Ok you slack cunts! Art Bell is on the air again tonight!

bennyonesix · Post by **bennyonesix** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 4:51 pm

It's been a long long time but the master is back!

http://artbell.com/

Koko, Beware · Post by **Koko, Beware** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 7:45 pm

Looking forward to it. One of the top ten freakiest moments in my life was waking up from a bad dream to hear this bumper music on the old Coast to Coast:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb-SVPJM4L4[/youtube]

bennyonesix · Post by **bennyonesix** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 8:00 pm

I remember one night this dude called in and said he was the "Six Fingered Messiah" and just went off.... For some reason that scared the shit out of me. Art is the best at getting the nutters to ramble in an almost linear fashion.

And then another time in Tucson I was listening when the first dude called in about the Shadow People who you can only see out of the corner of your eye. You could tell Art was like "Oh shit I can ride this gimmick for the next two years!" He was so fucking pumped.

Koko, Beware · Post by **Koko, Beware** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 8:05 pm

Art was really riding the perfect storm for a while back right before Y2K and then on into 9/11..he still had his fastball, people were varying degrees of freaked out and he was selling those wind up radios. Very good radio if you happened to be up from 1-5 AM here in the East Coast.

Turdacious · Post by **Turdacious** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 8:15 pm

bennyonesix wrote:This is IrongarmX. You get to choose either or both of the following as your response:

a) Who cares!?!?

b) Who cares!?!?

There is nothing significant going on here. Nothing at all.

bennyonesix · Post by **bennyonesix** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 8:33 pm

Koko, Beware wrote:Art was really riding the perfect storm for a while back right before Y2K and then on into 9/11..he still had his fastball, people were varying degrees of freaked out and he was selling those wind up radios. Very good radio if you happened to be up from 1-5 AM here in the East Coast.

He got real pissy there for a few years and got fixated on the weather and then married a Pinay and flew the coop to The Philippines.

If I am any thermometer for freaked out by what is going on in the world, Art is gonna do great.

I know he was always cracking on that Noori doof for being too square so I am hoping for The Big Crazy from Art.

There were only two other radio guys who could compete with Art in my mind and the best thing was they all did different shit: Classic Art, Joe Frank at any point in his career and early Phil Hendrie.

bennyonesix · Post by **bennyonesix** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 8:46 pm

Turdacious wrote:
bennyonesix wrote:This is IrongarmX. You get to choose either or both of the following as your response:

a) Who cares!?!?

b) Who cares!?!?

There is nothing significant going on here. Nothing at all.

Why are you so upset about this, Turd? I guess I see what you are talking about... I guess. But you seem really wound up. I am a little concerned. I mean it's ok to feel strongly about stuff but this seems waaaaaaay more than just reasonable concern? Is there something else going on? It just seems like your reaction is really out of proportion to the importance of this whole thing. Are you feeling ok?

Koko, Beware · Post by **Koko, Beware** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 9:21 pm

bennyonesix wrote:If I am any thermometer for freaked out by what is going on in the world, Art is gonna do great.

Yeah this could be a very good time to be Art again. I'd say at least 33% of Americans think Obama may be a shapeshifting lizard and that the world could end soon AND the X-Files are coming back. Just like the late 90s which come to think of it, was pretty fucking awesome.

bennyonesix · Post by **bennyonesix** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 10:15 pm

Koko, you listen to Joe Frank? Did a show out of KCRW in LA? The Seinfeld guy stole from him like a maniac. And that was only the smallest part of what he did.

Or like pre-2004 Hendrie?

Koko, Beware · Post by **Koko, Beware** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 10:24 pm

Neither. Never heard of either but will check them out.

bennyonesix · Post by **bennyonesix** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 10:29 pm

Oh. mY. GAWD. I. CAN'T. I. JUST. CAN'T.

Protobuilder · Post by **Protobuilder** » Tue Jul 21, 2015 2:02 am

Art. Bell. Is. Back.

He's either going to succeed huge or suck in a bad way and disappear inside of six months. My bet is on the former. People are crazier today than every before. His gig is tailor-made for the Facebook generation.

Boris · Post by **Boris** » Tue Jul 21, 2015 3:25 am

Wow... I've been listening to Coast to Coast off and on since 1997. I think I stumbled across it when I was commuting late nights. Don't mind George Noori, but I really liked the Art Bell days.

I guess I'll be getting a little less sleep than I wanted tonight.

bennyonesix · Post by **bennyonesix** » Tue Jul 21, 2015 3:38 am

There was a major freakout because there were false(?) rumors that there was going to be a co-host (female).

I am so psyched.

beefheart · Post by **beefheart** » Tue Jul 21, 2015 9:17 am

meh. His time has passed. There are a thousand podcasters out there.

Protobuilder · Post by **Protobuilder** » Tue Jul 21, 2015 9:42 am

This isn't a podcast. This is radio.

I'm surprised that Benji listened to an AM radio show for paranoid people.

bennyonesix · Post by **bennyonesix** » Tue Jul 21, 2015 3:34 pm

It. Was. All. I. Hoped.

Earth Shattering Comets.

Anxiety about The Powers That Be and how they manipulate the Reptilian Hindbrain.

Character Assassination of Fellow Nutters.

Art declaring his lust for Pot.

The guest admitting he toked for 12 hrs a day for years and then had a come to jesus moment while he was tripping on Ahayhuasca when a goddess yelled at him for being a god damn waste of a pothead... But now he can smoke out again because he respects mary-jew-wanna.

So happy.

bennyonesix · Post by **bennyonesix** » Tue Jul 21, 2015 3:35 pm

beefheart wrote:meh. His time has passed. There are a thousand podcasters out there.

You aren't allowed to listen anyway.

bennyonesix · Post by **bennyonesix** » Tue Jul 21, 2015 3:39 pm

Protobuilder wrote:This isn't a podcast. This is radio.

I'm surprised that Benji listened to an AM radio show for paranoid people.

If I ran shit my life would be: coffee, roman history, audio lectures, lifting, beer, baseball, xananx, sensory dep tanks, strip clubs and art bell.

I also want to try DMT.

Oh yeah and my guns.

Boris · Post by **Boris** » Tue Jul 21, 2015 8:59 pm

bennyonesix wrote:It. Was. All. I. Hoped.

Earth Shattering Comets.

Anxiety about The Powers That Be and how they manipulate the Reptilian Hindbrain.

Character Assassination of Fellow Nutters.

Art declaring his lust for Pot.

The guest admitting he toked for 12 hrs a day for years and then had a come to jesus moment while he was tripping on Ahayhuasca when a goddess yelled at him for being a god damn waste of a pothead... But now he can smoke out again because he respects mary-jew-wanna.

So happy.

So, I stayed up past midnight to hear Coast to Coast and it was George Noori again... Was this a pod cast or is my local station playing older shows???

bennyonesix · Post by **bennyonesix** » Tue Jul 21, 2015 9:04 pm

http://darkmatterdigitalnetwork.com/

Right now it is primarily an internet radio broadcast but there are some traditional radio affiliates with many more on the way I'd imagine...

Art is trying to own the whole thing so he is starting small.

I think there are like 4 options: TuneIn, Pop-Up, AAC and an MP3 option. I thought the AAC was the clearest...

Oh yeah, Noori has Coast to Coast and XM kept him off the air until that contract was up...

Koko, Beware · Post by **Koko, Beware** » Wed Jul 22, 2015 12:37 am

I caught some of it. Like Fast Eddie Felson at the end of the Color of Money, Art's back. Took me a few minutes to get used to his voice sounding a little more marble-mouthed.

Koko, Beware · Post by **Koko, Beware** » Wed Jul 22, 2015 12:42 am

Bumper music was great too. IMO that is a huge part of the show.

bennyonesix · Post by **bennyonesix** » Wed Jul 22, 2015 12:44 am

Try the AAC broadcast or another one. I used the AAC and we thought he sounded younger than we could remember.

seeahill · Post by **seeahill** » Wed Jul 22, 2015 2:06 am

Art is the guy you want when you're driving all night across the American west and there's no FM radio or indeed any radio, but Art. You got to hear things you'd never hear in your real life.

IGX

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