I was right!
Tonight on Coast-to-Coast AM, Art Bell w6obb announced that he has been in the Philippines courting and marrying a YOUNG woman who is the sister of the woman Carl kb5fjx was wooing over the internet. And that Carl had introduced the two via email, and that he’d paid Carl’s way. (Does this make Carl a pimp?)
Art Bell w60bb also announced that all properties and vehicles in Pahrump NV (except KNYE) are up for sale because he is moving to the Philippines (He says his new Bride does not want to come to America. Yea, right.). The five cats he was so in love with – up for adoption, one already on the way to AK.
His radio program? He says he will continue doing his ‘week-end’ shift from Manila. Though my guess is, he just figuratively cut the throat of his broadcast career, and his fan base. (In fact, I have heard it in George Noory’s voice whenever he has mentioned Art during the last two weeks.)
All this less than 4 months after the death of his wife of 15 years, Ramona, that he loved so much! As he bemoaned her loss on broadcast radio, and literally cried over her loss and a country full of his fans mourned with and for him.
I have never thought much of Art Bell as a person, his morals, or his values; which is why I was able to predict this current event. Yet, I have admired and enjoyed his on air persona for many years.
Usually I enjoy being right, as I often am. But the above, makes me want to puke. However, it does prove a couple of things. There is no fool like an old fool, money can buy you love, and evvy is usually right!
6 comments:
(1) "I have never thought much of Art Bell as a person, his morals, or his values; which is why I was able to predict this current event." Evvy, I hope you realize that makes no sense.
(2) Bill touches on a point. It does seem pretty damn pathetic that he'd basically bought a wife from abroad. Lets not kid anyone, that's basically what he's claiming to have done. The Philippines is quite a hot spot for gold digging, poor pinays looking for rich Americans to pull them out of their poverty. Hindi magkaroon utak siya :)
ae7op wrote:
Evvy - Please remove me as a "major player" as I have never transmitted on 3840 and do not wish to be associated with the "cult of the loop" in any way, shape or fashion.
I will do that when I update pages. It would help me to remember if u would send a private email.
Mark k6fej wrote:
>>>Evvy… It looks like your Hamfanz site will peter out now
Name of the site, list & The Grudge Report is HAMFANZ. Not the Art Bell w6obb fan club!
The ONLY things to peter out will be 'loop cult members'. (You espouse loops, have one? Yes???)
Ditto the BCW list, and maybe even HamCams (You r on HamCams, yes?).
Both were built to arties request & specifications, run by him in the background, and filled with folks desperately seeking artie's attention & approval.
HamFanz was never a product of Artie's ego. And will continue to function just fine (perhaps even better), without him. (As long as good online tuners are available.)
Have you people not been paying attention?
I don't agree with all of the extreme negative sentiment about Art's new life. Bill: I don't think he is amoral. I don't think he completely lacks sense. But unless you think he is sociopathic, then you have to assume that he has somewhat normal emotions. If you can accept that possibility, then you should also be able to accept that he must still be hurting big time over his loss. When people are hurting badly, they do weird stuff to ease the pain. Some do drugs or drink, and some rush to replace the loss.
Now, Bill's gonna jump all over me for this, I'm sure. But I think Art is a reasonably normal person. In fact, I think the argument could be made that this move of his is more evidence of normal human emotions than anything else. I mean, think about it. When your "friends" are the likes of those
of the old 3840 crowd, where would *you* turn for emotional support? Art is a guy that has mistaken abusive relationships for friendships, evidently for a lot longer than I have known him. But I never got the impression that his relationship with Ramona was abusive at all, in either direction. So if
that were the only healthy relationship that I had in my life, then I might be in a damn hurry to replace it too.
And can you think of an easier way to fool yourself into thinking you've done just that, than to go take a bride that wants nothing more than to tell you everything that you want to hear?
So, as disgusted as I am by this news (and I am disgusted), I have to cut the guy some slack. I am going through a VERY painful transition in my life right now, and I'm hurting continuously. And there are not very many things I can think of that I wouldn't consider to relieve the pain, if I had the resources.
Those of you that have been paying attention at all should know that this "change" is going to be short-lived. He's just self-medicating himself with a new woman to ease the pain, the same way many of us find other ways to do. We're all messed up human beings, capable of some really weird sh*t.
73 .. Kent WM7O
Bill:
That is exactly the kind of response that I expected from you, so bravo. You never cease to live down to my expectations.
73 .. Kent
It just shows the bulk of his listener base.
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