Opinion of Art Bell

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Art Bell was also one of my favorites.  Of course he could be too willing to believe some of the paranormal things (but, he was even willing to admit that, like his admission that he thought The Blair Witch Project film was actually found footage) but he was also genuinely seeking out possible real explanations for paranormal events and had actual physicists on his show other than Michio Kaku to try and explain them.  

Noory has a few on as well (at least the last time I listened about 7 months ago) but whereas Art Bell understood what they were saying and could have actual conversations with them, Noory asks the same handful of dimwitted stock questions to physicists and astronomers.

1.The 'Big Bang' I don't get it.  Can you be the one to explain it to me?
2.I don't want to call it 'God' but can the order in the universe be explained without something like God?
3.How much more do you think Einstein could have accomplished if he had had computers?
4.The whole universe if made of the same primordial soup, isn't it likely the universe is teaming with life?  
5.When I was in school, I said to my science teacher 'I think there are planets throughout the universe and she disagreed with me. Wasn't I a genius?'

Noory actually changed this anecdote to make his teacher seem less impressive.  The first several times he told the story, he said the teacher replied to him 'that might be true, but so far all that has been confirmed is that there are planets in this solar system.'

Noory's has guests on for two hours, and he does the interview in the first hour and takes calls in the second hour.  He usually asks about 10 questions over the hour, so these stock questions are around half of the questions he asks a physicist or an astronomer.
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On a more positive note, the excellent Dave Schrader has taken over Art Bell's Darkness Radio on a full time basis.