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I 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
by egfx 5y ago
I 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...
- bonestamp2 5y agoYou can fly by, but you can't fly in.
- Stratoscope 5y agoIf you're flying in airspace where you have legal permission to fly, and communicating with Air Traffic Control where required, then you can take pictures of anything you can see. Also note the difference between flying into restricted airspace and flying by it.
- area51org 5y agoLink to an MP3 of that call with the dude flying into Area 51: https://www.area51.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Man-tries-to-Land-his-Plane-at-Area-51.mp3 https://www.area51.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Man-tries-...
- kingcharles 5y agoUsername checks out...
- mindcrime 5y agoIt's funny... pretty much the only time/place I ever want to listen to Coast to Coast AM is when I'm in my car, driving somewhere overnight, and it's 2:00 in the morning and I'm on the Interstate halfway between Bumfuck and Nowhereville. In that setting, there is something magical about it.
- tptacek 5y agoThe only exposure I've had to Art Bell was on a drive from Chicago to San Francisco with my brother, who turned it on in the middle of the night driving somewhere in Wyoming.
- enad 5y agoYes! That is exactly me. Coast to Coast AM at 11:30 in the morning, through headphones, in a cubicle is just wrong. Also the audio needs to go out when you go through a tunnel or around a bend. And then you have to hunt for it again on the dial through all the static on another station. Nothing beats late 1990’s Art Bell on the middle of the night, growing more enthralled (and paranoid) by the minute!
- iJohnDoe 5y agoSo many fond memories of listening to Art Bell. Your comment captures this. The Area 51 call in shows were amazing. Mel’s Hole is another one. Was a great time to appreciate radio. RIP Art Bell. You are missed.
- causi 5y agoArt's appearance in the 2006 videogame Prey was pretty great. Several sections of the game play Art's show in which the callers are experiencing similar events to the game's protagonist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enb_vZTFcdc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enb_vZTFcdc
- rograndom 5y agoYup, same. Driving somewhere in between Elizabeth, NJ and Montreal every 2-3 weeks overnight. Co-driver is saying stuff like "I'm getting sleepy, find the lizard people on the radio."
- giantrobot 5y agoI worked a graveyard shift for a while and would listen to C2C on my "lunch" breaks at 2AM. It was a fun show to listen to at that weird time of night by yourself. It was far less fun any time George Noory was guest hosting. He just let guests run unchallenged. Art Bell was good at going on the guest's journey without letting them go too far off in the weeds.
- Spooky23 5y agoArt always felt more like satire to me. Noory is just another radio guy and tends to inject conservative radio trope into something that was really pure fun and wacky stuff.
- batman-farts 5y agoThe few times I’ve listened to Noory since he permanently took over, it seems like his guests almost always have something to sell. The funniest example I can remember (and this was > 5 years ago) was a guy whose spiel was, “the Pope is the Antichrist, one day soon the UFOs will appear above the balcony at the Vatican, the Pope will introduce the alien ambassador, that will be the beginning of the end times… and if you want to know more, buy my $29.95 book and DVD set!” If it’s not like that, it’s healing crystals or some other weird alternative health stuff. In that way, Noory practically turned the show into SkyMall for the conspiracy subculture. Art’s guests just as often exhibited an earnest belief in whatever weirdness they were bringing.