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Shiver me timbers ye soft handed city shanty sitters ! I thought it would be insightful to start a thread with ye exceptional characters to know what you thought were the best and the worst Coast show guests that really "moved" you either to learn more or throw the radio out the window !

For best guest I nominate any interview of the late Father Malachi Martin the exorcist. To listen is to know truth and fear from an extraordinary man and intellect.



For worst guests it is a three way tie for sheer quanity of nonsense. Why Nory continues to allow a venue for these dismal doctors of doom beloved of Art
Bell, I have no idea. They are radio killers and I lament the time devoted to them that could be so much better used for real quality guests !

Futurist Gordon Michael Scallion whose droning is amazing only for it's inaccuracy and consistantly wrong. What he can't get wrong for himself he copies from others like his USA map of earth changes is so similar to Lore Toy's !

Prophet / Pyschic Sean David Morton ( notice the 3 names so often used by cranks ?) , gave expensive tours of area 51 UFO's that happen to be airliners, claimed tibetan lama training, claims to know all sorts of astronauts and celebrities, etc., has made hours of prediction of world calamities on Coast that failed to occur but he claims as correct !

USA goverment remote viewer retired officer Ed Dames - Dr. Doom.
Claimed to remote view the devil and suppossedly was hiding out from the end times in Hawaiian volcano lava tubes. Has made many earth catastrophe predictions based on his remote viewing skill that have been wrong on his many Coast shows.

Best Guest - I agree Father Malachi Martin is the best guest they've ever had on in any capacity. Each time he was on it was educational, interesting, and absolutely frightening. Others have been on to talk about exorcism, but nobody could tell it with such passion and details as Father Martin.

Worst Guest - I agree with Major Ed Dames. I just get tired of any psychic that has nothing but negative things to say. There are good things that happen in this world, why can't any psychic see them coming? Another nominee, I don't recall his name, but he was on with Barbara and I was driving home at like 3 in the morning and I had about 90 minutes ahead of me. He had a rag to riches story and he believed that nobody needs to go to college. You need to go into the line of work that you are interested and then go out on your own. It was a bizarre guest to have on C2C (it was more like a local interview show). It was painfully dull. Lucky I didn't fall asleep and crash.

Your worst guests I would put on my best list. I would put on my worst list any of the guest who do terrorism or similar mainstream news subjects plus that boring 911-call guy. Father Wingate is fun to listen to some though he is loony-tunes, and he is no Malachi Martin. And that "rags-to-riches" guy sounds like Wayne Green. Wayne is an 80+year old guy and very interesting he has done so much in his life - but he is best interviewed by Art Bell, so Babs is the one to fault if you didn't like that show.

Best: I really like the psychics, any of them. I really enjoyed John Lear. Everything about that show felt great, including the fact that he didn't do interviews for so long. I liked a show that art did once with this guy named Dallas or something. He was blind and talking about traveling to the center of the earth. He was so wound up, it was funny as hell.

Worse: gotta agree with BadBoy that 911 guy was terrible. One of those seldomly bad shows from Art. They would just keep laughing and repeating the "punchline" over and over and I just didn't get why it was so funny. Barb's done some terrible shows though. She can take a below-average guest and turn it into a nightmare! I remember a show about animals once. OMG. And Barb seems to really enjoy those stupid shows for some reason too!

Anybody on with Blabs is a terrible show. Why anybody would willingly want to hurt sales for their book is beyond me.

I'm old school, so I like any of the regulars on with Art. But my favorite shows are when Art improvises with open lines. Like ghost to ghost, Area 51 caller line, anti-Christ call-in, ect. They range anywhere from the absolutely freakin hilarious to the downright spooky.

Yes Art's classic guests were the best. John Lear and Bob Lazar especially. Art's classic special call-in lines were great too my favorite was the Time Traveller and Area51 lines, though I remember when I first started listening 10 years ago Art only had two: Vampire and the Alien line. I liked the classic repeat call-in callers that never call in anymore too, like JC and Steve "the time traveller, galactic federation guy". George's Friday open-lines are a joke in comparison.

My favorite guest of all time has to be when Art took a half hour or so and interviewed JC. I listen to that when it was posted on Art's old website so many times. Sometimes I laughed other times I would listen to see if JC was a hoax, others I was amazed someone was like this. I also dug when Paul Moller was on recently, and Michio Haku. And I can't forget Peter Davenport.

The worst, and not because they are not interesting, just because they are full of poopy, poopy diapers:


Sean David Morton(obvious)
Ed Dames
That vampire guy
Kathleen Keating
Wacky 911 calls(the one guest who isn't full of
poopy, poopy diapers, just boring)

I've only been listening to Art for about 3 yrs, but during that time the best for me, is definitely John Lear. Another guest I really enjoyed listening to - Now here's one that's different! - was Eric Burdon, the singer from the 60's rock band The Animals. Art had him on about 2 yrs ago. The worst, I agree with Bad Boy and Puppet, has to be the Wacky 911 phone calls guy! First time I've
EVER fallen asleep during one of Art's shows! (which I did quite often during the time I listened to Noory!);)

Tinkerbell <^..^>

Anyone remember Rodney from Fort Smith, Arkansas ( 1996) who had trapped a spirit in his house via a bug/rodent electrosonic device?....that was a great show and great guest.

Madman Markhum is/was another great guest.....still missing last I heard
Loved Mel Waters too, in addition to the already mentioned Father Martin, Dr Kaku and John Lear....

Agree, the 911 calls show did nothing for me.....first one of Art's shows that I didn't archive.

Ah I almost forgot about Rodney ... that was a good one.

the worst shows on C2C ... when Art isn't hosting.

The best ones are with Art hosting.

DUH

alphacentaura wrote: Anyone remember Rodney from Fort Smith, Arkansas ( 1996) who had trapped a spirit in his house via a bug/rodent electrosonic device?....that was a great show and great guest.

Madman Markhum is/was another great guest.....still missing last I heard
Loved Mel Waters too, in addition to the already mentioned Father Martin, Dr Kaku and John Lear....

Agree, the 911 calls show did nothing for me.....first one of Art's shows that I didn't archive.

Those all sound like great shows, but unfortunately except for Mel
Waters, Dr. Kaku & John Lear, they were aired before I knew about the show. I did hear the clip when Art read the article about Madman missing - after he sent a cat a block away! That
really got me wishing that I'd heard the show when Art interviwed him. And I've read so many posts from alot of you Pirates about Father Martin, that I regret that I never got to hear
any of those shows - they must have been real classics! But as they say... better late than never! I've heard some great shows with great guests in the last 3 yrs and I know there's more to come, and that's good enough.

Tinkerbell <^..^>

Father Malachi made for a very riveting show to say the least. They were always those kind of shows that when Art played Cusco you knew time had run out and the show was over. But you were left thirsting for more. And when he died it was over for good. It was a thrilling ride while it lasted. Something cheap wannabes like Father Wingnut will never know.

Does anyone remember the guy that called in from the isolated phone booth in the middle of the desert? This guy camped out there and said that people from all over the world would call there just to see if anyone answered. This strange phone booth became a cult hit with the media after that night and there was even a website dedicated to it.

I agree with the futurists and psychics being among the worst guests. It constantly amazes me how they're willing to predict either the most far-out things or the most negative things possible, yet they're completely unable to latch on to the obvious positive and good things that are clearly coming down the road. I also include people who claim to be vampires, or witches, or who mated with aliens, or saw shadow people, anything along those lines just bore me to tears. I like shows _about_ aliens, or _about_ vampires, and maybe a rare show about "shadow people", but only in great moderation and not 4 or 5 hours dedicated to an individual person claiming to be one of such or have had an experience with one of such.

The best guests or shows are either those that have variety (not the same topic for the third time in 10 shows), or that touch on current major news events (that would even include Hoagland, despite his credibility problem), shows about something 'strange' that happened somewhere (Mel's hole type stuff), etc. I also tend to like shows that don't spend the entire time on the same topic. That's fine now and then, but many of these topics just don't deserve 3.5 or 3 hours on their own in a row. Things have been better lately, but then I'm only getting to hear the weekend shows for the most part.

I have to say the WORST shows are Friday night open lines with George. I never listen anymore. I might catch the first hour guest and then shut off the radio.

Best shows...... Ancient history & archeology, ghost investigations, crop circle, UFO & abduction reports, new technology and climate changes.

Just my two cents.

I think the worst is Evelyn Paglini, the witch. Another awful one was Patch Adams, the real doctor. He was mad at the world, and not afraid to blast everyone. He was a real downer.

I enjoy hearing the psychics and remote viewers, even though their record is miserable.

I like Betty Edie.