 Hey, weirdos. I wanted to let you know about something that I am really excited about And I didn't think it actually would ever happen, but it is Some of you might remember Art Bell Most most people know him from the late night show late night show that is coast to coast a.m. On the radio Well, Art Bell passed away a few years ago, but before he did he retired But then really couldn't retire. He just couldn't stop himself from doing it So he started a new show called midnight in the desert, which I'm sure a lot of you know about it was an online show on The dark matter digital network Well, the dark matter digital network Continues to air his show In fact, you can listen to recordings of Art Bell show seven days a week on the dark matter digital network As of this weekend Weird darkness is now going to be on the same station that Art Bell created And I am I am floored You know, I've got radio in my blood. I've been in radio since 1990 So I always kind of think radio-ish and Which also explains kind of why the why the podcast kind of has that radio feel to it Right. Well, I'm taking a break. I say coming up next blah blah blah It's just the radio guy in me Well, I was asked a few months ago by somebody from a Navy SEAL actually Who is getting out of the military and he wants to create his own station for the military For people who are in the service and for veterans and he wanted to know because he and his Navy buddies Were apparently listening to the show and he wanted to know if he could re-air Weird darkness on his new station that he's creating again, it's going to be an online station I said for the military for our men and women in uniform. Absolutely You know, you know how I feel about that with with me sometimes dedicating episodes to them so I realized though that the podcast really isn't created for for radio because The it's a different length every every single time So you can't say that it's one hour of radio or you can put in commercial breaks and stuff like that because it's not going to be just an hour So I started playing around with it and I realized some episodes. I could edit down to make them exactly one hour Even even with cutting in breaks in there So there would be room if they needed to add commercials or or station IDs, you know saying you're listening to Rock-Aven radio or whatever it is that they have And so That kind of got me in that radio mode. I started thinking if I'm going to do this for this one station Why not make it available to others? The one station that originally pushed me isn't ready to launch yet. We're still testing everything over there But I went ahead and just reached out to a few stations and one of them was dark matter digital network the home of Art Bell's midnight in the desert and I had no idea that they would actually reply to me and say this is exactly what we're looking for You caught us at the right time We're just now revamping our own air lineup. I mean like it was like absolute perfect timing only God Only God Would have me go have me email them at the exact right moment at the time the guy happens to be in front of his computer So he could read it because he he got back to me like within Within like three hours. So it wasn't too. It wasn't too long after I emailed it that he emailed me back And for that for me to email them just as they were making lineup changes. So I think by the way, it's gonna be Friday and Saturday nights at 11 p.m. Mountain time at the dark matter digital network If that's midnight central time so Saturday Sunday midnight or Friday Saturday 11 p.m. And I believe it is right before Art Bell. I Think I'm actually opening for Art Bell on the digital matter or on the dark matter digital network. So Anyway, I'm just I'm floored I ended up getting another couple emails from another couple stations that actually are interested in Taking the show as well. Suddenly now we're darkness is a radio show Not the podcast is still gonna stick around. I'm not doing anything different with the podcast It's gonna keep on going the radio show is probably going to be episodes that I've aired on the podcast just edited down To make them fit for radio But eventually I may actually just start creating new episodes specifically for the radio show So if you want to and those will not be in the podcast at least not in the beginning So if you want to check it out look online for dark matter digital Network if you have an Amazon if you have an Amazon Echo Or Amazon dot you can say Al exa, you know play dark matter radio or dark matter digital network and She'll bring it up on because it's all it's on itunes or not on itunes, but it's on a tune in calm I think you could probably do the same thing with Google. But anyway, I You're gonna hear me briefly mentioned it in today's podcast, but I just I could not wait any longer It's not been officially launched on their website yet. They haven't actually announced. I mean we've been going back and forth I've sent them everything and they're they're really excited about it as well And you'll eventually you'll end up seeing a weird darkness page at the dark matter digital network website. So anyway When I when I post this I'll I'll put a couple of Links so you can just go directly to their to their website if I want to give them a listen because I've been going to by the last couple of Nights listening to Art Bell. I had no idea that he was even that he was even still out there Until I came across their site. It's like, yes, I love Art Bell. So and now I'm opening for him. Wow Anyway, I couldn't do any of this without you You've been with me for five years now and the first two three years were tough Just getting people to even give it a listen trying to even sample weird darkness For some reason the last couple of years you all have really gotten behind the show You've been telling your friends about it You've been telling co-workers and and family members is a hey, you ought to check this out You know, he's a he's a great storyteller or you like creepypastas or if you like ghosts You ought to check out this website or this this podcast and it is more than I deserve And I cannot tell you how much how much it means to me that you guys have been doing that for me And you've actually brought me to the point now that it's it's weird I mean because many of you have said that weird darkness is kind of a cross of Art Bell and Unsolved mysteries and you know twilight zone all that and I mean just even be compared compared Art Bell at all is beyond Beyond what anybody can ask because nobody ever will be Art Bell. He was he was his own thing but now To be on the same station as Art Bell not only the same station as Art Bell, but the station he created The the station that he specifically created because he wanted to keep to keep doing his thing And now the new owners who are continuing to to honor his legacy have decided that weird darkness is worthy of being on that station Wow So anyway, they think thanks to all of you and Thank you Jesus, but just it's amazing what things that keep happening around here