The Other Side of Midnight - Richard C. Hoagland - Live Chat Thread

[Dixon Bawls]

Homework for this weekend is to download some Jerky Boys.

[Northern Nights]

How do you all read and listen so fast?  I'm still catching up on the Art Bell Live Show thread.

Time travel.

[QuantumMystics]

[trostol]

lol what do you want

[Dixon Bawls]

"You're on the air. WTF do you want?!"

[zeebo]

Time travel.  Red Bull & Vodka.

fixed it

[Textor]

"is that really the guy from the movie?"

I know, I know, computers are hard RCH.

[trostol]

what??

[norland2424]

I try to forget nam 

[GuerrillaUnReal]

Washing Machine Charlie was World War Two, Dick.

Washing Machine Charlie or Bedcheck Charlie was a name given by Allies (primarily US) to Imperial Japanese aircraft that performed usually solitary, nocturnal operations over Henderson Field, Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal Campaign. The name comes from the distinctive sound of the aircraft engines.

During the campaign, the Japanese sent solitary aircraft on nighttime missions over Guadalcanal for various reasons. The reasons included scouting, dropping flares over Allied positions to assist Japanese naval or ground forces operating on or near the island, to bomb the airfield or Allied installations, and/or to harass the Allied troops and disrupt their sleep.

Various aircraft were used in the role by Japanese forces, including ship or shore-based single-engine seaplanes, and, on occasion a two engine airplane, probably a Betty Bomber, whose pilot had made sure his engines were out of synchronization. The vibration was bad enough to wake most people, and then the waiting for the bomb, (most of which missed) kept the men awake for the rest of the night.

Later in the war, night fighters were developed to help stop these raiders.

Independent of these Japanese raiders, Bedcheck Charlie was well known to US troops in Europe, when lone German planes appeared over their lines in late afternoon/evenings.

[AppealPlay]

I hope Richard never kills the telethon phone.

[trostol]

that was 5 oclock charlie...from MASH

[zeebo]

Hi thanks for calling, caller ... let me tell you a random anecdote.

[trostol]

he's on to us lol

[Spinner]

Oh, Richard, we know.

[Textor]

I think he doesn't quite understand what we are waiting for RE: the phone.

[norland2424]

And thats a ww2 story not a nam story .

[ShayP]

Yes.  Hoagie accepts the phone...I think.

[AppealPlay]

STALKER!!!

[popple]

No beans to spill.

[ShayP]

STALKER!!!

[AL5J]

Washing Machine Charlie was  Japanese first used in 1942 in Guadalcanal.

VC used jets in Vietnam.

[Kevin Sorbo]

Well, I'll say this. At least he seems to know it's become a bit. Kind of...

[zeebo]

Was that the stalker guy?

[popple]

Are there beans on mars?

[trostol]

lol he thinks thats why he isnt on Premiere any more?

[coaster]

Callers, stalkers, rich acknowledges the love of the phone. Decent show tonight.

[AL5J]

he's on to us lol

The phone is why Art has branded us "vaguely lovable".  #braaaap

[Textor]

lol he thinks thats why he isnt on Premiere any more?

Clearly he was getting too close to the truth.

[zeebo]

I don't get why people think knowlege of ET's would freak us out beyond hope.  We survived a round earth, heliocentrism, evolution, dna, etc.