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Is there an archive of his show that we can listen to?
Coast to Coast AM was my go-to bedtime routine as a kid. I'd get tucked in and then sneakily turn my am radio on and listen for hours. It wasn't even that I liked the content so much, as I liked hearing Art talk to callers and how he was never condescending and just took their stories as though they were telling the truth. It really stuck with me then that he just had a crazy open mind - and I feel like that's had li…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckY-LmBItUc
two of my favorite speakers in a conversation with one another. Great.
I grew up in the High Desert of California (around Apple Valley, Victorville, Hesperia, Barstow). I can't count how many times I was driving alone down the desert highways at night, not a single other car on the road, and Art Bell was the only thing on the radio. And he'd be interviewing people or talking about UFOs, aliens, ghosts, government conspiracies, or whatever else he thought would be great to spook people w…
Art Bell is a completely difference experience when you are driving through the middle of the Nevada or California desert. Its hard to explain to people who have never done it, but somehow on those long desolate drives, his radio show just made sense somehow.
Rest in peace.
I grew up in the High Desert of California (around Apple Valley, Victorville, Hesperia, Barstow). I can't count how many times I was driving alone down the desert highways at night, not a single other car on the road, and Art Bell was the only thing on the radio. And he'd be interviewing people or talking about UFOs, aliens, ghosts, government conspiracies, or whatever else he thought would be great to spook people w…
>I grew up in the High Desert of California (around Apple Valley, Victorville, Hesperia, Barstow). I used to live in Hesperia. I'm glad you escaped, too. If some sub-culture doesn't do you in, the contaminated well water will. (a literal skin-head nazi race riot broke out in my High School during my time there -- I didn't even realize that h.s. riots existed until I found myself in the middle of one -- I felt I neede…
Art Bell was a great interviewer. He entertained a number of guests on his show that he clearly did not believe fully. Instead of calling them crazy or brushing them aside, he drew out what he could. He entered their world and suspended his own and his listeners disbelief as a form of empathy and childlike wonder. If more people could hold a meaningful conversation with people they think are crazy, like he could, peo…
Counter-point: He took clearly incredible people and introduced them to his audience, and in doing so, granted them a shred of legitimacy when they deserved none. His show caused vulnerable people to become entrenched in nonsensical conspiracy theories that even the hosts realized were crazy.
Is there an archive of his show that we can listen to?
I grew up in the High Desert of California (around Apple Valley, Victorville, Hesperia, Barstow). I can't count how many times I was driving alone down the desert highways at night, not a single other car on the road, and Art Bell was the only thing on the radio. And he'd be interviewing people or talking about UFOs, aliens, ghosts, government conspiracies, or whatever else he thought would be great to spook people w…
Art Bell is a completely difference experience when you are driving through the middle of the Nevada or California desert. Its hard to explain to people who have never done it, but somehow on those long desolate drives, his radio show just made sense somehow.
Coast to Coast AM was my go-to bedtime routine as a kid. I'd get tucked in and then sneakily turn my am radio on and listen for hours. It wasn't even that I liked the content so much, as I liked hearing Art talk to callers and how he was never condescending and just took their stories as though they were telling the truth. It really stuck with me then that he just had a crazy open mind - and I feel like that's had li…