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C2C Is a unique show that i sample almost every night. Immediate turn offs:

Anyone explaining how aliens / technology/ rough times are all related to New Testament and we should all get together in Christ and all our problems will either be solved, explained, or maybe not.
Voice of Steve Quayle saying anything. Anything.
Richard C Hoaglun promising anything.
Ed Dames weaseling or preening.
EVP

Consider that C2C is a special place in our schedules where pretty much anbody can get a 2 to 4 hour window to say pretty much anything. All they really have to be is interesting.
The above items have been run far along given tracks and already have plenty of air time behind them. They are either idiotic or played out or both.

To save them you could have competitive idiots doing different numerology on the same subjects, different bible thumpers doing bible codes or predictions on each-other's work live, two remote viewers reporting on viewing the same thing and especially two experts with different interpretations of the same EVPs for our listening pleasure.

Positive: I like his bumper music. He mentions it frequently so I guess he's really selecting it.

Negative: He has this selfconsciousness about his on-air comments that is somewhat reminding of Art Bell, but more so. It can get irritating especially when he blocks a guest or caller comment by pre-supposing what the person is going to say instead of letting them say it. This is a poor conversationialist in my books.

Positive: He has a good voice,  warm and deep.

Negative: He can jump subjects right in the middle of a guest making a point, rip the topic right out of the guest's mouth and move it somewhere else, not necessarily to the interest of the listener.

Positivbe: I haven't noticed him abusing a guest or a caller.

Negative: I haven't thought much of his guests or his topics. Too much in the plot mode or we can only save ourselves through christ mode. That is not a crime but when they are both riding a hobby horse and boring at the same time, that is a radio crime.

Richard C Hoaglund is a lesson to us all in the annals of media-o-cracy. He is a media glutton approaching  Sarah Palin class. Unfortunately in my point of view his rationality is a small subset of his overall radio presence.

I find myself agreeing with him only in the emotional sense that the Uniied States can and must persist in space exploration. Much of his assertions beyond that poison his own argument by joining the case for space with the case for space nuttiness.

He does for space research what McCarthyism did for anti-Communism. Poisons the well.

I never believed in any sense in the Martian 'face' nor in a NASA plot to withhold vital space knowledge from the public. This and other claims almost always come with promises of future justification and revelations to come (next time he's on the air) which don't pan out as promised, or demand a level of buy-in that increases with fractal intensity. I decided some time ago that he acts almost instinctively to prolong his presence on-air.

I don't think he should be put out to C2C pasture as long as he has listeners. On the other hand, if he would consent to go on the air with his therapist, I'd be tempted to tune in myself.