Guests that you "must listen" to.

[Daggit]

So which guest is a "must listen"?

That is, a guest that you will drop everything for. For example, ditch a date (let's not get too crazy, no one here is getting a date), cancel dinner with grandma or miss your kids graduation. Are there any guests that compel you to do this?

For me it's the hard science types. These are few and far between on today's Coast but I always enjoyed Kaku and a few others.

[Mind Flayer Monk]

So which guest is a "must listen"?

That is, a guest that you will drop everything for. For example, ditch a date (let's not get too crazy, no one here is getting a date), cancel dinner with grandma or miss your kids graduation. Are there any guests that compel you to do this?

None of them. There really is nothing new they bring-the same stories over and over again. Some guests do a good job, but there really aren't any new developments out there.

The only thing I can think of that is intriguing and that Art would have been able to run with is the missing Malaysian airliner. But GN turned that into crap. Some of the internet/hacking going on out there is interesting, but once again GN just doesn't know to get the right guests in for that too. C2C is too busy with Biblical Prophecy oh, and the Mark of the Beast.

[zeebo]

I lean towards the scientist/astronomer crowd:

Michio Kaku
Seth Shostak
Robert Zubrin
Robert Zimmerman

But for pure entertainment:

Andrew Basiago
Linda Moulten Howe
Richard Alan Miller
Robert Morningstar
Graham Hancock

There were others back in the Art days that don't seem to come on anymore (or maybe have passed on).  Bart Kosko the nanotech prof. was great, but I doubt he'd tolerate Noory.

[yumyumtree]

Well, I don't know about the extremes you mention, but Gerald Celente, Gary Ridenour, and James Howard Kunstler, if he ever would have him back. I'm sure there are some others, but those are just off the top of my head.


I'm not counting the ones I listen to out of morbid fascination, like Harvey Bigelsen.

[Daggit]

I lean towards the scientist/astronomer crowd:

Michio Kaku
Seth Shostak
Robert Zubrin
Robert Zimmerman

I enjoy those guys too.

[nooryisawesome]

I like Jim marrs he is out there. I actually would listen you RCH, he has been off way to long and i think he has had time to come up with some crazy theory.

[Juan Cena]

Howard Bloom and Michael Heiser. RCH used to be good for a laugh, not so much since he jumped on the general conspiracy spank train.

[cweb]

I do like Marrs, but only when there's time between his appearances. It seems like he gets asked about the same few things if he's promoting the same book.


Joseph P Farrell and his "secret Nazi tech" stuff always tend to hold my ear.


For entertainment I have to agree that RCH and Richard Alan Miller are pretty good. For RCH, moreso when he's giving Noory a hard time.

[Gd5150]

The only guest I found interesting in the last 5 years was David Paulides. His 1st few shows with Knapp were outstanding.

C2C is going to die a slow corporate death now. I used to think it could be saved with a new host but it cant.

[albrecht]

-LMH
-Richard Alan Miller
-David Paulides
-Michael Cremo
-John Lear
: those are about the only still-alive guests that I would specifically tune in for. (Dead ones: Malachi Martin, Kathleen Keating, Lloyd Pye, Mel Waters, Glenn Kimball, Jan Lamprecht, Dallas Thompson...<---I'm assuming some of these folks are dead because they seem to have disappeared from the radio and internet. Others are confirmed dead.)

[zeebo]

-LMH

Oh good, I was worried I was the only one.   

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

Oh good, I was worried I was the only one.   

I think LMH has become the only regular guest reliably worth listening to.

[Daggit]

Oh good, I was worried I was the only one.   

I always enjoyed Linda too. I don't believe she was ever pulling the wool over our eyes. I do however believe that she had the wool pulled over her eyes on occasion. You've got to admire her. She was hitting the highways around this great land every week to bring us the latest. She was one dedicated reporter. I recall her calling in to Dreamland whilst in transit one week from the the airport and she was playing her cassette recorder over a pay phone. We even got to hear the airport PA announcements for free.

[zeebo]

I always enjoyed Linda too. I don't believe she was ever pulling the wool over our eyes. I do however believe that she had the wool pulled over her eyes on occasion. ..

Yep I mostly agree with that - she does tend to be a bit of a "true believer" type, so maybe that's why her imagination sometime runs a bit wild.

Still, remember not too long ago, her story on that crop circle that showed up somewhere in Silicon Valley and it had some magic number in it?  Thing was, even though it turned out later to be a publicity stunt for some video card company, the show she did on it was really interesting. 

She had tried to find every possible angle for what the number could mean (e.g. was it some atomic isotope number, etc.)  So I guess my point is even when she got fooled I still found it interesting speculation. 

Or maybe it's just that her evenly-metered voice puts me into a pleasanty semi-hypnotic state which pairs nicely with scotch.

[albrecht]

Yep I mostly agree with that - she does tend to be a bit of a "true believer" type, so maybe that's why her imagination sometime runs a bit wild.

Still, remember not too long ago, her story on that crop circle that showed up somewhere in Silicon Valley and it had some magic number in it?  Thing was, even though it turned out later to be a publicity stunt for some video card company, the show she did on it was really interesting. 

She had tried to find every possible angle for what the number could mean (e.g. was it some atomic isotope number, etc.)  So I guess my point is even when she got fooled I still found it interesting speculation. 

Or maybe it's just that her evenly-metered voice puts me into a pleasanty semi-hypnotic state which pairs nicely with scotch.

She does seem to believe anything but, then again, maybe she is just being a real reporter and reporting the stories the witness/person tells? I like her because of her work ethic (interviews, cassette tapes, conferences, getting people (even legit people and real experts) on the line for interviews, etc) and because it is a chain to back when C2C etc was good and Art Bell.

[Uncle Duke]

I think LMH has become the only regular guest reliably worth listening to.

Anyone else think she looks Dawn Wells of "Gilligan's Island" fame?

[NowhereInTime]

Jesse Ventura
Gerald Celente
Jim Marrs
Richard Belzer
Michio Kaku
Alex Jones (yeah, yeah, shut up)
David Paulides
Bugs who shot Bigfoot (I think he's dead.  Bugs, not Bigfoot)
Bob Lazar
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
LMH (if she would stop shouting)
Glynis McCants (nah, just fucking with you)
Art Bell