Dark Days, Dark News, Dark Matters - Part 3

DARK MATTERS

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable...

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Quote: Douglas Adams. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. (Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series).

At last, here is the final part to this posting. I can't believe it's taken me so long to get this finalised.

This is on to a much lighter note now!

Why have I called this Dark Matters...?

Well, Dark Matters is a fabulous radio show that airs via Reality Radio Networks every Saturday night between 8 pm and 11 pm PST (California time) in the USA, or, 11 pm to 2 am EST in the USA. It can also be heard via Satellite, for those with a link up via that method.

Dark Matters is hosted by two great guys called, Don Ecker (Director of Research for UFO Magazine, past host of UFOs Tonite and Strange Daze radio shows, and author of the excellent supernatural horror novel, PAST SINS) and Dwight Schultz (Former co-host of the Strange Daze radio show, star of The A-Team [Captain H.M. "Howling Mad" Murdock], Star Trek The Next Generation & Voyager [Lieutenant Reginald "Reg" Barclay], as well as featuring in many, many other TV shows, and movies, etc.)

Here's an advertisement for the show:-



The show is basically, in a nut shell, about whatever it is the guys want to talk about. Most particularly, things that aren't generally touched upon by the mainstream media, especially those things that could be construed as "Dark Matters", or those stories often over looked by the mainstream media.

Topics have included, for example: UFOs and Ufology, the paranormal, serial killers, remote viewing, science, technology, advances in outer space, Mars, Saturn, politics, religion, the war in Iraq, terrorism, and much, much more.

You can also phone in (wherever you are in the world) and e-mail the show with questions and opinions.

Every show is a surprise each week, unless they have a special guest coming on, in which case Don usually announces it ahead of time, but even then the conversation with the guests can go anywhere.

*(Note: I'll add in a list of some of the past guests soonish)*

Those who are interested in the Dark Matters radio show can also catch up to past episodes of the show care of Steve Melching's Archive On Demand for a subscription of about US$7 per month. Or, you can purchase tapes and CDs of the shows. The CD's come with a full month worth of shows. You can find out more about the Dark Matters tapes and CDs and Archive On Demand from Steve Melching, who handles the archives and the sale of the archived shows.

There's also a web site (created by Cynthia Boris) for the radio show called Dark Matters Radio, as well as an internet forum/companion (also created by Cynthia) for the radio show at Yahoo Groups at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Dark_Matters, where people can discuss the topics raised on the show each week, as well as other assorted dark matters.

I started listening to Dark Matters back at the end of February, but it's actually been going since January 10, 2004. Why I wasn't listening from the beginning is a bit of a convoluted story.

You see, rampant forgetfulness had a lot to do with it, as did a measure of being a trifle thick. All my own fault. I saw the show advertised last year on a web site devoted to Dwight Schultz, and was really excited to hear about it, as it sounded like a wonderful opportunity to hear Dwight talk about his interest in UFO's, etc., as that was something I had been wanting to experience for a little while. Then I thought, but how can I listen here in Australia, when the show is all the way over there in the USA? In other words, I omitted to read the fine print that said, "available on the internet at..." DUH!!! :o0 So, anyway, I was a bit of a sad vegemite (person), for a bit, thinking I'd never get to hear the show myself.

Meanwhile, Cynthia Boris (Mistress of the Dark Matters) also did post e-mails about the advent of the show on a couple of the A-Team fan fiction forums I'm subscribed to, as well as on Mig's Dwight Schultz forum at Yahoo Groups, and I did read the notices and file them in the special folders I have to store emails I want to keep from each forum.

Unfortunately, I had some health problems in January and February, and between that, and an extremely hectic workload, I didn't get back in to look at any of those archive folders at the emails I'd saved, in order to refresh my memory for what was there... and... well...

Actually, come to think of it... there really isn't any valid excuse at all, is there, really? :o( Guess, the main thing is that I am listening now, and enjoying it all very much indeed. I have also purchased CDs of the shows I've missed. It's not quite like listening to them live, but it's been fun catching up to the missed shows, that's for sure.

The day I first listened to the show, on February 21, Cynthia had posted a message to the Dwight Schultz Yahoo Group, while the show was airing live, saying that Dwight had just been talking on the show about meeting Franne (Purple Gimp) from Israel.

Franne had the great good fortune to meet Dwight at a convention in England in mid February. Dwight was talking on the show about that convention, what he'd been doing, and the people he'd met there, and was astounded and delighted that someone had come all the way from Israel just to meet him.

Cynthia also provided the link to the Dark Matters radio show at Reality Radio Networks in her posting. By some stroke of luck, I was online woking on my computers when the post popped up on Mig's Dwight Schultz forum, so I hopped right on over to Reality Radio Networks, managed to fire the connection up, and so was able to listen to the last half of the show.

That show aired on February 21, 2004 and I've been listening ever since! :o)

Not only have I enjoyed the show very much, it's also been very educational. I think I've learned more about the world, about politics in the USA, about UFOs, in fact about a great many things in the six months I've been listening to the show, than I have in my lifetime, or, at least, in many years, anyway.

I've also read books I might never have considered before, and broadened my horizons considerably. Richard M. Dolan's "UFOs and the National Security State Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941-1973 (Volume 1)", is one such book I'm currently reading, which was discussed by Don and Dwight. Richard was also a guest on the show as well one week, (February 28, 2004), and is a very impressive man to listen to. This book of his is well informed, well researched and put together, and very intelligent as well

I'm now also listening to the radio programs for Dennis Prager and Michael Medved, that air each weekday on KRLA-870. Two people I didn't even know existed before Dwight read, aloud on the Dark Matters show one week, portions of an article written by Dennis Prager. Now I listen to the radio programs from both these gentlemen as much as I can manage. I find them very enlightening as well. I don't always agree with everything Dennis and Michael have to say, but pretty much most of their views coincide with my feelings on any number of issues, etc.

There's this, and there's more, but that's enough waffling from me... for now. :o)

Besides... I have other things I want to get onto talking about... such as the fact that we appear to live in a world gone mad, helped along by a largely dominating liberal (left wing) mainstream media, who seem to have forgotten who the bad guys actually are... but, that's another rant, for another time... although, hopefully sometime soon!

See ya! :o)

Christine... :o)
(of the Land, not too far, Down Under! :o) )