Midnight In The Desert

[Uncle Duke]

Good analysis .....
Paranormal has become mainstream and dull, regardless of hosts.  I didn't listen to MITD very often because I'd heard it all before from the same old guests .....
Art Bell won't be back ...... there's nothing here or on the airwaves for him anymore.
He entertained me for years ... two decades ago. We get older, Art Bell is older, and time moves on ....
Remember Art Bell for what he was .... in his day.
Realize that his day is done, paranormal is normal now, and we're living in the past - now/to-day.

If you are interested, you'll find a series of similar analysis posts by a few of us in the weeks after Art hung it up from Dark Matter.  We were as unpopular then as the current crop of MITD trolls, I didn't bother this time around.

[Auslandia]

If you are interested, you'll find a series of similar analysis posts by a few of us in the weeks after Art hung it up from Dark Matter.  We were as unpopular then as the current crop of MITD trolls, I didn't bother this time around.

I still like a wild, unsubstantiated, reckless story every now and again.

[Uncle Duke]

I still like a wild, unsubstantiated, reckless story every now and again.

Then I'm not your guy.

[MikeJ]

Good analysis .....
Paranormal has become mainstream and dull, regardless of hosts.  I didn't listen to MITD very often because I'd heard it all before from the same old guests .....
Art Bell won't be back ...... there's nothing here or on the airwaves for him anymore.
He entertained me for years ... two decades ago. We get older, Art Bell is older, and time moves on ....
Remember Art Bell for what he was .... in his day.
Realize that his day is done, paranormal is normal now, and we're living in the past - now/to-day.

I am inclined to agree with this analysis.  Back in the 90s, in Art's heyday, the only place to hear about the paranormal was Art's show.  Now, with the proliferation of cable TV, there are umpteen shows on the subject-mostly with the same guests.  The term "gone to the well too many times" comes to mind.  I also think people are less gullible these days, and with the internet, many of these nuts can be researched and it is easy to see what frauds most of them are.  I enjoyed Art's show in the 90s, but I am starting to think that like so many things, his tenure has been romanticized beyond what he can live up to.  Some things, actually most things, should remain in the past.  As Thomas Wolfe said, "you can't go home again".

[21st Century Man]

I am inclined to agree with this analysis.  Back in the 90s, in Art's heyday, the only place to hear about the paranormal was Art's show.  Now, with the proliferation of cable TV, there are umpteen shows on the subject-mostly with the same guests.  The term "gone to the well too many times" comes to mind.  I also think people are less gullible these days, and with the internet, many of these nuts can be researched and it is easy to see what frauds most of them are.  I enjoyed Art's show in the 90s, but I am starting to think that like so many things, his tenure has been romanticized beyond what he can live up to.  Some things, actually most things, should remain in the past.  As Thomas Wolfe said, "you can't go home again".

Well, the big problem is there are not enough good stories since he left.  I can think of 2 or 3 great haunting books that have come out since he left Coast but back in the 90's, he had decades worth of good stories to cover that hadn't been covered before.  Now all the stories have been basically told. All you get on paranormal talk shows today are wannabe ghosthunters who have a few chilling tales but nothing truly extraordinary.  There's no new Amityville Horror but every now and then you do get a good fresh story like The Day Satan Called and The Demon Of Brownsville Road but they are few and far between.  Its not enough to sustain a nightly show.

[albrecht]

Well, the big problem is there are not enough good stories since he left.  I can think of 2 or 3 great haunting books that have come out since he left Coast but back in the 90's, he had decades worth of good stories to cover that hadn't been covered before.  Now all the stories have been basically told. All you get on paranormal talk shows today are wannabe ghosthunters who have a few chilling tales but nothing truly extraordinary.  There's no new Amityville Horror but every now and then you do get a good fresh story like The Day Satan Called and The Demon Of Brownsville Road but they are few and far between.  Its not enough to sustain a nightly show.

But it wasn't just all paranormal and UFO. Sure, much was, but a lot was normal stuff: politics (remember the 'debates' and frequent comments and callers?,) conspiracy, singer-songwriter guests, political guests, war/terrorism news (and 'theories',) and- dare-I-mention- health news, with his HGH and cancer cures, etc shows. And callers. I think that is one of the biggest things. How to get callers that aren't the same old ones? In a fractured media market these days? And news, of any type, that isn't just pulled from Drudge or the internet? How can RCH or LMH come in with frantic updates of some Antarctic mission when people already saw/heard it earlier, etc?

[Showroom Dummy]

this is interesting
An entire colony of Adélie penguins is heading for extinction after an iceberg larger than the country of Luxembourg grounded at Commonwealth Bay, blocking access to the sea and forcing the penguins to travel considerably longer distances to feed.

The population of the Adélie penguins in this colony has plummeted from 160,000 to 10,000 since the iceberg labeled B09B came aground in 2010 after floating around the Southern Ocean for 20 years, according to The Sydney Morning Herald and a just-released study in Antarctic Science.

The iceberg trapped the Adélie penguins. The colony once thrived with easy access at Cape Denison in Commonwealth Bay where strong winds blowing off the ice kept a large area of water open near shore.

But once the iceberg grounded, the distance to the feeding grounds became a 75-mile round trip.

[Auslandia]

Reverend Michael Carter -- full of shit or not?

[Mind Flayer Monk]

Reverend Michael Carter -- full of shit or not?

He was nuts but I think he believed aliens visited him and also that aliens were coming again in the end times.

[Auslandia]

He was nuts but I think he believed aliens visited him and also that aliens were coming again in the end times.

It's always a sign of crazy when you mix religion & aliens.  The "space brothers" thing is a good indicator of nuttiness too.


Oh and there's also the times you say you were a pope in a past life.

[Donald Noory]

Machete wielder was probably driven insane by Wade's vocal fry.

[Jackstar]

Can someone get a message to John Travolta? Tell him he's awesome as Robert Shapiro. Thanks in advance.

[Sean92008]

She is either stupid or a dolt.   :

Fucking stupid.  She needs to listen how AB used to read stories like that.

The SH shoundsh are all over the plash.

[Donald Noory]

Can someone get a message to John Travolta? Tell him he's awesome as Robert Shapiro. Thanks in advance.

Just hang out at gyms or massage parlors at night and you can tell him yourself.

[Donald Noory]

Wade Rage is a recent phenomenon. People going berserk from too much vocal fry.

[SciFiAuthor]

Wade Rage is a recent phenomenon. People going berserk from too much vocal fry.

Nah, it's not real, just the same old shit from people who are addicted to being an asshole.

[Kolchak]

Boy, is it dead in here.

[Ciardelo]

Wade Rage is a recent phenomenon. People going berserk from too much vocal fry.

Still listening to a show you hate?

[Donald Noory]

Boy, is it dead in here.

Wade affects people like that.

[Donald Noory]

Still listening to a show you hate?

that ower fucks you

[Jackstar]

Boy, is it dead in here.

Must be the Zika!

[SciFiAuthor]

Still listening to a show you hate?

Yeah, isn't that telling about the Donald.

[trostol]

Boy, is it dead in here.

watching Caddyshack lol

[albrecht]

I want to know how Cuba is dealing with the mosquitoes? Curious. They used to send doctors to all kinds of countries, despite their commie-ness. Is the various stuff there?

Could Zika be responsible for the alien head stuff down in those regions?

[Designx]

I'm not interested in hearing about peoples' near life experiences - not a fan of themed open lines shows.

[Donald Noory]

Is she going to read news for two hours? Boy, this show I'm still listening to still sucks.

[SciFiAuthor]

Is she going to read news for two hours? Boy, this show I'm still listening to still sucks.

That's because the only reason you listen to it is so you can say it sucks.

[vansmythe]

I wonder what Art is doing right now.

[Donald Noory]

She wants to hear about your near-death expuriences. I guess those involve lethal spurs.

[Ciardelo]

Yeah, isn't that telling about the Donald.

Yup. Something is broken inside, and he can't figure out how to move on.