Guest who was going to "tunnel" into the earth's core...

[KnyeGuy]

I can't remember the guest's name, but he came on sometime in 2002 with Art, and the show was F'n hilarious.
He was going to bore into the earth with some machine, then upon meeting the inner earth dwellers, he was going to breath via a mystical bubble that they would form around him.
Yes,...it was GREAT fodder for Art.

There was a totally hilarious moment that outlined Bell's sarcastic nature and left me absolutely cracking up while listening. Some guy with a thick Texan accent called in, after the guest had gone through his entire ludicrous spiel, and addressed Art: "Ya know, Mr. Bell, I just don't know if I'm buyin this here guy."
To which Art replied (with a throaty drone of sarcasm)  "Naaaaahhh, reeealllllly sir? You mean you CAN't conceive of what this gentlemen is proposing?"

Later on a really hot sounding girl called in who wanted to be the journalist that would follow this guy into the centre of the earth to document everything.  Art let her stay on the line for a long time while she bantered with the guest excitedly.

Damn,...this is another guest that would've been a great follow up with Art...hahahaha.
Another great example of how entertaining the show could be with Bell.

[MV/Liberace!]

I can't remember the guest's name, but he came on sometime in 2002 with Art, and the show was F'n hilarious.

his name was dallas thompson. 


i have attached the show.

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[MV/Liberace!]

and by the way...
the first time i heard the dallas thompson interview, he COMPLETELY reminded me of jeff dowder from the phil hendrie show.


here's jeff:
Jeff Dowder on the Phil Hendrie Show

[Pirate King Atomsk]

You can't drill to the Earth's core. Obama put a moratorium on deep water Hades exploration.

Zing.

[KnyeGuy]

Cool, thanks for the clips MV.

[999]

Is he the guy who said there was a hole in the North Pole & was working on going there?

[TeddyKGB]

and by the way...
the first time i heard the dallas thompson interview, he COMPLETELY reminded me of jeff dowder from the phil hendrie show.


here's jeff:
Jeff Dowder on the Phil Hendrie Show

Jeff Dowder, along with RC Collins were my favorite characters.

[MV/Liberace!]

Jeff Dowder, along with RC Collins were my favorite characters.

you've gotta give it to herb sewell and pastor william rennick of the joyful union congregation.  oh, and lloyd bonafide.  and bobbie dooley. 

phil hendrie is, in my opinion, the greatest personality in the history of radio.  what he did with the medium is paralleled by nobody.  those of you who haven't heard his old show from the 1990s until the summer of 2006 should hit the bit torrent sites.

[MV/Liberace!]

i've attached one of the funniest hours (in my opinion) of phil's show that i can recall.  please check it out, and if you like it, there's a ton of material available at phil's website.  the attached show contains an entire three hour broadcast, and the segment i'm talking about is at the beginning with lloyd bonafide.

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[GuerrillaUnReal]

This show was hilarious. Art trying reign in a lunatic the whole time and then later wondering how Thompson got booked on the show. Give Dallas credit though, he was extremely entertaining which is what made this show so memorable.

Basically the premise was Dallas Thompson was going to operate a one man helicopter and fly into a hole at the North Pole (the same one Adm. Byrd allegedly flew into during his North Pole Expedition) where he would meet up with the inhabitants of inner-earth. I'm not exactly sure what was supposed to happen next in his plan. This all came to him after an devastating car accident that left him with severe head trauma.

[TeddyKGB]

you've gotta give it to herb sewell and pastor william rennick of the joyful union congregation.  oh, and lloyd bonafide.  and bobbie dooley. 

phil hendrie is, in my opinion, the greatest personality in the history of radio.  what he did with the medium is paralleled by nobody.  those of you who haven't heard his old show from the 1990s until the summer of 2006 should hit the bit torrent sites.

Oh my god, just got a nostalgia hit. Just Rennick's voice in my head is making me laugh out loud. I had subscription to his site so I had most of his shows archived in CDs, except some that got corrupted.

Do you remember when Hendrie tried to do The Weakest Link show with Bud, RC and Pastor Rennicks, that was one of the best bits ever.
One of the questions Jesus said "Turn the other what?"
Pastor Rennick: The other cheek.
....
Bud: You mean butt cheek?
RC: Yea, yea which cheek?


Oh and of course his Art Bell bits were some of the best ones. Art was also big fan of his.
I remember one time Hendrie was interviewed by Noory and he completely fucked it up.

[MV/Liberace!]

hey teddy... do you remember when it was RCH's birthday and he was on with snoors, and hendrie came on pretending to be walter cronkite wishing him a happy birthday?  and then he proceeded to make fun of the hand crank radio suggesting it could be used to grate cheese or something!!! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

[MV/Liberace!]

here you go:
herb sewell calls george noory!! HAHAHAHAHA


Herb Sewell on Coast to Coast

[MV/Liberace!]

and here, phil does art bell:
Phil Hendrie as Art Bell #1


Phil Hendrie - Art Bell Skit - Alien Message

[KnyeGuy]

Phil Hendrie had Art down pat...lol.

I love the ad he used to do about the all-purpose survival jacket that was self-cleaning and could double as toilet paper.

[TeddyKGB]

hey teddy... do you remember when it was RCH's birthday and he was on with snoors, and hendrie came on pretending to be walter cronkite wishing him a happy birthday?  and then he proceeded to make fun of the hand crank radio suggesting it could be used to grate cheese or something!!! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

No man, I missed that Sounds hilarious though.

[MV/Liberace!]

Phil Hendrie had Art down pat...lol.

I love the ad he used to do about the all-purpose survival jacket that was self-cleaning and could double as toilet paper.

do you remember phil's art bell doing the peenman enterprises spot for the "earth handle?" 


Friends, should the Earth lose its gravity, are you prepared? In the unlikely but possible event that the Earth stops spinning (sound of a toilet flushing in the background), we could all be flung off into space and be disintegrated within moments. But the Peenman Enterprises Earth Handle makes that threat a thing of the past. Simply jam the Earth Handle spike into the ground and hold on to the leather-covered finger-molded grip. What would you pay for the security of knowing that you won't be spun off into space? Get a grip! A grip on the new Earth Handle, new from Peenman Enterprises.

[MV/Liberace!]

HAHAHA, i forgot about "The Ass Purse."


Folks, have you ever wondered where you will store your money for safekeeping when the Y2K bug hits and you need to protect yourself from would-be robbers and the road warrior? Just get yourself the new Y2K Ass Purse. All you do is insert any money, coins, gold bricks, trading stamps into the patented Y2K Ass Purse and then you just *BINK* right up the old Royal American. That's the new Y2K Ass Purse, protecting your rectum for just over eleven months, NEW from Peenman Enterprises.

[TeddyKGB]

[MV/Liberace!]

HAHA, i thought the same myself.  however, since i am the one responsible, i should have done more than just take note of the derailment.  i should have prevented it.


anyway, back on track:  dallas thompson and his supposed trip into the center of the earth during which he will mingle with a superior race of inner earth beings who will refuel his helicopter for him and sprinkle pixie dust over the machine's blades so as to enable it to function merely on the laughter of our world's children.


supposedly, nobody can find thompson or has any idea where he is.  that's happened to a few of art's guests, another of whom was madman markham (the time machine guy).

[GuerrillaUnReal]

  Thumbs up on this showing up on the stream today. I only caught a few minutes but I lol'ed a good deal.

[MV/Liberace!]

don't forget the show is attached to one of the posts above.

[elbee]

Wheres the show?? I wana hear it

[MV/Liberace!]

Wheres the show?? I wana hear it

http://www.coastgab.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=1952.0;attach=1585

[MV/Liberace!]

here you go... art responds:


Art Bell Prank - Phil Hendrie Responds - 02/05/05, 02/07/05

[GuerrillaUnReal]

What's Hendrie's problem?

Art is such a covert stoner.  That's really the only thing that allows me to go with some of his conservative things is that he's pro-weed.

[guildnavigator]

Has Art ever spoke of his personal experiences with cannabis? I have some shows of his dealing with the subject, and he does seem to speak from experience but I can't recall any direct mention of wether or not he was at any time a regular user.

The weather in Pahrump is perfect for outdoor growing and Art & Ramona would have had no trouble pulling off a harvest, I remember going to the old artbell.com website and seeing photos of the artichokes that they would grow, they were HUGE.



Plenty of room for growing.

[GuerrillaUnReal]

This is pathetic but I have thought about this a lot.

I don't think Art was getting lit during any of the C2C years given his type A personality and Nevada's insane (and I do mean insane) marijuana laws which he's spoken of many times. Also in his C2C years, he seems like the type who would be too busy or somehow above that. However Art describes himself as "Coming from Rock and Roll" in his early radio career and he spent a lot of time in the Orient during the golden age of the marijuana trade. So it's hard to imagine he didn't come across it at some point. Art seems like he'd be much more of a smoker than a drinker as well given his high intellect and personality. Also consider how many shows he's had with awesome people like the McKenna brothers and pro-Legalization advocates.

Also Art came from a different time when this stuff was really not in the open like it is today. The C2C days were still a time when people were buying drug war propaganda and the majority of public opinion was against marijuana (hard to imagine) So I'm sure he kept it under the surface and aired his thoughts in indirect ways.

This is all my opinon of course, but I think this is pretty close.

Sidenote, I don't know how well marijuana would grow in the desert. It seems to me there wouldn't be enough water and too much heat?  Then again marijuana is literally one of the least temperamental plants so finding a warm climate strain could be the answer. Given the amount of sun those plants would get, if he could keep them hydrated, they would literally be ten-twenty foot tall trees. In the Philippines sadly, you get 12 years in jail for a small amount and life in prison (used to be the death penalty) for what Americans would consider enough for a fun weekend.

[MV/Liberace!]

In the Philippines sadly, you get 12 years in jail for a small amount and life in prison (used to be the death penalty) for what Americans would consider enough for a fun weekend.

WOW.  that's really sad.  humans really can be stupid.


i don't see support for marijuana legalization as being a liberal or anti-conservative position.  to me, it just seems like common sense, regardless of political stance.  then again, perhaps i'm one of a new breed of conservatives.


for what it's worth, here's the text of an anti-prohibition paper i wrote for an english class.  some of you might have already read it over at the radio trainwreck site.  if you've not read it, i hope you find it contributes something to the discussion.  even if you are against legalization, i'd suggest reading it if you are at all open to the idea of being convinced of anything:


Marijuana Prohibition: An American Injustice


Marijuana prohibition is a shameful scar upon the face of our purportedly freedom loving, individualistic society. Based entirely on lies, this monolithic social burden costs us in many different ways. It abridges American freedom and contributes directly to an ever expanding private prison industrial complex. Prohibition endangers our physical health while simultaneously turning a blind eye to the enrichment of those who knowingly poison us. This failed path of marijuana criminalization is now an industry unto its self, responsible for the financial and moral bankruptcy of both governments and corporations at every level. It fails to acknowledge the history of thousands of years of responsible marijuana use. It refuses to observe scientific fact. It fails to reduce either the supply of or the demand for marijuana. It spawns criminal elements that wouldn’t exist otherwise. Prohibition is a cancer.


According to the FBI Uniform Crime Report, our federal government spends almost $10 billion enforcing marijuana laws annually. That same report says in 2008, nearly 1,000,000 Americans were arrested on marijuana charges, with almost 90 percent of those being for mere possession (Crime). That’s more arrests than for murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault combined. The US is now the world’s largest prison population, housing 25 percent of the world’s prisoners despite only comprising 5 percent of the world’s population. Our internal incarceration ratio is a staggering 754 people out of every 100,000 (Publication). Compare this to countries
like Japan where the ratio is around 40 per 100,000. Our prison population has quadrupled in just the last two decades. Adding to the deliberate expansion of this privately operated prison industrial complex are approximately 50,000 people needlessly incarcerated in federal or state institutions for the violation of marijuana laws. That number would grow astronomically higher if I were to include the people incarcerated in city and county jails across the United States.

The private prison industrial complex of which I speak should be feared by all, as it is manipulating our laws for monetary gain. No longer are citizens imprisoned by the same government who convicted them. Instead, they’re shipped off to an ever increasing number of facilities operated by private corporations who have a fiduciary interest in a continually growing prison population (CorpWatch). These corporations and the prison guard unions who work for them are lobbying politicians to increase the penalties for given crimes, and politicians have a political interest in obliging as we, the people, are stuck in the middle. The evidence of this poisonous political marriage is everywhere, as prison terms are increasing routinely for nearly any crime one can commit. With increased penalties for everything from tax evasion to assault to manslaughter, it’s now easier than ever to find yourself behind bars. Most regrettably, it’s all topped off with a heaping helping of “three strikes” laws. The number of privately run prisons in the United States has increased from only five in 1988 to over two hundred and seventy today (CorpWatch). It represents one of America’s fastest growing investment opportunities. Thus, multiple facets of our freedom are jeopardized, it can be argued, by marijuana prohibition.


Our failed prohibition experiment is plagued by an endless sea of injustices, not the least of which are the convictions that follow arrested marijuana users for the rest of their lives. In addition to the jobs they’ll never get, a marijuana conviction renders qualification for student loans and grants impossible. Meanwhile, a degenerate with murder, rape, or aggravated assault convictions can secure student loans without a single setback. This is an atrocity on every conceivable level, and it’s appalling to think such a blatant disparity could be endorsed by any man or woman endowed with even the slightest sense of fairness or justice.

Prohibition has been tried before, and with equally appreciable failure. During its presence on the books from 1920 to 1933, alcohol prohibition was routinely violated by an independent American public who simply wanted to have a good time on Saturday nights. Prohibition gave rise to organized crime figures like Al Capone as speakeasies and bathtub gin were the order of the day. As the demand for alcohol increased, the number of reported alcohol poisoning cases climbed by 600 percent. Violence poured into the streets as the cost of booze became artificially inflated. Prohibition unintentionally and regrettably ensured alcohol’s flow was controlled by organized criminals rather than the government. The same pathetic results are seen today in marijuana prohibition. When polled, kids routinely state that they can acquire marijuana with far greater ease than alcohol (Study). If we’re truly concerned about marijuana use among kids, blanket prohibition hardly seems the appropriate solution when objectively considering the facts.


The most modern incarnation of America’s failed war against marijuana begins with the Nixon administration. Like any effective politician, Nixon knew his declared “war on drugs” would require a convincing bit of propaganda. Thus, he formed the Shafer Commission. Headed by Pennsylvania governor Raymond Shafer, the commission’s purpose was to investigate marijuana and give the president a predetermined, codified reason to level the full weight of the federal government against marijuana use. However, when the commission reported marijuana users to be “essentially indistinguishable from their non-marijuana using peers by any fundamental criterion other than their marijuana use,” Nixon was enraged and ignored the very report he commissioned. The report further stated, “Neither the marijuana user nor the drug itself can be said to constitute a danger to public safety.” The commission’s recommendation was that the personal use of marijuana be decriminalized on both the state and federal levels (Marihuana).

According to the federal government, marijuana is a Schedule One narcotic. A Schedule One narcotic has “no known medical value.” Try telling that to the fearful executives within the pharmaceutical industry. They’ve lobbied legislators for decades to keep the marijuana prohibition train chugging along. Drug companies represent America’s most profitable form of enterprise, with prescription drug sales exceeding $315 billion in 2007. Global sales surpassed $685 billion (US). The profits enjoyed by “big pharma” become even more lucrative when the sale of “over the counter” medicine is considered. What would happen to these profits if patients were legally afforded other medicinal options? Over 200 human conditions are known to respond favorably to marijuana. They include multiple sclerosis, glaucoma, muscular dystrophy, arthritis, nausea, hepatitis c, cancer, aids, chronic pain, anxiety, and depression (Medical Cannabis). Pot’s well known medicinal value represents a potentially threatening shift of consumer consciousness. What would be the value of a share of Pfizer stock if we transitioned from expensive, unnatural, poisonous, experimental pills to an organic, inexpensive, effective, and unpatented weed for which drug companies can’t charge big dollars?

The pharmaceutical industry is speaking out of both sides of its mouth in the legalization debate. While it lambastes the legitimacy of pot’s medicinal value, it simultaneously promotes products like Marinol. Marinol is a laboratory synthesized, chemically identical version of tetrahydrocannabinol, the “intoxicating” substance found in marijuana. Apparently the pharmaceutical industry and the FDA are approving of marijuana use so long as it’s sold for an exorbitantly high price in pill form under an unimaginative brand name. If marijuana has “no known medical value,” why would Solvay Pharmaceuticals go so far as to manufacture such a pill? Why would the FDA approve the substance? It would seem that in order for a substance to be legal and possess “medical value,” a corporation must be enriched by its sale and a complicit politician must receive political kickbacks from said corporation in exchange for his legislative assistance. As a result, we are legally compelled to use the same dangerous prescription and OTC drugs that kill a combined total of almost 40,000 in the United States every year (Annual). Our health is undeniably jeopardized by marijuana prohibition.


While inhaling smoke of any kind is arguably harmful to the lungs, there is ample evidence to support the claim that marijuana its self is not harmful beyond the general properties of smoke. For instance, it has been claimed that marijuana kills brain cells. This bit of perpetually regurgitated misinformation is the result of a fraudulent study conducted in 1974 called the Heath/Tulane study. In Heath/Tulane, gas masks were strapped to the faces of monkeys and the equivalent of over 60 “joints” were pumped into their lungs within the span of only 5 minutes with no supplemental oxygen. When the monkeys suffocated to death, their brains were examined and… lo and behold… found to contain dead cells. The “scientist” in charge of conducting this study could probably have also reached the same conclusion by shooting the monkeys in the head with a pistol. We’ve been warned of marijuana’s supposed tendency to cause permanent brain damage ever since this sham study was thrown together. However, a 2005 study by the University of Saskatchewan’s Department of Psychiatry indicates marijuana use might actually encourage the growth of new brain cells (Journal).

Marijuana might not kill brain cells, but it surely must cause lung cancer, right? Not according to a 2006 study by Dr. Donald Tashkin, a pulmonologist with UCLA. Prior to conducting the study, Tashkin and his team expected to find a direct link between marijuana use and lung cancer “…and that the association would be more positive with heavier use.” Tashkin remarked, "What we found instead was no association at all, and even a suggestion of some protective effect" (Kaufman). The surprising marijuana facts don’t end with brain cell and cancer studies. For instance, not a single case of lung cancer or even emphysema has been directly attributed to marijuana use. No medical examiner’s office has ever cited marijuana overdose as a cause of death. It is not physically addictive, and the New England Journal of Medicine says the average human would have to smoke approximately 1,500 pounds within 14 minutes to lethally overdose (NEJM). Marijuana overdose just doesn’t happen.


Pot is no longer a feared “gateway drug” consumed by a miniscule cadre of social outcasts who creepily hide in the shadows. Our current president and his two predecessors admitted using pot in earlier years, as did former vice president Al Gore. Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps was revealed to be a pot smoker when cell phone pictures were publicly released showing him drawing smoke from a marijuana bong. Willie Nelson’s marijuana use is widely documented, and Peter Fonda recently revealed that he, Dennis Hopper, and Jack Nicholson were smoking the real deal during the filming of Easy Rider. Marijuana is used responsibly everyday by parents, grandparents, policemen, professors, students, politicians, physicians, and attorneys. Over one hundred million Americans admit having used marijuana. The plant grows naturally everywhere, and is a tightly woven part of our culture. Users of the Apple iPhone can even install an app called Cannabis which lets them know where the nearest legally operating marijuana dealer is located. Pot isn’t going away, and neither are its users who, but for this one blemish on their legal conscience, are entirely law abiding citizens. Let’s free them of this marijuana prohibition joke.


Marijuana should immediately be made available for sale at any participating retail outlet where it can be regulated and taxed as alcohol and tobacco are already. The adults who buy it should be allowed to do so in unlimited amounts for both medical and recreational purposes beginning at age 21. Jail should await those who operate a motor vehicle or otherwise endanger the rest of us while high. The tens of billions raised could finance schools, roads, hospitals, power plants, and other forms of infrastructure our fiscally irresponsible state governments are desperately struggling to pay for. Crime rates and enforcement costs will decrease as the marijuana black market gives way to legitimate retail access. Our prison system will shrink, thus doubling the financial windfall. Finally, and most importantly, sick patients would no longer be medically encumbered by an unnecessary stigma based entirely on lies and profit motives. Let’s protect our health, safety, and freedom by immediately ending marijuana prohibition. It’s the right thing to do.


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[guildnavigator]

I am impressed with your paper! I have been working for a state legal medical cannabis dispensary here in california for the last several years now. We are one of, if not the largest in the state and help a lot of disabled veterans and terminal patients. You pretty much nailed it here, better than most activists I know could have. A lot of truth to be found in this highly derailed thread.

Remember when Art read the for-hire ad for an ex marijuana smuggling kingpin? He certainly does seem to get a kick out of this sort of thing. He never sounded the slightest bit medicated to me while on the air, but it's probably safe to say that his experiences with cannabis have been generally positive.