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And I will take this moment to post my Noory-isms:

1. Interviewing an astronomer type, of course I don't remember the guest names with George because I find a large majority of GN's shows to be interchangeably bland and forgettable. Anyway, George is asking this sharp guy about the solar system and drops this beauty on him:

"Could our sun....be dying?"

Not the dumbest question in the world, but the way George voiced it made it sound childish and ignorant. The guest paused for a long moment, and just said, "No." Whether he went into any more detail than that I don't remember, but he just shot it down with a flat negative.

2. I believe this was a show on Secret Societies. George and the guest are going through their rigmarole, and somehow Charles Manson comes up. The guest starts to elaborate on something about Manson and George just breaks in and interrupts, stumbling over his words.

"Now guest, I knew a prison guard who was in the prison with Manson, and he told me that this Manson guy was just CRAZY!"

Really George? Charles Manson was crazy? That was totally worth you talking over the guest to drop that startling revelation on the audience. It was like he found a topic that he had some second-hand knowledge of and couldn't wait to use it to appear in the know. Poor interviewing skills.

Another thing that annoyed me about Friday's show was when a personal friend of George called in and they chatted for 6 or 7 minutes. Banal stuff about the granddaughter, he bought George tickets to a Lions game and are they gonna go this year. It was like listening to a private phone call between two friends. As far as entertaining radio goes, it was just death on-air.

I pick my wife up from work at 4:30 in the morning, so that 30 minutes or so is my Noory time. And Noory time is just as terrible as it sounds.

I'm listening to J.C. on the air with George right now, and the whole thing is so phony, a word that sums up my feeling for Noory's C2C. Contrived and phony. It was probably that way with Art too, but it was so much more entertaining back then.

I saw Gordon Lightfoot last summer. His band was in top form. Lightfoot, however, sounded a little shaky. Don't know how much longer he will be around.

I also got into Gordon Lightfoot because I heard "If You Could Read My Mind" as one of Art's bumpers. Fell in love with the man's music, own all of his albums. Now I need to track this interview!

This guest has a special place in my heart because this show on July 24th 1997 was the 1st C2C show I ever heard. Jim Keith was a prolific author, writing about all types of conspiracy-themed paranormal subjects. The show he did with Art Bell on Men In Black is still to my mind the definitive word on the subject: an entertaining, informative, and downright spooky program. Luckily it is also a show that is pretty easy to find for download. I listened to it the other night and am happy to say it was just as entertaining 14 years later. I could not have found a better show to be introduced to the Art Bell universe.

Sadly, Mr.Keith passed away in 1999 under somewhat odd circumstances. He broke his knee and died in surgery when a blood clot got into his lung. According to his wiki page, he said before the surgery, "I have this feeling that if they put me under, I'm not coming back." A conspiracy theorist to the last. R.I.P Jim.

http://web.archive.org/web/19980114074908/http://www.artbell.com/guests.html

I hopped in the Wayback Machine and managed to pull this snapshot of a previous guest list on the Art Bell website from Early 1998.

I'm sure that's his name. I've found a couple of ancient websites from the late 90s, and found a couple of scraps:

http://creepsnewsroom.tripod.com/glossary.txt

The entry on that page for Art Bell:

Art Bell - nationally syndicated talk show host, who deals with unusual
and paranormal topics. JSH was a guest for the full three hours of his
show in 1997, discussing Feral Humans in Kentucky. Mr.Bell is also the
subject of a 1996 song by Cheeseburger & Fries, "The Ballad of Art Bell".

(JSH=Jeffery Scott Holland)

I think Y2K was the best example of this. For how many years building up to it, Art Bell brought on guests, especially Gary North, and built this thing up to a doomsday scenario. I never bought into it, but I remember a lot of callers were really afraid of this.

New Years 2000 came and went and...nuthin'. Gary North vanished in a puff of smoke down the memory hole where disgraced C2C guests go to be forgotten and the beat went on. I wanted to hear an apology from Art on the air for the last two years of beating the Doomsday drum, but the show just went on with barely a pause to whatever the next thing was.

It opened my eyes that this was an entertainment program, not news. Still felt scuzzy.

Hi everyone,

I'm a new poster, and I actually stumbled upon this site because I was trying to dig up an ancient show from I believe 1997. I *think* the guest's name was Jeff Holland from Berea, Kentucky. I only remember his location because Art kept mangling the pronunciation of the town lol.  It was a fascinating show about Feral Humans, really vintage C2C stuff. I remember the show so much because a friend used the term "Feral Human" as an online handle for years after that show.

Again, I'm almost certain it was a show from 1997, 1998 at the latest.

Great topics to read around here. I'll stick around.