Is It Just Me, Or Does Anybody Else Miss Art Bell?

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Art Bell

I really love radio, and call-in’s on a landline (and yes, I still have a landline…with a cord!). Art had wild topics with sometimes wild guests. Whether or not you believed them, it didn’t matter. It was just enjoyable to listen. It was a time when electronics were simple and enjoyable (and I say that confidently after 39 years in the Electronics Industry). There is no one today that I’m aware of who is truly like Art Bell and, of course, radio is all but non-existent. I just long for simplicity again.

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We, too, have a corded landline, and no cell phone.

Did you ever call in to Art Bell?

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I lived in Las Vegas in the early 1990’s and listened to his program being broadcast from Pahrump NV which was jump over the hill.

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No, I only listened.

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I too miss Art Bell live late at night and sometimes sentimentally play youtube archives of the shows. At least now we have recordings from years past to help re-create that ‘midnight in the desert’ magic as only he could do.

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While strolling the neighborhood one night in '98, I saw a contrail that had crossed the full moon and thought, “Wow, how cool is that?” Days or weeks later, I was driving home on the interstate. It was early in the morning and Coast to Coast once again was there to help me stay awake. This particular episode was life-changing for me as Art was discussing chemtrails. It was the first time I ever heard about them and knew instantly that what I had seen crossing the moon was not a normal contrail. From that moment on, I have been looking up, so to say.

Some of his stuff was too far out for me, but yes, he was great to listen to.

I never got into amateur radio; however, as an avionics technician in the military, one of my qualifications was microminiature (2M) repair. I soldered everything from tube sockets to IC flat packs; canon plugs, cables, wires, etc., as well as reconstructing burnt circuit boards under a microscope. Even wire-wrap! I got out in the early 90’s just as surface mount devices were coming in. My point, is that I too, miss old electronics, especially troubleshooting. Everything now is on one or a few chips and it’s all programmable. Can’t tell what functions are buried in them.

Thank you for the post and comments.

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For those afflicted with Bellstalgia (amongst whom I count myself), we can at least still enjoy Art’s work even though he’s no longer with us.

There is a fellow on Rumble that has collected a lot of material from the C2C, Area 2000, Dreamland, Midnight in the Desert and Dark Matter era programs, and streams episodes and sometimes many hours of episodes from Art’s catalog.

All Things Art Bell

I find the live streams particularly entertaining, chatting with others during the program broadcast.

If you don’t use Rumble (I sometimes question this myself), I believe much of the “All Things Art Bell” materials is mirrored to collections on archive.org

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#8

Nice! Thanks for the link @bitcrypt !

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#9

I sometimes wonder if one lingers on a site too long we somehow sink up. As an Belgian, no it wasn’t Art Bell but thinking of yonder school years all student listened to Lutgart Simoens. As an radio icon comparable but not the content. Been thinking of her broadcasts most of the day, curious!

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#10

Yeah, that’s a great point @neru. I think when we listen to anything repeatedly, we certainly do sync up. Repetition is the very foundation of mind-control and programming. It’s human nature for us to sync with things we like (or things we’re forced to sync with). A perfect example of this would be Dark Journalist. He repeats things a LOT! Watch what’s going on in the chat and you’ll see that most chats are using the exact same verbiage as DJ. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but we always have to be cautious that we don’t get permanently trapped in someone else’s reality. Interesting about Lutgart Simoens. Makes you wonder who the Art Bell’s are of other countries!

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#11

I was reminiscing about her radio program before your post. So repetition wasn’t it. It is something in the aether.

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#12

Why wouldn’t Morphogenesis apply to ideas and thoughts too, not just cells in a human body? We still haven’t pinned down its origin.

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#13

And that, my dear @neru and @Bill10558 is precisely why I prefer the Old Format Vidchat rather than the new one! :joy:

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By Old Format you mean were everyone emailed their questions and comments directly to JPF, then he sorted them to see if a theme emerged?

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@Bill10558 - Yes Sir!

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#16

There’s a hybrid now where they go directly to him, he sorts them out, posts them before the vidchat so there’s a written record and everyone can read along if they want as he discusses them. Reminds me of grade school reading lessons. I like it. Later the option is to simply listen, read and listen or just read them with the volume turned down.

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> Why wouldn’t Morphogenesis apply to ideas and thoughts too, not just cells in a human body? We still haven’t pinned down its origin.

BINGO!!

Everyone at the same time…

The Collective Unconscious and nostalgia cycles.

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Sudden spike in interest in 2026

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#18

Similar to a build up in an advertising campaign by planting the seeds and nourishing them until the big event. It’s a similar to the biological system and it obviously works.

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#19

Yep, Pre-suasion.

Our unconscious mind is a parallel processor takes in millions of bits of data per second, most not available to our conscious mind. We are the effect of untold amount of influences the moment we log on.

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#20

I liked the medium of radio. have a bunch of radio’s in my house.

Enjoyed Art Bell and George Noorey for a time. Usually didn’t stay up that late.

At some point I had to turn it off.

Those occult subjects seep into your dreams. The last thing I want to do is wake up with dreams of Chupacabra’s in the Puerto Rican rain forest or Big Foot. And at some point, they have to recycle the same topics. But I totally get the mystique.

It’s obvious from different threads that people wake up in different ways, thru different mediums and there are no dirth of journalists doing good work introducing people to wild things they didn’t hear about when they were raised.