Some of his guests cause me to tune out instantly, but some are quite listenable.

Comes crashing in here from Reno, usually one of the stronger AM stations. Especially now that KGO has gone belly up. For all intents and porpoises.

He is a trends predicter. Just said that the money junkies and deregulation have destroyed America. Said also that the merger of corporate and state power is facism. Just about mutherfed Rick Santorum! Dayummm!

The guy on Rob Simone right now! Supports the occupy movent, is laying into the wall street thieves, nd is telling the chicken hawks to go fight their own wars! Holy heck, I picked a great time to tune in!

I used to be a long haul trucker and I was listening in when his show rivaled Limbaugh's in popularity. I would schedule my driving time, if it permitted, just to be able to listen to that show as I barreled through the night in my 18 wheeler. I loved it when a trucker would call in and Art would have him or her honk the air horn on the air. Ah, those were the days.

It's just not the same. Tonight is an exception. I once worked part time in a truck stop c.b. shop in the 90's. I loved installing radio systems, and met drivers from all over the U.S., an Canada. Anyone who thinks truckers are dumb people are ssadly mistaken. 90% of the drivers I met were intelligent and very independent thinkers, with big hearts. Great to hear from you!

Of Art Bell? The longer of the two was hilarious - even the fictional commercials were hilarious. It featured products like the "ass purse" and all the guests were military people with two first names as their names, like "Corporal Andrew Samuels" who of course, Bell would address as "Samuel Andrews"

There was also a shorter parody that had to do with the "Num Num Num's" who were I think, aliens attacking the radio station there in Parump.

I still have the shorter parody on my Hard Drive, but lost the longer parody, and it is no longer available anywhere that I can find.

Thanks! :wave:

Up, so maybe we can get them there. They were one of the funnier things I ever came across on the radio.

He used to make up charachters and make them say really awful things and real listeners would call in outraged. (or so they seemed to be real)

He had a real knack for spoofing Art Bell. If you google him, you get to a site that he runs.

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I've been a night-owl since I was a small child and Coast-to-Coast
provided a LOT of entertainment and education (and sometimes just
diversion/background noise).
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Art Bell was brilliant, interesting, cynical yet open-minded, and witty.
He was also a surly old curmudgeon who somehow avoided being
annoying and/or unendurable.
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Compared to Art, his replacement George Noory seems phony and
in it for the gig rather than genuine curiosity and research. He's also
way further over to the right side of politics than Art was.
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I stopped listening when Noory took over. The closest thing to
classic and brilliant Old Time Radio collapsed and died with the
departure of Art Bell.
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When he was in Vietnam he did a lot to raise money to fly vietnamese orphans and abandoned biracial children of American G.I.s to the United States. One such flight, a C-5 Galaxy carrying over 100 children, most of them infants, was hit by ground firetaking off crashed and burned, all the kids died. This brought a pouring in of funds from around the world to help those kids. Art is a tough old bird, but his heart isin the right place.

I never got through to Art. I was on Georges show and got to talk to the original "Will and Penny" from "Lost in Spaace"... another great 60's show.

I collect antique radios. Iwas only able to keep one, due to economic reality. It is a 1929 Freshman table radio, a.m. - shortwave. Made during the depression, ironically, it still plays wonderfully. I used to liten to Art on a 1958 Hallicrafters general communications reciever. Along with the shortwave piraates.

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http://otr.net/
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The site streams (for free) 169 different radio series -- and 12,369 episodes
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OTR over the air on a.m.! They played "Jack Benny" and "Hopalong Cassidy", this was in NW PA. - possibly a Canadian station. I was spellbound, there is something special about hearing a story told on the radio. Thanks for checking in!

Does anyone think our party will ever catch on that allowing corporate control of radio. Is a fatal mistake? Right wing hate radio is mind poison. And it has a monopoly on a.m.. How sad for a meium that once brought America FDR's "Fireside Chats".

will we evolve to internet radio in the near future?
I have an internet radio at home and the capability to put internet radio in vehicles is here or nearly here.
I, too, am an OTR radio fan. Each night I listen to a station on the internet radio from Colorado.

So imagine that instead of the 20 or 30 stations available to you now, you had @50,000

"Tuned In Radio" and a scanner via internet. But, there is still something magical about radio coming over the air without wires (although internet can be received via wireless!). Perhaps it is a leftover fascination of Nikola Teslas dream of sending electrical power without the need for wires... in any event, in the case of a catastrophe such as Katrina or 911, radio will still function when internet and cellphones are disabled. Hence radios enduring value.

That MFM is also a "Firesign Theatre" fan! Pass the pliers, don't crush that dwarf!

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I saw Bill Bergman give a solo performance at a community radio conference in Moab, UT
in 2003. I had my doubts as to whether or not he would be funny all alone -- I'm happy
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When it came on, i knew art was going to have an interesting and entertaining show! Also, the fill in for George Noory last night (Rob Simone?) was quite good, as was his guest.

This one has a great beat!!!

...the coast to coast theme!!!

Art Bell was fun to listen to.

...but Art always had that talent that allowed you to suspend disbelief and ask "what if this was true...

He was a consummate showman that really understood the theater of the mind. The only new host I have really liked is Ian Punnett, and he is a different animal. I heard that Art finally disassociated himself from the show in its current form.

Art was living in the Phillipines. His moving there rather scared me, as I wondered if he knew something the rest of us didn't...

She might have got homesick, and he has no reason to stay in Nevada. What the hell, it is an adventure!

Wonder if that might mean a return to the air waves some day?

Bell was fond of bringing nutcase Richard "Hoaxland" Hoagland on to spin his claims he pulls out of his ass, and now Noory is fond of bringing on far-right bullshitters like Jerome Corsi.

As you can probably guess, I am a skeptic, and I avoid talk-radio like the plague, even when I'm terribly bored.

If it isn't Coast To Coast AM and flying saucer gibberish, it's Rush the Fathead and his lies, or Howard Stern and his acting like a 13-year old boy with a dirty mind.

...the entire show was nearly a pro occupy Wall Street, anti capitalist anti republican rant! Cellente nearly motherf'd Rick Santorum on the air, and told Cheney, rumsfeld and the rest of the chickenhawks to go fight their own damn wars!

Much more RW, and maybe last night's show is available today to listen to. (The website used to let people listen to the recently archived shows for free)

Of course he was most of his claims were outlandish but as long as I listened for entertainment and not to gain knowledge it was enjoyable to me. He was actually the reason I did start to listen, I gave a bit more credence to conspiracy theories as in my early 20s, but again it was more or less a form of entertainment. Of course I am also a HUGE Stern fan. So to each their own. I did, however, stop listening when Noorey took over. Too much right wing crap if I recall correctly.

Sounds contradictory, but the O.P. pretty much covered the ground:

1- Leave it on the all-talk/no-music so that I can drone myself to sleep after whatever number of latrine runs. Oh, it can be as few as one or none, but sometimes more.

2- Art was great. NOORY is a boring loser and a quasi-wingnut, frequently hosting the Swiftbot ghost writer whassisname, Jerome CORSI, but see #1.

3- When it's hair raising, I've had to click it off sometimes.

So that covers the contradiction: Always on but not a fan (anymore).

one Navy guy doesn't like another! Some of Georges guest hosts, such as rob simone last night, were really good. George is much less skeptical than Art, which makes it that much harder to suspend disbelief. BTW, in the 90's when i got my Ham license, HAARP was doing a publicity thing to dispel some of the dark rumors going around. It is an Air force/Navy facility. One night they had a dx contest, if you recieved their signal and qsl'ed, they sent you a postcard with a pic of their antenna array. I got one!!! (long since lost in all the moves after the crash )

so were the Swiftbots with KERRY. I broke off contact with a webring of my Vietnam shipmates in '04 because they were raging Wingnuts. It didn't hurt a bit. I'm a Dem through and through, but besides that, if a Dem turns out to be a crook like the JEFFERSON dude in Louisiana or a total jerk like John EDWARDS, they are over the side, starboard or port, whichever is closer, for me.

The same goes for any member of a Dem coalition sub-group: Hispanic, Black, Gay, Feminist, whatever. If they do bad things, the label doesn't save them.

Don't you think there might be some union members who are slackers or, worse, Rethug-voters?

...of my civilian hat for your service. Union members voting rethug? I was in the steelworkers when Reagan was elected. The older union guys voted mainly for Reagan because unlike us long haired smokers, they wanted to see our ways and days ended. Reagan appealed to their "hard hat values" of racism and hippie punching. He repaid them by lifting tariffs on jap steel, flooding the market costing them their jobs and decimating the union. Yeah.

was 'Major Ed Dames" with his "remote viewing" nonsense. However outlandish, hearing him led me to research MkUltra, and when I read what they REALLY were doing, it went FAR beyond any of his claims - they gave a guy LSD for a month without him knowing it. He jumped out a high window of the Pennsylvania hotel in NYC and died. That was one of the nicer things they did.

account of the fact that there was supposed to be a NYC catastrophic event at a sports stadium, and he could talk about the details for twenty minutes.

But he discussed this about four months before Nine Eleven, and he didn't have any inkling about that!

Like you say, even such outlandish guests could prompt investigations of interesting items, like MKUltra and other black op programs.

and that was when it was Art Bell's program. I remember Ed Dames and his "remote viewing" so when I saw the movie Men Who Stare at Goats I laughed my substantial ass off even when the rest of the audience didn't seem to "get it".

One of the main characters in "Goats" was based on a Martial Arts Master from my town, Guy Savelli. You can google this for confirmation and more info. I trained for a few years under people directly associate with him, a few of who even outranked him. I never came within light years of Master Savellis level, but I saw some pretty incredible things. Chi is quite real, and it was a rare honor to get to rub elbows (and get bruised by!) some real life "Men in Black". A lot of what was inn the movie was based on reality. Donning asbestos suit in 3...2..1....

Whatever your experience was, it belongs to you. No arguments from me.

My husband still has it on, unless I wake up and hear one of George Noory's right wing buddies being interviewed and can't sleep. I still like it sometimes, don't have to believe all of it for it to be interesting. Like a lot of people who posted here the military stuff is interesting.

I miss Art Bell, he got me through a horrible period of bad insomnia years ago.

...if the guest is a right wing jerk, or the show is about bigfoot, UFOs, shadow people or something equally ridiculous, I turn it off. Sometimes I get lucky.

...since 1972. Don't drink the water!!!

He hands down the host who has the most respect for his guests and callers.

I've never seen anybody else who was so respectful of his guests and callers.

the people call in and say the most ridiculous and absurd things. The host takes them seriously and talks to them as if they were just discussing the weather. Its great. I used to listen to it in grad school on my way home from late night term paper writin'.

The Movie "The Day After Tomorrow" is based on his "global superstorm" crap.

Yes, Art did take global warming very seriously. Sometimes exaggerating the effects (or rather the speed of the effects unfolding) can serve as a wake up call to peeople who might not otherwise care.

Swing and bop comes in over the air from Canada. Many of the songs from this period are double entendre songs that NEVER would be played on the air in the U.S.! Fortunately Canadians realize the historic importance of this stuff and don't have their heads up the ass of the christian right like our own FCC. "My baby is the butcher man, he's got the finest meat in town"...then you realize the song is 80 odd years old! The show is on Sundays, I can't tell you what a rush it is to listen to this stuff on a 1929 art deco wood radio with tubes and no automatic volume control. At night when that dial is lit it is one gorgeous site!

until Art Bell left it. Had some interesting stuff to present, most of it bs, I'm sure, but fun to speculate on.

though I do work late and I enjoy The Nite Show in WCCO-830-AM. The show is from 10p-12a CT weekday evenings. Mischke is a host that will entertain you and surprise you. Listen in or stream online.

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/audio-on-demand/the-nite-show-mischke-til-midnight/

C2C is a right wing talk show nowadays. First hour, George Noory talks about the days events and he often trashes Obama and the Democrats while giving the Republicans a free pass. Jerome Corsi and a guy from Newsmax are his 'political advisors' on C2C. I heard one night when he had open lines. The callers who called in and trashed liberals, Obama, and praised the Republicans and Bush and so one were disgusting. I have also heard him cut off callers who have political views that differ from his. He engaged the birther topic for a while there. George is nuts. There is a guy who fills in for him who is actually more right wing and does not care how much his bias shows. Only one I like on C2C is George Knapp. He NEVER gets into politics and has cut callers off if he feels the conversation is going in that direction.Knapp also knows how to keep an interview exciting. He is a real journalist and a great host.

I had heard that Art Bell could not stand George Noory. Art was not the one who picked his replacement and I have heard that he did not want to have anything to do with C2C because of him. I guess he really has retired this time. Wish he would get his own show and come back.Say what you will about Art, but he put on a damn good show. I use to work 3rd shift and Art got me through the night and made me actually look forward to listen to his show each night. Does anyone know what the latest news is on him?

He married a Filipina girl. Moved to the Phillipines, may have moved back to the states since then. The phillipines have been unstable lately.

Bell is clearly better than Noory. Noory is a Libertarian wing-nut. I e-mailed him once about not injecting politics into the show, but I guess he doesn't care.

Can't stand Noory, like most everyone else here. But I love Ian and don't mind most of the other non-Noory hosts.

Frustrating to listen to some of those "Somewhere in Time" shows of Art from the 90s when he's discussing politics etc, ugh.

I was on the air on his show once. I also heard Rob Simone for the first time last week, he. Actually had a guest who was pro occupy.

I wish they would give Ian the regular gig, but now I understand that he is having trouble with tinnitus and now is only going to be on one day a month. Bummer.

and really interesting shows over the past year. Not as much comedy from the nuts. As I enjoy the unexplained, I'm a fan. The hosts' politics aren't so great - probably they are all Paul fans.

...MVD. Not all.

George Knapp does not share his political views on the air. He has said this before. SOmething to the effect that this is not a show about politics but a show about the unknown and paranormal. You don't have to share politics to join in on the forum. I have always respected him for saying that.He has had guests on whom he has called friends who are very liberal and very right wing. For example, he often has T.Boone Pickens on but at the same time reminds us that Picken's wife,Madeleine, and him (Knapp) share a common interest. They both are charitable with a horse sanctuary in Nevada.Knapp has also applauded the Occupy Wall Street movement and seems to be concerned with climate change,so who knows exactly where he stands.

Maybe this is why I like him. He reminds me more of Art Bell. I've heard him be very cynical with guests and really give them a hard time if he has trouble believing their story or if they have credibility.However, George is a full time anchor for a TV station in Nevada so I doubt he would have the time to do a night time show as well.

Out in the middle of nowhere. Usually by the time band rehearsal was over, it was late and I was, more often than not, one toke over the line. Anyway, I'd listen to CTC Am with George Nouri, really late at night. Sometimes that show used to send chills down my spine as I was driving home on those remote, dark country roads. I was always glad to get home and lock the door behind me...

After I went to see 1408 by myself. That night I slept with every light inside and outside the house on! What a freakin' scary flick!

I used to listen to Art Bell in the 90's too. I'm a bigtime skeptic, but that show always made for great entertainment, in part because Art treated the callers with the utmost respect, no matter how late-night bizarre their calls were.

I was in California at the time, and Phil Hendrie (pre-syndication) was just starting to take off (earlier in the night), with his hilarious cast of characters.

I've tuned in to "Coast to Coast" occasionally since then, but I agree with you: it's just not the same since Art left. Listening to him and Phil Hendrie always made life a little better.

In honor of Art, I hereby don the...

...may it relect negative thought beams away!

Hey, a guy's gotta do something about those negative thought beams!