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Art Bell Back in Time
- rsync 5y agoIf you are an Art Bell fan you owe it to yourself to listen to the Phil Hendrie parodies of the show that he did back in early 00's ... "North of the rockies ... South of the rockies ..."
- tunap 5y agoPhil Hendrie was my favorite go-to night desert driving companion. That guy was hilarious with his "fake news". While not an Art Bell fan, I do recall when he was on The Today Show or Good Morning America, the hosts laughed and chided him about his book warning of the coming super storms and rising sea levels from global warming.
- pwned1 5y agoMan, what ever happened to Phil Hendrie? I loved his episode where he had the preacher on who was making the case that god hated trailer parks because they were impermanent homes, and he gave the Israelites a permanent home, therefore that's why tornadoes always hit trailer parks.
- function_seven 5y agoHe’s got a podcast now. I subscribe but it’s just not the same as it was in the KFI days. No callers and no 4-act structure. Also, the characters’ voices all sound suspiciously similar in a way that they didn’t over shitty AM radio… Phil was amazing back then. I have a “Best Of” CD somewhere; I should rip it.
- yonaguska 5y agoHe still has his podcast. Actually on the anniversary of Art Bell's death, Phil played some of the episodes that he did in collaboration with Art Bell.
- sakopov 5y agoOh man, I remember listening to Ghost to Ghost when Art Bell used to take calls from audience for Halloween. Those were some of the best shows! Also, does anybody remember the show where some dude called him while supposedly flying over Area 51? Thank you for sharing this list!
- _yoqn 5y agoAt around the 1:21:00 mark of Ep69 we get into extreme internet nostalgia when Art's brand new website gets overloaded after announcing some new photos he uploaded. He got his web guy on the air to explain the phenomena. Just a great little bit of internet nostalgia from the 90's in living AM filtered audio. Worth a listen on the 1 hour and 21 minute mark.
- egfx 5y agoI used to work obscenely late hours in my QA days at Bliizard and I would listen to Art Bell alone in my car late at night outside an undeveloped area of Irvine looking at the hills and the stars at 1am for my dinner break. I still listen to Coast to Coast for 30 minutes every night for the bumper music or more if the topic is interesting.
- mmcgaha 5y agoBack in the 90s, my girlfriend and I would go out drinking and end the night in the back of her van listening to Art Bell and sobering up. The show I remember most was when a guy called saying he was flying into area 51 and Art was trying to talk him out of it.
- egfx 5y agoYep that one and the just as chilling and lesser known one where the line gets mysteriously cutoff after some guy claims he discovered the secret to all phenomena being in the form of inter dimensional beings living amongst us.
- synaesthesisx 5y agoWhat? Wondering if there's any more information about this...
- egfx 5y agolook here (google search is getting scary good now) : https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/the-outer-limits-a-lone-voice-in-the-desert-lures-10-million-listeners/2013/10/28/95615598-3ff6-11e3-9c8b-e8deeb3c755b_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/the-outer-limits-a-...
- adolph 5y agoThat’s weird, this guy flew by taking pics without issue. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32919/pilot-takes-amazing-images-of-area-51-and-tonopah-air-base-while-skirting-restricted-airspace https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32919/pilot-takes-amaz...
- tlholaday 5y agoRequest for advice: I don't know Art Bell, though the name seems like one I have heard previously. Would you advise me to just start listening, or would you advise me to use a search engine first? As a guide to your advice, were it Andy Kaufman or Henry Fielding, the advice I'd want would be "just start watching" or "just start reading"; but if it were Robin Hanson, the advice I'd want would be "read this report about Hanson at the academic philanthropy meeting first."
- steve_avery 5y agoI listened to Art Bell's coast to coast AM program a few times as a kid, and I think it doesn't need to much in the way of introduction. I vote that you just dive in, but I will say that just diving in is a strong bias of mine.
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- LeoPanthera 5y agoArt Bell was an American broadcaster and author. He was the founder and the original host of the paranormal-themed radio program Coast to Coast AM, which is syndicated on hundreds of radio stations in the United States and Canada. He also created and hosted its companion show Dreamland. Coast to Coast still airs nightly. He died in 2018.
- dunnevens 5y agoJust dive in. You could find a list of the more far-out episodes. But the fun of Art was not knowing what to expect. Even when the guest was boring, there might be a caller who wants to talk in detail about the starship that abducted them last night.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoThere are some real classic episodes that are an amazing introduction. There’s one where a guy calls in from his cell phone while ion a Cessna about to fly over Area 51. Art urges him not to do it . The last we hear from him is his reports of fighter jets approaching. That’s not even an interview it’s just a caller! Even if completely fake, the entertainment value was huge. I’ll reply later with some links to 2-3 of the best classics in my opinion.
- dunnevens 5y agoArt Bell had the absolute best voice for late night radio. Used to listen to him on my overnight road trips between Salt Lake and Vegas. Just the endless desert under a full moon, and Art's guest is rambling on about interdimensional beings. Could almost believe it for that moment. One of my favorite things about Art was the tension. Did he believe what his guests and callers are saying? Or is he just humoring them for the show? I never knew the answer. Not sure if I would want to know.
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- qbasic_forever 5y agoUnfortunately his voice came from a lifetime of smoking cigarettes that eventually contributed to his death.
- hallway_monitor 5y agoLife contributes to death. Do what you like and don't shame others for doing the same.
- mitchdoogle 5y agoSometimes shame is useful. Cigarettes are gross and unhealthy, not just for the user, but for the people around them. It is a costly habit, and most importantly, often leads to premature death. If anybody I care about smokes, you can bet your ass I'm shaming them. They shouldn't be doing it.
- mensetmanusman 5y agoObesity as currently practiced is 10x worse, shame doesn’t seem effective.
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- porcoda 5y agoI loved listening to Art Bell in the 90s when I was doing college homework or just hanging out at home. I’ll never forget listening to the Sept. 11, 1997 show live with my roommate - that was kind of freaky. (https://kprcradio.iheart.com/featured/the-pursuit-of-happiness/content/2018-04-16-remembering-art-bell-the-area-51-caller/ https://kprcradio.iheart.com/featured/the-pursuit-of-happine...)
- 1123581321 5y agoI love Art Bell and late night spooky AM radio. Who’s behind this patreon and podcast, though? I don’t see any evidence that his estate is benefitting.
- atdrummond 5y agoMy understanding is Airyn and his children have been enabling this and the vault.
- AdvancedSimian 5y agoDo they actually own the rights to these old broadcasts? I'd be surprised. Coast to Coast's website has an "Art Bell Vault" with old episodes. I bet they're the rights-holder, rather than whoever is behind this podcast. Edit: the matter of ownership doesn't necessarily matter to me, but I am curious as to who is behind this.
- atdrummond 5y agoArt owned the name and other branding for at least a period of time, but it’s entirely possible Premiere (part of iHeartMedia now I believe) eventually acquired it. The actual shows are probably Premiere’s. Unless I have been misinformed, the vault has been done with the estate’s approval and his widow and kids support the Patreon based on the C2C FB groups; who is directly managing it has never been made publicly clear that I can find.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoSo many great memories from the 1990s and early 2000s… driving in the night over lonely desert roads in the American southwest with Art Bell.
- Svperstar 5y agoArt Bell was amazing in the late 1990s........then I think his son being sexually assaulted messed him up because was all downhill after that. He would constantly flake out and always had an excuse. He finally got a new show, then claimed people were shooting guns outside of his house so he had to cancel his show. Always some kind of drama with him for the last 15 years of his life.
- lootsauce 5y agoOh man I remember a series of episodes about a tech ceo (American Computer Co or something like that) spilling the beans about all the info tech came from reversed alien craft, the Shockley semi conductor was a cover and bell labs was so productive because they were working from examples. My younger self ate it up, lots of nostalgia for those late night spooky revelations.
- lootsauce 5y agoNow that I think about it I believe these episodes were from Jeff Rense who’s show was similar, lots of ufos, paranormal, etc.
- macdaknife 5y agoThis is a scam. Period. I just said. In my phone three times in a row. Abel didn’t on the rights to most of the shows he did. Clear Channel did. They didn’t sell them to his wife or anyone else. Whoever is running the site is making money off art bell. Art probably wouldn’t of minded this at all by the way but I do. I happily gave money to Art when he was alive but when he checked out he checked out. There’s a better option on Apple anyway for art bell. Rekola Midnight. I’m sure that’s not anything to do with his family either. It’s just that they’re not looking for Patreon donations. Have people no shame that they’ll stoop so low to prey on a dead man’s legacy?
- _yoqn 5y agoThat's an interesting point you're bringing up. Needs to be looked into further. Maybe you could alert Apple to potential copyright infringement? I personally just found this on my Spotify feed and got a nostalgia pang so wanted to share. The only link I could find was for Apple...
- malwarebytess 5y agoThis particular one is being done by his family/estate.
- macdaknife 5y agoProof?
- pwned1 5y agoRest in Peace, Art. I spent many many nights glued to my radio listening to your show.
- varelse 5y agoWhat was a wonderful pre-apocalyptic buzz guilty pleasure back in the 90s is now the sad precursor to MAGA. Why are people so utterly stupid? But, for real, I was in the theater next to Art Bell when he watched Contact. And you know how much he loved that movie. That said, the night the satellite feed was cut after the supposed Area 51 worker called in and said everything about the aliens was real was to die for.
- api 5y agoThat was back before the fringe was, like everything else in our culture, politically weaponized. It was largely apolitical back then, or if there were politics it was 90s libertarianism of a sort that seems shockingly sane today. Much of the audience and I think Bell himself were pretty skeptical too. It was about having fun and exploring wild possibilities, like a radio version of the old Amazing Stories pulp serials.
- varelse 5y agoNo he hated Bill Clinton and he said so many times. It wasn't the beat you to death with a hammer if you disagree with me because you hate America kind of politics but it was always there if you asked him and I actually did to his face because, you know, sitting next to him in the theater and all that.
- pessimizer 5y agoThis is back before the fringe were 1) named the big bad of the media, and 2) networking with each other on the internet. The fringe believed the same stuff they do now (in broad strokes) and was just as large as it is now. As a collector of John Birch and Communist blacklist material, none of this is new. Look up Eustace Mullins. edit: or for the mystic, Savitri Devi.
- api 5y agoThe fringe I remember wasn’t the same as what you remember but the fringe is very heterodox by definition. If you want lefty conspiracies look up Mae Brussel and Dave Emory. Lefty and righty conspiracy theories tend to mix freely in the wild. This soup of weirdness thing is one characteristic of the true fringe. Maybe there was a previous era of weaponization in the 50s. The time I recall was the post Cold War 90s. The current weaponization started after 9/11 with transparent Saudi money in the “truther” movement and then went into high gear when the Trump team got into it.
- wombatpm 5y agoI loved Art Bell. My wife and I would stay up late rehabbing our first house listening to Art. I’m convinced all of the talk about the wall on the southern border was a smokescreen to hide the extent of the Chupacabra problem in Texas and New Mexico
- api 5y agoMaybe when they say it’s about keeping out aliens they mean actual aliens. Also why we need a space force!
- brandon272 5y agoRemember listening to Art Bell as a teenager when I would go to bed at night. Would scan for channels on my clock radio. Have no idea where the AM signal was coming from but it was interesting listening and was unlike what I was used to hearing on the radio.
- AndrewBissell 5y agoArt Bell was probably a sort of proto-Alex Jones, i.e. a controlled and managed outlet for parapolitical topics and a way to mix up the truth with a hefty dose of misinfo and shitcoating. Mae Brussell's entire back catalog is easy to find if you're looking for something along these lines without the compromised elements. Dave Emory also has a massive library and is still going strong, doing great work on the origins of SARS-CoV-2 in particular. For modern-day parapolitical podcasts there's The Liminalist, Subliminal Jihad, The Farm, Psyop Cinema, and many others.
- digitalsushi 5y agoI have been trying to find the episode where he talks about monsters that are almost human, but have two rows of teeth. I took all the mp3s I collected of the show, dumped them through dictation, and grepped like a madman. I have a real appreciation for people that are good at this. We listened to it in the late 90s as teens turning 20 and we would be absolutely petrified by the combination of being that age, from that time, and up that late. It was great.
- jazzyjackson 5y agoi knew a kid in high school who had two rows of teeth, he seemed all right to me.
- thordenmark 5y agoThe 90's while in college, pulling late nights working on homework listening to Art Bell was like an old friend telling you crazy stories and bringing in guests to tell even crazier stories. And every once in a while you'd think really? Is that true? Nah...couldn't be.
- Stratoscope 5y agoIn addition to his professional radio career, Art Bell was also an amateur radio operator, call sign W6OBB. https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/from-art-bell-w6obb.327086/ https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/from-art-bell-w6obb...
- DavidPeiffer 5y agoMy dad loves going to sleep with the radio on. My mom isn't a fan, and is more of a night owl. She would roll into bed between 12 and 4 and hear the quiet voices on the radio discussing all manner of alien visits, conspiracy theories, etc. She would turn it off, go to sleep, and he would turn it back on if he woke up. Lots of late nights in high school learning about Linux and basic networking things while listening to Art Bell in the background.
- qwertyuiop_ 5y agoOnly the great Art Bell could take you on a ride while questioning the mystique of the night from the Kingdom of Nye
- eastdakota 5y agoMany drives across the country Art kept me awake. The more crazy and outrageous, the more alert I remained. Seemed like a feature I’m sure saved lives in the short term; and seemed, at the time, harmless in the long term.
- pitaa 5y agoArt Bell was one of a kind. Out there, but a mostly harmless lovable breed of crazy.
- taylorius 5y agoI'm in the UK, and I would listen to Art Bell recordings late night in the office (absolutely HAS to be listened to late at night!). I always loved the slightly lonely, ominous vibe it conjured up, and I'm delighted to hear other people describe the EXACT same thing! Reading some people's memories on here about listening while driving through the night desert in the South Western US - proper UFO country! That must have been super intense.
- madengr 5y agoWhat became of Arts Parts (supposed metal fragments from a UFO)?
- kevwals 5y agoThis is one of the good podcasts that I used to listen when I'm alone driving late at night going at home.
- qwertyuiop_ 5y agoHis shows with Richard C Hoagland are supposed to be the most funniest and entertaining. He knew Richard was blowing smoke and yet let’s him left destruct :) https://youtu.be/2K5705D74ms https://youtu.be/2K5705D74ms