Art Bell is coming back.

[earthside]

Art Bell returning to radio with Sirius show about the paranorma - Associated Press

One of the most skilled radio broadcasters of the last 50 years.

[onehandle]

1. My wife will be thrilled. nt

[snooper2]

2. Y2K Art Bell?

Art Bell - Texas Hillbilly Shoots Two Bigfoots!

[earthside]

14. I love it.

That clip is an example of why I liked the old Art Bell Coast-to-Coast show so much.

Listening to those kinds of stories at 2:00 in the morning was great fun.

Art interviews 'Bugs" from Texas (where else) who shot two Big Foot ... you would be tempted to believe that this was all made-up. But, undoubtedly, Bugs was real and shot at something back in December 1976.

[Liberal In Texas]

3. Say what you like about Art,

but he's a hell of an entertainer and has the voice to evoke that spooky feeling you get when sitting around a campfire late at night telling stories to one another.

I always thought Noory was a poor replacement and it turns out he's also a rw tool.

[kestrel91316]

12. Agreed. Noory is a moran of the highest order. Art is liberal.

[bbgrunt]

33. well, Art is more libertarian than liberal, but usually didn't get

very political. He wrote a book about the coming superstorms and entertains all kinds of conspiracy stuff (except 9-11)--so he is an independent libertarian. It will be interesting to hear him again.

[kestrel91316]

41. Art is liberal on most social issues, though I was surprised to read that he is

anti-abortion (though probably not anti-choice or I would have noticed). He's no teabagger, that's for sure.

[Teamster Jeff]

4. Crazy stuff......But

He did shows on pedophlia in the Catholic Church years before it became public.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. So he is leaving the Philippines

to permanently move back to Pahrump? Appears he is.

[kestrel91316]

11. Is his wife able to come?? He went to the Philippines when she got denied a green card, I think.

[HipChick]

38. Wow..it is not often you get denied a green card...what happened?

Don't they have a green card?

[kestrel91316]

42. I was never clear on what happened. I read on Wikipedia that she did get permanent

resident status finally in 2011. They went to the Philippines when the thing was in process and I think that was a no-no, and then she couldn't re-enter for a long time, so they lived there as the second try was in progress. Happy that it finally worked out.

[Mariana]

6. Sometimes on his old show, he'd interview real scientists

and they'd discuss real science. Those were excellent. Michio Kaku comes to mind as one of my favorite guests on the show.

Bell's a damned good interviewer, and even when the guests were nutcases and the topics were far-out, crazy, and utterly unbelievable, the shows were still entertaining and interesting to listen to.

[earthside]

13. You never really knew what Art really thought.

Except --- when he interviewed people like Michio Kaku.
Art respected science.

But when it came to Big Foot and angels and even UFOs, you always had a feeling from his voice that there was a skeptic in there somewhere.

And that was the charm of his program -- it was at its heart radio entertainment and that is how Bell treated it most of the time. I repeat: Art Bell is one of the most skillful radio broadcasters of our time ... I 'm talking about his voice abilities, his timing, his interviewing capabilities, etc.

If you understood the 'deal' of the Art Bell show then it was a constant source of delight ... I still remember original broadcasts of the Mel's Hole schtick and the 'Screams from Hell' audio.

Noory on the other hand is a right-wing supernaturalist Roman Catholic ... he is as thin as an onion skin.
And a terrible interviewer at that. But Noory is a relentless self-promoter and with Clear Channel's backing he has done well for himself at the same time basically wrecking the entrancing qualities that Coast-to-Coast once had.

[Mariana]

16. Noory's version is crap, to be sure. nt.

[frylock]

22. as bad as Noory is, Ian Punnit is 10 time worse..

straight up teabagger type.

[Mariana]

23. I'll grant you that.

Noory's idiotic interview questions are annoying, but mostly his show is just plain boring. Punnit is actively obnoxious to listen to. So, I don't.

[Morning Dew]

28. I think Punnett is completely out now

because of his tinnitus.


Fingers crossed, anyway.

[Mariana]

26. Didn't Art claim to have seen a UFO himself?

I seem to remember that he said that he and Ramona saw something weird in the sky one time. I can't remember the details.

[Kingofalldems]

31. Yes.

[Bosonic]

32. 'Black Triangle' according to Art

From 11:00 onwards...

[leftyohiolib]

7. excellent

[Xithras]

8. One of my favorite radio broadcasters of all time.

I couldn't count the number of late nights I've spent writing code with Art Bell on the radio in the background. 80% of the show was pseudoscience bullshit, but it was entertaining pseudoscience bullshit, and it was always fun trying to tell whether Art was simply being nice to his guests, or whether he actually believed what they were saying (my guess is that he thought that most of them were as batshit crazy as we did).

[reformist2]

20. +1. He got me in the habit of going to sleep at 2am!

And I know what you mean about Art straddling the line between belief and disbelief, it actually encouraged tolerance, rare for talk radio!

[Karmadillo]

9. The Face on Mars has agreed to be the first guest!

[kestrel91316]

10. I loved Art Bell! He is such a clever man and skilled interviewer.

I always used to be able to tell when he was skeptical of his guests (he had some real loons on C2C). I also loved how he did such a great job with the legitimate ones.

[MyshkinCommaPrince]

15. Oh, excellent!

I may have to get a working radio, then. Even when he had Real Crazies on his show, it was still worth a listen.

[Jesus Malverde]

18. Sirius/XM Satellite Radio..nt

[Jesus Malverde]

17. W00t!

[Bosonic]

19. I predict I will listen

[quinnox]

21. AWESOME!!!!

I'm shocked. I thought he had retired for good! This news just made my day, and month, and year! LOL

Yes, I was and remain a gigantic fan. I even once looked for his house in Parrump, Nevada, when I was on a road trip to the Mojave desert.

Just to see it you understand. Never did find it.

[derby378]

24. But it's strictly on a pay station, so for many Americans, he's still off the air

Which is probably for the better, I suppose. Keep radio free.

[quinnox]

25. it isn't THAT expensive, I just looked into it. It is 14.49 a month to get internet streaming

from Sirius XM, and you can get it on your computer and also any tablets or other portable internet connected devices.

[Drunken Irishman]

27. Bell leaving is the reason I gave up on Coast to Coast. Noory is a loon.

[anneboleyn]

34. Noory kept doing chupacabra stories, very tedious

Art Bell is the man!

[Eddie Haskell]

36. Me too. The show has gone wing-nut right since Bain Capital bought Clear Channel.

[Drunken Irishman]

37. Goddamn Mitt Romney.

[felix_numinous]

29. K&R

Glad to hear it

[Kingofalldems]

30. Greatest interviewer ever

Fantastic news.

And Phil Hendrie will love it also. He does a dead-on impression of Art Bell.

[earthside]

40. Phil Hendrie

Some of the funniest moments in radio.

He used to be on in the Denver area several years ago -- now only a Pueblo station carries him in Colorado.

[Eddie Haskell]

35. Love Art, but when I first read it, I thought it read "show about paranoia".

[HipChick]

39. Wow..and to think I nearly threw out my sirus radio...time to go dig it out..