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Darren Garrison, if you want to rant, take it to the Pit. “Good riddance” is not an appropriate response to an obituary thread in this forum.
I heard this yesterday, and am still not sure how I feel about him and his show. He did entertain the hell out of me, but I did know some people who were prone to believe that crap. He wasn’t doing them any favors.
On one hand, I’m surprised he made it this far with his lifestyle.
On the other hand, I’m sure that the kooks, nuts, and moonbats were gunning for him, each with contradictory reasons.
On the gripping hand, he is probably sitting in Area 51, having a cold one, laughing at everyone getting riled up.
Helped me make it through long night drives in college.
I remember one night hearing a friend of mine call in…She gave her real name and the voice was just like hers but I still wasn’t convinced and then she mentioned a very specific hobby. (on some level I thought the guests were ALL fakes until this). She talked about transcendental trances and astral projection–stuff I had no idea she was interested in let alone claiming to engage in. Never talked to her about it.
Forgetting the earlier John Birch Society for a moment, conspiracy pop culture was in full force in the 1990s during the Clinton era with Ruby Ridge, Waco, McVeigh. William Cooper was the pioneer of underground conspiracy radio. A young Alex Jones was inspired by Cooper.
Bell was into the paranormal and government cover-ups. He was not a right-winger.
You are jumping to a conclusion that was neither stated nor implied in my post that you quoted. Of my two examples of modern harmful conspiracy theories–antivaxism and pizzagate–one of them is largely a conspiracy for brain dead left-wingers and one is largely a conspiracy for brain dead right-wingers.