Source : Wired.com , Sally McGrane
Nearly 20 years ago, Art Bell created the wildly popular radio program Coast to Coast AM, a wee-hour forum for weird science. We asked him why the show entertains, even encourages, the crazies.
Wired: You were hosting a political talk show before you jumped to the supernatural. What inspired the switch?
Bell: I was crushingly bored talking about politics 30 hours a week. So one day I said, “The hell with it,” and I brought on John Lear, a very outspoken ufologist. The audience just went nuts! The phones lit up.
Wired: How did your bosses react?
Bell: They had heart attacks. But when the ratings came in, we were overwhelmingly number one. I was lucky because the show was on at night. There’s a different breed of person awake at those hours. And the world is a quieter place, with less to distract us from esoteric thought. I think—no, I’m sure—Coast to Coast wouldn’t work with a daytime audience.
Wired: Why are people so drawn to the paranormal?
Bell: The same reason we’re drawn to God. The greatest question of all is whether our experience on this planet is “it” or whether there is something else. Things in the supernatural realm give support, strangely perhaps, to the things we take on faith. Like ghosts, for example—they underscore the possibility of an afterlife.
Wired: Do you believe in ghosts?
Bell: I’ve never seen one, so I’m skeptical. But I do believe in the paranormal, that there are things our brains just can’t understand.
Wired: As you’re listening to callers, how often do you think, “No f-ing way”?
Bell: Oh, all the time. But if you’re into a really great tale, then it doesn’t actually matter if it’s true or not.
Wired: The funny thing about radio is that you never have to show any evidence.
Bell: That’s right. That’s why radio is “the theater of the mind.”
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Arts ok. But the “Somewhere In Time” series is too old. Some of the stuff has been debunked, for the best or worst. I just think he should give up broadcasting, and there is no-way in heck I will pay to listen or stream that program, when I can listen to it FREE from my local station. Why even charge people? Is Coast to Coast hurting for funding? If it is, then I think it’s time to shut the doors. A good run is a fantastic thing, but talking about the same’ol boring crapola with the same’ol people, especially when nothing is new is quite old. Also, they let too many people send in “drawings”. Who cares if they’re an artist. People don’t want to see “drawings”, they want viable photos to ponder on. The new web page is boring. Some of the photos are way too old. It looked to me like less & less people are submitting photos these days. I think Coast to Coast is about as stretched out as it can be. I think it’s boring most late nighters now. Maybe some new juice in guests and topics is in store? You can only discuss UFOs, Bigfoots, Ghosts, so many times with the same folks over & over, before you just kill your audience with pure boredom. Sorry Art. Sorry George. Sorry Ian.