# Bad Astronomer calls in to "Coast to Coast AM" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 26, 2003, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-astronomer-calls-in-to-coast-to-coast-am/171278 "2003-04-26T05:56:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-astronomer-calls-in-to-coast-to-coast-am/171278/1 "2003-04-26T05:56:48Z")
I was driving home tonight, listening to “Coast” (the show that Art Bell used to do before he retired), and this suitably wacky lady was on, talking about the impending (as in like a month) arrival of some new planet that will have invading aliens on it that will take us all to live somewhere else or something. Anyway, suddenly George Nory (the host, whom I like a lot less than Art) lights up and says, something like, “Hey, we have the one and only Baaad Astronomer on the line! How’s it going?” BA then proceeded to totally destroy this lady’s argument in a matter of seconds, leaving her to scramble to put something together. Rock on, dude. Still, I must admit that initially I was kind of mad that the dopers were invading a bastion of ignorance that I like so darned much. Can’t we just keep some around, you know, like an exhibit or something? LC ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-astronomer-calls-in-to-coast-to-coast-am/171278/2 "2003-04-26T05:58:34Z")
You mean sort of like a Zoo of Ignorance? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![flight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbce88/32.png) [@flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flight)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-astronomer-calls-in-to-coast-to-coast-am/171278/3 "2003-04-26T06:01:38Z")
We would need signs that say, “Don’t enlighten the morons.” ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-astronomer-calls-in-to-coast-to-coast-am/171278/4 "2003-04-26T06:55:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lucki Chaarms \* > \*\*Can’t we just keep some around, you know, like an exhibit or something? \*\* If it were endangered, I could see keeping some around just so the kids would know what ignorance used to look like. Seeing how it’s not endangered, but seems to be running rampant, I don’t think we need to worry about saving any at this time. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Bad\_Astronomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@The\_Bad\_Astronomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Bad_Astronomer)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-astronomer-calls-in-to-coast-to-coast-am/171278/5 "2003-04-26T17:31:35Z")
Heh. I decided I had to try to call in when I heard she was on, and was surprised to get in so easily. I guess timing is everything; they had _just_ opened the phone lines up to callers. Anyway, looks like there’ll be a “debate” between Nancy Lieder and me sometime in the near future. I’ll post something when it happens. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-astronomer-calls-in-to-coast-to-coast-am/171278/6 "2003-04-26T17:37:15Z")
Who is Nancy Lieder? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Bad\_Astronomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@The\_Bad\_Astronomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Bad_Astronomer)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-astronomer-calls-in-to-coast-to-coast-am/171278/7 "2003-04-26T18:29:54Z")
[Try here for info on Planet X and Nancy Lieder](http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/planetx/index.html). ---
**Author:** ![Mooney252](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7c8e57/32.png) [@Mooney252](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooney252)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-astronomer-calls-in-to-coast-to-coast-am/171278/8 "2003-04-26T19:20:00Z")
> [@](#): > > “Don’t enlighten the morons.” Can someone print that up – maybe with [boards.straightdope.com](http://boards.straightdope.com) on it? I’m in for a dozen. ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-astronomer-calls-in-to-coast-to-coast-am/171278/9 "2003-04-26T21:19:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Bad Astronomer \* > \*\*Anyway, looks like there’ll be a “debate” between Nancy Lieder and me sometime in the near future. I’ll post something when it happens. 🙂 \*\* Later she said that you actually will be “debating the zetas, and they’re really smart”. (The “zetas” are some entities which she supposedly channels). Good luck, but I’m afraid the whole thing will be like trying to empty the ocean with a bucket – there are a _lot_ more where she came from. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Bad\_Astronomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@The\_Bad\_Astronomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Bad_Astronomer)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-astronomer-calls-in-to-coast-to-coast-am/171278/10 "2003-04-27T05:37:36Z")
I have started [a thread about this](http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=4925) on my own board, which includes a transcript of our conversation. The next few weeks should prove interesting! ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-astronomer-calls-in-to-coast-to-coast-am/171278/11 "2003-04-27T06:06:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mooney252 \* > \*\*Can someone print that up – maybe with [boards.straightdope.com](http://boards.straightdope.com) on it? > > I’m in for a dozen. \*\* Make it a bumper sticker, and it’ll be the first to mar the beloved back end of my new (to me!) Jeep! ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-astronomer-calls-in-to-coast-to-coast-am/171278/12 "2003-04-27T06:10:40Z")
**BA** , I just read the thread on your website. You ROCK!😃