What could have happened to Art Bell's wife, Ramona?

[WarrenPlatts]

This is too soon. I predict he'll be happy he didn't sell his Nevada ranch. Is she even 18?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I'm moving this over to GD. But no kidding, what a shocker.

 

[Math Is Hard]

What the..? What's the story?

 

[WarrenPlatts]

During the first hour, Art shared the story of how he met, fell in love with, and married a very special Filipino woman, Airyn Ruiz. Art also announced that he will be moving to the Philippines on April 29th to be with Airyn, but will continue doing weekend Coast programs from that location.


http://www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page1405.html?theme=light"

 

[Math Is Hard]

During the first hour, Art shared the story of how he met, fell in love with, and married a very special Filipino woman, Airyn Ruiz. Art also announced that he will be moving to the Philippines on April 29th to be with Airyn, but will continue doing weekend Coast programs from that location.


http://www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page1405.html?theme=light"

yeah, I saw that. Skimpy on the details. Did you happen to catch the show?

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

She looks so young! Maybe he's having a crisis response or something.

 

[Cyrus]

Who is art bell?

 

[turbo]

Who is art bell?

Talk-radio host who abandoned liberal/libertarian political talk to focus on fringe/conspiracy topics. Entertaining, but don't look to gather lots of verifiable, usable facts from any particular show. Not much different from Rush, except that Rush pretends to be mainstream and factual, while being further to the right and even less factual than Pat Robertson (if that is possible). Rush has the "strawman" technique honed to perfection. Nobody is better at it.

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

Who is art bell?

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/
Like Turbo stated his main focus is finge topics; UFOs, Bigfoot, Ghosts, Conspiracy Theories, ect. His show is best considered as entertainment but he does occasionally have interesting credible guests on the topics of science and technology.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

What the..? What's the story?

I caught a bit of the beginning. He says that he went on vacation and met her while there. She was about to head off to the middle of nowhere to teach when she met Art and fell in love.

sure sure sure... yadda yadda yadda...

 

[Mk]

Holy bejeezus, didn't his wife die like last week? This guy is getting a little bit eccentric.

I remember MIH or Moonbear or Evo said that girls would line up for him, because of his intelligence, maturity and very sexy voice.

 

[PIT2]

Either he:
-felt sorry for her poor family
-accidently knocked her up (she seduced him)
-needs a housecleaner, mating partner, cook combi

or all of the above

 

[Math Is Hard]

I heard him talking about it briefly from last night. He said he is packing up two of the cats and taking them to Manila with him, and Clear Channel is very supportive of him doing the broadcast from the Phillipines.

He said that a lot of people were writing in expressing their shock over this turn of events and he said that it is his nature to do impulsive things like this. This is just too weird, though. It really gives me an uneasy feeling.

I think Pit might be right, as far as him looking for a housekeeper, companion, and cook, but more importantly I think, a nurse. I seem to remember that he gets pretty incapacitated with back problems and he needs someone to look after him during these times. I'm sure his back problems aren't getting any better as he gets older.

 

[JasonRox]

Holy bejeezus, didn't his wife die like last week? This guy is getting a little bit eccentric.

I remember MIH or Moonbear or Evo said that girls would line up for him, because of his intelligence, maturity and very sexy voice.

I think he's .

Smart people are fun to talk to, but not always fun to "play" with.

 

[JasonRox]

After reading more about it, it almost sounds like he and his friend had a hard time picking up girls and just flew to the Philipines to "buy" a wife.

I understand life hasn't been easy for him in the past year, but that's no excuse for throwing rational thought out of the door.

 

[Evo]

I remember MIH or Moonbear or Evo said that girls would line up for him, because of his intelligence, maturity and very sexy voice.

It wasn't me.

 

[Math Is Hard]

It wasn't me.

Wasn't me, either. And I don't think Moonie would even know who Art Bell is.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I know what is causing the confusion. You all were talking about me; right? :shy:

 

[Evo]

I know what is causing the confusion. You all were talking about me; right? :shy:

Yes. :!) :!) :!)

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I knew it!

Really, I do have a radio voice kind of like Bell's. That was my other most likely career option - voice work of some kind. Even called a horse race [trials] at Hollywood Park once, just for fun. My buddy was the track announcer.

[just imagine, 100,000 watts of Ivan ]

 

[Mk]

The same one you were offered a job at when you were young and you found that it was the mafia?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

The same one you were offered a job at when you were young and you found that it was the mafia?

OMG! Did I tell that story?

That's all related, but not that person and a long time ago.

...and that's not quite how it goes but close enough.

 

[Math Is Hard]

I knew it!

Really, I do have a radio voice kind of like Bell's. That was my other most likely career option - voice work of some kind. Even called a horse race [trials] at Hollywood Park once, just for fun. My buddy was the track announcer.

[just imagine, 100,000 watts of Ivan ]

hmmm... Maybe YOU should have been the heir to the C2CAM throne, rather than Noory.

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

hmmm... Maybe YOU should have been the heir to the C2CAM throne, rather than Noory.

I'll second that. I think that Ivan could likely do a much better job than Noory. Ivan might bring more skepticism to the show than most of the listeners are likely to appreciate though.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

No way, I would bore everyone to death.

...though I could certainly ask better questions than Noory does.

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

No way, I would bore everyone to death.

Art always talked about his projects around the house. I'm sure people would be interested in your's too.

 

[Math Is Hard]

And your cats!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Frankly, it has often scared me that Bell and I have so much in common. The only reason that I wanted to watch Dead Like Me was because Bell recommended it so highly. I have learned that if he loves it, I probably will too.

After listening to the show for about a year, I noticed that Giorgio Moroder did the theme song - and of course I am a huge Moroder fan from the re-release of Metropolis, which is about my all time favorite movie. And I love the song that Crystal Gayle did for him. Okay, it's cheesy but I still like it.

If he just wasn't so full of it sometimes...like his amazing antenna mystery nonsense. Plenty of people know the answer and he won't allow anyone to say it.

 

[zythman]

Airyn Ruiz & Art Bell

I agree with the reply by Math Is Hard: Art Bell could have been “looking for a housekeeper, companion, and cook, but more importantly I think, a nurse. I seem to remember that he gets pretty incapacitated with back problems and he needs someone to look after him.”

Frankly, I was a little surprised to see that people were going so easy on Art. There is another comment in which Jason Rox points out that “I understand life hasn't been easy for him in the past year, but that's no excuse for throwing rational thought out of the door.” It may appear that Art has thrown rational thought away. But let’s keep things in perspective; Art Bell is a talk show host, nothing more. As such, his guiding moral compass is no higher or better than anyone else’s. If you look at him in this light, he’s done better than most.

It may now appear that Art is groping for a quick and decisive solution to another great challenge in his life while he is able to, by taking what might appear to many to be an irrational risk. But he’s doing this because he’s afraid of what might lie ahead for him if he doesn’t. Art was very comfortable sharing his life with a companion. Since that companion went missing on him, his next logical step was to go find another. There is nothing irrational about it from Art’s perspective. He needs and wants a companion that can assist him at this point in his life. All things being equal, it truly doesn’t matter much who this companion is, as long as she is physically and mentally capable of being there for him, and that she is a rational thinking woman. That is exactly what he chose.

Art may be thinking that if nothing else, his wealth should certainly be enough to purchase Airyn’s loyalty and respect, and that she will be emotionally capable of handling his needs and his desire for happiness and assurance to the end. I’m not saying that Art and Airyn can’t be in love; in fact they had better be in love if there is to be any chance for this relationship to work for them, and to be enjoyable despite whatever challenges lie ahead. The money will mean less and less to them as time marches forward and their realtionship evolves.

It’s a two way street: both expect something substantial out of this relationship. I doubt that Airyn has given much thought to what might truly lie ahead for her during Art’s later years. Right now she’s likely looking more at the prize more than at the price. Art is leaping to several conclusions too, in which he could ultimately prove to be right: that all he’s worked for can now turn around and grant him a happy ending, and that his fan base will continue to support him in whatever decisions he makes for his personal life. There’s no turning back now, but I would guess there are days Art regrets having made his personal life so public. But that's part and parcel of Art's persona, to share his life with his audience. We stick our nose into his life deep enough and we start thinking we have the right to help him make personal decisions, but we have no such right. Our only right is to our opinions. I wish him and Airyn the best.

 

[Mk]

Yeah, me too. I really don't know what's up. Maybe the government is trying to take him again. And he has to go over to my corner. Don't worry! I'll protect him! Avant garde! Or En guard... or something like that. I never was very good at fencing. Too many sharp objects. Maybe I should go for the dual six-shooters or... YESS dual machine guns! Remember in one of those Arnold Schwazzentniggerh films, he takes down like the whole Mexican army that way?? Awesome!

 

[Zygotic Embryo]

Yeah, me too. I really don't know what's up. Maybe the government is trying to take him again. And he has to go over to my corner. Don't worry! I'll protect him! Avant garde! Or En guard... or something like that. I never was very good at fencing. Too many sharp objects. Maybe I should go for the dual six-shooters or... YESS dual machine guns! Remember in one of those Arnold Schwazzentniggerh films, he takes down like the whole Mexican army that way?? Awesome!

haha i can picture this all to well

 

[skepticlebeliever]

Art Bell Child Bride

Why didn't if they are so psychic Ed Dames, Gordon Michael Scallion, Sylvia Browne, or Sean David Morton remote view Art Bell getting married to a child bride? Bell says she's 21 however that's the Phillipines who really knows how old she is. I have troulbe believeing anything Bell says about this.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

No kidding!

That reminds of the comment made by...crud...who was the black female vocalist who headed the Psychic Network on TV? When asked what had caused the network to go bankrupt, she said something like, ~"we're still not sure. We never saw it coming".

 

[Math Is Hard]

No kidding!

That reminds of the comment made by...crud...who was the black female vocalist who headed the Psychic Network on TV? When asked what had caused the network to go bankrupt, she said something like, ~"we're still not sure. We never saw it coming".

Was that Dion Warwick's Psychic Friends Network?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Was that Dion Warwick's Psychic Friends Network?

That would be the one!

 

[Math Is Hard]

The Bells are expecting. He said they are hoping for a little girl and they plan on naming her Asia.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

The Bells are expecting. He said they are hoping for a little girl and they plan on naming her Asia.

Ahhhhh, that's great. Human or alien?

 

[Math Is Hard]

Ahhhhh, that's great. Human or alien?

I got to say his shows have not had as much charm for me since he went to Manila. There was more of a "sharing ghost stories around the campfire" kind of feeling when he was broadcasting at night from the desert. Now I know he is looking out his window into broad daylight and it doesn't have quite the same spooky feel. I hope he moves back to the States.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I got to say his shows have not had as much charm for me since he went to Manila. There was more of a "sharing ghost stories around the campfire" kind of feeling when he was broadcasting at night from the desert. Now I know he is looking out his window into broad daylight and it doesn't have quite the same spooky feel. I hope he moves back to the States.

I know what you mean. The fact he was out there at night on the edge of Area 51 like some self appointed sentinal of the paranormal and government cover-ups gave the show a great deal of its flavor.

 

[Math Is Hard]

I know what you mean. The fact he was out there at night on the edge of Area 51 like some self appointed sentinal of the paranormal and government cover-ups gave the show a great deal of its flavor.

I think he is catching on to the "missing mystique" factor. For the Halloween show he was saying that it was broad daylight outside his condo in Manila but he was going to pull his curtains so he could have the same spooky experience with his listeners.
I liked it better when he was out there in the desert night with the chupacabras scratching at the door.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Art Bell made a surprise announcement that he and his wife Airyn have just arrived in the US from the Philippines and that he was once again broadcasting the show "from the High Desert & the great American Southwest."

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/

 

[Math Is Hard]

woot!11

 

[Ivan Seeking]

From the UFO hall of shame:

Someone summed Bell up rather well, "Bell's the crackwhore of UFOlogy."

http://www.ufowatchdog.com/hall1.html

I about died laughing when I read that. Yep, all in all I'd have to agree. He has many great guests like Brian Greene, for example, but some of his guests, and esp repeat guests like Hoagland really drag the show down into the abyss. Ed Dames is another regular that I find impossible to tolerate.

 

[blackbird11]

I, too, enjoy some of the guests.

My take is that Art is much smarter than Noory. He could create scenerios. He had a talent for playing along with his callers and getting the best out of them. He knew his audience, when he could ridicule a caller and when not to.

Gee, and compared to Noory, Art can pronounce words. God, if you are doing a promo or commercial, at least look up the words you are unsure of ahead of time so the thing does not repeat umpteen times to constantly remind the world of your unworthiness of your job.

Noory is definitely second rate, and though they would both 'milk' the show for bucks, Art was smart enough and engaged in what the guests were saying enough, to really ask intelligent questions.

Noory often acts as though he neither knows nor does he really care what the guests are saying, especially if they are of a scientific or technical nature. Then, he will make innane comments, pretending he is somehow 'in the know' and expecting you to believe it.

That said, I remember Art having Ramona more engaged in the show. Even after that period, he would mention her lovingly, almost during every show. Then, there was a period of months passing in which he would never mention Ramona - you would not even know he was married - which ended in her mysterious death.

Shortly after that, one of his regular guests, and friend, said he was browsing along the internet and met this nice Philippino girl that way and thought she would be just yummy for Art. He intorduced them and they started a relationship over the net. Then he visited her in the Philippines and the rest is history.

I am off the wall, but nervous about how Ramona died, and how he seemed not to lover her as much for the time period right before her death. Was the cat that he did not take with him her cat? And how he left the country so soon after her death. Did he have the body cremated?

I know, these thoughts in my mind are TERRIBLE and I feel badly and ashamed for expressing them, but they are there and I am annonymous, so there you are.