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Art Bell by Harry S. Pariser (1997)
UFO's, the Hale-Bopp Comet, chupacabras, Gulf
War plagues, and crop circles are all staples of the Art Bell Show, the newest
phenomena that is sweeping late night radio. Heard on more than 330 stations
in the United States and Canada, the show has been on the air for the past three
years but has gained a mass following only recently because of Bell's innovative
use of the Internet.
The Art Bell web site points users to added information about topics discussed
on the show, and through a special channel found on IRC listeners can chat with
one another as the show is being broadcast on the Internet. Those whose local
stations don't carry the show can still tune in courtesy of a Real Audio simulcast
carried by AudioNet. The entire combination makes the Art Bell Show a truly
interactive experience.
"I discuss everything Bigfoot to politics to everything else: it's wide
open," says Bell in an interview. "I discuss a lot of subjects that
relate to things unusual such as the paranormal. It is fortuitous to be able
to show the images I am talking about. I have an HP scanner. When I have guest
scheduled to be on I have them send documentary evidence, and scan it and have
it put up on my page."
"I talk about life after death, the existence of the soul after death,
levitation, abilities of the mind that we obviously have or are just now gaining-it's
hard to say which. The paranormal is a gigantic field. If you listen up and
down the radio you hear I love Bill Clinton or I hate Bill Clinton so I thought
that there have to be other things we can talk about besides politics. So I've
created a field for myself."
As part of the program, Weil adds different lifestyle
changes as the weeks progress. He recommends people get rid of food that have
animal products and start buying organic fruits and vegetables. But Weil believes
his program is so popular because it is moderate in its suggestions. He explained
in a telephone interview that he's not telling people to give up caffeine or
become vegetarian but rather substitute a cup of green tea for a cup of coffee
and eat more soy products. "I'm asking people to make real changes; changes
that are familiar; it's not all or nothing," he said.
Parts of the program were challenging though. "Different people found different
things hard," Weil said. "Some people found the walking hard, others
found the breathing exercises hard, some found eating soy products hard. There
was no one thing." Weil believes that people take his book seriously because
he offers very specific advice that people connect with on an intellectual level.
Since he explains what the rationale is behind his suggestions, people understand
what he recommends and therefore act on the information.
As any listener of the show will attest, Art deals with the guests he has on
and their weird theories and ideas without a hint of incredulity. The question
though at the top of everyone's list is does he really believe in the existence
of UFOs?
"Of course I do, " he says. "It may be our government which actually
has generations and generations of technical abilities beyond what we have been
told about, and it may be beings from elsewhere. Both alternatives I consider
to be equally possible."
Keith Swanson, Programming Manager at KSFO, a talk radio show station based
in San Francisco, rates Bell " right up the top of the heap; he is rivaled
by no one in the majority of West coast cities."
Swanson says the show's popularity is derived from the psychology of the all-night
audience.
"Something different happens between midnight and eight AM. It is popular
with that whole world that does their work all night long. It's easier to categorize
a Rush Limbaugh or a Howard Stern. Bell is more complex.-which is probably why
the audience likes him: he becomes habit forming."
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