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FWIW, Noory's sign off tonight where he lists off the names of people associated with the show still had Art's name in it, so either he was speaking out of habit or they hadn't changed the copy in front of him.

Quote from: amz on February 23, 2012, 02:53:09 AM
This is the Little Ballerina Blue song Art used as bumper music in the 90s.  I had been looking for it and found the 45 rpm.  Thanks to guildnavigator and Ben Shockley for information on this piece.

Beautiful!  I have a scratchy mp3 of this song since probably the days of Napster when I did a large amount of bumper music searching and downloading.  The quality of it was awful, sounded like it had been recorded straight off the radio, but I kept it around in the hopes that someday I'd notice the file and search for it again and find a copy in better quality.  Guess today's my lucky day.  Thank you for this.

Art was a maverick and a loose cannon.  He talked about things that nobody wanted to publicly say outloud to their own friends and family, and he did it without screening calls.  Art never knew anything about who he was about to have on the air beyond what line they were calling in on, but George entrenches himself behind call screeners who weed out any sort of random element from the show.  Art also had such a wonderful wide range of topics, from ghosts (seriously, when do we get Ghost-to-Ghost anymore except on Halloween?), to monsters, to aliens, to ancient civilizations, to strange science stuff.  For George, everything has some kind of End Times slant to it, and it's often within the Christian perspective of End Times, rather than just general end of the world. 

I recall that Art never let anybody quote from the Bible on the air, but George will let these people give whole sermons and citations as though they were certain fact.  George almost seems to be anti-science.  Back when he took over, you never would hear Michio Kaku or the EVP people on the air with George.  They were Art's guests, and I got the feeling that they liked Art better.  I'm also no longer surprised that Phil Platt, who I first heard about on Coast, no longer comes on the air to debunk some of this garbage that George spouts, because it's just so mind-numbingly dumb.

I don't know about the rest of you, but here C2CAM is on the same station as Rush, Dr. Laura (or did she finally retire?), Dave Ramsey, Mike Huckabee, Focus on the Family, and some other right-wing derp spreader who I think they recently canned, so the station itself carries a pretty heavily right-wing/Jesus is the way message in almost all of it's shows.  A few years back it seemed like there were about 2 or 3 weeks straight of shows where it was all religiously themed shows.  Angels, Bible Code, guests in general who attributed whatever subject they were talking about exclusively to God or Jesus or Satan.  None of that classic C2CAM fare where you'd get topics that go off in completely different directions from the night before.  It feels like George is just another religious and ideological mouthpiece, only less mainstream, on this already rather biased radio station lineup.

Man, there are a number of things that just drive me crazy about George, but I think the moment when I really looked at my radio like it had grown arms and legs, was when George did that stunt with the "Satan worshipper" audio.  He built it up by saying the guy was from somewhere in Eastern Europe and that everybody who came in contact with him could "feel the evil."  Then they played this recorded message where the guy's voice, complete with a bad eastern Europe accent, got all demonic and scary sounding.  I was just like, "come on George, you manipulated the recording, and it's so obvious that it makes you look like a hack to even try to pass this off as legitimate."  That stunt, plus the Ouija board debacle ("I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna do it! ... I decided not to do it.") just murdered any faith I have in the show with Noory at the helm, and my faith in the post-Art era was already pretty strained by that point.