I said it in the chat and I'll say it again here.
It seems to me that the gabcast is capturing the original C2C vibe more than any attempt at a successor to Art Bell has ever done and it's doing it completely unintentionally. It's like it's organically morphing into the true spiritual successor.
The original C2C was more about (in my experience anyway) this mass of people feeling and thinking about things together and exploring those things. Even though Art made everyone feel like he was there in the room with them being their pal or letting them in on all kinds of personal secrets he still managed to keep everyone glued together
as a gang in a way that nobody else can pull off.
Art might simply have been a lightning rod for something that needed to happen for whatever reason, and lightning may be attracted to the gabcast now which in a way is better because it's not entirely any one particular person.
Maybe a positive thing coming from the gut wrenching grief of Art's passing is the realization that we could all come together and explore the world, seen and unseen, in a constructive way even without one single guy leading the whole thing forward but as a satisfying and stronger group effort.
Seems like a lot of people have been slumped over and disillusioned after Art bailed on MITD as if we can't have that special thing without him but hey, maybe we can?
Agreed, but people need to be prepared to have a go themselves. It seems that a lot of people have convinced themselves that they can't co-host so you end up with the same people. It's much more fun when we hear different voices and if people don't participate then it will just wither away again. I'm sure we all have people we want to hear. For instance, albrecht, I'd love to hear that lunatic co-host ('I know an Indian, dot not feather' FFS).