateman, I enjoy your use of smileys. | |
| Oh, I appreciate that. | |
| Yeah, you just have a certain attitudinal approach to using them that I think really encapsulates the purpose behind them. | |
| It's really good, you know what you need is a good side eye, Smiley. | |
| I'll look into that. | |
| I will talk to the technical department. | |
| Yeah, that's the one that's lacking. | |
| This is the 17th side eye request we've had this month. | |
| Well, don't forget that the more you donate, the more your request moves up the list. | |
| So there is that. | |
| Your donations have never been more welcomed, ladies and gentlemen. | |
| Even as you donate it, I have another child on the way. | |
| So even as you donate it, the money's already gone. | |
| I can assure you. | |
| It's not going to be used to refuel my Lamborghini. | |
| Don't forget that Pony Boy Sunset will send you a canvas bag along with your donation and it'll have a Thermon anion in it. | |
| I'd like to know how it is that Pony Boy Sunset thinks her novel is going to feed my future child. | |
| I'd like to know. | |
| I think you're a troll in it. | |
| I think she wrote a character for you called like MP, and it's a troll living under a bridge. | |
| So Bateman, what do you call him? | |
| Yeah, real quick, I wanted to touch on the U7 radio thing. | |
| Oh, thank you. | |
| Yes. | |
| Yeah, great. | |
| I think kind of shows you how petty that Premiere is. | |
| Well, just how about for the listening audience, you explain what happened. | |
| Right. | |
| So U7 radio is probably one of the longest Art Bell streams that's out there. | |
| A whole bunch of people. | |
| They're not a very good one, though. | |
| Yeah, right. | |
| It's very low bitrate, right? | |
| Well, what I noticed is back when we had the old Coast Gab stream, what they would do is they would run what's called a stream ripper, which is where they tune in your stream and then they have this program that automatically records the stream and then cuts the file off when the stream changes to the next event or item. | |
| And so what would happen is like you would be listening to U7 and suddenly you would hear a liner that I had created playing or you would hear like the first five seconds of my fat stupid face doing the old train wreck show. | |
| It really was a hoot. | |
| Go ahead. | |
| I'm sorry. | |
| So one sec, you're accusing them of stealing your stolen material. | |
| I found it rather I found it rather infuriating. | |
| Yes. | |
| Carry on. | |
| You're lucky you didn't get the seasoned assist then. | |
| And your stuff was playing on there. | |
| There was a point at which I decided, you know what, there are a million people out there who would love to run an Art Bell stream. | |
| Let them have it. | |
| Let them do it. | |
| But boy, did it get some numbers. | |
| That's what brought me up. | |
| Premier finally got their hands on this one. | |
| And, you know, people were saying on the board, don't talk about these streams because that's tipping Premiere off. | |
| Well, Falky said that George emailed him about this out of the blue. | |
| People generally don't post all over the place about U7. | |
| I mean, people know it exists, but how George found it, I don't know. | |
| It's not like he and Falky were talking about it. | |
| My understanding is he emailed Falky, said, we have to do something about this stream. | |
| There was a flurry of emails back and forth, and Nori was just parroting the company. | |
| Wait a minute. | |
| Why would Nori just randomly send an email to a lonely 67-year-old man in California about company legal business? | |
| I'd like an answer to that. | |
| They apparently are in touch on a pretty regular basis. | |
| And I think that is because Falky is one of the most vocal critics of Nori out there. | |
| He's got, I don't know how many videos now about Nori. | |
| So it's like this whole, it's the reason he took Jimmy Church. | |
| It's the reason he was emailing with me. | |
| It's the reason he started posting on the board in the first place. | |
| He thinks that if he plays this charm offensive game, that it's going to win you over, that you're going to be star struck and you're going to stay. | |
| You know, George has been sending me emails with these photos attached of him aggressively flexing his bicep and looking deeply into the lens. | |
| I don't know what to make of those. | |
| I don't know what to make of those. | |
| I got about three per week. | |
| Had you requested those? | |
| Well, who wouldn't? | |
| I'm just glad you're. | |
| You're paying for that, aren't you? | |
| I didn't have to request it. | |
| It just started coming in. | |
| I thought, okay, bonus. | |
| You know, I get great stuff. | |
| I don't even have to ask. | |
| That happens when you give him your Snapchat ID, you know. | |
| Hope my mom and dad don't figure out how to look at my Snapchat stuff. | |
| Well, my question is this. | |
| Is this George being petty, which is entirely possible, and then tattling to his bosses and saying, you know, this art bowl stream is up? | |
| Or is it Premier saying, you know what, this is a genuine threat to our Coast Insider memberships, and they really honestly believe by shutting it down that they're going to get a flood of new registrants. | |
| That was the post where I realized I like your smiley usage. | |
| It was where you said, yeah, this will get the Streamlink memberships flowing or something like that. | |
| I'll just quickly say that I think George is largely powerless in that company and he's an employee. | |
| When I used to perceive Art's relationship to that company, it seemed like art was a force to be reckoned with who got what he wanted. | |
| He would say, this is the way it's going to be. | |
| This is what I want. | |
| This is what you guys are going to do. | |
| And they would do it. | |
| Whereas George seems more to me like an employee. | |
| He just sort of, the company is an entity that pretty much decides how things are going to be for him. | |
| So I don't think he's got as much involvement in all of this as people might like to think he does. | |
| I used to think that, but Art's posted a couple of times on the forum in the last week about his comment about George Gets It. | |
| And he said that he was told to say that. | |
| So that leads me to believe that perhaps he wasn't as good as though. | |
| I mean, he was probably just doing a favor. | |
| You think? | |
| Probably so. | |
| I mean, because he was friends with the guy. | |
| Wasn't his name, Craig Kitchen? | |
| Beats the hell out of me. | |
| I think the guy that's in charge of. | |
| Yeah, I think the guy running the show at Premiere was named Craig Kitchen, if my memory serves. | |
| And I think Art was chummy with him. | |
| And so it very well could stand to reason that that guy said, hey, could you do me a favor and just kind of give this guy a thumbs up on your way out the door? | |
| And maybe you are obliged. | |
| Who knows? | |
| I don't know. | |
| Certainly Art had more credibility than Norrie does. | |
| So, yeah, anything's possible, I suppose. | |
| So Onan, just take your reasoning and your little contribution there and just shelve it, okay? | |
| Because we really just are, we reject that out of hand. | |
| Go ahead, Kurt. | |
| Art had a vested interest in making sure in trying to let the ship sail with the best of waters and wind by saying that, I mean, he didn't want to have another scenario where George falls apart and you get what you have today and he has to come back and sort of save it. | |
| Popel says, MV, did you know there are hidden smileys on Belgab? | |
| I discovered an angel and a devil. | |
| My nothing, that means the form's infected with something. | |
| If you'd like to be on the show, the number to call is 623-242 cast. | |
| It is 623-242-2278. | |
| That conversation that Bateman initiated there sort of causes me to think back to another conversation, which is this. | |
| Coast to Coast AM and the Somewhere in Time shows that I guess play, what, twice a week? | |
| Once a week. | |
| Once a week. | |
| Is it Saturday? | |
| Okay. | |
| I think that's great for art. | |
| I don't know why he's opposed to that. | |
| I posted this in the Art Bell thread. | |
| It just totally got lost in a sea of other stuff. | |
| And I don't think anyone even saw that post. | |
| But my point is that I think it is free advertising for Art Bell's brand. | |
| Think about this. | |
| As I said in another thread on Bell Gab, most college freshmen and sophomores are not able to remember 9-11. | |
| Now, if that doesn't make you feel old and worthless, I don't know what else is going to. | |
| But that is such a short time ago, September 11th, 2001. | |
| And these people who are college freshmen and sophomores have no recollection whatsoever of that event. | |
| And think about how long art's been off the air. | |
| Imagine how much brand awareness these shows and their airing have given Art that he would have otherwise not had. | |
| People would entirely have forgotten about him or never would have been aware of his existence. | |
| The only thing they would ever have known is George Norrie is the host of Coast to Coast AM. | |
| I have to think with this show being broadcast on 500 radio stations all over the country, how can it be a bad thing that Art's show is being replayed? | |
| This is unprecedented. | |
| It's a 22-year-old show that's being replayed on a network of 500 radio stations. | |
| I don't know any other long-form talk show ever that has been rebroadcast 22 years later after the fact on terrestrial radio on 500 stations. | |
| No other show has ever accomplished that. | |
| Not Rush. | |
| When Rush Limbaugh finally dies and goes away, no one's going to be airing reruns of the Rush Limbaugh program. | |
| But here they are rerunning episodes of Art Bell's 1990s version of Coast to Coast AM. | |
| If that doesn't speak to the quality of the product that art delivered back in those days, I don't know what does. | |
| And if that doesn't seem as though, if that doesn't feel like the ultimate victory for art, I don't know what would. | |
| I mean, here are these people. | |
| They're your competition. | |
| These people are your competition. | |
| And how do they compete with you? | |
| They play shows of you. | |
| I mean, there can be no more accurate means of measuring victory and defeat than that, in my opinion. | |
| And that's why I don't understand why Art doesn't like those shows being aired. | |
| What do you guys think? | |
| Well, he doesn't want to be associated with what Coast to Coast AM has become. | |
| He said that over and over again. | |
| And just one other thing, though. | |
| I think you're talking about high school freshmen because they would be 14 years old. | |
| So it's 9-11. | |
| Sorry. | |
| Wait, wait, wait, wait. | |
| I'm sorry. | |
| I'm half drunk. | |
| What are you saying? | |
| Was I wrong about that? | |
| About the college freshmen and sophomores? | |
| Well, the college part. | |
| Freshmen, probably high school freshmen. | |
| Well, let's see. | |
| 9-11. | |
| Okay, so September 2011. | |
| And 24. | |
| You're talking 14-year-olds. | |
| It'll be 14 years this September. | |
| Right. | |
| And so a college freshman is about 18, so they would have been or 17. | |
| They would have been three or four at the time of 9-11. | |
| So no, they don't remember that. | |
| Yeah, yeah, correct. | |
| I am correct. | |
| You are the radio show, hole. | |
| It is your job to listen to what the male hosts say, agree with it, and laugh and carry on. | |
| Go. | |
| He doesn't. | |
| That was my job. | |
| Hey, no. | |
| He doesn't want to be associated with George Nori. | |
| That's all it is. | |
| It is incredible advertising. | |
| It is unprecedented. | |
| It's never happened in radio. | |
| People don't listen to a show that happened daily 20 years later. | |
| Even though the news isn't accurate anymore, none of that stuff, you know, but we still are just mystified to hear it. | |
| Has this ever happened? | |
| No, that's amazing. | |
| And it should tell Art everything he needs to know about his own status, right? | |
| Because this has never happened. | |
| It's never happened. | |
| It's also the gift that keeps on giving to the collectors that are out there because they're all new classics that have been lost to time. | |
| And as soon as that goes, the well is dry. | |
| Yeah, like that vampire show. | |
| I didn't remember hearing that ever. | |
| That was the only way I got to hear that was because it was on the somewhere in time. | |
| But I see what you're saying and I see what Art's saying. | |
| But you reject what I'm saying. | |
| Okay. | |
| But I reject what you're saying too. | |
| All right. | |
| That's wonderful. | |
| Glad you're here. | |
| You're welcome. | |
| Wow. | |
| Curtis, what do you think? | |
| I agree with Redacted. | |
| Jazz. | |
| No, I want them to continue and continue forever. | |
| I agree with you, Envy. | |
| I think it's the best form of advertising that you can get. | |
| And George should be embarrassed that 20-year-old material is so far superior to the dribble of crap that he produces every night. | |
| There's no George Norrie torrents out there. | |
| You won't ever see a George Nori mega torrent. | |
| Well, accidentally. | |
| I've been working on one for three weeks. | |
| I wish you would be a little less dismissive on this episode of the Gabcast. | |
| I don't know. | |
| Let's take a call. | |
| Hi, you're on the air. | |
| Hello. | |
| Hey. | |
| Hey. | |
| Hey, what's going on, brother? | |
| This is B-Job. | |
| Go ahead. | |
| Do that again. | |
| You do a great job of that. | |
| Go ahead. | |
| Do it again. | |
| Mrs. White Crow. | |
| This is White Crow. | |
| You have to sort of open the back of your throat a little more. | |
| This is White. | |
| That's a little bit. | |
| We're getting there. | |
| Okay. | |
| Anyway. | |
| That made the show worth it to me. | |
| I'm almost done. | |
| I'm drinking Jack and Coke. | |
| Oh, really? | |
| Yeah. | |
| What do you think about that? | |
| That little sippage I've got going on. | |
| I'm drinking bourbon. | |
| Are you really? | |
| I never saw you as someone who would sit back and just have a glass of grandpa's cough medicine. | |
| Well, this is a new thing for me. | |
| Whoa. | |
| Things are not going well then. | |
| How's that working for you? | |
| Actually, I'm working while I'm drinking the bourbon. | |
| You're not married. | |
| You have no reason to drink. | |
| Oh, work. | |
| Hey, certainly do. | |
| So, B-W, why are you calling the show tonight? | |
| Because I can. | |
| Well, that's okay. | |
| Hey, I asked a question, ladies and gentlemen, and he answered it. | |
| So let's all calm down. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Willie D in the chat room says, Envy is always right. | |
| He's a man. | |
| I think that logic is rather sure. | |
| That reminds me of a pretty polarizing thread that was on Bell Gab recently. | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| That one was a blast, wasn't it? | |
| That was a good time right there. | |
| I think B-Dub only reported seven posts in that thread. | |
| Which thread was this? | |
| I would think that at least 30, 32. | |
| I couldn't hit the mute button in time. | |
| Why should you? | |
| Good point. | |
| Just let it rip. | |
| So, B-Dub, seriously, how are things in B-Dub's world? | |
| Things are fine. | |
| Which thread was that that everyone was all up in arms about? | |
| What was the title of that? | |
| It was about put women in their place. | |
| It was about this guy on the Dr. Phil show that puts a woman in her place. | |
| Oh, that. | |
| Trust me, you don't want to kill the brain cells to read it. | |
| I just wanted to reference it. | |
| I didn't comment on that. | |
| That was B-Dub only reported 173 posts in that thread. | |
| Yes. | |
| Yeah, I didn't report anybody in that thread. | |
| But you should have. | |
| Probably. | |
| Well, I mean, that guy can say whatever he wants. | |
| Not really. | |
| I mean, when you start. | |
| Hey, this is Falky's forum. | |
| So. | |
| So. | |
| No, he can't. | |
| That guy was a little unhinged. | |
| Anyway. | |
| Who did I hang up on in order to take this call? | |
| I need to apologize to that person. | |
| It's fine. | |
| I was going to say if you were drinking beer, you should upgrade to the hard stuff because then you'd really get off the hook. | |
| No, I hate beer. | |
| Sounds like you're already on your way. | |
| I hate beer. | |
| Why is anyone drinking beer? | |
| I mean, if we're going to sit down and have an alcoholic beverage. | |
| Yeah, let me pick up a beverage here that requires I consume more of it in order to get to the same place. | |
| I really don't get it. | |
| Alcohol does not taste good. | |
| I don't know. | |
| Does anyone really think alcohol actually tastes good? | |
| You don't drink it because it tastes good. | |
| There are lots of beers out there that I really like. | |
| Yeah, there are a lot of good tasting beers. | |
| Beers. | |
| You know what? | |
| Since I am slightly inebriated, I want to announce now I have failed to record the show this evening. | |
| I'm Michael Van Deven. | |
| It was good. | |
| And I believe you. | |
| Okay. | |
| Well, I'm glad you called. | |
| Yeah, BW, you're really knocking it out of the park. | |
| Enjoy your Kentucky gentleman. | |
| Enjoy your Kentucky gentleman. | |
| Which was made in Indiana, probably. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Wow, that was I'm glad we I don't who did we hang up on in order to take that call? | |
| Bateman? | |
| No, there was someone after Bateman. | |
| Seems to be. | |
| I don't know. | |
| I'm going to type the number in the chat room. | |
| I believe that's White Crow. | |
| This is White Crow. | |
| I think Skunk Ape needs to call in. | |
| I'm looking. | |
| I want to hear from Fox Mulder. | |
| I want him to post something, put a smiley. | |
| I want to know it, just can I get just the letter X would be fine. | |
| Can Fox Mulder please come forward and say something? | |
| Fox Mulda is talking about the character on the X-Files. | |
| No, we have a member. | |
| You should look for him. | |
| Everybody look this up. | |
| We have a bell gabber of the name Fox Mulder, and he has never posted a damn thing. | |
| You know, do you ever, when you see someone's screen name and you think, man, I wish that I thought of that. | |
| I wish that was my screen name. | |
| Battleborn. | |
| I saw that one and went, oh, that is so good. | |
| Oh, my God. | |
| I really like MV, but it's taken. | |
| Hey, Jose, you're on the air. | |
| Hi. | |
| This is White Crow. | |
| This is the real. | |
| This is the real White Crow. | |
| This is the real White Crow. | |
| How are you? | |
| White Crow. | |
| This is Pate, actually, not White Crow. | |
| People keep getting me that time. | |
| I really thought he's white crowd. | |
| No, I'm not really. | |
| No, actually, I did notice that my voice over the air sounds a lot like him one time listening to an old recording. | |
| I thought that was just bizarre. | |
| Actually, yeah, it kind of does, honestly. | |
| I'm a little off cut. | |
| I'm a conspiracy theory built around it, I'm sure. | |
| Go ahead, man. | |
| I'm sorry. | |
| Go ahead. | |
| I said there could be a conspiracy theory built around that. | |
| Say that again? | |
| Say that again? | |
| Conspiracy theory. | |
| No, you said there was a theory about what? | |
| There could be a conspiracy theory. | |
| Oh, yeah, a grand unified one where I am. | |
| No. | |
| There was a theory about who? | |
| I've never heard Pate and White Crow call in at the same time. | |
| So I believe that there's something behind this conspiracy theory. | |
| You're correct. | |
| This will be my second call as Pate. | |
| So anyway, Pate, you were saying there was a theory about what? | |
| Everything. | |
| I don't know. | |
| I'm just calling in to try to help out, man. | |
| I suck it. | |
| You're doing fine. | |
| Yeah, I don't. | |
| So seriously, what brings you to the show tonight, Pate? | |
| Let's hit it. | |
| I felt bad for not calling in last week. | |
| Oh, what would you have said had you called in last week? | |
| I have no idea. | |
| I just kind of do a show last week. | |
| So you were just going to do a Bateman and call him like, Ms. Testimony Mike. | |
| Just making sure my computer works. | |
| You got me. | |
| You got me. | |
| That's what I was going to do. | |
| Anyway. | |
| Is Pate your surname? | |
| No. | |
| Oh, crap. | |
| That's a clue. | |
| I think it is, and you just got caught and you're like, oh, shit. | |
| Patrick is my name, actually. | |
| Well, yeah, your first name. | |
| Patrick Pate? | |
| No, Pate. | |
| Hey, Patrick. | |
| Look at me. | |
| It's like an old, like way back in the old, old, old days. | |
| Is that the Celtic way? | |
| Before the internet existed, a friend of mine had a BBS, and I was like a 12-year-old kid on the thing. | |
| And he made my handle for me. | |
| And I just kept it for 20 years. | |
| Oh, geez, not 20? | |
| Like 30 years. | |
| Good lord, I'm old. | |
| Anyway. | |
| I'm 35. | |
| I'm 35 and some of my earlier computer using experiences were entirely BBSs that someone would just pass the number around to you and you go home and you, hey, I've got a modem. | |
| All right. | |
| Well, let's go ahead and do that. | |
| I mean, I just got a, what was it, 1440 baud? | |
| Baud. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Modem. | |
| This thing rocks and rolls. | |
| Let's go ahead and fire up this old BBS and see what kind of pictures we can get. | |
| It was good times. | |
| I started out on a Commodore 64 with a 300 baud modem. | |
| And it came out with the first floppy drive, I remember. | |
| It wasn't even a floppy. | |
| It was like a little three and a quarter or three and a half inch disc that had like a megabyte on it. | |
| We called it a hard drive. | |
| It was hilarious. | |
| Anyway, I'm just I'd like to compliment Skunt on the choice of username. | |
| Me? | |
| What? | |
| Skunt in the chat room. | |
| That's not me. | |
| I know it's not you. | |
| There's someone in the chat room named Skunt. | |
| I like the name. | |
| We're in the conspiracy. | |
| Yeah, that's pretty cool. | |
| I like it too. | |
| I'm pouring myself a shot at Jameson right now, so I better get off the line before my head explodes. | |
| What do you think the drink of choice should be for the Gabcast? | |
| Everything should be attached to a specific drink. | |
| Instead, we got to be a whiskey. | |
| Wasn't there a thread a long, long time ago about whiskey? | |
| I think it should be pond water. | |
| Pondwater? | |
| Yeah. | |
| Pondwater. | |
| P-W-N-E-D water. | |
| How about that? | |
| It's a little bit 2004 of you. | |
| I don't know. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I try to keep up with the times when I can. | |
| Okay. | |
| Anyway, I am really excited about art posting around. | |
| And I don't know. | |
| I feel bad sometimes because I get drunk and I do retarded. | |
| You do scare people off. | |
| You do scare about three members per day off of the forum. | |
| I'm sorry for that, man. | |
| Studies have shown. | |
| B-Dub's only reported you twice, so you're doing good. | |
| B-Dub only reports one out of every 17 of your posts, Pate. | |
| So you're doing okay. | |
| That's within the threshold of tolerance. | |
| If you want to be on the show, the number 623-242 cast, 623-242-2278. | |
| I think I kind of went to the call a little bit prematurely because I think we were still in the midst of our what about the Somewhere in time shows? | |
| Are those good for Art? | |
| We didn't really finish that, did we? | |
| Well yeah, I think it just comes down to what does. | |
| If Art thinks they're good for him, then he would promote for people to listen to him, which he clearly doesn't. | |
| Well, what about this? | |
| Here's this, what if Art knows the people at Premiere just want to annoy him? | |
| So he feigns annoyance at the continued airing of these shows when in reality it's exactly what he wants, for all the reasons I listed then, that he's playing a game on and like inception, and I can't wrap my head around that. | |
| It's multiple levels of uh, deception. | |
| You see, you see what a manipulative person I am, how my mind works. | |
| That that's like Area 511, drone level uh, playing multiple levels there. | |
| I'm just astounded how stupid Premiere is to just, you know, give so much advertising away. | |
| Yeah, it's just there's. | |
| I'm speechless. | |
| People have suggested people in the past have suggested that perhaps there's some contract with the affiliates regarding the playing of those shows. | |
| Well, I don't know how true that is, but I think the affiliates just get the show yeah, and that's about the end of it. | |
| Yeah, how many? | |
| What do you think the numbers are on those shows and do they drop, uh badly, once the somewhere in time is over? | |
| Well, I would say that on Saturday is going to be lower than during the week anyway. | |
| Wouldn't you say I have no idea? | |
| Why would you think that? | |
| I have no idea. | |
| I'm just assuming that for TV, Saturday night's not a big night for TV. | |
| So I'm assuming Saturday night in radio isn't it? | |
| But it's all right for fighting. | |
| That's because people are watching it at the pub, getting drunk when they don't have to go to work the next day. | |
| You want to take a call? | |
| Yeah. | |
| I don't know if I'm really into that this time. | |
| You know, I'm really tired of callers and the things that they say on this phone line. | |
| But this line is only open to white crow callers. | |
| We'll go ahead and take another one. | |
| Why not? | |
| Hi. | |
| Hello. | |
| Who's this? | |
| Where are you? | |
| There's this white crow. | |
| Hey, White Crow. | |
| Where are you calling from? | |
| I'm calling from Connecticut. | |
| This is Nowhere in Time. | |
| I wanted to call because we get somewhere in Time here on just one of the two affiliate stations, WLI out of New Haven. | |
| The major station, TIC, doesn't carry it at all, which is a damn shame because we have the 50,000 watts. | |
| But it's on Saturday nights here from 9 to midnight. | |
| I guess 9 to 1, actually. | |
| And it's a pretty good listen. | |
| I mean, you know, I'm riding home from work. | |
| And speaking of work, by the way, working in a liquor store, I think our official drink should be Maker's Mark. | |
| Something smooth, full, rich, elegant. | |
| That red winter wheat whiskey. | |
| That's something I think that says gap gasket. | |
| Did you ever, has anybody ever said you sound like Dan Aykroyd? | |
| No, actually, that's a new one for me. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Doesn't he sound like Dan Aykroyd? | |
| It's really uncanny. | |
| No. | |
| Dan Aykroyd also has this wonderful whiskey out, this crystal skull whiskey. | |
| That's some good stuff, too. | |
| Is it really good? | |
| Because it is. | |
| It's smooth. | |
| It's elegant. | |
| I mean, it's something great where either you mix it or you have it straight, you know, chill it just a bit. | |
| It really is good. | |
| Because a lot of times celebrities come out with these alcoholic beverages and they leave a lot to be desired. | |
| I'm sorry. | |
| Go ahead, Onan. | |
| Why would anybody want to drink something that's elegant? | |
| This came out of such an elegant bottle. | |
| But I'll tell you because, like MB said, why waste your time gassing yourself with a bunch of beer when you can have some really good, smooth vodka? | |
| You got to go in an expeditious manner. | |
| I mean, that's what we're trying to get to it. | |
| Right. | |
| Well, you know. | |
| The only thing I was kind of hoping for is somewhere down the road, if you guys are working on it, maybe like a George Gurry soundboard for the site. | |
| I picked up. | |
| We're trying to eliminate all buttons on the forum, sir. | |
| And so that's not really in keeping with that policy. | |
| And from the way donations have gotten, we're working on removing vowels before we remove buttons. | |
| Well done. | |
| Well, thanks, guys. | |
| Have a good one. | |
| Okay, nowhere in time. | |
| Thank you for calling the show. | |
| One quick note. | |
| Hi, you're on the air. | |
| Hello. | |
| Hi, I'm from Australia. | |
| I'm the Neflin that's in the chat. | |
| You know, I have to tell you something. | |
| Jasmunda gets a little nervous when people from Australia call. | |
| He starts looking at the blinds. | |
| He starts calling the locksmith. | |
| It's time to change the looks. | |
| I'm sorry, God. | |
| Hey, be quiet. | |
| Let her talk. | |
| So what are you guys doing tonight? | |
| This is my first time that I've been in this chat and on this forum and listening to you guys. | |
| You guys are really funny. | |
| You think so? | |
| What brings you to that? | |
| How did you find our gave me the link and just said that he was going to call you guys? | |
| And so I was like, yeah, I want to listen. | |
| And then anyway, I called. | |
| You know, I don't like hearing from people who like the show this much because it's too much pressure. | |
| Then you start feeling like you have to really deliver a good show every week. | |
| I don't know about all that. | |
| No, I listen to us for true or not. | |
| She likes us too much. | |
| I find it troubling. | |
| I'm sorry. | |
| Oh, troubling. | |
| So if you like us now, give us 15 more minutes and it won't be anything. | |
| It's downhill from here. | |
| What's your name by the way? | |
| My name is Shauna. | |
| Shauna, it's a pleasure. | |
| My name's Michael. | |
| Oh, thank you. | |
| Lovely to meet you, Michael. | |
| Yeah, you too. | |
| Thank you for calling. | |
| So do you care to say insane, by the way? | |
| What say that again? | |
| I said the chat is going insane. | |
| There are heaps of people in here. | |
| See, that's how popular you guys are. | |
| Let's see what they're saying. | |
| She is a woman, so the commentary could be a little bit less than it otherwise would be. | |
| But let's see. | |
| No, I'm just joking. | |
| That's just sort of a running gag. | |
| I pretend to be like a chauvinist, but I'm really not. | |
| So do you care? | |
| Shauna, do you care to say what part of Australia you live in? | |
| Yeah, that's fine. | |
| I'm from Perth, which is the western side of Australia. | |
| Okay. | |
| And does anyone live in Central Australia? | |
| That's what I want to know. | |
| Is that the idea? | |
| You mean like the desert? | |
| No. | |
| So that's all it is. | |
| There's just desert. | |
| There's nothingness. | |
| Well, and by the way, do you see how silent Jasmunda has been through all of this, by the way? | |
| Well, it's okay. | |
| She's in Perth. | |
| There's a lot of distance between us. | |
| There's a lot of desert there. | |
| There's heaps of distance. | |
| Heaves. | |
| I have to ask. | |
| It takes me like a whole 24 hours to like fly, basically. | |
| Shauna, have you ever heard of Art Bell? | |
| Do you listen to the Art Bell show? | |
| I have to say, like, no. | |
| So when everyone was like yammering on about it, I was like, oh, what the fuck? | |
| Listen how dismissive she is of all of your comments, everybody. | |
| She just simply refers to it as they were all yammering. | |
| Mv, do you need me to translate what she's saying into well? | |
| I feel I feel at times as though I'm listening to Click. | |
| That's just me. | |
| I don't know. | |
| Maybe it's just me. | |
| So, Shauna, I really find this to be sort of a seminal moment in this show's existence because it's almost as though we've crossed some sort of a threshold. | |
| Like, you probably don't even know about Bellgab either, do you? | |
| No. | |
| See, she has no idea of this entire universe, but she's listening. | |
| How is that even possible that she's listening to this show right now? | |
| I'm trying to figure that out right now. | |
| How did you find the show? | |
| And why are you? | |
| My awesome friend Cam. | |
| He linked me in because he was going to ring you guys and he probably has tried ringing. | |
| And yeah, so I just thought I'd listen because I was listening for him. | |
| And then you guys are just, I don't know, caught my attention. | |
| And so far, you guys have been like the ones that are on my PC and the ones I'm listening to. | |
| I like stopped listening to music and everything. | |
| Shauna, how old are you? | |
| Guess. | |
| 23. | |
| Oi, like pretty close. | |
| 24. | |
| Oh, wow. | |
| How about that? | |
| What do you do? | |
| I mean, are you a student or do you work for a living? | |
| What do you do? | |
| Yeah, I'm a student. | |
| So I did dive. | |
| I got two degrees. | |
| I'm an opera singer, actually. | |
| And yes, I'm back at uni doing teaching just so I can have like an extra thing under my belt, you know, so I can go internationally and teach while I'm, you know, singing. | |
| So you've actually got your shit together, in other words, is what you're saying to me. | |
| See, no one, oh, well, no one hosting or listening to this show even owns a home. | |
| So maybe. | |
| I don't own a home. | |
| Okay, I currently live in my Nana's back shed if you really want to like, you know, get down to it. | |
| That sounded glamorous to me the way you said it. | |
| Shauna, I would like to hear some operatic singing. | |
| And so we're all going to be silent as you go ahead and proceed. | |
| Oh, no. | |
| This is a pretty bad mic. | |
| It's like on a laptop. | |
| We have literally tens of listeners. | |
| No, this is scary. | |
| Come on, Shauna. | |
| Look, I'll do. | |
| The heroes are alive With the sound of music. | |
| MV, how about a duet? | |
| Philadelphia Freedom of you. | |
| Philadelphia Freedom! | |
| Oh my God, someone said sing the national anthem. | |
| And yeah, nah. | |
| Sean, I'm sorry. | |
| I like all national anthems. | |
| I've broken the ice. | |
| You're trying to change the subject and divert. | |
| Let's get back to you singing for us. | |
| Go. | |
| Oh, okay. | |
| Oh, God. | |
| Okay. | |
| I really apologize. | |
| This is horrific. | |
| There's no need to apologize. | |
| Whatever you're going to do, I can assure you, none of us can do it. | |
| It's like 10.48 in the morning here. | |
| Wouldn't it be hilarious if she's actually just totally lying about being an opera singer? | |
| Okay, okay, okay. | |
| Now I have to prove myself. | |
| You do. | |
| We have our doubts. | |
| All right. | |
| Pretty good. | |
| Is this working? | |
| I think your microphone was muted when you did that. | |
| If you can just. | |
| Oh, what? | |
| Is it a bad time to say that I'm tone deaf? | |
| So I'm not really sure what. | |
| No, that was perfection. | |
| That was perfection. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Wow. | |
| And she's a really pretty girl, too, for those of you gents out there who don't yet have a lucky lady hooked onto your arm. | |
| I want to tell you, she's a looker. | |
| What? | |
| I want to ask. | |
| Oh, the song photo. | |
| Oh, shit. | |
| Yes, I can see your profile, Philippo. | |
| Yeah, she's a good-looking girl, gentleman. | |
| And Ponyboy Sunset. | |
| Oh, it's going a nice shade of crimson over here. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Well, Shauna, we hope that you'll become a regular listener to our show. | |
| Yes, I'm definitely bookmarking this page. | |
| There are sometimes references that we make that you may not understand, but with time you will. | |
| And we would also recommend that you consider checking out Bell Gab. | |
| No, I'm not a hooker, just for you know, grow. | |
| Thank you very much. | |
| You're not a what? | |
| A hooker. | |
| I just got called a hooker. | |
| Who called you that? | |
| Why? | |
| Why would they say that? | |
| I don't know. | |
| I was about to say that. | |
| It's probably some fat, unfuckable guy who hates women. | |
| And we don't have hookahs in Australia. | |
| We only have prosies. | |
| That's right. | |
| That's right. | |
| Okay, Shauna. | |
| Well, it's been a pleasure. | |
| Go to bellgab.com. | |
| That's B-E-L-L-G-A-B. | |
| And you'll sort of get plugged into a universe that virtually assures you'll never have sex with another human being again. | |
| Oh lol, okay. | |
| I look forward to it. | |
| Well, thank you for talking to me and answering my call. | |
| Yeah, it's been a pleasure. | |
| Thank you for calling. | |
| And let's go. | |
| That was heaven listening to that singing, wasn't it? | |
| Yeah, it was. | |
| It was nice. | |
| Wonderful. | |
| Hi, you're on the air. | |
| Hello. | |
| Hey, what's up? | |
| This is Chameleon. | |
| What's going on? | |
| Is that Chameleon as in Chameleon 808? | |
| Yeah, yeah. | |
| As in Cam, the friend of Cheanna. | |
| I'm the one that brought Shauna here. | |
| I wanted to know what you said earlier. | |
| You talked about trying to describe the Gab cast and Bell Gab to somebody who'd be listening who obviously. | |
| That was Shauna. | |
| That was the girl I brought here. | |
| She was the one I was. | |
| So her first show last night I played for her was the Antichrist time traveler line. | |
| So she did get to hear at least one Art Bell episode before coming in here. | |
| So as far as the Bell Gab stuff goes, yeah, I'll have to bring her up to speed all the colorful stuff. | |
| You would do some bumper music for Art's new show. | |
| Yeah, right? | |
| I heard that. | |
| I was like, whoa, because I haven't even heard her sing before. | |
| Yeah. | |
| So you know her. | |
| How do you know her? | |
| Over the internet? | |
| Yeah, we all actually hang out on the internet. | |
| That's just all webcams. | |
| So like, I was in this webcam room, you can actually play YouTube links in there. | |
| So I was playing an Art Bell show in there one night because there was like nobody in there. | |
| And a couple of people came in and they wanted to start listening too. | |
| So then I told them about this site. | |
| And then, yeah, that's there's actually three or four or five people in here that I brought in from that site, man. | |
| They have no idea about this whole phenomenon, but I'm going to try to like, you know, usher them in. | |
| Hey, hey, hey. | |
| Chameleon, do your white crow impression, please. | |
| I don't even have a backstory on that, but for what I'm saying. | |
| Imagine like you see a guy with the username White Crow. | |
| How would he speak? | |
| It's like, I'm White Crow and I've been on Bill ever since it was Coast Cam and I've been on that since it was whatever the hell. | |
| He's not some minor from the 1800s. | |
| We nailed it. | |
| I was nailed it. | |
| I've been prospecting. | |
| Get off my lawn. | |
| They got the genesis croix of that. | |
| You know, Chameleon, I'm glad that you called in tonight. | |
| And I think it was a couple of days ago you sent me a couple IMs on Skype and you sort of fell off the map for a while. | |
| And so from time to time, you did pop into my head. | |
| I just got into editing. | |
| I got a lot of editing work. | |
| And then I fell into this webcam chat room and I stopped going to the forum. | |
| So I'm trying to like infuse both of those social habits I had back together again. | |
| Do you want to plug your YouTube channel? | |
| No. | |
| Why? | |
| Why? | |
| You know, I'm real humble about that kind of stuff. | |
| But my screen name, if they put my screen name in YouTube, then they or Google, then they can find me. | |
| Easy. | |
| Okay. | |
| I might give your YouTube channel without permission later. | |
| I don't know. | |
| Let me think about it. | |
| There's some cool stuff on there. | |
| Let me think about it. | |
| But yeah, I missed you, guys. | |
| I had to plan, dude. | |
| It's been a long time. | |
| I guess that's my point. | |
| Yeah, I kind of missed you, actually, I have to say. | |
| I would agree. | |
| It was you who had a big fight with someone on the site a couple of days ago. | |
| Fidgets ago. | |
| I mean, Fidget went at it there for a minute. | |
| You know, I think I would like to get the two of you together and just sort of. | |
| I told the guy, I was like, you know, I ain't got a problem with you now that, you know, everything's died down. | |
| So I'm actually cool with him now, I guess. | |
| Unless he's still mad. | |
| You guys are like, yeah, bro, man. | |
| No, nothing like that. | |
| Hanging out, starting fires. | |
| Okay. | |
| Well, it's good to hear from you. | |
| I'm glad you called in. | |
| It's always good to just know people are still alive. | |
| I think that's what it really boils down to for me. | |
| Some people just come along and then they fall off the radar entirely after having been there really hot and heavy see them posting all the time. | |
| They've got a really prominent internet presence and then suddenly gone. | |
| Do you know whose screen name I just saw a little bit ago that I was thinking of is Fry's Girl? | |
| Yeah. | |
| Where is she? | |
| Like physically, she lives on Cleves Avenue, New York, New York. | |
| Thanks. | |
| Thanks for that. | |
| The webcam I have loaded across the street. | |
| I could have told you that. | |
| But where is he? | |
| She and I sent a few emails back and forth recently. | |
| I told her that I missed her because somebody, I don't remember who it was, somebody was talking about the Shah of Iran and they spelled it S-H-A-W. | |
| And I just thought, man, if Fry's Girl were here, she would just rip out your beanbag for even contributing to a discussion about Iran if you're writing S-H-A-W. | |
| That's the reason she left last time. | |
| Was it? | |
| She got in a heated argument with Zircon. | |
| Zircon encrusted tweezers. | |
| Yeah, and he was talking in politics and he misspelled Shah as well. | |
| And that was her comment. | |
| You know, you spelled Shah If I left a website every time someone spelled something incorrectly, I wouldn't have any of the going on. | |
| I don't think she left for that reason. | |
| I think the umbrage was more that she didn't want to deal with stupid people. | |
| And I certainly understand that. | |
| It's C-L-D-A-V-D-E-S. | |
| Didn't she go into too much detail about her personal life at one point and wanted to get away? | |
| I remember something about that. | |
| I don't remember that with Friesgirl. | |
| I mean, it's possible, but she was there before I was. | |
| Yeah, she was an early. | |
| Yeah, you weren't a part of the clique, okay? | |
| Hey, Art's in your click now. | |
| So, Michaels. | |
| Oh, shit. | |
| I want to be in your clique. | |
| I want to have a click. | |
| Well, you should have one if you don't. | |
| I'm the guy who started Nuthuggers, goddammit. | |
| I should have some servant. | |
| I deserve a click. | |
| I tell you what, right now, I'm going to take away my charter membership in the Michael Van Devon Fan Club based in Muncie, Indiana. | |
| And it's going to be now the Owen Fan Club, and I'm fan member number one. | |
| Thank you, man. | |
| No problem. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Be you and me. | |
| I've just been in the Gabcast thread on Bell Gab, and White Crow was posted in there. | |
| He says, this is White Crow. | |
| That son of a bitch MV has my phone number blocked on the Gabcast. | |
| Oh, really? | |
| Is that true? | |
| Oh, I think I do because I used to find him so annoying. | |
| Let me, okay. | |
| I'm sorry, White Crow. | |
| Just call from a different phone number, please. | |
| That's all you have to do. | |
| It's just a block on your phone number because I was just so sick of you. | |
| But I think you're okay now since you donated money to the forum. | |
| Go ahead. | |
| What person only has one cell phone? | |
| That's how you make everything all right. | |
| Just throw money at the problem. | |
| He's shown interest in being connected on a phone call. | |
| So just call him. | |
| You know, I think I misunderstood White Crow a little bit, actually. | |
| I mean, he is a bit. | |
| He is a troll. | |
| White Crow. | |
| Listen, White Crow is a troll. | |
| I'm not going to debate. | |
| I don't care how much money he donates. | |
| He's still a troll. | |
| But I don't know. | |
| I kind of feel like I misunderstood him a little bit. | |
| That money just sweetened the deal, didn't it? | |
| You know what? | |
| You know what, MV? | |
| You're a whore. | |
| As I said, if Premier Radio Networks came to me tomorrow and said, hey, what's it going to take? | |
| We really enjoy your website. | |
| I would sell all of you out. | |
| Two seconds flat. | |
| You're a son of a second. | |
| Not a second. | |
| I swear to God. | |
| I thought we had a protocol in place that when that happened, we do a mass delete of everything. | |
| I am right after everything, the jet clears. | |
| I have no convictions or ethics or reservations. | |
| None. | |
| I used to steal from my grandmother's couch cushions. | |
| There were quarters and such. | |
| Hey, Falky, stop. | |
| Okay, we don't need to know. | |
| If you want to be on the show, the number to call us 623-242-CAST. | |
| That is 623-242-CAST. | |
| I am just plastered at this point. | |
| I don't really. | |
| It just doesn't. | |
| It doesn't take much. | |
| But I think I, even when I'm intoxicated, I think I, more so than a lot of people, maintain the ability to communicate verbally. | |
| Right. | |
| Right. | |
| You keep thinking that. | |
| MV, will you be sleeping at your office tonight? | |
| Because I don't think you should be driving home. | |
| I just got him in the Uber. | |
| What I've done is I have rented a Humvee, which is currently parked in front of the office, and I've mapped a route home that takes me past as many playgrounds and schools as possible. | |
| Your timing's off a little bit. | |
| You might want to wait until after sunrise. | |
| And through the homes of a couple of old ladies. | |
| It's a Humvee, though. | |
| It'll take it. | |
| You can buff that shit out. | |
| That's 623-242-CAST. | |
| 623-242-CAST. | |
| Go ahead. | |
| I'm going to back away for it. | |
| Okay, so I think the emotional? | |
| I think that last comment got to him. | |
| He was so excited about his plan. | |
| So he's got to double check the route to make sure he can afford the gas for it. | |
| Obviously, naturally. | |
| Kelt says the Gary Glitter route home. | |
| I don't know what that's supposed to mean. | |
| I've never been to Thailand. | |
| Go ahead. | |
| That you were just driving past schools and playgrounds. | |
| Excuse me. | |
| That's what it is. | |
| Gary Glitter was arrested for child molestation or something. | |
| Yes. | |
| I think they found child porn as well. | |
| God, him and Morphe Flow. | |
| Jesus. | |
| Well, but there's hope for Morphe Flow because that public defense fund has gotten up to approximately $350.66. | |
| I don't think it is. | |
| Allegedly. | |
| That's yeah. | |
| What was I going to say about Gary? | |
| Oh, yes. | |
| I'm sorry, but if you've been to Thailand, you're suspicious to me. | |
| I don't see any reason to go to that country unless you're a kid toucher. | |
| I'm sorry. | |
| And that's another reason why when that big tsunami went through there and the United States started throwing all kinds of dollars at that government, I was really upset by that because that government in large part is responsible for the fact that all that stuff goes on there. | |
| And yet here we are throwing, I mean, you're throwing dollars at a government that basically allows kid fucking is what it comes down to. | |
| I actually knew someone who said that was his favorite vacation place and I never talked to him ever again. | |
| I'll bet you this guy had like a thin, creepy mustache, didn't he? | |
| He had a goatee. | |
| Well, that's pretty close. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Those countries are so horrible. | |
| I realize that the United States has its ups and its downs, but man, you can go on YouTube and watch these documentaries. | |
| Like I think this is also in Thailand, these women who work in bars as whores. | |
| And there's just all of these really creepy, just, oh my God, all these ones. | |
| I've been to Bangkok and there's this strip where there's just bars and strip clubs all down this one strip. | |
| And in the middle, there's all where you can buy fake videos and DVDs and fake handbags and all that. | |
| But these bars. | |
| What do you mean by fake videos? | |
| Like what you download now. | |
| Oh, counterfeit videos. | |
| Counterfeit videos. | |
| Yeah, that's what I mean. | |
| But you can also buy, you used to be able to buy cassettes of famous recording artists, but the actual person singing on the tape was some Thai guy. | |
| I'll never rip off on the plane flight home. | |
| A B Regen! | |
| And that's my rava. | |
| I just got this copy of Philadelphia Freedom. | |
| A FIRA! | |
| Adafia Freerum! | |
| Yes, that is exactly what you would get. | |
| When you said fake videos, I'm thinking someone takes this home and his buddy's sitting next to him. | |
| And he says, what would I tell you? | |
| What would you say if I told you, you think you're watching a video right now, but you're not? | |
| I thought that, yeah, that's what I thought. | |
| It is not a real video. | |
| This was back in 98, and I bought whatever the popular movies were at the time. | |
| I bought them home, put one cassette into the video recorder, started watching, and it cut out before the end of it. | |
| Every movie that I bought cut out before the end of the movie. | |
| So I got data there. | |
| But I digress a bit because I was talking about these seedy bars with these stripper poles. | |
| And you have these tables of just women standing there. | |
| None of them are over 18. | |
| You can just tell. | |
| And they're all there dressed in the same thing with a number strapped to their bikini or whatever they're wearing. | |
| And it's just disgusting. | |
| You just poke your head in and have a look. | |
| And it's, you know, the same thing. | |
| Yeah, they don't even sweep the floors in there. | |
| It is just abominable. | |
| You have to throw your shoes away as soon as you leave. | |
| You know, if I'm buying human flesh, I want to be able to stand on a clean floor while I'm doing it. | |
| That's just me. | |
| And by the way, the Morphe Flow Defense Fund is officially up to $375, $375. | |
| What do you mean? | |
| Well, but you know what? | |
| I'm thinking about just donating maybe five bucks as a goof. | |
| What do you think? | |
| That's a bad idea. | |
| Don't control it. | |
| Don't do it. | |
| $2.50. | |
| There's $99. | |
| $0.49. | |
| Do that. | |
| 14 pence. | |
| 21 cents. | |
| There you go. | |
| Perfect. | |
| Cinema and IOU. | |
| There you go. | |
| You can do that in PayPal, right? | |
| I sure am happy that we increased the Shoutcast server capacity because we really had a lot more people who wanted to tune in than could based on what I'm looking at. | |
| Yeah, evidence by the callers who actually could hear. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Because this was designed to make me money. | |
| No, designed to make me broadcast my voice to people. | |
| 623-242-CAST. | |
| It is 623-242-2278. | |
| So let's see. | |
| Oh, there's something I'd like to address. | |
| Those of you who may have seen that thread a while back, somebody started a thread saying, does Belgab have, Belgab has malware? | |
| Is Belgab infected with something? | |
| Because they were getting some weird stuff when they would load various, I don't know if it was the same page every time or if it was just a random page on the forum that they would load and then they would see what kind of looked to them as if it were malware. | |
| And I talked to Curtis about that and we both kind of came to the conclusion that it's probably a corrupted Google AdSense advertisement. | |
| Yes. | |
| Isn't that pretty much what we decided? | |
| Yeah, it is. | |
| It's definitely not coming from the site. | |
| Yeah. | |
| When I say that, I mean that as in, it's not code stored in the site. | |
| It would be what's being served up by Google, which happens sometimes. | |
| And Google's usually pretty good at catching it. | |
| Or they're using Lenovo computers. | |
| Yeah, there you go. | |
| That's a great. | |
| Yes. | |
| If you have a Lenovo right now and you're on more than, or if you're in a house that has more than one story, go to the highest story you can go to, open the window, throw it out the window. | |
| That'll help. | |
| Curtis, don't you wish we were still doing the spec sheet? | |
| Yeah, why don't we do I really miss doing that show with you, buddy? | |
| I miss you. | |
| Should be doing it. | |
| I disagree. | |
| I don't want to do it anymore. | |
| You bastard. | |
| Every time I hear like big news like the Lenovo thing, I think, man, why aren't we talking about this? | |
| I realize it's my fault we're not talking about it. | |
| It really kind of is. | |
| It is my fault. | |
| Yeah. | |
| The spec sheet, for anyone who doesn't know, that was a podcast Curtis and I used to do, which was about technology. | |
| It was just like a tech news podcast. | |
| But Curtis, his job was insane at the time and trying to balance all that with family life and this, that, and the other thing. | |
| It was just like, okay, I don't want to do podcasting anymore. | |
| And fast forward, about 17 minutes, and Curtis has now purchased more equipment and is probably going to buy a new microphone and is all in podcasting again. | |
| It really is. | |
| I was just telling a friend that as soon as I'm out, I'm all in again. | |
| So I guess what I'm saying is we'll probably wind up doing like another podcast, another spec sheet podcast pretty soon. | |
| Like we're going to try and do it maybe once a month, right? | |
| Right. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Just that makes sense, you know, once a month. | |
| It gives us an entire month's worth of. | |
| But I will say, though, I mean, even doing a show every week, we always ran out of time to talk about all the stuff that we found over the course of that week. | |
| So, I mean, doing a show over the course of, you know, tech news covering an entire month, there's a lot of shit we're not going to talk about. | |
| The thing is, though, that there's going to be, I think, doing it once a month or do it twice a month. | |
| There'll be enough real stories that are worth coming up with. | |
| I mean, because we talk about things that we thought were going to be a big deal, but they ended up kind of not going any farther. | |
| They were the news of the week or the day. | |
| I think now we can get stuff like Lenovo, like net neutrality needs to be talked about. | |
| These are things that are a big deal in the tech world, not just, you know, the week's news. | |
| This is real matters. | |
| And I'd love to get more people calling in with tech support type conversations. | |
| Plus, you could help me with my Max. | |
| I just went back to Mac. | |
| Did you? | |
| Sweet. | |
| I did. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I think that sucks. | |
| Well, he did it right. | |
| I think that sucks ass. | |
| Stephen Otero in the chat room said spec sheet returns in July when Curtis's non-compete expires, which is correct. | |
| It brings me to a question I have that I'd like to hear with the sources behind this. | |
| I didn't know if it was a joke in the Art Bell thread or Art said something to imply it. | |
| There was talk of a 10-year non-compete with something. | |
| Oh, that was a joke. | |
| It's a joke. | |
| Okay, because it scared me when I saw that. | |
| Well, I want to tell you that I had a private conversation with Art in which he told me that no, he did in fact sign a 10-year no-compete. | |
| You're wasted. | |
| You're wasted. | |
| And he also sent me some pictures of George Nouri flexing his bicep, looking lovingly into the camera lens. | |
| You're going to save them forever. | |
| That wasn't a bicep. | |
| No, I'm joking. | |
| Art did not sign a 10-year no-compete. | |
| Who do you guys think the big player is? | |
| That's a good conversation. | |
| It is. | |
| I have been. | |
| And let me clarify this. | |
| Art is getting ready to return to broadcasting. | |
| We don't know in really what capacity. | |
| All we know is Art has told everybody that there's some sort of a big player that he's about to be involved with in the course of bringing this new show to you in July 2015. | |
| Okay, so who's the big player? | |
| Well, when he first started talking about it, we all assumed it was some big player in the online broadcasting industry. | |
| How many big players are there? | |
| There's that Live 365. | |
| Is there another one called Podcast One or something like that? | |
| But you're assuming he's only going to broadcast online. | |
| That's right. | |
| Well, that's what I said. | |
| That's we all assumed that. | |
| But then the whole K9 thing and then he was joking about it. | |
| Was he really joking about it? | |
| I don't know. | |
| I mean, he did say reach him at KNYE at KNYU.com. | |
| He's had that address forever. | |
| Was that a joke? | |
| That's not a clue. | |
| It's just a joke. | |
| As a matter of fact, I think that is the address that Art registered his Bell Gab account with a long time ago. | |
| Gotcha. | |
| I guess I'm the only one here who really doesn't care. | |
| When you say you don't care, do you mean you don't care who the big player is? | |
| Right. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I mean, do I? | |
| I just want to hear it. | |
| No, he means he just doesn't care in general. | |
| He doesn't want to be here doing the show. | |
| He doesn't really particularly like either of you. | |
| No, I like you all. | |
| I just don't care. | |
| I like you too. | |
| I know. | |
| Say that again. | |
| No, don't. | |
| I want to get that isolated. | |
| That's a ringtone for me, Michael. | |
| How do you feel about Onin? | |
| I get a lot of that. | |
| I think you're. | |
| We're going to use that on the webpage I set up for you for the fan club. | |
| I think the big player, no matter what he says now, somebody's going to be disappointed. | |
| It's true. | |
| So I don't know. | |
| One of my favorite quotes, actually, Onan, is your quote from just before Art signed on about the big old bowl of disappointment. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Thank you. | |
| So do you guys think he's going to wind up on terrestrial radio in some form? | |
| Or do you think it's going to be entirely online, just as has always been suggested? | |
| Well, I tried to ask him that question and I poorly phrased it. | |
| And so he assumed I meant running his podcast through the radio. | |
| But what I really was trying to get at was, I think it's foolish to not use AM radio to give you the wherewithal you need to do your podcast. | |
| I don't see why those have to be exclusive. | |
| So it boggles my mind. | |
| I don't either. | |
| I see why they have to be exclusive from each other, but he seems so determined to just be streaming. | |
| And I realize podcasting may be the future, but there's something to be said for having a radio station behind you, or maybe I'm just crazy. | |
| Well, I don't know the business, you know, so. | |
| Me either. | |
| Yeah. | |
| So I think what you just said was very a great point. | |
| At this point, it's been built up to where whatever he says, someone's disappointed. | |
| How can anyone be disappointed? | |
| There's not just any barriers to hear him. | |
| Sirius was a serious barrier to listen to him. | |
| I mean, you had to pay and you had to buy a radio to hear him. | |
| What if? | |
| Just sit down, everybody, for a moment. | |
| Wait, let me get my mic. | |
| Okay. | |
| What if Art's new show in July is going to air on a CC FM transmitter that you have to be in a particular parking lot in Parump in order to hear? | |
| Go. | |
| How about it's Art Bells Ham Radio? | |
| And you have to have a ham radio license to listen to it. | |
| You know, there are people out there who have actively suggested that Art use ham radio to do this new show. | |
| Welcome to Art Bells Hand to Ham. | |
| That's no crazier than Fort Rock's suggestion that he produced the show from an Indian reservation. | |
| Yes. | |
| I love every time that one comes up. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And he had just walls of text explaining why this is the perfect idea. | |
| It makes complete sense. | |
| This is what we're going to do. | |
| There's some army behind it, the scorpion army. | |
| Hey, I'm the second member of the Scorpion Army, so be careful. | |
| I have to send the Scorpion Army. | |
| And if you don't know what the Scorpion Army is, that's from this guy named Fort Rock, who actually takes his name from that of a city, I think, in Oregon. | |
| Is that right? | |
| Or Washington State, somewhere up in the Pacific Northwest. | |
| And he repeatedly would go on bellgab.com and say that he has a source in Portland, Oregon who is imparting upon him proprietary information about what Art's next step is going to be here, there, or wherever. | |
| And just the most outlandish things that this guy would suggest he has inside proprietary information about. | |
| And it got to the point where, and he would always post in all caps. | |
| That was a pleasurable facet of the entire experience. | |
| And he would go on about the fact that no American women have allowed him the opportunity to reproduce. | |
| So his plan as a high school or middle school teacher in the United States, teaching your substitute, teaching your children, his plan of attack was going to be to fly to China and find some impoverished girl that he would then impregnate. | |
| Didn't he then create another Michael? | |
| That sounds a lot like your personal life, actually. | |
| I don't know why you're. | |
| The only difference is your source wasn't in Portland. | |
| No, he created another account to support him. | |
| I remember that. | |
| I can't remember what the account was called, but yeah, I remember that. | |
| Dark Side of the Moon or something like that? | |
| Was that a DSO TM? | |
| He did. | |
| He actually did that. | |
| Yeah, he actually did that. | |
| There was some weird shit. | |
| Another poster is no longer around. | |
| Did a little bit of skullduggery through the internet and found out a whole bunch of stuff about him. | |
| And it did seem like the guy had a bit of a weird side. | |
| That was the first time on the internet that I, like when you saw that stuff and I thought, should I act on what I'm reading? | |
| Or is this just some crazy moment on the internet that maybe is not all it's added up to? | |
| Would I feel guilty if I heard a story and I saw this guy, you know, saw this stuff that someone else, you know, dug up about them? | |
| You have to stop and think, okay, where does the internet end and the real world begin? | |
| Well, my understanding was that he had posted this in other forums. | |
| Who posted what? | |
| Well, it was Hal, who was. | |
| Yeah, right. | |
| I didn't. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And he used, just from what I understand, just used the guy's forum name and did a search and came up with. | |
| And his picture, too, because he put his picture on the. | |
| It rubs the lotion on its skin. | |
| It was, you know, it was kind of creepy all the way around. | |
| It was creepy that Pal did all this research, but the story was also creepy. | |
| So it was like, you needed a bath after you read it. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Well, again, what do you after you read that? | |
| And then you have to go ahead and assume that this is potentially real. | |
| What do you do now that you know this? | |
| What's your next step? | |
| Do you just move on and accept the forum still as it is? | |
| Or do you think, okay, should you know? | |
| You know what I mean? | |
| Like there's really nothing for you to do, but once you see it, you can't unsee it. | |
| You know, it's like, these are things I will never do. | |
| Or catch those again. | |
| For the Scorpion Army, though, that was a great thing. | |
| It was. | |
| You know, I kind of begrudged him that, but, you know, in hindsight, that was probably the only smart thing the guy did. | |
| Yeah, I agree. | |
| Well, I love to constantly bring up the fact that I thought they were a pretty good band. | |
| For a long time, his posts about the Scorpion Army were what kept me coming back to Bell Gab. | |
| I wanted to see what is this crazy guy going to say today? | |
| What update are we going to get? | |
| I got it. | |
| Oh, so we never really explained what Scorpion Army was. | |
| We sort of got to this user named Fort Rock, but he would always quote something that he would refer to as the Scorpion Army and make references to it. | |
| Yeah, like the Scorpion Army was this legion of, I don't know who, who was apparently going to fight for art either literally or figuratively somewhere in some capacity. | |
| And so that's what that refers to, if you ever see it. | |
| Wow, that was really a letdown of an explanation. | |
| I always just thought that the Scorpion Army was just us as the fans, his Scorpion Army. | |
| Yeah, but he was the general of it. | |
| He was like the leader. | |
| I wonder if he ever impregnated the impoverished Chinese girl. | |
| I don't know, but he gave me, like I said, official membership to it. | |
| So, and I can't, I don't think I ever did it, but my plan was to always post the headquarters for the Scorpion Army, its address. | |
| But I can't remember where the address for the actual Scorpion bands fan club was. | |
| I kept looking for it because I wanted to see somebody post or send something to the band Scorpion that they're in Fort Rock Scorpion Army. | |
| This is something posted in the chat room by Cat Smile. | |
| What is it? | |
| Goodbye horses, Q Lazarus. | |
| Why did you link to this? | |
| Is there some reference here that I don't understand? | |
| I don't get it either. | |
| Is it like Portlandia? | |
| Really? | |
| Do you think it's I think it's kind of pleasing? | |
| I think it's kind of like 40 years old, but... | |
| You just looked at the upload date and said that... | |
| No, I was... | |
| You made it sound like you have some sort of a finger on the pulse of musical evolution that enabled you to sit. | |
| I do. | |
| You haven't noticed that about me. | |
| This is 2008. | |
| Oh my god. | |
| Okay, but I still don't understand why you linked to that in the chat room. | |
| I don't know what it means. | |
| It's as though there was some message that was supposed to be conveyed there. | |
| But I don't get it. | |
| We were supposed to pick up from that, I think. | |
| I've been activated. | |
| Run. | |
| Must find Art Bell Stream. | |
| Alert premier. | |
| I'm an ageist. | |
| I was just told in the chat room. | |
| What did I say to make me an ageist? | |
| Oh, it's from this scene in Silence of the Lambs. | |
| Oh. | |
| Oh, the tucks. | |
| Yes. | |
| It puts the lotion on its skin It didn't go to. | |
| He's got it tucked between his legs. | |
| That's all. | |
| I forgot. | |
| Boy, he's really done a great tuck job. | |
| Go ahead. | |
| I'm sorry. | |
| Poor Ted Levine. | |
| That's what he's going to be remembered for. | |
| I should not watch Monk because the entire time I'm going, okay, you're Monk. | |
| You're this amazing detective. | |
| But dude, the guy is right. | |
| He's right there. | |
| works with you the criminal is can't you see that Monk is one of those shows that I've never seen, but I hate it. | |
| Just like the promotional pictures I see of it, the name of the show, the network that it airs on. | |
| I just want to smash something when I see Monk. | |
| Is it a good show? | |
| Don't even say yes, because I'm going to hate you. | |
| It's not. | |
| It's not really that great of a show. | |
| It's all centered around his OCD. | |
| But the killer from Silence of the Lambs is like the partner? | |
| He works at the police station. | |
| He's like the sheriff or I don't know what. | |
| He's like in charge of the police department. | |
| There you go. | |
| Yeah. | |
| It's a bit unsettling. | |
| It's not right. | |
| It's not right. | |
| I couldn't watch it. | |
| Let's talk about Buffalo Bill. | |
| Let's take a phone call. | |
| Hi, you're on the air. | |
| Hello. | |
| Who's this? | |
| Yeah, is she a great big fat person? | |
| Yes. | |
| Are you about a size 14? | |
| Mrs. Lippmann had her card somewhere in here. | |
| Would you? | |
| It fucked me so hard. | |
| Language, sir. | |
| That's one of those movies, the Edge Bateman. | |
| Turn your radio down, please. | |
| That's one of those movies that anytime it's on TV, whatever part of the movie it's at, I have to sit and watch. | |
| That and Godfather, of course. | |
| Goodfellas. | |
| It's another one. | |
| Casino. | |
| Christmas vacation. | |
| Casino, honestly, I can't jump into because Sharon Stone, I just want to pull a dress up. | |
| You just find her too off-putting, do you? | |
| Yeah. | |
| She only made one good movie, right? | |
| Hmm. | |
| Well, I think that's a casino is one of those quotable, re-watchable movies right in line with Goodfellas and the rest of it. | |
| I don't know. | |
| I'm kind of surprised to hear you say that, frankly. | |
| Yeah, I don't know. | |
| It's like an eight Goodfellas is a 10. | |
| I think they could have done far better than Sharon Stone, that's for sure. | |
| I think she was just kind of the it thing at that time. | |
| And maybe her age, her agent knew someone who knew someone, and they got her into this Scorsese movie. | |
| I just, it annoys me because I find myself yelling at Robert De Niro the whole movie. | |
| Why are you putting up with her? | |
| Yeah, I know. | |
| I know. | |
| You got to trust each other. | |
| Or there's nothing. | |
| Okay, well, she's having sex with your the guy who like puts the set together on your little local TV show. | |
| Well, you still got to trust. | |
| Yeah, she's funneling De Niro's money to her pimp, James Spader. | |
| Spader thought it was James Wood. | |
| Yeah, James Woods. | |
| Come on, Bateman. | |
| James Spader's been in everything. | |
| He's the bad guy in all things. | |
| All right. | |
| Well, that's all I got. | |
| Have a good night, fellas. | |
| All right. | |
| It's been a pleasure. | |
| That was Bateman. | |
| And if you would like to be on the show, the phone number to call is 623-242-CAST. | |
| It is 623-242-CAST. | |
| Gosh, there's just been so much stuff I've seen on the forum, and I see it and I say to myself, okay, make a mental note because this is something that you'll probably want to bring up on the show. | |
| And then it just goes away. | |
| Well, do you want to answer Art Bell's question of who would you send back to record for everyone the Jesus crucifixion or whatever? | |
| Man of science, man of faith. | |
| I would send both Liberace and his manservant, Scott Thorson. | |
| That's so random. | |
| Perfect answer. | |
| I think Liberace is just such a nice, easygoing man. | |
| He's fair and balanced. | |
| He's going to be just a hoot to hang out with. | |
| I mean, if you're hanging out with Liberace, you're going to have a great time. | |
| I mean, there's just, I mean, what a likable guy. | |
| Is that after the first drink that he gives you? | |
| You know, I hope I'm not going to regret what I'm saying on this radio show. | |
| I think I'm sending. | |
| I'm sorry. | |
| I'm sending Liberace and Scott Thorson. | |
| Next. | |
| Well, I would go with a man of science. | |
| I think you want to send a guy who just knows how to hang out, have a great time, and look wonderful enough to get it. | |
| You don't want him to mingle in because then you might not exist. | |
| You don't want a guy who shows up and impregnates a bunch of people and then all of a sudden you, the person who picked them to go back in time, doesn't get to exist because the timeline's been changed. | |
| Well, are you going back in time in the context of a situation where you're allowed to affect the flow of time in any way? | |
| Because impregnating a woman is going to have a couple of repercussions. | |
| I don't know. | |
| Yeah, that's what I'm saying. | |
| Well, so we have to decide if it's a many worlds theory or are you going back in a way that could create paradoxes? | |
| Oh, Curtis, the terminology, slow down. | |
| What if you going back and impregnating was always meant to happen? | |
| That's a good point, too. | |
| There is that. | |
| But the way Art phrased his question. | |
| Oh, wow. | |
| That really screwed my head up just now. | |
| That's sort of the premise of every time travel story. | |
| Well, but I mean, it means that there are no parallels. | |
| There are no parallel universes. | |
| No. | |
| Everything is always. | |
| Yeah, that is encompassed within that universe that you were to go back and change time. | |
| So everything that happens is legitimate. | |
| There's nothing else there with that. | |
| The problem is, though, that if that's the case, you couldn't go back to a time when you existed because your matter couldn't exist at the same time. | |
| That would just unravel so many things. | |
| And I'm not a physicist, so I might get things wrong, but you couldn't exist with the same matter at the same time. | |
| If you were to go back one second in the past or five minutes in the past, you couldn't take up the same space. | |
| So are you saying if I go back in time to the point prior to which my mother was impregnated with me, that I can travel to that time, but I can't travel while I happen to be alive? | |
| That makes no sense. | |
| Well, no, if there's not parallel worlds, if you're going to go back in time, because you do that, you can't do that. | |
| But we're saying without parallel worlds, what if it is entirely encased within this one world, this one universe that these travels and interactions occur? | |
| But you have to assume that in your body, the matter in it is recycling itself constantly. | |
| So, I mean, the baby you were born as isn't the same. | |
| You're not 100% the exact same matter that you were then now. | |
| So I would think you could go back when you were, you know, whenever that's not the case. | |
| But if you were to go back five minutes from now, you would have the same atoms constituted in the exact same way living at the same point. | |
| Seems like that would unravel everything we think we know about physics. | |
| But I guess if we're going back in time, who cares? | |
| Well, if I'm going back in time, it's sort of that quantum thing where, well, I don't, there's that thing with the cat in the box where if you don't know, I think the way it goes is if you don't know the cat is in the box and you then open the box, does that mean the cat may not necessarily have actually been in the box prior to you opening the box? | |
| I think the same question applies to time travel. | |
| If I go back in time and I impregnate some girl and that totally screws up the entire future flow of time from that point forward, do the people who are affected by that in the previous point in time at which I was, because if I go back and I impregnate a woman in the past, it has to affect the people who were in the period of time that I left. | |
| But do they then just cease to have ever existed? | |
| I mean, by impregnating the girl, you have started a new path of events. | |
| You have started a new timeline. | |
| But doesn't the only exist. | |
| But do they cease to exist, though? | |
| Did you get Michael? | |
| That's the only reality where Michael could exist is if one of us went back in time and impregnated Jesus. | |
| Since they don't know that I traveled back in time and impregnated the girl, just as though we don't know the cat is in the box prior to having opened the box. | |
| Was it a mean cat? | |
| There you have Grove, five of them. | |
| Now you have Immaculate Conception. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I know who I would send back. | |
| A nail salesman. | |
| Like a guy who sells post for the crusades. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Send back a carpenter. | |
| I've got plans for a cross. | |
| I don't know. | |
| That would build the self-fulfilling prophecy of human nature, wouldn't it? | |
| I think the fundamental problem with the question is I don't think I would want to go back to the time of Christ. | |
| Yeah, there are a lot of other people I would go to first. | |
| I want to go back to the first person who tried milk from a cow. | |
| I want to go back and see. | |
| I don't want to know why they did that. | |
| I want to go back and see the primordial soup, the moment of that spark, the combination of the appropriate amino acids, the moment. | |
| I think that's the place to be. | |
| But you're going to have to be able to survive in an environment that your body is entirely incapable of currently surviving in. | |
| Yeah, I already saw that on Star Trek The Next Generation. | |
| Did we? | |
| Yeah. | |
| Q took the captain back. | |
| Oh, yeah, that's right. | |
| Yeah, nothing really happened. | |
| I kind of thought I had an original point there. | |
| Guess not. | |
| Well, you guys think maybe the show's over? | |
| You want to? | |
| We've got to talk about he's been brought up in the chat room. | |
| What are they saying about Al Bielik? | |
| Says we need to consult him on this topic. | |
| There you go. | |
| Vatara said that. | |
| He's dead. | |
| No, he's not. | |
| Al Bielik is as dead as dirt. | |
| No, he's in the future if we go back in time. | |
| And he's in the past. | |
| That's right. | |
| I'm not going to go hang. | |
| If I have that opportunity, I'm not going to go hang out with Al Bielik. | |
| I don't want to go see Jesus, and you think I'm going to go hang out with Al Bielik. | |
| If you live long enough. | |
| Let's sit down and have graham crackers while we watch your black and white TV, Mr. Bielick. | |
| Glad I showed up. | |
| Tell me about that stupid ship again, Jesus. | |
| Don't be a hater. | |
| You're being a hater. | |
| You're closeting again. | |
| If I could go back in time, I'd go back to Super Bowl III and bet big time. | |
| There you go. | |
| Man with a plan. | |
| I like it. | |
| I'm just saying, you're like the Biff of this podcast. | |
| I can live with that. | |
| That's a good thing. | |
| Biff knew he had a plan. | |
| Okay. | |
| Well, this has really been a lot of fun for me tonight. | |
| You guys were great. | |
| Those of you who are doing this show with me, I hope you guys had a good time too. | |
| It was. | |
| Next time, we're a return. | |
| Thank you. | |
| All right. | |
| We'll do it again. | |
| We will. | |
| Redacted. | |
| Next time recorded, okay? | |
| Redacted, Jasmunda, Curtis, otherwise known as the Mud King. | |
| I'm MV. | |
| And it's been a lot of fun bringing the show to you tonight. | |
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| It's been fun, you guys. | |
| Thanks to everybody listening in the chat room. | |
| Record numbers of people just checking out what we're doing. | |
| Wow. | |
| That's a lot of fun. | |
| People. | |
| It's awesome. | |
| Well, we had 72 live listeners at one point. | |
| That's the most Bill Colby. | |
| I'm hoping we get more Aussies calling in. | |
| I think we'll probably wind up hearing from Art on this show, but it's going to be a while. | |
| He's going to wait. | |
| I think it'll probably happen, though. | |
| Probably just a little bit more. | |
| I think you'd be smart to wait. | |
| Yep. | |
| Okay. | |
| Time to skin and fire up some rats. | |
| I'm hungry. | |
| See you guys. | |
| Have a good night. | |
| Good night. | |
| Bye. | |
| Good night, Austin. | |
| Thanks lately. | |
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