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Your kidding me right? this is like that snooze fest Shirley McClain show and I damn well bet she try's to sell something before shes off just like McClain did. You just know this is a paid commercial, I have my suspicions that George is taking kick backs from his Hollywood buddies for putting them on.

Thousands of riddles are offered up by the universe to us and George is talking to Debbie Reynolds.

Ive been trying hard to compile Art Bell shows in mp3 format and I have my favorites I find myself listening to time and again. That brings me to my query to you, what was your favorite show? Of course mine were the Father Martin shows but the open lines were always good for a laugh to. I always thought Art just sort of humored Dr. Doom, you could here it in his voice that he was more than a bit tepid on the "truth" Ed Dames would share.

One last thing, does anyone remember an early caller who was off his nut and worked at a toll bridge or something like that and finally got run over? he usually called around the same time someone using the name "writmeister" would call in.....the good old days.

My first post here, I'm so happy to find some kindred spirits. I first heard Art in the mid 90s, I think I got him out of Las Vegas on KDWN (I live in LA). I can remember when Art started to make the change from politics to the supernatural and the show became a revelation to me.

I listened exactly because there was no politics in it, just the strange and wonderful world brought to us each night. My favorite was Father Malachi Martin, who somehow managed to both scare the hell out of me and bring me comfort. But all of Arts guests were grand in their own way. What I loved most was that Art provided the Canvas and the guest painted the story, and politics was for the most part left out of the conversation.

Im very conservative but found hearing politics of any sort tedious when its available all day and Art seemed to work hard and never let his own politics slip into the show, this allowed all listeners to suspend their own personal opinions and bits of bias for the night and just enjoy what they were listening to.

Now I can barely stand C2C for more than 30 minutes, George has placed himself in the position of the painter his guests are there to agree with him and we are suppose to shut up and listen. I cant remember a show in which Art was openly political towards any side left or right now C2C is the only functioning arm of Air America, I'm surprised George doesn't have Al Franken on as a guest host.

So beyond all of Noorys host faults like  boring, inane, and dense, Noory has managed to anger half his audience and place a barrier between them and his show via his constant political talk. I feel an odd anger, I feel like Noory took something that had become a huge part of our night lives. I understand Noory was selected but I can help but feel he took something that didn't belong to him and turned the show into something it wasn't.



Sorry to ramble but ths is the first place Ive found people like me.....

Art we miss you more than you can imagine.