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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.
	Shut up, sit down and listen to the damn show, the GAB
	CAST podcast.
	About what?
	What would it be guys?
	I'm terrible.
	Podcast about Bell Gab.
	And you have tonight, as you're already misfiring on the intro host, the Mud King, Curtis.
	We've also got Redacted with us, Jasmunda, and Onan.
	How are you guys doing?
	Hey, how's it going?
	I'm good.
	Curtis, you had one job this evening, and you've already messed that up.
	See, what I like to do is I want to make sure that I do the failure so that everyone else can just fly like the wind.
	We all look better standing next to Curtis.
	I am here to be the foil.
	Well, thank you for your sacrifice, sir.
	No problem.
	Because God knows we're going to need a lot of it.
	The first of many to come.
	So what's happening?
	Well, there's a lot, seems like, going on today.
	I saw an interesting confession was made on the news about Bill Cosby and I. I'm sorry that that got out.
	Yeah, I saw that.
	I was shocked.
	And I want to go over and beat up Bill Cosby right now and defend your honor.
	You want to punch him right in the face?
	Well, I took care of that.
	I just want the video.
	That's all I'm saying.
	There could have been videos taken.
	No one's really sure.
	No one's really sure, but I thought that was really funny.
	For a moment, when I read on Bell Gab this morning, Art had posted about that.
	And I read his post, and I really thought his account had been hacked.
	Someone else had gotten his password and posted something crazy.
	It just seems so out of character, but it turned out to be an hilarious joke.
	Well, this is Art Bell.
	He can come right out of left field at any moment.
	Yeah, that's great.
	So has TMZ contacted you yet?
	Well, the phone's been ringing off the hook.
	I turned the ringer off.
	It's just been lighting up all day.
	I'm ignoring it.
	Yeah.
	You don't want celebrity to come too quick.
	Play it out.
	Play it out.
	No, no, not really.
	But speaking of celebrity, did you guys see that new trailer by Saucy Rossi?
	I did.
	It was very good.
	Very cool.
	It really was.
	I watched it three times in a row.
	It was so good because I watched it the first time and I went, okay, wait a minute, what just happened?
	And then I watched it again and I was still too excited for any of it to really sink in.
	And then the third time I watched it, I started to notice his great quotes.
	He who thinks about going to bed before midnight is a scoundrel.
	Yeah, that one was good.
	But I like his explanation.
	He said that he purposely didn't include who the quotes were for so that you would have to go to Google to sort of find out who made those quotes.
	And I think that's a great idea.
	Yeah, that is nice.
	Make it a game.
	Yeah.
	Okay, well, who made that quote then?
	I want to know.
	I didn't go to Google.
	I'm too lazy for that.
	Well, you know, I thought about playing it, but because it's all in text, right?
	And then just the great music with it.
	So I was like, oh, man, that doesn't translate as well.
	Next Gabcast, you guys have to have video, just so you know.
	So we can stream all these awesome trailers.
	Oh, that's a great idea.
	But do it the episode that I'm not on.
	No one wants to see me.
	Me either.
	You guys aren't wearing pants, though, right?
	Well, I thought it was a requirement not to.
	I mean, I was told in my contract that for spec sheets, I have to wear pants after the incident.
	But for Gabcast, I thought it was the exact opposite.
	It's in the contract.
	No pants.
	No pants and Kwailuds.
	So was that a writer?
	Was it a writer?
	Nothing.
	Hell, I volunteered.
	Somebody said naked and bills.
	I was like, I'm there.
	Shit.
	You didn't even have to ask.
	I'm not busy.
	Let's do it.
	What night?
	All are free for me.
	Give the special secret knock on Envy's door and maybe he'll give you some of that candy.
	I don't know.
	I gave him all the Koiludes from the Bill Cosby incident went to Envy.
	Well, that was poor planning on your part.
	That's all I can say.
	Well, you know, I'm just nice like that.
	Yeah, I have money.
	So Art Bell in the chat room has asked for us to say hi to Erin, who is listening.
	So hi, Aaron.
	Hello, Aaron.
	If you'd like to call in, 623-242-CAST, 623-242-2278.
	A special welcome.
	Would love to hear from Aaron.
	That is our special VIP line.
	Yes.
	Yes, it is.
	Well, since art is under the non-compete and can't call in, it's a great opportunity for Erin to come in and dish all the secrets on Art Bell.
	Oh, yeah.
	I think that's a great idea.
	And to tell us who guest you're looking forward to, Aaron.
	That would be awesome.
	I would love to hear what her favorite guest is and topic.
	I want to know if Art Bell leaves his bath towels on the floor.
	Of course he does.
	And tell him to pick those up.
	Yeah, so the other thing, BellGab related, what do you guys think of the great unbanning 2.0?
	I'm just going to go right there.
	I think I'm nervous.
	That's what I think.
	Does that help leading up to art coming back or is it going to cause trouble?
	I don't think it's going to cause any trouble.
	Well, when I say trouble, I think the great thing about Bellgab is that anything can happen, but is it going to get in the way of the excitement of it?
	Because there are several people who've been unbanned whose sole mission in life is to cause trouble to other people.
	Well, you know, I've been thinking about that a lot lately.
	And quite honestly, if you get so worked up about what somebody else posts, maybe it's time to just kind of, I need a day or two off.
	Yeah, but isn't that what Bell Gab brings you to?
	I mean, like, well, not all of us, but if you need the day off already, Bell Gab is where you show up if you're an Art Bell fan.
	And then if you have a troll there just waiting for you.
	Well, you know, I'd be a liar to say there aren't a couple of people that have posted.
	And I'm like, what the hell are you doing?
	If I were in your face, I'd kick your.
	But Jesus.
	I mean, if somebody wants to be a turd and kind of annoy people, I don't know.
	There's always the ignore button.
	Right, that's true.
	Maybe that's something we should talk about is the great features that are built into our forum, which is the ability to go into any user and ignore them.
	You know, it would be nice.
	There's the ignore button, but then it covers, it hides the post.
	And then there's this evil little link right there that says click here to see this post anyway or something like that.
	And I have to click it.
	I have people on ignore and I have to click it because it's there.
	It's like it's like a post.
	It's like that link is saying, don't click, don't click.
	And the first thing you're going to do is click it.
	Yes.
	It's available.
	It's a psychology.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And typically I'm all for an unbanning, but like some users who had just recently been banned, like the infamous white crow, what was his time out?
	Was it maybe 72 hours, six minutes?
	A few days.
	And what's the prediction on how long it'll take for him to just make a comment that, well, he's not at all the worst of the worst, but his post will just go off in just some weird direction sometimes.
	How long is it going to be until that happens?
	Or do you think maybe this time he's had his hand slapped and he's going to be a happy, well, I guess I don't care if you're happy, just emotionally adjusted to whatever your adjustment is to.
	Oh, now you're asking way too much.
	You're probably right.
	But pretty much two-thirds, though, of the thread that shall not be named, of the users that have been unbanned who are there, are that.
	That's that road or that alleyway.
	You just you don't go down it.
	You just you walk past it and pretend like it's not there and just be glad that your tax dollars are at work keeping it, you know, clean every once in a while, newspapers trash rats, broken windows.
	You just don't go over there.
	Um yeah well, I do, I go.
	I go to that thread a lot, but and that's not just for work, I mean, that's in your free time too.
	Yeah uh, I don't know.
	Um well, there were several uh people in the chat room asking who, uh who has been unbanned.
	There might be a lot of new users that don't know um, so if everyone was unbanned, we're gonna have characters showing up like uh Cassio.
	Yes, you may find um 24 hours of uh a video watching clothes dry or grass grow or something weird like that from him, or mannequin heads, or mannequin petting mannequin heads uh, wholesome stuff like that.
	You could uh see that there there's digital pig snuggler.
	Uh, i'll just say now, that's one of them that you know.
	I've never really had a conversation with him, him or him or her, but I haven't seen them have a typical back and forth conversation with anyone before.
	It seems like it's always attack, retreat and wait to attack again, and that's the kind of user that gets frustrating, because i'm okay with you knocking me when I did something stupid or when you think I did something stupid but like, seems like his target is the same.
	His main target is somebody that i'm sort of okay with being attacked, but at the same time, it wears me out.
	If that's the only thing you're going to do, go ahead and have some conversation about other things too.
	You have to have some other interests other than photoshop and the history of another user.
	Yes, obviously you don't Waiting for Bart L to show himself and come back.
	I wonder if he knows.
	Well, when someone's unbanned from Belgab, do they get some kind of notice of that?
	Well, what happens?
	I'm assuming that that doesn't happen.
	Sorry, go ahead.
	I'm assuming someone will alert them to the fact that they're allowed back on.
	I think the path normally is after an unbanning happens, that people who are fans of a banned user or someone who just wants to watch a fire for the purpose of seeing a fire will PM on that person, and then they get an email, and then they know that their account's active.
	It could be.
	It could be.
	I don't know.
	Well, I love those moments when someone that seemed like trouble in the past, because we've had that happen a couple of times where you get banned and unbanning occurs or just your account gets added if it's not part of a sweeping unbanning and that person comes back somewhat normal.
	I wish I could tell you an exact example of that, but it seems like that.
	They got it out of their system.
	Because I'm okay with anyone having their moment of freaking out and doing a little bit of trolling.
	That's okay.
	It's just.
	Well, you guys have been more than generous to me on that.
	Well, you know, the next unbanning.
	I don't know if your account's going to make it.
	I'm sorry.
	Under review.
	I'm on notice.
	From what I've heard.
	Go ahead.
	I was going to say you've had too much success, so we're going to have to ban you.
	Oh, man.
	The house always wins.
	Always, always, always.
	I don't know.
	I guess what it's like is the GIS often say that a ghost that's an asshole in real life is going to be an arsehole in the spirit world.
	So I guess with the great unbanning, the same probably applies.
	Well, you know, if you look at it, you know, everybody's an asshole to somebody.
	You know, and I think I'm the greatest guy in the world, but I know a good percentage of people that are on the forum and in the real world don't have that good of an opinion of me.
	But yeah, I just don't really give a fuck.
	See, the realism of that approach, I respect because you can say that, and I believe you'd say it to my face, and you'd say it in a forum.
	And then if we did have common ground on something, we could have that conversation too.
	Well, you know, that's what I really appreciate the most because there's a couple of people that I've learned over the course of time that I didn't really like the way they posted at first, but some of them have been really open and wanted to have fair dialogue.
	And I've really gained a lot of respect for a few people because of that.
	And then there are some people that can't ever seem to escape the third grade, and those become annoying.
	But, you know, if you argue with a third grader, where are you going to get?
	And you can't get upset when you get the reaction of a third grader.
	Right, right.
	I mean, yeah, what's the point?
	Yeah, I made the mistake at one point in the politics thread of going in there and just making what I thought were random side comments that were funny.
	Oh, no.
	I wasn't trying to actually take a political point of view, just, hey, this looks like a funny thing to say.
	And I got attacked for it at first.
	And then the person who said the, I guess I'd say rudest thing, it was kind of funny to me because I didn't have a dog in the fight, sent me a PM wanting to take it to the next level of arguing.
	And I wrote him and said, man, I respect your opinion.
	It might not be my opinion, but you're allowed to say it, you know, and I'll go in and make my stupid comment and you guys smack my hand for it.
	And that's totally fair, too.
	And they came back with a friendly response.
	And I've been friendly with them ever since.
	But when I first saw that, I thought, no, this isn't.
	I made my comment.
	I'm not messing around with it anymore, and I'm not giving replies back to it.
	I'm not feeding them anymore.
	So don't take this back to another spot.
	But they're cool about it.
	It's just, you know, again, you have to have more layers to yourself than just, you know, the whatever side you're on, I guess.
	Yeah.
	We have a post Drew just recently came back, and I think he might have decided not to post anymore.
	That's Sardandi.
	And there's not a topic in politics that we agree on ever.
	But, you know, we had a lot of conversations in PMs, and we both respect each other.
	And, you know, it was kind of an adult conversation as opposed to, yeah, well, you suck.
	Right.
	Well, those are the most fascinating conversations to read.
	I lurk in the politics thread.
	I very, very rarely ever make any kind of statement or post.
	But I would read these old conversations between Onan and Sardandi.
	And then there's Nowhere in Time and Quit Carl and just all those regular posters in the politics thread.
	It's some pretty riveting reading if you're completely bored on a Saturday night.
	It's just interesting conversations to me anyway.
	Darling, you really need to get out more.
	I know.
	I know.
	I have a bell gab problem.
	I really do.
	Sorry, I have a therapist that can help you with that.
	It's called Don't Pay Your Internet Bill.
	But then there won't be any bell gab.
	Yeah.
	Well, just for a month.
	They'll turn it back on for a low fee.
	Well, speaking of a bell gab problem, there's a lot of people going crazy posting things all over for the Blitz.
	Have you guys done any of that?
	I have Blitzed.
	I admit it.
	Yeah, I've blitzed admittedly.
	I don't have the widest audience to share it with, but I have been doing my part.
	God bless you.
	Are your families concerned?
	Yes.
	Like, who's up, Belle?
	What are all these weird trailers that you're making?
	Have they asked you yet why you don't do that for, like their, like the family events, or do you like like say, take uh videos of your, your children, riding a bike or their first play, and they're like, well, why aren't you putting the same effort into creating great videos of that for us, or trailers of them?
	Yeah well uh, I I tried not to, um try not to alert my family to any hidden talents, because I don't want that type of uh, those requests coming in.
	I hear you you'll be making trailers for every exactly anniversary, although I think you could start a service.
	As as good as you are as finding the right audio, the right mood, you need to go into business doing that, man.
	They are, they're all beautiful jazz.
	They really are.
	Thank you, i'll have a new one out tomorrow, Nice.
	Are you serious?
	What's that?
	Oh, you'll have to wait.
	I don't know.
	Jazz.
	Are you making any money to feed your family?
	This is a design to lose him money.
	Specially designed.
	Yeah.
	But maybe now that you're a time traveler, right?
	So you can go back and you can make that all back up.
	Oh, yeah.
	I hope so.
	So it all works out.
	I've seen so many people doing cool things.
	And one of the funny posts that happened here recently was that Art decided he was going to go do some blitzing himself and decided he was going to go to trucker forums and make an account and maybe plug his show there a little bit.
	And lo and behold, did he get banned?
	Art Bell got banned from some trucking forums.
	Do you think he got banned for spamming?
	I wonder.
	I wonder if that's the reason that he got kicked out.
	You know what, though?
	A year from now, that guy's going to be going, Jesus, I was such an asshole.
	Well, the only thing I could think of, right, I mean, he's going to be kicking himself so hard in the shin.
	But what I keep thinking of is maybe, you know, whoever runs the forum that Art was trying to sign in on saw, okay, someone's trying to sign up and saying that they're Art Bell.
	This guy's ridiculous.
	Just kick him out.
	This can't be Art Bell.
	And it was.
	Can you imagine that missed opportunity?
	It's the biggest case of mistaken identity ever.
	But hopefully, with the great unbanning of that trucker forum, he'll be back shortly.
	Hopefully so.
	Who knows?
	I hope they have great unbannings with regularity like we do here at Bell Gap.
	I have to think that they broke the mold with MV for that one.
	Yeah, well, definitely.
	He's missed.
	I find that I miss that crazy guy.
	Which guy?
	MV?
	Yeah, he's not been around as much.
	Once in a while, there's a post.
	I mean, there was a spec sheet with no MV ranting.
	It feels weird.
	Yeah, well, according to his doctors, once the rash clears up and casts are off, he should be fine to start posting again.
	And everything dries up.
	Yes.
	Stops seeping.
	Okay.
	Art has confirmed that he was locked out for spam.
	That's amazing.
	That is too much.
	Well, I want to let everyone know that on that front, I think I posted it probably repeating myself here, but there's actually a bell gabber.
	I won't say the names of people that are doing certain things unless they want to reveal themselves.
	But there's actually a guy driving around Austin, Texas area in his car with his CB, just driving around the highways, talking to truckers on his CV, telling them about midnight in the desert.
	That's awesome.
	We don't have anybody on a trucker form yet.
	That's as close as we could get.
	We've got a caller.
	Who's on the air?
	Hi, you're on the air.
	Hi, this is Citron.
	Hey, Citron.
	Hey, man.
	What's up?
	Citron, what's going on tonight?
	Not much, so I'd call in and help you guys test the audio.
	Curtis said he'd use somebody call in.
	So thank you.
	That's good.
	Sorry.
	Have you guys had much response on Twitter?
	Actually, it's picking up steam.
	Yeah, I actually signed up for Twitter just for this, and it started off really slow, and it's starting to pick up steam, it seems like, every hour.
	Yeah, I've seen like when you know, I'll just do a random tweet trying to promote or retweet somebody, and I'll get you know, several.
	I don't have a large following either on Twitter, but I'll get a couple retweets or favorites, which, of course, every little bit helps to push it to other people.
	Yeah, that's what I've been getting.
	And I've thought about making a tweet to one, you know, celebrity a day just to not overdo it or do it too, you know, press the issue too hard.
	And so let's see, I tweeted Joe Rogan and William Shatner.
	I don't know for how much good that'll do, but I just thought has anyone tweeted?
	I just thought of this, Dan Aykroyd.
	That's a really good one.
	He would probably, yes, Citron, can you get on that?
	I wonder if he has a Twitter account.
	That's a good question.
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	I'd have to find the right one, but I'm sure he would really like to tune into the show.
	He would be.
	And actually, in his bio, it actually says Dan Aykroyd, the comedian, actor, screenwriter, musician, UF ufologist.
	So, yeah, he's probably a good person to tweet out to.
	Art just said in the chat, just tell them your Cosby's redacted.
	You need to play that out because right now that's probably a trending topic, anything Cosby related.
	You need to use that with your redacted name.
	Step up.
	Hashtag redacted.
	Yes.
	Only if I get to make sure everybody has the whole story as it were.
	And I'm going to let him know that I did kick his butt in the process.
	Or was it Jell-O?
	Is that what he used to sponsor back in the 80s?
	Oh, that was good.
	All the Jell-O you can handle.
	Just don't ask what's inside it.
	No, don't.
	Do not.
	So is Citron still on the line?
	Yes.
	I'm still here.
	I'll let you guys go.
	I just wanted to call in and ask that, and I'll say goodnight.
	All right.
	Take care, man.
	Oh, look at that.
	That's a very good MV hang up on.
	This is going to be a good podcast.
	I'm sorry about what happened the one that was before it.
	No, you can't acknowledge it.
	You just hang up and move on.
	No, I'm kidding.
	No, yeah.
	That's like telling me to not be Mr. Nice Guy when all I am is Mr. Nice Guy.
	Not that I, I guess, act like Mr. Nice Guy.
	Well, so there's been people putting up links to artbell.com and Dark Matter Digital Network on various websites.
	I keep getting PMs.
	Hey, I put a link up on my website, odd websites.
	KSM32 put links on his flooring website and also on his band's website.
	His band is really good.
	It's a head-banging music to you guys, but I loved it, of course.
	Has anyone tracked, you know, how you can track hashtags on Twitter?
	Has anyone, have you sort of clicked on any of those hashtags and seen whether there's been a lot of tweets using them?
	Well, the artbell and theartbell.com seem to be picking up because I have this thing now called the tweet deck.
	That's a great one.
	Yeah, just kind of watch it.
	And at first, it wasn't moving too fast.
	And now it's starting to pick up the pace.
	So what does TweetDeck do?
	TweetDeck is, I guess, on a phone, it's an app, but for me on my computer, because I'm still old-fashioned, It's just another tab on my browser.
	And what it is, is it's columns.
	And you can create a column for a hashtag or a word or a user, all kinds of stuff.
	So you can stalk people all over Twitter.
	And I have so you can basically, in real time, follow a hashtag and see who's tweeting it out.
	Yet, yeah.
	Exactly that.
	Yeah.
	And so now when I look at the Art Bell column for hashtag Art Bell, it's kind of like there were tweets every few hours, and now the times are getting closer together.
	Now it's a tweet almost every hour, or there will be a few in one hour.
	It's picking up.
	We've got another caller on the line.
	Hello.
	Hey, you're on the air.
	Who are we talking to?
	Hey, this is Art Spartan.
	Hey, Arts Parts.
	Arts Parts or Arts Parts?
	No, that was a long story.
	But a great one.
	What's on your mind tonight, man?
	Ah, yeah, I belong to several other non-Art Bell films, and especially on music when I posted all the information on the Blitz.
	So that's some good feedback.
	A lot of people didn't realize that art was coming back.
	So, hey, man, thanks for the heads up.
	And another one, like, hey, oh, somebody's looking round the blitz.
	And I guess it was a fellow bell dad.
	He said that he's not a member, he's a merchant.
	So I told him, come on, I'm the water sign.
	And of course, yeah, I got one dick who said, ah, fuck that guy.
	And everybody listens to him as Igy.
	So trying to think of what he reply, so I just replied back, no, fuck you.
	And then you need to go to a landline, buddy.
	It's hard to hear you.
	Okay, I'll try and get in first.
	Okay, no problem.
	So, yeah.
	A lot of people seem to be replying to my trailers.
	And sort of the question I keep getting asked about is when is he coming back and how is he coming back?
	Like, is he on radio?
	And I'm like, did you even watch the trailer?
	I want to start right back.
	Did you even watch the trailer?
	All the information is in there.
	But it's good.
	People are asking questions.
	There's a lot of people that were not aware that art's coming back.
	So this type of blitz is very important.
	Oh, yeah.
	I don't know how to pronounce his name.
	So NXOEED is pretty much papering the whole Phoenix area.
	And he said he's been getting such a good response.
	And he's actually out there handing out flyers.
	Yeah.
	And that's great.
	It would be so good if other people could print a couple of these out.
	You don't have to do a lot and plaster them around their towns.
	Maybe put a few up on a telephone pole.
	I don't know.
	But there's so many different ways a person can get involved, whether it's online or something.
	You know, you can actually print out a copy of this flyer, make 10 or 20 copies of it, and go paste them up somewhere if the urge strikes you.
	And, you know, from what I, again, can't pronounce his name, NXO EED.
	Yes.
	And Nancy says that he should call in.
	He should.
	He should call in just so we can learn how to say his name.
	Yeah, exactly.
	But he says, no, that's how you pronounce it.
	Just spell it.
	Okay.
	So what's that?
	Nope.
	Go ahead.
	He said that there were a lot of people that he gave flyers to that were excited to hear that art's coming back on the air, people that had no idea.
	And, you know, you get a few people in person with a piece of paper they can hold in their hand, and they're going to tell a couple of people, and word's going to spread.
	You know, I think it's awesome.
	Yeah, I think we need for the artwork that he's putting around town there, we need t-shirts with that because I'd wear that.
	I don't know about you guys, but I wear some obscure thing on a shirt.
	You always get all kinds of questions of people.
	So, what is that?
	And wanting to know more about it.
	I would love to have a shirt with that on it.
	Yeah, that Eileen is pretty cool.
	Yeah.
	Is that from somewhere or is that his own creation?
	I imagine that is his creation.
	He's been doing this kind of artwork for years and years, and he's known in the Phoenix area for having his art hunts where he hides artwork around town and people go find it, and it's a Phoenix thing.
	You know, just thinking about that, another, we need to find someone who works with Vice, Vice Media, and get them to do a story on art and coming back.
	And that artwork would be a great way to start that.
	Do a video of him.
	I don't know anyone who's in that business, but I was thinking about that, how cool it would be to have a documentary of him canvassing an area with those and the conversations that would happen.
	And how cool that would be as someone who's either a casual observer of paranormal media or just a fan of vice to see a video like that.
	So anyone out there who can connect to them, I think that would be great.
	That would be.
	That would be really, really cool.
	And there are some top secret Blitz plan.
	Actually, there is a Top Secret Blitz plan happening behind the scenes that hopefully will hit here pretty soon.
	And I've seen that it was a success with my time traveler pass.
	So it's amazing how well it worked.
	I just want to let you guys know about that.
	Hopefully it doesn't mess a timeline up any.
	Well, as long as it gets people knowing about the show and more listeners, then your time travel was well worth it, Mud King.
	Well, I also got some lottery numbers from it, and then I lost the paper.
	So there was one failure with it.
	But art's a complete success, I can tell you that.
	Okay, cool, cool.
	Because you went into the future about 30 days ahead, like I asked.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	And good news is that other thing, it's all fine.
	Awesome.
	Awesome.
	And nobody found out about the other?
	No, no one did.
	Okay.
	Well, there were two people who did, but they don't make it past that date, so it's fine.
	Oh, okay.
	You took care of that.
	All right.
	Thank you.
	Of course.
	I used my John Teeter suitcase and took care of it.
	Nice.
	See, I knew you were up for the job.
	Yep.
	Do you think he'll come back?
	Do you think there'll be any John Teeter-like mystery that is created around art this time?
	There has to be.
	I don't think it would be Arbell back on the air if there wasn't.
	Yeah.
	But I don't believe John Tater was ever on Art's show.
	No, I don't think he was.
	Well, he was only on the forum, right?
	On the Art Bell site.
	But that's still cool because it bled over into the conversation on the shows.
	Yeah, I remember reading those posts years ago and sitting there just going, is this real?
	This is not real.
	It could be real.
	Well, he seems pretty convincing.
	Nah, this is a bunch of crap.
	But it was fun.
	Like, again, the price of admission was worth it, right?
	Oh, completely.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it sure was.
	And that was, I think, my first exposure to message boards on the internet.
	Yeah, that was, I always think about this with Art.
	How many different areas of the Internet and Internet promotion, whether it's webcams online during a show, message boards with Keith, all of that, that he cats on the internet as a major topic?
	Art was so ahead of everybody else on that.
	Yeah, no one else was doing that where they would have a live broadcast and would be promoting something on their website at the time.
	I mean, he'd be talking about photos of Mars or crop circles and would direct you to his website.
	And in real time, Keith had got them up there.
	You could go on the web.
	You could have a look at these images while they were talking about it.
	I mean, that was so ahead of its time.
	That's, you know, stations and shows are only sort of doing that now or in the last five years.
	Yeah, actually, you know what, guys?
	The first computer that I built was so that I could look up these pictures that Art was talking about on the air because I listened to the show and I didn't have a computer.
	And it drove me nuts.
	It drove me insane what everybody was talking about.
	Oh, you got to go see this picture.
	It's up on my website.
	And I would just go crazy.
	Are you saying you built a computer?
	You know, you can go to the store and buy them now.
	Well, this was 1996, sir.
	I had spare parts from everyone I knew and built a computer and lo and behold, the thing lived.
	Just think if Art had partnered with a computer manufacturer, the C-Crane computer, personal computer.
	Listen to Art now.
	You know, that would be the best computer if it was a C-Crane computer.
	It would work on a boat, on a plane.
	You could wind it up.
	Yes.
	It's everything you ever needed in a computer, and you can listen to Art Bell.
	And it has a solar panel power.
	Yep.
	You know, if you want to think what's going to be big in the broadcast industry in about 10 years, everyone who's paid attention to what Art's doing currently tells you what it's going to be because he's getting ready to do it, to host a major name on the air as a podcast and a web stream or internet stream show and focusing on mobile.
	Because that's basically what he's doing is realize the power and importance of mobile.
	And his show is, I'm sure, going to be geared around that because of the method of how people are going to listen to it.
	And no one, if you listen to the radio today, all they're talking about with it is just phase one for us, which is a Blitz.
	The Blitz is focused on social media, which is typically on phones, but that's only our phase one.
	And all other radio shows are stuck there.
	That's all they have is communicate with Twitter and email.
	It's the facts of years ago to them.
	Well, I'm a little distracted right now because Art says in the chat he's in contact with Madman.
	This is actually going to happen.
	Maybe.
	I don't know.
	He's in contact.
	Who was the gentleman who was trying to contact him?
	Schiffist.
	No, that was Fearless One.
	Fearless one.
	That's Fearless for a while.
	And couldn't get the Madman to come on even with the lure of a chick fan.
	But apparently Art has gone into Madman's dimension and has talked to him.
	That would be awesome.
	That would be a great show.
	Wouldn't it?
	It would.
	But I'm a little disappointed that he's actually still around Madman Markham.
	I would have preferred that his time machine actually worked and he was off in the future somewhere or in the past.
	Maybe it's an alternate timeline.
	Madman.
	I was going to say, maybe there are more iterations.
	We don't know.
	That would be great.
	The first thing he tells us is that it's hard for him to communicate with us because he's having trouble adjusting to our dimension.
	Likely.
	Very, very plausible there, Curtis.
	Go with it.
	That's why he hasn't called into us yet because he's still adjusting.
	It's only really worth it to talk to the man.
	Right.
	Well, you know, his time is valuable.
	His time is now.
	Yeah, he just came back to 2015 to be on the air with art.
	Yeah, when I went to the future, I'm excited to tell you guys that Art became a senator, too.
	Did he really?
	Of Alaska, right?
	Was that where it was?
	I thought it was Arizona.
	Maybe it was Arizona.
	I thought it was somewhere close to Nevada, but not.
	Art's way too cool for Arizona.
	Sorry.
	He would make Arizona cool.
	Well, there's that.
	Well, maybe he's the western region of the reconstituted United States.
	I like where you're going with this.
	We have a caller.
	There we go.
	You're on the air.
	Wow.
	I can't believe that.
	It's the Never Ender.
	I'm kind of a lurker on.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I don't see you posting very often, Neverender.
	No, I just kind of hang out and watch, and I can't believe I actually got on first call.
	That's make yourself comfortable.
	Yeah, pull up a seat.
	Sit down.
	Tell us what you think.
	All right.
	So the Blitz, I've pushed hard, and I've tried to recruit all of one person, my brother.
	As long as that one person knows other people, that's a start.
	That's what I'm hoping for because he's really popular with the ladies.
	And so I'm hoping that he'll just, you know, spread that around.
	But yeah, he's a little, I mean, I got him to listen to Mysterious Universe, which is a podcast from Australia, but it gets talked about on Bellgab.
	But anyway, he's a little hesitant.
	I'm working on it.
	Anyway, just trying to tap into the collective knowledge here.
	I was listening to one of the streams on Shoutcast.
	And Ghost, it was an art episode with Ghost Wolf.
	And I only heard like the first few minutes where they were talking about some sort of photos from Colorado that were going to change absolutely everything.
	And Richard C. Hogan was going to call in, and it was going to be absolutely amazing.
	Because I didn't even know what episode that was.
	And it's kind of randomly taking the podcast off in a different direction.
	That's fine.
	Anybody?
	I'm going to go to Jazz on that one.
	I'm guessing he's our resident expert.
	Probably, yeah.
	Jazz, what do you got for me?
	I had to step away for a moment.
	Jazz went to another timeline.
	He'll be back in five minutes.
	Welcome, Madman, Jazzmunda.
	His time traveler badge to good use already.
	I never listened to the Ghost Wolf shows because I pretty much wrote him off as a quack.
	But do you have access to The ultimate Art Bell file?
	Oh, the Megatorrant.
	Yeah, the Megatorrant.
	Oh.
	Well, I know it's there.
	I think there's he's on at least once, maybe twice, two different shows.
	Okay.
	I mean, I don't really necessarily either.
	Here's a show.
	I'm just curious what sort of quackery he had that got him on the air and that got Art so excited.
	I mean, it's just there was like an hour of like open lines beforehand where Art, like, you know, oh, you can call in, but you can't talk about it.
	Like, you can give me your reaction.
	I'm just curious what it actually ended up being.
	I mean, I don't know.
	It's kind of academic at this point.
	I'm not aware of it actually changing the world, but Nati is watching the chat.
	I'm sure someone can point us in a direction on that.
	Well, I would say the best thing to do would be to look up that show and give it a listen.
	Yeah, General James just said Robert Ghostwolf.
	I think that's who we're talking about, yes.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Well, one thing you mentioned in there is probably a great topic for us to discuss is that next person that has a great story to share with art, what do they need to do to get connected to him to become, you know,
	Ghost Wolf or whoever, Teeter, the next remote viewing phenomenon, that person that hasn't had a lot of media exposure and might get lost to the C2C world if they went the wrong direction.
	I don't think it's going to be that difficult for art to plug in with new people unless they don't want to be plugged in.
	I think anybody that's trying to get their story out, I think it seems to me that when Art was doing the last show, they were actually, I don't want to say begging, but they were asking people to contact them for new ideas.
	So anybody that's got one, I think Art's going to have a pretty big ear to listen to that.
	Oh, yeah.
	And the contact details are right there on artbell.com.
	So going back on his, in the heyday of Coast to Coast, do you think people were always coming to him?
	I guess open lines, right?
	That was your open audition to tell your story.
	So that is how they'll have to connect.
	Hey, and the fax machine.
	Don't forget the fax machine.
	Has he said that that's going to be back?
	I don't think it's going to be back.
	I think he's actually pretty happy that thing died.
	But has he sent it to Michael yet then?
	Because I know Michael has all kinds of lawn mowing to do and rearranging rocks, whatever needs to be done.
	I think the deal is that MV needs to do all this landscaping, and then he gets to ask if the fax machine exists.
	And then he has to polish the ashtrays, wax the cars, feed the cats, and then maybe art will answer if he still has the fax machine.
	Is it okay if he knocks on the door with a complete sunburn?
	Or should he wait for that to heal first?
	I think he's allowed a couple of knocks.
	Okay.
	Well, I want to make sure he does this right because he's really, like, most of the time when him and I talk off of podcasts, it's him saying how much he wants that fax machine where he'll put the fax machine if he had it.
	How many times a week he'll have his daughter pray to the fax machine.
	Oh, I heard he even has the toner that goes with that particular machine.
	Yeah, there's one guy on eBay who had like 50 cartons of it and he bought them all because he wanted to quarantine the market.
	So that's what happened.
	See?
	Wow.
	He's so excited.
	I know I gave him about a half a case of paper just to make him happy one time a few days ago.
	He was so thrilled.
	Well, he's excited to blitz people, but he doesn't have the right fax machine yet.
	So hopefully we can make this work.
	He's going to do a fax attack.
	Can we do that?
	That's a good name for it.
	It is.
	Can we do a fax attack against Coast to Coast every night?
	Start a Twitter thing for every flub that happens.
	Hashtag fax attack.
	It's highly unspoken but encouraged as part of the Blitz plan.
	Let's see.
	Don't you have to listen to him for that?
	And I just make up your own mistake that he makes.
	It works.
	Just buy a spare radio.
	That's the best advice I can give you.
	But you have to separate, though, the guest from the host in that attack, right?
	That's the perfect response, Onin.
	It's not going to happen.
	Hey, I throw ideas up and I just leave it there.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	Before they land.
	Yeah, that's for sure.
	Yeah, so I can't wait for MV to start his fax campaign.
	I think it's going to have a big impact on this whole mission that's going on.
	So, Onin, what are you?
	I'm very curious.
	Are you putting out flyers and tweets crazy?
	I've been doing a bunch of that stuff.
	Yeah, that's me.
	Mr. Tweeter, I know you are.
	No, I don't know.
	I really want this thing to go well, but I just don't know where you guys pull all the energy for all this because I'm like, wow.
	Are you on social media at all, Onan?
	I have a phone.
	Can I go ahead and tell everybody the truth that Onin is actually Charlie Sheen?
	Yeah, that's right.
	Because using social media is like posting on Bellgab.
	It doesn't take a lot of effort to do.
	So, you know, it's not like we're going out there and spruking along the main streets of our towns.
	We're at our computers being keyboard warriors.
	God bless you.
	I really don't know where I'm finding the energy to do it either.
	It's just all part of my big Bellgab addiction.
	I know the intervention's going to come and happen here at any time.
	I have no doubt that this thing is going to be just a blockbuster.
	I don't think Art's going to have any problems at all getting big numbers.
	I just.
	Can I ask you just to take a piece of cardboard and write Art Bell July 20th and just sit it in the window of your car and as you drive around town, let people see it.
	Not going to happen.
	Or someone in the chat room, North Coaster, suggested that maybe you just call people randomly with your telephone.
	What?
	Maybe you could just randomly call people using your phone to tell them that art's coming back.
	I think that's a great idea.
	Yeah, I'll do that.
	I'll do that.
	I was waiting for you to say the second part of that.
	That's a great idea for somebody to do.
	I'm telling you, I would love to get that phone call right now, Onin.
	Oh, yeah.
	Pick up the phone.
	Hi, this is a dude from the internet.
	And guess what?
	Art Bell's coming back.
	I would just love to hear that.
	You know.
	I think you should run with that idea.
	I think you should go to town.
	So come to your house and bring extra phones for you to call on.
	I'll tell you what, as soon as the show's over with, I'll give you my address.
	How's that?
	Chef has said, we'll work for Art Bell.
	Signs like that.
	I'll just build a house on your back property and live a nice, wonderful, quiet life and mow your lawn.
	How about that?
	Now we can work something out.
	Well, let's do the Art Bell lawn mowing company.
	Have a random person from a forum you're not a member of come mow your lawn.
	I recommend you lock your doors first.
	I see this bringing world peace.
	Yeah.
	I can't wait.
	It'll be great.
	Yeah, so, but it's a lot of fun to see what everybody is doing to get the word out in their own way.
	It's kind of interesting.
	I get a lot of interesting PMs in all different kinds of codes, Morse code, hexadecimal, people that ask, are you a real person?
	Are you really answering this thing?
	Because I don't want to tell you my plans until I know that it's really you.
	What's the code word?
	Pizza rolls?
	If I tell you the code word, we have to change it.
	Well, I'll go ahead and tell you that if you drive past my house and you type in pizza rolls for the Wi-Fi password, you will get access.
	There you go.
	There you go.
	Now we're back in the real world.
	Yeah.
	And it'll all work out great.
	The other thing is that when you try to browse the web from my house, all you'll see are videos that Jasmine does made from YouTube.
	I'm doing my part.
	Thank you.
	No problem.
	You know, I would love either in the chat room or to call in for Art's wife to get her opinion if she's seen the trailers that are out there.
	What does she think about it?
	Because can you imagine your significant other says, look at this trailer that someone on the internet made for me.
	What's that like?
	It has to be cool.
	Very curious to hear what she would have to say about the jazz trailers and saucy's trailers.
	Yeah.
	By the way, 623-242-CAST.
	623-242-2278.
	Man, you're so much better at that than I am.
	Reading and talking, they don't go well for me.
	I haven't graduated to that level yet.
	Man, I'm still working on the talking.
	Don't worry about it.
	Good point.
	I'm a beginner level on the talking part.
	You know, I think if Erin sees the videos that I've done, she's going, oh, wow, that's awesome.
	That's great.
	But once she considers, what do you mean they'll show up on our front door?
	I think that's a whole different take.
	I don't know.
	I'm a little bit afraid for Erin to see Belgab.
	I hope she doesn't read too many threads too closely.
	Or at least realizes that we're all crazy.
	Start with that.
	It would be interesting to see what a group picture looked like with all of us.
	Wouldn't it?
	That's why we need to have Bell Gab Fest or some kind of convention.
	Yeah, that idea has been tossed around before.
	I think MB.
	I think MB summed it up best.
	He said, there are people out there that have guns and don't like me.
	Well, can we get like a ringer in for him?
	Come up with what we think our composite look for him could be and then have that person come out on stage.
	Or who's the motivational speaker, Tony Robbins?
	Have him play MV or be the embassy of our event.
	Not only would it bring bell gabbers together, but it might boost all of our collective self-esteem.
	No kidding.
	There are some bell gabbers that look like they might need jobs.
	And that's just based on the amount of time they spend.
	We've got another caller on the line.
	Hello, you're on the air.
	Hello.
	Hi.
	Who do we have with us?
	Who's on the line?
	This is Erin.
	Hi, Erin.
	How are you?
	Erin, it's you.
	How are you doing tonight?
	I'm good.
	How's everybody?
	Well, better now that we're talking to you.
	I'm so nervous.
	It's okay.
	We are too.
	We're talking to Art Bell's wife.
	We're talking to Art Bell's wife.
	We're nervous.
	Welcome.
	Welcome.
	It's good to hear your voice.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, I just want to say hi.
	I was making dinner and I saw the thriller and it was good.
	It was good.
	Thank you so much for giving tribute to Yeti.
	Ah, pleasure.
	My pleasure.
	Yeah, that was a cool touch to add.
	Now, you mentioned that you're making dinner now.
	Can we ask you what you're making?
	Just spaghetti.
	My daughter's favorite.
	That's my favorite, too.
	I hope you made enough for all of us.
	We're on our way.
	We're coming over.
	There's some left.
	Yeah, you can.
	They're just messing with you, don't you?
	So the four of us will have to fight.
	Seriously.
	Well, maybe only two.
	Four, not so much.
	Okay.
	Well, I think I.
	So, Erin, have you listened to any of your husband's shows in the past?
	Not so much.
	Sometimes.
	Sometimes, you know, it's hard to keep up with his time.
	You know, I split a little bit earlier than him.
	So sometimes, and sometimes I get spooky.
	The one with, I'm not sure what's the name of this guy.
	He was in Seattle, somewhere like that, Seattle or Portland.
	It was spooky.
	I got scared, so I turned it off.
	Some of them are pretty scary.
	You know, back in the day, he would start a lot of his shows with a warning, and that's how I always knew it was going to be a good one.
	Yeah.
	There's also one, you know, the one that's recording the coast.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	I can't listen because it's so scary.
	I am right there with you.
	Yeah.
	I am right there with you.
	I'm going to go like, what?
	Okay, I need to turn a light on.
	Oh, well.
	Well, I have to go now.
	And good luck, guys.
	And oh, wait, wait.
	There's one.
	Don't call their cell phones or home phones because they would not like that.
	Oh, no, we wouldn't do that.
	Because even me, I would not like that.
	No, we might do that.
	No, we won't.
	Yeah, we would do that.
	Yep, thank you for calling.
	All right.
	Thank you, Rebecca.
	Thank you for calling in.
	And I hope you guys stay cool out there in the desert.
	I'm sure it's really hot out there.
	It is, and we will die.
	Well, thank you.
	We are all excited for the big day.
	Take care.
	Wow.
	Wasn't that great?
	Yeah.
	Wow.
	Well, that pretty much made an episode for me, so I'll let you guys talk.
	This has been the Gabcast, ladies and gentlemen.
	That was Aaron Bell.
	How can you top that?
	I don't know that you can.
	I'd hate to be the show that's coming on after us.
	There is a show after us.
	I think we drop the mic after this.
	I could play some more of my random music that I played before.
	Here, we've got another caller.
	Just a moment.
	You're on the air.
	Hey, what's up, guys?
	Bateman.
	Hey, Bateman, how are you?
	Hey, Bateman, what are you doing tonight?
	What's up, man?
	I'm sorry, I don't know if you'll be as cool as our last caller, but we're going to give you a shot here.
	Well, I wanted to congratulate Jazz.
	As soon as she said she was making dinner, I thought, I'm going to be so mad if somebody doesn't ask her what she's making.
	That was the mystery of the night.
	That's all I was thinking about.
	That's five pages of a thread right there.
	We know a lot about what Art's been eating lately because he said he had an incident at Denny's.
	Yes, I was going to bring that up because after he joined the illustrious Belgab stall of shame by eating a dodgy meal at a fast food restaurant.
	Did you say the stall of shame?
	The stall of shame.
	That is correct.
	Okay, I'll mute my mic for a moment now.
	Does anything else unusual happen in that stall, Jez?
	No, no.
	But he did one thing that you should never, ever do, and that is to publicly admit that you ate at Denny's.
	You are correct.
	What amazes me is that you live in Australia and you even know that.
	I know.
	That's what I was sitting here thinking.
	Wow, Jazz.
	But he did spend two years in some crazy country, so probably got trapped at a Denny's at 3 a.m.
	I'd be remiss.
	Bateman, what did you have for dinner?
	Or have you had dinner yet?
	Me?
	What did I have for dinner?
	Yeah.
	All right.
	Everybody's going to make fun of me.
	It was cooked kale with chicken and pico de Gallo, grape tomatoes and corn.
	So what'd you have for dinner?
	Go get something to eat fried so we know you're American.
	I hope that was deep fried.
	Yes.
	It was really good.
	Jazz, you have mentioned that you've been eating healthier.
	You started eating quinoa, I know.
	I did.
	I did.
	Why I remember this, I don't know.
	That was during my fitness phase, and I actually got injured, and I couldn't run for about four or five months, and I put on all the weight that I lost.
	And now I'm slowly, slowly getting back into running and getting it all back off again.
	You know, I have a weight loss program, too, and it's called Every Year Around Wintertime, I Get the Flu.
	Well, there you go.
	You could just eat at Denny's and get the same.
	I got to say that I live in an area where there are no Denny's, and I sure as heck miss them because say what you want, but at 3 o'clock in the morning, that's a go-to place.
	You can't go wrong with the pancakes.
	It's pretty safe.
	I think that's all I've ever had there.
	But then again, my eating issues have eating issues.
	Yeah, but you know it's never fun to be out on the road, get something to eat that doesn't sit with your right and then ruins the whole trip.
	I I honestly didn't know what to say to that post.
	I'm like I'm just sitting here thinking, wow, yeah, that that sucks.
	Go.
	I don't know.
	Saucy Rossi says in the ch in the chat that I just had scotch.
	I did bourbon.
	That's what we imagine you having, scotch and that's even more believable.
	You know, Aldous and I had many a bourbon last I guess it was last Tuesday, yeah.
	Yeah, tell us more about that.
	You met up, right?
	This was good because you didn't take any pictures.
	No, no, no.
	It's funny because the hotel that he was staying at, the roof was actually closed, but they didn't lock the doors.
	So we like to think that it was one of these like, you know, wink-wink kind of things.
	Like, yeah, the roof is closed, but it's a really fucking cool roof that's got an amazing view.
	So maybe the people that work there were just like, oh, it's not technically open, but you should check it out because it's cool as hell, and we're going to make it accessible to you anyway.
	So we were out there until like 3 o'clock in the morning.
	I have to join you, sir.
	Aaron Bell is listening and you're cursing, sir.
	You're making us all look really bad.
	Sorry.
	Listen, I'm not going to drop any F-bombs redacted.
	It's funny, but I was thinking as you were telling that is thinking of the story of the girl who was found in the water tower.
	Has anyone actually talked to Aldous since you met up with him?
	Isn't it the other way around?
	Because the last time that Aldous met up with someone from Belgab, we didn't see Ziznak for months.
	Oh, you're right.
	Didn't he get a job, though?
	So Karma Balanced on that one.
	That's the story.
	Yeah.
	And somehow he got his login for it, just like I did for Eddie Dean.
	So Aldous is going around like a soul catcher.
	He's collecting Bell Gabbers.
	So was Aldous everything that you imagined that he would be?
	He's cool as hell.
	I mean, he's exactly the type of person that you would expect based on his posts.
	But, you know, it really is interesting because this is like the first person that I've met from Bellgab, and I would probably like to keep it that way for the most part.
	You have to live longer with that plan.
	But, you know, you don't get a sense of what the person's full personality is from the posts.
	It's like, oh, this person is a little more, you know, a little more fleshed out than just the crap that they post on this internet message board.
	It's interesting.
	But he's a really cool guy.
	He's a total hippie.
	He's exactly what you expect, really.
	And good conversation.
	And I enjoyed myself immensely.
	Good to hear.
	That is great.
	That is great.
	I'm glad you guys had a good time.
	I know he loves New York.
	I do have a question.
	Oh, yeah, he does.
	And I'm probably putting my nose too far into somebody else's business, but does Aldous have a job?
	Yeah, he does.
	He's a lot.
	I'm envious.
	I think he has a pretty cushy situation, really.
	I don't know if he talked about it on Future Theater last night at all.
	I mean, or, you know, I don't want to put information out there that's, you know, not saved.
	Yeah, I wasn't actually asked for I mean, I asked the question, but it was more really just for a fact.
	I don't expect to know what his business.
	But Yeah, he does something resembling work.
	I mean, I imagine it's a lot of fun for him.
	It sounds that way, but that would be an interesting conversation to have.
	I think his appearance on Future Theater last night was a lot of fun to listen to, but there's a lot more to him than just what he talked about, hallucinogens and his time with Timothy Leary.
	I mean, it's cool to hear about that stuff, but that's stuff that we didn't even get into in the you know, just when we were hanging out.
	But yeah, no, I would give all this the thumbs up.
	You know, he's not going to murder any of you if you meet up with him.
	I don't think.
	No, I've spoken to him.
	It's been quite a while now, but I've spoken to him a couple times on the phone.
	Yeah, he's got a rich life.
	There's some pain in it, but what he's told me, there's a lot there.
	Oh, yeah.
	He's a really, really cool guy to know.
	So, did you guys hang out all night on the roof?
	How long was this great Bell Gab meeting in New York, Bateman?
	I don't know, probably like 10 o'clock at night till like 3 in the morning.
	Nice, nice, good.
	Some good partying hours.
	Does that make you the official Belgab ambassador from the East Coast?
	From New York at least, because I don't travel to places like Philly.
	If somebody said you're in charge of all the East Coast and they said, well, you've got to do some event at Philly, I'll be like, oh, you've got to find somebody else for that.
	I see you kind of like the middle manager of the East Coast.
	How about that?
	So you can send people anywhere you want to.
	New York City division.
	Does that mean am I the Pacific ambassador?
	Yes, you are.
	No, you're middle management for that, too.
	You can boss anyone around you want to.
	Great.
	But you also have to listen to them and complain.
	You know, actually, Poppel is coming to the city this weekend, interestingly enough.
	Oh, really?
	And I think she is going to be on the pre-show when we do that.
	And that's coming up, what, like 10 days, something like that?
	10, 11, 12 days, when it is.
	It's going to be on the July 19th.
	Show, show the show of the Open Lines test.
	Wow, that's going to be fun.
	Do we know what time the Open Lines test is going to be?
	If you're in the chat room, can you give us a hint?
	That's a really good question because I heard mention somewhere, maybe I dreamed it, that it was going to be two hours.
	So I'm wondering if this is going to start at 9 or is it going to start at 10?
	He did mention that it was going to be two hours.
	I did say that.
	Okay.
	So I think we sort of need to know the start time of that so that, Bateman, we can plan what time we're going to start.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You know, if Art wants to start at 12, then I think, honestly, I was planning on going for like a solid four hours.
	And I think we can do it.
	I mean, Jazz.
	Yeah, all you guys, you remember, we made it almost three hours the last time.
	We could go four.
	I'll be drunk as a skunk by probably our live shot legs.
	Hang on.
	Art just said 9 p.m. to 11 p.m.
	Is that Pacific or is that East?
	Pacific.
	That sounds like Pacific right there.
	Oh, that's perfect.
	Okay.
	All right.
	So we're going to do it 8 p.m. to midnight East Coast time.
	Okay.
	That's what I'm thinking.
	I have to do the math now to work out Australian time.
	It might take me a few minutes.
	We can wait.
	That is awesome show you're planning there, Bateman.
	So Jazz is going to be there.
	Popple is going to be there.
	Are you going to give Popple her set of Dark City boy shorts?
	I really want to get those made up.
	I really do want to.
	JT Mucklestones just for Popple.
	You know, that's a really good idea.
	Have JP Mucklestone set it all up.
	Yeah, Dark Castle.
	That's why she is the general of the Blitz.
	You know, what about viral real-life marketing?
	What I mean by that is like, what if I were to put up in the subway system, have you heard this man?
	And a picture of Art Bell and like artbell.com under it.
	I would, the Scorpion Army would endorse that action, sir.
	You should be printing out these flyers and posting them all over New York.
	Yeah, I suppose I could.
	No, I'm just quiet because we're getting into classified territory.
	Okay.
	You know, one thing I was just thinking is for the show that you're going to be doing, the pre-show show, you guys need to give away a three-month subscription to the, as a time traveler, to somebody.
	Yeah, that is a good idea, actually.
	And is MV going to be paying for the subscription?
	Better be, so I'm not.
	This is just my idea.
	You know, it is a good topic, though, that there needs to be a gift subscription option.
	So many people are asking for that.
	I mean, how do we determine who wins, though?
	Now you're talking details.
	I'm not good at details.
	You're just the ideas guy.
	Exactly.
	I'm not good at spending out the people's money.
	That, too.
	My wife has trained me well.
	Yes.
	As is mine.
	I'm going to come up with some trivia or something there, Bateman.
	Oh, that's a good idea.
	All right.
	All right.
	Wheels are turning.
	Listen, I got to run, actually, but I'm very happy that we squared away the time.
	So we know that it will be 12 a.m. to 2 a.m. Eastern Time.
	That's when Art is doing the Open Lines test.
	So we'll go for four hours before that.
	And by the way, I'm putting together production work for it.
	Oh, so.
	Really?
	Such a professional, Bateman.
	There may be.
	Do we need to be wearing pants for this thing?
	Wait, was this going to be called a Gabcast?
	Is it officially a Gabcast episode?
	Because I won't be there for it, but that's part of the contract is no pants.
	I'm not listening if you guys wear pants.
	And we keep the webcams off, so, you know, do what you want.
	Wear what you want.
	What was I going to say?
	Do not wear pants.
	You can wear your muckle stones, but no pants if you're going to call it the gabcast.
	Yes.
	Well, listen, while everybody is listening right now, I need new, like, some of the best George Norrie flubs from the last month or so, because I haven't listened to the show in a very long time, and I can't even keep up with that thread.
	So the people who do keep up with that thread, I'm sure you have seen some amazing Georgisms over the last month or so.
	So if you could send those to me, we can put together the new GNS compilation.
	We'll play that on the pre-show.
	And I also, because we have so much time, I want to play the infamous Shirley McLean interview.
	And I have it edited down to like five or six minutes.
	It's unreal.
	I mean, I was driving back.
	I was living in Jersey at the time when I heard this.
	So I would listen to the first hour of Dave driving back to Jersey.
	And it just, I could only ever get through half hour, maybe 45 minutes.
	The Shirley McLean interview.
	I was so thankful that I happened to be in the car.
	I happened to be listening to it.
	I practically drove off the road.
	I was laughing so hard.
	It was like an SNL skit.
	It could not have gone worse.
	It's not a safety thing to listen to while operating any kind of machine, even your coffee pot at home.
	You're going to have an accident if you're listening to that Shirley McLean interview.
	Is that the one where she's hecking, cuffing out the line?
	Yes.
	Tears streaming down my face, laughing so hard.
	It's unreal.
	So I have to play it because I don't think a lot of people have actually heard this.
	And you know what?
	While I'm thinking of it, if George is listening to this and if George is listening to the pre-show and he's going to get all uppity about using coast audio, this is the definition of fair use.
	So you can blow it out your, you know.
	Well, is he invited to call in?
	Of course.
	Of course.
	Oh, I'm sure.
	I'd be happy to talk to George.
	You heard it here, Mr. Nori.
	You have an open invitation to call in, just like everybody else.
	And I have yet to find a cat astrologer.
	I thought I had one, but that's apparently not really the main thrust of what she does.
	So, Redacted, I know you're sort of in that.
	Yeah, actually, I did find a cat astrologer for you.
	I bring the goods, sir.
	Russell Grant will do astrology for pets, including cats.
	How about fish?
	Yeah, it's a thing.
	It's an actual thing you can get done for the right amount of money.
	Russell Grant.
	Well, we're not paying him.
	Well, it's where Mary Ann can call Russell Grant, go to his website, get a horoscope done for her main coons.
	I know that's been a concern of hers for quite some time.
	Well, that may happen.
	We shall see.
	Hey, I don't want to let you down, man.
	Well, listen, send me a PM because I would definitely get in touch with him.
	We'll see what we can do about that.
	Oh, you're going to have fun with this guy.
	Listen, I got it wrong, guys, but good show.
	And I will have a glass of bourbon and fade off into the night.
	All right.
	Good times, man.
	All right.
	Good night, guys.
	Thanks for calling.
	So, Jazz, are you excited to do this pre-open lines test show?
	Four hours.
	I'm really excited.
	That's marathon podcasting right there.
	I can tell you just.
	And then the next night, we're also going to be doing a special gebcast leading into the first episode of Midnight in the Desert.
	Really?
	Really?
	Is that going to go on like 7 to 9 Pacific?
	I only care about my time zone, by the way.
	Yeah, so do I. People talk about time zones.
	I'm like, oh, my God, what is this?
	There's an app for that.
	Yeah.
	There is an app for that.
	All I know is you guys better think of me during this time because I'll be out that week.
	I'm going to be away for work, so I'm going to probably miss out on most of the excitement.
	So like pour one out for me or something right before each show.
	How dare you?
	I know.
	You're not going to be able to listen to the entire first week.
	Is that what you're saying?
	Right.
	I might be able to hear some of the last couple days of that week, but I'll miss the beginning and I won't be on the spec sheet.
	Can you believe that here?
	Like, it's a dream come true that I do a podcast, which by itself is amazing.
	And then, two, it's on Dark Matter Digital Network.
	And then, three, Art's going to be live on the same network on a week that I could be on there, and I'm not going to be at it.
	I'll be missing it.
	I don't know who you are.
	I know it's well, hey, I threatened to quit, and then they said that I can't quit.
	So, gods are perverse.
	Yeah, so I'm going to be missing for most of the month of August, so I'm devastated.
	That's not right.
	That's just not right, you guys.
	It's just not right.
	Well, so Popol Bateman Jasmunda, is Eddie Dean going to be there?
	I mean, he would be so much fun.
	Yeah, I think it's sort of a bit of an open invitation at the moment, but I don't think I don't actually know what's been planned, so I'll leave that all to Bateman.
	Still kind of up in the air.
	Well, it sounds like it's going to be a really good time.
	Oh, it will be.
	Yeah, it's going to be.
	It's going to be.
	Yeah, and you guys are going to be properly hammered by the time the Open Lines test happens.
	I don't think anybody can have anything but a good time at that point.
	Four hours of partying.
	And then here we go, Open Lines test.
	Are you guys going to call in during it too?
	To the test?
	Yeah, I might do.
	I might do so.
	I'll try.
	Sure, hope so.
	Test out that international caller's line.
	Of course, you're going to call.
	North Coaster in the chat just said, look for me on the Nori Radio Network.
	Yeah, I'm doing top secret stuff here that week.
	Have you been head-hunted by George Nori Curtis?
	Is that what's going on here now?
	Is that what's being revealed as we speak?
	I think even he has standards.
	I'm just a sidekick.
	I couldn't.
	I was about to worry about Nori there for a second.
	Nori doesn't have standards, by the way.
	No, he doesn't.
	But he doesn't like sidekicks.
	He does.
	He does kind of have a thing for sidekicks, though.
	Oh, my gosh.
	Speaking of sidekicks, I don't know.
	It's probably a bad way to bring this up.
	And I know it was brought up on the last show, too.
	But yeah, so there's been a lot of talk about Hoagland.
	And I have a funny feeling that people are going to call him and give him a hard time on his show if he takes calls.
	I don't want to say that.
	I don't think so.
	Why would people do that?
	People aren't.
	No.
	Well, here's the thing.
	It's very easy.
	Sorry.
	It's very easy to call in and be a fan of something.
	It's a lot harder to call in and be critical.
	So I think that goes to his advantage.
	And if someone is professional enough to have legitimate information to go back and forth with him, they also have the professional wherewithal to know that's not the venue you call in and start that conversation because at least be courteous in your debate, so to speak.
	Well, some of those posts didn't look like very courteous.
	Yeah, it's very easy to post anonymously, and I know you can call in anonymously, but its voice is a bit different to text.
	I think that anybody that calls in and tries to challenge what's his name?
	What's his name?
	What are we talking about?
	What's your name, Bob?
	Hoagland.
	Hoagland.
	You're dealing with a man who can lay out a thick line of stuff.
	And he's not stupid.
	So somebody's going to call in and challenge him.
	He could probably run you off the road.
	I'd be careful about that if anybody's thinking about it.
	That's all, yeah.
	You know, listen to him.
	I mean, when somebody throws him a curveball, he just runs right through it.
	So who knows?
	And remember, he's going to be in control of the phone line, so he can hang up on the person and keep going.
	I think Eddie mentioned that in the chat room, that he can hang up and rant unchallenged.
	But yeah, if you're going to call in and you're going to challenge him, do it in a respectful way.
	Right.
	Yeah, like Onan was talking about earlier about having a good, you know, adult debate, adult discussion.
	You can, it can, it's possible to do that without just ranting on the guy.
	But I hope his Pluto flattened the show goes well.
	I don't think that Hoagland would necessarily fight fair.
	He would just, first of all, he does have control of the mic.
	Secondly, I don't think most people could hold a one-to-one conversation with him if he wanted to get down into his science-y stuff, no matter how inaccurate it is.
	What's that?
	No matter how pseudo it might be.
	Yeah, I mean, I mean, Asian Orange, Astro guy, expat, they could probably hold a conversation with him.
	But having said that, the minute that conversation started to happen, most people would just tune out.
	You know, so I don't know.
	Right, I agree.
	It starts to invalidate their argument if they're coming to it with facts on their side.
	Not because the facts become invalidated, but the presentation of the argument becomes invalidated.
	And you're right.
	He's got the higher ground of he can hang up on you and say anything he wants as his response.
	I mean, look at Rush Limbaugh.
	He's still on the air.
	Yeah.
	Well, and Hoagland is very well versed in his topics.
	So, you know, even if you knew enough to have an argument with him, how could you possibly be as well read on those topics as he is?
	You know, he can just railroad you with facts, and you wouldn't really know if they're true or not.
	So I don't know.
	I saw a lot of those posts of people jumping to attack the guy, and I hope his show goes well.
	Yeah, I think it will.
	Like Jazz said, it's easy to post that stuff in the forum.
	It's a lot harder to say the same type of things in an unfiltered way when you're talking to him.
	I don't see like with art, art is willing to come back at you and invite someone to disagree with him.
	It's a little bit different approach than what Richard does, which is giving information from his point of view.
	So I just don't see him antagonizing an audience to the point of them wanting to call in and just rip him out of context.
	I'm sorry, didn't mean to interrupt you.
	That out of context ruins the whole argument.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I forgot I was going to say.
	Sorry.
	Oh, I remember now.
	You remember?
	Go for it.
	We really don't know what kind of a show Hoagland is going to have.
	No.
	I mean, if it's going to be him just reiterating the things he said over, you know, the course of the last 10 years of his career, then it can't be.
	It'll be a week worth of shows, you know.
	Well, that's my point, is that at some point, you know, he's going to run out of gas from other things to say.
	So I'm imagining he will bring other people on to discuss other topics, but I don't know.
	I think he's going to have to widen his approach.
	Yeah, one question that I have is, is Hoagland going to be on Midnight in the Desert sometimes too?
	Or is he kind of off the bench in terms of guests because of the new show?
	Oh, that's a good idea.
	I don't know.
	I haven't seen any clues, but I can't imagine him not being on Midnight in the Desert even for an hour or so.
	Because obviously Midnight in the Desert, he's going to have a wider audience to get stuff out there.
	But then there's also the aspect that he has to do show prep and stuff for his own show.
	As long as we get a promo similar to what Ian Punnett had when he was on whatever medication, if we get something like that from Richard, it makes it all worth it.
	It'll be interesting to see whether he has call screeners or whether he does what art does and just pick up the next line.
	I think he has to have call screeners, in my opinion.
	Oh, unscreened, so much more fun.
	I agree.
	I wish we had more college.
	Art was doing that for years and years and years.
	I suppose you have to be ready for that type of thing.
	Yeah, I just, I feel like it could throw you off.
	It's like the chat room for us, where it can derail us from a conversation sometimes, that unscreened calls can do that to you, too.
	I could see him having organized his thoughts for this hour and get somebody who takes him a totally different direction.
	And while it might be funny to listen to, I doubt that's the kind of show he's going to try to deliver because then he's trying to mimic art.
	And they're two different guys with two different points of view.
	And I don't want to see him try to mimic art.
	I want him to do the Richard show.
	Oh, definitely.
	I want to see him do his own thing.
	I guess I'm just curious as to what his own thing is going to be.
	He might really surprise us with a wide range of knowledge on things or just interests.
	I will wait for you guys to tell me because I probably won't listen to him unless you guys come back and say, oh, it's really great.
	Then I'll give it a shot.
	But I do have a problem with someone who pads their resume and isn't as qualified as they say they are.
	Well, this podcast is over.
	And sorry, guys, we got to go now.
	No, I.
	Yeah, that's the great thing about being a listener or a potential listener is that if you know all that stuff and it does get to you, you don't have to listen.
	Yeah, I mean, I really like Agent Orange, and I really am interested with the posts of expat and Astral Guy.
	So to see them kind of stepped on by somebody who just has a lot of notoriety for basically not having to prove anything, yeah, it bothers me a bit.
	Yeah, I would love to find out that he's going to have people like that.
	I guess I want to say detractor, but that's probably not the right word for their point of view, but differing points of view and people that have a history with him to talk to them on the show and let them say their side.
	I would have a lot of respect for him if he did that.
	But it is his ball.
	He doesn't have to play.
	But it would be better to bring them on.
	I think it's going to be interesting to see where he takes it, where Richard takes his show the other side of midnight.
	It could just be a movie review show.
	It could.
	It could be recipes.
	It could be tips.
	I heard the rumor that it's the talking walking dead.
	Ouch.
	Well, I don't know.
	I'm probably the only person in this country that doesn't watch The Walking Dead.
	I'm so embarrassed.
	Read the comic book, it's better.
	The comic book is...
	I only watched two episodes of it.
	But being a geek, I've read the comic book, and I liked it a lot more.
	Can I borrow your comic books?
	Sure.
	Actually, you have the access to them from where I got them, too.
	Sorry.
	I'll send you the link.
	Okay.
	Go ahead, Redacted.
	Sorry about that.
	I'm in a room full of geeks.
	Should I leave you two alone?
	Him and I have been talking for a while together.
	We should probably share.
	Let me just tell you that talking for three hours and 45 minutes, it almost feels like a job.
	It does.
	It does.
	My throat's sore.
	Yeah.
	You guys are hanging in for a long night here.
	Oh, don't suck up now.
	You just called me a nerd.
	Well, you know, I include myself in that group.
	Just because I don't watch The Walking Dead doesn't mean I don't have every Star Trek and Voyager episode memorized, okay?
	One of the worst moments in my life is when I thought I brought up a really obscure Star Trek thing and then got crushed by Michael, Jackstar, and somebody else to find out that I know nothing.
	It's truly painful, isn't it?
	It is.
	I haven't recovered.
	So you go in there with like, I'm going to show you, and then you walk out bruised.
	It reminded me of the playground as a kid.
	I know.
	Oh, well, you know, you got some serious geek points right there for knowing about The Walking Dead is a comic book and that it's better than the show.
	Yeah, nice.
	It's like walking home in the first grade with one of your shoes missing because somebody took it from you.
	Well, let's just say I didn't eat lunch for weeks at a time.
	And I brought my lunch to school.
	And where'd that milk money go?
	Right.
	Yeah, actually, my parents lost their house because of all the lunch money that I had to give up.
	Oh, we led tough lives.
	But I read The Walking Dead comics.
	Well, and I have an original spawn number one from Todd McFarland.
	Do you really?
	Yeah, I do.
	Ooh.
	Can I borrow that?
	No.
	Do you have to wear what?
	Gloves to raid them?
	It's not been seen for at least 12 years.
	It stays in.
	I'm sure I'd see the plastic cover.
	Yes.
	Oh, it's in a vacuum sealed.
	Yeah, it's in the protected.
	Yeah, it's pride and joy.
	It's never seen sunlight, has it?
	At least I think it's spawn number one.
	That's what I paid for.
	I've never looked at it since it's in a bag.
	It could be anything, but they put spawn one on the cover.
	Yes.
	I tell my kids, I have three loves in this life.
	One is spawn.
	Two is spawn.
	Three is spawn.
	Well, you're consistent.
	I'll give you that.
	So what'd you think of that movie they did?
	Oh, that was terrible.
	Wasn't it?
	Yeah.
	They should have just given it a completely different name.
	Like, sucks.
	Yes.
	That would have been fine.
	The cartoon was really good, though.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I agree.
	They remake all kinds of terrible movies, but then something like that that deserves to have a good CGI movie, it sits there just wasting space.
	Yeah, yeah, and it'll probably never be remade now because it didn't do well at the box office.
	Disney will own it someday, and then they'll make the cartoon again, the cartoon movie.
	Ooh, there, that'll work.
	Disney touched it, yeah.
	You know, Disney has like stolen all the great memories of my childhood, but they won't take away the ones of the lunchroom and playground.
	That's true, but they'll try, yeah, they can't afford it.
	Uh, okay, I'm going to continue going comic geek.
	Citron asked who has the complete death of Superman, who has four copies of it, four copies of each issue.
	Uh, I'm raising my hand.
	Anyone else?
	Who is not surprised that you have four copies of each issue?
	Well, you have to be ready because you have to have a backup plan in case like location one gets destroyed.
	And let me tell you why.
	I used to have a Superman comic where they explained his origins, and it was the one where he was not able to fly but only able to jump great distances.
	I'm not making this up.
	Yeah, you go back to the original superpower.
	Yeah, that's when he was first drawn and first written.
	He couldn't fly, he could jump great distances and he could run fast.
	And my mother threw it away.
	Oh, man.
	And then he got Recon.
	Falky's mother.
	Yeah, it is.
	It's a faulty story.
	It really is.
	So you've been living on government money ever since.
	I have been.
	I got this little two-room apartment that's 300 square feet and I've got 10,000 magazines in it.
	Your mom threw away your comic book and you've been disabled ever since.
	And then she wouldn't let me talk to Bill Gates.
	Man.
	He made me come over and do some housekeeping.
	Now, listen, Jazz, the things you've been saying about his wife just aren't nice.
	And I don't even want to talk about it in this show, but man, those are some mean things you've done.
	And they're all true.
	There was another side to jazz.
	I'm sorry for going comic book.
	Everyone tells me to shut up usually about comic books.
	My brother had the death of Robin from the Batman joke.
	Really?
	And I was never allowed to read it.
	Okay.
	I really like your brother.
	Were you allowed to just hold on to it?
	I wasn't allowed to cover it.
	I wasn't allowed to touch it.
	I wasn't allowed to read it.
	Nothing.
	Could you be in the same room?
	No.
	Wow.
	So one day when he wasn't home, I went in and I found it.
	And when I found that, I found a whole lot of other different types of magazines stashed away.
	And my interest in Batman and Robin soon faded.
	I no longer cared about Batman.
	As long as the magazines weren't about Batman and Robin, too.
	Oh, yeah, they were.
	A different Batman and Robin.
	Yes.
	Quick story.
	He says that he has the number one Star Wars.
	What, the movie?
	The comic book.
	Is there a Star Wars comic book?
	Yeah, there used to be from Star Wars everything.
	Yeah, it had a totally different line than the movies.
	I would imagine.
	What would a Star Wars number one be worth?
	I don't know.
	That's a good question.
	I have no idea.
	I never got into those because I'm a movie purist.
	I made the mistake of getting into the expanded universe books and then realized that those were just soap operas.
	And so I went back to the original trilogy.
	Really quick, when I was in college, a house that I rented with there was four of us who rented this place.
	And I had a huge collection of comic books, and I have a huge collection of unopened toys, too.
	I admit it.
	And I had them all on display in my room.
	And someone broke in over the 4th of July, and they went in through my window, and they passed my room up and robbed my roommates of all kinds of stuff.
	And when the police caught them, and I knew the police officer who was a part of it, and he knew that I had thousands of dollars worth of toys in the room.
	They're like, why did you pass that room up and go on to the others?
	I said, well, we thought it was a little kid's room.
	And you could have walked out of there and sold that stuff so quickly and easily if they knew what it was worth.
	Was this while you were in college?
	Yeah, I was in college, yes.
	So I'm guessing you didn't see much action on the female side of things with a room full of toys.
	That's another painful memory.
	I'm glad we brought up for this episode.
	And I couldn't.
	He sees all the action figures and just leaves.
	Well, I did get a lot of action, though, actually, figures.
	I bet you had a whole shelf full of action figures.
	Yes, I did.
	Don't touch them for God's sake.
	Some of them are still in the box.
	Just dust them off carefully.
	Yes.
	Well, if I wanted to actually open it, I had to buy two of them.
	Of course, of course.
	You got to have one that is never opened and one that you play with.
	Yes.
	That's the sign of true nerd.
	It is.
	Sometimes two.
	Yeah, I proudly wear that.
	And yes, I played Wingman to my friends when we go out far off, and then I played the main guy.
	Well, that actually brings to mind, this rolled past the chat probably an hour ago, but Morgus suggested should someone go to Comic-Con and pass out flyers for Midnight in the Desert.
	And that's excellent.
	That's a great idea.
	That is deep into geekdom, and I'm sure they all want to hear Art Bell.
	What's the demographic of a Comic-Con, though?
	All rages.
	38 years old.
	She lives in the Midwest.
	Oh, wait, never mind.
	There'd also be a lot of people born sort of after millennium kids that wouldn't have a clue who Art Bell is.
	Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
	But they'd love it once they heard it.
	Oh, of course they would.
	You know, get some fellow geek out there and say, hey, you guys, you got to go.
	This guy's coming back on the air.
	Pull up some old YouTube shows.
	You're going to love this.
	And I bet there would be some listeners in that crowd.
	But what about people who do cosplay?
	We need to have a cosplay art group.
	What do you dress up as?
	Males Hole.
	Mels Harry.
	Mel's Hole.
	Okay.
	So we need that.
	We need Richard C. Hoagland.
	We need Dr. Doom, right?
	Curtis.
	You're no longer a nerd.
	You're now just fucking crazy.
	Well, I'm not saying that I dress up.
	We all have to have limits.
	I do have a limit.
	Okay, well, that's good to hear because, you know, I've got this picture of somebody dressed up as Art Bell in hot pants, and it just isn't working.
	I have a hard time with it, too.
	Yeah, you'd put error over here.
	So how amazing was that that Erin called?
	It was awesome.
	It was weird because you picked up the line and she said her name right when we were asking who's on the line.
	And all I caught was a tail end in, and I didn't put it together.
	No, I sort of realized it was her and I was waiting for her to say it again.
	But do you think it must have been Art's idea to get her to call?
	He must have had to convince her.
	Oh, no.
	I don't know.
	She wants to call.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	That's great.
	Did you notice the end of the conversation?
	Don't fucking call this phone.
	No, I really got to say that.
	That's how smart you think.
	She drew a hard line, and I know I'm not crossing it.
	She didn't say that, did she?
	I thought she said.
	No, no, she said, don't call.
	Yeah.
	You're paraphrasing.
	But I'm adding the Odin bomb to it.
	But no, I got the distinct feeling that it was like, don't mess with me.
	And that's good.
	That's nice to know.
	I thought she was talking about because we had mentioned before to sort of call up random people.
	And I thought she was talking about don't call up random people.
	They wouldn't like it.
	Oh, like a callback to that joke.
	I don't know.
	We were all talking about coming over for dinner.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	Because I'm still coming for dinner.
	But I think you're invited, but she says, start walking now.
	Yeah, that was really cool to have her call in.
	And it's nice to know that she has listened.
	And you know, you're a real Art Bell fan if you had to actually turn the radio off at some point because it was just, wow, that moment.
	Whether it was an EVP or a story about some future possible version of the earth after a calamity.
	Everyone who's listened to art has that story or that episode that gave them cold chills.
	Show, yeah, that was so spooky and just really got to you and you had to turn it off.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I don't freak easily, but I got to tell you, the ghost investigator, those always put a bit of a creep into me.
	Yeah.
	I got to admit, I think it was the third or fourth Malachi Martin interview, I had to turn it off.
	I'd turn it back on, of course.
	I'd give myself five, 10-minute break there, just turn it off right in the middle of them talking.
	I think it was when he was talking about the perfectly possessed.
	I went, okay, okay, okay.
	Hang on now.
	Turn that off.
	Mental process, processing, turn it back on.
	I can't stop looking.
	I have a different tool that I use with Malachi Martin.
	And I can't help it.
	Whenever I heard him talk, I thought of Lucky Charms cereal.
	To be sure, to be sure.
	I could never listen without starting cracking up.
	You just ruined a whole series of old shows.
	I can never listen to him again now.
	I guess you didn't ruin.
	You just enhanced them.
	So next time there's a really scary show, we're all going to ask you, what do we do, Onan?
	How do we handle this?
	How do we deal with it?
	Just pick up a bowl of cereal.
	Go away.
	I have to mention this, going back to cosplay really quick.
	If I dress up as Ed Dames, redacted, will you go as Ed Dames' wife?
	No.
	Oh, man.
	That was my one shot.
	No.
	You needed the lewds, man.
	Well, I'm no Bill Cosby.
	I think many people have told me that.
	You, sir, are no Bill Cosby.
	I heard that all the time growing up.
	I don't know that you'd want to be Bill Cosby in this scenario.
	He did get punched in the face.
	Yeah.
	I just want his bank account.
	I don't want anything else associated with him.
	Well, maybe I want that pen from, was it Fat Albert?
	I want that ink pen to draw with, but after that, I don't want anything else.
	Oh, wow.
	I'm just still sitting here amazed that Miss Aaron Bell called our little show.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, and I'm really hungry for some spaghetti now.
	That's what I was thinking.
	I kept wondering how she said spaghetti.
	So how many bell gabbers are going to be making spaghetti for the rest of this week?
	Well, and tweet your photos with a hashtag Art Bell.
	Yes.
	Yes, please do.
	I was thinking about.
	Hashtag Art Bell, hashtag what's for dinner.
	Yes.
	Get that trending.
	I think for your guys' live show, what you should do for a contest is you should have people tell their stories of how they first listened to Art Bell, what it was like, and that emotional connection they have to it.
	That's a good idea.
	Because you could do that and then maybe use social media for voting.
	Yeah, there you go.
	And put a hashtag with it.
	Coming up with the good ideas, Curtis.
	I'm trying.
	I like this.
	I need to be worth something because I really can't do intros and outros to shows.
	We're just going to put it on the air for forever.
	You can't end.
	Yeah, bad news, guys.
	This episode needs to end, but it's not going to.
	Wow.
	I guess I don't get spaghetti or anything else for dinner than tonight.
	Nope.
	I'm going to make spaghetti, but I don't know if anybody else has seen this.
	And this is so off-topic.
	But you can now buy spaghetti noodles that are like half the length of normal spaghetti noodles.
	Has anybody else seen this?
	No.
	Oh, it's awesome.
	So you don't have to.
	It's awesome.
	You don't have to break them.
	They're already broken.
	So, you know, like 15 of them don't fly on the floor.
	So that's a universal thing then.
	It's like socks disappearing from the dryers.
	Yeah.
	Good.
	If you've lived in your house for more than a year and you don't have spaghetti noodles somewhere on your floor, there's something wrong with you.
	You're not living.
	Yeah.
	So anyway, yeah, spaghetti's on my list for this week.
	It pretty much is every week.
	Spaghetti, it's what's for dinner.
	Well, it is this week for the Art Bell fans, I'm sure.
	But the question we didn't ask is what sauce was on top of that spaghetti.
	I wanted to ask.
	It was on my tongue, but I didn't want to jump in.
	Should I call back?
	Yeah, maybe.
	We need to know.
	Just call up say, Erin, I know we promised we wouldn't call, but we have to know.
	We have to know if it's roasted garlic or just basil tomato.
	Yeah.
	Now, I'm going to let you finish eating, but I got to know first.
	Those are ballnets.
	Were they meatballs?
	Do you put some parmesan cheese on top?
	These are questions we need to know.
	I'm not going to.
	I agree.
	Jazz, you call.
	Definitely call.
	You got the magic phone line there, Jazz.
	All right.
	I'm doing it, guys.
	No, but I thought that.
	See if I got the right thing here.
	Really kind of cool that she did say, and please don't call this phone because I will break every bone in your body if you do.
	Yeah, and no, we don't have enough spaghetti for you, it's just for us.
	That was great.
	No, she's good.
	She had enough, so it looks like me and you redacted.
	We yeah, I get the feeling that somehow I wouldn't make it.
	Like, I wouldn't make it off the island or on the island, whatever it is the cool people do.
	You guys would walk into my room, see my toys, and say, No spaghetti for you.
	I would drag you along, Curtis.
	Well, thanks.
	Well, again, just pour one out for me as you guys are drinking your free spaghetti meal.
	We'll give you a can of spaghetti o's.
	Hey, you'll be good.
	That works.
	That's what always made it better for me as a kid.
	So, so, on that note, before we do any more of my childhood, see if I can fade some music in.
	It was a lot of fun tonight.
	Yeah, thanks, everybody.
	It was fun.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, thanks for joining and helping me out and not yelling at me too much.
	Next week, get ready.
	Yep.
	The yelling will be back.
	Yes.
	All right.
	Well, thanks, everybody.
	Make sure to go to ufoshift.com to download this episode or in your podcaster of toys. Don't forget to listen to the spec sheet and the prep files. We'll be back next week. Good night,

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