Art Bell

[jazmunda]

Also maybe like Red Ice and some shows do and have a "free" podcast/download for anyone of the first hour only and Time Travelers can get the whole thing. (Of course the live stuff still free on SW, streaming, and stations.)

This could be a great idea for the YouTube channel. Provide the whole first hour free and if you want to hear the rest then here's how you subscribe.

This is why on television drug dealers always give a free sample to the kids.

[jazmunda]

I suggest that we use balloons, somehow.

Filled with helium or nitrous oxide?

[BellBoy]

This could be a great idea for the YouTube channel. Provide the whole first hour free and if you want to hear the rest then here's how you subscribe.

This is why drug dealers always give a free samples to the kids on television.

When I was a kid I always had to pay    I guess I should have listened to my mom and gone into television.

[aldousburbank]

Filled with helium or nitrous oxide?

Yes

[BellBoy]

Filled with helium or nitrous oxide?

Yes

(and that sounds like one hilarious marketing strategy meeting)

[b_dubb]

If these balloons had a caricature of Art and the words "Wanna take a ride?" how could they go wrong?  Insert a flyer with show information, fill them up with helium and away they go.

Does anyone know anything about laws regarding littering?

[albrecht]

Yes

Being high and telling random people about Art's show in a squeaky voice could be very effective!

[albrecht]

If these balloons had a caricature of Art and the words "Wanna take a ride?" how could they go wrong?  Insert a flyer with show information, fill them up with helium and away they go.

Does anyone know anything about laws regarding littering?

Schools used to do those balloon things (maybe still do but I'm guessing they are banned like most fun things) where you would put a card with your address etc and release balloons and the kids that got a return post card from farthest away would be winner. I'm putting some messages about MITD in bottles and throwing them in the rivers and creeks near me and next time I go to the coast.....

[K_Dubb]

Website and branding stuff is nice but it's window-dressing compared to the meat of the show.  I'm sure Art hasn't lost a single subscriber because they couldn't figure out where to click. 

Ideally some guest-generated story will break that Art gets to cover so people have to seek him out, but he'll have to wait for that wave and ride it.

Art has more-or-less taken the next-biggest attention-getting story off the table by refusing to compromise with radio stations and go head-to-head with Noory, reclaiming his old position.  A grudge match played out in public would be great for generating publicity (in this here real world).

All the blitzing in the world would not equal being on the radio in a few big cities.  Art Bell deserves better than a podcast.

[jazmunda]

Oh and definitely more of this from Art.

[shell88]

I suggest that we use balloons, somehow.

  This is an excellent idea!  Airplanes with banners work very well too, as do floodlight projectors that stream images onto low ceiling clouds - best done accompanied by a sound system all attached on top a van that can be driven throughout the city proclaiming his return.

[Uncle Duke]

I suggest that we use balloons, somehow.

......and midgets.

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

Oh and definitely more of this from Art.

Wow, Art knows Joe by his first name!

[BellBoy]

......and midgets.

sorted 

[wr250]

I suggest that we use balloons, somehow.

......and midgets.

[sorefinger]

I like the way this thread can take off in odd directions at a moment's notice. It keeps the thread alive at times when not much is happening and all the action is going on in the live show thread. If people don't like it then they should try and steer the conversation in another direction. If people are interested in what you have to say then the problem is fixed, but grumbling about it and not proposing an alternative is never going to work.

Who wants to read a thread that is tediously on message all the time anyway? It's like having a conversation - things veer off in surprising directions, which is all part of the fun. Things get back to Art Bell soon enough anyway when he posts something new.

So it's all Art's fault for not posting often enough. Damn you for derailing your own thread, Art!

I totally agree.  Half the comments here are totally off topic, however, someone complains only when they don't like the off topic comment.  The bellowing says a lot about the complainer who, for example, gives free passes for Obama comments, but when he sees a single comment about Donald Trump, someone he hates, he wastes no time bitching, even resorting to four letter words and name-calling.  I don't mind someone bitching, but I do mind bullies who single out.  They are the low life we see all day long. They cut in front of you in traffic, but if you cut in front of them, they want to pull a gun and shoot you.  When attrition finally wipes them out, their kids are right there behind them to take their place.

There are lots of excellent show suggestions coming in.  I'm interested in seeing which direction the show will take, if it takes a new direction at all.  Personally, I would like to see the show stand on the internet, alone, without terrestrial radio at all.  Sure, it may take a little longer, but in the end it will be worth the independence that Art said he wants.  Certainly, mitd gains a lot of instant exposure in big-city AM radio, moving into a time slot where millions tune in by habit already, but there's a price that always comes with joining the tribe -- selling one's soul.  Just yesterday I read where 7 billion people had tuned in to facebook. That's one in seven people in the entire world.  And that's just one website. Factor in all the other websites, and you would think all 7 billion people are on the Internet.  The trick now is to simply drive some of that traffic to mitd.

Finally, if a big city radio station believes mitd fits its market, and the station can profit, then mitd can profit also, if only mitd can reach the same market via the Internet.  In other words, the only thing standing in the way of viability is publicity, alone.

[sorefinger]

Make that 1 billion people who had tuned in to Facebook.

[PaulAtreides]

Ostensibly Richard says he is going to be coming at current politics from an entirely different perspective or model. Something about torsion springs…

He will only vote for candidates wearing Accutron watches.

[PaulAtreides]

......and midgets.

Yeah, maybe a live MITD dwarf toss.

[trostol]

i think..for it to grow..it is going to take the right guest more then anything else..someone not overly high profile but someone that has that..it factor i guess..someone thats sort of..pop culture famous...for example..though i would enjoy it..but not him specifically...neil degrasse tyson..someone along that avenue of "celebrity"

[For Whom the Bell Tolls]

This so made my day. Got subscribed to the RSS and now listen through my car radio offline as I motor around on fossil fuels.

[onan]

Take Trump and Obama to politics. How much simpler can it be stated?

[gabrielle]

Every time I think of Art turning down the large radio stations I hear the song Midnight Rider by the Allman Brothers in my head....".I've got one more silver dollar...ain't going to let them catch the Midnight Rider...."

[gabrielle]

Take Trump and Obama to politics. How much simpler can it be stated.

Can you elaborate.....just kidding

[coaster]

Take Trump and Obama to politics. How much simpler can it be stated.

This.

[Uncle Duke]

Take Trump and Obama to politics. How much simpler can it be stated?

Nonpartisan midgets are OK here, right?

[CornyCrow]

The fact that, in your mind apparently, someone named Mohammad is automatically presupposed to be foreign born and require a visa and a green card to dare live in Tulsa (or anywhere else, really) and freely go about his daily life there, speaks for itself.

I wonder, is everyone in the US named "Terry Nichols" also on the no-fly list?

I was actually confining my response(s) to previous posts in the thread that tangentially verged on the political... namely "The Donald" as a potential guest on Art's show. But, thanks for the advise!

Someone who has the misfortune of sharing one of the names that a terrorist has will have that problem.  If you really are being inconvenienced, change your name. Look, it happens to super-patriots like Sean Hannity, too.  He does not have the luxury that you do, of changing his name. 

[onan]

Nonpartisan midgets are OK here, right?

send me pics and I will decide.

[sorefinger]

Take Trump and Obama to politics. How much simpler can it be stated?

And leave all the other off topic comments here, is okay with you.  Take your complaint to the Complaints thread, hypocrite!!!

[onan]

And leave all the other off topic comments here, is okay with you.  Take your complaint to the Complaints thread, hypocrite!!!

Look simpleton, several have asked. Your arguments will have more support and conversation in that thread.