Ep. #77 - What If Art Bell Was A Legend?
The What If? Podcast
Spencer Wirth-Davis & Ryan Kopperud
4.6 • 668 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2018
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
We wish a strange and beautiful and peaceful rest, to the legend Art Bell. The beloved host of Coast to Coast, Dreamland, and Midnight in the Desert passed away this past week. As a man who blazed the trail for weird audio folks like us, it's only right that we remember the man who brought aliens, ghosts, philosophy, the strange, and the paranormal, to the radio waves better than anyone, for the very first time.
We discuss Art Bell's history in radio including his classic bits, like Mel's Hole, Area 51 Caller, Bob Lazar, Single 7 Time Traveller Extraordinaire, Terrence McKenna, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the What If Podcast with your host, Spencer, with Davis and Ryan Copperood. |
| 0:06.3 | Why are we so interested in the paranormal? |
| 0:09.9 | Well, because, Larry, when we're done here on Earth, we all want to know that there's something else out there, don't we? |
| 0:19.0 | And that is the land of the paranormal. And if there are ghosts, then that's proof that there's something else out there don't we and that is the land of the paranormal and if there are ghosts and that's proof that there's life after death right so would |
| 0:26.0 | you say the most unexplainable thing is death of course it is the thing we know the least about we |
| 0:34.1 | have and they as i said earlier the thing we fear the most the thing we |
| 0:37.5 | quietly contemplate the most um of course it's death because cosmically we're here |
| 0:44.4 | not that long we lost probably the greatest to ever do it last week, Ryan. The legend. The OG. |
| 0:56.6 | The man |
| 0:58.4 | the man before |
| 1:00.8 | us. Yeah. R.P. to Art Bell. |
| 1:05.8 | He died last Friday, |
| 1:07.8 | April 13th, of course. Of course he died on a spooky day. |
| 1:12.3 | And yeah, we thought we'd take today's show to... |
| 1:16.1 | Reflect. |
| 1:17.9 | To reflect and remember all of the amazing, like, decades worth of content that Art Bell put into the world. |
| 1:26.6 | So, you introduce me to Art Bell first in my life. |
| 1:33.4 | It was not familiar with Art before you introduced me to him. |
| 1:40.8 | Did you have such a good time ahead of you whenever you decide to go dig into the coast to coast archives? |
| 1:46.6 | Next time you drive somewhere or take a flight or whatever, just like download some art bell highlights. |
| 1:54.2 | Where does one find art bell highlights on the internet? |
| 1:57.1 | I mean, he never had a podcast, right? |
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