MITD second show, strange caller

Okay… so honestly this is just such a weird caller… it’s 2013… I guess if we are scientists of Art Bell, this falls into the category of the impact of the Internet on Art’s show or it falls into the Collapse of Decency in our culture. And Art seems neutral here… which was his greatest gift. Was the guy lying to him? Art just let him tell the story. It’s a show stopper but it didn’t stop Art.

I need a few things from you deep diving Art Bellers:

This is the transcript from fight.fudgie.org. It’s a real show — I listened. But the conspiracy the guy describes is almost beyond belief— targeted at destroying one neighbor’s life. But I need to know are the videos this guy talks about real? Did this really happen?

Dark Matter, you're on the air.

Hello.

Hey, Art Bell.

So maybe you want to hang up.

Maybe you could talk about the weather in the Philippines and what that's like.

But I wanted to tell you a quick story.

I'm not in the Philippines right now, so I have no idea, but I can be fully confident in saying that it's warm and humid, sir.

Okay, that's what I meant.

I just meant in general.

But, you know, I had a story where we were trying to destroy this guy's life in our neighborhood.

We wanted to run him out of our neighborhood.

And we got into it with the guy.

Well, the guy was doing drugs in the house over there.

And it really wasn't our business.

It was kind of a family, you know, golf course type community there.

But this guy had called us and told us, the guy who bought the house in over there, he does drugs, and I'll help you run him out.

I know how to run him out because I ran him out of our neighborhood and all this.

And so anyway, we ended up getting into it with this guy.

And he ends up running one of our friends out instead because he runs him out.

So instead, we come up with a plan to go into the guy's house and put hidden cameras to film him using the drugs and doing stuff so we can then blackmail him, not really blackmail him, but humiliate him and make him get out of the neighborhood.

So we did it.

That seemed like a dangerous path, but, you know.

Well, it was war.

It was war because he ran our buddy out, and it was like we were desperate.

We started up with this guy, and he wasn't leaving, and now he was keying up on us.

We had to do something, and we kind of panicked by doing this.

So we basically go into his house.

We didn't have to break in.

We actually had our locksmith buddy come over and make locks for the entire house basically to get in and out of the house whenever we wanted to.

Because the video that we saw of the guy using the drugs and doing the drugs was so entertaining that we didn't want him to leave at that point.

We started showing it to our neighbors on a pay-per-view basis and started selling it to everybody in the neighborhood.

And then it spread from our subdivision to the next subdivision.

And we set up an account for him.

We set up an account for him minus our expenses, of course.

And this went on for a long time until basically he figured it out.

People would recognize him in the community.

But it was a big secret that, you know, he would come home and do the drugs.

And so, you know, it's a very long story short.

So he knew, wait a minute, wait a minute.

He knew he was being televised.

Well, at a point, he realized because people knew him.

He went to the store, and Tim would recognize him.

We told people to shut up and don't look at him, you know, and all this.

But he eventually kind of figures out and he stops doing the drugs.

I mean, he just goes cold turkey.

He knows people are watching him.

And so we have this money that's been piling up in here, you know, surreptitiously.

And so then we decide because people start fading away and we weren't making the money.

And so then we decide to buy the note on the guy's house.

And then we basically, because he was a contractor, we just took over his life with the jobs that we would get.

And then we stopped paying him.

We stopped paying him for the job.

And we'd only pay him a little bit and we'd string it out.

We'd get him to buy materials.

Then we'd screw him.

And so then eventually he lost.

So before you know it, he's got a bullet with your name on it, right?

No, no, because we're doing this very carefully.

His friends are in on this, but they're not helping him.

The house goes into foreclosure.

We make him homeless.

Now people come back because now they have this guy that we created that's worth millions of dollars, but now we've made him homeless and he's living on the streets.

So then that became the show.

And everybody who got involved wanted to be part of it.

Everybody from the Circle K store guys to people on the streets and everything.

And it went on and on and made record amounts of money for anything.

Only about 5% of the American people even know this.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Where was the money coming from?

People were paying to see the next episode of Mr. Druggie?

Yeah.

Yeah.

And well, it was much more than that.

I mean, it started out like that.

It started out with this tweaked-out guy bouncing around in his house with the lights off because he didn't want his neighbors to know he was up all night.

And we had little laser lights in there.

We'd be up in his attic.

He'd be peaked out.

Okay, I've got it.

I just can't imagine people paying for an episode of somebody, you know, sitting over in the corner with the lights out, as he just pointed out, stoned out of his mind.

Great video.

That's great stuff.

Yes, sir.

Well, maybe this is the age of reality TV, right?

Dark matter, you're on the air.

Hello.