{"id":133,"date":"2013-08-18T10:21:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T18:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/radio\/?p=133"},"modified":"2013-08-18T10:21:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T18:21:56","slug":"coast-to-coast-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/radio\/2013\/08\/18\/coast-to-coast-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast to Coast AM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coast-to-Coast AM (on FM locally) was what became of the old Art Bell show, George Noory being the regular host with John B. Wells and George Knapp filling in on the weekends.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to see John B Wells and George Knapp get more air time.\u00a0 I enjoy both of them for different unique things they bring to the air.\u00a0 John has a good voice and a good sense of humor.\u00a0 He tends to be knowledgeable in many of the fields his guests are and thus can ask intelligent questions, and he has a good voice.<\/p>\n<p>George Knapp, not such a good voice, maybe not quite as much humor, but also very knowledgeable and a genuine investigative reporter which is a rare commodity these days.<\/p>\n<p>George Noory, a good people person, but often not knowledgeable in the fields that his guests are involved in and I think there is a tendency to limit the scope of guests to keep them within his narrower field of knowledge.\u00a0 He is patient with people and good at helping people who are having difficulty expressing themselves do so.\u00a0 But he is willing to lower himself to two inches from the floor to sell some of the products that he does.\u00a0 Carnivora?\u00a0 Come on, we all know the old adage, &#8220;you are what you eat&#8221;.\u00a0 We all know what flies eat, Venus Flytraps eat flies, do you want to eat that?\u00a0 Not me.\u00a0 And, &#8220;Men, are you waking up too many times at night with an urge to urinate?&#8221;\u00a0 Try not waking up when you have an urge to urinate, not so good.<\/p>\n<p>I guess some people must buy these things or they wouldn&#8217;t keep paying for the commercials, but if Coast to Coast really has an audience of 12 million people, I&#8217;m hard pressed to believe they can&#8217;t find some better sponsors.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t help but wonder if this wasn&#8217;t one of the reasons Art Bell &#8220;retired&#8221;, I know they all say it was family problems but I also know he wouldn&#8217;t give these products his personal endorsement like Mr. Noory and I can&#8217;t help but wonder if that wasn&#8217;t a factor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coast-to-Coast AM (on FM locally) was what became of the old Art Bell show, George Noory being the regular host with John B. Wells and George Knapp filling in on the weekends. I would like to see John B Wells &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/radio\/2013\/08\/18\/coast-to-coast-am\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}