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June 30, 2015 - GabCast Bellgab.com
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30 June, 2015

30 June, 2015 ---------- The GabCast brings you Eddie Dean, Jazmunda, Redacted, and special guest host Chefist. Art Bell drops the Richard C Hoagland bomb, Noory is pulling shenanigans, BellGab gets together to form a grass-roots advertising campaign for Midnight In The Desert - codename: The Blitz.

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This is the Gabcast, a podcast about BellGab.com.
Call the show now at 623-242-CAST.
That's 623-242-2278.
Now, shut up, sit down and listen to the damn show.
Too many buttons.
I have too many buttons to push.
Welcome to the show, everybody.
This is the GabCast, podcast about BellGab.com, amongst other things.
It seems to be all about Art Bell these days.
But I'm Andy Dean.
Welcome to the show.
We've got Redacted.
We've got Jasmunda and a very special guest.
Can anybody guess?
No, no.
Casey Hoagland?
No, well, we can't go over the top like that because then people will be disappointed.
We have Chefist joining us tonight.
What's up, buddy?
Good evening.
It's great to be on the show, especially all these years after having started Bell Gab with MV.
So, you know, just don't call me Chunga by the end of the show.
Well, I can't promise anything, sir.
No problem, Jimmy.
If you guys would like to be part of the show tonight.
Wait a second.
You just called him Chunga.
I think that's what just happened.
Yeah, I think so.
I think a Chunga has been called in our presence.
If you guys want to be part of the show tonight, you can dial 623-242-2278.
Again, that's 623-242-CAST.
Oh, Jasmunda, you're right.
Yeah, I need to turn the music up for you guys.
You guys couldn't hear the intro music at all, could you?
No, we need to start over.
The show sounded very naked.
It doesn't feel right.
This doesn't feel right at all.
Well, it did happen, and I believe the audience heard it.
So screw you guys.
We're going forward anyway.
So is there anything to talk about tonight?
I don't know.
Has anything happened today or recently?
Not that I can recall.
No, I'm stumped.
I don't know what we can talk about tonight.
Maybe it's 20 days until Midnight in the Desert starts.
The countdown is getting really, really heated.
I mean, it's getting close.
20 days.
Did you guys ever think we'd be 20 days away from the new show?
I mean, it seems like it's been forever.
It has kind of snuck up on us, hasn't it?
I mean, it just seems like just yesterday that we were just bitching about art quitting dark matter, and we have to wait for a year and a half or almost two years for him to come back on the air.
They were fun dates, weren't they?
They really were.
I enjoyed all the speculation, all the back and forth.
I think he's going to come back.
He's never going to come back.
Well, maybe he might come back.
I don't even care if he ever does come back.
I'm tired of the drama.
Just all of it was really funny.
I think I felt every one of those emotions.
Did you?
We went through the window.
Yeah, I was all over the.
He's not coming back.
He is coming back.
He's not coming back if he doesn't have the music.
I guess I'm not a seer, and I will not be making a prediction come this prediction show coming up.
No, not going to call on the Steve to tell us what's going to happen.
The farthest south I ever went was, the comeback is iffy because I'm sorry to be better than all of you, but I always knew that this would happen.
How dare you?
I'm offended.
I'm very offended.
Yes, I stand here at least a foot above the rest of you.
No, I'm kidding.
But yeah, it sure has been a fun road to now.
It has.
Go ahead, Chefist.
Now I'm a new co-host, so I just do Ed McMahon.
You're correct, sir.
That'll work too.
Very good, sir.
We have the soundboard working tonight.
So, Chefist, you just joined Bellgab recently, right?
In the last maybe six weeks or so?
That's correct.
Actually, I'd been following it for a while, and I was trying to join.
And so I kept submitting all the information to join, and it would say, oh, your application's being reviewed.
And then I got rejected.
So I had to, I actually sent an email to the administrator.
I had no idea who that was.
And then I finally got on.
But I've been monitoring it for a while and been an Art Bell fan for many, many, many years.
But this is just, yeah, it's a great platform.
Very, very funny people on there if you have the right frequency for your sense of humor.
So you had to submit an application to get on Bellgab.
When did that start?
I mean, when I signed up a couple of years ago, it was just give us your name and type in a password.
You're on.
You can post.
Go ahead.
It's fine.
Well, that was when Envy was desperate.
But yeah, why did your application get rejected?
Do you have any idea?
I'm curious about that.
No, it actually went through.
It says it's under review, under review.
And I kept, I'm like, under review?
Wow, this is an exclusive site.
And actually, because it didn't allow me in, you know, it piqued my interest and made me send that email to the administrator, which I guess was, you know, someone.
I don't know who.
And then I finally got my account.
And then that is it.
Yeah.
Did you have to give like your bank account information and a photocopy of your driver's license and proof of United States citizenship and all that?
Well, I mean, yeah, I was a little interesting because you watch The Matrix, you got to take the red or blue pill, right?
I was offered a suppository, but I passed and I was accepted anyway.
I can never remember which one, what the red pill did and what the blue pill did.
I mean, did Neo take the blue one or did he take the red one?
I think he took the red pill.
Yes, the red one.
Yeah, isn't the blue pill Viagra?
Yes.
How do you know that, Eddie?
Well, because I guess.
I don't know.
I read it somewhere.
But so if he would have taken the blue pill, then it would have just turned into a porn after that.
No, I believe if he would have taken a question.
I believe if he would have taken the blue pill, then he would have been blissfully unaware listening to George Norrie for the rest of his life.
Yes, that's what happens.
All things lead back to Nori.
Unfortunately.
So the news.
There's news, right?
The big announcement today?
Yes, and it was a big one.
It was a big one.
And Art was right.
There is plenty to talk about with this.
So who would like to have the honor of announcing this?
Not like everybody in the chat room already knows.
So, okay, so the announcement is the host of The Other Side of Midnight, which is going to be, I guess, a companion show or an after-show.
Well, is it an after-show or is it a separate show on its own?
Well, I mean, it's, isn't it, I'm not sure when it airs.
I would guess it is.
Directly after, the question is, is it a show talking about Arts Show that just aired, or is it its own show with its own guests and own content and its own topics?
Okay, so I misspoke when I said companion show.
I guess I meant it's a second show on the stream on Arts Dark Matter Digital Network.
Correct?
So it's it's just going to be we don't really know what the show is going to be about yet, but the host is none other than Richard C. Hoagland.
Thoughts?
I think it's great.
You know what?
I might not agree with Richard C. Hoagland, but when I was blissfully ignorant of his scientific methods, I thought his shows were great.
I still think they're great.
You know, I take them with a grain of salt now, but I think he's an interesting guy.
He's entertaining.
He sure can talk a lot.
And I think he'll be great for the show.
Well, he sure is passionate about everything that he researches.
I found this great picture of him somewhere on my internet travels here recently of him sitting at his desk and the office was just a mess all around him.
His hair was perfect.
And he's just got this huge grin on his face while he's probably looking at pictures of Mars or something, but just having a great time there in this huge mess of everything he's researching.
And, you know, that was a picture of a happy guy right there.
He may not all be 100% right all the time, but he is entertaining.
Well, the one that's going to be.
He's very well read and he speaks very, very well.
And Art often said on his show, he would get some people that were very, very intelligent, but they were a bad interview.
And then sometimes he would get people that talk too much.
So to find someone in between like Richard is kind of difficult to find.
I'd have to agree with that.
And he does have wonderful hair.
He does.
His hair is just spectacular.
Pate in the chat room says his hair was perfect.
Is he a werewolf?
He might be.
He has some gray streaks in there.
So I just want to know what type of show he's going to do.
Is it going to be the Richard C. Hoagland Mars face on Mars hour?
Or is he going to venture into other topics and other paranormal topics?
Because, yeah, that'd be interesting to know.
Because I know I've heard him say that he's never been into UFOs or anything like that.
He was strictly sort of Mars and the science of it.
So is his show just going to be a science show or is he going to be a paranormal show?
I think that's the $6 million question.
Well, he's very interested, you know, just in our solar system and space in general.
I would think maybe it would be that would be the topic because he can talk about Mars and space for 10, 12 hours straight.
I don't know, maybe 24.
He can talk about that on and on and on.
And I could see him easily filling up a week of just talking about different things about space.
His first show is going to be the Pluto special on July 13th, 14th overnight from midnight to 6 a.m. Pacific.
So I would imagine that a lot of his shows would be along those lines.
So can somebody bring up the post, Arts Facebook post that announced this whole thing?
Because there's other intrigue there, too, that involves Premier Coast to Coast and George Norrie.
Yeah, I've got it right here.
And just before we go into that, I also wanted to know whether Richard will appear on Arts Show anymore or if that's it.
I mean, you would think if he's got a show after art, then that sort of precludes him from ever appearing on Art's show ever again.
So do we know it's going to be five days a week?
Yes.
So if it's five days a week, you know what?
He'll appear with art.
He loves art.
It's just a segment here and there, yeah.
He'll probably be on for an entire show, you know.
I don't know.
I don't think that he would, he would stop being on art show just because of that.
I mean, he strikes me as a heavy worker, maybe even a workaholic.
And that's just my impression.
But yeah, I'm sure he'll be on with art.
I don't see any problem with that.
It'll be a long day for him, but shit, why not?
I mean, hasn't he wanted to have his own radio show for quite a while now?
Well, that was my first thought was that he is going to have such a good time with this whole thing.
I couldn't imagine a person who would be more grateful and happy and passionate about having that show.
I think the first hour of his show should be a wrap-up of what Art just did.
But that's just me.
We really don't know.
Nobody's seen a description of what the other side of midnight's going to be.
We really didn't even know.
Yeah, we didn't know what it was at all until the first peek behind the curtain tonight or this afternoon.
Now, did Art post that description or that letter on Bellgab as well, or was that just strictly Facebook?
That was Facebook, and Bateman was kind enough to snip it and post it on Bellgab for us.
Well, I have to say, I'm a little insulted that he didn't post something on Bellgab as well.
Well, me too, you know.
I thought we were his buddies.
I know.
I thought we were the Art Bell fan forum, but Facebook is obviously more important than us.
We're one of two Art Bell fan forums, apparently.
But we can get into that a little bit later.
I have a couple comments about that.
I find this here so interesting.
So George said he wasn't going to pull any games.
And here we have him telling Hoagland that, oh, no, you can't do the show on the day that you want on the event that's never, ever going to be repeated again in our lifetime.
I need to stop you there because I think we need to set that up.
Okay.
Why did Richard Hoagland have the promise of a show in the first place on Coast to Coast?
He won a bet with George Norrie.
Okay, and that bet was almost, what, two years ago?
Oh, it seems like it was quite a while ago.
I can't recall what the bet was over.
Was it, do you guys recall what they bet on?
Because George obviously lost because Richard C., the payoff of the bet was that Richard would get to host an entire show sometime on a date of his choosing, I suppose.
Yes.
Yeah.
On a date he gets to pick.
I don't remember what the bet was about.
I honestly don't.
There's been Dark Matter and Midnight in the Desert since then.
Has it been that long?
It has.
It's been that long since that bet took place.
And so he's kind of, George has kind of dangled this in front of Hoagland like a carrot thing.
You know, you're going to get to do a show someday, someday.
And then finally, Richard saves it.
You know, he's going to save that one show he gets to host for a really good day.
And here comes the New Horizon spacecraft. launched a decade ago is going to be passing by Pluto and it's going to get a close-up of Pluto and its moons and then it'll be gone.
It's never going to happen again.
So smart guy, Hoagland is.
He decides that's going to be his day or night rather that he hosts coast to coast.
Yeah, because that's huge breaking news.
I mean, they can follow the craft.
They can announce the, you know, when the craft is there.
They can throw up pictures on the website.
Yeah, that's a pretty huge night for somebody who's, you know, into space and the solar system and planets and all that.
As much as Hoagland is, I mean, he picked a really good night.
So here we are in Art's Facebook post.
Can't really say it better than he did.
So the first reaction of the Coast producers was to say, we can only give you three hours.
Really silly since the event will extend through the night.
Next, Richard tells me he gets a call from a Coast producer saying George cannot do it that night for some unknown reason.
But Richard can be on that night but not talk about the new horizon going past Pluto, even as it happens.
Instead, they say, no, Richard, you can move your big show with your big news to July 20th, long after it's happened.
And Art says kind of like D-Day after the invasion.
Why pretty tell would they move it to the 20th of July?
I don't know of anything.
I can't think of.
Is there something else happening that night?
I don't know, guys.
That date sticks my mind, but I'm not sure exactly why.
I don't know, Chefist.
What do you think?
Dave got churched.
He got churched.
Yep.
So he was dishing it out just not too long ago, a couple of years, or what, a year ago or so.
And now it's all coming back.
And so, yep, that's karma, Kismet, synchronicity.
He's tasting it now.
I wonder if they are freaked out, if they were scrambling over there at Premiere Radio Networks about this announcement.
You know, they had to have known that there was maybe some connection.
There might be something like this happening when Art announced there's going to be a second show on his network.
Because why else would they offer the 20th to Richard if they didn't know, if they didn't maybe have an inkling that he might be doing his own show?
Well, that's a good question.
All I can say is I knew that I didn't know what games would be played, but I knew something, some kind of shenanigans would go down, and here we are.
You know, why, number one, it's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
Why would you do a show about an event that's only going to happen once?
Why would you do it a week later when there's no more excitement?
It's not really happening.
What are you going to do?
Oh, yeah, the spacecraft went past Pluto.
Let's look at some pictures of that when it occurred last week.
Right.
And I don't even think that's, I don't know a lot about science scrutiny or, you know, analyzing the data from space probes and things like that.
But it certainly takes more than just a couple days to analyze the data.
So it's probably six months to a year before they know exactly everything that's going on there by analyzing the data and the pictures and all the different filters that they put on the whatever doohickey mabobs that they use to look at different light different light in the on Pluto and all that stuff.
Well, it is going to take a few months to find the glass domes and the communities that live on Pluto, probably.
But if anyone can find them, it will be Hoagland.
Did I just say doohickeys?
You did.
You said that on the air.
I'm such a smart fellow.
Aren't I delightful tonight?
All right.
So is that the end of the letter there or the post from Facebook from Art?
No, no, no.
There is more.
There's more.
So I just love this.
I'm eating this right up.
I think this is great.
I just got to read this.
Art says, I keep wondering what's so special about July 20th.
Now I know.
It's the date Richard starts his new show on the Dark Matter Digital Network called The Other Side of Midnight.
Oh, wait.
It's my first midnight in the desert as well.
Just another big coincidence.
I think that's just got to be what it is.
It's another big coincidence.
As a big bonus, please listen to the live Pluto special on July 13th and 14th, also on Dark Matter Digital Network.
It's going to go from midnight to 6 a.m.
I already said this, but it's worth repeating that Art got Hoagland exactly what he wanted and his own show right after Midnight in the Desert.
We don't know what it's all going to be about, but this is great.
This is just good stuff.
Yeah.
Sometimes karma takes a big bite out of your butt.
And I got to agree.
Got to agree with that.
Now, I guess Hoagland's not going to be on coast to coast anymore, is he?
Or probably won't be allowed.
Oh, that's pretty much a given, I would say.
George did tell him to shut his trap and go pout, but don't bring it up anymore.
So I guess he won't be.
On Belgium, they said Woder1, W-O-T-R-1, said the numbers lady will be the new science advisor.
Oh, God.
I don't know what it is about the numbers lady, but I cannot stand that lady.
It's just, I can't.
I think I listened to maybe one or two shows when she was there.
And the banter between her and George, it just makes me ill.
It makes me ill.
Are you trying to sort of creep that you don't have a number eight in your wallet?
Is that what you're saying?
I have a number eight in my wallet.
Of course I do.
Who doesn't?
But it never works.
It sort of reminded me of creepy flirting between the two of them.
Yes, exactly.
I always just felt like I needed a shower after listening to them.
And there's a weird, creepy undercurrent vibe going on.
I don't know.
So, guys, I had to split for about 10 minutes.
How did you realize?
Jazz, we were carrying on just fine without you, sir.
Go ahead.
I was when I had to actually leave my house and go to the office and drop off a key, but I was sort of listening to you guys a little bit.
Did you talk about the show that George and Richard did last week and the sort of back and forth that they had?
Yeah, a little bit, a little bit.
I did mention that George told Hoagland to not bring it up anymore, go pout somewhere, but don't bring it up.
So what do you think they were actually talking about when they were doing that?
Do you think Richard C was trying to call their bluff and sort of try and allow him to do the show on that day?
And that's why George was sort of shutting him down.
Well, I thought that Hoagland was asking, excuse me, just to add another hour onto the show so it would be a five-hour night so that he would have, what, three or four hours total on the air.
And that's when George just bad doggy to Hoagland, told him to shut his trap.
I think basically.
But do you really think that shutting his trap was about the extra hours?
Or was it, do you think there was something else behind it?
Perhaps the extra.
Oh, there was a which date it was going to be on, or even George didn't want him announcing on Coast to Coast that he's going to be on art show or something like that.
Maybe that's why he shut him down.
Because think of the advertising for art that would be if Richard announced on Coast to Coast AM that he was going to be doing a show.
Art just said in the chat room that he says, I do not think I started the drama.
No, I think there was something that George knew and didn't want that conversation to go any further.
But as I understood it, the only thing Hoagland brought up was, can we just add a little more time onto the show to cover more of the event?
And George, I have never heard George Norrie have such an authentic emotion as when he told Hoagland that he was a bad doggy and needed to go pout in the corner.
That's the most real I've ever heard George Norrie's tone of voice.
So he knew something.
We may never know what it was.
You know, the way I read it, it sounded like George was just frustrated because you know how Richard just can kind of dig and dig and dig and just keep talking and keep talking until he gets what he wants.
I think it was Richard wanted to take over the entire show, maybe even add a couple extra hours, and George would not allow it.
Maybe there was some inside information, but I don't think it had anything to do with Hoagland's show.
I don't think that they probably didn't know about it.
I don't know why Richard would go over and tell Premiere or George that he's going to be doing a new show.
Because that would ruin his chance of being on the air even for an hour on Premiere on the 14th.
Why would George get so angry at Richard?
He would just say, Richard, it can't be more than four hours.
The show's four hours and that's it.
He doesn't need to get so angry.
It was like he was like, Richard, shut the F up.
I don't want you spilling beans on something.
That's what it was like.
That's exactly what I was saying.
I think he's feeling the pressure, the pressure of art coming back.
I think there seems to be a wave of enthusiasm for art coming back.
And I just don't think they have a very good plan.
And especially now with what it appears to be a concentrated effort that is being guarded until the last minute.
And he's just on edge.
That's the thing.
It's showing so clear.
You know, he may want to be hiding it and playing cool, nori, but his nervousness definitely shows.
And it's hilarious.
I just think he was frustrated with Richard.
I mean, that type of personality must be frustrating to deal with, especially when Richard gets something in his head.
Well, why don't you just talk to the guys upstairs and maybe we can do five hours?
But I'm sure there's affiliates.
Oh, my stream machine just went down.
Hold on a second here.
Talk to amongst yourselves.
Hi.
I think it's really.
Hi, he's beat up.
Hey, beat up.
It is beat up.
Yeah, we're off the air, but please continue like we are.
Well, let's not say anything important.
Let's not do any over-analyzing of this segment of the show.
Exactly.
Let's not entertain everybody.
Hey, B-W.
going on man well i get the not shit apparently well i get the pc up i don't know why the hell it did that It just drops off.
Damn it, Eddie.
Why is it you always have trouble getting it up?
I know.
Damn it.
That's what she said.
This is a professional operation here.
It's got to be the heat in here.
And I even have a fan running on the bottom of this laptop just in case it overheats.
But the fucker did, we can say that now that we're off the air.
The fucker done overheat.
And you didn't check your coolant.
You know you're supposed to top that off before you get on the road, don't you?
That damn Windows 3.1.
The wiper, the wiper fluid.
I'm all flustered.
I can't talk.
Can somebody type in the chat room that we will be up here in a second?
Yeah, I did already.
Oh, look at you.
You're right on the show.
Damn, Gabcast.
Chat room members.
Y'all may notice that shit ain't working right now.
But indirectly, we'll have everything turned back the way it was and working just fine.
How are you doing it here anyway, man?
I thought you got fired.
That fell off a turnip truck.
All right.
So the turnip truck comment was on the air live.
We're back, everybody.
Yay.
It will take 15 seconds or so for the stream to get to the people in the chat room.
All the listeners overloaded the server.
I'm very curious, speaking of listeners, what our listeners have to say about the announcement.
Do call in with your thoughts.
Indeed, now that we are back on the air, the number is 623-242-2278.
Again, that's 623-242-CAST.
You can also type in Skype the dot gabcast if you'd like to get to us that way.
Get to us that way.
If you'd like to talk to us that way, I suppose.
Yeah, I'm all flustered.
I don't know what to say here.
So what were we talking about before we just went off the air again?
Jeez, this is not good.
We were talking about digital.
Are we serious?
We're offline again.
Yes.
Someone said I suck.
I've officially made it.
Yeah, someone said, yeah, Falky said, I'm an annoying sack of shit.
Awesome.
James got booted off.
It's probably not Falky.
Okay.
Okay, so we're going to try this again, ladies and gentlemen, in the chat room.
And people who are downloading this podcast will have quite a treat to listen to, by the way, because I think I'm not going to edit any of this out.
Maybe I will.
I don't know.
Could be quite a treat.
Let's all send good vibes to my laptop to make sure that it does not power itself down again.
I have a box fan.
I have a box fan pointed at the base of it now.
That's the problem.
And I just brought the FPC down.
I hope you the box fan's the problem.
It's channeling Falke's negative energy at your computer causing it to malfunction.
I don't know what the hell's going on, but I apologize.
The box fan is Falkey's hate machine.
So, where did we leave off?
So we were analyzing which George's reaction.
And did he have any inside information?
And was that why he got so heated when Hoagland was asking for an extra hour?
I think George was just frustrated with Hoagland.
That's all.
And maybe there were some affiliate concerns if Hoagland wanted to go for more than five hours or more than four hours.
I think that's not something you would get so angry and worked up about.
That's something he would talk to Richard off the air about.
Well, yeah, but he tried to do that, but Richard just kept going.
Richard just kept rolling with it.
He just said, well, why don't I do this?
And then I'll do this.
And then I'll do this.
And then we'll do this.
And at that point, I'll run your show and you can retire.
And it'll be my show.
And then, you know, that's why Nori got agitated.
He was really kind of worming his way into that.
It sure sounded like it to me.
That was not a worming.
That was more of a braced on the radio.
It was like borderline shakedown.
Give me your show, damn it.
Well, are we functional now or what?
It looks like everything is fine.
Isn't that wonderful?
I believe everything is fine.
Everybody is.
What a wonderful time we live in.
Golly gee.
It really brought the show to a screeching halt, didn't it?
Yeah.
Yeah, it really did.
But, anyways, I would like we have a caller on the line, B-dub.
Good to have you here.
Good to be here.
I would like other listeners to call in and give us your thoughts about this announcement.
Yeah, in other words, someone other than B-Dub.
Yeah.
I would say that.
I'm just saying you're welcome to give us more thoughts.
And anybody else who wants to call in and put your thoughts on the air about this announcement.
Well, I just want to say in closing that I am a time traveler.
And I'm looking forward to July 20th.
It's going to be a hoot.
It will be.
You didn't have any problems using PayPal, B-W?
I did not have any problems, PayPal.
I will say this, however.
A long time ago, I don't know, this is probably 15 years ago, I was part of a class action lawsuit against PayPal, and I got like $150 from them.
Wow.
There's a reason why people don't like PayPal's because they've had a bad experience with it in the past.
But since then, I've not really had an issue.
I've never had an issue with them either.
But I would suspect if something does happen, if you do have an issue with them, then you're not going to want to use them again.
So I understand the trepidation that some people have using PayPal.
But I mean, millions of transactions go through PayPal, and there doesn't seem to be any problems at all.
I believe that's their slogan.
It's a little long.
I don't know if that really fits on a letterhead very well.
At PayPal, generally, you'll have no problems.
We usually will not steal or freeze your account and steal all your money.
Usually, we will not jack up your stuff and leak your information all over the interweb.
That's my primary concern that I have with them is that I have my bank account information there and my credit card information there.
The credit card information is really not an issue because if that gets stolen, it just gets replaced and the old information gets turned off.
It's the checking account.
That is what could be a huge problem.
Yeah, they could drain your account pretty quickly before you do anything.
And in the old days, they would require a checking account to open PayPal and then they changed it a few years back.
Well, I think you could just have a credit card.
Well, I have my checking account information in there for some reason.
And I don't normally that's not something I share with anybody.
So I don't know.
Maybe that's changed.
But anyway, I signed up.
I'm a time traveler.
Saucy Rossi in the chat room has said that it sounds like you're cleaning a gun.
Is that what you're doing?
Are you cleaning firearms over there?
No comment.
It sounds like to me that you're sipping on a jumbo Coke and Ice from 7-Eleven.
I'm chewing on some Nicorette.
Oh.
That's what's going on.
I didn't realize you were a smoker.
Well, I quit for the longest time, and then I started back up this spring, and now I quit again, or am in the process of quitting.
But anyway, that's my life story.
I'll let you guys get back to it.
Thank you, Falki.
All right, brother.
You're welcome.
Thanks for the comment.
All right.
So it looks like we're stable.
It looks like we're on the air and everything is a go.
All right.
So where do we go next?
Well, we haven't had any other callers call in what they think about this.
I mean, the thread went crazy over this announcement, and no one's calling in to say what they think.
I'm pretty surprised by that.
And frankly, I'm a little bit hurt as well.
You disappoint me.
You disappoint me, UFOShip.com chat room.
I feel lonely.
Well, I guess the thing we can talk about then is the Blitz.
Do we have anything to say about the Blitz?
It's got to be said.
I can't say anything.
I can't say anything.
I'm sorry.
It's super top secret.
I can't say a thing.
The Blitz, that starts Saturday the 4th, right?
Saturday, the 4th of July.
Yes, that's the day that the light goes green on it.
And we have decided with Jasmunda's expert consultation that Monday the 6th and Tuesday Tuesday, the 7th of July are probably the days we want to hit hardest with all the promotional material we have.
And then I think we should also hit real hard on the 13th and the 14th of July.
And there was a thread started to get all our thoughts and ideas and strategies together.
If you know Morse code or binary, you're more than welcome to come into the Blitz thread or not.
Now we're being overloaded with calls, but we have somebody on the air.
Hello, you're on the air.
Yeah, I just heard I'm feeling lonely, so I decided to call in.
That worked.
Who do we have with us tonight?
It's Saucy Rossi.
What's up, everyone?
Saucy, you're another one with top secret plans, aren't you?
I don't know what you're talking about.
I don't know either.
I don't know.
The top secret plans of Saucy can neither be confirmed nor denied.
Very smart.
Working on some fun stuff.
And there's going to be a lot of stuff coming out in the next few weeks.
And I'm excited to see what everybody has.
I think it's going to be fantastic.
But I wanted to just talk about Richard real quick.
Sure.
Go ahead.
I think it was like two shows ago.
I called in and said that I just would like to hear Richard just ramble on about his breakfast cereal for an hour and just tell us about his day and stuff.
And I hope that this is what the show is going to be.
It's going to be just his general musings of like, I bought a box of cereal and it has, you know, 19.5 on it.
Just the wildest, craziest stuff.
Like, you know, I just want to see, I just want to hear all that.
And I'm super excited about this announcement, you know, irregardless of Dave and Cruz ridiculous attempt to sabotage it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think Art kind of shot Dave in the foot here.
And it's a really great thing to witness.
Saucy, what was your opinion about Richard C. Hoagland and George Norrie's interaction on the air a couple weeks ago where George was so angry with Richard and was telling him to be quiet and Richard just didn't want to?
Did you have an opinion about maybe why that is?
Yeah, my big guess would be that Richard was talking about hosting a show and Dave got upset and basically his whole reason for shutting them down was so he could tell him off air, there's no way you're not hosting a show.
You're always going to be a guest.
That was a joke.
You know, like he never intended to live up to that bet.
And don't you dare, you know, bring this up on air and act like you're actually going to host the show.
You know, I think that's exactly what happened.
I don't think he had ever any intention of ever letting Richard host a show.
I mean, I'd be shocked.
That's so greasy and slimy for him to conduct business that way.
The bet that they made was seven years ago.
Was it that long?
Two years ago.
It was seven years ago.
Do you remember what the bet was over?
I don't remember exactly.
Nobody does.
Yeah, exactly.
It's like, it's just in the ether.
It's just, it's a sort of weird thing that happened.
They made a bet, somebody lost, and now Richard's on top.
No.
But my point is that, you know, he had no intention of ever sticking to his word.
And when hasn't he ever shown in the past that he's a man of his word?
I mean, really.
Think about it.
Well, he's already broken it.
Didn't he, a few weeks on the Gabcast, promised that there'd be no dirty tactics?
Yes, he did.
No shenanigans.
No shenanigans.
And this seems like textbook shenanigans to me.
And I just actually put into Google, I was going to put in George Norrie, Richard C. Hoagland Bit.
And as I wrote in George Norrie, one of my recent searches must have been George Norrie Toupe.
And I don't recall searching for that, but that came up.
What?
Well, Richard definitely has the better hair of the two.
He wins the hair contest there, he absolutely does.
Richard should invite Dave to be his first guest.
Oh, ouch.
Yeah.
Like that would happen.
I don't think they would agree.
Hello, you're on the air?
This is White Crow.
White Crow?
Real White Crow.
Step forward, please.
No, this sounds authentic.
It is.
This is the White Crow, the real White Crow.
What's going on?
So back to Richard.
There are no coincidences.
Richard is the master.
He played both art and Dave to get what he wanted.
And what was that?
The after show.
I don't think he necessarily needed to play Art to get that to happen.
They're friends.
You're on the air?
Hello.
It's Bateman.
What's up?
What's up, man?
Hey, Bateman.
Thank you for posting that announcement.
Oh, what a wild day.
Go ahead, man.
Yeah, no, it's just going to be crazy to tune in to a couple different, but what will be very entertaining shows in the middle of the night.
Whereas you turn on the radio now at 3 o'clock in the morning, it's just, it's a dead zone.
There's just nothing.
Well, it's almost more depressing to turn the radio on than to just leave it off right now.
I know, right?
I know.
But how many times can you listen to the old Dreamland shows?
I mean, I've listened to every Dreamland show, I don't know how many times, dying for some new art bell, dying for the Richard Hoagland show.
It's going to be wild.
It's going to be very good times.
And hopefully the dark days of radio are long behind us.
So, Bateman, are you able to suspend disbelief when you're listening to Richard and just listen to it as a Dreamland show?
I can.
And I'll tell you why.
When I interviewed Hoagland last year, I talked to AstroGuy beforehand because I said, is there anything specific that I should know anywhere that you know he's going to go that I that I'm going to have to counter basically?
And he said, the problem with Hoagland is the fact that he is very knowledgeable about a lot of what he talks about.
So unless you are really well versed in the subject material, you don't really know where to poke the holes.
Right.
It's hard to argue with him if you don't know the material as well as he does.
And he filibusters pretty well, too.
Even if you do know what you're talking about, he can filibuster the shit out of somebody.
But I think that's what's going to make him a great host.
Well, that's my point, that given that I am not well-versed in all the subject material, most people are not that well-versed in the subject material.
I mean, Astro Guy and XPA are going to be pulling out their hair on a nightly basis listening to Artist.
Oh, well, yes.
I told Agent Orange to call in.
I wonder, you know what?
People that dislike a particular host are more likely probably to listen to that host on a regular basis.
Yeah, yeah.
Did you ever see the Howard Stern?
Yeah, that's what I'm alluding to.
Yeah, right.
People who don't like him, they listen for like an extra hour, basically.
And I'm not talking about the type of George Norrie disliking because that's just throw your radio out the window type of dislike.
Right, right.
Punch yourself with a Greek radio.
Yeah, but Hoagland, you could listen to him.
I could see very easily people that don't like him listening to everything that he has to say just so they can try and dissect what it is with the points that he's making and everything.
And that's just going to, I mean, all I can sense it.
This is just hours of fun waiting to happen.
He tells a good story.
Yes.
So my point is, as a listener, not being able to refute every single point that he makes, you just listen back and you enjoy the story.
He's entertaining.
I mean, there's a reason, you know, if a podcast goes up with Richard Hoagland, he's been around for, what, over 20 years now, making around on all these shows.
A long time.
And he's just so animated and full of life, and he's passionate and excited, and it never seems to fade.
His excitement just does not quit.
And I think that's what makes him a great listen.
And whether he's a guest or going to do his own thing, I almost want to take the day off of my top secret missions on July 14th so I can listen to this six-hour deal that Hoagland's going to do when the spacecraft goes past Pluto.
I mean, that's just.
I wish I could, but that's going on until 9 o'clock in the morning Eastern time.
So that's a little bit rough for me.
So wait, what time does that start, that broadcast?
I think it's 12 p.m. Pacific time until 6 a.m. Pacific time.
So that's 3 a.m. to 9 a.m. on the East Coast.
Wow.
So you might be able to catch the beginning of it, possibly, or the ending of it.
Yeah, if you're an early riser.
No.
Oh, God, no.
I'll be able to catch the first hour or two.
Yeah, that's some serious red-eye action right there.
I wonder if that's going to be available as a podcast.
I sure hope so.
I mean, is that going to be the official start of the new show?
It might be kind of a special kind of a thing, and then he won't start.
The inaugural special, yeah.
I don't know.
Yes.
Could use it.
The inaugural six-hour special.
Use it as like a test show as well.
Well, you think it would be available.
Apparently, the other side of Midnight has a subscription for $5.
So I'm sure anyone who takes out a subscription would probably have access to it.
If not, probably should.
We can probably listen to it live for free, but I'm sure Hoagland would do well the more people that subscribe.
Hint, hint, nudge, nudge.
Everybody.
Well, the subscriptions have gone up probably a thousand fold since this announcement.
I'm guessing.
Yeah, what did Art say that he did on the first day?
Like close to 600 on the first day.
So I imagine he's well into, you know, four figures, maybe five figures at this point.
But that was just for Art's show, though.
I mean, but there's another subscription for Richard C. Hoagland's show.
Art just said right now in the chat that it will be a podcast as well.
And I think he's referring to the six-hour Pluto show.
Good.
But you would think that there wouldn't be many people who are just subscribing to Richard's show.
No offense to Richard, but you would think that anyone who is subscribing to Richard's show would also be subscribing to us show.
I would say I like this Hoagland guy, but I'm not so sure about this Bell character.
He hasn't proven himself yet.
I'm not sure.
I mean, all the time.
I'll subscribe to his show.
Oh, yeah.
I'll be the first one.
Listen, listen, I got to run, guys.
The only reason I have to run is because I'm actually going out drinking with Aldous Burbank in like five minutes.
Yeah, you need to get that hippie on the phone.
What?
Just drinking?
Well, we're going to a rooftop bar, so, you know, who knows?
Nice, nice.
Well, like I said, you need to get that hippie on the phone.
You need to tell him to call the show, and we want to hear how much fun he's having over there.
If you guys are still on in like half hour, 45 minutes, rest assured we will be drunk dialing.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I want to see him on the 27th.
Make sure to take pictures.
All right.
All right.
I'll see you later, guys.
Thanks, man.
You're on a mission now, Bateman.
You are on the air.
Hello.
Oh, they dropped off.
You're on the air.
Hello.
Hey.
Neuropathy.
I recognize that voice crew.
Yes.
Hey, you left PayPal hanging in the air there.
Oh, when we dropped the stream?
No, no.
Yeah, well, there were some questions.
I got to drop.
Yeah.
There was an issue with having a bank account.
Okay.
Right.
You used to have to have your checking account tied to your PayPal account.
Is that still the case?
After you do $1,000 worth of credit card transactions, you're required to open a bank account with them.
What?
Really?
Why is that?
That seems ludicrous.
I've never heard that, and I've exceeded that.
It's UT.
You tie a checking account to them, but you can put $100 in some bank that has a free checking account, and you don't put that much money at risk in that regard.
And then you can still use your credit card to make the transactions.
I thought all you needed was, well, no, you need a bank account and an email address, and then you can have a PayPal account, right?
Am I completely stupid here?
No, that is correct.
But you can continue to do credit card transactions as long as you have that active bank account with the cash, you know, their checking account active.
Well, you can get a green dot card from anywhere, and that has a checking account tied to it, or at least it has a routing number and an account number and a name of a bank.
I don't know how legitimate it is, but you can use that to open up a PayPal account.
Like you say, maybe $100 on there, and away you go.
And I recommend a credit card as a second line of fraud protection.
And that's my first option when I do any transactions on PayPal.
I use my credit card.
And that way it minimizes any risk.
Pretty much any credit card will Honor the transactions, even up to like $50 if there's a problem.
But in all the years I've used credit cards, I've never paid a penny to any credit card company.
Did you have a problem subscribing?
Are you a time traveler?
I am a time traveler.
I'm going with art into the future.
We're not going back in time.
We're going into the future.
Oh, that brings up: did everyone get the email from Keith about if you donated on the donation website that everything's switching over to Midnight in the Desert Dark Matter Digital Network?
If you want to donate money, you donate it there.
I'm going to donate to M.
Yeah, I'm going to donate to MV.
I've paid my money to art, and now I'm going to – MV is the energy behind what's going on right now.
We wouldn't be here without MV.
So just think about it.
Word.
We wouldn't be here without art either.
Yeah, that's true, too.
On that note, I'm hanging up on you, sir.
You complimented MV, and we cannot have that on the gap cast.
How dare you, sir?
Hello, you're on the air.
Yeah, vote Quimby.
Quimby?
Vote Quimby, Mr. Hydroponic.
How are you doing tonight?
Is that the guy from the Simpsons?
The Mayor?
Damn, Stray.
You got to have your heroes together.
But the thing is, the thing you guys aren't appreciating, the epic trolling of Richard Hoagland that's about to go down.
But I will call this guy every night just to mess with him.
I cannot wait.
Well, I'm sure they'll find your fine number and make sure it's blocked.
Oh, I can see Hoagland matching you blow for blow, sir, and I would like to hear that.
I wonder if Richard's going to be doing unscreened open lines.
Oh, I hope so.
He can handle it, I'm sure.
Oh, he can.
The thing is, too, think about all the YouTube clips that are going to come.
Like, it's not going to be just me.
He's got 20 years worth of people who want to get this guy in the crosshairs.
It's going to be absolutely hilarious.
That's an interesting.
So, when you call, what would you prank him with?
I don't know.
It depends.
You know, I think I just want to get him going because the guy is such a maniac.
I'm trying not to swear, but the guy is such a maniac that I just want to get him going.
But you'll be listening.
Of course.
Why wouldn't I be?
You're one of the statistics that I was referring to before.
Our fellow read my book, man.
He's like patent.
What would be your first question for Richard?
Why?
Why?
That's your question.
Why?
Open-ended question.
But he could answer it very well, though.
He could go off for a half an hour.
My second question was: I would like to go over some of his resume.
For instance, the institutions that he lists that he worked at, they turn out to be children's museums or like little tourist traps in tiny towns.
Oh, you're really going to go there with him on his show when he has a show you're going to play dirty like that?
Well, I mean, I think that's a fair question.
I mean, if his credentials are somehow false or he boasts about them being, what's the word I'm looking for?
Yeah, I think that's a fair question to ask him about that.
Well, Bill Gates never graduated college, and so, you know, there's that.
Well, how far he went.
I just want to hear Hoagland field all of these questions.
I really hope he does take callers.
And if someone asks him about his credentials, that's just going to be fun to hear him respond to it because you know that's going to be a good 30, 40 minute response.
And it's going to be good radio.
I would agree.
Thanks for the call, man.
So you guys want to get into this Blitz thing?
Yeah, you know, we missed something.
When we started to bring that up, Art mentioned in the chat that he answered one of our burning questions that he's going to be helping out on Twitter as well.
So that was something that a few people asked about if Art was going to help or if he was going to participate in it.
And apparently on Twitter, he is.
Okay, so for those of you who don't know, the Blitz is the code word designation for to start the promotions everywhere and anywhere for the new Art Bell show Midnight in the Desert, which starts on July 20th.
So if, so do we have a coordinator?
We have a Blitz coordinator?
Yeah, we sort of do.
Yes.
We kind of sort of do.
Did we want to go into it?
Did we want to go into that or is that something that we shouldn't go?
I mean, I was just going to say, okay, if people want to help out with the Blitz, they should contact somebody, right?
Well, apparently it's been me.
So if anybody has a plan for the Blitz and they don't want it to be, if they want to keep it secret, you can go ahead and send me a PM.
And I can't say any more than Belgab has secret passageways.
And I will take you to those secret passageways if you send me a PM and tell me what your plans are.
You don't have to talk to me.
If you want to do something for the Blitz and you don't like me, do your own thing.
That's fine.
There's a thread, the Blitz thread, and you'll find promotional material there that you can grab and distribute as you like.
And we want to start this thing on July 4th, but we want to hit the internet, Facebook, Twitter, blogs, other forums, everywhere that you can post and promote on July 6th, which is a Monday, and July 7th, Tuesday following, because those are the best days to get to.
Will you accept the red or the blue suppository?
There are no, this is a suppository-free Blitz, sir.
Pill, pardon me, pill.
I meant.
Art Bell is in the chat room and he says, I'm not sure how many followers I have on Twitter, but Facebook, he has 5,000 friends and 21,000 followers.
Yeah.
So, I mean, that's big numbers rather than 10,000 on Twitter.
So, yeah, it's huge numbers.
So I think we're going to have to rely on Art as well to hit those people up.
And if you see Art post something, share it.
Because if Art posts something, you know, 25,000 people are going to see it.
You should share it as well.
And Instagram.
I want to say Instagram.
It's getting very popular now.
And I was on a road trip here a couple of weeks ago with my girlfriend and she has a daughter who's 15 and she had two of her friends with her.
They actually don't even Twitter anymore.
Everything is Instagram.
They actually remove Twitter from their smartphones.
Well, Instagram is just photos.
That's correct?
That's correct.
But that's very popular because they don't even want to read now.
So they don't even want to read anything.
They just want to look at a picture.
I hope Bateman calls back because there was something I wanted to ask him.
When you, Chefist, mentioned the Instagram, I instantly thought of those beautiful wallpapers that Bateman made.
Yes.
And I was wondering, I want to ask him, I hope he calls back, if we can maybe add a little more show information across the bottom, maybe.
I'm sure that won't be.
I'm sure that won't be a problem.
And then post those to Instagram when the Blitz starts.
And another thing I might add, when you're sharing stuff, I think it's really important to use hashtags.
And redacted, was there a particular hashtag we wanted to use for the Blitz?
Yes, the Blitz operational crew has decided on artbell.com is going to be the hashtag.
Can you do, just one sec, can you do artbell.com in a hashtag?
I'm not sure.
Like, I don't know if you can or can't.
I'm just wondering.
I'm pretty sure you can.
The hashtags are pretty much like this.
Artbell.com, that's our favorite so far.
Hashtag Art Bell, hashtag M-I-T-D, and hashtag DMTalk.
Anything that you, any tweets that you use DM Talk on will show up on the Dark Matter Digital Network hashtag stream deck thingama thingy, whatever that is, will show up there.
And I would also add that if you're sending out a particular themed type, whether it's a trailer or whether it's a photo or image, whatever, if it's a particular theme like ghosts or EVPs or Mars or aliens or UFOs, I would hashtag one of those words, whether it be ghosts, UFOs, Mars, any of those, because that will widen the net of particular people who are searching for particular terms.
Hedgehog Norman in the chat room suggests that we do hashtag redacted.
Well, that's not going to help Midnight in the desert now, is it?
Art also says that he has a Periscope.
Now, Art, are you planning on doing any special Periscope videos?
I'm sure you are for the Blitz period.
And I also wanted to ask Art, is there any special instructions or things that you would like us to do or not like us to do?
Is there some sort of marching orders, if you will?
And while we're waiting for Art to reply, I would like to sort of say to him or ask him, does he have any plans to enlist the help of some popular guests who in turn have their own followers that they could potentially tweet out things to?
Because I don't want all of us to start annoying potential guests with requests to, oh, can you share this, can you share this, can you share this?
If they don't want us to.
Like, does Art want us to do that?
Will he do that?
I don't know.
Yeah, I don't want to bother.
Do you know what I mean?
I don't want to annoy you.
We would love it if Willie Nelson were to tweet something about this, but we don't want to bug him too far in advance.
What about hashtag DaveSucks?
I can get behind that.
Yes.
I mean, there is that, but there's too much of that out there.
Yeah, like I've said before, if you're pro-art, you're automatically anti-Dave.
So we'll let the pro-artness of our Blitz Krieg speak for itself.
Like Willie Nelson, for example, he has 500,000 followers on Twitter.
So, you know, that's a lot of people.
If he was to tweet something, yeah, that's that's huge.
Cross-promotion is huge.
I mean, if you go to any of the major Twitter accounts, Facebook accounts of celebrities, they basically just talk between themselves, and that's just because they can piggyback off their own followers.
Well, also, Willie Nelson's Facebook page has 4.4 million people liking it.
So if he was to post something, you know, whether it be a picture or a trailer, that's huge.
All right, we got it.
Can you please ask one of your very important friends to do one tweet on July 6th?
That'd be great.
That would be nice.
We have a caller here.
You're on the air.
Hello.
Am I on?
You are on, sir.
What's your name?
Oh, oh, I'm on.
I'm Mike from Northeast PA.
What's up, Mike?
Well, well, you know, I read the forum or the Belgab.
And, you know, I'm kind of interested in what's happening with Art and his trends and stuff.
Are you a lurker?
A lurker?
Yeah, I'm a lurker, but I'm calling now.
Well, thank you for calling.
I love talking to lurkers.
Oh, great.
Well, anyway, there was a couple of points I wanted to kind of touch on that I thought are sort of, well, odd in my opinion, but well, one of them's not odd at all.
It's actually a pretty good idea, I think.
But anyway, the first one that's odd is, you know, people seem to think that George Norrie or Dave or whatever he's called, you know, he's in control of, you know, coast to coast and premier radio, and he's the big boss and all this other stuff.
And I don't think it's that way at all.
You know, I think Premier is in control of Dave, really.
Oh, yeah.
Well, you know, well, you know, it's just something that somebody seemed to, you know, make a, you know, stress the point of is that it's Dave's fault and blah, blah, blah.
He's running it into the ground and stuff.
And, you know, for my opinion, I think he's probably, to them, a very good employee.
You know, even though he may not get quite the ratings that, you know, they hope for.
But, you know, overall, I think he carries his own.
But, you know, I don't listen to him at all.
You know, I stopped listening to anything produced by Premier Radio before Y2K.
So, well, you know, little bits and pieces to watch.
Oh, so you haven't heard how bad, how far south Coast to Coast has gone.
Don't do it, sir.
It will break your heart.
Thanks for the call, man.
Art in the chat room.
He answered a question and then it scrolled past.
Let's see if I can find it again.
When do you guys have that response in front of you?
I lost it.
It's gone.
No, it's here.
Okay, here it is.
It says, oh, I lost it again.
Here it is.
Willie will do it.
So will Crystal.
Yes, I will do some Periscope.
Anybody who can get on national shows with the info.
And then he says Bateman with a question mark.
This is getting into some classified material here, but there are people hoping to reach out to other shows to get mentions made.
But I would suggest that Art send an email to Bateman.
sure he wouldn't mind helping you out with that at all.
What has been the record of the number of listeners?
We have tens of listeners, sir.
Tens of dozens.
Someone said there were 170 earlier.
I believe that record was set a couple weeks ago, the night that Nori called in.
And I think it was like 100 and close to 150, maybe 160.
I don't remember.
WR250 says over 200.
But we're getting there.
Yeah.
We have, let's see, we have 138 listeners tonight.
Isn't exactly Art Bell numbers, but that's pretty good for a little podcast, Gabcast, with a bunch of idiots who are pretending to be broadcasters.
How many of those people are subscribing to our podcast?
It's a free show.
You get what you pay for.
Damn.
Aren't we charging for this?
Damn.
Nope.
Nope.
And I still haven't gotten my bag, a fun-sized bag of Skittles from MV.
He's teasing me.
He's teasing me about that.
And a vanilla Coke hasn't arrived yet.
But he keeps saying that it will anytime now.
So, yeah, so the Blitz.
Bateman would probably mention Midnight in the Desert more than once or twice on Dark City.
I don't want to say too much, but we are going to look to other podcasters, other shows.
Oh, hey, Art, since you're listening, could a press release be devised and sent somewhere our way to our little Blitz crew here.
We want to have something that we can distribute.
If you can't come up with something, give me the green light and I'll write something up.
But either way, we want to have something that we can send to bigger broadcasters so we can get as much attention to this as we can.
What was the biggest press release two years ago for Dark Matter?
I think it was ABC News Online.
Was it?
I believe so.
I think that was the biggest one.
But that could happen again.
Well, I believe there was a full-page story in Time magazine, I think.
Yeah, there was.
There was.
Well, Art's in the Radio Broadcaster Hall of Fame.
I mean, that's a big deal.
So if someone comes back who's been in that, I mean, that is a story.
Well, there's already been, yeah, there's Lone Voice in the chat saying that whatever the press release is, it should have some quotes from the USA Today article that went out a couple of weeks ago.
It really was a great article.
And I linked to it in the Blitz thread to get people to read it and hopefully distribute that link because it really was a great article.
And we hope to generate more of that.
Art says, why not on the press release?
Thank you.
That will help a great deal.
Now, are you saying why not you will write that or why not we can write that?
I'm chomping at the bit over here and I'll write up a press release, send it to you for your approval.
We can do that.
Or you can just shoot something over to us at the Blitz thread and that will be fine.
At the propaganda ministry.
Yeah.
Art Bell, the master of the universe, demands your attention to his new show.
And I had to step away for a second because it started getting really hot in here, and I was worried that my machine was going to stop again.
So I had to turn on the AC.
But so I might have missed this.
And now it's gone.
I forgot.
No, is Art.
I'm sure Art's going to do promotion himself.
He's probably going to go on TV.
He's probably going to do more articles, do more interviews, things like that.
And that will help a huge amount too, probably more than anything that the Blitz can do.
You know, people on Bell Gab.
But I mean, every little bit.
You're going to have specified information there, sir.
You really are.
You're touching on stuff that we can't talk about.
Well, if he comes.
I can't attribute that to anybody except Art.
Art's going to be doing interviews.
Maybe.
Well, if he comes on the Gabcast, look, he can have 200 people who actually know everything about what he's going to do.
So strike that.
Yeah, you might.
Art, if you come on the Gabcast, you might actually turn people against you, and you might start losing subscriptions.
So of course I'm killing you.
Wouldn't want to mar your reputation by appearing on this show.
I have to take a shower after every show.
I'm sorry to tell you guys that, but I do.
And Art says if we start small, it's cool.
So I think he wants us to have fun.
And you can correct me if I'm wrong here, Art.
When we did the free Art Bell thing after Sirius kind of crashed and burned, we had a good time with that and we made a pretty good impact.
I think that's the same thing that we're going after here.
We really want to have a good time with it.
I don't want any one person to do too much work.
I want everybody to put in their little bit of effort and all that combined makes one big effort that makes a real good impact and spreads the popularity of the show.
And I'm not in charge, by the way.
I just started the trend.
That's it.
You're not in charge of the Blitz?
No, everybody's in charge.
Anybody who wants to help is then at that moment in charge.
So what kind of people are we hoping to bring in to help with the Blitz?
Maybe somebody with marketing background, maybe somebody who has any video editing or graphics capabilities?
Is there any specifics at all?
Nope.
Nope.
Don't have to be special people with special skills.
There are people with skills that are on Bell Gab already that have offered plenty of material.
Jazz with your trailers.
Pathogen made a great trailer.
Bateman made those really nice wallpapers.
There's people making badges.
There's a lot of good material.
Badges?
Badges.
We have time traveler badges that a lot of different people made.
So, you know, everybody's going to have a skill or a talent to add to the whole campaign, whether it's just tweeting something that someone else has made, even tweeting that USA Today article would be helpful.
Putting something on your Facebook, posting on other forums that you might be a member of.
God forbid.
And that's an interesting point too, Redact.
It is not just Facebook and social media, but other forums is probably a good place to put some of that material.
We have some folks that are actually putting up like, I don't know what you call them, but the signs that you see around college campuses, flyers.
And the one, the big ones, though, that, yeah, it's pretty interesting.
We have another caller here.
Hello, you're on the air.
Oh, yes.
Am I back on again?
Oh, sir, you're back.
Yes, you're back on.
I must have accidentally hung up on you, sir.
Do you have something additional to add to the cab cast?
Well, yeah, well, not ask, but, you know, I wanted to apologize if I said anything wrong.
Oh, no, you didn't, sir.
I was just moving on from the phone call.
You know, we have lots of things to speak about this evening.
Right.
Well, you know, I had one really good idea, and it was in relation to I believe it was Keith Rowland that wrote a post about wanting a badge, I think, for time traveler for subscribers.
And I've looked at a lot of them, and many of them are very good.
and they have arrows in this scenario thing that i thought man this is uh... i came up with my own idea that i think it's pretty good I thought I'd throw it out there anyway.
But, you know, I don't have a 300 by 300 graphics program to draw one up.
I know how to do it in the AutoCAD, but real easy.
But I don't have my AutoCAD program here.
But anyway.
Well, you should be.
If you come up with a badge, then you should post it on Bell Gab, sir.
Well, I can't do that right now.
Okay.
Well, but I can describe it very easily.
Please, please provide specifications and dimensions, sir, please.
Okay, thank you.
Go ahead.
Okay, well, it would be a button, you know, like a political button, you know, that's round, that clips on your label or whatever.
And it would be, you know, the background would be all yellow, you know, maybe the size of a silver dollar or whatever size, whatever size is appropriate.
And it would have four arrows on it, one pointing up and one pointing down, which would be a little bit bigger, you know, width-wise of the three lines.
And the, you know, the shaft of the arrow or the part that goes up and down directly would be a little bit shorter than the ones going to the left and the right.
What would it say?
Pardon me?
I didn't say that.
No.
Well, the shaft of an arrow.
You know, when you shoot a bow and arrow, you have an arrow that has a shaft and a tip and feathers.
Well, anyway.
Don't mind me, sir.
Jeff has a dirty mind.
Go ahead, sir.
Yes, he does.
What is your button going to say?
What's the text on that going to be?
Oh, okay.
Well, the center of those arrows would be a dot or a period or the end of a sentence.
But anyway, and then above the dot and the two horizontal lines for the arrows would be time.
And then below that dot and the horizontal arrows would be traveler.
And that was it.
Well, why don't you get on the computer and make that thing, man, and then become a member of Bell Gab and post it?
We promise not to bite until your third or fourth post.
I think he was a Bell Gab member.
I'm not sure why he's not.
Or he hasn't posted in a long time, but is this a lurker, I believe?
Yes, I used to post as EIEIO, and the last time I called was on March 17th.
Yeah, that's me.
Yeah.
Yeah, but the thing is, is I think I got can from the forum and I couldn't log in anymore.
I don't know why or how or what happened there, but I didn't want to complain about it.
I got too carried away there.
What happened is people just didn't understand your humor.
I think it was like a very dry humor that doesn't translate very well to a text form.
Well, I won't disagree with that at all.
I go elsewhere, but it's much more technical in nature.
Well, everybody's different.
I try to do my best.
Well, you called the right show, sir.
We really appreciate the call.
And your suggestion is great.
Maybe somebody, maybe, you know, if you can get back on Bellgab, then if you create that, then post it and we can use it.
Yeah, well, you know, I will definitely consider that.
And I really appreciate and enjoy talking with you all tonight.
All right, sir.
Have a good night.
Have a good night.
Thank you.
Yeah, I remember that guy.
I do too.
I recognized his voice.
Oh, you recognized his voice.
I recognized his username and remember his mind-bending posts that he would make.
Yeah, it was hard to understand sometimes, but I think it was all just kind of tongue-in-cheek, or maybe it wasn't.
I can't really tell.
Well, like you say, sometimes a really unusual sense of humor doesn't translate too well in text form.
The new member CAM seems to get away with that just fine.
I think it's formerly Casmonauts or Casmauts.
Camazots.
Camazotz Automat.
Yeah.
Yeah.
My favorite.
My favorite dude.
He posted things.
That was the second band Bellgabber to call Internet.
So I'm just wondering if we are the repository of all band Bellgab members.
Well, this is, you know, the only place.
Sorry, go ahead.
This is the only place where, you know, if you're banned, you can still call the GabCast.
And just to let everyone know, I preempted anything someone might post, and there's a new thread on Bellgab, Chefist Sucks.
So post.
You have made it, sir.
You have made it.
I suck.
Really?
That was a joke, right?
Well, I mean, yeah, sure.
All right.
I haven't seen that thread.
I'm curious.
I don't know why.
Well, it's a delightful man, sir.
Two people have posted already.
It says Chefist sucks.
It doesn't say Chefist is Chunga.
So, hey, you're already ahead of the game.
Oh, that'll be the next post.
You're welcome.
I saw something interesting.
You know, a couple weeks ago when Art mentioned that there's going to be two forums that he's going to recommend for people who listen to his show to go post.
Yes.
Excuse me, I have to burp.
And I went on that page, and on the bottom, where there's Facebook comments, they have Facebook comments.
And below Bellgab, there was a post.
What does it say?
And I'm just trying to find it here.
I should have found it before I set it up.
Okay, so the post says Bellgab.com is a cesspool of entitled Narcissists.
Oh, I did see that.
Yes, I tried to block it.
Where was this?
Is this on bell.com?
Yeah, on our Bell.com, where he talks about the forums, the official forums.
And there actually has been a couple replies, but I didn't put those down.
So if you go to that page, you'll see Silly Prod, see the replies.
It's actually pretty funny.
We have a reputation, gentlemen.
Narcissists?
I'm not sure exactly if they're using the proper Bellgab member as the example of the narcissism.
They haven't talked to MV, have they?
Yeah.
Well, cesspool, I might be able to agree with, but, you know, that's affectionate.
And maybe entitled is okay.
Entitled to maybe good radio?
Sure, we'll go that way.
So what else?
What else do we have?
Did we talk about the Blitz properly and long enough?
Did we get all the information out?
I hope so.
If anybody has any questions, they're welcome to post it in the Blitz thread.
And if you hate me, which you're more than welcome to do, you can do your own Blitz thing and just say to hell with Redacted.
That is fine.
You don't have to tell me about your plans.
But if you do have something that you'd like the rest of us to be in on and you would like maybe for us to help you, you can give me a PM and I'll set you up with the, well, I can't talk any further about that.
Just send me a PM if you have plans for the Blitz that you want to keep secret.
And I'll hook you up.
That's all I can say.
Would you like to transmit that maybe in Morse code or in binary?
I would prefer all the PMs sent to me be in either binary Morse code or hexadecimal, please.
How about pig Latin?
I don't understand Pig Latin.
You're going to have to translate the Pig Latin to the binary or hexadecimal, and maybe we'll get somewhere.
There's really no good Pig Latin transfer there that translates them.
But Morse code is preferred, everyone.
I would like the PMs to all be in Morse code.
But no, the Blitz, basically, all anybody needs to know is it starts July 4th.
It goes until July 20th and beyond.
Thank you, Jaz.
He has a very good point that it should go way past July 20th.
We continue to promote Midnight in the Desert all the time, preferably on a Monday or a Tuesday.
It's definitely not a sprint.
It's going to be a marathon.
Yeah, because also 16 days and beyond.
Once the show started, there's no better way to get people into the show by providing something for free and saying here, take a listen.
They listen, they like it, they take a subscription.
You know what I'd like to know?
I'd like to know where the subscription numbers are now.
I mean, like Bateman referenced, he said there was, what, 600 the first day?
585 to be exact.
585 the first day.
I wonder what Art's up to now.
I mean, is he close to the break-even point?
Is he past it?
Will he not tell us?
I don't know.
It sounds like classified information.
It's sort of, I mean, you wouldn't give other people your business information, so I'm sure they'll have to do it.
How much is your Facebook?
Yeah, that's right.
But we ask for him, we ask what he has for dinner, but that's okay.
I think that's fine.
I think that's open season.
Guys.
There's something out on the dark web.
It just came through.
Wait, what?
I'm a Linux user, so the dark web, the other side of the internet.
Yeah, so apparently, in lieu of the Supreme Court ruling for gay marriages, Ed Dames has channeled Liberace and made a formal matrimonial request of MV and then stated that they would spend their honeymoon probing Mel's hole.
That's what it says.
Thank you.
Good night.
And this was Sheffist's last appearance on the Gabcast.
So thank you for that was a mental image most of us didn't need.
But I'm now imagining Ed Dames with his cute haircut and MV as Liberace just skipping off into the sunset with Jack and Coke in hand.
And firearms.
And firearms, yes.
What was that, Jazz?
You had another thing you wanted to speak about tonight?
Yeah, just my, I was just going to say that my whole Belgab journey is now complete.
About five years ago, I stumbled upon Belgab in a most unusual way.
I must admit, I did not type in George Norrie Sucks into Google to find this site.
I was actually looking for a particular classic episode of Art Bells from the year 2000.
And I typed what I needed to type into Google and found Belgab.
And for five years, I have been searching for one particular file.
I have not had any luck locating it.
It was not in the mega torrent.
So I sort of lucked out there and I thought I would never find it.
And I remember mentioning this on the Gabcast years ago, a few years ago.
And finally, somebody heard that episode had that particular file and sent it to me.
And so now my journey is complete.
Just today?
Did you get it today?
Just the other day.
And I went for a walk the other day and listened to the show.
And it was just as good as I remembered it back in the year 2000.
A happy ending.
It is.
We are just getting started.
We are really just getting started with this thing.
I mean, the summer has officially hit, but the fun has just barely started.
You know, the Blitz is days away, and that's when it's really going to get exciting.
And then the show's going to start, and it's going to be pretty fun.
I mean, radio is going to get good again.
Well, internet radio is going to get good again, and we're going to have much more fun nights ahead.
See, I think also something could happen.
Well, only if you butt your ugly nose in, George.
Portals?
Oh my gosh, did I say that out loud?
You did.
I would actually like to see a fight between Redacted and soundboard George.
We might be able to arrange that, but Davey boy, I'm off the floor with you.
Oh, Eddie, you were too slow on that one.
Yeah.
The soundboard is put away for the evening.
Sorry.
I'm not worried.
All right.
Thanks, everybody, for calling in.
That sounds like that's the end of the show.
Long live Art Bill and Belgab.
Oh, definitely.
All right, everybody.
Thanks for tuning into the Gabcast tonight.
We appreciate it.
We appreciate everybody who gave us a call.
And I want to say thanks to Redacted Jasmunda and the special guest, Cheffis.
Thanks, man.
Thanks, everybody.
Good show.
I'm Annie G. I'll see you next week, everybody.
Good night.
Good night.
You've been listening to The Gab Cast, a podcast about bellgab.com.
Now get lost.
Do it live.
I can all write it now.
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