Tonight I realized it'd been 2 weeks since I listened to C2C and I mused why. In no particular order, lately C2C has been these various things for me. It's been awhile since I stopped in here so I apologize if some of these have been covered already.
Negatives
1 - A couple weeks ago I made the drive north for George Live in Vancouver, BC. It was unreal, at various points in the discussion he'd just randomly interrupt with an audience-applause comment like "Canadians and Americans are truly brothers and sisters" made without any real context or frame of reference - they'd just drop out of the blue. Things like this were just randomly sprinkled throughout the evening, it's like he has some weird form of Tourette's that manifests itself in appeals for adoration instead of swear words.
2 - At one point Catherine Austin Fitts (sp?) said "George, can you guess the percentage increase in foreclosures in just the last year?" I groaned the minute she asked this because I knew he was going to come back with some bizarre high-ball number that would ruin her point. Sure enough. "I don't know Catherine - how about ... 400%?" ... [awkward pause] Catherine: "Well, no, 95% ... but 95% is a lot."
3 - George's guests have become such bottom-feeding nutcases lately that the only shows I even listen to anymore are those hosted by Knapp. Seriously, I don't know if this is a George issue or a Lisa Lyon/Tom Danheiser issue but it's gotten to the point that anyone with a podcast, a blog or an "e-book" (i.e. their manifesto typed out on MS Word and uploaded to their geocities.com page) can be a 3-hour guest on C2C. Tonight's show, for instance, was apparently the loony-tunes grab-bag.
4 - One of my favorite C2C topics is past-life regression and George usually does an adequate job with some fantastic guests like Dr. Brian Weiss and Dr. Charles Tramont. But then he has the dentist Bruce Goldberg on and the whole show sounds like one of those green tea infomercials they play at 4AM on Saturday's on low-rated AM radio stations.
George: Bruce, how can people find out more?
Bruce: George, just for listeners to your show, the next 100 callers will get my special 2-CD hypnoregression set, plus the special bonus signed photo of my wife Morningsong ...
5 - Alex Jones ... he has a lot of .. "interesting" things to say but it's endlessly aggravating how he cites his references: "just google - ten million dead, robot invasion, martial law." That's his citation for everything! "Just google it." AHHH!!!
Positives
1 - The first hour guest regulars - Gerald Celente, Mish Hedlock, et. al. - have been relatively consistent in quality lately which has been pretty decent and have made up for George's lack of interview skills.
2 - All of Knapps shows are stellar. On the rare occasion he has an "off" guest he still makes the show interesting by actually challenging the guest instead of just coloring while said guest hijacks the airwaves and rambles on. Ian has had some decent recent shows like the chick who was talking about portals in Spain and his ongoing follow-ups about the Smiley Face Killers (but there's something about all his roadmap style of interviewing authors that doesn't quite do it for me. I also don't like how he he says "Coast to Coast ... A ... [pause] ... [pause] ... Emmmm".)
Random Questions
1. Has anyone noticed that, in the last couple weeks, ALL of the ads on the C2C website have disappeared, except "house" ads (i.e. the C2C online store)?
2. I thought the new C2C website was supposed to be up in February?