• Commander_Data [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Yep, I used to listen to it in the 90s on my Walkman during long ass overnight bus rides back to campus from basketball games. It was on all the AM stations, which was all that came in besides country music, riding around rural Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Illinois

    • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      It's not from there, shit goes way further back. America's current conspiracy worldview is basically the Protocols of the Elders of Zion from like 1900, with an added apocalypse fetish thanks to christian fundies.

      I'll say I haven't listened to Art Bell enough to really judge him, and what I have heard was the cryptid/UFO stuff you described. But I mean, whether he specifically did or didn't, I'd still say treating thinly-veiled nazis with the same triviality as Bigfoot dipshits is a bad idea.