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June 21, 2015 - GabCast Bellgab.com
02:31:28
21 June, 2015

21 June, 2015 ---------- Bannings, Richard C. Hoagland's comments, and you done been Churched. Bateman hosts.

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Stream and Skype and we have our webcams turned off now.
Yeah, I mean why would Art Bell want to do an internet streaming radio show?
I just have no idea.
It's too stressful.
Too many problems.
You know what the problem is?
All the radio stations, too.
You know, you have a streaming problem.
All of a sudden, you've got a radio station problem.
Yes, well, I think that's why Art has professionals to help.
Get that stuff in place so he can just do the real work of doing a good show.
There are certainly no professionals here.
Well, I mean, it's hard to, I mean, you guys did a test earlier and everything was working fine.
And then, you know, two minutes before we're ready to go on air, everything just took a crap.
So, I mean, it's hard to figure that out.
Especially when you're under pressure and you know art's in the chat room listening.
Thanks.
And the listeners want to know exactly what went wrong.
So I think this is a perfect moment for you, Bateman, to just let it all out.
What went wrong, Bateman?
Okay.
MV will know what I'm talking about, and Curtis might know what I'm talking about.
I restarted the computer after we got disconnected.
So I called you guys back on Skype.
You guys couldn't hear me.
And of course, you're talking shit about me the whole time.
And excuse me, I'm spilling bourbon on myself now.
I'm sure that didn't help either.
It's getting very much clearer.
Go on.
So I opened up Winamp again, which is how we connect to this fine stream.
And for some reason, the mic was muted in there, which doesn't make any sense because the program is closed.
So here we are.
And I'm wondering, what is the appropriate BAC level?
Is there a minimum level that is required to host the show?
Just as long as you're not clipping.
You mean in WinAmp?
No, I think he meant blood alcohol content.
Oh, I see.
Engineering.
Okay, so what exactly is your view?
It should be a boost.
Don't feel too embarrassed about that.
I thought the same thing.
I'm going, I don't know.
I haven't found that knob yet on any of the equipment here.
And you know, Jazz, I was all set to make fun of you because you couldn't do the show until like 10 Eastern because you had something called math morning.
Yes.
That's correct.
My daughter at her school had an information morning where they sort of teach us about what the kids are going to be learning in math.
And then you do some activities with the kids.
Make fun of me all you want.
What are you doing?
What was your role in all that?
To listen to a talk and then have my daughter take me around to different stations while she showed me what they're learning in math.
Exciting stuff.
Sure, you'd much rather be doing that, right?
Yes, or drinking.
So you didn't tell your little girl what you're doing afterwards, did you?
You protected her from that.
No, my kids have no idea what I do in my spare time.
Thank God.
That's a good father.
Protect them.
Let them find out in the newspapers like everybody else.
Yes, yes.
Adults barely understand what Belgab is.
A little kid is not going to understand it.
No.
Oh, yeah.
And especially, yeah, I'm going in the other room to talk to strangers on the internet.
I mean, as a parent, would you be horrified to find out that in 10 years' time that your daughter or sons out there find Belgab and they're getting into that world?
I mean, that's like crossing the streams there, isn't it?
Definitely.
I'll be horrified.
Crossing streams right now.
This is Dark City and the Gab Cast crossing the streams.
We have no idea what could happen.
I know time travel is a topic tonight, and there could be something happened with that.
Talk about the dream team.
Forget Jimmy Church and Apple.
Forget Folkie and George Norrie.
This is the real dream team.
Well, Lizzie.
Jasmine.
Eddie Dean.
There's so much going on here.
I actually wrote up notes, which is, has anybody ever done show prep for this show before?
I assume not.
Very lightly.
Very light show prep.
That's classified information, sir.
I went to the George Norrie School of Shy Prep and do absolutely nothing.
You want to let the show develop, the story develop and unfold as the listeners are hearing it, right?
Wasn't that his excuse for not doing show prep?
That sounds like an excuse.
At one point, he did.
Why would you even admit that?
Well, probably because it became abundantly clear early on that he wasn't doing shit to prepare for the show.
But you know what?
He got himself real riled up the other night.
And that's something that I think people have been intrigued about.
And that would be the Richard Hoagland comments.
Did everybody hear this?
Yeah, I heard that.
That's terrific.
This is interesting.
A nerve was touched.
A nerve was definitely touched there.
You can't deny that.
I have the audio here if you want to hear it.
Awesome.
Oh, yes, do, please.
All right.
But I do want to ask you a critical question.
Yeah, this is really low.
Hang on.
Let's see if this does it.
But I do want to ask you a critical question.
Yes.
About the Pluto mission.
Yes.
For those who don't know, I'm going to host Coast the night of July 13th, 14th on the Pluto encounter by the New Horizons spacecraft in, what, three weeks now.
And we're discussing, George and I, about how long we're going to go and whether I do the first hour or I only do the last three hours.
And I would insist on the full four hours.
You can do the news if you want on the commercials, but I want to do the four hours.
And I also strongly recommend that we extend our technically.
Don't bring it up.
Why?
You're going to screw things up.
Four hours, three to four hours.
That's it.
Well, this is why someone upstairs should think about more because spacecraft.
Richard, no.
Spacecraft is different than anything.
Richard, are you hearing me?
Drop it.
All right.
Okay.
All right.
Go pouch somewhere, but drop it.
I'll send you an email.
Send me an email.
All right.
Yeah, that was really low for me, too.
I don't know what was going on there.
Eddie, you know what?
I'll email that to you.
We'll talk about it, but I'll email it to you and then people can hear it in full glorious HD audio.
Okay.
So, yeah, he apparently is hosting on the 13th, the night of the 13th, which is the Monday before Art Starts Midnight in the Desert, which I'm sure that's purely coincidental.
Sure.
I'm sure it is.
Yeah.
But what was really interesting there was the fact that he said that maybe we'll extend the show, which George freaked out about.
Now, normally, I don't think anybody would have paid any attention to this, but Nori pulled that red flag out and waved it around.
Something's going on there.
There's there.
Yeah, let's not draw attention to this one thing we don't want anybody to know about.
Good point.
Get it.
I'm purely speculating here, but my guess is they are going to try to put something together a la dark matter network.
And if the radio stations stop taking the show at 5 a.m. Eastern, well, that doesn't matter because you can continue on the stream.
No radio station is going to continue to take that show beyond 5 a.m.
You know, you've got morning programming.
So it would make sense to continue on a stream.
They've got Clyde Lewis before Nori.
Then they've got Nori on from 1 a.m. to 5.
And they could go longer if they want.
And you know what?
If they want to put other people on that stream, maybe they will.
I don't know that anybody's been contacted.
Again, I'm just pulling this out of nowhere, but I wouldn't put it past them.
It sounds like valid.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Go ahead.
So they're trying to compete with art and the stream world, the whole internet podcasting world.
And they are flailing.
They're freaking out.
They don't know what to do.
The other question is this.
They are going to have art on other radio stations that are not iHeart stations.
And then they are going to continue to play Somewhere in Time on the weekends.
That's an interesting little setup there.
I just wonder why they would want to continue with the Somewhere in Time.
Well, it's their property.
I'd like to know what ratings they get for the Saturday Night Live or the Saturday for the Saturday night Somewhere in Time show as opposed to the Monday through Friday shows, the live shows.
I mean, the reason they're not taking off is probably because they're getting a fair number of people that listen in.
Well, I would assume that the weekend ratings are lower anyway than during the wake.
Would that be correct, Bateman?
I'm not sure how ratings go in the U.S., but I'm sure it's the same as here that weekends don't pull as many people.
Generally speaking, the weekends drop, but if you believe John Wells, what he posted a while back after he got the boot from Coast, he said he was pulling in something like a million on Saturday nights, and George is getting something like 300,000 any given during the week.
I don't know if I believe that.
Yeah, what is he basing that on?
That's a big difference.
I mean, that's what John said.
Right.
Right.
And I mean, radio ratings, they're not released to the public.
Is that correct?
Like the Nielsen ratings for TV.
It's just, as far as I know, it's just 12 plus numbers.
Like the breakdown isn't released to the public.
So you'll have 12 plus and then like men 35 to 50 or 54.
Those don't get released to the public.
Those are just broken down at the radio station level.
But I would love to take a look at those weekend numbers, the Somewhere in Time shows specifically, because it's still a pretty significant number of affiliates that take those shows.
Well, it would have to be.
And I always suspect that it would be cheaper for them, excuse me, just to play an old art show on Saturday night than to bring in another host.
And they owned it.
No, no, no, they still do have another host prior to their whoever hosts on Saturday night.
That's when they play somewhere in time.
So they double up somewhere in time plus whoever the host is that night.
Really?
It's a decent night of radio.
Ian used to do Saturday nights, right?
Didn't he do a pre-show before Coast to Coast on Saturday or Sunday or something, you know, years ago?
Ian Punnett doing a pre-show?
Yeah, there was a certain time in, I don't know, 2006, 2007, something like that, that Ian did like a Saturday night early show.
And I can't remember what it was called, but he was...
And I think Somewhere in Time replaced that show.
Is that what it was?
I think, I don't know.
I have some, now that you bring it up, I have some memory of that happening.
But I did smoke a lot of pot in those days.
Here's my problem.
And I'm making this admission with art in the chat room, too.
And I'm not going to look at the chat room to see everybody freaking out about this.
I did not start listening to Art Bell until the mid-2000s.
I swear.
I'll tell you why.
I was born in 84.
Okay.
So in 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, I'm not staying up until 1 a.m. on the East Coast, you know, until the weekends, basically.
And what am I going to do at 2 o'clock in the morning, you know, at 12 years old?
You know, I wasn't going to turn on radio, especially not AM radio.
I didn't know AM radio existed.
Yeah.
So I was at a radio station in the mid-2000s, and I was board opping these late night shifts.
And this show called Coast to Coast was on.
And it was all these weird topics.
I checked out the website.
I was like, oh, this looks interesting.
I would check it out.
I had always been a big X-Files fan.
So I thought, this seems like something that would be right up my alley.
And I heard George doing the show.
And I thought, you know, you hear George at first, you don't immediately realize how bad he is.
You're not listening intently to every flub.
You don't pick up on the habits that he has.
You have to give it a few listens.
But it just didn't click for me.
I didn't really know why.
Maybe I thought I outgrew the subject material.
It didn't do anything for me.
And then one Saturday night, Art was doing his weekend show from Manila.
And it was just on such another level that I thought, okay, the problem is George.
The problem is not the subject.
And I just devoured all the Art Bell material that I could.
I downloaded everything.
I just, and I have, I don't know how many gigs upon gigs on my computer right now, but I was hooked.
And, you know, the funny thing about George, too, is the fact that nobody wanted to dislike him.
I don't think anybody now even wants to dislike him.
Yeah, I have to agree with you there.
I think everyone really did give it a good listen and gave him a good chance.
I think MV said he gave him a good two years, and I have to agree I did too.
Although whenever Art would come back on a weekend or that odd day, it would be so incredibly different.
But then I'd go back and I'd listen to George again.
And for some reason, my hands always end up on my forehead and my face down.
And I'm going, this guy's on the radio.
It really is a rough listen.
But as I say, nobody wanted to dislike the guy.
Nobody turns on the radio and says, oh, I hope this guy is going to suck tonight.
Yes.
If he turned in a really good show one night, people would say, you know what?
They would give him credit and they would say, that was a really good show.
I firmly believe that.
And people have on Bell Gab, too.
I've seen, especially when the first time that George started posting and he's asking for people's constructive criticism and people were giving it to him.
And I remember he's, you know, George was just saying, I just want to get better.
I just want to improve.
And he did a couple shows that were great.
I didn't listen to him, but by all accounts in the George Nori sucks thread, people were giving him props and saying, good job.
So, I mean, he is capable of doing that.
But for me, it was just the 20th or 30th time that I heard him ask the question that the guest just answered.
And after a while, when you hear enough of those, you're just like, George, why are you not listening to the guest?
Isn't that the number one thing in radio?
Especially if you get to George Nori's level, is to listen to your guest.
Or have a conversation.
That's the beauty of art.
He used to have a conversation with the guest.
Even if he did have questions written down, you wouldn't even know that he was doing that because it just came out so naturally.
George is incapable of doing that.
And with an Art Bell show, you almost feel like you're sitting in and you just happen to be listening to two smart people talk about an interesting topic.
There's something, there's a cylinder not quite firing when George is on the air.
I don't have the broadcasting experience that he has, so I really have no room to talk.
He's on the radio.
I'm not.
But something's missing.
There's something missing from this equation.
But that's the whole point.
You say that you don't have broadcasting experience and he does.
That means he has even less of an excuse.
Yes.
He's had more than a decade to put together a good show and he just loves it night after night.
Popple says in the chat here, he had a flickering of life in him when dark matter was kicking off.
Yeah, of course he did.
He had to up his game.
He had absolutely no competition.
No competition up until that point.
So again, I say it must be pretty interesting to hang out at the premier radio offices in Los Angeles when George shows up to work.
I would give anything to sit in on some of those meetings to hear what they're trying to plan or how they are going to try to be competition because they have to be concerned.
It always comes through when art goes to do anything, they tend to start flailing and it ends up showing also.
Lone Voice says in the chat, I'm convinced he's drunk on the air almost every night.
That has crossed my mind.
Just seems like he's not into it.
He's not paying attention.
He's too busy doing other things.
And he's just not really into the paranormal.
I mean, I don't know how else you explain it.
It's crazy.
I will say this.
Considering he's had so many of the same guests over the course of the last 12 years, I mean, how many times can you talk to somebody like David Wilcock and have it be, you know, a fascinating show every single time?
And it's not like, like the ancient aliens people, for example, it's not like they're on once in a while.
It's like they're in constant rotation.
So there's only so much you can talk about with them.
And there's only so many people who are going to be able to talk like weirdo ancient civilization type stuff, you know, that have their very specific viewpoint that fits in for Coast.
So I can almost understand where he's just like, you know, this isn't really doing it for me anymore.
That said, you would think there is a type of show that he could do that he would be interested in.
Seems to be medicine or the new age kind of thing or the turmeric, you know.
Who knows?
Angels.
Angels.
We have a call coming in.
Are you guys there?
I think we're on hold.
Can everybody hear each other?
Yeah, now Ken, you put us on halt for a moment.
Saucy Ross is here.
Hey, Saucy, what's going on?
Hey.
So, you know, I just wanted to say, and I don't think this is a knock against you guys, but I think as a whole, our community kind of has to eventually move on from George and Coast and just drop, like, just kind of like, I don't know, forget him, if you will, and just move on, almost like he's just a bad memory.
Because it's like, there's almost like this bad energy that comes with discussing the show and discussing him and bringing him up and like trying to rehash, like, well, you know, he could have been better and we would have liked him if he was better.
And yeah, but you know what?
Like, he's not.
And we tried and we gave him so many chances.
But, you know, we have a new show coming up.
And like, I don't know.
It just feels negative.
Not negative to talk about it, but like that is a negative area.
I don't know.
Does that make sense?
Yeah, I would agree.
These are the last days of the George Norrie show.
You think so?
I mean, if art sticks around five, six years, I don't know.
I have no idea how long he's planning to stick around.
I mean, hopefully we get a real good run.
But if that turns out to be the case, I mean, who's going to listen to George Norrie over art?
Well, Laurie.
So I feel like it's almost like a, what do you call it?
One of those things where you walk in and you stare at the mirror and you just like say George and Nori three times and he just shows up and then like terrible.
And yeah, and you just get like shanked in the back and then you wake up in the bathtub and you find out that your kidneys are missing and that you like all of a sudden, you know, have no money in your bank account.
It's just like you mention George over and over and it's just bad stuff happens.
No.
That's my main point, really.
You know, he's just this awful specter of crap.
I can't disagree with you.
I can't either.
That's pretty accurate.
But Laura in the chat did bring up a good point that it's hard to forget about him when he keeps pulling shenanigans.
So they would lay off by design.
That's totally what he wants, though, isn't it?
Like, he keeps doing this stuff, so we get riled up.
And then it's like a cycle.
No, that's exactly the point.
He does it so he's like, hey, I'm still here.
He's trolling the trolls, you know, trolling the haters at Bellgab.
I'm sure he gets a huge kick out of that.
Well, that takes so much energy and effort.
Wouldn't one just put that into creating a good show?
I mean, he does have a job to do.
What do you think that time is?
No dad time.
But no, Saucy, I think you're on the right track there.
And Midnight in the Desert is coming up sooner than we think.
And we have a blitz to organize here, Troops.
Oh, I had something, a main reason I was calling about that.
What's that?
I want to say, Jazz, your trailers have been amazing.
Yes.
Fantastic.
And coming from you, that is very high praise.
And thank you very much.
Well, I mean, they've blown me away.
And I love them.
And they made me want to step my game up, which I think is a great thing.
And when can we expect a new trailer from you?
Yeah, probably in like a week, I would say.
Right.
It's been kind of busy.
But what I wanted to suggest, and this is something like the whole community can kind of talk about, you know, as we go towards this kind of media blitz, maybe we can kind of do some sort of like, I don't know, like countdown the art type thing where we do like a like a massive amount of you know media that we put together, whether it's trailers or clips or whatever,
like just easy things that people can share that like each day is something new that people can like, you know, share on Facebook or Twitter or whatever.
Like creative little things.
Maybe like somebody did, I can't remember who it was.
Somebody did like a cool little 20-second trailer that I was like, oh, that's awesome.
That was Pethogen.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And, you know, I was thinking like if we all kind of did stuff like that, where it's like one, you know, each day, there's like one new thing that we kind of say this is the thing that we're going to throw out there to get the word out about the show.
It might kind of, yeah, I don't know, might be a cool way to promote it.
We need an organizer, I think.
We need somebody to step up that would organize all of this and, you know, be able to get the stuff out there that needs to be done.
So there's not any, well, I don't know what I'm saying.
Yeah, we need somebody that wants to organize all this stuff.
So, Saucy?
Being American.
Being American, well, I'm in, but being American, I'm going to preemptively nominate Jasmine.
I think I've done that.
Yeah.
We definitely need.
And I'll submit trailers and stuff.
Look, we definitely need an organized effort.
It has to be all doing the same thing rather than just some scattergun approach.
I mean, what's the best way for us to do this?
Well, I would think creating a thread, but then that's going to be a thread that the enemy can read.
Yes, I said enemy.
Yeah, sorry.
They're going to be able to read that and know our plan.
I've done stuff like this with other projects where you have multiple people, and you can create a Google Doc that you can have many people that can edit it and see it and see, you know, like, okay, well, here's the schedule and here's the breakdown.
And, you know, this person's doing this, this person's doing that.
And that way it's, you know, really well organized.
And if somebody has a question, they can just go to the Google Doc and say, oh, what am I doing again?
What is this person doing?
I mean, that's kind of the professional side.
I got to jump in here because Art mentioned in the chat that KXL is considering carrying the show.
That's out of Portland.
Big, big station.
And it's also the Ground Zero Clyde Lewis flagship.
Now, what's interesting about that is Clyde airs, Clyde airs 7 p.m. to 12 a.m. West Coast time.
Oh, so that really overlaps.
It does because that covers 9 to midnight completely.
Yeah, I've listened to Clyde a few times.
He's pretty good.
A little too paranoid for my taste.
Somebody made the point about him.
Basically, if you hear the first hour of the show, basically you've heard the entire show.
You know, he just kind of rehashes it.
I haven't listened to enough of his show to know that, but that's something that I hear over and over again.
So he does a five-hour show?
I think he does, yeah.
Okay, and that's on in that time slot on in that station right now.
Yep, 7 p.m., 12 a.m.
So Art would start at 9 and go to 12, right?
On West Coast time.
Yes, yeah.
Well, does that mean they would be dropping coast to coast?
No, apparently, KXL, apparently, they don't air coast.
Interesting.
I imagine that has something to do with Clyde.
So Clyde in other networks or other markets, sorry, only goes for three hours and then his remainder of his two hours.
Yeah, when he was on in New York, he was on WOR for a while.
I don't know.
I don't think he still is, but when he was, he only went for the three hours.
So, but that, I mean, if KXL is considering cutting into Clyde Lewis, you know, and again, that's his flagship station.
That's big.
And I assume that this is something that Clyde does not know about yet.
And I get the sense that he's not going to be too happy about it when he does find out.
Oh, man.
Did you guys just see what Art said in the chat?
I just got like really bad shivers.
What did he say?
He said, you can be pretty sure Dave is here now.
Uh-oh.
Well, you know what?
If George is listening, he can give us a call and he can tell us what's going on with Richard Hoagland exactly.
And if there are any other interesting guest hosts who are going to pop up right before Midnight in the Desert.
I would love it if you could get Hoaglund on for a game cast and just like, just be like, hey, Hoagland, can we just talk about anything but space and Mars?
Do you want to talk about your favorite TV shows and what you eat for breakfast?
I would love to do that, but the last interview that he did with Howard Hughes, he was not having anything other than his pre-prepared script, basically.
He wasn't down for any shenanigans.
Oh, man.
How great would it be if you could get him to do some shenanigans?
I would love that.
I mean, I'd love to still listening.
I just want to know why that's eating for dinner.
No, I put up that thread months ago.
What is Art having for dinner?
And he never posted in there.
I'm still upset about that.
You know what you're going to have for breakfast in July?
Wizard, thanks for calling, Ross.
I think he does have a good point, though.
Saucy does, that it's better to just look ahead at the good times ahead and this blitz that we have to organize.
You know, the Google Docs, I think, was a great idea, great suggestion.
And I think that if we get organized, you can go by, you know, different topics each day, you know, go Bigfoot thing, UFO the next day, and just kind of organize it by a phenomena.
And that should be.
But what are we expected to do?
Are we expected to tweet out to our five followers?
Hey, Art Bell Show is starting July 20th.
I have seven followers.
Thank you very much.
Okay.
Two more.
So that's the other day.
I'm supposed to start tweeting news outlets or stuff that art's coming back.
And, you know, if 50, 60, 100 people all tweet out to a certain news outlet that art's coming back, maybe they'll notice.
I mean, what do we mean to do?
That's what I'm asking.
Well, remember, free art spell?
Yes.
That's what he wants.
He wants us to do that again.
And that worked out for us.
Well, he did have to ask us to stop.
I remember that.
I know, because the person with the most followers is art himself.
So, you know, he's got to be doing it too, you know, and leading the charge.
Because I'm happy to post out a million things, but if only 10 people are going to see it, then, you know, is that going to do anything?
I sense a lack of confidence, Jess.
Makes the interesting point in the chat that Keith should offer Hoagland airtime on Dark Matter Network for the extra hours for the Pluto probe encounter since Nori won't let him.
Yes.
Now, yes, that would be amusing if it happened.
The problem is with that is that George then is going to issue one of his ultimatums and he's going to say, Richard, you know, you can host another show.
Just you can't go on Art's Dark Matter Network.
I mean, how long has he held the guest hosting spot over Hoagland's head?
Hoagland's wanted to do that for how many years now?
I think it was 2008 when they made that bet, wasn't it?
Well, it's, you know, now on the eve of Art's return, he's getting his shot.
So.
Well, I get the idea he would.
George would pose that ultimatum, and then it would just, it would get ugly.
But can you guys all imagine Art not having Hoagland on?
I can't imagine.
I mean, that would happen, right?
I mean, yeah, there's people that don't like Hoagland.
Okay, I get it.
But he's Art's friend, and he's going to be on at some point.
So that's going to get ugly, I think.
It already did.
I mean, after his dark matter appearance, I mean, he was thrown in the closet for.
Yeah, but he did say some nasty things about George, didn't he?
Didn't he call it?
He was reading the texts on the air.
I mean, it was.
I can't remember exactly what he said, but he said he referred to George as a limp noodle.
I'm pretty sure.
He did.
I remember that.
I remember that.
I cringed, but it was awesome.
It was very good.
And he said something about, I like being on with you, Art, because we actually have a conversation.
Yes.
That's what it was.
Yeah, they were both very polite.
I think George actually texted, texted.
How did George say it?
Texting?
He actually texted Richard while he was on with Art.
And I think that's the reason that they brought it up in the first place.
George inserting himself into Art's show once again.
And I did get the opportunity to ask him if he would continue to play these kind of games and if there really was enough room on the air for both shows.
They clearly have two different kinds of audiences.
And he was fine.
Oh, no.
I can't imagine why you would think that, why you would think I'd be doing anything.
I offered Art his seat back.
I tried to get him back on with me.
And he was just trying very hard to show that, no, he's a perfectly nice guy and he wouldn't play any such games.
And how dare you accuse him or even imply that he would do such things.
What drives me nuts about him, though, is the fact that he comes on the Gabcast or I'll email with him or other people will have private interactions with him.
He comes off like a normal, pretty well-adjusted guy.
He's polite, but all this nonsense behind the scenes, I mean, you have to believe that it's all a coincidence.
All of it.
Oh, sure it is.
This has an explanation.
Yeah, I'm buying that for a dollar.
Keep talking.
The contact in the desert thing.
I mean, I mean, he tried to explain why he shows up on Bell Gab, you know, during when Art makes an announcement or, you know, when there's something big in the works.
And he tried to explain that on the Gabcast a couple weeks ago.
And I can't remember what he said, but it just didn't make any sense at all to me.
He didn't really say anything.
It was just like words, incoherent words coming out.
I was trying to get him to give us a real answer to that.
But he never did take on his real I'm a human being voice.
It was his, I'm George Norrian.
I'm a nice guy voice.
My favorite, one of my favorite George moments ever is when people were accusing him of being drunk that one night.
And he posted that he was the king of late night radio.
Yes.
That fired a lot of people up on Bellgab too, by the way.
Oh, what a riot.
Which we don't really know if that was George himself because didn't he.
I assume it was.
Didn't he say that there were several people?
Maybe that was just an excuse to try to downplay that I'm a king of late night.
But he said that a couple people in his office have access to his Gabcast or his Bellgab account.
So it could have been Tommy.
It could have been, you know, who knows who else.
But yeah, that was a riot when he said that.
The way he posts is always the same, though.
He's got like, you know, 10 ellipses in between like every other sentence.
My favorite was the blank, the blank email.
That was great.
Yeah, the one that he sent to me.
Jemstone just mentioned that in the chat.
Yeah.
Did you ever get an answer for that?
Did it make sense?
You know, I've emailed with him a little bit since, so I'd have to go dig it up.
I think he said that, you know, he might have sent it during a break.
He meant to send an email and then forgot about it and then hit, who knows?
You know, just one of his.
Oh, I remember what he said.
My computer does weird things every once in a while.
Yeah.
Okay.
Again, perfectly plausible explanation.
So if we're going to think about the new show Midnight in the Desert coming up, has everyone signed up?
Are we all time travelers?
Yeah, I did almost immediately as soon as I saw the link.
It was a nightbreaker.
Is it PayPal only currently?
Apparently.
It looked like it was.
Well, I'm glad just on the first day.
It was like 575 people.
I imagine it's well over that now.
But if he had all the different credit cards you could use, I mean, it would be significantly higher.
So I don't know why it's only PayPal.
I can imagine maybe just to get started.
Well, you think they might cast a wider net as we get closer to the 20th, redacted?
Yeah, that's what I think.
They'll probably figure out, Keith, they'll probably figure out how to add, you know, just a straight credit card because there is a way to pay through PayPal just using any kind of credit card in your pocket.
So there's got to be a way to plug that in on there.
But $575, $580,000 just from PayPal alone, that's a good sign.
On the first day.
That's solid.
I mean, that's like $40,000 a year right there.
I don't know how much they have to pay for music fees, but you know.
Depends on the number of listeners, I believe.
If they keep it under $75,000, though, I think they fit in a small broadcaster category, though.
Yes.
So as long as they don't go over that, and the only way I can think of that they can avoid going over that limit is you set a you set some sort of listener limit and let the radio station streams pick up the rest.
I imagine that's technically possible.
So do they if they only have 75,000 slots available through the website, through the tune-in or whatever, does that mean they can stay under that and the radio station audiences don't affect that?
Oh, that's a good point.
I don't know if the radio stations are included in the 75,000.
I don't think they think they are.
I think that's just for the streaming listeners.
That would be just one connection, wouldn't it?
Well, I mean, one connection for the stations and the stations send it out.
Well, I guess that doesn't really matter.
It doesn't make any sense, does it?
No, it does make sense because the station is one listener and then is streaming it out on their website to their listeners.
And then you can pick it up on your radio, too.
Yeah, I mean, guess if we're talking about stream slots or slots for the stream.
I haven't thrown out this phone number at all.
It's 623-242-CAST or 623-242-2278.
Yeah, tell us if you're a time traveler or not.
And if you're not, why the hell not?
Exactly.
What exactly do you have?
Well, I saw some people saying that they are not going to use PayPal.
And I've never had any problems with PayPal at all.
I don't do a ton of online buying and selling, but have any of you guys had any problems with PayPal?
Not once.
I've been using PayPal since PayPal was invented, basically, to buy things on eBay and the like, and I've never had a problem.
Me either.
The only time was when I was buying a vehicle on eBay and they just wanted me to verify the account so they knew it wasn't someone else using it.
You got somebody calling.
I think you're on the air.
Hello?
Hi, this is Cheffist.
Hey, what's up?
Hey, Sheffist.
How are you tonight?
Very good.
How's everyone doing?
Good.
Good.
I think Art said before that all the radio stations have their own license, so that wouldn't be figured in.
All right.
That's what I thought.
Thanks.
It seems like it would make sense then to have 75,000 slots.
And then if you're going to go over that, just have links to the radio station streams underneath.
And that way you always stay under that small broadcaster umbrella.
Exactly.
And another thing Art said earlier, which I think is important to tell everyone, is that if you sign up now, your $5 will always be grandfathered.
So if they raise the rate in the future, it won't raise for the ones who sign up first.
Oh, that's very nice.
Thank you, Art.
And thank you, Chefist, for calling and letting us know.
All right.
Well, hey, I'm going to get off and listen.
One moment, Chefist.
Why are you listening to this show while you should be listening to Ghost to Ghost episodes for me to find what I asked you to find?
I do that when I'm going to sleep.
And so I told you, I'm in the middle of 1997.
Hurry up.
These trailers don't make themselves.
So if you can stop listening to us and start doing my work for me, that'd be much appreciated.
Thank you.
Yes, sir.
I'll get right on it.
I've got Chefist looking for a particular sound bite for me.
I'm looking for any time that in Ghost to Ghost episodes where Art sort of mentions his hatred for red eyes.
Oh, I heard that just the other day.
Do you know what show it was, Redacted?
Redacted, why aren't you helping me here?
Come on.
Yeah, come on.
I didn't know.
I didn't know there was a job opening here.
I had just listened to it.
I'm going to have to go back now to the shows that I've listened to in the last three or four days, but I remember him making a comment about the red eyes, and that's the last thing you'd want to see.
I hate red eyes.
Like something like that, I need.
Okay.
All right.
I'll go back to it.
I'm sure it's not too far down on the list.
So you're going to add that to one of your trailers?
Yeah.
I'm doing a ghost to ghost special at the moment, and it's pretty freaky.
So here's the question.
Did he ever do ghost-to-ghost episodes more than the Halloween shows?
Because I was listening to one old ghost-to-ghost episode, and he said that, you know, this is just something, it was from 94, 95.
And he said, you know, this is just something we do every once in a while.
Yeah.
Just to ghost stories calls?
Yeah.
I think a few times he did do it on not on Halloween.
Yeah, it just sounded like a random Friday, which would be cool.
I mean, I would love to hear more, more frequent ghost-to-ghost episodes, well, or whatever we're going to call it this time around.
What should he call it?
That's another good question.
We need to start a thread.
We have threads to start.
You can't do spooky meta.
Oh, you can, I guess, but that was tacked onto the dark meta name.
And that name came from Belgab's very own.
You guys remember who coined that name?
Yeah, Stilbat.
Stilbat coined that name.
Some Bell Gabber suggested Midnight in the Graveyard as a name, the Ghost to Ghost, and I just thought that was great.
That's a good one.
Gabcast, you're on the air.
Hello?
Hi, guys.
This is Lord Ball.
Who?
Sorry?
He just recently had his name changed from Ball to Lord Ball.
Lord Ball.
Thank you, Lebax.
You're welcome, sir.
How are you tonight?
I'm very well.
Thank you, guys.
What's on your mind?
I have a question for you guys.
Of course, I already signed up for art stream.
However, I was thinking I would like to donate like five memberships to five people on GapCast who are perhaps not in a position to pay for art show.
And for the life of me, I can't figure out how to do it.
Well, you would do it with their email address.
Maybe PayPal them the $5 and then they can PayPal that with their email address to the time traveler signup page.
So I think what you're looking for, I think what you're looking for is a way for the website or the payment system for you to be able to gift that particular thing to somebody else.
Yeah, that would work better.
At the moment, at the moment, it's not set up to do that.
So I guess the only way to do that is to do something that something like Redactor just mentioned.
You know, and maybe we could maybe give away a couple subscriptions here on the Gabcast if you're willing to do that.
I'd be willing to buy a subscription to give away to people.
I think that's a great idea.
But I also think having the option to buy gifts for others on the website is a great idea.
Somehow just send them an email with a username and a password, courtesy of Lord Ball.
Sure.
Well, I tried in the last five hours everything and nothing works.
So if you guys could find a way or if Art listens and have a solution for us, just PM me and I would be more than glad to do it.
Keith Roland is a member of Bellgab.
I can't remember.
Does anyone know what his username is?
Yeah, I think it's Kay Dash.
Yeah, so if you look him up on the member list and perhaps shoot him a PM, maybe he can help you because he's the guy to talk to.
He's setting it all up.
Skunk says that that Ghost the Ghost show was 95.
Yeah, he listened to it last week.
No, definitely not.
Really?
Maybe that was when he did too earlier.
I'm sorry.
I was talking to Shaz, God.
Something else.
Shaz Munda.
Yes, sir.
Do me a favor.
Well, I'm not sure if you're a smart bell.
Sorry.
Can you just please say one art bell?
Art Bell.
Awesome.
Thank you.
Wait, wait, wait.
Excuse me.
Are you making fun of my accent, Mr., who has an accent himself?
No, I love the Australian accent.
I really love it.
I lived there for five years before I moved to Canada.
I just love the Australian people and the accent, especially when you say art.
Amazing.
No problem, Art.
All right, guys.
Good luck, and I'm really enjoying this show.
Thanks for calling.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, good to hear from you.
Hey, Jazz, can you say that a little bit slower, please?
Maybe a little sexier.
I'll start charging for doing that now.
Redacted, have you ever listened to, you probably didn't.
Well, were you ever on the East Coast in the 80s, 80s, 70s or 80s?
You're only a little bit older than me, right?
Like your early 30s?
Late 30s.
All right.
Somebody in the chat room said that you sounded like a WNEW DJ from the 70s or 80s.
I could definitely hear that.
Well, that must have been when I time traveled because I just became a time traveler.
So I've been, you know, practicing with that.
And I did go back to the 70s and made my way into a radio station and just took over the microphone and had some fun there.
If you have a time machine, can you do me a favor?
Can you make sure that George Nori's Cafe Maccares ends up being wildly successful so that he never gets into radio?
Mission critical, sir.
That will be duly noted and executed.
All right.
Number to call is 623-242-CAST623-242-2278.
I got to bring up the Hoagland thing again, just because I've never, I have not heard George Norrie that animated in such a long time.
I mean, he's half asleep most of the time.
Well, that was genuine emotion.
Yeah.
That was genuine.
That was real.
That was happening right then.
He was fired up with something.
And it's rare.
It's very, very rare.
All that turkey.
He got them turkey sandwiches.
They keep a guy sleepy, you know.
Right.
All that trip to fan.
So the Hoagland thing.
What do we think?
Is it going to be a one-time thing, or will they have him fill in occasionally and just dangle that out there so that he doesn't go on Midnight in the Desert all that much?
Oh, yeah, they're going to hook him in some little way, the cheapest way possible, and then definitely dangle that, string him along.
And then he'll, of course, be on Midnight in the Desert at some point.
And we'll get to see George get ugly again.
Or maybe he'll be a complete professional.
I would like to be wrong.
Maybe I'm completely wrong about that.
And George will just let him be a guest on the other show and be a gentleman about it.
Sure, that could happen in this timeline.
Right.
Nancy in the chat wants to know what the cafe, Cafe Macareche, was.
And that was George Norrie's failed restaurant.
And I don't remember where exactly that was, but it was either in St. Louis or Detroit, I believe, wasn't it?
Can you imagine going to a Moroccan restaurant in Detroit?
I wouldn't trust that.
Probably why it wasn't successful.
But I wouldn't.
If I walked into a restaurant and George Norrie was the manager and I saw that face and he said, no, it's all right.
I'm a nice guy.
Sit down.
We'll get you some food.
I would be worried about that.
How are you?
Even without knowing him on the radio.
How are you?
How are you?
Why is that so low?
Is that too low?
Yeah, it's really low.
I think to us it's low, but it usually comes out on the download normal volume.
Well, that's Bateman.
You're recording the show, right?
Whoops.
Did you record?
We didn't talk about that.
We were too busy trying to figure out what the hell was going on with my microphone.
I'm actually recording the show, so if you guys want to make that available as a podcast, I might have missed the first couple minutes.
But yeah, so that's good.
But I'll bring the George Norrie soundboard up a little bit so you guys can hear it better.
Excellent.
So there are surprises in store.
That's what Art keeps saying.
Surprises in store.
And a surprise that seems like is in the works is the after-show.
And the after-show is going to air from 3 to 5 a.m. after midnight in the desert.
That's Eastern time.
And the host is to be announced.
My guess was Hoagland.
Really?
That was my.
Even after the exchange between George and Richard?
No.
Now I don't think that.
So I'm wondering who it is.
I was thinking it might be somebody off the network like Brian Alvarez or maybe even Bateman.
Confirm or demand?
Deny?
It's not me.
So from what I gather from the signing up website, you can also subscribe to that particular podcast.
So it seems like it's going to be something that's that you would pay money for if you wanted the programs to download.
Yeah, it looks like it's a $5 subscription, just like the other, like Midnight in the Desert.
But is it $5 on top of art?
It sounded like it was a separate subscription.
Yeah, that's what it looked like.
Really?
See, I didn't even know about that.
I didn't know that that was coming.
Is there a second show or is it just that show?
It's what's it called?
The other side of midnight.
Yeah.
Yes.
That's it.
I mean, what does that sound like to you?
To me, it sounds like it's some type of after-show discussing what just happened on Midnight in the Desert.
And that's an interesting concept.
And I don't know how different or how similar that is to what Nancy is doing because Nancy is doing a show called Bella Haven.
And my understanding that's not going to be on Dark Matter Network.
It sounds like they might be similar concepts.
Jazz, you had mentioned to me, like maybe like a talking dead kind of a thing, like a walking dead after show.
Yeah, I mean, it could be a separate show on its own, that it's just another show that might have its own guests, but it could also be a show that talks about the show that just happened.
Yeah, Popple says in the chat, Bateman has to sleep.
Exactly.
3 to 5 a.m. Eastern, that's rough.
And to do that five nights a week.
Yeah.
Yeah, but if you were getting paid and that was a job for you, I guess.
No, you know what?
Listen, I used to do late night shifts, and I can't 3.30 rolls around.
I hit a wall.
Are you masquerading as not a true night person?
Is that what I'm hearing?
I am super, super awake and alert from about 10 until 3, maybe 2.33.
So when do you record your shows that you do with guests?
Is that during the day?
Are we pulling the curtain away?
It's like 9 or 10 at night, usually.
Okay, so at least it's dark outside.
Yeah.
Okay.
Now, I've tried to do it in the afternoons before, too, and it just, it's not the right tone.
You know, you need to have that dimly lit studio.
You need to have that nighttime ambiance.
If I try to record at nine o'clock in the morning, could you imagine art would not want to do a show at nine o'clock in the morning.
Could you imagine art doing a morning drive show?
Hey, everybody.
Welcome, Bill.
Lady Yard Bells.
Yeah, it wouldn't work.
Well, when Art was broadcasting from the Philippines, he was doing it in the daytime.
Yeah, that's right.
Which is pretty similar to the time I'm in now.
And that would be around 2 p.m., 1 p.m., depending on the time of the year.
You're either a night person or you're not.
I mean, and I kind of envy the people on the West Coast who, you know, George does Coast the Coast from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Is that right?
It's 10 to 2.
That's not bad.
Pacific.
Yeah, it isn't really that bad.
On the East Coast, to do a show until 5 o'clock in the morning, that's rough.
You truly have to be a night person to pull that off.
That's more than a night person.
Well, that schedule suits me just fine, gentlemen.
I would love to have that schedule.
I do quite well in the wee hours of the morning.
But a lot of people are speculating that the other side of midnight might be me.
And I have no notice of this.
I don't know anything about it.
I knew about it when I became a time traveler.
And I saw that there and thought, hmm, that's interesting.
And it looks like Nancy is going to do something real similar with Bella Haven.
But I just want to put those cards on the table right now.
Stop that speculation.
I know nothing.
Supposed to be announced.
So either it is not you or you don't know that it's you yet.
You would think she would have some knowledge by now.
What exactly are you implying?
Maybe you get an email the night before.
Hey, guess what?
You're doing five nights a week from 3 to 4 a.m.
That would be pretty fun.
I would hate to see what would happen to Bell Gab if that happened.
It might explode, break itself in half.
I would certainly love to do something like that, but I don't know.
There must be more qualified broadcasters that could handle a show like that.
But it's not me for now.
I don't know.
Wonder why they haven't announced who it is.
Is it maybe because they haven't decided who it is yet?
No, I think it's because it's got to be somebody who's a little bit high profile.
It was either, in my opinion, it was either going to be redacted or Hoagland, you know, because Hoagland, if you're announcing Hoagland a couple days before, that's, I know that he's very polarizing.
People either love him or hate him.
I've always found him extremely entertaining.
Yeah, yeah.
But I could see that.
What about Striber?
Yeah.
Yeah, it's a possibility considering the history.
Yeah.
Oh, Art announced in the chat what he had for dinner.
What did he say?
He had steak, fries, and corn on the cub.
Nice.
Can you get good corn in Nevada?
Sure.
I'm sure you can.
You can get anything shipped in.
Vegas is what, an hour drive away?
Anything you need, you can buy there.
I don't think he's driving to Vegas for corn.
Oh, good corn.
I'm sure.
He'll drive.
I'll drive across the country for good corn, sir.
Where are you from, Eddie?
I'm in Phoenix.
Phoenix, all right.
Yeah.
So, God, it's driving me crazy.
I want to know who this person is.
He's doing five nights a week, five nights a week for two hours after art, and they have their own separate podcast membership, basically.
Yeah, that was what me.
That's got to be someone high profile because I can't see anyone putting down $5 for some unknown.
I would throw out maybe John B. Wells.
Maybe.
That's interesting.
The only reason I say that is because I know that Art and he have corresponded in the past.
There's no animosity there that I'm aware of.
And also, John B. Wells moved his show to nighttime.
He was doing Caravan to noon and then moved it to an actual nighttime slot.
Why the hell would you call your show Caravan to Midnight and then do it in the middle of the day?
I never understood that when he started that show.
I'm like, why would you?
Yeah, I didn't understand that either.
What do we think of John B. Wells?
Good radio voice.
I can't stand the guy, though.
He's a little too snuggly with Alex Jones for my taste.
Ross says he actually likes John B. Wells in that spot.
I don't know.
Well, he'd be good.
He'd be good, but I wish he would just put down the Jones Kool-Aid a little bit.
And he kind of hangs out with Alex and is on his show.
And then that tends to color his own opinions and his own viewpoints on different things.
And he starts to sort of say the Alex Jones feel.
You know, I wish he would just do his own thing and just come from his own personality and not have that affect him so much.
That's the only thing that turns me off about Wells.
Other than that, he seems like a really cool guy.
Nancy in the chat says Jimmy Church.
Just fucking kill it.
Whatever happened to Jimmy Church, by the way.
He was wished out to the cornfield.
Well, what do you think is more important?
A show directly after Midnight in the Desert or a weekend show?
I think the after show would be a good time.
I thought it would be a good couple hours of radio there, but a weekend show to keep the fire lit.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I mean, who would you imagine in that slot?
I would think that if they're taking calls, I mean, we don't really know the format, right?
Where it's just a speculation.
So, I mean, if they're taking calls, it would be great, you know, an after-show Monday through Friday.
Maybe they can also do a wrap-up show on Saturday and play clips of, you know, what Art talked about that week or the guests that week and just kind of, you know, wrap everything up and with no discussion, just kind of like a best of, I guess, on the weekends.
That would be pretty interesting.
Sci-fi author says Chunga.
Jimmy Chunga?
I think Chunga's some way with Jimmy Church at the moment, I think.
In that same cornfield.
Yeah.
Waiting to be called by George Norrie.
Oh, my gosh.
Oh, he got churched so hard.
So hard.
I'll tell you, because I don't know how closely people have followed the whole Jimmy Church thing on Bellgab.
Basically, Jimmy Church seemed to think that he was going to get a shot over at what was it called?
iHeart.
Yeah, right.
iHeart.
And I'm sure that George was dangling that.
That didn't happen.
Correction.
I hate art radio.
Actually, I made that one up.
I should get a cut every topic shoes.
25 cents to jazz for saying I hate art radio.
So Jimmy jumped ship expecting to get that regular Coast weekend gig.
And of course, that has not happened.
Has he done it ever again since that first time when he was still on Darkness?
The one time, and then George promises that he's on the roster.
I think that's what he said.
Yeah, Saucy Rossi says, recap Jimmy Church.
He's on Dark Matter Network, right?
He's doing three hours.
Was it in the art slot?
Was it in the current art slot?
No, I think it was seven to nine percent.
It seemed a little, yeah, it seemed like it was a little bit earlier in the day.
But somehow Jimmy Church had it in his mind that he was somehow keeping the seat warm or keeping the fire lit for art to come back.
Well, so said he.
Yes.
So he, he, yeah, he met George over at Contact in the Desert a couple years ago now.
Wow, this is, yeah, this is a couple years ago now.
Well, I guess it was spring of 14.
So he meets George, and this is after talking a whole bunch of crap about him on his show.
And on Belgium.
And not just that.
He referred to George as the best thing that happened to radio since Ambien or something like that.
Yes, he did.
That's right.
That's right.
Oh, gosh.
Continue.
It's only going to get better.
He's talking crap about George Norrie.
He then meets him at Contact in the Desert.
And I'm sure that George being the slick kind of he's smooth enough.
You know what I mean?
Where you can, he's fooled me many, many times where I think, you know, I feel like he's a, he might not be such a bad guy.
So I guess he sweet talked Jimmy Church, and he made a proposition, I guess, that, hey, you could host Coast on the weekends.
So, of course, Jimmy Church's eyes got wide as saucers, and he was like, yeah, yeah, I could do that.
And that put him in a difficult position over at Dark Matter Network.
So it was his choice, basically, whether or not he was going to do Coast on a regular basis.
This is my understanding of it, or if he was going to stay on Dark Matter Network.
And he thought that it was going to be a regular gig.
I'm sure George made it abundantly clear to him, yeah, it's going to be a regular thing.
You're going to be the replacement for John B. Wells.
And then as soon as he cut bait, you know, as soon as he was out the door at Dark Matter Network, George had no use for him anymore.
You know, he wasn't, he couldn't be used as a tool to stick in Art's eye.
According to Keith, he wanted to stick around for another two weeks and promote his appearances on George's show.
Yeah, that was a good one.
Yeah.
What?
I mean, wasn't that whole thing when he went on a coast to coast when Art and Keith kind of broke up there for a second.
Wasn't that the whole start of that?
I mean, Art was seeming to know what was going on and he was rather concerned that Jimmy was going on coast to coast.
I feel like that was at the tail end of that.
I don't really think that really had that much to do with it.
No, I think what had happened was Jimmy had said to Keith that it's a one-time thing, that's it, blah, blah, blah.
Keith never told Art about it.
When Art found out about it, then I think the shit hit the fan.
But I don't know.
I could be wrong.
It's all history now.
But what cracks me up is that George has been able to do this a whole bunch.
George did it with Falky.
Let's be honest.
That's exactly what happened with Falky.
Absolutely.
He tried it with me.
It didn't work.
Redacted.
He's tried it a little bit with you.
He's smarmy.
He's good luck with that.
He's not going to get anywhere here with that.
But I mean, if you guys are going to talk about Falky, maybe I should just mute because I don't want to cause any more problems.
I made one joke and look where we are.
Maybe.
But no, apparently George has made a deal with Falky to be on some new upcoming show.
And I hope that does work out.
I don't get this.
What exactly is going on there?
My understanding is Falky at this point does not even know what this new show is going to be.
Apparently, he doesn't.
He's taping something on Thursday night.
He doesn't know what it's going to be, and he doesn't know what the show is either.
Nope.
That seems strange to me.
Seems legit.
What could go wrong, right?
Perhaps it's an intervention.
Yeah.
You know?
The hoarder's crew were there.
I really, we really shouldn't laugh about that because he posted those videos.
He posted a couple videos the other day.
He's been apparently cleaning his apartment for like the last who knows how long.
And it sounds like he has conscripted his girlfriend Patty's friend, girlfriend Kathy's friend, Patty, to do a lot of the cleaning.
That's what it looks like.
So this cleaning operation has apparently been going on for the last week or two because he has a housing inspection.
He posted a couple videos of what the apartment looks like now.
And if these were those videos after the cleaning or before?
It's hard to tell.
I think it was during the process of cleaning, I believe.
Yeah, but I mean, there's just so much stuff.
There's just so much junk just piled up.
Boxes and box fans and dust.
Just dust everywhere.
No wonder that guy can't breathe.
Well, he complains about breathing issues and he's got a lot of stuffed toys in that house and cats and stuff.
If he got rid of some of that stuff, that would solve half the problems.
I'm not allergic to stuffed animals.
It's just grass.
That's all.
I'm scared.
I'm scared to laugh.
That's really funny.
And I'm terrified to laugh at that.
But I don't want to see anybody living in squalid conditions.
Low just said in the chat that it's just a pilot.
So basically, there's a good chance that nobody's going to pick it up.
And that makes perfect sense because Norrie has done those sci-fi shows before.
He did a show.
If I remember correctly, he did a show called Dark Matter.
On sci-fi?
I think so.
Yeah.
And there was what, unexplained with George Nori, something like that.
And of course, most of those, they lasted like one episode or like two episodes and they didn't go anywhere.
So I don't know why he's trying with this new TV show.
Do we even know if it's paranormal?
No.
We don't know what it's based on.
It's just a TV show.
As far as anybody knows, it's just a TV show.
We had no idea what the premise will be or what it's about.
And lest anyone get the wrong idea, you know, we are all our own personalities and everything.
Falky is who he is.
I would hope that it would be a break and that something cool would happen for him.
I'm not against anyone as just a human being.
I tried to joke with him to try and just communicate with him and it's turned into this.
But, you know, regardless of what I think about George Nori or Falky, I would hope that something like that would work out.
But the track record is speaking for itself.
Oh, you're going to get an angry YouTube video dedicated to you.
I know.
Just for that.
How dare you wish me well?
That's right.
If I remember correctly, he told you to sit on a mic and spin.
That would be the quote.
That was one of them.
There's been so many.
It's just over the top.
It's really over the top for what she said.
She said he was a Dave bot.
Offhand comment on Bellgab and yeah, and it's been taken way, way over the top.
I thought he would just laugh and go, ah, yeah, very funny.
But it was taken seriously.
So just imagine, Jazz, any of the jabs I've given you, and you took them completely serious and to heart.
I do.
Haven't you seen my blog?
You really did destroy dark matter.
It's all your fault, Jazz.
Now just take that serious and do a few videos, please.
Didn't the destroying of dark matter all work out for the best?
Now we have art in Midnight in the Desert.
And let me remind you, redacted, you would not be where you are now if I didn't destroy dark matter.
Well, and I do remember that you were exonerated on the air by Art himself.
I was listening to that show and I remember that.
But I just cannot believe that anyone would take any of my jokes or playful punches seriously because none of them are.
It's a forum about talk radio.
We're all kind of joking and messing around, having a good time here.
I think what I actually said was that Falky has been turned into a mole by George Nori to infiltrate Bellgap.
Why?
That doesn't sound plausible, very plausible, but George Norrie proved it himself by taking a screen cap of that silly little joke and then emailing Falki and all this has started.
Did he really?
Yeah, so he proved my playful point.
Oh, that's interesting.
Yeah.
George is the ultimate troll.
Yeah.
So believe me, though, I feel horrible for making a joke.
It went horribly wrong.
But look at that.
I mean, you have personal experience with George Norrie starting shit with you.
Yeah.
George is trolling you.
A little bit.
A little bit, maybe.
A little bit, maybe.
But I'm more concerned that he might be leading Falky on in a deceptive way.
That's so that's just mean.
Why?
Why?
Why even do that?
Why?
Well, it's been discussed before.
I mean, basically, he was able to turn his detractor, his most vocal detractors, into his number one fan.
He has not posted anything anti-Nori.
He's not posted any anti-Nori videos.
He's barely posted any videos except, you know, ones trashing you and trashing who else?
I don't know.
His cleaning videos, I guess.
But he's George is slick.
I'm sorry to say that.
He just, he kind of is.
He's a shit.
He is.
I've seen used car salesmen get away with more and have more sly up their sleeve than George Nori.
I don't know.
I don't know.
But I just, I don't want to see Falky, who's in a position where he wants to go somewhere in life.
And here's George Norrie just stringing him along and leading him along and telling him, you know, fancy tall tales.
And Falky's believing it.
And I just don't want to see, you know, his hopes get dashed.
Or, I mean, it's, I'm uncomfortable.
I'm uncomfortable.
Do you think he'll have him connected to Skype and then say, oh, sorry, we've run out of time.
We'll get to you next week, Falky.
Like a contact in the desert thing.
Sorry, we're having technical difficulties and everybody else can connect to Skype right now except you.
We just don't know why.
So next time.
I can't believe we forgot about this.
Waves in the chat room says, the new dating service.
Oh my God.
Have you signed up yet, Bateman?
Of course.
Yes, that's the question.
Who all here has signed up to meet their paranormal soulmate?
A lot of morbidly obese women who have like Elvira makeup.
That's what it is.
I don't see that going very well.
I don't expect I'll be getting a date anytime soon from Paranormal Date.
No, there's people on Bellgab that signed up with fake IDs, I think, and just to mess with people.
I can't remember who it was, but I read that a couple weeks ago, and it was actually pretty funny.
I apologize to Lone Voice.
He says, don't diss Elvira.
I'm not dissing Elvira.
It's the makeup.
It's the makeup.
Little much.
Well, it must be done just so.
Well, here's what I don't understand about this dating service.
You can go on an actual dating site like Match or OKCupid or any of those sites, and you can search by keyword.
So if you really, if you're like, you know what?
My significant other or a person I date has to have these qualities.
You know, this person has to be interested in ancient aliens or this person has to be interested in.
I like to go on long walks at night and try to capture EVPs.
Right, right.
I mean, you can plug in those keywords into normal dating sites and you can find what you're looking for.
So what is the point?
This might be for those people that are embarrassed to put that information out there.
And so they've created a site where you can share those proclivities with like-minded people.
Wouldn't you be more embarrassed to have a paranormaldate.com account?
Yes, but if someone else, everyone who you're trying to court also has a paranormal dating account.
All right.
I'm not advertising for this service.
So I understand all the weekend hosts at Coach, they've had to advertise it.
Nap has not.
That's what I heard.
Yeah, Nap won't do it.
I want to listen tonight and see if and see if he'll.
I can't see him doing that.
I just cannot.
Can you guys?
Are these the live commercials you're talking about?
Yeah.
Schrader, I believe, has done it.
I'm sure Richard is it, Siret or Siret?
Siret?
Siret.
Pretty much everybody else has done it.
Nap has not.
So I don't know.
I don't know if that means he's refused to do it or if they were like, you know, we know that you're not going to do it.
So, you know, never.
I don't know.
If I was a radio show host, that would be the last thing I would want, especially in a paranormal type show where you're trying to have some sort of credibility to hold the interest of your audience.
And now a paranormal dating site.
Are they really going to let us probe it?
Yeah, really.
Are they?
No.
I don't understand how this fits in.
And he wants to have success stories from the Paranormal Date website call into his show and tell them, you know, how happy and wonderfully in love they are.
And they go ghost hunting every night and live a wonderful life.
And he wants them to call in.
Indeed.
Sorry, go ahead.
And it's only been up for, what, two weeks?
So how many success stories?
I mean, what's the definition of success?
You just get laid.
Not being murdered.
I don't know.
Not being murdered.
Yeah, that's what I would think.
Not being murdered, robbed, left for dead in a Mexican grave somewhere.
I don't know.
He didn't define success exactly.
He just said he wants successful matches to call into the show.
Oh, my God.
Can you like what are Art had I mean Art was no stranger to selling things on his show, but it was never anything goofy like Pizza Punch.
I've never come across a bottle of Pizza Punch anywhere, obviously.
You know, there was a very limited run there, but I would love 20 years later to get my hands on a bottle of Pizza Punch.
That's something that's cool to sell.
ParanormalDate.com is not cool to sell.
And just about everything Art sold, he used and could tell you, you know, yeah, the Sea Crane radio is a good radio or whatever it was he was selling on there.
So it was almost always something he would at least use himself.
But is George going to be on Paranormal Date and try to get himself some dates?
Is he going to try his own product there?
I would agree.
Apparently he is.
Citron says, more G Nori soundboard.
Oh, no.
Goatsy.
Can I just play random clips?
That was beautiful.
That was beautiful.
That was all Saucy Rossi.
The Goatsy.
Oh, yeah, it was.
Goatsy thing.
It really was.
George, I need you to add my cat, Goatsy the Cat, to the prayer list.
It was the perfect setup that whole night because everyone was trying to get George's attention and waiting for him to say something on air, you know, so that we knew that he was really hearing us or whatever.
And that was just a beautiful setup by Saucy Rossi to put in the Goatsy.
And I was so happy that I was there that night.
It's just obscure enough.
He said it on air.
He didn't actually say pray for Goatsy, like we say, but he said prayer list going out for the cat Goatsy.
I might be able to find that call, actually.
Give me a minute or two.
I might be able to find it.
I have just the clip, but I don't have it in context where he just says Goatsy because it's not pray for Goatsy.
You all are very, very bad boys.
Did you guys have cracked up during some of my prank phone calls to him?
That's right.
You called in about that time, too.
I called one, two.
I'm looking at the number of calls here right now, actually.
One, two, three, four, five, six, eight different calls, and I got through every time.
Wow.
Was it Marianne the whole time?
Did you do?
I can't remember.
I can't remember what you did when you got there.
I did.
I did a colon blow one.
Colon blow.
That was one.
Yeah, that's right.
I can play it.
I have it right here.
Yeah, dude.
I have all of them.
I think it was, who was it over in the George Norrie sucks thread?
I think it was Maxwell.
You remember Maxwell?
Is he the dog?
No, no, that's Max.
That's Max.
Somebody named Maxwell who posted a couple years ago, and he would get audio from the show in like 30 seconds.
It was incredible.
Oh, yeah.
He had a sound, a South Park, or not South Park, but a Simpsons meme or an avatar, right?
Did that make any sense?
He had a Simpsons avatar.
I think you might be right.
All right, here's one little play.
All right, very good.
Marilyn in Trenton, New Jersey.
Let's squeeze you in here, Marilyn.
Go ahead.
Hello, George.
Hi.
I had a question for your guest.
I guess the two-part question, but I was wondering if you, if you're not eating a whole lot of alkalinizing foods, what would your favorite supplements be to help you alkalinize your body?
I use a product called Colonblow that does a wonderful job of, you know, just keeping me regular.
But I wondered what other supplements you think would work well to get the desired effect.
And I also, I heard the announcement, the wonderful announcement that Hart Bill's.
What happened?
Was that you laughing?
Yeah.
Something.
Oh, yeah.
I'm sorry.
I don't know.
She started crying and that was just fun.
40 seconds.
Any kind of supplements you can take?
He just keeps going without me skipping a bait.
But a professional.
Wow.
Can't believe he didn't cut you off and you said colon blow.
He's not listening.
That's why.
That's very true.
He's not sharp enough to pick that up.
Good point.
He just repeated it.
This guy does not watch Saturday Night Live.
I mean, did anyone, do you remember someone played a clip of something that didn't wasn't there?
Someone mentioned an anal probe or something?
No, something a bit more cruder than that.
And he didn't even pick up on it.
It was worth.
No, I think he did, actually.
It was the, we can use potty language here, right?
Yeah.
It was the butt fucked by a Martian clip.
Yes.
That's the one.
The guy called up and he asked the guest if he'd ever been butt-fucked by a Martian taste.
That's right.
Then the guest sort of just answered the question normally.
Well, it was Whitley, wasn't it?
No, no, it was somebody else.
Oh, okay.
But he laughed, and then George said, oh, don't worry, you know, that didn't get on.
And then they put it on the download.
Yeah.
The podcast, yeah.
Because I guess the delay doesn't affect the podcast.
Exactly.
They'd have to go in and just edit it manually.
But they forgot.
Wow.
This is a quality professional production, ladies and gentlemen.
I'm so proud of the fact that I must have been driving them nuts night after night.
Anytime they'd open up those phone lines, oh my God, is he going to call?
Oh my God, please.
No.
No.
There was sweating bullets night after night.
Yeah, and didn't he even post on Bell Gab saying something to the effect that he enjoyed your prank calls?
Oh, yeah, I'm sure he really enjoyed them.
Well, at least that's what he posted.
I'm sure that pissed him off.
But I mean, after that, that was where he wanted to bring you in for the Here's Bateman on Friday nights.
Exactly.
Yeah, he said, yeah, spooky, but spooky but funny segment.
I don't know what that would sound like, but.
And you didn't take this prestigious position, Bateman.
I should have.
Yeah, I've been kicking myself ever since.
I bet you have.
I mean, way to go just blew off this incredible opportunity to be on George Nori's roster with Jimmy Church and others.
Somebody says in the chat, Karios A says, were you the Open Lines caller who was sick and got stuck on the toilet?
No, that wasn't me.
That was not me.
You just sent me, who just sent me the audio?
That's me.
That was me.
All right.
This is the Martian audio.
Oh, wow.
Looks like it's taking it a minute to load up.
It doesn't look like it's loaded to you on my end yet.
I'll send you the link.
Maybe you can download it directly.
Yeah, send me like eight minutes remaining.
Yes.
Send me the link on email.
I'll do it.
Number to call, we are still doing this.
623-242-CAST.
That's 623-242-2278.
We are now actually less than 30 days out.
Officially less than 30 days from Midnight in the Desert.
It's been almost two years since we last heard art.
Do you remember when the Art Bell Quits Dark Matter thread was started, how long this seemed?
It just seemed like two years was impossible.
Way too long to wait.
And now we're here.
Yeah, and I've had a kid in the meantime.
I have grown a human being in that time.
Here we go.
Here's the thing.
It's been so long.
What is this again?
The Butt Fucked by the Martian thing?
Yes.
I don't know why this is coming in so effing low.
I don't know how you guys do this every single week.
I don't know how I'm associated with you guys right now.
Have I said that I don't really know these guys too much?
Oh my God.
I'm freaking out before we went on tonight.
And Eddie was like, no, he's like, no, this happens pretty much every week.
Don't worry about it.
And people have asked me why I don't do my show live.
And like, there's a couple of reasons for that.
But I mean, this does not make me want to go live.
If I had radio stations that were going to take the show and I had technical problems like that, holy shit.
Well, I was asking you before the show, you know, and you've never done a live thing before and how you were going to do it with that.
But I mean, you seem to be handling everything fine.
It is fine.
I've been live since my music radio days.
It's been a long time.
Eddie, can you play the butt-fucked by a Martian clip from your end?
for some reason it's coming in low over here.
Mike, take me a second here.
All right.
Number to call is 623-242-CAST.
623-242-2278.
Yes, Catsmile.
All those buttons confuse Bateman.
I'm not going to say no.
I mean, it's Roswell's needs to call.
Lone Voice needs to call.
Starman 001 needs to call.
There's people who've never called the show before, actually.
Catsmile needs to call.
Cats need to call.
As I said, he knows the number.
And Popple says, I wish Bateman could host just to troll them from the inside and then never host again.
You know what?
If George is listening right now, I mean, the cat's going to be out of the bag kind of a thing.
But I'll tell you what I wanted to do for quite a while.
I wanted to set up some crazy-looking conspiracy website.
And I couldn't figure out what exactly the subject would be.
Maybe like children's cartoons or transmitting satanic messages to people or something.
Set up some crazy ass website and then email Coast saying that I want to be a guest.
And then they'd have me on for an hour or two to talk about this complete BS topic and I'd be the troll guest instead of just a troll caller for like a minute or two, a troll guest.
Yep, that's the Bateman we know and love.
That's some hot code trolling.
It is.
That's some professional level trolling.
In a scary way, I can see you pulling that off.
That is ninja-level trolling.
They don't screen people that well.
Here we go.
All right.
I think I have the audio.
I need to pot up you guys, though.
Yeah, no, it sounded fun.
It sounded fun.
I just need to make sure that it's being recorded as well.
Okay, here we go.
Oh, welcome to the program.
Hi, Eddie.
Hi, how's it going?
I'm going well.
Thanks.
All right.
Thomas, fascinating stuff, man.
I'm blown away, seriously.
It's pretty mind-boggling.
I got to tell you.
One thing I have to take pains to point out is that often.
Yeah, I just wanted to ask, though, like, before you go on, have you ever been by a Martian?
No.
Not that I know.
While I was away.
Don't worry about that.
Didn't get on, Thomas.
Did not get on at all.
Sometimes you get a few lunatics that pop in once in a while.
There you go.
Unbelievable.
Anyways, back to this.
The best thing was that he answered the question.
Oh, no, of course not, sir.
I have not.
Why?
What if he had?
I'll tell you.
So, insinuate such things.
Can't be proven.
All right, we got somebody on the line.
Hello, you're on the gap cast.
Hi, it's Star Mountain.
You asked me to call?
Yeah.
Yes.
How are you tonight?
Thanks for calling in.
Oh, I'm really good.
It's been on the boards here, or not the boards, I'm sorry, in the chat room about Bateman doing a live show.
And I thought, how cool would it be for Bateman to get a hold of Phil Henry and have Marilyn?
And I forgot his other character's name.
That would be a kick.
Well, I'll tell you what, there's actually something planned for the 19th, but I don't want to be too much.
I just spoiled a surprise.
That's like opening Christmas present the day before.
That's no fun.
You got to wait to the 19th, but there's a little something planned.
Oh, right.
I love it.
Anyway, Bateman, I love you.
I think we all love you.
Keep up the good work.
And I'll talk to you guys later.
Well, thank you for the call.
Thank you.
Thank you for the kind words.
Okay.
You didn't say you loved us.
I'm disappointed, Star Mountain.
001.
We've talked so many times in the chat, and you didn't even mention me.
I don't know what to tell you guys.
I don't know.
Frodo says in the chat, that sounds like Bateman doing Marilyn.
Star Mountain is a lovely lady.
Let's not disparage any of our fine listeners.
Oh, I just want to be loved.
Yeah, could somebody call and tell Jasmine that they love him?
623-242-2278.
Thank you.
Is that too much to ask?
No one ever calls to say how much they love Eddie Dean, and I don't get that.
He really is what helps us keep this whole thing happening in the first place.
So someone needs to call and say how awesome Eddie Dean is, please.
That's a request for you going out.
I think Bateman is doing a fine job tonight.
But yeah, it's a lot of fun doing this show.
Live and being able to take calls and talk to people live is great.
Yeah, it took me a minute or two to get into it because, like I said, I haven't done this literally in years live.
So, you know, when I have a guest on my show, all I'm focused on is like getting to the next break, you know, setting up the next break and asking the right questions.
You know, it's just an entirely different dynamic.
Yeah.
Certainly doesn't help when you have lots of technical issues at the top of the show.
Yeah, let's throw that in on top of everything else for you there.
Your mic doesn't work and we have no idea why.
No pressure.
I mean, it's a good thing we didn't have a station picking us up.
You know, we can basically start the show whenever we want, whenever we get the technical issues worked out.
Exactly.
That's what's nice about this.
And I appreciate that MV has this set up.
I mean, it's cool.
It's amazing.
It's amazing that people even listen to the Gabcast.
How many people are listening right now?
There's a lot of people listening right now, at least a lot of people in the chat.
Let me see here.
What do we got?
While you're looking, we have somebody else on the line.
Hello, you're on the Gabcast.
Hello.
Hi.
Who do we have on the line?
Gemstone, how are you tonight?
Very good.
I just had to call and thank you guys for just being so entertaining and funny.
Oh, my gosh.
I just are having a good time tonight.
I certainly am, yes.
Well, it's cool that you called in.
I don't think you've ever called in before, have you?
I never have, no.
Well, it's always cool to put a voice to the name.
Oh, don't be nervous.
Did you have anything special, any question on your mind tonight?
Not really.
I just wanted to let you guys know how enjoyable it is.
Oh, we appreciate that.
That's totally cool.
Yeah, I'm just, I'm happy people are listening.
So I appreciate it.
You know, we just decided, I just decided I wanted to come on tonight.
MV was nice enough to hand over the keys for a little while.
And other people decided to jump on as well.
And people decided they wanted to listen.
We have somebody else calling right now.
We'll throw them into the mix too.
You're on.
Thank you.
Gemstone, you're still on.
And we have somebody else that I just threw on there, too.
Okay.
Who has joined us?
Hello.
Yes.
Hello.
And it's Jim Rome.
Do it yourself, Kyra Perry.
Can you heal?
Got any problems?
Is this a Jim Rome show?
Sure is.
Indeed.
Go ahead.
I'm getting an echo, so I think I'm just going to say goodnight.
All right.
All right.
Thanks, Jimstone.
Okay.
All right.
Listening to you, I'm going to continue.
I just, there's an echo on my phone.
That's probably me screwing something up.
You need to turn your radio off, please.
I know I'm outside, actually.
Okay.
Thanks for calling, Jimstone.
All right.
All right.
Good night.
Did we lose that other caller?
Yeah, he just dropped.
I don't know who that was.
Who was that?
He was listening for Jim Rohm.
That's great.
Go ahead.
That's great.
Nicky dropped.
I don't know where he went.
But call us back.
623-242-2278.
If you have a comment for the show.
Can we talk about bannings for a minute?
Oh, one thing.
83 listeners live.
The peak.
The peak was at 95.
Ooh.
So, yeah.
That's a little party.
Respectable.
All right.
Baby, I remember when we first started this show, or when I came aboard and started running it, we were getting 25, 18 listeners.
So, yeah, 83 is very respectable.
All right.
I want to talk about bannings.
We just had someone get banned.
We did.
I think, well, here's something else.
I don't know if this one other person got banned.
We know that White Crow got banned.
Did Nori is awesome get banned?
Well, you know how you can find out?
He's still on the member list.
He's still on the member list, then he's not banned.
Last time I checked.
Why did you think he's banned?
You remember he was the one who was drunkenly swiftly at Norway?
Yes.
Yeah, that was embarrassing.
Maybe, maybe it presented a problem.
I don't know.
Whatever.
He seems to have just gone quiet.
He's the guy with the green girl avatars.
Yeah, Lone Voice says he's embarrassed.
I hope he comes back.
I hope he does, too.
I found his posts entertaining.
I mean, just because you have one drunken knight yelling at George Norris hasn't done that before.
Shouldn't it?
Yeah.
You can't hold that against a guy.
He hasn't posted since the 4th of June.
I know.
I know.
And that was then.
Yeah, that was when that happened.
But he did go off the rails.
He really, really did.
And I was attempting to have a civilized conversation with George Norrie.
And boy, did he just, I mean, people say I nailed Nori to the wall, but I think it was really Nori's awesome.
He's the one that came with both all guns blazing.
Man, oh, man.
We'd go insane.
Yeah, it was entertaining from a listener's aspect.
I mean, that was hilarious when he called in and you can hear him in the background.
You mother effer, you, you sorry, I hate what you did.
God damn it, you drummed it.
It was hilarious.
It was great.
George is jumping at him about being a tough guy, right?
Yes, yeah.
I was on mute laughing so hard.
I think he called him a lowlife a couple times.
Yeah, remember that, yeah.
And he's called people that in emails before, too, who've written in, you know, with some criticism or another.
Yeah, that's his favorite word, haters and lowlives.
None of us have jobs.
Something that I would really love to know.
And I actually, I'll send him an email before this show on the 19th that we do, before art comes on.
I really want George to call in again because I have some valid, I think, valid questions for him.
I'm curious to know if he thinks that after all these years of reading Belgab and getting these emails, abusive or not, are there criticisms of him that he thinks are valid?
And what are they, basically?
He's acknowledged in the past, actually, that I drift sometimes.
I think that was the most he's copped to.
But, you know, how do you read the George Nori sucks thread day in and day out?
And he does.
I mean, he obviously does.
I find that amazing.
And not pick something up.
Like, it's not like it's one or two things that he does that people take issue with.
It's like 15 different things.
And you would think that any broadcaster who sees this day in and day out, they'd be like, you know what?
Maybe there's something to this.
Or not even if you're a broadcaster.
If you had any job where you were getting the same complaints about your job performance in and day out, somebody would say to you, you know what?
Maybe these people are right.
I, for the life of me, don't know why George reads Belgab at all.
Yeah, he said he drifts.
He says he doesn't pay attention.
I mean, we went through all that on the George Norrie Sucks thread when he first started posting as G. Norrie.
What was it a couple years ago?
Yeah.
I forgot your question, so I cannot answer it, sir.
I'm sorry.
Jocko Johnson says in the chat, he doesn't care.
He gets paid either way.
That's true.
Yep.
I think that's a lot of it.
Yeah.
You think you still have to perform your job in a way that satisfies the people who pay your wage.
So I don't buy that, you know.
He doesn't care because he's paid anyway.
Like, I know if I didn't perform to the best of my ability in my job, I'd get fired.
Yeah, but you're the boss.
Are you going to fire yourself?
Just a general thing.
Anyone who, you know, folk you.
No, but it's true.
You would get fired.
Yeah, if I didn't do 110% every day, I would get fired.
Yeah.
That's not a valid excuse.
I got to say, I'm very happy to see that Sardandi is back, and he started a thread today called, He Still Sucks.
It sure was great to see him come back.
I think that was the guy that was the last holdout who did not believe that the member on Bellgab called G Nori was actually the George Nori.
I remember him arguing against that.
And yeah, that was pretty funny.
But yeah, it is actually G Nori is George Nori Sandori, if you're listening.
Turned out to be him, indeed.
Really?
I have a question for you guys.
When I signed up for the new Art Bell show, Midnight in the Desert, there was something about a new chat room called the Swamp.
Have any of you guys logged into that and checked it out?
No.
I didn't even know it existed.
The Swamp.
Yeah, I saw that link somewhere.
Is that something that Keith set up?
I don't know.
I was hoping that one of you guys would know.
And maybe our listeners know what that is, but I couldn't.
If anybody knows, yeah, that's a new chat room of some sort.
It's called the Swamp.
I am logged in to the Dark Matter Digital Network website right now, and I don't see that.
Where did you see that?
I'm just logging in now.
There was a link that somebody posted, and I wish I had it.
Oh, wait.
I think I know what chat room you're talking about.
Is that the other official forum or chat for Art's show?
Because remember he said that Art said there was going to be two forums.
I'm assuming that Bellgab is one of them, a moderated one and a lightly moderated one.
And maybe this chat is just something completely different.
I have this link somewhere.
Let me dig that up and I'll post it for you guys.
I don't even remember how I ran across this chat room, but somehow it's connected with Dark Matter Digital Network.
There weren't very many people hanging out in that chat room at the time.
I did see Maureen there, so we chatted a little bit.
Yeah, I imagine that'll change pretty soon.
I would think.
And also, Art mentioned that you can now wormhole him.
Yes, you can.
If you're on the Dark Matter Digital Network website and you happen to see the wormhole open up, you can shoot a message through and Art's getting them all ready.
So you have to be lucky to get something pop up.
Is that what you're saying?
Because the wormhole only opens up about every half hour, 20 or 30 minutes or so.
And I have seen it.
Oh, no.
No, no, no, no.
You can actually go to it.
If you go to shows and then go down to, or go to Midnight in the Desert, then another thing pops out and it's wormhole.
And then you can say something.
Oh, not always.
It's not open there right now.
It is now.
Well, maybe for you because you're living in the future.
Maybe.
Not fine.
So I'm assuming this goes straight to art and he gets it on his computer.
So maybe I'll send him a message.
And if he's there now, he can say what I said.
Let's do it.
You can verify in the chat room.
Is he still in the chat room?
I don't know.
Art?
Yeah, art's still in there.
So do you guys think will you be chatting in the new IRC chat room called The Swamp for Midnight in the Desert?
Or will you be posting at Bellgab during the live threads that Envy will be opening up for every new show?
In my opinion, I think the chat rooms move a little bit too fast.
I think Bellgabs probably makes the most sense, at least for me, just because I can go back to that thread the next day.
If I missed something, you can't do that with a chat room.
Sometimes WR250, he'll post a chat transcript, but I have no desire to go back to a chat transcript from a three-hour show to, you know, why.
Yeah.
There it is, though.
There's the link.
It's unknownspirit.com slash enhanced chat.
And who is running that exactly?
Do we know?
I have no idea.
I'm not sure.
But apparently it's linked with our show.
Huh.
I found it somehow from the Dark Matter Network website.
And now when I go back to it to see where I found that link from, I can't find it again.
So I'm pretty useless.
But there's the link.
We have a call.
Hello?
Hello?
Hello.
Yes, you are.
Hello.
Okay, it's Star Mountain again.
I guess I'm the culprit.
I found that when I was on the Art Cell player, there was a link in the Twitter chat that goes along when you're listening to somewhere dark matter shows.
Yes.
And I was the one who posted that link.
I went back to get it and it's gone.
So apparently it's a no-no.
And had I known that, I wouldn't have even posted the thread.
So it's gone and probably for a good reason.
Oh, okay.
That's why I can't find it again.
That makes sense.
And now Redacted just put it over the air.
All right.
We'll have to remove this.
Good job.
I hope I'm not getting in more trouble.
How dare you?
That's all I wanted to call back and tell you so you wouldn't keep looking for it.
Now Redacted has destroyed midnight in the desert.
Every week, somebody wanted to host the show.
Yeah, title of show destroyer.
Yeah.
No.
Yeah.
No brownie button for you.
Yes not this time.
Thank you, Star Mountain.
You're welcome.
Bye-bye.
Good night.
We are still doing this.
623-242-CAST, 623-242-2278.
Jazz, what are you supposed to be doing at this very moment?
I'm supposed to be back at work.
I said I'd come on for an hour.
And it's been almost two.
But I'm my own boss, who's going to find me?
Exactly.
Do people at the office, they just assume like, ah, he's just, he's drunk or something.
Said I was going out for a meeting.
Oh, that old excuse.
Playing the old meeting card.
Good one.
Seem to be doing a lot of meetings and then coming back smelling of Belgab.
Oh, I hate that.
Well, it takes a while, a couple hours to wash it off completely.
Oh, Lord.
So, yeah, bannings.
White Crow has been banished.
Nori's Awesome has not been.
That is interesting.
That's good to know.
Favorite band poster?
Our favorite band poster?
I don't have any.
Usually they get banned for a reason.
No, I would go, I know immediately.
I'm going to go with Bart L.
Well, he had a weird thing with gifts, that guy.
Bart L made me laugh my ass off on a daily basis.
Oh, he posted things that made me feel guilty for laughing at them.
I didn't want anyone to know that I'd even seen some of that stuff.
Yeah, he was great as long as he wasn't directing his attention toward you.
Exactly.
Yeah.
But do you think he's back?
Because he used to post a lot, and I can't imagine he's not following the falky thread.
Do you think he's there under another guy's?
You know, I always wonder that.
Like, I wonder if White Crow is still following along there.
I do wonder if, actually, we know little Chris is still following along with that thread because he keeps a falky fan site.
Oh, that I'm now on.
What?
Yes.
I have discovered now that I am mentioned on some weird website somewhere.
It's weird.
Because I can't imagine if you post at a website daily, pretty much regularly, and you all of a sudden get banned, I can't imagine you would just never visit the site again.
I would imagine you would stick around.
I would just take off.
Oh, okay.
I'm banned.
Wow.
All right.
Later.
I would still want to know what's going on there.
I would check in occasionally.
Would you?
Yeah.
Well, if this was something you did daily, like Belgab, just say you got banned tomorrow from Belgab.
Are you saying redacted?
I entirely expect to any day now.
Actually, you could have got banned the other day, Bateman.
You went toe-to-toe with the boss.
We're not going to go there.
That was strictly a lack of fiber issue.
Exactly.
MV had his MetaMusl.
Things are good now.
It's just.
But no, I mean, White Crow made a call to the last Gabcast that was a little bit creepy.
And then Legench generally goes around trying to troll people, trying to intentionally stir stuff up.
And MV just finally said, you know what, man?
Again, banned.
He was banned twice before, by the way.
Yes, and he buys his way back in.
He'll make a donation.
Yep.
And then MV will think about it and make him think about what he's done in the corner and let him back on, unban him.
So I don't know.
That could happen.
What I want is the amount that he paid to get back in.
That's what I was going to say.
I want to know what does it cost to get back into MV's football.
MV, I think MV is in the chat.
If he's listening right now, please call in or connect to Skype because I need details about the White Crow thing.
And you know what?
White Crow, on the day that he got banned, he actually came through for me.
Remember, if you listened to the last gapcast, I asked, I put it out there and asked if someone could find a particular audio clip for me to use.
And he actually came through.
And I sent him a PM to say thank you.
And when I sent it to him, he'd already been banned.
So you are on the Gabcast.
Hello.
Hello, this is White Crow, and I'm listening in tonight.
Thank you, White Crow.
Interesting.
Look who it is.
How are you tonight?
I'm pretty good.
I'm just redacted.
You didn't take that stuff serious.
Well, we're all joking around here, I hope.
I get banned.
Anybody really takes the crap I like serious?
What did you pay to get back in?
You did it twice.
Well, I paid MV.
Right.
What was the amount?
Pardon?
What was the numerical amount?
Well, I don't know if MV would be embarrassed to let them know publicly tell the amount, but it wasn't that much.
You can be bothered.
MV said $100.
That's right.
$100.
Interesting.
All right.
So that's what it takes to get back in, huh?
Well, you probably raised the amount this time.
Yeah, it's double.
I would have tried to negotiate.
Saucy Rossi says in the chat, White Crow sounds like my nightmares.
I can be.
I can be.
White Crow, I just want to thank you actually for finding me that clip.
It was fantastic.
You will hear it in the next trailer.
Yeah, good.
Looking forward.
It was perfect.
All right.
White Crow, I think I'd like to say a lot of people just don't.
Hello?
Are you still there?
Hello, I'm here.
A lot of people just don't get your sarcasm and your humor.
And a lot of people just think that you're a giant douchebag troll, you know?
And I think that's what Saki's.
I am a troll.
I'm a 100% troll.
Well, listen.
I get under the trophy.
You started the fight.
Listen, listen.
The mistake you're making is telling everybody that you're a troll.
If you're a troll, you never admit that.
Well, of course, but you know, like MBV claims I'm a brain surgeon or something.
People just don't get it that you're just trolling, trolling, trolling for conflict, conflict to add to the conversation.
I don't think anybody mistook you for a brain surgeon.
Well, that's what MV.
He thought I thought I was a brain surgeon that controlled Bell Gab or something.
So what is the game conflict that turns you on so much, man?
It's just the way I am.
I'm a contrarian.
I've been playing the internet game for years, forums.
You get a group of people that understand and work with you and can have a lot of fun.
Well, a lot of fun.
You got a couple of my buddies to fight, and I was the subject of this fight.
It was very uncomfortable.
Why would you do that for fun?
Which one was that redacted?
The fight that we don't want to talk about.
Well, I throw out so much crap, I don't know which one the wall.
Who's that hiccoping?
Somebody drinking as much as I am?
I was just giggling.
Can I ask White Crow, do you get banned from lots of forums or is this the first time?
Well, this is actually the first time I got banned.
From Bellgap.
Or the third.
Well, actually, this is the third time.
This is the third time.
Okay.
Now tell me.
So you've been banned.
You've been banned a few times.
When you do get banned from a forum, do you just let go and that's it?
You never go back and visit?
Or are you on there daily?
Still ready.
Depends on what the interest of my life is at the time.
As I mentioned, I think before, I used to fight pretty much around the world, different spots.
So that was part of my life for a couple of decades.
And, you know, got into art bells, always listened to them on and off.
Finally was coming back to Dark Matter and found Bell Cab.
So became part of my life.
What I do life.
Again, I don't know how anybody takes my crap seriously, even MV.
I just don't get it.
It really rubs people the wrong way because there's nothing funny about it.
That's the thing.
If you're obnoxious and you're going, this guy is just trolling.
And I stick mostly in this bulky thread anyway.
Well, that's true.
Geez, White Crow, I kind of feel sorry for you, man.
Yeah, you sound a little down.
Yeah, that's the point of my call.
Trolling.
Trying to get some sympathy here, guys.
You know what?
Know what I think will get you back in?
A hundred bucks.
A hundred bucks?
A hundred bucks to do it?
I hope MV raises the price.
Thank you for coming, White Crow.
Good night.
All right.
Number to call is 623-242-CAST, 623-242-2278.
He reminds me of Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs.
He does have that.
Oh, is she a great big fat person?
Mrs. Lippmann has her card somewhere in here.
Redacted, can I get some naughty pictures from you?
I'm uncomfortable.
I thought this was going to be about Art Bell.
He asked you for that, didn't he?
Yes.
Repeatedly.
He asked.
Yeah.
Creepy.
Yeah.
Never going to happen.
So did you give him?
No, none.
Always answers those requests.
Yeah, anytime.
Well, we're not minted.
Can you send me a naked picture?
I'm just right on top of that.
Yeah.
Sure.
We'll get those naked pictures sent out right away.
That's my top concern this afternoon.
No, no.
So I wonder if anyone's asked art for those type of pictures.
Oh, dear God.
I would imagine that people in the public spotlight probably do get asked for smutty things all the time.
Have you sent any of those requests?
Well, you're a famous trailer maker and broadcaster yourself, Jazz the Munda.
Why don't you let us know about your naked picture requests?
Well, I don't think anyone wants to see that.
Auton here, do I need to turn up the air conditioner?
But everybody says you have a sexy voice, Jazz.
So to me, that seems to lead right into naked pictures.
Are you uncomfortable yet?
A little bit.
Just let me take my jacket off.
All right.
I just wanted you to share that with me for a minute.
Uh-oh, we have MVL in.
Are we on hold?
Hello.
There's going to be long blank spots in the recording.
I probably shouldn't be talking right now because I have to edit that out.
I accidentally put you guys on hold and I talked to MV and we had a little saucy little exchange there.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah, here we go.
Now we're on hold again.
I keep hitting answer instead of add to group.
That's what I'm doing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Add to conference.
That's all right.
We'll get you trained.
You know, and sometimes Skype.
It is a bit of a learning curve.
It really is.
You look at it.
You're doing good.
So many things to press.
What did MV say?
He was flirty.
See, the thing is, is when you put us on hold, since I'm recording the show tonight, I don't get that part of the show.
I'm content with that.
So it really was.
It was a private conversation.
It went out on the stream, but it won't be included in the podcast.
MV, please call back.
I have to press add to group, I think it is.
I just didn't see that in the last time.
Yeah, sometimes Skype plays with you, and even when you hit add to group, it will put the hosts on hold.
So that's usually fun.
All to make your live broadcasting experience easier.
All right, here we go.
Wait a minute.
Answering.
See, here it says Michael Van Diemen calling.
Answering this call will put your active call on hold.
Well, why would I want to do that?
I want to add it to the group.
Yeah, see, that happened.
I just jinxed you.
So this is not an add-to-conference option?
No, everybody else who called, it had that option come up.
Yeah.
Damn it.
Yeah, I just jinxed you, man.
Sorry about that.
Maybe you call.
Is he calling on Skype?
I'll throw his phone number.
Skype.
Maybe you call him.
Yeah, you know what?
Why don't we do that, actually?
Jazz with the good ideas.
All right.
I'm an ideas man.
Doesn't happen very often.
Oh, Jazz, you're so creative.
No, but your trailers really were beautiful and cool and chilling and scary.
I liked all of them.
Here we go.
Is that Michael?
Hello, ladies and gents.
Is this working okay?
Yeah, it sounds like no.
I'm actually calling you.
I'm calling you from a phone with a cord.
Can you believe that?
Are you in a field?
Well, no, but it is Rotary.
Good.
Art just got really excited hearing that.
Well, I am fit for air.
Yeah, I heard White Crow calling in.
I mean, look, I'm sorry there's not a committee that decides when someone gets banned and when they don't.
I mean, on the one hand, that's sort of the Achilles heel of Dog Ab, and on the other hand, that's the thing that everybody likes, that there aren't 30 cooks in the kitchen.
And, I mean, you just sort of have to make a decision at some point and say to yourself, is this person a drag?
And to me, White Crow is a drag.
I read the forum a lot more than other people, and the overwhelming majority of the time, it's not from a pleasure perspective.
It's from an administrative perspective.
I have to read that bullcrap because it's a website that I own, and I have to see what people are saying on there.
It's not that I necessarily want to.
And if someone is just consistently making it a drag for me to have to go in there and do that, I just get sick of it after a while.
And I also conclude that if this person's a drag for me, they're probably a drag for other people too.
And I mean, I don't know how much better I can quantify it than that.
And as I say, I'm sorry there's not some executive committee that makes all of these things in some sort of a public democratic fashion, but it's just not the way it is.
Well, you've reduced my daily creep factor a great deal, so I appreciate that.
And that call had nothing to do with it.
Oh, okay.
I hadn't even heard that call to the Gabcast when I did that.
And I wouldn't have done that because of that call to the Gabcast.
I didn't find there to really be anything particularly, I mean, yeah, it was creepy, but okay, so what?
You know, it's a call to an internet radio show.
Who cares?
Right.
It should be exclusive.
And I can't believe that somebody actually believed that you would ban somebody because they called up on the Gabcast and got creepy.
I don't know.
I try and view them sort of as two separate universes.
I mean, you'll notice that if someone's banned from Bell Gab, that doesn't inherently mean they can't use the chat.
It doesn't inherently mean they can't call the Skype phone number and get on the air.
If someone has a TIFF with me on the forum or I have a TIFF with them on the forum, as you can see, that doesn't inherently mean they can't host the Gabcast.
So, you know, I don't think I'm insane.
Yeah, Jazz, you have so many fights with MV.
I mean, it really is incredible that you're still here.
He's a foreigner, son of a bitch, and I do not like it.
Dirty, a dirty foreigner.
He's always stirring up trouble.
If he came from a country that had electricity and such, I would probably feel differently about him.
I don't know if I'd respect him even then.
Well, he just don't sound like me when he talks.
That's the biggest problem I got.
Probably don't dress like me either.
Goddamn poo.
He probably wears a goddamn poo, too.
While you're here, MV, can you clear up why Bart L. was banned?
Because Bart L, I mean, most of the people that you've banned in the past, totally, totally right.
You know, and I'm not sucking up saying that.
I just feel like, yeah, most of the people who get banned need to get banned.
But Bart L, I just, I would laugh my ass off at every other post of his.
I laughed my ass off at a lot of the stuff that he posted as well.
It was just that toward the end of him being there, it seemed like he was following me around the forum.
I felt like he was trolling me.
He was following me around the forum, and it looked as though he was attempting to initiate confrontation with me in every thread that I would post.
And I mean, the last example of it was some bullcrap I posted about my Nexus player.
And then he said something about me.
Oh, my kid's freaking out.
What's wrong, Jeff?
And then he said something about me being addicted to Arab poon or something like that.
Well, I don't find that comment in itself.
What's wrong, baby?
What's wrong?
While I don't find that comment in itself to be something terrible, I just felt like in the overall spirit of things, he was just following me around the forum trying to give me a hard time.
And again, as I say, I have to read all the bullcrap people post.
And eventually I just get sick of something and I say enough of it.
I mean, if you think of it from my perspective, if you're in an administrative position, you own it, and by some extension, you're somewhat responsible for the things that people say on there, and someone's giving you a hard time, and you have a button you can push and say, hey, I can make this problem go away.
You're not going to do that?
I think most people would.
And, you know, I have my limits.
I get sick of things just as much as anybody else.
And I mean, I try to be fair.
I'm sure in some cases I haven't been because I'm not infallible, but I do my best.
Well, you do know that there is an ignore feature on the website.
Well, I mean, and I've thought about that, but I can't use that.
I have to see what sort of things are being said on a website that I own, on a hosting account that's in my name, on a domain name that is owned by me.
You know, I have to see what people are saying.
So I would love to be a regular user, and I would love to just be able to say the things I really want to say to people sometimes, but don't get to because everything I do say will be seen through that prism of he's the administrator.
I can't count the number of times I've been in like a political argument with somebody, and they'll roll that card out.
Oh, well, I guess the administrator says that Democrats suck, so everyone better believe that.
Or whatever.
I can't count the number of times.
It's like, no, I am not doing that.
I'm just talking to you like a person.
Stop seeing me that way.
But sometimes it's an impossibility.
People look at me through that prism of, oh, the administrator of the website has spoken.
Well, can I ask?
Because it is so.
You had this great unbanning of last year, which was like the Mariel boat lift of 1980.
So you had, or basically like the containment unit and Ghostbusters being shot off.
So you had all of these banned users coming back.
Could you see that happening again?
I mean, you brought White Crow back twice because he donated.
Bart L, could he come back?
Could anybody else who's been banned come back, who wasn't a complete lunatic, but may have just been rubbing people the wrong way on, you know, some particular day?
Well, I mean, hey, if there were some big consensus that says, hey, please let White Crow back in, or hey, please let Bartell back in.
I'm not a Nazi.
I mean, okay, if I made a mistake, I'll concede that.
So you just recently brought Jackstar back.
Yeah, it was a little bit saucy.
I was a little bit soused, and he called in to the show, and he was nice.
And I thought, you know what?
Things are celebratory this evening.
Let's go ahead and click the unbanned button, shall we, ladies and gents?
And that's what I did.
And this worked out pretty good.
I thought it was going to be hell from the start.
Yeah.
He's still minding his P's and Q's pretty well, as a matter of fact.
He's been pretty rational, I mean, and normal.
Jackstar, if you're listening, I mean, I might know.
I mean, we could possibly meet at a McDonald's somewhere with your recent behavior.
I don't know.
Maybe when the McRib is back.
I mean, who wouldn't want to share a McRib with somebody?
no that's only back in the fall date now what kind of a fat what kind of a fat shit am i that i know the mcribbs is back in the fall who How many more days?
Oh, man.
Wow.
I have a weight problem, ladies and gentlemen.
How does this phone sound, by the way?
I'm calling you from a landline phone plugged into an OB 100 box that you pay $40 for this little thing, and then you connect it for free to your Google Voice account, and you'll have permanent free calls to the U.S. and Canada.
And you have an inbound phone number as well, all three.
How's it sound?
It sounds fine to me.
Yeah, the volume's good.
That's wonderful.
Sounds like a regular phone landline.
Yeah.
Well, that's as close as you can get.
Okay, well, thank you for MV's Corner this evening.
That's EMM V. Oh, no.
We're talking to E-M-M-V-E-E right now.
We're not talking to anyone.
Well, I did refer to myself as something of a poof a moment ago.
Oh, my gosh.
I should have gave it away.
Oh, boy.
Wow.
Okay, well, you guys sound roughly.
That whole conversation doesn't really mean anything now.
Redacted, you nervous?
You got butterflies?
Yes, a little.
Did you tell everyone the advice I gave you just before you speak every time?
A couple of people, yeah, yeah.
I don't know if I'm going to use that.
Was that to imagine the whole audience naked?
No.
No, no, nothing quite as elegant as that.
It was like only one or two sentences at a time and like know your place, one of those things.
You thought my advice was inelegant?
It was just to whisper to myself quietly before I say anything.
Just don't fuck this up.
Yeah, I told her like anytime she's getting ready to speak into the microphone during our show, just to whisper slightly into the microphone.
Don't fuck this up.
So anyway, Art, yeah, the thing I was going to say was.
I usually do that before being intimate with someone.
Do you really?
Does it work for you?
That's the question.
Saifa, so good.
Yeah, I'd say you're following your own advice there, you breeder.
Got three teeth.
He's got a couple teeth.
It's worked at least three times.
He has connected.
I don't think it's going to translate to radio very well.
So we'll just keep that part of the internal dialogue.
No, the nerves are starting to ease a little bit now.
I think it'll be okay.
We'll see.
I really don't want to make any declarations or whatever.
We'll see what happens when it happens, and then everybody can tear me up after that.
Well, I want to officially state anyone who says anything negative about Redacted during her appearances on Art Bell's Midnight in the Desert will have their bug app account upgraded.
You'll have additional features and privileges on the forum.
You'll be able to browse boards that no one else can see.
Log in at different times.
No, I'm just joking.
I never got upgraded anywhere.
You're not able to use vowels now?
I'm going to have to go back and look.
I thought you got to.
I think you'll see a vowel or two.
Thank you for calling, Mr. Van Deeven.
Okay, ladies and gentlemen, you sound lovely.
Have a good night.
Bye-bye.
Take it easy, man.
That smile.
I got a smile in the chat wanted us to address the TIFF.
That's not going to happen.
Not going to happen.
Address the what?
Nothing.
We're going to talk about, you know, this is everything I had to talk about.
I had a whole sheet of things.
And I think we hit on everything.
Unless you guys have something else that you want to get to.
I had exactly two things on my sheet.
And they all involve naked pictures.
So we've covered that.
Okay.
I'm being told now in the chat that I'm encouraging the stalkers now.
Okay, so we'll just, I'm not going to say anything.
I have to say, and maybe this, I guess, was an oversight on your part.
You made a mistake at one point because now I'm hiccuping.
You made a mistake in allowing your email to be shown on your profile.
So remember when you had that nutcase emailing you?
Yeah, I did go in and fix that.
Yeah.
Yeah, and that was a mistake on my part.
No, it wasn't.
Listen, I got to step away for two seconds.
I will be right back.
What's that?
You can, your email was visible.
Yes, if you go into your profile settings on Bell Gab, there is a certain selection that will allow your email address to be viewed.
The actual email address.
And then you can click on that and send an email to someone's private email address.
They can't see your email address, can they?
Actually, to know what it is.
I'd have to go in here and look.
Account settings.
There's your email address.
Allow users to email me.
So, no, I don't think they can see your actual email address, but they can send you messages to your personal email address.
So I had to go in there and make sure that was taken care of.
Was that before the announcement?
Way before.
This was just a good old-fashioned forum brawl with a particular user.
I don't remember his name.
That's what big of an impression he made on me.
But he wanted to argue.
You seem to be getting into fights with a lot of people, Redact.
And I wonder if the common denominator is actually you.
It could be.
I know.
I'm just a raging individual with my opinions, just slapping everybody around with my opinions all the time.
It's kind of how I live my daily life.
No.
I have to be polite all day at my job, listeners.
And this particular poster was just going to town on women in general and how women need to be in the kitchen and women need to know their place and make babies.
And I took issue with that and decided, you know what, I'm just going to fight with this guy for fun, just for the fun of it, and just wipe the floor with him.
So I did.
And then he didn't take very well.
What was wrong with what that poster said?
He was just mean against women.
That's all.
Jazz, you son of a bitch.
What are you trying to start here, Jazz?
Are you trying to go in for a white crow now?
Yeah.
This is why I'd crow.
Is it really?
No, I can't take that voice.
I'm not manly enough.
I don't know, but I'm sure you guys know if you have to be polite all day at your job and then you get a chance to go into.
I mean, who hasn't gone into a bar and punched somebody?
That's kind of what it felt like for fun.
You guys are still here?
We are.
Did you just leave us hanging?
Oh, they'll fit our time.
I was thinking about doing one of those Irish goodbyes, you know.
Well, this is the longest gab cast in history.
What are you doing to us, Bateman?
I don't know.
I don't know how it's lasted this long.
According to Skype, it's two and a half hours.
Wow.
You said an hour.
Yes.
You lied.
I've got that was his name.
G. Nori Blows.
That was his name.
Thank you, Lone Boy.
Ah, that guy.
Yeah.
He didn't like me either.
Didn't you say he had a low testosterone issue?
Yes, he did.
Yeah.
And people were trying to help him out with that.
I remember.
Zinc.
I don't know.
It was probably.
Ask George.
I mean, George knows all about supplements.
He does.
He could probably help him out with that.
I thought Jazz could probably help him out with that.
What, what now?
The testosterone issue.
Thought you were helping Gene Ori Blows out with that.
Weren't you?
No.
No, you weren't.
No.
I sense you're trying to back away from this topic and conversation.
I'm not comfortable with testosterone.
Oh, Lord.
So anyhow, yeah, there's a lot of fun and a lot of interesting users at Bell Gab, and I encourage everyone to have a good brawl now and then.
Can we just all be friends?
This is the internet, fella.
I heard it's serious business, the internet.
You're not allowed to joke on the internet.
Well, I don't know about you guys, but I've got nothing else for you.
If anybody else wants to give us a call, last minute calls, just 623-242-CAST, 623-242-2278.
Bateman made you lose track of time.
Yeah, all right.
It's the epic Gabcast tonight.
We're doing a marathon broadcast tonight for no reason at all other than it's Sunday night.
Exactly.
You know, well, part of the reason was I recorded a show on Friday night, my own show, and this particular guest is going to be on with Brian Alvarez tonight.
I think he might be on right now, actually.
And he was on with George Knapp a week or two ago.
So I was like, you know what?
There might be a little too much overexposure there.
And maybe I will not put this one out, at least not right now.
So I figured, you know what?
Why don't I come on here and screw around and we'll see if people are mildly amused.
And I hope that turned out to be the case.
And I appreciate you guys coming on, too.
No problem, man.
It was a good show.
I think mildly amused was accomplished.
Victory was had this evening.
And if you guys want to come on on the 19th, that is going to be as long as Art is still doing that open lines show on July the 19th, there will be a big, big pre-show before that.
And I think we'll probably start that around the same time.
Actually, no, even earlier.
I was planning on starting that at like 8 o'clock, 8 o'clock Eastern, and then we'd go up until midnight.
And I assume we'll all be plastered by that time.
That's a Sunday night?
It is.
Listen, there's a lot of people who are going to be taking the day off work, actually, for that.
Oh, Lord.
Everybody's going to get hammered.
This sounds like a quality production already.
Welcome to the Gabcast, everybody.
Drink up, it's going, everybody.
I love you guys.
Call the show.
The only thing I would feel bad about is if people are listening to the pre-show and then they call art drunk.
I don't want people calling art drunk.
Be nice.
No.
Respectful.
Could be interesting, though.
You know, there's been a few drunkards get through to art, as I can recall.
I'm sure it wouldn't be the first time.
No, and I'm sure he'd be able to handle them.
And I think Popple might come on, too.
And I hope we get more people calling who've never called before.
Roswell's Art is one.
Lone Voice is one.
Who else is there?
Thank you to Star Met for calling.
Yeah, Cat Smile.
Even WR250, you've got to call in, dude.
Yeah, we've never heard from him.
Lone Voice.
Never heard from her, I don't think.
She's one of my favorite posters, too.
Yes, her and Roswell's art, they post fucking funny stuff.
Popple, too.
Did you see earlier in the day the golden retriever page?
Yes.
No, Richard.
No.
All right.
That was great.
I think that'll do it for us tonight.
Yeah, that was a good time.
I wish we would have had more callers.
I know, right?
That's hot and cold, man.
Sometimes we get tons of calls like last week, and sometimes not so much, you know?
Well, it's always a good time.
I think we cleared up a bunch of things.
I'm satisfied.
Is anybody else enjoying the outro music as much as I am?
I can't hear it.
I can just hear it.
It sounds like it's just in the background.
It's not like a direct signal.
Can you hear that now?
There we go.
Getting better.
All right.
This has been the Gabcast.
Thank you for listening for the last two hours and 40 minutes.
Jesus.
And I think that'll do it.
Good night.
Good job, Aven.
Thanks, Baben.
Good night, everybody.
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